The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened
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I'd believe that because only an AI could continue down the same path of bad jokes
Really everyone let’s go home
Ok
Can a AI make bad jokes?
HAI is built upon two or three neural networks, and a few regular computers to support the function of the neural networks. These neural networks are called "Sam", "Adam", and "the Animator".
The least credible thing about the whole theory is the Pope, the Emperor of the HRE and the Byzantine Emperor agreeing on something lmao.
Historians will understand this bruh
Lmao right - it was hard enough for *two* of the three to agree, let alone all of them.
Weren’t the pope and the holy emperor in a “kinda but not really” civil war
@@spangbab9247
Probably.
The East-West Schism was brewing during this period, as well.
And in such a cluttered time the two emperor's would've never agreed. Maybe the pope end Otto, but th Byzantine emperor no way
I love how conspiracies never account for anything else that happened outside the US or Europe
Only white people are involved in conspiracies. That's my takeaway.
What about New Swabia, Argentina, the inner Earth and the Moon?
Well yea... everyone else's success was due to aliens👽. Aztec empire? Aliens. Mahendraparvata? Totally Aliens.
Broke: Flat Earth theory
Woke: Flat Europe Theory
Obviously you haven't read into many conspiracies
Combine this with the “Rome never existed” theory and you basically have a timeline where Pyramids happen right before Napoleon
Obviously the pyramids happened after Napoleon. Back in napolean times they didn't have the necessary power tools. Silly you.
tbf there's a huge population of people (who we don't consider crazy) who say dinosaurs existed at the same time as humans.
They never existed in a new state anyway, the universe was created as is last Thursday, and all your memories with it.
@@KillerWhale806 there's a German philosopher who calls religion an "isolated psychosis' for this very reason
Can't seem to recall his name tho.
@@satibel Thursday... ridiculous. Everybody knows the universe was created last Wednesday and I'll fight you to the death to prove it!
Every conspiracy theory that involves multiple governments or rulers fail to realize just how little they get along with each other
And how they would communicate with eachother without actually traveling to see eachother
That’s one of the biggest arguments against theories like the moon landing being fake as well - even if we had the technology to do so it would be extremely unlikely that a.) none of the many people involved ever spilled the tea and b.) the soviets just accepted losing the end goal of the space race with no evidence whatsoever
They all get along when it comes to banning exploration in antarctica.
especially the Pope, HRE Emperor and the Byzantine Emperors
@@xnickhuntley
There's literally 'explorer's' in Antarctica at this very moment
“Don’t you know that the moon landings were faked?”
Me: *squints at my friend*
“You believe in the moon?”
🤣🤣
Moon is made of cheese.
You have a friend?
When someone tries to tell you a conspiracy theory, present an even more absurd one and accuse them of covering up the truth
@@icecreamsandwich7522 well there have conspiracy theories that have been eventually confirmed to be true and now they're not known as one. Like NSA and all that jazz. We're conditioned to scoff at anything that has conspiracy in the name but they're not all crazy.
The world didn’t start until planes existed
Hannah Gandon ships?
In a way, yeah. Modern time started when commercial air travel was readily available.
Hannah Gandon that was 1903
And color did not also exist until the invention of the TV.
...there you go, I said something stupid to satisfy my younger self. XD
thenameisgsarci lol. To me the world did not exist until 27 BC when the Romans were founded
I once read Mr. Illigs books and the starting point of this theory is, that he erred when he tried to prove, that the Gregorian calendar omitted 325 years because of a calculation error. The base of his theory is an alleged calculation error by switching from the Julian to Gregorian calendar. And then he tried to explain the missing 300+ years and came up with those other theories. He argued that the so called dark ages (with an alleged complete lack of written documents) were dark, because they just didn’t happen, which explained the lack of cultural development and documents in Europe. As far as I can remember, he did not bother to look into e.g. Arabian history writings to compare historical events.
The thing about the Dark Ages is that they don't have a complete lack of writing, just a noticeable decrease compared to the period before, and a lot of stuff did certainly happen during them but it shouldn't surprise anyone that the collapse of the Western Roman Empire left Western Europe in turmoil for a long period of time. Also the Dark Ages only really happened in Western Europe, in the surviving Eastern Roman Empire we still have tons of writing during this period and they regularly reported on their interactions with Western Europeans.
@@hedgehog3180 Shouldn't that mean a lot of writing, to report the turmoil?
"We normally don't cover conspiracy theories, but we do want lots of views" the most honest RUclips introduction I've seen in awhile
Not about bricks, but it's still a good video.
The brick joke is getting old. So, the video is better without it.
Honestly, the bricks are kinda cool. I wouldn't mind a full video on them, with a ton of jokes about that being inserted throughout of course
Impossible
petition for a full video on bricks
I wanna honest watch this
Of course they never happened, time only started on January 1st, 1970.
You're right!
The world will also end at exactly 3:14:07 AM on January 19, 2038.
what? i'm missing the reference
@@agustinvenegas5238, I'm referencing the Unix Epoch. Unix, and many OSes after it, stored the current time as a 32-bit value detailing how many seconds had passed since 1970.
There better be a big observance event when Unix time reaches 2^31.
I always enjoy how conspiracy theories manage to get the entire world’s leaders to agree and work together in perfect sync in the hopes that they can keep their citizens from knowing something
Keep them from knowing about the reoccurring natural disaster which wipes out most of humanity every so often.
“Can we reduce trade barriers and work to mitigate predatory economic practices to shore up our respective economies without creating dangerous dependencies?
“Are you mad? This is incredibly unreasonable!”
“Mhm, fair. Can we fabricate hundreds of historical texts, commission dozens of fake paintings, murder a town of 5000, and reroute a river to convince our peoples that horses were extinct until the Mongols invaded?”
“Of course! That should benefit us both nicely.”
Also that's never how any state has ever gone about convincing it's citizens of anything, if a state really wants to convince it's citizens of something it'll use propaganda and just prevent information from the rest of the world from reaching them like in North Korea. But these conspiracy theorists are usually the most gullible ones when it comes to propaganda because they have no critical thinking skills. And also like states only care about propaganda that has a clear benefit to them, like Russian media spreading propaganda about Ukraine being fascist because it justifies their brutal invasion or when the US government spread the lie about WMDs in Iraq. The things that conspiracy theorists propose that every single state is lying about though never have any clear material benefit for those states.
Not hard
@@pretzelbomb6105could you implore me about some of those conspiracy theories I would like to research them
When I was younger I thought this was interesting and a little possible. Looking back I was just really interested in alternative history ideas. As I've learned history I've learned just how utterly stupid this theory is. I can't imagine a person taking it seriously while simultaneously having any interest in history
Well that's a bit harsh don't you think? Being interested in something doesn't mean you have to outright believe it. And for some people it's really just that an "interest." Now I get it in today's age anyone who doesn't immediately discount anything outside of the norm in the scientific world is considered an idiot. But honestly if there weren't people who looked into things like this we might never have discovered certain ideas or decided to at least discuss it. I feel really annoyed with people whom have your mindset lately because you act almost as impossible as dark age Christians. Enjoy being smarter than everyone else I'm sure you're fun at parties.
The concept is not implausible but it has flaws. Now the year we live in is probably not exact but it is probably accurate to a certain degree.
@@taiyoutamaki1872 i mean, if you believe something really stupid and choose to ignore very reasonable facts just because cognitive dissonance and a need to feel special makes you completely distrust any foundation of science or history, calling them dumb isn’t very harsh. you can say it’s rude, yeah, but its not wrong lmao
beliefs like this comes from the realization that you weren’t there when it supposedly happened, so any evidence that supports the idea that… the middle ages existed, for example, becomes meaningless because you just simply don’t want to believe it. that sort of mentality isn’t a curious mind trying to learn for itself, it’s contrarians fighting to appear like they’re against the grain because it makes them feel cool. choosing ignorance isn’t unique, its what most people do to justify their dedication to a weirdly disconnected reality they created for themselves
unless its just a neat passing interest, than yeah getting mad about that is dumb. those aren’t the people we tend to talk about when we laugh at conspiracy theorists, though
Exactly, thanks for this commentary. Also traveling to historical places makes you realize. I can imagine people who havents seen any historical sightsseing can believe the theory
actually if you look at channels talking about antique technology you will find there is a lot you have ignored and does not make sense.
How do people build amazing buildings when their main transport is a horse and cart?
Well if the middle ages existed, how come there aren't any vikings or knights alive anymore
Checkmate
1. Knighthood are still given by certain nations.
2. Because Scandinavia would be grounded into dust if they still tried to pull that nonsense.
3. Funny comment I like.
BEcuSE tHier died- Karen
@@jorenvanderark3567 lol @ that nonsense
Joren van der Ark 5 shush logic isn’t allowed
there are, just the vikings became the sweds and got boring, and the knights became the brits and got drunk
Theory: Half as interesting doesn’t exist, you’re actually watching wendover productions’ non plane channel
Oh... my... god... 😂😂😂
Funny
Non-plane? Are you sure about that?
*Laughs in Victorvile*
No one actually runs the channels. Sam Denby is just a paid actor.
Rule 69: If it exists, there's a conspiracy theory about it.
Rule 69 is actually a real Rule of the Internet, and it's "LOL 69 AMIRITE?".
Note: Rule 70 is "If your question ends in "AMIRITE?", the answer will never be Yes".
If it exists, there's a conspiracy theory that it doesn't exist
Imagine having your theory debunked because you forgot that places other than Europe existed. That is just hilariously egotistical. Great job.
Nope.
Or are you egotistical enough to believe that the Chinese (or even just the Muslims) used the Christian calendar? Are you that insane?
@@donaldduck830 You know that calendars don't control time, but are merely ways of marking its' passage, right? It's possible to relate one calendar to another by finding events known to multiple civilisations, and matching them. Turns out there is no "missing time" anywhere, because we can match the calendars pretty well (it's never perfect, and sometimes there is slippage, but mostly a few days, sometimes months, but never anywhere near 347 years...)
@@talltroll7092 That i what I wrote in another post: One needs a fixpoint (like the stone of Rosetta). But the videomakers use of a solar eclipse is flawed cause eclipses occur and reoccur in a cycle. Only with exact dates between cycles and good observations of the kind of the eclipse (total-partial/sector of sky it is in/time when it begins and length) it is possible to pinpoint eclipses accurately. And the only observations good enough that we have written proof of are Babylonian. Even the Egyptian ones are not good enough and there are discussions on how to reconcile the Babylonian and Egyptian timelines.
That is why several hundred years is actually a sensible amount for missing time: Time between similar eclipses. And the Muslim timeline and the veracity of reports on Harun ar-Rashid are also questionable.
Rome had a decent calendar (ab urbe condita) and that is it. There is no Russian or North African calendar in that timeframe. The dark ages were called dark ages because historians knew very little about them. And faking historical timelines ("my ancestors owned this land for many many generations") is self-serving and common.
Only with a good fix of the timeline from before and after the questionable time would we be able to put this discussion to rest. But there is no civilization with a calendar AND contact.
So the op is hilariously wrong.
And if you are a decent person you are willing to at least think about this. And acknowledge my points(which I copied from smarter people than me). Or you may live up to your name and keep on trolling. ;)
Imagine other places did not use the same calendar at all.
@@donaldduck830 ok if you really don't want to believe the accuracy of Solar Eclipse dates because they Come in cycles than how about this pliny the younger (the nephew of pliny the Elder) recorded the eruption of the Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii ( this happened once in doesn't go in cycles) in the letter it said 24 August 79 but most were skeptical about this day since the original letter was gone and An eruption couldnt have happened in the summer eventually they found a text in charcoal with the date 17 october 79. This is the reason that they now think it happened 24 october because there is a calendar system in Rome with August as the 8 month but also one with october as the 8 month
People making the Julian calendar:
_"This little maneuver is gonna cost us 347 years."_
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Omg, you’re the blacky speaks Eminem mumble rap comment guy
@@eyo2953 what
big brain meme
God left me unfinished Radian left a comment on the RUclipsr BlackySpeak’s video about Eminem and mumble rap.
"There isn't a lot of existing archaeological evidence..."
I already started smirking at this point.
Perhaps part of the lack (not the near-absence as the conspiracy theory posits) is the switch from brick and stone to wood and straw? The latter being organic and biodegradable while the former is not. If the modern world were to grind to a halt, the shiny skyscrapers would remain, but most of suburbia would turn to dust.
@@mfcker/videos Depends on how far out we're looking. I'd wager they'd last considerably longer than you typical stick-built tract homes.
@@mfcker Romans didn't use iron rebar as reinforcements though..... Hence why many of their structures still stand...
I live next to a castle...so...non existing archeological evidence 🤔
@@paolopappalardo9976 love how the person who did this conspiracy clearly lives in the America and not Europe were there is evidence littered everywhere and also that they say the fact that there is roman buildings everywhere makes no sense despite using a roman emperor and guy claiming to be a roman emperor in his theory
My grammar school science teacher told us that beach sand was made by dinosaurs crushing the boulders they walked on and that the moon was a planet and not a natural satelite of earth. She is revered for her groundbreaking work in field of pseudoscience.
The moon is now technically considered a protoplanet.
Gotta love the south, stupid and proud.
Did she think dinosaurs were Godzilla sized
How the f#£& did she become a science teacher
@@justanotheryoutubechannel she should have been a pseudoscience teacher
There is something you should understand about conspiracy theorists. They don't give a damn about evidence, unless that evidence supports their theory.
I saw a quite well done flat Earth video that talked about how gyroscopes on airplanes should behave if the Earth was a spinning globe. And he was exactly correct in his analysis. The only thing he did wrong was he failed to ask a pilot how gyroscopes in airplanes actually behave.
I guess he just assumed that they do not behave in that way and ran with it. He was wrong of course, because gyroscopes in airplanes do, in fact, behave in exactly the way he said they should.
I pointed this out in his comments section and linked a pilot training video that describes this behavior and how to compensate for it.
He responded to my comment by saying that NASA builds the gyroscopes to do that.
I linked him a video that would tell him how to build his own gyroscope for not too much money but I never heard back from him.
What does that ’compensate part’ entail? It seems to me gyroscopes can pretty much show what you want it to show depending on how you set it up. Your comment suggests that you are heavily biased against alternative explanations other than those from the establishment. This is not always a helpful stance to have if the main motivation is finding the truth. I suggest you check yourself sir.
No not all conspiracy theorists , you mean flat earthers do that. See I believe in some conspiracy theories but do not believe the earth is flat because I have also seen where the flat earth stuff has been debunked.
What one person believes does not automatically throw every single person in the same bracket.
Sometimes there are legit reasons why people question things that’s all.
How dare lop flat earth theory onto the general category of conspiracy theorists. Are you part of an agenda?
@@abvmoose87 Then go make your own, get a plane and go for a flight and show it that it doesn't tilt as you fly along. But just like OP said you're not actually interested in finding evidence, you just want to throw suspicion at everyone else.
@@jesseb5076 Being smarter than a flat earther is not exactly an achievement, it just makes you not quite the dumbest person in the world.
Its amazing how much the term "conspiracy theory" engulfs: form the belief that lobbyists had some play in big political things, to the belief that a literal time period was propaganda.
It's all to dismiss legit topics that require scrutiny.
Just shove them with the flat earthers.
It's a definitive term. Like crime.
@@FloridaManVal i know that, they are theories of what is real which go against what the governemnt of the country you are in at the moment says is true, but still.
But nothing is propoganda now, thank you big brother
That's literally the entire point in the term being coined. To conflate the plausible with the batshit crazy. It makes it easier to just dismiss it all away when the water is muddied. Anytime the media/ govt/ powers that be start using it, you should pay attention to what's going on
My three favourite conspiracy theories:
1. There are four Elton Johns;
2. Paraguay is in Africa;
3. potatoes have never existed.
i read this while eating a potato lol
Gay
UGkMultiplayer go away, Big Potato shill.
@@MrMinecraftmasters12 lies and deceit
Well, I've been in Paraguay, but I was a child, so I don't remember the cross of the ocean.
Wow. I had no idea how much control big calendar really had over people.
You said, “two kings and a pope,” and I IMMEDIATELY started believing it
Walked into a bar...
My 7th grade history teacher actually thought that this theory way "quite plausible".
Even then I went like "what about the rest of the world? Did they make up their history too?".
Conspiracy theorist: Yes. Next question.
You saying that is quite plausible
The rest of the world in 1300 ??? They where hunting and making fires 🙄🙄🙄🙄... Until the jesuits came with the education Sistem... they also wrote the books which they teach from 😔😔😔
Podcast fn&w the irony in you saying “education sistem” is palpable.
@@tescomealdeals4613 i'm spanish English is not my native language ...is it educational ? ..well btw thats not the point.
Heribert Illig: the Middle Ages didn't happen
The Mayans, Chinese and Arab: are we jokes to you
Sadly a lot of history, even history written today, is still very Western-centric, and often ignores or doesn't event investigate the histories of non-western societies when constructing theories
And jews
@@Degioannie Americans don't even learn about countries other than themselves and maybe the british empire
@@Kriae are you stupid? We have to learn at least world history in school
KakEvangel that would hurt the narrative that only Europeans stole land and made war. Can’t have that.
First video I’ve seen from you guys. I love this stuff. Subbed. Havnt even watch your other content yet hut i already know I’ll like it
1:00 lol, most ikea furniture are given super ordinary boy and girl names when they're not named a fitting adjective or city name. So if you think a nordic person is named something sounding like an ikea furniture they may very well actually straight up share name with one. Eg. my chair is called Markus, which is obviously a boy's name.
Another conspiracy: Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith Lord.
Crazy right
Sith Senator*
Another conspiracy: rey is palpatines granddaughter
Hard to believe right?
Dennis Brown No. That’s insane. There’s no way something that dumb and desperate would actually get into a Star Wars movie. Right?
Right?
Yeah man crazy
If what you tell me is true, then you have gained my trust.
The 614-911 phantom time isn't created by HRE emperor Otto. It is actually created by Chinese Sui dynasty emperor Yangdi after disastrous defeat against Goguryeo. He summoned Albert Einstein by using ancient Chinese prophetic book (which was actually source code of interdimensional alien's computer program) but it has critical exceptions so program was utterly crashed. So we actually have so-called 'phantom time'
After disastrous interdimensional software malfunction, Sui dynasty was collapsed and new Song dynasty established. (And now you know Tang dynasty was actually fabricated by those interdimensional aliens)
“Isn’t a lot of existing archeological evidence”
*Screams in Sutton Hoo*
The death star is actually flat. (All of the pictures of it being round are hyper advanced 1970's CGI)
The Death Star is actually very small and Luke , Princess Leia, Han, Obiwan and Chewy were never on it, they were in somebody's basement, the whole thing was staged!
Crazy I know, but how else do you explain them just sneaking up on Alderan to blow it up without anyone seeing them?
(Edited be cause I had to add the word Death to Death Star because I goofed that badly)
Omg! I love this one! 🤣🤣🤣
Thats such a great way of calling attention to the last real color photos taken of Earth are from the 70’s. Love it, keep it up :)
He just threw in that “the world probably only has a few decades left” all casually 😂😂
which is plausible.
He's just being optimistic.
Using decades as a plural, i mean
Matthias Woah, you one of those people who think we have anywhere near a decade left?
@@fidget0227 now now, i wouldn't speak of "time left", that's some unfounded optimism right there
@Who Asked if we're wrong about the world ending yesterday, then it would imply that we would in fact live another day to complain about it
I mean, to be fair, most inventions of the middle ages were so haphazard and dangerous it's a wonder historians could find the remains.
Man really forgot about the hundreds of medieval cathedrals, fortifications, and aqueducts which are still very much intact and in-service to this day.
As we all know, when empires fall everything they ever built immediately becomes ruins, they definitely aren't repurposed by the inhabitants still living there for hundreds of years
Plot twist: Everything you know didn't exist until last Thursday.
Foot Lettuce Vsauce!!
A fellow believer in last Thursdayism.
I love last Thursdayism because you can’t disprove it.
But what if today is Thursday, overrated piazza sauce.
But what if... Last Wednesdayism is better 🤔
5:43 "Invent the Tang Dynasty", shows a picture of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty
Damn ya beat me to it
ummm, or not
Open your eyes, Sam is in on the Phantom Time Theory
Well duh, of course he did. How could he show a picture of something that didn’t happen?
Underrated
@South Jersey Gambler û
Bucket list item #47: create an absolutely absurd conspiracy theory that becomes popular.
I love how conspiracists always think rational things are not real BUT believing in ( insert your deity here ) Mythical feats are real
Here's a conspiracy theory
He's never going to make a video about bricks
But he’s already made two videos about bricks
@@theanonymouschicken169 I think he's up to 4 now
@@theanonymouschicken169 boi do I have some news to tell you
Swap the b to d
@@anthonynonstop7533 dricks?
Why are the Middle Ages also referred to as the 'Dark' Ages?
because there were so many *knights*
Shut up
Brilliant!
Get out.
May I escort you out of this comment section, my good sir?
Fun fact: Chivalry only really became a thing later in the Middle Ages, near the end of the Dark Ages into the High and Late Middle Ages.
I’m a Tour Guide in York. During 866 Danish Vikings arrived and settled in York. They actual called the city Jorvik and this was later corrupted to York. The whole character of our city is Danish including our Yorkshire dialect. Evidence from this period may be rare elsewhere but York is packed with it.
This is soooo trippy. The clip that plays at 4:15 is literally a shot from my street in Montpellier, France. It kinda freaked me out to see it in here lol.
I'm still waiting on that 10 hour documentary on bricks
You are on youtube my friend. Only that quality of content is available on nebula, through the $20/year curiositystream subscription...
@@charliewootton8748 marvelous comment
Normie
here's someone who really likes his stock footage subscription
I once seen a stock photo company took someone's image an turned it into a stock photo without consent.
Conspiracy theory: they're all illegal.
Proof: HAI never claimed sponsorship by them, nor has there been any promotion links given.
@jocaguz18 you exist...
*Economics Explained has entered the chat*
@TheCTSimp he claimed sponsorship from storyblocks
Conspiracies which call for an unrealistic level of control or coordination are a red flag for BS
HRE: hey Britain, what about you make up Anglo Saxon period?
BE: let's put other into this plan
China: okay we made up Tang dynasty
and so on
now: it is impossible
I died laughing at the intro! 😂🤣😂🤣
"We don't want to spread conspiracy theories, but we do want more views to further our quest for money..."
Thanks for being honest!
Arguably one of the most honest sentiments I've heard in all of RUclips.
They got my money with that line
The entire time I was just wondering, “Did anyone think to ask all the people who didn’t live in Europe? This guy knows that non-Europeans had history going on too, right?”
Lies, the only continent to exist is north America, Europe sunk into the ocean after ww2, the middle East is just an island in the sea, Asia doesn't exist, and Africa was banished to the shadow realm.
@@bjh3612 you forgot to list Australia and Finland (both fakes apparently)
@@jamesknight2198 Man, that's a relief. That means all the flooding we've had over the past week didn't happen! JOY!
@@bjh3612 Africa being banished to the shadow realm alongside Jimbo was the saddest battle in all of history :( rip in pieces Africa-Jimbo army
There is no such things as mediaeval ages or modern age, we are still living in classical antiquity
We're still stuck in the matrix everyone, take that goddamn red pill now!
@@brandonchan5387 videos?
My country was founded in 681, and carved a big chunk of the Byzantine Empire.
It would be very generous of the Byzantine Emperor to donate a part of his state just so he could invent our arrival and early history.
This theory requires that the Eastern Roman Empire just give away 4/5ths of it's lands including the richest parts such as Egypt and the Levant and important religious sites like Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria.
"the world has a few decades left"
2020: hold my beer
2038
It somethingvthat has being said since the Plato times. Every day is Doomsday.
@@georgewilson7432 it definitley hasn't been said since then, at least not with any sort of proof. Today we have proof that global warming is rising, and fast, and if we don't do anything, Earth will be too warm for us. There was no threat of the like back then.
@@gderu6109 ok zoomer, we all know global warming is a thing.
Tho, go and be catastrophical somewhere else, really. No one really likes to be anxious about that, so please - just dont. There are better ways of reminding people about that, than being all catastrophical.
Thanks, bye.
Remember when the Ice Age came in the 80s? Remember when the United States ran out of food and starved millions? Remember when Europe bacmae overcrowded and started euthanizing at random?
Sorry buddy, I read so many, so many apocalyptic prophecies with a coat of science that I lost all enthusiasm for the Apocalypse. Keep believing, though.
I realized conspiracy theories had gone off the rails when a long time friend of mine rambled for 10 minutes about the moon not being in space but in fact just a few miles away from us. He also mentioned how gravity wasnt real. When I asked how come the moon hasnt fallen out of the sky he told me I was fucking stupid.
If gravity isn’t real, what does he think makes things fall down?
Lmao, we would probably didn't exist in this time and also we wouldn't probably see moon
@@magicmulder most people that dont believe in gravity explain things falling as due to buoyancy. Which...is technically true. If you wsre less dense than air you would float upward. But only because of gravity
@@germinlao5299 did you even bother reading my comment becore deciding to try to correct me?
@@germinlao5299 i see...then what was your point?
I really really reeeealllly love the stock Imagery. And the subject was also amazing.
Excellent info, but hearing that pronunciation of Nicaea made me want to throw my phone 😂😂
I actually did my conspiracy theory project on this one. It's really interesting that he didn't provide evidence for the early middle ages not existing for other continents other than Europe.
Mayan calendars.
Well, if those years never existed in Europe, how could they have existed elsewhere if time flows the same everywhere on Earth? Checkmate! ;-)
agreed. I dont even believe this conspiracy theory, but their rebuttal of it was weak. You dont need to erase the ting dynasty simply because we happen to currently place it in that time period, unless the Chinese were using CE dating in their history at that time, their history can effectively slide. I dont know enough of the subject to confirm this, but it certainly wasn't well clarified in the debunk explanation.
I actually walked out of this video being more suspect of the official story than I was when I walked in. Conspiracy theories really are "better than fiction". (unless, of course, they are fiction).
@@brentlarsen4414 Totally agreed, what i like about his rebuttle is that he agrees there is a problem. When he says the Gregorian Calender fixes the problem by deducting a leap day every 100 yrs and adds it back every 400 years.
What I don't understand is the day we add every leap year. If it takes 128yrs for .24219 to become a day. Which is actually deducted in 100 yrs. Y
Well ,they used a different calendar
HAI: *_Doesn't Make A Brick Video_*
Me: no brick, sad.
We can only have a little bit of brick content, as a treat
@@Ryan-wr8fx didn't ask
Conesinker _420 Plot twist: you did
Normie
Pretty funny how the man that says the Middle Ages never happened is literally named heribert illig. The most Middle Ages name I’ve ever heard
Dude the writers and Voice actors are way to smart to throw silly jokes just imagine i am trying to wrap my head around your interresting topic and then a silly joke pops up its hard to follow for me but kudos to the team you guys are obviously highly intelligent humans love the content.
Conspiracy Theory: Conspiracy Theories dont exist.
Nah you trippin, that’s just a crazy Conspiracy Theory
Conspiracy Theory:
Conspiracy Theories exist, and are overshadowed or added to by falsified preposterous theories that many of the same people tend to believe; thereby making the theories and their believers seem completely unbelievable.
XD
gasp
There are actually people who sorta buy into this. They think conspiracy theorists are controlled opposition that the elites use to distract us from their schemes.
The guy:How you have roman architecture without a roman empire?
Roman Empire still existing until 1453: Am i a joke to you?
The Roman Empire in 1453 was like Napoleon III. Kind of similar and they did stuff, but not as cool as their precursors.
Adam Vialpando pls tell me your joking
@@arandomseal4793 He isn't wrong.
The Byzantine Empire was about as Roman as the Holy Roman Empire.
@@Tjalve70 But it was literally known as the Eastern Roman Empire, the name Byzantine came after it's fall
3:50 They use a special glass shield to protect the Book!
However she turns the pages with out special gloves. Like wear safety glasses on top of your head when grinding!🤔
Anybody else not think it's weird there wouldn't be any Roman-style architecture in the time period after the Roman downfall?
"finally, it's calendar time"
it's always calendar time
literally
HAI: I don't want to make any conspiracy...i want to gain money
SAM: So lets start....Skillshare
Me: Yeah I was waiting for the same
A giant conspiracy perpetrated by Lego just to sell those awesome castle sets from the early 90s..
What about shipwrecks found on the ocean floor from that period, the artifacts were made when the wood for the ship was harvested, both can be dated at the same time.
That's easy. Flaws in the equipment or methodology.
@@tsriftsal3581 if we can accurately test & date the lumber used to make furniture that we KNOW was made 50 years ago, 100yrs. ago, 200 yrs. ago then that would show that the process is reliable.
@@jessica_R_9167 if it brings peace in consideration do not look at periods of cataclysm where certain dating methods may not be accurate. The axial tilt change or pole switching, what the heck. Imagine living through those periods. Geez and don't ever look into double slit experiments and quantum entanglement arguments because then the simulation nutters start to have a valid argument that basically rules all other arguments.
/Sitting here chained in my cave of freedom watching shadows of light on my personal cave torch. Oooo, something just happened with someone famous...
@@tsriftsal3581 we know tree rings are an accurate measurement of time
@@tsriftsal3581 It's nice of you to extensively list all of the branches of science that you do not understand.
The middle ages don't exist as much as a good video about bricks.
@The Devil Well, bricks are pretty cool don't you think? I like bricks, they're very interesting! Don't you like bricks?
@The Devil i remember HAI made a reference to bricks in a video at some point
@The Devil Well, he talks about interesting things.
Bricks are interesting.
@The Devil He started a video talking about bricks to bore away the FBI. People in the comments said they actually wanted to learn about bricks.
ruclips.net/video/pWNGAUvSyOc/видео.html
Pretty interesting video about bricks and brick walls: ruclips.net/video/p5qVxAoKwbE/видео.html
Wait, so when the Roman Empire fell were all they’re buildings just supposed to magically collapse?
Well it fell didn't it
Looters stealing the building materials would be more likely. Decades after the actual valuables were looted the very stone and wood of the buildings would be stolen to use to build new stuff.
"Their"
The Roman Empire never Fell. They simply “switched brands”, but remained as wicked and expansionist as before.
@@placesaroundus underrated
I like the start, u don't Bullshit us admitting ur mostly doing it for the clickbait views while still actually offering a fuckin good,fun video.
Thank you for finding a way to mention the powerpuff girls in this video!!! Love them
"The Holy Roman emperor and Byzantine emperor...so why would two kings and--"
*TRIGGERED*
Germans talking about Late Romans: Greek kingdom.
Late Romans talking about Germany-Rome: German kingdom.
SJW
Currently not going to school and suddenly HAI gave me a Math lesson.
Aryan Ferdiansyah It do be like that though
History, not math.
You can't escape math. It is everywhere and never sleeps. It might put you to sleep though.
Years ago I played a MMO where the resource market was based on a % markup over the NPC price and ended up giving some kids a crash course in calculating the prices based on what crafters and middle men were offering. Also told them to talk to their teachers to get more in depth explanations because math is important. Also the only game where people becoming merchants was somewhat appreciated as crafters wanted bulk purchases and hunters/miners wanted to cash in for their last run to repair gear and get more ammo.
Normie PFP
Collapsed in 475 AD
Konstantinos XI: Am I a joke to you
i love the intro right after the skillshare add
Me, memorizing maps in the Middle Ages:
years of academy training wasted!
That sucks
atleast you can play crusader kings easier if you recognize which country is which
Stupidest thing I've never heard. I'm subbing immediately.
You have 90 limes gfy
Oh... We're allllllll devastatedddddd.
They tell you that the past was just people living on stone and catching diseases and dying of different varieties of reasons while in fact it was so much different.
If what he wrote was taught in schools, you'd probably believe it.
@@utopianrealm You've clearly never actually talked to a historian.
I didn't really care about this whole conspiracy... but I did learn something. Dendrological dating meaning to find when something is from based on trees explains what exactly Dendro means in a certain video game...
I actually had to do a school project on this, it’s a crazy story
“And convince the Chinese to make up the entire Tang Dynasty”
*Shows Sui Dynasty emperor*
Fair enough, but the point still stands. They would have to fabricate a ton of records from other cultures and suppress people talking about or ever writing it down
Btw, can someone explain this in a bit more depth? Was Sui dynasty bad but Tang even worse?
seneca983 Well first of all, the Sui Dynasty was a short-lived, but important dynasty in Chinese history. It unified China after the 200 year long Northern and Southern Dynasties period. It came back with ethnic Han Chinese rule, and only had three emperors (chronologically: Wen of Sui, Yang of Sui (who was the emperor that showed), and Yang You). After short-lived fighting, the Tang Dynasty emerged, founded by Gaozu of Tang. It was initially considered another golden age of China, after the Han Dynasty had that title. It was shortly interrupted by the Wu Zhou Dynasty, established by the only female emperor of all of China’s history, Wu Zetian. Xuanzong was considered one of the best emperors of Tang. In the 840’s, however, Wuzong of Tang commanded a massacre against religions and their adherents that did not originate from China. It ultimately ended with Ai of Tang, as people wanted their own power in China again in the 900s. The Song Dynasty was the next major dynasty of China after the Tang
@@TylerNguyen1: Thanks.
seneca983 No problem.
5:42 The achilles heel of every CTheory: Coordination unlikely.
The very core of every conspiracy theory: You can’t avoid eventually having to claim there are millions of co-conspirators over decades to centuries.
Not necessarily. Unplanned opportunistic coordination happens all the time. It’s how markets work, for instance.
The CEO of Ford doesn’t have anything to do with the CEO of Tropicana, the CEO of Walmart, or the owner of an orchard. But Ford trucks carry oranges to Tropicana processing plants and carry orange juice to Walmart locations. Everybody involved acts in their own best interest and coordination happens without any communication or planning involved.
Occasionally, a perfect storm scenario can lead to unusual intersections of incentives that create very strange scenarios. They generally involve government meddling since government is the only enterprise that has no useful profit motive.
@Kevin Cobb How is it a conspiracy? It's always been out in the open.
@Kevin Cobb With your definition almost everything is a conspiracy. People commenting on RUclips are a "conspiracy to make RUclips comments" because nowhere does this group explicitly say they are here to comment. Duh.
@@rfichokeofdestiny Do you not know how like business transactions work? Or do you just get all of your goods delivered to your door randomly without ever speaking to anyone?
Watched this video while wearing my Pliny the Elder T-shirt. Mind blown. 😂
Using AD and BC? Love it. *subscribed
In highschool I made a presentation on Illig's theory in history class, and the teacher found it so good, that she gave me not one, but two 5s at once. (Our grading goes from 1 to 5, not from F to A)
Also, I bought the book of course ('Das Erfundene Mittelalter'), and I use it to this very day regurarely ... as a wedge.
You bought the book so you financed his moronic nonsense...
@@sharefactor
But is it totally moronic. We pick out flaws in it show that it did not happen but to say it is moronic is just throwing insults.
🇭🇺😂👍Great. Nagyszerű.
Thanks.
I was gonna sign up to Skillshare. Problem is that the money to do so never existed.
5:37 I've gotta wonder if they put this in initially or realized they messed up and edited it in after a day or two lol
When the Venerable Bede was around, in the 'missing centuries' and encouraging the use of AD and BC it was 'the Modern Ages' not 'the Middle Ages', which term was a later invention.
I think the word modern is actually kinda modern however you're completely right that no one who lived during it thought they lived in the middle ages.
You ever meet someone from the Middle Ages? Me neither.
Queen Elizabeth ll is proof enough the middle ages happened.
Have you ever meet a canadian
Yeah, me neither
My favorite theory to debunk is the flat Earth theory, and it's so friggin' simple to debunk.
All you have to do is ask a Flat Earther to explain how it is that when viewing Polaris, the stars appear to rotate counter-clockwise around it as time passes, and why the opposite is true when viewing Sigma Octantis. Both stars are confirmed to exist, yet the night sky spins in opposite directions depending on which you're viewing (spoiler, one is over the North pole, the other over the South pole). Furthermore, ask them to explain why the stars at the equator appear to rise in the East and set in the West, traveling directly overhead as the night passes.
They can't, because a flat Earth isn't possible with the celestial data we have. Not to mention if you can see Polaris, you can't see Sigma Octantis, and vice versa.
Then again, I've heard those nutters try to tell me Australia doesn't exist, and that "They" knock you out with gas on the plane ride, then take you to a secret place. Again, doesn't explain how in this secret place the stars rotate the opposite way across the sky, and that some of the stars can be seen in both, say, Europe and Australia, so clearly this "secret place" they pretend is Australia can't be on the under side of the flat Earth.
Why this comment aren't blew up yet?
Not the topic of the video, but thanks, that’ll be useful.
I applaud your dedication. But flat earth has way easier ways to debunk it. Like no matter which angle you go at there are holes in flat earth theory just by looking at regular physics observable to everyone. Does the government fake the laws of reality too?
You know, nutjobs have a shitty explanation for everything
WOW - just wow : you guys actually believe the Earth exists ?!?!?!?
And you call Flat-Earthers " Conspiracy Theorists " - sheesh
I've never watched this channel before and clicking on a video that starts with the words conspiracy theory I'm curious what that'll do to my RUclips feed
Excavations of past Medieval battlefields: “Am I a joke to you?!”
Most banally: so all the people who knew what year it was are supposed to have been told to skip all that time but no one eventually casually mentioned it anywhere? lol
@@tyler1107 I was talking about the people. Imagine the government right now telling people the year we are in is actually called 2320 and expecting everyone to just go along with it. The theory in this video absurdly assumes that not a single person ever talked about such event.
@@tyler1107 I mean you'd think some uppity monk somewhere would have written his pen pal "I can't believe we can just add and subtract time like this and they don't even get it." Or whatever though. Lack of archeological evidence means it didn't happen according to this theory.
@@wolverineminer Or just one of the many enemies all of the conspirators in theory had. Like the HRE and Eastern Roman Empire on account of being empires had a lot of enemies that they were in near constant war with like the Bulgars, Magyars, Danes, the Sassanid Persians and the various Caliphates, or like the many internal enemies at court. You'd think at least one of them would have spilled the beans to show that their arch enemies were untrustworthy and duplicitous. I mean seems like a pretty potent weapon for the pope to have wielded during the Investiture Crisis.
History Civilis helped me understand the calendar part so much by having previous knowledge about the Julian vs Gregorian calendars.
You have no idea how long I've waited for calendar time.
Aye, I always love a bit of surprise Pliny the Elder
Bro you are amazing, I've watched countless videos but never understood what a leap year is but when you explained it for like 5 seconds I understood. Idk how u do it but you make even the most complex things incredibly simple
Somebody: Middle Age don't exist
Everyone who fought the Goryeo-Tang war: *yEAH rIGHt*
My favorite conspiracy theory is that there’s a war in Ba Sing Se
Come on guys there is no war in Ba Sing Se
Half as interesting is like an unhinged half as educational version of wendover