All of these memes are true | Drew Durnil | History Teacher Reacts

[@MrTerry]

How many times a day do you think about memes?

[@thatgamerkid1755]

Every millisecond

[@Whiteknight-xg2pq]

Idk how often does a German think about the HRE, I feel like its about just as often.

[@stargazer-elite]

As much as the average guy thinks about the Roman Empire A LOT

[@scottbivins4758]

You mean to tell me we can't f****ing blame ww3 on Germany this time? Well I reckon what they say is true the third time is a charm 😂 World war 3 look like it's about to happen and we can't blame Germany this time. 😂

[@randomhistorystuff165]

All the time.

[@TheSpanishInquisition87]

I've never heard a story about Diogenes ever fighting anyone, but he enjoyed being in the audience and heckling Plato. Diogenes feared nothing.

[@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz]

Oh- I'm sure he got into a LOT of fights. He never stopped starting fights. I imagine history just casually forgets all the throwdowns. Probably didn't throw first punches, but he absolutely took some hits, no doubt.

[@TheSpanishInquisition87]

@@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz I like to imagine that everyone thought he was insane, and so they were just afraid to mess with him. It does seem impossible, though, for him to completely avoid all physical altercations.

[@asirnewazkhan4172]

​@@TheSpanishInquisition87 Diogenes probably didn't know karate. But he definitely knew crazy.

[@BloodyBay]

​@@TheSpanishInquisition87 Remember the story about the one time when Diogenes sat in on one of Plato's lectures and was actually behaving himself for a change? But then he quite literally _crapped himself_ - as in defecated in his garments and on the bench he was sitting on - then promptly got up and walked out of Plato's lecture? If Diogenes _wasn't_ crazy, he was absolutely flawless at faking it!

[@TheSpanishInquisition87]

@@BloodyBay Diogenes was the only sane human, ever.

[@Orthane]

17:50 fun fact: There was a Warlord who fought for both Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu named Kuroda Kanbei, he became nicknamed "The Christian Warlord" as he converted to Christianity and began wearing more Western European style clothing, this made the Kuroda clan immensely wealthy through trade with Europeans, specializing in Guns and Cannons as their European allies were more than willing at that period of time to just straight up give him free weapons since he was a fellow Christian.

[@johncrwarner]

The ARTE meme was interesting I would pronounce the E at the end of ARTE It is a arts channel which is original broadcast in French and German. I watch the German version here in Germany their remit is the arts in its many forms and you do tend to get subtitled films which is great - as most films are dubbed on other channels.

[@thomaspittner7027]

The Arte joke is pretty good. Arte is a tv network collaboration of both country's and they provide pretty high quality documentarys for both languages.

[@BloodyBay]

4:13 ...and the craziest thing is that, despite earning Hitler's displeasure, Fritz Darges went to the Eastern Front as Hitler ordered and not only _didn't_ end up dead but actually acquitted himself well, leading a successful armored attack on Regis Castle, forcing the castle's defenders to retreat, then getting surrounded by Soviet reinforcements and successfully _fighting_ his way out, leaving over 30 scuttled Soviet tanks in his wake. Then the war ended and Darges went home to Germany, sold cars for the rest of his life and lived to the ripe old age of 96. Not many people survived ticking Hitler off, but Darges did. The man must have had the Devil's own luck!

[@CourierCat-isGod]

Wow O_O

[@RealAryanGupta]

8:50 Not just zero, india invented the entire number system from 1-9 as well. Thats why they are called 'Hindu-Arabic' numerals, because the Arabs got it from hindus, and then Europeans got the numbers from arabs

[@jasonpatterson8091]

The houses in Europe vs the US thing: It's a survivorship bias situation. The houses that are left in Europe are the very, very few that haven't burned down, fallen over, or just rotted away since they were built. Also, powerful storms are much less common in Europe as compared to storms in the US. For example, there are so few tornadoes in Europe that there is a wikipedia page listing them and they count as notable historical events. The US has 1200 a year.

[@puraLusa]

It's also investment vs profit. Culturally europe builds to live to next generation (inheritance), meanwhile usa builds to live for a while. U need to take in consideration, multi-generation living is a cultural reality in many palces in europe. Finally, construction has to be adequate according to environment, aka engeneering, not just profit for builders and real state developers. There is already projects in usa of houses who survive huricains as if it was nothing, but it's just more expensive to build, and square footage doesn't allow mega-masion style usa love (go big or go home is very american culture). In europe, the multi-generation and high quality build with modest living-style is outdated hence since end of the century/ behining of this century, construction got americanized and is awful, quality is horrible albeit offering more luxury life style. I made my tiny fortune in real state investment in europe - all my properties including my home are built until end of the 80s just due to the high quality of walls and structure. Check out the projects in usa who survive hurricanes and big stormes - its worth the watch and it's all part of a new architecture philosophy in usa (when I say new, last 2 decades).

[@seileach67]

IMHO the most accessible media to give context for the meme about "Harems in Real Life" are your typical Asian palace dramas. Espionage, inheritance disputes, murders both figurative and literal, plus fabulous outfits--what's not to love?

[@onliwankannoli]

No comment when they said Plato was an Olympic gold medal wrestler?? First, they didn’t give medals at the ancient Olympics, the winner got a crown of olive leaves (nothing for 2nd or 3rd). And then it is said that Plato may have wrestled at the Isthmian games and/or the Pythian games, where he is said to have done well, but not won. There seems to be no account of Plato competing at the Olympic Games.

[@KamiNoBaka1]

This made me realize that Czechs probably had it the easiest linguistically in Austria-Hungary, given that it's a Slavic language and similar enough to Polish that they can mostly understand each other but also had absorbed enough from German at the time (through Prussian and other German interests) that a lot of Czechs, even those who couldn't speak German, could at least get the gist of what was said.

[@Packless1]

2:00 f.y.i. 'arte' is a tv-chanel operated by France and Germany, and it's mostly about culture-topics

[@princealigorna7468]

Plato being an awarded wrestler reminds me of another thing. The Greeks had 3 combat sports in the Olympics: boxing, wrestling, and Pankration. You might not have heard of the last one. It's basically MMA. It's a hybrid wrestling style that uses submissions and chokes, but also allows for striking. ...The Spartans were banned from competing in Pankration events because they just straight up killed people. They wouldn't let go of chokes

[@greekoutcast]

I am greek and was told this whole thing very differently. Its very likelly i was fed propaganda or just dont rwmember correct. Wasnt Pagratio wrestling? Didnt they also throw discuses in the olympics?

[@TheGrinningViking]

We can make something that acts exactly like Greek fire with materials and tools we know the greeks had - something that if you showed it to any Greek, they would agree was Greek fire - but there's a certain kind of history nerd who goes "BUT YOU DON'T KNOW" It's the same kinda guy who says we can't make concrete as good as Rome did. We can make better concrete. We don't use Roman style concrete because it can't be mixed or poured from a cement mixer. It was very well made, but part of that was being so dense it needed to be mixed and shoveled by hand, and they had to rely on thick arches for support rather than rebar. We can build the colosseum, they couldn't build a skyscraper. The Incan had way more impressive roads, honestly. We don't even build them to that standard. Roman roads that have survived this long (only ones they put extra effort into) are about the quality of every Incan road, but not built over mountains and swamps.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Part of the 'magic' of Roman concrete was the lightweight vulcanic ash they used as a component.

[@CreamyGoodness]

19:05 I don't know, I'm fairly certain that if I divided by nothing I still will encounter chaos just as if I had divided by zero

[@ravageroosgamecorner543]

Oddly enough, China's first and only empress Wu Zetian (or Wu Zhao), got the position by climbing up through the harem ladder. A fun fact to tell the class.

[@rmyikzelf5604]

The only western country allowed to still trade in Japan (albeit via a secluded island) in the 1600's were the Dutch. They pretty quickly understood that spreading religion interfered with making money in Japan.

[@superferrariman]

In Portuguese, Taiwan is called “the beautiful island” (Ilha Formosa)

[@JamesStewart-lx5wb]

Anytime you react to a Drew video, makes the videos even better.

[@wkeklaalal1577]

5:14 Austria Hungary should've taken notes from India

[@Boat04]

the thing is dutch merchants were able to create trade relations with japan most of the edo times because the dutch more predominantly protostand because we where still in the 80 years war in the time and we kept trading with them

[@stargazer-elite]

12:46 it was originally a French song, and the British stole the melody, and then everyone stole it from them

[@Tekdruid]

20:20 The two headed eagle has that badass Gothic energy. And of course _The One Not Appearing In This Episode_ has become a synonym for oppressive (yet stylish), all-emcompassing evil empire governments everywhere.

[@Dr_Klops]

You can't imagine how weird it sounds to me as German when you agree to Drew that the Austrian Hungarian Empire was the most Frankenstein like one with just a dozen peoples/languages. How many nations with how many languages lived in the region of the US before they were colonized?

[@noahhenning4777]

The fact that thor actually managed to lift age itself for even a moment is an incredible feat worthy of an overrated anime character with the funny glowing hair

[@lukehamilton2900]

It was the World Serpent he lifted. Old Age he forced to her knees.

[@vikingraider1961]

And there I thought that Plato was Greek washing-up liquid...

[@heirapparent5004]

That horn Thor drank from was called "the punisher horn" and was told it was a kids game. Baby jötans have drinking contests. Lol

[@justsomeguy28]

The Norse myth about Thor lifting old age is a really entertaining one. There were actually 3 gods there that were challenged by what appeared to be a family of giants. Thor was challenged to the feats of strength. One of the gods had to race against what ended up being the speed of thought, and the last one had to out-drink what ended up being hunger itself. 😅

[@WukongTheMonkeyKing]

*Plato flexes* Diogenes: ...and? Plato: I'm confused, this normally works!

[@Craider79]

@MrTerry have you never seen the Danish/Scandinavian cartoon "Valhalla" from 1986? There is a version in English of it - and it's one of the best "Norse" piece of media ever made. It really takes great care to bring in a lot of story and context from the sagas, yet still manages to be a fun and entertaining cartoon. If you haven't seen it before, then you should try to find it, because I think you would enjoy the hell out of it! 😀

[@pierre-mariecaulliez6285]

18:45 France : ...And we kicked all your asses

[@joshawott331]

19:58 the imperial German flag gets my vote all 3 of my favorite colors are on it

[@markjacobson4248]

The whole "We don't know how they made Greek fire" thing is one of those where it's technically true but misleading at best. It's not that we don't know how they could have made it, it's that we know too many ways they could have made it. Surviving descriptions of its effects are a sufficient combination of being simultaneously lacking in detail and inconsistent in the details that are present such that we have little way of narrowing it down to one specific approach. it's also relevant that Greek fire was a weapon of fear as much as it was about actual destructive capability. There is evidence of pretty substantial embellishment and mythologization coming from Byzantine sources, and a likeliness that accounts from those it was used against to unconsciously exaggerate it in the same way that people can see an owl at night and convince themselves they saw an alien or monster or something. It seems most likely that if "Greek Fire" was ever one specific thing, it was a liquid primarily composed of semi-refined petroleum with sulfur and pine resin as additives.

[@MellonVegan]

13:10 One major reason is also that it wasn't seen as the hymn of any nation but a hymn to the concept of the monarchy. So at least from what I've heard, that was a major reason why at least European monarchies just copied it, for a time.

[@stapuft]

The Greeks had a cess to copper, and iron, sodium, and, alcohol, and loads of time, they could have easily made some kind of copper thermite, that could be ignored with sodium, or magnesium, upon contact/mixture with lla liquid, like booze, which would help to propagate the flames further.

[@delanovanraalte3646]

we invented the stock exchange captilism was more of a group project

[@MagaldiMateus]

I am Mateus Magaldi Im a highschool philosophy teacher and I most say Diogenes is indeed the most based.

[@mhernandez1345]

I'm certainly not a defender of England but the very first one made me pause. Isn't the other side of that "Scottish people when the find out they won most of the battles while outnumbered only to still be subjugated?" Maybe they didn't win every battle or even most but they definitely won in the long run as far as Scotland goes.

[@RoseNZieg]

it's called "win the battles, lose the war."

[@irsichzobor1594]

Well Scotland came under english control from the Scottish Stuart king taking over the English crown not by a victorious battle or war of England against Scotland. After 1603 fighing that happened were rebellion from part of Scotland and not real full out war between Scot and English.

[@Gen.Bigfoot2009]

2:43 i know a guy that litteraly lives, in a 16 th century building. 😁

[@jtsmith1817]

“We don’t care if we got independence from the British! We’re gonna steal your song and rewrite it as a Patriotic Song for US!” Meanwhile in Japan: *You know what? I’m just gonna use an old poem some guy wrote as my anthem*

[@WanderingWriter]

All hail the original meme lord

[@Konocti-republic]

My favorite German flag is the imperial German one tied with the modern one

[@mendicus3601]

Arte is a colaborative franco german TV and KZbin channel knowned for its good and long documentaries

[@onliwankannoli]

My favorite German flag was the one with the hole in the center, actually an East German flag with the communist coat of arms cut out in 1989.

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

I like the Argentinian flag better, but that's only because it has less clashing colours.

[@theoverseer6494]

I'm a german empire flag kind of guy but the HRE flag with the reichsadler in the middle (yes, the heraldic eagle on german flags and coat of arms us called that)

[@vaudreelavallee3757]

Which version of God Save the Queen? :D Some British guy writes a drinking song. Some American changes the lyrics and makes it the USA's national anthem.

[@heirapparent5004]

Supposedly Diogenes competed in games like wrestling and racing. Even being compared to Odysseus amongst the suiters... But i can't find it😂 maybe B.S.

[@Teksura]

It always annoys me when people mock the fact that we don't know what Greek Fire was. The point behind saying we don't know what it was is we don't know the exact formula used, that was lost to time. Can we make stuff that has similar (or better) effect? Yes. But Greek Fire was a state secret, the people who knew how to make it had to be very careful who they taught the secret to because the Greeks didn't want that information falling into the hands of their enemies. Without proper documentation, that knowledge was eventually lost. That doesn't mean we haven't discovered something similar, it just means we don't know specifically how *they* did it.

[@greekoutcast]

Almost every greek city-state practiced wrestling. It was called "Pagratio" and Spartans were actually not allowed to participate in the Olympic wrestling, because they were so feared and they played "dirty" by throwing punches and other illegal moves in wrestling. Fun fact, after the HRE was created, the byzantine/roman/old christian faith was called "Orthodox" which literally translates to: The correct faith😂. We still call it that today

[@murderoustendencies]

Bit confused about the national anthem thing... the Canadian national anthem was appropriated from French Canadians... it was an ode from a still famous French Canadian poet to his country before the English even won the territory...

[@Pandoramatic]

13:10 I mean we stole it from an Austrian song

[@stevefurrier9932]

2:55 Nobody considering the fact that XIII is not the eighteenth,but the thirteenth century,eighteen is XVIII

[@bigenglishmonkey]

The scottish are subjects of the king of england. France has won 10 more battles but england has won 78% of its wars while france has won 63% of theirs. We win in the numbers that count and in the finals.

[@AndrewRoberts11]

Or as Al Murray puts it, the heats don't matter

[@irsichzobor1594]

And the union with Scotland came from a Scottish house taking the English Crown and the king of the UK is King of Scotland as much as king of England since 1707.

[@davidsp5936]

I think the tune of "G-d Save the [King/Queen]" was from somewhere else, first. I want to say it's Russia. But, don't hold me to it.

[@The_Mantimoose]

20:28 my favourite flag is Kiribati 🇰🇮 but definitely agree it's not very easy to draw. Next favourite would be North Macedonia 🇲🇰. Much easier to draw.

[@GnohmPolaeon.B.OniShartz]

I just want to point out, 🇬🇵 has a pineapple on their flag. Now, I don't know who they are, or that you need to enjoy their flag. However, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that 🇬🇵 has a pineapple as as a symbol of their nation and I could not be happier.

[@puraLusa]

Kenya flag 🇰🇪

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Charles the great...

[@Sarina8776]

AS AN INDIAN WE INVENTED NOTHING WIFI,PELEDIAM CHIP, 🖥 COMPUTER COADING FOLLOWED BY 1000 MORE

[@rmyikzelf5604]

WiFi? Computer coding? Not really. But ok.

[@Pandoramatic]

12:10 The nuke thingie is easy to explain. Our gouverments do not want to have any nukes because of what they do and German armed forces are only there for defense what nukes kind of arent so that doesnt fit into our concept and we can use the american nukes anyways

[@talkingdrops]

India invented British museum and 2 countries 🗿🇮🇳

[@johnhopkinson7573]

India just invented curry mate

[@JamesLMason]

I'm calling for a fact check regarding houses being smaller on the ground floor due to tax reasons. Looking into it further now, but I smell a rat. Happy to concede if I'm incorrect.

[@randomhistorystuff165]

19:58 I like the East German flag better.

[@zomkino]

Arte is a channel which mostly shows cultural stuff, kinda the "nerd" channel, back when nerd meant "good student" and not gamer its not that watched, but yeah its mostly intellectual stuff and documentaries, its not that bad, i still dont get the meme, maybe saying we were dumb before it was there, but i'm living in france, and its not that big a deal

[@acolytes-of-cthulhu]

i believe the real roman empire died when roma was lost

[@zevaak]

5:50 Oh boy, I don't think "diversity caused WW2" is a line of thought I'd see any time soon 😂

[@patttrick]

The german flags 20.13 I dont see the white flag . Follow the white lines a swastika.

[@poil8351]

well you could include spain with taiwan not portugal.

[@thatgamerkid1755]

This is the first time I am early

[@poil8351]

argentina has a lot of germans, espically ex nazis who left germany after ww2.

[@sidarthur8706]

i came here for the click bait thumb nail and now i feel really silly for not getting the joke. anyway i think it was a scot who invented capitalism

[@Suno-ta-sei]

The 2 headed eagle german flag is my personal favorite. Also easy to draw even if the worst looking drawing most will know it automatically. Also just love ww1 history 😅.

[@grinsikleinpo7]

India invented the decimal system, thats why they needed the "zero".

[@woodchuck94og]

I see drew is not french nor german arte is a tv station

[@RohitSharma-il2of]

5:15 . that's nothing ..see india

[@DaviusMelleisiusFelix]

I think the notion that a flag design isn't good if a child can't draw it is ridiculous. Sure, reproducibility is a relatively important consideration for flag design, but there are more sensible criteria that ought to be used to measure it.

[@ConkerVonZap]

Is it really true?

[@Merennulli]

I get so sick of the "Roman stuff still exists so it's stronger" myth. 1. Roman roads won't survive modern traffic. Your road has potholes after a year because it's designed to let you drive 100kph on it in a 1400kg metal monstrosity spewing out chemicals that eat away at stone. If you try to drive on a stone road, the stones will settle unevenly from the weight and separate from the differential force imparted by high speed movement of large masses. They work great for pre-industrial traffic, but If we wanted to make a horsedrawn cart path to last 2000 years, we could. That's just not in all that high of demand anymore. 2. Most Roman construction is long gone. Between being torn down, recycled for other buildings and weathering (same as modern structures), most is gone. All we see is the best kept surviving structures. We have a lot of modern structures that will easily last longer than Roman structures. It's just easy to cherry pick a picture of a surviving Roman structure and a picture of a modern lowest-bidder street with a pothole. 3. Roman concrete isn't good by modern standards. It was never a lost technology - the recipe for it was written down and translations were published repeatedly over the intervening 2000 years. We don't use it today for 2 reasons - 1, It's far more expensive than you want to pay for concrete. And 2, it has low strength to weight. You can't use Roman concrete to make cheap structures out of stacks of cast concrete blocks to last a few years before you tear it down to build something else. You can't use Roman concrete to make a livable skyscraper or parking garage. And you can't use Roman concrete to build a road that can be driven on by modern vehicles. (That's not to say we can't learn things from Roman concrete, but what we're learning from a materials standpoint is how the chemistry played out over long periods. Even the recent discovery of "self healing" Roman concrete came after patents for similar modern concrete and were largely the result of under-mixed cement in those structures.)

[@LexusLFA554]

2:48 Drew can't read, that is a 13, not 18.

[@stargazer-elite]

3 is just a half 8

[@stargazer-elite]

Also, it does say 2018

[@josephvarno5623]

Ummm. Dude. The one about the houses wasn't 18th century. It was 13th century. Dude needs to read the memes.

[@Ramotttholl]

Wait? My country invented Capitalism? If true then, not bad i guess

[@rmyikzelf5604]

Not really true. But sort of. Venice had a sort of 'stock market' system, but that was reserved to a few families. Anyone could buy VOC 'stock' at the Amsterdam stock market.

[@adrianaslund8605]

Didn't the indians invent religion? Alot of religion has its earliest basis in india.

[@Not_Deb]

The concept of "Religion" is foreign to Indians... Buddhism and Jainism branched out of Hinduism (Sanatan Dharm) which on itself ain't a "Religion" it just a way of life and customs...when Hinduism was there, there were no other religions so it didn't need itself to evolve as an religion

[@adrianaslund8605]

@@Not_Deb Yeah. That's just arguing the meaning of words though. It seems to me that they invented quite alot and where quite influential when it comes to global culture. And of what is called "Religion" here in the west.

[@jdotoz]

Winning more battles is what the losers of wars hang their hats on. India birthed two of today's major religions; that's something. We don't make things like they used to, but we don't use things like they used to either.

[@Cadence-qt2ux]

Who the faq is Drew Durnil - TikToker? does not looks lke a well manered pal

[@hank780]

Seems I am early

[@SamTaylor-vl8hi]

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[@DelusionalSkeleton]

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[@thatgamerkid1755]

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[@cucumbalover4569]

How can you get so lazy that you react to someone else reacting.

[@poil8351]

hitler is an nambian politician.

[@viktorgabriel2554]

interesting fact about Chinese history its about 60% Mongolian not Chinese many historians love ignoring that to not anger China

[@stapuft]

The mongoloians conquered FAR more land than Alexander the great, or even the British empire, hell, arguably THEY (or at the very least proto Mongolians) were who crossed the land bridge, they even mastered the horse soo thoroughly, that they likely gave birth to the myths of centaurs, all thanks to having invented the stirrup about a thousand years before anyone else.

[@Cory_LaRose]

I like drew. God guy.

[@lbewl7374]

Dude's looking increasongly like he has a class A drug and alcohol addiction.

[@Cory_LaRose]

Wwe had zero in north America long ago without contact tothe world. Indians might have come here though. They are very beautiful to us and they have similar beliefs. Even our dna is similar. More so then asians and Europeans and black ppeople are the least related to native Americans

[@rmyikzelf5604]

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