Cornwall: A Celtic Nation Trapped in England. The 6, or 8, Celtic Nations

Tieran Freedman: "Cornwall, or Kernow in the Cornish language (Kernowek), is a Celtic nation in southwest England. It’s now an English county, but was once an independent Cornish Kingdom. Cornwall has maintained a distinct identity for centuries, and even its own language. Today, 400-500 people speak fluent Cornish, up from 4-5 following the Cornish language …

How Did Muslims Conquer Arabia and the Levant?

Knowledgia: Part One -- The Start of the Caliphate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vTbCRYOnM Part 2: War with Byzantium. Conquering the Levant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZdsuV-Fp2I&t=13s Related: The Caliph: Leader of Islam for 14 Centuries. Part 1: The Foundation Pre-Islamic History of the Middle East, BC to Birth of Prophet Muhammad in 570 How Muhammad and His Followers Changed the World Pre-Islamic Arabia: What Was …

British Royals: More Than 1,000 Years of Family Drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSKdPIPLhyI CBS Sunday Morning: "Since the reign of Alfred the Great (848-899), the line of Britain's hereditary royalty has stretched across nearly 40 generations to the new king, Charles III. Correspondent Seth Doane talks with author Hugo Vickers about the sprawling branches of the royal family tree whose members were sometimes pitted against one another." …

Emperor Charlemagne Vs. the Vikings

Chronicle - Medieval History Documentaries: "As the Vikings begin to attack the coasts of Northern Europe, they begin to encounter a whole different kind of resistance. Charlemagne, the notorious Frankish emperor has no plans to give up his Christian territory to these new raiders. This is the fascinating history of the the Viking raids on …

How DNA Reveals Vikings Never Left Scotland

BBC Reel: "Vikings conquered many of Scotland's islands, as well as the mainland, in the 8th and 9th Centuries. They came, they conquered, they left, or so the story seemed to go. Now historians are re-assessing the legacy the Vikings left on islands like Islay, a small island of about 3,000 inhabitants off the west …

How Russia and Ukraine Were Settled in the 900s

Geo History: "Let's retrace on maps the first origins of Russia, from the creation of Novgorod during the IXth (9th) century, until the end of the Time of Troubles and the beginning of the Romanov dynasty" in the 1600s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUgzqkCW6A4 Chapters 00:00 The Varangians 01:15 Kievan Rus’ 02:52 Russian principalities 04:56 Catholic and Mongol threats …

Early Anglo-Saxon Kings and Queens of England Were Originally Part of Germanic Tribes

Lindsay Holiday tells the story of the early Anglo-Saxons in Britain between 450 and 1066 A.D. The Saxons were originally Germanic tribes who migrated from Saxony and other parts of the European continent and developed the English language -- at least half the words in the language were originally Anglo-Saxon words. She asks and answers …

Real Rollo and the Foundation of Normandy in the 900s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvaZuKryQPQ This video from HIstoryTime explores the story of Rollo, (860-930 A.D.) a Viking who became the first ruler of Normandy. This story is not widely known outside of Europe. The descendants of Rollo became known as the Normans.

Byzantium: Greco-Roman Eastern Empire for 1100 Years, Was Lost 560 Years Ago, But Traces Remain

Traces of Byzantium, the Greco-Roman Eastern Empire that dominated for a thousand years, can still be found in Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, as this documentary illustrates. It was overtaken by the Ottoman Empire in 1453. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantin...//Empire, from 395–1453 A.D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...Emperors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantin...Architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_...Orthodox Church.

Never Was One Arab Nation

A reader sent me a link to a map of the first "Arab Empire" that spanned from Southern France to Northern Africa to the borders of modern-day India and Russia for 300 years, along with a link to a Khan Academy lecture, the Rise of Islamic Empires and States, from 650 to 1450. This was long …