How Long Would You Survive In The Past?

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Thanks to the technological advances of the modern age, in 2023 life is pretty safe. In the past however, many of the things we take for granted now were likely a death sentence for our ancestors.
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Show Created by Daniel Turner (B.A. (Hons) in History, University College London)
Script: Jake Leigh-Howarth
Narrator:
Chris Kane
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[@KnightSlasher]

Honestly I wouldn't survive in the past at all, in fact I wasn't even born yet

[@BonShula]

Hahahaha, I am 12 and this was very funny

[@Anon_1003]

Same

[@malsa_zej]

Hahahaha, I am 18 and this was very funny

[@prithulthepianoboy.4207]

True

[@devinfordale8386]

Hahahaha, I am 105 and I'm not feeling very well.

[@TheLastArbiter]

Can you imagine going through that amputation process only to die anyway from an infection? Brutal

[@billmuray]

So bitter.

[@space4166]

If this cheers you up, most of them were “death row prisoners.” They were serial killers, rapist, etc

[@knightwolf5006]

@@space4166 they were innocent people

[@space4166]

@@knightwolf5006 not exactly but some volunteer some were prisoners

[@knightwolf5006]

@@space4166 they were doctors and lawyers lol

[@tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224]

I literally will never complain about my life in the 21st century ever again after seeing this.

[@tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224]

@Smokey Mcb Except If it was a tiny Hitler, maybe.

[@kellychuang8373]

That's good to hear since today's people would hardly imagine living then though maybe we had an ancestor that lived then too though. Since past lives really were the pits.

[@bill2070]

You literally absolutely will though

[@tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224]

@@bill2070 Yeah. So, what? Even if I do, I'd still be glad I'm living in this century than the others preceding it.

[@waynelevi5053]

Imagine dental procedures without anything numbing

[@VinnyUnion]

The sheer fact they never gave up with advanced medical treatments is fascinating. From what they saw, all their attempts at trying anything advanced resulted mostly in less-than-ideal and often in failure. It seemed almost impossible to achieve perfectly ideal result. I think there was a massive turn on events when medical treatment surpassed on what's possible. Which makes us very briefly or closer to immortality. For example, heart transplant, it isn't immortality buy you can still live even if your is about to stop just by having one transplanted and thereof outliving your original date/fate.

[@RandomPerson-hd6wr]

Industrial revolution

[@billmuray]

What they saw 😂 🪚

[@shinedown394]

Except that the effects of modern society are causing people to have more medical issues so it’s kind of circular.

[@basti77737]

It's a mixture of optimism, faith, intellegt and courage. Humans want to do better, always, anytime and the results until now we can experience.

[@davidkintzer1604]

Discovery requires experimentation ~ Daniel Whitehall, Hydra scientist

[@ScarletRebel96]

Tuberculosis took our friend Arthur Never forget that

[@spencermaley4390]

✊😔

[@j4aksu]

Rip😥

[@Sl33PY3Y3Z97]

AAAAARRTHHUURRRRRR!!😭

[@H1m.kidd239]

🕊️

[@killtaro5166]

Last year I got stung by a mosquito, it was itching so I scratched it, a day later it infected my armed and was rapidly spreading, I went to the doc who gave me penicillin for a week and science happen… it’s funny to think that something as stupid as that would have killed me back in the good old day 🤷‍♂️

[@gypsydildopunks7083]

Slappy slap, don't scratchy scratch

[@RandomPerson-hd6wr]

Hmm what could have caused that? Perhaps you were a bit dirty on ur fingers and arm or maybe under ur fingernails?

[@BlackWolf-kr7wo]

@@RandomPerson-hd6wr yep. My guy is a dirty pig💀

[@RandomPerson-hd6wr]

@@BlackWolf-kr7wo we dont know the story so maybe they arent dirty

[@feldgeist2637]

surely not fitting into the past if almost killed by a mosquito bite

[@thefishstick]

Whenever I have a major asthma attack without my inhaler readily avaliable it really makes me appreciate our medical advances. I can't even imagine struggling with it during ancient Greece or prior

[@ex-navyspook]

I like to say that we're all alive because of the wonders of modern chemistry and pharmacology.

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any dentists 😷 back 🔙 in ancient Greece?" 🇬🇷

[@ismaelsantos5378]

@@joeerickson516 Well, they did. You probably wouldn't want the service if you could avoid it.

[@joeerickson516]

"What do you mean the service?"

[@joeerickson516]

"They did have dentists 😷 in ancient Greece?" 🇬🇷

[@eksbocks9438]

2:07 Germ Theory is a relatively modern concept. Back then, people had no idea how plagues started.

[@feldgeist2637]

"Miasma" put on your plague mask pls !

[@markmower1746]

Half of this country still doesn't, look how people acted 2 years ago with this COVID-19 and how the media played on your stupidity.

[@dododostenfiftyseven4096]

Fake

[@billrosenstein]

Terrain theory > germ theory

[@mikitz]

John Snow proved the miasma theory BS in the 1850's, but he wasn't taken seriously for decades due to stubborn medical professors simply because he challenged their inherit beliefs.

[@batman5224]

Future generations will probably look back on this time period and agonize over the fact that we can’t cure cancer or even the common cold. Personally, it would depend not only on when but where I lived. I wouldn’t want to live in the rural area that I live in now prior to the 1950s. If I traveled back to the 20s though the 40s, I would like to live in New York City. In the 19th century, I would love to live in London. I probably wouldn’t want to go back any further than the 19th century. I am curious about the Middle Ages, Shakespearean England, and Ancient Greece, but I would rather be just an observer, not a participant.

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

I think the number 1 thing that we currently do that will be looked at as barbaric by future generations is radiation treatment for cancer. They’ll look back at that like “WTF?! Savages!”

[@caralho5237]

19th century london? you'd die of a disease before you could find a place to stay in

[@TheIrishMugFug]

they'll grimace at the notion that we let children hormonally castrate themselves

[@slayride136]

Same for observer part

[@kaanseyhun7041]

Bro wants to find jack the ripper in london in the 19th century💀

[@ordelian7795]

I would count myself lucky in the 1920's as well for not being stupid enough to care about my looks so much that I put myself under a cruel machine.

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any dentistry, 😷 back 🔙 in the 1920's?"

[@ordelian7795]

@@joeerickson516 They had dentistry in Ancient Egypt. Look it up, yokel.

[@XGrimzukiX]

@@joeerickson516 look up how to use quotations while you’re at it.

[@joeerickson516]

"Alright."

[@XGrimzukiX]

@@joeerickson516 lol you just like looking like a complete dunce with every comment?

[@Daniel_McDonald]

Wow, this portion on the history of surgeries was so interesting and informative! It really highlights how much we take for granted with modern medical advancements. The thought of undergoing an amputation without anesthesia is unimaginable. It's incredible how far we've come and how lucky we are to live in a time where medical care is so advanced. Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us!

[@agelessrebellion8271]

its not that advanced. errors still happen, infections are still everywhere and you CAN still be infected even in clean rooms, the risk is REDUCED not removed. plus if you pay attention to super bugs......yeah nothing you will figure out that not much has changed overall. we dont know how anesthesia works and it can even FAIL at times, though rare. dental care has not changed a lot in a few hundred years or compared to other fields it has not advanced as rapidly.

[@D0NU75]

I'm surprised they never put together that guillotines could have been used for amputation as well.

[@XY2Moroccoball]

The pain will be less severe but still you might die from infection

[@user-zn8fm8kw5v]

Guillotines weren’t invented until French Revolution.

[@alansharpers6218]

Underated comment

[@letsRumble814]

Omg, this is so right

[@fulgenzio89]

Probably they did but a Guillottine was very expensive

[@cannonball666]

"Doctor, don't you need to wash your hands?" "Why? I'm not eating dinner."

[@Jkim890]

1:25 “Making sure to have a spare on hand in case it broke,” Yeesh. Imagine the story that necessitated that

[@oshke5225]

I can't even

[@dickencider104]

Imagine not having modern dentistry. No Anastasia, needing a tooth removal or god forbid a mouth infection. And getting those top wisdom teeth out would be almost if not impossible

[@robgau2501]

I'd be ok. It'd be rough at first. I know how tough life was and I try not to take things for granted.

[@eksbocks9438]

I mean, health care wasn't as advanced back then. Even back in 1900, people didn't think washing your hands would make any difference in medicine.

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have a dentist back 🔙 then in 1900?"

[@Mk2k4k]

Not true, hand washing became popular in the mid 19th century.

[@sebastianschrader838]

@@Mk2k4k “Back in 1900” hope that helped!

[@britishrex5515]

given my medical history an optimistic lifespan would have been 48 hours

[@supersentaipepsi3736]

Idk how I'd do, but I'm grateful I don't have to experience anything my grandfather experienced in early 20th century Louisiana.

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any dentists, 😷 back 🔙 in early 20th century Louisiana?"

[@Dezzyyy]

@@joeerickson516 considering Washington had wooden teeth, yes, yes they did. Were they they good? No, probably not, considering Washington had wooden teeth lmao.

[@joeerickson516]

"Actually George Washington had dentures made of elephant 🐘 tusk ivory, or walrus, or hippotamus teeth?" "Not wooden teeth."

[@hiddenguy67]

​@@joeerickson516 are you an npc why do you type like that

[@cesarreyes8320]

I am so glad i was born in this era, even now in days in my country of origin Mexico you can see the struggles of not having modern medicine in the reach of all citizens.

[@philipppasternak4451]

I would have died in my first week due to Problems with my airway but now I am able to survive for quite some time alone in the woods and could provide a medieval society with a good amount of skills.

[@kaymuldoon3575]

One of the most excruciating things I learned from history is when John and Abigail Adams’ daughter had a mastectomy WITHOUT anesthesia. I think I would have rather died than undergo something like that.

[@poirebalboa]

Thanks brother for your support ❤

[@MrGray-dx8sw]

Everyone who thinks the world owes em a favor needs to watch this.

[@jpraise6771]

Crazy to believe our ancestors endured such conditions. Makes you really grateful to be alive

[@asahezekiahgarcia3508]

The way this channel desrcibes the past, Im Thankful I’m Born not experiencing the agony they feel, what a life we have

[@ManetInAEternum]

Finally!!!! I always love thinking about stuff like this.

[@rosskardon7195]

I hope someday in the future, medical science will be advanced enough to regrow missing limbs, new nerve cell, new body tissue, and new organs through regeneration, just like on the Seth MacFarlane science fiction TV show, The Orville. If the real future is a bright future like that of Star Trek and The Orville, then people in the 25th Century will be saying how hard and terrible life was today in the early 21st Century.

[@jman4083]

I think there is a way for that kind of stuff but with the current dictatorship among other things preventing progress we will not be seeing it so soon. There are ways to cure cancer but it is being suppressed by the powers at be and big pharma. How would Big Pharma make money if people never got cancer or even sick at all?

[@JesusChristDenton_7]

"We are not only men of science: we are men of hope." - Dr. Jonas Venture

[@jafulton89]

Sure.. If you are part of the 0.01% uber elite you will be able to regrow limbs and travel to mars. The average person will never have access to any of that. Check out all the elite level people nowadays that get 7 heart transplants and live to 90+ years old and their cancer is cured multiple times while the average person dies on a waiting list for a single transplant and they just tell them their cancer is terminal.

[@RebelWvlf]

I would like for medicine to develop to that stage where people can transfer their consciousness to brand new bodies like in Avatar movie. Or even better, into robot bodies like in Ghost In The Shell anime. No more physical or mental illnesses, body dysmorphia or gender dysphoria. Just factory reset on life and everything.

[@Rob-zw5qs]

Be very careful what you wish for

[@americanrefugee5967]

That is incredible!! Our ancestors were so much tougher than us! Lol! Thank you so much!! We love your videos!

[@royale7620]

​@@reckless20 you are not smart either cupcake, you didnt come up with anything you just know these things cause somebody pointed it out

[@feldgeist2637]

@@reckless20 less "educated" but smarter ......and tougher..... brain size decreased by quite a bit since the spread of civilisation

[@egg-iu3fe]

@@reckless20 no. our society is literally built off their knowledge

[@reckless20]

@@egg-iu3fe so yo, an average human today, know less than an average illiterate farmer 100 years ago?

[@egg-iu3fe]

@@reckless20 what? Clearly what I said went over your head, i know which side of the spectrum you fall on though

[@bigflip3714]

Great vid

[@rickkerts3802]

Very cool video idea!

[@davidkanengieter]

That's why when I finish my time machine, I'm mostly packing penicillin and Immodium AD.

[@ezrakeeps]

I'm really grateful i was born in this century

[@unitcharles8278]

People saying our gen is worst time for living, just reminder that in the past was more harder to live. Me after see twitter : well. Living in the past is probably worth trying now

[@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2]

Wonder how long Twitter residents survive in the past?

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any dentists in the past?"

[@unitcharles8278]

@@joeerickson516 actually yes. And they actually the worst one

[@joeerickson516]

"You mean they have quacks?" 🦆

[@stargazer-elite]

@@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of a nanosecond

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Fun fact: Life expectancy in the Mediaeval Ages is affected by child mortality rates, which is why they are low when many lived fairly old ages.

[@lazrustosadow5880]

One problem with time travel I haven't heard of would be us transmitting our own drug resistant diseases to our past sepves

[@feldgeist2637]

joke's on the diseases - there weren't any modern drugs back then

[@pepe6666]

The drugs to inhibit the past's version of the disease will be around, so thr advantage might be miniscule in that regard. But there would be huge consequences for the past people because the viruses would be novel. Then the viruses would have another century to evolve. It would be even more difficult to kill the virus in our modern day then. And then you get into a paradox of infinite evolution time for the virus because of loping through time.

[@pepe6666]

*would not be around. In the past the drugs to cure the disease won't exist so it's not a differentiator. What is a differentiator is that it would be a novel/unique virus that is too different for the past people to cope with.

[@CokesAndTokes]

Theres that. Or there's the possibility of actually boosting the immune system of people in the past.

[@ccsmooth55]

The animations and sound effects are awesome lol

[@lizarazu9999]

Great video!

[@Alphoric]

You’ve got to take into account the mortality rate for people under 5 having a huge impact on the life expectancy like people have survived into their 80s and 90s for thousands of years

[@jarrodjames46]

Hey simple history was watching some shorts where I saw another channel using some of your scenes from your videos in there's. As a fan of tour videos I thought I'd let you know.

[@ebeneezerscrooge2942]

Back then my little brother would be searching out that opium.

[@fategamingandhighlights]

Depends in which class level you are born into aswell as they could afford "better" healthcare and they didn't have to work in dangerous places

[@XX-sp3tt]

9:03 Nice reminder that today has its own dangers. Also, today we eat food with colorings that mutate white blood cells.

[@thirdhandlv4231]

Nukes are ironically probably the only thing that has stopped any major wars from happening since ww2.

[@Combine_elite168]

or mutate our lovely animals into something worse

[@zdan420]

That amputation segment was bone-chilling

[@syahareensharani6869]

"I'm going to saw through your bones" - Medic

[@Vextonomy]

W

[@landonbrown9943]

Yeah I’m cool with living in this era lol 😂

[@zzkillerzombieguy5786]

🤣🤣😂

[@spencermaley4390]

I world say the age of the dinosaurs, assuming I could find an area with few carnivores. That, and if I just kept to myself, not using up too many resources at once.

[@longshucksgaming]

If I were you, I'd play the game Ark Survival if you wanna see how this'd go

[@Gregor_Sch]

@@smokeymcb4920Could you even breathe there ?:P Read an article about how atmosphere altered since then, but didn’t say if living as a human at this time would have been possible.

[@Gretel1236]

Life expectancy in ancient rome - 25 years Medieval England - 33 years Early 1900s Europe 43 years Shocking how the world have developed after just 120 years when considering the current world life expectancy is 72

[@Gretel1236]

@@shaunkarr5641 Thats kinda common knowledge at this point, still the infanticide rate is pretty exaggerated if we're talking about medieval ages because women mostly abandoned the child infront of a church or abbeys so the monks or priests could raise it, also to add that almost every kingdom except Germany outlawed the practice. Not saying that it didn't happend that it was practiced en masse sometime because many records about the Great famine of 1315-1317 show a disturbing trend, you can read about the tale of Gretel und Hänsel to get a insight.

[@P1CKL3_RICK]

diseases really had a tight grip on us huh

[@feldgeist2637]

​@@Gretel1236 exaggerated ? even amongst the well off aristocrats the mortality rate of their children was absolutely ludicrous (might be also due to side effects of early inbreeding in their cases but still) a medieval court case from my village lists the oldest witnesses al in their late 70s and 80s......and this was a tiny village back then and only elderly males with their wits still reasonibly together were heard.....

[@Gretel1236]

@@feldgeist2637 I called the mass infanticide exaggerated not the overall mortality rate ffs

[@feldgeist2637]

@@Gretel1236 Iknow and this is quite inaccurate if more than half of the people born today would have an average life span of about maybe four and a half our overall life expectancy would immediately drop back to medieval levels and we have records about the supposedly "exaggerated" mass infanticide once they reached almost puberty, medieval people often got as old as we do .....if they succesfully dogded the more severe side effects of frequent famines, plagues and "rough manners" during their lives .....

[@buinghiathuan4595]

Hearing the video alone make me feel physically pain

[@smtoonentertainment]

*Not only do Simple History’s videos get better, their thumbnails get funnier.*

[@MrGeekFreek]

I'm fat, nearsighted, and asthmatic. Only the mightiest warrior would be able to me down.

[@Mr_x_19922]

I love this animations and the well related history, really enjoyable and easy to learn

[@coolanimations7349]

Great Animation!

[@mohamedadil7]

The reference for dr. Gross clinic is a nice illustration

[@carpevinum8645]

"THE PAST WAS THE WORST!" - Simon Whistler

[@_Akbaralam]

I always dreamed of travelling to the past.. And the 1st 1:30 min of this video has changed me....

[@kingnikolaj]

I see that "the little girl with the matchsticks" cameo you did, lovely little touch

[@joem3999]

I've been a commercial fisherman out of Alaska and a choker setter in logging. I have survived the past.

[@christopherdempsey3878]

Please do a video on the crazy 8's runaway train incident.

[@thebestplayerdead956]

5:43 a little match girl in the background. I remember reading a story about her in elementary

[@alm5992]

7:02 Blizzards as far south as "Flower-idda"! Oh mah gawwed!

[@bumpermanthesecond615]

Old people: my life in the past used to be better than this! Also life in the past:

[@CaptPro]

If it was me in the years of 1939-1945 *I would been drafted into the Armed Forces*

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have a dentist back 🔙 in the years of 1939-1945?"

[@clavididk1236]

Was the dismembered sound Chris Farley screaming? 😆 sounds like a scream he made from the Mathew perry Chris Farley movie almost hero's 🤣 😂 @1:33

[@clavididk1236]

It's a great movie and free on KZbin check it out if you haven't anyone that loves Chris Farley lmfao 🤣 😆 amazing movie

[@darthhyoh7117]

5:45 OMG! That lil girl is she the little match girl. That story gave me sad a lot in winter season.

[@jbecker8874]

I've always laughed when hearing fantasy buffs express their wish to live in medieval times. I know what they mean, but I'm like "Enjoy your diseases, bro."

[@marley606]

When they realize medieval times is nothing like it is in video games/movies 😱😱😱😱😱

[@jamesk370]

Go back to a time not so long ago, my mom likely would have died in child birth giving birth to my older sister. As such, I would not have to worry about surviving, because I would have never existed 😕

[@joeerickson516]

"Sad?" 😔

[@rockstarjoe5725]

All of our ancestors lived long enough through all this to conceive leading to you reading this 🌷

[@aussiebandit]

3:36 I saw that AN225 😢

[@brianmoyachiuz905]

I wouldn't survive on physical skills, but with my big brain of modern Era knowledge, I could possibly have a chance to teach the people back them to increase my chances

[@oshke5225]

People would look at you like you're insane and probably not listen

[@richardhart9204]

... you'd be burned at the stake for being a witch.

[@jessebrucepinkman9353]

“This boy thinks he knew something!” - 👴🏻

[@rockstarjoe5725]

@@oshke5225this

[@TheGreatMoonFrog]

What are you a witch? Burn them!

[@BoxofRain-ff4td]

Right now I’m more concerned about how long I’ll last in the present

[@harshajithdulanga6732]

SUPER. VIDEO. VERY. NICE.

[@x0lopossum]

6:43 I DIDN'T KNOW THE LITTLE ICE AGE ENDED SO RECENTLY!?!

[@richardhart9204]

This is why when I hear people (especially boomers like me) talking about - "the good old days" and "happier simpler times," I just roll my eyes.

[@daniel.1683]

I would've died from the pain at the amputation.. I'm already in great pain if my wounds are being sewed. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@daviscampbell9020]

As a vampire. I concur this is fairly accurate.

[@Emma-dh1lx]

As a werewolf, I also concur.

[@nevyanplamenov5409]

@@Emma-dh1lx As a jellyfish, i also concur !

[@bnobrien81]

This is always one of my favorite topics. There is NO time in the past that was more easy and comfortable not matter how you try to look at it. Kinda sucks, but I cant really get there anyway.

[@alessiocanini4186]

5:47 ITS A REFERENCE TO THE MATCH GIRL STORY!

[@yummygoy5138]

How long would the past survive one shift at McDonalds?

[@alanroberson9749]

Very good job fellows!! Congratulations y'all. It's survival of the fittest that keeps on keeping on dudes!🥇🏅🥇🏅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Zionist654]

👹👺👹👺👺👹👺👺👺👹👺👹👹👺👹👺👹👺

[@robandrews4815]

A lot of the posters are talking about the 19th century and somewhat before. This is what happened in one generation. My mother died of heart valve disease in 1961.There was no operation then. She had rheumatic fever a a gorl. I recently had an aortic valve replaced with an artificial valve. [ not caused by rheumatic feve]]. As rheumatic fever is very rare in most countries. So not only can heart valves be fixed, the cause of some valve disease has be eliminated. THIS IS IN ONE GENERATION.

[@KGBgringo]

Sorry what harbour was that in Edinburow? Layith?

[@skitz-oh]

It'd be cool to go on like a 2 day trip to the past

[@EndersCave2.0]

If you even survive the 1 day

[@jessebrucepinkman9353]

“Another one boys!” - 👴🏻

[@mosin_boi]

Anyone else physically wincing at this?

[@P1CKL3_RICK]

if it were real footage maybe but considering it’s animated i’m gonna have to say no

[@theravingtimes9582]

I can't wait for historians to look back at our primitive technology and laugh at how poorly the COVID pandemic was handled. Maybe if Simple History is still around, they'll joke about the extreme measures some people took or further hampered the situation.

[@lovatojonasfan1]

I’m already laughing at how poorly it was handled.

[@markmower1746]

The people that will be laughing how you fell for that pandemic scam will be the ones controlling you. That's the real joke that they will be laughing at would be how you acted during the last 2 years.

[@stargazer-elite]

“there was these ignorant people that they called Karen’s and they didn’t believe the virus was real and got infected and spread it everywhere before dying or becoming bed ridden” - a descendent of simple history in the year 2123

[@gasmaskwilliam3352]

The bit about amputation made my back hurt 😂

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

Dr. Stone, save me! Teach me how to make sulfa drugs and soap!

[@wellsilver3972]

I like how even the poker voiced narrator cracked at "proceeded to inoculate themselves"

[@cannonball666]

"Pass me the anesthesia mallet.."

[@lewisgoestrainspotting]

I wouldn't go back that far, I'd go around the 1980s

[@joeerickson516]

"I hope you'll find a dentistry somewhere to have your teeth fixed 🛠 in the 1980's?"

[@P1CKL3_RICK]

@@joeerickson516 as difficult as it may be to believe dentistry really was a thing back in the 1980s i know it’s a massive surprise

[@joeerickson516]

"I hope they have good hygiene, back 🔙 in the 1980's?"

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any dentists 😷 back 🔙 in the 1980's?"

[@RavenFilms]

Damn! 42 seconds! I never found a video that fast! (Posted for extra engagement) 😄

[@pp3k3jamail]

💥💥I could've sworn simple history did a video like this already.

[@SolarDragonzx]

Can you do a video of kindertransport

[@Zero.mk4]

The reason why we are watching this video is cause our ancestors survived all that times and troubles so we can live in this current time. Somehow i never had a thought like this before this video, maybe cuz i took it all for granted lol.

[@isaacbakan1295]

If you're rich on a global scale in 2023 you mean. Honestly though. Even for the poor it's still less life threatening though. Sub-saharan Africa on average has a higher life expectancy than 1950s America. Then again, 1950s America literally had ash trays at the dinner table so I'm not sure if it's that infrastructure caught up or just terrible 1950s America health habits.

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any dentists, 😷 back 🔙 in the fabulous 1950's?"

[@bezklavikaszekminmespukzk9961]

Subsaharan Africa has a lower life expectancy than Ancient Rome if you exclude South Africa. Life’s harsh there.

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any dentists 😷 back 🔙 then?"

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any dentists 😷 back 🔙 in ancient Rome?" 🇮🇹

[@S7yx0]

"In the past, you wouldn't last" I keep that one for any nostalgist of the "good ol' days" he didn't live in.

[@vipergaming5387]

I have some type of tumor in my knee i would go crazy from pain without painkillers i have it for over 2 years and it keeps getting worse and worse i hope ill get surgery soon im having biopsy in 4 days wish you all great and healthy life i couldnt walk normally for 2 years and it turned me into a whole different person i hope this suffering will end as fast as possible thanks god i will never complain at my life 🙏🙏🙏

[@DynamicHaze]

Give me a fully automatic rifle.

[@tamarakepreyeomgbuayakimi.2841]

And blow yr brains out like a marine. -The punisher series.

[@mynamajeff1631]

I feel like the late 19th century is as far back as I could go and still have a semblance of my sanity.

[@joeerickson516]

"Do they have any mental hospitals, 🏥 in the late 19th century USA 🇺🇸 and the UK?" "Or dentists in the late 19th century USA 🇺🇸 and the UK?" 🇬🇧

[@matthewgaviola8885]

Do the British De Havilland Mosquito. British WW2 multi-role combat aircraft, and one of the worlds fastest planes at the time.