Was Constantine one of the Greatest Roman Emperors or was he the downfall to all of Europe? Drop a comment 👇

@steverossini

2 жыл бұрын

Greatest of Eastern Roman Empire.

@keirangrant1607

2 жыл бұрын

You say the name of Constantinople in a unique way

@bogdan4055

2 жыл бұрын

Consider erasing this video, because of missleading and flaše information. Reported, btw.

@raydavison4288

2 жыл бұрын

@@steverossini: I would opine that there were three eastern Roman emperors vying for the position of the "greatest", Constantine, Justinian & Theodosius.

@hamiltoneu

2 жыл бұрын

Constantine and Christianity as developed by it's practitioners. On paper, Christianity is a religion of peace and love of all, but not in practice.

Julius Caesar- a farmer? Definitely not. He came from a noble family and all noble families in Rome owned a lot of land, but that doesn’t mean they were farmers. They were slave owners and had others do the work.

@chrisboyer4348

Жыл бұрын

Yeah white people do no work but had others do it seems pretty accurate 🤣

@sandywichmann9292

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisboyer4348 Can we just remember for a moment that “white” people didn’t invent slavery? The color of your skin doesn’t make you a good or a bad person- it is, in fact, just melanin. But if you are talking about the European culture/imperialism, I am totally on board! That was abominable and horrible what they did to people. Just as bad as the slave markets of the Ottoman Empire or the slaves sacrificed by the Inca or Aztec indians.

@user-po8ke5vh2e

Жыл бұрын

@@xtg_ he probably thougth that the Farmer means that he was doing his land by his own hands)

"CON-STAN-TI-NO-PLE"

@ScentsOfSouthJersey

2 жыл бұрын

Not the first video where it’s completely mispronounced on this channel 🤣

@Gosdatwork

Жыл бұрын

It kills me every time

For the love of Pete, say it with me, CON-STAN-TI-NOPLE

@dnah2k

2 жыл бұрын

Lol! Love these guys but it had me second guessing everything I accept as truth…

@jchisholm1968

2 жыл бұрын

Constantipation! Lol

@george5156

2 жыл бұрын

Of course now that the churchs in Istanbul are mosques it's academic

Wow! I suffered through the first 2 minutes of this train wreck Video and clicked away to go straight to the comments. Thankfully the majority of the comments renews my hope for mankind.

@beth7935

2 жыл бұрын

Same! I rarely nope out in the 1st minute, but this was unbearable, & I just hoped some people with actual brains had pointed out that it's utter GARBAGE. I'm relieved that they did, & I'm off to click "don't recommend this channel again".

@jackturner214

2 жыл бұрын

When they called the channel "Nutty History," I assumed it meant that there were nutty things in history, not that they were an historian who had lost their marbles!

@redwoodcoaststudio1610

10 ай бұрын

Same!! I came here after the second pronunciation of "Constanople", and Julius Caesar was a farmer.

There are many things in this video that are wrong. The Dark Ages were the first half of the Middle Ages or medieval period. Furthermore, the Dark Ages were limited to Western Europe. The Eastern Roman Empire, ruled from Constantinople continued to maintain a high level of civilization. The third quarter of the medieval period, from roughly 1000 to 1250, is called the high middle ages and might be called the ages of the crusades. The Dark Ages were a period of military failure for Western Europe when it was being invaded by the Muslims from the south, the Vikings from the north, and various enemies from the east. The Vikings and others were converted to Christianity, thus securing Western Europe's northern flank, and Western Europe went on the offensive. The final quarter of the Middle Ages was a period of rapid technological advancement beyond anything the world had ever seen up to that point. To call that part of the Dark Ages is not just wrong it is ridiculous. While the last 250 years of the medieval period in Western Europe was a scientific and technical triumph compared to anything that had come before it was nothing compared to what came later. From 15 hundred on Western Europe and eventually, the areas influenced by Western Europe saw rapidly accelerating technological progress. So even the last quarter of the Middle Ages can seen as a failure from the modern perspective but from the perspective of what came before it was a brilliant success.

@katiewever5687

2 жыл бұрын

He's not wrong

@EddieED711

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, the Dark Ages is from 931 BCE, even to now! This is the MYSTERY OF MAN!

@Kopite4life12

2 жыл бұрын

Crazy that people still believe this renaissance myth!

@Redjoekido

2 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as the Dark Age. I believe the Medieval Age begun with Diocletian in 284. It ended in 1760's

@davidwilliambarker

2 жыл бұрын

@@EddieED711 - Well, that's just garbled nonsense, you wet shoe.

There are so many historical inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and uses of outdated perceptions in this video, I feel compelled to unsubscribe. When you said “Julius Caesar was a farmer,” I absolutely laughed out loud! The dude never farmer a day in his life. He was an Aristocrat! His father was a governor of the province of Asia! This is even more egregious than Braveheart’s representation of William Wallace. Anyone watching this should stop before you are too misinformed

@arthas640

2 жыл бұрын

This was hands down one of the worst history videos I've seen since Ancient Aliens. It's so wrong it would be cringey even if it was meant as historical fiction.

@vickiewallace415

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@Galen_G

2 жыл бұрын

TY!!!

@k-matsu

2 жыл бұрын

He lost me when he pronounced Constantinople as " KON-stan-OH-pull". Spent the rest of my time here reading the comments.

@dixjam2258

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he was the best farmer in his village, and won Fastest Scythe 3 years in a row at the Latium Local Farmers Championships. Crassus and Pompey won silver and bronze medals, although Crassus did win the gold medal in the Shoveling Dung competition, but Caesar won that too the following year. Caesar s last words after You Too Brutus, is said to have been Me Too Crassus...

"Hugely backwards time in humanity" - When he says humanity, he really just meant Europe

@topologyrob

Жыл бұрын

And Western Europe at that

Constantine after watching a weird light in the Sky: "For the Gods. What was that thing in the sky we just saw?" Lactantius: "A message from God, who wants you to reunify the Empire under the cross of Jesus. With the symbol he made in the sky you shall conquer!" Constantine: "You're right. If, in order to restore Rome's glory, I must use the signal of the God of christianity and spread his word throughout the Empire, then it shall be done!" *Draws sword* "FOR CHRIST!!!" Soldiers: *Draw swords* "FOR CHRIST!!!" *Meanwhile, a few kilometers away* Shepherd: *Returns home, finding his house completely destroyed by a meteorite* "Son of a b*tch..."

@leonieromanes7265

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it was a UFO. I'm sure aliens are our God's.

@silvam7558

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 good one 🤣🤣🤣

@george5156

2 жыл бұрын

Also the beer the shepard was looking forward to drinking was spilled .

I thought the Dark Ages was the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Norman conquest of England (1066). My understanding is that the dark ages is another term for the Early Medieval Period. In terms of there being little Scientific progress during the entire medieval period- I think this is true in some areas of learning such as Medicine, but was not the case in some other areas such as agricultural practices, and weapon manufacture and development.

@GrumpaGladstone1809

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, you are exactly right, the two periods are not the same.

@emmanouilachladiotis5272

2 жыл бұрын

No as greeks and roman were still with westen or greek philosophy. Only when the schism of West and easy roman came, came the divide and conquer and split West old religion and east new christianity (not early christianity) 300 400 years later then jesus crucifixion ? What makes people wonder if even jesus wasnt just a myth or copy of an ancient greek story or happening that jews copy past

@arthas640

2 жыл бұрын

It is, the channel just didnt even bother to research anything. Near as I can tell they just made the video based off info they got from movies and TV shows since even the first minute is filled with falsehood after falsehood and most of what he says is complete BS

@edwin5419

2 жыл бұрын

Right on, tho it's usually held to have ended with Charlemagne's coronation in 800 and spreading out from there, rather than being Anglocentric.

@jackturner214

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you are quite correct: the notion that this period of history was especially backwards or simplistic was an invention of Enlightenment historiographers who felt themselves to be the true inheritors of the learning of classical antiquity and to support their own anti-religious (Bayle, Collins, Gibbon) or anti-clerical/anti-Christian (Voltaire, Payne, Hume) biases. In popular practice, "dark age" has been used to describe everything between the fall of the Western Empire and the author's own era, up to the Enlightenment. For these reasons, the term is typically NOT used by modern historians.

This one's more nutty than history. Nice work of fan fiction

@bartbannister394

2 жыл бұрын

Really? What exactly, did he say that you can prove was in error?

@edwin5419

2 жыл бұрын

@@bartbannister394 riddled with factual inaccuracies, based on the only known sources at the time. I have a history degree, specialising in medieval history. It's like reading a "historical novel" and someone saying "which parts were wrong and cite your sources". Lol

@bartbannister394

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwin5419 I see, you have a degree in history but can't or won't specify.

@nicky5683

2 жыл бұрын

Well, let's see here. The syncretism mentioned (Peter being substituted for Jupiter, Constantine's self-deification, et al) are complete falsehoods. To wit, the record suggests that a) Constantine didn't become Christian until very late in life and b) he was baptized as an Arian Christian, by an Arian bishop. Moreover, the creator of this video cites Constantine as the progenitor of the bloated bureaucracy and the decline of the farming class. Diocletian established the division of the Empire under Augustus' and Ceasars, and established a larger bureaucracy in order to more efficiently collect taxes and administer these reforms (which failed). Constantine became the sole emperor, and kept his capital at Constantinople in an effort to lessen the influence of the Senate. Those of the senatorial class (I belive one had to be an equestrian rank to be part of that class) was directly responsible for what was, in effect, serfdom and the disappearance of the 'free' plebian class(es), through expanded use of slavery, expansion of the manorial villas (particularly in the western portions of the Empire), and heavier taxation instituted by the emperors (see Diocletian reforms), all of which can be seen starting with Nero and his successors. The list goes on ad nauseum.

@edwin5419

2 жыл бұрын

@@bartbannister394 Nick has just scratched the surface for you. It would take a several hour video debunking all the nonsense in this video. Feel free to look it up yourself.

I've never taken this channel as factual. It's more like "'funny history'''. They leave out so many facts and use terms so out dated and out of place. For example, the Dark Ages does not include the Medieval period. It refers more to the few centuries BEFORE.

@Bogdan-uu5oe

2 жыл бұрын

More to the few centuries in western Europe. For the other parts of the world life continued to develop normaly.

@victoriawhite3662

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, I think this channel gets its history from a set of 1990 encyclopedia books🤣

@strangelic4234

2 жыл бұрын

There is funny if a bit oversimplified and then there is plain wrong. Funny and oversimplified can still have a positive effect, as it makes people curious and they might look for more information. Plain wrong videos like this leave the watcher more ignorant than they were before.

@george5156

2 жыл бұрын

If it weren't for early Moslems, all of the knowledge of and from Greece and Rome would have been lost forever like the library of Alexandria

@kristaps5296

Жыл бұрын

​@@george5156 Lol bs. The Arabs merely translated the Greek originals from the Byzantines who never lost them.

Wow doesn’t it sound a lot like corporations buying large amounts of farming?

@johndesade126

2 жыл бұрын

Part of the problem was invasion of groups such as the Saracens, Goths, et al. Rome/Byzantine could not defend the countryside (the state was sending armies to keep Asian invasions down); a farmer would give a lord his land and then work it and get a percentage of the crops/profit (aka sharecropper), in return for defense against invading armies (Northsmen ot Asiatic groups), or even other Roman armies, who started fighting each other to get their 'general' installed as the next Emporer; teh Roman armies would come through, take grain, animals, or even slaves of the farmer's family, and not worry about paying for it. They became serfs as the lesser of two evils.

@johndesade126

2 жыл бұрын

@eclectic tyrone Right!

The 'Dark Ages' (a term that has fallen into disuse by modern historians) is not the medieval period. The so called Dark Ages were believed to have ran from the fall of the last Roman emperor in 476 to the beginning of the eleventh century AD. The medieval period is considered to have ran from around the middle of the eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century. Not the same at all.

@madgeordie4469

2 жыл бұрын

@@timmyotoole7312 Yes it does. The Moors were representatives of an Arab culture which was considerably in advance of anything in the west.

@pseudochadio

2 жыл бұрын

@@timmyotoole7312 when did spain become the entirety of europe? Or should we comsider the middle east and north africa parts of europe?

@johndoeiii9767

2 жыл бұрын

_"Thanks to the teachings of the Qur'an and its emphasis on the cultivation of knowledge... Different scientific disciplines were derived from the Qur'an and spread across the world by Muslim thinkers. The world was illuminated with the light of the Qur'an and the culture of Islam."_ - Rev. Bosworth Smith _"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell

@madgeordie4469

2 жыл бұрын

@@johndoeiii9767 From around the ninth century AD to the end of the fifteenth century the Arab states were far ahead of western Europe. They led the world in everything from medicine to astronomy to mathematics. Only the Chinese of the time came even close. However when Islam became more hard line and it's practitioners turned to the letter of the Quran from it's spirit all advancement stopped and the Arab achievements were overtaken by those of the west. The renaissance, the reformation and the enlightenment ensured that this progress was accelerated into the industrial revolution but there was no Islamic equivalent which is why many Arab countries have remained poor and have great difficulty in accommodating the modern world.

What Constantine created was a form of Christianity that Jesus Christ himself would have been appalled by. He took the fifty or so stories about Jesus and reduced them down to four. They overlap so what we have is priceless but very limited. All we have is a brief snapshot of two years of the life of Jesus. What he created was a religion he could use to rule and control people, not a path to spiritual salvation.

@anrit5972

2 жыл бұрын

Control of the populace is the whole point of religion.

@ronlussier8570

2 жыл бұрын

Hmm...your view of Jesus sure sounds weak

@heinmadsen-leipoldt2341

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronlussier8570 Alex is right, Christian Bible's don't really talk much of Jesus except for he's works and preachings and crucifixion and descent to heavens etc, but old scriptures found over the years mostly in Hebrew (scrolls) gives more intimate background of Jesus, people only believe what they read, they don't do deeper research

@MNkno

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. Constantine took a core body of teachings and works and ensconced them in a hierarchy very much like the military hierarchy, with absolute power at the top. Nowhere in the teachings and works of Jesus Christ did Jesus promote feudalism, monarchies, all the bling that was accumulated, or the use of priests to expand church-authorized territorial takeovers, looting, and colonization of empires. By moving all education and literacy into the church, discouraging thought by anyone not in an exclusive branch of the priesthood, downgrading all practical sciences, and using trade solely as a source of tax revenue, Constantine pretty much cemented his authoritarian rule over the empire and sealed it to the fate of the Dark Ages.

@joelex7966

2 жыл бұрын

@@ronlussier8570 you are confusing my view of Jesus with Constantine's legacy. Christianity could have been so much more had Constantine and his minions not suppressed 95 percent of his message.

Does it bother anyone else when he says “Constinople?”

@booknerdlover3675

2 жыл бұрын

yes! I thought I was the only one who noticed

@Ac2333s

2 жыл бұрын

Weird history is much better

@cristianpopescu78

2 жыл бұрын

🤣👍

@astralclub5964

2 жыл бұрын

All he’d have to do was Google the pronunciation of Constantinople! That’s 5 syllables, “Nut” History, not 4!

@samareno9238

2 жыл бұрын

lots of mistake actually, 1 of it is constinople 😂

The "Dark Age" already begun in 235 and went downhill since 284 when Diocletian became emperor.

God, I wish people would have more respect for the people of the medieval times. They live MUCH harder lifes than we do in the modern age and still got through the day.

Please be aware that during the 7th through the 15th centuries the Islamic World flourished. Over one thousand warring tribes on the Arabian peninsula were united. Historical writings were collected and preserved, including those of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Math and Astronomy advanced. Islam spread across Northern Africa and into Spain, where the first University was established. Yes, Europe was struggling, but around it knowledge and invention were blooming.

@davidbenyahuda5190

2 жыл бұрын

Stop lying. Black people ruled Europe Scandinavia and the British isles and Russia and Ireland. Stop it with that white supremacist historiography.

@cm6661

2 жыл бұрын

There were so many inaccuracies in the first 4 sentences of this video that I almost laughed out loud.....

@dinkyboss

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but most people speaking on the time period focus mostly on European issues. The rest of the world was thriving more or less.

@johndesade126

2 жыл бұрын

The Mulsims also re-ikntroduced the Western world to the concept of 'zero' which Europe had forgotten: as a matter of fact, Christianity attempted to erase all of Roman-isms during the time of the Dark Ages: such as replacing medicine with praying to the bones of the "Saints" (which many tunred out to be anmal bones...LOL!

@crhu319

2 жыл бұрын

It's called the Dark Ages because everyone doing anything interesting was darker than a brown paper bag.

I would hardly call the High Middle Ages a "leap backward in the advancement of humanity." A crappy judgement like that only displays ignorance about this period.

@atheistsince1210

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly please see my comments there are MANY gaps and false claims in this piece .

@GenerationX1984

2 жыл бұрын

If the Dark Ages were so advanced why didn't they have indoor plumbing and cement like ancient Rome did? Seems like they lost more technology than they gained.

@TheLoyalOfficer

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenerationX1984 How about the Scholastics? The entire University system? Three-field farming, improved fertilizers, cattle stall feeding - all superior to Roman agriculture, which was the backbone of the society. Population DOUBLED in Europe from ca. 1066 to 1320 or so. How does "a leap backward" explain that? Also, the Dark Ages are not even a term used for the entire period claimed in this video. It's usually corresponding to the Early Middle Ages - ca. 476 AD - ca. 1066. By the High Middle Ages, Western civilization had surpassed Rome in many ways.

@Dylan-lw1xc

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenerationX1984 those were really only for the extremely wealthy, and they did have something’s like that in castles, but people shit in outhouses until the late 1940s in most places. I don’t think the “dark ages” really changed all that much for your average joe at all.

@dinkyboss

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dylan-lw1xc when the wealthy adopt technology usually it eventually spreads to at least most of the population. So the fact that this did not happen or this effect was so greatly stunted during this period is part of the reason this time period was considered a “dark age”. It slowed progress.

To all the inaccuracies in this video, go ahead and add pronouncing the Eastern Roman Capital as "Con-stin-ople".

@patrickjack8101

2 жыл бұрын

it hurt my ears XD

@redwoodcoaststudio1610

10 ай бұрын

Aaaaaand that's exactly when I came here to the comments to read the hilarious reckoning on this ridiculous slop.

My name is Constantine and I feel puzzled after watching this video. I mean I knew he made some bad deeds like all emperors did to consolidate their power but it sounds kind of far fetched to hold him responsible for causing the dark ages. He was the first of a number of emperors who ruled over the Eastern Roman Empire and each emperor made his own changes to the system over a period of 1000 years.

@bioliv1

2 жыл бұрын

He's very bad making the once proud farmers practically like slaves or so called serfs, almost until this day! Thus f.ex. all the tens of thousands of peasants being killed during the great German peasant revolt, is to be blamed on Constantine.

@mjp152

2 жыл бұрын

Plus the whole "dark ages" thing has really been debunked a great many times.

@lessonslearned6760

2 жыл бұрын

You are not wrong . This video has some truth but it’s a gross over simplification and Julius Caesar was not a farmer. It’s silly to blame him alone for the dark ages . Gibbons wrote whole volumes about why Rome declined. However I do not agree with this new idea of acting like the dark ages we’re not so dark after all because there is no denying that there was huge decline in literacy, populations declined and some technology’s were such as concrete were completely lost until the industrial revolution. Sounds pretty dark to me .

@bioliv1

2 жыл бұрын

Constantine was a fierce Anti-Semite as well, just like Luther after him: "Constantine criticises the Jewish nation. The Emperor Constantine's savage attack on Jews & Judaism."

@bartbannister394

2 жыл бұрын

Constantine was not the first emperor to support Christianity. Notice that Constantine made Christianity the state religion. Then Theodosius outlawed paganism 50 years later. The Roman emperors were slowly imposing theocratic fascism over centuries. Twice before Christianity was legalized, then outlawed, then legalized again. One of Constantine's many names is "Flavius." Is this a coincidence? The very same Flavian who burned down the Jewish temple? Who made Josephus, the most often copied New Testament source, a member of his court? If I had to guess. I'd say Christianity was a concoction of Roman emperors right back to Vespasian. Experimented with and really taking hold in the late second to third centuries.

There's a lot of inaccuracies in this video

Constanople?

Con stan ti no ple There’s an I in there. Please 🙏

Well, this is a way to garner clicks - make a wild assertion. I don't even like the period, but not only is this unfair, it's incorrect. To keep it short, virtually all modern historians confine the so-called "dark ages" to Western Europe during the first few hundred years after the Western Roman Empire disappeared, and even then, it depends on where and exactly when. The caveats have grown to the point that most historians dismiss "dark ages" out of hand. Was life under Theodoric in the Kingdom of Italy in the 500s "dark"? Not really. Was life "dark" under Charlemagne, whose rule usually marks the end of the so-called "dark ages"? Depends on who you were.

@bartbannister394

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, life was dark. Pitifully dark. From the fall of Rome to the Renaissance, in western Europe. So dark in fact, that it became unbearable and under the Medicis a concerted effort was made to rediscover how the ancients thought, because this Christian sickness had gone too far.

Constantinople …

I always felt that the 'Dark Ages', were initiated in the 6th Century, when there was one of the greatest volcanic eruptions of the modern era. It cut daylight significantly for up to 4 years, thus there were no crops. It was, indirectly responsible for the great plague around the year 546 and the final failure of the Roman era. The devastation was such that it took hundreds of years for all people of the Mediterranean and the whole of Europe to recover. With little or no trade or travel, there was precious little advance in ideas. It was called the 'Dark Ages' because of that. No travel or ideas and therefore very little, if any communication equals a period of time when we knew very little or nothing at all.

@rickrozen2341

2 жыл бұрын

“The Dark ages” is a myth created by Protestant extremists in the 17th century to defame the Catholic church hence the period before the reformation. In actuality parts of the period were much more active in terms of writing, science and technology. The period saw many agricultural developments such as the three fields system which boosted agricultural output and thus population numbers. There was a high degree of urbanisation and many literature works of the period have been found especially by Catholic monks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_Renaissance

@bendixon8704

2 жыл бұрын

that's certainly more accurate than the barrel of bullshit this guy's just dumped on all of us

@george5156

2 жыл бұрын

It's God's fault for the volcano

@69JONESYrugbyCHAPELHILL

2 жыл бұрын

I think the Dark Ages started when the Franks Vandals Lombards Visigoths took Western Europe and ravaged everyone...including their own kingdoms at times. Read about Childeric.

@ladyjustice1474

Жыл бұрын

The term dark ages seems to be a loosely used term. As for Caesar, to which Caesar is he referring that was a farmer? I believe there was more than 1 ruler who held that moniker.

More disinformation in this video. Caesar was NOT a farmer. His impoverished family was city-bound. His mother owned an apartment building in the Subura, the poorest and most dangerous slum in Rome. The Subura is where young Julius Gaius Caesar was raised. The disenfranchisement of the Roman Citizan-Farmer-Soldier was complete long before the time of Constantine, and before there was an eastern Roman empire. This social and political crisis was already a problem by 133 BCE, when the elder brother Gracchus built his career and lost his life in the attempt to give back to retiring Roman soldiers the small farms that their families had lost over the previous 200 years, in service to the Roman Republican armies. I stopped paying attention after these two errors (or lies).

Get ready to do it again folks.

@GenerationX1984

2 жыл бұрын

They're killing the middle class and turning us into serfs again. And they wonder why social unrest and gun violence is on the rise. Maybe stop oppressing us and the storm of social unrest will calm down.

Can u imagine the souls of these people who did these horrendous deeds, may they never return to this world and burn forever in hell.

@1dilligaf

2 жыл бұрын

I think they have returned as liberals

@raydavison4288

2 жыл бұрын

@@1dilligaf: 1d10t.

@viperford6840

2 жыл бұрын

They have returned. I'm one of them

@1dilligaf

2 жыл бұрын

@@viperford6840 something I would be proud of looking at the state of liberals nowadays

@JOEFABULOUS.

2 жыл бұрын

@@1dilligaf believes Hitler was a socialist leftie and is susceptible to bullshit

I feel like the modern dark ages started in 2020

@crhu319

2 жыл бұрын

2014.

The Dark ages were from the 560AD approx after the fall of the Roman Empire to approx 1000AD. Then it became the Medivel Period. 15th Century is late Medivel Period.

The age of Constantine marked a distinct epoch in the history of the Roman Empire and a pivotal moment in the transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. He built a new imperial residence at the city of Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (now Istanbul) after himself. It subsequently became the capital of the empire for more than a thousand years, the later Eastern Roman Empire being referred to as the Byzantine Empire by modern historians. His more immediate political legacy was that he replaced Diocletian's Tetrarchy with the de facto principle of dynastic succession, by leaving the empire to his sons and other members of the Constantinian dynasty. His reputation flourished during the lifetime of his children and for centuries after his reign. The medieval church held him up as a paragon of virtue, while secular rulers invoked him as a prototype, a point of reference and the symbol of imperial legitimacy and identity. Beginning with the Renaissance, there were more critical appraisals of his reign, due to the rediscovery of anti-Constantinian sources. Trends in modern and recent scholarship have attempted to balance the extremes of previous scholarship.

@laurademarch4879

Жыл бұрын

what a sane comment, thanks

@johndumoulin5808

8 ай бұрын

well done. sir

I think much of what you attribute to constantine could also be traced to dioclition such as making jobs hereditary .

I'm good on living before antibiotics and air conditioning lol. I also had my son at 35 by emergency c section after 32 hours of labor so I definitely would have died back in the day

@lampadashorde5989

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah me too, I wouldn’t have survived childhood asthma

@harrietharlow9929

2 жыл бұрын

Me, too. I wouldn't have survived the bout of pneumonia I had as an infant.

@armygirl85fuckhitler74

2 жыл бұрын

@@harrietharlow9929 statistically, you also would have died in childbirth probably. It was way too dangerous back then

@harrietharlow9929

2 жыл бұрын

Very probably.

@johndesade126

2 жыл бұрын

An average man in the year 1900 lived to be 50 years old; but 6 out of 10 children died in childhood (lack of penicillin for childhhod diseases!), so most 'men' had to live into their 90s in order for the 'average man' to have been 50! This same man also had an 'average' of four wives; two of which would have died in childhood due to lack of 'clean' deliveries and lack of post-delivery care (a doctor would deliver a calf on one farm, and then rush to the next farm to deliver a baby; with just wiing his hands off with a towel.) Abagial Adams (I cannot remember who she was, but I do remember that she was associated with a couple of "johns" during her lifetime), almost died in her unsuccessful last pregnancy.

I honestly have to call out this video. First of, Roman Empire was anything but progressive state. The Roman traditions continued most clearly in Byzantine civilisation, and we all saw the forms it took. Rome was a bureaucratic, centralised Empire that actively sought to crush innovation long before Constantine. Second so called "Dark Ages" were times of the Carolingian renaissance. It was a time when a lot of Roman high culture was recovered and adapted for new generations. First universities were opened (teaching the 7 liberated arts), Roman alphabet was re - introduced. Ironically it was the Catholic Church that preserved the Roman high culture. Middle Ages were also not "Dark Ages". And plenty of problems became only worse during the Reanisannce period, which saw even greater amount of inquisition, religious wars than medium ages did.

@Katherine-jl3ey

2 жыл бұрын

rome was better than Christian dogma.

@redwoodcoaststudio1610

10 ай бұрын

The Catholic Church is simply the rebranded Roman Empire. Same same. @@Katherine-jl3ey

This video tells of the darkages set in motion8 by Constantine, butv shows scenes from the Bayeau Tapestry which came shows Norman warriors of the 1066 battle of Hastings.

@maanasayekkala6980

2 жыл бұрын

I feel so smart knowing what you are talking about

@JOEFABULOUS.

2 жыл бұрын

@@samuelschick8813 just about

@joryjennings7527

2 жыл бұрын

The verangian guard was an elite force in the byzantine army primarily made up of various northman

For all of the 'history' of Constantine as a Christian that we have...we have zero evidence of Christ in Constantine's actions. That is all.

i feel like history maybe repeating itself…

This wasn’t just Constantine. The hereditary jobs was initiated by Diocletian and Constantine continued this policy

Jesus I couldn't make it through the first 30 seconds. Saying art, technology, and science didnt advance for 1000 years, labeling the whole medieval age as the dark age (which are 2 different time periods and the dark age is actually called the early medieval age and "the dark age" is a misnomer), saying religious extremism ruled the lands, and that life was miserable for everyone is all just laughably false. You have to actually LEARN about history, not just learn POP HISTORY from movies and TV shows and pass it off as reality or people will start thinking that Mark Hamill actually blew up a moon sized space station in the 70s.

@jimvick8397

2 жыл бұрын

Because the creators know full well that few will bother reading the comments and will simply watch the video thinking they are learning something...

@abrahammagdalena5821

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, get your history straight: that was Luke Skywalker!

Just imagine having the church tell you what to believe and how to believe because their wasn't many copies of the Bible and alot of people couldn't read. Imagine the power of the church and in the country the priest and if you didn't believe the way they told you you would die. Church power

@kaykay865

Жыл бұрын

Yes pharmaceutical companies and media today with education and crap politicians

They are not called the "dark" ages because they were bad. The term was applied by historians because it is a period of time that is hard for them to see into because the historical record is so thin. Dark as in the lack of light or insight into the era.

@johndoeiii9767

2 жыл бұрын

_"Thanks to the teachings of the Qur'an and its emphasis on the cultivation of knowledge... Different scientific disciplines were derived from the Qur'an and spread across the world by Muslim thinkers. The world was illuminated with the light of the Qur'an and the culture of Islam."_ - Rev. Bosworth Smith _"Our use of the phrase "The Dark Ages" to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe .... From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary .... To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view."_ - Bertrand Russell

@kenb3552

2 жыл бұрын

@@johndoeiii9767 Very true. Islam was once the world leader in knowledge and scientific advancement. And then, for debatable reasons, it faltered.

@jackhallander6706

5 ай бұрын

You’re incorrect. The term was first popularized by a Catholic cleric (!) named Petrarch who wanted to compare the horrible nature of his time to the glorious time of Caesar, Cicero, and Augustus.

@kenb3552

5 ай бұрын

@@jackhallander6706 Nope. Nice run to Wikipedia BTW. True, that was PETRARCH's use of the term, but as used by many HISTORIANS it refers to the paucity of the historical record as well as the paucity of advancements in culture and science of the time compared to the Renaissance which followed.

@jackhallander6706

5 ай бұрын

@@kenb3552 Lol, I didn’t get that from Wikipedia, but if I did, what difference would it make? It’s still the first instance of the modern connotation of the term. And your claim about historians’ usage of the term is incorrect. There are many historians of the modern era who continue to use Petrarch’s terminology. Let me ask you this, if we have less sources by a vast margin of the classical era than the medieval era, then shouldn’t we call the classical era the dark ages by your logic?

Bingo! Outstanding work, N H !

The dark ages was NOT the whole of the Middle Ages. It was only referred to the early Middle Ages. In the late Middle Ages, the Cathedrals were marvels, and Lincoln Cathedral was taller than the Pyramids and the tallest building for 300 years. The dark ages in England was considered short and from 800AD it was actually a well run state with a taxation system.

@willevans429

2 жыл бұрын

actually correct, that is the rough estimate of the dark ages

@abrahammagdalena5821

2 жыл бұрын

England was a well run state once?!

@willevans429

2 жыл бұрын

@@abrahammagdalena5821 well ok, maybe lolol

@gregshoaf8203

2 жыл бұрын

thank you for saving me the time. I'm 23 seconds in. the Julius Cesar being a farmer thing is all I need to hear

@willevans429

2 жыл бұрын

@@gregshoaf8203 it actually wasnt that bad, got some errors but basically ok

this channel is unique in that it's a guy that knows absolutely nothing about history trying to lecture people with silly pop culture references. The term "Dark Ages" has been shunned for like 50 years in academia at this point.

@dosidicusgigas1376

2 жыл бұрын

Well said, the term is rather common in litterature but it's misleading considering how much more advanced the largest empires were compared to the ancient civilizations of the bronze age.

@Alex-zs7gw

2 жыл бұрын

Literally the minute I saw "Dark Ages" I expected every comments, to be savage. Normally I feel bad for the creator, but s/he obviously doesn't read their comments for critical feedback to improve. I mean fuck me -"Constanople" was funny the first time, but when it's like the tenth video, 😬.... that's just straight up dumb

@hellogoodbye4947

2 жыл бұрын

Because we’re headed back that way

@GenerationX1984

2 жыл бұрын

The academics were wrong the shun the term Dark Ages. It really was a terrible time period where ancient Roman technology and innovationwas lost and there wasn't much progress. The invention of books to replace codexes and scrolls was one of the few innovation. But pointless since most people didn't own books and couldn't read well.

@dosidicusgigas1376

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenerationX1984 i think one very important distinction to make is the improvement in metalurgy as well. The ancient empires like Rome, Greece & Egypt all thrived on a massive international bronze trade. They knew of iron but it was the most valuable metal because of how difficult it was to obtain & work at the time. During the medieval period iron/steel tools became commonplace everywhere, even being something peasants could afford. Im not going to try and claim the medieval period was better, living in either period probably sucked to some degree but I think its important to acknowledge that medival civilizations were indeed far more modern than the empires that existed before. A few more examples would be black powder cannons, the use of castles as military defense networks, invention of central banking, universities. I dont find the dark ages to be a realistic descriptive term of the time period. Peasants have been treated like crap throughout history, doesn't mean they were any worse off than Roman or Greek slaves. I'd argue serfdom is probably better than slavery, at least as a serf you were able to live within a community and have some degree of control over the quality of life. Access to clothing, sweets and baked goods, meat, vegetables. There's a lot of misconceptions. Anyways excuse my giant ass rant Im a sucker for the age of knights and wizards 🤣 You are 100% correct though, it was mainly scribes, monks and nobles that knew how to read and write. Common folk relied on town criers to get their local/national news

It is called Nutty History for a reason

We seem to be heading into another Dark Age...

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@africanelectron751

2 жыл бұрын

I do this for my toddler

Once I identified your aim was to malign the softest target in world history (that is, Christianity) I knew who we were dealing with here. Well done, at the very least, you've uncovered the true face behind this Channel.

@user-lb2hf1ol7s

10 ай бұрын

What is your point just because you follow christianity doesnt mean one cannot have a discussion regarding the works of early figures of this religion

@dsxa918

9 ай бұрын

I'm four minute in and have seen nothing objectionable...

@johnbradbury8610

9 ай бұрын

Christianity is the softest target? what the hell are you talking about? To make christianity look horrible only requires telling the truth.

Julius Caesar was never a farmer

I just spent 30 minutes looking up “Constanople” because I figured he knew something I didn’t.

Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids, the Buyids in Persia, the Abbasid Caliphate and beyond, spanning the period roughly between 786 and 1258.

@JOEFABULOUS.

2 жыл бұрын

They also gave us the 3 course meal something we think is a western thing

@keldel4363

2 жыл бұрын

@@JOEFABULOUS. the MOORS brought that. Africans.

@crhu319

2 жыл бұрын

It's still Dark Ages because the Muslims were quite dark.

Nuttiest thing about these Histories is that European history isn't EVERYONE'S HISTORY

You can't go back to Constantinople, no, you can't go back to Constantinople, now it's Istanbul

It's funny pagan and Roman mythology stem from the same ancestral religion, so merging them only brought them back to the roots I guess

They made sure that the only way to god was through him and the church. Thus ensuring two thousand years of obedience to church and state. The Bible that resulted from the council of Nicea guaranteed obedience and the financial support of the church by the fear of the poor. Well done..!

@JOEFABULOUS.

2 жыл бұрын

Yeh sure the pagans were happy little pixie people

@mikereilly7629

2 жыл бұрын

The word pagan goes back to Greek/latin language roots and simply means country dweller

@marvelloustraveller3559

2 жыл бұрын

@@JOEFABULOUS. instead of whataboutery , gave answer. Blaming pagans for everything wrong in this world is old tactic now.

@marvelloustraveller3559

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikereilly7629 yep, it was used before. But later on, it was turned into insulting and derogatory word by Christians.

@johndesade126

2 жыл бұрын

In a small book entitled "Pilgrim Church" written by a New Jersey Jesuit priest, he said that the office of 'bishop' in the Western Catholic Church were routinely purchased by Roman lawyers (it was easier to skim money off the tithes being paid by parishioners than to win courts cases in the later Roman court system) caused the church to become more "straght and narrow" (right or wrong) than the Eastern Orthodox branch; he also said that the Church could easier, with a top-down hierarchy, make changes to the religious texts with less interference: an example would be the removal of over a dozen "books", including the book of Enoch, by the Church in the late 17th century.

The Dark Ages and Medieval period are not the same period.

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 15:24

ConstanTINople bro seriously

@Ac2333s

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Its not the first time.

@ymebo

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ac2333s just couldnt keep hearing it actualy stopped watching

i thought it was called the dark ages because they didnt have lightbulbs

@jimshannononsounds

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Constantine was like one of those smart blockheaded ‘jocks’.

The Black Legend lives on...

Aaaaargh…this is the second video that the announcer has mispronounced Constantinople. Your vids are fun and informative and I love them however; my assumption is that a channel devoted to history needs to get the details correct. Also the fact Constantinople has stood for thousands of years and has been the focus of historians ,scholars, and religious wars of all stripes might be worth looking into!!

@Bluedotred

2 жыл бұрын

I just came here to say the same thing!

@funkyalfonso

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bluedotred Me too.

@dosidicusgigas1376

2 жыл бұрын

Constipationopell

@AZ2PM

2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy these videos, but they are not documentary level, they're KZread level.

@martinphilip8998

2 жыл бұрын

He leaves out a syllable.

Human history or European history??

I find the history of Constantine so incredibly fascinating. For me, he has had a larger direct impact on history than just about any other person. His use of Christianity as a political tool plays, as this video argues, such a pivotal role in making Christianity the political power house that it became. Without Constantine, Christianity would not have emerged as it did when it did - or if ever.

Please do one about how and why did the council of Niasis(forgive me for spelling) how and why did they choose specific books and why just them books? What did they with the forbidden text? The reason for each book? Love your series keep up the good work thank you

@nicky5683

2 жыл бұрын

If you're talking about the Biblical canon, that didn't happen at Nicea. That developed over the course of centuries. Nicea was concerned primarily with the Arian heresy.

@theophrastusbombastus1359

2 жыл бұрын

That was King James and Francis Bacon you have to thank for the books that were included in the bible and which were left on the cutting room floor

@crhu319

2 жыл бұрын

Strictly power.

Constantine worshiped Sol Invictus.He only converted to Christianity on his deathbed (taking advantage of the remittance of sin offered by baptism)

"The Dark Ages" was from 383 to 793. From there on it is "Viking Age" or "Early Medieval Age"

@crhu319

2 жыл бұрын

No there's still records & functioning Rome in 383, you really have to start to about 451 and Atilla, I'd agree 793 begins another age, but so does Islam. Which gets to Europe at about the same time.

@vinozarazzi5633

2 жыл бұрын

@@crhu319your criteria is wrong = 383 Rome Retreats from Britain - and it falls into the Dark Age with the legend of King Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot and the sort. So the Dark Age starts where Rome first collapses and then gradually spreads as Rome falls. Thank you.

The consensus among historians is that Europe from the 11th century onward to the Black Death was booming, with a population growing from 50 to 120 million people. Also, the period of 500-850 wasn't that bad. The period of 850-1000 was horrible.

Constantine also change the 7th day sabbath to Sunday

At 0:21 the word you mean is "REGENT", not "REAGENT". Chemistry had no role in the hierarchy of Feudalism.

@tomz5704

2 жыл бұрын

Of course it does, alchemy!

Constantine had nothing to do with the dark Ages -actually he restored and reunited the empire after it had been divided and embroiled in civil war -in shifting the capital to the much more defensible Constantinople he established one of the most glittering and effective empires in history -the city itself had all the features of old Rome plus a lot of improvements -under the emperor Theodosius II the first university of Europe was established and the people including women were largely literate and reasonably educated.The ancient sciences and technologies continued -to such an extent that one of the most amazing buildings was built under Justinian -the Hagia Sophia church now mosque.The invention of Greek fire enabled the city to withstand 2 massive Arab sieges and the great walls withstood besiegers untilThe the fourth crusade in 13th Century.The walls were inspiration for medieval castles.Western Europe fell into dark Ages because of unrelenting invasions by Germanic barbarians,Huns and others and whatever survived of the Roman empire was due to the Catholic church whose structure mimicked the political structure of the Roman empire.The great monasteries preserved education and learning.

@LKaramazov

2 жыл бұрын

I have NEVER seen such claptrap in my entire life. I have to unsubscribe with extreme prejudice.

@kaloarepo288

2 жыл бұрын

@@LKaramazov These people know next to nothing about the eastern Roman empire which was the continuation of the Roman empire -they just think about what happened to the western part and how it was invaded over and over again by barbarian tribes and that didn't pick itself up again until much later-very limited understanding of history and extreme anti Christian prejudice often inspired either by reformation rhetoric or exaggeration and misconceptions by enlightenment historians with huge axes to grind.

@LKaramazov

2 жыл бұрын

@@kaloarepo288 the guy couldn’t even get the pronunciation of Constantinople right. But yeah, why the hell did he move the seat of empire to Constantinople in the first place?

@curragh2840

2 жыл бұрын

This is certainly nutty, but it isn't history.

@johndesade126

2 жыл бұрын

..only for the rich; Charlemagne tried to force the Church to give 'universal education', but the Church stopped this after Charlemagne's death.

An interesting video, well narrated despite the pronunciation errors.

The period in history know as the “Dark Ages,” is also known as the “Middle Ages,” which is usually recognised as from 5th to the 14th Centuries. Historians normally refer to the Dark Ages as the first 2 Centuries of the Middle Ages as there is very little written about it at the time.

@elvenkind6072

2 жыл бұрын

You obviously don't know that serious historians don't tend to use the term "Dark Ages" in any way at all, other then to criticize how misleading it is. A good substitute is the "migration era", from when the Germanic Peoples spread all over western Europe.

It’s too simplistic to say Constantine was the cause of the Dark Ages. While I do believe he was not really a Christian but used it for political reasons. He needed a religion he basically headed that everyone in the Empire was apart. Besides, while Europe went into the dark ages the same can’t be said for Constantinople and Asia Minor. Constantinople was still a major player until it’s downfall over a millennium later. The dark ages were caused by all the infighting after Rome fell and land was up for grabs. Petty kings propped up everywhere.

@GameDevNerd

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, the video has a lot of errors. But Constantine was definitely a major contributing factor. And it wasn't just him, it was a whole lineup of imperial rulers, senators and rulers. Rome was extremely corrupt and just plain awful, and their mistreatment of people they considered "barbarians" is what ultimately cut their own throats.

Dark ages? Dass wayciss 😆

1:36 Constanople lolololmaoao

Whew. That's over but to be fair, Nutty History only had enough time to skim over a very complex subject. Key subjects, dates and conflicts mostly. With that, I ain't mad at cha.

Gee thanks christianity. And also, isn't the dark ages referring to the early middle ages 500-1000 CE rather than the entire middle ages period?

@bogdan4055

2 жыл бұрын

1000-1500

@armygirl85fuckhitler74

2 жыл бұрын

I think of the legend Tristan and Isolde lol that was the time frame

@nathanvenema8033

2 жыл бұрын

Before it was largely discredited, the "dark ages" usually referred to the period from the evacuation of Britain around 400 CE to the rise of Charlemagne around 800 CE. Anything after Charlemagne is usually referred to as the "medieval period".

@sammydasilva6152

2 жыл бұрын

Stop being naive and believe everything you see in this Channel here. The myth of the Dark Ages is debunked now. Besides, Christian Eastern Rome, aka Byzantium was flourishing, advanced and wealthy.

Yes, this is 'nutty history'---Farmers as Roman Senators?----When did this happen, in the time of the Sabine wars with Cincinnatus as a farmer General? This video is almost pure B.S.---total downvote.

Good subject and information ,but unfortunately , The accompanying music is very bothersome. Sorry I could not complete it.

CONSTANTINOPLE .

I highly doubt many of your viewers knew what feudalism was

Constantine was a fierce Anti-Semite as well, just like Luther after him: "Constantine criticises the Jewish nation. The Emperor Constantine's savage attack on Jews & Judaism."

I like how they are so calm in the thumbnail 🤕😂

I found it difficult to take this information seriously because the narrator couldn’t even pronounce “Constantinople”.

Constantine was a Sun worshipper like many Romans called Mithraism. 50 or so, years earlier, the Roman emperor made 25th Dec Sol Invictus. The first day of the week was called Sunday. In the period of Acts, it had no name. Constantine certainly tried to mix paganism with Christianity, especially Mithraism. He gave us Christmas by making 25 Dec the day of Christ's birth and apparently naming the first day of the week Sun-day. The mixing of Sol Invictus with Christianity can still be seen in the Monstrance or Host of the RC's where the wafer, symbol of Jesus' body is placed in the sunburst. Dark ages was seen by the reformers as the period of domination by the Romish church and the Gospel proper was hidden in ritual and corruption while being enforced by physical power. Ending at the Reformation.

@melissalisaandrean6803

2 жыл бұрын

False. Christian have celebrated christmas on 25 December long before the pagan. Earliest Christian habe celbrated 25 March as the date of the incarnation of the Word of God. The day is known now as the day of Immaculate Conception. (Sextus Africanus and Iraneus) 9 month from 25 march is 25 December. In Coptic Didascalia Appstolorum 189AD, said that Christmas is on 25 Kislev (Hannukah) or 29th of the 4th month in Coptic Calender and 25 December in Julian Calender. Pope Telesporus have celebrated Christmas eve at 24th December in 126 AD

@guywillson1549

2 жыл бұрын

@@melissalisaandrean6803 it sounds as if you are a Roman Catholic and that 1700 years of RC inaccuracy is an unacceptable notion to you. The scriptures do not give the date of Lord Jesus' birth because the central issue is the Resurection. The date for Easter according to the Jewish Passover has deeply prophetic meaning, this too was a matter of consternation to the RCs on their progress of dominating Britain.

@TheEvolver311

2 жыл бұрын

I mean we know little to nothing of what Mithraism actually practiced so it seems a rather bold assertion that it was at all mixed with christianity. Constantine was very likely always a Christian given his mother was a Christian his entire life. Really just reads like a bunch of anti roman catholic protestant propaganda. There was no unified agreement on christian doctrine anywhere near this time or before. One could easily argue that the earliest incarceration of christianity closest to Jesus was long gone with the collapse of the Jerusalem church, and that the eastern traditions denounced as heresies by the west probably closer reflected its traditions.

Constantine also spread a lot of misconceptions about the Bible and cause massive confusion up until this day. There are certain beliefs in the Christian religion that are not true, because of what Constantine put out.

@sreckobrzin9830

2 жыл бұрын

Certain belives? Which ones are,for God's sake? Get a brain.

Diocletian (who basically preceded Constantine) created many reforms he is claiming Constantine did. Diocletian made most jobs (especially farming) hereditary for instance. The Western empire had effectively collapsed into 3 different autonomous regions but Diocletian was able to put it back together into a more Medieval looking regime ( bureaucratically heavy) but it kept the Western Roman Empire together for 2 more centuries.

0:17 Art and science in EUROPE took a nosedive during the 'dark ages' . The Islamic world pushed forward regardless.

This is a lot of bunk. It is actually dishonest but even worse it is a clumsy rehash of anti-Christian arguments others had made with more skill and conviction. Gibbon, for one, is never a trustworthy historian but he wrote brilliantly. It is hard to know where to start, but the notion that the medieval period was a low point in human history is entirely bogus. The ancient world was only better if you were a member of the ruling class. Half the population were slaves and rulers employed unrestrained sadistic cruelty freely and on a much wider scale than medieval rulers did. I.e. the 6000 crucifixions after Spartacus' revolt and the regular entertainments which were mass murders by means invented to be spectacularly awful such as unleashing lions on groups with petaurum available in the arena. Serfdom was not a bad deal relative to slavery on big Roman estates not to mention in Roman mines. Blaming Constantine in particular for the decay of the Roman Empire is also preposterous. Constantine was not more guilty of imposing heavy taxation and expanding the bureaucracy of the state than other late Roman emperors. He was an outstanding emperor because he succeeded in imposing his rule over the whole empire for many years after a century of civil wars in which most emperors failed to do so. His decisions to lift the proscription of Christianity and build Constantinople laid the foundations of Byzantium, the 1000 year continuation of the Roman Empire. This gives him far too much credit for making the empire Christian and creating the medieval world, but his achievements in this regard were obviously tremendous. At about 7:00 there is an oafish non sequitor that demonstrates what a hatchet job this is. The narrator concedes that ancient rulers "practiced divination" or used religion to bolster their authority and proceeds to say "but thanks to Constantine the Church became powerful, authoritative and controlling..." The title of this should be "Constantine should be hated for ending the persecution of Christianity because it was the worst thing that ever happened to humanity." That would be honest if incredibly stupid.

@TheEvolver311

2 жыл бұрын

Christianity wasn't really forbidden in Rome outside of a 2 year offical persecution from 311 to 313. Constantine's mother was a christian and so were many many many other urban Roman's. The idea that Rome ever had a expansive bureaucracy is laughable it only ever maintained a very sparse minimalist bureaucratic approach which is a major factor as to why it was so corrupt as regional authorities were so unaccountable exactly because they didn't have to deal with peers. Proto feudalism really. Nearly every modern state since the 1600's was a thousand times more bureaucratic.

You guys need to specify that the Dark Ages took place in Europe, not the rest of the world. Europe was backwards while other parts of the world....Africa, Middle East, Mesoamerica, Asia were not regressing, but flourishing. It is not responsible as a historical channel, for you to portray such a limited, eurocentric view. Also echoing the concerns that everyone else brought up. Please learn the proper pronounciations and confirm historical accuracies before posting. There is a lot of misleading info in this video.

@rachelwalsh3123

2 жыл бұрын

Also, the Dark Ages are a really outdated term, and as far as I know nobody really uses it anymore.

@cold1895

2 жыл бұрын

The "dark ages" didn't happen at all even in europe. The only reason it was called that was a lack of historical records. Human invention didn't even slow or go backward they simple didn't have the Roman bureaucracy that they had in the past.

@sammydasilva6152

2 жыл бұрын

@@cold1895 This Channel is a joke. No serious historians or scholar believes in this outdated Dark Ages myth.

@sammydasilva6152

2 жыл бұрын

The myth of the Dark Ages is now totally debunked. Medieval Europe was flourishing too and people were building breathtaking and impressive Cathedrals, Castles, and universities. Besides, the Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium was a very advanced, wealthy Empire.

If it's Constantine, why the f*ck does the guy speaking insist on saying "CONSTINople"...??? It's CONSTANTINople!

@zhaw4821

2 жыл бұрын

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If the history books don’t tell us, how do these guys know?

Bad video intro, the Dark Ages were a solely Eurocentric thing - all the while, the Islamic Golden Age was in full swing and prosperous trans-Saharan trade during this time period under the Ghana empire led to the rise of its later successor state, Mali, and its famous wealthy king Mansa Musa. AT THE SAME TIME, the Classical Period for the Mayan civilization likened the Teotihuacan metropolis to that of contemporary London or Constantinople. The Heian period in Japan saw the establishment of elegant court culture and Chinese-influenced philosophy in Japan that would permeate to the modern day. In Southeast Asia and Oceania, Austronesian/Polynesian wayfarers were doing what you Europhiles would consider a precursor to the Age of Exploration, a thousand years before the actual thing. The Dark Ages was not a setback for the whole world. It was a setback for Europe. Change your viewpoint on history, please 🙄

@sammydasilva6152

2 жыл бұрын

Here's the thing, Dark Ages myth is thoroughly refuted by serious scholars and historians. The real Middle Ages are very different from the caricature that most people are familiar with. In fact, medieval Europe was flourishing too, people were building breathtaking and impressive Cathedrals, Castles, and universities. For instance, the Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium was a very advanced, wealthy Empire before it was conquered and invaded by the Turks.

@kitcutting

2 жыл бұрын

@@sammydasilva6152 makes sense. A lot of the general public also conflate the Dark Ages with the Black Death, which could have been just the culmination of the Dark Ages, or the transitionary period between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance. I know certain parts of Europe were thriving; the whole island of Ireland at the time was largely unaffected by the turmoils of war going on within the rest of Europe. Also, the Norse were also going around conducting trade missions whenever they weren’t pillaging; hence you have Norsemen showing up in random parts of European history, from Normandy to the Varangoi. I still think it was a setback for Europe as a whole, solely because of Christian doctrine, but you’d be right in saying that the Dark Ages weren’t even that dark for Europe, at least not as dark as the general public makes it out to be.

@kitcutting

2 жыл бұрын

@@sammydasilva6152 and yes, Eastern Rome was also the big player of the medieval times.

Always loved the look on Christian’s faces when they find out Christmas and most of its traditions we practice are more about pagan witchcraft than Jesus 😂🤣😂🤣

@ZumbieGuy

2 жыл бұрын

There’s so much more to that than what you said, but go off and own the Christians ig

@dennisstevenson1608

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZumbieGuy never said anything about owning them. Just lightly implied laughing at them

@mechawatt7844

2 жыл бұрын

Just love the look on Atheist’s faces when they realize that in just the last 100 years atheist regimes killed and mass murdered over 100 million people. Worse than anything any religion ever did. (Yes that includes the inquisition and the crusades).

@inserttapehere276

2 жыл бұрын

It’s never been centered around paganism, it’s been appropriated. The dates made to coincide with pre-existing holidays, like the Americans and their Yankee Doodle. It’s changed, and the previous context matters not anymore mate.

@george5156

2 жыл бұрын

@@inserttapehere276 context always matters

I guess you really do make nutty productions 💀

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