Ranking the historical significance of different crusades
Added 2024-09-05 20:05:03 +0000 UTCMy first tier list video! I rank ten different crusades based on how historically significant I think each one was.
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A podcast would be a great idea!
Nour Aldein
2025-11-15 08:29:29 +0000 UTCreally fun format!
Funny_hat
2024-11-18 02:44:28 +0000 UTCItβs pretty intuitive to me given how much of the day was dark without or with only fairly limited artificial light but I also absolutely love how every single time this is brought up by historians they seem to imply the intersleep period was an or even the ideal time for sex
Keaton
2024-11-03 06:19:28 +0000 UTCThe fact the Khwarezmians casually sacked Jerusalem after their empire was destroyed by Genghis Khan makes the Mongols even more terrifying.
John H
2024-10-04 02:50:03 +0000 UTCI listened to most of this video as if it were a podcast!
Karl Voelker
2024-09-27 02:43:03 +0000 UTCI've heard this too but I don't know if it's true. I haven't seen it come up one way or the other in what I've read.
Premodernist
2024-09-21 16:22:04 +0000 UTCunrelated but do you think you could talk about medieval sleeping habits at some point? were there really two sleeps??? i always hear this but it just seems wrongπ
shoshana
2024-09-15 16:31:53 +0000 UTC"Medieaval people are like cats" should be put on a plaque ;) Loved it, love your rambly shirtsleeves style! And I'd like to hear much more about the crusades especially with the wider context considered - I had no idea the Mongols were concurrent and affecting this :)
Martin Tepper
2024-09-09 12:51:48 +0000 UTCHearing you ramble about history is a lot more entertaining than you give it credit! The crusades podcast sounds like a great idea and I'm sure a lot of people, including me, would listen to it regardless of how narratively dramatic it is
Linas Jusevicius
2024-09-09 08:26:10 +0000 UTCThe podcasts would be a good idea. No need to stay in the narrative format if that is too much work or not your style. I would absolutely listen to unstructured history of persia or the crusades
Benjamin Krugman
2024-09-09 00:05:14 +0000 UTCWhy did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks! 1453!
Amanda Parrish
2024-09-08 01:49:33 +0000 UTC>an hour and twenty minutes LETS FUCKING GOOOO
Faraz Masroor
2024-09-08 01:15:49 +0000 UTCHaha, what a mess the fourth one was! I genuinely laughed when you compared the crusaders to cats :D
Lukas Janecka
2024-09-06 21:13:45 +0000 UTCThat's a good idea. I'll put that on the list for future months. It'd be a long video though. I'd have to keep my remarks on each one short.
Premodernist
2024-09-06 20:10:43 +0000 UTCPeople went for a variety of reasons, but many of them seem to have felt they were participating in a noble cause that made it worth it. They weren't worried about Turks invading Europe back in the 1100s and 1200s when these crusades happened that I talk about in the video, but later on they did become worried, when the Ottomans were expanding into Europe in the 1300s and 1400s. The crusades that went against the Ottomans were motivated by fear of Ottoman conquest. There's a lot of myth and sensationalism surrounding the Children's Crusade. It's possible the book you read had some inaccuracies.
Premodernist
2024-09-06 20:09:35 +0000 UTCWould you consider ranking the us president, just for fun
Hussain
2024-09-06 15:09:25 +0000 UTCGreat!!
ty zj
2024-09-06 07:53:32 +0000 UTCI think it would be interesting to talk about the crusades some more, from the point of view of Europeans sending these armies off. Why did it seem worth it to them? Must have cost a huge outlay in funds, not to mention lives. Is there any way to know what the common citizen thought of all this? And how much did they worry about foreign armies invading western Europe, like the Turks? Did that play a role in deciding to send off a crusade? Or was it primarily a type of religious mania? When I was a kid I read a fictionalized account of the Childrenβs Crusade, a horrible and tragic disaster, just pointless.
Anna Silliman
2024-09-05 22:04:02 +0000 UTCThis is a video that will change how history is taught
Reindeer
2024-09-05 21:49:52 +0000 UTCcanβt emphasize enough how excited i was when i saw the video title
nina bennardo
2024-09-05 21:25:33 +0000 UTCHaha, great idea!
Hany Abdulsamad
2024-09-05 20:13:20 +0000 UTC
