History of Friesland - Prehistory and the Romans | Background History

Are you ready to spend 14 minutes of your life learning about a small province that you probably never heard of? BOY do I have the video for you! The one you are watching right now... So peel your peepers away from the description and start watching the video you silly goose!

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MUSIC AND SOUND CREDITS

Title card and chapter music by Matthijs Rooks, check him out!
http://matthijsrooks.nl/

Sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com/

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SOURCES

⮞ Books:
• Doedens, A., Kortlever, Y. and Mulder, L.,Geschiedenis van Nederland: Het verhaal van prehistorie tot heden (Zutphen, 2015)
• Kooistra, D., Frieslands verleden: De Friezen en hun geschiedenis in vijftig verhalen (Bornmeer, 2016).
• Terpstra, P., Tweeduizend jaar geschiedenis van Friesland (Leeuwarden, 1980)

⮞ Websites:
• Afûk, Fryske Kanon: De ko (Leeuwarden, 2008) https://www.11en30.nu/de-kanon-finste...
• Afûk, Fryske Kanon: De Hludana-stien (Leeuwarden, 2008) https://www.11en30.nu/de-kanon-finste...
• Afûk, Fryske Kanon: Hegebeintum (Leeuwarden, 2008) https://www.11en30.nu/de-kanon-finste...
(The design of the 11en30 site is sadly broken at the moment)

⮞ Translations of Pliny the Elder and Tacitus that I used:
• Pliny the Elder, The Natural History: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...
• Tacitus, The Annals: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...

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IMAGE CREDITS

Backgrounds are a menhir with some prehistoric art and Corinthian columns
Texture for the background from: https://3djungle.net/textures/​
Map borders are based on just some spears and on the border of a fresco in Pompeii

⮞ Images:
• Photo of the Drususstein:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• The drawing of the Drususstein:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

• Photo of Doutzen Kroes
https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofbyld:...


⮞ Maps:
• Modern parts of the map based on OpenStreetMap

• Older parts of the map based on:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
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Source:
RACM & TNO. Developed for the National Research Agenda Archeology www.noaa.nl
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0:00 Intro
0:40 Prehistory - Landscape
1:54 Prehistory- First men
3:27 Prehistory - Terpen
5:02 Romans - Roman Arrival
8:25 Romans - Baduhenna Woods
11:06 Romans - End of the Frisii