The Biggest Hoax in History

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• BJ

  @bjzaba · 3 years ago

  On the theme of medieval people not being stupid, I’ve really enjoyed Tod’s Workshop’s videos where he recreates and tests arms and armor from the past. He gives a lot of credit to them, their ingenuity, and how clever they were in their own time.

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• DR

  @dreadpiratekristo · 3 years ago

  Considering that most of the Earth is water and only a small percentage of that water is fizzy, in a way the Earth is flat.

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• SA

  @saifors · 3 years ago

  History being misrepresented for some ideological or political purpose is a phenomenon that's been around for a while (even now). This is a pretty decent example of the potential lasting effects it has even after contemporary politics and ideology have moved on to other subjects.

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• LE

  @leonardocruz6918 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Jochem, you said you aren&apos;t a religious person... Well, I&apos;m a religious person and a historian. And I must say I could not be more excited than I already am with this video. Even though I would change a thing or two (please forgive this historian&apos;s caprice!), it&apos;s definitely a gem. Also, I must note how impressive it is that historiography has changed to debunk the Conflict Thesis and it&apos;s still grappling with many people and mainstream media (maybe because we all love to see a fight, don&apos;t we?)<br><br>Congrats on the excellent video and research!

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• GR

  @grantholmes5661 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Very often, the Way that history is treated, it says more about our time than the actual history&quot; - very Historian of you. Love it.

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• DA

  @davidryder9185 · 3 years ago

  I really enjoyed Jim Al-Khalili&apos;s series on Science and Islam in the medieval period when it first came out. I think one of his examples was an early Islamic mathematician called al-Biruni, who calculated &nbsp;the circumference of the earth and got an answer very close to modern estimates.

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• JA

  @jamillsantiago · 2 years ago

  C.S. Lewis described our tendency to think the ancients were stupid as &quot;chronological snobbery.&quot; He was right on the money.

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• SE

  @sebstefanson6796 · 3 years ago

  Where are this man&apos;s views?? This channel is so underrated, keep up the hard work!

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• BE

  @benardman2665 · 2 years ago

  Neil degrase Tyson&apos;s brain just short circuited

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• CA

  @carlose4314 · 3 years ago

  Georges Lemaitre was one of the people who came up with the “big bang”, which he called the primeval atom.

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  @__dane__ · 3 years ago

  It’s kind of absurd how many modern misconceptions can be traced back to some novel(s) written in the 1800s

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• GU

  @guitarplayer3k · 3 years ago

  As someone who ends up being an Dark Ages apologist. I will be sharing your video constantly

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