What Units of History should we cover next?

@beepboop204

2 жыл бұрын

The Potsdam Giants

@Ryger2117

2 жыл бұрын

Scythian horse lords

@rishabhraviprasad6672

2 жыл бұрын

Early sarmatian cataphracts

@stefanc340

2 жыл бұрын

Syrian auxiliary archers or palmyrene army!

@magnemerstrand2289

2 жыл бұрын

Iberian mercenaries

- Can go berserk - Frighten Infantry - Can hide in forests

@DailyDipo

2 жыл бұрын

Resistant to cold

@liviubostan7229

2 жыл бұрын

@@DailyDipo+Bonus to flanking. +High stamin -Weak armour -Weak to skirmishers and heavy infantry. -Allergic to grass or w/e,takes bonus dmg from fire and the sun.

@mickeytwister4721

2 жыл бұрын

- has infantry mixed with Calvary

@astadew

2 жыл бұрын

@Velstadt Hekkleson that litterarly goes for every army in the universe ever, not a particularly defining characteristic of germanic tribes

@JohnDoe-sw1rs

2 жыл бұрын

- Can’t read - Poor quality metal - Barbaric

Used this when teaching threats to Ancient Rome to my high school students. They loved it! Keep up the good work.

@danspam

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately alot of teachers don't have the time or care to go the extra mile and teach students information such as this.

@terrynewsome6698

2 жыл бұрын

Look up the historians craft he does a great job breaking down the individual tribes and their relationship with the Roman empire.

@charlesmartel777xx

2 жыл бұрын

Rome was a threat to everyone else, the Germanic people wanted to live in peace.

@charlesmartel777xx

2 жыл бұрын

You should show them this, its more history on Germanic people. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dICClJuYdKm0l8o.html

@eftheusempire

2 жыл бұрын

Should be focusing more on what happens to people who try to control others. In the end they always die.

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection" - Arthur Schopenhauer

@Crafty_Spirit

2 жыл бұрын

... I don't see the connection to the video but thank you, this is a beautiful quote!

@epiccow6791

2 жыл бұрын

Good author.

@OkurkaBinLadin

2 жыл бұрын

@@Crafty_Spirit Schopenhauer was German I guess.

@moonswan7587

2 жыл бұрын

"Douglas" -- Arthur Spooner

@rudolfsanchez9855

2 жыл бұрын

warrior was crimated by fire bridge back to earth was burned down aparent belief in life after death

"So what gear are you taking for your invasion of the most powerful Empire on earth?" "What am I taking?... Ummm this stick looks pretty pointy, I guess I'll need a shirt too."

@321AlterSchwede

2 жыл бұрын

They choosed to use no chain or platearmour, even if they knew that technology (and some germanic warriors had armour). They choose to have few armour and gained very high mobility with that. In "De Bello Gallico" Caesar describes, when fighting the germans in gallia, there infantry advanced so fast at the romans, they could not trow their spears as they used, but let them fall too the ground to hastily get their swords ready, for close melee combat. Germanic spearman combined with germanic cavalry was a dangerous force.

@cv507

2 жыл бұрын

which earth ^ ^

@dittmannrudolfrohr2149

2 жыл бұрын

@Gabryjel Your pseudonym lol

@rmp7400

2 жыл бұрын

Keeping it light, huh? 😁👍🏼

@crispylizard4348

2 жыл бұрын

Roman's: "haha javelin go fssheeew"

Germanics and celts were awesome but my boys dacians and thracians get overlooked a lot.

@matheusalves5160

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, i miss the boys. So little attention they get.

@Gustavovisk21

2 жыл бұрын

Oh the falx bearers are no joke…

@janbo8331

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gustavovisk21 Until they meet an arrow

@jerikrazik4707

2 жыл бұрын

@@janbo8331 well you get talked about if you win, or if you have a race of romantic singers yes I mean the Irish, making the celts seem cool lol. Dacian fury was real and was crushed by Axcelleries of germania if Dacia did anything it helped tuton influence survive imagine if Dacia fell quickly and herman didnr make a stand and rome conquered germany then nordic strains led by goths and saxons showed up slavs and prussians not existing would have altered history tremendous I think and without Franks wooo

@VincentSaan

2 жыл бұрын

@@jerikrazik4707 buddica was a celt and she was badass so i dont think its just imagery

"Resources such as timber, salt and Pete" Yeah he's a pretty good guy honestly

@headhunter1945

2 жыл бұрын

lol....... peat

@sergeigen1

2 жыл бұрын

Pete tong

@user-oo4zo8yy5u

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah good on you Pete. Lovely fellow.

@rustywenzlawe6287

7 күн бұрын

Nice dude

One thing I rarely see pointed out is that Germanic warfare used to start with both armies making of show of men and arms so that the other had a chance to cede and withdraw limiting the amount of death from inter tribal disputes, Roman's on the other hand would hide cavalry on the flanks, catapults at the rear and ranged in the bushes and use this show as a time to decimate the enemy ranks. Of course the Roman's later complained when the Germanics learned their lesson and used ambush tactics on them, it seems when a Germanic does it the Roman's see it as having no honor. Edit: it's nice to see it touched on here I forgot to add that part.

@tokre8880

2 жыл бұрын

actually catapults in a field battle ? really ? do you know how long it takes to calibrate them whilst your mobile foe can just move to another position to avoid fire ? come on ....

@KelsaRavenlock

2 жыл бұрын

@@tokre8880 they used them often and from the very beginning in fact they were a crucial weapon in the conquests of Greece. Not all catapult weapons are giant siege weapons some were small relatively mobile things for throwing buckets of stones or pitch balls into the enemy lines right before an advance. The main purpose of those weapons were to break enemy lines and cause chaos in them before contact. Perhaps you are thinking of Trebuchet the largest type of catapult used against fortifications that took all day to set up and took precise aim. Also any weapon that uses stored energy like that is a catapult, even a ballista and even a slingshot.

@tokre8880

2 жыл бұрын

@@KelsaRavenlock I am talking about roman ballistas and Onagers and both take quite a while.... roman field artillery consisted mostly of the Scorpio , a smaller Ballista shooting large arrow-like missiles into enemy ranks ... I have never heard of any roman field battle where they relied on the firepower of onagers or heavier Ballistas.

@tokre8880

2 жыл бұрын

@@KelsaRavenlock and by the way unlike a scorpio it takes a whole lot longer for a catapult still to be built and it can't be moved on a campaign already built up so when you met your enemy you would have to get him to stay for days at one position so you can built up your artillery ... when that happens ( the enemy being surrounded or pushed in a place with no way to escape ) it's actually a siege and no field battle because in all that time the enemy will also start fortifying himself .

@KelsaRavenlock

2 жыл бұрын

@@tokre8880 your forgetting the mangonel which was small and easier to move. This weapon was the type of catapult the Roman's would use to flings buckets of rocks and pitch balls at enemy lines. It took only 1 or 2 people to wind up and was not accurate enough to do more than aim in a general direction hence it was used to break lines and cause panic ahead of the charge. A smaller proto model was used against Greece but the final model became standard at the time of the wars in Germania. Many also had wheels so could be hitched or were flat based and fit in carts.

“The greatest crime for a warrior was throwing away his shield.” [Happy Spartan Noises]

@eliasgarcia4866

2 жыл бұрын

The greatest crime was for a warrior to throw away his shield.... Romans: Let's make a javelin that bends on our enemies' shields

@matte6371

2 жыл бұрын

@@eliasgarcia4866 the javelin was used by many cultures like the greeks or phönicians or persians. It was not invented by the romans. but you got a good point there. also the sandals were superior to barefoot germans.

@eliasgarcia4866

2 жыл бұрын

@@matte6371 True, but it was the Romans that used the pilum with a thin neck and counter weight. After it penetrated the enemy's shield it would bend, causing the foe to drop the shield

@happyspaceplumber840

2 жыл бұрын

@@matte6371 Why barefoot? I would assume that shoes were absulutely essential in such colder climates. At least the bog bodies found usually wear shoes.

@Sara3346

2 жыл бұрын

@@happyspaceplumber840 Probably not by choice when it happened

Would love a video on early Celtic warriors

@Fatherofheroesandheroines

2 жыл бұрын

@KKmies huh? Where'd you get that from? They did however invent mail

@rudiariius

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fatherofheroesandheroines He meant mail I think

@Fatherofheroesandheroines

2 жыл бұрын

@KKmies the scutum came from the Samnites. Who were from Italy.

@Kevc00

2 жыл бұрын

@KKmies and they were said to use phalanx style formation

@Fatherofheroesandheroines

2 жыл бұрын

@KKmies the armor you mentioned was NOT a Gallic invention it was a combination of several styles into one. A ROMAN invention. Where are you getting the wooden barrel from?

As a german myself, I enjoy it when people take close looks and informative takes on my ancestors legacy. I as well, feel a deep-rooted connection with it and there can never be enough heard and discovered about them.

@mickeytwister4721

28 күн бұрын

Most people of modern day Germany are not the descendants of ancient germanic warriors.

@busterhikney6936

13 күн бұрын

The mid 1930s to mid 1940s were indeed quite the study

Fantastic video, as always.

@NoName-yw1pt

2 жыл бұрын

Greetings Noblest one. Good to see you here

@redtesla

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your content too, Metatron!

@donnysandley4649

2 жыл бұрын

Actually most of these Germanic people didn't speak German at all 🤔 but that's a different story 😉

@NoName-yw1pt

2 жыл бұрын

@@donnysandley4649 what did they speak?

@donnysandley4649

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoName-yw1pt at that time there Russia and Polish with fewer German

This channel is an absolute gem. I subbed back when it was THFE and when they just moved from Halo (yes, this used to be a Halo channel) to Total War. They used to do replays of multiplayer matches, and it’s grown to one of the more premium history channels on KZread.

@buddermonger2000

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao the fuck? It was a GAMING channel?

@kamikazemelon787

2 жыл бұрын

I can totally see that transition happening despite only in the past few years diving into KZread history content - it seems a good chunk of educational channels I watch have some form of gaming content in the old archives. Pretty awesome. My own spark to military history was through the original Call of Duty (2003) when I was 11, alongside WWII media at the time, and my interests have only grown from there, so the videogames -> history buff funnel is real ;)

@pat2157

Жыл бұрын

Total war games got me into history

Axe Infantry Unit size: 120 Health: 10,560 Attack: 35 Defense: 25 Armor: 10 Speed: 20 Charge bonus: 15 Weapon Strength: 27 Bronze Shield Berserk: 20% bonus to Attack when Health drops below 50% Can cause terror

@MagicHjalti

2 жыл бұрын

Warcry

Nice video. I might add that archery was probably quite important in war. Many different types of arrow heads were found, some specilized to deal with shields and armour. And metal scarcity was not a problem. There is an overobundance of metal findings. The problem is rather that most of the iron is of poor quality. Thats the reason why roman steel was sought after.

@jabbrewoki

2 жыл бұрын

Iron is abundant, but the heat required to smelt it meant the beginning of deforestation of Europe.

@MrEnaric

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if you are acquanted with actual forging. It is the heat, access to good charcoal that could be a problem. Fine 'Batavian' spathas were made from bog Iron in the early first century ad.

@nenadmilovanovic5271

2 жыл бұрын

There is a great video on youtube where some guy explains steppe horse archery to two guys. He shows different types of arrows, they made some really wide and thin, they would shoot them into horses, and just by motion alone arrowhead would make a huge hole. Brutal stuff.

@yuriklaver4639

2 жыл бұрын

The sinew used in bows, has a tendency to decompose when whet. Bows and rain didn't go well together..

@Catubrannos

2 жыл бұрын

The best Roman steel came from the Celts of Noricum and the Iberians.

"Marcomanni" I think i know where Bethesda got their name for their Elder Scrolls villain.

@82SSchultz

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I am pretty sure that is already in one of the wikis. A side note, that was the tribe at the start of Gladiator, as it was supposed to represent the Marcomannic Wars that Marcus Aurelius fought.

@VincentSaan

2 жыл бұрын

Who are you talking about jagar tharn, dagoth ur, mehrunes dagon or alduin cause i dont get it

@clembarbarossa1764

2 жыл бұрын

@Settra the Great, the Imperishable, King of Kings Or Mannimarco, king of worms :)

@rumo893

2 жыл бұрын

@@82SSchultz Fun Fact: they shout „Those are dirty dogs“ in broken modern German“

@clembarbarossa1764

2 жыл бұрын

@Settra the Great, the Imperishable, King of Kings quite :)

Many (though not all) aspects of early Germanic warrior culture remind me of early Rome, especially around the monarchy or Early Republic. Social organization based on personal charisma and strength, a "do it yourself" approach to warfare, equipment based on wealth, and a population spread out over small villages remind me of Rome's first years.

@trentonking764

2 жыл бұрын

The Germanic tribes were organized around groups of warriors and their families; they were structured in clans and tribes. Though often considered to be the most violent and ruthless of the world’s early societies, the Germans were also known for their individualism and ability to form strong bonds and friendships.

@channellegendarium7677

2 жыл бұрын

@@trentonking764 A reminder that even societies looked down upon by dominant cultures (in this case the Romans) had their own sense of social organization. Some Romans even envied the Germans' strength and courage, which perhaps came from those social bonds.

@smokeyhoodoo

Жыл бұрын

@@trentonking764 Theyre still considered the most violent and ruthless

@ojberrettaberretta5314

Жыл бұрын

@@smokeyhoodoo nah modern germans are docile

@magnipettersson4432

Жыл бұрын

@@smokeyhoodoo wich makes zero sense. Romans were the ones invading germanic lands. If germanics couldnt live in their own lands they really got no choice but to fight

One of the biggest challenges to Germanic warfare would come about by the introduction of roman style plows and grains ( which originated in India and arrived in rome around the late first century A.C.). This saw Germanic farming evolve from the equivalent of intensive guarding( substance farming with hand tools) to large scale agriculture. This gradual agricultural evolution coupled with the increase trade of furs, honey, amber, and slaves to rome empire would lead to a massive increase food production, population size, and material wealth. This in turn lead to the consolidation of larger and more well organized states able to feild well equipped armys like that seen with the vandals, Alamanni, goths, and franks in the 4th and 5th. A similar event happened at the end of the vandalic period of Scandinavia, with improvements to achroculture allowing for larger scale raids to be organized and launched by Norse and Danish peoples. P.s. Though letting me know I made a spelling mistake is fine and even encouraged, so that I can go back to fix it. Being a bell-end about it is not, I am sorry that I have a combination of dyslexia and autism that makes a wee bit harder for me to structure my sentences properly and insure my spelling is completely perfect. So do forgive my most ageist sin, for failing to meet your desired level of grammar, you peelers. I have explained my failures, but do be so kind as to explain to me what your excuses are?😏

@edge7387

2 жыл бұрын

Oh stfu

@rabselyoehnam1291

2 жыл бұрын

This sentence is near nonsensical. Do better

@nloc

2 жыл бұрын

@@rabselyoehnam1291 😆 indeed a rather sesquipedalian speech wouldn't you say? Tahaha

@rabselyoehnam1291

2 жыл бұрын

@@nloc indubitably so, fellow brother wordsmith

@stephengayton5246

2 жыл бұрын

Plows?

Sturla Ellingvag of Viking Stories has mentioned that new evidence is showing that the tribal kingdoms of Germania actually stretch back to the early Bronze Age. It seems that the more historians and geneticists dig into the Germanic past the more sophistication emerges from the obscurity of a people without their own written record.

@soderlund3610

2 жыл бұрын

And that they originates from Scandinavia

@DevoteeofThunor

Жыл бұрын

@@soderlund3610 yes and no

@erichamilton5932

Жыл бұрын

@@DevoteeofThunor Yes they did, this is well known. From Sweden to be exact.

@DevoteeofThunor

Жыл бұрын

@@erichamilton5932 again no

@erichamilton5932

Жыл бұрын

Again yes, unless you want to be "PC", but "PC" has nothing to do with historical accuracy.

We always praise the empires and forget about those that fight back. Thank you for this vid Invicta keep up the good work

@suomusintti

2 жыл бұрын

We praise the winners. Mongols and nazi germany weren't praised. I'm not saying they should have

@astadew

2 жыл бұрын

@@suomusintti would you praise nazi germany if they won? hehe

@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN

2 жыл бұрын

@@suomusintti How exactly are the mongols not winners? They seemed pretty damn successful to me.

@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN

2 жыл бұрын

@@astadew Most likely yes. People act like there is only one perspective one one set of objective truths that permeate history. Unfortunately this leads to misinterpreting history and judging historical figures from our modern understanding of morals which is bad to do. It’s like saying Abraham Lincoln was a racist just because he’s probably more racist than the average modern person without understanding that he was actually super progressive amongst his contemporaries which should be considered impressive. So if the nazis won, you’d simply believe in their propaganda just as much as you likely believe modern American liberal propaganda and you’d be here right now thinking it’s ridiculous that anyone would believe American beliefs if they had won the war. You have to remember that we still live and always will live in an ever changing environment when it comes to what’s considered right and wrong and I 100% guarantee you that in maybe a few decades or so, people will look back at us and say we were bigoted just because we didn’t allow people to marry multiple people or underaged people or even animals.

@astadew

2 жыл бұрын

@@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN i can't read all of that sorry my man

I heard the Germanic people were way more civilized as we today think. They found very old Stone streets and stuff like that in Germania

I'm so fucking proud of my ancestors.

@calcaleb7041

9 ай бұрын

For abandoning their beliefs and killing their own forced conversions all so the church can get more gold and more lol boys to fiddle 😂

...When the forest stars speaking proto-germanic!

@lakeegg1331

2 жыл бұрын

When your hospital vistor starts speaking shinji

@niklask8753

2 жыл бұрын

proto germanic was 1000 bc

@lilbrothaaa

2 жыл бұрын

@Velstadt Hekkleson That was uncalled for! 🤣

@pepekys

2 жыл бұрын

@KKmies for mountains you mean speak pashto, since it was the afghan pashtoon people who where the main warriors and people who kicked foreigners away. Afghanistan does loosely translate to land of the pashtuns. Dari is literally just persian and is not the prime language that was spoken when fighting against the British etc

@user-xp3ge4xz8u

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe more like when the fenn is speaking (proto-)germanic because swamps, bogs, fenns and such where dominating north german landscape until we dryed them out in 19th and 20th century

I hope the barbarian season 2 also goes more into detail about germanics.

@flaviusbelisariusthebasedl3116

2 жыл бұрын

And my boy Germanicus

@leone.6190

2 жыл бұрын

@@flaviusbelisariusthebasedl3116 yeah, allthough for me the downfall of Arminius will be frustrating. A great "what if?" Scenario. What if Arminius established a great germanic kingdom In the first century ad?

@MrAwrsomeness

2 жыл бұрын

@@leone.6190 nahhhh the germanic tribes their warfare and freedom is what defined them, a united kingdom would have ended up like dacia

@JaM-R2TR4

2 жыл бұрын

@@leone.6190 but he "survived" the clash with Germanicus... he was betrayed after the war by own tribe though...

@leone.6190

2 жыл бұрын

@@JaM-R2TR4 I know. That's what I meant with frustrating.

8:56 That helmet looks like from the *"Urnfield culture"* , which is several centuries (1300 B.C. to 750 B.C.). If we're talking about the Germanic tribes of the late 2nd Century B.C. since you mentioned Cimbri migration. These are tribes are probably influenced by the *"La Tene"* Iron Age culture. The featured bronze helmet with a crest would've been likely outdated. Simple looking variety like the Montefortino or the even as highly decorated like the iron Agen Port with animal figures as a crest (traded or taken from the dead through the Celts) would've been likely use by them.

@InvictaHistory

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this enlightening comment

@clarkwinters1770

2 жыл бұрын

Helmets of the like have been found among the etruscans of the 400s BC but also in Thrace in the 300s one similar in scythia and down in austria....these styles were widespread the similarities are striking

@clarkwinters1770

2 жыл бұрын

Put it all together tho....the northern Italians thracians Austrians/boii gauls all have some similarities

@Heidenspross

2 жыл бұрын

@@clarkwinters1770 weapons trading was very common back then, and if a blacksmith found a great design he would copy it, if it was effective it would spread... a century later half of europe would use the design... it is how technology spreads...

@clarkwinters1770

2 жыл бұрын

@@Heidenspross maybe, truth is there is lots lots of theorizing but that is all it is. Why not let the primary sources speak for themselves? No we be to smart for that. Haha such is the wisdom of the modern man. He is the most advanced of all thinkers

Jomsvikings.. Would also like to see coverage of the units involved in the wars between Widukind's Saxons and Charlemagne's Franks..

@adamthetired9319

2 жыл бұрын

@Gabryjel, damn, what a desperate Pole. So many videos covering Germanic tribes and on most of them I can find insecure Poles and Slavs in general.

@UnknownPerson-cq3qv

2 жыл бұрын

@Gabryjel poor slavs lol

@lewis8325

2 жыл бұрын

seconded! that would be really neat.

Thank You for Putting This Documentary Together 😊

This was really friggin' good. Very well done!

It would be awesome to see an episode covering Napoleon’s Old Guard!

What an absolutely fantastic video, and the narrator has a perfect voice for this.

Great!!! Thanks for such an informative video! Keep up the great work!

Nice job! Really well done video. This kept my interest for start to end. Thank you!

i, born and raised in the dark forest across the rhine, approve of this.

@rubens2004

2 жыл бұрын

Same, netherlands

@hiddenwoodsben

2 жыл бұрын

@Gabryjel What? more precise, please. and, if i may ask, not in all-caps.

@hiddenwoodsben

2 жыл бұрын

@@rubens2004 goede dag, mijn gelder broer, groeten uit alemannens-land

@wallung1876

2 жыл бұрын

@@hiddenwoodsben Gabryjel is referring to the so called "Lechian Empire".... a fake dreamworld of Polish nationalists. They are a joke, even in Poland.

@robertayoder2063

2 жыл бұрын

Me too the darkest

wow ! one of a few documentarys that doesn't show Germanians wearing a hide. Thank you

Love having the mix of narrators! Amazing content as always :)

incredible & very informative video thank you so much

That's a wonderfully nuanced video on the Germanic tribes. When a less than true definition of the term "North" feels like nothing more than a nitpick to point out, you know that the story as a whole is excellently told. Thanks for making and sharing it. (y)

@HeathenRides

2 жыл бұрын

He's guessing a lot and Says before each part that source's doesn't exist which is crazy.. but good story telling voice etc but the story itself is mostly absent starting by making a chaos of what Germania was jumps straight to weapons and stuff and guessing a lot of wrong stuff and missing essential information.

@trentonking764

2 жыл бұрын

In the world of ancient Germanic tribes, the term North was a very different term than what it is today. For instance, while the Vikings believed that the North was where the wild animals and dangerous monsters lived, they also believed that the North was a land of wealth where the Norse Gods lived. In the Viking society, the North was a land of mystery, and stories of the North are a part of the world of Germanic mythology, which is a part of the world of Germanic folklore, which is a part of the world of Germanic literature, which is a part of the world of Germanic culture. This is an example of the way in which the terms North and North are used to describe the Germanic tribes

So Germanic warriors going into battle was like… “Hey, Reg! Good to see you here.” “Hey Allan. I just saw Rob and Martin. We agreed to fight together. Wanna join?” “Would love to. But I just promised to go with Godfried and Vic. We have a new neighbor with us too.”

this is one of the best videos I’ve seen on this topic. I’m really glad you did such a thorough dive into the more cultural aspects of the germanic tribes. Very few sources I found cover this area of this very interesting society.

Incredible art work . Fantastic episode 👏

The drawings are amazing, imagine an game coming out in this style, like that of battlebrothers.

The alleged wolf-warriors are of interest to me, especially how they might be connected to the much later Ulfhednar in Viking Age Scandinavia.

@wulfheort8021

2 жыл бұрын

they re not alleged and they were the same as the ulfhednar, the norsemen are just as much germanic as the ancient germanic tribes.

@lostsaxon7478

2 жыл бұрын

Same people. Scandinavian Norsemen are Germanics. Germanic culture came from the Nordic Bronze age and the Norsemen and the mainland Germanics spoke the same language and held the same beliefs (to varying degrees as population divergence is a thing). The Anglo-Saxons of England would've been able to understand the invading Norsemen for the most part as well.

@Mara999

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, but all of that I know. What I'd want to know if there is any scholarly research in the development of the animal-themed warrior societies, between the Roman-Germanic wars and the Viking Age. During all that time the Scandinavians are culturally connected to other Germanic-speaking groups, yes, but there are plenty of factors that cause the different groups to develop very differently. Such as the Saxons, Franks and other southern Germanics becoming more urbanized faster than the Norse. While the Norse had also contacts with Rome, causing their chieftains to also have imperialistic ambitions and wanting to become more "Romanized", it happened much more slowly in Scandinavia. So in that context, I want to know about how the divergent development between Germanic groups affected the tradition of animal-themed warrior societies, such as how different the Ulfhednar were from their counterparts elsewhere and several centuries earlier.

@wulfheort8021

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mara999 scholarly research is overrated when it comes to germanic society and culture. Because those scholars do not even understand Germanic paganism or paganism generally. The wolf warriors from the Norsemen are exactly the same as the wolf warriors from other Germanic tribes, because the wolf warriors are connected to the Allfather Odin/Woden. Germanic Pagans are animists, if you drink the blood of a wolf in a ritual, the spirit of the wolf becomes a part of you, given to you by the Allfather.

@Mara999

2 жыл бұрын

@@wulfheort8021 IIRC the few literary sources we have about ancient Germanic beliefs imply that Odin himself might not have been a chief deity in the earliest myths, but rather had been a less important deity outside of Scandinavia and before the Vendel period. Even pagan religions are subject to change, adapting to things happening in everyday society, such as which gods might be more important than others, in both daily worship and the view of a cosmic order. Modern Germanic paganism isn't necessarily the same as ancient paganism, due to the current paganist movements being created after a very long time gap. Even if a lot of elements in ancient beliefs have survived through rural foklore, these beliefs and the memory of the past are subject to change, as they are not static. Movements like Asatru are reconstructed through knowledge of past beliefs, yes, but they are also affected by what is going on everywhere else in society, so the past is viewed through a contemporary lens, that by default affects how the past is interpretated. That is why I do not want to simply assume that current pagan wolf rituals would be the exact same as they were a millennium or two ago, but rather I'd like to read what someone back then might have written about it, if possible, as well as find out what archeologists could have discovered that corroborate it.

Excellent work, as Always. Thx.

BEEN WAITING for this topic!🙌😆

One of the stalwarts of the youtube history game, keep pushing intelligent historical content! This is what young people need

Much more of Sweden and Norway were populated by people of Germanic culture than that. The archaeology of the Nordic is very well developed, I am not sure why you decided clip off such a significant chunk. Also those roundhouses in the art are much more Celtic than Germanic. Germanic people lived much more in longhouses. Also the fact that the Germanis had so few large settlements, with mostly isolated farmsteads and even simple villages being rare, is a very old old trait from the early Indo-Europeans, which happened to be conserved for longer within the Germanis. No one is quite sure why they did so, but Tacitus offers a cultural explanation for it. Ironically, by the time Tacitus was writing, the Germanis already had a few proper cities.

@johankrushammar7336

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. With this map Norway and Sweden isn’t germanic/slavic/sami so what are we then? Lol. Maybe alien 👽

Heck yeah 1m! You and your team deserve it man well done

Realy good research and presentation. Thank you 😊

Would love a video on early Visigoth warriors.

There are only two Germanic leaders I can think of who could be called Master Ambushers. One would, of course, be Arminius and the other would be the Gothic King Cniva who defeated the Romans under Emperor Decius at the Battle of Abritus by ambushing the Roman army with his hidden reserves after faking a retreat.

@insaneweasel1

2 жыл бұрын

*demon king Cniva*

@theholyinquisition389

2 жыл бұрын

@@insaneweasel1 Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well

@insaneweasel1

2 жыл бұрын

@@theholyinquisition389 thank you fellow Chad patrician

@theholyinquisition389

2 жыл бұрын

@@insaneweasel1 I must dissapoint you, for I am indeed one of Arminius people. *Teuflisches Gelächter*

@insaneweasel1

2 жыл бұрын

@@theholyinquisition389 what a shame it seems like you had been civilized.

Really well done. Thanks!

Thank you for making this. ☺

Ngl I love this narrator so much

Absolute units.

Excellent video can't wait to see what's up and coming for the channel

Yes!!! I have been waiting for this!!! Awesome video guys keep it up!!!

Video on ancient Finno-Ugric tribesmen of the north? From way back when they started expanding massively to the west. Like 2000 BCE and what their equipment might have looked like and a bit more context and info behind the bronze battle axes found throughout Western Siberia to Germany and Norway.

Lindybiege demonstrates how a spear beats a sword. It's about reach, and not requiring as much skill to master.

@aenorist2431

2 жыл бұрын

If you have space to use it. Part of why the legion was so effective ... charge in to ranges so close the shortsword beats the spear (using large shields and armor to survive bridging the gap). Its a shock tactic that requires a lot of drill and balls, but it really does in an enemy used to fighting in skirmishes and caring for self-preservation. Very comparable in a way to the carolean way of fighting in later times.

@lethanhminh8001

2 жыл бұрын

@@aenorist2431 even the later roman army trasition to spear

@randomelite4562

2 жыл бұрын

@@lethanhminh8001 That was really just apart of a overall downgrade of military forces due to how expensive it was to maintain the older Principate Legions. Swords can be superior to spears, so long as the right tactics were used.

@jake4194

2 жыл бұрын

The sword was mostly a side arm using a spear as a primary

@andywomack3414

2 жыл бұрын

@@aenorist2431 The Romans developed a mixed weapons strategy, with the shield and gladius a very important component.

Great video!! Loved every second of it

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

Germanics are bears if mediterraneans are wolves or foxes. Much higher quality individually hence why the wolves and foxes banded together to be effective. When the bears united like a wolfepack they conquered the whole world exept inner china.

I know it's a bit early to say this but I would like to see a video about the ritterbruder.

Love this channel ❤

Amazing quality video

Very interesting and well done documentary, however there is one aspect that i would have been very interested in missing: The importance and use of magic. Arriuvistes e.g. is mentioned to have organized his army in 7 subdivisions which is a very important number in Germanic magic and is present all over our fairytales and sagas involving magic, 7 dwarves, 7 years of training, 7 brothers, 7 mountains and so on. Caesar mentions his troops being so terrified by Germanic war chants that they initially refused to engage them, which could be a reference to the use of Galster (envoking magic through singing songs found by Wotan) that were to be sung in the style of the raven (so possibly throat singing as it can still be found in the north Germanic Scandinavians to this day). Also the concept of Heil/ hail that gave people a specific innate power that made them succeed as long as they acted honourably following their heil's demand (so a commander would have to be born with the victor's heil, a warrior with the warrior's heil a king with the king's heil and so on)

@hmvollbanane1259

2 жыл бұрын

And of course the vast spread presence of runic spells engraved into found germanic spear tips and other weaponry

8:24 “scale armor”, the depiction in your video is lamellar armor not scale, which is more correct as scale wasn’t really used at all.

@NorthernNorthdude91749

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, but you're wrong. Leave history to the pros, kid.

@mrh4900

2 жыл бұрын

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Very good, detailed and educative video, one of the best I've seen on this subject.

Never watched a video of yours before, so clicking into it I was thinking how a reference or bibliography would just be the cherry on top. Then I checked again and saw one! Excellent job!

There are some inaccuracies in the part about the armor, but overall it's a very decent video. Thank you for your effort and I look forward to what's to come.

@HeathenRides

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's mostly inaccurate from start to finish feels like he trying to make simple stuff look chaotic blaming missing source's of stuff there's plenty of sources .. anyways most Germanic tribe's didn't have armour's or helmet's all Vikings are Germanic Norge/Norway is what Harald Hårfagre gathered of North Germania when he was going to make that into one Rike .the training was Glima in all Germania Germany wasn't part of Germania but was made by approximately 200 Germanic warrior tribe's like Saxons etc the service periods is easy to look up (herdsmenn) was the warriors on contract with Earl's chief's Kings legion's etc .. they could not use heavy armors because it fucks up Glima and make You sink if you are at Sea which is how They moved long distance.it was Germanic tribe's who slayed Rome using Varanger Garden/varangian guard (Varanger is north Norway all the way to Russian border's) when They worked for rome as herdsmenn They did use somekinda armour but I don't know much about the armour exempt from the fact that it was given by the Romans They worked for...

will you ever bring back some total war massive battles? That was so cool back in the day, maybe just for the nostalgia bring one back

This was so good. So well done. Excellent. Bravo, thank you!

Well done and educational. Thank you!

Surprised you didn't mention that your average Germanic was a full head taller than the Roman, even a Germanic woman was taller than the Roman Soldier.

Of course, there's no real mystery about why the different "barbarian" fighting forces get portrayed the way they do as savage, undisciplined, and poorly equipped. It's because that's how almost all of the historical sources portray them. Which, of course, is because almost all of the historical sources were Roman or Greek. To the Romans and the Greeks the barbarian warriors seemed savage, they seemed undisciplined, and they seemed poorly equipped, because of course the Romans and the Greeks considered themselves to be the epitome of civilization, they emphasized the importance of discipline in battle, and they were some of the best equipped fighting forces of their eras. If the early Germanic tribes had left written accounts like the Romans and Greeks did, then we might have a very different perception of them today.

@lycaonpictus9662

2 жыл бұрын

Julius Caesar on a number of occasions in his account of the Gallic Wars, refers to both Germans and Gallic infantry formations as a "phalanx." While of course he didn't mean that they were equipped and fighting in a Greek manner, it is probably a reference to some form of shield wall. While the Roman sources might be tinged with bias or an incomplete understanding of some of the foreign peoples they were writing about, they do on a number of occasions refer to the Germans or other so-called barbarian peoples fighting in an organized fashion. On that note I don't really think the blame for the popular image of the barbarians as fighting as little more than an undisciplined mob is really the fault of the Romans. That image is mostly the invention of pop culture portrayals rather than from the historical sources.

@randalthor741

2 жыл бұрын

The pop culture portrayals of barbarians come from what school children were taught about them for centuries, which comes primarily from Roman and Greek sources.

@shorewall

2 жыл бұрын

@@randalthor741 But this video also uses Roman sources to show how good the Germanics were. I think the bias comes from Enlightenment Europe, that got obsessed with Classical Times (for good reason), but then wanted to downplay everything from the past. Like the myths about the "Dark Ages" that still get spread around.

@randalthor741

2 жыл бұрын

Who said anything about how good the Germanics were? We're talking about how they were seen as savage, undisciplined, and poorly equipped. Not about whether they were seen as being effective. And, as is shown in this video, the Roman sources overwhelmingly portray them as being savage, undisciplined, and poorly equipped. And those sources are what Enlightenment Europe based their views on, partly because the "barbarians" didn't leave behind written records that might lead them to question the Roman & Greek sources.

@oddoneout1835

2 жыл бұрын

History is written by the victors they say. Survivors offer perspective. Good day.👍

Great content as expected.. I'm going congratulate you know now as by the next episode 1million subscribers ..

Congrats on the million subs! Keep it up!

Not to rush you bro but when is the next avenging Varus episode coming?

@rogerjamespaul5528

2 жыл бұрын

I believe there is a Barbarian 2 in the making.

Now you should do a video on *later* germanic warriors

I love this series. It’s fun to think about

Great work as usual

So basically the German people have always understood “lighting war”

@fudger2224

2 жыл бұрын

Blitzkireg forever is Germany's motto i guess

@hafeezuddin1367

2 жыл бұрын

@@fudger2224 efficient in work, efficient in war?

@srbtlevse16

2 жыл бұрын

Even when playing football lol

@griffinleib3843

2 жыл бұрын

Lightning war was never a German term

@TheMelbournelad

2 жыл бұрын

@@griffinleib3843 hense why I used lighting war as the English translation

Makes one proud of one's Germanic heritage 🥰👍

I love your videos. Well done.

Excellent production: interesting presentation, simple facts, and little fluff.

I've been deeply fond of the Germanic tribes ever since I read the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. 😍

@matte6371

2 жыл бұрын

Were is the connection?

@dirckthedork-knight1201

2 жыл бұрын

@@matte6371 Tolkien was inspired by germanic poetry and culture

@randomdude2026

2 жыл бұрын

@@matte6371 Rohan is based on Germanic warriors, mostly Saxons and Goths.

@dirckthedork-knight1201

2 жыл бұрын

@Nephalim Power No he did not

@randomdude2026

2 жыл бұрын

@Nephalim Power Tolkien was just a believing catholic, not a hebrew nationalist wtf. He admired germanic and german culture and even said that he is sad that Hitler made german culture looking bad. Elves, Dwarves, Dragons and Trolls of Middle-Earth are directly taken or inspired of Germanic mythology.

Virgin Roman: Only good when protected by shield Drunk on wine Olive oil smell Wants Melissa but Melissa likes Senator Not allowed to drink on duty 25 years of service to go Chad Celt: Goes in commando wielding massive axe Drunk on proper beer Smell of the wild Has a harem of 7 Valkyries Drinks and gets into a brothel fight every other day Only one more season, and goes back to his hearth

@calcaleb7041

9 ай бұрын

Both forced to convert to a god they never believed in 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

This is amazing!

I enjoyed this thankyou

What an effort👍you recreated history love from India🇮🇳🕉️🙏please make more on famous wars

Good morning everyone I hope you're all doing good and having a happy Saturday morning.

@HAYAOLEONE

2 жыл бұрын

shut up

@user-zp8ei6pi7p

2 жыл бұрын

@@HAYAOLEONE its not my fault you got touched as a child Leone. Don't bring us all down

@HAYAOLEONE

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-zp8ei6pi7p the mask dropped quickly

@TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN

2 жыл бұрын

Eh it’s a pretty shitty day

Stumbled upon this video. Fascinating.

Too nice video about all tradition of Germanic tribes especially warriors classification and their weapons, clothes

Great work, really enjoyed this snippet into Germanic history with neutrality and objectivity. Too many historical videos are poorly researched opinion pieces that clearly favour one side or the other. It's shame the Germanics didn't write anything down, would've loved to hear of that massive battle that took place but has never even been recorded to history.

@comical4609

2 жыл бұрын

@Gabryjel No.

@honkytonk4465

2 жыл бұрын

@Gabryjel bs!

Germans were the best warriors there was

@mickeytwister4721

7 ай бұрын

They must of been a sight to behold back in their heyday. I can imagine Germanic warriors fighting in the coliseum, with everyone in the stands with their jaw on the ground watching badass Germans fucking literally every other race of men up.

my favourite history channel

Very well done!

This was amazing! I really liked the focus on the social and individual based hierarchy of Germanic Society. I think that has a lot in common with our current society, along with the Roman style as well.

@dirckthedork-knight1201

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed a lot of people don't realise that germanic culture played a big part in creating western european civilization

@mickeytwister4721

9 ай бұрын

​@@dirckthedork-knight1201they were a very narcissistic people. They were not afraid men who called themselves kings, they were afraid of magic. All that matters to them was becoming a great warrior and to live free. Our sense of individualism and love of adventure comes from our Germanic forefathers.

Nice Work 👍 Greetings from the forests east of the rhine 😉

@Trollvolk

2 жыл бұрын

Guter Name ;)

@tokre8880

2 жыл бұрын

@@Trollvolk stimmt der Name ist Bombe

Congrats on 1 Million subs

Dude good Job.... very much enjoying your channel ...keep it up....