# Climb Every Rank

> What your life would look like at every level of a closed historical institution — duties, pay, fear, and who dies first — as fun narrated stick-figure cartoons.

Each video maps ONE real order, army, guild, monastery, or historical criminal hierarchy: bottom to top, worst jobs, real codes, how people rose or got stuck, and how the system collapsed. Grounded in rules and records. Tone: witty career guide from hell. Drama from hierarchy, not invention.

Promise: everyday status questions (who has power, who suffers, how ladders work) answered through historical ranks.

Channel page: https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank
Video feed: https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/rss.xml
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8raJ2SItTLDBS6kuXO_o_w
Links: https://wudtr.link/every-rank

## Videos

- [Worst Jobs in a Victorian Coal Mine, Ranked](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/worst-jobs-in-a-victorian-coal-mine-ranked-2bd): Worst Jobs in a Victorian Coal Mine, Ranked
- [Worst Jobs in a Victorian Coal Mine, Ranked](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/worst-jobs-in-a-victorian-coal-mine-ranked-2bh): Worst Jobs in a Victorian Coal Mine, Ranked
- [The Templar Order fell due to King Philip IV's greed and accusations of heresy.](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/the-templar-order-fell-due-to-king-philip-iv-s-greed-and-accusations-o-2ea): TITLE: Your Life at Every Rank of a Templar Knight
CHANNEL: Every Rank — historical institution rank ladders as stick-figure career-from-hell guides.
LONG-FORM REQUIRED: ~12 minutes, ~1800 words of spoken narration. NOT a short. NOT an outline.

Walk the REAL Templar hierarchy: entry / sergeant / knight / commanders / provincial masters / Grand Master (use historical order structure, not movie kni
- [Worst Jobs in a Victorian Coal Mine, Ranked](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/worst-jobs-in-a-victorian-coal-mine-ranked-1q0): Worst Jobs in a Victorian Coal Mine, Ranked
- [Wei Zhongxian rose from a self-castrated servant to the most powerful man in China, but hi](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/wei-zhongxian-rose-from-a-self-castrated-servant-to-the-most-powerful-2ed): How You Climbed the Ranks of the Chinese Imperial Court
- [Your Life at Every Rank of a Templar Knight: From Sergeant to Grand Master](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/why-templar-knights-weren-t-always-warriors-dw): TITLE: Your Life at Every Rank of a Templar Knight
CHANNEL: Every Rank — historical institution rank ladders as stick-figure career-from-hell guides.
LONG-FORM REQUIRED: ~12 minutes, ~1800 words of spoken narration. NOT a short. NOT an outline.

Walk the REAL Templar hierarchy: entry / sergeant / knight / commanders / provincial masters / Grand Master (use historical order structure, not movie kni
- [Your Life at Every Rank of the Aztec Army](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/your-life-at-every-rank-of-the-aztec-army-1fx): Your Life at Every Rank of the Aztec Army. The only army where your career was measured in prisoners taken alive. Bottom: the macehualli commoner conscripted from his calpulli, wooden club, barred from cotton, jewellery and sandals. The ladder was public: one captive earns a cloak, two better weapons, four gets you into the Eagle and Jaguar orders with costumes, land and tribute. Take none after s
- [Every Rank of the Chinese Imperial Court](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/how-you-climbed-the-ranks-of-the-chinese-imperial-court-l3): How You Climbed the Ranks of the Chinese Imperial Court
- [Your Life at Every Rank of an Egyptian Temple: From Pure Ones to High Priest](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/your-life-at-every-rank-of-an-egyptian-temple-from-pure-ones-to-high-p-1op): Your Life at Every Rank of an Egyptian Temple
- [Every Rank on a Pirate Ship — Why Captains Could Be Voted Out](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/every-rank-on-a-pirate-ship-why-captains-could-be-voted-out-l2): Every Rank Inside a Pirate Ship's Crew
- [What Seppuku Actually Involved (Not the Blade)](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/what-seppuku-actually-involved-not-the-blade-26z): What Seppuku Actually Involved (Not the Blade)
- [Could a Samurai Kill a Rude Commoner?](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/could-a-samurai-kill-a-rude-commoner-26y): Could a Samurai Kill a Rude Commoner?
- [What Did Venetian Merchants Really Do at Sea?](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/what-did-venetian-merchants-really-do-at-sea-l5): Inside the Ranks of a Venetian Merchant Fleet
- [Worst Jobs in a Roman Legion Ranked](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/worst-jobs-in-a-roman-legion-ranked-ec): Worst Jobs in a Roman Legion, Ranked
- [Life in a Samurai Clan: Your Role and Rank Explained](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/life-in-a-samurai-clan-your-role-and-rank-explained-eo): Your Life at Every Rank in a Samurai Clan
- [Scorpion bite = sick day](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/scorpion-bite-sick-day-1ur): Your Life at Every Rank of Deir el-Medina. Second-person rank ladder through the pharaoh's tomb-builders' village: water-carrier → apprentice → gang crew member (Left/Right) → draughtsman-scribe → deputy → foreman → Scribe of the Tomb. Grain-ration wages by rank (ordinary workman ~4 sacks emmer + 1.5 barley), the 1157 BCE strike under Ramesses III (history's first recorded strike, Turin Strike Pap
- [Four years, and you owe them](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/four-years-and-you-owe-them-1x7): Your Life at Every Rank of a Whaling Ship
- [Life on a Whaling Ship: Understanding Every Rank and Role](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/life-on-a-whaling-ship-understanding-every-rank-and-role-1oo): Your Life at Every Rank of a Whaling Ship
- [Nine years and a dowry](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/nine-years-and-a-dowry-1tj): Your Life at Every Rank of the Ottoman Harem
- [The worst job in the house](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/the-worst-job-in-the-house-1tl): Worst Jobs in a Medieval Monastery, Ranked
- [Life in the Ottoman Harem: Understanding Every Rank and Role](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/life-in-the-ottoman-harem-understanding-every-rank-and-role-1on): Your Life at Every Rank of the Ottoman Harem
- [Worst Jobs in a Medieval Monastery Ranked](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/worst-jobs-in-a-medieval-monastery-ranked-1om): Worst Jobs in a Medieval Monastery, Ranked
- [You Are Property](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/you-are-property-1rd): Your Life at Every Rank of the Roman Gladiator Ladder. Second-person rank ladder through the ludus: novicius → tiro (sacramentum oath) → veteranus (better food, real doctors — Galen worked a Pergamon ludus) → palus grades (quartus→primus palus, documented in inscriptions) → crowd-favorite star with prize money → the rudis, the wooden sword of freedom; auctorati volunteers who signed themselves in.
- [Your Life at Every Rank of a Viking Clan](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/your-life-at-every-rank-of-a-viking-clan-1n4): Your life in a Viking clan was defined by your rank — from thrall at the bottom to jarl at the top — and each rung determined whether you rowed, raided, or stayed home, how much loot you earned, and whether you died first in battle or lived to grow old. This video walks through every level of a real Norse clan hierarchy: the thrall who had no freedom and no share, the karl farmer-warrior who fough
- [One Man Flees, Ten Men Die](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/one-man-flees-ten-men-die-1nu): Your Life at Every Rank of the Mongol Army. The decimal ladder that let herdsmen out-administer empires: arban (10), zuun (100), mingghan (1,000), tumen (10,000), each commander answerable upward, with tribes deliberately broken up and scattered across units so loyalty ran to the rank structure not the clan. Rules that made it work: collective punishment - if one man fled his whole arban of ten wa
- [Born to Fight?](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/born-to-fight-1m1): The Spartan Ladder: From Boy to Full Citizen Soldier
- [The Brutal Seven-Rung Ladder](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/the-brutal-seven-rung-ladder-1km): Every Rank of a Medieval Guild, From Apprentice to Master
- [Life on a Merchant Ship Hierarchy](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/life-on-a-merchant-ship-hierarchy-1md): Open with a hook that reframes the ship as a floating office building: "You think your boss is bad? Try taking orders from a man who can legally flog you for a slow knot." Then walk the ladder from the bottom up — the ship's boy eating scraps and climbing rigging in storms, the sailor's brutal share of the cargo, the mate as the enforcer who does the captain's dirty work, and the master who owns t
- [Why Samurai Had 7 Ranks Below Daimyo](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/why-samurai-had-7-ranks-below-daimyo-l4): Every Rank of a Samurai Retainer Under a Daimyo
- [Your Life at Every Rank of Deir el-Medina](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/your-life-at-every-rank-of-deir-el-medina-1h0): Your Life at Every Rank of Deir el-Medina. Second-person rank ladder through the pharaoh's tomb-builders' village: water-carrier → apprentice → gang crew member (Left/Right) → draughtsman-scribe → deputy → foreman → Scribe of the Tomb. Grain-ration wages by rank (ordinary workman ~4 sacks emmer + 1.5 barley), the 1157 BCE strike under Ramesses III (history's first recorded strike, Turin Strike Pap
- [The Consigliere Truth: Hollywood Got It Wrong](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/the-consigliere-truth-hollywood-got-it-wrong-10r): Every Rank of the Historical Mafia (The Career Ladder From Hell)
- [Your Life at Every Rank of the Roman Gladiator Ladder](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/your-life-at-every-rank-of-the-roman-gladiator-ladder-1h1): Your Life at Every Rank of the Roman Gladiator Ladder. Second-person rank ladder through the ludus: novicius → tiro (sacramentum oath) → veteranus (better food, real doctors — Galen worked a Pergamon ludus) → palus grades (quartus→primus palus, documented in inscriptions) → crowd-favorite star with prize money → the rudis, the wooden sword of freedom; auctorati volunteers who signed themselves in.
- [Your Life at Every Rank of the Mongol Army](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/your-life-at-every-rank-of-the-mongol-army-1g2): Your Life at Every Rank of the Mongol Army. The decimal ladder that let herdsmen out-administer empires: arban (10), zuun (100), mingghan (1,000), tumen (10,000), each commander answerable upward, with tribes deliberately broken up and scattered across units so loyalty ran to the rank structure not the clan. Rules that made it work: collective punishment - if one man fled his whole arban of ten wa
- [The Fall of Venice's Fleet](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/the-fall-of-venice-s-fleet-109): Inside the Ranks of a Venetian Merchant Fleet
- [The Brutal Ladder from Spartan Boy to Elite Soldier](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/the-brutal-ladder-from-spartan-boy-to-elite-soldier-l1): The Spartan Ladder: From Boy to Full Citizen Soldier
- [The Brutal Path from Apprentice to Master](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/the-brutal-path-from-apprentice-to-master-l0): Every Rank of a Medieval Guild, From Apprentice to Master
- [You'd Never Swing a Sword: The Real Samurai Life](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/you-d-never-swing-a-sword-the-real-samurai-life-10y): Your Life at Every Rank in a Samurai Clan
- [Slave Corps Executes Their Own Sultan](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/slave-corps-executes-their-own-sultan-1do): How Ottoman Janissaries Rose From Slave to Elite
- [Friday the Thirteenth: The Templar Arrest](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/friday-the-thirteenth-the-templar-arrest-10t): How Crusader Orders Actually Collapsed
- [A Legionary's Brutal First Day](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/a-legionary-s-brutal-first-day-102): Your Life at Every Rank of the Roman Legion
- [The Ladder Itself](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/the-ladder-itself-10q): Worst Jobs in a Roman Legion, Ranked
- [What Was Your Life at Every Roman Legion Rank?](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/what-was-your-life-at-every-roman-legion-rank-ky): Your Life at Every Rank of the Roman Legion
- [Every Rank of the Historical Mafia](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/every-rank-of-the-historical-mafia-ed): Every Rank of the Historical Mafia (The Career Ladder From Hell)
- [How Crusader Orders Collapsed](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/how-crusader-orders-collapsed-ee): How Crusader Orders Actually Collapsed
- [Why the Lowest Viking Rank Was the Deadliest](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/why-the-lowest-viking-rank-was-the-deadliest-kx): Every Rank Inside a Viking Raiding Crew
- [How Slave Soldiers Became the Ottoman Elite](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/how-slave-soldiers-became-the-ottoman-elite-kz): How Ottoman Janissaries Rose From Slave to Elite
- [Every Rank of a Byzantine Palace Servant](https://app.wudtr.com/c/every-rank/v/every-rank-of-a-byzantine-palace-servant-l6): Every Rank of a Byzantine Palace Servant