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  1. When this meme came out my girlfriend said “You’re more of a Holy Roman Empire guy, right?” I’m glad someone finally made a video for people like me 😂
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  2. Nice to see YouTubers slowly pushing back against the anti HRE narrative and giving the empire a fair assessment.
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  3. Depressing rainy day hiding in the work truck. Perfect timing
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  4. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to retweet it.
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  5. Although I've watched a lot of videos about the holy roman empire, none of them have ever discussed the history before charlamagne. I didn't even know there was a dynasty before the Carolingians. Very good video, looking forward to the next episode.
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  6. as an EU4 player i think way more about the HRE than the regular Roman empire (or at least the western one) cant wait to see more
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  7. I must the one of the few alive who likes both the Holy Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire
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  8. I do love how you're exploring a time period that most other content creators either don't touch or put enough work to make me want to watch it all! Thanks for the hard work you do for us😊
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  9. The Sopranos intro was spot on. Just made my brother and dad watch this today (I had already listened to the podcast). They couldn’t believe how much like Game of Thrones these folks were. I instead said these are the folks Game of Thrones was based on lmao
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  10. It is rather concerning how infrequently Mesopotamia emerges in our collective consciousness. Babylon enjoyers, where are you?
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  11. One thing I find very fascinating about the Merovingians is that their visual style looked a lot more like modern-day fictional Vikings than actual Vikings ever did.
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  12. No clue why these dont get a billion views right off the bat. Good narration, good editing, great style, informative - YouTube needs to stop pushing slop and promote more of this
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  13. 58 minutes? This isn't the Shorts section, sir.
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  14. Meanwhile the History channel: "ALIENS" But seriously, we should not take such quality content free for all to access for granted. Thanks a lot for your excellent work!
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  15. As a American Romaphile, I can tell you this was a enjoyable vid. maiorianus also did a video saying he felt America was the closest thing to ancient Rome we have today.
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  16. This video is honestly amazing. The level of detail and accuracy and especially relating Caracalla to Stan and Eminem is truly one of the most unexpected and hilarious bits I've seen on Roman history. I would love to see you go thru more of the Roman history like this; it was so good.
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  17. Could you imagine if Voltaire was around now? He'd be the worst kind of celebrity trying say anything to stay popular barf
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  18. babe wake up, new empire builders vid just dropped
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  19. England proves it, too. The reason why America has lasted, why the Revolution succeeded—where every single revolution in history has quickly only reciprocated the worst aspects of the Ancien Regime it merely replaced—is attributable to this single, salient, potent fact: America is just a branch of the English-speaking political tradition. The Constitution lasts, Common Law functions, and American democracy has built-in regenerative mechanisms because the history it’s borne from is so deep and so embedded: “The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas that have their essence in form, they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.” Gompers v. United States (1914)
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  20. I cant wait to see where this series goes. Henry IV and his fights with pope gregory are such a fascinating piece of history to me
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  21. "My big naked hairy Akkadian boss says I really have to come in today, nevermind the ice rain storm." Yes, that has some serious weight to it.
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  22. I’m addicted to EU4 and a scholar of German history, so I think about the HRE more than the Roman Empire on a daily basis. That being said, I was just thinking the other day about how misunderstood the empire was and maybe making a video / essay or something on the ways in which Voltaire was wrong about it myself! What a synchronicity
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  23. Otto honestly deserves more recognition.
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  24. In CK2, Theodoric Merovingi is the last of their line during the reign of Charlemagne and is cloistered. Sometimes if the Charlemagne ai plays poorly, his nobles can start a civil war to overthrow Charles and put Theo back on the throne
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  25. The production value here is better than million dollar studios. This is awesome.
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  26. Sumerians HATE HIM see how one man conquered ALL FOUR CORNERS with this simple trick!
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  27. My whole life I grew up only finding historical material on great people and great wars. Only in the past few years have people been covering things I actually care about, the regular guy.
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  28. For anyone interested, I highly suggest watching the yale open course on youtube "Early medieval history 284-1000". It's my favourite lecture series, it delves deep into the quirkiness and strangeness of this period, while also broadening your understanding of this very glossed over part of history.
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  29. The idea that the Saxon Wars were "The" cause for the viking age is nowadays considered to be a bit outdated. Franco-Danish hostilities existed before Verden (just as Scandinavian traders existed after it), the first areas to be targeted were in the British isles, and there are quite a few problems with attributing a premodern pan-German national identity as a motivating factor. Keep in mind, the first version of the Dannevirke was built to keep out the Saxons, and the Danes attacked across it when the Saxons were weakened by the Saxon Wars. Meanwhile Verden itself was enabled by "The Saxons" themselves, with some Saxons turning in the rebels. I use quotation marks because there were many Saxon tribes, and your loyalty was to your tribe and not to a nationalistic idea of the Saxon People writ large. Never mind the Swedish and Norwegian vikings, who were less connected to the Saxon Wars. Now, the Saxon Wars could have been a contributing factor in the start of the Viking Age, with displaced warriors and chieftains now needing a new career path with some of them having political connections in Denmark, for example, but similar displacements were happening elsewhere in Scandinavia at the same time, so it wouldn't be quite right to present it as "The" cause. Of course, whatever it was the started the Viking Age, what kept it going was that they found out it was profitable, they liked it, they were good at it, and they were alive.
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  30. This is a really strong channel. Genuinely scholarly, despite the popular YouTube-vid form. You're slowly and surely going to get more and more subscribers. The Dark Ages France series (Merovingians and the later Charlemagne era) is fascinating - rarely covered in depth. (Usual analysis on YT: "It was bad.") This here is a thorough overview of early Mesopotamia. Great work, interesting stuff. The nods to pop culture (Minecraft, EU4) will get kids' attention.
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  31. I'm so glad you got recommended to me a few months ago. This series, particularly the Merovingian episode (a topic with few resources to turn to, especially video resources), is the kind of content that keeps YouTube interesting. It makes me realize what I missed by not taking liberal arts courses seriously when I was in high school and college.
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  32. One of the smoothest transitions into an advertisement I have seen from a history youtuber thus far.
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  33. Henry the Fowler playing with birds while Erberhard tried to explain that he is the new King of the Germans has the same energy as Diocletian and his cabbages.
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  34. The Christopher Lee metal song at the end is the LAST thing I expected. Wow.
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  35. If you were to contemplate the insane task of regaling the entire history of the HRE, I'd call you a madman, and then promptly take my seat and wait for you to continue. Very much ashamed to not really know a lot about Otto the Great nor really the HRE's detailed history beyond it's general start and end, so this is very exciting. As always, keep up your tremendous work, you are creating genuine historical treasures here we can all enjoy.
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  36. This is what makes ancient Rome addictively interesting. Why were so many of the emperors (and others) psychotic monsters?
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  37. Constitutions are not Holy Relics to be worshipped like idols and the 800-year-old small Rep. of San Marino is still there lel (that one was easy to sustain)...... Venice also lasted 1100 years with a similar division of power, many medieval principalities (Sardinian Giudicaties or the Patriarchate of Aquilea) had multiple assemblies and legal codes before the Magna Carta, the problem was that there was no stable unified kingdom or state in the Mediterranean and elsewhere (also the absence of the luxury of being an island or being located in an another far away continent with free space to create and experiment with new political structures) that could continue this tradition and this was the result of the supposedly "superior' Germanic political customs. 1700s white marble Neoclassicism and even the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth were inspired by the Roman Republic and not the "Empire", they idealized the Optimates like Cato who themselves violated basic laws concerning land ownership and caused the inevitable decline of senatorial power and the same can be said about the PLC which was even worse with it's Early Modern "second serfdom" (far worse than the medieval one). Republics fall not because an autocrat suddenly shows up but because oligarchic parasitic and power outsourcing elements enable charismatic and populist figures. If the US wants to preserve its Republic it should abandon low-class cheap neocon Reaganite platitudes with nominalist metaphysics and limit the power of feudal corporations and reform the public sector which is paradoxically for-profit and private but still extremely costly for the State in terms of useless GDP spending because they are parasitic fake free markets (insurance, education and military) that are actually feudal oligopolies using public money. These cartels should be broken up and this is something that both a socialist and a free-market libertarian would agree.
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  38. As a Czech, I approve your work. 10/10
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  39. last time I was this early Jan Hus still believed he is protected by King Sigismund
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  40. The fact they were out there writing political satire in ~2000 bc is amazing
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  41. Why does this state get such bad rep? It survived 1000 years. Probably because it was so decentralized. Yes, it showed many reoccurring weaknesses; but compare that to Napoleonic France which fell in one swoop. It laid the groundwork for highly skilled German labor since every state needed its own base. The unification of Germany then destroyed this great setup and lead to greater instabilities in the region
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  42. Real Men think about The Byzantine Empire, The Holy Roman Empire and The Roman Empire 24/7
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  43. Given how little is known about him, the bastard son of Charles the Fat, Bernard, seems the perfect character to make a fiction novel out of. A bastard son of an unjustly deposed emperor, fighting against Arnulf of Carinthia to reclaim his birthright and just maybe bring back peace to the empire as the last hope of the dying dynasty is just too good to pass.
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  44. Jan Zizka really said “Nah, I’d win”
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  45. It was some real feudal shit. Pepin was a made guy, and there was nothing Childeric III could do about it. He just had to sit there and take it. In all seriousness though, very nice series. I hope you do a series on the Ottonians and maybe the Salians and Hohenstaufens at some point.
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  46. I didn't know much about the Holy Roman Empire until I played Kingdom Come Deliverance, which is a game set in 1403 AD Bohemia and it touches a bit here and there on the Empire. I went down the treasure trove of information and I find the Empire a beautiful piece of history that gets ragged on to no end, which annoys me to no end. Glad to see more folk covering it in a not so blunt view like those who echo Voltaire and others.
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  47. I would love a series about the Ottonian Dynasty
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  48. Sir, how am I supposed to sleep?
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  49. It was a pleasure to work on such a collaboration! The end result turned out superb! Great work!
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  50. I thank you for dispelling the libels made against this Pope. It strikes me that some of the early Roman Emperors may have had similar damage done to their posthumous reputations for similar political reasons. I've heard that the ancient Egyptians really raised posthumous reputation damage to an art form, even smashing monuments and changing the historical records of the time.
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