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Julius Caesar - On the way across the Aegean Sea, Caesar was kidnapped by pirates and held prisoner. He maintained an attitude of superiority throughout his captivity. The pirates demanded a ransom of 20 talents of silver, but he insisted that they ask for 50. After the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and imprisoned them. He had them crucified on his own authority, as he had promised while in captivity-a promise that the pirates had taken as a joke.
A young Roman was captured by pirates. He told them he was going to kill them all. They laughed and the Roman later escaped. The young Roman returned commanding a fleet and killed all the pirates. Guess who the Roman was, Julius, later known as Caesar.
You missed one of the most brutal acts of revenge in all of History. What Vlad Tepes (Aka Vlad Dracula or Vlad the impaler) did to the Boyars after he returned to power after the exile they caused is legendary. Much worse then half of the things on this list.
Im not saying religion wasnt a reason for many wars, but just saying that most wars were started for land and resources just saying. Also in many cases religion was an excuse that was told to the people when actually there were political reasons. The biggest war caused by religion were crusades.
Actually, the first crusade was caused by the byzantine/ eastern roman emperors call for help against the turks who were overrunning them. The pope saw that as an opportunity to lead the violence in Europe somewhere else.
no even the crusades were about taking land. They just pushed the "they worship a different invisible man" angle harder then others to get the people behind it
+Ian MacFadyen Well no. The original crusades was the pope shitting himself in fear, because the Islamic caliphate/Kingdoms were expanding taking over several Christian lands. Pope told all the Kings of Europe "Hey, if we don't quell this we'll all be speaking Arabic" Thus a holy war started uniting several Euro nations (Unofficially) under one banner to kick Islam's ass for taking Christian land.
@J D3 And a fledgling Intelligence organization in Mosad found one of those responsible. Somehow Israel, a nation of 12 years, found Eichmann in South America when the Superpower could not (did not).
Everyone complaining how fast he talked haha. I loved it, he doesn't waste your time with nonsense he gets strait to the point. MORE channels need to do this!
Fair play to the Americans who executed those 500 SS guards and armed the survivors of the camp!! The Allies let far too many war criminals escape justice and should have tried a lot more than the 26 men at Nuremberg!!
Ivan Strydom Hilarious that you insult and belittle someone who was NOT trying to wage war against religion. They were stating it was a stupid excuse🙄 what an asshole.
My personal favorite, Tomyris killing and drinking wine from the skull of Cyrus the Great (king of kings) for killing her son. The layers to the story and personal backstory of the individuals involved is just wonderful.
Sorry, but there are some serious errors here: 10) _The Count of Monte Cristo_ is a fictional work by Alexander Dumas and in no way "based on a true story." 8) The massacre was not an act of revenge, but part of the French Protestant Wars, a series of wars about the establishment of the Huguenots in France, which was declared heretical by the ruling Catholics. In previous centuries, they would have simply been culled, but the reformation was afoot. A little more complicated than a revenge plot. 4) The Dachau liberation killings were not some secret that "came to light in the early 2000s." General Patton's decision to pardon the perpetrators was headline news in 1945. There was even a book published on the subject in the 1980s. Historians have been well aware of the incident, even if it has faded from public memory. The actual investigative report was lost in 1960s, but found again in the early 90s. None of that having to do with the 2000s! 3) The massacre at Urgench was not for revenge, but part of the usual Mongol stratagem of massacring cities that resisted. Furthermore, the highest estimate of the bloodshed there is 1.2 million, and most historians consider it to be a tremendous exaggeration at that. The entirety of the Mongol expansion is estimated to have killed around 4 million people, not just one particular incident, and that was all because of their strategic massacring, not vengeance.
Geoff - It troubles me that you got three likes. England didn't even exist at the time, nor did any of the kingdoms that were to eventually become England. England didn't actually exist until around the 9th or 10th century, 500 years after the Romans left. Welsh and Cornish are the two last remaining remnants of the languages spoken throughout Britain, south of Hadrian's wall, during the time of Boudica.
Nice! Here are two more: Spartacus's slave army was defeated by Marcus Licinius Crassus and the re-captured slaves were made an example of by crucifying thousands of them along one of the main roads leading back to Rome. Certainly and effective PR campaign! At the end of the Punic Wars Rome destroyed Carthage and supposedly went at length to sow salt into the land where the city once stood so that nothing would ever again grow there. Carthage never recovered.
Yeah normally I should source this kind of information. I am not sure who wrote about this but probably someone like Tacitus or the Plinys. They, on the other hand, did not source anything, which is already second hand research since they did not personally observe any of it, so the credibility of these kinds of statements is not particularly reliable. Therefore, it would be fair to say that legend has it that's what happened.
Lol my man Spartacus was pretty vengeful himself on the show they portrayed him as more merciful than he was, all the lives that had to he taken every time they took a villa. Then after Crixus fell the show depicts them forcing about 20 captives including Crassus' son to fight as gladiators when in reality it was about 300 get sentenced to death that way in honor of Crixus, and then to hasten his speed of travel after ridding himself of useless materials put all other prisoners to the sword. Aside from all the Roman's killed when taking villas(which could be considered revenge since they weren't war battles)he put a minimum of 300 to death for revenge likely with all numbers not counting battle numbers were twice as high maybe thousands or at least a thousand.
That wasn't right though. They invaded Carthage the third time for no reason than to finish them off the face of the Earth. It can't even be said it was revenge for what Hannibal did because Carthage was already forced to pay for that war.
An Indian friend told me, that women who go to police to report rape are likely to get raped by the police, too. That's because in the eyes of the policemen she is already dishonored and it doesn't matter if she gets raped one more time anyways. Of course she probably doesn't receive any help. It's also very likely she gets rejected by her family and society, so it's better to not talk about it for her. The incident where the rape of the young student in the bus which made it to the world press was also just outrageous to the Indian society because she belonged to a higher caste while the assaulter were untouchables.
+jelly orwhat That comes off as a reason to speak up MORE. Otherwise it just keeps the whole thing under wraps and lets it all continue. But your comment has nothing to do with what you replied to.
That actually makes a lot of sense. And I understand more why it was so publicised. Thanks for the insight. +BJGvideos Sadly things don't work like that outside the bubble of Europe and North America. With all due respect, there's a lot of eye opening you need to do mate...
At the battle of Clontarf, Irish hero Brian Boru was killed by Brodir of Mann while he was praying in his tent. After his brother, Ulf the Quarrelsome, found the headless body, he took some men and set out to find Brodir. When he did, he proceeded to cut open Brodir's belly, rip out his intestines, and wind them all around a large tree. The legends say that Brodir did not die until all his intestines were out of his body
In the last 2'000 years not only did religion repress scientific discovery, but yes, religion has had a major factor in all major wars in human history. To look at a recent example, The Vatican celebrated Hitlers birthday during his time of power, and Hitler declared his en-devour as 'the work of christ'. I'm gonna assume you're religious, and one that believes in fairness, equality and peace. But, The Bible and The Quran, in parts, command violence. So this is why people claim religion causes violence and wars, because it's and easy vessel to justify atrocities. Because it does.
Couple things. One, he said that religion was the reason for *nearly* all wars in the history of forever. Two, while that may be taken to be generally false, what truly starts wars is 'ideology'. Ideology being defined as a 'system of ideas and ideals', religions are ideologies, yes, but so are forms of governance, or even the personal values and principles of one man could be considered an ideology of one. Soldiers that fight for their people do so out of an ideology of 'king and country'. People act in a way as to uphold their own principles, and principles start fights if someone violates them. In most cases, these ideologies are built around something tangible. King, country, loved ones. Things that are verifiably true in this world and that can be touched. But religion, no matter how hard people balk and scream, isn't a verifiable truth. God as the foundation of a religion has never been observed by anyone, inviting many interpretations of His words, and because of that conflicts that arise over religious ideology are by far the hardest to reconcile. There are no facts to check, no tangible slights to avenge. Just a bunch of people espousing the values of different fictional works and treating them as fact. Perhaps religion wouldn't be as widespread as it is today if more people understood the concept of confirmation bias two thousand years ago. With such a loose interpretation of factuality of course religious ideologies will rarely see eye to eye on things concerning 'God'. But this is hardly the fault of theists as a whole. The holy Books of certain Gods are so filled with dangerous passages because of a few ancient belligerent embittered cunts who couldn't resist injecting their notions of 'God' into their petty, *mortal* squabbles. A publicity stunt that lasted for millennia. So yes, religion is not at the root of all wars, but the percentage of wars it does cause tend to never truly end.
nothing has changed threw thousands of years !!! ... men seek power!!! how do u think Nostradameus could predict all those verses .... cause he studied man and he new that everything repeats itself ... man is greedy and seeks power !!! just look at the elections !!! same thing...
This was good. I really enjoyed watching this video. So, cheers and thanks for enriching my knowledge of history and doing it in such an enjoyable way. Nice one 👍☺
I'd gladly give you both a one-way ticket to east upper-Silesia. Hope you don't mind the heat. Now I'll enjoy song "Gegrilltes Fleisch" even more, Untermensch.
For the people in power perhaps. But not the vast majority of followers who kill and die in that cause. Try telling them it's an excuse and that they don't actually believe.
It kind of was... The Welsh people populated majority of the islands, with the Picts in the North. It wasn't until after the Romans retreated from Britain that the Saxons invaded (a little before A.D 500) and eventually forced the native populace into the West where Wales is now.
If I had seen what they saw, I would have killed 500 SS guards by myself. All the American soldiers had to go through hell fighting the Nazis only to find out that they were monsters. What surprises me is that only 500 were killed. Even 10,000 SS killed would be a small drop in the bucket.
dsoutherngent1 I have to agree that outright killing an SS guard is 100 times more humane than gassing and torturing humans that some idiot decides to classify as undesirable. In that sense, I almost think that killing 500 SS guards was more of a mercy killing rather revenge. I think that we should suggest that the producer of this video make a revised video. It really pales in comparison with the other acts of revenge.
crusty old fart First of all, history is not my specialty even though I enjoy history on the side. Secondly, I would tend to discount anything made into a film or movie because I have yet to see a 100% accurate portrayal. Thirdly, I tend to rely more on historians to accurately portray history. While I realize that this leads to a level of uncertainty, I do read several historians and occasionally primary sources. All the history books that I have read tend to confirm that there was a holocaust. Michael Shermer, Skeptic in Chief, who has investigated a respectable number of hoaxes, has determined that the Holocaust was not a hoax. This is unusual in that most of the time after his investigation, he finds unusual claims to be hoaxes. The last thing that I have to say is that there are no universities who will accept anyone for a professorship position if that person denies the holocaust. Several persons have presented their ideas to me before and attempted to support their ideas with books whose authors have questionable credentials. I am calling stalemate on this one because I am not even going to attempt to persuade anyone nor do I think there is sufficient cause to reconsider. If by any chance you believe that you know of any sources that might be reliable, please leave me a list for my benefit and the benefit of any inquiring minds. Thank you.
The one I thought of upon seeing this list was Ivar the Boneless and King Aella of Northumbria. Though there's some question as to the reality of the incident, since it was recorded in traditional Norse poetry, the story goes that after Aella killed Ivars father by tossing him in a snake pit, Ivar went to war with Aella, defeated him, captured him, and then exacted his familial revenge by cutting away the ribs from Aella's spine, and ripping out his lungs through the holes he'd created.
Eliahu Itzkovitz -- As a child in the Jewish Ghetto of Chisinau, Romania, Itzkovitz saw his entire family murdered by one of the Romanian guards. Itzkovitz knew nothing about the guard except his name... Stănescu. After WWII, Itzkovitz joined the Israeli Defense Forces but, within a year, he discovered that Stănescu was in the French Foreign Legion. Itzkovitz immediately deserted the IDF and, just as immediately, joined the Foreign Legion. After joining, he then goes to worked at trying to get a posting with Stănescu, who, as it turned out, had recently been promoted... and, upon getting the transfer he sought, Itzkovitz not only was assigned to the same company, Stănescu ended up being Itzkovitz's platoon leader. Having waited for years to track this man down, Itzkovitz decided he could be extraordinarily patient, and put this off just a bit longer. He wanted his revenge to taste as absolutely sweet as possible. So, he worked very hard to earn Stănescu's trust and his friendship. He got the guy to absolutely love him as a friend. Only after Stănescu came to befriend him did Itzkovitz strike. Explaining who he was to Stănescu, and ensuring that he remembered having murdered his family, Itzkovitz opened fire and gunned Stănescu down. Naturally, this turned out to be no problem for the French Foreign Legion, who never brought charges against Itzkovitz, allowing to serve out the rest of his enlistment. The Israeli Defense Forces were a bit more hard-nosed about it, though... not the murder of Stănescu (they couldn't care less about him), but... because he deserted the IDF, they gave him a year in prison (which, Itzkovitz probably did with zero fucks to give). ... befriending the man you're about to take revenge on has to be one of the most brutal things I've ever heard. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliahu_Itzkovitz
Augustus for bringing all of the people involved with Julius Caesar's murder. Not only did he exact revenge, he was able to rise to power & remove his rivals in one bloody stroke.
"Being the reason for all wars in the history of forever." Referring to religion. Your biases are getting the better of you. Obviously that's not true. Even in your video a mere handful of the wars mentioned had anything to do with religion. Not to mention that more often than not religion was only an excuse for the rulers of some nations to expand territory or in some cases throw off the yoke of the Catholic church. I'm not saying there haven't been wars fought over religion, but in the history of man they represent only a small minority of the history of war. Then there's the Catholic church, an institution that in times past was so vile it's hard to fathom. Ruled by ruthless men who used religion to increase their own power and wealth but believed less than your average next door atheist. Usually at the expense of any true believers who were more often than not their victims rather than their accomplices. The Catholic church is responsible for the murder of more Christians and Jews than any other group with the exception of Islam who exceed the Catholic church only because by this point they've been at it longer. That only because somewhere along the way the Catholic church managed to reform itself to some small degree and stopped their own murder of Christians. Though it might be fair to say they share some culpability for the holocaust, for their silence if nothing else. They STILL to this day are responsible for the persecution of many Christians and Jews even if they have stopped outright murdering them. People who make such statements as yours gloss over the real motivations involved. To this day religion is used as a smoke screen by the powerful to do things that most religions find repugnant. Edit: Why in the world is it that when you post comments in RU-vid using Microsoft Edge you can't use paragraphs? I have to edit my comments using Firefox just to form a proper paragraph.
Finally someone has the intelligence to understand this. An unfortunate but true analogy is the argument of gun control in regards to gun violence. A gun, without an owner or a human to use it, can't do any harm. When it is put into the hands of someone righteous or trying to protect their loved ones, it's a good thing. When it is put into the hands of someone who doesn't know how to safely handle or it someone who has bad intentions, there are negative consequences. People use religion almost as a weapon to control people and society while corrupting and distorting its true intentions.
There are many good Christian Catholics yes. But Christianity isn't something you're born into. It's a choice that is born out through your actions. As Jesus said "You shall know them by their fruit." In fact what I'm referring to when I say they killed many Christians I'm including true believers in Christ within the Catholic church. By itself the the Catholic church is an institution, and for the most part a political institution rather than a religious one. That is borne out through their fruit, just as Jesus said. Even today they are more interested in manipulating the political realm than having any true belief in Christ. Being in the Catholic church doesn't automatically make you a Christian. Having a sincere belief in Jesus as the Saviour who bore our sins on the cross and was resurrected from the dead is what makes you a Christian. What I'm referring to is the leadership. Particularly in the middle ages. They did a lot of horrible things, including to their own people all for expanding their power and wealth and would destroy anyone who dared say or even believe differently.
People often say things they really believe as a joke and when people really believe this kind of lie, and they do, it's no laughing matter. Yes, it's said in the tone of a joke, but it's also said in a tone that suggests he actually believes this. When someone mocks someone or something in this way, they do so because they believe it, not because they don't.
BarakIII The middle ages weren't a particularly bad time. In fact, the Catholic church had a notably lighter hand than the feuding Germanic lords who would cast them off in favor of greater power by controlling churches of their own.
+WhatCulture Religion is only responsible for 7% of all wars ever fought since the beginning of recorded history. it would be nice if you were actually done your research before making such an ignorant comment.
I know. It gets old with that lie constantly being pushed. Or,, religion has killed more people blah blah. They conveniently forget ALL the N.K. leaders, Stalin and Mao.. Who have killed more people than ANYBODY combined in history. AND they are followed by the likes of Muslims (near genocidal acts to Africans over the last several centuries and STILL going, how that gets ignored is astounding), ritual sacrificial cultures such as babylon and the aztecs. But somehow Christianity gets trashed..
AGM_Flatline you need to reread what I wrote. Nothing you said is accurate. As to bringing up old stuff. What did you just do? Again reread what I wrote. It's factual.
Ooooookay a few things. Crusades happened for power, land, and to fight back the Muslims who were collectively fucking up that entire sector of the globe. Also, the church used religion as a tool to gather people. They didn't just all bump into each other at the market and go "Hey.... we're all Catholics/Christians, right?? WANNA FUCK SOME SHIT UP??" and go on a rampage. Read a book. Christians were evil bastards? When? When their god was preaching peace, creating the golden rule, and spouting "love thy neighbor"? Human nature breeds hatred, pal. Not religion. Don't pin all of histories issues on the religious. And lastly, get away from that pathetic "I am a man of science" holier than thou crap. The world has moved further from religion since the mid 1800s and the world has gone further down the shitter. You need to rethink your logic.
Rome vs. Carthage? I don't know any other instances in history where the avenger "salted the soil" after killing EVERYBODY IN THE CITY so that NOTHING WOULD EVER GROW THERE AGAIN.
Never knew that and I am a WWII life long historian. As for the liberation being marred? Perhaps I am too jaded, myself, but sounds like justice to me. The world is not a nice place. As the Germans taught the Jews....and were then taught themselves..... I am a real life American veteran who served with the Army values to the upmost I could. But if I had walked into a German concentration cp in the final days of WWII.....I don't know how I would have reacted but I judge NONE who reacted as they did.
in ww2, the Greek village of Distomo was massacred because of an attack done against a Geman convoy. Some villages were strangled with their own intestines and babies were stabbed in their cribs. I think that deserves some mention
Adam and Even were kicked out of Eden for eating an apple, then all humans on earth were wiped out in a flood because they were not behaving properly. There is the biggest revenge ever. Talk about anger issues.
you left out Julius Caesar's revenge against the Pirates Who held him captive for more than six months. Partied with them hung out with them and they finally ransomed him. all during that time he warned them that he would come come back and hunt them down and then he did
Vlad Dracula. As a prince of Wallachia, was taken hostage by the Ottomans for 5 years, to ensure his father's obedience. They then murdered his father and brother. After escaping, he invaded his former kingdom, retaking it, advancing his quest for revenge. Following this, he brutally invaded the Ottoman allies, the Saxons, impaling tens of thousands. In a continuing quest for vengeance, he invaded the Ottoman territories, brutally killing tens of thousands more. It is said that the thousands of impaled bodies outside his castle were so repulsive, both in smell and in sight, that no army ever attempted to invade his castle. Crows would even nest in the bodies, and attack anyone that came near. Body count is not the highest, but the most evil and brutal figure that acted out of revenge in history.
you know you guys can upload a video up to 15 minutes you don't have to speed talk all the way through. It's not cool, you got yourselves a view but lost yourselves a like and a sub.
Half the neck beards on the internet think that anyone gave a fuck about what their religion said about massacres. No crusades or jihads were about religion.
Well... Since you mentioned the crusades, those might actually have religious roots. If you're tinking about any other war where the rulers went "We shall smite them because they're not Christian/Islamic/whatever", then yes.
+Sigart I don't think it's any different for the crusades. I'm sure a majority of the people who actually fought the battles were in it for their religion, but not those who waged the war.
"Religion is seriously like the cause of all wars ever." Actually, according to "Encyclopedia of Wars" by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod, only 123 of the 1,763 documented wars have a religious cause. That's less than 7%.
One of - the Black Wedding & the Glencoe Massacre, both in Scotland have already been noted as the inspiration, but I don't doubt there were plenty of examples for Martin to choose from. And, what makes this one worse; it wasn't limited to Paris- it quickly spread 'round France, as it was part of the larger conflict: the French Wars of Religion - I had French ancestors from Lorraine (a fair way from Paris, you'll agree) who were Huguenots- they were lucky, & managed to leg it to England, somehow- having survived that.
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man sows, that also shall he reap."
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Instead of talking like you had 17,000 cups of coffee then snorted two tons of cocaine .. how about just slowing down? would have been greatly interesting otherwise.
