The fact Harriet made it back and forth from Europe in Darwin's time was a small miracle. Naturalists back then had a notoriously hard time transporting a live tortoise simply due to how much the shipcrew wanted to eat them.😅
And there is a comparable length of time between the Civil War and the American Revolution, as well. 1780 to 1861 to 1942 to 2023…eighty-one years between each time.
That's crazy, considering that the ACW was considered to be a war of unprecedented casaulties and horrors. WWII really brought an end to those veterans' "you think you had it bad? Back in my day…" stories
My grandmother, born in 1890, was alive for the first car, first airplane, the a-bomb the first cell phone, the first PC, and man landing on the moon. She saw the invention of the bra, midi skirt, mini skirt, hot pants, flares, slacks and jeans, tie dye t-shirt, high heels, and drip dry clothes. She died in the late 70s.
The pyramid referenced in the video is the Pyramid of Djoser, constructed by the recognizable figure Imhotep. Not only was it the first Pyramid but it was also the first monumental structure made of stone. Located about 12 miles south of the Giza Pyramid Complex
@@VloggingThroughHistory I've usually heard it referenced as the "bent pyramid of djoser" due to it not being architecturally sound (as compared to the big 3) and made of inferior stone or on less firm land so it sank or something. Basically, a first try screw up that oft goes unremembered. It's also not one of the 3 thought of as the "great pyramids" as it was much, much smaller.
I’ve got two but idk if they count, they are more just interesting: - Queen Victoria has a voice recording which you can hear online. It is almost certain to be her. It’s not the clearest, but consider the fact she was born in 1819! - A photoshoot exists online of veteran soldiers who fought at Waterloo in 1815 online in their uniforms. The photographer is unknown, but someone out there was genius enough to capture the only surviving images of actual veterans in the Grand Armée and the Guard in their original uniforms and insignia
President Tyler born in 1790. As of May 2023, Tyler has one living grandson through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler, making him the earliest former president with a living grandchild. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and maintains the family home, Sherwood Forest Plantation, in Charles City County, Virginia.
This is also an incredible fact! The paternal grandfather of a friend of mine (born in the mid-1990s) served in WWI. But even that pales in comparison to John Tyler’s grandsons.
I never get tired of his fact. Here is the math, if some people don't know: President Tyler was 63 and first lady Julia Gardiner was 33 when their son Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born (1853) Lyon Gardiner Tyler was 75 and his 2nd wife Sue Ruffin was 39 when Harrison was born (1928) It's also incredible that some of Harrison's uncles and aunts were born over 200 years ago, because they were from John Tyler's first marriage. And because Harrison had siblings decades older than him, one of his nephews actually died in WW2.
He also fought in the war of 1812 which was related to the napoleonic wars. I have read something like: "My Grandfathers fought during a war way back." "You mean duing WWII?" "No" "WWI?" "No" "DURING THE CVIL WAR?" "No during the napoleonic wars in 1812"
I was lucky to get to tour the house in the 80s when it was open ona daily basis. He and the organization that owns the house has greatly restricted access to the house now and charge $35 a person
I think the reason Woolly Mammoths confuse people is that we tend to learn about them the same time we learn about dinosaurs, and so group them together despite them being separated by millions years. Cavemen suffer from the same thing as classic movies tended to show cavemen, mammoths and dinosaurs interacting.
Hey Chris! Funny story. I just got off a flight to Phoenix, and noticed the guy next to me had you downloaded on his phone. Told him I was also a subscriber and he said "Oh yeah! He's great!"
Bohemian Rhapsody was released in 1975 so Picasso wasn’t alive by then. But, dying in 1973 means he enjoyed Stairway to Heaven, all Led Zeppelin first 4 albums and obviously all the Beatles. But he never heard Bohemian Rhapsody
My 67 year old husband's home in a small Oklahoma town still had a party-line telephone system when he was in jr. high (1968-1971). They had the operator and you had to talk to her and see if the person you were calling was off the line so you could talk. I'm 66 and remember the one in our town of 145,000 had one library in 1968. I remember they bought a delivery truck, modified it, and would drive to the parking lot of the local grocers with it filled with books you could check out for two weeks and return them when they came back. The Bookmobile was a thing for us, I loved it.
I’m English and remember we had party lines in the early 70s. I would pick up the phone and hear the neighbours on the line so being a kid I would make raspberry noises then put the phone down lol.
Pablo Picasso died a month after DARK SIDE OF THE MOON was released. Paul McCartney wrote a song for his BAND ON THE RUN album called "Picasso's Last Words". The chorus goes, "Drink to me, drink to my health; You know I can't drink any more". This is very close to the final thing "The Grand Old Painter" said to friends before he retired for the night and forever. The related McCartney-Wings LP debuted 8 months after his passing.
The Oxford-Aztec thing is considered weird because of Whig History (in its various forms), the concept that history moves through certain "stages" with each being more advanced than the last, and in such cases civilisations such as the Aztecs "should be" older than a Medieval institute like Oxford. Many (maybe even most) people have been raised with this as a basic assumption, so it doesn't automatically "click" for them that the Aztecs (who "should be" from an earlier / more primitive stage) actually postdates something like Oxford, in the same way that people "know" that tribal societies still exist but don't really think about it in their day to day lives. That being said, Oxford University- like all Medieval universities- originally didn't have its own buildings, and for a long time was just students and teachers having classes in whatever public location would let them.
as a person who's been to Egypt myself, it was literally the most amazing holiday iv ever been on, cannot recommend it enough, as a fellow history fan you'll love it
@@MatPocobo42It’s pretty typical to start and end with Cairo (the first views of the pyramids from the airplane are unforgettable), and visit cities along the Nile such as Aswan and Luxor, often on a cruise, turning back at the Aswan dam.
@@MatPocobo42 We were staying at sharm el sheikh to the east by the Red Sea, went coral reef diving n that for 1st half of holiday, then went to cairo area for 2nd half, both were incredible
@@MatPocobo42 If you do go there, Pyramids are a MUUUST see, and diving in the red seas also amazing. Other highlight was the Cairo museum, which had the mummy of Rameses the 2nd n everything, however i should mention this was PRE Arab spring, and i heard that really sadly apparently alot of the Cairo museum got looted during that :( a real tragedy, not entirely sure how restored it is now though, worth looking up maybe, as its best museum iv ever been too
About time: My grandmother, the first child of her family born in America, born in 1896 and who died in 1992, saw some great things in her lifetime. When she was 10, she saw her first automobile on the farm in Minnesota. She saw the start of electrification of America, air travel, radio, television, men on the moon and the maturation of the beginning of the computer age! Amazing.
I remember the first iPhone announcement. It was mocked by more than a few as a boondoggle that would bankrupt Apple. It really wasn't obvious at the time that smart phones were going to be the direction of things for the future. Needless to say, their mockery hasn't aged well.
Remember, though, the one thing that the first iPhone was horrible at was making phone calls. It constantly would drop calls, and if connected, it muffled your voice.
I think the reason why people mocked the iPhone at first was because the last revolutionary smartphone that Apple tried to release, they released the Newton. And we all know how much of a big failure that was.
Hey Chris, if you're looking for a good comprehensive, readable history of Ancient Egypt, check out "The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt" by Toby Wilkinson. Also, "A History of Ancient Egypt: A Civilization in Context" by Dr. Donald B. Redford is a textbook but highly readable. His wife was my professor in college, and my sister his student. The Redfords had access to the tomb of Akhenaten and wrote a book about the assassination of Rameses III (aka The Harem Conspiracy)
It was only within the last couple of years that I learnt how old Oxford is. I think in general, I had generally assumed that Universities were a byproduct of the Renaissance or Enlightenment eras and there really wasn't much in the way of formal education prior to then so hearing "no, it's older than the Aztecs" stuns me. Now, the weird things factor is in full effect and it might be more impactful to phrase it as "Oxford predates Richard the Lionheart"
Some info about the Egyptian king Djoser (not technically a pharaoh since that term started to be synonymous with the king during the New Kingdom): he is considered the founder of the Old Kingdom and was the first Egyptian monarch to sponsor the construction of a pyramid-like tomb for himself. His vizier Imhotep oversaw the construction of a normal slab-like tomb and then started building more and more layers of diminishing size, resulting in what’s called the “step pyramid”
Love the direction this channel is heading! I’ve always been interested in history, and every-time you upload a reaction I find a new TH-cam channel to binge watch lmao.
One of my favorite wacky history stories is the one of a Japanese Samurai on a trip to the Papal States arrived in Mexico where he attacked a Spanish policeman as recorded by the grandson of an Aztec Nobleman
Some of my favorite fun facts: Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as both John Adams and Ronald Reagan, the 2nd and 40th US President! This really puts into perspective how young The USA is as a country! Anyone 80 years old or older was born closer to the American Civil War than to the present day! It took roughly 2,000 years for humanity to go from bronze to iron tools but it only took 66 years to go from the first airplane to the first man to travel to the moon! Technology is advancing faster now than ever before! The first Comic book published by DC Comics was before the start of World War 2!
As I'm sure you all know, the iPhone wasn't the first smart phone with apps and such; primarily there were Blackberrys and Nokias. Due to the popularity of the iPod though, the iPhone was the first major smartphones success and still is today. This goes back to one of the themes of this video, new things and ideas are built on previous ones.
Thank you for mentioning the Aztec thing. The surprise comes from the fact that many people have the Aztecs in their minds as an ancient civilization. I have many times heard people mention the "Ancient Aztecs." It's actually quite annoying.
Hey Chris, love the channel. I just want mention this before you set your eyes on a Egypt trip. My good friend went there a year ago, and he said it was one of the worst experiences he had. He stated all his cameras was taken and not released back to him. Half of his gear was just stolen from customs and he was pretty much in the airport for a d at try in to get his stuff back. Just a heads up. The sites were awesome of course but that customs experience made him upset.
A trip to Egypt would be Amazing to document for the channel, and as a subscriber of yours from Egypt I would personally love to see that happen. But if you are starting to consider that as an option, here are some few but simple tips I'd like to give you to have an enjoyable visit here. First, I'd advise you to have a tour guide whenever you visit historical sites in Egypt, a guide would give you a lot of in-depth context about that site's history, and annoying sellers at those sites would most likely leave you alone when they see a guide with you. Second, if you want to have a purely based historical visit to Egypt, then Cairo wouldn't be the best place for that, Other than the Great Pyramids and The National Museum of Egypt, Cairo is not the best place to supply you with facinating historical sites. For that you'd can go to places like Luxor or Aswan in upper Egypt, There you'd have everything there is facinating to document for historical purposes here on the channel. And that's It. I hope you have an Amazing visit if you decide to go to Egypt in the near future. Best of Luck!
Carry your own TP 🧻 and tissues in Egypt 🇪🇬 as they make theirs to last as long as the pyramids. It’s a rough experience. Here’s my fun fact about it: Cairo is so overcrowded that people live in the City of the Dead.
Sooo, there’s a snapping turtle in Indian Springs, GA at a wildlife rescue/zoo called Dauset trails that was found in the main pond with a Native American arrow head in its shell. The area was one of the larger towns in the Creek Nation and was the frontier during the colonial era.
For my own little fun fact about mammoths. When I was getting closer to the end of high school my parents found a dig site (since I had immense interest in Archaeology) where students from Central Washington University were digging a mammoth skeleton out of some farm land. I volunteered at it for a few days on two different summers. The big thing about it was it actually was not as deep in the ground than you'd expect, being above the Missoula Ice Age Flood deposits. If you want to read about it, it was called the Wenas Mammoth.
We know so little about the sea there are probably many things down there with incredible lifespans. It was only a few years ago scientists carbon dated Greenland sharks and estimated they could potentially live 500+ years.
Watching you throughout these years ever since I recommended Historia Civilis, has been an absolute pleasure. Thank you for being my favorite History Commentary Channel
@@XxbobshanenxXAs someone from a non-English-speaking country, non-native English speakers do tend to switch between accents a lot. Nothing extreme like going from Scottish to Kenyan for example, but usually just mild changes like pronouncing certain words in different accents
@@user-df1ns1ob8y I’m also from a non-English native country (Pakistan) but I’ve never heard such distinct and continuous change before. I could be 100% wrong cause I’m just guessing, but if it is an actual change in accent, it’s the most extreme one I’ve ever heard.
I greatly enjoy learning along with many of your videos. You are truly one of my favorite content creators. Being a big music history fan I caught a small discrepancy. I caught something that you said in passing about Picasso that was just partially incorrect. I apologize for the nitpicking but you had said he would’ve been alive for the release of Bohemian Rhapsody. If I remember correctly Bohemian Rhapsody was on Queen’s 4th album A Night at the Opera which came out in 1975. It was very sad for me to realize he missed this master piece by only 2 years.
My favorite of these kinds of facts: We are as far removed from the Roman Empire as the Roman Empire was from the building of the pyramids in Egypt. Blew my mind when I first heard it, I never thought of them being _that_ far apart. I was never into history in my school days though, I didn't learn to appreciate it until I was much older. Now I'm fascinated by it.
In the movie Oppenheimer the physicists talk about the fact that 300 years of advancements in physics leading to something so deadly is just tragic. I thought about this when you talked about scientists and inventors building off other ideas.
@9:19 I always thought that Christian Ranucci was the last person executed in France. But, as indicated in Wikipedia: "Ranucci was the third-to-last person executed in France, and frequently cited as the last due to the notoriety and media frenzy over the case."
12:44 For anyone wondering, this is a reference from the game Red Dead Redemption 2. Which takes place in 1899 and the guy on the left asks ''Does this wagon go to tahiti?'' Because he and other people from his gang wanted to abandon the outlaw life and live a peaceful life on the island of Tahiti.
You mention the English language and how it's changed. I love this. As a Scotsman I watch some of our more local TH-camrs if you like. One of them like yourself does history and he done a video on the history of Scots as a language. What most would say is a dialect is the closest example of what we have to the old Germanic English that would have been spoken in the timeframe mentioned. Not saying we could have a conversation with people of that time. But even as recent as WW1 the German soldiers could understand the Scottish parts of the British army because of the words we use are closer to the Germanic origins.
Scots is a language(or dialect depending on who you ask) which developed from Middle English, not the Old Germanic English. Old English is closer to Dutch than modern English. It is the pronunciation is closer to German because Scottish English and Scots were more conservative come the time of the "Great Vowel Shift".
I work in an aviation museum with an extensive WW1 collection. When those guys were up there flying their planes in war, aviation was only a little over a decade old. In fact, airplanes were newer to them than iPhones are to us.
@@spiritmatter1553 yep! That's why, despite the fact we've got high tech modern planes here, I'm always fascinated most by the WW1 aircraft, they were still figuring it all out. If you walk up to the planes, you can feel how flimsy they were.
When it comes to old tortoises, it gets even crazier. There was a tortoise named Adwaita living in the zoo of Kalkutta who is said to have belonged to Robert Clive ("Clive of India", 1725-1774). Adwaita was born around the year 1750 (19 years before Napoleon Bonaparte) and lived until 2006.
There were some good ones in here. I remember how excited I was for the first iPhone then I stopped using mine after a month or so because I realized my Nokia had better features like texting to multiple people at once and texting photos. I eventually went back to iPhone when those became available features a couple years later.
I have to say that I'm a tiny bit envious. Pink Floyd is one of those bands I really really really wanted to see live. But due to a mix of reasons it made that impossible, mostly because when I was at the age where my parents would probably let me go to a concert by myself I think Pink Floyd had stopped playing together for a long time. Edit : I do also remember a world before smartphones, I think I got my first phone when I was 10 or 11 so that would have been 2005 or 2006
To be fair for GRRM, first 3 asoiaf books have about the same word count as all the Harry Potter books combined. And they were published -96, -98, and -00.
As somebody who acts as a consultant for channels on Mesoamerica, the Aztec fact here is pretty misleading. It's not incorrect (though the video uses some inaccurate wojak faces: Some are Maya, others are just totally wrong), but it preys on people's lack of knowledge about Mesoamerica: The Aztec were among the VERY latest Mesoamerican civilizations to arise: Cities, writing, rulership, etc goes back in the region 3000 years before them (which is why "Tribes" isn't the right term: They were city-states, kingdoms, and empires), so to say that "Oxford is older then the Aztec" isn't a particularly meaningful statement. It's like saying Oxford is older then Germany... like, yeah, duh, because Germany is a pretty recent European nation, doesn't mean there weren't other nations and empires in what's now Germany that had a similar culture (though the Aztecs were actually pretty recent migrants into Mesoamerica: Earlier major states in Central Mexico may not have been ethnically or linguistically that close to the Aztec, though the Aztec did adopt their cultural and artistic traits). If anything, I think the bigger mind-blown moment is hearing that the Aztec Empire is older then Spain! Spain only actually became a largely unified state a few years before the Cortes expedition when the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon unified, wheras the Aztec Empire formed a century earlier in 1325 when the city-states of Texcoco and Tlacopan joined with Tenochtitlan to overthrow Azcapotzalco. On that note, for people curious, here is a summerized timeline of that ~3000 years of civilization, from the region's first Olmec cities to the arrival of the Spanish: The Preclassic Period (1400BC-100AD): In 1400 BC, around the Gulf Coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, the Olmec site of San Lorezno becomes the region's first urban center in 1400 BC, and becomes abandoned by 900 BC, where the more properly urban and socially complex city of La Venta rises to prominence, which is also when our main example of of Olmec writing dates back to. In the following centuries, urban, state societies continue to pop up, notable ones being the early Maya cities such as El Mirador and Kaminaljuyu; the Zapotec city of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, and Epi-Olmec cities which develop from older Olmec civilization; and all 3 of these develop writing; with many other independent towns and some cities popping up all over. In Western Mexico, during the same period as the Olmec, the Capacha are a culture that developed independently from them, with far reaching examples of pottery and likely trade, but we don't know much about them or Western Mexican cultures in general 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. The Maya are at their height here with many dozens of large, notable city-states & kingdoms, and thousands of smaller towns all over the Yucatan. 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, 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, 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), which were apparently, like Teotihuacan before them, a massively influential and far reaching power in the region, maybe operating out of the city of Tulam though most of our accounts of Toltec history and key rulers (such as Ce Acatl Topiltzin) are from Aztec accounts and 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). 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. If people wanna learn more about all of this, "1491" by Charles Mann is a good starting place, though it also covers North America, the Andes, etc.
Also... Woooooo! Shoutout to Kermit, TX from an Odessa boy! I wasn't sure you guys were still there. Is the Subway in the gas-station still open? I should be nice. Google says y'all are up to 6k people. It's just great to hear something about Kermit on a platform like TH-cam.
My big thing is related to the advent of cellphones. When I grew up there were no such thing as a mobile phone or cell phone and if you wanted or needed to use a phone away from home you had to find a telephone booth with a working pay phone. One of my favorite movies today is an old 1960's Steve McQueen movie called "The Thomas Crown Affair" as I love the split and fragmented multiple screens that are combined at the beginning of the movie. Funny thing is how the Pay phone is singled out as a key item in that movie. I was in Astoria Washington about 11 years ago and I saw a phone booth. I think it is the last one I have seen.
I moved to Egypt 5 years ago and I’d be happy to share some wonderful tour guides and hidden sites with you at a third of the typical tourist price. I went back to the pyramids last weekend and there’s recent evidence to indicate that the pyramids are actually closer to 10,000 years old, and the design of the underground passages between the sites at the Giza plateau hint at a hydroelectric system. It’s also much more affordable to fly to Egypt now, so I’d humbly love to welcome you!
Hey Chris, just wanna warn you about traveling to Egypt. It is notoriously difficult to enter Egypt if you plan on doing any sort of filming/photography. Lots of times they will even confiscate your equipment. Another youtuber (i forget his name) but he travels and does food shows for his channel and aaid Egypt was the worst country he's visited for filming. His equipment was confiscated and he was even detained temporarily. They ended up having to film the episode on their phone
Hey Chris, Im sure people have already mentioned this but I saw a recommended video pop up the other day about the german revolution - oversimplified inspired. Thought of you straight away! Cant remember what the channel was called now though
As I write this, I'm 68. On my mother's side of the family, one set of my great-grandparents were born in the 1830s. Yes, the 1830s. They had my maternal grandmother when they were in their 40s. She had my mother when she was 42. Then my mother had me when she was 36. And of course, I'm now old!
James Maybrick's brother was Michael, who adopted the Maybrick children after their father died and their mother was imprisoned. Michael Maybrick is better-known under the pen-name Stephen Adams as a Victorian musician and composer. His biggest hit was The Holy City ("Jerusalem, Jerusalem, lift up your gates and sing...").
Another weird fact that is rather paleontologic than historic is that the well know dinosaur Tyrannosarus Rex lived closer to us that to the also famous Stegosaurus. The Stegosaurus (the one with the plates on his back and the spiked tail) died out around 80 million years before the T-Rex while the T-Rex itself died out together will all other dinosarus 65 million years ago. That means that the big fella lives 15 million years closer to us than to his spiked cousin.
I remember when the phone was attached to the wall in my mom's kitchen, and how cool it was when they got the wire and the outlet into my room, and I could go and buy a phone, plug it in, and talk to people without going out to the kitchen... Dang I'm old!
A minor point, but you were a mere 2 years out with the death of Picasso in 1973 and the release of Night at the Opera by Queen, which included the track Bohemian Rhapsody, in 1975.
I forget which late night show it was, but one of them held a contest between two old gentlemen and two young boys, the old gentlemen using a telegraph and the boys using 90s cellphone with 3-4 letters per key, to see who could send the same message to the other in a faster manner 😂
Chris, I was 10 when Star Wars was released so I'm old enought to remember the Yuppie with a Brick phone. It was just a different era before the cheap powerful microprocessor devices of today, its just a thing i have gotten used to.
The first video game was Tennis for Two in 1958. William Higinbothem, a physicist who worked on Fat Man and Little Boy, made it as a display piece at the government lab he worked at. Ran for two years, then they took it apart bc they needed the oscilloscope.
@@drs-xj3pb Yeah, I left that out. Pong was 1972 and a free standing commercial arcade game. A few years before Pong came Spacewar!, an academia created game that made the rounds in academic circles, but also in '72 Magnavox created the Odyssey for home use, then Atari in '77, Intellivision etc until the NES in '85.
In the mid 90s, work bought me a Motorola Microtac. It replaced a pager. The pager was combined with the phone within weeks when we realized how week cell coverage was. Far more confident getting a page, and finding a payphone. 21:54 They're a neat fad. I think they're catching on.
Long time sub, too broke to donate but I love your stuff. I've tried your original content a lot but the subjects aren't often.. captivating enough for me personally? By which I mean they just haven't aligned with my typical interests in history. That said, PLEASE GO TO EGYPT. While there, if you could point out certain cites and highlight the disparity between what they might have looked like at their height (or maybe during each period of Egyptian history, and maybe side by side fan art with your tour video, narration and description?) Just suggestions but as a long time fan and sub that wants to love your original content more I think this kind of paradigm could make for a fascinating historical tour of such a historically rich land. And as an American, I may never get the chance to visit or see the sites for myself so being able to live it vicariously through you and your wonderful descriptions of each site as its changed through time would be incredible for me - but I don't know about my fellow Americans who love your stuff. Either way, might be worth considering that fan art might help bring the ancient world to life along with your descriptions
Man, I didn't feel old until you mentioned "a lot of you watching this don't remember a time before smartphones". Only a relative few people in my highschool (of 4-5k+ students) had cellphones - it was shortly after I graduated high school that everyone really started getting them. I myself didn't get one until at least a few years after I graduated, and it wasn't even a smartphone - just a flip phone that had a really terrible camera and was barely capable of texting (and it was an optional, paid service that my parents, who got me the phone, wouldn't pay for). I didn't get my first smartphone until years later, not long after getting my first real job. By then I was already in my mid-to-late 20s. It is funny how the video mentions the iphone as something that's "done more to kill kids' interest in reading", seeing as reading is what I do most on my smartphone. xD I was so excited to get one because I could finally read without carrying books around (I did have a Kindle for a few years, but that's still pretty hard to carry around in your POCKET, like you can with a smartphone).
Ray and Joan Kroc are laid to rest where I work, El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego. Chris, if you ever find yourself over here I’d be happy to give you a tour.
i can tell you i still remember typing a message on my mobile phone by pressing buttons several times to scroll through the letters offered on that button..... i hated it when i accidently pressed one too often resulting in having to go through the whole list again. sometimes that made my brain shut down out of boredom and i happened to have to scroll through multiiple times
dont got to egypt! I've seen several travel channels talk about how they've almost had to spend time in jail for recording things they were given explicit permission to record. They've had camera gear taken by airport security and could only recover it with a bribe. The police follow vloggers around like crazy. I'd highly advise just watching people travel to Egypt even if not historical to get a good sense of what's going on before you do that. It's super sad to say as I'd also love to see Egypt one day too. Unfortunately the current regime there is far too paranoid for it to be a safe trip.
i love your videos, they are so well done. keep up the great work. one suggestion I have is maybe talk about the history of ukraine and how that affects whats going on today. or maybe the same with isreal and palestine. you always do a great job explaining butterfly effects so it would be interesting to see you break this down. once again great job man
Should be noted the original iPhone didn't have app support, that would come later. Existing smart phones did have app support. The killing app of the iPhone was how easy it was to use, with capasative instead of resistive touch screens, going from having to apply pressure (generally using a stylus) to just touching.
Hi VTH/Chris, if you could go back in time and witness three events (no messing with the timeline) what would you pick? I imagine one would probably be something Grant related.
I think it would have been fun if you react to some more music that contains topics surrounding history. I am a big Iron Maiden fan and they happen to have a song called "Alexander The Great", which probably is my favourite Iron Maiden song. I am also a big fan of you and your content, therefore I would love the combination of you and some Iron Maiden. Keep up the great content, love from Sweden!
I remember my first phone. It was a Motorola flip phone and I played Snake on it. You had to control it using the arrow buttons in the middle, and playing for a long time actually strained my thumb.
I HAD perfect attendance in high school...skipping my grandfather's funeral to be in school...with my grandmother's approval and encouragement to keep it intact, of course.
The Harry Potter and smartphone thing made me feel so old. I grew up when the books came out, eagerly anticipating every new release, and of course this was ages before I got my first smartphone. My first cellphone was the classic Nokia brick, it could call, send text messages and beep, and that's about it 😂
Oh, when he called the Guillotine "medieval" he was probably using the word medieval as a pejorative, referring to it being a barbaric method of execution. Also fun fact: Scorpions and Fish have been around for far longer than Plants and Fungi.
Still unfair IMO. The guillotine was hailed when it first came out as being relatively humane compared to the other forms of execution available at the time. Clearly the French agreed, because they didn't stop using it until they stopped executing people entirely.
lol, my childhood was during the 70s and early 80s...graduated HS 1985. No cellphones obviously. The big breakthroughs in consumer tech were things like cable television (and even then we still had only six channels: the three networks, PBS, and two local channels...we just weren't getting them through the rooftop antenna or the "rabbit ears" any more), the original Pong, and by the time I was in high school, the first home PCs like the Atari and the Commodore 64. The games took hours to load, using 5 1/4" floppy disks. I myself didn't personally own a computer (I had routinely used them at work for course) until I was in my late-20s in 1995. Funny thing about that...even at that relatively late date, that old Compaq cost much more than an immensely more powerful rig does today, even before accounting for 30 years of inflation.
13:40 Bain's Electronic Printing Telegraph could transmit images, but it required special paper and conductive ink. It was also not particularly accurate and had a tendency to desynchronize, resulting in errors. The 'scanning phototelegraph', which did not require special materials, was introudced in 1880. 17:00 The real question, why does the ecstasy have the Mitsubishi logo on it.
One of the things that throws me off sometimes is the Tudor Era (1485-1603) and the Sengoku Era (1467-1568 or 1638 depending on which historian you use from my understanding) happened around the same time. I always thought the Sengoku period was later because of the introduction of guns into their military later on.
I love your reaction videos. I'd love to see your reaction to the last episode of Blackadder S4. There are great parts throughout the episode but the ending is perhaps the greatest finale to a comedy series ever created.
Isnt Adwaita the oldest tortoise? She was gifted to Sir Robert Clive when he won the Battle of Plassey, at the end of the 7 years war and died in 2006? Thats 65 years older than Jonathan
The fact Harriet made it back and forth from Europe in Darwin's time was a small miracle. Naturalists back then had a notoriously hard time transporting a live tortoise simply due to how much the shipcrew wanted to eat them.😅
There's a lot of good eating on those things.
I’m sure they were paid a handsome tip if it survived, so the rest of the crew would just beat them up lol
Something that always trips people up when I tell them: we are roughly as far removed from WWII as people in WWII were from the US Civil War.
Yeah there are photos of FDR and a bunch of Civil War vets during the 1930s
My grandpa was in hiding during World War II
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It’s crazy. I point this out when a person is incredibly idealistic about our nation or the world.
And there is a comparable length of time between the Civil War and the American Revolution, as well. 1780 to 1861 to 1942 to 2023…eighty-one years between each time.
I can't believe he missed this interesting fact!
The last American Civil War veterans saw the first atomic bombs!
The last witness to Lincoln's assassination appeared on a TV game show.
That's crazy, considering that the ACW was considered to be a war of unprecedented casaulties and horrors. WWII really brought an end to those veterans' "you think you had it bad? Back in my day…" stories
I’ve heard Civil war stories second hand.
My grandmother, born in 1890, was alive for the first car, first airplane, the a-bomb the first cell phone, the first PC, and man landing on the moon. She saw the invention of the bra, midi skirt, mini skirt, hot pants, flares, slacks and jeans, tie dye t-shirt, high heels, and drip dry clothes. She died in the late 70s.
The pyramid referenced in the video is the Pyramid of Djoser, constructed by the recognizable figure Imhotep. Not only was it the first Pyramid but it was also the first monumental structure made of stone. Located about 12 miles south of the Giza Pyramid Complex
I've never heard that step pyramid referred to as one of the "Great Pyramids"
@@VloggingThroughHistory I’ve never either, maybe just a slip up.
@@VloggingThroughHistoryme neither
@@VloggingThroughHistory Was it called one of the Great Pyramids or just the first pyramid
@@VloggingThroughHistory I've usually heard it referenced as the "bent pyramid of djoser" due to it not being architecturally sound (as compared to the big 3) and made of inferior stone or on less firm land so it sank or something. Basically, a first try screw up that oft goes unremembered. It's also not one of the 3 thought of as the "great pyramids" as it was much, much smaller.
I’ve got two but idk if they count, they are more just interesting:
- Queen Victoria has a voice recording which you can hear online. It is almost certain to be her. It’s not the clearest, but consider the fact she was born in 1819!
- A photoshoot exists online of veteran soldiers who fought at Waterloo in 1815 online in their uniforms. The photographer is unknown, but someone out there was genius enough to capture the only surviving images of actual veterans in the Grand Armée and the Guard in their original uniforms and insignia
President Tyler born in 1790. As of May 2023, Tyler has one living grandson through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler, making him the earliest former president with a living grandchild. Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928 and maintains the family home, Sherwood Forest Plantation, in Charles City County, Virginia.
This is also an incredible fact!
The paternal grandfather of a friend of mine (born in the mid-1990s) served in WWI. But even that pales in comparison to John Tyler’s grandsons.
I lived in Charles City, VA and I was privileged to meet both men at a Civil War reenactment at Ft. Pocahontas in Virginia.
I never get tired of his fact. Here is the math, if some people don't know:
President Tyler was 63 and first lady Julia Gardiner was 33 when their son Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born (1853)
Lyon Gardiner Tyler was 75 and his 2nd wife Sue Ruffin was 39 when Harrison was born (1928)
It's also incredible that some of Harrison's uncles and aunts were born over 200 years ago, because they were from John Tyler's first marriage. And because Harrison had siblings decades older than him, one of his nephews actually died in WW2.
He also fought in the war of 1812 which was related to the napoleonic wars.
I have read something like:
"My Grandfathers fought during a war way back."
"You mean duing WWII?"
"No"
"WWI?"
"No"
"DURING THE CVIL WAR?"
"No during the napoleonic wars in 1812"
I was lucky to get to tour the house in the 80s when it was open ona daily basis. He and the organization that owns the house has greatly restricted access to the house now and charge $35 a person
I think the reason Woolly Mammoths confuse people is that we tend to learn about them the same time we learn about dinosaurs, and so group them together despite them being separated by millions years. Cavemen suffer from the same thing as classic movies tended to show cavemen, mammoths and dinosaurs interacting.
Hey Chris! Funny story. I just got off a flight to Phoenix, and noticed the guy next to me had you downloaded on his phone. Told him I was also a subscriber and he said "Oh yeah! He's great!"
Bohemian Rhapsody was released in 1975 so Picasso wasn’t alive by then. But, dying in 1973 means he enjoyed Stairway to Heaven, all Led Zeppelin first 4 albums and obviously all the Beatles. But he never heard Bohemian Rhapsody
What a damn shame. For Picasso.
My 67 year old husband's home in a small Oklahoma town still had a party-line telephone system when he was in jr. high (1968-1971). They had the operator and you had to talk to her and see if the person you were calling was off the line so you could talk. I'm 66 and remember the one in our town of 145,000 had one library in 1968. I remember they bought a delivery truck, modified it, and would drive to the parking lot of the local grocers with it filled with books you could check out for two weeks and return them when they came back. The Bookmobile was a thing for us, I loved it.
I’m English and remember we had party lines in the early 70s. I would pick up the phone and hear the neighbours on the line so being a kid I would make raspberry noises then put the phone down lol.
@@nigeh5326I’ve always been a little sorry that I missed out on the fun of party lines. I was born in Washington, D.C. in 1959.
I live in OK now in 2024 and it still keens like they have early 19th century things still! I moved from the future to the past when I moved to OK.
Pablo Picasso died a month after DARK SIDE OF THE MOON was released. Paul McCartney wrote a song for his BAND ON THE RUN album called "Picasso's Last Words". The chorus goes, "Drink to me, drink to my health; You know I can't drink any more". This is very close to the final thing "The Grand Old Painter" said to friends before he retired for the night and forever. The related McCartney-Wings LP debuted 8 months after his passing.
The Oxford-Aztec thing is considered weird because of Whig History (in its various forms), the concept that history moves through certain "stages" with each being more advanced than the last, and in such cases civilisations such as the Aztecs "should be" older than a Medieval institute like Oxford.
Many (maybe even most) people have been raised with this as a basic assumption, so it doesn't automatically "click" for them that the Aztecs (who "should be" from an earlier / more primitive stage) actually postdates something like Oxford, in the same way that people "know" that tribal societies still exist but don't really think about it in their day to day lives.
That being said, Oxford University- like all Medieval universities- originally didn't have its own buildings, and for a long time was just students and teachers having classes in whatever public location would let them.
as a person who's been to Egypt myself, it was literally the most amazing holiday iv ever been on, cannot recommend it enough, as a fellow history fan you'll love it
What cities did you visit?
@@MatPocobo42It’s pretty typical to start and end with Cairo (the first views of the pyramids from the airplane are unforgettable), and visit cities along the Nile such as Aswan and Luxor, often on a cruise, turning back at the Aswan dam.
@@MatPocobo42 We were staying at sharm el sheikh to the east by the Red Sea, went coral reef diving n that for 1st half of holiday, then went to cairo area for 2nd half, both were incredible
@@fraserwatson1723 Nice. I’m looking for a vacation spot for this winter.
@@MatPocobo42 If you do go there, Pyramids are a MUUUST see, and diving in the red seas also amazing.
Other highlight was the Cairo museum, which had the mummy of Rameses the 2nd n everything, however i should mention this was PRE Arab spring, and i heard that really sadly apparently alot of the Cairo museum got looted during that :( a real tragedy, not entirely sure how restored it is now though, worth looking up maybe, as its best museum iv ever been too
About time: My grandmother, the first child of her family born in America, born in 1896 and who died in 1992, saw some great things in her lifetime. When she was 10, she saw her first automobile on the farm in Minnesota. She saw the start of electrification of America, air travel, radio, television, men on the moon and the maturation of the beginning of the computer age! Amazing.
The first airplane to take flight to landing the first man on the moon took only 66 years, just think about it.
I remember the first iPhone announcement. It was mocked by more than a few as a boondoggle that would bankrupt Apple. It really wasn't obvious at the time that smart phones were going to be the direction of things for the future. Needless to say, their mockery hasn't aged well.
Remember, though, the one thing that the first iPhone was horrible at was making phone calls. It constantly would drop calls, and if connected, it muffled your voice.
Yes it was obvious by that time! The only thing that wasn’t obvious about a smart phone was using your finger to control stuff.
@@texasforever7887 I believe they blamed most of that on AT&T.
@@anonymousanonymous4690 well plenty of major tech publications weren't sure. So yeah, it wasn't obvious.
I think the reason why people mocked the iPhone at first was because the last revolutionary smartphone that Apple tried to release, they released the Newton. And we all know how much of a big failure that was.
Hey Chris, if you're looking for a good comprehensive, readable history of Ancient Egypt, check out "The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt" by Toby Wilkinson.
Also, "A History of Ancient Egypt: A Civilization in Context" by Dr. Donald B. Redford is a textbook but highly readable. His wife was my professor in college, and my sister his student. The Redfords had access to the tomb of Akhenaten and wrote a book about the assassination of Rameses III (aka The Harem Conspiracy)
I read that book by Toby like 2 maybe 3 months ago. Definitely would recommend
It was only within the last couple of years that I learnt how old Oxford is. I think in general, I had generally assumed that Universities were a byproduct of the Renaissance or Enlightenment eras and there really wasn't much in the way of formal education prior to then so hearing "no, it's older than the Aztecs" stuns me. Now, the weird things factor is in full effect and it might be more impactful to phrase it as "Oxford predates Richard the Lionheart"
Some info about the Egyptian king Djoser (not technically a pharaoh since that term started to be synonymous with the king during the New Kingdom): he is considered the founder of the Old Kingdom and was the first Egyptian monarch to sponsor the construction of a pyramid-like tomb for himself. His vizier Imhotep oversaw the construction of a normal slab-like tomb and then started building more and more layers of diminishing size, resulting in what’s called the “step pyramid”
Love the direction this channel is heading! I’ve always been interested in history, and every-time you upload a reaction I find a new TH-cam channel to binge watch lmao.
One of my favorite wacky history stories is the one of a Japanese Samurai on a trip to the Papal States arrived in Mexico where he attacked a Spanish policeman as recorded by the grandson of an Aztec Nobleman
Some of my favorite fun facts:
Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as both John Adams and Ronald Reagan, the 2nd and 40th US President! This really puts into perspective how young The USA is as a country!
Anyone 80 years old or older was born closer to the American Civil War than to the present day!
It took roughly 2,000 years for humanity to go from bronze to iron tools but it only took 66 years to go from the first airplane to the first man to travel to the moon! Technology is advancing faster now than ever before!
The first Comic book published by DC Comics was before the start of World War 2!
As I'm sure you all know, the iPhone wasn't the first smart phone with apps and such; primarily there were Blackberrys and Nokias. Due to the popularity of the iPod though, the iPhone was the first major smartphones success and still is today. This goes back to one of the themes of this video, new things and ideas are built on previous ones.
Thank you for mentioning the Aztec thing. The surprise comes from the fact that many people have the Aztecs in their minds as an ancient civilization. I have many times heard people mention the "Ancient Aztecs." It's actually quite annoying.
Hey Chris, love the channel. I just want mention this before you set your eyes on a Egypt trip. My good friend went there a year ago, and he said it was one of the worst experiences he had. He stated all his cameras was taken and not released back to him. Half of his gear was just stolen from customs and he was pretty much in the airport for a d at try in to get his stuff back. Just a heads up. The sites were awesome of course but that customs experience made him upset.
A trip to Egypt would be Amazing to document for the channel, and as a subscriber of yours from Egypt I would personally love to see that happen. But if you are starting to consider that as an option, here are some few but simple tips I'd like to give you to have an enjoyable visit here.
First, I'd advise you to have a tour guide whenever you visit historical sites in Egypt, a guide would give you a lot of in-depth context about that site's history, and annoying sellers at those sites would most likely leave you alone when they see a guide with you.
Second, if you want to have a purely based historical visit to Egypt, then Cairo wouldn't be the best place for that, Other than the Great Pyramids and The National Museum of Egypt, Cairo is not the best place to supply you with facinating historical sites. For that you'd can go to places like Luxor or Aswan in upper Egypt, There you'd have everything there is facinating to document for historical purposes here on the channel.
And that's It. I hope you have an Amazing visit if you decide to go to Egypt in the near future. Best of Luck!
Carry your own TP 🧻 and tissues in Egypt 🇪🇬 as they make theirs to last as long as the pyramids. It’s a rough experience. Here’s my fun fact about it: Cairo is so overcrowded that people live in the City of the Dead.
Sooo, there’s a snapping turtle in Indian Springs, GA at a wildlife rescue/zoo called Dauset trails that was found in the main pond with a Native American arrow head in its shell. The area was one of the larger towns in the Creek Nation and was the frontier during the colonial era.
For my own little fun fact about mammoths. When I was getting closer to the end of high school my parents found a dig site (since I had immense interest in Archaeology) where students from Central Washington University were digging a mammoth skeleton out of some farm land. I volunteered at it for a few days on two different summers. The big thing about it was it actually was not as deep in the ground than you'd expect, being above the Missoula Ice Age Flood deposits. If you want to read about it, it was called the Wenas Mammoth.
I believe the oldest animals still alive might be some mussels in the Atlantic. Those suckers have been estimated at half a millennium.
We know so little about the sea there are probably many things down there with incredible lifespans.
It was only a few years ago scientists carbon dated Greenland sharks and estimated they could potentially live 500+ years.
Watching you throughout these years ever since I recommended Historia Civilis, has been an absolute pleasure. Thank you for being my favorite History Commentary Channel
His accent is the most interesting this entire video just so weird how he switches from a english accent to a LA valley accent
I’m English and I thought the same.
His voice could be AI generated. AI voices move between accents a lot, and his actual channel says he's from Germany, not the UK or US.
@@XxbobshanenxXAs someone from a non-English-speaking country, non-native English speakers do tend to switch between accents a lot. Nothing extreme like going from Scottish to Kenyan for example, but usually just mild changes like pronouncing certain words in different accents
@@user-df1ns1ob8y I’m also from a non-English native country (Pakistan) but I’ve never heard such distinct and continuous change before. I could be 100% wrong cause I’m just guessing, but if it is an actual change in accent, it’s the most extreme one I’ve ever heard.
@@XxbobshanenxXyeah it's definitely AI generated, you can tell
I greatly enjoy learning along with many of your videos. You are truly one of my favorite content creators. Being a big music history fan I caught a small discrepancy. I caught something that you said in passing about Picasso that was just partially incorrect. I apologize for the nitpicking but you had said he would’ve been alive for the release of Bohemian Rhapsody. If I remember correctly Bohemian Rhapsody was on Queen’s 4th album A Night at the Opera which came out in 1975. It was very sad for me to realize he missed this master piece by only 2 years.
My favorite of these kinds of facts: We are as far removed from the Roman Empire as the Roman Empire was from the building of the pyramids in Egypt. Blew my mind when I first heard it, I never thought of them being _that_ far apart. I was never into history in my school days though, I didn't learn to appreciate it until I was much older. Now I'm fascinated by it.
I'm 53 and the other day someone told me they were born in 2002. My first thought was "that's impossible, you're an adult".
In the movie Oppenheimer the physicists talk about the fact that 300 years of advancements in physics leading to something so deadly is just tragic. I thought about this when you talked about scientists and inventors building off other ideas.
Hey Chris, just binging all your videos. Thank you for all your hard work
@9:19 I always thought that Christian Ranucci was the last person executed in France. But, as indicated in Wikipedia: "Ranucci was the third-to-last person executed in France, and frequently cited as the last due to the notoriety and media frenzy over the case."
12:44 For anyone wondering, this is a reference from the game Red Dead Redemption 2. Which takes place in 1899 and the guy on the left asks ''Does this wagon go to tahiti?'' Because he and other people from his gang wanted to abandon the outlaw life and live a peaceful life on the island of Tahiti.
*wondering, I suspect, and not wandering.
@@spiritmatter1553 Sorry, I sometimes make grammar mistakes when not careful. Thanks for letting me know.
You mention the English language and how it's changed. I love this. As a Scotsman I watch some of our more local TH-camrs if you like. One of them like yourself does history and he done a video on the history of Scots as a language. What most would say is a dialect is the closest example of what we have to the old Germanic English that would have been spoken in the timeframe mentioned. Not saying we could have a conversation with people of that time. But even as recent as WW1 the German soldiers could understand the Scottish parts of the British army because of the words we use are closer to the Germanic origins.
Scots is a language(or dialect depending on who you ask) which developed from Middle English, not the Old Germanic English. Old English is closer to Dutch than modern English. It is the pronunciation is closer to German because Scottish English and Scots were more conservative come the time of the "Great Vowel Shift".
I work in an aviation museum with an extensive WW1 collection. When those guys were up there flying their planes in war, aviation was only a little over a decade old. In fact, airplanes were newer to them than iPhones are to us.
Blows my mind that a lot of their planes were built of wood and canvas too.
@@spiritmatter1553 yep! That's why, despite the fact we've got high tech modern planes here, I'm always fascinated most by the WW1 aircraft, they were still figuring it all out. If you walk up to the planes, you can feel how flimsy they were.
When it comes to old tortoises, it gets even crazier. There was a tortoise named Adwaita living in the zoo of Kalkutta who is said to have belonged to Robert Clive ("Clive of India", 1725-1774). Adwaita was born around the year 1750 (19 years before Napoleon Bonaparte) and lived until 2006.
18:11 taking a drug for pleasure that the withdrawals would kill you sounds extremely Victorian era for some reason haha
There were some good ones in here. I remember how excited I was for the first iPhone then I stopped using mine after a month or so because I realized my Nokia had better features like texting to multiple people at once and texting photos. I eventually went back to iPhone when those became available features a couple years later.
Bummer. Weren’t the first iPhones $400? Or $800? I forget.
@@spiritmatter1553 I think like 400
I have to say that I'm a tiny bit envious. Pink Floyd is one of those bands I really really really wanted to see live. But due to a mix of reasons it made that impossible, mostly because when I was at the age where my parents would probably let me go to a concert by myself I think Pink Floyd had stopped playing together for a long time.
Edit : I do also remember a world before smartphones, I think I got my first phone when I was 10 or 11 so that would have been 2005 or 2006
To be fair for GRRM, first 3 asoiaf books have about the same word count as all the Harry Potter books combined. And they were published -96, -98, and -00.
Also the ASOIAF books have a slightly more complex story than the HP books.
As somebody who acts as a consultant for channels on Mesoamerica, the Aztec fact here is pretty misleading. It's not incorrect (though the video uses some inaccurate wojak faces: Some are Maya, others are just totally wrong), but it preys on people's lack of knowledge about Mesoamerica: The Aztec were among the VERY latest Mesoamerican civilizations to arise: Cities, writing, rulership, etc goes back in the region 3000 years before them (which is why "Tribes" isn't the right term: They were city-states, kingdoms, and empires), so to say that "Oxford is older then the Aztec" isn't a particularly meaningful statement.
It's like saying Oxford is older then Germany... like, yeah, duh, because Germany is a pretty recent European nation, doesn't mean there weren't other nations and empires in what's now Germany that had a similar culture (though the Aztecs were actually pretty recent migrants into Mesoamerica: Earlier major states in Central Mexico may not have been ethnically or linguistically that close to the Aztec, though the Aztec did adopt their cultural and artistic traits). If anything, I think the bigger mind-blown moment is hearing that the Aztec Empire is older then Spain! Spain only actually became a largely unified state a few years before the Cortes expedition when the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon unified, wheras the Aztec Empire formed a century earlier in 1325 when the city-states of Texcoco and Tlacopan joined with Tenochtitlan to overthrow Azcapotzalco.
On that note, for people curious, here is a summerized timeline of that ~3000 years of civilization, from the region's first Olmec cities to the arrival of the Spanish:
The Preclassic Period (1400BC-100AD):
In 1400 BC, around the Gulf Coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, the Olmec site of San Lorezno becomes the region's first urban center in 1400 BC, and becomes abandoned by 900 BC, where the more properly urban and socially complex city of La Venta rises to prominence, which is also when our main example of of Olmec writing dates back to. In the following centuries, urban, state societies continue to pop up, notable ones being the early Maya cities such as El Mirador and Kaminaljuyu; the Zapotec city of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, and Epi-Olmec cities which develop from older Olmec civilization; and all 3 of these develop writing; with many other independent towns and some cities popping up all over. In Western Mexico, during the same period as the Olmec, the Capacha are a culture that developed independently from them, with far reaching examples of pottery and likely trade, but we don't know much about them or Western Mexican cultures in general
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. The Maya are at their height here with many dozens of large, notable city-states & kingdoms, and thousands of smaller towns all over the Yucatan. 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, 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, 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), which were apparently, like Teotihuacan before them, a massively influential and far reaching power in the region, maybe operating out of the city of Tulam though most of our accounts of Toltec history and key rulers (such as Ce Acatl Topiltzin) are from Aztec accounts and 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). 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.
If people wanna learn more about all of this, "1491" by Charles Mann is a good starting place, though it also covers North America, the Andes, etc.
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Woooooo! Shoutout to Kermit, TX from an Odessa boy! I wasn't sure you guys were still there. Is the Subway in the gas-station still open?
I should be nice. Google says y'all are up to 6k people. It's just great to hear something about Kermit on a platform like TH-cam.
My big thing is related to the advent of cellphones. When I grew up there were no such thing as a mobile phone or cell phone and if you wanted or needed to use a phone away from home you had to find a telephone booth with a working pay phone. One of my favorite movies today is an old 1960's Steve McQueen movie called "The Thomas Crown Affair" as I love the split and fragmented multiple screens that are combined at the beginning of the movie. Funny thing is how the Pay phone is singled out as a key item in that movie. I was in Astoria Washington about 11 years ago and I saw a phone booth. I think it is the last one I have seen.
I moved to Egypt 5 years ago and I’d be happy to share some wonderful tour guides and hidden sites with you at a third of the typical tourist price. I went back to the pyramids last weekend and there’s recent evidence to indicate that the pyramids are actually closer to 10,000 years old, and the design of the underground passages between the sites at the Giza plateau hint at a hydroelectric system.
It’s also much more affordable to fly to Egypt now, so I’d humbly love to welcome you!
Hey Chris, just wanna warn you about traveling to Egypt. It is notoriously difficult to enter Egypt if you plan on doing any sort of filming/photography. Lots of times they will even confiscate your equipment. Another youtuber (i forget his name) but he travels and does food shows for his channel and aaid Egypt was the worst country he's visited for filming. His equipment was confiscated and he was even detained temporarily. They ended up having to film the episode on their phone
Hey Chris, Im sure people have already mentioned this but I saw a recommended video pop up the other day about the german revolution - oversimplified inspired. Thought of you straight away! Cant remember what the channel was called now though
As I write this, I'm 68. On my mother's side of the family, one set of my great-grandparents were born in the 1830s. Yes, the 1830s. They had my maternal grandmother when they were in their 40s. She had my mother when she was 42. Then my mother had me when she was 36. And of course, I'm now old!
James Maybrick's brother was Michael, who adopted the Maybrick children after their father died and their mother was imprisoned. Michael Maybrick is better-known under the pen-name Stephen Adams as a Victorian musician and composer. His biggest hit was The Holy City ("Jerusalem, Jerusalem, lift up your gates and sing...").
Excellent more facts for the pub quiz!
Another weird fact that is rather paleontologic than historic is that the well know dinosaur Tyrannosarus Rex lived closer to us that to the also famous Stegosaurus.
The Stegosaurus (the one with the plates on his back and the spiked tail) died out around 80 million years before the T-Rex while the T-Rex itself died out together will all other dinosarus 65 million years ago.
That means that the big fella lives 15 million years closer to us than to his spiked cousin.
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I remember when the phone was attached to the wall in my mom's kitchen, and how cool it was when they got the wire and the outlet into my room, and I could go and buy a phone, plug it in, and talk to people without going out to the kitchen...
Dang I'm old!
You going to a Pink Floyd concert just won so many points on my scorecard. You're now officially my number one favorite TH-camr Chris
Love your work chris🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I was at that Pink Floyd concert as well (had to make a road trip from Athens & back the same night). Go Browns.
I will definitely enjoy some skyline down here lol, love the videos.
A minor point, but you were a mere 2 years out with the death of Picasso in 1973 and the release of Night at the Opera by Queen, which included the track Bohemian Rhapsody, in 1975.
I forget which late night show it was, but one of them held a contest between two old gentlemen and two young boys, the old gentlemen using a telegraph and the boys using 90s cellphone with 3-4 letters per key, to see who could send the same message to the other in a faster manner 😂
So who won? Bet it was the telegraph guys.
Chris, I was 10 when Star Wars was released so I'm old enought to remember the Yuppie with a Brick phone. It was just a different era before the cheap powerful microprocessor devices of today, its just a thing i have gotten used to.
The first video game was Tennis for Two in 1958. William Higinbothem, a physicist who worked on Fat Man and Little Boy, made it as a display piece at the government lab he worked at. Ran for two years, then they took it apart bc they needed the oscilloscope.
And thus was born Pong.
@@drs-xj3pb Yeah, I left that out. Pong was 1972 and a free standing commercial arcade game. A few years before Pong came Spacewar!, an academia created game that made the rounds in academic circles, but also in '72 Magnavox created the Odyssey for home use, then Atari in '77, Intellivision etc until the NES in '85.
In the mid 90s, work bought me a Motorola Microtac. It replaced a pager. The pager was combined with the phone within weeks when we realized how week cell coverage was. Far more confident getting a page, and finding a payphone. 21:54 They're a neat fad. I think they're catching on.
tomorrow will be your 1000th uploaded video, been there since the beginning ! Keep doing what you're doing !
Long time sub, too broke to donate but I love your stuff. I've tried your original content a lot but the subjects aren't often.. captivating enough for me personally? By which I mean they just haven't aligned with my typical interests in history. That said, PLEASE GO TO EGYPT. While there, if you could point out certain cites and highlight the disparity between what they might have looked like at their height (or maybe during each period of Egyptian history, and maybe side by side fan art with your tour video, narration and description?) Just suggestions but as a long time fan and sub that wants to love your original content more I think this kind of paradigm could make for a fascinating historical tour of such a historically rich land. And as an American, I may never get the chance to visit or see the sites for myself so being able to live it vicariously through you and your wonderful descriptions of each site as its changed through time would be incredible for me - but I don't know about my fellow Americans who love your stuff. Either way, might be worth considering that fan art might help bring the ancient world to life along with your descriptions
That’s hilarious that you went to the old stadium to watch that show, I was there too!!
Man, I didn't feel old until you mentioned "a lot of you watching this don't remember a time before smartphones". Only a relative few people in my highschool (of 4-5k+ students) had cellphones - it was shortly after I graduated high school that everyone really started getting them. I myself didn't get one until at least a few years after I graduated, and it wasn't even a smartphone - just a flip phone that had a really terrible camera and was barely capable of texting (and it was an optional, paid service that my parents, who got me the phone, wouldn't pay for). I didn't get my first smartphone until years later, not long after getting my first real job. By then I was already in my mid-to-late 20s.
It is funny how the video mentions the iphone as something that's "done more to kill kids' interest in reading", seeing as reading is what I do most on my smartphone. xD I was so excited to get one because I could finally read without carrying books around (I did have a Kindle for a few years, but that's still pretty hard to carry around in your POCKET, like you can with a smartphone).
If you really want to blow grandkids minds, show them a dial up phone, a box brownie camera, a handwritten letter, and a transistor radio.
Speaking of Egypt: there are like 3D tours via VR games (don't need a headset to play them) that shows some of the tombs😊
Ah, but you miss the smell of the dung fires 🔥 that people cook over at night in Cairo!
Ray and Joan Kroc are laid to rest where I work, El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego. Chris, if you ever find yourself over here I’d be happy to give you a tour.
The creator’s “accent” is a real rollercoaster ride.
Really interesting video and reaction - very cool facts.
i can tell you i still remember typing a message on my mobile phone by pressing buttons several times to scroll through the letters offered on that button..... i hated it when i accidently pressed one too often resulting in having to go through the whole list again. sometimes that made my brain shut down out of boredom and i happened to have to scroll through multiiple times
As a native San Diegan, its crazy to me that some of the tortoises in the San Diego Zoo are the same ones that have been there since 1928
Cool that you got to see Pink Floyd in concert. That must have been a trip. Congrats Chris.
Very excited to know you consider a trip to Egypt ... Keep us updated on that cuz l would love to meet you here
Loved the comment about GRRM and ASOIAF. I completely agree he needs to get them out soon!
Yah I was 5 when the iPhone came out so don’t really know the world without them but I vaguely have a couple memories of what we used before
dont got to egypt! I've seen several travel channels talk about how they've almost had to spend time in jail for recording things they were given explicit permission to record. They've had camera gear taken by airport security and could only recover it with a bribe. The police follow vloggers around like crazy. I'd highly advise just watching people travel to Egypt even if not historical to get a good sense of what's going on before you do that. It's super sad to say as I'd also love to see Egypt one day too. Unfortunately the current regime there is far too paranoid for it to be a safe trip.
i love your videos, they are so well done. keep up the great work. one suggestion I have is maybe talk about the history of ukraine and how that affects whats going on today. or maybe the same with isreal and palestine. you always do a great job explaining butterfly effects so it would be interesting to see you break this down. once again great job man
Excellent suggestions. Everyone should be aware of the Holomodor.
14:30 I think it's more about the idea that people think Aztecs were an ancient tribe.
Should be noted the original iPhone didn't have app support, that would come later. Existing smart phones did have app support. The killing app of the iPhone was how easy it was to use, with capasative instead of resistive touch screens, going from having to apply pressure (generally using a stylus) to just touching.
Hi VTH/Chris, if you could go back in time and witness three events (no messing with the timeline) what would you pick? I imagine one would probably be something Grant related.
I think it would have been fun if you react to some more music that contains topics surrounding history. I am a big Iron Maiden fan and they happen to have a song called "Alexander The Great", which probably is my favourite Iron Maiden song. I am also a big fan of you and your content, therefore I would love the combination of you and some Iron Maiden. Keep up the great content, love from Sweden!
Definitely, the historian should be up to date on his Iron Maiden and use lots of Iron Maiden in his videos. Got it. 😑
I remember my first phone. It was a Motorola flip phone and I played Snake on it. You had to control it using the arrow buttons in the middle, and playing for a long time actually strained my thumb.
Newgate was on the site of the Central Criminal Court, which is known as "The Old Bailey" (''old prison').
I HAD perfect attendance in high school...skipping my grandfather's funeral to be in school...with my grandmother's approval and encouragement to keep it intact, of course.
The Harry Potter and smartphone thing made me feel so old. I grew up when the books came out, eagerly anticipating every new release, and of course this was ages before I got my first smartphone. My first cellphone was the classic Nokia brick, it could call, send text messages and beep, and that's about it 😂
Love the little red dead 2 reference
My favorite time warp fact is that we live closer in time to T-Rex than the Stegosaurus did 🤯
The Central Criminal Court in London is built on the site of Newgate Prison. The Address being Old Bailey.
I did a video there about crime and punishment but haven’t edited it yet.
Oh, when he called the Guillotine "medieval" he was probably using the word medieval as a pejorative, referring to it being a barbaric method of execution.
Also fun fact: Scorpions and Fish have been around for far longer than Plants and Fungi.
Almost
Land plants ~ 470 million years ago
Arachnida ~ 435 million years ago
@@animation1234111 oh
@@animation1234111 flowering plants are not well accepted from before ~130 million years ago
@@williamcross210 Comment didn't specify which plant.
Still unfair IMO. The guillotine was hailed when it first came out as being relatively humane compared to the other forms of execution available at the time. Clearly the French agreed, because they didn't stop using it until they stopped executing people entirely.
lol, my childhood was during the 70s and early 80s...graduated HS 1985. No cellphones obviously. The big breakthroughs in consumer tech were things like cable television (and even then we still had only six channels: the three networks, PBS, and two local channels...we just weren't getting them through the rooftop antenna or the "rabbit ears" any more), the original Pong, and by the time I was in high school, the first home PCs like the Atari and the Commodore 64. The games took hours to load, using 5 1/4" floppy disks. I myself didn't personally own a computer (I had routinely used them at work for course) until I was in my late-20s in 1995. Funny thing about that...even at that relatively late date, that old Compaq cost much more than an immensely more powerful rig does today, even before accounting for 30 years of inflation.
13:40 Bain's Electronic Printing Telegraph could transmit images, but it required special paper and conductive ink. It was also not particularly accurate and had a tendency to desynchronize, resulting in errors. The 'scanning phototelegraph', which did not require special materials, was introudced in 1880.
17:00 The real question, why does the ecstasy have the Mitsubishi logo on it.
The 10 000 year old tree from dalarna, Sweden left the chat
Is it still living as well?
One of the things that throws me off sometimes is the Tudor Era (1485-1603) and the Sengoku Era (1467-1568 or 1638 depending on which historian you use from my understanding) happened around the same time. I always thought the Sengoku period was later because of the introduction of guns into their military later on.
I love your reaction videos. I'd love to see your reaction to the last episode of Blackadder S4. There are great parts throughout the episode but the ending is perhaps the greatest finale to a comedy series ever created.
The language Old English, is most familar with today is most likely Islandic (since they both are very close to ancient Norse).
Cool 😎
The best one in my opinion is that we are closer to the T-Rex on the time scale than the T-Rex was to the Stegosaurus
Isnt Adwaita the oldest tortoise? She was gifted to Sir Robert Clive when he won the Battle of Plassey, at the end of the 7 years war and died in 2006? Thats 65 years older than Jonathan
Did the guys voice just suddenly become American at 7:05 lol
Yes, yes it did. Lol
I think it's an AI voice using two different accents.