“You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.”

I'm a biologist, so I can give a nice explanation of why trees form rings! Basically, it's seasons. They put on more wood during the spring and summer, and very little in the fall and winter, because they need to photosynthesize to make wood. Interestingly, this means that rings on trees don't work as well in the tropics (although they still make rings, but based on rainy/dry cycles rather than cold/hot ones).

as a russian, i feel like you described russian imperialism really well. i like how you agnolaged the differences between how russians and europeans perceive nationalism

fuck as someone living in the US who's high school history teacher was a staunch libertarian type who vehemently taught that the confedaracy fought for state's rights, 01:00:13 really just rang in my ears like tinnitus. it is *shocking* how pervasive of an idea it is in the south, and it made me realize how the former confederate states really act like a fallen empire. they feel a need to define themselves in much the same ways, but it seems like it just will... not... die.

Exceptionalism is one hell of a drug

hearing about the claims of new chronology and pin-balling between "I'm insulted that these guys don't consider any african civilizations Great enough to take credit for them" and "god I'm glad these guys barely acknowledge africa"

"Let’s make up 300 years of history" "Why?" "Dunno - as a prank perhaps!?" "Sure, why not" "It’ll be a blast, I’m already ROFLMAO"

It’s kinda weird that whenever people debunk the Phantom Time Hypothesis they never seem to bring up the fact that it would make the creation and existence of Islam completely incomprehensible

This comment section is amazing, so many conspiracy theories on history from around the world that id never heard about. The mythmaking needed to create a state and legitimise its actions is fascinating and terrifying.

"how many people do you know of between the years 600 and 900?" me, a muslim who loves history: well a lot actually

0:00 - Intro 3:45 - Phantom Time Hypothesis 10:49 - Rome Didn’t Exist Tiktok 17:44 - Dating Methods 26:59 - Russian History 101 38:37 - Fomenko’s New Chronology 1:00:45 - Outro

I like to play chess on my other monitor whilst watching these longer youtube videos and was shocked when Mia said the word chess as I was booting it up

As I mentioned in the chat, this is a relevant topic for so many different countries. There is an oft-repeated idea about the indigenous Maori of my country, for example: It says that the Maori effectively replaced the Moriori (or some other group, depending on the flavour of the theory), supposed pre-Maori inhabitants of all of New Zealand. This theory was created by colonists to explain and justify their own colonialism by way of proving ideas of social-Darwinism and the like; proving Maori had displaced a "weaker race" would mean settlers could argue their colonialism to be "displacing a weaker race". Academia has found this theory to be utterly unfounded, but the idea lingers on the heads of many white New Zealanders today, perhaps partially for somewhat the same reasons as those that lead to the theory's creation. There are holes in New Zealand history education that are still being remedied, as is true for just about all countries that are based on a legacy of settler colonialism.

So, as a Ukrainian, I want to say that your brief explanation of Russian history/culture/identity is more sane and nuanced than 80% of takes I heard from Russians and other people from Post-Soviet countries. I don't have any corrections, I just want to add some details to the video: 1) Fomenko repeatedly brings up "linguistics" in his writings. I don't know how English translation handled it, but in original it is super obvious that he only knows Russian and English at A1 level and doesn't care about learning any other language. Like he says that Red Sea from Exodus is actually Black Sea because Church Slavonic word for "red" is one letter away from word for "black" and so on. 2) The fact that he is a mathematician is very important in understanding why people belive him. Historians and other humanities scholars are percieved as not true scientists and basically propagandists here while natural scientists and especially engineers are glorified for being geniuses. At least it was like this in Soviet times, nowadays natural scientists aren't respected either. 3) While your description of emergence of Russia as powerful state is flawless, I want to add that some people argue that whatever can be called Russian national identity has its roots in World War II, that explains the whole "besieged fortress" mentality of all of the Russian nationalist conspiracies. 4) Also, later books add that Trojan War actually happened and it was in 13th century and it was fourth crusade and Troy is actually Constantinople. I don't think that anyone is surprised at this point, but it's too funny to not mention.

As a Russian it's a bit surreal seeing someone in "the west" talk about New Chronology. Met it when I was a kid and wasn't sold on it probably because the guy talking to me wasn't a good recruiter and just dumped all the crazy stuff on me at once and I went "what the fuck are you even talking about???". I can see tho how if you carefully phrase it you can make a compelling case, especially to people who long for great imperial past and whant to "make X great again". But I guess with the current onslaught of Kremlin propoganda among some of the western leftists spaces, it might become more important to the english speaking sphere to start understanding what the hell is going on in Russia and what it is all about. Didn't know Kasparov was into that, but at least a number of people in Russian opposition and anti-Putin intellectual elite do have a worrying tendency of nationalism and imperialism. Many of which became more apparent during the current war in Ukraine. For some the progressiveness is mostly optics or a different set of criteria by which they think they are destined to rule and finally want their place among the people "in charge". I guess if you live in the heart of the Empire long enough, even if a fallen one, - the Empire grows into you as well. P.S. 46:20 - that was very good :D

I'm a pescatarian because I really just want to mess with carbon dating.

Conservatism is, at it's core, an ideology rooted in a particular misremembering of the past.

I am Mexican. I am a mathematician like my father. He studiedt to university in Moscow around the year of the fall of the Soviet Union. The first time I heard about this conspiracy theory was 15 or more years ago. I even held on my hands a book called "Библейсская русь", that is, "Biblical Rus"

As a russian, every time I see my country mentioned I get this weird fight-or-flight response that's it's gonna be something slanderous and misinformed again, but since it's Mia's channel, of course I'm a lot more open-minded and it paid off Funnily enough, I first heard about New Chronology through western content creators talking about that tiktok disaster and by god was I simultaniously weirded out and rolled my eyes, saying to myself "of course it's russian, fuck me", I'm glad that I've never met people that are even aware of this theory altogether, let alone believing it, virtues of living in the Northern Capital, I guess (heh, I caught myself thinking that we don't really fit into the russian fold and are somewhat unique here, I guess it's the same sentiment, just on a much smaller scale and being considerably more moderate in nature) All in all, Mia has a good grasp on nature of russian imperialism and nationalistic ideas of people on top, both the current unhinged batch, and the opposition leaders too, they just word it differently, and in current circumstances, well... you can imagine what kind of bullshit they are spewing, in scary amounts too In any case, thank you, Mia, for this video and approaching the topic as you did!

I remember a friend who worked with an Armenian field trip to Stone Henge whose teacher proclaimed that it was built by Armenians... I found this hilarious as an Armenian who has had to hear many uncles bragging about how ancient kingdoms are "our old lands". It makes more sense in the west when you look at the concept of "Caucasians", and how that influences lowkey fascism in many countries... With Gary Gasparov being Armenian I wonder if that's the other side of his interpretation. I always think that a wounded people are extra susceptible to this stuff as a collective trauma response. Post WW2 Zionism for example feels very familiar to me as an Armenian.

This fits so well with how European fascism formed out of nationalist movements to "shape" a type of history for their countries. I can never forget how Szalasi argued that the Hungarians were directly tied to the Godvinian race of Jesus, and hence they were blessed to rule over the lands of St. Stephen. Fiction has always been a way for us to cope with reality, and it has been often take so far that it was made into reality in a sense.

Sometimes I wish I was still living in the time when I could see a bone-headed conspiracy theory like that as just a source of amusement, and not something to be concerned about.

There's a fairly consistent pattern to how a lot of historical conspiracy theories function here: 1. Observer that history is (naturally) a patchwork of individual and deeply subjective accounts of certain events, some of which are pretty under-sourced due to destruction of records, poor record-keeping and other well-known issues. 2. Propose your own increasingly elaborate and under-sourced claims about alternative events in history that make even less sense. 3. Ignore the way that point 1 applies to your own claims. 4. Rinse and repeat.

A similar politically motivated claim has also been made about Taj Mahal, where a self-proclaimed historian, P.N. Oak has claimed that all religions have evolved Hinduism, that Jesus was a Hindu, and Taj Mahal was a Hindu Temple. He has even claimed that Judaism and Islam have originated from Hinduism and the Vatican City, noticing the similarity with the Sanskrit word, "Vatika" was also a Hindu place. Even rumours like Shah Jahan had chopped the hands of all the workers who built the Taj were chopped. While all of it is ludicrous indeed, it puts into perspective how societies want to believe that they were the founders of the world, rather than being a by-product of the countless wars and massacres that have established their civilizations today. Very interesting video.

I find so many similarities with how Russia and China define themselves in relation to empire and the nation state,coming from an amateur on Chinese history. Chinese nationalism came during the end of the Qing empire and is greatly informed by anti-Manchu sentiments and anti-imperialism, with later sentiments about the Chinese nation having multiethnic national unity. Despite these claims problems of Han Chinese nationalism and chauvinism have persisted, and the modern nation state and territorial claims encompasses much what was under the Qing Empire(these include Tibet, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Taiwan,etc). Much of the modern justification is that this is rectifying colonial humiliation(British & Japanese mostly) that Chinese people have endured, but while understandable it provides state justification of Chinese imperialism.

This is also interesting for a lot of countries. As an Spanish I couldn't help think of the most popular around this parts, which would be "the pink/white legend" view of the Spanish Empire, which well basically states in it's weakest form that compared to other Colonial Empires was relatively benevolent and that all the bad things attributed to it are minor incidents blown out if proportion by Protestant scholars (that created a "Spanish Black Legend"). And in its strongest form that everything the Empire and the Inquisition did either was completely justified or a direct invention of those pamphletlist. It also remind me of things more related to regional nationalism in Spain, like how every region with an autonomy movement needs for some weird reason to have an elaborate conspiracy theory to claim Columbus as Catalán, or Galician ir Basque (which I don't know, I wouldn't want the corrupt genocide slave merchant tyrant for me)

Important clarification about carbon dating - it is only considered accurate up to around 60,000 years ago. Also, the nuclear age has made it so we can’t date deposits from the 20th century onward. Fantastic video as always Mia!

As for other countries: Here in Germany we have a *huge* problem with how we talk about the average German's role in Nazi Germany. The usual line goes along of "Most Germans were only victims or didn't even know what was happening, it was only a few Nazis who did all the bad things! Also there were no more Nazis after the Nürnberg Trials". This, of course, is a lot of bullshit. For one a lot of German corporations got big during Nazi Germany (by "buying" Jewish industry, resources and land, as well as by using slave labour from POWs and concentration camps), on the other hand the German population was very much compliant. Of course not everyone was a die-hard Nazi, but they were supported and seen as "right" for most of it. Not talking about this means, we don't learn how problematic complacency and passivity are! As for the "no more Nazis": a lot of teachers from Nazi Germany continued to teach after the defeat. They were still Nazis though, even if they couldn't admit it as openly. And then again there were still a lot of families and companies (in Germany they are usually connected) who made massive profits under the Nazis and continued to work mostly uninterrupted to this day. A result of that is some of our richest countrymen funding our neo Nazi movements and parties. Hooray... So yeah... we *definetly* learnt from history.

As the son of a Soviet American immigrant I mostly watched this video and clapped along because my family in Fresno California is big on this Russian conspiracy hypetrain. My babushka has dementia so I listen to her rant and rave about how Russia is under attack without arguing with her. It is nice to hear a breakdown of where her worldview and insecurities come from.

I am from Belarus, and we studied history both through the entire school and then uni (regardless what your major was). And it was a strange realization years later just how much time and brain-space had been wasted on basically fanfiction version of history. I've never particularly payed attention in those classes and definitely did not build my idea of the country through them, as even during my time in school history textbooks were re-written several times and everyone was just collectively expected to pretend nothing happened. Plus my parents' generation is right when the Soviet collapsed, so at least in my household any sort of official media, textbooks etc were taken w a grain of salt. However even so I still find pieces of history that apparently didn't happen like I thought cuz propaganda in schools told me otherwise...

The plant word for "born" is "germinated"

My mother is into the Bulgarian version of this. Where Bulgarians are an ancient people who traveled all around the world and founded all the great ancient civilizations and cities and built all the great monuments and invented writing and also they're god's chosen people and Jesus was Bulgarian. But it's not as elaborate as the Russian version, there's no fake chronology to back it up, it just casually dismisses real history as a foreign fabrication aimed at hiding Bulgarians' true history and intended position as god's chosen people. In fact my mother is a groupie for one of the most prominent fake historians advancing this narrative. She helps organize his meetings with existing and potential followers. That guy has also received positive coverage on the national state-owned and tax-funded TV channels. Which have sadly had a far-right leaning for a while now, despite there having been a moderate right and pro-western government in power for over a decade. I suspect this has to do with said government mostly wanting to privatize the remaining state media, but knowing they couldnt get away with such an unpopular move, so they left it to its own devices while waiting for the right time to get rid of it. And now that they're out of power, the new centrist government is too busy with constant crises to bother investigating the state media. So we're still stuck with them doing shit like this.

I’m English, and I find this conspiracy theory profoundly insulting, because we all know that Churchill did all that stuff, and that’s why he’s on the five pound note. Jokes aside, it is saddening how often people are so ready to ascribe great acts of profound evil (whether that be actual colonialism, all the way up to the supposedly ‘victimless’ crime of ignoring the entire continent of Africa as an active contributor to global history) as “we did that stuff, because we’re fucking awesome! Yay! Empire!”

It sounds like Fomenko's work says a lot more about collective human behavior than human history. Like, if there are that many mathematical similarities between different societies over a large period of time, that seems like something that could be analyzed from a psychological perspective.

As a German, we handle our history in a very mixed way. We are brutally honest with a lot of the Third Reich stuff but when it comes to the German Democratic Republic, the Weimar Republic or even the German Empire, we skew a lot of stuff. We are partially putting horrendous stuff like Bismarck's politics in a flattering light or giving stuff like the political instability of the Weimar republic a nostalgic spin, almost romanticizing this time a bit, making it out to be way more liberal and stable than it used to be. Not to mention that we just ignore the continuation of Nazis as heads of state in the new German Republic and also a lot of the east is very nostalgic about the German Democratic Republic. Over all, though, I guess we are one of the more matter-of-fact countries with our history, especially in comparison to countries like China, the US or Japan.

As an American this is extremely interesting, especially as here we're taught the most insane false history in school, from Columbus, the foundation of the US, black liberation movements in the 20th basically being nearly completely rewritten from reality, the wars in the middle east, a lot of Americans are taught a completely backwards history that's extremely white washed and unless you relearn it as an adult that's just what you know. I think it's extremely valuable for people to question time and history, as long as you're being rational

Chekov from Star Trek claiming everything was invented by Russia makes more sense now

This was amazing. I once knew a guy very much into Illig's ideas and he was pretty convincing in retelling them. Ficticious history is truly all over the world: Here in Switzerland many, many people believe Schiller's Drama about William Tell being an accurate description of the events leading to the creation of the country. In my native Germany, almost everybody believes their ancestors were in the resistance against the Nazis and not members of the party, but honestly: These people in your video took it to a whole new level.

It's been a long time (or has it?!) since I heard anyone talk about the phantom time hypothesis. It's truly an odd one

I'm from Russia (had to leave the country due to war). I had an algebra professor who believed that history was copy-pasted. It was in one of the biggest universities in Russia, so yeah. it's big

In general, we are taught correct "facts" in history: dates, parties involved, how many people died in battle, who was king, etc; it's narratives, rationales, and justifications that link these facts that should be distrusted and scrutinized most closely.

I'm a simple man; I see people shitting on New Chronology, I click

I went to dutch Highschool in the 1990s and I can tell you that what the history books had to say about colonisation, the east india trading company and what that meant in the world at the time, to this day makes my organs want to burst out of my body and abandon in it shame for what I unironically answered on tests back then, and got good grades for. The netherlands abused and violated peoples across the globe and we dubbed that time, i kid you not, the golden age. The Netherlands were still not done holding onto some of their territories. and there's still an island in the Caribbean that is officially part of our country to this day. Now I know that there is a large bit of narrative going on to support the nation's policy in how we tell our history. I think you can pick up a textbook for highschool history in just about any nation and start redacting for propaganda. Given that this is true, I could understand why some would question the entirety of the account, like even the parts the rest of the world agrees on. The thing is, those narratives rarely disagree on when what happened, but mostly just make up shit about why things happened, what they were like and more importantly, what they meant. Ambrose Bierce defined in his 'devils' dictionary' Colum: History: An account, mostly false, about events, mostly unimportant, brought about by kings, mostly knaves, and soldier, mostly fools. And that was some english literary fuck from the nineteenth century.

I know this isn't the main thrust of the video, but what I learned to day is: Mia Mulder buys her furniture at IKEA. I've seen those bed slats and struts before...

The fact this happens everywhere should prove we are not all too different.

Yeah, im American so I've never heard of this, but as someone who's into history but not super super informed on everything the combination of plausible sounding historical "facts" and the mathematical nonsense, if presented reasonably sounding and charismatically, would probably convince me. I can see why people fall for it.

The description of the Russian identity and lack of nation-state within the Empire is very similar to the state of the English within the British nation.

Cultural Russian (ethnic Lezgi) chiming in: 35:26 That is quite incorrect. The term "nationalism" ("национализм") is used about as often and referring to the same thing as the term "racism" in US, except here xenophobia is based on genetics that go deeper than skin. 46:20 Spit my tea. 😆

A similar concept can be that of English Imperialism in Great Britain: Wales and Scotland do not manage to have a very strong national identity, as they are contiguous with the "metropole" England. The whole concept of Britishness was in a way used to unify and prevent indipenence movements in Great Britain, often in opposition to Irish, American, Indian identities

so yeah here in the US our schools teach that the US civil war was about states rights... and that has a lot to do with where we are at right now honestly...

Your imitation of that girl on tiktok claiming that the Roman Empire never existed resembled the way my friend talks incredibly accurately, Somewhat scary. Anyways, great video!

In case anyone's wondering how carbon can "decay": some of the carbon all living things eat is a slightly radioactive isotope called carbon-14, which gets activated primarily by intercepting cosmic rays. This activated carbon is "recent" carbon -- stuff that is near earth's surface and available to plants and animals. We know about how much biologically available carbon in carbon-14 at any given time because the rate of cosmic bombardment of the earth is fairly consistent. Like all radioactive elements, carbon-14 has a half-life, a rate at which it naturally decays back into regular stable carbon, and we can measure this rate, too. That half-life is 5000-ish years. And, because math, every 5000-ish years, half the carbon-14 in a given specimen will have decayed, the process becomes increasingly inaccurate the further back you go by a few thousand years. It's a measure with a wide margin of error And yet, as inaccurate as it is, it's still extremely useful for dating very old stuff where the margin of error can be a million years or so; like, where you're only interesting in dating an organism to roughly the right geological epoch -- making sure your Jurassic Park dinos are really from the Jurassic, for example. It's also a good test of whether or not something is just old or not; say, you want to know if the Viking tomb you've unearthed is really ancient or a more recent installation (and possibly hoax).

This is new my favorite video i’ve seen from you, seriously this is a 10/10 and your humor out by the tree was extra funny to me. Hopefully that doesn’t sound too parasocial, i’m blown away just from how well put together the script feels. really really impressive stuff here Mia!

As someone who grew up close to and (for a while) in Aachen, learning about Charlemange for the first time in 3rd grade, I feel seen. We had a school trip to the "Emperors favourite city", where we visited the chapel and the treasury with our very passionate teacher. My enthusiasm was dampened later that day: the treasury didn't have the real tresaures. It was all a lie...! Turns out they had sent them away during ww2 for safekeeping and they ended up in Austria. ...and just never came back. Some of the pieces had been kept in Aachen for over 1000 years. It would take 20 years until I finally got to see the real regalia in Vienna. And I kept seeing them, since I lived there for a while and felt like I finally got 'what I was owed'. (I'm not even really a German, it was more the nerd in me who felt betrayed) Yes I went back to Aachen. NO ONE knows about us, even though the city played such an important role for europe back in the day. Thanks Mia, I loved the (accidental) trip down memory lane...!

This reminds me so much of the view of history amongst the hoteps lol. Unsurprisingly, a lot of anti-black, anti-African myths were created to make African peoples out to be these stupid, “uncivilised” savages who never accomplished anything - the other side of the coin to the myth of the Great White Race. Thus nowadays we have a large population of black people in the diaspora who are naturally sceptical of mainstream views of history, religion, medicine etc. But as you say that scepticism easily gets taken too far, which is how we end up with West African descended black people claiming Jewish heritage and all the accomplishments of Ancient Egypt/Kemet... It’s such a shame because every race or group or whatever has a rich history that the group can be proud of and look to in one way or another. In creating this fake history, I feel they obscure their actual accomplishments. Instead of elevating the actual history of black people for example, hoteps perpetuate these myths that claim other peoples history as our own, again leaving our actual history neglected. And when they do mention actual history, it’s so surrounded in bullshit, you’ll be forgiven for throwing the baby out with the bath water.

"The Roman Empire wasn't a real empire, it was a cultural or economic empire" is the kind of take only an American could come up with, because there is no such thing as a "cultural empire" or an "economic empire", those are always just regular old military empires. Disney would not have nearly the global cache it does without American military bases all over the world. Latin would not be the grandmother tongue of Europe if the Legions hadn't spoken it.

This was a really eye-opening video. I'd heard of New Chronology before but didn't really have a good understanding of it was or what it represents. Its popularity in Russia never made sense to me, because from a typical Western perspective it falls into the category "whacko conspiracy theory". Understanding that it's just one manifestation of the seemingly universal phenomenon of people arguing over cultural and national history really puts things in perspective. It makes me realise that there really isn't a clear demarcation between New Chronology and the kinds of revisionism and negationism I'm more familiar with. In Australia we literally call it the "history wars", a term which originated in the 1990s and 2000s when it was at its peak. It was an era when Aboriginal land rights had only just been legally acknowledged, and there was a concerted affort to push back against the reckoning that came with increased awareness of our own history. It was carried out by politicians, pundits, and academics alike - one of the most prominent being historian Keith Windschuttle, who claimed that mainstream historians had spent the last 30 years fabricating and misrepresenting the historical record to suit a left-wing cultural agenda and demonise white Australia. Is there any real difference between him and Fomenko? He might not claim that mainstream chronology is false, but he does claim that colonisation was almost entirely peaceful on the part of the white settlers, the Stolen Generations (a 20th-century program of state-sponsored kidnapping) are a myth, and that the Tasmanian Aboriginal population died out because of their genetic and cultural inferiority rather than the well-documented efforts of colonists to eradicate them. They both deny the historical record in an attempt to glorify their national in-group. Different manifestations of the same phenomenon, the same desire.

Mia ….”Trying to find a national identity not rooted in empire” British people “James Bond franchise”

The Netherlands knows its 18th century as its "golden age." This is the age of the VoC, the height of our colonialism, when we committed most of our atrocities but also became filthy rich in the process. Recent efforts to change this narrative- because really, how is the exploitation of huge portions of the world a good thing?- have been met with a lot of resistance. Part of seeing history for what it is is confronting yourself with harsh truths. It's important, but a nation deluded into a false historic narrative is difficult to "update" on current historic understanding.

Yeah I see shit like this a lot in Serbia, every single family dinner turns into a multiple hour long conversation about all of human history being linked to Serbia, human civilization beginning with us, everybody being out to get us, it's all us versus them and literally every historical or geopolitical event is somehow directly linked to us, where we are both the victim of it all and the ones in control, it's just tiring.

Maybe history is the events we made up to destory the russian spirit together

Great and really comprehensive video, Mia! You mentioned a lot of influential Russo-nationalist thinkers, with a large emphasis on Anatoly Fomenko and Morozov - BUT I also recommend (or rather, don't recommend) checking out Dmitrii Galkovskii! He represents an even worse and more unhinged version of the New Chronology, imo. I'd argue his books, blogposts and essays are even more widely read in Russia than Fomenko is. Even worse, many of the worst Russian chauvinists like Igor Girkin (prev. military commander of the "DNR") actually cite and quote Galkovskii quite often. This stuff is the intellectual fuel for genuine war criminals. The basis is pretty much the same as you laid out, but he goes a lot further in re-writing history to suit his particular political aims. His concept of the Soviet Union as a "cryptocolony" of Britain(!) has unfortunately become a VERY influential idea in contemporary Russo-nationalist circles. Basically, Galkovskii argues the October Revolution was actually a British plot, and that Lenin was a "triple agent" of Germany and British secret services. The Soviet Union was supposedly not an instrument of Russian expansionism, but rather an "anti-Russian mission" run by the ethnic minorities that inhabited the former Russian Empire. In this counter-factual view, victimhood is *only* awarded to ethnic Russians, instead of the minorities who arguably suffered a great deal more (y'know... genocide and deportation!) A great article to clue you in: - Bobrov, I. V. & Mikhailov, D. A. 2019. "Three Enemies of Russia: Dmitrii Galkovskii and Strategies of “Enemification” in Contemporary Russian Nationalism" His work has never been properly translated into English, so he is not very well known in the West. Honestly, that could be for the better, tho. P.S. You also earned a new sub :-)

So, a major correction about carbon dating: Carbon dating is actually only accurate for relatively short ages, with a theoretical maximum of about 100,000 years, but a practical maximum closer to about 50,000 years. It will never be accurate for dinosaurs. Trying to date a dinosaur fossil with carbon dating is like trying to weigh a truck on a bathroom scale. It is true that a carbon date can only give an upper bound for the age of when something was built (in other words, a structure must have been built after the tree from which youngest original plank comes was felled), and that the marine reservoir effect makes marine organisms and organisms that eat them look older than they really are. Because of the way carbon dating works, it is most accurate on terrestrial plants, and the further removed in the food chain one is from terrestrial plants, the less accurate the dating becomes. The bones of an animal that died in the same year as a tree will tend to look just a little bit older than they actually are, because the animal was not constantly taking in new 14-carbon from the atmosphere like the plant was. All that said, historians and archaeologists (and scientists generally) look for what is called concordance within the data. They will use multiple dating methods on the same site or artifact and look to see if they all point in the same direction. Let's take the construction of a building as an example. Perhaps we have a letter referencing the building which was written around 1200 CE. Carbon dating the oldest plank in the building gives us a date range of 1000 to 1300 CE. Dendrochronology on that same plank tells us the tree it came from was felled in 1090 CE. The data are concordant - that is, they are all suggesting that the building was constructed somewhere between 1090 and 1200 CE. If they then find a human bone inside the building that carbon dates to 100 to 500 CE, it becomes pretty obvious that this is an outlier. It doesn't fit with the other established dates, and so the most likely explanation is that the bone is not an indicator of how old the building is. Maybe an old bone was brought into the building after it was built for some reason, or maybe the person to whom the bone belonged ate a lot of sea food. This general principle of looking for concordance within the data applies to more than just archaeological dates. It's used in all fields of science for basically everything. This is why multiple tests and studies are performed on the same phenomenon, and why results are expected to be repeatable. While it's possible that any one data point might be off, if the majority of them all point to the same thing, the probability that they're all wrong in a way that points to the same result becomes vanishingly small.

"Damn you dendrochronology, I though you where my friend" is also an exact quote of me from first year of Uni.

Is this were the running gag in Star Trek: TOS where Pavel Chekov claims EVERYTHING was invited in Russia comes from?

26:45 me, a yugoslav: uhhh alright I guess 34:15 ope 57:25 it's interesting to note that even in Slovenia (which has never headed an empire, but has instead mostly been under the thumb of other empires and foreign kingdoms) there's weird conspiracies that we're (hold on to your butts): actually Veneti and not Slavs (in some cases claims that we're celtic??), invented the latin and greek alphabets, Slovenian just happens to resemble other slavic languages by accident, and some other weird stuff about inventions and architecture all secretly being ours, etc... kind of equivalent to the "russians did everything" thing

A Mia Mulder video? A Mia Mulder video where the words "New Chronology" appear in the title card no less? Why yes I have already clicked the like button before even watching the video, how could you tell?

I gotta admit the title change summoned me! I saw your old title and was like "ah, the answer is going to be 'no, history is not a hoax, excellent, moving on'" and so skipped watching it -- but this one promised an interesting and relevant *context* to discuss the conspiracy theory. I might not be everybody but thought i'd at least give you my two cents

‘How many important historical characters do you know between 600 and 900’… idk I think the Prophet Muhammad and everything that came after him was pretty important… how did he explain the crusades?

Fun fact the council of Nicea also created the foundations of modern Christianity's dogma. They literally had a vote whether Jesus was going to be worshipped as a God or not and legend has it that our current understanding of who Jesus is won by one vote. One vote different and we would never have worshiped Jesus as the Son of God but just a holy prophet who was a normal man.

This video put my dad's thought pattern and behaviour in context for me

"This kind if thing happens all over the world, especially when empires loose their status. " ouch! That's hitting home pretty hard as an American.

Modern Russia is obsessed with alternative history stuff more than anything else. The "попаданцы" softcover book genre is massively popular, it's about the male fantasy of modern day heroes travelling back to fight in WW2 or Ivan IV era. There are so many conspiracy theories, Tartaria, Hyperborea, bukvitsa/original alphabet, Sanskrit coming from Russian, Slav-Aryan Vedas, the book of Veles, Alexander Dumas being same person as Pushkin, Peter I being an impostor, and some of them are linked with neopaganism/ethnonationalism, some (like NOD, the Russian state-sponsored QAnon before QAnon) lean more into revanchism or imperial ressentiment that viewed the USSR as a "golden age" of the "Russian civilization" instead of it being already a state of decline. It's interesting how it all ties to the essentialising of eastern Slavic cultures as something being "us but in the past" instead of complex history with arbitrary identities. This kind of essentialising discourse is decades old and is the reason why for a noticeable number of Russians the very act of people seriously identifying as Ukrainians living apart from Russians (and thus disrupting Russia's claim on Rus/Ruthenia and its centuries long historical constructs) is seen as anti-Russian, or why Putin himself declares it an "Anti-Russia" project invented by some global liberal pro-LGBT CIA George Soros western elite

for most of it i was like wooow, that's fascinating, what a funky and amazingly stupid conspiracy theory russians have! but then i stopped watching for a second and remembered that wait, we have exactly the same conspiracy theory in poland, just with great lechia instead of great russia asdfghjk

The main reason Christianity needs to know the exact date and when Easter is especially important is because the pope really like chocolate, and if the pope lost a year with no Easter because of a calendar error the pope would miss out on his yearly chocolate binge.... and be super grumpy, that is actually how the crusades started.

I almost blew my drink through my nose when I recognized the picture of Jesus. I love the “fixed painting”.

"Ok, ok... but APART from Italy, Turkey, Germany, Austria, France, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece ... who has a greater claim to succession from Rome than us?" "...America?" "Oh, 'America'!... Shut up!"

I was thinking about doing a research paper on this but I decided against it because it was too hard for me lol. Excited to hear you talk about it tho

the bit in the beginning where the years between 611 and 911 didn't exist is terrifying to me because iceland was first permanently settled in the 870s, so if that's true then I don't exist! oh no I feel myself turning to dust as I ty

my partners been playing the metal gear games and now i feel like i’m inside the joke when i recognize the sound effects in videos hehehe

ДАААААААА Finally someone in the anglosphere has talked about this kooky shit. One of most popular conspiracy theories in Russia, have seen the books on it when I was a teen in 2000s.

I didn't have "Now, syphillis is interesting" on my bingo card for this Mia Mulder video

My favorite thing about the shift from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar is the Doctor Who spin-off radio series "Faction Paradox," in which a rogue faction of Don't Call Them Time Lords goes into hiding by setting up a time-loop kingdom in the 11 "missing" days.

I knew a guy who believed in the phantom time hypothesis and I argued with him back in the ancient past of 2012 xD

The marine reservoir effect might also be a bit more thrown out of whack in regards to syphilis due to the exact people who would be likely to eat the most fish having also the greatest opportunity to have come into contact with people who had already had precolumbus contact with north America, or someone who'd been to north America. Keep in mind north American real estate was visited by Norse looky loos a while before 1492, possibly in search of copper to make bronze ingots to trade with the Indus valley in exchange for Ulfbert steel, or some roundabout iteration of such a transfer.

As a russian i can confidently say that there are o lot of people here that belive in russian "special way" (this idea is opposed to both "we should follow the west" and "we shold unite whith asia" narratives). But I have never heard about this particular conspiracy theory though. Anyways great video (and sorry for my bad english)

As a historian this was always my favorite wacky conspiracy theory. Nice to see it covered on youtube.

Carbon dating isn't actually any good for dinosaurs - carbon dating is really only good up to 60,000 years, after which the remaining carbon 14 is too little to be reliably measured. Just to nit pick... with something I seem to actually remember from an archaeology minor, long ago.

Russia - queering the binary between Asia and Europe.

This "everything good in history ultimately came from Russia and Russians" myth reminds me of a similar myth that was promoted by imperialist Germany. "Am Deutschen Wesen soll die Welt genesen" - literally "The German Spirit will better/heal the world".

The moon thing is actually pretty interesting to me as a math geek and I’d love to look into how this connection actually works, but then the arguments fell off a cliff for me when the fact that historical events having statistically similar flows of events means they are the same events rather than large groups of humans react similarly under similar pressures, even before the whole “and thus the real versions of these identical events are always the ones where one specific group of people did the things.” Also I really know pretty much nothing about Russia, so I’m very glad to see the comments suggesting this is pretty accurate.

love that Jean Hardouin gets closed captioned as John Hardware

Hello Mia, it's me, engagement. Like button smashed, comment written, let's goooooo!

I think I noticed two mutually contradictory places in the video: The idea that historical conspiracy theorists are always discredited in western academia + the idea that falling empires embrace this kind of conspiracism all the time. Out of the two, the latter is a lot more coherent. The idea that historical revisionism & conspiracism were discredited in the west, instead of dominant streams at times, would be devoid of knowledge about what went down in the west in the past 120 years - a thing this video also addresses.

Fair note: Radiocarbon Dating doesn't work on Dinosaurs, either. It's in the opposite direction -- they're so *old* that there's not enough Carbon-14 left to get accurate results, and the effects of any sort of sample contamination are magnified because they're likely to be the majority of any remaining parent isotope.

As someone sat in an apartment building, watching this on my phone: I feel called out.

I'm beginning to think that under every conspiracy theory is a bigot avoiding reality.

Being French and hearing someone 1. mention Emperor Charlemagne 2. say that most people don't actually know about him is so weird! 😅 I mean, he's one of the first historical figures we are taught about at school in France, to the point that we even have nursery rhymes about him!!! 🤣 If that's not proof that History (with a big H) is somewhat fictional because we don't all know/share the same one, I don't know what is. 😜

32:15 "...where Russians were in charge" Stalin, Khrushchev and Chernenko: Are we a joke to you?

“It’s good to have an open mind, but if you open your mind up too much, your brain will fall out.” - Atun-Shei Films.