Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. 9:39 When Gregory died, the Cardinals actually did pretty easily choose a new pope, Celestine IV. The election only took a month. The problem is Celestine promptly died 17 days later. After which it took them a year and a half to elect Innocent IV.
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  2.  @Fpwc2  Not to mention that even if it were true, the story is that they were condemned prisoners. They were going to be executed anyway.
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  3. Hero or terrorist? I'd say the answer is "yes".
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  4. Abe no Seimei is basically the Japanese equivalent of Merlin.
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  5. Completely fair. f I were a king in those days, I'd be very concerned about somebody trying to poison me.
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  6. Seems like the Mali Empire would've been better off if they'd moved the capital to Timbuktu.
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  7.  @One_LuvZ  Pedro II really was the leader Brazil needed. Too bad he hated every second of it and would have preferred to be anything else but a monarch.
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  8. A pity this idea of police without guns never made it to the US.
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  9. Most likely, nobody even bothered to tell the farmers that actually, some of their land was stolen from the Aborigines. Because nobody in the government would've cared about that.
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  10.  @serflame74  The Sengoku period was indeed named for the much earlier Chinese Warring States period ("Zhanguo" in Chinese), but Sengoku is a Japanese name and thus refers to the Japanese period.
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  11.  @otavioxavier9652  Which was about 49 years longer than he wanted to rule.
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  12.  @operleutnant7235  Yes.
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  13.  @barbiquearea  Who did he murder that didn't deserve it?
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  14.  @InquisitorThomas  Wait, this video was done by the author of The Infinite and the Divine?
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