AoE2 vs History: Wonders 

You killed me with the Byzantine extra building HP bonus :) Well done.

Regarding the Hun Wonder, I always thought that the concept behind it was that the huns had actually ransacked and stole the arc from the romans. That's why the arc is in very bad shape. It's a symbol of the plunder and defeat of a rich empire.

3:39 "For the Frank wonder you think they might have gone with Notre Dame..." *R.I.P.*

Please do the new civs too!

Still waiting for the "Supremacy" movie... Only 29 years left

'just not try to get dizzy' - (somebody is jumping down) 9:30 you are the best AoE2 youtuber and your editing always makes it better :D I am glad I subscribed

The Viking wonder is clearly based off dragonsreach in whiterun.

Funnily enough the Portuguese wonder was also made to stop boats from entering the river. It just did that with a fuckton of cannons instead of a silly chain.

mongol wonder is genghis khan's tent, to be specific "the golden tent" or "altın orda". word "orda" is also homonymous with turkish word "ordu"meaning army or horde. that's why "altın orda" is translated to english as "golden horde" while it actually means "golden tent"

Damn this video is so well done. I see what you did in the editor to have these battles near the wonders!?! It didn't go unnoticed. Very good!

extremely high quality content here again Spirit. The battles going on around the wonders are fantastic.

What a wonderful way to finish the weekend. Thanks, Spirit :D

From what I gathered, in the begining they were planning each architectural style to have one wonder to it. For the Wester European style of the Britons, Teutons, Franks, etc they had the Aachen Cathedral which kind of encompassed all of them. But in the end they went with every civilization having its own wonder, and the Britons got the already made Aachen Cathedral.

... Converted the King to Christianity. My mind: Wololololo

Speaking of the Byzantine Wonder, didn't Viper destroy that?!

2:10 "and is still standing today mostly thanks to the Byzantine's extra building HP bonus" yeah I chuckled at that.

11:21 wtf is that viking at the middle of battle doing?

The Britons indeed have the Aachen Cathedral as their wonder. The reason for this is that ES first intended to only have 1 wonder per building set like in Age of Empires 1. Later they decided to give every civilization a unique wonder anyway and for some reason (maybe lack of time) the Britons never got their own unique wonder.

Obviously you need to do the expansion wonders too.

2:16 😀 btw in aoe 3, Torre del oro is the military academy building in the Spanish home city

The war between tikal and calakmul is actually one of the battles of the forgotten, "Dos Pilas."

the wonder the wonder the-- NOOOO

You would make an excellent history teacher, i can imagine you teaching your students through AoE, it would be the most interesting class...

man, Ive binged so many of your vids. Your part of the reason I got back into AOE recently

I "wonder" what this video is about! Great Video SOTL, "KEEP" it up!

I love how indepth you went with this, I had no idea that these buildings were so thought out!

Its amazing how much history you managed to put in a single video. Big fan of your work, you must know a lot of stuff about history.

I've always wanted to know more about the story behind the wonders in AoE2, so thanks for making this video! I'd love it if you eventually decided to do the expansion ones.

I love your background information videos. Also, I never get tired of the intro music. Never.

This video is filled with all sorts of little details that make it very, very good. I loved the battles and the little guy falling off the spiral minaret!

It's actually really impressive how long you've kept these videos up! good on you man!

Great video! I love how much effort you spent in between setting up a mock fight for each civilization, and all of the pain-staking research you must have done to put this video together! I especially like the Saracen easter egg at 9:32, nice touch! ;D Keep up the great work! :D

wonderful to have you back !

This is one of the best videos I've ever saw on youtube, congratulations and thank you, your job is marvelous !

Awesome work once again! Was a real pleasure to watch!!!

thanks for bringing the old intro back

Another gorgeous and informative video :) I really appreciate all the effort you put into research here, as well as the beautiful setups you've created with the Wonders.

I meant to just put it on in the background and continue cooking but ended up doing nothing but watching the whole video. Seriously interesting stuff! This video reminds me why I got into AoE2 so much as kid.

loved this video, so interesting! I always was so curious about the accuracy of all the different wonders

Can I just say you honestly make good content that I am always happy to see.

that was really fun to watch. im glad you put this together.

This is a great video! It's super interesting to hear the histories. Great work! I would love to see the other civs done at some point :)

Wonderful video! That couldn't have been easy to track all of those down. Well done.

This is a topic that I always wanted to know more about. Thanks for the research! Really interesting!!

Very educational video. You must put a lot of hard work into it. Thank for sharing it man, great job :D!

i live in front of the britons wonder and i didnt realise it XD lol aachens cathredral

I love the details in this Video especially the britons fighting the vikings in the end and the hagia Sofia next to the turkish wonder. Brilliant!

I can safely say you've made a video that I've been wanting ever since I was a little boy, playing Age of Kings on my parent's computer. Thanks so much dude, this was a wonderful video

Am I the only one who LOVES your intro? It's so relaxing

The scenery around each wonder was really well done

Your AoE and historical jokes are soo good :D

awesome video, please do part 2. and I love your song in the intro!

Always high quality content, keep it up! There's no other channel that could compete with yours if it happened to publish a video at the same time.

this video sums up a lot of research I did like 5 years ago. it was awesome

Well a wonderful video i guess i'll have to wonder when the next part comes out.

This was strangely interesting, and I would love if you would go over the remaining wonders aswell. Really nice video.

I was kinda hoping this would be a video about the viability of wonders and which civs can best go for them, etc., but this was actually pretty rad as well.

great and interesting video! this is one of my favorites, keep up the great work! thanks

Your videos are absolutely amazing. I'm very happy I subscribed and since doing so I've been going through a lot of what you've uploaded - every single video is great. You truly deserve more subscribers.

I love the units fighting in the background. could watch it all day.

Good stuff, nice research and narrative!

This video gave me a good educational overview of History regarding ancient monuments and architectures compared to half of the years of studying History back in School. :)

A lot of clever links between wonders and civ special abilities

Love the video SOTW, keep up the good work.

Meraviglioso! nice video spirit as always :D

Great video! I love the way you look at AoE!

Great vid, research, and commentary :)

The beginning sound at 7:59 sounds so much like 'time is running out' from Muse. Thanks for the catchy tune, now it's haunting me :P

I always WONDERed what spirt's next video would be....

Happy Easter to you Spirit of the Law!

I think i'll never play this game. But your vids are awesome man. Love the way you do all of them. Keep being awesome. ps: tthe intro song is always so fricking good,never change it

This video is the greatest Wonder I've ever seen with my own eyes.

Awesome video and I bet it took you loooong time to compile but its very educational.

Nice work Spirit of the law. You showed us that you are not just another nerd playing aoe 2, but a cult boy in history and really like how you play with words relating historical facts with game bonuses.

I'd never think that someone could ever keep my attention for hours with Mathematics and History. Neither in highschool nor in university my teachers could achieve this, Oddly, here you are, my, by far the favorite youtuber (actually only youtuber i ever fallow) did that. with science. my friends are laughing at me. telling me to get real and just play the game and stop going into its math and detail. thank you sir.

Looking forward to the new civs' wonders as well!

I enjoy learning about the significant history behind these structures

I love your content! Thanks.

Great video I really enjoyed this one

really nice vid, i like this kind of history stuff. thanks

The viking wonder is my favorite also. Looks downright cozy. Runner-up is the britons' german cathedral.

huh....this was actually well researched and very interesting....a pleasant surprise!

That was a WONDERFUL video!!!

The Civ 5 game reference. You are an awesome person!

Awesome video! Good job.

Excellent video. Thanks for all the work you put into these. Please do an overview of one of the new civs from Rise of the Rajas. The Burmese seem like an interesting one.

10:20 the huskarls and teutonic knights fighting looks awesome!

So thanks to your amazing video I've made some research about the Frank's wonder and found out interesting stuff: While it was never specified by the developers what exactly they were going for with that design, it is interesting to point out that the official guide book for AOE II ''The Age of Kings'' mentions Chartre's Cathedral as an example in it's description for wonders (along with Aachen's cathedral ((which is mentioned as Charlemagne's palace for some reason)) and Hagia Sophia). I only found that in the French edition of the guidebook since I don't possess any other (p.53, Chapter Buildings). But as you pointed out the two buildings don't quite look the same and from a historical point of view it would make more sense to use Reims' cathedral as a wonder, since it was the place where every French king's coronation ceremony took place from 1027 to 1825. I think your theory about it being just a representation of what a generic French cathedral is right, especially considering that the Gothic architecture was called ''francigenum opus'' during the middle ages which literally translates into ''French art''. This would be a nice homage to the late medieval French architecture style as a whole. Thank you very much for the passion and research you put into these videos, it makes them both very interesting and entertaining.

Hey there, nice video!! I think the Franks wonder is more like the Clermont Ferrand Cathedral, but it's hard to guess. Keep the good work, and I really hope you'll make African kingdoms civ overviews someday, and maybe upgrade your "what civ is best for you" quizz if you have the time, I'm doing the old one each time I want to try new playstyles ;)

Cool video man! Btw ZeroEmpires said they wanted you to join the Escape Gamings casters tournament but failed to get a response. It would be really cool to see you join up with the other casters of AoE 2 sometimes 😀

Really fine research, nice video! =)

I really didn't expect that video to be so entertaining, this guy can make laundry sound interesting

I was expecting to hear about the maths and stats of wonder in aoe, but this is also very nice.

that's pretty need thanks for the efford putting this together :)

insane quality! keep it up

Wonderfull video. Thank you!

Wow this is so cool!!!! I remember building a wonder back in the day, wow it was memorable

Ayyy missed your uploads

Pretty great video. In every book I've read about Genghis Khan, they all mention his tent being huge compared to the others, and that its pulled by 8 oxen. I like to think that's the Mongol wonder rather than some static building

Awesome vid and nice info.