A History Teacher Reacts | Sam O'Nella - Creative Weapons of the Medieval Era

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  • @Victorjohnson3
    @Victorjohnson3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8217

    This history teacher *doesn't leave the cursor on the progress bar*
    Everyone: Impossible

    • @dad_bot_3924
      @dad_bot_3924 5 ปีที่แล้ว +369

      Hi possible, I'm dad!

    • @Oddity2994
      @Oddity2994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      @@dad_bot_3924 Hi dad! I'm dad!

    • @o.c.317
      @o.c.317 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Oh your name really confused me

    • @qubethebox9192
      @qubethebox9192 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Floofy Chill *confused screaming*

    • @SummerRene
      @SummerRene 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dad bot!

  • @CreamyGoodness
    @CreamyGoodness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +891

    Context for Olga's ruthlessness: The 20 men who came to demand that she marry Prince Tal, had also just murdered Olga's husband: King Igor. Prince Tal was the man that murdered Igor, meaning the men were demanding that she marry her husband's killer. So her acts after were to avenge him.

    • @joshuawall646
      @joshuawall646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      It was also believed that Tal would have murdered Olga’s infant son Sviatoslav. So to use a bear metaphor (because Russian) mama bear killed Tal to protect baby bear and avenge papa bear.

    • @strikingsarcophagus
      @strikingsarcophagus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Okay, so she *isn't* just a psychotic asshole? Bet

    • @therubberduck6178
      @therubberduck6178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@joshuawall646 that’s really cool, and Olga really is a badass

    • @hamham_6411
      @hamham_6411 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      the town she burned down, iskorosten (korosten today), is also the one where king igor was slain

    • @themanformerlyknownascomme777
      @themanformerlyknownascomme777 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      and they killed Igor in a particularly brutal fashion, slowly tearing him in half still alive from groin to head

  • @josephstalin7506
    @josephstalin7506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3773

    4:50
    Sam: 6 stories tall
    Terry: looks at ceiling*
    Terry: *holy crap*

    • @bussesandtrains1218
      @bussesandtrains1218 5 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Joseph Stalin, what happened to my great grandfather Theodore?

    • @tadeomurdaca1709
      @tadeomurdaca1709 5 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      @@bussesandtrains1218 In the soviet russia we dont talk about that

    • @bussesandtrains1218
      @bussesandtrains1218 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@tadeomurdaca1709 ok

    • @JEJS
      @JEJS 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Make it 4:20

    • @theworldoverheavan560
      @theworldoverheavan560 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bussesandtrains1218 lol

  • @pipo8561
    @pipo8561 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6587

    Oh god. You’re doing a Sam episode. Once you go down you never come back.
    Break out the Ragu, boys.

    • @darthironamerican
      @darthironamerican 5 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      pi PO baby flavored?

    • @casketbutter
      @casketbutter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +235

      Prego today,
      Ragu tomorrow

    • @isaiah4376
      @isaiah4376 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      i fingered a dog crazy straw

    • @kevinboyle3104
      @kevinboyle3104 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      RadRan I think it was menace to society straw

    • @casketbutter
      @casketbutter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Luigi's abortion pizzeria, your sauce is our loss, how may I help you?

  • @Shaun_Jones
    @Shaun_Jones 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1979

    Interesting fact, the flaming birds idea was recycled by the US during WWII, but with bats. A bunch of bats would have tiny napalm bombs attached to them, induced to hibernate, be stuffed in a parachuting bomb casing, and released over a Japanese city. The reason it didn’t see combat despite working as intended was to make room for the Manhattan Project.

    • @ShahjahanMasood
      @ShahjahanMasood 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I actually learned of this on Neebs Gaming. Huh

    • @corey495
      @corey495 5 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      It was also scrapped because the bats burned down a US hangar. Proved it worked though

    • @arkhaan7066
      @arkhaan7066 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Shaun Jones correction, the army didn’t use it, the marine corps actually made it kinda work, and iirc did deploy it once

    • @mobiuscoreindustries
      @mobiuscoreindustries 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      well when you think about it, when you don't have acess to guidance for your ammo, it kinda makes it a better cluster bomb of sorts. of course any form of such a weapon kinda become useless even with just basic GPS or heat sig guidance

    • @fuzzzyi
      @fuzzzyi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ShahjahanMasood Ah another intellectual I see

  • @benselectionforcasting4172
    @benselectionforcasting4172 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4591

    As a Catholic, I knew St. Jerry wasn't real, but it is something the church would have done....

    • @davidsarmiento8060
      @davidsarmiento8060 5 ปีที่แล้ว +256

      I wish he was real

    • @npc6817
      @npc6817 5 ปีที่แล้ว +470

      I've been catholic and to be honest he wouldn't be the weirdest one

    • @birchberry9354
      @birchberry9354 5 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      NPC out of curiosity who is weirder

    • @npc6817
      @npc6817 5 ปีที่แล้ว +478

      @@birchberry9354 well well well, that in my opinion would be saint Jiles, saint patron of breastfeeding, a hermit who survived in complete isolation by being breastfed by a female deer.

    • @grugg3108
      @grugg3108 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Is saint tiffany real?

  • @amicosayshi865
    @amicosayshi865 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2131

    I think you'd really enjoy Sam's "Preindustrial Surgeries" episode.

    • @andrewpereira888
      @andrewpereira888 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Tyler Johnson one of my fav videos of his

    • @iliketurtles5180
      @iliketurtles5180 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lots of blood....

    • @ashfennelly76
      @ashfennelly76 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      oui

    • @theobserver1925
      @theobserver1925 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree

    • @CosmosCat
      @CosmosCat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      As someone who’s had to have a cataract surgery the idea of having a straw poked into my eye or a hole put in it to just take the lens out entirely does not sound fun.

  • @shanemcdowell3628
    @shanemcdowell3628 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1456

    Reminder: Napalm has stuck to kids for over a thousand years.

    • @SurplusWeaponsNStuff
      @SurplusWeaponsNStuff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      18 kids in a no fire zone books on their arms and their goin home last one in line goes home alone Napalm Sticks To Kids

    • @runeraid1561
      @runeraid1561 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Naters Potaters haven’t heard that song in a bit

    • @CreeperlordLP
      @CreeperlordLP 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@SurplusWeaponsNStuff i hate myself for singing this in the correct tones

    • @SurplusWeaponsNStuff
      @SurplusWeaponsNStuff 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Jeez I didn't know that many people actually knew about Napalm Sticks To Kids

    • @benjaminpilat1553
      @benjaminpilat1553 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It makes us feels so good inside when the strong men wept and the women cried, but we really like is when children fry. Napalm sticks to kids

  • @rexamillion8446
    @rexamillion8446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1034

    If I recall there was a WW2 plot to use Bat's to firebomb Japan buildings too.

    • @sluggaboy1266
      @sluggaboy1266 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      yup yanks put a fair bit of effort into that plan it ended badly for them tho. well them and the bats

    • @Dell-ol6hb
      @Dell-ol6hb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Rex G it is in theory and pretty ingenious idea, though it would kill millions of bats at a time and it would inordinately expensive

    • @Crazael
      @Crazael 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@sluggaboy1266 it didnt go so bad for the US. Only one prop town burned down before the project was cancelled for being too expensive.

    • @spencergivens7926
      @spencergivens7926 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rex G truth

    • @saltminerrogal6586
      @saltminerrogal6586 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      chinsaw2727 “sadly” probably not for the bats

  • @tobuscuslover4172
    @tobuscuslover4172 5 ปีที่แล้ว +519

    Honestly Terry probably has the best reaction channel on TH-cam. He actually adds something to the video and has a personality. Thank you, Terry.

    • @aellin-jz9el
      @aellin-jz9el 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      But he also doesn’t constantly stop the video to talk. He actually makes it about said video rather than an excuse to talk for 10 minutes.

    • @Archris17
      @Archris17 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Mr Terry's a teacher. He knows that the most important thing in the world is to keep your students *engaged.* If they're passively taking up air, sucking down your oxygen and waiting for class to be over, you've got better luck trying to teach a goldfish advanced calculus.

    • @jsblacksmith858
      @jsblacksmith858 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's mostly because he actually knows what he is talking about, knows when to talk over/pause and talk about it, and when to let it just speak for itself

  • @mildlyupset6011
    @mildlyupset6011 5 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    I love that he goes back 5 seconds after every time he pauses

  • @flo-theo
    @flo-theo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +581

    There's a German author, who put it very accurately: "If classical antiquity were a dawn, in terms of natural phenomena, then the European Middle Ages were a starry night sky. Dark, but filled with specks of brilliant light."

    • @l.dailyda6044
      @l.dailyda6044 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Florian Brenner that's really beautiful.

    • @Delicious_J
      @Delicious_J 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's a great way of putting it.

    • @turquoisecrow4513
      @turquoisecrow4513 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And rn would like the sky in the Minecraft end dimension. That is, it would be a fucking endless void

    • @FernandoSegovia701
      @FernandoSegovia701 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@turquoisecrow4513 actually no, we live our greatest time in history, modern sanitation, an organisation that ensures peace for most countries, technologies that allow us to grow food out of season, human rights, equality for all. Our time isn't perfect, but it's certainly better than any other in history

    • @DLBBALL
      @DLBBALL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@FernandoSegovia701 This is true. Humanity may have had a peak back then with the Greeks and some other civilizations or whatever, but modern first-world society is several orders of magnitude for advanced than any of the major ancient societies. I hope that the 21st century is when we see ALL countries get the stuff you said, not like how it is today where this only applies to the west and every other society seems to have freedom-hating, backwards social structures.

  • @domtitus3518
    @domtitus3518 5 ปีที่แล้ว +975

    Mr. Terry is on a never ending quest for knowledge. As is Odin. Mr. Terry is Odin because of the transitive property

  • @theycallmemoist8381
    @theycallmemoist8381 5 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    My impression of them being called the "dark ages" was because alot of information wasnt being preserved or even written down.

    • @TheNinjaDC
      @TheNinjaDC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The irony being, most of the rediscovered texts from ancient Greece/Rome that inspired the Renaissance, were in fact reproductions inscribed at monasteries in the "dark ages."
      That, or looted from Constantinople(f$%k you 4th crusade), who never got the dark ages memo.

  • @AikanaroSauron
    @AikanaroSauron 5 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    I think it's ingenuine to omit telling how before Olga wreaked this havok on Drevlians, said tribe killed her husband, prince Igor, which is the whole reason the was so vengeful to them and not because she was some "evil genius". She's definitely one of the most badass characters in history.

    • @zockingtroller7788
      @zockingtroller7788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Olga is my grandma's name and now that I know who st. Olga was..
      I don't know how to feel about it

    • @joshuawall646
      @joshuawall646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It was also implied that the Drevlian prince would kill Olga’s infant son in order to have his children inherit the kiven-rus.

    • @Kewertate
      @Kewertate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hm idk that just sounds like the lion king.

    • @cegesh1459
      @cegesh1459 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes and no

    • @SD_yessir
      @SD_yessir 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's still hard to justify killing 5 thousand innocent people to avenge your fallen husband.
      Wait, did I say hard? I meant impossible.

  • @TheManlol12
    @TheManlol12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +813

    You have to do Banana Republics by Sam O'nella, By far one of his best, and rich with history

  • @Oddity2994
    @Oddity2994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    Sam: hey kids
    Mr Terry: hey sam :)

    • @CyanideGirl94
      @CyanideGirl94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wholesome.

    • @timez957
      @timez957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kids: hey sam and terry :D

  • @lilylabombe
    @lilylabombe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    That collection of SNES games in the back is IMPRESSIVE.
    I'm totally jealous

    • @kjl3080
      @kjl3080 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lilylabombe & Friends oh shit you’re right

  • @apex_desert1942
    @apex_desert1942 5 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    I can get behind a guy who actually has good reactions and adds input good vid.

    • @flowersinathens102
      @flowersinathens102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yeah hes pretty straight you cant really get behind him

    • @fyoutube6212
      @fyoutube6212 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@flowersinathens102 lol gay

  • @h.plovecat4307
    @h.plovecat4307 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I remember my first and only visit to Chucky Cheese's. Some kid had taken a dump, passed out in it and puked all over himself in the dang tubes. I asked my parents if we could just go to the mall and get out of that nightmare. I honestly thought I had found a corpse.

  • @seanmcguire4747
    @seanmcguire4747 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    it's crazy how creative humans get when we tried to kill each other

    • @apollo1573
      @apollo1573 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think past tense is being a little hopeful, cartels aren’t fuckin around today lol

    • @christiandauz3742
      @christiandauz3742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Cartels are saints compared to Medieval humanity

    • @passingrando6457
      @passingrando6457 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a reason humanity became the apex predators of the entire planetary food chain, and it ain't because we're good at hugging or particularly strong or fast. We have two advantages. Endurance and our brains.
      We bred based on who could hunt, fight, and kill the best for several _hundred thousand years,_ got better at killing than anything else that ever lived, and only started settling down for civilization in the past, oh, eight thousand or so.
      The outcome was inevitable.

    • @gergopiroska5749
      @gergopiroska5749 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@apollo1573*FUNKY TOWN INTENSIFIES*

  • @MANNLIERMANNCO
    @MANNLIERMANNCO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    I spat my food on the monitor in laughter the moment he said "hey sam"

    • @oshanew9941
      @oshanew9941 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Did your mommy made you clean up your mess? 😂😂

    • @TheDeadMeme27
      @TheDeadMeme27 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@oshanew9941 ?

    • @madethisforrestrictedvideo9907
      @madethisforrestrictedvideo9907 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@oshanew9941 pardon?

    • @oshanew9941
      @oshanew9941 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@madethisforrestrictedvideo9907 excuse me?

    • @Catani99
      @Catani99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      bigwillie Xd
      Are you ok?
      Like mentally?

  • @glennwright8355
    @glennwright8355 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I’ve been waiting for this omg thank you so much terry :) please keep making these!

  • @noctusdoesthings
    @noctusdoesthings 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Ah yes, the age old strategies of camping and turtling brought to an end by the invention of the boomstick and his older brother the explosive ball launcher

  • @aboomination897
    @aboomination897 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    One of the best ways to bring down a castle's walls: Dig underneath them and let gravity do it's thing.

    • @sumvs5992
      @sumvs5992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Minecraft cobblestone: haahaahh you mortal fool you cannot defeat me

    • @passingrando6457
      @passingrando6457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's where the word "undermining" comes from. Defenders wised up to the tactic pretty quickly, and started counter mining, or pouring boiling oil down into the tunnels, or venting thick smoke into them to suffocate the sappers doing it.

    • @aboomination897
      @aboomination897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@passingrando6457 ouch

  • @lawaern3474
    @lawaern3474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    6:05 From what I have learned it mostly involved starving the enemy out. Taking a castle by assault requires a huge amount of soldiers and other resources. Starving them out takes less.

  • @goncalopereira23
    @goncalopereira23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +473

    I'm a simple man I see a Mr Terry video I click on it.

  • @Burn_Angel
    @Burn_Angel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    The guy missed the blooper at the end where Sam laughs at how obviously Jerry wasn't real :c

  • @shelbyz1988
    @shelbyz1988 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Fun fact, the US actually developed “bat bombs” very similar in function to Olga’s fire birds for use against Japan in WWII. They were tested and found to be effective but were never actually deployed.
    They would attach an incendiary device with a timer to bats, shove them in a cluster bomb case then drop them over enemy territory just before dawn. The bats would find a place to rest for the day then the incendiaries would light. Bats have a knack for getting into difficult to reach places so these fires would go unnoticed until it was basically uncontrollable.

    • @alexandrpetrov6812
      @alexandrpetrov6812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cool

    • @CruelestChris
      @CruelestChris ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope, testing found the bats would freeze to death in transit because the bomb bay of a B-29 isn't heated. Also would only work once before people started looking for bats after a bombing raid.

  • @violetrose740
    @violetrose740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    3:22 The Gothic cathedrals are works of total architectural genius and amazing artistic talent
    So, that was amazing for the 'dark ages'

  • @newns9649
    @newns9649 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

    Have you seen "the entire history of the world I guess?"

    • @TecHead-2000
      @TecHead-2000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      he needs to watch that

  • @GamerOfLegends163
    @GamerOfLegends163 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    11:05
    The US almost deployed a similar technique using bats in WW2 for Japan. They were going to drop "bombs" filled with bats that had incendiary charges attached to them which would go off after a certain amount of time. It was designed to give them enough time to nest in a home and then the charge would go off. It accidentally had devastating effects in *the US* in the small scale testing they did and it's been estimated it would've been far more catastrophic than even the nuclear bombs that were dropped. It's terrifying to think about

  • @edoardoprevelato6577
    @edoardoprevelato6577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    The easiest way to describe the evolution of warfare is the evolution of Pokemon competitive metagame for each generation over a year or two

    • @Are_you_eyeballing_me
      @Are_you_eyeballing_me 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So now I have to learn competitive Pokemon too?

    • @oshawottsenpai2883
      @oshawottsenpai2883 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Power creep?

    • @skremblo
      @skremblo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oshawottsenpai2883 M E T A S H I F T

  • @davidwickman7543
    @davidwickman7543 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    10:35 Harald Hadrada was inspired by this when he lead the Byzantine Varangian guard on the conquest of Sicily. He noticed that, in one particularly well defended city, a lot of the commoner’s homes were made of straw and had a lot of birds nests in them, so he caught the birds as they flew out of the city for food and pretty much did the same thing Olga did

  • @katesiefert9958
    @katesiefert9958 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “hey kids” “hey sam” is the best exchange i’ve seen in my entire life

  • @shremp69
    @shremp69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He would be the type of history teacher everybody wants to say "hey kids" every time he comes in class

  • @thecoolaxolotlnova8523
    @thecoolaxolotlnova8523 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I don't know you but you're probably one of the teachers everybody is like "he's pretty chill"

  • @ZombiesAttackEarth
    @ZombiesAttackEarth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    “In conclusion: pay your taxes”

  • @oldbruce6532
    @oldbruce6532 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Africa was in their golden age while Europe was in the dark ages, oh how the tides turn

    • @HydroEntertainment901
      @HydroEntertainment901 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      OldBruce yea it’s the dark ages for africa right now we don’t know how the future will look

    • @ls200076
      @ls200076 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HydroEntertainment901 Dark age for NA?

    • @jauntyangle5667
      @jauntyangle5667 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "Golden age" being a relative term.

    • @TheNinjaDC
      @TheNinjaDC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was more north African Arabs golden age, with sub Sahara Africa being about the same old same old, as malaria is rather good at discouraging large civilizations.

    • @wojtekpolska1013
      @wojtekpolska1013 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@HydroEntertainment901 nah dark age for Africa was the colonisation era

  • @patrickcoyle1692
    @patrickcoyle1692 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I appreciate how you add a lot of really great information to these videos. This style of video is often just a cash grab, but this is absolutely transformative. Keep up the good work!

  • @LA-be8fu
    @LA-be8fu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great to hear your videos are still going strong, keep up the good work!

  • @ChaoticXSpawn
    @ChaoticXSpawn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love Mr Terry's reaction any time Sam says something disgusting or foul.

  • @casketbutter
    @casketbutter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love how he just lost it at saint Jerry

  • @TheSpanishDon1
    @TheSpanishDon1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    11:29 is why II want him to watch more salmonella

    • @TheSpanishDon1
      @TheSpanishDon1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Chris Vega Simianella

    • @spacemonkey5806
      @spacemonkey5806 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chris Vega I think it was a joke

    • @huhoka.y3163
      @huhoka.y3163 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Siabenixbnella

    • @jamemhm
      @jamemhm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Chris Vega woooosh

  • @Boggin_
    @Boggin_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    Would you ever consider showing some of the shelves behind you in a video?

  • @quantumationsgaming3387
    @quantumationsgaming3387 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The fact that I can actually learn things from this fine gent is amazing

  • @StayHotPodStan1
    @StayHotPodStan1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    I recommend watching Germany could not win WW2 by Potential History

    • @powchili
      @powchili 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes he should

  • @FloatingOer
    @FloatingOer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A bit more about Olga in the episode, the reason she killed all those people that wanted her to get married is because the suitor was the person who murdered her former husband. And the city she burned down is the city where the suitor lived (whom she also killed)

  • @LegoEngineer003
    @LegoEngineer003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The flaming bird story was actually an idea someone had during WWII; they wanted to attach incendiary bombs to bats and release them over Japan. The bats would head into attics, and Japan would burn.

    • @limboneko7954
      @limboneko7954 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was prob inspired by olga

  • @pikachuneoncat6480
    @pikachuneoncat6480 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite part of these videos is when he lets out this big, hearty laugh.

  • @jusfab9897
    @jusfab9897 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh boy we need more of this

  • @tremoral4097
    @tremoral4097 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The crazy part was Sam didn’t even go that far into olga, she did much more brutal stuff, also the town she burned had killed her husband who was a tax collector and strung him around a tree by his organs

  • @jjoe7078
    @jjoe7078 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    damn you turn a 4 minute video into a 13 minute video. i love your reactions and make them so much more interesting

  • @theghostkidltu2878
    @theghostkidltu2878 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They also used cats to set fires inside the territories of castles to force the locals out. Just horde a bunch of cats during mating season when a lot of them sneak out side the city walls, attache a thing full of flammable stuff to the back of the animal and bam, the panicking critters spread fire in the city

  • @Tycho3889
    @Tycho3889 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You know they’re a teacher when they play the video by pressing the pause button and not space bar.

  • @GrandDukeCaesar
    @GrandDukeCaesar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How the Warwolf was made
    King Edward: hmmm Not enough Property Damage

  • @Q_z_
    @Q_z_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    This might be out of your area, but how much of modern weaponry is a derivation from medieval weapons? For example how Greek Fire and Napalm are related.

    • @kaindrg
      @kaindrg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Not that much, napalm and greek fire actually have little relation to each other besides being similar. The recipe for greek fire is unknown.

    • @mathias3721
      @mathias3721 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Well, everything is derived from the past. A spear is a pointy stick, perhaps even a stick with a pointy rock, then they made a stick that could launch a pointy stick with a pointy rock, then they thought, hey, we can use this powder to make a hollow stick throw rocks really fast

    • @edoardoprevelato6577
      @edoardoprevelato6577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well we still use shields and armor, it's just made to stop .50 bullets rather than swords.

    • @diridibindy5704
      @diridibindy5704 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@edoardoprevelato6577 We don't, there is no armor to stop a .50 cal. Not even the best armored vest can withstand a hit from .50 cal.

    • @edoardoprevelato6577
      @edoardoprevelato6577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@diridibindy5704 it was a hyperbole

  • @joeywalker6827
    @joeywalker6827 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    You gotta do some ancient battles. I recommend the Kings and Generals channel and/or Invicta

    • @skremblo
      @skremblo 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or Historia Civilis

  • @92jwiener
    @92jwiener 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Olga: lights a city with fire birds and burns her enemies.
    Mother Theresa would be proud!

  • @baccarah7010
    @baccarah7010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the kind of reaction video I accept.
    Adding information and thoughts to something.

  • @EPWillard
    @EPWillard 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man, points for actually adding things in a reaction video

  • @TheMoeP
    @TheMoeP 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always enjoy watching Sam O' Nella and Mr Terry made it even more enjoyable with a deeper explanation

  • @friedsammies9637
    @friedsammies9637 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I just wanna say his intro to his videos is so solid, it's amazing

  • @openeyz
    @openeyz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    How ALL book cases should look. BRAVO Mr. Terry

  • @dankinkbendiy1700
    @dankinkbendiy1700 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is what keeps me laughing for eternity

  • @Azaghal1988
    @Azaghal1988 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Little Addition to the Olga / Drevlian Story: Before this episode the Drevlian Chief had Olga's Husband murdered by ripping him appart between 2 springy young trees, and it was very likely that her son would not have survived long under a new Stepfather.

  • @fool2740
    @fool2740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You have the best reaction videos on youtube. You actually talk about interesting stuff instead of just watching the video.

  • @TheManiac-nw8ru
    @TheManiac-nw8ru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Netflix ad: **mark ur calenders its gona be a huge event**
    Me: Immidietly skips to watch this chad of a video

  • @artsysabs
    @artsysabs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This kinda stuff is super interesting. Enjoyed it! Cant imagine a 6 story tall trebuchet
    Also first time hearing of Olga.. shes awesome

  • @GiordanDiodato
    @GiordanDiodato 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Olga was probably the inspiration behind the phrase "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

  • @minhtrungle9117
    @minhtrungle9117 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    When Mr Terry is speechless, you know the medieval people had some serious shit hitting the fan.

  • @viewtifulnovanorman9059
    @viewtifulnovanorman9059 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your head is a perfect circle and you wouldn't believe how happy that's making me right now

  • @MisZpelled
    @MisZpelled 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hey great video! Your point on the dark ages reminded me of the problem of euro-centrism in world history. Because most of the surviving records are from a European worldview, history classes tend to focus almost entirely on the European side of history (at least in High/Middle schools). I was wondering what your opinions on this are?
    P.S. That's I nice retro games collection you have there NES, SNES, N64, and some Genesis from what I can see. Do you get the chance to play often? Also is there a chance of ever getting a games tour?

  • @blairinsertlastnamehere3140
    @blairinsertlastnamehere3140 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A reaction video where the guy actually has some good commentary and doesn't just sit there and make weird faces? Take my like good sir!

  • @KaoticReach1999
    @KaoticReach1999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    FINALLY TH-cam SHOWS ME AN ACTUALLY GOOD CHANNEL I NEVER SAW BEFORE!!

  • @midweiser7285
    @midweiser7285 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    just found your channel. instantly subscribed keep up the original content

    • @12sleep34
      @12sleep34 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yung lean‼️💯💯

  • @Bandicods-SLC
    @Bandicods-SLC 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Greek fire it even works on Water

  • @deanprowell7947
    @deanprowell7947 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    King Edward I: Builds Warwolf
    Stirling Castle: Surrenders
    King Edward I: "I built this thing, I'm going to bloody well use it."

  • @L_ennon
    @L_ennon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I've smoked a joint here and there but anyone else notice his eyes. Man is Z O O T E D

    • @fileoffish1403
      @fileoffish1403 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Lennon Moore he needs it, teaching is a bitch and a half

  • @rpotiy7131
    @rpotiy7131 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of the best parts about Mr. Terry is that he actually talks and reacts to the video

  • @ProfessionalGoober
    @ProfessionalGoober 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Everybody: Reaction channels are the bane of youtube!
    Me:*Shows them this guy*
    Everybody: I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.

  • @Leo-hz8dq
    @Leo-hz8dq 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love how he at first promotes Sam's channel and then just throws in a casual promotion for his own channel as if he was just another of TH-cam's side character.

  • @greedsin555
    @greedsin555 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    You should do "Absolute Mad Lads - Alcibiades" by Count Dankula

    • @rexamillion8446
      @rexamillion8446 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      OHhh yah Mad Lads is full of nuts

    • @iCanBeHeroic
      @iCanBeHeroic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Count Dankula might be too vulgar for him lol he seems to be pretty sensitive to the crazy dudes

    • @LordBaldur
      @LordBaldur 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He's probably too political for the channel.

    • @kimarous
      @kimarous 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      If not Count Dankula, then OSP's History Summarized: Alcibiades.

    • @openaardvark419
      @openaardvark419 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He’s more centrist than anything. He’s just an EdGy boy

  • @LerJu
    @LerJu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Loving your reaction videos! It's nice to get some meat on the bones of these often overly simplified small history videos. Reactions to "Historia Civilis" vids would be awesome!

  • @karaliusking6833
    @karaliusking6833 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mr terry got to say thanks for making the reactions to the vids informative

  • @saltymisfit6566
    @saltymisfit6566 ปีที่แล้ว

    I heard a military historian one-time explain it as since the dawn of war armies have always been in a race to figure out weapons versus armor. One makes better protection, another tries to find a way around it. They do, the other guy works on even stronger armor and round they go

  • @RM97800
    @RM97800 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I recommend "Potential History" channel, especially the tank memes series, but there is like dozen other vids from them that I'd recommend :-)

  • @Coygon
    @Coygon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Have you discovered Shadiversity yet? He specializes on medieval life. Weapons, buildings, and clothing. And, yes, he branches off into fantasy. He's pretty detailed and quite entertaining. Machiculationnnns!!

  • @ttf1627
    @ttf1627 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Could you spare some some time to react to some historical videos from "Knowing Better"? He usually talks on more serious things (including the recent video on the Armenian Genocide), so I understand if you decide not to, but it's still a really interesting and important aspect of history, even if it's not very family-friendly. Not much people react to his videos too, and I'd like to see your opinion.

  • @samovertheroof
    @samovertheroof 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    And this is why history teachers are the best of the best! They just drip coolness everywhere they go

  • @beamwomamam
    @beamwomamam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    So...... the TH-cam algorithm bring you here?

  • @tvc1028
    @tvc1028 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The bird fires remind me bat bombs, a ww2 idea that was actually tested and consisted of strapping bombs to a bunch of bats and dropping a capsule containing hundreds of them over a city. The idea was to do it during the day so that the bats would seek shelter in houses before the bombs explode

  • @casketbutter
    @casketbutter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The only reaction videos I don't mind watching.

  • @chanceou7588
    @chanceou7588 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ever heard of the Bat bomb? It was to be dropped in Japan during WW2 it had bats with little fire explosives attacked to their ankles and would set off at random, so when it landed in a house of a village it would set off.

  • @wereto1234
    @wereto1234 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    hello Terry, what was the most intresting country at the end of the dark ages on your opinion?

    • @ShahjahanMasood
      @ShahjahanMasood 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I would say the Kievan Rus or the England because both countries had gone through massive changes and leaps in power and prestige.
      (Yes I know this question was directed towards Mr Terry but I wanted to answer dangit)

  • @mya-sky4626
    @mya-sky4626 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your reacting vids!
    Really like how you add more information to sams short vids!

  • @CBirchMusic
    @CBirchMusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The only reason I commented is because the comments are at 419 and I want to make it 420

    • @MemestiffGaming
      @MemestiffGaming 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Infinite Warfare pfp lol

    • @CBirchMusic
      @CBirchMusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MemestiffGaming yeah I don't know why I haven't changed it but thanks for reminding me

  • @Morhgoz
    @Morhgoz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also in Europe Medieval was time when lot of technical innovations about farming were made... Like how milling was done. Also some mass production innovations come from that period...

  • @SunkenEgo
    @SunkenEgo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Please react to mad lads by count dankula
    He swears a lot but it’s a very interesting series about historical figures that were either insane or mysterious very entertaining I recommend it.

  • @potatoman8178
    @potatoman8178 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who needs school when u got sam cuz apparently his information correct so I don’t need to go to school