And it did.

Could you do videos on one of these mythologies 1)Ramayan 2)Hanuman 3)Ganesha You choose.

Do Hungary.

Please do a video on Wallachia, home to Count Dracula

Sad

Counterpoint: “Fighting, bleeuleeeh”

This sounds like most of history.

@@Andri474 For all countries. One way or another. Lol

Nobody expects the Norman Conquerors!

Only if there are rivers though. It's always funny to see how the Vikings were basically everywhere except for the Alps because those rivers flow to the Black Sea.

It was Walpole

@@Alias_Anybody To be fair by the time the Vikings reached the Black Sea the Alps were an afterthought compared to the Byzantines

one of the weirdest exports from scandinavia

Even more than Triangle Strategy from Square Enix.

@@drilltotheheavens1695 Beat me to the punch.

Heard about egypt?

@@Frost-bc7kz Egypt isn't a triangle

The number of times I hear something along the lines of "they decided to join the war in Sicily" in classical documentaries... everyone wants that triangle

Sicily has a 48.3% unemployment rate and you wonder why us Northerners are sick of paying your bills.

And you people take all our money yet call us "polentoni" whenever you get the chance. Even though we bankroll your lifestyle, absolutely no respect.

@@trevorjohnston777 You can talk about respect when you "respect" our "lifestyle". I don't pretend to know a lot about my family's home country's politics, but you stereotyping my culture and looking down your nose at us is supercilious and rude

@@trevorjohnston777 Guess what, I had no idea you paid my bills. LOL.

@@trevorjohnston777 As a non-Italian I regret breathing the same air as you.

Rule of Acquisition #34: War is good for business. Rule of Acquisition #35: Peace is good for business.

also they'll run at the first sign they are losing, or when offered more money by the opposite side, or when seeing a better opportunity to be seized.

Apart if they are swiss

Seriously! Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Spaniards, Islam, etc

@@jrodriguez1374 Don’t forget the Normans!

@@jrodriguez1374 carthaginians and Phoenicians are the same, Carthaginians were just the offshoot of Phoenicians who settled in the central Mediterranean (in Tunisia and surrounding areas)

@@odd-ysseusdoesstuff6347 of course :3

@@erectilereptile7383 idk... I think they were different enough to classify them as their own thing. I mean, using what you said we could classify the Romans as an offshoot of Greeks, or Normans as an offshoot of Gauls. And if that's the case why separate them at all?

Ah, as kickass as Yugoslav partisans

@@aisir3725 The Italian resistance gets overlooked, but I would NOT want to be the Jerry or Fritz trying to fight them, because I like being alive.

@@jamesharding3459 if the partisans are as Bad as the Italian army (wich got disarmed by the germans in a matter of days) than i think the "jerry“ wouldnt be that scared at all.

@@josefstrauss9017 Try "Almost as good as the Yugoslavians".

@@josefstrauss9017 guerilla isn't like regular army. The partisans fought and sabotaged the nazis a lot. We didn't stay idle.

From a Sicilian Normann this is terrible, the Wars were the best part of my history

This sounds like something from a Crusader Kings or Europa Universalis patch note.

@@albertamalachi3560 since it’s 1194, it’ll most likely be Crusader Kings.

AOE2 devs be like

What does this even mean

In finance, that's called a hedge fund.

Hello there

They haven't read it because it's a sith book and therefore not a story the Jedi would tell you.

The Normans have proceeded to execute Order 60 Sith.

Because it’s awfully tricky to get the trust of both sides at the same time.

Wait a couple years and he could do one on America

It’s an interesting concept. Cultural hegemony has benefit that it’s more orderly and streamlined, cultural diversity has the benefit that it’s more creative and intellectual. While we can bash people for rejecting diversity, it can and often does make sense from the perspective of the rulers. However it similarly makes sense to have the cultures merge into one Voltron culture. However, that takes a lot of time. If you’re going through unsteady times, waiting for cultural osmosis is a nonstarter. While I think most would say that diversity is better, it may not always be practical. Or that’s my interpretation. P.s. When I say cultural osmosis, I mean cultures melting together and rubbing off on one another to the point where they are substantially similar rather than one culture adopting a few aspects of another culture, then demanding that people of the other culture conform.

History shows, yet again, that multiculturalism, and working together builds a great society, and the opposite does, well, the opposite.

@@tyler1107 From the perspective of the rulers, yeah, it's true that it's a more certain path to retaining power. It's not a good thing, but it IS undeniable that it's easier to STAY king when there isn't a lot of diversity in your population, and people can't imagine a better way to live.

@@MyPisceanNature History shows that countries with 1 dominant culture do better than multicultural countries mate.

I wish my History Teacher did this

My History teacher last year, I told her at the start of the year, "you should look up Overly Sarcastic Productions!" and she played the video about Rome at the end of the year. Goal: achieved.

@@luckneh5330 My teacher played the Alexandria video and I was like “HEY I KNOW THESE GUYS”

@@tempomorekicksmorechicks3513 That's actually awesome LOL. It's always nice when a teacher always puts up something that you recommended to them

I feel like the trifecta of funny KZfaq channels your teacher shows you in class is made up of Crash Course, Overly Sarcastic Productions, and CGP Grey.

"YOU WILL ACCEPT AND CELEBRATE YOUR DIFFERENCES OR SO HELP ME-!"

@@lottiesearle3393 No no, that would be neo communists and sockjust parasites. "Henry" and "Ralf" only care that you get along with others, it doesn't matter if youre all as white as the wings of valkyr- i mean angels or as diverse as the 80 heraldries across the "borrowed" shields used by them and their buddies.

@@ANDELE3025 oh boy I love this tangent!

But now you have!

History is one long depressing story of "almost there...."

I mourn Roger II and I didn't even know he existed until this video.

@@MyPisceanNature Case and point: We almost stopped climate change in the 1980s, just like we’ve solved acid rain and the ozone layer hole Back then a mild carbon tax and financial Incentive and some investment would’ve solved it But we didn’t stop climate change We knew everything we know now back then forty years ago, but now it’s been politicized and partisanized and politics has been seriously messed up So now we’ve wasted forty years doing basically nothing as emissions increase with only a 1 in 20 chance of actually limiting the amount of warming to the Paris accord’s goal And it’s all thanks to Oil company lobbyists and Ronald Reagan

May I also interest you in a Malta

now im jealous, he's hasn't done netherlands yet. But sicily is still pretty cool

I just moved out from Sicily, this video made all the nostalgia come back :(

I wonder if Blue can talk about central Massachusetts

The closest i got was when he did the Iroquois, but as a person of welsh/dutch ancestry its more of a shared land pride.

Same but honestly I feel like nowadays there isn't much to be proud of aside from the aesthetic beauty of Sicily and our food. Idk Sicily could do much better if it wasn't so utterly corrupt.

So the Mongols expect the Spanish Inquisition?

@@spencersonnefeld YES.

@@spencersonnefeld Actually the you'd have to bee an absolute buffoon to be surprised by the Spanish inquisition. They literary put a month long notice before they came to you. Even the mongols are no exception to this. Or maybe they are and they aren't surprised by the Normans I don't know enough to give a crap.

@@spencersonnefeld Which is ironic considering how much time I spent on writing this comment.

They weren't an exception in Vietnam 🤣

I get the impression that's also Scandinavia past maybe the 11th century. Once everyone else got their shit together and raiding became less lucrative, I swear they basically fell off the map, baring Sweden for awhile. To the point that when I heard that Britain bothered to raid Copenhagen... twice, in the Napoleonic wars I was surprised they were that relevant.

@@andrewhopkins886 Denmark is actually pretty strategic as you can use it to block much of the trade from a lot of Eastern Europe

@@chrissmith3587 True. At the time I didn't really appreciate how important trade was to countries but yeah, the denmark straight is a choke point of immense proportions if you are on the far side. I just didn't understand that. Though as a side-note I thought I'd just point out that the brits attacked to keep the danish fleet from supporting napoleon (From what I've heard, take it with a side of salt). Which is intriguing, given that a country as small as denmark apparently had a fleet powerful enough to give the british empire pause.

@@andrewhopkins886 if you look at the ships surrendered and then the numbers at battles at Trafalgar, it is not an insignificant amount Additionally it was a very well located fleet as it was able to effectively control any maritime trade

@@andrewhopkins886, do you know what Wellesley''s horse was called? Hint: it's related to your comment.

It's a mostly inflated story that of Mafia role in WW2. I can' provide any source right now, but being an Italian this story came out at school and was swiftly disproven. If it had any role, it was in reducing the amount of control Nazis had when shit already hit the fan. If anything, WW2 was a big source of the power the various italian criminal organizations had in the following decades as the new italian government and even the allies were happy to support Cosca if this meant reducing the mess they left behind while focusing on larger issues. The specific details depend on the area but... well, the Fascist Italy system heavily depended on being fine for the capitalists overlords of some areas, it being in contact with Mafia groups was likely to begin with, and tjey just left when shit hit the fan in 1943.

iirc, the Mafia (Jewish factions as well as Italian-American factions) helped in the US as well with protecting military ships at harbor in NYC, and breaking up fascist/pro-Nazi rallies that the police couldnt legally stop from happening. There is one particularly entertaining story of an influential Jewish mafia boss by the name of Meyer Lansky who talked openly about "roughing up" attendees at a Fascist rally, at the request of NYC police. Fun times.

You could say it's... A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

@@OverlySarcasticProductions Hello there

@@arutka2000 Is the phrasing there because of who started this comment chain, or just the most delightful of coincidences?

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Please share those secrets with someone or write them down before they are lost forever! Prego.

So cool take my on a tour! I need to know where I came from since my grandparents never got to take me back!

I'm from Apulia and I know all the history behind the buildings in my city :)

@@deannafromdablock1994 Same here!

My great grandfather dad and mom came from sicily and I have the last name pepitone use to me pipitone and always been fascinated and wish 1 day I can vist I never meet another person than my family with my last name or another Sicilian

Absolutely true! It's different from other Italian regions

Simana and semana instead of italian settimana

tbh he should make a video on the Italian Risorgimento, or the three wars of unification. It involved a lot of fighting, uniting, conniving and help from foreign countries to be one nation.

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the state of our monuments is partially attributed to Mafia. They suck large sums of money that should be reserved for the public use, they bribe politicians, they maintain the status quo. They adapt when we try to root them out and find other, scummier ways to maintain their wealth. Like Tomasi di Lampedusa said, adapt to change in order to not change at all.

I was at the art biennale & had a wonderful tour walking around Palermo. Stunning architecture & stories. Our guide ended dropping us at a square drinking with university students.

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yaaaaay

11c. Britain blinking in confusion.

Only post Byzantine history that is not icky is the Ottomans 😂.

He likes the Ottomans as a historical thing, and that's directly post-Byzantine

Ick

Humankind peak with The serrenisima Republic remember

There's a lot less pretty domes after the Byzantines, what do you expect?

The story of how that happened is quite interesting too, though it's more ridiculous politics and shenanigans of the sort than historical events.

They allowed freedom to Lucky Luciano (who was in jail) if his mob managed to avoid any sabotage of US ships in the NY harbor and they also asked him for advice on the landing area and stuff like that.

Yeah it's super cool how post war the CIA combined with the Mafia for illegal drug trades while helping in the years of lead by killing pesky anti-mafia activists and politicians for being communist. Super cool, thanks America. You guys murdered the future of my country for the sake of fascists and drug money and you laugh about it.

Weeell not so much, as an Italian

@@unlucky46th Yeah, he actually made a really good video, but I deeply distaste the notion for which "(Italian) fascists are bad, so even the actual good stuff they did is to be overlooked". Also, Mussolini was the only European leader who actually liked the Arab world, he proclaimed himself "Sword of Islam" and actively encouraged Muslim culture. It could have been mentioned, given that he covered the prosperity of the Norman kingdom. But Mussolini lost the war, so he's always bad.

a fellow oct 1st kid!

You rule over a galaxy why are you righting a master thesis

I read that book for school, and I absolutely loved it. That was one of the benefits of having a language teacher who is also history teacher.

Fun fact: the original title is "Il Gattopardo" which might be translated as "The Serval" or "The Ocelot" but for some reason they decided to use "The Leopard" instead.

I especially loved how he described Sicily as the “America of Antiquity” because of all the cultural and racial intermixing on the island.

@@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv Personally I would not loved that, considering all the invasions and occupations they got subjected to form that genetic pool : P

@@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv Sicilians aren't genetically different from other italians. This is an anglosphere myth

Own video?

I think the Magna Graecia video is coming up.

We are not a "blend". We have our own identity, with some foreign influences. As every other people in the world

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I've heard that many Tunisians have somehow italic ancestry, so maybe you have a degree of sicilian genes, who knows

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well, it did focus heavily on Sicily, but thenagain, the video was titles Sicily. I would like to see one that focuses heavily on Naples (though I am not one bit Neopolitan or even Italian for that matter)

@@ecurewitz same, although I do have roots in Sicily so egh, il take it

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Id also appreaciate. Much love to the greeks of Calabria♥ The Griko language is unique! It musy be pereserved I wish UNESKO and the EU to take action .

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I hate remembering

I find it less icky (as in uninteresting) and more that it quickly becomes political so everything after WWII can quickly become an uncomfortable conversation. (Or pointless screaming, arguing is never productive especially on the internet)

@@jasonreed7522 I'd agree with both of these, personally. The politics isn't fun, and more recent events carry... More impact I guess? Since they're less removed from the present.

More like they always collapse from infighting(roma, byzantines, any islamic empire). Sicily kind of worked because the "arabs" and "greeks" were just orthodox and muslim italians, and that came to an end too.

@@jl9211 well every country or empire eventually fall Bad argument you have there

@@ASWE15 Norman Sicily didn't "fall", it became part of the HRE through a marriage. Point is that people discussing historical Sicily regularly mix up ethnicity and religion.

Check out the "questione meridionale".

Fritz 2 was definetely one of the better leaders we got for a while. Probably until now.

Ok as an Irishman that suddenly really wants to visit; what cool places would you recommend - obviously include the cool architecture but save some spaces for my boring non nerdy friends

@@ieatbananaskins7926 First of all, I'd say that Sicily is also a great island to visit because I think it and Ireland got a lot in common. (Aside from the weather LOL). Out of the places I know, I'd definitely recc Taormina. You could use Giardini Naxos as homebase if your friends are looking more for a beach holiday, since it's big on that kind of tourism AND Taurmina & the Etna are in spitting distance. (Never been to Giardini Naxos tho). Taurmina is a very beautiful, old little town atop a steep mountain right at the ocean. The Ancient Greek Theater is a side to behold and you can do lots of strolling around in its tight little alleys and more open piazze. Noto. But probably go really early or late and probably not in the middle of the summer (as me and my family did), because the humid heat was SO BAD. Being inlands means no sea breeze. But do go see it - I meant it when I said it's the most beautiful city I've ever laid eyes on. Catania has been a while (I'll probably go there next after I maybe gave Naples a second shake via semester abroad), but it is a very beautiful city. Lots and lots to see and do there as well - As East South Sicily's center, it's very lively and diverse. Baroque grandeur galore, too! (Even if not as uniform and perfect as Noto). And you can take a look at one of the big effing Staufer castles. It used to be at the port, but the volcanic erruption in the 17th century added so much land to the (now ruined) city that it's now inside of it. If you wanna hang but have great opportunity for culture, I'd say go Syracuse. Siracusa has an archaeological park, a puppet museum (I sadly, sadly haven't gotten around to visit on any of my trips yet), a papyrus museum and a very impressive archaeological museum. Ortigia, the island that houses the ancient city center and is connected to mainland syracuse by large bridges, is the perfect place to spend your evenings. Modica - Actually never been there, can't give you any intel, but it's chocolate is the pride of Sicily. Palermo - Definitely a sight to see and worth its capital status. Go check out the Falcone e Borsellino Murial at the port (you won't miss it) and definitely go see the No Mafia Memorial. The catacombs of the Porta d'Ossuna are a good place to spend half an hour before you check out the Palazzo Reale and la Cattedrale. Sadly, the Catacombi dei Cappuccini closed due to Covid while I was there but I WILL come back and I WILL wage psychological warfare on myself by walking among all those bones and mummies. Seriously tho, it sounds pretty neat, go there for meee. And check out some Normanno-Arabo churches. I'd actually recc San Cataldo over San Giovanni degli Eremiti - although the latter has a very pretty courtyard. You can always have a stroll through Kalsa or any adjacent area more to the west of city for a good time at night. And visit Monreale! It's a good daytrip activity. That's my limited "What to see in Sicily" guide. I also hope that one day (maybe during one of the next spring breaks) I'll make it to Ireland.

@@SarahWolverine thanks much! If you visit Ireland, I would recommend seeing the West - travel the Wild Atlantic Way, there is no bigger pity than going to Ireland and never leaving Dublin, venture to the giants causeway up north too If you're interested in sport you should definitely check out Hurling - fastest field game on earth and the final is played in Europe's third largest stadium (I'm from the southernmost region of Ireland, weather is still very mild but at least I'm not unfortunate enough to have a Dublin accent ;))

@@ieatbananaskins7926 jaysus do u really. That’s a bit unhygienic 😂😂😂

I'm glad you do. When a northerner says I'm not really Italian I'm inclined to agree with them

Unfortunately, the "multicultural period" was very short: after the Norman rule, the Christians expelled the remaining muslims

@@daniele7989 LOLOLOL

@@daniele7989 nah, in many ways, we are more italians than them. Our languages are more similar to what Dante spoke, and we have to remember that the first Area that was called Italy was alongside the Strait of Messina. But, in the end we are all italians, I think...

@@esti-od1mz You're in denial. There was plenty of intermixing and influence you can still see to this day in most of Southern Europe, including Sicily. Some of them look like actual Arabs even now!

This!

@Sicilianuwhy not?

@Sicilianu I was born and live in Corleone ahahahha 😅😂😂

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Blame the 800, both after the unification and before, for that. The North had a larger experience with revolts and such, in the South, beyond the big cities, little happened. Hell, there were people not unlike feudal lords in early 1900 in Calabria

@@Hyperversum3 even before that what screwed us for good was the Spanish domination which prevented renaissance from firing and later created the stepping stone for absolute imperialism in the region.

@@Old_Harry7 That's another big point foreigners miss about.Italy indeed. The extreme difference between regions isn't random, it's the result of over 1300 years of Italy being a culturally defined region, but not politically united even in the slightest. It's kinda of annoying to see people speak about Italy like the big imperialisitc nations of Europe when it was first and foremost a country that was AFFECTED by other empires

​@@Hyperversum3 To me it looks like hstorical developments gave way to an essentially feudal state being integrated into an already industrializing one without effective land reform on top of having all protectionist tariffs on its primary export broken down just to support the latter's industrialization. The only attempt by any Italian government to rectify this disparity after unification seems to have been the Cassa del Mezzogiorno. Doesn't seem to have helped much either beyond inducing dependency on subsidization for growth. Edit: Okay so I've only read two wikipedia paragraphs and... dang. The post-unification governments really didn't care about the south, did they? Ridiculously unfair tax burden to have the south produce 40% of taxes when the land isn't nearly as profitable elsewhere, region-specific tariffs to shield northern industry from competition while leaving the south out to dry all while forcing it to contribute the most to a public spending effort focused on northern railways.

@@wildfire9280 It has always been an issue that Italian governements, both the Kingdom and the Republic, have been more than happy to allow regional governements to have lots of responsability when It came down to infrastructures and local stuff. Thus, It was hard to crack the shell of corruption that kept the South so limited in its economy. It's not so much about Industrialization and lack of action of the central governement, but rather than there were people that had lots of personal gains and benefits, even outside of criminality, to keep things as they were. As an Italian, I can't blame enough the governements between 1955/6 and 1970. They had all the opportunities to change the situation, coming out from the early mess that the War left behind. But of course... Nope, nothing was done with real effort. After all, what should have expected from the Democrazia Cristiana? It's hard to remain popular when you do big changes and try to force progress even when the people that would benefit from it stand against It. It's even harder when your entire political agenda is mantaining the status quo. And then again, when the DC and similar parties disappeared through the 90s, they simply left the ground to the various Berlusconi governments that... Yep, once again where as much as possible about keeping people Happy with the status quo

Wwat

Yeah :( .

Beautiful

:_( Art

i agree

Probably the same that everyone does: start a game aiming to a serious play and ending as an incestuous chinese giant ruling in Sri Lanka that has just made a deviant cannibal become the new pope.

@@marcorizzoni9766 That sounds both oddly specific and something that blue would do.

LOLOLOLOL

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Hi I know this comments already like 3 weeks old but I just wanted to say that pretty much the same thing happened with my great-great-grandma and grandpa after they both got widowed

Seems to have been a pretty common practice... keeping it in the family so to speak! I've always wondered about how it worked emotionally and psychologically? I mean, you'd know the person pretty well already (a bonus in eras & cultures where arranged marriage was still pretty common) and would know the in-laws etc already, making the transition less jarring. Presumably you'd also already have emotional investment in any kids that existed from the previous marriage too, so that (given historical evidence of poor treatment of step-children) would've been a definite incentive for the surviving parent. It must've surely have been pretty weird though to go from years of viewing someone like a sibling-in-law (hands off!) to now being married to them...? I can imagine that if you actually cared for your new spouse, competing with the memory of your deceased sibling for their affections would also be fairly strange...?

lol, no offence but I find this attitude of you Americans quite "interesting" I mean, you could be as much if not more delighted with idk Cuban history but no, Sicily it's nicer because maybe your grandmother family came frome there, I mean, see what interest you and not what some dead relative of you might have wanted you to be interested in

@@Camaleonte9087 Just let people be interested in whatever they want to be.

@@dangerdan2592 sure, that's the whole point, you don't need some kind of "connection" to be interested in something

@@Camaleonte9087 You don't need it, but if you do have a connection with something, I don't see a problem in being interested in it. It's sort of like an ice breaker. You're already somewhat familiar with it even if it's a little bit. In Europe, I'm sure many children or grandchildren of migrants are interested in where their family came from, but I only ever see Americans catch flak for this. I mean it is annoying when some Americans play up the connection to their ancestors too much and have too much pride in it, but just being interested in the history is fine in my opinion. But hey, I'm an American as well so maybe I'm biased.