What If You Lived During the Middle Ages?

Have you ever been curious about Medieval life? Would you travel back in time if you could? Do you think you would enjoy it? How long would you last? Hear ye, hear ye! The Middle Ages sucked! After 200 years of peace and prosperity under 'Pax Romana,' the Roman Empire fell into crisis and decline. Thus began the Middle Ages, more commonly known as the Dark Ages; beginning towards the end of the 5th century and lasting until the start of the Renaissance in the 14th century.

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[younaaa]

"Beds were not soft"

nah i'll pass 💀

[alanmtz]

"Your day would start at 4am"


Welp, ill pass

[jefrreyjeffery]

While Europe was having Dark ages, Arab empires were having Golden age!

[mastermiyagi]

"How historical accurate do you want this video to be?"
"historical what?!"

[anwaarsamai]

Middle Ages: Commoners ate organic, The Rich ate processed foods.
2019: Commoners eat processed foods and the rich eat organic.

[justsayeli]

I would die as soon as I’m seen because I’m black

[retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri]

Fun Fact: old english for "you" was "thou" or "þou", þ is "th" and could also be "y" so now, "þou" is "you", another example: "Þe" or "Ye" means The, that's why you see some restaurants having "Ye" in their names, for example: "Ye old Restaurant"!

[spral__]

This guy literally teaches us 100x faster than school and he makes it fun to watch even if it’s educational keep it up homie

[jonasplett]

It’s crazy that in thousands of years they look back and say, “wow I cannot believe they lived like that”

[bruh]

"at least until the 14th century.."

me: **sees the rat**

me, again: oh boy

[loshgoobi]

If I lived during Middle Ages I'd be like Big Ed to everyone there.

"Your breath is not pretty"

[BSG]

They’ll look back at us and be like, “They only lived until they were a HUNDRED!” 😂

[anshulshaw]

"do you think people would look back on our era as we look back on theirs "
these lines gives chills

[ArenWitsuki]

1920 : We are gonna have flying cars in future
2020 : What if we lived in middle age

[prismak]

Historical accuracy level: Hollywood & HBO

[chevon]

“Your typical day starts at 4am” welp, that rules me out.

[theoa]

Damn imagine taking a whiff of someone’s breath back then 😂

[HistoryExplained]

Then I’d be living during the Middle Ages.

[ignore.this.account]

Explain this,
(this is just estimated lol)
1720 - Plague
1820 - Cholera Pandemic
1920 - Spanish Flu
2020 - cOvId

[adamgoldbein]

No historical textbooks were harmed while making this video, because they weren't touched at all