I made my Amazons by hybridizing Alan and Khazar. You get Byzantine heritage and Scythian language, which fits because the Amazons are from Greek myths often related to the Scythians. You also get equal martial culture which is neat. I just pretended my character heard the legends and presumed it was referring to their culture, and that Kuzarite was actually the remnant of the lost faith of the ancient Amazons. We reformed that to the true, reformed Amazon faith. So yeah, we were Jewish Amazons.
Actually the historical Scythians were an Iranian people group so the other Heritage of that hybrid might have worked a tiny bit better. And well, Kuzarite DOES have Syncretic folk traditions, so it kinda works, it'd just be syncretysing with a different set of folk traditions than the mostly slavs and tengri-ists in the area.
@@000Dragon50000 I preferred Byzantine heritage because I was convoluting a way for Amazons with a capital-A to exist. Without Byzzie heritage I would've just been another femdom steppe tribe and I've already done that like 3 times.
@@carltonleboss maybe it's because they were quite influenced by the Byzantines but I'm not sure. And most Alans today are still Orthodox christians I think
Middle Easterners are also Asian. But they're NOT racially Asian. People aren't discussing continental origin, they're discussing race. How is there such cognitive dissonance to ignore this simple explanation?
I'm Lebanese, white looking and from a Christian background. Moved to the us last year and explaining people my name, where I'm from, and that not all Arabs look the same is a thing i never imagined i would've had to do. Don't get me started on the "Arabs are asian" part of it. Was nice hearing you rant about Africans, cathartic!
This whole discussion about North Africans being not Africans, reminds me of a clip I once saw, where people (likely US-Americans) were irritated by people from eastern Russia/Siberia who look "asian" saying they are russian^^ The people reacted to that like "no, look at you, you don't look like a russian. You must be mongolian or chinese". Same thing, like wtf, why can't large areas or countries have very diverse people??
5:34 I have one of the best interactions in my class about this, my teacher was thinking about a cultural exchange with Kenya. The one (funnily enough very americanized guy) "Is that where they speak Afrikaans?" "No they are actually quite known for their english" "Do they speak Afrikaans though" "No that'd be the other side of the continent" "Africa is Africa"
Fun fact about Africa: Africa contains as much genetic diversity in it as the entire rest of the world combined. I'm fairly sure that it's similarly diverse in languages and cultures too.
kinda ye, unless the cultures live like next to each other or in the same general area if you compared them it would be kinda like comparing european ones to asian ones. not really at all close to similar especially considering europe and asia themselves are also diveded af into different cultural lines and those can be anything from "very similar" to "might aswell be from mars"
Absolutely. There are TONS of different languages and cultures in Africa. It's a large part of why African nations have struggled so much. The borders of the African nations as they exist today are mostly as they are because of the nations that colonized them. Many cultures got split up, many others got lumped together with different cultures who they considered dire enemies, or both, and the colonizers just didn't care. It's kinda like taking a bunch of people out of Appalachia and a bunch more out of The Bronx, and then yet more from L.A., and then sticking them on an island together and telling them to form a stable nation out of it.
@@rimanpele genetic diversity doesn't mean high population count although that can be part of it. It means that the life that *Is* there is all different then the others to a greater extent than somewhere else. Think of it like this, a genetically diverse neighborhood would be one where noone that lives there is related to the others that do while the non genetically diverse one (India and china in your case) would be the one that they are related to each other. The non genetically diverse neighborhood might be bigger but it's all basically just one giant extended family while the diverse one is smaller but none of the families are related
Pretty much yeah. It is also how we know Africa is also the cradle of mankind, where humans originally evolved: Humans have been in Africa millions of years, forming many branches, but only a few of those branches actually expanded out of Africa, and non-Africans are all descenced from those branches.
Thank you for the Africa rant. Every time some "probably american" writes about how Killmonger in Black Panther had a noble goal and good intentions I struggle with not writing a long rant about how utterly detached from reality and nonsensical his plan is. I think they see Africans as African Americans who live in Africa and lack the benefits of being American. To be fair to the original writers: Killmonger was probably meant to represent the more militant fringe of the civil rights movement who thought that only violence can break the systemic racism and oppression. As such he and his plans do actually make lot more sense than they do if taken literally.
As an American. I can tell you we are barely educated on the rest of the world even existing. Our schools just don't really teach this stuff unless it's directly related to us
@@kris_pavlov history class until 17-18 yrs old is all US history, didn’t learn European history until my last year before college and even then we didn’t learn too much, which is fair because it’s thousands of years of history and we only have a few months, college history is better but most people don’t go to college for history because the jobs aren’t great with a history degree, so most get like 3 months of world history and even then it’s not that extensive, I learned more history from RUclips documentary channels like kings and generals than I did from a college history class, but it kind of makes sense as an American because we don’t often interact with other continents unless you work in international fields like business, in fact I’ve only ever met 3 people that were born in Africa and only because I went to a good internationally known private school
Day 10 of thanking laith for playing anbennar and I do nope you continue the jaddaei playthrough. (Just wait for the rest of missions once you hit the formable)
If you want a super dominated female playthrough, one of my favourite things is do is reform the Baltic pagan faith to be female dominated, have the tenants Sacred Birth, Communion, and Carnal Rites, and make all forms of adultery illegal. Everyone will be suducing everyone, which you can milk for profit with Communion. And with the reduction in pregnancy complication from Sacred Births (and that one legacy) you very rarely have to worry about dying in childbirth.
Bud, you can get some auto generated characters of your culture, the local culture in the same religion by clicking the buttons on the top when handing out provinces. You can get some nice character generations at times and a mix of older vassals that don't have heirs. It's way easier that way
You can say it, it's mostly American people because for some reason here people still strongly associate your physical features with where you're from. I'm sure it's like that in some other places too, but it's crazy to me that some people just don't understand that you can't paint an entire continent as being one shade of skin color and then anyone else that isn't in the majority of that skin color is no longer considered part of that group. "You're not a real African" is just a crazy thing to say
I saw the exact thread he's talking and everyone I saw saying they were not were legit africans. I know there's a pension for everyone to believe ONLY Americans can be ignorant but this is one geopolitical issue Americans don't have ANY kind of reason to be in.
@@kingjamestres as an American I think a lot of us believe they have the “correct” opinions because we’ve been the worlds superpower for a long time, there is just this idea that the American way is the right way and that opinions from America should be held above other continents opinions, its very weird
I'm American, and I have to agree, our education system is VERY poorly funded, especially when it comes to the humanities (like history and geography). Decent education is mostly for those who have wealthy parents. Also, apart from Native Americans, who are a very small minority, we are all descended from immigrants from elsewhere. We tend to have a habit of making whatever country our great-grandparents originated from part of our identity, and acting like we are just as much a part of that place as its actual citizens even though we know jack all about it. So yeah, Laith and everybody else, apologies to y'all about how dumb we all are.
Actually its more accurate to see foreign nations as ethnonationalist and generalizing them under one ethnicity and in turn one race. The western hemisphere and especially the US doesn't have this issue, being an amalgam of every ethnicity. The thing is, race is a very easy way to approximate different groups in such a wildly diverse nation. African=black. European=white. Asian=asian. Middle East=Arab/Sometimes white. Colonized ethnicites=native. LatAm and Iberian=hispanic. Simplistic but generally accurate for all the more homogenous and ethnonationalist nations.
Napoleon actually never stole the Mona Lisa from Milano that is a myth. When Leonardo Da Vinci died, the French king of the time probably bought it off of Leonardo’s servant for a lot of money after the servant took it from Leonardo’s chambers. Napoleon did put the Mona Lisa up in his bedroom though
In More Bookmarks+ there is ruler of the Barlas dynasty in the Chagatai Khanate, Samarkand is in his realm. His son is Timurid(not exactly historical)but you can play as him. It’s in the 1300s. You should try it.
As an American, I can agree and empathize with you entirely when you're saying that Americans were trying to incorrectly inform you about Africa. There's a massive plague of stupidity and attempting to explain things to people by those who have literally no clue what they're talking about. Twitter is a cesspool 😂😂😂😂 - Ignore us Americans when we're saying dumb stuff. Focus on the good. Cheers and happy playing, m8.
Its not incorrect, just social differences. In America we discuss things racially ig because we have every ethnic group thrown in to one nation. African is black. European is white. Asian is asian. The original habitants of every landmass which was colonized are natives. Arabs are arabs. And Latin Americans and Iberians are hispanic. They're just terms for race and obviously in the US we'd say Laith is racially Arab or white. Not black. Nor asian. Therefore despite his nationality being a part of the African continent, he is not racially "African" as Arabs colonized North Africa from blacks. Just as saying "American" doesn't mean white or saying "Hungarian" is not wrong just because its "Magyar" in another language.
@@PhoenixFires Laith admitted that he is a Berber, who are descendent of Carthage. Berber are African and just because they adopt Arabic language doesn't mean that they are Arabs located in the Middle East. The Berber has a long history goes long before Arab conquest of North Africa. The reason why people imagine that Carthaginian are white Europeans because of Hollywood movies. Africa was never ethnically homogenous like Japan, there is a lot of diversity of ethnic even before Arab conquest of North Africa.
@@PhoenixFires Just because that's your mindset doesn't mean it's correct in virtue of "all opinions are correct", which they aren't. The racial theory is outdated pseudoscience, what you have here is black (ngroid), white (caucasoid) and asian (mongoloid). Pseudoscience. That's not how it works. As for Africa, NO. The Arabs didn't colonize NA from "blacks". The berber peoples are the natives of NA outside of Egypt and they're not "black". And Morroco is the country with least Arab blood and more berber blood, even if culturally they have more affinity to Arabs. Same thing in Madagascalar, that island was settled by both Bantu "black" people and Indonesian "asian" people. Africa has ALWAYS been the most diverse continent in the world and will most likely keep that way, and it was never 100% native "black". But Americans think differently because social difference. Then they gotta learn and stop clinging outdated rethoric. And until then tweets like the one we talk about should very much be shunned
@@PhoenixFires "as Arabs colonized north africa from blacks" for someone who likes to sound knowledgeable you really showed that you're still an uneducated ignorant American like the rest of them. The Arabs didn't colonize north africa, they just forced their culture, language and religion on them, north Africans are still genetically the same people they were before the Arab conquest with only around 5-15% extra arab dna while being 85-95% native Amazigh.
7:36. I think what you've encountered Laith is the realization that most westerners dont know that ethnic identity, race (to the extent that it's even a thing outside of the west), language and geographic identity aren't the same because how European states were built. Also let's be real the idea of continents is stupid and there's no way Europe would be a continent if anybody other than Europeans defined what continents there were. There is no criteria for what is a continent where Europe is its own continent and Asia isn't at least 3. They are a a very bad classification system and it's sucks that it's the primary way we categorize groups of people
The French love “well acktuallying” the rest of the world when it comes to discussions of ethnicity, heritage & culture. Even then - his argument was “I have some Arab & Maghrebi friends who don’t think of themselves as African” and then repeatedly asking for Laith’s “credentials” as a Tunisian
@@TheAsymmetrical French insufferables are beyond parody. Make fun of their idea of secularism and Islamic relation issues when you figure out they are complete assholes and watch the fireworks
hey you did the strategy I suggested, it`s a shame though that you only stayed with one character so you couldn`t really analize for yourself whether it worked for you or not, but from my experience it`s a nice strategy to keep your vassals busy and to stop them from being rebelious
Yeah as an American its truly depressing how little most of us know about the world its genuinely pathetic, especially Africa, which is ridiculously diverse and rich in history. I personally love history especially the early Muslims and mali and Mogadishu/early Somalia
I don’t think of nations by which continent they are in. I think of them as the region they are in. So if someone asks me what Northern Africa is I will say Mediterranean, same for Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey etc.
What Laith said of some Americans not considering North Africa truly "African", happens with Latin America too. If you aren't Dominican/Cuban/Mexican (or kind of brownish skin for some people) then you aren't truly a "Latino", even being from Centro America I've seen people gettin mixed up. And I won't talk about all of the Argentina isn't Latino slander+You housed all the Nazis shit because it truly triggers me because it can be answered with half a Google search. So yeah, welcome to twitter I guess.
Laith why did you not make this over in the Crimean region where the Scythian peoples came from? They are historically where the depiction of female "Amazon" archers came from.
I don't get it, why does he always use the character list to hand out the titles? Its so much simpler to generate new characters without convoluted inheritance chance by just clicking the "Give titles to someone of YOUR culture and YOUR faith", and if there are none they just get generated. The button is right there above the characters list, just click it, so much simpler.
If I could try to defend my fellow Americans, 9 times out of 10 when we say "African" we mean "Black", so I could see how some people don't consider Morocco or Tunisia "African" because they're not black. Being African-American very specifically means black; unless you're a troll no one would call Elon Musk African-American even though he's from South Africa. So in American, north Africans aren't "African" because to us being African-American is a more formal/polite way to say black. We'd probably just refer to Moroccans or Tunisians as "Arab" or "Middle Eastern" if in a more general group. Like they're objectively wrong from basic geography, but I can at least see the logic from a very American lens. I can't really defend people trying to correct you about it though.
Despite the US being one of the few non-homogenous racial/ethnic nations on Earth, we Americans discuss race more than any other nation. Almost every American, whether conservative or progressive, value race for some reason. Whites, blacks, arabs, asians, and natives. That's typically how we break down race across the Americas. Its not scientific, but its sort of a rough social categorization. That's why North African Arabs are not "African" racially, just as white South Africans are not African racially but they are all African geographically, in terms of their nationality's continent. But the American normies outside of the history and geopolitics nerds rarely ever mean geography in any way, let alone which continent someone is from. The Brits have a similar issue where they claim to not be European. They 100% are as they're part of the European continent. But Brexit made them not EU members, and the rhetoric was anti-mainland and anti-Europe in terms of the geopolitical entities in Europe. The words "European" and "African" in both these cases are not referring to continent of residence, but rather identity relative to the "other" whether racially or politically.
Well Laith, I think deep down you know the real answer to your troubles about “certain” peoples perception of Africa. In the sense that it isn’t about Africa at all, or atleast geographically it isn’t. Typically when someone is referred to as African, what they mean is black of skin and of matching phenotype, you see this in the way that Black Americans, aren’t just simply “American”, but “African”-Americans. North Africa is typically associated with the Middle East, which makes sense on a genetic, cultural, religious, and linguistic level, in comparison to any other part of Africa, despite sharing the same continent. Don’t get too offended, North Africa has had a vastly different history in comparison to the rest of Africa, mainly sub Saharan Africa, which is what most people imagine when they think of Africa, in much the same way, that when someone imagines the Near East, they don’t see Western “Asia”, but something with a unique identity where the continental label is simply too broad for them to fall under, so they form their own group despite sharing the same continent.
ah yes the muslim empires of west africa have absolutely nothing to do with north africans 👍 oh no but I get what you mean, Laith isn't african because he isn't black and doesn't speak the ungabunga language, he better understand this soon or people will think he's racist
I’m late but as an American born in southern Georgia, before I went to college and traveled throughout my own country twice with my friends, I could not name most states in my own country and i thought Africa itself was a single country/continent amalgamation. Now I play EU4 and roleplay as historical figureheads and am learning several languages at once with a focus on Russian, Icelandic, and Japanese. America taught me nothing, I learned the most AFTER I finished my primary education.
I would furthermore like to apologize on behalf of my country’s pathetic education system for failing most Americans and making us generally ignorant about geopolitics and basically the entire world aside from Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and the Declaration of Independence.
For the Morroco one, morrocons condsider themselves to be arab much more then african, in the western sense. you will never find a person in morroco refer to themselves as african. geographicaly yes, but socially the are part of the arab world, like for arabs thats its own continent pretty much, so most americans i saw actualy said they should use african, but most morracans said arab.
When it comes to geography it really depends on the school you go to and the classes you take. That said, even in good schools, it's usually only by hobby anyone learns the basics, which is very sad.
Another American here. My uncle once told me that Egyptians weren’t African. I’ve also had to explain to people that the Middle East is in fact not a continent and exists within a religion and is more bound by culture. It’s real bad over here. We are DUMB dumb.
4:26 The Meditterenean or arab world does feel distinct from Africa. A moroccan is closer to a Saudi Arabian or Perssian than he is to a nambian or hutu
Its so weird how just yesterday (I'm in England and its 2 am so thats like 4 hours ago) I was thinking about what would happen if a matriarchical order got installed in Europe. Guess I'll find out for real now huh.
Bruh Laith, when yu are giving titles away from a big kingdom (like you are doing at 23:05) dont give away single counties, but rather form the duchies and give them away to your kids or if you don't have enough kids than to your dynasty. Creating duchies gives you prestige which is always useful and dukes are always to weak to win rebelions. Kingdoms are different you really don't want to give them away until you are way bigger and have to many duke vassals under you. It is a lot easier to manage a handful of dukes than hundreds of counts and its a lot quicker.
A few days ago I was speaking with a USA guy who was thinking Australia is in Europe XD. Let's say the education in USA is not great ( to do not use ugly word )
when you holy war a kingdom, why not create duchies first and hand them out as a whole instead of making each county an individual vassal and then creating a duchy?
The thing about Americans generalizing about Africa is that America has 2 large black populations that, due to the first group (African-Americans) being so assimilated that their rights become an issue separate from all other non-white rights has forced the new group (Immigrants from the last 100 years or so) to become part of the first group. I'm an Austinite, Austin has a lot of immigrants. The children of African immigrants tend to feel like African-Americans and not immigrants. For that reason, and also the American education system a lot of Americans view Africa as a monolith.
As an American, I'd like to say that it's very difficult to make general statements about our education system because we don't have a singular education system. Each state has different requirements on the high school level and provides public schools with different curriculums. The teachers have some control over how they teach it but they are required to teach the curriculums provided to them. Certain states are better at curriculums than others. For example, some states in the Bible Belt required creationist myths to be taught alongside evolutionary theory for a while. As far as I am aware no state covers geography as a required course, and only briefly mentions it in a social studies class. That isn't to say there are no geography classes, I took AP Geography in my school, but that is not a required course so most people don't take it. There are also private schools, that while still supposed to follow the state requirements have curriculums that are typically leagues better than public schools. Private schools don't receive public funding, so they aren't beholden to the state's programs. ( There are Academies as well, which are private but do receive public funding, however, there are to my memory only 5 fit into that parameter so they aren't entirely relevant to this.
I made my Amazons by hybridizing Alan and Khazar. You get Byzantine heritage and Scythian language, which fits because the Amazons are from Greek myths often related to the Scythians. You also get equal martial culture which is neat.
I just pretended my character heard the legends and presumed it was referring to their culture, and that Kuzarite was actually the remnant of the lost faith of the ancient Amazons. We reformed that to the true, reformed Amazon faith. So yeah, we were Jewish Amazons.
Actually the historical Scythians were an Iranian people group so the other Heritage of that hybrid might have worked a tiny bit better.
And well, Kuzarite DOES have Syncretic folk traditions, so it kinda works, it'd just be syncretysing with a different set of folk traditions than the mostly slavs and tengri-ists in the area.
@@000Dragon50000 I preferred Byzantine heritage because I was convoluting a way for Amazons with a capital-A to exist. Without Byzzie heritage I would've just been another femdom steppe tribe and I've already done that like 3 times.
I always found it weird that CK3 gives the Alans a Byzantine heritage. Aren't they originally an Iranian people?
@@carltonleboss Yep. It's a really really weird choice honestly.
@@carltonleboss maybe it's because they were quite influenced by the Byzantines but I'm not sure. And most Alans today are still Orthodox christians I think
what people don’t get it that AFRICAN DOES NOT EQUAL BLACK. no, Moroccans/Tunisians aren’t black, BUT THEY ARE AFRICAN. LOCATED IN AFRICA.
Middle Easterners are also Asian. But they're NOT racially Asian. People aren't discussing continental origin, they're discussing race. How is there such cognitive dissonance to ignore this simple explanation?
I'm Lebanese, white looking and from a Christian background. Moved to the us last year and explaining people my name, where I'm from, and that not all Arabs look the same is a thing i never imagined i would've had to do. Don't get me started on the "Arabs are asian" part of it. Was nice hearing you rant about Africans, cathartic!
We are Asians technically….. I am Iraqi we aren’t East Asians we’re west Asians…
Confidently incorrect, I guess that's why you also think you're arab and not lebanese
This whole discussion about North Africans being not Africans, reminds me of a clip I once saw, where people (likely US-Americans) were irritated by people from eastern Russia/Siberia who look "asian" saying they are russian^^ The people reacted to that like "no, look at you, you don't look like a russian. You must be mongolian or chinese". Same thing, like wtf, why can't large areas or countries have very diverse people??
Some people here in America are dumb as rocks
5:34
I have one of the best interactions in my class about this, my teacher was thinking about a cultural exchange with Kenya.
The one (funnily enough very americanized guy) "Is that where they speak Afrikaans?"
"No they are actually quite known for their english"
"Do they speak Afrikaans though"
"No that'd be the other side of the continent"
"Africa is Africa"
Isn't the Afrikaans the African Dutch people?
@@Alexander_the_Greatest yes
"A frenchman tries to tell an african where africa starts and ends, i've seen this one before lads" Victorian Moment
Fun fact about Africa: Africa contains as much genetic diversity in it as the entire rest of the world combined.
I'm fairly sure that it's similarly diverse in languages and cultures too.
kinda ye, unless the cultures live like next to each other or in the same general area if you compared them it would be kinda like comparing european ones to asian ones. not really at all close to similar especially considering europe and asia themselves are also diveded af into different cultural lines and those can be anything from "very similar" to "might aswell be from mars"
Absolutely. There are TONS of different languages and cultures in Africa. It's a large part of why African nations have struggled so much. The borders of the African nations as they exist today are mostly as they are because of the nations that colonized them. Many cultures got split up, many others got lumped together with different cultures who they considered dire enemies, or both, and the colonizers just didn't care. It's kinda like taking a bunch of people out of Appalachia and a bunch more out of The Bronx, and then yet more from L.A., and then sticking them on an island together and telling them to form a stable nation out of it.
sources?
at first glance this seems as bullshit, china + india have about half the population on earth and none are in Africa.
@@rimanpele genetic diversity doesn't mean high population count although that can be part of it. It means that the life that *Is* there is all different then the others to a greater extent than somewhere else. Think of it like this, a genetically diverse neighborhood would be one where noone that lives there is related to the others that do while the non genetically diverse one (India and china in your case) would be the one that they are related to each other. The non genetically diverse neighborhood might be bigger but it's all basically just one giant extended family while the diverse one is smaller but none of the families are related
Pretty much yeah.
It is also how we know Africa is also the cradle of mankind, where humans originally evolved: Humans have been in Africa millions of years, forming many branches, but only a few of those branches actually expanded out of Africa, and non-Africans are all descenced from those branches.
You just discovered my big ck3 pet peeve: not being able to wear the pope hat as a woman!
It's kinda fun to see you not only play but also speaking about topics even though some peoples aren't the smartest 😂
Thank you for the Africa rant. Every time some "probably american" writes about how Killmonger in Black Panther had a noble goal and good intentions I struggle with not writing a long rant about how utterly detached from reality and nonsensical his plan is. I think they see Africans as African Americans who live in Africa and lack the benefits of being American. To be fair to the original writers: Killmonger was probably meant to represent the more militant fringe of the civil rights movement who thought that only violence can break the systemic racism and oppression. As such he and his plans do actually make lot more sense than they do if taken literally.
The worst part about being north african is when people say you're not a real african
spilled my drink on Laith making amazonian male adultery criminal, genius move
imagine a real world timeline like this
It probably be similar except all male world leaders are female
ok
Based af
he used men to destroy menn
It’ll be the same, just with women killing women in wars instead of men killing men.
As an American. I can tell you we are barely educated on the rest of the world even existing. Our schools just don't really teach this stuff unless it's directly related to us
I've always heard that but.. What do you actually learn in school?
@@kris_pavlov I think they have lessons about Jesus and also something about eggs and how to drive.
And that's it
@@MH-hu5pi no we don’t get Jesus either
@@kris_pavlov history class until 17-18 yrs old is all US history, didn’t learn European history until my last year before college and even then we didn’t learn too much, which is fair because it’s thousands of years of history and we only have a few months, college history is better but most people don’t go to college for history because the jobs aren’t great with a history degree, so most get like 3 months of world history and even then it’s not that extensive, I learned more history from RUclips documentary channels like kings and generals than I did from a college history class, but it kind of makes sense as an American because we don’t often interact with other continents unless you work in international fields like business, in fact I’ve only ever met 3 people that were born in Africa and only because I went to a good internationally known private school
@@burtreynolds8030 judging by alot of vids, you guys don't seem to have world geography either xD
Day 10 of thanking laith for playing anbennar and I do nope you continue the jaddaei playthrough. (Just wait for the rest of missions once you hit the formable)
* jaddari
* hope. I am an atrocious speller
I would love to see you do more with second life times in your videos. That’s where I’ve found the most depth comes from in this game.
If you want a super dominated female playthrough, one of my favourite things is do is reform the Baltic pagan faith to be female dominated, have the tenants Sacred Birth, Communion, and Carnal Rites, and make all forms of adultery illegal.
Everyone will be suducing everyone, which you can milk for profit with Communion. And with the reduction in pregnancy complication from Sacred Births (and that one legacy) you very rarely have to worry about dying in childbirth.
You should do Napoleon starting in Corsica and become emperor of the French
I’m American and the only thing I can think of is a lot of people are trolling... OR they might just not have any idea what they are talking about.
Bud, you can get some auto generated characters of your culture, the local culture in the same religion by clicking the buttons on the top when handing out provinces. You can get some nice character generations at times and a mix of older vassals that don't have heirs. It's way easier that way
You can say it, it's mostly American people because for some reason here people still strongly associate your physical features with where you're from. I'm sure it's like that in some other places too, but it's crazy to me that some people just don't understand that you can't paint an entire continent as being one shade of skin color and then anyone else that isn't in the majority of that skin color is no longer considered part of that group. "You're not a real African" is just a crazy thing to say
Americans are really trying to be white Knights ending up being racist by mistake
I saw the exact thread he's talking and everyone I saw saying they were not were legit africans. I know there's a pension for everyone to believe ONLY Americans can be ignorant but this is one geopolitical issue Americans don't have ANY kind of reason to be in.
@@kingjamestres as an American I think a lot of us believe they have the “correct” opinions because we’ve been the worlds superpower for a long time, there is just this idea that the American way is the right way and that opinions from America should be held above other continents opinions, its very weird
I'm American, and I have to agree, our education system is VERY poorly funded, especially when it comes to the humanities (like history and geography). Decent education is mostly for those who have wealthy parents.
Also, apart from Native Americans, who are a very small minority, we are all descended from immigrants from elsewhere. We tend to have a habit of making whatever country our great-grandparents originated from part of our identity, and acting like we are just as much a part of that place as its actual citizens even though we know jack all about it.
So yeah, Laith and everybody else, apologies to y'all about how dumb we all are.
Actually its more accurate to see foreign nations as ethnonationalist and generalizing them under one ethnicity and in turn one race. The western hemisphere and especially the US doesn't have this issue, being an amalgam of every ethnicity. The thing is, race is a very easy way to approximate different groups in such a wildly diverse nation. African=black. European=white. Asian=asian. Middle East=Arab/Sometimes white. Colonized ethnicites=native. LatAm and Iberian=hispanic. Simplistic but generally accurate for all the more homogenous and ethnonationalist nations.
Napoleon actually never stole the Mona Lisa from Milano that is a myth. When Leonardo Da Vinci died, the French king of the time probably bought it off of Leonardo’s servant for a lot of money after the servant took it from Leonardo’s chambers. Napoleon did put the Mona Lisa up in his bedroom though
The whole homogenous thing reminds me people don’t know what many West Asians look like. People think many of us look white just because of skin color
In More Bookmarks+ there is ruler of the Barlas dynasty in the Chagatai Khanate, Samarkand is in his realm. His son is Timurid(not exactly historical)but you can play as him. It’s in the 1300s. You should try it.
As an American, I can agree and empathize with you entirely when you're saying that Americans were trying to incorrectly inform you about Africa. There's a massive plague of stupidity and attempting to explain things to people by those who have literally no clue what they're talking about. Twitter is a cesspool 😂😂😂😂 - Ignore us Americans when we're saying dumb stuff. Focus on the good. Cheers and happy playing, m8.
Its not incorrect, just social differences. In America we discuss things racially ig because we have every ethnic group thrown in to one nation. African is black. European is white. Asian is asian. The original habitants of every landmass which was colonized are natives. Arabs are arabs. And Latin Americans and Iberians are hispanic. They're just terms for race and obviously in the US we'd say Laith is racially Arab or white. Not black. Nor asian. Therefore despite his nationality being a part of the African continent, he is not racially "African" as Arabs colonized North Africa from blacks. Just as saying "American" doesn't mean white or saying "Hungarian" is not wrong just because its "Magyar" in another language.
@@PhoenixFires That might be how you do it, but that's certainly not how everyone does.
@@PhoenixFires Laith admitted that he is a Berber, who are descendent of Carthage. Berber are African and just because they adopt Arabic language doesn't mean that they are Arabs located in the Middle East. The Berber has a long history goes long before Arab conquest of North Africa.
The reason why people imagine that Carthaginian are white Europeans because of Hollywood movies. Africa was never ethnically homogenous like Japan, there is a lot of diversity of ethnic even before Arab conquest of North Africa.
@@PhoenixFires Just because that's your mindset doesn't mean it's correct in virtue of "all opinions are correct", which they aren't. The racial theory is outdated pseudoscience, what you have here is black (ngroid), white (caucasoid) and asian (mongoloid). Pseudoscience.
That's not how it works.
As for Africa, NO. The Arabs didn't colonize NA from "blacks". The berber peoples are the natives of NA outside of Egypt and they're not "black". And Morroco is the country with least Arab blood and more berber blood, even if culturally they have more affinity to Arabs.
Same thing in Madagascalar, that island was settled by both Bantu "black" people and Indonesian "asian" people.
Africa has ALWAYS been the most diverse continent in the world and will most likely keep that way, and it was never 100% native "black".
But Americans think differently because social difference. Then they gotta learn and stop clinging outdated rethoric. And until then tweets like the one we talk about should very much be shunned
@@PhoenixFires "as Arabs colonized north africa from blacks" for someone who likes to sound knowledgeable you really showed that you're still an uneducated ignorant American like the rest of them.
The Arabs didn't colonize north africa, they just forced their culture, language and religion on them, north Africans are still genetically the same people they were before the Arab conquest with only around 5-15% extra arab dna while being 85-95% native Amazigh.
I love your appreciation of history which comes thru in every video. That and masochism, but mainly a love of history comes thru!!
7:36. I think what you've encountered Laith is the realization that most westerners dont know that ethnic identity, race (to the extent that it's even a thing outside of the west), language and geographic identity aren't the same because how European states were built.
Also let's be real the idea of continents is stupid and there's no way Europe would be a continent if anybody other than Europeans defined what continents there were. There is no criteria for what is a continent where Europe is its own continent and Asia isn't at least 3. They are a a very bad classification system and it's sucks that it's the primary way we categorize groups of people
The French guy might be taking about how immigrants and descendants of immigrants view themselves in France.
I don't know myself, just a theory
The French love “well acktuallying” the rest of the world when it comes to discussions of ethnicity, heritage & culture. Even then - his argument was “I have some Arab & Maghrebi friends who don’t think of themselves as African” and then repeatedly asking for Laith’s “credentials” as a Tunisian
@@TheAsymmetrical French insufferables are beyond parody. Make fun of their idea of secularism and Islamic relation issues when you figure out they are complete assholes and watch the fireworks
@@TheAsymmetrical man wants his passport
I love how Laith mumbles through the whole thing. :)
I wonder how Laith is going to react to Morocco losing against France
Man's creates an empire in one life I can't even do it in one playthrough lol
hey you did the strategy I suggested, it`s a shame though that you only stayed with one character so you couldn`t really analize for yourself whether it worked for you or not, but from my experience it`s a nice strategy to keep your vassals busy and to stop them from being rebelious
it's about time 😤
You’re one of the best ck3 RUclipsrs
@@imspudus i am officially THE best after that speed5 competition 😤😤
Mate, of course it’s Americans mostly saying that, most Americans think Africa is a single country
most americans dont think that buddy
Most Americans don’t think that unless they’re extremely uneducated.
Yeah as an American its truly depressing how little most of us know about the world its genuinely pathetic, especially Africa, which is ridiculously diverse and rich in history. I personally love history especially the early Muslims and mali and Mogadishu/early Somalia
I don’t think of nations by which continent they are in. I think of them as the region they are in. So if someone asks me what Northern Africa is I will say Mediterranean, same for Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey etc.
Bro popping off about Morocco. Go off king. Much love from America.
28:14 - Huh, not everyday you see a Franconian Tengri Byz Emperor
Fun fact about Morocco, it was the first nation to recognize US independence, a bout a few months before france
Counter point: "Mexican is not American"
They are North American however
Ah yes, Tengri Franconian Kid-Emperor of Eastern Roman Empire
What Laith said of some Americans not considering North Africa truly "African", happens with Latin America too. If you aren't Dominican/Cuban/Mexican (or kind of brownish skin for some people) then you aren't truly a "Latino", even being from Centro America I've seen people gettin mixed up. And I won't talk about all of the Argentina isn't Latino slander+You housed all the Nazis shit because it truly triggers me because it can be answered with half a Google search. So yeah, welcome to twitter I guess.
Laith why did you not make this over in the Crimean region where the Scythian peoples came from? They are historically where the depiction of female "Amazon" archers came from.
Cuz he wanted to play as Boudicca
i love seeing laith triggered it makes me laugh so hard
I don't get it, why does he always use the character list to hand out the titles? Its so much simpler to generate new characters without convoluted inheritance chance by just clicking the "Give titles to someone of YOUR culture and YOUR faith", and if there are none they just get generated. The button is right there above the characters list, just click it, so much simpler.
Good to see Laith's ck3 video that's focus more on aspects apart from wars and battles :)
i came for the map game but stayed for the good takes on africa.
North Africa is like Czechia with Europe
Can't into Slav, can't into Germanic (western)
How about Morocco from the middle west, Tunisia from the Middle middle, and Algeria in the middle middle west
If I could try to defend my fellow Americans, 9 times out of 10 when we say "African" we mean "Black", so I could see how some people don't consider Morocco or Tunisia "African" because they're not black. Being African-American very specifically means black; unless you're a troll no one would call Elon Musk African-American even though he's from South Africa. So in American, north Africans aren't "African" because to us being African-American is a more formal/polite way to say black. We'd probably just refer to Moroccans or Tunisians as "Arab" or "Middle Eastern" if in a more general group.
Like they're objectively wrong from basic geography, but I can at least see the logic from a very American lens. I can't really defend people trying to correct you about it though.
I had an experience where someone told me that BC wasn't western Canadian, I just asked them what direction it is.
Despite the US being one of the few non-homogenous racial/ethnic nations on Earth, we Americans discuss race more than any other nation. Almost every American, whether conservative or progressive, value race for some reason. Whites, blacks, arabs, asians, and natives. That's typically how we break down race across the Americas. Its not scientific, but its sort of a rough social categorization. That's why North African Arabs are not "African" racially, just as white South Africans are not African racially but they are all African geographically, in terms of their nationality's continent. But the American normies outside of the history and geopolitics nerds rarely ever mean geography in any way, let alone which continent someone is from. The Brits have a similar issue where they claim to not be European. They 100% are as they're part of the European continent. But Brexit made them not EU members, and the rhetoric was anti-mainland and anti-Europe in terms of the geopolitical entities in Europe. The words "European" and "African" in both these cases are not referring to continent of residence, but rather identity relative to the "other" whether racially or politically.
28:18 did anyone else notice the leader of the Byzantine Empire is Tengri?
Amazonian culture: selects "Quarrelsome".
Accuracy confirmed.
As an American I apologize for my undereducated countrymen 😂
Well Laith, I think deep down you know the real answer to your troubles about “certain” peoples perception of Africa. In the sense that it isn’t about Africa at all, or atleast geographically it isn’t. Typically when someone is referred to as African, what they mean is black of skin and of matching phenotype, you see this in the way that Black Americans, aren’t just simply “American”, but “African”-Americans. North Africa is typically associated with the Middle East, which makes sense on a genetic, cultural, religious, and linguistic level, in comparison to any other part of Africa, despite sharing the same continent. Don’t get too offended, North Africa has had a vastly different history in comparison to the rest of Africa, mainly sub Saharan Africa, which is what most people imagine when they think of Africa, in much the same way, that when someone imagines the Near East, they don’t see Western “Asia”, but something with a unique identity where the continental label is simply too broad for them to fall under, so they form their own group despite sharing the same continent.
ah yes the muslim empires of west africa have absolutely nothing to do with north africans 👍
oh no but I get what you mean, Laith isn't african because he isn't black and doesn't speak the ungabunga language, he better understand this soon or people will think he's racist
@@BlueHawkPictures17 lol, go off buddy, you go girl. How not to read, misunderstand, and ignore nuance 101.
Lore of I FORCED EUROPE to accept a MATRIARCHY Momentum 100
I’m late but as an American born in southern Georgia, before I went to college and traveled throughout my own country twice with my friends, I could not name most states in my own country and i thought Africa itself was a single country/continent amalgamation. Now I play EU4 and roleplay as historical figureheads and am learning several languages at once with a focus on Russian, Icelandic, and Japanese. America taught me nothing, I learned the most AFTER I finished my primary education.
I would furthermore like to apologize on behalf of my country’s pathetic education system for failing most Americans and making us generally ignorant about geopolitics and basically the entire world aside from Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and the Declaration of Independence.
You are the reason i try too play EU4, tips on Norway would be appreciated
If you say France and Germany is the same because it is in Europe.
Mate. Just be happy you didn't have to see german conservatives talk about the morrocan team.
What do you mean north Africa is African, it's CLEARLY the historical region of Carthage
American here, I'm not surprised but still thoroughly disappointed
I love how you made Haarlem the capital of Italy 🤣
Day 5 of asking for an eu4 colonial Novgorod game without forming russia
For the Morroco one, morrocons condsider themselves to be arab much more then african, in the western sense. you will never find a person in morroco refer to themselves as african. geographicaly yes, but socially the are part of the arab world, like for arabs thats its own continent pretty much, so most americans i saw actualy said they should use african, but most morracans said arab.
When it comes to geography it really depends on the school you go to and the classes you take.
That said, even in good schools, it's usually only by hobby anyone learns the basics, which is very sad.
Another American here. My uncle once told me that Egyptians weren’t African.
I’ve also had to explain to people that the Middle East is in fact not a continent and exists within a religion and is more bound by culture.
It’s real bad over here. We are DUMB dumb.
4:26 The Meditterenean or arab world does feel distinct from Africa. A moroccan is closer to a Saudi Arabian or Perssian than he is to a nambian or hutu
i knew a girl from UK who spent some time in Japan and she told me that Japan isn't Asia and UK isn't Europe *cries in geography*
Part two please!
Its so weird how just yesterday (I'm in England and its 2 am so thats like 4 hours ago) I was thinking about what would happen if a matriarchical order got installed in Europe. Guess I'll find out for real now huh.
A French man saying north Africa is not part of Africa is scary
Bruh Laith, when yu are giving titles away from a big kingdom (like you are doing at 23:05) dont give away single counties, but rather form the duchies and give them away to your kids or if you don't have enough kids than to your dynasty. Creating duchies gives you prestige which is always useful and dukes are always to weak to win rebelions. Kingdoms are different you really don't want to give them away until you are way bigger and have to many duke vassals under you. It is a lot easier to manage a handful of dukes than hundreds of counts and its a lot quicker.
Play new Africa in Victoria 3
Bro will eventually do this in Victoria 3
you should talk more about random stuff in yoru videos, its kinda fun
This was a fun one to watch. Lots of action in one lifetime.
A few days ago I was speaking with a USA guy who was thinking Australia is in Europe XD. Let's say the education in USA is not great ( to do not use ugly word )
What's worse is he probably thought Australia is Austria. If he said that down here we'd feed him to the drop bears.
I'm glad someone with a good following finally destroyed the patriarchy, took ya'll long enough.
I did it from Bjarmia on release. :p
More rants Laith! We love them 😁
Morocco at the request of Twitter is now on the Asian continent
To answer your question on where Africa begins its south of rome
This video would have been absolutely perfect if you had just replaced "Alright Boys" with "Alright Girls" entirely. Gotta commit to the bit.
when you holy war a kingdom, why not create duchies first and hand them out as a whole instead of making each county an individual vassal and then creating a duchy?
Given French history of considering NA as France like Corsica, it's normal they'd get confused lmao
The thing about Americans generalizing about Africa is that America has 2 large black populations that, due to the first group (African-Americans) being so assimilated that their rights become an issue separate from all other non-white rights has forced the new group (Immigrants from the last 100 years or so) to become part of the first group. I'm an Austinite, Austin has a lot of immigrants. The children of African immigrants tend to feel like African-Americans and not immigrants. For that reason, and also the American education system a lot of Americans view Africa as a monolith.
28:13 the Byzantine Emperor is Tengri and Franconian
Soviet union borders as Novgorod ck3 sounds entertaining
4:10 there is a subreddit called 'r/shitamericanssay' and it is just an entire subreddit of JUST THINGS LIKE THAT.
As an American, I'd like to say that it's very difficult to make general statements about our education system because we don't have a singular education system. Each state has different requirements on the high school level and provides public schools with different curriculums. The teachers have some control over how they teach it but they are required to teach the curriculums provided to them. Certain states are better at curriculums than others. For example, some states in the Bible Belt required creationist myths to be taught alongside evolutionary theory for a while. As far as I am aware no state covers geography as a required course, and only briefly mentions it in a social studies class. That isn't to say there are no geography classes, I took AP Geography in my school, but that is not a required course so most people don't take it.
There are also private schools, that while still supposed to follow the state requirements have curriculums that are typically leagues better than public schools. Private schools don't receive public funding, so they aren't beholden to the state's programs. (
There are Academies as well, which are private but do receive public funding, however, there are to my memory only 5 fit into that parameter so they aren't entirely relevant to this.
I know how to trigger laith now
You have to be greatfull for the European culture. Europe is the best 🇪🇺
Tunisia not part of Africa now? On what patch was this nerf?
i could never.
i wanted to give this a like but it was already at 666 and thought it was a good number for your faith
It's because North Africans look "whiter"
Americans literally think both Europe and Africa are countries.
I actually think it was my comment that inspired this. Maybe. Entertaining, nonetheless.
No Laith you're right