@@horatioguevara7597 listen to what, them teach about Edgar Allen Poe? 😂 schools don’t teach what need to be taught. Hell I was taught Christopher Columbus founded America…
2:06 This reminds me of the time that my brother said he hated Germans because of the holocaust. I pointed out that there is such a thing as German *_JEWS_* and my mom mentioned that our grandfather (her father) is part German but apparently he didn't hear that so I had to ask him if he hated our grandfather--his response? "He's an exception but I still hate all other Germans" (or something along those lines). Cue me pointing out that if our grandfather is part German that makes not only me and him part German but also our mom, both of our uncles, and all three of our aforementioned uncles' sons part German and my brother had a literal identity crisis as this sunk in. My brother has never mentioned hating Germans again.
An older friend of mine from Yorkshire (he’s 50) once went into a pub as a young man and heard some old men trading war stories. He asked which war it was and was told it was the boer war.
Second boar war was 1890s . An elderly soldier could have lived to the 1970s some one 50s on the teens could have been in a pub in the 70s since I believe they are able to go in pubs at 16. Also I'm 60 used to go in liqueur stores before 10 with my dad. They had neat old cash register made of brass
I’m pretty shocked that a history teacher could say that Hitler was just a normal guy. He wasn’t. Hitler’s own high command questioned his sanity as the war dragged on and he became increasingly more unhinged and paranoid. This is why there were so many assassination attempts against him. According to his inner circle, Hitler came to view the German people as having failed him, unworthy of their great mission in history and thus deserving to die alongside his regime. In March 1945 Hitler issued the Nero Decree which ordered the destruction of all German infrastructure so that the Allies and the German people would be left with nothing but a “scorched earth”. The decree was destroyed by Albert Speer before it could be carried out. Hitler had made a similar order just before the liberation of Paris. He ordered explosives to be placed all around the city. If the Allies came near the city, the military governor, General Dietrich von Choltitz was to detonate these bombs, leaving Paris "lying in complete debris." Von Choltitz, however, did not carry out the order and surrendered to the Allies, later alleging that this was the moment he realized that "Hitler was insane." A scorched earth policy was also issued for the Netherlands in 1945 but Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the Reichskommissar in charge of the Netherlands during its occupation, was able to greatly limit the scope to which the order was executed. From the very beginning of the war, everyone was taking pervitin (meth). It was handed out to the German soldiers like candy. It’s one of the main reasons blitzkrieg was so effective- the army could advance for days without stopping to rest. If you know anything about meth addicts, you know that sleep depravation + meth = paranoia, hallucinations, insanity, etc. Was every Nazi a psychopath? Obviously not. But it’s disingenuous to pretend that they were all just regular people swept up in the idea of reuniting Germany and a thousand year reich.
Alucard Peach Who were the other people? I can’t seem to find any info but I have heard the other people who have done it weren’t as clean cut as Rosa parks which is why we only remember her
The Brown/Stigler incident is one of the most beautiful things in war history. Just to add some detail, he not just only realized the tail gun was silent, as he came closer he saw the dead gunner hanging out of his booth and the blood running along the .50cal Barrles. He said it himself. Once more an evidence that not all german soldiers were cold blooded killer nazis. I love the video of the two meeting up again.
41:55 Humans have been around longer than that. And we don't know if we have had written history before 6k years ago. The world flooded at least twice when the ice dams over North America broke one such even created the Badlands of Washington state. Throw in a meteor hitting the planet 50k years ago (Meteor crater Arizona), massive volcanic eruptions, another meteor hitting the planet 13k years ago.. Yeah I bet there is a lot of history that has been lost. We have only FOUND written history from 6k years ago. Sunken cities that were built 20k years ago (they are under 400 feet of water now) and their complex designs is pretty good evidence that humans had written records before 6k years ago. Advanced mathematics were required to build and or carve these structures. You don't get that without written language.
Not all German soldiers in WW2 were Nazi's most were simply drafted and sent off to fight for their country and did the job they were sent to do. If I remember correctly there were soldiers that got shown footage from the death camps and they were visibly horrified and ashamed.
I feel the need to point out that there are inaccuracies in DarkNinjaPenguin's post (2:57). Mainly that the iceberg did NOT tear a gash down a third of Titanic's length (as has been known for many years at this point) but instead, tore open seams totaling 2 or 3 square feet.
Yeah, I’ve been trained to use katana and Japanese footwork and even I’ll admit it’s not the best sword, they typically will get damaged by hitting metal so it doesn’t exactly do much good
The Australian Army now uses "mils" instead of Degrees. A Mil is the angle subtended by 1 meter over 1000 metres. This give approximately 6400 mils in a circle.This helps the calulation of angular differance over a range. So 90 degrees is 1600 mils. The Russians have simlified the issue differently. They use 6000 "mils" per circle
1:25 I don't actually know anyone who actually believes or was even taught that the "majority" of slaves in the Triangle Trade came to the US. Maybe their teachers were a little sloppy and said "slaves were brought to the Americas" and (because it's in the USAmerican nature to do so) kids assume they all were brought to the US specifically, but I really have never encountered anyone who believed this "common misconception". I've definitely encountered way more people who bring up this particular factoid as some kinda "gotcha" about American slavery. As if we were somehow "less guilty" of slavery because we didn't have literally *all* the slaves. They're the same people who say "You know that they were sold to white people by other Africans, right?" Like, okay? Slavery was and is still bad? And doesn't absolve us of the responsibility to reckon with the legacy of slavery in our own country?
@@Alex-ms9em not as much as you would expect. She spent the entire time in a small town in southeast CO in a sod house her husband built for her when she was 17.
I hate that Rosa Parks gets all the credit for standing up to racism when Viola Desmond did it years previous; Viola sat in the "white" section of the movie theatre, because the rest was full, and when she was asked to leave she refused because she had paid to see the movie, so that's what she was gonna do. But because this happened in Nova Scotia she doesn't get the recognition she deserves. She did it in 1946, Rosa did it in 1955. It's not fair to Viola.
The reason why rosa parks is remembered is because of more people spoke out in support of her. Also that was because Rosa had really important friends, for example, one of them was MLK.
@@HeloFromStrangerc That makes sense, I just wish Viola was remembered too, outside of just Canada. She didn't do it to be remembered but she deserves to be; she's on our 10 dollar bill now for what it's worth.
Also Pocahontas wasn't 12 she was 16 and was already married to a native man from different tribe, and had just given birth to her first child a daughter. The day before she was kidnapped. Not by John Smith, they were never in love (that was just Disney being creepy! Their relationship was almost non-existent, aside from when he needed a an interpreter. ) And by that time John Smith was either dead or in a different state when she was taken by the British. Pocahontas was often pychlogically and physically assaulted by several crew members on the ship she was held captive on and eventually fell pregnant and had a son who was named Thomas. A 40 year old widower named John Rolfe claimed to be the father, he later married Pocahontas (who was renamed Rebbeca) raised the boy as his own. I think she was in Britain for 5-6 years before finally being told she was going home, however the ship's captain, one Samuel Argall, was keeping a very close eye on Pocahontas. He didn't want her telling people what had really happened during her captivity, and may had her poisoned. it was reported that she and her family sat down to dinner, she had some tea and a few moments later began to cough up blood before dying in her chair. Argall would later invite Pocahontas's husband and son along to go on an expedition back to Virginia, luckily Thomas was too ill to travel; stayed behind in England. While at sea John Rolfe mysteriously passed away, and Thomas was later adopted by his uncle Henry Rolfe. Henry didn't trust Samuel Argall claims, and feared for his nephew's safety, Henry found Pocahontas's death very suspicious as she was completely healthy when he saw her just hours before her death, Thomas would later inherit a small part of his father's fortune and a few plots of land back in America, when he was 21 he eventually made it to Virginia on his own where he owned a Plantation. his great-grandson was John Bolling.
Exactly. I've read what happened to people at those camps. Yeah, the Nazis and Hitler lost their rights to be called "human" given their inhumane treatment of those poor people. Pure rubbish.
@@eyesofwater123 Hold on, that's exactly what the person in the video was trying to talk about. What *I* was saying is that evil is a conscious choice, not an inherent trait. A conscious choice that *any human* could potentially make. HitIer was a man who chose evil, and it's downright dangerous to forget or deny that you, I, or anyone else could choose evil if we wanted to as well. Most people just don't want to choose evil. The video _wasn't_ advocating for any mercy or sympathy towards the Nazis. It was saying that the only thing stopping us from going down the same path is our own choices. What makes us better than them is our consciously wanting to be better than them.
In the 1950s and late 40s America's economy boomed the reason why the rest of the industrial world laden ruins due to world war II it took the world about 35 years to catch up to America
The one person who out rode Revere was aRaines. I believe her name was Sybel her last name started with a L. She rode throughout the night. She got home as the sun was coming up. She was so fatigued that they had to pry her fingers from the raines. She put Revere to shame, but you'll never hear a poem about her.
Hey name was Sybil Ludington. She was 16 yrs old. She rode all night warning Colonists and rallying Militia Men in Putnam County of the British burning of Danbury. The next day, The Militia Men met the British in battle, forced The British to retreat.
If I had horns on my head it's to scare you and your not getting anywhere near them without getting chopped in half. People were crazy still too lol. When I can I prefer no helmet anyway cuz its stifling
“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair." It’s widely believed that Alexander Hamilton said this to Thomas Jefferson at some point, but he never did. This misconception stems from the intense hatred that Hamilton and Jefferson had for each other.
In the early to mid 1960s, computers were Eniac, 3 story buildings with vacuum tubes and tapes/punch cards. Only banks and the government used them. My elementary school teacher told us students, “ Computers will NEVER NEVER NEVER (emphasis) be small enough to fit on a desk top.” Lol
Paul Revere gets all the credit but a teenage girl who warned more people is barely acknowledged. In 1777 a girl named Sybil Ludington went on a night ride to warn American forces of the approaching British. She rode 40 miles- more than twice the distance of Paul Revere from 9 p.m. to around dawn and was only 16 years old at that time.
@@smiley7803 American History teachers do. A few years ago I had to argue with mine until we googled it and she admitted defeat. She said that her college professor taught everyone that so...
The one about Galleo isn't the complete story. That may have been how it started out. However,I'd like to point out that Copernicus was also banned. Despite the fact that he was too dead to offend anyone. Heliocentrism became representative of protestantism due to being published in Germany. Therefore it is politics, but it did become a conviction of the entire scientific theory. Finally, Copernicus was more accurate than existing models. That's why he made the theory in the first place
Rosa Parks was not the first black woman to refuse to give up her seat for a white person. Claudette Colvin, a pregnant 15 year old student from a black high school in Montgomery, had refused to move from her bus seat nine months earlier. However, Colvin is not nearly as well-known, and certainly not as celebrated, as Parks. “On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.” The bus driver called a police officer, who confronted Colvin. “And I said, 'I paid my fare and it's my constitutional right,' " she recalls. "I remember they dragged me off bus because I refused to walk. They handcuffed me and took me to an adult jail." She was charged with assault and battery, disorderly conduct and defying the segregation law. For many years, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort. Colvin has said, "Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all." Colvin's case was dropped by civil rights campaigners because Colvin was unmarried and pregnant during the proceedings. It is now widely accepted that Colvin was not accredited by civil rights campaigners at the time due to her circumstances. Rosa Parks stated: "If the white press got ahold of that information, they would have [had] a field day. They'd call her a bad girl, and her case wouldn't have a chance." Another fact that only told half the story was the comment about Rosa Parks “having years of training”. They are referring to the non-violent/peaceful resistance that MLK advocated for and taught. You can actually watch recordings of some of the sessions where civil rights leaders tried to prepare people for the horrible things they would experience when confronted by angry whites. They had to learn how to remain nonviolent and non confrontational in the face of pure evil. Still, many civil rights activists were violently attacked, lynched, and murdered including children.
Yeah I was only young when she died, she was really old when she died she was around 105. I'm pretty sure it was 104. She was blind and deaf and couldn't walk when she died, my nans got the letter she got off the queen on her 100th birthday. I can't remember why I posted this on here now it was probably relevant but I haven't watched this video for months
I thought it was interesting like with the stories she's told my mam n that about ww2 cause she had my nan n that I'll probably have to rewatch this video to see why I even commented
1:00:09 I thought this was fake because I misread the date as 1884, hitler wasn’t born until 1889 so I was like “Hold on…” also who the heck lets their five year old on ice. Oh wait yeah, parents who are also cousins, like hitlers parents.
The thing about the variety of food is kinda bs though. Human history is ~200k years (give or take, I'm not an anthropologist) but cultivated animals and plants had not appeared until the last 10k or so years. Hunter-gatherer people had a much more diversified diet, as they had to rely on a large number of food sources. Farming consumes a lot of time and we began to rely on a small number of sources and the variety of nutrition suffered. Availability nowadays certainly changed for the better (if you live in any of the first world countries) in the last century, but our diet is not necessarily better.
Katanas are good right, but have you seen the length of a traditional Scottish swords it doesn’t matter how skilful you are with a sword if you can’t reach them...
"People drank beer instead of water because water was unsafe." Bullshit except for industrial cities and locations downstream for them during the industrial revolution, and heavily polluted water sources of the modern era. Prior to this, industries that made lots of pollution (mining, tanning, etc.) were relegated downstream from settlements, or were spread out enough upstream that the rivers were safer than modern tapwater. Most regions made it legal for strangers to drink from any well. All settlement were built around safe water sources, if only a well. Beer was taxed. Half-beers were like soft drinks. Water was almost always free, and writings existed that detailed how to tell if water was safe or not (which would've paired with common oral traditions on what made water safe, through trial and error established over thousands of years beforehand). Modern tapwater is often disgustingly contaminated, BTW. Think about the shit growing in your pipes, from rust to fungus to slime. Now think about the federally-regulated "safe levels" of contaminants, and ask "Is that lower than the levels in the average 1600s European river?" Don't forget that even plastic bottled water can be contaminated and unsafe if the factory cuts corners, if the plastic is low-quality, or the plastic is exposed to sunlight for too long.
That person who wrote about the swordsmanpship and the samurai, well he's kinda wrong. But not completely. It's not a matter of handling a sword. Its the matter of how each were trained. I could pick up a sword right now, and swing it around and maybe even after a while become proficient enough to kill someone. Doesn't mean I have nearly as much training. The fact is, samurai were/are some of the best if not the best warriors, because of their training. Which started in childhood. They would start young, not with a real sword, but with practice sword, practice bow, practice yari. Would learn discipline as well as their usual schooling. Then gradually get older, get better, switch to real swords, for practice would be dulled. And also, an actual misconception is that the samurai were swordsmen mainly. That's false. A samurais main weapon would normally be a bow. But, in reality, each samurai preferred different weapons and would master that one, but be proficient in each weapon, for their different purposes. Basically why were the samurai better warriors? Because their lives were dedicated to that. They were warriors first. Not to mention, Japan's history is basically war. When your country is constantly fighting, it breeds strong warriors. It comes down to them being better because they were simply that one thing. Sure some were politicians as well, but those would be older samurai or samurai who were born into that position.
With the exception of the bit on the bow, the same could be said of the Medieval Knight, their primary weapon more often being a lance/spear or in later years a poleaxe. Both Knights and Samurai did carry swords, but only as a backup weapon. I'm sure you likely know this, but I'm saying it anyway for the benefit of those that don't
@@matthewjohnson6901 true, and I'm not discrediting medieval European knights, or any other historical warrior groups. There are many warrior groups that are all amazing In their own way. But when you think about everything behind them, their history and the area they live in, the time periods, what being apart of that class means, the philosophy behind the group and etc. Only then can you start comparing warriors of different cultures. A lot of people claim Spartans as the strongest, but that's bullshit. Half of their history is completely falsified, at least half of what modern people pay attention to. And funnily enough a lot of people discredit Chinese warriors. When, if you think about it, being at war for thousands of years, you'd think more people would recognize them as some of the strongest. I think the issue is is that they don't have a major classification for their warriors. Like Samurai or Knight. They were just warriors constantly at war for control of their country. And most of the time they were just peasants called to fight, but they did have dedicated soldiers. In general, I recognize each of these amazing warrior classes. But I still believe the Samurai as at least better than the European knights. Though you'd have to think about other situations and calculate things into who'd win. Though saying armor type is all that matters or sword or weapons is all that matters is dumb. My point is the warriors themselves plays a larger role.
That Maori are native New Zealander's. Well they are but by default. They killed and inslaved the native's (the moriori). Since none are around now. The Maori became the natives when England turned up to New Zealand.
That life expectancy thing drives me crazy. I must be missing something. Actually no, I got through with my rant. And looked it up. Oxford academic journals report that of your family were wealthy enough to own land your life expectancy was 31. If you survived to 10 you could have 31 more years. If you made it to 25 you might have as many as 23 more years. So. If you were wealthy, fed and sheltered you might live to the ripe old age of 48. Where are they getting this 60 something nonsense?? My original too long rant below: If you exclude everyone that dies. Sure 'life expectancy is over sixty'. Average life expectancy before antibiotics was 45 even in industrialized countries. Excluding, of course the expected dead babies and mothers. Average life expectancy today in Africa is 61. (Up from 37 in 1950) This ofcourse excludes the ones that die giving birth and the ones who die before five. That said despite excluding those deaths... The median age of the continent of Africa is 19. The median age of Niger is 15. 5% of the population of sub-saharan Africa has reached 60 years old. West African life expectancy specifically has reached 57 years old thanks to massive international efforts to bring much needed medicines and constant fresh water sources since the 50s. Despite this the average age of West Africa is 18. The Middle Ages were worse off than most sub saharan African countries, they went through war, conscription, strife, depravity, poverty all without medicine or the general understanding if what an infection was... sure 'if you managed to make it to 60 you were likely to live a full life'. However. You are one abcessed tooth, one infected scratch, one bite, one poorly set broken bone from death at any given time ever. For perspective, European royalty in and around the time averaged 50 years of life If you made it to 58 you made it to the top 15 of oldest European monarchs in all of recorded history. In contrast, 5% of mideval monks, the pampered jerks with constant food, water, heat, shelter and the closest thing to peasant-people medicine survived to see 45 on average. What sense does it make/ use is it to say You can expect to live X... so long as you don't die before that. I guess I can expect to live to 120 so long as I don't die before that of infection, disease or child birth. But who dies of infection or disease, right?! Hahahah average life before antibiotics =45.
This 1hr video has taught me more than my history class has or will teach me this year
terra brite crafting it be like that
I agree
Listen in class
@@horatioguevara7597 listen to what, them teach about Edgar Allen Poe? 😂 schools don’t teach what need to be taught. Hell I was taught Christopher Columbus founded America…
@@KingLeonidas300_ what country did you go to school in?
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This reminds me of the time that my brother said he hated Germans because of the holocaust. I pointed out that there is such a thing as German *_JEWS_* and my mom mentioned that our grandfather (her father) is part German but apparently he didn't hear that so I had to ask him if he hated our grandfather--his response? "He's an exception but I still hate all other Germans" (or something along those lines). Cue me pointing out that if our grandfather is part German that makes not only me and him part German but also our mom, both of our uncles, and all three of our aforementioned uncles' sons part German and my brother had a literal identity crisis as this sunk in. My brother has never mentioned hating Germans again.
An older friend of mine from Yorkshire (he’s 50) once went into a pub as a young man and heard some old men trading war stories. He asked which war it was and was told it was the boer war.
Ffs
damm he must have been old...
The timeline on this one is odd
Second boar war was 1890s . An elderly soldier could have lived to the 1970s some one 50s on the teens could have been in a pub in the 70s since I believe they are able to go in pubs at 16. Also I'm 60 used to go in liqueur stores before 10 with my dad. They had neat old cash register made of brass
Might have been his dad, now that I think of it…
I’m pretty shocked that a history teacher could say that Hitler was just a normal guy. He wasn’t.
Hitler’s own high command questioned his sanity as the war dragged on and he became increasingly more unhinged and paranoid. This is why there were so many assassination attempts against him.
According to his inner circle, Hitler came to view the German people as having failed him, unworthy of their great mission in history and thus deserving to die alongside his regime.
In March 1945 Hitler issued the Nero Decree which ordered the destruction of all German infrastructure so that the Allies and the German people would be left with nothing but a “scorched earth”. The decree was destroyed by Albert Speer before it could be carried out.
Hitler had made a similar order just before the liberation of Paris. He ordered explosives to be placed all around the city. If the Allies came near the city, the military governor, General Dietrich von Choltitz was to detonate these bombs, leaving Paris "lying in complete debris." Von Choltitz, however, did not carry out the order and surrendered to the Allies, later alleging that this was the moment he realized that "Hitler was insane."
A scorched earth policy was also issued for the Netherlands in 1945 but Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the Reichskommissar in charge of the Netherlands during its occupation, was able to greatly limit the scope to which the order was executed.
From the very beginning of the war, everyone was taking pervitin (meth). It was handed out to the German soldiers like candy. It’s one of the main reasons blitzkrieg was so effective- the army could advance for days without stopping to rest. If you know anything about meth addicts, you know that sleep depravation + meth = paranoia, hallucinations, insanity, etc.
Was every Nazi a psychopath? Obviously not. But it’s disingenuous to pretend that they were all just regular people swept up in the idea of reuniting Germany and a thousand year reich.
Rosa Parks was not the first black lady to refuse to give up her seat, she was the 3rd. How about them apples?
Alucard Peach Who were the other people? I can’t seem to find any info but I have heard the other people who have done it weren’t as clean cut as Rosa parks which is why we only remember her
@@SonOvaSon One of them was named Claudette Colvin, but I forget the other one.
The Brown/Stigler incident is one of the most beautiful things in war history.
Just to add some detail, he not just only realized the tail gun was silent, as he came closer he saw the dead gunner hanging out of his booth and the blood running along the .50cal Barrles. He said it himself. Once more an evidence that not all german soldiers were cold blooded killer nazis. I love the video of the two meeting up again.
In the 1980s the widow of a Civil War veteran lived up the road from us. She'd been married in her teens to an old man.
41:55 Humans have been around longer than that. And we don't know if we have had written history before 6k years ago. The world flooded at least twice when the ice dams over North America broke one such even created the Badlands of Washington state. Throw in a meteor hitting the planet 50k years ago (Meteor crater Arizona), massive volcanic eruptions, another meteor hitting the planet 13k years ago.. Yeah I bet there is a lot of history that has been lost. We have only FOUND written history from 6k years ago. Sunken cities that were built 20k years ago (they are under 400 feet of water now) and their complex designs is pretty good evidence that humans had written records before 6k years ago. Advanced mathematics were required to build and or carve these structures. You don't get that without written language.
Not all German soldiers in WW2 were Nazi's most were simply drafted and sent off to fight for their country and did the job they were sent to do. If I remember correctly there were soldiers that got shown footage from the death camps and they were visibly horrified and ashamed.
What I've learned from this; the universe was really fucking determined to keep Hitler alive.
My great grandmother is the last full blooded Native American in our family. My grandfather was born in Wewoka, Oklahoma. Part of the Osage tribe. 🙂
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I feel the need to point out that there are inaccuracies in DarkNinjaPenguin's post (2:57). Mainly that the iceberg did NOT tear a gash down a third of Titanic's length (as has been known for many years at this point) but instead, tore open seams totaling 2 or 3 square feet.
Also, the ship was going too fast considering they had been warned about many ice bergs in the area
True, but that was common practice at the time for some unfathomable reason.
Yeah, I’ve been trained to use katana and Japanese footwork and even I’ll admit it’s not the best sword, they typically will get damaged by hitting metal so it doesn’t exactly do much good
Is that due to the quality of the steel or the purpose of the blade itself?
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I got curious and decided to look it up.
Napoleon was 5'2 according to French inches at the time but nowadays that translates to around 5'6.
The Australian Army now uses "mils" instead of Degrees. A Mil is the angle subtended by 1 meter over 1000 metres. This give approximately 6400 mils in a circle.This helps the calulation of angular differance over a range. So 90 degrees is 1600 mils. The Russians have simlified the issue differently. They use 6000 "mils" per circle
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THEN THE 189, IN THE SERVICE OF HEAVEN
THEY'RE PROTECTING THE HOLY LINE, IT WAS 1527
GAVE THEIR LIVES ON THE STEPS TO HEAVEN
THY WILL BE DONE!
1:25 I don't actually know anyone who actually believes or was even taught that the "majority" of slaves in the Triangle Trade came to the US. Maybe their teachers were a little sloppy and said "slaves were brought to the Americas" and (because it's in the USAmerican nature to do so) kids assume they all were brought to the US specifically, but I really have never encountered anyone who believed this "common misconception".
I've definitely encountered way more people who bring up this particular factoid as some kinda "gotcha" about American slavery. As if we were somehow "less guilty" of slavery because we didn't have literally *all* the slaves. They're the same people who say "You know that they were sold to white people by other Africans, right?" Like, okay? Slavery was and is still bad? And doesn't absolve us of the responsibility to reckon with the legacy of slavery in our own country?
My great-aunt was born in 1899 and died in 2002 thus saw 3 centuries.
She must have had some amazing stories!
@@Alex-ms9em not as much as you would expect. She spent the entire time in a small town in southeast CO in a sod house her husband built for her when she was 17.
Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian. She was a white Macedonian. She was the first person in her family that could even speak Egyptian.
Napoleon being short isn't a misinterpretation of measurements. It was straight up propaganda from the enemy saying he was tiny and angry
When you're first but you don't want to comment "first".
Yes you are first
You're a good man. Thank you.
that is big pp move
"king tut's parents were borther and sister", dude, pretty much most of the eqyptian royals married their sibling... especially the ruling ones
40:15 same story for my great grandma she lived from 1917-2021
17:17 He was ONE OF the only people to get an iron cross and an MBE? Who were the other people?
I hate that Rosa Parks gets all the credit for standing up to racism when Viola Desmond did it years previous; Viola sat in the "white" section of the movie theatre, because the rest was full, and when she was asked to leave she refused because she had paid to see the movie, so that's what she was gonna do.
But because this happened in Nova Scotia she doesn't get the recognition she deserves.
She did it in 1946, Rosa did it in 1955. It's not fair to Viola.
The reason why rosa parks is remembered is because of more people spoke out in support of her. Also that was because Rosa had really important friends, for example, one of them was MLK.
@@HeloFromStrangerc That makes sense, I just wish Viola was remembered too, outside of just Canada. She didn't do it to be remembered but she deserves to be; she's on our 10 dollar bill now for what it's worth.
Wish there was more long history facts videos like this
Also Pocahontas wasn't 12 she was 16 and was already married to a native man from different tribe, and had just given birth to her first child a daughter. The day before she was kidnapped. Not by John Smith, they were never in love (that was just Disney being creepy! Their relationship was almost non-existent, aside from when he needed a an interpreter. ) And by that time John Smith was either dead or in a different state when she was taken by the British. Pocahontas was often pychlogically and physically assaulted by several crew members on the ship she was held captive on and eventually fell pregnant and had a son who was named Thomas.
A 40 year old widower named John Rolfe claimed to be the father, he later married Pocahontas (who was renamed Rebbeca) raised the boy as his own. I think she was in Britain for 5-6 years before finally being told she was going home, however the ship's captain, one Samuel Argall, was keeping a very close eye on Pocahontas. He didn't want her telling people what had really happened during her captivity, and may had her poisoned. it was reported that she and her family sat down to dinner, she had some tea and a few moments later began to cough up blood before dying in her chair.
Argall would later invite Pocahontas's husband and son along to go on an expedition back to Virginia, luckily Thomas was too ill to travel; stayed behind in England. While at sea John Rolfe mysteriously passed away, and Thomas was later adopted by his uncle Henry Rolfe. Henry didn't trust Samuel Argall claims, and feared for his nephew's safety, Henry found Pocahontas's death very suspicious as she was completely healthy when he saw her just hours before her death, Thomas would later inherit a small part of his father's fortune and a few plots of land back in America, when he was 21 he eventually made it to Virginia on his own where he owned a Plantation. his great-grandson was John Bolling.
2:33 Isn't that the very definition of what a truly evil person is, though? Doing that stuff while being fully aware of what you're doing?
Yeah that's what i thought.....
Exactly. I've read what happened to people at those camps. Yeah, the Nazis and Hitler lost their rights to be called "human" given their inhumane treatment of those poor people. Pure rubbish.
@@eyesofwater123 Hold on, that's exactly what the person in the video was trying to talk about.
What *I* was saying is that evil is a conscious choice, not an inherent trait. A conscious choice that *any human* could potentially make. HitIer was a man who chose evil, and it's downright dangerous to forget or deny that you, I, or anyone else could choose evil if we wanted to as well. Most people just don't want to choose evil.
The video _wasn't_ advocating for any mercy or sympathy towards the Nazis. It was saying that the only thing stopping us from going down the same path is our own choices. What makes us better than them is our consciously wanting to be better than them.
In the 1950s and late 40s America's economy boomed the reason why the rest of the industrial world laden ruins due to world war II it took the world about 35 years to catch up to America
Daughter Rachel: That Written Viking Encounter Made me Chuckle a Little!
**happy historian noises**
The one person who out rode Revere was aRaines. I believe her name was Sybel her last name started with a L. She rode throughout the night. She got home as the sun was coming up. She was so fatigued that they had to pry her fingers from the raines. She put Revere to shame, but you'll never hear a poem about her.
Not a Raines, it's a woman.
Hey name was Sybil Ludington. She was 16 yrs old. She rode all night warning Colonists and rallying Militia Men in Putnam County of the British burning of Danbury. The next day, The Militia Men met the British in battle, forced The British to retreat.
vikings in their poems: "we had horns"
vikings in reality: ...
If I had horns on my head it's to scare you and your not getting anywhere near them without getting chopped in half. People were crazy still too lol. When I can I prefer no helmet anyway cuz its stifling
Its not spices, its sauce to cover bad meat. People still do...looking at u golden corral.
“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair."
It’s widely believed that Alexander Hamilton said this to Thomas Jefferson at some point, but he never did. This misconception stems from the intense hatred that Hamilton and Jefferson had for each other.
In the early to mid 1960s, computers were Eniac, 3 story buildings with vacuum tubes and tapes/punch cards. Only banks and the government used them. My elementary school teacher told us students, “ Computers will NEVER NEVER NEVER (emphasis) be small enough to fit on a desk top.” Lol
26:02 there was a video on the info graphic show on that
I guess im alone here its hard being second people think that line is very annoying lmao
Paul Revere gets all the credit but a teenage girl who warned more people is barely acknowledged. In 1777 a girl named Sybil Ludington went on a night ride to warn American forces of the approaching British. She rode 40 miles- more than twice the distance of Paul Revere from 9 p.m. to around dawn and was only 16 years old at that time.
That Lusitania is Titanic's sister ship. It's not. American History teachers please stop teaching children this it is incorrect.
nobody says this
@@smiley7803 American History teachers do. A few years ago I had to argue with mine until we googled it and she admitted defeat. She said that her college professor taught everyone that so...
The bit about the Titanic was really interesting.
That double agent with the imaginary spy underlings was the original severus snape
The one about Galleo isn't the complete story. That may have been how it started out. However,I'd like to point out that Copernicus was also banned. Despite the fact that he was too dead to offend anyone. Heliocentrism became representative of protestantism due to being published in Germany. Therefore it is politics, but it did become a conviction of the entire scientific theory.
Finally, Copernicus was more accurate than existing models. That's why he made the theory in the first place
Crazy how many times Death tried to take out Hitler before he came to power but people kept saving him. Final Destination lied to us! 😂
"Aren't horns on a helmet inconvenient?" : Honda Tadakatsu never got that memo.
"Everything on the Internet is true", Abraham Lincoln 1865.
Rosa Parks was not the first black woman to refuse to give up her seat for a white person.
Claudette Colvin, a pregnant 15 year old student from a black high school in Montgomery, had refused to move from her bus seat nine months earlier. However, Colvin is not nearly as well-known, and certainly not as celebrated, as Parks.
“On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.”
The bus driver called a police officer, who confronted Colvin. “And I said, 'I paid my fare and it's my constitutional right,' " she recalls. "I remember they dragged me off bus because I refused to walk. They handcuffed me and took me to an adult jail." She was charged with assault and battery, disorderly conduct and defying the segregation law.
For many years, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort. Colvin has said, "Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all."
Colvin's case was dropped by civil rights campaigners because Colvin was unmarried and pregnant during the proceedings. It is now widely accepted that Colvin was not accredited by civil rights campaigners at the time due to her circumstances. Rosa Parks stated: "If the white press got ahold of that information, they would have [had] a field day. They'd call her a bad girl, and her case wouldn't have a chance."
Another fact that only told half the story was the comment about Rosa Parks “having years of training”. They are referring to the non-violent/peaceful resistance that MLK advocated for and taught. You can actually watch recordings of some of the sessions where civil rights leaders tried to prepare people for the horrible things they would experience when confronted by angry whites. They had to learn how to remain nonviolent and non confrontational in the face of pure evil. Still, many civil rights activists were violently attacked, lynched, and murdered including children.
For the second question, look up Khosrau Anushiriwan of Persia
My great nanna was born in 1902 and died in 2007 I think it was
First off, what? Second off, that would make her 105 years old, which is very old. Like, almost impossible old.
Yeah I was only young when she died, she was really old when she died she was around 105. I'm pretty sure it was 104. She was blind and deaf and couldn't walk when she died, my nans got the letter she got off the queen on her 100th birthday. I can't remember why I posted this on here now it was probably relevant but I haven't watched this video for months
I thought it was interesting like with the stories she's told my mam n that about ww2 cause she had my nan n that I'll probably have to rewatch this video to see why I even commented
1:00:09 I thought this was fake because I misread the date as 1884, hitler wasn’t born until 1889 so I was like “Hold on…” also who the heck lets their five year old on ice. Oh wait yeah, parents who are also cousins, like hitlers parents.
Now that I think of it a lot of evil people are products of incest: Hitler, Uday Hussein, ect.
Logic eludes the bro who believes if he lives to 101, he would have lived through three different centuries.
51:15 I believe it was the Oregon coast
The thing about the variety of food is kinda bs though. Human history is ~200k years (give or take, I'm not an anthropologist) but cultivated animals and plants had not appeared until the last 10k or so years. Hunter-gatherer people had a much more diversified diet, as they had to rely on a large number of food sources. Farming consumes a lot of time and we began to rely on a small number of sources and the variety of nutrition suffered. Availability nowadays certainly changed for the better (if you live in any of the first world countries) in the last century, but our diet is not necessarily better.
Katanas are good right, but have you seen the length of a traditional Scottish swords it doesn’t matter how skilful you are with a sword if you can’t reach them...
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anyone have a credible source for Galileo vs Catholic church at the 6 min mark?
Who the hell says everything was better in the 50s?
White Republican Boomers.
this video made me realize that my history teacher dont know shit
He probably knew most of these but didn’t have time to pass them on to you since there’s too much boring data you have to get through.
"People drank beer instead of water because water was unsafe." Bullshit except for industrial cities and locations downstream for them during the industrial revolution, and heavily polluted water sources of the modern era. Prior to this, industries that made lots of pollution (mining, tanning, etc.) were relegated downstream from settlements, or were spread out enough upstream that the rivers were safer than modern tapwater. Most regions made it legal for strangers to drink from any well. All settlement were built around safe water sources, if only a well. Beer was taxed. Half-beers were like soft drinks. Water was almost always free, and writings existed that detailed how to tell if water was safe or not (which would've paired with common oral traditions on what made water safe, through trial and error established over thousands of years beforehand).
Modern tapwater is often disgustingly contaminated, BTW. Think about the shit growing in your pipes, from rust to fungus to slime. Now think about the federally-regulated "safe levels" of contaminants, and ask "Is that lower than the levels in the average 1600s European river?" Don't forget that even plastic bottled water can be contaminated and unsafe if the factory cuts corners, if the plastic is low-quality, or the plastic is exposed to sunlight for too long.
Oh that Rosa Parks one bothered me as a Batman fan....
Must resist!...
Ra’s al Ghul* (pronounced Raysh)
Dang it
The titanic wasn’t built bad it was dew to a fire that damaged the steel of on of the sections if that didn’t happen the titanic would not have sunk
Based on
I'm related to Jesse James. He is a distant cousin on my mothers side
My daughter's are second cousin's Wilma Rudolph. My ex-husband first cousin. Ex mother in law niece.
That person who wrote about the swordsmanpship and the samurai, well he's kinda wrong. But not completely. It's not a matter of handling a sword. Its the matter of how each were trained. I could pick up a sword right now, and swing it around and maybe even after a while become proficient enough to kill someone. Doesn't mean I have nearly as much training. The fact is, samurai were/are some of the best if not the best warriors, because of their training. Which started in childhood. They would start young, not with a real sword, but with practice sword, practice bow, practice yari. Would learn discipline as well as their usual schooling. Then gradually get older, get better, switch to real swords, for practice would be dulled. And also, an actual misconception is that the samurai were swordsmen mainly. That's false. A samurais main weapon would normally be a bow. But, in reality, each samurai preferred different weapons and would master that one, but be proficient in each weapon, for their different purposes.
Basically why were the samurai better warriors? Because their lives were dedicated to that. They were warriors first.
Not to mention, Japan's history is basically war. When your country is constantly fighting, it breeds strong warriors. It comes down to them being better because they were simply that one thing. Sure some were politicians as well, but those would be older samurai or samurai who were born into that position.
With the exception of the bit on the bow, the same could be said of the Medieval Knight, their primary weapon more often being a lance/spear or in later years a poleaxe. Both Knights and Samurai did carry swords, but only as a backup weapon. I'm sure you likely know this, but I'm saying it anyway for the benefit of those that don't
@@matthewjohnson6901 true, and I'm not discrediting medieval European knights, or any other historical warrior groups. There are many warrior groups that are all amazing In their own way.
But when you think about everything behind them, their history and the area they live in, the time periods, what being apart of that class means, the philosophy behind the group and etc. Only then can you start comparing warriors of different cultures. A lot of people claim Spartans as the strongest, but that's bullshit. Half of their history is completely falsified, at least half of what modern people pay attention to. And funnily enough a lot of people discredit Chinese warriors. When, if you think about it, being at war for thousands of years, you'd think more people would recognize them as some of the strongest. I think the issue is is that they don't have a major classification for their warriors. Like Samurai or Knight. They were just warriors constantly at war for control of their country. And most of the time they were just peasants called to fight, but they did have dedicated soldiers.
In general, I recognize each of these amazing warrior classes. But I still believe the Samurai as at least better than the European knights. Though you'd have to think about other situations and calculate things into who'd win. Though saying armor type is all that matters or sword or weapons is all that matters is dumb. My point is the warriors themselves plays a larger role.
@@Smithysmithin I wasn't contradicting you, just adding on to what you said.
I made a comment.
Fact that’s stupid: Canadians are nice
Ever hear of a residential school?
She was 104
That Maori are native New Zealander's. Well they are but by default. They killed and inslaved the native's (the moriori). Since none are around now. The Maori became the natives when England turned up to New Zealand.
Who would even think that Hitler had one testicle? Wtf
One was shot off during his time fighting in WWI
But Colonel Bogey said so.....
I mean...its not one of the main things you think of when it it comes to him but it was true.
Cinco De Mayo is Mexican Independence Day.
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That life expectancy thing drives me crazy. I must be missing something.
Actually no, I got through with my rant. And looked it up.
Oxford academic journals report that of your family were wealthy enough to own land your life expectancy was 31. If you survived to 10 you could have 31 more years.
If you made it to 25 you might have as many as 23 more years.
So. If you were wealthy, fed and sheltered you might live to the ripe old age of 48.
Where are they getting this 60 something nonsense??
My original too long rant below:
If you exclude everyone that dies. Sure 'life expectancy is over sixty'.
Average life expectancy before antibiotics was 45 even in industrialized countries. Excluding, of course the expected dead babies and mothers.
Average life expectancy today in Africa is 61. (Up from 37 in 1950) This ofcourse excludes the ones that die giving birth and the ones who die before five.
That said despite excluding those deaths...
The median age of the continent of Africa is 19. The median age of Niger is 15.
5% of the population of sub-saharan Africa has reached 60 years old.
West African life expectancy specifically has reached 57 years old thanks to massive international efforts to bring much needed medicines and constant fresh water sources since the 50s. Despite this the average age of West Africa is 18.
The Middle Ages were worse off than most sub saharan African countries, they went through war, conscription, strife, depravity, poverty all without medicine or the general understanding if what an infection was... sure 'if you managed to make it to 60 you were likely to live a full life'. However.
You are one abcessed tooth, one infected scratch, one bite, one poorly set broken bone from death at any given time ever.
For perspective, European royalty in and around the time averaged 50 years of life
If you made it to 58 you made it to the top 15 of oldest European monarchs in all of recorded history.
In contrast, 5% of mideval monks, the pampered jerks with constant food, water, heat, shelter and the closest thing to peasant-people medicine survived to see 45 on average.
What sense does it make/ use is it to say
You can expect to live X... so long as you don't die before that.
I guess I can expect to live to 120 so long as I don't die before that of infection, disease or child birth. But who dies of infection or disease, right?! Hahahah average life before antibiotics =45.
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