The War of the Bucket - OverSimplified Reaction

over simplified reaction coming right at you in tonight's uh reaction uh yeah oversimplified yeah the water bucket that's what i was trying to say i have not got a clue what the war the bucket is about i was gonna google it before i was going there longer earlier apparently we've got that we've got that on the screen right now so we know it's somewhere about that medieval times as well we know it's going to do maybe even yeah so we knew more we fought kevin um i think we're near the end of our journey of oversimplified might you have a couple more to actually so be sure to subscribe anyway i'm actually good for it let's take a look hey you yeah you yes new merch available now including a supremely uncool [Music] all right folks gather around i've got some good news and some bad news did you say good news and glad news no i said good news and bad news very bad news word on the street is there's going to be a horrible plague coming in from central asia in the next couple decades that'll wipe out half of europe what's the good news do you have a cure please say you have a cure no even better the good news is we've got a new bucket for this city well fresh water that's true yes to understand the war of the bucket we first need to talk about this guy he's the man with the plan the host with the most he's holy lowly he eats ravioli with the white cassock matching pellegrina and the most tasteful of fringed facials come on y'all know who i'm talking about it's the pope the head of the largest religious organization in the world but what if i told you he wasn't always the big bad boy powerhouse he's often thought as today that's right throughout history the papacy often found itself forced to wrestle against adversity and opposition to retain its authority the earliest popes for example suffered under the brutal persecution of the roman empire and many ended up martyred such as pope clement the first who was ostensibly thrown into the sea with an anchor around his neck on the bright side after persecution finally ended the pope still found himself being heavily controlled by secular kings and nobility for over two centuries the byzantine emperor basically decided who could become pope then came a real low point during what has been called the dark age a period where noblewoman controlled the pope through how should i put this feminine charm it was around here that one infamous pope john the twelfth took office this bad boy would hold how should i put this naughty no closed parties in the lateral palace and apparently this would even happen come on zeus give me a six the did i say zeus i meant thor rather egyptian sun god dang it who is it we worship perhaps you should read this your holiness in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth wow this is wild pope john xii eventually died exactly how he lived caught in the act by an irate husband who picked the pope up and chucked him out the window the point i'm trying to make here is that often the pope was a very weak and corruptible figure and was regularly used and controlled by secular leaders as a tool to increase their own power and influence and there was certainly an element of that in the year 800 when the pope and the kingdom of the franks were good bffs and king of the franks charlemagne was like hey man being king of the franks is nice and all but i want more legitimacy and also to become the continuation of the roman empire so what say i'm returned for my protection you crown me emperor so everyone will respect me more sure thing pal we'll hold the ceremony tomorrow charlemagne king of the franks i hereby crown you emperor of the west oh oh my goodness i i was not expecting this what a surprise i simply cannot accept oh okay then i guess i'll just put this back over here give me that crown charlemagne's crowning his emperor was certainly an historic moment but it also created a bit of an interesting problem it set the precedent that from here on out only the pope could crown an emperor but the pope was also very much under the influence and control of charlemagne so who really held the power here the pope or the emperor the power i'm sure that this conflict won't cause anyone to die we want to thank you once again for visiting our wonderful city it's been an honor the pleasure is all mine and what a wonderful tour it's been i've seen the city walls i've seen the towers nothing could top that oh couldn't it because we say the best for last ta-da yes that's very interesting well i mean it is just a bucket let's get him out of here over time charlemagne's position as emperor and the kingdom gradually evolved anymore since neither could agree on who was the boss of who to make matters worse the emperor had taken to investing his own bishops and abbots what does that mean well allow me to explain the problem for the holy roman emperor was his empire wasn't really an empire so much as a nightmarish federation made up of hundreds of castles bishoprics and more the princes in charge of these local regions often didn't give the emperor their loyalty the german nobility spent a lot of their time rebelling against the emperor and the emperor spent a lot of his time trying to put down those rebellions can we get rid of them who all the nobility get rid of them and pick new ones who are loyal to me you can't just remove noble families from their territory please okay how about this some of those territories are ruled by bishops and abbots and as holy roman emperor considered by many to be the deputy of jesus christ himself perhaps you can choose who gets to become bishop and abbott yay now it's time to turn out the lights and go to sleep okay i love you uh okay good night say it back and so it was the emperor invested his own family and loyal followers into powerful church positions and thereby was able to increase his own power and authority not only that but the emperor and other nobility were also engaging in something called simony that's when someone would come along and say hey i want to become a bishop and get all the personal riches that come with the position perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement that's right church positions were actually being sold to the highest bidder and let me tell you they probably didn't come cheap it's gonna cost you a lot more than this i don't think so i've got a promo code and speaking of promo codes do you like free money i think cleverly really on over 20 000 sites like amazon ebay asos and more for example here i am buying seven pizzas after a long day of animating it's currently costing me a hundred and thirty dollars oh hello honey you have a voucher for me you say all i have to do is click you say nice i saved 31.78 and all i did was click there is absolutely no reason not to use honey for everything you buy online yeah it's free.com and as always by using my links you'll be supporting my channel so thank you now where were we oh yeah investing bishops and habits selling church positions authority and power wait a minute this is depravity the purpose of the church isn't for him to increase his own authority and power it's for me to increase my own authority and power what about jesus your holiness what i thought the purpose of the church was to spread the good message of jesus christ how drunk are you there all right the results for the election of chief magistrate are in giovanni cablami one percent spaghetti jack two percent and the bucket one trillion percent around the year 1050 a series of reformist popes came along and they said enough was enough they wanted to stop the emperor from abusing the church and investing his own church officials how are you gonna stop me so long as i have control over who becomes pope remember this circular power division if you try to stop me i'll just oppose you and pick someone else oh no i've contracted tuberculosis and just like that oh the emperor was dead his six-year-old son henry iv do you reckon it was actually tuberculosis or do you think something else was going on there well i know sort of virus and things are sort of rife around there and then there's not any cures or things so it could have all been especially in the medieval times but there was quite a sense of irony because like he got administered so he could then choose who was the player i know you mean sort of history and sort of just wrote down so somebody could just say oh just say die from that yeah maybe something we may never know slice his throat and then dig a hole and put him in it done convenient timing yeah i said it was took over and as we all know child emperors equal opportunity the church had an opening to take back control yeah he's gonna take it i hope you don't mind but we're changing the rules so that only the church cardinals can elect the pope and you no longer have any say in the matter you know if that's cool with you i peed my pants okay great talk then with the position of the pope a little more secure he held a big meeting where he drew up a big list of all the reforms and new powers he was giving himself and it included some pretty gnarly stuff okay first i have the power to depose emperors everyone cool with that yeah um let's see only i can depose or reinstate bishops yeah all right no one can judge me uh old princess shall only kiss my feet only my name shall be spoken in the churches my name is the only name in the world okay i think you're done these were all some pretty radical powers the pope was giving himself and with these reforms the pope was basically telling the emperor you no longer have the right to choose your own bishops and abbotts what this is madness who does this guy think he is i'm the emperor for goodness sake he can't tell me what to do i'll invest my own bishops and habits if i want to and this raph scallion can go right to heck i peed my pants again the whole conflict escalated when henry iv went to the pope and said hey guess what sucker you're deposed hmm wait a minute i'm the pope you can't oppose me you're deposed oh wait a minute i'm the emperor you can't depose me you're deposed [Music] eventually the german princess took advantage of the situation and they all turned against henry henry was forced to apologize to the pope and the whole thing ended there except it didn't be serious the investiture controversy would continue on for centuries as popes and emperors engaged in a power struggle over the emperor choosing his own church officials the overall result of this conflict is very intricate and full of complexities but in general the pope was able to increase his authority great news here holiness your influence is on the rise throughout civilized europe except for this one city in northern italy really what's going on there as for the emperor he found his realm thrown into further chaos and civil war as the local princes continued to increase their own power and independence this was most notably the case in northern italy separated from the rest of the holy roman empire by the alps the emperor's influence and control over italy had often been questionable in the current chaos these italian city-states began operating almost entirely independently their practical independence was further solidified when emperor frederick barbarossa came down in 1176 to try to reassert his control the cities formed an alliance and with the pope's support they kicked the emperor right back to germany hooray said the italian city states we did it we're the best of friends and then they immediately began attacking each other why well this whole pope versus emperor thing in italy at least had infiltrated society to its very core across italy families and cities were torn between two opposing sides on one side the guelphs who supported the pope's cause on the other the ghibellines who supported the emperor these two sides struggled for control as guelph cities battled against gibbling ones as usual personal interest played a pretty big role as pro-pope guelph cities tended to be rich mercantile ones who didn't like the emperor's taxes emperors supporting gibbelins on the other hand were often agricultural where the expanding people's states were a larger threat these cities would sometimes even switch sides depending who is in charge and their ever-changing personal interests in some cities brutal fighting broke out in the streets as opposing families fought for control at times the conflict became so tribal that the differences between the two sides were just downright silly my love i can't bear it we must be together but how can we my gibbeling family wears feathers on the left side of their caps and your guelph family wears them on the right my gibbeling family cuts fruit straight down and your guelph family cuts fruit crosswise these are arbitrary differences we shouldn't let them tear us apart we can be together no matter what our family's doing wonderful news let's make a toast to our love i'll drink from my giblin smooth goblet and i shall drink from my guelph chaste goblet get out of my sight you dirty pope loving wench two city states in particular that got caught in a long-standing rivalry was the emperor supporting modena and the pope supporting bucket-loving bologna these two cities had bad blood between them as they had already fought against each other on a number of occasions in 1249 the two sites took part in the battle of fasalta after which the victorious bolognese launched a live donkey into modena to humiliate them for decades after that very nicely trips into each other's territory and messed things about a bit in the fateful year of 1325 the bolognese went on one such trip and laid waste to some farmlands the ruler of modena passarina de bonikosi was having none of it the bolognese had two major forts protecting their city in the southwest so passarino in retaliation decided to take an army down and lay siege to one of them hey you dirty bolognese jerks you think you can raid our farmlands come out here and face me like a man hey man what's up i've just come out to let you know that there's no need to see just because whoa hey man chill out i'm trying to tell you whoa stop doing that i'm trying to tell you i'm actually secretly sympathetic to the imperial cause and i want to willingly hand the fort over to you oh right okay dude what was that for for betraying your people and this is for joining mine the bolognese were pretty unhappy to lose one of their main defensive forts but to make matters worse then this happened hey where's the bucket oh no it's gone those modern knees must have taken it we'll make them pay this is unacceptable they may take our lives they may take our fort but they will never take our bucket oh wait here it is i found it guys it's right here phew could you imagine if we started a war over that that would have been really stupid and there'd probably be a billion videos about it on youtube one day i think you can't actually tell me this is actually about a bucket i know it's called more of a bucket yeah it's looking that way in there it is looking that way at the moment i don't know um near the end of the video so i can only assume it is like uh something some sort of placebo to put you off course or something else but they keep showing this bucket quite a lot yeah it's like you know war of the bucket is like the bucket is like the shape of the land or something that it was fought on but no it's i mean unless he's just winding us up with a bucket oh it never actually happened that's right the famous story you may know about the war of the bucket that the war started because modena stole bologna's bucket doesn't actually seem to be quite right i was surprised to find that the bucket was likely not actually stolen at the start of the war and at this point i want to thank and give a big shout out to fellow history youtuber m laser he's the one guy i found who actually translated a fantastic original italian source now you know vegas he does really well researched and in-depth videos and definitely deserves way more subscribers so please head on over and check him out the real reason bologna seems to have declared war on modena is simply that they both hated each other supported opposing factions the pope had pulled on guelph cities to attack passarino and bologna wanted its fort back and they were gonna get it back bologna had a large force much larger than what madena could muster up so they felt pretty confident they sent half their force to lay siege and take back the fort and the other half took defensive positions to prevent the modernities from crossing the river the smaller modernist force were struggling to find a place to cross so one night they were like hey guys look out we're attacking way up here in the north better move your troops oh would you look at that that was easy and just like that the modernities were across the river the bolognese were expecting the modernities to come and break their siege but instead the modernist went for the second fort at zappolina bologna couldn't afford to lose both of its defensive forts so the entire balinese force moved to take defensive positions at zappolino when the modern knees arrived it was already late in the day and there were about two hours of sunlight left in most medieval battles at this point both sides would set up a camp rest for the night and prepare for battle the next day but the outnumbered modernies decided the only way to win was to deal a good decisive blow while the bombings were still unorganized and unprepared and that's exactly what they did they charged at the bolognese line and the two sides engaged in fierce combat then the sneaky modernist pulled what must be the most predictable yet somehow consistently in medieval warfare they sent the cavalry around the side and hit him from behind bing bang bang the balinese went on the run with casualties in the thousands modena had won and the modernist cavalry chased the balinese cavalry all the way back to the city after medena's victory they went on a tour of the balinese countryside burning some stuff down along the way when they reached the city itself instead of laying siege they set up a camp and basically held a massive party for three days the defeated felonies could only sit back and watch as the modernist force began packing up and getting ready to leave they noticed something oh my gosh hey check this out no way are you kidding me they're still using traditional wells hey you dumb bolognese ever heard of an artesian well you can't even get water out of the ground without using a stupid bucket it's not a stupid bucket it's a wonderful bucket yeah whatever bucket boy we're taking this with us so dennis stole bologna's bucket and put it up on display in their cathedral eventually moving it to the city hall where it remains on display to this day the two cities came to a piece later bologna would have to pay heavy war reparations and in exchange medena would return all conquered territories modena kept the bucket despite being one of the bloodiest battles in medieval italian history it didn't really change anything except now modena had bologna's bucket as for the larger power struggle between the pope and the holy roman emperor that would continue on for some time and played a part in many major events of medieval history such as the crusades the protestant reformation eventually leading to the general separation of church and state we see in europe today so there you have it we learned about the pope and the holy roman emperor the investiture controversy and finally the war of the bucket it's been a long day and it's time to turn out the lights and go to sleep okay i love you um okay good night i've always done a little jiggle to that music then um so when you didn't i mean i the timing of me actually hitting that spacebar to pause it and then literally you find out seconds later no it wasn't actually to be fair about the bucket like the other channel found out yeah i think we know where he gets a lot of his information and resources from now but um yeah it's it's still to this day they have the bucket supposedly on display yeah that's uh strange i think they'll just replace it with another but it was a good looking bucket so i went it didn't look too bad i didn't have any eyes on it but it looked good like when i want to drink out of but that was one of the most political ones we've seen so of who's got the power from there and well i said it was saying like one fight afterwards the pope had just as much power as you know the emperor and everyone surprised that actually he gave the power to someone else to then throw back the power of his way and start commanding him yeah just taking back powers and yeah and the fact it looked like they've actually probably got that in right in some way it looks like that may have been saved yeah that document that letter where he said right i'm going to make a load of rules up and you're going to stick by it whether you like it or not so that's a transcript and a half um let us know your thoughts on the war the bucket from oversimplified in the comments below that was quite a complex one but you see the way he puts it there though you always got a memo that's probably spanned over decades and decades oh as well it's not just over a matter of a few years but no oh yeah as i measure though whack it down below any thoughts you got on that um if you're still here thanks for joining us we'll see you all soon catch you on the flip side

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Published: Sun Aug 09 2020