This video isn't very good and has some mistakes, please go check out my recent video on the Slavs that addresses all the problems and is basically far better than this video. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nXyjgaCFq3eqmYE.html

"I don't squat all the time" hahahaha. Great video I'm looking forward to the follow up!

New evidence suggests that early Slavs would actually rest by standing with their knees bent and their backs hunched. This was before they learned to squat.

I am so proud of my Croatian language. Faust Vrančić (my fellow citizen from ŠIBENIK, his uncle Antun has a grave in the cathedral in BRATISLAVA) wrote the first multilingual dictionary with five main languages in Europe five hundred years ago ❤️

Boris:Should We be Writing This? Boris' Suppossedly Father: Shut Up Boris And Help Me Plough this Land.

Very interesting video on a topic that deserves more exploration. I personally am very curious to see what caused the Polish and Czech-Slovak cultures to diverge in the west slavic group.

4:22, didnt know that this was found in Žrnovnica. Its a place very close to where i live. Cool. Btw here in Croatia we are celebrating old slavic Pagan ritual which hasnt been diminished with arrival of Christianity. Its a regular Western Carnival, but people have old Pagan custom of dressing as Zvončari(bellmen) to scare away evil spirits. Its really cool that it survived all these years. Also fun fact is that there is one Mountain in Bosnia which was named after slavic god of thunder. And when Christianity came, they had to convert nearby tribes into being Christians, so the peak of the mountain (mountain name is Žaba) in Bosnia was renamed into peak of saint Elliah (vrh svetog Ilije). And everytime when i was kid, if there was a thunder in my area, my grandma used to say Elliah is rolling the barrels (Ilija bacve valja) 😁

I am german. My ancestors lived in prussia / now eastern poland emigrated to northern germany before 1930. I have a rare slavic lastname, and am trying to puzzle together where the name comes from. Since there's only 5 living people in the world with that name it's a bit difficult. But it's interesting to learn about the slavs and history of indo germanic tribes... unfortunately I don't speak any slavic language or polish so it's awesome to find videos like yours! ty! :)

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"Celtic" is pretty much synonymous with mainstream/mainland European culture. Why we now think of Ireland etc is because the traditions survived there the longest.

I would like to point out that the Slavs did wear armor,i mean they had to either wear some armor or they were really good at evading arrows,stones,bolts and at the end of the day swords and spears.Historical sources love to generalize and i agree with E N about how slavs are a mixture of proto baltic and scythian culture that later developed itself in its own culture,and so i defenedly would say that if slavs wore armor they would be wearing scythian style helmets,scale armor if they had the chance to get it,square shields that are painted,and that sort of stuff(this is obviously a generalization by me,they would wear any armor they could get their hands on like anybody in the time)Remeber that the proto slavs and even the 3 main slavic groups were swamp people,lived in swamps and forests that they could easly defend and their religion was very nature oriented,it was about forest spirits ( Leshnik/Lesnik or Leshen in English),a god of Thunder wielding a axe made of stone ( Perun/Kresnik),it had all these drowned women that lived in ponds in the forest (Rusalka) that would pull you in the water if they manage to seduce you with their beauty etc.So it all makes sense to me to act in this way of prefering gurella warfare,so ambushing in those swamps i mentioned because they knew the area,they would easly ambush people like Romans.And there is evidence the slavs managed to beat a commander from constantinopole when he went on a military campaign north of the Danube,I forgot his name. Anyways,just some things about Slavs i wanted to share with you all.Great video M.Laser !

I'm so happy this channel is growing :D 😌👌

*Another fact, which is not fully known to the general public, the dominant position of the Slovak language to the other Slavic nations. In this context, we mention the work of American linguist and scientist prof. Price's, which considered the Slovak language as " the key to all Slavic language" and for the media to an understanding with other Slavs. (John D. Price, The Key to all Slavonic languages, SHF, Columbia University, New York, Dec. 15, 1943, 9 p.). Professor J. Price this idea expressed at the Congress of Slavists in Warsaw. The Polish delegation came out with a proposal that was approved by the definition of the first Slavic language in which the decisive point is Slovak. In addition to the Czech delegation, everyone voted for the Polish proposal: "the Slovak language is the oldest and according to him is then created other Slavic languages" (Canadian Slovak, Slovak, the oldest Slavic language, Toronto, March 23, 1989).

Lech, Czech and Rus: *_[visible confusion]_*

Wow this is so damn interesting!! Thanks for this video. Very well done. Do a video on the origins of the germanic tribes. I am from Austria and due to some unfortunate events 80 years ago topics like ethnicity and the germanic peoples are not taught in school very extensively.

I cant wait for you to cover the south slavs

Great videos brother

great video, it's really refreshing to see this subject treated both seriously and at the same time without nationalistic presupposed answers. there is a lot we don't know and historically this subject was continously percieved through nationalstic lenses, first to prove slavic inferiority and now to prove superiority, so it is great to see slav trying to see it objectively instead of using it politically. I am curious what's your opinion about issue of settlement continuity in general. I know consensus on this subject went back and forth, but I am guessing with genetics we should have a bit clearer answer to that. I mean to what degree culture changed and people remained in given area. Clearly not all people move, but then again it could be that vast majority does. You mention this issue briefly in video.

I don't know as much as I'd like about Eastern Europe, but I am genuinely interested in stuff like this. The interactions between Celts and early Slavs is very interesting. I'd love to know more about Celtic movements across ancient Europe.

I saw your tweet & like history so I will subscribe!

3:56 Volga-Kama region has been inhabited by Finno-Ugric tribes for thousands of years. Highly unlikely that slavs ever lived there before Russian colonisation since linguistic evidence points to the fact that the only Indo-European neighbours we had were Indo-Iranians (i.e scythians), not slavs. E.g the word for "slave", as in Finnish "orja", Estonian "ori", and Erzya "uŕe" is most likely from the Proto-Indo-Iranian word for "Aryan". Proto-Finnic later had very heavy contact with Baltic-speaking peoples. 4:45 The picture is kinda misleading. The quote refers to the fact that all Slavs literally spoke the same language up until the 9th century.

great video

Great video, thanks

Thank you for an awesome video. Love your channel. A minor notice though. Zarubinets and Chernyakhov are not tribes, but contemporary name of cultures.

can you do video about thai early history

Make a video on the origin of Balts!

I didn't realize Balts and Slavs shared a common ancestry. I speak pretty basic Serbian and I used to live with a Lithuanian guy and they are don't seem similar at all now.

thank you :) nice video!

Hey dude, i am historian and I love your videos. Is one of the best that I found here in youtube, you use sources and reference of classical authors. May you put some of the bibliography in the description box? It will be so useful. About the video, you should say that the region of Ukraine was ruled by the germanic goths until the invasion of the huns in the IV century. Maybe the germanic rules over the slavs of the region and other region that have the material culture of Przeworsk and Černajov. I dont think that this culture can be defined by slav because there was in a moment that the germanic tribes rule this area and the migration of the germans to the west make that cultures dissappear. I think because that was a culture produced to the germanic elite. Also sorry for my bad English!

the Slavs lived in the area between the Bug and the Dnieper already in the 5th century BC and did not have contact with the celts which were assimilated by german in the territories of present-day western Poland, the Przeworsk culture and the remaining ones are not Celtic but Slavic cultures.

I wonder how to interprate this 1:07 Is he talking about us being driven from an actual lost continent/island yet to be found? Or maybe about us coming from another continent that wasn't mapped then? *America? Or does the author maybe reffer to the giant snakes as the ancient Chinese people? Indicating an Asiatic origin/Far Eastern? After all the legendary/semi historic rulers of Ancient China were said to be twins with a snake like body? Interesting

Love the pic of Jaromir Jagr.😂

even back then we understood eachother languages and culture but hated eachothers guts

2:02 i read that the Neuri were definitely Baltic people because of how they named the rivers etc

Ancient Roman and Greek authors assigned ethnicity to various people based on the location of their lands... for example for Ceasar everyone living to the west and south of Rhine was Gauls and everyone living to the north and east to Rhine was Germanic. It is important to take anything written by anyone in ancient times with huge pile of salt unless he physically traveled there (like arabian and jewish traders did few centuries later).

4:26 Jáááģr 68! Lets go mate, best possible "easter egg"!

☦️👑💪 Slavic

Scythian is actually pronounced with K sound for the C ..sKyth or sKythian...good vid

who is interested in prehistory should visit the city - Krapina, there is one of the largest sites of Neanderthals.

Wait, do you read all the comments on all your videos?

brother to brother Polish, Czech, Slovak to Croat ❤️ Croatia, Austria, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia have a similar culture. people and history are just so mixed ❤️Croatia, Austria, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia have a similar culture. people and history are just so mixed and 🇵🇱 🇭🇷 🇸🇰 🇨🇿 🇸🇮 🇮🇹 🇦🇹🇮🇹🇭🇺

Slavic history: fighting with other slavic countries

much better than primary school bullshit history, thank you

1:11 so basically we Slavs are like the Nords from Skyrim?😂 we came from an unknown land inhabited by large serpents/dragons. Atmora?

"Shut up Boris and help me plow" - Lol :D

Did ancient slavs carried raids on each other?

Oversimplified sent me! Now I won't be punished severely

Oh no, the Zarubiniets culture was not located in south-western Poland. It was located in north-central Ukraine/eastern Byelarus, on the middle Dnieper River. It was the direct predecessor of the Kiev culture, which was truly proto-Slavic.

Короч, пацаны, учим, как будет по-славянски "Добро пожаловать, здравствуйте, мы вам очень рады" и прочие приветственные выражения. Улыбаться при этом не надо - славяне этого не любят.

I wish there wasno background music

A friendly tip buddy: you could have easily made the video 10 min long with same content, where you would explain the things more clearly and slower, then it would be easier for the watcher of the video to understand!

whats up with the "maybe not" @ 0:31

Zarubinets are eastern neighbors of Przeworsk not western.

I am happy at least that Slavic people liked the idea of democracy from inception.

"Може би не" :D

3:29 Kurde duży był ten Przeworsk xD

the area that’s blank when showing divisions on the slavs encompasses romania and hungary. what ethnic group would historians use to describe the people from these countries before their modern borders? is Romania just Latin?

This video is funny, i must correct you by saying that first mentioning of Slavs comes from 1. century from Roman historian Tacit in his book ,,Germania " , he talks there about Veneti,Vandi ,Vendi ,Sorbi ,Tribaldi .... also to say this mark on Vandal shield was same on Serbian /Sorbian which proves its hereditary. Tacit lived in 1.century and he wrotte what he saw in his lifetime .

Do you think that Slavs have a common root with Scythians, more specifically Sarmatians like Ossetes?

"Not really religious, rather democratic, tall, brown hair, smells like shit" Man... is it about me? :DDD but I'm not fighting naked... at least I think I'm not xD (They are partly my ancestors when I'm Czech, right?)

Slavic

Slavs are not descedants of Scythians. Scythians were Eurasian nomadic, half-mongols and they were mostly probably R1a-Z93 by a lot scholars. (This type of R1a is not common for Slavs.)

Косово је Србија,nice video(from Serbia)

Yeah Slavs have been sold, bought, traded, given as gifts, presents, packages, tributes, chattel, cargo, or and other forms of like property by many kinds of groups

Love this video but it's bc/ad not bce/de Ade or whatever

може би не - maybe no

lol mabye not re Bulgaria. Back in the 800s they definitely would not have been considered Slavic

WEST SLAVS BEST SLAVS

Ummm Poland is Central Europe .

Explore Nude of Afghanistan and perhaps Luristani of Iran. Neuri and Nude, might be a coincidence, maybe not???

CONGRATULATIONS. YOU ARE THE FIRST MAN WHO LEAVE KOSOVO OUT OF SLAVIC PEOPLE. I greatly appreciate what he did. Thank you from Albania.

Chernyalhov werent northern slavic lol!

the "proto slavic " lands are between danube, dnestr, dniepr, don ....that's why the serbs have the 4 S as their symbol...anybody who says differently either doesn't know or has a different agenda

Maybe schytians and neuri were just celtic, if for celtic we mean the european (westmost) indoeuropean linguistic continum. Just celtic. Then came the huns and mixed with celtic and the result was a squatting slav

Антов со склавинами надо поменять местами, анты на западе, склавины северо-восток.

this is really hard to follow. after you say a point, talk about it a little. dont just say A, B, C, D...say A, then talk about it a little, B, C, D, talk about it a little. spacing, cadence, timing pls

A like your videos, but get rid of the BCE and CE nonsense.

Siberia is not slavic

BC not BCE.

No comma, no point (fullstop) whatsoever..

"balto-slavic" label actually makes no sense. Baltic and Slavic are completely different languages, like not even similar in the slightest. A slavic person could not understand a single original baltic word and vice versa, so how can they be from same "root"?? The only similarities they have is some scarce loan words adopted in the period from 1000-2000, because of wars, trade and politics, but not much else.

Great video, except where you showed a wrong map of Serbia. There is a chunk of it colored differently in the south. Aside from that, great video!

Slavs are not scythians.

Thats good. But where is "suka blyat"???

Kosovo is Serbia.

As a man married to a woman whose Grandfather was a Ukrainian Nationalist from Lviv, I can tell you that most Ukrainians don't like to be generalised in a group with Russia. Слава Україні, слава героям!!🇧🇧🇧🇧

We are some of.the first humans on earth