History thread
- Thread starter chaos
- Start date
fanaskin
Well known agitator
- 57,922
- 142,872
i like this 22 part series on the history of western europe from rome onwards to 1400's because it's drops one obscure origin, word, phrase or tradition after another in this series.
A nice non standard walkthrough of western civ with entymology and origin of customs as a throughline
this series also depicts the crusades as a reaction to islam being the primary cause of the "dark ages"
A nice non standard walkthrough of western civ with entymology and origin of customs as a throughline
this series also depicts the crusades as a reaction to islam being the primary cause of the "dark ages"
Last edited:
INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
Trakanon Raider
- 1,552
- 2,394
The bar is so low that as long as it isn't an AI voice over, I'm happy camper.
- 2
INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
Trakanon Raider
- 1,552
- 2,394
Also interesting:
Even if this is a bid under-represented in this video.
Alexander the Great was introduced to Buddhism in India. It reached Mesopotamia shortly after, and even as far as the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean in the 3rd Century BCE.
- 1
fanaskin
Well known agitator
- 57,922
- 142,872
I like how siddartha was from the Kshatriya caste which means he most likely was a white man because the great arayan migration that settled in india had them setting themselves up as the Kshatriya warrior caste.
fanaskin
Well known agitator
- 57,922
- 142,872
I've watched all of these, 51 part animated battle map based on sharing the best excerpts from the best of multiple really detailed books of the 1942 eastern front campaign and a very good accounting of early british success with operation compass wich views as a wild ride in the desert.
51 part week by week accounting of astrokahn campaign that stalled out in stalingrad
14 part operation compass early british hijinks in the desert
You can follow this up with the battle of gazala which was a disaster for the british.
51 part week by week accounting of astrokahn campaign that stalled out in stalingrad
14 part operation compass early british hijinks in the desert
You can follow this up with the battle of gazala which was a disaster for the british.
Last edited:
fanaskin
Well known agitator
- 57,922
- 142,872
I've watched like 5 different video series of napoleons campaigns, I like this one the most, well narrated and animated, well peppered with qoutes and drawings or paintings, solid history channel esque music that really sucks you in and adds dramatic tension, very good sound design. Also the balance of granular detail to grand narrative is at the ratio I like.
first is 4 hours of the rise of napoleon and these are some of the most intereting battles because he's often barely winning them with low resources.
The middle is nearly an hour on the adventures in eqypt
Third is 5 hours of all the glories and disasters of all the fields marshalls, the coalition forces and of the emperor himself.
first is 4 hours of the rise of napoleon and these are some of the most intereting battles because he's often barely winning them with low resources.
The middle is nearly an hour on the adventures in eqypt
Third is 5 hours of all the glories and disasters of all the fields marshalls, the coalition forces and of the emperor himself.
Last edited:
INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
Trakanon Raider
- 1,552
- 2,394
Isnt that where modern language came from as well? The Indus Valley was where cuneiform developed and what later would become the European languages after it migrated north and west over the caucus mountains into primeval Europe. This was all much before Buddhism, of course. It’s been awhile since I’ve studied that aspect, so I may be mixing something up.
- 1
INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
Trakanon Raider
- 1,552
- 2,394
I’ll listen to one of these tomorrow while I’m working.
I did watch the most recent Ridley Scott Napoleon movie on Apple TV because up to that point, I was a big fan of Phoenix. Loved him in Signs, Her, and the first Joker movie (didn’t watch the second). After the Joker 2 and Napoleon, I’m pretty hesitant about him now.
but I watched the Napoleon movie with my FIL and was honestly so disappointed with it. Ridley Scott and Phoenix and Napoleon?! Sounds like a great idea on paper but Scott said he wanted to highlight the worst parts of Napoleon. And the movie was a jumbled mess and a drag. There was less of a plot and more so just a series of disconnected events. I usually skip biopics but… it’s Napoleon you know?
anywho, I’ll check one of those Napoleon ones tomorrow.
- 1
fanaskin
Well known agitator
- 57,922
- 142,872
yeah there's some of it in here.
they figured out where indo european language came from that was the basis of sankrit based on some of the words that were in the language and narrowed it down.
- 1
fanaskin
Well known agitator
- 57,922
- 142,872
Watch this one, it's a lot better than the ridley scott one and has an insane amount of people and horses reanacting the battles like, 15k+ extra's.
- 1
- 1
fanaskin
Well known agitator
- 57,922
- 142,872
I like this guys series, he edits well, picks good music, tickles my intellectual side by being edutainment a good amount of the time fitting it in a grand narrative story.
there's a lot more video's this guy has but his two best series are the assasination of caesar
and the congress of vienna after napoleon's defeat which is a hoot in of itself.
there's a lot more video's this guy has but his two best series are the assasination of caesar
and the congress of vienna after napoleon's defeat which is a hoot in of itself.