@@donHooligan ah, but this is a deliberate attempt by my father to mislead me. If there is a hill in the middle of the journey it would involve going up hill both ways, while neglecting to mention the down hill parts. The snow was never mentioned and since his passing, remains a mystery.
Regarding 6:09, Kublai Khan was not the son of Genghis Khan. Instead Kublai Khan was a grandson of Genghis Khan. Kublai Khan was the second son of Tolui who was the fourth son of Genghis Khan.
8:05 😂 Hate to break it to you, but sex workers are still available through concierge services at many hotels through out the world. Things haven't really changed much... except the technology supporting it.
Clea.... I know that, for a fact, that is 100% true, as I am a female escort in Las Vegas & 95% of my clients are guests, booked in the up scale hotels in the area.
This doesn't have a lot to do with intimacy, in fact, quite the opposite. This has more to do with grungy, or non-consensual, sex and neither of those are "Intimate" in any way.
I noticed the same. I also noticed that the narrator seems to be increasingly interested in videos that normalize perversion. He's gained a large audience. It's probably not an accident.
@@mysimplepractice RUclips will not allow videos to be monetized that are too explicit. Blame RUclips for their ridiculous rules, not the content creators. You get content for free anyway, who are you to complain?
I went to the Ladakh (a UT in India) this summer, and we saw the ACTUAL ORIGINAL route of what was called "the Silk road". It looked so primitive, carved into the walls, they were platforms Carved into the rocky mountains, it looked to compact but the guide told us its an optical illusion, its actually very wide. we could not go up there because its a protected route by the archeological survey of India. But it looked so cool, I started imagining how people must've travelled thru this route all across the continent and discover new culture and worlds beyond their imagination. It was truly Fascinating.
First time I've discovered a historical INsaccuracy from Weird History. Kublai Khan was NOT Djinghis' son. He was his grand son. And the guy who sent for holy relics brought by the Polo brothers.
The term eunuch did not always refer to men who were castrated. It also referred to people who chose to remain chaste for religious reasons. Most reference to them in the Bible are talking about men who were still biologically intact.
This is great!! Please make a content about the Manila- Acapulco galleon trade and how it changed the culture of the Spanish East Indies (Philippines, Guam, Marianas) & Spanish West Indies (,America's)
@@jesusisgodislove9912 on his videos people are always talking about being American or European. Not many people on his channel talk about being from other areas. Just an observation I’ve made. You don’t have to be white to be European or American
White British and we studied this at university in white Britain. It isn’t all about the Empire no matter what the media tell you. Fascinating and why I’m here now watching this video now. Graduated 15/16 years ago and still find the Silk Road fascinating.
@@MomentsInTrading descents doesn’t specifically mean children. It means that Today he has that many defendants, as in his kids had kids and so on. You are a descendent of your grandfather as an example; but that doesn’t mean he copulated with his own daughter to create you..
Maybe the video said the wrong amount? It was a 2003 study that found up to 16 million Men alone (about 1 in 200 men alive at the time of the study) were direct descendants.
I think it would be interesting to hear about the history of the Great Wagon Road. Not sure how much trading was done on that route, but it is a part of early American history.
How funny! At 3:59, that clip is Malcom MacDowell (in frilly skirt and all) during the filming of 'Caligula,' the movie produced by Penthouse magazine, and written in part by MacDowell himself. It came out with an 'X' rating (and for VERY good reasons) and got hacked to pieces into an R, but at the price of the plot. That wasn't a big deal, the movie was almost unintelligible, the plot line nonexistent. It shows the graphic and shocking (and frightfully) tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.
Very informative and great selection of old artwork. I don't think words "intimacy" and "love-making" should be applied to the sex trade which is just sex/f.....g. Intimacy and love-making imply a loving relationship and knowing each other with mutual respect and care. That doesn't happen with prostitution and sex slavery, or giving your wife to customers, as you mentioned.
@@konpeitosart he could say "using her for sex" or "having sex". Those kinds of sex are never intimate or making love. They're just sex without intimacy or love. Porn uses those terms and misleads people into thinking it's "making love".
The tantric Buddhist (vajrayana) blurb was pretty off. Tantric sex practice was/is reserved for monks, lamas, etc who were studying the Six Yogas of Naropa, a very esoteric teaching. It’s one of the yogas called Karmamudra. It is not practiced by lay people, is highly protected and is only taught to ideal students by a master lama. I’m not sure how partners were arranged but random traders were not apart of it. It was hiding in Potala palace or something.
And the fact that people looked down upon them, because they were neither men nor women. Most of them were servants and only very very few made it to the top. And even then, nobody envied them.
Hold up. You can’t just overshadow an entirely wrong statement like “Kublai was the son of Ghengis.” 15 seconds of googling can show that he was the grandson of the great khan through Tolui
Yaaaaaaasssss I’m so happy that you have uploaded today, it definitely made my day. Also I have been super into Asia lately especially Iraq, Kuwait and Syria lately. I would love to learn more on the early empire that was that area.
I watched a documentary where some ancient tribes in mainland China practiced polyamorous relationships...and also about the host allowing his wife to sleep with the guest...which was a very common practice. The documentary looked old, like 80's or 90's old...so this was a recent-ish thing.
@@amandaquezada2854 I absolutely agree. Even though if it's normal in their culture it may be so ingrained in wives that that is normal. I wish there was a modern version of that documentary. I bet things may have changed.
It's somewhat impressive how this channel will keep unpacking the same facts & recycling it into "new" videos. Still a few good jokes here & there at least
Yea plus trying to make it seem like homosexuality was widespread and approved in the ancient world, as if the people of today are the only ones to be uptight about. 🙄🙄🙄
@@AbsyntheAndTears You should make a social experiment video about that and do some smooching on someone of the same sex in public, but only do that if it's in a country where it's not illegal or you COULD die.
@@A_Black_Sheep94 Let’s be honest, it truly wasn’t looked down upon until the spread of the Abrahamic Religions. The Greeks and Romans definitely didn’t have any rules against it, in fact their Gods even partook in homosexual relationships. It was only looked down upon if you were the submissive one in the relationship. Japan didn’t look down upon it, some Samurai partook in it. There’s various African tribes that partook in it. If I’m not mistaken, Native American tribes even had different genders. There’s various other examples as well but I think the point he’s trying to make is that homosexuality wasn’t as stigmatized as it was from the 800’s AD - 1960’s.
Imagine thinking the China of today will be around in 2050. They've racked up the same amount of debt in 25 years that the US has in 125 years, India and Japan are ready to serve them their ass in a war, and Xi's political enemies are trying to get him ousted.
@@A_Black_Sheep94 Don't forget the old debt to the USA that China refuses to acknowledge. If you factor this in at current value, the USA isn't really a debtor to China at all...
Zheng he was forced to be a eunuch when Ming China conquered the last remnant of Mongol Yuan in Yunnan. Where Zheng he family was station. Being brought into China during Genghis conquest in the Central Asia. Zheng He traced his ancestry to Samarkand or Bukhara.
It’s stated in the video that Hinduism didn’t really spread out of India but this is wrong. Hinduism is a main part of the Thai religion as well as Indonesia. Hindu culture is very prevalent in Southeast Asia all the way from the Khmer empire up to the present day. One of the main Gods of Thailand is Ganesh
Strict sexual practices became more popular with religious sects mainly Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The benefit was to know the legitimacy of ones Heirs .
FYI at 6.10 you state that Kublai Khan was Genghiz Khan's son, this is not the case as Kublai was his grandson . Other than that another excellent video, thanks.
I would like to know the road which my father used to walk to school
I can assure you it was long, uphill both ways and always covered in snow.
Is it the same road he used to go get that pack of cigarettes he’s still getting?
a true geographical oddity....uphill both ways.
And how it defied physics and went uphill both ways
@@donHooligan ah, but this is a deliberate attempt by my father to mislead me. If there is a hill in the middle of the journey it would involve going up hill both ways, while neglecting to mention the down hill parts. The snow was never mentioned and since his passing, remains a mystery.
Regarding 6:09, Kublai Khan was not the son of Genghis Khan. Instead Kublai Khan was a grandson of Genghis Khan. Kublai Khan was the second son of Tolui who was the fourth son of Genghis Khan.
Could you do a video over the hygiene of early/first psychiatric hospitals?
I think they did already. Look up Nellie Bly
Imagine hitting the function in silk when no one had seen it before
I have theory, that’s how the high five was invented. They were so impressed they wanted to clap hands instead of cheeks.
What came before the high five?
Fitted up 😅
The Khan was getting nasty around the clock damn.
those who Khan, do
From the silk road, to silken sheets... natural progression.
The Silk Road is a fascinating topic, you should do more videos about it!
I would love to see a video on Zhang Qian, whose exploration resulted in the Silk Road. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Qian?wprov=sfti1
@@spindoc qga
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Don't ask me as I would not claim you as my kid.
You should check out Mark Leung's Silk Road short.
8:05 😂 Hate to break it to you, but sex workers are still available through concierge services at many hotels through out the world. Things haven't really changed much... except the technology supporting it.
Thank God for the small things
@@randybeeman7823 😂😂😂
So sad. Why are so many men gross?
@lr 21 Of course. But why are they gross?
Clea....
I know that, for a fact, that is 100% true, as I am a female escort in Las Vegas & 95% of my clients are guests, booked in the up scale hotels in the area.
Honey I’m going trading.
Wife: but that’ll take years!!
Husband: it’s ok it’s ok we need the money
I bet a lot of wives were absolutely ecstatic 😁
Husband: **Leonardo DiCaprio drinking gif**
@@awesome_barabado haha
This is information I didn't know I needed to know.
I don't suppose the Tang Dynasty had a leader when this manual was written named Poon?
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I both love and hate this comment
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You win the internet
This doesn't have a lot to do with intimacy, in fact, quite the opposite. This has more to do with grungy, or non-consensual, sex and neither of those are "Intimate" in any way.
I noticed the same. I also noticed that the narrator seems to be increasingly interested in videos that normalize perversion. He's gained a large audience. It's probably not an accident.
@@mysimplepractice I looked at his past 30 videos and none are like you said
Which would you have had them use instead that'll still make it by RUclips?
Right? What is "intimate" about sexual slavery? It's gross how people are glossing over that.
@@mysimplepractice RUclips will not allow videos to be monetized that are too explicit. Blame RUclips for their ridiculous rules, not the content creators. You get content for free anyway, who are you to complain?
I bet Marco Polo really hated swimming time as a kid with his friends and siblings.
Dang it all, every time he says polo, I get a fit of giggles 🤣🤣
Why would he hate it? Am I missing something obvious lol
At least they always knew where he was
@@jaymeVos summer pool game
I wish this narrator was my history teacher in high school. Then, I would've actually enjoyed going to that class. 😂😂😂
I would love to learn more about how telegraphs were first sent across the ocean
Cables along the ocean floor if I remember correctly
Maybe read a book
Hush
sound waves
I went to the Ladakh (a UT in India) this summer, and we saw the ACTUAL ORIGINAL route of what was called "the Silk road". It looked so primitive, carved into the walls, they were platforms Carved into the rocky mountains, it looked to compact but the guide told us its an optical illusion, its actually very wide. we could not go up there because its a protected route by the archeological survey of India. But it looked so cool, I started imagining how people must've travelled thru this route all across the continent and discover new culture and worlds beyond their imagination. It was truly Fascinating.
You guys should cover the origins of the chastity belt, or menstruation through out history. Things could get interesting
There are already videos on both subjects on youtube.
I'd rather not know
First time I've discovered a historical INsaccuracy from Weird History.
Kublai Khan was NOT Djinghis' son.
He was his grand son.
And the guy who sent for holy relics brought by the Polo brothers.
The term eunuch did not always refer to men who were castrated. It also referred to people who chose to remain chaste for religious reasons. Most reference to them in the Bible are talking about men who were still biologically intact.
The best one yet!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Coincidentally enough, I was just listening to The Silk Road Ensemble earlier today!
Whoa I thought all they exchanged was silk lol
This is great!!
Please make a content about the Manila- Acapulco galleon trade and how it changed the culture of the Spanish East Indies (Philippines, Guam, Marianas) & Spanish West Indies (,America's)
More non-European history, please!
Most of his audience is American or European probably
@@mr16325 No, I'm not European & I'd love to hear more non White history. I don't know why you'd think mostly Whites are on an educational channel.
@@jesusisgodislove9912 on his videos people are always talking about being American or European. Not many people on his channel talk about being from other areas. Just an observation I’ve made. You don’t have to be white to be European or American
South america here too
White British and we studied this at university in white Britain.
It isn’t all about the Empire no matter what the media tell you.
Fascinating and why I’m here now watching this video now. Graduated 15/16 years ago and still find the Silk Road fascinating.
“Ghangis khan had 16,000 children.” Shoulda just called him Ghangis dong with that many children
16,000 kids would mean he both got a chick pregnant and had a baby of his born every single day for 44 years. Claims like that are just stupid!
@@MomentsInTrading descents doesn’t specifically mean children. It means that Today he has that many defendants, as in his kids had kids and so on. You are a descendent of your grandfather as an example; but that doesn’t mean he copulated with his own daughter to create you..
Maybe the video said the wrong amount? It was a 2003 study that found up to 16 million Men alone (about 1 in 200 men alive at the time of the study) were direct descendants.
Damn that's a lot of child support
U seriously believe that?
What a wild journey going down the Silk Road!
''Hosts were willing to let visitors sleep with their wife''.
Well this is just great.
…for the visitor.
@@ibjmac187 It said the husbands were delighted and considered such a practice an honor not a shame.
Did anyone ask the ladies how they felt?
That gene pool needed a good culling.
@@rennor3498 It's Marco Polo saying this, take it with a pinch of salt
Love ur videos as always ☺️
Thanks for this (anything brothel-related is infinitely interesting)! 🗺️
Lmao 2:20 “well that’s never gonna fit”
“just hold the lamp, Sandra!!”
silk wasn’t the only thing exchanged on the Silk Road
The silk & semen road
STD's 🤣🤣🤣
I think it would be interesting to hear about the history of the Great Wagon Road. Not sure how much trading was done on that route, but it is a part of early American history.
What? You didnt play the Oregon trail as a kid ?
I feel like so much western history has already been explored over and over and over again, that I got tired of it.
@@shailonnoelle7175 I didn't know kids played Oregon Trail. I grew up in Virginia.
Would love to hear your take on the history of the Way of St. James!
The modern silk road won't have any of these... quirks...
Don't be so sure -- the world's oldest profession is resilient and human trafficking continues.
How funny! At 3:59, that clip is Malcom MacDowell (in frilly skirt and all) during the filming of 'Caligula,' the movie produced by Penthouse magazine, and written in part by MacDowell himself.
It came out with an 'X' rating (and for VERY good reasons) and got hacked to pieces into an R, but at the price of the plot. That wasn't a big deal, the movie was almost unintelligible, the plot line nonexistent.
It shows the graphic and shocking (and frightfully) tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.
@Richard Hunt More insane is that Malcom MacDowell was once married to... Mary Steenburgen. Clara Clayton was once married to Caligula!
Coincidentally enough, I recently praised that movie in the comments of another Weird History video! All roads lead to Rome...
I too recognized it! I remember when it was released, and owned a VHS copy.
Also, that Gore Vidal was the script writer of this movie, but forfeited his credit, after he saw the finished product.
I learned more things for your channel that school
Lovely stuff! Many thanks 😊😊
I’m so early! Great video!
Your channel is better than the History Channel. Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooove your videos.
Thank you for this video ! 😊💐
Woman: I bet he's thinking about other girls right now!
Man: What was intimacy like on the Silk Road?
I mean technically she isn't wrong.
thank you for taking my Silk Road suggestion.
Love the videos
I love these videos! So good! Great narration and interesting and uniquely informative tidbits. :-)
Very informative and great selection of old artwork. I don't think words "intimacy" and "love-making" should be applied to the sex trade which is just sex/f.....g. Intimacy and love-making imply a loving relationship and knowing each other with mutual respect and care. That doesn't happen with prostitution and sex slavery, or giving your wife to customers, as you mentioned.
I’m pretty sure it was worded that way since he can’t outright say fucking because of RUclips
@@konpeitosart he could say "using her for sex" or "having sex". Those kinds of sex are never intimate or making love. They're just sex without intimacy or love. Porn uses those terms and misleads people into thinking it's "making love".
Best comment ever
It's intentional, otherwise RUclips flags the video and removes the suggestion from some people's line ups.
@@oratuwe8114 oh I see. Thanks for explaining that. Makes sense.
The tantric Buddhist (vajrayana) blurb was pretty off. Tantric sex practice was/is reserved for monks, lamas, etc who were studying the Six Yogas of Naropa, a very esoteric teaching. It’s one of the yogas called Karmamudra. It is not practiced by lay people, is highly protected and is only taught to ideal students by a master lama. I’m not sure how partners were arranged but random traders were not apart of it. It was hiding in Potala palace or something.
Tantric sex practices is something I didn’t expect to hear in Buddhism
Sex with a llama?! Revolting!
@@marshdweller01 lamas are a tribe of people.... Just people not the animal llama
Love this channel. Thank you so much
The Position of Eunuch had it's Benefits?
Except for the Mortality Rate after the Castration, and the Castration itself.
And the fact that people looked down upon them, because they were neither men nor women. Most of them were servants and only very very few made it to the top. And even then, nobody envied them.
it wasn't for everyone
Yes those are cons congrats
Maybe the "position" part on the silk road.
Checking in from Silk City, NJ!!!!
Hold up. You can’t just overshadow an entirely wrong statement like “Kublai was the son of Ghengis.” 15 seconds of googling can show that he was the grandson of the great khan through Tolui
Its an error. Not a crime. Chill.
@@BD-rv6rm Its lazy. Its not too much to ask from an informative channel to get their basic facts right.
Yaaaaaaasssss I’m so happy that you have uploaded today, it definitely made my day. Also I have been super into Asia lately especially Iraq, Kuwait and Syria lately. I would love to learn more on the early empire that was that area.
no way you said yas
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What a unique history!
Please make a video on Grant Trunk Road
Smoooooth. Just like silk-ah.
Thanks.
I watched a documentary where some ancient tribes in mainland China practiced polyamorous relationships...and also about the host allowing his wife to sleep with the guest...which was a very common practice. The documentary looked old, like 80's or 90's old...so this was a recent-ish thing.
No u didnt
can u share the link?
I've seen a program or 2 on this as well. A meal and the wife were offered to travelers.
He may have "allowed" it, but doesn't mean the wife wanted to.
@@amandaquezada2854 I absolutely agree. Even though if it's normal in their culture it may be so ingrained in wives that that is normal. I wish there was a modern version of that documentary. I bet things may have changed.
marco polo: "greetings, your highness... we have traversed the silk road to come visit you..."
kublai khan: "ara ara..."
I thought this was about prostitution on the dark web site of the same name, the silk road
🤣🤣😂😂😂
You are learning Jedi.
Would love to learn about the spice road.
The Silk Road sounds like a fun holiday with the lads
What a random title but interesting video
Were they waiting for the Silk Sonic album back then, too?
How about the trade between Spain and China via South America and the Philippines after trade via the silk road was reduced by religious conflict.
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Yes, you should read (Transforming Manila: China, Islam and Spain in a Global Port City) by Ethan Hawkley.
4:23 you missed the opportunity, my friend. Should've been: "what the khan wants, he khan."
6:10 Kublai Khan was the grandson of Ghengis Khan
This reminds of the upcoming Chinese animated movie I think it’s called shuvo feng
Hey love your videos! Can you do videos on Visigoth kingdom
The history of eunuchs!
What about the Hippie Trail of the 60's and 70's? Did this channel do a video on that trail?
It's somewhat impressive how this channel will keep unpacking the same facts & recycling it into "new" videos. Still a few good jokes here & there at least
Yea plus trying to make it seem like homosexuality was widespread and approved in the ancient world, as if the people of today are the only ones to be uptight about. 🙄🙄🙄
@@A_Black_Sheep94 no one is uptight about it these days, they just are uptight about people wanting special treatment
@@AbsyntheAndTears What I mean is they want to act like it's weird for modernity to not be completely accepting of it.
@@AbsyntheAndTears You should make a social experiment video about that and do some smooching on someone of the same sex in public, but only do that if it's in a country where it's not illegal or you COULD die.
@@A_Black_Sheep94 Let’s be honest, it truly wasn’t looked down upon until the spread of the Abrahamic Religions. The Greeks and Romans definitely didn’t have any rules against it, in fact their Gods even partook in homosexual relationships. It was only looked down upon if you were the submissive one in the relationship. Japan didn’t look down upon it, some Samurai partook in it. There’s various African tribes that partook in it. If I’m not mistaken, Native American tribes even had different genders. There’s various other examples as well but I think the point he’s trying to make is that homosexuality wasn’t as stigmatized as it was from the 800’s AD - 1960’s.
Please make a video about Transylvanian history and culture and Bram Stoker's novel Dracula.
Ahh!!!! This is interesting!!!
Coincidentally watching this video while traveling the Silk Road- in Turpan 😄
Great video 👍👍
Never wondered this in my life =P
We are new to your channel Dooleys Michigan Homestead
Please make a video on Srinivasa Ramanujan! A mathematician genius who almost was never discovered and died too soon!
never knew Zheng He's name could be butchered till the point its Zang He :')
2050: Intimacy on China's Silk Road Economic Belt: "China owns your ass!"
Imagine thinking the China of today will be around in 2050. They've racked up the same amount of debt in 25 years that the US has in 125 years, India and Japan are ready to serve them their ass in a war, and Xi's political enemies are trying to get him ousted.
@@A_Black_Sheep94
Don't forget the old debt to the USA that China refuses to acknowledge.
If you factor this in at current value, the USA isn't really a debtor to China at all...
Weird history=Useless information but you’re bored so you’ll watch anything.
Zheng he was forced to be a eunuch when Ming China conquered the last remnant of Mongol Yuan in Yunnan. Where Zheng he family was station. Being brought into China during Genghis conquest in the Central Asia. Zheng He traced his ancestry to Samarkand or Bukhara.
It’s stated in the video that Hinduism didn’t really spread out of India but this is wrong. Hinduism is a main part of the Thai religion as well as Indonesia. Hindu culture is very prevalent in Southeast Asia all the way from the Khmer empire up to the present day. One of the main Gods of Thailand is Ganesh
Weird history instructed Elvis Presley on the Fine Art of fried peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches
Intimacy? Welp, this vid explains it LOL
The Khan gets what the Khan wants, when you put it like that it sounds so odly satisfying
How about a video on "The Nachez Trace"
Was this same video uploaded a few days/week ago?
im from the Philippines and an avid subscriber... can you do some south east asian history?
5:44 Bottom right corner - Bobby Hill-Khan
Strict sexual practices became more popular with religious sects mainly Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
The benefit was to know the legitimacy of ones Heirs .
Thank you for not drowning this video in music❤❤❤some of your videos have loud music while you speak😢😢havent seen them,it is so irritating😢😢😢😢
please make a video about King Philip of Spain!
The Timbuktu and other centres of salt and gold trade in west Africa!
I can’t be the only one who thought this was about the dark web Silk Road when I saw the title 😂
FYI at 6.10 you state that Kublai Khan was Genghiz Khan's son, this is not the case as Kublai was his grandson . Other than that another excellent video, thanks.
I thought "rowt" was to run away from the enemy! "Route" (root) is a roadway.
Agreed. But not in US English, it seems.
Fifty shades of silk road
"Hey honey can you keep a syphilis.. I mean secret?"
I would love to watch a video on the history and contribution of Mughals in India please.
Ahh the good’ol days.😑