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Videos on how empires organised themselves internally are underrated.

I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne - let my army be like the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky. He never said it, but man what a movie scene !

I'm a native French speaker and there's a traditional song for children where the lyrics are about Charlemagne inventing school. Gives you an idea of his contributions.

When you take into consideration the fact that most sources say he tried to learn to read and never mastered it but really believed in it for his subjects it makes him even cooler. I'm also hearing Monty Python vibes in WHAT DID CHARLEMAGNE EVER DO FOR US 🤣

Charlemagne, the sequel to Rome we didn’t know we needed.

I love how you guys can talk about all those things that get overlooked by a purely militaristic aproach to history. Administration and cultire as just as amazing as any battle 🔥

Charlemagne: one of the few passable roman larpers in history

I would like to thank HistoryMarche on behalf of the entire world for making another amazing video!

Sadly, Charlemagne did all that but didn't rush primogeniture like he should have. Luckily he only had one surviving son when he died, so the empire lasted a bit longer, but that Gavelkind succession got the Franks in the end.

I delivered the mail today. But this man delivered the history

Charlemagne sent Harun Spanish horses, colorful Frisian cloaks and impressive hunting dogs. In 802 Harun sent Charlemagne a present consisting of silks, brass candelabra, perfume, balsam, ivory chessmen, a colossal tent with many-colored curtains, 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝗹-𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝘄𝗹, 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗸𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀-𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿-𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. The presents were unprecedented in Western Europe and may have influenced Carolingian art

Potentially as tall as 6"4? Guess he is a giant of history in more than one way.

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This reformation did not only impact mainland Europe, it triggered the reformation in the northern Anglo Saxon kingdom of Northumbria,the growth on the school in York, then them sending conversion monks/priests to old Germania

How ironic to have attended H.S. and College in the U.S. and to be completely ignorant about Charlemagne......especially just now learning about how he instituted the encouragement to learn.

It's quite unfathomable that, at the end of the day, all of this was accomplished by a an illiterate who despite living more than a thousand years ago would've been tall enough to play in the NBA and had nearly lost his empire in Iberia before he had a chance to found it. A true cult of personality. No wonder the aristocracy became known as 'Königsnähe' - 'Close to the King'

Classic! Getting this for free is awesome. The man with the golden voice. I really appreciate you guys Thanks

His octagonal Byzantine style throne room in Aachen cathedral is just absolutely stunning. I wish there was more of that architecture in Western Europe.

Loved part one and now I am sure I’m going to enjoy part two

Very informative and worth running back a few times to absorb all the details.

It worth noting that at the time illiteracy meant "lack of ability to read and write in Latin" specifically as opposed to not knowing to read and write at all. Most people were fairly capable in their native vernaculars, otherwise societies wouldn't really function.

I'm glad that you mentioned and showed the Carolingian minuscule at 4:50. One can see that it greatly influenced the modern look of the Latin script. It happened partially because the Renaissance scholars mistook copies of ancient works written in it for the originals. "When they handled manuscript books copied by eleventh- and twelfth-century scribes, Quattrocento literati [meaning the learned Italians of the 15th century] thought they were looking at texts that came right out of the bookshops of ancient Rome". Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press) 2006, p. 134. Carolingian minuscule also simply was more practical, as easier to read, and judged to be more aesthetically pleasing than the 'Gothic' script. It ironically reinforced the notion of the men of the Renaissance that everything between the fall of the Western Rome and them was backwards and barbaric, a notion that warps the understanding of the medieval period for most people to this day.

Amazing!!!. This video is a work of art.... Nicely explained too... Thank you so much for all your hard work....

What timing! I just found you guys with your part 1 video about a hour ago. Thanks

Well done! Both informative and enjoyable.

Brilliant and informative video.. Didn't realise how much he achieved Thought he was more of a conquerer but this video informed me otherwise!! Great work on the upgrade,quality ,and style of the videos recently historymarche

ah I was really looking forward to another video of yours, thank you very much.

Was waiting for this! Thanks HM

I love this channel. The person doing the artwork is doing amazing job.

Thanks! Another great video. These are really too good for youtube!

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thanking us for watching while we should be the ones with the thanks, amazing and beautiful work you are doing here , honest to god I hope you continue making these videos, thank you .

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Loved the “subscribe as a sacrifice to the algorithm “

@ 5:03 LOL it's like when all the super heroes assemble and receive introductions.

I love listening your videos while working out

It's always a good day when HistoryMarche uploads

Thank you guys. Your Channel so great.

Sold on the subscription after first video I will spread your videos you have clearly done your work my hats off to you keep up the truly amazing work my friend it is much appreciated on my end and I will try to spread your videos and have others spread your videos to show my appreciation thank you again

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Wow I like your content. Editing and narrating make your channel my favorite. Your work should be appreciated. You are deserve more subscriber I hope you must gain 1 Million subscriber by the end of this year. Please keep continue this type of amazing work. Your admirable hard work and deep research make you the best channel on KZfaq. But brother I am waiting for an promised video on Skanderbeg when it will come?

Thank you for being better teachers than the ones at University!

Thank you for this.

The Greatest Medieval Emperor in History.

i wish we had your videos in high school back in the 80s. world history would have been so much more fun and a lot easier

The man who every European claim to be descended from .

Great vid as always

My last term paper before my bachelor thesis was on Alcuin's influence on the Educational Reforms. It was quite interesting. Also that Alcuin often had some beef with some of the other advisers and scholars, since obviously they were all vying for more influnce and recognition by Charlemagne.

Perfect video ,thank you

Always love the vids

This so good, please more of this! Really hope you make enough money of KZfaq by doing these videos! Keep going!!!

He done so much to centralize his power but forgot to change the the inheritance law. soon after the empire was split and split.

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Wonderful video! Worthy of the great king himself.

Great video!

A most excellent summary

great work!

Brilliant video! Ik you usually don't tend to do this sort of thing, but would you consider doing a video on something like the d day landings?

Nice video and very informative and very entertaining and very satisfaction more videos.

Hopefully a longer series is in the works!

The music is perfect

The only thing I dont like about Charlemagne was his conquests against the Danes and Norsemen. The Christianisation of the region may have been a matter necessity for his own people. But forcing free men and women to conform is always uncool to me. But in those days, I totally understand why. I have always considered these conquests as a major reason why the Viking age came about as it did. The Norse saw christianisation as a threat for good reason. And capitalized in revenge. Despite the fact it was solely for profit and glory. The Vikings certainly wanted to get some just-deserts for more than 300 years of Christian expansion. Fascinating. It all happened for a reason, with purpose and had repercussions.

i was waiting for this video

My fav. History channel.

The 240 base coinage was very much popular in Britain until quite recent. Lindybeige made a great video on this about coins.

Again, brilliant. This next one better be soon though. Or else! (Never know, might work)

Good job!

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Charlemagne: the man that was as capable as it gets, yet none of his heirs learned from his accomplishments

5:35 great team :-)

You have to love the standards of the time: here he's portrayed as being almost controversially well educated for his knowledge of... arithmetic and possibly basic literacy.

It's a shame that the simple, clear calligraphy of the Carolingian era never became widespread after Charlemagne's time. It would've made reading later medieval manuscripts a lot easier. It's also interesting to see Charlemagne attempt to create a centralised government with a strong bureaucracy in what would become France. A task that wouldn't truly become fruitful till the age of Louis XIV in the later 17th century.

Nice knowledge

Thanks to the court of Charlemagne for lower case letters. Otherwise we’d read everything as shouting

Great vid !

HistoryMarche and Kings and Generals are the best history youtube channels.

Awesome thx

Do more documentaries about Charlemagne they are so cool 🔥

Very nice historical information in a beautiful manner. 🌹👍

Been waiting for part II, THANK YOU! Dark Ages are a fascinating time, we focus too much on the High Medieval period ...

Love the video Historymarch but please continue the Hannibal series,I would very much like to see Scipio.

The man of the hour

can we get a vid about otto? charlemagne was a great leader and did many great things, but would like to see more on the guy that made the hre really happen.

Can you do the Ottonian Renaissance next?

All dislikes are from Saxons Understandable lol

Você não imagina como é difícil achar bom conteúdo sobre esse assunto irmão ! Esse período em específico me interessa muito, aliás é a síntese do mundo latino com o Franco que me interessa, em sua origem primária, muito interessante

banger video

Hello, Dear History Marche. I'd like to know more about the three significant medieval transformations. Can you elaborate what was the other two transformations? thank you!

Shar-le-mane!? Don't you mean Charle-mag-knee!?!?

Alfred the Great next?

If only he reformed the succession system as well.

Great!

A man that Europe needed in its dire state

Please complete the story of the Second Punic War, please ❤️❤️❤️

thanks for the spanish subtitles

side by side comparison of historical reformers would be intresting. octaviav vs hadrian vs aurelian vs julian up to charlemane. why did visigoths fail? why they allowed moors to enter spain etc.

How do you do the different unit symbols and so on? My buddies and I are doing a DnD war campaign and id like to know how to do this

Give me the true Renaissance that reenlightened the West *Great Renaissance* "Not that one" *Renaissance of 12th century* "Sorry, not that one" *Islamic Golden Age* "Definetly not that one" *Ottonian Renaissance* "Almost, but no" *Carolingian Renaissance* "Perfection, thank the Lord for given us Charlemange"

God, you guys, these have been releasing bangers recently. I love the implementation of Marxist critique, the role of classism and class warfare in our history. The world is ruled by rulers, they decide how it works, and understanding the specific people and how they shaped society to their own standard, developing the system they lived in, creating new systems that will then develope themselves. A perfect example of the transformation from the early medieval to middle ages, showing us what life was like for them. You would do great work looking into the corruption of the modern century, the nefarious dealings of corporations. Keep it up 👏👏👏