Crazy how I can learn more history in an hour than my entire high school experience.

@jed_5124

21 күн бұрын

So real

@asahelnettleton9044

21 күн бұрын

All by (Dewey's) design.

@History102-qg5oj

21 күн бұрын

Aww... thanks so much. you made my day

@mrusername5

21 күн бұрын

@@History102-qg5ojNo prob. We all need to uplift one another in the search for truth. 👍

@geesixnine

21 күн бұрын

Public schools are prisons

44:36 "People would go to bed, then wake up dead" Afterwards, they would have breakfast and read their name in the newspaper obituary.

@heroes8689

17 күн бұрын

How the hell do you wake up dead?😆

"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

The medieval period is so fascinating that most people overlook or hate on. Thank you guys for sharing this brilliant discussion.

My ansestors fought in the largest medieval battle, the battle of Grunwald, against tutonic order and got a castle in return 🇵🇱⚔️🤺

@WhatifAltHist

20 күн бұрын

Very based

@warmonkey3216

10 күн бұрын

🇮🇩 🇮🇩 🇮🇩

Rudyard is really selling the Medieval age to me

I completely disagree. It was social changes that caused the decline of the chivalric ethos and the fall of cavalry. The proof of this is Poland. The Polish hussars defeated Western armies in battles where the Swedes lost 10,000 men and the Lithuanians 100 men. This is the Battle of Kircholm. They similarly defeated the Austrian army in the Battle of Byczyna. Poland also used modern armies and trench warfare, as in the Battle of Chocim in 1620. It was social changes that caused changes in the way of fighting, not the way of fighting that caused social changes. The main reason for these changes in the West was the ruins of the Roman Empire, which were not present in the East. They used old roads and rebuilt the ruins of old cities. This supported urbanization. This is especially visible in the case of Italy, where by utilizing the ruins of Rome, these cities could be so powerful that with high population growth, they could create separate strong states. Poland, on the other hand, became oligarchized due to the annexation of Ukraine. An oligarchic class emerged, which based its power on the lands of Ukraine and Belarus and destroyed the relatively Western social network in the territories of Poland from the times of Casimir the Great. Polish society was destroyed by an oligarchy that built its power on the colonization of Ukraine. Therefore, pikes and muskets did not change the social structure in Poland; Polish knights could easily defeat modern Western armies. The conclusion is that social changes caused military changes, not the other way around.

@Mcfunface

17 күн бұрын

Fascinating insight, thank you. You've inspired me to look into this theory more.

@ChrisAthanas

13 күн бұрын

Ukraine seems to permanently be up for grabs

@plendafuture7451

8 күн бұрын

I believe your statement misses the point that social and military changes are not independent variables . They work in tandem . If you change one variable the other variable change . The fact that you brought up Poland and it's social change can also be seen from the other lens. Truth is somewhere in the middle .

@ReinmarVonBielau

Күн бұрын

@@plendafuture7451 I think social changes are much more crucial. The truth is where it is. If the truth is in the middle, then all you need to do is come up with some absurdly stupid extreme theories, and the truth will end up where you want it to be. It's too simple.

GREAT episode you two, Im almost more excited for these than your Whatifalthist videos!

outSTANDing. I shit you not, I was just thinking at work " were about due a whatifalthist video..." and then I come home to see this!! Almost as good!

@jrc25_

21 күн бұрын

he still needs to post on his main channel though

Whatifalthist: I hate how schools condense the medieval period like it was not over 1000 years ago Also Whatifalthist: *Explaining Medieval history in one hour*

@razortheonethelight7303

21 күн бұрын

Just means he needs to do part 2,3,4,5+ of the Medieval Europe.

@WhatifAltHist

21 күн бұрын

We’re going to end up making like half a dozen videos on the European Middle Ages besides this. The dark ages, the Vikings, Renaissance, Crusades, Hundred Years’ War etc…

@theuniverse5173

21 күн бұрын

​@WhatifAltHist Erm what the sigma?

@cartdot

21 күн бұрын

@@WhatifAltHist sweet, when are we getting the Jewish civilization video, I can wait to hear a gentile explain Biblical history, The macabees, Early Roman Empire, the Muslim Golden Age, Maimonides, The inquisition, Spinoza, history in half a video. It’s kind of tricky because the Ashkenazi have more influence today but their history philosophy stems from the Sephardic golden age, whereas Sephardic were historically more influential. Obviously Ashkknazi history is easy to gloss over until the enlightenment. In addition to the aforementioned topics the other half of the video might also have to have to speak about Polish history, Napoleon and his influence on Jewish emancipation, migrations into America, the Holocaust, and the history of Israel all in one video. I find it hard to simplify considering how isolated and spit Judaism is, and the period of time. You have a knack for simplifying topics while coherently obtaining the relevancy. Can’t wait to see how it turns out.

@bakters

21 күн бұрын

He got Eastern Europe definitely wrong, and most likely Islamic Golden Age too. But he's good overall.

Bro I could have listened to another 2 hours on the subject. Please do more videos like this, especially Hussite Wars or the Ottoman invasions. There are just so many subjects and stories to be heard.

I was bored out of my fucking mind a few minutes ago so this is a pleasant surprise

Been really enjoying this series. Can't wait for the 30 years war and the 100 years war.

Love watching this podcast with the chill Sheldon Cooper

Ive been anticipating this. A good way to start the day

Love this series!

Rudy's videos are one of the most interesting I've seen in a long time, when it comes to sociohistorical topics!

I'd argue the high middle ages starts slightly before the crusades right after the battle of hastings at the close of the great viking raids

@careyfreeman5056

21 күн бұрын

And ends at Bosworth.

@bakters

21 күн бұрын

@@careyfreeman5056 Could you guys be any more anglocentric? ;-)

@careyfreeman5056

21 күн бұрын

@@bakters In this case, we're speaking specifically of England. Maybe 100 years war due to France becoming more of a nation state toward the end? Maybe the end of the Italian wars on the continent?

@bakters

21 күн бұрын

@@careyfreeman5056 Oh, then it makes sense.

@careyfreeman5056

21 күн бұрын

@@bakters I think the key factor in the turning between the Middle Ages and Early Modern period is the centralization of power in the hands of the King/State. And you see this happening all over Europe in the late 15th century.

You should do an episode on the protestant reformation, or the religious wars of that time. Would also love to see a 30 years war video or something like that because of how you mentioned it before. Love the content and im glad you brought back the intro 🙏🍻

@ZontarDow

21 күн бұрын

30 years war is more important to world history then people think because that's basically where the rule of law based order began.

Iam Spanish born in Valencia a very very proud of Christian King conqueror in 1.238 James l of Aragon Crown the founder of tha actual region

@leoborros

20 күн бұрын

Visca Valencia, Visca Jaume el Conqueridor

4:05 ok who else checked their phones...

This was quite educational as someone who knew a lot of this it was still so refreshing to go over this again

I was with you, until you stated that Eastern Europe "had a chance, but because the nobility won, they installed serfdom, got poor and lost" (I'm paraphrasing, obviously). So, first of all the aggressive serfdom was not in places where the nobility won, but in Moscow, later Russia. That's where it resembled slavery the most. Then, you say that the serfs "had little choice". That's just not true, because they could always run away. That was *very common* . And they didn't run away far at all. Usually to the neighbor of the guy who mistreated them. That's why later they made the laws, which allowed people for recovering "their" serfs from the neighboring village. Finally, even later when Poland was partitioned, the serfs never ran away to the West or the South partitions, where they'd be "free". As it happened, there was a mass migration *the other way around* . And the serfs never rebelled, while there was a huge and nasty peasant uprising in the Austrian partition. Peasant uprisings were very common in the West too, while in the Russian controlled part of Poland only the nobles rebelled constantly. They were *not* supported by the peasants. Anyway, the main reason why Eastern Europe was poor was low population. Nothing else is required to explain it. Low population was caused by wars and pretty much constant Tatar raids. You look at this huge area on the map and assume that lots of people lived there. Not so. One of the reasons why peasants were not mistreated. There was always enough land, not enough hands to work it. However, it wasn't a poor as it may seem. At the time of partitions, one single region of Poland (Wielkopolska) was richer than the whole of Prussia (who also had low population).

Excellent as always Rudyard.

Great video! I’d love to see a video about the Spanish Reconquista

So stoked!!! And it debuted on Orthodox Ascension Day too!!

@9:42 "Medieval senses of manners were insane!" Then he goes on to describe a bunch of stuff that people still do....

@bubble-wu6fi

20 күн бұрын

Lmao

And both Protestants and the Catholics ignored the entire Byzantine history.

Very, very good analysis.

Hey guys, love the show. Though I think that to get your views up, considering upgrading cameras/implementing a green screen in some capacity would help. Sad to see this good of a series only get seen a couple thousand times

I play this with an underlay of another channel broadcasting shortwave code. It's like the guy on the left is reading the code. And I pretend every time the guy on the right looks behind him its because he is annoyed at the static.

Can we get a video on the Reformation and the subsequent wars?

I want the music at the beginning now.

Omg finally someone who correctly pronounces etcetera

Great episode. Im exited for the rise of Islam and the Islamic Golden Age....

@neolithictransitrevolution427

20 күн бұрын

There's been a lot of horrible events in and for history. Collapses of the Bronze age, destruction of the American indigenous cultures. But the Mongol destruction of the Islamic Golden Age is among the worst.

I love these, but i have to follow with a little constructive criticism, Rudyard. Since this is such a massive amount of history covering many countries it comes off a little incoherent because you're trying to explain so much in such short amount of time that it makes it difficult to follow. I would suggest you break this down and go through the history of each area of Europe over the middle ages. Just a suggestion but either way i will be here rooting you on, brother!

For those interested in medievalist anarco-capitalism check out the works of Hans Herman Hoppe

@conorobriencoaching

21 күн бұрын

Agreed, super interesting

I would argue the medieval period was the foundation of feudalism with the Carolingian empire (~800Ad) to the peace of Westphalia (1648). I would argue the period from the Christianisation of Rome to the start of proper feudalism is a separate proto-medieval period.

Did you know, that Charles IV: king of Bohemia and holy Roman emperor had a long and successful reign? If you know, you know.

Disgust Sensitivity has evolved today to Discuss Sensitivity.

I mark down the end of the middle ages once coffee gained popularity in Europe. It got people out of the watery beer era and into more productivity.

Thoughts on how the Alans and Scythian tribes pushed into Europe by the huns (at the same time as German Migrantions and romes collapse) influenced later culture (including or excluding Hungary)? Concepts like mounted warriors, armour, chivalry (not a concept of the German or Roman populations)? Thoughts on the book from Scythia to Camelot?

The phone charging sound is a major distraction.

Could you make a video about 19th century colonialism, maybe even dispelling some of the misconceptions/myths along the way ?

Hello there, *Rudiardicus*

@danielwatcherofthelord1823

21 күн бұрын

Hahaha! That's a good one!

If I could live in this Era (assuming I know the language) I’d probably live in Venice. The commercial and manufacturing guilds were pretty strong. They had an interesting kind of proto-democracy going on. The city was wealthy, and the upper classes were committed to improving its power, reputation and civic identity by improving it. Education and learning were respected. Some merit-based upward mobility was possible. Trade goods from all the known world flowed across the city's docks. The citizens were more open-minded than most, due to their contacts with other cultures. Territorial ambitions were minor and the city was easily defended from others. War was rarely as profitable as trade, so it was generally a last resort when provoked. Second, would be the Islamic Caliphates. I want to be apart of the Golden Age.

@bakters

21 күн бұрын

"Proto-democracy" in Venice? Could you remind me from which language democracy comes?

@neolithictransitrevolution427

20 күн бұрын

​@@baktersanother proto democracy in Greece. Democracy in practice had never happened by the time of Venice and possibly still hasn't dependent on the scope of power for democratic control you're requiring. Just because the concept comes from Greece, does not mean that either there were democracies in Greece, or that Venice couldn't be a proto-democracy, even if a true democracy hadn't existed. This is completely unfounded outrage. Greece is a rouge province of Turkey (so you have something to be angry about).

Nice!

Every young person should learn about this.

About western Europe he is correct, but when he talks about anything east from germany then he makes a lot of mistakes.

Was Lincoln Cathedral really taller than Angkor Wat?

I find it disturbing how one guy, who later recanted his own claim when people pointed out the obvious problems with his paper, has created the belief that people only worked 2 days per week.

@neolithictransitrevolution427

20 күн бұрын

It's a very easy thing to want to believe

YESSSS FINALLY

VIDEO ON WEIMAR GERMANY

It’s Sutton Rudyard

I miss the local universe perspective

Le Grand Schisme 1378. Le pape d'Avignon et le pape de Rome . Brings a new perspective to what I believed.

RUDYARD POST ON YOUR MAIN CHANNEL MORE !!!

@stevesmithy5644

15 күн бұрын

No, this is peak content

Medieval people: My source is I made it the fuck up.

35:26 What if Germany………..?

0:47 Bronze? Thought they used steel.

15:53 only ⅔? Sounds nice...

Rudy explain history the way I explain conspiracy theories. One sentence is completed for every three started.

Rudiger claims to have cured his PTSD, yet he's dependent on kava kava, or kratom, or some shit.

21:00 Sounds a lot like pro-soccer athletes training kids from the age of 6 until their adult years.

LOL at Prussia in 1150 map

For now 59:02

I think it's reasonable to compare eastern serfs to colonial and post revolution American slavery, but certainly not Antebellum era chattle slavery.

Naw, that sword is a weapon in California. Source: Cops telling me I couldn't keep mine in my car. They decided not to prosecute what they said would be a felony. As I was clearly harmless and clueless.

It was pikemen that started turning the tides against the nobility, not guns 😅

‼️‼️‼️ WHAT THE HELL 🤬🤬🤬 YOU CAN’T JUST APPOINT A FRENCH POPE 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 ✝️✝️✝️ 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Can we get Islam next?

I am 40 minutes in and the guy on the left has said almost nothing.

44:42 wake up dead? rotfl...

Medieval Europe is the high point in human ethics and values.

@bcb5696

21 күн бұрын

Cringe and delusion

@epiccrusadr8583

18 күн бұрын

@@bcb5696your describing the modern age

@bcb5696

18 күн бұрын

@@epiccrusadr8583 you’re* ignorant of history

Reasons for Poland's backwardness: 1. No Pax Romana, Rome did not venture into these areas or conquer the local population with its civilizing mission. Perhaps because the ancestors of Poles appeared here in the 6th century, when Rome had already fallen. 966. Poland begins to catch up with Western Europe. The distance to the front of the peloton is about 200 years, but Poland is catching up, even opening the first university, which, unfortunately, is quickly falling into decline. Poland becomes one of the German countries, although with a separate language, but the state is organized in a German way, with German law, German offices, German cities. 1410. Hold up, the fact that Poland imitates Germany is no reason to attack and conquer it. We don't want Deutsches Fried here. 1500 and beyond. Poland gets offended, it is fed up with modern customs and Germanism. Especially since there is a process of joining a small territorially ethnic Poland, organized, governed by law, with a city council, to Greater Belarus, confusingly called Lithuania. The new state turns its back on Europe, feeling quite comfortable in the Russian mir, i.e. anarchy. The state-building class, the nobility, doesn't give a damn about anything other than their comfort and prosperity, sciences and arts are declining, noble children, after years spent in Jesuit schools, are as stupid as they were at the beginning, but stupid in Latin, not Polish. Peasants were turned into slaves without rights, townspeople were marginalized, cities fell into decline because 90% of the population (peasants) had no money to trade. Only German cities are holding on (Gdańsk). The fallen European civilization is replaced by a phenomenon on a global scale - an imaginary and fictitious civilization, Sarmatism. Nothing in it is true, everything is a crazy phantasmagoria created by Father Dębołęcki, and the highest product of this civilization is New Athens, created by another priest, Benedykt Chmielowski. Poland becomes an opera country from oriental opera. But what is fun for Mozart, for the Polish nobility is a reality treated with the deepest seriousness. The nobility adds to its historical origins, deriving them from the Iranian Sarmatians, dresses up in a masquerade of Turkish costumes, grows a Turkish mustache and dreams of power while snoring for 200 years. It wakes up when a failed state is divided among its neighbors for the first time. The coming 30 years will be a race against time - will Poland be saved or will it be lost. Institutions are created, instead of the imaginary offices of chamberlain and cupbearer, real administration is reborn, intellectual ferment is born, art, theater, painting, literature are reborn, science is reborn, public libraries are established, the press begins to function again, and when the press cannot keep up public debate moves to leaflets. Not everyone wants to take part in the awakening, there is a reaction to changes and shocks, the nobility en masse joins the infamous Targowica Confederation, promising to return to and preserve "traditional values, family, homeland". The impulses for change come from the outside, they are imposed. The Constitution of 1807 frees the peasants and gives them full freedom, but without property. They still have to wait for this one. Only gradually did they become full citizens and owners, at the latest, in 1864, in the Russian partition. It's starting to catch up they rest of Europe again, after 100 years the industrial revolution reaches Poland, universities are being established again, and, more importantly than universities, universal education is being established, even in the countryside. The momentum created in the 19th century continues and accelerates after regaining independence, although the mainly Russian industrial markets are collapsing. Poland is out of breath, crises are coming, politicians are trying to antagonize minorities, even though Gdynia is being built. In 1939 comes the greatest catastrophe, greater than the Swedish wars. 6 million Poles are killed, elites are being killed, Jewish genocide is being carried out, and more are planned. After 6 years, Poland emerges from the war lost, ruined, weak and subject to an imposed, insane ideology and dogmas managed by the imposed authorities. Intellectual potential is wasted on the production of senseless party brochures about the superiority of socialism, on the implementation of crooked large-scale socialist constructions, the economy cannot cope with consumer production, but within the system it cannot be different, efficient, innovative, developmental and competitive. 1989. Poland again in the starting blocks in the form of camp beds and stalls, gray, poor, neglected, gloomy. And it manages again, it runs faster than the others, although it is still behind, but getting closer. Fuck, don't waste it this time.

@WhatifAltHist

19 күн бұрын

This was beautiful. Thank you

@Marcel-NiclasWarncke

18 күн бұрын

Except Rome was an empire built on genocide, not on a "civilizing mission."

@_r4x4

18 күн бұрын

@@WhatifAltHist It's fake in most parts.

@Radonatorr

12 күн бұрын

@@WhatifAltHist @cajmon1251 Everything about "1500's and beyond" to the Partitions is total bullshit. Turning away from "Germanism" wasn't any cause of cultural decline, 16th century is precisely the time of so called Polish Renaissance, also known as the Polish Golden Age, when specifically Polish arts, culture and science flourished. This is precisely the period of Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicloaus Copernicus), this is the time when Polish culture was actually very attractive for everyone in Eastern Europe, as demonstrated by the adoption of Polish language and customs by Lithuanian, Ruthenian and to some extent Russian artistocracy. Sarmatism, as every other ideological and political movement, also evolved across time and in the first half of its existence it looked nothing like you described. The deranged irrational thing you describe was Sarmatism at the very end of its life circle, 200 years later, mixed with the black legend of Sarmatism created by intellectuals in the 19th century. And its degeneration too has nothing to do with "Germanism". Half of what is written here is an increadibly simplified and shallow view of Polish history seen through some strange Germanophilic lense

women, however, were property.

@leoborros

20 күн бұрын

And that should have never changed.

@ethank.3201

20 күн бұрын

Like anybody else at the time. Then when the West surpassed the others, they by their own standards treated women better. Equality and egalitarianism is strictly Western. In our Western-dominated world, this is why other civilizations like in Arabia, South India, and China, are introducing equality laws for their women.

@perniciousseizurehellio3438

19 күн бұрын

@@ethank.3201I think saying equality and egalitarianism is strictly western is way too far other societies had equality in the Muslim world for example it didn’t matter what race you were as long as you were Muslims it’s just the west has given their women more rights than anyone else

@WhatifAltHist

19 күн бұрын

They weren’t. Women weren’t the property of men anywhere in Christendom. The church gave them special legal rights

@ethank.3201

18 күн бұрын

@@perniciousseizurehellio3438 So you’re equal as long as you’re Muslim got it 👍

The medieval era should be ashamed when compared to what the Greeks and Roman were able to accomplish they do pale in comparison not to mention that they were at hundreds of years in the future

@neolithictransitrevolution427

20 күн бұрын

That's not true. Cathedrals built in the medieval era are architecturally superior to Greek and even roman structures. Metallurgy advanced more rapidly. The plow example given is an example of that, so are cannons and guns. Slavery was greatly reduced.

You guys should do a Bronze Age collapse video

15:53 only ⅔? Sounds nice...