Hope you guys can also make a documentary about the Batavi and the Batavian Revolt against the Romans wich was directly caused by the Year of the Four Emperors.
@@danielklein6166 Thunraz is the reconstructed proto-germanic name. Donar is the later german name. Thor is the later norse name. Thunor is the later anglo-saxon name. Thor, Thunor and Donar all come from the proto-germanic Thunraz.
The Germanics and Vikings have a proud warrior history. 2021 years of Christianity, and their songs are still sung and poems still read. Man's Soul was never meant to be tamed like sheep, nor his children reduced to livestock.
You have missed Lehia which was taking most part of this region. This is current Poland. Please check your map as you can clearly see that it is in the middle of it. Memory of this great nation has been suppressed and wipe out by church
Love this video. I feel like they didn't teach us enough about these ancient tribes in our history classes, there are so many interesting stories about them, yet we were constantly bombarded with Romans and their point of view at that time
The Germanics tribes are probably the Most succesful people in history. They kicked out the Romans, fenced off the Huns,the Mongolian onslaught and conquered the British islands.
@@celticscribe7887 Frisians,Swabians, Danes,Norwegians,Swedes, Saxons,Normands...all Germanic and they surely conquered the British isles. And yes, Germanic tribes did the Romans.
@Matthew Sparks Not correct. Germanic tribes sacked Rome. As for Britain.....several Germanic tribes roamed at will for several hundreds of years. Eventually conquered,and civilsed, by the Normans (originated from Norse who had conquered and settled Normandie. Britain is Made by Germans.
I really wish that the history channel would bring back really good history Like this excellent documentary Not like the reality drama shows that they have now they really lost their true origins that used to make them great Thank you guys For making really good historical documentaries
Why? Now you can have a playlist of actual information ready for you to find or get notified on or even recommended. Television was so concerned with commercial and amounted views, RU-vidrs can be that way, but you can find people that teach really well, who have a passion for what they do, strive to get better, instead of personalities and such. I do agree that some channels deserve television like backing and funding and production because they do what they do extremely well but I think television is to slow and unengaged for the human passion, the internet is only a tad bit closer, anyways, always glad to chat with a fellow being interested in the ancient worlds. Have a good one.
it's nearly on par with the modern HC, considering the amount of half baked and poorly substantiated claims they made basically a summary of the usual cliches and common assumptions
The Germanics weren't really known for ambushes as it wasn't their normal conduct of war. The tactic was as far as i know only used against roman legions in some isolated events as a result of disproportionate warfare and under the leadership of roman educated commanders like arminius during the battle of Teutoburg forrest. Otherwise they would field rather large armies and deployed in the boarshead formation (in wedges (due to religious reasons preferably 7) facing the enemy with the chief/ most accomplished warrior at the tip and after performing their war chant they would charge as one. Examples for these can be seen in the earlier clashes with romans e.g. when the teutones and cimbri met them in the alps which coined the term "furor teutonicus" in rome for the centuries to come, or also during their clashes with caesar in gaul. One characteristic was also for infantry soldiers holding onto the manes of the cavalry's horses to speed up their initial charge into battle. In later times after getting familiar with the roman conduct of war they also started to keep a reserve force in the back. The harii where, as far as i know, a special case belonging to one specific tribe that gained infamy by the terror their way of fighting caused but weren't a standard unit deployed by regular armies of other tribes. Probably they became after some earlier clashes some sort of boogyman stories told by legionnaires amongst themselves as it fitted perfectly into their view of Germania being a terrifying dark place.
Your interpretation of ancient European history is a little different than mine. Tactics strategy & logistics evolved. This is true with ancient Teutons. Reliance on wedges worked very well for the Cimbri & their allies until Gaius Marius came around. In the 1st century BC they tried using wedges & shield walls against Romans without success. Teutoburg Forest was the beginning of a new trend. Some 3rd & 4th century examples Late in the 3rd century Gaul was invaded by Franks & Alemanni. They would sleep in the forest during the day & attack by night. This tactic proved very effective. Angles, Saxons, Franks, Heruli & Pict's successfully fought against Romans with naval & maritime tactics. {I realize the Picts were not actually Teutons} Picts also learned & used nighttime & mountain warfare against the Romans. These are some of many examples of how after 9 AD but before 378 AD Northern Europeans successfully used naval, guerilla & maritime tactics against Romans. From 101 BC up until 376 AD it was not wise to fight Romans on land in broad daylight & out in the open. Romans were however vulnerable to other tactics.
@@bixxix3896 Yeah, I know what you mean. A good example would be the stuff Julius Caesar wrote about the Gauls. Although, the Gauls were a Celtic people, not Germanic.
@@hailoweenhailoween5264 same here back to ya, I’ve always loved learning and watching things about native Americans.. rituals, dances, history and knowledge / insight 🤌🖤
Languages, faith, traditions, classes, arts....yes, it's a lie with an agenda to divide us. Look up "Redheads, Skeletons in the Closet" to see more erasure of culture just to follow a narrative and based on being born with a fairer completion. Also interesting to note that Hollywood is constantly erasing redheaded characters and making them dark skinned. 🤔
They don’t talk about Europe lol, I’m completely sure they’re talking about white Americans lol. It wouldn’t make sense because Europe is one of the richest continents of culture
@@hailoweenhailoween5264 I believe I may have some Native American, from what I can remember someone on my mother’s side has some Native American blood but I am currently waiting to do an ancestry test to find out more about my ancestry. The only thing I currently know about it is that most of my heritage on my father’s side is mostly British, Scottish, Irish (my father’s last name is Irish), Welsh, Old Germanic, and Scandinavian. The only thing I know about my mother’s side is mainly French (which turns out my mother’s last name is derived from Old French and that last name is from an Old Germanic name) and I think has a little bit of Italian (I’m not sure), maybe some Native American. I’m not too sure about French Canadian as I found out about an ancestor of mine that migrated from France to Canada and I believe he married a French Canadian woman and then their children I believe migrated to either Louisiana or Maine, which is the state I live in. But my state as well seems to have a lot of French ancestry. This all I know so far but I also found out about another ancestor of mine, my mother’s mother’s biological father. When I did a quick research of his last name I read it originated in England. I am not sure if I have any Northern Irish blood, but like I said I am waiting to do an ancestry test to find out more about my ancestry. This is what I know from relatives about some of my ancestry and the little research I have done. But I am also related to some other last names, one of them also being French as well. I find it fascinating.
@@hailoweenhailoween5264 germans are also to this day very interested in native americans Germans already back then wrote tons of fiction books etc. Native americans are seen as good here
@@xx_azura_xx8899 Wow, you have good blood. I do find scottish & irish culture interesting as well, the whole celtic culture is also similar to Native american culture. Hopefully you find out more about your ancestry.
@@ultimathule3834 Hermann is honored by a gigantic statue in the Teutobeurger Wald. The Germani booted the Romans out. Everywhere they went the Romans faced uprisings.
The Germanic tribes history is really interesting and mythical. It would be great if we had some more info , unfortunately most of the information is coming from the Romans. However I must say that they do not fall within the definition of a Civilization during the Roman and pre-Roman era.
Really? You wouldn't consider Pre-Bronze Age Collapse Germania to be a Civilization either? They were trading with the Greeks thousands of years before Rome existed.
Me: *Does a DNA test. Finds out I’m super German. Finds out my ancestors were of the Germanic tribes. Says to myself “I bet they were peaceful people.” Informative video: Your ancestors were so savage even the Celtics thought they were wack. Me: 👁👄👁
It’s interesting to me how early Germans resisted the Romans for so long, both militarily and culturally. But then the thing that finally assimilated them into becoming Roman… was finally decisively beating the Romans. It’s so odd to me, but hey I guess it makes sense to adapt the ways of a civilization so much more advanced. And without this, I would’ve likely never been born anyways 😅
You're looking at this like all the conflicts involving Romans and Germanic tribes took course over a decade - like it was one war. There would be close to a century or multiple centuries between Germanic tribes in some areas being opposed to a Roman lifestyle to them embracing it.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius general of the armies of the north father to hey murdered son husband to a murdered wife I will have my Vengeance in his life or the next. Sorry y'all I had to quote it off of the movie Gladiator this video today has made me want to watch the movie over again LOL
Even though we live in the present and read such events in history books, but could you actually imagine the fear and trepidation the Roman soldiers felt when they faced the Germanics in a land far away from Rome?
By the fourth century AD, I believe most of the soldiers in the Roman army were actually Germans. So...you would have had Germans fighting against other Germans (a lot of the time).
As always talking about the forest of Teutoburg That ambush was possible because Arminius a Roman knight of Germanic origin convinced Varus , Commander of the three Roman Legions, a lawyer by profession, to follow his plans... with catastrophic results.. End of the first part Second part.. after few years Rome decided to send an expedition to the same place under the command of the great General Germanicus.. the rest it's history.
@@enricomanno8434 Yes, Germanicus was forced to recall to Rome, was assassinated by other Romans and the Rhine would be the border until Germanic warbands would eventually invade, sack Rome and Ravenna and conquer the western half of the empire.
@@LucidWanderer And a part the destruction on the capital of the Roman empire and civilization.. they didn't leave anything that can be related to any form of Civilization As the vandals..
Hi, thanks for making more videos of the type I asked you before. I really apreciate it. I love See u in History, I will be the greatest Historian specialised in Greek and Norse Mythology and it will be thanks to you, your videos and your knowledge about Mythology. Thank you so much
The only European tribe that stood firm against the Romans. The Germanic tribes were basically the European version of The Nubians the only African tribe that also stood firm against The Romans.
The Nubians also managed to successfully invade and overthrow ancient Egypt. It’s interesting because there’s lots of similarities between the Germanic tribes/other barbarian enemy’s of Rome and the Nubians.
@@isaiahrowe8367 Very true bro. There should be major films based on the Ancient Germanic Tribes & Ancient Nubians. EDIT: I would pay good money to watch them.
After some point there was no desire to fully commit for the Germanic lands. Beyond the Rhine the soil produced nothing .People without gold reserves or riches to blunder., people that created a lot of trouble and wouldnt follow the rules They were fights to keep them in check and prevent them from invading the empire but Rome's real desire was always Parthia.
Frisians (nowadays Dutch) where one of the few tribes with the Romans could never defeat. They just didn't see the point of losing so many soldiers for the Frisian lands.
@@vk8812 Baduhenna moment 😎 I'm glad to hear they were wise men. I heard the same about vikings before (8 centuries later yes), that Vikings wanted glory and might but also were afraid to lose their friends. Really beautiful to care for your tribe that much.
Interesting video love Germanic tribe very patriotic to themselves. I am myself from Afghanistan Pashtoon tribe we have very similarities with brave German people no body invade us too
@@ronin7590 that's original 10 points for originality . Our culture go's way back not just 80 years . There's good and bad in everything there is also truth and lies .
@@taftybufty No way. Germany is the AXIS of Evil HAHA and is still the same racist place it was 100 years ago. England on the other hand is EXTREMELY tolerant. Its night and day.
@@ronin7590 And this comes from someone who has never lived in Germany. we all saw how "tolerant" the English are with the Black people and Italians after losing the Euro final. not to mention how they beaten up a Danish father. you guys are massive clowns. 😂😂😂
Those are slavic with the exception of estonians who were finno ugric. History of finnic tribes is basically constant shitshow where different tribes clash continuously.
Sounds like my personality is predetermined by my genetic ancestry: my love for combat and lifting weights, don't care for art (although architecture can be cool) and I live and die for family.
Rome never conqured the Germans... they pretended to in mock marches accross the border and the sacking of useless cities, Octavian lost 3 legions and had his life work ruined by the germans... he smashed his head many times very hard into his solid desk causing himself brain damage for the rest of his life. Octavian is one of my fav history figures... but the Germans smashed rome when it was at its Octavian Peak
@@demonte6582 Please my country voted to invite groups of people, that have a 6x higher likely hood to commit violent crimes than the natives. If we feared other people, why would we do this?
My grandparents were 100% Germanic and so was my mother so I'm about 50% Germanic (which could now be Denmark, Finland and Scandinavian, too), with about 20% British Isles, 10% Spanish, French, Italian (I think from my dad's side). I guess we were warriors cause all my ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War out of Massachusetts. Later they moved westward to the "Connecticut Reserve," which is now Ohio and when I grew up I kept going west and now live in northern California. So I concluded that our genes have an itching to move around and explore. But by this time we have lost the desire to savage and plunder people.
Lol, I concur, I am 50%GERMAN and 50% Scottish, my family came in the 1740's from Germany. We fought in the revolution, and civil war. I MOVE constantly. It's HARD for me to stay longer than 6 mo to a year in one place. I'm an Army Veteran. And I LOVE to FIGHT!!! Not sure how Millennia of Barbarian genes is supposed to be subdued in just 130 years though!!( since the industrial revolution) I ROAR to, which freaks people out😂 I LOOK Fierce, I have the worst case of RBF you've ever seen!
Maybe the two of you have got the wrong impression of how the germanic people of that time actually behaved. They were not just roaring barbarians with the desire to savage and plunder people. You're very much invited to Germany to get to know more about these people by visiting excavation sites and museums.
I'm a bit confused, at first you said the Germans came from the Scandanavian region then soon after said Scandinavians came from Germanic origins. Also according to Neil Gaimens "Norse Mythology" the Norse gods are believed to have been adopted from Germanic people and Odin was called Owo while Thor was named Donar which means thunder?
Proto germanic culture roughly came from lower Scandinavia and North West Germany so essentially after a while the tribes migrated south and split off those that migrated south became the ,franks, frisians, gothi, suebi etc while those that stayed in the North became angles, jutes, Danes, geats. These cultures still shared a very similar pantheon of gods and language but they were still different from each other since some tribes have started to change their language abit due to centuries of word changes. The reason why they're all called germanic is because the romans found them all to be too similar to be different from each other and they just didn't bother trying to know more about the people wearing pants across the river
You confuse germanic with german. Germanic refers to the ancient cultural roots. Germanic people comes from scandinavia and and migrated into Germany and England. All germanic languages comes from proto-germanic. The proto-germanic languages split in different branches. German, Norse and English are all branches of germanic languages. The norse gods where not adopted from germanic people. The proto-germanic words for the gods were Wothanaz, Thunraw, Tiwas et cetera. When german evolved from proto-germanic the name changes to Wotan, Donar et cetera. When the scandinavian languages evolved from proto-germanic the names changes to Oden, Thor, Tyr et cetera. When englisg evolved from proto-germanic the names changed to Woden, Thunor, Tiy et cetera. Do you understand?
Thor the God of rain? Thor is the God of Thunder, war and fertility. He created thunder and lightning as he rode over the clouds in a chariot drawn by goats, swinging his hammer Mjöllnir. Thor was physically strong and with his weapon Mjöllnir could do battle with the evil giants who lived in Jötunheimar.
germanic, gauls, and celts belong to R1b haplogroup in contrast to Vikings and Slavonic people of R1a haplogroup. Scandinavians couldn't be germanic prototribes. Get into recent genetic studies.
And also r1a of Vikings and Scandinavians comes from battle axe culture were as r1a of Slavs comes from the Scythian culture it doesn’t mean they are Slavs anyway
The Germanics still exist today, and they are called: German people(Austrians included) Dutch people(Boers included) Flemish people Swedish people Norwegian people Danish people Icelandic people English people Frisians people
It is Germani, not Germanics. They had LAWS and were no barbarians. The rotten morals of the Romans caused much upheaval, the Romans sacrificed Gaulish man and woman by burying them alive on the forum Boarii in Rome. In the pictures featured in this video supposedly depicting Germani are actually Celts or Gauls blowing upon their trumpets.
DEAR SEE YOU: I THINK YOU MEANT DEPOSED NOT DISPOSED! ALSO, WHY GO THE LATIN WAY WITH HARII & THEN GO THE ROMAN ALPHABET WITH THE LAST "I". HARI-EE! THE H IN THOR IS SILENT= TOR!
I just want to make something clear. Many people talk about the Germanic’s as “Germans”. But there is a huge difference! Germanics were the ancient people who lived in modern day Germany, Poland, Czechia, Austria, Denmark and in the Netherlands. The German people are not 100% Germanic! The eastern and southern you get it is only 30% percent Germanic on average and in the north 40-50% on average. In Australia you have an average of 25-35%. So the German people are not Germanic. They’re a mix of Germanic, Slavic, Celtic and a bit of Balkan. So the Germanics are not the Germans. And the Germanics were not confined to Germany. So technically a bohemian could be proud of his Germanic ancestors
"They inhabited Germania, a large region dominated by Romans." @ 39sec. Are you sure? We are off to a rocky start. I don't think I will bother. I thought it was going to be anti-Saxonist propaganda.
You can distinct different kinds of ''white'' of you look at DNA. Germanic (North European) DNA has his distinct characteristics. Just like Slavic people have this. People from the middle-east or even from the Mediterranean. It's to simplistic to just make a difference between white and black. There are many more variations. The nordic European variations often had blond hair, blue eyes. Tall posture etc. Slavic people tend to be more short but very powerful. Just like people from west Africa have more genetic advantage to build upper body muscle and Africans from western Africa (Ethiopia for example) have very dark skin with legs build to run long distances. In every ''race'' there are distinctions and different groups you can identify. It has nothing to do with racism and everyone has equal value of course. But to say white is one race.. this is just to simplistic.
Rome never laid claim over the Celts, they were close but they could not do it or they gave up on it because it was so far away and so expensive so they build there wall. Hadrians wall.
Celts lived in more places than just the British Isles. The vast majority of Celtic lands came under Roman rule, only the Celts of Ireland and Scotland were never subjugated.
Germanic is a race. The face structure and D-N-A proves this. And for those who refuse to face the reality: go to Wikipedia and search "germanic tribes" and click on the picture of the Suebi germanic warrior and look at his face structure There. End of discussion
They weren’t a civilization, they became civilized after the Roman Empire fell and they started living and acting like Romans. They went on to larp as the Holy Roman Empire
@@CHOP181095 as a german raised in America, I'm pretty sure I'm teutonic. Just wondering If suebians and teutons have different physical traits? I have a large nose and brown hair, and am also tall for being 13 currently
@@Ike_AW Well never forget that genetics still exist and over thousands of years people married people from outside. Tribes became cities, or even states and countries. My grand father came from Prussia for example. I'm sure that back then most people had different traits as well. Some people in a tribe had blond hair and some brown hair, some were taller than others so far and so on.
Oh sorry I made a mistake. In the part where I wrote the Germanic dna of Austria my autocorrect put Australia. As a very patriotic Austrian my heart bleeds 😢😂
7:01 the statement that the Norse Gods had their origin in Germanic origin is debated. Given how the Germanic tribes originally came from Scandinavia it is likely that the Gods came from there too.
@@Khasidon The Humanity came from africa and traveled to the North. They took there Mythology to the North and Not from the North to the South. Think about it. Odin came from Thrakia. The whole Mythology from the North is Germanic. But the Germanics was forced to Christianity and there Story was deleted. Only Skandinavia and Iceland survived from the great Germanic empire.
@@lakawerke7883 Dude you are talking about some very different time periods. We came from Africa 40.000 years ago. We are talking of the late iron age to vikingage. Jesus Christ read a book. There was no "great Germanic Empire". lol.
@@Khasidon Our History was deleted from Christianity. You can read all books of the world. It doesn't matter, when all is deleted and the only source are our Ancestors and Germanic poems. Go and eat your book.