wish he'd done that for Ghana selling slaves. not nearly enough people (run a search on youtube, you'll see what I mean) realize that African countries sold slaves, and that e\European countries basically never captured Africans to enslave, they purchased them. oh and, to be clear, this does not absolve Europe of anything. everyone involved was terrible. its just a set of facts that people ought to know, but apparantly aren't taught in schools.
That statement is a contradiction in itself. Since the OP lore is based on irl lore. Oda did not invent these things he got influenced by real world history and mythology.
@@jesuseinstein4706You can be influenced by something and make it better, so not really a contradiction, but I’m also not agreeing with the statement that One Piece has better world building than irl.
@@ynam.2622 That was not the point. To get the influence inside of the world building of one piece, you have to got the knowledge of irl to get the references. And Oda is a master of using everything around the world not just japanese mythology and histroy.
11:33 a big reason the merchant countries were really difficult to conquer was because since they made a ton of money from trade monopolies, they had the kind of money to where they could pay a private army of mercenaries from across the world to protect them
Yea that's one reason but they had some good naval forces. Chola's naval forces were one of the powerful naval forces in the world during those times. All adds up to the reason why they are one among the only few empires who sustained for more than 1500 years
they were never directly conquered by THE MUGHAL EMPIRE but that is solely because the southern tamil nadu and southern western region of kerala were not under Mughal rule , had the mughal taken over those two regions they likely would have conquered all of the Tamil kings territory, however the Tamil kings were invaded and displaced by the kalabrhas in the 3rd century, the Pandyas and pallavas simply later overthrew the kalabrhas and restored the 3 kingdoms there is also the fact that the real reason is simply because of the difficult geography, less visible wealth it simply made them less attractivre for invasions there was also a huge factor in that the mughal empire was largely broke and couldn't afford conquest into the area, by the time it broke apart and formed smaller kingdoms those former mughal noblemen did capture Tamil nadu, and northern kerala
@16:41 "They did many crusades, some of which almost didn't fail". This has easily gotta be one of most frequently missed and underrated burns in this video. Gets me every time 🤣
The crusades really gotta be one of the stupidest moments in history A whole lot of fighting, whole lot of death people, and the only result? This country over there got some sweet trading from all the crusaders traveling lmao
They forced my people to abandon their religions and now the biggest religion in my country is Lutheranism and a version of our pagan ancestor beliefs is only number 6. After Catholicism and versions of Russian Orthodox (which were part of Catholicism until year 1k).
@@Benxall whats wierd is how dedicated people are to denying the literal journals of the crusaders. most of those soldiers were 1. mercenaries and 2. not any more hesitent to r- and pilliage than any other soldier of the era. basically, the crusades were, to borrow the phrasing of an excellent parody "a never ending parade of failures and f-ups"
The banks did fail, that's the joke. Back then, people genuinely thought the banks couldn't fail because of how rich they are, and that blind trust (and, tbh, stupidity) led to the economic crash of 2008
I think it was more referring to the banks getting bailed out by the government under the logic of "too big to fail," meaning the government threw money at them to keep them in business to avoid the economic impact of them actually fully failing. People have opinions about this.
Damn, is nice to see india doing so well afterward, glad the caste system was sorted out. Is a shame how many countries voted in despots to show off their newfound independence, just to lose it in a decade being bought out by american or chinese corporations aha
i guess you've never heard the phrase "the sun doesn't set on the british empire"? the phrase exists because at one point, britain owned so much land on the earth, _it was always daytime on some part of it._
dude i literally love this video, i come back to it like once every six months to just watch it again. never expected to see you reacting to something like this 😭 but id love to see more reactions like this, that'd be dope
I fucking love how so many Americans know what mitochondria are. It's a perfect example of how to improve the education system, make it more fun and relatable. *POWER HOUSE.*
"History of the entire world i guess" Is a masterpiece and imo one of the best videos in this site (im biased), didn't think you were gonna react to it though
Colonization is not exactly 1 typical thing. As in taking over stuff. For example if we ever go to Mars, Mars would be a colony. It is basically a new settlement built by a preexisting civilization elsewhere. It could be on empty land, but also ancient ruins or on already occupied land by others. And it's not always done violently either when near an existing civilization in a region. Like Carthage bought the land, and it was more empty. Nobody lived there. In time they gradually became a dominating power.
Your reaction to learning about the Scramble for Africa was great. I have a PhD in art history specializing in African art, and every time I teach a class or a course on African art, I always start by telling my students about the Scramble for Africa. I definitely never learned about it until college.
Really? I learned about the Berlin Conference in highschool here in Brazil, and my teachers always highlighted it as one of the most important events of the african history and that its consequences are still visible today.
I'm rewatching it now after taking quite a few history courses and it makes so much more sense now and its pretty impressive how much he gets across in such a short time
I actually work with history/archeology channels! While "History Of The Entire World I Guess" is fun, a MAJOR issue with it is it almost entirely ignores the Precolumbian Americas, despite it being half the planet (Imagine if the video ONLY covered the Americas, but not Europe or Asia before 1500AD: That'd be crazy!). This is sadly common in world history stuff, since a lot of people don't realize just how much the Americas had going on. So below, I'm gonna give my summarized timeline of Mesoamerica (the Aztec, Maya, etc, that's my speciality), and I'll point out the few things Bill Wurtz's video does mentions via timestamps as it comes up. Click "Read More..." to see it below! The Preclassic Period (1400BC-100AD): In 1400 BC, in Southern Veracruz by Mexico's Gulf Coast, the Olmec site of San Lorezno becomes the region's first city in 1400 BC, but declines by 900 BC, where the more fully developed Olmec city of La Venta rises to prominence (which is where most of the giant heads are from, 9:27 in the video), this is also when writing starts to develop. In the following centuries, more and more cities rise, like the Maya cities of El Mirador and Kaminaljuyu in Guatemala; the Zapotec city of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, and the Olmec transforming into the Epi-Olmec. All 3 develop writing, and many other towns and cities of various cultures pop up in various parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, etc. West Mexico is sort of isolated, but during the Olmec period the Capacha are a culture that developed independently and spread/traded pottery, but we don't know much about them. TheEarly Classic Period (100-500AD): By around 0-200AD, urban cities with state governments and writing (for the elite, anyways) had become the norm in Mesoamerica, marking the transition to the Classical Period. This is the period the Maya are are well most known for (tho they reached their absolute height more in the middle/late classic circa 500-700AD, 14:23 in the video), with many dozens of large, notable city-states & kingdoms, and thousands of smaller towns all over the Yucatan Peninsula, Chiapas, Guatemala etc. Down in Oaxcaca, The Zapotec too have formed many city-states, with Monte Alban in particular rising as the most politically powerful. In Central Mexico, in the Valley of Mexico (in what's now Mexico City) a volcanic eruption displaces much of the population, including the city of Cuicuilco, the most powerful city in the area. These displaced people immigrate into the city of Teotihuacan, which grows into a huge influential political and religious center (14:26 in the video, it shows it ~550 AD, which is actually when Teotihuacan began to decline), and with a population of up to 100,000, and eclipsing Rome in physical area, while also having a sewage system and housing even their commoners in lavish palace complexes; and is one of the largest cities in the world at the time (El Mirador was as well). Teotihuacan's influence reaches far across the region, establishing many far reaching architectural, artistic, and religious trends, such as the Talud-tablero archtectural style for pyramids, perhaps even conquering and installing rulers in Maya cities 1000 kilometers away. In western mexico, around the end of the preclassic and start of the classic, the Teuchitlan tradition, the first of Western Mexico's complex societies, emerges (maybe, again, Western Mexico's cultures are very understudied), though less so then the rest of the regi The Late Classic Period (500-900AD) In the latter half of the classic period, you see the rise of El Tajin as a notable influential center among the cities around the Gulf Coast in what's now Central State of Veracruz (the cities/culture there now referred to as the "Classic Veracruz") and Cholula as a notable city in Central Mexico; Monte Alban begins to fall in esteem, with the Zapotec city of Mitla becoming the most prominent city in Oaxaca instead. Teotihuacan begins to decline as well, and in the Yucatan, the cities of Tikal and Calakmul become essentially two super-power city-states among the Maya, centralizing Maya politics around them. Eventually Tikal and it's allies are able to put down Calakmul, shortly thereafter, you have the classical Maya collapse (16:44 in the video, tho this happened in 750-900AD, not 1100 like the video says), where due to a combination of political instability following this massive war, climate issues, and other factors, nearly all of the large powerful Maya urban centers in the southern Yucatan decline between 700 and 800 AD, with many other key centers around Mesoamerica also doing so. Throughout the Late Classic and Early-Postclassic, West Mexico develops many different city-states with increasing influence from the rest of Mesoamerica The Early Post-Classic Period (900-1200AD) Moving into the Early-postclassic, yet many other cities still thrive and survive, such as El Tajin and Cholula, as do Maya city-states in the Northern Yucatan, such as Chichen Itza and Uxmal. You begin to see the Mixtec in the Oaxaca and Guerrero regions begin to overtake the Zapotec in prominence, in particular a warlord by the name of 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw conquered and unified nearly the entire southern Oaxaca/Guerrero region into an empire. 8-deer had the blessings and support of the Toltec in Central Mexico (namely the Lord of Cholula), who the Aztec describe as a massively influential and far reaching power in the region, maybe operating out of the city of Tula (16:46 in the video, tho as with Teotihuacan, the date listed, 1100AD, is when they allegedly fell), but these accounts of Toltec history and key rulers (such as Ce Acatl Topiltzin) are heavily mythologized. As a result, it's hard to separate history from myth (or from Aztec and latter Spanish attempts to twist Toltec accounts to justify their rule) and Tula probably was only the head of a medium sized kingdom. Around 1100 AD, the Toltecs fall, and 8-deer is overthrown and killed in an ironic twist of fate where the one member of his enemies family who he left alive rallied a bunch of subject cities against him; though Tututepec, a city he founded, would grow into a major state of it's own. The Late Post-Classic Period (1200-1521AD) In the 1200's, The Maya city of Mayapan comes closest to forming a unified Maya state, forming a political alliance of many of the city-states in the northern Yucatan. Due to droughts in northern mexico, you begin to see some groups of Chichimeca (nomadic tribes of Northern Mexico), the Nahuas, move further south into Central and Southern Mexico, and transition into urban societies. Notably many settling around the Valley of Mexico and the surrounding areas, led by the legendary King Xototl, displacing local Otomi cities/towns. In particular, the city of Azcapotzalco, which claims heredity from Xolotl, eventually dominates the valley. During the same time as all this in western Mexico, a Nahua group moved down into the Lake Pátzcuaro region, and takes over and becomes the ruling class of Purepecha city of of Pátzcuaro, which conquers many other cities in the area In the 1420's, due to a succession crisis in Azcapotzalco, one of it's two heirs assassinates the other, as well as the then king of Tenochtitlan, which was one of Azcapotzalco's vassal, tributary cities; as he also had had genealogical links to the Azcapotzalco royal line and also represented a succession threat. War breaks out, and Tenochtitlan, along with the city-states of Texcoco, and Tlacopan join forces and overthrow them, forming the Aztec triple alliance/empire. Over the next 100 years, they rapidly expand and conquer almost all of Central and Southern Mexico, including Otomi cities/towns in Central Mexico, Totonac and Huastec ones along the Gulf Coast (who now inhabit that area), Mixtec, Zapotec, and Tlapanec ones in Oaxaca and Guerrero, and many others. Back to Western Mexico, in the 1450's, Pátzcuaro is overthrown by the fellow Purepecha city of Tzintzuntzan, who rapidly expands to form the Purepecha/Tarascan empire, who would be the Aztec empire's only real competition and repel numerous invasions from them, preventing their expansion into city-states and kingdoms further West such as Colmia and Jalisco; With the Aztec and Purepecha unable to make each other budge, the Aztec expanded somewhat to the East like conquering Maya towns around Soconusco, as well as trying to besiege Tlaxcala to conquer, a republic ruled via senate in an adjacent valley (alongside Cholula, Huextozinco, and some other cities/towns Tlaxcala was allied with/ruled over) who had been able to escape conquest due to their defensible position (other notable unconquered enclaves being Tututepec, a remant of 8-deer's Mixtec Empire; the Tlapenec kingdom of Yopitzinco, and the Otomi kingdom of Metztitlan) This is the state of things when the Spanish arrive (21:14 in the video). ------------------------ So, yeah, despite the video covering hundreds of things... it only mentions 7 from Mesoamerica, which even in my summerized timeline, obviously had way more going on. Note also how even for those 7 things, Wurtz's video only more or less mentioned that the Olmec/Maya/Teotihuacan/Aztec exist, he doesn't go in depth with specific wars or kings like he does for stuff in Afro-Eurasia. And I didn't even get into other parts of the Americas: South America has it's own timeline of dozens of major civilizations (Norte Chico/Caral, the Chavin, Nazca, Moche, Wari, Tiwanku, Chimu, Inca etc); and in the US, you had town building socities in the Southwest (Pueblo, Hohokam, Salado, etc, who actually traded with Mesoamerica) and in the east (Poverty Point, Hopewelll, Mississippians; The largest Missisispian site, Cahokia, was actually bigger then London in it's heyday) and much more, and Wurtz's video only mentions 2 North and South America things. If people wanna learn more about all of this, "1491" by Charles Mann is a good starting place!
Because they had little impact worldwide compared to Europe, Asia and Africa. Same reason Canada and a lot of other countries weren't even mentioned. Are you really gonna say that he should dedicated more of the video just talking about the Americas that weren't even that globally relevant (mentioning it 7 times is pretty good, I don't know what you're on about) instead of Eurasia which is far more impactful in all aspects? It sounds just like you want a video about the history of the ENTIRE WORLD to be all about the Pre-Columbian Americas, when they're not even that significant globally in the grand scheme of history
@@MW_Asura You do understand that just as much as the Americas weren't relevant to Eurasia before the 16th century, the inverse is also true: That Eurasia wasn't relevant to the Americas? Saying that it's "not relevant" is only true if you're deciding that Eurasia matters more from the start, when in reality, neither is really more relevant then the other because both were totally isolated from one another. To be clear, I'm not stupid: I realize that to most people, Eurasian history *does* matter more, and Eurasia *is* seen as the "default", even if that is somewhat arbitrary. But I'm not, contrary to what you're suggesting, wanting the video to focus on the Americas, or to even spend as much time on the Americas as it did Eurasia: I'm just asking that it spend more then like 2% of the video on it, and to mention specific events and wars and kings rather then just "IDK this culture existed I guess". 7 mentions out of 300+ things is not "pretty good". Again, that's 2% of the video. For what is literally half of the planet, that is an insanely low amount. Even if you go by population, the Americas had 10-20% of the world population in 1500AD. And it had 2 of the world's 6 major cradles of civilization. Under any conceivable metric, 2% is way, way too low. You could triple the amount of stuff mentioned from the Precolumbian Americas and it would still be a tiny fraction of the whole video and would only add like 30 seconds to the video's runtime. Also, don't say "well we don't have surviving information to mention stuff". We do, I literally made 12 paragraph comment giving a summarized timeline just on Mesoamerica, and I assure you that I can make a comment just as long even about just specific cities and wars in the region
@@MajoraZCome on man, it's incredibly easy to see why it's covered more. Eurasian history forms the basis of our world today. It's a very similar reason as to why ancient African history, void Northern Africa, is rarely covered.
@@andre-yv9sy See what I said in my reply to the other person. It's kinda arbitrary to act as if the Americas is more or less relevant when neither the Americas nor Eurasia were relevant to one another before the 16th century: if both Teotihuacan and Rome didn't impact one another, can you actually objectively say that one is "more relevant"? We only accept/think that Eurasia is more important because Europeans ended up colonizing the Americas, but who came out on top in the 16th century doesn't really mean that the events before then are retroactively more important in either area. And within the context of Europeans colonizing the Americas, that actually should only make Mesoamerica more important, since Spain relied on Mesoamerican city-states and kingdoms to launch their campaigns both within the region and up into the US, down into South America, and even relied on Mesoamerican troops in campaigns in Asia. So Mesoamerican states were instrumental in how European colonization played out, and by extension, ensuring Europe got into the position of global dominance it did. As such, I could make a strong argument that the specific history of different Aztec city-states is more or at least as relevant to the Modern World, at least for countries like the US in the Western Hemisphere, then a lot of the history people consider critical from Ancient Greece or the Near East. Secondly, even if you disagree with everything I just said, 7 mentions across a video with 200-300+ bits of trivia, and where said 7 things are also explained less then the others, is still way too little, even if you do think the Americas are less important. Adding like another 10-20 things would have, at most, added like 30-40 seconds to the video and would have massively improved the sense of how and why things developed in the Americas, as is you get zero sense of that.
America did not sink their own ship, historians today think it was just a malfunction in the ship, but the US wanted to blame it on Spain to go to war. I'm really glad that this guy was really interested and curious to learn more about history. I don't care if someone knows a lot or not, but it's the will to learn that is respectable.
32:00 Actually Jewish people were a great part of the Ottoman population back then. They were known to be rich, and most of the old mansions around Istanbul and its islands were owned and built by rich Jewish families. They had a good reputation around. The only reason Britain wanted to give land to Jewish people was political.
at one point in time during genghis khan's reign there was a significant decrease in carbon dioxide output into the atmosphere that scientists initially thought a mass extinction event happened, but actually genghis just killed so many people that it caused this massive decrease around 4%
Fun fact about the mitochondria evolution! It wasn’t the only organelle that was originally a separate organism! The chloroplast (photosynthesis organelle) was also originally its own thing before it was integrated too!
A bit of precision on "neo-colonialism" : Europe wasn’t able to control their colonies anymore. The colonized people were starting to rise up against European influence around that time. It started in Asia after the japanese invasions of the colonies because when Japan took over, they installed native governments to rule conquered lands easier, and proclaimed "Asian unity against European imperialism". (Of course, under Japan’s supremacy, since Japan mostly cared about that, but they didn’t say that). This feeling of unity persisted after the war was over and Europe was forced to fight long and gruesome wars to keep the territories for themselves, which weren’t even that profitable anymore. These movements and wars spreaded to African colonies, creating one by one the countries we know today : on European terms. Europe didn’t want to give up colonies without any kind of benefit, so they made it that the new countries would be economically dependant on their former ruler country, which also had unfair economic privileges, at the expense of African nations. So that means Europe didn’t have to control any territory by force anymore yet they still had all of the same ressources as when they did for an incredibly low price. That is neo colonialism. Also, as a French person : yes, the french government still does what most people call "neo-colonialism". They still have a huge trading network on West Africa, but they softened up a lot, so the trade deals are not at all as unfair as they were. Though most people still say it’s disadvantageous for the African nations so it doesn’t really matter, and to that I agree. That’s also why people in these regions have lots of coups that turn to Russia’s side in terms of world politics as of recently (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Guinea). These coups have been helped by Russia to collapse the corrupt governments that give good trade deals to France in exchange for more money to the government, this money not going to the actual people. It also benefits Russia because it weakens France’s trades in Africa (which is one of the biggest enemies of Russia for obvious reasons).
36:18 Africa isn't technically split into Colonies anymore, but different Powers still influence them a lot and are economically connected to them. At the moment China, Russia and Turkey have very good Relations with African States and Exploit their Natural Resources through shell companies and Mercenaries like the Russian Wagner PMC. The EU used to export a lot of second grade groceries to Africa to keep their own domestic food sectors down to keep them dependant on Europe, but Europe has been meddling less and less with Africa and actually now tries to export Education, so they won't fall into Russias or Chinas hands. 38:44 Guess how Elon Musk, or rather his Father, got to money.
I love that you pause and rewind, trying to comment and process stuff, as opposed to being slack jawed and dumbfounded the entire time. XD It's fun for a few moments, sure, but actually having something to say - even if it's wildly inaccurate lol - is much more entertaining to me. Keep doing what you do bro.
With all the mentions of slavery in the video, I'm surprised they didn't mention Korea having the longest unbroken chain of slavery for like 1500 years.
You made a comment about Japan becoming addicted to art and starting the creation of anime, and you wondered if that was when the first erotic octopus art popped up. The answer is, yeah. Pretty much. Literal depictions of human intercourse became or becomes outlawed at some point during the art boom, so they used weird stand-ins and metaphors to portray it instead. Which includes octopus art.
33:21 They did that and were able to divide the Arab countries so that there would not be one force that would harm them and Israel!!!! Who told you that they did it for the sake of peace between the two countries, Iraq and Syria? There are no difficult religious issues between them in Islam.
I love that he reacted to this, Bill Wurtz is a legend!! This is why I subbed!! Heisuten’s commentary always makes me laugh I hope he reacts to more shi like this
Colonies in Phoenician times and Greek times were not like we now think about it - it was mostly settling and building cities where no ones lived yet as markets for luxury products from far a way lands, and the villagers from around brought their own trade there :)
Bro caught up to the history of the ENTIRE world faster than he caught up to one piece. Good to see you branching out to more diversed kinds of videos btw
SO that last part about the Banks being too big to fail, that was what the Gov. said in regards to LETTING them fail, they said we CANT let them fail at this point because they have gotten so big that letting them fail completely would be catastrophic to the Economy both Domestically and Globally and that's why they needed to be bailed out. As an Accountant, the economic history of the world is way more fascinating than you'd expect!
as an American, this really shows how effective the American school system is. And how correctly labeled our "world history" classes are. Which is not for both
I love the moment when you start to rant about Europe having skeletons from Elbaf in their closet compared to America :D but remember that nowadays' Americans are mostly descendants of exactly those Europeans ;D
It always blew my mind how little Americans know about... everything really. I've been in multiple countries and this is stuff you learned almost everywhere in the world.
Its largely the way our public schooling budget is allocated so that wealthier areas learn quite a bit about history as well as everything while poor areas barely have anything in their curriculum leading to said area continuing to stay poor from the lack of education creating a cycle where it never gets better. Though to be fair this guy seems to have not paid attention seeing as he doesn't know the Indus River Valley or Holy Roman Empire. I also don't know how he grew up in the Bible belt but doesn't know about the 12 tribes of Israel
@@TBKLuminepublic schools are usually funded mostly by property taxes. poor communities have less valuable properties, therefore property taxes are lower and public schools have less funding. so rich communities have better public schools and the option of private schools, but poor people only really have the choice of the underfunded public school system in their community.
Tbf most consider history to be when written records starts and that somewhat coincides with the rise of the ancient civilizations like Egypt etc. Before that is considered prehistory and more interesting to physics, geology and archaeology.
It isn't a theory that the mitochondria was its own organism. They have their own DNA and are their own things. The same thing happened with chloroplasts. They were their own organisms until they were eaten but not digested. Their waste acted as nutrients for the host cell.
Guy leaves out a lot like that slavery didnt start or end with the united states and they didnt kidnap people, they bought them from other africans who were selling them on the coast, as well as africans werent the only slaves in history the word actually comes from the word slavs because so many slavic people (eastern europeans) were enslaved in history.
This video was made back in 2017, at the beginning of the social justice movement that's why it's full of surface level highschool history bs. Also he used Wikipedia for most of the information. It should be taken with a pinch of salt
Alot of the world used slaves, the most obvious one left out here being Egypt. Its surface level but its very easy to get it across by using the US as the study since it was literally built by slaves in almost every metric a country needs fairly recently. And also Abe Lincoln, MLK, ect. ect. Theres just generally alot missing on the Americas, the past of south America and even recent stuff like Vietnam smoking the US. Theres alot of years to pack in a video so it makes sense lol
The vid never claimed that US invented slavery, it’s been around since ancient times. But ppl link slavery to US history bc of the sheer magnitude and extent of it. It’s like when talking about anti-semitism you think of Hitler even tho the guy didn’t invent the concept. No country has a perfect past, we study the shame of our forefathers so we can build a better future for our descendants
@@SHISH_STYLE I mean its a twenty minute video going over the history of the entire world obviously its going to make a ton of generalizations and should be taken with a few pinches of salt lmao.
Our history courses in high school are truly abysmal. We literally didn't even get taught about the scramble for Africa in my school or literally anything in Asia or Africa beyond the first civilizations. We didn't even learn the history of our country that well barely getting past world war 2 and touching on the Civil Rights Movement for like a week. If I wasn't interested in history I'd pretty much know nothing about it. I grew up in a pretty poor area though so in richer areas they get a decent education because their public schooling actually has a budget so poorer areas just get screwed over with the way it works currently
It's a lot to get through so you don't get a deep dive on everything, which is a shame, but you get a lot of interesting points to dive into. Cool that you seem so into it.
"What do they mean they're too big to fail" - Basically, banks blackmailed the government saying "If we fail (go bankrupt), then a lot of people will lose their jobs. So bail us out or your next election will be really bad (2008-09)"
Guys I just noticed that there was a kingdom (New Kingdoms All Over Europe) called Samo's Kingdom and it was founded by a guy named Samo and that's why it's called "Samo's Kingdom" cause it's his kingdom.
The endosymbiotic theory is very highly supported and it’s pretty interesting that effectively the thing that created eukaryotic cells was prokaryotic cells living inside each other
your tidbit at 5:00 was neat. That is interesting, and might be the first case of symbiosis. Do you think mitochondria were developed before predation?
French here ! And as all french, I want to tell some things when my country is mentioned ! Not really the channel for a France/Africa essay, but I love this topic and I am sure someone will be interested in it here ! Little more details about France and Africa in recent history. First, things are not simple, even less simple than for a long time after « decolonization » French politics and big companies still exploited Africa, creating a well deserved resentment against France. This part of France history is a shame, however it is important to have it in mind to understand what is happening today and to understand that France politics is really different now regarding Africa. Problem of France versus others European colonising countries is that French colonisation was sold, and largely viewed as a way to learn and show “inferior people” how to live, have values and used that to exploit them etc… meanwhile England, Spain only saw the economic benefit of exploting others, hence did not try to force locals their culture and did not overthrow the prior local politics. When the African countries won their independence, they seemingly got out, still exploiting the economy but in the shadow. Countries lived their life, making deals with their prior colonisers. France on the other hand really influenced the countries and how people lived in them, making a significant part of the population appreciate france and an enormous part of the Africans politician elite big France fans. France really considered themselves as “big brothers” ( I might add : toxic and abusive big brother) of these countries so they sent a lot of money to develop the country in exchanges of support from African leaders and cooperation between the countries. They forced a money, the Franc CFA ( which meant *French Money* of the French colonized Africa) by corrupting the African leaders. We are in the years 60,70,80s. Inevitably these independant president were friendly with France indeed, and they abused their population and stole democracy. They kept the money sent to the country as well, and the small portion of the French money that arrived in African countries were more like “see, you are starving to death and jt is because of me that you can survive”. As time went by, starting from the 90s France took more and more distance with Africa, reduced the support of dictators. Some of them still were there and France still had money incentives in Africa but the view changed with different French president claiming that Africa had been exploited by the world and by France for decades. The view became different: we exploited these countries until recently it is now important they can develop how they want but we are responsible for their situation (and if they develop, I prefer they like us more than they like the US, China or Russia) so we need to help them if they need. That’s why facing the rise of Islamic terrorism, many African countries called for help and France answered, sending soldiers that died for protecting Mali for instance. Facing the economic instability, French acts responsible for many African country currency. French owns the money and guarantees its value by converting it to euro at a fixed rate. This is the heritage of the Franc CFA. Some Africans people are against it and some are in favor, truth is without it African economy would plummet and France is not pushing to keep it, there is a huge African project to change the money, but it has been in discussions for years, slowed down by several african leaders, because the economy of these countries wouldn’t survive. But things started to change during the last 8 years. Several of these countries had a coup d’état which overthrew their government. Millitary were largely financed and supported by Russia , and they surfed on the old grudge towards France to gain popular support. It is unclear whether population actually support the millitary juntas that took power, but fact is now they are in power and they claim how much they hate France and want them out. So France listened, realising they have no interest in helping someone that doesn’t want it, they started the process to delete (in 2020) the economic guarantee they offer to old Franc CFA users, they took back their military troops that were fighting terrorists, leaving these countries on their own. Obviously, situation is now worse for these countries and terrorists kill a lot of people and Russia that was supposed to remplace the protection France offered falls short and started pillaging the countries, creating a lot more insecurity than there was 5 years ago. Things are not settled because france is still involved with some countries that did not ask it to get out, people are realising things are not better now that France is gone from where it’s gone, and other people still claim how terrible France is and how it is still actively acting to dominate Africa, even in the country that asked them to leave. In France, some complain about the loss of France’s influence in Africa, some recognise all the suffering we caused and want us to keep helping countries that ask for help and some others are more on the line of “f*** them, they ask for help but in the future they will complain about it so we just better unpack and leave these countries fight poverty and violence on their own”
27:55 Ethiopia remained unconquered due to its extremely harsh terrain. Thailand on the other hand served as a buffer state between the British and the French. They were rivals for the longest of time up until WW1 where they were forced to work together…and they ended up liking each other.
Portugal and Spain had a treaty separating the world in 2 halfs. One for Portugal to explore the other for spain. Also Portugal and the UK have the longest running treaties in the world called the Treaty of Windsor and the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty one signed in 1386 and the other in 1373
Also, France responded to that division of the world by sending a letter to England asking when did Adam leave the world to the Portuguese and Spanish in his will.
I knew the primarch Jaghatai Khan from warhammer 40k was based off the mongols, but they literally had a region called Chagatai after the mongols collapsed.
iirc there was also an actual Mongol general named Jaghatai who was renowned for his mobility in war and the speed at which he kicked Europe's ass. That's probably where the primarch's love of fast bikes comes from too.
About the mitochondria. If memory serves, the thery is basically that a one celled organism swallowed a bacteria but never actually digested it cause it turned out that they can help each other out (symbiosis). And all of that basically evolved into cells having mitochondria. I think the theory came to be cause mitochondria share a similae structure to bacteria and have their own DNA (iirc it is also circular dna like in bacteria but am not entirely sure).
Actually, the first known example of old-timey Japanese octopus porn isn't until 1814; the wikipedia title is "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife". I think that's probably what your chat were thinking of at 17:30 but that's like 500 years after what's being covered
At 15:11 the Rashidun caliphate spread like crazy in part because of that stuff earlier about Rome and Persia being mortal enemies. They'd been warring so long they were both debilitated and racked by internal strife. The new Muslims on the other hand were strongly motivated and very well united for the first few decades. It's like the 10th round in a heavyweight boxing match and suddenly a fresh heavyweight appears out of nowhere and fights each of the original guys individually.
I do understand a bit about what happened with the Mongol Horde breakup; basically Genghis Khan died of a nosebleed after drinking too much after a victorious battle, and he hadn't named a successor so as to not give anyone motivation to kill him, with the result that all his sons started fighting over the empire
My man here: "Ancient civilizations are one of the most intriguing" Me on my third year of History in Uni: Please... no more Assyria, no more Egypt....... And please no more "Sea Peoples"... I am tired Mr-Stark, I wanna go home
I kind of start to panic halfway through the video, every time I watch it. There is so much information casually thrown in your face and this guy paints an accurate picture of our reality in such a nonchalant way that it scares the crap out of me
It’s interesting to watch someone learn about this stuff because I did learn most of this in school but the only reason I took an interest in it is because my teacher was such a good teacher that he would get into each lesson and in turn that made me super interested.
ive seen history teachers and majors react to this video and all they do is repeat everything that has already been said in the video, but this title and thumbnail ALONE is really funny
I kinda love how he rewinds sections until he processes and understands them better. Honestly nice work, good reaction :)
I don't think he's processing and understanding all that much regardless...
@@KaregoAt well it’s more effort and genuine interest than most so I’ll take it 😂
wish he'd done that for Ghana selling slaves. not nearly enough people (run a search on youtube, you'll see what I mean) realize that African countries sold slaves, and that e\European countries basically never captured Africans to enslave, they purchased them.
oh and, to be clear, this does not absolve Europe of anything. everyone involved was terrible.
its just a set of facts that people ought to know, but apparantly aren't taught in schools.
I prefer it so much over the reactors who talk over it without pausing and miss half of the video 😭😭
Bro knows more one piece lore than irl lore
Ey i mean... As another video said, "our world has bad worldbuilding" While oda made a better world building than our own earth
That statement is a contradiction in itself.
Since the OP lore is based on irl lore. Oda did not invent these things he got influenced by real world history and mythology.
@@jesuseinstein4706You can be influenced by something and make it better, so not really a contradiction, but I’m also not agreeing with the statement that One Piece has better world building than irl.
@@ynam.2622 That was not the point. To get the influence inside of the world building of one piece, you have to got the knowledge of irl to get the references.
And Oda is a master of using everything around the world not just japanese mythology and histroy.
@@lightningjadejavierPpl who said that simply have no understanding of our history
11:33 a big reason the merchant countries were really difficult to conquer was because since they made a ton of money from trade monopolies, they had the kind of money to where they could pay a private army of mercenaries from across the world to protect them
W explanation
Yea that's one reason but they had some good naval forces. Chola's naval forces were one of the powerful naval forces in the world during those times. All adds up to the reason why they are one among the only few empires who sustained for more than 1500 years
@@arjun9685 how would the navy stop the land forces
they were never directly conquered by THE MUGHAL EMPIRE but that is solely because the southern tamil nadu and southern western region of kerala were not under Mughal rule , had the mughal taken over those two regions they likely would have conquered all of the Tamil kings territory, however the Tamil kings were invaded and displaced by the kalabrhas in the 3rd century, the Pandyas and pallavas simply later overthrew the kalabrhas and restored the 3 kingdoms
there is also the fact that the real reason is simply because of the difficult geography, less visible wealth it simply made them less attractivre for invasions
there was also a huge factor in that the mughal empire was largely broke and couldn't afford conquest into the area, by the time it broke apart and formed smaller kingdoms those former mughal noblemen did capture Tamil nadu, and northern kerala
@@kringle7804No they were making a seperate point about the navies not connecting it to land invasions. Just saying it was a whole other thing.
@16:41 "They did many crusades, some of which almost didn't fail". This has easily gotta be one of most frequently missed and underrated burns in this video. Gets me every time 🤣
The crusades really gotta be one of the stupidest moments in history
A whole lot of fighting, whole lot of death people, and the only result? This country over there got some sweet trading from all the crusaders traveling lmao
They forced my people to abandon their religions and now the biggest religion in my country is Lutheranism and a version of our pagan ancestor beliefs is only number 6. After Catholicism and versions of Russian Orthodox (which were part of Catholicism until year 1k).
yes i love that one XD
@@Benxall whats wierd is how dedicated people are to denying the literal journals of the crusaders.
most of those soldiers were 1. mercenaries and 2. not any more hesitent to r- and pilliage than any other soldier of the era.
basically, the crusades were, to borrow the phrasing of an excellent parody "a never ending parade of failures and f-ups"
The "colony so big it makes colonies" thing is literally America
The banks did fail, that's the joke. Back then, people genuinely thought the banks couldn't fail because of how rich they are, and that blind trust (and, tbh, stupidity) led to the economic crash of 2008
I think it was more referring to the banks getting bailed out by the government under the logic of "too big to fail," meaning the government threw money at them to keep them in business to avoid the economic impact of them actually fully failing. People have opinions about this.
See, yeah, that........
There was an ancient lake in Chad. Lake Mega Chad. 19:13
It's like calling the Titanic an unsinkable ship
@@CarbonMage And then their was Austrlias response to the 08 GFC
Lol my grandparents were kids when India got independence. My grandad used to throw rocks at British cars
Damn, is nice to see india doing so well afterward, glad the caste system was sorted out. Is a shame how many countries voted in despots to show off their newfound independence, just to lose it in a decade being bought out by american or chinese corporations aha
Your grand parents were alive when the last slave was freed in the US.
@@alananimus9145 Juneteenth? That was 1865
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our boy gettin educated!!!
@@Gejokono ye. Edumacated
i guess you've never heard the phrase "the sun doesn't set on the british empire"?
the phrase exists because at one point, britain owned so much land on the earth, _it was always daytime on some part of it._
i never heard that phrase but damn 😨
A phrase they stole from the Spanish, who used it first.
@@liamjm9278 but the Brits perfected it though.
@@scipioafricanus5871 Fair enough.
"At one point" is a bit misleading when that's still the case.
Blud be reacting to anything now😭
Bro is free from one piece now 😂
I mean, it's an important internet video that i think atleast everybody should watch atleast once
Bag is bag
I mean bro is called heisuten reacts
good ngl, i enjoy more variety content from him, not saying i wasnt already enjoying his content, but the change is well welcomed to me
dude i literally love this video, i come back to it like once every six months to just watch it again. never expected to see you reacting to something like this 😭 but id love to see more reactions like this, that'd be dope
But it has been out for 3 weeks
@@faloberrow9250 how can you be so slow😭
@@kamilpalka7837 what do you mean dude, how can you come back every 6 months if it has been out for 3 weeks
@@faloberrow9250 read my original comment again and slowly this time
@@kamilpalka7837 I don't understand
I fucking love how so many Americans know what mitochondria are. It's a perfect example of how to improve the education system, make it more fun and relatable. *POWER HOUSE.*
"History of the entire world i guess" Is a masterpiece and imo one of the best videos in this site (im biased), didn't think you were gonna react to it though
Colonization is not exactly 1 typical thing. As in taking over stuff. For example if we ever go to Mars, Mars would be a colony. It is basically a new settlement built by a preexisting civilization elsewhere. It could be on empty land, but also ancient ruins or on already occupied land by others. And it's not always done violently either when near an existing civilization in a region. Like Carthage bought the land, and it was more empty. Nobody lived there. In time they gradually became a dominating power.
Your reaction to learning about the Scramble for Africa was great. I have a PhD in art history specializing in African art, and every time I teach a class or a course on African art, I always start by telling my students about the Scramble for Africa. I definitely never learned about it until college.
Really? I learned about the Berlin Conference in highschool here in Brazil, and my teachers always highlighted it as one of the most important events of the african history and that its consequences are still visible today.
@ American public education sucks lol, I never learned about it in high school.
Genuinely think this video should be shown in every high school and then could be broken down further by the teachers.
I'm rewatching it now after taking quite a few history courses and it makes so much more sense now and its pretty impressive how much he gets across in such a short time
fun fact, the intermission during this video is where you can fit The History of Japan video!
28:20 "White man discovers imperialism" that made me crack lmaooo
Yeah lol, it makes sense though if you think about it.
"white man"
lmao, so racist
video "and then they conquered India" (Multiple people. multiple times)
this guy: they conquered India?
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I actually work with history/archeology channels! While "History Of The Entire World I Guess" is fun, a MAJOR issue with it is it almost entirely ignores the Precolumbian Americas, despite it being half the planet (Imagine if the video ONLY covered the Americas, but not Europe or Asia before 1500AD: That'd be crazy!). This is sadly common in world history stuff, since a lot of people don't realize just how much the Americas had going on. So below, I'm gonna give my summarized timeline of Mesoamerica (the Aztec, Maya, etc, that's my speciality), and I'll point out the few things Bill Wurtz's video does mentions via timestamps as it comes up. Click "Read More..." to see it below!
The Preclassic Period (1400BC-100AD):
In 1400 BC, in Southern Veracruz by Mexico's Gulf Coast, the Olmec site of San Lorezno becomes the region's first city in 1400 BC, but declines by 900 BC, where the more fully developed Olmec city of La Venta rises to prominence (which is where most of the giant heads are from, 9:27 in the video), this is also when writing starts to develop. In the following centuries, more and more cities rise, like the Maya cities of El Mirador and Kaminaljuyu in Guatemala; the Zapotec city of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, and the Olmec transforming into the Epi-Olmec. All 3 develop writing, and many other towns and cities of various cultures pop up in various parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, etc. West Mexico is sort of isolated, but during the Olmec period the Capacha are a culture that developed independently and spread/traded pottery, but we don't know much about them.
TheEarly Classic Period (100-500AD):
By around 0-200AD, urban cities with state governments and writing (for the elite, anyways) had become the norm in Mesoamerica, marking the transition to the Classical Period. This is the period the Maya are are well most known for (tho they reached their absolute height more in the middle/late classic circa 500-700AD, 14:23 in the video), with many dozens of large, notable city-states & kingdoms, and thousands of smaller towns all over the Yucatan Peninsula, Chiapas, Guatemala etc. Down in Oaxcaca, The Zapotec too have formed many city-states, with Monte Alban in particular rising as the most politically powerful. In Central Mexico, in the Valley of Mexico (in what's now Mexico City) a volcanic eruption displaces much of the population, including the city of Cuicuilco, the most powerful city in the area. These displaced people immigrate into the city of Teotihuacan, which grows into a huge influential political and religious center (14:26 in the video, it shows it ~550 AD, which is actually when Teotihuacan began to decline), and with a population of up to 100,000, and eclipsing Rome in physical area, while also having a sewage system and housing even their commoners in lavish palace complexes; and is one of the largest cities in the world at the time (El Mirador was as well). Teotihuacan's influence reaches far across the region, establishing many far reaching architectural, artistic, and religious trends, such as the Talud-tablero archtectural style for pyramids, perhaps even conquering and installing rulers in Maya cities 1000 kilometers away. In western mexico, around the end of the preclassic and start of the classic, the Teuchitlan tradition, the first of Western Mexico's complex societies, emerges (maybe, again, Western Mexico's cultures are very understudied), though less so then the rest of the regi
The Late Classic Period (500-900AD)
In the latter half of the classic period, you see the rise of El Tajin as a notable influential center among the cities around the Gulf Coast in what's now Central State of Veracruz (the cities/culture there now referred to as the "Classic Veracruz") and Cholula as a notable city in Central Mexico; Monte Alban begins to fall in esteem, with the Zapotec city of Mitla becoming the most prominent city in Oaxaca instead. Teotihuacan begins to decline as well, and in the Yucatan, the cities of Tikal and Calakmul become essentially two super-power city-states among the Maya, centralizing Maya politics around them. Eventually Tikal and it's allies are able to put down Calakmul, shortly thereafter, you have the classical Maya collapse (16:44 in the video, tho this happened in 750-900AD, not 1100 like the video says), where due to a combination of political instability following this massive war, climate issues, and other factors, nearly all of the large powerful Maya urban centers in the southern Yucatan decline between 700 and 800 AD, with many other key centers around Mesoamerica also doing so. Throughout the Late Classic and Early-Postclassic, West Mexico develops many different city-states with increasing influence from the rest of Mesoamerica
The Early Post-Classic Period (900-1200AD)
Moving into the Early-postclassic, yet many other cities still thrive and survive, such as El Tajin and Cholula, as do Maya city-states in the Northern Yucatan, such as Chichen Itza and Uxmal. You begin to see the Mixtec in the Oaxaca and Guerrero regions begin to overtake the Zapotec in prominence, in particular a warlord by the name of 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw conquered and unified nearly the entire southern Oaxaca/Guerrero region into an empire. 8-deer had the blessings and support of the Toltec in Central Mexico (namely the Lord of Cholula), who the Aztec describe as a massively influential and far reaching power in the region, maybe operating out of the city of Tula (16:46 in the video, tho as with Teotihuacan, the date listed, 1100AD, is when they allegedly fell), but these accounts of Toltec history and key rulers (such as Ce Acatl Topiltzin) are heavily mythologized. As a result, it's hard to separate history from myth (or from Aztec and latter Spanish attempts to twist Toltec accounts to justify their rule) and Tula probably was only the head of a medium sized kingdom. Around 1100 AD, the Toltecs fall, and 8-deer is overthrown and killed in an ironic twist of fate where the one member of his enemies family who he left alive rallied a bunch of subject cities against him; though Tututepec, a city he founded, would grow into a major state of it's own.
The Late Post-Classic Period (1200-1521AD)
In the 1200's, The Maya city of Mayapan comes closest to forming a unified Maya state, forming a political alliance of many of the city-states in the northern Yucatan. Due to droughts in northern mexico, you begin to see some groups of Chichimeca (nomadic tribes of Northern Mexico), the Nahuas, move further south into Central and Southern Mexico, and transition into urban societies. Notably many settling around the Valley of Mexico and the surrounding areas, led by the legendary King Xototl, displacing local Otomi cities/towns. In particular, the city of Azcapotzalco, which claims heredity from Xolotl, eventually dominates the valley. During the same time as all this in western Mexico, a Nahua group moved down into the Lake Pátzcuaro region, and takes over and becomes the ruling class of Purepecha city of of Pátzcuaro, which conquers many other cities in the area
In the 1420's, due to a succession crisis in Azcapotzalco, one of it's two heirs assassinates the other, as well as the then king of Tenochtitlan, which was one of Azcapotzalco's vassal, tributary cities; as he also had had genealogical links to the Azcapotzalco royal line and also represented a succession threat. War breaks out, and Tenochtitlan, along with the city-states of Texcoco, and Tlacopan join forces and overthrow them, forming the Aztec triple alliance/empire. Over the next 100 years, they rapidly expand and conquer almost all of Central and Southern Mexico, including Otomi cities/towns in Central Mexico, Totonac and Huastec ones along the Gulf Coast (who now inhabit that area), Mixtec, Zapotec, and Tlapanec ones in Oaxaca and Guerrero, and many others.
Back to Western Mexico, in the 1450's, Pátzcuaro is overthrown by the fellow Purepecha city of Tzintzuntzan, who rapidly expands to form the Purepecha/Tarascan empire, who would be the Aztec empire's only real competition and repel numerous invasions from them, preventing their expansion into city-states and kingdoms further West such as Colmia and Jalisco; With the Aztec and Purepecha unable to make each other budge, the Aztec expanded somewhat to the East like conquering Maya towns around Soconusco, as well as trying to besiege Tlaxcala to conquer, a republic ruled via senate in an adjacent valley (alongside Cholula, Huextozinco, and some other cities/towns Tlaxcala was allied with/ruled over) who had been able to escape conquest due to their defensible position (other notable unconquered enclaves being Tututepec, a remant of 8-deer's Mixtec Empire; the Tlapenec kingdom of Yopitzinco, and the Otomi kingdom of Metztitlan)
This is the state of things when the Spanish arrive (21:14 in the video).
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So, yeah, despite the video covering hundreds of things... it only mentions 7 from Mesoamerica, which even in my summerized timeline, obviously had way more going on. Note also how even for those 7 things, Wurtz's video only more or less mentioned that the Olmec/Maya/Teotihuacan/Aztec exist, he doesn't go in depth with specific wars or kings like he does for stuff in Afro-Eurasia. And I didn't even get into other parts of the Americas: South America has it's own timeline of dozens of major civilizations (Norte Chico/Caral, the Chavin, Nazca, Moche, Wari, Tiwanku, Chimu, Inca etc); and in the US, you had town building socities in the Southwest (Pueblo, Hohokam, Salado, etc, who actually traded with Mesoamerica) and in the east (Poverty Point, Hopewelll, Mississippians; The largest Missisispian site, Cahokia, was actually bigger then London in it's heyday) and much more, and Wurtz's video only mentions 2 North and South America things.
If people wanna learn more about all of this, "1491" by Charles Mann is a good starting place!
Because they had little impact worldwide compared to Europe, Asia and Africa. Same reason Canada and a lot of other countries weren't even mentioned. Are you really gonna say that he should dedicated more of the video just talking about the Americas that weren't even that globally relevant (mentioning it 7 times is pretty good, I don't know what you're on about) instead of Eurasia which is far more impactful in all aspects? It sounds just like you want a video about the history of the ENTIRE WORLD to be all about the Pre-Columbian Americas, when they're not even that significant globally in the grand scheme of history
@@MW_Asura You do understand that just as much as the Americas weren't relevant to Eurasia before the 16th century, the inverse is also true: That Eurasia wasn't relevant to the Americas? Saying that it's "not relevant" is only true if you're deciding that Eurasia matters more from the start, when in reality, neither is really more relevant then the other because both were totally isolated from one another.
To be clear, I'm not stupid: I realize that to most people, Eurasian history *does* matter more, and Eurasia *is* seen as the "default", even if that is somewhat arbitrary. But I'm not, contrary to what you're suggesting, wanting the video to focus on the Americas, or to even spend as much time on the Americas as it did Eurasia: I'm just asking that it spend more then like 2% of the video on it, and to mention specific events and wars and kings rather then just "IDK this culture existed I guess".
7 mentions out of 300+ things is not "pretty good". Again, that's 2% of the video. For what is literally half of the planet, that is an insanely low amount. Even if you go by population, the Americas had 10-20% of the world population in 1500AD. And it had 2 of the world's 6 major cradles of civilization. Under any conceivable metric, 2% is way, way too low.
You could triple the amount of stuff mentioned from the Precolumbian Americas and it would still be a tiny fraction of the whole video and would only add like 30 seconds to the video's runtime.
Also, don't say "well we don't have surviving information to mention stuff". We do, I literally made 12 paragraph comment giving a summarized timeline just on Mesoamerica, and I assure you that I can make a comment just as long even about just specific cities and wars in the region
@@MajoraZCome on man, it's incredibly easy to see why it's covered more.
Eurasian history forms the basis of our world today. It's a very similar reason as to why ancient African history, void Northern Africa, is rarely covered.
@@andre-yv9sy See what I said in my reply to the other person. It's kinda arbitrary to act as if the Americas is more or less relevant when neither the Americas nor Eurasia were relevant to one another before the 16th century: if both Teotihuacan and Rome didn't impact one another, can you actually objectively say that one is "more relevant"? We only accept/think that Eurasia is more important because Europeans ended up colonizing the Americas, but who came out on top in the 16th century doesn't really mean that the events before then are retroactively more important in either area.
And within the context of Europeans colonizing the Americas, that actually should only make Mesoamerica more important, since Spain relied on Mesoamerican city-states and kingdoms to launch their campaigns both within the region and up into the US, down into South America, and even relied on Mesoamerican troops in campaigns in Asia. So Mesoamerican states were instrumental in how European colonization played out, and by extension, ensuring Europe got into the position of global dominance it did. As such, I could make a strong argument that the specific history of different Aztec city-states is more or at least as relevant to the Modern World, at least for countries like the US in the Western Hemisphere, then a lot of the history people consider critical from Ancient Greece or the Near East.
Secondly, even if you disagree with everything I just said, 7 mentions across a video with 200-300+ bits of trivia, and where said 7 things are also explained less then the others, is still way too little, even if you do think the Americas are less important. Adding like another 10-20 things would have, at most, added like 30-40 seconds to the video and would have massively improved the sense of how and why things developed in the Americas, as is you get zero sense of that.
Man, clicking on "Read More" is really becoming a roulette these days...
I'd love to see him react to Oversimplified SO MUCH
Yessir
The USA was part of the Berlin Conference (the meeting to divide Africa) just so you know
Love this react to anything arc please keep up. History of japan is next
already reacted to it baka, coming tomorrow
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America did not sink their own ship, historians today think it was just a malfunction in the ship, but the US wanted to blame it on Spain to go to war. I'm really glad that this guy was really interested and curious to learn more about history. I don't care if someone knows a lot or not, but it's the will to learn that is respectable.
32:00 Actually Jewish people were a great part of the Ottoman population back then. They were known to be rich, and most of the old mansions around Istanbul and its islands were owned and built by rich Jewish families. They had a good reputation around. The only reason Britain wanted to give land to Jewish people was political.
They wanted a place to send their jewish people. Expelling them was very popular globally until around 1945.
There weren’t many actually
@@Somewhatannoying they were, search it. Don't use wiki.
"where the hell are we?" Hi, you're on a rock floating in space
He caught on that the beginning of the video starts at the big bang really well. I feel like a lot of people just are confused. Good job!
at one point in time during genghis khan's reign there was a significant decrease in carbon dioxide output into the atmosphere that scientists initially thought a mass extinction event happened, but actually genghis just killed so many people that it caused this massive decrease around 4%
Fun fact about the mitochondria evolution! It wasn’t the only organelle that was originally a separate organism! The chloroplast (photosynthesis organelle) was also originally its own thing before it was integrated too!
A bit of precision on "neo-colonialism" :
Europe wasn’t able to control their colonies anymore. The colonized people were starting to rise up against European influence around that time. It started in Asia after the japanese invasions of the colonies because when Japan took over, they installed native governments to rule conquered lands easier, and proclaimed "Asian unity against European imperialism". (Of course, under Japan’s supremacy, since Japan mostly cared about that, but they didn’t say that). This feeling of unity persisted after the war was over and Europe was forced to fight long and gruesome wars to keep the territories for themselves, which weren’t even that profitable anymore. These movements and wars spreaded to African colonies, creating one by one the countries we know today : on European terms.
Europe didn’t want to give up colonies without any kind of benefit, so they made it that the new countries would be economically dependant on their former ruler country, which also had unfair economic privileges, at the expense of African nations. So that means Europe didn’t have to control any territory by force anymore yet they still had all of the same ressources as when they did for an incredibly low price. That is neo colonialism.
Also, as a French person : yes, the french government still does what most people call "neo-colonialism". They still have a huge trading network on West Africa, but they softened up a lot, so the trade deals are not at all as unfair as they were. Though most people still say it’s disadvantageous for the African nations so it doesn’t really matter, and to that I agree. That’s also why people in these regions have lots of coups that turn to Russia’s side in terms of world politics as of recently (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Guinea). These coups have been helped by Russia to collapse the corrupt governments that give good trade deals to France in exchange for more money to the government, this money not going to the actual people. It also benefits Russia because it weakens France’s trades in Africa (which is one of the biggest enemies of Russia for obvious reasons).
bro was definitely the kid throwing pencils and getting them stuck in the ceiling during history class
36:18 Africa isn't technically split into Colonies anymore, but different Powers still influence them a lot and are economically connected to them. At the moment China, Russia and Turkey have very good Relations with African States and Exploit their Natural Resources through shell companies and Mercenaries like the Russian Wagner PMC. The EU used to export a lot of second grade groceries to Africa to keep their own domestic food sectors down to keep them dependant on Europe, but Europe has been meddling less and less with Africa and actually now tries to export Education, so they won't fall into Russias or Chinas hands.
38:44 Guess how Elon Musk, or rather his Father, got to money.
That's our streamer!
I love that you pause and rewind, trying to comment and process stuff, as opposed to being slack jawed and dumbfounded the entire time. XD It's fun for a few moments, sure, but actually having something to say - even if it's wildly inaccurate lol - is much more entertaining to me. Keep doing what you do bro.
With all the mentions of slavery in the video, I'm surprised they didn't mention Korea having the longest unbroken chain of slavery for like 1500 years.
You made a comment about Japan becoming addicted to art and starting the creation of anime, and you wondered if that was when the first erotic octopus art popped up. The answer is, yeah. Pretty much. Literal depictions of human intercourse became or becomes outlawed at some point during the art boom, so they used weird stand-ins and metaphors to portray it instead. Which includes octopus art.
33:21 They did that and were able to divide the Arab countries so that there would not be one force that would harm them and Israel!!!! Who told you that they did it for the sake of peace between the two countries, Iraq and Syria? There are no difficult religious issues between them in Islam.
Love hei watching random shit, especially the more popular videos during the 10’s. Brings nostalgia and having someone react from this day and age
Isn't it crazy that we're having 2017-2018 nostalgia now, it doesn't even seem like that long ago 😭
@@The_BlOb Because it isn't that long ago. Six-seven years is _ancient history_ to you?
@@scipioafricanus5871 My exact point. People are having nostalgia about a time that was in fact not too long ago
I love that he reacted to this, Bill Wurtz is a legend!! This is why I subbed!! Heisuten’s commentary always makes me laugh I hope he reacts to more shi like this
@17:27
"that's a soul-read"
It's absolutely insane that he's correct here. I'm gobsmacked.
Colonies in Phoenician times and Greek times were not like we now think about it - it was mostly settling and building cities where no ones lived yet as markets for luxury products from far a way lands, and the villagers from around brought their own trade there :)
Bro caught up to the history of the ENTIRE world faster than he caught up to one piece. Good to see you branching out to more diversed kinds of videos btw
I’ll never get bored of watching people react to my favorite video on TH-cam
SO that last part about the Banks being too big to fail, that was what the Gov. said in regards to LETTING them fail, they said we CANT let them fail at this point because they have gotten so big that letting them fail completely would be catastrophic to the Economy both Domestically and Globally and that's why they needed to be bailed out. As an Accountant, the economic history of the world is way more fascinating than you'd expect!
as an American, this really shows how effective the American school system is. And how correctly labeled our "world history" classes are. Which is not for both
I love the moment when you start to rant about Europe having skeletons from Elbaf in their closet compared to America :D but remember that nowadays' Americans are mostly descendants of exactly those Europeans ;D
It always blew my mind how little Americans know about... everything really.
I've been in multiple countries and this is stuff you learned almost everywhere in the world.
Its largely the way our public schooling budget is allocated so that wealthier areas learn quite a bit about history as well as everything while poor areas barely have anything in their curriculum leading to said area continuing to stay poor from the lack of education creating a cycle where it never gets better. Though to be fair this guy seems to have not paid attention seeing as he doesn't know the Indus River Valley or Holy Roman Empire. I also don't know how he grew up in the Bible belt but doesn't know about the 12 tribes of Israel
@@plugshirt1762 That's stupid. Why is your government stupid?!
@@TBKLuminecause they’re all fat and greedy
@@TBKLuminepublic schools are usually funded mostly by property taxes. poor communities have less valuable properties, therefore property taxes are lower and public schools have less funding. so rich communities have better public schools and the option of private schools, but poor people only really have the choice of the underfunded public school system in their community.
@@TBKLumine bc republican
Thanks for the vid! This is my first time watching your content. Hope you're doing well!
26:25 its not bcs they are crazy strong its bcs afghanistan in shithole full of mountains and caves. its nightmare to conquer it
Also because Afghanistan is very decentralized with a lot of independent armed tribes.
@@scipioafricanus5871 yea biggest suprise for me was that they are more loyal to tribe than to nation
I thought every youtuber has already reacted to this... I LOVE THOS VIDEO AND I LOVE THAY YOU ARE REACTING TO IT!!!!
“I thought it was civilization not the world” defines american intelligence.
Tbf most consider history to be when written records starts and that somewhat coincides with the rise of the ancient civilizations like Egypt etc. Before that is considered prehistory and more interesting to physics, geology and archaeology.
@@scipioafricanus5871 “History of the *entire world* “
@@Teakbumblbee "..., I guess"
It isn't a theory that the mitochondria was its own organism. They have their own DNA and are their own things. The same thing happened with chloroplasts. They were their own organisms until they were eaten but not digested. Their waste acted as nutrients for the host cell.
Guy leaves out a lot like that slavery didnt start or end with the united states and they didnt kidnap people, they bought them from other africans who were selling them on the coast, as well as africans werent the only slaves in history the word actually comes from the word slavs because so many slavic people (eastern europeans) were enslaved in history.
This video was made back in 2017, at the beginning of the social justice movement that's why it's full of surface level highschool history bs. Also he used Wikipedia for most of the information. It should be taken with a pinch of salt
Alot of the world used slaves, the most obvious one left out here being Egypt. Its surface level but its very easy to get it across by using the US as the study since it was literally built by slaves in almost every metric a country needs fairly recently. And also Abe Lincoln, MLK, ect. ect. Theres just generally alot missing on the Americas, the past of south America and even recent stuff like Vietnam smoking the US. Theres alot of years to pack in a video so it makes sense lol
Because no one cares if white people are enslaved
The vid never claimed that US invented slavery, it’s been around since ancient times. But ppl link slavery to US history bc of the sheer magnitude and extent of it. It’s like when talking about anti-semitism you think of Hitler even tho the guy didn’t invent the concept.
No country has a perfect past, we study the shame of our forefathers so we can build a better future for our descendants
@@SHISH_STYLE I mean its a twenty minute video going over the history of the entire world obviously its going to make a ton of generalizations and should be taken with a few pinches of salt lmao.
I love the genuine natural curiosity and the enthusiasm to learn more in this video. So refreshing.
"I live there!" First time I ever seen someone give a shoutout to Earth who isn't an astronaut. lol
1947 is recent for our Ancient blud
To the young bluds it is Ancient history though.
Alternative title: American learns history
Our history courses in high school are truly abysmal. We literally didn't even get taught about the scramble for Africa in my school or literally anything in Asia or Africa beyond the first civilizations. We didn't even learn the history of our country that well barely getting past world war 2 and touching on the Civil Rights Movement for like a week. If I wasn't interested in history I'd pretty much know nothing about it. I grew up in a pretty poor area though so in richer areas they get a decent education because their public schooling actually has a budget so poorer areas just get screwed over with the way it works currently
bro said indicus instead of indus im deaddddddd
It's a lot to get through so you don't get a deep dive on everything, which is a shame, but you get a lot of interesting points to dive into.
Cool that you seem so into it.
Bro didn’t take world civ 😂 love this video and your reaction to it! Ready to see this weeks op!
19:53 so that’s where that’s from, that clip soundbite is literally so famous in the tiktok art community
this is truly the average ameican
"What do they mean they're too big to fail" - Basically, banks blackmailed the government saying "If we fail (go bankrupt), then a lot of people will lose their jobs. So bail us out or your next election will be really bad (2008-09)"
My uncle says the void century wouldn’t be a very bad theory of what was really happening. He’s smart!
The Maine was, in fact, an accident
(The prevailing theory is that the fuel caught fire)
Yeah who knows the truth
@@CharDhue well it was in all fact likely something to do with the fuel
Guys I just noticed that there was a kingdom (New Kingdoms All Over Europe) called Samo's Kingdom and it was founded by a guy named Samo and that's why it's called "Samo's Kingdom" cause it's his kingdom.
12:10 Helena was the Greek word for Greek, the historians said Hellenic for all the classic greek stuff
The endosymbiotic theory is very highly supported and it’s pretty interesting that effectively the thing that created eukaryotic cells was prokaryotic cells living inside each other
28:39 Yeah as caricatural as Oda's characters may be, that's still our world he takes inspiration from.
Bro sharing knowledge with us, mere mortals.
Best explanation I've heard of the "Holy Roman Empire" is that it's less _Roman Empire_ and more _Imperial Roman Catholicism._
your tidbit at 5:00 was neat. That is interesting, and might be the first case of symbiosis. Do you think mitochondria were developed before predation?
French here ! And as all french, I want to tell some things when my country is mentioned !
Not really the channel for a France/Africa essay, but I love this topic and I am sure someone will be interested in it here !
Little more details about France and Africa in recent history.
First, things are not simple, even less simple than for a long time after « decolonization » French politics and big companies still exploited Africa, creating a well deserved resentment against France. This part of France history is a shame, however it is important to have it in mind to understand what is happening today and to understand that France politics is really different now regarding Africa.
Problem of France versus others European colonising countries is that French colonisation was sold, and largely viewed as a way to learn and show “inferior people” how to live, have values and used that to exploit them etc… meanwhile England, Spain only saw the economic benefit of exploting others, hence did not try to force locals their culture and did not overthrow the prior local politics. When the African countries won their independence, they seemingly got out, still exploiting the economy but in the shadow. Countries lived their life, making deals with their prior colonisers.
France on the other hand really influenced the countries and how people lived in them, making a significant part of the population appreciate france and an enormous part of the Africans politician elite big France fans. France really considered themselves as “big brothers” ( I might add : toxic and abusive big brother) of these countries so they sent a lot of money to develop the country in exchanges of support from African leaders and cooperation between the countries. They forced a money, the Franc CFA ( which meant *French Money* of the French colonized Africa) by corrupting the African leaders.
We are in the years 60,70,80s.
Inevitably these independant president were friendly with France indeed, and they abused their population and stole democracy. They kept the money sent to the country as well, and the small portion of the French money that arrived in African countries were more like “see, you are starving to death and jt is because of me that you can survive”.
As time went by, starting from the 90s France took more and more distance with Africa, reduced the support of dictators. Some of them still were there and France still had money incentives in Africa but the view changed with different French president claiming that Africa had been exploited by the world and by France for decades.
The view became different: we exploited these countries until recently it is now important they can develop how they want but we are responsible for their situation (and if they develop, I prefer they like us more than they like the US, China or Russia) so we need to help them if they need.
That’s why facing the rise of Islamic terrorism, many African countries called for help and France answered, sending soldiers that died for protecting Mali for instance. Facing the economic instability, French acts responsible for many African country currency. French owns the money and guarantees its value by converting it to euro at a fixed rate. This is the heritage of the Franc CFA. Some Africans people are against it and some are in favor, truth is without it African economy would plummet and France is not pushing to keep it, there is a huge African project to change the money, but it has been in discussions for years, slowed down by several african leaders, because the economy of these countries wouldn’t survive.
But things started to change during the last 8 years. Several of these countries had a coup d’état which overthrew their government. Millitary were largely financed and supported by Russia , and they surfed on the old grudge towards France to gain popular support. It is unclear whether population actually support the millitary juntas that took power, but fact is now they are in power and they claim how much they hate France and want them out.
So France listened, realising they have no interest in helping someone that doesn’t want it, they started the process to delete (in 2020) the economic guarantee they offer to old Franc CFA users, they took back their military troops that were fighting terrorists, leaving these countries on their own.
Obviously, situation is now worse for these countries and terrorists kill a lot of people and Russia that was supposed to remplace the protection France offered falls short and started pillaging the countries, creating a lot more insecurity than there was 5 years ago.
Things are not settled because france is still involved with some countries that did not ask it to get out, people are realising things are not better now that France is gone from where it’s gone, and other people still claim how terrible France is and how it is still actively acting to dominate Africa, even in the country that asked them to leave.
In France, some complain about the loss of France’s influence in Africa, some recognise all the suffering we caused and want us to keep helping countries that ask for help and some others are more on the line of “f*** them, they ask for help but in the future they will complain about it so we just better unpack and leave these countries fight poverty and violence on their own”
27:55
Ethiopia remained unconquered due to its extremely harsh terrain. Thailand on the other hand served as a buffer state between the British and the French. They were rivals for the longest of time up until WW1 where they were forced to work together…and they ended up liking each other.
Portugal and Spain had a treaty separating the world in 2 halfs. One for Portugal to explore the other for spain. Also Portugal and the UK have the longest running treaties in the world called the Treaty of Windsor and the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty one signed in 1386 and the other in 1373
Also, France responded to that division of the world by sending a letter to England asking when did Adam leave the world to the Portuguese and Spanish in his will.
Every little sound bit gets stuck in my head for weeks everytime i see this vid
love how bro actually reacted to the video
Always fun seeing this vid make rounds again
I knew the primarch Jaghatai Khan from warhammer 40k was based off the mongols, but they literally had a region called Chagatai after the mongols collapsed.
GW doesn't generally bother with subtle lol
“Do you know when the mongols invaded china ?”
iirc there was also an actual Mongol general named Jaghatai who was renowned for his mobility in war and the speed at which he kicked Europe's ass. That's probably where the primarch's love of fast bikes comes from too.
Like 98.8% of WH40K consists of historical references but in space
12:10 “It’s time for Genghis Khan” saying that in the 400’s instead of 1,200’s hurts
3:13”I LIVE THERE!” 😂
About the mitochondria. If memory serves, the thery is basically that a one celled organism swallowed a bacteria but never actually digested it cause it turned out that they can help each other out (symbiosis). And all of that basically evolved into cells having mitochondria.
I think the theory came to be cause mitochondria share a similae structure to bacteria and have their own DNA (iirc it is also circular dna like in bacteria but am not entirely sure).
Abolished in 1991. idk about you but elon musk, who grew up on his daddy's slave run blood emerald mine, is a little older than 33, don't ya think?
France hasn't used franks in over 20 years, they use euros
"what is anime but just lots of art?" now thats some wisdom right there
I find it hilarious that the USA thinks Europe and the UK don't use spices. We have so many spicy dishes I couldn't list them all, healthy ones too 😁
Besides, spices were used at the time for food preservation, which was a big deal in the days before refrigeration was so easily accessible.
Actually, the first known example of old-timey Japanese octopus porn isn't until 1814; the wikipedia title is "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife". I think that's probably what your chat were thinking of at 17:30 but that's like 500 years after what's being covered
20:20 fun fact
everyone in the balkan region argued so the ottomans basically had a free way to conquer it
This is a great reaction! Thanks ! 😂
At 15:11 the Rashidun caliphate spread like crazy in part because of that stuff earlier about Rome and Persia being mortal enemies. They'd been warring so long they were both debilitated and racked by internal strife. The new Muslims on the other hand were strongly motivated and very well united for the first few decades.
It's like the 10th round in a heavyweight boxing match and suddenly a fresh heavyweight appears out of nowhere and fights each of the original guys individually.
I do understand a bit about what happened with the Mongol Horde breakup; basically Genghis Khan died of a nosebleed after drinking too much after a victorious battle, and he hadn't named a successor so as to not give anyone motivation to kill him, with the result that all his sons started fighting over the empire
"first tentacle hentai was probably being made"
no, that was done by Katsushika Hokusai in the 1700s
My man here: "Ancient civilizations are one of the most intriguing"
Me on my third year of History in Uni: Please... no more Assyria, no more Egypt....... And please no more "Sea Peoples"... I am tired Mr-Stark, I wanna go home
I kind of start to panic halfway through the video, every time I watch it. There is so much information casually thrown in your face and this guy paints an accurate picture of our reality in such a nonchalant way that it scares the crap out of me
As a Mongolian its intriguing that ur interested in the mongolian part of the video
It’s interesting to watch someone learn about this stuff because I did learn most of this in school but the only reason I took an interest in it is because my teacher was such a good teacher that he would get into each lesson and in turn that made me super interested.
Such a great video, glad you reacted to it man
28:45 this event is called the Berlin Conference btw.
Great Video, now it's time to forget it all again!
ive seen history teachers and majors react to this video and all they do is repeat everything that has already been said in the video, but this title and thumbnail ALONE is really funny