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The Queen of England is the current Duke of Normandy but only if you live in the Channel Isles.
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Sometimes, u have to play the fool to catch the wise man. How many American's claim refugee status in eastern Europe?
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At last! Your beginning to understand. Elizabeth, Elizabethans, George, Georgians, Norman, Normans, Franks and Franks. I've got something going on here. I might write a book. You must be a Slav, right?
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But it's very embarrassing when Americans don't know basic world geography, even of Europe, from which most of us originate or even a little basic world history. And then we have loud, obnoxious clowns such as Sarah Palin who think Africa is a country.......
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hahahahah well its obvious first -there was guy called frank... ...
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ur right,he is an idiot...a fucking dangerous one if u ask me...
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The franks..explain that....
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I've one thing to say...thr franks...
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HAHAHAHHAHHAHHAHAHHHHAHAHHHHAa
re you serious?? hahhaahhahhah ooooooooooo man you rule !!!!
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"if the first norman was called norman so they called themselfs normans" o man hahahahahahahahaah i never laught so much ;that guy must be an american ;??!!
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Don't feel dumb. Grab a book and catch up. You can do it. You'll learn faster than you think with a modicum of effort. That's how I did it - self taught for the most part - at least for this period.
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Sorry, I've gotta jump in. Do u know how confusing history is to people like nika and me? I'm in the medical prof. Do u understand 'renal function', LVF or CCF? Do u understand how to take a history from someone with jaundice? Look up MRSI or CAT scanS (in a book) then tell ME how they work. I know the left side of the heart is supplied by the oxygenated blood from the lungs, the right side is supplied by the inferior and superior vena cavas. History. I haven't a fucking clue.
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Simple questions: who the hell was norman, what was his surname?
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Yes but history is different. It's universal to us all. Start off by trying to picture yourself in the shoes, sandals, boots or bare feet of the person you are studying. What would you have done differently? How would you have reacted? Gain a broad, surface knowledge first, and then dive deep on the areas that fascinate you the most. Soon, those stovepipes start to close into each other and great understanding can be attained.
Just put the time in. You'll even enjoy it, I bet.
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If Norman took his name from Normandy in France and his subject followed suit: calling themselves Normans, did Elizabeth take her name from somewhere called Elizabeth in Engalnd and her subjects did the same: by calling themselves Elizabethan? If so, can Elizabeth still be found on maps of today? I know King James knocked a few places down because of religion. I watched Time Team last week (first time). Very interesting. Has anyone noticed that scruffy, bald-guy was Baldrick in Blackadder.
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i don't know why i got involved in this, i don't like history and norman's a bloody stupid name if u ask me..i just wondered if the first norman was called norman so they called themselves normans..one group of nutters called themselves davidians after someone called david..i believe...
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hahahahahahaha you must be an american,right?!hahahhahahah
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Don't feel dumb. Grab a book and catch up. You can do it. You'll learn faster than you think with a modicum of effort. That's how I did it - self taught for the most part - at least for this period.
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Sorry, I've gotta jump in. Do u know how confusing history is to people like nika and me? I'm in the medical prof. Do u understand 'renal function', LVF or CCF? Do u understand how to take a history from someone with jaundice? Look up MRSI or CAT scanS (in a book) then tell ME how they work. I know the left side of the heart is supplied by the oxygenated blood from the lungs, the right side is supplied by the inferior and superior vena cavas. History. I haven't a fucking clue.
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Simple questions: who the hell was norman, what was his surname?
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Yes but history is different. It's universal to us all. Start off by trying to picture yourself in the shoes, sandals, boots or bare feet of the person you are studying. What would you have done differently? How would you have reacted? Gain a broad, surface knowledge first, and then dive deep on the areas that fascinate you the most. Soon, those stovepipes start to close into each other and great understanding can be attained.
Just put the time in. You'll even enjoy it, I bet.
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If Norman took his name from Normandy in France and his subject followed suit: calling themselves Normans, did Elizabeth take her name from somewhere called Elizabeth in Engalnd and her subjects did the same: by calling themselves Elizabethan? If so, can Elizabeth still be found on maps of today? I know King James knocked a few places down because of religion. I watched Time Team last week (first time). Very interesting. Has anyone noticed that scruffy, bald-guy was Baldrick in Blackadder.
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i don't know why i got involved in this, i don't like history and norman's a bloody stupid name if u ask me..i just wondered if the first norman was called norman so they called themselves normans..one group of nutters called themselves davidians after someone called david..i believe...
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Lol, no. Other way around. Norman means Northmen, men from the north, aka Scandinavians. Normandy was named after them.
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even more confused...is it like teddy boys//? e.g was the first teddy boy called teddy? we don't say 'i come from the norman of england , do we.
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Now you're confusing me :P I was just stating where the name "Norman" and "Normandy" originated from. It were Skandinavian Vikings capturing this region from France... In 1066 when Normans from Normandy set sail to England they were already speaking French for quite some time.
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"knowledge quizzes''' wow
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were they called normans cos everyone was called norman, something or other>? e.g norman smith, norman jones.
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Is this a joke? They were a proud people named after Normandy in France.
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who was norman dy? was he famous?
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Lol, no. Other way around. Norman means Northmen, men from the north, aka Scandinavians. Normandy was named after them.
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even more confused...is it like teddy boys//? e.g was the first teddy boy called teddy? we don't say 'i come from the norman of england , do we.
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dieu est mon droit
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actually you country USA came at the bottom in the Pisa test unlike countries like Finland that has won 3 times in a row at first place or second
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True, the American education system is probably inferior to many European ones, but that doesn't make people stupid
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Superstitious nonsense.
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what is the tapestry's name and how is it spelled? I did not hear very well....
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I believe you are referring to "Bayeux Tapestry."
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Thats monarchys for you
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I think its likely correlated to the amount of internet users in your country.
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your an idiot mate.
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Congratulations, you have received the "im a dumbass" award!
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"God gave England and America the Bible"
God gave many other countries the Bible, but they never got that powerful.
On the other hand, God never gave the Bible to China, yet it's been a major power for 2000 years.
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A few bad apples spoil the bunch.
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I find it so odd that the King and Queen of England is not exactly English...
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she is queen of the United Kingdom of Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
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The only reason he's assuming "we all know" this, that and the other is because this is a TV show for UK viewers, where this stuff is taught in schools. If you ask the average person in the UK about American history and they'll barely know any of it.
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why do people think all americans are dumb? i love my country and am sad to know that we are thought of in that way.
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Unfortunately, some tourists, some, not all, tend to act that way, an example which I came across was a woman was complaining that she had her camera taken off her in the Tower of London for trying to take photographs of the crown jewels, the entrance to the Jewels House has large 'No Photography' signs outside it... Most Americans I've met are clever and kind, but the ones that aren't are unfortunately, quite embarrassing
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That they are. But nevertheless they are Frenchified Twats who knew how to kick ass :p
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I love how sarcastic the narrater is haha
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God Bless France
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Dieu vous bénisse!
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As do I
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saladin was the real lionheart..richard slaughtered the harmless
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The first conquerors of The United Kingdom after Romans were always from France or Germany, pushing the Natives back. Im an American and even we are taught the truth about our English "cousins".
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Normans, Frenchified twats.
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I am an American. I know plenty about English history. I about the Picts, the Roman occupation of Britain. The Angles, the Jutes and the Saxons. I know English as a languages at its roots is a Western Germanic language, most closely related to Friesan, another Western Germanic peoples. I know that the modern island of England was once part of mainland Europe before the last great ice age created the English Channel and the the island of Britain. Your blanket generalities do you a disservice.
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And I too am a Young, my ancestors were most likely Scots-Irish. It isn't just your history but all English-Britain-Irish-Scots-Vi
kings whether they be Danes, Norwegians, Normans, whether they be Germans of Angles, Jutes or Saxons. Whether they be Picts or the Gauls or Gallic people where a Celtic people who spoke Celtic and lived in Gaul, the region corresponding to what is now France, Belgium, Switzerland, the parts of the Netherlands and Germany. The fact is Britain is the world's history.
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We, the Youngs, are Normans in descent :D
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Sorry for basing my analytical statements on graphs and surveys done on Americans. Clearly, you are one of the rare Americans who actually enjoy history of Britain, but by Americans I meant those who actually were not self-educated or has graduated in any sort of History (like I believe you have). By what I said, I was defining the American school system, which focuses more on the topics I previously discussed.
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Americans just tend not to go into specifics, if you asked an American student about British kings...well they would scratch their heads. Even Western Civilization doesn't really go into much detail. Our education tends to be very broad and concerns majors historical themes rather than specific things. I'm sure there's a lot that students are missing out on
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No way, that's not true at all. Although...I did not go to public schools, so I can't say definitively. I personally started history with ancient Rome and Greece and worked up to Medieval Europe, the Islamic Empire, Age of Discovery, Enlightenment and stopped around the pre WW1 era. These were more explored in high school and college. American history is so dependent on other nations, how could we not learn about other countries' histories?
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Starting with the Normans? Where are the Briton, Celtic, and Saxon monarchs?
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To be honest Americans tend to stay within their own nation's education, thus foreign history and geography are very little known... This, however, doesn't make you any less intelligent as Americans are world-known experts in biology and chemistry (although Britain also matches the US in these areas).
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Yes, probably because balkanics and eastern europeans who make the majority of Europe, are in most part uneducated, due to the catastrophes which succeeded to the end of the Warsaw pact.
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I believe BritishEnglish history the most interesting in the world, i might be slightly biased, but hey.......
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William Rufus didn't get a proper burial because, gasp, he was GAY!
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um, what?
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@1:30 Harold was the last 'english' king? Not entirely true. Harolds line, the anglo-saxons were themselves descended from germanic Kings who came to England starting around the 6th century.
Very interesting documentary though. :-)
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There was no such thing as England when the Germanic tribes invaded. It wasn't until after Aethelstan conquered the whole realm that England started to come into being. As such, all kings after that time were essentially Kings of England.
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Yes, they descended from Angles who were asked to fight Danish invaders, but then invaded, too. The last TRUE indigenous Britons are actually the Welsh.
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I find your history fascinating! You guys had so much going on and us Americans have so little.
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Before England they came down from crumbling Egypt... at some point.
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Likin' This!
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Vive duche William le roi du le anglais
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Yes, don't invest too much in stereotypes. Remember that everyone had to learn most of what they know from someone else. Ironically the act of learning will make you more knowledgeable but will also make you feel ignorant. Stupid and uninformed are not the same thing, neither are smart and well-informed, but the urge to seek knowledge is smart indeed.
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I also applaud you for seeking knowledge, that's better than any dumb American out there. We're all dumb until we learn you know, gotta do it at some point!
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It's all right, it's all just bad American education, not you. I'm an American as well, and I realized after years of them making me take American history over and over again I didn't know diddly squat about any European history. So I've been studying British history extensively with a plan to move into French and Italian history soon after.
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I find our history fascinating!!!!
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pozdro dla pana magistra
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I've never heard of Louis I
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@BeyBlade1999 its says on this episode no king would be english after william the conquerer, and indeed before this time there was no royale family
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Ack, I feel like such a dumb American watching this. The narrator keeps saying phrases like "as we all know," and the truth is I know nothing about this. That's why I looked this documentary up in the first place.
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It's a documentary for UKTV, so it's more for people who are familiar with the basic history. You're an American, so no one's expecting you to know. Let go of your insecurities and just learn.
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why aren't the true english kings in episode one?
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If you mean, because the Normans were french, because, The Normans that came to England's Children would be English. The Normans were on of the most influential people in English history, overweighing the Celts and Boudicca (In my opinion after the 80,000 out of 200,000 men she lost against the Roman army of 10,000)
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Well no one could be more influencial on England's history than the peoples that founded it that had been developing a unique culture on the island for abou 600 years (some even longer) before the Norman Conquest. And no, the Norman hierarchy kept themselves quite separate from the English people so would have no link to England other than perhaps being born there. Certainly no cultural link, and that's really what matters.
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Boudicca has nothing to do with English history.
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This is a good documentary, but I wonder why they use those horrible white on black portraits to show the characters in question?
They look terrible, as if done by a 13 year old who is failing in art...
But otherwise, good doc, I will be watching the whole collection eventually I expect. Thanks for posting it up
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