Attila the Hun: The Scourge of God
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@@ryrizzle319 they have navy
Yes! Zeros and A5Ms
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"The greatest of all Warriors should be mourned not with tears or the wailing of women, but the blood of men".... dude... thats so metal!
Nothing like blood and guts🤘
He was a great warrior and spirit, AND one of mine ancestors..by the way, er også fra Danmark:)
@Olaf I am danish citizen of turkic origin and tengrist, didnt say anything of Attila was "dane"..but one thing i am sure of, our ancestors, the pagans and shamanic people of the past, had more in common, than some realize. Hope Asatro will rise in the north, and Tengrism in the east again.
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@@dankmazzi2376 you are a square on your phone
So there's a solid gold casket, inside a silver casket in an iron casket, with Atilla the Hun's body in it, somewhere in a riverbed in the old Hun Empire. I want to find it
Same I'd definitely love to see that
As specialy with the rise of the price of gold in the last few months ;) !
It's in Pannonia somewhere. Between Tisza and Duna according to the legends
You would not want to be a pallbearer
@Syed Abdul Malik Behold, pedophilia apologia everyone. If she bleeds she breeds is your logic.
Imagine having the nickname "The Scourge of God."
That is one of the most terrifying things I've ever heard a person be called.
Might be the best nickname evee
I have it on good authority that "the Scourge of God" was later changed to the dreaded "MOTHER-IN-LAW!!!"
😂😂😂😂😂
@@bignasty1876my brother, shut up
It’s gotta be one of the coolest names ever.
@@bignasty1876 1985 called. They wanted their mother-in-law jokes back.
In the empire he ruled, they called him Attila the fun
@Robert McConnell I thought that was his personal baker
In an alternate universe, he was a comedian, known as attila the pun
If he were a 5K, he'd be Attila: the Run.
He was so bright they called him Attila the sun
When he put on a bit of extra weight they called him Attila the tons of fun behind his back.
It never surprised me that The Goths died out.
Sitting around, listening to Bauhaus all day while smoking cloves leaves you quite open for enemies to attack.
hilarious and underrated comment
HAHAHAHAHAHA LMAOOO
Haha awesome comment!
pretty sure the goths are still around(Germans,Dutchs,Swedes,Austrians etc etc) lol
@@teovu5557 nah, they're Anglo saxons
"I don't destroy lives.
I turn civilizations to dust.
Sword of Mars! Photon Ray!"
white titan sefar go brrrrrrrrrrr
Best Saber.
There's the Fate comment.
Damn, Attila looks like THAT!
Pretty sure Genghis Khan was the reincarnation of this guy.
@Compassionate Predator the beginning of the video literally states nothing is known for sure, also his depictions do not look Chinese at all.
@Compassionate Predator you're blantly lying. It was closer to 10% at most, and where do you think the Mongols and their art style came from??? You can't even tell the truth in any of your statements. Why does attila get depicted looking like a turkic man and not Chinese at all??
@Compassionate Predator the Alans controlled the pannonian basin at the time, that's what the Romans called Hungary, which are still not depicted looking like Attila at all. You're just making stuff up dude, stop it.
@Compassionate Predator uhh, Genghis entered Europe in 1226, you are hundreds of years off...
@Compassionate Predator lmao you get called out and change the subject, when did attila and Genghis die smart one???
Attila gave up on his final attack on Rome because too many teenage girls were signing petitions
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🤣🤣
Bruh 😂😂
He was defeated by gretta the great 😂
That's why I stopped doing story time at the local school
You have recruited so many units, the treasury is buckling under the weight of their upkeep.
Capturing new territory would spread the cost, as well as putting your troops to good use!
Ahh the nostalgia
@Marechal Zolotoy Attila: Total War
@@yourstruly4817 you can capture as many settlements take all the wonders the gold and client states buy all the allies buildings and yet seems like total wars atilla fps is unsalable 😭😞
Your health is low do you have any potions...or food?
Hunnic empire size is 4 million sq km of land which is huge and big as Mughal empire which is incredible.
Asians and Europeans created biggest empires in human history
In modern Italy, even to this day, in order to descrive a massive destructions and disgrace we say " The Huns have come" or to point out a destructive person we also say " is like Attila". Such manner of speech was and still accompanied by another one that literally translates " Mother the Turkish are coming". The destructive power they brought upon the roman empire carved such wound that the memory of it survived till now. The nickname of " Flagellus dei" is apparently rooted in a record, when the pope went out the door to meet Attila and the barbarian literally slapped the pope in the face. Hard to tell if it was an actual event or an ancient urban legend.
It was a legend.
@NO IT HAPPENED THATS HOW THE HUNS LEFT BACK HOME WITH A SAFE PASSAGE 🙄DO YOUR RESEARCH BRO 🎉hungarienness
"Flagellum Dei" actually translates to God's Whip.
Less the scourge of god, more so a punishment sent by God, much like flagellation was a punishment from those you wronged.
Attila wasn't a scourge. He was a force that could only be sent by God himself.
_Because who else could create something so divinely destructive?_
I was so confused because "Flagellum" refers to Whip, doesn't it? Caught me off gaurd immediately
Scourge can be a verb and as noun. It could be seen as the whip of God, a punishment for perceived sins by the Christians and those who had not converted. It could also have referred to the Anti Christ. Christians were expecting the final battle at any time, they may have seen this as the end of the world. Again.
@@Bethelaine1 You're likely correct, coz the Huns were famously atheistic. It wouldn't surprise me that Attila announced himself as the anti-christ to spite the Romans.
I think you’ve misunderstood the word… ‘scourge’. He wasn’t ‘A’ scourge. He’s scourge of god, similar to ‘wrath of god’.
In addition, a scourge is a type of whip.
Imagine if Simon and Lucy Worsley some how had a child.. the kid would narrate it’s own birth.
David Starkey conducting the christening
Lucky duck. Lucy is hot.
Lucy Worsley is all dried up, she's 48, no more kids for her.
This comment's too good 😆
Flavius Aetius spent his early military career as hostage/advisor of both the Visigoths and then the Huns, he was no fool, in fact his rank of military governor of Gaul was due to him using a Hunnic army to press his agenda. Again, he was no fool.
He was their bitch, but he was no fool.
@@letmethink8350 Spent his military career as a hostage of both Visigoths and THEN the HUNS. Much in the same way Josephus was Vespasians's bitch. Sorry, but some of the the most prominent figures in Roman history were in fact other people's bitch.🧐
@@letmethink8350 So cuss words are your sole determining factor in how high or low ones IQ is. I think your a prejudice person then.
@@letmethink8350 Would you prefer the term coward?
@@ricky-sanchez lmao dude ran away
wut a bitch
"Unknown language": yup, that describes hungarian allright
Hungary has nothing to do with Attila or the Huns. Hungarians are descended from the Magyar tribes.
@@emmitstewart1921 And the magyar tribes came from space
@@emmitstewart1921 hülye americai
@@emmitstewart1921 the Huns where closely related to the Xiongnu. Recent studies show Hungarians who participated in the conquest of Pannonia (895) where 46% Xiongnu. The theory is that Hungarians are Royal Scythians from the Hunnic Empire. As Árpád said to the Byzantine Emperor, we are not turkic, we are from an ancient land.
@@blazingnomad Ém magyarul tanulok. Wasn't the posterior vowel portion of the magyar nyelv originally spoken mainly from horseback? Also, from what I have studied, little is known about the ancient history of our ancestors due to the catholic church and the austrian invasion. Szent István didn't want others to think we were still barbarians. Magyar nyelv nehéz, bocsass meg angol válaszomat.
"I stopped Atilla the Hun from sacking Rome."
~ Some Pope at the time.
Sounds like Donald slump
@@jenrutherford6690 why with the politics? Is it something I said? If so, I don't give two shits.
@@jenrutherford6690 and slow joe will take credit after cheating his way in
St Leo is such a Based
This channel is *so* underrated.
So underrated but you still watch it!
@@russellcavender352 underrated means that something is better than what most people give it credit for, or is too good for how many people watch it, being used mainly in instances in which some believe that not enough people follow something.
Yeah just recently found this channel and have been hooked!
1.3 million subscribers. I'd say it's not underrated at all
@@jaykrappenshitz4992 So, what you're saying is that anyone who hasn't subscribed already shouldn't ever subscribe bc 1.3 million subscribers is all this channel deserves?
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A lot of similarities between the Mongols and the Huns. Both excelled at shooting arrows from horseback.
As magyars we came, where Attila and the huns are originated (the Pannon-Basin). We were known for bowing backwards on horses. It can't be a coincidence 😜
Yeah. They were horse nomads.
A mongolok a hunoktól tanulták.
there were alot of nomadic war people like
This ignorant people think Mongols are the only nation of the steppe 😂😂😂 more than 80% of the mongolian army was TURKİC
YES SIMON!!! I've been wanting a video on Attila the Hun for ages! Thank you so much!
When you finally get rid of the annoying Goths but then you get a rude awakening of why theyve been crossing your border in droves
@@ellameyer8151 You really going to do this?
But they never really got rid of them
@@ellameyer8151 you should change your name to Tipp-Ex. Or Wite-Out if you are American
Love that profile picture @TheJaviferrol
@@ellameyer8151 It's funny because you'll correct someone for something so pointless, something I can guarantee they knew anyway making your correction pointless, but you yourself don't know that the bible has numbered verses. You just look stupid.
The Pope probably threatened Attila by revealing his DMs.
It is more likely it was his chest of gold told him to go away.
LOL
He threatened to dig up his old racist tweets
I’m done with the internet lol
@@ShadowDragonGT Cool, see you tomorrow.
Seems like every fall of a nation is from the accounting department.
@Welp Welp it just seems like greed in most cases over money or power.
1:55 - Chapter 1 - Origins
4:30 - Chapter 2 - Rise to power
7:55 - Mid roll ads
9:15 - Chapter 3 - Attila vs the eastern roman empire
14:55 - Chapter 4 - Attila vs the western roman empire
18:20 - Chapter 5 - Defeat & death
You have OCD.. thanks for this😊
Thanks! Teachers appreciate this!
a biography of Flavius Aetius would be really interesting, because of his life among the huns.
YES YES YES🎉
I was just looking for this! Thanks for the upload!
“And I saw, and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.”
- Revelation 6:2
David Bowie's Ghost it's a Bible verse from the book of Revelations
Sounds like Coronavirus to me.
@@ellameyer8151 God help you
@@ellameyer8151 hahahahahahaha
@@ellameyer8151 chapter 6 verse 2 .
Gengis khan is probably the reincarnation of attila the hun. They both are so similar to eachother, banded rival clans together,rode on horse backs to battle, and killed there brothers at a young age.
A mongolok a hunoktól tanulták.
A Mongolok a Hunoktól tanulták és a Mongolok is ügyesek.
No, Attila was Hungarian.
Attila and Genghis Khan are alike
also their burial being shrouded in death and mystery
Oh you in trouble Dum Dum. You better run run, from Attila the Hun Hun.
Dang thats a rough assignment to have the honor of being one of the people to bury him only to be killed to keep it secret.
Fr thatd be the best day to call in sick lol
@@venicec3310*cough
When you say goths i just imagine an army of emos...
The Roman empire would still be here LOL!
@Mary Knighingale pfft goths have a great taste in music
Hey Fry How it going with that girlfriend of yours.
Goths aren't emo, south park will teach you
@@gew2510 lol
I've been waiting for this since u started biographics
I love history but always hated lectures all throughout school. But you make it so interesting and I frantically click all your uploads. Thanks again Lord Simon!
You should have paid attention in school....Read the credits, the narrative is written by one guy who's not even a historian...Might as well be reading wikipedia. This one sided regurgitation is not the way history is presented or thought. It cherry picks interpretations to form a bias narrative.
lights8811 yo can you read? When did I ever say I didn’t pay attention?? I said he makes what he talks about INTERESTING. And that the lectures that I attended in school were boring but I never said I didn’t pay attention. Quit trying to change something and turn it into something it’s not. And even if he isn’t 100% accurate on every single video he still is pretty factual.
@@scionixx9568 How can you be factual but not 100% accurate? UGH....please don't reply anymore.
lights8811 if you wanna nitpick it then go ahead
Excellent episode. Thankyou Bio team.
Yeah, he was the glue of the empire. He was a rare leader, both loved AND feared, and irreplaceable. Lil Attila was none of those and probably could never escape his fathers shadow.
Napoleon II vibes
Some people in the comment fighting over who the Huns were dont seem to understand that the hunnic horde was a confederation of tribes
Even gothic soldiers were within it after being subjugated of course
Yeah but obviously they mean the Huns who were the original invaders before they even crossed into the Hungarian planes. The Steppe is tricky with the ethnography as u probably know
Yes, but it's obvious their origin is Asiam. I dont like revionist historians trying to "Euro-fy" it and make it seem like they were Caucasian
I so enjoy your videos. Wonderful distractions from the pressures of the day.
Bro I love just poppin you on in the background while I work learn new stuff all the time 👏🏻👏🏻
The Scourge of God is such a badass title. Who needs comic book heroes when real life heroes existed?
FUN FACT: Attila is the inspiration to Shan Yu from Disney’s 1998 film, Mulan.
You don't say.
Wasn’t his name Attila the Hun in the movie ?
Besides their enemy in Mulan are Huns too.
No.
Is that why they had to get down to business?
Been waiting for this one a long time !
Me too
Love this guy,was waiting when Simon would make a biographics of him
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"Grow up and be Attilla, go nuts and be a killer" -Eminem
Tyrone Moore
“And I’m, something of a phenom, one puff of the chron, I’m unstoppable, I’m alive and on top again, there’s no obstacle that I can’t conquer, so come away with us.” -Dre
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Calm down Spanky .. it’s a YT thread.
Eminem is a deep philsosopher.
Bro, I never realized this is what he was saying..
A bit unrelated, but I greatly appreciate that the majority of this channels videos have closed captioning that isnt auto generated. You speak faster than I would prefer, a lot of info in a short amount of time, but I realize that this brevity is probably for the majority who may choose not to watch it if it took twice as long. None the less, the captions are incredibly helpful. Most channels do not use them and the auto translate only works to get ideas crossed if no accents or odd names are used. They also lack punctuation so you almost have to build the previous sentence, using common sense to figure out when one sentence ends and the next begins, which makes you miss details.
It's a minor piece of a channel on youtube but one that deaf and partially deaf people are eternally grateful for. I value it more than HD. Lol
So just had to mention that. It is a little late, I'm sure I've watched 100 videos by now but I realized in the most recent one, the black dahlia video, how much of a difference it makes since that one does not have captions yet. I am only half deaf, it just makes it more difficult but not impossible to understand.
Flawless transition Simon 👏👏👏
I've been wanting this video for weeks now
Where Are The Age Of Empires 2 Boys?!
and girls
As a Age of empires 2 and Total War Attila players, I see that absolute win
This makes me remember a Far Side cartoon. There’s this guy at the base of a fortified wall surrounded by arrows in the ground. He yells back, “No, no! I’m Al Tilley the Bum!”
I want a biography of Gary Larson
I am hooked on these videos.
The transition to your sponsors are spot on.
I love this bald guy
No religion critisism here
Just interesting stories
He's objective, and that's all that is required because religion criticises itself.
Well, he might not directly, in this video.. but he manages to give Christianity it's due in sly ways 😂
@Ruturaj Shiralkar ahhahaha
The retroactive division and labelling of Western Roman/Byzantine Empires was something I’d never even bothered to consider. Blew my mind for a second Simon, thanks for the vids buddy
Had a similar experience when I learned the same
The Greek speaking people inhabiting the area around constantinople (modern day Istanbul) considered themselves Roman's right up until the late 19th century. Byzantine is very much a recent western European idea.
Yes! Been waiting for this one
Took you long enough! Been waiting for this for so long
Yeah. To exclude attila from the most interesting or fearsome men is a bit confusing
Sing it with me...
Let's get down to business!
"To defeat, the huns!! Huh!"
@@KingofAwesomness14 Did they send me daughters?!
@@rhesareeves5 When I asked, for sons!
@@bladudemovies You're the saddest bunch I've ever meet!
@@rhesareeves5 but you can bet before we're through
9:52 "You challenge my every decision Atilla! It is as if you wish to lead the Huns yourself."
And what about you, noble warrior?
I salute you, man of culture.
Been waiting for this one
Well presented, thankyou I really enjoyed that
I was missing you channel. In my locality we have a' lunatic let loose ' who looks exactly like the sketch of Attilla the Hun portrayed in your video.
What did Attila say to his wife after coming home from Rome?
"Hun! I'm home!"
I shouldn't have laughed at this ..
"Hunny, im home!"
That's not very hunny
Haha very hunny
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Three Simon Whistler video uploads in a few minutes. Excellent.
Great video Simon! Could you do Augustus next?
Typically Roman to say that the enemy had no reason to invade. Rome invaded all the time. Guess what, with no particular reason ❤ X x
They all did lmao. They still do. People don't change at all
Man, central Asia is so mysteriously cool in history, like, there's all that land and our entire understanding of it is the fringe touching Rome or China.
Even archaeology can't give us the variety of stories of the people.
The freakiest thing we can find in that area is that its such a harsh place any culture would be wiped away with enough time
Very entertaining video. I am glad youtube recommended it.
Simon my new YT dealer. This man ghosts folks then drops dime after dime outta nowhere and no matter how irritated i am i always indulge greedly. Well played simon.
Hey Simon, can you do a video on William Fairbairn? He was one of the most badass dudes ever, getting into over 600 street fights by the age of 55 while being a British beat cop in turn of the century Shanghai. He designed his own knife that you can still get today and was just a fascinating individual! Love all your channels, thank you!!
I honestly never get tired of these videos 😅. I highly appreciate what you do ❤
Ive been waiting for this video for a long time😎 thanks simon😂
Simon always be smooth with those transitions
Love your videos. I’d like to see biographies of Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven
Hey Simon, if you are looking for a somewhat forgotten genius, who could use a little Limelight, I have the Guy for you. Henri Lefebre, he was speaking out against people like Le Corbusier in the City Development strategies and led quite an Interesting Life. Hope you like the Idea. And thank you for making these videos
Fascinating, thank you.
Atila and huns win Roman Empire, saved nations of Europe.
Atila Destroyer of Aquilonia and builder of Cremona.
Atila knew 4 languages.
Roman Empire was the dark, killer and barbarian empire.
Atila and the huns were educated, gracious and just but very hard nation. A Roman prisoner was able to reach a strategist position. Lived as a servant with pleasure at the Huns, than as free one in Rome! This is a fact. It is possible to read it in Priskos writing.
At the Huns the knowledge, the humanity, the justice and the expertise counted, not the natal right.
Would love to see this guy do some figures from Norse and Greek mythology
they do it
You should do a biography about the sea peoples. Even though not much is known about them they completely changed human history.
Good episode.
Would love you to do one about Arminius.
Love watching this after i just played total war Atilla all day
Man, those pall bearers REALLY got the shot end of the stick lol
haha..totally..
i would assume it would be people that volunteered for the "honour" to do it or slaves..
@@wawerukamau6242 right lol and as you say, that might be stretching the definition of volunteer
So the people who buried him and then were killed, were killed by someone who still knew the location right? Now im really convinced that the coffin is no longer there.
Attila the man with an excuse for everything! What a life, great video.
smsh
That was the most epic plug for a sponsor I've ever seen.. Gaijin owes you one..
Great video! Suggestion: Marquis de Sade?
I have read accounts from diplomats met him. They claimed he would present himself as a simple man, sitting upon pillows on the ground with furs and a simple table, while he would treat his guests like royalty.
New found roman records indicate that Attila was very popular with the women and was known as...
Attila the Hung.
_Before he went on Jenny Craig he was known as........."Pizza the Hut" 0.o_
In what way ?
The energy just drops in every commercial break lol, its like "sigh*, here go again War Thunder yadiyada" hahaha
Simon the content king!
Alexander, Atilla, Genghis Khan. What is it about singular great people uniting warring tribes and conquering everything in site for a little while before dying and their entire empire vanishing? It seems happen a bizarre amount of times.
Edit: also worth mentioning that they all die in some weird and completely anticlimactic way.
Slow and steady wins the spaghetti
great men comes and goes. their empire rises and falls
A bio for Árpád or Álmos would be nice
Anyone else love the way Simon says 'Empire'
He's british... he's at the delightful end of the word empire :D
Nice video Simon, might wanna give the beard a trim. But still keep up the great content! Proud of you guys ❤️
Can we do a biographics on Admiral Yi Sun Shin. He is a legend in Korea and even was admired by Horatio Nelson.
Extra History have a great series covering Admiral Yi if you haven't already seen it
@@Duncan23 it's a great series too.
Check the channel kings and generals, they did a video series on the imjin war. They are my favorite historical channel, iam sure you will love it.
@@Duncan23 Extra credits is amazing.
Love the animations.
Surely you do Ned Kelly next (if you haven’t already) quite an interesting Aussie story
I recommend the extra credits series on him since biographics hasn’t done one yet
@@LR0311 beat me to it. Extra credits has a great library of videos 10-10 would recommend.
Holy crap I was going to comments to suggest this exact thing 😳
It would be very interesting to see his biography
We hear in lreland love Ned kelly
Finally you made a Biographics on a person I suggested. Thank you.
Watched on break at work will be my new daily routine
Attila lead an absolutely amazing life as history and myth has been passed down. Starting from almost nothing to becoming the ruler of almost half the known world, he was a very crucial and impactful leader.
@Lord Nuetral I think he's confusing Attila with Genhis Khan.
He was just a psycho. There didnt seem to be any great strategy, just attack and kill everyone you can.
@@kidShibuya thousands of men have had those ideas, only 2 or 3 have had the intelligence and fortitude to pull it off, simply wishing it isn’t enough
he was never 'nothing"
@@kidShibuyapsycho > socio
There's some interesting characters across Chilean history, I would recommend the naval battle of Iquique where a captain ( Arturo Pratt) jumped ships to battle the enemy when his ship (la esmeralda) was about to sink
Pretty cool stuff
Nah trash
I would seriously enjoy a video on Andreas Hofer, the rebel of Tirol
I hope Simon's "beard goals" are to have it groomed like Cassiodorus' depiction @3:41 in time when it's long enough.
Something I like about these videos is that the actual truth of the history is always sought as much as possible, and if something isn't matter-of-fact, it's never portrayed that way.
Very interesting and educational video, I learned a lot about Attila the Hun, and I really thought I knew everything about this man! Thank you for sharing this video with us!
Its interesting to think this is the same sinon who is the ultimate Blaze host in the Business, with co-host Eta/Charles.
One minute hes Blazing and talking back and forth with Eta and the next he puts on the teachers jacket and informs us of things we should have learned more about in school.