Thank you for joining us on another journey through the birth of a civilization! We hope you enjoy the video, and we'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

Here, we'll do our best to address some of your more frequent comments.

What about Eastern Europe?
In this (very) brief overview, we traced developments key to understanding medieval Europe’s defining features. Many of these, such as feudalism, first arose in the Carolingian heartland before spreading outward. Eastern Europe, along with other regions - Iberia, Southern Italy, Scandinavia - became more closely integrated with the rest of the continent in later centuries (12:27). Their fascinating histories certainly deserve spotlights of their own, and we hope to cover them more thoroughly in the future. For more about this perspective, you can find some reading suggestions in the description (especially Bartlett's "The Making of Europe"). Thank you for raising this important point for discussion!

In a world drowning in generic AI slop, seeing hundreds of custom, hand-drawn slides covering everything from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance is mind-blowing. The sheer amount of weeks this must have taken... you are truly doing this for the love of the game! This is the exact kind of content I starved for back in school. Thank you for your dedication, man. This channel deserves to absolutely skyrocket!

The biggest lesson I took from this video is that progress isn't always a straight line. There were periods of growth, collapse, recovery, and innovation all mixed together. History is far more complicated than most people realize.

UNBELIEVABLE!! You didn't even mention ONES the invasions and wars of expansion of the Octoman empire in Europe between the 1200 and 1500!

Should rename the video to "Western Europe: 1000 Years in 20 Minutes"

Alternative Title: "Medival Western Europe: 1000 years in 20 minutes"

How do I not have to pay for this?

Insane work!

Super impressive visuals. This will blow up soon like your first installment.

It's hard to say how beautiful this is. The simplicity, the vibe, the music. Absolutely amazing work.

My first ever term paper was in the 9th grade, and I attempted to do it on the Middle Ages. Bear in mind that my only exposure to this immense topic was The World Book encyclopedia and a Classics Illustrated magazine depicting the legend of Arthur and the Round Table. During this ordeal I would visit my first college library, and encounter Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur (NO pictures). My final result was barely 11 rambling and padded pages in cursive and blue ink [to this day I now write in block script all caps in black ink].

Absolutely incredible work, condensing so much information in just 22 mins. I'm glad I discovered this channel. The editing was top notch as well.

This video condensed a millennium of crusades, cathedrals, plagues, and empires into twenty electrifying minutes. The pacing, visuals, and historical nuance make it feel like I just traveled through a thousand years on fast-forward—yet nothing felt rushed. Brilliant work!

Phenomenal work - would happily watch videos like this for all of history and the entire globe!

Not a video about medieval Europe. A video about medieval western Europe only

this is one of the best works I've seen. so much information tied together. It's made me conceptualize the time period so much better than before.

The Protestant Reform was key to understand economics and religious transformation in the late 1500. Worth mention it

This is fantastic work. I wish something like this would be done for Africa and the rest of non-Muslim Asia (considering you've already done the Muslim empire). It would be amazing to see timelines showing the different empires from Qing dynasty and Sengoku era to the Malian, Songhai and Egyptian empires.

It's great to see someone put real time, effort and passion into creating a proper history video. Very well done. Keep it up!

Okay, now do EVERYTHING ELSE!! These videos are awesome - perfect balance of concise and comprehensive, and the visuals really tell the story.

For the love of everything that is good, please make more videos about History. Especially one about Ancient History (Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome) and about Pre-History. This is BY FAR the best Middle Ages History video on the Internet.