History-Makers: Machiavelli! (Patreon)

It was extremely hard to keep this video under 30 minutes long. Making one 11-minute video about the one person in history who I have absolutely THE MOST opinions about was doomed from the start, but I think it came out alright.

Machiavelli has been a favorite of mine for a long, long, LONG time, and he's arguably the reason that I got into history in the first place. After playing Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood, learning about Machiavelli in my European History class made me realize that History could actually be fun and interesting. Machiavelli to me was a character, rather than another name and set of dates on the page of a textbook. If not for my experience with his works, it's unlikely I'd be doing History on this channel today. (That's the short story, I say a lot more about it in my Book, if you're curious.)

Let me know what History-Maker you'd like to see next!

-B