How was England formed?

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  • How was England formed?
    The existence of England is one that is often taken for granted and looked at far too scarcely. This may be due to the overshadowing history of the development of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, but nonetheless, in order for these unions to be formed, England had to already exist - and it actually has since 927 AD. So, how was England created, who claimed the land before the English, and how did it become the nation that we know today?...
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    Hamerow, Helena. The Origins of Wessex.
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    Albany F. Major, Early Wars of Wessex
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Комментарии • 12 тыс.

  • @thursdayhistoryandhounds
    @thursdayhistoryandhounds 3 года назад +7247

    Since TikTok got confused about this I just wanna pop in and say - I’m the scriptwriter on this video and at the beginning when referencing “Scots” and pointing to Ireland, that’s not a mistake! The Scots/Scoti/Scotti were Gaels from Ireland around the same time that the Picts were in Scotland! I see why it confused people on TikTok and everyone here seems fine but, just in case 😂

    • @charlesbryanpagtalunan3188
      @charlesbryanpagtalunan3188 3 года назад +586

      Yeah cause the people in tiktok are dumb

    • @dendenmushi5458
      @dendenmushi5458 3 года назад +162

      Don't mind the tiktok people lol, young and dumb. Do what you do, great video

    • @tonytrismegistusroberts5124
      @tonytrismegistusroberts5124 3 года назад +42

      @@Bootlegger4 what about pais de gales ?

    • @JohnBedson
      @JohnBedson 3 года назад +98

      So if I understand you right, a "United Ireland" would have to include Scotland?

    • @thursdayhistoryandhounds
      @thursdayhistoryandhounds 3 года назад +145

      @@Bootlegger4 1) I was explaining why the arrow came from Ireland - because they were not just in Scotland 2) Never heard it described as derogatory (it’s just Latin) lol. It’s the term most of our sources used so we chose to use it to differentiate.

  • @lordsiomai
    @lordsiomai 3 года назад +6119

    Up to this day, I still find it astounding how this small island nation was able to become the "empire in which the sun never sets" later on in history.

    • @dragosstanciu9866
      @dragosstanciu9866 3 года назад +791

      A very strong navy allowed England to build an empire.

    • @hunting4honeys
      @hunting4honeys 3 года назад +710

      All comes down to inventing industrialisation

    • @Daniel-fj9ik
      @Daniel-fj9ik 3 года назад +615

      @@hunting4honeys The brtish already had a huge empire before the industrial revolution.

    • @gabe89nl
      @gabe89nl 3 года назад +481

      Being an island nation is a huge geographical advantage in the turmoil of the European conquests. The United Provinces i.e. also had a strong navy but were on the main continent and more easily invaded.

    • @pashapasovski5860
      @pashapasovski5860 3 года назад +310

      Viking genetics

  • @VarleyET
    @VarleyET 2 года назад +2986

    Anyone who's interested in seeing how this played out in a TV series: The Last Kingdom did a great job covering it and it was very entertaining

    • @superisii596
      @superisii596 2 года назад +202

      The only thing, is that Uthred is a fictive role.. During Alfred reign the real Uthred from Bebbamburg was around 1-5 years old... But yes, the TV series can give you a great covering..

    • @josesantiagodiaz83
      @josesantiagodiaz83 2 года назад +95

      This is a great show and will show how bloody it is to hold a kingdom in that time.

    • @houstonwelch4253
      @houstonwelch4253 2 года назад +176

      I knew that Uthred was a fictional character, but I was really surprised how historically accurate the show ended up being, and it seems they are maintaining that.

    • @shutupmanful
      @shutupmanful 2 года назад +113

      One of the best shows on Netflix

    • @georgejennings8743
      @georgejennings8743 2 года назад +60

      Season 5 is so good

  • @cromwellcruiser
    @cromwellcruiser 3 года назад +4384

    Looking at such a long period of time, it might be useful to put a year counter in one corner alongside the animations.

    • @charm359
      @charm359 3 года назад +57

      Good idea

    • @georgezee5173
      @georgezee5173 3 года назад +88

      My thoughts exactly! Even though he kept saying the year, it's much better being able to check the year by yourself at any time.

    • @silverjay4455
      @silverjay4455 3 года назад +23

      Specially if im deaf!

    • @ghostriderpa31
      @ghostriderpa31 3 года назад +14

      It all happened in 10:16.. 🙌🏼

    • @astrorecordingsomegaenterp888
      @astrorecordingsomegaenterp888 3 года назад +1

      So IT is done

  • @HockeyLax50
    @HockeyLax50 Год назад +470

    Crazy how the first 4 minutes of this video basically sum up the entire 5 seasons of the Last Kingdom which takes place over decades, and shows how perilous the struggle was

    • @sexyalien806
      @sexyalien806 Год назад +14

      Fr also amazing show

    • @Emilyb21-dm3bf
      @Emilyb21-dm3bf Год назад +23

      Just started watching it. It wipes the floor with vikings the series which was frankly garbage without a hot cast and crowd pleasing repetitive violence. The story and writing in this is superior.l

    • @freegamer6623
      @freegamer6623 Год назад

      ​@@Emilyb21-dm3bfits good man

    • @BlazingFire9
      @BlazingFire9 9 месяцев назад +5

      Yeah also a little bit from the vikings show, the last kingdom and vikings must've been my favourite shows of all time

    • @jonathanshaw7355
      @jonathanshaw7355 8 месяцев назад +4

      Great show. 👍

  • @AshPrimeDCFC
    @AshPrimeDCFC 3 года назад +1290

    Disappointingly, this is not taught in English schools, which is just ridiculous.
    Edit: I grew up in the 90s. It wasn't taught in my school. It should be mandatory teaching.

    • @connor971
      @connor971 3 года назад +336

      They would rather teach us about how diversity is our strength and how the British empire was bad.

    • @cowboybeboop9420
      @cowboybeboop9420 3 года назад +114

      How is this possible? As a foreigner I am baffled by this.

    • @leemiles3975
      @leemiles3975 3 года назад +19

      True history of origin is key info

    • @DirectorHMAN
      @DirectorHMAN 3 года назад +73

      The most they taught us was the battle of Hastings, and catholics vs protestants. That was it really.

    • @IAmNinboy
      @IAmNinboy 3 года назад +80

      @@connor971 You go dude, keep gunning for that job on GB News, Nige is going to notice you any day now x

  • @everything1023
    @everything1023 3 года назад +2421

    Imagine having such a badass name as Eric Bloodaxe.

    • @D-train.
      @D-train. 3 года назад +100

      Edgar is typing...

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 3 года назад +59

      Imagine saying "bad buttocks" to describe something impressive.

    • @cole8834
      @cole8834 3 года назад +22

      @@scintillam_dei think of a stubborn donkey that can't stop bucking. There, that's a badass.

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 3 года назад +5

      @@cole8834 Donkey is synonymous with stupid so I don't see what's cool about that.

    • @superomegaprimemk2
      @superomegaprimemk2 3 года назад +22

      I expect that they likely earned the name Bloodaxe through battle, it doesn't strike me as a family name and they likely proclaimed that be their name to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies!

  • @szymonmatusiak3992
    @szymonmatusiak3992 2 года назад +686

    I am amazed how a relatively small island nation had a great influence on the world. It's remarkable that English became the most spoken language - Latin of the 21st century and the long pursued dream of having an universal/world language is becoming true. Thanks for the great video. Greetings from Poland!

    • @neilcroonM3
      @neilcroonM3 2 года назад +28

      but be honest.....you probably live in england ;) ....just kidding!

    • @chiyenyumba7135
      @chiyenyumba7135 2 года назад +22

      @@neilcroonM3 well you probably live in Brazil as your lot have a finger in every pie lol..
      Jus kidding

    • @condorX2
      @condorX2 2 года назад

      Aye.
      The Viking completely changed them, from fighting for their homeland against invaders to become the invader themselves who colonized half the world and plundering all their riches.
      Here is nice article.
      The British East India Company seized Bengal in 1757 by force. Then the British forced the peasantry to handover their produce and engineered a famine in 1770 that killed a third of the population. Following that, there were 24 famines between 1850-1899 in different parts of the country, where tens of millions of people killed. From 1765 to 1938, Britain extracted 45 trillion pound sterling from India, which was effectively the down payment for the Industrial Revolution. In 1700, India had 25% of the world’s GDP. By 1950, they had only 4%. In 1943, during the WW II, Winston Churchill diverted food from Bengal to Britain, resulted in 3 million Indians deaths. When India got independent from the British, the literacy rate was just 14%.
      From the late 17th century to the 18th century, Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn around a huge trade deficit, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing government in their tea and porcelain trades. After opium was destroyed in salt water and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British.
      After 12 years, the British got really greedy. They demanded the Qing government: 1) To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely and tax free. 2) Make opium legal in China. After being rejected, the British and French, with support by the USA, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, an estimated 150,000 pieces of historic treasures with a 1900-year span from the first Qin Dynasty up to the Qing Dynasty were raided and many ended up in the British Museum in London.
      After the Summer Palace was burned down in 3 days, the Anglo-French military then threatened to burn the Imperial Palace. The Qing government was forced to pay with free trade ports, 300,000 kilograms of silver and the Kowloon district north of Hong Kong Island was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely from the free trade ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor, famously known as “piglet labor”.
      Britain, a tiny country, had turned the two biggest economies in the world into poverty stricken slumps. China and India co-existed for 4000 years without problems. Buddhism originated in India and widely adopted in China. China sent Buddhist monks to India to learn Buddhism from India. When the British were preparing for India’s independence, an ambiguity was left behind at the border between China and India, and since then, it became the point of conflicts between China and India, including a war at the border in 1962. Divide and rule, is their tactic used over and over again.
      The British colonized my country Malaysia in 1786. During WW II, when the Japanese came to Malaya, the British fled the country, and the Malayan Communists were left behind to fight a gorilla warfare with the Japanese in the jungles. After the Japanese surrendered, the Malayan Communist fighters went back to towns. Then the British came back, surrounded the towns and mass murdered them.
      Before handed back to China, Hong Kong was ruled under an iron fist, but when Hong Kong was returned to China, the UK pushed for democracy in Hong Kong.
      There are many reasons for the empire’s successes. But one thing stands out: hypocrisy.
      -Zeis Siez

    • @whiskersredwood
      @whiskersredwood 2 года назад +15

      All part of God's plan

    • @adamkhan1744
      @adamkhan1744 2 года назад +16

      In History no man has done what Prophet Muhammad pbuh did which was be successful on both a religious and political level.

  • @wanwandokko
    @wanwandokko 2 года назад +336

    Northern English words, names of towns and villages and structures are a surprising mix of Scandinavian and ango saxon words. Fascinating nation

    • @chrisstucker1813
      @chrisstucker1813 2 года назад +38

      Look at the Geordie accent in the north east. Majority of words are strongly Anglo Saxon, in fact drunken geordies abroad have often been mistaken as Norwegian or Danish, including a friend of mine 😂

    • @atlhawks4200
      @atlhawks4200 Год назад +5

      Until the slavs take over.

    • @stephenshipley1066
      @stephenshipley1066 Год назад +13

      I come from Yorkshire and now live in Somerset. The difference in place names is very evident.

    • @NazriB
      @NazriB Год назад

      Lies again? Entertaining Nazri Germany

    • @oddjob1932
      @oddjob1932 Год назад +3

      I've read 'Dale' means valley

  • @emkaydee6048
    @emkaydee6048 2 года назад +1106

    Aethelstan was buried in my hometown, alongside those from his army at the battle of Brunanburh, a very small town called Malmesbury. His remains are lost, but the memorial is in the Abbey still. Direct descendants of his army who still live locally have a society called “commoners” as they still collectively own an area of common land that Athelstan gave to those men!

    • @chudinwike6875
      @chudinwike6875 2 года назад +25

      What do the commoners do with the land?

    • @nevarius9010
      @nevarius9010 2 года назад +23

      That's amazing.

    • @psychosquirrel555
      @psychosquirrel555 2 года назад +30

      Love Malmesbury. I have lived in Australia for many years but am from the Cotswolds and always visit you on a home trip. It's funny but I always smile when I see the rippled glass on the homes in your town. I am descended from the 'Ley' family of Foxley, and this was my birth surname. :)

    • @oracle8589
      @oracle8589 2 года назад +42

      That’s incredible! I grew up in the village of Wedmore where the treaty of wedmore was signed and Guthram was baptised. Many members of my family have gotten married in the church in which it all took place, it’s crazy to find out these things they didn’t even tell us this at school.

    • @lucidmoment71
      @lucidmoment71 2 года назад +33

      @@chudinwike6875 Common land was used for grazing sheep

  • @casper_z1259
    @casper_z1259 3 года назад +1940

    English guy: ''Finally, free from Viking rule.''
    Normans: ''Bonjour?''

    • @Billcarsonstobaccobox
      @Billcarsonstobaccobox 3 года назад +228

      Norman's were just vikings who chose to speak French.
      The Norwegian vikings were defeated by the English and told to go back home to never return.
      The Norman's were NOT FRENCH BUT VIKINGS.

    • @casper_z1259
      @casper_z1259 3 года назад +202

      @@Billcarsonstobaccobox Yeah, that was the joke.

    • @blodhevn2353
      @blodhevn2353 3 года назад +27

      Reminds me of Hrolf/Rollo saying hello to the french princess in vikings. he said it in french so obviously hes not a viking.

    • @dunruden9720
      @dunruden9720 3 года назад +21

      @@Billcarsonstobaccobox One Norman, two or more Normans, NOT Norman IS!!

    • @_Ottho
      @_Ottho 3 года назад +117

      ​ @John Bicknell Quit it with the english nationalist revisionism.
      They were not vikings. Genetically, William the conqueror was no more than 1/8 norse. Culturally, he didnt speak a germanic tongue, but a latin one, albeit with some norse mixed in. He pledged allegiance to the king of the franks, and adopted french customs (some made their way to England over the centuries of french rule following the normans invasion).
      Same for his men, they werent considered norsemen anymore. After ~2 centuries, the norse settler had mixed with the locals, and the men that invaded and took England were not just norman nobility, but from the people that had been there for centuries before norsemen settled in normandy.
      England = first french colony, get over it or start speaking anglish.

  • @CentralAssassin
    @CentralAssassin 2 года назад +128

    I'm from the Philippines but dang I love the History of England and Vikings. The first shows I watched are The Vikings and The Last Kingdom🔥

    • @CB_GAMES777
      @CB_GAMES777 Год назад +6

      My gf is in the Philippines. I hope to give her babies with Viking blood :)

    • @deuschess816
      @deuschess816 Год назад +7

      ​@@CB_GAMES777 thats a bad and instant regret way to type

    • @CB_GAMES777
      @CB_GAMES777 Год назад

      @@deuschess816 instant regret?

    • @IErfanCN
      @IErfanCN Год назад +1

      ​@@CB_GAMES777 ahh yess daddy..

    • @nomoreman
      @nomoreman Год назад +4

      @@CB_GAMES777 what the fuc-

  • @ilias8972
    @ilias8972 3 года назад +946

    Basically, English people are a mix of the Anglo-Saxons, native Britons and the Normans of the 1066 invasion. Anglo-Saxons and Normans are considered Germanic people while the Britons are Celtic people. Nevertheless, the history of the formation of England is interesting since it involves all the classic medieval lore, myths and tales. Although I'm Greek, I liked the English myths since childhood. Kings, knights, wizards, dragons, christian traditions like Holy Grail and more. An island with big impact in the world ,although sometimes negative to be honest. The greatest navy of the world of that time.

    • @thomassugg5621
      @thomassugg5621 3 года назад +48

      I’m from England and I too loved listening to these kinds of story’s as a kid, A time of hero’s, kings and warlords. Many great battles were fought. One such battle was in 603 AD, when the king of Northumbria Ethelfrith utterly destroyed an Briton army and marched on the city of Chester in 606. Before the battle for the city it is said he sacrificed 400 Christian priests to the Anglo-Saxon war God. During the battle his younger brother was slain. 10 years later he marched south to attack the kingdom of East Anglia, but was surprise attacked. He was court with his army’s back against a river. His warriors formed a shield wall and clashed with the men of East Anglia. Some Stories say he fought with an battle axe killing several enemy combatants before he was killed himself

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 3 года назад +68

      Normans themselves would of mix with Frankish, Gallic and Latin genetic people of Britain.

    • @enricomanno8434
      @enricomanno8434 3 года назад +5

      @@noahtylerpritchett2682 That's right

    • @Delgen1951
      @Delgen1951 3 года назад +15

      @@noahtylerpritchett2682 Well yes and No. Gallic people are Celts, more like they added more Celts' back in.

    • @antilles27
      @antilles27 3 года назад +41

      A fairly good summary. I think the Danes and the Romans, as in not just Romanized Britons but Romans themselves with their laws, religion and technology, are significant contributors as well to the cultural mix.

  • @Clone683
    @Clone683 3 года назад +1422

    As a Brit, this is already way more than I learned in History class

    • @rollthetape88
      @rollthetape88 3 года назад +61

      there is a reason for that, the British-Norman Yoke does not want us to remember.

    • @ryanomeara683
      @ryanomeara683 3 года назад +97

      They want dumb workers not critically thinking past conscientious people

    • @sammycatDK
      @sammycatDK 3 года назад +44

      As a non-brit I think you have the right to rule the waves - and demand the world as yours.

    • @waynepalmer8598
      @waynepalmer8598 3 года назад +21

      All you have to do is watch Seasons 1 & 2 of The Kingdom. 😉

    • @nixl3518
      @nixl3518 3 года назад +26

      @@waynepalmer8598 Television entertainment does not constitute historical fact. Watching anything like that has no veracity and relevance to reality

  • @thomassugg5621
    @thomassugg5621 3 года назад +432

    Some facts about Anglo-Saxon culture, it was an elective absolute monarchy which meant even if you were the first born son that did not mean you would be king, as there was a meeting of elders called the Witan meaning the (Meeting of the wise men). Who would meet to elect the next king. Anglo-Saxon culture was all about honour and glory to your lord, If you were an English warrior and swore an oath of loyalty to your lord, you were expected to fight till the death for that lord no matter the cost.

    • @AsiandOOd
      @AsiandOOd 3 года назад +31

      but those practices are more formalities than real practice. the witan merely recognized the king's successor and had no real say in electing a popular nobleman or someone else. also the loyalty to lord is very common in medieval chivalry as a common theme, as well as in tribal societies that preceded the walled cities and castles kind of thing. not to say that you were completely off, im just putting some of my perspective in here.

    • @thomassugg5621
      @thomassugg5621 3 года назад +21

      @@AsiandOOd you are true about the Witan, in theory if you were a powerful noble you could get elected like Harold Godwinson was, but in reality as you said most of the time the Elders elected the previous kings son as king.

    • @MrStillhot
      @MrStillhot 3 года назад +12

      Somebody has been watching last kingdom lol

    • @rachitsah8305
      @rachitsah8305 3 года назад +5

      @@MrStillhot me too lol I reached near the end of the second season in two days. I've honestly not binged on a show this heavily since Suits back in 2015

    • @cakdwik2050
      @cakdwik2050 3 года назад +5

      William Normandy: thats a cute system 😂😂

  • @danamania150
    @danamania150 Год назад +145

    As an American, I am fascinated by history that occurred before 1607 😂 it’s absolutely mind blowing that English history goes so far back. Great video!

    • @PortmanRd
      @PortmanRd Год назад +24

      Julius Caesar landed on British shores in 55bc. That's roughly 1,600 years of history before this battle took place.

    • @PortmanRd
      @PortmanRd Год назад +8

      ​@@KukiCrusaderI don't think Genghis Khan was Chinese.

    • @Krawn_
      @Krawn_ Год назад +1

      The U.S.A was created by the British race....

    • @williams.k4399
      @williams.k4399 Год назад +7

      Same feeling here. I'm Brazilian.

    • @PortmanRd
      @PortmanRd Год назад +6

      @@KukiCrusader Well your comment about China never being subdued confused me somewhat. Unless you are classing Mongols as Chinese.

  • @ashleighuk84
    @ashleighuk84 3 года назад +155

    Angles, Saxons and JUTES. I'm from Kent and it was mainly the Jutes that colonized this area.

    • @torinjones3221
      @torinjones3221 3 года назад +17

      Kent was a jute kingdom as was the isle of white. People also forget about the Frisians also settled in britannia mostly in the Thames estuary.

    • @STEINLAR
      @STEINLAR 3 года назад +21

      People love to throw around the word "colonized" today but to describe Kent as "Colonised" is simply untrue, in order to be colonised, your native people are subjected to the migration and immigration of yours and their people under the authority of another country, kingdom or empire, the settlers that moved to Kent did not do that on the behalf of any entity, they simply moved because they saw potential opportunities.
      Please stop throwing around the word "Colonised" especially when its use was only really prevalent from the 1630's onwards and mostly refers to an era of imperialism which was not prevalent at the time you are describing.

    • @matthewsteele99
      @matthewsteele99 3 года назад

      @@torinjones3221 there were also tiny Frankish settlements too

    • @jdlc903
      @jdlc903 3 года назад

      @@STEINLAR well the viking colonised it and the romans

    • @STEINLAR
      @STEINLAR 3 года назад +6

      @@jdlc903 No they didn't, they conquered and settled it, they did not establish colonies on the British Isles.

  • @Robert-nz2qw
    @Robert-nz2qw 3 года назад +412

    This was very good. One idea is to have added a “current year” counter in any corner.

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 года назад +2

      On my main channel, I make videos with subtitles in 3 languages for folk tunes of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      ruclips.net/video/QzFvY39H57U/видео.html

    • @mdayubsk9266
      @mdayubsk9266 3 года назад +1

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    • @hefeibao
      @hefeibao 3 года назад

      yes please

    • @MarkWiltshire.
      @MarkWiltshire. 3 года назад +12

      This is critically missing - gives no reference for any of the events you discuss - please add this

    • @billysummers1616
      @billysummers1616 3 года назад +1

      England is gay

  • @ElvisTek
    @ElvisTek 3 года назад +540

    After watching vikings and being interested in what happened there and how it was formed… I needed this information.. this is an amazing channel

    • @charliederrick1583
      @charliederrick1583 3 года назад +78

      if you watch Vikings i highly recommend the last kingdom on Netflix which does a better job of depicting historical events covering most of what we see in this video

    • @ciaranmck4469
      @ciaranmck4469 3 года назад +9

      @@charliederrick1583 well beyond the first season most of isn't actually that historic I suppose but everything leading up to the battle of Eddington (minus urthred) was pretty historic

    • @Knowledgia
      @Knowledgia  3 года назад +17

      Thank you so much!

    • @cba2make1up
      @cba2make1up 3 года назад +14

      Then you have to watch The Last Kingdom. It portrays Alfred the Great over 3 seasons and infinitely better than Vikings did. And with Season 5 dropping soon I'm hoping we're about to see everything from 3:03 onwards.

    • @ciaranmck4469
      @ciaranmck4469 3 года назад

      @@cba2make1up well its based off the book I believe, I haven't read the book so I don't really know how far it goes up to or whether season 5 is part of the book

  • @joegagliardi3984
    @joegagliardi3984 Год назад +32

    I recently finished watching “The Last Kingdom” on Netflix. It follows the 9th century Anglo-Saxon/Dane fight for England. The last kingdom refers to Wessex, and the royal family’s determination to unite each of the kingdoms into one nation. Of course, there is plenty of directorial license, but they do correctly use many of the actual historical figures of the time, such as Edmund, the female Aethelflead, Aethelred, etc. The lead character is Uthred, who was born a Saxon, but raised as a Dane in the north of England. He ends up fighting with the Kings of Wessex, but as a believer in the “old gods” of Norse mythology, the relationships between himself and King Edmund is often strained. His stubbornness doesn’t help, but his ability on the battlefield is unmatched. His romantic relationships make the show much better, especially the love affair between King Edmund’s daughter Aethelflead, the beautiful ruler-after her husband’s death-of Mercia. Uthred’s a badass, and his loyalty is his greatest strength, although it works against him on occasion. Historically, it’s not so bad. It definitely gives you a better sense of England’s geography, especially the disparate kingdoms of the time; its early medieval culture, in particular, Christianity’s ubiquitous influence. Viking culture is also depicted, albeit exaggeratedly. It’s 5 seasons. And a movie came out this year, “7 Kings Must Die,” it’s a sequel to the show; also on Netflix. Check it out. That’s all…..

    • @notgadot
      @notgadot Год назад

      Netflicks cannot be trusted.

  • @tiagofonsecaesousa2232
    @tiagofonsecaesousa2232 3 года назад +127

    As a Portuguese I am proud of having an allie like that

    • @user-ot1yt5zx9v
      @user-ot1yt5zx9v 3 года назад +8

      If they murdered one million of your people would you still have same view genocide 🤔 sure Portuguese are colonizer's too

    • @xanderreyno
      @xanderreyno 3 года назад +27

      🇬🇧🤝♥️🇵🇹

    • @davidcovington901
      @davidcovington901 3 года назад +16

      @@user-ot1yt5zx9v
      USA enslaved many blacks. The Southern culture not highly regarded by their descendants!
      Spain killed or enslaved much of the Americas. Yet Latin Americans tend to regard Spain highly.
      Always thought that odd.
      Go back far enough, you personally might decide to hate every nation. And maybe you do.

    • @Lau2856.
      @Lau2856. 3 года назад +4

      @@user-ot1yt5zx9v they won both world wars, they can't commit genocide

    • @user-ot1yt5zx9v
      @user-ot1yt5zx9v 3 года назад +4

      @@Lau2856. They murdered one million Irish genocide 🤔 murdered millions of native American tribes 🤔 Churchill himself lead soldiers to war in India and murdered millions of people genocide 🤔 what history are you people learning!! 🤔

  • @GusArchievs
    @GusArchievs 2 года назад +69

    Very insightful video indeed! Love and peace to my English neighbours from Scotland!

    • @Spectre_T24
      @Spectre_T24 2 года назад +3

      🙏

    • @neilcroonM3
      @neilcroonM3 2 года назад +11

      so you're the one who likes us!

    • @IErfanCN
      @IErfanCN Год назад +1

      Scotland better than England?

  • @elvenkind6072
    @elvenkind6072 2 года назад +113

    Great job! I'm really, deeply interested in history, and specially English and Norse history, but I've never seen such an elegant presentation of how England came to be. You got a new subscriber, and naturally a like! Have a nice weekend everyone, from Alv, Norway.

    • @metalc0readd1ct
      @metalc0readd1ct Год назад

      Bro change your profile picture
      Or assassins will kill you ...

    • @notgadot
      @notgadot Год назад +2

      I love england too

  • @ahmadbenhachem2750
    @ahmadbenhachem2750 4 месяца назад +5

    If you love history, this ancient history documentary of England is a must-watch. Brilliantly done!

  • @christopherhumphrys7398
    @christopherhumphrys7398 3 года назад +171

    England arguably a country with the biggest impact on the world 🌎

    • @Gleichtritt
      @Gleichtritt 3 года назад +17

      Nah, I think Italy and Israel share this thrown. England in its structure is just a result of these two.

    • @theburden9920
      @theburden9920 3 года назад +10

      @@Gleichtritt China and india

    • @theburden9920
      @theburden9920 3 года назад +12

      @@Gleichtritt and greece as well

    • @firemangan2731
      @firemangan2731 3 года назад +42

      I think its England, Germany, Russia, China, Greece, Rome, Egypt, United States, Mongolia, Spain, Portugal, the arabs and Inida had an impact on the world.
      If you look at a huge historical view.

    • @theburden9920
      @theburden9920 3 года назад +7

      @@firemangan2731 yes correct, China for alchohol paper, compass, and gunpowder aka fireworks. America for the internet. England for the industrial revolution. Russia for the first man and dog in space. India and greece for mathematics, and Japan for anime and hentai!!!!

  • @Beesechurger_73
    @Beesechurger_73 Год назад +30

    The Last Kingdom

    • @WAFFL0._.0.o
      @WAFFL0._.0.o 4 месяца назад

      Beesechurger what are you doing here!? (I know I'm late)

  • @BlackNRedBiker
    @BlackNRedBiker 3 года назад +44

    Awesome video, I'm from London so naturally the history of not just England but all the surrounding islands and nations has always fascinated me

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 3 года назад +9

      London? You mean Londonistan. :-)

    • @Knowledgia
      @Knowledgia  3 года назад +7

      The fact that you are from London and you have a Viking name it is kinda concerning

    • @Mo74mmad
      @Mo74mmad 3 года назад

      Top tier video mate. I’m from London lot so naturally the history of note juss England but all the surrounding islands and nations has always fascinated me innit

    • @kacgb5315
      @kacgb5315 3 года назад +6

      @@scintillam_dei that awkward moment when it's still majority whit English....anyway is ee u every where sucking off the Spanish from central America

    • @JJaqn05
      @JJaqn05 3 года назад +3

      @@kacgb5315 No it's not. White English is the minority in London. I live in North London and all i see are Muslims and Arabs every day. They are even more common than black people and mixed people like myself.

  • @benjaminrush4443
    @benjaminrush4443 2 года назад +13

    These quick Knowledgias are Great. Simple. You can always learn more. Some of the Comments are Tremendous for the People living in the mentioned Areas bring us the Oral & Archeological History that gets lost in time. Thanks.

  • @jinnkuntv6454
    @jinnkuntv6454 2 года назад +436

    Loved the middle age English history! Wish I could visit england someday and see historic places, figures and such! Greetings from Philippines!

    • @Venus20000
      @Venus20000 2 года назад +4

      You better visit soon, English history, historical places and figures are being destroyed by racists in the country because history hurts their feelings.

    • @barrybarnes96
      @barrybarnes96 2 года назад +2

      @@Venus20000 lol

    • @philk9501
      @philk9501 2 года назад +27

      I personally live right next door to Hadrians wall put up in 122. Still there in places, but this was the wall responsible for giving George RR martin the ideas for Game of Thrones

    • @tiestokygoericprydz3963
      @tiestokygoericprydz3963 2 года назад +4

      Fantastic

    • @tiestokygoericprydz3963
      @tiestokygoericprydz3963 2 года назад +8

      @@philk9501 Jr Tolkien, HG Wells, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle are way better

  • @whiskersredwood
    @whiskersredwood 2 года назад +53

    England has been pivotal in world history.

    • @rmp7400
      @rmp7400 2 года назад +3

      @Whiskers
      Regretfully, that has proven all too true...

    • @rosemerrynmcmillan1611
      @rosemerrynmcmillan1611 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/fbbSVjVWX-4/видео.html

    • @thescallytrader
      @thescallytrader 2 года назад

      @@rmp7400 What is regretful about England. If it wasn't for the British the planet would still be living in the dark ages. Slavery would be rife, No democracy, people might be speaking French (ew), Rule of Law, wide spread education......capitalism.....we could be here all day.....oh and don't mention the Industrial Revolution. Greatest Country to have ever existed. THE UNITED KINGDOM. The Americans learnt everything they had as a foundation from the British we should have never lost that Colony but we did and they have done something hugely magnificent with it.

    • @thescallytrader
      @thescallytrader 2 года назад +3

      @@jettstream2886 such as... ?

    • @condorX2
      @condorX2 2 года назад

      Aye.
      The Viking completely changed them, from fighting for their homeland against invader to become the invader themselves who colonized half the world and plundering all their riches.
      Here is nice article.
      The British East India Company seized Bengal in 1757 by force. Then the British forced the peasantry to handover their produce and engineered a famine in 1770 that killed a third of the population. Following that, there were 24 famines between 1850-1899 in different parts of the country, where tens of millions of people killed. From 1765 to 1938, Britain extracted 45 trillion pound sterling from India, which was effectively the down payment for the Industrial Revolution. In 1700, India had 25% of the world’s GDP. By 1950, they had only 4%. In 1943, during the WW II, Winston Churchill diverted food from Bengal to Britain, resulted in 3 million Indians deaths. When India got independent from the British, the literacy rate was just 14%.
      From the late 17th century to the 18th century, Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn around a huge trade deficit, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing government in their tea and porcelain trades. After opium was destroyed in salt water and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British.
      After 12 years, the British got really greedy. They demanded the Qing government: 1) To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely and tax free. 2) Make opium legal in China. After being rejected, the British and French, with support by the USA, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, an estimated 150,000 pieces of historic treasures with a 1900-year span from the first Qin Dynasty up to the Qing Dynasty were raided and many ended up in the British Museum in London.
      After the Summer Palace was burned down in 3 days, the Anglo-French military then threatened to burn the Imperial Palace. The Qing government was forced to pay with free trade ports, 300,000 kilograms of silver and the Kowloon district north of Hong Kong Island was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely from the free trade ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor, famously known as “piglet labor”.
      Britain, a tiny country, had turned the two biggest economies in the world into poverty stricken slumps. China and India co-existed for 4000 years without problems. Buddhism originated in India and widely adopted in China. China sent Buddhist monks to India to learn Buddhism from India. When the British were preparing for India’s independence, an ambiguity was left behind at the border between China and India, and since then, it became the point of conflicts between China and India, including a war at the border in 1962. Divide and rule, is their tactic used over and over again.
      The British colonized my country Malaysia in 1786. During WW II, when the Japanese came to Malaya, the British fled the country, and the Malayan Communists were left behind to fight a gorilla warfare with the Japanese in the jungles. After the Japanese surrendered, the Malayan Communist fighters went back to towns. Then the British came back, surrounded the towns and mass murdered them.
      Before handed back to China, Hong Kong was ruled under an iron fist, but when Hong Kong was returned to China, the UK pushed for democracy in Hong Kong.
      There are many reasons for the empire’s successes. But one thing stands out: hypocrisy.
      -Zeis Siez

  • @dazediss6629
    @dazediss6629 2 года назад +348

    This was really interesting as I’m from Cumbria, which on the map is the part of England directly east of the Isle of Man, formally part of southern Strathclyde. It explains why my ancestors all spoke an ancient language of Cumbric, which was a blend of Celtic, Welsh & Norse. It became extinct in the 12th century - after the carve up of Strathclyde. But it does explain why the dialects & accents around where I live are so weirdly diverse, more so than any other region in the U.K.
    For instance - 3 miles up the road in Gretna, Dumfries & Galloway - everybody speaks with a Scottish accent. 2 miles east in the western Yorkshire dales - everyone speaks with a Yorkshire accent, 10 miles south in Lancaster everyone speaks with a Lancashire accent, and everyone in the Lake District (where I live) has a totally unique accent which is a blend of all 4.

    • @karenstanley8038
      @karenstanley8038 2 года назад +14

      Yes it is more than likely that your region is the most diverse today.

    • @gcluskey
      @gcluskey 2 года назад +13

      The accents in Ireland vary every few miles also. Accents are very interesting a very handy way of recognizing where in the small country they’re from

    • @tinello8499
      @tinello8499 2 года назад +10

      Same thing happens here in Miami Florida… hehe, Coral Gables, North Miami, Doral, South Miami, Kendall, Downtown and the Beach áreas all have different “accents “

    • @Pwj579
      @Pwj579 2 года назад +6

      You should visit Baltimore, MD . We have some funny accents , just make sure to “ warsh” your hands with “ werm wooter” and “soooap”

    • @ElMundoSuave
      @ElMundoSuave 2 года назад +10

      In Los Angeles, there's the Valley accent, West Hollywood's "Gayccent", Watts and South Central has the "Blackccent", East LA has your Cholo foo foo accent, you got china town and little Tokyo, and of course the hills where they don't recognize any accent that makes less than 150,000 USD yearly.

  • @JackReynolds-w7g
    @JackReynolds-w7g 10 месяцев назад +8

    For whatever reason, I really enjoy the history of England and the history of Egypt far more than I do my own.

    • @Emilyb21-dm3bf
      @Emilyb21-dm3bf 7 месяцев назад

      I love the ancient history like Egypt so amazing how much they new without modern science. I'm not as interested in my own either I

    • @dukeblunder
      @dukeblunder 4 месяца назад

      First time?

  • @WelshWing98
    @WelshWing98 3 года назад +619

    Meanwhile Wales channeling its inner Switzerland and just munching on popcorn 😂

    • @thebandofbastards4934
      @thebandofbastards4934 3 года назад +61

      Until it saw the english coming to pay a permanent visit to them.

    • @briantoal1880
      @briantoal1880 3 года назад +48

      Was hoping they would mention what was taken place in Wales during the timeline and why it was not invaded

    • @myrddingwynedd2751
      @myrddingwynedd2751 3 года назад +103

      @@thebandofbastards4934 By the time the English paid Wales a visit, they were essentially Normans. All the marcher lords that came to rule areas of south Wales were of Norman descent. It took around two centuries for Wales to be finally conquered by the Normans. Wales, because of its terrain, was considered unconquerable for a time, until Edward I on returning from the crusades, seeing the fortified stone castles built by the crusaders got the idea to fortify conquered regions with stone castles. It wasn`t until then that Wales was truly conquered. It was far easier for invading armies, such as the Normans, to pacify England than it was to pacify Wales. England was conquered far quicker and far easier than Wales was, and the terrain was the reason, until the fortified stone castles were built.

    • @TheMelbournelad
      @TheMelbournelad 3 года назад +6

      I think Wessex had those “SOON” eyes on Wales since they gave the Danes a paddlin.

    • @Epicrandomness1111
      @Epicrandomness1111 3 года назад +17

      Wales was involved for most of this period as the princes were variously nominal subjects and vassals of England and participated both with and against the English in many of battles referenced in this video.

  • @ASHSRV
    @ASHSRV 2 года назад +166

    For anyone interested The Vikings and The Last Kingdom are two great TV shows that deal with this portion of history.

    • @maximusproliferus3633
      @maximusproliferus3633 2 года назад +22

      Vikings are so freakin overrated…

    • @SonOfSassy
      @SonOfSassy 2 года назад +4

      The shows are highly dramatic. Not 100% accurate

    • @sonny4997
      @sonny4997 2 года назад +2

      both amazing! take a look at vikings valhalla too!

    • @DJZO1203
      @DJZO1203 2 года назад +9

      @@SonOfSassy kinda how a show is supposed to be, no show is going to be historically accurate or else it would be very boring

    • @ftroop2000
      @ftroop2000 2 года назад

      @@maximusproliferus3633, the middle part got boring af. The last season though 👌👌👌👌

  • @DPLFC
    @DPLFC 3 года назад +150

    Living in York is amazing and at times taken for granted the history this little city has seen.

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 года назад

      On my main channel, I make videos with subtitles in 3 languages for folk tunes of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      ruclips.net/video/QzFvY39H57U/видео.html

    • @RD-jr8nv
      @RD-jr8nv 3 года назад +9

      Not to mention you have a gigantic Viking shit on display in a museum. Quite the shite to behold!

    • @mdayubsk9266
      @mdayubsk9266 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/BE67fC5RCrI/видео.html ❤️❤️👍🏾❤️

    • @Sabbathissaturday
      @Sabbathissaturday 3 года назад +11

      I’m a native Texan and I love York, England. I’ve been many, many times. ❤️

    • @Prog4Prog
      @Prog4Prog 3 года назад

      @@RD-jr8nv I always come out of the museum smelling of goat and pillage

  • @condemoussa3891
    @condemoussa3891 4 месяца назад +1

    I could watch this over and over again. The way history is presented here is simply brilliant! 🎥

  • @enricotiberi7872
    @enricotiberi7872 3 года назад +102

    As an Italian, I must say England had a great history of unification!

    • @pablosaintmarr3223
      @pablosaintmarr3223 3 года назад +3

      Not met many English people have you Enrico ? they despise each other like no other race or country .

    • @enricotiberi7872
      @enricotiberi7872 3 года назад +16

      @@pablosaintmarr3223 unfortunately I never went to UK, I can't confirm it, I could trust you about this. But every folk around the world has its pros and cons... we Italians too, of course. 😂😉

    • @lesdodoclips3915
      @lesdodoclips3915 3 года назад +32

      @@pablosaintmarr3223 the fact you have a Scottish banner of the the jack shows you are either
      Incredibly bitter and hate English
      A troll

    • @jareno5496
      @jareno5496 3 года назад +39

      @@pablosaintmarr3223 that's straight up not true. Northerners and southern joke with each other based on stereotypes but that's that far from hate

    • @devlin7575
      @devlin7575 3 года назад +6

      Your own country’s unification I studied at school and found it very interesting

  • @English_Dawn
    @English_Dawn 3 года назад +112

    Often glossed over thank you for bringing this history to the channel.

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 года назад

      On my main channel, I make videos with subtitles in 3 languages for folk tunes of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      ruclips.net/video/QzFvY39H57U/видео.html

  • @ACinDorset
    @ACinDorset 3 года назад +90

    The Last Kingdom on Netflix got me interested in this period of history.

    • @trufellefurt3298
      @trufellefurt3298 2 года назад +2

      I recommend you the entire series of books by Bernard Cornwell, on the basis of which the series was made, much better than Netflix's series :)

  • @jamesharrison-king7449
    @jamesharrison-king7449 2 года назад +144

    The TV show (Netflix: Last Kingdom) is based on the books by Bernard Cornwell which cover most of this period in great detail. He is one of the leading historical fiction writers out there. Uthred in the books/show is a fictional character that he uses to weave the story through the history - giving him a key role or reason to be involved in the main events. He is inspired by the Bernard Cornwell's distant ancestor, Uthred. At the end of each book, the Author writes a small summary of the real history and the adaptions he's made to fit the story. The books also include maps from the time period, and the saxon naming with English translations - Which allows you to see the language and geographical development of the country. The show is good in general, but it has huge inaccuracies in how the period is portrayed which is a shame as the author and books cover this accurately - but i guess that is a tv screenwriting / budgeting decision. I would highly recommend the books.

    • @JuanGarcia-ds4sl
      @JuanGarcia-ds4sl Год назад +1

      i've seen the last kingdom and vikings TV Shows and both are very entertaining.. looking forward to read these books thank you brother

    • @notgadot
      @notgadot Год назад +1

      @@JuanGarcia-ds4sl You're welcome amigo

    • @thehussarsjacobitess85
      @thehussarsjacobitess85 7 месяцев назад +1

      I turned it off after the first two minutes. Life is too short for disrespectful, inaccurate, postmodern interpretations of worthier people.

  • @henk-jansteneker3422
    @henk-jansteneker3422 3 года назад +370

    Funny how Wales seems to be there like "have fun fighting guys, I'm fine just sitting here and reading about your adventures in the newspapers"

    • @ShadowReaper-pu2hx
      @ShadowReaper-pu2hx 3 года назад +56

      Apparently no one cares about Wales.

    • @henk-jansteneker3422
      @henk-jansteneker3422 3 года назад +8

      @@ShadowReaper-pu2hx it seems 😂

    • @mr2sansw202
      @mr2sansw202 3 года назад +42

      ​@@henk-jansteneker3422 I'm welsh and i can say nobody dose care, London was mostly built with welsh coal money and the export of it same as are gold is owned by the crown its not even legal for me to sell it in raw form unless i can prove it was removed before time of law its stupid can barley sell are sheep we eat New Zealand lamb most of it yet thats what we are known for now we have Netflix and Hollywood using are landscape and City's because its cheaper than new York LA or any other place and they jus see it as a cheap play ground with cheap houses they can buy up even know local income is so low and for the view na fuck off lucky it ain't the old times because we murder them all think come move here and abuse it because you fucked your states and country's up dont mean you can come here after we leave europe

    • @feister2869
      @feister2869 3 года назад

      Alex Spragg noice

    • @KingKong-do8cj
      @KingKong-do8cj 3 года назад +32

      Nobody could take it, like Scotland its too geographically difficult and the locals fought gorilla tactics. Even the Romans gave up on it.

  • @scottheaton8469
    @scottheaton8469 3 года назад +575

    Bernard Cornwell's Last Kingdom series is a wonderful historical fiction through this period.

    • @coolbreezy2053
      @coolbreezy2053 3 года назад +20

      Fantastic books!

    • @scottheaton8469
      @scottheaton8469 3 года назад +9

      @@coolbreezy2053 I liked the Napoleonic war series he did even more.

    • @realtalunkarku
      @realtalunkarku 3 года назад +8

      Don't forget thomas of hookton

    • @aesir1ases64
      @aesir1ases64 3 года назад +2

      I have only read the first book so far but its amazing!

    • @scottheaton8469
      @scottheaton8469 3 года назад +8

      @@aesir1ases64 I love the pagan confusion over Christianity in that book, cracked me up.

  • @oldcountryman2795
    @oldcountryman2795 3 года назад +38

    This is great! Exactly the right amount of information without getting bogged down.

    • @wefinishthisnow3883
      @wefinishthisnow3883 3 года назад +3

      It's good, but I found it far too basic and it doesn't even answer the question it asked in the beginning ("Who claims the land before the English?"). Who were the people that were already there and what was their background? Who were the Angles and Saxons? Where did the Picts and Scots come from? Why did the Romans 'fade'? What was Wales and western Ireland doing during that time? Why were they all left alone?

    • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
      @golden.lights.twinkle2329 3 года назад +1

      @@wefinishthisnow3883 To answer those questions would necessitate the video being much longer and no-one would watch it to the end.

  • @LabonyKitchen
    @LabonyKitchen 6 месяцев назад +2

    I am amazed how a relatively small island nation had a great influence on the world.

  • @jeffreycihlar3072
    @jeffreycihlar3072 3 года назад +220

    I hope this turns into a series for other major Nations

    • @blah......4970
      @blah......4970 3 года назад +6

      Scotland being the first, obviously 😉

    • @WyattsMyBoy
      @WyattsMyBoy 3 года назад +10

      It is a series called The Last Kingdom. Highly recommend!

    • @theothercd
      @theothercd 3 года назад +7

      @@WyattsMyBoy they mean a series where each video's about how a different major nation formed lmao

    • @greatermad8288
      @greatermad8288 3 года назад +3

      This would be nice

    • @HVLLOW99
      @HVLLOW99 3 года назад +2

      I'd say Spain but their origin story is extremely well known and played out. Portugal would be cool and maybe the HRE.

  • @michaelpolley01
    @michaelpolley01 3 года назад +110

    That was an interesting lesson about the formation of my own country about which I previously knew very little. History at school was never this interesting. Thanks for sharing.

    • @connsaunders9600
      @connsaunders9600 3 года назад +2

      Britain is a Country - Scotland and England were Kingdoms that existed in the Middle Ages. No other Country on the Planet recognises either of them as Countries.

    • @ov9322
      @ov9322 2 года назад +1

      Do you also want to know that you killed, looted and unstablised your ex colonies to get where you are now 🧐

    • @connsaunders9600
      @connsaunders9600 2 года назад +3

      @@ov9322
      I've never killed anyone - how about you ?

    • @bobsappe7628
      @bobsappe7628 2 года назад

      @@ov9322 😭😭😭Boo-hoo, so sad

    • @Adam-uz9sc
      @Adam-uz9sc 2 года назад +1

      @@ov9322 name a country that hasn't done that

  • @ericrobert4651
    @ericrobert4651 3 года назад +157

    What is really happening to the world Economy? Economy crisis everywhere🤦‍♂️.

    • @keiththomson9629
      @keiththomson9629 3 года назад

      The real estate industry crackdown clipped Evergrande's wings, stopped it taking on more debt and had the flow-on effect of forcing it to sell apartments at a discount so cash would continue rolling in.

    • @goergejones6861
      @goergejones6861 3 года назад

      Evergrande is worried it won't be able to sell apartments quickly enough to meet its debt repayments.

    • @alvincraig8020
      @alvincraig8020 3 года назад

      @@keiththomson9629 Real estate makes up a substantial share - more than a quarter - of China's economy, which is the second largest in the world.

    • @ebonicalbert5711
      @ebonicalbert5711 3 года назад

      Australian iron ore is exported to China to make steel, much of which is used for for construction, so a crash in property sales and apartment developments could hit our exports. The world needs to know this.

    • @howellrichard6712
      @howellrichard6712 3 года назад +1

      For context, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says Australia exported almost $85 billion worth of iron ore and concentrates to China in 2019-20.

  • @teoengchin
    @teoengchin 2 года назад +17

    This period of English history is fascinating. They should make a TV series about it

    • @uzaidgurjee4798
      @uzaidgurjee4798 2 года назад +6

      Their is, the last kingdom. Probably the most underrated tv show on Netflix. It even had a good finish unlike game of thrones which was inspired by another part of English history.

    • @jswen2477
      @jswen2477 2 года назад +4

      The Last Kingdom comes close

    • @gregorygause1427
      @gregorygause1427 2 года назад +2

      Yep,they should but speak the truth don’t leave out how they went to many other countries(African,India),
      where they raped,and killed.They stripped those countries of their natural resources,made plenty of $$$,then they put nothing back.Those countries,and many other are very poor places,where there’s starvation.So you’re right don’t leave that part out!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @mikehunt8968
      @mikehunt8968 2 года назад +4

      @@gregorygause1427 DILLIGAF?
      BTW we use £ not $, which predate them by a millennia 🙄

    • @gregorygause1427
      @gregorygause1427 2 года назад

      @@mikehunt8968 well whatever it was,give what they stole give back to all the natives of that land they stole from.

  • @BlueKnight0007.
    @BlueKnight0007. 3 года назад +10

    Would love to see more of these for more countries around the world and possibly for the whole length of time they existed. Great work!

    • @sentinal2343
      @sentinal2343 3 года назад

      They will never allow or do such a thing as it would expose the consistant theme running through out time, which would become apparant to the average person and such a project would simply expose it for the whole world to see, they are currently trying to stop that particular group, but its too late, geni is out the bottle and its getting worse for you and them that they are actually fabricating historical so called "finds" to sure up your non exsistant history(s)!

  • @vlonewaki968
    @vlonewaki968 3 года назад +488

    Thank you to the Assassins creed franchise for teaching me these historic events😂😂

    • @rufiorules
      @rufiorules 3 года назад +14

      I live a couple of miles from Ravensthorpe and let me tell you it's nothing like the game. You really wouldn't want to live there...

    • @rayulena720
      @rayulena720 3 года назад +2

      @@rufiorules wait so ravensthorpe is a real-world place?

    • @rufiorules
      @rufiorules 3 года назад +9

      @@rayulena720 sure is! On the road between Dewsbury and Huddersfield in Yorkshire. It was quite funny to hear there was a game being made based around it. It is NOT worth a visit. There is a lot of history in this area, which is why I'm looking forward to playing it at some point to see if there's anything I can recognise. Sandal castle and Pontefract castle are local and important places, but I think they're a lot later on in the timeline, more War of the Roses than The Vikings.

    • @rayulena720
      @rayulena720 3 года назад +1

      @@rufiorules why it's not recommended to visit?

    • @CraigSteelyard
      @CraigSteelyard 3 года назад +1

      @@rufiorules The Ravensthorpe in Valhalla looks like it's in Nottinghamshire on the map

  • @LurkerAnonymous
    @LurkerAnonymous 3 года назад +309

    The Last Kingdom series has this entire period covered.

    • @scapingby
      @scapingby 3 года назад +13

      the entire period as shown in the video? no lol.

    • @corinnZV
      @corinnZV 3 года назад +15

      Surely you mean The Saxon Chronicles, by Bernard Cornwall. Excellent read.

    • @benoneill4318
      @benoneill4318 3 года назад +12

      @@corinnZV no he means the TV adaptation like he said.

    • @corinnZV
      @corinnZV 3 года назад +5

      @@benoneill4318 which hardly covers half the material that the book does.

    • @jgbecker24
      @jgbecker24 3 года назад +30

      I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, brother of Uhtred and I am from Bebbenberrg!"

  • @cosmicprotocol
    @cosmicprotocol Год назад +5

    Excellent work Knowledgia.

  • @dergaga1232
    @dergaga1232 3 года назад +139

    The highest compliments to you. I enjoyed the whole video getting informed about how England was formed. I have only known before that Northumbria, Mercia, etc. were existent. But how England was formed out of these conflicts was missing in my mind. Greetings from Germany.

    • @DavidR_192
      @DavidR_192 2 года назад +15

      Yes, it is interesting that while England often garners such nationalism, that the majority of people here (aside from descendents of the original Briton Celts and Picts, and Scandinavians), are of Germanic Saxon origin. English is full of the sons of the old German Saxons and (to a lesser extent) Angles. :o)

    • @scottmoseley3928
      @scottmoseley3928 2 года назад +7

      There's lots of English accents that come from the original britons.
      The Northern accent, the accent in Anglia the accent in Bristol.
      We are half anglo-saxon half briton

    • @expressoevangelism80
      @expressoevangelism80 2 года назад

      Similarly Germany has an eventful time in it’s formation, and generally we aren’t taught much about you guys until we get to the 20th century. It would be interesting to have a similar production as to how your country developed.
      It would obviously have to be broadcast in English, as everyone is aware as to very few of us know your language, apart from ‘war sprung dork technique,’ and we all think that’s to do with the Audi’s suspension.

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 2 года назад

      @@DavidR_192 worth mentioning that Germany does not equate to Magna Germania nor Germanic the same way Britannia does not equate to Great Britain, they have merely borrowed former names
      Calling the English Germans is just as logical as calling Germans Russian or French… aka not true at all. Otherwise all of Continental Europe could just be assumed as the exact same too.

    • @wolfiestreet6899
      @wolfiestreet6899 2 года назад

      You're not getting it back, Saxon.

  • @achatzia
    @achatzia 3 года назад +13

    Wow, this was a great piece of info! Excellent presentation and graphics.

  • @meh3277
    @meh3277 3 года назад +35

    Im glad I watched this. My history studies felt lacking only covering 1066 so thanks.

    • @cbroz7492
      @cbroz7492 3 года назад

      Bernard Cornwell says pretty much the samevthing in his addendum to the final chapter/novel of his "Uthred of Bebbenburg" series...his history in school onlybpicrd upbwithbrhe Nirman Invasion...omitting the history ofvthe Isle up to that point...if you've never read one if his books...do ao that nan can spin a yarn!!!

    • @KalonOrdona2
      @KalonOrdona2 3 года назад

      @@cbroz7492 fluent thumbese you're speaking :P

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT 3 года назад +1

      When i was a teacher i tried to cover this era for the kids sake.

    • @sentinal2343
      @sentinal2343 3 года назад

      You,ve just deepen your delusion if you think you,ve learnt something, your now even futher from the truth, why do your people love fantasies and make believe? is it because your reality is so terrible you prefer others? sounds Asianish !

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 года назад

      On my main channel, I make videos with subtitles in 3 languages for folk tunes of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      ruclips.net/video/QzFvY39H57U/видео.html

  • @trueedm6115
    @trueedm6115 3 месяца назад +1

    This 'ancient history documentary' taught me that ancient people loved three things: conquering, building big stuff, and tea-well, the gossip kind

  • @winterplays665
    @winterplays665 3 года назад +21

    A beautiful country with a rich history. My gf is from England. And without them the U.S. wouldn't exist.

    • @Mlbb_newplayer1
      @Mlbb_newplayer1 3 года назад +7

      So, you are saying, english people went to US and dig up the ocean to made US..
      A TYPICAL WHITE KID WITH NO COMMON SENSE WHATSOEVER 😅.
      RICH?? - "Dude they were colonizers, murderers, thieves, racial discrimination motivation developers, burglars, and everything in that line.. what so rich about that??

    • @JJaqn05
      @JJaqn05 3 года назад +19

      @@Mlbb_newplayer1 Oh your Indian? That explains everything. Do you know that the most brutal empires are Indian? The longest ruling empires in history are also Indian. These empires destroyed whole cities, massacred thousands, destroyed temples and conquered huge swaths of territory in the Indian subcontinent. Mongolia the country north to you had one of the most brutal empires in history. Another country close to India also has one of the oldest civilisations and has had constant civil wars killing hundreds of thousands of people. So you can't call Britain colonisers when your India has done far worse. Also Britain has a much richer civilisation than India. India's culture is a shithole backwards one. Sorry but that's the truth. There are a few cool things here and there. That's it. India has nothing special because everything that was once special about India was destroyed by the same brutal Indian empires that i talked about.

    • @agron2237
      @agron2237 3 года назад +12

      @@Mlbb_newplayer1 😂😂😂😂 without the English you would be still in your little 🛖 in India with no technology. You should be thankful

    • @Mlbb_newplayer1
      @Mlbb_newplayer1 3 года назад

      @@JJaqn05 read the below provided reply as your ans as well..

    • @agron2237
      @agron2237 3 года назад +4

      @@anttraders5883 😂😂😂😂 Indians havent invented anything

  • @dukejukebox775
    @dukejukebox775 2 года назад +48

    "The Last Kingdom" is the best historical series out there on this subject,historical facts are pretty accurate and acting is superb!

    • @InglesDinamico100
      @InglesDinamico100 2 года назад +7

      I came here because of serie LTK to understand better england

    • @EfficientTrout
      @EfficientTrout 2 года назад +1

      Umm no, but it certainly educate people who hates reading history books

    • @InglesDinamico100
      @InglesDinamico100 2 года назад +2

      @@EfficientTrout i live coutry rarely find history books from other countries

    • @justsayin4117
      @justsayin4117 2 года назад +4

      Facts aren’t that accurate. Just kind of shows what life was like and how brutal the Vikings were. And the constant struggle for power, land and wealth. Funny thing about the show is Uhtred the Bold never met Alfred the Great. Alfred was king from 871-899… while Uhtred died in the year 1016 over 100 years apart from their deaths. Many characters were based on real people just not as historically accurate.

    • @mohammedarafatlone
      @mohammedarafatlone 2 года назад +1

      @@justsayin4117 yeah also shows sithric was killed by edward however this video shows he held Northumbria even after Edward's death and was later under uthred who acted as a buffer and wasn't under any oaths🗿
      I understand the show wouldn't be interesting if it was straight to the point & had no court intrigues

  • @sorel456
    @sorel456 3 года назад +271

    I'm sure this amount of history you covered could be told for hours. I thank you for the 10 min abridgement.
    do you teach at a University? I would love to subscribe myself to your lectures.

    • @ianthenerd
      @ianthenerd 3 года назад +22

      Very informative, but somehow ("The casualties was disastrously high") I doubt this is a university professor.

    • @tomthomassony8607
      @tomthomassony8607 3 года назад +22

      @@ianthenerd engaging with an audience on RUclips is totally different to an academic lecture.

    • @justinpreston4152
      @justinpreston4152 2 года назад

      @@ianthenerd it was sarcasm in case you missed it :p

    • @lemorab1
      @lemorab1 2 года назад

      Yes, thank you for being succinct and to the point, transmitting the most valuable information! Most of the time, the long-winded You Tube history videos are exasperating because the narrator is more in love with the sound of his/her own voice than the history they are imparting.
      Also, I wonder if the author of the book "The Viking," upon which the 1958 Kirk and Tony movie is based, used the actual Northumbrian king Eric Bloodaxe (great name!) as inspiration for Eric the Viking in the book and movie?

    • @fritsvanzanten3573
      @fritsvanzanten3573 2 года назад +7

      @@ianthenerd plenty of university professors use language like that ;-)

  • @alexvaraderey
    @alexvaraderey Год назад +4

    That was very useful. Early English history tends to be overlooked by William the Conqueror's invasion of 1066.

  • @malaysianmapping9767
    @malaysianmapping9767 3 года назад +338

    Edgar: This kingdom will rule the world!
    Me: Well, he isn't wrong.

  • @filipieja6997
    @filipieja6997 3 года назад +128

    Goodness sake, the Germanic tribes were everywhere, even infiltrating the Roman armies back in those days. Great to know I am currently living and enjoying the landscapes that still preserve some of their trails till to this very days - today's northern Germany, North Sea and Denmark. Great video!

    • @jacobandrews2663
      @jacobandrews2663 3 года назад +13

      Well, to be fair, They were all that were left. The Celts and the Romans were basically one mixed people throughout the continent, so naturally, when the central authority of Rome fell at the hands of the Goths and the Huns, the Only people left to fill the power vaccum seized the opportunity and took it: Germanic tribes.

    • @ebos9651
      @ebos9651 3 года назад +2

      The Roman / Celts mix took on Anglo-Saxon culture. Not Anglo-Saxon's were invading Britain, but the people used to be rained by Rome, looked for cultural inspiration elsewhere, after Rome sieced influence. Like when you just take on Japanese clothes, this does not make you Japanese. So many archeology sites found Anglo-Saxon culture items, assuming they had invaded the territory, but it was the local people using diffrent expessions really.

    • @CharlesHapsburg
      @CharlesHapsburg 3 года назад +3

      @@jacobandrews2663 the Celts mixed with Germanic people. Not like the Romans who mixed with Mediterranean peoples.

    • @jacobandrews2663
      @jacobandrews2663 3 года назад +5

      @@CharlesHapsburg there's a reason why we say the Romano-Celtic Britons were invaded by the saxons in contrast with the the Celtic Britons were invaded by the romans. By the time of the migration people the celts were culturally assimilated and took part in Roman custom and way of life in syncretism with celtic traditional structurally druid culture. They weren't isolated

    • @CharlesHapsburg
      @CharlesHapsburg 3 года назад +5

      @@jacobandrews2663 no one says Romano Britons, you’re forgetting about the Celts all over Europe not just the British isles, Celts are closely related to Germanic peoples, they aren’t mixed race whatsoever. Look at the average modern day Welsh, Irish or Scottish person to see the similarity between Germanic peoples and Celtic peoples they all have blue eyes. The romans where what they would call pure for a long time until they mixed with other Mediterranean peoples, and adapted to their surroundings, and then later the Spaniards and Portuguese also became a mixed race ethnicity through the Muslim conquests of the Iberian peninsula more unwillingly of course than the Romans.

  • @ebr4ins
    @ebr4ins 2 года назад +23

    Astouding how much violence, conflict and sacrifices it takes to build this foundation of order. To realize what and how many eras to go thru in order to shape how it is today is breath taking.

    • @joseph3036
      @joseph3036 2 года назад +3

      That's why the instability we see in some African countries now is just part of the natural process.

    • @ebr4ins
      @ebr4ins 2 года назад +4

      @@joseph3036 absolutely, many don’t understand “what it took” to get to where it is today.

    • @jamesmaher1989
      @jamesmaher1989 2 года назад

      Joseph. In 1883 90%of Africa was owned by natives. By 1990 following the division of Africa among the Western European Powers only 10% of Africa was owned by natives. Colonialism served to divide abd conquer. Its seeds are still evident today. That is a large part of the instability you mention.

    • @sunshine6765
      @sunshine6765 2 года назад +1

      There is still plenty of violence and conflict in the UK, between the governing classes, and the less wealthy and privileged who are having to make all the sacrifices. Colonialism started in the UK, when the isalnd of Britain itself was colonised, then spread from there

  • @fahadaljasmi9106
    @fahadaljasmi9106 2 года назад +49

    The last kingdom was too accurate

    • @bluehatmusique
      @bluehatmusique 2 года назад +4

      Nowhere was the name "Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg" mentioned 😅

    • @martinkerr2721
      @martinkerr2721 Год назад +1

      @@bluehatmusique lol know what killed me with the show ,Uhtred trying to sound like a viking shocking voice ,Destiny is all , even my fellow Scot h Mark Rowley plays Finan great actor ,Osferth how was wee mong in their band ,now pays Amon in HOTD 1 with patch on his eye

    • @nitotech
      @nitotech Год назад +1

      Vikings more fun though

  • @antoniomari2730
    @antoniomari2730 3 года назад +15

    The history of England is so fascinating and wonderful, and this video explain very well! I always was so attracted, beside the differents movies that made about that

    • @sentinal2343
      @sentinal2343 3 года назад

      Black history is like that, thats why we are thee only people you chase across time and the planet, nothing compares

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 года назад

      On my main channel, I make videos with subtitles in 3 languages for folk tunes of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      ruclips.net/video/QzFvY39H57U/видео.html

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 3 года назад +4

      Thanks dude, you'll have to come to England for a visit some time. We'd love to have you ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @antoniomari2730
      @antoniomari2730 3 года назад

      @@jackwhitehead5233 thanks dude, yes, in fact I was always planning to go there 1 day

  • @YeeeeGreg
    @YeeeeGreg 3 года назад +15

    Great video once again! If you’re able to fit it into your future plans, I think a follow-up video about the period between William’s conquest of England in 1066 and the outbreak of the Hundred Years War would be awesome!

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 года назад

      On my main channel, I make videos with subtitles in 3 languages for folk tunes of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      ruclips.net/video/QzFvY39H57U/видео.html

  • @BoxerRick
    @BoxerRick 2 года назад +17

    Love this video and all Dark Age history. My family was supposed to have first come from Ireland to fight in the battle of Heavenfield for King Oswald. Thanks for this entertaining and informative take.

  • @lorrygeewhizzbang9521
    @lorrygeewhizzbang9521 2 года назад +57

    From Ireland here, our lessons are pretty broad so we learn most of this, but it would be nice to hear about places that don't get talked about as much such as Cornwall, Isle of Man and Isle of Wight.

    • @adamdriver1016
      @adamdriver1016 2 года назад

      The Isle of man isnt british.
      Cornwall has been english for 1000 years. I genuinely can't see any reasonable person willing to say it isnt. You've got 60 million nuclear armed gentlemen who welcome your attempt.
      The isle of wight. See the above answer

    • @lorrygeewhizzbang9521
      @lorrygeewhizzbang9521 2 года назад +1

      @@adamdriver1016 Are you gonna make a video about it?

    • @adamdriver1016
      @adamdriver1016 2 года назад

      @@lorrygeewhizzbang9521 let's do the Isle of wight

    • @lorrygeewhizzbang9521
      @lorrygeewhizzbang9521 2 года назад

      @@adamdriver1016 Sounds great. I'll fit it in with the 1000 other things I need to do. 🥴☺

    • @adamdriver1016
      @adamdriver1016 2 года назад

      You're so funny.......

  • @bigbadword
    @bigbadword 3 года назад +18

    That brief summary at the end was perfect. I wish more channels did that.

  • @joshuasoto4386
    @joshuasoto4386 3 года назад +20

    I clicked on this video because of the show “The Last Kingdom!” such a good series!

  • @wearsideexile6616
    @wearsideexile6616 3 года назад +52

    “Never yet in this island before this, by what books tell us and our ancient sages, was a greater slaughter of a host made by the edge of the sword, since the Angles and Saxons came hither form the East, invading Britain over the broad seas, and the proud assailants - warriors eager for glory - overcame the Britons and won a country.”
    An Anglo-Saxon poem celebrating victory at the battle of Brunanburgh.

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT 3 года назад +3

      WRONG - as they were invited to fend off attacks by picts etc.

    • @sentinal2343
      @sentinal2343 3 года назад +2

      Its such a shame you people simply doen,t know your history, 500 years isn,t much to get confused yet the BS flows like water!

    • @oguzhantekden2
      @oguzhantekden2 3 года назад

      On my main channel, I make videos with subtitles in 3 languages for folk tunes of different nations. You are also invited. :)
      ruclips.net/video/QzFvY39H57U/видео.html

    • @mdayubsk9266
      @mdayubsk9266 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/BE67fC5RCrI/видео.html ❤️❤️❤️👍🏾

    • @alynwillams4297
      @alynwillams4297 3 года назад

      @ferzy09 cultural genocide. They even tried it on Wales but it never worked and our language and culture still survives even after everything and everyone. Yma o hyd! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

  • @ammohamed5320
    @ammohamed5320 2 месяца назад +1

    Delve into the rich tapestry of England's past in this captivating world history documentary. From ancient Celtic roots to the transformative Norman Conquest, explore how pivotal events like the Magna Carta and the Industrial Revolution shaped not only England but the world. Discover the influential figures and cultural milestones that continue to resonate today, illustrating England's profound impact on global history.

  • @angelotaplatzidis193
    @angelotaplatzidis193 3 года назад +7

    Great vid! Would be useful to add date graphics when mentioned. Visual clues help digest material

  • @norwegianforestgirl8964
    @norwegianforestgirl8964 2 года назад +24

    As a Norwegian I have always admired the UK. It invented almost everything and have liberated us from tyranny. Also, England was created 927ad æthelstan

    • @chisbeybe6721
      @chisbeybe6721 2 года назад

      Are you a real human...
      I can't tell -_-

    • @yellowwasprakija2869
      @yellowwasprakija2869 2 года назад

      It also plundered Africa, India and Australia, committed genocide against countless indigenous peoples, got rich in the slave trade, inspired Hitler, so yeah there’s that

    • @norwegianforestgirl8964
      @norwegianforestgirl8964 2 года назад

      @@yellowwasprakija2869 before the brits did it, everyone was doing it. Ottoman slavery and harem. I hate Ottomans its good they got destroyed by the British the Brits had the best empire

    • @vertigo10yearsago25
      @vertigo10yearsago25 2 года назад

      Big up Viking’s

    • @norwegianforestgirl8964
      @norwegianforestgirl8964 2 года назад

      @Geo S I'm 👩

  • @Michelle-uh7qi
    @Michelle-uh7qi 3 года назад +16

    Home schooling my 11 year old and this is the topic. A perfect introduction, thank you 👍

    • @tasbhu764
      @tasbhu764 3 года назад +1

      @Humble beginnings lol what

  • @prawdachocbolitoprawdawasw1155
    @prawdachocbolitoprawdawasw1155 2 года назад +1

    Really good video, thanks for hard work in making this video 😊😉.

  • @kapilbusawah7169
    @kapilbusawah7169 2 года назад +94

    I love this video. For the next history lesson, it would be great to have a timer in one of the corners so we can better appreciate the timeline between events

  • @Arya-su3jv
    @Arya-su3jv 3 года назад +20

    I'm impressed with how this small country could come about having so much power.

    • @jimjohnson7895
      @jimjohnson7895 3 года назад +8

      Amazing what murder and exploitation does eh

    • @blazzedpigeon783
      @blazzedpigeon783 3 года назад +15

      @@jimjohnson7895 many countries had that yet a small island controlled 1/4 of the world.

    • @serviceemail7969
      @serviceemail7969 3 года назад +1

      @@blazzedpigeon783 Not really, few people were as genocidal, looting as the English. Even the Romans, Persians, Greeks nor Chinese were as ruthless, cold and bloods as the English or Spaniards (who annihilated most of America).

    • @blazzedpigeon783
      @blazzedpigeon783 3 года назад +14

      @@serviceemail7969 we didn’t commit genocide on anyone we came and conquered yeah to the rest as did the Spanish the French the Spanish wiped the Aztecs. Also all That it’s nothing compared to dictators of the 20th century. Hitler,mao,Stalin,Paul pot,. 100s of millions of their own innocent people killed.

    • @PazBinv1
      @PazBinv1 3 года назад +7

      @@jimjohnson7895 YAWN.

  • @mostakahmedsimon1304
    @mostakahmedsimon1304 3 года назад +36

    I'm very much happy to know about and get through such history. England is the land of glory and hope. I'm not an English by born but as always by heart.

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 3 года назад +9

      Come and visit, we would love to have you! ❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 2 года назад +1

      @Leroy Jenkins Alpha lmfao self own much 😂
      How's being owned by London treating you?

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 2 года назад +2

      @Leroy Jenkins Alpha lmfao 😂
      I take it reading isn't a skill you have.
      Your Scottish monarchy ended up in a Scottish king's beheading, followed by the conquest of Scotland by Oliver Cromwell.
      Then after Scotland's failed attempt an colonising Darien which bankrupted Scotland, you begged us to save you.
      Then after that, you had some more pathetic little rebellions, leading of course to Culloden, where you were rightfully butchered for your stupidity 😉
      And now of course you keep bleating about independence, then voted to remain under London's rule because, deep down, you know how silly you are 😂
      How's Brexit by the way?

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 2 года назад +2

      @Leroy Jenkins Alpha Hahahaha, you are my new favourite joke on the internet.
      Even year four history books (bit advanced for you I know) state categorically that England formed when the House of Wessex conquered the Danelaw. It's Early Learning Centre stuff really. (Again ELC may be a bit too advanced for you).
      Of course when England first formed under Athelstan, he invaded Scotland, driving all the way to John O'Groats and making the Scottish king kneel, something you're used to by now. Of course you did try to rebel, but were crushed at Brunanburh, because that's how it goes "rebellious Scots to crush" is in the national anthem that you all sing 😂
      Also, the Normans ruled in Scotland too, so I have no idea what you're talking about. Your hero Robert De Bruce? French. The progenitor of the Stuarts? French.
      I will admit that Scotland is responsible for the creation of England though. If it weren't for your betrayal of the Celts of Britannia, constant slave raids etc, they wouldn't have called the Anglo Saxons from the continent to crush you. So thanks for betraying your kin and summoning your own conquerors 🤣🤣🤣

    • @electroskates2434
      @electroskates2434 2 года назад +2

      @Leroy Jenkins Alpha You're bitter lmao

  • @jpturner171
    @jpturner171 2 года назад +3

    Very interesting…thank you for your research and outstanding presentation!
    I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to everything I will learn from your videos!👍🏽

  • @oopsibrokethecow
    @oopsibrokethecow 2 года назад +93

    I find the history of England utterly fascinating, and I feel like it's so overlooked. It had such an influence on SO many other parts of the world forming and it is hardly known about. It is also intriguing how much influence women had in formation of the UK in general, especially during centuries when women just didn't have any power to do so.

    • @francoisdaureville323
      @francoisdaureville323 2 года назад +10

      Yep many women in their history compared to the rest of europe

    • @louvendran7273
      @louvendran7273 2 года назад +22

      It's not overlooked. Maybe to the youth of today due to American hegemony. To all generations prior to millennials, we were raised with the stories of the Saxons and Normans.

    • @ov9322
      @ov9322 2 года назад +9

      You know what’s fascinating 🤨 that England would be a third world 🌍 country if it wasn’t for all the looting of it’s ex colonies. A lot of the UK population were peasants with zero class. History may repeat itself with the UK’s current political regime and embarrassing 😳 political choices.

    • @francoisdaureville323
      @francoisdaureville323 2 года назад +49

      @@ov9322 em its obvius you are salty af for something sweetie, how do you think europe is the way it is in the first place? The uk start the industrial revolution changing development forever in europe and in the western world in general and that was before the 19th century so please stop talking about third world countries because your country would surely be one now if it wasnt for that country that obviusly you hate, if the uk a tiny country with little population could conquer places is because it was superior one way or another, same with the mongols and the roman empire on those days, the age of colonization its over already, but that doesnt change the facts about countries in history conquering others because they could and they had the capacity to do it. england itself was conquered 1000 Years ago why? Because france was superior in that moment thats all. So instead of talking bullcrap why dont you concentrate your energy and think what if any country in history didnt conquered others.

    • @hiheyxd
      @hiheyxd 2 года назад +8

      @@ov9322 yea
      I think that justified colonialism
      I mean we become a 1st world country and survive both as a country or wiped out
      So in that sentence it's sounds justified, it sounds we did it for survival and economy
      Yep our colonialism is justified, Thank you ❤

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion 3 года назад +200

    What I like about history of England is that the time of this nation's foundation is that it was so... mysterious and seemingly mystical. I mean, there are King Arthur, Merlin and the Knights of the Round Table used to being mention as part of the traditional history after all. So I guess that what made England's foundation fascinating in the first place. Due to how much mysterious and seemingly mystical it is.

    • @thomassugg5621
      @thomassugg5621 3 года назад +27

      If you look more into it it’s a fascinating time, one of hero’s, kings and warlords. Many great battles were fought. One such battle was in 603 AD, when the king of Northumbria Ethelfrith utterly destroyed an Briton army and marched on the city of Chester in 606. Before the battle for the city it is said he sacrificed 400 Christian priests to the Anglo-Saxon war God. During the battle his younger brother was slain. 10 years later he marched south to attack the kingdom of East Anglia, but was surprise attacked. He was court with his army’s back against a river. His warriors formed a shield wall and clashed with the men of East Anglia. Some Stories say he fought with an battle axe killing several enemy combatants before he was killed himself.

    • @senbeiboi4511
      @senbeiboi4511 3 года назад +48

      King Arthur's legend was welsh though

    • @tsdocholiday8965
      @tsdocholiday8965 3 года назад +10

      Not to mention Robin Hood is often times thought to be a story to or at least they can’t nail down any concrete evidence.

    • @ciaranmck4469
      @ciaranmck4469 3 года назад +14

      @@senbeiboi4511 actually it wasn't he lived in the old North around the time of the anglo-saxon invasion (if you believe the story)
      So he could've easily of been from England because there wasn't really any difference between the brythonic people of England and Wales at that time

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei 3 года назад +3

      The original invaders and conquerors of Celtic Albion were the Romans who had among their legions LEGIO IX HISPANA such that ancient Spaniards pissed on England before it was England. :-) That legion disappeared eventually, probably surrounded by overwhelming numbers of natives just like the Brits by Zulus later on. But the HISPANIA legion did help Rome take over most of Albion, so overall, they succeeded.

  • @essedragonzote
    @essedragonzote 3 года назад +6

    Interesting!!!
    Greetings from Chili. 🇨🇱♥️🇬🇧
    ✌️😎

  • @OktaySener-gd1bc
    @OktaySener-gd1bc Год назад +8

    half Turkish half English I am very proud of two countries and history, and I have been very fragile wars, but we have a very glorious history, and I am proud of half a Turkish half-british

    • @Costa_del_Artlepool
      @Costa_del_Artlepool 16 дней назад

      You're neither, and have nothing to be proud of. Sad reality of the rootless masses created today.

  • @gonzalovidal7766
    @gonzalovidal7766 2 года назад +9

    Beautifully explained! I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thank you.

  • @adampalmer5399
    @adampalmer5399 2 года назад +12

    I’m late to this piece but this was really good. I knew a lot about the start of the Viking Invasion & then Alfred taking back Wessex but I didn’t know everything after that so great job while keeping it interesting!🤟🤯💯

  • @depekthegreat359
    @depekthegreat359 3 года назад +22

    I am extremely so happy and proud to see the history of England and my race is an Indian who has respective English and Sri Lankan bloods through my respective ancestries,good friends!!!LONG LIVE ENGLAND AND I LOVE ENGLAND!!!:-D🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

    • @jackwhitehead5233
      @jackwhitehead5233 3 года назад +2

      We love you too! Come and see us sometime!
      🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤🇱🇰

    • @ov9322
      @ov9322 2 года назад

      Oh dear 😅

    • @depekthegreat359
      @depekthegreat359 2 года назад +1

      @@jackwhitehead5233 Thanks for your love on me and for sure emotionally,I will and must come and see you in near future and am extremely so happy and proud to be an interracial person,mainly an Englishman through my ancestries,good friend!!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤🇱🇰

    • @depekthegreat359
      @depekthegreat359 2 года назад

      @@ov9322 Why you have laughed at my comment,good friend?

    • @urmum3773
      @urmum3773 Год назад

      @@depekthegreat359He probably dislikes English people because he gets bullied by them.

  • @kabuteshiitake7071
    @kabuteshiitake7071 Год назад +1

    My goodness what excellent animation and narration

  • @1giblesp
    @1giblesp 2 года назад +78

    Thanks for the enjoyable video.
    The first Viking raiders actually came from Denmark, as did the Jutes and Angles. It wasn't an army that raided Lindisfarne, the first raids were small bands that hit hard and fast.

    • @medusaslair
      @medusaslair 2 года назад +11

      Yeah, hence Danes.... People from Denmark = Danes.

    • @chrisstucker1813
      @chrisstucker1813 2 года назад +7

      In hindsight, filling a monastery on the North East coast of England full of riches and having only monks to protect it may have not been a good idea.

    • @ALFAGOMMA
      @ALFAGOMMA 2 года назад +3

      The Angles came from southern Schleswig, interfacing with the Saxons further to the south. They were not Danes. Centuries later the Germans and Danes had wars over this area of land, both claiming it as their own. This gave rise to the 'Schleswig-Holstein Question' that Lord Palmerston famously remarked, "Only three people have ever really understood (it)....the Prince Consort, who is dead, a German professor who has gone mad, and I, who have forgotten all about it."

    • @andersjohnsen5856
      @andersjohnsen5856 11 месяцев назад

      For the first viking raids:
      The common belief is that those who attacked Lindisfarne came from modern day Norway. But if you have contrary sources I would love to hear them.
      A google search also talks about a raid 3 years before:

      Archbishop Alcuin of York on the sacking of Lindisfarne. The first known account of a Viking raid in Anglo-Saxon England comes from 789, when three ships from Hordaland (in modern Norway) landed in the Isle of Portland on the southern coast of Wessex.

  • @ShelbyFarrow
    @ShelbyFarrow 2 года назад +13

    This was a great video. I have always been interested in the history of my English ancestors and this was concise and to the point. Very well explained.

  • @ICLight412
    @ICLight412 3 года назад +8

    As an American this was great to learn. It’s always great get information about other countries n their history.

    • @ICLight412
      @ICLight412 3 года назад

      @@VOTVRe lol interesting, even being a young country you’d still have history.

    • @ICLight412
      @ICLight412 3 года назад

      @@VOTVRe I’d say a few

    • @electroskates2434
      @electroskates2434 2 года назад

      @@VOTVRe stop being toxic

    • @electroskates2434
      @electroskates2434 2 года назад

      @MI6as an english person I am so sorry for DSRReacts being toxic

    • @electroskates2434
      @electroskates2434 2 года назад

      @MI6 English - American?

  • @originalunoriginal4055
    @originalunoriginal4055 Год назад +3

    WOW! I've learnt about the formation of Great Britain/United Kingdom in this 10 minutes video. Yet, despite spending 15+ years in compulsory education, I don't recall a single former teacher giving me (and the classes I was in) a history lesson of such pivotal learning material.
    P.S.
    Every overseas arrivals looking for citizenship in this country, should be tested on this history lesson.

    • @ThineBuddyEric
      @ThineBuddyEric Год назад

      as if England needs any more foreign citizens diluting their dying empire... what it really needs is more invading Normans

    • @Darrenski
      @Darrenski Год назад

      Why when you didn't even know this

  • @paulwusteman1094
    @paulwusteman1094 2 года назад +28

    Only a few Anglo-Saxon churches now survive that were not enlarged and rebuilt in the Middle Ages but a large number of beautiful manuscripts and artefacts survive, of which the Sutton Hoo treasure in the British Museum is perhaps the most spectacular, along with the Lindisfarne Gospels. Alfred - a true philosopher king - and Aethelstan were extraordinary people - as was also Aethelfled, a brilliant ruler who earned and kept the loyalty of her nobles.

    • @condorX2
      @condorX2 2 года назад

      Aye.
      The Viking completely changed them, from fighting for their homeland against invaders to become the invader themselves who colonized half the world and plundering all their riches.
      Here is nice article.
      The British East India Company seized Bengal in 1757 by force. Then the British forced the peasantry to handover their produce and engineered a famine in 1770 that killed a third of the population. Following that, there were 24 famines between 1850-1899 in different parts of the country, where tens of millions of people killed. From 1765 to 1938, Britain extracted 45 trillion pound sterling from India, which was effectively the down payment for the Industrial Revolution. In 1700, India had 25% of the world’s GDP. By 1950, they had only 4%. In 1943, during the WW II, Winston Churchill diverted food from Bengal to Britain, resulted in 3 million Indians deaths. When India got independent from the British, the literacy rate was just 14%.
      From the late 17th century to the 18th century, Britain smuggled opium into China to dope the population, a strategy to turn around a huge trade deficit, after the British could not find enough silver to pay the Qing government in their tea and porcelain trades. After opium was destroyed in salt water and ports were closed by the Chinese in ordered to curb opium, the British started the Opium War I, which China lost. Hong Kong was forced to be surrendered to the British.
      After 12 years, the British got really greedy. They demanded the Qing government: 1) To open the borders of China to allow goods coming in and out freely and tax free. 2) Make opium legal in China. After being rejected, the British and French, with support by the USA, started Opium War II with China, which again, China lost. The Anglo-French military raided the Summer Palace, an estimated 150,000 pieces of historic treasures with a 1900-year span from the first Qin Dynasty up to the Qing Dynasty were raided and many ended up in the British Museum in London.
      After the Summer Palace was burned down in 3 days, the Anglo-French military then threatened to burn the Imperial Palace. The Qing government was forced to pay with free trade ports, 300,000 kilograms of silver and the Kowloon district north of Hong Kong Island was taken. Since then, China’s resources flew out freely from the free trade ports. In the subsequent amendment to the treaties, Chinese people were sold overseas to serve as labor, famously known as “piglet labor”.
      Britain, a tiny country, had turned the two biggest economies in the world into poverty stricken slumps. China and India co-existed for 4000 years without problems. Buddhism originated in India and widely adopted in China. China sent Buddhist monks to India to learn Buddhism from India. When the British were preparing for India’s independence, an ambiguity was left behind at the border between China and India, and since then, it became the point of conflicts between China and India, including a war at the border in 1962. Divide and rule, is their tactic used over and over again.
      The British colonized my country Malaysia in 1786. During WW II, when the Japanese came to Malaya, the British fled the country, and the Malayan Communists were left behind to fight a gorilla warfare with the Japanese in the jungles. After the Japanese surrendered, the Malayan Communist fighters went back to towns. Then the British came back, surrounded the towns and mass murdered them.
      Before handed back to China, Hong Kong was ruled under an iron fist, but when Hong Kong was returned to China, the UK pushed for democracy in Hong Kong.
      There are many reasons for the empire’s successes. But one thing stands out: hypocrisy.
      -Zeis Siez
      🤓

  • @rexxsade6425
    @rexxsade6425 3 года назад +16

    How comes they don't teach us in school like this it's much more easier to understand.
    The narrator's voice makes you want to listen.

  • @Harry-nc7zi
    @Harry-nc7zi 2 года назад +12

    For such a small group of islands , such a deep & interesting history.

    • @oscaralegre3683
      @oscaralegre3683 2 года назад +2

      is big if we take in count they're just islands

  • @RJavierYepesDeV
    @RJavierYepesDeV Год назад +1

    Awesome video!
    Quito-Ecuador 🇪🇨
    2023

  • @ura9390
    @ura9390 2 года назад +23

    Thanks, at school we literally completely skipped the dark ages. From Roman Britain to the Norman invasion we were taught nothing at school

    • @anonymousa5542
      @anonymousa5542 2 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @Cindy-up2oj
      @Cindy-up2oj 2 года назад +1

      Yes, I just recently learned about the Transatlantic slave trade. I always thought how do these people have so much land and money. I thought it was because of war. I didn't know anything about colonialism and imperialism. All I was told is America the great and powerful. The land of the free, we stand for freedom.

    • @ura9390
      @ura9390 2 года назад

      @@anonymousa5542 the formation of England if you think about, is actually quite a big deal!

    • @ura9390
      @ura9390 2 года назад

      @@Cindy-up2oj absolutely, there's a legacy of how history has been taught as our educators were taught by their educators, and so on. its almost oral tradition rather than academia

    • @johnfisher697
      @johnfisher697 2 года назад +1

      @@ura9390 Its more what is decided on a schools curriculum,this is usually decided at national level by a senior member of your/my government.
      A nation can be brainwashed at a very early age with induced Patrisiam, or its learned at a individual level.
      In America its saluting the flag, in the UK its "God save the King/Queen."
      We are conditioned at an early age to follow our nation's history and regard ourselves as a force for good in the world.

  • @JimmySpann
    @JimmySpann 3 года назад +21

    Hope you make a part 2. Would love to see the kingdoms all come together to create the UK

    • @lucius1976
      @lucius1976 3 года назад +1

      Come together? Well, it was more like a English conquest then anything else

    • @mztop5
      @mztop5 3 года назад +11

      @@lucius1976 Scotland asked to join when they failed their colonization attempt Lol r u good

    • @theothercd
      @theothercd 3 года назад +3

      @@mztop5 pretty sure scotland was the head of the personal union but ok

    • @XXXTENTAClON227
      @XXXTENTAClON227 3 года назад +6

      @@theothercd Scotland’s king took the English throne, that’s when they were first United. But a failed colonisation effort in the Americas resulted in the Union due to bankruptcy.

    • @MATTY110981
      @MATTY110981 3 года назад +3

      James the first of England / James the Sixth of England was the first ruling monarch of both England and Scotland. But they were separate kingdoms.
      The treat of union in 1706 created the Kingdom of Great Britain and the act of union on 1800 was the formation of the United Kingdom.
      The USA is actually an older country than a UK.

  • @ryangerrard4048
    @ryangerrard4048 3 года назад +9

    Hi from Texas! The land of my ancestors England & Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙🇺🇸

    • @nyjahcooper2938
      @nyjahcooper2938 3 года назад +1

      Your people caused a lot of pain for others, don’t be so quick to state your pride

    • @urmum3773
      @urmum3773 3 года назад +4

      @@nyjahcooper2938 cry more

    • @nyjahcooper2938
      @nyjahcooper2938 3 года назад

      @@urmum3773 I don’t need to cry over people who died so that I can live.

    • @ryangerrard4048
      @ryangerrard4048 3 года назад

      @@nyjahcooper2938 I’m proud of my heritage you ain’t changing that

  • @p4ttl344
    @p4ttl344 3 года назад +63

    Bet the people of York were like "Oh ffs here we go again" every year

    • @AngloSupreme
      @AngloSupreme 3 года назад +15

      York is my home city. The city is full of architecture and artefacts from its tumultuous history and absolutely one of the best cities in England.

    • @kma3647
      @kma3647 3 года назад +2

      And it still had a few more sieges to go after these events =)

    • @Makedonac007
      @Makedonac007 3 года назад

      🍼 🤲

    • @Theoriginalbigbrillo
      @Theoriginalbigbrillo 3 года назад +3

      @@AngloSupreme York is a fine City indeed
      Just a shame its inhabitants are from Yorkshire 🤣🤣🤣

    • @refractivecosmosis9
      @refractivecosmosis9 3 года назад +1

      @@AngloSupreme York got bare castles nice smart people too