It’s crazy to think how different life would’ve been just 7 or 8 lifetimes ago. The Aztec’s were around just 500 years ago, yet it seems so distant from where we are now.
@kramarancko1107
Жыл бұрын
Now imagine 500 years in the future
@marcusalexander7088
Жыл бұрын
History repeats. Perhaps sooner than you imagine.
@nick-tu2xh
Жыл бұрын
@@kramarancko1107 just the advancements the last 2 centuries have been insane, we probably wouldn’t even be able to imagine the world in another 2
@cjgooglemail564
Жыл бұрын
Lmao Americas military literally has it’s citizens the same way. Prolly more watered tho
@LiberPater777
Жыл бұрын
@@marcusalexander7088 It doesn't repeat. It rhymes.
@Jayjay-qe6um
Жыл бұрын
"Conquering the world on horseback is easy. It is dismounting and governing that is hard." -- Genghis Khan
@zombienation804
Жыл бұрын
Broke back mountain
@RadenWA
Жыл бұрын
@@X9523-z3v there’s a reason tax collectors exist
@RadenWA
Жыл бұрын
@@X9523-z3v good luck going against the biggest empire with the cruelest army I guess 🤷♂️
@Isaac-tf9qv
Жыл бұрын
'It is a man's right to mount' also ghengis Khan
@annak8755
Жыл бұрын
Then you can use Stalin's favorite saying “you have a person - you have a problem, you don't have a person (you kill the person) - you don't have problems“
@RicardoCarapia
Жыл бұрын
As a Mexican I can tell you... here we have a traditional dish called "Pozole". It's kind of a stew of meat or chicken, corn and vegetables. But the legend says the origin of Pozole is that it was the way the aztecs cooked the victim's flesh and hearts to eat them. It's kind of an urban myth but damn pozole is delicious. Totally worth it
@tonyy3366
Жыл бұрын
Its true ive heard it myself. And to add to this canibals that have been locked up have said pork is the closest meat to taste like humans. And pork is a staple in alot of the pozoles around mexico 😂 it makes to much sense
@Sam-tb9xu
Жыл бұрын
I’ve always preferred tripe as the meat in my pozole/menudo
@Alacard0malley
Жыл бұрын
I mean you gotta start somewhere 🤷🏻♂️
@VRnamek
Жыл бұрын
And don't forget your brutal criminal gangs - I think they're still Aztecs at heart...
@Alacard0malley
Жыл бұрын
@Hector guerro Valdez Critical theory detected
@martinstallard2742
Жыл бұрын
0:48 the Spartans 4:59 the Mongols 9:59 the Aztecs
@Yoder023
Жыл бұрын
Happy someone actually lays out how SERIOUSLY messed up the Spartans actually were!
@matthewmillburg3933
Жыл бұрын
Always have been a bit curious about the number of schools named for the Spartans. Like, do they know? Is it possible that really do admire them or don't know much about history?
@disconnectsealed7702
Жыл бұрын
If I had to guess its either they truly don't know and are going off on things like the 300 movie or they do know their history but choose to ignore anything that makes them uncomfortable like us humans tend to do
@rolandfischer931
Жыл бұрын
I pointed all that out to my Christian professor friend who's Christian school mascot is the Spartans.. he agreed it was so confusing 😅
@matthewmillburg3933
Жыл бұрын
@@rolandfischer931 thank you, I should have said school mascots
@darkwinter6028
Жыл бұрын
Sparta? Sparta?!?!? This is MADNESS1!11!
@Bubbaist
Жыл бұрын
South East Asia was lucky to be tropical. After defeating Bagan, they encountered the wet soil of the tropics, which was bad for their horses, so they gave up on it.
@ficialintelligence1869
Жыл бұрын
This was excellent. I'd love to see a "More of History's Most Brutal Cultures." Subscribed.
@patpowers9210
Жыл бұрын
I read somewhere that the Mongol horde's battlefield successes were largely due to the fact that his mounted cavalry was unmatched in the ancient world. His horsemen trained almost from birth and used recurve bows that were deadly accurate. They were very hard to hit and they were very good at shooting opponents.
@atodaso1668
Жыл бұрын
They were the Dothraki
@Lunch_Meat
Жыл бұрын
Mounted archers are a amazing tactic, whether it's the mongols, the huns, or the Parthenos, but the siege tactics discussed in the video was another totally brutal form of warfare that most people simply weren't ready for. Genghis was also able to be creative with how they used their fame. They would give cities they came across three chances to simply surrender or else. Lots of cities just gave up before they got torn apart
@projectw.a.a.p.f.t.a.d7762
Жыл бұрын
They also cut meat in strips to put under them while they road. The horses sweat would help cure the meat providing them with the ability to travel with their food more efficiently. Seems logistics played a huge role even back then.
@waynedieckmann9840
Жыл бұрын
The story of Temugen is nearly too amazing to be true. The greatest conquerer to ever exist.
@jarrodbright5231
Жыл бұрын
You're pretty much accurate. Their main strength was their horsemen and archers. They also fielded archers on foot (rode horses into position, dismounted then fought on foot) when heavier arrow volleys were needed, and their cavalry were also very competent in melee as well both on horseback and on foot, but for the most part they fought as missile cavalry using the lovely missile cavalry tactics that other nations used including the famous feigned retreat strategy. Their weakness, however, was sieges. When conquering China they had problems until they acquired gunpowder rockets at which point they started using gunpowder in sieges. When conquering Europe however gunpowder was rarely used and they more often used the strategy of starving their opponents out while slowly bringing up siege weaponry, mostly catapult based weaponry and as noted they would often throw rotting corpses (including rotting livestock) over the walls to spread disease and make the encirclement strategy more effective. This strategy worked a lot better once their army was large enough. Eventually their main siege tactic was fear - if you were in a city and the Mongols rode up and demanded your surrender you'd be a lot more likely to surrender if you knew that 4 other nearby cities surrendered and were now doing fine and 1 nearby city resisted and was now a smoking ruin with every man, woman and child dead. The Dothraki of Game of Thrones and the Nadir of David Gemmell's Drenai series are both based directly off the Mongols with many of their traditions, punishments (the molten gold execution was a real historical Mongol execution/torture method) and beliefs translated directly over to these fantasy worlds.
@meglukes
Жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention that Plutarch wrote that the spartan practice of infanticide was leading to their decline along with a refusal to have multiple children to avoid splitting family lands
@hernanreipp3321
Жыл бұрын
They were many factors that cause their decline, but two of them are the most responsible: 1. Their laws impossed by the mythical figure Lycurgus in how they have to live. 2. Their extreme conservatism, refusing to make any legal changes on their laws. I highly recommend the blog of Bret Deveraux about the Spartan society in there explain very well how many WANT TO SEE Sparta and how REALLY was Sparta.
@ccptube3468
Жыл бұрын
These Ancient cultures r truly horrific. Greeks, Phoenicians practices baby sacrifices and other blasphemous acts. The Persians were actually more decent and have a moral code of some sort compared to the Greeks who loves kids as slaves..
@hernanreipp3321
Жыл бұрын
@@williamjust1266 Mostly every mediterranean culture do that. But not to the exaggerations that many point out. For example was never thousands of killing in a year or by throwing them from walls, cliffs or in wells. They mostly left them out in the wild far away of the cities. Some ended up killed by the elements (cold, eating by animals) or find by rural people that could adopt them in their town. The speciall well you mention could be the one found it in Athens Akropolis in the '30 and today is still under investigation about the reason why so many infants a long with animals, mostly dogs. But most investigator are agree that surely was during a plague in a siege in 165 BC to 150 BC, the last time of the Hellenistic Period.
@k.s.k.7721
Жыл бұрын
During ongoing research of the Aztec empire, studies have been done on excavations of skulls found not many years after the Spanish arrived. To their surprise, they found skulls with European markers mixed with those of Indigenous characteristics. It's plausible that in battles during the Conquest, Spanish soldiers were taken prisoner and were sacrificed as prisoners of war in the same manner as their Native counterparts.
@Gekumatz
Жыл бұрын
Yes captured europeans were treated the same as any natives fighting againts the empire, this isint new informations its been known for several hundred years from several accounts of the conquest 😂😂😂
@carlosrivas1629
Жыл бұрын
@@Gekumatz the spanish did not mess around as they literally called themselves conquerors.
@Gekumatz
Жыл бұрын
@@carlosrivas1629 the spanish were terrified when they first saw this happen, despite being the best warriors in all of Europe they still were scared.
@carlosrivas1629
Жыл бұрын
@@Gekumatz they played it smart, found enemies of Aztec to help them.
@Gekumatz
Жыл бұрын
@@carlosrivas1629 true.
@zoopdterdoobdter5743
Жыл бұрын
_"If at first you don't succeed, sacrifice and sacrifice again."_ -The Aztecs (allegedly)
@Loralanthalas
Жыл бұрын
Also every settlement ever. Including Roanoke.
@nunyabidness3429
4 ай бұрын
@@Loralanthalas no. Roanoke was the removal of a pest.
@lostbutfreesoul
Жыл бұрын
Genghis Khan always saddened me a little: The early life of this individual was so brutal that he swore to destroy the clan systems. Then he continued the same practices, just on a 'grand' scale once he got into power.
@bonalisa8827
Жыл бұрын
You do what you know.
@Mark-gb1cp
Жыл бұрын
Poor Ghengy
@noahway13
Жыл бұрын
Power corrupts. Like Xi Jinping in present day. (Spelling? The Chinese dictator)
@UltrafalconVX7
Жыл бұрын
Canute manuver
@jonathancunningham8739
6 ай бұрын
@@Mark-gb1cpWere is Larry Daley when you need him.
@carlstanford7607
Жыл бұрын
As a student of history I have been shocked by how the spartans are lauded in the modern age. It was a monstrous culture hated by their peers like ancient assyria or the aztecs and many others. Not all ancient or classical cultures were the same. Some good, some bad, & some just horrible.
@atodaso1668
Жыл бұрын
Depends who won most of the time. They get to write the history and destroy any evidence that says otherwise.
@photografiq_presents
Жыл бұрын
Please, student of history, explain the relationship of the aztecs to the spartans and how they hated them.....
@DeathProof132
Жыл бұрын
@@photografiq_presents OP is saying that the Spartans and the Aztecs were both hated by their peers NOT that the Aztecs were peers of the Spartans...👍
@Horvath_Gabor
Жыл бұрын
Wild romanticization aside, you have to consider that we don't actually have a lot of sources about Sparta from a Spartan perspective. Their depictions come almost exclusively from Athenian sources, aka their biggest geopolitical rival, concern only a snapshot of a city-state that existed for well over seven hundred years, and many of the most famous "Spartan cultural norms", such as throwing weak newborns off a cliff, have zero archeological evidence. In other words, unconditionally believing everything about the pop-cultural depiction of Sparta is roughly as sensible as believing an English hit-piece written about the French during the Hundred Years War, and setting out on an archeological expedition to find the dog-headed men riding on tiny ponies depicted therein. As for why they are romanticized so much, we can pretty much thank Russeau and other neo-classicists for that, though the so-called "laconiphilia" goes back waaay further, as even some ancient Greeks and Romans, especially Platonists, idealized the hell out of them, and it kind of trickled down the ages.
@jarrodbright5231
Жыл бұрын
@@Horvath_Gabor Xenophon however did most of his writing after becoming accepted as a Spartan citizen and declaring himself a Spartan and not an Athenian. There is a reason why there are so few writings about Sparta by Spartans. Up until the time of Alexander, they didn't teach their citizens to write.
@TheResidance
Жыл бұрын
Quick correction: the sun god of the Aztec was Huitzilopochtli not ometeotl, who is the (relatively mythological inactive) creator god/force.
@j.pershing2197
Жыл бұрын
Creation force is magnetism. Its 10³⁹ stronger force than gravity.
@rmartinson19
Жыл бұрын
While Huitzilopochtli had Solar aspects to his divinity, Tonatiuh was the actual deified personification of the sun. It's important to remember though that most polytheistic traditions were not rigid in their classifications of the gods. For example, in the Norse pantheon Odin, Thor, Heimdal, Tyr, Freyja, Frey, Skadi and Baldur were ALL gods/goddesses of war in one form or another. Odin, Hel, Skadi and Njordr were all considered gods/goddesses of death in various ways. And Odin, Freyja, Loki, and Frigga were all gods/goddesses of Seidr, or magic. Similarly, if a farmer wanted to bless a field, he could invoke Frey, Odin, Freyja, Sif, or Thor (among others) as deities who had the ability to bless or sanctify land and crops. But for most people in the West, the primary iteration of polytheism they have any knowledge of is Greek/Roman, which was one of the few that was rather rigid in apportioning powers and domains to the gods. Most polytheistic faiths were more open, and viewed the gods as fundamentally similar to humanity - in the sense that each deity was a person who could have many skills and responsibilities, some of which would overlap with those of other people/deities.
@triGRIMM
Жыл бұрын
@@j.pershing2197 tell that to a black hole 🕳️
@j.pershing2197
Жыл бұрын
@@triGRIMM So instead of an intelligent question you attack with all your dissonance. It only takes a few hours of your life to research and observe SOME effects of electrical influence in plasma. Safire Sun Model
@triGRIMM
Жыл бұрын
@@j.pershing2197 using dissonance in your sentence reinforces exactly how pretentious you are, like a blathering peacock. Not that it'll change anything, I'm sure that you're right. Nobody cares dude
@rayht7028
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely LOVE the screen grab on the title card, one of my favorite movies: Meet the Spartans
@BiosTheo
Жыл бұрын
Accurate on most of Sparta, but it was not a Dictatorship. It would be closest to an Oligarchy, with brief periods of Dictatorship, as they used a Dual Monarchical system where the power of the Kings was heavily neutered in favor of power to the council of elders. There were very specific Kings that could rise up in power but this exact system why Thermopylae occurred in the manner in which it did.
@GustavoCardoso95
Жыл бұрын
Spartans were dumb af Their political structure, specially the way they handled their slaves, was a disaster
@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZ
Жыл бұрын
Accurate.
@EAcapuccino
Жыл бұрын
I imagine there's more Can you do another soon? Loving this 👍
@trevorknudson8018
Жыл бұрын
I would like to see a video about the best ancient civilizations to actually live in. Which ones had the best quality of life? Just in case I have to time travel someday.
@UltraProchy
Жыл бұрын
I would think thats more of a "who were you born to" question than in which civilization. The quality of life in ancient civilizations (at similar technological advancement) was pretty bad all around unless you were born into some kind of wealth. I mean ofc its gonna be better to live in a civilization that doesnt sacrifice their own people to imaginary deities, but the general quality of life is practically the same. It is an interesting question tho, im very not sure what i would pick if i could.
@TeensierPython
Жыл бұрын
Today
@japankasasagi
Жыл бұрын
I think the Minoan civilization would be cool, or the Etruscan civilization too.
@pmc1727
Жыл бұрын
So long as you paid your taxes and went about on your business Mongolia wasn’t a terrible place under Kublai
@kiwik2951
Жыл бұрын
Romans seemed to have it pretty well for a while.
@barbiquearea
Жыл бұрын
No mention of the Assyrians? Just like the Spartans and the Mongols, they were a militaristic empire that was infamous for their cruelty and brutality, as just as their successors their main method of subjugation was through fear, and it worked.
@rmartinson19
Жыл бұрын
They weren't influential enough. If the video included every "militaristic empire infamous for cruelty and brutality that ruled through fear", the video would be 17 hours long. Instead, it's focused on a few brutal Empires that played key roles in the development of the modern world and/or modern culture. Plus there's the name recognition aspect. Everyone knows about the Spartans, the Mongols and the Aztecs. Most non-history-buffs have no idea the Assyrians even existed.
@xlReGaRdLeSslx
Жыл бұрын
@@rmartinson19 Aztecs were a very non influential empire. And many don't know this, but it was only an empire for about 200 years.
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
The ancient world was brutal and a lot of cultures could be on this list. With that said, I’m surprised the Dahomey weren’t mentioned, especially considering they were recently romanticized in a movie that left out how brutal they really were. They were one of the dominant słave sellers, were feared cannibałs and practiced human scarifice. Some others were the Celtic tribes, the Assyrians, the Nazís (whíle not ancient, they definitely deserve a place on the list), and the Yamnaya tribe
@sydhenderson6753
Жыл бұрын
They're in part 2, along with the Vikings and Khmer Rouge.
@martijnb5887
Жыл бұрын
@@rmartinson19 I would say the opposite. The Spartans are unknown except to history loving people while everybody who knows the Bible knows the Assyrians. Moreover, the Spartans hardly affected world history and did not left cultural traces while the Assyrians did.
@renatoruiz8534
Жыл бұрын
My children's ancestors were the Aztecs and the Mongols. This explains a lot.
@danielreuben1058
Жыл бұрын
A great sage once said, "the past was the worst."
@revan0890
Жыл бұрын
Douglas Adams?
@danielreuben1058
Жыл бұрын
@Otter_boom I was referring to Simon, but of course, Douglas Adams was a great sage as well. 42 is the answer.
@gofastparts4u
Жыл бұрын
One of the funniest parts of Zack Snyder's "300" was when Leonidas was talking to Daxos and called the Athenians a bunch of "boy lovers" and I thought to myself yeah and so were the Spartans! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@GothPaoki
Жыл бұрын
Lol they most certainly weren't.
@p.strobus7569
Жыл бұрын
@Hades Zero They most certainly were with senior Spartaties taking younger men as student/lovers as part of their training.
@GothPaoki
Жыл бұрын
@@p.strobus7569 ok i guess if you say so. And your source is Hollywood???? Yeaaaa...
@@GothPaoki A google search lists quite a few entries. From Wikipedia: Bearded man in a traditional pederastic courtship scene showing the "up-and-down" gesture: one hand reaches to fondle the young man, the other grasps his chin so as to look him in the eye. Also: Plutarch states that, when Spartan boys reached puberty, they became available for sexual relationships with older males.[98] Aelian talks about the responsibilities of an older Spartan citizen to younger less sexually experienced males. If you read the article, and other scholarly articles on it in the internet, there is a debate as to how prevalent **institutionalized** pederasty was in Ancient Greek culture. Note, that's how much, not IF it occurred, and the subject isn't homosexual acts that may occur between two individuals, but **institutionalized** pederasty. Some scholars maintain that institutionalized pederasty is only glorified in their art and writings, that it doesn't exist. Given the abundance of pederasty in their writings and in their pottery, I think that position is extreme and whitewashing history; it would be akin to saying that violence doesn't exist in America, it's just in their rap music. After all that, I don't judge Ancient Greece badly for this. It's just another fact, and evidence that societies are way more complex than what we learn in our textbooks.
@PalmelaHanderson
Жыл бұрын
While I wouldn't defend the Spartan culture, it IS important that almost everything we know about them was written by Athenians. So it's important to view it with a critical eye.
@kcl5038
Жыл бұрын
You could say the same thing about the Aztec. Conquistadors: "We got to the new world and there was an entire advanced society decked in gold there... so we pretended we were gods and turned them against each other in order to conquer them so we could massacre them and steal their gold." Pope: ... Conquistadors: "Oh ya... uh... they deserved it because they were the textbook personification of the Christian evil."
@r.ladaria135
Жыл бұрын
@@kcl5038 Just found the great "tzompantli" in Mexico DF. The conquerors had no need to justify themselves: "they were the sword of Christianity" . Archaeological finds in both Mexico and the Caribbean confirm the accounts of the conquistadors. Reading some of the stories I found them surprisingly dispassionate. They look like somewhata nowadays police report.
@rainsounds8611
3 ай бұрын
You somehow always forget to mention king Leopold when speaking on history’s worst mass murderers
@wildcaveman5310
Жыл бұрын
You didn’t even mention the Spartans throwing their unwanted babies away to die. Can you imagine if the USA sacrificed unwanted babies too? It could probably have been sacrificing about a million every year.
@natashka1982
Жыл бұрын
Unwanted babies are aborted
@sheogorath1374
Жыл бұрын
@@natashka1982Pretty sure that was sarcasm. He's pointing out we basically do the same thing we condemn others for 😂
@patmalloy3569
3 ай бұрын
@@natashka1982rather unfortunate, that
@natashka1982
3 ай бұрын
@@patmalloy3569 meh. We don't need millions of unwanted babies who will turn into millions of criminals
@fizzbrew
2 ай бұрын
Yea that's exactly why the democrats push so hard for "women's reproductive freedom" planned parenthood is the Spartans method of population control. Truly evil shit
@andrewmize823
Жыл бұрын
In the universal condemnation of European culture in the age of conquest, people forget that not every culture those colonists encountered was made up of innocent, peace-loving forest hippies. Of course it wasn't fair for the Europeans to paint all native people with the same brush, but the idea of the blood-thirsty heathen savage didn't just fall out of the sky--it was based on first-hand experience with blood-thirsty heathen savages. Even judging colonizers by the harshest realities of the age, you can't ignore the fact that certain native cultures were every bit as brutal in their treatment of their neighbors, sometimes even more so.
@GhostSal
Жыл бұрын
The ancient world was brutal and a lot of cultures could be on this list. With that said, I’m surprised the Dahomey weren’t mentioned, especially considering they were recently romanticized in a movie that left out how brutal they really were. They were one of the dominant słave sellers, were feared cannibałs and practiced human scarifice. Some others were the Celtic tribes, the Assyrians, the Nazís (whíle not ancient, they definitely deserve a place on the list), and the Yamnaya tribe
@jeseAudio
Жыл бұрын
The world is still absolutely brutal outside the 1st world countries. Imagine the buying power of $ without foreign child labor
@SD_Alias
Жыл бұрын
@@jeseAudio Not only outside the 1st world countries. Look what the russians are doing at the moment in Ukraine…
@garethbaus5471
Жыл бұрын
We know relatively little with certainty about the yamnaya culture due to how insanely ancient it was.
@billebrooks
Жыл бұрын
Might as well add Africa to the continent collection in this video: Europe, Asia, and North America.
@phoenix5103
Жыл бұрын
Simon, you're literally breaking my heart - Spartans didn't have Scottish accents?? Next you'll be saying they didn't all have the most glorious 6 packs 😢😢😢
@jarrodbright5231
Жыл бұрын
Given how hard they trained, the Spartan soldiers probably did have six packs. Not quite as glorious as those CGI ones in 300 but they would have been quite the physical specimens.
@Yoder023
Жыл бұрын
Psh! They had 8 packs! Everyone knows that!
@Peleski
Ай бұрын
@@jarrodbright5231 I don't think they were CGI, they were spray painted on.
@137_Diego_
Жыл бұрын
Growing up, it really seemed like everyone loved romanticizing the Spartans. Infact, to this day, if you wanted to reference a warrior you'd usually hear mention of a Spartan before almost anyone else; as if that's all they're known for. Maybe it was partly due to that damned movie '300' that they were idolized so much by the general population, idk but they definitely do sound like they were awfully terrible as a culture.
@hernanreipp3321
Жыл бұрын
True. That movie who is based in Frank Miller's Comic of the same name, really helped to create that "mirage" about the Spartans instead of the true and nefarious were in reality. Both as a society and in their so military "might".
@lsmmoore1
Жыл бұрын
Partly it was also because of a lot of exaggerated legends about Spartan "last stands" that existed before the movie "300" (and some of the comics) came out. Sort of likening Spartans to the Alamo, basically.
@rambler6519
Жыл бұрын
I know we look back with modern eyes, but from the Mongol view, how they acted was to be the opposite of brutal. Most towns and kingdoms were given a choice and the absolute no mercy approach to those who refused to submit convinced hundreds of other towns to avoid fighting. Other than that, the freedom and general tolerance they gave to people accepting their rule was pretty ground breaking for that time period.
@Welverin
Жыл бұрын
I don't think it's modern eyes that's the most important, but non-Mongol eyes, specifically those of the victims, that really matters. Particularly in the west.
@rambler6519
Жыл бұрын
@Welverin Again though we can't ignore that this was an age of kingdoms and tribes with the general rule to conquer or be conquered. I'm not saying the Mongols weren't brutal. But there were certainly more groups who were simply blood thirsty. The mongols would rather save manpower and simply rule and tax you. But when they had to let people know they meant business, they went all out.
@eyetrollin710
Жыл бұрын
He also recruited the healers the thinkers and skilled people, if you were a fine metalsmith you were in no danger
@colemanmoore9871
Жыл бұрын
@@rambler6519 Same as pirates. They would rather you just surrender and give up your loot, than have to fight. Fighting was expensive, and even if the pirate won, there might not be anything left to loot. So, when they did have to fight, they made it as brutal as they could - or at least let rumors spread about how bad they were, so when they unfurled their flag, merchants would not try and fight.
@rambler6519
Жыл бұрын
@Coleman Moore i don't remember their names but there were a few pirates who were straight psychopaths.
@Ivan_Ooze
Жыл бұрын
Are you seriously trying to tell me 300 was not a historical documentary?
@joriankell1983
Жыл бұрын
No, it's violence porn. Really good violence porn.
@therealkakitron
Жыл бұрын
Loving these series! Thanks for posting.
@Pootycat8359
Жыл бұрын
5:15 This statement is a bit misleading. The Mongol Empire extended TO, but did not INCLUDE Japan. They tried, but were defeated. One invasion force, en route to Japan, was halted, when the Mongol fleet was decimated by a violent storm. The storm was dubbed, "Kamikaze," meaning "Divine Wind," a term that is well-known, today.
@TyrantLoki
Жыл бұрын
Not just once but TWICE!
@Pootycat8359
Жыл бұрын
@@TyrantLoki Yes. One was wiped out by the "Divine Wind," the other, I believe, was massacred on the beach.
@MrSlavikman
Жыл бұрын
Vodka appeared in the 1700s when wheat kernals were bred big enough to have enough sugar to brew vodka.
@MrSlavikman
Жыл бұрын
@@axeSyntax Vodka is only made from wheat. That polish potato mush is not vodka. The things made from other things that a re clear liquers have other names then Vodka.
@jamesdavid3453
Жыл бұрын
*Amazing❤️🙌Being able to provide all my needs without the help of the Government is really a dream come through and I’m getting $43,050 returns from my $7k investment, glory to the everlasting God almighty.*
@jamesdavid3453
Жыл бұрын
@MANSION After I got up to $300k trading with Mrs Mary margaret Schimweg i bought a new House and I'm now able to send my kids to a better school in the states thanks to her. When someone is straight forward with what he or she is doing people will always speak up for them.
@jamesdavid3453
Жыл бұрын
Wow, it's feels so relaxing to see my broker being talked about here, I thought I'm the only one that knows MARY margaret, I guess her good works speaks for her now, she has built a good legacy for herself.
@matildalewis660
Жыл бұрын
@@jamesdavid3453 THANKS DUDE, you just share a vital information that will help lots of people who desire to make profits from trading
@matildalewis660
Жыл бұрын
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@erichitsthewoods4612
Жыл бұрын
I moneyed my Murrikuh!!! Jeeeeebus!!!!
@garrettholtz5358
8 күн бұрын
I've been reading about the Spartans for years, but never put it together that the "Spartans" were only the upper class. Awesome as always, Simon!
@Pootycat8359
Жыл бұрын
I'm disappointed that you didn't mention the "Carib" tribe, of the West Indies. Their name was the origin of the word, "Caribbean." When Columbus landed at Hispaniola, the local Indians begged the Spaniards to exterminate a particular tribe, the Carib. After they learned what the Carib were like, they willingly fulfilled that request. The Carib waged constant war against their neighbors, not to acquire territory, slaves, or plunder, but food: They were cannibals. They also had stables of captured women, employed as "breeders," for they had a particular fondness of the succulent meat of babies.
@qjtvaddict
Жыл бұрын
Well damn the colonizers weren’t that bad afterall
@briananderson9164
Жыл бұрын
I'd be interested to know if the troglodytes in Bone Tomahawk were inspired by them. Your description fits them to a T. Thanks for the comment BTW, first I've heard of them.
@WikiSaid
Жыл бұрын
Also known as Kalinago, the name they are primarily known by today, they still exist. Importantly: "Rochefort stated they did not practice cannibalism." "According to the tales of Spanish conquistadors, the Kalinago were cannibals who regularly ate roasted human flesh. There is evidence as to the taking of human trophies and the ritual cannibalism of war captives among both Carib and other Amerindian groups such as the Arawak and Tupinamba. " < Cannibalism and slave taking appears moderately endemic, not unique to the tribe. "Over the two centuries leading up to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean archipelago in 1492, the Caribs mostly displaced the Maipurean-speaking Taínos by warfare, extermination, and assimilation. The Taíno had settled the island chains earlier in history, migrating from the mainland. The Tainos told Columbus that Caribs were fierce warriors and cannibals, who made frequent raids on the Tainos, often capturing women." < The weaker tribe making claims of greater evil about the larger tribe, not the most trustworthy source. "The Kalinago produced the silver products found by Juan Ponce de León in Taíno communities. None of the insular Amerindians mined for gold but obtained it by trade from the mainland. The Kalinago were skilled boat builders and sailors. They appear to have owed their dominance in the Caribbean basin to their mastery of warfare. " < Sounds pretty much like any dominant power of a region at the time. "The Caribs have been described by their various enemies as vicious and violent raiders. Rochefort stated they did not practice cannibalism." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinago Based on this I have to assert that your entire claim is incorrect and based in colonial propaganda. That is why it was not included in Simon's video. Side note: This article isn't yet on the production schedule for my channel's videos but it can be if any reading this are interested, just let me know by comment with mention or through the other available methods.
@thraxbottom549
Жыл бұрын
@@WikiSaid wait how is this colonial propaganda? You said the claims came from other tribes.
@WikiSaid
Жыл бұрын
@@thraxbottom549 The use of false assertions of cannibalism was a common tactic of colonialists and other groups which engaged in violence and genocide throughout history. Wholesale slaughter is tolerable to the 'common folk' if it's done to cannibals and the like.
@gardenshed6043
Жыл бұрын
People being excessively proud of their history always sort of worries me. Because look far back enough in the history of any region of the world and you may find a culture like these that are truly terrible and something nobody should be proud of.
@btetschner
Жыл бұрын
A+ video! I have never heard of that side of the spartans before, nor thought of the state sanctioned terrorism the sacrifices offered. This video makes it so much easier to understand the cultures.
@frasermackenzie7275
Жыл бұрын
Love how Simon included where the ancient plague's modern day sight is. Oh how world's deadly ancient Chinese past history comes back around to modern day present history and into history's future of world's deadliest diseases.
@sosmooth13
Жыл бұрын
Simon: modern day Wuhan Me:👁️👄👁️
@tylerchrist3249
Жыл бұрын
When you compared timujin to committing genocidal atrocities, you included Pol pot, Hitler, Stalin... but left the guy responsible for **allegedly** committing the largest genocide in history-- Mao Zedong during his Great Leap Forward Edit: whether intentional or not, the numbers vary wildly from one source to another... but almost all of the projections I've seen for just sheer numbers, most believe Mao caused the deaths of tens of millions, some argue as high as 50 million although I feel/hope that the number is far lower lol
@MattCurrieImprov
Жыл бұрын
Mao is one of the most disgusting humans of all time for sure.
@Gnilesington
Жыл бұрын
😬
@jaylee9552
Жыл бұрын
Yeah but that was unintended result.... well mostly
@kevinarteaga3824
Жыл бұрын
It's weird though, because I don't think Mao intended to kill tens of millions of people, he just did it out of sheer incompetence.
@GregMoress
Жыл бұрын
@@kevinarteaga3824 The number who died from Stalin's incompetence is not small either.
@VosperCDN
Жыл бұрын
I've clicked on so many releases from Simon's channels, I've seen almost no other videos today ... and I'm fine with that.
@starfleetcommander
3 ай бұрын
One of the best voices for radio I have ever heard.
@danmadefurniture
Жыл бұрын
Great video!
@hissingsidll750
Жыл бұрын
Watch The Spartans by Bettany Hughes if you want a accurate historical take...not this garbage
@danmadefurniture
Жыл бұрын
@@hissingsidll750 thanks I’ll check it out
@hissingsidll750
Жыл бұрын
@@danmadefurniture My pleasure....it`s on here plus a other stuff from her, the Minoans is excellent as well. Straight up factual history with no presentism or agendas being pushed....the way history used to be shown before all the madness if you know what I mean.
@eclecticx
Жыл бұрын
Sparta was brutal and often horrific but to mark it and the people behind it as evil takes much, much hubris and goes too far. History is not for judgment but unbiased study.
@TetsuShima
Жыл бұрын
Kids put frames of "300" in the thumbnails of videos about Sparta True men of culture like Simon put frames of "Meet the Spartans" in the thumbnails of videos about Sparta
@LloydWaldo
Жыл бұрын
I’m something of a spartan myself.
@valdar1978
Жыл бұрын
The comments about the Spartans are mostly correct, but for two things: Firstly, the Spartans were all about constant preparation for war, but not about the constant state of war. There were many occasions when they refused to fight for various reasons, often religious ones. Secondly, the assertion about sexual abuse of children seems to be based, though the presenter doesn't come right out and say it, on the ideas of modern historians who claim the boys being mentored by an older male were in a sexual relationship with the older male. Primary sources of the period prove this to be a lie, as Xenophon makes it clear that the relationship was to be like that between a father and son, and Plutarch stated that in the laws of Lycurgus a mentor's love for the younger man must be a love of the mind, not of the body, and he could face exile if he embraced him in too affectionate a manner. The Spartans may or may not have had same sex sexual relationships among adults, though it's not entirely clear. The sources make it clear, though, that pedophilia was NOT tolerated among them.
@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot
Жыл бұрын
As for the Mexica's ["Aztec"] human sacrifice, the king of nearby Texcoco, a friend of Monteczuma, had banned the practice, for years, before the Spanish arrived. Guessing that those practices would have disappeared without outside intervention.
@puppetguy8726
Жыл бұрын
Either through banning or by reaching a climax during times of crisis and then dying off. The fact that the Spanish found so willing allies is probably a great indication that a lot of people were fed up with these practices. But still, the disease brought by the Spanish killed a lot more people than the Mexica/Aztec ever sacrificed.
@r.ladaria135
Жыл бұрын
Well it's the first time I read such a theory. In fact I did not find anything simmilar in a google search. Link please. By the way: It seems that Aztec sacrifices were continuing at a fairly good pace upon the arrival of Cortés.
@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot
Жыл бұрын
@@r.ladaria135 , (3rd try) : Paul Miller's Fall of Civilization Podcast talks about it . Towards the end of Part 1 ? Part 1 kzitem.info/news/bejne/x26AvJimkHV8mII Part 2 kzitem.info/news/bejne/xHqasY6or5lio3o
@r.ladaria135
Жыл бұрын
@@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot It doesn't seem like Mr. Miller is an authority. He is not a main author. I enjoyed these series.
@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot
Жыл бұрын
No, but he cites his sources.
@witdajuice6763
Жыл бұрын
The way he pronounced “Tenochtitlan” made me want to employ some rather brutal historical practices
@YoJesusMorales
Жыл бұрын
I think the thing on the Aztecs is exaggerated, I don't see lacking protein sustainable as a reason, I don't doubt them eating humans, just the volume of people speculated. The thing with Genghis Khan is that he died when he was ready to invade western europe, I'm pretty sure he would have rolled over them, he must have had, and been, some of the best military minds ever, to accomplish what they did, besides ruthless, but I think that's more common.
@nikoc8968
Жыл бұрын
the Khans campaign would have ended the moment they reached the dense woodlands of western Europe. no steppes, plains, or deserts to dominate open battles the way they did back east.
@alexn8795
Жыл бұрын
I think the irony is that if Ghenghis Khan did conquer all of Europe then we would probably have a less negative view on his accomplishments. His empire would have been viewed more like the Romans in western culture. It is important to identify biases in historical sources. Most of our written history(about the mongols) is told from the perspective of the western Europe and was written down at time when the Mongol threats and propaganda of complete annihilation were in full swing. Even today in modern Mongolia they have a very different view of Ghengis than most of world.
@BartimaeusAurelius
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vid Simon, didn't know you guys had this channel!
@VSisR
Жыл бұрын
When you hear him say "Laconia" and immediately think of the Expanse.😂
@uriahcoy8100
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for balancing your volume.
@charlesbryson7443
Жыл бұрын
The Spartans weren’t the only ones doing these things, the Spartans just did it better.
@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl
Жыл бұрын
Wrong. Sparta free to slave ratio of 5 slaves to every free man was ridiculous even by standards of that time {for example American South had a ratio of two free to one slave and Athens had half of its population slaves} and they treated that massive slave population was far worse brutality than normal as they were allowed to legally kill them. And more successful? Really? They only ever conquered one third of the Peloponnese
@01nmuskier
Жыл бұрын
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl nearly every happening in Sparta was also happening in Rome.
@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl
Жыл бұрын
@@01nmuskier rome didn't have a one to 5 free to slave ratio. And killing slaves for them wasn't legal. Sparta was extrem even by ancient standards
@01nmuskier
Жыл бұрын
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl nearly...to some extent...not EXACTLY. Yeah, Rome had slaves. Yeah, Roman's killed slaves. No, Sparta didn't kill their slaves in the Colosseum.
@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl
Жыл бұрын
@@01nmuskier what are you talking about? Told you. They were uniquely cruel and oppressive by standards of that time. Also no only gladiators were ever killed. And even then rarely. In spart you can kill any slave you want. It was state policy to kill their slaves
@HughJass-jv2lt
Жыл бұрын
Nice video 🔥🔥🔥
@nutgone100
Жыл бұрын
I think each of these deserves a longer form video of its own, but particularly the Mongols. I’ve read a little about them, apparently their enemies could smell them coming from quite a distance. A particularly nasty bunch. I might have to use some of my Audible credits & get myself some interesting listening for my workshop on the subject.
@michaelhudson7177
Жыл бұрын
Dan Carlin’s hardcore history is the best source of info about the Mongols I have ever listened too
@thomaswhite4609
Жыл бұрын
This video is quite inaccurate. one example...they didnt cull the weak slaves...they culled the strong slaves to prevent them from having leaders or rising up.
@TuckaBuck89
Жыл бұрын
Paused at 3:53 for a comment. You should include footnotes, like an author of an authoritative paper would, for the resources you draw your conclusions from. I like your vids. Still, where did you get these ideas from?
@JohnGardnerAlhadis
Жыл бұрын
A lot of what this video says about the Aztecs is wrong (or at least misinformed). For example, sacrifices weren't performed daily, they were made on the night of a full-moon, and the significance was that they were returning the blood that the sun god shed when he created the world. Absolutely awful, _awful_ research.
@BTScriviner
Жыл бұрын
@@JohnGardnerAlhadis These videos are made so quickly, I doubt they are extensively researched.
@wanderer3004
Жыл бұрын
It's funny how the Aztec tried to stop and era of darkness and death with darkness and death. I'm glad they got their just rewards. The same as the filthy Mongols and Spartans as well.
@crowejagerson3628
Жыл бұрын
To be fair you can look at any society from basically any part of history and point to horrible atrocities. Even today.
@loricrane5315
Жыл бұрын
Russia
@papahairy5315
Жыл бұрын
@@loricrane5315USA
@Paulafan5
Жыл бұрын
Well, not really. There are bad aspects of almost every society, but not on the scales of these cultures (and many others).
@xylynthian753
5 ай бұрын
Nuh uh
@keirfarnum6811
Жыл бұрын
Sorry about your cold Simon. I expect you will get better soon. 👍🏻
@vada4104
Жыл бұрын
yeah, most of those aztec sacrifices were the war prisoners. it isn't like they did so much more killing. the just killed enemies in public, not the battlefield. not to say they didn't sacrifice community members, but still. also, we don't know the extent to which they ate humans but it would have been only the top members of society and religion doing it. they were very brutal but idk that we can say they killed more people than similarly sized empires. they were just very public about it. idk.
@r.ladaria135
Жыл бұрын
Cannibalism adds a touch of gore that the Romans did not have, for example.
@nikoc8968
Жыл бұрын
i dont remember Romans sacrificing children to the blood gods...lol.
@r.ladaria135
Жыл бұрын
In fact the tolznapi , or something like that, that the conquistadores name as wall of skulls, had thousnads of victims. Just found, gave an archeological prove of the amount of the killing. 20.000 per year in all the empire I recall.
@ShaqPlaque
Жыл бұрын
There's a lot of Spanish propaganda used to justify their conquistadors being repeated
@nikoc8968
Жыл бұрын
@@ShaqPlaque it wasnt justified or unjustified. the people they conquered werent innocent, and were doing the exact same. the only thing we can do is observe the outcome of colonialism, and what we find is that every place on earth that was colonized by major powers lives better than those that werent ever touched by colonialism.
@halavanderdrake3956
Жыл бұрын
I've read that when the Spaniards showed up, the Aztecs were running into logistical difficulties for expanding their empire - and thus were having to take more and more sacrifices from their existing subject nations to make up for fewer war prisoners from conquest, but I don't know how true that is.
@byronofrothdale
11 ай бұрын
That's true. The other Mexica people were already tired of the Aztec rule. So they welcome the Hernán Cortés army with "open arms". Spanish army was around 800 people plus 80000 other rebel forces.
@pabloastudillo6903
Жыл бұрын
Outstanding
@nmspy
Жыл бұрын
“Peaceful modern war” N A P A L M 💀
@907travelalot
Жыл бұрын
Now it’s a Geneva convention violation.
@gypsydildopunks7083
Жыл бұрын
Uplifting video, like always. Thanks for the video
@pop5678eye
Жыл бұрын
It's not just for the most brutal empires but even for any empire you get to be called 'the great' for basically murdering on a massive scale. Just compare how many 'the greats' or equivalent admired leaders you can name for their military prowess versus how many you remember as great for peaceful contributions to civilization.
@hernanreipp3321
Жыл бұрын
Good point. They are so few that you can literally count them with one hand.
@diggernash1
Жыл бұрын
When surrounded by violence; winners become the most violent.
@Adiscretefirm
Жыл бұрын
300 wasn't just a movie, it was a movie based on a comic book, not a history book. Not that Greek historians were particularly concerned with accuracy, but 300 is so far removed from reality as to be fiction. Pretty sure Frank Miller would tell you the same thing.
@nikoc8968
Жыл бұрын
the movie is literally a work of fiction and was never once marketed as being historically accurate, lol.
@Adiscretefirm
Жыл бұрын
@@nikoc8968 and yet people still think they know the story of Thermopylae and Sparta because they watched it, as the video states.
@nikoc8968
Жыл бұрын
@@Adiscretefirm people can believe whatever they want. if someone thinks Meet the Spartans is historically accurate for whatever reason, does that automatically make the directors intent was to _be_ "historically accurate?" some people are just gullible and naive, its not the directors fault.
@jaredschoenfeld2559
Жыл бұрын
WOW! Learn something new, every day.
@jarrodbright5231
Жыл бұрын
I'd really like to see a follow up episode to this. There are so many other candidates...
@oddicocidic
Жыл бұрын
do me and mine, I'm from the land of the vikings
@oddicocidic
Жыл бұрын
or just spin a globe and stop it with you're middle finger
@everydayabstract5270
Жыл бұрын
People idealize Spartans. However, without all the things that perpetuate society (education, arts, international diplomacy, etc), they ultimately collapsed under their own militaristic weight.
@theflyingwelshman5338
Жыл бұрын
I’m fairly sure that most of what was recorded about the Aztec peoples was likely exaggerated by the same conquistadors that slaughtered them. While it’s common knowledge that they practiced human sacrifice, the idea that they killed thousands in a single day is ridiculous. I’m not defending the Aztecs, but I will always take the word of Cortez with a grain of salt because he was quite unhinged himself.
@nikoc8968
Жыл бұрын
we have substantial forensic evidence to prove everything that has been stated about the Aztecs. these are not the words of Cortez(what?), these are the words of _countless_ eye-witnesses of the atrocities that took place in that culture...
@wildyam474
Жыл бұрын
The irony of a British person making a list of the most brutal civilizations and leaving out all of modern Europe, specifically England, is absurd.
@MH-ro1lg
Жыл бұрын
The British weren't even close to as brutal as the civilizations he mentioned. It was the British who extinguished slavery everywhere they ruled. Take africa for example. Africans have been enslaving each other for tens of thousands of years, and the British put an end to it, and as soon as the British left, the Africans started enslaving and genociding each other again, even to this day.
@williedowdy6830
Жыл бұрын
I definitely thought Simon was pulling a @TheCriticalDrinker and was reviewing that "Meet The Spartans" movie. I would watch that!! 😅
@RedPandaGames.
Жыл бұрын
Hi Simon 👋🏻 just for future reference, vis a vis “Aztecs” (Mexica), the pronunciation is: Nahuatl: “na-WAt” (very subtly on the “t” as if you’re whispering it after emphasis on the “wa” sound. Tenochtitlan: “teh-noch-TIH-tlan” emphasis on the “tih”.
@kaltaron1284
Жыл бұрын
You made it sound like Japan was part of the Mongol Empire which it never was. Although the Mongol attacks did destabilize the central gouvernment and changed the power structure.
@gediminaskucinskas6952
Жыл бұрын
Well on the map it also shows Lithuanian Great duchy as partially part of Mongol Empire which isnt true as well. In fact great Duke Algirdas beat mongols in Blue Waters battle in 1362 to make sure they would not be part of empire.
@slottyken
Жыл бұрын
You can't compare ancient civilisations to modern culture and actions. It's ludicrous!
@BlufLeather2892
Жыл бұрын
Wasn't the 300 based on a graphic novel? Not history. There should be large differences between the two.
@cleverusername9369
Жыл бұрын
And the graphic novel was based on an actual historical event.
@Outside85
Жыл бұрын
Yes, by Frank Miller, its also why it was shot in the manner that it was... by Zack Snyder.
@GothPaoki
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. I don't know why people keep getting that out of context it's either idiocy or lack of knowledge. That ' this isn't historical " is really retarded of an argument.
@GothPaoki
Жыл бұрын
And game of thrones was based on war of the roses. Does anyone look at it and say " oh no that's not how war of the roses happened"??? Really retarded argument.
@GeraltofTrivia111
Жыл бұрын
Adding Democracy and slavery in the same sentence is what i love the most.
@siriusdragon
Жыл бұрын
Can you do the most PEACEFUL cultures next?? would be an interesting juxtaposition!
@Geraduss
Жыл бұрын
Strangely or not so strangely enough that would actually be modern day "western Cultures"
@tesmith47
Жыл бұрын
@@Geraduss that's not true!!
@renatoruiz8534
Жыл бұрын
They don't exist.
@Arbaaltheundefeated
Жыл бұрын
The fact Rome isn't on this list says something about just how horrible these three cultures were.
@owllymannstein7113
Жыл бұрын
To be fair Simon your general characterization of the Spartans applies to most of the ancient world as well.
@GothPaoki
Жыл бұрын
Or the modern..
@Loralanthalas
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I was gonna say quite a few of the united states falls into this as well. Including California.
@answerman9933
Жыл бұрын
Yes. But the Spartans perfected it.
@answerman9933
Жыл бұрын
@@Loralanthalas How would you know? Have you ever been there?
@daz7122
Жыл бұрын
The first Australian colonist got the crap flogged out of them and that's not too long ago.
@AvB.83
Жыл бұрын
Good thing no one from these cultures is still around, imagine 300 spartans swarming the comment section contradicting everything and spreading their propaganda.
@thatsinteresting3415
Жыл бұрын
it's important to note there are no first hand accounts of Aztecs eating human flesh, and the only Aztec writings about cannibalism describe it as an abhorrent practice. The only references to Aztec cannibalism are from Spanish sources after the Aztec Confederation had been completely conquered. They were still pretty in love with death though.
@danielday9488
Жыл бұрын
There were first hand accounts. Read Bernal Diaz del Castillo's account about the Yucatan and fighting his way out of Tenochtitlan under Hernan Cortés. Pretty horrifying shit. It happened.
@st0n3dfuker
Жыл бұрын
My buddy walked by and said your beard makes you look like a bearded collie and I can't unsee it
@andyginterblues2961
Жыл бұрын
My old high school football team was named the Spartans. Simon, you forgot to mention the Huns. My personal favorites, dad's side of the family are Hungarian.
@andymcneil7085
Жыл бұрын
Another excellent post.
@dannypope1860
Жыл бұрын
I’m sure the Spartans would think modern Britain is even more weird, bizarre, and rotten culturally.
@SomeInfamousGuy
Жыл бұрын
Do you also think that?
@LowestofheDead
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Spartans would complain that soldiers don't sleep with each other
@cleanerben9636
Жыл бұрын
The Aztec religion was a bit more complex than that. Sacrificial victims were seen to literally be the Gods in human form that needed to be released.
@NickSteffen
Жыл бұрын
That’s exactly what someone trying to eat you would say… Aztecs took the hunger games to a whole new level
@GothPaoki
Жыл бұрын
Context is not important in Simon's videos.
@nikoc8968
Жыл бұрын
aaaand they follow it up by carving out your still-beating heart and eating it in front of you...but, you know...its "gods will" and all, so thats perfectly fine...right? xD
@Adam-fj7bz
Жыл бұрын
1:45 Athens had better military feats than the spartans.
@templarw20
Жыл бұрын
Remember two things about the Spartans. 1) When they said "come and take them," the Persians did. Easily. 2) Phillip (father of Alexander) skipped conquering them not because he was somehow intimidated, but because they were insignificant.
@nikoc8968
Жыл бұрын
the Persians never conquered Greece...what the fuck are you on about? xD
@aplavouloneis
Жыл бұрын
Spartas legend has lasted for thousands of years and for good reasons , no amount of hate and envy can erase it.
The Aztec had no access to protein is bullshit, they lived in a god damn lake (fishing anyone) and were capable hunters as well. Not to mention trade with other nearby states. This point reeks of eurocentrism exoticism of new world cultures and the phenomenon of cannibalism as a whole. All I’m saying is that point is grossly over exaggerated and during my time as an anthropologist I have hardly ever come across a source like that. If anyone has an article or peer viewed research paper I’d love to see the link. But as for no access to protein, bold claim I’m gonna call shenanigans on.
@hyperspacejester7377
Жыл бұрын
Simon Whistler... quantity over quality!
@GothPaoki
Жыл бұрын
Simon is not exactly a researcher or anything or even fact checking any of his vids. I honestly watch his vids just for his personality and take everything he presents as history as automatically false.
@JustSomeDude42
Жыл бұрын
@@GothPaoki that is a damn good positive attitude I am gonna have to adopt if I wanna keep watching this channel.
@danielday9488
Жыл бұрын
@@JustSomeDude42 Read the accounts of Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. It explains what Hernan Cortes and his men went through during the years leading up to, and following, the fall of the Aztec empire. Fascinating and horrifying. Are some of those recollections lies or tall tales? Probably, but surely not the whole thing.
@JohnSmith-rw8uh
3 ай бұрын
Its believed that the priests would sometimes indulge in cannibalism, on special days. they would flay the skin off some prosoners and wear it. some childfren were made to cry before being executed to appease the rain god.. They grew corn avocado, maranth (a grain), sage, beans (etl), squash, and chile peppers. Red and green tomatoes were cultivated (but were much smaller than the modern variety), as were white sweet potatoes, jícama (a type of turnip), chayote (vegetable pear), the nopal cactus, and peanuts. The Aztecs also grew many types of fruit including guavas, papayas, custard apples, mamey, zapotes, and chirimoyas. Snacks included popcorn and the sweet baked leaves of the maguey agave.
@tommyrotton9468
Жыл бұрын
I read a history of the Mongols and I believe you give them a bad view of who they were. For a start Mongol law which was strict and brutal was just for Mongols, not outsiders who were treated differently. Genghis Khan waged war on the Muslim Empire after he had sent two separate peaceful trade delegations with diplomats which a Muslim Sultan butchered as infidels. After the second delegation it became total no holds barred war upon the Caliphate, with Khan saying "your god must have really hated you for unleashing me on you". The Mongols didn't wage war with Europe, which they could have if they so desired as they had obliterated the Caliphate, instead they made friends with Venetian traders and made exclusive trade agreements. Europe recognised the Mongols and that was one reason why they didn't attack. Respect given respect returned. The Mongols made use of what they learned from the more educated Chinese after conquering them. Open transcontinental trade was one of the Mongols greatest achievements and its ultimate downfall. As it was a Chinese disease which spread across their Empire killing hundreds of thousands of people and ultimately causing the fall of the Mongol Empire. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World By: Jack Weatherford
@KasFromMass
Жыл бұрын
Athenians where just as brutal and prone to unrestrained conquest. Pericles was a dictator and “Democracy” was a failure due to the utter corrupt society. Athens was modern day Soviet Union.
@kylermcreynolds3146
Жыл бұрын
The Spartans were brutal but their other Greek City States had their own brutal practices. Athens when conquering a territory killed all men from 14 to 60 & sold the rest into slavery. What about Athens stealing money from the Delian League? The reality was the whole ancient world was a truly brutal place. We overlook the brutality of those we support.
@kennethcrenshaw317
Жыл бұрын
Oddly enough, Ghengis Kahn was the first person in history to kill people for "dead naming". If someone were to say the name Temujin, he would have them executed lol
@sheogorath1374
Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure most kings would execute you if you called them by name.
@user-wq1dt7li2x
Жыл бұрын
All of classical Greek culture was a nightmare. Athens was not an exception
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