Your videos are great, but you should maybe focus on longer and larger videos about wars & nations instead of these short videos about only parts of the larger history of a nation.
1:39, at this point you have only lost a chunk of Spain and britany. Both could easily be invaded and conquered. With England fighting a civil war with barbians, invading their territory is easy. Then reconquer your chunk of Spain. Then either invade the other 2 chunks or political marriage. 877 collapse is preventable.
It may seem like that on the surface, however like pretty much anything in history... its complicated. One thing not shown in this video was that even when the empire was united under Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, the sons of the current emperor were kings of kingdoms within the Frankish Empire (for example the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Aquitaine). So even when the empire was at its height... it remained quite a bit decentralized. The Franks followed Germanic laws and customs, and one of the main features of Germanic law is that when a father dies (whether he is a farmer or even a king or emperor), all of his property (including land) is divided among his sons. This was very heavily embedded in Frankish kingdom/empire even before Charlemagne, and no matter what a great leader came along for the Franks, the empire would collapse into infighting when that said leader died (also taking into account that people back in the early middle ages tended to have multiple children... like 7 or 8... so having only one son was rare and he could very easily die in infancy or of a plague). Charlemagne was the only leader in Frankish history who really had the charisma, authority, and energy to get rid of this established norm among the Franks. Essentially, the Frankish/Carolingian Empire was doomed to fail after Charlemagne died... unless another Charlemagne came along (which did not happen); also Brittany had been supported in their war against the Franks by Vikings from Denmark; and the Vikings were a force that the Franks were never able to defeat.
Siege of Paris 885-6. It should have been marked in the video, as a crucial moment which discredited Charles the Fat and therefore indirectly all Empire (he chose not to fight but pay ransom when people wanted to fight vikings)
Your videos are great, but you should maybe focus on longer and larger videos about wars & nations instead of these short videos about only parts of the larger history of a nation.
1:39, at this point you have only lost a chunk of Spain and britany. Both could easily be invaded and conquered. With England fighting a civil war with barbians, invading their territory is easy. Then reconquer your chunk of Spain. Then either invade the other 2 chunks or political marriage. 877 collapse is preventable.
It may seem like that on the surface, however like pretty much anything in history... its complicated. One thing not shown in this video was that even when the empire was united under Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, the sons of the current emperor were kings of kingdoms within the Frankish Empire (for example the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Aquitaine). So even when the empire was at its height... it remained quite a bit decentralized. The Franks followed Germanic laws and customs, and one of the main features of Germanic law is that when a father dies (whether he is a farmer or even a king or emperor), all of his property (including land) is divided among his sons. This was very heavily embedded in Frankish kingdom/empire even before Charlemagne, and no matter what a great leader came along for the Franks, the empire would collapse into infighting when that said leader died (also taking into account that people back in the early middle ages tended to have multiple children... like 7 or 8... so having only one son was rare and he could very easily die in infancy or of a plague). Charlemagne was the only leader in Frankish history who really had the charisma, authority, and energy to get rid of this established norm among the Franks. Essentially, the Frankish/Carolingian Empire was doomed to fail after Charlemagne died... unless another Charlemagne came along (which did not happen); also Brittany had been supported in their war against the Franks by Vikings from Denmark; and the Vikings were a force that the Franks were never able to defeat.
Siege of Paris 885-6. It should have been marked in the video, as a crucial moment which discredited Charles the Fat and therefore indirectly all Empire (he chose not to fight but pay ransom when people wanted to fight vikings)