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1. Next video Top 10 Least Historically Accurate Things About The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
   10. Eagles were not that large.
   9. Hobbits feet had less hair.
   8. Elves would never have married Humans.
   7. Aragon died at 92 cause humans can not live that long.
   6. Sauron never made it past the Alps.
   5. Gimli and Legolas could never have been friends because they would not have spoken the same language.
   4. Uruk-hia's Arrows were much smaller.
   3. Dumbledore and Gandolf would have purposed a vote of no confidence to remove Saruman.
   2. Goblins built Moria.
   1. The Council of Elrond could never have included Ned Stark as he was beheaded in season 1.
2. There's no reason to suppose that sexual violence was any worse in the Middle Ages than it was in ancient times or after the Middle Ages. In fact, in the Classical period, when slavery was widespread, masters had absolute power over slaves, and were often used as sex objects. Even though slavery existed in the MA, it was nothing compared to the preceding era, and things like the jus primae noctis have been shown to be complete fabrications.
3. 5:59 I SEE WHITERUN!!!
4. You're calling out something that has dragons in it for the "Least Historically Accurate Things" ok lol.
5. They repeatedly say in both the books and the show that the Tyrells are actually wealthier than the Lannisters, and also...a curved sword on horseback? Duh, of course that would work, as they ride towards an enemy the crescent shaped blade could easily slice through skin and bone
6. Thank goodness I have never watched that show!!! I believe you did a great job with this one!!
7. And with the 9th fact, the Tyrells are the richest and most powerful house in Westeros, the Lannisters have just got the most golden dragons (and a reputation plus married into the royal family)
8. Not agreeing with the angry nerds, but Game of Thrones is mostly based off the Roman Empire with extra castles and knights, just the plot is based off the Medieval era.
9. this is dumb, yes eunichs do not necessarily produce better soldiers and having sex before a game does not make you less of an athlete but does that mean bird brains know that? this is one of the stupidest videos.
10. I don't even think this is accurate, many people died of from infections of the tooth, and they hardly took baths. toothbrushes existed but they were few and far in between. I'm not sure about equality and all that jizz but I wouldn't be surprised if it actually was accurate in GoT.
11. A. "Game of Thrones" is a fantasy. It is not a historical drama.
    B. The reason stage fencing (and movie fencing) bears no relationship to reality is that actual combat with swords happens too fast for an audience to follow. So, you clang swords together while you deliver lines.
    C. Molten gold. As the Dothraki seem loosely based on mongol nomads; I took it they could have the same technology as mongol nomads. With a mongol box bellows and some decent charcoal you can make and forge steel. That gives plenty of heat for melting precious metals. Shoot, African tribal jewelry is made over a small fire and that is lost wax process molten gold casting. The real thing to be skeptical about the gold crown is that if you actually poured molten gold on a person the temperature would be hot enough to get the bone burning. Nope, you would not have hair and flesh left anywhere near the molten gold.
12. This video isn't suggesting that Game of Thrones isn't fantasy but that the historical references that are apart of the show and inspire most of the story lines aren't. Sex and violence in the show was meant to portray how how life was like in the middle ages but it isn't accurate and just represents pop culture and therefore destroys the argument that the amount of sex used to represent history as it actually happened. btw I do like Game of Throne
13. Dear lord. The people in the comment section are so damn insecure, haha.
    
    Yes. It's fantasy. Yes, it's unrealistic. No, this video doesn't say that those that watch the show are dumb if they don't know that the show has historical inaccuracies. Good god, grow up.
14. game of thrones is not based on earth it's based on planetos
15. The testosterone argument is stupid and low-key sexist.
    If the fact that they don't have testosterone would make them better soldiers, please explain the women in the Dothraki tribes or those three women warriors in Dorne.
16. A lot of this is simply trying way too hard. There's like a million things you could call Game Of Thrones on as far as realism go, and you chose to call them on many rather forgivable things or mostly things that you're purely mistaken about.
    
    Before I say anything, sword fights are always done wrong in media, so let's just skip that because putting all that one Game Of Thrones would be short-sighted.
    
    (in no order)
    First: Greyworm and harder to produce muscle mass due to testicular removal? Strength doesn't necessarily have to do with violent potential, especially when you're using a spear, which is designed to require very little strength to kill someone with. Not to mention, there's no precedent for saying that strength can't be completely averted when you're trained from birth to be a killing machine. An 12 year old boy could kill someone if they had the kinds of weaponry the Unsullied portray, just imagine a mentally-conditioned, murdering-battalion.
    
    Second: You think there would be less dirty people? Many to all people were dirty in Medieval times as shit was thrown out of windows and there were no fundamental hygienic understand or unlimited household access to clean water. While they may not have had dirt pointlessly rubbed all over their faces and may have been visually tidy, filth was the nameless killer for thousands and thousands and thousands of years as proper tools to destroy bacteria were a long time away.
    
    Third: The Lannisters weren't the riches people in Westeros? You redefined the contemporary idea of rich and then cited your own definition as an argument against the original concept, replacing the idea of economical wealth with the idea of utility, which isn't the rich anyone is talking about except for you for some reason. This was the most illogical thing you've done in the entire video, you absolute cringe-cockroach.
    
    Fourth: Araks blades? Shotel-curved blades make sense as they distort momentum and are good at getting around shields and hooking joints and weaknesses upon armor, and they exist in a prevalent way in history all the way back to copper-made blades. Araks are nearly identical to many real historical swords that clearly worked with the responsibility of violence bestowed upon them.
    
    Fifth: Drab stone? I don't even know what you're referring to, but no one just builds stone in a drab way, it's clearly designed to suggest it withstood a siege, either surviving or not. Even still, they don't make many castles for the show, they actually go to real life castles typically and give them a tiny make over for the scenes. So much of the drab stones is real. If it's real today, I promise you it was real then. You ever see a stone tower take a ballista bolt?
    
    Sixth: Women were utterly brutalized in the medieval ages, you're totally a fool for saying anything otherwise; saying that all peasants are viewed the same by higher born people doesn't change the fact that men in general had a world of strength over women in almost every physical and beneficial way in that era, domestic violence was prevalent until only 100 years ago, so imagine a world without cops at the end of a phone call. Who are you going to tell that you were raped? You live in a shack 12 miles from the castle walls and no one cares about you.
    
    Seventh: Trials by combat aren't realistic? Extend your historical horizons and maybe you'll come to the conclusion that almost every culture had different rules for arena fights depending on their purpose. Game Of Thrones' Trials are far from unheard of in common history. Not only that, but they believe the fight is guided by the hand of the gods, so fairness would be pointless with that placement of faith.
    
    Eigth: You're right about this one, even though it's something you read somewhere else. I mean, this isn't even historical, this is purely scientific, and if you want to hit this show with science, you're going to be here all day for fuck sake. Anyways, while gold doesn't melt easily, pure gold is the most malleable metal in the world. While not that easy to burn, if there ever was a metal you could burn that was as common as gold, it would be gold, thus I forgive the scene writers and George as it's the sort of complaint that could have been written to make sense if anyone actually cared about the realism or not for such a small part of a bigger scene. While it's true that the scene was implausible in that aspect specifically, it's not completely impossible to burn metal with a hot enough fire (say a blacksmith fire) so while this one is sorta fair, it's hilarious that this was the last thing you had to say, when it should have been one of the first considering your alternative "points".
17. Hahaha oh wow this video
18. #4 was disproved for your infomation
19. Whoa, whoa, whoa... Are you telling me medieval castles were ACTUALLY COLORFUL??? Mind blown, I'm off to google that... I'm completely rewriting my historical fantasy because I always thought they were either Gondor White or Bodiam Grey... And to be fair the sickle sword was not book-canon it was a big accident based on how literally someone took suggestions for how the props should be molded, but like you just said- 95% of the people who watch the show have never (nor will) read the books. But still- MIND BLOWN. Thank you, all knowing random British voice!
20. this has nothing do to with medieval world history.....