The Mongol Invasion of Europe (As Witnessed By Master Roger, 1241)
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Extracts taken from Anonymus and Master Roger The Deeds of the Hungarians/Epistle to the Sorrowful Lament upon the Destruction of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Tatars edited by Martyn C. Rady, Laszlo Veszpremy, Janos M. Bak Central European University Press, 1 January 2010
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Terrifying First-Hand Account of The Mongol Invasion of Europe (As Witnessed By Master Roger, 1241)
At first I read that as "As witnessed by Mister Rogers."
Made for an interesting mental image...
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this would be good story for a survival horror video game.
Such a unique, brilliant channel. I let the ads roll. TY
I can’t help but wonder if the author of these words would have ever imagined that his memories would have survived 800 years later and shared in such a beautiful way. Great work
Possibly the diary but not translated into many languages or how we are watching it, listening to it on iPads, computers etc. this would shatter his paradigm, view of reality, and look like magic to him. Imagine 800 years from now someone reading these comments and watching the same story. I wonder how much it will change? Assuming we don’t start over as it seems like we are on the precipice of WW3 or some other RESET
What do you mean "survived" ?
More like intentionally hidden or pushed aside by the radical Ieft in the west busy with white-man-bad cherry picked history lessons.
The power of written word my friend.
@@Dragons_Armory
In a way it's a form of immortality to be remembered after eons.
I think it’s safe to say the author would not have thought that his diary would one day be made into a video on RUclips
In Hungary there are still folk-tales about the mongol invasion after 800 years. It was that horrible, we still have sayings related to it. Some mothers still threaten their children with tatars, if they dont behave.
as Tatar, this hurts my feelings 😞
@@aykhangurbanli6454 No offense man! Actually Tatars are far relatives of Hungarians... Hungarians used to live like them before the X. century, at that time, the European people used to threaten their children with Hungarians :D
In Romania too. We had to deal with the Tatars till the 1770s, the last raids, after which Russia finally put an end to them. There are still several expressions, for example when somebody is in a great hurry, people will say, "Take it easy, it's not like the Tatars are coming."
@@aofg Same here man! We say: "Nem hajt a tatár" - means something like this: "Relax, tatars are not after us/chasing us." History is really interesting. :)
So what
In Australia we have drop bears
The saddest part is those alive today for most have no respect nor gratitude for all the sacrifices and suffering of their ancestors.
No. The saddest part is those alive back then and now don't have any respect nor gratitide for all the sacrifices and suffering of people who were born with a psychological disability throughout the ages.
Why should they ? Silly
@@NelsonDiscovery please take your meds.
Kinda strange replies to the original comment here - Whatever people want to say, it is true people have died for all of you to be here. It’s up to you whether you think you owe them a good life, children etc. but all things considered it’s hard to deny it to some extent especially ww2 allies they died so you may live should be applied to that war more than ww1 imo
Lmao. Um. You okay? You might be projecting just a little bit.
How is this not a movie already? This has to be one of the most harrowing tales I've ever heard.
Personally I'm glad it isn't. Hollywood would fuck it up to a cartoonish degree.
@Jerry Louis with The Thickness He did? That sounds awesome, what movie was that?
@@GleichUmDieEcke i kinda want to see a black woman playing genghis khan
_Gateway to the West_ , about the invasion of Hungary, is in post production. Bad news: Eric Roberts appears in it.
There have been a few Russian films about the invasion.
@@andrewchristie2970 dark ages started centuries before this
As a Romanian watching this from a village along the Mures river, recognizing all locations from oradea to alba iulia, this is bone chilling. We learned of the ottoman terrors in wallachia and transylvania but we only heard mentions of Gesta Hungarorum (for obvious reasons) so this amount of detail of mongol invasion was new to me.
the draculetsi got his vengeance a thousand times over, but sadly the trauma of the mongols could never be avenged, it was just that bad
the mongol invasions are literally unparalleled tbh, they are on par with the black death, they are an unbridled chain of devastation so severe that it effectively acted as a disease, it culled millions, and when that was done the people were so agonized by their experiences that they just wanted to rebuild.
the ottomans were a nearer foe, one that could be resisted and not incur the annihilation of your civilization if you did so. the ottomans were, for all their faults as an empire, interested in building people they annexed into subjects.
if a single lord resisted the mongols, his city would be razed, every soul put to the sword, and whatever lord he owed his fealty to would be rolled into a rug, trampled, and his realm would be burnt to the ground.
there were survivors of the mongols who lived long enough to see the black death creep in.
imagine the scale of that. first, a purge by humanity, and then, a purge by disease, and you live through what must feel like hell on earth, as first man, and then seemingly god, culls tens of millions.
it is a miracle the wallachians, the moldavians, hungary, germany, and the rus even survived what happened to them, two waves of utter human annihilation.
imagine how many cultures, languages, books, and creeds *didn't* survive these events. there have to be dozens, hundreds even, that we barely remember, if at all, because forces so far from their control wrought untold, incomprehensibly horrible devastation upon them.
to think that many of us are alive solely because an unbroken chain of people *did* survive these events, or at least had children before succumbing, is depressing.
so many have suffered to get us here.
@@iMajoraGaming The mongols in their cruelty and lack of empathy seem like totally different humans,. They seem not like the rest of us. They must have descendants. I don't think their descendants are genetically born from them. O wonder if they are related to the Sythians, who also destroyed. Who, I wonder are their modern day descendants? There must be fenetic info on this. Does anyone know?
@@iMajoraGamingTrue. Just read any of their terrors like "The Sack of Baghdad". That shows brutality of the Mongols. Destroyed the city in such a manner that it took centuries for agriculture of the region to recover.
@@Karen677-ld4lmthe steppe was cruel, and the mongols fought this way with one another. the american comanche did the same against their fellow natives, the spanish, and finally the yanks who defeated them.
The magnitude of this horror is impressive. Puts a lot of things into perspective. That said, this man was smart and had good instincts as to how to survive.
It's primary source and a biased account (a guy literally running for his life rather than a neutral party present in the mongol court or Hungarian). Historians don't presume it's all true. How did he know about all these unspeakable cruelties occurring, while he was hiding or busy surviving and finding refuge. Most likely he heard these tales while on the road and running into other survivors who exchanged their tales and rumors. Telling people that people sold their daughters to the mongols for wealth and were killed anyways seems quite foolish, morelike the account attempting to moralize and express disproval towards collaborating with the mongols.
@@maaz322 also it seems that he was a scared little rich boy in a time when everyone was in need of their leaders all he did was lead himself away from danger and cared less for others.... That was probably the reason the men he hired rob and left him. I'm sure he told a story about getting reinforcements not just running away but the fact that he said he returned with his head held low says alot
Yeah but also he was kinda cunning and selfish, he literally leveraged royal children to get supplies and support 😂 this dude is more messed up than the mongols in terms of morality
@@maaz322most historians are paid to make shit up.
@@psychobear1290 I wonder how you'd fare in his shoes. His status meant nothing to the mongols, for them he would be one more person to kill, not different from any villager.
I was transported to that era of horror as an observant, following the master through the villages and forests to safety. Thank you for another marvelous story of the past.
Muslims and Christians both suffered at hands of Mongols. Muslims a bit more because mongols were relatively more tolerant of Christians, as wife of Gaykhatu(mongol general) was Christian.
In the end most Mongols reverted to Islam and are peacefully living in central asia.
@@blackpanthar906 "reverted" lmao
@@severusfloki5778 Excuse me?
@@blackpanthar906 You say "reverted", as if the Mongols were originally muslim. They were pagans, many still are, others converted to christianity and islam.
@@chico9805 We say reverted because we believe Islam to be original religion of every child that is born. Later on they learn to worship created things among creation from their parents or society.
Originally all humans believe in a higher being according to Oxford University research by Justin Barrett.
This man's story needs to be made into a full-on movie.
The minute anyone tried to make this a movie, it would be rewritten into a PG-13 romantic comedy set in Paris and filmed in Vancouver.
Yes. A spaghetti-Western.
Might be good story except the audiences will probably hate it because the Tartar "devils" still goes unpunished at the end (at least not yet historically).
Except maybe if they wrote it in similar way like Dunkirk movie.
No
@@godrilla5549 yes
The Mongol invasion of Hungary is probably our single biggest national tragedy. Recent years have unearthed some heart-breaking details, such as a skull of a dog next to executed children. The dog's head was was hit by a mace and pierced by a sword as it tried to protect the children, or two little kids, a boy and a girl hidden in a furnace, a boy held a wafer iron in his hands for defence. Their mother died in front of the furnace and their house was torched by the Mongols. We now see more damage - and more resistance - than we have seen ever before. Such a heart-breaking period with opportunities and families lost forever.
Much like today, then.
Given what Europeans and Romans have done , i have no sympathy.
If only they weren’t greedy and just became a tributary and had the mongols leave them alone
@gaygachad8305 this happened years before colonialism...
@@gaygachad8305 Man, we literally never had one single colony. You should open up a book or two before commenting...
This man's story needs to be made into a full-on movie.. This man's writing and story telling is exceptional.
If we don't* know our history ,it won't repeat itself. Well kinda in WW2 & the Congo & the Americas & in the Asia again but more recent.
It is about Carmen Miserabile by Italian Roger or Rogerius. He was in Oradea în that time (1241-1242), but the name of that catholic town was "Varadinum", in Latin, from Hungarian "Varad". Master Roger was appointed archbishop of Split, in 1249, by Pope Innocente IV. We are grateful to him for writing about the event he witnessed. A unique book!
It's just a fact that the Mongols and Turks considered European women as valuable as gold. As late as the 1600s, the Turks, unable to further attack Western Europe, hired pirates to go all the way to Iceland. There, since Demark was doing a half-assed job of protecting its island possession, the pirates kidnapped women to bring back to Constantinople. Icelanders are taught that part of history, which is not taught at all, properly, anywhere else.
What's your point? What substantial part of history is being left out?
@@TheHadMatters his point is icelandic women are hot
Thus the vikings got vikinged
Mongols got white fever
Ya they liked raiding the uk and America as well early America right before the war of 1812 went to war with the Barbary pirates because of them enslaving American sailors in the med
We do know that JRR Tolkien knew his history. Instead of retelling a true story, he made it into a fantasy.
I thought it was loosely based on his experiences in his youth and the First World War.
@@BrokenEyes00 obviously not, even if he says it just watch his movies and think fora bit
@@BrokenEyes00 That was his inspiration but, of course, trench warfare is nowhere near to the battles of Lotr, while the Mongol attacks against walled cities, as described here, are almost exactly like in his book.
@@BrokenEyes00 Let's keep in mind that tolkien hated allegory, and he thought you shouldn't try digging into hidden meanings associated with the real world. His world is his own.
orientalism
So amazing that there are records/scripts of these events. To think what the world was like for these people in 1241 is wild. Always baffling that people were capable of holding these territories so far from their homes
Pack animals are crazy.
1240 AD is not old, it is 720 years. Most of the royal families in Europe today rule in that time.
Queen of england
@@zakkyummms you mean awesome?
@@ahmadphon4908 I mean it is, every country in the world today was very different or even non-existent 700+ years ago. However if you meant ancient then I agree, I think a time or object would have to be at least 1000 years old to be considered ancient.
Vikings: we kill to loot
Tatars: we kill to kill
No empire kills for the sake of killing. And all these comparisons of Mongols with demons, it's just the helplessness of the people of those times in front of a superior civilization.
@@keteket Wow, it's as if you didn't watch the documentary and went straight for the comments.
@@keteketexcept they did .it was their way to do it so everyone surrendered early
Their khans carried out a policy of mass extermination of the settled inhabitants of regions that could be turned into pastures for Mongol herds, which is the case of the Hungarian plain. Similar tactics of mass killing of the settled population were carried out in northern China, in Central Asia or in the territory of present-day Ukraine.
@@davids5126you should watch ertugul it’s a Turkish drama that’s based on pre ottoman times, during mongols invasions and battles with crusaders. Awesome show
It’s crazy to think that if Ogedai Khan didn’t die and Tsubodai could’ve kept going how much history would have changed.
Wizards and Warriors has a whole series on that what if
They would've hit a brick wall. They choked on Poland and Hungary the second time round because they faced what they would've faced in far vaster quantities the deeper they went into Europe. That being proper stone fortifications, crossbowmen and heavily armoured knights.
@@triplehernan5155 I mean the Chinese had those, it took them about 100 years to conquer the whole of China.
@@triplehernan5155 you’re bragging about Poland and medieval Europe shows a complete twisted idea of history, which is to blame on watching too much Hollywood movies and playing medieval pc games
Wrath of the Khans
I absolutely love these *"THESE VOICES FROM THE PAST"* we are all having a sneaky peak back in our human history..
This man's writing and story telling is exceptional
A few years ago the Mongol conquest of Persia left such an impression on me when i was younger i wrote a poem and this video got me looking for it AND I FOUND IT FINALLY! (Fate of 40 million)
The horizon kicks up something savage.
A sky once fair and blue; Forced red with dust and chaos, a horrid crimson slowly ascending into the heavens. Only to crash down as hell.
The horizon begins to speak in a foreign tongue, with intent made clear with decoration of scalp and skulls.
Beasts of war are the least of concern as a man dismounts at your sight. The spear speaks for itself so you run, as do your kin in defiance; Unforgivable.
Homes and husbands fuel the fires, kicking something savage in the air ascending into the heavens, children found trembling are of no use to the horde.
The wagon is presented, all taller are butchered to the wails of wives, only to be cut short. Dragged to horses by beasts.
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How lovely 😬
You're great ! Bravo !
Wtf. This seems like a poem from the medieval times
This is sheer just incredible , thank you to your channel for bringing this story . And so well narrated too
Makes me appreciate living today
U think stuff like this can't happen today? Look at what ISIS did to the middle east
You should appreciate being normal and healthy more.
👍🏻
@@joekrebs964 How's Burgdorf?
Its worse to live in the Future. Unoversal Noahide law (UN) beheading and Islamic sea beast is a sleeping giants. Plus global AI dictator is in horizone. In this technology you will note hide in caved and forest. The future is terrifying.
These horrors are baked in to human civilization. It doesn’t take much to resurrect such cruelty.
Unfortunately.
@@PaIaeoCIive1684 everyone with ears and eyes.
Well people back then were more savage by nature, they ate flesh all day, especially the tribal ones, lived outside, and were naturally more violent cuz of that.
@@dj_smacks_47 sweet, sweet, naive summer child.
@@dj_smacks_47 Sure, kid.
Please do something about the Taiping or Boxer rebellion, the Taiping heavenly kingdom is one of the most fascinating movements of the 1800s
True, the Taiping Rebellion was one of the most brutal and deadly uprising in history.
Yes, indeed
Im jahre 1900
Awesome! Thanks for the new video. I watched everything you made thus far and love it.
The mongol invasions is such a fascinating period in medieval history. It’s like a medieval version of an alien invasion or something. A mysterious and unstoppable force comes out of practically nowhere.
从东方过去，中国王朝和北方蒙古古代一直在打仗
Great video, the imagery and maps made it very immersive, crazy what those people's must've gone through
When your leader is so incredulous in matters of defense, it is not very surprising to me that not only would they be disorganized, but also poor of morale.
Who would stand to protect the complacent and obey them who displayed poor judgment when they command you to die for them?
why are you writing like that?
@@DevinDTVFor in times as our own, rare is the opportunity to display one’s command of the written word in long tested fashions and as such, gladly taken up by those who possess the wit to do so, since it is their joy.
@@DevinDTVlol I’m with you!
Luckily once the Hungarians and Poles had adapted to the military danger the Mongols caused, they were defeated and never "felt the need" to return.
ruclips.net/video/t-022t9VbFU/видео.html
@@DevinDTV they watched too many videos from this Channel xd
Later, in 1285, the hungarian king, Leslie IV, "the Cuman" from the House of Árpád (de genere Tugrul) completely destroyed Genghis Khan's great-grandson Kara Nogai (Black Nogai) Khan's huge, 40000 men mongol-tartar army in Hungary and in 1345, Andrew Lackfi the supreme commander of the hungarian king Louis the Great from the Angevin dynasty, beatened the Golden Horde in them own territory called Cumania (now Republic of Moldova), in a fierce three days fighting as the last big battle between the hungarians and the mongols. As an example, the name of a hero of these years was BUZÁD BÁNFI . He was a Hungarian nobleman and soldier (The Bánfi family is one of the greatest nobel family in Hungary). He later gave up his position in society and entered the Dominican Order. Buzád was killed during a Mongol invasion of his homeland, in 1241, and is now honored as a martyr by the Catholic Church, for which he has been beatified and is also known as BLESSED BUZÁD (Hungarian: Boldog Buzád). A production "1242 - At the Gates of the West” is being filmed in the hungarian Visegrád citadel takes us back to the time when the Kingdom of Hungary was on the brink of destruction due to the invasion of the Mongol Empire. Eric Roberts, who plays the role of the fortress captain Ákos, and András Stohl, who portrays the fierce warrior Kangar, said that after the defeat at Muhi, the only obstacle to the Tatar invasion of Europe was the fortress of Esztergom. The gap-filling historical adventure film, which will be released at the end of the year in cooperation with the Institute of Hungarian Research, presents the final days of the military campaign, which was a decisive historical moment for Béla IV from the House of Árpád (de genere Tugrul), considered to be the second founder of the Hungarian nation, and Batu Khan, the founder of the Golden Horde. mki.gov.hu/en/hirek-en/minden-hir-en/1242-at-the-gates-of-the-west-gap-filling-historical-adventure-film-about-the-era-of-bela-iv-and-batu-khan
That is very interesting information, Lehei, thank you.
Just checked out the movies website. Very interesting. Cheers for the heads-up
@@farmdude2020 the information is probably wrong. Hungarian nationalism Moldova already existed at that time. There was no "Cumania"
Astonishing that these battles and others, which saved Christian Europe from the merciless - actually genocidal - Muslim/Mongol/Tartar/Ottoman hordes are barely known in Europe beyond a few academics. The same is true of the Battle of Tours (732) and both sieges of Vienna (1529 & 1683). Westerners are more likely to know about sideshow campaigns of the Second World War than these crucial ones.
The Mongols were decisively defeated in Palestine 🇵🇸
This man experienced a real life eclipse like in Berserk. I cannot imagine how this must have been. Sometimes I doubt that the past really was like this
There's people alive today that had similar or even worse experiences in WWII. As terrifying as the Mongols were, they could never conceive of a weapon like an atom bomb annihilating an entire city and everyone in it in an instant.
That happened twice, within living memory. On top of the many, many millions of others who died...
That doubt is what leads people to find themselves in the middle of these sorts of situations when it inevitably happens once more.
@@Anonymous-ld7jeAnd yet all those people were told in advance to evacuate…
I really thought it said The Mongolian Invasion of Europe as witnessed by Mister Rogers. Now that's a must see episode.
Finally a neighbor that we don’t want to be our neighbor
These uploads are so good! The 1 of disastrous 1st encounters of the past was great. Your voice is really cool 2 :)
Great video, thank you for posting. I have heard so much about them but always from the historical context. All of them, abstract, large and as a society what they were doing. This personal first hand account of barely surviving and witnessing them is harrowing.
I read sometime ago that Hungary lost about 25-30% of its population due to the devastation perpetrated by the Mongols. It must have been horrible to be on the receiving end of such carnage.
As a Mongolian, i am proud
@@Thorfinn47.As you should be.
The fact that the muslims and Christians tried to have an alliance just to fight these people is insane
No Muslims are the real problem always was
I’ve just come across this channel and I’m so happy. I have misophonia and sadly many peoples voices make my skin but yours is like music to my ears. Subscribed. Binge watching ❤️
Fascinating account of Mongol history. This channel is one of the best
Every civilization that encountered the mongols were simply amazed by the hardiness and versatility of the Mongols
At first, I read the title as "As witnessed by Mister Rogers, 1241."
@@zakariamattu8613 And disgusted by their evil.
@@Rhodophon not to impose morals on history, but this is quite true
My favorite channel.
"ok guys the tatars are definitely gone now! lets go look for food" The tatars- "surprise motherfucker"
You would've made a fine Tartar !!!
"Those Mongols weren't very good neighbors" - Master Rogers
They are father of Christan
Exelent content. The art of transporting a person back in time with words has no price. 👌👌👌👌👌
Before I get to the relevant part of your video- when Bela IV came fleeing to my neck of woods he made my hometown a seat of archbishopry and a free town (and in furure, a capital of my homeland) he established a whole group of nobles (on account of feeding him and hiis troops with plums- so we sort of called them 'plum nobles'). Love your videos, love your narration- keep up the good work (c'mon... a video on chinese women pirates- pure gold... noone but you could have done it so beatifully).
Plums? Dried ones I presume. Was it custom of your town to eat nothing but dried plums or was there some weird reason why itwas the only food available?
Zagreb?
king bela got killed by the mongols
@@googane7755Yes, Zagreb
@@quincy189no he killed them.
Yet another masterwork! I had almost given up hope that more such marvelous accounts would be retold here, as a poor soul fleeing from the Tartars.
The most painful and funny thing at the same time..when I watch videos reporting on the Mongol invasion of the Middle East..I see the amount of gloating and humiliating psychopathic comments that glorify and love what the Mongols did of extermination and killing of the inhabitants of the Middle East...and now they themselves are sad and crying by what the Mongols did to Europe with hypocrisy The best of his suit....i wonder bewildered, should I gloat and mock and be happy for what the Mongols did to Europe?
@@kararfadialkadwy8838 Your tongue obviously talk the things already on your heart. So just have a good time, if hatred is what you enjoy.
@@elvenkind6072 what the Mongols did in Europe was great, otherwise the crusades would’ve continued forever. Although we defeated the Mongols here in Palestine, and we are 100% free of mongol blood, i still find the mongols cool
@@kararfadialkadwy8838Thats nothing compared to all the muslims on the internet celebrating the Armenian genocide and saying how its good that it happened
@@fadyal-qaisy5213Go find your favorite 🐐 boy.
As the greatest Khan said:' if you had been good people, the holy Tengri would not have sent me to punish you'
One thing that makes me sad is the thought of beautiful or brilliant people that were killed by the Mongols
Oh well.
The most painful and funny thing at the same time..when I watch videos reporting on the Mongol invasion of the Middle East..I see the amount of gloating and humiliating psychopathic comments that glorify and love what the Mongols did of extermination and killing of the inhabitants of the Middle East...and now they themselves are sad and crying by what the Mongols did to Europe with hypocrisy The best of his suit....i wonder bewildered, should I gloat and mock and be happy for what the Mongols did to Europe?
@@kararfadialkadwy8838 Sounds like you are focusing on a minority of ignorant evil people and using your reaction of disgust and anger to what they say to justify you doing the same things, instead of trying to be a part of the people who are more understanding, who together from both sides unify to create more positive growth between the mentioned people
@@evan_rage_mauger Your are correct..but the problem is that I am very in pain. I am an Iraqi from the city of Baghdad and you know very well what the Mongols did to my city...when I go and watch the report on the Mongol invasion of Baghdad..I see the amount of terrifying, sadistic and very brutal comments...to the point that I feel depression and suffocate and collapse nervously And emotionally of glorified and glorification of what the Mongols did to my people in Baghdad or the Middle Eastern peoples....Thank you very much for your comment and your understanding for My sad and broken feelings..🌷🌻🌼🌹
@@kararfadialkadwy8838Your point is totally valid, don't worry. I pray that one day Iraq sees freedom and peace.
There were 4 nations which have managed to defeat the 1200's Mongols in war ; Javanese (Majapahit), Turks (Khalji & Bahri Mamluks), Japanese, Vietnamese (Dai Viet). Mongols of the first half of the 13th century however were unstoppable
Major nations destroyed by the Mongols ;
-Jin(Tungusic)
-Khwarezmids(Turkic)
-Souther Song(Sinitic)
-Kara Khitais(Khitanic)
-Cumania(Turkic)
-Kievan Rus(Germanic and Slavic)
-Seljuk Rum(Turkic)
-Abbasids(Arabic)
-Western Xia(Qiangic)
-Volga Bulgaria(Turkic)
The destruction of Baghdad was a terrible loss for humanity.
This is incomplete. Hungary, all though losing its first war in 1241 - 1242, won quite spectucularly during its second war in 1285 - 1286. Hungary was so utterly well prepared to face the Mongol invasion that the forces of local Hungarian lords defeated most of the Mongol force before Hungary even had time to muster its royal army.
@@joebombero1 could you expand on that?
Where is India?
@@Osvath97 Egyptian Mamulks were the first to defeat them thankfully just imagine Cairo being destroyed like Baghdad
Sucks that all the warnings of doom are sounding today, and now we are the incredulous twits, being overrun by savagery.
The Mongols were basically acting like they're in a video game.
looting everything and farming kills lol
the strategy games took example I guess… probably the most easy and straight forward behaviour to implement, AI diplomacy in the other hand, it’s much less potent.
The things people do in video games are an extension of what they would do in real life if they could get away with it
@@_--Reaper--_ Obviously not true. What if it's chess? Lots of people prefer the computer version to chessboards.
Who knows maybe we are NPCs
My god
I felt the fear
I felt the cruelty
Not some of man, a freaking village gone in a day.
How cruel a dynasty wants to achieve the un achievable , the 💀 death !!!
💐🙏🏻🌺❤️ To all those souls
Thank you for the video. I come from that region and I have so many mongolian genes in my genom that it looks like I had a mongolian ancestor in the 18. Century. I often wondered what these poor women of my ancestry went through, and to hear their story from an eye witness was fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time.
So happy I found this channel
This is a truly harrowing account as told by someone who lived through it. No wonder Christian Europe regarded the Mongols as God's wrath.
They were bend on doing genocide.Why? I mean they stayed in a place just to kill the survivors?Like, why?
How can a person be so evil, those soldiers were extremely evil!!!
Not a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment.
Those youth journalling don't even know what living is nowadays. Reading and writing is sure to doom the coming generations.
Thank you for bringing us these wonderful videos.
That was dreadfully fascinating
Thank you Eastern Europeans and Southern Europeans for defending Europe from foreign invasons through the millennia.
Its why its funny and sad to us when you in west Europe look down at us for being poor.
When if we had switched locations we would be laughing at your sad state of affairs.
But this is also why we are much more hardy people and used to surviving.
@@VojislavMoranic i love how they were nice and you just came in swinging lol. take it easy, tough guy
Just say Russia already
@@VojislavMoranic I'm from Western Europe and we don't think that at all. Even if we did, did you really just say that you'd laugh at us if it were the other way around haha
@@VojislavMoranic lol protect europe by getting rekt by the Mongols, bull strategy there.
The Hungarian Nobblemen in the first half of the story are like the politicians and businessmen who ignore the scientists in a disaster movie.
These politicians and businessman are really just reflections of most people. No one wants to do any work or pay any taxes.
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I believe "The Gate" is the "Iron Gates" on the Danube River. A defensible river gorge.
Brilliant narration!
How precious to have such an eyewitness account. And what a terrible time to be alive. We are so lucky.
Cracks me up when people say...I wish I could've lived back in the day...nope it was actually pretty terrifying back in the ancient times no thanks
The Roman's tried, and they failed to defeat the Cornish in the 1st century. Upon the Roman's arrival they initially recorded the Dumnonii but later reported on the Cornovii of Dumnonii. The Romans colonized much of central and southern Britain, but Dumnonia was virtually unaffected by the conquest. Roman rule had little to no impact on the region, meaning it could flourish as a fully independent kingdom, which evidence shows was sometimes under the dominion of the kings of the Britons, and sometimes to have been governed by its own Dumnonian monarchy, either by the title of duke or king. This kingdom shared strong linguistic, political and cultural links with Brittany.
The Saxons also tried and also failed to defeat the Cornish. When the Kingdom of Wessex were expanding their territory westwards towards Cornwall. The Cornish were frequently embattled with the West Saxons who used their Germanic word "walha", meaning stranger or foreigner to describe their opponents, (later specifying them as Cornwalas, the Cornish). Conflict continued until King Athelstan of England determined that the River Tamar be the formal boundary between the West Saxons and the Cornish in the year 936, making Cornwall one of the very last retreats of the true Britons.
I’m sure they meant 50 yers ago not 500
Depends which side you were on. If you were the ones doing the raping and pillaging, well...
Still people die in africa and asia and even europe war and hunger
Sure but it all depends on who you’re born as. You could be a mineral mine slave today but you’re not.
The loss of Of Baghdad and its Great house of Wisdom was Missive loss for humanity.
It really wasn't. You don't need religion.
@@NelsonDiscovery yes u do europe wouldnt get this far without it
@@NelsonDiscoveryyes you do, but you'll likely learn the hard way on your judgement day.
@@NelsonDiscovery The house of wisdom was about natural science such as physics,alchemy and mathematics, just because polymaths have faith doesn't mean we should discredit them in knowledge department.
@@MarvelousSevenNo we won’t.
Now we need "The Mongol Invasion of Europe" as told by Uncle Roger
Never stop making these
We tend to view the Romans in a more rosy way because their art was incredible, their engineering was remarkable and they made lavish marble buildings. But Julius Caesar killed a million Gauls in 8 years. The Romans slaughtered countless 10's of millions of women, children and innocent men (not to mention actual enemy soldiers) throughout it's history. They don't get the same reputation for brutality as the Mongols, but they were. Another similarity between the two is the illusion of invincibility and the fear this created. The Roman war machine was virtually unstoppable for much of it's history. The knowledge that the Roman Legions or Mongol Horde was approaching your city must have been beyond terrifying. Your army or garrison would almost certainly be defeated and the ensuing consequences would be apocalyptic.
The movie that needs to be made but we won’t get it because Europeans don’t like to admit they were enslaved & destroyed once upon a time. But Hollywood will gladly fund the misfortunes of other races…
Damn this man not only lived through the most horrible period to be alive with the Mongol invasion but actually managed to survive and told his magnificent tales
Thanks so much , for such super content
at around 9:30 "The Tatars only cared for slaying people and seemed to care little for loot."
This is probably because of the Mongol policy of not taking any loot untik the entire region has been thoroughly conquered. It was how they succeeded over other nomadic tribes in the early days when they were still fighting the Jin Dynasty.
*entire region*? You mean the city was completely decimated then they looted?
@@NotSoSerious69420 usually not decimated, but rather completely surrendered
The Mongols were beasts. Enslaved the whole of Eastern Europe and annihilated the Caliph and the Islamic Golden Age. Truly apocalyptic.
Not even Nazies killed everyone in every town or settlement if they didn't surrender. These guys were blooddrunk with no inhibitions. Worse than SS-einsatzgruppen.
They couldn’t subdue Palestine, they got stuck there
If I remember correctly, some Russian sources literally stated something like "Well, here comes the Apocalypse and the Last Judgement, finally" because the Christian world was patiently waiting for the End of the World throughout basically all of the Middle Ages
That's what interests me the most. How biblical the Mongols were. Horse riders from the east. Four horse men. Bring war, diseases, famine, and death.
@@marcusaurelius4941 really can u give me any source of it ??
I've read several academic books and papers on this fascinating epoch and most seem to conclude that the Mongols were indeed merciless and implacable but also extremely disciplined. They were not wild, lawless hordes as many seem to think but a trained and battle hardened expeditionary army. They would usually first offer terms of surrender which if accepted would lead to the city being spared the sword but heavily taxed. If the offer was refused or the terms broken the punishment was swift and terrible. No stone could be left standing atop another, no man woman or child left alive beyond those who could be relied upon to carry the tale with them wherever they fled. Occasionally, just to shake things up and stay unpredictable they wouldn't offer terms and proceed straight to annihilation. Thus was done usually after calculating that the town's economic value was low enough to be sacrificed to cement their own terrifying reputation. It was often said that even the news that the Mongol ruler had turned to look in your direction from however many leagues away was enough to turn livers to water, for soldiers to desert and princes to despair. In other words this was psychological warfare and through it half the battle was usually won before it had even started. There was also another practical reason for depopulating an enemy land, to reduce the number of people who might consume its resources, leaving alive only enough to till the land or dig the mines and so continue to pay tributes. Loyal and obedient vassals were cared for and rewarded. To the Mongol, mindless savagery was not an end but a means towards conquest and wealth. Frankly they were not the first and certainly nor were they the last to act on such motivation.
Actually, they delighted in doing the worst to people, and rarely kept their word about terms of surrender.
@@earlysdai was thinking the same thing. I've read that they didn't spare those who surrendered.
No Rasheed. Surrender usually meant death. They didn't care about getting a tax, they took what they wanted and then killed.
It may also be based on the nobles/warband leaders discretion as well. I would assume the higher ranking nobles who mightve profited from taxation or land grants would have a more vested interest than the lower ranking lords to make as much wealth as possible.
I remember hearing/reading kf a Mongol tactic where they purposely caused refugees to flood cities- causing strained food supplies and misinformation
Sounds like a band of Germans we know
Popularly called The Golden Horde, the domains of the heirs of Jochi were not known by that name. The term ‘Golden Horde’ does not enter the sources until the sixteenth century, when Russian chroniclers referred to the domains as Zolotaia Orda, the Golden Camp or Palace.¹ During the Mongol era, they were known as the Kipchak Ulus or Khanate or the Jochid Ulus or Khanate. The Kipchak Khanate appellation came later and was a substitution for the Dasht-i Kipchak, or the Kipchak Steppes.
love these vids!!
The first ever recorded chess game was recorded as a poem in 1475. I’d love to hear that poem played over the game, it’s currently not available like that on RUclips
Thank you for covering this sad and brutal part of our history. We need to remember and mourn the victims, such tragedy cannot be forgotten.
-Greetings from hungary
For their overall, relatively brief period of dominance, Europeans now made to feel guilty for becoming the masters of modern warfare, after suffering milleniae of invasion after invasion to occupy some of the best real estate in The World.
Murder is bad, no matter who does it.
@@baneofbanes I agree with you. I should make it clear that this insight is not justification for war. But neither do I think the current vilification of Europeans for being recently dominant in history is constructive. They are the product of the violent history that shaped them. They contributed as much to the World by their inventiveness and creativity as they ever took from it.
Huns, Avars, Mongols, Muslims invasion of Spain, Ottomans
The great mongols also contributed to the world
The Mongol Invasions are the real reason why Europe jumped ahead of China and the Islamic world. Europe west of Hungary was spared the Mongol Invasions. China and the Muslim world took the full brunt, and took centuries to recover.
The brought the black death so nobody got off
“White people were racist, always wanting slaves”
The Mongols and Turks : “Hold my beer”
Blacks also took slaves as well. The Dahomey tribe in Africa is an example.
@@thegreatattila yeh don’t get me started about Africa lol
Slavery started in Africa. Africans were enslaving each other, before the first white man got there.
@@lachlanf4842also white people: nobody is innocent and the weak becomes oppressor while the strong rules and that was the way of life
Also white people on Mongol: tHeY wErE sO eViL hOw cOuLd tHEy dO tHis😢
@@thegreatattila Dahey kingdom
This channel is second to none.
Most of the accounts of Mongol invasions comes from "Historia Salonitana".
Can you do some stories from "Historia Salonitana"?
There was interesting naval battle description between Tragerans and Spalatians, also realistic battle between Spalatians and Cetinians in 1222, a brutal first-hand account how medieval battle looked.
Hey, just wanted to say thank you for giving that interesting source I haven't heard from before. Do you perhaps know of any other interesting medieval primary sources from that area?
@@Mihael-kw5iethere is also "Obsidio Iadrensis", siege of Zara 1345-46, first-hand description of medieval siege with naval battles, culminanting in the large battle on July 01 1346.
@@marccan3267 Thanks, that looks really interesting! Btw, do you know of any way of accessing full work either in English or Croatian for free? I can find just one translation, and that one is paywalled. Much appreciated!
@@Mihael-kw5ie Unfortunately, I don't have access anymore, I have "Salonitana" but I can't publish it here
@@marccan3267 ah well, thanks anyways. I also found salonitana, and from what little I read so far it is very interesting, so that is great
Apparently Bela and his Holy Hand Grenade were of no help.
FYI, Mongols did the same thing to Tanguts in 1227AD before this event, and also to Han Chinese in 1279AD after this event.
Also as an amateur historian myself, I've the feeling that modern western historians (including the videomaker) still have no idea why Mongols were so fatal in the 13th century.
Here are my 2 cents:
* 13th-century Mongols (in below I‘ll abbreviate as Mongols by omitting the term "13th-century") created the ONLY expendition army WITHOUT the need of a separated logistic branch in the entire human military history so far.
Each Mongol had about a dozen Mongolian horses. A Mongolian horse is short and NOT as strong as western horses, but with great stamina instead.
Each Mongol could survive the military expedition by drinking horse milk, or eating horse meat when a horse is dead or butchered.
In other words, the Mongol expedition armies were self-sufficient during an entire expedition campaign.
* Mongols never used their Mongolian horses in the same way as western armored knights. On the contrary, Mongol's fighting style was more like the way how wolves hunt an animal much larger than a single wolf. In other words, Mongols were hunting like wolves rather than fighting their eastern and western opponents.
Before the invention of machine gun, nobody could beat the Mongol's wolf hunting strategy unless by adopting the same hunting strategy and performing it in a better way (like Manchu's Qing Dynasty in 17th century)
Turks and mongols*
Mongolian warriors were mighty in their day. On land, they were largely unstoppable. On sea, they fell largely to the Japanese. Hungary also brought Mongolia a downfall.
There were mainly typhoons at that time, and there was no good shipbuilding technology in ancient times that could enable warships to sail far away.
@@longma7457 I doubt the mongols were much good at sailing, being horsemen from the steppe. But it is certainly dangerous to sail and navigate on one of those old boats. Whenever Im learning about ancient naval operations it seems half of them end in disaster which often kills a lot or all of the sailors. Never know what weather God will throw at you.
@@boreunoffp3639he's correct. It was typhoons that saved Japan
Even in Java , they were defeated
Mongols: It was just a prank bro, chillllll
the prank in question:
It’s a brushed over part of history in the West. At least in the United States. Maybe Eastern Europe and those places razed by Genghis and others teach about it, otherwise it would be a college course for a history major…fascinating content. Definitely brutal and an example of the dark side of the human race. Nothing like this has happened since ww2. I am afraid the worst is coming soon. We are definitely due
Genghis Khan was already dead ,when the mongols attack Eastern Europe
you're not gonna believe this...
There was also the colonisation of america, plenty of brutality and cleansing there.
@@agapitoliriafake and gay, not at all comparable
@@agapitoliriatry reading, and don't bring up irrelevant whataboutisms just because you're provoked.
I visited some of the areas mentioned in this video. I also visited the volga River during a trip to Russia
Amazing!
i dont get how Alexander Nevsky can be considered a hero having been loyal to the mongols
Easy there was nothing he could do to stop them. He saved the Rus identity by submitting and preserving it.
His submission saved his culture.
cause he fought off a Crusade I guess?
also there is a cool movie about him which was kind of an analogy for the Eastern Front of WW2
Wonderful content. Thanks for sharing. ❤
Hope you'd have a Spotify version. The voice of the narration sounds so great.
Love your channel !! Please consider doing Josephus's account of the Judean revolt 🙏
And to think we feel we need to *invent* apocalypse tales for movies. Yes, it's beyond any notion of atrocity but what interested most were the embedded morality stories. Not saying some people got what they deserved really. It simply proves the old saying that tragedy brings out both the best and worst in people.
A world history and war history video covering the history of the conquest of Europe by the Mongol Empire, the world's most powerful nation. It was nice to be able to hear in detail what I learned in my school's world history textbook through video. The video quality is good.
man this gave me an urgent need of re playing kingdom come deliverance
Thank you!
They must have been very complexed about themselves to be that evil.
If hell or something equivalent exists, we all know where they have been since
Us mongolians didn’t believe in hell or heaven. Our traditional religion tengri (until it mixed with tibetan buddhism) had no concept of good or evil. In the steppes, survival is survival and killing is another way of the harsh life.
@@unodos.4557 I see
@@unodos.4557 It is also said that buddhism was introduced in Mongolia to control us.
They were stronger minded than you so they won
@warrioremperor6320 sure strong mind wins war mate, go tell that to those that get their ass kicked due to inferior tactics and armaments
What I learned:
✅Tartars are evil
✅Hiding in the forests are the best way not to die
Amazing work, as always. It's like living in those herendous times. Have you thought of making a podcast of these?
The Tartars sack of Baghdad was even worse of this (if one genocide could be worse than another). In human history, no one was more brutal than these descendents of Ghenghis khan
Their Sultan should've shown some respect to the diplomats. Technically, he brought it to his people.
The stories from Mongol invasion of Persia and Islamic lands are so horrifying that they put WW2 to shame. To put it simply, not just cities, or regions, but entire civilizations and everything within them were completely, and I mean completely, wiped out. It ended the Islamic Golden Age (look it up) which was essentially the eastern Renaissance. Aristotelian logic and ideas were revered in the golden age, which resulted in rapid developments in science, literature, art and etc. After Mongol invasion and their rule for about 150 years, various elements of their supernatural and shamanistic beliefs were either forced or gradually integrated into every facet of the cultures and intellectual atmosphere. Those lands (middle east and central Asia) have never recovered to this day.
Forced? The Mongols never forced religions. That's why Chinggis Khan was greatest manager in the history
@@NASARIAN12lmao he's worse than bitler
When I looked up the 'Islamic Golden Age' it lead to a world where Islamic expansion collected Greek, Jewish and Christian academia like they would 'booty' and for museums or collectors items but rarely was any of it utilized and used for any helpful purposes or development.
@@topsuperseven7910exactly
@@topsuperseven7910Don’t be ridiculous.
Great description, Mongols were definitely evil side of Humans, this story is repeated even now again & again. Fear of life is worse. It happened in India Pakistan partition in 1947 to lesser extent in Punjab. Now happening in Ukraine.😌🙏🇨🇦