I love how people today say "but why would medieval artists lie when painting/describing war" while we have movies like rambo or countless american war films which disregard military gear, protocol and so on just for the cool factor
@@benb9151 yeah, of course. But i've heard people point out how it was the artist's vision and get a "but why would artists lie about how it all looked" in return
@Blast Radius what? I'm saying that even today artists embellish war and soldiers, easily seen in movies and books about war like rambo and so on. Innaccurate uniforms, tactics, weapons and so on. Why would medieval artists then be any different? Learn some reading comprehension
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The whole ‘Napoleon is short’ thing was exacerbated by his insitance on all of his personal guards being over 5’10, which means most of the time he was seen he was surrounded by what for the time were really tall men making him look even shorter
+IIGrayfoxII French people were the original stoners. They came upon the number 80 and, after taking a nice long toke, one man came up with the perfect idea for their dankness to be remembered forever. "Dude, we should totally call that FOUR TWENTY" After much chuckling it was set in stone.
+Fidel Squire The word for 70 in french is soixante-dix translated it means 60-10 with soixante being 60 and dix being 10 The word for 80 in french is quatre-vingts translated it means four twenty Thus my comment.
+IIGrayfoxII It is even more ridiculus to use numbers like quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ("4, 20, 10, 9" -> "4 x20 +10 +9" ->99) since in French speaking parts of Switzerland there are words for the numbers 70-99. So they use septante instead of soixante dix :D
+Spikey Husky So 4x20+10+9 Wow, no wonder i found it hard to learn to speak french. Its a language and math lesson at the same time Other languages tend to have their own words for 70, 80 and 90
Little addition to #5: Horned helmets actually existed, but were propably only used on ritual occasions, not in fight. But then Richard Wagner put them on his Valkyries, and the rest was history...
I believe Wagner originally put the horned helmets on the male choir specifically, everyone else had winged helmets. I kind of wish the wing thing had stuck as the 'viking' thing instead.
3:29 For those curious about the map, in order to understand it better: "Cippangu" is Japan, "Cathay" is northern China, "Mangi" is southern China, "Quinsay" is Hangzhou, "Zaiton" is Quanzhou.
I believe Napoleon also had a habit of stocking his personal bodyguard with really tall soldiers, which could sometimes make him look smaller by perspective...
The 'Old Guard' had a few requirements for it's soldiers, one of which was being at least 1,90m tall (At the very least, that is). (So, despite not really being able to call it a 'habit' of Napoleon to select tall men only... It did make him look smaller in perspective.)
Not to mention he did that over 200 years ago. People on average were smaller back then so for them these people of 1.90 were really huge.(just like Napoleon was of average height)
Makes sense, cause from what I can gather, they were said to be grenadiers, and there were height-related specifics for grenadier recruits. Mainly cause of those explosives they throw on the battlefield, and a taller height implies a greater sight range to avoid collateral damage when those explosive devices were thrown.
***** 'What's in your wallet!' is a quote from that commercial with the barbarians and the credit card, lol. good point, the decorations were all about invoking the help of their gods!
Shortness gives an advantage in hide and seek. I was terrible at hide and seek when I was growing up. A terrible, tall child, and I would bang my head on many things my peers could not. Don't decry your differences; embrace the beauty that they are. You have easily activated stealth mode. I can reach things from tall shelves and also have crooked posture from bending down to converse with the small folk.
What if the only reason there aren't horned helmets on Viking battlefields is because the only ones who died there were the ones without horned helmets.
Horned helmets were actually ceremonial and used by warriors who belonged to the bull cult. They were never worn in battle. Still not Vikings though, because the bull cult never existed in Scandinavia and died out long before the Viking era. Try Gauls instead of Vikings.
Theodore Ceylon Viking helmets are often found in graves not on battlefields, because of a thing called spoils of war, the victors would not let good helmets go to waste. Secondly, there were ceremonial helmets with horns in scandinavia but many centuries before the viking era, during the bronze age. And also, horned ceremonial helmets aren't all that unusual. We find them among kelts and on Cyprus etc...
3:19 This is actually a 6th Historical misconception. Columbus didn't think the world was smaller, but he and most cartographers at the time thought Asia was much, much larger.
I can't find a website that saids that I only found that he was looking for a new route to Asia and no reason why he thought that he could make it Wikipedia agreed with cgp
Another reason Napoleon was thought to be short is because his Old Guard had minimum height requirements that were taller than him. (to look more intimidating)
+Troper Brony There are a lot of photos of her ride. But all turned to be photoshops from later ages. Including the most famous one by some John Collier.
1:57 "And thankfully, the whole world now uses metric" he said after saying Napoleon's height in English inches and not even converting to any normal unit
@@iagoofdraiggwyn98 You gotta be careful with them, I remember that time I told one that America is a continent and not a country and he almost had a seizure.
Perfect timing! I was just explaining the other night to my daughter how Columbus was trying to circumnavigate the globe and wondered how he could have made the mistake of thinking it would be faster when the circumference was already well-calculated so long before. This explains my question and I will have to pass it on to her.
One minor note on the Columbus thing. While he does not appear to have been the first European to land on some land associated with the American continent, he WAS the first one to bring that knowledge back to Europe as a whole so that it could be acted upon (often bloodily). While the Norse did land on some portions of America and did bring some vague aspects of that knowledge back to their people, that knowledge never reached the rest of Europe and was eventually largely lost to the Norse themselves.
To be fair, all the arguments against Viking horned helmets can be applied to Japanese samurai armor, and some of that had pretty funky helmet decorations. There's only one slight difference: those actually exist.
When I Google "Japanese samurai armor" I see a bunch of dudes sitting down or armor stands. When I enter "Japanese samurai combat" I see a bunch of dudes wearing either no armor, or armor with no horns. This is in line with what I've heard about Viking horned helmets which is that they were only worn during ceremonies, which I suspect is the same story with horned Japanese armor. It is also important to note that ceremonies are probably the only viking activity that scholars and poets would survive witnessing and therefore is the most likely to be written about.
Surprised it didn't mention anything about the inquisition, such as how it had evidence based trials that considered the defendant innocent until proven guilty, or that it had a lower conviction rate than the secular courts (including lower death penalty rates).
Oui. But we French are a PAIN if we cannot find bread. Be warned we are REVOLTING if we cannot eat our Brioche with the morning coffee. We do however,prefer to CONSERVE our food. 😫 I never met a pun I didn't like. footnote. one man's meat is another man's poisson. (Don't correct the spelling.Just ask your French tutor to translate,and your Drama teacher to explain the above.)
Yeah... That flat earth part really puts me off when there are a lot of texts found prior to Columbus. I even remember there was text found, written in 11th century (Ifrc) stating that only spherical earth could explain time zones (small ones +-1-2 hours).
Hi Grey, I'm watching your videos in a row for a few days. Something about them makes it addictive to me. anyway, thank you for the good videos I have some video requests. Can you please make a video about African countries who are still under the power of European countries and how France and other countries still influence them? Also, can you make a video of the effects of the British and American empire on the Middle-eastern countries (especially Iran)?
I like how you said sort of with Canada and the UK. And in Canada it's true, we measure objects with the metric system and math with the metric system, but weigh and measure ourselves with the imperial system (at least for my family)
THIS is why the INTERNATIONAL metric system was introduced, to get rid of all those confusing feet and thumbs etc. Well... that is to say..... the dictator Napoleon introduced it... but almost every country in the world uses it now.
Basically every well developed country of people of predominantly European origin that has measured heights of the majority of their population puts the average male height at 5'9" and the average female height at 5'4" give or take half an inch. I find it interesting that the higher numbers for some countries are all self-reported numbers rather than confirmed measurements. People from poorer countries, or people of Asian origin, etc. tend to be substantially shorter.
I think the measurements of Western and Northern European people are on the hole true. They do go to doctors and hospitals, and (mostly for militairy and police jobs I guess) they do measure your length.
1:43 also pretty much anyone who saw napoleon saw him around his guard which was made of the biggest and strongest men so someone who was slightly below average would look alot shorter
Columbus didn’t think the world was smaller than it is (at least not much). He, as everyone else at the time, thought Asia was bigger than it is, as is showcased in the map you showed!!
another great video....proving you dont need alot of words and fancy video to get a whole bunch of info. across...i love that about your videos..you visually rep. what your saying in such an easy to follow way
The Oseberg tapestry is where a lot of this myth of Viking helmets comes from, so I think it is more accurate to say that it was not worn in battle but was possible as a use in ceremonies.
It's probably in reference to a man's height. The average height of a person varies from nation to nation. I'm slightly shorter than the average female population in my nation by those standards, but I barely care. x) It's not like tall people have made an effort to achieve their height so it's not really an accomplishment or anything of that sort. xD Just keep being yourself. :) P.S I'm 5'3" too. cx
my grandfather went on a 30-minute lecture about how they used to consider being 'naked' as not wearing and of her jewels so maybe it did happen but she was just not wearing any of her fancy sparklies also in the story, none of the townspeople looked at her out of respect except for a blacksmith or something named tom and that's where the phrase 'peeping tom' came from. if anyone reads this take it with a grain of salt cause he wasn't there and it's just a legend and knowing my luck I'm probably wrong on the internet
AS far as the Viking thing goes, got news for you buddy they did wear horned helms just not into battle. It was more a formal head dress worn at Hagarroth(mead hall). And worn only by clan leaders and the Jarl, much like native American, or African chiefs and shaman, to name two. It was a means to know who you were talking to and carry respect accordingly. Some wore horns, some antlers, it all depended.
Historians therefore believe that Viking warriors did not wear horned helmets; whether such helmets were used in Scandinavian culture for other, ritual purposes, however, remains unproven. -English wiki I also read the Swedish wiki entry and they were more unimpressed still, stating that the only horned helms found in Europe predate the viking age and all the depictions, written accounts and archaeological finds from the viking age show them not having horns.
"they did wear horned helms just not into battle." Grey never said they didn't wear them at all. He said, just like you, that they did not wear them in battle. So even if the fact that these "clan leaders and jarl" wore them at normal times is true what Grey said is still right.
Lots of people got to America before Columbus, you can tell because their descendants the locals ( indigenous native tribes ) were still in America when Columbus got there.
Yeah from the Bering land bridge tens of thousands of year ago, that isn’t really impressive. And yes, a couple of Vikings did reach it earlier, but they only set up a small settlement for a year then left without bringing any information back to the real world
Horned helmets were found in ceremonies, which are likely to be better-preserved than battle remains. This is probably what 19th century artists picked up upon. Interesting to see how vids like this have been so popular that just 10 years later most of these myths have vanished from the public consciousness.
Here's a good one: "I took an arrow to the knee" has never, ever meant anything to do with marriage in any country that has ever existed. The idea of you being tied down by marriage has been around for centuries, but there has never been a norse slang version of that which revolves around someone getting their knee shot with a large piece of wood and metal. The creators of a certain game have fully acknowledged that they just made it up off the top of their heads to give the guards dialogue, and they were not even making a realistic depiction of norse people anyway, as their world is fictional so they can do what they like. Tumblr is a terrible source for historical facts people. These three points are related.
@@ichijofestival2576 It was from skyrim. I don't play the game but it's in google. I assume that it's a common misconception to people who played the game.
I will thatnk the author personally in the same manner. Her english is worse than useless. And she is the one who offered me her sence of humor. Will beat her up until she is such a google girl as me
One historical misconception that nobody seems to care about is seeing camels in films like The Ten Commandments (1956) set in ancient Egypt, i.e. the Bronze Age (3300 B.C.--1150 B.C.) when camels didn't come to Egypt until after the time of Jesus in the A.D. era. At that time horses were the primary means of conveyance on land, but people think of Egypt and camels together, especially in the 1950s partly because of the tobacco industry with camel cigarettes. Cecil B. DeMille knew that his audience wouldn't accept it if they didn't see camels in the film so as historically authentic as that film was based on their research in the 50s that was one nobody seems to mind.
We in Ireland should probably be in the 'sort of' category for the metric system as well. We still use a mix of metric and imperial measurements using imperial for somethings like height and weight.
Columbus actually landed on islands off the mainland of the Americas, although I suppose that could still count. Also, the Romans did force themselves to vomit, even if they didn't use a "vomitorium."
In a theater class I took, we toured a theater-in-the-round, which had vomitoriums that the actors used to enter and exit the stage. We were told they got their name because they were where Roman actors would vomit before their performances due to nerves. Either they were joking, or they had it wrong, too.
Then of course, there is the possibility that Columbus had heard of the viking discoveries. The church should have had in its archives notes on the Greenlandic settlements, though they had been abandoned in Columbus' time
The Caribbean IS a part of the Americas. America is two continents. The United States of America is a country in the northern hemisphere of the Americas.
***** And? Let me put it this way: One day I come to your house and kick you out of it. I pay the bills, electricity, water, etc. I build whatever I want in your house, does that makes it my house? No Now lets pretend you come back and I kick you out again Its your house mine now? No Same principle
The main reason why Napoleon was said to be small was the fact that he grew up in an age and time were people of different classes had wildly different heights. In his time, thanks to better nutrition the average height of a nobleman was 3 inches higher than that of a peasant, which is why he was considered short. The average height for the time takes everyone into account.
And ignore the fact that Columbus thought he had landed in India and that it was Amerigo Vespucci that figured out that America was a new continent, which is why it's called "America".
The horns archeologists have discovered at viking burial sites are now believed to have been used as disposable drinking vessels. And having anything to grab on a helmet is also an easy handle to give a sharp twist and break their neck. you could literally twist someone's head off with horns.
To clarify on vomitoria: it is true that they were not places to go to throw up to keep eating, but those places did exist. Well, there probably wasn't a designated place, it probably just went into the toilets or latrina, but people actually did do that at large feasts or parties.
In a video about historical misconceptions Grey makes a historical misconception. Christopher Columbus didn't think that the Earth was smaller than it is, he thought Asia was bigger, as probably did everyone else, the dispute was about weather he could make it or not, since though they thought Asia was bigger, they didn't think it was so much bigger that it would actually be easy for him to get there.
I just realized this... perhaps they mean they are first on THEIR list of comments, not by date, but by placement. They are on top of their list of comments. Perhaps...
The Viking's helmet-horns misconception bugged me so much that it became one my greatest peeves. IMO, Wagner, the composer, also played a role in perpetuating the helmet-horns myth. It was one of those things, where, with a little research and rational thought, that Vikings in literature where given horns to make them seem demonic, inscrutable, and manically violent. Flat Earth "Science" is just blithering rants by the willfully ignorant. Humans have many deficits that preclude long-term cognitive thought processes. As an alien-mutant I am immune to most human foibles.
RedRyder 120 It's a creature from minecraft. It does these things: sneak up on you, explode you and your buildings. What it doesn't do: stay away from other creepers right before they explode, or walk off cliffs.
Easter eggs: 1:07 Creeper above the horse 1:21 Key on the right hand side of the clock 1:53 The nail on the horse's backside 2:05 Animated man on the right side 2:30 That is Latin for "Latin is a dead language"
There might be a point that Columbus didn't think the earth was smaller in radius than it actually was, but just that Asia extended a lot further east then it actually does. People had already measured the circumference of the earth for a long time by then, but nobody measured the distance across Asia.
1:53 actually Napoleon wasn't busy introducing the metric system. He was busy conquering the world and he himself hated the metric system, however the metric system probably indirectly spread through frances growong sphere of influence
Horned helmets and similar decorated helmets aren't actually particularly impractical. If you are mostly unarmored then you have to close on an enemy with a battlefield weapon to within arms reach and hope I guess he forgets to stab then you have to use your hand either your dominant hand meaning you don't have a sword to use or your offhand meaning you don't have a shield to defend your now very close vital organs and then pull a grown fighter to the ground with a single hand before he uses the close range and his extra hand to kill you. If you are armored it means moving even more weight with a single hand and due to the range it makes it really easy for the enemy to half sword or pull a dagger and stab you through your eyeslit or under and up into your neck. In fact some decorations horns included can act as spaced armor or add angling to glance off blows easier. However overall decorated helmets were mainly used to show rank or intimidate the enemy. Essentially just decoration.
@@lewisoliver8809 btw, it was, "Romans they go the house." my latin teacher would have acted exactly like that. Very strange people. There must be something about them as a species.
I remember having learnt something in history about the vikings calling america “the wine land”(Vinlandet) but that might just be me not remembering correctly
I love how people today say "but why would medieval artists lie when painting/describing war" while we have movies like rambo or countless american war films which disregard military gear, protocol and so on just for the cool factor
He never said otherwise, it's always been a trait for people to want whatever is most entertaining
@@benb9151 yeah, of course. But i've heard people point out how it was the artist's vision and get a "but why would artists lie about how it all looked" in return
@Blast Radius what? I'm saying that even today artists embellish war and soldiers, easily seen in movies and books about war like rambo and so on. Innaccurate uniforms, tactics, weapons and so on. Why would medieval artists then be any different?
Learn some reading comprehension
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The whole ‘Napoleon is short’ thing was exacerbated by his insitance on all of his personal guards being over 5’10, which means most of the time he was seen he was surrounded by what for the time were really tall men making him look even shorter
Prolly for arrow protection 🤣
@@HarpaxA or musket!
@@HarpaxA to be fair, an arrow to their knees would be a little more dangerous for him.
(Joke)
this was common, I think Frederick the Great had his Prussian guard where he basically kidnapped tall men, to stand all around him.
I think it made them look strong and intimidating
Gray: "5 ft 7 is short by today's standards."
Me: :(
Manlet :^)
meanwhile, I'm just 5'1""
I wish I was 5' 7"
5 ft 7 is not that bad for a women
@@seraranasisca2434 Boi I'm not even 5 feet
When Lady Godiva rode through the town she had a horned helmet on. So technically she wasn't completely naked.
@@henryg.8762 I hate you
@@henryg.8762 more than anything else in the world
@@henryg.8762 i love you
@@henryg.8762 more than anything else in the world
@@Drip-Soup373 creepier than hating me because no one loves me :)
The french may have made the metric system but they failed at making words for the numbers 70-99
+IIGrayfoxII What do you mean, four-times-twenty-and-ten-plus-nine isn't a valid word?
+IIGrayfoxII French people were the original stoners.
They came upon the number 80 and, after taking a nice long toke, one man came up with the perfect idea for their dankness to be remembered forever.
"Dude, we should totally call that FOUR TWENTY"
After much chuckling it was set in stone.
+Fidel Squire
The word for 70 in french is soixante-dix translated it means 60-10 with soixante being 60 and dix being 10
The word for 80 in french is quatre-vingts translated it means four twenty
Thus my comment.
+IIGrayfoxII It is even more ridiculus to use numbers like quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ("4, 20, 10, 9" -> "4 x20 +10 +9" ->99) since in French speaking parts of Switzerland there are words for the numbers 70-99. So they use septante instead of soixante dix :D
+Spikey Husky
So
4x20+10+9
Wow, no wonder i found it hard to learn to speak french.
Its a language and math lesson at the same time
Other languages tend to have their own words for 70, 80 and 90
TLDR: Writers and poets, England being England and the metric system
The Brits are always at it! :D
TL;DR TL;DR:writers,England,Metric
@@philip1557 TL; DR TL;DR TL;DR Metric England Writers
@@Bruno_Noobador MEW
If you need a TL;DR for a CGP Grey video then you need to maybe rethink your entire life.
Little addition to #5: Horned helmets actually existed, but were propably only used on ritual occasions, not in fight.
But then Richard Wagner put them on his Valkyries, and the rest was history...
The misconception probably grew because alot more people went to see opera than read up on Scandinavias rebellious age
I believe Wagner originally put the horned helmets on the male choir specifically, everyone else had winged helmets.
I kind of wish the wing thing had stuck as the 'viking' thing instead.
@@havcola6983
3:29 For those curious about the map, in order to understand it better: "Cippangu" is Japan, "Cathay" is northern China, "Mangi" is southern China, "Quinsay" is Hangzhou, "Zaiton" is Quanzhou.
Langkasuka is for Malaysia XD
And in case you're wondering about location, they thought Asia was absolutely massive and that there was no Pacific ocean
I believe Napoleon also had a habit of stocking his personal bodyguard with really tall soldiers, which could sometimes make him look smaller by perspective...
The 'Old Guard' had a few requirements for it's soldiers, one of which was being at least 1,90m tall (At the very least, that is).
(So, despite not really being able to call it a 'habit' of Napoleon to select tall men only...
It did make him look smaller in perspective.)
Not to mention he did that over 200 years ago.
People on average were smaller back then so for them these people of 1.90 were really huge.(just like Napoleon was of average height)
Makes sense, cause from what I can gather, they were said to be grenadiers, and there were height-related specifics for grenadier recruits. Mainly cause of those explosives they throw on the battlefield, and a taller height implies a greater sight range to avoid collateral damage when those explosive devices were thrown.
yeah ur right
i wouldn't blame him, bigger guys are typically stronger, and thus are better suited to bodyguard duty.
Why would Vikings need to worry about the dangers of horns on helmets when they have dragons?
a dragon on the helmet! Cool! What's in your wallet!
***** 'What's in your wallet!' is a quote from that commercial with the barbarians and the credit card, lol. good point, the decorations were all about invoking the help of their gods!
Goabnb94 I hope this is sarcastic
N Marbletoe nuthin I’m broke
@@xpercade8926
You "hope"? Really? It's not painfully obvious to you?
Sad
"5'7" which is short by today's standards..."
*cries in short asian*
The real question is are you short because your Asian making you a standard Asian or are you short for an Asian making you a short Asian.
@@Mrsquiggley But it asians account for most of the worlds population then what is even short 🤔
(ᒪᗅᙀᕤᕼᔕ ᑊᑎ ᗅᒐᕤᐤᑎᖳᑧᗋᙁ)
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Shortness gives an advantage in hide and seek. I was terrible at hide and seek when I was growing up. A terrible, tall child, and I would bang my head on many things my peers could not.
Don't decry your differences; embrace the beauty that they are. You have easily activated stealth mode. I can reach things from tall shelves and also have crooked posture from bending down to converse with the small folk.
In the lady godiva story all the townsfolk looked away in respect but a man named tom was the only one to look giving us the phrase 'peeping tom'
So that's why the creeper was there
What if the only reason there aren't horned helmets on Viking battlefields is because the only ones who died there were the ones without horned helmets.
Exactly! The horns were only worn by the mightiest of vikings, those who never lost a single battle.
uh ye of course the horned vikings never died and are still living today
Yeah, I saw one walk past me right now... Long bearded, war axe, horned helmet... Oh wait it's just me weird neighbour
Horned helmets were actually ceremonial and used by warriors who belonged to the bull cult. They were never worn in battle. Still not Vikings though, because the bull cult never existed in Scandinavia and died out long before the Viking era. Try Gauls instead of Vikings.
Theodore Ceylon Viking helmets are often found in graves not on battlefields, because of a thing called spoils of war, the victors would not let good helmets go to waste. Secondly, there were ceremonial helmets with horns in scandinavia but many centuries before the viking era, during the bronze age. And also, horned ceremonial helmets aren't all that unusual. We find them among kelts and on Cyprus etc...
“If you know Latin”,
Displays “Romanes Eunt Domus”,
Translation: “People called Romans, they go the house.”
Brian was a good guy.
I wonder how the false plural would be shown - Romanen, perhaps. Romanen go house. 😂😂😂
@@someinteresting Child -> children, Roman -> Romanren?
@@nichl474 I did it the style of ox, oxen.
i mean... technically it's 'Romans go home' but close enough :/
@@malachitecookie5101 its really the Romans are going home I think
3:19 This is actually a 6th Historical misconception. Columbus didn't think the world was smaller, but he and most cartographers at the time thought Asia was much, much larger.
I can't find a website that saids that I only found that he was looking for a new route to Asia
and no reason why he thought that he could make it
Wikipedia agreed with cgp
Just wanted to link Adam Ruins Everything, but then saw your link, and that it already uses the show as a source :D
@@Bradley2806 Which episode was that in? I'd like to go back then and doublecheck.
@@DesertCookie bruh i said shakespeare, meant columbus. Fuck sleep deprivation does some crazy things
@@Bradley2806 That explains why I didn't recognize it xD
“Like lady Godiva, I’m gonna go go go there’s no stopping me”
Im burning through the sky yeah
Two hundred degrees
Thats why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
!
@@lelysio5688 I'm travelling at the speed of light
I'm gonna make a supersonic man out of you
@@michaeljohnson905 dont stop me now
Ohhh now I get ittt
I'm a shooting star leaping through the sky
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
Another reason Napoleon was thought to be short is because his Old Guard had minimum height requirements that were taller than him. (to look more intimidating)
Of course lady Godivas ride didn't happan, if a beautiful rich woman decided to ride down the street naked then there'd probably be more photos of it
as jeff goldblom once said "life will find a way"
also sarcasm
+Troper Brony Y
+Troper Brony plus rape. sooooo much rape.
+Cycling in Edmonton from the Eyes of a Teen Are you one of those "special people"?
+Troper Brony There are a lot of photos of her ride. But all turned to be photoshops from later ages. Including the most famous one by some John Collier.
1:06 that creeper is literally being a creeper
I didn't get it
@@stewie3932 I feel you.
@@BUFU1610 lady godiva is nude and the creeper is looking at her private area
_Creeper- definition_
1. a pervert
2. that godforsaken mutated pig that ended my 3 month hardcore world
1:57 "And thankfully, the whole world now uses metric" he said after saying Napoleon's height in English inches and not even converting to any normal unit
He did say that he was a little above average for the 18 century, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo................................................;
@@latermyfriend8934 Ah yes, Napoleon was just above one 18th century average peasant in height, a truly universal measurement
Latin is a dead language,
As dead as dead can be!
First it killed the Romans,
And, now, it's killing me!
Ugh, I might actually have to do this year of school again because of Latin and ancient Greece
@@janmes1531 Guess you're at a pretty shitty school.
"french inches are longer than english inches"
Not only inches.
+ChemicalFun27 XD
+ChemicalFun27 Baguette translates to "French Stick".
He means both.
ChemicalFun27 I... I know.
+scarfacemperor 69 likes? Really?
love your profile pic btw
"the whole wolrd uses metric!"
Does'nt use metric to describe Napoleones stature
Most of his viewers are from a country that doesn't. Best not to confuse them.
@@Colaman112 really makes you wounder whats the most important...
@@iagoofdraiggwyn98 You gotta be careful with them, I remember that time I told one that America is a continent and not a country and he almost had a seizure.
@@novkorova2774 I would have one as well, America isn't 1 continent, that's 2!
@@VijoPlays It can be one or two continents depending on who you ask. I'm pretty sure there's a CGP Grey video about that.
Here for the new thumbnail
Anyone notice the Creeper at 1:06?
I know!
+Brady Chan I did but now I want that painting with the creeper hanging in my room xD
+Brady Chan the answer is: yes
Did you guys notice the three diamonds on the horses butt at 0:56?
or the screw at 1:51
"first European ever to discover America" was about to comment saying it was bull, then I heard the next comment.
Milander just milander Cuba is still in America. Maybe not North, but its still America.
Chase Holmes Cuba's in the North American continent and the Central American subcontinent.
Milander just milander Cuba is in North America......
calvaughan27
Columbus was a lucky idiot.
***** Not geographically (there is no land connection), we just say it is in North America so that every country has a continent to be grouped into.
Perfect timing! I was just explaining the other night to my daughter how Columbus was trying to circumnavigate the globe and wondered how he could have made the mistake of thinking it would be faster when the circumference was already well-calculated so long before. This explains my question and I will have to pass it on to her.
1:08 Wait what does..... OOHH A CREEPER I GET IT!
Creeper aww man
@@garfoofian8507 so
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SO WHY DONT YOU PUT THE HEIGHT OF NAPOLEON IN METERS IN YOUR VIDEO
Because Grey hates the metric system.
BLACK MAGIC because f*** math when we already have his measurements
Cause the UK sort of uses the metric system. 1:59
5'7" is 1.702 meters.
@@amanko1357 u is fat
One minor note on the Columbus thing. While he does not appear to have been the first European to land on some land associated with the American continent, he WAS the first one to bring that knowledge back to Europe as a whole so that it could be acted upon (often bloodily). While the Norse did land on some portions of America and did bring some vague aspects of that knowledge back to their people, that knowledge never reached the rest of Europe and was eventually largely lost to the Norse themselves.
1:05
Lady Godiva! Look out! There's a creeper right in front of you! Oh shit she has airpods in, she can't here us!
why is joseph stalin here
To be fair, all the arguments against Viking horned helmets can be applied to Japanese samurai armor, and some of that had pretty funky helmet decorations. There's only one slight difference: those actually exist.
When I Google "Japanese samurai armor" I see a bunch of dudes sitting down or armor stands. When I enter "Japanese samurai combat" I see a bunch of dudes wearing either no armor, or armor with no horns. This is in line with what I've heard about Viking horned helmets which is that they were only worn during ceremonies, which I suspect is the same story with horned Japanese armor. It is also important to note that ceremonies are probably the only viking activity that scholars and poets would survive witnessing and therefore is the most likely to be written about.
Surprised it didn't mention anything about the inquisition, such as how it had evidence based trials that considered the defendant innocent until proven guilty, or that it had a lower conviction rate than the secular courts (including lower death penalty rates).
Columbus messed up his math, then thought he was in india, then thought he was the first to discover America. What a failure :P
but he wasnt the frist to discover america lol
That's what I said ;)
Mr_FJ the Vikings might not told the rest of Europe
kordell curl True! Hmm... I found this article: www.historytoday.com/s-frederick-starr/so-who-did-discover-america
He did enslave and murder a bunch of people though.
1:05 Sneaky Creeper being a peeper trying to see Lady Godiva's lady parts lol!
Nice easter egg. :)
Xion aw man
Now hes gonna creep in smash
Creeper, aw man
wait so i would be tall in france during the Napoleon times
Oui.
But we French are a PAIN if we cannot find bread.
Be warned we are REVOLTING if we cannot eat our Brioche with the morning coffee.
We do however,prefer to CONSERVE our food.
😫
I never met a pun I didn't like.
footnote.
one man's meat is another man's poisson.
(Don't correct the spelling.Just ask your French tutor to translate,and your Drama teacher to explain the above.)
You really did mention that almost the whole world is using metric and still just used imperial units for napoleon's height. Terrific.
that's the joke
1:09 ...... Why the creeper? xD
Great video as well, I absolutely love all of them! So much to learn in such a short amount of time...
because she was naked and it was a creeper and that what creepers do even though it has nothing to do with minecraft Im pretty sure thats the reason
EMCGam3r211 .... Ok then, that is a good enough explanation for me! (I guess)
AHH LADY GODIVA LOOK OUT!
Yeah... That flat earth part really puts me off when there are a lot of texts found prior to Columbus. I even remember there was text found, written in 11th century (Ifrc) stating that only spherical earth could explain time zones (small ones +-1-2 hours).
People knew earth was round since antiquity
Hi Grey, I'm watching your videos in a row for a few days. Something about them makes it addictive to me. anyway, thank you for the good videos
I have some video requests. Can you please make a video about African countries who are still under the power of European countries and how France and other countries still influence them?
Also, can you make a video of the effects of the British and American empire on the Middle-eastern countries (especially Iran)?
Why don't you email to him?
I like how you said sort of with Canada and the UK.
And in Canada it's true, we measure objects with the metric system and math with the metric system, but weigh and measure ourselves with the imperial system (at least for my family)
I guess it's a matter of time for people to adjust...
Wait one fucking second... 5'7'' is short?
In europe, yes
THIS is why the INTERNATIONAL metric system was introduced, to get rid of all those confusing feet and thumbs etc. Well... that is to say..... the dictator Napoleon introduced it... but almost every country in the world uses it now.
In Canada it is
Basically every well developed country of people of predominantly European origin that has measured heights of the majority of their population puts the average male height at 5'9" and the average female height at 5'4" give or take half an inch.
I find it interesting that the higher numbers for some countries are all self-reported numbers rather than confirmed measurements.
People from poorer countries, or people of Asian origin, etc. tend to be substantially shorter.
I think the measurements of Western and Northern European people are on the hole true. They do go to doctors and hospitals, and (mostly for militairy and police jobs I guess) they do measure your length.
I’m binging your channel because I just discovered it and it’s SUPER GOOD
1:43 also pretty much anyone who saw napoleon saw him around his guard which was made of the biggest and strongest men so someone who was slightly below average would look alot shorter
another one:
Stalin was not Russian, he was born in Georgia from a Georgian family.
Glitchy-S you’re kidding.
Catalyst - D B the country Georgia 🇬🇪
Well mozart and hitler were born in austria
@@unepintade At the time of Mozarts birth Austria was still part of the ''German Lands''.
You're from Georgia, sweet Georgia
I've heard about the Vikings misconception so many times that I think it's a misconception that it's a misconception
nope. i learned it now only.
You were just well informed, many people still don't even know Vikings were the first non-natives to find Native Americans.
Ah, and he talks about how the vikings did it first! lol, I just wrote that down...
to be fair scandinavia did have horned helmets but they were worn by priests
Itskelvinn
Misconceptionception
Columbus didn’t think the world was smaller than it is (at least not much). He, as everyone else at the time, thought Asia was bigger than it is, as is showcased in the map you showed!!
another great video....proving you dont need alot of words and fancy video to get a whole bunch of info. across...i love that about your videos..you visually rep. what your saying in such an easy to follow way
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The Oseberg tapestry is where a lot of this myth of Viking helmets comes from, so I think it is more accurate to say that it was not worn in battle but was possible as a use in ceremonies.
5'7" is considered short now?!?! *sobs* I'm so short. I'm 5'3"
It's probably in reference to a man's height. The average height of a person varies from nation to nation. I'm slightly shorter than the average female population in my nation by those standards, but I barely care. x) It's not like tall people have made an effort to achieve their height so it's not really an accomplishment or anything of that sort. xD Just keep being yourself. :)
P.S I'm 5'3" too. cx
I'm 6'2 and only 16 :'>
11nith I am 172 cm C:
11nith 6,1 and 14. get on my level
Mr Fox lol
my grandfather went on a 30-minute lecture about how they used to consider being 'naked' as not wearing and of her jewels so maybe it did happen but she was just not wearing any of her fancy sparklies also in the story, none of the townspeople looked at her out of respect except for a blacksmith or something named tom and that's where the phrase 'peeping tom' came from. if anyone reads this take it with a grain of salt cause he wasn't there and it's just a legend and knowing my luck I'm probably wrong on the internet
I love how the end ties back to the beginning. Well done!
I love how you make history and geography understandable. Thank you!
AS far as the Viking thing goes, got news for you buddy they did wear horned helms just not into battle. It was more a formal head dress worn at Hagarroth(mead hall). And worn only by clan leaders and the Jarl, much like native American, or African chiefs and shaman, to name two. It was a means to know who you were talking to and carry respect accordingly. Some wore horns, some antlers, it all depended.
And, Where is the documents to support that statement?
Historians therefore believe that Viking warriors did not wear horned helmets; whether such helmets were used in Scandinavian culture for other, ritual purposes, however, remains unproven. -English wiki
I also read the Swedish wiki entry and they were more unimpressed still, stating that the only horned helms found in Europe predate the viking age and all the depictions, written accounts and archaeological finds from the viking age show them not having horns.
"they did wear horned helms just not into battle." Grey never said they didn't wear them at all. He said, just like you, that they did not wear them in battle. So even if the fact that these "clan leaders and jarl" wore them at normal times is true what Grey said is still right.
We have begin oddly cheated 😅😂😂😂 Great video man. We need more of this 👌👌👌👏👏
Lots of people got to America before Columbus, you can tell because their descendants the locals ( indigenous native tribes ) were still in America when Columbus got there.
Yeah from the Bering land bridge tens of thousands of year ago, that isn’t really impressive. And yes, a couple of Vikings did reach it earlier, but they only set up a small settlement for a year then left without bringing any information back to the real world
They were indigenous, they lived there before and did not arrive there
Fun fact:
Napoleon (5" 7 as mentioned in the video) was taller than Stalin (5" 2).
+GlitchyShadow13 MAN of STEEL
has small ass.
+GlitchyShadow13 And Putin at 5’6"
+Joshua Carr That's 'cuz he was born into a different generation.
Look at poor Isabela shes sitting through this like “ oh my god he’s an idiot but I’m desperate for some pepper on my chicken so”
Horned helmets were found in ceremonies, which are likely to be better-preserved than battle remains. This is probably what 19th century artists picked up upon. Interesting to see how vids like this have been so popular that just 10 years later most of these myths have vanished from the public consciousness.
CGPGrey: "Columbus was the one who set sail and discovered America as long as you ignore the vikings that beat him by 500 years."
America: "OK"
josiah hirsh Gotta love those vikings
Columbus didn't even make it to America only the carrabians
Which America?
@@danielp.977 the usa
Why does nobody care about the native Americans?
Here's a good one: "I took an arrow to the knee" has never, ever meant anything to do with marriage in any country that has ever existed. The idea of you being tied down by marriage has been around for centuries, but there has never been a norse slang version of that which revolves around someone getting their knee shot with a large piece of wood and metal.
The creators of a certain game have fully acknowledged that they just made it up off the top of their heads to give the guards dialogue, and they were not even making a realistic depiction of norse people anyway, as their world is fictional so they can do what they like.
Tumblr is a terrible source for historical facts people.
These three points are related.
@@ichijofestival2576 It was from skyrim. I don't play the game but it's in google. I assume that it's a common misconception to people who played the game.
I will thatnk the author personally in the same manner. Her english is worse than useless. And she is the one who offered me her sence of humor. Will beat her up until she is such a google girl as me
One historical misconception that nobody seems to care about is seeing camels in films like The Ten Commandments (1956) set in ancient Egypt, i.e. the Bronze Age (3300 B.C.--1150 B.C.) when camels didn't come to Egypt until after the time of Jesus in the A.D. era. At that time horses were the primary means of conveyance on land, but people think of Egypt and camels together, especially in the 1950s partly because of the tobacco industry with camel cigarettes. Cecil B. DeMille knew that his audience wouldn't accept it if they didn't see camels in the film so as historically authentic as that film was based on their research in the 50s that was one nobody seems to mind.
1:08, those dang creepers get me every time!
We in Ireland should probably be in the 'sort of' category for the metric system as well. We still use a mix of metric and imperial measurements using imperial for somethings like height and weight.
3:10 "first" people on youtube in a nutshell
BaggieWaggie true
That’s the joke you don’t have to point it out and add nothing by pointing it out
First
Columbus actually landed on islands off the mainland of the Americas, although I suppose that could still count. Also, the Romans did force themselves to vomit, even if they didn't use a "vomitorium."
That is kind of yukky.
i love how the video made full circle with the vikings(they were talked about in the beginning and popped up at the end)
1:34 "Mine is bigger than yours." IYKWIM
In a theater class I took, we toured a theater-in-the-round, which had vomitoriums that the actors used to enter and exit the stage. We were told they got their name because they were where Roman actors would vomit before their performances due to nerves. Either they were joking, or they had it wrong, too.
How long you were pretending to be him? How long &&&&
I know I'm about 5 and half years late for this, but thank you for the Crash Course reference at 2:07 lol
Then of course, there is the possibility that Columbus had heard of the viking discoveries. The church should have had in its archives notes on the Greenlandic settlements, though they had been abandoned in Columbus' time
Reasonable people don’t object to taxation, we object to excessive/unjust taxation and wasteful spending.
Funny thing: Columbus never realized he ended up in america.
The Caribbean IS a part of the Americas. America is two continents. The United States of America is a country in the northern hemisphere of the Americas.
Not any more! Brexit, baby!
***** they don't even own the falklands
***** Uh, Argentina?
***** And?
Let me put it this way:
One day I come to your house and kick you out of it. I pay the bills, electricity, water, etc. I build whatever I want in your house, does that makes it my house? No
Now lets pretend you come back and I kick you out again
Its your house mine now? No
Same principle
The main reason why Napoleon was said to be small was the fact that he grew up in an age and time were people of different classes had wildly different heights. In his time, thanks to better nutrition the average height of a nobleman was 3 inches higher than that of a peasant, which is why he was considered short. The average height for the time takes everyone into account.
3:14
Guy that figured out earth's circumference has a dome bigger than most countries.
Conincidence?
I THINK NOT
So much win in this video!! Every time you make a long video you need to make 2 short ones to cleanse the mental pallet 😎 (yours and ours!)
And ignore the fact that Columbus thought he had landed in India and that it was Amerigo Vespucci that figured out that America was a new continent, which is why it's called "America".
Another good one to add would be that Benjamin Franklin did not "discover" electricity instead he proved that lighting had a electrical charge.
"5' 7" is short by today's standards"
Me who's 5' 8": *I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you!*
fun fact the gjermundbu helmet actually would deflect blades right into the eye but were still very popular. intimidation I guess.
The horns archeologists have discovered at viking burial sites are now believed to have been used as disposable drinking vessels.
And having anything to grab on a helmet is also an easy handle to give a sharp twist and break their neck. you could literally twist someone's head off with horns.
To clarify on vomitoria: it is true that they were not places to go to throw up to keep eating, but those places did exist. Well, there probably wasn't a designated place, it probably just went into the toilets or latrina, but people actually did do that at large feasts or parties.
1:27 Has Napoleon got the teacher’s pointer?
In a video about historical misconceptions Grey makes a historical misconception. Christopher Columbus didn't think that the Earth was smaller than it is, he thought Asia was bigger, as probably did everyone else, the dispute was about weather he could make it or not, since though they thought Asia was bigger, they didn't think it was so much bigger that it would actually be easy for him to get there.
So why are there internetters who still swear that the Earth is flat?
because the internet is a breeding ground for retards
Because I can clearly see that the earth is flat
3:10 *6,500 years later*
"FIRST!!!"
TH-cam comments in a nutshell.
How can the 4963rd commenter really believe that they're first!?
First!
@Don't Know Who I Am I dont think so bud, I actually commented before all of you
First
Wilson the I nah
I just realized this... perhaps they mean they are first on THEIR list of comments, not by date, but by placement. They are on top of their list of comments.
Perhaps...
I feel that the whole Columbus situation is an apt commentary on the state of primary and secondary education in the US.
The Viking's helmet-horns misconception bugged me so much that it became one my greatest peeves. IMO, Wagner, the composer, also played a role in perpetuating the helmet-horns myth. It was one of those things, where, with a little research and rational thought, that Vikings in literature where given horns to make them seem demonic, inscrutable, and manically violent.
Flat Earth "Science" is just blithering rants by the willfully ignorant.
Humans have many deficits that preclude long-term cognitive thought processes. As an alien-mutant I am immune to most human foibles.
Learning Latin was not a waste of my time. It was brilliant.
Did anyone see the creeper in the no entry sign.
Me
me
+RedRyder 120 It's an exploding mobile entity from the game Minecraft. CGP Grey puts creepers in videos as Easter eggs.
I saw the creeper in the painting of that lady
RedRyder 120 It's a creature from minecraft. It does these things: sneak up on you, explode you and your buildings. What it doesn't do: stay away from other creepers right before they explode, or walk off cliffs.
Easter eggs:
1:07 Creeper above the horse
1:21 Key on the right hand side of the clock
1:53 The nail on the horse's backside
2:05 Animated man on the right side
2:30 That is Latin for "Latin is a dead language"
There might be a point that Columbus didn't think the earth was smaller in radius than it actually was, but just that Asia extended a lot further east then it actually does. People had already measured the circumference of the earth for a long time by then, but nobody measured the distance across Asia.
My history teacher showed us this and I was like, I watch this guy!!!
Romanes eunt Domines : Romani ite domum.
"Now write it out 100 times." Great scene.
1:53 actually Napoleon wasn't busy introducing the metric system. He was busy conquering the world and he himself hated the metric system, however the metric system probably indirectly spread through frances growong sphere of influence
1:20
Napoleon got so mad by being called short that he published the metric system
such mad lad
Get an original comment
Horned helmets and similar decorated helmets aren't actually particularly impractical. If you are mostly unarmored then you have to close on an enemy with a battlefield weapon to within arms reach and hope I guess he forgets to stab then you have to use your hand either your dominant hand meaning you don't have a sword to use or your offhand meaning you don't have a shield to defend your now very close vital organs and then pull a grown fighter to the ground with a single hand before he uses the close range and his extra hand to kill you. If you are armored it means moving even more weight with a single hand and due to the range it makes it really easy for the enemy to half sword or pull a dagger and stab you through your eyeslit or under and up into your neck. In fact some decorations horns included can act as spaced armor or add angling to glance off blows easier. However overall decorated helmets were mainly used to show rank or intimidate the enemy. Essentially just decoration.
Ohhh the sly Monty Python reference
romans go away!
We must ask ourselves, honestly.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
You're only making it worse
@@lewisoliver8809 btw, it was, "Romans they go the house." my latin teacher would have acted exactly like that. Very strange people. There must be something about them as a species.
I remember having learnt something in history about the vikings calling america “the wine land”(Vinlandet) but that might just be me not remembering correctly
So basically men start writing fictional stories about nude women way before video games.