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We hear of great people in history all the time. The Caesars, the Elizabeths, the Napoleons, and the Genghis Khans. They may have been enlighten rulers or vile despots; great builders or the destroyers of civilization - but they all shared one thing. They were human, and as such they had hopes, dreams, aspirations, inner demons, and insecurities - like everyone else. These traits affected the course of humanity for better and for worse. Together, they have made us the global society we are today. Flash Point History is dedicated to making history accessible because when we look into the past we discover ourselves.

Alesia - Art of War: Siege

Alesia - Art of War: Siege

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  • @PaulStClair-or3gj
    @PaulStClair-or3gj11 сағат бұрын

    YOUR SERIES OF 4 VASCO DA GAMA EXPLORATION VIDEOS SHOULD BE SHOWN IN ALL SCHOOLS. THEY ARE AN EXCELLENT WAY TO TEACH MODERN CHILDREN ABOUT. HISTORY. 👏👍👳

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx10 сағат бұрын

    I agree :)

  • @AntonQvarfordt
    @AntonQvarfordtКүн бұрын

    somebody likes Hardcore History.

  • @dorukgolcu9191
    @dorukgolcu9191Күн бұрын

    I know this is a two year old video, but I have to mention that there are a lot of people named Attila and its derivatives (Atilla is the common spelling where I am from) out there, just not in Europe 😝😜

  • @wildfire9280
    @wildfire9280Күн бұрын

    8:01 Not sure I would use that particular wording. We can’t know all the details of what went on in the purple room.

  • @darthveatay
    @darthveatayКүн бұрын

    How strong was Asturias's army?

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHxКүн бұрын

    History is written by the victor - so the army was small and took on overwhelming odds

  • @user-fo7jj6dd8i
    @user-fo7jj6dd8iКүн бұрын

    I've been waiting for this since the history of Rome podcast ended.

  • @mutual-aid
    @mutual-aidКүн бұрын

    really bad and unnecessarily dramatic reading. needs a calmer reading voice. except for the reading voice it;s a good report.

  • @Peter-qe1yh
    @Peter-qe1yhКүн бұрын

    This seems kinda shitty. You're just taking someone else's podcast (the History of Byzantium) and uploading it with some random visuals thrown in

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHxКүн бұрын

    This is a collaboration with Robin’s consent and he’s in on the revenue share.

  • @mroakens
    @mroakens2 күн бұрын

    Makes me feel like i am playing a RTS game

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHxКүн бұрын

    Nice. I’ve always been a fan of RTS games

  • @mroakens
    @mroakens2 күн бұрын

    Great music for this type of video documentary 👌

  • @bobbybright9334
    @bobbybright93342 күн бұрын

    Rome the mist evil empire in our history

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx2 күн бұрын

    They created a wasteland and called it peace

  • @bobbybright9334
    @bobbybright93342 күн бұрын

    Hidden history because they knew the evil of rome upon the world and rome still rules til this day

  • @avalonjustin
    @avalonjustin2 күн бұрын

    I wonder if this would be considered the "Madness Of Pelagius".

  • @johnpaulkearney4488
    @johnpaulkearney44882 күн бұрын

    I loved watching this it was brilliant 👏

  • @AvidanTheExpositor
    @AvidanTheExpositor2 күн бұрын

    extremely informative. thank you flash

  • @paulmicks7097
    @paulmicks70972 күн бұрын

    Well , it seems you would remember the US empire the same way and Biden (Joeidotian) as the last great emperor... if wasn't for COVID-19 the empire could have lasted for a 1000 years.

  • @mokodo_
    @mokodo_2 күн бұрын

    Please do more of these on the crusades 🙏 ive watch your videos on 1-4 about 6 times now

  • @bosbanon3452
    @bosbanon34522 күн бұрын

    Waiting this again, i notice that Ibn Tashfin place the Taifa army on the front of his, and between his and there was a ditch between them, why he seems using the Taifa Army as fodder. Alphonso also do something similar by placing Aragonese in the front but there's no ditch between them, by looking how the muslim didn't attack first can we asumsi that the Christian has stronger army? About Almoravid, you said there's no separation between state and church, i think Islam doesn't have that concept, Christians also only have that concept after the following centuries

  • @MichaelMoore-no9ly
    @MichaelMoore-no9ly2 күн бұрын

    After many months I finally finished watching your very admirable work. I was a little surprised to hear your commentary at the end criticizing Justinian. While I see your point when you contrast him with Hadrian, I also think that his conquests in the West, even the short-lived ones, helped the population that appreciated the remnants of Roman civilization as against Arian barbarian rule. In the end this population ended up either converting and transforming this barbarian element or else falling to a new, Islamic conqueror. As someone much interested in Church history, I was pleased to learn something from your video. I had always thought that Theodora had manipulated the Second Council of Constantinople, and now I learn she had died several years before. One correction: when you explain about the terms Catholic and Monophysite at the end of the 3rd hour, you say that the Monophysites had not yet been declared heretical; yet they were, at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. I guess I admire Justinian in that I believe his manipulations of doctrine stayed within the bounds of orthodoxy, as opposed to emperors like Heraclius and Leo the Isaurian, who introduced heresy under the attempt to unify their empires, but who caused far more disunity and damage in doing so. I am very curious as to the religious changes he wanted to introduce at the end of his life. Would I find out about them by reading Procopius? If anyone could help me in this regard, I would appreciate it.

  • @bvillafuerte765
    @bvillafuerte7653 күн бұрын

    For Christianity! For the Kings! Santiago!

  • @MaraJaha-ih3ky
    @MaraJaha-ih3ky3 күн бұрын

    It’s not Byzantium. It is Eastern Roman Empire.

  • @deanfirnatine7814
    @deanfirnatine78143 күн бұрын

    Man Peter was dumb to repeatedly show mercy to the rebellious Henry. Paid with his life for that mercy.

  • @damiangrouse4564
    @damiangrouse45643 күн бұрын

    What happened to Rome is what is happening now.! Substitute the Hun for the Han and the Vandals for the Russ. This video needs to be required education for at the very least freshman congress members (the long time members have mostly been co-opted) and better as general education.

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx3 күн бұрын

    I know its cliche to say - but it still holds true, those who forget the past are doomed to repeat their mistakes

  • @drakethesnek6429
    @drakethesnek64293 күн бұрын

    If you consider sl@very and being second-class citizens in your own country, sure, they were "tolerant."

  • @bosbanon3452
    @bosbanon34523 күн бұрын

    Sanhajah was from sub saharan africa then pushed north ? Not the opposite? They're north african Berber then pushed south and mixed with the Sub-Saharan african? If they were from Sub-Saharan how come they spoke berber language

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx3 күн бұрын

    They were initially in the North and pushed to the south where they developed into a cohesive group. Then they returned

  • @user-fo2uh4rm5c
    @user-fo2uh4rm5c4 күн бұрын

    請澳門人多看看。

  • @bvillafuerte765
    @bvillafuerte7654 күн бұрын

    For the Roman Empress!

  • @bvillafuerte765
    @bvillafuerte7654 күн бұрын

    With you... The greatest war in history!

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx4 күн бұрын

    Thanks

  • @bvillafuerte765
    @bvillafuerte7653 күн бұрын

    @@FlashPointHx Thanks to you for doing it.

  • @seandawson2335
    @seandawson23354 күн бұрын

    Great video! How fascinating!

  • @AJITHULLA
    @AJITHULLA4 күн бұрын

    ആർക്കറിയാം ഇതൊക്കെ ഉള്ളതാണോ എന്ന് 😂..... പറങ്ങി തെണ്ടികൾ തള്ളി മറിക്കുന്ന മറ്റൊരു കഥാപ്രസംഗം ആയിക്കൂടെ

  • @marcillioficino4663
    @marcillioficino46634 күн бұрын

    So, Vasco da Gama was somewhat of a serial killer.

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx4 күн бұрын

    Most of these explorers were - wait till we get to the Spanish

  • @loganomitchell7819
    @loganomitchell78194 күн бұрын

    Love this

  • @mokodo_
    @mokodo_4 күн бұрын

    850 years later and im, as a european, still embarrassed about this colossal failure

  • @carlosmelo1259
    @carlosmelo12594 күн бұрын

    Epic!

  • @clifftoussaint3258
    @clifftoussaint32584 күн бұрын

    Sounds about like a real zombie apocalypse. Covered up with a nice unknown sickness blowing in the wind. It's oddly similar to modern times

  • @moviemonster2083
    @moviemonster20834 күн бұрын

    But of course, this is not totally correctly titled. It's only the 'history' of Justinian's time. The Empire had a much longer history and the coming centuries would be a mixed bag of disasters and triumphs.

  • @aunch3
    @aunch34 күн бұрын

    What does BCE mean and what it is it based off of?

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx4 күн бұрын

    Before the Common Era - its a secular way of saying 'Before Christ'

  • @aunch3
    @aunch34 күн бұрын

    I know but why? Even if you don’t believe Christ ever existed it’s still the measuring point. Otherwise, what separates BCE from AD? What are you basing your dating on then? It seems like trying to have your cake and eat it too

  • @samueldawkins
    @samueldawkinsКүн бұрын

    @@aunch3 it is totally fine and non controversial to use. there is no contradiction.

  • @aunch3
    @aunch3Күн бұрын

    @Samuel Sure, I suppose we can all tell ourselves anything and say it’s ok, but that doesn’t make it logical. You still haven’t answered my question which is; If you’re not basing your timeline on Christ, what are you basing it on? That’s all I’m asking

  • @samueldawkins
    @samueldawkins10 сағат бұрын

    @@aunch3 you aren't as smart as you think

  • @I-hate-youtube797
    @I-hate-youtube7974 күн бұрын

    25:23 30:35 45:18 47:41 Just ignore me I’m doing research

  • @FlashPointHx
    @FlashPointHx4 күн бұрын

    You must be doing some interesting research =)

  • @rmp7400
    @rmp74005 күн бұрын

    Calling Holy Charlemagne an autocrat...with a sneer in your voice? Sad.

  • @michaellepp5445
    @michaellepp54455 күн бұрын

    If Isabella would have married either Edward IV or Richard III, maybe Henry Tudor dies at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Maybe with Spanish assistance. Think about a timeline where the Tudor line of kings never happen. The Anglican Church never splits with the Catholic Church. The Spanish Armada never attacks in 1588. Now, that's something