3:19 - His predicessor, Vladislav II, murdered his father (the body was never found), and buried his brother alive. Dracula would avenge this, by first surrounding Vladislav's army, forcing him into a duel, then _beating him to death with his bare hands._
@Silver Wolverine - True about his father and brother; I was being brief. No source I've ever found mentions a sister. The way in which he disposed of Vladislav II was absolutely true. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MY82EpsvbQ8.html His Easter feast (the term later shamelessly paralleled by Anne Rice), was to avenge his father and brother, as well as to remove restrictions placed on him by the boyars. After they were good and drunk, he asked them how many princes they had known. They then answered: 20, 30, 40, "...even the youngest thought there had been seven." With that, they had all but confessed to regicide. Dracula had them al arrested. Those too young or too old to work, he impaled as an example. The rest, he marched for three straight days, in their Easter finery, to the ruins of Poenari Castle, where they worked themselves to death rebuilding it. The Wallachian nobility was then replaced with subjects chosen for their loyalty and ability, 90% of whom were commoners. He made more free peasants into nobles than any other ruler. A few of these, known as the seven Brothers Dobrin, would later rescue him, when Poenari Castle was under seige. Once they were safe in the mountains, he granted them all the land as far as the horizon, inscribed on a rabbit skin, which amounted to the single largest land grant in Romanian history.
@@Karlonstark - Pretty evil, but doesn't exactly strike fear in the hearts of one's enemies! Everything Vlad Dracula did had a purpose, and it was always made public, usually by some famous man of letters, who just happened to be there to record it.
I'm sorry, but Mussolini doesn't even rank in the top three. I despise Fascism, but when you have Ivan, Vlad, Robespierre, Leopold, Talat Pasha, Mao and Pol Pot, Mussolini can't hold a candle.
Oh no! In second grade we used to sit on the floor for reading time. The teacher used to step on people's fingers if they pissed her off. She had pointy heals and it was horrible.
Count Dracula: "Death is not the worst. There are things more horrible than death..." Mina Harker: "Like what?" Count Dracula: *Remembers the screams of impaled alive Ottomans as he sinisterly smiles*
@@theunbeatable6598 Ironically enough Vlad the Impaler himself much like the Ottomans was of Turkic origin, his Dynasty, the Basarab were of Cuman descent
thank you when i learned of King Leopold the II at home during high school i was disgusted that we did not learn or even condemn it as a nation at all. the crimes went completely unanswered and even supported by most countries due to thier need of the resource. horrible we dont have to learn and watch documentaries on that like we do the holocaust.
Speaking of Genghis Khan, there is actually a 1956 movie about him named "The Conqueror", in which the mongol Lord of War is played by no other than John Wayne (no wonder why that movie is considered one of the worst ever made). In fact, that film caused the death by cancer of 46 members of the staff, as it was filmed in zones actively used for nuclear tests
You're kidding? No way! And John Wayne as Genghis Khan, heck no! Nope, I prefer Wayne in a western. Actually, I'm not a John Wayne fan; I'm more so for Clint Eastwood, a total badass! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
There are a lot fewer of them. If they did make such a video, I think Mary I of England and Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar would be in it. They could also include Elizabeth Bathory, but there's some doubt about whether she's guilty of what she was accused of.
Vlad is a national hero in Romania. He’s one of the first to effectively use biowarfare against a much larger enemy. He managed to keep Wallachia out of Ottoman hands after decades under them. His methods, yes, were disgusting, but effective.
Exactly! And his methods, very effective when fighting savage enemy forces 10 times bigger then his (=the ottomans), are degusting to 20th century's ethics, but not at all considering the medieval well spread routines...
A lot of people who have history channels like this are not funny and the jokes fall flat but this guy his delivery is very good you sir just got a new sub
@@StayBasedJesus They'd still count. I think even more so since the deaths were of citizens and not invading armies. It still counts as genocide even if it's against your own people.
Caligula is disputable. It's known that his first 2 years of Rule were actually a great time of properity in Rome. After that, they are not sure what happen. Either a fall witch caused him having non stop seizures and being, well, Caligula how we know him today. But, there are more and more historians that believe that the Romans put Caligula away as a complete lunatic and wrote so about him, and that is backed up with how Caligula treated the Roman Nobility. If Caligula's stories are true, yess he should be on this list, it's just some trivia a Proffessor of mine onces told me in University. We weren't there, so we have no clue how it actually went down. Perhaps Caligula was the first emperor of Rome that actually tried to move the power away from the Nobles, and the Preatorian guard, but we'll never know, since such stories are either destroyed, or not written, or simply not true. Anyway, don't take this as offense, i wanted to just let you know this little small piece of Trivia i know about Roman's writtin History! Have a awesome day! God, i love History! (and Basketball:D) PS: B is for Banana?
tamerlane once besieged a city that was rebellious to his empire. after crushing the rebellion down and executing most of the citys men and enslaving the women and children, he then had to rebiuld the citys walls. to teach everyone a lesson he used the war captives as living bricks, so they were biuld in to the wall alive.
He gets mentioned a lot. The new one to me was the colonizer from Belgium. No surprise he wasn't mentioned in school. He was a white Christian and his victims were neither.
@@Alverant A couple other things about Leopold are that he was long enough ago that no one remembers hearing about him on the news, and he wasn't very historically significant, or at least wasn't perceived to be.
Did you know back in medieval Russia they had a specific hole that they would throw their rulers in for being too facetious? It was called the tsar chasm!
Some minor corrections to the way you describe names... 1) The Khan in Genghis Khan is a title, not a surname, so to call him "Khan" is like referring to Queen Elizabeth as "Queen." 2) Chinese names are written with their surname first. MAO Zedong, YAO Ming, etc. Same with QIN Shi Huang. Huang is basically the middle name, so calling him "Huang" would be like calling FDR "Delano".
You should have included Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines who ruled the country from 1965 - 1986. Thousands of Filipinos were wrongfully arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and murdered in his tyrannical regime.
Correction: Timur claimed to be Chinggis Khan's son-in-law, aka Guregen or Gurkani, after he married one of his female descendants named Suray Mulk Khanum, daughter of Qazan Khan ibn Yasa'ur of the Chagatai Ulus of the Chagatai lineage. He also claimed to be spiritual descendant of Ali, son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, as well. So as Muslim ruler, he can proclaimed himself as Emir.
These are all good choices, but it's always possible to name more. Excluding those that you mentioned somewhere (such as Stalin and Attila), some that you could include if you made a part 2 are Mao, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, and at least one Roman emperor. Nero and Caligula are the obvious choices for the latter, but it could be that if you looked into the lesser known Roman emperors, you might find one that's as bad or worse. Maybe there's also a medieval or early modern European monarch that could be included. I think of Henry VIII and Mary I of England, but there could be another that's worse.
As a Portuguese citizen, the fall can be surmised in one word: "Spanish". Our loss of independence (and some stupid moves made by our previous monarchs, and yes, I am talking about King Sebastião) to Spain was the trigger to the fall of our empire. Their enemies became our enemies and Spain dared to attack one of our oldest allies (England, we have a treaty since the marriage of D. João I to Phillippa of Lancaster) with our ships. Then the English allied with the Dutch and we started to lose wars and colonies. The rest was history. By the time we regained our independence in 1640, the harm was already done. Because we were never a big and super powerful country, those 60 years were fatal.
My top 5 (Pre-20th Century) would be Genghis Khan, Timur, Leopold II, the Qianlong Emperor, and Ferdinand & Isabella Honorable mentions would include Pope Innocent III, Selim I, Hernan Cortez, and Oliver Cromwell
Huang Di is 1 of the most revered historic figures in China. What he built was absolutely awe inspiring. I went to the Terra Cotta Army in Yi An and I was blown away by the weight of history in that place. His tomb, which hasn't been opened because archeologists don't have a way to preserve it yet, is said to contain a lake of mercury and a vaulted ceiling with precious stones set as star constellations. He is also said to have reformed the education system of China and standardized the writing system through all of China that modern Chinese, Korean and Japanese are based on.
Curious, I read a lot about Vlad Tepes, but I really don't know if he was a cruel ruler, per se. He was brutal to his enemies, and those who murdered his family, but how did he rule? How did the common people do under him. The same would go for most of these I suspect. You can be a cruel person, I imagine, and be a decent ruler.
Good point, and the common person, those not impaled to act as scarecrows for the Turks, at least, did relatively well during his rule, I think. But not the beggars of at least one town/city, because he held a "Christmas feast" or whatever holiday for them in a large wooden building, shut and barred the doors, and set it on fire to kill them all. I hear the crime rate went way down. But apparently he also had a man's wife executed because the hems of his nightdress were frayed, and that apparently offended his sensibilities. I hope that story is fake.
I would say, that the difference between Vlad and most of the other rulers, were that Vlad was focused on defending rather than conquering. His brutal way of putting fear into the Ottomans, is seen as a reason why Romania and Romanians today for example, aren't under Islamic influence. He would be cruel towards any enemy and what could be seen as traitors, which could indeed have been his own people. Which is what makes it hard to give a specific answer whether he was a good or a bad ruler, since the definition of being a "traitor" is Vlad's view is rather unknown. Nevertheless, his legacy is what makes him a hero in our view today. That he kept the Romanian language alive in a time of conquering. I'm saying this as a Romanian who grew up outside of Romania, most likely some other Romanians might have a more qualified answer.
The second guy was actually pretty smart. Make your home scary so other bad people stay away lmao. Maybe I'll keep Halloween decorations all year round so people will think I'm a creepy goth lady who has nothing worth stealing!!!
As an Armenian I want to deeply thank you for mentioning the Armenian Genocide in the video. To this day, the Turkish Government still denies the fact that the genocide ever happened, and they were never held accountable for all the atrocities they did towards 1.5 million innocent Armenians.
My friend and I (while visiting Istanbul, ironically) once found a 40 page document published by the Turkish government that was basically a rant denying that anything ever happened. It’s so sad that they deny it to the extent that they were willing to put in the energy to write 40 pages of that drivel.
When I saw who the last monster is, I got too excited! Talaat truly deserves to be in this video! The video mentions he is a critic of Sultan Abdul Hamid. This monster also deserves to be in this episode! 300,000 Armenians were slaughtered from 1894-96. Another shockingly fact is that the Red Sultan, Abdul Hamid is a half-Armenian Ottoman
Genghis Khan, apart from all of the brutal torture and murder, was actually a pretty revolutionary figure. He outlawed torture, sexual slavery, and his empire was among the first to feature universal religious tolerance and social mobility. Also, life on the steppe was so brutal that violence became imbedded in him, and morphed him into a ruthless conqueror.
2:10 - Timur the Lame (Tamerlane) was a Tartar (so yes, a descendant of Genghis Khan), not a Turk. He was also an ally of Mercia the Great, grandfather of Vlad the Impaler.
One little suggestion: it’s really weird that you call Qin Zhi Huang “Huang”. The title literally means first (=Zhi) emperor (=huang) of Qin Kingdom/dynasty. Nobody calls him Huang in Chinese, we call him by his name (Yin Zhen), Zhi Huang Di (first emperor) or most commonly Qin Zhi huang.
Are there any movies on him? I've watched so many Chinese movies from the 80s and 90s thinking they were fictional, but I bet some of them were based on true stories.
Qin was the worst of this list. he had a habit of burying people alive. just one example: when they finished making his tomb (the one with the terra cotta warriors) he buried the builders and architects alive. he was eating mercury daily because he thought it was an elixir of life, went crazy, and died.
As a matter of fact... If someone check mates you... And you don't topple the king but instead leave it standing A heart attack can change the outcome of that game As long as it occurs Before the board is reset. I never topple my king.
If i'm not mistaken the act of impalement that Vlad became a poster child of, was really something kind of common in that time period. Like in the movie Medieval about Jan Zizka, his nephew was impaled, thus was something use din many other places too. So also in the Ottoman empire. Like he was a hostage sure, but was educated and trained as any other ottoman prince. So you can argue that his taste for impalements was groomed in that time he spend with the ottomans. He just treat them with their own poison pretty much. I can understand that if ottomans used that type of killing in certain situations, maybe to people they deem unworthy or whatever, it was just his way to show his total disrespect towards the ottomans. The only gripe i may have is that he used impalement to anyone just on basis of religion. So not just high ranking people or thieves or stuff like that, somewhat like north men had their blood eagle. But to anyone, kids too just because they were muslim. But you know, like i said, he learned from them, so maybe they too were doing it to other faiths in order to make that connections in his mind. Also i think that his father was part of an European group, i believe with strong Christian beliefs, where all were called dragons. He was older when got taken hostage and never forgot his family and lineage so he took his father's place in the way he wanted and not in the way the Ottomans wanted. The indoctrination didn't stick. So he took the name of Dragon that was just translated in drac. So Vlad Dracul would rather be Vlad the Dragon not Dracula.
I HEARD from a romanian, that he impaled more of his own civilians than the enemy soldiers. (Also i imagine its true since if he did impale that many jannissaries, he would have been killed long ago since ottomans wouldnt let that slide) And that he was raped as a child in ottoman palace. So his childhood trauma might have been the cause of his rampage. Especially when you consider impaling can be done through the butt. Also ottomans didnt impale people, their execution methods were simple, beheading for enemies and strangulation for their own
Vlad was pretty badass honestly. He beat multiple people of power in single combat to the death to avoid bloodshed between armies. Stuff that happens in movies really happened in vlad’s life. He took on the civilization that ended the Roman’s and despite all odds, had a lot of success.
I heard a story about how after days or maybe even weeks of fighting he just disguised himself walked across the way to the enemy camp and killed there leader just to walk right back
Chinggis isn't comparable to anyone since he possessed an extraordinary potential of military power which enabled him to commit brutality on a larger scale. He led to the extinction of two populous ethnic groups, Tanguts and Khitans
The most badass one is definitely Vlad The Impaler! The one time he had a Ottoman ambassador's head dress nailed into his head after he refused to remove his headdress in Vlad's presence.
Leopold's men didn't just beat and shoot the men who were supposed to do the work- if they protested or weren't working hard enough, it was a common tactic for them to take a loved one, often a child, and cut off a foot or hand, which they would then return to the unlucky man. This was their sick form of "motivation."
It's sad on how we are so cruel to each other, life is short life is meant to be good to each other, but i do see the point in keeping the population low at a certain point because if there was no high deaths there be way too many of us by now but being evil like this you will never be in a good place when you die
Has nobody mentioned Henry VIII? (Yes, the one who executed two of his six wives) It is estimated 50,000 to 70,000 people were executed during his reign - much higher numbers than those of Ivan the Terrible.
no, he failed to stop the turkish invasion and they conquered a big part of the balkans anyway, and islam isn't good but at least it's better than christianity
You forgot Peter the Great....well a massacre or two was the norm in those days. Le's say the man did what he had to do to stay in power. Genghis was also a man of his times...he set out to carve an empire and you can't make an omlette without breaking some eggs. Vlad kept the Turks at bay so for some he was a hero....he kept the eastern borders of Europe safe so it's all a question of perspective. And I'm pretty sure we can dig up a few more so to speak.
one thing about the leader of the young turks, is that once he gained more authoritarian power, the actual movement of the young turks left his coalition, or fled turkey because of his ruling. he didn’t flee with them at all, he fled from them
Agree! He learned torture and death from his captor! He made sure Christians in his lands were protected AND fought alongside his men! Also used biological warfare by sending very sick people into enemy territory. He’s never given the accolades he should. What a shame.
