Battle of Guadalete, 711 AD ⚔ How was Spain conquered by the Arabs? ⚔ Muslim Conquest

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  • @HistoryMarche
    @HistoryMarche  Год назад +45

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    • @danielsantiagourtado3430
      @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +1

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    • @ghostd69
      @ghostd69 Год назад +1

      There is a little mistake in video regarding conquest of magrheb it was carried out by musa he conquered entirely magrheb along with his son Marwan not tariq, when he took last city which its tanger in magrheb he sent tariq and appointed as govonor there according to sources

    • @oskarwall2611
      @oskarwall2611 Год назад

      modern spain will go down next few years..... politicly and economicly... population eather.

    • @GwJ78
      @GwJ78 Год назад

      Umayad caliphate with the berber général Tariq ibn Ziyad were not arab. They were berber. No ?

    • @ArabianQuirkSA
      @ArabianQuirkSA Год назад

      How come you call the Army “berber”? They were mostly Arabs not only berbers

  • @EM.K024
    @EM.K024 Год назад +486

    Well done, unbiased and well researched, more Abassids, Andalusia and Ottoman History please.

    • @HistoryMarche
      @HistoryMarche  Год назад +67

      Thank you so much for the support! Very kind of you.

    • @hassan021
      @hassan021 Год назад +19

      the thumbnail doesn't look so unbiased tbh

    • @newonevery740
      @newonevery740 Год назад +9

      100% biased

    • @newonevery740
      @newonevery740 Год назад +8

      @@hassan021 yeah they are always biased

    • @midovinci
      @midovinci Год назад +10

      yet calling the Muslims enemies

  • @MrTStat
    @MrTStat Год назад +821

    Fun fact gibraltar comes from the word in Arabic Jebel Tarik
    "Mount Tarik" which is still used today in the Arabic of the area

    • @williamrobert9898
      @williamrobert9898 Год назад +32

      Yeah it was actually shown in the video but not mentioned I noticed

    • @BillGreenAZ
      @BillGreenAZ Год назад +16

      Thanks. I was wondering if it was an Arabic name originally. Now I know!

    • @reactivist6526
      @reactivist6526 Год назад +30

      ​@BillGreenAZ arabic name originally took it's name for the amazigh warrior named Tariq ibn Ziad

    • @ayoubzahiri1918
      @ayoubzahiri1918 Год назад +6

      @@reactivist6526 well some say he was actually persian! ( im an amazigh so there is no bias)

    • @reactivist6526
      @reactivist6526 Год назад +9

      @@ayoubzahiri1918 well people say a lot of stuff and no he was never a persian and there is no such historical record of it, the latter is opposite and there is always some bias in human beings that's how Allah swt created us,he either was an amazigh from the mountain tribes or an arab which there are only a small claim that he was an arab or a persian but there is higher chances and proofs which are historical that he was an amazigh, thank you for the response.

  • @Rude_Thunder
    @Rude_Thunder Год назад +423

    You should mention the event of Tarik’s landing. He burned down all his ships after landing and told his troops, ' Behind you is the sea, and massive enemy army in front of you. Only victory can keep you alive.

    • @freelow3266
      @freelow3266 Год назад +32

      I love this guy

    • @IM-wq6wu
      @IM-wq6wu Год назад +24

      Not real, ships belonged to Julian the governor of Ceuta so how can he burned it

    • @Mrkhanjar
      @Mrkhanjar Год назад +8

      ​@@IM-wq6wuwhere did you see that

    • @FOREVERLOST-k1
      @FOREVERLOST-k1 Год назад +59

      ​@@IM-wq6wu
      Source:Trust me bro

    • @kalkali1725
      @kalkali1725 Год назад +4

      Not right😂

  • @dltaforst2490
    @dltaforst2490 Год назад +27

    Don’t stop making this type of content and thank you from my heart

  • @MrTStat
    @MrTStat Год назад +94

    Another fun fact the word Andalus comes from the name Vandals, who ruled part of north africa and Iberia for while

    • @youwhat491
      @youwhat491 Год назад +8

      so andulus is from the word vandal, they dropped the letter V from the start

    • @mercianthane2503
      @mercianthane2503 Год назад +13

      That's one theory.

    • @Sina.575
      @Sina.575 Год назад +5

      ​@@mercianthane2503theory ? you think the vandal kingdom didn't exist ?

    • @mercianthane2503
      @mercianthane2503 Год назад +15

      @@Sina.575
      The kingdom? Yes.
      Is "vandal" the origin of the name "Al-Ándalus"? Most likely not, since there are other theories of its origins.

    • @Sina.575
      @Sina.575 Год назад +15

      @@mercianthane2503 well Al Andalus does mean the land of the vandals in Arabic.

  • @muhamedabugrisha1987
    @muhamedabugrisha1987 Год назад +38

    Tariq's military career ended by the hands of Caliph Al-Walid, not Mousa. So both Tarek and Mousa fought together in Iberia after this battle

    • @Mauri7782
      @Mauri7782 Год назад +7

      Arab betrayal as usual

    • @ammaraimene
      @ammaraimene Год назад +14

      @@Mauri7782 What betrayal are you talking about? It was common at that time that every caliph would dismiss the military leaders of previous caliph, even if they were Arabs like Muhammad bin al-Qasim and Qutaiba bin Muslim...

    • @Mauri7782
      @Mauri7782 Год назад

      @@ammaraimene again you clarify arabs are traitors

    • @-MohammedAhmed
      @-MohammedAhmed Год назад

      @@Mauri7782
      أنإلي مثلك عايشين في وهم و جهل يبدو أن لا حل له

    • @caliphal-mustaqdarbi-amral9501
      @caliphal-mustaqdarbi-amral9501 Год назад

      @@Mauri7782
      طارق مجرد مولى (عبد) موسى بن نصير تحت امرة الخليفة الوليد

  • @Gundupaiya
    @Gundupaiya Год назад +3

    Thank you for making these wonderful historical videos.

    • @HistoryMarche
      @HistoryMarche  Год назад +2

      Thank you so much for supporting my work. Very kind of you.

  • @Roberto-tu5re
    @Roberto-tu5re Год назад +63

    Great video and an interest of mine since we live here in Spain. We have spent many years in Andalusia and just visited Tarifa and it is amazing how near Morocco really is. Your video gain an understanding on how this country developed and the history behind it.

    • @furii4308
      @furii4308 Год назад +5

      They are so close to each other that Spain still colonizes parts of it..

    • @Roberto-tu5re
      @Roberto-tu5re Год назад +10

      @@furii4308 and how many Morrocans are here visa versa. I love Morocco and we go there 2 or 3 times a year, the people are lovely and the food is amazing

    • @furii4308
      @furii4308 Год назад +2

      @@Roberto-tu5re There are a lot of Romanians in Spain as well. Will that justify colonizing them?

    • @Roberto-tu5re
      @Roberto-tu5re Год назад +3

      @@furii4308 Theres also alot of English here too, although I am half Sicilian so my heritage is very mixed from Greek and the Moors etc. So my comment was aimed at humour only.

    • @wzvy
      @wzvy 11 месяцев назад

      @@furii4308 maybe you guys should stop illegally immigrating here.

  • @feylezofi
    @feylezofi Год назад +60

    When hearing a great Christian army was heading towards them, Muslim soldiers panicked. Tariq burned down his fleet, blocking their escape. He said that "Now your back is sea, and front is the enemy" making sure that they understood that only victory would save them. This event inspired GRRM when he was writing the Dornish Princes Nymeria who has done the same.

    • @angelcamachodelsolar
      @angelcamachodelsolar Год назад +2

      First time we have notice of "burn the boats" was Alexander the Great the year 332 B.C. in phoenicia. The spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés did the same the year 1521 in the current México.

    • @bibliotecaeternayvoladora
      @bibliotecaeternayvoladora Год назад

      @feylezofi That is just propganda
      It was a ruse made by Europeans scholars to justify the victory of Zaid bin Tariq+parts of the ships were of Julean and he can't burn his ship as the are loaned to him for the attack+the caliphate would not have approved of such suicidal act of his commander and would be questioned and probably punished for such Act if it did happened

    • @fuckoff5191
      @fuckoff5191 Год назад +2

      That story is not authentic duh..those muslims dont simply destroy ships that worth a lot money back then..tariq is a prophets companion..he wont do that such things, yeah sounds great but not islamic teachings, that not what prophets taught them lol

    • @خليلالعلوي-ق2ط
      @خليلالعلوي-ق2ط 7 месяцев назад

      The Umayyads are descendants of Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan Al-Umayyad Al-Qurashi, the founder of the Umayyad state. Their origin goes back to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, and to this day their descendants and their tribe are present in Saudi Arabia.

    • @vattoxonfire1278
      @vattoxonfire1278 7 месяцев назад +1

      That just legends it not true.

  • @moezrahal4972
    @moezrahal4972 Год назад +461

    When saying that European countries were living in dark ages in the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal "Andalusia" did not live in the same situation, but were on another level because of this battle.

    • @RavusNox-z5i
      @RavusNox-z5i Год назад +90

      The "Dark ages" are a revisionistic term from the Renaissance that's not taken seriously by historians.
      The most advanced culture in Europe during the Middle Ages was the French Kingdom, which experienced a cultural renaissance of the arts and architecture (the Carolingian renaissance).

    • @RavusNox-z5i
      @RavusNox-z5i Год назад +43

      @@Shush187 the Middle Ages were actually an improvement on all levels from the violent times of antiquity. On a technological level, hygiene level, etc. People in places like Ancient Rome actually had horrendous hygiene and life expectancy was only high for the nobility.

    • @LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown
      @LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown Год назад

      Christianity, which literally started as a Judaic conspiracy to break the power of Rome (just as many emperors and statesmen had warned), is what helped to plunge Europe into the "Dark Ages". So many of the innovations from Greece and Rome were virtually lost for centuries. It wasn't until Christianity was made amenable to European customs and sensibilities that Europe started to recover. As long as Christianity was controlled by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and the masses were taught about the religion from the priests, the religion was able to do some good and bring a semblance of unity however once every yokel was able to read the Bible for themselves and the Reformation began, the religion reverted back to the subversive Levantive cult from which it had originated. And although we had the Renaissance and the Age of Exploration post Reformation, we also had bloody conflicts like the 30 Years War which wiped out between 1/2 to 3/4 the population of Central Europe. The Renaissance and Age of Exploration occurred despite the Reformation. Today Europeans have lost their way and are increasingly becoming disconnected from their ancestors, history and traditions but most importantly they have lost their essence, lost contact with their spirit, their very being.

    • @blackpanthar906
      @blackpanthar906 Год назад +34

      @@RavusNox-z5i The French Kingdom happened long after Al-Andalus and dark ages. During 40 year war, Europe was shattered and completely in dark ages.
      Al-Andalus contributed to it as it was the most powerful empire at time and sold everything from oranges to Damascus steel.
      Nobody was buying from Europe in that time. So it was a huge set back for Europe in 1453 to 1480s.

    • @fisalalmalki6090
      @fisalalmalki6090 Год назад +17

      @@RavusNox-z5i don’t deny we all know the truth…

  • @roscoegadsdenshighcapacity7218
    @roscoegadsdenshighcapacity7218 Год назад +22

    Best nutshell history channel ever! Having been to the Alhambra in Spain this really filled in for me how that all started. Keep up the great work!

    • @ALGfunk
      @ALGfunk Год назад +5

      Actually, it's one western sided hisotry.
      In reality, a Spanish ruler called the Muslims for help against German visigoth as they were oppressed. It's hard to justify how little numbered Muslims could take over Andalucía without local support. They ruled for nearly 1000 years majority were local moriscos (spanish heritage).
      Even Alfonso El Cid some said he was a hidden Muslim.

    • @serfwallace
      @serfwallace 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@ALGfunk And this you found out because the Spanish ruler was your drunk grandpa?

    • @TirabintaToktik-hz1lx
      @TirabintaToktik-hz1lx 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@ALGfunk You smoke t00 much w33d bro 😂

  • @ghostd69
    @ghostd69 Год назад +65

    There is a little mistake in video regarding conquest of magrheb it was carried out by musa he conquered entirely magrheb along with his son Marwan not tariq, when he took last city which its tanger in magrheb he sent tariq and appointed as govonor there according to sources

    • @NovaDan.
      @NovaDan. Год назад +9

      Agreed. It was Musa and his sons who conquered Morocco. They reached the city of Taroudant in the south. They didn't stop in Tangier.

    • @sinslang890
      @sinslang890 Год назад +20

      These youtube "history channels always play down Arabian history" atleast its better than fox news"

    • @warlordpesco2081
      @warlordpesco2081 Год назад +8

      No it was tarik ibn ziyad who conquered morocco and iberia🇵🇹🇪🇸🇲🇦

    • @redphoenix9547
      @redphoenix9547 Год назад +2

      ​@@warlordpesco2081lol no tariq bin ziyafh is famous for conqeuring spain

    • @fitk1169
      @fitk1169 Год назад

      no , it was tarik ibn zyad

  •  Год назад +86

    Good video, it is always welcome that you make more videos about Spanish military history, which is very rich and interesting (but is always ignored despite having a lot of importance in Europe, in the same way as English and French history) and this battle is one that geopolitically and culturally marked the Iberian Peninsula for 8 centuries. As an important fact, it must be said that Spanish historians currently affirm (correctly) that Guadalete is not the place where the battle took place, because the site does not match the descriptions of Arab and Christian sources, added to the fact that It is very far from Algeciras (which was the base of Tariq), so after much research and archaeological work during the 20th century, it was concluded that the right place would be a few kilometers south of the current City of Cadiz, Exactly where before there was a currently dissected lagoon called "Laguna de La Janda" and that the only reason why this battle is still called "Guadalete" has been out of mere habit.

    • @DustinBarlow8P
      @DustinBarlow8P Год назад +4

      The statement "Nobody ever covers (insert favorite historic country) and it's a shame" is actually false. It honestly depends on where you live and it also depends on the student, as well as the school. My father was in the military so I had to change school a lot. I attended school in Eastern US, SW US, Germany, Japan, and I also attended a prep school my sophomore year, so I have some experience. The thing I noticed was in Japan we mainly learned Chinese and Japanese history, I don't think the Romans, England or France was ever mentioned. In the Eastern US we where taught the usual England, France, and central Europe, but in SW there was an entire course dedicated to the HIstory of Spain. It mainly focused on Spain from 1300 - 1800 but it was there. Lastly that year of prep school I mentioned you where given the option of what history period interested you most, because they offered multiple courses. From India 500 BCE - 1000 CE to Eastern Europe during the middle ages, and South America Pre-Colonialist period. Like I said it depends on a lot of factors on what people are being taught.

    •  Год назад +6

      ​@@DustinBarlow8PToday the information is easier to get than before, the fact that universities only focus in a general way on the stories of specific regions, does not mean that more research can be done to get a variety of videos on RUclips, which is a global web where people from all over the world see you. Also, I am not saying anything false, I want you to search all the RUclips channels that use military history as a theme, they all focus mostly on medieval and modern conflicts in Northern and Central Europe, while in the South (Spain , Portugal, Italy, Greece) is only done very rarely and only when dealing with conflicts related to the history of the main countries of Northern and Central Europe. That is why in my comment I thanked the History Marche, for taking battles in Spanish history like Nördlingen a few months ago and now Guadalete; but also, it is the only channel that has focused on providing in its videos an international variety of battles by taking conflicts from the Middle East, Asia and even India (which is one of the most unknown). On the other hand, with my comment on the site of the battle, I only did it as a contribution, since I know that only those who have read research directly from the country of origin of the battle are the only ones who will have information that is not found globally.

  • @Double_OG_Menace
    @Double_OG_Menace Год назад +7

    No mention of Commander Tariq ordering the ships that had brought them to shores of the land that would become Al Andalus to be destroyed....so that his men could cancel the possibility of a retreat across the sea.

    • @majawei6127
      @majawei6127 11 месяцев назад

      Bc he black

    • @DwightStJohn-t7y
      @DwightStJohn-t7y 29 дней назад

      not true, but the idea is right out of Sun Tzu's book. No retreat, you fight or die.

  • @yahyasoual460
    @yahyasoual460 8 месяцев назад +2

    00:16 Visigothic kingdom in Western Europe declined in the 8th century
    01:49 The Umayyad Caliphate conquered North Africa and began small-scale attacks on the Iberian Peninsula.
    05:47 Tariq successfully reconnoiters Iberia and captures Cordoba
    07:22 The forces towards the coast of Cadiz faced reinforcements from Governor Musa and local nobles, and the Visigothic army appeared in the Sidonia region.
    09:02 Roderic ordered a Visigothic attack with heavy cavalry and infantry against the Muslims
    10:33 The Umayyad cavalry's retreat was a ruse to lure the Visigoths into committing their armored cavalry.
    11:58 Roderic's army was defeated by the Muslim forces led by Tariq.
    13:20 The Muslim victory at Guadalete marked the beginning of the Umayyad Conquest of Spain.
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  • @CranialAxe
    @CranialAxe Год назад +35

    Seeing Tariq's tactics unfolfing, it makes you wonder if he read about Hannibal's genius orchestrations on the battlefield.

    • @anisben9775
      @anisben9775 Год назад +11

      Both are north African (Tunisian both if you consider Carthage back then it stretches from Tunisia to morroco )

    • @TheDON2111
      @TheDON2111 Год назад

      Hannibal is originally Phoenician@@anisben9775​

    • @CranialAxe
      @CranialAxe Год назад +2

      @anisben9775 I appreciate the input, but that alone doesn't explain much. It doesn't help that we know very little about him prior to his appointment as General.
      It's possible he had an especially educated upbringing or that he was simply a gifted natural in the art of warfare, or both.

    • @anisben9775
      @anisben9775 Год назад

      @@CranialAxe it was a metaphor because I'm north African..its just a coincidence that both are north africains and Great generals in their Era. .

    • @ghaim8408
      @ghaim8408 Год назад +6

      حنّبعل كنعاني شامي فلسطيني وقائد طارق بن زياد كان هو موسى بن نصير فلسطيني ليسوا من شمال افريقيا

  • @40kwarlord79
    @40kwarlord79 Год назад +23

    Quality videos as always, well done!

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Год назад +12

    It was an informative and wonderful introduction of that historical coverage video. Thank you( History Marche) channel for sharing this remarkable historical coverage video

  • @GUSTAVINNESSONN
    @GUSTAVINNESSONN 11 месяцев назад

    I love all this stuff. History is a truly infinitely interesting subject. There are millions of stories to be told from all over the globe. Different ages, different cultures, weapons, armour, agriculture, settlements. You could spend your entire life studying it and barely scratch the surface of what we know by now. Great channel, i can't get enough, keep them coming HistoryMarche

  • @ahmedazhar8485
    @ahmedazhar8485 Год назад +38

    Bro I am a fan and subscriber of yours from last 3 years from Pakistan your video quality is improving very rapidly day by day so as a request can you please make a remake of battle of Varna. Much love and appreciation ❤. Love this video a lot 10/10 ❤

  • @microgangster
    @microgangster Год назад +125

    Appreciate historymarche immensely. Please cover more muslim conquests and the details. There aren't many easily accessible resources like this

    • @wvw_one
      @wvw_one Год назад

      There are no sources because 95% about Islam is fairytales, including Islam itself.

    • @mannyfresh2938
      @mannyfresh2938 Год назад +9

      Kings and Generals have a bunch of Muslim conquest videos

    • @Sina.575
      @Sina.575 Год назад +3

      What ? Muslims conquest And battle's Are pretty well documented.

    • @TruthSeeker8834
      @TruthSeeker8834 Год назад +17

      ​@@mannyfresh2938I sense a hint of propaganda from their video. They don’t easily believe in Muslim sources but at the same time fully believe in roman and greek history.
      Among the history channel Epichistory is pretty non-biased to me

    • @greyralph1637
      @greyralph1637 Год назад

      ​@@TruthSeeker8834how about K&G?

  • @HomemdaFaina
    @HomemdaFaina Год назад +9

    Modern-day Spain and Portugal m8. Spain is not the only country in the Iberian Peninsula, nor is Castellano (what others call Spanish) the only language. Português, Gallego, Euskera , Català.
    Great video, as usual.

    • @youwhat491
      @youwhat491 Год назад

      Arabanese was spoken by natives who converted

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Год назад

      And the language of the original Christian Kingdoms in Asturias founded by Pelayo-Bable

  • @A_X8O
    @A_X8O Год назад +15

    في البداية اشكرك على ما تقدمه رغم بعض الأخطاء البسيطة.
    من هذه المعركة بدا عصر الاندلس المتفرد و الجميل ، حيث شهد الاندلس نهضة ثقافية وحضارية وجعلها مركز للعلوم و التطور ومما لا شك فيه ان أوروبا تأثرت به بشكل ايجابي من كل النواحي الصحية و التنموية و العلمية.
    بداية عصر اخراج أوروبا من الظلمات إلى النور.
    بشهادة مؤرخي أوروبا.
    مرة اخرى اشكرك هذه اللمحة الجميلة.

    • @alaindaubresse2161
      @alaindaubresse2161 3 месяца назад

      Faux les conquérants arabes ont tout pris des grecs et des perses d’ailleurs la plus part des savants de al andalous étaient des chrétiens et des juifs convertis de force

  • @Triharyanto1968
    @Triharyanto1968 Год назад +88

    Brilliant strategies and tactics of the Commander Tareq. 12.000 conquered 30.000, that's genius.

    • @addamsays8087
      @addamsays8087 10 месяцев назад +3

      This morden calculation.
      But orginal army was around 70-1 lakh.

    • @Omi9762
      @Omi9762 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@addamsays8087 After the fall of the Roman Empire, it was very difficult to gather more than 10 thousand soldiers, so how did King Rodrigue gather an army of 33 thousand, this seems strange to me ,
      Because in those times, the king who won the war used to praise himself more, those who were his historians, who used to write all the details of that rule in their books, used to exaggerate the things of the king.
      It seems to me a lie that King Roderic has collected an army of 33 thousand. Yes, it is possible that King Roderic has collected an army of 10 to 15 thousand.

    • @notjx113
      @notjx113 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@Omi9762I wonder, why was it so hard for nations to gather so many soldiers after the fall of the Western Roman Empire?

    • @Omi9762
      @Omi9762 8 месяцев назад

      @@notjx113 1). Limited resources: Unlike the large empires of the ancient world, medieval kingdoms and principalities often had limited resources and struggled to maintain large, standing armies. The feudal system of governance, which was prevalent in much of medieval Europe, relied on local lords and nobles to provide soldiers for the king or prince, and these lords could only provide a limited number of troops.
      2). Logistics: Medieval armies often faced significant logistical challenges, particularly when it came to supplying and feeding their soldiers. The lack of efficient transportation and communication networks made it difficult to move large numbers of troops and supplies over long distances.
      3). Technology: Medieval weapons and armor were often heavier and more cumbersome than the weapons of the ancient world, which made it more difficult to equip and mobilize large armies. The cost of producing high-quality armor and weapons was also a limiting factor for many medieval armies.
      4). Tactics: The tactics of medieval warfare often relied on smaller, more mobile units of soldiers, such as knights and cavalry, rather than large formations of infantry like those used by ancient armies. This made it easier for medieval armies to operate with smaller numbers of troops.
      5). Political fragmentation: Medieval Europe was characterized by political fragmentation, with numerous small kingdoms and principalities competing for power. This made it difficult to create large, centralized armies that could be mobilized quickly and efficiently.

    • @Omi9762
      @Omi9762 8 месяцев назад

      @@notjx113 Limited resources: Unlike the large empires of the ancient world, medieval kingdoms and principalities often had limited resources and struggled to maintain large, standing armies. The feudal system of governance, which was prevalent in much of medieval Europe, relied on local lords and nobles to provide soldiers for the king or prince, and these lords could only provide a limited number of troops.
      Logistics: Medieval armies often faced significant logistical challenges, particularly when it came to supplying and feeding their soldiers. The lack of efficient transportation and communication networks made it difficult to move large numbers of troops and supplies over long distances.
      Technology: Medieval weapons and armor were often heavier and more cumbersome than the weapons of the ancient world, which made it more difficult to equip and mobilize large armies. The cost of producing high-quality armor and weapons was also a limiting factor for many medieval armies.
      Tactics: The tactics of medieval warfare often relied on smaller, more mobile units of soldiers, such as knights and cavalry, rather than large formations of infantry like those used by ancient armies. This made it easier for medieval armies to operate with smaller numbers of troops.
      Political fragmentation: Medieval Europe was characterized by political fragmentation, with numerous small kingdoms and principalities competing for power. This made it difficult to create large, centralized armies that could be mobilized quickly and efficiently.

  • @muslimresponse103
    @muslimresponse103 Год назад +42

    great video, I didn’t want it to end, the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphates were on another level!

  • @maddogbasil
    @maddogbasil Год назад +24

    Tariq ibn ziyad crosses Gibraltar
    Burned his ships and never looked back
    He honestly staked everything on a chance and managed to leave behind an 800 year old legacy in iberia forever
    What a gigachad

    • @youwhat491
      @youwhat491 Год назад

      not all agree on that, its spicing up a story, why destroy your navy when you can just send them back to africa

    • @zjeee
      @zjeee Год назад

      So did Hernan Cortes, he burned his ships and got down to business. It’s a shame we in the west are so ashamed of our past when other cultures celebrate their colonizers conquering new lands.

    • @ProtomanButCallMeBlues
      @ProtomanButCallMeBlues Год назад +4

      the cockroaches were disposed off.

    • @youwhat491
      @youwhat491 Год назад +1

      @@ProtomanButCallMeBlues the spanish empire spread like cockroaches all over the americas

    • @Mohammadkwt
      @Mohammadkwt Год назад +15

      @@ProtomanButCallMeBlues you mean the useless usurper king and his entourage? Yep, you’re right.

  • @Kenton-wr4oq
    @Kenton-wr4oq 2 месяца назад +3

    You can tell Tarik was a fan of Hannibal with that flexy center to envelope the enemy. Just like Cannae

    • @MalikAbdullah1325
      @MalikAbdullah1325 Месяц назад

      yeah yeah common steal the credit from another Muslim 😂😂

    • @Kenton-wr4oq
      @Kenton-wr4oq Месяц назад +1

      @ oh brother please no body stole nothing. If anything Hannibal probably got that idea from someone else too. I was just making a point that many good generals use that strategy.

    • @MalikAbdullah1325
      @MalikAbdullah1325 Месяц назад +1

      @@Kenton-wr4oq
      well ok I can agree on that 👍

  • @pedrocsantos8
    @pedrocsantos8 Год назад +6

    Great video!!!
    Here is an idea for a future video:
    The biggest ship in the world;
    São João Baptista (English: Saint John the Baptist), nicknamed Botafogo ("Spitfire"), was a Portuguese galleon built in the 16th century, around 1530, considered the biggest and most powerful warship in the world by Portuguese, Castillian, and Italian observers of the time
    The São João most famously distinguished itself during the Conquest of Tunis (1535), when it bombarded La Goletta fortress.

  • @LookHereMars
    @LookHereMars Год назад +6

    Thank you as always HM, comment for Algo. 👍

  • @KHK001
    @KHK001 Год назад +11

    Great video as always!

    • @HistoryMarche
      @HistoryMarche  Год назад +2

      Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for joining the premiere

    • @ghostd69
      @ghostd69 Год назад

      ​@@HistoryMarche
      There is a little mistake in video regarding conquest of magrheb it was carried out by musa he conquered entirely magrheb along with his son Marwan not tariq, when he took last city which its tanger in magrheb he sent tariq and appointed as govonor there according to sources

    • @EAGLE29-TIME
      @EAGLE29-TIME Год назад

      @@HistoryMarche "Give him alms woman; for there is nothing like the sorrow of being blind in Granada".

  • @Crepigold
    @Crepigold Год назад +2

    thanks for this video!!, im spanish but in spain never talk about this battle of a objetive form an detailed form thanks so much for your work!!!

    • @supernivemdealbabor
      @supernivemdealbabor 10 месяцев назад

      Do you mean that they do speak about other battles like Simancas, Bairén, Río Salado o Navas de Tolosa in a technich or tactic point of view and that Rio Guadalete is intentionally Neglected. If so, you lie

    • @Crepigold
      @Crepigold 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@supernivemdealbabor No, at least until high school they did not talk in detail about practically any battle, except for the Navas de Tolosa where they poorly explained the process of this one in a very short way. at least in public education

  • @mastermindd
    @mastermindd Год назад +47

    It's a pity that the Visigothic kingdom fell so early on, to me it's one of the most interesting Roman successor states in the West

    • @niklask8753
      @niklask8753 Год назад +10

      the ostrogothic kingdom fell even earlier

    • @RavusNox-z5i
      @RavusNox-z5i Год назад +15

      The legacy of the Visigoths was carried in the Reconquista up to the modern Kings of Spain however.
      Every modern European country is a successor to the Germanic Kingdoms.

    • @mastermindd
      @mastermindd Год назад +7

      @@RavusNox-z5i Yes, but in legal terms they had no successors, like the Roman Empire did have in the East...
      And I would argue with your second sentence as well, Slavic countries really have nothing to do with the Germanic kingdoms for example.

    • @RavusNox-z5i
      @RavusNox-z5i Год назад +4

      @@mastermindd When I spoke of Europe, I spoke of the Occident (Western & Northern Europe). Not the slavic center and east.

    • @mastermindd
      @mastermindd Год назад +1

      @@RavusNox-z5i Then specify it more accurately next time

  • @onlinegladiator5888
    @onlinegladiator5888 Год назад +11

    Just spectacular quality really. This should genuinely come with a subscription with the amount of work you put into this. I just love watching these grand battles broken down for us to immerse ourselves into thousands of years later.

  • @opcon3155
    @opcon3155 4 дня назад

    Bro…your channel is amazing

  • @Fernandinioo
    @Fernandinioo Год назад +25

    That was just class as always, beautiful animations of ever new and interesting topics🎉

  • @zertyuz
    @zertyuz Год назад +8

    Love your channel man you're the best honestly

  • @Max-sm3ol
    @Max-sm3ol Год назад +14

    Merci beaucoup pour vos excellentes émissions d'Histoire
    où j'apprends toujours des choses ou des petits détails - je suis géographe-historien et war-gamiste,
    qui me permettent d'avoir la vision d'un britannique sur l'Histoire - quand vous traitez la Guerre de 100 ans ou plus généralement la rivalité franco-britannique, c'est utile !
    et me perfectionnent dans votre langue, notamment avec votre excellent accent !
    Thanks a lot. I like to follow you, 👍

    • @pedrokrim4400
      @pedrokrim4400 Год назад

      Ouais parce que la vision franchouillard de l’histoire est très partiale !

    • @bolosacc150
      @bolosacc150 Год назад +1

      Oui oui la baguette ooh lala 🍆

    • @EAGLE29-TIME
      @EAGLE29-TIME Год назад

      According to The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “Most of the classical literature that spurred the European Renaissance was obtained from translations of Arabic manuscripts in Muslim libraries.” (1984), Vol. 15, p. 646. Bertrand Russell in ‘History of Western Philosophy,’ London, 1948, p. 419. "Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... "From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary..."To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view." Professor, Reverend, W. Montgomery Watt reminds us in The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe (Edinburgh: University Press, 1972: “It is clear that the influence of Islam on Western Christendom is greater than is usually realized. Not only did Islam share with Western Europe many material products and technological discoveries; not only did it stimulate Europe intellectually in the fields of science and philosophy; but it provoked Europe into forming a new image of itself. Because Europe was reacting against Islam, it belittled the influence [of Muslim scholarship].... So today, an important task for our Western Europeans, as we move into the era of the one world, is to correct this false emphasis and to acknowledge fully our debt to the Arab and Islamic world." Tim Wallace Murphy, A Templar Historian wrote a book called What Islam Did For Us, on page 215 sums up as follows: "even the brief study of history revealed in these pages demonstrates that the European culture owes an immense and immeasurable debt to the world of Islam. Muslim scholars preserved and enhanced the learning of ancient Greece, laid the foundation for modern science, medicine, astronomy and navigation and inspired some of our greatest cultural achievements. If it were not for the inherent tolerance for the People of the Book that was manifest within the Islamic World for over 15 centuries, it is highly doubtful that the Jewish people could have survived as a racial and religious entity, and we would have lost their contribution to art, medicine, science, literature and music which is almost beyond measure. We in the West owe a debt to the Muslim world that can never be fully repaid. Despite our common religious and spiritual roots, we have thanked them with centuries of mistrust, the brutality of the crusades and imperial takeover that conducted with callous indifference to the needs of the peoples we exploited"

  • @thestrangerofmountains
    @thestrangerofmountains Год назад +26

    If Tariq and Musa weren't turned back to Damascus by the new Caliph and if their sons weren't assassinated, I believe Spain or at least part of it would have still been Muslim. They were extremely great governors and generals.
    One thing anyone can learn from the reconquest no matter if you are Muslim or Christian, is that, if you unite (lile the Christian Kingdoms) you rise and if you disunite (like the Islamic Emirate, caliphate and Tai'fas) you fail.

    • @angelcamachodelsolar
      @angelcamachodelsolar Год назад +1

      Both sides were disunited. It was 8 centuries where alliances continually changed, muslims againts christians, muslims against muslims, christians against christians, and, yep, christians and muslims against christians and muslims. 8 crazy centuries, like Game of Thrones.

    • @adnan_honest_jihadist5775
      @adnan_honest_jihadist5775 2 месяца назад

      @@angelcamachodelsolar christians massacred muslims tho

  • @armourofcontempt
    @armourofcontempt Год назад

    This is much better than I expected.
    Kick-ass.

  • @hussamabdallah4776
    @hussamabdallah4776 Год назад +1

    Fun fact The Arabs in that time did arabized Rodric name into Lozreeq and they did The same to Andlus Cites like Barcelona > Barshlona lisboa > Lashbona Granada > Qarnata Savile > Hims (Syrian city) Toledo > Tulitila Zaragoza > Saragosta and these Arabized version stil used today in arab countries

  • @whoknows-ee5kq
    @whoknows-ee5kq Год назад +19

    Waiting for a long time for this Video. Thank you History March! Now Waiting for Battle of Manzikart 1071. Will you Cover the Battle?

    • @HistoryMarche
      @HistoryMarche  Год назад +19

      Thanks so much! Actually, I am already working on Manzikert, it should be finished in about 30-40 days.

    • @whoknows-ee5kq
      @whoknows-ee5kq Год назад +6

      @@HistoryMarche another great news! And Again thank you!

    • @HistoryMarche
      @HistoryMarche  Год назад +13

      I'm excited about doing Manzikert too. Been wanting to do it for a long time, but for some reason it just kept getting postponed. But it's finally happening hehe

  • @zakariaalami1491
    @zakariaalami1491 Год назад +60

    Thats a hannibal level move by tariq ❤ the muslims early generals where beasts

    • @MrEnric98
      @MrEnric98 7 месяцев назад

      Both from North Africa, what is today Tunisia. Interesting

    • @zakariaalami1491
      @zakariaalami1491 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@MrEnric98 tariks origins are debated most likely he was from northern morocco tribe since he was the governor of tangier before crossing to iberia

    • @wagnerdk5799
      @wagnerdk5799 4 месяца назад +2

      The servants of Satan♥️✝️☝️

    • @zakariaalami1491
      @zakariaalami1491 4 месяца назад +1

      @@wagnerdk5799 whats your proof

    • @adnan_honest_jihadist5775
      @adnan_honest_jihadist5775 2 месяца назад

      throughout history there were always muslims general beasts

  • @عبدالرحمنعبدالرحيم-ف6ح

    Well done , more about Al-andulas.

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 Год назад +2

    The conquest of Spain by the Muslims is a highly interest subject. Great video.

  • @yacinek.7620
    @yacinek.7620 Год назад +5

    The one who helped the Muslims to enter Andalusia was the European prince, Count Julian, and he had a daughter named Florinda, daughter of Julian, who was born in Ceuta. She was very beautiful, and her father sent her, like other daughters of princes, to the court of the Gothic king Rodrigo in Toledo, to be disciplined with the etiquette of kings. In another narration, it says that the Gothic King Rodrigo saw Florinda bathing in the Tagus River (outside Toledo), then raped her and impregnated her, prompting her father, Count Julian, to take revenge with the help of the Muslim armies. Led by Tariq and Musa in the conquest of Andalusia from Ceuta. And in the end defeat Rodrigo. And his death in this eternal battle

    • @thetrollslayer3716
      @thetrollslayer3716 Год назад +1

      Dark ages. Europe never truly civilised. We gave them so many opportunities to get civilised but all our military expeditions were in vain 😀

  • @maisamsadigi1658
    @maisamsadigi1658 Год назад +662

    Umayyad caliphate 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️

  • @othmanechakir5691
    @othmanechakir5691 Год назад +4

    There is no historic account ot source that mentiones a rivalry between Moussa and Tariq at all.. what happened after the qconquest of Iberia is that BOTH of them were summoned to Damasqus because the Caliph Alwalid-Ibn-Abdelmalek has died.

  • @N-Noori
    @N-Noori Год назад +1

    I am waiting for Hannibal Barca next move along time since last episode.
    I love your channel and I see every Hannibal Barca episode many times.

  • @ahmedkasem208
    @ahmedkasem208 Год назад +2

    I love this type of historical videos

  • @alafifi101
    @alafifi101 Год назад +3

    This video doesn't mention the fact that the Muslims were actually invited intot there by the natives to fight those who were attack by other nations in Europe

  • @خليلالعلوي-ق2ط
    @خليلالعلوي-ق2ط 7 месяцев назад +2

    من مثل طارق اسد الاسلام الامازيغي الشجاع تلمذ من مدرسة محمد رسول الله رحم الله المسلمين في معركة فتح اسبانيا 🇸🇦

  • @DudeHistory
    @DudeHistory Год назад +21

    “Burned his own fleet” , Imagine the Faith and Enthusiasm❤

    • @akiogood4712
      @akiogood4712 Год назад +2

      it's a fake story though

    • @Beyondme488
      @Beyondme488 Год назад +8

      ​@@akiogood4712avg jealous guy

    • @akiogood4712
      @akiogood4712 Год назад

      @@Beyondme488 I'm not jealous. it's literally a fake story fabricated by christian losers who tried to find a justification for why they lost. Islamic scholars consider the alleged burning of ships as a fake story

    • @BrahimB127
      @BrahimB127 Год назад +1

      Fake story I'm north African as well

    • @Beyondme488
      @Beyondme488 Год назад +2

      @@BrahimB127 avg jealous guy , the story is well documented by historians .

  • @HistoryTalks-r3v
    @HistoryTalks-r3v 4 месяца назад +1

    Recent research by Spanish military historians puts the battle at Facinas about 100k from Guadalete. Still, nice video.

  • @micupedro
    @micupedro Год назад +1

    The culture of Al Andalus was not exclusively Arab, much less in the first years of invasion and conquest. The majority of the population was not Arab or Berber but rather Hispanic Gothic converted to Islam or not paying taxes (the so-called muladies) and preserved part of their material culture, architecture, irrigation canals, etc. On the other hand, although many fled to the northern mountains and established new kingdoms there, many also stayed in Al Andalus, preserving their Christian religion (the so-called Mozarabs) who even centuries later would flee in some cases to repopulate the lands conquered by the Kingdom of Aragon. The Arabs and Berbers arrived in greater numbers during the following centuries, until they were expelled by the same method with which they entered Hispania, with blood and fire.

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Год назад

      The ones in the Northern mountains never converted. They were Christian Visigothic nobles like Pelayo of Asturias. I believe Pelayo was born in the Cantabrian mountains.

  • @resileaf9501
    @resileaf9501 Год назад +8

    Interesting. I've seen this battle portrayed by BazBattles. In that video, Oppa and Sisberto's troops never actually join the fight and deserted at the moment the frontline troops engaged Tarik's frontline.
    New information has come to light, or different interpretations from different researchers?

    • @ParleLeVu
      @ParleLeVu Год назад +5

      30000 + vs 12000. The 30000 being more heavily armored. Even with the betrayal, there is something not adding up. 3000 losses for the Umayyads? It seems far more likely that the traitors attacked the Visigothic main army if such numbers are to be believed.

    • @sultanmomenofzenata177
      @sultanmomenofzenata177 Год назад +3

      it make sense as it is bc 3000 loses to the army that won is a lot like all early muslim battles the hight moral and cohesion of muslim is way higher than their enemys thats why they win @@ParleLeVu

    • @akashjefe
      @akashjefe Год назад

      ​@@ParleLeVuSoldiers die more from retreating than from pitched battle.

    • @LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown
      @LetsAllDrinkToTheDeathOfAClown Год назад +1

      ​​@@ParleLeVuof the 30,000 Visigothic troops half of them could have been Sisberto and Oppa's troops.
      Also the victors of battles always exaggerate the numbers of their enemies and usually sugar coat their own losses. I'm not saying that's what happened for sure but it's a possibility.
      Have you noticed with the wars of the past 200 years or so the loser always seems to be blamed for starting the war lol?

    • @angelcamachodelsolar
      @angelcamachodelsolar Год назад

      @@ParleLeVu Visigothic army was about 24.000, 5.000 light infantry (mostly armed peasants) plus 3.000 heavy cavalry in the center whith Roderic, and two wings of 4.000 heavy cavalry each one, which deserted. The muslim army went from be doubled to have a 50% more troops. Very experienced troops (light cavalry and spearmen) which surrounded and defeat Roderic's army.
      Shortly after the muslim army won anothe battle in Écija and easily took the capital, Toledo. There was no more resistance until they reached the northern mountains.

  • @LoneWanderer727
    @LoneWanderer727 Год назад +21

    I just visited Portugal and extensive parts of Spain recently...it's fascinating seeing all of the different cultural impacts on the architecture, cities and history in person.
    Also, shoutout to the Basque peoples! Always up there doing their own thing ^^

    • @GiNyYu222
      @GiNyYu222 Год назад +1

      Even in the Dna of spanish people (they dont like that but is true)

    • @EAGLE29-TIME
      @EAGLE29-TIME Год назад +2

      "Give him alms woman; for there is nothing like the sorrow of being blind in Granada".

    • @adnan_honest_jihadist5775
      @adnan_honest_jihadist5775 2 месяца назад

      i see no gratefulness to muslims

  • @hassanimohamed9005
    @hassanimohamed9005 Год назад +38

    The defeat of the Visigoths was not due to the betrayal of the army, but the battle lasted more than four days, and the steadfastness of the Arabs forced the Gothic army to be torn apart, so a group of knights left the Gothic army, and everyone was defeated in the end.

    • @oussamamarroqino2579
      @oussamamarroqino2579 Год назад +2

      What arabs

    • @khalidalfaghm359
      @khalidalfaghm359 Год назад +16

      @@oussamamarroqino2579 the Muslim army was both Berber and Arab

    • @skylanh4319
      @skylanh4319 Год назад +1

      Except there are many accounts saying there was a betrayal that destroyed the Visigoth ruling class. It is pretty well established in the records and created a lot of tension across Europe toward these betraying people.

    • @bestryfulhd2102
      @bestryfulhd2102 Год назад +4

      @@oussamamarroqino2579 it was berber and arabs both .

    • @GiNyYu222
      @GiNyYu222 Год назад +8

      True, for sure this channel used christian sources, acording to them in all battles they lost coz someone deserted xD

  • @fernandoruizperales1061
    @fernandoruizperales1061 Год назад

    I have been waiting for a video about this battle for a long time. Thank you and hope you enjoy your stay here.

  • @abdellatiefhamed2368
    @abdellatiefhamed2368 Год назад

    this Chanel always makes the best historical videos

  • @HistoryoftheUmmah
    @HistoryoftheUmmah Год назад +3

    The Islamic conquest of Spain was Arab and Berber. Many of the Muslim warriors such as Tariq Ibn Ziyad was Berber.

    • @Mauri7782
      @Mauri7782 Год назад +2

      Amazigh and the arabs got expelled

  • @jamshidkarimov1021
    @jamshidkarimov1021 Год назад +4

    You didn't mention Tariq burning his fleet in order to make understand his troops that fleeing is not option

    • @angelcamachodelsolar
      @angelcamachodelsolar Год назад

      It seems to be a legend. First time we have notice of "burn the boats" was Alexander the Great the year 332 B.C. in phoenicia. The spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés did the same the year 1521 in the current México.

    • @jamshidkarimov1021
      @jamshidkarimov1021 Год назад

      @@angelcamachodelsolar It is historical event

    • @angelcamachodelsolar
      @angelcamachodelsolar Год назад

      @@jamshidkarimov1021 In the historical sources that we handle Tariq has a few boats, and it took days if not weeks to cross the strait all his troops. So there wasn't enough boats to retreat to Africa if they were defeated.

  • @AzizAmri-l5d
    @AzizAmri-l5d 3 месяца назад +3

    *As an Arab I want to say that we and the Spaniards share probably the same traditions , culture and even the same DNA ! for example there are many Spaniards who has big black eyes with thick and long eyebrows and this means that they have Arab genes in their DNA , we Arabs and Spaniards will never seperate 💖*

    • @aagoge
      @aagoge 3 месяца назад +4

      Confundes la fisonomía ibera y tartesa con la árabe, en los siglos de ocupación, raza y religión lo eran todo, así que no, no hubo tal mezcla como los musulmanes tanto os gusta proclamar.
      La prueba es que de haber existido esa mezcla: por qué hubo 700 años de guerra? Por qué al acabar la Reconquista tras 1492 en España se hizo limpieza de sangre y tanto judíos como musulmanes fueron todos expulsados de la península?. De haberse mezclado esto no sería posible.

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 3 месяца назад +2

      No we do not. especially in the North. Iberians are not very fond of Middle Eastern people for a reason

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 3 месяца назад

      Give me a break. Many Spaniards have dark hair and eyes because we are Celtic. We can easily blend in England, Ireland, and even south Germany even with dark hair and eyes. We are from Austria not the middle east. And my dad literally looks like a Swedish actor named Stellan Skarsgard in the film Anita.There are even photos of the furrer himself hugging people who look just like us for his breathing and youth program. Spaniards and Arabs look absolutely nothing alike.

    • @jojolafrite9265
      @jojolafrite9265 2 месяца назад

      ​​@@asturiasceltic3183l'espagnol est de type méditerranéen Ibérique, il n'est ni viking ni arabes Moi je suis lusitanien espagnol, dans ma famille il y a de yeux bleus et noir et des blonds et bruns .
      Notre descendance viens des TARTESOS , cet la majorité des Ibériques indigenes.

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 2 месяца назад

      @@jojolafrite9265 No todos somos mediterráneos. Al menos en el norte, somos atlánticos en el noroeste (somos Celtas) y los vascos son muy especiales y únicos y los MÁS VIEJOS DE TODOS LOS EUROPEOS y esos cabrones intentaron siquiera llegar hasta aquí. No me importan los colores porque los ibéricos pueden ser de cualquier color, pero muchos de nosotros compartimos características muy similares, especialmente en el norte. El 90% de todos los españoles no tienen ADN de MENA y muchos de ellos en el centro y el sur de España son similares a los norteños.

  • @josuonandia3156
    @josuonandia3156 Год назад +2

    I'd like that this channel covered in depth the medieval Spain. Not just the battles where the muslims win, as you tend to do, but all of them. I'd really love to watch your analysis of the battle Navas de Tolosa.

    • @07heavens54
      @07heavens54 11 месяцев назад +1

      Antes de explicarnos las Navas de Tolosa, debe explicarnos la Batalla de Arcos, porque una no va sin la otra.

    • @HarbdakramKardo
      @HarbdakramKardo 11 месяцев назад

      The first 4 muslim Generations in 7+8 century are not the same Generations in 12 and 13 and after

    • @LuisBrito-ly1ko
      @LuisBrito-ly1ko 10 месяцев назад

      “Tend to do”? This is literally the first battle involving Muslims and Spain covered by this channel.

    • @migelangeldejesusquinterog4584
      @migelangeldejesusquinterog4584 10 месяцев назад

      Nah better with the almoravid conquests in italy, france and greece.

  • @hydrohussla8226
    @hydrohussla8226 7 месяцев назад

    As always, love the detail and narration style!

  • @kmm-212
    @kmm-212 Год назад +3

    Proposition for another episode. Battle of Komarów - the last so huge cavalry battle in history

  • @Leptospirosi
    @Leptospirosi Год назад +4

    Any information about the destiny of Oppa and Sisberto, after the battle and in the following years? 🤔

    • @NTLuck
      @NTLuck Год назад +7

      The destiny of traitors is never worth mentioning. Sisberto is never heard from again, and Oppa fled to Toledo but was later captured and executed. Ignoble ends to treacherous scum

    • @Leptospirosi
      @Leptospirosi Год назад

      @@NTLuck it reminds me if the story of Romanos IV and Andronicos Dukas and the battle of Manzikert.
      It also come to mind an ancient Italian saying: "Peggio è l’invidia dell’amico che l’insidia del nemico" [worse it's the envy of a friend then the threat of an enemy]

    • @uniuni8855
      @uniuni8855 Год назад

      ​@@NTLuckdepends if you are a Communist or a fascist, you can't just call them traitors. You are Germans after all 😅

  • @THEMHAMED1
    @THEMHAMED1 Год назад +1

    same tactic used in cannae by hanibaal , in both cases the light berber cavalery was the key of success

  • @ralambosontiavina7372
    @ralambosontiavina7372 Год назад

    Excellent video as always and excellent music.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Год назад +11

    Thanks for this man! This dude was a legend! Your content rocks!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

  • @IronWarrior86
    @IronWarrior86 Год назад +9

    Germanic Visigoth army was poorly trained and lacked military skills while the Muslims were better warrior as well as highly motivated and their leader was more intelligent. A monumental defeat such as this one is enough to change the course of history for what could seem like an eternity. I read somewhere that 90% of the Iberian population was Islamized by the mid 9th century. They became known in Spanish as Muladis (in Arabic muwalladun), while the remaining Christians were known as Mozarabs (musta'rab) and were relegated to second-class citizens.

    • @bosertheropode5443
      @bosertheropode5443 Год назад +2

      They got their payback eventually.

    • @IronWarrior86
      @IronWarrior86 Год назад +5

      @@bosertheropode5443 Indeed took some time though.

    • @bosertheropode5443
      @bosertheropode5443 Год назад +5

      @@IronWarrior86 Better late than never

    • @NubiansNapata
      @NubiansNapata Год назад

      ​@@bosertheropode5443took moors 6 years to conquer Spain. It took the Spanish 800 years 😂to get it back.

    • @bosertheropode5443
      @bosertheropode5443 Год назад +1

      @@NubiansNapata And the spaniards went on to subjugate the entirety of the New world, while the moors were reduced to ottoman vassals and pirates, until they too were subdued and conquered by spanish and french forces.

  • @jsoth2675
    @jsoth2675 Год назад +5

    As always, quality content.

  • @urimsylejmani4607
    @urimsylejmani4607 2 месяца назад

    Thanks for teaching us history at the best way possible
    ❤❤

  • @vladimirvucetic6933
    @vladimirvucetic6933 Год назад +2

    Quite astonishing how this betrayal had such a big impact and almost changed the history of Europe.

    • @zulfikaregzikutor5561
      @zulfikaregzikutor5561 Год назад +1

      It did changed, Al Andalus was a precursor to the European Renaissance.

  • @josrevelie8278
    @josrevelie8278 Год назад +3

    Tariq Ibn Ziyad was undoubtedly Amazigh/Berber (native North African) but still to this day there are lunatics who will claim he was an Arab. And don't get me started with the Afrocentrists who will argue that Tariq Ibn Ziyad was black.....

    • @slightlyopinionated8107
      @slightlyopinionated8107 15 дней назад

      I think it’s diaspora people because even in textbooks in Arab countries we learn he was Berber

  • @Faisel86
    @Faisel86 Год назад +26

    Claiming Tariq Ibn Ziyad and the army that he commanded were not Berber/Amazigh but Arab is like saying the Moon is made out of cheese.

    • @af7740
      @af7740 Год назад +11

      Amazigh and Arabs were together

    • @rolandorodriguez4504
      @rolandorodriguez4504 Год назад +12

      The overwhelmingly large bulk of his army was Amazigh, in fact, this created problems later during the early periods of Al-Andalus since many veterans who had settle down on on the Peninsula were furious because the Arabs took all the credit and land, leading to a rebellion

    • @AB-fr2ei
      @AB-fr2ei Год назад +2

      He says that Tariq and his army were berbers in the video tho

    • @yaserahmed4829
      @yaserahmed4829 Год назад +5

      There were 12k berber and 18k Arabs and the country was Arabian 😀😀😀😀😀😀

    • @AB-fr2ei
      @AB-fr2ei Год назад +2

      @@yaserahmed4829 the majority of the army was berber/amazigh
      And what country are you talking about ?
      You probably talking about the ummayad dynasty that was indeed arab

  • @barbaroslar2235
    @barbaroslar2235 Год назад +7

    Facing an army of 100,000 upon landing, he ordered his ships burned, so his troops could not lose heart and flee. In a sermon to his troops in before The Battle of Guadalete, Tariq said: Oh my warriors, whither would you flee? Behind you is the sea, before you, the enemy.

    • @barittos5585
      @barittos5585 Год назад +1

      that might not be true because no historical record shows that

    • @barbaroslar2235
      @barbaroslar2235 Год назад +7

      @@barittos5585 which history? the one written by west that hate islam and muslim?

    • @ALNASERABDO
      @ALNASERABDO Год назад

      i don't think he really did this for two reasons
      1- he didn't own those ships
      2- not military good move and as a muslem commander he should depends on martyrdom Shahada not desperate

    • @barbaroslar2235
      @barbaroslar2235 Год назад

      @@ALNASERABDO it shows courage and believe by burning the ship, if in war I see enemies from sea burning their own ship the only way they can escape I'll run because they only come to win or die

    • @sebe2255
      @sebe2255 Год назад

      @@barbaroslar2235Alternatively your men would string you up and just surrender or flee lol

  • @brothergerman597
    @brothergerman597 2 месяца назад

    Excellent video, animation and narrative 👍🏼👍🏼
    Following your channel from 🇨🇦
    Hasta la vista Amigos del Al Andalus 🙋🏻‍♂️

  • @AFROkid131
    @AFROkid131 Год назад +2

    Amazing video, can we expect more videos covering the islamic rule of al-andalus?

    • @med5226
      @med5226 7 месяцев назад

      انت مسلم ؟

  • @islamicstuff133
    @islamicstuff133 Год назад +3

    معركة وادي لكة المجيدة ، شكرا لك على الرغم من بعض الأخطاء التي ذكرتها ، ولكن هذه المعركة كانت بوابة لدخول المسلمين في أوربا حيث إستطاعوا حكم الأندلس مدة 8 قرون ، وأثر ذلك على حضارة اروبا التي كانت تعيش في العصور المظلمة ، وقد تعلم الأربيون العديد من الأشياء من المسلمين مثل الطب والرياضيات كذلك تعلموا الاستحمام و النظافة

    • @umbrellacorp3889
      @umbrellacorp3889 Год назад

      أنت إما أمي أو كاذب.

    • @مخلد-ث5ض
      @مخلد-ث5ض 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@umbrellacorp3889 يا عزيزي كلامه صحيح ، انت من تنكر ذلك

  • @Frankgarsp
    @Frankgarsp Год назад +7

    All wrong, the only thing right was Tarif's exploratory incursion, but everything else is wrong. Tarik never left Iulia Transducta (Algeciras) before the battle against Rodreric. Tarik didn't have cavalry, only a few scouts, and he could have never reached Cordoba and Gades. The correct location for the battle isn't the Guadalete River, but the Almodovar River that flowed into the Lake of Janda (Wadi Lekko, river of the lake).

    • @RoyallyChris
      @RoyallyChris Год назад +7

      Sources for your claims?

    •  Год назад +7

      ​@@RoyallyChrisIn fact, he is right, Spanish historians have long debated the location during the 19th and 20th centuries, because Guadalete does not match the information described about the site of the battle in the sources, which is why it is considered an error. It is currently more accepted that the battle took place closer to Algeciras (which was Tariq's main base) and that the closest site to the sources is next to the old Laguna de La Janda. I heard all this from a podcast by a historian named Fernando Diaz Villanueva, in which I interview an expert on the subject, so without saying the sources, Franksgarp's comment is correct.

    • @ParleLeVu
      @ParleLeVu Год назад +3

      @ How do they explain the losses, though? If the traitor Visigoths every actually engaged, then 36000 vs 12000 does not lead to only 3000 losses for the Umayyads. Something is not adding up.

    •  Год назад +7

      ​​​​@@ParleLeVuI had to search and listen to the podcast again in order to remember exactly what they said; The reality is that they never speak of numbers because the sources generally always tend to exaggerate them, but what is affirmed is that the population in all of Visigothic Hispania was less than 5 million, but that several facts must be added that would explain not only the little resistance that there was after the battle, but also the very possible lack of Visigothic forces to face the Invasion (which is likely due to antecedents that they were not capable of raising very large armies unlike the Franks, since the century before the conquest, the Byzantines came to reconquer the south of Hispania with not many troops and the Goths were unable to expel them quickly), since some sources mention that at that time there were great droughts that led to massive famines and also few years before the Invasion, there were outbreaks of the Bubonic Plague, also add the Civil War situation in which the kingdom was just when Tariq and Musa undertook their attack (internal struggles that must have caused many casualties in the Visigoths), in addition to It must be taken into account that the Muslim troops defeated the garrisons that left Cordoba to attack them before Rodrigo arrived (skirmishes that reduce the available troops), so it is very likely that the actual estimate of troops would be much less of the 30,000 soldiers, they may not have been very different from those of the Muslims, perhaps they did not exceed 20,000 and if you subtract from there those who retreat for treason in the middle of battle, they may remain in numbers similar to those of the invaders (So the most realistic estimate would be 20,000 vs 12,000). Another important point to take into account and that our historians mention in the podcast, is that the Moroccan population, recently converted to Islam before the Invasion, had been romanized for centuries (at least those who lived in the cities), so a good part of Tariq's contingents (mainly the infantry), was armed very similar to the Visigoths who had heavy infantry (that is, they knew the ways of fighting and had similar weapons) and if you add to that the defensive positions, that would explain the little mortality of the Moors and instead that of the Visigoths is explained by the fact that behind their backs, according to the sources, was the Laguna de La Janda, that explains the great mortality since when the flanks fled for treason and being almost bagged, most of them ended up dying from trying to swim away in their retreat across the lagoon, in fact King Rodigo himself died that way according to the sources, as they emphasize in the podcast, so the casualties were due more to the withdrawal than to the fight with the invaders itself... I hope this has solved your doubts.

    • @ParleLeVu
      @ParleLeVu Год назад +3

      Thanks. Great recap. Arabs were never known as great pitched fighters, so the Berbers doing the heavy lifting in the melee makes sense, due to the background as a Roman (and Vandal/Visigothic) province. @

  • @shivarya1752
    @shivarya1752 Год назад +8

    Your intros, background music, presentation and vibe of your video are unmatchable ❤
    Edit: lost my heart due to edit😭 please historymarche give me heart again

  • @LearnAboutIslam1375
    @LearnAboutIslam1375 11 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing video !

  • @Cortex.N
    @Cortex.N Год назад +1

    Tariq bin Ziyad is an Arab, not a Berber. Twelve historians, including the Berber Ibn Khaldun, agreed on this statement. They differed only in the Arab tribe to which Tariq bin Ziyad belonged. The Umayyad caliphate had its cavalry units all of which were Arabs, and only the infantry units included non-Arabs

  • @DeoAlong
    @DeoAlong Год назад +6

    Whew! Learned more in history with your videos than any other lessons.

  • @Gaz-1
    @Gaz-1 Год назад +5

    طريف وطارق ، هذه اسماء كلها عربية ، فمن اين أتيت بالامازيغ ؟ في تلك الحقبة الامازيغ والبربر لم يمتلكون أسماء عربية ؟
    في مصادرنا العربية - أغلب - من دخل اسبانيا ( الاندلس ) هم عرب قادةً وجندًا.
    ومع ذلك لا ننفي وجود بعض المسلمين الامازيغ في جيش المسلمين.

    • @user-wy8bo1ys9b
      @user-wy8bo1ys9b Год назад

      فتح الاندلس من قبل الشيعة وليس السنه

    • @Gaz-1
      @Gaz-1 Год назад

      @@user-wy8bo1ys9b هههههههه حلوه منك والله هالنكتة 😂😂😂

    • @user-wy8bo1ys9b
      @user-wy8bo1ys9b Год назад

      @@Gaz-1 هههههه😂

    • @n30escape
      @n30escape Год назад +1

      يعني حسب تفسيرك الغبي صلاح الدين الايوبي عربي لانه اسمه عربي ، يااخي شوف اسم والد وجد طارق ابن زياد وتعال تكلم معي

    • @Gaz-1
      @Gaz-1 Год назад

      صلاح الدين واجداده داخلين الاسلام منذ قرووون ، اقل شي من القرن الخامس .
      اما طارق ف القرن الاول يا حمار، ولم يقل احد بأنه بربري الا المؤرخين المتأخرين.
      ومن يعرف طبيعة الدولة الاموية يعرف انها لا تجعل القيادة الا فالعرب

  • @shehansenanayaka3046
    @shehansenanayaka3046 Год назад +113

    Reconquista one of my fav periods. Love your videos. We always appreciate your hard work and dedication towards these videos. Brilliant documentary.. tariq and his men conquer spain. Also,he gives if i m not wrong his name for some city. Thank you for this video. We know it take lot of time and hard work to make these videos. Love and appreciation from Sri Lanka. 🇱🇰🤝🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

    • @HistoryMarche
      @HistoryMarche  Год назад +17

      Glad you like them! Thanks so much for the feedback.

    • @senseishu937
      @senseishu937 Год назад +34

      Yes, gribaltar is the anglicized name for Jabal Tariq (جبل طارق) which in Arabic means Tariq's Mountain, as he had to cross it when entering the peninsula.

    • @zakariaalami1491
      @zakariaalami1491 Год назад +26

      Thats not reconquista thats conquista itself the re is much later

    • @shehansenanayaka3046
      @shehansenanayaka3046 Год назад

      @@zakariaalami1491 yes . I was mistaken. This is the conquest by muslims.

    • @dik943
      @dik943 Год назад +8

      I pray we get to see a new reconquista within our lifetimes 🙏🏿

  • @mrpopo-sf3ke
    @mrpopo-sf3ke Год назад +2

    El Cid's reconquista how he eventually took back Spain is extremely inspirational

    • @jdunfoundwarrior3962
      @jdunfoundwarrior3962 Год назад

      It’s good but it’s not as good cause the Arabs were weakened back then

    • @mrpopo-sf3ke
      @mrpopo-sf3ke Год назад +6

      @@jdunfoundwarrior3962 But it was the same situation when Muslims started to attack Christendom after Rome defeated the Persians/Zoroastrians. After 700 hundred years of occupation the Muslims rule were fought and won and the Islamic government banished completely from Spain.
      It's rare but not unheard of. Mongol rule collapsed in a similar way.

    • @the4universes207
      @the4universes207 Год назад

      @@mrpopo-sf3ke Yep thats true

    • @asturiasceltic3183
      @asturiasceltic3183 Год назад +2

      El Cid is an Iberian hero. My family had a lot admiration for him. I actually met a young lady who was a descendant of his..Her surname is Del Cid. She's down to earth and a nurse but it was like meeting a princess.

    • @KauysLak
      @KauysLak 4 месяца назад

      @@mrpopo-sf3kethat is not true when the muslims attacked the byzantines and the persians, the buzantines and persian where still more powerfull then the muslims and still ountnumberd them and had better technologie then them, so dont bring your excuses that the byzantines where weakend they where far from weakend they saw the muslim ass a ravage rebels, so tou cannot say that they where weakend beacuse they still outnumberd the muslim 1 to 4 so stop the cap g dont try to take away from the early muslim armies, it wont work bro because history is against you

  • @Viralstuff153
    @Viralstuff153 Год назад +1

    in which battle Tariq bin ziyad ordered his ships to be burned, so his soldiers were left with only two choices, either conquer the Spain or die

  • @Nom_AnorVSJedi
    @Nom_AnorVSJedi Год назад +5

    Shocking how small these Dark Age armies were, you can conquer Spain with 6000 men? Justinian expected Bellisarius to conquer Italy and North Africa with 25,000 men? England was conquered by 9000 Normans? Crazy!

    • @Leptospirosi
      @Leptospirosi Год назад +6

      Once the ruling class was fell, there was little to no structure to hold anyone to take what they wanted.
      These farctured realms (think of the Lombards and Charlemagne) often were working for the enemy trying ti carve some power for themselves. Kingdoms were just under the king's rule, but there was no real grasp of "Nation" (or "Res Pubblica") as the Roman had.

    • @Mohammadkwt
      @Mohammadkwt Год назад +8

      Dark ages applies to Europe. We had nothing to do with that.

    • @Nom_AnorVSJedi
      @Nom_AnorVSJedi Год назад +5

      @@Mohammadkwt and yet Islamic armies were so small like Europe. Muslims conquered Egypt with just 12,000 men. Why? (And please don’t tell me Allah was on your side).

    • @fin5494
      @fin5494 Год назад +8

      ​@@Nom_AnorVSJedi Nothing wrong with believing God (Allah) had a role in the battles, God decides the outcome of all. Early Islamic Armies had very high morale and were under 1 banner, leaving little to no division, regardless, the early Islamic battles are something to marvel at, always interesting to see battles of smaller armies defeating larger ones.

    • @Dilzak69
      @Dilzak69 Год назад +4

      muslim never fought for their self but for others they had bettter ecnomical social and political values than that of their time thats why from every corner people invited muslim to rule over them from hispania to india bangladesh to indonesia

  • @Ghostrex101
    @Ghostrex101 Год назад +6

    Incredible how one lost battle had the result of a whole nation falling. Didn't the cities have walls to protect them?

    • @Spiderfisch
      @Spiderfisch Год назад +6

      Walls need an army to guard them

    • @Abdullah.Q8.
      @Abdullah.Q8. Год назад +7

      يوجد لها لكن يوجد مدن كثيرة سقطت بسرعة مثل قرطبة وماجاورها واصبح لسان حال اصحاب ووجهاء مدن كثيرة اخرى في اسبانيا ان تستسلم اثناء الحصار وتستفيد بشروط لصالحها وتضمن مالها وممتلكاتها وايضاً كان هناك مدن كثيرة كانت ساخطه على حكم القوط وبعض الاقليات مثل اليهود كانوا مضطهدين من قبل القوط ففضلوا تقديم شروط لصالحهم و الاستسلام وفتح المدن للقوات الاسلامية

    • @Ghostrex101
      @Ghostrex101 Год назад

      @@Spiderfisch Not really. The local levy would suffice to man the walls.

    • @asmrnaturecat984
      @asmrnaturecat984 Год назад +10

      More than often, during this time period, muslim rule is a better choice with less taxation
      Why fight when your living will improve?
      This is the reason why there almost no rebellion among the conquered during initial expansion..

    • @Mohammadkwt
      @Mohammadkwt Год назад +3

      This is what you get when you have a usurper king

  • @robjorge725
    @robjorge725 Год назад +31

    My heritage is Portuguese, I'm convinced I have a mixture of historic cultures. Especially arabic. Must do a DNA test

    • @samiman5606
      @samiman5606 Год назад +2

      That's not true Bro I geuss you the people of portogal got some of Amazigh native blood because the Amazigh dinestys ruled portogal many times like the Aftasid family in the time of divided city states

    • @walideg5304
      @walideg5304 Год назад +4

      You have amazigh blood than Arabic be sure. Only 2 or 3% of modern North Africa is Arab genetically.

    • @Ibn-Abdurrahman
      @Ibn-Abdurrahman Год назад +6

      @@walideg5304how do you know what blood he has?! You guys are funny

    • @alijaafari210
      @alijaafari210 Год назад

      @@Ibn-Abdurrahman arabs loves to spread lie to look good, arabs didn't kill all amazigh&andalusians but the like of belive that arabs are majority of north africa and andalusia. arabs were few in andalusia and north africa, The Moroccan amazigh ruled andalusia until its fall after clean it from the trash rulers by the true muslims al morabitin. I've never meet a liar like an arab, no honor just shame.

    • @doyouevenpraise189
      @doyouevenpraise189 Год назад

      Moors didnt colonize nor migrated to the Iberian Penninsula specially not in the middle ages were armies were very small 3k to 8k small. nonetheless Moors for example are actualy related to iberians but not for the reason you may think. Both were colonize by the Romans for at least 1000 years and later both also by the Germanic Goths

  • @spawn11
    @spawn11 Год назад +1

    Need a high budget movie or web series on Reconquista. When crusaders recaptured Spain.

  • @loukylouky3962
    @loukylouky3962 Год назад +1

    The muslims where actually not interested in Iberia but in gold rich subharan Africa. But a runaway gothic prince requested help

  • @laertes9505
    @laertes9505 Год назад +3

    Love your work. Great video. We need a part 2 . The battle of Covadonga and northern ressistance. Thanks for subtitles.

  • @mrright9437
    @mrright9437 Год назад +4

    The heavy cavalry that fought were Arabs, not Berbers. There is debate surrounding Tariq's origin. Some early Muslim historians believe he was an Arab from a well-known tribe, while others claim he was a Berber.

    • @Ppoim
      @Ppoim Год назад +2

      😂😂😂😂
      Don't lie, it where all zenata imazighen

    • @mrright9437
      @mrright9437 Год назад

      @@Ppoim
      Yeah , maybe in alternative history .. 😅

    • @Footballtifo
      @Footballtifo Год назад

      He was from the zenata tribe the current rif mountains. We historically always were warriors. Read about our fights against the french surrendering monkeys and Spanish in the 1900 with abdelkrim.

    • @mrright9437
      @mrright9437 Год назад

      @@Footballtifo
      His origins are not important as his religion .. but as someone who depends on arabic sources , I find that many historians mentioned an Arabic origin for Tariq.. , and abdelkrim himself said that his ancestors came from arabia ( southern Saudi Arabia )

    • @YanissRadi-vb1te
      @YanissRadi-vb1te 4 месяца назад +1

      Buuuulllshit panoramique alkheria

  • @rechard30
    @rechard30 Год назад +4

    is not by Arab, the most of the Army was North African

    • @deadbeat5165
      @deadbeat5165 Год назад

      not true tariq was only one general most army and generals are arabs

    • @wesamalkenai
      @wesamalkenai 9 месяцев назад

      All arab

  • @KamranAliHashmi
    @KamranAliHashmi Год назад +1

    Always a good job from you guys...👌

  • @Historiaymas.
    @Historiaymas. Год назад +2

    Interesting video❤️👍

  • @lolxdani9996
    @lolxdani9996 Год назад +4

    And then is where Asturias rise and start the reconquista

    • @RAmi_RAmi247
      @RAmi_RAmi247 7 месяцев назад +1

      No man !! thats 800 years obfff😂

    • @lolxdani9996
      @lolxdani9996 7 месяцев назад

      @@RAmi_RAmi247 what are you saying mate? 😂