Why everyone in 900 AD was Scared of Tunisia | The Life & Times of Ibrahim II

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This is another one of those episodes where there isn't a whole lot of clickbait-worthy shenanigannery but gosh darn it Ibrahim was cool and messed up and I wanted to talk about him
Music (in order of appearance):
Brett Van Donsel - Continental G*psy Swing (I learned recently that some Romani people consider the word a slur so covering my bases here, but that's the name of the track)
Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
Kevin Macleod - Royal Coupling
Brett Van Donsel - Continental G*psy Swing
Camille Saint Saens - Danse Macabre (had this one stuck in my head for weeks, you're welcome)
Kevin Macleod - Padanya Blokov

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@JackRackam 3 жыл бұрын

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@theyankee7373 3 жыл бұрын

Think you could do Olga of Kiev? I think her story is really damn impressive Edit: she outwitted a Pope and murdered the guys who killed her husband while they slept

@JonManProductions 3 жыл бұрын

Grains of salt? You mean the stuff in the ground under Carthage?

@Alfred_Leonhart 3 жыл бұрын

You should do a video on Skanderbeg, the Ottoman sultan feared him because he was able to make a bunch of unruly peasants beat the ottoman army, he wins battles 10,000 to 40,000, 8,000 to 100,000, converted from Orthodox to Sunni to Catholic, they called him Lord Alexander (Skanderbeg) because he was just that good of a military leader, he made a nation from almost nothing with his bare hands.

@J.C_Hong 3 жыл бұрын

Byzantine Trail: Your Emir Died of Dysentery

@samuelblackthorne9122 3 жыл бұрын

I Second Olga of Kiev! Followed by Thomyris if you want to do a double feature.

@nerobernardino88 3 жыл бұрын

Just imagine if he had achieved that monster of a plan...

@averageperson8274 3 жыл бұрын

Good Allah...

@TwiggyBoy 3 жыл бұрын

@@averageperson8274 if he achieved we would probably say good allah

@JackRackam 3 жыл бұрын

Probably would have collapsed his own emirate in the process but history would not have forgotten him, that's for sure!

@averageperson8274 3 жыл бұрын

@@TwiggyBoy I said good Allah

@apalahartisebuahnama7684 3 жыл бұрын

@@JackRackam who knows? Nobody expected some Macedonian boys able to conquered the whole Persian empire in a lifetime, especially he lived in a time when previous Arabs invasion against 2 superpowers able to succeed so that would be no wonder if he thought himself able to do the same.

@nowhereman6019 3 жыл бұрын

And as it usually goes, "and then he died".

@nicorhodes837 3 жыл бұрын

Abbasid Caliphate: Alright buddy, come to Baghdad, we need a word with you. Ibrahim II: Okay sure Caliphate: So you're just gonna march through Egy- *DID YOU DECLARE WAR ON BYZANTIUM?!* Ibrahim II: * S C R E A M I N G *

@abdel-rahmansaid6094 3 жыл бұрын

he really didn't want to go so he took the scenic rout on nightmare difficulty.

@Ren21798 Жыл бұрын

hanibal : my true sucescor.

@alanpennie 10 ай бұрын

@@abdel-rahmansaid6094 His Italian vacation wasn't quite as pleasant as he hoped. The pizza probably wasn't nearly as good in the days before tomatoes.

@comettamer 7 ай бұрын

*Epic Ululation*

@komradetuniska2003 3 жыл бұрын

You just gave Paradox the idea to add an impossible Ibrahim II achievement to Crusader Kings III "Conquer every Italian state, sack Rome, capture Constantinople before the Caliph's invitation ends"

@abloodorange5233 3 жыл бұрын

that would be hilarious if they did that.

@prestonjones1653 3 жыл бұрын

I can guarantee you some streamers will dedicate their entire careers to getting that one.

@nathanpangilinan4397 3 жыл бұрын

Aeneas' sons subdued. Dido approves, even though Aurelian had lifted her curse.

@wouldyouliketomeetkenbamba9495 2 жыл бұрын

Ngl, i think the first thing they would have to do is to increase the power of the Caliphs outside his actual borders. Most of Sunni states are nominal subjects to the Abbasid anyway and there needs to be a system to represent that.

@mh-tw4kx 2 жыл бұрын

@@prestonjones1653 TommyK would probably do it

@budakbaongsiah 3 жыл бұрын

Ibrahim II was a true CK2 player.

@namelessone9941 3 жыл бұрын

Absolute chad

@the11382 3 жыл бұрын

I see you’re a man of culture.

@mortache 3 жыл бұрын

Especially with dying from dysentery in the middle of your greatest conquest

@b-1battledroid674 3 жыл бұрын

@@mortache Shit i knew it wasn't only me...

@oranjethefox8725 3 жыл бұрын

Rackham: “Grains of salt all around!” Me: well, they are in Carthage...

@popdartan7986 3 жыл бұрын

Too soon

@oranjethefox8725 3 жыл бұрын

@@popdartan7986 Its been over a millenia tbf

@AmanKumarPadhy 3 жыл бұрын

Carthago delenda est.

@endo4137 3 жыл бұрын

@@popdartan7986 I'd say too late!

@assadbenbrahim 3 жыл бұрын

@@oranjethefox8725 still too soon

@thejwoom9912 3 жыл бұрын

That was the most anticlimactic ending of a tyrannical conquerer I have ever seen

@nobodysman143 3 жыл бұрын

Abbasid Caliphate: "Alright Ibrahim...we would like you to come to Baghdad to have a word with you..." Ibrahim II: "Okay, sure...but excuse me for my tardiness..." Caliphate: "Okay, just come through Egypt and...*DEAR ALLAH, ARE YOU INVADING THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE?!?*" Ibrahim II: * at the top of his lungs * *"LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY JEEEENKIIIIIINS!"*

@JackRackam 3 жыл бұрын

"Oh my God he just went in"

@aleksandarvil5718 3 жыл бұрын

@@JackRackam *“By Prophet's Beard”* ~ Baghdad Caliphate

@georgeso4364 2 жыл бұрын

At least I have chicken

@jarekwrzosek2048 2 жыл бұрын

Also Ibrahim II: Oh no, those Roman cities are hard to siege! Oh no, I caught Dysentery! Oh no, I shat my pants! Oh no I am Dead!

@comettamer 7 ай бұрын

@@jarekwrzosek2048*you have died of dysentery*

@cageybee7221 3 жыл бұрын

wow, and i thought executing and replacing the entire aristocracy in CK2 was really ahistorical and impractical, especially the times where i cause my entire country to revolt against me and then won by merc spamming them to death. then i find out somebody actually did that in real life.

@TheFarSideNoob 3 жыл бұрын

This guy's neck and neck with Atilla for the "Biggest Blue Balls from an apocalyptic invasion" award

@aquila4460 3 жыл бұрын

Let's not forgot the Japanese guys who was set to invade Oda Nobunaga, called the Lord of War, having fought with the future founder of Japan several times before and actually given a good fight... only to die just before his invasion.

@westernstealth873 3 жыл бұрын

Let’s not forget Alexander the Great, the man who conquered the then largest stable empire from the relatively tiny peninsula of Greece, and did so without losing a single battle. Alexander inspired most of the great warlords and generals to come, from Pompey and Caesar to Napoleon.

@nerobernardino88 3 жыл бұрын

@@westernstealth873 Let's not forget Hitler, the man who started a war against the world and started a war against the world lmao.

@12345678900987659101 3 жыл бұрын

Timur the Lame may be up for that award too as despite his conquests when he wanted to invade China, death decided now was a good time to take him.

@samiamrg7 3 жыл бұрын

How about the 2 massive Mongol invasions of Japan that both got destroyed by storms.

@vrixphillips 3 жыл бұрын

>massive plans >dies at step 1 R E L A T A B L E

@themediocremaster2388 3 жыл бұрын

Crusader Kings players when they get bored of a good guy run

@yonathanrakau1783 3 жыл бұрын

Meh i always just play after the end, original game is so boring

@Le-eu4bf 3 жыл бұрын

Or when we want to start fresh.

@ianlilley2577 3 жыл бұрын

@@yonathanrakau1783 what about HIP or The Winter King

@yonathanrakau1783 3 жыл бұрын

@@ianlilley2577 mhh never try that before good idea

@yonathanrakau1783 3 жыл бұрын

@@ianlilley2577 im just quite bored with that timeline but winter king suppose to be good

@larrygardner8293 3 жыл бұрын

Just imagine if Ibrahim II had succeeded in his grand plan beyond what he did in our timeline. The Caliph would have probably teamed up with the Christian powers to try and stop him.

@icysaracen3054 3 жыл бұрын

Ya that actually happened during the Crusades. When two emirs were at each others throat, one would conspire with the Crusader Kingdom. The same happened between the Crusaders themselves when one tried to get a Muslim power to support their claimant. Also During the Ottoman Portuguese war, the Venetian Merchants were rooting for the Ottomans war because they were scared that the new Portuguese trade route would knock the Venice as Europe no.1 import hub. Goes to show money and power takes precedent over religion.

@jackieclan815 3 жыл бұрын

@@icysaracen3054 it always has lol!

@isaac3140 3 жыл бұрын

That also kinda happened in the 19th century with Muhammad Ali of Egypt. He was about to conquer the Ottoman Empire until Europe realized that the Muslim world was about to be consolidated by one of the most competent people alive at the time

@Killzoneguy117 3 жыл бұрын

That's pretty much what happened with the Ottomans. At some point, the Venetians and Austrians teamed up with the Safavids and Mamlukes to contain the Ottomans because they were too successful. If Ibrahim II became top dog all of a sudden, the Caliph may actually 100% have teamed up with the Christians to stop him.

@I-Support-The-Mujahidin 2 жыл бұрын

@@Killzoneguy117 what is your idea for the most strategic place that a state could be founded in

@mrsnufflegums 3 жыл бұрын

The Danse Macabre during that description of the military campaign at the end was a really nice touch

@JackRackam 3 жыл бұрын

I'm quite pleased with it, but I've had that music stuck in my head for weeks now D:

@horacegentleman3296 3 жыл бұрын

@@JackRackam happens anytime I hear it and I'm never mad about it.

@aleksandarvil5718 3 жыл бұрын

@@JackRackam Ibrahim II of Tunisia : *exists Byzantine Sicily; Southern Italy, small Langobard princes: */chuckle* _“We're In Danger”_

@KomodoMagic 3 жыл бұрын

Well, that was a disappointing ending...

@merrittanimation7721 3 жыл бұрын

History is full of anticlimaxes. Least he didn't fall down the stairs.

@johnknight4532 3 жыл бұрын

@@merrittanimation7721 Or horse

@yonathanrakau1783 3 жыл бұрын

Well frederick barbarosa died when trying to cross river, pope innocent died before probably better version of his crusade, pedro gave up brazil, German Reich at the gates of moscow lost, england lost to france even after taking half of it, what else is new

@yonathanrakau1783 3 жыл бұрын

@Do0m3rdude1995 why are you even bringging that up here i never talk about that

@thatwasprettydecent7497 3 жыл бұрын

@@yonathanrakau1783 Pyrrhus died by getting hit with a tile which knocked him from his horse and broke his spine , paralyzing him . History is filled with wacky and uncharacteristic deaths.

@sars910 2 жыл бұрын

I feel especially bad for Ibrahim's cousin who got killed because of a positive work performance review.

@olivel89 3 жыл бұрын

‘The Oregon Trail: Abbasid Caliphate’ expansion snuck in at the end there

@comettamer 3 жыл бұрын

A mad lad with a mad plan that if it had worked...probably would have made him as famous as Alexander.

@eypick6987 3 жыл бұрын

The fact that the caliphate reached up to Iberia is something people seem to forget all the time, but it’s almost an incredible thing to think about.

@humo89 3 жыл бұрын

You know interestingly enough, the idea of Al-Andalus is very much alive and kicking in the Muslim world. It’s always told as a triumph and then a sad decline, a sad tale that every Muslim kid grows up hearing, imagining the empty mosques turned cathedrals who long to hear the call prayer - the tale of the last Amir who couldn’t save it all. I think it is the Western world that often forgets, but then you think to yourself that Muslims were in the Iberian peninsula for almost a millennia. Anyways just giving you a different perspective, cheers!

@furioussherman7265 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: The reason why Christopher Columbus' expedition set out in 1492 was because the Spanish queen Isabella wanted to first push the Muslims out of their final stronghold in Grenada.

@alanpennie 10 ай бұрын

I like their style of leadership by means of mild suggestion. A remarkably chill form of imperialism.

@jaif7327 22 күн бұрын

>imagining the empty mosques turned cathedrals who long to hear the call prayer isnt this something from malta? i would know since im half maltese and an egyptian friend once told me theres an egyptian proverb that goes like " as quiet as the minarets (?) of malta"

@SamAronow 3 жыл бұрын

"Since I'm guessing 9th century Tunisia isn't a topic most of you are familiar with..." (seethes in Geonim of Kairouan)

@aztheking6280 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, i'm Tunisian 🙃 And his story relfects the stae of us today, we can become better but we give up halfway😔

@assadbenbrahim 3 жыл бұрын

This guy didn't give up, god gave up on him xD

@dailydoseofmma1512 2 жыл бұрын

WELL after tonight we are the craziest peoples on the planet loooool

@walterbarillet9456 2 жыл бұрын

@@dailydoseofmma1512 why ? 😂😂

@dailydoseofmma1512 2 жыл бұрын

@@walterbarillet9456 well a fucking melitary coup led by an elected president xD if that make sense

@angelmiau8445 2 жыл бұрын

Carthage delando est

@alejandrokaplan7243 3 жыл бұрын

Finally Tunisia getting some appreciation

@user-nb4ik8ju5s Ай бұрын

They are not Tunisians, they are Arabs from the Bani Tamim tribe from Najd

@julia2k8 Ай бұрын

@@user-nb4ik8ju5sthey were born and raised and Tunisia, so that makes them 100% Tunisians. Not one of them ever stepped foot in najd 😂😂

@apalahartisebuahnama7684 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Ibrahim's wild ride to Sicily the Aghlabids unable to mounted any proper defence after his death causing severe demoralization and in quick sweep the whole North Africa came under the new overlordship, known as Fatimid caliphate. Congrats Ibrahim you still pissing the Abbasids even after you already dead.

@StephenParlow 3 жыл бұрын

"Get ready for some more niche history!" Excellent. That's what I'm here for!

@HannoversSoap 3 жыл бұрын

The dark humour is strong with this one. I really appreciate that.

@compatriot852 3 жыл бұрын

This guy's life sounds like he was being controlled by a ck2 player

@shamanisar1469 3 жыл бұрын

Complete with the anticlimactic death due to dysentery during a huge military campaign.

@Vesperitis 3 жыл бұрын

I believe the correct expression to an ending like that is "I want my money back"

@wael4070 3 жыл бұрын

Wait for Murad III, the real Tunisian ivan the terrible

@callan6499 3 жыл бұрын

The Ck3 character are actually a really good idea for stand-ins of obscure or little mentioned characters.

@timfortune9 3 жыл бұрын

And that ending is why this is "niche history" instead having this guy grouped with Ivan the Terrible, Genghis Khan, and Attila the Hun.

@BasicLib 3 жыл бұрын

I mean it would be one for the books had he done it

@lc9245 3 жыл бұрын

To be fair to them. Ivan was a capable ruler at first, until his old age turned him paranoid. Genghis destruction of the Middle East was motivated by the unfortunate execution of the Mongol’s envoy. Attila met the same fate, I guess.

@historicalfootnotes 3 жыл бұрын

10:56 Okay, given the fact that I'm pretty sure that if the Muslims ever managed to land a significant army in Italy, I'd have heard of it, I think it's safe to assume that this guy dies in Sicily Edit: Yep turns I was completely right to think that lol

@freetube5304 3 жыл бұрын

Just so you know the most powerful ruler of western Europe Otto ii King of the Holy Roman Empire was defeated by a Muslim raiding party led by Emir Abu'l-Qasim in southern Italy near Crotone at the Battle of Stilo; After a violent clash, a corps of German heavy cavalry destroyed the Muslim centre and pushed towards al-Qasim's guards. The emir was killed, but his troops were not shaken by the loss: they even managed to surround the German troops with a hidden cavalry reserve, slaughtering many of them. According to the historians, casualties were around 4,000. Landulf IV of Benevento, Henry I, Bishop of Augsburg, Günther, Margrave of Merseburg, the Abbot of Fulda and 19 other German counts were among them. The News of the battle sent shockwaves across western Europe across the Alps, reaching as far as Wessex in England signifying the magnitude of the defeat. And this was just a raiding party of few thousand

@oussemaessafi9754 3 жыл бұрын

@@freetube5304 he conquered sicily and south italy if you didn't heard of it does not mean it didnt happen

@bubbasbigblast8563 3 жыл бұрын

@@oussemaessafi9754 'Conquered' is a strong word for what happened in Southern Italy: the invaders were usually evicted after no more than a generation, but they kept coming back, so it was contested ground.

@thefuryofthedragon8715 3 жыл бұрын

The art you did at the beginning of the video of the saracen holding a whip looks similiar to ck3

@padairua8129 3 жыл бұрын

God, imagine if at that stage Ibrahim was able to make it to North Italy, the Frankish response could’ve led to the crusades happening earlier. Excellent battle scene animation btw!

@samrevlej9331 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think so. The Crusades weren’t about defending Christendom. They were a byproduct of the Gregorian Reform, with the papacy affirming its power over the lay nobility. They also happened to coincide with the Byzantines’ troubles with a new threat, the Seljuk Turks, and the first crusade only succeeded because of the strife and succession chaos in the Islamic world at the time. The Franks didn’t know much about Islam, and royal power was in decline. Ot’s doubtful there would have been an organized response without ecclesiastical or royal coordination.

@AliTounes2011 2 жыл бұрын

Well as a Tunisian, I personally encourage every Historical tyrant lovers to read more about Murad/Mourad III Bey of Tunis from 1698 to 1701, he is known as Murad Bou Bala, Bala was the turkish name of some sword(because he used to try it every morning on someone), the legend says that when he came to power after a civil war, he pulled his own uncle (with whom he had some different) out of his grave to shoot him with his musket. He invaded the deylik of Algiers (modern day Algeria) which has been annoying us since half a century beat them and sacked Constantine and them he was about to annex it (there was an ancient claim of Tunisia on both Constantine region and Tripolitania which were part of the country, in fact since Carthage to the Hafsid Dynasty (11th century-1535/1574)) but he was assassinated on the order of the Ottoman Sultan by his leftenant Ibrahim Cherif who ruled Tunisia/Ifriqiya from 1701 to 1705, then some Kulughli officer Hussein Bey Ben Ali (half Turkish half Tunisian) took the throne and established the Husseinid dynasty which ruled as Bey and "Possessor of the Tunisian Kingdom" from 1705 to 1957.

@liaml.e.5964 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the abridged but well detailed context :)

@username5569 3 жыл бұрын

Tunisia: are you dead ? Person: No Tunisia: Would you like to be?

@mrbilter83 3 жыл бұрын

still holds up to this day

@q345ify 3 жыл бұрын

You should do a video on Khan Krum of Bulgaria! After all, not everyone can claim to have a drinking cup made from a Roman Emperor!

@Vitalis94 3 жыл бұрын

To be honest, has any historical KZfaqr ever made a video about Bulgarian history at all? Can't recall any. Yes, some have Bulgarians mentioned as a part of larger history, but I haven't seen anyone focusing on Bulgaria specifically.

@wheatthins4.222 3 жыл бұрын

You should do a video on Justinian II his story is pretty crazy.

@icysaracen3054 3 жыл бұрын

was he the emperor that gathered all the Christian bishops that couldn't get along and watch them deck it out?

@wheatthins4.222 3 жыл бұрын

@@icysaracen3054 he was the one who was overthrown and banished, but then came back only to be overthrown again

@aleksandarvil5718 3 жыл бұрын

@@wheatthins4.222 Despite becoming Real-Life Voldemort Plot Twist: No Nose 👃👃👃👃

@ANSELAbitsxb 3 жыл бұрын

@@wheatthins4.222 Napoleon?

@wheatthins4.222 3 жыл бұрын

@@ANSELAbitsxb he was a Byzantine emperor

@MKfanmomo 3 жыл бұрын

It was a pleasant surprise to see my country featured in one of Jack's videos. Thank you for the great work a usual and greetings from Tunisia. And yeah this is not the only time a lunatic ruled over these lands in the past lol.

@darksteiner631 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Jack, could you go make a video on Roeland (The commander to Charlemagne) I think you will enjoy it.

@DarkChocolateGamer 3 жыл бұрын

Not first but I'm happy to watch a video this early and that's all that matters

@hungryepicboys8895 3 жыл бұрын

90% of the time you gotta expect at least a lil dysentery to pop up in these medieval stories

@sub_par3174 3 жыл бұрын

Epic video as always I just wish there were more of them

@neroclaudius7284 3 жыл бұрын

Ah finally a new video to watch on loop for the next monty or so as i wait for the next video.

@h0llytr0n 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are really fun, thank you!

@jabobok786 3 жыл бұрын

This was a great one Jack, the jokes in this one really hit Keep up the great work!

@jestersareawesome4332 3 жыл бұрын

I’m very excited for the next episode! The Pahlavi Dynasty is very interesting to me. Mostly cause my grand father is a marine and he guarded the American embassy in Iran during the monarchy. Specifically from 1964-1968. Anyway, I like to make it clear that the Iranian Monarchs were not called Emperors or Empresses. They were more commonly known as Shahanshah or Shah for short. Shahanshah is Farsi (Persian) for King of Kings.But King of Kings is equal in rank to Emperor. King of Kings just sounds cooler in my opinion. Anyway, very excited for what ever you’re working on next.

@AhmedMechrii 3 жыл бұрын

I'm tunisian and i didn't know anything about that badass/psycho ruler. Thank you for the video

@H_Eli 3 жыл бұрын

I was like: wait a minute, why didn't i hear of him if he did such a tour of force? Aaaaaand he's dead

@oriffel 3 жыл бұрын

i love these obscure and niche topics. Keep it up! :)

@stephenparallox 3 жыл бұрын

Ibrahim: I am ready to win this game! Game: You have died of dysentery. Game Over.

@theyankee7373 3 жыл бұрын

Think you could do Olga of Kiev? I think her story is really damn impressive (yeah I have already commented this but nothing wrong with double whammy, right?)

@jarekwrzosek2048 2 жыл бұрын

I'd love a series on Badass women, including Olga of Kiev, Pirate girls Mary Read and Ann Bonny, The opera singer and master swordswoman Julie D'Aubigny, Empress Zenobia (Her husband Odenatus is also great material), and Queen Boudikka...

@HistoryandHeadlines 3 жыл бұрын

I hadn't realized that everyone was scared of Tunisia in 900 AD prior to watching this video. Learn something new everyday from history KZfaq channels! 😉 And yes, I had pizza for breakfast. 🍕 Okay, and also a donut... 🍩

@coltonbates629 3 жыл бұрын

what

@HistoryandHeadlines 3 жыл бұрын

@@coltonbates629 Exactly!

@Scourgeoftengri 3 жыл бұрын

uh ok

@HistoryandHeadlines 3 жыл бұрын

@@Scourgeoftengri Someone had to say it.

@TactlessC 3 жыл бұрын

"why the head" when the massive history nerd channel talking about niche conquerors doesn't know about head cheese.

@jidk6565 3 жыл бұрын

WHAT?

@mouadchaiabi 3 жыл бұрын

There's a parallel universe in which Ibrahim II shredded his way through Europe and into Mesopotamia. Take me to that universe.

@mapk1516 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Jack Rackham, love your videos man, you're probably the most underrated history youtuber in this entire platform. Keep it up man! I'd like to suggest Sultan Babullah of Ternate, North Maluku (Present day Indonesia) as the subject to cover in your next video, to add to your list of seriously impressive and influencial, yet mostly unknown, Sultans series of videos.

@samuelharris6540 3 жыл бұрын

You, sir, get a like. Not only for the (as usual) excellent video, but for your use of Le Dance Macabre in it. A fine choice.

@CJC90909 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video dude, you’re definitely filling in some gaps about interesting characters that aren’t spoken of much in modern history. I definitely think Ricimer would be an amazing topic for you to cover... man was a freakin 5th century godfather who basically had his puppet strings over everything in the late empire, seriously he basically was the nail in the coffin of the western empire

@PSIRockOmega 2 жыл бұрын

That ending, dude! Killed me almost as much as it did Ibrahim II!

@davidkelley5382 3 жыл бұрын

JR, can I call ya JR? Thanks, I love history. Have my whole life JR & your totally irreverent take on things makes you one of my favorite history story tellers! Keep up da great work JR!

@IronAaron97 3 жыл бұрын

Giving a like just for that 'plan' reference

@shabirwaziri6563 2 жыл бұрын

His way of going to bagdad was amazing 🤩. It seems he really didn't like shortcuts.

@swolejeezy2603 3 жыл бұрын

Love this channel

@Alecsmore 3 жыл бұрын

I just realized that the picture at 10:45 is the Unsullied from Game of Thrones and I'm LIVING FOR IT!!

@alanpennie 10 ай бұрын

Appropriate really. We probably don't know what these early slave soldiers would have looked like. I've read that The Visigoths may have been the pioneers of this surprising development in the Mediterranean world.

@stephencannon3140 9 ай бұрын

Channels like this……apparently turned out to be one of the humorous highlights of the Pandemic….Keep ‘em coming!

@KaiWolf18 3 жыл бұрын

Yay welcome back to January Rackham!

@manooxi327 3 жыл бұрын

What a legendary take this was damn!

@angusyang5917 2 жыл бұрын

Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah: Who are you? Ibrahim II: I'm you but more insane

@jaif7327 22 күн бұрын

the first dude started a whole religion and literally disappeared so idk

@The2012Aceman 2 жыл бұрын

That pun was indeed well executed. Kudos!

@Rocketboy1313 3 жыл бұрын

That opening is on point. I am watching this in May.

@rascal3554 2 жыл бұрын

You make good videos, Keep it up.

@indelibleink5577 3 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah love the obscure stuff

@MatthewCaunsfield 3 жыл бұрын

You are the master at ending videos! 😂

@isrisentoday 3 жыл бұрын

More than a thousand years after Ibrahim's death, hearing about his life made me dizzy.

@sneedmando186 3 жыл бұрын

The art for this was top shelf

@r2b217 3 жыл бұрын

This dudes whole life sounds like a CK3 game

@fedoramaster6035 2 жыл бұрын

The keikaku reference. Love to see it

@AquaStockYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting the sword in Azula. That was a nice touch.

@scottcallahan5029 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact Ibrahim’s descendants would become the Fatimid caliphs in Egypt and history house productions made a video about him

@M.H.S608 2 жыл бұрын

But the Fatimids toppled the Aghlabids, how could it be, that the Fatimids are Ibrahim’s descendants when the Fatimids were running the secret network in the middle east, AND toppled his state ? I think you mean his Successors to the throne!

@Umayyadazi Жыл бұрын

False, Fatimids aren't even Arabs to be his descendants. Completely different people.

@jaif7327 22 күн бұрын

@@Umayyadazi the fatimid dynasty was definitely arab , the only ones claiming otherwise are usually those with a religious bias

@catominor7306 3 жыл бұрын

Loving the using of CKIII for art

@jobarmure6169 2 жыл бұрын

I love the funny way you tell the story

@felixk1843 3 жыл бұрын

Magellan TV is the MVP for sponsoring u 👍

@intellectualfudanshi2744 3 жыл бұрын

When you're early and the spicy comments haven't set in

@OmniCausticInfidel 3 жыл бұрын

good ending gave me a sensible chuckle

@spymasterk4873 3 жыл бұрын

we need more like this video and much of ❤ to u

@deteon1418 3 жыл бұрын

One of your best videos so far! Probably one of the most unreliable rulers in history.

@hanspetrich6520 3 жыл бұрын

7:48 Fitting considering the region this all took place in

@realkingofwales3917 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine what would have happened if Ibrahim's campaign succeeded.

@hukama6911 3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting him to successfully conquer Sicily but then getting stopped at southern Italy.

@AAhmou 3 жыл бұрын

The momentum was going to be stopped anyways thanks to the heavy resistance they were going to face.

@-3696 3 жыл бұрын

@@hukama6911 They sacked Rome though...

@aymantheold6185 3 жыл бұрын

@@-3696 thats another story man not Ibrahim II

@henriquefinger935 2 жыл бұрын

@@-3696 At this point, sacking Rome is basically a requirement for a conqueror.

@makky6239 3 жыл бұрын

I love this channel

@vmycode5142 3 жыл бұрын

this kinda stuff is why I love to be here

@palebee6157 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta love Jack bringing up that someone allegedly ate 15 people's heads, then focusing, with some slight dissapointment in his voice, on how there are more efficient ways to commit cannibalism

@ihavetowait90daystochangem67 3 жыл бұрын

This is the only of two thing that I will know about Tunisia in my life, the second one is that they got BTFO’d by the romans

@notbot8830 3 жыл бұрын

This is fire

@JonatasAdoM 2 жыл бұрын

Took me some time to realize why you had picked dense macabre to play in the background

@muhdzafri7551 3 жыл бұрын

I know you put in so much time and effort in your videos but can you do some videos on Malay history(if you have the time)? I would really appreciate it.

@LuckyBird551 3 жыл бұрын

Nobody noticed the Emirate of Sicily there? It was Arab-Norman culturally speaking. As in, it was Norman AND Arab culurally speaking. It had Muslim Vikings, that's what I'm saying. How's that for a crossover episode?