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Ancient Accounts
Великобритания
Добавлен 8 июл 2017
I make animated history on stories from the past enjoy quick-paced narration and visual gags? well you've come to the right place!
My upload schedule is a bit all over but mostly once every month
www.patreon.com/ancientaccounts
My upload schedule is a bit all over but mostly once every month
www.patreon.com/ancientaccounts
Видео
How a Witch Hunter Stopped a Smallpox Epidemic
Просмотров 6092 года назад
This is the story of the 1721 Smallpox Epidemic, and how a Witch Hunter, enslaved person, and maverick doctor saved Boston Source: The Fever of 1721 by Stephen Cross
How the "First" Encyclopedia Survived 18th Century France
Просмотров 7862 года назад
The "first" encyclopedia was big with 70,000 entries and over 20,000,000 words. But it was also banned by Louis XV and Pope Clement XIII. This is why it was so contreversial, yet revolutionary.
Robert Walpole: The Dictator of Britain
Просмотров 6 тыс.2 года назад
Robert Walpole was memed by Extra Credits after the south sea bubble so i decided to make a video on him. He was the first prime minister, rising through the ranks from poverty to become an MP , secretary at war, finance minister, and then using that, along with the South Sea Bubble to assert total control in government. That would be his undoing. 0:00 The Man 6:38 The South Sea Company 9:11 Th...
Metternich: The Puppetmaster of Europe
Просмотров 13 тыс.3 года назад
Klemens Von Metternich was an Austrian Statesman that grew up during the French Revolution and seeing all the violence and percived anarchy he was determined to control Napoleon to end the march of the french armies and then the rest of europe, by becoming The Puppetmaster of Europe. #History Sources: Metternich: The Autobiography, 1773-1815 www.amazon.co.uk/Metternich-Autobiography-1773-1815/d...
Britain's Secret Civil War
Просмотров 7 тыс.3 года назад
The Jacobite Rebellions was a secret civil war where James II of England converted to a catholic and was dethroned by his catholic son in law William Of Orange, but with french assistance by Louis XIV and Louis XV James and his sons James the III and Bonnie Prince Charlie would fight for their rightful throne against those that took it from them, for almost 50 straight years #History #JacobiteR...
The French Wars of Religion France’s “Holy" War
Просмотров 22 тыс.4 года назад
The French Wars of Religion was a thirty year civil war between Protestants and Caholics and involved poltical chess, between the most powerful families in France The Valois, The Guise and The Bourbons. The Guise were one of the most powerful families in france with a bunch of soldiers and they, were heavily, and militantly catholic, The Bourbons were also one of the most powerful families in f...
How Alexander II Reformed Russia
Просмотров 25 тыс.4 года назад
Alexander II of Russia was a man of contradictions a liberal reformer but a ruthless autocrat that encouraged self government but banned the Ukrainian language, and tried to give some political power to the people, but ended up assassinated for not going far enough, This is how Alexander the second of Russia reformed Russia, for better or for worse www.patreon.com/ancientaccounts Music : World ...
William Pitt The Younger: Britain's "Best" Prime Minister
Просмотров 20 тыс.4 года назад
William Pitt The Younger is probably not a name you've heard a lot. He's an extraordinary guy, he dealt with crazy George III and the American War of Independence, he led Britain through the French Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wales and the rise of Napoleon, and his Napoleonic Wars reforming the treasury (with the help of Adam Smith stopping corruption, bringing Ireland into the kingdom...
Emperor Zeno: The Saviour of the Byzantine Empire
Просмотров 8 тыс.4 года назад
If you wanna toss a couple of bucks my way www.patreon.com/ancientaccounts This video, Emperor Zeno the savior of the Byzantine Emperor is often overlooked, I was researching Caesar Augustus the guy that was the last Roman Emperor of the Roman Empire, i realized oh what was the Byzantine empire up to? Turns out more pressing stuff than helping out Rome. #History
The French Revolution: When France Lost its Head #ProjectRevolution
Просмотров 29 тыс.5 лет назад
www.patreon.com/ancientaccounts (If you wanna toss a couple of bucks my way) My video on the French Revolution is oversimplified it is the greatest revolution in french history and even world history. It starts with louis XVI, the tennis court oath and the calling of the estates general and devolves into the reign of terror and the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in this documentary ill explore ...
Napoleon Bonaparte: Master of Europe - Part 2
Просмотров 1,8 тыс.5 лет назад
This is part two of my Napoleon Bonaparte Series how he came to power in the french revolution and the help of Robespierre to launch a continent spanning war and declaring himself master of Europe and emperor of the french Explaining why he's so revered in history and what made him special Music: KevinMcleaod -Intrepid no vocals, Crossing the chasm Sources: Napoleon the great. Wikipedia and fra...
Napoleon Bonaparte: Master of Europe - Part 1
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.5 лет назад
#Napoleon#NapoleonBonaparte#French Revolution This is part one of a documentary series on Napoleon Bonaparte how he came to power with the french revolution and the help of Robespierre to launch a continent spanning war and declaring himself master of Europe. Explaining why he's so revered in history and what made him special Music: KevinMcleaod -Intrepid no vocals
The Haitian Revolution Part 1: How Haitian slaves won independence against France
Просмотров 16 тыс.5 лет назад
www.patreon.com/ancientaccounts (If you wanna toss a couple of bucks my way) This video is intented to be a crash course in the Hatian Revolution mostly just for my own amusement but also could help AP Euro Students. This only covers the prelude to the revolution, so not Toussiant L'overture or his successor Jean-Jacques Dessalines. I did record the audio but had to cut the animation down to th...
The English Civil War: When Parliament Killed A King
Просмотров 7 тыс.5 лет назад
The English Civil War or The English Revolution was one of the most important events In british history. When Parliament under the direction of Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax, killed a king. Charles I. There is another English Civil War in British History, or maybe it's French? Called The Anarchy, that's a future topic though. This should be helpful to A Level students or ap european histor...
May I ask, your accent.. british?
"Emperor Zeno" yet the thumbnail depicts Emperor Basil II.
censorship doesn't work hmmm... not necessarily fun video though
outreach is nice... it is... but man... that is one hell of a gorgeous vanity project Hey, you probably could have both.
Your content is severely underrated. Maybe try sound-biting bits such as the Whigs beating the Tories. Such awesome history but it’s never taught!
Especially in the world we are in today, people should be aware of the times when people fought back and won.
It was walpole
"Why do nice girls hate me?"
Robert Walpole went to Cambridge, not Oxford
Come back!
I had university, I finish in two weeks o7
Video is awesome. Really breaks it down. I always found George ii interesting and what went on with the courts. Behind all this, Walpole was quite friendly with Queen Caroline, and I don't know if it was a genuine friendship or a friendship of convenience and at the same time, the Prince of Wales hated Walpole. It's so interesting. I would love a video on his personal life, his marriage, his mistress and his youngest son.
Glad you enjoyed it
So here's the thing I don't understand about Calvinism: if God decides who is saved and who isn't, why does the religion even matter? Why does Jesus matter?
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So...
This guy and Talleyrand building europe like a sand castle
I really wish you wouldn’t blur the Face of these historical figures. Why do that ?
Metternich was an agent of Solomon Rothschild
They were killing each other in the name of "God"
Not pronounced like that, the ch isn't a k it's more like a hy sound, so Metternich should be pronounced like "metternihy" (this is how I explsin the sound to my non-german-speaking friends)
2:15 just a little correction The "gens de coloured Libre"where children sired between white frenchmen and their african mistresses not the "native people" on saint dominique the word native referred to the tainos
I recognise the good work you're doing providing information on this period to more people, it is a wonderful thing. However I do have some notes on this video that might be of interest to your viewers. 1) The 10% of the country being Protestant is certainly correct for around 1561/2, however by the 1570s I am fairly sure a lot of converts had already de-converted. A lot of those who didn't would of course convert to Catholicism after 1572. 2) The association of the Guise family with militant Catholicism is certainly true for a great deal of this period, however in 1561 they were open to compromise and synthesis with the Lutherans. Lorraine in particular thought the confession of Augsburg could be a rallying point for the reunification of the French church. 3) Personally when introducing the Bourbon family, I would highlight that they are part of the royal family, descended agnatically from Louis IX. 4) The Montmorency seem to be absent here from this video, but they are important enough to include imo, indeed during the 1550s they were more important than the Bourbon family by far, and would continue to have a massive impact on the FWOR. 5) Small thing, but its a) Condé (con-day) and b) Louis de Bourbon not Louis Bourbon c) you place his conversion around the ascent of Henri II, but it was in 1558 6) Nitpick but François II was 15 not 14 7) Condé's involvement in the conspiracy of Amboise is a matter of considerable dispute among historians, though I do believe he was involved personally. 8) 'One guy got drunk at a local tavern'. I have never heard this theory for the revelation of the plot before. The lawyer des Avenelles got cold feet and went to the Lorraine government to reveal it, his testimony was confirmed by a client of the duc de Nevers whose brother was involved in the plot. 9) The video implies that Condé was arrested prior to the initiation of the conspiracy of Amboise, he was arrested in October, 7 months after the failure of the main plot, and with many subsidiary plots having transpired (most importantly one in Lyon) 10) He didn't get off on lack of evidence, he was convicted and (most historians say though Romier disagrees) due to be executed. It was only the political destabilisation caused by the death of the king which made appeasing his brother (who as premier prince du sang had a strong claim to the regency) a strong enough political priority that he was released. 11) The initiation of a more tolerant policy is fairly singularly ascribed to Catherine in this video, and indeed to the reign of Charles IX, however it began even before the conspiracy of Amboise. On 8 March the first edict which differentiated sedition and Protestantism was issued, this would be furthered with edicts pardoning Protestants if they returned to Catholicism, and then the Edict of Romorantin in May which de facto abolished the death penalty for heresy cases. Lorraine, Coligny, L'Hôpital all played a role as well. 12) Pretty good basic summary of the massacre of Wassy, however to my knowledge the barn was not burned down? 13) Guise didn't really 'dispatch an army to the court' he himself travelled to the court alongside his triumvir colleagues with a large body of gentleman to intimidate the court. 14) I recognise the need in this short format for limited protagonists, but the only city Guise took back was Rouen, other royalist armies (or local forces) took back the rest, also Navarre led the main royal army prior to his death during the siege of Rouen. 15) Elizabeth I's invasion was the motive for the siege of Rouen, not the end of the war. By the time the war ended, the English were reduced to a weak hold on Le Havre. Wow, we're half way through this video and only just in 1563! I suspect we are due some considerable acceleration. 16) Nitpicking here, but several of the key Protestant commanders (among them Coligny) refused to join the joint royal army that recaptured Le Havre. 17) Obviously there are a lot of things 1563-1572 I think are worth discussing (as I'm a little obsessed with this period) but for a short introduction video, I would want to bring up 2 of them 1) The assassination of the duc de Guise and the Guise family starting a vendetta with Coligny over it 2) The Protestant coup of 1567 and the betrayal that was felt in court after this. 18) The theory of Charles getting very close to Coligny has largely been discredited (it feeds into the Catherine motivated by jealousy theory). I'm not sure what is meant by 'too close to a Protestant queen'. Are you referring to Jeanne d'Albret? 19) You label the duc de Guise as Henri Bourbon here, which is a little confusing hahah. Credit to you for bringing up the theory that the shooter may have acted alone though, that's quite a new one. 20) The assassination of Coligny and the Massacre of Saint-Bartholomew proper are two interconnected but seperate things, the assassins of Coligny did not hand out arms to the people of Paris, they went on their way to the next person they were due to assassinate. 21) A fair summary of the siege of La Rochelle and Anjou's return as king of France. 22) The next in line was not Henri of Navarre until 1584, the next in line was his brother Alençon. We seem to have skipped 1574-1584, a shame those are interesting years 😔 23) Oh, suddenly we're back to Henri Bourbon's flight from court, but that was in 1576? 24) The timeline of the video gets a bit jumbled at this point and we jump back and forth around 1587, 1588 and 1589 fairly freely. Henri's reconciliation with Navarre is placed prior to the day of the barricades, when it occurred in April 1589 after the assassination of the duc de Guise. 25) Mayenne's involvement in the assassination of Henri III is certainly speculated, but I don't think there's any proof. 26) Coutras (coo-trah) was in 1587, before the death of Henri III, when Navarre bested the royal army. 27) I'd honestly be surprised if there were more than a handful of covert Protestants in Paris at this point. 28) After his conversion there were two camps in the league, a) This is sufficient for us, we will cease our rebellion b) This is insufficient you need err a Papal absolution which you'll totally never get (this was the position taken by Mayenne). The war with the league largely ended therefore in 1595 29) Henri IV's reign was wracked with various conspiracies by malcontents (be they embittered Protestants like Turenne, or radical Catholics). One of those radical Catholics assassinated him in 1610. Thanks for taking the time to make this video, please don't take the length of this the wrong way. :)
Please make more videos
I mean, he's no Lord Palmerston ...
@@AncientAccounts I think he was making a simpson's reference to the argument about whether william pitt the elder or lord palmerston was the better prime minister
Great vid. This goes to show once people got a taste of freedom it is almost impossible to revert to monarchy/oppression. It does not matter how good of a diplomat Metternich was. Freedom is a wildfire.
The Pitts were better than the Bushes here in the States. If the older Pitt was in charge there may never have been a revolution. Thanks for the video.
I know him he was in blackadder
in 1881 alexander II was murdered by jewish anarkists.
And then the assassin and Alexander III ruined it
Well said
What kinda russia would we have if he lived
Couldnt Louise the XV1 have rather pretended a royal state visit to a nearby friendly country and then abdicated? For a number of reasons im sure a king could legally visit another country. I'm trying to say he didnt have to sneak away in a stately carriage the way he did.
Where did you get the sound clip @21:20 from? It sounds like the voice of John Hurt.
It’s a voice clip from assassins creed unity, can’t remember when
Why the Finland is connected with Sweden because at that pointti, we were parta of Russia.
nice video man and glad to see you back!
This was great! Keep them coming!
wow
Wow, I'm sure that after making that decision John Paul I had a very long and prosperous reign.
You’re back, nice
Ah yes the best way to restrict people from reading things - ban them.
so you mean to tell me the catholic church was the original woke left?
So cringe
@@PiousFem6 can't think of anything more left wing than roman catholicism smh my head
Not really, black lists, historically (and specially with books), tended to come from the other side. Unless you consider the N**z*s as woke liberals. They are the ones who burn books.
@@Jjnq5 applying modern politics to the past is just plain stupid. It does nothing other than to win you a like or two on a cringe post. All sides censor things all throughout history. You're being naive
they were literally whichever wing they felt like being before subscribing to a wing was a thing
1st!
A person who pays no taxes should keep his or her mouth shut.
lratoion of inpnnz
Damn reactionary down with the noble scum!
Always really felt bad for Louis XV1…..he seemed to try hard initially in a job he was absolutely not suited to (though he inherited such a mess, few would find it easy), seemed to know things were going downhill, but still tried, then mainly just despaired and gave up (then got executed).
A truly scary time in history, and an awful time to live through. But boy,…was the prior French system a rickety, unfair mess that had gone on too long.
Ah, Pitt, my favourite Prime Minister! I even wrote a poem about him when I was in high school. Thanks for the video; I especially liked the bottles of port marching across the screen to herald poor Pitt's demise.
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Cool video, bro. Pitt the Younger was a brilliant politician.🍇
What I've learned from studying historical revolutions, is that if you're an autocrat, you have no incentive to liberalize, because the people are bloodthirsty and ignorant, and they're just going to kill you for it.