4 Hellish Accounts of Civilisations Being Destroyed

I don't feel much like a game called War Thunder after these heartbreaking stories of the end of civilizations, because of merciless war. I do subscribe, click like and even watch the commercials though. Superb content, as always.

NO, stop putting shitty ads in between the clips

@@astroboirap The man have to make a living, if he is to continue his entertainment for us. The War Thunder ad is from him. The rest of the ads you can get rid of with Adblock Plus, that's your job.

Bro you made this whole video and yet you miss the point of Jesus and Christianity ... if you repent and give yourself to Christ you are saved we don't care about anything on this earth except bringing more people to Christ and repenting daily.

@@slavplaysgames But the video is not about Jesus and Christianity...Perhaps you wrote the comment at the wrong place?

Goes hard ngl

that was BRUTAL

Such a hard line

Hulagu had BARS

Man, this would have been a great line for Dog and God in New Vegas

Roman citizens

​@iratepirate3896 No, those are Paninians

Alas!!!

Sounds like at that point you've hit rock bottom, lol.

Tacitus Kilgore 😂😂

Pannonians were Roman citizens

They betrayed the Empire.

The Aztec description of what they did to captives of other tribes was horrifying. Makes me glad that…

Smallpox is still a thing

Lol smallpox has not been eradicated. There are also countries actively seeking to weaponize it present-day.

@@pete8276ah yes , the classic sacrifice falacy, only used by the most ignorants of them all

⁠@@Elpadrino1407not really a fallacy if it’s well documented

Nothing new under the sun

guns don't kill people, i do.

Imagine comparing a sword to a machine gun

@@juggyy5429both weapons, one is better at killing

@@jaycefiene9566 right, so the same logic shouldn't apply.

Last thing i want to hear is European professors interpretation of the events without many sources

sounds like the modern day West to me.

In Valentinian’s case it would be Prince Sickness

Happens after a while with every civilization & great power​@@georgeargueta6256

Sometimes I am fascinated by humanity. Able to create both arts and crafts with hands, and at the same time create death and destruction with the same hands like no other.

Half of all humans never even made it to adulthood

The way she goes.

Maybe they should've kept their glorious polytheistic religions instead of embracing boring ugly monotheistic ones while shoving it down the throats of others.

​@@silviavalentine3812 LMAO

The murder of stilicho was probably one of the biggest mistakes on the part of the Romans in the late empire yeah. I forget the exact names but ik advisors of both honorius and the eastern emperor really had it out for him no matter how many times he saved their skins. Really disheartening once you start learning about late Rome on the decline and see that a lot of it was due to incompetent and greedy men fighting amongst themselves one after another. Although that narrative could be so different from early imperial and late republican history as a result of bias or romanticization of the 'good ole days', but i like to think that constant civil wars is a pretty good marker for decline and instability lol.

I think the fall of Rome is kind of ironic

@@Samwise_01 the killing of Stilicho, Aetius and Maiorianus were the nails that sealed the western coffin

​@@CelticAugurbarbarus

The NRA demonstrably agreed: they've used a similar expression as a motto for decades.

Its a tool that only does 1 thing

@@reeyees50 Ok? And?

@@reeyees50it cuts things. Like celery and meat

@reeyees50 there many tools that only do 1 thing

Yeah and the enemy soldiers were literally going around killing everyone they found including kids. Unthinkable to us now but this wasn’t even that unusual back then

Sadly still happens ​@@Yung_Fettuccine

@@Yung_Fettuccine they were not gonna just kill. they did every thing

​@@Yung_FettuccineModern soldiers do that as well, we just talk about it less favorably.

@@Yung_Fettuccine Actually, killing women and children was a lot less common then simply selling them into slavery

The sources are bullshit as most reliable sources says it was good

You forgot the Arabs. They're the ones who punished the romans the most to the point roman apocalyptic litriture increased in this period because they were so shocked that after ruling Africa and the Mid East with an iron fist for so long, they just got mopped out of the map and were cornered inside their city in a very small period of time. Arabs did all the hard work.The Turks wrote only the last chapter of this empire

@@tjo6252the Persians did the hard work by depleting Roman manpower and finances, the Arabs were just opportunists

@@tjo6252 wtf are u talking about the arab-byzantine wars happened in 8th and 9th century and turks came during the 15th century....do you realise how great of the lifespan that is?????..jesus go read a history book

@@Alton4 he thinks he is the sword of islam lol

@@Alton4 Turks came in the 11th century. Don't act smug.

That salt part is a lie. Salting was done in respect, and wasnt a massive amount, maybe a handful at most. Salt was extremely expensive, and would not have been wasted to "dry the land". Especially considering most of it would be washed away by floods or by rain.

the salting of the fields is just a myth, they didn't actually do that. Otherwise what you said is accurate (near as can be told).

@@aidan1R Yes, you must be right about the salt and how it was not tossed around the whole agricultural area of Carthage. The modern word for "salary" is derived from 'salt', I remember from another "salt"-debate I had with someone here on KZhead. ☺

@@aidan1Rsalt was not particularly expensive, that is also a myth. It was only expensive if one lived far away from the coast or salt mines. It is just a very useful product

@@Donderu considering that the sheer amount of salt it would take to do anythign to soil, it would be hyper expensive

Germania was the Latin term for German land, so.... Germany, A corruption of the word in the German's own tongue.

@@Dredgionno land belongs to anyone, but colonized is a stretch considering they had granted citizenship to all provinces, shared their culture and their influence didn’t disappear with the fall of rome

I don't understand why they feel superior b@rb@ri@ns If those who brought civilization were the Romans who copied the Greeks and the Greeks copied the Egyptians and Persians

@@Dredgioncringe

What makes you say that?

@@PeriodDrama He was feeding birds while his capital was being invaded

He would have loved sonic 😔

@@firstlast5454hello this is Barbara Chandler

Check again. Constantinople was not taken by Nomads. As for Baghdad, its destruction was severe, not comparable to Constantinople.

The burning of the library of Alexandria

Nothing was lost. Some libraries continued to be maintained after the city was conquered. Mostly religious texts were targeted. Besides, all the knowledge within the walls also existed outside. Remember, the printing press had already been invented. Infact it was the least tragic of the 4 events in the video, even in teems of "loss of knowledge". Was the Bubonic plague not a greater tragedy ? Or, the British occupation of India ? The latter actually led to actual loss of knowledge (eg: Dhaka Muslin).

@@cw4608the destruction of the libraries in baghdad

All 4 of those were great tragedies. It's insane how much we've lost.

​@@curious_one1156cope 💀

I've read the book by Roger Crowley perhaps 4 or 5 times. "1453" is a masterful account, that I think gave inspiration for the mediocre Turkish Netflix production.

Never trust the Genoese!

Real.

Yeah, but they were so evil. The knowledge they destroyed. Gah.

@@samadams2203 Or the Venetians!

They don't

Bro had a point.

Ah, I see you would have been a plebeian.

@@rogercase9982gammon

Well they don't. Seneca was much, much smarter than you. If you read his works you might know that. But then again you might not, narcissism and Dunning-Kruger effect run rampant in modern society.

Because gods do not exist. Believing in them makes you vulnerable

sucks when all the people you conquered were fed up with your human sacrifices

​@@Armored_ArieteThat's a myth. Hell, the 'Aztecs' adopted human sacrifice from the very people they supposedly "opressed"

@@ahmicqui9396 they still practiced it which made the people they oppressed very happy when they over threw them

@@Armored_Ariete But that had nothing to do with their religious practices. They oppressed their subjects by taxing them, most of them however would not turn against Tenochtitlan until the death of Motecuhzoma and dismantling of the Triple Alliance...

​@Armored_Ariete european Christian is still burning people alive on the steak during the fall of the Aztec and using after the Aztec fell force the native populations into slave labour

and then mcdonalds ran out of nuggets...

"In the year of our Lord 2078 New York fell. Carts of glizzies were overturned on Broadway. Men, women, and children alike had their Timberlands burned, none were spared."

The difference is that instead of lamentating our fall they will celebrate it. After all they don't have any attachement for the West at all...

Not the asses😢

Cavalry were the tanks of their day. If you aren't used to fighting them its pretty hard to hold the line against a 1000 lb horse and fully armed rider. Four alone worked since the Americas hadn't had any time to adapt to them yet.

A lot of police forces still use them for riot control

The market was big and flat, definitely the worst place to fight a horseman if you're unprepared. The natives DID quickly learn to counter horses and such a charge was extremely risky even on favourable terrain. Some really brave spaniards.

Probably just and eclipse, not a UFO like you're implying

@@Qrtuop how was i implying it was a UFO?

It was the god of war Huitzilopochtli going to the bathroom after fail in protect the aztecs

@@argentinaballxd9046 lol yes!

Every time is interesting if you look hard enough. It sucks to be a regular person no matter what.

Completely false and reductionist

@@Galletas-my3sv That is my opinion. İ choose to fight and die, sword in hand rather than die in bed because of a disease. By the way, that disease came to the Aztec land via the blankets given them by the Spanish as a gift! That was a biological assault just like the Mongols did in Crimea. The difference is that the Genoese were aware of it while the Aztecs were not. Blankets were gifts after all, not heads catapulted through city walls.

wat

@@JaegerMatthias You wouldn’t get it

David and his bro Pete have a ton of other great channels like history of the universe, history of the earth, history of humankind and history time That should keep you busy between uploads here 😅

@Chill_Mode_JD Thanks mate! I never knew this 😂

yet countries that have banned guns have less people dying from other people. who could have predicted this ? Parents. any parent could have predicted that when you take little Jimmy's baseball bat away, he can't hit little Ronnie with it.

People kill people. With guns. Which is exactly what Seneca said. Swords are a tool used to kill people.

No. No more. Just Byzantine.

Yeah Western European propaganda calling the Eastern Romans “Byzantine”

@@curious_one1156they were the Roman Empire. Byzantine is a false nomenclature

You should take these descriptions with a grain of salt, this is taken from a western christian source. The dexcription of the conversation between Murad and Mehmed mentioned in the beginning is also very questionable.

@@brumbotrukto223 I hear what you're saying. BUT, as with any other legend, there remains a basis in fact. Did Vlad the Impaler REALLY drink the blood of all of those people? Probably not...lol But he certainly wasn't a kind, happy person when it came time for war...lol

The account narrated is biased against Suleiman obvio. It is a Byzantine account. We do not really know exactly what happened, although the basic details of the siege have been agreed upon by many historians. Also, do not forget what the civilized Spannish did in Tenochtitlan.

@@curious_one1156 what the Spanish did, or didn't, do; That is outside the scope of the comment. And, biased or not, the winners Always write the history books, or something like that. So it stands to reason that we discount the reports of his actions just as we do the others. Which is to say: The stories typically don't originate spontaneously. 🙂

Suleiman wasn’t born in era of Mehmet so …..

Glad I pay for KZhead premium. The ads have gotten more and more insufferable

Nope, they were familiar with those already. We have no idea what that was lol

Grow up

@@Someone-by6jm I can’t put into words how happy I am to not be you

I agree with you. I wish he would post more travelogues and narratives of everyday lives instead of war and stuff

@@Brunaa00098 yeah right ! I just want to hear some happy stories about people traveling and seeing other parts of the world and finding it fascinating. Stuff like that. I’m glad at least one person agrees

Based

that document was written by an Armenian so it’s definitely biased even though Armenians lived peacefully during the abbasid caliphate

Let us sing the blues for the warrior societies practicing ritual human sacrifice who got got by better technology and lack of antibodies against African and Eurasian diseases.

@@JohnRNewAccountNumber3 not by better technology LMAO it was by other Amerindians joining the Spanish, majority of the Spaniards died in their battle with the Aztecs, had the other Natives not allied with the Spaniards, the Spaniards wouldve all been destroyed very easily, but that just matter any more, we now replacing your race in the USA by our amazing birthrates

@@Gnomeof9 exactly fianlly someone says it

​@@JohnRNewAccountNumber3They did nothing wrong (except not instantly slaughtering the spaniards)

@@JohnRNewAccountNumber3 Nonsense, they were just peace loving nature hippies and not bands of savages who R’d and M’d without remorse or humanity.

Oh sorry, he should have shown the videos of the events as they were recorded with the lens of a rock...