The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened

Music by Epidemic Sound

[saltylad]

The least credible thing about the whole theory is the Pope, the Emperor of the HRE and the Byzantine Emperor agreeing on something lmao.

[matthewlee]

“Don’t you know that the moon landings were faked?”

Me: *squints at my friend*
“You believe in the moon?”

[Deborah]

I love how conspiracies never account for anything else that happened outside the US or Europe

[SpitshineSneakers]

Combine this with the “Rome never existed” theory and you basically have a timeline where Pyramids happen right before Napoleon

[maxberry]

Not about bricks, but it's still a good video.

[sebastianschumann]

Its amazing how much the term "conspiracy theory" engulfs: form the belief that lobbyists had some play in big political things, to the belief that a literal time period was propaganda.

[radianzero]

People making the Julian calendar:

_"This little maneuver is gonna cost us 347 years."_

[seanreynolds]

Every conspiracy theory that involves multiple governments or rulers fail to realize just how little they get along with each other

[theexam]

"There isn't a lot of existing archaeological evidence..."

I already started smirking at this point.

[NewbyTon]

Well if the middle ages existed, how come there aren't any vikings or knights alive anymore
Checkmate

[mariafyodorovna]

My 7th grade history teacher actually thought that this theory way "quite plausible".
Even then I went like "what about the rest of the world? Did they make up their history too?".

[regineb.]

I once read Mr. Illigs books and the starting point of this theory is, that he erred when he tried to prove, that the Gregorian calendar omitted 325 years because of a calculation error. The base of his theory is an alleged calculation error by switching from the Julian to Gregorian calendar. And then he tried to explain the missing 300+ years and came up with those other theories. He argued that the so called dark ages (with an alleged complete lack of written documents) were dark, because they just didn’t happen, which explained the lack of cultural development and documents in Europe. As far as I can remember, he did not bother to look into e.g. Arabian history writings to compare historical events.

[aaronworsnop]

Theory: Half as interesting doesn’t exist, you’re actually watching wendover productions’ non plane channel

[hannahgandon]

The world didn’t start until planes existed

[Blue-Maned_Hawk]

Of course they never happened, time only started on January 1st, 1970.

[pixelwanderer]

"We normally don't cover conspiracy theories, but we do want lots of views" the most honest YouTube introduction I've seen in awhile

[octopusgoodness]

The death star is actually flat. (All of the pictures of it being round are hyper advanced 1970's CGI)

[markofsaltburn]

My three favourite conspiracy theories:

1. There are four Elton Johns;
2. Paraguay is in Africa;
3. potatoes have never existed.

[AnarchyPenguin]

I always enjoy how conspiracy theories manage to get the entire world’s leaders to agree and work together in perfect sync in the hopes that they can keep their citizens from knowing something

[jiamingzhang]

5:43 "Invent the Tang Dynasty", shows a picture of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty