The Evolution of World Democracy - An Infographic Time-Lapse

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  • The 200-year history of democracy, told through an animated time-lapsed map showing how government systems have evolved over time.
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    Video by Bryce Plank and Robin West
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  • @TheDailyConversation
    @TheDailyConversation  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1121

    Some of you have raised various issues with aspects of this presentation. I'll address some of them now:
    1) The map comes from this source: ourworldindata.org/democracy/#world-maps-of-political-regimes-over-200-years
    It's creators based the visualization on this data: ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime-updated2016.csv
    The data-scientists behind the project intend to inform, not to propagandize or mislead. They are transparent about how the conclusions presented in their visualization were reached.
    The visualization was produced by a team of three at the University of Oxford: The economist Esteban Ortiz Ospina, the web developer Jaiden Mispy, and Max Roser, the founder of Our World In Data.
    2) This is how the creator of the visualization views democracy and the other government classification criteria: “A democracy is a political system with institutions that allows citizens to express their political preferences, has constraints on the power of the executive, and a guarantee of civil liberties.
    This entry presents the empirical research on the slow rise of democratic regimes over the last two centuries.
    Democracies are distinct from autocratic countries in which political preferences cannot be expressed and citizens are not guaranteed civil liberties. Anocracies - a term used often in this entry - are regimes that fall in the middle of the spectrum of autocracies and democracies. Anocracies are countries which are not fully autocratic, but which can also not be called democratic.”
    3) The map uses current borders. Anyone that has spent time working in animation/visual design/motion graphics understands that accurately tracking and changing the borders over 200 years would have made this video (and the map it is based on) nearly impossible to create.
    4) Yes, we accidentally used the flag of Puerto Rico instead of Cuba...but in all fairness, they are remarkably similar:
    Cuba: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Cuba
    Puerto Rico: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico
    5) Some areas are gray, indicating that there is "No Data." Gray also means "country in transition," we should have indicated that on the map key. It seems this partially explains why Russia (the former Soviet Union) is gray for much of the animation. I will follow up with Max Roser and offer more clarification here if it is needed.
    6) This video is intended to offer a broad historical look at the trends of 200 years of history. By calling out certain key events, we sought to enhance the visualization.
    From the creator of the map, Max Roser: “It is necessarily controversial to measure a complex concept such as the type of a political regime in a single metric. But since it can be useful to quantify the political regime characteristics so that it is possible to compare political regimes over time and between countries and to study the drivers and consequences of political regime change quantitatively.”
    Also, from Roser: “The Polity IV measure used here is certainly also questionable - as would every other alternative - but we chose it as my main source because based on our comparison with alternatives and the paper by Munck and Verkuilen (2002) it is the best available option, particularly if a long-run perspective is the main objective.
    We also have to keep in mind that this measure cannot capture everything that matters for a political regime.”
    I hope this provides more insight into the project. Our effort is to inform and educate, not mislead or propagandize in any way.
    -Bryce

    • @icameherejusttocomment550
      @icameherejusttocomment550 7 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      The Daily Conversation What about you saying the US is the first consitutionally governed nation? Isn't that biased? There's Britain, who had literally 4 consitutions before the US even came into existence? Also the UK was the first democracy in all the world, being a democracy since Cromwell's death at the least.

    • @icameherejusttocomment550
      @icameherejusttocomment550 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      MineralOrb Alright, it's a closed Anocracy as only the rich and over 30 (!) were able to vote, and also with restrictions on freedom of thought and religion.

    • @A.J.456
      @A.J.456 7 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Soo, you're saying that the Netherlands only became a democracy in 1916 and just before the first world war Belgium suddenly and briefly turned into a colony? I have no clue what kind of data these oxford guy's used here, but it's clearly not in any way, shape or form accurate. The Netherlands was turned into the Republic of 7 United Provinces in 1588(!), which was without direct popular rule, but was also FAR from autocratic and more of a oligarchy. Then it instated popular voting rights for every man not on the dole in 1795, changed this system a couple of times, briefly came under French rule in 1801, became a monarchy again in 1813 and subsequently became a constitutional monarchy in 1848(!). So. without further ado I would suggest that you put that data back where you found it and start over.
      PS: Where in the world did you get the idea that the US was the first country to turn democratic when there were no voting rights for more than 80% of the population. By modern standards it isn't democratic even today without a direct proportional vote.

    • @johnm2345
      @johnm2345 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Guus Janssen the United States was the first *modern* democracy and gave much more power to the people than any other nation in the world at the time, and as time passed more people who lived in America were given more freedoms than most other countries at the time.

    • @Eu2619
      @Eu2619 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      The Daily Conversation colonies in mainland Europe? this is the biggest mistake ever. Some of informations aren't right. Shut down the video and do it again, but right this time.

  • @christiangottwald692
    @christiangottwald692 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7919

    Problem is the map is made of modern borders which is confusing

    • @wolfizee6516
      @wolfizee6516 7 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Example: WWI Begins and the Ottomans have the same borders as turkey... And apparently, Syria's a colony already!

    • @patricklarionov7119
      @patricklarionov7119 7 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      I believe colonies also mean "occupied" - as such, Syria was apart the Ottoman Empire at the time.

    • @wolfizee6516
      @wolfizee6516 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Good point

    • @damianich4824
      @damianich4824 7 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      That would still not explain why interwar Czechoslovakia would be blue, as it was an independent country during that period. And there are other issues with the video as well - why do Austria and Hungary have different colours in 1917? Why are the colours of post-anschluss Austria and Germany different? There are some weird things going on in this video.

    • @skippersthepenguin3591
      @skippersthepenguin3591 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      And they called Eastern Europe a colony when a colony is a nation owned by another person overseas from their master nation if germany owns its neighboor its neighbor isnt a colony.

  • @cholloway0046
    @cholloway0046 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2465

    How countries turned democratic over the last 200 years.
    Ancient Greece:

    • @ThobiasTutorials
      @ThobiasTutorials 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Heyo

    • @sneer0101
      @sneer0101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Typical yanks

    • @cholloway0046
      @cholloway0046 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ThobiasTutorials hey lamin xD

    • @ajavisk
      @ajavisk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      By this video's definition, Greece would not have been a democracy. Power was not avaliable to everyone and only men could vote

    • @cholloway0046
      @cholloway0046 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@ajavisk I guess so. Though, there are still ideological differences between direct democracy and representative democracy.

  • @Nick3301
    @Nick3301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3126

    1900
    U.S: DEMOCRACY!
    Black person: Can I just drink a water near you guys?
    U.S: NO!

    • @anhanh8724
      @anhanh8724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Hahaha... That's right..!

    • @vincesimon8115
      @vincesimon8115 4 ปีที่แล้ว +215

      That has nothing to do with the fact, that the government system is democracy.
      Racism can be (and was/is) an issue in democracies.

    • @Nick3301
      @Nick3301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@vincesimon8115 fodase meu irmao

    • @smjesniagent5552
      @smjesniagent5552 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      @@vincesimon8115 nice democracy 🙈

    • @flopsinator5817
      @flopsinator5817 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Vince Simon
      But particularly in America where minorities are suppressed by restrictive voting laws and gerrymandering

  • @MartinozYT
    @MartinozYT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +344

    This map has so many errors that I'm speechless.

    • @officerbug
      @officerbug ปีที่แล้ว +22

      i mean the map isn't that bad its just that it didn't update depending on the year instead it just showed a modern map leaving out many historical fallen democracies and it also labeled everything that wasn't independent as a "colony"

    • @Drannn54
      @Drannn54 ปีที่แล้ว

      It has not errors lmao

    • @rndmguy7617
      @rndmguy7617 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Drannn54 yes it does

    • @aminadoce
      @aminadoce ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@Drannn54 I spotted at least 5 clear errors on this map without even looking the comments. You need to study before say anything

    • @Drannn54
      @Drannn54 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aminadoce THE TITLE SAYS THAT COUNTRIES ON THIS MAP ARE REPRESENTED BY TODAY'S STANDARDS AND TELL ME WHICH ERRORS YOU HAVE SPOTTED?!

  • @kezzawozza
    @kezzawozza 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3088

    Ahh yes, my favourite government system
    *COLONY*

  • @AllHaiLKINGTIsHeRe3
    @AllHaiLKINGTIsHeRe3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2571

    The best part of this video is "US invades Afghanistan and Iraq installing democratic governments by force." LMFAO. That's the perfect description of the entire vid pretty much.

    • @brandonford7026
      @brandonford7026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Yeah

    • @brandonford7026
      @brandonford7026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Joshua Fleming plz don’t make this a political debate

    • @brandonford7026
      @brandonford7026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Kijana Moja no but this comment was a joke I was trying to shut down any chance of an argument

    • @Michael-mh2tw
      @Michael-mh2tw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Does Iraq have a parliament or a dictator right now?

    • @AllHaiLKINGTIsHeRe3
      @AllHaiLKINGTIsHeRe3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Judging by these replies I feel like no one is gonna actually understand the point of this comment. Everyone will thumb it up despite not understanding it. 'Tis the fate of any great artist I suppose.

  • @nicow_
    @nicow_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +568

    2:23
    “Cuba gains independence from the US”
    *Shows puertorican flag*

    • @mikicerise6250
      @mikicerise6250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Murka

    • @elnationalista
      @elnationalista 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      A simple Google search would have shown the difference of flags.

    • @husted5488
      @husted5488 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They’re the same

    • @fibonaccisequins4637
      @fibonaccisequins4637 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@husted5488 no they’re not, Cuba’s flag is blue stripes with a red triangle.

    • @florida7362
      @florida7362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If only Puerto Rico was independent

  • @kristynapolackova1531
    @kristynapolackova1531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +759

    I didn't know that Czechoslovakia was a colony for the whole 20th century (which country exactly colonized us? It is a mystery). In history class at school, we were told that Czechoslovakia before the World War II was one of the greatest democracies in the world. Like seriously, wtf.
    However, it was an interesting idea to make this video and I'm sure it must have been hard work.

    • @epicmatter3512
      @epicmatter3512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +112

      I believe they are referring to the Soviet Union as it literally invaded Czechoslovakia to prevent reformations bringing some freedom to people. They did the same to Hungary as well. So eastern block was definitely colonies of the Soviet Union.

    • @kristynapolackova1531
      @kristynapolackova1531 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@epicmatter3512 From 1968, sure. But not for the whole century.

    • @janszlaur766
      @janszlaur766 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@epicmatter3512 yes, invasion happened at some point, 1968 for Chechoslovakia to be precise and 1956 for Hungary... and those invasions were the reaction to the ongoing changes in the political environment of these countries at that time. I'm not sure about Hungary, but in Czechoslovakia, even for a brief period of time, there was a definite shift towards a more liberal state (which the Soviet comrades could not "swallow", thus the invasion) .... but anyway - to simplify - yes, Czechoslovakia was a communist country under the direct influence of the Soviet Union (satelite state, not a "colony") and that was since 1948 till 1989 only. The whole time between the wars - 1918 to the beg. of WW2 - Czechoslovakia was one of the most democratic and liberal states in the world.

    • @adelabendova2912
      @adelabendova2912 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Exactly what I was thinking watching all this. I first thought Austria-Hungary was, for some reason, considered a colonizer. Later I found out Czechoslovakia wasn't considered at all in this video.

    • @augustooliveira518
      @augustooliveira518 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I'm Brazilian, but even on Brazilian school we learn that you guys and Poland were pretty democratic before German invasion. This map is hella weird.

  • @monkeysgame172
    @monkeysgame172 7 ปีที่แล้ว +535

    How are Soviet states no data

    • @eitanbenzion7522
      @eitanbenzion7522 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Monkeysgame because no one care about them

    • @delondestan8961
      @delondestan8961 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Monkeysgame because no brainers I think

    • @arous22
      @arous22 7 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Eitan Prian - Ben Zion i care

    • @eitanbenzion7522
      @eitanbenzion7522 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      snipst well so you are 0.05% of the population... Still no one care.

    • @vitorleite3095
      @vitorleite3095 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Rad 303 *They where not powerfull as America, just a sligthly more influent but not powerfull.*

  • @awesomeavenger2810
    @awesomeavenger2810 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1054

    How the hell can you manage 'no data' on Stalin's soviet union?

    • @maddy4557
      @maddy4557 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Awesome Avenger read what the author said in the comment section.

    • @kelevra5240
      @kelevra5240 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      because stalinism is too brilliant of an ideology and dont you try to rant to me about all those myths you wrote above

    • @awesomeavenger2810
      @awesomeavenger2810 7 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      Kelevra Just as there are still those who attempt to cover up the crimes of Hitler, there are those that try to do the same for Stalin. And you're one of them.

    • @MrrSilverr
      @MrrSilverr 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Awesome Avenger where a you from you idiot? and why you think you know about USSR more than Russian

    • @awesomeavenger2810
      @awesomeavenger2810 7 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Silver hornet The question is why do you think you know more about the USSR than those who suffered under it?

  • @guillaumefulconis6500
    @guillaumefulconis6500 4 ปีที่แล้ว +476

    1960 France : this Republic where anyone can vote including women is defintely not a democracy
    1932 Soviet Union : I don't know boys there is absolutely no data on the period unfortunately

    • @cae2525
      @cae2525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Czechoslovakia:
      -formed in 1918 as a fully democratic country where even women could vote
      -the video still puts it as a "colony?"

    • @leviosadream2454
      @leviosadream2454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      And they say "no data" for French Guyana when it's actually a French department...

    • @dr.vikyll7466
      @dr.vikyll7466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      That was when france stopped cooperating with the USA, no? Pure American Propaganda

    • @reezlaw
      @reezlaw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      1816: Italy, a whole united nation with current borders, is a colony. The mysterious colonisers have done an excellent job at staying mysterious

    • @le_meme_man8983
      @le_meme_man8983 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reezlaw but Italy united in 1861

  • @onethreeify
    @onethreeify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +299

    "World Democracy" Begins when the US was founded. Sure...

    • @FriedRice3519
      @FriedRice3519 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I guess representative democracy, not direct

    • @Ignacio.Romero
      @Ignacio.Romero 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Modern democracy yes, not old unsustainable "direct" democracy

    • @tuukkafadjukoff7467
      @tuukkafadjukoff7467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      @@Ignacio.Romero Looks at the Republic of Venice... Lasted for almost a 1000 years... Yes usustainable...

    • @Ignacio.Romero
      @Ignacio.Romero 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tuukkafadjukoff7467 Ever heard of the dux?

    • @tuukkafadjukoff7467
      @tuukkafadjukoff7467 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@Ignacio.Romero It is a democratically elected office... Also didn't have total power over the goverment?

  • @LucasHenrique-it2io
    @LucasHenrique-it2io 5 ปีที่แล้ว +694

    too many historical errors, I feel glad to see so many people perceiveing it... ( 10 years ago most people would believe in this map)

    • @reezlaw
      @reezlaw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Americans maybe.

    • @jaredsilvers2782
      @jaredsilvers2782 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The map is mostly correct. Pretty difficult undertaking.

    • @jaredsilvers2782
      @jaredsilvers2782 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@reezlaw The map is mostly correct.

    • @ps92809
      @ps92809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Guys you know this is the modern map?

    • @ps92809
      @ps92809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jaredsilvers2782 wow ur comment only 34 minutes away from mine

  • @tinmar1990
    @tinmar1990 7 ปีที่แล้ว +823

    So... Between 1955 and 1967, French Republic was an anocracy ? Simply doesn't make any historical sense. This video is US-centred and totally arbitrary.

    • @MiguelAlanCS
      @MiguelAlanCS 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      just look all the arbitrariness in SouthAmerica: 7:26 ALLENDE autocracy!?!?!?!

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      only landed elites were allowed to vote back then

    • @channon3
      @channon3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Also Czechoslovakia as colony??....lol

    • @DR-54
      @DR-54 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Channon3 Czechoslovakia was listed as a colony due to the fact that modern maps don't seem to have czechoslovakia.

    • @channon3
      @channon3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @PotatoChips23415 Of course. But it got democracy in 1918, so Czech Republic (Bohemian kingdom before, that was part of Austrian Empire and then Austira-Hungary during this timeline) and Slovakia had democracy. If your fact is valid, then "United Kingdom of Great Britain and NORTHERN Ireland" should be also colony before 1918, because modern maps dont seem to have "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland"(without word "northern") (Ireland got independence after WW1 as well...only northern part stayed).

  • @RateOfChange
    @RateOfChange 4 ปีที่แล้ว +868

    "Democratic government established by US invasion"
    You've saved my day with this one 😂

    • @crkcrk702
      @crkcrk702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      This is true, but a democratic government serving us interests :’)

    • @swagkachu3784
      @swagkachu3784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Just some Austrian kid that won't cause any wars what a cute kid

    • @what6893
      @what6893 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Just some Austrian kid that won't cause any wars Hey, lil' buddy!

    • @alessandrocanale6189
      @alessandrocanale6189 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That was a good thing and is a shame it didint last

    • @emresario001
      @emresario001 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@crkcrk702 democratic but if they chose a "bad" president they get invaded or a military cue happens

  • @amortalbeing
    @amortalbeing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    For those who dont know:
    Autocracy: a country, state, or society governed by one person with absolute power.
    Anocracy : or semi-democracy is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part dictatorship.
    Democracy: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

    • @Heafsickle
      @Heafsickle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Whats the differebce between open anocracy and closed anocracy?

    • @amortalbeing
      @amortalbeing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Heafsickle basically it refers to whether the selection is limited to a limited group of people or not. ( In a closed anocracy, competitors are drawn from the elite. In an open anocracy, others also compete)

    • @AnnoyingAllie3
      @AnnoyingAllie3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Examples :3
      Autocracy; 🇰🇵,
      Anocracy; 🇧🇾, 🇸🇦
      Democracy; 🇺🇸, 🇨🇦, 🇮🇳, 🇯🇵,🇫🇷,🇩🇪,🇧🇼, 🇿🇦
      There's more democracies (thankfully)
      (I would've added more, but that would be biased)

    • @salsaproductions5859
      @salsaproductions5859 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Heafsickle Both are between democracy and dictatorship. Open anocracy is more democratic leaning and closed anocracy is more dictatorship leaning

    • @HEIMOSOTURI889
      @HEIMOSOTURI889 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How was finland partly dictatorship in 1930"s😂

  • @jindrichveleba6593
    @jindrichveleba6593 7 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    Just realized that my country (Czech republic) was until 1991 a colony XDDD I wonder whose

  • @wokehumanist958
    @wokehumanist958 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1004

    Weimar Germany was definitely a full democracy not an "open anocracy". They had free and fair elections, an independent judiciary, and a civilian controlled military. All the more remarkable that Hitler was able to come to power there.

    • @FoxFox-lx3cv
      @FoxFox-lx3cv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Germany Muslim shara

    • @chillaxo9863
      @chillaxo9863 5 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      It was a good democracy
      But nobody wanted it

    • @kkon5ti
      @kkon5ti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Fox 400 Fox 400 stfu

    • @jba.9385
      @jba.9385 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@FoxFox-lx3cv ?

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FoxFox-lx3cv
      German Muslim Cher??? Oh she would be hot!!!
      Death to bigotry world-wide finally and forever!

  • @MrSnertje
    @MrSnertje 7 ปีที่แล้ว +829

    This seems to be extremely arbitrary. Some countries apparently only become democracies with female suffrage, but that doesn't go for the US? And if the US was a democracy at its foundation, many countries that adopted a new constitution in 1848 or close thereafter should also count. In fact, if slave-owning, indian-exterminating, male-centred USA of the 18th century was a democracy, I think you could say the same for several other, and far older republics.

    • @Twinson1
      @Twinson1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I don't think the details of each country matter on a big map like this. Just the general trends. Look at the bottom graph that is the point.

    • @ArjanHier
      @ArjanHier 7 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      +Andy Davies Of course each country matters, especially since all the things that makes a democracy, were created in other countries and not the US.

    • @tyttiMK
      @tyttiMK 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      And there is no mention of the first country with equal and universal suffrage and the first female MPs in the world. Apparently at the time Finland was a "colony".

    • @bejoysen4468
      @bejoysen4468 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +MrSnertje if you're referring to Switzerland, it clearly changed color to green in 1848 even though it got female suffrage like in the 1970's. And just because there are older republics doesn't mean they were constitutional democracies.

    • @MrSnertje
      @MrSnertje 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I was just trying to work out what the hell their apparent definition of democracy even was. They've since divulged a bit more information on their thought process and sources, but still... 'A democracy is a political system with institutions that allows citizens to express their political preferences, has constraints on the power of the executive, and a guarantee of civil liberties.' Literally this could apply to ancient Athens: citizens could vote, the executive was constrained (voted for by lot for short terms: a major constraint I'd say) and the state guaranteed certain liberties to its citizens. Was ancient Athens a democracy? I'd say certainly not by any definition that we use in the modern age, if only for the fact that it had a shitton of slaves. Same goes for the US in the 18th century, so what gives? Either democracy starts a hell of a lot later than 1776, or it starts waaaaay earlier.

  • @janpech6423
    @janpech6423 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    You know that Czechoslovakia was from 1918 to 1938 democracy and not a colony? In fact it was, from what I heard, the most perfect democracy in the world by that time

    • @mikihermann6045
      @mikihermann6045 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe not the most perfect democracy, but certainly the only democracy in Central Europe between the wars, i.e., between 1918 and 1938.

  • @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978
    @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978 5 ปีที่แล้ว +499

    Oil discovered in foreign soil...
    *Democracy intensifies*

    • @fluteboystump1296
      @fluteboystump1296 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Its gotta be FREE!

    • @bartoszjankowiak3157
      @bartoszjankowiak3157 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      "Open the f*****g door! Democracy is coming and takes no prisoners!"
      Sounds familiar? 😂😂

    • @no-gracias9863
      @no-gracias9863 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Sounds like someone needs freedom!*

    • @dfdf-rj8jr
      @dfdf-rj8jr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you have any evidence that the US invaded Iraq for oil?

  • @andresherrera5247
    @andresherrera5247 7 ปีที่แล้ว +456

    American propaganda at its finest

    • @TheNics29
      @TheNics29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Comunista ardido

    • @theyoshi202
      @theyoshi202 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Not as bad as Russian/Chinese/NK propaganda.
      But yeah, our propaganda is an issue and a major embarrassment to us

    • @mr.stud_ious8534
      @mr.stud_ious8534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@MMenyan They show that America invented democracy by making it the first even though other republics like Venice and San Marino were already made and though America did not alow some people to vote they still counted it as democracy so if i use that logic countries like Sweden should be democratic before they allowed all people to vote

    • @mr.stud_ious8534
      @mr.stud_ious8534 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MMenyan No but i would like to point out how they did not bother to change czecslovakia's colour when WW1 ended and when it was controlled by facists

    • @DynamoLynx
      @DynamoLynx 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mr.stud_ious8534 no one can even see San Marino on a map. It's very small. Maybe it's just the people working there cutting corners?

  • @puglosipher1666
    @puglosipher1666 6 ปีที่แล้ว +402

    8:43 "installing democratic sytems" hahaha wtf

    • @erwannleligerien3771
      @erwannleligerien3771 6 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      "by force" !

    • @cosmicpearl5497
      @cosmicpearl5497 5 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      @@erwannleligerien3771 USA: for oil!... sorry, i meant democracy

    • @egecagdas9506
      @egecagdas9506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Generally they install virus.

    • @matyaspiller3942
      @matyaspiller3942 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      You will take our democracy or you will suffer. It is your free decision.

    • @oaka5639
      @oaka5639 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mátyás Piller: if you put it that way, i mean..

  • @thisperson1654
    @thisperson1654 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I like how Czechoslovakia was colony till 1990, and Austro-hungarian empire was colony of who exactly ?

    • @Minees-up5zy
      @Minees-up5zy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Austria Hungary was kinda a puppet og Germany tho

    • @forg3214
      @forg3214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Chechia and slovakia didnt exist, so they just wrote colony. Same with ukrain

    • @Kavnn
      @Kavnn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Modern Austria, for sure. Oxford guys are the best.

  • @Pikachu47
    @Pikachu47 5 ปีที่แล้ว +412

    If the UK isn't counted as an earlier democracy as only the rich could vote, then the USA shouldn't either. I must have missed the history lesson where all the slaves and women went and voted.

    • @jaydenbonney-jones5924
      @jaydenbonney-jones5924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Not to mention Canada somehow wasn't a democracy when it became a country despite having a free and open elections

    • @mikicerise6250
      @mikicerise6250 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Murka

    • @henrikfitch4017
      @henrikfitch4017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Or the Weimar Republic, one of the first countries to give the vote to EVERY adult is somehow not a democracy

    • @zacharyfelder6604
      @zacharyfelder6604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      its because it was a constitutional monarchy at the time, which is a type of anocracy, an open anocracy means everyone can vote. to be a democracy you just need full power in elected officials. why can no one understand this?

    • @zacharyfelder6604
      @zacharyfelder6604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Gallowglasser yep dosen't matter who gets to vote in democracy, guess to be democracy by your definition everyone of every age has to be able to vote.

  • @giorgiobelluscio2970
    @giorgiobelluscio2970 7 ปีที่แล้ว +641

    this is just a slightly pro-US video.

    • @eitanbenzion7522
      @eitanbenzion7522 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Giorgio Belluscio how? #troll

    • @andresherrera5247
      @andresherrera5247 7 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Eitan Prian - Ben Zion because it shows the us as the only democracy in the start (which is false) and shows other democratic countries as anochracies or autochracies

    • @theragingcyclone
      @theragingcyclone 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Some brainwashed American must have made it after taking drugs which is cool thing to do in the land of the free.

    • @thomasemond2173
      @thomasemond2173 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      the US was the first republic of modern history

    • @y0urs03pic
      @y0urs03pic 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      damn right the Supreme Nation.. Commies are Dead !!

  • @radekskaroupka7829
    @radekskaroupka7829 7 ปีที่แล้ว +660

    I am sorry, but whoever made this video was either out of their mind or just didn't know enough about history/have't used right resources. Czech republic, or at that time the Lands of the Czech crown were never a colony of anyone, these lands were under personal union with Austria the same way as Scotland was under the personal union with England, so I am asking how come is not Scotland painted purple if the Czech lands were? I am also asking how come the Republic of Czechoslovakia is painted purple in the period in between both world wars? Czechoslovakia was a sovereign country, that was actually one of the first European countries to grand voting rights to women since 1918 (earlier than the USA or most of the European countries) it was also the 6th most developed country in the world (ahead were just those countries which exploited other countries by means of colonialism).

    • @clemensblum5946
      @clemensblum5946 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Radek Škaroupka you play eu4?

    • @JaroslavHampejs
      @JaroslavHampejs 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      I have to agree, some of the data is completely wrong ... sad

    • @enlightedenlightment1065
      @enlightedenlightment1065 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      European history, boohoo. IDC about Europe.

    • @Ostrovak
      @Ostrovak 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      As i don't care about individual US states, but USA as whole. Problem is that this video is just wrong.

    • @evolvedape2161
      @evolvedape2161 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Radek Škaroupka Wow... settle down. How about appreciating the overall picture?

  • @jorgealcala6909
    @jorgealcala6909 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Well as many here have said, this video has many issues: 1st and most obvious is map borders use actual borders, 2nd the lack of historical accuracy in many countries, ex: Mexico had his first President in 1824 Guadalupe Victoria, and Constitutions were made while fighting for Independance, and was a Constitutional Democracy till 2nd French intervention and later Porfirio Diaz Dictatorship.
    3rd and most important the title "The Evolution of World Democracy" is misleading to say the least, since it starts with 1789 US, it should be instead "Evolution of World Constitutional Democracy". "Democracy" was used notably in "Ancient Greece" (Athens mostly, and althought it has the oldest record, could not be the oldest), then thanks to Alexander the Great helenism was spreed and with it the ideals of Ancient Greece, to which as many Rome took after, Carthage too...
    Let me explain further: Each democracy has a cenate (or something equivalent, as in other cultures, elder council) and a Representant, that for democracies is elected by a fixed period of time (be it an Archon for Greece or Consul for Rome) that hasnt change much till now days where we vote a "President" which is granted "special powers" while in office, to command armies and take decisions that normally a "cenate" would take too much time to.
    PD: Yes this seems as US obvious propaganda that by the unlikes none believes, and instead of lecturing people, it misleads them with wrong/ incomplete info, as they say if you are going to do something dont do it half baked.

    • @Vectter
      @Vectter 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a good joke of yours to say that México had democracy since 1824, when in fact we have had several dictatorships of "compatriots" including those of Porfirio Díaz, Victoriano Huerta and the "perfect dictatorship" of the PRI party for 70 damn years. In the best of cases we had a closed Anocracy where only the elite and the asskissers to the party had the opportunity to climb in society and have prosperity. What a shame that in the eyes of the world, true democracy just entered México as soon as the 21st century arrived.

  • @smekty9027
    @smekty9027 5 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    Czech lands until 1991
    *Colony*

    • @smekty9027
      @smekty9027 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@fplancke3336 sentence you wrote doesn't make any sence 🤷‍♀️

    • @kxxxk_
      @kxxxk_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ПетрВрангель-т8п, Ну нихуя ты смелый, чеху на русском ответить.

    • @Akaki1999
      @Akaki1999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ahaha yeah same is about Georgia and other soviet countries..... this is just lazy for using today's map

    • @stellarktg5149
      @stellarktg5149 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Петр Врангель Пипец стереотипы у тебя, если один англоязычный канал делает какую-то хуйню, это же не значит что ВСЕ АМЕРИКАНЦЫ ТУПЫЕЕ! Есть тонна американских каналов с очень хорошей и непредвзятой подробной историей, правильной картой и так далее. Тот же Emperor Tigerstar делает неплохие карты.

    • @reezlaw
      @reezlaw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smekty9027 r/woooosh

  • @KingofKpop
    @KingofKpop 7 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    North Korea was colony in 1816? did author studied real history?

    • @delondestan8961
      @delondestan8961 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Kochigachi only studied American history...

    • @adikumar6536
      @adikumar6536 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Delonde Stan Well if you're from America that is a course you need to take.

    • @RedaMahdi-be1vs
      @RedaMahdi-be1vs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Well yeah Korea all of Korea also known as Joseon was a colonized vassal state of the china's Qing dynasty... So yeah it could be a colony...

    • @varietynic17
      @varietynic17 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Joseon Korea was not a vassal state, it was an independent state that paid tribute to the Qing. Very different.

    • @andresTorregrosas
      @andresTorregrosas 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Korea colony of Japan!

  • @michaelkregnes9119
    @michaelkregnes9119 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Wait? How is Norway democracy in 1943 when they're occupied by the Germans?

    • @ТатьянаКудряшова-о2м
      @ТатьянаКудряшова-о2м 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Germans did not care about the level of free speech there as long as you not the jewish or commie.

    • @Harrassmus
      @Harrassmus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@ТатьянаКудряшова-о2м Well that still makes it a non-democracy. Not being able to express communist or zionist ideas and viewpoints is still controlling free speech.

    • @ТатьянаКудряшова-о2м
      @ТатьянаКудряшова-о2м 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Harrassmus In america you not able to express idea of White supremacy without being claimed "rasist". Is this makes America non-democratic? Oopsie))))

    • @marcomartins3563
      @marcomartins3563 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@ТатьянаКудряшова-о2м lmao that's not comparable at all

    • @ТатьянаКудряшова-о2м
      @ТатьянаКудряшова-о2м 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marcomartins3563 think again.

  • @williamduke1756
    @williamduke1756 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    This is just US propaganda, and I'm saying this as an American.

    • @deanjordan6053
      @deanjordan6053 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree.

    • @Gokaes
      @Gokaes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah this video is BS
      it is more false than correct
      it so ridiculous
      its easier to count things it did Right that it is to count what it did WRONG

  • @JorgeGomez-um9qb
    @JorgeGomez-um9qb 7 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    Chile under Allende 1971-1973: Autocracy.
    Chile under Pinochet: 1986, Closed Anocracy, 1987-1990, Democracy.
    Yeah, sure.

  • @padinspi11
    @padinspi11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    San Marino and Andorra were democracies before the USA became independent

    • @OcaenNam
      @OcaenNam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Padinspi too small to show on a world map

    • @sanic9177
      @sanic9177 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No it didnt

    • @padinspi11
      @padinspi11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You're right, Andorra was not, but San Marino was

    • @j_mundane
      @j_mundane 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Before the US even existed

    • @totallyordinaryguy7570
      @totallyordinaryguy7570 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      True but this like propaganda

  • @of1564
    @of1564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    Your Atlas is wrong, lacks key data and is declaring Chile a Democracy in years when Pinochet was rulling with an Iron Fist.

    • @mauriciotorres8983
      @mauriciotorres8983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oscar Fuentes Solís doesn't, if you check Chile is painted in red from 1973 to 1989 which is the time period of his rule over Chile

    • @sebastianjuara
      @sebastianjuara 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      well at least you get some democracy in the xx century, argentina was on full autocracy the whole time acording to this map

    • @cesarpietrocalathaki9539
      @cesarpietrocalathaki9539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sebastianjuara Aunque es cierto.
      Dictaduras permatentes y el gobierno autocrático de Peron y de de los conservadores.

    • @danielechassendague3536
      @danielechassendague3536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@cesarpietrocalathaki9539 la democracia se estableció en Argentina con la sanción de la Ley Saenz Peña de voto secreto en 1913, pero bueno

    • @cesarpietrocalathaki9539
      @cesarpietrocalathaki9539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@danielechassendague3536 Y duro de 1916 hasta el golpe del 30' seguido de períodos que difícilmente se pueden llamar democráticos (Decada Infame y 2do y 1er gobierno de Perón)

  • @vitormacedo3687
    @vitormacedo3687 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    1820: Spain and Portugal start a constitutional monarchy = "Closed anochracy"
    1824: Brazil starts a constitutional monarchy, w/ even more voting rights = "Autochracy"
    ...CRITERIA?

    • @antoniofrancis1736
      @antoniofrancis1736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The 1824 constitution of Brazil estabilished that only rich people could vote and gave the emperor almost unlimited power over the government

    • @tarcisiorm
      @tarcisiorm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@antoniofrancis1736 Actually for me it was weird that during 1945~1964 it's saying it was not a democracy in Brazil. I can understand during 1989~1930 as we had "Café-com-Leite" as it was not a real democracy, but as far as I know, from 1945 to 64 "anyone" could vote, including some populist and controversial Jânio Quadros.So, again: Criteria?

    • @Dream-ti8cz
      @Dream-ti8cz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@antoniofrancis1736 The Moderator power was not like that, not to mention that it was not only the rich who could vote. if you had an average of 500-800 Kings you could come back. Not to mention that the first dictatorships and coups in Brazil started with the end of the parliamentary Constitutional monarchy

    • @abacaxi4713
      @abacaxi4713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Dream-ti8cz this. The first two "presidents" of Brazil were in fact dictators.

    • @Dream-ti8cz
      @Dream-ti8cz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@abacaxi4713 the republic started whit A coup, put by two dictators, then there was another coup, that they made them leave and the Farmers who were in favor of slavery began to change in power. Then there was ANOTHER COUP that this time put a Fascist Dictatorship in power. So this dictator gives a blow to stay in power, and finally he leaves with a coup. The answer of Democracy in Brazil is a bit obvious, With the Monarchy those who had more than 500 kings (Little thing at the time), could vote, and never had a dictatorship or coup. The republic started with a coup, it just brought more dictatorships and coups

  • @Solo-vh9fm
    @Solo-vh9fm 7 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Why does the Puerto Rican flag show when referring to Cuba's independence.

    • @ProTyle
      @ProTyle 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They look alike. The audience that this video is intended for probably doesn't know there's a difference

    • @StevioGaming1
      @StevioGaming1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Solo12313 the maker of this video got a shut ton of facts wrong don't let the flag annoy you, let this BS video annoy you as a whole lol

    • @Solo-vh9fm
      @Solo-vh9fm 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But I'm Autistic...

  • @aurel724
    @aurel724 5 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    Switzerland was a confederation republic since the 1291 come on.

    • @theuglykwan
      @theuglykwan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You democracy too early so not included. jk

    • @venmis137
      @venmis137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      History started in 1776

    • @captainjackpugh6050
      @captainjackpugh6050 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Venmis Everything before that was a mistake

    • @bbrdbr
      @bbrdbr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yes anything that someone did before the US did it didn’t actually do it

    • @Hitomarokun
      @Hitomarokun 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Minecraft Veteran re Ron Swanson, "Parks and Rec"

  • @inaki5989
    @inaki5989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    Just to point it out, you put argentina as a democracy during 1981, but it was under a military dictatorship at the time, though its not rare that you put it that way, because the dictatorship was funded by the CIA
    Thanks USA!

    • @cae2525
      @cae2525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      This map is all wrong. For some reason Czechoslovakia is a "colony" until 1991. You can't even count it as a puppet state of the Soviet Union because it was established before the Soviet Union even existed...

    • @KennedY3X
      @KennedY3X 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Same thing going on in Chile. Aparently Pinochet wasn't a dictator for the same reason.

    • @cesarpietrocalathaki9539
      @cesarpietrocalathaki9539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@KennedY3X Is not wrong cuz chile is painted red from 1973-1989

    • @KennedY3X
      @KennedY3X 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@cesarpietrocalathaki9539 oh I got confused with the dates, my mistake.

    • @cesarpietrocalathaki9539
      @cesarpietrocalathaki9539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@KennedY3X No problem dude

  • @abacaxi4713
    @abacaxi4713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I see many mistakes in my country, sometimes changing too soon or changing for no reason at all

  • @nugzarmikeladze
    @nugzarmikeladze 7 ปีที่แล้ว +790

    Soviet Union under Stalin not red but no data are you kidding me

    • @awesomeavenger2810
      @awesomeavenger2810 7 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      Incredible to think that sixty four years after Stalin's death we still have no data on how the country was run.

    • @Ostrovak
      @Ostrovak 7 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Do you actualy know something about it? Im not saying that it was good, but it worked. Best guverment right now is democracy, but is far from perfect. Perfect would be utopian socialism, but it will never work because people are not perfect.

    • @awesomeavenger2810
      @awesomeavenger2810 7 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Yes. Actually I do know something about it. Under Stalin Russia was a genocidal dictatorship. Which is why I don't understand the whole 'no data' thing.

    • @BlingSco
      @BlingSco 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You are all lacking in knowledge. There is plenty of information about the USSR during Stalin Era. Plus it wasn't a genocidal dictatorship, it was a Soviet democracy. You lack critical thinking if you think such. Read Grover Furr books on the subject, he debunks plp like Robert Conquest - footnote by footnote and other propagandaists.

    • @BlingSco
      @BlingSco 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      guts the demon slayer Expect you have no idea what it was like.

  • @parthiancapitalist2733
    @parthiancapitalist2733 6 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    America isn't a democracy. It's also not the oldest constitutional nation. Colony is not a government system

    • @AsscrackistanMapping
      @AsscrackistanMapping 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It is a democratic nation, it is the oldest democracy that remained (clearly) a democracy. A colony is an entity that is governed by another foreign land that tends not to give the same rights to the colonial subjects, and tends to install a semi-autonomous (usually autocratic) leader in charge. There is a clear distinction between the governments of a nation and the ruling authority over a colony.

    • @okano.638
      @okano.638 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@AsscrackistanMapping
      Greece is the oldest democracy and the roman empire was also a democracy

    • @ericcopeland3434
      @ericcopeland3434 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@okano.638 The Roman Empire was never a democracy, democracy means everyone votes on the decisions on hand (which is what happened in Athens), while I think you're confusing the imperial period with the republican you're still wrong on that.

    • @brydonthunder
      @brydonthunder 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@okano.638 oof

    • @dvd7800
      @dvd7800 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Osmanischer Kamerad the Roman Republic you ment I think

  • @EmSee1223
    @EmSee1223 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    The map is REALLY inaccurate most of the time, like, it shows Poland's borders from 1945 (from communist times) in 1918 (when Poland gained independence)

    • @mariasolpersico7115
      @mariasolpersico7115 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mapped on current borders (:

    • @EmSee1223
      @EmSee1223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mariasolpersico7115 that means it's wrongly mapped lmao

  • @alexxiao9997
    @alexxiao9997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    nobody:
    Greenland: N O D A T A

  • @piotrekjanas7765
    @piotrekjanas7765 7 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    CZECHO SLOVAKIA IS A COLONY? HAHAHAHAHHAAHA

    • @arkuis
      @arkuis 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Czechoslovakia was a Soviet colony.

    • @piotrekjanas7765
      @piotrekjanas7765 7 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      arkuis U are joking?

    • @arkuis
      @arkuis 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      nope

    • @arkuis
      @arkuis 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interestingly there is an entire chapter devoted to this subject in the book "The Shadow of Colonialism on Europe’s Modern Past" (chapter 14)

    • @tennoheikabanzai5446
      @tennoheikabanzai5446 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Czecho-Slovakia was not considered a colony, It was a satelite state created by the soviets. It was also a democracy during ww2 after it got its independance.

  • @brunobarcelos1093
    @brunobarcelos1093 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Actually, until November 1889, Brazil was a representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Then it turned into a tyrannical military dictatorial republic. And in 1895, into an anti-black oligarchic republic with fraudulent elections that only rich land owners candidates from two states were "elected" as presidents.

    • @joao.fenix1473
      @joao.fenix1473 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Não é atoa que muitos consideram os americanos burros, mesmo os que estudaram nas melhores universidades, veja só esse mapa, teoricamente feito pelos melhores.

    • @gabrielhenriquebrizolla46
      @gabrielhenriquebrizolla46 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fraudes eleitorais tbm aconteciam na monarquia, e negros não podiam participar, o Monarca detinha poderes autocraticos devido o poder moderador, e o parlamento tinha pouco poder real, podendo ser dissolvido a qualquer momento, assim como foi dissolveido mais de 30 vezes, mostrando a pouca coesão politica e pouca estabildade do Império.

  • @strngmgc
    @strngmgc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    This is a great American video for American audiences, it shows exactly what they want to see. It's all bull**** though, it's so wrong on so many levels.

    • @Ozymandias83
      @Ozymandias83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Eduarda Gomes in the description, it was made by an english university, why would they pander to USA? Also in 1800 it shows uk as anocracy, and owner of many colonies., so if they can show the state of their own country as undemocratic, they can be objective about others

    • @richardwang7187
      @richardwang7187 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Skyle Andria America wants to start a new Cold War with China.

    • @craftyyt2745
      @craftyyt2745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      i feel like this was made by a 6th grader who failed history class

    • @Ozymandias83
      @Ozymandias83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@craftyyt2745 and you are a studied scholar of history? Please tell me how your views differ from Oxford university, i'm sure it will be fascinating.

    • @craftyyt2745
      @craftyyt2745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Ozymandias83 dude i just wanted to make a joke and no im not

  • @scottuk66
    @scottuk66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hahaha I love how you think the US is the oldest democracy yet they copied the British Parliament 🤣

    • @KFP_Prophet
      @KFP_Prophet 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then they will bang on about having the oldest constitution - which they partially copied from the Iroquois

    • @douroumou1094
      @douroumou1094 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      *Greece wants to know your location*

    • @scottuk66
      @scottuk66 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@douroumou1094 Obviously Greece invented democracy, but it hasn't been continuous only being restored in the modern period

  • @nataliasaavedra4626
    @nataliasaavedra4626 7 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    My country
    Uruguay, on that map, it appears as a democracy in 1950, in my opinion
    it is a mistake, because in 1899, the first constitutional president
    elected by the citizens was elected, Uruguay was the first country to
    approve the female vote, being A democracy as consolidated as the United States, which on that map, from the beginning appears in green.

    • @fabricioguido8202
      @fabricioguido8202 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *first in south america, but apart from that you're right.

    • @AlvaroSaurus
      @AlvaroSaurus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      holi vine a decir lo mismo y me cagué de la risa encontrando a otro yorugua

    • @Beowulf_93
      @Beowulf_93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Brazil too. This is a map made my Yankees to empowered them and destroy others history. Not correct

    • @queenbean7071
      @queenbean7071 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Beowulf_93 litteraly . They really think they invented freedom 🤣

    • @PhilipposACosta
      @PhilipposACosta 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Brazil and Mexico, for example, are super confusing. In many time points, they were democracy, but the map only shows the modern time..

  • @cgbenvenuto
    @cgbenvenuto 7 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    hard so see something so innaccurate in youtube

    • @enity1363
      @enity1363 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ITS hard
      I would like to see you try

  • @yuanshih3261
    @yuanshih3261 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    The Weimar Republic from 1919 -1933 in Germany was a democracy.

  • @Crazylaika
    @Crazylaika 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I'm not sure why USA is considered democracy in 1816 when most people couldn't vote, and slavery was still legal. I'd be happy classifying the early US as a semi-democratic regime that gradually transitioned into a fully fledged democracy. That said, I love this video, very well made

    • @Buto.7103
      @Buto.7103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      This video like: “USA France and UK were Democracy’s even in the 9000BC

    • @VieleGuteFahrer
      @VieleGuteFahrer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I can tell you why. You see the world in 1816 through your 2022 lenses. Nowadays, we wouldn’t consider the democracies in Ancient Greece democracies either because you needed to be a free *man* , a citizen of that city-state, and above the age of military service. Only 1/4 of all residents qualified as residents. Still, it is and was a huge deal.
      Lots of things have changed between 1816 and 2022 and more things will change in the future. That’s the point of a democracy.

    • @Crazylaika
      @Crazylaika 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@VieleGuteFahrer Oh I don't disagree with you, standards have certainly changed. I'm just saying that there are different forms of democracy depending on how strong it is, and we need to distinguish between them using different terminology. The early US and modern US are both, in very broad terms, "democracies", but they are two very different types

    • @maxdavis7722
      @maxdavis7722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@VieleGuteFahrer how is the USA a democracy but the UK is not? In what way was the USA a democracy before the UK?

    • @VieleGuteFahrer
      @VieleGuteFahrer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@maxdavis7722 The Queen still has some power. She can dismiss a prime minister, dissolve the parliament, declare war and peace, open the parliament, veto bills, appoint ministers to the crown, grant royal pardon and she's the commander-in-chief. All that without ever being elected by anyone.
      Monarchs used to use these rights way more in the past, up until the 1830s.
      The U.S. constitution states that "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." The Congress gets elected by the people.
      and that "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected […]". Also elected by the people.
      The first presidential election took place from 1788 to 1789, before the constitution took effect.
      Edit: The uploader linked the source and the UK is listed as one of the countries with the oldest democracies.

  • @federicoallegretti3798
    @federicoallegretti3798 5 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    So this video starts when the US became a democracy while the first democracies formed in Greece 2300 years before. This video uses modern borders to show countries from 200 years ago. No country is a real domocracy (expecially usa) because if you don't have money you are going nowhere
    Edit: I forgot all the democratic city states formed in northern Italy from 1100 to 1500

    • @Delgen1951
      @Delgen1951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Elle Poop wrong, its a Federal Representative Republic and not a democracy at all, and never has been, its called a Democracy due to people being lazy and unlearned about what America is. Civics 101 take it sometime.

    • @unchatmagnifique
      @unchatmagnifique 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      BS. The author explicitly says "Modern Government" neither of the two you mentioned would be considered as "Modern" as the notion of an Ethnic homogenous state based on nation was not prevalent back then. No country is a real democracy, what we have is "bourgeois democracy".

    • @shrek1140
      @shrek1140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A true democracy is when everyone in a population votes on literally everything. A civics 101 class will also tell you it only works for small, and dense populations

    • @johnbarcenas5098
      @johnbarcenas5098 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Federico Allegretti it doesn’t say first democracy, it says first constitutional democracy

    • @ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER
      @ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@shrek1140 You get caught up in the little things buddy...to normal people, democracy is synonymous with voting...whether you get a representative or do it directly,nobody gives a damn...

  • @hershkrukover7846
    @hershkrukover7846 5 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    why is alaska american in the begin?

    • @hershkrukover7846
      @hershkrukover7846 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Gabriel PLBR13 yea but its small and no one can see it

    • @kingdomofgreatbritain6478
      @kingdomofgreatbritain6478 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      US-Centered video.

    • @hershkrukover7846
      @hershkrukover7846 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kingdomofgreatbritain6478 ok

    • @logan8638
      @logan8638 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kingdomofgreatbritain6478 I'm sorry but Great Britain is not a kingdom its 3 kingdoms collectively United so it should be kingdoms of Great Britain

    • @deviladvocate21
      @deviladvocate21 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@logan8638 But they all have the same monarch. Also, the UK is the United Kingdom, not the United Kingdoms

  • @ikanu
    @ikanu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Italy has never been a colony. Go to study, man

    • @movedaccount9958
      @movedaccount9958 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      *cough* Napoleonic War *cough*

    • @luigibellini811
      @luigibellini811 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Italy has long been a Spanish, Austrian and French colony

    • @Andrew-ii5gl
      @Andrew-ii5gl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@luigibellini811 well, colony is a strong world. We were in their spheres of influence, sure, but colony is a bit too much here.

    • @antigonus1161
      @antigonus1161 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@luigibellini811 And Greek

    • @luigibellini811
      @luigibellini811 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@antigonus1161 Yes I know, I meant in more "recent" times

  • @vitmadle8206
    @vitmadle8206 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Czechoslovakia was an open democracy from 1918 until 1939. One of the most free ones…not a colony

  • @medazizromdhane1823
    @medazizromdhane1823 4 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    8:42 is the best joke :
    invading iraq and afghanistan to set democratic systems by force
    dude just say they wanted oil like come on everyone knows

    • @Atlas-uz4vt
      @Atlas-uz4vt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      So in order to get free middle east oil, the U.S spends 2.4 trillion dollars to wage war for oil that they could buy cheaper from Canada or just use there own vast reserves? Why would they spend more money on the war then the oil is worth? If your right then 100% of that oil goes straight to the U.S correct? You can prove this? One more question, whats 2+2 equal? Cause your math skills suck!

    • @ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER
      @ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      @@Atlas-uz4vtits not about the oil,but competition. The us is stuck in a "beat country of the world" mentality that they must eliminate competition in oil(the most demanded thing in the world right now). If the us didnt attack those countries, they would have made the dollar obsolete in the oil business...

    • @NathanRiess
      @NathanRiess 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Actually, the whole oil thing was from gulf war in the '90s because we defended Kuwait from Iraqis and somewhere in the middle we decided we wanted the secure as much of the oil we can. So that whole oil meme comes from that.

    • @libertyprime2921
      @libertyprime2921 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The us gets less than 5 percent of its oil from the middle east

    • @libertyprime2921
      @libertyprime2921 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bruv the us does not have enough oil to export it. The us currently imports most of its oil from canada. Everything in the middle east after the gulf war was due to 9/11. We were livid and willing to destroy anything that was remotely responsible עבדיהו בן חכמה

  • @Dwkim91
    @Dwkim91 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    It was a good concept, but not as well executed as I had hoped. There were a lot of parts that were left out, and using modern borders doesn't work. There are plenty of animated maps that are more accurate. For example, Korea wasn't a "colony" in the 19th century (it was a colony of Imperial Japan from 1910 to 1945), nor was it divided until 1945 either. I see in the comments there were many similar cases.

    • @19NAT43
      @19NAT43 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was also a huge double standart with the US being shown as full democracy with slavery and without women sufrage while other countries only got the democracy when female sufrage was allowed like wtf?

  • @jaimeescobarpozo
    @jaimeescobarpozo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    Yeah, the slaves totally had their civil liberties guaranteed...

    • @basil9973
      @basil9973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Democracies do not have to guarantee civil liberties to non citizens aswell, also making it fine.

    • @mrcoder7327
      @mrcoder7327 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Democracies dont really garantee everyone's freedom. Though might be contradiction, the US is a democracy ever since...

    • @Joshua-fl3xm
      @Joshua-fl3xm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The US is an oligarchy a country governed by a small group of people (the rich and powerful) were commoners cannot get into government

    • @zandaroos553
      @zandaroos553 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Democracies can be elitist. Athens was even more restrictive with voting rights

    • @rmh941
      @rmh941 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Without the founding in 1776, there is no foundation to eventually free the slaves. We could of just became a monarchy, that form of government has been rather successful, not.

  • @gigavirgin
    @gigavirgin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great. Im from Czechia and I cant know how democratic my country was because its considered as a colony.

  • @sheevpalpatine-grayson2456
    @sheevpalpatine-grayson2456 5 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    West Germany was definetly a Republic aka a Democracy after 1945. Why you greyed us out is a mystery to me

    • @kkon5ti
      @kkon5ti 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Wegen „nicht aktueller Grenzen“... Dieses Video ist reiner Müll.

    • @Delgen1951
      @Delgen1951 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      a republic is not a democracy, and a democracy is not a republic there are like first cousins but not the same at all.

    • @yahouyahaa5726
      @yahouyahaa5726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The map uses current borders, we have to deal with that.
      Now, if you consider Germany the successor state to FRG only, then OK "Germany" was democratic. But imagine you've suffered from GDR's police state for decades, and now you see a joyful green colour at that very place and moment... This can't be. It makes way more sense to say "Germany was cut in two & the halves had vastly different systems => I can't pick a single colour for the whole => Grey".
      In doubt, grey would be the answer anyhow ; but here there is no doubt imho : this grey is the way to solve an ambiguity, an impossibility.

    • @btce9739
      @btce9739 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yahouyahaa5726 you could simply make the map stripped.

    • @ShahanshahShahin
      @ShahanshahShahin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello Palpatine you must be missing your old galactic empire.

  • @traveshe1974
    @traveshe1974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    A true joke here: DEMOCRACY START from US,lol!

    • @traveshe1974
      @traveshe1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @李威 能在“自由世界”多看看各种奇葩不好吗

    • @traveshe1974
      @traveshe1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @李威 我是中国人,但我政治立场处于自由主义,也并不反感民族主义,但反感沙文主义,所以这两年出国准备移民了,中国现在连自由主义者也会被打压了

    • @bibiana761
      @bibiana761 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes thure, iran for example is not a friend of Usa but this country have free election, Venezuela dont sale is petroil for low price at Usa and this country become a anonarchy, the same for Turkey his president become more strong this country become more power and strong and for usa is not anymore a democray.

    • @nikolovdimitry5996
      @nikolovdimitry5996 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      !

  • @krizhownik2409
    @krizhownik2409 5 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    >other republics of USSR - colonies??? what the heck man
    >Czechoslovakia is not a *COLONY*

    • @michaeldrake1341
      @michaeldrake1341 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Krizhownik satellite government

    • @orrismate139
      @orrismate139 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Krizhownik it a puppy state

    • @guayabito6946
      @guayabito6946 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They might not have been called colonies but they were. They were in control of the Soviet Union by force.

    • @adinsnock9462
      @adinsnock9462 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      latengocomoburro especially Ukraine, when the half of the Soviet leaders were Ukrainian.

    • @guayabito6946
      @guayabito6946 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@adinsnock9462 and none of them elected by the people.

  • @antoniocastelli7200
    @antoniocastelli7200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So Allende is elected president in Chile and he became a dictator? History wasn`t that way, we had a democracy until 1973 when Pinochet and the military forces bombarded the palace of goverment and tortured thousands of people until 1990. Oh I forgot to mention it, Nixon boicoted the economy between 1970-1973 and established Pinochet as the cruel dictator that he was. Please do the video as the history has taught us.

  • @Pilgrim1st
    @Pilgrim1st 7 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    *video claims the USA is a democracy*

    • @theragingcyclone
      @theragingcyclone 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      A flawed democracy.

    • @Pilgrim1st
      @Pilgrim1st 7 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      The country is not a democracy at all. The people have almost no control at all.

    • @cursoreu2605
      @cursoreu2605 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      **Ding**

    • @parthiancapitalist2733
      @parthiancapitalist2733 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      People: *elect congress*
      Congress: *damn that was easy, well time for our plans*
      *passes laws abolishing half our rights*
      People: um, we don't approve
      Congress: *woah is this treason?*

    • @samuelnorton9146
      @samuelnorton9146 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The Legend We were never meant to be a true Democracy.

  • @cesare_1302
    @cesare_1302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Anocracy: an insulting umbrella term to describe anything betwin a democracy and an autocracy

    • @escopiliatese3623
      @escopiliatese3623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      How is it insulting?

    • @cesare_1302
      @cesare_1302 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@escopiliatese3623 Beside the fact it takes no consideration of others forms of governaments like
      parlamentary monarchy (UK,
      Spain, Canada and most of
      northern Europe)
      constitutional monarchy (Monaco,
      Marocco and other states of arabic
      peninsula)
      parlamentary republic (Italy,
      Germany and most of the Balkan
      states)
      dual executive republic (France,
      most of eastern Europe and - de
      iure - Russia)
      presidential republic (USA and
      basically all south America)
      aristocratic republic (or whatever
      was the Holy Roman Empire)
      ancient Rome _Res Publica_
      (which is pointless to categorize
      with modern standard of politics)
      plus every other system known to
      man
      Beside THAT it's based on the assumption of a form of governaments can be a democracy AND dictatorship at the same time. Which is ridiculous since historical evidence clearly shows the opposit. Plus it denies the existance of multiple types of democracy like
      direct democracy (ancient greece)
      representative democracy
      (basically every modern states
      worthy of this name since both
      monarchies and republics can rule
      like that)
      social democracy (kind of
      the Third Way but not really)
      liberal democracy (USA before
      Trump)
      federal democracy (also USA,
      in a certain way the UE)
      social liberalism (the actual Third
      Way if communism was still a
      thing but it's not)
      And that without considering how the terms are used in the video (poorly)

  • @pulakitbharti7687
    @pulakitbharti7687 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    India was a democracy between 1947 and 1950. From the day 1 of our independence we have been a democracy. In 1950 we just shifted to a universal adult franchise. It that is the definition of democracy... Universal adult franchise.. then no country was a democracy before world war 1...

    • @陈陳-t5c
      @陈陳-t5c 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      India's constitution makes it clear that India is a federal, sovereign, socialist, secular democratic republic.

    • @thesportsguy3088
      @thesportsguy3088 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@陈陳-t5c India is now capitalist...

    • @陈陳-t5c
      @陈陳-t5c 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thesportsguy3088 most of country is… powerful c

    • @ephraimboateng5239
      @ephraimboateng5239 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow true

    • @kishore369
      @kishore369 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thesportsguy3088
      Socialism is not reliable..

  • @janbubenicek6335
    @janbubenicek6335 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dude its so historically inaccurate! Like Czechoslovakia being a colony after WW 1 WTF???

  • @marou9492
    @marou9492 5 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Map is completely wrong🤦🏼‍♂️

    • @basil9973
      @basil9973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it'd take to long to animate every change, *Maybe get a brain.*

    • @mappeurnational8034
      @mappeurnational8034 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@basil9973 actually it doesn't

    • @napsmaps9701
      @napsmaps9701 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Doesn't really matter

    • @captainjackpugh6050
      @captainjackpugh6050 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Naps Maps It does matter actually

    • @mappeurnational8034
      @mappeurnational8034 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@captainjackpugh6050 Nope because people already did the history of the world in video

  • @kirillustinov4304
    @kirillustinov4304 5 ปีที่แล้ว +401

    One of many US low-quality propaganda videos

    • @tjs200
      @tjs200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      how is it propaganda?
      the visualisation was created by people at Oxford

    • @-sanchousgoblin357
      @-sanchousgoblin357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      ​@@tjs200
      That's even worse - the propaganda of Oxford's puppets. Today the word "democracy" has a new transcription as vassal of USA.

    • @kaganayhan8437
      @kaganayhan8437 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Absolutelly agreed

    • @tjs200
      @tjs200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@nikitaermolaev709 get over yourself and your anti-western views. you clearly have a false sense of the understanding of what democracy is. it doesn't mean the people have all aspects of control over every minut detail of how the country is run. Nor is that a preferable situation.

    • @tjs200
      @tjs200 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@-sanchousgoblin357 I'm pretty sure the people who gathered this data weren't on the US government's payroll. They tried to collect accurate data - Of course their proccess inevitably had biases, as it would with anyone. But It's not like it was deliberate.

  • @jamesdoody7615
    @jamesdoody7615 7 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I'm really confused as to the definition of democracy in this video. I'll use the UK as an example as it's the country I know best. Since 1215 parliament had had powers over taxation, so this is the point at which complete rule by one person stops. The Tudors saw the rise of the house of commons made up of representatives from each county. Whilst not democratic these were kind of elected but from the gentry. From around the late Stuart time all land owning males had the right to vote for there representatives. 1867 all males and 1918 both men and women had the vote. So depending on how democratic a nation had to be to count Britain should either be a democracy from the start or at one of these two points. It seems slightly odd that a nation with slavery and no votes for women counts as democratic. Please correct me on any dates I got wrong.

    • @hamxakronchromium199
      @hamxakronchromium199 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      James Doody britain was a consitutional monarchy at the time

    • @parthiancapitalist2733
      @parthiancapitalist2733 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      James Doody democracy in this video means a multi body legislature with a president and judiciary which are all elected and can do what they want without approval of the citizens. Oh wait the judiciary isn't even elected lol. AND IT RULES FOR LIFE

    • @tomsmith8006
      @tomsmith8006 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Parthian Capitalist
      It clearly doesn’t as the UK becomes a democracy later in the video despite no constitutional change having occurred in the UK at the time is supposedly becomes democratic- we still have no president. The video is another bs pro- US lie....

    • @RealNotOrrio
      @RealNotOrrio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@parthiancapitalist2733 in that case Australia, Canada and even the worlds most democratic country Norway would not be considerd democracies

    • @maxdavis7722
      @maxdavis7722 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hamxakronchromium199 it still is a constitutional monarchy, that doesn’t mean it isn’t democratic.

  • @Archimedestf
    @Archimedestf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Brazil was a parliamentary monarchy from 1822 onwards, not an "autocracy"

    • @Beowulf_93
      @Beowulf_93 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Th is is a American map to destroy others history. Not fact. Usa was a Anocracy.

  • @fancyfree5307
    @fancyfree5307 5 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    According to this map the Netherlands was a "closed anarchy" until the first world war. That can not be true since it was a constitutional democracy since 1848. That became the basis for the democratic nowadays. I like the map and the idea. Only I think it is very important to get it right because otherwise people get a twisted view on different counties.

    • @basil9973
      @basil9973 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      *ANOCRACY* not ANARCHY

    • @baronbrummbar8691
      @baronbrummbar8691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@basil9973 it is still wrong ----- Netherlands was way more democratic then the us in 1815

    • @dyltack5349
      @dyltack5349 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@baronbrummbar8691 the Netherlands was a Monarchy in 1815

    • @baronbrummbar8691
      @baronbrummbar8691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dyltack5349 it was still more democratic then the us

    • @baronbrummbar8691
      @baronbrummbar8691 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@dyltack5349 netherlands is btw still a monarchy

  • @MacoLmao
    @MacoLmao 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Why is Czechoslovakia a colony since its beggining? Like wtf

  • @alfonsinator
    @alfonsinator 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    When you put that Cuba gains independence in 1902 you put a picture of my flag, the Puertorican flag. It's an error

    • @albertolopez5546
      @albertolopez5546 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      deberían dale la patada en el culo a los eeuu ya

    • @jorgegopp6927
      @jorgegopp6927 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      alfonsinator estos tipos no tienen ni idea de latinoamerica, pusieron lo que la oficina de asuntos exteriores de Estados Unidos les dijo

    • @eitanbenzion7522
      @eitanbenzion7522 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      alfonsinator wow. People here are so much assholes. You must to correct him about every little thing? just enjoy the video!

  • @TurtleChad1
    @TurtleChad1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Yeah the US sure was a democracy while they had slavery. What a joke of a video

  • @tempest-carabello-baum
    @tempest-carabello-baum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    The US is definitely at least some sort of anocracy at this point.

    • @skysthelimitvideos
      @skysthelimitvideos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Nah we’re a democracy especially by the broad standards of this video that doesn’t distinguish between republics and constructional monarchies and democracy.

    • @Yoi-n5k
      @Yoi-n5k 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The united states is a democratic republic.

    • @josepesos
      @josepesos 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      True especially US schools in the future are designed to be more like panopticons.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kafkacracy?
      The US is a Federalist Republic technically, and if "Democracy" is defined as majority rule ove minority than that is what the US was and has been trying hard not to be since its founding, since the late 60s we are finally making more progress toward our ideals but there is still alot of complex messed up stuff and opressions.

    • @Delgen1951
      @Delgen1951 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      not just because you dislike ok hate Trump does not change the style of government, it would if Trump simply declared himself pres for life, which would not be long.

  • @BenRye495
    @BenRye495 7 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    Why'd you ignore Pinochet

    • @juanarauco8841
      @juanarauco8841 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Martin Pokorný heliGoperts ridees :DDDDDDDDD

    • @unclepodger
      @unclepodger 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Cuz Pinochet was supported by America

    • @bestnot100
      @bestnot100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pinochet was the best leader in Chile

    • @lautamn9096
      @lautamn9096 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Idk, Allende was their best president and country was coloured with red lol

    • @godemperadorlgabrielaquino
      @godemperadorlgabrielaquino 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Mí General Augusto Pinochet 🚁*

  • @asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791
    @asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    This is what Americans get taught in school... And they they're surprised when the whole world calls them idiots. LOOK AT THE STATE OF THIS!

    • @neopangean6218
      @neopangean6218 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, We are not.

    • @DSVlad
      @DSVlad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@neopangean6218 You're right, we don't get taught anything in school.

    • @neopangean6218
      @neopangean6218 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@DSVlad lol

    • @JohnMacbeth
      @JohnMacbeth 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂

  • @Ari-nw3qy
    @Ari-nw3qy 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Trying to compile all the various errors (by no means is this an exhaustive list)
    1. Perhaps most alarming of all is that the map uses modern day borders, even going back to the early 19th century. This makes the map infinitely more confusing than it needs to be, and insanely innacurate.
    2. Calling the US a democracy in the 1800s would be a stretch. Even ignoring Jim Crow, until the 1820s, only white men who owned property could vote.
    3. No data for the USSR, even under Stalin. It obviously would be considered an autocracy for basically all of its existence.
    4. Apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia are somehow labled "open anocracy" even though it was clearly a brutal regime run by the white minority.
    5. Many places labled colonies when they weren't. For some reason, most of Africa before the Scramble is labled as being a "colony" when that was factually untrue. Czechoslovakia is labled as being a colony, along with parts of the USSR and Yugoslavia (I suspect this is to comply with the rule of having to go by modern borders).
    6. India was not a democracy for the entirety of its independence. From 1975-77, during "the Emergency," Indira Gandhi had emergency and near-dictatorial powers.

  • @kordobaa
    @kordobaa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Wtf? Argentina:
    1816-1916 closed-open anocracy
    1916-1930 democracy
    1930 autocracy
    1931-1943 open anocracy
    1943-1945 autocracy
    1945-1955 democracy
    1955-1976 open anocracy
    1976-1983 autocracy
    1983- present day . democracy
    USA GREEN all the video???

    • @siru773
      @siru773 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah makes sense

    • @Guizambaldi
      @Guizambaldi 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Makes total sense.

    • @godemperadorlgabrielaquino
      @godemperadorlgabrielaquino 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      1945-1955 Dictadura , aunque te duela la cola Peroncho

    • @kordobaa
      @kordobaa 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@godemperadorlgabrielaquino Fue elegido democráticamente, entonces es una democracia. El gobierno de macri aunque le digan dictadura es una democracia también, porque fue elegido por el pueblo, sin golpes de estado, fraude electoral, etc. Democracia: del griego demos(pueblo) kratos(poder, gobierno). Saludos

    • @casteddu6740
      @casteddu6740 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Parkour

  • @lincselo
    @lincselo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Nice try, but the creators clearly missed the time and the resources to make it a relevant and usefull source of knowladge. This task would be fitting to a Uniersity faculty, and still, it would take months to comlete.

  • @Andypos
    @Andypos 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Czech lands were never a colony

    • @davidrajtr8332
      @davidrajtr8332 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And in 1918-1938 we were democracy and not colony.

  • @craig7185
    @craig7185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    You had me going for a while there, I didn't realize this was a parody page until I saw that you had the US down as a democracy. Hilarious!

  • @M0utles
    @M0utles 5 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    Republic does not mean democracy.
    República não é sinônimo me democracia.

    • @friedrichhayek8628
      @friedrichhayek8628 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Republic is from the Latin words res publica =common affairs , the Roman style democracy (before the imperial era). Democracy is from the Greek word Democratia= people's rule, the Athenian democracy. These two democratic systems was different but nowadays there is no difference between those two terms.

    • @Karifi
      @Karifi 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Não é, mas monarquia sempre será sinônimo de autocracia.

    • @sehp8180
      @sehp8180 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Karifi Nem sempre, veja o atual Reino Unido e se pesquisar o Brasil na época de Pedro 2(1840 a 1889) foi bem mais democrático que a República.

    • @felipeamaro2596
      @felipeamaro2596 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Karifi certeza? veja Noruega, Suécia e Japão só como exemplos de pura "autocracia" e na época da monarquia brasileira era bastante democrática no contexto daquela época

    • @spirittchaser7043
      @spirittchaser7043 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      AMERICA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 19TH CENTURY WAS DEMOCRACY ??? A dark-skinned slaves knew about this ???)))

  • @flavio518
    @flavio518 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Switzerland is a direct democracy.

  • @Yamezzzz
    @Yamezzzz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    As someone from Northern Ireland, cool to find out we existed as a separate nation 200 years ago. Apparently we were a democracy but Southern Ireland was a colony.
    It wasn't a colony. All of Ireland was in the UK, there was no Northern Ireland. All of us were in the same nation as Scotland England and Wales. The UK. Which was a democracy.

    • @trollydollywannabe
      @trollydollywannabe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Depends who you talk to...

    • @ottomanempire3725
      @ottomanempire3725 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah that’s like saying Scotland is a colony of England

    • @onrch
      @onrch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      central asia and eastern europe is considered a colony of the soviet union for some reason

    • @jyrki5680
      @jyrki5680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Corporatocracy

    • @CeruleanSword
      @CeruleanSword 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ottomanempire3725
      Eh.. no. Are you ignorant lmao.
      England occupied Ireland where-as Scotland willingly entered a union with England. Pretty large difference and your metaphor is bad.

  • @Anonymos185
    @Anonymos185 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Jesus Christ, this mess is innacurate

  • @konstantikkov8688
    @konstantikkov8688 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Why Alaska is a part of USA in 1816? It was russian

    • @thesenate9275
      @thesenate9275 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Konstantikkov it’s mapped on modern borders

    • @stantorren4400
      @stantorren4400 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Senate But it should not use morden borders and instead have highlited parts showing the parts so it won’t be confusing

  • @henriquefernandes7467
    @henriquefernandes7467 7 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    The Brazil Empire (1822-1889) wasn't a autocracy, It had constitution that guaranteed the civil liberties, and after 1847 we adopted the paralamentarism a way to people express their political preferences.

    • @mrklausjonza
      @mrklausjonza 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I'm not a monarquist, but sure ever since Brazil turned into a republic, Brazil was never a real republic and surely was never really democratic

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What? Klaus, Empire of Brazil was a democracy. It was as democratic as you can get.

    • @mrklausjonza
      @mrklausjonza 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes. I said the Republic not the Empire of Brazil. It's up there in the lines, read again.

    • @coe3408
      @coe3408 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It was fairly democratic to its time, but nowadays it would not be considered a democracy.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mind explaining? Since from the looks of it it seems pretty much how it is today. The Emperor acted just a branch of the government hardly total control. So how is it different? No government is exactly alike, but it doesn't mean it is any less democratic. And it was because the imperial family was weak, the empire eventually fell. Along with a few other reasons.

  • @unquestionabletv
    @unquestionabletv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    No data for Russia? Why?

    • @GevioneXChannel
      @GevioneXChannel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The system was quite interesting, there it is necessary to read about it and it looked far from how it is considered to be in the west. That is why this system is more often called the dictatorship of the proletariat than authoritarianism.

    • @kaparg
      @kaparg 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know maybe because some persons say they voted and some that not

    • @crismagogamer9391
      @crismagogamer9391 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adwait Top tens no creo....mas bien con ese gobierno neoliberal, la glasnot de gorbachov no sirivio de nada...aun sigue reprimiendo la libertad de expresion.
      y por cierto, con esas crisis gracias a yeltsin, sera dificil ser las urss otra vez

    • @mattpliska
      @mattpliska 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@GevioneXChannel dictatorship of the proletariat is a fancy way of saying I am the proletariat I will look out for you so trust me with all powers, stalin's soviet union was so blatantly an autocracy

    • @marcoborghi9327
      @marcoborghi9327 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I also wonder why... stalin was THE autocrath!

  • @dfdf-rj8jr
    @dfdf-rj8jr 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    To everyone who keeps wondering why the comments are so angry....any map that portrays the US in a good light, is automatically incorrect.

    • @dedster3164
      @dedster3164 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Someone: "this map has mistakes"
      This guy: "FILTHY COMMUNISTS, ONLY REDS CAN QUESTION DEMOCRACY!"

  • @potestasl6807
    @potestasl6807 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The US is not the first constitutionally governed country. Constitutional law is just law about law. Many countries had systems to make law.

    • @CoolioXXX52
      @CoolioXXX52 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Potestas L San Marino is USA is second. And codified constitution is what wrre talking about

    • @potestasl6807
      @potestasl6807 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welp they just said "oldest constitutionally governed country"

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CoolioXXX52 San Marino only allowed the elites to vote until 1906. It was much less of a democracy than the US was before that.

  • @pacomonje
    @pacomonje 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    there are a lot of errors in this animation, you cannot define government of a nation of that nation didnt exist in a timeframe. also there are countries dpeicted as democratic but their gobernments were not really democratic
    NOce try, but i think a presentation like this would require a deeper search on what happened on each contry at a certain timeframe. For example, someone could argue that a democracy is not really a democracy if more than a half of their population (women) is not allowed to vote. So the real democracy for USA starts in the 20th century

  • @francoparnetti
    @francoparnetti 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Its funny how in Argentina you put Perons presidencyas a dictatorship (while there still was a democracy), and the dictatorship that came right after as an "closed anocracy". Think should be the other way around.

    • @NachoTPAO
      @NachoTPAO 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yeah, Argentinas map looks like it was made by Videla himself....

    • @fabricioguido8202
      @fabricioguido8202 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah. This is pretty absurd.

    • @hangar8752
      @hangar8752 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      aguante el faso vieja!

    • @valentinesteban8566
      @valentinesteban8566 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Y bueno, Perón tenía el control total.

    • @godemperadorlgabrielaquino
      @godemperadorlgabrielaquino 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perón era dictador Fascista , así que la gráfica está bien .

  • @nether_yoshi
    @nether_yoshi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How did you get "Colony" for North Korea and "No data" for South Korea in 19C? Those two were the same country until 1945.

  • @yellowyellow7476
    @yellowyellow7476 7 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    lol the Soviet Republics are "colonies", and that Zimbabwe isn't a dictatorship.

    • @tamolamo4698
      @tamolamo4698 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I live in former soviet republic and I can confirm that it's true. Everything was descided in Moscow. They even took tribute from our income. Even russian language was peioritized over national. If you come to Lithuania and try to talk to any random person older than 30 in russian he will understand and reply, he might not to speek in lithuanian but he definately will speak in russian. Even most of old papers and documents was either in russian or in russian and lithuanian. So taxes was going to Moscow, local goverment was compleate pupets of moscow without any right to oppose, and local language was neglected in favour of russian. So yes we were 100% colony.

    • @aschneider2013
      @aschneider2013 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think, that many former sowiet citizen will confirm, that the republics were "colonies". As Tamo Lamo already mentioned, all the decisions were made in Moscow. That was the reason, why the overall system was so fragile and lead to the fall of the soviet union in the early 90's.

    • @GevioneXChannel
      @GevioneXChannel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@aschneider2013 The Soviet colonies and European ones should not be confused. Since many of these colonies lived better than the metropolis

    • @GevioneXChannel
      @GevioneXChannel 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@tamolamo4698 The definition of colonies is a little wrong. It’s probably just the regions of one country, this is especially noticeable in terms of the standard of living, since you had it higher than in Russia

    • @goldend1104
      @goldend1104 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      2015 man. In 2015 Mugabe was the leader.

  • @Alevuss92
    @Alevuss92 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    US would be a closed anocracy at least until 1828 and an open anocracy at least from 1860-71, but you could argue expanding that to as early 1855.
    Belarus, Ukraine, the Caucasus & most of Central Asia shouldn't be listed as Russian colonies after 1917, especially in the period of 1917-22 when many of those countries were briefly independent from the USSR & didn't have a Russian military presence. Uzbekistan & Turkmenistan (albeit with very different borders) would be exceptions to this until around 1922.
    Czechoslovakia shouldn't be listed as a colony, nor should Croatia, Macedonia & Slovenia.
    If they're going to list those as "colonies", it doesn't make sense to list North Korea as an autocracy (esp. from 1945-72), since it seems like it would've met the same democratic standards as other Soviet bloc countries and has a Soviet military presence for a time. I'm not saying that it should've been listed as a colony, but if we were to go by your sources standards, it wouldn't make sense not to list it as one.

    • @rolanddeschain9880
      @rolanddeschain9880 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Soviets never were democratic and you idiot
      Yes usa was democratic because of elections and freedom of speech

    • @paulustrucenus
      @paulustrucenus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rolanddeschain9880 Overall this video has a big problem with what it defines at democracy.
      Somehow France from the 60's isn't a democracy despite being billion times more democractic than 19th century USA.

  • @ben927
    @ben927 7 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Wrong, San Marino is the oldest constitutionally-governed nation in the world. You know, that micro-state in the middle of Italy, everyone knows about San Marino, it is also one of the oldest countries in the world, in case you were wondering.

    • @delondestan8961
      @delondestan8961 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Ben Hickey well said, but it doesn't fit the US propaganda

    • @ben927
      @ben927 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lol, thanks.

    • @samuelnorton9146
      @samuelnorton9146 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      San Marino's Constitution is uncodified, and has been since it was created.

    • @squares4u
      @squares4u 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It’s amusing to watch people get so angry because the USA accomplished something profound in 1776, but they try to downplay it as no big deal. So they yell “evil American propaganda” from their computers and try to feel better about their own nations that likely fall far below America’s economic and military might. Envy is easy to spot.

    • @samuelross8328
      @samuelross8328 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes it is.... ^^^^^