Game of Thrones reflects real history (no spoilers) – Westeros is England

Yes, it purposeful Martin is known history buff and he says it all the time. I thought it was known that GOT was based on the wars of the roses

FYI – targaryens = roman landing in kent England in 43 AD

Have a like for insisting on using the terms BC/AD, instead of the pathetic politically correct alternatives (I says this as an atheist).

Also I would suggest the Old Gods are analogous to Druidism, whereas the Seven are a combination of the Classical Greek/Roman Pantheon and early Roman and Eastern Christianity.

The Lord of Light has similarities with Zoorastian beliefs.

Mmmm I think the Rhoynar are supposed to be more reminiscent of the Egyptians and their relationship with the Nile. Especially since the Greco-Roman period saw the end of what we would see as distinctly ancient Egyptian culture and the Rhoynar were forced out by the Valyrians. At the same time their more egalitarian culture really is reminiscent of the way that Ancient Egypt organized its pluralistic society. Once in Dorne they are clearly supposed to resemble Andalusia, especially in the show with the actors and set designs, but I think bundling them into the Anglo-Saxon parallel is misleading. Especially since Rhoynar culture is pretty limited to Dorne and the internal division in Dorne, for example the Stony Dornish who live in the mountain areas and have less Rhoynish ancestry, also closely parallel the early medieval Christian kingdoms in the mountainous northern reaches of Iberia that never fell under Muslim sovereignty. All in all I think the "Mother Rhoyne" is supposed to be reminiscent of the Nile and the name similarity with the Rhine is largely a coincidence.

I don't watch GOT so I don't know the fictional history of House Martell, but I don't know if the author would consider the correlation between them and the Spanish Moors.
In real history, Charles Martel was the person who stopped the Spanish Moors from taking over what is now French territory in the battle of Tours.
His son, Pepin the Short was the first Carolingian King and his son was Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor.
So, again without having watched the show, perhaps House Martell was a big empire in old GOT land (too lazy to google that)?

Hey! William is from Normandy, descents of the Vikings that took Frankia. If Aegon is William and Aegon is a Targaryen, the Targaryans are from VALYRIA, the last survivors. So the Rome theory is wrong. And Dorne could not be the Moors because it is located on Westeros and is one of the seven kingdoms – the seven British isles.

House Targaryen is also Inspired by fhe Habsburgs.The Hapsburgs are known for Inbreeding

Why didn't you mention the war of the roses? That's probably the easiest to compare

If anyone wonders if G.R.R Martin based his story on history on purpose, I think this will answer that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odw3Nxdqq4o

Then you should have heard of Warhammer which is also based on real world history.

Watching the recent episode of g.o.t I noticed how the ironborn are viewed and reflect every bad (steriotype) historical depiction of pirates and they're cultures by writers through out history … like the view on vikings raiders by medieval christians, or the view the Ottomans had on the Slavic pirates of the Dalmatian coast, or the view Europeans had on the Barbarys, aswell as the view the Romans had on Illyrian pirates during ancient times… basically the "angy little men.. who steal what they can't build or grow" are based on every historical depiction of pirates through out history.

Did you make a video for "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"?

I would say that the invasion of Saxons are much closer in similarities to the invasion of the Andals, but given the fact that there were other tribes Germanic tribes that invaded around this time and if I'm not mistaken the invasions of the Andals and the Rhoynar occurred at similar times and during the the reign of the Valerian freehold over Essos.

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(Sigh) That was a long sentence. I could have broken that up.

The Dornish (Moors of Spain).

Wildlings (are the Roman view of the Gothic and Slavic tribes or one can even argue it's the medieval Christian view of pagan vikings).

The Iron islands (Vikings -mainly of the Danish variety).

King's landing (a mix of Venice, with a Byzantine/southern France flare).

The Bravosi (Greeks, Italians, Spaniards -'southern Europeans').

The unsullied are based on the Mamluks of Egypt.

The iron bank (Rothchilds bank).

The Dothraki (the pre-Islamic turkic tribes or even the Huns.)

The Lanisters (The House of York, The Borgias, The Rothchilds).

Esos is a mix of Europe and Asia actually, the free nation of Esos are more European than Asian and Valeria was based on the Roman empire

Lindybeige did a video on BC and AD, in which he explained a way to create ambiguity in the person using the date system while still retaining the same letters. I found it amusing and continue to not use BCE and CE.

Not one mention of the War of the Roses? Cmon, Stark and Lannister = York and Lancaster, the parallels are pretty obvious (the Starks being northern, white and red as their respective colors, even the names sound somewhat similar), and George R.R. Martin has even admitted that the War of the Roses was his inspiration. And I always assumed that the Seven was obviously supposed to be the Catholic church – the multiple aspects of a single godhead is vaguely similar, but the priesthood and monastic orders and parallel power structure with the state aren't even really changed at all from the historical Catholic church.

One historical inaccuracy with this video: the first people in Britain were not Celts.  The original Britons who built Stonehenge were not Celtic.

It's a bit more complicated than "Westeros is England" though. Based on designs from the show (which are based on GRRM's input) you can see something else.
The history and geography of westeros are indeed very british looking, but the various cultures are from all of western europe.
Westeros seems to be western europe (eastern a bit too with the northeners).
The riverlands seem pretty western france to me, dorne is clearly spanish, the iron island are scandinavia, the reach would be closer to south east france and northern italy, stormlands I d say are supposed to be germanic.
Then if you go on to Essos, the free cities are reminiscent of the italian city states, but only bravoos actually seems italian. The other free cities would seem more north african in nature. Slaver's bay is clearly the arabic middle east and Quarth is Baghdad.
The dothraki see is clearly mongolia, the summer isles and southoron are black africa.

The Andals as well as sounding like the Angles, also derived their named from the Vandals. The land they come from was called Andalos, which is very similar to Andalusia in southern Spain, where the Vandals established their kingdom as a successor to Rome.

I think the Valerians with their technology, architecture and magic are rather GOTs version of Atlantis, rather than the roman empire, as the romans are not associated with magic.

A good video; nice comparisons with pre-1066 England. Just wanna critique one historical inaccuracy in your video:
William the conqueror and his dynasty were NOT French! Whilst they (and the many barons that came over in the invasion) spoke French they were, in fact, Norman – having descended from Duke Rollo and his fellow Viking invaders/settlers, who then became somewhat naturalised into the Frankish/French Feudal state.

If you take Ireland, flip it upside down, reverse it, and attach it to Scotland, you basically have Westeros. There's videos of it on the Tubes, I'm sure.

i believe westeros is constantinople

To actually further your point The "Rhoyne" is actually pronounced like "roin." With this pronunciation Rhoyne sounds much more similar to Rhine.

There is so much history in it but the main story in real life this series is based on in the centre is the war of the roses.

This was a civil war in Britain between one family over who was rightfully King of the land.

Kinda like what this show is about.

You should really think of doing a new episode on this there are tons of content there for you. For example the wall in the north is either based off the Great Wall of china or an old wall in Scotland.

The ironborn are based on Viking culture, the nights watch is based off a real group but can't remember who.

The lanisters and Starks are based off 2 families who fought in the war of the roses. The lancestors

Its totally intentional.

pretty sure you already heard this as its been 10 months+ since the video, but GRRM is a history buff so yes everything was intentional.

I would think the Faith of the Seven seems much more akin to Catholicism than Druidism. Druidism is much more like the religion of the Old Gods

very nice video

Um yeah. Martin even says that he looks to history to inspire his writings.

The books are a veiled history of the War of the Roses, plus a french series written from the 50s till the 70s about medieval France…

Martin revealed in an interview that he intentionally uses stuff from British history.

I feel like the Faith of the Seven is more reminiscent of the Catholic church, rather than Druids. The Old Gods would be more of a pagan/Druid religion.

I felt the same way, when I was watching the series I found these ''reflects'' as well. So I wondered if anybody would have thought the same. And here is the answer. I find history quite fun as well, and noticing these things you mentioned is quite a lot of fun.

Great video man , you deserve far more subs!

I've never seen Game of Thrones, but will try to see it now on Amazon Instant…..really interesting

Nice video, but you need a desk for that computer man.

Great video!