Every time I hear people bemoan the Europeans conquering the Americas I wonder how would the stone age natives faired if either of the two other empires that at the time [15th century] had ocean crossing capabilities, the Ottomans or the Chinese would have gotten here first. I have yet to hear an argument as to why it would have been better for the natives or for the world we live in today.
You DO attract the 'like-minded' Peter! VERY interesting young man! He has chosen to add 'much spice' to his learnings by taking to the road that made history = WELL DONE! In my wee mind, I would venture to say the wall in Istanbul is a 'must see' to envision history in the making...'the wall of conquests'. A truly palpable understanding of; 'Who owns the mountain now', through time. Fascinating stuff! With all your good food and room for lodging...I'd be thinking of keeping 'this one' (Brandon) on for a time...say...till the fort gets completed? LOL! Thanks for your steady hand dear Catherine and this vid. Health and God Bless you dear ones! "The advice I give to all Adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety." (Samuel de Champlain) HMmmm, sounds like a 'fort' to my way of thinking! :)
You break me up, “ he has chosen to add much spice to hir learning …”. Your turn of phrase is amazing. Yes, Brandon was a fascinating man and a person who will always have the door left open to our home. I would dearly love to meet you someday, Marie. Your interest and feedback to our endeavour has been as interesting as our time with Brandon.
Very good observation by "homemadehistory". It is worth noting that the portugese were already harvesting fish from the Grand Banks by 1473. No doubt there was note taken of all the mature white pine in the New World, as most of Europe had pretty much devastated it's mature old growth timber by the 1750's. 0:04
Thanks for inviting us over for breakfast and the history talk! (you did make me a little hungry) Cool stuff. It's interesting how events in Europe affected North America (and the other way around) I especially enjoy speculating like Brandon does about how quirks of nature and Man can change the course of events. I read a while back that some scientists have theorized that effects from a large volcanic eruption in the Aleutians could have led to the end of the Roman Republic. That led to the start of the Roman Empire then the decline of the Western Roman Empire led to the formation of the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople....which leads right into the story here.
Peter, I am commenting on this video sitting on your front porch 😂 that's the first. Great video Peter and Cathy now that young man needs to come back he looks like he could hold his own with the best of them. Meg witch IIByrds
When they are talking about the different bricks in the walls from different conquerors/rulers it reminded me of Bethlehem, Jerusalem ,Damascus and the different arches in the walls of old forts from all the conquerors of the middle east.
First, great looking breakfast. Second, great story from both of you. Third, love the Buffalo robe. Last but certainly not the least, fantastic video. Keep your powder dry
1453 marked the end of the eastern Roman Empire and fell to the first cannons used in western warfare. There’s one cannon outside the wall that was used then
Howdy Peter WOW that pile of brush is getting pretty big ! Do you know .... was that the oldest part of his journey(s) he has been ? In Constantinople. I like it when you go to an old homestead a few hundred years old .... To go were there buildings / wall so much older is something else !
I have been following you for a while now and am inspired by your studies of colonization. The literature You Tube gives us a broader view, where do you think the beginning of "America" is?
That guy knows how to use an axe! Well! You know when I was in college one of professors made an offhand comment. He said, "those that CAN do. Those that CAN'T do teach and those that CAN'T teach teach teachers. I think he was all wet. For some talented people i think there is a joy in learning and sharing what they have learned. I think you 2 fellows should get along pretty well.
There was an Ottoman Turkish translation of some European accounts of the New World from the late sixteenth century called Tarih-i Hindi Garbi. It uses a lot of artistic license shall we say but still an interesting book.
Very good point about the start. Shows a lot how history is as much, if not more interpretation, and point of view. As you pointed out, Europe was short of food, my Irish ancestors were starving, but it’s so tempting to say how we "exploited" the native peoples. I may be a broken record, but many were happy to trade with us, even to the point of almost wiping out beaver. They wanted our guns and knives to kill their neighbours to take their resources, etc etc etc…. Yeah sure we came and took, though as in the puritans case,for example, they just occupied lands that were vacant from disease, which was horribly unfortunate, but an accident. Just don’t always point the finger at colonists, when they had their backs to the wall too, and every group of people across the whole world, and whole of history did the same. Hell, those Christian areas the muslims took, took it by force, and treated Christian’s like second class citizens till this day. I like to focus more on the insanely brave and hardy people that came here and helped made what was, until recently, the best two countries in the world, amd did it in record time.
@@TheWoodlandEscape There certainly are. I congratulate you if you do try to show both sides, because the education system, media etc….pretty much only shows one side. Plus I really like your channel. You’re a very likeable, interesting person, so I’d hate to feel like you were being one sided. They did that at school even back when we were kids, but it’s become more like a rabid self hatred nowadays. That’s why I get a little hyper sensitive to it. Europeans certainly did some bad things, but so did every nationality in the world. Like so many countries had slavery for example. Some just during war times, some for hundreds of years. Some native tribes kept slaves to breed and continued long after we had abolished it, far and Middle East it was common. Just seems only us get hell for it. Anyway, sorry for writing so much. Like I said, I like you and your channel, and I just don’t need another person telling me I’m especially bad because of where I come from.
My friend change your map. Macedonia is the north Greece with Thessalonica. Visit the local museums and you will see million evidence. Many and many profesis say soon Constantinople will return to the Greeks because was a greek kingdom.
Buckle up it will be a great ride ! By the way, I really appreciate your content, I live in Southern Appalachia, where some of us are looking to rebuild Fort Prince George on a Cherokee trail near Lake Keowee.I can't wait to see your progress! Thanks again for all your content
Oh nice ... I have worked close to Istanbul for three months and visited all the famous sights. In fact the luck of the turkish Mustafa the secon was that the army and population was reduced by half due to the plague and the european nations had left them rather alone. So they had not enough man to secure all the wals properly. Venice was asked for help to send a fleet but they held back to long . At the end Vanice took over the trade with the turkig empire and this made the prices for luxury goods explode and the profits for everyone exapt vanice were going down. So, the portoguise took the route south around afrika and even established some trading and suply posts in africa on the way to india and established goa as there colony. The spanish were at that time weker than the portoguise so they dont want to mess weth them and grap the straw held by Cristobal Colon to go east by boing west. In fact Christobal Colon ( Columbus ) was not well educated. Otherwise he would know from the still existing viking colony in greenland and the frequent travels of basque walers that there is something ( in fact a continent ) blocking the way to india. 😁🤣🤣
Thanks so much for sharing that history. I could have used you when we produced this episode. To be honest, my own historical knowledge of the area is very limited.
@@TheWoodlandEscapeThere is one more nice fact about Istanbul😁 On the balcony of the hagia sophia cathedral is a grfity scratched in nordic runes "Halfdan was here" and its real... I was there... That was from a Viking who worked as mercenary in the emperors guard or maybe from a viking trader from around the tenth or eleventh century...... realy cool
Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople Been a long time gone Old Constantinople's still has Turkish delight On a moonlit night
The information about Istanbul is not true. Constantinople was a land that kept being taken over by many kingdoms and countries before the 13th century and when it became Constantinople it wasn’t owned by one religious faith or land. When Islam entered the land it was entered as a message by Duat and did so following all laws of lands at the time and people entered Islam on their own free wills. That’s not colonizing. Western countries are misconstruing historical information as a tactic to colonize the Middle East and demolish Islam. Similar to what Isreal and America is doing today. Why don’t you consider Vikings the first time in history when colonization happened? Or Christpher Columbus? These are true colonizers.
The amount of historical falsehood and blatantly ignorant bias in this comment is truly staggering, it belongs in a fever dream and not any realistic discussion of history.
You're so entertaining, I can't wait for more videos. I started watching about 2 weeks ago and found your information outstanding. I'm just getting into the 18th century, and I love your we bit storytelling. Thx so much. DEAN .J.
An interesting and informative discussion indeed. That young man's welcome in camp anytime!
We do hope he’ll return for another visit ,,, fascinating man.
Good afternoon Peter. Thanks to you and Brandon for the history lesson. Hope you have a great weekend. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, you too!
Hello from Detroit Michigan my friend God-bless
And you, thank you.
It is very interesting how one event shapes the course of history. Thank you for having Brandon share that piece of ancient history.
Indeed, often Hugh events happen from a small event which often seems insignificant,
What an interesting person. I hope he tells more of his world travels❤️🤗🐝
I hope so too!
@@TheWoodlandEscape 🤗
Excellent video. History is full of interesting "what-ifs," isn't it? Kind of like our own lives.
Indeed, very much like our own lives!
Thanks for another history lesson. Good to see the start of the fort under construction. I will be sure to be watching.
More to come!
Every time I hear people bemoan the Europeans conquering the Americas I wonder how would the stone age natives faired if either of the two other empires that at the time [15th century] had ocean crossing capabilities, the Ottomans or the Chinese would have gotten here first. I have yet to hear an argument as to why it would have been better for the natives or for the world we live in today.
Some might argue that the were not only surviving but, thriving as stone ages peoples.
Another good wee bit of history thanks for sharing .
Glad you enjoyed it
What a great history lesson. I could listen to both of you talk history all day. I bet you had great conversations while working on your fort.
We did indeed … a fascinating young man.
Great video Peter. Awesome that you're getting some temporary help. 🐾🙏🏻✌🏻
Yes, thanks
Hey, what a great video, than you fir the history lesson. Appreciate your knowledge.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow! What a fascinating life!
An a very interesting man … great story teller.
That dude should direct traffic. Clearing trees is good thing, so excited for the new build.
Thank you, pretty pumped about seeing some progress.
Always good to have a knowledgeable person around the campfire and I was also pleased to see the sharpness of his axe....👍
Indeed, he was a wonderful guest.
Awesome guys!!! Can't wait to hear and see more
Appreciate your interest.
@@TheWoodlandEscape oh your very welcome!
I love a good chat about history. nice setup, too.
Glad you enjoyed it
You DO attract the 'like-minded' Peter! VERY interesting young man! He has chosen to add 'much spice' to his learnings by taking to the road that made history = WELL DONE! In my wee mind, I would venture to say the wall in Istanbul is a 'must see' to envision history in the making...'the wall of conquests'. A truly palpable understanding of; 'Who owns the mountain now', through time. Fascinating stuff! With all your good food and room for lodging...I'd be thinking of keeping 'this one' (Brandon) on for a time...say...till the fort gets completed? LOL! Thanks for your steady hand dear Catherine and this vid. Health and God Bless you dear ones! "The advice I give to all Adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety." (Samuel de Champlain) HMmmm, sounds like a 'fort' to my way of thinking! :)
You break me up, “ he has chosen to add much spice to hir learning …”. Your turn of phrase is amazing. Yes, Brandon was a fascinating man and a person who will always have the door left open to our home. I would dearly love to meet you someday, Marie. Your interest and feedback to our endeavour has been as interesting as our time with Brandon.
How kind! Yes, indeed...God willing...may our paths cross on a near tomorrow! :) @@TheWoodlandEscape
Very good observation by "homemadehistory". It is worth noting that the portugese were already harvesting fish from the Grand Banks by 1473. No doubt there was note taken of all the mature white pine in the New World, as most of Europe had pretty much devastated it's mature old growth timber by the 1750's. 0:04
They certainly needed the new world for recourses!
Good morning from Syracuse NY USA brother and everyone else thank you for sharing your live history videos
Our pleasure!
I'd love to come up and lend you a hand, Peter!
Ill never turn down an offer for help!
Thanks for inviting us over for breakfast and the history talk! (you did make me a little hungry) Cool stuff. It's interesting how events in Europe affected North America (and the other way around) I especially enjoy speculating like Brandon does about how quirks of nature and Man can change the course of events. I read a while back that some scientists have theorized that effects from a large volcanic eruption in the Aleutians could have led to the end of the Roman Republic. That led to the start of the Roman Empire then the decline of the Western Roman Empire led to the formation of the Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople....which leads right into the story here.
Wow, wish I had you included in our fireside chat… all good points!
Excellent video and what an interesting life Brandon has had, as well! I love learning about history on your channel 👍😃
Glad you enjoyed it
That was great! I could listen to you two talk for hours!
Glad you enjoyed it!
A very good talk about things I have never thought about.
Everything has a starting point!
Nice you have some great help building your fort!! A very interesting young man for sure. Blessings.
He was indeed!
Peter, I am commenting on this video sitting on your front porch 😂 that's the first. Great video Peter and Cathy now that young man needs to come back he looks like he could hold his own with the best of them. Meg witch IIByrds
What are you doing on my verandah? I’ve quite enjoyed your visit.
breakfast looked awesome. great start
It was!
When they are talking about the different bricks in the walls from different conquerors/rulers it reminded me of Bethlehem, Jerusalem ,Damascus and the different arches in the walls of old forts from all the conquerors of the middle east.
Indeed, the one we discussed is but one of many!
Excellent Peter
Thank you
That was a wee bit of history I have never heard before, and was quite interesting. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
First, great looking breakfast. Second, great story from both of you. Third, love the Buffalo robe. Last but certainly not the least, fantastic video. Keep your powder dry
You are very kind, Lance, thank you.
1453 marked the end of the eastern Roman Empire and fell to the first cannons used in western warfare. There’s one cannon outside the wall that was used then
Wow, I’d love to visit there … so much older history then this side of the world,
History is so intertwined. Great video
Thank .
Very interesting video. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much!
Another great video Peter.
Thanks 👍
Great Content once again!👏
Thanks again!
I see you just uploaded number 200. I'll be there soon.
Good day 🎉
You too!
Very informative learn something new here all the time, thank you for having such an informative guest great fun.
Our pleasure!
Wish u had a video a day thanks
That’s flattering, thank you.
Appreciate your efforts and dedication. Great guest as always. Keep your powder dry!
Thanks again! Watch yer top knot.
Howdy Peter
WOW that pile of brush is getting pretty big !
Do you know .... was that the oldest part of his journey(s) he has been ? In Constantinople.
I like it when you go to an old homestead a few hundred years old .... To go were there buildings / wall so much older is something else !
We are definitely like minded!
Good video
Thanks
I have been following you for a while now and am inspired by your studies of colonization. The literature You Tube gives us a broader view, where do you think the beginning of "America" is?
That is a great question … technically it would be John Smith at Jamestown but, one might wish to ponder that question.
That guy knows how to use an axe! Well! You know when I was in college one of professors made an offhand comment. He said, "those that CAN do. Those that CAN'T do teach and those that CAN'T teach teach teachers. I think he was all wet. For some talented people i think there is a joy in learning and sharing what they have learned. I think you 2 fellows should get along pretty well.
Kind words Larry, thank you.
There was an Ottoman Turkish translation of some European accounts of the New World from the late sixteenth century called Tarih-i Hindi Garbi. It uses a lot of artistic license shall we say but still an interesting book.
Sounds like a fascinating read! Thanks for sharing.
❤😊😊
I like to ask just how many wall builders in instandnoble were there iam injusted
I have no idea, Mike.
🏹🏹😊😊✋🏻
Very good point about the start. Shows a lot how history is as much, if not more interpretation, and point of view.
As you pointed out, Europe was short of food, my Irish ancestors were starving, but it’s so tempting to say how we "exploited" the native peoples. I may be a broken record, but many were happy to trade with us, even to the point of almost wiping out beaver. They wanted our guns and knives to kill their neighbours to take their resources, etc etc etc…. Yeah sure we came and took, though as in the puritans case,for example, they just occupied lands that were vacant from disease, which was horribly unfortunate, but an accident. Just don’t always point the finger at colonists, when they had their backs to the wall too, and every group of people across the whole world, and whole of history did the same. Hell, those Christian areas the muslims took, took it by force, and treated Christian’s like second class citizens till this day.
I like to focus more on the insanely brave and hardy people that came here and helped made what was, until recently, the best two countries in the world, amd did it in record time.
There are two sides to every story. I try to look at and present both.
@@TheWoodlandEscape There certainly are. I congratulate you if you do try to show both sides, because the education system, media etc….pretty much only shows one side. Plus I really like your channel. You’re a very likeable, interesting person, so I’d hate to feel like you were being one sided. They did that at school even back when we were kids, but it’s become more like a rabid self hatred nowadays. That’s why I get a little hyper sensitive to it.
Europeans certainly did some bad things, but so did every nationality in the world. Like so many countries had slavery for example. Some just during war times, some for hundreds of years. Some native tribes kept slaves to breed and continued long after we had abolished it, far and Middle East it was common. Just seems only us get hell for it.
Anyway, sorry for writing so much. Like I said, I like you and your channel, and I just don’t need another person telling me I’m especially bad because of where I come from.
Have you e ever been in Quebec
I was there last weekend as a presenter at the Plains of Abraham.
My friend change your map. Macedonia is the north Greece with Thessalonica. Visit the local museums and you will see million evidence. Many and many profesis say soon Constantinople will return to the Greeks because was a greek kingdom.
You should look up Alexander Del Mar and he's book The Middle Ages Revisited it's a great resource ,especially concerning the fall of Rome in the east
Thanks for the recommendation … always looking for winter reading material.
Buckle up it will be a great ride ! By the way, I really appreciate your content, I live in Southern Appalachia, where some of us are looking to rebuild Fort Prince George on a Cherokee trail near Lake Keowee.I can't wait to see your progress! Thanks again for all your content
Now I really have to source the book, lol.
Amazon 😢where else
Oh nice ... I have worked close to Istanbul for three months and visited all the famous sights. In fact the luck of the turkish Mustafa the secon was that the army and population was reduced by half due to the plague and the european nations had left them rather alone. So they had not enough man to secure all the wals properly. Venice was asked for help to send a fleet but they held back to long . At the end Vanice took over the trade with the turkig empire and this made the prices for luxury goods explode and the profits for everyone exapt vanice were going down. So, the portoguise took the route south around afrika and even established some trading and suply posts in africa on the way to india and established goa as there colony. The spanish were at that time weker than the portoguise so they dont want to mess weth them and grap the straw held by Cristobal Colon to go east by boing west. In fact Christobal Colon ( Columbus ) was not well educated. Otherwise he would know from the still existing viking colony in greenland and the frequent travels of basque walers that there is something ( in fact a continent ) blocking the way to india. 😁🤣🤣
Thanks so much for sharing that history. I could have used you when we produced this episode. To be honest, my own historical knowledge of the area is very limited.
@@TheWoodlandEscapeThere is one more nice fact about Istanbul😁 On the balcony of the hagia sophia cathedral is a grfity scratched in nordic runes "Halfdan was here" and its real... I was there... That was from a Viking who worked as mercenary in the emperors guard or maybe from a viking trader from around the tenth or eleventh century...... realy cool
So, better to build bridges than walls? hmm...Interesting.
I hear ya😮.
Ain’t that the truth!
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople
Been a long time gone
Old Constantinople's still has Turkish delight
On a moonlit night
The information about Istanbul is not true. Constantinople was a land that kept being taken over by many kingdoms and countries before the 13th century and when it became Constantinople it wasn’t owned by one religious faith or land. When Islam entered the land it was entered as a message by Duat and did so following all laws of lands at the time and people entered Islam on their own free wills. That’s not colonizing. Western countries are misconstruing historical information as a tactic to colonize the Middle East and demolish Islam. Similar to what Isreal and America is doing today. Why don’t you consider Vikings the first time in history when colonization happened? Or Christpher Columbus? These are true colonizers.
I stand corrected, thanks for sharing and your interest in our channel.
The amount of historical falsehood and blatantly ignorant bias in this comment is truly staggering, it belongs in a fever dream and not any realistic discussion of history.
So we can thank Islam for the creation of North America, lol.
Pretty much!
Egyptians were here about a thousand years earlier🈺
You're so entertaining, I can't wait for more videos. I started watching about 2 weeks ago and found your information outstanding. I'm just getting into the 18th century, and I love your we bit storytelling. Thx so much. DEAN .J.
Welcome aboard, Dean … you’ll find it a fascinating hobby.