Did Rome know about Scandinavia and the Vikings (Short Animated Documentary)
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Date: 2024-08-24
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mutteringmale
Scandinavia was cold. the history of the world is told in climate changes, and nothing else. Used to be forests in Libya in all the time humans have been on this world, or, proto humans, up and down the weather goes, dry and wet, and so it goes.
The reason for the viking' expansion is weather; it got warmer, more crops, more food, they had a lot more babies being clean and liking baths and smart, and so the sons who had no more room to inherit and jobs, made ships and went elsewhere. Then it got colder.
Archeological evidence shows the Celts, vikings et all with the Saxons, Jutes and Anglos moved to better and nicer places and settled with a minimum of conquering.
Up and down, follow the trees rings. of history.
Try looking up mini ice age and short and long climate changes in history. It's cyclic btw.
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Scandinavia was cold. the history of the world is told in climate changes, and nothing else. Used to be forests in Libya in all the time humans have been on this world, or, proto humans, up and down the weather goes, dry and wet, and so it goes.
The reason for the viking' expansion is weather; it got warmer, more crops, more food, they had a lot more babies being clean and liking baths and smart, and so the sons who had no more room to inherit and jobs, made ships and went elsewhere. Then it got colder.
Archeological evidence shows the Celts, vikings et all with the Saxons, Jutes and Anglos moved to better and nicer places and settled with a minimum of conquering.
Up and down, follow the trees rings. of history.
Try looking up mini ice age and short and long climate changes in history. It's cyclic btw.
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craigsurette3438
It is important to clarify something
Vikings were not around in Roman times, because Viking isnt Norse person
Viking isnt a race, it is a job description.
The word means Raider specifically someone who leaves their local fjord to go adventuring, raiding and trading somewhere far from home.
Norse people certainly existed in the Roman era, and yes of course some of them raided elsewhere, but the idea of hordes of Norse Vikingr coming to raid southern lands en masse, had to wait for Rome to fall, and for Scandinavia to have a population boom, where there were more young men, than good land for them to inherit who were willing to leave home and seek better fortune elsewhere.
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It is important to clarify something
Vikings were not around in Roman times, because Viking isnt Norse person
Viking isnt a race, it is a job description.
The word means Raider specifically someone who leaves their local fjord to go adventuring, raiding and trading somewhere far from home.
Norse people certainly existed in the Roman era, and yes of course some of them raided elsewhere, but the idea of hordes of Norse Vikingr coming to raid southern lands en masse, had to wait for Rome to fall, and for Scandinavia to have a population boom, where there were more young men, than good land for them to inherit who were willing to leave home and seek better fortune elsewhere.
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jacob4920
The answer to this one is easy, even without watching the video:
No, the Romans had no idea about Vikings, because Vikings did not exist until roughly the 7th Century (300 years after the fall of Rome. And no, Byzantium does not count, because that was NOT Rome! At no point in the Byzantine Empire's history did they come even close to retaking Rome (their former capital, nor did they ever, at any point, call themselves The Roman Empire. They were simply the Byzantine Empire. So whether they consorted with Vikings or not is irrelevant to the question that was asked.
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The answer to this one is easy, even without watching the video:
No, the Romans had no idea about Vikings, because Vikings did not exist until roughly the 7th Century (300 years after the fall of Rome. And no, Byzantium does not count, because that was NOT Rome! At no point in the Byzantine Empire's history did they come even close to retaking Rome (their former capital, nor did they ever, at any point, call themselves The Roman Empire. They were simply the Byzantine Empire. So whether they consorted with Vikings or not is irrelevant to the question that was asked.
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typograf62
Well, Rome certainly knew about the Cimbrians (Kimbrerne. They invaded Roman held areas and caused a lot of trouble in the republican times. The expedition during the reign of Augustus was to visit the peninsula of the Cimbrii and assure that they would not repeat any attacks on the Romans as Rome intended to subdue Germania. The peninsula was Jutland. Well, they meant no harm, but the southern Germanian tribes did mean a lot of harm.
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Well, Rome certainly knew about the Cimbrians (Kimbrerne. They invaded Roman held areas and caused a lot of trouble in the republican times. The expedition during the reign of Augustus was to visit the peninsula of the Cimbrii and assure that they would not repeat any attacks on the Romans as Rome intended to subdue Germania. The peninsula was Jutland. Well, they meant no harm, but the southern Germanian tribes did mean a lot of harm.
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markowen1997
One of the coolest things about the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople (Istanbul) built in 537 AD are two Runic inscriptions made by Vikings about 500 years after it was built.
It's been converted to a mosque now by Turkish President Erdogan as of 2020, as Constantinople was conquered by the Turks in 1453, but on the top floor of Hagia Sofia you can still read Halfdan carved these runes in the Norse script.
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One of the coolest things about the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople (Istanbul) built in 537 AD are two Runic inscriptions made by Vikings about 500 years after it was built.
It's been converted to a mosque now by Turkish President Erdogan as of 2020, as Constantinople was conquered by the Turks in 1453, but on the top floor of Hagia Sofia you can still read Halfdan carved these runes in the Norse script.
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teinhart
They is a runestone as part of a exhibit in the Danish national museum, the runestone is (if I remember correctly) A accounting/memorial of an attempt by danish vikings to raide rome.
Failed to find Rome, and ended up in, what is believed to have been Egypt, before the majority of the fleets, was destroyed to Greek fire around what is now Turkey.
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They is a runestone as part of a exhibit in the Danish national museum, the runestone is (if I remember correctly) A accounting/memorial of an attempt by danish vikings to raide rome.
Failed to find Rome, and ended up in, what is believed to have been Egypt, before the majority of the fleets, was destroyed to Greek fire around what is now Turkey.
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astrogeo1
Cold Didn't the romans know that in summertime the sun shine for 24 hours a day in Scandinavia, at least north of the arctic circle, and almost that a bit further south They should have known about the summer of 2018, btw! In the bronze age all glaciers melted and large forests grew at high altitude in mountain areas in Scandinavia.
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Cold Didn't the romans know that in summertime the sun shine for 24 hours a day in Scandinavia, at least north of the arctic circle, and almost that a bit further south They should have known about the summer of 2018, btw! In the bronze age all glaciers melted and large forests grew at high altitude in mountain areas in Scandinavia.
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danidejaneiro8378
Dear English-speaking content creators: can we stop with the grovelling apology for not pronouncing all of the world’s languages with native-speaker accuracy. Accents exist for a reason. And why don’t you apologise for not pronouncing Greek and Roman names wrong It’s not _aw-guss-dess, _ it’s ow-goos-toos.
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Dear English-speaking content creators: can we stop with the grovelling apology for not pronouncing all of the world’s languages with native-speaker accuracy. Accents exist for a reason. And why don’t you apologise for not pronouncing Greek and Roman names wrong It’s not _aw-guss-dess, _ it’s ow-goos-toos.
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brendenwright7957
I love videos like this that discuss whether Civilizations knew of others half a world away.
Other favorites I have are Why does ____ exist and the video about why Rome never conquered Ireland. I think another video like this could be done on the notable parts of europe that Charlemagne never conquered.
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I love videos like this that discuss whether Civilizations knew of others half a world away.
Other favorites I have are Why does ____ exist and the video about why Rome never conquered Ireland. I think another video like this could be done on the notable parts of europe that Charlemagne never conquered.
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history_matters
The goths are though to have originated in Sweden, Rome also recruited angles and Saxons to fight the pics, and all this is ignoring the fact that proto germanic people were nearly identical to the vikings, vikings where pretty much the last proto Germanic people culturally, linguistically and genetically
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The goths are though to have originated in Sweden, Rome also recruited angles and Saxons to fight the pics, and all this is ignoring the fact that proto germanic people were nearly identical to the vikings, vikings where pretty much the last proto Germanic people culturally, linguistically and genetically
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DBCooper3
Italians knew they were in trouble when they found out Scandinavians came from a land where the sun rises at night and the people were ghostly white as the snow that protected their borders. The blue eyed beasts that we are made the roman legions commit suicide rather than be ravanged by our axes and hammers
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Italians knew they were in trouble when they found out Scandinavians came from a land where the sun rises at night and the people were ghostly white as the snow that protected their borders. The blue eyed beasts that we are made the roman legions commit suicide rather than be ravanged by our axes and hammers
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gamespotlive3673
Hey bro, your stuff is straight fire, I often listen to these in the car like a podcast but as they're so short I have to change it a lot at lights. You could make a bunch of these that are related to each other and short but not animated and I bet people would listen to them a ton like a podcast.
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Hey bro, your stuff is straight fire, I often listen to these in the car like a podcast but as they're so short I have to change it a lot at lights. You could make a bunch of these that are related to each other and short but not animated and I bet people would listen to them a ton like a podcast.
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kenaitchison7712
How is the order of the Patreon supporters that are shouted out determined After James, Kelly and Sky, I mean. Those 3 were very early backers and seem to be in a class of their own. But what about the remaining 25 Why does The McWhopper come before Remco Hoist Man, for instance
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How is the order of the Patreon supporters that are shouted out determined After James, Kelly and Sky, I mean. Those 3 were very early backers and seem to be in a class of their own. But what about the remaining 25 Why does The McWhopper come before Remco Hoist Man, for instance
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alphakky
Dammit! They NEVER called themselves Byzantines, they considered themselves Roman, as in the Eastern Roman Empire.
And I was hoping you wouldn't say Byzantine.
There's an idea for a new episode, Why we constantly mistakenly refer to the Eastern Roman Empire as Byzantine.
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Dammit! They NEVER called themselves Byzantines, they considered themselves Roman, as in the Eastern Roman Empire.
And I was hoping you wouldn't say Byzantine.
There's an idea for a new episode, Why we constantly mistakenly refer to the Eastern Roman Empire as Byzantine.
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user-pp2gg5tl2u
Most of mesopotamia was part of Iranian Arsacid empire and other parts of it were in Iranian clinet states territory most of the time but still you clwns show it in roman empire territory because for a small time they've took it but even not all of it like hatra
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Most of mesopotamia was part of Iranian Arsacid empire and other parts of it were in Iranian clinet states territory most of the time but still you clwns show it in roman empire territory because for a small time they've took it but even not all of it like hatra
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dougfowler1368
Didn't Pytheus centuries earlier also claim to have seen the midnight sun Although for it to be out that long would be quite something, whereas it might have just been like right at sunset for a day or two for him. The joys of exploring just to explore.
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Didn't Pytheus centuries earlier also claim to have seen the midnight sun Although for it to be out that long would be quite something, whereas it might have just been like right at sunset for a day or two for him. The joys of exploring just to explore.
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gaetanomignano7368
There is a theory, in fact, that states that ancient empires pretty much developed horizontally because they tried to conquest places with a similar climate (because climate changes more of course moving to the south and north)
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There is a theory, in fact, that states that ancient empires pretty much developed horizontally because they tried to conquest places with a similar climate (because climate changes more of course moving to the south and north)
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Dendarang
Maybe because it's outside of Scandinavia it was left out, but I'd still point out that Rome had a thriving trade going with Estonians mostly in amber to the point where most of Roman amber was from modern day Estonia and thereabouts.
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Maybe because it's outside of Scandinavia it was left out, but I'd still point out that Rome had a thriving trade going with Estonians mostly in amber to the point where most of Roman amber was from modern day Estonia and thereabouts.
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davidzolcer4848
Next video suggestion: did Ancient Romans and Greeks know about or had contact with the then Slavs We know that the byzantines had more than enough contact but what about during the times of Augustus or the good emperors
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Next video suggestion: did Ancient Romans and Greeks know about or had contact with the then Slavs We know that the byzantines had more than enough contact but what about during the times of Augustus or the good emperors
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history_matters
(0: 58) - 'you can't insult someone with a potato in their mouth'. that really needs to become a phrase!
Even though they didn't know what potatoes were at that time, that was at least 1300 years into the future.
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(0: 58) - 'you can't insult someone with a potato in their mouth'. that really needs to become a phrase!
Even though they didn't know what potatoes were at that time, that was at least 1300 years into the future.
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