I could listen to Rudyard ramble about history all day, every day

As per your co-host's instructions, I'd like to see videos about the following subjects: 1. Colonial America (The Thirteen Colonies) 2. Biblical Israel/Judea/Judah (From the arrival of the Jews to the land of Canaan to their colonization under the Romans) 3. Czarist Russia (unto the conflict between the Reds and Whites) 4. The Janissaries (up unto the purges of 1800) 5. The Bronze Age Collapse 6. The Cold War (Nuclear Threats, Korean War, Vietnam War, Space Race, etc) 7. The Samurai 8. British India 9. The Chinese Warring States period of the 20th century 10. The French Revolution and the following Napoleonic Wars Obviously if you don't do any of these things, that's fine. Just thought I'd give some ideas since you guys were asking.

This and Common Ground interviews are great expansions. Content is great. Thanks so much.

I feel like I speak Rudyard's language, so I understand if others find this dull or nonsensical, but I listen to every word with interest and since I know a bit about history myself, this episode helps me create a lot more connections in my gaps of knowledge on what sort of form this society took, what incentive structures drove them to act how they did, their influence on the people they came in contact with, how trends over time affected the arc of their history, and the extremes that this whole system went to as a result. When you look at it that way you can pull back and see a grand tapestry that speaks to the character of this chapter of history. I appreciate his work and I'm excited for more.

You guys have saved my bachelor degree with this one! Keep it up!

1:55 POV you’re about to get plundered while having the raiders’ socioeconomic pressures for raiding you explained to you

So vikings were post-apocalyptic raiders. 😮

a cool drinking game is to take a shot every time you hear the interviewer say "yeah fascinating".

The actual youtube channel for the history segments.

33:00 term “Slavs” has an interesting etymology. It derives from the Old Slavic word “slovo,” which means “word” or “speech.” Because someone who spoke slavic language you could understand unlike german speakers thats why they are still called "Niemcy" in west slavic languages which derives from word for mute

This is the best content you've put out in my opinion. I want you to do a whole video on the dark ages, high middle ages, than early modern period. Your tirade on it was super interesting. God I could through a hundred topics at you that'd I'd love to hear. I hope you do hundreds of these.

31:09 is the best part of this video

I would love for y’all to do a podcast on the crusades

The Vikings: traded in Baghdad, were super soldiers in Constantinople, founded Russia, took and still hold the throne of England, raided every European County with the exception of Switzerland, they concurred southern Italy, settled Iceland and Greenland, and were the first Europeans in America.

A good cultural touch point to understand Christianity in the Post-Norse landscape is poems like Dream of the Rood and of course Beowulf and Wanderer. But truth be told the person who captures a Christianized Germanic spirit the best is Tolkien, but that isn't in the direct wake.

I’m so happy to have found this whatifalltist is my favourite KZfaq channel I just binged watch all these lmfao

Vikings playing cute-sounding doot-di-doot panpipes ditties instead of throat chants is the "dinosaurs had feathers and went Bwark" of ethnomusicology.

Maybe dark ages and power vacuum are synonymous.

A lot of south western Finland and Estonia were Scandinavian. We have our own names for all of the islands and the today capital of Finland bares reference to the old Scandinavian tribe of the Hälsings. The Estonian Capitals name literally means the Danish fortress in Estonian.

The Russian Civil War is a somewhat well tread topic that your perspective on would be interesting to hear about. Every ideological system pitted against each other trying to rise from the ashes of the pre-WW1 world is right up your alley.

Please keep this series going

On the dark age question, 12th century bc (bronze age collapse) leads to greek dark age, then 5th century ad (Roman collapse) leads to early middle age. This suggests a periodicity of around 1600 - 1700 years. That suggests civilizational collapse begetting dark age around 2100 ad? So not this current saeculum transition, but the next one instead.

It would have been interesting how history would have changed if the Vikings conquered England

Aside from settling in Canada there are mummified dogs of danish breed in South America from before Columbus. So they likely went much further. There are stories that Columbus got hold of maps of America from the vikings travels via the knights Templars who are cultural inheritors of the vikings and likely were still connected strongly up to Denmark and later Scotland that then also had those maps (Roselyn Chapel) to go to America also before Columbus.

this was great info, thanks. i hope you will still incorporate this subject into a video on your main channel someday

This video was super entertaining . I would enjoy a vid about the Roman Empire.

Been trying to write a fantasy world and been basing the northern section of the world a off of the Scandinavia, this video might make it more in depth than anticipated so thanks.

If you like the Vikings so mush how about a alternate history scenario where the Vikings clans/tribes unite at the start of the Viking age and instead of the Vikings simply launching raises they launch Mongol style Conquests ?

Paris had been the capital before the Viking era. The Merovingian kings were all buried at St Denis, or the mainline ones anyway. Also Spain was a Gothic nation-state before the Muslims.

It’s really weird because I never really learned about the Vikings until now

The Normans established several countries themselves, one in Sicily, a city in Spain, Tunisia, Amtioch, half of Anatolia at one point and a castle in west Africa for God knows why. All from the duchy of Normandy, had a couple thousand more Danes and couple thousand Norwegians settled Normandy and conquered all of France, the Mediterranean sea would of become a Norman lake.

You guys should do oliver Cromwell and the english civil wars

I love your analysis of the Dark Ages. Reading Chris Wickham you can really see how the pre-feudal order was fundamentally "yeomanistic" in that it was based on the assumption that ordinary people were self-sufficient and could fight in skirmishes.

I would love to see episodes on the Muslim conquest and the Crusades

Can you do a deep dive on the Sea People?

❤ these videos

Vikings: masters of amphibious assault, terrible at cavalry 😅

Do medieval Ethiopia

Can’t get enough of this dudes thoughts on history

One thing I don't like hearing when people talk about the "Dark Ages" was the oft-repeated talking point that "Society Collapsed". Society did not "Collapse", the so-called "Barbarians" reached cultural and political parity with Rome in the 5th and 6th Centuries AD, and the Franks, Visigoths, Saxons, Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Lombards all built their kingdoms on Roman infrastructure (both physically and culturally). The fall of Rome marks more a triumph of proto-Feudalism over the centralized Oligarchic nation-state, than an abject failure of Civilization in Europe. Also, nitpick: 18:20 this map is anachronistic, the Tang Dynasty still ruled China in 800 AD (and would continue to do so until 930 AD), and the Tibetan Empire is absent.

“fascinating” “thanks” 🗿

Fascinating!

Yeah, fascinating

this is FCKN AWESOME

The dark and middle age Amber trade was pretty cool, the baltic was a major source of it. Look it up, its fascinating

Vikings, my people!

I would love to see, Edo period Japan, Holy Roman empire, and Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth

The first crusader king was Sigurd Jorsalfare of Norway, he pretty much went "Viking for Jesus". Same motivations as his heathen ancestors 100 years before, but in the name of Jesus and against Muslims and Christians who had a different interpretation on Christianity than himself.

38:30. It's more complicated than that considering the Northern Crusades and the Christianization of Northwest Europe.

What are good books for an overview of this history?

Vinland might have been in Quebec or in Nova Scotia. The description isn't as close, but it makes more sense archaeologically.

Althist: yapping Eric: wow fascinating

Please do a video on the Russo-Japanese War :)

My wished topics: 1. The Black Death 2. The Crusades 3. The English Empire 4. The Germanic Tribes 5. The Rise of Rome 6. Napoleon 7. The Start and End of Antiquity 8. The Protestant Revolution

*around **31:20* "because he was the guy who could beat off.. heh heh. He was the guy who could *defeat*..."

34:45 TLDR: The modern Scandinavians are the people who stayed at home. Enjoy your lutefisk and frozen pizzas.

what is his channel? 14:29

9:00 bro held the empire together with nothing but rizz. Charlemagne the og rizzla.

When he said beat off and laughed lol

The beat off laugh lmao

All this guy said was wow😂

22:55 Accurate. Finland is not Scandinavia, it is a Nordic country

Isnt Vinland Newfoundland in Canada?

Talk about Samurai

Talk about Ireland

Best books on the high Middle Ages? And why did literacy take so long to take off yet the printing press was invented?

Pretty influential guys.

49:00 part of their legacy is that they simplified alot of the english language

maybe a video about brazil

Me, with Hungarian and Viking ancestry: laughs in barbarian about how my ancestors caused feudalism.

I'd love a Communist anthology - Pol Pot's Cambodia, Castro's Cuba, Maoist China, etc.

Talk about the Cholas

My only complaint about this is that it's too interesting to go to sleep to! I'll have to listen to something else for now and come back to this when I'm not trying to sleep. 😆

Vril📈📈

34:00 Vikings were outcasts, not elites. Female infanticide was a thing and a big motivator. North America was not empty like Iceland.

10:40 age of empires turtles vs rushers

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“Apex of the YOLO”, it’s called the White Boy Highlight Reel

The governmental organization of Germanic people were very similar to other Indo-European peoples. Similar political arrangements are found in the RigVeda, which shows a common Indo-European source for this political arrangement. Even Germanic paganism is similar to other Indo-European pagan religions. Winn, S. M. (1995). Heaven, heroes, and happiness: the Indo-European roots of Western ideology. University Press of America. West, Martin Litchfield (2007). Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Woodard, R. D. (2010). Indo-European sacred space: Vedic and Roman cult. University of Illinois Press.

He looks a lot like I thought he would, except for the glasses.

Fall of the Republic would be great

WOAH WOAH WOAH Moses actually happened? I thought it was a metaphore for the jews leaving Babylon

Interesting that Prussia and holy roman empire are different things... I thought those united in 1800s to modern germany.

Can I do a collab with you? Or be in one of your videos or anything?

Just found out you changed the name of this channel

Topic Request: Decline of Religion since the 20th Century.

You should get an editor and put pictures over this like what you do for whaifalthis vids

Will America fall like Rome did?

45:12 You mean Anime？

This interviewer just keeps asking questions the feel like conversation stoppers 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Eastern Rome is Rome. Rome lasted until 1453

Rudgyard Please Watch Vinland Saga, I think you will like it. :)

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CaN you one day cover china when the Han falls apart ? One day

31:09 lmao wtf

I like this series but I find it a little weird that your co-host only talks to ask you questions and rarely provides input aside from "fascinating"

Crusades vid 🤞

Good job rudy, other guy is an npc, though

Charlemagne wiped out an entire Saxon tribe, one guy escaped to Denmark and from that point onward the vikings raided all churches as they saw Christianity as an enemy and a threat.

Didn’t mention Charlemagne destroyed the old gods in Germany and lowlands.