The Rulers of Europe: Every Year - My first Cottereau reaction

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[MulleDullen]

While you were focusing on one part of Europe, I was focusing on another. There is just too much history to cover in one video, and you could watch it multiple times just to cover it. Great video.

[bakubread]

It's so funny how your eyes are glued on western europe and mine are still glued onto the Romans, getting the full history experience watching this video lol

[mahnel]

21:47, if I'm not mistaken, Portugal is one of the oldest nations and has one of the oldest (uninterrupted) borders in Europe, pretty cool for such a small country

[Kopitelife]

We really are so lucky to be living in such a time where information is so easily available. This video 50 years ago would have been unthinkable! It would have taken hours and hours in a library to even learn the names of a fraction of these rulers!

[vison-]

Just wow… This video just gave me such a good clarifaction of how skilled and intelligent you are in history. Even though map is pretty fastpaced you manage to explain so well what’s happening in Europe at a specific year and throughout the years. Keep it up. Love these kinds of videos where you explain/react to a specific event or period!

[MapleWillowAspen]

The "loss" of gaul/spain/britain by the romans in 260-274 is actually a very interesting short-lived creation called the "Gallic Empire" - it's more of a splinter state (still ruled in the roman style), created by a roman general (of germanic descent) called Postumus. There's a fascinating history behind the entire thing - and it's one of many lost parts of the empire reconquered by emperor Aurelian, who was given the title "Restitutor Orbis" (restorer of the world) for these achievements.

You mentioned Henry IV (HRE) at around 1070 as a powerful player not much talked about. He's actually quite famous in Germany (part of our schoolbooks) because he got into a huge conflict with the pope, ending (for a time - it was truly solved later on) in a famous, very evocative and dramatic event called the Road to Canossa or "Humiliation of Canossa" (1077), where the emperor, dressed as a supplicant, waited in front of the closed gates of a castle in a blizzard for three days and three nights, calling on the pope to end his excommunication - it marked maybe the high point of the power of the papacy, but was also a brilliant move by Henry, because under these circumstances, the pope was forced to forgive him, otherwise he would look very unchristian (and Henry would go on to regain much of his power).

[fanstar]

Good reaction! Went ahead and watched the original before watching this. It was interesting to see what you prioritized talking about!

[joeboah]

Alexander's empire wasn't up in rebellion the moment he died. It is really complicated and I still don't completely understand it but for a decade and a half I would say, Alexander's empire was still up with a regency for his son. Regents shifted with the first and second wars of the diadochi, satraps ruled regions as regional rulers, with more intrigue, treachery, tactical marriages and betrayal that it would make Game of Thrones appear like a child's show.

The thing that you do mention, which is that Alexander's empire was split in ''four ways'' is such an overgeneralization of a period of 10 years that it can't describe the whole wars of the diadochi. Most people know about these four empires because they would come to survive a lot later up to the roman conquest(Even Antigonus in the form of his dynasty ruling Macedon till its end). It is something so fascinating that I have discovered these past few months that makes me want to learn more and more, even though some things I cannot understand due to a lot of complication with the whole family trees and betrayals, and who is with who at what point in time.

[valurimist]

I think one thing that’s important to note is that though europe seemed so centralized and unified in some parts of the medieval era, within many kingdoms there were dukes who had significant autonomy. Case-to-point normandy, a French duchy who decided to conquer England and could do so without problem from the French king.

The feudal system was very complex and this map doesn’t quite do it justice at some parts. Some people have this idea that dukes and vassals worked like modern day states, but that’s not true at all, they were 10x more autonomous, and would often have major wars with each other and foreign powers without any involvement from their liege

[StarRider]

In the 800s-1300s, the Holy Roman Empire being that big is rather misleading in terms of how powerful the ruler was. The Holy Roman Empire was feudal to the extreme, where the individual princes, counts, etc. in Germany and the other areas under it were quite independent, making the Holy Roman Emperor not nearly as powerful as one would think.

[hollywalker]

Interesting thing is the Holy Roman Empire and Spain was highly tied with Isabel I's descendants, since her daughter Juana married the son of the the Emperor. I'm doing a group and individual project covering the Franks and Carolingians, so it was nice to see when you got to the 600s-800s. My topic covers all the way to the Treaty of Verdun (the name of the treaty that split Francia into three with Charlemagne's grandsons.

[ethanhayman]

Love you channel man keep up the great work educating us!!!!

[iamsamsclub]

Hey VTH! Just wanted to tell you that you’ve made the long drives for my job more bearable! Ty for being awesome

[ConkerVonZap]

There was no more resilient empire than the Eastern Romans. Disappears from the map and reappears, almost every year are invaded by muslim and slavs and still push back and survive.

I also love the difference between the west and east empire. While one was extremely agressive the other was extremely defensive.

[Hannibalian]

you've definitely got to react to some more of their vids, they're great!

[xjp]

It was interesting to watch, and I was surprised they did not start up in the Norway and Sweden area earlier due to my family history being Norman. And as you go back, it leads to the old lands of Kerviland, which is the southern part of Noway and Sweden, and both governments have the records going back to around 110 AD or CE or whatever the heck its called now. Still, a great video loved how they did it all.

[cbamakeup]

I appreciate that they included the rulers of Tunisia in this, and their accuracy with the names

[GlennTheSadMarinersFan]

spartacus pops into view just before the 5 minute range or around there. for a few seconds.

[shaggycan]

5:00 As soon as you see Gaius Marius show up in Rome start the countdown clock on the Republic. Just watched an interview with Mary Beard and she said something that really resonated with me; the Emperors didn't create the Empire, the Empire created the Emperors. And its so true.

[attilaosztopanyi]

24:00 that 3 Sigismund is the same person.