Just to clear something up: Pangaea was the *latest* supercontinent, not the configuration the continents started out in. Continental drift has created a bunch of supercontinents before, although the ones before Pangaea were likely uninhabited because life either didn't exist or was still only really found in the ocean.
Fun fact for the old Stars thing: There is the theoretical "Black hole Star", a Star born shortly after the big bang,where Matter was so dense, Stars could a) grow crazy fast to crazy sizes and b) collect so much mass, that their core collabses into a black hole, with pressure from fusion and the gravitational pull keeping enough of a balance, that they could be somewhat stable And that thought is just terrifying
I love the "Nothing was never anywhere, everything is everywhere" Part, because if the big bang birthed space and time, the thought about "What was before it?" Doesn't make sense, since there is no way to have a "before" without time and "where" without space
I mean, without gravity, time and space don’t even matter. Time is a measure of the effects of objects and areas created by gravity, and Space is a measure of areas and objects and the gaps in between that time also measures, that can only exist by gravity moving things. Gravity is likely how the universe started, but how it happened is a real big mystery.
@@JacksonVoet Not *just* Gravity, but also others. Time, Space, Matter, everything is based on the interaction between energy and the 4 fundamental forces: Gravitational Force, Electromagnetic Force, and the Interaction Forces.
43:39 They never got Ethiopia because a Christian nation (older than even most European Christian nations) had a much easier time telling them to not take over them.
Other interersting thing is Ethiopian king was making everyone around think Ethiopia was primitive country like everything around, so if someone tried to invade, they would seriously underestimate Ethiopia and would come underprepared. And that happened when Italy attacked expecting max around 30k poorly equipped soldiers. What they met was between 80k and 120k soldiers not falling behind european standards of equipment.
@@Krokmaniak Bruh three times? They lost twice and decided to give it a third go? What was so valuable in Ethiopia that Italy was determined to have them spesificly? (I'm assuming they lost, or else why would they have to invade a 3rd time) Or was it because Ethiopia were simply the last one left and this was technically before WW2 kicked off and they weren't fighting the other colonial powers yet?
@6:55 no, actually, at the point in time that he's talking about (around the genesis of life, something like 3.5-4 billion years ago) nearly all land would have been from volcanic hotspots. The earth hadn't cooled enough for tectonic activity to start moving huge plates; the crust was fractured into tons of tiny plates and the vast majority of the surface was ocean. There are only two remaining chunks of earth left on the surface that are from this time period, one in western Australia and one in southern Africa. It took nearly a billion years from this point for the earth's core to cool enough that large-scale plate tectonics could start happening. The Himalayas are one of the youngest mountain ranges on Earth, only about 100 million years old. (That's why they're so big, they haven't had time to erode down yet.) The Himalayas began forming right around the same time that birds began to evolve from dinosaurs, if that gives you better context.
And, of course, the dinosaurs never fully went extinct. We still have the ones that crap on my car. The most successful vertebrates on Earth (or at least on land).
Actually you're wrong about the soviets not relaxing and that not leading to the collapse. What happened was Gorbachev got into power and introduced new policies (Glasnost and perestroika) which relaxed first soviet economic control and then media control. This didn't fix the economy immediately but it did let people start talking openly about how fucked the economy was and also removed pressure from half a dozen nationalist independence movements in the non russian parts of the USSR. This led to a Coup attempt by soviet hardliners which was put down by Boris Yeltsin who then took the opportunity to dissolve the Union alongside leaders of the other SSRs and take over the now independent Russia. Basically it probably would have collapsed but the actual circumstances were ABSOLUTELY the result of the relaxation of the old soviet policies of control and oppression, they'd been barely holding a lid on things since the 70's but when the lid came off everything boiled over very fast.
I love how much well Bill illustrates the context and connections of various historical events, which often get taught independently. Like that whole line of dominoes from Saudi Arabia blocking the spice trade over Columbus' crackpot expeditions, to the conflicts over America, the 7-year-war, into the American independence, and eventually the French Revolution...
The situation in Panama is even worse than you were saying, the biggest problem recently is water. Most of the canal is above sea level, and it depends on water from nearby lakes to operate the locks, but the canal has been using more water than the lakes have been getting, so there's a real danger of the canal becoming useless because they don't have enough water, it's already effecting traffic limits through the canal today. Also, that water is, you know, drinkable. So it could also be useful for keeping people alive and producing food, but because the canal needs it so much and the levels are low, it can't really be used for other purposes (at the moment).
3d printing organs is actually one of those things we should be spending lots of research money on, I actually would compare it to Cancer research in terms of what it would mean for the health industry. So many people are on organ donor wait lists because the number of needed organs doesn’t even come close to the number of people who need them. This is a good thing not some kind of sci fi dystopian
That face in the “Christianize all the kingdoms” meme is from a blog called Hyperbole and a Half. A lot of her MS Paint drawings that she did for her stories were turned into memes.
If you wonder why it said "Intermission" at one point when it was about Japan, that is because Bill Wurtz had previously made a 9 minute history of Japan video.
50:00 Yes the Soviet Union collapsed because it relaxed. Gorbatschov was an idealist and went. "Hey people, maybe we should actually try to live up to the ideas of communism. So from now on we will be accepting criticism and stop lying on national television." Glasnost and Perestroika. So several of the more central European and balkan nations went. "Our criticism is that this sucks and we want to be our own countries." And the last time they tried the Soviet Union sent tanks, this time they really didn't as much. So suddenly the Soviet Union was collapsing. Though, while it was willingly in the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltic countries, in Russia proper and Kasaksthan it actually happened against the direkt wishes of the population, as the Soviet Union still retained a small but definite lead. Also, when the Soviet Union fell there asn't a "decent" government in Russia. Life expectancy took a nosedive. Western Advisors essentially created the current Oligarch class, because they were the opinion that selling of state-owned businesses slowly that the Russian people would have a chance to adapt and actually have smaller businesses that could drive forward a democratic processes by giving the people more power was dumb, and would give the people the chance to actually make their voices heard, so instead "Shock Therapy" needed to be implemented. I.E Everything sold of directly to whoever could pay the western advisors the highest bribes.
I like when he goes "oh he actually brought [insert thing here] up?" Like, the video is called the history of the entire world, of course he did. Also, watch the Japan one. Its shorter, more digestible, and just as funny.
Here's another odd detail with it: Samuel Morgenstern, a Jewish store owner, was one of the most loyal buyers of Adolf's paintings in Vienna. It was one of the main things that kept him out of the state of poverty which essentially would have doomed him to homelessness. The doctor who took care of Adolf's mother, Eduard Bloch, was also Jewish, and was absolutely beloved by Adolf during the darker years that folks don't like to talk about. He visited Eduard personally and also allowed him to immigrate to the United States so that he didn't get caught up in any of it. Eduard billed their family at reduced costs and often didn't bill them at all for medical care while Klara was battling cancer. Eduard truly was a good man. Edit for context: Morgenstern did not have it so lucky. He and his family were sent to Łódź in Poland.
FYI, the reason he didn't mention plate tectonics in the creation of the first land is that most current models say plate tectonics didn't fully get going until a little later when the Earth had cooled a bit.
Actually, the Extinction event of the Dinosaurs is very fascinating. If you want, there is a video that is pretty long, it fundamentally interesting by the TH-camr Oliver Lugg called “The Mass Extinction Debates: A Science Communication Odyssey” that over ever the whole history of it.
Yeah, the guy behind the meteor theory was outright denied initially due to a lack of evidence, which he eventually got, but still it shows how much this topic has been discussed
I remember hearing about Quasi-Stars, also known as black hole stars, that are formed when proto-stars collapse into black holes, but the outer layers aren't blown away like typical supernovae. Instead, the outer layers provide fuel for the black hole while remaining at just outside the point of no return. Kind of like two opposing forces constantly pushing against each other without giving way either way. They last for approximately 7-10 million years, per theories, and explain the previously unknown radio frequencies we've been getting since around the 1960's. Interesting stuff, dude.
35:48 I mean, there's an explanation in the Book of Mormon, but nobody outside of our religion accepts it as true so... For anyone interested, there was a period of war where the Nephites fortified their cities against the Lamanites by digging channels and using the dirt to build up mounds around their cities.
50:30 the Short version. Poland was allowed very minor changes, so Hungary (or Czechoslovakia I forgot but it was one of them) wanted similar changes but the protests made more demands so the Soviets shut it down with an army. The US and British were too busy bullying Egypt for the canal to do anything about it.
Fun fact about the olmecs (history student here): The name Olmec is the Aztec (Nahua) name for the people of the region where the civilization existed because they are so old (1200 BCE - 400 BCE) that we don't know how they called themselves but their influence is HUGE. Several of the elements that come in mesoamerican civilizations were created by them (pyramids, maybe writing and counting, mesoamerican ball game, etc). It's the equivalent of China for Asia and Rome for Europe when it comes to where all the elements of their culture originated
35:10 Whoo, Cahokia! Real talk, Cahokia was where the mounds really began, especially since the largest mound in the US was in Cahokia, where Illinois is now. Cahokia was also, at its peak, bigger than London was at the time, home to maybe 30k people, and cultural and economic capital of en entire region.
45:00 The sluice also uses fresh water from lakes around the area. Because of over use and climate change those lakes are drying up. If you were to use salt water in the sluice they would corrode and break very fast.
Fun fact: the Appalachian mountains where formed via continent collision before the evolution of the tree. This makes the line "life is old there, older than the trees. Younger than the mountains .." in the John Denver song Country Roads scientifically accurate.
39:10 Got a question. What I've been taught in University is that the diseases brought over by the Europeans didn't just kill the Natives of the Americas, but caused a deathspiral of competition and infighting which killed communities that then repeated itself on top of the plagues continuing to spread. That is what I was taught, but my question is, how was there more competition and infighting if there were less people around? Genuine question.
Well there would have been a ton of less people to produce resources. People dying only increase the availability of raw untapped resources. People dying greatly increase the scarcity of things like crops and labor for things that need to be produced.
Man, this is beautiful. I've seen this more times than I would like to admit, and seen more reactions that I would like to admit. You did better with this than I've ever seen. I love ancient history.
41:13 Oi!!! As an Ohioan I take offense to that! Think about it for a second, You have the Ohio River, the Cuyahoga River Valley, the Grand River, Lake Erie, etc. Ohio, back then, had massive amounts of resources that were relatively easy to access, and that's just the water areas. Add to that the fertile soils, plentiful game, and Iron for Steel. Remember this was basically before western expansion. If I recall correctly, The "war" between Ohio and Michigan was over a swamp which is now occupied by the City of Toledo. I love the fact that every keeps dumping things that Britain promotes into the ocean. 😆 51:43 reminds me of an episode of Firefly.
Bill Wurtz channel is mostly music and musical...observations, I guess? There is one other video of his I know of that matches this video, and is in fact the precursor to this video: History of Japan. History of the Entire World, I Guess took him a year and very nearly drove him insane, so he has not attempted another one, IIRC.
This is one of the most iconic video's in my opinion. The other would be: SM64-Watch for Rolling Rocks-0.5 A Presses (Commentated)[Outdated] That video is a real mindmellter even when you know what is it about.
This was the best reaction i ever watched and i actually appreciated every single pause because you added even more history in a truly nerd way (wich i loved btw xD). Thank you for making this video :D
I love love love LOVE how much you were geeking out in this one! Your enthusiasm is palpable and infectuous and it made this reaction all the more fun to watch :D
I was always told from school when learning about the Mississippi mounds that they were mass grave/burial sites. But, I'm sure there's been more discoveries about them in the last 20 years
2:51 yes, it’s the “world” and not “planet” cause the fascinating part of “world” is that it’s actually vague word that can represent either the planet or the universe
26:25 That was his predecessor (in a wider sense) Poros (defeated Alexander's army in 326 BCE in the battle of the Hydaspes river [the battle where Alexander's favorite horse Bucephalos died], thereafter the mutiny of his troops forced Alexander to abandon further conquest attempts in India). Chandragupta was from a different family (the Maurya and his grandson was Ashoka who united most of India an converted to Buddhism and forsaking the violence that was part of his life before) and made the treaty with the Diadoch Seleukos around 301 BCE (25 years after the Alexander's battle with Poros).
The scientific consensus has really moved away from the whole lightning strike, abiogenesis thing. Nowadays, most of the literature I have read about proposed theories on how the first self replicating molecules came about is far more often viewed through the lens of tidal pools, and warming by the sun.
52:28 There have been some successfully 3D printed organs at this point, but it's simpler structures. They've done a bladder and I think they worked on livers next. The heart is the really hard one because of the bioelectrical components. Kidneys might be easier.
There is now a theory that the dinosaur extinction was another of the "volcanos mess up the climate" events like the permian one, and the asteroid just dealt the finishing blow.
man i love how you're so passionate about history, this video definitely peaked my interest a lot back in the day. turned me into a huge history nerd. i still use it for timeline references some times.
10:00 Actually glaciation episodes, especially global ones like snowball earth events are relatively easy to identify. One of the easy tell-tale signs are dropstones. Big rocks dropped into areas of ocean floor far away from any slope of continental shelf that could have delivered them there. How did they get there? - They get dropped on ice (e.g. icebergs) and get carried away as the ice cover on top of the ocean moves. Then you have plenty of other sedimentary features that tell you about glaciation, some of them made they the glaciers themselves (moraines for example - the debris (till) deposited by the solid state flowing of the glacier) or striations (basically scratches from debris within the glacier's ice as it gets dragged over other stones by the glacier's flow), others from the effects they have on the rest of the environmental effects, like glacial lakes (water dammed by glaciers and mostly sustained by them) and the flooding events then glacial barriers to them break. For snowball earth events there are also other effects caused by the ice covers on all (or most) of the ocean surface: gas exchange between the and the air is limited (so for example as counter to the albedo of the white surface on an ice covered earth radiating back more sunlight incoming you have an accumulation of volcanic CO2 over a longer time in the atmosphere [less possible contact with oceans it could acidify) and less light gets through to the water (so less photosynthesis can happen, which changed the ratio of heavy and light carbon isotopes deposited).
China's gone through so many cycles of falling apart and being pulled together that my dad, a historian by training, speculates that China's currently in an inter-dynasty period.
I saw a video a while back talking about the deep sea vents, exploring one of the theories as to how exactly the first building blocks of life could have formed within them from inorganic components. I'm no experts but it sounded like a reasonable theory to me, I remember almost no specifics from it, but iirc (someone correct me please if I'm wrong) it had a lot to do with gradients of material and temperature in the walls of the stacks themselves, as well as fluctuations of the exact minerals flowing through the stack, creating an environment where specific interactions could occur. Could be just one more incorrect hypothesis about something we may never know the exact answer to, but I thought it was a pretty cool explanation of how it may have happened.
Ohio was filled with so much fertile land with great access to the Sea back to gigantic companies/countries started a war over it knowing the winner would be bankrupt
Bill Wurtz is mostly a Music Guy. Hents why you here cache jingle with specific things. Like "China is whole again. Then it broke again." This put him on the map, More info Check out history of the entire bill wurtz, i guess. I would recommend history of Japan I guess but in the spirit of his work I would recommend the song got some money or Christmas isn't real. Both are good and you'll find out how he makes music just by lessoning.
I like how the camera edge turns your hand into Earthworm Jim every now and then, like around 07:18 :P Funny thing is, I found your channel again after a couple of years by yt recommending me your reactions to Maxor's Ultrakill. So two days ago I watched you complain about migraine from Maxor's style, and what do I see in my subscription vids if not another migraine inducer :D
I read a critique of Adolf Hitler's art that put it this way: "Saying that he'd make an ok artist if he got admitted into an art school is like saying someone would've been a great rock musician if they were admitted a conservatory". Great art wasn't being made in mainstream schools anymore: quite the opposite. He was like 50 years behind of what was actually interesting to people, and even stuff he was not awful at had been surpassed 500 years previously (the article compares his dry postcard views to Albrecht Durer's living breathing spaces).
Dude was pretty okay at drawing buildings and stuff. Could have done a decent job as an architectural draftsman or something. Put food on the table and not started a war.
If I recall the rockies weren’t actually made by tectonic plates colliding. I don’t know if we know exactly what created them but it was likely another plate that slipped under the north american plate and pushed up a weak-spot in the middle of it
One note, Mycenaean Greece survived up to around 1250 or so BC, and while written records and the palatial complexes ceased, there's a strong chance the more rural areas(at least, the ones that survived/weren't pillaged to death) had a more gradual transition through the greek dark ages. Regardless, even if you take the most conservative estimates and went just by the palatial records, Hellenistic Greece is certainly *much* closer to the Mycenaean era than it is to ours.
Honestly, got angry with the Homie Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Gregorian calendar is a fine work of human calculations and should be used regardless of religious implications
I love watching people's first time reaction to this video and this might be the first one I've seen where the person reacting actually knows a lot of stuff about what gets mentioned. I'm impressed!
As someone who lives in Crimea I'm surprised that you know more about collapse of the ussr than most russians (except for Poland which never was a part of the ussr). Also your reaction on this video was probably one of the best. Sorry for the bad grammar
Is it me or I love this kind of reaction content? Like, it's not a passive reaction like "haha, that was funny guys" or annoying rants like "oh that reminds me of another thing blah blah blah" The amount of knowledge and input you add to the video and the pace you take it at I think is really, really good. Makes it worth watching.
34:35 "do all the things", a meme originating from Allie Brosh's Hyperbole And A Half, which also had a bunch of other drawings in this style that became somewhat successful memes in their time
24:00 Your comments on early South American culture now make me want to see you react to Arlo over at MiniMinuteman. What him get pissed off at psydoarcheologists peddling bad theories about hyperdiffusion is always a treat.
First time viewer. What I've learned from this reaction is that if I ever meet you in person, I'll be able talk to you about anything I want and your response is going to be "Oh that's actually a fascinating topic".
Wurtz does a bunch of really cool music (ie Airport Terminal, And The Day Goes On, Long Long Long Journey), and he also has a 'History of Japan' vid that fits in right where the 'intermission' section of this vid is :)
22:25 Some portions of Europe north of the mediterran region where pretty well connected. A lot of the people down South (especially Myceneans and Egyptions) where obsessed with amber and the greatest sources of amber where on the coast of the Baltic Sea. So there were trade routes trough what is now Austria, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic etc. [depending on the exact branch of the route]. We know because not only of Baltic amber that was found in the Bronze Age mediterran region but also from Mycenean artifacts (often bronze) found north of the Alps. And those trade routes did get used again after the Bronze Age Collapse [now often involving the Early Celts of the Hallstatt Culture] and persisted into Roman times. A term coined for that in the late 18h century is the Amber Road (analogous to the Silk Road).
This is why I'm subscribed. You turned a 19-minute video into an hour. This is transformative content at its best! Now you need to react to his other history video, "The History of Japan". It's the same style of video, but more detailed as he only focuses on one country. Also, if you change your title to something like *"guess this is it, 'History of the Entire World, I guess' reaction"* you will likely get many more views. Bill Wurtz reactions are very popular, so when people search for them, your video would show up more. Also, it would make it more clear to them what your video is about.
Speaking of the Mississippi mounds, I live close to one of the most important northern mound sites called Manitou Mounds. I always get excited when they are brought up.
Fun fact. This video loops. Ending: "Where the hell are we?" Beginning: "Hi, You're on the rock floating in space"
Man figured how to make good YT shorts 7 years ago, damn
"... we came in?"
"Isn't this where..."
@@TheBaxter27you mean *TH-cam Longs
Oh my god.... your right. I never realized 😮
@@OrdinaryCritic
Shorts are basically speedruns and normal videos longplays😂
Just to clear something up: Pangaea was the *latest* supercontinent, not the configuration the continents started out in. Continental drift has created a bunch of supercontinents before, although the ones before Pangaea were likely uninhabited because life either didn't exist or was still only really found in the ocean.
Or their tectonic plates broke and survive near the top layer of the mantle after subduction.
Fun fact for the old Stars thing:
There is the theoretical "Black hole Star", a Star born shortly after the big bang,where Matter was so dense, Stars could a) grow crazy fast to crazy sizes and b) collect so much mass, that their core collabses into a black hole, with pressure from fusion and the gravitational pull keeping enough of a balance, that they could be somewhat stable
And that thought is just terrifying
They’re also called a quasi-star
...and then, Soundgarden wrote a song about it.
Wow this is way more well written than my comment
I love the "Nothing was never anywhere, everything is everywhere" Part, because if the big bang birthed space and time, the thought about "What was before it?" Doesn't make sense, since there is no way to have a "before" without time and "where" without space
At least, not according to our feeble comprehension of things.
@@jimmyseaver3647More specifically, it doesn't make any sense inside our current understanding of physics.
@@jimmyseaver3647 Feeble, but currently the greatest comprehension that we know of. At least within our own solar system
I mean, without gravity, time and space don’t even matter. Time is a measure of the effects of objects and areas created by gravity, and Space is a measure of areas and objects and the gaps in between that time also measures, that can only exist by gravity moving things. Gravity is likely how the universe started, but how it happened is a real big mystery.
@@JacksonVoet Not *just* Gravity, but also others. Time, Space, Matter, everything is based on the interaction between energy and the 4 fundamental forces: Gravitational Force, Electromagnetic Force, and the Interaction Forces.
So, we all agree that if we do an Airier Bingo, "Oh, that's actually fascinating" HAS to be the free space, right?
Now I really want someone to make that
Or a drinking game to take a drink each time he says ‘fascinating’. Lol
@@Valacar I don't want to die of liver poisoning, I'll pass.
@@SpiritOfWanderlust yeah I started part way with a bottle of water, and had to pause to go get another bottle. it was 'actually fascinating'. lol
It's his "it is entirely possible"
I still think its funny that sharks are older than trees
Yup. 😁
Trees? They're older than the rings of Saturn and the North Star Polaris.
They aren't. Vegetation was the third day, sea and sky creatures were the fifth.
@@NOWABOLol!
@@NOWABO great joke!
43:39 They never got Ethiopia because a Christian nation (older than even most European Christian nations) had a much easier time telling them to not take over them.
Other interersting thing is Ethiopian king was making everyone around think Ethiopia was primitive country like everything around, so if someone tried to invade, they would seriously underestimate Ethiopia and would come underprepared. And that happened when Italy attacked expecting max around 30k poorly equipped soldiers. What they met was between 80k and 120k soldiers not falling behind european standards of equipment.
@@Krokmaniak They were attacked during WW2, right? Or were they attacked by Italy twice?
@@Armorion There was Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887-1889, then First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-1896, then Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1935 - 1937
@@Krokmaniak Bruh three times? They lost twice and decided to give it a third go? What was so valuable in Ethiopia that Italy was determined to have them spesificly? (I'm assuming they lost, or else why would they have to invade a 3rd time)
Or was it because Ethiopia were simply the last one left and this was technically before WW2 kicked off and they weren't fighting the other colonial powers yet?
@@Armorion Scramble of Africa and Ethiopia (or if you prefer Abyssinia) was the only one left. Also gold, platinum, copper, potash and natural gas.
17:38 humans invented agriculture independently at least three times. Don’t know how many times humans invented human sacrifice though.
Considering how many isolated pockets of humanity have existed across history, probably at least double than how many times we created agriculture.
"Heeey said the Romans" will always be funny to me
Mine was "Meeee said Napoleon"
I don't know why but the checklist followed by "Norte Chico~" is one of my favourite bits
"The SUN is a DEADLY LAZER!"
And the Ocean IT'S FULL OF PLASTIIIIIIC
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@6:55 no, actually, at the point in time that he's talking about (around the genesis of life, something like 3.5-4 billion years ago) nearly all land would have been from volcanic hotspots. The earth hadn't cooled enough for tectonic activity to start moving huge plates; the crust was fractured into tons of tiny plates and the vast majority of the surface was ocean. There are only two remaining chunks of earth left on the surface that are from this time period, one in western Australia and one in southern Africa. It took nearly a billion years from this point for the earth's core to cool enough that large-scale plate tectonics could start happening.
The Himalayas are one of the youngest mountain ranges on Earth, only about 100 million years old. (That's why they're so big, they haven't had time to erode down yet.) The Himalayas began forming right around the same time that birds began to evolve from dinosaurs, if that gives you better context.
Drinking game: Take a shot every time Airier says the word "fascinating"
Warning: you may die
No thanks, I like my liver and kidneys how they are- xD
Dammit you got to it before I did. Great minds think alike I guess.
Airier should absolutely watch the entire history of japan, i guess
Guess this was a later episode in a series, then?
@@Airier I mean kinda. It is actually called "History of Japan" though it's basically just like The history of the entire World, i guess.
@@Airier similar video, but specifically about japan. you can watch them in any order. Its just the japan one was made first.
@@AirierIt was also made before this video. It exploded and he made this.
@@CommissarMitch Pretty sure the short weird little "intermission" part in the video is made to fit History of Japan
And, of course, the dinosaurs never fully went extinct. We still have the ones that crap on my car. The most successful vertebrates on Earth (or at least on land).
Actually you're wrong about the soviets not relaxing and that not leading to the collapse. What happened was Gorbachev got into power and introduced new policies (Glasnost and perestroika) which relaxed first soviet economic control and then media control. This didn't fix the economy immediately but it did let people start talking openly about how fucked the economy was and also removed pressure from half a dozen nationalist independence movements in the non russian parts of the USSR. This led to a Coup attempt by soviet hardliners which was put down by Boris Yeltsin who then took the opportunity to dissolve the Union alongside leaders of the other SSRs and take over the now independent Russia. Basically it probably would have collapsed but the actual circumstances were ABSOLUTELY the result of the relaxation of the old soviet policies of control and oppression, they'd been barely holding a lid on things since the 70's but when the lid came off everything boiled over very fast.
One of my buddies in high school lived in Moscow during the hardliner coup. He remembered the vibrations of the tanks moving down the streets.
I love how much well Bill illustrates the context and connections of various historical events, which often get taught independently. Like that whole line of dominoes from Saudi Arabia blocking the spice trade over Columbus' crackpot expeditions, to the conflicts over America, the 7-year-war, into the American independence, and eventually the French Revolution...
Drinking game: take a shot every time Airier pauses the video and talks about something immediately before the video does
I can not recommend this. Previous videos noted an unsafe intoxication level after 5 minutes. Blood alcohol levels should not exceed a decimal point.
@@AirierNow you're just encouraging.
Do we include the times he talks about them long before the video does, because he thinks they missed it but it's just way too early?
@@nescirian two shots
The situation in Panama is even worse than you were saying, the biggest problem recently is water. Most of the canal is above sea level, and it depends on water from nearby lakes to operate the locks, but the canal has been using more water than the lakes have been getting, so there's a real danger of the canal becoming useless because they don't have enough water, it's already effecting traffic limits through the canal today.
Also, that water is, you know, drinkable. So it could also be useful for keeping people alive and producing food, but because the canal needs it so much and the levels are low, it can't really be used for other purposes (at the moment).
Isn't there a way to use seawater
3d printing organs is actually one of those things we should be spending lots of research money on, I actually would compare it to Cancer research in terms of what it would mean for the health industry. So many people are on organ donor wait lists because the number of needed organs doesn’t even come close to the number of people who need them. This is a good thing not some kind of sci fi dystopian
That face in the “Christianize all the kingdoms” meme is from a blog called Hyperbole and a Half. A lot of her MS Paint drawings that she did for her stories were turned into memes.
Yep. Clean ALL the things!
If you wonder why it said "Intermission" at one point when it was about Japan, that is because Bill Wurtz had previously made a 9 minute history of Japan video.
50:00 Yes the Soviet Union collapsed because it relaxed. Gorbatschov was an idealist and went. "Hey people, maybe we should actually try to live up to the ideas of communism. So from now on we will be accepting criticism and stop lying on national television." Glasnost and Perestroika. So several of the more central European and balkan nations went. "Our criticism is that this sucks and we want to be our own countries." And the last time they tried the Soviet Union sent tanks, this time they really didn't as much. So suddenly the Soviet Union was collapsing.
Though, while it was willingly in the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltic countries, in Russia proper and Kasaksthan it actually happened against the direkt wishes of the population, as the Soviet Union still retained a small but definite lead.
Also, when the Soviet Union fell there asn't a "decent" government in Russia. Life expectancy took a nosedive. Western Advisors essentially created the current Oligarch class, because they were the opinion that selling of state-owned businesses slowly that the Russian people would have a chance to adapt and actually have smaller businesses that could drive forward a democratic processes by giving the people more power was dumb, and would give the people the chance to actually make their voices heard, so instead "Shock Therapy" needed to be implemented. I.E Everything sold of directly to whoever could pay the western advisors the highest bribes.
I like when he goes "oh he actually brought [insert thing here] up?" Like, the video is called the history of the entire world, of course he did.
Also, watch the Japan one. Its shorter, more digestible, and just as funny.
WAIT the art school he was denied from was Jewish? Never heard that detail.
The more you know✨
it all makes sense now
Here's another odd detail with it:
Samuel Morgenstern, a Jewish store owner, was one of the most loyal buyers of Adolf's paintings in Vienna. It was one of the main things that kept him out of the state of poverty which essentially would have doomed him to homelessness.
The doctor who took care of Adolf's mother, Eduard Bloch, was also Jewish, and was absolutely beloved by Adolf during the darker years that folks don't like to talk about. He visited Eduard personally and also allowed him to immigrate to the United States so that he didn't get caught up in any of it.
Eduard billed their family at reduced costs and often didn't bill them at all for medical care while Klara was battling cancer. Eduard truly was a good man.
Edit for context:
Morgenstern did not have it so lucky. He and his family were sent to Łódź in Poland.
My guy. He IS Jewish.
You're the first reactor i've seen who's actually been able to add to and expand upon the content of the original video
There have definitely been others, just certainly not so vastly without turning the video into a 2-3+ hour video 👍
FYI, the reason he didn't mention plate tectonics in the creation of the first land is that most current models say plate tectonics didn't fully get going until a little later when the Earth had cooled a bit.
Actually, the Extinction event of the Dinosaurs is very fascinating. If you want, there is a video that is pretty long, it fundamentally interesting by the TH-camr Oliver Lugg called “The Mass Extinction Debates: A Science Communication Odyssey” that over ever the whole history of it.
Yeah, the guy behind the meteor theory was outright denied initially due to a lack of evidence, which he eventually got, but still it shows how much this topic has been discussed
I love Oliver Lugg, great video
I love that video
I remember hearing about Quasi-Stars, also known as black hole stars, that are formed when proto-stars collapse into black holes, but the outer layers aren't blown away like typical supernovae. Instead, the outer layers provide fuel for the black hole while remaining at just outside the point of no return. Kind of like two opposing forces constantly pushing against each other without giving way either way. They last for approximately 7-10 million years, per theories, and explain the previously unknown radio frequencies we've been getting since around the 1960's. Interesting stuff, dude.
Take a shot every time he says “Ohh this is actually fascinating”
Seeing the entire history condensed into just about the length of an episode of a random show makes you feel small. But it's still awesome nonetheless
51:18
Here we have the only fan of Yeltsin, who expectedly never lived through his presidency to experience "the decent government"
Yeah the dude thinks he’s an expect on everything
У меня аж веко задергалось когда он назвал правление ельцина нормальным правительством.
35:48 I mean, there's an explanation in the Book of Mormon, but nobody outside of our religion accepts it as true so...
For anyone interested, there was a period of war where the Nephites fortified their cities against the Lamanites by digging channels and using the dirt to build up mounds around their cities.
50:30 the Short version. Poland was allowed very minor changes, so Hungary (or Czechoslovakia I forgot but it was one of them) wanted similar changes but the protests made more demands so the Soviets shut it down with an army. The US and British were too busy bullying Egypt for the canal to do anything about it.
Guy figured out Bill Wurtz has an insanely amazing brain in one and a half minutes. Respect.
Fun fact about the olmecs (history student here): The name Olmec is the Aztec (Nahua) name for the people of the region where the civilization existed because they are so old (1200 BCE - 400 BCE) that we don't know how they called themselves but their influence is HUGE. Several of the elements that come in mesoamerican civilizations were created by them (pyramids, maybe writing and counting, mesoamerican ball game, etc). It's the equivalent of China for Asia and Rome for Europe when it comes to where all the elements of their culture originated
35:10 Whoo, Cahokia! Real talk, Cahokia was where the mounds really began, especially since the largest mound in the US was in Cahokia, where Illinois is now. Cahokia was also, at its peak, bigger than London was at the time, home to maybe 30k people, and cultural and economic capital of en entire region.
45:00 The sluice also uses fresh water from lakes around the area. Because of over use and climate change those lakes are drying up. If you were to use salt water in the sluice they would corrode and break very fast.
Not only that, but then you would have to pump up the water from sea level to whatever level required, which would take huge amounts of energy.
Fun fact: the Appalachian mountains where formed via continent collision before the evolution of the tree. This makes the line "life is old there, older than the trees. Younger than the mountains .." in the John Denver song Country Roads scientifically accurate.
48:27 "Thailand is a real country" What a controversial take you have there Airier 😱
Yeah, I know it's myth, like Australia.
39:10 Got a question. What I've been taught in University is that the diseases brought over by the Europeans didn't just kill the Natives of the Americas, but caused a deathspiral of competition and infighting which killed communities that then repeated itself on top of the plagues continuing to spread.
That is what I was taught, but my question is, how was there more competition and infighting if there were less people around? Genuine question.
Well there would have been a ton of less people to produce resources. People dying only increase the availability of raw untapped resources.
People dying greatly increase the scarcity of things like crops and labor for things that need to be produced.
When it comes to widening the Panama Canal I remember that there were some serious discussions about using nuclear bombs. Insane.
Man, this is beautiful. I've seen this more times than I would like to admit, and seen more reactions that I would like to admit. You did better with this than I've ever seen. I love ancient history.
Also, I wish he had mentioned Cahokia!
Cahokia?
Looked it up. I never read the name, so I MASSIVELY misread it and confused myself. 😅
Drinking game, everytime he says "This is actually fascinating." take a drink.
41:13 Oi!!! As an Ohioan I take offense to that! Think about it for a second, You have the Ohio River, the Cuyahoga River Valley, the Grand River, Lake Erie, etc. Ohio, back then, had massive amounts of resources that were relatively easy to access, and that's just the water areas. Add to that the fertile soils, plentiful game, and Iron for Steel. Remember this was basically before western expansion.
If I recall correctly, The "war" between Ohio and Michigan was over a swamp which is now occupied by the City of Toledo.
I love the fact that every keeps dumping things that Britain promotes into the ocean. 😆
51:43 reminds me of an episode of Firefly.
I have family in Toledo. It biases my opinion a bit. 😁
@@Airier Fair. Just remember that Ohio is a Black Hole. You can try to leave but it always drags you back in.
Bill Wurtz channel is mostly music and musical...observations, I guess? There is one other video of his I know of that matches this video, and is in fact the precursor to this video: History of Japan. History of the Entire World, I Guess took him a year and very nearly drove him insane, so he has not attempted another one, IIRC.
This is one of the most iconic video's in my opinion.
The other would be:
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That video is a real mindmellter even when you know what is it about.
This was the best reaction i ever watched and i actually appreciated every single pause because you added even more history in a truly nerd way (wich i loved btw xD). Thank you for making this video :D
this is one of the best videos on youtube ever objectively.
"The sun is a deadly lazer" is something I still often quote, especially as an Australian
One the best reactions to this, ever! It was hilarious watching you call out things before they happened 😂
Always geek out!
😊
I love love love LOVE how much you were geeking out in this one! Your enthusiasm is palpable and infectuous and it made this reaction all the more fun to watch :D
I'm so glad you nerd out and explained a lot of stuff.
You got yourself a new subscriber
I was always told from school when learning about the Mississippi mounds that they were mass grave/burial sites. But, I'm sure there's been more discoveries about them in the last 20 years
2:51 yes, it’s the “world” and not “planet” cause the fascinating part of “world” is that it’s actually vague word that can represent either the planet or the universe
26:25 That was his predecessor (in a wider sense) Poros (defeated Alexander's army in 326 BCE in the battle of the Hydaspes river [the battle where Alexander's favorite horse Bucephalos died], thereafter the mutiny of his troops forced Alexander to abandon further conquest attempts in India). Chandragupta was from a different family (the Maurya and his grandson was Ashoka who united most of India an converted to Buddhism and forsaking the violence that was part of his life before) and made the treaty with the Diadoch Seleukos around 301 BCE (25 years after the Alexander's battle with Poros).
34:00 This is one of templates from meme template known as "rage comic" which was what wojack is now, but around 2010
This one has a proper non-anonymous source, it's Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh, "clean all the things"
@@Ceruleanst True, but I doubt that's where he saw it. Most likely just one of the templates using it
@@CeruleanstI read anonymous as anomalous, and it just made me think of memes as being some escaped SCP
@@Krokmaniak Hyperbole and a Half was pretty popular back then, he might've seen the original
The scientific consensus has really moved away from the whole lightning strike, abiogenesis thing. Nowadays, most of the literature I have read about proposed theories on how the first self replicating molecules came about is far more often viewed through the lens of tidal pools, and warming by the sun.
Isn't that still abiogenesis? Just with a different source of energy?
@@rschroev that’s why I specifically stated lightning strike abiogenesis.
mass extinction: the never ending conversion of bio mass
52:28 There have been some successfully 3D printed organs at this point, but it's simpler structures. They've done a bladder and I think they worked on livers next. The heart is the really hard one because of the bioelectrical components. Kidneys might be easier.
There is now a theory that the dinosaur extinction was another of the "volcanos mess up the climate" events like the permian one, and the asteroid just dealt the finishing blow.
JURASSIC SHOWDOWN
CLIMATE VS DINOSAURS
FIGHT!
➡️ Volcanos
FINISH HIM!
➡️ Meteor
Watching Airier geek out is so fun to watch.
man i love how you're so passionate about history, this video definitely peaked my interest a lot back in the day. turned me into a huge history nerd. i still use it for timeline references some times.
10% learning new stuff reacting to the video
40% trying to teach stuff and getting confused about it
60% this is actually fascinating
10:00 Actually glaciation episodes, especially global ones like snowball earth events are relatively easy to identify.
One of the easy tell-tale signs are dropstones. Big rocks dropped into areas of ocean floor far away from any slope of continental shelf that could have delivered them there. How did they get there? - They get dropped on ice (e.g. icebergs) and get carried away as the ice cover on top of the ocean moves.
Then you have plenty of other sedimentary features that tell you about glaciation, some of them made they the glaciers themselves (moraines for example - the debris (till) deposited by the solid state flowing of the glacier) or striations (basically scratches from debris within the glacier's ice as it gets dragged over other stones by the glacier's flow), others from the effects they have on the rest of the environmental effects, like glacial lakes (water dammed by glaciers and mostly sustained by them) and the flooding events then glacial barriers to them break.
For snowball earth events there are also other effects caused by the ice covers on all (or most) of the ocean surface: gas exchange between the and the air is limited (so for example as counter to the albedo of the white surface on an ice covered earth radiating back more sunlight incoming you have an accumulation of volcanic CO2 over a longer time in the atmosphere [less possible contact with oceans it could acidify) and less light gets through to the water (so less photosynthesis can happen, which changed the ratio of heavy and light carbon isotopes deposited).
The dinosaurs lasted a total of 3 seconds
You broke my mind with the minecraft furnace comment.
I had to share my pain for thinking it in the first place. :)
China's gone through so many cycles of falling apart and being pulled together that my dad, a historian by training, speculates that China's currently in an inter-dynasty period.
“Thailand is a real country”
Missed the mark there
I thought i heard him say that.
I saw a video a while back talking about the deep sea vents, exploring one of the theories as to how exactly the first building blocks of life could have formed within them from inorganic components. I'm no experts but it sounded like a reasonable theory to me, I remember almost no specifics from it, but iirc (someone correct me please if I'm wrong) it had a lot to do with gradients of material and temperature in the walls of the stacks themselves, as well as fluctuations of the exact minerals flowing through the stack, creating an environment where specific interactions could occur.
Could be just one more incorrect hypothesis about something we may never know the exact answer to, but I thought it was a pretty cool explanation of how it may have happened.
Ohio was filled with so much fertile land with great access to the Sea back to gigantic companies/countries started a war over it knowing the winner would be bankrupt
Airier, the unfiltered _joy_ I hear in your voice as you expound upon each pause point brings _me_ unfiltered joy.
😊
Take a shot evertime Airier says "fascinating"
I've never seen anyone pause and "actually" this many times to one video hahaha
Drink a gallon of liquid everytime he says "fascinating "
Bill Wurtz is mostly a Music Guy. Hents why you here cache jingle with specific things. Like "China is whole again. Then it broke again." This put him on the map, More info Check out history of the entire bill wurtz, i guess. I would recommend history of Japan I guess but in the spirit of his work I would recommend the song got some money or Christmas isn't real. Both are good and you'll find out how he makes music just by lessoning.
I like how the camera edge turns your hand into Earthworm Jim every now and then, like around 07:18 :P
Funny thing is, I found your channel again after a couple of years by yt recommending me your reactions to Maxor's Ultrakill. So two days ago I watched you complain about migraine from Maxor's style, and what do I see in my subscription vids if not another migraine inducer :D
I read a critique of Adolf Hitler's art that put it this way: "Saying that he'd make an ok artist if he got admitted into an art school is like saying someone would've been a great rock musician if they were admitted a conservatory". Great art wasn't being made in mainstream schools anymore: quite the opposite. He was like 50 years behind of what was actually interesting to people, and even stuff he was not awful at had been surpassed 500 years previously (the article compares his dry postcard views to Albrecht Durer's living breathing spaces).
Dude was pretty okay at drawing buildings and stuff. Could have done a decent job as an architectural draftsman or something. Put food on the table and not started a war.
This was a great reaction! I love it when people who are interested in history watch this video and add their own commentary along the way.
If I recall the rockies weren’t actually made by tectonic plates colliding. I don’t know if we know exactly what created them but it was likely another plate that slipped under the north american plate and pushed up a weak-spot in the middle of it
At this point I can recite the video word for word. Because I watched it countless times and I've watched reactors watch it countless times.
One note, Mycenaean Greece survived up to around 1250 or so BC, and while written records and the palatial complexes ceased, there's a strong chance the more rural areas(at least, the ones that survived/weren't pillaged to death) had a more gradual transition through the greek dark ages. Regardless, even if you take the most conservative estimates and went just by the palatial records, Hellenistic Greece is certainly *much* closer to the Mycenaean era than it is to ours.
Honestly, got angry with the Homie Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Gregorian calendar is a fine work of human calculations and should be used regardless of religious implications
I love watching people's first time reaction to this video and this might be the first one I've seen where the person reacting actually knows a lot of stuff about what gets mentioned. I'm impressed!
As someone who lives in Crimea I'm surprised that you know more about collapse of the ussr than most russians (except for Poland which never was a part of the ussr). Also your reaction on this video was probably one of the best. Sorry for the bad grammar
I would have assumed English is your first language, your grammar is very good :)
We sure were under its control though 😬👍
I love how he got so excited over this 😭
This is the sort of reaction content that I love. You pause and expand on it, and your enthusiasm for the topics is infectious.
Is it me or I love this kind of reaction content? Like, it's not a passive reaction like "haha, that was funny guys" or annoying rants like "oh that reminds me of another thing blah blah blah"
The amount of knowledge and input you add to the video and the pace you take it at I think is really, really good. Makes it worth watching.
With Panama what would happen if you were to just completely clear the path between the two oceans?
34:35 "do all the things", a meme originating from Allie Brosh's Hyperbole And A Half, which also had a bunch of other drawings in this style that became somewhat successful memes in their time
The amount of nerdiness and points about so many things coming out of Airier at every turn is just so overwhelming, I LOVE IT!
24:00 Your comments on early South American culture now make me want to see you react to Arlo over at MiniMinuteman. What him get pissed off at psydoarcheologists peddling bad theories about hyperdiffusion is always a treat.
I love watching people geek out over this video.
YESS THIS VIDEO!!! I love the musical notes in it so much lol.
First time viewer. What I've learned from this reaction is that if I ever meet you in person, I'll be able talk to you about anything I want and your response is going to be "Oh that's actually a fascinating topic".
Probably right. I'm like that outside of TH-cam as well.
Wurtz does a bunch of really cool music (ie Airport Terminal, And The Day Goes On, Long Long Long Journey), and he also has a 'History of Japan' vid that fits in right where the 'intermission' section of this vid is :)
Finally an active reactor to this video. I watched a ton of these and they talk a lot in the beginning but starts going quiet until the end.
22:25 Some portions of Europe north of the mediterran region where pretty well connected. A lot of the people down South (especially Myceneans and Egyptions) where obsessed with amber and the greatest sources of amber where on the coast of the Baltic Sea. So there were trade routes trough what is now Austria, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic etc. [depending on the exact branch of the route]. We know because not only of Baltic amber that was found in the Bronze Age mediterran region but also from Mycenean artifacts (often bronze) found north of the Alps. And those trade routes did get used again after the Bronze Age Collapse [now often involving the Early Celts of the Hallstatt Culture] and persisted into Roman times. A term coined for that in the late 18h century is the Amber Road (analogous to the Silk Road).
This is why I'm subscribed. You turned a 19-minute video into an hour. This is transformative content at its best! Now you need to react to his other history video, "The History of Japan". It's the same style of video, but more detailed as he only focuses on one country.
Also, if you change your title to something like *"guess this is it, 'History of the Entire World, I guess' reaction"* you will likely get many more views. Bill Wurtz reactions are very popular, so when people search for them, your video would show up more. Also, it would make it more clear to them what your video is about.
Speaking of the Mississippi mounds, I live close to one of the most important northern mound sites called Manitou Mounds. I always get excited when they are brought up.
I like nerding out and observing nerding out
Bill Wurtz is more like someone to vibe too as opposed to someone to get lots of details from. Check out his history of Japan.