In the india one, he says the Himalayas would block china from the Indian sea, but, the Himalayas were created due to india bumping into asia, so there wouldn't even exist a barrier, or the world's biggest mountains
Just India the modern political entity. If its the Indian subcontinent which actually formed the himalayas, then Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal should count in as well..
Entire himalayan range wouldn't exist, it s really deep hypothesis cuz it changes the entire habitat that created because of himalayas like multiple rivers that flows in china, pak, bang. there is so much you can talk about if himalayas doesnt exist let alone india
Personally, I really am not a fan of this version of “what if X country didn’t exist“ because it’s physically removing geography, which would change too many things and a lot of those changes wouldn’t even be because the country doesn’t exist, but because the landmass doesn’t exist
my problem is that it drastically changes paleolithic/neolithic migration, which would cause human civilization to start several thousand years/later (human civilization WILL start, it started in multiple places independently of eachother) but would almost certainly permanently change global ethnicites and cultures even before an era of globalization
@@jawadalam5014 not even that crazy, formexample with the first one austria it doesnt really affect much prehistoric things, but he said "no habsburgs" which is extremely false as they originally had theor royal house from switzerland and swabia
On that note, if there is no India, the Himalayas would not be as high and imposing as it was today. There would only be hills formed when the landmasses that is now Nepal and Bhutan.
In the case of Switzerland never existing, the mathematician Euler wouldn't have been born. Maths would likely be nowhere near as developed as it is now. Basically any technology or scientific discoveries made during his lifetime and after death would not exist.
Debatable...Some of my advanced calculus professors stated that calculus was invented by Newton or Ruler depending on if you asked a German speaker or an English speaker.
@@madisonhasson8981 The controversy is actually between Newton and Leibniz for calculus at the end of 17th century, a few decades before Euler was born
0:54 Habsburgs originated in Switzerland so they would still be around even without Austria but their land holdings would definitely be much smaller without the Austrian lands.
11:25 No mexico would also mean that the gulf of mexicos warm current would go to europe and europe would be frozen, and christopher columbus would perhaps get through to asia through mexico
if Austria never existed, there would be no world wars, so people would not have had the need to upgrade technology and military equipment, so we would be ALOT less advanced
1:43 just wanted to mention that mustache man would've still been born, as he was born in Czech territory under the Austro Hungarian empire. So he probably would've been born but never become a politician
What if Bulgaria never existed: No Cyrillic alphabet, no smart watch, no yougurt, no computer and etc. (before jumping at me u can search up is yougurt greek or Bulgarian and who made the first computer - Джон Атанасов or in english John Atanasov he is half american half Bulgarian)
Not really, the modern democratic influences come more from the Manga Charta and the Iroquois Confederation. The Swiss "essentially" inspired the founding fathers on how they would resist Britain and what their foreign policy should be. The whole "People's Militia" was also directly inspired by the Swiss. If Switzerland didn't exist they would've just looked elsewhere for inspiration.
modern Germany not existing has some major implications on roman era politics, the lowlands would be small gallic islands, the huns would be bottled to the east, rome has more resources to divert to other regions like Britannia or Persia and the massive economic boons of a large sea in central Europe for fishing communities means there would be a lot more established fishing peoples in eastern Europe making Dacian expansion much more lucrative for Switzerland, there is the entire swiss guard keeping the pope safe in 1527 and the fact swiss tactics were the basis for late medieval tactics which helped pave the way for non-cavalry breakthrough tactics
There is also the effect of a more temporate Baltic climate because the Baltic current would go further South so it could bring more warmth to Finland and Sweden. Germany being a sea would turn the Baltic more into the Northern Mediterranean, thus inspiring the Romans to conquer all lands around it too... possibly leading to no Vikings...
@@madisonhasson8981 the romans were in contact with the Danes even in our timeline with the Germans blocking them, it'd be more likely the Viking age would be pushed further back in time and appear much earlier in history or they might become an entirely different culture reliant on the seasonal warm sea currents
Gothic tribes (assuming they come from Sweden) could have an easier time sailing to the Empire rather than trekking there through Central Europe Assuming the Goths actually came from Germany, then would Rome have ever fallen?
no mexico means most indigenous people would be in north america and the Spanish would go there to get their riches. And the ones who crossed to central and south america would be isolated and probably create a different culture
The title should be "what if country stopped existing in the late 1800s - early 1900s. Just imagine how many things happened in the world before that era that would've already affected the entire world drastically
Entire Austrian History would be different though without Switzerland, As there would be no Habsburg dynasty to rule and leas Austria and become a great power
True i said that for the austria one, thats the thing i hate is that they provide brainrot levels of entertainment like "no red bull" I literally would learn more from 1 drew durnil meme than all of these crappy shorts combined
fr its really hard to fully comprehend these scenarios like even if you remove some country that insignificant Rn like mongolia it can change the world a lot, or like removing a small island corsica (napoleon birth place) also can change the complete history of the world
That begs the question: What other countries and land masses might have not existed in our timeline that probably changed the history and development of the world in their universe and now we don’t get to experience them for better or for worse. Maybe the Caspian Sea was just another piece of land in one timeline. Or perhaps Zealandia still existed in another. Think about it.
One prospect that pops into my mind from time to time is "What if there was something else in place of the Americas?". I've seen someone tackling "What if Columbus was right?" but this is another matter, like if there was something with more conventionally legendary status.
Lots of major *geographical* changes if this or that land mass had never existed--like the Indian subcontinent's non-existence would have meant that the Himalayas never existed either. What's now Tibet would probably just have sloped gradually down to the Indian Ocean--except that it wouldn't be called the Indian Ocean any more! But culturally? Not so much, I think. All the famous people mentioned as never having existed would still have existed, but just in some other place. For example, if Austria had never existed, Hilter would still have been born--he'd have just been born wherever his parents wound up living instead (Poland? Czechia? Germany itself?) rather than in a non-existent Austria. Same with all the other people named.
No India. Means- No South Asia No Himalayas No Dharmic Religions(so differently glorious South East Asia) No Cotton No Jute No Sugar No Ruler No Zero No Basic Mathematics (including- Pythagorus Theorem, Calculus, Decimal System, Modern Number System(originated from Brahmi Scrpit), etc) No Indo-European language family No shampoo No Computer(ofc without 0 or the complete number system) The list is countless I have not even covered the surface properly.
@@priyangshumallick1889 I disagree with everything after "No Himalayas." The geographical things, as I said above, would of course not be there. But all those foods, products and cultural developments would still have developed--they just would have done it somewhere else.
@@SteveJensen-ye5rt maybe or maybe not. Who knows what the course of history would have been? 🤷♂️ These are just speculations based on modern evidences. But one thing is for sure. The world would have been very much different. Something unimaginable.
We could never know what would be different because human migration patterns would be altered to a point that all of history would basically be different
I think it's a lot more complicated than that. To see what would happen if X country didn't exist you need to go way back in time, which would mean a whole different world. A little change back in time would bring a lot of changes due to compound effect. We can't fathom what would've happened.
what if antarctica never existed: literally every ecosystem on the planet is completely changed and all of the landmasses are shaped so much different and the whole planet is much warmer and humans would probably never evolve because of this warmer climate and completely different biodiversity
5:59 If Portugal didn't exist, not only we wouldn't have a giant Portuguese speaking Brazil, we would probably have at least 3 different Brazil. One Spanish Brazil that would probably be in the center of south America, A dutch brazil called New Holland located in the northeast area of modern-day brazil and a french brazil called France Antarctique located in the south of modern-day Brazil.
No Nintendo (the entire reason Nintendo exists is because of playing cards being brought to Japan by the Portuguese) No tempura No naval development and cartography for the other European countries And other things
I think the country that would change the world the least if it never existed is New Zealand. It was only colonized by natives relatively recently like 1500 years ago, and only discovered by western nations like 300 years ago or something. It’s also only had a somewhat minimal role in history since. Would things be different without it, sure, but not as different as any other nation.
If there are no germanic tribes to defeat Rome, it would have changed history too much to guess. No India, what would have happened to Alexander the Great? Again, I think to drastic of a change to guess. No Mexico means South America would be similar to Australia in terms of isolation and unique animals compared to the other continents.
3:00 Without India 🇮🇳 the world would lose the power of cricket 🏏 ..I'm an American 🇺🇸 so I don't really care .... but didn't Britain invent cricket? 🇬🇧 Wouldn't polo have been a better Indian sport to cite? 🏇
In the india one, he says the Himalayas would block china from the Indian sea, but, the Himalayas were created due to india bumping into asia, so there wouldn't even exist a barrier, or the world's biggest mountains
good point, but I think he just means if we remove it from the map, cus then we'd have to delete like nepal and bhutan
if Everest never existed, the world biggest mountain would be K2(and its in Nepal-China)
Just India the modern political entity.
If its the Indian subcontinent which actually formed the himalayas, then Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal should count in as well..
Entire himalayan range wouldn't exist, it s really deep hypothesis cuz it changes the entire habitat that created because of himalayas like multiple rivers that flows in china, pak, bang. there is so much you can talk about if himalayas doesnt exist let alone india
@@AAAAAAAHHHmammamia everest and K2 both are himalyan
Personally, I really am not a fan of this version of “what if X country didn’t exist“ because it’s physically removing geography, which would change too many things and a lot of those changes wouldn’t even be because the country doesn’t exist, but because the landmass doesn’t exist
yeah
my problem is that it drastically changes paleolithic/neolithic migration, which would cause human civilization to start several thousand years/later (human civilization WILL start, it started in multiple places independently of eachother) but would almost certainly permanently change global ethnicites and cultures even before an era of globalization
@@jawadalam5014 not even that crazy, formexample with the first one austria it doesnt really affect much prehistoric things, but he said "no habsburgs" which is extremely false as they originally had theor royal house from switzerland and swabia
On that note, if there is no India, the Himalayas would not be as high and imposing as it was today. There would only be hills formed when the landmasses that is now Nepal and Bhutan.
Meanwhile Thailand become the new Switzerland so.....kinda good
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0:30 Switzerland already has a "coastline " from lake Geneva
Either way, both scenarios Switzerland is still landlocked the same way Kazakhstan is
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In the case of Switzerland never existing, the mathematician Euler wouldn't have been born. Maths would likely be nowhere near as developed as it is now. Basically any technology or scientific discoveries made during his lifetime and after death would not exist.
Yippy no letters in math!!!!
Debatable...Some of my advanced calculus professors stated that calculus was invented by Newton or Ruler depending on if you asked a German speaker or an English speaker.
@@madisonhasson8981 The controversy is actually between Newton and Leibniz for calculus at the end of 17th century, a few decades before Euler was born
there would have been somone earlier or later who would've discovered the same things
I was thinking the same thing that would be catastrophic for the modern world
Without India there’s no online tech support
No straight forward tutorials.
No Indian workers
no call scammers either
Without india we wouldn't have india ;(
@@mr.pumpkin8891without india Britain becomes poor again.
Thank you very much for your reaction ❤
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@@Atistanissosigma inknow
If Mexico didn't exist I wouldn't be commenting about Mexico being mentioned
You should react to horrible histories. It's a british kids history show but it is one of the most accurate history shows. And its hilarious
I know,they have books about it too and it is great
Red bull would still exist. Not under the same name but still
Blue bull?
It was originally Thai.
@@SpaceStealthbut some Austrian guy decided to use his marketing powers to widespread it more globally
0:54 Habsburgs originated in Switzerland so they would still be around even without Austria but their land holdings would definitely be much smaller without the Austrian lands.
Specifically, my fellow history fanatic (no offence if taken), Klettgau.
The Hapsburgs originates in Switzerland. so technically they could forge an empire or two(like the Spanish Empire), without Austria existing !
11:25 No mexico would also mean that the gulf of mexicos warm current would go to europe and europe would be frozen, and christopher columbus would perhaps get through to asia through mexico
Without Switzerland there’s will be no Swiss cheese to be neutral💀💀💀
Start : Austria 🇦🇹
2:15 : India 🇮🇳
4:01 : Portugal 🇵🇹
6:03 : Philippines 🇵🇭
7:32 : Germany 🇩🇪
9:58 : Mexico 🇲🇽
11:34 : Switzerland 🇨🇭
You can imagine how many things were univented , or undiscovered in this time line, where Taured doesn't exist !
No Austria, no painter
Ain't no way
Everything would be the same in all these scenarios. When one person is fine, there’s always someone else to take their place.
if Austria never existed, there would be no world wars, so people would not have had the need to upgrade technology and military equipment, so we would be ALOT less advanced
1:43 just wanted to mention that mustache man would've still been born, as he was born in Czech territory under the Austro Hungarian empire. So he probably would've been born but never become a politician
3:50 There would still be a 0 it'd just be across the ocean in the Americas.
13:25 but what about swiss cheese?
and swiss rolls.
Also swiss pocket knives
What if Bulgaria never existed:
No Cyrillic alphabet, no smart watch, no yougurt, no computer and etc. (before jumping at me u can search up is yougurt greek or Bulgarian and who made the first computer - Джон Атанасов or in english John Atanasov he is half american half Bulgarian)
The US would be totally different without Switzerland as well. A lot of our government system comes straight from Switzerland democracy
Not really, the modern democratic influences come more from the Manga Charta and the Iroquois Confederation. The Swiss "essentially" inspired the founding fathers on how they would resist Britain and what their foreign policy should be. The whole "People's Militia" was also directly inspired by the Swiss.
If Switzerland didn't exist they would've just looked elsewhere for inspiration.
France and UK probably would have never buried the hatchet either since the rise of Germany was one of the big reasons they started cooperating
Without the Franks and the Anglo-Saxons, both countries would have remained Celtic, so they may have had a closer relationship anyway.
There would be no Himalayas as there’s no big contention crash
modern Germany not existing has some major implications on roman era politics, the lowlands would be small gallic islands, the huns would be bottled to the east, rome has more resources to divert to other regions like Britannia or Persia and the massive economic boons of a large sea in central Europe for fishing communities means there would be a lot more established fishing peoples in eastern Europe making Dacian expansion much more lucrative
for Switzerland, there is the entire swiss guard keeping the pope safe in 1527 and the fact swiss tactics were the basis for late medieval tactics which helped pave the way for non-cavalry breakthrough tactics
There is also the effect of a more temporate Baltic climate because the Baltic current would go further South so it could bring more warmth to Finland and Sweden. Germany being a sea would turn the Baltic more into the Northern Mediterranean, thus inspiring the Romans to conquer all lands around it too... possibly leading to no Vikings...
@@madisonhasson8981 the romans were in contact with the Danes even in our timeline with the Germans blocking them, it'd be more likely the Viking age would be pushed further back in time and appear much earlier in history or they might become an entirely different culture reliant on the seasonal warm sea currents
Gothic tribes (assuming they come from Sweden) could have an easier time sailing to the Empire rather than trekking there through Central Europe
Assuming the Goths actually came from Germany, then would Rome have ever fallen?
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I was boutta say that but...
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@@petrakristalova6089 A cry for help in time of need, await relief from holy league
@@petrakristalova6089COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE!!!
no mexico means most indigenous people would be in north america and the Spanish would go there to get their riches. And the ones who crossed to central and south america would be isolated and probably create a different culture
The title should be "what if country stopped existing in the late 1800s - early 1900s.
Just imagine how many things happened in the world before that era that would've already affected the entire world drastically
Entire Austrian History would be different though without Switzerland, As there would be no Habsburg dynasty to rule and leas Austria and become a great power
True i said that for the austria one, thats the thing i hate is that they provide brainrot levels of entertainment like "no red bull"
I literally would learn more from 1 drew durnil meme than all of these crappy shorts combined
fr its really hard to fully comprehend these scenarios like even if you remove some country that insignificant Rn like mongolia it can change the world a lot, or like removing a small island corsica (napoleon birth place) also can change the complete history of the world
Without the mountains in Switzerland, the HRE could have held on to northern Italy for longer.
The way he covers hilters name 0:45
1:13 Glock were made originally by Austria
Im mentally and physically attracted to sharks (especially fictional)
I like how no matter which alpine nation you delete you effect the habsburg by either not existing or being irrelevant
12:37
Swiss knives
Swiss chocolates
Highest altitude point of europe
Beautiful alpine scenery
Without Portugal no tempura, Japanese pastries, random loanwords where you go wait what (pan (bread) from pão) or Christianity in japan
Christianity failed in japan bro
7:32 i made a fricking book in like 4th grade because my friend loved Germany 😂
Drew can pronounce Nicaragua perfectly yet transposes the r and d in Tordesillas.
That begs the question: What other countries and land masses might have not existed in our timeline that probably changed the history and development of the world in their universe and now we don’t get to experience them for better or for worse. Maybe the Caspian Sea was just another piece of land in one timeline. Or perhaps Zealandia still existed in another. Think about it.
What if I never existed?
"but if you close your eyes"
That would be pretty sad actually
Wait, are you talking about your profile picture?
You wouldn’t’ve written this comment
@@ahfa2010 true
Disappearance of Portugal would have a huge impact on global cuisine...specially in Asia
12:00 No Switzerland means no Habsburgs since they originally came from there before taking over the Austrian lands.
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This video made me realize just how much I love Germany now.
One prospect that pops into my mind from time to time is "What if there was something else in place of the Americas?". I've seen someone tackling "What if Columbus was right?" but this is another matter, like if there was something with more conventionally legendary status.
The habsburgs were founded in switzerland so say goodbye to them
No Philipines also mean, No Fishsauce (Garum still there), No Soysauce, No Ketchup, No Washyoursister sauce.
Drew, the Habsburgs started in Switzerland, perhaps they would be less influential, but they would exist
Lots of major *geographical* changes if this or that land mass had never existed--like the Indian subcontinent's non-existence would have meant that the Himalayas never existed either. What's now Tibet would probably just have sloped gradually down to the Indian Ocean--except that it wouldn't be called the Indian Ocean any more!
But culturally? Not so much, I think. All the famous people mentioned as never having existed would still have existed, but just in some other place. For example, if Austria had never existed, Hilter would still have been born--he'd have just been born wherever his parents wound up living instead (Poland? Czechia? Germany itself?) rather than in a non-existent Austria. Same with all the other people named.
No India.
Means-
No South Asia
No Himalayas
No Dharmic Religions(so differently glorious South East Asia)
No Cotton
No Jute
No Sugar
No Ruler
No Zero
No Basic Mathematics (including- Pythagorus Theorem, Calculus, Decimal System, Modern Number System(originated from Brahmi Scrpit), etc)
No Indo-European language family
No shampoo
No Computer(ofc without 0 or the complete number system)
The list is countless I have not even covered the surface properly.
@@priyangshumallick1889 I disagree with everything after "No Himalayas." The geographical things, as I said above, would of course not be there. But all those foods, products and cultural developments would still have developed--they just would have done it somewhere else.
@@SteveJensen-ye5rt maybe or maybe not. Who knows what the course of history would have been? 🤷♂️
These are just speculations based on modern evidences.
But one thing is for sure. The world would have been very much different. Something unimaginable.
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Technically, if Austria didn’t exist, Redbull would still exist in Thailand but probably wouldn‘t be as well known or commercialised as our timeline.
Also, no color display monitors without Mexico
The amount of European historical figures that have visited the biggest city in Central Europe is crazy 🤯
Without Germany ever existing English as a language would never have been created, England would still be speaking french
9:20 Godddard was an American engineer 🇺🇸 who pioneered liquid rocket engines 🚀 the US didn't start with a blank slate after WWII
Thank you for teaching us drew
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(11:10) How worldwide is Cinco de mayo?
Seems to be only (parts of) Mexico and USA. That's not really worldwide.
We could never know what would be different because human migration patterns would be altered to a point that all of history would basically be different
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no Switzerland means Hannibal crossing the alps with boats
leading to more elephants reaching Rome lol
Fun fact: the territory of french Guyana is about as big as Austria.
I think it's a lot more complicated than that. To see what would happen if X country didn't exist you need to go way back in time, which would mean a whole different world. A little change back in time would bring a lot of changes due to compound effect. We can't fathom what would've happened.
what if antarctica never existed:
literally every ecosystem on the planet is completely changed and all of the landmasses are shaped so much different and the whole planet is much warmer and humans would probably never evolve because of this warmer climate and completely different biodiversity
Go to Honduras, NOW.
And… what would happen if Honduras did not exist?
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5:59 If Portugal didn't exist, not only we wouldn't have a giant Portuguese speaking Brazil, we would probably have at least 3 different Brazil. One Spanish Brazil that would probably be in the center of south America, A dutch brazil called New Holland located in the northeast area of modern-day brazil and a french brazil called France Antarctique located in the south of modern-day Brazil.
No Nintendo (the entire reason Nintendo exists is because of playing cards being brought to Japan by the Portuguese)
No tempura
No naval development and cartography for the other European countries
And other things
The Dutch would 100% fill in the German gap with new Dutch land.
Did i just see "No Germany = no Döner" ???
DUDE DÖNER IS TURKISH
a turkish person created it but he lived in germany
@@reichtangle-oo That doesnt change the fact that its Turkish
@@Fexriya kay
6:05 what if the Philippines never existed: I would never exist
Fun fact, to this day florida has been part of Spain longer than it has been part of the USA
Beethoven was born in Germany, so he would still exist.
5:59 Probably wouldn't even be a united Brazil
It does seem odd that Portuguese America stayed united 🇵🇹 but Spanish America did not 🇪🇸
I think the country that would change the world the least if it never existed is New Zealand. It was only colonized by natives relatively recently like 1500 years ago, and only discovered by western nations like 300 years ago or something. It’s also only had a somewhat minimal role in history since. Would things be different without it, sure, but not as different as any other nation.
7:49 I think west rome could have existed way longer
If Philippines never existed this will result in guy who did 3 around world adventures, survive
Mozart was born in Salzburg, wich was German at that time.
Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany.
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If there are no germanic tribes to defeat Rome, it would have changed history too much to guess. No India, what would have happened to Alexander the Great? Again, I think to drastic of a change to guess. No Mexico means South America would be similar to Australia in terms of isolation and unique animals compared to the other continents.
Without Germany, Say goodbye to Fanta!
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Habsburg is in a totally different place, so the Habsburg family would've still existed, but not how it has today
Without Latvia there would be no jeans and pringles
7:50 Technically, Denmark is already an island because of the Kiel Canal
no its not
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Every change in history can change everything make the history worse or better
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If Philippines never existed There would be no Thyphoon Wall
12:53 I mean the Hague Convention still exists, so
3:00 Without India 🇮🇳 the world would lose the power of cricket 🏏 ..I'm an American 🇺🇸 so I don't really care .... but didn't Britain invent cricket? 🇬🇧 Wouldn't polo have been a better Indian sport to cite? 🏇
No one really cares about cricket except the Indians
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Yoga would still exist, the tantra's used to define yoga were written by spiritual teachers that came from Nepal, not India.
Without India how would Nepal exist?
Without India. No Hinduism itself. Also no Himalayas.
No India, no cricket. England going crazy without spices and cricket.
There wouldn't even be cars without Germany😭
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You wouldn't need to build the panama canal, if there's just a gaping waterway where mexico would have been😂