Destroyed Countries That No Longer Exist

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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  4 роки тому +199

    *Which other destroyed countries are there?*
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    • @AntiCommunist
      @AntiCommunist 4 роки тому +4

      General Knowledge first

    • @Gal_Flumin
      @Gal_Flumin 4 роки тому +13

      Judea & israel kindoms by the romans

    • @Jodonho
      @Jodonho 4 роки тому +17

      The native Americans

    • @nicolasrenaud6875
      @nicolasrenaud6875 4 роки тому +6

      It had never been an independant country, but "Acadie" in North America was a nice "colony" during the New France era and I'm sure it would have grown into an awesome and beautiful small country...

    • @NibanoTransmontano
      @NibanoTransmontano 4 роки тому +1

      Mate CHEGA or Iniciativa Liberal ?

  • @RoccoArgubright
    @RoccoArgubright 4 роки тому +169

    The Aztec collapse was also internal. Its people that it conquered were unloyal and constantly rebelled, and the Aztec economy was based on taking over more land for more resources since it wasn't self-sufficient. Once it took over new land, it created more unloyal subjects that rebelled even more, and this cycle would eventually destroy the Aztecs even if the Spanish never attacked.

    • @blanktrigger8863
      @blanktrigger8863 2 роки тому +19

      I don't think most folks realize that's how pretty much every economy worked before free market capitalism. Trade wars were likewise a giant trigger for war because the war for resources was being fought out in trade, too. As much as folks want to destroy capitalism, they have yet to propose any kind of system that profits, which will mean a return to warring for resources.

    • @JJ-fq4nl
      @JJ-fq4nl 2 роки тому +15

      @@blanktrigger8863 there’s still wars for resources in capitalism.

    • @DaytonaRoadster
      @DaytonaRoadster Рік тому +4

      just like the Soviet Union

    • @hib723
      @hib723 Рік тому +2

      The Aztecs didn't have a culture and only consisted of a small warrior class which was in power for a small amount of time in a small area. Mayan civilization existed for thousands of years up until today in some rural areas, and built everything the Aztecs claimed.

    • @o1l2i3v4i5e6r7
      @o1l2i3v4i5e6r7 Рік тому +12

      I'd argue the collapse was MOSTLY internal. The support from the conquered groups was necessary for the Spanish to conquer the empire.

  • @craigtonkin6343
    @craigtonkin6343 4 роки тому +711

    The Zulu Kingdom still exists and with a King too. The area is called KwaZulu. The King is fully funded by the South African government and his authority is fully recognized.

    • @XMando11
      @XMando11 4 роки тому +18

      Nice

    • @morrisstudio8372
      @morrisstudio8372 4 роки тому +21

      Good it should be

    • @WasiKhan-wg1fs
      @WasiKhan-wg1fs 4 роки тому +11

      Should be a country that would be cool

    • @amordramon22
      @amordramon22 4 роки тому +89

      The mahor problem is that the Zulu king is nothing but a greedy monarch. He gets millions of money from the government and keeps demanding for more. He even demanded other cultures of South Africa pay homage to him despite them having no love for each other. Just like out government, he is extremely corrupt

    • @XMando11
      @XMando11 4 роки тому +5

      Oof

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 роки тому +520

    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato

    • @zap3231
      @zap3231 4 роки тому +53

      Random quotes unrelated to the video do not make you look smart

    • @xhafts
      @xhafts 4 роки тому +13

      @@zap3231 lmaoo

    • @Coalzzz
      @Coalzzz 4 роки тому +6

      @@zap3231 ooo mad lmao

    • @tenid4824
      @tenid4824 4 роки тому +3

      @@zap3231 gave you an up vote, but also: being a random dick online doesn't make you better than him.

    • @absorbingsulfuricacid9959
      @absorbingsulfuricacid9959 4 роки тому +3

      @@zap3231 Well you are not smart

  • @sinebachrenleff847
    @sinebachrenleff847 3 роки тому +62

    The fact that Denmark, a very small nation today, used to rule over the whole north (yes, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Greenland) + Estonia for some time AND England (!!!) always blows my mind!

    • @rogerhennie8939
      @rogerhennie8939 3 роки тому +6

      Iceland and Greenland were inhabited by Norwegians and was originaly a part of Norway. After the 'union' with Denmark ended in 1814, Danmark stole Iceland and Greenland.

    • @Jo-Heike
      @Jo-Heike 2 роки тому +5

      Denmark didn't rule Sweden, they were in a voluntary union with Denmark, but they could leave, and did leave. The same was true of Norway, they could have left the union with Denmark if they wanted to, but they didn't. Unfortunately Denmark-Norway sided with Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars, and Norway was ceded to Sweden afterwards (something Norway did not recognize, so Sweden invaded).
      Although, if you mean that Denmark ruled part of Sweden, then there is evidence of that, but not the whole of Sweden, and certainly not the whole of Modern Sweden.
      As for Estonia, apparently they did, learned something new. Although, it was only for a very short period of time. Denmark also controlled parts of Pomerania, and the northern most parts of Modern Germany.
      England was nearly controlled by Norse, and Danes several times, although, the North Sea Empire was the only time they actually succeeded. Still, they did rule England.
      As somebody else pointed out, the reason Denmark had/has Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Isles was because they got to keep them when Norway was seceded to Sweden after Napoleon's defeat.

    • @Jo-Heike
      @Jo-Heike 2 роки тому +2

      @@rogerhennie8939 Why do you have union in quotation marks? It was a real union between Norway and Denmark, that grew from a personal union and lasted for a really long time.
      Also, it the union didn't simply end. I explain this in my other comment, as well as the situation with Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Isles.

    • @rogerhennie8939
      @rogerhennie8939 2 роки тому +3

      Norway was more like a danish colony. The king in Denmark had all power.

    • @rogerhennie8939
      @rogerhennie8939 2 роки тому

      Norway got it's first proper road in the 1630s. It was discovered silver in Kongsberg, and the Danish king needed to transport the silver from the mine, to Copenhagen. So they could build more castles in Denmark. (Norway has no castles from that periode).That 's how the 'union' worked. And most of the people with power in Norway was danes put there by the king in Copenhagen. In Norway the periode is called the 400 years long night.

  • @themoreyouknow7418
    @themoreyouknow7418 4 роки тому +183

    Fun fact: the Roman Emperors also took the title of Pharaoh of Egypt, however, they could only use the title when actually in Egypt (and not able to when in the rest of the empire)

    • @goncalo33
      @goncalo33 2 роки тому +3

      I've always wondered why they couldn't use it outside of Egypt.

    • @jasonanderson5034
      @jasonanderson5034 Рік тому +2

      @@goncalo33 and this did not answer your moment of wonder

    • @B727X
      @B727X Рік тому

      @@goncalo33a sign of respect

    • @will_silvano
      @will_silvano Рік тому +2

      Part of Rome's mastery of Bureaucracy! Very cool fun fact!

    • @dannoi
      @dannoi Рік тому +3

      you also do realize that there was nothing and no one on the planet who could prohibit them to do so if they pleased ? )) just couldnt care less most likely, like being Emperor of Rome wasnt enough ? ))

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 4 роки тому +1213

    “War does not determine who is right - only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous

    • @zap3231
      @zap3231 4 роки тому +117

      Random quotes unrelated to the video do not make you look smart

    • @pemehl6414
      @pemehl6414 4 роки тому +28

      Bruh that pun was horrible

    • @Batcena
      @Batcena 4 роки тому +20

      It's true.. Many nations did get fully deleted in some wars...Unless your poland...No take Poland

    • @zap3231
      @zap3231 4 роки тому +6

      @@walidhousni3186 "at the end of a war" Nope the video is about any country that was destroyed in any way. Not necessarily war. And my comment is related to his, as it's meant to be.

    • @theemperor-wh40k18
      @theemperor-wh40k18 4 роки тому +21

      @@zap3231 most of them did collapse under the consequences of war...

  • @chito226
    @chito226 4 роки тому +1406

    *Yugoslavia intensifies*

    • @morisco56
      @morisco56 4 роки тому +37

      Sad noises

    • @ronjayrose9706
      @ronjayrose9706 4 роки тому +99

      It still exist.......................in my heart

    • @joshhsieh1579
      @joshhsieh1579 4 роки тому +37

      Austria-Hungary : ......

    • @morrisstudio8372
      @morrisstudio8372 4 роки тому +6

      Xd

    • @anna-if8fi
      @anna-if8fi 4 роки тому +23

      i literally clicked on this video to see if yugoslavia would be included lmao

  • @kaiseramadeus233
    @kaiseramadeus233 4 роки тому +504

    "which bring us to today's spon-"
    *Fast forward 40 seconds*

    • @mrbisshie
      @mrbisshie 4 роки тому +8

      Google "sponsorblock" it does that auto for you.

    • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
      @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 4 роки тому +10

      I did the _exact_ same thing!

    • @victormendes956
      @victormendes956 4 роки тому +14

      Always. While watching on my smartphone and when there are 3 or more yellow lines indicating Google ads into the video I forward, watch-skip the first ones and then forward to slightly after the other yellow lines. It won't display the ads but will erase the stop so I can watch the video seamlessly.
      It's insane how the internet turned out to be as bad as TV, and UA-cam is particularly annoying and creators don't get a fair share as Google keeps most of the revenue. I'll see if I can download a hacked UA-cam APK so I can use full Adblock on my smartphone too. Luckily, unlike TV, we can resort to blocking those unnecessarily annoying and abusive ads

    • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
      @Hand-in-Shot_Productions 4 роки тому +2

      @@victormendes956 That advertisements can interrupt a video is _exactly_ why I don't do ads on my videos! Even if I do start, I will try to make sure the ads only appear at the beginning and end of my videos!

    • @ashrasmun1
      @ashrasmun1 3 роки тому +8

      Why do you need to be so obnoxious about it though? Just skip and don't boast about it... That's super cringe.

  • @TheEatmaca
    @TheEatmaca 4 роки тому +217

    I'm from Trabzon (Trebizond). I don't know about other states mentioned at video but if you visit Trabzon you can feel the history behind the city. It is a perfect mix of modern and middle age. There are still lots of historical places to visit. I think it is a important city for christianity. Greetings from Istanbul :)

    • @petert1692
      @petert1692 3 роки тому +6

      Correct, for a long time the esek have governed. Until now, Turkey has a new sultan that cannot keep his mouth shut.

    • @jurmanjiojurmancki5929
      @jurmanjiojurmancki5929 2 роки тому +15

      Trebizond/ trabzon was capital of Pontus Greece.

    • @Old_Guard_Fritz
      @Old_Guard_Fritz 2 роки тому +2

      The empire of Trapezounta was one of the last branches of the Byzantine rule and has still a lot to show but in the video the wrong part was Alexios Komenos didn't ever rule Trapezounta but the Byzantine kingdom(it was called kingdom in its final moments) before the formation of Trapezounta that happened in 1273-4 if i remember correctly

    • @giannisv.4472
      @giannisv.4472 2 роки тому

      @@Old_Guard_Fritz Alexios I Megas Komnenos (Greek: Αλέξιος Κομνηνός;[a] c. 1182 - 1 February 1222) or Alexius I Megas Comnenus was, with his brother David, the founder of the Empire of Trebizond and its ruler from 1204 until his death in 1222. The two brothers were the only male descendants of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos I, who had been dethroned and killed in 1185, and thus claimed to represent the legitimate government of the Empire following the conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

    • @KraNisOG
      @KraNisOG 2 роки тому +2

      @@Old_Guard_Fritz It was not called kingdom.
      It was called the Roman Empire
      The """Byzantine Empire""" never existed. Byzantium as a city existed, but after Constantine it was never called Byzantium.
      The Empire of Trebizond was a rump state that only weakened the overall Roman Empire that it was claiming to be representative of.

  • @kinginexile7139
    @kinginexile7139 3 роки тому +33

    Thank you so much for mentioning Volga Bulgaria! Even here in modern day Bulgaria it is a subject we do not cover often enough in history classes. 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 3 роки тому +6

      Volga Bulgaria is Turkic not Slavic

    • @alexstorm2749
      @alexstorm2749 3 роки тому +9

      Volga Bulgaria is now modern-day Tatarstan in Russia. 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

    • @nevyanplamenov5409
      @nevyanplamenov5409 2 роки тому +1

      @@papazataklaattiranimam No, it was Scythian, stop spreading propaganda

    • @nevyanplamenov5409
      @nevyanplamenov5409 2 роки тому

      @@alexstorm2749 Geographically yes, but ethnically no. There's not a single Volga Bulgarian alive today, after the russian tsar Ivan Grozny killed all of them in 16th century, a genocide for which Russia haven't even apologized yet...

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 2 роки тому +6

      @@nevyanplamenov5409 👶🏻🤓🐰

  • @atr_g10
    @atr_g10 4 роки тому +154

    A lot of people say "first"
    Being the first isn't hard
    Being the last is.

    • @geurrilla2448
      @geurrilla2448 4 роки тому +13

      Literally everyone who watches this video is last at some point but only one person can be first

    • @darth3911
      @darth3911 4 роки тому +9

      Geurrilla not really i think he means in the context as in the last person to EVER see the video for all of time

    • @atr_g10
      @atr_g10 4 роки тому +2

      @@darth3911 exactly

  • @corrautenbach3240
    @corrautenbach3240 4 роки тому +39

    General Knowledge: The Zulu Kingdom, couldn't really find a lot of information...
    Me: You didn't really look.

  • @jeremydavis8932
    @jeremydavis8932 4 роки тому +42

    The Iroquois Confederacy, the Benin Empire, Kingdom of Kongo, Kingdom of Mutapa, Merina Kingdom, Oyo Empire, Kingdom of Nri, Kingdom of Semien, the Kingdom of Hawaii, and a Kingdom of fugitive slaves called Palmares was established in Brazil.

    • @JannaMontana_
      @JannaMontana_ 4 роки тому +2

      Muisca and Mayan civilization to add to the list.

    • @atoscruz9147
      @atoscruz9147 4 роки тому

      Palmares was not a kingdom but a quilombo.

    • @jeremydavis8932
      @jeremydavis8932 4 роки тому

      @@atoscruz9147 I gotcha. Thanks for the correction

    • @florianm9097
      @florianm9097 4 роки тому

      thets were it gets tricky.. "Kingdom of Kongo".. there is a country called "kongo" (two actually) .. its not geografically the same like that kingdom, but it exists.. went through many political changes though. but still. just because its not a kingdom anymore doesn't mean the "country" doesn't exist.. that argument could be made for Mali, Zimbabwe.. maybe Hawaii.. "England", Bavaria

    • @von8089
      @von8089 3 роки тому +1

      The Kingdom of Hawaii still exists it is just under a illegal occupation.

  • @Nguyenducky
    @Nguyenducky 2 роки тому +36

    Great video! You should do Part 2 with old countries in Asia that no longer exist: Kingdom of Champa, Kingdom of Daly, Rouran Khaganate, Xiongnu, Jerchen (Manchu), Quocho, Tubo kingdom, ... There are many in Asia with fascinating history.

    • @itshry
      @itshry 2 роки тому +2

      Srivijaya, Majapahit, Sulu Sultanate,

    • @timothykarlsson3126
      @timothykarlsson3126 Рік тому

      Yes, agreed, though, if I'm not mistaken, the Jerchen wasn't really a "country", more a bunch of tribes(that not seldom waged war with eachother)?

  • @waltercool
    @waltercool 4 роки тому +6

    I would replace Aztecs with Mayans, no one knows what happened with Mayans.
    There are also some misconceptions. Aztecs were not destroyed "by gunpower" or neither a civilization, but an Empire. Spanish did multiple missions around Mexico, and later they joined with 400 men to other small mexican civilizations who revolted against Aztecs.

  • @_undefined1744
    @_undefined1744 4 роки тому +21

    15:12 this statement is half true. while the Zulu Nation is, for all intents and purposes, not a sovereign nation, isiZulu language and culture is still very much alive.

  • @sefer1377
    @sefer1377 4 роки тому +103

    Interestingly, Carthage burned 17 days after Scipio set it on fire.Scipio did not even want to destroy Carthage but the Senate ordered it 😢

    • @cantdebunkthetruth
      @cantdebunkthetruth 4 роки тому +25

      They did Scipio dirty in ancient Rome. One of the saddest stories of antiquity.

    • @sebby8005
      @sebby8005 3 роки тому +10

      @Joel Springman well, the salt brewed up and formed one man who then went on to sack Rome. Hannibal was truly a beast

    • @Dimebag017
      @Dimebag017 3 роки тому +1

      @@sebby8005 Rome deserve to be destroyed, and it is 😉

    • @UnholyWrath3277
      @UnholyWrath3277 2 роки тому +3

      @@sebby8005 nobody from carthage actually sacked rome... if your thinking of the visigoths they eventually settled spain while the vandals eventually settled the old carthage area

    • @sebby8005
      @sebby8005 2 роки тому +2

      @@UnholyWrath3277 I appreciate it! I looked a little more into it and he made it through the alps but not to Rome. I had thought that for a hot minute, neat little insight.

  • @Kanabai1871
    @Kanabai1871 4 роки тому +419

    In the next part you should include the state of the Teutonic Order

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  4 роки тому +73

      Great idea!

    • @nieboniebieskie3502
      @nieboniebieskie3502 4 роки тому +19

      and maybe Baltic tribes conquered by the Teutonic Order

    • @karlkarlos3545
      @karlkarlos3545 4 роки тому +11

      @@General.KnowledgeAnd please tone down the repetitive background music.

    • @Kanabai1871
      @Kanabai1871 4 роки тому +11

      Niebo Niebieskie That’s a great idea! I whould love a video about the old prussians.

    • @Kanabai1871
      @Kanabai1871 4 роки тому +5

      Karl Karlos I love the background music. Too each their own I guess.

  • @SeverityOne
    @SeverityOne 4 роки тому +61

    A small addition: the Phoenician word for "harbour", marsa, survives in several towns around Malta (Marsa, Marsaxlokk, Marsalforn) and indeed Marseille.

    • @abdulrahmanabdulaziz8742
      @abdulrahmanabdulaziz8742 3 роки тому +10

      The word Marsa is used in Arabic too for harbour.. There are many similarities between the two cultures & languages since they are both semitic.

    • @ilcaliffo9967
      @ilcaliffo9967 3 роки тому +3

      Indeed the city of Marsala in Sicily means literally the port of God (marsa + allah)

    • @VGOM2000
      @VGOM2000 3 роки тому +2

      Thats nice to know ty

    • @L1M.L4M
      @L1M.L4M 2 роки тому +1

      Frönch

    • @thkempe
      @thkempe 2 роки тому +3

      Since Massalia (without the "r", i.e. no "marsa") was a Greek foundation it makes little sense that its name should be Phoenician. Greeks and Phoenicians were rivals and didn't like each other enough to name their own city in the other's language.

  • @larsfrandsen2501
    @larsfrandsen2501 2 роки тому +12

    Love the channel! A couple of things (please check this through independent sources. I am not a historian):
    • Sweyn Forkbeard is the way you sometimes see his name spelled in English sources. His name in the region is spelled Svend Tveskæg. Sevel regional spelling variations. Again, I am no expert, but the chain mail you see in the illustration looks to me as being a much later combat uniform (and probably English, too.)
    • His son’s name is spelled Knud; anglofied versions include Canute because that is the way English speakers often pronounce his name.

  • @ThuggDuckk
    @ThuggDuckk 4 роки тому +165

    When one is United for too long it will divide when one is divided it will unite
    -Chinese mythology

    • @xhafts
      @xhafts 4 роки тому +26

      random quotes to make you look smart

    • @neonyzr
      @neonyzr 4 роки тому +6

      We are in an endless cycle then

    • @ThuggDuckk
      @ThuggDuckk 4 роки тому +4

      @@xhafts I am smart I go to a private school and I have a diploma

    • @TheHotG
      @TheHotG 4 роки тому +5

      Hong kong, Tibet, Shanghai : *Laughs in* *Chinese*

    • @Ludovicus1769
      @Ludovicus1769 4 роки тому +1

      China and Germany: True.

  • @anthonyjenkins5308
    @anthonyjenkins5308 4 роки тому +102

    In regards to the Aztecs, probably should’ve mentioned the affect that diseases had on its fall

    • @Kardia_of_Rhodes
      @Kardia_of_Rhodes 4 роки тому +15

      By the time disease came into play, the Aztec Empire was already gone.

    • @dirtysanchez941
      @dirtysanchez941 4 роки тому +5

      @@Kardia_of_Rhodes What???

    • @bangscutter
      @bangscutter 4 роки тому +25

      It was a combination of many factors. The Spanish allied themselves with the local rebel factions who hated the Aztecs and wanted to overthrow their rulers.

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 4 роки тому +5

      probably should have mentioned a hell of a lot more than he did, or if he can't be bothered to do any research, just leave them out of it

    • @Bryan-bd5kc
      @Bryan-bd5kc 3 роки тому

      @@Kardia_of_Rhodes no Aztecs defeated Cortez and almost killed him they fell cuz of disease dumbass

  • @seanchadwick9036
    @seanchadwick9036 4 роки тому +30

    In South America is the Inca Empire, that was conquered by Spain.

  • @k9fangamvs53
    @k9fangamvs53 4 роки тому +33

    I'm Zulu, I learned more about the Zulu Kingdom in this video than I did at school smh

    • @bosniencommie1202
      @bosniencommie1202 3 роки тому

      Yea africa is shit what do you wont onley worse place is balcans

    • @theeternalalbo5318
      @theeternalalbo5318 3 роки тому +2

      @@bosniencommie1202 Learn English. And no,Balkans is way better even though its bad for European standards.

    • @andresduques2013
      @andresduques2013 3 роки тому +4

      @@bosniencommie1202 tf is wrong with you

    • @bosniencommie1202
      @bosniencommie1202 3 роки тому

      @@andresduques2013 i em sarcastic but yea balcan is shit

    • @WTXYN
      @WTXYN 3 роки тому

      @@bosniencommie1202 naees englesh frind

  • @RossDouglas82
    @RossDouglas82 3 роки тому +12

    Great video. One correction on the Zulu Kingdom's fall. While Isandlwana was the Zulu's most famous victory over the Brits - indeed it is the worst single defeat in Modern British history - they were actually very successful against the English for about a year to 18 months and scored a number of victories against the British due to poor leadership and a failure to understand Zulu tactics.
    Some historians even argue that the Brits were only really able to win by attrition - a strategy they'd employ again during the Anglo-Boer, Anglo-Pedi, and South African (Anglo-Boer II) wars.

    • @rawka_7929
      @rawka_7929 2 роки тому +2

      Ehh, the British had a lot of bad defeats in modern history so idk if we can pick a single worst one, look at the Battle of Doiran for example

    • @stigkrakpants3052
      @stigkrakpants3052 Рік тому

      @@rawka_7929 the British are unique, they lost every single war they ever fought, except the final war. That makes them the most powerful empire and force in history. The greatest people in God's green earth

    • @rawka_7929
      @rawka_7929 Рік тому +2

      @@stigkrakpants3052 not only is that inaccurate but it also doesn't mean they're the greatest people, if anything it means the opposite.
      And I merely pointed out that they lost a battle against the Bulgarians in WW1 despite having every advantage.

    • @stigkrakpants3052
      @stigkrakpants3052 Рік тому

      @@rawka_7929 you should not punish success, is no wonder humanity is dying and depravity is growing.

    • @rawka_7929
      @rawka_7929 Рік тому +3

      @@stigkrakpants3052 what the hell are you talking about bro?

  • @mysterious7215
    @mysterious7215 4 роки тому +188

    When general knowledge uploads a video . You know it's going to be a good night

  • @IVaV1
    @IVaV1 4 роки тому +111

    *Me realizing the people that commented coudnt have finished the video because it was released 17 minutes ago and the video is 18 minutes long*

  • @fernandoc5536
    @fernandoc5536 4 роки тому +44

    Just wanted to point out that the map for the "Aztecs" on the thumbnail seems to be the map of Mayan territory-Tenochtitlán never controlled the Yucatán Peninsula.
    Thanks!

  • @will_silvano
    @will_silvano 2 роки тому +15

    Are you kidding me?! You absolutely NAILED those Aztec/Triple alliance pronunciations! Good job! 😮😮

    • @davidaltman8831
      @davidaltman8831 Рік тому +3

      hope you`re kidding. he butchered them

    • @rosiefay7283
      @rosiefay7283 Рік тому

      Dunno about them, but he seems sometimes to be reading from texts he didn't write. We can hear this by the way he butchers words he seems not to know, e.g. "confluence" and "steppe" (which he misreads as "steep").

    • @will_silvano
      @will_silvano Рік тому

      @@davidaltman8831 I think it was close enough to where I wouldn't nitpick -- I've heard way worse pronunciations of these... to a level of cringe that I didn't experience here.

    • @will_silvano
      @will_silvano Рік тому

      @@rosiefay7283 I do believe this person also has some kind of accent when speaking English. Not sure where they're from, but would like to know. I'm sure one of these days it will click for me where I could offer an attempt at guessing where they might be from.

  • @liamnevard1591
    @liamnevard1591 4 роки тому +8

    After Swyen Forkebeard died, the English decided they wanted they’re ole king back so they made Aethelred king again. Canute was busy claiming the throne of Denmark, so when he was finally ready to attack England, he rose a mighty army. Then Aethelred promptly died so Canute peacefully invaded and took England back.

  • @mohanrengan9078
    @mohanrengan9078 4 роки тому +14

    In India you should mention Pandyas Cheras cholas which was extend almost from 4th century BC to 14 th century AD which ruled the southern parts of India these three are few of the longest survived(ing)dynasties in the world

  • @Keallei
    @Keallei 4 роки тому +135

    Thank you for helping us learn history in a fun way.

    • @xhafts
      @xhafts 4 роки тому

      thank you for talking idiot

    • @valenciainacabada_8432
      @valenciainacabada_8432 4 роки тому +9

      Emiliano Rodriguez Why so aggressive?

    • @valenciainacabada_8432
      @valenciainacabada_8432 4 роки тому +3

      Emiliano Rodriguez Por qué? No tienes que ser tan agresivo

    • @xhafts
      @xhafts 4 роки тому +1

      Seguimiento Torre iKon Shut it already you silly goose

    • @UgandanKing
      @UgandanKing 4 роки тому +3

      Emiliano Rodriguez thank you for being a idiot my broda

  • @matthewmcneany
    @matthewmcneany 4 роки тому +56

    This might be a long list: I feel like I could name 15 just in the British isles.

  • @marcelahmad943
    @marcelahmad943 Рік тому +10

    I'm so glad that you brought up Volga Bulgaria! In fact, we didn't dissappeared in XIII-th centure. We mixed with kypchacks and built Khanate of Kazan till Rissia conqured us in 1552. Russians started to call us "tatars" as they called all turkic-speaking nations. But we still have movements to return our original name. Even my great grandfather always prefered to call himself " Volga/ Idel bulgar" during USSR time, when it was forbidden.

    • @mastersafari5349
      @mastersafari5349 Рік тому +3

      Volga tatars are as related to ancient bulgars as modern day slavic speaking bulgarians to them.😅 In other words they just live on the same territory but otherwise are complitely different group of people.
      Closest surviving relatives to bulgars today are chuvashs not volga tatars.

    • @teovu5557
      @teovu5557 Рік тому

      @@mastersafari5349 chuvash have the language but genetically they are finno-ugric and slavic. volga tatar are still closer to old bulgars.

    • @mastersafari5349
      @mastersafari5349 Рік тому +1

      @@teovu5557 I didn't say anything about their genetics. It's a whole different topic.
      I'm talking about cultural and linguistic similarity between Volga tatars and Volga Bulgars. Modern day tatars, bashkirs, kazakhs are descendants of cumans not bulgars.

    • @lampsight8403
      @lampsight8403 Рік тому +1

      Me a hungarian watching the whole debate:

    • @threepo9692
      @threepo9692 Рік тому +1

      В мусульманских источниках, например, в списке покоренных Тамерланом земель территория называется "вилайет Болгар". У горе-историков по этому поводу разыгралась буйная фантазия, их вовсе не смущало что столицей вилаета, т.е. провинции, был город Булгар. Естественно никто себя болгарами не считал, точно также как жители "Московского княжества" не считали себя некой нацией "московитов", в существование которой верят свидомые украинцы. Татарами ранее назывались все тюркоязычные народы от Кавказа до Алтая. Самоназвание болгар сохранилось у балкарцев и у жителей современной Болгарии.

  • @freebased1780
    @freebased1780 4 роки тому +10

    British Empire and the Soviet Union might be two you could consider, I know that's some pretty recent history...just a thought.

    • @mrfreeman2911
      @mrfreeman2911 Рік тому

      It still exists, but is called the commonwealth of nations.

  • @ee12321
    @ee12321 4 роки тому +38

    The ruins of carthage we can See today is actully the romans buildings after They had destroyed the original city

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 4 роки тому +3

      is that why st augustine wrote of carthage as though it was still a going concern? i've always been confused about that

    • @jokester3076
      @jokester3076 3 роки тому +7

      allot of the stone structures survived the destruction of the original city and were reused and rebuilt by the Romans.

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 3 роки тому

      @@jokester3076 thanks for clarifying

    • @CzechMirco
      @CzechMirco 3 роки тому +1

      But the shape of the military harbour is pretty much still the original one.

  • @almightysosa3007
    @almightysosa3007 4 роки тому +27

    Carthage vs Rome was like the Lebron led Cavs vs the Warriors with KD. Ain’t no way in hell they was winning but damn they were powerful and give credit to Hannibal for keeping them in it, Hannibal the Lebron of war no cap.

    • @almightysosa3007
      @almightysosa3007 4 роки тому +2

      Robert Lewandoski and if JR smith put up that shot after getting the offensive rebound in game 1 of the finals they would’ve won...

  • @lungabiyela9081
    @lungabiyela9081 4 роки тому +56

    You left out Emperor Mourinho's Chelseantine Empire that was found where modern day London is situated. It was undone by internal conflict and sacked by the Fergusonians from Manchesterstonia.

  • @SebaMillonario
    @SebaMillonario Рік тому +5

    In a future Part 2, you ought to talk about the Inca Empire in South America. It's lenght, cultural impact and sad ending story is fascinating.

  • @viper8177
    @viper8177 4 роки тому +5

    For part two I would like to see Tibet, Khazaria, Angevin Empire, Babylonian Empire, Persian Empire, Ancient Israel and Judah, Moab, Assyria, Hittite Empire, Edom, Republic of Genoa, and for a final challenge I'd like you to tell us what happened to Atlantis the Minoans and the Huns. 😂

  • @nealsterling8151
    @nealsterling8151 4 роки тому +10

    Man, i could watch these Videos for hours!
    THANK YOU for all the work and hours of investigation you put into them.
    Really appreciated!

  • @Jorge-zr4zb
    @Jorge-zr4zb 4 роки тому +8

    Oh, I'm an old player in Conflict of Nations, I play 2 years ago, greetings from Spain, in the game I'm golondrino

  • @christopheradams3271
    @christopheradams3271 4 роки тому +19

    This video was great. Thank you for making these, good general. It inspires me to suggest a video topic for you: failed colonization attempts (e.g. New Sweden, New Netherland, New Caledonia).

    • @MrPbhuh
      @MrPbhuh 4 роки тому +2

      New Netherlands and New Sweden werent failed colonies. They were super successful. They simply got conquered. I think a better choice might be the Roanoke colony i think? Or maybe Klein Venedig.

    • @christopheradams3271
      @christopheradams3271 4 роки тому

      @@MrPbhuh, that's a fair point. "Failed" was probably the wrong word for me to use. More accurate would have been "Colonies of which you may not have heard."

    • @MrPbhuh
      @MrPbhuh 4 роки тому +1

      @@christopheradams3271 That might be a good idea :P
      But I think many people are familiar with New York/New Amsterdam(Netherlands)

    • @dtvjho
      @dtvjho 3 роки тому

      @@MrPbhuh While the Dutch held Manhattan, what is often overlooked is the other colony 90 miles to the southwest: New Sweden. With the Dutch controlling the Hudson River area, the Swedes simply went south, to the next major inlet (the Delaware River), sailed up it and founded their colony. Something like 30 years later this colony ended up surrendering to the British, who went on to found New Jersey. Later came Billy Penn and Pennsylvania in 1681. The Swedes didn't leave. Today, Swedesboro is in the vicinity, south Jersey across from Philadelphia. Swedish arrivals didn't stop. It remained a favorite area for inbound Swedes. My family came from Sweden in 1912, and guess where they settled. Nearby Glassboro NJ. The Swedish American Heritage Museum is in South Philly (by I-95 inside FDR Park), across the Delaware River from Swedesboro.

    • @brendanrivers4737
      @brendanrivers4737 3 роки тому

      @@MrPbhuh Yup, even old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way.

  • @jmbrownell9
    @jmbrownell9 3 роки тому +4

    Yes! Please do a Part 2! I absolutely love your channel! 😃❤️

  • @mickeymurder5462
    @mickeymurder5462 3 роки тому +5

    The Aztec Empire was actually more in line with a Spartan hegemony than that of an actual empire. The conquered tribes were largely hostages to the Aztec and not actually aztec themselves.

    • @SombreroGato
      @SombreroGato 2 роки тому

      Aztecs were not even ethnic meso-americans, they were southwest Pima/Comanche/hopi ethnic genetic stock Indians who fled south after the collapse of an older empire due to climate change/water shortages. So they were seen as foriegn conquerors by the native tribes mostly Nahuatl speaking.

    • @chronikhiles
      @chronikhiles 2 роки тому

      Don't call them Indians just because that one guy Columbus did. Indians are from South Asia.

  • @projectmayhem6898
    @projectmayhem6898 4 роки тому +10

    [4:42] The Nubians brought plates of donuts to Ancient Egypt.

  • @a1b2tv41
    @a1b2tv41 4 роки тому +4

    Carthage is not dead;
    It still lives in our hearts

  • @hosker234
    @hosker234 4 роки тому +5

    The North Sea Empire wasn't a county as each Kingdom retained it's own kingdom, it was simply under the same monarch. There was no unification and united country.

  • @melvinmayfield470
    @melvinmayfield470 3 роки тому +1

    BTW: Blessings to You & Yours & MANY-Thanks for Your-service!

  • @mikexcity
    @mikexcity Рік тому +2

    You forgot the UK, we're in the process of destroying ourselves at the moment. It started in 2016.

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam 4 роки тому +37

    Mahmud al Kashgari and Ahmad ibn Fadlan wrote many things about Volga Bulgaria.Ilovelanguages made video about their language.

    • @sheesmustafa9522
      @sheesmustafa9522 4 роки тому +1

      Volga Bulgars were muslims

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 4 роки тому +6

      mohammadshees mustafa yes but they were tengrists before islam
      as seen in the report by Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th century) about the Oghuz Turks, kindred to the Bulgars,[155] made the acceptance of Islam more natural and easier in Volga Bulgaria:[155][156]
      If someone trouble befalls any of them or there happens any unlucky incident, they look out into the sky and summon: "Ber Tengre!". In the Turkish language, that means, "by the One and Only God!".

    • @sheesmustafa9522
      @sheesmustafa9522 4 роки тому

      @@papazataklaattiranimam it's strange to find a muslim community that north

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 4 роки тому +2

      mohammadshees mustafa 😅😅
      Yes,he was northest islamic state in history also his successor Kazan Khanate

    • @sheesmustafa9522
      @sheesmustafa9522 4 роки тому +1

      @@papazataklaattiranimam Russia is very interesting and big ,it still has alot of ancient communities living in it like Muslims of chechniya ,barkhostan and Iranian christians

  • @dwarasamudra8889
    @dwarasamudra8889 4 роки тому +4

    The Sikh Empire was not a nation. It was an Empire. It had Punjabis, Kashmiris and among others. The nation state concept didn't exist in India until the British. Different regions would be constantly conquering each other. For example, the Kannadigas frequently ruled over the Telugus, Tamils, Malyalis and Marathis. One time, the Tamils ruled over the Kannadigas, Telugus, Malyalis, Odias and Bengalis.

  • @SrDonJugo
    @SrDonJugo 4 роки тому +11

    The Aztecs were already declining when the Spaniards arrive. Their whole expansion was in jeopardy because they needed more land to pay their ever growing army

  • @susansokoloski2233
    @susansokoloski2233 2 роки тому +14

    You definitely need to learn more about Precolumbian Mesoamerica. There is so much incredible history there that is as complex and fascinating as any in Europe. The Aztecs arose from these empires, some as complex and as monumental as Ancient Egypt at the same times as those entities existed. I really enjoyed this video.

  • @darthmango994
    @darthmango994 3 роки тому +4

    I am a Sikh and I thank you for doing the Sikh Empire.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 роки тому +39

    Mighty Sealand will revive the North Sea Empire!

    • @tqser
      @tqser 4 роки тому +2

      yo why do i keep seein you everywhere i go

    • @Jodonho
      @Jodonho 4 роки тому

      LOL

    • @gigasquid2040
      @gigasquid2040 4 роки тому

      I see you everywhere

    • @srod8818
      @srod8818 3 роки тому

      STFU

  • @ДмитроШтимпель
    @ДмитроШтимпель 4 роки тому +6

    Galicia-Volhynia - it's Ukraine, and also it's Rus'
    Yeah, it's hard to understand

  • @comradeedwin1006
    @comradeedwin1006 4 роки тому +4

    Love your videos! Keep the great work up!

  • @MrFantocan
    @MrFantocan Рік тому +2

    Lesson here is: Don't get conquered!
    Also Egypt still exists, just because it no longer has a pharaoh you can't claim it to be a goner.

    • @mrfreeman2911
      @mrfreeman2911 Рік тому

      He did state ancient egypt and also stated it has vastly different borders.

    • @MrFantocan
      @MrFantocan Рік тому

      @@mrfreeman2911 Again, claiming it is a new country jus cus it changed makes no sense, borders, people, cuture can change vastly, and did change in most countries all over the world, China, Brasil, USA, Russia are big exemples of countries that started vastly different than what they are nowdays. And for that matter they are not "new countries".

  • @boyanpenev9822
    @boyanpenev9822 3 роки тому +2

    I believe the Persians were fairly fond of Egypt as well, though there were Egyptian rebellions and periods of independence. The last independent Egyptian ruler of the Thirtieth Dynasty was deposed only about a decade before Alexander started his war with Persia.

    • @induchopra3014
      @induchopra3014 Рік тому

      Were all Persians followers of Zorastrian religion?

  • @walidhousni3186
    @walidhousni3186 4 роки тому +58

    Pre-columbian empires: *exist*
    Spain and portugal: I'm about to end this empire whole existence

    • @JV-kd7rp
      @JV-kd7rp 4 роки тому +3

      *I'm about to end an entire race of people*

    • @leonardorivelorivelo9253
      @leonardorivelorivelo9253 4 роки тому +1

      Im about to end these natives whole country

    • @nathatos
      @nathatos 4 роки тому +3

      Portuguese: i'm about to marry with these natives

    • @leonardorivelorivelo9253
      @leonardorivelorivelo9253 4 роки тому +3

      @Default Profile Picture I guess you are right bc there wasnt a formed empire in the region still portugal fought against the various tribes

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 4 роки тому +2

      That isnt accurate,since only spain fought empires,Portugal only fought tribes and fuck them

  • @Zypher77777
    @Zypher77777 4 роки тому +115

    Carthago delenda est

    • @darkicity
      @darkicity 4 роки тому +2

      Ita

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 4 роки тому +1

      @Jack McCabe omg, they were both total bringdowns, like tipper gore, but i still stand in awe of a man who can rip out his guts survive having them shoved back in and then do it again on regaining consciousness

    • @xaviotesharris891
      @xaviotesharris891 3 роки тому +1

      @@luciferangelica Having to read between the lines of a comment that seems to have been deleted, I agree. I think the younger was mostly a terrible human being, but he did deliver the best "did I stutter?" retort in all of history.

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 3 роки тому

      @@xaviotesharris891 i don't get it, i can still see my comment

    • @luciferangelica
      @luciferangelica 3 роки тому +1

      @@xaviotesharris891 oh, wait. i see what you mean. whoever i was responding to deleted theirs

  • @TheSwaddelator
    @TheSwaddelator 3 роки тому +3

    This was very nice and informative. Little information that you can add in your research is the ZAR Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek that consisted of the Orange Freestate and Transvaal. This was right next to Zulu Land and was also colonized by the Brittish, after a war that carried on for two years and all become the Union of South Africa under Brittish rule.

    • @kaseywatson7281
      @kaseywatson7281 3 роки тому

      Are they the decedent's of dutch people Afrikaans is just dutch.

  • @fotiskoutsou2089
    @fotiskoutsou2089 3 роки тому +2

    Ο ΠΌΝΤΟΣ ΖΕΊ!!! Nice video thnx for mentioning Trapezunda!

  • @dhrubajyotibasu6505
    @dhrubajyotibasu6505 3 роки тому +15

    Since you mentioned the Sikh empire, you could create a full video on the different kingdoms that existed in the Indian subcontinent starting from the ancient times.

    • @mangomanftw5538
      @mangomanftw5538 2 роки тому

      I did not even know there was any sikh 'empire'

    • @mr.falcon54
      @mr.falcon54 2 роки тому +1

      @@mangomanftw5538
      well now you do

    • @mangomanftw5538
      @mangomanftw5538 2 роки тому

      @@mr.falcon54 I am a sikh punjabi.. there wasn't any sikh 'empire'

    • @induchopra3014
      @induchopra3014 Рік тому

      Sikhs have not disappeared. Nor there culture, religion. They still rule indian punjab in a democratic way. But yes,Sikhs have totally disappeared from Afghanistan, Pakistan by islamisation. After partition of india,they faced a genocide in Pakistan.

    • @induchopra3014
      @induchopra3014 Рік тому

      @@mangomanftw5538 Sikhs ruled Pakistan punjab, Afghanistan, Pakistan,kashmir. Read your history. With a maharaja. No child is taught this

  • @garypulliam3740
    @garypulliam3740 4 роки тому +39

    How about the original Prussia. Before the Germans coopted the name Prussia.

    • @thisisgin16
      @thisisgin16 4 роки тому

      Context?

    • @darth3911
      @darth3911 4 роки тому +6

      共産銀 the first Prussian kingdom was pagan because of that the H.R.E. gone to war with them killed all there people then colonized the area

    • @blackwidowsm
      @blackwidowsm 4 роки тому +1

      Gary Pulliam Prussia defeated the Germany even tho they were all technical Germanic people. They took the Germany name to ease tensions scand moved the capital from Konigberg modern day kalingrad and moved it to Berlin to assimilate with the German people. But it was Prussia who dominated politics for example the Kaiser was Prussian military was Prussian led every function was dominated by the prussians they were Germany in name only to this day. At conclusion of World War Two reason Syria and Israel are in such conflict it’s not an Arab and Jewish thing but two separate Prussian factions settling on each side. Ironically they are same people but with different strain of ideologies of thought. The strange relationship is real has with Syria estranged like brothers fighting a civil war.each side has supporters but this is mere a contusion of Prussian / German wars of the 1800s nothing more nothing less simply a people relocated and continuation of the battle.

    • @darth3911
      @darth3911 4 роки тому +9

      Syd Marsh he is talking about old Prussia which is different then the Prussian empire

    • @garypulliam3740
      @garypulliam3740 4 роки тому +7

      @@blackwidowsm I'm talking way before this. Way! Before! Prussia was a small group of Nordic or Rus people who settle in a small valley along the coast of what is now Danzig. Then a German tribe came in and wiped them out and began calling themselves Prussians even though the Prussians had long been exterminated ... something to that effect.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 4 роки тому +20

    Of course we still exist, we’re eternal

    • @emperor___palpatine
      @emperor___palpatine 4 роки тому +2

      Oh hey Kim. When are you joining the Final Order with me? 😈

    • @libzbond
      @libzbond 4 роки тому +1

      Kim Jong Un Empire

  • @ondrejsveda7274
    @ondrejsveda7274 3 роки тому +4

    You could include Samo's Empire and Great Moravia next time, also great video

  • @jimplosay8352
    @jimplosay8352 3 роки тому +2

    Very informative. Thanks!

  • @swedenball8589
    @swedenball8589 3 роки тому +2

    I love Mehmed II. He is the guy who let me more interested in history and geography.

  • @damiankomputerowiec8630
    @damiankomputerowiec8630 4 роки тому +23

    Burgundy
    Inca
    Tibet
    The Great Lehit Empire - the ancestors of the winged hussars

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam 4 роки тому +63

    Volga Bolgaria is still living with different name call Tatarstan.With same peoples!

    • @vadimveskreb8764
      @vadimveskreb8764 4 роки тому +4

      mostly not

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 4 роки тому +7

      Mostly,according to historians.

    • @vadimveskreb8764
      @vadimveskreb8764 4 роки тому +6

      @@papazataklaattiranimam mostly not. After that country was destroyed by mongols people went to the other places nearby, some of them stayed there (but only a small part). In theory you can say that russians are volga bulgarians in some ways

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 4 роки тому +11

      They still call themselves Bolgar not even Tatar.

    • @olumluhayatbugunvarsinyari1326
      @olumluhayatbugunvarsinyari1326 4 роки тому +13

      Volga Tatars are literally Volga Bulgars
      Population genetic analysis indicated that Conquerors had closest connection to the Onogur-Bulgar ancestors of Volga Tatars.
      www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53105-5
      Thus supporting the view that Tatars may be descendents of ancient Bulgars.
      pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22520580/
      Most Tatars trace their descent to Volga Bulgars, a medieval Turkic people who have inhabited the Middle Volga and lower Kama region.
      online.ucpress.edu/search-results?page=1&q=Bulgars
      The forefathers of Kazan Tatars were Bulgars - a Turkic group that settled in the Middle Ages to Volga region.
      link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-981-13-2898-5_148.pdf
      www.readcube.com/articles/10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe009

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam 2 роки тому +4

    There are two direct references to Tangra as a Bulgar deity in the sources. One is found in an Ottoman manuscript where it is stated that the name of god in Bulgarian was “Tängri” (Bułghar dilindžä Tängri der).201 The other is in a badly-damaged inscription (carved on a marble column) which commemorates a sacrifice made by Omurtag“to the god Tangra” (κὲ ἐπύησ]εν θυσ[ήαν ἠς τὸν θεὸ]ν Ταγγραν).202 The inscription was found at the rocky cliff of Madara, a site that is commonly associated with the Tangra cult. It is worth remarking that according to ancient Inner Asian religious traditions, the favour of heaven had to manifest itself in the possession of “sacred mountains”. There the qaghan was thought to be closer to Tängri; he could therefore conduct “privileged conversations with him” and receive or transmit his orders.203 It is not unlikely that the site of Madara played a similar role in Bulgaria.204 To be sure, below the relief of the horseman archaeolo gists unearthed the foundations of a complex comprising of what seems to have been a pagan shrine (built on top of a three-aisled church dated to the sixth and seventh centuries), as well as a building with three divisions, which has been interpreted as a dwelling Amongst other things, it has been sug gested that the latter was a kind of private quarter for the ruler from which he seems to have directed the cult of Tangra, the ceremonial sacrifices and. quite possibly, the collective prayers.
    While Tangra is very likely to have been worshiped by certain Bulgar groups/clans before their migration to the Balkans, his promotion to the supreme god of the elite and. in a sense, the official religion of the Proto bulgarian state coincides in time with the gradual centralization of political power, a process that is rightly connected with Krum's and Omurtag's reigns in the early ninth century. Indeed, the ideology associated with the wor ship of Tangra was bound to enhance monarchical rulership. Just as Tangra was the supreme celestial being, the khan-his reflection-was regarded as rightfully the sole sovereign on earth or, at any rate. in the Bulgar state (an idea which finds clear expression in Omurtag's building inscription from Catalar). The ideology of a strong, divinely-sanctioned leadership clearly bears much of the credit for the survival of the khanate during this period. The certainties which this system of beliefs and values presented to the warrior aristocracy, if not to the entire population, the aura of sanctity surrounding the ruler, the awareness of heavenly support granted to military undertakings (an awareness reinforced through the regular performance of religious ritu als and ceremonials while on campaign)." all immeasurably strengthened the unity of the state and the political will of its subjects to survive.
    Another factor operative in the transition to Tangrist henotheism at this time may have been the fear of Byzantine imperialism. Foreign influences, as scholars have long pointed out, often paved the way for the adoption of a more sophisticated faith among nomads. However, this was rarely the reli gion of their imperial neighbours, for such a course invariably implied sub mission to the authority of the rulers of these states." The Bulgars, realizing that conversion to Islam or Judaism was not a viable option, and mindful of the influence the Byzantine Church could exercise on the khan's Christian subjects, had little choice but to promote Tangra as their supreme deity." It is important to emphasize that the late eighth/early ninth century marked the period of transition to henotheism only for the upper strata of the Bulgar society. Vigorous polytheism and totemism (i.e. the existence of an intimate, "mystical" relationship between a group or an individual and a natural object), both of which were incapable of furnishing a principle of spiritual (and political) unity, proved to be persistent and strong among the masses." This is also true of shamanism, a complex belief system espe cially common in Central and Inner Asian societies, but also discernible in the khanate in the pre-conversion period. Shamanism has been defined by anthropologists as a technique of ecstasy. By mastering this technique and reaching a state of trance the shaman was able to mediate between the world of humans and that of spirits. He thus functioned as a magician, prophet and healer who, among other things, had to "descend to the underworld" to find and bring back a sick person's soul. Given that most aspects of daily life in Eurasia were directly linked with the spiritual world-for instance. the life-supporting economic activities, from hunting to husbandry to agri culture, were thought to be protected by spirits-the role of the shaman was bound to be extremely important." Before we proceed any further, a piece of essential explanation: shaman ism has been a popular subject of accounts and research since the early eighteenth century. Although it is correctly believed that the shaman's technique of ecstasy and mode of operation are basically uniform through out Central and Inner Asia, it is impossible to construct a uniform model of shamanism as an institution. Further (and partly as a result of the above). it would be perilous to equate the modern "ethnographic shaman" with the religious specialists noted among historical Eurasian peoples. In this light. any attempt to investigate the development of this phenomenon in medieval steppe-nomad societies, including Bulgaria, is bound to be inconclusive. We have only fleeting glimpses of Bulgar shamanism in our sources.
    Sophoulis, P., 2011. Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775-831. Leiden: Brill, pp.84, 85, 86, 87.

    • @Viki4a
      @Viki4a Рік тому

      I ain't readin all that

  • @anthonibrookshire3704
    @anthonibrookshire3704 3 роки тому +1

    This was really fun to watch!

  • @mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311
    @mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311 2 роки тому +1

    Well researched, interesting, nice to listen to, just the right length. Nice clear graphics - the little cartoons make it easy on the eye and on the brain! Nice!

  • @ShmooieLowenstein
    @ShmooieLowenstein 3 роки тому +4

    5:48: "The once great civilisation of ancient times, which through many internal factors, did not manage to remain strong enough to repel its attackers and fell to its invaders, one after another.
    "
    This failed country sounds like ancient Israel. Isn't it great when European powers create a country that hasn't existed in centuries and allow it to have a huge sense of entitlement?

    • @ywoisug8845
      @ywoisug8845 3 роки тому

      Because if you say something you get cancelled

  • @Luca_Schiano
    @Luca_Schiano 2 роки тому +5

    In Italy during the unification(1859-1861), six countries disappeared:
    - Papal States
    - Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetian
    - Duchy of Parma
    - Duchy of Modena
    - Granduchy of Tuscany
    - Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
    The Kingdom of Sardinia Turned into the Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946).

  • @jeremydavis8932
    @jeremydavis8932 4 роки тому +5

    The African Christian Kingdoms of Nubia such as Alodia, Nobatia and Makuria would be a good edition

    • @jeremydavis8932
      @jeremydavis8932 4 роки тому +3

      @Cynical Frenchface Right! It's ashame they fell tho a lot of Nubian culture and language has been lost and replaced with Arab culture and language

    • @barryb90
      @barryb90 4 роки тому +1

      @@jeremydavis8932 a lot of North African culture was destroyed by the Arab conquest. Very sad.

    • @davidjoelsson4929
      @davidjoelsson4929 3 роки тому

      @@jeremydavis8932 And people wonder why i dislike islam, Islam is arabization in islam you must wear certain clothes that arabs use and learn arabic.

  • @mckutzy
    @mckutzy 2 роки тому +1

    Fun fact, Flag related... The Principality of Galicia-Volhynia official coat of arms is exact to that of Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper's apartment official coat of arms....
    A rampant lion on a field of azure....Same direction facing Dexter.
    Difference being the claws and tongue of the lion are red, as Opposed to the ancient flag Galicia, they are white....

  • @travellinmark2745
    @travellinmark2745 3 роки тому +1

    The Iriquois Confederacy, the Republic of Texas, Sikkim, The Kingdom of Two Sicilies (its downfall leading to the great immigration of Southern Italians to America), the Seminole Nation of Florida (never conquered by the US), the Scotish Isles, led by the Lord of the Isles. These are some I would like to hear more about.

  • @ConanTroutman0
    @ConanTroutman0 4 роки тому +12

    Would the Principality of Theodoro be an extension of the Byzantines that would have outlasted Trebizond?

  • @karlkarlos3545
    @karlkarlos3545 4 роки тому +8

    Interesting topic but you really should have included the State of Prussia to this list.

    • @bot_5786
      @bot_5786 4 роки тому +2

      Well there are kinda Germany well they are germany

    • @DomMarmelo
      @DomMarmelo 4 роки тому

      but everyone knows Prussia :(

  • @ВеселинВиденов
    @ВеселинВиденов 2 роки тому +3

    Great video.
    I can make a correction about Volga Bulgaria.
    Volga Bulgaria exists after Khazar Khaganat destroyed Old Great Bulgaria (in the end of Kubrat's life).
    Kotrag went to northern territories between Volga and Kama rivers, in union with the Antis (East Slavic tribes)
    Asparukh invaded South-West Byzantine provinces (Danube Bulgaria).
    Kubrat reunited bulgarian tribes in 632-635 AD.Not only turk tribes, Alans are turks but Unogondurs and Kotrigours, who were the Bulgarian elite in those times are not turk.
    Greatings from Bulgaria.
    P.S. Kyiv was founded by Kubrat's brother or nephew - Sambat Kyi.

  • @todor8989
    @todor8989 3 роки тому +2

    The proto-Bulgarians weren't a turkic tribe. They were Indo-Europeans and this is proved by the genetic researches in the recent years. Some historians consider that they had Iranian origin. Awesome video :)

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 2 роки тому

      Source: Trustmebro

    • @todor8989
      @todor8989 2 роки тому +1

      @@papazataklaattiranimam what's your source?

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 2 роки тому

      @@todor8989 All reliable academic sources

    • @todor8989
      @todor8989 2 роки тому +2

      @@papazataklaattiranimam like? And do the reliable genetic researches count, or only the history sources? Of course we know how objective and fair history is. If we count on the widely accepted history sources in terms of Turkish-Greek relations and Armenian genocide, then it would be quite unfavorable for the Turkish people, even though we know the truth is a bit different.

    • @papazataklaattiranimam
      @papazataklaattiranimam 2 роки тому

      @@todor8989 Genetic, linguistic, historical etc. all modern peer reviewed sources

  • @lennis4739
    @lennis4739 4 роки тому +2

    7:09 About the Eurasian Steppe... Steppe is pronounced like "step", not like "steep". It basically means savannah or grassland plains.

  • @bjam7777
    @bjam7777 4 роки тому +4

    Just seeing the medieval total war “faction destroyed” makes me want to play it again 😂

  • @IshijimaKairo
    @IshijimaKairo 4 роки тому +8

    I am highly disappointed to see that literally everyone has ignored the (now gone) Saudinian Kingdom, tell me when someone finally talks about it.

  • @brandonsmith546
    @brandonsmith546 4 роки тому +7

    Add ancient Indian Empires,India is a new nation created by britain.with the formation of India ,some 500 kingdoms were unified to form the republic of India.

    • @1Nonlykillian
      @1Nonlykillian 4 роки тому +1

      INDIA was unified country before

    • @1Nonlykillian
      @1Nonlykillian 4 роки тому

      @Yuvraj Sharma Poudyal it wasnt india before 1947

    • @nareshkumar-ju8wu
      @nareshkumar-ju8wu 4 роки тому

      @Yuvraj Sharma Poudyal before mugals india was divided into 16 janpads and together called bharatwarsh

    • @louvendran7273
      @louvendran7273 4 роки тому

      @@1Nonlykillian No, the Tamils were not conquered by the North.

    • @1Nonlykillian
      @1Nonlykillian 4 роки тому

      @@louvendran7273 dont believe in history told by cbse or foreigners

  • @BatkoNashBandera774
    @BatkoNashBandera774 3 роки тому +2

    Happy to see my ancestors in Volga mentioned/explained.

  • @thomasrice4930
    @thomasrice4930 Рік тому +1

    You forgot Kang the Conqueror, Emperor of the 30th Century and Ruler of time...

  • @Otokichi786
    @Otokichi786 4 роки тому +5

    Carthage (814-146 BC)
    Ancient Egypt (3000 - 525 BC)
    Volga Bulgaria (7th - 13th Century Ibn Al-Fadlan's original destination?)
    North Sea Empire (1013-1035 Anglo-Scandinavian Empire)
    Empire of Trebizond (1204 - 1461)
    Aztec Empire (1428 - 1521)
    Zulu Kingdom (1816 - 1897)
    Sikh Empire (1799 - 1849)
    Galicia-Volhynia (1191 - 1349)

  • @paulrouth5997
    @paulrouth5997 4 роки тому +9

    In regards to the Aztec Empire, I might have missed it but I didn't hear a reference to European diseases; I would think more of a factor in their destruction than gunpowder.

    • @ikad5229
      @ikad5229 4 роки тому +2

      Diseases and the union of some native tribes with the Spaniards were the two main reasons

  • @ΔημήτρηςΤσιαουσίδης

    Also, I think that a branch of Trapezuntian Empire was a state referred as Torul principality (in the region of Pontus south of Trebizond) . It was conquered by the Ottomans in 1479- four years after the principality of Theodoro- but unfortunately very little things are known about this state.

  • @phelimridley6727
    @phelimridley6727 3 роки тому +1

    @12:29 on the Aztec Empire, a great novel to read is "Aztec" by Gary Jennings.

  • @torinjones3221
    @torinjones3221 3 роки тому +2

    9:30 actually the North Sea empire was pretty natural. After all the Anglo Saxons came from Southern Denmark. Old Norse and old English were mutually intelligible. They were all Christians. Both cultures were seafaring. If more effort was taken to integrate the three peoples then there was actually a very good chance they could remain united. Even in 1066 the Norwegians attempted to reunite the empire and the Danes were also interested they just waited to see who would win at Hastings before throwing there hat into the ring.

  • @ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ
    @ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ 4 роки тому +15

    Ah. Those times, when sikhs ruled over punjab. That time was so good

    • @ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ
      @ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ 4 роки тому +4

      @Pratik Jadhav nah, drugs, alcohol, have made my punjab a hell, now many people are trying to overcome and destroy these drugs and stuff which ruined punjab

    • @ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ
      @ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ 3 роки тому

      @lunatic. sikhs have uncut hair but they maintain clean hair hair by washing it. they do wash hair

    • @ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ
      @ਗੁਰਸਿਮਰਸਿੰਘ 3 роки тому

      @lunatic. it is very important to be clean in sikhism.

    • @eeeeer9514
      @eeeeer9514 3 роки тому

      @lunatic. I know this has already been said but for shiks it's very important to be well kept and clean. It's just western culture that makes people think that a beard is messy and scruffy

    • @maxthekinglord2280
      @maxthekinglord2280 3 роки тому +1

      The way I learn to do that is playing either EU4 or Victoria 2

  • @ИвелинъСтояновъ
    @ИвелинъСтояновъ 2 роки тому +21

    Volga Bulgaria im surprised that you found information about it its so unpopular.
    Bulgars are not turkick tribe we share relationship something like cousins.
    After the fall of Old Great Bulgaria the ruler before he died gave his lands and power ro hia 5 sons all of which went their own way. Asparuh decided to migrate south and later beginning the Bulgaria we know today. One of his brothers was leader of other group of Bulgars which createe the state of Volga Bulgaria.
    Nowadays their descendents live in Russia
    But unfortunately the government doesn't allow them to identify as Bulgars. Russians call them tatars.

    • @yazovgaming
      @yazovgaming 2 роки тому

      Didn't the Volga Bulgars started being identified as tatars when the Mongol Empire conquered the nation and it's successor the Golden Horde settled in and assimilate the remaining Bulgars that lived in the region?

    • @ИвелинъСтояновъ
      @ИвелинъСтояновъ 2 роки тому +3

      No its unlikely that it happened the way you describe it because the army of the golden horde even though it was strong it wasn't more numerous than the Bulgars, the Bulgar tribes had big population and cultural integrity that's what kept them alive through the years that's why there are movements in which people fight for their "BULGARIAN" identity today not their tatar, golden horde or any other identity. The Russian government just don't have interest in that that's why they are being labeled as tatars which is a big lie

    • @huseyindonmez4206
      @huseyindonmez4206 2 роки тому +3

      @@ИвелинъСтояновъ okay . lets make clear.bulgars are turkick but not turkish.turkick mean cousins already so like ozbeks kazaks and turks cousins like bulgars we are calling all of them turkick so mongols they are not turkick but they are close.second thing tatar thins is true such a big lie because tatar meanings is name of mongol tribe and mongols they are not even turkick so in ukrain there is a place crimea russia calling them as a tatar but they are not bc they are not mongol trıbe. So golden horde rulers was mongol and maybe mostly tatar but they were not crowded so they hire as a soldier turkic tribes and after that golden horde took all russıa and some turkıc trıbes stay ın the russıa.russıand they start to call all turkıc tribes and mongols as a tatars bc for them both of one was same

  • @ethanpanelo777
    @ethanpanelo777 4 роки тому +4

    Oh god, general knowledge is really entertaining! *I LOVE IT*

  • @TheHesseJames
    @TheHesseJames Рік тому +1

    You could go on forever. There are several hundreds of lost countries/kingdoms.