This is really historically inaccurate and dishonest. It falsely alludes that Europeans invented slavery when it existed before modern times, and the Arab slave trade predated the European slave expeditions in Africa by centuries.
This is really historically inaccurate and dishonest. It falsely alludes that Europeans invented slavery when it existed before modern times, and the Arab slave trade predated the European slave expeditions in Africa by centuries.
It doesn't "allude that" at all 😂 He just states when the beginning of the African Slave trade starts, which is an incredibly important historical era.
I ALWAYS want more from your channel. I fall asleep to you every night. This time line is amazing, but I do hope you elaborate more on all these stories
Can we all just take a second to applaud Medieval Madness for not changing his videos to be full of AI generated images like so many other creators of this stuff do now. Its so much better knowing you are looking at real images that took time to research and know you're listening to a reap voice. So much of this stuff now on RU-vid is just full of lazy AI generated generic images of people with a generic AI voice and i don't know about you but i find that to be heavy uncanny valley when watching and it puts me off instantly. This is still so professional compared to all that stuff. Well done.
@@plugshirt1762 the narrator is real, the pictures are real. I don't mind a little AI in pictures, heck it's so much quicker and easier. But when a video is full of those slightly off AI pictures of faces which you can spot instantly it really takes me out of the video. There's something just now quite right about them and to me it's so obvious and a bit creepy. I'm glad this creator hasn't went down that road because it's so much easier and cheaper at the expense of the audience.
European Christians might have started buying and selling Africans in Portugal as you mentioned, but African and Middle Eastern Muslims had been buying and selling Africans for hundreds of years before that.
Man it’s insane to think that we only know these by transcripts imagine all of the other stories and transcripts that are lost that we would never know
New style of video! I have always enjoyed your focus on a particular subject, but in no way do I think this installment is inferior. Great, concise overview! Cheers 🎉
This was actually a really awesome video. I could appreciate you going more into detail on each topic, but for what it was, (and I think what it was going for..)- just a timeline to sort of put things in perspective, it was very good. Great way to contextualize these events we've learned about, and kind of all know happened around the "Middle Ages." But centuries are incredibly difficult for the human brain to put into context.
You know it’s Anglo-centric when Alfred the Great is mentioned but the conquest of Granada (and most of Spain) is completely ignored. Extra points for acknowledging the Aztecs, though.
Wow, a lot of information about a kind of "black hole" in my history. Some basic building blocks there that established the West as we know it today. The voiceover has a kind of pedestrian quality, as if running through a list of grocery items. However, I very much appreciate the fast and efficient summary format.
Such an excellent episode! A few comments are negative, not seeing it for what it is. It was so informative as an overview and I’ll be re-watching. Thanks from a long-time subscriber!
I love this channel. I just subscribed. I start looking for the new videos on Thursday and am always pleased when I see I new one posted. I have learned a lot from watching the videos. Cheers!
Going into my "Saved" videos pile on RU-vid, and I will transcribe it shortly. It is just so handy and complete a reference to keep nearby when reading historical books to be able to place events in their right place. I'd love to see one which places great works of art into their right historical place, in addition to musical artists -- that would be massively interesting and handy as well. Thanks again -- been a fan from the start, and suspect I will be here until the bitter end of all the madness!
Great. I just discovered this. Finally a rare score for the RU-vid algorithm. I love the format. Im 62 and from the UK. I would have been so much more interested in history with this kind of presentation. More please!
I think that the battle of Aljubarrota should’ve been mentioned, it’s a very important battle of the medieval ages and allows the exploration age to be what it was with Spain and Portugal
536 is considered the worst year ever to be alive in history, and it continued for the decade of the 540s. Leif Erickson sailed to Greenland in the year 1000. The chimney was invented in 1100. Johann Gutenberg made it possible to have modern-day things like radios, TVs, computers, the Internet, smartphones and WiFi. Christopher Columbus discovered America to make the whole world in contact with each other for the first time, and America is definitely a continent, not a country. We can be distant descendants of Charlemagne. Because of low life expectancy from wars, famines and disease, I am so glad to live now in the 21st century. I love history and I get fascinated by videos like this.
Great video! A little remark: You mentioned that the house of Habsburgs was "producing kings of croatia, spain, portugal and hungary among others" but you forgot to mention austria even though the house of habsburg is also known as the house of austria.
@@Fitness4London Fun Fact: Alfred the Great is the only English King to be called "Great", but he was not King of England (which is not considered to have begun until 927 under Aethelstan) and Cnut the Great is the only King of England to be called "Great" although he was a Danish King and not English.
I really enjoyed this episode. It's rare to find anyone who includes global civilizations external to Europe in medieval history. I am curious to know how you feel about 'Pope Joan.' I know that *common* historical texts exclude her as a possibility, but there are too many oddities in the papal authentication practices to totally exclude it.
He also left out the Battle of Manzikert of 1071 in which the ERE were defeated, The Navas de Tolosa of 1212, 1204 Sack of Constantinople during the 4th Crusade, The Great Schism of 1054, etc. Otherwise great video.
I always thought that Medieval times ended Aug 22, 1485 with the death of Richard III at Bosworth. I guess it depends on which historian you listen to. Great job and thanks for posting this video. 👍
The format is great, and it's a good basis for understanding a lot of medieval events. However, I feel that the selection of dates is a bit strange at times. The exploration of the Western European timeline is generally good (the Moorish invasion of Spain would've been relevant to mention, as well as the Cathar civil war and the Viking explorations over the Atlantic), but the video glosses over a lot of significant events in the East or Central Europe; a few examples: the invasions of the Huns, Magyars and Mongols into Europe; a lot of significant Byzantine events are ignored; if I had to pick one, the 1204 Sack of Constantinople is probably one of the top 10 most significant events in medieval history. The 1299 Fall of Acre, ending the Crusader presence in the Holy Land, also significant, as was the fall of Jerusalem in 1187. I'm not saying non-European history is insignificant, but just mentioning the Aztec Empire and some Japanese novel is a bit odd too. The Inca Empire was also significant, for one thing.
I know you had just 15 minutes to cover a thousand years of worldwide history, and you did a splendid job. So I know, something like this, you can only pick the highlights. I would have chosen the Nika Revolt in 536, where political tensions united the people of Constantinople against Justinian, who was on the verge of fleeing when his wife, Theodora, talked him into standing up to the crowd, which resulted in the slaughter of maybe 30,000 citizens at the Hippodrome. That event salvaged everything Justinian accomplished, from kind of reuniting the Roman Empire to his codified laws which you mentioned, and it kept the Byzantine Empire going, which survived until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, which again you mentioned. Had Justinian abdicated, the remnants of the Roman Empire would have died with him. Some scholars, believing the Byzantines continued the Roman Empire right up to the dawn of the Renaissance, believe Rome in all its forms lasted over 2000 years; had the Nika Revolt been successful, that would have been shortened to about half that.
I really enjoyed this. I did find myself wanting to stop the narrative and click on a link for more information about the current event and what happened next; for example, the Black Death lead to the end of feudalism (not enough workers left to support the feudal system). Don't get me wrong, I'm thoroughly enjoying this, and want more!
1071 - Manzikert should also be in the video. This battle meant the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire, which lost control of the Middle East. One of the major triggers for the First Crusade 20 years later.
One of the first assignments of my bachelor study in history was to create a timeline of important events. Only to show that it is completely random and meaningless without such things as a clear goal, scope and selection criteria.
If this interests you, there's a GREAT book called "Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages" by Frances and Joseph Gies that all will LOVE. A most fascinating book and one of my faves.
1492 the Portuguese Empire dies, we never recovered from this. Spain hated the Portuguese and slowly banned the nobility till we had to fight for indepence and restart the kingdom but we were never as powerful as we once were. :(
Thanks so much - If you want to know more I just finished reading The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan which is wonderful history lesson covering many of the events hinted at here
Schwerpunkt is a real history channel who has hundreds of hours of quality content for anyone who wishes to really learn something about all kinds of different facets of the past. I strongly recommend him to anyone who seeks any meaningful knowledge about the medieval period.
WOW!!!! I actually learned something new! 1088 was the first university, that also hired a female lecturer! That's HUGE!! Even if she had to wear a veil!
How the hell is a Japanese book from the 11th century the "first novel?" What about all the epics of Homer, Virgil, and Ovid? How are those not "novels?"
@@robinjohansson6604 Then all novels are "something like poems." The ones I'm talking about are each 15,000 lines long and divided into chapters to tell a long, complex story. They just happen to be metered. How is that not a novel? Try again.
@@tuckerprice5521 There are grey areas here and while you could say the epic poems you refer to are similar to novels, they have conventions of their own that many people think distinguish them from novels. For one thing, novels are normally thought of as works of prose. Ancient works of prose fiction do exist, such as Chariton's Callirhoe, Petronius' Satyricon and Apuleius' Metamorphoses, all believed to have been written in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. They are often referred to by literary scholars as novels and therefore predate The Tale of Genji by several centuries.
I mean he talks about the Ottomans, Japan, China, Italy, etc. and even one courtesy Aztec reference. But yes, a lot of medieval history tends to focus on Britain and France haha.
My very first term paper in the 9th grade was...The Middle Ages! I hadn't even read Morte d'Artur. I thought Classics Illustrated (Search For The Grail) and The World Book Encyclopedia would be sufficient. I hand-wrote the final draft in cursive in blue ink, both of which are now triggers (I only write in block capitals in black ink).
You know Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth or Commonwealth of Two Nations as it is properly known was created in a Renaissance period in 1569, the unions between Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania like does in 1385 or 1413 didn't merge it into a single state unlike the 1569
The Mongols actually only had the largest connected empire, the Magna Carta actually was annulled soon after. The Habsburg family only became highly relevant from the mid-15th century. Worth mentioning also about the slave trade that about an estimated 90% of these slaves were bought from African kings. No mal intend. Good video.
The first modern western novel was written by Stendahl: "Scarlet and Black". published in 1830 It is also the best novel ever written... If you find any English translations titled "Red and Black" they are second rate translations. The standard English translation of Stendhal's classic has long been that of Margaret Shaw (1953), still available in the Penguin Classics edition. And it's still the best, by far. I highly recommend it... You can find used copies of it on the internet.
732 the Battle of (edit:) Poitiers (not “Tours”, but argument stays the same) must not be omitted in an overview like this. Decisive moment because it stopped the Muslim conquest of Europe beyond the Pyrenees. Maybe you just can’t pack 1000 years into 15 minutes.
Very nicely packaged, with consistent visuals and clear narratives. The Ming and Aztec entries seemed discordant. I don't think the Middle Ages were a thing in China or America. If there were a similar 1,000 year history of America, I would watch it. You have the Anazi, Aztecs, Maya and Inca. I think it would be harder to research but . . .
Alfred did not rule a united England. Alfred was king of Wessex, Kent and had de facto rule over Mercia. East Anglia and Northumbria were not under Alfred control. The consolidation of England under a single king wouldn't happen until his grandson Aethelstan.
Grouping 1,000 years together into 1 'period' we call The Middle Ages is merely a historical convention. For it to be a 'middle', we had to designate stuff at either end of it that we're particularly interested in: Fall of Rome, and Renaissance. But just as much happened between those bookends as did during any 1000 years you'd care to name.
3:16 Hold on the Vikings killed “Russians”? According to Frankopan and many others, if I understood this correctly, in the 8th and 9th century there are no Russians there, yet, but rather, the Vikings who first raided and then settled in Eastern Europe would _become_ the Kievan Rus, and they killed and enslaved _Slavic_ peoples. Could you explain what you mean?
@@tochukwuifeanacho3843 No, I don’t think so. The Rus‘ aren‘t Slavic, but Norse. Not in the time we are talking about. (Dark ages ‘till the founding of the Rus state in 862. Only later would the Norse melt together with the Slavs.
