Evil Kings That Did Evil Things - Chat History Reaction
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love your reactions! I've learned a lot of extra details! Thanks for covering the video
I wished you mentioned how Jie of Xia's story had dubious historicity just like with Nero's fiddler story.
@@waspsandwich6548really? Interesting!
Do you think he reacts to the JFK Video by Mr. Beat?
@@waspsandwich6548 huh cool
@@lssweetYeah some historians claim the entire Xia dynasty might have been mythological but some historians claims it’s real.
When Leopold II had a child with his mistress, it was born with a deformed hand. There was a comic made about it showing Leopold holding his child with a deformed arm surrounded by Congolese children with cut off hands, with the caption reading "Vengeance from on high".
Sometimes, poetic justice is the best kind of justice
Do you think he reacts to the JFK video by Simon Wristler or Mr. Beat?
@@4noctua6 what? What does that have to do with anything?
@@crazyand2099 i mean ITS Just a question friend 😅
@@4noctua6 a question that has nothing to do with anything.
You can only avoid doing the Napoleon's Marshals video for only so long 😈
I second this comment!!
True and Real‼️
Yesss
Lmao real
@@kendallcribbins415 The motion has been seconded! 😄
Me, Belgian: “Oh boy I wonder what evil things all these rulers did.”
*king Leopold is mentioned*
“Ah shit…”
yeah was gonna say the same thing
1:29 The Emperors of Rome for the longest time presented themselves as "princeps," which essentially means, as you said, "first citizen." Romans officially pretended they still lived in a republic with elections and no hereditary monarchy - more specifically without a king or "Rex" in Latin - even during and after the reign of Augustus. The term "imperator" or "Emperor" was a purely military title meaning "commander" that happened to constantly be passed down among the various princeps, which is why it eventually became a de facto monarchical title of authority.
Yep you explained it better than I could thanks
Nero playing through the fire and flames while Rome was burning to the ground is nice little touch. Anyone else noticed that?
That's a really tough song to play, too. Nero may have been an evil tyrant, but he was apparently a gifted musician
It is. It fits with the narrative and symbolism of Neros political opponents.
Nero's mother essentially engineered her son's rise to power. She clearly had designs on power from the very beginning. But that would also be her downfall, as I'm sure you know. Even so, it says a lot that she was cunning enough to convince Claudius to disinherit his own firstborn, biological son.
Also, I'm not sure if Nero and his mother ACTUALLY had an incestuous relationship, but I am aware that there is speculation. Only know about that because of that cheesy 2003 Boudica movie though, lol.
Yeah I wouldn't want to have her as a mother. I can only imagine she was the worst kind of helicopter parent.
Why does this title sound like a dr. seuse book?
Also, Nero may not have bought the lemons, but he DID make the lemonade
Unbiased History of Rome paints Nero as a gigachad hence he is a good emperor!
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The Master Sword from Zelda is an interesting touch
An example of a story about a King that became historical fact is of Richard III. Contemporary sources claimed that he was hunchbacked, which came down through the five centuries since he died to show how villainous he was viewed for seizing the throne from his nephew. It wasn't until his remains were discovered in an English parking lot that we found out tthe truth. He had Scoliosis.
How about another playthrough of the Campaign Trail
I can't get over "Explodius' super sulfur"🤣🤣🤣
As for rulers who mess up by being frivolous, spending all the kingdom's money, and not seeing the problem well, they were most likely true narcissists. Narcissists don't see other people as people (maybe as an extension of themselves) and don't care about other's feelings. And the fact that they are a king or an emperor get stuff like this.
This guy really likes Zelda sound effects.
Napoleon Marshals Video!
Just a little thing i noticed, the DRC was known as Zaire during the reign of Mobutu Sese Seko
What Belgians did in the Congo was unspeakable.
36:34 The correct timeline should be Republic of the Congo (1960-64), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1964-71), Zaire (1971-97), and finally Democratic Republic of the Congo (1997-present) again.
In CK 3 you can start the game as the Eudes (Odo) Count of Anjou
Did you notice Sam O Nella in the black museum
did you see Sam O'nella in the corpse museum???
The Julio-Claudian dynasty was good or bad as any in history really. Some think emperor Octavian might be the greatest Roman leader of all and there's a argument some can make to back that view. Claudius turned out to be a very good leader. Tiberius was just ok it seems, with its ups and downs and a lot has been already said about Nero and Caligula. I don't think we really can look back on all dynasties and characterize them as all good or bad
Interesting video
Not a king but Blood Countess she was brutal.
BECAUSE they will not trust me with armed Drones
Day 1 of asking for you to react to the Wars of the Diadochi by Kings and Generals
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The fact Nero was playing‘Through the fire and the flames’ made it for me.
15:54 anyone notice Sam O Nella😂
Yup lol
Oh good I wasn't the only one lol
Good job
Turns out King Jie was the
“Someone would inevitably build a lake of alcohol” guy from
Oversimplified Three Kingdoms
Hey VTH, i know that you dont look into latin american history very often on your channel, so thats why i would like to reccomend the "why didnt spanish america unite like brazil?" video from icebulb since it covers a great deal of both hispanic and lusitanian america.
King Leopold II was considered a benevolent king, a philanthropist, prior to the atrocities of the Congo coming to light. Another example of how humans are capable of great things as well as terrible things at the same time.
There's a very good book called King Leopolold's ghost that details his rule of the Congo, and one of the interesting things it mentions is that Leopold had a web of newspapers whose job was to cultivate his image as a benevolent ruler.
@@antoninedelchev6076 I've heard of it, haven't read it yet.
The duality of man kind
Highly recommend you watch the fantastic 1970s BBC miniseries "I, Claudius" about the Julio-Claudian Emperors, including a little bit about Nero. It's honestly one of the best miniseries on history I've ever seen and holds up surprisingly well after all these years.
Big fan of BBC
@@gregmon8317I’m sure you are 🤫
ISFAHAN MENTIONED!!! I'm from Isfahan Chris, and it's an amazing city. Full of architectural wonders. It's so beautiful, people nicknamed it "Half of the World". Hope you visit this astonishing city some day.
An evil king? This looks like a job for He to deal with!
He will whip some sense into them (or something like that)
Are you up to react to Mexican American war from the Mexico perspective?
Hey Chris today remarks the 110 year anniversary of Franz Ferdinand Assassination. If interested do reaction to biographic video on him and Gavrilo Princip
Had Franz Ferdinand lived; the monarchy would have been still here.
He had sam o'nella in the black museum
Day 10 of asking you to re-act to battle of Vítkov hill by history marche
You know what's funny? Both Caligula and Nero, who are both notorious for being tyrants, are both direct descendants of Augustus who is a great ruler.
Skill and virtue are not hereditary.
@@Justanotherconsumer Unfortunately
King Jie of Xia's tyranny led to the Shang toppling the Xia, but then Shang's last king, Di Xin, (AKA Mad King Zhou, ironic, given that it was the Zhou that toppled the Shang... language is funny like that) would be an arguably worse king than Jie... Di Xin was also supposedly led even further into despotism by his queen, who made Jezebel look like Dolly Madison.
I'd much rather watch Chris teach me history than watching whatever TF that prehistoric presidential debate was.
Unfortunately a historic moment, especially if Biden gets replaced.
I think this might be the first time all Americans are on the same page lol
After watching theses things for almost 50 years, it was the first time I laughed out loud at one.
I bet those political rallies got more interesting nowadays, huh?
The good news is that people finally saw clearly that Biden suffers from dementia. His administration, including Vice President Harris, with the cooperation of the Democratic Party propaganda outlets, also known as the mainstream media, had been lying to the American people, saying that Biden was still just as intellectually capable. When he staggered out to the podium and mumbled through a debate, the public saw that they had been lied to by all the elected Democrats and their media lapdogs. It was an unpleasant experience, but a necessary one.
ChatHistory kind of touched on it at the end of his commentary but the Congo Free State was not a Belgian colony, it was Leopold’s personal property as essentially a neutral guarantor of free trade in the Congo Basin, which served as a buffer zone between the great powers in the area. Although Leopold appointed Belgian administrators, the Force Publique was an international force and companies from all over the world had investments in the Congo.
When word of the atrocities became known, international and domestic pressure forced Leopold to dissolve the Congo Free State. He reluctantly handed the territory over to the Belgian government, which ended the most controversial practices and converted it into a fairly normal colony known as the Belgian Congo, though continuing to guarantee previous international investments.
I’d love to see VTH do a reaction to the video ‘know your allies: Britain’. It’s an informational video made by the war department to educate their troops on who they’re fighting with and against and it’s a really interesting insight into how 40’s America viewed Britain and in some ways how little Britain has changed.
Yeah Leopold II was basically as bad as Hitler. He should receive the same condemnation.
I remember another almost-crazy dictator in modern times who had a large section of an entire capital city demolished in order to build a grand state palace for his own staisfaction. I believe his name was Ceausescu. The guy actually turned out pretty well first (well, by the iron curtain standards anyway). He contracted megalomania after a state visit to North Korea in the 70s. Afterwards, it was a downward spiral for the Romanians.
Thank you for addressing the fact that atrocities, like those performed in the name of colonization, still occur today. It is easy for people to look back in history and remark on how horrible things once were. Often, these same people fail to notice the atrocities happening in real-time.
With regards to Timurid; it is not that it did not last. It is that one of his vessel; the Mughals ( Persian word for Mongols) went to conquer India instead.
Barbur initially wanted to conquer India to turn back; but India was wealthier and better managed and he just did not go back.
Also, Timur also did the same as he did with Isfahan; as he did with Delhi and Ankara. Utter Mongol decimation; similar to what Genghis Khan did (98% casuality).
Love the videos Chris, thanks again for the awesome consistent content!
Important for history is that the Senate absolutely hated nero and most of what we know about him was written by his enemies so we need to take what they say with a grain of salt and the romans were really good at propaganda.
13:50 anjou was also the region that spawned hugh capet and his capetian dynasty, which is the longest lasting and most influential dynasty in france and perhaps europe if not the world overall.
edit: correction, robert the strong founded the county of anjou and hugh capet was his descendant
Wait, Nero was descended from Octavian _and_ Marc Antony?
Leopold II is right up there with Hitler and Stalin
If enough of us band together through the power of comment spam, we can get him to react to Napoleon's Marshals from Epic History😂😂
The Guy at 33:33 is NOT Léon Fiévez. Thats the Welsh-American Explorer Henry Morton Stanley who explored the Congo Region for Leopold II
Did anyone else notice at @15:54, Sam O'Nella is in the lower left corner?
I was looking for this in the comments lmao
Yay, caught this one early.
The stuffed bodies are featured in the tv series "The Borgias"
8:55 I completely agree, most things we know about Nero is written after his death by people who hated him.
So when it comes to him being that evil, I pretty much doubt any of it as we can never 100% confirm that he really did all of that (killed his mom, wife, lover, senator, married slave etc...)
For all we know he might have been a great and noble ruler who became too soft in time and was dethroned by power hungry generals. And all evil stories were written after his death in order to forever tarnish his image and present the ones who dethroned him as saviors.
I appreciate the care you have with your words when speaking about the evil humans do.
Ohhh I like this topic -
Cornwall
Plantagenets
Celtic influence
True size of a Byzantine Army by Invicta please!
Talks about the evolution of Roman legions into Calvary and covers loads of interesting stuff about how the Byzantine army functioned, fought and grew. - Criminally underrated time period.
15:53. Sam O'Nella is one of the bodies xD
It only takes or two people to speak out
27:55 Part of this also has to do with the Chinese idea of the "Mandate of Heaven."
The idea was that, as long as a dynasty was benevolent and ruled well, they would have the favor of the gods.
But once they turned wicked and corrupt, they would lose that favor and another, more worthy dynasty would rise up.
It can be hard to say what ancient roman women got up to. If ahe was liked, what was written would be good. If ahe wasn't, she would be written to be a coniving power hungry witch.
You should read “The History of the Kingdom of Naples” by Bennetto Croce. There many facts that are missing from the story, the reason that an Angevin dynasty was in Naples goes back to the Crusade. Norman knights on the way to the Holy Land were in Salerno to take ship. The city was attacked by Moors and the Byzantine city guards did nothing. These knights couldn’t stand aside as Christians were gathered as slaves. They defeated the Moors, and decided to stay, eventually taking over both the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily. Afterwards by dynastic marriages the Kingdom came under the Angevins, so French influence.
Alphonso of Aragon loved Naples and lived there after grabbing control of the kingdom. He already had control of Sicily but wanted more. While fighting against Genoa he died quite young in his 50’s. Since he had only an illegitimate son, Aragon and Sicily went to his nephew Ferdinand (yes that one who married Isabelle).
Ferrante had problems from the start, his barons were rebellious as the previous Queen left them for what Ferdinand and now Ferrante wouldn’t, yes, they wanted the whole pie. Ferrante rebuilt the Neapolitan silk industry with a merchant named Coppola. By charter the free cities fell under royal control although the barons wanted to milk them. Catanzaro in Calabria was a textile center and brought good revenue to the crown so he protected it. The Jews by the origin Byzantine laws fell to royal protection as well. He needed money and since his father angered the Genovese so much their banks were not in play, but Jewish banking was.
The French king had Angevin heritage and thought Naples should be his. Ferrante’s cousin Ferdinand thought he should have inherited Naples as well. The barons leaned to the French as the previous rulers were so off handed. Coppola, remember him after being made a baron, decided to change sides as well. That dinner table in that special room was gruesome, but Ferrante had enemies from day one.
I hope that this information can shed a little extra light on this situation. He punished his money hungry barons but wasn’t really hated by his people.
Leopold II's nephew and successor was King Albert I, by the way, the "Soldier King" who famously led Belgium during World War I.
Congo is still at war...with itself. Another civil war with lots of factions supported by lots of outside influences....Rwanda particularly who are still conducting their civil war by proxy over the border.
Hi. Can I recommend a channel : History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday. lots of stuff about the British Royal Family especially the descendants Of Queen Victoria.
He mistakenly said that Nero ruled in BC. It should be AD.
The misspelling of Aragon as Aragorn is a classic in the Europa Universalis player community. In EU3 (iirc) there is even an achievement for Aragon to become the king of Gonder (an Ethiopian province).
The Russian word for king Czar is actually a play on the word Emperor. As many European languages are based in Latin. The word King in all these languages is linked to Emperor. And our boy Henry is always there lol 😂 as oversimplified puts it , because of the wives thing lol 😂
Vlad The Impaler: "Of course I killed all the beggars...I wanted to fight poverty!"
Have you watched the Louis ck , shane Gillis president podcast. If you haven't yet , it's great. 2 of the funniest people ever with a lot of history knowledge.
I do wonder if you'll start reacting to some more Asia/Chinese history. If you need recommendations, im happy to send some. :)
"For as sure as the day gives way to the night
What is done in the darkness will be brought to the light.
And those who are leaders or teachers take fright:
You are twice as guilty in the judge's sight."
Even tho the story is untrue it's fun to imagine Nero playing the fiddle and singing a song about the destruction of Troy, which is the original version i was taught in school
When the ancient shit hits the ancient fan😂 I know you're supposed to be a Christian but come on you got to admit that's a gold right there 🤣🤣
8:52 how is no one talking about Nero playing “through the fire and flames” by dragon force that was epic
I remember in the "Borgias" show they portray the King of Naples and his Black Museum. Its on of the most memorable moments in that show for me.
Leopold's Congo, magnificently described in Robert Conrad's novel.
I hope Chris gets to what I asked him in Instagram. About the Korean empire.
I think few would argue that Leopold II and Congo is among the worst and most evil period in history
15:54
Sam o nella is in the black museum.
Damn shots fired lol.
For a sam o nella rip off thats ballsy
Since the American president is no longer bound by the law, can we count presidential acts from here on?
Please react to K&G battle of yorktown 1781
I knew about Ferdinand from the Borgias and his “museum.”
I’m surprised Herod wasn’t here, he killed a lot of babies…
Thank you for an interesting topic. Your reactions are priceless. 😂
iirc, Nero never wanted to be Emperor in the first place.
Nice haircut 👍
I'm probably not the first to notice this but is Joffrey Baratheon based on Nero? There are a few notable similarities (Wasn't the king's real son but succeeded himself anyway, adoptive father dies mysteriously at the hands of his mother, was known for his cruelty and incompetence).
Didn't Nero let people take refuge in his gardens during the fire?
@@richardarriaga6271 he did but he also used the Great Fire as an excuse to scapegoat and prosecute early Christians and would burn many of them alive, so not exactly a great guy.
only thing i know about nero is that he time traveled and made a new timeline only star trek fans will get this
I feel like most Kings did some pretty evil stuff, even for their times.
Pls do the Napoleon Marshall epic history reaction vid
With nero i didn't think he even had a hapsburg like heritage 😅😅
You have to review the film, Mr. Jones!!!