As an Italian, I think this is one of the best videos on UA-cam about Italy: it really encapsulates history, geography and economy in a very precise way.
Pero è pieno di ignoranza, cioè, le reggioni "autonome" nn sono indipendenti, hanno solo piu potere rispetto allo stato centrale, come gli stati del USA, in più gli independentisti nn sono sopra il 50%, o almeno, gli indipendentisti che vogliono completamente separarsi dall'italia nn sono piu del 50%
He also let the social demokrati of germany fight against the Italiens... idk what happened there. Watch Till he Shows the flaggs fight. At minute 6 and something.
Louis Sagarriga Visconti Nope, below my house, which is pretty much where the video shows it. And if my friend lives 10 km south of me, he’ll say that the south begins just south of his house. That’s how that works.
God: hmm, Italy’s spawn is way to overpowered. Angel: why don’t we nerf Italy’s spawn and send thousands of humans to attack it which will cause Rome to collapse and split it into thousands of states which will remain divided for thousands of years God: sounds... good.
That battle that we lost in 1917 is known to us as the "Disfatta di Caporetto". Austria and Germany pushed the Italian line down 150 kilometers, and it was such a huge loss that the name of the battle entered our language as a synonym of a catastrophic event or defeat. Even to this day, calling an event a "Caporetto" is like admitting it was an embarrassing loss.
It is like modern games devs doing "Something is OP!!! NERD PLZ" they dont listen first, and then herfs the shit out of this thing, making it literally unplayable
Kingdom of Italy se ci pensi quanti sono effettivamente riusciti a vincere contro di noi senza aiuti interni? E praticamente nessuno è mai riuscito a mantenere un controllo totale su dei territori italiani per più di 100 anni
Me, coming from Maremma; agreed! Tuscany is the only region that has a civil war with neighbouring cities within the region. It's actually quite amazing!
@@albe3879 one key reason is believed to be the victory over and subsequent destruction of carthago, after which they got lazy and decadent because there was no number one enemy anymore. That made it easier for rivals on the empire's outskirts to attack, knowing that the Roman military had become weak because of their decadence
I had an Italian boss from originally Chirie near Torino, he had a map of Italy in his office, he had a horizontal line at Rome and under that line was written with a sharpie "AFRICA"
Well in Medieval and Rome Total War, Rome is literally the center of the map. So if you have a world-spanning empire. You should set your capital there to promote public order.
@@user-lq1jc6wf5m yeah "won" while Italy never occupied an Austrian land in the war... The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was win with a huge help from the allies
Forse dovresti pensare agli italiani che vivendo in territorio austriaco erano costretti a combattere sotto minaccia che gli facessero fuori la famiglia...si e vero... Molti si lanciavano verso le trincee italiane a morire piuttosto che ferire compatrioti e al contempo dalvare le famiglie... Ma quelli nn li ricorda mai nessuno vero. O del fatto che che gli austriaci presero a fottute cannonate milano.
Claiming the US invasion of Italy during WW2 was only possible thanks to Italy’s geography is partial, as the US army was aided and often preceded by partisans. Also, it was the Sicilian mafia (which had interest in the fall of fascism) that made easy for them to land in the first place
Thank you! I see many people in the comments making jokes about this situation. I know they are joking and i like a to have a good laugh, but it's also really hearth warming to see foreigners beign supportive and really understanding this crisis we are going through. Greeting from Italy, hope you all stay safe there in the US.
6:34 The battles on the isonzo river were actually a succes for italy; austrians were about to loose trieste, the only port of the empire and the its loss was possibly the event that would have ended war for austrians, so they called german's help and destroyed italian's army at caporetto, wich is also the name of the battle. It is not because of the mountains that they were defeated, but it was because italian army was weak compared to german army. Just to give you a scale, during ww1 winning a battle could have meant to go forward for 1 km, while the 11th battle on the isonzo river brought italian soldiers 10 km forwards.
Germany have used innovative tecniche to made the war they bomb italian front for an our instead a day and when Italian create bunker, the german forces attack and made a lot of prigioner.
@@avoig_3219 exactly, moreover they used to attack with small groups (wich is the precursion of blitzkrieg, the use of individual but fast divisions of tanks) and they used to circle out the trenches of italian soldiers.
King Emmanuel should sack Cadorna early. Most of battles lost at Isonzo were just ill-prepared. And the guy blamed middle rank officers and even soldiers for that.
As an Italian, I think Italy's Geography will start to be relevant again when African countries will see a massive development in their economies (as in the case of Nigeria). Just in this case, the Mediterranean see will start to be the center of commercial exchanges between Africa and Europe and Italy will be the first touchpoint of this interconnection.
interesting way to think about it. If Africa was to be able to garner more capital and banking services in general, maybe utilizing mico loans or cryptocurrency, I could very well see this happening.
@user-wj8kv2rv4u for the western half of the continent, sure But for the eastern half, including Egypt, the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean? A lot of that will go through the Suez Canal, and Italy has important ports for that network, like Venice
They all got infected because their navy is weak and couldn't provide them a way out through the Mediterranean so they had to go over the Alps which caused a funnel of people where social distancing was null and void and encouraged the spread of the virus. I believe this is where this video was going.
@@mattnorris7124 Italy has a great navy what are you talking about, Italy has the virus bad bc they get cloth and materials from china for the fashion capital of the world: Milan to design cloths and keep its biggest economy going: fashion
I always thought Italy's geography was a little weird , it's a country surrounded by water and the water surrounding it is surrounded by land. No other country is like that.
Not really a nerf IMO When I saw "nerf", I was expecting a little known update The Dev snuck in by changing the maps terrain. This video outlines Italy's inherit locational trait of 'strong early game - weak late game'. Still a very good video. I give it a 48/52.
In Roman times, the most important resource for fighting was manpower, which Italy had plenty of (thanks to fertile farmland, and Roman expertise at irrigation to create more). In WW2 the most important resources were coal, iron, and oil, which Italy had hardly any of.
Italy has been my fascination since Assassin's Creed II. My dream is to travel throughout the length and breadth of Italy and see Florence, Milan, Venice, Rome, Vatican and every other city. Its a beautiful country and with beautiful people! COVID-19 may have taken many lives but it will never dampen the beauty of Italy! ❤️ Insieme per la Vittoria, Italia! Love, from India 🥰🇮🇳
Funny that you mention this game because I just took it back thanks to the steam sales (and the free time given by the quarantine) Just as good as I remember. This game really fueled my love for the Renaissance so badly
The geographical internal division also made separate beautiful cities to form, especially in the middle ages and Renaissance. Much cooler than having all the notable attractions in one city tbh
@@theodore474 He was talking about modern day great powers. I'm pretty sure Hawaii and Alaska are part of the modern day USA, unless there was a recent civil war no one told me about.
Italy 2000 years ago: Yea boi I can attack anywhere in the Mediterranean, I can defend from anywhere via sea or mountain The world 2000 years later: Mediterranean it is. Try extending any further lol
Bruh, trust me, we don't need videos such as this to get depression over our own country, we just need to get out of bed every morning to accomplish that.
Irrelevancy? Don't think so, by this logic Germany, Russia and Austria should have been irrelevant too. Italy highly influenced the world even during colonial times through its culture, and became one of the major economies and powers once unified. Not to mention its great maritime republics. Plus, as history showed, having colonies but not being able to sustain and manage them can lead you to many economic, political and logistical problems as happened to Spain, Portugal and France. Infact the most successful colonizers were the Brits and to a certain extent the Dutch, given their little size. Not to mention that nowadays the main colonial powers of the past are literally being colonized back by immigrants from the former countries they invaded. It's true tho that a late unification and the inaccessibility to the Atlantic crippled the enormous Italy's potential to be a global superpower like in the Roman times 🤷, this tho doesn't mean that Italy could automatically have become and remained a global power just because of colonies since in order to impose yourself on the world stage you still had to be strong in Europe. Only exception to this, again, are the Brits who despite having never had a major direct foothold on mainland Europe still managed through their economy, navy and diplomacy to remain relevant on the stage. Despite all of this, Italy remained the richest area of Europe at least untill the 16th- mid 17th century. Plus, the historical, economical and cultural contribution that constantly came from Italy since the ancient to modern times (unlike Greece who unfortunately stopped with the Byzantines) will always put Italy into a place of relevance
@@pedrosabino8751 everyone knows that many of the sailors at that time are Italian under the banner of other country genoa and venice was still important since the center of the world were still mediterranean (aamerica were not discover yet)
They are italics, Napoleon even changed his surname at the time. However they just don’t care about most of these things, it just is what it is توما التشاد
Every other channel I "watch" on UA-cam, I'm never looking at the screen. There's never any reason to. This is the first one I've ever come across, in which the visual content is imperative to fully understanding the verbal presentation, both of which are always illuminating. These productions should be taught in lieu of traditional geography classes. I'm 42, and I wish I had this when I was in 4th grade. I'll be binge watching the entire channel. 💜💙 🌏🌎🌍
@@JimCullen As an Italian, yes it is. Every single noun in Italian has a gender, and Italy is most definitely feminine (as are most other nations, for that matter)
Well, the name in italian is feminine, and the country's national personification is a woman with a crown of walls called "Italia turrita (and "stellata" if accompanied by the other national symbol, the "Stella d'Italia" o "Stellone")"
Would never say humble but warm yes. Italians never let you forget their cultural and historical legacy, in terms of soft power Italy is still a juggernaut. And that will never change.
Great video! Really explained it well and encapsulated our history very well. The only thing I would like to add about the WW2 is that the Italian people also helped to free us a lot, with the partisans etc
4:56 'Nearly all of the modern world's great powers, after all, aren't even located within the region. The UK, Germany, Russia...' France: 'Am I a joke to you?'
@@poliorcetix979 well the Uk is pretty comparable with france, same for italy or brazil. I think the only true great powers of europe are germany and Russia
Hold on. The "Byzantines" "invaded Italy"? More like the Eastern Romans (i.e. Byzantines) wanted to retake their first capital of Rome and their lands from the Goths. Besides, many part of Italy were Greek colonies since time immemorial.
Yes but actually no. Greco-Gothic wars were disastrous for the people in Italy. They lasted for 20 years and plummeted the population down to 2-3 million people (before Roman levels). Goths and Byzantines in the attempt to control or retake cities they had lost, buned them down and forced the population to migrate to the coutryside basically starting Feudalism in the peninsula. At the end of that war Italy was devastated and you could say that the "Dark Ages" started at that point (at least here)
Giulio Patruno Yeah the Gothic War completely stomped Italy, only parts of the south were spared and the dark ages began for Italia. Justinian should have stoped at Carthage or Sicily.
@@giuliopatruno7849 wow, Greco-Gothic war/!? Who are you to name the Roman reconquest of Italy like that!? Firstly, Justinian was not even Greek (even if he was Greek, it won't change the things). Second, in his time the official language was Latin (again, even if it was Greek official back in his days it won't change the fact that is the Roman Empire). Damn, some people can't follow a country's line of existence. Because of people like you, history as science is broken!
@@leonardodavid2842 You forgot to mention another point. When China was asked about COVID-19 by the WHO back in October or November, China denied its existance, saying it was a rumour (or something like that). China lies a lot about its pandemics.
Italy: Regional problems and independent movements Spain: Laught in Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Galician and all the older (semi-languages) like aragonese, cantabrian and even the Canary Island guanche language... Edit: Coronavirus fucked up both Italy and Spain🤦♂️
I would say that Italy is far more diverse than Spain, in terms of language and culture, but Spain would prob be the 2nd most diverse country in europe.
When real life lore said “most of the world’s power isn’t even in the region, like uk Germany Russia India China Japan and the untied states” but when he’s said the United States and showed his land, real life lore didn’t show Alaska as usa
John von Shepard that’s not true and you should know that. American troops were active in the peninsula until the very end of the war they simply couldn’t overcome he German defenses.
Can you do one of these for Romania? I'm curious about how the Carpathian Mountains helps/hurts Romania; along with its various farmlands and oil fields.
Anyone wondering what the name of this song is, it's Crusaders Adriel Fair. (There's about 2 seconds in this video where the guy isn't talking over it, so I was able to Shazam it.)
I think this is a fun premise, I’m just struggling to see how the strait of Gibraltar was a barrier for colonization. 11 km is small on a global scale but still wide. The example given of access being blocked was from WWII well after the European Age of Exploration/Colonization.
Indeed. In fact the same could be told about the Netherlands which despite being blocked by the Dover Strait still managed to reach South Africa and Indonesia. If the Italian states never went colonising back then it was not because of Gibraltar but because most of them (Venice, Genoa, Tuscany) considered financial activities more advantageous than colonisation
Italy in my opinion can become once again part of the top 3 european powers thanks to the silk road project in which Italy has a strategic importance, if they manage a well economic policy and multilateral foreign relations (which is not the case today) i think they can go big ! Respect to this beautiful country from France. :)
*Good luck to everyone suffering in Italy, China, and everywhere on earth. I hope we make it out of this crisis alive and everything will return back to normal.*
5:50 Correction! Italy didn't declare war on Germany in 1915. In fact Italy and Germany were not officially in war with eachother until 1917. Only AH and Italy were.
Italy didn’t get nerfed, their build just doesn’t scale into the late game
How do you know we are in the 'late game' ;)
Sunny Jim r/cursedcomments
Sunny Jim the late game will be the aliens
Emilia lmaoo
@@seanlai8293 like paradox
1:46 holy crap I just realized "Mediterranean" means "'middle of earth"
That's sick
*mind blown*
No, middle earth is from Lord of the Rings.
No, middle earth is new zealand
It means "middle of the land" and referred to the fact it was landlocked. The Romans used to call it Mare Nostrum, our sea, I think.
As an Italian, I think this is one of the best videos on UA-cam about Italy: it really encapsulates history, geography and economy in a very precise way.
we have two very different definitions of "precise"
*...*
Lamborghini ferrari fiaaat
Idk they put Tuscany as south Italy, that's a 0% accuracy to me
Pero è pieno di ignoranza, cioè, le reggioni "autonome" nn sono indipendenti, hanno solo piu potere rispetto allo stato centrale, come gli stati del USA, in più gli independentisti nn sono sopra il 50%, o almeno, gli indipendentisti che vogliono completamente separarsi dall'italia nn sono piu del 50%
“Byzantines”. When you get invaded by urself
Well, when they returned in Italy, their wars did waaaay more damage than the barbarians in the century before
Justinian is still a nice lad tho
Larping greeks lol ; )
He also let the social demokrati of germany fight against the Italiens... idk what happened there. Watch Till he Shows the flaggs fight. At minute 6 and something.
6:44 wtf
@@IlleScrutator 2 milion deaths, god it's more than the Italian losses in WW1, WW2, Napoleonic Wars and Punic Wars all together
RLL: "Italy has been recently nerfed."
Me: _"You don't say."_
*_Mussolini intensifies_*
@@erenyeager3829 Caspita
F
RLL: "Italy has been recently nerfed."
Me: _"صج عاد؟"_
@@erenyeager3829 underrated comment
As a northern Italian I can confirm that the south is everything south of my house
bruh the south is below rome
Louis Sagarriga Visconti
Nope, below my house, which is pretty much where the video shows it. And if my friend lives 10 km south of me, he’ll say that the south begins just south of his house. That’s how that works.
@@cainthebraindrain7056 im from puglia maybe its ur richass tht has that joke cuz it aint funny tbfh
Louis Sagarriga Visconti
I’m sooo sooooooo sorry that you think my joke Is nOT FunNy.
Are you ever going to forgive me guy from Puglia?
@@cainthebraindrain7056 irdc its just lame af
God: hmm, Italy’s spawn is way to overpowered.
Angel: why don’t we nerf Italy’s spawn and send thousands of humans to attack it which will cause Rome to collapse and split it into thousands of states which will remain divided for thousands of years
God: sounds... good.
The Communist Potato Everyone In Heaven: SEND ALL THOSE HUMANS TO ATTACK ROME!
Sounds like a joke Oversimplified would make
That's what God would say.
@@kaissersreich that's exactly where the joke is from.
Italians: Dude... uncool
That battle that we lost in 1917 is known to us as the "Disfatta di Caporetto". Austria and Germany pushed the Italian line down 150 kilometers, and it was such a huge loss that the name of the battle entered our language as a synonym of a catastrophic event or defeat. Even to this day, calling an event a "Caporetto" is like admitting it was an embarrassing loss.
the 7-1 for italians
“The north is protected by the alps”
Hannibal be like: what alps
Jazza Mapping in the east near the border with Slovenia there is a plain
He did sacrifice A LOT of troops to get over them. Like, a *LOT*
Hannibal: hold my elephants
Rome be like: what carthage
Elephants be like: What?! Alps?!
"Mwahaha! We have the strongest defense possible, nobody can get in!"
"Fine. Stay in there, you can't get out."
"Wait, what?"
*closes door
"Now youse can't leave!"
The only difference between a fortress and a prison are who controls the front gate, and which direction the weapons point.
You don't even worries about how many people are in pain there
DSiren Sirenilhas l
@@miliba Bronx Tale 😄
Italy: nerfed
The guy who uses italy as a main: well shlt
It is like modern games devs doing
"Something is OP!!! NERD PLZ"
they dont listen first, and then herfs the shit out of this thing, making it literally unplayable
Italys Geography became funner: A GD player
Nah, too easy to counter. British navy can just shell every inch if need be.
As an Italian would say: Not molto bene
Hoi4 players: ima pretend I didn’t hear that
*Proceed to dominate the world*
I find it difficult to imagine what it would be like to have a map of your known world and...just not know what was beyond the edges of it.
This is why we study history at school
@@Astro_lixi more like geography. But yea.
It's like now with outer space
@@Astro_lixi Oh yeah, that makes sense... I guess those very first ever civilizations should have gone to University to learn geography...
sphere of known universe >_>
Italy: No one can pass the Alps and invade.
Austria-Hungary: you’re right, and neither can you.
Italy: wait...
Austria later: shit i can't shit i can't swim
Austro-Hungary: *if I can't come in, you can't come in.*
@@p.f.886 that's what she said :)
They both tried 12 times in total, at a river called Isonzo
Hannibal: am I a joke to you?
Austro Hungary : **manage to pass the alps*
Austro Hungary : **lose the entire war*
Carthage : first time?
Germany : No, second time
yeah dont mess with italy on its homeland...
Kingdom of Italy se ci pensi quanti sono effettivamente riusciti a vincere contro di noi senza aiuti interni? E praticamente nessuno è mai riuscito a mantenere un controllo totale su dei territori italiani per più di 100 anni
@@regnoditalia7711 The Allies sure messed with them hard though.
@@regnoditalia7711 unless
you are uk and usa
“And the United States” *doesnt highlight alaska*
"Russia" *doesnt highlight Kaliningrad*
I know that got to me lmao
Tbh nobody cares about Alaska US just bought it to flex on Russia.
@@spinyslasher6586
Pretty sure if Alaska suddenly didn't exist, every American would very much miss it.
@@spinyslasher6586 Tf you talking about?
"Strong Regional identities"
Me, coming from Arezzo: *laughs in hating every other Tuscanian City, and most of Umbria and more*
Gonna stop producing perugina
Pisa fa propio cacate
Come massese mi dissocio dall'identità toscana e accetto un mix linguistico-culturale ligure-emiliano
@@Della420 da fiorentino approvo
Me, coming from Maremma; agreed! Tuscany is the only region that has a civil war with neighbouring cities within the region.
It's actually quite amazing!
Some say the background music is still looping to this day.
Some say it is still looping after the universe is ending...
But my curiousity is, what is the name of the song?
@@kevinabiwardani7550 crusaders 1 by johannes
@@ibtsamsaeed7334
Thank you very much, I'll search it immediately.
RLL: Shows modern day Germany's Flag instead of the Imperial Flag on the Italian Front
WW1 fanboys: *Heavy breathing*
Even more awkward when you consider he used AH's map at the time.
*I N H A L E S*
Sourab singh civilization
*YOU USED DAH WRONG FLAG REEEEEEEEEE*
NIEN NIEN NIEN NIEN
The music in the background of this video drove me nuts.
It was terrible
Agreed
Yeah why tf is it British colonial music on a Italian video I hate these royalty free soundtracks
*Irish flute intensifies*
What is the music's name btw?
Land that nobody owns: Exists
Britan: hipity hopity this is now my property
Ice711
I like your rhyme
Gabriel Gaming Bro, I see this everywhere.
Wtf it is doing in comments of this video
that is about Italy
@@benismann because some of us will never let them forget about that past. Also. They fucked Italy over.
With nobody you mean natives that had to be murdered right?
“A tiny little city called Rome”
Rome: *laughs in world domination*
Etruscans and other Italic people who came before Rome: *am I a joke to you?*
Ever heard of Rashiduns and Ottomans?
Roman Empire: cries in extinction..
@@albe3879 one key reason is believed to be the victory over and subsequent destruction of carthago, after which they got lazy and decadent because there was no number one enemy anymore. That made it easier for rivals on the empire's outskirts to attack, knowing that the Roman military had become weak because of their decadence
Vandals: hold my beer
@@atharhussain22 Laughs in Winged Hussars
The meta has truly shifted towards the viruses
You again..
Bio warfare ....
the 12th century begs to differ
Way better than the school shooter meta of the last few patches
Yeah that's why a treatment that kills the virus is already available...
I had an Italian boss from originally Chirie near Torino, he had a map of Italy in his office, he had a horizontal line at Rome and under that line was written with a sharpie "AFRICA"
Racist
Well in Medieval and Rome Total War, Rome is literally the center of the map. So if you have a world-spanning empire. You should set your capital there to promote public order.
Austria: "It's over Italy, I have the High Ground!!"
Italy: "You underestimate my... wait, is that an avalanche?!?"
We actually won tho
y tho the EU has become quite worthless tbh, it was created for the countries to work together and we’ve seen how well that worked during Covid19
02051945 No, they Entente won. Italy didn’t do jack smh
@@user-lq1jc6wf5m yeah "won" while Italy never occupied an Austrian land in the war... The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was win with a huge help from the allies
Forse dovresti pensare agli italiani che vivendo in territorio austriaco erano costretti a combattere sotto minaccia che gli facessero fuori la famiglia...si e vero...
Molti si lanciavano verso le trincee italiane a morire piuttosto che ferire compatrioti e al contempo dalvare le famiglie...
Ma quelli nn li ricorda mai nessuno vero.
O del fatto che che gli austriaci presero a fottute cannonate milano.
Normal People: Uses google maps
RLL, an intellectual: *USES CIVILIZATION MAP*
Even history textbooks don't use civilization maps!
He’s officially a bee
Me, a larger intellectual: *USES ROME TOTAL WAR MAP*
I’m an Italian-American and both times I’ve been to Italy, I’ve been fascinated by the history, geography, architecture and culture.
Claiming the US invasion of Italy during WW2 was only possible thanks to Italy’s geography is partial, as the US army was aided and often preceded by partisans.
Also, it was the Sicilian mafia (which had interest in the fall of fascism) that made easy for them to land in the first place
Country: *exists*
RLL: hippity hoppity, this has bad geography
True i like the way you wrote that sentence
It's good for defense tho
Original comment, thank you
fart AND poop fart AND poop!!
Also RLL: Except if you're France.
Dear Italians, dear friends, stay strong in this bad period. Your Armor is strong. Greatings from USA.
Thank you! I see many people in the comments making jokes about this situation. I know they are joking and i like a to have a good laugh, but it's also really hearth warming to see foreigners beign supportive and really understanding this crisis we are going through.
Greeting from Italy, hope you all stay safe there in the US.
Thanks 💕
Stay strong you too, always keep your head up 😉
It's scary, but we all can do it 😊
Thanks a million, stay strong too!
Thank youu❤️❤️
@@tictacpee9718 Thanks for saing that :)
6:34 The battles on the isonzo river were actually a succes for italy; austrians were about to loose trieste, the only port of the empire and the its loss was possibly the event that would have ended war for austrians, so they called german's help and destroyed italian's army at caporetto, wich is also the name of the battle. It is not because of the mountains that they were defeated, but it was because italian army was weak compared to german army. Just to give you a scale, during ww1 winning a battle could have meant to go forward for 1 km, while the 11th battle on the isonzo river brought italian soldiers 10 km forwards.
Germany have used innovative tecniche to made the war they bomb italian front for an our instead a day and when Italian create bunker, the german forces attack and made a lot of prigioner.
@@avoig_3219 exactly, moreover they used to attack with small groups (wich is the precursion of blitzkrieg, the use of individual but fast divisions of tanks) and they used to circle out the trenches of italian soldiers.
@@Firefox-rt9ev yep, Erwin rommel was there
King Emmanuel should sack Cadorna early. Most of battles lost at Isonzo were just ill-prepared. And the guy blamed middle rank officers and even soldiers for that.
When ur geography is so op that the Devs have to nerf u
Italy: *Gets nerfed because of the geography*
Canada, Kazakhstan and Poland: First time?
He did a video where he talks about Poland's geography
Canada has pretty good geography
Heard Canada’s Geography is getting buffed in the climate change update along with Russia
@@wastedoxys Russia is getting nerfed actually
Youssef Abdelaal nahh I heard the new North Sea passage DLC is getting opened
Italy: We have the worst geography.
Japan: Hold my sushi.
good meme by hold my sake would've been better lol
@@doomturtle7579 New Zealand entered the chat!
Poland:I dont even know you guys
America: points and laughs mockingly.
MrRushSkies and the worst politicians...
As an Italian, I think Italy's Geography will start to be relevant again when African countries will see a massive development in their economies (as in the case of Nigeria). Just in this case, the Mediterranean see will start to be the center of commercial exchanges between Africa and Europe and Italy will be the first touchpoint of this interconnection.
Keep dreaming boi
interesting way to think about it. If Africa was to be able to garner more capital and banking services in general, maybe utilizing mico loans or cryptocurrency, I could very well see this happening.
Actually, Spain will be the first touchpoint
@user-wj8kv2rv4u for the western half of the continent, sure
But for the eastern half, including Egypt, the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean? A lot of that will go through the Suez Canal, and Italy has important ports for that network, like Venice
the developments seem to be mainly sub saharan
“And the United States”
*doesn’t highlight Alaska
*sad Alaskan noises
5:06
I'm guessing those noises sound something like a Sperm Whale giving birth.
We will teach RLL FREEDOM
Russia doesn't highlights Kaliningrad
@@narayankumar1716 Nor should it.
Italy: there is a medical emergency going on right now
RLL: here’s why your geography is now worthless!
They all got infected because their navy is weak and couldn't provide them a way out through the Mediterranean so they had to go over the Alps which caused a funnel of people where social distancing was null and void and encouraged the spread of the virus.
I believe this is where this video was going.
@@mattnorris7124 ??
It's literally adding insult to injury
@@mattnorris7124 Italy has a great navy what are you talking about, Italy has the virus bad bc they get cloth and materials from china for the fashion capital of the world: Milan to design cloths and keep its biggest economy going: fashion
The virus initially hit the provinces around one of the most active airports (Orio al Serio), I can bet the first wave came from there.
I always thought Italy's geography was a little weird , it's a country
surrounded by water and the water surrounding it is surrounded by land.
No other country is like that.
And that water surround the land, that surround the waters, that surround our land.
Maybe Greece too. But I get your point.
@@AdmiralBonetoPick Anatolia peninsula too
Greece enters the chat
One word. Greece
Not really a nerf IMO
When I saw "nerf", I was expecting a little known update The Dev snuck in by changing the maps terrain. This video outlines Italy's inherit locational trait of 'strong early game - weak late game'.
Still a very good video. I give it a 48/52.
I mean, Venice is undergoing a pretty bad nerf.
@@normanclatcher all coastal cities will, soon enough *laughs in Climate Apocalypse expansion*
Oohhh you’re so edgy broooo ….
I was about 60% through this video before I realized it wasn’t about the Eu4 Meta.
In Roman times, the most important resource for fighting was manpower, which Italy had plenty of (thanks to fertile farmland, and Roman expertise at irrigation to create more). In WW2 the most important resources were coal, iron, and oil, which Italy had hardly any of.
Italy has been my fascination since Assassin's Creed II. My dream is to travel throughout the length and breadth of Italy and see Florence, Milan, Venice, Rome, Vatican and every other city.
Its a beautiful country and with beautiful people! COVID-19 may have taken many lives but it will never dampen the beauty of Italy! ❤️ Insieme per la Vittoria, Italia!
Love, from India 🥰🇮🇳
Por i spanish... In italian we say per which means for anyway thank you for your support✌️
Funny that you mention this game because I just took it back thanks to the steam sales (and the free time given by the quarantine)
Just as good as I remember. This game really fueled my love for the Renaissance so badly
don't forget about southern cities like Naples and Palermo. They are very underrated
@@edoardoribolla5723 This isn't only the southern cities that are underrated, there northern cities as well such as Torino, Bologna or Ventimiglia
@@sephikong8323 I know, but I mean that the most visitated places in Italy are in the north-center
The geographical internal division also made separate beautiful cities to form, especially in the middle ages and Renaissance. Much cooler than having all the notable attractions in one city tbh
"They never got San Marino."
Is that a Bill Wurtz reference I spot?
Seems to be a San Marino reference
I THOUGHT JUST THE SAME THING
Real Life Lore: and the United States (doesn’t highlight Alaska)
Alaska:😭😭
Hawaii: am I a joke to you? Lol
I don't think Hawaii was under the US authority back then, or even Alaska.
I came searching for this comment
Heto He’s talking about modern day though
@@theodore474 He was talking about modern day great powers. I'm pretty sure Hawaii and Alaska are part of the modern day USA, unless there was a recent civil war no one told me about.
RLL: „Italy has been recently nerfed”
Coronavirus: “I just wanna say thank you, I wanna thank my Virus academy, my Virus friends and Family”
This is not funny, jerks
COVAD-19: Iam looking at you China your a G
lmaooooo
Loris Martino Perfetto but it is funny. Objectively.
@@lorismartinoperfetto6908 if we're go out, it might as well with a laugh lmao
id say Italy was less than nerfed and moreso left behind in the meta
Italy 2000 years ago: Yea boi I can attack anywhere in the Mediterranean, I can defend from anywhere via sea or mountain
The world 2000 years later: Mediterranean it is. Try extending any further lol
Italians in quarantine: oh ReaLifeLore uploaded! I'm sure whatever he's uploaded will take my mind off things and make me feel be-
Rip
True
Bruh, trust me, we don't need videos such as this to get depression over our own country, we just need to get out of bed every morning to accomplish that.
@@Drobexxx feels bad man (ti capisco)
Manuel Sacha I know how you feel, I’m American and our country has been decaying for decades.
Meanwhile , I hope they start recovering soon. Love and wishes to all Italian folks from India
Thanks India, same to you.
Thank you, hope the best for you too
thank u, good luck to you guys as well
Thank you so much. Stay safe
man, i really hope Italy recovers well.
if it went so bad in Italy who knows what would happen here in India in a country of 1.3 billion people.
10:26 Jesus fuck It's so dark in my room that I thought that moving head was a bug crawling along the bottom of my screen lmao I got startled
How Italy’s Geography got badly nerfed
Coronavirus: *who summoned thy god*
Said the burger.
The ironic part was that it was italians who led the exploration of the atlantic, effectively dooming their nation to irrelevancy
Fun fact: Cristóvão Colombo learn to navigate in Portugal.
@@pedrosabino8751 fun fact he is a Genovese one of the Naval superpower Republic
Irrelevancy? Don't think so, by this logic Germany, Russia and Austria should have been irrelevant too.
Italy highly influenced the world even during colonial times through its culture, and became one of the major economies and powers once unified. Not to mention its great maritime republics.
Plus, as history showed, having colonies but not being able to sustain and manage them can lead you to many economic, political and logistical problems as happened to Spain, Portugal and France. Infact the most successful colonizers were the Brits and to a certain extent the Dutch, given their little size. Not to mention that nowadays the main colonial powers of the past are literally being colonized back by immigrants from the former countries they invaded.
It's true tho that a late unification and the inaccessibility to the Atlantic crippled the enormous Italy's potential to be a global superpower like in the Roman times 🤷, this tho doesn't mean that Italy could automatically have become and remained a global power just because of colonies since in order to impose yourself on the world stage you still had to be strong in Europe. Only exception to this, again, are the Brits who despite having never had a major direct foothold on mainland Europe still managed through their economy, navy and diplomacy to remain relevant on the stage.
Despite all of this, Italy remained the richest area of Europe at least untill the 16th- mid 17th century.
Plus, the historical, economical and cultural contribution that constantly came from Italy since the ancient to modern times (unlike Greece who unfortunately stopped with the Byzantines) will always put Italy into a place of relevance
@@user-kk6yg7ds9z Everyone know that Portugal ended with the monopoly of Venece and Genoa. Furthermore, Columbus gained his skills in Portugal.
@@pedrosabino8751 everyone knows that many of the sailors at that time are Italian under the banner of other country genoa and venice was still important since the center of the world were still mediterranean (aamerica were not discover yet)
Italy: I'm a superpower
History: I'm about to end this man's whole career
Mussolini be like: 😱
Coronavirus*
It's the roaring 20s all over again.
Portugal: I'm about to end...
We stil are lol
Italy : you can't defeat us
Austria : We don't need to.
Italy : Wait what
This channel is just spectacular. It appeals to both the strategy gamer in me and the historical youtube channel addict
Their population is about to get nerfed hard..
Yeah, the word nerfed is kinda *UUHHMM* but Context is everything ofc
That is no funny, jerks
Lamaoaoabalaoahkakqo-
Yeah I know, I heard the devs could be bringing a big update to weaken the US and China as well as some European nations. Apparently they were too op
That moment when you were about to make a very similar joke but somebody did it first
0:48
Reallifelore : *including corsica a part of Italy*
France :
*That angry bald guy in a stadium meme*
Historically corsica was part of genoa so maybe he was talking generally.
I remember watching that guy live 😂😂
I guess it was at the cricket World Cup
The frencies they better give it back! Corsica=/=France
They are italics, Napoleon even changed his surname at the time. However they just don’t care about most of these things, it just is what it is توما التشاد
And Malta. It's either independent, or put it as Britain.
Every other channel I "watch" on UA-cam, I'm never looking at the screen. There's never any reason to. This is the first one I've ever come across, in which the visual content is imperative to fully understanding the verbal presentation, both of which are always illuminating. These productions should be taught in lieu of traditional geography classes. I'm 42, and I wish I had this when I was in 4th grade. I'll be binge watching the entire channel.
💜💙
🌏🌎🌍
"Italy has always been by her geographical reality"
Me a half Italian: My country is a girl and I was never told?
we all love italia-chan
Is "Italia" not feminine in Italian?
@@JimCullen As an Italian, yes it is. Every single noun in Italian has a gender, and Italy is most definitely feminine (as are most other nations, for that matter)
Well, the name in italian is feminine, and the country's national personification is a woman with a crown of walls called "Italia turrita (and "stellata" if accompanied by the other national symbol, the "Stella d'Italia" o "Stellone")"
In italian words have genders lol
Pray for Italy. Italians are some of the most humble and warm people on earth 😭💙
The Antichrist Also some of the most racist people 🤣
Would never say humble but warm yes. Italians never let you forget their cultural and historical legacy, in terms of soft power Italy is still a juggernaut. And that will never change.
@@cevinzeke5110 muslims?
@@lawbringer9857 LOL. Found the Frenchman. Still salty about 2006 eh?
What about the Italian owner from Amy's Baking Company
Reallifelore: *Coloring in the United States*
Alaska & Hawaii: Why don’t you like us
Not to mention, using the wrong German flag for the ww1 segment
The other part of the country that's often left off maps is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Great video! Really explained it well and encapsulated our history very well. The only thing I would like to add about the WW2 is that the Italian people also helped to free us a lot, with the partisans etc
I enjoy all ur videos keep uploading videos thanx
6:12 "And along the Isonzo river over here,"
( *12th Battle of the Isonzo River flashbacks* )
Avanti Savoia!!!!!
Cadorna and his near-fetish of invading the Isonzo...
You've really been inspired by TierZoo and Civ6 haven't you?
Oh? You could tell?
4:56 'Nearly all of the modern world's great powers, after all, aren't even located within the region. The UK, Germany, Russia...'
France: 'Am I a joke to you?'
We are the "nearly"! ^^
@@CubedSausagefromScarparius solo nel quinto secolo dopo Cristo la Germania sarebbe diventata abbastanza appetibile
@@poliorcetix979 well the Uk is pretty comparable with france, same for italy or brazil. I think the only true great powers of europe are germany and Russia
The 13th Battle of the Izonso was definitely gonna work though, believe me
Hold on. The "Byzantines" "invaded Italy"?
More like the Eastern Romans (i.e. Byzantines) wanted to retake their first capital of Rome and their lands from the Goths. Besides, many part of Italy were Greek colonies since time immemorial.
Yes but actually no. Greco-Gothic wars were disastrous for the people in Italy. They lasted for 20 years and plummeted the population down to 2-3 million people (before Roman levels). Goths and Byzantines in the attempt to control or retake cities they had lost, buned them down and forced the population to migrate to the coutryside basically starting Feudalism in the peninsula. At the end of that war Italy was devastated and you could say that the "Dark Ages" started at that point (at least here)
Giulio Patruno Yeah the Gothic War completely stomped Italy, only parts of the south were spared and the dark ages began for Italia.
Justinian should have stoped at Carthage or Sicily.
Phoenician and Greek colonies, my city (Palermo) was colonized by the Phoenicians
@@giuliopatruno7849 wow, Greco-Gothic war/!? Who are you to name the Roman reconquest of Italy like that!? Firstly, Justinian was not even Greek (even if he was Greek, it won't change the things). Second, in his time the official language was Latin (again, even if it was Greek official back in his days it won't change the fact that is the Roman Empire). Damn, some people can't follow a country's line of existence. Because of people like you, history as science is broken!
The same thing, invade Italy.
Whoever playin plague inc really hates italy
Nah they *HATE* china *WAY* MORE
@zonda_r2 New Zealand: allow me to introduce myself
Emiliiano Portillo actually Italy has more dead than China
@@leonardodavid2842 You forgot to mention another point.
When China was asked about COVID-19 by the WHO back in October or November, China denied its existance, saying it was a rumour (or something like that).
China lies a lot about its pandemics.
Italy: Regional problems and independent movements
Spain: Laught in Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Galician and all the older (semi-languages) like aragonese, cantabrian and even the Canary Island guanche language...
Edit: Coronavirus fucked up both Italy and Spain🤦♂️
but guanche is not related to the others. The Canary Islands were not part of Spain until the XV Century...
(edit: guanche languages are dead anyways)
Yeah, Italy has more languages in its territory than that lmao
I would say that Italy is far more diverse than Spain, in terms of language and culture, but Spain would prob be the 2nd most diverse country in europe.
When real life lore said “most of the world’s power isn’t even in the region, like uk Germany Russia India China Japan and the untied states” but when he’s said the United States and showed his land, real life lore didn’t show Alaska as usa
Just like Italy and Sardinia
Yep
RLL: Italy's geography got nerfed
**Corona Virus has entered the chat**
That's not funny
Ten thousand of people already died
@@PETEPChannel this jerk doesn't care about that
@@fellowfangurl310 sorry but as an italian, I felt attacked since nobody here is jocking about that.
This guy just copied the joke I sent him but ok(yea its me)
Italy is the “soft underbelly of the axis"
-Churchhill
big ouch
APPLY COLD WATER TO BURNT AREA
And then Churchill went on to never make any progress in Italy after capturing Rome....they were halted by the Germans in the North
He and USA chose not to move forward because of D day.
John von Shepard that’s not true and you should know that. American troops were active in the peninsula until the very end of the war they simply couldn’t overcome he German defenses.
Awesome type of videos i would love to see a version for Greece .
Beautiful work.
Covid-19 truly made an impact on Italy's economy and it's sad to see, stay safe everyone
stop appearing in the comment section of every video goddamn
I agree
@@ObeseGorilla229 wtf why
Electric Acid I hope we all get Ebola
I want it cos I wanna die
*RLL:* Italy's geography has been nerfed."
*Literally Everyone::* that ain't the only thing that's been nerfed.....
Sorry Italy. Good luck.
Thanks bro
🤣🤣 thank you!
This was a great video and the music slaps
Can you do one of these for Romania? I'm curious about how the Carpathian Mountains helps/hurts Romania; along with its various farmlands and oil fields.
You used gaming graphics to describe Italy, I see you’re evolving
Like a history/geography version of TierZoo
Why do I see you everywhere? Please stop hacking me.
Anyone wondering what the name of this song is, it's Crusaders Adriel Fair. (There's about 2 seconds in this video where the guy isn't talking over it, so I was able to Shazam it.)
Thanks
Everyone: learning about italy’s geography.
Me: vibing to the background music with full volume and headphones on.
I think this is a fun premise, I’m just struggling to see how the strait of Gibraltar was a barrier for colonization. 11 km is small on a global scale but still wide. The example given of access being blocked was from WWII well after the European Age of Exploration/Colonization.
Indeed. In fact the same could be told about the Netherlands which despite being blocked by the Dover Strait still managed to reach South Africa and Indonesia. If the Italian states never went colonising back then it was not because of Gibraltar but because most of them (Venice, Genoa, Tuscany) considered financial activities more advantageous than colonisation
@@persepoli96 Exactly
6:48 That's not a historically accurate German flag
Welcome to UA-cam 2020
Probably didn’t want to get demonetized.
Edit: Nevermind, he was talking about 1915 in WWI
Brother's gotta eat man, hard times
7:13 R.I.P. Valle d'Aosta
Valle d'Aosta is the new Molise :D
Don’t they make great cheeses there though? Mmmmm ...
@@s4cells4cell7 that's what France wants us to think.
FRENCH, STAY OUT OF THE MONTE BIANCO!
@@chasbodaniels1744 yes, a delicious cheese of valle d'Aosta is called fontina
@@antoniomariamacri7500 Ah tu veux parler du mont-blanc, ici à courmayeur on dit mont-blanc hein
Italy in my opinion can become once again part of the top 3 european powers thanks to the silk road project in which Italy has a strategic importance, if they manage a well economic policy and multilateral foreign relations (which is not the case today) i think they can go big !
Respect to this beautiful country from France. :)
Meh, I can bet the Chinese are going to buy everything and shit on it as soon as it gets economically less useful
Ah yes covid
Hey Reallifelore what inspired you or made you think of making a windmill as your UA-cam channel photo?
The title made me think it was TierZoo talking about a server for a second
It looks like a TierZoo video too
I’m praying for everybody in Italy during this rough time 🙏🏽
could you please keep praying? even though i moved back to the UK
If anyone is wondering the song is Crusaders 1 by Johannes Bornlöf
This was a great video!
Next video: How Italy’s population got badly nerfed
This is not funny, jerks
Yeah yeah good joke
*BUT THIS IS MY 16TH DAY IN QUARANTINE*
*Good luck to everyone suffering in Italy, China, and everywhere on earth. I hope we make it out of this crisis alive and everything will return back to normal.*
thank you!
Imperial Poland
We will. But it will be a rough year.
5:50 Correction! Italy didn't declare war on Germany in 1915. In fact Italy and Germany were not officially in war with eachother until 1917. Only AH and Italy were.
I love how someone who played civilization, I love these visuals.
Yep (tips to win as Spain? I f-ed up and made Madrid surrounded by mountains)
Mediterranean literally means "Middle of the world" Medi + terrarum
False. It means "landlocked sea" or "sea in the middle of the land". Terra means both eart and land in italian
@@bigbang5848 And seeing as you are such a smart alec, what the word for "eart" in Latin?
Everyone; Italy is op
God: ok I nerf
Italy: god wtf
God not real
Princeps Civitatus ok
@@strongcool that's not allowed
@@Dominus_Augustus ok atheist
Leonardo David 28
Italy ruled by the Pope sounds pretty neat
Hey, please put a link to the music in the description. I want to be able to listen to it while writing and I can't find this song
I love how you used civ 6 to explain this. I love that game so much