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  1. THANK YOU! This is making me want to go back through southern New Jersey and take a closer look at some of the sites I've briefly stopped at before. There is a barn of all things in Greenwich, NJ which has its roots in New Sweden.
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  2. Amazing how docile Europeans are now compared to not so very long ago.
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  3. Fascinating. I remember coming across an amber museun on my travels in... I think it was NZ; the diversity of 'stuff' made from it was amazing! 👍
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  4. Love your content! There's a famous quote that says ''Becoming an overnight success takes years'' I've seen many small channels blow up and I hope yours does as well, you deserve it.
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  5. I always thought how fascinating it would be if photography was around back then, being able to see post battle images like we have from the Civil War, WW1, WW2 etc.
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  6. Another criminally underrated channel with a unique style. Keep up the good work.
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  7. Beer-hood convinced my parents to take my foreskin.
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  8. The seasonal ice taverns are interesting because it seems like it would have been possible to make them on sturdy enough stilts to survive the thaw and become accessible by boat until next winter. I'm surprised they invested the time and materials to build structures that only had one season of use and had to be rebuilt every year.
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  9. You have produced a ver interesting summary of a whole range of eras which are often ignored. I like the point that the Hjortspring boat was already a developed type and neither unique in its age nor the first. It is a very elegant vessel as is the Nydam ship. May I offer a couple of points? The word ‘clench’ refers to the action of bending the inner, pointed end of a nail flush with the inside of the planking to prevent it working loose or falling out. Almost all ships have keels. In modern vessels they are internal. They provide longitudinal strength and a foundation for the frames (ribs.) Except in modern yachts, external keels provide little in way of the vessel’s basic stability. They do, though, provide directional stability. Their main purpose is to inhibit leeway in any kind of crosswind and are necessary once a ship is under sail (unless it is very deep draught or carries leeboards like coastal sailing barges.) Also, some small craft are still sewn, especially in the Pacific and some ‘developing’ countries either through lack of resources or because it enables a very flexible structure. Please forgive me being ‘picky.’
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  10. 5:45 This is likely not an allegory, but a poetic borrowing from Book of Ezekiel. The Primary Chronicle, as you know, quotes the Bible extensively, up to using direct biblical quotations to describe the events. The scene of Oleg seizing Constantinople quotes Book of Ezekiel prophesy of seizing of Tyr extensively, it almost entirely consists of quotations. And then one passage says: "Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail and served as your banner; your awnings were of blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah." (NIV Ezekiel 27:7). This is used in a series of sentences that overall serve as an establishing framing of richness of the City of Tyr, and is very likely uses by the writer of the Chronicles to designate the now-richness of the Rus. The interpretation is not clear, ofc, but the sails detail being among all the other Ezekiel references is very unlikely to be coincidental.
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  11. Amazing video as always, real and in-depth information without the BS. Thank you
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  12. Good content in all three parts of your series about the Gustavian army. I miss one thing in the part of the reorganisation of the artillery, you didn’t mention our greatest fieldmarchall Lennart Torstensson who as colonel of the artillery was the man whom did the practical work and grow to the Patton of the thirty years war. Please do something about the cooperation between the king and his chancellor. I’m thankful of your work.
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  13. Very interesting and amusing!
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  14. I know it's just the first video (it's great BTW), but I'm already waiting for your covering of polish-swedish wars. I'm very interested in what swedish sources say about them.
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  15. The History of new Sweden would be awesome
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  16. Another great video from Baltic Empire!
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  17. Den hÀr kanalen förtjÀnar sÄ mycket mer prenumeranter Àn den har för tillfÀllet! FortsÀtt med dina otroligt underhÄllande videor!
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  18. This is a fine teaching video for beginning college history students and for advanced high school students in the USA. Fundamental sources of information are discussed and the economic and cultural impacts of amber on trade are explored. This is also FINE FOR LIFELONG LEARNERS like myself who have a dimly-remembered and less complete version of this information in our memories.
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  19. The Algorithm showed me this and for once it showed me something good
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  20. Satan: Laughing as he blasts everyone with cannons Everyone: Just gets back up Satan: "Oh shit, I should have thought this through."
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  21. Very interesting and Informative video to say the least! â€đŸ˜Š love your research and analysis on these matters.
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  22. Giving a ghost a lawsuit. That's one I haven't heard before.
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  23. The possibility of this trade route having neolithic origins is interesting to me. I think the traditional academic view of the "rise of civilizations" is outdated.
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  24. Thank you so much for this video. I find that galleys of the early modern age are quite overlooked however these ships are not only fascinating but also beautiful
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  25. The intro to this one is quite funny. The idea of Puritans being super into monogamous sex makesnme chuckle.
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  26. A modernish version -- Porlock UK --On 12 January 1899, RNLI lifeboat volunteers undertook one of our most arduous feats to date – dragging a lifeboat overnight in terrible weather to launch in aid of a ship in distress. This was a 13-mile journey which included a quarter gradient climb of 434m over Countisbury Hill and a trek across Exmoor. The overland journey was re-enacted in daylight on 12 January 1999 to commemorate its centenary.
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  27. Shoutout to Captain Kidd's "Adventure Galley," of of the last famous galleys (or maybe an "oared frigate") at the end of the 1600's. It was built for pirate hunting, but it was also his ship when he became a pirate.
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  28. This channel is going to blow up!! Keep up the awesome work, very well done. Love your style :)
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  29. Very nice, thanks for the video.
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  30. Hello! This should definitely have more views, I feel like finding a treasure in some silent part of the youtube. I enjoyed the standard of research and editing that went to this (images and such, animation with crossbow etc. were well selected), and I hope you keep on the good work.
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  31. There was animosity between Rome and Constantinople for a long time before the big split. Neither side acted very Christ-like. I've noticed a lot of Crusades videos don't include the details of the Eastern Emperors habit of lying, promising & not delivering and outright hostility, even narc'ing them out to the Muslim forces. By the time of the sack of Constantinople took place I have to say that Constantinople had it coming to them.
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  32. This era of Swedish history rarely gets talked about here (though I guess it’s gaining popularity to an extent) and this is one of the best videos I’ve seen on the subject. Gustavus was obviously already a legend during his lifetime and IMO his story and the telling of it is ripe for this generation of internet culture, which I love that you included. Aside from being a Christian, he was pretty much the Viking of his day. I’ve honestly spent more time researching the life of his daughter Kristina but Gustavus’s life and adventures sound amazing. What book or books do those modern illustrations come from? I’ve never seen them before, but they look amazing and really bring Gustavus’s life and family and times to life. I’ve known about little Kristina’s letter to him for a while, but hearing it actually read out is very touching and I could hear the emotion in your voice. After Gustavus left for the last time, Kristina actually cried for three days straight and it scared everyone because even as a toddler she usually never cried. It’s like part of her knew he wasn’t coming home. Funnily enough, when Kristina grew up she tried to get herself elected as queen of Poland and I had no idea her father tried to get into their elections too!
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  33. I built a Slavic warrior impression from the finds at Gnezdovo and Czarnaja Mogila. I still have this kit as well as a Magyar impression. I based that of the book Ancient Hungarians which is one of the best books I have ever seen for those interested in early Magyar history and those who have silversmithing and blacksmithing skills and wish to make a Magyar kit. Another good book is Europus Mitte Um in German but allot of english descriptions.
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  34. 3:20 you say serving in the Roman military was against Christian belief. But actually the new testament in the book of Romans teaches that the Roman soldier did not bear the sword in vain. But with it they kept the peace. (Romans chapter 13) Many early christians were soldiers in the Roman army. When Christ spoke of Roman soldiers and how they should act, he didn't tell them to throw down their swords and become pacifists but he told them not to abuse their power and to be honest. From what I've heard the crusaders initially went to the holy land because Alexios Komnenos called upon the western church for aid against the muslims who had been ravaging Byzantine lands for centuries.
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  35. Its fun to think about how my home town used to be mostly under water during viking times and that the highest point would have been a small rock near the shore where vikings would land to raid finland
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  36. Fascinating stuff... Living in the UK, my knowledge of things naval has been entirely coloured by the bigger, sail boats ... 👍
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  37. Good content again. I hope the channel grows.
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  38. :_cheers:❀:_cheers:
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  39. Yes. I would love to learn more about crannogs.
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  40. Great content! you are doing the lords work making this available to a english speaking audience. They only ever get exposed to the history of France, Germany or the UK when it comes to european history and miss the enormus contribution that the less populated states of Europe has made to the modern world. So cool to se how ideas ad concepts jump between European states already back then. I never knew that the Swiss were the original creaters of the leather cannon, learned something new today. Thank you
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  41. Thought provoking. I hope you get picked up by the algorithm at some point. Both your channels are a good listen.
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  42. Watched a video on another channel that briefly mentioned this trade route. Had never heard of it before so I searched it up and this is the first video I found. Was very interesting and informative, and I quite enjoyed the humour thrown in. You’ve gained a subscriber, keep up the great work!
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  43. Bra att du nÀmnde de viktigaste orsakerna till de militÀra framgÄngarna under Gustav Adolf den stores tid, reorganisationen av civilförvaltningen och krigsmakten och vikten av logistik för att kunna föra ett modernt krig.
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  44. 13:18 "It all sounds like something from a steampunk novel" And that's why I love the early modern era so much, lol.
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  45. Most underrated chanel, really appreciate the research and effort that goes into these videos
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  46. I'd be very interested in a video about crannĂłgs. I visited a recreated one when I was a kid and I was fascinated by them ever since.
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  47. Cool! This might be off-topic, but here's a fun fact about epic poems being still written in the age of print: The last great epic in European literature is considered to be the Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz, published in 1834. As befitting the "national epic poem of Poland," it was written in Paris, takes place in the modern-day Belarus, and opens with the line "Oh Lithuania, my homeland!" And it has guns, too. 😉
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  48. This channel needs to blow up!
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  49. As a New Zealander of British descent and from a family involved in sailing, it is interesting to hear so many terms which survive to this day which I learned in the 1950s as a child. Words such as clinker, cleat, clinch, though that was copper nails, not iron. My grandfather, father and uncle all built and raced sailing boats.
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  50. Thanks baltic empire, very cool video. Videos on the other companies would be cool. I don't know much about this region and time period in history, so I'll watch pretty much anything.
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