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The word “concubine” has several definitions and many connotations. The easiest way to define the Chinese type of concubinage, at least among the very rich and the Imperial family was that they were mistresses. Concubinage in China differed in many ways from that of other nations, though it did have similarities as well. At the very top, in the Imperial Household, there was sisterhood, rivalry, palace intrigue, and much more. This likely took place at the home of rich men too. In the Imperial China which lasted until the Communist Revolution of 1949, a man could have only one wife, but as many concubines as he could afford to house, clothe and feed. Frequently, in Chinese history (and that of other nations), a man's wealth and power were partly judged by the number of concubines he kept and how they lived. Likely the most famous system of concubinage existed within the Chinese imperial family, likely going back at least two thousand years to the Han Dynasty, which lasted from 25AD to 220AD. The law then, and going forward to 1949 was that the higher the rank of the man, the more concubines he was able to have. Since Han times and likely before, a concubine could be bought, at a slave market in the earliest times, or from a family with an attractive daughter who needed money to survive – these are just two examples. In many cases, a wife would have to approve of this “transaction”. History is full of tales of Chinese wives mistreating their husband's concubine or concubines, sometimes addressed as “little sister”, with a number attached in case of multiple women. That was a common occurrence, but likely as common was a good relationship – especially in a bad marriage: a concubine/mistress could take the attention and pressure off a wife and allow her her own time – even more so in a household with multiple concubines. #concubines #history #imperialconcubine #ancientchina #chinesehistory #qingdynasty Scriptwriter: Matthew Gaskill Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Jason Bohol Voiceover Artist: Chris Redish Music: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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Today we shall dive deep into human evolution as we look at some of the most bizarre theories of how homo sapiens grew big brains with enhanced cognitive abilities!For the first twothirds of our evolution, homosapiens shared the same brain size of monkeys and other primates. It would take a groundbreaking discovery in 1924 at a quarry in Taung, South Africa, to first introduce this extraordinary new idea. It was there that anthropologist Raymond Dart was stunned to find the fossilized cranium and intact skeletal face of an early bipedal ape, whose remains shared amazing similarities with the human brain.Dart declared it a previously unknown ancestor of modern humans, christening it with the name Australopithecus africanus, or ‘ManApe of Africa,’ causing a mixture of skepticism and feverish enthusiasm to sweep the academic world. Dart experienced lot of pushback from scientists, who believed it was impossible that such a smallbrained specimen, with a size of 450 grams equal to that of a chimpanzee, could be a hominid. It would take decades, and several more important archaeological finds, to validate Dart’s proposal. By the 1950s, a lot of other smallbrained hominids had been excavated. One of these was the Paranthropus robustus, which first came to the attention of scientist Robert Broom in 1938 after he received an intriguing fossil in the mail. He followed this up with a dig at the mysterious origin site in Kromdraai, South Africa, finding a hominid ape with a brain size of 525 grams, similar to that of a gorilla at 500 grams.As a result, the Taung child, another name for Dart’s trailblazing fossil, and the idea that humans had once had similar brain masses to chimpanzees and gorillas, was accepted into standard evolutionary models. In the final third of our evolution, our brain size began to increase dramatically. The first notable enlargement occurred in the Homo habilis, the first type of Homosapiens that entered the evolutionary stage 1.9 million years ago. It was in the next manifestation, Homoerectus, who appeared 1.8 million years ago, that another sizable expansion happened. Their brains were now averaging a little more than 600 grams.Thanks to incremental increases like these over hundreds of thousands of years, average brain weight reached over 1000 grams by 500,000 years ago. When Homosapiens appeared 300,000 years ago, they had a similar brainsize to modern humans of 1,200 grams or more. #homosapiens #history #evolution #neanderthals #paleoanthrology #homoerectus Scriptwriter: Jake LeighHowarthVoiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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In the 13th and 14 centuries, the Mongols established the largest land empire in human history. At its furthest extent, the Mongolian Empire stretched from the coast of China along the northern border of the Himalayas, encompassing much of today's Middle East from Persia to the Black Sea, much of southcentral Russia and Ukraine and Europe to the gates of Vienna. This was done on foot, wagon, and most famously, on horseback. By the time the Mongols reached the eastern borders of Ukraine in the late 1200s, some of their armies numbered 100,000, but it was not their numbers that were the Mongols' primary weapon – terror was. That policy of terror started with their first great leader, the infamous Genghis Khan. He is not infamous everywhere. “The Great Khan”, as he is also known, is still a national hero in Mongolia today.Many stories about this episode have it that Genghis' older halfbrother Behter stole a fish that Temujin killed for the night's meal, and ate it all himself, refusing to share with his family. Soon after, Temujin secretly followed Behter, waited for him to be alone, and then shot him with one of the famous Mongol recurved bows. Another version of the story adds that Behter, as the oldest brother, began to order people around, and this caused resentment on the part of Temujin and his younger fullbrother Qa'sar. There may or may not have been food involved, but in this version, Temujin simply used Behter's greed as an excuse to kill him and move to take control of the the clan himself.Genghis, whose real name was “Temujin”, which means “of iron”. #genghiskhan #history #genghis #mongolempireScriptwriter: Matthew GaskillVoiceover Artist: Stephan VoxMusic: Motionarray.com DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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For those of you new to this topic there were basically two types of Nazi camps: the “extermination camp”, for which the sole purpose was the mass killing of human beings. The German word for extermination camp is “Vernichtungs Lager”. The“Konzentrations Lager”, or concentration camp, was also a place of horror, but while in hundreds of thousands of cases, there was no real difference between the two types of camps, very generally speaking, there was a greater chance to survive in the camps designated “KZ” or “kah tsett”, as the letters and acronym was pronounced in German. In the extermination camps one's chances of survival were dramatically reduced.Though it is the most infamous camp, Auschwitz was actually three camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz IIBirkenau,and Auschwitz III – Monowitz. As you may know, “Auschwitz” is the German word for the town of Óswięcim ( pronounced “Ohss vee etch im”) in southwest Poland, where the camp was located. By the time Auschwitz IIBirkenau (“beer keh now”) was gassing its first victims in March, 1942, the name “Auschwitz” already chilled the blood, at least for those “in the know”.By the time the name filtered down to the people on the lowest rung of the hierarchy of the Nazi state, the Jews and others who made up the Nazi's victims, rumors abounded about what really lay at Auschwitz, and make no mistake, by 1943, the knowledge of what Birkenau, whose name “place among the birches” peacefully belies its function, was an open secret. Escapees and the Polish resistance disseminated the information – though most of the information went to governments and military men in the Allied countries. But, as one saw in the famous movie “Schindler's List”, the Jews, who made up 90% of the victims of the Holocaust, had heard rumors about what happened at Auschwitz, although they, like many Nazi victims, went into denial, for to believe the rumors was to lose all hope. There were six extermination camps: AuschwitzBirkenau, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka. All were located in Poland. At Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka, fences covered with pine branches hid the main extermination areas, which, at all three camps, were gas chambers harnessing the exhaust from truck and/or tank engines.My mustread list of Holocaust books:Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account: https://amzn.to/3Sp7lsuRena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz: https://amzn.to/3Q2dBnQMaus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History: https://amzn.to/3bjlcQ8The Last Jew of Treblinka: https://amzn.to/3oIe1o0Things We Couldn't Say: https://amzn.to/3vufwtH#nazi #auschwitz #history #concentrationcamp #auschwitzbirkenau #holocaust #hitlerScriptwriter: Matthew GaskillVoiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commissionDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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No one knows, probably not even the Russian government, exactly how many people perished as a result of the many purges, labor camps, and other punishments that occurred during the life of the Soviet Union, which existed from 19171991. Reliable estimates have put the number over ten million, and perhaps as high as twenty million or more. Most, but certainly not all of those deaths occurred during the reign of Josef Stalin, a genius in the exercise of raw power, but otherwise, a paranoid megalomaniac with few equals in history. In today's video, we are going to tell you about some of the other terrible events that occurred during the life of the Soviet Union, or USSR.In the mid1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev, a communist reformer, became Premier of the Soviet Union. When he came to power, he understood two things almost immediately: that the Soviet economy needed to be restructured and people allowed more economic freedom, and that many people were dissatisfied with life in the USSR, but did not dare speak of it for fear of government repression. Knowing that this fear and dissatisfaction was liable, sooner rather than later, to spill over into public discontent, protest, and perhaps more, Gorbachev instituted the policy of “glasnost”, or “openness”, which allowed people more freedom to speak their minds.This also held true, to a certain extent, for members of the government and its many organs. The immediate spur to “glasnost” was the awful events that took place at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine – then a part of the USSR. Attempting to keep the radiation leak secret from their own people and the world, the Soviets finally had to admit they had a very large problem at Chernobyl, and this was partly caused by people's fear to speak up about problems there and in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster.From Soviet diplomats being kept hostage to Stalin's psychiatric hospitals, to the Chernobyl mess up! We've it all covered in our video!The Best Books On The Gulags And The Soviet Regime:*The House of the Dead: https://amzn.to/3Q7d1W1Between Shades Of Grey: https://amzn.to/3zmdhJPKolyma Tales: https://amzn.to/3OLW7eoThe Gulag Archipelago Volume 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation: https://amzn.to/3biOGOdSakhalin Island: https://amzn.to/3Q3sUNa*#sovietunion #history #gulags #sovietgulags #sovietsecrets #classifieddocumentsScriptwriter: Matthew GaskillVoiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commissionDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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In 2014, the world came to know the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as it exploded onto the global scene with bloody conquests in Iraq and the Middle East. ISIS became legendary for its barbarism: it beheaded prisoners, forced captives into slavery, and destroyed anything that conflicted with their extremist ideology.In August 2014, the small Yazidi ethnic group would face the full force of this brutality. Today on A Day In History, we explore a tale of slavery, depravity, and mass murder in the 21st century genocide of the Yazidis of Iraq.If the topic of this video is interesting to you, consider subscribing and checking out the other videos on this channel, and leave a like to show your appreciation.Who Are the Yizidis?Not many people have heard of the Yazidis. After all, even the highest estimates place their global population at no more than 1.5 million, or as low as 700,000.The Yizidis are a small Kurdish ethnic group who have traditionally lived in small pockets of the area known informally as ‘Kurdistan’ in Iraq, although today they also have a diaspora of a few hundred thousands around the world. The history of the Yazidis mirrors that of other Kurdish peoplesrecurring persecution from the numerous states and empires who have ruled over them, but despite it all they have maintained their own communities, language, culture, and religion.This Yazidi religion is unique. They are monotheists, but not Abrahamic like Christians or Muslims, and instead their religion draws more from the ancient Persian Zoroastrian faith. This religion has been a primary motivation for their persecution. Muslim rulers have oppressed them as ‘unbelievers’ and Yazidi persecution has not been met with the same sympathy in the Christian world that fell upon people like the Armenians.Music: Epidemic music#yazidi #isis #historySources:Atika Shubert and Bharati Naik, ‘ISIS ‘forced pregnant Yazidi women to have abortions’’, CNN, 6th October 2015, https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/06/mi...David Stout, ‘Be Captured and Killed, or Risk Dying of Thirst: The Awful Choice Facing the Refugees of Sinjar’, Time, 6th August 2014, https://time.com/3085270/iraqyazidi...Elizabeth Hagedorn, ‘Rescuers scout Syria for Yazidis still trapped in enslavement’, Middle East Eye, 4th March 2020, https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/node...Lori Himmar, Maya Alleruzzo, and Balint Szlanko, ‘Islamic State Tightens Grip on Captives Held as Sex Slaves’, Associated Press, 6th July 2016, https://apnews.com/generalnews7685e...Rukmini Callimachi, ‘ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape’, New York Times, 13th August 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/wo...Rukmini Callimachi, ‘ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape’, Washington Post, 13th August 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/wo...Sefik Tagay et al, ‘The 2014 Yazidi Genocide and Its Effect on Yazidi Diaspora’, The Lancet, 390 (10106), (2017), p1946Sheren Khalel and Matthew Vickey, ‘Playing Dead: How One Man Survived an IS Massacre’, Middle East Eye, 13th February 2015, https://www.middleeasteye.net/feature...UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in Iraq: 6 July – 10 September 2014, , October 2014Copyright © 2023 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -------------
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In this short historic documentary about Joseph Stalin, the leader of the USSR, we shall explore his final 24 hours.If you look at the reign of Joseph Stalin as the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, you get an image of Stalin as a ruthless, politically crafty, and dangerously paranoid individual. He held power in large part due to the fear he instilled. That insidious fear, not just of Stalin himself, but the mistrust he fostered between people themselves let him stay in power for 30 years. It eventually also led to Joseph Stalin lying in his own urine, the heads of state surrounding him, too afraid to lift a finger to help. Live by the sword, die by the loss of bodily functions in a narratively interesting way, as the saying goes. Joseph Stalin rose to power in the early 1920s. He already held the title of General Secretary while Lenin, his predecessor, suffered from worsening health problems. As Lenin declined Stalin solidified his power base, discredited his rivals, and positioned himself as the next de facto ruler. One of the last things Stalin and Lenin worked on was the creation of the USSR, formalizing soviet power in the surrounding countries. There is conjecture that Stalin helped speed Lenin’s declining health along with some good oldfashioned toxic substance, but no claims have been officially made.In his many years in office, Stalin was responsible for the leadership of the massive USSR, and his decisions controlled the fates of millions upon millions of people. His highlight reel, if you want to call it that, includes antisemitic witchhunts, secret police reign of terror, mass executions, WWII, the beginning of the Cold War, and the Holodomor among others. Let's look at Joseph Stalin's final 24 hours, how he passed away, and what happened to the USSR after he passed. This is a brief history of the final 24 hours of Joseph Stalin.#josephstalin #sovietunion #history #ussrScriptwriter: Marco PardoVoiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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Henry was never meant to become king of England. His older brother Arthur, Prince of Wales, had that role sewn up. Born at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich on the 28th of June 1491, Henry was brought up to be an educated and strong princetalented at Latin, French and Italian as well as hunting, dancing and sports. He picked up his fair share of titles as a boyfrom Duke of York to Warden of the Scottish Marshes and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland – all given to him by his father, Henry VII. Lets go back in history to look at the notorious life of the Tudor king Henry VIII. #henryviii #thetudors#bizarre #ancienthistoryScriptwriter: Natasha Martellhttps://7strangethings.com/Voiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Timecode:00:00 Start00:24 The Boy Who Would (Not) Be King? 02:02 Party Animal 03:45 A Lover and A Fighter07:52 Henry’s Enemies 09:34 Decline And Death Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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The word cannibalism originates from the Island Carib after unearthed 17th century legends suggested that the eating of human flesh was part of their culture (although this has since been debated).Instances of human cannibalism have been documented all over the world. It’s been practiced in countries like Great Britain, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, the Amazon basin, the Congo and amongst Maoris in New Zealand.But the original cannibals weren’t actually homo sapiens. Archaeological evidence suggests that it was practiced by other early hominins, with evidence of “defleshed” bones dating back 600,000 years.And excavations of a Neanderthal site in MoulaGuercy have uncovered the parts of six Neanderthals, dating back 100,000 years and showing evidence of human cannibalism. The palaeontologists reported that it looked like the bones had been broken in such a way that they could extract marrow and brains, and tool marks showed the cutting of flesh from the bones of the thigh.Among other works and etchings on tombs and temples, historians have tentatively suggested that cannibalism was part of certain human sacrifice rituals. According to Roman historian Cassius Dio, he personally witnessed the sacrifice and eating of two Roman officers with an oath sworn over their entrails.Across Ancient Mesopotamia, it’s also speculated that cannibalism was part of the many sacrificial rituals that took place although there has been no scholarly consensus on this matter. If you want to learn more about human sacrifice in MesoAmerica, don’t forget to check out our video “A Brief History of Human Sacrifice: The Aztecs” next!As we go forward in history, from Ancient to post 1st century AD, we see more evidence of cannibalism emerging.#history #cannibalism #humansacrifice #aztecsScriptwriter: Natasha Martellhttps://7strangethings.com/Voiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comMusic: Motionarray.comDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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As well as stinky hygiene practices, plagues and farming, the medieval era was known for some truly weird weaponry. Across the era, humans developed interesting and inventive ways of poking holes in each other, and some were more gruesome than you might expect.The medieval times had some horrific and creative weaponry that served as an inspiration for a lot of modern weapons. Lets look at today's video to find out about the weird weapons and punishments of the medieval ages.#medieval #history #weaponsScriptwriter: Natasha Martellhttps://7strangethings.com/Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Ravi ChauhanVoiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comMusic: Motionarray.comDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2022 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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The story of Japanese Prisoner of War camps is a particularly harrowing example of the extreme degree of inhumanity so often present in war. Allied soldiers captured by Japanese forces experienced an almost unimaginable scale of depravity. However, this story also highlights the resilience of the human spirit as they resisted the cruelty they faced, adopting various strategies to preserve not only their lives but also their dignity and selfrespect. Join us, as we journey through a remarkably intertwined tale of horror and resistance.As the Japanese believed it to be shameful to surrender in combat, they ran their camps with marked brutality. From when they entered the war in 1941, it is conservatively estimated that the Japanese held around 130,000 Allied troops as Prisoners of War who they had captured in battle and that around 35,000 of these never returned home. Bar the Nazi concentration camps, captives in Japanese Prisoner of War camps could expect to face the most brutal and dehumanizing conditions seen anywhere during World War II. The mortality rate for Allied prisoners of war held by the Japanese was around 25 to 30 percent. Lets go back in time to expand on this weird history and the dark chronicles of POW camps that according to some can be compared to the Soviet gulags.#japanesepowcamp #history #weirdhistory #worldwar2 #historydocumentaryScriptwriter: Finn Vijayakar (BA History, University of Bristol)Voiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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The Mughal Empire was a Muslim kingdom that spread out of the southern area of today's Uzbekistan in the early 1500s. Within a relatively short time, the Mughals, under their first emperor, Babur, had expanded to include presentday Afghanistan, Kashmir, and most of modern Pakistan, as well as the area around the Indian city of Delhi down the Ganges River to the border of what is now Bangladesh. Over the next one hundred and eighty years, the empire grew to encompass most of the Indian subcontinent except the far south, and much of modern Pakistan and Bangladesh. Its three greatest conquerors were Babur (who reigned from 152630), Akbar (from 15561605) and Aurangzeb (r. 16581707). However most people today (especially outside of India) recall only the emperor Shihab alDin Muhammad Khurram, better known as Shah Jahan (“Ruler of the World”), who reigned from 16281658, and who is best known for having built the worldfamous Taj Mahal, the elaborate tomb for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, and which gathers an incredible sixtymillion visitors each year!So, what were the punishments during the Mughal Empire? Something quite painful, you can be assured. Lets find out more in our video. Like and subscribe to learn more about other weird history topics!#mughalempire #history #weirdhistory #ancientpunishments #historydocumentaryScriptwriter: Matthew GaskillVoiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comMusic: Motionarray.comCopyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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Traditional, or perhaps more precisely previous, hypothesis has the appearance of modern humans, Homo sapiens, at around 200,000 years ago in the eastern part of Africa, plus or minus 50,000 years. However discoveries have muddied the already stygian depths on this topic, and we might have H. Sapiens ancestors much older, and more widespread, than that. That was until specimens showed up in Jebel Irhoud, Morocco that suggested a very early form of Homo sapiens was present. We say early form of Homo sapiens but the fossils, and similar ones in Florisbad, South Africa, aren’t universally considered to be modern humans. Rather they are that halfstep away, showing some signs of full modernity, but not all. And these fossils are some 350,000 years old, which almost doubles the age of the previous oldest fossils. This hominin would have probably interbred with the archaic human species already present, whether that was Neanderthals or other species. #neanderthals #homosapiens#history#humanancestors #homoerectus #humanevolution #weirdhistory #evolution Scriptwriter: Marco PardoVoiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comSources: https://shrib.com/#CoquiFrancolin25pwxedMusic: Motionarray.com DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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The Ottoman Empire began in the 13th century with Osman the 1st. Gaining land and power the Ottomans, named after Osman via anglicization and some language hopping, would soon conquer the ancient city of Constantinople. This would bring about an influx of Greek and Roman culture that was the backbone of the Byzantines. The Ottoman Empire reached far and wide, and it was reflected everywhere in the empire, even the Imperial Harem. The harems of the Ottoman Empire. A subject that while evoking images of scantily dressed nubile young women, also deals with power, prestige, war, tradition, and ultimately the fate of an empire. Historical records from the west from the time of the Ottomans are skewed and biased, often inaccurate as few Europeans ever had firsthand experience with the Sultan’s harem. Actually, that isn’t quite true, there was any number of Europeans, Africans, and Eurasians that were very involved with the Imperial Harem, although rarely was this a willing and mutually beneficial arrangement. The Ottoman Empire was a very inclusive, yet traditional, place. #ottoman #harem#history #ottomanempire #weirdhistory #simplehistoryScriptwriter: Marco PardoVoiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comMusic: Motionarray.com Sources: https://shrib.com/#Elliott5aNWpAkDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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The Bengal famine of 1943 serves as an example of one of the worst and most fatal atrocities in Modern History. It is also the only famine in India that is recognised to be caused by manmade factors; greed, complacency, and even racism all played a role. It claimed the lives of 24 million Bengalis. It reduced the appearance of otherwise healthy men, women, and children to skeletons. Like life, History is complicated. History merely seeks to record life, so it must be. History tells us that its celebrated figures can be capable of both immense bravery but also shocking inhumanity. The story of the Bengal famine drives this concept home, forcing us to reexamine past beliefs and arrive at more nuanced conclusions about such figures. Join us, as we uncover this extremely tragic and difficult history. #bengalfamine #history #historychannel #weirdhistory #bengalfaminechurchhill #winstonchurchill Scriptwriter: Finn Vijayakar (BA History, University of Bristol)Voiceover Artist: Chris RedishTimecode:00:00 Start01:05 The British policy of denial05:27 The Role of Churchill:07:56 Food hoarding 09:35 Is the 1945 Bengal Famine Commission a trustworthy historical source?10:19 ConclusionMusic: Motionarray.com DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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Back in the fourteenth century, Mansa Musa was the ruler of a West African Empire and was said to be worth more than double that: around 400 billion dollars by today’s money, accounting for inflation. Such wealth is often hard to imagine, so for context, this figure is the same as the national gross domestic product of Norway. Musa was so wealthy that his lavish gifting crashed a regional gold market for a decade, and quite literally put him and his empire on the map. Much of Musa’s early life are lost to history, but what we do know is that he was born around 1280 AD in or around the Mali Empire, and ascended the throne around 1312. Lets find out more about how his bizarre life as history's richest man! #mansamusa #history #weirdhistory #historychannel #maliempire DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] Scriptwriter: Richard Video Editor & Motion Graphics: Abhishek Sharma Voiceover Artist: Chris Redish Music: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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Holodomor can be literally translated to “death by hunger”. It’s a horrifying fate that between 7 and 10 million people suffered in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933 thanks to the Soviet Union’s harsh grain quotas and Joseph Stalin’s underlying desire to totally subdue the Ukrainian population. In recent years, with further evaluation of Joseph Stalin’s methods in Ukraine that led to this mass famine, historians have been forced to reconsider and reassess what happened in 19321933, with many now renaming the Holodomor as nothing shorter than one of the worst manmade famines.Before joining the Soviet Union in 1922, Ukraine was its own, independent, thriving nation. This was in no small part due to their flourishing agriculture, with lands full of fertile soil, ripe for farming. The crops produced in Ukraine became so well known that after joining, it became known as the Soviet Union’s breadbasket. Joseph Stalin, head of the new Soviet Union, wanted to ensure he had Ukraine under his complete control. And so, he introduced a FiveYear Plan in 1928, part of which included what was called the ‘Collectivization of Agriculture’ that was meant to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding urban population. Let's talk about it more in the video.#holodomor #history #josephstalin #ukrainefamine #weirdhistory #historychannelScriptwriter: Natasha Martellhttps://7strangethings.com/Voiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comMusic: Motionarray.com DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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Neanderthals, or Homo neanderthalensis, are possibly our most famous ancestors. They walked, talked, fought, loved, and suffered just like us. Modern humans shared so much with Neanderthals. Their homes, ranges, hunting grounds, and even their cemeteries were left, or ceded, to us over Europe, Asia, and some parts of Africa. When we discovered the Neanderthal’s disappearance from the fossil record tens of thousands of years ago we blamed climate change, the disappearance of megafauna, and competition from modern humans. The meeting between the two species was anything but short, but what actually happened when the latest branches of our family met so long ago? And what recent discoveries changed how we understand our meeting?#neanderthals #evolution #history #paleontologyScriptwriter: Marco PardoVoiceover Artist: CiaronMusic: Motionarray.com Sources: https://anotepad.com/notes/bi693aq9Timecode:00:00 Start01:36 A Multimillennia Matchup03:50 Meeting of the Minds07:19 Forgotten FarewellsDISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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The horrors and tragedy of World War II are years before most of us were born, and even though the destruction of the war and the aftermath of it set the stage for major events even now some 8 decades later, many people don’t understand how the echoes of the war haunted the world for lifetimes. The scars left by World War II, emotional and physical, took many long years to fade. Some wounds never healed, and some of those who committed acts bloody and dark never faced judgement for their crimes. Escaped, hidden by distance, time, and help from unexpected places these men were wanted for crimes of war beyond scope. When the war ended in Europe there were many members of Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers that were to be tried for their actions during and before the war. Many of those people escaped arrest or even confinement with the help of “ratlines”, a series of escape routes for Nazis and Fascists after WWII. Often these ratlines led to South America. #nazis #history #holocaust #weirdhistory #historychannel #historydocumentaries #nazi DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]: Marco PardoVoiceover Artist: Chris RedishMusic: Motionarray.com Copyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.Managed by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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Civilizations such as the Greek, Egyptians, Romans, Vikings and Chinese dynasties amongst others had slaves who largely slotted into one of four categories: chattel, bonded, forced labour etc. As long as we have written records of humanity, we have evidence of slavery. From ancient civilizations to modernday, humans have always subjugated and enslaved one another. Whether it's because of the colour of our skin, our wealth, where we were born or simply due to who’s in charge, there have been instances of slavery across every single country and culture.Today we shall discuss a brief time line of slavery in chapter 2 of the A Brief History Of The Origins Of Slavery. In this video we shall look at how different era's and nations held and treated their slaves. We shall also look into the horrifying aspects of slavery including the transatlantic slave trade.#slavery #history #transatlanticslavetrade #ottomanslaveiceland #whiteslaves #ottomanslavetradeScriptwriter: Natasha Martellhttps://7strangethings.com/Voiceover Artist: Stephen Lewis: stephenvox.comMusic: Motionarray.com Timecode:00:00 Start 01:09 The Ancient World01:30 Chattel slavery02:27 Bonded slavery03:15 Forced labour04:04 One of the worst kinds of slavery05:16 The FirstEver Abolition of Slavery 06:06 Slavery In The Middle Ages And Beyond09:23 The Transatlantic Slave Trade11:22 Global Slavery AbolishmentCopyright © 2021 A Day In History. All rights reserved.DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected] by PodcastPayouts.com -----------------------------------
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