The Migration Period: How Europe was Born 

Information here is highly incorrect. The dates are all mixed up too

This is far too oversimplified. The Goths the ancestors of the spanish? really so i guess they wiped out the entire native population of Iberia. Simplifying things is fine but this gives the wrong picture of actual history. This example works with every region and people mentioned here.

The ancestors of the Spanish did not come from Sweden. People who contributed a tiny bit to the ancestry of the Spanish came from Sweden. There is a vast difference.

Was this thing put together by ChatGPT? I think a historian would hardly recognize it.

The byzantines were not called Byzantines until much later. They considered themselves the Roman Empire.

Nicely made but some information too rough and some other even wrong. The worst wrong information was that the Goths had not been defeated by the Byzantines, which of course had been the case. When the Lombards came to Italy, they defeated the Byzantines, not the Goths. The Lombards had not at all been "invited" but moved away from the Avars.

0:49 The romans called the outsiders barbarians? I don't think so. The term barbarian was WIDELY used by greeks to define anyone NOT speaking the (ancient) greek language a really long time before even the Roman Republic was formed, let alone the Roman Empire...

I thought Greeks formed word barbarian and Romans adopted it

Stilico moved the capitol not from Rome to Ravenna but from Milan to Ravenna as the western court had already moved away from Rome during the establishment of the tetrarchy in 286 and then was moved to Ravenna in 395

It all started when portal from Hyperborea was opened by druids of the night

The Saxons did not come from Normandy to England

Saying the Europeans are the decedents of barbarians got so many barbaric reactions

And this doesn't even go into the probably even crazier chaos that was going on in central-eastern Europe.

Great video! Really informative and easy to understand. Enjoyed learning about Europe's origins. Thanks for sharing!

The video is maybe not perfect, but its simply interesting to see the wanderings of the nations and the changes so animated. One thing disturbs me a little bit. At 00:17:33 the video says, the Magyars came and they called their new country "Hungary". Magyars called their country Magyarország and not Hungary. Only later, English speaking people gave Magyarország the name Hungary.

The Cimbri invaded with the Teutones 6 decades before Caeser annexed Gaul but you have it Gaul showing Roman Red on your incorrect map.

Absolutely a perfect introduction to this important but mostly unknown period possibly due to its complexity. Great intro

Saying that the Visigoths are the ancestors of the Spanish is a bit reductive

Nice depiction but many historical errors. Roman Empire didn't fall officially in 476 AD. Western Roman Empire only fell. Roman empire finally fell in 1453. Also the Byzantines or better call them Eastern Romans had a tough time but eventually defeated the Ostrogoths and didn't invite the Lombards to defeat the Ostrogoths.

Yes there are serious inaccuracies in this video, as people mention all over the comments, but that makes the topic so much more graspable than real deep history. I'd tell it in this manner to a beginner, for whom the video apparently is. It's better to create a vague idea of how Europe came to be than to not understand the process at all or giving up while trying. Great video.

So much stuff is wrong.

You failed to mention the Edgar Allan Poe Goths

How did they all get around without cars, trucks and autobahns? Horses or on foot? Amazing!

Where are Tracians,Dacians Avars and many more?

This is not how the Roman empire fell and its funny how suddenly a mysterios large state called "Byzantine" empire appears in your video without any explanation and how it suddenly changed not just name but also its original color...

Many of these migrations were mainly just the ruling military class-men. The peasants generally remained, especially the females, and outnumbered the warrior classes which were constantly swapping leadership.

rome basically became a patchwork of different barbariab kingdoms who in time became institutionalized hence "creating" europe on the frameworks of the romans

As a Dutch historian I'm amazed how wrong this video is. I must congratulate the person who got so many mistakes in such a short video. 😢

It’s crazy that we, in our little slice of time, also believe our great civilizations will last for a thousand years. So many things change and will change

Excellent channel Need more views Keep at it

The term "barbarian" was not coined by the Romans but from the Greeks who thought of anyone who did not speak Greek as a barbarian cause their language sounded to them as "bar bar bar"

No mention of the Avars?

fabulous illustration ! make another for the rise and fall of byzantine empire too!

"Magyar people called their country Hungary" Wrong! Western nations call it Hungary . The Magyar call their country ""Magyarország"

There may be inaccuracies in this video, but it shows the chaos of the time very well. Imagine living in this dystopian world.

Only the spaniards of visigoth descent originated from Sweden, native Spaniards are celtiberian and basque heavily influenced by Greek and Roman culture.

What's the source of the story? PRESENT THE SOURCE !!!!

The Roman Empire did not fall till the 1453

Meanwhile the Balts: popcorn and chill.

The Byzantine is actually Eastern Roman Empire. Byzatine is a Reneissance term. The roman enpire fell in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople by the Otoman empire. They never called themselfs byzantine, but romans. Towards the end they spoke more greek than latin but still called themselfs roman not byzantine. Only the people from Bizantium(later named Constantinople) called themselfs bizantins, and only while the city was named that.

Hi, so the 7 Magyar clans who migrated along with turkic kavars into the lands of the Moravians started to call themselves Hungarians? I don’t think that the Magyars would use the English word Hungarian rather than their own name for themselves. History written in English always gets the names wrong every time, languages are just too hard for islanders!

Except the fact that Serbs (and most other "Yugoslavs") are only about 30% Slavic. The most dominant haplogroup present among them is L2A, meaning they are mostly Proto-Europeans dating back to Vinča and Starčevo cultures.

Greeks said "PAS MI ELLIN VARVAROS" not the Romans "historian" boy

3:00 that wasn't the first time Germanics were settled in Roman lands. Caesar's conquests in Gaul ~60-50BC showed us this. There were many, many Germanic tribes living west of the Rhine, and there were many many more tribes who moved from east to west of the Rhine to join the newly emerging Empire (from the ashes of the Republic) post Gallic Wars and assimilate into the much more powerful and orderly Roman culture long before the Marcomannia.

The graphics are very cool, and I like the concept, but... that's not quite what I was taught and learned from books. Germanic and German should not be used interchangeable, it's two different things. And the migration and locations of the different tribes... there are more tribes and some things therefore rather amiss, shortcuts turning it inaccurate. And there are some rather important details, that might be able to change the viewpoint and the narrative: Like Theoderic the Great being raised at the emperial court and an eastern-roman officer SENT by the emperor to get rid of Oduacer. Theoderic the Great might not have been aware he would be considered a barbarian, afterwards. He certainly primarily thought, as a magister militum he was a Roman officer, that perchance also was a member of the Amal-Clan, and could use his relationship to their royal line to lead the Goths as a sort of 'private army' into battle - to the purpose of his emperial fostering sister's husband. AND you left out the major role christianity played in it. Along the limes the 'western roman state' was still run by bishops as a sort of theocracy. These bishops presiding over a staff of religious state administrators, that often were organized in religious monkish (and therefore non-self-procreating) orders, and always ready to mission their barbaric 'foreigh mercenaries' were still answerable to their pontifex-maximus (after all a former religious imperial office) in Rome.

First seconds "ancestors of spaniards came from sweden". Stopped, commented this, and now i'm leaving.

While there are some inaccuracies, its a good reminder that the idea that some particular people or another "stole" land from another, is nothing but splitting hairs over some particular era in history. Taking land has been the norm of history.

I always have a hard time understanding this topic, specially in the iberic peninsula where im from. Because we barely have germanic dna, how did it work? They just happen to fled the huns and other threats there and then settled with the locals? How was the percentage of germanic compared to them? How far in the roots are they in portuguese dna? in a dna test I get 20% france area, 66 iberia and 6 magrhebi (arab invasion or ancient migration?), but dont know if that refers to much older history migrations, celts or this

The Capital of west Roman Empire After Rome was Milan and After Milan Ravenna .

This video is accurate! I'm Brazilian from Minas Gerais and my DNA showed a mutation of the CCR5 gene that is only common among Swedes (Suebi tribe). My Brazilian boyfriend also have the same mutation, we are descendent of the Suebi who make the modern Portuguese people you see today.

The Angles came from modern day Germany as did the Saxons. The Jutes came from modern day Denmark

Amazing video however there are slight mistakes For example the Magyars did not name their state Hungary but Magyarország Basically everyone around them calls them Magyars except for the Germans which call them variations of Hungary and Hungarians which stuck around

The ancestors of the English weren't Danish or far from exclusively. All parts of the now UK were already populated and established for 1000s of years, then came the Romans and then they left, then the Angles, Saxons, and a handful of Jutes, THEN came the Danes and Norweigans with a centuries later follow up of francized Northmen. Now we just get endless boatloads of Africans and Asians like the rest of Europe.

A bit of research would not harm you! it's INCORRECT!

Thank god youtube added misinformation reporting. Almost 15 years on youtube and i've only used it twice

PLEASE REDO THE VIDEO WITH ACCURATE INFO, THE FORMAT IS SO GOOD AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND ❤

I echo what other comments have said, but I like the design, model and flow. Just change the music!

Thumbnail looks like your average game of Kaisereich

it is not just about the Angels (English) from Danmark, but also the German Saxons that were ruling in Briton

Jezzusss!! Is there any single accurate data in this video??

Spain didn't exist when the Visigoths went to the Iberian Peninsula, it was a region of The Roman empire called Hispania. Only many centuries later in 1490 with the unification of most catholic kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula is when Spain started, using a name inspired by what the Romans called their province Hispania. With this being said, there's a common misconception I want to clear up. Spain (a kingdom founded in around 1490) is not the same as Hispania (Province of the Roman Empire) in between both many different kingdoms and civilizations existed.

Subscribed for part 2. ;)

Looks like your channel is starting to get a bit of the recognition it deserves! keep it up, great videos!

yeah, you started pretty badly. Most of the ancestors of brits, spaniards etc already lived there, the invaders were a small % of the populations they conquered.

Whoa, no mentions of Illirians nor Albanians in this video. Someone will be so upset and pissed up 😂😂😂😂

The people of Illyria and so on whom were displaced and forced to speak different slavic languages the migrations displaced a lot of people and their languages and sadly it invited turks to exist outside of central asia

Magyars named their land "Hungary" : )))))

It's amazing how many tribes were here and there

the video is not just inaccurate and over simplified, it's oftentimes plainly wrong and often based on unproven theories or even nationalistic propaganda pushed as truth, while ignoring completely genetics, linguistical proof or even historical records that don't don't agree with the narrative that's being propagated. also, total eradication of a population never happened, and there is no spot in Europe that remained empty of population in its entire history. most of these migrations were simply the moving of a militarized ruling class, that was often happy to levy taxes and retain influence while interfering very little with the local population that was oftentimes demilitarized and relied on the ruling class for protection. of course, raids, plunder and pillage happened occasionally and also, when we really had massive migrations (like the Slavic ones), cultural merging and spread of language took place over extended periods of time.

Who were the Vandals? Were they responsible for the word, "vandalism?"

Brilliant 😍 one of the Bestest 😀😮

The "Byzantines" DID defeat the Ostrogoths.

Are you re-writing history or what?

Do one for Asia please!

It's incorrect not the Romans but the Greeks call all population non Greek or which not have Greek language culture or heritage as Barbarian

Nice maps but utter misinformation

Muito bom! É uma pena que esse canal tenha poucas visualizações, os vídeos são muito bons, a edição, narração assuntos é quase perfeito. 👍

It is a misnomer to call “Germans” the ancient peoples of the land the Romans called “Germania”, a name invented by Julius Caesar for political reasons at home. As was the case in those times, each tribe had a strong identity of its own and had no notion of being “germanic”. On the other hand, they did share dialects that were very close to each other (proto-germanic) as well as a common religion. The term “German” can only really be used after around 1870, when Otto von Bismarck united many of the German-speaking states into Prussia, which would later be assimilated to “Germany”. In antiquity, “germanic tribes” or “germanic nations” would be a better name for these fiercely independent peoples. - The same can be said of the Slavic tribes they before they formed the various Slavic nations we know today.

This was made and narrated by A.I. I'd set my watch and warrant on it.

Did you mention the gepids..?

- da beat please... I didn't even the story cause I was dancing.. 😅

Everyone today can create his own history...

I dont quite understand how army movements correlate with settlement of areas. For example, the video states that after defeat in Galia those armies took sanctuary in Spain and turned into Alani, Suebi and other tribes. Were the armies marching with all their women and children?

Very interesting, it’s high level but it is not wrong. Just notice that the Catalaunic fields are in northeast France (Champagne) and the Burgundians were coming from the island of Bornholm. So most of the northern barbarians were Scandinavians.

It is called the "Βαρβαρικές Εισβολές" Barbaric invasions.

Those "ancestors" where a small marauding band ! They where absorbed by the local populas !!

It is a fact proven by geneticists that Scythians, Hungarians, Huns, and Avars are one and the same people.

Never take a history lesson from an American. Their sense of the past is just yesterday.

If one rally wants to answer the question "how Europe was born" needs to start with Lepenski Vir and Vinca/Starcevo cultures, 7000-8000y old, mostly on the territory of today's Serbia.

Now I understand more about European history

The Bretons recruited the Jutes to help them fight against raids from the Picts after the Romans left...is actually what all the history books say happened !!!

Byzantines didnt just suddenly appear. Thats the eastern half of the romN empire, survived after a fashion for almost 1000 years

Incorrect information

If everything you describe about the Goths was true, there should have been some archeological traces that they were in these lands,around the Black Sea, but there are none. If you replace the name Goths with Getae, the picture becomes more accurate.

Avars completely left out.

Hun Enpire broke into Avar Khanate and what would later be called Old Great Bulgaria. Bulgarians are not Turkic, but the first slavic people to form a kingdom, invented Cyrillic and gave the culture to all Eastern Europe, also perhaps the first Christians in Europe (alongside the Romans). The Bulgarian Tsar (Emperor) Simeon is the first ruler in the world the Romans bestowed the title to, coming from Caesar, then to be spread to all Eastern Europe with the language and culture. Old church slavonic is old bulgarian, as the bulgarian church is the first slavic church, and also the patron saints of other nations came to study in Veliko Turnovo to spread the alphabet and religion to their kingdoms. Given these, and that that Bulgaria is the oldest country in Europe, it is not small details to be overlooked, amidst the other generalisations in this video. You’re welcome :)

some of your borders and time period borders are inaccurate and sucky, but the overall video is solid, but not good.

As a Spanish let me put this straight. The sentence "the Spaniards are descendants from people from Sweden" is fallacious. Indeed the Visigoths are believed to come from there after a series of migrations, but the statement is nothing far but wrong. It is believed that the Visigoths arrived at Hispania around the beginning of the 5th century but they were around 150.000 and 350.000 people, of which a significant proportion were military combatants. The romans called the VI legio Gemina out of Hispania before that, and the peninsula was mostly demilitarized by the time the goths arrived. The goths came under roman authorities pledge and permission, to deal with the vandals, alans and other tribes who occupied several regions in Hispania, and with imperial consent they were designed to rule Hispania under viceroyalty. However, Hispania was populated by then by 5 to 7 (other authors claim more) million hispano-romans, the Visigoths were just demographically assimilated, despite they conformed the ruling elite for 2+ centuries. Do we spanish have visigothic ancestry? Of course we have. But it's a big thing to say that modern spaniards come from swedish ancestry. But our main ancestry pool comes from romans. That's why spanish, portuguese, italians, most of french and even modern greeks look very similar. Then we have the Arabs, but again, despite they conformed the ruling class, the majority back then was still from hispano roman and a bit of visigothic origin. And most muslims arriving in Hispania were in fact descendants from the old north african roman provinces, with a little arab blending. Then we have that in XVI century all remaining muslims and convert were expelled from Spain & Portugal (something of a mistake, along with jewish expulsion, because they were highly educated people and contributed a lot to the kingdom's wealth) So to summarize, modern spanish have a lot of different spice, but the main ingredient still comes from the mediterranean, Hellenistic-Roman crisol.

The video is obviously great and well-edited, and it shows how European nations formed, but why not clarify Byzantium was just the Roman Empire and why suggest the whole Roman Empire fell in 476?

Thank you 🙏