What are your favourite historical TV series ?

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I like these:

 

[Yaraye]

magnificent century
loved hurrem's scheming

 

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magnificent century
loved hurrem's scheming

Mahidevran was always mean towards her.

 

[repo]

House of Dragons

 

[Yaraye]

Mahidevran was always mean towards her.

It originally started out from jealousy and progressed to a huge lifelong fight. I used to hate her, but as the show went on, I started to pity her. No matter how bad hurrem does, sulemain forgives her, but never mahidevran.

 

[CALMONE20###]

It originally started out from jealousy and progressed to a huge lifelong fight. I used to hate her, but as the show went on, I started to pity her. No matter how bad hurrem does, sulemain forgives her, but never mahidevran.

Is it true that she killed Hurrem's son?

 

[Yaraye]

Is it true that she killed Hurrem's son?

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[Odious Delirium]

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The ottomans had a fratricide based culture in deciding who would be sultan. suleiman's father salim the grim (who conquerored Arabia and the mamluks in egypt for the ottomans) killed his brother to get to the Throne aswell and made his father step down who was a terrible sultan. However it all went down hill after suleiman who made the ottomans reach there peak when the system of deciding who would be sultan changed. Before suleiman all the children of the sultan would be sent to govern different provinces in the empire and learn how to rule and gain alliances to raise loyal armies. And the moment they would hear about the sultans death they would all ride to the capital with there armies basically whoever got there first won and if the others decided to put up a fight then it would be settled with a battle.
After suleiman they would kill them all young and coddle and no longer give then time to gain experience through battle and governance. Instead they would be lead basically by the harem and whoever else was scheming in the background while the sultan was basically just a neet who grewup in the Royal Palace with no experience or even actual power as a sultan. So with the exception of a few like sultan Abdul hamid. Suleiman was basically the last competent ottoman ruler and everything went downhill for them post him.



The practice of fracticide was brought to an end but the future rulers lost the edge that they would have had if they were all given the ability to grow and network.

 

[Garaad diinle]

Romance of the three kingdom. It's based on a 14th century novel that wrote about the three kingdoms period of china that was between 220-280 ad. A thrilling historical series that displays noble human virtues such as valour, loyalty, courage but it also shows the other less flattery side such unbridled ambitions, scheming and plotting nature of humans. It's all mixed into an orchestra of drama, intrigue and action.

 

[Khaemwaset]

 

[Tewahedo]

Rome :


and Barbarians but only season 1

 

[CALMONE20###]

It originally started out from jealousy and progressed to a huge lifelong fight. I used to hate her, but as the show went on, I started to pity her. No matter how bad hurrem does, sulemain forgives her, but never mahidevran.

She wanted Suleiman to herself and she was very upset when Suleiman chose Hurrem over her.

 

[Khaemwaset]

Rome :


and Barbarians but only season 1

yeah i dipped out of season 2 barbarians the second i saw that scene

 

[Khaemwaset]

What happens in season 2?
What is it even about?

It's about some German guy who's father had to give him up to the romans to prove his tribe's loyalty.
The German guy grows up in Rome and think's of himself as a roman and looks down on the Germans he came from, however the general he admires wants him to return to his German tribe and rule it as a roman puppet. The German guy says he's a roman so he wants to stay in the empire but the general refutes by saying that he will always be a German no matter how much he tries to become roman.
So he returns to his German tribe and lives among his own people and feels connected as this is where he belongs, so he becomes the tribe leader and unites a confederation of the German tribes to defeat the roman general Varus in one of Rome's greatest military defeats in history.
The show is not in English because it is actually in both Latin and old German from around the time it was set.

It became successful but then in season 2 they have some whole plotline where the characters somehow become gay and there are for some reason a random black person there who says she came from carthage even though there were no black people in carthage and a whole load of other bullshit netflix pumped into the series.

here is a source on the German guy's story who's called Arminius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius

 

[Khaemwaset]

alright then

 

[JackieBurkhart]

Javelin said:
Yup ceasar was gay he was popular with the men and women

@Javelin, @Idrus.
There's an issue with this considering there is no hard evidence Caesar was actually gay. The king Nicomedes rumor originates from his supposed extreme closeness with the king while he was in his court or service. Most likely a rumor spread by his enemies as in the Roman empire, if a man were to engage in homosexual relations, it was expected he be the giver during it, instead of the receiver. The receiver was thought of as a feminine role, due to dynamics men and women have during sex.

This all originates from Roman propaganda, important to note this was all started by Catullus. Catullus was a poet who notoriously disliked Julius due to him crushing uprisings in the Gaul area of the Roman Empire, and Catullus being from the Gaul area.

All in all, there's no substantial evidence for these rumors. Don't believe everything you read, and do your research.

Articles:
https://www.thecollector.com/ovid-catullus-ancient-rome-poetry-scandal/


*The proper term for someone who is attracted to both men and women would be bisexual.

 

[NordicSomali]

The Crown

 

[Lone Wanderer]

Rome :


and Barbarians but only season 1

I loved this series so much.