The Black Death

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Комментарии • 2,1 тыс.

  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  4 года назад +200

    Thank you Brilliant for making this one possible! Check out Brilliant: brilliant.org/Biographics/

    • @BigFett203
      @BigFett203 4 года назад +4

      Biographics KNIGHTS TEMPLAR video please.

    • @igorflexus9493
      @igorflexus9493 4 года назад +2

      In Denmark, they had to release prisoners because they ran out of people.

    • @badas45
      @badas45 4 года назад +1

      536 AD "the darkest time in history" I'd love to see a video on it....

    • @lacey3880
      @lacey3880 4 года назад +1

      Wit ice melting,;it unknown what is released?

    • @andrejjosifovski9997
      @andrejjosifovski9997 4 года назад

      You remind me of a history teacher haha I love listening you're perfect British accent

  • @plinkitee
    @plinkitee 4 года назад +1964

    I love how Simon talks about the Black Death like it was sentient.

    • @6idangle
      @6idangle 4 года назад +75

      In a sense it was

    • @dr2stroke611
      @dr2stroke611 4 года назад +118

      he's running out of people. much like the plague did

    • @gnumann64
      @gnumann64 4 года назад +25

      I don't like that. Somebody might think it was.

    • @vegass04
      @vegass04 4 года назад +19

      @@gnumann64 Me too. Although he's sarcastic many religious people won't get that vibe..For example him saying that all you had to do to get rid of the plague is praying is dangerous.. That's something they love to hear cause it hardens their belief in the imaginary grandpa from the sky who watches what you eat and with whom you have sex with.. Even the conspiracy theory nuts could deduce that he really believes in Illuminati and how that is a valid theory that the rest of us "fools" don't want to admit cause we "haven't explored the real information" on the internet..

    • @errolmichaelphillips7763
      @errolmichaelphillips7763 4 года назад +3

      Nice word though.

  • @TheM16NdPregnant
    @TheM16NdPregnant 4 года назад +477

    I’m glad these comments are filled with people who enjoy history as much as I do.

    • @mccreadykearney9863
      @mccreadykearney9863 4 года назад +5

      @WithAStick AngryWhiteMan Hate to break it to you, but this isn't going to help you survive a plague dude,

    • @Cj-xt6tv
      @Cj-xt6tv 4 года назад +6

      I really dislike people who discount history and learning history as pointless

    • @LawrenceMark33
      @LawrenceMark33 4 года назад

      I am pleased to see that Simon has been able to connect the Bolt to the Knut with this story. Even if I did get here late! 😁🧐

    • @2_572
      @2_572 3 года назад

      @@Cj-xt6tv me too.

  • @TheYacu
    @TheYacu 4 года назад +242

    Thanos: "I will wipe out half of all people!!!!"
    Some medieval real life bacterium: "Hold my ale."

    • @Lanetgm
      @Lanetgm 3 года назад +4

      Hi

    • @dowhatiwantc7637
      @dowhatiwantc7637 2 года назад +2

      Underrated joke lol

    • @s--h1584
      @s--h1584 2 года назад +6

      The novel Inferno by Dan Brown features someone with a similar ideal to Thanos, wanting to majorly reduce the world's population to solve humanity's major problems. In the book, the villain is specifically inspired by the story of the Black Death, believing that its population culling of Europe is what allowed for the age of enlightenment to follow.

  • @nate7790
    @nate7790 4 года назад +197

    For those of you interested in knowing...the Black Death was even more twitted than you imagined.
    Actually, when a flee is infected by Yersinia pestis, the bacteria develops in its gut and creates a biofilm preventing it from absorbing nutrients. Therefore the flee becomes hungrier and hungrier. This means it tries to feed much more and kill its rat hosts much faster and is even more attracted to larger prey like cats, dogs or humans...

    • @davidrajaruzicka5546
      @davidrajaruzicka5546 Год назад +1

      Yikes

    • @joanhuffman2166
      @joanhuffman2166 Год назад +8

      The biofilm plug is more likely to form when the average temperature is lower. Thus, volcanic winter after 536 AD triggered an outbreak of plague, famine contributed as well.

    • @dx.feelgood5825
      @dx.feelgood5825 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@joanhuffman2166 and also explains why it doesn't seem to have affected much hotter climates

  • @facina3390
    @facina3390 4 года назад +359

    I’ve heard this story so many times, but with Simon narrating, it felt like the first. Thanks for all that you do! 👍

  • @Kasperi_A.
    @Kasperi_A. 4 года назад +900

    I love how he talks about the plague like its a person.

    • @fbussier80
      @fbussier80 4 года назад +23

      Look up Nurgle

    • @georgehh2574
      @georgehh2574 4 года назад +18

      Not really, more like a invasion force

    • @zanussi303
      @zanussi303 4 года назад +8

      @@georgehh2574 one "man" invasion force

    • @mayapilkey6805
      @mayapilkey6805 4 года назад +8

      It's the easiest way to describe the spread and damage of a pandemic

    • @AkaimaruSama
      @AkaimaruSama 4 года назад +17

      Why are some of you so hostile

  • @doranconall9995
    @doranconall9995 4 года назад +114

    "Plague reservoir" is by far the most terrifying term I've ever heard. Thank you for the nightmare fuel Simon.

    • @ElegyVio
      @ElegyVio 2 года назад +3

      Jesus Christ is the truth reach out

    • @itsjohnnyr8560
      @itsjohnnyr8560 2 года назад +2

      @@ElegyVio 👎

  • @petterraahauge6757
    @petterraahauge6757 4 года назад +57

    Thank You. I really enjoy your videos here. I want to add this about Norway. I am a Norwegian. The Black Death did not turn out so well here. It killed off 2/3 of the population and left our country in ruins. Up to the plague Norway was on the height of its power. And in the late 1200 Magnus Lagabøte (Lawmender) gave us the first laws that gave some rights to poor people, workers and women as well. Some of these are still in our constitution. But after the plague, in 1380, we came under Danish rule. Generally referred to as «The 400 year night». That was kinda harsh, until 1814 when Denmark that had sided with Napoleon had to give it up. We were then «given» to Sweden. And in 1905 we broke free, very peacefully. So, we can say that the effects of the plague lasted this long. From 1349 until 1905.
    Thank you again. This is good history.

    • @elusiveDEVIANT
      @elusiveDEVIANT Год назад

      It takes 23 days for first kill and killed 2/3 of the population. Hmm.

    • @craigmckenzie4967
      @craigmckenzie4967 Год назад +2

      Thank you for sharing, that’s fascinating. Makes you wonder how advanced Norway could’ve been had it not been for the plague.

    • @oilersridersbluejays
      @oilersridersbluejays 7 месяцев назад

      Iceland was another Scandinavian country that suffered horribly from the Black Death, despite being a far-flung, semi-isolated island. Even the Faroes weren’t safe.

  • @venicec3310
    @venicec3310 4 года назад +514

    70% of a population wiped out in a few months that is insane. Imagine that happening now the world would break down. Its hard to wrap my mind around that concept

    • @2HRTS1LOVE
      @2HRTS1LOVE 4 года назад +60

      I was thinking about that. Think what would happen if that many garbage men, power company workers, coal miners, cell network workers, oil/gas workers, MORTICIANS, doctors, nurses, cops, firemen, etc were just gone in a matter of weeks. I can't even imagine the chaos. We wouldn't need zombies for it to be hell. Think I'd rather be among the dead in that case, survivors likely wouldn't be surviving for long.

    • @venicec3310
      @venicec3310 4 года назад +47

      OGSpaceCadet fr atleast people then knew how to survive off the land now most folks dont even know how to start a fire. The social upheavals would be insane

    • @RickReasonnz
      @RickReasonnz 4 года назад +43

      It could actually be MUCH worse if it happened now, because of how interconnected and reliant we are on others. Sure, our medicinal research is far superior but before something like a cure or containment could occur, vast segments of the population would be beyond help. Not to mention we can travel WAY further than our predecessors, thus spreading the plague further and faster.

    • @dimitriosmakropoulos8641
      @dimitriosmakropoulos8641 4 года назад +4

      @@venicec3310 Yeah, there were few specialists then, except perhaps doctors, and if they were having any effect it was making things worse.

    • @atomsmasher9411
      @atomsmasher9411 4 года назад +13

      Don't worry, it will happen again

  • @thormaster06
    @thormaster06 4 года назад +344

    Bonus fact: First written traces for quarantine as we know today date to 27th July 1347 in Dubrovnik (then called Ragusa) where city council ordered 40 days waiting period before people, ships and live stock could enter the city. And that's where the name came from old Venetian word for 40 days or ''quarantina''.

    • @surlygirly1926
      @surlygirly1926 4 года назад +11

      Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

    • @purplehazerunnerx
      @purplehazerunnerx 4 года назад +12

      Dubrovnik is my town!

    • @Cj-xt6tv
      @Cj-xt6tv 4 года назад +1

      Marechal Zolotoy they really really didn’t. Their cities were a Pig sty that promoted the spread of disease. They literally threw those feces out of their windows

    • @Cj-xt6tv
      @Cj-xt6tv 4 года назад +4

      This comment is pretty funny seeing as we’re stuck in quarantine now

    • @lolazal1
      @lolazal1 3 года назад

      @Marechal Zolotoy And which half of the world might that be huh?

  • @treborironwolfe978
    @treborironwolfe978 4 года назад +661

    *Alexander the Great:* "I'm thinking about conquering all of Europe. Any ideas?"
    *Black Death:* "Yes."

    • @GhostlyJorg
      @GhostlyJorg 4 года назад +12

      The Black Death won the war, but lost the peace...

    • @BaskiHighT
      @BaskiHighT 4 года назад +4

      Corona : " hold my beer"

    • @YPO6
      @YPO6 4 года назад +3

      @@BaskiHighT hold my protein shell

    • @dyslexofficial2798
      @dyslexofficial2798 4 года назад +5

      Alexander the great didnt conquer Europe.... he went east not west

    • @thathistoryiscoolguy
      @thathistoryiscoolguy 4 года назад +3

      Alexsander conquered Persia

  • @Ramonaaa448
    @Ramonaaa448 4 года назад +1068

    Who watching this during the corona virus pandemic??

    • @danielsanchez09
      @danielsanchez09 4 года назад +14

      That's what I'm thinking the COVID-19 is similar to, to a certain extent

    • @karenmacintosh4309
      @karenmacintosh4309 4 года назад +4

      Of course

    • @shmav52
      @shmav52 4 года назад +2

      Yep

    • @LeonTempest
      @LeonTempest 4 года назад +3

      🔥

    • @asterope1604
      @asterope1604 4 года назад +39

      @@danielsanchez09 except not nearly as deadly thankfully.

  • @daniellemaxwell8883
    @daniellemaxwell8883 4 года назад +780

    Please do a biographic on the Spanish influenza

    • @gendeb9666
      @gendeb9666 4 года назад +15

      I've read that not so many would die today because a lot of them died from dehydration but I'd like to see what Simon and the research team would say...

    • @astyanax905
      @astyanax905 4 года назад +5

      Yeah Spanish flu would be entertaining

    • @evilubuntu9001
      @evilubuntu9001 4 года назад +7

      @@gendeb9666 You read wrong.

    • @stevethegeckotv
      @stevethegeckotv 4 года назад +3

      Spanish flu was bird flu. Testing was done on tissue samples.

    • @stevethegeckotv
      @stevethegeckotv 4 года назад +1

      I should add, MODERN testing on old samples

  • @mariano98ify
    @mariano98ify 4 года назад +512

    That Black Death dude has the most creepiest history in the world

    • @newjones1754
      @newjones1754 4 года назад +11

      Really? There are far more cataclysmic diseases in our history. People are so limited in there history lessons that they know the Auschwitz but, not the gulags Romans but, not Mesopotamia Every European Empire but, not a single African Empire. If you want creepy and horrible read lectures from the University's that are not censored because, they are to gruesome for our history books.

    • @Anomaly-uz9pr
      @Anomaly-uz9pr 4 года назад +8

      New Jones Africa sucks

    • @AmbyJeans
      @AmbyJeans 4 года назад +6

      Max Dejean
      No it doesn't

    • @AmbyJeans
      @AmbyJeans 4 года назад +1

      New Jones
      What cataclysmic disease would you say is the worst?

    • @newjones1754
      @newjones1754 4 года назад +2

      @@AmbyJeans I would never answer things like the best the worst facts and proof. History is a science and when we learn more we changed the previous believes we had about it. So to answer things like that is ridiculous for a scientist because, they know how much they don't know. In my field of work it's not about having the right answers but, its about asking the right questions. I will not give answers if I don't have the required knowledge or post things like fun fact blabla. If you want me to name a few that we know of but, most people haven't heard of I be happy to help. The only thing is I'm not a native English speaker and I'm dyslectic. If that don't bother you I'm always ready to share knowledge between each other.

  • @liamgbooth
    @liamgbooth 3 года назад +114

    The irony is, as Simon is describing this, patient 0 was suffering with Covid 19. And we all know what happened next.

  • @MCreedon34
    @MCreedon34 4 года назад +68

    Very fitting during these covid19 times...
    And I could listen to simon talk about anything his voice is so calming

    • @nsrmom
      @nsrmom 4 года назад +1

      You should listen to his business blaze. Completely different personality. I love them all.

    • @stemup
      @stemup 3 года назад +7

      Only the black death was actually deadly though

    • @TheZombieburner
      @TheZombieburner 2 года назад

      Black death makes Covid look like a bad joke.

  • @spacepope69
    @spacepope69 4 года назад +302

    Thank you for including the Asian and Middle Eastern parts of the story. Outside of 'it started in China' I never heard of the devastation it caused in the 'East' until sometime in the 2000s

    • @maryamkim1281
      @maryamkim1281 3 года назад +32

      Same for Africa. That continent is normally excluded.

    • @lolazal1
      @lolazal1 3 года назад +17

      The abandoned towns in Nigeria still exist. No one has ever wanted to live in the olde houses.

    • @lindaarrington9397
      @lindaarrington9397 3 года назад +1

      Thats because Europeans are big mouths

    • @mennograafmans1595
      @mennograafmans1595 2 года назад +9

      @@lindaarrington9397 Matter of where the most sources remain. In Africa, writing was far less common. And what was written down, was often thrown away by the conquerors, be it other tribes or invading europeans.
      Also workethics of later "archeologists" were not very usefull. They just went to places to take the pretty and valuable stuff, ignoring or even destroying whatever information was present in their ignorance.
      Europe just has a lot of stuff remaining that's still intact. So it's far easier to find detailed reports. China also has a lot. As do some middle eastern countries. Sadly, the middle east is currently not always the best place to work as an archeologist. And woth groups like IS activaly destroying historical sites, it only becomes more difficult.

  • @YTartschool
    @YTartschool 4 года назад +375

    Big fan of your videos but even more of your work ethics - It's just crazy to me the dedication you have for all your YT channels and how well you stick to schedule, always cranking out content. I can't go 4 weeks without slipping :)

    • @blancasonora714
      @blancasonora714 3 года назад +3

      and mage so calmly He's Legend 🙌

    • @rampage3337
      @rampage3337 3 года назад +22

      well he has a full team writing and planing these stuff so that kind of helps pumping out content

    • @ElegyVio
      @ElegyVio 2 года назад

      Jesus Christ is the truth reach out

    • @ElegyVio
      @ElegyVio 2 года назад +1

      @@blancasonora714 Jesus Christ is the truth reach out

    • @ElegyVio
      @ElegyVio 2 года назад

      @@rampage3337 Jesus Christ is the truth reach out

  • @skipwebb3787
    @skipwebb3787 4 года назад +17

    That was the most entertaining and chilling videos I've seen on Biographics. The way Simon talks about the pathogen as a cold and calculating psychopath was an excellent choice. Please do the plague of children like that too!

  • @shascastiel7025
    @shascastiel7025 4 года назад +28

    I never thought rattata and raticate could have this very deadly effective moves...

  • @itsamachineworld
    @itsamachineworld 4 года назад +89

    What an interesting way to frame a major historical event. It worked so well for the video, and for Biographics' style of presentation. Wonderful writing as well. The video was as captivating as a really good novel, and I loved the whole thing. Even if this might be a one-off for Halloween, I would love to see more historical event videos framed this way.

  • @nosferatuoddz7974
    @nosferatuoddz7974 4 года назад +780

    The black death is my favorite person in history

    • @mike42356
      @mike42356 4 года назад +8

      Soon, biographics will become poethics...

    • @ladycharlenegrace8023
      @ladycharlenegrace8023 4 года назад +1

      Prince Phillip?

    • @mike42356
      @mike42356 4 года назад +1

      @CLVNES FILIÆ PARVVLÆ FINDAM LOL, I was thinking about "factual poetry" :P

    • @janoyantonio9585
      @janoyantonio9585 4 года назад +4

      It's a thing not a person. Disease is a thing..

    • @vitlanger6785
      @vitlanger6785 4 года назад +1

      How did you read my mind
      HOW DID YOU DO IT?

  • @JustAnotherAccount8
    @JustAnotherAccount8 3 года назад +3

    man the people back then were so resilient, that amount of the population dying would destroy modern-day society, but they survived

  • @moldytales
    @moldytales 4 года назад +337

    COVID19 : *Exists*
    RUclips suggestions: You think COVID19 is bad? Check THIS out!

    • @juanuribe9198
      @juanuribe9198 4 года назад +8

      Fraztov oh man, COVID19 is not gonna have such a massive effect as this did back then ... or impact on population percentages. Don’t be surprised tho, if it kills similar a number of people, directly or as a result of health systems collapsing worldwide.

    • @moldytales
      @moldytales 4 года назад +1

      r/woosh

    • @RejectedInch
      @RejectedInch 4 года назад +5

      @@juanuribe9198 the closer comparison to COVID-19 cannot be the plague, 1 is a virus with the ability of mutating, the other is a bacteria that does not have this ability. Second the hygenical condition of the middle age were atrocious, not to mention the absence of actual medicines let alone antobiotics or vaccines. We do have the most of what middle age folks didn't have. The closest comparison to COVID-19 pandemic still infact the Spanish flu, not by lethal potential, but by "behavior" of the virus itself. Sure as hell if the whole human race does not take a step back from the insanity of profit at all cost, putting the benefit of the very few above the benefit of the many...well...then COVID-19 could become the 21st century black death, obliterating the human kind. A coronavirus literally mutates with the sole goal of surviving and as long as we are more worried about " when the pubs will open again" then " the virus will have wide open doors to ravage across the globe pretty much unchallenged.

    • @axelfoley133
      @axelfoley133 4 года назад +4

      I just wonder how many people back then refused to heed warnings or declared it a fake disease, etc.

    • @morgangrey4020
      @morgangrey4020 4 года назад

      several cases have been found in california in 2020...just saying.

  • @memorandom7484
    @memorandom7484 4 года назад +293

    _Yersinia Pestis_ - surprisingly _not_ a character from _Harry Potter._

    • @12jswilson
      @12jswilson 4 года назад +18

      It's almost like most of the names in both Harry Potter and scientific naming systems both come from Latin. Almost.

    • @libraryofthoughts0
      @libraryofthoughts0 4 года назад +3

      it was spell. Totally. Yersinia Pestis!

    • @sethabdul7824
      @sethabdul7824 4 года назад +6

      Pestitis Maximus!

    • @nikkaboo1106
      @nikkaboo1106 4 года назад +3

      @@sethabdul7824 yesinis totalis

  • @broomy1610
    @broomy1610 4 года назад +379

    “BRING OUT YOUR DEAD, BRING OUT YOUR DEAD, BRING OUT YOUR DEAD”

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад +22

    1:40 - Chapter 1 - Revelation 6/8
    3:35 - Chapter 2 - Black death (origins)
    6:40 - Chapter 3 - Out of the land of darkness
    10:15 - Chapter 4 - 23 days
    15:40 - Chapter 5 - Europe shall fall
    21:40 - Chapter 6 - After the end

  • @mikailsokoll52
    @mikailsokoll52 4 года назад +6

    This is one of your most poetic works, the way you personified the plague was absolutely phenomenal.

  • @SharpWits2013
    @SharpWits2013 4 года назад +566

    Ahhh, the Medieval Thanos snap..

  • @GhostlyRedRoses
    @GhostlyRedRoses 4 года назад +264

    How perfect that my Halloween costume is a plague doctor.

  • @Leftyotism
    @Leftyotism 4 года назад +30

    The subtitle "History, one life at a time" really changes the tone of this one here. : >

    • @nate7790
      @nate7790 4 года назад +2

      Sounds like a slogan the Black Death might have used:
      "Black Death, making History...once life at a time HaHaHa...."

  • @izzojoseph2
    @izzojoseph2 4 года назад +34

    I was gonna chill out and watch TV.
    I’ve given up on that medium ~ especially when I can watch Simon and crew tell me true stories far more entertaining and informative than any crap on the tube.

  • @Joshua_DFC
    @Joshua_DFC 4 года назад +281

    When are we getting a biographic on Simon Whistler

    • @Gun_Talk
      @Gun_Talk 4 года назад +9

      He already said he wont do it

    • @MattWeber
      @MattWeber 4 года назад +15

      @@Gun_Talk first he would have to clinch the channel "Autobiographics"

    • @nexusofice9135
      @nexusofice9135 4 года назад +35

      What about his Mother? I would like to know about Whistler's Mother.

    • @ageansai6067
      @ageansai6067 4 года назад +2

      He's like the Russian chessboard guy he's only on 56 rn

    • @TheWazzoGames
      @TheWazzoGames 4 года назад

      @@nexusofice9135 what? Why?

  • @MindfulAttraction2.0
    @MindfulAttraction2.0 4 года назад +321

    thank god we got da rona instead of this messenger from hell

    • @veselinjokanovic3032
      @veselinjokanovic3032 4 года назад +45

      Actually, bubonic plague is very easily treated with modern antiobiotics.

    • @Hannibalkakihara
      @Hannibalkakihara 4 года назад +28

      Bubonic plague is still around. We just know how to treat it better in 2020 compared to mid 1300s

    • @DaleDix
      @DaleDix 4 года назад +9

      @@veselinjokanovic3032 the rona is easily sorted but it doesn't suit anyone

    • @veselinjokanovic3032
      @veselinjokanovic3032 4 года назад +14

      @@DaleDix You mean the pharmacy mafia wont give us the cure?

    • @8Maduce50
      @8Maduce50 3 года назад +19

      @@veselinjokanovic3032 until you create a super version of it by using antibiotics to only leave the most drug resistance strains left. It is already happening with ecoli and TB

  • @mysticmermaid333
    @mysticmermaid333 4 года назад +34

    "Illuminati confirmed"
    I almost shot orange juice out my nose... 😅

  • @billyruben6540
    @billyruben6540 4 года назад +90

    Simon Whistler: The Busiest Man on RUclips
    This guy must never sleep. Seems I get about 40 new videos a day from various channels from him.
    I love it.

    • @SonjaPierce
      @SonjaPierce 4 года назад

      With 7 active channels, Simon gives us our daily Simon fix!

    • @cmasterson
      @cmasterson 4 года назад +7

      For real. I told my wife he must post 7 videos a day, how does he have the time when I cant complete 2 projects a day lol. Videos are research, writing, editing, shooting, uploading, promoting, etc. man that's a lot of work in 24 hours lol. I do know there is a team but still.

    • @matios83
      @matios83 4 года назад

      @@cmasterson my dogs are well feed. Thx

    • @Timliu92
      @Timliu92 4 года назад

      @@cmasterson I guess his channel has done so well that he probably has made it his full time job (I can be wrong, by the way). Good for Simon if that is true though - I love his content!

    • @neo-didact9285
      @neo-didact9285 4 года назад

      I don't think it'a that bad. Just another 7-5 job.

  • @CommissarTommy22
    @CommissarTommy22 4 года назад +425

    This weeks episode is sponsored by Plague Inc.

    • @LennoxMatt1
      @LennoxMatt1 4 года назад +33

      Damned Greenland

    • @nate7790
      @nate7790 4 года назад +5

      @@LennoxMatt1 I usually started there as a means to avoid the issue :)

    • @bolikde9389
      @bolikde9389 4 года назад +1

      Pravus Gaming is taking Notes.

    • @Kittykat81572
      @Kittykat81572 4 года назад +1

      Unfortunately this isn’t funny anymore hahahah

  • @80sfever89
    @80sfever89 4 года назад +15

    Anyone watching this in March 2020. Simon forecasting the future!

  • @draccoonxcii1288
    @draccoonxcii1288 11 месяцев назад +1

    First learning about the plague in middle school was terrifying.
    In one lesson, you learn about a dreaded biological nightmare that wiped out half of the ancient world.

  • @bardock11
    @bardock11 4 года назад +78

    The writing in this episode was amazing! Dark as the subject it speaks about, but incredibly poetic. Props to the writers!

    • @ElegyVio
      @ElegyVio 2 года назад

      Jesus Christ is the truth reach out

    • @sphjinx1448
      @sphjinx1448 Год назад

      @@ElegyVio grammar, please.

  • @barrywerdell2614
    @barrywerdell2614 4 года назад +36

    Very literal, Simon you're down right poetic in this one.

  • @keenoled
    @keenoled 2 года назад +8

    You guys are such a great team. I love being able to watch a good info documentary without sitting here on guard for like inaccuracies and borderline xenophobia. Love how the opposition isn't other humans in these like in naming things for whose "fault" it was it popped up. Great script, and the editing both cracks me up and sends shivers down my spine.

  • @hihi-nm3uy
    @hihi-nm3uy 3 года назад +3

    ive never seen simon as happy as he is when he’s making biographics videos - more power to him

  • @alanhorowitz3796
    @alanhorowitz3796 4 года назад +95

    Ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes, all fall down!

    • @richardsmith2879
      @richardsmith2879 4 года назад +14

      Ring around a roses, pocket full of posies (to keep the infection away) a’toshoo a’tishoo (sneezing) all fall down. Dead.

    • @alanhorowitz3796
      @alanhorowitz3796 4 года назад +15

      The "ring" (I'd learned) was the round, pink discolouration on the thigh. Posies were flowers used to cover the stench of rotting corpses. Ashes was the cremated bodies. All fall down was people dying.

    • @margomazzeo1680
      @margomazzeo1680 4 года назад +4

      Yep..origin of the children's rhyming game..

    • @richardsmith2879
      @richardsmith2879 4 года назад +5

      Alan Horowitz . In England we always sang a’tishoo, not ashes, which is new to me. This may be a corruption of the original of course, since American English often retains earlier meanings from which English English has diverged. I’ve heard of plague pits but I’ve never heard of bodies being burnt, although this might have happened of course.

    • @alanhorowitz3796
      @alanhorowitz3796 4 года назад +3

      To your point, the past participle of "got" in American English is still "gotten," as in "it had gotten too cold." In England, "gotten" no longer exists. That said, it's at least agreed upon that "Ring Around the Rosie" is based in Black Plague. I personally learned that it did, in fact, come from children who could do nothing more than mock the horrors that were going on. To think that this has been the very first communal dance that children still learn gives me a chill. I did it as a toddler as do the children I've met today.

  • @adr.marius5636
    @adr.marius5636 4 года назад +42

    "trapped in purgatory, a lifeless object alive" ok I smell another Slayer reference

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 4 года назад +2

      NOW YOU’RE STANDING IN MY KILLING FIELD!
      Different song but by far my favorite Slayer line.

  • @beatleplayer1011
    @beatleplayer1011 4 года назад +6

    I like that he doesn't just focus on this effect on Europe. This is quite unusual in videos on the Black Death.

  • @FIDEL_CASHFLOW_
    @FIDEL_CASHFLOW_ 2 года назад +2

    It's interesting how employers back then had to increase their wages after the pandemic to attract people from a smaller labor pool, and how the exact same thing happened in the states during Covid.
    The fast food restaurants near me went from offering $8/hr to 14$/hr over the course of a year. It was funny watching the sign out front with that number climb a dollar or two every few months, I suspect because they were trying to find the absolute least they could offer people to get them to come work for them but hadn't quite hit that number yet.

  • @ezolecter6218
    @ezolecter6218 4 года назад +43

    Europe: *Dying from the Black Death*
    Poland: Why don´t I hear boss music?

  • @dulezninjaman4788
    @dulezninjaman4788 4 года назад +334

    When are we getting pirate biographies simon?

    • @dpj1
      @dpj1 4 года назад +6

      dulez ninjaman never enough pirates👌

    • @SucculentAloeVera
      @SucculentAloeVera 4 года назад +11

      yes we want pirates

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 4 года назад

      Most pirate stuff is a literary re-writing thanks to Robert Louis-Stephenson and a couple of campy 1950's movies, carried through to today in even more campy movies.

    • @silviaoey7851
      @silviaoey7851 4 года назад

      dulez ninjaman you already got garribaldi

    • @danielmaina675
      @danielmaina675 4 года назад

      Pirates are fake

  • @rhov-anion
    @rhov-anion 4 года назад +3

    Author Arnaldo Teodorani, amazing job writing the script. Personifying the Black Death as a military conqueror was brilliant. You're a legend!

    • @arnaldoteodorani277
      @arnaldoteodorani277 4 года назад +1

      Thanks WildRhov, your comment is much appreciated. The inspiration came from Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Mask of the Red Death’ in which a physical embodiment of the plague crashes the party of a corrupt aristocrat.

  • @Succubus2Angel
    @Succubus2Angel 4 года назад +3

    Simon, I have got to say your narration and writing is superb. I've watched many videos and documentaries on this topic, but you have a sophisticated air of someone knowledgeable and not sounding like a History Channel narrator trying to pass on his message like an inflamed gossip mill. I've been watching quite a few of your Biographics and Geographics works, and I have to say you have a very even voice, very even and balanced provision of information and always, keep your sponsorship's bits short, to the point and over quickly to get back to why we decided to click on this video in the first place. Thank you so much for your research, writing and professing the findings of everything, everyone, everywhere.

  • @timothyernst8812
    @timothyernst8812 4 года назад +50

    "And I, Agnolo di Tura del Grasso, buried my five children with my own hands . . . And so many died that all believed it was the end of the world."

  • @natalierose1072
    @natalierose1072 4 года назад +52

    Some of my favorite historical paintings are of the Black Death genre. Idk why but as a kid I would look at those paintings for hours noticing all the tiny details. The contorted faces, scenic mayhem and just general misery painstakingly brought to life on every corner of the page. I was a weird kid 🤷🏽‍♀️

    • @TheM16NdPregnant
      @TheM16NdPregnant 4 года назад +13

      There’s something hypnotic about observing them while thinking the circumstances in which they were made.

    • @seaturtlepoppy7679
      @seaturtlepoppy7679 4 года назад +4

      Caitlin Doughty - Ask A Mortician - did a video on artistic corpses that you might like. Apparently she majored in medieval art or some kind.

    • @natalierose1072
      @natalierose1072 4 года назад +3

      @@seaturtlepoppy7679 I love her channel! She makes super interesting content

    • @atomsmasher9411
      @atomsmasher9411 4 года назад +9

      The style is called Danse Macabre

    • @stevenschnepp576
      @stevenschnepp576 4 года назад +2

      I know what you mean. My grandparents had decorated their house with several paintings in the style.

  • @jutjammin7778
    @jutjammin7778 4 года назад +97

    “It could of came from China”, why am I not surprised

    • @tuguldurbaatar
      @tuguldurbaatar 4 года назад +10

      It could potentially or most likely came from Mongolia or the steppe nomads because the steppe delicacy is Marmot, and to this day the Bubonic outbreak happens in the remotest places of Mongolia. My father grew up hunting marmot when he was only 8-9 years old for meat and fur. If you ever visit Mongolia steppe you will come across people smuggling and making BBQ out of marmot.

    • @j.a.weishaupt1748
      @j.a.weishaupt1748 4 года назад +7

      BipolarPTSD 410 *could have

    • @Casuallyartisticaviator
      @Casuallyartisticaviator 4 года назад +4

      Why the racism bro.....

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 4 года назад +1

      Racism, probably

    • @jutjammin7778
      @jutjammin7778 4 года назад

      Miraculertotheend12876543 Coronavirus

  • @eggshellgoesgaming
    @eggshellgoesgaming 4 года назад +14

    Just imagine if they all had stocked up on TP and sheltered-in-place, how different the world might be now.

    • @narrakasa81194
      @narrakasa81194 4 года назад +1

      Singing happy birthday as they wash their hands.

    • @Cj-xt6tv
      @Cj-xt6tv 4 года назад +1

      World would probably be WAY more populated

    • @jordanhicks5131
      @jordanhicks5131 4 года назад +1

      Everyone would have died anyhow, you cant hide from disease. You might escape the 1st wave or the 2nd but it will get you. Just keep calm and go about your business, if you die, you die.

    • @Cj-xt6tv
      @Cj-xt6tv 4 года назад +5

      jordan hicks well you can take steps to maybe avoid being infected

    • @TheZombieburner
      @TheZombieburner 2 года назад

      @@Cj-xt6tv Wouldn't have helped. The rats carry the fleas, and rats seek out humans to eat our food and live in our homes.
      There's no winning against Bubonic Plague without antibiotics or sheer dumb luck. You cannot enforce tyrannical lockdowns on rats and insects.

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 4 года назад +11

    This is definitely one of the best episodes yet. You've set a high bar for yourselves now. I'm hoping to see the Dalai Lama episode soon.

  • @evilubuntu9001
    @evilubuntu9001 4 года назад +65

    "Ship of the dead" I AM NOT USING CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE EVER AGAIN

  • @natalyanavotnaya1392
    @natalyanavotnaya1392 4 года назад +5

    Who’s watching this in March, 2020 as the Covid 19 pandemic unravels?

  • @mikahjohn2809
    @mikahjohn2809 4 года назад +6

    "How many boards would the Mongols horde, if the Mongol hordes got board?"

  • @botanicallyaberry6406
    @botanicallyaberry6406 4 года назад +9

    Can I just say the script for this episode is one of my favorites! It's so vivid yet chilling, bravo!

  • @HiltTilt
    @HiltTilt 4 года назад +16

    Your sound effects are scaring me more then the idea of the Black Death Simon

  • @emilybarclay8831
    @emilybarclay8831 2 года назад +2

    Imagine surviving the back death. Thinking you were spared in the end times, starting a family and finally feeling some happiness again only for a plague to return that specifically targeted children, essentially destroying the future you worked so hard to protect

  • @DetroitLives313
    @DetroitLives313 4 года назад +3

    He is very good. I've learned so much from this channel and Biographics. Thank you!

  • @sylvainprigent6234
    @sylvainprigent6234 4 года назад +48

    You know, the Spanish influenza was even worse.
    But it is not as well known due to war time censorship. Pple were not informed untill they were ill.
    Make a video about that one too?

    • @stephjovi
      @stephjovi 4 года назад

      sounds scary. Perfect for next years Halloween

    • @bluesrocker91
      @bluesrocker91 4 года назад +15

      The 1918 Spanish Flu killed a greater number worldwide, but it was a much smaller proportion of the global population compared to the 14th century.

    • @simon8242
      @simon8242 4 года назад +4

      Then just have a video about malaria, it's the deadliest disease.

  • @DonovanRoush
    @DonovanRoush 4 года назад +176

    Ratatouille didnt mention any of this. 😳

    • @TheM16NdPregnant
      @TheM16NdPregnant 4 года назад +6

      DonovanRoush My dude, this deserve thousands of likes

    • @seaturtlepoppy7679
      @seaturtlepoppy7679 4 года назад +2

      Maybe it was a shameful aspect of his species’ background.

    • @ptcarbonproductions2013
      @ptcarbonproductions2013 4 года назад +8

      Aaactually it did. There was a short about this narrated by Remy.
      He claims that the rats were victims here as much as humans and the fly is the main guilty.

    • @c.jram-fran5724
      @c.jram-fran5724 4 года назад

      Lol

    • @JustSkram
      @JustSkram 4 года назад

      You were suppose to watch ratatouing

  • @Raselix
    @Raselix 4 года назад +2

    That Reign in Blood reference around 3:20 was ace and I'm sad other people missed it.

  • @christinamontalvo4884
    @christinamontalvo4884 3 года назад +2

    I LOVE the way you structure this one. The personification of the disease is very well done!

  • @wrongsalvation8904
    @wrongsalvation8904 4 года назад +20

    I love how this was scripted like it was an invasion.

  • @zew1414
    @zew1414 4 года назад +14

    I've been absolutley fascinated by the art of the black death by various artists during the time ever since I picked up Black Sabbaths Greatest Gits as a 5 year old and is what set me on my artist path til this day. Great video guys! ✌

    • @ElegyVio
      @ElegyVio 2 года назад +1

      Jesus Christ is the truth reach out

  • @MuffinMammoth
    @MuffinMammoth 3 года назад +5

    Man, I almost want to become a history teacher just to show this to students. This is really well made and engaging.

  • @legalalien59
    @legalalien59 4 года назад +10

    Here's hoping that a future Simon Whistler doesn't have reason to do one of these on the great Covid-19 contagion of 2020.

  • @jamiemahony3934
    @jamiemahony3934 4 года назад +6

    My favorite video of the series by far he just has the right voice to narrate something so harrowing. Keep up the amazing work

  • @buxeessingh2571
    @buxeessingh2571 4 года назад +44

    Bring out your dead! (CLANK!)
    (Alternatively) It's a 'Mister Death' or something -- he's come about a reaping?

    • @Amandcr
      @Amandcr 4 года назад +2

      @lcyw20 he will be by morning I promise, lol

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 4 года назад

      Tell Mr Death that nobody is home and to go away!

    • @beehappy3845
      @beehappy3845 4 года назад +1

      It was the salmon mousse 😂😂

    • @atomsmasher9411
      @atomsmasher9411 4 года назад

      Love that skit

  • @britishninja
    @britishninja Год назад +3

    Unlike every other biographic.. This video has no secondary title... the black death IS that infamous....

  • @TrevorKeenAnimation
    @TrevorKeenAnimation 5 месяцев назад +1

    "If a plague comes to another city, don't go there.
    If it comes to your own city, don't leave."

  • @lrx001
    @lrx001 4 года назад +8

    as a grad student majoring in medieval history- i clicked on this video so fast

  • @malleusmaleficarum6004
    @malleusmaleficarum6004 4 года назад +15

    Although it didnt bypass them completely, Poland wasnt hit as hard by the plague as the rest of Europe

    • @madouc5754
      @madouc5754 4 года назад

      Poland also accepted Jewish refugees from Germany where Jews were being blamed for the plague and murdered en masse.

  • @b0rder.-991
    @b0rder.-991 4 года назад +12

    Why do these major pandemics start in China? Including the coronavirus

    • @evanmacdougall9715
      @evanmacdougall9715 4 года назад +2

      See "Plague Reservoir" starting at 3:35 in.

    • @philsoro491
      @philsoro491 4 года назад +2

      Spanish flu started in your beloved USA

    • @yansakuya1
      @yansakuya1 4 года назад +5

      @@philsoro491 Actually that also started in a chinese migrant worker... so it is still connected to China.

    • @wilkywilky7814
      @wilkywilky7814 4 года назад +2

      It doses make you wonder, if we didn’t have the medical expertise we have today the covid could have wiped out a huge population just like the plague did, but it could have been due to the plague that helped scientists to learn new techniques that stopped the covid from being a lot worse, ironic isn’t it. ?

  • @CaseyHarrisSr
    @CaseyHarrisSr 4 года назад +3

    So neat to learn of Naglfar or Naglfari (Old Norse "nail farer") as a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. Thank you for your work on this video share.

  • @kaynesantor8136
    @kaynesantor8136 4 года назад +8

    I found it interesting and informative. You guys are awesome. Thank you.

  • @MichaelBrodie68
    @MichaelBrodie68 4 года назад +9

    Love the writing. Narrated perfectly by Simon.

  • @meeeka
    @meeeka 4 года назад +1

    The written narrative here is so vividly florid. Quite enjoyable.

  • @nancymencke503
    @nancymencke503 4 года назад +12

    Who doesn’t like a good plague story. We are a strange species

    • @secularnevrosis
      @secularnevrosis 4 года назад

      Homo Narratus. The story telling man. It fits just as good as Homo Sapiens.

  • @BeyondWrittenWords
    @BeyondWrittenWords 4 года назад +5

    Great composers much needed: Bach, Beethooven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Stravinsky, Chopin, Brams, Mahler, Haydyn, Shubert, Vagner etc.

  • @jerrytucker857
    @jerrytucker857 4 года назад +16

    3:15 "Trapped in purgatory
    a lifeless object alive
    awaiting reprisal
    death will be their acquiescence
    sky is turning red
    return to power draws near
    fall into me, the sky's crimson tears
    abolish the rules made of stone
    pierced from below,
    souls of my treacherous past
    betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above
    awaiting the hour of reprisal
    your time slips away
    raining blood
    from a lacerated sky
    bleeding its horror
    creating my structure,
    now I shall reign in blood...

  • @nikolakirichev
    @nikolakirichev 4 года назад +10

    No COVID-19 comments? How disappointing...

    • @julianaylor4351
      @julianaylor4351 4 года назад

      I have, see my comments, so have others since you wrote your comment.

  • @jennivaccaro7422
    @jennivaccaro7422 4 года назад +1

    Not shocked to see so many covid 19 comments. Didn't disappoint. Watching cause I am on a binge with this channel.

  • @TheMalkavianmadman
    @TheMalkavianmadman 4 года назад +10

    Isn't a Plauge of Children the official name for a group of kids?

  • @Tux4Penguin
    @Tux4Penguin 4 года назад +11

    Fantastic script writing on this episode! Well done, a great job done by all!

  • @goodlookingcorpse
    @goodlookingcorpse 4 года назад +71

    "Many folk do say this pestilence will begone in April, as the Earth warmeth."
    King Donald the Stupid, 1347.

    • @ladytron9188
      @ladytron9188 4 года назад +3

      🤣🤣😂😂needed a good laugh thanks.

    • @krisaaron5771
      @krisaaron5771 4 года назад +7

      Yea, verily doth I say that with the coming of the cooler months the pestilence shall return mightily, nay, even bigly, and with the second wave shalt those who violated social distancing at the beaches and the bars and the hairdressers begin the coughing and the fevers and pray to be wiped from the Earth.
      -- So sayeth Sir Anthony of the House of Fauci
      And those who attend the bloated leaders who spouteth nonsense and mindless blather while consuming substances of uncertain and dubious worth shall bitterly regret their careless ways. For our leaders speaketh from confusion and those wise in the ways of the politicians do well to pay them no heed nor cast ballots in their favor. For such are the ways of those who bankrupt the houses of gaming and lose their profits in confusion while leading their people astray with lies.

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 4 года назад +4

      “From wherein doth thine pestilence arise? Chuy-na!”

    • @Cj-xt6tv
      @Cj-xt6tv 4 года назад

      scottydu81 well it did come from China.

    • @frogpalpeeper4249
      @frogpalpeeper4249 3 года назад +1

      @@krisaaron5771 You're my new hero Kris!

  • @cozm0859
    @cozm0859 4 года назад +9

    Watching this as the coronavirus knocks on our door for the next pandemic.

  • @StaticImage
    @StaticImage 4 года назад +11

    1:42- should be "a pale grey horse"... now I want to see a green horse, though.

    • @icatz
      @icatz 4 года назад +2

      I wondered about that.

    • @StaticImage
      @StaticImage 4 года назад +1

      @@busimagen You know what? I'm impressed. 1 million internets to you!

  • @AdZS848
    @AdZS848 4 года назад +3

    That was brilliant! Brilliantly written and brilliantly narrated. Please do one on the Plague of Children. I'd never heard of it.

  • @shadowman7307
    @shadowman7307 5 месяцев назад +1

    "Iceland and Finland were the only countries that evaded the apocalypse..." Even the plague knew that invading Finland would be super crazy.

  • @Pan_Blazej
    @Pan_Blazej Год назад +2

    One little detail, those famous beaked masks weren't a thing until 17th century.

  • @FiFiFilth
    @FiFiFilth 4 года назад +6

    The writing for this episode is beyond anything I have encountered in recent times. Amazing. 1 like just doesn't feel sufficient to express my gratitude for this episode.

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames4886 4 года назад +10

    "you're watching a video about the plague... I bet you want to do some math!"
    ya... that's exactly what I want to do.

  • @rejvaik00
    @rejvaik00 3 года назад +2

    Yersinia Pestis: _"Now you will all dance to my tune!!!"_
    *Danse Macabre begins playing*
    World: _"why do I suddenly hear boss music?"_

  • @jennstewart3003
    @jennstewart3003 4 года назад +1

    Watching this in quarantine adds a whole new level of darkness.....