It ends with "Where the hell are we" it begins with "you're in a rock, floating in space..." It is designed so you can loop it and it still makes sense.
@@chrisellis3797 That's a bit mean, isn't it? Do you remember everything you ever learned in physics, chemistry (etc) and history? But yeah, sure, you can have a go at us dumb europeans, with our dumb education systems, as usual :)
I just love how it reminds you everything no matter how trivial or important we think we do is happening on a floating rock in space at the end of the day.
19:20 "Human beings spend way too much time trying to control each other". Wow, I didn't think anyone else could sum up the entire history of the world faster than Bill Wurtz.
@@neochris2 It was actually not directly related to the Guillotine, but to the Revolution. During the French Revolution multiple governments tried to dechristianize the country and replace Catholicism with the atheist "Cult of Reason". There was however also a deist counterpart to this, the "Cult of the Supreme Being" founded by Maximillian Robesspierre himself. This however lead to his fall from grace and with him, the Cult of the Supreme Being fell as well.
@@Finkele1 Fairies and santas where originally evil and neutral, and also not in any afterlife, so that makes no sense. I get that you're trying to show of what a big brain atheist you are, but if you had really spent any real amount of time thinking about it you'd realize that a mechanistic world view makes no sense either, because machines function just fine without any self awareness. So whatever it is you believe it's just another fairytale, and the people of the future will laugh at your ignorance just as you're trying to do with the people of the past.
"Human beings spend way to much time trying to control each other." Absolutely true. I felt this exact same sentiment the first time I watched this video.
I've lost count as to how many times I've watched this. Gets better every time. It's also how I bonded with my now teenage son and got him interested in learning/education. Next to Melodysheep's space videos, this is one of the best videos around. Every time I watch it, I feel like a young girl about to go on her first date. It's just so frantic, overly excited, way over the top and even with all that, incredibly well done.
yea, i've watched this so many times that it starts to bug me that there are big errors. I.E tinland....you can google it where they got tin...you don't need masters of history...and promised land. It's only in some goat herders mythical book. Egypt...that not inaccurate but like one note singing egypt...there went 4000 years of history in less than a second lol. But it's tonga time.
@@almostyummymummy ah yep edited my comment not to leave anything incriminating behind ;) btw if you're into private fiction I've had fun recently making LLM AI write me pretty well customized stories (public AIs like chatgpt have too many restrictions but there's all kinds that can be ran on your own PC)
@@Finkele1 RESEARCHERS USE METHODS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES TO UNCOVER GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL TIN ARTEFACTS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one of the greatest enigmas in archaeological research. Now researchers from Heidelberg University and the Curt Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry in Mannheim have solved part of the puzzle. Using methods of the natural sciences, they examined the tin from the second millennium BCE found at archaeological sites in Israel, Turkey, and Greece. They were able to proof that this tin in form of ingots does not come from Central Asia, as previously assumed, but from tin deposits in Europe. The findings are proof that even in the Bronze Age complex and far-reaching trade routes must have existed between Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Highly appreciated raw materials like tin as well as amber, glass, and copper were the driving forces of this early international trade network. Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was already being produced in the Middle East, Anatolia, and the Aegean in the late fourth and third millennia BCE. Knowledge on its production spread quickly across wide swaths of the Old World. “Bronze was used to make weapons, jewellery, and all types of daily objects, justifiably bequeathing its name to an entire epoch. The origin of tin has long been an enigma in archaeological research”, explains Prof. Dr Ernst Pernicka, who until his retirement worked at both the Institute for Earth Sciences of Heidelberg University as well as the Curt Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry. “Tin objects and deposits are rare in Europe and Asia. The Eastern Mediterranean region, where some of the objects we studied originated, had practically none of its own deposits. So the raw material in this region must have been imported”, explained the researcher. Metals traded in ingot form are particularly valuable for research because questions of origin can be targeted specifically. Using lead and tin isotope data as well as trace element analysis, the Heidelberg-Mannheim research team led by Prof. Pernicka and Dr Daniel Berger examined the tin ingots found in Turkey, Israel, and Greece. This allowed them to verify that this tin really did derive from tin deposits in Europe. The tin artefacts from Israel, for example, largely match tin from Cornwall and Devon (Great Britain). “These results specifically identify the origin of tin metal for the first time and therefore give rise to new insights and questions for archaeological research”, adds Dr Berger, who conducts research at the Curt Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry. The studies were carried out as part of the “BronzeAgeTin - Tin Isotopes and the Sources of Bronze Age Tin in the Old World” project with funding from an ERC Advanced Grant. Their findings were published in the journal “PLoS ONE”. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION D. Berger, J. S. Soles, A. R. Giumlia-Mair, G. Brügmann, E. Galili, N. Lockhoff, E. Pernicka: Isotope systematics and chemical composition of tin ingots from Mochlos (Crete) and other Late Bronze Age sites in the eastern Mediterranean Sea: An ultimate key to tin provenance? PLoS ONE 14 (6), 2019
This video is so good that I re-watch it almost every time a new reactor watches it. It's a great way to review the history while meeting new reactors!
L is for Libra, the Latin word for weight and scale. We adopted this word when we abbreviated the word pound. That's why we write 100 pounds as 100 lb. The lb comes from Libra, and the English pound is an L, originally meaning a pound of silver. The US dollar sign looking like the letter S is even weirder. Especially when you learn it's correlation with the word "soldier."
Copy pasting time!😅 Origin from early Flemish or Low German daler, from German T(h)aler, short for Joachimsthaler, a coin from the silver mine of Joachimsthal (‘Joachim's valley’), now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic. The term was later applied to a coin used in the Spanish American colonies, which was also widely used in the British North American colonies at the time of the American War of Independence, hence adopted as the name of the US monetary unit in the late 18th century. In addition: in Dutch, a valley is a 'dal' or 'Vallei'. in German, it's 'Thal'. I couldn't find anything about soldiers. Is it a case of Correlation but no causation?
@roddo1955 Dollar doesn't start with an "S", so what's with the $ dollar sign? I think I was wrong on the soldier correlation. The word soldier comes from the Latin word "Solidus" which was a Roman coin of solid precious metal (rather than plated), and also gives us the word "solid" (bonus fact!!!). Military personnel became known as "solidier" basically meaning "a person who gets paid." Makes sense with the obvious relation to money, but I suppose a more likely possibility is that the "S" dollar sign comes from salt, or sal in the Latin, which gave us the word salary, as people were oft literally paid in salt, giving us the expression "he's worth his salt."
@@matthewpollock9685 That's even crazier than the soldier thing, why would anyone accept salt as payment when the ocean is full of it? Even with it being useful for curing meat that seems like a pretty lame payment.
I love you came to the conclusion that humans spend way too much time trying to control each other!!! You are right!!! And we do it in our day to day life. And yes, it's exhausting. You are right again!!!
At 8:39 - "How many of you have watched this thing several times?" So many times, I can't begin to tell you. And I keep catching new things every time.
Explaining how life came about is my favorite thing ever. Chemical evolution is so cool. To start you have to talk about the Urey-Miller experiment. Back in the 1950s these two biochemists did an experiment in which they took a containment chamber, filled it with water, ammonia, methane, hydrogen, and all the things you expect to find on any fledgling planet. All the things you would expect on any new Earths. They put a fire underneath so it would evaporate, go into another container to be zapped with electrodes, cooled, funneled back to the original container and cycles back through. They are simulating the patterns of an early Earth, and simulating all the elements you could find on Earth. You take early simple ingredients, get them hot, get them cold, zapped with lightning and other normal processes. They ran it for a while and when they come back they took samples. To their surprise, the water is no longer clear, but is a gross reddish brown. They test it and find it is now full of amino acids. Amino acids are the things that build proteins and make life happen. That is called chemical evolution. Very simple inorganic ingredients come together via totally natural means and form organic macromolecules. There are 4 macromolecules that make up life. Lipids, proteins, carbs and nucleic acids. Those are the 4 macromolecules that make up everything alive. Each one is a polymer meaning its a molecule that forms a chain. I'll explain each of these below: PROTEINS are made of chains of amino acids that fold up on themselves. A chain of amino acids is a primary structure. Then it folds into an alpha helix or a beta pleated sheet called a secondary structure. Then it forms a glob called a tertiary structure. Sometimes some globs come together and thats then a quaternary structure and so on. Thats how proteins work. Proteins make up skin, muscle, bones, and everything like that. CARBS are sugars. Long chain simple sugars such as glucose or fructose. If you stick them together you get sucrose. A bunch of those together makes a polysaccharide. This makes carbs like starche, cellulose and such. LIPIDS are fats. You have a twisted hydrocarbon chain that repels water and thats a lipid. There are various kinds like phospholipids where a long hydrocarbon chain comes off it to repel water and on the other end is a phosphorus group that attracts water. This makes a hydrophilic and hydrophobic end. One attracts and one repels water. If you take any lipid like cooking oil for example and put it in water it forms a bubble all by itself. Nobody has to tell it to do that. That's because a sphere is the smallest possible surface area and is the most energetically protected from the water around it. It would take more energy to make any other shape and the universe is lazy. Everything is always as energetically simple as possible. Lipids that naturally form out of normal stuff under normal circumstances, naturally form spheres. Amino acids which make proteins that naturally form out of natural stuff can get stuck in one of these spheres, and you now have something that practically represents a cell. All this stuff formed by totally natural means and naturally assumes the shape of a sphere can naturally come together and form a cell. You can do this in a jar. Now imagine that on a planet taking place over millions of years. The Urey-Miller experiment has been redone in different ways many times by putting other things in, leaving some things out, and hundreds of combinations and it just always works. Later, we figured out this happens in hydrothermal vents. They pump out acids and bases. These have proton gradients. Whats that? Well an acid is a chemical with a bunch of extra protons and a base is something that doesn't have enough and has too many electrons. When they neutralize they give off electrical charges that move one place to the next. This is how your cells make energy today. Mitochondria pass protons across a membrane. This turns a protein called ATP synthesis which makes adenosine triphosphate and thats how our body works. It's how most cells today work. Where can we find natural proton gradients right now? Hydrothermal vents. Where can we find the building blocks of lipids and proteins? Hydrothermal vents. We can even find amino acids, including all the ones important to life, in space. Just floating on asteroids. They form naturally all by themselves all over. You have the building blocks of life, the thing that makes energy in cells even today happening naturally all by itself in hydrothermal vents and all over the universe. Life then starts all by itself. Now we also have NUCLEIC ACIDS, the 4th macromolecule, which is DNA and RNA. We do debate what came first, but the most common consensus is RNA came first. I also follow the RNA world hypothesis. Let me explain why. RNA is cool because it isn't just something that carries information, but it also works as a catalysts to make reactions happen. A catalysts is something that lowers the activation energy of a reaction. It makes a reaction happen easier and faster with less energy. So RNA carries genetic information, it can also make more of itself, and it can make other reactions happen faster. Think about how proteins are made in your body today. It's like this. You have mRNA(messenger RNA) that makes proteins happen. How? It goes to a ribosome to be read. What are ribosomes made of? They are made of rRNA(ribosomal RNA), and aren't membrane bound organelles. In the ribosome something brings over amino acids to make the protein. What brings them over? tRNA(transfer RNA). So when your body makes proteins it uses RNA to tell RNA to use RNA to make a protein. Again, you can do this in a jar. That is why the major consensus is that RNA came first. RNA is something that is so unbelievably useful. Why do we have DNA then? Because once it happened to form DNA was/is really good at long term storage and it's far more stable meaning it stuck around better. You can divide it, make more of it, pack it into a tight wad and have it twist around proteins called histones to makes a tight rope called chromatin, and then chromatin forms a body called a chromosome. Thats how DNA works. It wraps around proteins, wraps into a thick rope, and those thick ropes form a chromosome. It's super easy to divide these and split them up. Is it so hard to believe that some of these naturally forming nucleic acids found their way into a blob of naturally forming lipids? THEN they split, THEN you have 2 sets of chromosomes in a cell THEN cytokenesis happens where actin filaments tighten around the cell in a contractile ring, and remember lipids form bubbles naturally, so once squished together you now have a cleavage furrow that then splits into two seperate bubbles! You now have dividing life out of literally "nothing". It's not difficult at all to say that very simple ingredients found all over the universe that naturally form organic molecules by natural processes then naturally stated making more of themselves. You then get a VERY early organism. Something so insanely simple. Not bacteria, that would be unbelievably complex in comparison. Just a very simple membrane, very simple genetic material and very simple proteins. The very basics of all of this. That is what we call LUCA. There was probably a ton of very early life, but LUCA is the one that stuck around. Everything that ever lived past that point is related to LUCA. We have a very clear picture of how everything evolved after that. I can gladly get into that if anyone want me to. I'm an evolutionary biologist so this tickles me all over when I get to explain it.
@@justinabates10 The sauropsids (the ancestors of reptiles of all sorts) and the synapsids (that’s mammals and their ancestors) share a common ancestor that was a basal amniotes This ancestor split off some time during the Devonian Period, probably between 294 and 323 million years ago. The synapsids went on to evolve into Mammaliaformes such as Tritylodontids and Morganucodontids sometime during the Triassic Period, in the “age of dinosaurs” also known as the Mesozoic Era. Synapsids never evolved scales as far as we know. We’ve found impressions from the hides of some synapsids, and they have an irregular pattern of bumps and pits, not scales. The pits may be the openings of glands, which would be something they had in common with modern mammals such as elephants and rhinos. The synapsids pretty much dominated the Permian Period, evolving into some impressive large forms such as the Lystrosaurus, but then mostly died out during the PT mass extinction. One clade, the cynodonts, survived and were mostly small predators. They evolved some mammal like traits such as a secondary bony palate, fewer bones in the lower jaw (some of the “missing” bones migrated rearward and up, and would later become the ear bones of mammals), and larger brains though still small compared to most modern mammals. As the early dinosaurs became more common and more dominant, the cynodonts shrank. Perhaps they had trouble competing with the dinosaurs and began going nocturnal. They were likey becoming warm blooded to help stop fungal infections due to burrowing and were more comfortable at night. There were most likely a ton of things that simply made life easier as a smaller animal. By the time the late Triassic Period rolls around, it becomes truly academic whether a certain synapsid was a “true” mammal or not. Some of these animals had jaw joints that were precisely in the middle between older synapids’ jaw joints and those of mammals. The teeth could mesh together smoothly to chew food, the cerebellum kept getting bigger, and so on, but mammals have officially come into the scene now. Meanwhile, while all this is happening with mammals, the sauropsids that survived the PT extinction start to become the dinosaurs. They evolved and took up the top predator niche. Unlimited food, higher oxygen levels, and top of the food chain. They were using up all the resources so nothing new could come about. Only the smallest mammals could survive, and so they did. They thrived as burrowing and scavenging animals. These mammals were small shrew like creatures such as morganucodon. This went on for an extraordinarily long time until the KT extinction event happened. It virtually wiped out the dinosaurs. They would almost reclaim their spot in the top predator niche through the evolution of terror birds, but they ended up dying out too. The remaining reptiles didn't return because their large size could not be supported anymore as oxygen content in the air took a downward dive. The climate change and continental drift resulted in hyper-specialized dinosaurs being wiped out, and then there were only a handful left, but they didn't fare very well either. Large dinosaurs were wiped out as the plants died out. This extinction events major explanations being either volcanoes or meteors (both supported by geological evidence) would have blocked out sunlight, resulting in a nuclear "winter" of sorts that killed off plants. The sauropods were driven to death no longer being able to support their massive bodies without the trees essential to their lifestyle. Hunting and scavenging dinosaurs fared well for quite a while after this extinction due to the dead sauropods all over. After the body supply ran out, small dinosaurs were the only ones still capable of hunting the burrowing mammals of the time, so it gave them enough time to evolve speedily under stress. These would mostly be the avian dinosaurs, which would later become the birds of today, but some non-avian dinosaurs still survived and became modern reptiles. Back to the mammals, though, as the food chain is wiped and the specialized niches are up for grabs, the mammals took over. They took advantage of everything the dinosaurs had come to take for granted due to that hyper-specialization. Life was great for dinosaurs and scary for mammals, but then the environmental pressures changed and dinosaurs fell off, and mammals rose up. Let's sum this up so far. Basal amniotes are the ancestors to both sauropsids and the synapsids. Both of these groups evolve into large animals until the PT extinction comes along. The main surviving sauropsid, Proterosuchus, would go on to become the dinosaurs. The main surviving synapsid, Lystrosaurus, would go on to become true mammals. The dinosaurs took over as top predators and mammals could not compete, so they became small rodent like animals. When the KT extinction happened and the dinosaurs were wiped out, the mammals became free of the top predators and then were able to grow themselves.
@@justinabates10 After the K-T extinction event, the small mammals who survived adapted to life in various different environments as they took over the world. Jungle habitats are where primate evolution starts. The earliest primate ancestor we know of is Purgatorius, and it looked much more like a treeshrew. These then specialized even more for arboreal life into the Plesiadapiforms. When we look back on the line of descent leading up to humans, it goes like this. You have basal primates like plesiadapiforms split into haplorhines and strepsirrhines. Strepsirrhines continue to do their own thing and further specialize in their own way, but we are haplorhines. Haplorhines split into simiiformes and tarsiiformes. Tarsiiformes continue to do their own thing and split into their own specialized groups, but we are Simiiformes. Basal simiiformes end up in different ecosystems, and due to different pressures, they split into platyrrhines(the New World Monkeys) and catarrhines. The New World Monkeys continue to do their own thing and further specialize in their own way. The basal catarrhines end up in different ecosystems, and due to different pressures, they split into cercopithecoids(the Old World monkeys) and hominoidea(Apes). Hominoids then further split into Hylobatidae(lesser apes/gibbons) and Hominidae(great apes). The hominids split into homininae and ponginae. Ponginae is the line that would lead to Orangutans. They are our our most further removed cousins. Hominines split into gorillini, which would become gorillas who are the next to split and next most removed cousins, and hominini. Hominini is the tribe that holds the creatures that would later split into the ancestor of Humans and our cousins the Panins(chimps and bonobos). Sahelanthropus tchadensis is what we currently believe to be the last common ancestor we shared with Panins 6-7 million years ago. It lived at the right time, it had the right characteristics, and it lived in the African Rift Valley when it would be split. This is what would cause the split into Panins and our line. They would become ardipithecines, australopithecines, paranthropines, and homo among other things.
I love this video. So much so, I’m not sure I would have decided to major in history if I hadn’t seen it… But as someone with ADHD, the presentation is fantastic. Bill Wurtz is a master of grabbing your attention and not letting go, we should be thankful he uses his power for good and not for evil.
6:26 Nobody ever gets the "look at those breasts" thing. Yeah, it's a double entendre, but mammals developing breasts was actually a crucial aspect of the evolution which would lead to, well, us. Breasts meant breast feeding, and breast feeding meant mother/child bonding, and mother/child bonding led to socialization and, eventually, to society (coming soon to a dank river valley near you). Yeah, other critters care for their young without offering up a teat, but the lack of physical contact coupled with the generally shorter child-rearing term lessens that bond. So that actually was an important part of the history of the entire world, i guess.
Did I watch this several times? Yeah. Once alone, then a couple times showing it to friends, now every time someone reacts to it ^^ Although at this point I'm mainly singing along bc the Jazz harmonies are the best thing about this video (say I as a history buff and palaeontologist). You should also check out some of his songs. Maybe not for reacts but they're still great (if a bit random, maybe).
Hi - relatively new fan from England here - just so you know, the "L" for the Pound Sterling comes from the Latin, where pounds in weight was called aLibra/Librum - back before we had decimal currency and used "pounds, shillings, and pence", that was sometimes referred to as "LSD"... the D for pence also came from the Latin "Denarius", because in pre-decimal currency there were 12 pence in a shilling, and 20 shillings in a pound (making 240 pence in a pound) and in Roman times, 240 Denarius made one Librum.
Oh that's interesting. My native language is Portuguese and we call Pounds "Libra" so for me it was never hard to link the L symbol with it, I just didn't know why it had such a different name in English while the symbol made a lot more sense in my Portuguese. And as a lot of other things related to Romance languages, it all comes from latin
Oh yes. The History of Japan the only other one of his didactic vids. Otherwise his channel is some very listenable smooth jazz commenting on our existential crises.
I have watched this many times over the years. I was so happy a well done video happened , he definitely watched History Channel when they showed educational programs lol
Humanity is dominated in extremely large parts by greed: greed for power, for money, for knowledge, etc. Even wars (including religious ones) follow the rule of greed, because people want to acquire land, resources, etc. and increase their power (or that of their religion).
My brain has a distinct talent for picking a random moment from this video right as I'm trying to fall asleep and playing whatever 4-second clip it chooses on repeat for an hour. It's genuinely infuriating the number of times I'm moments from sleep, and suddenly I'm forced awake for an hour by the torturous sounds of, 🎵"Now the Phoenicians can get down to business!!"🎶 on loop. Lmfao.
"humans beings spent way too much time trying to controll eachother. This is freaking exausting!" I think without realizing it, you said one of the most purest truths.
A minor point, the taxing of the American colonies was to pay for the defence of said colonies from the French during a war which was effectively started by a certain Mr Washington (sorry, militia Colonel Washington) who attacked a French expedition in time of peace. Never mind, as part of the negotiated independence of said colonies they agreed to pay the taxes which allegedly was the cause of the whole debacle.
Best video on TH-cam. One of my plans for teaching history is having the entire class watch this and then say "every single sentence in this video is like an entire field of study, so your job for the next week is pick one sentence from the video, read up on it, and then explain it to class
I watched it (and reactions to it) MANY times, 50 maybe 😁 Great reaction, thanks. BTW: The £ symbol's L is derived from Latin "libra pondo" ("I weigh on the scales"), which was their basic unit of weight (1 pound) . The Brits then weighed 1 pound of sterling silver and used this pound as the currency unit.
Fun fact: at the "let's cut all their heads off part" when he says "we can make a religion out of this!" Then interrupts himself by saying "no don't" is a reference to Robspierre actually trying to make a religion with the guillotine ordeal called Cult Of The Supreme Being, luckily no one was interested in it, even after he died.
an answer to the final question of "where the hell are we?" you're on a rock, floating in space. pretty cool, huh? some of its water, fuck it, actually, most of its water. I can't even get from here to there without buying a boat...
My favourite mind blowing fact is that humans are historically closer to the T-Rex (65 million years apart) than the T-Rex was to the Stegosaurus (85 million years apart).
One of my favorites is that the dinosaurs existed on the other side of the galaxy (the solar system moves and when the dinosaurs existed it was in the opposite place from where we are now)
It's fascinating to me how many people I've seen watch this and how few of them knew about like 99% of the things described here. Why isn't history something that people devote more time to? I mean, it's not like it's boring. How is it that it seems there are more experts on sports statistics or Star Wars lore than there are on our own? Maybe it goes back to "school sucks!" Maybe we have such a distasteful education system that it turns kids off to anything of actual consequence by making fascinating things feel arbitrary. Could be. I know I personally was quite rebellious as a teenager and didn't start realizing how much I love history, science and mathematics until I started looking into them on my own. They're trying to cram knowledge up our asses instead of laying it out as a stream to drink from. I will voluntarily go to the stream. I will not voluntarily have ANYTHING crammed up my ass, and if said thing HAS been crammed into my ass it doesn't matter if it's the most amazing thing in the world - I want nothing to do with it. It has been in my ass. I mean that seriously. I wanted to read Russell and Whitehead's "Principia Mathematica," so I retaught myself mathematics all the way up through calculus to prepare for it. It was a wonderful experience, but it did have a certain feeling to it like cleaning something that has been in a toilet. It doesn't matter if not one single farticle is left on it. I still know where it has been. Sometimes I wonder about the purpose of contemporary schools. They seem very efficient at paving the way for people who think of life as a game to be won and very counterproductive to those of us who have genuine curiosity about how things work - not what things can do for us but how they function in and of themselves. If I'm intrinsically attracted to that knowledge, yet I'm being informed that there is a profound exigence against it then I lose all purpose except the dichotomous choice of whether to rebel against the fundamentals of everything I've been told or to accept that there is something rotten at the core of knowledge in and of itself. There isn't, and so I must rebel. The tricky thing about thinking is that it spurs action. You can switch you brain off and do nothing, but if you use it effectively you start to see how doing nothing is no option at all.
6:16 "I hope that somebody hired this guy for jingles in commercials or radio ads." 19:23 "Human beings spend way too much time trying to control each other. It's just frigging exhausting to think about. And it hasn't stopped!"
I've seen this so many times I've lost count, and I enjoy it even more now than the first time I saw it. One small thing about it I enjoy is that it starts off by saying "Hi. You're on a rock floating in space". and ends asking the question "By the way, where are we?" So he answered the question at the end, at the beginning. Genius.
If this videos runtime was accurate to what they were talking about, humans would appear at the end soooo fast, your brain wouldn't even register that it had happened.
Gotta have hours and hours of watches racked up by now after all the rewatches showing it to people when it came out and then all the rewatches during reaction videos lol.
That is a nice vid! This was my 2nd time seeing it, and I really think the name is fitting :D There are so much stuff that you could practically ace your history exam if you watched this enough o.o
Really enjoyed the reaction, lots of fun! Didn't make a trial of my patience like a lot of the reactions to this do. I get that there's different levels of knowledge and everyone's got to start somewhere but there's some closed minds out there. Thinking of statements like "monkeys were made monkeys and people were made people" , without evidence and rejection of the scientific explanation that has lots,,anyway thanks. I'm certain you'll enjoy the history of Japan I guess and I look forward to your reaction.
Hadn't heard of the Reformation? Really? Maybe such a major historical event isn't on the curriculum of American schools? 🤔 Because it didn't take place in America 😂🤣😂
Dinos were around millions of years longer than humans have existed for and they got mentioned for a second. Just shows the massive impact humans have had on the planet, both good and bad. It's actually insane
I'm dead! i was watching this at 1.75 times speed and my brain was just like 'oh yeah, that's how History of the entire world was!' now i can't slow it back down I've adjusted gonna end up in the future of the world , i guess
I’ve seen this video so many times I practically have it memorized. One time, I heard my roommate watching this video and I’ll just come up and begin quoting the same time as the video and just watch their jaw drop. It’s hilarious.
I love watching reactions to this video. It's interesting when some of the reactors pause it to go into more detail (scientists, historians and history buffs). Learn something new each time. Bill Wurtz didn't shy away from the bad stuff (wars and slavery) but kept things moving along at a frenetic pace. The video should be showed in schools, but the language would have to be cleaned up, first. This is the way to get children interested in learning.
There are a few things he left out. Such as the Islamic slave trade, which continues to this day. The asian slave trade, which continues to this day, the slave trade IN Africa, which continues to this day. But NOOO...let's blame the only countries that have abolished slavery for ALL the slavery, And convieniently not mention that most everywhere else on this planet STILL has slavery.
Fabulous, but oh my, was that exhausting! I feel like the entire history of the universe was just downloaded into my brain. Brain bursting at the seams, and the cracks need time to heal. Good night. 😴
If you like this he's got one he did before this just called History of Japan. It's also why when he brought up Japan in this video it had a little Intermission as like a "insert my first video here" lol
Yea the Point before the beginning is trippie and we as human can't wrap our head around that, because there was no time and no space. That's why every it gets.
It blows me away that people think that "the Singularity" is NOT near. How can you literally be living on the edge of an exponential curve, and not know that things are about to "get crazy" (in sing-song, like in the video...)
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It ends with "Where the hell are we" it begins with "you're in a rock, floating in space..." It is designed so you can loop it and it still makes sense.
thats pretty nifty i would say
@@TheRumChum you ought to believe it, man
Also, the "Intermission" is where Bill Wurtz's other video "history of japan" fits in.
This should be played in all schools, there's so many little things that might trigger a child's imagination to investigate further.
Or an adult's :)
Only in chinese schools.
Not with Bill's potty mouth
@@zaitarh in certain countries for sure. Those that don't teach anything outside of their own countries sphere
@@chrisellis3797 That's a bit mean, isn't it? Do you remember everything you ever learned in physics, chemistry (etc) and history? But yeah, sure, you can have a go at us dumb europeans, with our dumb education systems, as usual :)
I just love how it reminds you everything no matter how trivial or important we think we do is happening on a floating rock in space at the end of the day.
Your comment reminds me of Sagen’s “Pale Blue Dot”
@@Reblwitoutacause annas' was reductive while Sagan's was introspective.
Honestly, best video on the internet. Can't count how many times I've seen it. Loved your reaction to it!
19:20 "Human beings spend way too much time trying to control each other". Wow, I didn't think anyone else could sum up the entire history of the world faster than Bill Wurtz.
it's easily missable, but the guillotine joke about making a religion out of the guillotine ALMOST ACTUALLY BECAME A REALITY.
would be merciful. ppl believe all kind of fairies and santas bc they are afraid...yes basic reason to invent something after you die is...fear.
Please elaborate
@@neochris2 It was actually not directly related to the Guillotine, but to the Revolution. During the French Revolution multiple governments tried to dechristianize the country and replace Catholicism with the atheist "Cult of Reason". There was however also a deist counterpart to this, the "Cult of the Supreme Being" founded by Maximillian Robesspierre himself. This however lead to his fall from grace and with him, the Cult of the Supreme Being fell as well.
Imma learn about that
@@Finkele1 Fairies and santas where originally evil and neutral, and also not in any afterlife, so that makes no sense. I get that you're trying to show of what a big brain atheist you are, but if you had really spent any real amount of time thinking about it you'd realize that a mechanistic world view makes no sense either, because machines function just fine without any self awareness. So whatever it is you believe it's just another fairytale, and the people of the future will laugh at your ignorance just as you're trying to do with the people of the past.
"Human beings spend way to much time trying to control each other." Absolutely true. I felt this exact same sentiment the first time I watched this video.
I've lost count as to how many times I've watched this. Gets better every time.
It's also how I bonded with my now teenage son and got him interested in learning/education.
Next to Melodysheep's space videos, this is one of the best videos around.
Every time I watch it, I feel like a young girl about to go on her first date. It's just so frantic, overly excited, way over the top and even with all that, incredibly well done.
yea, i've watched this so many times that it starts to bug me that there are big errors. I.E tinland....you can google it where they got tin...you don't need masters of history...and promised land. It's only in some goat herders mythical book. Egypt...that not inaccurate but like one note singing egypt...there went 4000 years of history in less than a second lol. But it's tonga time.
AlmostYummyMummy did you mean to leave your playlists public? it's fine if you did just wondering
@@snooks5607 uh... Um, oh. Didn't realise.
Private, now. Thanks for that. But yeah. It is. On both counts.
@@almostyummymummy ah yep edited my comment not to leave anything incriminating behind ;)
btw if you're into private fiction I've had fun recently making LLM AI write me pretty well customized stories (public AIs like chatgpt have too many restrictions but there's all kinds that can be ran on your own PC)
@@Finkele1
RESEARCHERS USE METHODS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES TO UNCOVER GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL TIN ARTEFACTS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN
The origin of the tin used in the Bronze Age has long been one of the greatest enigmas in archaeological research. Now researchers from Heidelberg University and the Curt Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry in Mannheim have solved part of the puzzle. Using methods of the natural sciences, they examined the tin from the second millennium BCE found at archaeological sites in Israel, Turkey, and Greece. They were able to proof that this tin in form of ingots does not come from Central Asia, as previously assumed, but from tin deposits in Europe. The findings are proof that even in the Bronze Age complex and far-reaching trade routes must have existed between Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Highly appreciated raw materials like tin as well as amber, glass, and copper were the driving forces of this early international trade network.
Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was already being produced in the Middle East, Anatolia, and the Aegean in the late fourth and third millennia BCE. Knowledge on its production spread quickly across wide swaths of the Old World. “Bronze was used to make weapons, jewellery, and all types of daily objects, justifiably bequeathing its name to an entire epoch. The origin of tin has long been an enigma in archaeological research”, explains Prof. Dr Ernst Pernicka, who until his retirement worked at both the Institute for Earth Sciences of Heidelberg University as well as the Curt Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry. “Tin objects and deposits are rare in Europe and Asia. The Eastern Mediterranean region, where some of the objects we studied originated, had practically none of its own deposits. So the raw material in this region must have been imported”, explained the researcher.
Metals traded in ingot form are particularly valuable for research because questions of origin can be targeted specifically. Using lead and tin isotope data as well as trace element analysis, the Heidelberg-Mannheim research team led by Prof. Pernicka and Dr Daniel Berger examined the tin ingots found in Turkey, Israel, and Greece. This allowed them to verify that this tin really did derive from tin deposits in Europe. The tin artefacts from Israel, for example, largely match tin from Cornwall and Devon (Great Britain). “These results specifically identify the origin of tin metal for the first time and therefore give rise to new insights and questions for archaeological research”, adds Dr Berger, who conducts research at the Curt Engelhorn Centre for Archaeometry.
The studies were carried out as part of the “BronzeAgeTin - Tin Isotopes and the Sources of Bronze Age Tin in the Old World” project with funding from an ERC Advanced Grant. Their findings were published in the journal “PLoS ONE”.
ORIGINAL PUBLICATION
D. Berger, J. S. Soles, A. R. Giumlia-Mair, G. Brügmann, E. Galili, N. Lockhoff, E. Pernicka: Isotope systematics and chemical composition of tin ingots from Mochlos (Crete) and other Late Bronze Age sites in the eastern Mediterranean Sea: An ultimate key to tin provenance? PLoS ONE 14 (6), 2019
The best quote: "question 2: steal the spice trade. That's not a question, but the Dutch did it anyway"
“Its different (than other educational videos)…it’s funny” 😂
I use "..to the Northern North." and "Now we can get down to business!" pretty much daily.
"Seriously where the hell are we?"
"Hi, you're on a rock floating in space."
This video is so good that I re-watch it almost every time a new reactor watches it. It's a great way to review the history while meeting new reactors!
L is for Libra, the Latin word for weight and scale. We adopted this word when we abbreviated the word pound. That's why we write 100 pounds as 100 lb. The lb comes from Libra, and the English pound is an L, originally meaning a pound of silver.
The US dollar sign looking like the letter S is even weirder. Especially when you learn it's correlation with the word "soldier."
Dollar comes from the germanic 'Thaler' . 'Daalder' in dutch. Didn't know it meant soldier. Dutch: soldaat
Copy pasting time!😅
Origin
from early Flemish or Low German daler, from German T(h)aler, short for Joachimsthaler, a coin from the silver mine of Joachimsthal (‘Joachim's valley’), now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic. The term was later applied to a coin used in the Spanish American colonies, which was also widely used in the British North American colonies at the time of the American War of Independence, hence adopted as the name of the US monetary unit in the late 18th century.
In addition: in Dutch, a valley is a 'dal' or 'Vallei'.
in German, it's 'Thal'. I couldn't find anything about soldiers.
Is it a case of Correlation but no causation?
@roddo1955 Dollar doesn't start with an "S", so what's with the $ dollar sign?
I think I was wrong on the soldier correlation. The word soldier comes from the Latin word "Solidus" which was a Roman coin of solid precious metal (rather than plated), and also gives us the word "solid" (bonus fact!!!). Military personnel became known as "solidier" basically meaning "a person who gets paid." Makes sense with the obvious relation to money, but I suppose a more likely possibility is that the "S" dollar sign comes from salt, or sal in the Latin, which gave us the word salary, as people were oft literally paid in salt, giving us the expression "he's worth his salt."
@@matthewpollock9685 That's even crazier than the soldier thing, why would anyone accept salt as payment when the ocean is full of it? Even with it being useful for curing meat that seems like a pretty lame payment.
@@daniel4647 😆
I love you came to the conclusion that humans spend way too much time trying to control each other!!! You are right!!! And we do it in our day to day life. And yes, it's exhausting. You are right again!!!
Yeap. I've seen this probably 20x by watching tons of people react to it over the years, it's always entertaining
Me too, its addictive to watch people react
"Human beings spend way too much time trying to contol each other."
One of the most accurate and saddest statements on the human condition.
At 8:39 - "How many of you have watched this thing several times?" So many times, I can't begin to tell you. And I keep catching new things every time.
Explaining how life came about is my favorite thing ever. Chemical evolution is so cool. To start you have to talk about the Urey-Miller experiment. Back in the 1950s these two biochemists did an experiment in which they took a containment chamber, filled it with water, ammonia, methane, hydrogen, and all the things you expect to find on any fledgling planet. All the things you would expect on any new Earths. They put a fire underneath so it would evaporate, go into another container to be zapped with electrodes, cooled, funneled back to the original container and cycles back through. They are simulating the patterns of an early Earth, and simulating all the elements you could find on Earth. You take early simple ingredients, get them hot, get them cold, zapped with lightning and other normal processes. They ran it for a while and when they come back they took samples. To their surprise, the water is no longer clear, but is a gross reddish brown. They test it and find it is now full of amino acids. Amino acids are the things that build proteins and make life happen. That is called chemical evolution. Very simple inorganic ingredients come together via totally natural means and form organic macromolecules. There are 4 macromolecules that make up life. Lipids, proteins, carbs and nucleic acids. Those are the 4 macromolecules that make up everything alive. Each one is a polymer meaning its a molecule that forms a chain. I'll explain each of these below:
PROTEINS are made of chains of amino acids that fold up on themselves. A chain of amino acids is a primary structure. Then it folds into an alpha helix or a beta pleated sheet called a secondary structure. Then it forms a glob called a tertiary structure. Sometimes some globs come together and thats then a quaternary structure and so on. Thats how proteins work. Proteins make up skin, muscle, bones, and everything like that.
CARBS are sugars. Long chain simple sugars such as glucose or fructose. If you stick them together you get sucrose. A bunch of those together makes a polysaccharide. This makes carbs like starche, cellulose and such.
LIPIDS are fats. You have a twisted hydrocarbon chain that repels water and thats a lipid. There are various kinds like phospholipids where a long hydrocarbon chain comes off it to repel water and on the other end is a phosphorus group that attracts water. This makes a hydrophilic and hydrophobic end. One attracts and one repels water. If you take any lipid like cooking oil for example and put it in water it forms a bubble all by itself. Nobody has to tell it to do that. That's because a sphere is the smallest possible surface area and is the most energetically protected from the water around it. It would take more energy to make any other shape and the universe is lazy. Everything is always as energetically simple as possible. Lipids that naturally form out of normal stuff under normal circumstances, naturally form spheres. Amino acids which make proteins that naturally form out of natural stuff can get stuck in one of these spheres, and you now have something that practically represents a cell. All this stuff formed by totally natural means and naturally assumes the shape of a sphere can naturally come together and form a cell. You can do this in a jar. Now imagine that on a planet taking place over millions of years.
The Urey-Miller experiment has been redone in different ways many times by putting other things in, leaving some things out, and hundreds of combinations and it just always works. Later, we figured out this happens in hydrothermal vents. They pump out acids and bases. These have proton gradients. Whats that? Well an acid is a chemical with a bunch of extra protons and a base is something that doesn't have enough and has too many electrons. When they neutralize they give off electrical charges that move one place to the next. This is how your cells make energy today. Mitochondria pass protons across a membrane. This turns a protein called ATP synthesis which makes adenosine triphosphate and thats how our body works. It's how most cells today work. Where can we find natural proton gradients right now? Hydrothermal vents. Where can we find the building blocks of lipids and proteins? Hydrothermal vents. We can even find amino acids, including all the ones important to life, in space. Just floating on asteroids. They form naturally all by themselves all over. You have the building blocks of life, the thing that makes energy in cells even today happening naturally all by itself in hydrothermal vents and all over the universe. Life then starts all by itself. Now we also have NUCLEIC ACIDS, the 4th macromolecule, which is DNA and RNA. We do debate what came first, but the most common consensus is RNA came first. I also follow the RNA world hypothesis. Let me explain why.
RNA is cool because it isn't just something that carries information, but it also works as a catalysts to make reactions happen. A catalysts is something that lowers the activation energy of a reaction. It makes a reaction happen easier and faster with less energy. So RNA carries genetic information, it can also make more of itself, and it can make other reactions happen faster. Think about how proteins are made in your body today. It's like this.
You have mRNA(messenger RNA) that makes proteins happen. How? It goes to a ribosome to be read. What are ribosomes made of? They are made of rRNA(ribosomal RNA), and aren't membrane bound organelles. In the ribosome something brings over amino acids to make the protein. What brings them over? tRNA(transfer RNA). So when your body makes proteins it uses RNA to tell RNA to use RNA to make a protein. Again, you can do this in a jar. That is why the major consensus is that RNA came first. RNA is something that is so unbelievably useful. Why do we have DNA then? Because once it happened to form DNA was/is really good at long term storage and it's far more stable meaning it stuck around better. You can divide it, make more of it, pack it into a tight wad and have it twist around proteins called histones to makes a tight rope called chromatin, and then chromatin forms a body called a chromosome. Thats how DNA works. It wraps around proteins, wraps into a thick rope, and those thick ropes form a chromosome. It's super easy to divide these and split them up.
Is it so hard to believe that some of these naturally forming nucleic acids found their way into a blob of naturally forming lipids? THEN they split, THEN you have 2 sets of chromosomes in a cell THEN cytokenesis happens where actin filaments tighten around the cell in a contractile ring, and remember lipids form bubbles naturally, so once squished together you now have a cleavage furrow that then splits into two seperate bubbles! You now have dividing life out of literally "nothing". It's not difficult at all to say that very simple ingredients found all over the universe that naturally form organic molecules by natural processes then naturally stated making more of themselves. You then get a VERY early organism. Something so insanely simple. Not bacteria, that would be unbelievably complex in comparison. Just a very simple membrane, very simple genetic material and very simple proteins. The very basics of all of this. That is what we call LUCA. There was probably a ton of very early life, but LUCA is the one that stuck around. Everything that ever lived past that point is related to LUCA. We have a very clear picture of how everything evolved after that. I can gladly get into that if anyone want me to. I'm an evolutionary biologist so this tickles me all over when I get to explain it.
Natueally I find this comment AFTER I take a test of this stuff.
From my understanding, had it not been the extinction of dinosaurs, humans may not have evolved since mamals would die.
@@justinabates10 The sauropsids (the ancestors of reptiles of all sorts) and the synapsids (that’s mammals and their ancestors) share a common ancestor that was a basal amniotes This ancestor split off some time during the Devonian Period, probably between 294 and 323 million years ago. The synapsids went on to evolve into Mammaliaformes such as Tritylodontids and Morganucodontids sometime during the Triassic Period, in the “age of dinosaurs” also known as the Mesozoic Era. Synapsids never evolved scales as far as we know. We’ve found impressions from the hides of some synapsids, and they have an irregular pattern of bumps and pits, not scales. The pits may be the openings of glands, which would be something they had in common with modern mammals such as elephants and rhinos.
The synapsids pretty much dominated the Permian Period, evolving into some impressive large forms such as the Lystrosaurus, but then mostly died out during the PT mass extinction. One clade, the cynodonts, survived and were mostly small predators. They evolved some mammal like traits such as a secondary bony palate, fewer bones in the lower jaw (some of the “missing” bones migrated rearward and up, and would later become the ear bones of mammals), and larger brains though still small compared to most modern mammals. As the early dinosaurs became more common and more dominant, the cynodonts shrank. Perhaps they had trouble competing with the dinosaurs and began going nocturnal. They were likey becoming warm blooded to help stop fungal infections due to burrowing and were more comfortable at night. There were most likely a ton of things that simply made life easier as a smaller animal.
By the time the late Triassic Period rolls around, it becomes truly academic whether a certain synapsid was a “true” mammal or not. Some of these animals had jaw joints that were precisely in the middle between older synapids’ jaw joints and those of mammals. The teeth could mesh together smoothly to chew food, the cerebellum kept getting bigger, and so on, but mammals have officially come into the scene now. Meanwhile, while all this is happening with mammals, the sauropsids that survived the PT extinction start to become the dinosaurs. They evolved and took up the top predator niche. Unlimited food, higher oxygen levels, and top of the food chain. They were using up all the resources so nothing new could come about. Only the smallest mammals could survive, and so they did. They thrived as burrowing and scavenging animals. These mammals were small shrew like creatures such as morganucodon. This went on for an extraordinarily long time until the KT extinction event happened. It virtually wiped out the dinosaurs. They would almost reclaim their spot in the top predator niche through the evolution of terror birds, but they ended up dying out too. The remaining reptiles didn't return because their large size could not be supported anymore as oxygen content in the air took a downward dive. The climate change and continental drift resulted in hyper-specialized dinosaurs being wiped out, and then there were only a handful left, but they didn't fare very well either. Large dinosaurs were wiped out as the plants died out. This extinction events major explanations being either volcanoes or meteors (both supported by geological evidence) would have blocked out sunlight, resulting in a nuclear "winter" of sorts that killed off plants. The sauropods were driven to death no longer being able to support their massive bodies without the trees essential to their lifestyle. Hunting and scavenging dinosaurs fared well for quite a while after this extinction due to the dead sauropods all over. After the body supply ran out, small dinosaurs were the only ones still capable of hunting the burrowing mammals of the time, so it gave them enough time to evolve speedily under stress. These would mostly be the avian dinosaurs, which would later become the birds of today, but some non-avian dinosaurs still survived and became modern reptiles. Back to the mammals, though, as the food chain is wiped and the specialized niches are up for grabs, the mammals took over. They took advantage of everything the dinosaurs had come to take for granted due to that hyper-specialization. Life was great for dinosaurs and scary for mammals, but then the environmental pressures changed and dinosaurs fell off, and mammals rose up.
Let's sum this up so far. Basal amniotes are the ancestors to both sauropsids and the synapsids. Both of these groups evolve into large animals until the PT extinction comes along. The main surviving sauropsid, Proterosuchus, would go on to become the dinosaurs. The main surviving synapsid, Lystrosaurus, would go on to become true mammals. The dinosaurs took over as top predators and mammals could not compete, so they became small rodent like animals. When the KT extinction happened and the dinosaurs were wiped out, the mammals became free of the top predators and then were able to grow themselves.
@@justinabates10 After the K-T extinction event, the small mammals who survived adapted to life in various different environments as they took over the world. Jungle habitats are where primate evolution starts. The earliest primate ancestor we know of is Purgatorius, and it looked much more like a treeshrew. These then specialized even more for arboreal life into the Plesiadapiforms.
When we look back on the line of descent leading up to humans, it goes like this. You have basal primates like plesiadapiforms split into haplorhines and strepsirrhines. Strepsirrhines continue to do their own thing and further specialize in their own way, but we are haplorhines. Haplorhines split into simiiformes and tarsiiformes. Tarsiiformes continue to do their own thing and split into their own specialized groups, but we are Simiiformes. Basal simiiformes end up in different ecosystems, and due to different pressures, they split into platyrrhines(the New World Monkeys) and catarrhines. The New World Monkeys continue to do their own thing and further specialize in their own way. The basal catarrhines end up in different ecosystems, and due to different pressures, they split into cercopithecoids(the Old World monkeys) and hominoidea(Apes). Hominoids then further split into Hylobatidae(lesser apes/gibbons) and Hominidae(great apes). The hominids split into homininae and ponginae. Ponginae is the line that would lead to Orangutans. They are our our most further removed cousins. Hominines split into gorillini, which would become gorillas who are the next to split and next most removed cousins, and hominini. Hominini is the tribe that holds the creatures that would later split into the ancestor of Humans and our cousins the Panins(chimps and bonobos). Sahelanthropus tchadensis is what we currently believe to be the last common ancestor we shared with Panins 6-7 million years ago. It lived at the right time, it had the right characteristics, and it lived in the African Rift Valley when it would be split. This is what would cause the split into Panins and our line. They would become ardipithecines, australopithecines, paranthropines, and homo among other things.
I love this video. So much so, I’m not sure I would have decided to major in history if I hadn’t seen it… But as someone with ADHD, the presentation is fantastic. Bill Wurtz is a master of grabbing your attention and not letting go, we should be thankful he uses his power for good and not for evil.
6:26 Nobody ever gets the "look at those breasts" thing. Yeah, it's a double entendre, but mammals developing breasts was actually a crucial aspect of the evolution which would lead to, well, us. Breasts meant breast feeding, and breast feeding meant mother/child bonding, and mother/child bonding led to socialization and, eventually, to society (coming soon to a dank river valley near you). Yeah, other critters care for their young without offering up a teat, but the lack of physical contact coupled with the generally shorter child-rearing term lessens that bond. So that actually was an important part of the history of the entire world, i guess.
i am surprised when i learn someone hasn't watched this already!
"Lets invent a thing inventor, said the thing inventor inventor after being invented by the thing inventor."
- ChatGPT-4
At 24:22 - "Seriously... Where are we?" At the start... "Hi. We're on a rock, out in space..."
Did I watch this several times? Yeah. Once alone, then a couple times showing it to friends, now every time someone reacts to it ^^
Although at this point I'm mainly singing along bc the Jazz harmonies are the best thing about this video (say I as a history buff and palaeontologist).
You should also check out some of his songs. Maybe not for reacts but they're still great (if a bit random, maybe).
This video shows how fast human civilization developed and is just amazing. It took him like 9 months to make this video
I dont think there is a single video I have watched more often, interesting every time
Hi - relatively new fan from England here - just so you know, the "L" for the Pound Sterling comes from the Latin, where pounds in weight was called aLibra/Librum - back before we had decimal currency and used "pounds, shillings, and pence", that was sometimes referred to as "LSD"... the D for pence also came from the Latin "Denarius", because in pre-decimal currency there were 12 pence in a shilling, and 20 shillings in a pound (making 240 pence in a pound) and in Roman times, 240 Denarius made one Librum.
Oh that's interesting. My native language is Portuguese and we call Pounds "Libra" so for me it was never hard to link the L symbol with it, I just didn't know why it had such a different name in English while the symbol made a lot more sense in my Portuguese. And as a lot of other things related to Romance languages, it all comes from latin
02:40 You could say it's "the history of EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (or in 20 minutes), I guess"
He also did History of Japan, another great video to react to.
Oh yes. The History of Japan the only other one of his didactic vids. Otherwise his channel is some very listenable smooth jazz commenting on our existential crises.
I have watched it again and again and again... I could pause like every 5 seconds and then go google more detailes about specific events.
'Human beings spend way too much time trying to control each other'
That's coming from an AMERICAN 😅
This video is awesome! I think I’ve watched it about 50 times by now. 😂
My trick is to watch reactions to the video so i can have an excuse to see it again and again.
You’re right, it is exhausting how much time and life is spent on territory.
I have watched this video easily over 20 times. Mostly through reactions. I still keep watching whenever I see someone new reacting to it 😃
Me, too.
This guy was so busy, he missed the part when they invented Ritalin.
"Human beings spent way to much time trying to control each other"... out of the mouths of babes ;)
I've seen this like 20 times. It helps me find new reactors
I have watched this many times over the years. I was so happy a well done video happened , he definitely watched History Channel when they showed educational programs lol
Humanity is dominated in extremely large parts by greed: greed for power, for money, for knowledge, etc. Even wars (including religious ones) follow the rule of greed, because people want to acquire land, resources, etc. and increase their power (or that of their religion).
Hahaha, the look on Heidi's face when she paused the first time...priceless.
I felt the same way😂😂😂
My brain has a distinct talent for picking a random moment from this video right as I'm trying to fall asleep and playing whatever 4-second clip it chooses on repeat for an hour. It's genuinely infuriating the number of times I'm moments from sleep, and suddenly I'm forced awake for an hour by the torturous sounds of, 🎵"Now the Phoenicians can get down to business!!"🎶 on loop. Lmfao.
"humans beings spent way too much time trying to controll eachother. This is freaking exausting!"
I think without realizing it, you said one of the most purest truths.
Comparing this to a six-year-old telling a story in excruciating detail was PERFECT!
not only the video is heartwarming funny, also are your reaction to it too... thank you nice one!
You would like Nightwish - Greatest Show On Earth, they do an amazing concert on this same theme.
History of everything we know in punch form,brutal fist to eye.
A minor point, the taxing of the American colonies was to pay for the defence of said colonies from the French during a war which was effectively started by a certain Mr Washington (sorry, militia Colonel Washington) who attacked a French expedition in time of peace.
Never mind, as part of the negotiated independence of said colonies they agreed to pay the taxes which allegedly was the cause of the whole debacle.
Best video on TH-cam. One of my plans for teaching history is having the entire class watch this and then say "every single sentence in this video is like an entire field of study, so your job for the next week is pick one sentence from the video, read up on it, and then explain it to class
i have watch that video so many times that a lot of the quotes from it get stuck in my head about 3 to 4 times a day
I watched it (and reactions to it) MANY times, 50 maybe 😁
Great reaction, thanks. BTW: The £ symbol's L is derived from Latin "libra pondo" ("I weigh on the scales"), which was their basic unit of weight (1 pound) . The Brits then weighed 1 pound of sterling silver and used this pound as the currency unit.
That's one hefty £ there. The current one is actually closer to lead than silver. Slight deflation.
I have lost count how many times I've seen it, but I always watch it again. It's the best thing on TH-cam, IMO.
I come back to this video once a year or so... alway amazing.
Fun fact: at the "let's cut all their heads off part" when he says "we can make a religion out of this!" Then interrupts himself by saying "no don't" is a reference to Robspierre actually trying to make a religion with the guillotine ordeal called Cult Of The Supreme Being, luckily no one was interested in it, even after he died.
I think I've seen reactions to this video at least a dozen times.
an answer to the final question of "where the hell are we?" you're on a rock, floating in space. pretty cool, huh? some of its water, fuck it, actually, most of its water. I can't even get from here to there without buying a boat...
My favourite mind blowing fact is that humans are historically closer to the T-Rex (65 million years apart) than the T-Rex was to the Stegosaurus (85 million years apart).
One of my favorites is that the dinosaurs existed on the other side of the galaxy (the solar system moves and when the dinosaurs existed it was in the opposite place from where we are now)
It's fascinating to me how many people I've seen watch this and how few of them knew about like 99% of the things described here. Why isn't history something that people devote more time to? I mean, it's not like it's boring. How is it that it seems there are more experts on sports statistics or Star Wars lore than there are on our own? Maybe it goes back to "school sucks!" Maybe we have such a distasteful education system that it turns kids off to anything of actual consequence by making fascinating things feel arbitrary. Could be. I know I personally was quite rebellious as a teenager and didn't start realizing how much I love history, science and mathematics until I started looking into them on my own. They're trying to cram knowledge up our asses instead of laying it out as a stream to drink from. I will voluntarily go to the stream. I will not voluntarily have ANYTHING crammed up my ass, and if said thing HAS been crammed into my ass it doesn't matter if it's the most amazing thing in the world - I want nothing to do with it. It has been in my ass. I mean that seriously. I wanted to read Russell and Whitehead's "Principia Mathematica," so I retaught myself mathematics all the way up through calculus to prepare for it. It was a wonderful experience, but it did have a certain feeling to it like cleaning something that has been in a toilet. It doesn't matter if not one single farticle is left on it. I still know where it has been. Sometimes I wonder about the purpose of contemporary schools. They seem very efficient at paving the way for people who think of life as a game to be won and very counterproductive to those of us who have genuine curiosity about how things work - not what things can do for us but how they function in and of themselves. If I'm intrinsically attracted to that knowledge, yet I'm being informed that there is a profound exigence against it then I lose all purpose except the dichotomous choice of whether to rebel against the fundamentals of everything I've been told or to accept that there is something rotten at the core of knowledge in and of itself. There isn't, and so I must rebel. The tricky thing about thinking is that it spurs action. You can switch you brain off and do nothing, but if you use it effectively you start to see how doing nothing is no option at all.
i watched this video like 20times by now but i love it so much
yes, i watch all the reaction videos to it... and the more i watch i remember much more
6:16 "I hope that somebody hired this guy for jingles in commercials or radio ads."
19:23 "Human beings spend way too much time trying to control each other. It's just frigging exhausting to think about. And it hasn't stopped!"
19:22 Agreed. That's a fair summation of the entire history of civilization, actually.
"It's hitler, the angry mustache model. And he's mad at the jews for existing." I'M DEAD MAN I CAN'T
I've lost count of how many times I've watched this, quite possibly the best thing on TH-cam.
I've seen this so many times I've lost count, and I enjoy it even more now than the first time I saw it. One small thing about it I enjoy is that it starts off by saying "Hi. You're on a rock floating in space". and ends asking the question "By the way, where are we?" So he answered the question at the end, at the beginning. Genius.
What a line "Humans spend far too much time trying to control each other"
He did say it was the history of The world. That IS everything.
If this videos runtime was accurate to what they were talking about, humans would appear at the end soooo fast, your brain wouldn't even register that it had happened.
I cant count how many times I have watched people react to this. This was fun to watch.
My history teacher in community college showed us this video and it actually helped so much, love it.
Gotta have hours and hours of watches racked up by now after all the rewatches showing it to people when it came out and then all the rewatches during reaction videos lol.
"Seriously, where the hell are we?"
You're on a rock, floating in space...
Chaos is the unfortunate side effect of having self conciousness, combined with self esteem.
I'm gonna have 'What the fuck was that all about'?...on my gravestone. :)
You definitely have a laugh that spawns a thousand laughs. Your reaction was absolutely wonderful. Thank you. Is peace in love
That is a nice vid! This was my 2nd time seeing it, and I really think the name is fitting :D There are so much stuff that you could practically ace your history exam if you watched this enough o.o
I used this video to pass High School when it came out. Helped a lot.
19:21 this is a example of what happens when history doesn't teach dates but facts and connecting them. Love your reaction btw
I have watched this more than 10 times with all the different reactors videos I have watched. This video never gets boring. Great job ❤
Really enjoyed the reaction, lots of fun! Didn't make a trial of my patience like a lot of the reactions to this do. I get that there's different levels of knowledge and everyone's got to start somewhere but there's some closed minds out there. Thinking of statements like "monkeys were made monkeys and people were made people" , without evidence and rejection of the scientific explanation that has lots,,anyway thanks. I'm certain you'll enjoy the history of Japan I guess and I look forward to your reaction.
Hadn't heard of the Reformation? Really? Maybe such a major historical event isn't on the curriculum of American schools? 🤔 Because it didn't take place in America 😂🤣😂
Dinos were around millions of years longer than humans have existed for and they got mentioned for a second. Just shows the massive impact humans have had on the planet, both good and bad. It's actually insane
I have watched it close to 50 times. Several on my own and a whole bunch of reaction videos.
I've watched the video so many times and often as reaction videos because seeing other people like it is also good
"hey,we can make a religion out of this"
the whole history of humanity summarized
I'm dead!
i was watching this at 1.75 times speed and my brain was just like 'oh yeah, that's how History of the entire world was!'
now i can't slow it back down I've adjusted
gonna end up in the future of the world , i guess
I literally watch someones reaction on this every time I am doing steady cardio in the gym because it's long enough in the gym and it entertains me
I have watched this video so many times and absolutely love it.
I’ve seen this video so many times I practically have it memorized. One time, I heard my roommate watching this video and I’ll just come up and begin quoting the same time as the video and just watch their jaw drop. It’s hilarious.
I love watching reactions to this video. It's interesting when some of the reactors pause it to go into more detail (scientists, historians and history buffs). Learn something new each time. Bill Wurtz didn't shy away from the bad stuff (wars and slavery) but kept things moving along at a frenetic pace. The video should be showed in schools, but the language would have to be cleaned up, first. This is the way to get children interested in learning.
There are a few things he left out. Such as the Islamic slave trade, which continues to this day. The asian slave trade, which continues to this day, the slave trade IN Africa, which continues to this day. But NOOO...let's blame the only countries that have abolished slavery for ALL the slavery, And convieniently not mention that most everywhere else on this planet STILL has slavery.
L is for Libra not Liquid. libra is scales in latin, for measuring weight of thing I am buying against weight of thing I am selling such as coins.
eeegyypt. That was 4000 years of history in one note..
perhaps my favourite little detail about this video is it spends literally 3 seconds on the dinosaurs compared to everything else
Fabulous, but oh my, was that exhausting! I feel like the entire history of the universe was just downloaded into my brain. Brain bursting at the seams, and the cracks need time to heal. Good night. 😴
You literally got educated in 20 minutes without ever sitting in a classroom.
If you like this he's got one he did before this just called History of Japan. It's also why when he brought up Japan in this video it had a little Intermission as like a "insert my first video here" lol
Yea the Point before the beginning is trippie and we as human can't wrap our head around that, because there was no time and no space. That's why every it gets.
Cut Bill some slack, he had to fit 13 billion years into a 20 minute video.
It blows me away that people think that "the Singularity" is NOT near. How can you literally be living on the edge of an exponential curve, and not know that things are about to "get crazy" (in sing-song, like in the video...)
It's not about controlling others but controlling the resources, even though that might and often includes human labour.