The Middle Ages Explained in 10 minutes

This is a fabulous synopsis of the Middle Ages. It would be good if it touched a little on Feudalism and the prevailing political system of the time, but it's really wonderful despite that omission.

Man cool video my history teacher played this in class!

"The Middle Ages have a reputation of brutal cruelty, wars and devastating plagues.. but this reputation is undeserved because it had the spread of Christianity! And wars fought over the spread of Christianity!"

The whole video goes completely against the message delivered in the first minute. The video just shows why the Middle Ages are also called the Dark ages, as there the video includes no description of any significant scientific or societal advancements except putting into writing the concessions of a king to appease his feudal lords so they could go to war again. The most significant scientific advancements were either related to warfare or the emergence of block printing, which may just have been passed on from Mongolia as the Chinese invented it a century earlier.

The Hundred Years’ War a highlight?

The Little Ice Age starved and weakened the people, making them very susceptible to the Plague.

As far as I knew, only the first 3 centuries of medieval times are the dark ages

"Pious eurpoean knights marched on jerusalem," it doesn't mention that when Muslims took jerusalem it was bloodless, and when the christians took it back they slaughtered everyone, tens of thousands.

I like the way he says, "The spread of Christianity" as he's listing supposedly good things at around 00:45... the strict domination of medieval society by a power-mad Catholic Church was the root of 90% of the misery. They tortured thousands to death with their "Inquisitions", they slaughtered over two million Muslims during their "Crusades", several million Native Americans during their "Conquistadore" operations in the Americas, they instigated endless pogroms against the Jews in every Medieval town and city, they fought the Scientific Revolution tooth and nail... at times, the church even outlawed music as "satanic", and sold fake tickets out of purgatory (this was under Pope Leo X). A TRULY miserable millennia brought to you by the Catholic Church, but *now re-packaged as a "good" thing in this video..

Explained n 10 min.....they had God but they couldn't rise above.....

Did you f..ckin say THE CRUSADES were an advance..like killing thousands of Jews..the people who transcribed every Word of the Bible and from. Which salvation comes is a good thing? Anti Semite???

No mention of the musuluman invasion of europe?

Wow! My teacher can’t even teach me 1 chapter in 30 mints…
While u just reached the whole Middle Ages in just 10 mints ,TYSM 😂🤙

I will not stand for the rat slander-- it was the fleas and ticks, literally carried by the rats, rather than the plague biologically carried by the rats and literally so by the fleas.

please stop using large words.

The plague did'nt kill as much people as covid 😅
Soo we are hardcore too

I could watch this ancient history documentary over and over again. There's always something new to learn! 🎥💫

I like history

I didn’t think I’d be emotionally invested in a 2,000-year-old battle, but this ancient history documentary changed me.

some people really think the middle ages were worse than ancient times lol

The Roman Empire didn't fall in 476, it fell in 1453
The Byzantines weren't their own thing
It was the Eastern Roman Empire
It was literally Rome itself
Also "After Constantine died, the Byzantine Empire splintered"
No... no it didn't
Constantine was the Roman Emperor for the entirety of the realm, not just the Eastern Roman Empire
After the fall of the West, the East still thrived and survived 1000 more years

Gen Z; I pray to you I swear to you my night is not over.

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The middle ages ended with the end of the great plague. Now Europe could leave the worst behind and with Europe radically restructured because of the effects of the plague Europe could start rising. The nation state was consolidating(aragon-castile union), concerted effort to travel farther(Portugal rounding southern africa), typing press, beginning of Renaissance. All this existed during the middle ages but it really exploded after the end of the great plague

why are you talking so much on Christianity

I am actually fond of European history up until about 1492. Before that, they were just the homegrown cultures of their own lands just like anyone else.

You lose me at Colonialism.

DOUBLE DOUBLE TOIL AND TROUBLE

nobody should force anyone to do anything, especially convert to another religion

Muchas gracias por este video tan entretenido no sé qué hubiera sido de mi sin este video🥵🎲🧛🏿‍♀️🙋

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Remenber, the muslim was the first attack the Crhistians in sec VI. Than in sec XI was the Crusaders apeears for defenders the poor crhistians.

This video is so inaccurate it’s not even worth pointing out everything.

The crusades? Are you nuts man? I guess you are. Thank God I was not born at any time in the dark ages. Some paces forward were made despite. Your list is sheer ignorance like the dark ages you extoll.

I'm a born again Christian. I heard they fed Christians to the lions for pure sport. Regardless of who you are that is pure evil.

What kind of madman tries to put the entire history of the middle ages in a 10 minute video?? This is blasphemy!

Here before my big test that I didn’t study for

Bubonic plague pandemic

Omg that was terrible lmao it was all over the place and skipped hundreds of years at time lmao Rome fell, flashback to Constantine, then suddenly we are 500 years later on Charlamgne, then 300 years later the crusades… what is happening here?!? Please watch something else if you want to learn

Rats and Fleas ended the Darkk Ages

Islam in middle age

Cool, a thousand years in 10 minutes, that is 1min for 100 years. This kinda shown how boring this age was.

The dark ages was BEFORE the medieval period.

It’s inaccurate to say the Byzantines “thought of themselves as Romans.” They called themselves Romans because they WERE Romans. Their capital city of Constantinople was founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great on the site of the original Greek city Byzantium. Historians invented the name “Byzantine” 100 years after the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 as a way to distinguish the Greek speaking Christian empire centered on Constantinople from the Latin speaking empire founded in Rome. That said, the Roman Empire lived on for 1000 years after Odoacer deposed Romulus Agustulus and took over. By that point, the Germanic magister militum had been the power behind the throne for a century under Stilicho, Aetius, and Ricimer in that order. Odoacer simply dispensed with the formality. The Roman Empire (the eastern half) midwifed the Renaissance by preserving Greek and Roman texts and through diplomatic contacts with Baghdad. When the Mongols sacked Baghdad, its knowledge was preserved in Constantinople. When Constantinople fell, its scholars fled to Venice, Genoa, Florence, and Milan, beginning the Italian Renaissance. We owe a tremendous debt to the Roman (Byzantine) Empire, a fact that is largely forgotten today.

Middle age (Dark Age) for europe periode not for the middle east and africa and east Asia -_ *Borring topic