If whoever you’re talking to happens to be a woman, include “sanitary products”. I cannot even imagine how horrible life would have been without even a basic sanitary pad on the heavy flow day.
Yes, when I hear the same thing I always say, nah. I'll take living in this modern era of modern medicine, reliable birth control, indoor plumbing, and women's liberation. Thanks.
If you ever feel unlucky, just remember that King Edmund II "Ironside" of England was assassinated in 1016 when a viking climbed out of the toilet and stabbed him while he was taking a shite.
Don't forget travel. Even the carriages the royals had in the day, they were no match for the roads. Now we have paved roads, and heat and A/C on demand in our cars.
@@PDZ2028 can't even comprehend how expensive it is to listen to music 🎵 everytime you want. Damn, you would need an entire orchestra wherever and whenever you go.
Poor people sold their urine to people who tanned leather back then. If you were piss poor, you sold urine like homeless people today dumpster dive and sell aluminum cans
I think of this often AND disposable maxi pads. My mother and her sisters were very poor back in the 60s (yeah I know i was quite the shocking accident for a 40 something year old married couple 😆) She told me that my grandmother was a maid for middle class families like myself) She could not afford the disposable maxi pads they were available they were new, but women still wore these belt things but my grandmother would cut up old rags and sew them and make cloth pads for my mom and 4 aunts
The very thought of trying to stay alive back in those times, living with the filth, ignorance, discomfort, and rampant disease is quite enough to keep me from ever dreaming about the "romance" of living in those times. It must have been horrible!
Times weren't all that bad. There were some things better than it is now, too. Of course, we should be grateful for what we have and what all the people before us built up, but saying "it must've been horrible" is just incorrect. People back then enjoyed life, too. In 500 years, people will look down on us the same way, that doesn't mean we were all suffering and miserable all the time.
The fact that we can communicate with other people from across the planet with a device in our pocket almost instantly would blow a medieval persons mind
While it's true that noble women were married off younger than common born women, it was usually closer to 15-16 years old with them usually having their first pregnancy by 16-17. Yes it's still way too young and GROSS but people back then weren't complete idiots. They knew getting a girl pregnant at 13 would very likely kill her and the baby (and it very nearly did almost kill Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry VII). Stories of noble ladies getting married at 12 or 13 stand out in history BECAUSE they were unusual.
And while they were sometimes married as young as toddlers, they rarely consummated the marriages (except in unfortunate cases like Margaret who was unable to have any more children after her difficult childbirth despite marrying twice more) until they were more mature.
Menarche occurred as late as 14 or 15, and ovulation wasn't a regular occurrence until as much as 2 years after that. So they might get married at 13 but the first pregnancy wasn't likely until 16 or 17.
What exactly is gross? The vast majority of girls these days are putting out by 17, vs in the past, these people having sex with their lifelong spouse. You also overlook life expectancy. That was another reason people married and had children earlier. Not to count, a girl in 1221 didn’t spend her most fertile years being a hedonistic consumer before finally marrying and having children near the end of her likely fertility
it's hard to get proper context when all we experience is our time, right now. we don't get to experience the times previous to us, as our lives are so short and things are always changing. we try to keep track of history, but we've kinda forgotten how to tell it in interesting ways so we end up needing "weird" history channels like this one :p
Just saying but times are slow back then and now we want everything fast. Maybe good or bad but fast we tend to take things for granted and we don’t see the process rather the result
@a A Just because William The Conqueror never used a microwave doesn't mean that the millions of people out there who are barely making ends' meet and one bad month away from homelessness don't have legitimate grievances with their lives in the modern age. These great strides and innovations we've made a species in the last millennium should be helping us all live comfortably collectively, not just making the elite few richer than all the most corrupt kings in history combined.
Running drinking water, flushing toilets, temperature control, electricity, healthcare, etc etc. Hell, we have it *much* better than any king from that age hands down...but certain people don't think this way. For them none of these modern luxuries are worth the main perk of their lives - power. Power is so sweet to some that they would happily live knee deep in sewage if it meant they could rule over a large number of people with impunity. To this day this continues to be true.
@@harukrentz435 the more society goes to shit with the extremists on either side of the political plane, the more I want to live on a couple hundred acres far away from society. If I had to give up electricity to do this, I'd survive quite well, and it would be a price I'd happily pay.
The topics of the videos on this channel are essentially answers to what I always ask myself in my head when I zone out, especially the Titanic one that covers what people ate on the ship.
I've certainly considered this, particularly when I was staying at a hotel in the heart of Seattle. Not a fancy one, but still a fairly pricey room at a Hilton skyscraper. As I looked out the window across the city all I could think of was how even the nobility would have killed to stay in something like this...
I spent a summer on the Virginia farm of a friend of my grandmother's. They had electricity, but no plumbing - this was in the 1960's. We used an outhouse during the day and a chamber pot at night. The pot was emptied in the outhouse the next day. Oh yeah - there was a Montgomery Ward catalog for toilet paper in the outhouse. 1960's, people.
I spent the holiday with my great-grandmother in a rural place in the Netherlands. Also outdoor toilet with a ton under the seat. The stench was terrible. And the toilets of one of my grandmothers was connected with the sewage, but was outside the house. That was in Rotterdam. A lot of my relatives still lived in houses with coal stoves. That meant that in the winter the rest of house was very cold. Stayed with an aunt in the winter, the blankets were frozen in the morning from the damp of your body.
It should be noted that most of these refer to Medieval Europe, rather than the Medieval period as a whole. Asia and Africa also had a "Medieval" Period; adding these regions into your videos, and comparing/contrasting them, would be very interesting and enlightening.
Chinese emperors had far more lavish and sheltered lives (for the most part) than European kings. They rarely went to battle themselves, had a harem of concubines, and a ton of cultural differences.
One should see that Medieval Kings were not Chinese Emperors etc. King wasn’t a term used in Africa, granted they had words that meant that; but again the title says Medieval Kings. It’s intellectually dishonest to say that cultures who do not use nor prefer the term “Medieval” when referring to that period of time in their respective cultures, should be included in videos whose title should obviously exclude them from said video. Either that or it’s gross virtue signaling. Generally when one searches for content on YT they search for that content explicitly. They don’t assume the content they wish to consume is included in content that does not explicitly say so. For example, when I want to watch a video about blood diamonds; I don’t watch a video about Jade mining ⛏️ n Alaska and say they should include the pros and cons of buying blood diamonds. If you watch videos about what you want to see, you aren’t left wishing that subject matter was being discussed. Try harder to entertain yourself more effectively.
I am *SOOOO* grateful to be alive right now, at this point in time! I am so appreciative of modern medicine & scientific medical advancements! One of the main reasons is because I’ve had an autoimmune illness, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA.) I was diagnosed around age 10, and I can’t imagine existing with this disease *without* modern medicine. The thought alone is terribly depressing. I’ve met elderly people who were diagnosed decades ago, who were unable to receive the treatments available now, and have permanently gnarled hands from it. My heart always aches for them. Untreated RA completely *ruins* your joints and the amount of disability it causes is devastating. Even with the best treatments available, RA is still very painful and disabling. I still have to deal with pain and immobility on a regular, but I’m fortunate that my joints haven’t been completely destroyed or disfigured. Looking at me, you’d never guess I have such an awful disease. Unless I’m having a really bad flare up and my joints are super swollen, and if I happen to be limping because of that. Otherwise, no other visible signs.
I thought the infant mortality rate for medieval people, especially upper class, was like 30-40%. That was definitely the case in children living past the first year. It seemed like only 30% of babies born alive actually made it to adulthood.
Thanks for this interesting and balanced presentation on life today as compared with royalty in the past. Despite the many and serious problems we have now, I wouldn't trade places with any past royalty or aristocracy for any amount of money. I love studying the past and in college my degree was in history, but I wouldn't want to live there. Every time my family had an outdoor barbeque, an uncle of mine used to say that we were eating better than the kings and queens. How right he was! I think all of us need to watch this video and be a little more thankful. Thank you weird history!
I still would, I could literally have any executed just for talking shit with a simple order. If I did that even today I would be arrested and put in prison for conspiracy to commit murder or attempted murder or murderer and frabkly there are some shit people on this little blue marble. Aristocracy of then may not have had like basic hygiene and the miracles of modern medicine but damn there is still like a huge percentage of the world today that doesn't either becausw they HAVE NO MONEY. That is the part weird history is totally dodging and is ignorant about. In fact if you even watched this video you are probably still doing better than most economically speaking , but many people still live very nomadic and hard lives. I would still rather be rich in that time period than be poor today.
Funny thing is, people in the far future might have technologies and comforts beyond conceivable for us. And they will probably look upon our "modern" lives as utterly miserable, even though that's not how we feel, especially when compared to the lives of medieval people. I guess people just can't "miss" things they have no concept of. If you could actually travel back in time and become a medieval king, you'd be the most miserable of medieval kings, precisely because you're accostumed to a modern life which they had no idea even exists.
I know right.. I love to think that Marie Antoinette will never know how it feels like to have a super clean bathroom to use whenever you want all supplied with soaps and toilet paper and the finest shampoos or have a super cool comfortable living room 69 degrees👌🏻) in the middle of summer while eating ice cream and gourmet imported chocolate bonbons. All bought at Walmart for a few dollars, very well within my meek peasant budget👌🏻
Lol! I was thinking this the other day! Another huge one I wish you would have mentioned is the food! I remember reading how rare oranges were back then (up until the past 140 years). Something we can buy bags of easily was something that was a rare treat even for the medieval royals! I remember this every time I eat one!
My mothers older brother died in the 1940's from tetanus, something that's basically unheard of today. She also lived in a house that had an outdoor privy until she was 17 in the 1950's. And this house was in a major city! There are still people alive today who can actually remember the 1940's and 50's. It wasn't that long ago.
Every chance i get i always cover my food in freshly cracked pepper. Because i always think at one point in history only the richest of kings could have done so.
I think that I will stay where I am at. Sitting in my recliner throne, coffee, my dog in my lap, looking on my phone at this channel of you tube. Have a great new year. 🎉
they totally let you keep the coin ! the coin contains the magic and how should the whole thing work without actually having the coin ? it's also the origin of those bent coins that are now commonly referred to as love tokens (one of the types of love tokens) I once found a double bent penny from Henry III....very crisp and not much circulated - proper pre-plague touch piece !
That's probably not the cake she had in mind 🤣🤣🤣 I died. Please don't leave. Just stay here being the voice of Weird History forever. You're the best!!!
Me too even my dad used to introduce me to his conservative Republican friends as "This is my daughter, Che Guevara." I had been very much against the Iraq wars.
It was probably for the better anyways. Yes, you had to be chaste and religious, but you got to spend your days in peace surrounded by other women, and believe me, that would've been better than marrying some guy of the middle ages.
4:57 - The definition of being "literate" in the medieval world was being someone who could read _Latin._ Most people who were exposed to writing could read well enough in their own language.
@@frostyfrances4700 - Serfs and cotters, who made up most of the population, until 1300 or so, rarely saw the written word enough to figure out the sounds. Read my statement again. Then, don't bother me.
It's in places where there was no own written language. As for many other places - someone who could read. P.S. as a choir singer, who has experience with catholic music, I can read Latin texts aloud. Understanding it is way more difficult. :)
Being a king is not easy unless you are Louis XIV before he was killed during the French Revolution. So, yes, being a king is not easy. If you act like you own the place you get killed and if you actually do something good and work hard you may end up killed by some other faction or kingdom’s army.
This is Why i love history Cuz its not about memorizeing dates its about understanding How and Why we have it so ”good” in the present I appreciate the present by looking to the past to hopefully see the future more easily
Just image how primitive and pathetic our lives will be viewed 1,000 years from now. "Did you know that back in 2022 they didn't have teleportation ! They had to drive a car, or even WALK to go places "
Ya, the focus on technological development vs actual power (being able to kill nearly any commoner is nothing to sneeze at) makes these comparisons yawn inducing. "They didn't even have smartphones." You don't say?
I think it’d be cool to see a dental history compared to current dentistry. Most ppl hate the dentist as is and wanna see how it’s advanced for the good (or bad)
Wasn't as important then. People didn't eat a fuckload of refined sugar (or any sugar at all). The average medieval person's teeth would have looked better than ours, but more rounded (because of bits of stone in their bread).
Im severely disabled, and if i was born back then id be dead right away, but today i live better than a king on my meager disability... i still have plenty of food, healthcare, house, electric, internet, and running water. And i dont have to worry about jealous ppl assassinating me for my vast power lol
I've made jokes about this before lol if I ever got into a pissing contest with a medieval king I'd be like 'you've never had a taco! You don't even know what that is!'
You almost touched on travel. A journey from the Tower of London (which was also a Royal Castle) to Windsor Castle - 25 miles - was a one or two day journey.
Blind people use VoiceOver to type they put their finger on the screen and the voice over tells them what is under their finger in that way they can choose letters and type just like anybody else… perhaps do some research before judging something you know nothing about… I am also very nearly totally blind
Imagine having a internet, games, have a ability to talk to people whenever you want, etc, that people lived in the past that they can only dream of, my grandma 80yo who still lived today is still fascinating how technology improved really fast.
I always think it's amazing that we live better than they did. I saw someone say something along the lines of, "but you dont have servants like they did", as if that is such a great thing. 😂 I am very picky on how things are done around my house and having a servant would not work for me. I'm sure it's the same for many people. I saw a comment stating that the picture of Charles V was wrong but it's correct so don't worry. Charles V of Spain had the notorious Habsburg jaw. Another comment stated that it's incorrect that women were not educated. I saw you said "many" not "all". Many weren't educated unless they had parents or guardians who believed that it was necessary.
I'm not gonna lie, that "once a week, depends on the weather" joke about pregnancy LITERALLY cracked me up to the point I had to laugh at it....cause I'm a woman😂
Yeah and 79k people in my city alone live worse than serfs of that day. In filth squalor no where to shower relieve themselves no food no hope toes falling off from gangrene. Greetings from the richest country in the world.
Well,while you might have a lot of luxury and rights as a medieval King, you still have a lot of pressure. Reigning over a whole kingdom and worrying over the economy,wars erc etc etc is not an easy task. So...just existing in the middle ages sucked
@@boopdino8053 bro Americans are one paycheck away from homelessness. Pressure? Every. Moment. Every. Day. And we have to keep up with SO much more than farmers.
@@ayannadivineempath Bad hygiene, lower life expectancy, bad medical care, malnourishment, less freedoms. There’s a give and take to everything in all aspects of time eras but they definitely did not have it easier. They just lived more simply and had one goal, work.
@@apexstrength3797 You still described the conditions of about 70% of the human population...today. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go poop in some potable water and go spend extra $$ for food that has _fewer_ calories. Because _obesity_ is now our most pressing problem. 1st world probs, man. 1st world probs.
You forgot to list the shear amount of food variety and access to foods like coffee, chocolate and sugar. Maybe royalty had better access to those things I’m medieval times, but not at the level we do now.
Before getting to far into this video, I can think of a few things we've got that they didn't have. Toilets and plumbing, regular baths, clean water, clean and healthy food, heat/air, air purifiers, cars, bicycles, how about freedom and privacy. Certainly a loyally husband, can be intimate whenever we want (when not at work or other things). Comfortable clothes, computers, phones, pants, underwear, no pressure to bare sons, nor the pressure to be a baby making factory (although I do want to birth a child, still praying and hoping for that.) To name a few things. Can go places when I want to, can walk my dog when I want to, can go to dance classes when I want to, can study and learn what I want to (why do you think I watch these videos LOL), can swim when I want to, can wear jeans and t-shirts to church!
I went to a few castles when I visited Luxembourg a few years ago and although a lot of it was just ruins, some of them were still somewhat intact and I couldn’t imagine living in one.
Another thing I have over a king is that I'm not surrounded by people who are trying to control me and conspire to kill me when they can't... At least, I don't think.
But we never know. If you want to up the odds, just be a northeast damnYankee who retires to TinyTown in the blood red central Midwest. I wasn't here a month b4 the death threats started. 17 years later, I'm still here but would move out of this hellhole if I could.
Modern medicine are the most important, in medieval time, you could die by simply get tiny scratches on your skin, because antibiotics and anti septic wasn't available back then, tiny wound can be lethal due to bacterial infection.
i also like that i can just step into a box any time i want and have well portioned drops of water pour down on me while being able to choose the temperature of the water. would make any king jealous
Medieval 'literacy' was often a measured of being literate in Latin (the only language that 'mattered' back then). Lots of people were literate in the local language.
Literate means you can read and write. Define 'lots' - as compared to what? The loose way you use the word, it could mean anywhere from half a dozen to thousands. Of course just about everyone could SPEAK the local language - but that's not literacy! Not even all the church officials in the past could read and write!
I will take modern day with all its flaws. I like my indoor plumbing. Thank you very much. Though I find history very fascinating and love this channel.
I always think about the things Hollywood leaves out, like the smell of the people and places... I'm guessing you could smell a town like London from miles away.
I don't think being a Medieval King sounds that appealing, but it would be interesting to live during those days. Plumbing is certainly something people take for granted today, it is used all the time and really limits sanitation problems. Great video, thank you for making it.
Let’s say that it would be great to live as a medieval King for 24h hours or a week maybe. But otherwise it sucks in many ways because we are used to a very different lifestyle.
In the Philippines, I still remember using chamber pots ( but they're made from plastic ) when I was a kid. We do have proper toilets and bathrooms but we have one for each room in case you're too lazy to go to the bathroom at night. We just use it for peeing though.
Republican states such as IA, KS, LA, MS are passing laws that remove child protection. And allow kids as young as age 11 to work. Ditto for child marriage. Rather than move forward the Republicans are moving society backwards.
@@stacyrussell460 I learned about washing my private parts after defecating a lot later. After going vegan and smelling the sickness on others who did not get clean with the toilet paper they used.
@@karenishness1 I was referring to something I heard in a tv show years ago about how people from other countries don't use toilet paper even today. They use their left hand & a bowl of water. It wasn't a slight towards you so please forgive my ignorance.
I think about this a lot. Whenever someone tells me they wish they lived in the past, I always say two words: "toilet. paper."
Yes! And medicine.
I just wanna visit lol i wouldnt wanna live there forever.
You have changed my mind.
If whoever you’re talking to happens to be a woman, include “sanitary products”.
I cannot even imagine how horrible life would have been without even a basic sanitary pad on the heavy flow day.
Yes, when I hear the same thing I always say, nah. I'll take living in this modern era of modern medicine, reliable birth control, indoor plumbing, and women's liberation. Thanks.
Wonder if they'll mention how insanely opulent the average person's spice rack today would seem to the wealthiest medieval king
That is definitely a good one. You could probably buy a plot of land with the table salt in your cupboard alone.
You could buy a Castle with its land for a pound of peppercorns!
Toilet paper. How many kings would have given their throne just to wipe their arse?
Not to mention coffee and chocolate!
Apparently Sugar was incredibly rare
If you ever feel unlucky, just remember that King Edmund II "Ironside" of England was assassinated in 1016 when a viking climbed out of the toilet and stabbed him while he was taking a shite.
I bet he stunk to high heaven.....PU...🦨
That's a shitty way to die.
That guy was a real pain in the ass 😂
LOL that is great. just a reminder back in those days you had to be paranoid because you could die anytime anywhere by anything or anybody.
Tough day at work.
Don't forget travel. Even the carriages the royals had in the day, they were no match for the roads. Now we have paved roads, and heat and A/C on demand in our cars.
And Spotify!
@@PDZ2028 can't even comprehend how expensive it is to listen to music 🎵 everytime you want. Damn, you would need an entire orchestra wherever and whenever you go.
Muh digital enslavement! Muh travelling sensationalism!
@BlackWorm "civilized society built on honor and respect"?! you kidding, right? -))
@CruelVids Please tell me you're just being sarcastic
Fun fact about chamber pots: it's where we get the idiom "not a pot to piss in," meaning that you're broke.
get people chamber pots for Christmas if they used the phrase as a complaint.
Better to be pissed of than pissed on is what my grandma always said 🤣. She had a point.
“Or a window to throw it out”
Poor people sold their urine to people who tanned leather back then.
If you were piss poor, you sold urine like homeless people today dumpster dive and sell aluminum cans
@@mathgasm8484 dude
You gave me an idea for the people I hate
I'll just give them shit pots. LOL
Never underestimate the power of indoor plumbing.
Especially if you like Taco Bell.
Or tacos
Nowadays, we _pay_ to go poop outside like it's a vacation treat.
We call it camping.
I don't know about you guys, but I shat out my window all the time.
D E S I G N A T E D...
I'm certainly grateful for modern plumbing!
And sanitary products
I think of this often AND disposable maxi pads. My mother and her sisters were very poor back in the 60s (yeah I know i was quite the shocking accident for a 40 something year old married couple 😆)
She told me that my grandmother was a maid for middle class families like myself)
She could not afford the disposable maxi pads they were available they were new, but women still wore these belt things but my grandmother would cut up old rags and sew them and make cloth pads for my mom and 4 aunts
How about this computer that you are watching this presentation on?
The very thought of trying to stay alive back in those times, living with the filth, ignorance, discomfort, and rampant disease is quite enough to keep me from ever dreaming about the "romance" of living in those times. It must have been horrible!
Well, at least they didn't have to live as long.
Times weren't all that bad. There were some things better than it is now, too. Of course, we should be grateful for what we have and what all the people before us built up, but saying "it must've been horrible" is just incorrect. People back then enjoyed life, too. In 500 years, people will look down on us the same way, that doesn't mean we were all suffering and miserable all the time.
Those in the future will think the same of you
Romance?
@@ExpiditionWildbro, thinking about it is wild. Have you seen the movie wall-E though?
Just our basic hygiene and medical care...I LOVE Weird History !
Imagine wired history 2022
I had pneumonia when I was a kid so I would have been screwed in the middle ages
Yep, definitely our basic hygiene and medical care. And we actually keep our teeth! Most of us do.
Imagine people having intercourse back then just gulping down the stink 🤢
medical care???!
The fact that we can communicate with other people from across the planet with a device in our pocket almost instantly would blow a medieval persons mind
I think you mean they would blow your mind with a spear. #witchery
Mm they would think of it as magic but wouldn't be as freaked out as you thought. Chances are you'll just be murdered for it
Hell. The spice rack in an average modern kitchen would absolutely BAFFLE a medieval cook.
Or we can get into an aluminum tube and fly to see them.
We would be burned as a witch
While it's true that noble women were married off younger than common born women, it was usually closer to 15-16 years old with them usually having their first pregnancy by 16-17. Yes it's still way too young and GROSS but people back then weren't complete idiots. They knew getting a girl pregnant at 13 would very likely kill her and the baby (and it very nearly did almost kill Margaret Beaufort and her son Henry VII). Stories of noble ladies getting married at 12 or 13 stand out in history BECAUSE they were unusual.
And while they were sometimes married as young as toddlers, they rarely consummated the marriages (except in unfortunate cases like Margaret who was unable to have any more children after her difficult childbirth despite marrying twice more) until they were more mature.
I have a funny feeling that girls at 16-17 in those times were far more mature than the 35 year old modern woman.
Menarche occurred as late as 14 or 15, and ovulation wasn't a regular occurrence until as much as 2 years after that. So they might get married at 13 but the first pregnancy wasn't likely until 16 or 17.
What exactly is gross? The vast majority of girls these days are putting out by 17, vs in the past, these people having sex with their lifelong spouse. You also overlook life expectancy. That was another reason people married and had children earlier. Not to count, a girl in 1221 didn’t spend her most fertile years being a hedonistic consumer before finally marrying and having children near the end of her likely fertility
@@TheAsheybabe89 calm down, incel.
We're so much better off today, but some people don't see it.
That’s how it’s always been. People in 2022 have it better than those in 1299. Those in 1299 had it better than those in 1000.
it's hard to get proper context when all we experience is our time, right now. we don't get to experience the times previous to us, as our lives are so short and things are always changing. we try to keep track of history, but we've kinda forgotten how to tell it in interesting ways so we end up needing "weird" history channels like this one :p
Just saying but times are slow back then and now we want everything fast. Maybe good or bad but fast we tend to take things for granted and we don’t see the process rather the result
Yeah. Anyone who wines about it should be made to spend one month in those old time conditions
@a A Just because William The Conqueror never used a microwave doesn't mean that the millions of people out there who are barely making ends' meet and one bad month away from homelessness don't have legitimate grievances with their lives in the modern age. These great strides and innovations we've made a species in the last millennium should be helping us all live comfortably collectively, not just making the elite few richer than all the most corrupt kings in history combined.
Running drinking water, flushing toilets, temperature control, electricity, healthcare, etc etc. Hell, we have it *much* better than any king from that age hands down...but certain people don't think this way. For them none of these modern luxuries are worth the main perk of their lives - power. Power is so sweet to some that they would happily live knee deep in sewage if it meant they could rule over a large number of people with impunity. To this day this continues to be true.
Exactly!
That’s why people drank wine or beer more than water. Because it wasn’t clear water
Cant imagine living without electricity myself.
All the crybabies trying to tear down our nation should take heed.
@@harukrentz435 the more society goes to shit with the extremists on either side of the political plane, the more I want to live on a couple hundred acres far away from society. If I had to give up electricity to do this, I'd survive quite well, and it would be a price I'd happily pay.
The topics of the videos on this channel are essentially answers to what I always ask myself in my head when I zone out, especially the Titanic one that covers what people ate on the ship.
Sometimes it can be fun to just google those thoughts and add “reddit” to the end
@@tifKh lmao I do this all the time!
I've certainly considered this, particularly when I was staying at a hotel in the heart of Seattle. Not a fancy one, but still a fairly pricey room at a Hilton skyscraper.
As I looked out the window across the city all I could think of was how even the nobility would have killed to stay in something like this...
I spent a summer on the Virginia farm of a friend of my grandmother's. They had electricity, but no plumbing - this was in the 1960's. We used an outhouse during the day and a chamber pot at night. The pot was emptied in the outhouse the next day. Oh yeah - there was a Montgomery Ward catalog for toilet paper in the outhouse. 1960's, people.
Pretty unusual tho - never saw that myself
I once stayed in a rural house in Malaysia and they still used an outhouse-this was in the early 2000s
I spent the holiday with my great-grandmother in a rural place in the Netherlands. Also outdoor toilet with a ton under the seat. The stench was terrible. And the toilets of one of my grandmothers was connected with the sewage, but was outside the house. That was in Rotterdam. A lot of my relatives still lived in houses with coal stoves. That meant that in the winter the rest of house was very cold. Stayed with an aunt in the winter, the blankets were frozen in the morning from the damp of your body.
It should be noted that most of these refer to Medieval Europe, rather than the Medieval period as a whole. Asia and Africa also had a "Medieval" Period; adding these regions into your videos, and comparing/contrasting them, would be very interesting and enlightening.
Unless you live in Florida, then it's not allowed.
Chinese emperors had far more lavish and sheltered lives (for the most part) than European kings. They rarely went to battle themselves, had a harem of concubines, and a ton of cultural differences.
They include Asia sometimes but never Africa. I would like to see both too!
Medieval royalty of India lived in absolute luxury
One should see that Medieval Kings were not Chinese Emperors etc. King wasn’t a term used in Africa, granted they had words that meant that; but again the title says Medieval Kings. It’s intellectually dishonest to say that cultures who do not use nor prefer the term “Medieval” when referring to that period of time in their respective cultures, should be included in videos whose title should obviously exclude them from said video. Either that or it’s gross virtue signaling.
Generally when one searches for content on YT they search for that content explicitly. They don’t assume the content they wish to consume is included in content that does not explicitly say so.
For example, when I want to watch a video about blood diamonds; I don’t watch a video about Jade mining ⛏️ n Alaska and say they should include the pros and cons of buying blood diamonds.
If you watch videos about what you want to see, you aren’t left wishing that subject matter was being discussed.
Try harder to entertain yourself more effectively.
I am *SOOOO* grateful to be alive right now, at this point in time! I am so appreciative of modern medicine & scientific medical advancements!
One of the main reasons is because I’ve had an autoimmune illness, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA.) I was diagnosed around age 10, and I can’t imagine existing with this disease *without* modern medicine. The thought alone is terribly depressing.
I’ve met elderly people who were diagnosed decades ago, who were unable to receive the treatments available now, and have permanently gnarled hands from it. My heart always aches for them. Untreated RA completely *ruins* your joints and the amount of disability it causes is devastating.
Even with the best treatments available, RA is still very painful and disabling. I still have to deal with pain and immobility on a regular, but I’m fortunate that my joints haven’t been completely destroyed or disfigured. Looking at me, you’d never guess I have such an awful disease. Unless I’m having a really bad flare up and my joints are super swollen, and if I happen to be limping because of that. Otherwise, no other visible signs.
I’m glad you’re able to feel somewhat comfortable with life !
@@noemitellez3098 thank you for saying that! 💜
It’s good to know that you’re doing well now. And you’re completely right about modern medicine, I can’t imagine living in those times.
I thought the infant mortality rate for medieval people, especially upper class, was like 30-40%. That was definitely the case in children living past the first year. It seemed like only 30% of babies born alive actually made it to adulthood.
It would only be that low in famine or plagues. It was 50% survival
And now infant mortality is above 100% due to abortions.
Thanks for this interesting and balanced presentation on life today as compared with royalty in the past. Despite the many and serious problems we have now, I wouldn't trade places with any past royalty or aristocracy for any amount of money. I love studying the past and in college my degree was in history, but I wouldn't want to live there. Every time my family had an outdoor barbeque, an uncle of mine used to say that we were eating better than the kings and queens. How right he was! I think all of us need to watch this video and be a little more thankful. Thank you weird history!
You're so wonderful! I am a history nerd too. Love it.
I still would, I could literally have any executed just for talking shit with a simple order. If I did that even today I would be arrested and put in prison for conspiracy to commit murder or attempted murder or murderer and frabkly there are some shit people on this little blue marble. Aristocracy of then may not have had like basic hygiene and the miracles of modern medicine but damn there is still like a huge percentage of the world today that doesn't either becausw they HAVE NO MONEY. That is the part weird history is totally dodging and is ignorant about. In fact if you even watched this video you are probably still doing better than most economically speaking , but many people still live very nomadic and hard lives. I would still rather be rich in that time period than be poor today.
Funny thing is, people in the far future might have technologies and comforts beyond conceivable for us. And they will probably look upon our "modern" lives as utterly miserable, even though that's not how we feel, especially when compared to the lives of medieval people. I guess people just can't "miss" things they have no concept of. If you could actually travel back in time and become a medieval king, you'd be the most miserable of medieval kings, precisely because you're accostumed to a modern life which they had no idea even exists.
@@lenoncerqueira8308 Exactly!
Yes absolutely true
I know right.. I love to think that Marie Antoinette will never know how it feels like to have a super clean bathroom to use whenever you want all supplied with soaps and toilet paper and the finest shampoos or have a super cool comfortable living room 69 degrees👌🏻) in the middle of summer while eating ice cream and gourmet imported chocolate bonbons. All bought at Walmart for a few dollars, very well within my meek peasant budget👌🏻
In some respects even the poor today have it much better than the kings of yesteryears.
Lol! I was thinking this the other day! Another huge one I wish you would have mentioned is the food! I remember reading how rare oranges were back then (up until the past 140 years). Something we can buy bags of easily was something that was a rare treat even for the medieval royals! I remember this every time I eat one!
My mom used to put an orange in our Christmas stockings to remind us how much of a treat it was in the old days. I treasure that memory. 💖
When I was in grade 7 I had a history class which the teacher at one time talked about how life was back in medieval time. That really made me think.
I think about this often. It's done wonders for my depression but really lowered my ambition.
History class has never been so interesting 💯👍🏽
My mothers older brother died in the 1940's from tetanus, something that's basically unheard of today. She also lived in a house that had an outdoor privy until she was 17 in the 1950's. And this house was in a major city! There are still people alive today who can actually remember the 1940's and 50's. It wasn't that long ago.
Hell I almost died from tetanus last summer.
I remember my folks having an outdoor toilet in the 1950s. One Halloween some kids tipped over our outdoor toilet. 😢
My grandmother is 94 and remembers it..
My mother is 73 and tells me about how hard things was back in the 59's and 60's
My family is huge supporters of bidets! Squeaky clean and environmentally friendly. 💯
Ye but people who remember the 1940s and 1950s are pretty old now
Thank you, you included plumbing 😂
“Didn’t give a plague-rat’s ass” may be the best line I’ve ever heard! 😂😂😂
He makes everything sound interesting no matter what
9:53 Apparently castles had solar power! 😂
Damn alien tech
Solar panels for the royal gaming laptops
Churches would accuse that solar panel is a devil's work for absorbing sun.
@WRO Sorry my subjects, but tonight's schedule will be gaming with thee boys, i'll solve the famine later
@@cerdaspediaindonesia8926 And Mosques too
Don't think Islam was any different
Mohammad was a bedouine after all
I also wonder how great life really was in royalty of the past. This was informative and made me glad I'm alive today. 😊🕊️
"She lived an entire Shakespearean tragedy in 1 year. That's efficient." 😂
Made me feel so much better about my current situation 😅
I love your little border-line sarcastic quips, lol.
Every chance i get i always cover my food in freshly cracked pepper. Because i always think at one point in history only the richest of kings could have done so.
I think that I will stay where I am at. Sitting in my recliner throne, coffee, my dog in my lap, looking on my phone at this channel of you tube. Have a great new year. 🎉
they totally let you keep the coin !
the coin contains the magic and how should the whole thing work without actually having the coin ?
it's also the origin of those bent coins that are now commonly referred to as love tokens (one of the types of love tokens)
I once found a double bent penny from Henry III....very crisp and not much circulated - proper pre-plague touch piece !
Especially since many wouldn't want to touch those coins again
That Stan Bush reference got me cracking up. You got the touch! You got the power! Lol genius.
LOL I grew up using outhouses! Trust me using a privie during a Canadian winter isnt the fun times its advertised to be!
Plus, dont have to ck for spiders before sitting
@@rvingtheusa Haha and bees!
Who the fuck said it was fun times?
That's probably not the cake she had in mind 🤣🤣🤣 I died. Please don't leave. Just stay here being the voice of Weird History forever. You're the best!!!
I'm 100% sure had I lived during this time, I would have been shuffled off to a convent.
Me too even my dad used to introduce me to his conservative Republican friends as "This is my daughter, Che Guevara." I had been very much against the Iraq wars.
It was probably for the better anyways. Yes, you had to be chaste and religious, but you got to spend your days in peace surrounded by other women, and believe me, that would've been better than marrying some guy of the middle ages.
4:57 - The definition of being "literate" in the medieval world was being someone who could read _Latin._ Most people who were exposed to writing could read well enough in their own language.
That was STILL an extremely small percentage of the entire population. Your statement is ambiguous at best.
@@frostyfrances4700 - Serfs and cotters, who made up most of the population, until 1300 or so, rarely saw the written word enough to figure out the sounds. Read my statement again. Then, don't bother me.
It's in places where there was no own written language.
As for many other places - someone who could read.
P.S. as a choir singer, who has experience with catholic music, I can read Latin texts aloud. Understanding it is way more difficult. :)
Man, this is truly something. Being a king in those days wasn't easy. It's a tough job. Trying to please one's subjects.
They didn't try to please anyone. They only tried to rule everyone.
Being a king is not easy unless you are Louis XIV before he was killed during the French Revolution.
So, yes, being a king is not easy. If you act like you own the place you get killed and if you actually do something good and work hard you may end up killed by some other faction or kingdom’s army.
This is Why i love history Cuz its not about memorizeing dates its about understanding How and Why we have it so ”good” in the present
I appreciate the present by looking to the past to hopefully see the future more easily
I certainly would not give up my common life with modern conveniences for the life of a medieval royal.
I didn't know medieval castles had solar panels. Amazing!
pickle suprise!
Just image how primitive and pathetic our lives will be viewed 1,000 years from now. "Did you know that back in 2022 they didn't have teleportation ! They had to drive a car, or even WALK to go places "
Ya, the focus on technological development vs actual power (being able to kill nearly any commoner is nothing to sneeze at) makes these comparisons yawn inducing. "They didn't even have smartphones." You don't say?
And back then in 2022 their society was so backward! They kept having wars and stuff, and ... and ....
I feel so grateful right now. And my small clean room feels heavenly.
We are richer than the sultans of old... But we mostly just like to whine about stuff on Twitter. 😛👍
When people complain about life is hard…
Poor people from the past: 👁️👄👁️
I think it’d be cool to see a dental history compared to current dentistry. Most ppl hate the dentist as is and wanna see how it’s advanced for the good (or bad)
It's pliers and sometimes whiskey.
There where no dentists. If your teeth hurt, The blacksmith would grab some tongs and well. One good yank and your pain would be solved. (Hopefully)
Wasn't as important then. People didn't eat a fuckload of refined sugar (or any sugar at all). The average medieval person's teeth would have looked better than ours, but more rounded (because of bits of stone in their bread).
Peasants had surprisingly good teeth because they couldn’t afford sugar. Rich people could so black teeth were a sign of wealth.
Im severely disabled, and if i was born back then id be dead right away, but today i live better than a king on my meager disability... i still have plenty of food, healthcare, house, electric, internet, and running water. And i dont have to worry about jealous ppl assassinating me for my vast power lol
I've made jokes about this before lol if I ever got into a pissing contest with a medieval king I'd be like 'you've never had a taco! You don't even know what that is!'
I put spices on my food even when I don't need to! Just out of habit!
Modern times are definitely way better!
You almost touched on travel. A journey from the Tower of London (which was also a Royal Castle) to Windsor Castle - 25 miles - was a one or two day journey.
Weird flex but helps with my attitude of gratitude!
Convenient access to clean water, fast food and the lack of smallpox is good enough of a reason for me to appreciate living in the modern world.
Fast food? If you only knew what is in corporate factory made food you may want to look into it.
With me, being totally blind for the last 21 years, thank God for modern technology
Yet you type like a sighted person, even use commas! Whaaat?
@@gaywizard2000Ever heard of braille?
@@Pokeyrunner there's braille on a tablet/phone? Wow, I can't believe technology!
Blind people use VoiceOver to type they put their finger on the screen and the voice over tells them what is under their finger in that way they can choose letters and type just like anybody else… perhaps do some research before judging something you know nothing about… I am also very nearly totally blind
@@brittanybales715 and void of humour!
Imagine having a internet, games, have a ability to talk to people whenever you want, etc, that people lived in the past that they can only dream of, my grandma 80yo who still lived today is still fascinating how technology improved really fast.
our ancestors would be PROUD!
Yeah proud of our beautiful homes cars jobs but I don't think they would approve of my binge watching shows.
I always think it's amazing that we live better than they did. I saw someone say something along the lines of, "but you dont have servants like they did", as if that is such a great thing. 😂 I am very picky on how things are done around my house and having a servant would not work for me. I'm sure it's the same for many people.
I saw a comment stating that the picture of Charles V was wrong but it's correct so don't worry. Charles V of Spain had the notorious Habsburg jaw.
Another comment stated that it's incorrect that women were not educated. I saw you said "many" not "all". Many weren't educated unless they had parents or guardians who believed that it was necessary.
Not to mention they only had maybe 40 food options, today we have 1000s just walking into a grocery store!
You probably would not want to eat most of those 1000s selections.
That Dave Matthews band joke was just.... *Chefs kiss*
I'm not gonna lie, that "once a week, depends on the weather" joke about pregnancy LITERALLY cracked me up to the point I had to laugh at it....cause I'm a woman😂
In several hundred years from now people are going to wonder how we made it as far as we did.
As someone who wears glasses and contacts, I wouldn't want to live in an era before they were available, not even as a king.
Same
It would be cool to see a Weird History episode on strange deaths of European monarchs.
Lol the Dave Matthew's bus reference lol
" That meeting could have been a scroll..."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As an organist, I appreciate the music with this video.👍
As a sex organist, I approve.
I'd prefer to be a medieval king as opposed to a medieval serf.
Yeah and 79k people in my city alone live worse than serfs of that day. In filth squalor no where to shower relieve themselves no food no hope toes falling off from gangrene. Greetings from the richest country in the world.
Well,while you might have a lot of luxury and rights as a medieval King, you still have a lot of pressure. Reigning over a whole kingdom and worrying over the economy,wars erc etc etc is not an easy task.
So...just existing in the middle ages sucked
@@boopdino8053 bro Americans are one paycheck away from homelessness. Pressure? Every. Moment. Every. Day. And we have to keep up with SO much more than farmers.
@@ayannadivineempath
Bad hygiene, lower life expectancy, bad medical care, malnourishment, less freedoms. There’s a give and take to everything in all aspects of time eras but they definitely did not have it easier. They just lived more simply and had one goal, work.
@@apexstrength3797 You still described the conditions of about 70% of the human population...today.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go poop in some potable water and go spend extra $$ for food that has _fewer_ calories. Because _obesity_ is now our most pressing problem.
1st world probs, man. 1st world probs.
You forgot to list the shear amount of food variety and access to foods like coffee, chocolate and sugar. Maybe royalty had better access to those things I’m medieval times, but not at the level we do now.
Oh man I laughed out loud when he said you got the shinnyest tools used to drill the demons out of your thick skull. 😜🤪😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Let’s be real... if the internet went down for a single day, half the people alive would either die or become insane.
Thank god y2k was avoided
Water is so underrated here in the west.. people don't appreciate it enough. Water ❤️❤️
Before getting to far into this video, I can think of a few things we've got that they didn't have. Toilets and plumbing, regular baths, clean water, clean and healthy food, heat/air, air purifiers, cars, bicycles, how about freedom and privacy. Certainly a loyally husband, can be intimate whenever we want (when not at work or other things). Comfortable clothes, computers, phones, pants, underwear, no pressure to bare sons, nor the pressure to be a baby making factory (although I do want to birth a child, still praying and hoping for that.) To name a few things. Can go places when I want to, can walk my dog when I want to, can go to dance classes when I want to, can study and learn what I want to (why do you think I watch these videos LOL), can swim when I want to, can wear jeans and t-shirts to church!
Oh yea, we actually get to keep all our teeth for life (most of us)
Oh goodness yes, don't have to marry a relative! And I got to choose my own husband! And my own job, hobbies, home, and dog!
Medieval peasants can marry whomever and have a "loyally" husband too. It's just the royalties that have to marry for political purpose.
And you sound like a 10 year old the way you wrote
A+ video!
LOVE IT! I am very grateful for the luxury we have today!
Being born before like 1940 was a gamble, it seems.
I went to a few castles when I visited Luxembourg a few years ago and although a lot of it was just ruins, some of them were still somewhat intact and I couldn’t imagine living in one.
Another thing I have over a king is that I'm not surrounded by people who are trying to control me and conspire to kill me when they can't...
At least, I don't think.
But we never know. If you want to up the odds, just be a northeast damnYankee who retires to TinyTown in the blood red central Midwest. I wasn't here a month b4 the death threats started. 17 years later, I'm still here but would move out of this hellhole if I could.
Modern medicine are the most important, in medieval time, you could die by simply get tiny scratches on your skin, because antibiotics and anti septic wasn't available back then, tiny wound can be lethal due to bacterial infection.
This video made me sub, love the humor man, keep it up!😂
i also like that i can just step into a box any time i want and have well portioned drops of water pour down on me while being able to choose the temperature of the water. would make any king jealous
The more Weird History videos I watch, the more I love this channel and the more I realize we have the same hatred for The Dave Mathews Band 😂😂😂😂😂
"That's the way its gonna be little darliiing....
Wait...
That's not it is it
Medieval 'literacy' was often a measured of being literate in Latin (the only language that 'mattered' back then). Lots of people were literate in the local language.
Literate means you can read and write. Define 'lots' - as compared to what? The loose way you use the word, it could mean anywhere from half a dozen to thousands. Of course just about everyone could SPEAK the local language - but that's not literacy! Not even all the church officials in the past could read and write!
Imagine the disappointment when you realize those royal healing coins you bought were counterfeits...
I will take modern day with all its flaws. I like my indoor plumbing. Thank you very much. Though I find history very fascinating and love this channel.
I always think about the things Hollywood leaves out, like the smell of the people and places... I'm guessing you could smell a town like London from miles away.
I always say we’re all living like kings and queens compared to the past
Looking at my stuffed wardrobe, the amount of clothing the average person has would make a medieval person’s head spin!
I don't think being a Medieval King sounds that appealing, but it would be interesting to live during those days.
Plumbing is certainly something people take for granted today, it is used all the time and really limits sanitation problems.
Great video, thank you for making it.
Let’s say that it would be great to live as a medieval King for 24h hours or a week maybe.
But otherwise it sucks in many ways because we are used to a very different lifestyle.
Better to be a peasant than a king, really. A lot less shit to worry about.
@@SomeBody-rm6hf I would rather live out on the land.
10:40 "with great power comes great responsibility" sums it up pretty well
Kings had it bad, but women of any rank had it much worse.
Thank you weird history I was wishing for you to make a video like and have a happy new year man
When he said "marry your cousin" I think of the Spanish monarch
some parts in the world still do that .
@@thesailormercury2 I think in Zwitserland
Medieval paintings depicting luxury life is the equivalent to today's social media posts.
In the Philippines, I still remember using chamber pots ( but they're made from plastic ) when I was a kid.
We do have proper toilets and bathrooms but we have one for each room in case you're too lazy to go to the bathroom at night. We just use it for peeing though.
Unfortunately child marriage is still pretty common, even in the U.S. It’s sickening what some states have as laws
Republican states such as IA, KS, LA, MS are passing laws that remove child protection. And allow kids as young as age 11 to work. Ditto for child marriage. Rather than move forward the Republicans are moving society backwards.
Lol, a Transformers reference in a Medieval video. I didn't expect that!
gotta bring chamber pots back in new bed models. i hate getting out of bed for that yucky stuff.
I guess I grew up in medieval times. We had an outside toilet and still used chamber pots during the winter or when it was rainy.
Left hand & a bowl of water?
Where, you didn't set the wonderful scene of your aromatherapy.Where did you live?
@@professorsprout3382 England
@@stacyrussell460 I learned about washing my private parts after defecating a lot later. After going vegan and smelling the sickness on others who did not get clean with the toilet paper they used.
@@karenishness1 I was referring to something I heard in a tv show years ago about how people from other countries don't use toilet paper even today. They use their left hand & a bowl of water. It wasn't a slight towards you so please forgive my ignorance.
The only advantage to being a monarch in the Middle Ages was having power over others; otherwise, modern life wins out.