536 AD - Worst Year in History

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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  3 роки тому +457

    Something, something patreon: www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals

  • @sebastianbravo5028
    @sebastianbravo5028 3 роки тому +3692

    Although we speak mainly of Eurasia when talking about the year 536, it also affected American civilizations, for example during this period the declines of the Teotihuacan culture in Mexico and the Moche in Peru began. According to scholars, they are due to long periods of drought followed by famine and riots.

    • @knightofsvea604
      @knightofsvea604 3 роки тому +86

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 I would gladly pay for a KnG like Chanel that mainly focused on the pre 14th c. America 🙏

    • @MrGabiiiii94
      @MrGabiiiii94 3 роки тому +48

      @@terrybogars8933 They weren't wiped out wtf...

    • @robrn9069
      @robrn9069 3 роки тому +50

      @@terrybogars8933 Black legend, such a genocide which until the independence revolutions, 90% of New Spain people spoke only indigenous languages and looked more like a Mexica than like a Spaniard.

    • @ReydelCiguay
      @ReydelCiguay 3 роки тому +21

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 i agree. I would love more on American (North and South) Native cultures. I would like a video on the Taínos. Being the first to meet the those of the old world, their story is not really spoken of except in small circles but it’s with them that you get the beginning of the colonization of the new world. They may not have been as grand as the Aztecs, Mayans, or Incas, but their story should be spoken about. I may be bias being Dominican as we are mixed descendants lol. Heck, if you need K&G I can provide you as much info as needed as I freaking love this topic.

    • @KanBig
      @KanBig 3 роки тому +53

      @@terrybogars8933 They were not wiped out. We are still here living and breathing. A big chunk of the population in Latin America is Amerindian and the biggest chunk are mestizos. The Europeans make a smaller percent, unlike the US and Canada.

  • @nathanpangilinan4397
    @nathanpangilinan4397 3 роки тому +2843

    The fact Justinian had to live through the worst year in history shows how much he had to struggle against in his reign. As much as he was unable to restore the dream of Rome, he still was able to do a great deal in trying to restore it, reclaiming Italy, North Africa, and Southern Iberia.

    • @longyu9336
      @longyu9336 3 роки тому +238

      Learning about him coming so close and failing is pain. "In the End" by Linkin Park must have been his theme song.

    • @nathanpangilinan4397
      @nathanpangilinan4397 3 роки тому +137

      @@longyu9336, there once was a dream, a dream worth fighting for, even if he did not succeed in recreating said dream.

    • @jacopofolin6400
      @jacopofolin6400 3 роки тому +100

      Well at the end justinian used all the money for an expeditions that were usless because the territory gained was undefendable. The heirs had to do a lot of work to remake bizantine an powerfull empire

    • @nickpapadopoulos9978
      @nickpapadopoulos9978 3 роки тому +57

      Fun fact: justinian during the time of the plague known as the Justinian's plague he fell ill and he almost died way earlier then he actually died which would have left justin ii to be deal a much more weakened empire and probably would have led the empire into total anarchy and imploded into itself!

    • @nathanpangilinan4397
      @nathanpangilinan4397 3 роки тому +75

      @@jacopofolin6400, and thanks to Phocas, it was all for nothing.

  • @alexsmithStudios
    @alexsmithStudios 3 роки тому +948

    They’d hate to visit Wales. I haven’t seen the sun in 25 years.

  • @Neknadeg
    @Neknadeg 3 роки тому +221

    Whenever I feel sad, I watch videos like this and remind myself that I am the descendant of the survivors. My ancestors went through sooooo much. As did yours. You are the result of luck and strength.

    • @kirithekitsune3599
      @kirithekitsune3599 3 роки тому +9

      @@KingDanny9 Their ancestors could be Roman's, but bear in mind that the winter affected the whole world, not just the Byzantines.

    • @nolongerthere
      @nolongerthere 3 роки тому +6

      @@KingDanny9 I take this to mean all our ancestors; was there anywhere on Earth that wasn't a harsh place to live and reproduce? (Any claim to the contrary is probably rose-colored myth.) That's something I take away from the reading of history.

    • @Seans-Garage
      @Seans-Garage Рік тому +2

      I can relate. My father was the only child and survived war. My grandparents went through worse. Imagine the genealogy and hardships that our ancestors and families had to face in order for us to just be here today in this moment. Its mind boggling.

    • @kolbymartin9743
      @kolbymartin9743 11 місяців тому +1

      It's no where in your genetics to give up. Whoever reads this, keep your head up, you're a product of some of the best survivors in the solar system 👍

    • @gerharddeusser9103
      @gerharddeusser9103 7 місяців тому +3

      Both our ancestors would only laugh at the comparison between the justinian plague and
      Covid. Hysterical.
      Shame.

  • @RexGalilae
    @RexGalilae 3 роки тому +655

    It's a testament to Justinian's brilliance that the Empire survived the Nika riots, Persian invasions, the Justinian Plague and the 536 Event mostly intact when we could've excused it for collapsing entirely during this period

    • @adolphbismark4331
      @adolphbismark4331 3 роки тому +23

      Like all 29 Illyro-Roman Emperors, Justinian was also great.
      Just like Claudius Gothicus, Decius, Diocletian, Constantine the Great, Constance II, Valentinian the Great, Anastasius etc.

    • @RexGalilae
      @RexGalilae 3 роки тому +44

      @@adolphbismark4331
      How can you mention great Illyro-Roman Emperors without mentioning Aurelian? XD
      It's true. The Illyrians saved and Restored the Roman Empire on so many occasions. It's tragic to see that only a small population remains of the Illyro-Roman community today aka the Aromanians.

    • @RexGalilae
      @RexGalilae 3 роки тому +1

      @@adolphbismark4331
      Btw, I also think Valentinian is overrated as hell. All these emperors like him and Theodosius just snagged the epithet for their religious beliefs, not their achievements as emperors

    • @adolphbismark4331
      @adolphbismark4331 3 роки тому +1

      The descendants of the Illyro Romans today are Albanians, not aromanians.
      Aurelian , Diocletian, Clodius Gothicus, Constantine, evan Justinian's father were speaking a dialect of Albanian or proto Albanian.
      Vlachs are unknown in their origins and are local latinised populations, nothing to do with the 29 Roman Illyrian emperors

    • @RexGalilae
      @RexGalilae 3 роки тому +33

      @@adolphbismark4331
      This is absolute cap.
      Albanians were only attested to live in Epirus and we have no historical record to prove that any Roman Emperor, most of whom were born around Sirmium (modern day Serbia/Bosnia) considered himself Albanian. That's some laughable nationalist nonsense lmao.
      The Illyrians we know were thoroughly romanized people who only spoke Latin and, depending on geography and education, some Greek.
      It's like if people of Sparta claimed Alexander to be a Spartan.
      The Vlachs aren't a single ethnic group. It's an endonym assigned to all Romance speaking people in the Balkans Hailing from Illyria, Dacia, Moesia, etc. The Aromanians, being Romance speaking people of Illyria are the only spiritual successors to the Latin speaking Illyrians who saved the empire.
      You can leave your glory heists to someone else

  • @evanssamuelbiju4315
    @evanssamuelbiju4315 3 роки тому +1791

    Justinian struggled against all this and at one time fell into a coma being afflicted by the disease, but he still went on to have achieved(at least partially) his dream of restoring the Roman empire, increasing his empire by 51%. I don't think any Roman emperor before him suffered so many blows one after the other, and still, have left a legacy as great as Justinian I 's. If this had not happened, perhaps we would be equating Justinian with Augustus, if not considering him the greatest.

    • @alexandrostheodorou8387
      @alexandrostheodorou8387 3 роки тому +188

      For a palace emperor, he was impressive. He made the right decisions (most of the time, recalling Belisaurius was pretty dumb) but fate kind of demanded the Roman Empire die. If the plague and famine didnt happen, he would have recaptured Gaul the same way previous Emperors had.
      In my Opinion Justinian was the last great Roman Emperor. And Heraclius was the last Roman Emperor in General. After Heraclius the entire empire became a greek kingdom centered around anatolia.

    • @Slavomir66653
      @Slavomir66653 3 роки тому +102

      @@alexandrostheodorou8387 except that in this anatolian kingdom there were slavs, armenians, bolghars, syrians, neapolitans, lombards, venetians, and sardinians. Apart from that, completely greek homogenous kingdom.

    • @thaneofwhiterun3562
      @thaneofwhiterun3562 3 роки тому +26

      @@alexandrostheodorou8387 you forget the vlachs my friend!

    • @dabo5078
      @dabo5078 3 роки тому +5

      @@Slavomir66653 They lost Syria and most of their African holdings later.

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 3 роки тому +10

      @@alexandrostheodorou8387 I doubt he would get Gaul, I think only Italy and maybe southern goal, but not the whole of it

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions 3 роки тому +493

    The great persian poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi once wrote:
    "And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings"

    • @radiomutant2543
      @radiomutant2543 3 роки тому +39

      I dont know what to say
      Its first time i see someone uses ferdowsi phrases
      A happy thing to see .

    • @HistoryOfRevolutions
      @HistoryOfRevolutions 3 роки тому +14

      @@radiomutant2543 hello my friend. Check out my work. I have many videos on Iranian history.

    • @apalahartisebuahnama7684
      @apalahartisebuahnama7684 3 роки тому +2

      Such a world we're living in

    • @bpalpha
      @bpalpha 3 роки тому +2

      Yes, there is certainly nothing the population could do to stop such injustice. Now go make the King more money!

    • @enricomanno8434
      @enricomanno8434 3 роки тому +1

      At this point of the history no more Persians but Iranians

  • @yegirish
    @yegirish 3 роки тому +507

    It’s a small thing, but I appreciate the framing of “we’ll assume this hypothesis, but keep in kind the possibility we might be wrong”.
    I wish that kind of nuance was more common in our politicsl discourse and opinions.

    • @hannibalb8276
      @hannibalb8276 3 роки тому +31

      Yep, I was thinking the exact same thing. It's one of the reasons why this channel is so great. Modern western society has put such an insane emphasis on greed, egotistical individualism and anti-intellectualism that they've made it almost impossible for people to admit they might not have the correct answer, or be wrong. As if admitting those things might make you "weak and worthless". It's incredibly sad.

    • @DestroyerOfSense000
      @DestroyerOfSense000 3 роки тому +24

      My heart is gladdened whenever I hear anyone say something like that. Intellectual humility is rare.

    • @kemalcalsr7591
      @kemalcalsr7591 3 роки тому +1

      Cause there was lead in gasoline back then, duh ! Economy was so good Everyone was just driving around

    • @zjeee
      @zjeee 3 роки тому +11

      @@hannibalb8276 Errr you just described pretty much the whole world not just modern Western societies lol you can find plenty of examples of insane greed, anti-intellectualism and a reluctance to admit mistakes in dictatorships and democracies in the middle east and south east Asia too. Unfortunately it would seem that these are quite common for people in power no matter nationality, ideology or race.

    • @titsbitchmcgee7502
      @titsbitchmcgee7502 3 роки тому +1

      It's nice to be humble, but sometimes it's better to just get to the point.

  • @someguy7723
    @someguy7723 3 роки тому +164

    Norse mythology is heavly shaped by the harsh winters that happend in those years. Fimbulwinter is believed to be inspired by it

    • @aidansumner8364
      @aidansumner8364 3 роки тому +10

      *Germanic Mythology

    • @alltheframes9015
      @alltheframes9015 3 роки тому

      @@aidansumner8364 *not Greek mythology

    • @αστρον
      @αστρον 2 роки тому

      @JZ's BFF wasn't the Odin Wotan thing much earlier

    • @gustavoritter7321
      @gustavoritter7321 Рік тому

      @@aidansumner8364 No, just Norse mythology, the Germans didnt have anything related to Fimbulwinter

    • @sealbeegle9785
      @sealbeegle9785 8 місяців тому

      ​@@gustavoritter7321 norse mythology IS german you genius

  • @byzantinetales
    @byzantinetales 3 роки тому +232

    I first heard the theory of the Arab peninsula becoming more fertile due to this short climate change and helping the Arab population explode just before the great conquests, on the Byzantine history podcast. It’s really amazing how nature has affected world history and we tend to overlook it and I am really glad to see such topics being shown to a wider audience.

    • @adolphbismark4331
      @adolphbismark4331 3 роки тому +12

      Roman history podcast, not " byzantine ".
      Yes this event didnt allow the Romans to conquer all west and increased the number of arabs.
      Romen evan sent an expedition to today's Yemen in 26 BC and conquered it easily but said it was not worthwhile

    • @persianprince2012
      @persianprince2012 3 роки тому +27

      Allah was paving the way for his servants to gain authority on earth after the message of jesus, who is a muslim, was violated and changed..Truth has come and falsehood has perished for it is bound to perish..this gave way for the great enlightenment and islamic golden age...jesus himself foretold about the coming of Muhammad whose army defeated the descendants of the romans who wanted to kill jesus..thus establishing the kingdom of heaven..unfortunately the muslims were tempted by luxuries and lost the essence of their religion..Allah unleashed Gengiz khan..the rest is history

    • @berserk_xvi9552
      @berserk_xvi9552 3 роки тому +58

      @@persianprince2012 And why would Allah wait 500 years for that?

    • @jean-louispech4921
      @jean-louispech4921 3 роки тому +2

      i was thinking on the impact of this event on the rise of the Muslims over Romans and Persians.
      With all the damages on populations and economy, both empires should have been weakened even one century after, i guess.

    • @fencingmitch
      @fencingmitch 3 роки тому +19

      @@persianprince2012 but if no one can change Allah's word how was Jesus' message violated or changed? Also to quote as Zakir Naik "nowhere in the bible when Jesus said there is a prophet Muhammad coming."

  • @LoudRevised
    @LoudRevised 3 роки тому +1823

    What if you
    Wanted to reconquer the Roman Empire
    But God said
    *Cold*

    • @zxera9702
      @zxera9702 3 роки тому +84

      This is sad can we eat our babies

    • @mikeshogunlee
      @mikeshogunlee 3 роки тому +12

      What if somebody said a meme,
      but everyone thought you were bashing their religion cause they are snowflakes?
      (Christian gang by the way)

    • @khalidgagnon8753
      @khalidgagnon8753 3 роки тому +5

      @Amperoar M0001
      ........ Are you trolling people?
      If so.... Congrats 😉
      If not..........
      Why????

    • @aleksapetrovic6519
      @aleksapetrovic6519 3 роки тому +7

      What if you
      Wanted to drive the Zoroastrian infidels from Jerusalim
      But God's Chosen People said
      *OPEN DA GATE!*

    • @mikeshogunlee
      @mikeshogunlee 3 роки тому +13

      What if you wanted to invade Japan,
      But God Said;
      *WET*

  • @Razorthx1
    @Razorthx1 3 роки тому +514

    Not The Worst Year before I come To Make A Visit.

    • @noobatthetower8747
      @noobatthetower8747 3 роки тому +20

      Praise the sublime lord chingis khan

    • @Toumahitoedits
      @Toumahitoedits 3 роки тому +8

      Timur/Tamerlame:
      I’m with you there my fellow Nomadic Horse Lord Chinggis!

    • @Paris-xv9sj
      @Paris-xv9sj 3 роки тому +2

      Well we are talking about History, not personnal experience, but I got it.

    • @slacksviii9824
      @slacksviii9824 3 роки тому +3

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 nah man, more along the lines of, in his own words, a purger of sins

    • @slacksviii9824
      @slacksviii9824 3 роки тому +5

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 that was attila the hun, i was quoting Ghengis Kahn

  • @Twigs1836
    @Twigs1836 3 роки тому +1183

    I love how the wolf on the Göktürk flag "dies." Details like this are why I'm subscribed.

    • @sickturret3587
      @sickturret3587 3 роки тому +71

      @@comradekenobi6908 probably there was for half a year. then a nation with a cucumber in their flag annexed them without a fight

    • @pajtmvorvndeifneif
      @pajtmvorvndeifneif 3 роки тому +2

      I didn't knew that but happy to have good audience company 😀

    • @CoffeeSuccubus
      @CoffeeSuccubus 3 роки тому +4

      @@comradekenobi6908 Formosa's flag

    • @turkesenveroglu2049
      @turkesenveroglu2049 3 роки тому +20

      Bilge Kağan disliked it 🤬

    •  3 роки тому +25

      Actually, the video gets it wrong there. Gokturks skyrocketed after 551, replacing Rouran completely.

  • @Nordic_Barbarian
    @Nordic_Barbarian 3 роки тому +105

    This event in ancient Germanic culture (Scandinavia in particular), is also possibly the inspiration for the Fimbulwinter, when they had 3 years of winter without any summer in-between. Another youtuber called "viking stories" made a interesting video talking about it last week.

  • @justinian-the-great
    @justinian-the-great 3 роки тому +42

    Oh I remember pre-536. Those were the good old days. The days when you could destroy the Vandals and reconquer Rome without a thousand bullsh*t plagues falling upon you......

    • @magnus1249
      @magnus1249 9 місяців тому +3

      can i have a signiture

    • @cjraymond8827
      @cjraymond8827 8 місяців тому +2

      You ruined Italy, Justinian!

  • @CirBam24
    @CirBam24 3 роки тому +1636

    People in 2021: 2020 IS THE WORST YEAR!
    Kings and General, and other historians: Actually...

    • @karansjet3823
      @karansjet3823 3 роки тому +98

      Dinosaurs: Amateurs!

    • @wojtek1582
      @wojtek1582 3 роки тому +82

      Yep 2020 is very, very, very faaaar from being worst.

    • @dibaterman
      @dibaterman 3 роки тому +25

      I keep seeing this, what exactly made 2020 worse than 2001 or 2003? What about 1939 or 1927? 1918 was pretty bad also 1887 is also supposed to be really bad. All of those dates have wars, that led to mass famine and millions dying.
      To my knowledge 2020 by comparison would have been more comfortable inconvenience. I mean if let's say the world went to war with a with one another polarized by various ideologies in a way that history would remember it maybe as being about the consequence of germ warfare then I could understand 2020 being that year. Especially if Nukes were used in response by different nations... Maybe my expectations are too high?

    • @rockoorbe2002
      @rockoorbe2002 3 роки тому

      Ackhthually....

    • @aragorniielessar1894
      @aragorniielessar1894 3 роки тому +45

      2020 is not even among the top 1000 worst years in history.

  • @zaboomafool1911
    @zaboomafool1911 3 роки тому +250

    Europeans in 640: complain
    Somebody who lived through 536: Oh my sweet summer child, what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time."

    • @gorilladisco9108
      @gorilladisco9108 3 роки тому +17

      GRRM is really lazy. 1500 years, and he still hasn't finish his book.

    • @soumajitsen1395
      @soumajitsen1395 2 роки тому +3

      I doubt if anyone lived for 104 years but eh, still, acceptable lol

  • @delradia
    @delradia 3 роки тому +17

    I rarely leave comments on any channel but I want to say this. I've been watching you guys for years. Not long after you guys started. So thank you a lot. I have always loved history and you guys have kept me interested in it. So thanks

  • @699CHIP
    @699CHIP 3 роки тому +13

    This channel isn’t the channel we deserve, but it’s the one we need right now

  • @joshsharp7897
    @joshsharp7897 3 роки тому +46

    Another factor that I assume could have contributed to disease after the eruption was lack of vitamin D since it comes from the sun and also helps strengthen the immune system

  • @TheVoiceOfReason93
    @TheVoiceOfReason93 3 роки тому +69

    For the guys in Scandavania, the 'Year 536 Event' must had been like the beginning of Fimbulvetr, and with it Ragnarok.

    • @kirithekitsune3599
      @kirithekitsune3599 3 роки тому +5

      I believe that's what they got the myths from, they were inspired by this

    • @Catzanova
      @Catzanova 5 місяців тому +1

      …and with that, Game of Thrones!

  • @1996koke
    @1996koke 3 роки тому +119

    2020: I'm the worst year in history
    536: Hold my plagues and famines

    • @knowledgedesk1653
      @knowledgedesk1653 3 роки тому +3

      2021: hey

    • @longyu9336
      @longyu9336 3 роки тому +7

      We live in extraordinarily boring times in the grand scope of things and that's a good thing.

    • @knowledgedesk1653
      @knowledgedesk1653 3 роки тому +3

      @@TheAurelianProject Laughs severly in 1346.

    • @connormac4401
      @connormac4401 3 роки тому +1

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 nothing that happened in the Cold War come close to WW1 or WW2, left alone the Spanish Flu

    • @SetTrippin82
      @SetTrippin82 3 роки тому +2

      @@connormac4401 ignorance.

  • @ernestov1777
    @ernestov1777 3 роки тому +239

    Think about this for a moment. Your ancestors survived this and now we are talking about their sacrifices to survive. They didn't give up, and we shouldn't either. Our descendants will appreciate our sacrifices.

    • @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143
      @quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143 3 роки тому +4

      @@g.rogowski2462 there is an interesting historical event about Ligurian mothers reported by the greek philosopher Posidonio: basically he went to Marsillie to meet an old friend that possessed some cultivated camps there, and among his workers there were also Ligurians being nearby their territories. He had tell to Posidonio that one day a pregnant ligurian woman had give birth during the work day; she cleaned the baby and herself in a near river and after cotaing him to not get cold, she went back to work like nothing happened. The field owner approached her and askedastonished "but...you have just give birt to that baby?", so she replied "yes, and so?" "are you not too tired for work?" "yes, but i need money to grow him", so the greek gave her the pay for the day and ordered her to back to home. The ligurians also (like the rest of celtic people), gave great importance to women, in their society before the advent of christianity, both sexes were equal in power and roles. For example there were women warriors and often archeologists find sculptures of armed womens and tombs of girls with weapons. Other greeks and roman historians reported that when Marsillie was founded by the greeks they encountered the local tribe, and the king offered a diplomatic marriage between her daughter and one of the settlers. But the greeks where amazed by the fact that Gyptis (the ligurian princess) had to choose her husband and not her father

    • @hebber1961
      @hebber1961 3 роки тому +18

      In no way does covid compare to this or any other plagues in the past. Covid....tis but a scratch. So many people trying to make it the epic level event of their lifetime to compare with others real struggles of the past. It knocked us off our soft cushion for a bit and most troubles have been due to the reaction or over-reactions.

    • @jgappy5643
      @jgappy5643 3 роки тому +1

      @@quattrosaltiinpadellaconbu7143 my grandmother has done the same with one of her children. Tough times.

    • @jgappy5643
      @jgappy5643 3 роки тому +5

      @@hebber1961 so true. I see people who most likely have been vaccinated and still wear a mask (which our CDC has said that masks are not effective). The biggest plague is not covid, but fear which is fed on a daily basis by the media and digested by millions who are not willing enough to form their own opinion.

    • @battousaithekingslayer9913
      @battousaithekingslayer9913 3 роки тому +5

      @@hebber1961 facts bro i say this all the time we live in the easiest time period in history we have technology better medicine and everything

  • @vitaeth4949
    @vitaeth4949 3 роки тому +162

    Total War Atilla age - Last roman had this event. Every turn is one month and you have to build granaries because fertility drops to 0

    • @LordEsel88
      @LordEsel88 3 роки тому +21

      It's a very interesting challenge when the historical natural disasters happen in the game.

    • @Noinoanoe
      @Noinoanoe 3 роки тому +2

      I was so confused when playing until I googled why

    • @GaborSzabo747
      @GaborSzabo747 3 роки тому +9

      I always thought the growing winter is just a stupid addition to make the Attila campaign harder chapter by chapter.
      Turned out, I was wrong. LOL

  • @emperornapoleon6204
    @emperornapoleon6204 2 роки тому +12

    Rome just wouldn’t die, and so the Earth itself had to intervene.
    I have always found the catastrophic visual of 536 and the subsequent period to be the most compelling. No matter how poor 2020 might have been, I am thankful to be here.

  • @giacomomanfredi6465
    @giacomomanfredi6465 3 роки тому +60

    I am never full of Byzantine History! Thank you as always K&G!

    • @adolphbismark4331
      @adolphbismark4331 3 роки тому +3

      Roman history.
      " Byzantine " is a fake terminology invented by German historians in the 16th century

    • @novelseeker4410
      @novelseeker4410 3 роки тому +5

      @@adolphbismark4331 you are saying “fake terminology” as if terminology isn’t fundamentally arbitrary. It’s like saying you can’t call the Roman Republic the “Roman Republic” because it’s actually “SENATVS POPVLVSQVE ROMANVS”. The Byzantine Empire is a useful term to distinguish between the unified Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire after the west fell (or even before that). Constantinople is nowadays known as Istanbul too, and nobody is disputing that it is the same city.
      Tl;Dr calling it the Byzantine Empire is just as valid as calling it the Eastern Roman Empire.

    • @LittleBaboon
      @LittleBaboon 3 роки тому +2

      @@novelseeker4410 Disagree. Terminology, albeit arbitrary, is invented to serve a purpose. What is the purpose of using Byzantine instead of Roman? Bear in mind that even "Eastern Roman" can also be deemed as inaccurate, in this particular time period. After the Fall of Rome there wasn't really a True Western Roman Empire. There is only The Roman Empire - moved to Constantinople. So by definition "Byzantine" is meaningless as there is no Eastern nor Western Empires.
      Creating terminology just because it is easier to use, might be a property of a linguistic dynamic but it should not be used in a historical debate and/or article.

    • @novelseeker4410
      @novelseeker4410 3 роки тому

      @@LittleBaboon The term “Byzantine” might not be used to distinguish between the eastern and western Roman Empire after the west fell, but it can still distinguish the different time periods of the classical Roman Empire of Rome from the medieval Byzantine Empire of Byzantium. It reflects a change in time and territory, the same way you distinguish the Roman Republic and the Kingdom of Rome as different time periods and governments of the same empire.

    • @LittleBaboon
      @LittleBaboon 3 роки тому

      @@novelseeker4410 While true, the term was not adopted (and frankly, not even crafted at its core) to be used in the way you just explained. Byzantine is, for some reason, used to describe a "Different" Polity from the Roman one. Which is 100% inaccurate. It is not employed to describe a different Period of the Roman Empire's History. So by definition "Byzantine Empire" is a wrong , meaningless shallow attempt to portray History, the way historians want to portray it, because it is simpler for them.
      There is no such thing as Byzantine Empire, it never existed and probably, never will.

  • @mbgdemon
    @mbgdemon 3 роки тому +298

    "Ah yes, we were able to figure out that the crisis had ended when there was a spike in ATMOSPHERIC LEAD"

    • @alexk7973
      @alexk7973 3 роки тому +81

      yes, apparently having poison in the air is a sign humans are doing just fine 😅

    • @andreymudik2905
      @andreymudik2905 3 роки тому +15

      Its fine, its just a temporary spike, itll stabilize

    • @Juanito_Peligroso
      @Juanito_Peligroso 3 роки тому +12

      Smelt baby smelt!

    • @MrBigCookieCrumble
      @MrBigCookieCrumble 3 роки тому +12

      *_Mine that ore, smelt some more!_*

    • @khalidgagnon8753
      @khalidgagnon8753 3 роки тому +8

      Ironic.....

  • @makakaben
    @makakaben 3 роки тому +143

    536 ac.: I'm your worst nightmare !
    65.000.000 b.: hold my rock

    • @petergray7576
      @petergray7576 3 роки тому +12

      66 million years is the current consensus estimate.

    • @fabioartoscassone9305
      @fabioartoscassone9305 3 роки тому +1

      Toba 75000 bc (perhaps,not so sure): hold my BURNING&SMOKING cigarette

    • @LurkerAnonymous
      @LurkerAnonymous 3 роки тому +4

      BEST YEAR FOR MAMMALS THOUGH!

    • @erlienfrommars
      @erlienfrommars 3 роки тому +1

      230M BC: you don't say?

    • @LurkerAnonymous
      @LurkerAnonymous 3 роки тому

      @@erlienfrommars What's so bad about the Triassic?

  • @AlxanderBrd
    @AlxanderBrd 3 роки тому +26

    Lesser sunlight also means less vitamin D which we know is a crucial pillar of the immune system.

    • @Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum
      @Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum 3 роки тому

      + fertility, testosterone and a lot more. So people didnt only starve their hormones wouldn't work right so ontop of the depression they got from their families dying and hunger they got it extra ontop from hormonal imbalance

  • @djordjekrsmanovic
    @djordjekrsmanovic 3 роки тому +120

    Justinian tries to restore the roman empire
    Some random volcano on the other side of the world:"I'm gonna stop you right there"

    • @muneirovalibas6194
      @muneirovalibas6194 3 роки тому +11

      Justinian : ROMA VICTOR!!!!!!
      Volcano : lol chill bro

  • @Rymontp
    @Rymontp 3 роки тому +8

    Definitely my favourite history channel. A lot of videos overlap with the topics in my history course so these are really helping with my grades. We actually read one of Procopius' works yesterday and now there's a video in which he is mentioned!

  • @youvebeengreeked
    @youvebeengreeked 3 роки тому +106

    *I'd make a 2020 reference, but you lot in the comments are already doing a fine job.*

    • @WASRGP
      @WASRGP 3 роки тому +4

      😆🖤👊🏼🤘🏼✌🏼 Good thing they're reminding us... I damn near forgot.. 🥴😆😷

    • @forlornfool221
      @forlornfool221 3 роки тому

      far East coincidence? hmm

    • @ernestov1777
      @ernestov1777 3 роки тому +8

      @GrandAdmiralGamez Nah is actually a good year. Normality is returning.

    • @Ravag3rrr
      @Ravag3rrr 3 роки тому

      @@ernestov1777 um I hope this normality goes well and Doesn't lead to a boom of another wave. In europe the restrictions are easing down and yesterday i went outisde just to enjoy opening if resturants and well It was crowded as fck with literally 30 percent of people wearing masks in Malls

    • @thomasrial4444
      @thomasrial4444 3 роки тому

      @@ernestov1777 maybe for you, not for India

  • @MrSteveK1138
    @MrSteveK1138 3 роки тому +85

    Others: "2020 was the worst year."
    Kings and Generals: "Hold my wine..."

    • @johnglennmercury7
      @johnglennmercury7 4 місяці тому +2

      There are no words to describe the idiocy of anyone claiming 2020 was anything to compare with 536. Or just perhaps victims of public education.

    • @SullyTheCollabGuy
      @SullyTheCollabGuy 4 місяці тому

      Don’t forget my Body of Christ

    • @terranceparsons5185
      @terranceparsons5185 3 місяці тому

      For many individuals, of course it was, but for most it was an inconvenience.

    • @GodNeverNeededYourTaxDollar
      @GodNeverNeededYourTaxDollar 28 днів тому

      2020 was man made,y'all know it

  • @Killzoneguy117
    @Killzoneguy117 3 роки тому +66

    You know, I love this channel for its educational content. But with everything going on, with my province in the grip of another lockdown, with this pandemic dragging on and on and on day after day, I really think I needed this video. This video really helped put in perspective just how much worse things could be. And that there really is no guarantee in life that you will live without calamity. In a strange sort of way, this actually makes me feel much better about the state of our world right now. It gives me a sense of hope. If people could survive 536 AD, maybe I can survive 2021 AD.

    • @PrinceVega
      @PrinceVega 3 роки тому +1

      Indeed, my friend. Concerning the lockdowns, slowly but surely, the world is coming back to normal. Be careful and stay healthy, all will be well! Have a nice day!

    • @manugamer9984
      @manugamer9984 3 роки тому +2

      @@regaininglife9084 if people like you have survived 536 we have truly nothing to fear

    • @jasonsharp3331
      @jasonsharp3331 3 роки тому +2

      Agreed. Or imagine being in Europe during the 1st or 2nd World War. There are numerous examples of times in history much worse to live in than 2020. Covid-19 was a minor inconvenience compared to those.

    • @nadzach
      @nadzach Рік тому +1

      I hope you are well and happy.

  • @newswithdcruz4277
    @newswithdcruz4277 3 роки тому +43

    2020: I am the worst year in human history
    536: That's cute, kid

  • @knightofsvea604
    @knightofsvea604 3 роки тому +56

    I knew that the dark ages started back then... But not that it was LITTERLY darker and colder on the planet.
    I Guess, History is our greatest weapon, and education the only way to Freedom..
    Thanks KnG for another absolut great video ❤️

    • @nuoiptertermer4484
      @nuoiptertermer4484 3 роки тому +1

      The dark ages did not start then. They started in 410 with the Visigoth's sacking of Rome.

    • @luxemag4347
      @luxemag4347 3 роки тому +2

      @@nuoiptertermer4484 No. Dark Ages are called so because of the lack of records. They are "Dark" to us because we lack written historical records. Dark Age isn't exclusive of the Medieval Age, which is just a peculiar arrangement between land ownership and workforce, in contrast to the previous situation.

  • @mccaypratt2752
    @mccaypratt2752 2 роки тому +6

    It was most likely a previous iteration of Krakatoa, the island goes through a cycle of rebuilding itself with small eruptions before it grows big and completely blows itself apart, there's a record of a massive explosion from Krakatoa in 535AD by the Indonesian royal scribes themselves, and was confirmed by English and Icelandic scientists back in the 90s

  • @paul1780
    @paul1780 3 роки тому +3

    The score at the end so majestic and damning. So happy I found this channel 5 years ago, this Team just keeps getting better from the Best. The animation by itself is if Age of Kings Campaign Intro and outro was made now, that's how I feel.

  • @Miloun
    @Miloun 3 роки тому +2

    Your documentaries are getting better and better. Hats off to you! And respect to the script writer of this one.

  • @snappysnu1154
    @snappysnu1154 3 роки тому +23

    This just makes Justinian look like a god-like hero

  • @HustlerMitch
    @HustlerMitch 3 роки тому +129

    Imagine if that big event didnt happen and the 500's were just normal. Did someone say Roman Empire part 2?

    • @tondajenej3449
      @tondajenej3449 3 роки тому +17

      Part 1 never ended baby

    • @HowlingWolf518
      @HowlingWolf518 3 роки тому +8

      Leave Italy alone and the Ostrogoths restore Rome anyway (albeit as a separate empire). All Justinian did was set the Byzantines up for the Sassanids to kick their asses.

    • @alessandrogini5283
      @alessandrogini5283 3 роки тому

      Maybe yes... Or simply, make a better successor of justinian

    • @alexandrostheodorou8387
      @alexandrostheodorou8387 3 роки тому +14

      @@HowlingWolf518 If Justinian actually got tax revenues and had won the war quickly in Italy it would have monumental to recapturing Spain and Gaul. Belisaurius retook North Africa in less then 2 years. Belisaurius actually took over Italy quickly, but when Justinian recalled him Ostrogoths re attacked and took every back again causing a 20 year campaign.

    • @HowlingWolf518
      @HowlingWolf518 3 роки тому +3

      @@alexandrostheodorou8387 The Byzantines were lucky the Gothic War went as smoothly as it did - Belisarius actually came close to losing a few times. Trying to attack the Visigoths *and* Franks *and* hold Italy would've been suicidal.

  • @sirunklydunk8861
    @sirunklydunk8861 3 роки тому +124

    2020: I'm the worst year in human history
    536: AMATEAUR!!!!

    • @Kintabl
      @Kintabl 3 роки тому

      Yes, if you follow MSM. They are showing everything as ''end of the world''. WW1, Spanish flu, WW2 are nothing compere to Covid.

    • @dominictoretto9645
      @dominictoretto9645 3 роки тому

      @@Kintabl 2020 was a nice but boring year

  • @ekmalsukarno2302
    @ekmalsukarno2302 3 роки тому +32

    Kings and Generals, please make a video on the Malacca Sultanate. Thank you very much.

    • @mohddmalaysiayt4558
      @mohddmalaysiayt4558 3 роки тому

      Agree

    • @asmrnaturecat984
      @asmrnaturecat984 3 роки тому +2

      @@mk9650 the natives pronounce it as melake (mer lark cur)
      but europeans couldn't pronounce it right , and couldn't even spell ot right,
      should have spell it as malakka

  • @lushbIood
    @lushbIood 3 роки тому +14

    it's rarely said out loud but the starvation and the plague has a very unfortunate link. when you're starving and you've eaten your friends, family and the dog. you're most likely gonna eat the rats as well.

    • @garymartin7369
      @garymartin7369 Рік тому +1

      With jellybeans!

    • @bunnyfreakz
      @bunnyfreakz 9 годин тому

      Starving means more dead body. Unburied dead body is plague.

  • @feelingchanvre928
    @feelingchanvre928 3 роки тому +3

    Wow this is a great documentary! I love the mix of science and history, it tells the story differently than in your other videos and adds so much.

  • @angrymanwithsillymoustasche
    @angrymanwithsillymoustasche 3 роки тому +38

    Only 30s kids know how terrible was that year...
    [530's kids]

  • @andikasa5541
    @andikasa5541 3 роки тому +23

    One of the greatest documentaries king and generals have ever realised,a mixing of facts from the past,an intriguing description of events and of course the worst year in history!

  • @JeyyPi
    @JeyyPi 3 роки тому +48

    Wow, and East Rome still stood nearly 1000 years after this eruption!

    • @khalidgagnon8753
      @khalidgagnon8753 3 роки тому +5

      They were tough as nails....
      And even then they had periods where they completely stabilized the situation and made the empire impervious to attack, rebuilt the nation as a whole and pulled off the impossible somehow..... They'd get a set of morons afterwards who wrecked EVERYTHING prior.... Somehow....

    • @khalidgagnon8753
      @khalidgagnon8753 3 роки тому +9

      Rome in essence was both tough as nails and doomed to fail at the same time....

    • @yonathanrakau1783
      @yonathanrakau1783 3 роки тому +7

      @@khalidgagnon8753 it wasnt doomed to failed but series of unexpected events do happen in courses of history. Its hard to imagine rome ever fell to a middle ages peasant as it was hard to imagine europe declining to normal person before ww1

    • @LordEsel88
      @LordEsel88 3 роки тому +11

      @@khalidgagnon8753 Empires tend to fall sooner or later, but it's still impressive that the Eastern Roman Empire remained standing for such a long time.

    • @khalidgagnon8753
      @khalidgagnon8753 3 роки тому +3

      @@LordEsel88 true, true....

  • @lars3712
    @lars3712 3 роки тому +2

    Amazing video. I actually wrote my bachelor thesis on the historiography of this subject in Scandinavia. You guys have done outstanding research!

  • @dam9845
    @dam9845 2 роки тому +2

    You provide such great material to your viewers. I appreciate all of your hard work. I truly appreciate it!

    • @michaeldavis2906
      @michaeldavis2906 2 роки тому

      100% agree with you! This is exactly the type of learning content that I always hope to come across when I’m watching learning videos, and it influences me to binge watch more! It’s absolutely incredible the amount of work that was put into making this video! This is how I hope schools revolutionize learning methods!

  • @BenDover-gd3mf
    @BenDover-gd3mf 3 роки тому +6

    The Justinian-Belasarius combo always reminds me the Ocrtavian-Agrippa combo. Brutal, and the legacy enduring.

  • @untruelie2640
    @untruelie2640 3 роки тому +29

    I always wondered what the "dark sky event" in the "The Last Roman" campaign of Total War: Attila was. Here is the answer. It's quite intriguing how many historical events and processes are caused by or lined to natural phenomena. Like the climate change that was partially responsible for the great migration period in late antiquity. As always, the quality of your video is without equals. :D

  • @VladiSSius
    @VladiSSius 3 роки тому +31

    Tiktok generations : "0Mg 2o20 iS thE W0rSt yeAr In HiSt0rY!!1!!"
    Ancient generations : "Are we look like jokes to you!?"

  • @thaneofwhiterun3562
    @thaneofwhiterun3562 3 роки тому +27

    Kings and Generals: *Makes History Video*
    This comment section: Allow me to make an old joke

    • @rueisblue
      @rueisblue 3 роки тому +4

      Seriously the comments are always so cancer, shame bc the channel is absolutely top class

    • @RMBII91
      @RMBII91 3 роки тому

      @@rueisblue Almost every single UA-cam video has some variation of the same 10 "jokes" it's so lame and tiresome. But like you said at least the video and channel are great!

    • @beezybuzyfamily
      @beezybuzyfamily 3 роки тому

      And arguing is everywhere

  • @joshuapowell2548
    @joshuapowell2548 2 роки тому +4

    Humans in 536: Worst year ever
    Humans in 2020: Worst year ever
    Dinosaurs: LOL

  • @Brandonhayhew
    @Brandonhayhew 3 роки тому +72

    2021 and 2020: worst years.
    536: you two needs some history lessons!

    • @khalidgagnon8753
      @khalidgagnon8753 3 роки тому +1

      Yep

    • @FlorenceFox
      @FlorenceFox 3 роки тому +1

      I mean, we're not even half way through 2021, so there's still time...

    • @khalidgagnon8753
      @khalidgagnon8753 3 роки тому +2

      @@FlorenceFox ......................
      I hate it when someone has a good point.....

    • @mattep74
      @mattep74 3 роки тому +2

      2020 is not even the worst year in the last 100. 1939 to 1945 is much worse.

  • @saudkm7698
    @saudkm7698 3 роки тому +12

    Meanwhile in the deserts, the people were glad it was a few degrees cooler. They might thought it was the best year ever! 🤣

  • @perikleshistory
    @perikleshistory 3 роки тому +140

    At least back then we had a Justinian!!

    • @sage1312
      @sage1312 3 роки тому +3

      ok simp

    • @perikleshistory
      @perikleshistory 3 роки тому +22

      @@ktheterkuceder6825I could never forget Belisarius

    • @perikleshistory
      @perikleshistory 3 роки тому +12

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 not forgotten, just not mentioned....

    • @perikleshistory
      @perikleshistory 3 роки тому +8

      @@sage1312 original

    • @James-en1ob
      @James-en1ob 3 роки тому +15

      @Beauty Queen if the Byzantines where so weak then how come they lasted hundreds of years longer than the Western Romans

  • @SpenyGreenwoodie
    @SpenyGreenwoodie 3 роки тому +1

    By far the best channel on all sorts of history....keep it up buddy!

  • @stevenkobb156
    @stevenkobb156 3 роки тому +3

    "...keeping in mind the possibility of wrongness."
    I love it. That should be our global mantra.

  • @JuTakii
    @JuTakii 3 роки тому +47

    Well you cannot deny that’s an intriguing title, lol!

    • @hannibalb8276
      @hannibalb8276 3 роки тому

      @@ktheterkuceder6825 The video / authors aren't claiming 536 was the worst year, simply that ancient peoples thought it was, and why they believed so.

  • @JawsOfHistory
    @JawsOfHistory 3 роки тому +21

    I love that 536 C.E. started off as some controversial claim, but the more people try to disprove it, the more they end up agreeing on it.

    • @tomriley5790
      @tomriley5790 2 роки тому

      That's basically just good science...

  • @adamhbrennan
    @adamhbrennan 3 роки тому +67

    But was Justinian “brave” enough to stare down an eclipse?

    • @anonymbigfox
      @anonymbigfox 3 роки тому +15

      No, he was no stable genius ;)

  • @d3adweight
    @d3adweight 3 роки тому +1

    Insane production quality

  • @LuisBrito-ly1ko
    @LuisBrito-ly1ko 3 роки тому +21

    “And thus with the 4 plagues of Sword, Famine, Pestilence, and Wild Beasts raging everywhere throughout the world, the annunciations foretold by the Lord through his prophets came to fulfillment.”

  • @edgargabriel6640
    @edgargabriel6640 3 роки тому +3

    I can read about these years in the books of our village here. How dark this time was.
    It got darker afterwards: from the Roman empire down to darkest mideaval horror.
    Greetings from South Germany.

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking78 3 роки тому +4

    Modern times may be stressful and confusing, but let's not take our comforts for granted.

  • @Dfathurr
    @Dfathurr 3 роки тому +18

    2020 : i'm the worst year ever
    2021 : hold my beer
    536 : amateurs

    • @liamw6562
      @liamw6562 3 роки тому +3

      Let’s be real 2021 has been no where near as bad as 2020

    • @mariush.composer
      @mariush.composer 3 роки тому +4

      @@liamw6562 fr, this year its basically 2020 extended, but last year around this time, we had so many unique disasters already - Australia, US-Iran, Beginning of the Pandemic, Start of the US Riots etc etc

    • @simonedagostino9358
      @simonedagostino9358 3 роки тому

      410: hold my Rome sacking

  • @cook658
    @cook658 3 роки тому

    After watching any Kings and Generals' video, I feel my history knowledge is more profound than half an hour before. Thank you!

  • @eavyeavy2864
    @eavyeavy2864 3 роки тому +2

    5:04 I found this from comment in another video: the antartica sulfur is from 540's Krakatoa

  • @Taima
    @Taima 3 роки тому +2

    And to think that the ancestors of all of us here managed to survive all these hardships over the centuries is crazy.

  • @paolovirtuani7826
    @paolovirtuani7826 3 роки тому +4

    Spare a thought for the city of Milan. 3 years after this (539-40), Ostrogoths and Burgundian allies besieged a small garrison of Byzantine troops in Milan. After some resistance, the city was in the grip of hunger, with scenes of rat, dog eating and cannibalism. The Byzantines agreed to surrender in exchange for their lives and left the population to the mercy of the besiegers. Procopius says ALL men were killed and ALL women given to the Burgundians as a pay off. I think you cannot go lower than that. There followed pestilence, 15 more years of war and after the war... the Langobard invasion! Just in case some lucky fellow had managed to live through that.... no, I don't think Covid comes even close

    • @deviousalemanni4235
      @deviousalemanni4235 2 роки тому

      Well seeing what 21 and 22 are bringing with them, it is clear we are again on a downward spiral. This is very similar to what happened in the 20th century.

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 3 роки тому +36

    The Roman Empire is like that friend in school who was athletic, great with girls and fun to be around, then went and grew up and is now a deadbeat drunk that asks you for money.

  • @footlong24seven
    @footlong24seven 3 роки тому +1

    Bro these videos are awesome. Procopius is definitely on my reading list. The dark/middle age is such a fascinating topic.

  • @megafatuunna3467
    @megafatuunna3467 2 роки тому +1

    This video never gets boring

  • @frankthetank8799
    @frankthetank8799 3 роки тому +8

    Anyone else hear the fly buzzing noises in the video and thought there was a fly in the room with you?

  • @David_ESP
    @David_ESP 3 роки тому +24

    *Governments nowadays* : "Noooo. Why do I have to handle this pandemic when I'm ruling? 2020 and 2021 are the worst years of my life!!"
    *Justinian looking from heaven* : "Hehehe, noobs. 536 AD goes brrr"

    • @almister
      @almister 3 роки тому +2

      This format is deader than the Byzantine empire

    • @nathanpangilinan4397
      @nathanpangilinan4397 3 роки тому +2

      Modern governments at least don't have to worry about handling a mass famine on top of the pandemic.

    • @David_ESP
      @David_ESP 3 роки тому

      @@almister Thats why I live in 1212 :D

  • @arpitarunmishra
    @arpitarunmishra 3 роки тому +22

    Historians- "Worst year to be alive in the history of the planet"
    The comet that wiped out the dinosaurs- "Am I a joke to you?"

    • @jordanetherington1922
      @jordanetherington1922 3 роки тому +2

      Oxygen Holocaust: *cracks knuckles*

    • @khepasomaster7953
      @khepasomaster7953 3 роки тому +2

      What about the permic triassic extinction that happened about 250,000,000 years ago that killed 96% of the worlds population?

  • @CharlieThunder24
    @CharlieThunder24 3 роки тому +1

    K&G is the history programming that the History Channel might once have been but will never touch or attempt to overtake. this is the kind of history video people need to learn about the past.

  • @TheLincolnrailsplitt
    @TheLincolnrailsplitt 3 роки тому

    This is one of the best videos produced by this channel.

  • @philjohnson1744
    @philjohnson1744 3 роки тому +6

    I pause every credit run to see if my name is there. First time I've seen it. I'm disturbingly pleased.

  • @benbehzadpour1177
    @benbehzadpour1177 3 роки тому +5

    Videos like this give me such hope.
    If my ancestors could survive that, I can survive 2020 and 2021. At least the damn sun hasn't been blotted out...

  • @cloaker4213
    @cloaker4213 10 місяців тому +3

    The pre-vikings had it so bad they thought the mythological event known as the Fimbul winter (prelude to Ragnarok) was upon them
    (The fimbul winter was a 3 year long winter which would wipe out humanity so the forces of the Aesir and vanir could meet and fight)

  • @alpharomeo1401
    @alpharomeo1401 3 роки тому

    Nice animations. Brilliant presentation and most importantly, the narrator's voice is pure joy and a treat for the ears. Best history channel ever.

  • @devereuxbirdzell
    @devereuxbirdzell 3 роки тому

    Kings and Generals, making my pandemic experience just a little better with your excellent videos. Thank you!

  • @prpitprp4927
    @prpitprp4927 3 роки тому +8

    I'm a medicine student and, yes , malnutrition and denutrition can lead to a deficit of immune response against infections. So it's very likely that eruption-caused famine can increase the risk of spreading diseases and increase the risk to die for the infections.

    • @euhdaccord4462
      @euhdaccord4462 2 роки тому

      And the immense lack of vitamin D as someone was rightly making a point in the comments (not me, I didn't think of it by myself).

  • @LeoPlaw
    @LeoPlaw 3 роки тому +15

    Kings and Generals talks as if "pre-industrial societies* were somehow more vulnerable to a volcanic winter, with starvation and disease. Today, we have far more people on the planet. Most of us eat food that is produced in other countries and has to be flown or shipped to us.
    WE are the ones who are more vulnerable in these modern times, because very few of us are self-sufficient and dependent upon a global network, that quickly falls apart if difficulties arise.

    • @beanoneya
      @beanoneya 2 роки тому +1

      I mean, as a person born in 1975, I assumed we were all going to die from nuclear war, and then when that didn't happen (yet), I assumed the pandemic was coming soon. I was not at all surprised by it. Pragmatic realist with an optimistic bent. Some will survive, some will die, it sucks, but it's how life goes.

    • @tomriley5790
      @tomriley5790 2 роки тому

      Yep 536AD caused a climatic cooling of 2.5C it seems highly unlikely that we are going to meet the goals required for maintaining temperature within 2C *by the end of the century* and nobody seems to be making predictions beyond that. As with 536 and recent events have showed - I doubt these population impacts and changes will occur peacefully, geographically fixed borders will not accomodate migration for changing climates....Essentially humanity is screwed.

  • @Cherb123456
    @Cherb123456 3 роки тому

    Wow! Incredible, enjoyed to a great extend! Thank you!

  • @abuhamza1970
    @abuhamza1970 3 роки тому +2

    The book Catastrophe by David Keys explains this event and it’s subsequent knock-on effects beautifully

  • @alexanderrobinson9971
    @alexanderrobinson9971 3 місяці тому +3

    As a parent, I have a hard time believing mothers would EVER eat their babies no matter how hungry.

  • @Jon.A.Scholt
    @Jon.A.Scholt 3 роки тому +4

    Robin Pearse did a couple of fantastic episodes (the series is fantastic in general, picking up the torch from Mike Duncan) of his podcast The History of Byzantium, on the Justinian Plague and how it devastated the empire, as well how Yersinia Pestis works, which was fascinating and disgusting at the same time. I highly recommend it if you have an interest in The Roman Empire after the fall of the west.

  • @vasilivchev3980
    @vasilivchev3980 3 роки тому +16

    At least Belisarius was still alive then!

  • @kawaipistolet405
    @kawaipistolet405 3 роки тому +2

    2:20 mark - did you just use the mosaic of Belisarius in Ravenna to depict Procopius?

  • @peemanjones2796
    @peemanjones2796 3 роки тому

    Best history channel on youtube

  • @chaz2187
    @chaz2187 3 роки тому +4

    For A levels, I do geology. We often talk about disasters and volcanoes, in particular Yellowstone. I often ask for a picture of the effects but we can only speculate. Hearing this now helps to put into perspective the fragile balance of which our world thrives on. If Yellowstone was to erupt in the next 50 years, THAT will be our 536. Great video!

    • @x2Sav
      @x2Sav 3 роки тому

      Thanks for the anxiety! I forgot about the yellowstone potential. Time to prep lol

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 2 роки тому

      More like Chicxulub. Yellowstone would be a mass extinction event.

  • @raygodwin3496
    @raygodwin3496 3 роки тому +4

    the big difference between their bad years and our bad year is theirs wasnt a complete fabrication.

    • @volkfidde4269
      @volkfidde4269 5 місяців тому

      There are some recently discovered writings by the Frankish monk Konspearacus in which he claims that the plagues were exaggerated as even people killed by bandits and falling off their horses were counted in the death tolls and that the winter was not the result of a volcanic eruption but Catholic angels were spotted flying through the sky leaving behind trails which spawned the clouds and snow.
      Yes, this is a joke.

  • @aniqkamal2052
    @aniqkamal2052 3 роки тому +13

    Hello, can you make some videos about history of Malaysia?

    • @aniqkamal2052
      @aniqkamal2052 3 роки тому

      @Romanian Comrade what do you mean?

    • @rueisblue
      @rueisblue 3 роки тому

      You are all just the worst

    • @abhratalukder8462
      @abhratalukder8462 3 роки тому

      @Romanian Comrade Red Salute shitty Comrade

    • @Smiler2724
      @Smiler2724 3 роки тому

      How many a town (community), that were wrong-doers, have We destroyed, and raised up after them another people!
      12. Then, when they perceived (saw) Our Torment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.
      13. Flee not, but return to that wherein you lived a luxurious life, and to your homes, in order that you may be questioned.
      14. They cried: “Woe to us! Certainly! We have been Zalimun (polytheists, wrong-doers and disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah(God), etc.).”
      15. And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is reaped, extinct (dead). surah al anbiya Holy Quran

    • @Sunny-vl5de
      @Sunny-vl5de 3 роки тому

      @Romanian Comrade you're literally Romanian lmao

  • @stevenkobb156
    @stevenkobb156 3 роки тому +2

    This brings new meaning to the phrase, "the dark ages."

  • @boshinimperialofficer3250
    @boshinimperialofficer3250 3 роки тому +10

    2020: I'm the worst year in history hahah
    541AD: *Allow me to introduce myself*