I FORCED EUROPE to accept a MATRIARCHY! 

I made my Amazons by hybridizing Alan and Khazar. You get Byzantine heritage and Scythian language, which fits because the Amazons are from Greek myths often related to the Scythians. You also get equal martial culture which is neat. I just pretended my character heard the legends and presumed it was referring to their culture, and that Kuzarite was actually the remnant of the lost faith of the ancient Amazons. We reformed that to the true, reformed Amazon faith. So yeah, we were Jewish Amazons.

"A frenchman tries to tell an african where africa starts and ends, i've seen this one before lads" Victorian Moment

5:34 I have one of the best interactions in my class about this, my teacher was thinking about a cultural exchange with Kenya. The one (funnily enough very americanized guy) "Is that where they speak Afrikaans?" "No they are actually quite known for their english" "Do they speak Afrikaans though" "No that'd be the other side of the continent" "Africa is Africa"

what people don’t get it that AFRICAN DOES NOT EQUAL BLACK. no, Moroccans/Tunisians aren’t black, BUT THEY ARE AFRICAN. LOCATED IN AFRICA.

Fun fact about Africa: Africa contains as much genetic diversity in it as the entire rest of the world combined. I'm fairly sure that it's similarly diverse in languages and cultures too.

I'm Lebanese, white looking and from a Christian background. Moved to the us last year and explaining people my name, where I'm from, and that not all Arabs look the same is a thing i never imagined i would've had to do. Don't get me started on the "Arabs are asian" part of it. Was nice hearing you rant about Africans, cathartic!

This whole discussion about North Africans being not Africans, reminds me of a clip I once saw, where people (likely US-Americans) were irritated by people from eastern Russia/Siberia who look "asian" saying they are russian^^ The people reacted to that like "no, look at you, you don't look like a russian. You must be mongolian or chinese". Same thing, like wtf, why can't large areas or countries have very diverse people??

You just discovered my big ck3 pet peeve: not being able to wear the pope hat as a woman!

As an American. I can tell you we are barely educated on the rest of the world even existing. Our schools just don't really teach this stuff unless it's directly related to us

The worst part about being north african is when people say you're not a real african

It's kinda fun to see you not only play but also speaking about topics even though some peoples aren't the smartest 😂

Thank you for the Africa rant. Every time some "probably american" writes about how Killmonger in Black Panther had a noble goal and good intentions I struggle with not writing a long rant about how utterly detached from reality and nonsensical his plan is. I think they see Africans as African Americans who live in Africa and lack the benefits of being American. To be fair to the original writers: Killmonger was probably meant to represent the more militant fringe of the civil rights movement who thought that only violence can break the systemic racism and oppression. As such he and his plans do actually make lot more sense than they do if taken literally.

spilled my drink on Laith making amazonian male adultery criminal, genius move

imagine a real world timeline like this

If you want a super dominated female playthrough, one of my favourite things is do is reform the Baltic pagan faith to be female dominated, have the tenants Sacred Birth, Communion, and Carnal Rites, and make all forms of adultery illegal. Everyone will be suducing everyone, which you can milk for profit with Communion. And with the reduction in pregnancy complication from Sacred Births (and that one legacy) you very rarely have to worry about dying in childbirth.

I would love to see you do more with second life times in your videos. That’s where I’ve found the most depth comes from in this game.

Day 10 of thanking laith for playing anbennar and I do nope you continue the jaddaei playthrough. (Just wait for the rest of missions once you hit the formable)

As an American, I can agree and empathize with you entirely when you're saying that Americans were trying to incorrectly inform you about Africa. There's a massive plague of stupidity and attempting to explain things to people by those who have literally no clue what they're talking about. Twitter is a cesspool 😂😂😂😂 - Ignore us Americans when we're saying dumb stuff. Focus on the good. Cheers and happy playing, m8.

You can say it, it's mostly American people because for some reason here people still strongly associate your physical features with where you're from. I'm sure it's like that in some other places too, but it's crazy to me that some people just don't understand that you can't paint an entire continent as being one shade of skin color and then anyone else that isn't in the majority of that skin color is no longer considered part of that group. "You're not a real African" is just a crazy thing to say

I’m American and the only thing I can think of is a lot of people are trolling... OR they might just not have any idea what they are talking about.

You should do Napoleon starting in Corsica and become emperor of the French

7:36. I think what you've encountered Laith is the realization that most westerners dont know that ethnic identity, race (to the extent that it's even a thing outside of the west), language and geographic identity aren't the same because how European states were built. Also let's be real the idea of continents is stupid and there's no way Europe would be a continent if anybody other than Europeans defined what continents there were. There is no criteria for what is a continent where Europe is its own continent and Asia isn't at least 3. They are a a very bad classification system and it's sucks that it's the primary way we categorize groups of people

Bud, you can get some auto generated characters of your culture, the local culture in the same religion by clicking the buttons on the top when handing out provinces. You can get some nice character generations at times and a mix of older vassals that don't have heirs. It's way easier that way

The whole homogenous thing reminds me people don’t know what many West Asians look like. People think many of us look white just because of skin color

I love how Laith mumbles through the whole thing. :)

it's about time 😤

I love your appreciation of history which comes thru in every video. That and masochism, but mainly a love of history comes thru!!

Man's creates an empire in one life I can't even do it in one playthrough lol

28:14 - Huh, not everyday you see a Franconian Tengri Byz Emperor

Bro popping off about Morocco. Go off king. Much love from America.

Fun fact about Morocco, it was the first nation to recognize US independence, a bout a few months before france

The French guy might be taking about how immigrants and descendants of immigrants view themselves in France. I don't know myself, just a theory

Napoleon actually never stole the Mona Lisa from Milano that is a myth. When Leonardo Da Vinci died, the French king of the time probably bought it off of Leonardo’s servant for a lot of money after the servant took it from Leonardo’s chambers. Napoleon did put the Mona Lisa up in his bedroom though

If I could try to defend my fellow Americans, 9 times out of 10 when we say "African" we mean "Black", so I could see how some people don't consider Morocco or Tunisia "African" because they're not black. Being African-American very specifically means black; unless you're a troll no one would call Elon Musk African-American even though he's from South Africa. So in American, north Africans aren't "African" because to us being African-American is a more formal/polite way to say black. We'd probably just refer to Moroccans or Tunisians as "Arab" or "Middle Eastern" if in a more general group. Like they're objectively wrong from basic geography, but I can at least see the logic from a very American lens. I can't really defend people trying to correct you about it though.

Ah yes, Tengri Franconian Kid-Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire

What Laith said of some Americans not considering North Africa truly "African", happens with Latin America too. If you aren't Dominican/Cuban/Mexican (or kind of brownish skin for some people) then you aren't truly a "Latino", even being from Centro America I've seen people gettin mixed up. And I won't talk about all of the Argentina isn't Latino slander+You housed all the Nazis shit because it truly triggers me because it can be answered with half a Google search. So yeah, welcome to twitter I guess.

I wonder how Laith is going to react to Morocco losing against France

In More Bookmarks+ there is ruler of the Barlas dynasty in the Chagatai Khanate, Samarkand is in his realm. His son is Timurid(not exactly historical)but you can play as him. It’s in the 1300s. You should try it.

Amazonian culture: selects "Quarrelsome". Accuracy confirmed.

Despite the US being one of the few non-homogenous racial/ethnic nations on Earth, we Americans discuss race more than any other nation. Almost every American, whether conservative or progressive, value race for some reason. Whites, blacks, arabs, asians, and natives. That's typically how we break down race across the Americas. Its not scientific, but its sort of a rough social categorization. That's why North African Arabs are not "African" racially, just as white South Africans are not African racially but they are all African geographically, in terms of their nationality's continent. But the American normies outside of the history and geopolitics nerds rarely ever mean geography in any way, let alone which continent someone is from. The Brits have a similar issue where they claim to not be European. They 100% are as they're part of the European continent. But Brexit made them not EU members, and the rhetoric was anti-mainland and anti-Europe in terms of the geopolitical entities in Europe. The words "European" and "African" in both these cases are not referring to continent of residence, but rather identity relative to the "other" whether racially or politically.

Yeah as an American its truly depressing how little most of us know about the world its genuinely pathetic, especially Africa, which is ridiculously diverse and rich in history. I personally love history especially the early Muslims and mali and Mogadishu/early Somalia

28:18 did anyone else notice the leader of the Byzantine Empire is Tengri?

Counter point: "Mexican is not American"

Good to see Laith's ck3 video that's focus more on aspects apart from wars and battles :)

I had an experience where someone told me that BC wasn't western Canadian, I just asked them what direction it is.

i love seeing laith triggered it makes me laugh so hard

North Africa is like Czechia with Europe Can't into Slav, can't into Germanic (western)

I don’t think of nations by which continent they are in. I think of them as the region they are in. So if someone asks me what Northern Africa is I will say Mediterranean, same for Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey etc.

hey you did the strategy I suggested, it`s a shame though that you only stayed with one character so you couldn`t really analize for yourself whether it worked for you or not, but from my experience it`s a nice strategy to keep your vassals busy and to stop them from being rebelious

When it comes to geography it really depends on the school you go to and the classes you take. That said, even in good schools, it's usually only by hobby anyone learns the basics, which is very sad.

Lore of I FORCED EUROPE to accept a MATRIARCHY Momentum 100

i came for the map game but stayed for the good takes on africa.

As an American I apologize for my undereducated countrymen 😂

For the Morroco one, morrocons condsider themselves to be arab much more then african, in the western sense. you will never find a person in morroco refer to themselves as african. geographicaly yes, but socially the are part of the arab world, like for arabs thats its own continent pretty much, so most americans i saw actualy said they should use african, but most morracans said arab.

Part two please!

As an American, I'd like to say that it's very difficult to make general statements about our education system because we don't have a singular education system. Each state has different requirements on the high school level and provides public schools with different curriculums. The teachers have some control over how they teach it but they are required to teach the curriculums provided to them. Certain states are better at curriculums than others. For example, some states in the Bible Belt required creationist myths to be taught alongside evolutionary theory for a while. As far as I am aware no state covers geography as a required course, and only briefly mentions it in a social studies class. That isn't to say there are no geography classes, I took AP Geography in my school, but that is not a required course so most people don't take it. There are also private schools, that while still supposed to follow the state requirements have curriculums that are typically leagues better than public schools. Private schools don't receive public funding, so they aren't beholden to the state's programs. ( There are Academies as well, which are private but do receive public funding, however, there are to my memory only 5 fit into that parameter so they aren't entirely relevant to this.

Play new Africa in Victoria 3

American here, I'm not surprised but still thoroughly disappointed

As an American I'd refer to Tunis as being in "north Africa" I'd never say just Africa

Laith why did you not make this over in the Crimean region where the Scythian peoples came from? They are historically where the depiction of female "Amazon" archers came from.

Well Laith, I think deep down you know the real answer to your troubles about “certain” peoples perception of Africa. In the sense that it isn’t about Africa at all, or atleast geographically it isn’t. Typically when someone is referred to as African, what they mean is black of skin and of matching phenotype, you see this in the way that Black Americans, aren’t just simply “American”, but “African”-Americans. North Africa is typically associated with the Middle East, which makes sense on a genetic, cultural, religious, and linguistic level, in comparison to any other part of Africa, despite sharing the same continent. Don’t get too offended, North Africa has had a vastly different history in comparison to the rest of Africa, mainly sub Saharan Africa, which is what most people imagine when they think of Africa, in much the same way, that when someone imagines the Near East, they don’t see Western “Asia”, but something with a unique identity where the continental label is simply too broad for them to fall under, so they form their own group despite sharing the same continent.

If you say France and Germany is the same because it is in Europe.

I love how you made Haarlem the capital of Italy 🤣

Its so weird how just yesterday (I'm in England and its 2 am so thats like 4 hours ago) I was thinking about what would happen if a matriarchical order got installed in Europe. Guess I'll find out for real now huh.

Mate, of course it’s Americans mostly saying that, most Americans think Africa is a single country

4:10 there is a subreddit called 'r/shitamericanssay' and it is just an entire subreddit of JUST THINGS LIKE THAT.

I don't get it, why does he always use the character list to hand out the titles? Its so much simpler to generate new characters without convoluted inheritance chance by just clicking the "Give titles to someone of YOUR culture and YOUR faith", and if there are none they just get generated. The button is right there above the characters list, just click it, so much simpler.

Bro will eventually do this in Victoria 3

Another American here. My uncle once told me that Egyptians weren’t African. I’ve also had to explain to people that the Middle East is in fact not a continent and exists within a religion and is more bound by culture. It’s real bad over here. We are DUMB dumb.

This was a fun one to watch. Lots of action in one lifetime.

Morocco at the request of Twitter is now on the Asian continent

How about Morocco from the middle west, Tunisia from the Middle middle, and Algeria in the middle middle west

Bruh Laith, when yu are giving titles away from a big kingdom (like you are doing at 23:05) dont give away single counties, but rather form the duchies and give them away to your kids or if you don't have enough kids than to your dynasty. Creating duchies gives you prestige which is always useful and dukes are always to weak to win rebelions. Kingdoms are different you really don't want to give them away until you are way bigger and have to many duke vassals under you. It is a lot easier to manage a handful of dukes than hundreds of counts and its a lot quicker.

You are the reason i try too play EU4, tips on Norway would be appreciated

13:36 leader of Sweden

More rants Laith! We love them 😁

The thing about Americans generalizing about Africa is that America has 2 large black populations that, due to the first group (African-Americans) being so assimilated that their rights become an issue separate from all other non-white rights has forced the new group (Immigrants from the last 100 years or so) to become part of the first group. I'm an Austinite, Austin has a lot of immigrants. The children of African immigrants tend to feel like African-Americans and not immigrants. For that reason, and also the American education system a lot of Americans view Africa as a monolith.

4:26 The Meditterenean or arab world does feel distinct from Africa. A moroccan is closer to a Saudi Arabian or Perssian than he is to a nambian or hutu

Mate. Just be happy you didn't have to see german conservatives talk about the morrocan team.

You have to be greatfull for the European culture. Europe is the best 🇪🇺

I'm glad someone with a good following finally destroyed the patriarchy, took ya'll long enough. I did it from Bjarmia on release. :p

The thing is about people thinking Americans are stupid is that the app they experience peoples opinions is a american dominated app so the minorities are louder in america

i could never.

A few days ago I was speaking with a USA guy who was thinking Australia is in Europe XD. Let's say the education in USA is not great ( to do not use ugly word )

Day 5 of asking for an eu4 colonial Novgorod game without forming russia

To answer your question on where Africa begins its south of rome

Given French history of considering NA as France like Corsica, it's normal they'd get confused lmao

I know how to trigger laith now

No Laith you're right

A French man saying north Africa is not part of Africa is scary

you should talk more about random stuff in yoru videos, its kinda fun

Soviet union borders as Novgorod ck3 sounds entertaining

What do you mean north Africa is African, it's CLEARLY the historical region of Carthage

i wanted to give this a like but it was already at 666 and thought it was a good number for your faith

28:13 the Byzantine Emperor is Tengri and Franconian

Galicia Volhynia game for Christmas?

Start telling those people they aren't American because they're not Native Americans, that should get them a bit riled...

I actually think it was my comment that inspired this. Maybe. Entertaining, nonetheless.

This video would have been absolutely perfect if you had just replaced "Alright Boys" with "Alright Girls" entirely. Gotta commit to the bit.

so much easier if you start as tribal, dont need to research anything in culture