There's saying in the Balkans, " its not a big war until the Turks is involved ". Seizing constantinople and positioning themself right in the middle between east and west gonna make them a relevant geopolitical players for thousands of years to come.
In the west the Seljuq invasion of Asia Minor began the process which was to make it the modern land of the Turks and the base from which the greatest Islamic empire of the past 600 years would expand into southeast Europe .
"Baltic paganism" - false for Estonia, should be either Finnic or Uralic. __ Western and northern coastal and insular areas should have been Germanic early on. Uncertain about latter on, but most likely Finnic with Scandinavian influence (similar situation in south east with Baltic).
@@CCMapping These videos are disinformation too actually. For example: there is no evidence for the so-called "iberian animism" which seems to be used by Pre-Celtic people of Western Europe. We don't know what their religion were, and even if it was animism, we don't know what kind of. The Slalvic paganism is a question, because it is possible that there were no Slavs before 100-200 AD, and there were only Celtic, Baltic and Germanic tribes, who later measured into Slavsic people.
Very false - from the 6th century Slavic paganism was also supposed to exist in the areas of today's Czech Republic, eastern Germany, Polish Pomerania and Austria. Until the 12th century, Polabian Slavic paganism still existed in the region of present-day northeastern Germany. Please do a fact check before doing something like that. Islam also in Central Europe? That's what happens when everyone starts playing historian, even if they don't know anything about it.
@@Nikonorthstar That's also bullshit, in the 6th century there were no Celtic tribes in Central Europe a long time ago, there were mainly Slavic tribes, the creator of this video is nothing about the European religions of the time
no, no no! lots of mistakes! the Magyars invaded western Ukraine, the Carpathians, Pannonia etc... they were pagans, and even during the Christianization of Hungary there were still many pagans (shamanism, taltos) for centuries in the remote regions of Hungary!
There has been a Zoroastrian Kurdish state called Corduene between Armenia and Assyria since the beginning of history, but it is not shown in this video.
Turks accepted Iranian Steppe rites... So you can name old pontic steppe religion as tengriism. Before first migration wave, Turks were primitivr animal worshippers... Then they mixed with iranian nomads and accepted "the sky father". "Tengri" means "the god" or "the sky god" in Turkic languages.. Kinda steppe pantheon...
