@@SSHitMan lol, I just remember it was 24-7 WW2 documentaries at first, then all the sudden it was all ancient aliens, bigfoot hunters and low-quality "reality" tv.
If you called a UFC fighter "not a man, but a ferocious beast", or said that he was "half man half beast" that all sounds like compliments to the fighter for being good at his craft.
Yeah, even when in other context it can be compliment kinda. If someone said to me "This man is a beast" I would imagine a guy who I wouldn't want to fuck with
@@1685Violin It was the History Channel when I watched whatever I had watched. This was in 2012 (or abouts), and that's why it stuck in my mind that it was the history channel. Either way, it was funny to me. Cheers!
@@DragonSilverSky Was it _Mermaids: The Body Found_ that you watched and did it air on History in a different country? That one aired on Animal Planet in the US.
I recall history played a series called "Barbarians" about the various cultures that were called barbarians. Each series had a bit about it major leaders and enemies. it was pretty good.
One thing I would like to add to iron/bronze is that iron is not just less logistically intensive but iron is actually easy to work with; so once you have correct tech it does allow you to make more stuff in less time. Also last use of bronze in warfare I know of were indeed cannon, Austria, due to industrial limitations, used special bronze (so called Uchatius bronze or "bronze-steel") up to and during WW1. There is some discussion about how good it was, but it did exist.
That's a clever approach to teaching. Begin the lesson by assuming all the misconceptions, and then have an expert correct the lesson from there, thereby bringing the audience into and back out of the common misconceptions.
I love the egregious amount of sass in your commentary here, righteous as it is considering how much higher a quality Metatron's stuff is compared to those that copystrike him.
Reminds me of the old joke, "It's good being civilised. Romans and Greeks are not Barbarians." Said a Roman to his Greek friend. "Yes, Greeks are indeed civilised." "What?" "Huh?"
This is from Modern Marvels, which, believe it or not, was one of the better shows on the History Channel and ran for a long time. For the most part, it was actually educational and historical. It showed the history of various things we take for granted in modern life. Everything from various foods, to bathroom stuff, to electronics.
You're forgetting that steel and iron production are coincidental. Steel tools are found the same time as iron, and the simplest most primitive way of smelting iron ore produces carbon steel. It's not very efficient and produces high iron content slag, but it produces steel by default. You don't immediately know how to quench, temper and harden it and it is initially more expensive and time consuming. But unlike copper iron is almost everywhere.
THERE IT IS!!!!! Pedantic. I watch, in part, to hear Metatron say the word pedantic, which I did not hear in the last 2 or 3 Metatron videos I have watched. I thought the barbarian was trying to cut off the top of that tree but needed glasses… If you have a sword that is not sharpened wouldn’t that be a club?
I think you are correct on the beast statement. In older English, Beast referred specifically to wild animals not necessarily the domesticated one. A wolf was a beast but a dog was an animal even though they are the same thing.
From the context, I would also assume the claim "barbarians are like animals" would just have been bravado as part of the speech given as it was before a battle. Those tend to be full of "we are good and they are not" and so on.
Biest is known in german too. Former use, i don' t know. In current german Biest means a domesticated annimal, which suddenly becomes wild /doesn' t follow command calls. For example: Usually the neighbors cat is friendly, but today this Biest has bitten me. Also Biest can mean an unfrienly woman , wo betrays people, is involved in intriques.
@@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist*ruined television. It (and stuff like that new jersey one) showed Hollywood that people would watch minimal effort stuff just as much in enough numbers that they basically got rid of writers and everything else. (I wonder if the writers strike I remember shortening episodes of Eureka on Sci Fi channel had anything to do with the proliferation of 'unscripted'/'reality' tv as well )
YES!!!!!!! Lets go! Have you ever considered doing some of the BBC farming in x (medieval, edwardian, victorian) age shows with that chick and the two guys who live as farmers back in time for a year. or the one where they go to an actual handbuilt castle project.
I agree. Tin, a critical component of bronze, was relatively scarce and geographically concentrated. As societies expanded and demand for tools and weapons grew, sourcing tin became increasingly challenging, especially in regions far from major tin deposits like those in Cornwall (UK), Anatolia, or Afghanistan.
6:01 - The deadliest barbarian weapon is the feared bucket. A barbarian fighting with a bucket is way more formidable than an empty-handed barbarian. And don't get me started on the drinking horn. Deadly.
Regarding the chariots, I remember reading an article (I think it was published or someone's thesis) which talked about the decline of chariots. The author theorized that it was a combination of two factors. First, horse husbandry started producing horses large enough for cavalry so the chariot because an added expense for more elite soldiers. The second factor, which ties into the first, was the cost of a chariot being up to twice the cost of a horse. As an aside, the reason the article stuck with me is that it was probably the only time I saw someone seriously use the Bible as a historical reference. The citation of the cost of chariots comes from there, specifically, when describing the trade with Egypt under Solomon.
I think there is an often overlooked enviromental factor to the decline of chariots as well. Chariots were mostly used by nations which were part of the arid zone. Basically the climatological zone (from Manchuria, though the turkic steppes, the Levant into the Maghrib) that supported nomadic horse armies. This region was fractured during the rise of the Romans Republic and Empire. After the war of the three Kingdoms, China stuck to their side of the Himalaya's so chariots fell out of favour there. Persia, Arabia and Egypt were controled by greek successor states. Only the Parthians came up in this era and they made use of horse archers instead of chariots. havent checked if this is correct yet, just an idea i got after reading your comment.
@@nickvanachthoven7252 My understanding is that chariots were a lot more universal than that. Just as an example, the people in British Isles used chariots against the Romans, in the account I read it was one of the two main things which the Romans, justified or not, kinda were afraid of. I could understand an argument that it is a factor of how flat the terrain is, as Italy and Greece and frequently called rocky, but I do not know where England stacks up next to that. Also worth pointing out is that, at least according to Homer, chariots were used by the Greeks in war....if only to get from place to place.
Iron was cheaper, as Metatron has pointed out, since you only need one mine to make it, unlike bronze that requires copper and tin mines that do not occur geographically close together. STEEL is stronger, not iron. (Again, as Metatron has has repeatedly pointed out in multiple videos)
"The one with the deadliest weapon wins"...thank you for bringing that up. There's a lot focus on that crap with "experts" on modern weaponry. They NEVER talk about the person using the weapon and they skill level they have. In my mind, that is FAR more important than the weapon itself. As for the "History Channel"... just thinking about them makes me nauseated.
*Fun fact:* There's a 2000's History Channel docushow called "Ancient Rome: the Rise and Fall of an Empire", which tells the story of the Empire from Marius' campaigns until the fall of Romulus Augustus. Despite the typical History Channel bullsh*t, I really appreciate they depicted Decius' reign, Aurelian's campaigns, Ricimer's disaster etc. It was pretty cool to see that ignored part of Rome finally depicted in media
Yes, I think that's right, bronze cannons were popular on ships for a long time. But the problem was the high cost of the material, which is why iron cannons were also used on ships during this time.
Metatron, I would love to see a video about the piscinarii (fish-pond owners), Cicero, and their actual fish ponds, it would be interesting to hear your take on the history of it, and the aristocratic reclusion away from politics in favor of leisure and country villas.
Does isolation really mean preservation, or does it just mean a different development? American English for example preserves some Elizabethan English pronunciations and doesn't include later British developments, however I assume it includes unique developments as well... Just wondering.
Good Day Metatron! I am a Lombard. Have you done a video on my people before? Or are we ancestrally foes? Nevertheless, I truly learn from and love you and your channel. Perhaps we can let a few millennia of bygone's be bygones?
Anyone else sick of the shirtless Barbarian trope? I understand berserkers did exist, but they were fairly uncommon. To my knowledge the Celts were pretty good metalurgists and although they favored weaponry over armor, some of them still have rudimentary mail and or furs, leathers, and even looted armor. This idea that your average infantrymen would run in shirtless is ridiculous.
I have noticed a tendency, among people who do not really know history, to think that the change to iron was rapid. Iron and bronze were both in "common" use at the same time in many areas. I am guessing that was due to a higher availability of copper and tin and a learning curve at making good iron.
Wouldn't another consideration besides ease of production be the wt. Bronze being heavier means a fully outfitted soldier would be more encumbered than a soldier fully outfitted in the equivalent iron armor. I imagine the wt consideration would have also made it much more desireable from a commander stand point. Even today a soldiers combat gear is carefully considered since it can influence how many provisions and other supplies they can carry on their person during a campaign, lessening the burden on logistics.
Great video as always, keep on being pedantic!😂A quick note about why the video is crummy quality. Modern Marvels season 13 was aired in 2007, probably produced circa 2006, so it's doubtful this was ever in true HD quality. History Channel has just been slowly but surely low-effort uploading their back catalog. I would expect they put in as much effort in uploading this to UA-cam as they put into getting the history correct in the first place.
OK as an old military veteran. I see the Roman generals half beast half human comment as standard military practice. It is difficult for most to actually kill another human, especially for the first time, regardless of training. So to make it easier you dehumanise your enemy, this is why even in modern times soldiers use derogatory terms for their enemy. Maybe you have heard some of these Huns, Orcs, commies etc etc. I don't say it is right, because it can also lead to excessive war crimes, once you convince people they are not dealing with humans.
The "Barbarians" show History Channel made, the one with the black Hannibal, was the first great proof I got about that channel being full of sh*t. The most hilarious thing here is that I actually respect that "docuseries" more than the Netflix show
I thought _Ancient Aliens_ was the final straw back in 2010? Or the neoliberal perspective of _America: The Story of Us_ (2010) ? How come no one has made any review of _America_ , and its sequel _Mankind: The Story of Us_ (2012)?
The one thing that probably would've prevented all this is if they made it a separate thing from their usual history content but keep it under the history channel, but what they do is look an the many conspiracy theories around the world, especially on history and try to explain why people believe it and the believers evidence for it. That would be far more entertaining.
Woo, low hanging fruit is the sweetest. Also, have you considered flipping the video you're reacting to horizontally to help fool automatic flagging tools?
14:30 "half-beast, half-man is a civic state and may change depending on what you do". This is fascinating. Aristotle, in The Politics, argues that someone who says he has no need of the polis, MUST be either a beast or a god, because all men rely on the polis for their fully realised state of being. Only a beast, who no need of civilisation, or a god, who has no need of any Earthly thing, could refuse the polis without doing harm to their own nature. It is interesting to see a similar sentiment making its way into Roman civil thought.
The main reason wasn't that you only needed only one type of deposit. it's because iron is a thousand times more common in the Earth's crust than copper, and even more common than that compared with tin (30,000x) and arsenic. There are iron deposits all over, and other metals are relatively rare.
Mike Loades tests *everything* to destruction, generally! His PBS docu of a few years back where he rode a replica Egyptian chariot around was interesting. I've got all three of his Osprey books, lol 🏹🏹🏹🏹
6:38 you say “the celts were the shit” which was unexpected and very funny, but that is a very informal and not family friendly turn of phrase (I wouldn’t say that around children). You might already know that and I certainly wasn’t offended but I just thought I’d run it by you since I know you usually try to be family friendly.
Thank you on the Celts... Britain had tribes of Britons later to be dubbed with this celt term as their language and customs bore some vague resemblance to mainland european tribes they traded with whom the greeks had dubbed Keltoi.
History Channel stopped being relevant by the 2010s when it became the Red Neck Reality TV channel loosely associated with history content. 90s History Channel was amazing and I miss it.
As a history nut.I had great hopes and expectations of The History Channel. I watched it start out good..not perfect by any means, but good ..I had hope it would get better..I watched it slowly degrade.
I'm so old I can remember when the History Channel was actually about history.
I remember those days, it lasted what? About 5 or 6 months, maybe a year max?
@MiqelDotCom I think it ended in the early 2000s lol
@@SSHitMan lol, I just remember it was 24-7 WW2 documentaries at first, then all the sudden it was all ancient aliens, bigfoot hunters and low-quality "reality" tv.
Rick Harrison might drop one or two history factoids on any given episode of Pawn Stars.
Same
The "History Channel" has done more damage then people realize
* than.
ALL on PURPOSE, ALL by DESIGN.
If you called a UFC fighter "not a man, but a ferocious beast", or said that he was "half man half beast" that all sounds like compliments to the fighter for being good at his craft.
Yeah, even when in other context it can be compliment kinda. If someone said to me "This man is a beast" I would imagine a guy who I wouldn't want to fuck with
Professor Broflovski agree 👍
One time in high school weight training a guy said to me, "She's a beast!" As I maxed out on the row machine. Definitely took it as a compliment ha ha
Because of EU regulations, History Channel has to be renamed to History Flavored Channel.
'History challenged' or 'History differently abled' LOL 😀
"Historical immitation product"
"May contain history"
"Contains free range actual history, no fillers or substitutes"
@@darkcommissionNah, differently abled is still abled. 😂
There are 3 certainties in life:
- Death
- Taxes
- History Channel saying it was the aliens 😂
...aliens caused death and taxes? Suddenly it all makes sense!
😂😂😂😂😂
Also, the one porn bot in the comments.
@@doomslayer2290 That's not a porn bot, that's my girlfriend, so take it easy. She told me my videos are always an inspiration and full of creativity.
was the channel founded by Erik von Däniken??
"Those with the deadliest weapons will win"
-British soldier shortly before the Battle of Isandlwana
Or Australian soldier before the Great Emu War
Aliens? No, this is the History Channel... we are going to discuss Mermaids.
That wasn't History, that was Animal Planet. Even then, it had a very brief disclaimer in the beginning that _Mermaids_ is fictional.
@@1685Violin It was the History Channel when I watched whatever I had watched. This was in 2012 (or abouts), and that's why it stuck in my mind that it was the history channel. Either way, it was funny to me. Cheers!
@@DragonSilverSky Was it _Mermaids: The Body Found_ that you watched and did it air on History in a different country? That one aired on Animal Planet in the US.
May be they asked Erich von Däniken, a German or Swiss man, who wrote strange books, had some popularity 30/40 years ago.
Your voiceover to cover up the video audio was honestly hilarious, I think it worked out pretty well. 😂
I would honestly prefer if he kept it for future videos. It is a very safe play for channels like these, plus it is extremely funny!
I totally agree. Keep this technique in mind for the future. It was brilliant.
It was also probably more accurate than whatever was originally said. xD
"Average Saturday night in an Irish pub" LMAO!
Ah Barbarian weapons, unlike Paladin weapons they are made to kill only.
@@garlandmueller740 That would mean they most certainly weren't Chinese imports.
Bronze is still used today as a tool - in areas where sparks could trigger an explosion
I recall history played a series called "Barbarians" about the various cultures that were called barbarians. Each series had a bit about it major leaders and enemies. it was pretty good.
One thing I would like to add to iron/bronze is that iron is not just less logistically intensive but iron is actually easy to work with; so once you have correct tech it does allow you to make more stuff in less time.
Also last use of bronze in warfare I know of were indeed cannon, Austria, due to industrial limitations, used special bronze (so called Uchatius bronze or "bronze-steel") up to and during WW1. There is some discussion about how good it was, but it did exist.
But Metatron, I learned from the History channel that Aliens are the ones that built the Roman Empire.
And they arrived in a spaceship called Romulus and Remus.
Indeed, lets push the Aryans to the side for the sake of space aliens. Much better to have aliens than Aryans make all the crazy high skill shit.
And the Goa'uld built the pyramids
In a way... According to the Iliad Romulus and Remus were descendants of refugees from Troy so... They were indeed aliens.
Ancient astronauts theorists say "yes".
Videos like these are the reason why you are my favorite UA-cam channel. Keep it up.
7:48 "The length is regular for the classical period" is what I'm gonna be using as excuse in bed from now on.
Lawdy Lawdy! You’ve done it! This is the BEST way to do reactions from now on-SPOOF🤣🤣🤣
That's a clever approach to teaching. Begin the lesson by assuming all the misconceptions, and then have an expert correct the lesson from there, thereby bringing the audience into and back out of the common misconceptions.
I love the egregious amount of sass in your commentary here, righteous as it is considering how much higher a quality Metatron's stuff is compared to those that copystrike him.
"History" channel is by now a well deserved meme.
Reminds me of the old joke, "It's good being civilised. Romans and Greeks are not Barbarians." Said a Roman to his Greek friend. "Yes, Greeks are indeed civilised."
"What?"
"Huh?"
History through comedy is one of my favourite genres on youtube and this really hit the spot
This is from Modern Marvels, which, believe it or not, was one of the better shows on the History Channel and ran for a long time. For the most part, it was actually educational and historical. It showed the history of various things we take for granted in modern life. Everything from various foods, to bathroom stuff, to electronics.
You're forgetting that steel and iron production are coincidental. Steel tools are found the same time as iron, and the simplest most primitive way of smelting iron ore produces carbon steel. It's not very efficient and produces high iron content slag, but it produces steel by default. You don't immediately know how to quench, temper and harden it and it is initially more expensive and time consuming. But unlike copper iron is almost everywhere.
THERE IT IS!!!!!
Pedantic. I watch, in part, to hear Metatron say the word pedantic, which I did not hear in the last 2 or 3 Metatron videos I have watched.
I thought the barbarian was trying to cut off the top of that tree but needed glasses…
If you have a sword that is not sharpened wouldn’t that be a club?
I think you are correct on the beast statement. In older English, Beast referred specifically to wild animals not necessarily the domesticated one. A wolf was a beast but a dog was an animal even though they are the same thing.
From the context, I would also assume the claim "barbarians are like animals" would just have been bravado as part of the speech given as it was before a battle. Those tend to be full of "we are good and they are not" and so on.
Biest is known in german too. Former use, i don' t know. In current german Biest means a domesticated annimal, which suddenly becomes wild /doesn' t follow command calls. For example: Usually the neighbors cat is friendly, but today this Biest has bitten me. Also Biest can mean an unfrienly woman , wo betrays people, is involved in intriques.
@@brittakriep2938 I'm sure they are cognate.
I like the sarcastic more internet style of this video😂😂 especially the voice over parts where we can see your reaction slowly dying inside 😂😂😂
Thank you for bringing this subject much clarity. You are the New History Channel. ❤❤❤
Yes the secrets of the ninja arts only found on the history channel. I fell for that as a kid.
I haven't watched History Channel first came up with Ancient Aliens back in 2010. Absolutely insane.
they didn't come up with it, just pushed the idea into the mainstream
I think there was value in those shows-but the reality shows & things like Pawn Stars really ruined the channel.
@@G_v._Losinj2_ImportantPlaylist*ruined television. It (and stuff like that new jersey one) showed Hollywood that people would watch minimal effort stuff just as much in enough numbers that they basically got rid of writers and everything else.
(I wonder if the writers strike I remember shortening episodes of Eureka on Sci Fi channel had anything to do with the proliferation of 'unscripted'/'reality' tv as well )
If only Celts thought of sharpening their expensive and hard to make swords, history might have been very different.
Didn't you know that aliens built the pyramids?
It was actually "the blacks" 😬😬😬😬😅😅😅😅
It was the very dark aliens.
👽👽👽
@@Ozziecatsmom not "the grey's".....or "the browns"... But the kangz of kangz of kangz 😬😬😬😬
@@josefsterling5462 They designed and built everythang
YES!!!!!!! Lets go! Have you ever considered doing some of the BBC farming in x (medieval, edwardian, victorian) age shows with that chick and the two guys who live as farmers back in time for a year. or the one where they go to an actual handbuilt castle project.
Tudor Monastery Farm... Love those three, always make for a great show!!!
I agree. Tin, a critical component of bronze, was relatively scarce and geographically concentrated. As societies expanded and demand for tools and weapons grew, sourcing tin became increasingly challenging, especially in regions far from major tin deposits like those in Cornwall (UK), Anatolia, or Afghanistan.
6:01 - The deadliest barbarian weapon is the feared bucket. A barbarian fighting with a bucket is way more formidable than an empty-handed barbarian. And don't get me started on the drinking horn. Deadly.
You’re Hilarious!!! Thanks for that!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂 Great job 😂😂😂😂😂
Regarding the chariots, I remember reading an article (I think it was published or someone's thesis) which talked about the decline of chariots. The author theorized that it was a combination of two factors. First, horse husbandry started producing horses large enough for cavalry so the chariot because an added expense for more elite soldiers. The second factor, which ties into the first, was the cost of a chariot being up to twice the cost of a horse.
As an aside, the reason the article stuck with me is that it was probably the only time I saw someone seriously use the Bible as a historical reference. The citation of the cost of chariots comes from there, specifically, when describing the trade with Egypt under Solomon.
I think there is an often overlooked enviromental factor to the decline of chariots as well. Chariots were mostly used by nations which were part of the arid zone. Basically the climatological zone (from Manchuria, though the turkic steppes, the Levant into the Maghrib) that supported nomadic horse armies.
This region was fractured during the rise of the Romans Republic and Empire. After the war of the three Kingdoms, China stuck to their side of the Himalaya's so chariots fell out of favour there.
Persia, Arabia and Egypt were controled by greek successor states. Only the Parthians came up in this era and they made use of horse archers instead of chariots.
havent checked if this is correct yet, just an idea i got after reading your comment.
@@nickvanachthoven7252 My understanding is that chariots were a lot more universal than that. Just as an example, the people in British Isles used chariots against the Romans, in the account I read it was one of the two main things which the Romans, justified or not, kinda were afraid of.
I could understand an argument that it is a factor of how flat the terrain is, as Italy and Greece and frequently called rocky, but I do not know where England stacks up next to that.
Also worth pointing out is that, at least according to Homer, chariots were used by the Greeks in war....if only to get from place to place.
The history channel has been ridiculous for years now.
Unrelated, History Hit released: "Roman Historian Answers Google's Most Popular Questions About Gladiators"
We need the reaction.
It’s amazing how in school they pushed the narrative that iron replaced bronze swords due to being a stronger material for swords.
Iron was cheaper, as Metatron has pointed out, since you only need one mine to make it, unlike bronze that requires copper and tin mines that do not occur geographically close together. STEEL is stronger, not iron. (Again, as Metatron has has repeatedly pointed out in multiple videos)
Hey Metatron, watched Nerdrotic just because of you. Great commentary
This is great. Metatron being double pedantic! Pedantic in his description and then again in his comments. I love it!😂
"The one with the deadliest weapon wins"...thank you for bringing that up. There's a lot focus on that crap with "experts" on modern weaponry. They NEVER talk about the person using the weapon and they skill level they have. In my mind, that is FAR more important than the weapon itself. As for the "History Channel"... just thinking about them makes me nauseated.
Consider David with his LITTLE ROCK… best weapon eh?
Man, oh man, I am so glad that I bought the Iron Age and Industrial Age season pass.
Iron was far more readily available and didn't require making it an alloy so you didn't need 2 sources of metal.
That's why it replaced bronze.
*Fun fact:* There's a 2000's History Channel docushow called "Ancient Rome: the Rise and Fall of an Empire", which tells the story of the Empire from Marius' campaigns until the fall of Romulus Augustus. Despite the typical History Channel bullsh*t, I really appreciate they depicted Decius' reign, Aurelian's campaigns, Ricimer's disaster etc. It was pretty cool to see that ignored part of Rome finally depicted in media
Too bad the costumes and depictions were pretty much fanfiction.
@HeliodromusScorpio
Yeah, the romans literaly wear the same outfits for 500 years. Anyway, History Xhannels productions are low-budget
The H in the channel is for Hillbilly Bigfoot alien pawn shop hunters on oak island.
Even today bronze tools are used where you cannot risk having a spark.
This video was so heavy with pedanticness, my table collapsed.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm surprised they're not spamming WW2 stuff all day everyday.
Metatron is on another level ReDubbing their video 😂
"Not goonna go too pedantic" -After being very pedantic hahaha god I love this content. Nice vid Metatron!
The graphics on that are only one step above the visual quality of the serbia strong video
Why would anyone fight with a dull sword? History Channel Hallucinates again.
The history channel is like Wikipedia, absolutely perfect with information and should be used in citing all claims
Yes, I think that's right, bronze cannons were popular on ships for a long time. But the problem was the high cost of the material, which is why iron cannons were also used on ships during this time.
Lord no! Not...the HISTORY CHANNEL!!!
"History" Channel
The gift that keeps on giving...
We are very entertained in Guyana 🇬🇾. Thank you
I have to take a shot every time he says pedantic, so I'm already drunk
THANK YOU! I laughed so hard! You are awesome! I love learning through humor.
Some of the most entertaining commentary this episode! Excellent! Loved it!
this video feels like a return to your classic reactions with the jokes. it is a nice welcome
Metatron, I would love to see a video about the piscinarii (fish-pond owners), Cicero, and their actual fish ponds, it would be interesting to hear your take on the history of it, and the aristocratic reclusion away from politics in favor of leisure and country villas.
Does isolation really mean preservation, or does it just mean a different development? American English for example preserves some Elizabethan English pronunciations and doesn't include later British developments, however I assume it includes unique developments as well... Just wondering.
It’s okay to be Anglo Saxon
What about other germanic tribes?
Hit is wel to be Engla Sæxisc.
They went extinct about 700 years ago
@@BullfrogActual How?
@@BullfrogActual: What? I am german, member of Swabian/ Alemannic tribe.
Would it be possible for you to make a video dedicated on the Norman Invasion of Ireland Metatron?
Good Day Metatron! I am a Lombard. Have you done a video on my people before? Or are we ancestrally foes? Nevertheless, I truly learn from and love you and your channel. Perhaps we can let a few millennia of bygone's be bygones?
Seems like the History Channel,
"Puts on sunglasses"
is history.
I watched the lex friedman podcast and his reaction video popped up it and its been lit ever since 😂
Anyone else sick of the shirtless Barbarian trope? I understand berserkers did exist, but they were fairly uncommon. To my knowledge the Celts were pretty good metalurgists and although they favored weaponry over armor, some of them still have rudimentary mail and or furs, leathers, and even looted armor. This idea that your average infantrymen would run in shirtless is ridiculous.
Good morning metatron.. its "THE USED TO BE ABOUT HISTORY" channel has been for many years now😢
The Channel Formerly Known as History. You know, like The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.
It's not pendantic to note tha Celts are not A tribe (just one). It would be like saying American Indians are A tribe (just one).
Let us be entertained!
These are the Dennis Leary style rants that I love. Made my day.
This is too funny🤣👍😎
The snark is epic level.
If all you have is an Amiga 500 (I can rember that predicament), what else would you do but annihilate the Pixelates?
Every frame a Metatron
I have noticed a tendency, among people who do not really know history, to think that the change to iron was rapid. Iron and bronze were both in "common" use at the same time in many areas. I am guessing that was due to a higher availability of copper and tin and a learning curve at making good iron.
The moment he said "Stop pausing the video" an ad came up
nice i learnt a lot listening to this as with most your videos. very interesting about bronze vs iron
I started greeting my friends “heyyy noble ones” and they don’t know what it’s from 😆 thanks
Wouldn't another consideration besides ease of production be the wt. Bronze being heavier means a fully outfitted soldier would be more encumbered than a soldier fully outfitted in the equivalent iron armor. I imagine the wt consideration would have also made it much more desireable from a commander stand point. Even today a soldiers combat gear is carefully considered since it can influence how many provisions and other supplies they can carry on their person during a campaign, lessening the burden on logistics.
Great video as always, keep on being pedantic!😂A quick note about why the video is crummy quality. Modern Marvels season 13 was aired in 2007, probably produced circa 2006, so it's doubtful this was ever in true HD quality. History Channel has just been slowly but surely low-effort uploading their back catalog. I would expect they put in as much effort in uploading this to UA-cam as they put into getting the history correct in the first place.
OK as an old military veteran. I see the Roman generals half beast half human comment as standard military practice. It is difficult for most to actually kill another human, especially for the first time, regardless of training. So to make it easier you dehumanise your enemy, this is why even in modern times soldiers use derogatory terms for their enemy. Maybe you have heard some of these Huns, Orcs, commies etc etc. I don't say it is right, because it can also lead to excessive war crimes, once you convince people they are not dealing with humans.
The "Barbarians" show History Channel made, the one with the black Hannibal, was the first great proof I got about that channel being full of sh*t. The most hilarious thing here is that I actually respect that "docuseries" more than the Netflix show
It slowly turned from history to nonsense. They should just change the name to fiction.
I thought _Ancient Aliens_ was the final straw back in 2010? Or the neoliberal perspective of _America: The Story of Us_ (2010) ? How come no one has made any review of _America_ , and its sequel _Mankind: The Story of Us_ (2012)?
Everybody was black according to the """history"" channel.
@@infinitesimotel in 50 years from today, that will be officially accepted HISTORY! 1984 Orwell
Modern marvel makes sense...
The one thing that probably would've prevented all this is if they made it a separate thing from their usual history content but keep it under the history channel, but what they do is look an the many conspiracy theories around the world, especially on history and try to explain why people believe it and the believers evidence for it. That would be far more entertaining.
can't watch this now because I'm going out shortly but I'm sure it'll be a great video as always
Woo, low hanging fruit is the sweetest.
Also, have you considered flipping the video you're reacting to horizontally to help fool automatic flagging tools?
14:30 "half-beast, half-man is a civic state and may change depending on what you do". This is fascinating.
Aristotle, in The Politics, argues that someone who says he has no need of the polis, MUST be either a beast or a god, because all men rely on the polis for their fully realised state of being. Only a beast, who no need of civilisation, or a god, who has no need of any Earthly thing, could refuse the polis without doing harm to their own nature.
It is interesting to see a similar sentiment making its way into Roman civil thought.
Just think how much time you will save! And this is HILARIOUSLY ENTERTAINING 😂😂😂
metatron can u react on kings and generals videos ?
The main reason wasn't that you only needed only one type of deposit. it's because iron is a thousand times more common in the Earth's crust than copper, and even more common than that compared with tin (30,000x) and arsenic. There are iron deposits all over, and other metals are relatively rare.
Metatron, my Amiga 500 had the 68040 expansion addon with 9 MB of RAM :D
Suggestion: Full length “Life of Brian” live reaction.
Mike Loades tests *everything* to destruction, generally! His PBS docu of a few years back where he rode a replica Egyptian chariot around was interesting. I've got all three of his Osprey books, lol 🏹🏹🏹🏹
My brother in law spoke Scottish Gaelic, and found that Icelandic was very similar.
6:38 you say “the celts were the shit” which was unexpected and very funny, but that is a very informal and not family friendly turn of phrase (I wouldn’t say that around children). You might already know that and I certainly wasn’t offended but I just thought I’d run it by you since I know you usually try to be family friendly.
Great video as always ❤
Thank you on the Celts...
Britain had tribes of Britons later to be dubbed with this celt term as their language and customs bore some vague resemblance to mainland european tribes they traded with whom the greeks had dubbed Keltoi.
He's taking History head on
History Channel stopped being relevant by the 2010s when it became the Red Neck Reality TV channel loosely associated with history content. 90s History Channel was amazing and I miss it.
No it was kosharized not rednecked.
As a history nut.I had great hopes and expectations of The History Channel. I watched it start out good..not perfect by any means, but good ..I had hope it would get better..I watched it slowly degrade.
@@infinitesimotel getting bad vibes from the terminology which was just used
@@Alte.Kameraden You should do, its always a bad thing.
@@infinitesimotel Nah from you. It's on a long list of phrases/words that puts people in my time out corner.