Gokturk Empire - Nomadic Civilizations DOCUMENTARY 

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Boy: Nursed to health by a she wolf Me:”Hey this sounds a lot like the Roman origin myth, that’s really interesting” Boy: Bangs the she wolf Me: :/

I am a guy from Greece and as you may know Greece and Turkey dont have the best relationship between them BUT i find this video very interesting and educating. Respect to the Sons of the Wolf 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷✊🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 Edit: Teşekkür Ederim-Ευχαριστώ

Persia;Executes steppe envoys. Persia;Why do I here throat singing.

“He is raised by the she-wolf.” Oh man that’’s pretty cool. Teaching him how to be strong and- “The Wolf is impregnated by the now young man.” Oh good sweet lord no.

Greetings from Central Asia( Kyrgyzstan)! Love your channel

These documentaries keep getting better.

I'm kyrgyz and I'm really proud of it, that till this day we saved our nation, identity, history throughout thousands of years and despite of all these wars

The Chinese hat says “subscribe kings and generals” in Chinese, nice touch lol

7:36 that is the cutest camel I’ve ever seen

The Romans: Your ancestors were nursed by a she-wolf, too! You wanna tell me about it? The Göktürks: No...No, I don't think I will.

We will be happy to see your next video about Seljuk turks ,greeting from Azerbaijan 🇦🇿.

The Turkic Khaganate of the Great Eurasian Steppe, the *Gök-Türks:* They were the fathers of the mightiest tribes like *_Khazars (Khazaria), Onogurs (Ungary), Bulgars (Bulgaria), Pechenegs, Cumans (Cumania)._* They were the fathers of the great warlike Turkic tribes that created tens of empires all around the world...

_"Your bey-like sons became slaves; your lady-like daughters became servants"_ that's from the same exact ancient Turkic inscription named *Orkhon Inscriptions* which was written with Turkic runes and written by *Kül Tigin,* the brother of *Bilge Khagan of the Second Turkic Khaganate.*

I'm Gokturk from Kazakhstan!!!

I am from Afshar tribe of Turks, my tribe was one of the last to settle from nomadic life. My tribe fought against the Ottomans because they forced us to settle, our story is still quite popular and our people are very respected in Western Turkey as they have become a local legend. it's true about Turks wanting to fight other Turks, we have a saying. "A Turk does not have a friend other than another Turk, also doesn't have a (worthy) enemy, other than another Turk."

Actually that name 'Ilterish' is a title, which means 'unifier of the realm' (il = realm + termek/dermek = to gather -> ilterish). His real name is Kutluk. Just like Genghiz Khan being Temujin in his early years. Awasome video as always, waiting for Khazars with great interest. Thank you.

Say "This made war inevitable" with a stutter if they are keeping you hostage. The amount of videos produced in such a short period of time has no other explanation

Mongols: we will nomadize all civilization Gokturks: Hold my nomadicivilization

I am a Varsak Turkmen from Turkey greetings everyone and tüm karındaşlarıma salamlar.

Good job, Gokturks.

Damn it Persia, stop killing Steppe envoys.

WOW! Amazing edition work! Congratulations! 👏 I am a descendant from Göktürks genetically speaking. Best regards from Argentina 🇦🇷

Half Turkish blood from Turkey here from descendants of Oghuz Turks. And half Turkish blood from Kazakhstan here from descendants of Kipchak Turks. Selam and greetings to all my Turkish brothers from all over the world!

I‘m a history student and it‘s incredible, how your channel is able to describe all these complex historical events in a „nutshell“ with amazing graphics. Keep up your excellent work 👍🏼

What about Bilge Khan ? And Orkhon Inscriptions ? You didn't talk about them.

*I'm honestly quite surprised that not many people in the west know of the Gokturks, it's a crying shame really.*

Hello from kyrgyz to my brothers ✊🏻🇰🇬

I am uzbek and proud of being a descendant of the Great Turks who conquered the Steppes

"Lord of the seven races, master of the seven climes" Me: Should include the seven kingdoms in that title while you're at it

Me:seems kinda like Romulus and Remus Go Turks:you haven't heard full yet

13:22 As a Turk I can confirm that this is 100% correct, even today :-)

Great video thanks from Uzbekstan♥️Uzbek Turk✋🏻

Kings & Generals 🅱lessed by *Tengri!* Has granted us with the one of the most underrated giant empires' documentary!

I'm glad you said the Rouran remnants "possibly" became the Pannonian Avars. It's possible some remnants of Rouran did indeed reach the Balkans and became the core of the ruling class of the Avar state. Or that they pushed other nomadic tribes westwards ahead of them and those tribes became the Avar ruling class. Or a mixture of both. Nomadic states were never in any sense ethnically "pure." A tribe would rise to prominence, conquer other tribes and incorporate the conquered tribes into itself or become the leading tribe in a new confederation that had a new name. It's probable that most of the tribes/people under Rouran rule remained in Place under Göktürk rule. It's care with details like that which make this channel one, if not the, best historical channel on Yotube.

Great video man! Waiting for the next videos about Khazars, Bulgars, Karakhanids, Oguz, Kipchaks, Karluks., videos about nomad civilization of the great steppe. P/S. Music at the end of the video inspired and lifted my spirit! Thanks! 😁 🙋🏻‍♂️🇰🇿

Absolutely amazing!

The Gokturks were unfortunately bullied by their neighbors the Jerkturks.

7:45 you can just tell that camel's a good boy

No mention of Bilge Khagan and his brother Kul Tigin?

Yes! Central Asian history is fascinating. I'm glad you're going to cover the Khazars

A video about the military technologies of the steppe? f.e. their bows, sabers, saddles, armour, etc it would be great!

Loving the illustrations! They really give life to the names of history. Greetings from a Mongol dude.

Khatun, bring my unfermented market milk and warrior keyboard. I ll watch this.

the "on oq" is still the "on ok" in the present day turkish language :) on : ten ok : arrow. (with ten, arrows)

That was a wonderful video. It is beautiful to see documentaries about our ancient nomadic history. I hope you keep continue to make videos like this.

You have forgotten to mention the two important personality in Turkic Khaganate. Bilge Khagan and his adviser Tonyukuk. Great video !

Great video! i really ejoyed watching this and learning this history in a condensed manner. Also I appreciate the dedication to the art used to tell these stories. A quality channel my friend!

Guys, Tengri bless you.

Tardu is one of my favourite historical figures. Good to see you mentioning him

"To the East I have made campaigns as far as the Shantung plain, and almost reached the sea; to the South I have made campaigns as far as Tokuz-Ersin and almost reached Tibet; to the West I have made campaigns beyond Yenchii-Iigiiz (Pearl River) as far as Timir-Kapig (The Iron Gate); to the North I have made campaigns as far as the land of the Yer-Bayirku's. To all these lands have I led (the Turks). The forest of Mount Otiikin has no [foreign] overlord; the forest of Mount Otiikin is the place where the kingdom is held together." Bilge Kaghan (Orkhon inscriptions)

I quite like the Orkhon Inscription(which you mention in passing in the vid) that goes into how the Turks faired in dealings with the chinese after Taizong flexed on them(since they still stuck around as vassals to the Tang for a while). There are a lot of cool inscriptions on the Orkhon valley monument in general though I think this one just sounds cool and has some interesting subject matter and ideas on it. "Because of want of harmony between the begs and the people, and because of the Chinese people's cunning and craft and its intrigues, and because the younger and the elder brothers chose to take counsel against one another and bring discord between begs and people, they brought the old realm of the Turkic people to dissolution, and brought destruction on its lawful kagans. The sons of the nobles became the bondsmen of the Chinese people, their unsullied daughters became its slaves. The Turkic begs gave up their Turkic names, and bearing the Chinese names of Chinese begs they obeyed the Chinese Emperor, and served him during fifty years. For him they waged war in the East towards the sun's rising, as far as Bokli kagan, in the West they made expeditions as far as Taimirkapig; for the Chinese Emperor they conquered kingdoms and power. The whole of the common Turkic people said thus: 'I have been a nation that had its own kingdom; where is now my kingdom? For whom do I win the kingdoms? said they. I have been a people that had its own kagan; where is my kagan? Which kagan is it I serve?' Hope you do the Uyghur Khaganate eventually too, or at least make a vid talking about all the various Central/East Asian steppe tribes instead of going all in on the western steppes.

Hello from NYC🇺🇸 Half Turkmen 🇹🇷and half Crimean Tatar here with my Tengri above my head and Asena🐺 on my shoulders.

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Loving these episodes on nomadic civilizations! So few other channels even bother to go over the history of these various peoples, you guys are great for doing this!

Good work Fellas, looking forward to the next one! Thx for the extra video this week, helped to ease seasonal depression, no kidding!

These guys really do cover everything, kudos to you lot👏🏻

Great work. Keep it up! Cant wait for you to make a video about the other turkic empires.

i love these vids, they show the history that is lost at school and for a history fanatic like me this is a great channel of info ;-) great work!!

The artwork in these videos is amazing!!!

Thank you very much for this Importent part in my Culture past :) Im so proud to be a part of you Community!

2:02 The texts on his hat is 'Subscribe Kings & Generals' ahahaa well done! -- Didn't expect this as a Chinese channel fan :)

And I thought the Romans had a crazy origin story.

Good video as always! Love listening to these while reading

Thank you for using GökTürk in your videos. Steppe History is another pleasure to watch from you. I wonder about the Khazars.

Thanks for making this documentary love from Turkey

Great documentary, thank you Kings and General team!

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I'm learning so much. The voiceover compliments the content perfectly.

You are the reason I even open RU-vid half the time kings 👍

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Awesome to watch on a late night with nothing better to do. Good luck with doing such a great job!

Is it safe to say that the Chinese indirectly caused the collapses of two Roman empires?

"the wolf impregnated by the youngman" ..ok...enough internet for today

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This was probably the best video you have ever done in my opinion

YEEESS I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER

The Grey Wolf's name was "Ashina". Thats why Bumin's clan was called "Ashina Clan".

Does anyone else just think that Devin is the perfect narrator for literally anything. Heck he could make maths and science in school interesting

Great to see these new docs on topics not already covered many times over.

Now you know why Turks were sharing all those weird House Stark memes all over the internet couple of years ago

Hoped to see the Göktürk Runestone, but still avery informative piece! Most people only know the Ottoman Empire! Thanks, Göktuğ ;)

As alway, GREAT WORK! this is amazing.

I was hoping this would be a video since the Hun one. I'm excited for the next one too. Great series. :)

You have missed Kurshad an iconic figur and a hero, with 40 person He charge into chinese emperor palace on a rainy day. You should look into that as well. Good work

We are Nomads! I'm Kazakh!

Super interesting region and time period. Especially because there are not many sources for these times.. Thanks for these beautiful videos!!

Humbled to watch such masterpiece every time. I am watching your videos in scheduled repetition. Also please cover the Liao dynasty by Khitans and Jin dyansty by Jurchins. They were highly crucial factors in medieval eastern history.

Thank you for covering the history of the ancestors of the turks too! There isn't alot of videos on this. Best and most hard working RU-vid channel about history 👍🏻

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Your animation and background sounds are amazing.

Love the channel, keep up the good work.

Ceddin Deden Ah, i see youre a man of culture as well

Never knew these people existed. I loved this video. Great job to whoever made this video a reality.

Love each and every upload of yours! I noticed how you mentioned both Romans and Persians as Western civilizations, just like there is no "West" with its glory without the work of other civilizations, there is no Persia with its glory without the "Western" civilizations accepting and improving upon what Persia and also others created. Amazing work as always KNG!

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When Byzantium was friends with Turks

You do that video , you are legend. At last people can see my name is writing in old Göktürk language mean TURK.

*Gulp* I've been waiting for this after the White Hun video. Love you guys thank you for the content and amazing presentation :3

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