It is less populous than the Westerlands, Reach, North, Vale and Riverlands.

Well they completely scrapped the Dorne plot. But the only part of Dorne we see in the show is the water Gardens.

they are neither rich nor populous in the books btw

LF 3400 exactly. Doran specifically tells Arienne that they the Targaryens wanted to exaggerate the populoation since they Dornish/Rhoynar never knelt, and Dorne kept it going to protect themselves. Dorne is a vast wasteland specked with a few small sanctuaries.

@@LF-hj8kk they’re absolutely rich. Not populous but rich. They have textiles industry, are close to the Summer Sea and Essos ( trade routes would flow into Dorne and then to the rest in some cases because of this realistically ). Also they have a monopoly on the citrus trade - a fair priced delicacy in this setting for sure.

Aegon: fine, it's too bloody hot there anyway

Whats funny is the targaryens brought the dornish into the fold by offering them dragons to ride......not the actual dragons🤣

@@Teag_Brohman15 a dragon who can’t handle the heat😂

And before the Usurper they knelt down. Though he didn't have dragons

Easily my favorite storyline going on currently in the books!

What did kevan's wife do to make everyone hate her?

Dorna...

My favorite part of the Dornish Master Plan: Quentyn: "Hippity hoppity your dragon is now my property!" Rhaegal: "My goals are beyond your understanding."

Real fax

Yeah I sorta lost my love for Dorne after reading fire and blood. Their stubborn pride left their home a wasteland and their people massacred. It's the exact opposite or Torrhen Stark the king who knelt, who submitted to save his people from fiery death in a hopeless war. George presented the Dornish wars as completely pointless on purpose, to show the futility of fighting over titles and honor. The Stark king swallowed his pride to save his people and the Dornish sacrificed the people they served for their vanity

In fire and blood it's also stated that the Dornish strategy was seen as cowardly by the rest of Westeros. They lost all honor just so they could remain kings (princes). I don't think they are necessarily heroic

@@Captain_Insano_nomercy I agree that George is making that point but I also think the Dornish didn't kneel in honor of their past. Letting go of Mother Rhoyne to kneel to the people who were responsible for her great downfall. Yeah... I'd kind of have a problem kneeling too. If I come from a culture that was the peaceful bomb & you come from a culture that was slavey trash, I'd do whatever I needed to do so that mine prevailed (even though Dorne kinda turned trash-ish & Targaryen rule became somewhat peaceful). But I'm a straight up Targaryen hater so my opinion's definitely biased lol. Idk man, me still loves the Dorny dogs 💕

colton watson the dornish people fully supported the Martells despite the massive deaths the dornish suffered. You gotta remember that it was the Valyrians and their dragons that destroyed the homes of their ancestors, the Rhoynar, so it makes sense that they would refuse to kneel to them.

@@fai-pe7oq yeah I'm not stupid bro, I get that. Trading thousands of lives for pride is still however meant to be seen as a waste

ahhhhh makes sense

Andalusia

Moors

Almoravid and almohad

Except less Regressive like the Muslims.

@@kerzariz8717 Al Andalus, the Muslim kingdom in Spain, was famously tolerant for its time. It was a diverse place with large communities of muslims, jews and christians coexisting and because it was so diverse, its rulers for large parts chose tolerance to maintain stability rather than forcing conversion.

When Aegon the conqueror, Rhaenys, and Visenya attempted to conquer Dorne they only had three dragons, where as when the Valyrians conquered the Rhoyne they had hundreds.

@@shaddoecrow5872 of that I am aware. But even if the valyrians had three dragons, not much can stop dragons in the world of ice and fire.

Rhoynar.

@@samirmuhammad1781 actually tho, the Rhoynar put a battle against them, many dragonlords fell from the sky during the conquest, its said that in the city of Chroyane alone many dragonlords were cursed by the Rhoynar magic and drawned in the waters below with their dragons Not only they were good fighers but unlike their descendants in Dorne they had water mages, so three dragons alone would definitely lose against the Rhoynar cities

@@guifdcanalli and they had also an army with more than 200000 men 10 times as many as the dornish

AXEL VISSERS yeah

Yeah i heard it too

I didn't notice until you pointed it out and now it's driving me nuts

I thought it was just me!@

Legit thought my phone was breaking.

There’s obviously Jon being carried, but than hey someone could have rode away, could be plain false as it’s a fever dream

"Walking Away" from a fight means you managed to survive. Ned and Howland were the only ones who survived that battle. But you probably already know that.

Dayum rite!

Harlow, Harlow, Greyjoy, Harlow, Harlow

The Arianne story line is kinda interesting in the books, but it’s still one of the weaker plot lines. It has cool moments like the failed attempt of putting Myrcella on the throne and Arys Oakheart’s last stand, but at times it’s unbearably slow with generally uninteresting characters. Everyone acts like it was only the show that fucked up the sand snakes, but in reality they were never likable characters to begin with in the books.

dodorffr quite a lot for most of them, Volantis alone could have its own videos

Iron islands but also the Eyrie

Yup! There's a playlist on my channel with all the map videos and thank you

but that region of the iberian peninsula was heavily influenced by the Muslim caliphate. What you get is a merger of western European and central Asian cultures.

@@djayt1215 Hollywood or west generally didn't try to understand eastern cultures at all. its all the same to them and people believe so now, "the Muslim caliphate in Andalusia" was expansion of the Moorish(Morocco) civilization who was closer and more influences to European than east, for example curved sword didn't existed in West north Africa until Europeans passe it on after the fall of Andalusia.(curved sword originate in japan)

Eurons

I believe that George RR Martin thought on Spain when he wrote about Dorne...