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[@Krokmaniak]

Fun fact. This video loops. Ending: "Where the hell are we?" Beginning: "Hi, You're on the rock floating in space"

[@TheBaxter27]

Man figured how to make good YT shorts 7 years ago, damn

[@RichardX1]

"... we came in?" "Isn't this where..."

[@OrdinaryCritic]

@@TheBaxter27you mean *KZbin Longs

[@Dragoriax3]

Oh my god.... your right. I never realized 😮

[@RayAkuma]

​@@OrdinaryCritic Shorts are basically speedruns and normal videos longplays😂

[@p3chv0gel22]

I love the "Nothing was never anywhere, everything is everywhere" Part, because if the big bang birthed space and time, the thought about "What was before it?" Doesn't make sense, since there is no way to have a "before" without time and "where" without space

[@jimmyseaver3647]

At least, not according to our feeble comprehension of things.

[@dansattah]

​@@jimmyseaver3647More specifically, it doesn't make any sense inside our current understanding of physics.

[@supersonicfuryx1]

​​@@jimmyseaver3647 Feeble, but currently the greatest comprehension that we know of. At least within our own solar system

[@JacksonVoet]

I mean, without gravity, time and space don’t even matter. Time is a measure of the effects of objects and areas created by gravity, and Space is a measure of areas and objects and the gaps in between that time also measures, that can only exist by gravity moving things. Gravity is likely how the universe started, but how it happened is a real big mystery.

[@shiaakatsuki7865]

@@JacksonVoet Not *just* Gravity, but also others. Time, Space, Matter, everything is based on the interaction between energy and the 4 fundamental forces: Gravitational Force, Electromagnetic Force, and the Interaction Forces.

[@Birb_of_Judge]

I still think its funny that sharks are older than trees

[@Airier]

Yup. 😁

[@KingZolem]

Trees? They're older than the rings of Saturn and the North Star Polaris.

[@NowaboMusic]

They aren't. Vegetation was the third day, sea and sky creatures were the fifth.

[@AdamPFarnsworth]

​@@NowaboMusicLol!

[@asterlyons8564]

​@@NowaboMusic great joke!

[@unicornilluminati9019]

So, we all agree that if we do an Airier Bingo, "Oh, that's actually fascinating" HAS to be the free space, right?

[@LilacRose-rp8vw]

Now I really want someone to make that

[@Valacar]

Or a drinking game to take a drink each time he says ‘fascinating’. Lol

[@SpiritOfWanderlust]

@@Valacar I don't want to die of liver poisoning, I'll pass.

[@Valacar]

@@SpiritOfWanderlust yeah I started part way with a bottle of water, and had to pause to go get another bottle. it was 'actually fascinating'. lol

[@muserweaver]

It's his "it is entirely possible"

[@FonVegen]

Just to clear something up: Pangaea was the *latest* supercontinent, not the configuration the continents started out in. Continental drift has created a bunch of supercontinents before, although the ones before Pangaea were likely uninhabited because life either didn't exist or was still only really found in the ocean.

[@xyreniaofcthrayn1195]

Or their tectonic plates broke and survive near the top layer of the mantle after subduction.

[@p3chv0gel22]

Fun fact for the old Stars thing: There is the theoretical "Black hole Star", a Star born shortly after the big bang,where Matter was so dense, Stars could a) grow crazy fast to crazy sizes and b) collect so much mass, that their core collabses into a black hole, with pressure from fusion and the gravitational pull keeping enough of a balance, that they could be somewhat stable And that thought is just terrifying

[@thedoublessymbol]

They’re also called a quasi-star

[@thesuperdak7224]

...and then, Soundgarden wrote a song about it.

[@admiralensin.]

Wow this is way more well written than my comment

[@Souru_TV]

Airier should absolutely watch the entire history of japan, i guess

[@Airier]

Guess this was a later episode in a series, then?

[@Souru_TV]

@@Airier I mean kinda. It is actually called "History of Japan" though it's basically just like The history of the entire World, i guess.

[@LanternLightexceptasavie-wq6gc]

@@Airier similar video, but specifically about japan. you can watch them in any order. Its just the japan one was made first.

[@CommissarMitch]

​@@AirierIt was also made before this video. It exploded and he made this.

[@e34YT]

@@CommissarMitch Pretty sure the short weird little "intermission" part in the video is made to fit History of Japan

[@CommissarMitch]

"Heeey said the Romans" will always be funny to me

[@PositiviteaTheFirst]

Mine was "Meeee said Napoleon"

[@vaar8584]

I don't know why but the checklist followed by "Norte Chico~" is one of my favourite bits

[@ErisRising]

"The SUN is a DEADLY LAZER!"

[@anthonyandersonfernandesda5197]

And the Ocean IT'S FULL OF PLASTIIIIIIC

[@anthonyandersonfernandesda5197]

and the: many types of MACHINES and FACTORIES with MACHINES on them so they can make a lot of PRODUCTS REAL FAAAAAST

[@spencersholden]

17:38 humans invented agriculture independently at least three times. Don’t know how many times humans invented human sacrifice though.

[@JacksonVoet]

Considering how many isolated pockets of humanity have existed across history, probably at least double than how many times we created agriculture.

[@MistressNebula]

Drinking game: Take a shot every time Airier says the word "fascinating"

[@LilacRose-rp8vw]

Warning: you may die

[@platinum_ink]

No thanks, I like my liver and kidneys how they are- xD

[@Patchnose]

Dammit you got to it before I did. Great minds think alike I guess.

[@beefarren]

@6:55 no, actually, at the point in time that he's talking about (around the genesis of life, something like 3.5-4 billion years ago) nearly all land would have been from volcanic hotspots. The earth hadn't cooled enough for tectonic activity to start moving huge plates; the crust was fractured into tons of tiny plates and the vast majority of the surface was ocean. There are only two remaining chunks of earth left on the surface that are from this time period, one in western Australia and one in southern Africa. It took nearly a billion years from this point for the earth's core to cool enough that large-scale plate tectonics could start happening. The Himalayas are one of the youngest mountain ranges on Earth, only about 100 million years old. (That's why they're so big, they haven't had time to erode down yet.) The Himalayas began forming right around the same time that birds began to evolve from dinosaurs, if that gives you better context.

[@Armorion]

43:39 They never got Ethiopia because a Christian nation (older than even most European Christian nations) had a much easier time telling them to not take over them.

[@Krokmaniak]

Other interersting thing is Ethiopian king was making everyone around think Ethiopia was primitive country like everything around, so if someone tried to invade, they would seriously underestimate Ethiopia and would come underprepared. And that happened when Italy attacked expecting max around 30k poorly equipped soldiers. What they met was between 80k and 120k soldiers not falling behind european standards of equipment.

[@Armorion]

@@Krokmaniak They were attacked during WW2, right? Or were they attacked by Italy twice?

[@Krokmaniak]

@@Armorion There was Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887-1889, then First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895-1896, then Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935 - 1937

[@Armorion]

@@Krokmaniak Bruh three times? They lost twice and decided to give it a third go? What was so valuable in Ethiopia that Italy was determined to have them spesificly? (I'm assuming they lost, or else why would they have to invade a 3rd time) Or was it because Ethiopia were simply the last one left and this was technically before WW2 kicked off and they weren't fighting the other colonial powers yet?

[@Krokmaniak]

@@Armorion Scramble of Africa and Ethiopia (or if you prefer Abyssinia) was the only one left. Also gold, platinum, copper, potash and natural gas.

[@otaku-sempai2197]

And, of course, the dinosaurs never fully went extinct. We still have the ones that crap on my car. The most successful vertebrates on Earth (or at least on land).

[@Armorion]

WAIT the art school he was denied from was Jewish? Never heard that detail.

[@alisfy6891]

The more you know✨

[@Algorithm_God_Cult]

it all makes sense now

[@dacomputernerd4096]

Drinking game: take a shot every time Airier pauses the video and talks about something immediately before the video does

[@Airier]

I can not recommend this. Previous videos noted an unsafe intoxication level after 5 minutes. Blood alcohol levels should not exceed a decimal point.

[@corryjamieson3909]

​@@AirierNow you're just encouraging.

[@nescirian]

Do we include the times he talks about them long before the video does, because he thinks they missed it but it's just way too early?

[@dacomputernerd4096]

@@nescirian two shots

[@hakonsgaming535]

Actually you're wrong about the soviets not relaxing and that not leading to the collapse. What happened was Gorbachev got into power and introduced new policies (Glasnost and perestroika) which relaxed first soviet economic control and then media control. This didn't fix the economy immediately but it did let people start talking openly about how fucked the economy was and also removed pressure from half a dozen nationalist independence movements in the non russian parts of the USSR. This led to a Coup attempt by soviet hardliners which was put down by Boris Yeltsin who then took the opportunity to dissolve the Union alongside leaders of the other SSRs and take over the now independent Russia. Basically it probably would have collapsed but the actual circumstances were ABSOLUTELY the result of the relaxation of the old soviet policies of control and oppression, they'd been barely holding a lid on things since the 70's but when the lid came off everything boiled over very fast.

[@snakesnoteyes]

One of my buddies in high school lived in Moscow during the hardliner coup. He remembered the vibrations of the tanks moving down the streets.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

I love how much well Bill illustrates the context and connections of various historical events, which often get taught independently. Like that whole line of dominoes from Saudi Arabia blocking the spice trade over Columbus' crackpot expeditions, to the conflicts over America, the 7-year-war, into the American independence, and eventually the French Revolution...

[@Whitewingdevil]

The situation in Panama is even worse than you were saying, the biggest problem recently is water. Most of the canal is above sea level, and it depends on water from nearby lakes to operate the locks, but the canal has been using more water than the lakes have been getting, so there's a real danger of the canal becoming useless because they don't have enough water, it's already effecting traffic limits through the canal today. Also, that water is, you know, drinkable. So it could also be useful for keeping people alive and producing food, but because the canal needs it so much and the levels are low, it can't really be used for other purposes (at the moment).

[@BrittanyArtPoetry]

3d printing organs is actually one of those things we should be spending lots of research money on, I actually would compare it to Cancer research in terms of what it would mean for the health industry. So many people are on organ donor wait lists because the number of needed organs doesn’t even come close to the number of people who need them. This is a good thing not some kind of sci fi dystopian

[@MavrosStJohn]

Actually, the Extinction event of the Dinosaurs is very fascinating. If you want, there is a video that is pretty long, it fundamentally interesting by the KZbinr Oliver Lugg called “The Mass Extinction Debates: A Science Communication Odyssey” that over ever the whole history of it.

[@luisjauregui2197]

Yeah, the guy behind the meteor theory was outright denied initially due to a lack of evidence, which he eventually got, but still it shows how much this topic has been discussed

[@aqua4089]

I love Oliver Lugg, great video

[@marc-ericleblanc-seguin4514]

I love that video

[@Dewdropmon]

That face in the “Christianize all the kingdoms” meme is from a blog called Hyperbole and a Half. A lot of her MS Paint drawings that she did for her stories were turned into memes.

[@jkosch]

If you wonder why it said "Intermission" at one point when it was about Japan, that is because Bill Wurtz had previously made a 9 minute history of Japan video.

[@LincolnDWard]

FYI, the reason he didn't mention plate tectonics in the creation of the first land is that most current models say plate tectonics didn't fully get going until a little later when the Earth had cooled a bit.

[@supremefankai5480]

Seeing the entire history condensed into just about the length of an episode of a random show makes you feel small. But it's still awesome nonetheless

[@redballoon9007]

Take a shot every time he says “Ohh this is actually fascinating”

[@Armorion]

50:30 the Short version. Poland was allowed very minor changes, so Hungary (or Czechoslovakia I forgot but it was one of them) wanted similar changes but the protests made more demands so the Soviets shut it down with an army. The US and British were too busy bullying Egypt for the canal to do anything about it.

[@RangeCMYK]

I like when he goes "oh he actually brought [insert thing here] up?" Like, the video is called the history of the entire world, of course he did. Also, watch the Japan one. Its shorter, more digestible, and just as funny.

[@OldManAlex719]

I remember hearing about Quasi-Stars, also known as black hole stars, that are formed when proto-stars collapse into black holes, but the outer layers aren't blown away like typical supernovae. Instead, the outer layers provide fuel for the black hole while remaining at just outside the point of no return. Kind of like two opposing forces constantly pushing against each other without giving way either way. They last for approximately 7-10 million years, per theories, and explain the previously unknown radio frequencies we've been getting since around the 1960's. Interesting stuff, dude.

[@Ostermond]

Airier, the unfiltered _joy_ I hear in your voice as you expound upon each pause point brings _me_ unfiltered joy.

[@Airier]

😊

[@felixhenson9926]

You're the first reactor i've seen who's actually been able to add to and expand upon the content of the original video

[@LucklessPaul]

There have definitely been others, just certainly not so vastly without turning the video into a 2-3+ hour video 👍

[@alexfarkas1666]

Fun fact about the olmecs (history student here): The name Olmec is the Aztec (Nahua) name for the people of the region where the civilization existed because they are so old (1200 BCE - 400 BCE) that we don't know how they called themselves but their influence is HUGE. Several of the elements that come in mesoamerican civilizations were created by them (pyramids, maybe writing and counting, mesoamerican ball game, etc). It's the equivalent of China for Asia and Rome for Europe when it comes to where all the elements of their culture originated

[@clutchthecinnamonsergal8493]

The dinosaurs lasted a total of 3 seconds

[@aquila4460]

50:00 Yes the Soviet Union collapsed because it relaxed. Gorbatschov was an idealist and went. "Hey people, maybe we should actually try to live up to the ideas of communism. So from now on we will be accepting criticism and stop lying on national television." Glasnost and Perestroika. So several of the more central European and balkan nations went. "Our criticism is that this sucks and we want to be our own countries." And the last time they tried the Soviet Union sent tanks, this time they really didn't as much. So suddenly the Soviet Union was collapsing. Though, while it was willingly in the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltic countries, in Russia proper and Kasaksthan it actually happened against the direkt wishes of the population, as the Soviet Union still retained a small but definite lead. Also, when the Soviet Union fell there asn't a "decent" government in Russia. Life expectancy took a nosedive. Western Advisors essentially created the current Oligarch class, because they were the opinion that selling of state-owned businesses slowly that the Russian people would have a chance to adapt and actually have smaller businesses that could drive forward a democratic processes by giving the people more power was dumb, and would give the people the chance to actually make their voices heard, so instead "Shock Therapy" needed to be implemented. I.E Everything sold of directly to whoever could pay the western advisors the highest bribes.

[@sonofjack6286]

35:10 Whoo, Cahokia! Real talk, Cahokia was where the mounds really began, especially since the largest mound in the US was in Cahokia, where Illinois is now. Cahokia was also, at its peak, bigger than London was at the time, home to maybe 30k people, and cultural and economic capital of en entire region.

[@ReinaSaurus]

mass extinction: the never ending conversion of bio mass

[@geoshark12]

8:24 sharks are older … 400mill , crocodiles are 39 mill. Sharks are older then trees

[@MizuMing]

So glad you're getting to this. 💕 44:28 This is why modern ships like using Canada's Northern Corridors for packages. 😊

[@gamingcheese5073]

Drink a gallon of liquid everytime he says "fascinating "

[@Khixote]

this is one of the best videos on youtube ever objectively.

[@Jevil587]

“Thailand is a real country” Missed the mark there

[@matijamaksan4344]

I thought i heard him say that.

[@freddydeathbear]

You broke my mind with the minecraft furnace comment.

[@Airier]

I had to share my pain for thinking it in the first place. :)

[@FurieMan]

45:00 The sluice also uses fresh water from lakes around the area. Because of over use and climate change those lakes are drying up. If you were to use salt water in the sluice they would corrode and break very fast.

[@rschroev]

Not only that, but then you would have to pump up the water from sea level to whatever level required, which would take huge amounts of energy.

[@Armorion]

39:10 Got a question. What I've been taught in University is that the diseases brought over by the Europeans didn't just kill the Natives of the Americas, but caused a deathspiral of competition and infighting which killed communities that then repeated itself on top of the plagues continuing to spread. That is what I was taught, but my question is, how was there more competition and infighting if there were less people around? Genuine question.

[@dryking1414]

Well there would have been a ton of less people to produce resources. People dying only increase the availability of raw untapped resources. People dying greatly increase the scarcity of things like crops and labor for things that need to be produced.

[@Souru_TV]

Watching Airier geek out is so fun to watch.

[@laszlokaszas1003]

This is one of the most iconic video's in my opinion. The other would be: SM64-Watch for Rolling Rocks-0.5 A Presses (Commentated)[Outdated] That video is a real mindmellter even when you know what is it about.

[@ildmit2835]

As someone who lives in Crimea I'm surprised that you know more about collapse of the ussr than most russians (except for Poland which never was a part of the ussr). Also your reaction on this video was probably one of the best. Sorry for the bad grammar

[@spootot]

I would have assumed English is your first language, your grammar is very good :)

[@cawareyoudoin7379]

We sure were under its control though 😬👍

[@ElderonAnalas]

I was always told from school when learning about the Mississippi mounds that they were mass grave/burial sites. But, I'm sure there's been more discoveries about them in the last 20 years

[@Yam-nu3pd]

Take a shot evertime Airier says "fascinating"

[@thesuperdak7224]

Bill Wurtz channel is mostly music and musical...observations, I guess? There is one other video of his I know of that matches this video, and is in fact the precursor to this video: History of Japan. History of the Entire World, I Guess took him a year and very nearly drove him insane, so he has not attempted another one, IIRC.

[@Shin-gn7ng]

2:51 yes, it’s the “world” and not “planet” cause the fascinating part of “world” is that it’s actually vague word that can represent either the planet or the universe

[@erz001]

This was the best reaction i ever watched and i actually appreciated every single pause because you added even more history in a truly nerd way (wich i loved btw xD). Thank you for making this video :D

[@jkosch]

26:25 That was his predecessor (in a wider sense) Poros (defeated Alexander's army in 326 BCE in the battle of the Hydaspes river [the battle where Alexander's favorite horse Bucephalos died], thereafter the mutiny of his troops forced Alexander to abandon further conquest attempts in India). Chandragupta was from a different family (the Maurya and his grandson was Ashoka who united most of India an converted to Buddhism and forsaking the violence that was part of his life before) and made the treaty with the Diadoch Seleukos around 301 BCE (25 years after the Alexander's battle with Poros).

[@JaneXemylixa]

I read a critique of Adolf Hitler's art that put it this way: "Saying that he'd make an ok artist if he got admitted into an art school is like saying someone would've been a great rock musician if they were admitted a conservatory". Great art wasn't being made in mainstream schools anymore: quite the opposite. He was like 50 years behind of what was actually interesting to people, and even stuff he was not awful at had been surpassed 500 years previously (the article compares his dry postcard views to Albrecht Durer's living breathing spaces).

[@SprayInk-And-CritGlitch]

I feel a little disappointed that they told so many parts of the history of the whole world and in Mexico they only talked about the Olmecs, Teotihuacan and the Mayans. Why not talk about that the only reason you see this video with colors is because a Mexican guy said, "hey why not tv with colors instead of a boring and blurry monochromatic screen?"

[@azurerogue3633]

The scientific consensus has really moved away from the whole lightning strike, abiogenesis thing. Nowadays, most of the literature I have read about proposed theories on how the first self replicating molecules came about is far more often viewed through the lens of tidal pools, and warming by the sun.

[@rschroev]

Isn't that still abiogenesis? Just with a different source of energy?

[@azurerogue3633]

@@rschroev that’s why I specifically stated lightning strike abiogenesis.

[@Krokmaniak]

34:00 This is one of templates from meme template known as "rage comic" which was what wojack is now, but around 2010

[@Ceruleanst]

This one has a proper non-anonymous source, it's Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh, "clean all the things"

[@Krokmaniak]

@@Ceruleanst True, but I doubt that's where he saw it. Most likely just one of the templates using it

[@liamwhite3522]

​@@CeruleanstI read anonymous as anomalous, and it just made me think of memes as being some escaped SCP

[@revangerang]

@@Krokmaniak Hyperbole and a Half was pretty popular back then, he might've seen the original

[@brigidtheirish]

China's gone through so many cycles of falling apart and being pulled together that my dad, a historian by training, speculates that China's currently in an inter-dynasty period.

[@Ashurman666]

Wait, you never watched this video before? It's an internet classic. And hey if you're watching this, also check out his History Of Japan video

[@marcusc9931]

There is now a theory that the dinosaur extinction was another of the "volcanos mess up the climate" events like the permian one, and the asteroid just dealt the finishing blow.

[@liamwhite3522]

JURASSIC SHOWDOWN CLIMATE VS DINOSAURS FIGHT! ➡️ Volcanos FINISH HIM! ➡️ Meteor

[@HumanPersonNotOrangutan]

I like how the camera edge turns your hand into Earthworm Jim every now and then, like around 07:18 :P Funny thing is, I found your channel again after a couple of years by yt recommending me your reactions to Maxor's Ultrakill. So two days ago I watched you complain about migraine from Maxor's style, and what do I see in my subscription vids if not another migraine inducer :D

[@Creenella]

I love love love LOVE how much you were geeking out in this one! Your enthusiasm is palpable and infectuous and it made this reaction all the more fun to watch :D

[@NickGreyden]

Fun fact: the Appalachian mountains where formed via continent collision before the evolution of the tree. This makes the line "life is old there, older than the trees. Younger than the mountains .." in the John Denver song Country Roads scientifically accurate.

[@AdamPFarnsworth]

One the best reactions to this, ever! It was hilarious watching you call out things before they happened 😂 Always geek out!

[@Airier]

😊

[@user-yj4yj5ye1w]

I like nerding out and observing nerding out

[@jungletherainwing1471]

If I recall the rockies weren’t actually made by tectonic plates colliding. I don’t know if we know exactly what created them but it was likely another plate that slipped under the north american plate and pushed up a weak-spot in the middle of it

[@MrWhatdafuBOOM]

*DRINKING GAME* Take a shot everytime he goes 'Akchually 🤓'.

[@Whitewingdevil]

I saw a video a while back talking about the deep sea vents, exploring one of the theories as to how exactly the first building blocks of life could have formed within them from inorganic components. I'm no experts but it sounded like a reasonable theory to me, I remember almost no specifics from it, but iirc (someone correct me please if I'm wrong) it had a lot to do with gradients of material and temperature in the walls of the stacks themselves, as well as fluctuations of the exact minerals flowing through the stack, creating an environment where specific interactions could occur. Could be just one more incorrect hypothesis about something we may never know the exact answer to, but I thought it was a pretty cool explanation of how it may have happened.

[@xelloscroff6888]

Honestly, got angry with the Homie Neil deGrasse Tyson, the Gregorian calendar is a fine work of human calculations and should be used regardless of religious implications

[@DarronRanston]

Ah, Dark Matter stars. The theory that came around to explain those old stars and hyper massive back holes like Ton-B

[@RealityInk]

Bill Wurtz is more like someone to vibe too as opposed to someone to get lots of details from. Check out his history of Japan.

[@jkosch]

10:00 Actually glaciation episodes, especially global ones like snowball earth events are relatively easy to identify. One of the easy tell-tale signs are dropstones. Big rocks dropped into areas of ocean floor far away from any slope of continental shelf that could have delivered them there. How did they get there? - They get dropped on ice (e.g. icebergs) and get carried away as the ice cover on top of the ocean moves. Then you have plenty of other sedimentary features that tell you about glaciation, some of them made they the glaciers themselves (moraines for example - the debris (till) deposited by the solid state flowing of the glacier) or striations (basically scratches from debris within the glacier's ice as it gets dragged over other stones by the glacier's flow), others from the effects they have on the rest of the environmental effects, like glacial lakes (water dammed by glaciers and mostly sustained by them) and the flooding events then glacial barriers to them break. For snowball earth events there are also other effects caused by the ice covers on all (or most) of the ocean surface: gas exchange between the and the air is limited (so for example as counter to the albedo of the white surface on an ice covered earth radiating back more sunlight incoming you have an accumulation of volcanic CO2 over a longer time in the atmosphere [less possible contact with oceans it could acidify) and less light gets through to the water (so less photosynthesis can happen, which changed the ratio of heavy and light carbon isotopes deposited).

[@captainsockmonkey2195]

Bill Wurtz is mostly a Music Guy. Hents why you here cache jingle with specific things. Like "China is whole again. Then it broke again." This put him on the map, More info Check out history of the entire bill wurtz, i guess. I would recommend history of Japan I guess but in the spirit of his work I would recommend the song got some money or Christmas isn't real. Both are good and you'll find out how he makes music just by lessoning.

[@harrietgrib]

The Greenland Iceland bit always makes me laugh out loud 😂

[@alexissoto3549]

Video resume, stuff happens “this is actually fascinating”, more stuff happens “this is actually fascinating”

[@kataratakaran5271]

Wurtz does a bunch of really cool music (ie Airport Terminal, And The Day Goes On, Long Long Long Journey), and he also has a 'History of Japan' vid that fits in right where the 'intermission' section of this vid is :)

[@LennyTheSniper]

Is it me or I love this kind of reaction content? Like, it's not a passive reaction like "haha, that was funny guys" or annoying rants like "oh that reminds me of another thing blah blah blah" The amount of knowledge and input you add to the video and the pace you take it at I think is really, really good. Makes it worth watching.

[@AUCreatoer]

YESS THIS VIDEO!!! I love the musical notes in it so much lol.

[@nescirian]

34:35 "do all the things", a meme originating from Allie Brosh's Hyperbole And A Half, which also had a bunch of other drawings in this style that became somewhat successful memes in their time

[@clicheusername7182]

24:00 Your comments on early South American culture now make me want to see you react to Arlo over at MiniMinuteman. What him get pissed off at psydoarcheologists peddling bad theories about hyperdiffusion is always a treat.

[@mitchellmoss]

"You're a talker. Listening to talkers makes me thirsty...and hungry. Think I'll take two chickens. "

[@VirgoShelter]

I'm so glad you nerd out and explained a lot of stuff. You got yourself a new subscriber

[@chaoxiangalula4086]

I love how he got so excited over this 😭

[@nikitalvov40]

51:18 Here we have the only fan of Yeltsin, who expectedly never lived through his presidency to experience "the decent government"

[@daltongalloway]

Yeah the dude thinks he’s an expect on everything

[@issaikh]

One note, Mycenaean Greece survived up to around 1250 or so BC, and while written records and the palatial complexes ceased, there's a strong chance the more rural areas(at least, the ones that survived/weren't pillaged to death) had a more gradual transition through the greek dark ages. Regardless, even if you take the most conservative estimates and went just by the palatial records, Hellenistic Greece is certainly *much* closer to the Mycenaean era than it is to ours.

[@Jayman1clone]

I love watching people's first time reaction to this video and this might be the first one I've seen where the person reacting actually knows a lot of stuff about what gets mentioned. I'm impressed!

[@cerberus0225]

Another small correction. The Hellenistic Greeks were not closer to the Moon Landing than they were to the Mycenaeans. Nor was Classical Greece, which I think is what you're actually referring to here. The Mycenaean period spans from 1750 to 1050 BCE, followed by the Greek Dark Ages (1050-800 BCE), then Archaic Greece (800-480 BCE), then the Classical period which is generally dated up to Alexander the Great's death in 323 BC. If you're measuring from the start of the Mycenaeans to the end of the Classical period, that'd be just shy of 1430 years, but you'd normally measure this from the end of the Mycenaeans to the start of the Classical Period, which would be 570 years. For the length to the start of the Hellenistic Period (323-146 BCE) it'd be 727 years. The Hellenistic Period's end and the Moon Landing would be 2107 years, which is significantly longer, and the earlier periods are only even further back. I *think* you're thinking of Cleopatra being closer to the Moon Landing than she was to the construction of the Pyramids of Giza, which is true.

[@doodleplayer4014]

This is the sort of reaction content that I love. You pause and expand on it, and your enthusiasm for the topics is infectious.

[@muppetsstoogesfan1]

Bill Wurtz is an incredible musician. Love his songs.

[@Fizzbuzz994]

First time viewer. What I've learned from this reaction is that if I ever meet you in person, I'll be able talk to you about anything I want and your response is going to be "Oh that's actually a fascinating topic".

[@Airier]

Probably right. I'm like that outside of KZbin as well.

[@ChaplainPhantasm]

The amount of nerdiness and points about so many things coming out of Airier at every turn is just so overwhelming, I LOVE IT!

[@Kikakowia]

“I hope I mentioned everything” always gets me XD

[@arsonanarchybunny5541]

I was just fying when I realized that Canada was never mentioned once in the entire video. Poor Canada. 😭😭💀💀

[@Airier]

Obviously it means Canada is a myth, just like pants.

[@marieko.]

when i was in high school, my world history teacher played this video and would pause at certain points to say “this will be on the test!” .. iconic

[@FloatingChameleon]

The weirdest thing is he is a musician, and this video just popped out of nowhere (along with the Japan one).

[@FarashaSilver]

52:28 There have been some successfully 3D printed organs at this point, but it's simpler structures. They've done a bladder and I think they worked on livers next. The heart is the really hard one because of the bioelectrical components. Kidneys might be easier.

[@env0x]

man i love how you're so passionate about history, this video definitely peaked my interest a lot back in the day. turned me into a huge history nerd. i still use it for timeline references some times.

[@nathanle1291]

Finally an active reactor to this video. I watched a ton of these and they talk a lot in the beginning but starts going quiet until the end.

[@eggiboi2424]

It's insane that this one reaction video taught me more than my actual history and geography classes ever did

[@Airier]

If you want more random info, check out the Geographic vids done by Simon Whistler (he has a problem starting ALL THE CHANNELS, so just search his name instead). He does a Lot of deep dives into random history. 😁👍

[@wilerman]

Speaking of the Mississippi mounds, I live close to one of the most important northern mound sites called Manitou Mounds. I always get excited when they are brought up.

[@sunnysidesofblue]

This was a great reaction! I love it when people who are interested in history watch this video and add their own commentary along the way.