HORRIBLE HISTORIES - Alexander The Great

[LittleMissBobbityMan]

I wanna live in Skinnymandria

[evakar24]

FYROMians are so annoying!

[PhenomenalHeadShot]

I would have suggested naming it Alexville or Alexantope or Alexandertown or the City of Alexander

[lishgirl05]

"Alexandriaaaaaaa. Okayyyyyyy?" :)

[neacej1]

At the time, the Turks lived in the Altai Mountains (where present-day where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together) and at about the 6th Century C.E. (or about 900 years after Alexander the Great's death), they started migrating west. They didn't reach modern-day Turkey until the 11th century C.E. (only about 1,400 years after Alexander the Great's death).

[macedon238]

@theGhoulman alexander was not hellen you stupid gay hellas

[HarleyQuinn113]

@macedon238 Yes he was. That's why this sketch is included in the "Groovy Greeks" segment. Don't worry. If they ever make a segment called Fail Fyromians or something, they can show your non-existent history, and obsession with a foreign country's heritage and culture that I can only attribute to a severe case of Asperger's you and your minority nation are most obviously suffering from.

[Lwis2]

it's TURKISH! Turkish for Alexandria? YES!

[Animal0202]

love this

[wafaafarhat]

why do they sniff each other???

[IlValentino100]

@wafaafarhat gays :D

[Niffer421]

this is the dumbest shit ever!!!!

[Weishaupt1765]

@Niffer421 Really? Why did you bother commenting if all you have to say is something that just shares the fact you're an idiot with then entire internet community?

[TheZebulenTayler]

34 people rule skinnymandria

[theGhoulman]

Cute, and funny. Nice work. But let's remember... Alexandria was the centre of ancient knowledge (the Library of Alexandria). Alexander went on to other lands. Then the library was lost. That's history...

[hippogriffs95]

That was basically an Alexander/Hephaestion domestic :P

[FrankIeroiscute]

lol Ben has such an annoying voice in this sketch.

[xXspeckledleafXx]

"Let's not forget Alexandria."



[CyclonisIsAwesome529]

Isn't Alexandria a girls name????

Skinnymandria, classic

[playfulpear]

both their voices are so low and sexy in this one.

[Blueobsessionfan]

Fuck this shit it's western propaganda

[helo67570]

This is so much like Monty Python!!!!!!

[Alizastack]

my excuse for everything now:

'IT'S TURKISH!'

[MrMyvince]

What about Alexandiarrhea?

[1Dmitrievna]

@FrankIeroiscute i think hes naming the cities alexandria because he was gay i dont know how tru that is but my friend told me it

[FrankIeroiscute]

Alexandria is a girls name.

[Kire931]

@FrankIeroiscute hes taking about the city name idiot

[FrankIeroiscute]

@Kire931 Yes but he's naming the city after himself and his name is Alexander and Alexandria is a girls name so why didn't he call the city Alexander?

[MARGARELON]

@FrankIeroiscute Because in greek, cities are always female.

[TrueBayntonette13]

Ben looks a bit like a girl in this

[TrueBayntonette13]

I would so live in skinnymandria if Mat ruled! :p <3

[coloneljones21]

I used to be leader of the known world... then I took an arrow to the temple.

[theprodigy1600]

@coloneljones21 Chest --Lung lol not temple

[Alizastack]

i dont really like the whole sniffy thing he did to poor matt :(

[MKDSzebra3]

@Alizastack They were poking fun at Alexander the Great's homosexual tendencies. lol

[Alizastack]

@MKDSzebra3 who could blame him! XD

[DesiBear100]

Is it Turkish for Alexandria?

. . .Yes.

[panty3pirate]

If I keep watching this, I'm going to fail my final exam in history XD

[lexiegreysanatomy]

Why don't we just call it Skinnymandria?

[TheForsakenFalcon]

lol Rider from fate zero

[TheGeckoState]

Alexanda was Great...untill he took an arrow to the knee

[sexpistolsgirl45]

@TheGeckoState What is with these arrow to the knee jokes...did I miss the memo or something, cause I just don't get it.

[Grefins999]

@sexpistolsgirl45 its a skyrim quote. here /watch?v=zKx6EPimxPI

[TheGeckoState]

@sexpistolsgirl45 Its from a popular game called "Skyrim" in which a guard makes the comment, " I used to be an adventurer,untill Itook an arrow in the knee" (or something along those lines.) it has since become a pop-culture reference

[Lovergir27]

Is Mat supposed to be playing Hephaestion, Alexander's lover?

[GlitteringCyclone]

@Lovergir27 That makes a lot of sense, cos it's definitely a conscious thing...

[moviemoment247]

1:28-1:35 ....um why? XD

[GlitteringCyclone]

@moviemoment247 Well, if you consider Alexander is supposed to have been gay. He had a lover, Hephaestion, and he didn't marry for aages which worried people cos obviously he was King and needed an heir..

[airafernandez0512]

SKINNYMANDRIA! My enemy should live there

[ethiopiagreekpride]

macedonia forever!

[05356158259]

gayreeks proud of their gay hero:D ahahha

[Espeze]

Love the slight reference to him being homosexual, lol sniffing the other blokes hair

[spasticsouvlakia]

best fricken scene i swear

[sofiaobrien17]

this is hilarious but kind of disturbing at the same time ! lOl

[tipesreee]

TURKEY?...or ASIA MINOR!!!



[RoseInPink]

Ben Willbond + Mat Baynton = awesome. <3 LOVE Horrible Histories.

[SanAndreasHomie]

Wow

[sofiaobrien17]

skinnymandria ! genius !

[panosmel97]

love how turks didnt exist back then... silly mongols

[bertan69]

@panosmel97 silly mongols? Use this kind of language under racist vulgar propaganda videos not under this funny informative video .

FYI they meant present-day Turkey they didn't say it was Turkey back then. This is a children's program they want to keep things simple and understandable and give useful information to kids in school.

[wiseguysdeniro]

We are not mongols you silly racist!!!

[FrankIeroiscute]

Did he say to call it Skinnymandria because Mat is so skinny?

[CyclonisIsAwesome529]

@FrankIeroiscute Yes he did. Mat's really skinny

[FrankIeroiscute]

@CyclonisIsAwesome529 lol I know but he's really hot.

[dothepachacuti]

You can call it um skinnymandria :)

[theelementofweird2]

Skinnymandria!

[ethiopiagreekpride]

greece is greece and macedonia is macedonia.thats 2 different thing.macedonia was never greece

[sakurapoptart]

We watched this in my world history class...

[pat5168]

This isn't really a horrible history, Alexander in reality did found or rename over 40 cities in his name.

[BubblesEternal]

Is moving to Skinnymandria, I -3 Matt!

[ethiopiagreekpride]

he is not our anscester! why we greek steal someone else's anscester? we should not do that!

[thesilvershields]

@ethiopiagreekpride He's not anyone's ancestor as his infant sons were murdered following his death. That doesn't detract from the fact that Alexander was Greek.

[pat5168]

@thesilvershields Alexander was Macedonian, not Greek. If you think that Macedonia is only a nation of Greece you ignore all of the overwhelming evidence of Macedonia being a distinct nation from the other ancient Greek tribes and city-states. In fact, the only reason it is propagated that Macedonia is a part of Greece is to justify the modern borders of Greece which contains 51% of traditional Macedonian land.

[thesilvershields]

@pat5168 I'm not going to enter into a nationalistic debate. I am a Classicist and know full well ancient Macedonians were part of the ancient Achaean culture. Modern Macedonia is a "distinct nation" TODAY. Do not confuse TODAY with ANCIENT HISTORY. Modern Macedonians are Slavic. They speak a Slavic language. Ancient Macedonians spoke ancient Greek. Do you think Alexander spoke Slavic when the Slavs did not even exist in Europe yet? You know nothing of 'overwhelming' evidence. Study history.

[pat5168]

@thesilvershields You seem to be the one entering a nationalistic debate, mentioning the Slavs, ha ha. Ancient Macedonians spoke Greek, yes, but language is a very unreliable thing to dictate different cultures. To put this in perspective, if someone 2,000 years from now only had what we have to judge the Ancients, and happened to be looking at the language of the Jewish and non-Jewish population of Nazi Germany, would they be right to say they were the same because their language was?

[thesilvershields]

@pat5168 And no, Thracians and Illyrians were not Greek--they did not speak Greek, nor did the Greeks ever acknowledge them as Greek, whereas they did look at the Macedonians as backwards Greeks. And you cannot remotely compare ancient culture to the modern world. It is apples and oranges. The Diaspora of the Jews is why Jewish culture exists with many other cultures and why they speak many languages. It's not the same thing.

[SiccaD216]

@pat5168 Yes, they were all Germans. Just like I am an american and so are all the black, mexican, christians, jews, ect. that live here with me. We are american. Now i dont know if alexander the great ever refered to himself as a greek, and we will never know, no matter how much "evidence" Is found because we weren't there and don't have him to tell us so, BUT i do beleive that the reasons he is called a greek has little to do with anything but the time/ area that he comes from

[pat5168]

@thesilvershields Tell me, would Alexander I be described as "Philhellen" in the 4th century texts if Macedonians were Greek? There IS an overwhelming amount of ancient evidence which shows Macedonia to be a distinct nation, even holding their own Olympic games. In fact, the only claim to Greek ancestry was made by Alexander I for political reasons and was made by none other.

[thesilvershields]

@pat5168 Alexander I ruled in the early 5th cent. BCE. This is when Macedonians were basically blurred into Greek culture. By Alexander the Great's time (the issue in question) they were already established as Greek culture. Point of reference: Greeks did not consider themselves 'Greek,' that's a myth. They were Athenian, or Spartan, or Theban, etc. OR they were Dorian, Ionian, Aeolian, Thessalian, Macedonian, etc. They identified themselves by polis or region, not country. That did not exist.

[mokro97]

@thesilvershields FIRST LEARN HISTORY AND THEN SPEAK. They were all considered Hellenes not Greek. Greek is Roman. Ancient Hellenes had a proverb that said. Pas mi Ellin varvaros. It means everyone who is not a Hellen is a barbarian.

[pat5168]

@thesilvershields No Macedonian appears in the Olympic victor lists. Nor do we find the Macedonian people ever regarded as a political entity, transacting business with Greek states. It is the kings that make alliances and take part in panhellenic congresses.The Macedonians as such do not appear, any more than, for example, the Persians or the Thracians do. So regarding this, if the Macedonians are Greek, are the Thracians? The Illyrians? Why not go a bit further? Your argument has no depth.

[ChemicalCorpse1]

@pat5168 Is that sorta saying that they were like the scotts and the english? :o

[pat5168]

@ChemicalCorpse1 More like the Irish and the English.

[ChemicalCorpse1]

@pat5168 but doesnt that mean that the Macedonians had their own language?

[pat5168]

@ChemicalCorpse1 They did have their own dialect.

[ChemicalCorpse1]

@pat5168 Nonononono dialect is an acccent , the irish have they're own language=Irish :D

[thesilvershields]

@pat5168 Am I really arguing with a 14 year old child? I teach college, sport, you haven't even been to college yet. You have a great deal left to learn. In regards to the Olympic victor lists, you are mistaken. Several Macedonians appear, Theagenes of Thasos, Xenophon of Aigai (where Philip II--another Macedonian at the Olympics--was buried), etc. They did not hold their own 'Olympics.' Besides which, many Greek cities had their own games (Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian, Panathenaic, etc.)

[pat5168]

@thesilvershields You've decided me to get rid of my age information on my channel, apparently it's a fond tool to use against me in debates. You are correct on your points, but I think I don't know enough to make an educated decision on this subject.

[Skydance1110]

Wikipedia tells me Alexander actually named the city Alexandretta... and the name was later mutated to al-ʼIskandarūn with the Islamic period and then to İskenderun in Turkish. O.o

[ChemicalCorpse1]

@Skydance1110 Thats right, they didnt speak turkish in his time until the turkic tribes from places like Turkemenistan went there

[Greekabout]

Alexander the great was as much Greek as i am an Bat........... hate that people say he was Greek cause he clealy was not!

[Skydance1110]

@Greekabout Calling him a Greek is not about countries or nationalities, it's about the ancient 'Greek' (or rather the Hellenistic) culture that he lived in. In this context saying someone is an '(Ancient) Greek' is just like the modern equivalent of saying he's 'European'.

[pat5168]

@Skydance1110 Exactly, and there is now overwhelming evidence that Macedonia was in fact a very distinct culture from Greece. They weren't just inferior or had bitter rivalries with Greek tribes and city-states like the one between Athens and Sparta, it was a deep rooted hate and prejudice. Macedonia is always mentioned apart from the rest of Greece and all historical contexts show that to be so.

[thesilvershields]

@Greekabout You're gravely mistaken. Alexander was "half-Macedonian", half-Greek. However, Macedonians WERE Greeks (they had nothing whatsoever to do with modern Macedonians, who didn't exist yet). They spoke Greek, believed in the Greek gods, and took part in the Olympics; they were just backward and looked down upon by other Greeks, like some states are looked down upon by others in the US. But then again, all Greeks looked down on all other Greeks. They never got along.

[insanefroo]

1:32 *swoons*

[LilSilveritis]

Alexander the Great is rather camp. XD I love these sketches.

[billielol98]

thats hilarious when he says "ITS TURKISH".........

[theprodigy1600]

Alexander would have been proud, he did enjoy plays,lol

[chauceriangirlful]

Ben Willbond looks a LOT like Alexander the Great...MB is adorable but BW is just ridiculously handsome!! :)

[BVargas78]

@chauceriangirlful your right, he does look like that well known bust of Alexander from classical times.

[Jeowyn]

Well, 1:30 to 1:36 has to be perhaps the most awkward six seconds of (apparently) children's comedy I've seen in a while. LOL. 

[staceyjizzaine]

Great acting from these two....as usual. I wish I could see behind the scenes I reckon they make a lot of stuff up to try and make each other laugh

[FNGLHR]

Today's clip was brought to you by Megalomania.

Megalomania, it keeps a tyrant fucking insane.

[King4GTA]

dont forget alexandria

[edgehead242]

Alex sounds a bit like the joker......

[adrainville]

Where is he? Where is he?  Where is he? There he is.

[hoolago]

ben in this !

[TheusZeusDeus]

Funny but actually Iskander is not Turkish but it is the Asiatic mispronunciation of Alexander.Aleksandros, Aleskandors, Aleskandor, Aleskander, Aeskander, Iskander. After Iskander the name remained with this simple not easy to change pronunciation. By the time of the Arabs rise 1000 years after Alexander, Iskander was already in use in Asia and it is from them that Turks 600 years later took it.

Turks at a time of Alexander simply were in Mongolia, practically Mongols. Sakas ruled the steppes.

[ChloeEvermore]

*Alexander gets up in his grill and whispers*

Okay?

*Inhales deeply and sniffs his head awkwardly*

I DIED XD

[blubberbooks]

Where is he where is he haha

[Ariel62073]

Didn't the Delphic Oracle tell this man to beware the birds of larch?

[Anastasiathecatlover]

ATG (alex the great) acts weird at 1:33

[toomanyusernames]

@Anastasiathecatlover - Well, he WAS bisexual.

[tantalides]

29 people forgot Alexandria.

[2prissyful]

Funny and interesting! I really liked it. Thanks

[baconandcrisps]

If Mat Baynton Stayed in Skinnymandria, I Would Live There♥

[beinghumangirl]

ahh my two favorite boy acting it out

[oo00KayTIKA00oo]

he was the son of the macedonian king, and his father was murdered when he was 20 so he took over rule. he took 40, 000 macedonian soldiers with him to conquer persia, the middle east and all the way to India before he stopped only because his warriors were tired :)

[neil22100]

Was alexandra the great homosexual?

[AinghealApryll]

@neil22100 There's doubt about that, they assume he's bisexual. Probably because 'a homosexual can't be such a great warrior'. --'

[neil22100]

@AinghealApryll That wrong gay people can be just as strong as straight guy, but gay guy have more of a heart and they r not affaird to share it! Ps try coming across a homosexual skinhead if someone is homophobic. I doubt the straight guy would not be standing for long!

[AinghealApryll]

@neil22100 That's what I mean, they assume homosexuals are not good in battle based on stereotypes (that's why I put it between quotation marks: to stress the sarcasm).

And I don't think the average skinhead is that fond of homosexual persons.. But I get your point ;)

[ProfStraightEdge]

Ben looks so different in this one. It's cute. ^^

[NkotbJoeyJordanFan]

"perhaps when you find your own city, you can name it after yourself..... you can call it skinnymandria" LMAO!

[soulripper31]

I really doubt Turkish existed in 330 B.C

[toleoOtoleo]

I want to go to skinnymandria!!!

[ellybrandt4]

i love the melty thing ben does to his voice in this 'where is he? where is he? where is he? there he is!' *snort*

[SuperGingernutz]

@ellybrandt4 Yes, indeedy! I also love it when he goes 'mm-mm' and 'ah-ha' when Mat points out the different Alexandrias on the map.

*melts like butter on hot toast*

[SuperGingernutz]

@ellybrandt4 Ah, Hephaestion, that's who Mat takes off here.

[stupidintellect90]

@ellybrandt4 Yes! I love the way he's acting here. It's like a the Lindt advert where they show the chocolate running out of the bowl. BLISS!!! He's as smooth as chocolate, and I bet as tasty too :)

[yvrucsniatpac]

Don't Mat and Ben just have great chemistry together?

Brilliant skit with Alexander the Great and Hephaestion. Love the sniff. They're my new favourite slash couple!

[ThePrettyPoetess]

I love how the BBC just slipped in the 'sniff' to highlight the fact he was gay, but to kids it just looks like some sort of villain-y thing. :) <3 It.

[Arkain9]

00:48 Transcribe Audio: "Alexandria, and for the rich stand on it's own children"

[RareSpezies]

...you can call it skinnymandira  :)

[arcticushion98]

Why does he sniff him? :L.

[forgerofyourdreams]

@arcticushion98 Because Hephaestion (Mathew Baynton's character) and Alexander were said to have been lovers.

[neil22100]

@aproductions09 I'm not sure, i got told he was greek but took over the macedonia army. Can someone tell me if this is correct?

[aproductions09]

@neil22100 No.It's not.

[Tarantio1983]

@neil22100 sorry, whoever told u that's misinformed! greece @ the time was a very loose coalition of city states (sparta, athens, argos, macedonia, trace, thrakia, lycos, etc), each had their own political system (mostly monarchies, except athens which was a democracy). now alex was a macedonian, his father was phillip the 2nd of macedonia - when phil died alex went about unifying greece so they could fuck up the persian, because "hey! their persians! & remember thermopilae, lads?! cum'on ...")

[freyalovesherdogs4]

matt is just right excuse me

[seminoleboy96]

alexander was a douche

[PaulieDeMafia210]

I'm Greek and I believe this is the funniest sh*t I've seen in a while.

[CrispRain]

Ahahaha...Skinnymandria.... XD *giggle*

[emmabiehlrn]

poor mat

[FedayTek]

He is calling it turkish, but the funny thing is, we weren't there till 1071 where started entering turkey from the east.

[M15949]

good ending. har har

[mrMTronny]

I'm moving to skinnymandria

[SuperKamiccolo91]

Thank god Ghengis Khan Killed him in season 2 of Deadliest Warrior!!

[pierreg666]

@SuperKamiccolo91 That was Attila The Hun

[rochimaruu]

is it?im turk and i had no idea...

[Kohaez]

I will be watching the new series OBSESSIVELY...if I can find a TV with CBBC at uni...

[MrP90master]

thumbs up if tomska brought you here!

[Xenon2288]

Alexander was truely more than a military genius

[SuperHell666666]

Thumbs Up if Tomska brought you here

[TheKncRandoms]

tom ska sent me here..!!!!! tomskandria... oh someone already said that...oh well XD..!!!!

[djwrighty2]

I saw this on TV! lol

and TomSka sent me here

[xSoilderx]

TomSkandria.

[ApertureAsshole]

I remember seeing this on TV C:

[jackonaxbox]

TOMSKAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

[lilsister2]

Whhyy did heee smell him??

LMFAO!!!

That was too funny.

[siclop79]

@lilsister2 Because Greeks were known to ... you know x)

[lilsister2]

@siclop79 lol.. so it was true.. alexander could be tamed by nothing ..except hephaistian's thighs. lol

[MKRaddick]

Horrible History is probably the only good show on cbbc these days

[DUI405]

TomSka !

[brickfilmfreak]

TOMSKA!

[jessyneko66]

TomSka

[DarkMuffinz17]

TomSka...?

[xXMultiUploadXx]

TomSka...

[FinishedRoughly]

@xXMultiUploadXx PHSYIC!



[xXMultiUploadXx]

@FinishedRoughly YEAAAAAAAAA

[hacksign000]

Love Alexander but hell, his naming-sense sucks haha <3