I Asked 300 Minecraft Players to Build A New Middle East

[@RTGame]

This was honestly one of my favourite build sites to date, so much culture and history. It was a struggle to fit everything into the highlights alone and I'd recommend watching the full stream for this one. Thank you to everyone who took part in the build! If you'd like to join these builds, the login info you need is in the description of the video. The next build site is India!

[@joshbrown6196]

Thanks for teaching us world culture Irish funny man

[@sealessseadog2735]

Ok

[@Gruncival]

I always love these videos, and you did a great job presenting as usual. I did feel like there was less memery showcased in this video, and I can't know as to whether that was because the build happened to have far less of Sans/Waluigi/Flesh-Interior or if you just chose not to show it, but I think these types of Minecraft World Build videos do well by having the balance of past culture and pop culture both. I don't mean to tease you or make you feel self-conscious about your pronunciation, but in the process of trying out the new and unfamiliar words that you run across, I'd suggest you just take the 30 seconds to google-search or crowd-source-from-chat a more accurate way to pronounce it. There's no shame in lacking knowledge, and I think both you and your viewers benefit from learning it.

[@jasondouglas6755]

I built USS Enterprise. Thanks for showing it off I never thought you would actually ever see it!

[@ravenwraith1017]

I just realized I missed the perfect time to build a ziggurat…dang it.

[@StickMaster500]

I’m loving all the builds referencing real life Islamic structures and building within the Middle East that I praise the people that took the time to build them… and then there’s the Sonic the Hedgehog History Museum

[@nudnud9]

are you trying to tell me the Sonic the Hedgehog History Museum isn't real???

[@teathesilkwing7616]

@@nudnud9 not yet

[@yuki97kira]

@@teathesilkwing7616 ...what are you planning?

[@privatesectorsec]

@@yuki97kira his goals are beyond our understanding

[@teathesilkwing7616]

@@yuki97kira obviously I’m planning to build a Sonic the Hedgehog History Museum, what else could I be planning

[@Infinite_Archive]

Honestly, after the entire world is filled out, RT should release the world for free. This is the best source of cultural education I've ever seen.

[@tysonvienneau1830]

And memes

[@rekk1215]

Yes

[@MidnightCapricorn2696]

Cultural education, memes, ASDA and Gregg's, with the occasional Tesco.

[@OriginalGameteer]

Don't forget Wc Monalds!

[@etoinedevries7583]

Until you come to the russia part which is so massive that people didn't have enough ideas for cultural stuff xD I'm still waiting on the Caribbean to open up to build because I made a build for that region in creative when New Earth just begun and been waiting ever since

[@mattuwu9978]

“I don’t know why the French have it, or how it got there” is just the catchphrase of anthropology/archaeology as a whole

[@mme.veronica735]

It's like wondering how the British got gold of so many mummies. The awnser is colonialism.

[@metetural9140]

tbf I would probably prefer some ancient artifact be in the care of the *(checks notes)* promiscuous bisexual French then in a War-torn country

[@Oli.V]

@@mme.veronica735 fun fact, mummies, especially Egyptian mummies, we’re not as rare as modernity would make it seem. The British just ate them all.

[@Oli.V]

*glares at the British museum in archaeological anthropologist*

[@simonschnedl]

@@Oli.V One of the most questionable diets to have ever existed, if I may add.

[@hermes932]

I love how the servers Middle East is a legit history class while the rest of the world is just Costco, Sans and memes

[@SomeName_AlsoHandlesSucc]

@@ezekielrauch3703 can a joke be regional and not offensive???

[@nareik8017]

@@ezekielrauch3703 im already imagining all the war and terrist builds o_O

[@saintsea-hat7891]

@@SomeName_AlsoHandlesSucc by “regional”, Ezekiel means Racist.

[@Naokarma]

@@nareik8017 "terrist" lol

[@ronylouis0]

@@saintsea-hat7891 doesn't have to be racist

[@splattyfatty]

When you got to Syria, I remembered a random hamster fact; hamsters were once thought to be extinct until a Syrian farmer found one in his farm, which is why the most common type of hamster is called a "Syrian hamster."

[@Chanka_Main]

That's cute

[@bldy_ellie]

The people who has the patience to build those massive ships, just wow!

[@jasondouglas6755]

I built the US Enterprise, it took me a long time!

[@Hunter12396]

@@jasondouglas6755 E

[@kisukebomb3750]

I love doing big and complex builds, but those are crazy

[@snowykaze]

@@jasondouglas6755 ayyy, awesome! Keep representing us shipnerds!!

[@iplayksplol9974]

obama

[@dazcarrr]

i saw this and thought "oh boy, the middle east, i'm sure everyone will make tasteful and non controversial builds!" but there wasn't anything that really related to current events except the evergreen, props to either the community for not being tacky or the mods for doing some serious filtering of structures

[@AnInsideJoke]

Same. And yet, the RT builds remain their odd, "chaotically wholesome" selves. I love being surprised by that, when you've been conditioned to expect the worst from the internet.

[@dazcarrr]

@@AnInsideJoke any other community on earth would make a project like this fail miserably, as shown by many other 100 player challenges by other youtubers that just go to chaos instantly

[@ahr4296]

Seriously! My little muslim heart was so happy!

[@thotslayer6946]

There's no point in making an "accurate" depiction of a place if you don't accurately depict it.

[@bigredeyes8063]

I don't think he mentioned Israel once

[@thisrandomdude2880]

As someone from the Middle-East, I hope your moderators are doing ok because this probably had at least some hiccups here and there considering the... location. Edit: Greetings from Lebanon btw, watched the vid, really liked the builds and the respect the players showed for everything in general. The bit about the olives made me a bit emotional since my family on the paternal side used to be small farmers and artisans in Yafa, the soap industry there especially was famous all throughout the Middle-East, but they had to run away in the 30's due the the general unrest and troubles with the British.

[@yustinj.3910]

Watched the stream, I must say, as far as I saw, they did their job fantastically.

[@hexlith]

Also from the middel east and yeah abselute props to the mods the defently need it

[@Vart]

Fellow Lebanese here ^_^ living in Lebanon rn

[@davidtucker9498]

Yep. Can't let anyone show the uncomfortable realities of the Middle East... Positive things only. Pay no attention to the genocides behind the curtain...

[@LolBot720]

@@davidtucker9498 People watch these videos for fun. People play Minecraft for fun. There's a time and a place to talk about the bad things that happen, but this just isn't it.

[@joshbrown6196]

These videos are basically history classes with all the books lying around.

[@stuin01]

Just a disorganized pile with random Internet memes mixed in for fun. Is it real history or the necronomicon? Anyone's guess.

[@eis6570]

@@stuin01 No... I don't think I will.

[@Clover_2L]

I'm so happy they finally got to my region! I was kinda scared they'd just skip over it because of how controversial the middle east obviously is but props to rt and the mods for actually dealing with all that

[@nadeen3157]

Same

[@lithium1770]

Its stupid people consider historical events controversial. Learn from it dont repeat it move on.

[@zinfuldreams1709]

it isnt just history

[@amicloud_yt]

@@lithium1770 History? You mean... today's events?

[@FFKonoko]

@@lithium1770 it's not about them being historical that makes them controversial.... There's a lot of strong feelings, grudges, hatred. Makes people tend to say certain things or present things in certain ways.

[@jaderexter1952]

As soon as I saw this video my immediate thought was ‘’i can’t wait to watch Dan struggle to pronounce words the entire time’’

[@theKungFuFerret]

RT just has the loveliest community. The New World builds are always super educational and showcase tons of skill - even the more memey builds will show at least some love care and effort put into them!

[@coolbeans6312]

I honestly learn more about world history in these builds than in the entire class I had dedicated to it

[@etoinedevries7583]

@@coolbeans6312 Very low effort stuff also usually gets removed, so does floating text. It helps making it more interesting!

[@hallaloth3112]

I love this builds so much. Not only do we see a lot of amusing and cute builds, but a chance for people to show off and be proud of their own cultures. There are GOOD people everywhere in the world and it sad that they can get so overshadowed by the bad things that happen. I love seeing the builds dedicated to real world monuments and learning about them even just in these little snippets here.

[@saintsea-hat7891]

Yeah I was really expecting a fuckton of that classic post 9/11 racism.

[@marcelmais6430]

terrorism!!

[@twibz4629]

god this was so cute and respectful. as someone who has a decent interest in middle eastern history (i dont know much but its very interesting) this entire area was done very well!

[@jackfisher4114]

I can't believe I just watched someone mispronounce words for 20 minutes and absolutely loved it

[@Oli.V]

Rt’s pronunciation of Mesopotamia made me realize how poorly he’s probably saying everything else. Made me shudder.

[@smilecentaur]

Tbh hearing it made me chuckle a lil

[@blurrr8060]

mespatamia

[@lpmatthews7387]

12:44

[@saintsea-hat7891]

This is the guy who added a whole extra syllable to Juan in ace attorney j4a.

[@YataTheFifteenth]

Oh yea he butchered the Arabic words hard lmao. That As-salam 'alaykum is worse than Joseph Joestar's but then again, it's understandable.

[@diegochatard-caraballo5848]

Wow, can't believe there weren't any builds about modern stories and war. It is wholesome in some way. European and American builds were just dank and chaotic and i loved it, but this is is just like a trip to a museum, and this is awesome.

[@adhiwicaksono6149]

There's a big ass U.S military ship though

[@diegochatard-caraballo5848]

@@adhiwicaksono6149 frankly, it's nothing compared to how it could have gone. Ibwas excepting like a Jerusalem surrounded by templars XD

[@martijn9568]

@@adhiwicaksono6149 It's a US ship from long ago in the wrong area. We could consider it sensitive if someone were to make it around Japan, but that's about it. The ship itself is by now almost kind a like a cultural phenomenon. Even one of the ships in Star Trek (The better sciencefiction franchise) is named after the USS Enterprise (CV-6)

[@yustinj.3910]

It's against the rules to build depictions of war, so that's probably it.

[@diegochatard-caraballo5848]

@@yustinj.3910 oh, i did not knew ! It sure does some selection XD

[@kimberlynodell]

RT: hmmm what is the significance of an olive in religious terms? chat: THEYRE YUMMY‼️‼️‼️

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Sign me up for that religion.

[@Dave-gr5qd]

I love how half the video is just rt reading various documents about the Middle East

[@mr.personalspace7831]

There’s just a lot of history. Some of which is currently in the making.

[@ravenwraith1017]

@@mr.personalspace7831 yep. Lot of history is an understatement. It’s only natural the region that includes the “cradle of civilization”/Fertile Crescent would have…a lot of history.

[@redspiderlilys6]

Yes that is how history works

[@scrubs5977]

I just wanna say seeing a minecraft thumbnail with "NEW MIDDLE EAST" is really funny to me for some reason

[@OriginalGameteer]

"The Middler East"

[@THE_5050]

The Middle Easter

[@lizzzylavender]

New Middle East just dropped

[@KAINARTZ]

I mean It is new now with Sanic museums and what not gotta love those

[@ApollosDagger]

This one has to be one of my favourite builds so far. The detail and history people put into it is incredible! Huge thanks to the mods for curating these events so well!

[@sleepyeeps]

i know it's probably a small thing, but i really appreciate how RT doesn't make a joke of pronunciations of other languages, he just does his best and apologizes for any mispronunciations.. i know it might seem small, but.. so many people make jokes or make fun of other languages for different reasons so i'm really appreciative of RT

[@aubreygivens5048]

The significance of the Olive in Christianity (and Judaism for the Hebrew Scriptures) first started with Genesis 8:11. During the story of Noah's Ark, Noah was trying to find land after the flood. He kept sending out a dove to bring back something to indicate whether or not there was land safe to go to. Finally, the dove brought back an Olive Branch. A sign that Noah and his family's stresses were over. There are many other references to olives in the Bible; Romans 11:24, Pslam 52:8, etc. Please correct me if I am wrong, Thank you

[@twibz4629]

wasn't Jesus also anointed in olive oil as well?

[@stuffwithsoph8264]

And us Greek Orthodox's are baptised in olive oil, not holy water!

[@Sai1ence]

​@@stuffwithsoph8264 *Dip the child in oil.*

[@stuffwithsoph8264]

@@Sai1ence It ain't a dip, its a DUNK.

[@aidanshea5942]

Mods must have been on high alert for this one

[@johna.5293]

Another fun fact about the Burj Khalifa: There is no foundation that it sits on. It sits on massive concrete pillars. And it's reliant solely on the friction between the pillars and the sand beneath to stay upright

[@etoinedevries7583]

That sounds... ....scary xD

[@EtamirTheDemiDeer]

_fear_

[@ONCEFORVER12]

what-

[@johna.5293]

@@etoinedevries7583 When I say the pillars are massive, I mean it. There is plenty of surface area to make sure the building doesnt move

[@thedarknesswithin761]

@@johna.5293 A good earthquake say different my friend

[@nexicifo]

Hi, I’m from the Middle East, specifically kuwait! It’s nice seeing my area being represented and hopefully everything will go alright with no controversy! مع السلامة

[@metetural9140]

@@Droub_ my condolences

[@leonardochapman4736]

@@Droub_ it probably was looked through in the actual stream, but as the video can't be too long it was likely cut out, plus there may have been some more... controversial builds in Israel, specifically on the western border with Palestine. Hope you have a nice day

[@emstink]

@@Droub_ did you watch the African one? I know it sounds stupid, but I'm pretty sure he covered Turkey in that one so Israel might be in that one.

[@veliki_dlek]

kuweighti 😬

[@m0nstr0cityy]

@@Droub_ as an israeli myself, i do remember one of the videos having a mention of it. not sure which one it was, but it could be that one.

[@purplehaze2358]

“Creeper oman” That play on words is at least a few hundred IQ points.

[@lazarusmekhane439]

Referring back to the Code of Hammurabi from Mesopotamia (Messa-Po-Tamia, RT), the most probable reason it's in the Louvre currently was the same reason as how the Rosetta Stone came to Europe. Because of Napoleon's trek through the middle east, notably near to the River Nile. For some apparent reason the British didn't bother taking the Ancient text of Law as well. They just preferred the rather funny rock with taxes written on it that had been used to hold a up a wall once.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

9:05 Olive oil was also used in ancient Israel as part of the traditional coronation ceremony. Before being a crown, the king would have oil poured over their head to ritually purify them for the office of king. After this they would be given the title Moshiach meaning “Anointed One” which is the root of the word Messiah.

[@undeadinside3571]

That's interesting. I didnt think i would learn anything from youtube today

[@YataTheFifteenth]

I'm sorry but calling your ruler the "Anointed One" is just so funny to me.

[@mybodyisready2594]

The fact that not a single troll has tried to destroy everything is fucken amazing. Congrats to you Dan, and the way y oh be built your community.

[@creator-link]

There probably plugins to prevent those type of trolling

[@dragonbor1664]

@@creator-link there is we also scout the regions daily

[@jacoL8]

one of the most contentious regions on earth and somehow your community managed to still stay civil! as a middle eastern arab, i feel really welcomed! love to all!

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

As somone who has no real connection to the region, I feel like it was a little biased in favor of the Islamic world, which makes sense considering the region, but they completely omitted Israel despite mentioning Palestine twice, which isn't what I would call taking a neutral stance. At least there was mention of the Armenians, so it wasn't completely one-sided.

[@jettaune6869]

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 it's very possible that there just weren't any Israeli contributors. I mean, it's a wholly voluntary project, it's amazing that they cover as much as they do.

[@Remls]

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 Also possible that there was more of Israel in the original stream, that was edited out for time.

[@duskendawne2239]

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 I'm Israeli, and I think I did spot some stuff from Israel here and there. It wasn't much tho (I guess it does make sense. There was barely any space to build stuff related to Israel, and most of the ppl who built there are Arabs which would naturally favor Palestine. Still love the builds tho, I think this region's history is simply fascinating, regardless of your political stance)

[@greenman1696]

Loved this video, especially with RT's reactions to all the Arab culture! Being an Arab myself, it is great to see how much effort and attention to detail the community put into making these creations, both the ones that were historical and just cool buildings. The pronunciations were not half bad either (at least I would understand what you are saying if you did come up and say those words to me). For your first time reading those words, and with no one really helping you, I would give it a 8/10, although u did not really ask for a rating :). Keep up the great work RT!

[@casteri]

Considering irl geopolitics and how "memey" a lot of these builds have been, this was surprisingly wholesome and I am very glad that it is.

[@coolbeans6312]

Honestly, every one of these builds never ceases to amaze me. The way people work together to create these beautiful structures really speaks volumes about this community.

[@WoeUponThee]

I’m from Iran and speak Farsi and English, but my parents and me left to live in Australia when I was only one year old, so I don’t know much about my own country’s culture and history, so seeing people make buildings about Persian history and seeing words that I recognise always excites me.

[@bradboxrud7233]

Came for the memes, stayed for the wholesome culture. I love how this server has transformed into people being able to share and appreciate other cultures around the world. So awesome

[@kerbethegodkiller2914]

Who needs history class when you can see the Drift King™️ see great Minecraft builds

[@CTF_Doc]

Very nice Islamic reference, especially from the Kabaa, you know RT, the reason for you seeing the large group of people surrounding the Kabaa especially during the Hajj is for as said in the book circumambulation. It is a reference to Prophet Abraham where after he completed the Kabaa, he walked around it seven times counter clockwise to see it's architecture. There is also a reference that says that on top of the Kabaa, the Angels in heaven also do the circumambulation around 'Arsy Allah which can be said as Allah's throne. In Islamic tradition, it is called the Tawaf. You remember that small well structure near the Kabaa? Well that is the Zamzam well and it's very special for Muslims. The story goes when Prophet Abraham went back to his hometown to preach and left his wife, Sara and Prophet Ishmael (who was a baby at that time), Ishmael was thristy, thus Sara decided to go find water for his crying son. So she went to two mountains of Safa and Marwah to find water only to not find them ( this tradition is continued during the Hajj under the name of Saie). Then, Sara prayed to Allah to satisfy Prophet Ishmael's thirst and so, Allah said to have Prophet Ishamel hit his feet on a rock, and that rock suddenly came overflowing with water so pure you can drink it with no hesitation. They drank the water, and thus formed the rock thst will eventually become the Zamzam well. Throughout history, even in Pre Islamic Arabia, it was important for it provided the cleanest waters in all of Arabia. During thr Qarmatians robbery of the Black Stone, corpses were thrown into the well yet the water remained untainted and people can still drink it to this day.

[@redronin555]

Hope this region won't be controversial at all!

[@thanos3178]

Yup

[@Tagerrun]

Should have said “Ali” would have been punderful lol

[@hannothestupid2064]

Yep imagine if it happens to have A rare natural resource that is needed for a lot of modern day equipment wouldn’t that be crazy

[@ApollosDagger]

It wasn’t really, people were incredibly respectful and appreciative of culture and history. I’m always amazed by how great the minecraft builds are curated.

[@blueluma6187]

These builds were very respectful and overall just great, I dunno what’s gonna become of the comment section though. It’s unpredictable lol

[@Intrinsety]

17:36 "There’s not even a pun there" *Yes, there is, and you'd better beelieve it*

[@TheHylianBatman]

These builds feel more like learning about that segment of the world than building just to build. It's very respectful and I love it. Thanks, RT.

[@MegaChickenfish]

Actually went and googled some of these. The law of Hammurabi is pretty interesting. Some things show their age (slave unjustly accuses you of not owning them? Cut their ear off!) but some that seem to have inspired modern concepts (reading you your rights when arrested) and some we should have implemented by now (scaling fines to your income)

[@kovzov7969]

You have a really decent fanbase, given that there where no drone strike builds

[@sandornagy3484]

Someone else said that they weren't allowed to make any depictions of wars or similar stuff

[@Eragonnogare]

I am sorry for repeating a comment, but this comment I said on the Africa build video got around 3 thousand likes and truly needs to be seen - I understand that not all builds will be able to be showcased or found in the stream, and that going "wah you missed my build go back!" is lame, but there is one section that was missed entirely that truly deserves another pass. In the northeast Africa region, vaguely near where this started in the video[the video being the Africa video], there are a couple of entrances to Hollow Africa, which is a downright massive underground region, spanning a very large percentage of the footprint of that region underground. It has builds contributed by tons and tons of people and is practically an entire additional build region of its own. It could honestly make for an entire video probably (and by extension a decent length stream). Again, sorry for asking like this, but so many people worked on builds down there and it not getting seen is very saddening to me. I may have dug out the space for it, but that's not even sorta impressive. All the people who contributed deserve to get their work seen IMO though.

[@RTGame]

I'm planning to do a recap video of New Earth featuring larger builds like this that I missed / were built later come the end. Definitely will check it out down the road

[@Eragonnogare]

@@RTGame Awesome to hear! Glad to hear that more people's work will get seen like this, it's awesome that you're gonna do that. I just did boring hollowing out work, I can't imagine how disappointed people who made higher skill builds probably felt if they got missed. Thanks again for responding! (both here and on discord lol)

[@albertjordan3249]

3:23 "Holy shit how big is this battleship!" That's no battleship, thats a carrier lol, you can tell by the lack of big ol' guns and runway down the middle. Probably Enterprise, because its one of the most famous... (waits a few seconds) yup of course its Enterprise

[@bettschwere]

the middle east has such a long and rich and interesting history so it makes sense that this area is one of the most cultural/historical build areas of the map! i love learning about each new build area, especially when it's people from those areas getting to share their history and culture. it's so wholesome.

[@swampcooler8332]

Was expecting quite a bit of controversy here but got a nice treat instead. Thank you rt and builders

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

0:28 Al Salam wa'alekum, at least in the egyptian dialect, means "Peace be upon you" and is a standard arabic greeting, to which the response is Wa alekum al salam which means "upon you be peace". Once again, this is the egyptian dialect, so the pakistani or iraqi may be slightly different. I took a course in highschool.

[@izumi1873]

As someone from Cairo, I'm happy to finally see a middle east build site

[@Chanka_Main]

What's your profile picture

[@izumi1873]

@@Chanka_Main Ren Amamiya (aka Joker), the protagonist of Persona 5

[@Chanka_Main]

@@izumi1873 thxs

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

Yeah but Cairo was part of the Africa build...

[@izumi1873]

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 it’s still part of the Middle East, soo

[@Slingyman3]

stunning work done by everyone, love the history and culture being exchanged, very lovely.

[@SoggyCoffeeAddict]

Came for Minecraft Got a lesson on religions instead Also I'm sure not intended, but the baby garden. Reminded me very much of the Chao garden from Sonic adventure 2 (specifically the starter climbing races, because of the rows, then the little raised land with a bit of room at the top) and if I'm not mistaken, Sonic riders doesn't even hide the fact that something in there is from Babylonian something

[@adrienlastname4663]

I'm so happy seeing all the great history here, instead of people just saying "Hehe war terrorism hoohoo"

[@meyers0781]

whole thing feels like a museumized Middle East, so wholesome, and... Sad that it reminds me that our tour (they call it "oomrah") set in 2020 was cancelled for obvious reasons. "oomrah" is not a formal pilgrimage, more like a tour, the actual pilgrimage is "hajji" and it's done in a certain month.

[@u-kn]

As a fellow middle eastern, I enjoyed this quite a bit! I was hoping to see and learn some new stuff from historical places in country as well, such as Yad-Vashem, the Western Wall, Tel-Aviv, etc. But I loved seeing all of the other builds that were represented in this video. Massive respect to all who took a part in this beauty from all countries, and for the mods who probably had to do some work to keep things as civil as possible! Love from Israel ♥

[@jamiegreenberg8476]

i wouldve loved to see tel aviv! I was of course waiting to see the pyramids and the sphinx too

[@julypow]

^^^^ !!! yes!!

[@yanivrubin4166]

Same here, I kind of wanted to see some Israely builds, but this was entertaining either way

[@catman-du8927]

@@jamiegreenberg8476 That would be in one of the Africa builds

[@TheLateAvenger]

I built some stuff on the server, and I know the western wall was next to the Dome of the Rock, and there were other builds in the area that couldn't all be put in the video I think. If you check out the stream, he might have looked at them, I don't know. But they were there.

[@yanivrubin4166]

Even as an Israely who barly speaks arabic, hearing RT mispronaunce all the arabic was the funniest shit

[@tigokooreman9912]

17:42 I love how RT didn't realize there was still a bee pun in there😂

[@קוראי]

I Iive around here and I didn't know how little I knew about the middle east so this was very interesting, an extra tid bit is the we also have the lowest place on earth(it least it was for a while): The dead sea, named because it has so much salt in it nothing can live there. The high density of salt also cause you to easily float in the water.

[@WineGuyDionysus]

I’ve learnt more about our world’s history during this entire series of videos then I have over the span of 12 years of school

[@kadenweiss2825]

I love that this is a perfect blend of gaming creative builds, and history. Such a fantastic Idea and one that I always look forward to seeing updates on.

[@circo_]

8:05 Salam, brother (seriously who was it that tried to convert Daniel)

[@xxbeinaxx]

I'll admit, i was wary about watching this one because i wasn't sure how... respectful everyone would be. but this was so delightful, creative, and surprisingly informative! everyone's builds are super cute, especially loved all the history lessons haha

[@Bellonging]

4:50 - 5:24 If a region is surrounded by another country (but I think is owned by another?) it's called an Enclave. If this happens twice, it's called a 2nd Order Enclave. Thanks Map Men!

[@ozzmen4494]

We will all remember the tragedy that befell the india bangladesh border map.

[@naga_h1316]

I live 3km away from this weird borders and actually there is no visible borders and some time i go there to eat some food and i even have a friend who’s lives inside this

[@privatesectorsec]

Me:Supposed to be writing an essay about the Israeli Palestine war Also me:This will help

[@irelandaintreal2945]

i’m currently doing a case study on the lebanese grain silo explosion. i am studying. really. this counts as studying.

[@yanivrubin4166]

I mean... war isn't the correct term. 'Conflict' is way more acurate.

[@darthwhiskips8222]

@@yanivrubin4166 אני לא יכול שלא להרגיש מתוסכל מהסרטון אתה יודע?

[@Will-tj3ds]

@@darthwhiskips8222 כאילו קצת, הייתי רוצה קצת לראות היסטריה יהודית ומקומות דתיים יהודים אבל אני חושב שזה יותר טוב מכלום. בסופו של דבר אני לא יודע מה בנוי בסרוור אז אני לא ממש יכול להאשים את דן שאין דברים שקשורים לתרבות ולדת היהודית...

[@yanivrubin4166]

@@Will-tj3ds כן היה את כיפת הזהב לול, חבל שאף אחד לא בנה את הכותל המערבי ליד, היה יכול להיות טאצ' נחמד

[@_squarecube]

even with creative mode it must have taken a long time on all these builds. my respect to everyone who took the time to include a book with information!

[@joaogabrielandrade3708]

I Was so afraid from what to espect for my contry, but now seeing the a amazing way you treated other cultures, I can't wait to seeing mine

[@MrMunch123ABC]

I love how much people inform and educate in this series

[@locketbunnie]

8:06 i actually find this really cool! i've lived around a muslim area for eighteen years despite being raised as a roman catholic and i've always heard this prayer throughout my life and never got around to actually looking up what it means, so seeing this in the video is actually very educational for me

[@JJJSmit9026]

I was expecting to see more builds related to Judaism and Christianity, but it was really nice to learn about Islamic culture

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

Yeah, it would have been better if it was more equal, though. Especially the fact that they completely left out Israel.

[@Holocoasterr]

Yeah.. me too honestly

[@wes00chin]

Yeah same, was hoping to see the second temple or even the church of the holy sepulchre

[@adnan_honest_jihadist5775]

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 israel is just a tiny country in middle east, christians are a minority in middle east so why should there be christian and jewish stuff then its like me saying: there should be islamic stuff in europe minecraft too.

[@danialhalal]

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 the middle east vast majority is Muslim, not much room for other things

[@glenngriffon8032]

Once again, we enjoy RT looking with awe and horror at the creations of his people. Also what's the music playing during the first two minutes or so?

[@janus2346]

I believe it’s the music from Hateno village (BOTW)

[@remitsu9715]

who needs history lessons when you could just get on RTGame's minecraft server and learn everything you need too right there

[@Lady_Evelyn]

If I’m correct the Cthulhu well specifically the well is in reference to a mysterious well in hadramut yemen that’s said to hold demons

[@1Henrink]

You are running out of places RT. Your time is coming. You will have to come to Brazil.

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

*COME TO BRAZIL* *COME TO BRAZIL* *COME TO BRAZIL* *COME TO BRAZIL* *COME TO BRAZIL*

[@DuhNoU]

Honest props to all of the mods, they managed to make the region politics free and thats actually pretty cool as normaly this place would scare off alot of people with all the stuff going on there

[@corneliusmcmuffin3256]

Idk, the fact that they had two builds dedicated to Palestine and zero mention of Israel seems a little political to me. At least try not to be biased?

[@hyper_lynx]

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 Check the build stream, there was probably something built on Israel's site, there just wouldn't be much space to work with on our scale

[@cutykate_5924]

Was waiting for this one for a while and I'm happy its time has finally come around :> it was nice to see all the history I'm familiar with and ur pronunciation were very entertaining. Thank u daniel and all the mods for this and also dealings with any ppl who built not so pleasant things as I'm sure there were at least a couple, thanks again made my day

[@tsundor1]

10:53 this part put a huge smile on my face. didn't expect to hear this song on minecraft note blocks but here we are. kudos to whoever made that

[@Delta_rocket]

At 2:07 you can see the Illinois State flag on the airport, I think it's supposed to be O'Hare airport, and it's super cool to see something that I live near represented here.

[@amcub]

That would be the Chicago flag actually. Looks way better than the Illinois flag though

[@SirTriton]

7:15 Tonight on topgear We crash the world economy by putting a boat sideways into a canal because hammond thought he could get it unstuck on his own

[@Selvut283]

Legitimately love all the cultural knowledge put into these builds. Despite the chaos that's always present in these types of projects it's still so tasteful and genuinely fascinating

[@funnyhappyharry746]

I’m legitimately shocked that no one built military based and mine fields. What the heck? How can a community be that wholesome?

[@costa8509]

rt's fanbase isn't like that if you want that type of immature fanbase this channel isn't for you

[@adnan_honest_jihadist5775]

people like you who like disgusting stuff like racism and nsfw dont belong to paradise let alone in this world wholesome and purity is what counts

[@KAINARTZ]

Cool Video, props to the builders for making and writing down the history of the sites. Was a bit scared of going in the comment section because of all the hate that Middle East gets but gladly people were quite nice, well most of em just made a mistake of going into the comment replies. That was rough lol.

[@kookykritter2912]

16:58 i have just been getting into more heavy types of music, of course this is really only the beginning of heavy music. The Trooper was the first song that set me off in trying to find more songs like it… was NOT expecting that song to be in here…thought i was hearing things. immediately recognized the beat.

[@crazyscientist5746]

These streams are always so peaceful

[@GingerThoroughBread]

I'm surprised the carpet museum didn't have a book talking about the Carpet War. It's an interesting read.

[@EtamirTheDemiDeer]

I know what I’m googling tonight

[@crowpond3665]

I’m gonna be honest, I was really worried seeing this thumbnail in the middle of school. A bunch of white kids rebuilding the Middle East in Minecraft never sounds good in my mind

[@tayk.t.523]

It looks like a bunch of people actually from the Middle East contributed to this project, or people educated enough on a certain part of the Middle East to make a little build around it.

[@Shadow-Reaper]

Hearing you butcher Hamasaki and Mesopotamia really just made this hilarious. From the US but big fan personally of the Middle East and its culture and religion due to the fact of how aimiliar Judaism, Christianity, and Islamic beliefs are. Couldn't help but smile when you tried pronouncing that.

[@stan8479]

I love that many people decided to build the beautiful structures found in the Middle East.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

7:39 In civ V it gives a more morbid bonus, a bunch of gold whenever a great person dies.

[@dino-ator6057]

Wow this is surprisingly wholesome, for some reason I expected lots of racism. I'm really happy to be honest great job and an excellent community!!! Sorry for English, I'm NOT saying that middle Eastern are racist as some seem to think this. I am saying I expected people to show hate toward them again sorry if my English is poor

[@Droub_]

Yeah but ain’t it weird how my country, israel got skipped? Like rt showed Palestine but didn’t show a thing from israel…

[@LiteralGraphic]

@@Droub_ 🤨

[@beano7292]

@@Droub_ streams are edited down for time.

[@deadmeme9031]

@@Droub_ He probably did, but streams are cut down, you can always check the full stream on the archive channel

[@jamiegreenberg8476]

@@Droub_ gonna be honest- as a jew I can see why he skipped it at least for the video upload- comments would've been a shit show

[@bytemegga]

RT said the shahadah. Welcome brother.

[@whitty8193]

Congrats on 2.6 million, have just came back to the channel to see how it's going. been here since 2017. doing well man 🤙

[@Euanverse]

Wow, so much incredible historical and cultural architecture here in the middle east! And then I built a Pokemon battle beside a huge penguin monster overseeing it lol

[@zaccross4710]

Thanks for this server RT, I very much enjoyed making that Creeper in Oman you have a wonderful community.

[@ventusblazer659]

I just wanna point out that everytime there's a build stream of these, RT always stumble on a Touhou which is pretty dang nice. An example of it is on 16:54 in which the Music Blocks were playing Night of Nights from Touhou 6.

[@taigor97]

The hateno village ost is definitely ma favourite from BOTW Gosh it makes me happy

[@rafgaming123]

Me: watches RT because he’s funny RT: video is literally a history lesson😂

[@emrys7674]

favorite chat quotes: “i’m extremely sorry, there’s gonna be a dragon near your cave now” “…you’ll be able to fly about” “i got lost” “didja miss me” “this dragon is gonna be bigger than i expected…”

[@donuthog]

you forgot "no but im trying to make a Mario dragon" (1:31)

[@AnubisFactsGames]

16:52 Yo! I was not expecting an Iron Maiden reference here. Up the irons! Also, love ya, RT.

[@Ink_25]

Massive respect to the builders, this was amazing to watch!

[@havasa1517]

I don’t know why but these videos make me so happy. There’s so much appreciation, education and respect in these builds :)