Century of Crisis - Why the 1300s Were the Worst - Medieval DOCUMENTARY

Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series on medieval history continues with a video in which we will discuss why the 1300s were a century of crisis and what made them one of the worst eras to live in.

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[Tareltonlives]

And that's just Europe! Egypt was attacked again and again and had a bunch of teen sultans getting murdered, Syria kept changing hands, North Africa broke into three kingdoms that kept conquering each other, Anatolia and Iran imploded into a bunch of kingdoms that Timur slaughtered, Delhi was invaded by the Mongols, then after defeating them starting killing its way across India followed by coups, rebellions and Timur butchering everyone, coups and rebellions in the Majapahit, the Plague slaughtered millions more, the Yuan were kicked out in massive bloody rebellions that turned into civil war, Mali started going downhill with a ton of coups, the Chimor toppled the surrounding kingdoms, and Azcapotzalco, the Acolhua and Colhuacan went at each other and the wars created Aztec prestige.

[vircervoteksisto]

The way my college history professor put it was: "The fact that the history of western civilization didn't end in 1350 is nothing short of a miracle".

[premiersportingkc]

Theologian here with some interesting history to add:

Something often forgotten about is that the Catholic church was widely viewed positivity in European society up until the Black Death, since priests were often educated 2nd or 3rd sons from noble households. This meant that there was an expected decorum that priests were (in theory) supposed to behave accordingly to while operating as clergymen. Certainly there was corruption in the church, but it was far less prevalent before the Black Death.

However, the Black Death killed off many of these educated men, as they dutifully executed the Last Rites to the dying, despite knowing that this would put them in danger. The most cowardly/corrupt of the clergy were the ones who shirked this duty, meaning that the most dishonorable of the priesthood were the only ones left alive after the plague had ended. Additionally, because so many priests were dying, the Catholic Church was forced to rapidly conscript anyone who would take the empty positions. In some cases, illiterate teenagers as young as 16 were put in charge of entire villages.



The end result of all this was that in a single generation the priesthood had transformed drastically. In the eyes of the general public, the priesthood was no longer something to be respected, but instead a group of uneducated malcontents abusing their clerical offices. It is no surprise that we see in the aftermath of the Black Death a plethora of anti-clerical literature, the most famous of which being the Canterbury Tales.

[Amantducafe]

This is why i love the evolution of this channel.

It went from covering Kings and Generals with names that are immortalized in history to covering the common people, without names, without graves, without exploits, that lived and died without leaving a trace.

This humanizes history while also leaving a cautonary warning on how lucky we are in modern times.

[schoolofgrowthhacking]

No matter what you're going through in life, just say a silent prayer of gratitude that you weren't born in the 14th century 🙏🙏

[danielconde]

Well, here in Portugal, to add insult to injury, we had a dynastic crisis, culminating in the interregnum of 1383-85, and the spectacular clash of the Battle of Aljubarrota of 14th August 1385 - where the king of Castille tried to annex Portugal, resulting in a defeat so profound his country observed a period of mourning of 2 whole years.

A new dynasty ensued, and went on to "battle the waves of the Ocean", as our writer Camões put so well.

[vili]

This hits even harder as a hungarian history nerd.
The Árpád dynasty, the founders of the Kingdom of Hungary and it's rulers for centuries officially died out in 1301.
Talk about coincidence.

[manfredgrieshaber]

It all started with three, mayby four devastating vulcanic eruptions mainly in nowadays Indonesia. This events brought hugh amounts of sulfur dioxide up in the stratosphere where it joined with water and became sulfuric acid. This acid reflects the sunlight back into outer space so the sunshine was reduced all around the globe. This started a self increasing process as the spread of areas covered with snow or ice also reflect sunlight in an ever growing level. The ice cores drilled in the arctic and antartic tell us the story of this catastrophic downfall year by year. It's a chronology of calamities.

[dipro]

I now understand how the Ottoman empire rose out of all this.. I learned more from this one video than my entire medieval history class in college.

[jonericus]

"A distant mirror" by Barbara Tuchman is an awesome book on the calamitous 14th century. I've read it many times. Great video as usual.

[diego]

As someone who was born in the 1400s in Ohio, I can heavily confirm this video as a hood classic.

[johnronald]

In the grim darkness of the 1300s, there was no peace, only war and the laughter of thirsting gods

[QuasarSniffer]

"The whole of the Catholic world would fall victim to an apocalypse of fever, necrosis, and puss." This could be lyrics to a black metal album and I love it. Well done!

[davidfinch]

"Emancipated, bony corpses..." 7:49 They might be dead, but at least they had the right to vote.

[Nameless-ywkj]

The animations are on another level, good job man keep it up😇

[zciliyafilms]

Your analysis is marvelous. You have a very strong knack for knowing the right words to choose to highlight the character of a situation in a way that feels truly objective, while still revealing strong underlying truths. Please keep up the awesome work. ✌️

[sammygoodnight]

The 1300s were also the era of Petrarch, often considered the first figure of the Renaissance. (He coined the term 'dark ages' to refer to the era... ahem, before him.) Geoffrey Chaucer, Nicole Oresme, William of Ockham also lived in that era. Mechanical clocks, eyeglasses, and other things also date to that time or just before. It wasn't all calamity.

[MrGouldilocks]

Wasn't there also a volcanic eruption in the 1300s that caused several years of very little sunlight and massive famines?

[stepanpytlik]

Meanwhile Bohemia: *prospering for most of the century*

[chungus]

Another great video. (I’m so happy you made a collaboration with knights of Honor)