History of the Entire World, I Guess Reaction

Entertaining look at some of the history of the world.
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[@Bonifaquisha]

For African history, I think the main issues are #1 - The farther back you go, the harder it is to get historical records that corroborate to eachother for validation. And #2 - Since those northern African dynasties were some of the first major civilizations, they're also the ones that were conquered, reconquered with each new dynasty copy/pasting over the history of the previous over and over again. Of course, there are books on these things but most are focused on Egypt and even THOSE history books are in constant dispute with eachother. Just my guess, but I'd like to know if I'm wrong, if someone knows.

[@PIForever]

I appreciate your comment. You make some good points

[@fishyjoes4615]

I fucking hate the dismissal of oral traditions in historical academia historians will uses documents and journals about events written 100s of years after the event or even propaganda from ancient sources are treat as facts then just outright dismiss oral traditions. I'm not saying treat oral traditions as facts as well just do not completely dismiss

[@TheMilkMan8008]

@@fishyjoes4615 because written history can be proven and backed up by fact. Every culture had oral history at one point such as the Norse for example. They are pretty much a mystery to us. What we do know came from oral history and family memories passed on for hundreds of years until people in Iceland finally recorded them in writing. A lot of it is incorrect and even fairytale in nature. You can pick out some things that can be corroborated by other historical accounts from other places or by geology, but oral history is super unreliable for historical facts. The most you can get from it is the mindset of the people at that time. What they thought like, what everyday life was like and so on. Oral history isn't thrown out. It is carefully studied and directed. What we do find that is historically relevant is taught. The rest you can learn in other ways such as extracurricular secondary school classes delving into oral history of various cultures or in further research in college courses.

[@gerritvalkering1068]

Please don't get upset, but very little that happened in Africa done by Africans has seriously affected the world as it stands now. That's not an accusation. Or at least not an accusation leveled at Africa. The main culprit is the Sahara. There's an interesting book called 'guns, germs and steel' which explores why some areas of the world lagged behind in the population booms that happened with advancements made in farming, like in India, China, and the middle east, and thus got slower starts on big nations and cities and all that. Spoiler alert: It has nothing to do with guns, germs or steel, and everything to do with the lack of highly nutritional farm crops and easily domesticated animals in sub-Saharan Africa. Pretty much all the current farming and husbandry in Africa is done using crops and livestock imported from Egypt and other North African and Arabian countries, some having their origin even further north than that. Traders didn't consider these trade goods. Why would they need to bring a better type of food with them, or cows? It was only when people from north of the Sahara started to make settlements in sub-Sahara Africa that these were introduced. I forgot when it was exactly. The other culprit is Europe. And that is where the guns, germs and steel come in, though at least it gave as good as it got in the germs department. I'm pretty sure I don't have to explain this one. Most of the history, power and influence of sub-Saharan Africa never made it out of Africa and has left no lasting impact on the world. It's harsh and painful, and Europe is responsible for destroying a large part of it. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident, sometimes by proxy, but the damage done was disastrous.

[@fishyjoes4615]

@@gerritvalkering1068 guns germ and steel is highly discredited by historians when it comes to talking about africa. First it was written by a geographer not an historian and second it doe not even gets the geography of Africa right

[@rayhutchinson640]

Awesome reaction! You handled that really well! Most reactors seem stunned by the end of the video, because of the information overload, but you seemed to be wanting more! Makes me wish they would make a History of Africa, I Guess video.

[@rachel4210]

Loved your commentary! You have such great energy :) Happy Holidays!

[@LiLiJo]

What I love about this video is that it shows me that throughout time people want to prove they are better or have been oppressed. We are all the same and wanting to see more of a tiny bit of history depending who you are is not understanding the history of the world. It will continue changing but we will all be dead in the next 100 years and a new generation will hopefully see each other as equals not enemies.

[@vasho_]

You had so much fun and I loved it :) Don't understand another reactors who are very serious about this without having a good laugh :)

[@saranonimus9211]

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[@greggwilliamson]

I don't know if you've seen it yet, but "George Carlin: Religion" is hilarious!!

[@ryderjohnson1293]

This history is so compressed that it's hilarious. Kids need to be watching this in school, tbh. Grab their attention.

[@TheMilkMan8008]

Explaining how life came about is my favorite thing ever. Chemical evolution is so cool. To start you have to talk about the Urey-Miller experiment. Back in the 1950s these two biochemists did an experiment in which they took a containment chamber, filled it with water, ammonia, methane, hydrogen, and all the things you expect to find on any fledgling planet. All the things you would expect on any new Earths. They put a fire underneath so it would evaporate, go into another container to be zapped with electrodes, cooled, funneled back to the original container and cycles back through. They are simulating the patterns of an early Earth, and simulating all the elements you could find on Earth. You take early simple ingredients, get them hot, get them cold, zapped with lightning and other normal processes. They ran it for a while and when they come back they took samples. To their surprise, the water is no longer clear, but is a gross reddish brown. They test it and find it is now full of amino acids. Amino acids are the things that build proteins and make life happen. That is called chemical evolution. Very simple inorganic ingredients come together via totally natural means and form organic macromolecules. There are 4 macromolecules that make up life. Lipids, proteins, carbs and nucleic acids. Those are the 4 macromolecules that make up everything alive. Each one is a polymer meaning its a molecule that forms a chain. I'll explain each of these below: PROTEINS are made of chains of amino acids that fold up on themselves. A chain of amino acids is a primary structure. Then it folds into an alpha helix or a beta pleated sheet called a secondary structure. Then it forms a glob called a tertiary structure. Sometimes some globs come together and thats then a quaternary structure and so on. Thats how proteins work. Proteins make up skin, muscle, bones, and everything like that. CARBS are sugars. Long chain simple sugars such as glucose or fructose. If you stick them together you get sucrose. A bunch of those together makes a polysaccharide. This makes carbs like starche, cellulose and such. LIPIDS are fats. You have a twisted hydrocarbon chain that repels water and thats a lipid. There are various kinds like phospholipids where a long hydrocarbon chain comes off it to repel water and on the other end is a phosphorus group that attracts water. This makes a hydrophilic and hydrophobic end. One attracts and one repels water. If you take any lipid like cooking oil for example and put it in water it forms a bubble all by itself. Nobody has to tell it to do that. That's because a sphere is the smallest possible surface area and is the most energetically protected from the water around it. It would take more energy to make any other shape and the universe is lazy. Everything is always as energetically simple as possible. Lipids that naturally form out of normal stuff under normal circumstances, naturally form spheres. Amino acids which make proteins that naturally form out of natural stuff can get stuck in one of these spheres, and you now have something that practically represents a cell. All this stuff formed by totally natural means and naturally assumes the shape of a sphere can naturally come together and form a cell. You can do this in a jar. Now imagine that on a planet taking place over millions of years. The Urey-Miller experiment has been redone in different ways many times by putting other things in, leaving some things out, and hundreds of combinations and it just always works. Later, we figured out this happens in hydrothermal vents. They pump out acids and bases. These have proton gradients. Whats that? Well an acid is a chemical with a bunch of extra protons and a base is something that doesn't have enough and has too many electrons. When they neutralize they give off electrical charges that move one place to the next. This is how your cells make energy today. Mitochondria pass protons across a membrane. This turns a protein called ATP synthesis which makes adenosine triphosphate and thats how our body works. It's how most cells today work. Where can we find natural proton gradients right now? Hydrothermal vents. Where can we find the building blocks of lipids and proteins? Hydrothermal vents. We can even find amino acids, including all the ones important to life, in space. Just floating on asteroids. They form naturally all by themselves all over. You have the building blocks of life, the thing that makes energy in cells even today happening naturally all by itself in hydrothermal vents and all over the universe. Life then starts all by itself. Now we also have NUCLEIC ACIDS, the 4th macromolecule, which is DNA and RNA. We do debate what came first, but the most common consensus is RNA came first. I also follow the RNA world hypothesis. Let me explain why. RNA is cool because it isn't just something that carries information, but it also works as a catalysts to make reactions happen. A catalysts is something that lowers the activation energy of a reaction. It makes a reaction happen easier and faster with less energy. So RNA carries genetic information, it can also make more of itself, and it can make other reactions happen faster. Think about how proteins are made in your body today. It's like this. You have mRNA(messenger RNA) that makes proteins happen. How? It goes to a ribosome to be read. What are ribosomes made of? They are made of rRNA(ribosomal RNA), and aren't membrane bound organelles. In the ribosome something brings over amino acids to make the protein. What brings them over? tRNA(transfer RNA). So when your body makes proteins it uses RNA to tell RNA to use RNA to make a protein. Again, you can do this in a jar. That is why the major consensus is that RNA came first. RNA is something that is so unbelievably useful. Why do we have DNA then? Because once it happened to form DNA was/is really good at long term storage and it's far more stable meaning it stuck around better. You can divide it, make more of it, pack it into a tight wad and have it twist around proteins called histones to makes a tight rope called chromatin, and then chromatin forms a body called a chromosome. Thats how DNA works. It wraps around proteins, wraps into a thick rope, and those thick ropes form a chromosome. It's super easy to divide these and split them up. Is it so hard to believe that some of these naturally forming nucleic acids found their way into a blob of naturally forming lipids? THEN they split, THEN you have 2 sets of chromosomes in a cell THEN cytokenesis happens where actin filaments tighten around the cell in a contractile ring, and remember lipids form bubbles naturally, so once squished together you now have a cleavage furrow that then splits into two seperate bubbles! You now have dividing life out of literally "nothing". It's not difficult at all to say that very simple ingredients found all over the universe that naturally form organic molecules by natural processes then naturally stated making more of themselves. You then get a VERY early organism. Something so insanely simple. Not bacteria, that would be unbelievably complex in comparison. Just a very simple membrane, very simple genetic material and very simple proteins. The very basics of all of this. That is what we call LUCA. There was probably a ton of very early life, but LUCA is the one that stuck around. Everything that ever lived past that point is related to LUCA. We have a very clear picture of how everything evolved after that. I can gladly get into that if anyone want me to. I'm an evolutionary biologist so this tickles me all over when I get to explain it.

[@TheSuicideRacer]

Your reaction is the first I've seen that could actually acknowledge the harm of religions 👍🍻.

[@EmceePinks]

loved the reaction, great video

[@woohahcatrim9780]

It was a good one, Brother. I hit that 'like' button three times.

[@TheDanEdwards]

I'm pretty sure that Japan does not think of itself as a "brown country".

[@adriamasero996]

Honestly, as an European, the whole "Brown", "African-American", "Hispanic", etc Dividing terms used in the US are quite weird to me. For example, why black american people are called "African-american" and white americans are not called "European-American"?

[@fishyjoes4615]

@@adriamasero996 as an American the answer is racism even today I know a lot of people in my small town that talk about "Real Americans" and it's never minority groups

[@Reblwitoutacause]

@@adriamasero996 It is pretty weird. The richest man in the world is literally African American, but it's Elon Musk... I dont get why some people call other people the things that they do.

[@adjjal]

Great reaction

[@SkywalkerExpress]

what are those 30 something Dynasties in Africa "Before all of these happen" ?

[@TheMuffinBagare]

He mentioned Nubia, which is in/around Egypt. This general area had some of the earliest societies (among others such as mesopotamia and the Indus valley etc). There were dynasties elsewhere in Africa as well, but these are the most well known ancient ones. So basically, Egypt and thereabouts. That's northern Africa. They had MANY different dynaties. The video mentioned Mansa Musa later on, which is in western Africa, where a whole bunch of kingdoms were located as well. I think southern Africa and their kingdoms are the biggest mysteries to our records of history.

[@O.PNayakVlogs]

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[@xanthoastro]

I loved your absorption in the video - I am glad you didn't comment too much. This is speed-history - if you blink you'll miss a century! Also, your comments about African history really got me thinking - I know so little about pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. Maybe we should suggest to Mr. Wurtz to make "The Entire History of Africa, I Guess". He did one on Japan. If you haven't already, check out "The Fallen of World War II". No humor, but stunning graphic representation of what have always been just numbers.

[@TheMilkMan8008]

The problem is that the only African history we have comes from the earliest and biggest civilizations such as Egypt. Northern Africa has it's history documented pretty well, but Central and South Africa were still being populated during that time and the small tribal groups didn't have written languages. The civilizations they were also around with Egypt would have been at wars with eachother and as they were wiped out so was any history they had. African history is pretty sparce in comparison to other continets.

[@evanirvana500]

Considering there's fairly conclusive proof of the earth's age with carbon dating, those that still hold desperately to the earth being a mere thousands of years old is like kids who stick their fingers in their ears and sing loudly to drown out anyone who claims different. Religion in a nutshell. There was a lot he didn't get deeply into not just Africa. The natives of each continent weren't mentioned much including their slaughter was reduced to being eluded to. But he was trying to pack everything in 20 minutes so I didn't think it was realistic to cover everywhere but def western centric coverage. I also find it interesting how such huge empire like Roman's and ghengis khan took many generations to achieve, the Americans established the largest empire in history in just 250 years.

[@Bobsyagod]

It becomes even worse than just ignoring carbon dating and such that proves how old the world is, they're also ignoring that even recorded human history goes back well past 6 thousand years. It's such a weird mark to hold to.

[@Dan_Ben_Michael]

African history was barely touched upon and Australian history was reduced to dumping convicts here, but overall it was a great condensing of the history of the planet.

[@adriamasero996]

I think that the history of America, Africa and Oceania is less explained than the European and the Asian because of their oral traditions, therefore because of the lack of documents that can be studied and explained in a video about history

[@fishyjoes4615]

I fucking hate the dismissal of oral traditions in historical academia historians will uses documents and journals about events written 100s of years after the event or even propaganda from ancient sources are treat as facts then just outright dismiss oral traditions. I'm not saying treat oral traditions as facts as well just do not completely dismiss them some times cultures with oral traditions might even be more accurate.

[@adriamasero996]

@@fishyjoes4615I think that documents containing events that are not proved to have happened as well as the oral traditions do not have to be dismissed but rather be considered as what they are: Sources of information which cannot be totally proven to be true. For example, we're not sure that some of the histories about ancient Greece philosophers are true but in the end they are interesting in many ways. It's a fact and it is true that Western academia is sometimes a little bit obsessed with facts and truths.