@@proof.120 As for me, I recall this channel being promoted multiple times on the Whatifalthist channel and "Professor Lynch" was kind of upset that they haven't taken off the way those videos have. Because I was a history major in college, I was somewhat hesitant, but there is some new [i.e. relatively unknown] stuff and it is told in a refreshing way. This week, I finally decided to check it out since I am on my summer vacation and I got tired of watching Turner Classic Movies every week. It's pretty good. I started yesterday, and should be finished by tomorrow.
I feel like I speak Rudyard's language, so I understand if others find this dull or nonsensical, but I listen to every word with interest and since I know a bit about history myself, this episode helps me create a lot more connections in my gaps of knowledge on what sort of form this society took, what incentive structures drove them to act how they did, their influence on the people they came in contact with, how trends over time affected the arc of their history, and the extremes that this whole system went to as a result. When you look at it that way you can pull back and see a grand tapestry that speaks to the character of this chapter of history. I appreciate his work and I'm excited for more.
The Vikings: traded in Baghdad, were super soldiers in Constantinople, founded Russia, took and still hold the throne of England, raided every European County with the exception of Switzerland, they concurred southern Italy, settled Iceland and Greenland, and were the first Europeans in America.
33:00 term “Slavs” has an interesting etymology. It derives from the Old Slavic word “slovo,” which means “word” or “speech.” Because someone who spoke slavic language you could understand unlike german speakers thats why they are still called "Niemcy" in west slavic languages which derives from word for mute
I swear, after watching a lot of these 'interviews', this is just unscripted Whatifaltist plus a dude saying "makes sense". I like the channel, but the 'interviewer' doesn't contribute anything
As per your co-host's instructions, I'd like to see videos about the following subjects: 1. Colonial America (The Thirteen Colonies) 2. Biblical Israel/Judea/Judah (From the arrival of the Jews to the land of Canaan to their colonization under the Romans) 3. Czarist Russia (unto the conflict between the Reds and Whites) 4. The Janissaries (up unto the purges of 1800) 5. The Bronze Age Collapse 6. The Cold War (Nuclear Threats, Korean War, Vietnam War, Space Race, etc) 7. The Samurai 8. British India 9. The Chinese Warring States period of the 20th century 10. The French Revolution and the following Napoleonic Wars Obviously if you don't do any of these things, that's fine. Just thought I'd give some ideas since you guys were asking.
@@gonfreecss6002 There is an entire channel called "The Cold War" that is an offshoot of "Kings and Generals" that focuses on the Cold War in detail It's pretty good Another channel, either History Marche or Invicta, actually just finished a multi hour documentary on The Bronze Age Collapse "Kings and Generals" is now making a series on The American Revolution, which is kinda close to the request for Colonial America, albeit the series is incomplete
This is the best content you've put out in my opinion. I want you to do a whole video on the dark ages, high middle ages, than early modern period. Your tirade on it was super interesting. God I could through a hundred topics at you that'd I'd love to hear. I hope you do hundreds of these.
Vikings playing cute-sounding doot-di-doot panpipes ditties instead of throat chants is the "dinosaurs had feathers and went Bwark" of ethnomusicology.
Aside from settling in Canada there are mummified dogs of danish breed in South America from before Columbus. So they likely went much further. There are stories that Columbus got hold of maps of America from the vikings travels via the knights Templars who are cultural inheritors of the vikings and likely were still connected strongly up to Denmark and later Scotland that then also had those maps (Roselyn Chapel) to go to America also before Columbus.
The Russian Civil War is a somewhat well tread topic that your perspective on would be interesting to hear about. Every ideological system pitted against each other trying to rise from the ashes of the pre-WW1 world is right up your alley.
A good cultural touch point to understand Christianity in the Post-Norse landscape is poems like Dream of the Rood and of course Beowulf and Wanderer. But truth be told the person who captures a Christianized Germanic spirit the best is Tolkien, but that isn't in the direct wake.
A lot of south western Finland and Estonia were Scandinavian. We have our own names for all of the islands and the today capital of Finland bares reference to the old Scandinavian tribe of the Hälsings. The Estonian Capitals name literally means the Danish fortress in Estonian.
@@yux.tn.3641no all I learned there was American history until 6th grade when we learned about really ancient stuff like Mesopotamia and Egypt, along with some Greek stuff. Junior high only had geography and American history, and high school I took AP world which only covered 1200 on. Then after that it was all us and us government. I was never taught in school about the Roman’s and never in depth on the Middle Ages
@@yux.tn.3641no all I learned there was American history until 6th grade when we learned about really ancient stuff like Mesopotamia and Egypt, along with some Greek stuff. Junior high only had geography and American history, and high school I took AP world which only covered 1200 on. Then after that it was all us and us government. I was never taught in school about the Roman’s and never in depth on the Middle Ages
On the dark age question, 12th century bc (bronze age collapse) leads to greek dark age, then 5th century ad (Roman collapse) leads to early middle age. This suggests a periodicity of around 1600 - 1700 years. That suggests civilizational collapse begetting dark age around 2100 ad? So not this current saeculum transition, but the next one instead.
If you like the Vikings so mush how about a alternate history scenario where the Vikings clans/tribes unite at the start of the Viking age and instead of the Vikings simply launching raises they launch Mongol style Conquests ?
The Normans established several countries themselves, one in Sicily, a city in Spain, Tunisia, Amtioch, half of Anatolia at one point and a castle in west Africa for God knows why. All from the duchy of Normandy, had a couple thousand more Danes and couple thousand Norwegians settled Normandy and conquered all of France, the Mediterranean sea would of become a Norman lake.
Paris had been the capital before the Viking era. The Merovingian kings were all buried at St Denis, or the mainline ones anyway. Also Spain was a Gothic nation-state before the Muslims.
My wished topics: 1. The Black Death 2. The Crusades 3. The English Empire 4. The Germanic Tribes 5. The Rise of Rome 6. Napoleon 7. The Start and End of Antiquity 8. The Protestant Revolution
I love your analysis of the Dark Ages. Reading Chris Wickham you can really see how the pre-feudal order was fundamentally "yeomanistic" in that it was based on the assumption that ordinary people were self-sufficient and could fight in skirmishes.
Been trying to write a fantasy world and been basing the northern section of the world a off of the Scandinavia, this video might make it more in depth than anticipated so thanks.
The wise woman said Once you're hardened in battle, there's no coming back (Fight or fall) And before the attack Feel your blood starts to boil In your veins as you charge (Hundreds fallen) As the fire inside is ignited by bloodshed In berserkers from North Could it be as was said When the serpent be woken Fenrir howls Swedish pagans, marching a shore Forged in Valhalla by the hammer of Thor Out from Asgard, our viking ship sails Never to turn back again Where brothers have fought is where we will be proven On ground stained by blood (Standing tall) And we know if we fall, our comrades awaits in Valhall (Odin's calling) As the fire inside, is ignited by bloodshed In the circuits of nord Will it be as was said, will the serpents be woken Fenrir howls Swedish pagans, marching a shore Forged in Valhalla by the hammer of Thor Out from Asgard, our viking ship sails Never to turn back again First to the battle, firs to the feast Destiny waiting, no retreat, retreat Swedish pagans, marching a shore Forged in Valhalla by the hammer of Thor Out from Asgard, our viking ship sails Never to turn back again
You raised a very good point! WE NEED A WHOLE VIDEO! Why doesn't the bible or other religious texts reference the Pyramids? Do any religious texts mention them? I'd say the elephant in the room. But lets just say largest man made structure in the world at the time.
One thing I don't like hearing when people talk about the "Dark Ages" was the oft-repeated talking point that "Society Collapsed". Society did not "Collapse", the so-called "Barbarians" reached cultural and political parity with Rome in the 5th and 6th Centuries AD, and the Franks, Visigoths, Saxons, Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Lombards all built their kingdoms on Roman infrastructure (both physically and culturally). The fall of Rome marks more a triumph of proto-Feudalism over the centralized Oligarchic nation-state, than an abject failure of Civilization in Europe. Also, nitpick: 18:20 this map is anachronistic, the Tang Dynasty still ruled China in 800 AD (and would continue to do so until 930 AD), and the Tibetan Empire is absent.
There is actually some debate about the horns on the helmets here in Denmark. Most is attributed to Wagner opera portrayals of the vikings as well as their christian victims portrayal of them as devils. And there is a general consensus that horned helmets were not used. with that being said it is inconclusive, there were only very few archaeological finds of actual viking era helmets and there were finds of miniature figures from the viking ages that wore horned helmets, but those are believed to portray a mythical time, perhaps with the awareness of iron age helmets of Scandinavia that were in fact horned, but it would have been something old and archaic by the viking age, like bringing a Picklehaube to the war in Ukraine today, it could theoretically happen. Perhaps it did actually exist in the viking age but as a symbol like the tycoon hat of today being a passed on symbol of capitalists while no actual capitalists of today wears one. In 1000 years time when looking back at today future historians can be forgiven for thinking that capitalists of today wore tycoon hats or that steam locomotives were the norm because most pictograms depicting a train uses the silhouette of a steam locomotive.
Wait, so, vikings (raiders) were frowned upon in Scandinavia, yet their religious was centered on a War God (Tyr or Woden, I'm guessing) and in order to go to 'heaven' you had to die in battle? That seems conflicting. Maybe we're overestimating the importance of the Warrior religion because it was mostly warriors who went out of Scandinavia.
My only complaint about this is that it's too interesting to go to sleep to! I'll have to listen to something else for now and come back to this when I'm not trying to sleep. 😆
@@gonfreecss6002 well there is no evidence of them in egypt besides the bible, but plenty of evidence of jewish people on babylon so sorry if am a little sceptic
@@ribps289huh. Didn't know that. That makes some sense actually. A lot of the biblical myths, especially that of the Great Flood, seem to be inspired from Babylonian myths, so its certainly plausible.
@@gonfreecss6002 ironically there is evidence of the philistines, Israelites oldest rivals, being the ones living in Egypt and then exiled to Canaan. But maybe Moses existed and just there isn't enough evidence yet. Rudyard takes it as a fact so he must know something I don't.
The first crusader king was Sigurd Jorsalfare of Norway, he pretty much went "Viking for Jesus". Same motivations as his heathen ancestors 100 years before, but in the name of Jesus and against Muslims and Christians who had a different interpretation on Christianity than himself.
The governmental organization of Germanic people were very similar to other Indo-European peoples. Similar political arrangements are found in the RigVeda, which shows a common Indo-European source for this political arrangement. Even Germanic paganism is similar to other Indo-European pagan religions. Winn, S. M. (1995). Heaven, heroes, and happiness: the Indo-European roots of Western ideology. University Press of America. West, Martin Litchfield (2007). Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Woodard, R. D. (2010). Indo-European sacred space: Vedic and Roman cult. University of Illinois Press.
Rudyard is just a wealth of information. Sometimes smaller UA-camrs feel out of their depth so take the approach of letting the guest talk the entire time
I could listen to Rudyard ramble about history all day, every day
Just found this channel and ive been speed running these uploads
@@proof.120 As for me, I recall this channel being promoted multiple times on the Whatifalthist channel and "Professor Lynch" was kind of upset that they haven't taken off the way those videos have. Because I was a history major in college, I was somewhat hesitant, but there is some new [i.e. relatively unknown] stuff and it is told in a refreshing way. This week, I finally decided to check it out since I am on my summer vacation and I got tired of watching Turner Classic Movies every week. It's pretty good. I started yesterday, and should be finished by tomorrow.
I feel like I speak Rudyard's language, so I understand if others find this dull or nonsensical, but I listen to every word with interest and since I know a bit about history myself, this episode helps me create a lot more connections in my gaps of knowledge on what sort of form this society took, what incentive structures drove them to act how they did, their influence on the people they came in contact with, how trends over time affected the arc of their history, and the extremes that this whole system went to as a result. When you look at it that way you can pull back and see a grand tapestry that speaks to the character of this chapter of history. I appreciate his work and I'm excited for more.
This and Common Ground interviews are great expansions. Content is great. Thanks so much.
The Vikings: traded in Baghdad, were super soldiers in Constantinople, founded Russia, took and still hold the throne of England, raided every European County with the exception of Switzerland, they concurred southern Italy, settled Iceland and Greenland, and were the first Europeans in America.
33:00 term “Slavs” has an interesting etymology. It derives from the Old Slavic word “slovo,” which means “word” or “speech.”
Because someone who spoke slavic language you could understand unlike german speakers thats why they are still called "Niemcy" in west slavic languages which derives from word for mute
Yeah, he got it backwards. The word "slave" derives from "Slav", but he makes it sound the other way around
a cool drinking game is to take a shot every time you hear the interviewer say "yeah fascinating".
Fascinating
I died
“That’s insane”
I swear, after watching a lot of these 'interviews', this is just unscripted Whatifaltist plus a dude saying "makes sense". I like the channel, but the 'interviewer' doesn't contribute anything
@@Yarblocosifilitico Rudyard has a bad habit of "outshining" his co-host! 😆😝
As per your co-host's instructions, I'd like to see videos about the following subjects:
1. Colonial America (The Thirteen Colonies)
2. Biblical Israel/Judea/Judah (From the arrival of the Jews to the land of Canaan to their colonization under the Romans)
3. Czarist Russia (unto the conflict between the Reds and Whites)
4. The Janissaries (up unto the purges of 1800)
5. The Bronze Age Collapse
6. The Cold War (Nuclear Threats, Korean War, Vietnam War, Space Race, etc)
7. The Samurai
8. British India
9. The Chinese Warring States period of the 20th century
10. The French Revolution and the following Napoleonic Wars
Obviously if you don't do any of these things, that's fine. Just thought I'd give some ideas since you guys were asking.
Bonus:
11. A short history of the Irish
@@gonfreecss6002 There is an entire channel called "The Cold War" that is an offshoot of "Kings and Generals" that focuses on the Cold War in detail
It's pretty good
Another channel, either History Marche or Invicta, actually just finished a multi hour documentary on The Bronze Age Collapse
"Kings and Generals" is now making a series on The American Revolution, which is kinda close to the request for Colonial America, albeit the series is incomplete
Bonus:
History of the Armenians since they lasted for 3000 years
Cold War
All of these I would watch. Very good topic choices.
So vikings were post-apocalyptic raiders. 😮
You guys have saved my bachelor degree with this one! Keep it up!
1:55 POV you’re about to get plundered while having the raiders’ socioeconomic pressures for raiding you explained to you
The actual youtube channel for the history segments.
Ahistorical “history” segments with one too many people, yeah sure
I like the other page where he wants to become the spiritual leader of the Incels
@@ugiswrong Hahaha, too true
@@ugiswrong Same
This is the best content you've put out in my opinion. I want you to do a whole video on the dark ages, high middle ages, than early modern period. Your tirade on it was super interesting. God I could through a hundred topics at you that'd I'd love to hear. I hope you do hundreds of these.
Vikings playing cute-sounding doot-di-doot panpipes ditties instead of throat chants is the "dinosaurs had feathers and went Bwark" of ethnomusicology.
So true
Why must you hurt me like this?
Aside from settling in Canada there are mummified dogs of danish breed in South America from before Columbus. So they likely went much further. There are stories that Columbus got hold of maps of America from the vikings travels via the knights Templars who are cultural inheritors of the vikings and likely were still connected strongly up to Denmark and later Scotland that then also had those maps (Roselyn Chapel) to go to America also before Columbus.
The Russian Civil War is a somewhat well tread topic that your perspective on would be interesting to hear about. Every ideological system pitted against each other trying to rise from the ashes of the pre-WW1 world is right up your alley.
31:09 is the best part of this video
Beat off 🤣🤣🤣
I laughed 😂
"Pause!" is what the kids are saying now a days to situations like this one.
A good cultural touch point to understand Christianity in the Post-Norse landscape is poems like Dream of the Rood and of course Beowulf and Wanderer. But truth be told the person who captures a Christianized Germanic spirit the best is Tolkien, but that isn't in the direct wake.
I would love for y’all to do a podcast on the crusades
Sneed
@@ryanc970sneed's feed n seed
I’m so happy to have found this whatifalltist is my favourite UA-cam channel I just binged watch all these lmfao
A lot of south western Finland and Estonia were Scandinavian. We have our own names for all of the islands and the today capital of Finland bares reference to the old Scandinavian tribe of the Hälsings. The Estonian Capitals name literally means the Danish fortress in Estonian.
For some reason I always related the Estonian capital to Stalin
Please keep this series going
Maybe dark ages and power vacuum are synonymous.
Good point.
It would have been interesting how history would have changed if the Vikings conquered England
Some did conquer England, via Normandy. William the Bastard (Conqueror) was Norman French.
@@brandongorte4746 I hate Normans
Canute the Great sucessfully claimed and conquered England and ruled from 1016 to his death 1035.
And then lost it to second generation Norwegian vikings
They did several times. Their influence on English history and culture is unmistakable
It’s really weird because I never really learned about the Vikings until now
you didn't study this in primary school?
@@yux.tn.3641no all I learned there was American history until 6th grade when we learned about really ancient stuff like Mesopotamia and Egypt, along with some Greek stuff. Junior high only had geography and American history, and high school I took AP world which only covered 1200 on. Then after that it was all us and us government. I was never taught in school about the Roman’s and never in depth on the Middle Ages
@@yux.tn.3641no all I learned there was American history until 6th grade when we learned about really ancient stuff like Mesopotamia and Egypt, along with some Greek stuff. Junior high only had geography and American history, and high school I took AP world which only covered 1200 on. Then after that it was all us and us government. I was never taught in school about the Roman’s and never in depth on the Middle Ages
@@ryanbradley3293 ah ok, in UK you get to study Romans, Anglo Saxons and Vikings
at least when I was in school
On the dark age question, 12th century bc (bronze age collapse) leads to greek dark age, then 5th century ad (Roman collapse) leads to early middle age. This suggests a periodicity of around 1600 - 1700 years.
That suggests civilizational collapse begetting dark age around 2100 ad? So not this current saeculum transition, but the next one instead.
If you like the Vikings so mush how about a alternate history scenario where the Vikings clans/tribes unite at the start of the Viking age and instead of the Vikings simply launching raises they launch Mongol style Conquests ?
Vikings: masters of amphibious assault, terrible at cavalry 😅
Can you do a deep dive on the Sea People?
I would love to see, Edo period Japan, Holy Roman empire, and Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth
Can’t get enough of this dudes thoughts on history
The Normans established several countries themselves, one in Sicily, a city in Spain, Tunisia, Amtioch, half of Anatolia at one point and a castle in west Africa for God knows why.
All from the duchy of Normandy, had a couple thousand more Danes and couple thousand Norwegians settled Normandy and conquered all of France, the Mediterranean sea would of become a Norman lake.
You guys should do oliver Cromwell and the english civil wars
“fascinating” “thanks” 🗿
We need a video about Recoquista and both middle eastern and northern Crusades.
Paris had been the capital before the Viking era. The Merovingian kings were all buried at St Denis, or the mainline ones anyway. Also Spain was a Gothic nation-state before the Muslims.
When he said beat off and laughed lol
I would love to see episodes on the Muslim conquest and the Crusades
Do medieval Ethiopia
This video was super entertaining . I would enjoy a vid about the Roman Empire.
My wished topics:
1. The Black Death
2. The Crusades
3. The English Empire
4. The Germanic Tribes
5. The Rise of Rome
6. Napoleon
7. The Start and End of Antiquity
8. The Protestant Revolution
9:00 bro held the empire together with nothing but rizz.
Charlemagne the og rizzla.
Me, with Hungarian and Viking ancestry: laughs in barbarian about how my ancestors caused feudalism.
I love your analysis of the Dark Ages. Reading Chris Wickham you can really see how the pre-feudal order was fundamentally "yeomanistic" in that it was based on the assumption that ordinary people were self-sufficient and could fight in skirmishes.
Been trying to write a fantasy world and been basing the northern section of the world a off of the Scandinavia, this video might make it more in depth than anticipated so thanks.
this was great info, thanks. i hope you will still incorporate this subject into a video on your main channel someday
The dark and middle age Amber trade was pretty cool, the baltic was a major source of it. Look it up, its fascinating
The wise woman said
Once you're hardened in battle, there's no coming back
(Fight or fall)
And before the attack
Feel your blood starts to boil
In your veins as you charge
(Hundreds fallen)
As the fire inside is ignited by bloodshed
In berserkers from North
Could it be as was said
When the serpent be woken
Fenrir howls
Swedish pagans, marching a shore
Forged in Valhalla by the hammer of Thor
Out from Asgard, our viking ship sails
Never to turn back again
Where brothers have fought is where we will be proven
On ground stained by blood
(Standing tall)
And we know if we fall, our comrades awaits in Valhall
(Odin's calling)
As the fire inside, is ignited by bloodshed
In the circuits of nord
Will it be as was said, will the serpents be woken
Fenrir howls
Swedish pagans, marching a shore
Forged in Valhalla by the hammer of Thor
Out from Asgard, our viking ship sails
Never to turn back again
First to the battle, firs to the feast
Destiny waiting, no retreat, retreat
Swedish pagans, marching a shore
Forged in Valhalla by the hammer of Thor
Out from Asgard, our viking ship sails
Never to turn back again
Vikings, my people!
38:30. It's more complicated than that considering the Northern Crusades and the Christianization of Northwest Europe.
❤ these videos
this is FCKN AWESOME
Vinland might have been in Quebec or in Nova Scotia. The description isn't as close, but it makes more sense archaeologically.
Yeah, fascinating
You raised a very good point! WE NEED A WHOLE VIDEO! Why doesn't the bible or other religious texts reference the Pyramids? Do any religious texts mention them? I'd say the elephant in the room. But lets just say largest man made structure in the world at the time.
what is his channel? 14:29
Whatifalthist
Althist: yapping
Eric: wow fascinating
Isnt Vinland Newfoundland in Canada?
Please do a video on the Russo-Japanese War :)
34:45 TLDR: The modern Scandinavians are the people who stayed at home.
Enjoy your lutefisk and frozen pizzas.
Pretty influential guys.
22:55 Accurate. Finland is not Scandinavia, it is a Nordic country
One thing I don't like hearing when people talk about the "Dark Ages" was the oft-repeated talking point that "Society Collapsed".
Society did not "Collapse", the so-called "Barbarians" reached cultural and political parity with Rome in the 5th and 6th Centuries AD, and the Franks, Visigoths, Saxons, Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Lombards all built their kingdoms on Roman infrastructure (both physically and culturally). The fall of Rome marks more a triumph of proto-Feudalism over the centralized Oligarchic nation-state, than an abject failure of Civilization in Europe.
Also, nitpick: 18:20 this map is anachronistic, the Tang Dynasty still ruled China in 800 AD (and would continue to do so until 930 AD), and the Tibetan Empire is absent.
All this guy said was wow😂
What are good books for an overview of this history?
49:00 part of their legacy is that they simplified alot of the english language
There is actually some debate about the horns on the helmets here in Denmark. Most is attributed to Wagner opera portrayals of the vikings as well as their christian victims portrayal of them as devils. And there is a general consensus that horned helmets were not used. with that being said it is inconclusive, there were only very few archaeological finds of actual viking era helmets and there were finds of miniature figures from the viking ages that wore horned helmets, but those are believed to portray a mythical time, perhaps with the awareness of iron age helmets of Scandinavia that were in fact horned, but it would have been something old and archaic by the viking age, like bringing a Picklehaube to the war in Ukraine today, it could theoretically happen. Perhaps it did actually exist in the viking age but as a symbol like the tycoon hat of today being a passed on symbol of capitalists while no actual capitalists of today wears one. In 1000 years time when looking back at today future historians can be forgiven for thinking that capitalists of today wore tycoon hats or that steam locomotives were the norm because most pictograms depicting a train uses the silhouette of a steam locomotive.
Talk about Ireland
Wait, so, vikings (raiders) were frowned upon in Scandinavia, yet their religious was centered on a War God (Tyr or Woden, I'm guessing) and in order to go to 'heaven' you had to die in battle? That seems conflicting. Maybe we're overestimating the importance of the Warrior religion because it was mostly warriors who went out of Scandinavia.
My only complaint about this is that it's too interesting to go to sleep to! I'll have to listen to something else for now and come back to this when I'm not trying to sleep. 😆
Fascinating!
I'd love a Communist anthology - Pol Pot's Cambodia, Castro's Cuba, Maoist China, etc.
“Apex of the YOLO”, it’s called the White Boy Highlight Reel
The thing about women dying in childbirth and going to Vallhol isn't true, its a spartan thing that got misapplied to the norse
*around **31:20* "because he was the guy who could beat off.. heh heh. He was the guy who could *defeat*..."
Talk about the Cholas
WOAH WOAH WOAH Moses actually happened? I thought it was a metaphore for the jews leaving Babylon
....the jews didn't leave Babylon. They left Egypt....
@@gonfreecss6002 well there is no evidence of them in egypt besides the bible, but plenty of evidence of jewish people on babylon so sorry if am a little sceptic
@@ribps289huh. Didn't know that. That makes some sense actually. A lot of the biblical myths, especially that of the Great Flood, seem to be inspired from Babylonian myths, so its certainly plausible.
@@gonfreecss6002 ironically there is evidence of the philistines, Israelites oldest rivals, being the ones living in Egypt and then exiled to Canaan.
But maybe Moses existed and just there isn't enough evidence yet. Rudyard takes it as a fact so he must know something I don't.
Best books on the high Middle Ages? And why did literacy take so long to take off yet the printing press was invented?
The first crusader king was Sigurd Jorsalfare of Norway, he pretty much went "Viking for Jesus". Same motivations as his heathen ancestors 100 years before, but in the name of Jesus and against Muslims and Christians who had a different interpretation on Christianity than himself.
He looks a lot like I thought he would, except for the glasses.
34:00 Vikings were outcasts, not elites. Female infanticide was a thing and a big motivator. North America was not empty like Iceland.
The beat off laugh lmao
The governmental organization of Germanic people were very similar to other Indo-European peoples. Similar political arrangements are found in the RigVeda, which shows a common Indo-European source for this political arrangement. Even Germanic paganism is similar to other Indo-European pagan religions.
Winn, S. M. (1995). Heaven, heroes, and happiness: the Indo-European roots of Western ideology. University Press of America.
West, Martin Litchfield (2007). Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodard, R. D. (2010). Indo-European sacred space: Vedic and Roman cult. University of Illinois Press.
Talk about Samurai
Vril📈📈
10:40 age of empires turtles vs rushers
maybe a video about brazil
Topic Request: Decline of Religion since the 20th Century.
Philosophy and science taking over religion, and also people thinking they’re above things before them
Fall of the Republic would be great
Interesting that Prussia and holy roman empire are different things... I thought those united in 1800s to modern germany.
Prussia was a part of the holy Roman empire. It formed Germany well after Napoleon essentially ended it.
Can I do a collab with you? Or be in one of your videos or anything?
Only after you finishing reconquering Spain, Justinian.
I like this series but I find it a little weird that your co-host only talks to ask you questions and rarely provides input aside from "fascinating"
Rudyard is just a wealth of information. Sometimes smaller UA-camrs feel out of their depth so take the approach of letting the guest talk the entire time
You should get an editor and put pictures over this like what you do for whaifalthis vids
Eastern Rome is Rome. Rome lasted until 1453
Just found out you changed the name of this channel
Crusades vid 🤞
Agree 👍👍
This interviewer just keeps asking questions the feel like conversation stoppers 😂🤦🏻♀️
45:12 You mean Anime？
CaN you one day cover china when the Han falls apart ? One day
Will America fall like Rome did?
Vikings didn’t conquer all of Eastern Europe.