Glad to hear you mention the high percentage of Celtic ancestry among the Icelanders. I first learned about that several years ago and found it fascinating.
Just subscribed to viking vault and havent watched a single video. I figured if its made by those who make this channel it will def be high quality content. Keep it up!!
Finally a channel that has the balls to the truth about slavery. Slavery was not black and white it has existed for thousands of years and every race has been a victim of slavery at some point in history.
Black slavery came about because europe eventually did away with slavery. Then when the new world was discovered slaves were suddenly needed again. So non europeans were needed for the role.
@@ggomglolit wasnt, arabs bought slaves in large numbers to work them to death way before the transatlantic slavetrade. Blacks in america were well treated and obviously bennefitted from being slaves in the end.
To put that in context, there are an estimated 50 million slaves in today's world with a global population of roughly 8 billion people, the maths show that to be 0.625% of people living in slavery. In 1776 United States, an estimated 21.5 percent of the population were slaves.
@@nolzyn Most people would know what I was referring to by simply filling in the blanks. But you have my permission to maintain your cantankerous pedantry.
I don't know why you said people associate slavery with non-christians. Christians all over the world have had slaves for most of their 2000 year existence. In some countries, they still do.
Probably because Christianity was one of the first entities to begin questioning the morality of slavery. Theologians in the Christian Church were among the first abolitionists and often suffered great retaliation for their stance on the matter. If I recall, mention is made of Christian theological opposition to slavery as far back as the 16th century, at a time in which slavery was largely unquestioned as a smart way to wealth.
@@bretfisher7286 Yeah and even many groups who later opposed slavery like early communists were heavily influenced by things like liberation theology. Marx and Engels pretty much wrote the book on socialism and communism but they werent the first and took inspiration of many earlier socialists and many of them were Christian sects. The anabaptists and Quakers were 2 who were pretty staunchly opposed to slavery and formed some of the earliest groups that we'd now call communists. Opposition to slavery was common in Christianity for a long time in part due to Jewish influence with the Jews largely turning against slavery nearly 2000 years ago, and the Jews already had laws and customs protecting slaves prior to that. Christian nations did greatly expand slavery in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries but they were also the ones who largely ended slavery in the 19th century both inside and outside the Christian world. For example Thailand ended slavery in the 1800s largely because they were copying the west in many ways and saw that the countries they idolized like France and the UK had ended slavery so they did too, China was pretty similar and did the same in 1910 for the same reasons, and it was mainly western pressure that lead to many Muslim countries ending slavery. Similar story with all those European countries colonies which largely had slavery prior to colonization but had slavery ended before independence.
@@talonhax8336 Didnt China still have widespread use of slaves across their imperial dynasties? I know they didnt formally end the practice until the end of the Qing. I dont remember any exact numbers but i thought i remembered reading that the number of slaves in China was something like over 1mil when slavery was ended but those numbers are tricky since not all slaves were called "slaves" and many were servants or concubines that were slaves in all but name.
Also worth noting how many used Christianity as a basis on why slavery was horrific and shouldn’t be allowed. It was expanded to “can’t enslaved fellow Christians” to “all people are children of God and shouldn’t be enslaved”. But today we learn slavery became immoral out of nowhere and Christianity had nothing to do with it. While other countries still continued with slavery until the Christian West pressured them to give up the practice.
The irony being that the bible condones slavery. It gives rules for the keeping and selling of slaves and even Jesus never once criticized it, even praising a slave owner for his morality.
@@valentinkambushev4968 slavery will always be a thing because humans don't like work and making someone else do your work for free is better than working yourself
@@valentinkambushev4968 AI is only part of it, the main limiter is the robotic body. Computers have been smart enough to do tons of tasks but dont because you need a robot that can do that task which is where the real cost is. Building a robot to do ONE job is actually pretty simple but even that's fairly expensive, just look at the Roomba which is a few hundred just for a robot to sweep the floor, and if you want a robotic body capable of doing more then a single task that cost rapidly increases. Even simple things like walking on 2 legs was a task that some of the worlds foremost robotics experts took years to accomplish and even 4 legged robots took a lot of work, and that's without factoring things like robotic hands. We'll get there one day but it's still a ways off and it will remain pretty cost prohibitive, especially when you compare costs like that 4 legged robot costs around $2000 on its own, a robotic hand is at least a few hundred each, you'll also need a torso, arms, and a head (no idea what all that would cost) plus a few hundred bucks in sensors/cameras at least. Compare that to a Bengali worker who makes $275 a month and you start to see why slavery is still cost effective in many places.
Slavery is such a fascinating phenomenon, suffered by all, practiced by all. As most slaves today are still set to labor and breeding, I wonder in the coming century where human labor is redundant and sex robots exist what we will put slaves to do.
@@TucsonDude yes christians and muslims specificly enslaved Slavs in middle ages because Slavs practised european native Slavic religion and christianity, judaism and islam banned people from enslaving "people of the book"
This is good, because many people in certain places forget that EVERYONE went through slavery at some point in history regardless of race, color, or location.
@@slickrick2420 The arab slave trade was just as bad and kept going centuries after USA banned it. The arabs took way more black slaves and they even castrated the black men.
It's very interesting that among the many laws given by God regarding slaves, Christians would discard those statues. But they ignored most of the others too so it's not a surprise. Inckuding some of the big 10. Slaves had God given rights under the law. At 7 years they must be offered freedom and support. Thats not convenient.
What's stellar about this series includes meticulous research, compelling stories, lucid narrative, and well-chosen illustrations. This is first-rate history.
Meh, the research is anything but meticulous. They use other youtube clips as their source material, without doing any fact checking at all. MM is also extremely one-sided and not at all objective, dwelling in the misery and dread while forgetting positive aspects of the Medieval age. This is the McDonald's of history channels. Cheap, fast and low quality.
@@boogiesmell5181 Nice critique. Well done. I love debate and the clash between opposing views. These days most Americans are completely averse to debate, especially in the political arena. Much of the population seems no more Intellectually mature than medieval peasants.
@@fishpoem1433 True words there, and not just the Americans. The Internet with it's quick, cheap thrills brings out the worst in people. We're living in an age of glorification of stupidity where experts are frowned upon and ridiculed while fools get millions of followers. Has it ever been different though? Well, in the medieval ages people were generally very much aware that the Earth was spherical in shape. Today, more people than ever think the Earth is flat, which is just the most idiotic thing you can think of. Will a fair share of the next generation think the Moon is made of cheese? But I am being a bit argumentative here. In medieval times it was also accepted as fact that the Earth was the centre of the universe. Those who opined otherwise were regarded as heretics and could lose their lives. And as a society in whole (mainly Europe tho) we've made great progress since WWII. With such massive change there's always going to be setbacks. And putting things into perspective, the whole Internet is still a brand new thing, only a few decades old and constantly evolving. I have faith that legislation, restrictions and common sense will catch up and prevail. Young people are much more educated in these matters, but it is still the older generation that has the money and makes the rules and these boomers are fairly clueless more often than not. If I could enforce one change onto youtube, it would be that listing sources would be mandatory. Because why wouldn't you do that, if your research is legit? MedievalMadness won't answer this question.
while extremely unpleasant i can say it probably wasn't quite as terrible on the whole as the romans where you could be crucified for all sorts of reasons.
The very first part literally made me laugh. For some reason Americans don’t think of Roman NonChristians as our slavery point of reference. Note: the laugh was for the ridiculousness of the statement, not the act of enslavement
In English, the word Slave, comes from the word Slav. During the late antiquity/early medieval period, the NO .1 ethnicity in Europe that was targeted for enslavement were Pagan Slavs. The Teutonic Order actually fought a Crusade against Pagans in what is now The Baltic region. They enslaved Slavs and forced the survivors to convert to Christianity from Paganism. It was the largest slave trade in Europe until the Sea-faring European Empires developed the African Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the Americas.
It doesnt. Slav comes from the ancient slavic word for word. By the time the crusades took place, the entire english nobility was speaking French, so I dont know where you get your Teutonic from.
@@KateeAngel Look it up then. Books and the internet are available. Literally 1 or 2 clicks or your mouse and you can learn about this history. Just because you don't know about it does not mean it did not happen.
@@jolly_39 Read about the Teutonic Order in Prussia and the Crusade against Pagan Lithuanians and Baltic Slavs. This is history freely available to learn. Every single thing you said about Slavic to the Normans is incorrect.
0:54 - FALSE IN SOME CASES. Boy, I see you haven't even touched the data and statistics on serfdom in Eastern Europe. Of course serfs could and were sold. They HAD to be, considering that since they were tied to the land, they were prohibited to leave the area unless they were sent on an errand of any sort. If a case occured that one serf were to marry outside of their village, they had to obtain their masters' respective permissions, and then an agreement would be reached between the latter, on how much one would be compensated for a serf leaving their property to then be included in the one of the other. But that was just one instance out of many, where various serf owners would buy and sell serfs from one another, whenever they felt like it. Perhaps it wasn't so in the western parts of Europe, where the conditions of life and work were milder for them, but it was so in the eastern ones. Serfs were a part of Polish szlachta's livestock, had specific prices ascribed to them and could have been traded from one landowner to another. And, not meaning to take away anything from the tragedy and suffering of the African-stemming plantation slaves, the way they had been treated and the standard of existence they suffered was just as bad as the one of the black slaves' would ever get in the most horrific cases. Also they had to work WAY more days in the week than you say they would, and would have to make up for Sundays and religious holidays when work was prohibited on the days they would normally have left to work for their own living, resulting in them having to actually work in the fields at night by a lamp light in addition to their day work. All the abuse and mistreatment they suffered, and there was A LOT of it, because no laws protected them from it (they could've even be delived at their master's leisure, with little to no punishment being merely a small fine, which varied depending on the empire that held lands they populated) was being justified by the upper classes who owned serfs by claims not dissimilar to those made by the national socialist party of Germany in 1930s and 1940s in respect to the Eastern European peoples etc. According to the contemporary wide-spread beliefs, the farmlands' lowest class population allegedly had varying innate biological and cognitive characteristics, as if they were a different and less sensitive species of humans (an idea of the szlachta and aristocracy stemming from the mythical sarmats - which is completely false - effectively making the ruling classes allegedly ethnically AND biologically different from the rest of their countrymen, was wide spread at the time). So even though the serfs looked like their masters and prayed to the same God and were members of the same Church, they were still considered a lower and different cathegory of humans wo neither needed nor deserved the same kind of rights and living conditions.
Good video overall. One pet peeve though is miss-representation of historical documents which I have to being up: the papal bull of 1493 of Alexander VI. Context is important: he was arbitrating between Portugal and Spain to prevent a war between the nations and drew lines in their colonial ambitions to prevent the conflict and although there was no legal body developed at that time to deal with natives (which came later and was developed by the church) slavery was never condoned by the pope. Alexander VI may not have been a saint by a long shot, but it would be a misrepresentation to say he condoned slavery in the bull. In the document the word subjugation is used in conjunction with jurisdiction and under the rule of Kings and lords of each Kingdom (which everybody was subject to at the time for welfare and protection), not wholesale slavery as you incorrectly stated at the end of the video.
Because peasants and slaves are not the same. Peasants had certain rights and protections in exchange for their labor. Slaves had none and their owners could do whatever they wanted to them. And don't at me with the "they were both property of the rich" thing. The differences are significant enough to warrant separate videos. But if you want to remain ignorant about the nuances of medieval life feel free to go watch your favorite generic react streamer instead.
In ancient times your food was produced by someone transported across the mediterranean to be traded as labour. In 2024 your canned tomatoes are produced by someone who was transported across the mediterranean to be traded as labor.
You, for some reason, forgot to mention the great role the Arabs played in the slave trade. It’s estimated they captured and enslaved well over one million white Europeans. Also it was the Arabs who ran the slave markets bringing black African slaves to the middle east and other places. Strong African tribes captured Africans from weaker tribes and sold them to the Arabs. They where so efective, whole areas of the African continent where completely depopulated. It would have been prudent and becoming if you had mentioned this, as it is a large part of the history of slavery. A history the Arabs to this day keep very much alive.
The older I get the more I hate Christianity as a whole! It was never about god, charity or an after life, other older religions teach of an afterlife, it was always about cruelty for cruelty sake
They're all ridiculous. Ppl do good things with them and bad things with them. It's like a fantastical coping mechanism for the unpleasant aspects of our advanced consciousness.
I wish black Americans would cease focusing on slavery in the americas . This was a worldwide practice on every continen. No one is innocent from barbarity .
Your position is generally associated with "Don't talk about modern law enforcement, civics, disenfranchisment, infrastructure, or tax alllcation; through the lense of race: because it makes me uncomfortable."
@@blenderbanana im a Native American and agree totally with the persons comment none of us were ever innocent the natives sold our own ppl too but it’s okay that you don’t wanna acknowledge that yours did it as well lmaoo
@@blenderbanana im a Native American and agree totally with the persons comment none of us were ever innocent the natives sold our own ppl too but it’s okay that you don’t wanna acknowledge that yours did it as well lmaoo
Why aren’t Jews suing Egyptians, the Irish and Scots suing the Nordic nations? Oh…it’s only the 13% crew in America that’s wants more “something for nothing “ . People who have never been slaves suing people who never owned slaves, all while ignoring historical facts that is most cases it was their own people who sold them originally.
I love your videos, I'm shocked that slavery has EVER been related to non-christan, I mean back in the 1700s and further back right up until the 1860s christain americans were creating sections in the Bible to justify the enslavement of the African Americans... The Atlantic slave trade where you were kidnapped/warprize and tortuous slavery became your life and ultimate death all in the name of being worked and beaten by not just one person or a community, but a country who at the time deemed you less than human and disposable, was definitely largely justified by 'Christian' beliefs...
You must be extremely unaware of human history then because slavery has existed across time and across the globe. Where i live near Seattle the natives on the coast each tribe was around 2/3 to 3/4 slaves, slavery was common in the Arab world into the 20th century and is still fairly common despite being technically illegal, in China slavery was only banned in 1910 and was still practiced by citizens into the 40s and practiced by the state even today, there's been slavery across Africa and the Arabs and Europeans exploited an existing slave trade. The Romans, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, and virtually every one other ancient culture had slavery. Large portions of some pre columbian civilizations like the Mayans and Aztecs could be slaves and similar to Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt some of their governments were built on vast armies of slaves, like the Incas, and even many tribes it was common. Chattel slavery was also not unique to the post Columbian christian colonies/nations: it was already practiced in a handful of African countries, it was the standard for parts of Greek and Roman history, and occurred in some Arab countries. Yeah Christians did come up with justifications for slavery but so did nearly every culture on earth, even ones who condemn slavery. Atheist socialists and communists both condemn slavery but routinely enslaved their own people and others, both prison labor and pretty much any other civilian and some even went as far as enslaving foreigners. Hindus, Jains, and Sihks have something called "Moksha" which is something they preach and strive for and basically translates to "liberty" or "freedom" but they still practiced slavery. Some druid and pagan religions that were really into nature and nature spirits often taught their followers about freedom but many still practiced slavery. Buddhism also teaches about freedom from desire, freedom from greed, and overall taught about spiritual freedom but many buddhist countries had slavery. My family is part Thai, Thailand is over 95% Buddhist, but at one point something like 1/3 of Bangkok were slaves and even many who werent technically slaves were still concubines or similar pseudo-slaves.
@@arthas640really? Omg, where did I even say I didn't believe in slavery elsewhere or for other 'reasons'? I was commenting about medieval madness' point at the start of how many people see slavery as a non-christain evil, and I was responding about how that surprises me because of the slavery during the times of the transatlantic slave trade, which were largely justified by the 'Christian' religion...I was talking about a specific era of slavery, just like medieval madness' is talking about medieval slavery specific, I was talking about slavery that happened in and around the transatlantic slavery, when Christianity dominated most countries. How about you not insult someone you don't even know, god why is it when someone brings up the transatlantic slave trade or the civil rights or whatever, instead of the will to be different and be better, it turns into " well boohoo...well I suffered to you know, my great great great grandma, stumped her toe once!" 🤣🙄😒
At the time the only branch of Christianity was catholicism. Protestantism wasn't invented yet. Catholicism is still called Christianity, it's just a sect.
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Glad to hear you mention the high percentage of Celtic ancestry among the Icelanders. I first learned about that several years ago and found it fascinating.
I usually hear about slaves having Slav ancestry
We took the pretty ones with us 😂
The more things change, the more they stay the same. In 2024 slavery, human trafficking & forced labor are STILL global issues.
Everything except tge sex trafficking will be gone once AI is advanced enough to be a proper slave.
Yes, but also no. In comparism to the permodern world, our problems with slavery are rather small.
@@xornxenophon3652 The problem with slavery is only absent in Europe and North America. Everywhere else: it's worse than it has ever been.
@xornxenophon3652 Actually, it's worse than it has ever been.
@@valentinkambushev4968Not really! In the ancient world, 80 percent of people were slaves. Today, it is no more than 10 percent, at most.
I read somewhere that da Vincis mother was an indentured servant and that in time, she was eventually freed and married her master.
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What do you mean
Medieval times seriously is what hell is.
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Finally a channel that has the balls to the truth about slavery. Slavery was not black and white it has existed for thousands of years and every race has been a victim of slavery at some point in history.
It was huge in Central Asia -Bohkara and Khivauntil 1910. The Russians only stopped the slavery of Europeans/Slavs in 1973.
Black slavery came about because europe eventually did away with slavery. Then when the new world was discovered slaves were suddenly needed again. So non europeans were needed for the role.
Chattel slavery was unique.
@@ggomglolit wasnt, arabs bought slaves in large numbers to work them to death way before the transatlantic slavetrade. Blacks in america were well treated and obviously bennefitted from being slaves in the end.
how@@ggomglol
What a horrible life
"Charlie don't serf"
There are over 40 Million enslaved people today - more than 3 times the amount during the -Original- Transatlantic Slave Trade.
To put that in context, there are an estimated 50 million slaves in today's world with a global population of roughly 8 billion people, the maths show that to be 0.625% of people living in slavery. In 1776 United States, an estimated 21.5 percent of the population were slaves.
In the very first sentence he completly ignored the enslavement of africans in America for european christians
Saying 'Original slave trade' makes you sound foolish
Slavery is much much older and widespread than you think
@@nolzyn Most people would know what I was referring to by simply filling in the blanks. But you have my permission to maintain your cantankerous pedantry.
Surely, as well, we must consider the expansion of general population numbers and factor that into the percentage?
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the voice keeps these videos very interesting... nice narration... hope it ain't AI
I'm pretty sure it's not AI
If it was AI, you still admit you like it.
It’s still very obvious when it’s AI to any native speaker - I don’t know why people pretend otherwise.
Hopefully not AI as he doesn't pronounce everything correctly 😁 ( which doesn't really bother me)
I don't know why you said people associate slavery with non-christians. Christians all over the world have had slaves for most of their 2000 year existence. In some countries, they still do.
Because the Romans were notorious for slavery and so were the Arabs, but Christians weren't for some reason.
Probably because Christianity was one of the first entities to begin questioning the morality of slavery. Theologians in the Christian Church were among the first abolitionists and often suffered great retaliation for their stance on the matter.
If I recall, mention is made of Christian theological opposition to slavery as far back as the 16th century, at a time in which slavery was largely unquestioned as a smart way to wealth.
@@bretfisher7286 Yeah and even many groups who later opposed slavery like early communists were heavily influenced by things like liberation theology. Marx and Engels pretty much wrote the book on socialism and communism but they werent the first and took inspiration of many earlier socialists and many of them were Christian sects. The anabaptists and Quakers were 2 who were pretty staunchly opposed to slavery and formed some of the earliest groups that we'd now call communists. Opposition to slavery was common in Christianity for a long time in part due to Jewish influence with the Jews largely turning against slavery nearly 2000 years ago, and the Jews already had laws and customs protecting slaves prior to that. Christian nations did greatly expand slavery in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries but they were also the ones who largely ended slavery in the 19th century both inside and outside the Christian world. For example Thailand ended slavery in the 1800s largely because they were copying the west in many ways and saw that the countries they idolized like France and the UK had ended slavery so they did too, China was pretty similar and did the same in 1910 for the same reasons, and it was mainly western pressure that lead to many Muslim countries ending slavery. Similar story with all those European countries colonies which largely had slavery prior to colonization but had slavery ended before independence.
@@talonhax8336 Didnt China still have widespread use of slaves across their imperial dynasties? I know they didnt formally end the practice until the end of the Qing. I dont remember any exact numbers but i thought i remembered reading that the number of slaves in China was something like over 1mil when slavery was ended but those numbers are tricky since not all slaves were called "slaves" and many were servants or concubines that were slaves in all but name.
@@arthas640 Gosh, thank you so much. That was very impressive. You're far ahead of me in your history.
I appreciate it.
Also worth noting how many used Christianity as a basis on why slavery was horrific and shouldn’t be allowed. It was expanded to “can’t enslaved fellow Christians” to “all people are children of God and shouldn’t be enslaved”. But today we learn slavery became immoral out of nowhere and Christianity had nothing to do with it. While other countries still continued with slavery until the Christian West pressured them to give up the practice.
The irony being that the bible condones slavery. It gives rules for the keeping and selling of slaves and even Jesus never once criticized it, even praising a slave owner for his morality.
Ah yes...the mild intro his soothing brittish accent...and the interesting topic, perfect with coffee, or if you're brittish - tea.
Slavery is unfortunately still alive and thriving.
IKR. Most of the people on this planet are wage slaves
And it will continue to thrive until AI is so advanced so it can be a proper slave.
@@valentinkambushev4968 slavery will always be a thing because humans don't like work and making someone else do your work for free is better than working yourself
@@grungeisdead8998 That's why when AI is advanced enough, human slavery will disappear because the AI will be the slave humanity has always hoped for.
@@valentinkambushev4968 AI is only part of it, the main limiter is the robotic body. Computers have been smart enough to do tons of tasks but dont because you need a robot that can do that task which is where the real cost is. Building a robot to do ONE job is actually pretty simple but even that's fairly expensive, just look at the Roomba which is a few hundred just for a robot to sweep the floor, and if you want a robotic body capable of doing more then a single task that cost rapidly increases. Even simple things like walking on 2 legs was a task that some of the worlds foremost robotics experts took years to accomplish and even 4 legged robots took a lot of work, and that's without factoring things like robotic hands. We'll get there one day but it's still a ways off and it will remain pretty cost prohibitive, especially when you compare costs like that 4 legged robot costs around $2000 on its own, a robotic hand is at least a few hundred each, you'll also need a torso, arms, and a head (no idea what all that would cost) plus a few hundred bucks in sensors/cameras at least. Compare that to a Bengali worker who makes $275 a month and you start to see why slavery is still cost effective in many places.
Slavery is such a fascinating phenomenon, suffered by all, practiced by all. As most slaves today are still set to labor and breeding, I wonder in the coming century where human labor is redundant and sex robots exist what we will put slaves to do.
Could you please address your sources in the description? I want to do some further readings, thanks a million
That is crazy regarding Iceland and the ancestry of the women.
Men and Women. Obviously.
Ohhh, you are being sarcastic
It should be said it was mostly Slavs who were enslaved
No one cares
@@yungcaco1443 you cared enough to comment😂 pathetic
Were they?
@@TucsonDude yes christians and muslims specificly enslaved Slavs in middle ages because Slavs practised european native Slavic religion and christianity, judaism and islam banned people from enslaving "people of the book"
@@damirk3 Poor slavs! Does anyone love them??
I’m looking for a picture you used of an illustration of pigs on top of eachother where can I find it
This is good, because many people in certain places forget that EVERYONE went through slavery at some point in history regardless of race, color, or location.
Medieval slavery wasn't the worst kind of slavery, which is chattel slavery. That was only done in the Americas by Europeans.
And the arab world outlawed slavery merely a couple of decades ago. Peope are too busy to focus on the Transatlantic slave trade.
And saying slavery is good is
pretty wild. You seem happy about it to push a political point.
@@slickrick2420 you clearly haven't heard of the trans-saharan slave trade.
@@slickrick2420 The arab slave trade was just as bad and kept going centuries after USA banned it. The arabs took way more black slaves and they even castrated the black men.
It's very interesting that among the many laws given by God regarding slaves, Christians would discard those statues. But they ignored most of the others too so it's not a surprise. Inckuding some of the big 10. Slaves had God given rights under the law. At 7 years they must be offered freedom and support. Thats not convenient.
What's stellar about this series includes meticulous research, compelling stories, lucid narrative, and well-chosen illustrations. This is first-rate history.
Meh, the research is anything but meticulous. They use other youtube clips as their source material, without doing any fact checking at all. MM is also extremely one-sided and not at all objective, dwelling in the misery and dread while forgetting positive aspects of the Medieval age. This is the McDonald's of history channels. Cheap, fast and low quality.
@@boogiesmell5181 Nice critique. Well done. I love debate and the clash between opposing views. These days most Americans are completely averse to debate, especially in the political arena. Much of the population seems no more Intellectually mature than medieval peasants.
@@fishpoem1433 True words there, and not just the Americans. The Internet with it's quick, cheap thrills brings out the worst in people. We're living in an age of glorification of stupidity where experts are frowned upon and ridiculed while fools get millions of followers.
Has it ever been different though? Well, in the medieval ages people were generally very much aware that the Earth was spherical in shape. Today, more people than ever think the Earth is flat, which is just the most idiotic thing you can think of. Will a fair share of the next generation think the Moon is made of cheese?
But I am being a bit argumentative here. In medieval times it was also accepted as fact that the Earth was the centre of the universe. Those who opined otherwise were regarded as heretics and could lose their lives. And as a society in whole (mainly Europe tho) we've made great progress since WWII. With such massive change there's always going to be setbacks. And putting things into perspective, the whole Internet is still a brand new thing, only a few decades old and constantly evolving. I have faith that legislation, restrictions and common sense will catch up and prevail.
Young people are much more educated in these matters, but it is still the older generation that has the money and makes the rules and these boomers are fairly clueless more often than not.
If I could enforce one change onto youtube, it would be that listing sources would be mandatory. Because why wouldn't you do that, if your research is legit? MedievalMadness won't answer this question.
8:23 Would just like to point out that the man was also selling his own children…..😞 He was most certainly the father
Them irish ladies probably contributed to our good looks and genetics in Scandinavia. We took the pretty ones with us 😂
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Didn’t William the Conqueror free slaves?
I wonder what this guy does irl and what kind of person he is
who cares weirdo
while extremely unpleasant i can say it probably wasn't quite as terrible on the whole as the romans where you could be crucified for all sorts of reasons.
The very first part literally made me laugh. For some reason Americans don’t think of Roman NonChristians as our slavery point of reference.
Note: the laugh was for the ridiculousness of the statement, not the act of enslavement
"What about the Americans"
If you live in the US then you know that Africans brought to the US were the only slaves ever to exist in the history of the world.
Slavery is intertwined with mankind, fascinating
In English, the word Slave, comes from the word Slav. During the late antiquity/early medieval period, the NO .1 ethnicity in Europe that was targeted for enslavement were Pagan Slavs. The Teutonic Order actually fought a Crusade against Pagans in what is now The Baltic region. They enslaved Slavs and forced the survivors to convert to Christianity from Paganism. It was the largest slave trade in Europe until the Sea-faring European Empires developed the African Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to the Americas.
It doesnt. Slav comes from the ancient slavic word for word. By the time the crusades took place, the entire english nobility was speaking French, so I dont know where you get your Teutonic from.
Sounds like a popular myth
@@KateeAngel Look it up then. Books and the internet are available. Literally 1 or 2 clicks or your mouse and you can learn about this history. Just because you don't know about it does not mean it did not happen.
@@jolly_39 Read about the Teutonic Order in Prussia and the Crusade against Pagan Lithuanians and Baltic Slavs. This is history freely available to learn. Every single thing you said about Slavic to the Normans is incorrect.
@Jolly_39 - I checked and you are wrong, unfortunately. Please don’t spread misinformation and spread lies.
0:54 - FALSE IN SOME CASES.
Boy, I see you haven't even touched the data and statistics on serfdom in Eastern Europe.
Of course serfs could and were sold. They HAD to be, considering that since they were tied to the land, they were prohibited to leave the area unless they were sent on an errand of any sort. If a case occured that one serf were to marry outside of their village, they had to obtain their masters' respective permissions, and then an agreement would be reached between the latter, on how much one would be compensated for a serf leaving their property to then be included in the one of the other. But that was just one instance out of many, where various serf owners would buy and sell serfs from one another, whenever they felt like it.
Perhaps it wasn't so in the western parts of Europe, where the conditions of life and work were milder for them, but it was so in the eastern ones. Serfs were a part of Polish szlachta's livestock, had specific prices ascribed to them and could have been traded from one landowner to another. And, not meaning to take away anything from the tragedy and suffering of the African-stemming plantation slaves, the way they had been treated and the standard of existence they suffered was just as bad as the one of the black slaves' would ever get in the most horrific cases. Also they had to work WAY more days in the week than you say they would, and would have to make up for Sundays and religious holidays when work was prohibited on the days they would normally have left to work for their own living, resulting in them having to actually work in the fields at night by a lamp light in addition to their day work. All the abuse and mistreatment they suffered, and there was A LOT of it, because no laws protected them from it (they could've even be delived at their master's leisure, with little to no punishment being merely a small fine, which varied depending on the empire that held lands they populated) was being justified by the upper classes who owned serfs by claims not dissimilar to those made by the national socialist party of Germany in 1930s and 1940s in respect to the Eastern European peoples etc. According to the contemporary wide-spread beliefs, the farmlands' lowest class population allegedly had varying innate biological and cognitive characteristics, as if they were a different and less sensitive species of humans (an idea of the szlachta and aristocracy stemming from the mythical sarmats - which is completely false - effectively making the ruling classes allegedly ethnically AND biologically different from the rest of their countrymen, was wide spread at the time). So even though the serfs looked like their masters and prayed to the same God and were members of the same Church, they were still considered a lower and different cathegory of humans wo neither needed nor deserved the same kind of rights and living conditions.
Oh dear, this is messed up.these poor women
Good video overall. One pet peeve though is miss-representation of historical documents which I have to being up: the papal bull of 1493 of Alexander VI. Context is important: he was arbitrating between Portugal and Spain to prevent a war between the nations and drew lines in their colonial ambitions to prevent the conflict and although there was no legal body developed at that time to deal with natives (which came later and was developed by the church) slavery was never condoned by the pope. Alexander VI may not have been a saint by a long shot, but it would be a misrepresentation to say he condoned slavery in the bull. In the document the word subjugation is used in conjunction with jurisdiction and under the rule of Kings and lords of each Kingdom (which everybody was subject to at the time for welfare and protection), not wholesale slavery as you incorrectly stated at the end of the video.
"They carriers off a great many women."
What was worse was that they gave them back!
And over to the viking vault it is so
Being a slave is such beta energy
Yo dude, you post, i click on. Cause i was thinking too much. Fresh distraction is appreciated
For a blackmarket to thrive, things need to be illegal,and I think a lot of lords and nobles had a hand in black markets secretly
Nice vid
Can you please send me the track you used ?
Last
A new channel?!?! Heck yeah... love your content so another channel is more chances to watch your stuff :)
You: Walks up to the Atlantic Ocean after now knowing about it.
“A new ocean!”
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@@noswim my bad lol
Hard hard work 💪 very hard !! 💪
Slavery is wack.
But you already made a video about how to survive as a medieval peasant. Why are you making another one?
Now you know more and it's gas reinforced your knowledge.
Peasant and slaves are not the same thing. Two videos about two topics
@@bsicc you are right. I mean, it's not like they are both property of a rich person, who can kill them if he feels like it.
Because peasants and slaves are not the same. Peasants had certain rights and protections in exchange for their labor. Slaves had none and their owners could do whatever they wanted to them.
And don't at me with the "they were both property of the rich" thing. The differences are significant enough to warrant separate videos. But if you want to remain ignorant about the nuances of medieval life feel free to go watch your favorite generic react streamer instead.
The big difference between serfs and slaves was mentioned at the beginning of this video.
Great topic 👍
In ancient times your food was produced by someone transported across the mediterranean to be traded as labour. In 2024 your canned tomatoes are produced by someone who was transported across the mediterranean to be traded as labor.
Believe it or not, slavery is still legal in the United States. Anyone who is convicted of a crime can be forced to work without pay.
No it isn't and no they can't
@@JS-wp4gs read the 13th amendment!
Is that the Castlevania theme at the beginning ?
You, for some reason, forgot to mention the great role the Arabs played in the slave trade. It’s estimated they captured and enslaved well over one million white Europeans. Also it was the Arabs who ran the slave markets bringing black African slaves to the middle east and other places. Strong African tribes captured Africans from weaker tribes and sold them to the Arabs. They where so efective, whole areas of the African continent where completely depopulated. It would have been prudent and becoming if you had mentioned this, as it is a large part of the history of slavery. A history the Arabs to this day keep very much alive.
The older I get the more I hate Christianity as a whole! It was never about god, charity or an after life, other older religions teach of an afterlife, it was always about cruelty for cruelty sake
They're all ridiculous. Ppl do good things with them and bad things with them.
It's like a fantastical coping mechanism for the unpleasant aspects of our advanced consciousness.
I wish black Americans would cease focusing on slavery in the americas . This was a worldwide practice on every continen. No one is innocent from barbarity .
Your position is generally associated with "Don't talk about modern law enforcement, civics, disenfranchisment, infrastructure, or tax alllcation; through the lense of race: because it makes me uncomfortable."
I wish Greg Abbot had not spent the last 5 years attempting to disenfranchise black voters.
@@blenderbanana im a Native American and agree totally with the persons comment none of us were ever innocent the natives sold our own ppl too but it’s okay that you don’t wanna acknowledge that yours did it as well lmaoo
@@blenderbanana im a Native American and agree totally with the persons comment none of us were ever innocent the natives sold our own ppl too but it’s okay that you don’t wanna acknowledge that yours did it as well lmaoo
@@Tanya49655 I wish Alabama had not dissolved Birmingham of a Circuit Judge position, after the seat was won by Tiara Young Hudson in 2022.
Leftists and Wokies need to watch this. It'll upset their narratives 😂😅
What narrative
@@webuyhouse8917 that White People were never slaves
@@webuyhouse8917 He does not know what tgat word means. Those "people" are like parrots.
@@daveerk6573"stuff that nobody has ever said"
Why aren’t Jews suing Egyptians, the Irish and Scots suing the Nordic nations? Oh…it’s only the 13% crew in America that’s wants more “something for nothing “ . People who have never been slaves suing people who never owned slaves, all while ignoring historical facts that is most cases it was their own people who sold them originally.
For the record the foul temptress was pulling HIM into bed, as females are like to do.
Honestly, if not drempt up by AI, what even was that picture?
Can I ask, do u talk n sound like this all the time? Cuz that's really cool if u sound like u stepped outa medieval times naturally 😅
never change america
If you are going to use quotes, at least learn how to use them correctly.
Dont forget slavery is a spectrum
Hardly anything on England-to shame
Slavery was made illegal in England by William the conqueror.
No wonder Scandinavian women are so pretty. Vikings went around pillaging the most beautiful women from every land they could reach by sail.
I love your videos, I'm shocked that slavery has EVER been related to non-christan, I mean back in the 1700s and further back right up until the 1860s christain americans were creating sections in the Bible to justify the enslavement of the African Americans... The Atlantic slave trade where you were kidnapped/warprize and tortuous slavery became your life and ultimate death all in the name of being worked and beaten by not just one person or a community, but a country who at the time deemed you less than human and disposable, was definitely largely justified by 'Christian' beliefs...
You must be extremely unaware of human history then because slavery has existed across time and across the globe. Where i live near Seattle the natives on the coast each tribe was around 2/3 to 3/4 slaves, slavery was common in the Arab world into the 20th century and is still fairly common despite being technically illegal, in China slavery was only banned in 1910 and was still practiced by citizens into the 40s and practiced by the state even today, there's been slavery across Africa and the Arabs and Europeans exploited an existing slave trade. The Romans, Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, and virtually every one other ancient culture had slavery. Large portions of some pre columbian civilizations like the Mayans and Aztecs could be slaves and similar to Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt some of their governments were built on vast armies of slaves, like the Incas, and even many tribes it was common. Chattel slavery was also not unique to the post Columbian christian colonies/nations: it was already practiced in a handful of African countries, it was the standard for parts of Greek and Roman history, and occurred in some Arab countries.
Yeah Christians did come up with justifications for slavery but so did nearly every culture on earth, even ones who condemn slavery. Atheist socialists and communists both condemn slavery but routinely enslaved their own people and others, both prison labor and pretty much any other civilian and some even went as far as enslaving foreigners. Hindus, Jains, and Sihks have something called "Moksha" which is something they preach and strive for and basically translates to "liberty" or "freedom" but they still practiced slavery. Some druid and pagan religions that were really into nature and nature spirits often taught their followers about freedom but many still practiced slavery. Buddhism also teaches about freedom from desire, freedom from greed, and overall taught about spiritual freedom but many buddhist countries had slavery. My family is part Thai, Thailand is over 95% Buddhist, but at one point something like 1/3 of Bangkok were slaves and even many who werent technically slaves were still concubines or similar pseudo-slaves.
@@arthas640really? Omg, where did I even say I didn't believe in slavery elsewhere or for other 'reasons'? I was commenting about medieval madness' point at the start of how many people see slavery as a non-christain evil, and I was responding about how that surprises me because of the slavery during the times of the transatlantic slave trade, which were largely justified by the 'Christian' religion...I was talking about a specific era of slavery, just like medieval madness' is talking about medieval slavery specific, I was talking about slavery that happened in and around the transatlantic slavery, when Christianity dominated most countries.
How about you not insult someone you don't even know, god why is it when someone brings up the transatlantic slave trade or the civil rights or whatever, instead of the will to be different and be better, it turns into " well boohoo...well I suffered to you know, my great great great grandma, stumped her toe once!" 🤣🙄😒
I was told that slavery was invented in North America 1619 because white people hated black people! Might this not be true???
Gross dog whistle.
Who taught you that?
@@bribennett843 The American public school system and the Jews who made TV shows about slavery to take the blame off them
Liar
Guys chill he's being cheeky. Made me laugh, have a like.
Slaves were converted to Catholicism, not Christianity. There's a huge difference.
At the time the only branch of Christianity was catholicism. Protestantism wasn't invented yet. Catholicism is still called Christianity, it's just a sect.
...Catholicism is a sect of Christianity. I genuinely don't understand how you can argue otherwise?
What a stupid thing to say. Catholics are christians by definition
This comment section is gross and ignorant love this channel hate the comment section 90% of the time 🫤
UHM ACTUALLY *THAT* did NOT happen!!
BLM been real quiet since this video dropped...
Oddly, you'll find people that deny there was slavery in Europe.