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Dam a skimpy guy obsessed by real men back in the day, worried about rasist jokes. Huh funny

What is it that the YT historians have with make up worn by men in antiquity in general, and kohl/kajal eyeliner in the middle-east, Africa and in Asia in particular? Make-up had been worn by men since the dawn of humanity for millennia and there was nothing flimsy about it until maybe 18th century CE. And the dark eyeliner is still worn by both women AND men in desert regions to protect eyes from the sun rays!

"Just dig a ditch" -dr roel konijnendijk

Why would you waste oil for boiling and throwing on people when you could cook with it?

I pray for the day I am watching a historically based movie or TV show and a commanding officer orders his men to dig a ditch and the camera just cuts to Roel beaming like an idiot whilst wearing full armor and holding a shovel

The point he makes about how unrealistic it would be for women and children to simply hide during a siege in Game of Thrones is something that (ironically) The Witcher S2 manages to get right. You had a bunch of wizards and sorceresses taking the lead, but also pretty much all able-bodied townspeople, especially woman and children, were helping to prepare and maintain their defense against an encroaching army. They could probably use more ditches, but hey at least they did SOMETHING.

He's wrong on the contested landings though. Caesar had a contested landing in Britain

brb I'm going to go dig a ditch outside my house that appears to be the only way to be safe

he's dutch

I just come back sometimes to hear more about ditches...:)

Hollywood hates ditches! 😁

Anyone else reminded of Pattinson when looking at this guy?

Make sure that you have ditches outside your house in order to protect you from 'villains' to support your arguments and explanation, sir.

Braveheart is such a stupid movie, and the fact it kicked off the modern Scottish independence movement is really, really stupid.

Now I understand why every time I went to beach I have that ancient urge to dig a hole 😂

Eyeliners are racist.

Middle Easterners never do wrongly.

"You can just throw rocks. It hurts people. It's great."

This guy is ruthless. I love it!!! 😊

Ain't nothin gonna scratch his itch

Like a proper defensive ditch

How much could a ditch digger dig, if a ditch digger could dig ditches?

Dude, u gave GoT's final season 5/10 and Gladatior 6/10 and other bunch of stuff. You have serious problems

Imagine man who didn't throw a punch in his life give you a inform about batlles😅😅😂

Hey but William Wallace's wearing a helmet you got to give it to him they're usually the star doesn't wear a helmet you know they got a show is beautiful flowing locks in his beautiful face but he's actually wearing a helmet so you got to give it to him there man come on

"You don't actually expect a big pike formation to actually kill all those people, because people don't... you know, they try not to die." 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

I love this guy & think he needs to be hired as a consultant for strategic historical battles tactics in movies/series. But I do find it ironic that the battle scenes depicted as most accurate are also the least interesting ones in the video.

Is this guy dumb? In LOTR, they did outnumber them 10,000 to 700. They didn’t care how many of them died. It wasn’t easy for the attackers as the attacks lost far more in comparison. They ran up to the walls regardless of the risk because they could. Clown

I really want to see his version of the ice zombie fight.

5/10 for The Long Night was super generous

What did the ancient Persians look like? I understand that it might be confusing at first look due to their lack of representation, but it will actually become pretty clear upon a second glance. For now as you read this just keep in mind that most contemporary art, even the ones depicted by modern Iranians themselves are based on ancient Persian Royal art, which itself was directly copied from the Assyrians and Babylonians who came before them - a highly symbolic, flat type of art where all faces regardless of which nation was represented, looked almost identical (for more see the last two paragraphs). Some of the modern art also conflates the current Middle-Eastern phenotype with that of the ancient peoples of Iran.


The Persians and Spartans were both Indo-Europeans (Caucasians). But according to Greek historian Herodotus (Father of History), the Medes were blonds and sandy-haired Northern Iranians. Xerxes’s father, Darius, was a Mede, his mother a Persian. That collaborates centuries later with Roman poet and historian Ovid’s analysis when he said Northern Iranians (the Parthians, Scythians, Alans, Sarmatians, etc), were no different in appearance to the Celts and the Germanic tribes. The Roman author Ammianus Marcellinus, centuries earlier had stated the same.

The few realistic art work we have of the Persians themselves done by Greek and Roman artists, depicts them as white, but dissimilar to the Greeks, and far more resembling the French, the Spaniards, and reveals them as Eastern European-like. Herodotus also noted that Xerxes was supposedly one of the most youthful in appearance and handsome men in Asia during his time, whatever that means.

The most life-like depiction of ancient Persians are the “Bishapur art”, the wall and mosaic drawings done by Roman prisoners of war where they put their well-known talents to use and aided with decorating some newly constructed Persian palaces. In those, Persian women specifically and other female courtesans are depicted as almost pale with somewhat thick, flat eyebrows, with brown and black hair, very rarely some, including men, with red hair (as also depicted by Greek artists on the so-called Alexander’s sarcophagus and Sassanian floor fresco). The “Sassanian silver plates art”, also repeat the some of the same type of depictions, but since it was done by Persian artists, again many faces look similar, and have a symbolic quality to them to a certain extent, yet still a very good starting point. Other notable art include, “The Parthian solider” bust, (Greek-based), “The Dying Persian”, and “The Parthian statue”, a remarkable ancient Roman work of art with black marble used as the body, contrasting it with beige and black marble as his clothing and cape. Lastly, of importance are the many Parthian coins still in survival. Clean shaven (or not), and inspired by realistic portrayals unique to Hellenic art, Parthian kings and Princes with their Iranian weapons of choice, the bow and the arrow, look like Scandinavian war-lords, or at the very least are very Robinhood-like (see Arsaces I).

Alexander’s northern Iranian wife who was after his death murdered by his mom or his men, was named Rukhshanaa (Roxana, Roxanne). In ancient Iranian and still today’s Persian, it means, shiny-faced, light-face. Back then, and even today in Iran, the more secluded a tribal group was/is, the “lighter-skinned” in appearance they are, something that again, is Specially true for some reason or the other with Iranian women, signaling lack of intermarriage. The indigenous peoples of the Iranian plateau, the Elamites, had beautiful olive-skin with long braided hairs, whom Persian royals went on to copy, as a form of fashion of the times, as well as borrowing their long robes with wide bejeweled sleeves. Their sophisticated culture was long established before the arrival of the Persians and other Iranian tribes.

THE BOTTOM LINE? Northern Iranians aside, focusing strictly on the Persian tribes (Southern Iranians), THEY, resembled modern Albanians, Romanians, and modern Northern Italians, as well as very strongly, the Medieval Europeans (excluding Northern Europe). When you see an image of a Medieval European, from Hungary, Spain, and above all, France and Portugal, you are most likely coming very close to seeing the face of an ancient Persian. Accordingly, see the rock carving of the Khosrow II, an artistic work and an archeological piece 1000 years before the emergence of the Medieval Europe and the concept of the heavy armored worrier (the Chevalier, or the knight). It is also noteworthy to indicate the remnants of the Northern Iranians (the Alans and the Sarmatians) are still living today on the region of Ossetia-Alania in the Northern Caucasuses. Ancient Iranian tribes hailed from Ukraine by the way, at least that’s as far as we can tell.

As the late Prof. Emeritus Richard Frye of Harvard noted, while the Iranians are not geographically Eastern Europeans, they are however, “The Europeans of the East”. Or according to encyclopedia Brittanica,
“The name Persia derives from Parsa, the name of the Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into southern Iran…in about 1000 BCE”.

It’s important to note that Persian imperial art itself in Persepolis and other places does NOT depict the Persians, or any other groups, realistically, as they all show a flat profile, with most faces looking very similar or almost identical. This was partially borrowed from the Assyrian and Babylonian empires who came before them, to portray a continuity and homogeneity of races. It was also an attempt to legitimize Persian rule, the world’s first Indo-European super power, who replaced thousands of years of semitic kingship (the Egyptians and the aforementioned civilizations). Let me repeat that one more time, ancient Persian art itself is NOT realistic, but more symbolic.

Where the “Indo” suffix of the designation, Indo-European comes from is due to the fact that while some Iranians tribes where settling in their new homeland, in modern Iran, simultaneously other Iranic tribes invaded Northern India. That is why many Indic and ancient Iranian Gods and religious beliefs display similarities. The British scholar who coined the term thought that the related-European groups passed through the Hindu Kush mountains. Although at some point the old Ariana (Iranian tribes) who invaded India were fortunately, eventually absorbed by the indigenous Brahmin population. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the nation of India, as we know it today. Something that for anyone who is a lover of cultures, arts, mathematics and good food would be unimaginable.

That’s ethnicity; linguistically Iranian languages are classified as the aforementioned Indo-European, which can in turn be termed as ancient English.
Words like, mother, father, son, daughter (dokhtar). ponder (pendaar), nice (nik,neekoo, nikki; Greek: Nike), Jasmine (yaasamin), scarlet (saghalaat, see Merriam-Webster), Melchior, art (Old Pers.: arta), mind (manaa), grab (Avestan/Eastern Persian, grab), far (related to fara, ex: faravahar; fra, par-vaaz), being (boodan), is (hast), you, tiger (tighra; Merriam-Webster), it (een), Allan (Alan, Alania; from the Northern Iranian tribes who settled in modern day Scotland), Ariana (Arya, Aria, Eire-aan, ultimately, “Iran”). Amazon (hama-zan; see “Sarmatians” in Brittanica; also Online Etymology Dictionary; also Adrienne Mayor, The National Geographic; also “The Early Amazons, JH Block, 1995), Caucasian (search engine: etymology of Caucasus), etc, are mostly still found in Farsi.

I hope this was helpful.

This guy is definitely nice at chess

Not gonna comment that these guys where Moors at all huh? These are all israelite stories The Israelites where the Moors. You will know this by looking up Moorish family Crest. Not one comment on who these people where. They where fighting Giant versions of their brother. This is why they had boiling oil an flame arrows. To set the giants on fire.

There is one thing i need to correct ourt expert here. There is a good reason why u should use oil (or from what i heard, they used fluid tar) then water. Its simply gets hotter, what means much more sever brunings. Not like i wanna say that it must have happend because of this (he will know that better) but a reason why u should do it is there.

So what you’re saying Roel is that most of these movie armies should DITCH these tactics ?

he's so unimpressed with each one of these. I love it .

I am confused. First you say that in antiquity there was not such a thing as cavalry, and next in Alexander you admit they were there. Huh? Next: fantasy movies should not be looked at for historical accuracy. Gandalfs horse attack, and the steep hill? Well in fantasy you can perfectly get away with that. And that was only Helm's Deep. In return of the king they deployed ghosts. And king Theoden's charge is one of the best movie scenes ever. 'Death! Death!'

"YoU cAn JuSt tHrOw bOiliNg wATer" oil has a boiling point of 300 degree celsius while water boils at only 100.

"boiling oil didn't happen. you can just throw boiling water."

oh.

ohh.

yeah. you know, I'm not gonna lie about it, I never actually thought that. and how comparatively valuable oil would've been, even back then before engines and whatnot.

nope, never occurred to me. HOLLOWOOD. NOTHING BUT LIES. YOU BROKE MUH BRAINZZZ.

if you throw boiling water woulndt it be too cold to do damage by the time it gets to the bottom of your castle walls?

He is wrong about one thing, throwing rocks does need preparation, u need to first collect all those rocks to throw^^

"just throw rocks and hurt people, it's great!" 😂😂😂

As for Braveheart, the English king did use longbows at that battle, he wanted to see how effective they were against Armoured Men and against flesh. The longbow was then used against the French, and we all know that story. So yes, it was a tactic the king used, but only once against his own men!

I mean, it's true, ditches makes attacker's life way harder, just look at siege of Tyre for example

There was an even better way of using the cavalry in GOT : you're facing zombies that are on foot, don't have ranged attacks, don't have shields, and are extremely vulnerable to obsidian weapons. Meanwhile at least some of the cavalry is trained to shoot on horseback. Make every one of them who can shoot, do it while staying at range, and the ones who cannot use a bow, mount baskets full of arrows on the horse to resupply the horse archers. More or less what the Parthians did at Carrhae. This means you can cause heavy casualties to the enemy, while staying at a perfectly safe range, so long that your cavalry has arrows. Once it no longer does, use their superior speed to retreat to the castle.