That's incredible. I don't want to call it petty because the man had his family slaughtered, but I love how there's a magnificent piece of architecture hundreds of years old built the way it is because of spite

@@JackRackam "I'm gonna build my own Damascus with blac- i meant great mosques & fountains!"

@@JackRackam Theres a church tower in Copenhagen that had a staircase externally placed outside the top of the spire, upon completion the architect realized he had screwed up the spiral of the staircase and threw himself off the tower.

@@Elenrai "AW SHIT I FUCKED UP TIME TO FACE GOD"

Well, the problem is.... We don't really know. So many old mosques were built facing various wrong directions & have been corrected in modern times. We should also take into account that precise mapping wasn't a thing back then. 😂😂😂 In any case, I seem to remember a saying basically something around "anything in any direction is owned by Allah". So, it seems that it wasn't supposed to be a big issue for muslims back then. 🤔🤔🤔

When he wakes up Yeah he knows he's gonna be He's gonna be the man that Wakes up as the Caliph of Cordoba

Da da da (Da da da) Da da da (Da da da)

damn you! i saw the vid in the thumbnails and immediatly two blonde scots are signing in my head and i knew it was youtube commentary jokes material

@@jonathancote9372 Legends say when you put a title involving walking or running many miles, The Proclaimers will start singing in your head. Best you can do is sing along.

Damn it you beat me to it.

He's actually pretty famous in the Arab world.

@@verysmartultrahuman939 And in Spain.

Yeah even I’ve heard of him, I mean he pretty defined Medieval Spanish History.

There's so many I've never heard of before, it's a smorgasbord!

@@JackRackam Hey bro what software do you use for the animation? like how do you make them talk or move? answer me you owe me this you femboy

Al Mansour has a little brother called the butcher and the story behind his name fascinating One time the butcher was visited by an old friend ( al Rahman clan member) Who asking to save heaven for him and his family. Then the butcher offered him a meal then all of sudden some guy entered the room and starts screaming saying are you offering peace and security to people who was persecuting your family and clan then the butcher orders his men to cut the head of the al Rahman clan people then the butchers turns to his old friend and says do you have anything left after your family then he says and he get the same treatment and while the corps is shaking and leading he orders his food and eat there so from that day people called him the butcher

@@josh6028 he's the first Abbasid caliph, as Saffah(the Blood shedder/the Butcher).

FOOLS , i love that part for some reason

IIRC from watching al-Muqaddimah, al-Mansur is also said to have said "Praise for God for putting a sea between me and Abd-al-Rahman."

Al Mansur has supported and funded some tribes in Andalusia to overthrow Abd Alrahman and take over Andalusia. The tribes revolted and failed miserably while Abd Al Rahman did not only emerge victorious, but also massacred 7000 rebels, cut off the heads of the tribes leaders and sent them in baskets to Al Mansur... Upon receiving that gift Al Masur said "Thank God who placed a sea between us and that deamon"

"All right everybody stay cool, stay cool, we can't let him know. What do we say next?" "I don't know, I honestly didn't think we'd make it this far!"

It's Yahya :)

@@sleepy2364 Thats my assumption, I thought jack mispronounced, still do

@@hukama6911 He did mispronounce it but its alright, Arabic names can be difficult for others

@@JackRackam odd, that usually works...

That's more like attractive

@@Omar_ayach What would be the closest Arabic translation for "cute"?

@@mortified776 ltif لتيف

@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl Thanks!

@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl *لطيف

Who knows what was going on in Yahya's head at the time. Maybe he was tired of running and thought he'd die with dignity. Maybe he was so scared of drowning that he assumed his pursuers might have spared him because he was young and royalty. Either way, not a good move.

@علي ياسر ehhhh he didn't really defeat Charlemagne he more survived him by realizing that not engaging him was the best policy. He new that eventually Charlemagne would have to return North of the Pyrenees due to the fractious nature of Europe at that time. It was only a matter of time before one of the German states rebelled or a french Lord somewhere started fighting another lord so to preserve his empire he'd have to leave Spain. So defeated naaaahhhh the Spanish March still became a thing but outsmarted him yep I agree 100 %. As for the Basques well they are one of those small groups of people in every region of the world that most Despots, kings and Emperors should just leave alone but never do. Their a stone around a drowning man's neck . They never need anymore reason to kill an outsider than that they are there and on their land. Basque, Irish, Vietnamese, Ukrainians, Chechens, Gurkahs and Afghans all stubborn people who should just be left alone.

@علي ياسر Because he didn't think in this way. Religion was just another tool to gain power with, he never looked at the Basques Christianity as a reason for alliance, he just saw another group he could exploit. This is how all people of power see others it's how they divide us control us and inevitably have us die for them in their quest for power. In the Basques case he saw a small wealthy minority he could ravage and thus gain wealth and control of. It would have worked had the Basques been a lesser people but they weren't they were special if he had known their history and mentality he would have left them be.

Yaya's Ck2 caracther clearly had 10 deplomacy, 0 intrigue and the Trusting trait

He couldn’t swim though

Why are you running!

You totally could! Somebody should!

There is a Syrian show about it, I think there are multiple actually, but nothing of high quality

My thoughts exactly when I was seeing it

@@Goodguy507 It's, pretty great, sure low production cost.... But good nonetheless

Been saying that my whole life!!!

Apparently he's known in Spain

Islam is garbage.

It's not like he's completely unknown.

@@honda-akari Did anybody ask?

@Shy Cracker Off course he's known wtf

What that comment has to do anything with this video?

@@C____MdArman nothing just a 13 year old who thinks he’s funny or smart

@@scott228 wow people getting so mad over a joke. Who hurt you guys who killed your sense of wonder

@@baseupp12 Prolly barbarians or plebs, or maybe both.

@@scott228 I can taste the salt

Time is cyclical, you've looped all the way through the end back to the beginning. I tried to warn you

@@JackRackamI shudve listened when all yall historians told me history repeats itself... i shudve listened

Since we went from BC to AD, I expect the next era to be ZE.

@@erraticonteuse Oh gods, if so then ZE is comin soon cuz it clearly stands for Zoomer Era Cant wait to see them yeet us into the next era.

That makes for a “Fuck me... I picked a hell of a moment to quit drinking.”

i keep coming back for 8:08, and it never disappoints

Drowning sucks 😬

Netflix would make him black

​​@@maharajmaharaj4626man of course they made Cleopatra black for the God sake

and Abderraman 2 and 3 finished the job

Abdurrahman. the way you write it makes me think of ramen.

And Almanzor decided to ruin everything

*Laughs in Dimitri Ivanovich*

@@InquisitorThomas i see sire you're a man of culture

It was it arab muslim rulers who revolted

@@miracleyang3048 You might already know this, but if you don't: All that was a reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian.

@@Memphismastermind I Know Still that one information is wrong You don't need an inaccurate information for this joke to work

Zaragoza literally translates to Caesaraugusta i.e. the city founded by Augustus Caesar. The inhabitants already had all the shit you've mentioned before the Muslims crossed over lmao.

@@princepscivitatis4083 They didn't had public baths infact Europeans at that time were famous for not washing for years

I actually thought the Caliph was being cute when naming his children, but it turns out you are correct

Yahya could be translated as John

In English or Latin YAHYA is JOHN or YOHANNES, so it's not an unusual names both in Christians and Muslims, its the most common name ever in both religion.

Didn't he also posses one of the largest pornography collections in the whole world at the time?

@@galanopouloc Just when the mistresses weren't enough. He apparently had the same taste for women as Edward VIII: Married women

He also banned red cars in the city of Cairo (because his personal collection of very expensive machines were red) and had an ambulance follow him at all times in case he *casually* mowed down a pedestrian.

@@jakekaywell5972 I'd like to think Sacha Baron Cohen got his inspiration for Aladeen with Farouk with all the crazy things he's done

Yeah, some nuance got lost in the script. The promise of more equality was a big part of what got them into power. From what I recall though, wasn't the way they phrased putting a descendant of Muhammad's family sort of misleading? At least I seem to recall reading that some Shiites supported them on that ground thinking it'd be someone more closely related to Ali

@@JackRackam You're absolutely right, there was major shaiite rebillions during Al-Mansour's reign. People expected a desandant of Ali to be put on the throne. And the Abbasids sware of alligance to the rebillion was "Ela al-redda men Aal'Mohamed/To the accepted from Mohamed's family"..... So yeah people were expecting an alawite.

What a fantastic setting for a campaign - running away from the "evil empire" until you become powerful enough to create your own

Had I known! I assumed it was sort of a last name, either based on a location or a relative. Whoops 😅

@@JackRackam Yeah well, naming conventions are not obvious at first 😅, and it is a mouthful. You could lookup nicknames and short hands for those guys. In that case, we would shorten it to Abdo.

@@JackRackam its safe to assume any name that write like abd-al are just pronounced it as abdul. Arabic 101 xD

Know any good books or documentaries?

What does modarian and qaysid mean exactly.

@@rejoanbary2155 Modar is a super-tribe of Arabs: Qays and Kinanah are two branches of that super-tribe (and they, in turn, are divided into more branches). Qays is where you get Qaysids: they're simply the members of that super-tribe. So every Qaysid is a Modari, but not every Modari is a Qaysid. That was the point the guy you replied to made.

Funny, I sort of got tired of the stick people because I felt like they went against the aesthetic of the rest of the video. I'm sure they aren't gone for good though, they made an appearance in the Talleyrand video

Wait I need more info this guy sounds hella cool

I remember there's this manga about him out there.

He did do an episode on it, 3 years ago

@@Sabersquirl on Ali, not Sons

@Atripple I appreciate your summary, but it's not a Jack Rackham summary. That's what I had hoped to inspire by my comment. A video. Thank you though