Historian's Reaction to "History of the Entire World I Guess"

[@dannydevito7000]

I think the part of Bills video that really stands out to me whenever I watch it is how it connects all of these historical events I've learned together. In school everything felt so disjointed, because we were taught about different periods as if they were self contained. This video helps me fit all the pieces together, and realize how these seemingly disconnected events actually influenced every other event.

[@JeshuaSquirrel]

Exactly. We tend to learn history more episodically. I love how this a shows how everything is connected. For instance, I never realized there is a straight line from France and England colonizing North America to the Seven Years War through the US Revolution and on to the French Revolution and World War I.

[@world4saker]

yes and most changes that caused a major event in history was by accident or people trying their best to deal with the world because back then it really was the world against you.

[@jellii]

definitely. I discovered/watched it when I was in 7th grade, and was like “woah, i learned that before, that makes so much more sense chronologically”

[@slabofbeef7104]

My 9th grade Modern World History teacher was great about this. Something he frequently said was "History doesn't happen in a vacuum." And occasionally, he would ask us what we had learned was happening at a certain point in the world while we were learning about a different part of the world (ex: while learning about china in the 1400s, what was going on in Europe?)

[@BboyKeny]

Same for mathematics, since I know it's to accurately describe the world around you it's loads of fun and makes way more sense

[@ryanswaynow]

The opening part that everyone seems to be confused by is basically just an attempted comedic way to explain that before the big bang all the ingredients for the universe had to be here already but space and time had not been created yet so everything was everywhere but nowhere at the same time because Space-time as we know it didn’t exist yet. I think It just seem too complicated because that’s the one part of the video that isn’t about history and is instead just straight up astrophysics.

[@theriddler2277]

it is simply his version of 'a universe from nothing' - it is something people should know

[@CrippledMerc]

Yes, it’s the personification of the infinitesimally small point that contained everything and would eventually become the universe following the Big Bang. I’ve seen a couple other reactors who somehow took that part to be God speaking but I’ve never interpreted it to be that at all. It just doesn’t make sense for that to be the case in the context of this video.

[@Jzombi301]

its pretty obvious im surprised more people dont get it

[@masamune2984]

There are people that don’t understand that part? No wonder our world is the way it is...

[@blara2401]

@@theriddler2277 It is precisely the opposite : a universe where everything had already been there "forever" - except that there was no time, so "forever" makes no sense.

[@Rakkhot]

finally a historian who actually interacts with the video and discusses some of the information that the video throws out, it was very interesting

[@valiant..6]

What about vlogging through history and mr terry history then?

[@andrescalderon1212]

You are the first historian reacting to this that mention the possibility of humans moving to the Americas before the last ice age, amazing!

[@DrDanAllosso]

Thanks. There's apparently a layer at Monte Verde in southern Chile that might date back to about 30,000 years ago. Tom Dillehay has been very reticent about this so far, but if more findings are publicized, this may reopen that question. There are a couple other, purportedly older finds in the Americas, but they have been very controversial. There can be other explanations (fraud, dating error, etc.), but the possibilities are very interesting to me.

[@undarkwin]

@@DrDanAllosso and there is also the possibility of migration waves not coming through Beringia, but sailing the Pacific Ocean

[@PongoXBongo]

​@@undarkwin I could maybe see some proto-polynesians like the Tu'i Tonga pulling that off.

[@BrazilianImperialist]

It just didn't happen

[@BrazilianImperialist]

@@undarkwin No

[@stephanginther9051]

Something cool that was announced recently. A type of date that was one of ancient Israel's main exports and something they were quite famous for went extinct during the crusades. The dates of the Judean palm was so well known that it was a required part of the yearly tribute to the Roman emperors. During the crusades, the crusaders systematically chopped down every tree. Well, during the excavation of the fortress of Masada, seeds were found. They successfully managed to coax some of those 2000 year old seeds to life. So ancient Judean dates are no longer extinct. The two ladies who managed the feat are planning to spread them worldwide in the hopes to well, spread them worldwide.

[@annabellhowell5871]

Holy shit that’s so cool

[@painapple2457]

Unreal

[@The_Story_Of_Us]

What makes this video so cool is that it covers a lot of ground in a very short amount of time, it doesn’t pretend to give the full story (I mean clearly) and it’s very digestible with its humor, so for many it can spark interest in historical events or periods they didn’t even know about or weren’t interested in before.

[@MzkZP]

Hope a few negative comments didn’t put you off from doing more of these in the future, I for one enjoyed your insights and definitely learned some new things. Kudos to you Sir!

[@DrDanAllosso]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@little0legend]

"Grozniy" from Ivan's name doesn't mean "awesome" or "terrible", though he was pretty damn cool. It actually means "fierce". Ivan was called that because he was a scary fella. For example, he created his own secret police. And to show everyone that they were police, the guys had cut off dog heads attached to the sides of their horse saddles. Also it was rumored that he strangled his own son.

[@BrazilianImperialist]

Sick

[@painapple2457]

Ivan the schizophrenic

[@The-jy3yq]

Well, he wasn't terrible for a while...then all of it crashed when he divided the country into two parts - the Oprichnina(the "secret police", except it is just an almighty raider force funded by the government to take out those who the government doesn't like(government being the Tzar, y'know, absolutism and all that)) and the feeble non-Oprichnina, made a lot of bad decisions(like going ro a war completely unprepared) and left a gigantic mess after himself. So big, that it was still messy for at least half a hundred years after he died. Oh yeah, and his son was an idiot! The second one. The first one was pretty damn good...until he was dead. Yeah, the Siberia was explored a lot during his reign but...let's say that it would go for a long time until Siberia(and to east of it) would start to be more than just fur mine. Poor Boris. Just tried to make Rus great again, failed to get more money and got unlucky with hunger striking in.

[@Monkeyslinger123]

Calling him "Ivan the Terrible" is using an archaic meaning of the word 'terrible', which in modern language we would call 'terrifying'.

[@kregy7509]

Kinda funny that in my language(czech) Grozniy sounds almost identical to Hrozný, which means terrible.

[@Dryltd]

I enjoyed your historical additions. Reminds me there is some reading I need to do in certain areas of the world.

[@katrinschirmer8018]

I've watched a bunch of historians react to it, and what I always love is that many of them have learned something as well as had something interesting to add to it. it speaks to how great the video is i think.

[@t.nightmaressoul9769]

This guy set his expectations high to the point where the humor is almost redundand and that he takes most of it quite literally.

[@wewenang5167]

he is a history teacher that what he supposed to do lol

[@t.nightmaressoul9769]

@@wewenang5167it's probably just that I wish the videos' humor is heard, but in this case nevermind

[@parthmudgal9270]

@@t.nightmaressoul9769 I mean the video does make some false claims just for humour so he has to tell the truth which makes the video lose humour value

[@trashcandy.]

@@parthmudgal9270 I won't say everything in this video actually happened, but a lot of the perceived falsehoods are actually sarcasm. There's so much happening that a lot of the visual cues go unnoticed on a first or even second viewing.

[@RealGothGirlHours]

You seem like you'd make a phenomenal history teacher, you're so invested and willing to have fun.

[@Merennulli]

8:30 - The Mycenaean civilization was in Greece before the Bronze Age Collapse but were a previous culture. The Greek language and pantheon both clearly descend from the Mycenaean civilization. They were the Greeks before their descendants we often call the "Ancient Greeks", hence the "beta version" joke (a beta version refers to a pre-release version of software intended for testing). The fresco shown is a reconstructed part of the "Camp stool Fresco" that Bill Wurtz pretty clearly grabbed off the Minoan Wikipedia article and while "Minoan" would be more accurate, it's not too inaccurate to lump it in with Mycenaean culture. I'm really confused how you're getting "brown Greeks" from that, but if it's from that fresco, the coloration in the small cracked section near the left figure's face and the right figure's hand is the original. That's just him grabbing images for Mycenaean culture, not a tie-in to the theory you seemed to want to bring up. The later part at 8:43 has text on the screen that I think you should probably re-read as it strongly suggests he was intentionally NOT going with that theory.

[@kylelewis70]

Thank you for bringing this up. Not everyone in the world is a racists lol

[@firaVee]

I love how you also touch on the agricultural types in the early civilization. Links back to people who do trials and errors to know which works and what doesn't.

[@moldveien1515]

11:04 small correction agianst Bill here, the Qin dynasty hated confucious and burned his teachings, they were strict legalists, confucious and his teachings became big in the Han dynasty.

[@moldveien1515]

What i find most interesting thing about china is that each time it Split it was almost never the idea that these newly formes states were going to be a New thing, the plan seemingly always was to conquer the others and re-establish the empire

[@doug3318]

Don’t skip the physics! We stan math in this family

[@notsomething7561]

That method you have of asking the viewer these questions surrounding the events - WHY one era or region was so significant - is absolutely fantastic! I love to see it put on whoever is actually absorbing the media to really sit and think for a minute, and hopefully be inspired to research some things.

[@iamtheowl9631]

Just a little correction, groznyy (грозный) more closely translates to fearsome or formidable.

[@rake1087]

Im Mexican and I have to disagree with your comment "Corn was invented by the Mexicans" It is unclear who exactly created corn. The origin of corn can be found in the legends of the ancient civilizations of the Toltecs, Olmecs and Mayans. And their exact history is still unclear to us. These where not Mexicans. "Mexicans" or should I rather say Mestizos, which is the largest ethnic group of Mexico, did not begin to exist until the Conquest of Mesoamerica, which was in the 16th Century. A direct result of the ruthless rapings of the natives by the Spanish Conquistadors. And by this time the Toltecs, Olmecs, Mayans had seized to exist. Now disregarding the fact that "Mexicans" a nationality, was born in 1810, let's talk about where the term Mexican even comes from. It comes from the Aztec people. Who the Aztec people where remains a mystery to us. According to them, they come from a holy land called Aztlan, (Which roughly translates to La Tierra Blanca or La Tierra de los Heroes. The White Land or The Land of the Heroes) which according to them is north of Mexico. We believe this place to be mythical. We theorize that the Aztecs where many different tribes of Northern Native Americans hunters who all came together under the leadership of Xolotl, not to be confused with the Aztec god of Xolotl. Xolotl was an Aztec King named after the god. Xolotl lead these tribes to migrate to the South. Now at this time there was only one Ancient Civilization. The Toltecs. It is also unknown to us if the Toltecs where collapsing and Xolotl took advantage of that, or if the Toltecs fell because Xolotl invaded them. But Xolotl took in the remaining Toltecs and formed a new Civilization in the city of Tula, The now old capital of the Toltecs. This also led to Aztecs learning about things like corn directly from the Toltecs. After this, Aztec legend says that a god came down and told Xolotl to keep going further south, that Tula was not to be his capital. And that he will spot an Eagle with a serpent in his mouth standing on a cactus. (This became the symbol of the Mexicans found on the Mexican flag.) In 1325, After a long pilgrimage south,the eagle was spotted on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. Where they built their highly advanced city which was called Tenochtitlan. The Aztecs now gave themselves a new name for their new empire. The Moon Lake. Which in Nahuatl is Mexica. 200 Years later when the spanish arrived in Tenochtitlan, the people referred to themselves as Mexicas. Which consequently would be the name the land would inherit in 1810. The United States of Mexico. So this is why, the Mexicans did not invent Corn. Haha sorry got inspired by history. By the time corn was invented, the Mexicas where no where near MesoAmerica nor would they be for millenia. Other than that, good video

[@DrDanAllosso]

Good points. I should have said something like, native ancestors of the people who live in Mexico. The point I was trying to make, I think, is that three of the world's top five current staple crops were invented by indigenous Americans.

[@seigeengine]

​@@DrDanAllosso Even then, maybe? Soybean production exceeds Cassava production, which is clearly what you're including, and the most produced crop globally by mass is Sugarcane anyway, so really you're talking two: maize and potatoes. But sure, lots of major crops came from the Americas... why is this an issue for you? Who do you think is out here thinking that they didn't?

[@DrDanAllosso]

@@seigeengine There are many data sources, and I suppose not all of them may count the quantities exactly the same (for example, raw tonnage vs. caloric contribution). Based on recent info I've looked at, soy may have passed potatoes but cassava is still ahead of it. I make a point of this because many textbooks (still in use today) minimize the contribution made by Native Americans to our current global food supply.

[@seigeengine]

​@@DrDanAllosso I checked both figures for tonnage and compared against Caloric content. Soybeans beat out cassava in both. Cassava may beat out potatoes on Caloric content though, but that just leaves potatoes out of the top 5 entirely, meaning you're still at only two. I don't even know what textbooks would be describing global food contributions by region, cause that seems pretty niche. I remember learning in school about how a large number of foods, such as maize, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, peanuts, etc. came from the Americas, though.

[@tomgraham3612]

Here's what it looks like to us: every dank river bed had different kinds of grains growing next to it. If the grains were edible and nutritious, the people living there had options. They could supplement their diet of fish and game with hearty vegetation, which they could store during the winter or off-season and not starve. Because of the way vegetation was diversified across the Earth, each locale had different kinds of grain and the people eating that could settle there or move on. So the Chinese got rice and potatoes, the Mesopotamians got barley and wheat, the Indus River Valley got barley and peas, Norte Chico got maize and potatoes, and so forth. When travelers met, they exchanged grains and vegetables and spices, and found out what grew where. Because Norte Chico was isolated by the Atlantic and the Pacific, their maize was unknown outside the Americas until the 16th century, but this same isolation means the Americas had no horses, mules, cattle, or pigs, but they did have sheep, bison, buffalo, rabbits, geese, ducks, caribou, moose, deer, elk, beavers, squirrels, turkeys and many other game animals plus a lot of fish. So there was plenty to eat, but there were few domesticated animals (dogs, turkeys, alpacas, and maybe the guinea pig?) and a lot of the really good game was migratory The turkey was unknown to Europe until Columbus' voyage, but by the 16th century it had spread like crazy. Everybody wanted it and the Pilgrims reintroduced it into the colonies. Spain was overrun by the Muslim hordes, but as a consequence, they got rice in the 8th century. When Marco Polo visited China, he learned of noodles and these became staples in Italy. African slavery introduced jambo, also known as okra, to the New World with other spices where it became a staple of the French Louisiana cuisine, jambalaya. And now we're hungry.

[@Chancito.]

This video is so great because the bill wurtz video is great but he then describes it in great detail so you know what happened

[@enderguardian7443]

i love that this is a reaction video with actual commentary added on to the video

[@tcc5750]

Fantastic video; historians are the most underrated professionals.

[@DrDanAllosso]

We agree! JK. But, thanks!

[@lifepleaseexplain647]

In 9th grade instead of normal history class we took "big history". Made me look forward to that class period everyday. The teacher I guess loved it so much she left our school to work a position focusing more on big history. She was an amazing teacher.

[@ethangonzalez8904]

The "Beta version of the Greeks" was in reference to the Mycenaeans, who lived in what we now call Greece prior to the Bronze Age Collapse (a lot of ancient Greek myths take place in this time period), it wasn't a racial thing

[@DrDanAllosso]

It probably wasn't, actually, I agree. But for a long time, similar to the general "Aryan Invasion" story elsewhere, it was implied that the more civilized Greeks responsible for classical civilization were somehow...blonde.

[@ethangonzalez8904]

@@DrDanAllosso Yeah, the pseudoscience of 19th century white supremacist historiography is a fascinating, if depressing, topic of study in and of itself. Similar could be said about "Ancient Aliens" theorists who posit that any of the accomplishments of ancient non-europeans could be explained only with aliens

[@shanegibson3281]

A surprisingly comprehensive piece for a 25 minute video. Gotta ask as im not a history buff, were the stuff you touched on stuff he got wrong? Or more just missed points that wurtz perhapse just didnt really have the time to put in/only briefly touched?

[@DrDanAllosso]

I think for the most part it's stuff he went by quickly that I think is interesting and deserves more attention. It's a short video, but it could be a jumping-off point for a lot more content.

[@NekoHanyouHanaru]

I’m just curious as to how you consider the 12 Tribes being a myth considering the significant archeological findings etc. being found in Israel to this day at sights like Shiloh.

[@ayszhang]

Basically it's speculated that there were not 12 tribes like the mainstream Abrahamic narrative claims, because in many sources (even in the Bible itself) there is not always 12 tribes mentioned. It is likely that 12 is simply a symbolic, auspicious number that meant a lot to the peoples in that region. To be quite frank, these religious books are more collections of folktales of the Middle East than actual historical record. Think about it, how could the sons and their families have formed a clan over 1 or 2 generations while Jacob was alive to divide up his land (which was huge and not feasibly controllable by 1 family)? Was Jacob a king? There is also no archaeological evidence to prove Jacob existed (said he lived until 147... Sounds like a fairytale to me!)

[@NekoHanyouHanaru]

@@ayszhang Thank you for your response! I would say it does sound like fairy tales, but I still don't necessarily agree with the position that they were myths. I appreciate you explaining it to me!

[@tymiller176]

Because there is little evidence of a sizeable Jewish population in Egypt

[@erikperhs_]

@@ayszhang many bible figures lived way over 100 years. My theory is that they had a different way of measuring time

[@hard_drive.system]

@@erikperhs_ Like the theory on goliath and how he was smaller than we thought because they simply measured cubits differently.

[@serpentmaster1323]

Your reaction and interjections really added a lot to this thanks for those!

[@DrDanAllosso]

My pleasure!

[@siriusgaming3981]

I mean, we have stuff from the Egyptians about the Israelites existing before they were a country... and they kept very detailed family trees... the 12 tribes would be a very weird thing to make up... as it would be very obvious and would jar against their society be structured around it for thousands of years... levites being the priests and all

[@Seek1878]

How would 12 tribes be weird compared to all the other wierd stuff religion claims?

[@michadonald]

@@Seek1878 It would be weird for one country to make up stories that match the "mythological" claims of a separate country.

[@siennahartle9069]

There is debate over whether there were exactly twelve tribes but yeah I’m pretty sure the kingdom’s of Israel and Juda really existed

[@elusive7244]

thank u! kind of wierd how he doesnt know the difference between a theology to a mythology

[@siennahartle9069]

@@elusive7244 Even most Jewish people don’t treat the Tanakh as an accurate historical account

[@jeremytaylorfrancisgleaves3854]

I found this a lot intersting, this is one of my favorite videos and so happy to hear your perspective on it

[@DrDanAllosso]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tomgraham3612]

The HISTORY OF THE WORLD, I GUESS video was fast-paced, supremely entertaining, contained a lot of historical facts, did not bog down with too many names, used a comfortable way to explain everything. Wurtz really brought out some genius with this video. We would love to see this sort of thing for a United States video (oh, there is a JAPAN video you should watch if you like this one). We think this kind of video style "has legs".

[@vergil2]

Funny how the timescale is in the millions and that in just a few thousand years, modern humans have advanced at such speeds

[@DrDanAllosso]

Yeah, there's a genre called "Big History" that tries to stress that timescale issue.

[@benhicks9481]

The 'real history' part is all the pre-human stuff, our species has been around probably less than 0.1% in the scheme of the universe. Its way more interesting

[@noremac7216]

Pretty sure history specifically refers to what's been cataloged by humanity. That's why the word prehistory exist to describe time periods before humans started recording their experiences

[@DrDanAllosso]

Different people define the term differently, but most agree that history is the study of change over time. Usually, the reason we focus on particular topics is that they have some relation to humans; but events in the distant past before the advent of Homo sapiens DO have an impact on our lives. And lately disciplines such as Environmental History have been exploring the influence of non-human factors, to make history more than just a record of wars and such. I think of prehistory as the period before writing, when people were unable to leave the types of documents historians like to work with. As a result, we need to build our understanding of the past on findings of other disciplines like archaeology.

[@noremac7216]

@@DrDanAllosso Bro I defended your own statement just for you to deconstruct it back against yourself. Like it's a valid take but you were the one who said the real history line he digging at lol

[@willemthijssen1082]

history is the study of the human written past, prehistory is the human past before writing. what you're referring to is part of the studies of paleontology, geology, astrophysics, and plenty more like them. Anything that contains the word "history" or "histori-..." refers to the study of the human past, not that of the universe and dinosaurs.

[@ghjpkshdgtjdgvbzm]

@@noremac7216i don’t think he was replying to you lol

[@GrahamChapman]

I wish I had a history teacher more like you when I was in school. Not just someone who teaches the stuff that's in the books, but also comments upon and/or criticizes the stuff in the books that's a part of some factually erroneous narrative that the elite have been trying to push as facts for their own political reasons.

[@Valenya23]

Thank you for adding things here and there!

[@Bravo-ke7wn]

He’s not wrong at the end “where the hell are we”

[@matt-oo6fu]

i think you may have misunderstood something. When he says "a beta version of the greeks", he's not saying they're inferior or comparing them to some "alpha" version, he means like a prototype/early version of the ancient greeks we USUALLY hear about. Beta as in "beta testing," like a game/software application.

[@DrDanAllosso]

Thanks, I get that. I think what I was reacting to was a general idea (which maybe was hinted at in his use of "beta" as prototype, or maybe I was reading into it) that there were "Mycenaean" people living in what is now Greece who were displaced by the "Attic Greeks". This is based on linguistic analysis but in the 19th and 20th centuries was implicated in a somewhat racist narrative where the "real" Greeks (often imagined as blonde Aryans) replaced the "beta" Greeks, and in this version of the story there WAS a suggestion that the betas were inferior.

[@Ennui.]

18:27 Actually, the translation of Grozny to Terrible is pretty much spot on. As a Croatian (Slavic language very similar to Russian), we literally have the same word in our vocabulary, just spelled differently (Grozni, no "y") but the meaning is the same... Terrible, awful, etc.

[@Bergen98]

Yes, as Russian I can say you are completely right. Grozny in Russian means someone who instills fear/terrifying/formidable with terror. So he is very much wrong, we gave the guy that name because he was awful with everybody

[@villainouschrisk]

story i heard. when St Basil's cathedral in Moscow was completed, Ivan The Terrible had the architect Blinded, so he would never create anything to rival it. but sure, he was Awesome!

[@desmondschneider5397]

There’s a new version now that instead of cutting the whole bad word scene, just mutes the word and covers it up if on screen. I prefer the normal one, but assume this is the clean one for if kids are watching.

[@Crazyguy_123MC]

I think the video is really good at getting people into history as a sort of stepping stone. Its very informative for a 30 minute video but like you were saying there was a lot of glossing over some parts. I think that just shows how much humans have done in our short time of existing. History is a real cool thing to learn about I just wish more people cared about it.

[@reaperinsaltbrine5211]

Woww: Yes: Ivan Grozny (Ivan Vasilyevich the 4th) is 'Ivan the thunderbolt'.And thunderbolts are both terrifying and magnificient. I love your comments on this as much I love the original :)

[@laurabustos6560]

My son's actual science teacher in middle school showed the class The History of the Entire World video. With curse words and all. He then showed me, and it's been a really fun escape since then for us. I'm just here to see an actual learned person's take on our fam fav video.

[@DrDanAllosso]

I hope it was fun. My teens introduced me to it and suggested I do a response.

[@laurabustos6560]

@@DrDanAllosso yes, I was worried yours say a bunch was actually really wrong, but you didn't have too many critiques, so that made me feel better about liking the original so much. Thanks, and have a great day!

[@dakotaouzts6587]

I would recommend watching the noncensored version there’s some information that gets left out due to it being censored

[@Vengir]

Hey, have you considered using something like OBS to record your screen instead of the second camera pointed at your screen? You could get a cleaner picture that way.

[@DrDanAllosso]

Thanks, I figured out how to record the screen after I made this video. Kinda, dumb, I know.

[@willemthijssen1082]

@@DrDanAllosso there's a learning curve to anything, as long as there's progress we won't judge

[@Nickel138]

Amazing reaction. I’ve watched this video a lot, but now I have a couple of more things to look up. I want to learn from you now. 😂 Subscribed.

[@DrDanAllosso]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@xano2921]

8:38 I'm sorry... The what? No? They're "beta-greeks" just because they aren't the ancient greek civilization we all think of when we think of Athens, Sparta, Thebes and all those city-states 9:48 it was literally created as a Phoenician colony, and then became independent... Rome was independent from the start (the conquered by the Etruscans for a bit) 12:50 meh, kinda simplified, they have never been to France, Italy, Spain or North Africa. They were just invading because of a demographic boom, because they actually became more organised with the time, and because they were themselves at the same time being invaded. Obviously we have to talk about the fact that Rome was weakened, its economy was stagnant and its army and probably population too (especially near the borders) were for the most part "barbarians" 16:35 actually, under the Ottoman Empire it was called Kostantîniyye (قسطنطينيه) it changed name to Istanbul in 1930. And yo just say "yeah no, that's because Costantinople fell" is too simplistic

[@DukDolan]

your timestamps are off, but agreed.

[@Bergen98]

18:33 - literally not correct. Grozny means "someone who is very formidable and yet - very scary and terrifying" or something like "someone who instils fear". Trust Russian on knowing what the word means

[@Laury-kq5gf]

Thank you sir. i really enjoyed watching this.

[@DrDanAllosso]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@roxxychik06]

I dont know if this is something you do, but please consider reacting to any of the oversimplified videos. They are a super amazing look at history. I'm interested in your prospective on them.

[@DrDanAllosso]

Thanks @roxychik 06, I think I will continue doing reactions like this. If there are particular videos you think I ought to look at, please let me know!

[@sandman5582]

Definitely do the oversimplified videos. They are perfect for you to do a quick reaction of and give us your thoughts

[@roxxychik06]

@@sandman5582 he did yay

[@OblateSpheroid]

I understand your opposition to the Aryan invasion theory (also known by many other names) because of its historical proponents, but I think you should take a look at some of the recent genetic evidence. I have read about this subject and it seems to me that linguistic, genetic, and archaeological evidence strongly suggests a non-indigenous origin for the Sanskrit language and the people who spoke it. It can be inferred from this evidence that the people who we today call Europeans had a habit of expanding into different parts of Eurasia long before doing so on other continents. It has now also been demonstrated that the caste system was being strictly enforced prior to British rule and that the British at the top of the caste system followed the pattern which was already observable within the sub-continent.

[@DrDanAllosso]

Good points. I think there's also evidence that is gaining credibility that the invasions happened in both directions.

[@kaindrg]

@@DrDanAllosso I think better clarification is that the indo Europeans or proto Indo Europeans we're definitely not "white" in the sense we think of it today that the British were implying. Rather these physical distinction weren't really apparent yet. Due to archeo Genentics linguistics we know now a pontic steppes people of Ancient north Eurasian genetic ancestry (related to central Asian and native Americans) migrate west into Europe as pastoralist. Then a branch in the asian steppe broke off the east and slowing migrated back into central Asia. Since the recent explosion in this discovery has really yielded a ton of follow up research we are kind of saturated with literature on this top now. I'm not sure what you mean by both directions but the only time we see of a largely indigenous Indian migration out of the subcontinent today is the romani

[@ArcanumArcanorum17]

@@kaindrg From what I read they were definitely white because of the north eurasiiasn component but weren't nordic blondes. Something inbetween middle easterners and eastern europeans today

[@willemthijssen1082]

@@DrDanAllosso I read into the "beta Greeks" as the Myceneans being before the bronze age collapse and the classical Greeks being after the collapse, not as in the Aryan invasion changed everything.

[@siennahartle9069]

@@willemthijssen1082 Same I was so confused about why he was talking about that as if it didn’t happen or something

[@DissedRedEngie]

"why is Afganistan so important" from what I've learned about Russian history is, that the person ruling it really doesn't want any threats nearby. Why did they capture Karelia? Because their capital was too close to the border. Why did the cuban missile crisis happen? Because USA started placing missile bases suspiciously close to the russians. Why are they starting a war against Ukraine? because Ukraine might join NATO. I'm not really making excuses for russia, just explaining the mentality from their pov.

[@parthmudgal9270]

Everyone wants to be safe

[@darrindybas6025]

Also....sadly, if you control Afghanistan then you control poppies.

[@swahamchakraborty7990]

As far as I know the Mycenean Greeks were also Indo-Europeans. They are called beta-Greeks in the video because after the fall of the Myceneans there was a period called the Greek Dark Age in which writing was scarce, and that period was followed by Archaic Greece, which was the predecessor of Classical Greece. The Greek script and languages started appearing in recognisable forms during the Archaic period. The Myceneans used a different script called Linear B. The aesthetics we usually apply to historical Grecian culture date from the Archaic and Classical periods. The Greeks did remember some of the events of the Mycenean period, and many a times those formed the basis for their myths and legends e.g. Trojan War.

[@masha8770]

I think it's simply because many people know the mycenaeans as "greeks that were there before the classical greeks". In software alpha and beta versions are development versions before the finished 1.0 version releases. I strongly believe that based on the writing style, some of the pop-culture references and generally the intended audience (internet-literate, which generally means basic software literacy) this video uses "beta-version" to shorthand "proto-greek". There's nothing deeper to it.

[@swahamchakraborty7990]

@@masha8770 I meant exactly this when I wrote that they are called beta-Greeks because after that came the Greek Dark Ages and thus the Myceneans are viewed as being proto-Greeks. I thought people will intuitively understand that its based on software terminology. I did not try to showcase anything deeper - just that there is a divide between Mycenean Greeks and the Greeks who lived after the Greek Dark Ages.

[@enbygoth885]

great work!! I loved your commentary

[@DrDanAllosso]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

Regarding events that happened in the past, "That's not real history." Leave it to you Earthlings to think that anything not involving humans is irrelevant.

[@bell7388]

"To you Earthlings"? Who are you?

[@pezdispenser8397]

@@bell7388 An alien, obviously 👀

[@seigeengine]

That's kind of what history is though. It's kind of like whining that a stamp collector isn't interested in collecting internet bills.

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

@@bell7388 Martian, I think.. I was very young when I moved here, so I don't remember.

[@reaperinsaltbrine5211]

Oops: According to the Greek Dido story Carthage is as much Greek as it is Syrian (from Tyros?) IIRC archeolgy says their culture is more closely related to that of Atiq (Utica) from ~1200BC .

[@cjandauntieyaya1446]

I found that he glossed over the fact that the Aboriginals of Australia were the oldest migrants from Africa (possibly 150,000 years ago) and the fact that there were many times the Americas were colonized by different people including Asians, Samoans, Vikings and possibly Africans since BOTH Mexico and Egypt had corn. I was a bit miffed he didn't discuss more about the Americas so that people could learn that the reason Europeans were able to conquer the Americas is due to the fact that 90% of the Natives already died from the diseases Columbus brought over. Which is telling in itself as to how good transportation was in the Americas back then since Columbus never stepped foot in Northern America but stayed mostly in Cuba and the Caribbeans. How could there be a pandemic unless there was travel between those islands and the main lands. Oh but no, all history wants to acknowledge is the nomadic tribes of the Americas that survived the pandemic.

[@DrDanAllosso]

I also feel like the rapid and nearly complete depopulation of the Americas by disease is a story that should be told much more energetically. Columbus mostly stayed in the Caribbean, but Cortés went to Mexico in 1519 and disease had reached South America and killed the Inca before Pizarro arrived about a decade later. After helping Pizarro conquer the Inca Empire, De Soto traveled extensively in southeastern N. America from 1539-42 before dying of fever himself. A couple of the other things you mentioned are still considered highly speculative by most historians, and although I've heard theories I haven't seen enough evidence to convince me of their validity. So I won't comment.

[@Seek1878]

A lot fo stuff was glossed over, it would be literally hours long to get every single detail....also they didn't include that grim reaper for nothing.

[@cjandauntieyaya1446]

@@Seek1878 Yeah, that Grim Reaper was really appropo.

[@kregy7509]

Egyptians didn't have corn. The word corn used to describe basically any granular product. The maize in America used to be called indian corn and than became just corn. Why would you even thing Egyptians got to america? There is nothing even pointing at the possibility of them crossing the ocean. I just hope it some weird mistake we all make and not some stupid Afrocentrist bullshit I seem to keep hearing.

[@Noone-gs9rl]

Hi I am intrested in learning the History of the world, which site would ypu recommemd to be credible as a source of info? or books ? genuinely asking. Thankyouu, also enjoyed your reaction video pls keep making other videos related to history.

[@DrDanAllosso]

Thanks for asking. I've written a textbook, actually (mlpp.pressbooks.pub/modernworldhistory/). I've been thinking about posting videos based on each of the chapters, but wasn't sure whether people would be interested in that much detail.

[@Noone-gs9rl]

@@DrDanAllosso thank you so much for this xx

[@requiemlul3140]

Your enthusiasm for this really added to the video.

[@trentbobo4171]

I have gone down so many rabbit holes because of this video.

[@gattlinggrunt1473]

I see those quick cuts where you (assumedly) go on a tangent then eventually get back on topic and removed the entire thing to continue the video. And I appreciate it, very much.

[@helck1153]

I learned so much from your explanations, Thank You!

[@ashildrtheswift3028]

I actually really like the corrections and additions you made to these videos! As someone studying to become a history teacher, it's very helpful

[@DrDanAllosso]

Glad you like them!

[@Buvucyxfubvydrztcib]

i know nothing about history but this was a genuinely interesting video

[@PickpocketJones]

Historian upset wrapping his head around the fact that the concept of history didn't exist before time existed. lol

[@clydoscope5841]

Not only that it's hilarious, I learn stuff too

[@JohnPaulBuce]

wow, thanks for the insights

[@DrDanAllosso]

Glad it was helpful!

[@godmode8687]

I personally loved the video. I mean you can see he is a westerner. These topics always got a bit more time. But still: It shoved more events from china and india etc than school ever did. And it wasnt to eurocentric. Only thing i felt was mostly missing was america. He highlighted some things which happened there, but only a few. Then again i guess its hard if the plagues and invasions of europe killed 90% of the population. Not much history survives that combined with looting of gold and burning of all non christian books. But i could be wrong. Just felt it missed a lot there.

[@jaidenalonzo4881]

Your comments on the accuracy of the video were great

[@minhbuiminhbui2339]

Hello, what is your glasses type call?, I cant find glasses with similar shape in my country.

[@DrDanAllosso]

I have no idea. I buy them on Amazon in bulk, a half dozen at a time. I imagine they’re available on Alibaba even cheaper. Sorry.

[@TheDianaJC]

We no longer call it "Reconquista" in the Iberian Peninsula. Don't know what we call it either though. But basically these northern kings from Asturias who started conquering lands to the south were not direct descendents of the Visigoths or Suevos. Also the moors hab abandoned many of the northern peninsula and many small christian comunities were living there without a king. So these new kings had to make deals with these communities, (probably not peacefuly everytime) and then altogether they kept conquering lands further south. They really put a lot of emphasis on this subject when I was studying.

[@DrDanAllosso]

Did they link this experience of conquest to actions in the Americas?

[@KatieFrog217]

I enjoyed this reaction! I'd love to hear a break down or an expansion on some of the topics that seemed to need more context or as you say, were a myth that were proven false later!

[@DrDanAllosso]

Thanks! Any in particular you'd really like to see? Maybe I'll do some short videos and then put tags on this one...

[@KatieFrog217]

@@DrDanAllosso I'd love to hear about how the Iranian invasion was a fake concept personally!

[@DrDanAllosso]

Are you specifically talking about the Aryan invasion of India? I can do something on that, I think!

[@KatieFrog217]

@@DrDanAllosso yes that! Please and thank you! :)

[@claireglory]

thank you for the additional info sir.

[@Kevinofrepublic]

21:37 whoa. I didn't know that.

[@jameslane2326]

7:13 Would Mexican be the right word to describe those people? does the word Mexico predate the Spanish invasion?

[@DrDanAllosso]

I believe Mexica is what the people we call Aztecs called themselves. I've heard it means something like "people of the moon lake", referring to the lake in which they built Tenochtitlán.

[@Kameab1213]

You make a good point about Ivan the Terrible being actually Ivan the Awesome but awesome back then linguistically meant terrible so both statements are correct.

[@Zack91893]

18:25 Then "The Winged Hasars Arrived!"

[@mscommerce]

Great reaction and channel. No offense, but has anyone told you look and sound a bit like Rick Beato, who reacts to music videos. Are you guys related?

[@DrDanAllosso]

I'll take that as a compliment! We're about the same age and we're probably of the same ethnicity, and we probably came from the same region.

[@fumeknightofshovelry3901]

Thank you for this video!

[@ivanalantiev2397]

Ivan IV nicknamed 'Grozniy' is traditionally reffered in English as 'Terrible', but isn't really terrible, nor 'awesome'. The closer translation would be 'fearsome'.

[@creeperstkoed6282]

A bit of a tip to sync audio to the video should you do a reaction again, before watching the video open a new tab and type while saying what your typing it can jsut be numbers or a simple small phrase, then when editing you can align the audio to the video bake it together then make whatever jump cuts you need

[@spaghetticat5246]

I was able to make more sense of this video now that I’m older and have gone through more history classes. If you asked me a few years ago when I first watched this who the mongols were, I wouldn’t have known. So it’s fun to make these connection! I was slightly surprised that there wasn’t more South American events in the video but for a long time South America wasn’t known to most of the world and didn’t have the ability to trade with European, Asian, or African countries. There were a few mentions but not a lot.

[@Nikita13337]

Ivan Grozniy’s nickname translates to something like “terrifying”, “terrible” used to mean that.

[@nathan0401_]

This is pretty interesting.

[@CircuitReborn]

Not gonna lie..that was an amazing onion hat.xD

[@gauravbhai258]

Why did he show Tibet saying wanna get enlightened middle of no where???

[@PongoXBongo]

My guess on the Tamil Kings maintaining their independence is that it was a similar situation to France and the Vikings. Basically, they were rich enough to pay them to go away. Whereas the rest of India was more like Britain, which did get (partially) conquered because they couldn't do so.

[@parthmudgal9270]

Not just that, the Tamil kings were considerably advanced in terms of naval power and also had access to mountainous landscape that would allow them home advantage. Plus the trade wealth helps.

[@thediamondkittygamingmore6614]

Actually - Constantinople didn't become Istanbul until the Turkish Civil War (which happened around 1918). When the Ottomans conquered it, they called Constantinople Constantinople, but in Turkish - Kostantiniyye (i think). Then Turkey became Turkey and they changed the name to Istanbul

[@mike5d1]

how about next time you do a reaction you pause the video to make your comments so that you don't miss half of it

[@DrDanAllosso]

Yeah, I've begun doing that. Do you think I should redo this?

[@captainteeko4579]

21:15 YES FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT! I li be in SA and every time I see the Alamo I think of all the history they never taught us about it 😭

[@Aussie.Brad0]

it was good of you to fill us in about parts of this video i know more now cheers

[@Ben_Kimber]

I was mildly disappointed that Bill Wurtz didn't mention 1812...or Canada in general.

[@randomthingsman24]

I can't stop watching that video ever since I was 5

[@nekotrashwillnyanforcash]

"The ocean will have more plastic in it than fish by 2050" yes.

[@videoveiwer]

Great video dude! Taking history classes on some of this stuff in college I love the corrections, especially the exit of rich Europeans from what became Istanbul influencing the renaissance as well as elaborating on the grim reaper from Europe. Cool stuff

[@videoveiwer]

Also if you read this, are you a professor? The way you ask questions when you pause give strong class discussion prompting vibes

[@DrDanAllosso]

Glad you enjoyed! Yeah, I teach modern world, US, and environmental history.

[@itsh7311]

@@videoveiwer 25:35

[@DrDanAllosso]

I DID ask my students about it, but didn't get responses I thought could be turned into a video. OTOH, I originally discovered the Bill Wurtz video through my 16 and 14 year old kids...

[@videoveiwer]

@@DrDanAllosso dang, would love to see student reactions to similar content!

[@cyberx3566]

This vid explained history better than my teachers. And in a short time at that.

[@tristemsaris7739]

Oh? Sugar Cane came from the arabs in the middle ages? Huh? And here I thought it was a New World we found in the caribean.

[@DrDanAllosso]

As I understand it, originally from New Guinea, China, and India, but it was being grown and processed in Palestine when the Crusaders arrived.

[@nathanvega6281]

You should have reacted to the original video instead of the one edited for children

[@DrDanAllosso]

I suppose. I used the "clean" version because some of my students said they found the narration in the other one distracting.

[@nathanvega6281]

It is a lot funnier that’s for sure.

[@brandonhinrichs4393]

You just exude teacher vibes lol

[@DrDanAllosso]

I'll take that as a compliment!

[@cheesenut1234]

you can use obs to record your screen so you dont need to use a camera

[@warbacca1017]

One little known theory that i read about in a book was that the mongols indirectly helped with causing the Renaissance. Theoretically the Renaissance woukdve occured first in the middle east due to the wealth and knowledge. However the mongols ransacked it and (eventually) turned away from europe because of how poor the eastern european kingdoms appeared.

[@tommyrex6648]

I'm very interested in this theory, what's the name of the book???

[@warbacca1017]

@@tommyrex6648 "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" by Jack Weatherford. Great read

[@tommyrex6648]

@@warbacca1017 thank you I'll check it out!

[@warbacca1017]

@@tommyrex6648 pleased to be of service. Do give me your opinion when you've finished

[@macadelic2492]

i like how even he couldn't explain the magical "Tin"