The holy roman empire didnt take over germany, it was germany. The name holy roman has nothing to do with rome or anything but it just ment that this empire was holy and catholic. Did you ever hear the term 3. Reich for germany during the time of ww2? The holy roman empire is the 1st Reich.
The HRE wasn’t Germany. Prussia is the sole predecessor of Germany, not the entire HRE. The HRE was made of hundreds, and at one point, over 1,000 small states that barely even spoke the same language.
The Byzantine Empire is actually the same thing as the Eastern Roman Empire, so technically speaking, Rome was around until 1453, when Constantinople (Byzantium) fell to the Ottoman Turks. Sweden actually owned Finland and Norway at some point, however, in the 1400s, Denmark took over first Norway and then the rest of Sweden and Finland in a Personal Union, but Sweden then later regained independance alongside Norway. But calling that the same as today's Sweden is not really correct, back then it was just some rich dudes (kings) owning land in different parts of the world. And I really don't know why the Holy Roman Empire disappeared from this map after the 30 years war in 1648, the HRE was dissolved in 1806 and Austria, Bohemia and Brandenburg-Prussia were all a part of it, so I don't know why it split the HRE in the 1600s.
14:00 No, that was not vikings. That was 30 years war when Swedesh got in to the central Europe, as far South as Znojmo (according to my knowlidge). They even stole the Devil's Bible from Prague and took it with them to Stockholm.
When there were still only kingdoms in Europe, pretty much all the royal constantly send their daughters to friendly monarchs to marry to re-enforce alliances. So for example sweden, Denmark and Norway often did that amongst them. Which is why the crown of some of them were sometimes inherited by the others or they were joined in personal union
@Mihail Parshin there was no city states in France, the country was divided between different lords (Dukes, Counts, some Prince-Bishops) under the authority of the King. But you're right about Italy and Germany (wich are modern concepts)
If you want to learn something about "the Gallian empire" I recommend Asterix. I know, you like European humor, that's one of it. Start with Asterix the Gaul. read the comic afterwards first in English, then in Latin. 🙃
2:10 The Seleucids were one of the three empires that were created after the death of Alexander the Great. Seleucos, Ptolemeos and Antigonos were the names of his generals. You will have heard of Alexander I hope, he was all the buzz around 300 BCE. So after Alexander died, there was Civil war in his empire and it got split apart in three chunks. Seleucos got the best part, Asia. Ptolemeos got Egypt, and had a granddaughter Cleopatra that you may have heard of. Antigonos got the motherland, Macedonia. And if you look at the date, it is before Christ, so there were no Catholics, or even Christianity. We were happily worshipping other imaginary friends at that point in time. The god of the bible as we know was only invented 600 years later, in 312 CE. One if the things you should keep in mind, is that the concept of a nation state doesn't exist until the 18th century, The land was owned by aristocrats wanting to be king and the population on that land was regarded by them as their property for a large part. Until the French revolution that is. Instead of a king people associate with a nation, its institutions and culture. US was sooner and very influential, but didn't yet kick of the big changes as it was,.. well,.. less than significant on the world stage. So whenever you see names of empires and nations on this map,.. it doesn't mean all that much. Only the Roman empire had some idea of being a Roman citizen and all the conquered people were able to become Roman citizens by wealth or merit, Most people would be citizens of a city, live on the lands of Baron X, be a member of a tribe, clan or a collective of those. So if you see Norway and Sweden combined, it was because some prince married a princess and they joined the kingdoms. That would last for a few decades, Ivar and Knut would fall out with each other again and a few centuries later it would converge again. Viking were only around from 8th till 11th century. After that they will become Danes, Swedes and Norwegians and be contend with fighting among themselves.
you should react to "why France is on its fifth republic" by EmperorTigerstar and also = the french revolution part 1 and 2 AND the napoleonic wars part 1 and 2 by oversimplified, these videos are awesome and you'll love it i'm sure please and you'll learn a lot about france .
What kind of impresses me, is that you can actually see when the European Union got involved in 1957 and the battles and wars for land stopped. The only major changes in territories were the downfall of the USSR and the reunification of Germany.
You say 2000 years seems crazy to imagine, but imagine before that ;) The human species, its ancestors, the apparition of life on earth, earth itself, etc etc :) those 2000 years will feel like a microsecond
2:00 the seleukid empire was one of the many kingdoms that were formed after Alexander the great died. Basically there was the Perisan empire. Then Alexander the Great, a Macedonian Greek, conquerred it all but he died very young, so his empire was split. One of the generals was Seleukus, who formed an empire and dynasty on Persia, the Seleukids 12:00 yeah, the scandinavian countries were an odd bunch, there was an whole crown union of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, which Sweden broke from and later engulfes Norway themselves. Sweden was a prospective great power until they failed in invading Russia and basically lost their momentum
@@foreignreacts Yeh the fall of Rome is really the fall of the city of Rome and the western part of the empire. Keep in mind the anyone that lived in the Byzantine Empire wold still call it the roman empire and call themselves Roman.
@@ferno056 indeed. When Odoacre took it in 476, Rome was not even the Empire’s capital city anymore. However it’s way more than just the fall of a city: Odoacre caught the last Emperor there, a 14 yo boy crowned just a few months earlier. That’s what makes it the official date of the fall, although the empire was already politically and military dead for some time.
@@tixien didn't the senate of Rome survive for some time after that, thought under the control of Odoacer. Always find this period of 476-700 interesting especially when you consider the overlay of early medieval/late antiquity, during this timeframe.
@@ferno056 It did. Well, the fall of an empire is a process really, much more than a single event, and picking 476 is just an agreement between historians:-) I agree, the following period and the morphing of the western Roman Empire into the Catholic Church are critical.
(3:35) Technically there wasn't a 27 AD, since the AD counting began sometime after 40 AD. Before that, the Roman Empire counted Roman emperors and from the founding of Rome. Just a neat detail.
We are a piece of nature. One of the animal species of this planet. We are basically that. But we've been evolving along the centuries, most of the time forgetting how much we belong and are a part of nature itself. On the other side, history shows us very well how everything is always changing and moving, in constant mutation. Like nature. From night to day, from one season to the other. Humans move, migrate, since the beginning of the times. Power changes too, migrates too. Empires rise and fall. Borders move. It is crazy indeed...
"There came a ship to Bergen in 1349". The black death decimated the Norwegian to 1/3 of it's pre-existing population and then the King died and with him the crown prince, so the Danish queen united Norway, Denmark and Sweden in 1389. It's called the "Kalmarunion".
3:49 Try looking at Egyptian history, with the first WELL-DOCUMENTED dinasty of pharaohs dating from around 3150 BC. In other words, 5173 years ago. And that's just the evidence for the first monarchs. Knowing that the first confirmed man-made use of fire is at least 40,000 years old, and that fermented beverages were produced (in China) as early as 7000 BC, I'd say that we have been around for a long time.
'No way humanity has lasted this long'. Well believe me and all the broken skeletons we find anywhere we dig, we tried really hard not to. 'Humanity' as a concept is quite recent, after all.
the colours match who invaded them/controlled by. at lots of points through all these years countries just disappeared as they were taken over by another country. also in the 5th hundreds AD the saxons (i think from central europe/german area) invaded england (at the time britons) and angles from western europe (i think near france-belgium-netherlands area i might be a bit wrong there) invaded too. they were known as the angle-saxon tribes and where wales, scotland and the westcountry are called now there lived celtic tribes. THEN danish and norwegian tribes half attempted to invade/actually invaded briton but during this time the country as you an see is completely split up between different kingdoms belonging to different tribes as well as the people who already lived there before. there was more that went on during this time but its too complex to write every detail. also ofc the kingdoms and lands shifted borders
Originally we are indeed all one people: homosapians. Space and time has created cultural and slight physical differences but more united us than seperate us. The reason why all this baffles you is because of a relatively recent concept, that if the "nationstate". Before the nationstate, most commoners living their lives did not consider themselves to be from a certain nationality. Since they didn't feel that united with all the other commoners ruled by the same king, they also didn't have any fanaticism towards "the other" since there were countless others out there and not one big state they considered their enemy. Wars were fought for sure but not for their nation but for their king (who sometimes pretended it was actually all for their God). Anyway, the nationstate has created artificial barriers that messes with the brain. The USA is particularly bad in the propogranda added during educational years. So your reaction is understandable.
The video is nice for a quick overview, but it's not very accurate, especially regarding Spain. It's missing A LOT of info and the ancient times are just not accurate at all. For instance , the gauls were celts, so were the britons and hibernians. The iberians settled JUST on the Mediterranean coast of the peninsula. Cartage was way smaller in spain and is missing foenicians and greek and the basques, who have been here before anyone else. The celts got to iberia and controlled most of the land (wich was mostly empty by this time). Between the celts and the iberians, appeared a "culturally mixed" tribe called the celtiberians. Also the video is missing when spain controlled the South of Italy, parts of the north of Italy and Flandes. Although it's missing stuff, it's a great summary and it really shows how we all relate to each other, but at the same time we are vastly different. That's how I see Europe today, we are sort of the same, but also not at all. Hope that makes sense hahaha.
@@foreignreacts Denmark is the only country in Scandinavian who has not been conquered... Denmark has been occupied 1940-45/46 and lost land. But has never been conquered Denmark had a queen (Queen Margrethe the First) Which brought together Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands as well as Greenland under what was called Kalmar Union. It ended a few years after her dead. But today we have something similar. The Nordic Council. Which is basically about the same thing. Free movement, economy and defence.
I do know that Sweden had a lot of back and forth, the kings and queens often coming from Norway, Denmark and so forth. Later on it united under Margaret the Great (well, her husband to be exact but he locked himself inside his castle refusing to rule so Margaret ruled in his stead until their son was old enough to take over), creating Kalmar unionen. That fell apart though without Margaret and Scandinavia has never been united since. I think Denmark held Norway most through history though.
@@melkor3496 between east frankia and the HRE the map does show Germany as a nation for a split second. Perhaps technically it briefly existed before coming the HRE? Anyway, the kingdom of Italy did exist back then by that name although its not directly related to the kingdom of Italy that was reformed in the 19th century.
That is the way every generation sees things but especially, now.. this is extraordinary what we are going thru. The last 200 years have been astounding. Never in the history has such change happened and we see this change as normal.. it is not normal, at all. You can call it the new normal but the growth.. has to stop. We can feed everyone, we can house everyone, we can give quality healthcare to everyone if we so choose. We are living in the golden times, at a perfect moment. I just hope that we finally CHOOSE to give basic human needs for everyone, now that we can. We could not to it before and if we don't do it now, we may not be able to do it in the future. There are zero excuses left.
We created a really rough system for human life.. I totally agree with you and totally believe we have more than enough for everyone. The fear of scarcity and the fight for power are probably our worst two traits as a species. and the ones that create more misery, to begin with....
@@foreignreacts But... we are the power. Really, we the people are the power. We do all the work. We elect our representatives and leaders We are the military. We are the government. We managed to end kingdoms and created democratic nations. The next logical step is to use that power and end needless suffering. And i know that sounds all too easy, that is not my point. First we just have to agree that we have the power and we can do all those things if we want to. Too many people think we can't do anything when.. in fact, we did ALL of the things around us.
@@squidcaps4308 We are the power. We do all the work. We suffer. We elect our representatives. They fail us. We end kingdoms and isntall democratic regimes. These democratic regimes end with charismatic demagoges who prey on people's suffering. "Suffer you shan't! The oppression must end! And it shall! Vote for me!" "I do suffer! I want it to end! I have the powee and will make it so!" This is the human condition. Dictatorships, monarchies, they were all bad government systems in the sense that the people were always disenfranchised and oppressed. Democracies are the zenith of universal suffrage and recognition, but it still ends in suffering. The example I gave before this is the reason. We are free, we are given benefits, but our governments are slow. Indecisive. Often times corrupt. We demand action. Action is seldom given. We grow angry. And demand action again. They do not listen. And that's when the extreme ideologies come in. Witb honeyed words. "We can end the oppression and we listen to your demands, unlike the current government." They give scapegoats for the government's and other failures and hate is funneled towards those demographics. It happened everywhere. Germany. Hitler was elected democratically. Who were the fault of Germany's problems. The communists! Don't vote for them! The Jews! Don't associate with them! Same thing with Russia. The Tsar was deposed, freedom! A Russian Republican provisary government. But no. The Bolsheviks come in. FREEDOM FOR THE PEOPLE! Who is the fault of the Russian problems?! The land owners! The capitalists! Kill all the land owners! The land is the stat--ahem I mean the people's alone! People say power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. In truth, power just accentuates one's real personality, which until then was chained by societal pressures and duties, a dictator has none of those. And we love dictators. Of course me and many others call ourselves republicans, stauch defenders of republics and democracies, but the end of the day, megalomaniac dictators know how to butter up an entrace to everyone's heart, as long as they suffer enough under a regime.
The year Sweden and Norway pops up on this map 802? According to Norwegian sources the viking age started in 793 with the attack on the Lindisfarne monastery. I don't know what happened in 802 ...
It's just as interesting to see where the Romans didn't go. No Germany and no Nordic countries, no Scotland, no Russia. You won't find remains of Roman occupation there and Norway didn't have the Roman rules and regulation. Our set of rules comes from a more diversified source.
Holy Roman Empire was the first German Empire. It was called the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation but everybody uses the shortcut Holy Roman Empire.
norway has two main dialects, nynorsk & bokmål. the other is influenced by danish and the other by swedish. it's been a bit nice when my norwegian SO has been giving me examples of the differences.
Hmm. There's an official version of European history, and it's one that ignores all the peoples that were not part of or killed by an expanding empire. The people that would later become what are now called the Celts expanded to fill all of Europe at one point, but that was before the 'important' peoples around the Mediterranean Sea got started. Also, there were people in all of these regions beforehand, and this only shows how the Greeks, Persians and Romans invaded them. - a history only of Empires, written down long after those empires were gone.
humanity has lived much longer than this. around 300 000 years use homo sapiens have been around but the first humans came about around 2 million years ago
You were looking north almost all the time. I don't want to be rude, but apart from the Viking period, the Nordic countries don't have an interesting history
Not entirely true, the north sea empire and Swedish empires have colorful histories too. But yes, after the year 900 most of the interesting developments happened south of the North sea.
That`s, what I expect from an american educated in the US: 222 before Christ: " the population 10 million who that is who`s that number one obviously I know rome the catholics" . The idea, that catholicism could not start before Christ was born may be to difficult for people who believe in creationism. Dear friend, stay on your continent with your imperial measurement system and learn the great American history. That's so little that it doesn't overwhelm you.
Never underestimated the Swedes! One of the 3 "Viking Nations" Glad they now fight on our side, ....well all former "Vikings" do now, "thanks" to Russia! 😆
There is irony in that. Russia defeating Sweden in the past was one of the major reasons why Sweden became a neutral state. Russian aggression now has had the opposite effect.
Every Year 🤣🤣🤣 It should start at least from the last ice age to somehow justify such statement. Even in Lapland there has been people much earlier. Several millennia earlier.
You have to go and watch the original video. Which would always be preferred, then watch the reaction. Someone made an effort to make that video, is more than ok that it is small in a reaction video, it is the fair thing to do.
@@chubbymoth5810 Ja....aber sie haben ihn nicht gefunden. Nur ein paar Knochen ihrer Legionäre. Danach haben sie uns in Ruhe gelassen. Das war das Ende des Römischen Reiches in Germanien. Deshalb trinken wir Bier und nicht Wein.
Our warriors when abroad with their ambitions, we have always done that. They went to Italy, France and Bycantium etc. They even established little kingdoms down there. It's a bit of a pitty though when we have to kick out the Swedes and Danes.
14:00 Sweden in the 17th century wasn't viking. The Vikings lived 800-900 years earlier. Sweden as a Christian kingdom had its moment as a superpower although it was short lived once Russia started pushing its rediculously large population to the frontline.
La división no hizo caer roma si no la corrupcion italiana las costante guerrar ataques germanos y los diferentes enemigos aparte de una depresion economica y perdida de conocimiento tambien tuvieron que ver los extremistas religiosos que carcomia por dentro cristianos los cuales queria que roma a fuerza fuera cristiana cuando habia muchas religiones que vivian en paz eso y otros grupos religiosos aparte de los emperadores italiamos que dañada el trabajo ello por los emperqdores romanos y hispanos
The video you watched is so insulting. No traces of the Celtic civilisation who burned Rome and extended from Ireland to Minor Asia, no trace of the German. I understand why History is such a problem in American school system
@@TullaRask the celtic domination upon Europe ? Centuries but you seem to have no culture. You write more books on Custer than about the biggest civilisations. You're totally f..ked up
Hola desde España...piensate eso de ir a vivir a Finlandia.porque aunque es un pais precioso y que admiro no se si el clima y el estar casi todo el año encerrado en tu casa por el frio te iba a beneficiar mucho....mejor vente a un pais del sur donde el clima y la alegria de la gente y buena comida y ganas de vivir te haran entender porque Europa es calidad de vida....
The holy roman empire didnt take over germany, it was germany. The name holy roman has nothing to do with rome or anything but it just ment that this empire was holy and catholic. Did you ever hear the term 3. Reich for germany during the time of ww2? The holy roman empire is the 1st Reich.
If the Holy Roman Empire was Germany, then Gallia Belgica was Belgium
Uesh, and Gengis Khan is hungarian
It was barely a fonctionnal state though. After Barbarossa at least.
@who was: Most of us were not even born during the ww2. Maybe you should ask this question in the old folks home.
The HRE wasn’t Germany. Prussia is the sole predecessor of Germany, not the entire HRE. The HRE was made of hundreds, and at one point, over 1,000 small states that barely even spoke the same language.
The video: History of Europe
The guy: History of Sweden
The Byzantine Empire is actually the same thing as the Eastern Roman Empire, so technically speaking, Rome was around until 1453, when Constantinople (Byzantium) fell to the Ottoman Turks. Sweden actually owned Finland and Norway at some point, however, in the 1400s, Denmark took over first Norway and then the rest of Sweden and Finland in a Personal Union, but Sweden then later regained independance alongside Norway. But calling that the same as today's Sweden is not really correct, back then it was just some rich dudes (kings) owning land in different parts of the world.
And I really don't know why the Holy Roman Empire disappeared from this map after the 30 years war in 1648, the HRE was dissolved in 1806 and Austria, Bohemia and Brandenburg-Prussia were all a part of it, so I don't know why it split the HRE in the 1600s.
Yep. Roman empires survived for more than a thousand years.
Yeah,.. there is a lack of precision and the names are a bit un-historic.
14:00 No, that was not vikings. That was 30 years war when Swedesh got in to the central Europe, as far South as Znojmo (according to my knowlidge). They even stole the Devil's Bible from Prague and took it with them to Stockholm.
That’s is interesting
Pretty much ye, it's called "The Swedish Flood" where I'm from. Name as self-explanatory as it can get.
Vikings not exist in that era, am I right?
@@undeadmercenary2080 A flood you say... Are you from Netherlands?
@@slayer.trades yes, you are.
When there were still only kingdoms in Europe, pretty much all the royal constantly send their daughters to friendly monarchs to marry to re-enforce alliances. So for example sweden, Denmark and Norway often did that amongst them. Which is why the crown of some of them were sometimes inherited by the others or they were joined in personal union
You're not right about Denmark, Sweden and Norway. They were gathered in the Union of Kalmar under the Danish crown, it was not matriarcal alliances
@Mihail Parshin there was no city states in France, the country was divided between different lords (Dukes, Counts, some Prince-Bishops) under the authority of the King. But you're right about Italy and Germany (wich are modern concepts)
@@nicolasdubus669 I'm aware of this, but I meant early middle ages, 300 to 6-700..
If you want to learn something about "the Gallian empire" I recommend Asterix. I know, you like European humor, that's one of it. Start with Asterix the Gaul. read the comic afterwards first in English, then in Latin. 🙃
Excellent!!! My girlfriend is the marketing director at Asterix. I recommend too
Those comics were some of my favourite things to read when I was younger
Asterix was inspired im Vercingetorix, a gallic comander that fight against Julius Caesar when he was conquering Gallia
2:10 The Seleucids were one of the three empires that were created after the death of Alexander the Great. Seleucos, Ptolemeos and Antigonos were the names of his generals. You will have heard of Alexander I hope, he was all the buzz around 300 BCE. So after Alexander died, there was Civil war in his empire and it got split apart in three chunks. Seleucos got the best part, Asia. Ptolemeos got Egypt, and had a granddaughter Cleopatra that you may have heard of. Antigonos got the motherland, Macedonia.
And if you look at the date, it is before Christ, so there were no Catholics, or even Christianity. We were happily worshipping other imaginary friends at that point in time. The god of the bible as we know was only invented 600 years later, in 312 CE.
One if the things you should keep in mind, is that the concept of a nation state doesn't exist until the 18th century, The land was owned by aristocrats wanting to be king and the population on that land was regarded by them as their property for a large part. Until the French revolution that is. Instead of a king people associate with a nation, its institutions and culture. US was sooner and very influential, but didn't yet kick of the big changes as it was,.. well,.. less than significant on the world stage.
So whenever you see names of empires and nations on this map,.. it doesn't mean all that much. Only the Roman empire had some idea of being a Roman citizen and all the conquered people were able to become Roman citizens by wealth or merit, Most people would be citizens of a city, live on the lands of Baron X, be a member of a tribe, clan or a collective of those.
So if you see Norway and Sweden combined, it was because some prince married a princess and they joined the kingdoms. That would last for a few decades, Ivar and Knut would fall out with each other again and a few centuries later it would converge again. Viking were only around from 8th till 11th century. After that they will become Danes, Swedes and Norwegians and be contend with fighting among themselves.
there was 4 empires after death of Alexander the Great: u forgot Baktria in east, around area of modern day Pakistan
**The Iberian Peninsula literally getting divided into 365757 states**
*Also him: "OMG look at Sweden!!!!"*
He's American, he likes big countries
England has parts of france..."Dammmmmmmmmmmmmmm Sweden"
Germany losing WWI. OMG, look at Finland!!!
Look at Portugal! Standing still since 1147 (independent since 1129).
Hell yeah!
12:06 King Magnus IV of Sweden enherited Norway.
Norway where under danish rule in 434 years after that under Sweden in 91 years
btw the viking age ended at around 1050, when sweden went crazy in 1600s it wasnt vikings haha but you could call them the same people tho
Woah 😮
@@foreignreacts King Carl XII (12), He died in Norway as the Swedes often did ;)
And we're still here 🤗
@@MrEvilTurkey I did say "did".
you should react to "why France is on its fifth republic" by EmperorTigerstar and also = the french revolution part 1 and 2 AND the napoleonic wars part 1 and 2 by oversimplified, these videos are awesome and you'll love it i'm sure please and you'll learn a lot about france .
What kind of impresses me, is that you can actually see when the European Union got involved in 1957 and the battles and wars for land stopped. The only major changes in territories were the downfall of the USSR and the reunification of Germany.
And the break up of Yugoslavia
14:49 I love how fast French first Empire Conquest From Spain To Moscow, and he didnt tell a single word about it XDD
😭 I’m sorry 😢 forgive me
It was too shocking to even speak
@@foreignreacts Dont worry, it was really fast though ! Oh, and thanks for your vids, i love them ❤️
You say 2000 years seems crazy to imagine, but imagine before that ;)
The human species, its ancestors, the apparition of life on earth, earth itself, etc etc :) those 2000 years will feel like a microsecond
2:00 the seleukid empire was one of the many kingdoms that were formed after Alexander the great died. Basically there was the Perisan empire. Then Alexander the Great, a Macedonian Greek, conquerred it all but he died very young, so his empire was split.
One of the generals was Seleukus, who formed an empire and dynasty on Persia, the Seleukids
12:00 yeah, the scandinavian countries were an odd bunch, there was an whole crown union of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, which Sweden broke from and later engulfes Norway themselves. Sweden was a prospective great power until they failed in invading Russia and basically lost their momentum
Also, 2:10 Romans were not Catholics at 220BC. Since Christianity has not even begin, quit obviously. (BC = before Christ)
@@DIYTAO Yeah idk how he can say that when it clearly says BC before Christ. 🤦♂️
Surely there was not catholics in Rome 2 centuries before Chist, actually not even for some centuries after 😅
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This guy is obsessed by Sweden lol
React to Rulers of Europe every year 😁
To react to all of europes history within 16 minutes + is brave! 😉
7:20 The Bizantine empire is the Eastern Roman Empire that just changed name, it was still the Roman empire :)
Wow
@@foreignreacts Yeh the fall of Rome is really the fall of the city of Rome and the western part of the empire. Keep in mind the anyone that lived in the Byzantine Empire wold still call it the roman empire and call themselves Roman.
@@ferno056 indeed. When Odoacre took it in 476, Rome was not even the Empire’s capital city anymore. However it’s way more than just the fall of a city: Odoacre caught the last Emperor there, a 14 yo boy crowned just a few months earlier. That’s what makes it the official date of the fall, although the empire was already politically and military dead for some time.
@@tixien didn't the senate of Rome survive for some time after that, thought under the control of Odoacer. Always find this period of 476-700 interesting especially when you consider the overlay of early medieval/late antiquity, during this timeframe.
@@ferno056 It did. Well, the fall of an empire is a process really, much more than a single event, and picking 476 is just an agreement between historians:-)
I agree, the following period and the morphing of the western Roman Empire into the Catholic Church are critical.
(3:35) Technically there wasn't a 27 AD, since the AD counting began sometime after 40 AD. Before that, the Roman Empire counted Roman emperors and from the founding of Rome. Just a neat detail.
Watching this video, you gave us hint where you are planing to come in Europe 😃
I’m already in Europe
We are a piece of nature. One of the animal species of this planet. We are basically that. But we've been evolving along the centuries, most of the time forgetting how much we belong and are a part of nature itself. On the other side, history shows us very well how everything is always changing and moving, in constant mutation. Like nature. From night to day, from one season to the other. Humans move, migrate, since the beginning of the times. Power changes too, migrates too. Empires rise and fall. Borders move. It is crazy indeed...
in 1600 1601 wallachia,moldavia and transylvania united
"There came a ship to Bergen in 1349". The black death decimated the Norwegian to 1/3 of it's pre-existing population and then the King died and with him the crown prince, so the Danish queen united Norway, Denmark and Sweden in 1389. It's called the "Kalmarunion".
"Ancient Rome in 20 minutes is a really good video
3:49 Try looking at Egyptian history, with the first WELL-DOCUMENTED dinasty of pharaohs dating from around 3150 BC. In other words, 5173 years ago. And that's just the evidence for the first monarchs. Knowing that the first confirmed man-made use of fire is at least 40,000 years old, and that fermented beverages were produced (in China) as early as 7000 BC, I'd say that we have been around for a long time.
'No way humanity has lasted this long'. Well believe me and all the broken skeletons we find anywhere we dig, we tried really hard not to.
'Humanity' as a concept is quite recent, after all.
cuevas de Altamira (España ) pinturas hace 40.000 años ..Atapuerca restos humanos , mas de un millon de años
the colours match who invaded them/controlled by. at lots of points through all these years countries just disappeared as they were taken over by another country. also in the 5th hundreds AD the saxons (i think from central europe/german area) invaded england (at the time britons) and angles from western europe (i think near france-belgium-netherlands area i might be a bit wrong there) invaded too. they were known as the angle-saxon tribes and where wales, scotland and the westcountry are called now there lived celtic tribes. THEN danish and norwegian tribes half attempted to invade/actually invaded briton but during this time the country as you an see is completely split up between different kingdoms belonging to different tribes as well as the people who already lived there before. there was more that went on during this time but its too complex to write every detail. also ofc the kingdoms and lands shifted borders
also the vikings that came to what is now called britain were from denmark, norway and sweden.
What happend in Sweden, Norway and generally up in nordics would be the Kalmar union. Check that out to understand it ;)
Venice, the longest republic in history still to this day, 1100 years of independence 697-1797. Cheers from Venice
Seconda.
San Marino è la Repubblica più vecchia.
Originally we are indeed all one people: homosapians. Space and time has created cultural and slight physical differences but more united us than seperate us. The reason why all this baffles you is because of a relatively recent concept, that if the "nationstate". Before the nationstate, most commoners living their lives did not consider themselves to be from a certain nationality. Since they didn't feel that united with all the other commoners ruled by the same king, they also didn't have any fanaticism towards "the other" since there were countless others out there and not one big state they considered their enemy. Wars were fought for sure but not for their nation but for their king (who sometimes pretended it was actually all for their God). Anyway, the nationstate has created artificial barriers that messes with the brain. The USA is particularly bad in the propogranda added during educational years. So your reaction is understandable.
The video is nice for a quick overview, but it's not very accurate, especially regarding Spain. It's missing A LOT of info and the ancient times are just not accurate at all.
For instance , the gauls were celts, so were the britons and hibernians. The iberians settled JUST on the Mediterranean coast of the peninsula. Cartage was way smaller in spain and is missing foenicians and greek and the basques, who have been here before anyone else. The celts got to iberia and controlled most of the land (wich was mostly empty by this time). Between the celts and the iberians, appeared a "culturally mixed" tribe called the celtiberians. Also the video is missing when spain controlled the South of Italy, parts of the north of Italy and Flandes.
Although it's missing stuff, it's a great summary and it really shows how we all relate to each other, but at the same time we are vastly different. That's how I see Europe today, we are sort of the same, but also not at all. Hope that makes sense hahaha.
idk if sweden ever had norway but denmark did, thats probably why it didnt say norway
Make sense
I really didn’t know the nordics captured each other but now good buddies🙌
@@foreignreacts Denmark is the only country in Scandinavian who has not been conquered... Denmark has been occupied 1940-45/46 and lost land. But has never been conquered
Denmark had a queen (Queen Margrethe the First) Which brought together Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands as well as Greenland under what was called Kalmar Union. It ended a few years after her dead. But today we have something similar. The Nordic Council. Which is basically about the same thing. Free movement, economy and defence.
Yep Sweden had Norway. Their independence day is when they got free from us lol
In your dreams. We celebrate our constitution noob.
I do know that Sweden had a lot of back and forth, the kings and queens often coming from Norway, Denmark and so forth. Later on it united under Margaret the Great (well, her husband to be exact but he locked himself inside his castle refusing to rule so Margaret ruled in his stead until their son was old enough to take over), creating Kalmar unionen. That fell apart though without Margaret and Scandinavia has never been united since. I think Denmark held Norway most through history though.
The video is so inaccurate, especially by labelling Germany and Italy way before unification.
It only labeled the the geographic area not a single state and he mistook that as the countries being formed.
@@melkor3496 between east frankia and the HRE the map does show Germany as a nation for a split second. Perhaps technically it briefly existed before coming the HRE? Anyway, the kingdom of Italy did exist back then by that name although its not directly related to the kingdom of Italy that was reformed in the 19th century.
That is the way every generation sees things but especially, now.. this is extraordinary what we are going thru. The last 200 years have been astounding. Never in the history has such change happened and we see this change as normal.. it is not normal, at all. You can call it the new normal but the growth.. has to stop. We can feed everyone, we can house everyone, we can give quality healthcare to everyone if we so choose. We are living in the golden times, at a perfect moment. I just hope that we finally CHOOSE to give basic human needs for everyone, now that we can. We could not to it before and if we don't do it now, we may not be able to do it in the future. There are zero excuses left.
Totally true but the only issue is only a few have the power to make this a reality and they likely won’t because then the powerful becomes powerless
We created a really rough system for human life.. I totally agree with you and totally believe we have more than enough for everyone. The fear of scarcity and the fight for power are probably our worst two traits as a species. and the ones that create more misery, to begin with....
@@foreignreacts But... we are the power. Really, we the people are the power. We do all the work. We elect our representatives and leaders We are the military. We are the government. We managed to end kingdoms and created democratic nations. The next logical step is to use that power and end needless suffering.
And i know that sounds all too easy, that is not my point. First we just have to agree that we have the power and we can do all those things if we want to. Too many people think we can't do anything when.. in fact, we did ALL of the things around us.
@@squidcaps4308 you just made me emotional right now…thank you! I live for insights like this. This is what we all need to realize..
@@squidcaps4308 We are the power. We do all the work. We suffer. We elect our representatives. They fail us. We end kingdoms and isntall democratic regimes. These democratic regimes end with charismatic demagoges who prey on people's suffering.
"Suffer you shan't! The oppression must end! And it shall! Vote for me!"
"I do suffer! I want it to end! I have the powee and will make it so!"
This is the human condition. Dictatorships, monarchies, they were all bad government systems in the sense that the people were always disenfranchised and oppressed. Democracies are the zenith of universal suffrage and recognition, but it still ends in suffering.
The example I gave before this is the reason. We are free, we are given benefits, but our governments are slow. Indecisive. Often times corrupt. We demand action. Action is seldom given. We grow angry. And demand action again. They do not listen. And that's when the extreme ideologies come in. Witb honeyed words. "We can end the oppression and we listen to your demands, unlike the current government."
They give scapegoats for the government's and other failures and hate is funneled towards those demographics. It happened everywhere.
Germany. Hitler was elected democratically. Who were the fault of Germany's problems. The communists! Don't vote for them! The Jews! Don't associate with them!
Same thing with Russia. The Tsar was deposed, freedom! A Russian Republican provisary government. But no. The Bolsheviks come in. FREEDOM FOR THE PEOPLE! Who is the fault of the Russian problems?! The land owners! The capitalists! Kill all the land owners! The land is the stat--ahem I mean the people's alone!
People say power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. In truth, power just accentuates one's real personality, which until then was chained by societal pressures and duties, a dictator has none of those.
And we love dictators. Of course me and many others call ourselves republicans, stauch defenders of republics and democracies, but the end of the day, megalomaniac dictators know how to butter up an entrace to everyone's heart, as long as they suffer enough under a regime.
The year Sweden and Norway pops up on this map 802? According to Norwegian sources the viking age started in 793 with the attack on the Lindisfarne monastery. I don't know what happened in 802 ...
It's just as interesting to see where the Romans didn't go. No Germany and no Nordic countries, no Scotland, no Russia. You won't find remains of Roman occupation there and Norway didn't have the Roman rules and regulation. Our set of rules comes from a more diversified source.
Holy Roman Empire was the first German Empire. It was called the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation but everybody uses the shortcut Holy Roman Empire.
norway has two main dialects, nynorsk & bokmål. the other is influenced by danish and the other by swedish. it's been a bit nice when my norwegian SO has been giving me examples of the differences.
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Hmm. There's an official version of European history, and it's one that ignores all the peoples that were not part of or killed by an expanding empire.
The people that would later become what are now called the Celts expanded to fill all of Europe at one point, but that was before the 'important' peoples around the Mediterranean Sea got started.
Also, there were people in all of these regions beforehand, and this only shows how the Greeks, Persians and Romans invaded them.
- a history only of Empires, written down long after those empires were gone.
humanity has lived much longer than this. around 300 000 years use homo sapiens have been around but the first humans came about around 2 million years ago
Rome was not always catholic. smh
You were looking north almost all the time. I don't want to be rude, but apart from the Viking period, the Nordic countries don't have an interesting history
Not entirely true, the north sea empire and Swedish empires have colorful histories too. But yes, after the year 900 most of the interesting developments happened south of the North sea.
That`s, what I expect from an american educated in the US: 222 before Christ: " the population 10 million who that is who`s that number one obviously I know rome the catholics" . The idea, that catholicism could not start before Christ was born may be to difficult for people who believe in creationism. Dear friend, stay on your continent with your imperial measurement system and learn the great American history. That's so little that it doesn't overwhelm you.
Never underestimated the Swedes! One of the 3 "Viking Nations" Glad they now fight on our side, ....well all former "Vikings" do now, "thanks" to Russia! 😆
There is irony in that. Russia defeating Sweden in the past was one of the major reasons why Sweden became a neutral state. Russian aggression now has had the opposite effect.
And sweden has used finns in their wars since they invaded them.
If you learn history you don't forget and return to the same old mistakes, in Belgium they had a war of 100 years and another of 300 😮, 😏🤫🤭😉🤯 yes
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It should start at least from the last ice age to somehow justify such statement.
Even in Lapland there has been people much earlier. Several millennia earlier.
Nah then like thered be 5 minutes minutes of boredom where the only thing that happens is some people group move around every minimum 100 years
Having a really hard time seeing what you are watching...can't make it out, it's so small...sorry 🙄
It is good enough...
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You have to go and watch the original video. Which would always be preferred, then watch the reaction. Someone made an effort to make that video, is more than ok that it is small in a reaction video, it is the fair thing to do.
"human likes" were around for more then 2mil years thinks about that ;)
What is the Matter with you , do think this is a good video????
11:33 here comes the mongols
You missed it. In the year 9 German Arminius united all german tribes, fought against the Romans, so they never came back.
They came back for Arminius.
@@chubbymoth5810 Ja....aber sie haben ihn nicht gefunden. Nur ein paar Knochen ihrer Legionäre. Danach haben sie uns in Ruhe gelassen. Das war das Ende des Römischen Reiches in Germanien. Deshalb trinken wir Bier und nicht Wein.
Is that when the Romans famously lost a battalian or something?
@@TullaRask Yes. From this moment on Germania was no more part of the Roman Empire.
That was an early attempt to make EU !!
The part of the Universe that we know is 14bilions years old, the Earth is 4.5 billions yo, modern human are 200000 yo, 2000yeras ago is nothing
Sweedrn took everyting just like Drnmark Norway were more peacefull
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Our warriors when abroad with their ambitions, we have always done that. They went to Italy, France and Bycantium etc. They even established little kingdoms down there. It's a bit of a pitty though when we have to kick out the Swedes and Danes.
qui a vécu sur la tache blanche sur le territoire aujourd'hui polonais? pourquoi en Allemagne on compte les peuples slave comme germaniques?
14:00 Sweden in the 17th century wasn't viking. The Vikings lived 800-900 years earlier. Sweden as a Christian kingdom had its moment as a superpower although it was short lived once Russia started pushing its rediculously large population to the frontline.
Did you just say "Catholics" during the 3rd century BCE? Or I misheard?
La división no hizo caer roma si no la corrupcion italiana las costante guerrar ataques germanos y los diferentes enemigos aparte de una depresion economica y perdida de conocimiento tambien tuvieron que ver los extremistas religiosos que carcomia por dentro cristianos los cuales queria que roma a fuerza fuera cristiana cuando habia muchas religiones que vivian en paz eso y otros grupos religiosos aparte de los emperadores italiamos que dañada el trabajo ello por los emperqdores romanos y hispanos
The video you watched is so insulting. No traces of the Celtic civilisation who burned Rome and extended from Ireland to Minor Asia, no trace of the German. I understand why History is such a problem in American school system
It is only 16mins... But yeah.
How long did that last? Did it last a year?
@@TullaRask the celtic domination upon Europe ? Centuries but you seem to have no culture. You write more books on Custer than about the biggest civilisations. You're totally f..ked up
lol You're comment has probably been reported. I'm Scandinavian. Celts are not relevant to us :)
@@TullaRask I couldn't expect more from a guy who's proud of the fact that his ancestors were rapists, thieves and muderers. You're nothing
Hola desde España...piensate eso de ir a vivir a Finlandia.porque aunque es un pais precioso y que admiro no se si el clima y el estar casi todo el año encerrado en tu casa por el frio te iba a beneficiar mucho....mejor vente a un pais del sur donde el clima y la alegria de la gente y buena comida y ganas de vivir te haran entender porque Europa es calidad de vida....