Comments by "Gorilla Disco" (@gorilladisco9108) on "The Longest Lasting Empires in History - How History Works" video.

  1. "Them Asians, them look the same." - OP
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  2. Japan emperor is direct descendant of the first Yamato emperor. But they had became figurehead almost the entirety of empire's history, first with shogunates, a then brief resurgence before forced to be one again by USA.
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  3. The shortest in his list is Ethiopia for 666 years.
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  4. He also exclude Venice empire that existed for 1100 years, because its leaders (the doge) were not called emperor.
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  5. Naaah, even How Money Works is not holding candle compared to Economics Explained or Visual Economik.
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  6. He can just count from Otto onward, and it's still 800 years. But nooo .. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  7. That's a quote from a butthurt French (Voltaire?) who was disappointed that his king failed to become HRE emperor.
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  8. How long did they exist?
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  9. How long did they exist?
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  10.  @AbcDef-gw4dg  Yeah, but how long? The shortest in this video list is 666 years. Shorter than that are not qualified.
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  11. Great, telling the story of Ethiopia by using footage from that stupid Benin kingdom movie. It's like telling the story of Russia with footage from The Patriot. Why? Them African, them look the same? *facepalm The video broke its own rule with the Zhou dynasty. Zhou's KING never called themselves emperor. They were hegemons, a "first among equals" over the myriad kingdoms that sprouted on the northern China plain. The title of emperor in China was started by Qin Si Huang after he conquered all the kingdoms that previously called Zhou as their hegemon. Aaand, there you go again, telling the story of China with footage from Japan? Them Asians, them look the same, I guess. Dude, that was footage from Alexander. Why would you use it to tell the story of Holy Roman Empire? Them European, them looh the same this time? OK, at this point, I'll assume you are full of s**t.
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  12. While Rome had republican institutions from the ousting of Superbus up until its demise in 1453, Augustus was its first emperor, when he made the office of Imperator was made permanent, not subject to election.
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  13. HRE was an empire. The emperors has the weight when they called empire wide to arm. It was 18th century cynics (Voltaire?) who said it wasn't an empire. Note: If the emperor fought alone against Ottoman in Siege of Vienna. it was because Austria was his personal domain and never part of the empire. The same situation could be said about Prussia. And I agree with @imperialdragoon9715, the true HRE started with Otto.
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  14. "Them Asian, them look the same." - OP
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