4 Most Epic Accounts from History of First Contact Between Cultures // From Vikings to Maori 

Levity is the cure to anxiety or a sympton but it sure works doesnt it! Lol Astute remark!

It sounds so One Piece like

Emotions are the universal language not only between human groups and cultures, but also of all mammals.

It's magical. Similar to music

@@miguelplaza6433 Not all mammals - if anything but a human shows you its teeth, it means it wants your blood.

"Oh no! Anyways"

🤣

“He played himself.”

Somehow I imagine they probably didn’t him either

I like that they saw their beards and came to the conclusion that their heads were on backwards 🤣 Related to them understanding each other’s lack of ill intent: i was recently played CoD mobile’s Battle Royale mode and got a random teammate assigned that started talking about making friends with the other teams… (this sounded ludicrous to me as the only way to win is to kill all of them) he explained that if you repeatedly got into position to kill them, then just got their attention and didn’t shoot at them, that about 60% of the players approached would get that you weren’t a threat and they’d join up with you to steamroll the other teams or just enjoy the novelty of the situation… then at the end of the match the allied teams would just sort of chill out as “the storm” (wall of death) closed in and the last man to die would win. It was absolutely mind blowing to hear that he was doing this and so we got into 2 jeeps with mounted machine gun torrents on top and drove off to give this insanity a try… the first group we approached shot a heat seeking missile at or car and wouldn’t stop shooting at our cars so we ran them over and killed them, but the next group had smaller guns and so when we drove circles around them honking our horns but not shooting they eventually stopped shooting at us and just stood there by a rock waiting for what came next, we had all turned our comms on to speak to everybody but they apparently didn’t have theirs turned on to hear us so their was no communication but our impromptu leader got out and started dancing 🕺🏻 and everyone joined in… it was amazing to do something soo human in an environment i had only ever killed every other person i’d met in. After a few seconds some jerk on a hill started shooting at us so we all returned fire and killed him… THEN WE ALL CLIMBED INTO THE 2 TRUCKS AND A MOTORCYCLE and went over to raid that jerks stuff… towards the end of the round we got attacked by 2 other teams that both attacked at once and my team got wiped out in an airstrike that detonated our vehicles but it was a pretty amazing experience

A 4 year old could’ve said that answer😂

@@lVloney Children see some things better than adults.

It is a really deep answer understanding its meaning as an older person is quite the challenge.

@@quiquemarquez3211 Indeed!

@@quiquemarquez3211 indubitably *stroking fancy mustache*

based

@@BringDHouseDown natives are always based

Fast forward a few hundred years and now they're almost all thieves. They're even going through a phase of what is referred to as ram raids in NZ. Where 14 year old natives steal a car crash it into a shop and ransack and steal goods from the store. They hit about 5 stores a week like this.

What is also fascinating that it is also probably correct; if you look at the lines of human migration in America; they all derived from the northern landbridge between Russia and Alaska.

He trained for that moment his entire life.

I’ve read about Captain Cook and his crew and they seemed to have been strong believers in the ‘enlightenment values’ championed at the time.

Even more mind-blowing is that the Dutch reached New Zealand in 1642. Cook was not the first.

@@shanemcdowall it didn’t go too well for the Dutch. They left without landing on shore.

@@brianmarshall1762 Yes. I have read Tasman's account. I am fairly certain that every European explorer to New Zealand was attacked. I think the Maori were giving a very clear message: "Fuck off and don't come back".

"Maori"

The goblins of Maori people are people that live under the ocean similar to Atlantis. You are confusing white culture's version of goblins which are grotesque, monsters, thieves etc.

@@entireglxy4338cmon man, it's just some good fun

And when the goblins returned after a long break, they used their magical walking sticks to kill all our people

@@saloneman3768 The Maori eventually got their own magical walking sticks and killed each other in brutal tribal warfare called the Musket Wars

@@saloneman3768 you sound like a learned student of history sir 🙇‍♂️

as someone who's 8 volumes into the wandering inn, I feel like someone's going to suffer that lesson soon

@@saloneman3768 Yeap, every last one, that is why there are no more Maori anymore right?

Why can’t we be more like the Maori lol

The goblins didnt kill him. he chose to be killed. that was his choice.

Don't fuck with the goblins, they won't bap ya with their mystical boom sticks. Easy as that.

That made you so happy didn't it ?

@@mmsibi I wouldn't expect sympathy for a thief.

Back in those days you had to take your fun where you could find it...

Ahh children acting like children with no phone or screen in sight.

How else would they expresse thier friendship?

Vikings never claimed that being friends with them was easy xD

Well it WAS his own idea..

Yeah that blew my mind.

There's a good one on this channel from Aztecs who first met Cortez. "We killed 2 of our slaves and sprinkled their blood onto the bread and offered it to the Europeans. But they were disgusted, as if the blood had already turned rotten."

we laughed and these goblins also laughed so we were pleased

We Māori have thousands of them still to this day - in scholarly books, articles and in the kōrero (stories) of our old people as well, both in Māori and Pākehā (English). Kia ora :)

@@piripibaker5151 that’s amazing. Can you recommend any place foreigners can find such records online? I know google is a thing but you don’t always know it’s reliable 😅

Hey! Can I ask what the word ka pai means? Its at 16:20

Nor did the explorers seek to abuse the obvious advantage of their walking sticks to conquer or subjugate the people. I think about this and its stark differences to Cortez and his betrayal of Montezuma. History is fascinating

Plus the elders would not want to start a war with a strange race of goblins

The islands did turn into a graveyard after

@@toomeyeh1 Cortez was in a completely different situation. The Maori generally sounded peaceful and friendly as far as the British could tell from these first few interactions. Cortez and his men were confronted with horrific human sacrifice and had to make plans for the sake of self-preservation. It's a very different situation to be fair to Cortez.

@@JoneThePwn different, sure. There's some pretty cool first hand accounts of the betrayal of Montezuma on this very channel. They saw gold and an exploitable people, and that's all they needed to see. However evil their human sacrifice was, Cortez and his men acted just as horribly as the evils he claimed he had to save the Old World from. We should be able look at both actors and call out the good and bad in order to learn from history.

Imagine you have only seen fire, ocean, weather, wood/stone weapons, wildlife, stars, etc. Explosions(aka gunshots) and small projectiles would be unbelievable. I wish we had time machines, I would love to witness when cultures first began to mingle. As dangerous as it may have been, that would be an amazing time to experience. I try to think of how I myself would make it clear that i was there peacefully if I was in a group that was exploring and meeting new groups of people. Human history is so strange

@@ext93 All you needed to show you were there peacefully is something to barter with or a gift. A gift instantly shows peaceful intent.

I think we are getting a childs narrative there. The subject says "We and the women" and "We the children" so thats probably why if you ask me.

It might be a catch-all term for non-Maori people, like the Greek term "barbarian" for non-Greeks. It would be interesting to know if they encountered the Australian aboriginals and called them "goblins" too, since they were also non Maori, and would have been the only other non Maori people they would have likely encountered.

The Celts were in New Zealand at least 1000 years prior to the Maoris. They have also found Chinese ships there embedded in mountains. Maori elders have currently closed off this topic until about 2053. I believe because it means someone else has claim to the land. There are no such thing as natives. Just peoples who have been when you are longer or longer than we cared to or were permitted to remember.

@@yingyangorca4124 Natives are whoever is living there when you went there. If i went to USA today, lets say Boston, the natives wouldnt be indians, they'd be a mixed group of many different peoples, many of european ancestry. At least from my perspective. Nativity is relative.

@@briaormead4239 I understand your view. My point is as a people. Human race. We act like there's somewhere else to go. And because we cross land we are somehow different. We mate a baby is born. We are the same. Hence there are no natives. Just past lives. It's just us and time. And even that is questionable. But I get you. It societal economic terms.

the Maori did indeed figure guns out quite quickly, a big part of colonial NZ history were the Musket Wars where Maori tribes decimated each other with British imported guns

@JustDev No i mean, hypothetically, if they only had the body to go off of, it would be interesting for them to figure out that it wasn’t actually a magic boom-stick, to watch it. I was having a discussion about this with some mates and we brought up what you could do if you took a pistol and nothing else to North Sentinel Island, the only island left in the world that has yet to be explored much at all and which still has a population of “untouched” natives living there in tribalism. A gun would be absolutely stunning to them and would at first make them obviously fearful of the wielder, but i think in time they would piece together the way it works and then the power would be gone from the wielder.

@JustDev Probably the first time they see a little ball go down the front.

Great point. Always fascinated me too. 😊

@@o.n.e-onlinenaturaleducati5597 They have bows so I'm sure they would get the idea. The people's on that island have seen boats, planes, helicopters and all sorts of stuff so honestly a gun would be one of the least wild things they've seen. Already they have some metal from wreckage and have been seen using it in arrow/spear heads...really all they're missing is gunpowder.

Mmm. Most curious that account is, largely because the description of the statues does not tally with the fact that the maoi are made of stone - they are quarried, some remain in those quarries. Most bizarre, it makes me wonder if the author was making it up in order not to describe the natives as having superior stone working skills. Mmm. Slightly curious too is the fact that he does however mention them lighting fires in front of them - fire was, I believe, their main quarrying method ~ fire-setting. Mmm. However, since his description of the 'statues' construction appears to be fabricated, it's hard to know if any of it is true.

@@JesseP.Watson I thought they were made using volcanic tuff

@@eliecerquintero2646 Hmm. I don't actually know what the stone is they were using... Though, if I remember rightly, the 'baskets' on their heads were a different stone from the figures themselves and, as I recall, was often red and bubbly... Which may have been a volcanic tuff. ...Now I think of it, there did appear quite a bit of variation in the stone they used in the images I've looked at. Heat from fire acts rapidly on silica in stone so it would follow that a volcanic tuff would be suitable for the operation I have in mind... Anyhow, bit too speculative there as I've only done passing research into the works on Easter island.

They are made from volcanic rock. I am from Chile, the country to whom Easter island belongs to, and I have been there and touch them.

There is no way that the Moai were made by the polynesians.

"Bro, let's play a death game"

Yeah I was wondering that too. I'm not sure which were the Vikings and which were the Greenlanders.

yeah i had to give it a second listen to figure out who lost the archery thing

Glad it wasnt just me

@Ian Taylor Good deal thanks!

Why was the viking drawn as an asian?

Lol

Greenland is a desolate icy dystopia when upon first settled. Iceland is filled with verdant meadows. With that in mind, the fact that they sought intimate relationships with that which they feared makes sense to me. Can you imagine finding a hostile location and figuring, "Oh yeh, dis home right here boi. ;D"

Intercourse means talking back then

now you know why a life at sea held so much appeal for some.

@@jakemisskelley they were sailore though; if they cant fight you they'll f*ck you. Its like their version of the "fight or flight response".

Had he been Mormon he would have said 'He lives on the planet Kolob with thousands of goddess wives.'

Relatable.

That part struck me too! Lol. I think that poor Eskimo (Inuit) was a little overwhelmed by what they were saying. By the time they got to telling him that this person was everywhere and all around, he was like; “Ok I don’t necessarily believe this sh@t, but you’re starting to freak me out a little! I need to get out here.”

Yeah it’s pretty nice but it’s all romanticized. The eras before this would be unlivable for us.

There was still wonder in the world, and maps uncharted. And no one knew they were floating in a blue sphere on space, surrounded by nothingness.

True, that’s probably why it was romanticized as there was so much mystery.

@@clayvertmarjani6939 not unlivable, just would fucking suck lmao

@@joshshirley9488 They just gotta add "some of". Hands down the Kardashians would _not_ make it.

Lmao

He must have been a reckless teenager smh

Imagine beggin someone 100 times more skilled than you to a contest that staked your literal life…..like yeah bruh, you definitely deserved it….prolly had his whole town in a constant state of confusion 😂

I would said it’s “a great big ball of has, burning millions of miles away”

@@philiptucker7590 👏

Umm.. i believe thats spelled Oral History.

@@andrewbrown6522 I think the comment more refers to the British point of view of it. honestly I love that sort of thing

I could say that about the pilgrims and the natives, or the British and the Irish or Mexico and the United States the list goes on. Moral of the story : when you are a guest in a place foreign to you ACT LIKE A GUEST, it’s not your home you are being welcomed, don’t get mad and try to take my home when you are no longer welcome.

@@tarakelly8640 That is how empire's work, they accumulate land and resource's to the point they become beyond reproach. NZ was claimed by the British Empire, the largest in history, and was not answerable to anyone. As they say, "all property is theft", which is especially true in regards to the way Maori conducted themselves at that time.

@@funtimesatbeaverfalls Yup, the Maori history tells of a strange blonde race that was already in NZ when they arrived! As does many American tribe speak of red headed giants, the wheel turns..

@@funtimesatbeaverfalls heres an interesting documentary covering this about NZ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rf_inGOubEg.html

@@Raven-qj8xk Ngati Hotu are the most well know in regard to this m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yr9UAFvgBa0.html

No more real exploring is left on earth except for the oceans, and personally I believe most of Earth's secrets are submerged

Luckily space is far from fully explored

People who romanticizes the prior 19ty century... I really and truly do not think you grasp how hard life itself was back then. . . We are very fortunate to be in the time we are. Even our poorest to some degree are richer than even the common person of old age.

@@lahavmorris9919 Yes, there a billions of stars and planets out there to be explored. The problem is reaching them. Our fastest space probe now would take 18,000 years just to reach the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. And time is running out for humanity given how quickly this planet is being destroyed.

@@jonhall2274 Oh I am absolutely aware of how brutal life was back then and how easy we have it today. But I think its gone too far in the other direction now. We have become TOO civilized and TOO developed, rapidly destroying the natural world and threatening our own existence in the process.

Nothing good came of it for the natives.

Good one! Did it in 2019 - check it out.

Could this have inspired the movie The 13th Warrior??

@AVXS the 13th Warrior is based on ibn fadlan's account, yes.

@@ryanmarlin2974 Only the first couple chapters. The part where Ibn leaves his own group to join Wulfgar on his hunt for the Grendel was chrighten weaving his own tale. Not one of his better books.

@@Dio-xo9rv ibn fadlan’s account is the only account of a Viking funeral we have.

Glad u liked it my mother from there glad u enjoyed it

@@evilg6499 It was the most special place I’ve visited, and I’ve been to some pretty amazing places! I even got the symbol for Manutara tattooed on my forearm while I was there to commemorate my time on Rapa Nui 🗿

That might interest you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rf_inGOubEg.html&ab_channel=PeterMarsh

@@jessecerasus9621 I've seen that documentary before. Really interesting.

@@nanoglitch6693 Yes it is very very interesting and quite professionnal for such an ''forbidden'' subject.

They still call us in NZ Goblins. The word Maoris use for whites is 'Pakeha", which means goblin. Pretty cool as far a racial slurs go.

@@BallisticCoefficient Pakeha does not mean goblin 😂 it means white person or foreigner same as in Papa'a in cook isllkands keʻokeʻo in hawaiian Go back to school

My theory is that the shaman from the video is having a vision of the future, and it's the video we see for the song

Ohh good catch. Yep that's how I'll view it as well haha

@devious1 Which hapu?

lol you shouldnt take any offense to that. all groups of people have trouble describing others when they come upon them for the first time ever

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

The truth hurts. Next time don't intercourse all the people you discover. XD

@@MaximusAwesomus2 Especially the dutch lol

@@MaximusAwesomus2 Tbf its not really a culture but a failed attempt to understand or describe what they are seeing.

@@Maschine_Elf just imagine this story if he hit the wrong person.

Thanks for sharing, that was great. Stuff like this gives me a lot of hope for humans. I think it is interesting to note that most meetings between peoples who have never met before end in trade and laughter and not combat like media will have you believe.

social experiment success

Ha! This whole story sounds like human history in a nutshell.

That's called teaming. It's a form of cheating. It's prohibited in terms and conditions. You can be banned for it.

Hope i didn't just get buzzkill achievement 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes. Much of history is told from the perspective that anything Western or "Christian" is bad.

Ah man. I love Ancient Architects but can't listen to the voice for too long. This channel is perfect

Oh, there still is. We simply can't access them anymore. Too far underground, lost to the ocean. Secrets of antiquity burnt to ashes. We're still uncovering new archaeological discoveries so, don't lose hope, friend. There's always more to learn and discover. We're human, it's innate in us

Well said bro the Maori have proven to the world as to how formidable a fighting force they were and still are,from the ingenious Stone Age fortifications like Gate Pa,Ruapeka the bats nest,Rangariri etc to the brilliant,cunning stoic,brave tactics of Maori warfare,who at the time were one of the most formidable and feared native race the British ever encountered.During WW1 and WW2 and the Gallipoli campaign the Maori battalion also showed the same fighting spirit as their earlier ancestors.The moral of the other soldiers,from the British to the Aussies were all lifted when they knew the Maori battalion were with them and as for the Germans,the Turks and the Italians,well they were absolutely terrified of the Maori,rightfully so,and there’was only 300,000 thousand of us around WW1 as a total population world wide,yet the Maori battalion made a massive difference to all the wars so far tumeke

Now we're training Ukrainians to fight orcs

@devious1 The maori one was written by the natives. What are you talking about?

@devious1 Proof?

Many tribes in many different places in New Zealand had contact with Dutch but probably also Portuguese and Spanish secret trips. Every tribe will have their own anecdotes of first contact

Main reason the Dutch did not return is the Maori had nothing worth stealing. Had the Dutch found Maori wearing ornaments made of gold, silver, or even copper, they would have come back.

@@shanemcdowall at that point western powers were exploring only. Each piece of land has gold and silver to mine. Making maps and going first for the land were the people were ready to trade stuff, maoríes were not. Also remember Dutch were traders not colonizers so occupation of land to bring people was not their ting. Their population is tiny, they only trade. You are not receiving them with trade mentality then it is now worth the time when in Asia there were welcomed.

Yes. The northerners where good at that untill christianity. The church forbid them to socialize with the Inuites. 🤷🏼‍♂️ But i agree with your point.

@@robinlundh3962 Hello! I don't really know a great deal about Norse history and the Greenland settlements in particular. Could you send me a link to the information to which you're referring?

I’m sorry. It comes from books and a long interest of northen history and people migrations in the world. But I am sure internet can shed some light if searched. The first northen settlement was established at 900. The Inuites originated from Alaska started gradualy enter Greenland through Canada around 1300. Anyway. Right after 1100 first diocese was established. Mid 1200 Greenland joined the Norwegian kingdom and christianity started taking form. The bishop fled in late 1300. At the beginning of 1400 inuites destroyed churches and norse people taken as prisoners. Some intermarried. The last norse christians died out in starvation. The Inuite was considered dirty, foul and untrustworthy by the bishop/church and was not to be trading with. And the food they ate was unclean. This angered the Inuites who needed the tools and weapons vikings previously made, trading meet, furr etc. So the early good relations turned bad thanx to christianity and the only real loosers where the christians. Hope you got something out of this. Regards. Robin

@@robinlundh3962 Hello again Robin. I've read a little bit about the Greenland colonies in the last couple of days, and it is fascinating! Thank you for the initial information! I'm going to have to learn more about this and other Norse settlements soon. Having said that, I don't think I found any information about Christians discouraging trade and contact with the Inuits in Greenland. Do you have any links for that?

@@robinlundh3962no source no proof

I haven't read something that bleak in a long time. So of course i had to be eating when i did. Lol

Those traitors deserved those hardships. Secession is treason and treason is death. William Tecumseh Sherman tried to warn his friends in the south, especially Louisiana where he ran the state military academ,, of this and the futility of secession and civil war, but treason, hatred and the easy life and arrogant superiority of slavery had infected their hearts and their minds. These hardships were their just deserts and the necessary antidote they needed to ween themselves off the hatred and arrogance that brought them to such lows, and the lesson remained learned by that element of American society for over 150 years. Sadly though, today that lesson has been forgotten by the modern counterparts of the secessionists of those days of civil war and such suffering, and it seems more likely every day that our nation may once again be afflicted by such horrors. May this day never come.

@@andrewbrown6522 lol, I have mislead you sir. Sam has a fantastic humor. He will have you laughing out loud one page and in wonder the next. One thing I've doubted was when he said it was so cold one night he went to relieve the man on guard and found him frozen to death standing upright with his gun in his hands. I kind of doubted that could be true but since then I've seen 2 RU-vid videos of wild animals and livestock frozen to death standing upright in their fields. I think Sam wasn't spinning a yarn. He will bring a tear to your eye as well.

@@imout671 We had a fellow die on his feet in a local mountain pass but i always assumed he was in deep snow. I have heard of it but like you, almost seems impossible.

@@H3LLS3NT4SS4SS1N you can respect and honor the temper and courage of men who endured great hardship even your enemies. You can not judge sam fairly or accurately because you're nearly 2 centuries removed from that time, its not wise or fair. You have a 1 dimensional view at best. Like the good book says "even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgement on them from the lord."

I’m more wondering how they even got their or why they stayed or why they have never been the biggest population but yet still survive and are descended until today.

@@tarakelly8640 Yes I was also wondering this! If you believe that the biblical flood happened, then it could explain it. I know when I said "biblical" you think of the myth or "fairytale". But there is actually worldwide legends of a great deluge, every culture on earth has a flood story.

I have always wondered why people would settle in this place in the first place

@@aa-uq1qj That's just because floods happen pretty much everywhere. People need water so they usually live around places where there's water and those sources of water occasionally flood.

@@Greksallad You don't say.

I always thought New Zealanders were just fancier dressed up less British Ozzies? 🤔

When did the Thule arrived?

@@htoodoh5770 The Thule or proto-Inuit arrived in northern Greenland around the 13th/14th centuries assimilating the previous Dorset culture in the area. They later spread from there to other areas of Greenland and Thule groups in northern Canada spread into remaining Dorset areas as well which resulted in the Dorset culture to die out.

@@jokemon9547 faintly remembered that the Norse were 1st but had no details. Thanks for the info.

fuck no.

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