10 DISTURBING Facts About ATTILA and the HUNS
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2024
- Who were Attila and his Huns? Well, as Europe was slowly transitioning from the Classical Era to more medieval times, the Roman Empire was witnessing its last years as a dominant force on the continent. Well, the western half, at least. In the east, the Byzantine Empire would endure up until the 15th century. In any case, the Western Roman Empire fell due in large part to the many internal struggles for power, but also because of the many barbaric incursions coming in from Central and Eastern Europe.
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Coming up:
10. Baby Head Shaping
9. The Huns Scarred Their Male Children
8. The Hunnic/Paleo Diet
7. The Hunnic War Machine
6. Attila the Scourge of God
5. The Huns and the Germanic Tribes to the East
4. The Slaughter of Burgundy
3. The Sack of Naissus in Present-Day Serbia
2. The Mob-like Extortion Racket and Ruthless Punishments
1. The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains and Attila’s Subsequent Revenge
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I never got the coneheads "We're from france" remark. Nice to tie up that loose thread.
I know right! what an obscure joke to make though.
Ha If that's true that's quite a deep cut. I feel like it may just be a coincidence and for the show it may have just been a random "it makes sense if you don't think about it" remark haha, a kind of non sequitur
don g hahahaha 🍻
simon whistler is a conehead
U think it was seriously written with that in mind? I doubt it
12:30 They also utilized dragons as seen in the historically accurate photo
They're called fellbeasts, not "dragons"... What I find more amazing is their use of trolls and mumakil as well as their lust for the one ring. J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson really ripped off the Huns. I guess writers and directors just don't have original ideas these days
Brock woah
Romans invented from the huns the "Dragon (fellbeast)flag"...they were whistle flags in order to frighten the enemy....
I love that I'm not the only person who immediately noticed that the "Roman" citadel bore a striking resemblance to Minas Tirith, then on closer inspection noticed the Nazgul top left.
Don't forget the angels at 11:40
"The Roman Empire", he said, showing a picture of the Holy Roman Empire.
Did any one else find himself staring at Simon's dome when he was talking about infant head shaping?
I came to the comments section looking for this.
nailed it hahah
😂😂😂
He really owning his own baldness with that 'bald-beard' he's rocking. The spectacles complete 'the look'.
@@davidjames1063 yes they are taking over the web. sucks.
Their bows and their saddles were brilliant and ahead of their time!!!!
Lol, okay. It’s like Napoleon was ahead of his time.
Crying mongol Wojak: “You can’t get off your horses and become foot archers!”
Afghanis: “Haha, foot archers go brrrr.”
Also their armors were basically 1000 years ahead of Europe. They were mounted knights, covered by the highest quality armors from the toes to the top of the head as you can see on any depiction. In this video at 13:27, but you can find better quality paintings if you search for the "martyrdom of saint Ursula".
I wonder who the first parent was who said "I think it would be a great idea to crush our new born baby's head between two planks."
Steve Morris a liberal of course
@@guysmalley i love how Americans can sneak in everywhere with politics debates like it's a soccer game.
@@agavni5709 those skulls found with
👀 Much much further apart are questionable. Especially those without growth sutures. No human skull is without visible growth sutures (closing of a Babys 'soft spot' as it's commonly known) skills without these have been found.
@@guysmalley oooo, ain't you the funny one... 😒
@@BobGeldofsFavouriteGroupie as an American I can confirm this and yeah, it's annoying as hell
Amazing video, your best I've seen so far. Keep up!!
I am fascinated with the history of this era. Thank you so much for this episode.
I didn't know any of this. I knew the name Atilla the Hun but didn't know the history. Thank you Simon!
Good stuff Simon.
What a superb storytelling, swift, to the point and concise. Thanks!
Simon. Your voice is the best. Love your shows
Attila invented loot boxes.
Attila The Hun was a fearsome leader and a dangerous enemy to the Roman Empire. Although after he died his sons turned on each other for power and soon in 469 AD Attila's Empire fell just like how after Alexander died his empire fell. It's also said that the Huns biggest successor was indeed Attila
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing that!
Only one person win over Atila: Atila!
Atila won over himself when he practised free mercy above Rome and did not upset it, did not destroy it.
He died of a nosebleed on his wedding day, and you toss that out there like it's a nothing? Tell me that's a set-up for a Today I Found Out episode about how he really died.
He probably died of hepatitis. Hungarian Chronicles recorded he exerted and drank alcohol on that day and blood was found in his mouth.
But probably the blood was from throath bleeding caused by hepatitis.
He actually got diseased by the dirty people living in conquered-by rome towns. Ever burn human fecal matter?
Actually died like some Roman dude from poisoning. The last wife Ildiko the red head German was his favorite and she was with him 2-3 years but married not long before his death and many thought that she poisoned him. I have to get back on this but it has to do with red vine or other alcoholic drink and what kind of poison it was. I don't want to guess but Ildiko was with him to the last breath but they never had no kids !
Like him or hate him he was a brilliant strategist. His stratagems are still taught and used today. The irony is that the fear tactics he employed generally keep more people from dying than full attacks.
Bluff is the peaceful solution everytime.
another moron who doesn't know he's talking about
Fantastic video. I would love to see what you can drum up for Scythia and Tartary.
There once was a man
Whose name was Attila
With aggression of a gorilla,
And the wrath like Godzilla
He burned every home
And destroyed every Villa.
He enslaved every daughter
He killed every son
The deaths would be weighed
Not by pound, but by ton.
Yes everyone shivered
At the thought of this hun.
His end seemes shallow
This I concede
Undone not by heroism
Or by treacherous deed
Neither blade nor by arrow
Or the hooves of a steed
No he simply just died
From a frickin nose bleed.
And finally I give
A nod to my friends
The ones who focused
This historical lens
The uploads they create
Gives us smiles and grins
A shoutout to the wonderful
and amazing Toptenz!
wow nice
Well said. Why DID atilla die from a frickin' nose bleed anyway?
Bonefetcher Brimley he suffered a severe nosebleed and choked to death in a stupor. An alternative theory is that he succumbed to internal bleeding after heavy drinking, possibly a condition called esophageal varices, where dilated veins in the lower part of the esophagus rupture leading to death by hemorrhage
This is a bunch of lie!
False we are the warriors only and ı am prouding with my history
Thank you, Simon! I feel much better informed about the first few centuries CE Eurasian history than I did before. I had a vague understanding, but I always seem to get hung up on how horrible life really was for almost everyone back then. I feel very privileged to have been born in the later half of the 20th century.
Love this channel, no criticism at all but just to add an info about the raw meet part, they actually had wooden saddles and the meet was placed between the horse and the saddle to thread the scars of the animal due to the long rides. But still they could eat it after !
I really heard about the custom of placing strips of meat under the horse,s saddle in order to cook it in connection with the later Tartars,friend.That is supposed to be the origin of the food item known as " Steak Tartare".This is the first time that I,he heard about this in connection with the Huns.
Exactly, the meat was used to cure and protect the scar caused by the saddle. And later it was thrown away. It is a tale spread by the "civilized" Romans that "monster" Huns ate that meat.
And they used fire. Just thinking about they did not, is entirely stupid.
That raw meat culture is still present in modern Turkey, raw meat is used for wounds and also to fasten the rehab of broken bones.
pieces of meat under the saddle were used for treating the wounds and bruises on the horses' back caused by the saddle not for consumption puroses (much like gel cushions today)
I was thinking something similar
Imagine going through all those battles and the dying from a nose bleed.
Attila- gangsta living his best life.
Headshaping was necessary in order to survive the rough jurnies for babies who's mother weren't Hun so them skull didn't mature the same way.
If you enjoyed this video which was quality, a chap called Conn Iggulgen wrote a series called "conquer" which is incredible... Enjoy!
This is one of the best "list" UA-cam channels!
Gr8 vid..I'm Hungarian Czech..1st born in the USA..I have been teaching my kids n grandkids about our family history n the role it plays in our genes...gotta love it to me it explains why I ...we feel about n act on things more folks need to understand why they react to situations the way they do..knowing that DNA is deep rooted ..can gain a huge understanding of ourselves..oh and others can be read this way also
Actually I only found the first two items disturbing. The head-shaping and the scarring of male children. The rest of it sounds pretty common for the warfare of that time.
Attila and the Huns, great band back in the day! 🤣
Fascinating teacher! Many amazing facts/info. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE WORK/RESEARCH, etc.(Also for your other teachings.) I only wish you'd speak just a bit slower since it's all so interesting/enlightening. Again--thank you, etc. Wow!
Loved it!
Keep it up. Both of your all's channels feed me knowledge. I am a 30 year old man getting history lessons everyday. Thank you!
Another thing I found interesting is that the Huns themselves as a tribe were believed to have been descended from unclean spirits
Ver nice clips out there
Are you related to the Whistler that did the painting, " whistler mother"
and who had a relative that was the Major of a fort in 1816' at Fort Wayne in Indiana?
GREAT VIDEOS !!!!!!!!!!!!
"Attila died of a severe nosebleed"
Man that's got to be one hell of a hot wife!😂😂😂😂😂
lol
Asian chicks are very hot i believe it
Atilla sounds like Sanji from one piece.
SteeLion Knight 😂
Bobby breakfast field bakery. Flee the joking fire tree. Blue fifty two.
Great episode
Love ya Simon Whistler. Busy man indeed. Thanks for making mornings solo interesting
Your style as teacher is very impressive and hope you will continue the same.
Oh Man My daily dose of history
Fake History! No one should ever dare call Atilla a terrorist
@@balig12 plundering and destroying is terrorism, also raping
He died in 453 AD not 1453
I was bout to say that's 1000 years
We honored his death by invading constantinapol 1000 years later
@@emreunal9128 that's why you have no place in the EU and Europe in general.
he knows Fomeko''s 1000 years XD
@@emreunal9128 you not invaded nothing you were living there and the arabs invaded you from south
Thank You for covering pretty well an unpopular subject... This kind of info can be hard to find.
5:21 kind of like we do everything from eating to watching movies while in your cars.
Jerky salted with horse sweat...yum.
+MyHotdogWeiner , it's called steak tartare today (I guess because they were Tatars)
And butt sweat.
My Hotdog VVeiner:You are ignorant ! They put meat to their horses back,for healing the back of horse because the saddle brake the skin of the horse because of long distance riding! Mongolian tribe tatar came six-seven hundred years later.
@@PuzzleQodec You really didn't have to mention the butt sweat. gag.
OMG! Do not belive idiot fake news of ancient enemies of Huns. We also do not belive that you guys eat shitburger at McDonalds.
This brings to mind the simple question: "What the hell is wrong with people?"
@TopTenz Something mentioned previously can be referred to "above mentioned" if you're writing. If during a speech, or video presentation, it would be "aforementioned".
There's nothing "above" in a video.
I thought a Hun was an upgraded version of the F-86 Saber, designated the F-100 Super Saber, it was the first supersonic fighter in the USAF.
Nose bleed? According to the Animaniacs, he died because he "ate a whole ox, then ate two."
He also had a thing for pillows
It is Public Relations. Maybe killed.
Nobody knows how he died exactly I'm Hungarian!! I read about him a lot
You left out the fact that we know next to nothing about their language.
We know that the court language was Gothic, but there are a few names of people that are clearly not from a Germanic language (like Gothic) and no-one's been able to convincingly prove that they're related to any other language family (the most obvious choices being Turkic, Mongolic, Iranian i.e. related to the Scythians, or possibly Uralic, i.e. related to Hungarian some of whom have local legends about being part of Attila's army). Even if you accept that the Huns and Xiongnu are the same people (or rather, that the Huns descend from the Xiongnu), which seems plausible but is far from proven, that only gives you a few hundred extra words to compare and, well, determining the pronunciation of these words is difficult because they're recorded in Chinese which doesn't directly represent the sound of its words and so we have to rely on reconstructed pronunciations of characters and we know that Chinese does weird things with borrowings in this period anyway. Some of these Xiongnu words are clearly Turkic, a few are clearly Iranian, and a few other Indo-European words (some look Tocharian) but plenty don't have an obvious etymology from known language families. Even more confusingly, some of the words we do have attested for quite basic terms (which are rarely borrowed) come from different language families.
Tbh, the most likely scenario seems to be that the Huns/Xiongnu were a multi-ethnic confederation and that the words we have that are recorded as "Hunnic" actually belong to any of their many languages (or possibly to a creolised lingua franca). Such multi-ethnic confederations aren't unusual for steppe empires, we know the Köktürk Khaganate included peoples from pretty much all branches of the Turkic language family as well as various Mongolic peoples and the Mongol Khaganate included plenty of Turkic peoples, Mongolic peoples and Tungusic peoples (like the Manchu who would later follow in the Mongols' footsteps to invade China and found the Qing dynasty) and most other khaganates are known to include at least multiple Turkic or multiple Mongolic peoples (with smaller mono-ethnic khanates only appearing later on).
As far as I know they had their own ABC what has some common part or at least simirality to the ancient hungarian letters we know the pronouncation of. So we know approximately how those few hunnic written text sounded like. Though these few remain's hunnic origin is just a guess. Alliances of mixed nations was frequent between the turanic people. It was the way to conquer territories from other tribes and in the other hand it was the reason why these empires lasted so short period.
someone did his research.
dorzsboss as far as I know the only known relative of the old Hungarian alphabet was the old Turkic one which is only attested a few centuries after Attila's conquests
Someone copy/pasted
nah, linguistics and late antiquity/the early middle ages are just my jam
Learning stuff is neat!
The sides of your glasses clipping in and out is kinda trippy.
liked before watching because I know its gonna be good
And I say "Fool"
a anime style death if i ever heard one.
Death OfTime "AN" Anime
Learn some hístory pal......Hungarians are the huns.
Weeb
That's why there's nothing new under the sun.... What comes around goes around and around and around with just a change of colour!
1:58 He looks similar to Jason Momoa who is Native Hawaiin on father side and German, Irish and Native American on mother's side according to information on Wikipedia.
Excellent.
I can't think of her name.But The Soviet Union had a gymnast,who was a descendant of Atillia the Hun.
AnnaAnnaYes , Alice the Nun?
Wow
8:25 "in fourteen fifty three"?
I think it was fourhundred fifty three, or am I having audible troubles?
No, but at least the subtitles are corrected!
Very interesting.
I really liked this video. Well done Mr. Whistler - scarcely a single pronounciation error, including ‘Hxiong-nu’ (which I have no idea about anywah).
Can yoy do Top Ten facts about the Bronze Age collapse?
Before you make this video please watch the documentary Bronze Age collapse uploaded on YT by archeo atlas. Please include the research done by Polish archeologist Krzysztof Nowicki on the island of Crete.
Are you referring to the Sea Peoples when you're talking about Crete?
www.toptenz.net/10-little-known-facts-pirates.php
The most disturbing/amusing fact of all being thrown in at the end: the great Attila the Hun dies of a severe *nose bleed* on his wedding night. Kinda like Patton dying in a freak traffic accident.
Who's paton?
General George Patton of WW2 fame. Die from a car wreck . Sort of a freak accident, much like anybody associated with the CF. Was on a hunting trip and died of heart failure, sounds familiar.
I bet his wife was a Vatican agent.
Death is simply the end of the movie.
General Patton got jew wise and started talking about it so he was taken out many think...
Wow, he lived for over a thousand years? That's amazing...
I am going to get out my Attila the Stockbroker tape and play it....this brought it to mind..
Some sort of skullduggery about,, their cranial-dome capacity seemed to be diminished, to about the size to make a drinking cup for a canary.
Fun fact: The Uyghur people of northern China today, are the same people as the Huns. They are the ones who stayed behind in their ancestral homelands when the others invaded Europe.
uyghur and huns are turks
George Little ,I meant huns are ancestor of todays' turks. Also uygurs and turks are same nation.
Uyghur in Xinjiang and Yugur in Gansu are both ancestors to the Xiongnu (Huns). Overtime Uyghur were influencing by Islam and indo-Iranian (Tocharians and Saka) culture. While the Yugur retain much of their ancient ancestors trait and follow buddhist. You can say majority of Central Asian Steppe people mainly Turks from: Uyghur, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Yugur are ancestors to the ancient Xiongnu.
Fun fact: Genghis Khan adopted the Uyghur written script as use for Mongol writing. It is still currently use in Inner Mongolia not so much Mongolia for those that don't know.
No, they are "turkic" not "turks". They share the same culture sporadic turkic culture of the central asian steppes. But different group of people.
Didn't the Romans invite them over to take over??? Rome first subjugated them and then invited them over from Asia to Europe to take over. Roman brutality= Huns Brutality= Germanic brutality. Rome spreads genocide, the huns learn from the Romans and spread genocide and then the Huns get wiped out in Central Europe, very little is probably left of their genes . Think of it as disturbing a hornets nest, genocide is why they disappeared, they made so many enemies. and the Romans set them up to fail.
Wow! Very cool!
I don't recall the exact timestamp but in number 8 it was called a recurve bow, not a reflex bow.
Nose bleed death? Sounds like he suffered from an aneurysm.
More likely a stroke?
I don't want to spread alarm but many years ago I had a severe recuring nose bleed that might well have killed me if I had not been taken to hospital. They explained to me afterwards that if the blood gets into your lungs you can drown.
The moral of this story is to get your blood pressure checked regularily.
By the way I was (unsuprisingly) a heavy smoker; they packed my nose with bandage for a week to stop it bleeding again. So if anyone tells you they can't stop smoking, Oh yes you jolly wellcan!
since they took whatever they wanted what did they do with all that gold
you should make another video on the benefits that the Hun provided to those they conquered like social education, healthcare, and military development.
Excellent
To me the Huns were tribes that aligned themselves to become one. As if Glendale Burbank and San Fernando became a whole county. I think the Huns were nomads from East Mongolia with Hungary and turkey. They became a powerful force.
Attila is the father of turkeys and hungaries. Attila is already the ruler of the European Hun state. The Hungarians and the Turks are based on the Asian state. So Turks and Hungarians are relatives.
@Alpha Hybrid modern day turks, are not the same as the turkic as was there before. now they are arabs there
@@stefan3625 Arabs, other Semitic people's and plenty of them also have Greek and native Anatolian (Hellenised) blood, among many others they met on the migration path.
I briefly thought this was about about the band Attila when I first saw the title
2:02 That picture of the Huns looks a lot like the Psychlos from that movie: Battlefield Earth
I may not be right but you said they vanished but im a HUNgarian living in HUNgary and i was thought that we are the ancestors to them
I'm a Hungarian and this is what I have to say:
1. Always remember to check your source. History is written by the victors and as such, their depiction of the defeated enemy (or rather DEPARTED enemy) should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism, especially when they are being described as almost supernaturally monstrous. This was commonly used in the early ages if you start reading into wars, you will quickly recognize a pattern, whereas the greater the enemies, the greater the "demonizing".
2. Imagine having to inspire tens of thousands of people to fight and die for you. Surely there was the promise of riches, however to such a large number of people it is simply insufficient. The purpose of the Huns in Europe was much more than simply the joy of raiding cities and villages, according to Bakos Attila - Hungarian writer, philosopher, Hindu specialist and spiritualist, their presence in Europe has a great deal to do with Sumerian artifacts and Hun/Roman connection to the old Sumerian Empire. The Sumerian Empire was the first to have a standing professional army, of which Scythians and Huns later are speculated to have descended.
3. Barbarians and savage beasts who can shoot bows from horseback with great precision and organized enough to defeat several armies across Europe does not sound believable. Bare in mind that Attila had a number of tribes in his army, some of which Scythians, Goths or Alans. Additionally, the army had a small council of "mages" (Magur - Lord of the Seed - later resulting in the word "Magyar"). The Magurs were the wise men, with extensive knowledge of agriculture, medicine, astrology and spiritualism. Those meant to become Magurs were determined at birth and trained from a young age, part of which is most likely the skull elongation ritual. Please note that common folk did not elongate their children's skulls. This was almost exclusive to the leading class.
4. The history of the Huns does not begin with the invasion of Europe. They have been active in Asia long before that time and as such, there are scribes in Chinese and Indian cultures describing them as well. I seem to recall a Japanese scripture about Magurs at some point, though I could be wrong. The moral of the story here is to read from as many sources as possible, and though the Roman depiction is undoubtedly the most entertaining, it is also the one furthest from the truth. They defeated those who opposed them, but integrated anyone who wanted to join them, and many farm villages found the Hun lifestyle more appealing to them. Hyun Jin Kim argues that Franks and Germanic kingdoms were influenced by Huns as a political culture, suggesting that the Hun culture was attractive to them. The feudal system of France was also identical to that of the Huns and not of the Roman Empire.
5. The only brutality brought by the Huns into Europe were to the opposition. I know I already mentioned this, but I want to emphasize and elaborate as the Huns are falsely depicted as monsters by the bitter losers to the point where it seems as a cliche. Remains of Northen Europeans were found alongside remains of Hun farmers oftem times in cemetaries, suggesting they could coexist. You can read more about this on the Washington Post. The idea that the Huns did not cook their food is brutally false, and the primary source for this absurd misinformation is, Priscus - Dinner with Attila (sound Roman? - because he was). A typical food of the Huns was the "keng" described in the writings of Sima Qian, Chinese historian, similar to the modern "gulyas".
If you're going to make a video, read up on the material.
Hungarians are Magyars and nothing to do with Huns
WHAT "Sumerian Empire"?
@@robertheal5137 Thank you for not being dumb like all these other idiots.
If you're going to comment maybe educate yourself. Huns and Hungarians aren't related like you're implying stupid.
Hungarians seem to have influences of both Finno-ugric and "Turkic" culture(I know Slavic is also included). Finno-ugric influences like mit, vér, kezi etc. and Turkic influences like Alma, balta, etc... Alma seems not to have come from any ottoman influence, but rather from the eastern european steppes. Elma (apple solely in Turkish), Alma is in Kazakh and other Turkic languages.
Hi! Great channel. I understand that the Huns primary source of nourishment was horse milk, hence the main reason for the fireless culinary style.
This is a good show of this variety.
fun fact, the image used for the battering ram description contained neither a battering ram, nor Huns. It was from one of the Lord of the Rings movies... XD
And here I was thinking that was real footage of the Hunns. Cheers for clearing that up...
How were they able to determine the baby's gender without the baby being able to vocalize their gender identity? Asking in 2019...
Your not supposed to drink the bongwater
Ohhhhhhhhh I love the Dragons they used are those the shadow kings riding them?
the way you talked about attila/attilas army was like you were talking about a 50s rock n roll group like bill haley and his comets haha
i love this guy i love this channel and by the way attila died by poison not nosebleed
Yeah. Poison or leukemia.
@TopTenz
re 8:26 "He died in his bed during his wedding night, in 1453 AD..."
I know that you aren't really trying to suggest that he was 1,000 years old when he died. I know that you guys meant to write "453" in the script rather than "1453," but you guys have been making a lot of simple mistakes like this lately. It's not a huge problem, but please do try to have some pride in your work and ensure that your finished product is accurate.
Yea several little mistakes in this video
Skull deformation however was practiced only on elite people, it was a sign of nobility for euroasiatic nomads
Thank you
I didn’t know Johnny sins was this smart
Not all elongated skulls are artificially elongated
I like to see the top 10 interesting facts about Simon.
5:40 the Scythians have gold renditions of the bow being used a millennia before this time
severe nosebleed? Sounds more like an aneurysm.
Looseel Scott It was probably poison. Back then a woman would poison her husband to be and it would be untraceable.
It's just my hypothesis but I'm sure it was hemophilia. Philadelphia USA
The Huns also destroyed the Gupta Empire in India, ending the Golden Age of Classical India.
Golden Age came with the huns! They built most of the great buildings in India(still 160million people are descent of huns)in India(like sikhs)....gave such a great spiritual man like Buddha=Buda! Shakyamuni Buda...Shakya is scytha,muni means wise.....The Scythian Wise Buda.
Go and study Indian History first. Huns and Hunas(White Huns) are different. And they were repelled by Skandagupta.
Pepople with no knowledge of history does not worth to argue. Read some books please ...before you start to say stupid things.
Go and study real history first!Today in India 160 million people are saying they are hunnic ancestors ......So nobody reppeld out of them! Huns are black and white huns...same people same race...R1 a.....study some genetics first.....Huns gave most of great architecture to India.... To Europe....(the european huns) gave the trausers,the boots,the coat, stirrup and the best bows(the best world champion of distance of archery is Hun(garian) recent days shoot 918 meters...try to compete with...:) ,so with culture, ,poetry,inventions like chopper,matches,even Einstein theory of relativity is coming from Mr.Bólyai....and we could continnue for long-long time......Learn some....We are the oldest people on face of Earth,with" a beautyfull languge"...Sad Mezofanti...who spoke 106 languages.....Study some and read alot! Blessings
@Celtic Phoenix western propaganda
Could anyone tell me what movie or documentary the footage is from at 8:53 please?
The first kingdom of the Burgundians was on the middle Rhine (capital: Worms) in Germany.
Hello,
in which part of France did they do the head shaping? Thank you!
Archibald Dunn I am French and never heard of that. And the Huns never submitted the French or their ancestors
I know the country and this kind of stuff is possible with the barbaric invasions, but until 200 years ago? I would like a link!
Apparently it was in and around Toulouse particularly amongst the peasants; although the practice seems not to have been deliberate, just a side effect of wrapping the child's head tightly with a bandage with the aim of cushioning it against falls or bumps. There are even photos of a few people with such skulls; take a look here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:D%C3%A9formation_toulousaine
tristan roberts Thanks for the info. And may I add, Toulouse has never seen a Hun...
skiteufr yeah, Attila's french activities were pretty firmly at the other end of the country up in the north. I guess it's possible the Visigoths or Alans could have brought the Hunnic practice with them on their way to Spain (and then North Africa in the case of Alans) but seeing as the Toulousian head binding is for a very different purpose than the Hunnic head binding and the fact that head binding isn't found where the Visigoths or Alans finally settled (with the slight exception of Toulouse itself which was on the far edge of Visigothic territory) it seems far more likely that it was a completely independent practice
Edit: Toulouse itself was only briefly Visigothic, but some of the nearby territory (including Carcassonne, Narbonne and extending as far as the Rhône) was Visigothic (at the time known as Gallia or Narbonensis after the Roman province of southern France, but usually referred to as Septimania today) right up until the Muslim conquest of Spain after which the Franks conquered it and it became known as Gothia under Charlemagne
In the image of a city under siege at 17:40, what is the dragon type creature seen flying in the upper left? Great video Simon, just one teeny criticism. Superlatives such as 'unique' or ''ultimate' are fixed and cannot be 'improved' by adding an 'R' or qualified. Thus 'unique' meaning nothing similar or identical to cannot be, 'uniquest' nor yet 'uniquer'. The same applies to 'ultimate'. 'Ultimater', ultimatest' are not.
I never knew that there were over 10 ways to pronounce the Danube river and 5 for the Attila bro.
Simon, thank you so much for this new way of learning things in history!! Congratulations on your culture!!!!