Folks, this brings Episode XI - The Last Kingdom of Islam to a close. We will be taking a side journey through the Fall of Constantinople next and then will return for Episode XII: Reconquista - Isabella for the final chapter in Al Andalus. Couple of items: 1) Please don't forget to share this video on social Media and spread word about the podcast - this is an often neglected time period in history. 2) Big favor for the Apple / Podcast people in audience. Please hit that purple podcast button on your phone, search for Flash Point History and leave me a decent rating / review. It takes just a few moments - this helps out a lot! 3) I'm working on the Bonus Episode on Constantinople - I'll have it up in a few weeks. Everyone stay safe in the mean time!
My great ,great Ancestors who was a knight during the time of Reconquista and was nobled by the King served and escorted King Ferdinand 111 and the King of Castile and Leon in the conquest of city Cordova in Murcia,Seville.He was ennobled in Spain circ 1683 and the Spanish crown granting the family a decree of the coat of arms. Such history on my maternal side from Basque! Great job ! Thank you!
Sir, I learn more history in an hour with you that I ever learmt in school. I love your channel, the way you narrate, the sources you quote...also, the way you interact with your viewers. It speaks volumes about you the fact that you listened to someone who wrote a comment saying that The Black Prince never actually became King of England and you corrected it in this new version. Well done, sir. My respect and recognition.
I'm so happy you really like my content. I love the community that has grown around my videos. This is a learning experience for everyone, including myself. My knowledge of the 100 years war is a bit limited, so I'm glad someone called that to my attention. Take care!
Caliph Omar ibn Abdul Aziz, when he read the rapport of his governor As-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani about the situation of Andalusia, he was shocked by the huge number of Christians in the peninsular & suggested that they be all transferred and distributed in the Islamic world, but Al-Samh reassured him saying that Islam is spreading among them and that they will not pose a threat to the Islamic existence The demographic factor contributed a lot to the success of La Reconquista in the long term
@@cuzimmoody6470 The Iberian peninsula that was the most fertile province of Hispania during Roman era... belongs indeed to the Spanish and to the Portuguese people... End of the story
What a treat to wake up to new Flash Point History content. The quality and amount of work you put into your videos is just incredible. Been waiting on this since I finished your last Reconquista series. I could not find anything on this period that even touches what you do. Wishing you many more subs and success going forward, you deserve it.
In a way or another Granada share the story of Constantinople, both of them had survived much more than they believed. By their end new age had begun; the reneciance and age of discovery.
@@FlashPointHx Hey thanks. It's an anonymous wood engraving called "Flammarion Engraving" if you want to check it out. Btw the documentary is great, I look forward to seeing the next episode.
@@normiew Yes I recognize it - I think they used it well in the Cosmos series featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson. A man's quest to discover whats beyond the shroud of humanity's understanding. Crazy acid trip if nothing else.
A real shame that the subject isn’t interesting to a wider audience, seeing so few views on a video with so much effort clearly put into it saddens me.
@@FlashPointHx I am very much interested and have travelled to all those places looking for history. This is, by far the best content I have come across on internet. And so perfectly presented. Kudos You earned a subscriber. And this is first time I ever subscribed after watching just one video
@@FlashPointHx I do not believe the subject matter is particularly uninteresting. I feel like the 1 hour 45 minute running time might be intimidating for youtube audiences. I know that I rarely watch videos I cannot finish in one sitting and rarely have nearly two hours of free space in one block. Perhaps, if this was broken into four smaller parts, it would be more digestible.
I know. Few will ever see my "The Politically-Incorrect History of atheism + Refutations of atheist Myths" and the reasons for that include that people don't want the truth, and they follow the crowd because they want to fit in, and they dismiss anything that isn't mainstream as a result of their lack of free thinking and fear of ostracism.
@@scintillam_dei Or it could simply be hard to accept an objective truth from someone so obviously enthralled by "alternate truths". Seriously, its hard to take anyone seriously who argues that Atheist are merely "going with the crowd" and the religious are somehow going against the flow. Protestantism in the U.S. makes up 40% of the population. Catholicism makes up 20% of the population. Atheist make up a whopping 3% of the population. That is hardly "mainstream" or "the crowd". In fact, "the crowd" as far as the U.S. is concerned would be Christianity generally or Protestantism specifically. Further, historically, religious societies have largely been famous for ostracizing or executing non-believers, or believers of other faiths. So, it is just as likely for a religious person to be expressing faith in order to fit in or avoid ostracism. Whatever the merits of your arguments about Atheism may be, by advertising yourself with mere resentment and ad hominem, you do little to persuade me that your ideas are worth my precious and limited time. Were I interested in exploring the subject, I would prefer to be consider the viewpoints of a more objective and sincere proponent of religion.
It wasn't the illegitimate Kids that turned out to be the Problem. It was the Legitimate Peter the Cruel that was a Tyrant. Thankfully the Bastard Kind Henry stabbed his half Brother Peter the Cruel to death. I mean Peter had Henry's Mother executed.
Excellent choice for the thumbnail. I love these long compilations of episodes back to back because it makes it so much easier to download. I sometimes go on 6 to 10 hour plane trips and these videos have really help me pass the time. They've also been instrumental as sources and as a means of acquiring new sources for this period of history. Thanks for all the hard work and can't wait to see your Constantinople video. I've always found Constantine XI's final stand to be quite inspiring.
Well done! Enjoyed the heck out of this great documentary. I descend from Peter the Cruel through his son Infante Juan, his son Pedro de Castilla y Eril, his daughter Aldonza ...all the way to yours truly.
Thank you so much - You're not the first to mention that they can trace their legacy to this time period. I'm fascinated by people like you who can do this. That is track your ancestors back 600 years. Amazing.
@@FlashPointHx The church kept every certificate, Spanish people can go back for over millenia. The earliest i have proven records is 350 B;C and alleged but not confirmed (only the gens) to 690 B,c NUma Pompilio II KIng of Rome. That is 2.700 back
Passion, skill, humor, and my my my, you have managed to find a way to get the information out without any slant that I was able to discern. Absolutely a unique experience in academics. I am actually trusting that you are not pursuing an opinion or attempting to alter your audience. So grateful for the grace and pleasure of just relaxing into the information. Ashamed of the lack of awareness of the background of Spain and Islam. American teachers teach this like sex education. They don't. Lol bigger fan after each episode!
hahaha, Thank you! I'm so happy that you liked my video so much. This is a time that is almost always glossed over. The Muslims invaded in 711 and then the Catholic Monarchy retook it in 1492 - time to move on to the new world . . . again, happy that you enjoyed this.
They learnt nothing,as mostly they are monolinguistic people. Also,is called castilian dialect,never spanish. Spanish languages are 4/5/6 different varieties,like bable ,asturian, extremaduran,etc.
@@josecipriano3048 so, the arab and berber conquerors were armies of forward thinking philosophers... and the struggle for liberty of the heroic free peoples of spain was a backward impoverishing wave of destruction. well, I admit, we do not get so enlightened frequently here...
wow!!! even if I already knew a lot, I have learned so much! as a latinamerican it is always instructive to know the history of the Iberian Peninsula, and besides I am a great admirer of Al Andalus, that inherited us so many things. I have seen other videos (the Greeks in Asia, Persian Empire, Roman trade with Asia, the Mongol Empire, etc) and every one of them is very amusing and highly instructive! thanks!
Agreed! I married an Argentinian woman who's also a linguist, and I got interested in the Reconquista because of the linguistic legacy of that period. I have been to Portugal for a few days but I want to visit all of Iberia for a long time someday just to see all the places I've read about.
Hope one day you can have a try in the real historical facts rather than the bunch of lies that is this documentary,sadly to say for the quality of itself.
At the end of this episode it’s says to be continued was just wondering if you have already finished that as I can’t find it. Fantastic series, as a fellow historian I truly appreciate the depth you go to in order to accurately explain the series. Truly appreciate all that you do! Thanks
Really appreciate that you like my content. Especially being a historian. I created a poll a few months ago asking the audience if they wanted me to complete the reconquista or do a side journey through the Fall of Constantinople - the effects of 1453 would directly affect Isabella and Ferdinand in not just completing the Reconquista - but also into the age of discovery. Thus I'm in the middle of that series - but will get back to reconquista as soon as I can.
Amazing work. Thank you. The Reconquista is such an interesting piece of european history. It has it all: a long struggle, great battles, political and religious struggle, great characters, a lasting impact in the region's culture, treason, etc. etc. etc.
The Muslim conquests of Spain was one of the greatest history events ever, they left a lasting impact on Spain that still obvious until this day and their footprints on the Iberian peninsula are what makes it an interesting story to be told.
@@FlashPointHx I am amazed how Hollywood and cinema in general has completely ignored this great chapter of human history. Such a rich history and a myriad of events and characters that are ripe for adaptation and with streaming services it is much easier now!
Not true. Its the other way around actually. The reconquest by the spaniards was one of the greatest historical events that left a lasting impact on the whole muslim world even to this day
@@xxx-fv8jt true, Spain wiped the Muslims off the face of Western Europe, this was balanced by Constantinople. The Spanish response was to sail to India and they found America. The second the Spanish landed on America they made islam the first banned religion. 😂😂😂
Love this channel! That's why it is so maddening that I have watched two whole series (Fall of Constantinople and Reconquista) only to find out at the end of both that they aren't finished yet....Don't keep me waiting much longer! I need to know how they end!
Wow, thank you! Promise to have them out as soon as possible - I'm in health care and with what covid has been doing, time these days for production is at a minimum
Amazing work top rate show I can't say enough about it. If Im not watching Flash Point History I'm listening to it in the background or in my sleep the music is great the humor fantastic an all while learning something truely one of the best. Looking forward to more thank you so much for all the time an work you have put in
Flash Point History deserves an award for being the only you tubers who dare touch this section of history. I did a good amount of research in college for a long essay on the Reconquista, would have loved to have this video as a resource to piece things together in my mind. Thanks for the excellent video! 🙏
This has been an incredible series. Absolutely love it and you have reignited my interest in medical Iberia. Have you thought about making a series on the continuation of the story? The ancient Aztec and Indican empires have been visited by some interesting visitors deserving of your interest.
Hey Apolon - happy that you liked this video! What have just watched is episode 11 - go back to episode 1 - my intent all along was to create a narrative that goes into the time of the Aztec and Inca.
@@FlashPointHx It's always a pleasure to meet a history lover, I've watched your videos on the Punic wars, love the narrative. We are all members of those events and the future it brought. I was wondering will you expand the series into the story of the conquest of the Americas? I love how you focus on the personal narrative as well, we are all heroes of our own journeys and that period in history had some outstanding characters.
Dear Mr Calm and Soothing voice I like how you decided to do the history of the sea and shipping lanes to the Orients and Columbus's trip to the New World to prelude your video about Coronado. After all history is one event leading to the other.
Very beautiful RECONQUISTA documentary! Near perfect pronunciation of Spanish/Islamic names (places as well as people). Absolutely gorgeous drawings and animations. Excellent narration of well-researched historical facts, plots, events, conquests (and multiple re-conquests),... What else to say? Simply, VERY WELL DONE TO YOU Flash Point History!! 👏👏👏 Carry on like this
Amazing content, and I can only imagine the amount of research and video editing and production to create such a comprehensive but accessible masterpiece such as all of your works. Your narration is second to none and i appreciate you pronouncing names and cities as they should sound. Mad respect. One question though, do you have any plans on working on the Fall of Granada?
Thank you Hans! Yeah this took me a while. I did a poll a few months back and people decided they wanted a side quest through the fall of Constantinople - which I'm doing now. After that I definitely want to complete the Reconquista with the fall of Granada. I actually have started my research about it already.
@@FlashPointHx I have done a genealogical family tree of the Spanish monarch and Caliphate and the Byzantine empire for my reference and was wondering if you want one. I couldnt find a complete/continuous family tree on the internet so i created one for myself. My most complex family tree is for the British Monarchs (excluding welsh). Ive also done one for Portugal, France, Dutch, and Egypt.
Regarding the end of the video. As great of a monarch Isabella was, it was in fact her husband, Ferdinand II the king of Aragon who lead and won the war against the Muslims. He was a quite skilled warrior king and a veteran of many battles against the French both on the borders with Aragon but also in the Italian wars as well as against the Portugese and Castellan nobles trying to oust Isabella in the civil war to install Beltraneja in Isabella's place. Isabella was a really competent monarch though and I believe the pair are the most successful monarchs in European history.
She was at the point in history of reinvigorating the Castilian Throne, uniting with Aragon, crushing the Nasrid, and setting off the age of discovery in a big way - impressive
@@FlashPointHx Well she was basically busy with child birth at this point in time. Before that she had achieved massively much by securing the throne as queen, rather than a queen consort, squashing the power of the nobles and the war against Portugal not to mention quelling the ambitions of her husband to become King of Castille. These were no small feats to achieve. The Kings before her were totally under the control of the nobles. Of course she had good allies with her in her husband, powerful political ally in Carillo the archbishop of Toledo and the great General Cordoba. She never really united Aragon and Castille as Aragon would never accept her as anything more than a queen consort and were suspicious and tired of using Aragon resources to constantly help out Castille. Aragon and Castille really united when Charles V, her grandson, came to power. And the age of discovery happend right after the reconqista.
Usually there is a monarch and a consort, WIth Isabel and Fernando both werre full monachs of powerfull European kingdom, they acted as one, and multiplied the siize of theiur kingdoms severa folds, I cannot recall such a couple of monarchs in European History, including Justinian and Teodora, this was another league, they changed the world forever. Unified Spain and reduced the power of the Nobles, defeated Muslims and conquered Granada. Defeated France many times. toook chunks of land Defeated and conquered Navarre, Defeated and detained Cesar Borgia, Defeated Portugal, Conquered half Italy, submitted the north of Africa, Conquered the canary Islands. Fixed the ruined economy of Spain. Discovered ans started conquering, America. Created the Leyes de Indias Created global tradem the first international bill of right abolishing slavery in America. Her daughter catalina was the first women Ambassador, They put the ciments pof the countereform of the Church with their rather non materialistic view of religion. (Ignacio of Loyola was in their court) No couple of Monarchs come even close
Would you ever think about doing a video companion for upcoming Crusader Kings Releases? I would love to hear your take on the new Iberian flavor pack as it relates to real history. I binge your videos SO hard whenever i do a playthrough solo and use them to contextualize my chat before i stream. Thanks for all the amazing content.
Finaly😁.. The masterpiece in 1 video. We are greatfull Sir, thank you very much🙏😎✌️ ❤️🏆🥇👏👏👏👏👏 Worth every second waiting for and was a pleasure seing it being created. 👌🎩.
New sub... I am enjoying these videos, especially the newer set on the Byzantines. That is a really vast topic that needs its own series as does Rome itself. One big universe you know each one a link in the chain at one point or another. Characters coming and going in the telling.
Having lived in several Islamic countries, I can appreciate the significance of a "women" Isabella as a leading factor in the ouster of Islam from Spain.
Very intresting, I wish there was an Arabic translation for this documentry. I like to know what is happend from a western source but my english is not well enough to understand the details.
Another great Reconquista video. Seriously, yours are the most in depth and well-produced one s I have had the pleasure of binging. Also, great use of the Spanish guitar. Gets me everytime.
Wonder why english-speaking historians use the latinized form for some of the spanish names such as "Isabella", instead of "Isabel", which was her actual name in spanish/castillian, while, in other cases such as "Sancho", they keep the original spanish, and in others such as "Alphonso" they respect the spanish pronunciation but change the spelling (in spanish it would be "Alfonso" not "Alphonso"). I'ts not a big deal, but as spanish speaker it kind of feel weird and inconsistent, and I was wondering what was the reason behind it. Great content btw, keep up the great work.
It makes sense for some names. There is English name Isabella, but not English name Sancho. So they translated Isabel because they could, but left Sancho because there is nothing to translate to. As for Alfonso, I have no idea. Think of it how names Charles and Peter are always translated, but not Louis or Fredrick. Error in writting that kinda remained, I guess.
Castilians allied with France after the civil war during 100 years war, battle of La Rochelle 1372, castilians occupied the coastline from Burdeaux to Quessant.
This side project on the Byzantine is turning out to be a bigger project than I anticipated. Want to finish that and then head into Isabella. Still have a few more videos to do with the fall of constantinople.
@@FlashPointHx I recently discovered and quickly burned through all the Reconquista videos. Guess I'll have to check out your other stuff to help tide me over until then.
I watched entire series and I'm amazed how good it is. Music, presentation, everything is 10/10. It's actually fun to watch. So much so that I started playing crusader kings 3 and I'm about to finish reconquista :)
@@FlashPointHx Constantinople and this guy. Match made in the great of heavens. What will be the title of your next series of the reconquista? The last kingdom of Islam was a good one.
@@flaviusvector1543 The Nasrid looked to the Ottoman as fellow Muslims and potential allies. The Fall of Constantinople would inspire those in the west to better complete the reconquista - Isabella was one of those people who was directly affect by this.
Survive as Granada on the 1444 start in EUIV is one of the hardest challenges of that game, now that i know its history better, am amazed it had survived for so long at all.
Been hanging around your channel the last few weeks. Definitely got a sub from me. Anxiously waiting on the last part on queen Isabella and King Fernando completing the Reconquista. Any update on its schedule?
Happy that you have liked the videos. I'm taking a hiatus from the Reconquista series to do a bit about Constantinople. I'll get back to Isabella early next year.
@@allan7380 yeap. I would love flash point to do it. It's the little details. It's the info on much more then just the battles. It the awesome story telling. I watch lectors on all kinds of history. Some guys have great info but many are not great speakers and it's not fluid or some are just boring cause it is nothing but an info dump. This guy nails it.
OMG the music track at 35 mins and 30 seconds? Does anyone have a link to that? Searched through all the artists in the credits and could not find it. Please help!
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Folks, this brings Episode XI - The Last Kingdom of Islam to a close. We will be taking a side journey through the Fall of Constantinople next and then will return for Episode XII: Reconquista - Isabella for the final chapter in Al Andalus. Couple of items:
1) Please don't forget to share this video on social Media and spread word about the podcast - this is an often neglected time period in history.
2) Big favor for the Apple / Podcast people in audience. Please hit that purple podcast button on your phone, search for Flash Point History and leave me a decent rating / review. It takes just a few moments - this helps out a lot!
3) I'm working on the Bonus Episode on Constantinople - I'll have it up in a few weeks. Everyone stay safe in the mean time!
You do a great job, mate. Appreciate the knowledge and the flavor you put on the medium.
10/10 - would conquer again.
Thanks!
السلام عليكم فتحت قناة وراح ينزل كل يوم أن شاء الله مقطع قصير عن الإسلام مترجم اشترك وانتفع معنا اثابنا الله وإياكم القناة غير ربحية ابدا
As all things must come to an end, THANK YOU for taking me on this journey
Flash Point History you to brother. Keep up the great work
My great ,great Ancestors who was a knight during the time of Reconquista and was nobled by the King served and escorted King Ferdinand 111 and the King of Castile and Leon in the conquest of city Cordova in Murcia,Seville.He was ennobled in Spain circ 1683 and the Spanish crown granting the family a decree of the coat of arms. Such history on my maternal side from Basque! Great job ! Thank you!
"Flash Point History deserves 100k subs." -Sun Tzu, The Art of War
To win without fighting is best! Love Sun Tzu
"The algorithm acts in mysterious ways." Napoleon Bonaparte, during the siege of Toulon
Agreed. So well done
जय भोलेनाथ जय भोलेनाथ man is logical, until he isn’t
السلام عليكم فتحت قناة وراح ينزل كل يوم أن شاء الله مقطع قصير عن الإسلام مترجم اشترك وانتفع معنا اثابنا الله وإياكم القناة غير ربحية ابدا
I enjoyed each and every minute of this. Thank you so, so much for doing what you do. You are the history teacher I never had
Happy that you liked it!
I don't understand, how can this channel be so great yet so small! New sub here, please keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Sir, I learn more history in an hour with you that I ever learmt in school. I love your channel, the way you narrate, the sources you quote...also, the way you interact with your viewers. It speaks volumes about you the fact that you listened to someone who wrote a comment saying that The Black Prince never actually became King of England and you corrected it in this new version.
Well done, sir. My respect and recognition.
I'm so happy you really like my content. I love the community that has grown around my videos. This is a learning experience for everyone, including myself. My knowledge of the 100 years war is a bit limited, so I'm glad someone called that to my attention. Take care!
You do a really good job of connecting the time periods of ruler to ruler. Thanks for the video I love them
Thank you so much for this comment - happy that you liked my videos - I try to link at least the major kings.
Caliph Omar ibn Abdul Aziz, when he read the rapport of his governor As-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani about the situation of Andalusia, he was shocked by the huge number of
Christians in the peninsular & suggested that they be all transferred and distributed in the Islamic world, but Al-Samh reassured him saying that Islam is spreading among them and that they will not pose a threat to the Islamic existence
The demographic factor contributed a lot to the success of La Reconquista in the long term
Viva Reconquista 🇧🇷✝️🛐💚
When was this?
They just took back what belongs to them... the Iberian peninsula Hispania
@@enricomanno8434 belong to who ? native tribes , romans , carthaginians , vandals , visigoths or moors ?
@@cuzimmoody6470 The Iberian peninsula that was the most fertile province of Hispania during Roman era... belongs indeed to the Spanish and to the Portuguese people... End of the story
Great work loved all 3 parts of the long series la reconquista, la reconquista nueva generation and the last kingdom
Thanks - let me know what you think of the final chapter - Reconquista: Isabella
What a treat to wake up to new Flash Point History content. The quality and amount of work you put into your videos is just incredible. Been waiting on this since I finished your last Reconquista series. I could not find anything on this period that even touches what you do. Wishing you many more subs and success going forward, you deserve it.
Wow, thanks! As always appreciate the comment - Hoping to get this channel past 70k this year
In a way or another Granada share the story of Constantinople, both of them had survived much more than they believed.
By their end new age had begun; the reneciance and age of discovery.
It was the same for the Spanish Empire and the Ottomans in their own time.
wow big respects to Granada who held two centuries as literally the last man standing
Exactly - sometimes its fun to root for the underdog. Love your avatar BTW
@@FlashPointHx Hey thanks. It's an anonymous wood engraving called "Flammarion Engraving" if you want to check it out. Btw the documentary is great, I look forward to seeing the next episode.
@@normiew Yes I recognize it - I think they used it well in the Cosmos series featuring Neil DeGrasse Tyson. A man's quest to discover whats beyond the shroud of humanity's understanding. Crazy acid trip if nothing else.
It was the way of the christians to keep plunder and getting tribute from them, until they were o longer profitable.
A real shame that the subject isn’t interesting to a wider audience, seeing so few views on a video with so much effort clearly put into it saddens me.
I'm hoping that with the quality more will be drawn to it - you're right it is an often neglected period of history
@@FlashPointHx I am very much interested and have travelled to all those places looking for history. This is, by far the best content I have come across on internet. And so perfectly presented. Kudos
You earned a subscriber. And this is first time I ever subscribed after watching just one video
@@FlashPointHx I do not believe the subject matter is particularly uninteresting. I feel like the 1 hour 45 minute running time might be intimidating for youtube audiences. I know that I rarely watch videos I cannot finish in one sitting and rarely have nearly two hours of free space in one block. Perhaps, if this was broken into four smaller parts, it would be more digestible.
I know. Few will ever see my "The Politically-Incorrect History of atheism + Refutations of atheist Myths" and the reasons for that include that people don't want the truth, and they follow the crowd because they want to fit in, and they dismiss anything that isn't mainstream as a result of their lack of free thinking and fear of ostracism.
@@scintillam_dei Or it could simply be hard to accept an objective truth from someone so obviously enthralled by "alternate truths". Seriously, its hard to take anyone seriously who argues that Atheist are merely "going with the crowd" and the religious are somehow going against the flow. Protestantism in the U.S. makes up 40% of the population. Catholicism makes up 20% of the population. Atheist make up a whopping 3% of the population. That is hardly "mainstream" or "the crowd". In fact, "the crowd" as far as the U.S. is concerned would be Christianity generally or Protestantism specifically.
Further, historically, religious societies have largely been famous for ostracizing or executing non-believers, or believers of other faiths. So, it is just as likely for a religious person to be expressing faith in order to fit in or avoid ostracism. Whatever the merits of your arguments about Atheism may be, by advertising yourself with mere resentment and ad hominem, you do little to persuade me that your ideas are worth my precious and limited time. Were I interested in exploring the subject, I would prefer to be consider the viewpoints of a more objective and sincere proponent of religion.
Great job Spain and Portugal
Viva Reconquista 🇧🇷✝️🛐💚
Good job for bringing back the dark age and introducing intolerance
back to your favela,gluesniffer!
My man had 10 kids with a mistress and didn't expect anything bad to happen
Hahaha - IKR?
Fuh-REALS! You can’t roll the dice like that and not expect it to fu*k up your home-stroke.
😂🙄
It wasn't the illegitimate Kids that turned out to be the Problem. It was the Legitimate Peter the Cruel that was a Tyrant.
Thankfully the Bastard Kind Henry stabbed his half Brother Peter the Cruel to death. I mean Peter had Henry's Mother executed.
😂
He obviously didnt play enough ck2
I'm just in love with you channel man. I even listen to the podcasts in the gym. Thinking about supporting you on patreon. Really good job mate
I appreciate that! Thats exactly when I listen to my podcasts - usually on a run
The ending is so amazing, thank you so much it was a real pleasure ❤️❤️❤️
Appreciate that!
I saw all your episodes about reconquista. It's just amazing job. Thank you!
Excellent choice for the thumbnail. I love these long compilations of episodes back to back because it makes it so much easier to download. I sometimes go on 6 to 10 hour plane trips and these videos have really help me pass the time. They've also been instrumental as sources and as a means of acquiring new sources for this period of history. Thanks for all the hard work and can't wait to see your Constantinople video. I've always found Constantine XI's final stand to be quite inspiring.
he knew he was either going to be the savior or the last emperor of Rome. hard to live that down
Well done! Enjoyed the heck out of this great documentary. I descend from Peter the Cruel through his son Infante Juan, his son Pedro de Castilla y Eril, his daughter Aldonza ...all the way to yours truly.
Thank you so much - You're not the first to mention that they can trace their legacy to this time period. I'm fascinated by people like you who can do this. That is track your ancestors back 600 years. Amazing.
Felicitationes 😎
I descend from Alfonso XI through Enrique II of Trastamara, her daughter leonor of castile and his husbanl CArlos III of Navarre,.
@@FlashPointHx The church kept every certificate, Spanish people can go back for over millenia. The earliest i have proven records is 350 B;C and alleged but not confirmed (only the gens) to 690 B,c NUma Pompilio II KIng of Rome. That is 2.700 back
Passion, skill, humor, and my my my, you have managed to find a way to get the information out without any slant that I was able to discern. Absolutely a unique experience in academics. I am actually trusting that you are not pursuing an opinion or attempting to alter your audience. So grateful for the grace and pleasure of just relaxing into the information. Ashamed of the lack of awareness of the background of Spain and Islam. American teachers teach this like sex education. They don't. Lol bigger fan after each episode!
hahaha, Thank you! I'm so happy that you liked my video so much. This is a time that is almost always glossed over. The Muslims invaded in 711 and then the Catholic Monarchy retook it in 1492 - time to move on to the new world . . . again, happy that you enjoyed this.
God bless the heroic peoples of Spain who fought relentlessly for centuries to liberate their home! An epic struggle!
An epic struggle indeed. I hope modern iberians study well the sacrefices of their ancestors
@Yaminabototal ehi welcome to the club us italians are in a similar situation
They learnt nothing,as mostly they are monolinguistic people.
Also,is called castilian dialect,never spanish.
Spanish languages are 4/5/6 different varieties,like bable ,asturian, extremaduran,etc.
God bless them for delivering us from philosophy and forward thinking! Thank the Lord we've gotten ourselves 500 years of backwardness and poverty!
@@josecipriano3048 so, the arab and berber conquerors were armies of forward thinking philosophers... and the struggle for liberty of the heroic free peoples of spain was a backward impoverishing wave of destruction. well, I admit, we do not get so enlightened frequently here...
How do you not have more subs? The quality is amazing. New sub right here.
Thank you! I wonder this myself - Happy to have you here
wow!!! even if I already knew a lot, I have learned so much! as a latinamerican it is always instructive to know the history of the Iberian Peninsula, and besides I am a great admirer of Al Andalus, that inherited us so many things. I have seen other videos (the Greeks in Asia, Persian Empire, Roman trade with Asia, the Mongol Empire, etc) and every one of them is very amusing and highly instructive! thanks!
Nice! Happy that you liked my content.
Agreed! I married an Argentinian woman who's also a linguist, and I got interested in the Reconquista because of the linguistic legacy of that period. I have been to Portugal for a few days but I want to visit all of Iberia for a long time someday just to see all the places I've read about.
Hope one day you can have a try in the real historical facts rather than the bunch of lies that is this documentary,sadly to say for the quality of itself.
@@xavisanchez7522 dato mata relato
We are all waiting for the new episodes that I guess would be about the conquest of the new continent, can’t wait!!
Thanks again 🙏🏼
You bet! I want to do a collaboration with some others about the age of discovery.
Sounds even better🤩
At the end of this episode it’s says to be continued was just wondering if you have already finished that as I can’t find it. Fantastic series, as a fellow historian I truly appreciate the depth you go to in order to accurately explain the series. Truly appreciate all that you do! Thanks
Really appreciate that you like my content. Especially being a historian. I created a poll a few months ago asking the audience if they wanted me to complete the reconquista or do a side journey through the Fall of Constantinople - the effects of 1453 would directly affect Isabella and Ferdinand in not just completing the Reconquista - but also into the age of discovery. Thus I'm in the middle of that series - but will get back to reconquista as soon as I can.
Thank you! Happy 4th of July!
One of my favorite series in all of RUclips can’t wait for the last part!
Will get to the last episode in the Reconquista in March =)
@@FlashPointHx yesss. Alfonso X El Sabio would approve
Amazing work. Thank you.
The Reconquista is such an interesting piece of european history. It has it all: a long struggle, great battles, political and religious struggle, great characters, a lasting impact in the region's culture, treason, etc. etc. etc.
Epic playlist. Great from start to finish. Thanks again.
Thank you - really happy that you liked this !
That was amazing. I need the next part!
The Muslim conquests of Spain was one of the greatest history events ever, they left a lasting impact on Spain that still obvious until this day and their footprints on the Iberian peninsula are what makes it an interesting story to be told.
Agree
@@FlashPointHx I am amazed how Hollywood and cinema in general has completely ignored this great chapter of human history. Such a rich history and a myriad of events and characters that are ripe for adaptation and with streaming services it is much easier now!
Not true. Its the other way around actually. The reconquest by the spaniards was one of the greatest historical events that left a lasting impact on the whole muslim world even to this day
@@xxx-fv8jt true, Spain wiped the Muslims off the face of Western Europe, this was balanced by Constantinople. The Spanish response was to sail to India and they found America. The second the Spanish landed on America they made islam the first banned religion. 😂😂😂
@@KevinLopez-pu7ll No, islam was already a banned religion the moment islam began in the 7th century
Thanks, Great Stuff...can't wait for Isabella and the connection to Cortes
Love this channel! That's why it is so maddening that I have watched two whole series (Fall of Constantinople and Reconquista) only to find out at the end of both that they aren't finished yet....Don't keep me waiting much longer! I need to know how they end!
Wow, thank you! Promise to have them out as soon as possible - I'm in health care and with what covid has been doing, time these days for production is at a minimum
Just finished watching all the series amazing work looking forward to seeing the next video ♥️♥️
Thank you so much 😀
Amazing work top rate show I can't say enough about it. If Im not watching Flash Point History I'm listening to it in the background or in my sleep the music is great the humor fantastic an all while learning something
truely one of the best. Looking forward to more thank you so much for all the time an work you have put in
Appreciate this ! But I was bit confused - do I make you fall asleep?
@@FlashPointHx Not at all just learning as I sleep an you have a nice voice
What a brilliant documentary. Better than anything on television.
Thank you so much!
Amazing video, but wow that end credits song is ❤🔥 ... may I know if it's a track of its own?
@@abhimanyusahai2 it’s called ‘pink Flamenco’ by Doug Maxwell
This was an excellent presentation. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Flash Point History deserves an award for being the only you tubers who dare touch this section of history. I did a good amount of research in college for a long essay on the Reconquista, would have loved to have this video as a resource to piece things together in my mind. Thanks for the excellent video! 🙏
Wow, thanks! I really appreciate this comment. this is a part of history that is almost never told. Seems like all the history books begin in 1492
This has been an incredible series. Absolutely love it and you have reignited my interest in medical Iberia. Have you thought about making a series on the continuation of the story?
The ancient Aztec and Indican empires have been visited by some interesting visitors deserving of your interest.
Hey Apolon - happy that you liked this video! What have just watched is episode 11 - go back to episode 1 - my intent all along was to create a narrative that goes into the time of the Aztec and Inca.
@@FlashPointHx It's always a pleasure to meet a history lover, I've watched your videos on the Punic wars, love the narrative. We are all members of those events and the future it brought. I was wondering will you expand the series into the story of the conquest of the Americas? I love how you focus on the personal narrative as well, we are all heroes of our own journeys and that period in history had some outstanding characters.
@@konjovi2 Oh yeah - I intend to cover the Aztec and Inca - they were in the continuum of the Reconquista.
Arghhh I though this was the last one! I just researched the whole thing again. It's still damn good.
Dear Mr Calm and Soothing voice I like how you decided to do the history of the sea and shipping lanes to the Orients and Columbus's trip to the New World to prelude your video about Coronado. After all history is one event leading to the other.
Boy is it ever
my teacher made me do a long ass essay on this video, but except for that really good vid, keep up the good work
Wait a minute - my video is the basis of someone's class ? fascinating.
Very beautiful RECONQUISTA documentary!
Near perfect pronunciation of Spanish/Islamic names (places as well as people).
Absolutely gorgeous drawings and animations.
Excellent narration of well-researched historical facts, plots, events, conquests (and multiple re-conquests),...
What else to say? Simply, VERY WELL DONE TO YOU Flash Point History!! 👏👏👏
Carry on like this
Thank you very much! this was an awesome comment to get !
you gotta work on another big tale like this
i could listen to your stories about whole history .... just perfect !!
Amazing content, and I can only imagine the amount of research and video editing and production to create such a comprehensive but accessible masterpiece such as all of your works. Your narration is second to none and i appreciate you pronouncing names and cities as they should sound. Mad respect. One question though, do you have any plans on working on the Fall of Granada?
Thank you Hans! Yeah this took me a while. I did a poll a few months back and people decided they wanted a side quest through the fall of Constantinople - which I'm doing now. After that I definitely want to complete the Reconquista with the fall of Granada. I actually have started my research about it already.
@@FlashPointHx Do you use genealogical family tree for the Spanish and muslim monarchs? (Fo visual reference)
@@warwickkingmaker2035 I do as often as I can. Otherwise people can get lost - they are both so extensive
@@FlashPointHx I have done a genealogical family tree of the Spanish monarch and Caliphate and the Byzantine empire for my reference and was wondering if you want one. I couldnt find a complete/continuous family tree on the internet so i created one for myself. My most complex family tree is for the British Monarchs (excluding welsh). Ive also done one for Portugal, France, Dutch, and Egypt.
@@warwickkingmaker2035 Sure send it to my email - flashpointhistory@gmail.com
Excellent video, thanks a lot by a "de Lara" descendant without any gold.
Glad you enjoyed it - I've heard from a lot of people who can trace their ancestry back to this time - I'm always amazed with that
New to your channel, got to say it's impressive. Good stuff.
Thank you!
Humanity has been fighting this war, or one like it, one way or another for the last 1500 years. GREAT program.!
Great content! When will you finish this series?
Doing Constantinople now - will come back to this afterwards.
Bro dropped the hardest Black death edit and thought we wouldn't notice. 😂😂
Brilliant video, even more brilliant graphics
Thank you kindly! I've been up'n mu game on the animation side of things
Nice content!
Hey thanks a lot!!
Very well produced
thanks!!
Excelente relato histórico !
Regarding the end of the video. As great of a monarch Isabella was, it was in fact her husband, Ferdinand II the king of Aragon who lead and won the war against the Muslims. He was a quite skilled warrior king and a veteran of many battles against the French both on the borders with Aragon but also in the Italian wars as well as against the Portugese and Castellan nobles trying to oust Isabella in the civil war to install Beltraneja in Isabella's place. Isabella was a really competent monarch though and I believe the pair are the most successful monarchs in European history.
She was at the point in history of reinvigorating the Castilian Throne, uniting with Aragon, crushing the Nasrid, and setting off the age of discovery in a big way - impressive
@@FlashPointHx Well she was basically busy with child birth at this point in time. Before that she had achieved massively much by securing the throne as queen, rather than a queen consort, squashing the power of the nobles and the war against Portugal not to mention quelling the ambitions of her husband to become King of Castille. These were no small feats to achieve. The Kings before her were totally under the control of the nobles. Of course she had good allies with her in her husband, powerful political ally in Carillo the archbishop of Toledo and the great General Cordoba.
She never really united Aragon and Castille as Aragon would never accept her as anything more than a queen consort and were suspicious and tired of using Aragon resources to constantly help out Castille. Aragon and Castille really united when Charles V, her grandson, came to power. And the age of discovery happend right after the reconqista.
Usually there is a monarch and a consort, WIth Isabel and Fernando both werre full monachs of powerfull European kingdom, they acted as one, and multiplied the siize of theiur kingdoms severa folds, I cannot recall such a couple of monarchs in European History, including Justinian and Teodora, this was another league, they changed the world forever. Unified Spain and reduced the power of the Nobles, defeated Muslims and conquered Granada. Defeated France many times. toook chunks of land Defeated and conquered Navarre, Defeated and detained Cesar Borgia, Defeated Portugal, Conquered half Italy, submitted the north of Africa, Conquered the canary Islands. Fixed the ruined economy of Spain. Discovered ans started conquering, America. Created the Leyes de Indias Created global tradem the first international bill of right abolishing slavery in America. Her daughter catalina was the first women Ambassador, They put the ciments pof the countereform of the Church with their rather non materialistic view of religion. (Ignacio of Loyola was in their court) No couple of Monarchs come even close
great work :)
Thanks!
Thank you for your work
You are very welcome
Would you ever think about doing a video companion for upcoming Crusader Kings Releases? I would love to hear your take on the new Iberian flavor pack as it relates to real history. I binge your videos SO hard whenever i do a playthrough solo and use them to contextualize my chat before i stream. Thanks for all the amazing content.
Funny you mentioned this - I got. call from Paradox games just the other day . . .. ;)
@@FlashPointHx :) :) :) make my day why dont ya?
Hope a movie series for reconquesta. it will be a blast
They have a few old ones. I heard on Starz they have something on Isabella
Are you still planning on covering the age of exploration and the Conquista?
Oh yeah!
@@FlashPointHx NICE
Is the Episode XII - Isabel - ready? Thank you... what great graphics!
No its not up yet - I did a poll a while ago and the audience wanted a series on the Fall of Constantinople that I'm doing now. Will get back to it!
Anyone else fall asleep listening to history?
another quality documentary 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Zhonn
Finaly😁.. The masterpiece in 1 video. We are greatfull Sir, thank you very much🙏😎✌️
❤️🏆🥇👏👏👏👏👏
Worth every second waiting for and was a pleasure seing it being created. 👌🎩.
In This video you play a map animation [ 0:00 - 1:16 ] how to make this.....
I used apple motion
Waiting for next episode, good stuff
I love these meaty history videos...we need more please
I'm making them as fast as I can.
@ស្នាក់នៅ រ៉ាម៉ាន always
Que Viva la Hispanidad!
New sub... I am enjoying these videos, especially the newer set on the Byzantines. That is a really vast topic that needs its own series as does Rome itself. One big universe you know each one a link in the chain at one point or another. Characters coming and going in the telling.
Awesome, thank you!
Fantastic
i am impressed.. good stuff!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great show. Love your stuff!
Thank you!
Interesting piece
Having lived in several Islamic countries, I can appreciate the significance of a "women"
Isabella as a leading factor in the ouster of Islam from Spain.
she consolidated Castile when the kingdom was ready to fall apart as well
Very intresting, I wish there was an Arabic translation for this documentry. I like to know what is happend from a western source but my english is not well enough to understand the details.
I am happy that you like my video. I wish my Arabic was better so I could make an arabic version
Another great Reconquista video. Seriously, yours are the most in depth and well-produced one s I have had the pleasure of binging. Also, great use of the Spanish guitar. Gets me everytime.
thank you for this - I actually hired a guitarist to create a song - but YT banned it.
Looking forward to this. The Reconquista series is excellent. Well done friend.
Give us a hint about what’s next after The Reconquista.
Fall of Constantinople before we hit up the life of Isabella
YES! It’s Byzantine time!
@Magna Carta Hopefully, all the old wounds don’t start reopening.
Hi, there is a magnificient book about Isabel, Isabel de España from Willian Thomas Walsh, amazing and covers everything, from jews to Colombus
Her childhood, love for Fernando, political struggles with her brother and high Nobility, amazing book, I strongly recommend to you.
Wonder why english-speaking historians use the latinized form for some of the spanish names such as "Isabella", instead of "Isabel", which was her actual name in spanish/castillian, while, in other cases such as "Sancho", they keep the original spanish, and in others such as "Alphonso" they respect the spanish pronunciation but change the spelling (in spanish it would be "Alfonso" not "Alphonso").
I'ts not a big deal, but as spanish speaker it kind of feel weird and inconsistent, and I was wondering what was the reason behind it.
Great content btw, keep up the great work.
I'm not really sure - as you said - its very random what is chosen to be the mainstream and what is not.
It makes sense for some names. There is English name Isabella, but not English name Sancho. So they translated Isabel because they could, but left Sancho because there is nothing to translate to. As for Alfonso, I have no idea. Think of it how names Charles and Peter are always translated, but not Louis or Fredrick.
Error in writting that kinda remained, I guess.
many thanks!!!!
You're welcome!
Dangggg so gooood!!! Just finished it, never expected it would be this good.
Nice! This was a long one too.
Excellent narrative.
Thanks!
Best show on youtube
thanks for doing this it is one of my favorite history podcasts I can not wait until you get too the 1490s.
Yeah ditto - seems like I’ve taken the scenic route to get here
@@FlashPointHx The scenic is often the most fun.
38:32 does anyone know what that picture on the left is from or its name?
Better than the "History" channel where there's rarely any history involved.
Castilians allied with France after the civil war during 100 years war, battle of La Rochelle 1372, castilians occupied the coastline from Burdeaux to Quessant.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! I've been waiting for this video for a very very long time. Thank you😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
You are so welcome!
Got a new sub here but how soon until we get the next part about Isabella!?!?
This side project on the Byzantine is turning out to be a bigger project than I anticipated. Want to finish that and then head into Isabella. Still have a few more videos to do with the fall of constantinople.
@@FlashPointHx I recently discovered and quickly burned through all the Reconquista videos. Guess I'll have to check out your other stuff to help tide me over until then.
I watched entire series and I'm amazed how good it is. Music, presentation, everything is 10/10. It's actually fun to watch. So much so that I started playing crusader kings 3 and I'm about to finish reconquista :)
Thank you ! So happy that you liked my videos! A lot of people took up CK3 after this =)
granada lasted longer then the caliphate of cordoba
truely fascinating
This is just the compilation video. Working on the Fall of Constantinople now.
@@FlashPointHx Constantinople and this guy. Match made in the great of heavens. What will be the title of your next series of the reconquista? The last kingdom of Islam was a good one.
@@FlashPointHx did the fall of the roman empire have any consequences in the relationship between castile and granada
@@flaviusvector1543 The Nasrid looked to the Ottoman as fellow Muslims and potential allies. The Fall of Constantinople would inspire those in the west to better complete the reconquista - Isabella was one of those people who was directly affect by this.
@@FlashPointHx intresting
thannks for the knowledge
Survive as Granada on the 1444 start in EUIV is one of the hardest challenges of that game, now that i know its history better, am amazed it had survived for so long at all.
I totally agree - Its amazing it survived for so long
Thank you alot for all these greatly informative videos
So nice of you to say this! Thanks!
Will you be continuing the this saga? I was hoping to learn of Cortez and his conquest of the Americas.
Oh yeah! In fact I just hired an artist to do some pre-lim sketches for it
Been hanging around your channel the last few weeks. Definitely got a sub from me. Anxiously waiting on the last part on queen Isabella and King Fernando completing the Reconquista. Any update on its schedule?
Happy that you have liked the videos. I'm taking a hiatus from the Reconquista series to do a bit about Constantinople. I'll get back to Isabella early next year.
This is my favorite channel on you tube. Hope he does the Norman conquests after this!
Thank you! Appreciate that
@@allan7380 yeap. I would love flash point to do it. It's the little details. It's the info on much more then just the battles. It the awesome story telling. I watch lectors on all kinds of history. Some guys have great info but many are not great speakers and it's not fluid or some are just boring cause it is nothing but an info dump. This guy nails it.
@@allan7380 William was a Norman. That's why it's the norman line of English kings not the french. 😜
@@FlashPointHx so ARE you gonna do the Norman conquests? :)
What a brilliantly produced documentary
Hey, thanks so much for that
OMG the music track at 35 mins and 30 seconds? Does anyone have a link to that? Searched through all the artists in the credits and could not find it. Please help!
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
I do appreciate how you show both sides. This side did this wrong according to our modern standards and what the other side did is unreported.
Thanks
Its the only way to really tell a story like this. There is SO much bias in the literature