American Reacts The History of Europe: Every Year

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Hi everyone! I'm an American from the Northeast (New England). I want to create a watering hole for people who want to discuss, learn and teach about history through YouTube videos which you guys recommend to me through the comment section or over on Discord. Let's be respectful but, just as importantly, not be afraid to question any and everything about historical records in order to give us the most accurate representation of the history of our species and of our planet!

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[alexonthefly]

There’s was a German kingdom briefly before the pope elected the then German king as the emperor of the new Holy Roman Empire

[GdzieJestNemo]

You are getting confused by Prussia. It's a bit confusing couse name was given to different entities. Prussia as a region is located north-eastern Germany, polish coast and stretches up till Kaliningrad. It was inhabited by Prussians - group of Baltic people (you can think of brotherly nation to Latvians and Lithuanians). They were killed off/assimilated. The name stayed and got adopted by Teutonic Order when they secularized. During the years those lands got inharited/bought by royality from Branderburg. Kingdom of Prussia was a combination of Brandenburg and Prussia with Brandenburg (Berlin) being the core of the country and rest being it's provinces. Had they used Kingdom of Brandenburg name it would be more accurate and less confusing.

[wolfgangholba]

You know a lot more about history than the average US-Amerikan!

[tonybaker]

When you look at the Roman Empire, it was really impressive that the boundaries hardly changed for over 250 years.

[sbntd]

Yes the Kingdom of Germany did exist for a period prior to the founding of the HRE. I suppose it's somewhat interchangeable with "East Francia" but it's not exactly the same East Francia we think of that was created after Charlemagne's Empire split. Much like the Imperial Kingdom of Italy, they're not the same as their modern day unified counterparts.

[muhammadhabibieamiro]

Is always crazy to see in every timeline map the mongol just appear out of knowere

[donkfail]

1960:
"60 years plus of not much border change."
[The Balkans feels forgotten and invisible...]

But you're right. For being Europe, that was a long calm period.

[JJ-ofir]

This is a video I would like to come back to so I can take my time and watch more carefully as the map changes year on year, frame by frame. It was truly fascinating. Didn't know this video existed. You know much more about this subject than I do. Very impressed. I have concentrated mostly on UK history so far. This will help me put all of it in the larger frame. So thanks Connor. Take care - Love from the UK

[Janina-zu]

At the point where you said "60 years of stability" the area that was then called Yugoslavia still had to go through some sh**. And is still going through stuff tbh. It's interesting how many people forget that region and its pretty recent conflicts.

[ldubt]

The roman empire did not split because of the huns or the germanic people, at that point the empire still didnt know what was about to happen.

A split of the roman empire was nothing new, the only thing special is that it was the last one to happen. If they could have held off the germanic tribes, the empire would have certainly reunited and resplit many time over in the coming times.

What brought about the downfall was the series of incompetent rulers in the west, and the east having to deal with its own attackers simultaneously. If the west had more stable and competent rulers, it would have managed to survive just like the east.

Also, the division of the empire was purely administrative, de facto it continued to be one empire, with a contiguous economic sphere and pool of people.

The eastern empire afterwards never gave up their claims on the entire roman empire, and in fact some of the early germanic states were nominally vassals of the eastern roman empire like the ostrogoths, and later Justinian also tried to begin the reconquest of the west as seen in the 500s and 600s. Potentially, if there were no arabs, the east might have managed to rebuild the entire empire over the centuries. But the arabs did in fact come, in a crucial decade of weakness after a large roman persian war, and dealt the roman and persian empires their actual death blow. This is the true end of antiquity and here the middle ages finally took hold of the byzantine rump state. All the while in the caliphate the new islamic golden age began, largely grounded on previous roman and persian structures.

[SeArChDrEaMz]

The EU was the answer to all that fighting, the continent tore itself apart for thousands of years, various countries tried to dominated europe, but in the end our only solution to survive is to willingly band together, as it is the only power multiplier in Europe.
And for all those who say that the EU is an empire ; the EU isnt an empire, it transcends empires.

[embreis]

the headline in the thumbnail is easily explained: Europe was a place always 'densely' populated compared to the resources available and therefore highly competitive. competition tries to make other competitors go away, especially over rare resources. humans are a greedy bunch. only when weapons of war reached an industrial scale and tens of millions lost their lives did they start to find alternative dispute management methods.

[perfilgenerico]

The french guy that held back the muslina was Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne and namesake of carolingian empire

[waldemarwojnicki]

Just try to remember : Bow of Carpathian Mtns. and the Pannonian/Hungarian Basin.

[stevo]

In the movie Spartacus, Kirk Douglas is described as a "Thracian dog." by his Roman captors.

[imwinningthisone]

7:45 the guy who stopped them was Belgian (if you were to put a nation on it), Charles Martel

In reality he was Frankish, which was a Germanic people who migrated towards the low countries and eventually established their first actual state in what is basically modern day Belgium. Most influential Frankish Empire folk were born in Belgium, like Clovis, Charles Martel, Chalemagne and more

[csonttot]

carpatian basin, and half of hungary was under roman control, the border was the duna (danube) river

[acceleratum]

The romans had trouble grabbing the Gauls because Asterix was there! :D

[lunog]

You´re right about the reason behind the split between West and East Roman Empire. It was a administrative solution, decided by what they thought would be the best way to deal with all the chaos at the borders.
Inspired by the Roman Republic old Institution of always having two Consuls governing Rome at the same time, they decided to create the "new" Institution of having two Emperors at the same time governing the two halves of the Empire. Theorethically, the Eastern Emperor was the junior one of the two and if needed should always follow and support the Western Emperor, in practice that rarely worked that way.

[cinoeye]

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