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Do they really have prints of historic paintings? Seems odd they wouldn't advertise that. Would be much more appealing to have a timeless work of art, than the latest fad.
i'll be in the past soon, thing is, contemporary weapons you never notice they exist so nobody will record them. everyone's just feeling way more compliant.
Just imagine the first Europeans to see elephants in war. Going from the biggest animal you see to being a cow to a massive creature with what looks like a snake growing out of its face
Even as someone who grew up seeing them on tv and in books, Going up close and seeing one in person (not at a zoo but literally right next to) I was shocked. Those African elephants if they wanted to could have thrown me like a tennis ball.
British tanks have a "water boiling apparatus" installed, and have for decades. It runs off the tank battery even when off, and let's them have tea anytime. It's considered well worth the cost to give british soldiers their tea
@@LetsTalkAboutPrepping I heard that in WW2 they started installing them since the British soldiers would get out of their tanks and get destroyed (beacause of tea time)
@@dislikebutton1712 that is a big part of it, but iirc, soldiers were already using the tanks engine heat and electrical to rig tea boiling systems, and the war department saw it as a simple solution for all the issues. Keep soldiers from modifying their tanks, and also keep them from exposing themselves to fire to start a wood fire, and also provide a huge morale boost (early tanks- and honestly modern tanks- are not comfortable at all)
And tea time normally has nothing todo with tea, it justvan afternoon meal. I'm gonna have my tea. Or whats for tea tonight, which means a meal. I've heard it alot in Manchester, England @@dislikebutton1712
The advent of small combat drones probably constitute something comparable to all of this. The big high flying reapers are essentially just planes so nothing truly new; but small drone swarms which were first seen in Syria are definitely a crazy innovation of warfare.
Drones are making their mark everywhere. Both sides use drones in the ongoing wars in Burma, in Ukraine, and in Sudan. They're cheap, fast, easy to use and learn, and quick to build. Scarier yet, they're rapidly evolving into more lethal weapons
A video came out of Ukraine yesterday of a drone equipped to spray a stream of white phosphorus out from underneath it like some kind of death ray or dragon. It looks absolutely horrifying.
The "Aztec response to guns" is actually a description of the battle of Potonchan, which was against the Maya... The further diplomatic use of cannons and horses was also employed against the Nahua emissaries too though.
True, but their use in war (at that level) was not even conceived of. A quantum leap like that would be like if we showed up on a battlefield and soldiers just vaporized before our eyes. You’d have no conclusion besides being hopelessly out gunned by something you can’t even wrap your head around. That’s probably how those fellas in the boats felt lol.
He was the first known guy to pre-range accurate 'artillery' so that no matter where the enemy was, they could be hit fairly quickly. This is standard procedure now with every army. Archimedes is a badass
Eh not all of it. I think we just instinctually are driven to advance all technology. Essentially make every tool we have available better to make life easier. Sometimes that "tool" just happens to be used to kill. Rogan explained it better than I can
It’s amazing how industrious, intelligent and innovative us humans can be when our lives depend on it. When the only thing between you and a saber-tooth tiger is a sharpened stick and your brain….. Goooooooo Brain! On a more serious note, I see things differently; human advancement in every possible area of science from mathematics, biology, astronomy, medicine etc. has been driven not only by need but by insatiable curiosity. We today stand on the backs of giants (Archimedes, Copernicus, Edison, etc.) whose motivation was not warfare or killing but truly human advancement and understand of our world.
@@StrangeTamer178yeah but the popularization of new tools often happens during war time. Maybe because during war there's a desperate need to get an edge.
We like to imagine ships burning, but really, most ships were damaged by breaking. Simply cracking a hole in the hull can sink the beast. Wrecking either the rudder or the mast or better both leaves her at the mercy of Neptune. Explosive cannon balls became common in the late 19th Century. Before then, the big guns would seek to wreck the ship
@theprancingprussian Yeah, sinking ships wasn't very common. Instead, it was much easier to immobilise a ship so that that you can either board it, or manoeuvre to a superior firing position where the immobilised ship cannot fight back and then bombard it with cannonballs until they surrendered.
@@che3se1495 I can imagine those ships that did sink had so little wood left attached ( possibly 60 percent or lower of original ) so had nothing to hold the ballast up once there were waterline hits
10:51 I'm not inclined to agree with the Spaniards that the natives thought that horse & man were but one. The writer clearly jumped to some conclusion as I refuse to believe a native came up to one of Cortezs men after the fact and said the equivalent of "we were all scared shitless as we thought you had centaurs"
The account was from Bernal, a spanish infantry men. A good portion of spanish infantry troops were iliterate and ignorant; many of "Native beliefs" are thought by those guys, not the natives themselfs.
@@ADoughBoy I mean, presumably they would have assumed the only things that could have been in water were torpedoes and animals and since it wouldn't have looked like a torpedo to their frame of reference, it would have been safe to assume it was an animal. Of course hindsight is 20/20, it was a new technology. But it is very easy to see why they could have thought it could have been an animal. Shooting it doesn't seem crazy. We used to hunt whales with spears.
Whatever you say boss, you just remember, Dixie had the first successful submarine mission in combat. An oNlY lAsTeD fOuR YeArS. Took out over 110,000 Yankees than we lost patriots. An before u bring up slavery as u bootlickers often do, let me remind u, the union has five slave states thru out the war. West Virginia was brought into the union a slave state months after the emancipation proclamation was proposed on Jan 1 1863. Also, read Lincolns first inaugural address from March 6 1861. He tell u if the southern states just pay the duties, they won't be threatened with quote invasion an bloodshed. Meaning pay up or die. He also proposed the corwin ammendment. The original 13th ammendment. If the seven southern states would rejoin the union, he would codify slavery into the constitution. They all turned it down. It wasn't about the preservation or end of slavery. With all that said, let me say, the south was right an when u take into account we were outnumbered 4 to 1 and blockaded, fighting the largest military to have existed as to that point. I'm damn proud my ancestors served Virginia. Sic Semper Tyrannis 🇸🇴
@@VoicesofthePastappreciate the educational content man. I would love if you did something on the crusades on this channel. Perhaps from the perspective of both the Muslims and Christians each
Fun fact: the first operational submarine was built in 1620 by a Dutch guy called Cornelius Drebbel. He made it for the English navy, King James I even accompanied him on a test drive, but it was never used in battle.
In their defence, you couldn't see a whole lot out of the vision slits of a Mk1 tank, and that was when you weren't virtually blinded by sweat and fumes from the engine and gun propellant.
I really like Voices Of The Past videos, I've been missing them somewhat of late. You're doing these writers of the past a great service in reading to us what they would have wanted us to hear. In doing so you're doing us a great service too. Keep up the good work.
Every time that I go to the New York Historical Society to see Thomas Cole's, "The Course of Empire" paintings, I, invariably, get told that they are on loan to another museum. I guess that the paintings are a big money maker for the Society but it has become very frustrating.
You gotta give the guy credit for witnessing his boats get destroyed and mangled by weapons beyond his comprehension and saying “wait let me get one more”
The Archimedes death ray was the only part of his defense mechanisms that clearly did not occur. Even with modern manufacturing and materials, it is impossible to set wood ships alight at a distance of more than a few feet and these ships would not have been sitting perfectly still.
It could be more that they were used to blind/distract targets or direct fire for the siege engines along the wall as the ships were described as being sunk with a great weight
historical discrepancy identified: it's supposed to be a german soldier from ww1 seeing a tank for the first time in the tumbnail, not a british soldier
Well in this case the Brits were at the receiving end of the inaugural tank warfare before the tank crew realized their mistake & rectified it by charging at the German positions.
I had the honor of visiting the first successful combat submarine, C.S.S. H.L. Hunley. It was recovered only within the last few decades and is still being studied and restored, so the Hunley Museum is [or was, at the time of my visiting more than ten years ago] as much a laboratory as it is a museum, which makes it a particularly unique attraction. The Hunley is referred to in this account as a "David" torpedo boat probably because, on its first and only combat mission, it was used as a David, running along the surface of the water to deposit its torpedo. This decision was made because of those "unlucky tests" that had caused the previous two crews to drown. It was decided that the submarine was not safe to dive... capable as it may have been to do so. Ironically, it is this decision which likely doomed its final crew. The small arms fire directed against the Hunley shot holes in the tiny vessel, and I remember hearing that forensic evidence suggests that the submarine's pilot was shot in the head moments before the sub made contact. Further, the torpedo spar was too short, so when the Housatonic exploded, the ensuing shock wave wounded all or most of the surviving crew. Both of these problems may have been avoided if the Hunley had been allowed to pass under the Housatonic, rather than ramming it directly, as was originally intended.
@@Boombox69in Like other conquerors before and after him, he was a great man, but he was not a good man. Even judged by the morality of his own culture, he was rather a bastard.
@@runswithraptorsno...he was definitely bad, morality is morality. He may have been a product of his environment but these things can never excuse what he did in his life. Plenty of people lived in that time and lived as good people.
This channel has the coolest thumbnails, they could all be ny desktop background, is there a high quality version of them uploaded somewhere without the text?
The US isn't more or less corrupt or in vice than at any other point in it's history. In fact it's probably less corrupt nowadays due to modern technology and how easy it is to spread information.
@schnitzilhazel9957 I think you mean how easy it is to spread disinformation. You can't make a single Internet search these days without finding at least one article by a deranged wackadoodle of the tinfoil hat brigade claiming that communication towers are Illuminati mind control devices, chemtrails are turning the frogs gay, or that "jet fuel can't melt steel beams."
@@shnitzilhazel9957the US was always as corrupt as it's today, if not more, I agree. Still, Rome as in it's worse, would still look like Heaven full of angels flying and praising God compared to the US at any point since 1776. At Rome, even rascals pretended to uphold virtues. In the US, you're either mocked at best or criminalized at worse and become a victim of some unprincipled thug mongrel.
So enlightened, so brave, except the fact you can apply that to literally any country in the world for the most part. China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, and numerous others can fit such vague descriptions.
You did not miss a thing. Mostly....I cannot reveal that information. Or I will have to reveal that information in a closed room/environment. BLAH. BLAH BLAH...OH IT did seem they all called each other the night before so they could coordinate their outfits.
The horror of being in a trench in WW1, you start to feel the ground shake and you look up to see a big ass Machine made out of metal with cannons and machine guns 😳
In my the village which my great grandfather lived in north africa, it is rumoured that when the french fighter jets were roaming in the sky, the ignorant villagers thought that the day of judgement has come😂
Thats interesting there is a account of a woman that was non religious during hiroshima that when the bombs fell and everything was burning thought she was in hell that’s terrifying to think about
People ignorantly say: "That was the bronze age" and: "it was written so long ago." And "It was the dark ages then." If someone took away you're electricity, your air conditioner, your iPhone, your computer, you'd be in the dark ages too. Could you come up with the ingenious ideas they did 2,000 years ago? 4,000 years ago? Probably not. Although some ideas were barbaric, a lot of the ideas and writings and utensils are still useful today. Just because a prune is wrinkled and days old, doesn't mean its not tasty. 😊
How the f*** can an idea be barbaric? or is it because these are instruments of war? If that's the case you aren't safe from being labeled as a barbarian as well because your people definitely invented things like that too.
Thats is a really dumb argument, progress is measured by all humans and society as a whole, theres a reason there was a bronze age, and there is a reason we are in the modern age, you could say the same thing about people in history aswell "Oh if i take Ungus Bungus and take away all the people around him, hes gone back to being a caveman!" "If i take all of your progress away you will be back at the beggining" no shit?
i hate people who think because it was the past people weren't educated or smart, a lot of people from the past seem wiser and more reasonable than most people these days
There’s a video online of soldiers hiding from drones and they sound like giant insects looking for prey, it was horrifying 💀shortly after you hear a loud boom
@@me_12-vw1vi But most dont know whats going on. Its easy for us to say since we know now but they were brainwashed as well as ignorant of many situations.
@@me_12-vw1vi so then I guess youre guilty of forced child labor since you bought an apple product knowing where it came from? Ignorance is an excuse. Many Soldiers are brainwashed and lied into believing they are fighting for a noble cause. Weak arguement.
15:56 the first submarine casualty was 190 years earlier in June 1774 when millwright John Day converted a 50 ton sloop called The Maria into a weighted airchamber in Plymouth Sound (UK). Funded by a gambler and scammer called Charles Blake, Day intended to sink the vessel in Firestone Bay, stay underwater for 24 hours, and then return to the surface. It's believed that the vessel imploded during its dive, killing Day instantly. Even if the vessel had completed the dive, Day would not have survived 24 hours as there wasn't enough air to stay down there (he was relying on candles to provide light)
The end bit seemed to confirm that. "Lets do a guns or horses experiment. Horses." I guess saying someone's afraid of horses after fire hoses and Archimedes madness didn't feel right. Shame. You'd think there'd have to be some interesting "boom stick" stories.
what about princess Pina of Saderan empire reacting for the first time when she saw apache attack helicopter decimate an entire legion with its vulcan cannon? She was terrified of what she called a flying iron Pegasus chariot.
@ Voices of the Past I'm a extreme History fannatic and i really wish you could upload more... this is only real ''history channel'' that actually narrates it as from their Pov, wich gives you way more insight into the peoples and cultures, it feels way more intimate, specially about not so mainstream stories or accounts, you do upload monthly and somtimes every 2 months , but i bet if you would be a little more consistent like maybe 1 video a month or 2 , that the channel would grow way quicker. i do understand the work it takes to get these videos uploaded.
@bretabderahmen3785 Well, you're right, I'm just curious what he actually did? It must have been some form of flood gate, but to create whirlpools it would almost have to be a directional flood gate. That takes insane amounts of work and engineering, and doing it in the ocean causes a million other problems to overcome. I wish I could go back and just see the construction more than the battle. Okay, maybe the battle too.
Most likely, I've noticed a few youtubers doing this. The video will interest me so I google more about it, most times I find the key points in the video but never find a version as detailed as the RUclips version. Because they filled in the blanks themselves I believe
I'm sure it depends on the translation. I checked the bit about Cortez's horse experiment and the paragraph is there, word for word. I didn't look through the sinking of the USS Housatonic link. Not as easy as "find mare." (Figured it wouldn't be there much... got past the first dozen "mares" then found the mare and stallion paragraph.) When they're translations it would be some kind of painful to get a reading of a literal one. Lots of language are sorely lacking in words. Plus, there are grammar issues to contend with.
Somthing that wouldve been a good honorable mention would be the reaction by the united states when they saw the germans using jet powered fighter aircraft
It would be interesting to hear early accounts of aviation, from early natural philosophers experimenting with privately funded ballooning in France, to the first military balloons in the US Civil War, rigid airships and pioneering days of civil and military aviation pre-1920s. Or even first accounts of jet test pilots or those who observed them in action.
The Hunley was actually designed to be an electric submarine. The engineer building her was trying to get motors and batteries that would be a good fit, the man turned screw inside was just to rush the sub into service, because by then, the confederate military already commandeered this thing and basically pressed the maker into service, hence the rushed sea trials that killed 2 crews.
The USS Housatonic sank in seven minutes. Could you imagine if the HL Hunley survived the Battle. It may have not won the Confederacy the war, but it would have poked big holes in the blockade. It would have been a terror.
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Im so early
Do they really have prints of historic paintings? Seems odd they wouldn't advertise that. Would be much more appealing to have a timeless work of art, than the latest fad.
the voice over sounds like those fear and hunger exolaination videos
i'll be in the past soon, thing is, contemporary weapons you never notice they exist so nobody will record them.
everyone's just feeling way more compliant.
chicken sandwich
'You're screwed" - Archimedes.
Perfect comment for displace.
"Eat lead" -Cortez
😂😂 nice pun
*puts on ancient sunglasses*
Ah i see what you did there…!
Just imagine the first Europeans to see elephants in war. Going from the biggest animal you see to being a cow to a massive creature with what looks like a snake growing out of its face
The Ancient Greeks were familiar to an extent about elephants as were the Romans when they fought for south Italy
Battle of Ankara(1402).
@@ruxmaniabattle of ankara was fought by two turkic nations.
@@tarangogu420 It doesn't matter. The Ottomans likely saw an elephant for the first time during that battle.
Even as someone who grew up seeing them on tv and in books, Going up close and seeing one in person (not at a zoo but literally right next to) I was shocked. Those African elephants if they wanted to could have thrown me like a tennis ball.
Making tea during an ongoing battle is the most British thing ever
British tanks have a "water boiling apparatus" installed, and have for decades. It runs off the tank battery even when off, and let's them have tea anytime. It's considered well worth the cost to give british soldiers their tea
@@LetsTalkAboutPrepping I heard that in WW2 they started installing them since the British soldiers would get out of their tanks and get destroyed (beacause of tea time)
@@dislikebutton1712 that is a big part of it, but iirc, soldiers were already using the tanks engine heat and electrical to rig tea boiling systems, and the war department saw it as a simple solution for all the issues. Keep soldiers from modifying their tanks, and also keep them from exposing themselves to fire to start a wood fire, and also provide a huge morale boost (early tanks- and honestly modern tanks- are not comfortable at all)
@@LetsTalkAboutPreppingit's also there because for a long time, British MRE required boiling water to prepare
And tea time normally has nothing todo with tea, it justvan afternoon meal.
I'm gonna have my tea.
Or whats for tea tonight, which means a meal.
I've heard it alot in Manchester, England @@dislikebutton1712
Imagine being so good at math that warlords learn to fear you
Math teachers up with this one
Oppenheimer: 2023
stience
Thats oppenheimer.
The advent of small combat drones probably constitute something comparable to all of this. The big high flying reapers are essentially just planes so nothing truly new; but small drone swarms which were first seen in Syria are definitely a crazy innovation of warfare.
They sure are giving the Russians the business!! SLAVA UKRAINE!
Drones are making their mark everywhere. Both sides use drones in the ongoing wars in Burma, in Ukraine, and in Sudan. They're cheap, fast, easy to use and learn, and quick to build. Scarier yet, they're rapidly evolving into more lethal weapons
Ome can attach mortar rounds below drones,of appropriate size.
Preferably 51 mm mortar rounds , or 81 mm mortar rounds .
I know in Israel theyre using drones for reconnaissance purposes. In ukraine I've seen the videos of dropping grenades from them
A video came out of Ukraine yesterday of a drone equipped to spray a stream of white phosphorus out from underneath it like some kind of death ray or dragon. It looks absolutely horrifying.
The "Aztec response to guns" is actually a description of the battle of Potonchan, which was against the Maya... The further diplomatic use of cannons and horses was also employed against the Nahua emissaries too though.
It says mayan
@@al3xa723 It says it now ha...thanks for the correction!
I thought the Mayans were already gone by the time Spaniards arrived on the scene
@@dougs7367 Nah, the last continuous Maya state fell to the spanish in 1697!
@@VoicesofthePastgood sport
"Geometric Briareus" is one heck of an epithet to earn in defense of your city. Archimedes must have been quite the surprise opponent.
The sheer devastation of "and he uses our ships like cups to ladle water from the seas"
💪🏻😎
It's crazy that the Archimedes one is the one that inspired the most fear, when it's mostly just catapults and cranes which are not very complicated.
I don't the guys on the receiving end gave much thought to mechanical complexity 😂
True, but their use in war (at that level) was not even conceived of. A quantum leap like that would be like if we showed up on a battlefield and soldiers just vaporized before our eyes. You’d have no conclusion besides being hopelessly out gunned by something you can’t even wrap your head around. That’s probably how those fellas in the boats felt lol.
Well it was 200 BCE
He was the first known guy to pre-range accurate 'artillery' so that no matter where the enemy was, they could be hit fairly quickly.
This is standard procedure now with every army.
Archimedes is a badass
The math and mechanics to a catapult were very complicated. Being off by just a little bit could end horribly
Human ingenuity applied towards killing one another knows no bounds. It is the driving force of innovation.
Eh not all of it. I think we just instinctually are driven to advance all technology. Essentially make every tool we have available better to make life easier. Sometimes that "tool" just happens to be used to kill. Rogan explained it better than I can
It’s amazing how industrious, intelligent and innovative us humans can be when our lives depend on it. When the only thing between you and a saber-tooth tiger is a sharpened stick and your brain….. Goooooooo Brain! On a more serious note, I see things differently; human advancement in every possible area of science from mathematics, biology, astronomy, medicine etc. has been driven not only by need but by insatiable curiosity. We today stand on the backs of giants (Archimedes, Copernicus, Edison, etc.) whose motivation was not warfare or killing but truly human advancement and understand of our world.
Nah, it's 😹.
Without that desire we would still live in the savanna and eat everything we could find.
More generally just competing I feel; such as the space race (US v USSR), discovery of America by Europeans (Europeans v Muslims)...
@@StrangeTamer178yeah but the popularization of new tools often happens during war time. Maybe because during war there's a desperate need to get an edge.
We like to imagine ships burning, but really, most ships were damaged by breaking. Simply cracking a hole in the hull can sink the beast. Wrecking either the rudder or the mast or better both leaves her at the mercy of Neptune. Explosive cannon balls became common in the late 19th Century. Before then, the big guns would seek to wreck the ship
Ships being hard to sink even with roundshot before wide use of explosive shells is why boarding and capturing ships was so common
@theprancingprussian Yeah, sinking ships wasn't very common. Instead, it was much easier to immobilise a ship so that that you can either board it, or manoeuvre to a superior firing position where the immobilised ship cannot fight back and then bombard it with cannonballs until they surrendered.
@@che3se1495 I can imagine those ships that did sink had so little wood left attached ( possibly 60 percent or lower of original ) so had nothing to hold the ballast up once there were waterline hits
@@DieNibelungenliad and...thats wrong. But you have a keyboard
@@mattc8018what’s wrong about it?
"SHIP PRIVLAGES REVOKED!!!" -Archimedes
W tank crew, get their tank stuck and decide to exit and make tea under heavy fire
just sublime
they sat calmly under fire complaining about the quality of the biscuits.
Five o'clock 🍵🍵🍵
me and the boys (we are tea addicts)
10:51 I'm not inclined to agree with the Spaniards that the natives thought that horse & man were but one. The writer clearly jumped to some conclusion as I refuse to believe a native came up to one of Cortezs men after the fact and said the equivalent of "we were all scared shitless as we thought you had centaurs"
The account was from Bernal, a spanish infantry men. A good portion of spanish infantry troops were iliterate and ignorant; many of "Native beliefs" are thought by those guys, not the natives themselfs.
And the natives weren't illiterate and ignorant? They've never seen a horse before so it's possible. @@jessalaguicia7088
That is what the greeks thought when they saw someone mounting a horse for the 1st time
I agree as natives were not unfamiliar to mounting things and how they looked. But I do think the horses were unsettling.
I’m pretty sure the Native Americans domesticated horses well before the Europeans came.
That first story man, imagine being so thoroughly outdone by some dude having fun with physics and engineering.
While they are waging WAR!
Archimedes is just having FUN!
@@leonardozayasm.4983to be fair he was killed when the Romans took his city
@@konnosx1213Romans must have thought he's too dangerous to be left alive with his ideas I guess lol
Portal series in a nutshell
What they call war, Archimedes called a science project
The funniest thing of the sub is that it had a higher friendly fire rate on the side using it than the enemy in its first war it was used in
I find it funny that one of the officers first thought to seeing a strange object in the water was to shoot it.
@@ADoughBoy Lmao
@@ADoughBoy
I mean, presumably they would have assumed the only things that could have been in water were torpedoes and animals and since it wouldn't have looked like a torpedo to their frame of reference, it would have been safe to assume it was an animal.
Of course hindsight is 20/20, it was a new technology.
But it is very easy to see why they could have thought it could have been an animal.
Shooting it doesn't seem crazy.
We used to hunt whales with spears.
Whatever you say boss, you just remember, Dixie had the first successful submarine mission in combat. An oNlY lAsTeD fOuR YeArS.
Took out over 110,000 Yankees than we lost patriots.
An before u bring up slavery as u bootlickers often do, let me remind u, the union has five slave states thru out the war. West Virginia was brought into the union a slave state months after the emancipation proclamation was proposed on Jan 1 1863.
Also, read Lincolns first inaugural address from March 6 1861. He tell u if the southern states just pay the duties, they won't be threatened with quote invasion an bloodshed. Meaning pay up or die. He also proposed the corwin ammendment. The original 13th ammendment. If the seven southern states would rejoin the union, he would codify slavery into the constitution.
They all turned it down. It wasn't about the preservation or end of slavery.
With all that said, let me say, the south was right an when u take into account we were outnumbered 4 to 1 and blockaded, fighting the largest military to have existed as to that point. I'm damn proud my ancestors served Virginia.
Sic Semper Tyrannis 🇸🇴
@@Sonny-m1f I did not post this comment just for you to yap about a long dead nation.
new history of the universe and voices of the past in 1 day!? you're spoiling us!
I am very very tired 😅
Your work is much appreciated. Excellent as always. Bula from Fiji!@@VoicesofthePast
@@VoicesofthePastappreciate the educational content man. I would love if you did something on the crusades on this channel. Perhaps from the perspective of both the Muslims and Christians each
i remember the old universe and history. they're not spoiling you they're oiling you.
"Sir, why those bunkers moving towards us?"
Artillery practice.
@@molybdaen11 When the bunkers keep coming:
Fun fact: the first operational submarine was built in 1620 by a Dutch guy called Cornelius Drebbel. He made it for the English navy, King James I even accompanied him on a test drive, but it was never used in battle.
First one used in battle was during the American revolution & was hand operated :))
I read your comment like you were jokingly saying that YOU accompanied him on a test drive
Same. I had to reread 2x.
Aint that the minister from harry potter? (the dutch name sounds alike)
Oh my god the I is king James the first I thought you were joking
They had the horse going “hold me back, hold me back!”
Gentlemen, I present to you...Two. Horses. Fucking. *Cannon salute, everyone on both sides go wild*
W comment
Oh, my goodness, the colonel and his cane! Brilliant! haha!
The man needed the cane, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to walk with such gigantic balls!
One of my favorite channels
Mine too! So happy to see a new episode.
same, I made first-hand account videos partially inspired by this channel and a few others, so good
A new upload is always a celebration
@@37654 yes!
24:31 Of course the British would drink tea in the middle of a fucking battlefield 😂
Tea is so good mate
Is no one going to talk about how the British tanks first attacked and destroyed a portion of their own trench line??? XD
Lol😂
In their defence, you couldn't see a whole lot out of the vision slits of a Mk1 tank, and that was when you weren't virtually blinded by sweat and fumes from the engine and gun propellant.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 lololol bro rekt swag! @@muwafaqmosa5303
I did not know that little tid bit!
Tank stuck? Tea on.
I really like Voices Of The Past videos, I've been missing them somewhat of late.
You're doing these writers of the past a great service in reading to us what they would have wanted us to hear.
In doing so you're doing us a great service too. Keep up the good work.
A fine Sunday and first day of September as Voice of the Past graces us with a new video.
glad to see a new upload!
I can't get over the history of these diving machines.
Every time that I go to the New York Historical Society to see Thomas Cole's, "The Course of Empire" paintings, I, invariably, get told that they are on loan to another museum. I guess that the paintings are a big money maker for the Society but it has become very frustrating.
Here on airstrip one I only have to look around and see it realtime.
You gotta give the guy credit for witnessing his boats get destroyed and mangled by weapons beyond his comprehension and saying “wait let me get one more”
Nothing better than historic battle stories for an end of workout - run at the gym. Sweet! Thanks.
"I solve practical problems." - Archimedes.
The Archimedes death ray was the only part of his defense mechanisms that clearly did not occur. Even with modern manufacturing and materials, it is impossible to set wood ships alight at a distance of more than a few feet and these ships would not have been sitting perfectly still.
It could be more that they were used to blind/distract targets or direct fire for the siege engines along the wall as the ships were described as being sunk with a great weight
The Mythbusters tested it and concluded it was impossible
But possible to set on fire sails
Also those rays blinding everyone on board
@@geofalke That makes sense. But you can’t call it a death ray.
Always incredible, thank you!
historical discrepancy identified: it's supposed to be a german soldier from ww1 seeing a tank for the first time in the tumbnail, not a british soldier
Well in this case the Brits were at the receiving end of the inaugural tank warfare before the tank crew realized their mistake & rectified it by charging at the German positions.
not you telling me you didn't watch the video before commenting without telling me.
Really....Thanks
using melted fat from the dead bodies of enemies to fix your own wounds is crazy
Bro I swear I had to rewind to make sure he said that 😭😭😭😭
I thought he said it was for the horses wounds?
I had the honor of visiting the first successful combat submarine, C.S.S. H.L. Hunley. It was recovered only within the last few decades and is still being studied and restored, so the Hunley Museum is [or was, at the time of my visiting more than ten years ago] as much a laboratory as it is a museum, which makes it a particularly unique attraction.
The Hunley is referred to in this account as a "David" torpedo boat probably because, on its first and only combat mission, it was used as a David, running along the surface of the water to deposit its torpedo. This decision was made because of those "unlucky tests" that had caused the previous two crews to drown. It was decided that the submarine was not safe to dive... capable as it may have been to do so. Ironically, it is this decision which likely doomed its final crew.
The small arms fire directed against the Hunley shot holes in the tiny vessel, and I remember hearing that forensic evidence suggests that the submarine's pilot was shot in the head moments before the sub made contact. Further, the torpedo spar was too short, so when the Housatonic exploded, the ensuing shock wave wounded all or most of the surviving crew. Both of these problems may have been avoided if the Hunley had been allowed to pass under the Housatonic, rather than ramming it directly, as was originally intended.
Drowning three complete crews and still continuing to engineer these subs until one worked. Unthinkable today.
24:39 that’s the most british thing in world war 1 i’ve heard so far
Mayans: You can’t arrest our god-king! Under what authority?
Spaniards: mm gunpowder
Cortez May have been not the best guy, but that move he pulled off was genius.
His negative attributes have purposefully been greatly exaggerated
@@Boombox69in Like other conquerors before and after him, he was a great man, but he was not a good man. Even judged by the morality of his own culture, he was rather a bastard.
Don't judge people from the past by today's standards. He wasn't good or bad he just was.
@@runswithraptorsno...he was definitely bad, morality is morality. He may have been a product of his environment but these things can never excuse what he did in his life. Plenty of people lived in that time and lived as good people.
Even people from his own tume thought that he had gone too far.@@runswithraptors
This channel has the coolest thumbnails, they could all be ny desktop background, is there a high quality version of them uploaded somewhere without the text?
something something something Patreon?
i dunno
is just using google images beneath you or you actually that lazy?
@@StopYTShorts don't get brave
"Wealth, Vice, Corruption" describing the end of Rome could very well explain what the United States is going through at this point in time.
The US isn't more or less corrupt or in vice than at any other point in it's history. In fact it's probably less corrupt nowadays due to modern technology and how easy it is to spread information.
@schnitzilhazel9957 I think you mean how easy it is to spread disinformation. You can't make a single Internet search these days without finding at least one article by a deranged wackadoodle of the tinfoil hat brigade claiming that communication towers are Illuminati mind control devices, chemtrails are turning the frogs gay, or that "jet fuel can't melt steel beams."
@@shnitzilhazel9957the US was always as corrupt as it's today, if not more, I agree.
Still, Rome as in it's worse, would still look like Heaven full of angels flying and praising God compared to the US at any point since 1776. At Rome, even rascals pretended to uphold virtues. In the US, you're either mocked at best or criminalized at worse and become a victim of some unprincipled thug mongrel.
So enlightened, so brave, except the fact you can apply that to literally any country in the world for the most part. China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, and numerous others can fit such vague descriptions.
You’re a modern day philosopher
Yet another brilliant video, thank you
Now we're going to see a "the first time seeing an armed FPV drone"
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Cortez had cavalry, guns, and plate armour. Might as well have been a god.
Nah
Not really. What helped in the Tenochtitlan fall was the big native army.
Mexica fall was due to political reasons rather than technological.
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hes still at 999k
5:01 oh cool, AI generated garbage
Grow up
@@CenturionMariusVinicius awww, I'm sorry having standards upset you lol
@@CenturionMariusViniciusif I’m paying for art I would like it to actually be made by humans.
@@ivanlol7153but… you didn’t pay for this video
@@pengwino828 did you click the timestamp? It was about the sponsor
Your videos are the best! Hope you and your bro are doing well
Every reaction can be summarized with the Willem Dafoe looking up meme
I actually agree
Watching this instead of the debate>
Watching both>
You did not miss a thing. Mostly....I cannot reveal that information. Or I will have to reveal that information in a closed room/environment. BLAH. BLAH BLAH...OH IT did seem they all called each other the night before so they could coordinate their outfits.
The horror of being in a trench in WW1, you start to feel the ground shake and you look up to see a big ass Machine made out of metal with cannons and machine guns 😳
In my the village which my great grandfather lived in north africa, it is rumoured that when the french fighter jets were roaming in the sky, the ignorant villagers thought that the day of judgement has come😂
Thats interesting there is a account of a woman that was non religious during hiroshima that when the bombs fell and everything was burning thought she was in hell that’s terrifying to think about
@@Islamzindabad-z7g yes its terrifying how man made weapons can simulate mythological horrors
if you were there you would have thought the same
@ yea i guess so
The Hunley was such an insane concept for the time, especially since it was made not by the industrial Union Army but by the Confederacy.
didnt know archimedes was such a badass
People ignorantly say: "That was the bronze age" and: "it was written so long ago." And "It was the dark ages then." If someone took away you're electricity, your air conditioner, your iPhone, your computer, you'd be in the dark ages too. Could you come up with the ingenious ideas they did 2,000 years ago? 4,000 years ago? Probably not. Although some ideas were barbaric, a lot of the ideas and writings and utensils are still useful today. Just because a prune is wrinkled and days old, doesn't mean its not tasty. 😊
How the f*** can an idea be barbaric? or is it because these are instruments of war? If that's the case you aren't safe from being labeled as a barbarian as well because your people definitely invented things like that too.
it wasnt a dark age for the islamic empire
@@astroboirap And it never was for the Hebrew people either.
Thats is a really dumb argument, progress is measured by all humans and society as a whole, theres a reason there was a bronze age, and there is a reason we are in the modern age, you could say the same thing about people in history aswell
"Oh if i take Ungus Bungus and take away all the people around him, hes gone back to being a caveman!"
"If i take all of your progress away you will be back at the beggining" no shit?
i hate people who think because it was the past people weren't educated or smart, a lot of people from the past seem wiser and more reasonable than most people these days
Congratulations on 1 million subs.
Excited for a new video. If the other ones were records I would have worn them out already.
Ah Sweet man-made horrors.
Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜
Nice, a new video!
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There’s a video online of soldiers hiding from drones and they sound like giant insects looking for prey, it was horrifying 💀shortly after you hear a loud boom
Making tea behind a stuck tank in the middle of a battle is THE most british thing
Thanks for sharing much appreciated
Great vid!
Human beings have been thinking of ways and weapons to eliminate each other since the dawn of time
To be fair its mostly them following orders.
@@tacobender1643not an excuse. the footsoldier is as guilty (if not more) than the ones who gave him the orders
@@me_12-vw1vi But most dont know whats going on. Its easy for us to say since we know now but they were brainwashed as well as ignorant of many situations.
@@me_12-vw1vi so then I guess youre guilty of forced child labor since you bought an apple product knowing where it came from?
Ignorance is an excuse. Many Soldiers are brainwashed and lied into believing they are fighting for a noble cause. Weak arguement.
War then is like, 'hey look what I just came up with"
“The numbers don’t lie”
-Archimedes
1st guy did the 1000 yard stare 0:56
Always a wise idea to make tea when there is a pause.
Drowning in a sub is terrifying for me. What a horrible way to go
I immediately thought about the German reaction to shotguns
15:56 the first submarine casualty was 190 years earlier in June 1774 when millwright John Day converted a 50 ton sloop called The Maria into a weighted airchamber in Plymouth Sound (UK).
Funded by a gambler and scammer called Charles Blake, Day intended to sink the vessel in Firestone Bay, stay underwater for 24 hours, and then return to the surface. It's believed that the vessel imploded during its dive, killing Day instantly. Even if the vessel had completed the dive, Day would not have survived 24 hours as there wasn't enough air to stay down there (he was relying on candles to provide light)
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You uh... may want to check your math there
The Mayans didn’t seem so terrified by the firearms at all.
The end bit seemed to confirm that. "Lets do a guns or horses experiment. Horses." I guess saying someone's afraid of horses after fire hoses and Archimedes madness didn't feel right.
Shame. You'd think there'd have to be some interesting "boom stick" stories.
The Mayans on the video you mean? Or you talk about the conquest of tecnochitlan
@@ribps289 Yes. My mistake.
@@ribps289 They had mislabeled it Aztecs (they’ve since edited it to Mayans). And I repeated their mistake.
The reaction was to kick up dirt to try and smoke screen the enemy, which is honestly pretty good improvisation if you ask me. lol
what about princess Pina of Saderan empire reacting for the first time when she saw apache attack helicopter decimate an entire legion with its vulcan cannon? She was terrified of what she called a flying iron Pegasus chariot.
Sorry to be "that guy." I love Gate, but it was an AH1 Cobra gunship, not an Apache.
@@minimalbstolerance8113 I stand corrected.
@ Voices of the Past I'm a extreme History fannatic and i really wish you could upload more... this is only real ''history channel'' that actually narrates it as from their Pov, wich gives you way more insight into the peoples and cultures, it feels way more intimate, specially about not so mainstream stories or accounts, you do upload monthly and somtimes every 2 months , but i bet if you would be a little more consistent like maybe 1 video a month or 2 , that the channel would grow way quicker. i do understand the work it takes to get these videos uploaded.
I love shit like this! Thank you , so cool to lean this stuff.
Bro just casually makes tea during a battle 😂
Did I misunderstand, or did he describe Archimedes creating whirlpools in the ocean? How on earth did he do that?
Brains
And engineering
@bretabderahmen3785 Well, you're right, I'm just curious what he actually did? It must have been some form of flood gate, but to create whirlpools it would almost have to be a directional flood gate. That takes insane amounts of work and engineering, and doing it in the ocean causes a million other problems to overcome. I wish I could go back and just see the construction more than the battle. Okay, maybe the battle too.
drinking tea in the middle of a battle is the most british thing ever
A Voices of the Past video? How fortunate we are.
Almost 1m subs 👏
Do you rephrase the paragraphs you take from the sources to make it sound more like a story for the video's purposes?
Most likely, I've noticed a few youtubers doing this. The video will interest me so I google more about it, most times I find the key points in the video but never find a version as detailed as the RUclips version. Because they filled in the blanks themselves I believe
I'm sure it depends on the translation. I checked the bit about Cortez's horse experiment and the paragraph is there, word for word. I didn't look through the sinking of the USS Housatonic link. Not as easy as "find mare." (Figured it wouldn't be there much... got past the first dozen "mares" then found the mare and stallion paragraph.)
When they're translations it would be some kind of painful to get a reading of a literal one. Lots of language are sorely lacking in words. Plus, there are grammar issues to contend with.
5:00 i was considering displate since im in an apartment i cant drill into, but seeing that AI pic was just so disappointing the thought just died.
Somthing that wouldve been a good honorable mention would be the reaction by the united states when they saw the germans using jet powered fighter aircraft
Yay! New video!
oh dang only 2k till 1 million subscribers congrats
It would be interesting to hear early accounts of aviation, from early natural philosophers experimenting with privately funded ballooning in France, to the first military balloons in the US Civil War, rigid airships and pioneering days of civil and military aviation pre-1920s. Or even first accounts of jet test pilots or those who observed them in action.
With you posted more often. We need a video every week not every 2 months.
The Hunley was actually designed to be an electric submarine. The engineer building her was trying to get motors and batteries that would be a good fit, the man turned screw inside was just to rush the sub into service, because by then, the confederate military already commandeered this thing and basically pressed the maker into service, hence the rushed sea trials that killed 2 crews.
me after surviving my boat being burned by a massive death ray: “erm… that just happened.”
this is what the internet was made for in the most optimistic engineer's imaginetion.
the British and friendly fire. Name a more iconic duo!
Great video
The USS Housatonic sank in seven minutes. Could you imagine if the HL Hunley survived the Battle. It may have not won the Confederacy the war, but it would have poked big holes in the blockade. It would have been a terror.
No dreadnaught accounts? Or aircraft carriers? Not even atomic bombs?
So whatdabout the drone?