Why everyone in 900 AD was Scared of Tunisia | The Life & Times of Ibrahim II 

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And as it usually goes, "and then he died".

The art you did at the beginning of the video of the saracen holding a whip looks similiar to ck3

Love this channel

I love that guy, such a waste that he ended so quickly

Man I was really rooting for him.

*saw the plan At that point, it was much simpler to just take that army and torch the caliphate.

Was not expecting my city to be in this video

15 perfectly good tenderloins go to waste. Cannibalism perfect.

Ibrahim II was a true CK2 player.

Abbasid Caliphate: Alright buddy, come to Baghdad, we need a word with you. Ibrahim II: Okay sure Caliphate: So you're just gonna march through Egy- *DID YOU DECLARE WAR ON BYZANTIUM?!* Ibrahim II: * S C R E A M I N G *

You just gave Paradox the idea to add an impossible Ibrahim II achievement to Crusader Kings III "Conquer every Italian state, sack Rome, capture Constantinople before the Caliph's invitation ends"

Just imagine if he had achieved that monster of a plan...

That was the most anticlimactic ending of a tyrannical conquerer I have ever seen

This guy's neck and neck with Atilla for the "Biggest Blue Balls from an apocalyptic invasion" award

Abbasid Caliphate: "Alright Ibrahim...we would like you to come to Baghdad to have a word with you..." Ibrahim II: "Okay, sure...but excuse me for my tardiness..." Caliphate: "Okay, just come through Egypt and...*DEAR ALLAH, ARE YOU INVADING THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE?!?*" Ibrahim II: * at the top of his lungs * *"LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY JEEEENKIIIIIINS!"*

wow, and i thought executing and replacing the entire aristocracy in CK2 was really ahistorical and impractical, especially the times where i cause my entire country to revolt against me and then won by merc spamming them to death. then i find out somebody actually did that in real life.

Just imagine if Ibrahim II had succeeded in his grand plan beyond what he did in our timeline. The Caliph would have probably teamed up with the Christian powers to try and stop him.

Rackham: “Grains of salt all around!” Me: well, they are in Carthage...

Crusader Kings players when they get bored of a good guy run

Well, that was a disappointing ending...

>massive plans >dies at step 1 R E L A T A B L E

The Danse Macabre during that description of the military campaign at the end was a really nice touch

This guy's life sounds like he was being controlled by a ck2 player

I feel especially bad for Ibrahim's cousin who got killed because of a positive work performance review.

‘The Oregon Trail: Abbasid Caliphate’ expansion snuck in at the end there

Wait for Murad III, the real Tunisian ivan the terrible

"Since I'm guessing 9th century Tunisia isn't a topic most of you are familiar with..." (seethes in Geonim of Kairouan)

A mad lad with a mad plan that if it had worked...probably would have made him as famous as Alexander.

Thanks to Ibrahim's wild ride to Sicily the Aghlabids unable to mounted any proper defence after his death causing severe demoralization and in quick sweep the whole North Africa came under the new overlordship, known as Fatimid caliphate. Congrats Ibrahim you still pissing the Abbasids even after you already dead.

Hey, i'm Tunisian 🙃 And his story relfects the stae of us today, we can become better but we give up halfway😔

The fact that the caliphate reached up to Iberia is something people seem to forget all the time, but it’s almost an incredible thing to think about.

The dark humour is strong with this one. I really appreciate that.

Finally Tunisia getting some appreciation

"Get ready for some more niche history!" Excellent. That's what I'm here for!

10:56 Okay, given the fact that I'm pretty sure that if the Muslims ever managed to land a significant army in Italy, I'd have heard of it, I think it's safe to assume that this guy dies in Sicily Edit: Yep turns I was completely right to think that lol

I believe the correct expression to an ending like that is "I want my money back"

You should do a video on Justinian II his story is pretty crazy.

"why the head" when the massive history nerd channel talking about niche conquerors doesn't know about head cheese.

And that ending is why this is "niche history" instead having this guy grouped with Ivan the Terrible, Genghis Khan, and Attila the Hun.

Think you could do Olga of Kiev? I think her story is really damn impressive (yeah I have already commented this but nothing wrong with double whammy, right?)

Tunisia: are you dead ? Person: No Tunisia: Would you like to be?

Hey Jack, could you go make a video on Roeland (The commander to Charlemagne) I think you will enjoy it.

Not first but I'm happy to watch a video this early and that's all that matters

God, imagine if at that stage Ibrahim was able to make it to North Italy, the Frankish response could’ve led to the crusades happening earlier. Excellent battle scene animation btw!

The Ck3 character are actually a really good idea for stand-ins of obscure or little mentioned characters.

90% of the time you gotta expect at least a lil dysentery to pop up in these medieval stories

Well as a Tunisian, I personally encourage every Historical tyrant lovers to read more about Murad/Mourad III Bey of Tunis from 1698 to 1701, he is known as Murad Bou Bala, Bala was the turkish name of some sword(because he used to try it every morning on someone), the legend says that when he came to power after a civil war, he pulled his own uncle (with whom he had some different) out of his grave to shoot him with his musket. He invaded the deylik of Algiers (modern day Algeria) which has been annoying us since half a century beat them and sacked Constantine and them he was about to annex it (there was an ancient claim of Tunisia on both Constantine region and Tripolitania which were part of the country, in fact since Carthage to the Hafsid Dynasty (11th century-1535/1574)) but he was assassinated on the order of the Ottoman Sultan by his leftenant Ibrahim Cherif who ruled Tunisia/Ifriqiya from 1701 to 1705, then some Kulughli officer Hussein Bey Ben Ali (half Turkish half Tunisian) took the throne and established the Husseinid dynasty which ruled as Bey and "Possessor of the Tunisian Kingdom" from 1705 to 1957.

You should do a video on Khan Krum of Bulgaria! After all, not everyone can claim to have a drinking cup made from a Roman Emperor!

I hadn't realized that everyone was scared of Tunisia in 900 AD prior to watching this video. Learn something new everyday from history RU-vid channels! 😉 And yes, I had pizza for breakfast. 🍕 Okay, and also a donut... 🍩

This dudes whole life sounds like a CK3 game

It was a pleasant surprise to see my country featured in one of Jack's videos. Thank you for the great work a usual and greetings from Tunisia. And yeah this is not the only time a lunatic ruled over these lands in the past lol.

I was like: wait a minute, why didn't i hear of him if he did such a tour of force? Aaaaaand he's dead

Giving a like just for that 'plan' reference

Hey Jack Rackham, love your videos man, you're probably the most underrated history youtuber in this entire platform. Keep it up man! I'd like to suggest Sultan Babullah of Ternate, North Maluku (Present day Indonesia) as the subject to cover in your next video, to add to your list of seriously impressive and influencial, yet mostly unknown, Sultans series of videos.

There's a parallel universe in which Ibrahim II shredded his way through Europe and into Mesopotamia. Take me to that universe.

MY NAME WILL BE WRIT LARGE ACROSS THE PAGES OF HISTORY. I WILL BE IMMORTALIZED AMONGST THE PANTHEON OF THE GREATEST MILITARY LEADERS OF ALL TIME! ALEXANDER THE GREAT! JULIUS CAESAR! GENGHIS KHAN! IBRAHIM! -goes to sicily and dies of poopbutt...

"Ifriqiya-إفريقية", is just the Arabic version of "Africa"; it is still - the modern Arabic name of the continent!

I’m very excited for the next episode! The Pahlavi Dynasty is very interesting to me. Mostly cause my grand father is a marine and he guarded the American embassy in Iran during the monarchy. Specifically from 1964-1968. Anyway, I like to make it clear that the Iranian Monarchs were not called Emperors or Empresses. They were more commonly known as Shahanshah or Shah for short. Shahanshah is Farsi (Persian) for King of Kings.But King of Kings is equal in rank to Emperor. King of Kings just sounds cooler in my opinion. Anyway, very excited for what ever you’re working on next.

Nobody noticed the Emirate of Sicily there? It was Arab-Norman culturally speaking. As in, it was Norman AND Arab culurally speaking. It had Muslim Vikings, that's what I'm saying. How's that for a crossover episode?

1:26 Turkey makes a brand new Turkey

More than a thousand years after Ibrahim's death, hearing about his life made me dizzy.

Imagine what would have happened if Ibrahim's campaign succeeded.

Epic video as always I just wish there were more of them

When you're early and the spicy comments haven't set in

Nobody talking about the fact that this guy could have just ended the catholic and orthodox church

Awesome video dude, you’re definitely filling in some gaps about interesting characters that aren’t spoken of much in modern history. I definitely think Ricimer would be an amazing topic for you to cover... man was a freakin 5th century godfather who basically had his puppet strings over everything in the late empire, seriously he basically was the nail in the coffin of the western empire

It's not the Islamic caliphate it's the Muslim Umayyad caliphate, which is considered by a lot of Muslim schoolers as a very bad empire.

Fun fact Ibrahim’s descendants would become the Fatimid caliphs in Egypt and history house productions made a video about him

You should do a video on the life of czar Simeon the great. See that big Bulgaria in that map, he is gonna make it even bigger

BOOoooww 👻

That video you searched at the begining is gonna have 20k views just because you mentioned it

I'm tunisian and i didn't know anything about that badass/psycho ruler. Thank you for the video

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Ibrahim: I am ready to win this game! Game: You have died of dysentery. Game Over.

Can made video about my life, Roman Emperor originated from Ilyrian Poor Peasants.

That ending, dude! Killed me almost as much as it did Ibrahim II!

Can you turn on the caption on every video? It will be very helpfull for people like me who wasn't good at listening with English.

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah: Who are you? Ibrahim II: I'm you but more insane

Translator's translator note: I think you mean everything is going according to "cake"

One of your best videos so far! Probably one of the most unreliable rulers in history.

Can a CK3 player tell me where this guy fits in the timeline? I recall in the 867 start you play as a drunk guy leading tunis and you have a skilled brother somewhere in the south

When he said Al safah oh MANNNNNNN NOOOOOOO

From all people, I didn't think he this would be selected.

1:25 "Except Turkey" Byzantine Empire: Am i a joke to you?

To think that Ibrahim could've been the Muslim equivalent to Alexander the Great. Just goes to show how much luck Alexander had on top of his incredible military skill to conquer as much as he did.

More anti climatic than my 'personal' life, and that is really REALLY saying something!

His way of going to bagdad was amazing 🤩. It seems he really didn't like shortcuts.

The instant I heard his whack plan, I thought to myself "Oh he's probably going to die from something like dysentery." Then look! He died from dysentery.

Well, it seems History looooves an anti-climax...

Saint Olga next. Please.

You should do 11th President of France, Paul Deschanel and his wacky adventures

Naples, Salerno and Benevento weren't kingdoms, dbo kid.😂 The first was duchy, the rest principalities.

These minor historical characters are often more interesting than many famous ones.

I like the CK3 characters

Its quite bizar how many military conquests have big names dying from dysentery or just dying of sickness afterwards.

"In hindsight, that isolated palace was such good investment!" Modern dictators: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

That ending killed me, I'm laughing so hard I think I pissed myself a little

0:29 "or he might just have been a mommas boy trying to look cool" angry Shaka muttering

Two reasons I watch this channel: - Niche historical facts - Puns also do Justinian II "the slit nosed", the one of the most dumb ass Byzantine emperors to have ever lived.