Please direct your attention to Portugal, which at only 33 seconds in, still has the same borders it has today, with no change. (well... apart from that period where it was taken over by Spain in the Filipine dinasty).

Yes we're tiny, and apparently very complacent as well.

I kind of guessed when everything happened but it would have been a lot better with a year ticker just so I know exactly when I am.
Anyway really great video!

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At 4:53 you can see how close Hitler came to world domination...

What is the music in this? I love it.

European and Chinese history fascinate me the most of all. Awesome, awesome video.

props to the Mongols for their early efforts.

>> ^sineral:

What is the music in this? I love it.


Creepy Blue (Adam Drake, Neil Williams, Alison Pearse)

>> ^sineral:

What is the music in this? I love it.


They show it in the first 20 seconds of the video: Creepy Blue: Adam Drake / Neil Williams / Alison Pearse

>> ^mrsid:
At 4:53 you can see how close Hitler came to world domination...


Not really. The Blitzkreg was unsustainable. It was a sprint in a marathon...

Poof! Germany's gone. Poof! They're back! Like a trick candle...that wants to kill you.

Looks like a mega game of Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Victoria and Hearts of Iron strung together and put on fast forward.

What I found interesting was how stable the big mess of pre-German states was after the Holy Roman Empire disintegrated. I would have expected that whole region to be a colossal mussy bloodbath.

>> ^sineral:

What is the music in this? I love it.


Found the mp3

http://www.sounddogs.com/production-music/23/mp3/654271_SOUNDDOGS__cr.mp3

I wish the date (or even circa) was shown somewhere on the video for the full effect.

>> ^Retroboy:

What I found interesting was how stable the big mess of pre-German states was after the Holy Roman Empire disintegrated. I would have expected that whole region to be a colossal mussy bloodbath.


But it wasn't stable, and it was a colossal mussy bloodbath! They fought each other basically every other week in small skirmishes. But since they were small scale they usually didn't led to anything consequential.

Much like Japan's Sengoku Jidai period or the Warring Italian states during renaissance, from the surface the borders looked relatively calm but there were always constant action.

BTW, what on earth is that organge streak jutting out of Lithuanian border and into Russia @ 4:04?

>> ^legacy0100:

BTW, what on earth is that organge streak jutting out of Lithuanian border and into Russia @ 4:04?


Napoleon? Just a guess, though.

>> ^mrsid:
At 4:53 you can see how close Hitler came to world domination...


Given the variety of nations that eventually became Germany it does cause me to wonder if that was a minor contributing factor to Hitler's obsession with a master race. I thought the video could have done with a timeline but it was immediately apparent when the first and second world wars started...

i was surprised to see how long the ottoman empire hung around.

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Awarding radx with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

The original embed was taken down by the Historical Atlas folks for copyright infringement, yet they somehow missed the one with a Russian title, even though YT lists it as a related video.