The First Muslim Roman Emperor? | The Life & Times of Mehmed II
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So get this: 1444, Ottoman Sultan Murad II signs a peace deal with Hungary and then decides that’s it, his work here is done, the empire is saved forever, and gives the throne to his twelve-year-old son. Did he want to take it easy and figured his boy could handle himself? Was this some kind of scheme to teach his son valuable life lessons? Was he attempting to develop a Disney Channel original series? We may never know. Whatever the case, the Hungarians noticed, and hardly after the ink on that peace treaty was dry one of the cardinals was pushing the king to go back to the battlefield. And that’s how the tween sultan found himself leading his first war. It would not be his last.
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Kevin Macleod - Fluffing a Duck
Kevin Macleod - Work is Work
Kevin Macleod - Fun in a Bottle
Anthony Cassimiro - Pinky and the Brain Theme
Kevin Macleod - Night Sigil
Yakuza OST - Baka Mitai
Kevin Macleod - Procession of the King
Mad Max Fury Road OST - Storm is Coming
Kevin Macleod - Monkeys Spinning Monkeys
Enmarta - Nekrosis
Golden Anchor - Unfettered and Unchained
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Jack, I think you'll start a nuclear catastrophe with that video title
@@GeldtheGelded heheheheh, all according to plan
@@JackRackam sikh empire please
@@JackRackam king prous please
Ey bud, is there a link to the Skanderbeg video anywhere?
Mehmet the Second: The man who loved Rome so much he conquered it
If you love it, you should place your crescents on it.
It's the only worthy homage.
Nothing more roman than taking rome
Man called himself Kayser-i Rum
If only geography was their strong point because Rome is in Italy.
"Jesus Prophet, whats a guy gotta do to be a Roman these days?"
That one, detective. Thats the line that took my sides.
A wholeheartedly agreed with you
Hate to shit on the joke but as a Muslim, Mehmed wouldn't call him Jesus Prophet as Christ means Messiah and Islam acknowledges Jesus as the Messiah. In fact, in Arabic, they literally call him Jesus Christ - Isa Al-Masih
@@savioblanc Pretty cool thanks for the info. I'll have to look up how much of what Jesus Christ said is used in Muslim accounts and if there are any differences, because I imagine it differs from the Christian version of him.
@@Makofueled very much differs but lots of similarities too. Muslims also believe in the Virgin birth of Christ, believe he was the Messiah, call him the Word of God, claim he was sinless and that he will be the one returning in the last days. Yet, somehow claim he is merely a Prophet of Allah and had nothing divine about him. They also have him speaking as a baby and making clay birds as a child and giving them life.
@@savioblanc isa doesn't mean Jesus it means Esau to refer to Jesus as Esau would be an insult the Arabic form of Joshua(meaning God saves) is Yusha
Yeshua (to save)does not translate into Arabic into as isa it translates as yasou just the name Arabic Christians know him as
“Skanderbeg is one of the greatest military commanders you’ve probably never heard of”
EU4 Players: Allow me to introduce myself
Rule #785 of the Internet: in any discussion of history, there will be Paradox Interactive players
@@JackRackam HAH! Yeahhhh…
I at least recognized his helmet in Albanian heraldry.
@@JackRackam
Don't worry
We hate ourselves
(Please just use an unlocker for dlc, do not be an idiot)
@@JackRackam Guilty as charged. Can confirm my Ottomans have had a hell of a time crushing Albania.
the "throat slitter" is actually a pun, "Boğaz Kesen" also means strait cutter (cutter as in cut someone's water or stopper)
Ow, he really was nerd
Mehmed liked puns. He is now my favorite.
Quite a witty non-Roman Roman emperor.
@@SirFaceFone What makes someone a Roman? The language? Greek is not a Romance language. But that didn't stop them from being Roman emperors. Is it religion? Well there were Pagan Roman emperors, Christian Roman emperors, why not Muslim? Or is it the genes? Well most Ottoman emperors had Eastern European mothers. So if you do the math, they were more European than they were Turks genetically by the time Mehmet II conquered Constantinople.
@@EyvallahEnglish Plus there were Roman emperors from Spain, Illyria etc even in the west, so...
“tHaT’s NoT vErY cHrIsTiAn. Who’s the Jesus expert?”
I quite literally fell out of my chair laughing.
My too..i like the coffee came out of my nose! Frgn hurt.
That along with Jesus prophet was so good
@kean perera in Islamic tradition, Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet, rather than the chosen Son of God in Christian belief. That's what it's referencing.
@kean perera Jesus was a bastard
@@Halloyaw11 In most Christian traditions. We killed the Christians that thought otherwise.
Mehmet being upstaged at his own biggest victory is made even worse when you realise that not only did he get overshadowed by his successors such as Suleiman (who only were so successful thanks to Mehmet), but the final stand of Constantine inspired Hellenistic and Balkan independence movements for centuries to come.
His greatest victory was sullied so bad that it almost directly contributed to the Greek war of independence and the Balkan wars.
Imagine winning almost every single campaign and setting off a new empire only for it to fall apart because the guy you had beaten had a death way cooler than your own victory which caused his death.
Mehmet literally suffered from success.
Is it that big of failure considering it's still called Istanbul and hagia Sophia is still a mosque
His victory was only sullied in pop culture and western historical research. Look what Mehmet left behind and what they speak in themselves. Constantine left a legend but Mehmet left a physical city, a people, and "actual" history.
@@Imperator_-sl4zu well both left their legacy. Constantine drilled into the minds of both the Turks and the Balkans the desire to keep on fighting as a legacy of someone who is willing to take a last stand for what he has left instead of running away. Meanwhile Mehmet II left the foundations of an empire that will be remembered for its glory, a physical legacy.
Honestly, centuries of rule compared to centuries of inspired resistance sounds like a better legacy.
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 I'm sorry but the city was called Constantinople, or "Konstantiniyye" during Ottoman times. Only İslamic revisionists claim otherwise. It change with the foundation of the Republic.
Every leader being defeated and conquered by Mehmed having a dramatic anime moment is fucking hilarious!
I noticed something when reading Mehmed’s story
He may lost battles, but Mehmed never quits any of the wars with the people above. And defeated like 5 high skilled rulers in his lifetime
This statement fits him perfectly
“The man who gets defeated once isn't the loser. The guy who can't tought it out to the end, he's the one who loses.”
@@comradekenobi6908 K-KUZEEEEEEEE
@@m.thorton9305 KIRYAAAAA
@@comradekenobi6908 Doesn't matter how many fights you win... all that matters is if you win the last one...
@@CollinMcLean true, wish more people have this mindset
We really need more Ottoman material. For being such a major player for a such a large and pivotal portion of history I feel like there is criminally little deep dives on them on RUclips.
It's also surprising how big they got
Literally a muslim Mediterranean roman empire but their not remembered to fondly
Probably because of all the revolts and messy early 20th century politics
People then still hadn't exactly come together to constitute what exactly could be considered a genocide
Since colonialism was still fresh in the minds of the europeans
@@maddogbasil Well, I think its a complicated subject and not just related to that latter stuff. Other things like how Egypt was on again off again semi-independent. other stuff about caliph authority, etc. But it sill is a very important piece of things that could definitely use more content.
Though i do think particular rulers like sulemon have a pretty good amount of attention about them.
@@maddogbasil Maybe because of the widespread SLAVERY of the ottomans? Or the devshirme system of kidnapping christian boys for inforcing the jannisaries? I regard the Ottoman empire as very, VERY Evil..
You clearly haven't seen Kings and Generals then they have entire ongoing series of the ottomans campaign from Osman I to modern day
@@maddogbasil I think the freshness and proximity matters a lot; the Ottomans ran a lot of current EU members and was at war with the rest of them. By contrast, the Muslims haven't run Spain for more than half a millennium and Persia never really messed anyone except long-gone Roman Emperors like Marc Antony and Heraclius of the Byzantine period.
It's just too recent!
I like the idea that at FIRST he wasn't impressed by seeing a bunch of his men on spikes until he realized just how MANY there were and he's like "ohhhhh he's crazy.... fuck this!"
"every man taken during the night, every soldier stabbed during an ambush and every corpse off the battal field stood before him" yeah Vlad the impaler got his nickname for a reason
That is the definition of a fridge logic moment. One of those thoughts that just escalate into a truly astounding moment that freezes you, mid-browse, in revelation.
It's no wonder he NOPED the fuck back to Ottoman land. Honestly, I would have noped right off to any other Continent than the one Vlad was squatting in until I was damn sure he was dead and gone, and even then consider the merit and value of tramping back to the land that birthed that kind of being.
In my opinion he left because he realized Vlad hated the ottomans, not in a superficial way either. The kind of hate that makes one enjoy his killing and will wake up overjoyed to kill more of them everyday. Vlad didn't care about the empire or its strength he just wanted to hurt and kill them. And if Mehmet stayed he'd be joining them his legacy that of a scarecrow feasted on by the birds, and his great remnants the excrement left behind.
Tldr: In short Vlad made Mehmet feel like an average man not a king. He made him feel mortal. And Mehmet ran in fear.
Then Vlads people killed him cause they were afraid of him and thats how it goes
@@stephenflint3640 I read a book, a sort of fiction but heavily leaning on historical records, and it did present Dracul´s story from his own perspective, and there was a good explanation presented; No prisoners of war. Normally ransom would be a thing. Dracul might literally have executed every last prisoner of war to pull this shit off
7:17 Constantinople really wasn't an "important site" for Jews _until_ the Ottoman conquest. While it did have one of the largest if not _the_ largest Jewish population of any European city for the entire medieval period, the Byzantines tied with the Papal States for having _the_ most restrictions on that population of any European country that still tolerated their presence.
And honestly, it never really gained much prestige as a center of Jewish thought or culture after the Ottoman conquest. Even within the Empire, Thessaloniki, Smyrna, Baghdad, and (most of all) Safed were the real heavy-hitters. If you ever do a video on Suleiman the Magnificent, you gotta talk about Safed; he basically transformed it into the new capital of the Jewish world from scratch.
Ayyy, you. Love your series.
Sultan Mehmed's personal physician Yakub pasha was a jew.
Has more to do with the expulsion of the jews from Iberia, no?
The Donme Will rule it later
This sounds like a collab
As a romanian, i have to give credit to Mehmed for not backing down from any fight with his enemies.
I can say he and all of his adversaries like Hunyadi, Vlad, Stephen, Skanderbeg and Constantine became underrated subjects of legend.
Edit: wow. Thanks guys for the likes. May the fans of history prevail.
If I don't go to heaven, then I will kill the satan himself, and his demons with the help of my soldiers.
-vlad the impaler
This whole time was a competition among a lot of very skilled rulers and generals.
@@dr.vikyll7466 yes but these guys are very underrated
Hunyadi gang!
@@dr.vikyll7466 I noticed something when reading Mehmed’s story
He may lost battles, but Mehmed never quits any of the wars with the people above. And defeated like 5 high skilled rulers in his lifetime. Which compared that with many generals in history, is a LOT
Yet he did all that in his lifetime
This statement fits him perfectly
“The man who gets defeated once isn't the loser. The guy who can't tought it out to the end, he's the one who loses.”
I love how Mehmet saw a country where the ruler mass impaled enemies on a regular basis and thought, "Yeah, this seems like a great place to invade."
He eventually did kill Vlad though, or at least his men did in a lucky ambush and they delivered his head to Mehmed, much to his surprise.
Jack is getting closer to his dreams of having mcu style videos where he can just pull in clips from other videos
It's all coming together
@@JackRackam Now all we need is a video on Mourtzouphlos so we can bring back Innocent III.
@@CollinMcLean Boy would I love to bring back Innocent III! Had to figure out who you were talking about, but learning what that nickname means and looking at his portrait - wow, spot on
@@JackRackam Is know his actual name is Alexios V Doukas but Mourtzouphlos is so awesome sounding...
I loved the bit of no one accepting Mehemed as Roman Emperor even though is as legitimate as every emperor before.
Its not true that no one accepted him as emperor though, most of the Eastern Roman population + the eastern orthodox church formally recognized him as Roman Emperor.
Eastern Orthodox Church did and so is his empire.
He couldn't be a Roman Emperor as he would've needed recognition from either the Catholic or Orthodox churches to have any sort of legitimacy, which as a Muslim, he was never going to get.
The only way Mehemed could've possibly been recognised as a Roman Emperor is if he were to have conquered the city of Rome himself, which he never did.
Still, I think it would've been funny for a Muslim Turk to be Roman Emperor, but some dreams just don't come true.
I want what this guy smokes!
@@owenhayes3622 well he did conqueror wech wes the capital of the estarn roman empire constantinople and the orthodox church did legitimate hem so he is the real ROMAN EMPEROR)
As a romaboo and a muslim, I feel assaulted and empowered by the title of this video.
For an Ottoman Sultan, Mehmed II certainly acted like the Roman emperors of old.
His successors were fools to not understand his vision of reforming Rome. Everything went downhill from there.
@@MarkhasSteelfort Turns out the ottomans were so roman that they even copied all the roman failures and even had the same enemies.
The ottomans fought the same Germanic, Slav and Persian enemies and as a tradition had a dozen rebellions per day just like old times and had a few great emperors and then a dozen shitty ones.
And then, it went downhill, the Roman Empire couldn't stand anymore and then finally fell in 1922.
And all this started because apparently someone drank milk from an female wolf in Italy, and all this ended because some guys thought that the empire wasn't too good.
@@gabrielalvespereira3750 Even considering the Ottoman rulers as Roman Emperors is a lack of respect!
@@juandiegoparales9379 long live the OTTOMAN ROMAN EMPIRE
@@islammehmeov2334 hahaha Good Joke 😹
Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it.
Mehmed the Conqueror
Im too dumb to understand this but sounds deep
@@ripvanwinkle7689 If someone tells you mountain is somewhere else, you can choose not to believe him.
"If he tells you he changed and is a different person, he's lying."
Interesting quote, though I find it wrong. Men can change, especially after traumatic experiences. Wether for better or for worse depends on the contents of their heart.
@@justinian-the-great Maybe but it's better not to take chances as an important figure like a Sultan. Caesar learned it the hard way and got stabbed by the men he pardoned
@@justinian-the-great Most people who are changed show it via actions not words so yeah
Mehmed popping out of nowhere to argue about Roman succession made me almost choke on my food several times.
Friendly reminder that in some versions Vlad did what he did not only to the Ottomans, but to his own people.
If his story has any grounds in reality the guy was pretty fucking sick, and I am not using sick as "cool".
To be fair he doing it to all of his enemy including saxon merchant, rabellious boyar and so on overall he was good commander but yeah he end up killed by his own men because all his cruel punishment and he quickly became despot instead "work" with boyar
after that for most of history (with some exception) until mid 19 century wallachia became vassal of ottoman to the point they appointed rich greek or italian merchant as ruler
Those versions are the german versions. And they were biased because they too were an enemy of Wallachia
that explains why his own people revolted against him
Vlad wasn’t just hated by Turks but Bulgarians, Hungarians, Germans and Wallachians as well
Vlad was most likely a sociopath or a psychopath, considering his behavior.
I need more "Dame dame" montages whenever a ruler happens to be conquer a lot of kingdoms
The Ottoman Empire was almost destroyed, but Sultan Murad II. managed to overthrow the Crusader Host at Varna by slaying the Hungarian King, the spirit of Christendom to launch another crusade was broken and while the byzantine Emperor managed to return into the Ottoman fold, it was both clear that they could not be trusted
The King of Hungary at the time was also the King of Poland so double the renown for that one.
@@APoleYouKnow double kill
@@APoleYouKnow and Grand Duke of Lithuania
Murad II the Great 😍
@@compatriot852 I miss the times when my country was ridiculously important.
9:53 Mehmet running up to stake his claim to the empire like he's gonna "well actually" someone in a classroom is perfect
I feel like the Ottomans are such a criminally underrated empire in history. Lasted for like 600 years, only one major civil war compared to the Romans who had them on a biennial basis, had stable borders, and also Coffee.
Also, I love how your video series have been more serialized lately. Caligula, Hand dynasty China, now the Byzantines and Ottomans, it's kind of nice.
Where did you get that they had stable borders? Their borders were a mess in the Balkans
agree that they are underrepresented, but wasnt pretty costly civil wars between the saltubs sons like a common thing every generation? (not saying thats anything out of the ordinary, but it was particularly costly for the ottomans)
@@midshipman8654 nope when a new sultan was crowned all his brothers were immediately executed they only had like 1 civil war which led to this policy. Cruel and brutal yes. Effective undoubtedly
@@legiohysterius4624 To quote Blue from OSP, let's file that one under "Ideas just dumb enough to work". Which I imagine for the people within the Empire, they aren't going to be losing too much sleep over the deaths of a few dozen nobles they don't know and who probably don't care about them in comparison to tens of thousands of them losing their lives in frequent civil warring.
@@juancarlosdegoya2757 Certain fronts may have been messier than others but for the most part the Ottomans maintained good control over their territories with little relatively litle loss throughout their history. It wasn't like the Huns, Mongols, or Macedonians who's empires crumbled within decades or like the Eastern and Western Roman empires who's territories were frequently in crisis from internal fracture. The Byzantines frequently lost massive chunks of territory and in the third century Rome at one point split into three different empires.
The idea of Cardinals screaming: "I'm the Jesus expert here!" In response to a King not wanting to go to war, is so funny!
"You think I wear this silly outfit because I want to? I wear it because I know better than you!"
@@JackRackam lol
You know what I'm going to make my own church - random guy from Magdeburg
@@MasonGreenWeed with blackjack and hookers?
We need a video about Vlad III.
“Dracula” “Vlad the Impaler”
Also Michael the Brave, Skanderbeg, John Hunyadi, etc.
Last Halloween we got that Goth vampire lady, pretty sure we might get Vlad in the next one, hopefully.
I literally ASKED when we were getting a video about Vlad in the comments section of that video on Richard "I'M THE MOST OVERRATED KING IN ALL OF ENGLAND'S HISTORY" the Lionheart.
If I don't go to heaven, then I will kill the satan himself, and his demons with the help of my soldiers.
-vlad the impaler
He was actually killed by the ottomans but no idea why didn't mentioned it
I love how Mehmed keeps getting pissier every time he gets interrupted by the lamenting rulers
"nah ah ah ah, Nope. Uh uh. You see this? I am Caesar!" "Caesar wears a turban?" "He does NOW!" Hysterical. :)
I wrote a report on Mehmed II back in highschool, and one fun part was his relationship with his grand vizier Candarli Halil. Halil's family was incredibly powerful and had been advising the Ottomans for generation, and he wanted to put Murad back on the throne due to his strong relationship with him. It is highly likely that Halil then orchestrated a anniversary rebellion to place Murad back on the throne after the initial war with the Hungarians. However, this power did not last, and Mehmed had Halil executed shortly after the conquest of Constantinople.
The Excessive use of Baka Mitai every time Mehmed took down his neighbor is fantastic, I love it
This is great, hope you'll make a video about other Ottoman sultans as well, especially Süleyman
Or Salim I, the man who started the Ottoman Caliphate and couldn't help but kill each of his grand viziers when they did something slightly wrong.
Sounds like a *MAGNIFICENT* video idea
Kicked by the knights hospitaller. Imagine having an entire empire behind your back, only to lose against an order of Christian knights.
@@velstadtvonausterlitz2338 Are you trying to start a fight over a 500 year old event? Wow you really gots to move on
@@jazzjj7665
Might want to say this to most of mankind.
Apparently, quite a few people on this planet think they've been alive for the past millenia.
I’m bummed you didn’t mention, the ottoman Venetian war.
A minor hero in it was Krokodeilos Kladas, one of the last sons of Constantinople born to a minor Byzantine noble family,
He fought against the ottomans in hopes to create a Greek state in the Peloponnese. Sadly Venice betrayed him and signed piece with Mehmed and his successors, he and his men held out for days against the ottoman armies, until he was captured and Mehmed had him flayed alive in 1490
One of the last sons of Rome
Ahem actuallyyyyy the last sons of Rome are OTTOMANS
Mehmed died in 1481; if your date is right, then he didn't flay Klades.
Sounds like this was Beyazid II's order.
Venice would even betray pope if the price is right
@@Albukhshi it’s hard to tell, ether way ottomans gave him a horrible death
The info on him is unfortunately lacking, even when it comes to anti-Ottoman freedom fighters he’s overshadowed by the legacy of Constantine XI, and the Rebellion of Skanderburg
Now that is a true son of Rome.
Respects.. ✋🏻
I love how he put a qoute from him into the video
"If you are sultan you will come and lead the armies, if I am sultan then I order you to come and lead the army" might have gotten it wrong but it's still funny to me
Fun fact: he had a concubine named Radu the Handsome. Radu was the younger brother of Vlad III, meaning Mehmet II's side chick was the brother of the guy who was not only at war with him, but so brutal his name now means "devil" in his native tongue.
Man that should've been in the video, where Mehmed II can be like " Hey Dracula, lay down your arms and I will let Translvylvania live as my bitch, your brother already is"
I'm getting traumatizing Helsing flashbacks.
Source for this? I have search far and wide for this fact but _to no avail_
If you don’t know When Vlad III (Dracula’s father) gave his sons Vlad and Radu to the Ottomans to live there and study their way of life
In fact here’s the quote
In 1436, Vlad II Dracul ascended to the throne of Wallachia. He was ousted in 1442 by rival factions in league with Hungary, but secured Ottoman support for his return by agreeing to pay tribute to the Sultan and also send his two legitimate sons, _Vlad III and Radu,_ to the Ottoman court, to serve as hostages of his loyalty.
The boys were taken to the various garrisons at Edirne. Radu eventually became a *friend of Murad II's son, Mehmed II.* While at the Ottoman court as boys, *Vlad and Radu* were educated in logic, the Quran and the Turkish and Persian language and literature
In fact your statement makes it felt like this is just some mediaeval Christian propaganda since back then one of the most popular way to taint someone’s image was to basically call them gay, meaning the gay insult has long existed since ancient times
@@comradekenobi6908 if your information is correct, that means that Mehmet had a Naruto-Sasuke dynamic with DRACULA!
Once childhood friends, until they grew up and became bitter enemies! I want THIS anime!
@phastinemoon HAHA I like your thinking but yeah their story is quite epic spanning decades and shared childhoods, culminating in a war
In fact someone in my country made it into a comic book :D
Search
*Komik Muhammad Al fatih Indonesia*
On google
Well, it's less that Murad really trusted his viziers and more that his viziers were major political players within the empire themselves. There is reason to believe that the powerful Çandarlı family, whom Mehmed's Grand Vizier was a part of, actually forced Murad to abdicate in favor of his son who then ruled mostly as their puppet until all the wars eventually made them admit they needed the tried and tested war leader back. A big part of why Mehmed wanted to conquer Constantinople was because he needed the clout it'd bring to try and take down the Çandarlı bloc; which is why he celebrated his victory in taking the city by ordering his Grand Vizier's execution.
Sadly, much of Mehmed's political acumen gets forgotten in favor of his conquests. A *lot* of the peculiarities in the Ottoman system come from Mehmed's efforts to ensure a repeat of past troubles experienced by the Ottomans doesn't happen. The mass expansion of the devshirme system? Create a class of soldiers and bureaucrats with no loyalties to anyone but the Sultan and put them in charge of all central institutions so that the major families like the Çandarlı can never have that much power again. The fratricide law? So that the Interregnum period, when the influential families and nearby foreign powers all backed a different side, doesn't happen again.
I swear man having Vizier to run a government in Islamic history always run quite badly.
Not gonna lie Mehmed the 2nd was real bad ass guy, literally that dude conquered that many Lands and at the end Got Rid of Vlad aka Dracula in most badass way possible.
He also reformed Ottoman state into a proper Roman style empire from a land based Turkish Khanate with a lot of tribal confederacies
He relied severely on devshirme subjects of his ,christian boys being converted into Muslim soldiers and made men of state and formed what Ottoman empire as we know
He had to deal with a lot of resistence from his clergy, army, and even citizens.
Unlike Suleiman I, he didn't have the luxury of outrageous wealth handed over to him, had to amass it himsef with very strict taxations. He even abolished religious cults and institutions from their lands, declared they're not really contributing anything important and the wealth they had should be used for the expansion of ''Islam'' which really shows he was very sly about using religious motivations to usurp wealth from religious institutions
He even wanted to found banks and a more developed financial system but failed to make it so, because it's flat out against Islam. And he already had too much unrest formed about his behaviour .
One of his closest friends, was executed for heresy right after his death
His life story feels like a protagonist battle royal! Nearly everyone that he was fighting was a protagonist! Fuck more people probably know who Dracula is than about the Byzantine empire (big sad)
The Jesus prophet part cracked me up
And as a Muslim I understand that
Awesome as ever! Great to collab with you!
For a minute, I thought this was going to be an April Fools joke, but this was seriously an interesting video.
Yeah, Mehmed is possibly the most influential person from as close to antiquity as we can get without him quite being there relative to 2022.
The man basically reshaped global hegemony for the next millenium.
"...and then he got sick and died"
Goddamnit everytime.
honestly, more Caesar than anyone else at the time, definitely in top 10 emperors of Rome.
I love the MyHeritage skit between Constantine XI and Mehmet 😄
Also, Murad II with a dad bod is hilarious 🤣
That one with the funny hat was Constantine's brother, Thomas.
The last remnant of the Byzantine Empire was supposedly The Principality of Theodoro on the Crimean Peninsula. It was a very fascinating multicultural little kingdom.
Edit: I meant Byzantine not Ottoman
DAME DA NE
And one princess named Maria of Mangup married Stephen the great as a way to claim the Byzantine throne if lets say Constantinopole was recaptured. The marriage was not a happy one and it ended in 1475 when Stephen married a wallachian royal who was the niece of Vlad the Impaler (who in turn was Stephen's first cousin)
Let's be honest guys . Taking the title of emperor was a legally valid option at this point.
The Last Roman Emperor absolutely deserved that anime ending. The man genuinely decided to end his nation's history with a charge. Every Senator (yes, the Roman senate still existed), every Varangian, and even the last wielders of Greek Fire, all charged with him and died on their feet. The captain of the Varangian Guard, the leader of the last foreigners to federate with Rome and greatest single fighter in the city, remained behind, sitting on the throne, holding the crown until the Sultan came to claim it. According to one book I read about the event, THEY DUELED OVER IT.
Point not being that it actually happened, the point is the story is too perfect not to share.
Hey, just thought I’d let you know I love your videos, and I’m glad you never seem to run out of content
Thankfully a lot of interesting things have happened over the past 6,000 years 😃
Mehmed II taking down Constantinople as a teenager kinda makes me feel like my adolescence was pretty much a waste. Maybe I can bring an empire to its knees at least before I'm 30?
Actual real historically accurate romanian here, Vlad III was an insteresting fellow... and although I wouldnt say that your interpretation wasnt correct, there were a few details that you have probably missed while discussing the night battle at Tirgoviste, one of those being that at a very young age, Vlad III was sold to the ottomans by his father to make him a janisarry in the ottoman army (elite soldier), and thus he learned how to speak turkish fluently, had a decent understanding of the ottoman military and knew a bit of chemistry (thus the poisoned wells). Do remember that I am not writing this in malevolence but to provide just a bit of interesting facts about the guy
from me the video is a 9/10 and the animations are a 11/10, also the dame dane parts were funni
Wasn't he also a political Prisoner and... If some sources are to be believed a uh... Pleasure boy?
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 yes
@@thomastakesatollforthedark2231 the "pleasure boy" part is probably false tbh, dubious at best. But yeah he's a political prisoner
@@enterurnamehere27 eh I've you have any sources that dispute it I'd love to hear. Learning is always good 😊
Haha, the guy who voiced Mehmet II sounds like a cool dude.
I love that we’re at the point with Jack Rackham videos that we see other videos crossover or get referenced in the same time period.
If Vlad could have gotten his hand on a recording of Constantine XIs final speech you know he would have that on repeat to drive Mehmed II nuts.
Mehmet respected Constantine and he was smart. Would prolly like it
Pretty sure Vlad can do other stuff to trigger him since they grew up together
Awesome video topic, with what you did with Constantine IX, can't wait to see how you cover the Great Eagle
Who? Suleiman?
@@arawn1061 No, just referring to Mehmed II, didn't watch the video yet when I commented
He didn´t really count down most of Mehmed´s feats, like totally glossed over him sailing ships over freaking mountains as if it was a normal thing to do
This is such a good companion to the Constantinople video. Love Mehmed's characterization too!
if dovahhatty was allowed to finish the eastern roman series i can't even imagine how scary would mehmed ii be
Interesting to see everybody else but Mehmed II in Mehmed II's video.
Was pretty annoying tbh, everyone got mentioned for amazing feats and mehmed´s were glossed over
@@adidoki I think that's the joke (seeing as this came out on April 1st)
@@adidoki for me it's make Mehmed II more impressive to the fact he could make others make a famous last stand against such chivalrous figure
"Caesar wears a turban?" "He does now!!" I'm dying 🤣🤣🤣
Long live MEHMET THE CAESAR OF ROMAN EMPIRE 🇹🇷💪☪️
@@islammehmeov2334 hahahaha
@@juandiegoparales9379 you know hate is more funny 1453 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In case people are wondering, the cannon, called “The Basilica”, built by the Hungarian engineer Orban, fired 1200 pound cannonballs. It was so strong it killed some of the men operating it
All the guy wanted to do was do a crowd-moving speech, he got speech-blocked every single time hahaha
good video!
the whole “this is the end” repeated schtick is pretty nice!
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i've watched this for the 4th time, still didn't fail to entertain. Greatest work yet, Mr. Rackam.
"First Muslim Roman Emperor", that's it folks, we got him! Cancel Jack Rackham
Edit: I'm being sarcastic
It’s is April Fools day after all
Hey actually by this point Byzantine emperors daughters have intermarried with the ottoman sultans and their sons so technically they did have a familial claim just not a strong one
4:55 Wow, that's an impressive artillery piece. I've never heard of a pre-industrial era cannon that was nearly as large as an industrial era battleship gun.
0:39 I will now from this day forward call all pastors “Jesus experts,” thank you
Jesusologists, if you will
Maybe do a life and times of suleiman to magnificent or hurrem sultana or kosem sultana i would love to see those videos
The many smaller cannons they brought to Constantinople honestly did most of the work, even if the big one is more dramatic. Also, completely different track but I think it bears mentioning that a lot of the Vlad-fighting was done in favour of setting up Vlad's brother Radu on the throne, who Mehmed is sometimes said to have had a relationship with. As far as "interesting things to mention about the guy", y'know.
So...
Who was the Top and who was the Bottom?
Sinc if Mehmed is a Roman fanboy, he'd choose to be Top like Hadrian.
@@marseldagistani1989 I think that is generally what's implied yeah, since Radu (nicknamed "the Beautiful") is framed as the "beloved" in the classical Greek/Roman (and indeed Ottoman) model, and Mehmed as the active partner
@@YossarianVanDriver source for your statements
Medieval II showed me this.
That huge cannon looks cool, but it takes too long to reload, is rather impossible to move and is out gunned by smaller and more efficient cannons.
@@comradekenobi6908 You can find the reasons on the Wikipedia:
_"However, this was the only cannon that Orban built for the Ottoman forces at Constantinople,[51][52] and it had several drawbacks: it took three hours to reload; cannonballs were in very short supply; and the cannon is said to have collapsed under its own recoil after six weeks. The account of the cannon's collapse is disputed..."_
Kind of makes sense, these Mega-Projects are usually more for show than actual practicality.
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Komninos: Ceasar wears a turband?
Mehmet: He does now. . .
I lost it hahahaha
It's so funny that everywhere he goes people just make these grand speeches whilst he has no chance to make a speech about himself
Woah. No spoiler warnings? I'm only halfway through Netflix's Rise of Empires: Ottomans and you go and blurb the ending and all the plot twists. It hasn't even been 600 years. Not cool.
This video is literally just the monarchs of their regions making speeches and singing Baka Mitai
I love it XDXD
Love your videos, one of the few channels that I need notifications on for because I can't wait for the next video!
You're a glorious man. You're one of the most important RUclipsrs that got me into history. The only one i like more is BazBattles and his channel is dead.
It would have been very funny if Mehmed had just kept conquering heirs of Rome. The Papal States, Spain, the entire mess that is the Holy Roman Empire, Venice, the rest of Italy, Russia, France, and so on.
"Skanderberg is one of the greatest military commanders you've probably never heard of." - Every EU IV player ever: "Excuse me?!?"
21 years old speaks 7 languages. Apart from Turkish, he spoke Greek, Arabic, Latin, Persian, Hebrew, Greek and Serbian as well as his mother tongue. He knows the Quran by heart. He has enough knowledge to explain the Bible and Torah books in detail. Military genius, engineer, strategist and politician. He is one of the greatest poets of his time. Historians agree that he was one of the rare people who had knowledge of east and west. During his thirty-year reign, he destroyed two empires, four kingdoms, and eleven principalities. Before he dies, he leaves very important laws to the future emperors for the state to continue in security and prosperity. He fell ill and died on his way to Italy. Bells were rung and victory ceremonies were held in Europe for a week. They announced his death as 'The Great Eagle is Dead'."
Finally, a word from Mehmet: "True art is to create a magnificent city and fill the hearts of its people with happiness."
From the entrance to the Fatih Mosque Foundation.
There's no real evidence of him really spoke all those languages, it's rather certain that he spoke Persian and Arabic beside Turkish, possibly Greek but Hebrew? Serbian? Why would an emperor would even learn Serbian?
The first Arab to become Emperor of Rome was Philip who ruled from 244 to 249 AD.
we are talking about the first muslim not arab!
@@Timurid1370 I know
@@shamsalfarabi6107Except Turks aren’t Arabs so I’m not sure why you mentioned that.
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OK. You convinced me. The Ottomans were the legitimate heirs to Rome. Mehmed earned it. He's Augustus; Constantine was Antony. And yet _he_ got the big anime moment?! For shame!
You keep your promise sooner then I expected
next I want Selim the Grim
Great video! If I may offer a suggestion you might want to think about doing a series on Roman successor states, such as Charlemagne and the (sort of) establishment of the Holy Roman Empire, the establishment of the Tsardom of Russia pre Ivan the terrible, the Kingdom of Italy from 1861-1946, etc. That would be totally awesome!
Hey, did you know that Bijapur Sultanate (guys who fought together with the Mughals against Malik Ambar) might have been founded by Mehmed's brother? Crazy.
I always found it funny how he renamed himself Caesar when the title Caesar Augustus hadn't been used since the times of Heraclius
This was a good April Fools joke calling him a Roman Emperor lmao 😂 😂😂
@Mehmed Islyamov Not as long as the Spanish royal family still lives.
@Ğaaa Bruh, there is a dozen of Roman emperors who bought the title, waaay before the Western-Eastern split, and all of them were considered emperors in full right.
Mehmed II vs Dracula. Someone make it happen. Dracula is resurrected all spooky and everything but Mehmed II levitates down from Heaven and immediately ratios him.
I find it funny that when Mehmed tried to make a passionate speech, it just cuts to Constantine's sad passionate speech, and then he complains that it's supposed to be his time to shine XD
I thought the ad segment was going to end with the poor kid being the inheritor of rome
Shoot, I gotta write that down
I mean, Mehmet was literally an usurped butcher, just because you call yourself roman, after brutally humiliating the real last emperor and hero who could be "remotely" be considered the emperor of a dead empire...that doesn't mean you actually become Roman...neither geographically, socially, culturally and historically...everyone wanted to be Roman cause it was cool, yet... Constantinople is still well remember for it's real name, and not the fake alter-ego they gave to it afterwards 👀
The fall of that city is just one of the saddest days in history, still, it will be always remembered as one of the last Roman cities defended by a bunch of Greeks and Italians, the real legit relatives of Rome, heroes who fought against waves of barbarians ~ which is kinda philosophical and romantic.
How you cooling barbarians and there were no greeks and Italians them
Fun Fact: Mehmed's birthday was two days before this video was posted (March 30)!
Son: "If you're in charge, then you lead your armies!" "If I'm in charge, THEN I ORDER YOU TO LEAD. YOUR. ARMIES!!!!"
Dad: oohhh... :(
Me: *chuckles and historical laughter*
I always wondered why constantinople was named istanbul??!
Everyone pretty much started calling it "the city" which, in Turkish, over time became Istanbul, or so I've heard. It was a gradual process and the city didn't officially change its name until the 1930s or something
@@JackRackam Atatürk (who definitely deserves his own video) refused to accept any mail addressed to "Constantinople", which forced the Europeans to finally call it Istanbul.
That's nobody's business but the Turks
@Jack Rackam During the Ottoman Empire up until 1929, the official name of the city was Konstantiniyye (Which is the Turkish version of Constantinople). The name was changed during the Turkish Republic by Atatürk.
The name was most probably changed to differenciate it from the Ottoman Empire. Because Konstantiniyye was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, which was not the capital for Turkish Republic. So by changing the name they ended the Ottoman symbolism it could have for the city. This is one thing I found, but I'm not completly sure. I searched a long time in Turkish, and couldn't find an explanation besides this one.
The new name was chosen because it was the name used by the people living in the city. The name Istanbul has a Greek origin, which you Jack explained above, which Atatürk didn't mind at all. Atatürk had a big interest for the history of Anatolia and even had a big interest in Ancient Greek, Hittite and Sumerian history and wanted that the Turkish people take interest for the previous cultures of this geography.
Actualy its called Carigrad.
I’m really sad that Ottomans never conquered Italy
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I still remember when I learned that Dracula and Mehmet II lived at the same time. And then I read a little more and that time in history could rival the Avengers in terms of crossovers.
15:45 I'm sorry? What self respecting EU4 player HASN'T heard of the glorious Skanderbeg? Especially when the save analyser is called Skanderbeg.
10:25 it's even funnier when you remember that he was a Muslim
Wouldn’t Allahu Akbar be the correct term then?
@@mariomouse8265 yes or (يا الهي) which means my god
Muslims accept Jesus as the Messiah though
I’m pretty sure the last remnant of the eastern Roman Empire was the principality of Theodoro, itself a vassal of Trebizond, but held out until 1475
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Theodoro
The Roman's just refuse to die which is a understatement it of itself.
753 BCE-1475
@Mehmed Islyamov the ottomans were not the romans. They were different empires
wow jack the presentation is really awesome, laugh several times, first time there is humor in history lol ... keep up the good work