Did Rome know about Scandinavia and the Vikings? (Short Animated Documentary)

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Rome's reach extended across much of the European continent at one point or another during its life. The notable exception to this is northern Europe where Rome's relationship with Scandinavia is less well understood. So what did Rome know about Scandinavia and the people who lived there? Did they get along or fight wars with each other? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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@JA432123 Месяц назад

I appreciate that Rome saw a frozen northern area and said “Nah we’re good”

@LeRoiEnJaune Месяц назад

When your standard for expansion is Spain, Egypt and Judea, every northern place from Ireland to Norway turns into "Meh." 😂

@davidroberts7282 Месяц назад

The ancient Romans had had a strong commercial and military presence in the British Isles, particularly Southern and central England, going back to the 3rd and 4th centuries B.C.E, before the Punic Wars with Carthage began in 218 BCE. Julius Ceaser invaded and occupied parts of what is now southern England after going after fleeing Celts after defeating Versengaritx at the battle of Alesia in 52/53 C.E. It was here that Ceaser first mentioned and discussed in-depth the cultural, social attitudes, norms and religious beliefs of the Celtic tribes in Britain, the major roles the Druids played as judges, lawyers, doctors, seers in pre-Roman Britain and the various different British tribes (Brigantes, Trinovantes, Iceni, Northern horse tribes) in his Gealic Commentaries. These events happened nearly a century before Claudius major full-pronged invasion in 43 C.E. that at first conquered southern, south-central England by Boudicca's Revolt in 60 C.E. then gradually and systematically, the Romans completed their conquest of what is now modern-day England and Wales by 90-100 C.E. Except for some sporadic, infrequent military incursions and reprisals deep into Caledonia (ancient Scotland) over the next 400 years, Romans never conquered or subjugated Scotland and Ireland other then establishing deep trade contacts/networks through Romano-British merchants and intermediaries. One major reason stated by this video is very true, though and thats the role of the harsh, cold weather and climate likely had in Romans not seeing northern Germany and Scandivinavia as economically viable and worth conquering because essentially it had taken centuries of contact, several failed military attempts before Rome really was able to successfully invade, conquer and subjugate British Isles and most Roman historians, British historians, classicists will tell you that for over 400 years, Britain was Rome's least successfully occupied region, Hadrian's Wall was built partly to stave off Celtic/Pictish incursions into Roman Britain, but that Rome was closing the door on imperial expansion via Hadrian. In archival letters, many Roman centurions tell their wives, girlfriends and families how brutally cold, inhospitable, and kind of "weird" the local customs really are, they werent that fond of English food, too so if the Romans had a very difficult time invading and conquering modern-day England and Wales and then consolidating their power base for centuries, imagine them, a mostly warm-climate Mediterranean civilization trying to accomplish something similar in a much colder, frozen and harsher environment. Plus, ancient Romans were mostly unaware that modern-day Sweden, Norway and Finland even existed.

@drSvensen Месяц назад

@@LeRoiEnJaune Sure, if you collect sand.

@faenethlorhalien Месяц назад

Can't grow wine there

@michaelwhary7697 Месяц назад

Yeah, Roman's were cold blooded, so they couldn't survive up there anyway.

@eirikbelisarius1100 Месяц назад

I studied the late antiquity. Procopius, who was a writer in the 6th century in Constantinopel, had detailed knowledge about Scandinavia. Some of the elite troops of the emperor Justinian were the Heruli. They came from Denmark. When the leader of the Heruli in Byzantium died, the Heruli sendt an envoy to Denmark to find a new leader. This new leader died on his way from Denmark to Constantinopel, so the envois went back to Denmark and found yet another new leader to go to Constantinopel. Procopius also wrote about a place in the north were there is a river in the ocean. The way he described it made it clear that he was referring to Saltstraumen outside Bodø. This is a very distinct geographical phenomena were the current create a very strong "river" in a sound. He also said that farther north from this river in the ocean there was a land were the sun was away for 40 days and nights in the winter and was in the sky for 24 hours for 40 days in the summer. Now this is obviously the midnight sun. You have to go almost all the way to the top of Norway to find this. The educated elites in The Eastern Empire must have had a lot of information of even the northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula. Probably via mercenaries like the Heruli and Goths.

@SirValravn Месяц назад

Weren't the Heruli present in the Danube area as well, why send envoys all the way to Denmark ?

@eirikbelisarius1100 Месяц назад

@@SirValravn I don't know. Denmark was however their ancestral home. My understanding is that Heruli from Denmark went to Constantinopel as mercenaries, and many returned home after the end of their service. They, apparently, went in to combat butt naked. They were seen as the most barbaric of the forces under Constantinopel's command. I read somewhere that they were pushed out of Denmark by the Danes that originates in Skåne in Sweden. Idk. They probably merged with the Danes at some point.

@ROVEEMAN Месяц назад

@@SirValravn "Procopius related that in the 540s the Heruli who had been settled in the Roman Balkans killed their own king Ochus and, not wanting the one assigned by the emperor, Suartuas, they made contact with the Heruli who had gone to Thule decades earlier, seeking a new king. Their first choice fell sick and died when they had come to the country of the Dani, and a second choice was made. The new king Datius arrived with his brother Aordus and 200 young men." presumably the balkan Heruls didn't have any being worthy enough, i.e. of royal stock, so had to bring one from "Thule"

@eirikbelisarius1100 Месяц назад

@@ROVEEMAN Yea. Thank you for the clarification. This story shows that there were direct contact between Denmark and Constantinopel on some level. The other story about Saltstraumen and the midnight sun is more surprising. Northern Norway is far away from even Southern Norway, and certainly Constantinopel and Procopius. What struck me when I read about the river in the sea was how accurate it was described to the actual geographical phenomonen. It was like if someone who had seen it had told him about it. This place is not well known outside Norway even today, even thou it is a tourist attraction.

@SirValravn Месяц назад

@@ROVEEMAN ah I see, thank you

@SheerDexterity Месяц назад

Scandinavians to the Roman Empire in the ancient period: "You comin' to me, or am I comin' to you?" Scandinavians to the Roman Empire in the medieval period: "I guess I'm comin' to you."

@andreasfiltenborg4952 Месяц назад

"Should we come together, at the same time. Oh you'll come. THEY ALWAYS COME!"

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@cv990a4 Месяц назад

Harald Hardrada was part of the Varangian Guard and also spent time in Kievan Rus. And died fighting on Stamford Bridge in England, in the year 1066, the year in which England was invaded twice, once by Harald, the other by William the Conqueror. That was a real fork in the road in terms of world history. The history of England and the UK and the English speaking world would be vastly different had Harald won over Harold Godwinson, or had William invaded first and been beaten by Harold, who, it must be remembered, first beat Harald before his defeat by William.

@stollkoloss2689 Месяц назад

@@andreasfiltenborg4952 *Walters Theme starts playing.* "Hey you ever heard of updog?"

@joshnicholson2934 Месяц назад

The vikings came into everything :D

@napoleonibonaparte7198 Месяц назад

Because Rome didn't want to pay for a Scandinavia expansion DLC.

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@HorrorUberAlles Месяц назад

Even they knew to avoid Paradox Interactive...

@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation Месяц назад

The Roman economy could not afford DLC at this time, sadly

@dawoifee Месяц назад

@@HorrorUberAlles I think this was in Attila Total War tough. And this wasn't even a DLC but the thing you pay extra for the base game.

@dancooper-z Месяц назад

@Theoneandonlytster Месяц назад

Rome was so advanced 2000 years ago they knew the same two things about Scandinavia as an average American nowadays incredible

@GRANOLA77 Месяц назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@OmneAurumNon Месяц назад

American's also know that Scandinavia is socialist, increasing the desire not to go there :p

@Foxingg Месяц назад

@@OmneAurumNon *think that

@BlazeLycan Месяц назад

@@OmneAurumNon we're capitalists, with some of us more proud about it than others.

@Taiyo_Jingu Месяц назад

@@OmneAurumNonsocialist? Thought the region was a mixed economy.

@kemarisite Месяц назад

1:25 "really cold, and no interest in going there", probably because they couldn't grow grapes for wine.

@P45K141N3N Месяц назад

I think that's a valid point.

@BOABModels Месяц назад

You can actually map Europe according to what alcohol they made - Far north and east - spirits - whisky, vodka, akvavit North and Central - beer, ale, lager South and Mediterranean - wine

@cringlator Месяц назад

My country basically does the same thing for imperialism… except with oil…

@Dave-sy3rg Месяц назад

The Romans reluctance to adopt pants probably didn't help either.

@Tabako-san Месяц назад

@@Dave-sy3rg We used to be a real civilisation

@fabulouschild2005 Месяц назад

0:20 I love how Bjorn Vikingson over there just vanishes as soon as Julius Romanus sad "you don't exist"

@rhobin832 Месяц назад

Great names you gave them 😂

@PoiarNoia Месяц назад

Your ø dropped this: /

@ffarkasm Месяц назад

@@PoiarNoia Yes, it is Bjørn Vikingsøn and Ivlivs Romanvs

@timesnewlogan2032 Месяц назад

@@ffarkasmI’m gonna call him “Steve”.

@PaleHorseShabuShabu Месяц назад

*said

@orlandowest9624 Месяц назад

Danish archaeologist here! Not only did the romans trade with the danes but danish armies very likely served in Rome. We have many (cant remember the exact number but ~15) so called Lübsow graves full of Roman goods, and especially goods associated with roman army officers. Just last week I visited the ongoing excavation at Hedegård, which is a roman iron age fort where a roman officers sword (called a pugio) was found. In all likelyhood danish units served the roman army for extended periods of time before returning home. Alternatively of course they might have been hired to harass and fight the Germans from the north, being given gifts, money and probably officers titles to ensure their loyalty.

@eirikbelisarius1100 Месяц назад

They have these graves in Norway too. They have found graves belonging to, what seems like, people who have been officers in Roman armies.

@magnusthered4946 Месяц назад

That’s awesome

@henrikandersen9240 Месяц назад

Norden i skyggen af det romerske imperium. God læsning indenfor emnet

@adamnunavumiuq5121 Месяц назад

Very, very cool. Do you happen to know if "Thule" in this context is/probably was pronounced like thool as in the video, of if it is/was pronounced more like too-ly? The Thule area in Northwest Greenland is pronounced the second way, as is the earlier phase of Inuit culture, from archeological perspectives.

@Jens-qn7lg Месяц назад

But did the Danes not migrate to Jutland after the Saxons left ? Was that not a time period were the western Romans were close to collapse ? And were the Saxons not shifting allies of the Romanes ? Would it not make more sense to think that those graves were of Saxon forderati that allied with the Romans. Especially as there were no literal Germans at that time ?

@MercuryPin4002 Месяц назад

Some video ideas I’ve thought of Why did German Unification fail in 1848? Why wasn’t there an Italian Confederation? Why didn’t Switzerland join Germany? Why weren’t there German colonies in the Americas? Why was Montenegro independent so early? Why was it called the Second Polish Republic if there wasn’t a first one?

@nathan9903 Месяц назад

New Courland: The Duchy of Courland, a German-led vassal state of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, leased New Courland on Tobago in the Caribbean from the British. The colony failed and was restored several times, but a final attempt to establish a Caribbean colony near modern Toco on Trinidad also failed.

@luisfilipe2023 Месяц назад

The polish Lithuanian commonwealth is considered to be the first republic

@nibiru27 Месяц назад

First Polish Republic was PLC, word "republic" in Poland wasn't used, there was word that was literally translated from Latin, Rzeczpospolita means literally res publica, so PLC was first res publica. In Poland we don't call ourselves Republic of Poland (Republika Polska) but Polish Res Public (Rzeczpospolita Polska).

@ericpraline Месяц назад

Interested, cause it’s interesting

@Astro_Guy_1 Месяц назад

I think the German colony question already was a video. Basically, Germany had unsuitable ports to really enable large scale colonization, as they would have to sail through the waters of several rival colonial powers, making a blockade super easy. Aswell as Germany just not having the funds and international logistics to pull it off. And as a last point, unlike the other colonial powers, Germany being in the middle of europe and flanked by several rivals, made it so they had to devote large amounts of military spending to their army. Unlike, for example, Britian which could pour alot more into their Navy. Due to it being their primary means of defense.

@TetsuShima Месяц назад

There are actually some ancient Roman artifacts found in Finland, so it is possible that there was some kind of direct or indirect trade exchange between the Roman Empire and Scandinavia.

@0000-z4z Месяц назад

I would rather have expected Swedish furniture in Rome.

@thesuomi8550 Месяц назад

Of course there was

@nicolasduhaut7331 Месяц назад

Romans probably traded with Danemark and Sweden who then traded with Sami and Finns

@saparotrob7888 Месяц назад

Amazon Primus.

@cathulionetharn5139 Месяц назад

amber road, a trade route that led to the southern coast of baltic sea, there probably were traders on the sea that spread goods from across the coastal tribes

@mijanhoque1740 Месяц назад

Romans vs Vikings would have been dope to see

@franrobert80 Месяц назад

Pretty much like an age of empires game

@zulkifligumilang3155 Месяц назад

well Eastern Roman emperor hires Rus Viking as elite bodyguard

@12321dantheman Месяц назад

vikings were similar ethnically, culturally and religiously to the Germanic people rome was constantly fighting, (goths, marcomanni, lombards, franks, vandals, etc etc etc) so it kind of did happen. Goths even likely came from sweden

@robdenini6972 Месяц назад

Well, it happened a few times. And it involved a lot of greek fire.

@jackwei22 Месяц назад

Vikings would've been slaughtered in open battle it isn't even a joke.

@Crick1952 Месяц назад

*Roman General reaches Scandinavia* "For Ceaser! Wait, the snow is HOW deep in winter???" 😢 *Packs up and rushes back to Italy*

@raduraducu2668 Месяц назад

Scandinavia is named after Scandius (son of Cato the Ealder) who stealed the crown of the tulian king (a misterious kingdom a island in the north sea),found a land of barbarians with bear-like hair (bluind originally meant bear),explore Norway ,and close to 300 years later the mayor of Paris Suetonius (who beat the horde of Boudica) went to the plain region of Scandinavia ,and died there on the land than bears his name.

@alltat Месяц назад

The temperature varies massively from winter to winter in southern Scandinavia, so their first impression would be down to luck. It ranges from "no snow" to "the whole sea is frozen from shore to shore".

@matsv201 17 дней назад

In soutern part of scandinavi it barley get any snow evem nowdays. The period at the late roman empire was even warmer than today so snow in that part was proboly pretty uncommon.

@TorIverWilhelmsen Месяц назад

(Swedes row up a river) "Well, this is as far as we can go, let us settle and call it Rus." "There is this other river flowing the other way not too many miles away." "Yes, but the ships are in this river and... you can't be serious." (Ship carrying over land commences) (And then they rowed to Miklagard.)

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@Prosper_Dean Месяц назад

@@nom_chompsky Yes sir 😎👍

@alvydasjokubauskas2587 Месяц назад

Danish king destroyed Vikings, with his land tax.

@wallentinostensson-bb6bf Месяц назад

Rus from Roslagen

@InfernosReaper Месяц назад

Sounds like a Scandinavian time traveler showed up with a copy of Fitzecarraldo and they were like, "at least it's not a mountain, ey, Sven?"

@supposedracoon9996 Месяц назад

1:20 I love the idea that Britain is the limit of cold the Romans were willing to put up with

@alansmithee8831 Месяц назад

@supposedracoon. For centuries after this Scots perpetuated the message to keep too many Sassenachs from venturing north.

@boobah5643 24 дня назад

It was warmer then, before the Little Ice Age.

@blauw67 Месяц назад

I love that in the Hagia Sofia in Istanbul is still a runic inscription that says something along the lines of "Halfdan was here"

@Dave_Sisson Месяц назад

I have seen it. It is under a Perspex plate up on a balcony that overlooks the floor of the cathedral.

@all_letters_forwarded Месяц назад

It's even funnier if you know what 'halvdan' means in Swedish.

@mnxs 29 дней назад

@@all_letters_forwardedHi! Dane here. You mean that in that mess you call a language, it means "half done"? 😉 You must know though, that as a name, it etymologically means "half Danish" 😇

@all_letters_forwarded 28 дней назад

@@mnxs 'Half Danish' you say? So Norwegian, in other words. 'Halvdan' means 'not very good' or 'average', though the etymology is as you say. Let me just remind you that Danish speakers cannot criticize other languages. That boat sailed a long time ago.

@hb9145 27 дней назад

@@all_letters_forwarded No, it literally means "half Danish".

@jokuvaan5175 Месяц назад

Finland. The place no one from Romans to Mongols to English cared or even knew about until Sweden just decided to take it... between 12th to mid 14th century. The oldest building in Finland is 600 year old stone church in the very south. Even vikings just stayed mostly trading near coastal regions because there was no centralized power structures to take over, Finnish tribes used the forest for guerilla warfare when threatened and some vikings thought they were weather wizards or something.

@liszarezo3658 Месяц назад

Well...All Finland population in...XVII ceuntry, was less than 30 000... Most Big citys were more populate than all this region. They were know from their archers mercenaries and womans warriors.

@Florian87 Месяц назад

Yes, according to several contemporary accounts the Norsemen considered the Finns to be highly skilled magicians. As a Finn myself, it’s a heritage I happily embrace.

@justskip4595 Месяц назад

If only we could have had some Roman poet come for a nice winter vacation here in Finland and the records of his stay preserved till this day. I think it would be absolutely hilarious to read. The cold, the snow and the darkness. Also probably a lot of hunger.

@anarionelendili8961 Месяц назад

@@liszarezo3658 You missed a zero and a bit. First reliable census in 1749: population 410400.

@anarionelendili8961 Месяц назад

@@justskip4595 Tacitus' description is hilarious: "In wonderful savageness live the nation of the Fenni, and in beastly poverty, destitute of arms, of horses, and of homes;" "Nor other shelter have they even for their babes, against the violence of tempests and ravening beasts, than to cover them with the branches of trees twisted together;"

@POINTS2 Месяц назад

0:35 That boat movement was slick

@muhammadhabibieamiro3639 Месяц назад

You know is a good day when history matters upload an video and is about rome

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@SirGruff Месяц назад

Shame you didn't mention the Volga and Dnieper trade routes that connected Scandinavia and Eastern Rome via rivers in Eastern Europe. The Varangians mostly came from this route rather than via the Med as hinted here. Riverine trade is always underappreciated.

@MetalLP Месяц назад

I'm surprised, he didn't mention the fact, that Swedes actually founded whole new state - Kievan Rus to trade with Byzantium.

@Coole-ee1vg 17 дней назад

You mean connected "Sweden" an Eastern Rome......

@fligugigu_ Месяц назад

if it hadnt been for the legendary explorer James Bisonette, rome wouldnt have known about scandanavia at all.

@lordsiergiej9685 Месяц назад

And of course all the necessary repairs were done by irreplaceable Kelly Moneymaker

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@davesy6969 Месяц назад

Spinning 3 plates had gold plates until the vikings stole them.

@oilersridersbluejays Месяц назад

Gustav Swan flew overhead and dropped bombs.

@balabanasireti Месяц назад

Oof, this is a forced one

@DaydreamingSwede Месяц назад

0:59 Swede here, no apology needed! The Danes don't know how to pronounce their own words either

@anubis5615 Месяц назад

😂😂😂

@sebastianwittenkamp2738 Месяц назад

Your permission to cross the border for cheaper alcohol is hereby revoked 😉

@AnotherDuck Месяц назад

Can confirm.

@DaydreamingSwede Месяц назад

@@sebastianwittenkamp2738 Don't worry about us crossing the border, we'll cross the ice instead ;)

@bardbrenden3619 Месяц назад

@@sebastianwittenkamp2738 Kamelåså

@micahbush5397 Месяц назад

Scandinavia: *Exists* Rome: "Is that where all the amber washes up?" Scandinavians: "No." Rome: "Then we're not interested!"

@Giga-cat-c6b Месяц назад

Your drawings of the characters and their clothing have gotten so much better in the last few months.

@Whoami691 Месяц назад

Isn't it amazing how with the invention of technology and the world wide web i can sit here in the uk, in my room, on this island, and say hello to my scandanavian friends over the sea. Hello Scandinavian friends! And hello to everyone else around the world from europe, asia, africa, north america, south America and Oceania! The romans barely knew you existed but here we can all talk like we are right next to each other. Thats pretty awesome. You can literally be japanese and we can still talk like distance is nothing. We take for granted what we can do and vids like this remind us we were a mystery to each other just 300 years ago.

@valhall89 Месяц назад

Hello from Norway:D

@SebHaarfagre 29 дней назад

Another hello from Norway! PS: I'm so sorry about Starmer

@Whoami691 29 дней назад

@@SebHaarfagre Hello! yea dont worry, he will be ousted soon. Just wait till he backs us into a corner. People are sick of his s**t and hes only been in power 2 months. On 32% of people voted and of that only 33% voted for liebour. Yet somehow he has the majority. We are on the verge of revolution.

@Whoami691 29 дней назад

@@SebHaarfagre dont worry. Rebellion is coming.

@mnxs 29 дней назад

@@valhall89Dane here! This gives me a lovely idea. Wanna go and relive the good ol' times and pay these Brits a lil' "visit"? 😇 I hear there's hardly any soldiers in the Tower of London these days. I know we have some nice ships fit for purpose lying around out in Roskilde, it'll be a great time!

@solsunman383 Месяц назад

Fun fact: those English refugees from the Norman Conquest apparently were resettled by the Byzantines in southern Russia, which they renamed "New England", a semi independent colony with it's capital where the city of Novorossiysk now stands. There is some evidence that the "Londina" river is named after London, as there may have been an English colony of that name in Crimea. The later Principality of Theodoro is theorised to have owed some of its germanic nature to a lingering anglo-saxon presence.

@Tata-ps4gy Месяц назад

Wow!

@16m49x3 28 дней назад

I mean The Rus empire was settled by swedes so

@mr.magnificent7374 Месяц назад

2:20 Bro wasn’t even suspicious of him. He couldn’t see him from that distance.

@euanduthie2333 Месяц назад

2:12 Halfdan was here.

@alansmithee8831 Месяц назад

@euanduthie. I cannot help but think "So, what about Dan's other half?" whenever I hear this.

@falloutfan6649 Месяц назад

This channel helps answer questions I never knew I needed to ask

@martinh8784 Месяц назад

It might have been worthwhile to mention that the Scandinavians navigated down the Dnipro River to get to Constantinople... nice little shortcut for them.

@sundhaug92 Месяц назад

Note: The vikings largely went to "Miklagard" (or Constantinople as we know it) through the great rivers in the east since longships were great for travelling along rivers (and if the rivers didn't go where the vikings wanted to ... they'd just carry the boats with them). The old sagas do however recognize the "chieftains of Rome" as something that happened a long time ago. Some semi-related facts: - The last viking king of Norway - Harald III Hardråde (half-brother of Saint Olav) traveled to Kyiv in his younger years and after entrusted service to Yaroslav I of Kiev (of house Rurik) got to marry Yaroslav's daughter Elisiv of Kiev - One of the kings immediately after the viking-era got the epithet Jorsalfar - "the one who went to Jerusalem" because he crusaded there, he also made an absolute mess in the Balearic, a tradition some continue with to this day

@Bastardsword01 14 дней назад

Fact: Nowhere in history, has there been anyone or any people being called "viking", nor has any culture or creed been called "viking".

@Theorimlig Месяц назад

I read a book about the history of Sweden recently, and it really emphasized the impact of Rome on Scandinavia. Mercenary work in the Roman and Byzantine empires was a main driver of economic activity in Sweden through access to Roman luxury goods. Denmark was during parts of its history basically a Roman vassal state that controlled this trade, and blocked access for Swedish chieftains and kings for long periods. Denmark being able to control traffic in and out of the Baltic sea meant that traders and warriors from Sweden basically had to go through the river systems of the continent to the eastern Mediterranean. Scandinavian mercenaries usually fought against other germanic tribes on the empires' borders.

@chheinrich8486 Месяц назад

"misplaced some legions at the teuteburg forest" 🤣🤣🤣 Edit: wow 1000 likes in just 3 hours, it really blew up😅

@antonycharnock2993 Месяц назад

"Oh Varus. Quintus Varus. Give me back my legions!"😂😂

@BCrane-ej4iq Месяц назад

They were on holiday with fun activities like *swinging from trees*

@matthewbrotman2907 Месяц назад

“WHERE ARE MY EAGLES???”

@daniel.stafford Месяц назад

It takes a lot of guts for a Roman to occupy Germany 😬

@atraxisdarkstar Месяц назад

@@antonycharnock2993 *headbanging intensifies*

@SoDakJason Месяц назад

"misplaced some of his legions at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest" had me LOLing.

@TheBigD.O Месяц назад

Thank you for putting out consistently digestible and humorous educational content. I love you.

@Smurfen249 Месяц назад

In late antiquity and the middle ages when the Germanic Kingdoms had formed in italy, sicily, north africa but also around modern germany and france, Scandinavia was known as Vagina Nationum (Womb of Nations) because the Germanic culture and people originally came from Scandinavia through migrations 2nd cent BC-4th century AD. Most known tribes from that era exept Franks came from Sweden and Denmark, Burgandy, Goths and Vandals. There was also a Nationalistic movement in Sweden durning the Swedish Imperial era, 17-19th century called Gothicism, Götisism in Sweden, where it took pride in being a Swede as related to the Goths but also celebrating Theodoric as a national figure the Goth chief who took power in Rome and became Emperor and the entire province of Götaland was an archeological dig, there is almost nothing left there today to dig up, Gothisism was also revived in the 20th century in Sweden and that movement lead to romantic and novilization and revival of the Viking era 100years ago, where it was talked about again.

@kharma1283 Месяц назад

I saw a documentary some years ago called "The Thirteenth Warrior", which documented a linguist's journey from Rome to Scandinavia where he fought on the side of the Vikings in some of their greatest battles.

@jytte-hilden Месяц назад

This linguist. Could he draw sounds?

@Sabrowsky Месяц назад

Isnt that a film with Antonio Banderas playing an arab scholar helping his norse homies kill a monster or something?

@johnroscoe2406 Месяц назад

Rome: "It's too cold." James Bisonette: "Hold my akvavit."

@jcorkill0159 Месяц назад

Do you plan on creating 10min or longer videos again?? If yes when?

@krupam0 Месяц назад

I think he mentioned once that longer videos aren't worth it, because if they get demonetized, that's a lot more work gone to waste.

@cristhianramirez6939 Месяц назад

Quick 3 minutes videos full of info is his brand, it makes him stand out

@ElachimArtist Месяц назад

@@cristhianramirez6939 Have a look at the inital 10min videos. Those were even better!

@mojewjewjew4420 Месяц назад

@@cristhianramirez6939his 10 minute videos were his OG signature before the 3 minute ones.

@IronWolf123 Месяц назад

Harald Hardrada, the Norwegian king who failed to take England in 1066 used to be in the Varangian army during the Byzantine campaigns for Sicily

@RealUlrichLeland Месяц назад

The Anglo Saxons who joined the Varangian guard got a chance for a rematch against the Normans when the Byzantine empire fought the army of Robert Guiscard at the battle of Dyrrhachium in 1081. The Varangians ended up losing the battle after they pursued retreating Normans and got separated from the main force, which is exactly how England lost the battle of Hastings against the Normans just a few years earlier.

@matthewsmith4483 Месяц назад

Those New Varanagians from England lost there jobs and move to Greece to become Varangians because the most famous Varangians came and tried to kill them. So they became Varangians because Harald Hadrada. Harald Hadrada had the hardest recruitment campaign ever.

@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle Месяц назад

Roman Empire*

@MichaelDavis-mk4me Месяц назад

@@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle The wannabe Roman Empire who kept being beaten up for a thousand years until it died with a fart because they were stuck in antiquity and couldn't adapt to the fact that they weren't Rome and couldn't do Rome things anymore.

@Darthwgamer Месяц назад

@@MichaelDavis-mk4meIf they "didn't adapt" they would've died so much sooner.

@MichaelDavis-mk4me Месяц назад

@@Darthwgamer If they adapted, they would have conquered their enemies like it was nothing. They had almost no competition, but they were such potatoes at war they lost every battle against the Arabs, then every battle against the Turks, lost a bunch to the Balkans, then lose to Europe, then died. It's a miracle / disaster the Byzantines manage to fail so hard. They had a gigantic economy, the single biggest army in Europe, enemies which should have been easily crushed like the Normans and desert tribes instead demolished them, swathing them away like mosquitoes then either taking their territory, or looting it.

@SleepRunner606 Месяц назад

Great video, but I would like to add that whilst rome's intrest in scandinavia was nil, scandinavia was very aware of rome and many scandinavians even enlisted to the roman legions in hopes of getting rich.

@KyIeMcCIeIIan Месяц назад

I respect your simple breakdown of "Thule" as simply meaning "far away", because Scandinavia and later Greenland have been called Thule.

@Angelgreat Месяц назад

1:36 Bellisarius and Justinian!

@CharlesBalido Месяц назад

Well Almost from Extra History because I'm History buff OG (Until i retired Watching it🥲)

@scottabc72 Месяц назад

Its worth elaborating that the main problem with the 'cold' was low food production which couldnt support the large productive populations Rome was interested in.

@harveya1a952 Месяц назад

They knew because James Bisonette told them

@NobleGamer889 Месяц назад

Truly the greatest diplomat of all time

@BorkersBork Месяц назад

then Spinningthreeplates initiated trade with them

@nullut2000 Месяц назад

beat me to it

@Yuanfang-y1s Месяц назад

Kelly the moneymaker told more details about them

@jebaitedmitsaras8854 28 дней назад

😂😂😂

@gimmethegepgun Месяц назад

1:44 Don't forget to light up fires in eastern Europe as well. The Rus' people that went on to form Kievan Rus' were largely Swedes that expanded and raided utilizing the massive river networks (mainly the Dnieper and the Volga, and their tributaries) in what is now western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Which also saw them trading with the Byzantines via the connections to the Black Sea.

@gustavocarvalholoboleite3526 Месяц назад

Sugestion to video: Why Vatican City is only a observer member of UN?

@DargorShepard Месяц назад

I think that should be pretty obvious.

@ab_hu Месяц назад

There are 2, the second being the State of Palestine.

@MCAPrince Месяц назад

@@DargorShepard It's good that this channel isn't Ten Minute History anymore. Otherwise that video could never be made.

@fromfareast3070 Месяц назад

Because is Holy See

@Nicods Месяц назад

You confuse Vatican City with the Holy See, it's not the same. If you look for the difference between the two, you have your answer. I think reading the Wikipedia article "Holy See" could be enough to understand why.

@dritzzdarkwood4727 Месяц назад

As a Dane, I remember reading that Roman scouts reported back in person in Forum Romana to the Senate. They promptly named Denmark and South Sweden the "Fog Islands" and the commander's final report, which has survived, concluded that the entire area was, "Not fit for human colonization"😂. Which pretty much sums up our weather in autumn and winter...

@Coole-ee1vg 17 дней назад

The Danes are a great example of"not human"..

@victoraguirre5545 Месяц назад

1:00 tbh should be the Danish who apologize for their pronunciation

@davidmartinez52420 Месяц назад

😂😂😂

@baselhills865 Месяц назад

only funny thing in historymatters comment section

@NulJern Месяц назад

maybe, but we will not.

@mnxs 29 дней назад

Swedish bot detected 😂

@danvikkilmire6075 Месяц назад

'Where the hell are all these blond people coming from!?!?' - a Roman guy

@cattysplat Месяц назад

"Axe me a question" - Viking guy.

@danvikkilmire6075 Месяц назад

@@cattysplat Knife to meat you.. - a Norman guy

@adpirtle Месяц назад

The Roman desire to conquer a world that, at the same time, they were incredibly incurious about never ceases to amuse me.

@paolinopaperino8926 Месяц назад

That's because they started conquering land in the hope to annihilate any possible threat. They cared about their survival, not about the love for discovery.

@faithlesshound5621 Месяц назад

We have only the Roman books that a whole chain of monks over the centuries decided were worth copying by hand. That probably meant the books that other monks enjoyed hearing read out. For that reason, the histories that have survived read like radio dramas. Stuff that did not interest Southern European monks was less likely to make the cut when they decided what to do with scrolls or codices that were falling apart.

@AL-lh2ht Месяц назад

@@paolinopaperino8926 also money, a lot of what it was about was money. They didn't have "manifest destiny"

@paolinopaperino8926 Месяц назад

@@AL-lh2ht well yes, of course. No intelligent political entity would expand only because of a manifest destiny of sort. But they changed the world regardless.

@mojewjewjew4420 Месяц назад

@@paolinopaperino8926Nope, they conquered for the glory of Rome aswell as eliminating potential enemies and love of discovery. Stop speaking without knowing.

@markowen1997 Месяц назад

One of the coolest things about the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople (Istanbul) built in 537 AD are two Runic inscriptions made by Vikings about 500 years after it was built. It's been converted to a mosque now by Turkish President Erdogan as of 2020, as Constantinople was conquered by the Turks in 1453, but on the top floor of Hagia Sofia you can still read "Halfdan carved these runes" in the Norse script.

@jytte-hilden Месяц назад

In fact, Halfdan is an old viking word that translates directly to "Kilroy"

@simokoistinen276 Месяц назад

The Finns were possibly mentioned by Cornelius Tacitus in his work Germania (98 A.D.) as people called Fennis, and later also by Claudius Ptolemy in his work Geographia (150 A.D.)

@matthewgillies7509 Месяц назад

Possible, although probably from their migrations around the east before arriving in modern Finland.

@Ääääääöäääööäååöööö1 Месяц назад

Am Finnish and can confirm, I have three pairs of birch bark shoes. Not really "branches twisted together", but close enough :)

@JuisSekasi 26 дней назад

@@Ääääääöäääööäååöööö1Varmaan laavua, louetta tai vastaavaa meinaavat

@Fireborn-o4v Месяц назад

0:20 poor dude, just doesn't exist

@prettypic444 Месяц назад

“Augustus misplaced some of his legions” is my new favorite way to get around RU-vid’s “never say die” censorship rules

@gamespotlive3673 Месяц назад

Hey bro, your stuff is straight fire, I often listen to these in the car like a podcast but as they're so short I have to change it a lot at lights. You could make a bunch of these that are related to each other and short but not animated and I bet people would listen to them a ton like a podcast.

@LibertyScholar Месяц назад

0:46 "Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!"

@MasterTangerines Месяц назад

I love how the names of this channel's patrons are essentially memorized by the community

@angelb.823 Месяц назад

1:58 Shouldn't the language be shifted to medieval Greek though? Considering that at the time of Basil II, Greek was the primary language of the Eastern Roman Empire.

@HikikoSunny01 Месяц назад

I think it has more to do with emphasis on 'roman' still. Besides, it can be just a generic asset, or just to make identifiable. Not everyone would understand for sure what κρασί (krasi) means.

@pedrollex3308 Месяц назад

☝️🤓

@HikikoSunny01 Месяц назад

@@pedrollex3308 I mean, we are in a history channel, ofc we'd see one of those. I'm myself quite one too ☝🤓

@angelb.823 Месяц назад

@@HikikoSunny01 I see! Thanks for the clarification.Ευχαριστώ για την διευκρίνιση.

@HikikoSunny01 Месяц назад

@@angelb.823 I don't speak Greek or anything but yea thanks m8 (I'll translate this late I think?)

@NeedSomeNuance Месяц назад

The real question is how this channel knows every niche thing I’m wondering about history

@user-xv8eo2pk9g Месяц назад

You butchered the danish language more than we butchered the monks at Lindesfarne

@alphamikeomega5728 Месяц назад

Too soon

@hb9145 27 дней назад

Very funny, but Danes are very good at butchering their own language. 🤣

@davidjensen1221 Месяц назад

I appreciate not ending the question with the end of Roman rule in the west. Rome lasted for a thousand years after the "fall" of Rome, so Roman history should cover that period, too.

@davea6314 Месяц назад

A Viking man can impress women by demonstrating how he takes his longship up a canal to deliver seeds which can be planted in fertile places.

@andrzejnadgirl2029 Месяц назад

I always loved how people from British isles were writing about obscene behavior of vikings, like taking baths which for some reason made local women go crazy about them.

@misterypercentage Месяц назад

@@andrzejnadgirl2029hol up, that's legit?

@bingchilling4717 Месяц назад

@@andrzejnadgirl2029tbh they were also tall and handsome so i dont blame them

@MichaelDavis-mk4me Месяц назад

@@misterypercentage Yes. Danes were often tall soldiers with a basic level of hygiene that could speak the same language as the local Anglo-saxon, so women were attracted to them. Not to mention some women had more pragmatic reasons to become lovers, such as reducing their risk of being on the receiving end of a raid, which the result was far from preferable.

@misterypercentage Месяц назад

@@MichaelDavis-mk4me huh, interesting.

@ZephLodwick Месяц назад

That tidbit about Anglo-Saxons fleeing the Norman invasion to Constantinople is fascinating. I've always loved stories about people ending up in far-away places.

@AstralisSirius Месяц назад

Some scarce info about Scandinavian people can be found in Tacitus’s work “Germania”. Here he mentions tribes which would go on to play key roles in the Middle Ages, as well as places as far as Estonia

@JustinMinckley Месяц назад

Learn something new everytime a video comes out. This an underrated gem

@iamjimb Месяц назад

1:07 your average roman

@fjalarhenriksson 28 дней назад

Surprisingly correct for a video found on youtube. Good short summary.

@omarma7815 Месяц назад

0:03 when did Anatolia, levant, Mesopotamia Egypt and northern Africa become part of southern europe?

@RockisIife Месяц назад

They are a part of Europe it's basic geography

@rileydavidson207 Месяц назад

Since James Bissonette declared so

@mEmory______ Месяц назад

At that time they may as well have been the same region.

@Theology.101 Месяц назад

The border of Europe is wherever I decide it

@John.McMillan Месяц назад

@@rileydavidson207 And don't forget Spinning Three Plates. They were a huge decider on that.

@randomobserver8168 27 дней назад

My favourite Varangian story is how Harald Hardrada served in the unit for some time before taking his papers, heading back north to become King of Norway, staking a claim on the throne of England as an heir of Canute, and dying at Stamford bridge in 1066. Harold of England supposedly heard he was a tall man, and so promised him just seven feet of English soil.

@cannonball666 Месяц назад

I learned something today. The Danes provided feathers for Roman pimp hats.

@TheBigSlimySnail Месяц назад

Emperor Baracus summed this up when well he said "I ain't getting in no snow Thule!"

@videonofan Месяц назад

The video I didn't know I needed

@specil-k Месяц назад

Thank you for mentioning Byzantium and the Varangian guard in a video expressly about Rome, it means a lot ❤

@dedrinzypool1209 Месяц назад

First. Also, wouldn't be surprised if they knew about it or if they had prior knowledge of tribes theoretically from there like the Goths and surely they traded with them.

@ericdanielski4802 Месяц назад

Absolutely.

@alienngl Месяц назад

The goths are from east Germany and Poland not rlly from Scandinavia

@ousarlxsfjsbvbg8588 Месяц назад

@@aliennglI believe they were originally from an area in what is now Sweden

@StillRooneyStarcraft Месяц назад

@@alienngl The origins are still hotly debated, some are arguing that they're initially from what's now southern Sweden.

@dedrinzypool1209 Месяц назад

It's still very speculative and would be very hard to prove. Scandinavia is one of the highest contenders in theory

@oyskin3985 28 дней назад

I'm Norwegian, living in the southeastern part, north of Oslo. There's some local historians claiming to have good reason to say that the Roman empire had huge influence on these lands, because of the amount of iron being extracted with no obvious use locally. They claim that while Romans did not control eastern Norway, they probably had a larger presence and made the locals extract iron for them. There's also some other physical evidence of roman presence.

@ragnkja 22 дня назад

Even without direct force, they may have created a pressure to extract more iron by being very interested in buying it.

@craigsurette3438 Месяц назад

It is important to clarify something "Vikings" were not around in Roman times, because Viking isnt "Norse person" Viking isnt a race, it is a job description. The word means "Raider" specifically someone who leaves their local fjord to go adventuring, raiding and trading somewhere far from home. Norse people certainly existed in the Roman era, and yes of course some of them raided elsewhere, but the idea of hordes of Norse Vikingr coming to raid southern lands en masse, had to wait for Rome to fall, and for Scandinavia to have a population boom, where there were more young men, than good land for them to inherit who were willing to leave home and seek better fortune elsewhere.

@panzrok8701 Месяц назад

The Norse didn't exist yet because they still spoke proto-Germanic. Old Norse developed hundreds of years later. But the Germanic tribes certainly did raid a lot.

@SebHaarfagre 29 дней назад

It (Vikingr) means "Inletter" (from Vik, or Inlet) and is basically a "verbification" of a noun. They were not only/all warriors, but they were all expeditioners - or rather, all people who "set out". From the Viks where they always embarked. They "went Viking" as they became those who did the act of setting out from the inlets. Crew could also consist of traders or even family members. It's just that tales of X family erecting a farm on Y island while doing no battles, or making a good trade deal, didn't become as legendary stories as the large battles or victories...

@craigsurette3438 29 дней назад

@@SebHaarfagre Ok,Gotchya so more broadly Vikingr is just "Leaves home port" vs more specific "Leaves home port to raid" even if much of the leaving home port involved raiding

@MarcelGomesPan 28 дней назад

I was looking through the comments to see how far i had to get before someone even pointed this out. East Rome is one thing. But West Rome fell in 476 AD and the ”viking age” is usually seen a starting with Lindisfarne in 793 AD ( these dates are a bit dependent one what you mean by a term, how you periodize ofcourse ). Also, ”viking” is not an ethnicity.

@RealUlrichLeland Месяц назад

Your empire can only expand so far north when you refuse to wear trousers.

@ericdanielski4802 Месяц назад

Nice video.

@Vinemaple Месяц назад

This particular video is so useful, I'll be able to keep myself happy all day by reminding myself it exists.

@geckoman1011 Месяц назад

Its OK, I've misplaced some of my legions too.

@DanWatchesYoutub1000 Месяц назад

Love that the answer was, "Yeah, but it was too cold so they said nope."

@grandmasteryoda6717 Месяц назад

Suggestion; When did the Germanics stop being barbarians?

@paolinopaperino8926 Месяц назад

@@grandmasteryoda6717 When they adopted Roman and Christian ways.

@valhall89 Месяц назад

8th of may 1945 :D:D:D

@thebrotherskrynn Месяц назад

They never did.

@grandmasteryoda6717 Месяц назад

@@thebrotherskrynn yet you speak a germanic language?

@dingus6317 Месяц назад

If you think about it from their perspective the Romans were the barbarians who were conquering and genociding out of greed.

@samthompson2203 Месяц назад

I genuinely googled this yesterday 😂 Impeccable timing

@lucianoosorio5942 Месяц назад

“Cause all I hear is threats from a brute with no discipline and I’m ruling over you like a boot full of my citizens!” Julius Caesar Oversimplified: But oversimplified, Colombus never discovered America, the Vikings did Hiccup: We’re Vikings dad, it’s an occupational hazard. Stoick: You put your lot into them. You’re not a Viking, you’re not my son. Ready the ships!

@balticbvll2987 Месяц назад

Never comment again

@lucianoosorio5942 Месяц назад

@@balticbvll2987dude, so uncool

@shalona1974sweden 21 день назад

Makes me appreciate our winters even more ❄️💙❄️

@teinhart Месяц назад

They is a runestone as part of a exhibit in the Danish national museum, the runestone is (if I remember correctly) A accounting/memorial of an attempt by danish vikings to raide rome. Failed to find Rome, and ended up in, what is believed to have been Egypt, before the majority of the fleets, was destroyed to Greek fire around what is now Turkey.

@fredrikdahllof2636 29 дней назад

According to the Roman historian Tacitus in his famous book 98AD the Swedes (Suiones) where the strongest tribe in Scandinavia,with lots of men, ships,and horses. He also mentioned that is was forbidden for men there by law to walk around armed in peacetime,to avoid unnecessary bloodshed.

@richeybaumann1755 Месяц назад

0:46 "Augustus misplaced some of his legions" nice. I'm sure he would love that description....

@shamsuaddinrachedi792 Месяц назад

these are truly the questions that keep me awake at night, thank you

@MatisPiche Месяц назад

Hey! I was just wondering if it would be possible for you to put subtitles in your videos? I have some difficulty to understand everything that you say and that would help me to watch all of your interesting videos!

@LOEKASH Месяц назад

Suggestion: How many people tried to cross the iron curtain to the Eastern side, and was it any less difficult than crossing to the West?

@Alex_FRD Месяц назад

Having Rome as a dark purple instead of red is a cardinal sin. It's not even Byzantine purple!

@slime_whoscrabby Месяц назад

Vikings and Byzantium trade route named "from varangians to greeks" went through Dnieper river, which led to Kyiv becoming an important city of its region

@selectthedead Месяц назад

Wow, i have never Seen a Community so loyal and liking videos such as this one

@COBRandYouTube Месяц назад

New History Matters video: 🍿🥂🥃

@karlG3375 29 дней назад

There are Roman records of visiting Sweden and perhaps Finland. Roman presence in Scandinavia existed in form of trade and enlisted soldiers. Recruitment fortress existed. And it was a great honor and big deal to join the Roman Army. Scandinavians went to the fortresses and sailed together to perhaps Germania and join the Roman camps there. A new documentary of Sweden history cover this. A lot of Roman artifacts has been found from age 200AD - 400AD to the end of when Rome ended suddenly, and all the camps disappeared and the lifestyle of going abroad and fight. But 300 years later the Viking age started and the fighting skills from the Romans came in handy.

@privatebandana Месяц назад

Without a doubt. Our official confirmed information is pretty limited like always, but there were roman traders actively trading with modern day Denmark in the baltics, and the danes were obviously trading with the rest of Scandinavia. So using common sense there's no question that the romans knew about Norway and Sweden, especially Sweden since it's pretty damn hard to miss Sweden when going through the strait of Öresund. Just to add. Britain was very costly for Rome, it literally costed them more to keep the soldiers there than what they got out from the land. So it's pretty easy to see why Rome didn't bother with Sweden, which would basically be Britain but way worse and completely useless during winter time on-top of that lol. I don't even think they would have bothered with Sweden if they somehow conquered all of Germania.