Africa: Zulu Empire - The Wrath of Shaka Zulu - Extra History - Part 2

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  • 📜 Africa's Zulu Empire - African History Part 2 Extra History
    Shaka sought vengeance for Dingiswayo on Zwide and the Ndwandwe. He expanded his control over the Mtethwa and other tribes, then launched his assault on the Ndwandwe. Shaka scored two crushing victories over the course of an eighteen month war, although Zwide escaped both times. Shaka invaded the main Ndwandwe village, capturing Zwide's mother and burning her to death in place of her son. Shaka had won the war, but the people he pushed out created a ripple of instability across Africa: the Mfecane or the Crushing. Shaka himself became dangerously disturbed when his mother died and he began to take his grief out on his people. His brothers assassinated him to take the throne, leading to a new king: Dingane. Dingane began to treat with the Dutch colonists in South Africa, but what began as a friendly relationship became a betrayal when he turned on them. Dingane attacked their wagon train at the Battle of Bloody River, but the Dutch with their guns held him off. The Dutch then threw their support behind Dingane's last surviving brother, Mpande, who successfully overthrew him and became the new Zulu king.
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  • @grfrjiglstan
    @grfrjiglstan Pƙed 9 lety +633

    Singing the victory songs of your enemy to lure the people out, then slaughtering them? Damn, that's cold.

    • @indigodarkwolf
      @indigodarkwolf Pƙed 9 lety +211

      ***** When you think about it, Shaka was a real monster. Consider that he was raised in a society where the furthest extremes of war were a ritualized spear-throwing contest. I can't imagine the degree of hatred a man would have to feel towards his fellow human beings to invent the kind of brutal warfare that he brought to Africa.

    • @grfrjiglstan
      @grfrjiglstan Pƙed 9 lety +96

      indigodarkwolf Monsters shape the world. Always have, always will.

    • @LaZodiac
      @LaZodiac Pƙed 9 lety +148

      indigodarkwolf Consider that when his Mom died he basically went on a country wide killing spree. Dude was unstable as hell.

    • @evilplaguedoctor5158
      @evilplaguedoctor5158 Pƙed 9 lety +5

      LaZodiac kim jong un much? lol

    • @VintageLJ
      @VintageLJ Pƙed 9 lety +41

      StraightJacketRED Are you really trying to justify mass genocide, because one dude 'Wanted a better life'?

  • @hsnd2388
    @hsnd2388 Pƙed 9 lety +386

    Who was responsible for the Zulu Empires downfall? Walpole.
    Who wiped out the wagon train of Dutch settlers? Walpole.
    What caused Shaka to get killed? Walpole.

    • @redpandai1
      @redpandai1 Pƙed 9 lety +12

      gavinrichard ladd This comment is great!

    • @Tartar
      @Tartar Pƙed 9 lety +59

      gavinrichard ladd Who was responsible for the OP's historically inaccurate comment?`Wallpole.

    • @VechsDavion
      @VechsDavion Pƙed 9 lety +59

      gavinrichard ladd ... unless you are... wait for it... the Mon-- Robert Walpole.

    • @peterdietrich8810
      @peterdietrich8810 Pƙed 9 lety +21

      gavinrichard ladd Walpole was 9/11

    • @JigsawGaming93
      @JigsawGaming93 Pƙed 9 lety +1

      ***** VECHES! I LOVE YOU! lol

  • @Jedibob5
    @Jedibob5 Pƙed 9 lety +615

    Well, I certainly didn't expect Shaka to just go ahead and die unceremoniously in the second episode...

    • @Swonke
      @Swonke Pƙed 9 lety +13

      Jedibob5 Yeah seeing as the series is named after him I didn't see that coming either.

    • @ProfessorLawl
      @ProfessorLawl Pƙed 9 lety +84

      Esquire Chewington IV it's not though. It's called the Zulu empire, not the Shaka empire.

    • @Swonke
      @Swonke Pƙed 9 lety +15

      ProfessorLawl
      Oh I guess I got the episode title confused with the series.

    • @scaperty65
      @scaperty65 Pƙed 9 lety +47

      Jedibob5 Game of Thrones

    • @stationshelter
      @stationshelter Pƙed 9 lety +39

      scaperty65 Shaka Thrones dies in the second episode

  • @PsymonM
    @PsymonM Pƙed 9 lety +212

    Shaka's brutality really gives Oda Nobunaga a run for his money.

    • @PsymonM
      @PsymonM Pƙed 9 lety +24

      Gracielo Barteza Well, I suppose from Shaka's perspective, he had solid motives for what he did, even though I'd hardly find his way of going about them anything close to reasonable.
      I guess Nobunaga DID have a much better backing in the grand scheme of things, though.

    • @parkerdixon-word6295
      @parkerdixon-word6295 Pƙed 9 lety +14

      Gracielo Barteza I fail to see the difference: They're bloody, brutal conquorers. They destroy pillage and rape to try to carve themselves empires. It's the same story as dozens, if not hundreds, of warleaders all over the world, particularly in times and places where firearms are not yet used by their entire armed forces. You can try and say that Nobunaga was trying to end Sengoku Jidai and bring peace or whatever, but the series made it clear that Nobunaga didn't want to do the things he did for Japan, he wanted to do them for Oda Nobunaga, otherwise he'd have genuinely put the old shogunate back on the throne.

    • @Necroskull388
      @Necroskull388 Pƙed 9 lety +21

      Parker Dixon-Word The old shogunate got Japan in that mess in the first place. Putting the old shogunate back in power would have been worse than doing nothing.

    • @Carzeyday
      @Carzeyday Pƙed 9 lety +1

      ***** Then a wild Vlad appears.

    • @parkerdixon-word6295
      @parkerdixon-word6295 Pƙed 9 lety +1

      Dagda Mor Putting the son or grandson of somebody who screwwed up on the throne is just as likely to go badly as putting anyone else on the throne. Nobunaga could have united Japan with less bloodshed if he'd tried to combine his authority and power with the legitimate heir to the shogunate, but at the cost of not being Shogun himself.
      Someone who has a higher goal to bring Peace to japan would have chosen to aid the political power of the shogun with their own military power, probably becoming one of the Shogun's closest allies in the process.
      Someone ambitious enough to let his nation be plunged into war for the sake of his own power chooses to use the Shogun as a scapegoat.

  • @Spookspek
    @Spookspek Pƙed 5 lety +634

    It's over Zwide! I have the high ground!

  • @YossarianVanDriver
    @YossarianVanDriver Pƙed 9 lety +399

    So, the only reason a lot of this happened is because the British pushed the Dutch east into Zulu territory. Which wouldn't have happened at all or in quite the same way, I'm sure, had the British economic situation been slightly different in the years leading up to this. In other words, it must have been at least in part influenced by a certain figure who played a key role in said economic situation.
    What am I saying?
    That, no joke, it was Walpole.

    • @JackgarPrime
      @JackgarPrime Pƙed 9 lety +85

      YossarianVanDriver Walpole plays the long game, after all.

    • @donaldjamesderrick
      @donaldjamesderrick Pƙed 9 lety +12

      YossarianVanDriver Wow! YossarianVanDriver - that's totally true. Well-observed!

    • @YossarianVanDriver
      @YossarianVanDriver Pƙed 9 lety +6

      Donald Derrick Thank you.

    • @NeutralGrounder
      @NeutralGrounder Pƙed 9 lety +7

      YossarianVanDriver Depends on what you mean. Shaka's empire would have still been around with or without the arrival of the settlers.

    • @YossarianVanDriver
      @YossarianVanDriver Pƙed 9 lety +2

      NeutralGrounder Hence why I said "a lot of this" and not all of it.

  • @suicune690
    @suicune690 Pƙed 6 lety +325

    Not surprising Shaka had issues, seeing how his name basically means "You were an accident".

    • @killer.yoshi_
      @killer.yoshi_ Pƙed 3 lety +9

      Actually his name means shark

    • @neromauritzen9083
      @neromauritzen9083 Pƙed 2 lety +4

      Lol how can you blame his actions on his birthname? Don't be stupid

    • @ash_11117
      @ash_11117 Pƙed rokem +5

      Wdym he was a military genius and a great leader.

    • @suicune690
      @suicune690 Pƙed rokem +4

      @@ash_11117 I never said he wasn't.

    • @edwardgomez5616
      @edwardgomez5616 Pƙed rokem +2

      Actually, Chaka was named after a bug. The chakas bug is what chake was named for.

  • @TheMrthatdude17
    @TheMrthatdude17 Pƙed 6 lety +102

    He had cows slaughtered so that their calf would know what it was like to lose a mother. Epic pettiness!

  • @thescribeinyellow3985
    @thescribeinyellow3985 Pƙed 9 lety +112

    I have to say, this look into the Zulu Empire is really informative. I went to school in South Africa, and the main history of the Zulus we were taught there was that "Shaka killed, Dingane now king". Nothing about Shaka's descent into madness, his mother's death or even the war with Zwide.
    Also, if you're right about the Dutch getting off to an at-first peaceful relationship with the Zulus, and later about the new Zulu King forming a peace with the Dutch and giving land, this kicks the crap out of the claims that we're bombarded with in the SA education system that "Europeans came to Africa and, instead of trading, immediately started stealing and pillaging our land, Zulus fight bravely and nobly against aggressive invaders" Even with the second part, we never heard how Dingane stabbed the Dutch in the back

    • @MassiveEffect
      @MassiveEffect Pƙed 9 lety +36

      TheScribeInYellow Each country will always write their own version of history, the version that best suits them.

    • @christianweibrecht6555
      @christianweibrecht6555 Pƙed 9 lety +11

      British at first acted peaceful with the native Americans ,both groups of colonists then turned violent when they didn't need tribal aid

    • @DutchScape
      @DutchScape Pƙed 9 lety +11

      Ni C Don't talk nonsense. The advancing Boer Voortrekkers actually originally just wanted a piece of land for their way of life; they weren't out to conquer any people. They arrived at an area that was depopulated by the Mfecane and peacefully agreed with Dingane to receive another strip of land as passage to the sea. It's sad that they were betrayed, for both Boer and Zulu alike. They could potentially have lived peacefully side-by-side.

    • @TheBespectacledN00b
      @TheBespectacledN00b Pƙed 9 lety +7

      The Dutch weren't entirely innocent. A lot of them left the Cape due to the British Empire's abolition of slavery, and thought Britain was being too lenient towards the Africans.

    • @TheBespectacledN00b
      @TheBespectacledN00b Pƙed 9 lety +10

      Diego Chamberlain Boers aren't Bantu, Boers are the descendants of the Dutch. Confusing the two can cause a biggo misunderstanding of South African history. Especially the Apartheid era.

  • @therichchronicles1249
    @therichchronicles1249 Pƙed 2 lety +79

    I am a descendant of Zwide. Part of his clan settled in Zimbabwe and they were now called the Ndebeles. Means those with long shields. Ndingiswayo, Mzilikazi are all my great ancestors. Much appreciation to the pronunciations.

  • @Achillez098
    @Achillez098 Pƙed 9 lety +64

    Wow this is like Africa's version of Game of Thrones, except it actually happened

    • @RedTailedSmeargle
      @RedTailedSmeargle Pƙed 9 lety

      It was Walpole.

    • @Omega0850
      @Omega0850 Pƙed 9 lety

      *****
      The lancasters send their regards...

    • @kayodett
      @kayodett Pƙed 9 lety

      Achillez Probably my favorite comment so far.

  • @MichelFialloPerez
    @MichelFialloPerez Pƙed 9 lety +73

    The Zulu imperial family had interesting ideas about brotherly love...

    • @Reluxthelegend
      @Reluxthelegend Pƙed 9 lety +33

      MichelFialloPerez That happened in most royal imperial families throughout the world and history tho.

    • @stroberry4660
      @stroberry4660 Pƙed 8 lety

      And soon his brothers became one
      ...PFFFTT HAHAHA

  • @homersimpson6585
    @homersimpson6585 Pƙed 4 lety +67

    So the loins attack from the back?
    Shaka you’re a genius

  • @losersinc7973
    @losersinc7973 Pƙed 6 lety +55

    You know you failed when you died in the middle of the second episode.

  • @joelmay5980
    @joelmay5980 Pƙed 6 lety +40

    I live in South Africa but we still only learn about European history and his compensation for that is putting this series in the Google classroom. Video is still more interesting to watch then a history lesson so cool

    • @tibbs7620
      @tibbs7620 Pƙed 6 lety +9

      I don't make any sense Ikr? There's so much interesting South African history,but all we learn about is a little about the Portuguese settlers,apartheid,and nothing else

    • @Udontkno7
      @Udontkno7 Pƙed 6 lety +10

      Sweet Roll There's plenty of stories to tell. They just don't tell it.

    • @mri127
      @mri127 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      Sweet Roll Not Africa entirely, these guys were in mud huts when north and east Africa had cities and muskets and real empires. Look up the ajuuran empire, if they wanted they could have conquered all that land.

    • @Redbird-dh7mu
      @Redbird-dh7mu Pƙed 5 lety

      To be fair, that is most likely due to the fact that most of Africa is missing recorded records. A lot of this is based on stories passed down generation from generation. It is hard to know what is exaggerated, what is true, and what us complete lies.

  • @thisfacebelievesyou8862
    @thisfacebelievesyou8862 Pƙed 5 lety +42

    I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the final section of Shaka’s army, the part that truly... screwed... his enemies, was called the “loins”. “Hooves” would’ve been the more thematically and literally accurate title.

  • @thabolowe6448
    @thabolowe6448 Pƙed 6 lety +43

    One day, a guy sitting near Shaka made a joke. Shaka found it funny and laughed, it was too funny so he couldn't stop laughing, so he had the guy killed. The guy made the King laugh uncontrollably, which was illegal Lol. Im not lying

    • @jyojoyj
      @jyojoyj Pƙed 6 lety +11

      Anewlevel what?

    • @user-bl3fo7dz3o
      @user-bl3fo7dz3o Pƙed 5 lety +8

      Anewlevel Yup, we’re all exactly the same, aren’t we?

    • @mri127
      @mri127 Pƙed 5 lety +7

      Anewlevel Not Africa entirely, these guys were in mud huts when north and east Africa had cities and muskets and real empires. Look up the ajuuran empire, if they wanted they could have conquered all that land.

    • @captaindonut5240
      @captaindonut5240 Pƙed 3 lety +4

      Dang bro you got the whole squad laughing *picks up spear*

  • @thecornseller
    @thecornseller Pƙed 3 lety +34

    He had them sing victory songs and then killed everyone who came to sing along? Daaaaaang.

  • @fmcco002
    @fmcco002 Pƙed 9 lety +26

    The section about the hill strikes me as something if the tribal equivalent to a siege battle. When you look at it like that, it's not really so surprising Shaka won. Anyone who's played any Total War games knows you usually need more than double the defenders forces to win a siege battle.

    • @jeppel1972
      @jeppel1972 Pƙed 9 lety

      ***** Also light cavalry, make the infantry chase light cavalry while your archers take care of those who go for the fort.

    • @Squalidarity
      @Squalidarity Pƙed 9 lety +1

      Total War: Mfecane?

    • @thekaiseriswiser4451
      @thekaiseriswiser4451 Pƙed 9 lety

      Is it wrong I used my Calvary as Assassins?

    • @ConstantineIII
      @ConstantineIII Pƙed 9 lety +1

      Francis McCormick In general, if you can defend atop a hill, you have a significant advantage over those attacking you up hill.

    • @jeppel1972
      @jeppel1972 Pƙed 9 lety

      EDF Ranger Well, that's probably the best way to use them without abusing AI.

  • @GijsTheDog
    @GijsTheDog Pƙed 7 lety +45

    Let's be honest, those cows had it comming

  • @tristan9648
    @tristan9648 Pƙed 5 lety +28

    Zulu: It's over Ndwandwe! I have the high ground!

    • @tristan9648
      @tristan9648 Pƙed 5 lety

      @@ER-pp6dz 😂😂😂

  • @leviadragon99
    @leviadragon99 Pƙed 9 lety +161

    Huh, so a rapid succession of brutal dictators in a brief span of time complete with plentiful betrayals...
    I guess history is the same no matter where you go.

    • @MarquisForneus
      @MarquisForneus Pƙed 9 lety +34

      leviadragon99 Humans are the same no matter where you go.

    • @VintageLJ
      @VintageLJ Pƙed 9 lety +1

      leviadragon99 Unless your in Britain. No dictators there, unless you count Caesar or William :P

    • @helenawave
      @helenawave Pƙed 9 lety +20

      VintageLJ The british are the ones to blame for half of the world being so poor. If you don't had any dictators, you were it.

    • @Malisteen
      @Malisteen Pƙed 9 lety +39

      VintageLJ Are... are you kidding, LJ? Successions of brutal monarchs not ringing a bell? Oppression of common people and bloody repression of their uprisings by nobility? Protestant vs. Catholic violence? Brutal suppression/conquering of Scottish and Irish territories? To say nothing of the brutal system of white supremacy they exported throughout a global empire built on violence, bloodshed, and profits from the transatlantic slave trade, itself among the greatest horrors of human history?

    • @xDaZJMx
      @xDaZJMx Pƙed 9 lety +11

      VintageLJ England has been at war more times than you can count, over history it's committed countless massacres and oppressed millions of people. Not only did England have dictators, the country itself was a world wide dictator.

  • @philipyazbak5496
    @philipyazbak5496 Pƙed 5 lety +32

    5:02
    Well that escalated quickly... holy shit

    • @razr-x9666
      @razr-x9666 Pƙed 5 lety +3

      Philip Yazbak I know right,he killed zwidees mom with hyenas and then burned the house

  • @lincolndasema6694
    @lincolndasema6694 Pƙed 6 lety +30

    Wow this was extremely sad. Shaka had so much potential, but that cruelty led to his downfall.

    • @lincolndasema6694
      @lincolndasema6694 Pƙed 6 lety +5

      +Tsai Chou Zhang Although there were many African leaders who turned their country for the better. Like King Minelek 2 using Europeans greed against themselves.

    • @wreth662
      @wreth662 Pƙed 6 lety +3

      The rest of the world is no different

  • @patriciaa4451
    @patriciaa4451 Pƙed 5 lety +45

    Shaka was a major mama's boy.

  • @McHrozni
    @McHrozni Pƙed 5 lety +28

    The prehistoric ways of warfare were either timid sporting matches or utterly brutal affairs.
    Interesting.

  • @1301407gl
    @1301407gl Pƙed 9 lety +48

    And people Said that Kanye West went crazy after his mother died

  • @sidneysoup5969
    @sidneysoup5969 Pƙed 4 lety +54

    0:54 *Shaka holds knife up to guys neck*
    *me*: Hold up, he doesn't have a neck

  • @andrewmiller8456
    @andrewmiller8456 Pƙed 6 lety +53

    The wrath of intestinal Bettle Heaven

  • @BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON
    @BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON Pƙed 4 lety +73

    So, a fairly peaceful kind of ritual of war would be replaced by a violent and brutal war because of Shaka Zulu?
    What a squash.

  • @somedude4087
    @somedude4087 Pƙed 5 lety +37

    2:17 this is it Ndwandwe, I got the high ground
    somebody had to say this

  • @thelittleagustus.2292
    @thelittleagustus.2292 Pƙed 3 lety +46

    Who would have thought Shaka would be a huge mama's boy

  • @kipleigh9712
    @kipleigh9712 Pƙed 2 lety +38

    Locked his mum in a house with hyenas...
    Man that's brutal...

  • @aidanmorrow3321
    @aidanmorrow3321 Pƙed 4 lety +88

    Who's watching in 2020
    Boy what a year right?

  • @StellanQuin
    @StellanQuin Pƙed 5 lety +33

    Shaka used the High Ground before it was cool

  • @EcoDimension
    @EcoDimension Pƙed 5 lety +24

    Shaka's strategy is to use "Shaka 'n Awe"

  • @8ballentertainment.885
    @8ballentertainment.885 Pƙed 7 lety +11

    5:18, man I never knew South Africa had the best wifi

  • @ThePa1riot
    @ThePa1riot Pƙed 9 lety +20

    Ironic that at the Battle of Bloody River, the up close strategy of the Zulu was ill suited to fighting rifleman but the old school long range spear fighting would have actually made the fight closer to even if not ideal.

    • @Nucl3arDude
      @Nucl3arDude Pƙed 9 lety +5

      Cure4Living There was a cavalry charge at the end led by Pretorious himself, where the long spear would've ended that idea quickly. In a way, the Voortrekkers were perfectly suited to win that battle.

    • @Nucl3arDude
      @Nucl3arDude Pƙed 9 lety

      Natasel Then explain Isandlwana? The british had breech loading cartridge based rifles, firing at a much higher rate than the Boers with muskets... how did the Brits suffer a drubbing for the ages and the Boers did infinitely better at Blood River, with less men and inferior equipment.

    • @gantzisballs
      @gantzisballs Pƙed 8 lety +1

      +Natasel Spears vs. Guns didn't save the Italians against the Ethiopians in the 1st Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The Italians had gatling guns and artillery and STILL lost to an army of mostly spearmen with a few rifles. The Italians attempted to charge up a steep hill, which badly limited the range of their bullets and made their cannons pretty worthless because they couldn't see shit! It was well known by that time in the late 1800s that charging uphill against an entrenched enemy is insanely stupid, but Italy's incompetent general decided to do it anyways. This was one of the most embarrassing losses in military history, matched only by France's astounding loss to Haiti and the Soviet Union failing to conquer Finland. If military history was like sports, the Italians post-Roman Empire would mostly have ironic fans that love them solely by how much they suck. Germany and America are teams that win squash matches, but don't really have the spirit to win upset victories and make crowds love them. France and Russia would be teams worth cheering for. They are either going to lose in hilarious fashion or win the big games they weren't supposed to.

    • @ThePa1riot
      @ThePa1riot Pƙed 8 lety

      gantzisballs Clever use of metaphor.

  • @greenacorn1151
    @greenacorn1151 Pƙed 7 lety +36

    "The Wrath of Intestinal Beetle Heaven"

  • @rubencloete8333
    @rubencloete8333 Pƙed 3 lety +22

    The Dutch we're by that time called Voortrekkers and their movement to the east was called "Die Groot Trek"

  • @saltymedpac3943
    @saltymedpac3943 Pƙed 4 lety +19

    I was hoping id hear a tail of a hero but wow the lack of compassion for his enemies is just brutal.

    • @PillBoxUK
      @PillBoxUK Pƙed 4 lety +12

      All history is covered in blood. We are just too used to living nice lives. The vikings were just as brutal to the Christians, Alexander to the Persians etc. Nothing new to learn here when it comes to brutality

  • @tomlever
    @tomlever Pƙed 4 lety +53

    Woah! He executed his enemy's mother by having her eaten alive by dogs.
    That is a Game Of Thrones level of cold bloodedness.

  • @daboring1
    @daboring1 Pƙed 4 lety +53

    Shaka to Julius: "yes I've heared of your play, tell me how does it end? Oh yes! You get stabbed many times by your friends"
    Also shaka: gets assassinated by his brothers

  • @jarahfluxman20
    @jarahfluxman20 Pƙed 6 lety +36

    So much context is missing. I'm south African and I've studied this period. The settlers were not dutch. They were boers, a group of people with mixed dutch and French ancestry who didn't consider themselves dutch. They spoke another language called Afrikaans. It's equivalent to calling the American colonists who went west British. Furthermore, Dingane didn't just attack the settlers. The boer settlers went north in the great trek because they were unhappy with the British not allowing them certain priveleges (for example, they weren't allowed to have slaves anymore). They had first entered the lands of the xhosa where they had proceeded to just take land for their own and raid the native people for cattle. They had also already taken land from the Ndebele people in the centre of south Africa and forced them into Zimbabwe as well as stolen land from the sotho. Dingane had heard all of this and didn't trust them. I'm not saying what he did was right, I'm just saying that he had some justification.

    • @sksthrowaway2270
      @sksthrowaway2270 Pƙed 6 lety +1

      Next episode dude

    • @samuelademeso6061
      @samuelademeso6061 Pƙed 6 lety

      True and also the part were they say the mficane was cause by Shaka on revenge spree is a bit misleading, because according to a book I read in school, mficane already existed as a result of scarce grasslands for cattle grazing which led to intense and firece competition between the nguni tribes to control them and also the mettephaw confederation(sorry if I'm not good with South African names) and other confederations, we're form to cope with this and also to have imperial ambition and such.

  • @vaper8824
    @vaper8824 Pƙed 4 lety +67

    2:05 HIGH GROUND !

  • @aname4141
    @aname4141 Pƙed 6 lety +48

    7:23 None of this ends well for anybody
    The battle seemed like it ended amazingly well for the Dutch

    • @seamonster936
      @seamonster936 Pƙed 3 lety +1

      They were not Dutch. One of the Boer commanders had a French surname.

    • @neromauritzen9083
      @neromauritzen9083 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@seamonster936 Just details though, a French surname does not make you French though

    • @seamonster936
      @seamonster936 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@neromauritzen9083 I didn’t say that and we are not Dutch.

    • @neromauritzen9083
      @neromauritzen9083 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@seamonster936 ok, then keep your little guessing games to yourself, I got no time for them, or people such as you

    • @seamonster936
      @seamonster936 Pƙed 2 lety

      @@neromauritzen9083 What guessing games? But I don’t like the French either, in fact I don’t like any Europeans.

  • @neromauritzen9083
    @neromauritzen9083 Pƙed 2 lety +33

    Shaka became the villain died at the beginning of his own movie series đŸ˜«

  • @catchamp1880
    @catchamp1880 Pƙed 5 lety +57

    "short stabbing spear" that's... A knife...

    • @shymebc5987
      @shymebc5987 Pƙed 5 lety +11

      No...that's like saying a knife is shortsword

    • @mk123qll4
      @mk123qll4 Pƙed 5 lety +4

      But a shortsword is just a knife but longer.

    • @walruspanda8768
      @walruspanda8768 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      Knives, daggers, stilettos and shivs are all short and yet not the same things

    • @name_not_important7757
      @name_not_important7757 Pƙed 5 lety

      No its not

  • @bennipaulhinasi_bphn7943
    @bennipaulhinasi_bphn7943 Pƙed 2 lety +33

    As a South African I have to say this was very way done and youre pronunciations are really good đŸ”„đŸ™đŸŸ

  • @Anonimus693
    @Anonimus693 Pƙed 2 lety +19

    Holy smokes, I actually, genuinly learned something that I didn't know before. For some reason, I just quietly assumed, that Shaka was present at the time of the Battle of Rorke's Drift, but there's actually full 51 years betwen those two things. Always happy to learn something new, thanks! ;)

  • @empolethetaco2450
    @empolethetaco2450 Pƙed 4 lety +29

    3:19 when your loins are hiding in depression

  • @justinnnnnn5676
    @justinnnnnn5676 Pƙed 4 lety +63

    Zulus: *charge dutch with spears*
    Dutch: "wtf r u guys doing, we have guns you know."

  • @zorro456
    @zorro456 Pƙed 6 lety +29

    Jackals and Hyenas.... Game of Thrones African Style.

  • @rossmallo
    @rossmallo Pƙed 9 lety +17

    Christ, what they did to Zwide's mother, I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
    Him pulling that stuff should have probably tipped his people off to that "slight" impending downward spiral.

  • @Elizabeththegreatest
    @Elizabeththegreatest Pƙed 6 lety +9

    "A boy's best friend is his mother" clearly applied to Shaka Zulu! He really loved his mom!

  • @Theonecalledcait
    @Theonecalledcait Pƙed 3 lety +25

    Shaka's brother is assassinated
    Shaka becomes King
    Shaka's brothers bump him off then one kills the other
    That one rules and then the last brother kills him off
    Dang, Karma is real

  • @CommissarWallace
    @CommissarWallace Pƙed 9 lety +17

    I'm imagining that the new Zulu king was at the battle on the Umfolonzi river. Simply because, when asked where he was, he would say 'I'm Mpande hill.'

  • @danielparejo1800
    @danielparejo1800 Pƙed 8 lety +24

    I'm so copying that chest-horns-loins strategy in my next Total War campaign...

    • @Mahrah2
      @Mahrah2 Pƙed 7 lety

      fastest around the sides.
      strongest in the front. Use a faint if you want.
      keep reserves in back of front

    • @wolfwoodphreak
      @wolfwoodphreak Pƙed 5 lety

      Its called the pincer formation. You use calvary or fast infantry to envelop the enemy at the flanks while giving inches off the forward phalanx, tactically retreating it until your army forms a circle around the enemy then collapse into it

  • @TheDarkendstar
    @TheDarkendstar Pƙed 6 lety +13

    Well after hearing all that there is one thing you can say about Shaka he LOVED his Mother.

  • @mysideofyoutube8376
    @mysideofyoutube8376 Pƙed 2 lety +32

    4:53 We do a little bit of trolling

  • @HighKingOfSkyrim37
    @HighKingOfSkyrim37 Pƙed 5 lety +16

    Everything I have learned about this man makes me think of him as an EVIL genius.

  • @Xrenegoznaet
    @Xrenegoznaet Pƙed 7 lety +66

    "Yeah, let's attack those vastly more technologically foreigners who came here to trade. What could go wrong?"

    • @adlerzwei
      @adlerzwei Pƙed 7 lety +58

      "came here to trade"

    • @freekmulder3662
      @freekmulder3662 Pƙed 7 lety +30

      yes they came to trade. That was the only thing the Dutch did

    • @tnerbtnerb5136
      @tnerbtnerb5136 Pƙed 7 lety +23

      adlerzwei Seriously, you people seem convinced that EVERY European that cane to Africa during the colonial period was a conquerer. Try reading a history book *NOT* written by a biased progressive now and again. You might actually learn the truth.

    • @joeysung311
      @joeysung311 Pƙed 7 lety +6

      @Dean Cutler
      "Incapable of comprehending?"
      Surely it's exposure and education, not your (assuredly) above-average intelligence and open-mindedness which allows you to be aware of these nuances.

    • @elroyscout
      @elroyscout Pƙed 7 lety

      It's just a bad strategy to do seemingly without reason

  • @gruntage95
    @gruntage95 Pƙed 9 lety +25

    Ahh, so one of the remaining brothers was executed?
    ...
    Damnit Walpole!

  • @user-kt1lh5sz1i
    @user-kt1lh5sz1i Pƙed 4 lety +50

    The Zulus,the Spartans of Africa....

  • @HelloQro
    @HelloQro Pƙed 6 lety +11

    part of me wanted to hear a " it's over, i have the high ground "

  • @creamypeanutbutterjellygir3321

    0:39 is Shaka doing the Kamehameha

  • @graymccanse6769
    @graymccanse6769 Pƙed 6 lety +4

    Your channel is so great! I enjoy the videos, watch them every day, and learn lots! Thank you.

  • @thegayghost872
    @thegayghost872 Pƙed 5 lety +19

    Shaka was one crazy dude

  • @MultiSciGeek
    @MultiSciGeek Pƙed 6 lety +14

    That escalated quickly!

  • @hyperhare0624
    @hyperhare0624 Pƙed 3 lety +23

    They had the high ground

  • @MrStegosaurusable
    @MrStegosaurusable Pƙed 9 lety

    I was, at first, sent here with a recommendation to watch your, quote "excellent history related videos" a few days ago. I was not dissatisfied, in fact, quite the opposite. Since then I have watched all of these from that particular series and now I am beginning to watch your equally impressive gaming and gaming related videos. Your channel is one of the best on this site and is quickly becoming my favourite. The writing and VO is top notch and the quality of the animation is stellar (props to the artists, that's gotta take a lot of dedication on your parts). You guys give me hope for the future of CZcams. Keep up the good work!

  • @barend4285
    @barend4285 Pƙed 6 lety +18

    Interesting side note, the Dutch settlers had about 470 people, 470 vs 10000 is still quite insane.

    • @Jake-ir3gw
      @Jake-ir3gw Pƙed 6 lety +4

      Not really considering they had guns. The Zulu way of war also overly relied on the Bull and Horns formation which is typically called flanking in Europe. The Dutch were well aware of this tactic.

    • @JUAN_OLIVIER
      @JUAN_OLIVIER Pƙed 6 lety +3

      Jake - They did have guns, but slow loading front loaders.

    • @samuelademeso6061
      @samuelademeso6061 Pƙed 6 lety

      They had guns, i dont see that as anything signuficant. If they fought the 1000 zulus with sword and spears and manage to beat them off then yeah, but then again at that rate, numbers, which the zulus have would have won the day

    • @pieterfischer9638
      @pieterfischer9638 Pƙed 6 lety

      The dutch had 2 or three canons. But only about 48 rounds. There were around 1,500 of them. But only 470 were fighting men. The rest were women and children. Also, they had limited ammunition.... they were not prepared for full scale war. The ammo was supposed to be used for hunting along the way to the new land.

  • @haberak3310
    @haberak3310 Pƙed 5 lety +38

    And I thought Imperial Japan was fucked up

  • @winston7397
    @winston7397 Pƙed 7 lety +17

    This was great! Amazing content. I'd like to see one on Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire, or Osei Tutu of the Ashanti empire

    • @winston7397
      @winston7397 Pƙed 7 lety

      Good to know, man. I stand corrected

  • @jaypillsbury843
    @jaypillsbury843 Pƙed 9 lety

    I'm _loving_ this series. The interesting story you're telling as well as all the brilliant references are making this extremely entertaining.

  • @thereallambofgod
    @thereallambofgod Pƙed 9 lety

    really loving this. you guys go into alot of history not really talked about

  • @backo7533
    @backo7533 Pƙed 6 lety +19

    You always need that high ground

    • @Three_Sevens
      @Three_Sevens Pƙed 5 lety +7

      Backo even obi wan knew that

    • @MrCrashDavi
      @MrCrashDavi Pƙed 5 lety

      HOLD UP YOU'RE NOT THINKING CLEAR
      I'VE GOT THE ADVANTAGE UP HERE

  • @Cosminen
    @Cosminen Pƙed 9 lety +5

    PLZ make these history vids longer!!!!!! :) these are so coool!!! :)

  • @oliviabrink4361
    @oliviabrink4361 Pƙed 6 lety +2

    I cannot express how helpful these videos are! I'm busy writing my extended essay but when you get so confused by so many events and people these really help me clear it up so thank you!

  • @johnnynightmare1837
    @johnnynightmare1837 Pƙed 9 lety

    I love extra history. It made me fall in love with my favorite subject all over again. The videos are very informative without becoming dry and boring. Could you do the golden age of piracy in one of your future videos? That is my favorite time in history.

  • @emeraldminecart826
    @emeraldminecart826 Pƙed 4 lety +36

    War is all fun and games until the the Zulu soldier charges

  • @superheroinreallife
    @superheroinreallife Pƙed rokem +11

    “you want a trip? i’ll bring it to ya!”

  • @slingman1074
    @slingman1074 Pƙed 9 lety

    Great episode, taught me a lot about what I didn't know about the Zulu tribe. Thanks guys!

  • @ChurchofVirus
    @ChurchofVirus Pƙed 9 lety

    Another great episode, and I'm really a lot about pieces of history where my knowledge is lacking. Can't wait for the next.

  • @Reezy37
    @Reezy37 Pƙed 5 lety +30

    I have to wonder could the Zulus have conquered most of the parts of South Africa not yet occupied by the Boers and British and created a much larger empire.

    • @danielchequer5842
      @danielchequer5842 Pƙed 5 lety +1

      I don't think so, they would take too long to stabilish a true empire before someone crushed them

    • @Reezy37
      @Reezy37 Pƙed 5 lety +2

      @Billonaire Riches I am talking about before the British and Dutch really started taking an interest in conquering all of South Africa. For the Zulus to try to conquer most of South Africa while the British and Dutch were doing would be nearly impossible

    • @SharowbladyeGaymerPorate
      @SharowbladyeGaymerPorate Pƙed 4 lety

      If Shaka was in charge(and if his mother didn't die)
      He could have taken a good chunk maybe he encounters a problem or something
      When Dingane
      No
      The army become less disciplined and a lot worse he would have screwed up somewhere

    • @OGJessie
      @OGJessie Pƙed 4 lety +1

      No Africa is a unique place. my country Ghana alone has over 200 unrelated languages and cultures spoken and it's tiny compared to others. Something you must understand is that Africa is huge. and at the time there were many great Empires much greater than the Zulu all over Africa. He could in theory have been able to conquer them all but the differences in cultures would mean he would never have had a united kingdom.

  • @kebabremoveth5257
    @kebabremoveth5257 Pƙed 7 lety +34

    The wrath of intestinal beetle heaven

  • @danielaudeoud9855
    @danielaudeoud9855 Pƙed 9 lety

    Extra Credits Thank you for this series! I'm half South African and live in Canada and I always wanted to know more about their history. Now you guys make a thing about! Thank you all!

  • @FinMertons
    @FinMertons Pƙed 9 lety

    These history videos are great! Just keep on doing them you guys!

  • @jackmacinnis7973
    @jackmacinnis7973 Pƙed 5 lety +18

    Damn this guy was brutal

  • @mr.miyagi881
    @mr.miyagi881 Pƙed 2 lety +17

    The Horn tactic that he used I use in war tactic games and I didn’t even know that someone else used this tactic such a long time ago

  • @jacobsoltero2872
    @jacobsoltero2872 Pƙed 5 lety +20

    Shaka: Iulius Caesar of Africa.

  • @DutchScape
    @DutchScape Pƙed 9 lety +1

    The gruesome details of historical events are easier to bear when presented in cartoon form. Heaven bless you for this video!

  • @TheKinglax94
    @TheKinglax94 Pƙed 6 lety +25

    Wait he LOCKED HER IN A HOUSE with JACKALS AND HYENAS and then he BURNED THE HOUSE with the woman, hyenas AND jackals inside? Wtf how brutal is this guy

  • @JugglerBean
    @JugglerBean Pƙed 6 lety +22

    The loins struck them from behind....

  • @DragonFae16
    @DragonFae16 Pƙed 9 lety

    I really love Extra History. It's a fantastic series and my favourite way to learn about history. It really gives you a feel for the people, more so than just simply reading about them. And like with this current series, it touches on events I would never personally think to research. Speaking of the topics, I think it'd be interesting if a set was done about either Viking or Celts. Both were very interesting peoples and a lot of interesting things happened in their history.

  • @simplyecksplicit
    @simplyecksplicit Pƙed 9 lety

    Extra Credits How your staff at Extra Credits making history so damn /interesting/ and /entertaining just amazes me so much!

  • @dougie301
    @dougie301 Pƙed 7 lety +20

    4:52 this right here guys is what us history majors like to call "a dick move bro"

  • @lukamilosevic661
    @lukamilosevic661 Pƙed 5 lety +19

    Loins hiding in a depression

  • @cristianluna6908
    @cristianluna6908 Pƙed 9 lety

    you guys are awesome! I am a huge history buff and i can say you guys have got to my favorite history teacher ,next to assassins creed.

  • @benjaminwinnie4626
    @benjaminwinnie4626 Pƙed 3 lety +19

    Shaka kind of reminds me of the Assyrians