The Migration Period: How Europe was Born

Without the Roman Empire, the world wouldn't be as we know it. Even it's fall influenced the life of modern-day Europe. In this video, we will explore how European countries formed their borders, who really were the Barbarians and how their confrontation with the Romans helped in the creation of Europe as we know it today.

[coliv]

The big mistake made in videos like this is the belief that there were entire populations moving around. Many times it was just a small fraction of armies that fought each other and took power. Also in the same way the true Romans were not inhabiting all over Europe, those people were just peasants conquered by the Roman empire that were forced over time to use Latin and lost their original languages. Most of the population of Europe are common people who lived in their countries for thousands of years and were conquered by armies from different civilizations.

[AlecJones-yp]

Information here is highly incorrect. The dates are all mixed up too

[NormBoyle]

Many of these migrations were mainly just the ruling military class-men. The peasants generally remained, especially the females, and outnumbered the warrior classes which were constantly swapping leadership.

[nevarmaor]

The byzantines were not called Byzantines until much later. They considered themselves the Roman Empire.

[Userkiller]

This is far too oversimplified. The Goths the ancestors of the spanish? really so i guess they wiped out the entire native population of Iberia. Simplifying things is fine but this gives the wrong picture of actual history. This example works with every region and people mentioned here.

[markkennedy]

Was this thing put together by ChatGPT? I think a historian would hardly recognize it.

[marcelrenes]

As a Dutch historian I'm amazed how wrong this video is. I must congratulate the person who got so many mistakes in such a short video. 😢

[Ratimir]

It all started when portal from Hyperborea was opened by druids of the night

[mistjor]

So much stuff is wrong.

it's crazy how much drama is in the reply section lol, i was just pointing out how inaccurate the video is, and some even tie me to nationalism?

[DavidCoimbra]

Spain didn't exist when the Visigoths went to the Iberian Peninsula, it was a region of The Roman empire called Hispania. Only many centuries later in 1490 with the unification of most catholic kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula is when Spain started, using a name inspired by what the Romans called their province Hispania. With this being said, there's a common misconception I want to clear up.

Spain (a kingdom founded in around 1490) is not the same as Hispania (Province of the Roman Empire) in between both many different kingdoms and civilizations existed.

[martinkupka]

Nicely made but some information too rough and some other even wrong. The worst wrong information was that the Goths had not been defeated by the Byzantines, which of course had been the case. When the Lombards came to Italy, they defeated the Byzantines, not the Goths. The Lombards had not at all been "invited" but moved away from the Avars.

[JohnFlynn-pi]

I thought Greeks formed word barbarian and Romans adopted it

[adnan_Ok]

"Magyar people called their country Hungary"
Wrong!
Western nations call it Hungary .
The Magyar call their country ""Magyarország"

[elvisbjones]

Stilico moved the capitol not from Rome to Ravenna but from Milan to Ravenna as the western court had already moved away from Rome during the establishment of the tetrarchy in 286 and then was moved to Ravenna in 395

[piotrm]

The Goths from Gotland were about 11% R1a... while in the Ukraine were about 65% R1a... Gotland had too small potential for real influence on Europe. It was just a german brand or name for slavic masses. Sarmatians were germanic ? Sarmatians were a branch of Scythians. Scythians were decsendants of Aryans R1a Z93. How they could be germans. German "history".

[Vincentovich]

"Along the way, they robbed the Gauls, who fled to Roman protection." 😂😂

[bsaneil]

The ancestors of the Spanish did not come from Sweden. People who contributed a tiny bit to the ancestry of the Spanish came from Sweden. There is a vast difference.

[LazTheofylaktos]

0:49 The romans called the outsiders barbarians? I don't think so. The term barbarian was WIDELY used by greeks to define anyone NOT speaking the (ancient) greek language a really long time before even the Roman Republic was formed, let alone the Roman Empire...

[generalstoaschicken]

I love it when he said the angles and juts "swam" across to Britain. Badass

[paprskomet]

This is not how the Roman empire fell and its funny how suddenly a mysterios large state called "Byzantine" empire appears in your video without any explanation and how it suddenly changed not just name but also its original color...