What if the Black Death Never Happened?

[@fatmanwalking8610]

**Literally anything happens in history** Jews: *_Current objective: survive_*

[@hatinmyselfiscool2879]

What what happened in the israeli conflict then :-:

[@אוהדאריאליופה]

jews have to wash hands before eating and pray, its a religious commendment.

[@c1berserker744]

It even says in the Bible that a lot of bad things will happen to Israel.

[@eagleowl833]

Put that in the Bible 😂

[@juliethompson8208]

@@c1berserker744 but notably only the bible. Wouldnt use the bible as your only source

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

*cough*

[@CyoAFK]

Rare Pepe

[@zinhoferraz13]

3Dank5Me

[@kaiserwilhelmii6440]

You have Ebola

[@bubbleblurb1073]

Sneeze

[@stefanfrunza1697]

+AlternateHistoryHub cough cough

[@alphacat77]

#ripjimmythepeseant

[@theringcollector5781]

Alpha Cat77 rip

[@connorland112]

Rest in pieces

[@joloviloria1356]

Ripped In Pieces XD

[@dexmoonfire3785]

NO, JIMMY!

[@kden9772]

Poor jimmy, always the victim

[@pointlessopinion611]

7:08 "When I'm done half of humanity will still exist, perfectly balanced. As all things should be." Thanos

[@billyherrington5112]

the plot of the film does not coincide with the comic canon. In comic book, Thanos want to murder the entire universe, because he loved death, and he intented to impress her.

[@neonlux1362]

I had a hard time watching that. Like....you KNOW its monsterous what Thanos did....but at the same time.....less people....soooooooooooooooooo....and I mean....its not discriminatory....so equal oppertunity death for all. No single group is spared......honestly....its fair.....problem is that Thanos never seemed to realize culling humanity and all other races of being would be a stop gap measure. In time they would all come back to full strength....long after Thanos was dead and unable to cull again....so basically hes just taking out half of the population of the universe for.....no....reason.

[@happydemon3038]

Actually, many civilizations would start seeing themselves overpopulate by that point, natural instincts not being compatible with advanced progress. If he had instead created more resources, aka. reward a bad behavior. People would continue, maybe more so, because they'll be rewarded again. But he killed half of everyone. He punished a bad behavior, overly harsh, but still, an example. And he didn't spare any one group, everyone was punished, everyone learns their lesson. People don't want this to happen again, so they'll keep their numbers manageable. If they don't learn their lesson, then they'll repopulate and exterminate themselves. Natural selection. But he gave the intelligent a chance to learn. It is cruel, but it works. Better solutions may exist. But it is a solution.

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

pointless opinion it’s almost as if scenarios like this and people who have such draconian views were the inspiration for his character

[@happydemon3038]

@themesongfan No, they'd keep their population manageable because they just got punished from up high. They can't justify it being targeted at them if everyone suffers equally, friend or foe, rich or poor. And they'd do it for the sake of their kin. Because as a general rule, people want their children to prosper. And if they choose to squander this opportunity, they'll die. They were given a chance, but refused to take it. That just means they'd keep consuming no matter what. The problem is over-consumption. You don't solve over-consumption by encouraging consumption. If they're punished, they'll try to find out why they got punished, so they can avoid it. If they continue their behavior, then they're unfit for survival, and nature will run it's course. And if they're so disproportionately powerful that they can wage war and gain (civilizations set up webs of alliances because they work), then they'd do it anyway, snap or not.

[@MatsRivel]

Funfact: Despite having an even more spread out and isolated society than the rest Europe, Norway lost 70-75% of its population. To this day "Abandoned farm" is a very common last name in Norway. (Ødegård)

[@r.chamaemorus8025]

I would guess the northern parts survived best. I think it would be harder for the plauge to spread in colder climates. But maybe the people there was so dependent on trade so they could not avoid it.

[@2urhc229]

So Norway would become richer earleir

[@bradleyheck7204]

Every bit as fun as the plays of Henrik Ibsen! That IS terribly interesting, though.

[@Quincius]

@@r.chamaemorus8025 Yeah, Trondheim and especially Bergen were crucial trading centers in Northern Europe. Bergen still ended up as one of the largest cities in Scandinavia throughout the 15th and 16th centuries.

[@youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575]

Norway was actually experiencing a golden age before the Plague. Trade increased, Population tripled, and peace, but then the Black Death hit like a truck.

[@andreideregla8218]

5:15 "the king of France even believed that it was the alignment of the planets. Oh France" *made me dying* *LOL*

[@-wheniwascool-8798]

😂😂

[@InquisitorThomas]

Ironically Justinian actually survived the plague

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

+Thomas Scally Coincidence? I think nay

[@InquisitorThomas]

+AlternateHistoryHub well he still got it and went into a coma he was just one of the only people to wake up and recover from the disease

[@timcondon5184]

+AlternateHistoryHub what if the Golden Horde never broke up because of the family issues it had, where one of them got to power hungry and the other got to suspicious of each other. What if they actually got along perfectly?

[@declankearns1916]

#justiniandidtheplauge

[@wellingtonharris4536]

+AlternateHistoryHub ¿what Spanish flu never happened?

[@Altoclarinets]

"almost an entire century without a deadly plague" *Welp*

[@stueyk]

What was that about a plague?

[@jjammmees]

@@stueyk spanish flu

[@stueyk]

@@jjammmees Was joking because it was posted just before this pandemic

[@triblast9538]

@@stueyk it’s so funny that their joking about the Spanish flu when now we have *COUGH* CORONA *COUGH*

[@pabloveloso7736]

@@blazingfish8486 Sadly, with the new variants of the virus, thats not longer the case.

[@timhalliday5839]

I like how youtube decides now is the perfect time to suggest this to me: Here I am listening to the words "The world has gone a century without a horrific plague", while quarantined in my house due to the coronavirus

[@rapperdonut]

@Ethan Steel exactly :)

[@underthependulum3484]

Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!

[@dumbskeppy69]

@@underthependulum3484 what

[@gVert404]

good thing it has a 99.8% recovery rate so theres an extremely low chance you die even if u get it

[@craftsncreations1398]

@@gVert404 if this is true or not, at the end of the day people are still dying. I would rather stay inside than run the risk of my grandmother, parents, etc dying.

[@meateater2180]

If the Black Death never occurred I wouldn't be watching this video.

[@harrisonbaker199]

Blue Phoenix if it didn't happen, then neither would your birth

[@kuso7558]

Harrison Baker or urn

[@shrekonion8307]

tu madre15o no

[@lucnilis6622]

@@shrekonion8307 yes

[@horrordestiny9011]

Luc they would not know

[@dannyishii3160]

On the Mongols launching their plague dead into the enemy city: I just want to imagine the launchee NOT being dead first. The fleas will leave a dead body, after all, but not one five days into a seven day inevitable death. So, Mongol warrior struck down by horrid disease blisters, go out with a bang! Use the last of your strength to climb into the catapult arm, and let loose a battle cry as you fly over the rampart, on your way to becoming a flea-shrapnel grenade.

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan ohhhhh yeaaaddss~

[@DigiMaverickWorld0rder1155]

Okay, I definitely got a laugh outta this idea.

[@peterwindhorst5775]

The Japanese in WW2 had the same idea. They had developed a flea-bomb in China / Korea that spread the plague. Had the US gone further and farther into the home islands - it is likely they would have used the bomb. Fortunately, the US had its own bomb... and the flea bomb "disappeared" into the US military arsenal.

[@__-yz1ob]

@@peterwindhorst5775 If I remember correctly, it wasnt a exactly a bomb but fleas laced with germs, The operation was called "Cherry Blossoms at Night" And was supposed to take place on 27th August 1945

[@dylanzlol7293]

Wouldnt it hurt a lot when you are launched to the enemy city?

[@AgentOz1990]

"The western world has gone almost a century with a catastrophic deadly plague" Coronavirus: *C-C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER*

[@thecrispydingle4202]

It’s not some catastrophic plague like super virus every smartass ever seems to think you can look that not even 1 million people have died and more than half of the people who got it have recovered and the cdc says that 94% of their Covid-19 diagnosis’s could be caused by underlying heath conditions look at the facts before you post

[@amar2394]

@@thecrispydingle4202 we are still considered to be in a pandemic even if the virus isn't that deadly its self

[@voidwalker9746]

@@thecrispydingle4202 1)take a joke, 2) it's still classed a pandemic because it's worldwide

[@underthependulum3484]

Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!

[@sagetheassassin3192]

Awesome

[@xerohr]

I feel like it would trigger exploration much quicker, to find new farm land and resources to sustain the growing population, technically technologically advancing us by a century or two.

[@xenotypos]

Yeah, what he is saying is crap imho. I mean, many historians agree that the black death was what delayed the Renaissance in Italy (Renaissance began in Italy before the rest of Europe and actually before the black death: the first cities were devastated, leaving only Florence to spread it a long time later). I think it's kind of ridiculous to think the exact opposite would happen, but well.

[@xerohr]

xenotypos Sorry to offend.

[@xenotypos]

zoidBergh ? a misunderstanding? I agree with you you, I just don't understand how the guys from the video came to their unlikely conclusion, since it's been etablished that the renaissance began sooner.

[@covert8883]

+xenotypos well starvation would still be a massive problem. More mouths to feed. Europe could only sustain so much.

[@EmperorDonaldJTrump]

Would it also be considered that Kingdoms would declare war on North African and Oriental Kingdoms to put their ever expanding population?

[@JenniferJones-hw9wu]

Two thoughts. 1. There is some theory that the 1347 plague was so virulent because anthrax was also experiencing an outbreak at the same time. And there is a difference between bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. Pneumonia can be passed from one to another simply through coughing. Cats can even transmit in that way to humans. 2. Don't forget the impact that The Little Ice Age had on Western Europe at that same time. The ramifications of that event were also far reaching for the future of Western civilization. Great video and great topic!

[@redsea1234]

Those console players truly went through a lot.

[@KevinRodriguez-ct2sd]

Why??????

[@136JakeS]

Lol, the peasants

[@MightyAmygdala]

lmao

[@ShepherdOfFireGames]

+NovaExplosion I see what you did there

[@thefreshprincer5587]

Oh nu a shitehed

[@mikailmq]

“Almost gone for a century without plagues” Emphasis on “almost”

[@captainayaaya28]

At least it isn’t as bad as the previous ones right? I mean, it hopefully and most likely won’t last a decade.

[@matusmotlo3854]

@@captainayaaya28 And come on, how many people are dying? A fraction of a percent? Now, what is that compared to the roughly 50% of the Justinian one, and 1/3 of the Black Death? Nothing, they wouldn't even notice this "pandemic" in the Middle Ages.

[@uriargaman7241]

This pandemic doesn't compare to the black death, it's true. But the circumstances that enabled Covid-19 to rise will enable the same for deadlier pathogens... Even a Spanish Flu-scale pandemic would be very traumatic.

[@Marcelelias11]

@@uriargaman7241 Ideally, no it wouldn't, but this pandemic proved that people are so dumb and stubborn to refuse wearing a fucking mask that I'm not really surprised by anything anymore

[@Jaunsh]

Dank memes, by far the biggest killer, I remember those days, I lived inside of a coke bottle and ate 1 mouldy bread crust per week. Terrible times

[@grimhunter42]

I lol'ed

[@ianhaselow7225]

Yes No le dank meme will control all of humanity

[@jtaylor4817]

99% of all Cancer is caused by "Dank Memes".

[@rockgod6180]

LMFAO! CAN'T BREATHE!

[@etherallullaby5482]

😂😂😄

[@jacksonpaul7279]

What if America sided with the Axis during World War 1-2?

[@monsta1359]

Axis would have won without question. Britain survived on the supplies that came from the Lend-Lease Act. The Soviet Union caught a break from the Lend-Lease act as well, they used American Shermans and half tracks while they allocated their factories and workforce to produce an unstoppable war machine.

[@Xtremedude720]

bump

[@robertallen488]

+Jackson Paul end of the world

[@bimblerthomson7417]

+chiken that's not how KZbin works

[@carsonkundolf3448]

Well, America (LOVING FREEDOM) I don't think they would defend a dictatorship or betray some of there alies. BUT if they did help the axis powers, well we would probably be in WW 3 or 4.

[@eaglecohort5259]

Says there hasn't been a major plague in the last century, mentions dank memes a minute later. The virus is evolving. The infected no longer see it as the enemy. Soon we will all be the dank memes. The end times are near, and the horsememes of apocalypse ride.

[@fortress5278]

+Eagle Cohort I am dank meme. You will fall to our mighty memes.

[@zerathius7131]

+CalmDark ironic memes

[@Tytoalba777]

There's only one way to cure it: You must recognize a fact that no one else seems to realize, that Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life

[@fortress5278]

James A Clouder It is but one strain of all meme kind. We will attack, we will evolve, and we will kill

[@dutch1641]

pretty sure im immune to dank memes

[@andreaolvera55]

France: “Looks like Mercury is in retrograde again.”

[@Spieler521]

What if Black Death never happened? This video wouldn't exist

[@htoodoh5770]

Scuba 1907 They probably won't know about the Black Death.

[@parthiancapitalist2733]

Lol

[@kanyesouth9397]

Mind = blown

[@door-to-doorhentaisalesman1444]

Your comment wouldn’t be here..

[@nichsulol4844]

@@htoodoh5770 quantum computer is do writing note

[@Jason-mg3fk]

Anyone else catch the "the mongols are always the exception" joke, crash course and real life lore, two blessings in the world

[@Jason-mg3fk]

On*

[@alexzandercastillo8053]

John Smith was looking for this comment

[@salutic.7544]

Jason Dill god I love them

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

Jason Dill what was the joke? I didn’t get it.

[@usmc-ws6hl]

please do a alternate history on what if the U.S. never declared war on terrorism

[@noneofyourbusiness9489]

+Braiden Amantiad 9/11 2.0

[@juansaldivar9204]

+none of your business yep....

[@joemoore8833]

we havent declared war its still considered a conflict

[@HoodbridgeTV]

Middle East would be stable, gas prices would be higher, USA and rest of the work would be safer

[@dwightk.schrute1089]

no

[@maxcarroll9487]

"...has gone a century without a horrific plague." Coronavirus: Am I a joke to you?

[@lennysmileyface]

RIP

[@Hello-sy7eu]

Max Carroll No offense but it is just a buffed modern day flu we can survive it

[@RynellTV]

Max Carroll its made before the coronavirus dummy

[@josephgravley3603]

Except compared to the Black Death it kinda is.

[@roqu0794]

@@Hello-sy7eu it's got so much worse

[@Aiden_Volgs]

JIMMY WHY

[@Igxana]

Ikr

[@gregorymacdonnell7914]

Dude ,imagine walking down a trash ridden sstreet,full of guts from the butc her shop,horse shit ,rotting food,and people throwing their "chamber pots out the window ,right down on your head!? Nice day!!!!!

[@jm-gj2ho]

Aiden's Volgs I DON'T KNOW!!!

[@DeeRadens]

God damn it Jimmy!

[@travelmaniak3127]

Wait overpopulation means Eroupe has the highest population of 3 billion and the world 10 billion so..the world experiences overpopulation

[@uncouth_wombat7752]

The "Black Death" was more than just bubonic plague.. It was a mixture of pneumonic plague (which is transmitted from person to person via microscopic saliva droplets expelled during coughing) and septamatic plague as well as bubonic plague.. In fact pneumonic plague would've been the most prominent variation in cities like London and Paris.

[@Seetiyan]

"You wouldn't be a peasant living on a farm, today." True. In our timeline, you're a peasant living in the city instead.

[@Mekalor]

I work on an IT farm! :D

[@How23497]

"We've almost went 100 years without a catastrophic, deadly plague" This aged badly

[@PiroKUSS]

Not really.

[@JohnSmith-dz2dc]

Nice crash course reference

[@jeethvijay3444]

+John Smith dat exception

[@MohammadAli-kc4wf]

+John Smith aaayyyy

[@wonder_platypus8337]

"always the exception"

[@JonatasMonte]

+John Smith They're indeed are always the exception.

[@MohammadAli-kc4wf]

You know what to do, Stan.

[@nathantoast9793]

My aunt died from dank memes... XD

[@J_Leb]

Nathan Toast im sorry for your loss

[@BDKing77]

Oh shit...

[@Chroncitrus]

waddup

[@DirtMerchant693]

😂😂😂

[@KonEl-BlackZero]

Shit happens Genghis do not worry.

[@thebandofbastards4934]

Thank you for giving Europe the means for near world domination.

[@deacon6453]

your grandson ruined everything

[@tkgsg]

Guy in 2720: what if the COVID pandemic had never occurred

[@lazarous2772]

damn

[@darkipede7754]

"it had prevented WWIII."

[@NicholasLovatt-jq2wc]

Switch off money printer

[@bluestrife28]

Man I love your videos. I've sometimes looked through my books and wondered "what if's" of my own, but to see them appear places like this, too cool. Thanks!

[@robertgronewold3326]

Actually, they did not have such terrible sanitation back in those days. They never took baths that often, but they did wash up with a basin of water and a cloth every day, and even had methods of cleaning their teeth. The reason we now think they were all gross and unkept is because movies and books always like to show the peasants as being dirty to enforce how poor they are.

[@noveseth2863]

Dirty pleb

[@kobilibero6007]

+Robert Gronewold You're half right, well more like 90% right... I completely agree with all of your statements however the reason their sanitation was horrible wasn't mainly about their human sanitation, but with their animal sanitation (Go go cow poop all over the place). A filthy human can get sick and die, but only a mutated cow-poop (or any kind of animal poop) virus could spark a pandemic.

[@robertgronewold3326]

+Kobi Libero That is very true. They were quite good at cleaning up manure and carting it around, but that still left them with a lot of contact with it.

[@TheYopogo]

+Robert Gronewold And they hardly had great sewage systems.

[@Magicarpmaster]

Didnt they just shit in buckets and toss it out the window?

[@XPimKossibleX]

Now, you've missed something drastic: Newton. The man was talking a break from the work because the university was closed down for the black death. This was when he came up with his ideas of physics. Isaac Newton was a case of when one man changes history and not many. That's because he was both way ahead of his time, and had an influence. He Is the inventor of classical physics and calculus! it does also seem non-developed to think that this means Newton wouldn't have come up with these ideas anyway; but it is a major idea gaining traction that historical geniuses do their genius work in times when they take a break from work.

[@AverySkies]

*2029: What If Covid-19 Never Happened*

[@thetake-geopolitics4961]

that would be cool id watch that

[@janisliepins1991]

yea

[@Xanny7777]

Honestly not much would change but the economy. And trump might win re-election.

[@jimboonie9885]

@@Xanny7777 Dude Biden was officially inaugurated. There’s no going back and trump may face lawsuits

[@no-np8dw]

He's talking about in the alternate timeline you idiot

[@johnfrommanagement6037]

It's all Ogre now

[@LinksMusic01]

It's never Ogre

[@bunbunhead8613]

+Link's Music stehp lol

[@rockybarry]

Shrek is love, Shrek is life.

[@gluecan3337]

Sad air horn music

[@votecthulhu9378]

Shrek plz stahp

[@garnetportal4784]

"The King of France believed it was the planets aligning. Oh France" Best line of the video

[@jordmanbatgod]

0:09 Coronavirus be like: *I’m about to end this man’s whole career*

[@tasos6429]

What if Alexander the Great didn't die young?

[@b.sapounas5110]

YESSS

[@RRRoyalGames]

+Τάσος Κορωνιός He would take Arabia then go west and conquer Rome.

[@nicholaslonnon7509]

+Spiniosa I'm not sure Rome was around during the time, and the fact that he stopped expanding wasn't only due to the fact he died young he also was tired of bloodshed

[@RRRoyalGames]

Cole Lonnon rome was founded before christ 753.

[@stannisthebaptist8705]

+Spiniosa It was only a small town at that time ,pretty meaningless

[@guyonacomputer1261]

What if the Germans Refused to honor the alliance with Japan after Pearl Harbor? So rather than join WWII the US fights Japan alone and lets the European Conflict sort itself out.

[@TheRageBlak]

This

[@robertallen488]

+Guy On A Computer The US wanted to stop the Nazis already we wouldve fabricated some BS and went to war

[@mattbenz99]

+Robert Allen Incorrect. The president wanted to fight the Nazis, Congress wanted to stay neutral. FDR was desperately reaching for anything that he could do to help the allies.

[@curiouswraith8069]

but remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

[@Z4Official]

+Robert Allen Actually before PH the US was gonna stay out of it... other than the arms dealing... huh sounds familair...

[@kal3lll]

That Crash course reference :D I live this channel

[@kal3lll]

Love*

[@yellow9053]

+Clark Frederick live*

[@joee7809]

+Clark Frederick *live

[@MikeMafiaII]

+Clark Frederick Didn't notice one, around what time?

[@kal3lll]

Mike dN 2:22 :D

[@lordshoulderbash3273]

Watching this in 2020. Feels weirdly current

[@Tytoalba777]

3:57 still impossible to infect Madagascar

[@sokandueler9578]

Yep

[@joshypoopyhead]

Still can't get Greenland.

[@moss1065]

+XAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA BLOODY GREENLAND WHY U NO AIRPORT

[@taliahass1234]

Plague inc

[@rintarohernandez1140]

+Talia Hass no shoot

[@Alistocrat]

1:03 An explosion factory? A factory that manufactures explosions? Do they explode the second they're made? Do they need a match to explode? You left me with more questions than answers my friend.

[@IamNoisyroblot101]

+Sprango An explosion factory creates the physical explosion, the explosion itself is then physically compressed into whatever the explosive is and that's how you were born.

[@PoisoningShadow671]

+Sprango Torgue would be proud.

[@Alistocrat]

***** I see

[@Delta-jc7og]

What do you do, *BLAME THE JEWS!!*

[@nicerock5506]

Auf Right doubt

[@Snow-rp5tv]

Maybe they shouldn't call for the genocide of Europeans? maybe they shouldn't call Jesus a Bastard Sourceror boiling if Human Feces?

[@someone-js6pg]

@Lazys The Dank Engineer not just hundreds but thousands

[@Asprawlol]

@@Snow-rp5tv Genocide of europeans? They never called for that man. The Torah also predates jesus by a few thousand years

[@Dagothslur]

"Where we have gone a century without a horrific plague" That didn't age well

[@hensbinator5060]

"1+1= Anti-Semitism" Cody, 2016

[@JustYourAverageRetro]

So, what your saying is that Europe would become India or China.

[@Iarlen]

+JustYourAverageRetro China would be far superior, as it was.

[@chromitehertz9016]

yep

[@TheNutmeg33]

Maybe Asia would have colonized the Americas then

[@jommydavi2197]

+JokingGuyMapping 1342 Great joke now go vote Trump

[@moctezuma1341]

+JustYourAverageRetro how you make no sense

[@zackoshi605]

Then SCP-049 wouldn't exist

[@theoofensive5689]

Zackoshi I'm aware this is a joke, but the 'Plauge' It speaks of is in fact not the Bubonic plague OR the black death, the original writer of the SCP has not yet confirmed what the 'plauge' is.

[@joshuaroblox7174]

DynamoShot The twat plague*

[@LordBob]

@@theoofensive5689 it's homosexuality

[@voidwalker9746]

@@LordBob ah yes the worst plague of them all, currently there is only one cure, it's metal and fired into a skull

[@PockASqueeno]

“Where the western world has gone almost a century without a catastrophic, deadly plague.” Who’s watching this in 2020? Oh the irony…

[@col.nugget1524]

Rip. The streak was long.

[@lazarous2772]

well covid is much less deadly and more managable

[@tateadams4382]

3:55 You mean Plague Inc? EDIT: Oh you were talking about the online Pandemic 2, I was thinking of the board game.

[@kristdg]

Tate Adams board Game? wtf.

[@hertogvandamme]

KrisTDG Plague Inc has a Board Game now

[@Necrikus]

Wait a second... Mongol + "exception"? Cue the Mongoltage? "After the pillaging and conquest" Close enough.

[@claremurphy5901]

Necrikus WE ARE THE EXCEPTION!!!!

[@suis1822]

"Except the mongols"

[@BankruptCart336]

Necrikus we'd have 11 billion population now but we have 7 billion!?!?

[@danielwebber4953]

not crash course ;)

[@morgand820]

What if the Byzantine Empire had never been destroyed by the Turks?

[@xyzqwth]

+Ilias Haqiqi your grammar makes my soul hurt

[@cubeson4168]

+The exe Virus he's propably türk

[@robertwlester]

+Morgan Dignowity wasn't the plague a key factor there too?

[@cubeson4168]

Robert W. Lester plague somehow missed ottomans?

[@cubeson4168]

I don't think so

[@Corncan2]

Thanks for Jynxing us Cody.

[@Mariochicken0609]

0:05 that aged well didnt it 💀

[@japanamericacar427]

0:10 you got us there

[@TheThingInMySink]

''Even half of the clergy died'' I remember one m2tw playtrough, I was playing the Teutonics, and I was producing new popes every turn because they all kept dying from the plague, it was a great time.

[@AnjelCaido69]

0:06 you jinxed us

[@adisankar119]

The thing is, no trade between the Mongols and Europe would mean at least 75 million wouldn't have died, but gunpowder wouldn't have been traded, meaning no guns or delayed guns. Maybe less deaths.

[@anon9579]

By now Europe would be third world

[@genericweeaboo1389]

Those fucking plague doctors. They freak the hell out of me. I have nightmares about them all the time.

[@mlalbaitero]

They look kinda scary, but not enough to give me nightmares

[@CyoAFK]

Wat

[@juliank6793]

+Generic Weeaboo The worst part is that they weren't actual doctors. They were just people that wanted to prove they could be doctors -_-

[@franksinatra2624]

Ring around the Rosie...ring around the Rosie...☠ (yes that song is about the plague doctors, they had roses in their masks to help keep the smell of the dead away from them as they worked)

[@ghostlobster2365]

+Generic Weeaboo It scares you because they scared the peasants too. Our fear of crow like men and distrust in doctors can be traced back to the back plague. This infection influenced European culture at levels that a Europe without the plague is unimaginable at times.

[@jageroo29]

Well if it never happened reaper from overwatch wouldnt have that plague doctor skin

[@aleksihakli1125]

Neither would medic from tf2

[@omidtajik7858]

We wouldn't probably even have games yet.

[@aleksihakli1125]

Omid Tajik Most interesting hypothesis, care to elaborate? I personally assume that we would have video games already, maybe not as advanced yet, but still have them

[@omidtajik7858]

aleksi häkli Anything can be possible :D

[@aleksihakli1125]

Omid Tajik SWEET! Okay i wan't that my pc's graphic card instantly upgrades from 1060 to 1080 NOW! Didn't happen... F*ck

[@davidberidze5178]

The opening of this video aged HORRIBLY

[@glaz-eddonut8199]

Fun fact: we are not completely certain that the "Black Death" was in fact the Bubonic Plauge

[@stikbotshortsandmovies2020]

Good thing we have an cure for the Black Death, and that it's super rare too! Boy, I love being born in the 2000s!

[@stikbotshortsandmovies2020]

Aaah 50's cereal commercials

[@GeorgiaJCP]

except there is still a problem with over population that nobody will be able to fix that gets worse and worse by the day :(

[@stikbotshortsandmovies2020]

Aw crap, no cereal

[@benjaminward3912]

Stikbot Shorts And Movies! We still have a problem... Memes.

[@julianfletcher1912]

Stikbot Shorts And Movies! You still get diseases on Earth? We haven't had a disease in Atlantis in.... Well we never have had to worry about diseases. No, what do humans call them... Bacteria or viruses or whatever you call them, can survive on or in us.

[@courtellis8226]

This series has really changed my world view. I now realize that war and conflict Is necessary for growth to occur in the world. Thank you alternate history.

[@courtellis8226]

5:01 HAHAHA Wow.

[@TheHawkeye0725]

Everything happens for a reason I guess...

[@KeepCalmAndPwnNoobs]

+Court Ellis That's definitely not the message of this video

[@frackitos]

+Court Ellis No. Incentives are necessary for growth and development to occur in the world. War and conflict are extreme incentives*. Doesn't mean they're the only incentives.

[@andrewizsvak8923]

I agree with war comes growth and a decline in population

[@MrVTEC20]

Bro who’s watching in 2020?

[@petersmythe6462]

"Dank memes." You think you're joking, but look at the contamination level on 4chan/pol/.

[@snowy3896]

What if the USA and USSR went to war during the Cold War?

[@iPolitely]

Dead

[@hypochondriac3194]

+Snowy 38 Mutually Assured Destruction The entire Earth would be destroyed in a few hours.

[@shadow50435]

1. WW3 (longer than ww1 and 2 combined. 2. Nuclear war = Possible extinction.

[@PeterWolniewicz]

You die I die we all die. Literally imagine Hiroshima but1,00000 times worse and in every city, on the planet.

[@cpMetis]

+Snowy 38 X _ X

[@PigIA]

0:05 About that...

[@krisgomez3997]

"almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague" aged like fine milk

[@markeyboi6545]

0:17 "Dank memes" omg lmao, I'm done, lmfao

[@alexcaswell2]

Kingdom of space bears: JAN MAYEN! thebearhaslanded! I spy with my little eyes an EU4 reference?

[@rustyzipper19]

THEBEARHASLANDED!

[@aliveithink6985]

Jan Mayen is originally from Victoria 2, actually.

[@grymmrhoninn1855]

+ariel sharpe Yup!

[@josephfox9221]

+ariel sharpe the Jan Mayen transcend time silly

[@Tytoalba777]

What an unbearable reference

[@legoleviathan6411]

“And gone almost a century without a horrific plague.” Coronavirus: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.

[@godbobo]

lo nah the corrna a weak ass virus it only kills kids and old ppl or ppl with health shit

[@willbrowning8888]

the bobo bruh

[@douglaskelly292]

Coronavirus: Hold my beer

[@blllllllllllllllllllrlrlrl7059]

Not a horrific plague.

[@simonpugh3731]

"The world has gone a century without a horrific plague!" Well that aged like my homemade wine.

[@butterscience7016]

DAMMIT JIMMY!

[@M0rshu64]

What if the Mongols never went on their conquest. What if Stalin Never came to power.

[@Master_3530]

What if Lenin didn't come to power and USSR never existed? That'd also mean no communism.

[@nedgleed7880]

+Damian Strupiechowski he already did that

[@Trueysmir996]

What if world war 1 never happened

[@ungureanubogdan2398]

+Damian Strupiechowski i'd rather take lenin still leading ussr still sucks but way better

[@daman1209]

If trotsky came to power instead of stalin he would've supported international communism more. Countries like spain would've likely become communist instead of facist. In Germany the communist party competed closely with the national socialists. If trotsky was in power she would've bank supported a communist take over of germany potentially altering the entire history of world war 2. That said though the USSR ecnomically would likely be worse of as trotsky would sacrafice russain progress in exchange for the spread of communism. Militiarily it is debatable because Stalin and his supporters were better generals but troksy is unlikely to have ever purged the officer cores of the USSR meaning if a war did come around the USSR would've been better prepared. Overal however i think the USSR would've been better off under trotsky. The Germans argueably wouldn't have pushed into Russia as much if hitler still came to power because there would'v been competent soviet officers to counter an invasion because trosky wouldn't have purged the officer core.

[@armergamer2179]

“Has gone a century without a horrific plague”. Goddam it Potential History you jinxed us

[@evanlipscomb6769]

2016: “almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague”. 2022:"Im about to end this man's whole career.

[@antony-k]

Soon we will see a "What if the coronavirus outbreak never happened"

[@masonpyle5929]

I know. If corona never happened, I wouldn’t of had a texting debate with my cousin on it. 2020 would be better because the world doesn’t shut down. Toilet paper companies wouldn’t be getting a raise, less memes, , people would still be sane since quarantine doesn’t happen, the XFL 2.0 doesn’t go bankrupt, CHAZ/CHOP probably won’t exist, and rumors of a second American Civil War probably won’t exist.

[@jjammmees]

i wouldnt be replying to this comment

[@nxdeflowers]

Corona has been in many different forms, this was just the many diseases to come from china, so basically there will always be covid in different ways

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@masonpyle5929 honestly i think the world needed the lockdown

[@Kuthsman]

10:06 -"With cheap labour, there isnt a need to innovate machines to make up for the lost labour as what happened in our timeline..." ...; thus making the Industrial Revolution, only separated from the tricky 14th by 'bout 300 years, seem an apparent follow-on phenomenon. Everybody, in this timeline, must just have been too busy stagnating, ill-advised all that while by those sub-standard Catholic priests (as compared to the oh so very much more qualitatively impressive pre-Black Death Catholic priesthood?), to get around to innovating machinery, to make up for all the immediately noticeable loss of labour after 1348, for a few centuries more.

[@banrajanand7983]

what whould have happened if instead of black death never happening it happens at twice the force

[@randomkitty4940]

Boncy's funtube then 2/3 of the population would die

[@carsonh7222]

About 2/3 or all the population would die. Most likely, we'd all be saying "bye bye, Europe."

[@varunpathak9677]

There’s a video on that now go check it out

[@gamingwithjake3206]

When i looked at the comments on this comment i was expecting idiotts like “hey dumbass there is one” i must say im actually proud of yall in this one lol

[@lukascepanovic3609]

What a time to be listening to this kind of video

[@Macconator2010]

3:23 ahhh so this is what's gonna happen in Meereen in the Winds of Winter.

[@megk761]

crash cours refrence YESSSSSSS

[@OllieBye]

+JayOnTheBeat It was around 2:20, where the Mongols are noted to be the "exception",

[@Ticazoid95]

👍

[@Chris_7103]

Which Crash Course episode was it referencing from?

[@OllieBye]

***** It's more loads of the. The Mongols being the "exception" was common feature in that series.

[@panosjuanis]

+Ollie Bye (History) love ur vids man!

[@gibbo_1061]

What if gunpowder was never invented?

[@mestre12]

+iShadowKing That would be a cool episode. The most impactufull thing would be warfare. We would be still using swords and melee weapons, heavy armor, horses on battle. One thing i belive it would also happend, on this case wouldnt happend, would be the industrial revolution, or the very least, it would heavly delayded. Sorry for my english.

[@noahhorner231]

The time Europe got Thanos-snapped.

[@amberjeez7987]

Cody: What if the Black Death never happened. Medieval Poland: Heh.

[@vitocorleone3764]

There can be entire episodes based on theories like "what if this one person was never born." History could take an entirely unrecognizable rout if one person did not exist. Now image the millions that were killed as a result of the black death that could have been potential philosophers, scientists, artists, authoritarians, military masterminds, progressive royal family members, fascist royal family members, et cetera. Now imaging all the kids that could have been that may have grown up to be those things. The possible different timelines approaches infinity. We are literally one of an unending amount of timelines, and it just so happens your life is what came to be. The likely hood of that is essentially zero.

[@EdDeezNuts944]

That's why I constantly wish that when I died, I became omniscient and omnipotent, and view all parallel universes for our universe. It'd be so interesting!

[@mmksquared]

*Forgets the polish bubble* YOU HAD ONE JOB ONE JOB

[@ottootto6285]

I went from “what if the plague completely wiped out Europe” to “what if the plague didn’t exist”

[@emprrpalps]

same

[@emprrpalps]

ironic opening on this video too damn

[@KaiserKosako]

That Intro didn't age well

[@tomaszpalecki4445]

Tell me about it! 😓

[@bubbleblurb1073]

What if we dropped a nuclear bomb on Antarctica? How would the environment look like and how would it affect the world?

[@JainZar1]

+Kratefree3121 12 The same as if you dropped a nuke in New Mexico, on a grand scale.

[@pokemaster123ism]

Well the ice would melt, flooding a lot of the earth. The environment in the Antarctic would be ruined, and we would ask ourselves, "Why the hell did we nuke Antarctica?"

[@bubbleblurb1073]

+Raven Coldheart Antarctica is made of ice...wouldn't the nuclear bomb melt the ice? If so...the radius would be pretty big...

[@robdoghd]

Don't give the U.S. any ideas

[@bubbleblurb1073]

+BlueUmbrella hahaha..this would never happen!

[@paayton_2981]

“The world has gone a century without a major plague” my my how the turn tables

[@bagelonyt]

it isnt even a plague, its a virus

[@f4fphantomii468]

1:00 the church is grey... Hmm, like it's a ghost. Like it somehow burned down

[@CodeDarkBlue]

the people in these animations are so cute ;w;

[@shrimpsushi763]

Too bad half of the people are probably dead bodies.

[@ethanielclyne5810]

lol they are

[@illbill5904]

Or soon to be.

[@Ramzuiv]

2016: "Good job, us!" 2020 says hi

[@seancreef4616]

oh lord... 0:05...this man spoke waaaaay too soon

[@gpmusic6042]

"almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plunge" welp that aged well

[@geekchic8798]

"Where we have gone almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague." *4 years later: the beer virus happened.* Wow, that comment aged like milk.