Why Life During The Dark Ages Sucked
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2018
- The surviving Western Roman Empire is widely recognized as having fallen on 4th September, 476 AD when Flavius Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus and declared himself ruler of all Italy. However, Rome had been largely in collapse for at least a century prior, and by the time of the last Roman emperor in the west, Rome existed more by name than fact.
The collapse of Rome left a power vacuum across Europe, launching the continent into centuries of continuous warfare and cultural stagnation known as the Dark Ages. What was life during this period in history like?
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Life during the dark ages was so costly that they couldn't even afford to finish the video. Lol
I wanna like this comment but i also wanna keep it at 69
That was a good one, man. Lol.
Pretty good~
@@whitbaker4919 I did for you.
Or an intro
The hell was that ending
I agree, it seemed weird that it ended so abruptly
Maybe it was a glitch with RUclips
its not the full video because they just want us to know it will be up later
idk I couldnt get that far..... I lost too much respect.
He probably did it to symbolize the contents of the video or something along the lines of it maybe I'm kinda just spit ballin here a little😗🤔
Although *average life expectancy was in the 30s, the super high infant mortality rate skews that average way down. If a person made it to adulthood without dying they would more often live to old age. People don’t just drop dead in their prime.
Also, average life expectancy in the "dark ages" wasn't that much lower than in the Roman period, when it was 35 years.
Fools Gold Found If they got sick they probably dropped dead. A lot of diseases in those days.
In the video he says that if a person reached their 20s he would probably on average live to his 40s.
Yes, people could and did live into their 60's 70's and 80's. Saying they lived on average to 40 is because the average is worked out with a very high infant mortality rate as well as dying from violence or accident and the poor or non-existent medical care.
Fools Gold Found hagajaha😁😂🤣
Roger Redford i’ve traced my ancestors to late 1600s and they all pretty much lived past the age of 75, Infant mortality brings the rate down dramatically
Wow this video is just riddled with errors. Heck, this video didn’t even have an ending, it just stops mid-thought
Yeah when they were talking about branches of Christian they said Protestantism but that wasn’t around till the 1500’s
The historical accuracy of this video makes me question any information I've consumed from previous videos...
Agreed, it's all bullshit.
What's wrong I know a little bit about the dark ages and I didn't see anything that seemed off. Please inform me of the wrong info in this video i don't want to be miss inform
Their videos are usually riddled with various errors. You would think that a channel dedicated to spreading information would get its facts straight.
Lol Hagrid’s wall. Pretty sure it’s Hadrian’s wall
Well, enlighten us.
RUclips channels living in 2018: **uses outros**
The Infographics Show living in 3018: **cuts off abruptly**
"Islam, Judaism and paganism were competing with each other" uhhh what? Judaism is a strictly ethnic religion observed by Jews and never sought converts. Islam came way after Christianity. "paganism" isn't even a religion, but many.
Yeah, I was little confused about that too
It doesn’t really matter, these religions will be all extinct in a 100 years. Nobody even cares or knows what they mean anymore
@@mushroomman8777 I'm not particularly religious, but the idea that ALL three will be extinct in a mere century is extremely unlikely.
The segment of delusional, right wing American evangelicals may be extinct (let's hope so) but so much of the world is still religious, not to mention the vast majority of what we call "religion" is cultural, historical and ethnic customs, more so in Judaism and Islam than Christianity.
I stopped paying attention to the video when he said that.
Do you guys no longer have an affiliation with Skill Share? is that why the ending is cut off?
This felt way too rushed imo.
Also, no research was done whatsoever and the outlet was cut. What has become of this channel?
there are some serious historical inaccuracies in this video.
wildtexan like what?
The worst errors were
1) "Protestantism" was way after the Dark Ages,
2) While Christianity was relatively new to northern Europe, he left out that Islam was in fact brand new; which is confusing to call a religion "new" and then compare it to an even newer one, and
3) it's not entirely accurate to say Judaism and Islam were competing religions, he should have just left it at paganism, where there actually was competition all over Europe. Judaism wasn't a proselytizing faith, and Islam was the "new" religion in areas where it actually competed with Christianity in the Dark Ages, like in Anatolia, the Balkans, Greece, and Iberia. The places in Europe where Christianity was "new," Christianity competed with local papan religions. Most people in Dark Age Europe wouldn't have even heard of Islam until the Renaissance.
And visually, every soldier depicted has the wrong equipment, all centuries ahead of the Dark Ages, like plate armor.
AND, when you're talking about Europe between the 5th and 14th centuries, life in Spain was pretty different from Germany, which was different than Scandinavia, which was different from the Russian plains.
The stuff about their food and agriculture was good tho.
I noticed that
pls report, such misinformation shoulnt be posted around as an educational reference.
lol this channel is always coming out with garbage. no way they deserve 3m subs.
Where’s the outro? It looks like when your report is due in one minute and you rather lose 5 points for no ending instead of 10 for being late 😂
Minus 5 points for Griffindor
Hadrians wall, you can't even get that right.
haha this is what bugged me too, this guy said hadran :|
1. Orthodoxy was not a separate competing "brand" until 1054, after the dark ages.
2. Protestantism didn’t emerge until the 1500s a long time after the dark ages.
3. The armour the soldiers are wearing didn’t come about until the late crusader age.
4. The notion that the barbarians destroyed all of Roman law the economy and scientific knowledge is absurd, the Roman Empire continued for 1000 years in Eastern Europe, where it was more advanced and richer than Europe throughout the entire dark ages.
FalseWarp : Orthodoxy has been around since the Council of Chalcedon in 451AD. You might be thinking of the Great Schism with the 1054AD date.
Yeah you're right, but it didn't exist as a separate church until that date, which this video implies, I will edit the comment accordingly.
while Orthodoxy has been around 450, they were parts of same christian chruch. When they divide themselves from the church, the 2 faction were named Catholic and Othodox
FalseWarp
Well there are reasons why the Byzantines aren't considered Romans:
-They lost Rome, the capital
-They didn't even speak Latin; they spoke Greek
-Charlemagne (emperor ruling over Rome) declared the Byzantine people eastern speaking Greek people
-Early settlers in the Byzantine empire were mostly Greek, so even biologically, it has changed.
"The roman empire was always legally one entity, the whole east\west split was informal and its inhabitants considered themselves to be part of one empire. The emperors legally had authority on both sides."
It doesn't matter they considered themselves. Koreans couldn't consider themselves as Chinese just because they declared so. Most of the Byzantine empire is populated with Greeks, who *weren't Roman*. Ancestry is something you're born with, not declared as.
The area they moved to was also a Greek city.
"Most upper class Romans spoke Greek even before Caesar."
Yea, only the upper class. The general public did not. Rome used most used Latin for everyday and official materials, too. Byzantium, on the other hand, used Greek.
Both the Roman and Byzantine empire were under heavy Greek influence. In Rome, Greeks and Romans remain separate. In Byzantium, they became one, with much heavier Greek influences.
"Doesn't matter what Charlemagne said cause the people of the so called "Byzantine Empire" were eastern Greek people. (DOESN'T CHANGE THAT THEY ROMANS)"
Charlemagne became the (western half, if you want to argue the Byzantine emperor was also the Roman emperor) Roman emperor in which he controlled over Rome, the origin and root of the Romans in which they first settled in, rather than a place with Greek origin.
Only came to the comments to see what people had to say about the ending..
What about the ending?
@@generalzod7959 look at it
Same
Same
and the highest liked comment said 'ending was abrupt'. i nodded my head in agreement. what tf has my life come to?
I just gotta say, the background music is lit asf.
I was looking for a comment about this
Same, anybody know the name???
Im still looking for it
@@catman9806 same here
@@pebbleleaf8642 ĺ
"Without a centralized government to issue currency, Europe returned to barter."
i'll take "things that never happened" for 800, Alex
Nice photo
Not to mention referring to Christianity as "still developing" as if they weren't pretty well established in the 5th century, and saying protestantism, a 16th century faith, is part of the dark ages, which... even those who do actually use the term don't spread it to the 1100s, let alone the 1500s
>References Dark Ages
>Thumbnail and video has fighters in full plate
>Mentions Protestantism
">Thumbnail and video has fighters in full plate" this partisn't too wrong for the videos part plate did exist but not full plate full plate armour appeared in the 13th century so they did get something right then
@@sirsteam181 by the 13th century we are speaking of the late middle ages not the early middle ages (called "dark ages" by people who are stuck in their own dark age)
Then I will state again for clarity, the thumbnail and video feature fighters in full plate armor.
Islam is an Abrahamic religion, in the same cloth as Christianity and Judaism yet I do not remember any part of the video saying it was European. Apart from that Islam expanded through various conquests of areas such as Egypt, the Magreb, Iran, Iraq, etc.
Christianity still is a minority religion.
Unprofessional ending 😂🤣😁😁
And it's gone!
I thought it was from another channel when it suddently ended
Turn on CC at the end. They cut Skillshare add.
@@RobbertN Aaaaaaand IT'S GONE!!
Unprofessional of them putting all the soldiers in full plate armor. Like, I know it’s not going to be perfect historical accuracy, but they might as well have dressed them as cowboys or astronauts. It would be about the same outcome.
The ending is legendary. I wish this was more common.
Is this some sort of parody?
I really wish it was.
Lucia Luppi the inforgraphics show “AM I A JOKE TO YOU”
This channel is basically click bait filled to the brim with inaccuracies from wiki pages. But hey it gets them views
Lucia Luppi hahahaha..
are you saying that the events depicted in Monty Python and the Holy Grail are totally inaccurate? I can't accept that
So many untruths in this video, it's ridiculous
".....and stamped out the last remnants of Roman society."
*cough* Byzantine Empire *cough* Justinian Restoration *cough*
@Victor Tadeu Oliveira He should have said Western Roman Empire then.
@peter grafkind the video talked about the barbarians whipping out the remnants of Roman society. The Byzantines were Roman and the successor to the empire.
Byzantines weren't always accepted by the locals.
Demon Hunter
Liechtenstein, too.
That is incorrect the Justinian restoration only encapsulated Iberia (southern spain) and Italy at its pique.
Protestants in the dark ages? Someone needs to revisit their history lessons before teaching. So many inaccuracies in this video it’s ridiculous. I feel bad for anyone that relies on this kind of stuff for history information
Yoooo I love the videos and your unique art style. Have you ever thought about portraying historical accuracy? I know it's hard to know everything about every time period but channels like kings and generals and invicta both do amazing jobs at providing art depicting the periods they cover
We all in 2018 but RUclips is stuck in the dark ages
Amen to that.
Keep Smiling and it’s ruler is as mercy-less as them..... SUSAN WOJESKI
Oh boy, don't tell me youtube is going to start scheduling and slotting their content like on TV. Nothing good can come out of this, it's the end of the world. Or..... maybe I'm exaggerating..
Just let's people know beforehand a vid is coming
That is what youtubers do
No we are fucked
You're 1000% not exaggerating
Well Idk a lot of RUclipsrs I watch have a usual schedule release date and I usually know which day and about what time they're going to release I don't see how it's a bad thing as long as it's a slot chosen by the content creator
The “Dark Ages” created the University and laid the ground work for The Enlightenment
? Wasn’t Islam created after Christianity?
Edit: yup Muhammad didn’t live until 600 years after Jesus
there is sooo much inaccuracy here, does one even know where to start?
You're right!
For us muslims, Jesus is known as Isa and after about 600 years. Muhammad was born and islam started to spread
And islam *WAS* indeed before christianity but people kept forgetting and ignoring the rules.
@@lunatism9714 what rules
This video is just a collection of 200 year old stereotypes of the Dark and Middle Ages and is wrong on so many levels. You guys should make a different channel called the MissInfographics Show and put that video there.
What did they get wrong?
Protestantism didn't come around until the 16th century -.-
Correct
Butt hurt?
Arima barbarians apparently destroyed knowledge and killed Christians. Plate armor, the fall of time even though the Byzantine empire was Rome
Looks like someone forgot that the Byzantines existed
The East kinda kept its distance from the West during the time frame.
By East and west I refer to eastern Europe and Western Europe
and government
@YoungD3mon314 what? Never heard of Justinian? Byzantium felt because some idiots from the crusade invaded them.
Easy to miss, they only existed like 1000 years.
The comments section is providing a great deal of evidence which shows glaring problems with the facts in this video.
I hope you will consider a retraction, an apology, and a better video, complete with a proper ending.
Retraction sure. Apologize? They do not need to.
really? an apology? you think highly of yourself don't you?
Yeah, I'm sure they'll get around to that
@@ArmitageArchives not gonna lie, that was a bit rude of you
@@djl5327 not gonna lie, it wasnt
The only accurate thing in this video was the 0:24 depiction of knights tiptoeing up to each other to fruitlessly bash one another with weapons. As a knight who fought directly after the collapse of Rome i can confirm
I think they realized at the end how historically inaccurate they were, but decided, "Meh, we've already animated it"
Spot on , brother !
Wow. This is so full of myths and misinformation that I don't even know where to begin.
pls report, such misinformation shouldnt be posted around as an educational reference.
Not even 50% of the facts are true.
Loop's Infinity facts are always true, there are no fake facts, so 0% of the facts where fake.
The emperor - Wh40k What total sophism.
Azakaka well, of course people can say:'this is a fact' when it's not, that's the problem.
@Odysseus The reason why it was coined as the Dark Ages was because, former Governers and Lords lamented their new positions outside of Rome's influence. Also, most of the cultures in Europe was able to properly thrive after the Roman Empire collapse.
As a historian with a PHD, it is true.
Correction: "Why Life During The *European* Dark Ages Sucked"
was there ANOTHER "dark ages" that took place?
@Gijs Vriesema exactly!!
You know when they say "dark ages" they in default refering to europe right ?
Aw yes, europe is the best country...
Also terms like "medieval" and such are always referring to Europe.
Except shiny metal plate armor didn't exist yet
well it did but it drop out of favor for example lorica segmentata
At least it wasn’t horned helmets and leather armor
Edit nevermind f them
Neither was Protestantism lol
Also, that island off the Russian empire, which shouldn’t exist yet, didn’t have Europeans on it for centuries after this video concludes
yeah poverty cant buy you 50kg of steel not to mention master artisan talent fee..
Sorry man, but Christianity was pretty unified at least on the European continent before the schism in the 11th century and reformation in the 16th
Hayden R. Schmitt Yes, for the most of European history, all of Europe was united under the Catholic Church for over 1000 years...
Christianity reached China [7. century] earlier than Scandinavia [10. century], Lithuania [late 14th century]or Eastern Europe/Russia [988 AD].
yeah I agree with you, "young and still growing christian belief?" *WHAT!* christianity started spreading through out europe and the middle east back in the 1st century, islam started its "religious conquest" only in the 600th century when most of the middle east and hispania were already different forms of christians..
“Judism and Islam competed with paganistic beliefs. But the young and still growing Christian faith”
Seems like to video producer is confused on history.
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@@chinmaydesai863 Well at the time christianity was already widespread and was bot state religion of the Romam Empire in the east nad most ofsuccesor states in the west
some in future we need ultra fast wrench to fixing this
The famed hagrids wall?....or Hadrian's wall as it's known
I caught that too
Made me cringe so hard. Wtf did they call it?
:54 seconds the mispronunciation of Hadrians wall is where I abruptly stopped, and started reading comments. So glad I didn’t suffer through this steaming 💩 pile!
I am not adept enough in history to know before reading the comments how inaccurate this video was. But I heard that and I was like "Ok, that CAN'T be what it was called?"
@@centralcamel we really back at cyberpunk future and dystopian of dark age has revived soon
It’s called HADRIANS WALL not Hagrid’s wall.. basic stuff
He said "Hadrids wall"
That's it. I'm done with this channel. Way too much factual inaccuracies. Are you even trying?
not even mentioning the disruptive use of plate armour on the characters.
they haven't heard of the eastern roman empire/ greek roman empire. It never really collappesed until after the middle ages.
Byzas The Byzantine Empire fell in the 1400's, a century before the Middle Ages ended. Before that it hadn't really been an empire in centuries. The reason it took so long for it to fall is that it was almost impossible to take Constantinople.
@@Aewon84 The Middle ages ended a century after 1453 ? Cool .
Can you point out a few inaccurate statements?
Difficult to know where to start with the inaccuracies, but seriously, how did you manage to mispronounce "Hadrian's"???!!
Very interesting but made some broad statements that are incorrect.
The Dark Ages didn't happen "overnight", but over hundreds of years, spreading from external areas back to Rome over time.
Early Christians preserved historical sources important to them, but they also destroyed the Library of Alexandria, I wouldn't describe them as preservers of history.
Do you have any proof that that led to the conclusion that it was Christians (and not the other suspects) who destroyed the actual Library of Alexandria?
Yes but its actually a myth that the library had anything of significant importance at the time of its burning
From the title 'Dark Ages' to most of the contents, there are way too many inaccuracies and misconceptions to count this as anything close to credible. Was there even any research done on this...
Elaborate please
Silver well for one, Islam didn’t rise until 609AD. That is a 150 years after the fall of the western Roman Empire. Also, Christianity is an older religion than Islam. Christianity was founded when Jesus was born, 1 AD. That’s where the terms AD and BC come from; they denote years before and after the birth of Jesus. Christianity had existed for over 400 years by the time the Dark Ages came around. So for this video to say that Islam was a dominant religion in Europe at the time but Christianity was still young is just historically inaccurate. The Romans were known for switching to Christianity, with an edict that accepted Christians in 313. Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire in 323 AD. The Dark Ages didn’t begin until the Roman Empire fell, nearly 150 years later.
Also, Judaism was exclusive to the Jews at this time. Most of Europe was either Christian or Pagan.
Silver Further elaboration:
Protestantism began in the 16th century, that's several hundred years after the end of the "Dark Ages" so this schism and "lack of central power" within Christianity didn't happen anywhere close to within the "Dark Ages."
Speaking of the "Dark Ages," that term is an outdated (like 1330 AD outdated) and misused one for referring to the Medieval Era within Europe. The Medieval Era can be split into the Low Medieval (5c-10c) and High Medieval (10c~15c) Eras, the two of which are vastly different from eachother. So attempting to lop the two distinct eras into one and say the whole of 1000 years was horrible is grossly incorrect.
The Low Medieval Era did face numerous problems but, some of which they got correct, some. Much of the bad stuff comes from this time period but Roman design and government did not altogether fall apart, much of it lived on successfully within Byzantium - something the video completely ignores - and many structural designs of this age, especially churches, were based on Roman design. The greatest reason as to why all of the bad stuff happened was due to insufficient farming methods; no food, no time to spend not trying to get more food, no time to spend on becoming educated or anything beyond getting food. Roman medicine was still also implemented albeit not nearly as much, and there weren't any steps made backwards in waging war and weapon/armor design. The Catholic Church was also growing and thriving, there were like 15 Ecumenical Councils that occurred during this time that the video also ignore. In other words, Roman developments did not outright die, they just became either diluted or lesser known.
However during the High Medieval Era, there was a massive amount of technological, philosophical, medical, scientific, economical and agricultural advancements that made life far easier to live and more enriching. The monasteries that had existed during the Low Medieval Era had developed several new technologies (like brewing beer more efficiently and with better tasting products for example) and shared these with various communities, and there was a decree made by the Pope made to allow the free education of those interested in learning the Arts and Sciences within local monasteries. The heavy plow and new farming methods allowed for far better and more diverse diets and people were far less likely to go hungry, this lead to the beginning of town life and forming of guilds and worker groups - and this happened in the 12c, not the 18c as the video mistakenly states. Several advancements were being made in philosophy, astronomy, chemistry, medicine and engineering. Essentially the High Medieval Era featured a grand magnitude of advancements in science, art and quality of life, entirely different from the Low Medieval Era and in stark contrast to the typical depiction of the "Dark Ages."
This video is pretty much a summery of the outdated and misinformed idea of what happened during the Medieval Era after the fall of Rome and while it does get some things right it gets most of them horribly wrong or misdates them by hundreds of years.
And to just add in a little at the end here (though TradingPost431 and Zach Mercer covered pretty much everything), those so called 'barbarians' were not much of barbarians at all. They were Germanic peoples who were migrating south for larger land and more wealth. This movement and occasional warfare had been occurring since well before the 1st century BCE. So, at this point they would have been fairly Romanized and not necessarily so 'barbaric'. They then went to settle and rule many former Western Roman territories and maintained much of the Roman infrastructure. This gave way to empires like the Carolingian Empire, which sought to improve learning, the script used for writing, and well the Carolingian Renaissance (late 8th-early 9th c. CE). Not all the Germanic conquered lands were prosperous in this way, but the retention of Roman traditions is what I aim to highlight.
In addition, we have evidence for guilds from the early 13th century, which is also coincidentally around the time that some of the first universities were founded. That being said, moving into Britain, the Romans left the isle about a century before the traditionally considered beginning of the Middle Ages. Plus, it wasn't all warlords. After the invasion of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, they organized themselves into several kingdoms with an overlordship (Bretwalda), who ruled some if not all of the English kingdoms. This then steadily centralized over the course of the Middle Ages (solitary kingship in England beginning in the late 9th c.).
Also, on the note of the Anglo-Saxon charms, while they seem a bit strange as medicinal cures, they do actual prove effective in some cases and have been used even in the past decade as a source for modern medicine.
And finally, the Middle Ages did not see Europe withdrawn into itself. It was indeed rather well connected with the Islamic world, Byzantines, and the Steppe peoples. This included European travels such as the Norse to Canada and Baghdad, as well as, Norse establishment of the Kieven Rus kingdom in Eastern Europe.
@@tradingpost431 Jesus founded christianism so it wasn't founded when he was born...
"Sources for this episode:"
Huh, no wonder the video is so inaccurate.
This video was just all around awful. The Roman economy was based on slavery and those slaves lived brutish and short lives. When Rome fell people gained more freedom and life expectancy increased due to the decline of slavery.
The source is wix, lol, you can also create your own website and spread inaccurate historical facts
Amazing.
@@Novusod Citation? A lot of roman slaves were treated pretty well. I actually don't know much about roman slavery, but that's what I heard anyway.
Yaaa its liberal arts kind of nonsense...
Why life during dark age sucks?
No internet
Also no coffee
And no internet means no pornhub
That's like saying the 1980s sucked because that decade also had no internet
no toilet. everybody stank
@Steezyjunior13 there was internet in the 80s
0:25 "Launching the continent into centuries of continuous warfare and cultural stagnation"
LOL STOP RIGHT THERE.
He's correct, the only organized civilization after Romes fall was the Byzantine Empire, which was a continuation of the Roman Empire in Greece until the 15th century.
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor try the carolingians or the ottonians or maybe even the kingdom of wessex as they all had highly organised and effective administrations.
So mistaken it hurts
@@SelfProclaimedEmperor umm you sir are very wrong
George Thompson compared to Rome's organization, they were nothing but barbarian trash. Even Charlemagnes Empire was a pale shadow compared to what Rome achieved.
wow feels like waiting inside a movie theatre
Ikr
This channel is becoming Netflix
Wait how
What are you talking about?
@@KiefersperreTurner you wouldn't know ;)
Didn’t the Protestant reformation occur in the 16th century though?
yes
Yes but that’s after the dark ages ended. The dark ages ended when the Renaissance began in the mid 15th-late 15th century.
Killer Dude But that's exactly what Jillian Michelle was saying lol
Yes there were a few things mentioned in this video that actually happened right before or after the Dark Ages. And pretty much no one's costumes were historically accurate.
pls report, such misinformation shoulnt be posted around as an educational reference.
"Governments didn't exist at this time"
Everyone is saying this is inaccurate, could anyone say the inaccurate parts, please.
1. this video talked about the "lack of centralised power during the dark ages" completely ignoring the Byzantine empire (4th to the 15th century), Charles the great (9th century) and probably half of European medieval history...
2. You dont really talk about protestants until the 17-18th century (which is well after the dark ages), and this video made it seem like all catholics, orthodox and protestants randomly sprouted out at the same time...
3. To say that islam and judaism were spreading across Europe before Christianity is simply laughable.
4. In general eeverything this video says about any religion is laughable and upside down.
5. Also - dumb question - but did this video even name the time frame of the "dark ages"? Maybe it was somewhere after that cut off ending...
I mean - I can understand opinions, because different source etc... but this is just straight up ignorant.
What a mess.
trash gang?
"Life in the dark ages for a poor peasant was tough- too bad they didn't have Skillshare" that is the closest we can get to the outro. A paragraph of a caption.
Nearly everything in the video is wrong and there is a few (including armour and protestants) anachronisims of a millenium.
It's called the dark ages because of our severe lack of surviving information of that time period. Not because it was an evil rough time period or anything. Common misconception I'm just pointing out
FALSE! STOP CALLING IT THE DARK AGES! It is not the dark ages, that is an old term that has been long put to rest. What you are referring to are the medieval periods and there are a lot of records from those eras. I could go on about the MANY mistakes in this video, but it would take 100 pages. I think whoever did this video had learned this stuff over 25 years ago and didn't think to look up any new research.
Assassingeek69 the dark ages happened prior to the medieval periods but they didn’t last long only from the fall of Rome to the begging of the renaissance.
Bryson, the whole titling of time periods is groupthink nonsense. The renaissance never was an actual time period, the Europeans had long since been learning and gleaning from ancient roman works. The "Dark Ages" is merely dogmatic claptrap created from defenestrating all historic truths to create katzenjammer. Medieval Europe was what laid the foundation for European supremacy in the centuries that followed.
I divide the medieval period into early, high, and late.
@@reesehendricksen1871 what's Katzenjammer? I'm German but never heard of this word
That's because katzenjammer, while of Germanic origin, is and English word. You would be hard pressed to find a logophile or bibliotapht who knows the word. Katzenjammer means a state of confusion or hangover, though it can also be a synonym of caterwauling. By its German origin, it has the same base as caterwauling, they are technically the same word. Cater comes from the Middle English word for cat, whereas Katze is the 18th Century German word for cat. Then wauling means to wail or cry in Middle English, and Jammer means to cry distress in German. So, you now know more about a word that fewer that 0.1% of all English speakers know. Furthermore, it quite literally defines itself to every person who hears it.
The ending was too abrupt.
When eastern Rome reconquered all of imperial Rome’s territories it must’ve been amazing.
Without Justinian disease, or east persian attack, maybe he can kept conquest... And eraclio can finish the job
justinian tried but they where lost soon after
It's called the dark age because we don't know what happened historically. Not much to be exact.
How can we be sure then it sucked to live in those times? Maybe it was less bad than we imagine
I see people say that a lot now but I feel like when you're living in straw huts next to aqueducts things are pretty bad. When you're own ancestors in the PAST had access to running water and plumbing and you can't even drink out of the village well things are pretty dark. I just don't see how if you were living in Europe during this time you could look at this situation and not think things were dark compared to life before the collapse of Rome.
Chris Gibson most of Rome were slaves. Unless you were a noble elite who owned slaves, you didn’t exactly have water.
@A Scam Involving Corndogs Talking strictly about the western roman empire I still argue that it did.
@A Scam Involving Corndogs Yeah and all those videos jump on the new wave bandwagon of revisionist history that the dark ages weren't that dark. They do that by looking at other areas of the world besides western Europe and saying "See!!! Look right there!!! Things weren't that bad in the eastern Roman empire!! Or the Islamic Caliphate or China."
Still that doesn't change the fact that in the heart of the western roman empire quality of life significantly declined. Show me an example of life being objectively better in the former western roman empire or even on par with the way things were before the fall and I'll check it out.
Maybe
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THOR odinson. You missed it. Before this video was watchable, there was a countdown to the premiere for this video or something. I commented this like 2 hours before the video was being released
1) Hadrian is pronounced "Hay-dray-an"
2) The Romans DID conquer further than Hadrian's Wall. Permanent Roman settlements have been found as far North as the Antonine Wall.
To be fair, nobody knows how Hadrian is pronounced as Latin is a dead language. We're just using the pronounciation that linguists have agreed is most likely accurate.
Thank you for making crystal clear that this channel does not make serious research and can't be trusted.
Love the inaccuracies. Almost meme worthy.
I didn't realise that the renaissance was part of the darkages and that islam came befor Christianity ... veary intresting
Unbeliveably bad video. They jump like 800 years between "facts" while seemingly stuck at the migration period of England.
The part with Islam had me laughing. This whole thing is like a chaotic history class presentation given by an 8th grader who did his research in half an hour the night before. Just with fancy animation.
An end point of the middle ages used is 1500. This means that part of the renaissance was in the middle ages but not all of it.
Islam didn't come before Christianity. Islam began in the 7th century whilst Christianity began in the 1st century.
@@ThePickaxeMoviesMC I am not bashing on your coment, but i is more correct like this, brother:
Christianity began in the first century is incorrect. The calendary, as we know it, is based in the birth of Jesus Christ ( the arguably most important and influencial human being in the history of the planet ) therefore we say Christianity began 2018 years, 11 months and 14 days ago. The joke that is the barbaric, violent and intolerant ideology that is islam began in the 7 th century " following" the birth of Christ.
@@eclipsesolar8345 yeah that is the first Century. Moron.
Full plate armor in the 6th century... wtf
If you turn on captions at the end of the video you’ll get what the outro was meant to be
That background music tho 😎
What is it
Yea I wanna know too
Same
Its like the creators of this video got their info either from game of thrones or enlightenment era propaganda...
@Br00tal Teutonic Thrasher666 Viking society was certainly an interesting one. Living in a harsh climate the people were hardened, melancolic. Definetly not savages. Most of the sources on the vikings came from monasteries, which were the main goal of raids. These sources were often theatrical, biased and closer to the forms and norms of literature rather than history. Couple this with the retardedness of the enlightenment era and you get to the negative picture.
Probably all from the propaganda renaissance writers made, only in Italy, France, England, and Spain were the dark ages "dark", and Spain even had a golden age under Islam and several parts of Italy thrived as independent Republics so even that wasn't as "dark" as it might seem.
Br00tal Teutonic Thrasher666 speaking of inaccurate propaganda...
@@csabas.6342 what do you have against the enlightenment era
@Br00tal Teutonic Thrasher666 ha ha of course we was SJWs even back then! In your dreams only...
Christianity didn't split apart until the 1500s when the reformation took place this was way after the dark ages how did this accuracy appear
1054
Evan Shepherd it did actually, it separated due to the controversy over the use of icons in the church around 1000 to the 1200s or some shit like that
Great Schism divided Eastern and Western Christianity in 1054. Protestant Reformation didn't begin until 1517. Don't believe everything on RUclips.
Yes, england had been influenced by catholicism for some 900 years before Henry VIII, beginning with the conversion of Athelbehrt of Kent by the bishop Augustine
Didn’t know you could “print” coins.
I might start a side business, I'll be printing coins night and day.
I love how the philosophers of the enlightenment contributed to make the dark ages look evil
Based and Rousseaupilled
Did you guys get hacked? I mean this is so terribly inaccurate, I dont even know what to begin with.
Comments like this aren't helpful at all. Give examples and corrections and sources.
I find most of their videos to be inaccurate
But why cant i stop watching ? Haha
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The ending also, and at 6:25 "Scientif"
Shay Rollins
Source: the whole video
Solution: complete deletion
Who else thinks this beat in the background was sick?
The only thing goood in the entire video
Hell no, it was way too loud and too fast to allow a proper listening and understanding of the contents.
At least the Middle Ages had universities, were full of color, and had magnificent art.
What's up with the ending?!?! Did your studio abruptly enter the dark ages?
This is so factually incorrect, I don't know where to begin!
Gixxernz1 it’s talking about “dark ages” so that’s a dead giveaway this isn’t serious scholarship.
Came here to see if anyone else agreed with me. My jaw dropped every few sentences.
"England, or Britannia, as it was known back then," As a scot this physically hurts.
i agree....when he said Islam and Judaism were competing with one another but the young christian religion, and that makes no sense, because Islam came after Christianity ...WAY after
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If life in the dark ages sucked nearly as bad as the accuracy and quality of this video, I’m surprised that anybody even survived past 6:55 back then
Ooh you sly dog.
@@anzac5399
I survived after 6:55 .
Barely.
*Life in the dark ages for a poor peasant was tough too- bad they didn't have Skillshare*
The intro taught me more than my week long class.
I don’t have enough time to go over how many things are wrong with this video.
The music in the background is kind of annoying... it doesn't even go with the theme of the video
I hope they will take care of that in the future.
This channel is pure stereotyping and myth perpetuating. Do a little research. Just a little.
But that sounds like wooooooooooork.
@Some Guy What's not accurate? Protestantism came in the 1500s, which was a few centuries after the 'Dark Ages' ended (a term no historian ever uses anymore). Would you like more examples?
@Some Guy 0:26 it says that the collapse of Rome left a power vacuum across *Europe* but the East Roman Empire was doing just fine.
I'm actually trying to research the Dark Ages (internet access only) and I don't know how to find good information. What can you recommend?
@@Marialla. Internet access only is your problem. There's really no solution here because there are so many unbelievable amount of misconceptions, mischaracterisations, dated, and biased information. Go to a library and read books written by credible historians, whose work has been read and critiqued by other credible historians. If you are unable to do that, then I would just lay off studying this period of history entirely.
"Feudalism eventually began to take took"
I love how you zoomed into Novaya Zemlya
That music had me bumpin i ain't gon lie I forgot what I was even watching
Dis a movie or sumtin? Why tf does it say premiere?
lolz yah
its a stream awaiting the release, the 'premiere' of the next video
Time to get some popcorn
It's "recorded live." New on yt. ✌❤☕☕☕
Speak english
The ending fooled me to think that my phone turned off
We’ve all finished too early at times. Give him a break
Some of us hardly gey started
And you completely forgot about the Eastern Roman (Byzantine Greek) Empire which thrived for another 1,000 years after the Fall of the West. Roman law and most of the ancient arts and sciences were persevered there.
The term "Dark Ages" is only about Western Europe
Imagine living in the dark ages, when the sun took its mandatory vacation days.
and in the middle of trying to grow a crop in a red tinted warzone the universe just cuts off
This is actually the most incorrect video I have ever seen.
@Br00tal Teutonic Thrasher666 your uh username defeats your point
You must be new to RUclips. This is at least dated scholarship rather than pure fever dream.
IDK. That game theory video about samurais, knights and vikings is a really hard video to beat when it comes to incorrectness.
@Br00tal Teutonic Thrasher666 not your culture bro.
@Br00tal Teutonic Thrasher666 Let me guess. You were born in America?
right before the ending it says that "life in he dark ages for a poor peasant was tough- too bad they didn't have skillshare"
The protestant reformation happened in the 15 century and the dark ages ended in the 12 century how on earth did you get 200 years of history wrong !?
person in a purple background the protestantism in the 16th century is called the “Lutheranism”. Prior to that period, Peter Waldo founded his own Christian belief “Waldensians” in the late 1100’s. However, only Martin Luther succeeded and detached his church from Rome. The Anglican Church separation was also a success.
They ended 14th century
As John Green from Crash Course once said, 'your worst year was someone's best year.' The Dark Ages are essentially that.
Im taking AP Euro, I don't trust this information.
Don't, most of it is horrendously incorrect.
@@zachmercer1065, I got really pissed when they showed the branches of christianity especially the protestant one.
@RUclips person Ikr? How do you even mess that one up?
This was very informative. Thank you for posting this. If there is a Part 2 to this. please post it for us
So pretty much the Dark ages was a BATTLE ROYAL
Well isn't this just a strange feeling.
Congrats, here's the darn video but instead it's actually a reminder that it's going to be up later.
The phrase "Dark Ages" isn't used by any actual historians, it's a misnomer. I'm a surprised a show supposedly about information would use such an inaccurate term.
Hmmm yes I’m flourished in the amount of intellectual beings in this conversation
Hmmm yes I’m flourished in the amount of intellectual beings in this conversation
Well all words and phrases must start somewhere
Your history is wrong. Game of Thrones said there are dragons.
at this point I may trust game of thrones to educate me more than this video :D
About the absence of anesthesia during surgeries, yes, they didn’t have it. But there are still readily available poisonous plants with sleeping toxins that they could also use without killing the patient.