Tenochtitlan IS Mexico City. Mexico City was built on top of it. You're thinking of Teotihuacan, which is a city that is even more ancient, that was built by another civilization long before Tenochtitlan existed.
@@spacegarage6826 The fun of being a gamming nerd is you learn really odd tidbits of history that others wouldn't know. XD I have learned almost the entire romance of the 3 kingdoms novel because of my love of dynasty warriors games and the romance of the three kingdoms games.
@@waunke56 Ironic! Same for me! Was chilling one afternoon and my friend was like, "Yo, I found this cool hack and slash game. I'll bring it over." 10 years later I was in China. Spent over 6 years there. Now I'm home and unemployed. Failed to be a success twice, and China failed me once. You're lucky because these days you can get a plane ticket and just go over. Back in 2010 when I was there, they didn't have fancy phone apps like Baidu maps to give you directions or google translate to assist with communication. You know the movie Life of Pi? Yeah, I went through something similar with China. Every time China spit me out and dropped me back in the US completely broke, I got back up and went back again like Rocky ready for round 2 after taking a beating. I did it because I have nothing in my small hometown in the Midwest except painful memories of surviving cancer. Thought I won round 3 with China, but still ended up back home broke. You know what's interesting this month? I haven't seen my friends I grew up with since 2006 because they all went off to college, found jobs on either end of the country, and married. They came back to visit family this past week, and they visited my aunt's house. The 3 of us sat there in the living room where we first played Dynasty Warriors 4 together nearly 18 years ago.
13:09 Small note: Mexico City is exactly where Tenochtitlan was, it was built right over where it had been. After its conquest, Cortés ordered the city to be systematically destroyed and leveled and for a new city to be built over it, which is now modern day Mexico City. (Because the city was built right over Lake Texcoco as well, there's a current issue where it Mexico City is sinking a few inches every year as more water is pumped out.) Right next to the Mexican Metropolitan Cathedral and National Palace, you can actually see the remains of Templo Mayor where it had stood, which is now part of a museum dedicated to the Aztec People. Additionally, because the temple was (unfortunately) destroyed, you can actually see inside it the different walls of the temple as it gradually was expanded over time, like tree rings. You might be thinking of Teotihuacan, which is pretty close to Mexico City, however, it is far older than the Aztecs, and, if I remember correctly, no one has ever really been able to determine who built it.
I thought Egypt was under Persian control at the time, and the Egyptians were so happy that they were no longer under Persian control that they welcomed Alexander in as their new Pharaoh, but I could be remembering wrong.
A bit of historical trivia related to the Julian Calendar: In the run up to the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon succeeded in destroying large part of the Austrian army by itself because the Catholic Austrians when they made their plans apparently forgot that as an Orthodox country, Russia was over a week behind them. So Russian forces were so far away - ignorantly believing themselves to be making good time - that they were in no position to assist them.
Yeah, Russia remained on the Julian calendar until the Soviets changed it in Feb 1918, which can really be a pain for someone like me who tried to use primary sources for something like the February Revolution where the dates could be in one of two different calendar systems depending on who wrote the source.
Thanks for the video. Always fun to watch and learn. About the vaccination. What you are describing, exposing people voluntarily to smallpox from pustules, is called variolation. The first vaccination by Edward Jenner is a bit different and consisted in inoculating people with cowpox, a similar disease affecting cows. It happened to be more benign in humans, and to protect them from smallpox. Hence vaccination. Vacca is cow in Latin.
My favorite part. I’ve been watching you for so long, and loving it, but I knew exactly what you would say when answering questions 63, 66 and 74. Thank you always for just being you and all you do for us.
My favorite history teacher always told me that dates are not important and not worth testing on. When something happens, exactly, doesn't matter as much as what happened and knowing the story of how it happened. Like, the order of which things happened, mattered much more than knowing the exact date of things. Really blew a lot of our minds, and that actually helped a lot of us get into history by not thinking of it as a lot of dates to memorize, and really get to the "story" part of history.
The ironic thing about Yuri Gagarin being killed in a training flight is that a year prior, not long after the Apollo 1 fire, there was a Soviet flight that crashed on reentry and he was the backup pilot for that mission! When the Russian government realized this, they immediately grounded Gagarin permanently, saying he was too important as a national hero to risk like that and then look what happened.
Question 13 is definitely a trick question, and the answer is all of the above. The question was Alex was the king ow which ancient kingdom, with the options being Egypt, Persia and Macedonia. The correct answer is "all of the above", although he started as King of Macedonia.
While Alexander conquered Egypt and Persia, he was never 'King' of either of those. He recognized that it was better for his ambitions to keep the local leaders intact as much as possible as long as they swore fealty to him and agreed to always get his okay before doing huge projects and the like. He left the pharoahs in charge of Egypt, but he installed his own ministers in the court and ruling class to keep it under control. In Persia, he married into the royal family to become part of the rulers that the people would venerate. The only kingdom that he truly ruled as King was Macedon.
Keep pumping out the content Chris👍 You are an amazing human being and I hope you realize how much joy and learning you bring to us. ❤️ Also, the contribution and impact you’ve had on myself and countless others around the world. We really do appreciate you and I truely hope I get the privilege to meet you someday and discuss the Baltimore Colts and the Cleveland Browns bananza during the mid-90’s amongst so much more… I have a list‼️Yes yes, I do in fact reside in the “Land of Pleasant Living” itself aka Maryland 😂 It would be a groundbreaking discussion and I bet we’ll end up agreeing on most and finally amend the animosity between BAL/CLE/ & IND which was/is still an underrated and almost forgotten hugely significant issue that altered the future drastically imo. Would LOVE to see you delve into some historical sports content and I AM HERE TO HELP! 👋🏼 Sports deserve at least one entire chapter to itself in the hypothetical “Book of History” From greco-Roman wrestling to Roman Gladiators and so on. HISTORY is EVERYTHING folks‼️💪🏽💪🏽 ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT!💥🕺🏼💥
no he wasnt. He was a painter, who made his living on paintings. Sure, he also did some science/inventions, but mostly to support his artistic aspirations. People act like he was a scientist first, which is simply untrue.
I’m the Dave from Frederick, MD, which is a tremendous place to live if you’re into (especially the “Great Rebellion”) history. You are awesome! Thank you for all your content.
I got 94/100. Nos 5, 20, 27, 44, 47, 64. As you said Chris the 20th century ones were easier for most I suspect. Good fun. I have a BA (Hons) in History/Politics from 1997 mostly 20th century WW1,WW2 and the Cold War.
I very much enjoyed this quiz. I have learned quite a bit watching your videos and while I got quite a few wrong, I was proud of the knowledge I've gained from your channel.
Glad you said it! The Battle of Vicksburg was absolutely the ACTUAL turning point of the American Civil War. Nothing against Gettysburg, but Vicksburg was more impactful!
A lot of them were pretty easy, even for me who isn’t as much of a history buff as I would like to be. But some of them, I learned from watching this channel. I’ve heard you talk about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. I wouldn’t have known otherwise that it took place in Sarajevo.
This is regarding the outbreak in the 14th century: It is hard to come up with reliable numbers for whole Europe because it was regional very different. In the Mediterraneans it might have been much more than half. While barely any people died in South Poland and East Germany. Also some cities like Mailand isolated themselves and only 10% of people (or less) died. But recovering from it wasn't actually that hard as it sounded in the video. Yes it took quite a while for getting to the same level of population, but social economically it also had a lot of positive influences. There suddenly weren't enough people to work the fields, so the poorer farmers and workers got more money and better working conditions. Also less fertile ground was abandoned, which let to more yield per worker and area, so providing food was easier and more people were available for other tasks, which lead to growth in other areas, which lead to progress and so on.
I was ahead of you barely until 1066, then you pulled away :) that's the thing about an armchair historian. we are most interested in particular eras. For me, 3rd - 11th Century Europe, North Africa, Middle east.
23:14 Another example of this is the Ulster Unionist celebration of the Twelfth of July which traditionally commemorated the Battle of Aughrim, and ended the Williamite War in Ireland, which happened on the 12th July 1691. But when the UK switched to the Gregorian calendar, this messed up the celebrations because Aughrim now ended on the 23rd of July instead. Fortunately, the Battle of the Boyne, which was originally fought on the 1st July under the Julian Calendar, now fell on the 11th July under the new Gregorian calendar, so the date of the celebrations didn’t switch but the battle being commemorated did. (At the same time, the Boyne was being considered the more decisive battle of the war anyway, and was the only battle with both claimants to the throne present at it anyway, so it was more fitting to celebrate the Boyne instead.) Also of note is that when the 36th Ulster Division was tasked with being part of the “Big Push” as part of the Battle of the Somme on the 1st July 1916, it was not lost on any of these Protestant men that they were going to fight in a decisive battle on the same date as their forebears fought the Jacobites, even thought they now celebrated it on a different date.
Kepler's work is related to orbital dynamics, similar to the work of Copernicus. Kepler's main contribution was his discoveries of orbits not being perfect circles. The elliptical orbits that we know today and how they work was a major development by Kepler (and others).
Copernicus actually was a Catholic canon, and Leonardo of course was also a scientist. Copernicus's theory actually didn't bother anyone at the time. It was only decades later that Galileo caused a huge argument about it, and that was partly because of his brash attitude as much as anything else.
Fun fact: Both of whom were also Freemasons. Which, to be fair, was pretty common amongst not only the majority of U.S. presidents but also, and arguably more importantly, most of the “elite” who wielded the majority of power during those specific eras. Especially the leading scientists/thinkers of the time. Copernicus, Galileo Newton, etc… The list goes on and on. Something to think about. Keep pumping out the content Chris! You are an amazing human being and I hope you realize how much joy and learning you bring to us. Also, the contribution and impact you’ve had on myself and countless others around the world. We really do appreciate you and I hope I get the privilege to meet you someday to talk about the Baltimore Colts and the Cleveland Browns bananza during the mid-90’s. Yes, I do reside in the “Land of Pleasant Living” aka Maryland 😂It would be a groundbreaking discussion and I bet we’ll end up agreeing on most and amend the animosity between BAL/CLE/ & IND. Would LOVE to see you delve into a little sports history and I AM HERE TO HELP! 👋🏼 HISTORY is EVERYTHING folks‼️💪🏽💪🏽 ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT!💥🕺🏼💥
@@sergiuosan8674 He was sentenced for heresy for his pantheistic religious beliefs and criticism of Church doctrine, not for his Copernicanism, and like Galileo his arrogant personality did him no favours in his dealings with the Inquisition either. 19th century religious skeptics discovered his adherence to Copernicanism and portrayed him as a martyr of science, but most historians reject this narrative as his scientific beliefs had nothing to do with why he was on trial.
The sentencing of Galileo literally starts with: "Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vaincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, were in the year 1615 denounced to this Holy Office for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the Sun is the center of the world and immovable and that the Earth moves, and also with a diurnal motion; for having disciples to whom you taught the same doctrine; for holding correspondence with certain mathematicians of Germany concerning the same; ..." And also states: "The proposition that the Sun is the center of the world and does not move from its place is absurd and false philosophically and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scripture." His methods and demeanour probably didn't help, but the idea that the church had no problem with the teaching that the sun was the centre around which the earth resolved is just not true. I keep seeing that claim, but a simple look in the actual sentencing debunks it pretty easily. Copernicus' book was also banned by the Church in 1616 and was only allowed to be published again 4 years later when changes were made that softened the claim that the earth removed around the sun. I don't know where people get the idea that that the church was just fine with it or that it had nothing to do with the trial. I certainly have no idea what supports the claim that most historians would think that.
I felt that there were two type of questions. American history (about which nobody other than americans care about) and questions that anybody could answer.
There where also some crusades into Eastern Europe, that were not about capturing the holy land. The "button" on the hat is a cockade (Kokarde). Ok, seven wrong, 93% right. And I half still a working Comodore 64 with datasette and floppy disk in my wardrobe!
This video popped up on my feed last week and I was thinking it would make for a great VTH Reaction. Though tbh be I only made thru the first few questions before I got bored with it.
Question 84 is a trick question because both the Battle of Gettysburg and the battle of Vicksburg were turning points in 1863, actually both ending 1 day apart from each other. Vicksburg opened up the Mississippi and allowed Grant to be free to take command of the Union Army and Gettysburg was a huge morale boost and the last real Northern incursion by the South.
Gaius Octavius (AKA Octavius, later Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus) took Caesar's name when he was adopted posthumously in Julius Caesar's will. Technically he was Princeps or First Citizen, as were Tiberius, Nero and Claudius. The first Imperator to control the Roman world was during The Year of the Five Emperors, with (I think) Vespacian coming out on top of the chaos following the extinction of the Claudian line.
19:32 I kind of felt good about getting that answer right. There is a section in the African American Museum, great place to visit by the way, and I paid close attention to everything.
Every time you pronounce the Gemini project correctly it always makes me smile because it was me who let you know about that! And you are correct, Gugarin did orbit the earth, the Americans wouldn't replicate that until Friendship 7 (John Glenn). The Soviets also did the first space walk, but the Americans took the lead with the first space docking (Gemini VIII, and that was Neil Armstrong and David Scott - most Americans know one of them walked on the moon, but how many know both did?) and took that lead all the way to the Moon.
I watched this on Mr. Terry too and got all of them, although if this has not been multiple choice I would have missed around a half dozen or so, I suspect. I’m not sure I agree with the answer on oldest continuous university in the world, however. If we are going strictly with a Western/European definition, then yes, Bologna probably wins. However, the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco has been around longer and is considered to be the oldest university by some scholars and is given that distinction by both UNESCO and Guinness. It boils down to precisely how we define a university, specifically whether it must follow a European model.
The Black Death basically put an expiration date on feudalism. Because there was so much workforce wiped out, work has become extremely valuable which sparked shift from field work based on serfdom to being wage based in western Europe. The countries that were spared from Black Death, like notably Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia were left with the old system of peasant exploitation which left them behind the curve and ultimately contributed to falling behind, and PLC in particular sufferring partitions. Black Death single handedly created foundation for invention of capitalism, which is crazy to think about.
As we've learned from Slumdog Millionaire, the questions are easy when you already know the answers. Still, this was a fantastic video and I had a great time playing along.
Fwiw the original Roman calendar is the one which started on March 25th. The Julian calendar is almost identical to ours today. The Gregorian calendar just changed some of the leap year rules to be more accurate (specifically that years divisible by 100, but not 400 are not leap years). Seems like a small change, but the Julian calendar is off by about 1 week/millennium.
Another note to mention about the smallpox inoculation is it was also used by Catherine the Great. She was the first person, in all of Russia, to be inoculated. Her inoculation was successful and she followed up with her son and heir to Russia and when that was successful, many others followed suit.
@@Ronritddsthe slave trade was mostly in those area’s. It’s really US centric to only think about the slave trade and slaves in general around the US. In the Netherlands my country we speak almost never about the US if we talk about slaves and slave trade.
There is a great argument for Antietam as the turning point because it was the first time Lee didn't gain the advantage and had to withdraw. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930) had more to do with the Depression than did the market crash in 1929. I got 93 right, 3 wrong and simply didn't know the answer to 4.
As a Filipino Senior Highschool Student, most of these are not taught in our schools but I still got 88/100, as an aspiring Historian myself, I feel proud doing my own research. It was a fun quiz nonetheless!
@@Standin.Fallen Indeed, they should really have a broader coverage of History lessons atleast in Highschool, but I'm taking History course next year so I'm hoping to see a more in-depth lessons about the past, fingers crossed🤞🏻
@@Standin.Fallenyou mean the Spanish period? There is barely any "Marcos-Aquino" (though I believe it should be termed the "Martial Law period") lessons in elementary and high school, the only ones being during the sixth grade, third to fourth quarter. Then after that, nothing. High school is focused on Asian, world history, economics, and contemporary world problems
I feel that there is only so much that you can teach in school, but you also have your whole life to keep studying and not to mention study what you want to learn. Learn to learn from any and everything and everyday will be like a class. Keep at it!
I think you chose Kepler because his name is also associated with the heliocentric model. While Copernicus was the first who propose the model Kepler mathematically substantiated the model by formulating the law of orbital motion.
I think if you want to throw in some really hard questions for a Western audience all you need to do is to is throw in some Asia related questions in the early part. To be fair on the slave trade question it is possible it happened during the time Portugal and Spain were ruled by the same monarch. But yes Portugal's slave trade to Brazil was massive.
Fun fact about #91: the Rosa Parks bus is displayed at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn. They repainted the seat that she sat in so that visitors can easily identify and sit in it.
VTH Would you be able to do some reactions to Blackadder Goes Forth? It's a great British comedy focusing on the medieval period, the Georgian Period and WW1. It's of a somewhat similar vein to Philomena Cunk and it would be great to see what you think of it!
For 17. The bonus point is Gaias Julius Caesar. Octavian was given his name when Caesar adopted him and made him his primary heir. He's just referred to as Octavian sohistorians know who they're talking about.
He was born Gaius Octavius (without a cognomen). When Caesar adopted him, his name became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus -- "Octavianus" indicating the family he was adopted from.
SPA is a good mnemonic device for the Greek philosophers. Socrates then Plato, then Aristotle. At least that's how I remember their order, I usually add an extra A for Alexander after Aristotle.
It an incorrect answer to say Cromwell lead the parlementary forces for the whole War of the Three Kingdoms. He does from 1644 but Thomas Fairfax was the leading commander before that date and Cromwell was one of his subordinates.
4:30 "most people knew that one" lol it was one of the only ones in the first 10 that I got wrong, although it is late and night and I have been drinking. Probably still would have had it wrong though.
Easy quiz for Americans, some questions were tricky for those not familiar with a lot of US history. I feel like half of the quiz was about England and US.
I got all the questions right you got wrong and all the questions on the americas including the slavery question and I don’t do history. I struggled on questions on ancient civilizations most of my awnsers were just pure guessing. Oh and that wasn’t a 12 second flight but a 12 second trip or stumble into the air which is where we get the say took flight! I got 5 wrong in the first 20 then it was plain sailing. And they say Americans don’t have history or know history lol awesome video loved it
Question number 16 - Who was the last pharaoh of Egypt? is inaccurate. it was clear they wanted to hear an answer "Cleopatra", but for Ptolemaic Dynasty members we use only simple terms Rulers of Egypt or maybe slightly imprecise King. Term Pharaoh is is too far for them.
16:25 I knew that was Cusco because of the kids film Emperors New Groove which is set in the Incan Empire, and the main character is an arrogant emperor named after the city, Kuzco. 😅 They also named the supporting character, Pacha, after the ninth emperor of the Incan Empire: Pachacuti.
Got a majority right but I am not good with the European monarchy and who was in charge during what events, which obviously VTH has a much better grasp of
Just an idea for a video of some sort or game show, if you will, but I was able to receive a Civil War Trivia book, two actually, from my grandparents house and thought it would be cool to have you and or others along for video testing knowledge on the Civil War.
61: It should be noted: most power plants, in and of themselves, use steam engines to convert heat into electricity. Every coal fired, natural gas, nuclear fission, oil, and concentrated solar power plants just use an improved, modern version of the steam engine to turn their fuel into electricity. Hydroelectric dams, photovoltaic cells, and wind turbines are the only forms of electrical generation that don't use steam engines. So most "electric power" is really just steam power with extra steps.
There are some years in the beginning of the 1700s that in Sweden are written with julian, gregorian AND swedish dates, since we had the bright idea to switch calender a day at the time every leap year or something like that. After the first change the Great Northern War broke out and nobody had time for that, and it changed back in luke 1710 before switching to the new calendar in the same way as all the others 11 days at once in the middle of that century. This also means that we had February the 30th that one year when we added a day... 😂
It was fun but also very western focused. I know that most of us probably focus on western history due to record keeping, cultural ties, and so on, but still wish they had more diverse and globe spanning questions. Although at that point I suppose it wouldn’t be a video for average people - instead of history nerds like us.
I would say that some of the questions were quite imprecise in how they were formulated (not the four I answered wrong, though). but an enjoyable video and a lot of fun. and your comments also taught me something I did not know as well.
I got 92/100 but that's because I'm an American with European heritage. These questions I 'must know' the answer to because these are what are considered 'important' facts in the history classes taught here.
Great job, but one minor correction: In one answer you mentioned that you thought Buddha lived after Jesus, he actually predated him by about half a millennium, and may have even predated Confucius. Buddha was 5th or 6th century BCE (the Buddhist calendar puts his death at 543 BCE), and Confucius is believed to have lived 551-479 BCE. However the exact dates are still debated by historians.
A bit of info about the “Aztec empire”. By the time they arrived to Texcoco lake in the 14th century they were no longer considered Aztecs, but Mexicas (hence the name Mexico), so it should be called the “Mexica empire” instead.
7:47 Octavian’s name was Gaius Octavius. I think name change actually changes their name from a nominative form (a noun) to an adjective. As to say that the word Octavian could refer to: the person themselves, OR any number of things affected by their rule. They basically streamlined the same idea that the British have with naming the “Edwardian age,” or “Georgian age,” but just skipped right to naming the queen “Elizabethan.” Edit: I have to add that is why you don’t remember the ‘-ian’ suffix in any of your declensions.
So Octavian’s named changed several times during his life. He was born Gaius Octavian of the Julii. When he was formally adopted by Caesar upon the patter’s death, he became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, which remained his name until after the defeat of Antony. That’s when he started to incorporate Imperator into the name, first as Imperator Caesar, and finally Imperator Caesar Augustus. It’s quite complicated, and there is some conflicting information about what he referred to himself as in informal situations. But this is the general evolution of his name over the course of his life
@@agale1360 A few notes on this: 1) He was born Gaius Octavius, not Gaius Octavian. 2) I don't think he was considered part of the Gens Julia at birth. His mother Atia was, but his father wasn't, and I think your Gens was passed down from father to child only, but do correct me if I'm wrong on that. He of course would become part of the Gens Julia anyway after his adoption by Caesar. 3) While it was common in Roman society to stick on a name that indicates what your name used to be at the end of your new name after adoption, which is why calling him Octavian became the convention amongst historians, this is not what Octavian himself did. So his name was never Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, but simply Gaius Julius Caesar.
@@thomasvrielink299 thanks for the follow up! A couple of things I want to clarify: 1) that was an auto-correct error. You are absolutely correct and is what I thought I typed, my fault! 2) also completely correct on this, my fault, which actually leads into point 3 3) he was often referred to as this name during this time after adoption/pre-Augustus as a way to distinguish between the two men in conversation by indicating his former gens Octavia. So while not his legal name, it was commonly used when referring to him by many. Enjoying the discussion! Thanks!
@@agale1360Interesting. I knew that even Roman historians used the name, but I didn't know it actually was used at the time normally, though it makes perfect sense of couse. By the way, while trying to figure out how Augustus referred to himself over the years I also learned he was sometimes called divi filius after Caesar's divination, to further complicate the matter, but from what I could find it wasn't clear whether that was or was not included in his name. Do you know something more about this?
@@thomasvrielink299 although I love Rome and have been lately looking constantly at websites and videos about it, I'm not on you two's level lol. However, "divi filius" sounds more like a title like imperator, cause I guess it means either "son of the divine" or "divine son", going by my catalan and spanish. Like Trajan for example got the titles Dacicus and Parthicus but I don't think these were included in the name (even though I guess if you wanted to reference to the emperor you were expected to name all his name plus the titles)
Congratulations, you have passed my sophomore world history class. 🎓
Love your videos, man.
Tenochtitlan IS Mexico City. Mexico City was built on top of it. You're thinking of Teotihuacan, which is a city that is even more ancient, that was built by another civilization long before Tenochtitlan existed.
I knew this by playing civ 5
@@spacegarage6826 The fun of being a gamming nerd is you learn really odd tidbits of history that others wouldn't know. XD I have learned almost the entire romance of the 3 kingdoms novel because of my love of dynasty warriors games and the romance of the three kingdoms games.
@@waunke56 Ironic! Same for me! Was chilling one afternoon and my friend was like, "Yo, I found this cool hack and slash game. I'll bring it over." 10 years later I was in China. Spent over 6 years there. Now I'm home and unemployed. Failed to be a success twice, and China failed me once. You're lucky because these days you can get a plane ticket and just go over. Back in 2010 when I was there, they didn't have fancy phone apps like Baidu maps to give you directions or google translate to assist with communication. You know the movie Life of Pi? Yeah, I went through something similar with China. Every time China spit me out and dropped me back in the US completely broke, I got back up and went back again like Rocky ready for round 2 after taking a beating. I did it because I have nothing in my small hometown in the Midwest except painful memories of surviving cancer. Thought I won round 3 with China, but still ended up back home broke. You know what's interesting this month? I haven't seen my friends I grew up with since 2006 because they all went off to college, found jobs on either end of the country, and married. They came back to visit family this past week, and they visited my aunt's house. The 3 of us sat there in the living room where we first played Dynasty Warriors 4 together nearly 18 years ago.
@@waunke56Yeah man, people are really missing out on ROTK, did u also watch the shows 94 and 2010
@@lordshang8838 2010 yes.
13:09 Small note: Mexico City is exactly where Tenochtitlan was, it was built right over where it had been. After its conquest, Cortés ordered the city to be systematically destroyed and leveled and for a new city to be built over it, which is now modern day Mexico City. (Because the city was built right over Lake Texcoco as well, there's a current issue where it Mexico City is sinking a few inches every year as more water is pumped out.)
Right next to the Mexican Metropolitan Cathedral and National Palace, you can actually see the remains of Templo Mayor where it had stood, which is now part of a museum dedicated to the Aztec People. Additionally, because the temple was (unfortunately) destroyed, you can actually see inside it the different walls of the temple as it gradually was expanded over time, like tree rings.
You might be thinking of Teotihuacan, which is pretty close to Mexico City, however, it is far older than the Aztecs, and, if I remember correctly, no one has ever really been able to determine who built it.
#13 is a trick question, Alexander conquered Persia and Egypt surrendered without fighting, so he was therefore King of all 3.
Just the comment I was looking for!
I thought Egypt was under Persian control at the time, and the Egyptians were so happy that they were no longer under Persian control that they welcomed Alexander in as their new Pharaoh, but I could be remembering wrong.
@@teheyepatch no, you're right
He inherited the kingdom of Macedon. He conquered the others
Immediately I knew the 'Turning Point of the Civil War' question would get your goat. Too funny.
A bit of historical trivia related to the Julian Calendar: In the run up to the Battle of Austerlitz, Napoleon succeeded in destroying large part of the Austrian army by itself because the Catholic Austrians when they made their plans apparently forgot that as an Orthodox country, Russia was over a week behind them. So Russian forces were so far away - ignorantly believing themselves to be making good time - that they were in no position to assist them.
Yeah, Russia remained on the Julian calendar until the Soviets changed it in Feb 1918, which can really be a pain for someone like me who tried to use primary sources for something like the February Revolution where the dates could be in one of two different calendar systems depending on who wrote the source.
And we still use the Julian date for certain things in the Navy.
I made a 20 question WWII quiz that only a few people got them all correct, and a 30-question general history quiz. No one has gotten all 30 yet!
If you're gonna moo, you gotta give milk.
Yeah, we need the test!
@@TheStupidDetectiv I added the link to the comments. Let me know how you do!!
Link please
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Thanks for the video. Always fun to watch and learn. About the vaccination. What you are describing, exposing people voluntarily to smallpox from pustules, is called variolation. The first vaccination by Edward Jenner is a bit different and consisted in inoculating people with cowpox, a similar disease affecting cows. It happened to be more benign in humans, and to protect them from smallpox. Hence vaccination. Vacca is cow in Latin.
Didn't remember Vacca, but came here to say the same thing :-)
I really appreciate this type of video. The small added pieces of information to such a bubbling stream of trivia
My favorite part. I’ve been watching you for so long, and loving it, but I knew exactly what you would say when answering questions 63, 66 and 74. Thank you always for just being you and all you do for us.
You beat me by one. Thank you for all the commentary. That was educational.
Thank you for all of your videos, I love learning about history and the videos have great insight from your comments.
I feel delighted that I knew most of these historical questions and the bonus parts.
You knew way more of these than I did, but I did know some of the ones you didn't, so I feel good about that. Fun video!
We need that Optimized Knowledge Cleric build with expertise on History and fast!
Subscriber and fan since your God Wizard handbook. Nice to see you have other hobbies.
My favorite history teacher always told me that dates are not important and not worth testing on. When something happens, exactly, doesn't matter as much as what happened and knowing the story of how it happened. Like, the order of which things happened, mattered much more than knowing the exact date of things. Really blew a lot of our minds, and that actually helped a lot of us get into history by not thinking of it as a lot of dates to memorize, and really get to the "story" part of history.
The ironic thing about Yuri Gagarin being killed in a training flight is that a year prior, not long after the Apollo 1 fire, there was a Soviet flight that crashed on reentry and he was the backup pilot for that mission! When the Russian government realized this, they immediately grounded Gagarin permanently, saying he was too important as a national hero to risk like that and then look what happened.
Question 13 is definitely a trick question, and the answer is all of the above.
The question was Alex was the king ow which ancient kingdom, with the options being Egypt, Persia and Macedonia.
The correct answer is "all of the above", although he started as King of Macedonia.
While Alexander conquered Egypt and Persia, he was never 'King' of either of those. He recognized that it was better for his ambitions to keep the local leaders intact as much as possible as long as they swore fealty to him and agreed to always get his okay before doing huge projects and the like.
He left the pharoahs in charge of Egypt, but he installed his own ministers in the court and ruling class to keep it under control.
In Persia, he married into the royal family to become part of the rulers that the people would venerate.
The only kingdom that he truly ruled as King was Macedon.
Keep pumping out the content Chris👍 You are an amazing human being and I hope you realize how much joy and learning you bring to us. ❤️ Also, the contribution and impact you’ve had on myself and countless others around the world. We really do appreciate you and I truely hope I get the privilege to meet you someday and discuss the Baltimore Colts and the Cleveland Browns bananza during the mid-90’s amongst so much more… I have a list‼️Yes yes, I do in fact reside in the “Land of Pleasant Living” itself aka Maryland 😂 It would be a groundbreaking discussion and I bet we’ll end up agreeing on most and finally amend the animosity between BAL/CLE/ & IND which was/is still an underrated and almost forgotten hugely significant issue that altered the future drastically imo. Would LOVE to see you delve into some historical sports content and I AM HERE TO HELP! 👋🏼 Sports deserve at least one entire chapter to itself in the hypothetical “Book of History” From greco-Roman wrestling to Roman Gladiators and so on. HISTORY is EVERYTHING folks‼️💪🏽💪🏽 ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT!💥🕺🏼💥
I hope we get to meet as well. Appreciate the kind words.
Leonardo Da Vinci was not just a painter. He was a scientist that dabbled in painting
yeah he was an inventor first, scientist second, and painter as hobby
no he wasnt. He was a painter, who made his living on paintings. Sure, he also did some science/inventions, but mostly to support his artistic aspirations. People act like he was a scientist first, which is simply untrue.
@@johnnybims595He was both in equal measure. A polymath.
The arts and sciences were not divided as they are now.
I’m the Dave from Frederick, MD, which is a tremendous place to live if you’re into (especially the “Great Rebellion”) history. You are awesome! Thank you for all your content.
I always love Trivia! I definitely didn't do as well as you did, Chris, but it was a lot of fun 💕
Amazing video. Would love for some similar videos, maybe some historical quizzes on sporcle? Great stuff!!
I got 94/100.
Nos 5, 20, 27, 44, 47, 64.
As you said Chris the 20th century ones were easier for most I suspect.
Good fun.
I have a BA (Hons) in History/Politics from 1997 mostly 20th century WW1,WW2 and the Cold War.
The expert on Cuneiform Irvine Finkel has quite a lot of videos on RUclips about the subject.
You should do more of these!!! Great insight!
I very much enjoyed this quiz. I have learned quite a bit watching your videos and while I got quite a few wrong, I was proud of the knowledge I've gained from your channel.
23:13 I didn't know anything about that until now, thanks for the information!
I love these types of videos! Keep up the great work!
Glad you said it! The Battle of Vicksburg was absolutely the ACTUAL turning point of the American Civil War. Nothing against Gettysburg, but Vicksburg was more impactful!
I was happy to see Haummurabi’s Law Code included because I just finished a paper about Hammurabi for my university history course.
Really enjoyed that video!
94/100. I'm surprised I got that many right. I'm more of a history geek then I thought. 😄
Great job, Chris! If I counted correctly, you only missed 4. I missed 6. And I too had a Commodore 64 back in the day.
Missed two. Dang San Salvador.
A lot of them were pretty easy, even for me who isn’t as much of a history buff as I would like to be. But some of them, I learned from watching this channel. I’ve heard you talk about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. I wouldn’t have known otherwise that it took place in Sarajevo.
Watching your video wearing a West Brom shirt... 😂
Great video as always VTH
This is regarding the outbreak in the 14th century: It is hard to come up with reliable numbers for whole Europe because it was regional very different. In the Mediterraneans it might have been much more than half. While barely any people died in South Poland and East Germany. Also some cities like Mailand isolated themselves and only 10% of people (or less) died.
But recovering from it wasn't actually that hard as it sounded in the video. Yes it took quite a while for getting to the same level of population, but social economically it also had a lot of positive influences. There suddenly weren't enough people to work the fields, so the poorer farmers and workers got more money and better working conditions. Also less fertile ground was abandoned, which let to more yield per worker and area, so providing food was easier and more people were available for other tasks, which lead to growth in other areas, which lead to progress and so on.
I was ahead of you barely until 1066, then you pulled away :) that's the thing about an armchair historian. we are most interested in particular eras. For me, 3rd - 11th Century Europe, North Africa, Middle east.
If you are interested, kings and generals has a full series on the Peloponnesian war which is super good
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Another example of this is the Ulster Unionist celebration of the Twelfth of July which traditionally commemorated the Battle of Aughrim, and ended the Williamite War in Ireland, which happened on the 12th July 1691. But when the UK switched to the Gregorian calendar, this messed up the celebrations because Aughrim now ended on the 23rd of July instead. Fortunately, the Battle of the Boyne, which was originally fought on the 1st July under the Julian Calendar, now fell on the 11th July under the new Gregorian calendar, so the date of the celebrations didn’t switch but the battle being commemorated did. (At the same time, the Boyne was being considered the more decisive battle of the war anyway, and was the only battle with both claimants to the throne present at it anyway, so it was more fitting to celebrate the Boyne instead.)
Also of note is that when the 36th Ulster Division was tasked with being part of the “Big Push” as part of the Battle of the Somme on the 1st July 1916, it was not lost on any of these Protestant men that they were going to fight in a decisive battle on the same date as their forebears fought the Jacobites, even thought they now celebrated it on a different date.
Kepler's work is related to orbital dynamics, similar to the work of Copernicus. Kepler's main contribution was his discoveries of orbits not being perfect circles. The elliptical orbits that we know today and how they work was a major development by Kepler (and others).
Copernicus actually was a Catholic canon, and Leonardo of course was also a scientist.
Copernicus's theory actually didn't bother anyone at the time. It was only decades later that Galileo caused a huge argument about it, and that was partly because of his brash attitude as much as anything else.
Exactly! The Roman Catholic Church could never be wrong, which is why they used the inquisition to torture anyone who disagreed with it.
Fun fact:
Both of whom were also Freemasons. Which, to be fair, was pretty common amongst not only the majority of U.S. presidents but also, and arguably more importantly, most of the “elite” who wielded the majority of power during those specific eras. Especially the leading scientists/thinkers of the time. Copernicus, Galileo Newton, etc… The list goes on and on. Something to think about.
Keep pumping out the content Chris! You are an amazing human being and I hope you realize how much joy and learning you bring to us. Also, the contribution and impact you’ve had on myself and countless others around the world. We really do appreciate you and I hope I get the privilege to meet you someday to talk about the Baltimore Colts and the Cleveland Browns bananza during the mid-90’s. Yes, I do reside in the “Land of Pleasant Living” aka Maryland 😂It would be a groundbreaking discussion and I bet we’ll end up agreeing on most and amend the animosity between BAL/CLE/ & IND. Would LOVE to see you delve into a little sports history and I AM HERE TO HELP! 👋🏼 HISTORY is EVERYTHING folks‼️💪🏽💪🏽 ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT!💥🕺🏼💥
I think GIordano Bruno was sentenced to death because of his cosmological views (among other things), and that was before Galileo.
@@sergiuosan8674 He was sentenced for heresy for his pantheistic religious beliefs and criticism of Church doctrine, not for his Copernicanism, and like Galileo his arrogant personality did him no favours in his dealings with the Inquisition either.
19th century religious skeptics discovered his adherence to Copernicanism and portrayed him as a martyr of science, but most historians reject this narrative as his scientific beliefs had nothing to do with why he was on trial.
The sentencing of Galileo literally starts with: "Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vaincenzo Galilei, Florentine, aged seventy years, were in the year 1615 denounced to this Holy Office for holding as true the false doctrine taught by some that the Sun is the center of the world and immovable and that the Earth moves, and also with a diurnal motion; for having disciples to whom you taught the same doctrine; for holding correspondence with certain mathematicians of Germany concerning the same; ..."
And also states: "The proposition that the Sun is the center of the world and does not move from its place is absurd and false philosophically and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scripture."
His methods and demeanour probably didn't help, but the idea that the church had no problem with the teaching that the sun was the centre around which the earth resolved is just not true.
I keep seeing that claim, but a simple look in the actual sentencing debunks it pretty easily.
Copernicus' book was also banned by the Church in 1616 and was only allowed to be published again 4 years later when changes were made that softened the claim that the earth removed around the sun.
I don't know where people get the idea that that the church was just fine with it or that it had nothing to do with the trial.
I certainly have no idea what supports the claim that most historians would think that.
Watched the video, counted how many I got wrong... don't want to talk about it 🤦♂️
I felt that there were two type of questions. American history (about which nobody other than americans care about) and questions that anybody could answer.
Ocean of Storms was the landing site for Apollo 12.
That sly smile when Chris got the question about The Civil War. He knew he wasn't gonna get this wrong for sure
There where also some crusades into Eastern Europe, that were not about capturing the holy land.
The "button" on the hat is a cockade (Kokarde).
Ok, seven wrong, 93% right.
And I half still a working Comodore 64 with datasette and floppy disk in my wardrobe!
you should do more of these
Loving the soccer attire, best wishes from a Fulham Fan
This video popped up on my feed last week and I was thinking it would make for a great VTH Reaction. Though tbh be I only made thru the first few questions before I got bored with it.
Question 84 is a trick question because both the Battle of Gettysburg and the battle of Vicksburg were turning points in 1863, actually both ending 1 day apart from each other. Vicksburg opened up the Mississippi and allowed Grant to be free to take command of the Union Army and Gettysburg was a huge morale boost and the last real Northern incursion by the South.
The Roman calendar had 10 months. It was the Julian calendar that added the extra two.
Gaius Octavius (AKA Octavius, later Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus) took Caesar's name when he was adopted posthumously in Julius Caesar's will. Technically he was Princeps or First Citizen, as were Tiberius, Nero and Claudius. The first Imperator to control the Roman world was during The Year of the Five Emperors, with (I think) Vespacian coming out on top of the chaos following the extinction of the Claudian line.
I went 96/100
I specifically missed the ones at
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19:32 I kind of felt good about getting that answer right. There is a section in the African American Museum, great place to visit by the way, and I paid close attention to everything.
Every time you pronounce the Gemini project correctly it always makes me smile because it was me who let you know about that! And you are correct, Gugarin did orbit the earth, the Americans wouldn't replicate that until Friendship 7 (John Glenn). The Soviets also did the first space walk, but the Americans took the lead with the first space docking (Gemini VIII, and that was Neil Armstrong and David Scott - most Americans know one of them walked on the moon, but how many know both did?) and took that lead all the way to the Moon.
Define correctly. Correct Latin pronunciation is with hard G. :)
Honestly for question 39 I was thinking of the movie emperors new groove for some reason
i can happily say i got a 90% on this quiz. once we got into some of the post-WW2 stuff i started to slip. but a solid A- is a passing grade for me.
If ever you plan to get to Sarajevo, please get in touch with me. Tons of tips for that trip. It's a lovely city, well worth visiting.
Fun fact about my hometown of Rome, GA, we have a Romulus and Remus statue in our downtown that was gifted to us by Mussolini (pre WW2)
I watched this on Mr. Terry too and got all of them, although if this has not been multiple choice I would have missed around a half dozen or so, I suspect. I’m not sure I agree with the answer on oldest continuous university in the world, however. If we are going strictly with a Western/European definition, then yes, Bologna probably wins. However, the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco has been around longer and is considered to be the oldest university by some scholars and is given that distinction by both UNESCO and Guinness. It boils down to precisely how we define a university, specifically whether it must follow a European model.
The Black Death basically put an expiration date on feudalism. Because there was so much workforce wiped out, work has become extremely valuable which sparked shift from field work based on serfdom to being wage based in western Europe. The countries that were spared from Black Death, like notably Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia were left with the old system of peasant exploitation which left them behind the curve and ultimately contributed to falling behind, and PLC in particular sufferring partitions. Black Death single handedly created foundation for invention of capitalism, which is crazy to think about.
As we've learned from Slumdog Millionaire, the questions are easy when you already know the answers.
Still, this was a fantastic video and I had a great time playing along.
Fwiw the original Roman calendar is the one which started on March 25th. The Julian calendar is almost identical to ours today. The Gregorian calendar just changed some of the leap year rules to be more accurate (specifically that years divisible by 100, but not 400 are not leap years). Seems like a small change, but the Julian calendar is off by about 1 week/millennium.
Another note to mention about the smallpox inoculation is it was also used by Catherine the Great. She was the first person, in all of Russia, to be inoculated. Her inoculation was successful and she followed up with her son and heir to Russia and when that was successful, many others followed suit.
Only got 6 wrong. The one about slaves really got me too. I had no idea it was 12 million.
12 million including the Caribbean and South America. That's why it seems more than we would expect.
@@Ronritddsthe slave trade was mostly in those area’s. It’s really US centric to only think about the slave trade and slaves in general around the US. In the Netherlands my country we speak almost never about the US if we talk about slaves and slave trade.
There is a great argument for Antietam as the turning point because it was the first time Lee didn't gain the advantage and had to withdraw. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (1930) had more to do with the Depression than did the market crash in 1929. I got 93 right, 3 wrong and simply didn't know the answer to 4.
As a Filipino Senior Highschool Student, most of these are not taught in our schools but I still got 88/100, as an aspiring Historian myself, I feel proud doing my own research. It was a fun quiz nonetheless!
because the Philippine history is so focus on the marcos and aquinos from elementary to highschool
@@Standin.Fallen Indeed, they should really have a broader coverage of History lessons atleast in Highschool, but I'm taking History course next year so I'm hoping to see a more in-depth lessons about the past, fingers crossed🤞🏻
@@Standin.Fallenyou mean the Spanish period? There is barely any "Marcos-Aquino" (though I believe it should be termed the "Martial Law period") lessons in elementary and high school, the only ones being during the sixth grade, third to fourth quarter. Then after that, nothing. High school is focused on Asian, world history, economics, and contemporary world problems
I feel that there is only so much that you can teach in school, but you also have your whole life to keep studying and not to mention study what you want to learn. Learn to learn from any and everything and everyday will be like a class. Keep at it!
97/100 Pinoy ako din
I think you chose Kepler because his name is also associated with the heliocentric model. While Copernicus was the first who propose the model Kepler mathematically substantiated the model by formulating the law of orbital motion.
I think if you want to throw in some really hard questions for a Western audience all you need to do is to is throw in some Asia related questions in the early part.
To be fair on the slave trade question it is possible it happened during the time Portugal and Spain were ruled by the same monarch.
But yes Portugal's slave trade to Brazil was massive.
Fun fact about #91: the Rosa Parks bus is displayed at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn. They repainted the seat that she sat in so that visitors can easily identify and sit in it.
The battle of Gettysburg question I did say Vicksburg and I did learn that from this channel
I scored 91/100. Im happy about that!😊
VTH Would you be able to do some reactions to Blackadder Goes Forth? It's a great British comedy focusing on the medieval period, the Georgian Period and WW1. It's of a somewhat similar vein to Philomena Cunk and it would be great to see what you think of it!
For 17. The bonus point is Gaias Julius Caesar. Octavian was given his name when Caesar adopted him and made him his primary heir. He's just referred to as Octavian sohistorians know who they're talking about.
He was born Gaius Octavius (without a cognomen). When Caesar adopted him, his name became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus -- "Octavianus" indicating the family he was adopted from.
SPA is a good mnemonic device for the Greek philosophers. Socrates then Plato, then Aristotle. At least that's how I remember their order, I usually add an extra A for Alexander after Aristotle.
It an incorrect answer to say Cromwell lead the parlementary forces for the whole War of the Three Kingdoms. He does from 1644 but Thomas Fairfax was the leading commander before that date and Cromwell was one of his subordinates.
4:30 "most people knew that one" lol it was one of the only ones in the first 10 that I got wrong, although it is late and night and I have been drinking. Probably still would have had it wrong though.
Easy quiz for Americans, some questions were tricky for those not familiar with a lot of US history. I feel like half of the quiz was about England and US.
Aced it. Got 92 of the 100 correct. It was near the end i had the most trouble. Im not as good with more current events.
I got all the questions right you got wrong and all the questions on the americas including the slavery question and I don’t do history.
I struggled on questions on ancient civilizations most of my awnsers were just pure guessing. Oh and that wasn’t a 12 second flight but a 12 second trip or stumble into the air which is where we get the say took flight! I got 5 wrong in the first 20 then it was plain sailing. And they say Americans don’t have history or know history lol awesome video loved it
Question number 16 - Who was the last pharaoh of Egypt? is inaccurate.
it was clear they wanted to hear an answer "Cleopatra", but for Ptolemaic Dynasty members we use only simple terms Rulers of Egypt or maybe slightly imprecise King.
Term Pharaoh is is too far for them.
A favorite lesser known composer of mine Sir Hubert Parry, was a victim of the flu epidemic of 1919
16:25 I knew that was Cusco because of the kids film Emperors New Groove which is set in the Incan Empire, and the main character is an arrogant emperor named after the city, Kuzco. 😅 They also named the supporting character, Pacha, after the ninth emperor of the Incan Empire: Pachacuti.
I like the content lately, keep it up ❤
98/100…got Trajan and Berners-Lee wrong…I did get the bonus point for Octavian….Go Blue!
Got a majority right but I am not good with the European monarchy and who was in charge during what events, which obviously VTH has a much better grasp of
Just an idea for a video of some sort or game show, if you will, but I was able to receive a Civil War Trivia book, two actually, from my grandparents house and thought it would be cool to have you and or others along for video testing knowledge on the Civil War.
61: It should be noted: most power plants, in and of themselves, use steam engines to convert heat into electricity. Every coal fired, natural gas, nuclear fission, oil, and concentrated solar power plants just use an improved, modern version of the steam engine to turn their fuel into electricity. Hydroelectric dams, photovoltaic cells, and wind turbines are the only forms of electrical generation that don't use steam engines. So most "electric power" is really just steam power with extra steps.
Can you do Historia Civilis' Peace and then Kraut's Critique of Realism? I'd really recommend you watch them side by side.
There are some years in the beginning of the 1700s that in Sweden are written with julian, gregorian AND swedish dates, since we had the bright idea to switch calender a day at the time every leap year or something like that. After the first change the Great Northern War broke out and nobody had time for that, and it changed back in luke 1710 before switching to the new calendar in the same way as all the others 11 days at once in the middle of that century.
This also means that we had February the 30th that one year when we added a day... 😂
The Roman Emperors also had the title of Pharaoh. The last was Maximinus Daza, in the time of Constantine´s rise to power.
95/100. Missed a couple I shouldn't have.
It was fun but also very western focused. I know that most of us probably focus on western history due to record keeping, cultural ties, and so on, but still wish they had more diverse and globe spanning questions. Although at that point I suppose it wouldn’t be a video for average people - instead of history nerds like us.
I would say that some of the questions were quite imprecise in how they were formulated (not the four I answered wrong, though). but an enjoyable video and a lot of fun. and your comments also taught me something I did not know as well.
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego is really helping me here.
I got 92/100 but that's because I'm an American with European heritage. These questions I 'must know' the answer to because these are what are considered 'important' facts in the history classes taught here.
Great job, but one minor correction: In one answer you mentioned that you thought Buddha lived after Jesus, he actually predated him by about half a millennium, and may have even predated Confucius. Buddha was 5th or 6th century BCE (the Buddhist calendar puts his death at 543 BCE), and Confucius is believed to have lived 551-479 BCE. However the exact dates are still debated by historians.
A bit of info about the “Aztec empire”. By the time they arrived to Texcoco lake in the 14th century they were no longer considered Aztecs, but Mexicas (hence the name Mexico), so it should be called the “Mexica empire” instead.
7:47 Octavian’s name was Gaius Octavius.
I think name change actually changes their name from a nominative form (a noun) to an adjective.
As to say that the word Octavian could refer to: the person themselves, OR any number of things affected by their rule.
They basically streamlined the same idea that the British have with naming the “Edwardian age,” or “Georgian age,” but just skipped right to naming the queen “Elizabethan.”
Edit: I have to add that is why you don’t remember the ‘-ian’ suffix in any of your declensions.
So Octavian’s named changed several times during his life. He was born Gaius Octavian of the Julii. When he was formally adopted by Caesar upon the patter’s death, he became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, which remained his name until after the defeat of Antony. That’s when he started to incorporate Imperator into the name, first as Imperator Caesar, and finally Imperator Caesar Augustus. It’s quite complicated, and there is some conflicting information about what he referred to himself as in informal situations. But this is the general evolution of his name over the course of his life
@@agale1360 A few notes on this:
1) He was born Gaius Octavius, not Gaius Octavian.
2) I don't think he was considered part of the Gens Julia at birth. His mother Atia was, but his father wasn't, and I think your Gens was passed down from father to child only, but do correct me if I'm wrong on that. He of course would become part of the Gens Julia anyway after his adoption by Caesar.
3) While it was common in Roman society to stick on a name that indicates what your name used to be at the end of your new name after adoption, which is why calling him Octavian became the convention amongst historians, this is not what Octavian himself did. So his name was never Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, but simply Gaius Julius Caesar.
@@thomasvrielink299 thanks for the follow up! A couple of things I want to clarify:
1) that was an auto-correct error. You are absolutely correct and is what I thought I typed, my fault!
2) also completely correct on this, my fault, which actually leads into point 3
3) he was often referred to as this name during this time after adoption/pre-Augustus as a way to distinguish between the two men in conversation by indicating his former gens Octavia. So while not his legal name, it was commonly used when referring to him by many.
Enjoying the discussion! Thanks!
@@agale1360Interesting. I knew that even Roman historians used the name, but I didn't know it actually was used at the time normally, though it makes perfect sense of couse.
By the way, while trying to figure out how Augustus referred to himself over the years I also learned he was sometimes called divi filius after Caesar's divination, to further complicate the matter, but from what I could find it wasn't clear whether that was or was not included in his name. Do you know something more about this?
@@thomasvrielink299 although I love Rome and have been lately looking constantly at websites and videos about it, I'm not on you two's level lol.
However, "divi filius" sounds more like a title like imperator, cause I guess it means either "son of the divine" or "divine son", going by my catalan and spanish. Like Trajan for example got the titles Dacicus and Parthicus but I don't think these were included in the name (even though I guess if you wanted to reference to the emperor you were expected to name all his name plus the titles)