SuperB work

Can you please make a video about the Battle of Otlukbeli b/w the Ottoman empire and the AK Koyunlu sultanate.

I hope u shall cover some Indian battles also

Expedition of the Thousand when?

I wish you could go more in-depth about the agricultural revolution that killed feudalism

@83 Fleet83 well all religion has pagan roots

So did I when I saw this video

Noooooo battles brother

I think the hybrid approach to general history and battles during the era in question will help make the battle videos even better.

Also Andalusian Tai'fa period.

@@aleksapetrovic6519 agree 100% also I've read Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad's poetry recently and I liked it very much. But that entire period is incredible either in poetry or architecture

And warfare!!

and cooperation

It's an interesting comparison, because the greek city-states were also born after a middle age, called Greek Dark Ages, which happened after the fall of the Mycenean civilization. Similar to the middle ages happened after the fall of the Roman Empire. It's almost 1:1, like hystory repeating itself.

At the end of 13th century, the 6 Priori of the city of Florence (the government of the Republic, that were in charge for just 2 months) could freely use, without the vote of the Counseil of 100 (the legislative organ) of a sum up to 2000 gold Florins. So the Republic could afford to spend, with little control, up to 12.000 gold Florins/year. Those were the "pocket money" of the Republic. To say of how much it was, at the time only three states in Western Europe could afford to mint gold coins. Genoa, Florence and Venice.

It all changed when the frog nation attacked.

"A much greater wealth than Elizabethan England". What great bullshit. Milan did not have 200 thousand inhabitants. First, you can't be sure, and also the sources say about 100,000. As for the largest cities in Europe, there were Naples, Florence, Milan, Venice, Sarai, Paris, Prague, London, Constantinople, Brugge and Ypres. It is said that only Sarai, Constantinople, Paris and perhaps Florence had more than 100 thousand

Economists have estimated the GDP per capita of Renaissance Italy to be between 3000 and 3500$ (-> in 2011 dollars). The other big European powers like France, Germany, Spain and the UK oscillated between 1000 and 2000$. The remaining great powers like China and India between 1000 and 1500$, more or less. (for comparison's sake, Italy under emperor Augustus produced around 1500$ per capita) That's a huge difference in an era when economies could barely get past subsistence. And, on top of those GDP figures, there was the accumulated wealth that you mentioned.

@@jorehir this thing is a BIG bullshit. Anyway most of italian GDP came from the Church taxes

Thank you sir a LOT for the feedback.

Yep I believe labour shortages and increases in the price of labour caused by the black death played a significant role in the thinking of the average person in those days.

@@jaythompson5102 But they said that the population skyrocketed in Italy? The Fall of Constantinople and them (the Byzantine/Roman Greeks) coming to their ancestral homeland to share their ancient knowledge with the uncultured peasants of Western Europe played a huge part. Just imagine how many books and manuscripts that the Byzantine (Roman) Empire kept for themselves were brought to the West.

@@mabeSc If you are talking about skyrocketing growth at 10:33, the timelapse is XI - XIII, while the Black Death took place in XIV century.

A comment worth more than the entire video!

@@mabeSc that it is an overexagerationg, not because there was a migration of Greeks/Romans to Italy, the literacy and knowledge would increase in Italy, in fact, while indeed the Renaissance loved the Classic Age, I believe this is more a cultural/art thing, the Renaissance will be mainly up by the social, economic and population changes after the Black Death. Not because Italians studied some old philosophical books of the Classic, they will revolution all the Feudal System, more of a clue it is how bad and stagnant were the Eastern Romans even before the 4 Crussade, if they didn't develop too much like the Italians in centuries prior to migration why will be a thing that the Italians learnt from them?

Ikr lol

It's not enough to just talk about then, you should bring back their ways of thinking and undertandment of the world. You need to fully believe and live by their principles. For exemple, Greeks had a hierarchal view of the universe as Kosmos, everything must have a cause, and must be organized. In daily live it means to never do something just because of your feelings, every action must be guided by higher principles, a respect for authority and organization. They also search for Areté, Virtue, or supreme excellence. If everything has a cause and a authority, than we should always act searching for perfection, thinking " What is the most excelent action? What is the best?". If they paint, or build a sculpture, they would not think about their feelings, or to express their identity, or to subvert expectations, they would think "What is the most beautiful? How can I represent the most excelent idea through this work of art?". And they concluded that Unity, Goodness, Beauty and Knowlege are the highest principles, that these are the divine traits that all men should follow as a bases for their actions, and that those are the principles that define everything that exists in a hierarchical manner. Men should not search for empty pleasure( Hedonia), but for comtemplation of truth ( Eudaimonia). Romans had the doctrine of Officilis, Moral Duties, a man should not do just what he likes, but what he must do, in the name of his family, his ancestors, his society, for the Common Good. Our modern culture is the oposite of all that, we teach people to be individualists who just think about thenselves, hedonists who just search for empty pleasure, relativists who don't have any principles and don't believe in truth, that life has no meaning, is random and chaotic, to be revolutionaries, deny and subvert all standarts and authorities, to hate their ancestors, destroy their statues and put your feelings ahead of every action. That's why modern art is pure trash, our buildings are ugly as hell, our musics just talk about sex and drugs, our youth is alienated and our culture is pure degeneracy.

@@TheDarklugia123 already working on it. I’ve been teaching my 4 nieces, 3 nephews and daughter

We are in a technical/spiritual renaissance.

Calm down. A new reinassance means a change in society as like in technology. We still struggle to see the future. Indeed a changing is undergoing right now, but how it would go, that's something we can't predict.

Glad you enjoy it!

Love that quote

When it's already 1500 and Renaissance haven't reached Alaska yet

Would you say that game is the best way to simulate this time period?

Thank you! Cheers!

My pleasure!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Completely agree...and very much overlooked.

I hope in the next episode we get to see the Italian Wars, all the politicking between the Medici, the Borgias, the Sforza and the Papacy, etc.

Glad you enjoy it!

Unfortunately that which gave rise to the Renaissance also played a part in pushing Italy out of the great power category. The goal of Medici diplomacy was to ensure that no city state grew too powerful so as to dominate the others. This worked really well in peace time. Commerce and the arts flourished. But sadly it also ensured that when France and Spain came a plundering, they could not be withstood. After the renaissance Italy became little more than a battleground for the other European powers

On the bright side, at least they had states and weren’t conquered

It is one of reasons it became successful. It would not be as successful United.

Hi, I am "Italian" and I can tell you that Italy is still divided into cities and state regions in 2021, we inhabitants of the peninsula are divided, the north against the south, the south against the north, cities of the same region which are rivals etc. ... when you talk about Italy, you should still talk about city-states and regions that hate each other that are forced to stay under this "fake union" ...

it would therefore be better for us inhabitants of the peninsula to free ourselves from this false union, and for each region to have its own state.

Glad you enjoyed!

Thank you for watching.

@@HistoryMarche Wealcome.

that it is an overexagerationg, not because there was a migration of Greeks/Romans to Italy, the literacy and knowledge would increase in Italy, in fact, while indeed the Renaissance loved the Classic Age, I believe this is more a cultural/art thing, the Renaissance will be mainly up by the social, economic and population changes after the Black Death. Not because Italians studied some old philosophical books of the Classic, they will revolution all the Feudal System, more of a clue it is how bad and stagnant were the Eastern Romans even before the 4 Crussade, if they didn't develop too much like the Italians in centuries prior to migration why will be a thing that the Italians learnt from them?

Which the Italian kingdoms copied from the Byzantines and later Is stolled and sacked and burned Constantinople 1204

@@AKAZA-kq8jd save your BS you Greek nationalist, you won't lie me. Rome were backward in many matters by the XIII century, they stole you nothing, because trade, craftship, seashitf, banking, republic, etc are not an excluisivity of the Romans. One stuff in philosophical and art inspiration, but the majority of the Renaissance came from Italian minds after the Black Death.

@@mariano98ify Whatever im not going to get in to these Constantinople was Europe back door to Asia the knowledge they Collected over the years help built Europe.

@@AKAZA-kq8jd good, I neither wasted my time with a troll of a debt nation uncapable to type some argument. Europe neither need Greek and they didn't need them after her fall. The Muslim were beaten in the Iberian Peninsula and then the voyages of the Iberian nation discovered the world. Not a dying nation. Close you account of Belisarius because you don't deserve him.

Thanks for sticking with me on this YT journey :)

Thanks for making it a great journey :)

Keep it up mate!

@@tai-yomaruno3680 lmao.

Well there wasn't a Copy of the past but a lot of improvment and changes

Hic paratus sum!

Hm, fair point. I'm well aware of Byzantine influence myself, but maybe should've touched on it more in the video. I was too focused on just Italy. Though to be fair, Arabic scholars were mentioned only in passing, as a means to chronologically line up events, while all of the focus went to Italy.

Arabic influence was not just in Aristotle the Canon of medicine made by ibn sina was the dominant medical book all the way to 16 century

i'l add that the original translation programmeof the ancient classics from Greek to Arabic was done by Christians in Baghdad in the 9th-century. It was these texts translated yet into Latin that was the source of reimport of classical knowledge to the West, before the explosion of further classical texts after the Fall of Constantinople.

Headed by Hunayn ibn "Ishaq" director of the caliphate's library. He was a "Dyophysite" Christian court physician.

@@maxion5109 yes it was the Christians who had the lungustic expertise to do the translation are trying to undermine the accomplishments of the Muslims some or I am understanding it wrong

Ok, ma va bene lo stesso. Tanto distano tra loro pochissimi chilometri