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Thank you! I appreciate the note.

Thank you for the note! What you are saying is almost literally what got me into history in the first place. People make cut and dry statements but are so often unfamiliar with the greater historical background. That's also why I try to provide enough context with each video to set the stage. In general (not always), "clear cut" historical happenings are usually well more complex than people make them out to be. Re the AI, yeah my view is that even if 0 people watch my videos, at the very least I've learnt about a new subject, and that wouldn't happen with AI. Finally, I appreciate the mic suggestion; I'll have to get on that. You're not the first to note it. :) Thanks again!

Ha. This type of thing is probably a more regular occurrence in history than it should be.

I'd argue that it's not just the US of A. People have a tendency to place more value on things that are 1) directly applicable to them, and 2) more recent in occurrence. This is one of the reasons I really enjoy learning about history. It adds so much perspective into how I see things.

@ I agree, but the lessons of the past are what journeys that take us where we are today. We are connected in more ways than we really know. We are all created by our Lord or the aliens from Arizona/New Mexico.

The essence of Islam is the monotheism of God and good and evil are taken for granted because all human beings agree on them. You added Hitler to appear fair, my friend, there is no comparison, and how many Hitlers there are, but no one cares because the one who dies is not the European. I don't understand why you hate the Prophet and Islam?! Terrorism created by America in the name of Islam?! Muslims preserving their identity!? What reason?!

Nah , JESUS CHRIST, The son of GOD himself

@@rastaman4565 Quran 2:116 "They say, 'God has taken a son.' Exalted is He! Rather, to Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth". Quran 19:88-92 "And they say, The Most Merciful has taken a son. You have done an atrocious thing. The heavens almost rupture therefrom and the earth splits open and the mountains collapse in devastation". Quran 43:81-82 Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “If the Most Compassionate ˹really˺ had offspring, I would be the first worshipper.”Glorified is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, the Lord of the Throne, far above what they claim. Quran 23:91 "God has not taken any son, nor has there ever been with Him any deity"

Salalahu alayhi wa salam

@@rastaman4565lol

I don't like to make absolute declarations on things that can be seen differently from different eyes, but its certainly difficult to argue with the immense influence he's had through the ages.

Nah Muhammad started islam.

​@@rastaman4565nope

@@Owais39k yes

Mohamed didn't start islam He just continued the massage that came down from allah from the beginning of humanity Just like how u cant say Isaac Newton invented Gravity he just discovered it@@rastaman4565

Our Father in Islam, was Abraham who is the father all the prophets who came after him, he was not a jew or a Christian a true Muslim, this word means, I believe in Allah subhana talla, willingly with my free will, I submit to Allah's will, this is what our father Ibraheem did so Allah called him Muslim and khallil ullah,..

Looool, even your crusader countries admit his greatness as the Most Influential Man to ever live etc but we will believe you, a UA-cam commentator nobody.

you realize Muhammad without a doubt existed.. right? like the events actually happened, like his resting place is in a tomb inside Medina; his closest companions like Abu Bakr were actual people who actually knew him, and went on to do things like conquer Persia... what kind of stupidity are you on? this is like saying Alexander the Great never existed outside Legends.

Thank you! Yeah, this mic has its good and bad days. At some point I might just jump in and upgrade. I really appreciate the feedback!

Thank you for the thoughts and the well wishes! Feel free to come back for more 😀 I hope to keep the info flowing.

Yeah, I was looking into that a bit and some of the critiques against invasion and for migration seemed like they definitely could have been stretches. I definitely think that the current view is still in favor of invasion, but it seems like it's at least to an extent an open discussion. Thanks for the comment!

@@ImpactfulMoments no problem. I think there was Anglo-Saxon mercenaries, they rebelled, they took over territory. Personally I think the dynasties were Angles and Saxons but in terms of population, like several different populations participated. Frisians, Geats, Rugians, Batavians, and others

Thank you for that!! I'd love to hear the feedback. Much appreciated!

Thank you! I appreciate that! Still relatively early and I'm still a small channel but let's hope :) 🤞

All burys and buroughs are I believe, in england at least

I didn't even realize that, but I love learning those origins. Thanks for calling attention!

I think the berg which is also Germanic, or even modern German means mountain. I wonder if there is any origin relation?

I appreciate the feedback! I am not an AI channel and I try not to use those images throughout the video unless I can't find a good actual image that fits. I am also toying with removing them from my thumbnails but I've been playing 3 options against each other, some with some without, to see how each performs. We'll see how things play out.

Thank you for your thoughts and that info! Re Aryabhatta: Yeah, there are lots of instances in history where occurrences and individuals might be exaggerated or "folktaled", and this is especially so in areas or periods with less robust historical documentation. Re Sanskrits: I didn't know that there were multiple Sanskrits nor how those played into the history so I appreciate your noting that. Will def look into that for more color.

Wow! That is some high praise! Thank you so much for the comment. Very much appreciated :)

Firstly, thank you for the comment! To go in order. 1) Is the "Aryan Jesus" comment a reference to Hitler? You seem pretty in the know of some of these detail so I'd guess that you are familiar with the Arian in this video having been named for Arius, rather than the central Asian Aryan tribes. 2) I go into much more detail on Jesus proper in the following video - ua-cam.com/video/-b0XrpwlNY0/v-deo.htmlsi=nWDnLxeKH6A44cXB. This edict of Milan video is intended more as a recounting of the history that led to the religion's spread rather than on Jesus. 3) Regarding your latter comments, you are bringing up hugely important points and things that really fascinated me when I delved into the history. I note something similar at 9:23 in this video regarding how the narrative shifted from oppressed to oppressor almost instantly once the Edict of Thessalonica was put in place. While I try not to pin blame (I'll leave that to each individual to assess for themselves), I do suggest that those shifts can (should?) potentially be blamed on the power gained and the general challenges faced by humanity rather than on any individual creed or person.

The 10:19 reference was focused more on Christianity's effect western society rather than on branches of Christianity, which is why you wont 'see Ethiopia, Russia, etc. I am attempting for this channel to more or less go in chronological order so the Great Schism of 1054 is certainly on the docket, but were still about 700 years away. :)

I’m struggling to understand your map of “Christianity's effect western society” South America and Australia toughener with South Africa are western? Greece is western? Greece is south east from Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Bulgaria - all Christian countries and after 1054 all Orthodox Christian countries as well as Greece is. Your map 10:19 is all wrong. Interesting fact Constantine was born in part of world you deleted from your map of Christianity. Think about that for the moment. Constantine born in Naissus as ruler of Roman empire comes with edict that makes Christianity basically state religion of whole empire and you just delete his motherland from map of Christianity?

I think I understand where the confusion is coming in here. The map is not a Christianity map, but rather a map of "Western Society". While that term can be a bit vague and have different definitions, it is generally seen as a term for the countries that have evolved from Greco-Roman and Western Christian (ultimately Roman Catholic) origins. It likely used to refer to geographically western areas but with the age of exploration it became much more cultural than geographical. I know that Wikipedia isn't quite a research source but here are the first 2 sentences of the wiki page for Western Culture - "Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world. The core of Western civilization, broadly defined, is formed by the combined foundations of Greco-Roman civilization and Western Christianity." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture There are sources on the page.

While Constantine plays prominently in the video (including the thumbnail), the focus was much more on the edict and seeds that began Christianity's true prominence. This video was not intended as a biography, and Constantine's mention only really began once his role in the spread was reached. So if he were born somewhere else, I suppose I'd have mentioned it if it played more prominently into the spread. Thanks for the comments!

Thank you for the note! I hope I can continue providing good vibes!

Thank you! :)

You think correctly. I know there were many dates and years noted in the video regarding the leadup, but the actual battle was, as you noted, in 9 :)

Absolutely! You are bringing up important historical points that often get lost when viewing these events from the perspective of "the losers who lost". I talk about this concept a bit in my Greco-Persian war video, in how the historic world looks at those wars as a debacle for the Persians, while it was quite possibly just an inconvenience for them. While the battle was a disaster for Rome, they were certainly at or near the height of their military dominance, which is actually what made this defeat so grueling. As noted in the video, Varus was a political, and not specifically military personality, which very likely may have aided in the poor strategy and defeat. Also, much of the information we have on this comes from either third-hand accounts largely from Tacitus, and archeological findings of Roman armor and weaponry at the site. While the Roman remains in the area were much more significant than the Germanic, it's important to realize that the Germanic tribes lived there and were much much more likely to remove their casualties and give them proper send offs. To address you second bullet, there was a potential thought of creating a Germanic league to attack the Roman frontiers but history indicates that the tribes couldn't reach a consensus which may have thwarted those attacks History is complicated and these stories often go much deeper than what we see on the surface, but you bring up an important perspective!

@@ImpactfulMoments We do know about Cassius Cherea, who later killed Caligula, he actually made it to Praetorian guard, probably because due to his outstanding performance during the battle . Him and his unit, we do not know how many, but probably several hundred men, broke through the Germans and managed to retreat. Romans most likely put up quite a fight, before they fell and Arminius ended up with very weakened force, nobody looks at it like a Pyrrhic victory, but it seems like it. Also, the legions were not at full strength, when attacked, had numerous sick, and numbered total probably around 12 thousand fighting men, but that was common, we know from Caesar's works that they were very often not up to the full strength. Varus was definitely not a brilliant tactician, had it been somebody else in his place, like Caecina or Antoninus Priscus, such a disaster would not happen.

Thank you! I'm thrilled you liked it. I didn't know too much about the details before I did the research, but I find these fork-in-the-road historical events (where a different outcome could have lead to wildly different futures) to be my favorite types of topics.

Thanks for the comment! I'll certainly get to the editing in time. Regarding ChatGPT, I pretty much only use it to structure videos or give a first draft, ultimately the writing is mine, and I've learnt that I certainly cannot rely on it for accuracy. I do use GPT to help with the intros a bit just to give it a bit more of a dramatic tone, but I'm debating moving away from that as well.

Thank you! Glad you liked it! And yeah... 💯 I'm a big believer that we can't really know any outcomes with any real degrees of certainty. When it comes to analysis I try to keep away from "certain" terms, and more toward suggestions and possibilities as much as possible.

I wonder this all the time (ok maybe not all the time). I'd doubt it would be Italian though lol. It would likely have been a Germanic Latin dialect, a 6th Latin offshoot. Same with Britain, it would have been its own version of Latin and not English

What ?! This was pagan Europe where real men lived. Not Christian Europe😂

It's wild to wonder where history could have gone had the wind blown in a different direction on a certain day in certain situations.

And to address calcaleb, it's true that the culture was wildly different, but I think the comment was noting how this pushed society down a completely different path. Not to say there would have been a Hitler, but that he would have likely been a very different iteration. There's another comment about how Hitler might have existed but he would have spoken a different language. I do agree that there is a fascinating intrigue with the tribal, pagan people's. So raw.

Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoyed. Hopefully many more :)

Glad it was helpful!! I loved learning about it too!!

Appreciate the comment and the feedback. Yeah, that art is not my preferred media, but some points in history are less "artistically documented" than others so we resort to what we can get.

Thank you! Are you Chinese? I'd love to get feedback from people who may have a more intimate knowledge of the events in my videos. I simply go off of the research that I do, but I might be missing some nuance that could come with a more native learning of the subjects. I appreciate the comment!

@@ImpactfulMoments No, I'm not Chinese but I lived there for many, many years and learned to appreciate its peoples, culture and history. I left China in 2019 but I revisited and spent 6 months there last year and I hope to return again this year. Keep up the good work!!

Thank you so much for that comment! I really appreciate it and I'm really glad this video resonated with you! Let's find a way to hit that 4000! 😊

I'm glad you liked it! I love learning about this stuff and it's amazing to hear that I'm able to connect with people that have similar interests. I appreciate the comment!!

@@ImpactfulMoments it's the least I could do! Thanks again

No idea what this means :)

I know right?? It's also fascinating to learn about the intricacies and how trends repeat themselves throughout history too. Adds so much perspective.

Hmm indeed 🙂