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@philcariss94863 жыл бұрын
Rule Britannia…
@kingkuroneko72533 жыл бұрын
Yo
@muhammadfarrukh9603 жыл бұрын
🙄 British Empire 👉 was a world 🌍 biggest looters and thief 💥 💯 🙄 British Empire was a world 🌍 killer evil Empire 💥
@muhammadfarrukh9603 жыл бұрын
🙄 British Empire 👉 was looting the Hindustan 😡😡😡😡😡😡 👉 Trillion's of dollars 💥💥💥💯
@Al-AI3 жыл бұрын
Not watching this! Shame on you. Brextits.
@MikeTXBC3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, I think Simon wasn't being clear when he stated that the "British Empire created the slave trade." I'm sure he meant that the British Empire started the Atlantic Slave Trade that led to slavery in the USA. No one who knows history could ever legitimately claim that slavery didn't exist before the British Empire as every major civilization (and some minor ones) engaged in slavery since antiquity.
@krtcampbell90073 жыл бұрын
Portugal and Spain were in on the Atlantic slave trade for there south American colonies before the northern parts of Europe got in on the business. Byt we just stepped ot up in scale and put are managerial know how into the trade to make more profit.
@MikeTXBC3 жыл бұрын
@@krtcampbell9007 Yeah, I read that after I posted, but I didn't have time to come back and edit my post.
@Snagprophet3 жыл бұрын
They also don't like talking about how we started the "slave trade". It involved purchasing the slaves from Africans. The reason why no-one really gives a fuck about most of the negatives described in this video, like human suffering, is because it is part and parcel of history and the concept of a human civilisation. Yet people act like it's this demonic evil force that came out of nowhere and subjugated a fair a free society. It's hard to not roll my eyes at it.
@djquinn113 жыл бұрын
Slavery is as old as written history. Unfortunately, it still exists today.
@TheOriginalJAX3 жыл бұрын
to be honest this video's was just simon shitting on the british empire in my opinion, half of what said in the video isn't even true he's a bloody lying revisionist.
@AsiniusNaso3 жыл бұрын
An empire so big, a country celebrates its independence from Great Britain on average every seven days.
@moseyburns16143 жыл бұрын
And now look at the state of the UK. Lmao, a fate well deserved.
@JJaqn053 жыл бұрын
@@moseyburns1614 It's better than 99% of countries today? Nothings happened. The UK today is much better than in the 19th and 18th centuries
@ursodermatt88093 жыл бұрын
@@moseyburns1614 yes the pariah of europe
@thesherbet3 жыл бұрын
@@ursodermatt8809 thats literally how the UK has rolled for about 700 years, hardly a change to the status quo
@jdb47games3 жыл бұрын
@@moseyburns1614 Jealous, eh?
@Rob_-dv6ei2 жыл бұрын
Slight correction: we did not abolish slavery in 1807, we abolished the Atlantic Slave Trade - you were still allowed to keep slaves, just not ship them over the Atlantic. Slavery itself was abolished in 1833 in the British Empire as a whole. EDIT: also, slavery within England and Wales was banned since the C12th.
@tomriley5790 Жыл бұрын
Actually slavery was abolished in the 12th Century in England and Wales, which led to rullings regarding a need for postive law freeing slaves that had been brought to britain.
@davidrussell8834 Жыл бұрын
Another correction. Slavery was abolished in England and Wales by William the Conqueror.
@randomcamus944511 ай бұрын
😮
@davegibson799 ай бұрын
They ended all slave trading across oceans, not just the Atlantic, because that was all that was possible. Slavery was ended by the British, French and Americans around 1919. The only slave trades that continued after the British and French navies were the slave trade in China and north Africa/the middle East. With the fall of the Ottoman empire, and the collapse of Imperial China, slavery could be ended in the places the British and French could not previously get to as they were not capable of invading deep into the heartlands of continents (although they started to be able to do so in the 1890s with the scramble for Africa). The credit for ending the Chinese slave trade could go the Chinese Communist Party although in effect they just nationalised slave labour by giving themselves the monopoly on slave labour, such as with the slavery of the Uighers in Xinjiang concentration camps today.
@EagerChurros-bm7du8 ай бұрын
Later they enslave indians
@mikeyoung76602 жыл бұрын
What gets to me about the British Empire (Im British by the way) is that every major city from Glasgow to London were riddled with poverty. The biggest Empire huge and wealthy while it's people suffered
@davidguiney17462 жыл бұрын
Ever been to the US? The wealthiest country ever and the levels of poverty across the US is shocking. You might not see it in Times Square, but you wouldn't have to go far.
@michaeldy31572 жыл бұрын
All empires were like that. Look at the two remaining true empires , russias failing brutal one and the chinese ( tibet enslaved) one that is right now exterminating yughers.
@lewisbae13262 жыл бұрын
First of all poverty is everywhere. The level of poverty is different. Poverty in USA is wealthy compare to poverty I india
@Axel_Andersen2 жыл бұрын
@@lewisbae1326 So is the cost of living in USA compared to India
@andreedwards73252 жыл бұрын
How civilized they were ?
@listenherejack3 жыл бұрын
Modern British: "Terribly sorry about the whole Empire business, awful stuff, terribly sorry" Mongolians: *30 metre statue of Genghis Khan*
@Anonymous-cm8jy3 жыл бұрын
@@lu544 With God complex and probably biggest rapist and killer in history.
@aidy60003 жыл бұрын
@@Anonymous-cm8jy im sure he was spinning in his grave when when you wrote that.
@mccombe253 жыл бұрын
Never met a British person thats been sorry about anything the British have done. Quite the opposite actually
@julianshepherd20383 жыл бұрын
Apologies are cheap
@l0dgey3 жыл бұрын
@@mccombe25 people like you forget that the ruling British exploited and abused their own people long before and during the empire. our ancestors pain and suffering was the motivation for the empire
@Present-Tense3 жыл бұрын
19:23 "... it (British Empire) essentially started the slave trade." Within the British Empire, yes. However, to the shame of humanity across the globe, capture and trade in slaves LONG preceded the British Empire: eg δοῦλοι , δοῦλαι in Ancient Greece, servī in Roman Empire, þrælar of the Vikings ... and let's not forget the Bible: Exodus 21:20-21 Leviticus 25:44-46 Ephesians 6:5-8 Colossians 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:1-2, Titus 2:9-10
@als30223 жыл бұрын
@@TG-tl4uj Or a prisoner of the Barbary Pirates.
@OriginalBongoliath3 жыл бұрын
@@nedkelly4825 Islamic slave trade continues to this day but we aren't allowed to say anything bad about Muslims and my comment will probably be shadow banned by KZbin for saying it.
@blockmasterscott3 жыл бұрын
@@OriginalBongoliath Well said,
@Snow-ql9sc3 жыл бұрын
Was going to correct this twat also thanks for doing it for me.
@thepoliticalhousethatjackbuilt3 жыл бұрын
@Present Tense "The slave trade" (also referred to as the "Atlantic slave trade", or "transatlantic slave trade", or the "Euro-American slave trade") in the context of European Colonialism, refers to the transatlantic trading patterns which were established as early as the mid-17th century. The British triangular trade in slaves, in which trading ships would sail from Europe with manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa to be traded for slaves, the ship would then transport the slaves to the Americas or the Caribbean, before returning home with cargoes of sugar, rum, tobacco and other 'luxury' items, is the "The slave trade" in question here. It is this Slave Trade that the British Empire controlled and "essentially started", which is being discussed; It is not about the slaves in Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire or the Bible (which were made up of predominately captured enemies) but the activity of exchanging goods for human beings and then buying, selling these people as chattels in a triangular trade route.
@nathantilbury33093 жыл бұрын
Slavery is wrong and no one could defend its practice, but the British did not start it. Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, etc all used slaves. Slavery has been practised by humans since the dawn of civilisation and perhaps before that. I will say that no nation can claim to be paragons of justice when it comes to history. We must research, debate, and learn from history so we do not repeat the mistakes of the past.
@bl73553 жыл бұрын
Not forgetting the Inca, Aztec & Mayans until the 16th century. Also, the Japanese in the 19th & 20th Century.
@AndrewHalliwell3 жыл бұрын
And it's not as if we started the American slave trade either, that was the Dutch, iirc. We were just more efficient at it, when we joined in.
@Aiphiae3 жыл бұрын
There are countries in Africa who in recent years have formally apologized for the substantial role they played in the slave trade. Somehow, this is always forgotten when people talk about slavery.
@thetruerift3 жыл бұрын
Chattle Slavery, as practiced by the European empires in the age of exploration was substantially different than most historical forms of slavery, vastly wide spread, and still has measurable and direct impacts on people and communities still living today in multiple countries.
@douglasmohammed98443 жыл бұрын
"the cool kids are doing it too" doesn't excuse the act of slavery. Just fucking own it. Let it marinade into acceptance, and do better for the future.
@adammills8846 Жыл бұрын
Simon, it's ridiculous that your writers claim that the British started slavery.... more than once.
@dallassukerkin68784 ай бұрын
That's because the fellow, entertaining as he is, is one of our modern Liberal Quislings, who loathes his own history, extolling only the bad, observed, of course, only through the lens of C21st morality.
@VARMOT1234 ай бұрын
It did start chattel slavery
@ExPraetorianGuard-dl1pz19 күн бұрын
@@VARMOT123 chattel slavery was practiced in ancient Egypt
@corey41093 жыл бұрын
I dont think you can say England started slavery, it was used well before that
@cros133 жыл бұрын
I don't think they can take credit for ending slavery in their own territory either. It's not an accident that both Acts of Parliament limiting or abolishing slavery (1807 & 1833) almost immediately followed large influxes of anti-slavery Irish MPs in the elections immediately following the 1800 act of union forced on Ireland and the 1829 Catholic Emancipation Act. The change in voting between earlier failed efforts to abolish slavery in the late 1700s almost exactly aligns with the addition of Irish MPs.
@elias_xp953 жыл бұрын
@@cros13 The addition of Irish MPs... and where were they added? That's right, to Britain. Thus, Britain abolished slavery. Let's not forget the huge role played by the RN!
@CamoHunt83 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind that he doesn't say slavery, slavery had already been prominent in Europe if you go back to antiquity and it was still widespread throughout the world. He specifically says the slave trade, referring to the Atlantic Slave Trade. He would also be wrong on this account since the Portuguese and Spanish had already been trading in slaves previously. However, neither country would be able to match Great Britian in absolute numbers, it wouldn't have gotten as far as it did without British (or French) participation and it is largely responsible for creating the racial divide in the US (Not continuing it). As a small aside, I'm not trying to say that what other european countries wasn't bad, you're either in the slave trade and colonialism or you're not and what others did is just as morally wrong even if they weren't as good at doing it. You can even go farther and look at other european countries who would have done it if they could. The Danes, Sweedes, Austrians and Poles also tried to have colonies of their own at one point or another.
@somerandompersonidk22723 жыл бұрын
@@CamoHunt8 The Portuguese still actually transported more slaves.
@SteveDorrans3 жыл бұрын
I don't think he did, did he?
@jamesheracklis40203 жыл бұрын
Sorry to be that guy, but the lost colony of Roanoke was in North Carolina, not South Carolina. Trust me, North Carolinians are way too proud of that fact (it is taught in 4th and 8th grade).
@andrewmedanich28443 жыл бұрын
Youre correct Ive had the pleasure of visiting that exact island and site definitely North Carolina
@INMATEofARKHAM3 жыл бұрын
Maybe it was really in South Carolina and that's why they've had so much trouble finding it? /s
@jamesheracklis40203 жыл бұрын
@@INMATEofARKHAM nope, definitely in NC. The Croatoan tree was in Dare County, and the actual tribe lived near modern-day Cape Hatteras.
@Grafknar3 жыл бұрын
South Carolinian here. Yes, Roanoke was in NC, not SC. Set foot in Downtown Charleston and you'd realize there's no need to live anywhere else.
@julianshepherd20383 жыл бұрын
Don't worry. No one cares.
@JosephCartertheMinkMan2 жыл бұрын
Why do you keep saying the British started the slave trade? You need to do a little more research on that subject sir. I know you are very well versed in a lot of things, but you are completely wrong on that topic. The British did nothing more but step in and take advantage of a preexisting slave trade. They did not start it. I'm not British so I'm not trying to make excuses for anyone, I'm just pointing out the facts.
@andip74802 жыл бұрын
if you look at the comments below you will notice that 300 others have pointed that out already.
@davidbarr93432 жыл бұрын
@@andip7480 That means that 301 people that have commented know the truth.
@georgebishop49412 жыл бұрын
Is he that well versed?...really? Seems like over simplified click-bait to me.
@lordmaur1802 жыл бұрын
This is true, slavery predates Britain existance, romans did it, carthagenians did it, babylonians did it, hell on the oldest law code the Hamurabi code there is punishments for killing another person slave
@aidangriffiths50752 жыл бұрын
The slave trade and slavery are not the same thing. The British started modern slavery to the US as we know it
@nicholasthomas4382 Жыл бұрын
Simon's point about the French not supporting the second Iraq war is well met. I was one of the people who went along with the propaganda and fervor that lead us into that war, and derided the French for their opposition. Now I realize they were right, and I was wrong. Another reason to reject the idea of America as the World Police.
@paulhaynes3170 Жыл бұрын
There wasn't WMDs the Iraq war was propaganda!
@xa-12musk8 Жыл бұрын
Better the USA than China. I won't even mention Russia,pretenders to top spot as they are, a nation with the 5th largest economy in Europe and even a smaller economy than Texas.
@angloirishcad Жыл бұрын
However someone has to maintain the peace...
@rittataylor_2000 Жыл бұрын
@@angloirishcad well if anything it shouldn't be the nation who is the biggest exporter of weapons and has the most nuclear powered arms than any other nation in the world
@rob5944 Жыл бұрын
good on you for admitting that. However I was deeply skeptical at the time though. Despite repeated claims of WMD nothing was actually shown on TV or anywhere else for that matter. I still believe that the US had to be seen to do something after 9/11 and we were obliged to go along with them, it's as simple as that. Saddam Hussein was no real threat to us and weapons inspector Dr David Kelly was silenced before he could talk.
@stephenwilhelm3 жыл бұрын
Magaprojects: Britain started the slave trade. Portugal: Am I a joke to you? A quick Wikipedia search says that Portugal started buying African slaves in 1444, and started sending them to Brazil in 1526. This doesn't excuse the British, just stating facts.
@cadetbiff38333 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget the Romans, Barbary Pirates or pretty much any large empire that needed cheap labour from it conquered enemies. Not an excuse for it yet not 100% the only slavers ever.
@mrmagoo-i2l3 жыл бұрын
Careful hate facts will get you sent to the naughty bin. Egyptians built their own tombs dont ya know.
@DarkZodiacZZ3 жыл бұрын
Who did they buy those slaves from?
@stephenwilhelm3 жыл бұрын
@@DarkZodiacZZ Mostly from the Mali empire, which Portugal already had trade relations with. Mali was the hub of west African slavery, and had been for centuries. But the Transatlantic slave trade was particularly brutal, even by the standards of ancient times. The conditions for the crossing, combined with the treatment of the slaves (especially in sugar plantations) is on a level never seen before.
@bmadidc91233 жыл бұрын
I think his point was that the empire was the largest single contributor to the slave trade, I think
@Radit_HP3 жыл бұрын
"History is history, good, bad, ugly and the shameful its still history." - Daryl Davis
@Archangelm1273 жыл бұрын
Take your "logic" and get outta here. :P
@MesbahSalekeen3 жыл бұрын
@@Archangelm127 agreed
@Radit_HP3 жыл бұрын
@@Archangelm127 elaborate
@cashcleaner3 жыл бұрын
Daryl Davis is an amazing person.
@Archangelm1273 жыл бұрын
@@Radit_HP It's a joke expression, commenting on how the most logical arguments often seem to be dismissed the most quickly in the public discourse.
@Masada19113 жыл бұрын
*british grenadiers starts playing in the background* You are being civilized, please do not resist
@SRW_3 жыл бұрын
Resistence is futile
@justindyches55103 жыл бұрын
the trees start singing yankee doodle
@madrabbit90073 жыл бұрын
Where the British Empire planted flags, great civilizations followed. America, India, Australia, and Canada eh!
@luislealsantos3 жыл бұрын
@@madrabbit9007 iraque,iran,Palestine, Egypt, Syria and so on..
@madrabbit90073 жыл бұрын
@@luislealsantos yeah, there are many hell holes as well where civilization didn’t stick due to the locals wanting to live in the dark ages. Look at the mess we Americans have left in Afghanistan. I cry watching the hoards of people trying to flee the cavemen.
@barakdan1858 Жыл бұрын
"And yes, everyone in the past was the worst" that was hilarious😂🤣
@gl53993 жыл бұрын
The British weren’t the first to start the slave trade, slavery has existed since the beginning of man kind. Many civilisations such as the Greeks, Egyptians and Persians exploited slavery. I suggest you look into the Arab slave trade as it often gets overlooked compared to the Atlantic slave trade which gets far more attention.
@funster73mcr23 жыл бұрын
I think the Portuguese were the first to be shipping from Africa. Maybe we was the first to do it on an industrial scale, as we'd just invented industry.
@jwadaow3 жыл бұрын
@@funster73mcr2 There was more shipped to Brazil. It's just America is the world's most powerful country and emphasising carefully chosen narratives works in favour of competing interests.
@churblefurbles3 жыл бұрын
wasn't even that bad, the alternative was starving in many cases, or just being wiped out as was the case with ancient tribal warfare.
@joedoran3413 жыл бұрын
The British Empire put an end to slavery in the west though.
@joedoran3413 жыл бұрын
@@vinaynk erm, no.
@harrybarrow62223 жыл бұрын
A few things you did not mention, and perhaps should have done: The actual enslavement in Africa was mostly by one African tribe enslaving another and selling the slaves to traders from other countries; The slave trade in Britain was private enterprise and not state enterprise; After we changed our mind about slavery, we actively set about ending the global slave trade. The Royal Navy was ordered to intercept slave ships of other nations and turn them back to Africa. In this, the Navy returned about 150,000 Africans to Africa. Wikipedia has a good article on the topic.
@a.ferreira97873 жыл бұрын
We Portuguese have a heavy guilt in slavery, that is for certain. But slavery is way older than the country. Before Portugal being a naval power, the peoples from north Africa raided the Portuguese coasts, mainly Algarve (in the south) and took the villagers to slavery. I would say that slavery was a common concept at the time, just as was war. Slavery was a profitable trade, it was not an act of evil at the time. Awful and a crime to our modern eyes, for sure.
@sentientflower78913 жыл бұрын
Slavery was awful and evil in the Bible circa 1000 BC.
@a.ferreira97873 жыл бұрын
@@sentientflower7891 Sure, but that was irrelevant for many, such as the Moors that enslaved the Portuguese or later some greedy Portuguese nobles and merchants. At the time there were champions against slavery, such as a humanist Jesuit that is one of our 'national heroes'. This greedy mentality that drove empires is not so different nowadays. People accept that climate changes is a consequence of our behaviour. Do most of the big companies really care? I don't see that. They just pay (or make us pay) a 'climate tax' and clean their hands. Immediate profit cannot be stopped, even if it seriously damages future generations. That is not properly a Christian idea, in my opinion. Not to disagree with you, it is just to say that this is the way humanity has been.
@sentientflower78913 жыл бұрын
@@a.ferreira9787 the ultimate climate change tax is the extinction of the human species. That bill is coming due. Soon. Jesus Christ isn't returning. Ever.
@Skaarxiong13 жыл бұрын
we still have slaves you know, we just don't call them slaves. we call them, NBA players.
@davidsilverfield8353 жыл бұрын
Yup
@Outsidecontext Жыл бұрын
Did you just claim that the British started slavery? That’s patiently ridiculous. Even just transportation of slaves across oceans is not a British invention. You fail to mention the civilian deaths in the Indian uprising that really crossed lines with the British. Frankly, this was not a good episode.
@jamesbrandau37123 жыл бұрын
Enjoy these presentations immensely. FYI- The Roanoke Colony was in present day North Carolina, not South Carolina. Back then, then the whole area was known as Virginia. It was not until much later when Charles I partitioned the Virginia territory and named the new divisions after himself that the Carolinas came into existence. Earlier in 1624, King James revoked Virginia’s private charter and declared it a Royal Colony, the first official such designation in what was to become the British Empire. Also, Virginia remained loyal to the crown after the Regicide of Charles I,. When Charles II took the throne after the Cromwell’s Protectorate collapsed, Charles II declared Virginia the “Old Dominion,” a nickname which survives today.
@rollout19843 жыл бұрын
To be fair, when you have an empire that large its only natural to forget where you placed a colony here and there.
@scintillam_dei3 жыл бұрын
Spaniards first pass by Virigina, not the genocidal Brits. See also the video "Spanish Discovery of Hawaii 1555." Jamey Cooked is overrated. Brits are overrated. The British Empire wasn't the biggest. Stay tuned for my video proving it.
@scintillam_dei Жыл бұрын
@BB49 YOu can ask the brown people in Perú who exist because the Spanish weren't genocidal, and those people are indoctrinated to be anti-Spanish, so you'll get the wrong answer from their mouths, but the right answer from their existence.
@trevorfuller1078 Жыл бұрын
@@scintillam_dei Ask the so-called indigenous “Brown People” in Mexico or Peru today of their opinions on how Cortez, Pizzaro or the other Spanish Conquistadores really treated their conquered & subjugated peoples (Their ancestors) in most, if not all their Latin-American colonies?!! It might totally be an eyes, ears, & wholly mind-opening experience for you!!
@scintillam_dei Жыл бұрын
@@trevorfuller1078 You're talking to a Central Amercian. Most people are taught to hate Spain from youth. They're ingorant and gullible, just like you. Most Native Americans in América don't even know their identity. Their ignorant opinions don't change a thing except to show the injustice of anti-Spanish lies.
@AaronAaron2473 жыл бұрын
My biggest issue with this video is the phrasing of “British created slavery.” Or basically blaming “slavery” on the British. Shouldn’t be this sloppy with your wording. Saying “British Empire along with the Spanish Empire helped create the African transatlantic slave trade” would be better. Slavery existed long before the British Empire and still persists today. Hell it was also beneficial to those Africans who sold other Africans into slavery. This issue is much more complicated than most people pretend it is.
@brianhodgson95473 жыл бұрын
Sums up my argument perfectly, we were involved in the Slave Trade, but WE also stopped it ... on the 'balance sheet' of History, i think that it will show that finally abolishing Slavery is/was more important than being involved in it ... WE even provided reparations to Slave Owners to emancipate slaves, setting them free ... in 1832's money, it was £20 MILLION - in todays money, conservative estimates equate that £20 MILLION to anywhere between £10-20 BILLION - WE only FINISHED paying off that loan in 2014
@harrypotter43093 жыл бұрын
Simon seems like the sort of smug bastard that is quite happy to live the life he does, where he does, with all the benefits of education, security, etc that come with that, whilst decrying the efforts that got us here. If he wants to feel sorry about anyone, it should be for the forgotten millions at home in Britain who toiled for centuries in poverty, to create the wherewithal that enabled the Empire to be established in the first place, but that never seems to worry such smug lefty gits. Question ?? Why do this kind of person always have beards ?? Seems to be a common trait amongst oppressors.
@brianhodgson95473 жыл бұрын
@@harrypotter4309 ...brilliant 👍
@brianhodgson95473 жыл бұрын
@@harrypotter4309 ... if it wasn't for Empire generating wealth, there would be no 'Services' to speak of, as on the whole 'Libtards' work in the Service Industries, so not generating wealth themselves, this is after they get their Media Studies degrees at Uni ... 🤣🤣🤣
@harrypotter43093 жыл бұрын
@@brianhodgson9547 Absolutely spot on. I usually have a go at the universities (ever more left leaning since the 1920's) but I ran out of steam. Totally agree regarding their taking up of non jobs as I like to call them, and the media studies bit is so true. I was a witness to this nonsense grabbing hold in the education system in the early seventies, that and "liberal studies" which usually had in charge someone who was half our age, and knew nothing of the world except the information they had been indoctrinated with . We had much fun pulling them and their assertions apart. But it was difficult not to get angry with their smugness sometimes !! Happy Days !!
@gh84473 жыл бұрын
19:23 "...essentially started the slave trade." That's horseshit, Simon. The slave trade - or at least slavery - in Africa has been going on for *thousands* of years, and it was the Portuguese who first landed on African shores to *buy* slave from local slave traders. Additionally, slavery only became associated with ethnicity during the slave trade to America; slave traders in Africa (particularly the Barbary pirates) would capture people of any ethnicity, including whites - but no one likes to talk about that. For more on White Slavery, start here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery
@MrWansty3 жыл бұрын
arabs had been trading slaves long before the europeans
@jamesroberts38173 жыл бұрын
Its because Simon is your typical British left wing millennial, only giving you the information that fits there narrative about how evil their country was.
@unclejoeoakland3 жыл бұрын
@@MrWansty First off, slavery was something that has been accepted in many different cultures, so long as it wasn't applied to the in-group Second- ok... So the Arabs were doing it. Does that make it OK? Whom would you like enslaved today to make up for it? Third, white slavery was and is terrible- the numbers simply skew heavily toward African chattel slavery. And that's kinda the point. Nobody is saying it didn't happen, but you SEEM to be saying that the short period of Barbary pirates taking slaves from Spain, England and france should be taught entirely instead of the millions of Africans over hundreds of years who were brutally abducted and made into property. Growing up in America, we did learn that one of the early years of our navy was slapping some sense into the Barbary pirates and securing treaties with the north africans to stop it. So- 4a- we stopped that pretty early 4b- people actually do get taught about it 4c- you're welcome 4d- funny how even then, we got pissed over white people being enslaved but not black people 4e- maybe thats why people like you are laughed and heckled in public.
@chrissinclair44423 жыл бұрын
Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Leslie Wexner, Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Charles, Johnny Savile, British Foreign Office Of The Crown, Mossad, CIA, Stephen Hawking also abusing children on one of Jeffrey Epstein's child abuse islands I believe per unsealed records in pre trail hearings of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein would fly out of Royal Airforce Bases, native residential schools in Canada, Lord Mountbatten...and it goes on and on and on.
@XxxSammi3xxXMspNz3 жыл бұрын
@@unclejoeoakland the Barbary piracy wasn’t just a short period thing. It went on for longer than the transatlantic slave trade.
@markace10712 жыл бұрын
An extremely important point left out is the British method of "Divide and Conquer"
@JohnnyWishbone85 Жыл бұрын
That's hardly uniquely British. It's the oldest play in the Empire Playbook.
@AERYS. Жыл бұрын
Still prevalent to this day. Used by politicians and others with power.
@mudra511410 ай бұрын
Divide and Rule by the British is a myth.
@stdesy3 жыл бұрын
Probably not a great idea to ever put a red border around a video as it looks like the indicator that shows it has already been watched.
@markkarasik22113 жыл бұрын
😎the “already watched” line never stops me…Simon’s Channels are the first I ever enjoyed reruns of!!!
@ryateo13 жыл бұрын
I don't have that. Nothing in my feed tells me I've seen a video. For what its worth, I've never needed anything to tell me I've seen one. Thumb nails are great for recollection.
@stdesy3 жыл бұрын
@@ryateo1 I watch thousands of videos and could never remember all of the thumbnails. KZbin will only put a red line under the last 2000..a lot of times I’ve started watching a video only to realize 5 mins in I’ve seen it before
@ryateo13 жыл бұрын
@@stdesy I wonder if its because I only use cheap phones without Google apps?
@stdesy3 жыл бұрын
@@ryateo1 It’s probably that. I’m only ever on the opposite side with an iPhone but I do also see the red line on my PS5 and Roku KZbin apps
@ernestbywater4113 жыл бұрын
A point to remember when talking about claiming lands like Australia is: The policy of Terra Nullus was established by the Pope when the Spanish and Portuguese were busy claiming lands in the Americas back in the 16th century and was a major part of claiming the lands in North America. This policy was also very strongly supported by the US and Canadian governments with their expansion across North America as well as being a core aspect of the US Government policies behind the settling of the the lands west of the original colonies.
@grahamross63973 жыл бұрын
Also those already there in Australia had no concept of land ownership, so couldn't sell the land for beans.
@loke66643 жыл бұрын
@@grahamross6397 Not to mention that the first European who "Discovered" Australia was the Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon which makes Britain's claim to Australia even thinner (if that is possible when the aboriginals had lived there for 60 000 years). But might makes right and the nation with the worlds largest Navy kinda did like they wanted back then, just like Spain did in the early 1500s.
@angryatheist3 жыл бұрын
Australia was a managed land , the natives had practiced burning the land since they arrived and they had structures just not in the Eurocentric view of civilisation
@aceundead47503 жыл бұрын
Makes me wonder if id be an American or even if id be alive as the same person if, after the USA divorced GB, the US govt hadnt expanded west and just stayed the original 13 colonies
@somethinglikethat21763 жыл бұрын
@@angryatheist managed the land is an interesting way of putting it. There was an extinction event when they settled Australia, like everytime humanity found a new place to call home. Humans are the most ridiculously over and powered animal this planet has ever produced and this shows in the fossil record.
@Nucl3arDude2 жыл бұрын
I think at least a shout out to IP law could be one discreetly major thing that the British Empire spread across the globe. It was a huge component in tying together the last major incentives and protections in law that made the industrial revolution possible.
@davidpalk50102 жыл бұрын
Ah, IP law. That was worth millions of deaths and decades of exploitation, wasn't it?
@rogersmith95352 жыл бұрын
@@davidpalk5010 They never said it was.
@davidpalk5010 Жыл бұрын
@@rogersmith9535 . They suggested it was a positive, but we didn't spread it to China, the world's biggest manufacturing country, did we? No international IP laws in China today, which is why Taiwan does much of the top tech, as they've signed up to all major treaties. Did our empire take IP treaties to Taiwan? Nope.
@silverhawkscape2677 Жыл бұрын
@@davidpalk5010 Nom they traded with the British and other western Nations. And so had to comply.
@andrewwilliams3137 Жыл бұрын
@@davidpalk5010 You say "decades of exploitation". India's GDP grew while the British were there. You underestimate the benefits from British trade and investment and from industrialisation of India's economy. Under the British an increase in Indian population also occurred with an increase of GDP per capita. And "between 1860 and 1940 employment in factories increased from less than 100,000 to two million. The share of factories in industrial employment of British India increased from almost zero in 1850 to 11% in 1938, and in industrial income from 15% in 1900 to 45% in 1947...The growth is impressive by any standard". Source: Tirthankar Roy.
@davidleonard375 ай бұрын
We here in Ireland would like to thank the British empire for their input into civilising us. Only for them we probably wouldn't speak English as our first language, millions would not have died in a famine or spread to all parts of the world to escape it, they partitioned our country that lead to civil War and years of troubles.. I could go on.. Thanks again.
@BrexitVoter5 ай бұрын
No problem 👍🥰
@damdamdam834613 күн бұрын
The problem you do go on and on and on… famine caused by the Irish and prolong by the Irish themselves the labourers in the fields taking a living, the carters loading and taking it to the docks, the clerks administrators all Irish taking a living from it and the farm and small holders and church taking their profit whilst the under under class starved… not an English man involved in that but yet the English get blamed for a political score….. shameful
@jeast4173 жыл бұрын
The amount of power the ussr was able to exert over its people to enact the 13 different 5 year plans was astonishing, we would love to hear the other 12
@matthewdopler89973 жыл бұрын
I am hoping they will do it. Simon said that they were thinking about doing the rest but the first video didn’t do that well.
@jeast4173 жыл бұрын
@@matthewdopler8997 yeah I know thats why I keep commenting here and the side projects channel hoping he'll see it a realize many of us want them
@SkuLLetjaH3 жыл бұрын
Yes, we've had first Five Year Plan, but what about second Five Year Plan?
@jeast4173 жыл бұрын
@@SkuLLetjaH there's 12 others
@seanbrazell61473 жыл бұрын
It's actually pretty simple: Every Soviet Citizen was given a stipend of vodka. Even when bread lines extended for miles and toilet paper was as rare as gold-pressed latinum, the USSR managed to keep the vodka flowing as if the supply was inexhaustible. THAT is a megaproject if evvrr thhrr wwss 1! 🥃🥴👌
@sammim76572 жыл бұрын
The British didn't start the slave trade, it had been going for a long time before the British Empire.
@chalky72852 жыл бұрын
I agree black African tribesmen were selling rival tribesmen taken battle and raids to Dutch merchants long before Britain got involved but that gets ignored cos we apologize and the Dutch don't.
@williamwilliam50662 жыл бұрын
The British STOPPED it, but unfortunately many people of colour still indulge in it. Anyway the British were victims of slavery for many hundreds of years before Africans.
@randomuser63062 жыл бұрын
@@chalky7285 what? The Egyptians were doing it 5000 years ago. They didn't invent it either.
@chalky72852 жыл бұрын
@@randomuser6306 I totally agree my friend it is a humanity problem and it will probably never end but can hope
@rhinoman802 жыл бұрын
Up until the British abolition of slavery, slavery has been practiced on every continent, by virtually all people. In no way, shape or form is it a "British" thing.
@chuck.reichert833 жыл бұрын
"Apparently here at Mega Projects, we like throwing hand grenades into the comments section." BEST LINE ON THE VIDEO. Had me laughing for a good minute. Thanks for making me spray my table with coffee.
@ChristopherKnN3 жыл бұрын
And France should be happy they don't speak German after they dropped so many rifles in 2 world wars.
@bakedmons50712 жыл бұрын
“History can be a dark place to delve into, but not looking back and examining closely is usually even worse.” Well put megaprojects, well put.
@silverhawkscape2677 Жыл бұрын
The worst thing you can do with history is to take the wrong lessons from it. Today many liberals are seeking revenge against the British empire by being...racist to Whites...
@farvadafatazz22742 жыл бұрын
Too many people today don't understand that anyone can be, and every country has at one time or another been both remarkably good, and unimaginably bad. Everything has to be absolute nowadays, there's no room for disagreement and discussion, and that is insanity, and it's dangerous.
@joebrewer45292 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but slavery was far worse to their own people in each country that had factories. Those conditions now have been civilized, so no one really suffers any of this.
@prapanthebachelorette6803 Жыл бұрын
You’re right. Nothing is completely black or white and thinking in extremes can lead to dangerous path
@hirenahir76200 Жыл бұрын
Huh saying this because they are talking about Britain which is pride for most of you westners😂😂
@originalbadboy32 Жыл бұрын
It's also however a whataboutism... Everyone else did it so that's OK yeah?
@carstenhansen5757 Жыл бұрын
The thing is, that if you actually have a conscience, and try to better yourself, which western societies in general do, unlike less developed societies, you will be called out, for exposing yourself. Even though other countries and cultures have done the exact same thing, sometimes much worse, they are not called out for it, and they are sure as hell not going to admit to ANYTHING. And that is essentially, why they are not able to better themselves and create better societies for their people. if their inferior minds, you are exposing yourself. In a western context it's sometimes good to sometimes admit mistakes, so that there is a chance for you to better yourself.
@curtisthomas26703 жыл бұрын
There allegedly is a saying "if you see two fish fighting in a river an Englishman must have just passed by"
@debranjandas14253 жыл бұрын
The stupidest quote ever.
@theinformationbomber71023 жыл бұрын
Hahaha so damn true
@drstrangelove49983 жыл бұрын
@@theinformationbomber7102 explain
@drstrangelove49983 жыл бұрын
The British Empire evil, oh, compared to what, compared to which other empires. Ridding the Indian sub continent of it’s actually evil empire? Ffs get real.
@atacama10003 жыл бұрын
@@drstrangelove4998 yes the British empire was evil.
@corneliakoller1914 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@dannylandrum15963 жыл бұрын
The english definitely didnt "start" the slave trade... Slavery has been around as long as people have been around to do it. They didnt end it either slavery is still going on today.
@allytg13 жыл бұрын
'The slave trade' is not the same as 'trading in slaves'. The slave trade, in this context, is the term used to decribe the atlantic slave triangle. I think he is aware slavery existed before an after the british empire.
@terrancehall97623 жыл бұрын
we are talking about chattel slavery
@allytg13 жыл бұрын
@@terrancehall9762 yes... and?
@SharpeBalth3 жыл бұрын
@@allytg1 It really suits the narrative of certain countries to label the Atlantic slave trade as "the slave trade". The reality is that the slave network developed by Muslims that developed into the Barbary Pirates was the largest network of slaves ever seen. Americans just love attention too much.
@allytg13 жыл бұрын
@@SharpeBalth I mean if its amaericans talking about slavery then its not that weird for them to call it 'the slave trade'. Simularly to how they call it the civil war. There were other civil wars but when talking about their own they don't need to specify.
@fridgemanGB3 жыл бұрын
"British started the slave trade" utter bollocks.
@jonbaxter22543 жыл бұрын
We definitley ended it though
@mcmarkmarkson71153 жыл бұрын
the transatlantic...
@fridgemanGB3 жыл бұрын
@@mcmarkmarkson7115 he didn't say transatlantic
@Tanesis3 жыл бұрын
Surely the Spanish began the Transatlantic slave trade moving slaves from Ceuta to the Caribbean replacing the poor Taino across the Atlantic Ocean. In a crossing motion. In a Transatlantic kind of way? Not condoning Slavery, slavery is 'orrible but Britain was relative late comers to the party. We just did it an absolute shit load over a relatively short period. We were also the first major player to stop it and then started enforcing everyone else to submit to ship searches to make sure everyone else stopped it also.
@jackjones70623 жыл бұрын
An over simplification, the British empire was one of the primary and initiating proponents of the Atlantic slave trade though, that specific one. People do tend to think of this specific one when they hear the phrase ‘slave trade’, because it was probably the worst slaves were treated in history if only because there were so many people being treated like utter shit. In the ancient world there would of course have been slaves treated worse I imagine, but not on such a massive scale.
@BatCaveOz3 жыл бұрын
Can we all please agree that slavery predates history and wasn't a creation of the British Empire?
@anoopkl4u3 жыл бұрын
Of course Brits didn’t invented it but they just used it to build their empire for centuries They didn’t invent it they just excelled it
@user-ug8wx5er1w3 жыл бұрын
Defo. Portugal was a lot more prolific at it too.
@RNmedicSeniorservice3 жыл бұрын
@@anoopkl4u Yes! The same as the the Mogul empire in India (and those before it), Egyptians, Chin Dynasty, Islamic states (espescially in Afirca where it was bigger and lasted longer than the Atlantic slave trade) etc... Infact every civilisation ever........ they also excelled at it.
@inigobantok15793 жыл бұрын
@@anoopkl4u the Portuguese and Dutch were the experts on that that's leftist distortion of history
@crowbar95663 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@tSp2892 жыл бұрын
"The bad and the ugly, oh and something about infrastructure". All the points are basically true, but this is such an amazing oversimplification. Empires are always complex. They generally combine extreme brutality with huge advances in technology and society. The British Empire effectively kick-started the modern world, for better and worse, and its cultural influence alone is a huge part of modern "western" thought. Also some key points I would have included: the effect of the Napoleonic wars on basically clearing out the seas for Britain to ramp up colonialism, the immense shift that the end of slavery created in Europe and America, and the overwhelming importance of the industrial revolution.
@ShanghaiRooster6 ай бұрын
When we talk about the industrial and scientific revolutions, we should remember where the monies came from to back these advances, and the answer is more or less from the plundering of India by the EIC and also from the slave trade. In the early 18th century before the British company began gaining political power India was one of the two largest economies in the world, rivalled only by China. If I remember right, India's economy was larger than that of all European nations put together. In 1765, Britain gained the right to collect taxes in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, replacing the Mughal authorities. Before that date, 85% of the EIC's exports to India was bullion to pay for the goods imported back to Britain. After 1765, part of the tax revenues were used to pay for those goods (effectively making Indians pay for their own manufactures to make profits for Britons in Europe). Over the course of the empire until 1947 Britain impoverished India.
@andrewwilliams313718 күн бұрын
@@ShanghaiRooster India didn’t become poorer, it’s GDP increased.. It was cheaper for India to import British iron & steel than make it itself. One of the biggest British exports to India alongside railway engines was iron & steel. Britain created an Indian coal industry from nothing, a valuable natural resource for India. Without coal India could not have a modern steel industry. Tata Steel was founded by Indians in 1907 by 1939 was the largest steel company in the Empire and is now one of the largest in the world. "The share of factories in industrial employment of British India increased from almost zero in 1850 to 11% in 1938, and in industrial income from 15% in 1900 to 45% in 1947...The growth is impressive by any standard". Source: Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History, born and educated in India.
@ShanghaiRooster18 күн бұрын
@@andrewwilliams3137 All those impressive sounding statistics don't change the fact that in the early 1700s, India's share of global exports was around 27%, by 1900 that had dropped to just 2%. The main export in those days was textiles, and there were large numbers of skilled weavers. British policies made imports from the UK to India tariff free, whilst simultaneously imposing huge tariffs on local producers (70-80%). This meant it was cheaper for raw cotton to be sent to Britain, made into finished cloth and re-exported to India for sale than it was for the local producers to sell their goods (and this is before the Suez Canal remember, so the ships would be sailing all the way around Africa). The result was the collapse of the Indian textiles industry. Former weavers had to become farmers, but the consequent large growth in the agricultural workforce meant incomes declined in that sector too. If similar policies of high tariff barriers on one side and none on the other were replicated in other sectors, little wonder that it would have been cheaper to import iron and steel than produce it locally until such time as those policies changed with the moves in the 19th century to free trade. Much of the industrial growth in 19th century India was initially funded by exports of cotton (India benefitted greatly from the outbreak of the American Civil War in that regard), and also by selling opium into China. As for the growth of industrial employment and industrial incomes in India that you quote above, I dare say the same phenomenon could have been measured during the Industrial Revolution in Britain as workers moved from a life of rural drudgery to the new factories.
@andrewwilliams313718 күн бұрын
@@ShanghaiRooster "The statistic that India produced 25 per cent of world output in 1800 and 2 to 4 per cent of it in 1900 does not prove that India was once rich and became poor. It only tells us that industrial productivity in the West increased four to six times during this period...National income statistics do not show that during British rule the Indian economy became steadily poorer". Source: Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History, born and educated in India. There was an industrial revolution and the total GDP of the world grew faster than the GDP of India. India's GDP increased under the British but not as much as in the West. A. B. E. 1600 74,250 22.6% 1700 90,750 24.4% 1820 111,417 16% 1870 134,882 12.2% 1913 204,242 7.6% A. Year B. GDP (millions) of India in 1990 international dollars E. India's % Share of World GDP It doesn't show that India became poorer. Just as the POPULATION OF THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT INCREASED AS IT'S % SHARE IN WORLD POPULATION DECREASED, because of the increase in total world population. A. F. G. 1600 100 24.3% 1700 165 27.36% 1820 209 20.1% 1870 253 19.9% 1913 303 17% A. Year F. Population (millions) G. Population (% Share of World)
@andrewwilliams313718 күн бұрын
@@ShanghaiRooster The world’s fourth-largest cotton textile mill industry emerged in Bombay and Ahmedabad in direct competition with Manchester.
@AnyoneCanSee3 жыл бұрын
Britain did not "start the slave trade" and it had been going for centuries if not millennia prior to Britain getting involved.
@CannaCJ3 жыл бұрын
Oh, ok. It's fine 'cus some other nations did it first. Thanks for your input.
@conorcorrigan7653 жыл бұрын
@@CannaCJ "Oh, ok. It's fine 'cus some other nations did it first." If you can't win the argument, just accuse your opponent of supporting slavery!
@theyoutubenomad.30353 жыл бұрын
nobody ever really complaines about the early empire's slave practices
@stephenj49373 жыл бұрын
But they had a lot to do with the Transatlantic slave trade, which is what he was referring to.
@mebsrea3 жыл бұрын
@@stephenj4937 And they *still* weren’t the first to do that; Spain and Portugal had been buying and exporting slaves from Africa for a century before English merchants got involved.
@dannyk18183 жыл бұрын
Most definitely want to see a video of Simon trying to awkwardly smile his way through Mongol atrocities or weird Mongol related horse facts.
@RNmedicSeniorservice3 жыл бұрын
Yep. An Empire that made such an impact through murder and rape that they changed the actual carbon foot print of the the human race as it was then (millions killed in such a short period, as in a few years that the amount of wood/fuels at the time burned reduced drammaticly, and 1 in 200 men in the human race share DNA direct to the Khans!).
@jrus6903 жыл бұрын
What, you think that the Mongols were unique in their atrocities. Britain, France, Belgium, Netherlands were all able to shovel their problems under the rug. Winners write the history books, especially when most of those books were written after World War 1, mostly by the aforementioned powers. The most recent example of great atrocities is the infamous Mao Zedong, who from 1949 to 1979 (30 years) may have had 50-75 million killed through his actions. Even Genghis Khan did not do that, we do not know how many people Genghis killed, all is heresy written by others.
@roisinmalone30153 жыл бұрын
Whataboutery What the Mongol Empire did doesn't change what the British Empire did.
@RNmedicSeniorservice3 жыл бұрын
@@roisinmalone3015 Not whataboutery as this thread is asking about a videon about the Mongols...
@rhysabercromby80323 жыл бұрын
@@roisinmalone3015 he’s not saying the British didn’t commit similar atrocities. He’s just saying he would like to see a video of Simon trying to smile through talking about it. Bring up another video idea isn’t shoving this under the rug
@mozuk82843 жыл бұрын
As a Brit I don’t find it hard to see the past of my ancestors because it’s the past and it was very different times. All we can do is use the past as a lesson and not make the same mistakes ago
@robfer53702 жыл бұрын
Yep. The Bible is very clear, that we are not held accountable, responsible, or guilty for the sins of our ancestors. Anyone who believes in god believes in this.
@NJards-zt4fp2 жыл бұрын
@@robfer5370 Isn't one of the central ideas of Christianity that EVERYONE is held accountable/ responsible for a fruit-related transgression of an ancestor in the Garden of Eden?
@talltroll70922 жыл бұрын
@@NJards-zt4fp * Deity class beings may apply exceptions unilaterally. Deal with it, mortals
@Naveenbr-kp8gc1yi3d2 жыл бұрын
Actually u can't make those mistakes again
@bigploppa154 Жыл бұрын
“not make the same mistakes” then get tf out of Ireland
@Turdmuncherable Жыл бұрын
Surely the most poignant aspect of the British Empire’s involvement in the slave trade was the abolishment of slavery and then the enforcement of this ban around the globe at the cost of much blood and treasure.
@michaelx48105 ай бұрын
So you’d like the british empire to be better recognised for solving the problem they helped create and profited from? Fair: thank you, Britain, for stopping the thing you massively contributed to industrialising and profited from. It was nice of you to compensate your slave owning subjects to make sure it ends. Pity about the slaves, who were simply told they were now free and then were left with no choice but to largely continue to do what they were doing before to survive, but the MAIN thing here is the huge sacrifices Britain made to end slavery. Britain are the true heroes and victims here. The centre of the story. Thank you so much for bringing this up. Someone simply HAD to speak up for the British Empire.
@taitreyarr27154 ай бұрын
The British did not end slavery, only replaced it with indentured labor largely from India and largely on similar terms
@philipcoriolis66143 жыл бұрын
The British Empire abolished Slavery and ended the slave trade. Worth praise in my humble opinion.
@daithideburca982 жыл бұрын
They did nothing during the famine in Ireland at the same time , but they did force ireland to export enough food to feed the population to Britain
@philipcoriolis66142 жыл бұрын
@@daithideburca98 True.
@thecalmclone28132 жыл бұрын
@@daithideburca98 ye, one of the empires greatest mistakes. Sending more food aid could have saved many lives
@SecondTake1233 ай бұрын
After starting it! 😂
@philipcoriolis66143 ай бұрын
@@SecondTake123 After Starting What ?
@kryts272 жыл бұрын
The Portuguese started the trans-Atlantic triangle slave trade, then the Spanish, then the Dutch, then the English and the French later. As for all the slaughter, bondage and slavery (initially) in the British Empire (and it wasn't British until 1707), it's like what John Cleese's character said in the Life of Brian; "what did the Romans do for us?"
@_hunter_hunter1048 Жыл бұрын
The slave trade itself was started by the muslim arabs in the 7th century after they *Invaded* *Occupied* *Colonized* North Africa , they converted the berbers and then the Othoman Turks came , all these 3 muslim groups established History's *Largest* and *Longest* slavetrade (7th to 20th century) , they enslaved millions of Black africans and millions of Europeans (they raided european coasts and ships) .... when Europe finaly broke out of the islamic siege in the 16th century they became Clients of the islamic SlaveTrade ,they bought slaves from the muslims , even many Pagan African tribes became SlaveTraders and raided neighboring tribes to sell them to both muslims and europeans
@majorfeelgoodrecords2740 Жыл бұрын
When the Roman empire left Britain, it turned into the dark ages
@davidharriss37923 жыл бұрын
Minor correction: the remains of Roanoke Colony is in modern North Carolina. Not South Carolina.
@MegaBbqbbq3 жыл бұрын
I go to Duck 3 or 4x's a year.
@cowboyfan68443 жыл бұрын
Was just there two weeks ago, it’s definitely in the OBX, not South Carolina
@garylong26923 жыл бұрын
Grew up near there. It is NC.
@Uncommoner3 жыл бұрын
It's also not Great Britain's first overseas colony. That would be St John's Newfoundland, granted Royal Charter in 1583 after being a fishing outpost since 1497
@hifinsword3 жыл бұрын
@@Uncommoner However it was only seasonal and not permanent until 1610, 3 years after Jamestown was settled as the first PERMANENT English settlement in the new world.
@RootlessNZ Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this excellent swift survey of the British Empire. I noticed you did not mention New Zealand (Aotearoa) which was last to be colonized by the British. It was conceived as the Britain of the South Pacific. Here, there was a treaty between the local Maori tribes (iwi) and no wholesale slaughter or famine, but there were the Land Wars of the 1860s. Reparations are still being made by the government to iwi to this day.
@seanlander9321 Жыл бұрын
Well NZ was first colonised by New South Wales, as a sub-colony of it, then later NZ was transferred to Britain as a colony after NSW had sorted out the treaty, or most of it to be fair.
@dominicomucci3014 Жыл бұрын
There was no wholesale slaughter and famine in any places of the empire. They would only go to war if provoked or to destroy evil like the enslaving ashanti etc.
@Th3_Gael Жыл бұрын
@@dominicomucci3014people just like to blame us brits because it's easier than accountability. The reasons we did things are never brought up, neither is the fact the entire world as it stands now was shaped by us.
@UnbannedAgain9 ай бұрын
@@seanlander9321 legally transferred to those who ran the who shebang. Sounds like an Australian mad they got bit on the ass by a spider today while taking a shit.
@AussieOzborne6 ай бұрын
Nah the mass killings were just done by the tribes, don’t forget the musket wars, oh and you maori pretty much wiped out the moriori people..
@johnbanka26232 жыл бұрын
Not one mention of Canada, taken by conquest from France and the largest colony by far in its day. Having lost what was then called British North America, perhaps Louis XIV said it best: "It was just a few acres of snow." 🙂
@renzoelperipatetico Жыл бұрын
So...?
@tymanung6382 Жыл бұрын
Dof.not France +.England both invade indigenous 1st Nations?
@ElGrandoCaymano Жыл бұрын
Louis XIV died in 1715, well before the Treaty of Paris. New France was not the largest colony in 1759, it was the Portuguese colony of Brazil.
@christopher9727 Жыл бұрын
.. Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Holy Spirit Can give you peace guidance and purpose and the Lord will John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
@rapier1954 Жыл бұрын
It was Voltaire said of Canada " it was just a few acres of snow" and Louis XIV died long before the Treaty of Paris gave New France to Britain. You really need to get your history straight. Although not mentioning Canada is a true oversight.
@davidashby87613 жыл бұрын
I love seeing the older videos and seeing how much Simon's beard has grown.
@nidhichopra75653 жыл бұрын
So when are we going to see a mega projects about Simon and his youtube empire??
@X3R0NZ10 ай бұрын
Underrated comment
@wildbear0078 ай бұрын
The excruciating amount of diamonds and gold and other resources Britain raked in from South Africa was gigantic as well. Brits treat South Africans with historical disdain and hatred. Brits need to learn what true respect is and that it's not just a word.
@greeber183 жыл бұрын
Dare I say the British Empire was the largest Megaproject in human history.
@noworriesnoproblems63823 жыл бұрын
AND GREATEST
@MarsLonsen3 жыл бұрын
Make the British empire great again! #MTBEGA
@BallyBoy953 жыл бұрын
@@noworriesnoproblems6382 American Empire beat your British Empire, heck, the US doesn't even call it an empire. Get rekt mate, the metropole of the previous empire is now their bish. Britannia rules the its part of the waves for the US.
@noworriesnoproblems63823 жыл бұрын
@@BallyBoy95 Can you write that again do its readable? I'll take it you said Britain is the best. TA LA!
@BallyBoy953 жыл бұрын
@@noworriesnoproblems6382 Can I write it again do its readable? I'll take it you said Britain is the best at taking in immigrants as is your responsible.
@PKAmedia3 жыл бұрын
"and yes everyone, the past was the worst" Possibly the future: Hey hold my beer!
@Youchubeswindon2 жыл бұрын
Hello from a worse future.
@init_yeah3 жыл бұрын
so i remember my dad telling me when i was young about how the British and their advancements developed our country and cursed it at the same time,he told me about how the empire handed power/backed a certain tribe and till this day that tribe continues to rule our country one way or another.
@ursodermatt88093 жыл бұрын
well yes, but what about before that? the other tribe was ruling over the latter one.
@mrgeorgeb00623 жыл бұрын
Rwanda?
@kokomo97643 жыл бұрын
Where are you talking about?
@DJeMo3 жыл бұрын
Washington DC is an interesting remain
@franciscomunoz22224 ай бұрын
Not "British Empire". Justly, "British Kleptomony."
@mykelhedge72993 жыл бұрын
You should have contextualised the slave trade segment. Britain did play a role, but it neither created the slave trade, neither was it the first to take slaves across the atlantic. All major powers of the time were invested in the slave trade, and the trade was done with the full participation of the African states that benefitted greatly from it. I have no issue with confronting dark points of our past. The issue I have is when it is not put in a wider context of the time. Slave trading British were no better or worse than the states and cultures that existed at the time or came before.
@eldictator13 жыл бұрын
In comparison to other empires the British slave trade was short lived
@nickcastings15682 жыл бұрын
The biggest problem for the history of the British Empire, are the self flagelating Britons who for some reason get a big kick from blaming themselves and the rest of the British (English) people of this century!
@josm14812 жыл бұрын
It was one of the last European powers to take slaves across the Atlantic. Whilst it wasn't unique in being involved it was unique in the resources and efforts it expended to abolish slavery, globally. Half the world stopped slaving because of the British empire. They didn't stop anti slaving patrols off East Africa till the 1970's.
@spiritualanarchist81622 жыл бұрын
He doesn't claim Britain created it. He says they were involved in it.
@nickcastings15682 жыл бұрын
@@spiritualanarchist8162 wasn’t nearly every country in their turn.
@Equiluxe13 жыл бұрын
Britain did not start the slave trade,it already existed prior to the british joining in. The Arabs had been trading slaves for centuries and the Spanish and Portuguese were buying slaves from the Arabs long before the British muscled in on the deal.
@terrancehall97623 жыл бұрын
sounds like you are being an apologist. we are talking about the atlantic slave trade
@terrancehall97623 жыл бұрын
@Aitch love your deflections
@Equiluxe13 жыл бұрын
@@terrancehall9762 The spanish started first, The British started with shipping prisoners from England to the Caribbean for working the plantations but the plantation owners were so beastly to the prisoners and treated them so badly flogging and hanging the prisoners for the slightest infringement that the government of the time decided that if the plantation owners paid for the worker prisoners that they would be treated more fairly and not killed off so fast. But of course the Christian ethics then came into play and you cannot sell a white Christian into slavery so they looked elsewhere and came up with buying black slaves from the Arabs who of course were "heathens" and therefore could be bought and sold with a clear Christian conscience.
@terrancehall97623 жыл бұрын
@Aitch ok stormfront
@terrancehall97623 жыл бұрын
@@Equiluxe1 you are doing alot of excusemaking just to say the africans were inferior so they deserved it
@rob-v1y3 жыл бұрын
Hey, you skipped the horrendous border drawing in the middle east (which is still haunting us until this very day). Kind of a big deal. Also, eating baked beans for breakfast. The Horror.
@abbofun90223 жыл бұрын
Have you ever tried those sausages? Take my advice, don’t!!
@BigBoomOfDoom23 жыл бұрын
Yeah, but it's really difficult to blame that one on the British when the natives were pushed out of their home over 1000 years ago, and have been repeatedly persecuted in Europe since migrating there, from being massacred in the 14th century due to being blamed for the black death, all the way up to what happened in WW2. None of this was the fault of the British, nor was it their fault when huge numbers of Jews started turning up in the middle east immediately post WW2. That should have been on the collective shoulders of the international community to deal with. We could have all chipped in to buy some land somewhere in the world to resettle them in a new country of their own.
@fjooyou3 жыл бұрын
@@BigBoomOfDoom2 To me it sounded like he meant the Iraq/Syria border from the "Sykes-Picot Agreement"
@BigBoomOfDoom23 жыл бұрын
@@fjooyou Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.
@57palmtree Жыл бұрын
Spectacular objectivity. Nicely done.
@tom64933 жыл бұрын
‘The British started the slave trade’. Where are you getting your “facts” from? 😂😂 the Portuguese started what we call “the slave trade” and we finished it. But let’s not forget, the concept of slavery has literally been around since the dawn of civilisation and every single person alive today, has benefited from it.
@luisgoncalosilva61943 жыл бұрын
Actually the Portuguese banned before the British but the rest in correct.
@T30-z5w3 жыл бұрын
If your referring to the Atlantic slave trade probably right. But the Arabs and other Muslim countries were trading in sub Saharan African slaves long before the Atlantic slave trade and they continued it into the 20th century.
@noname-v9c4e3 жыл бұрын
Mohammad started slave trade
@Snagprophet3 жыл бұрын
@@T30-z5w It's kind of a no brainer that the British Empire invented it's own slave trade between its colonies. I mean who else was going to do it? Germany? France? Egypt?
@T30-z5w3 жыл бұрын
@@Snagprophet Nothing is ever a no-brainer. There’s always more to the story. The Atlantic slave trade of which several European countries (England, Portugal and Spain come to mind) participated in was indeed intense for a specific period of time. But it dwarfed the East African slave trade in sheer numbers. Trade to Muslim countries began much earlier and lasted much longer. If it hadn’t been for England’s ability to project force on the high seas against the slave trade after 1807 the Atlantic slave trade would have continued on for much longer. So yes, not a no brainer but a complicated history as always.
@Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section3 жыл бұрын
An equally critical video about the US-American empire would be interesting.
@ghdjskjgbh3 жыл бұрын
2nd this
@loremasterxp36353 жыл бұрын
That would be a good watch.
@gk45393 жыл бұрын
US was Europeans who brought there practices here…. Eventually US has done trillion times more good than harm to the 🌎
@FrenchDinosaur3 жыл бұрын
@@gk4539 that's a very huge overestimation. And no, the US is not so great that it counterweights it's past and current misdeeds. It's very good at redirecting people's blame tho.
@Iamtheliquor3 жыл бұрын
@@gk4539 Really? How?
@rockstar4503 жыл бұрын
People: Roman Empire was great and big Same people: British Empire was bad ??? You cannot like Rome and not bow to the British Empire, and I’m not even British, I’m just not a hypocrite
@jimmyryan58803 жыл бұрын
Strawman
@blink182bfsftw3 жыл бұрын
Na you can still recognize that they did terrible things instead of glorifying them. The Romans caused a lot of misery to anyone who wasn't them for their personal gain. The only reason we remember the cool stories are because they wrote history from their point of view
@rockstar4503 жыл бұрын
@@blink182bfsftw in 500 years the British will be glorified along side the Romans and Mongols because humans are hypocrites and condone things when they aren’t personally related to them. The British colonies were a harsh time which propelled progressive first world nations such as Australia, NZ and North America with advanced medicines, technologies and forms of government. It’s so progressive history is now more focused on the evils rather than the successes.
@blink182bfsftw3 жыл бұрын
@@rockstar450 agreed, Dan Carlin talks about this, eg the Mongol empire. I feel like British crimes in India aren't spoken about enough though. Good to see Simon talk about it
@tomowens15713 жыл бұрын
It's very strategic. There are interests in the world would like to condemn people they see as competition
@Nick-rs5if2 жыл бұрын
"Throwing hand grenades into the comment section" must be one of the best lines I've heard on KZbin 😄
@earthwizz2 жыл бұрын
I find it an interesting comment on nature of bureaucracy is that, as the empire disintegrated post WWII, the Colonial Office was expanding at a ridiculous rate.
@giovanniacuto26882 жыл бұрын
The birth of the Overseas Development industry
@LukeXMV Жыл бұрын
They were busy with operation Legacy, destroying any materials showing atrocities committed by the British in occupied nations.
@attackpatterndelta89492 жыл бұрын
“The bow and arrow was once the pinnacle of weapons technology. It allowed the great Ghengis Khan to rule from the Pacific, to Ukraine. An empire twice the size of Alexander the Great’s. And four times the size of the Roman Empire.” - Raza Hamidmi al-Wazar
@simonrae3048 Жыл бұрын
The great Genghis Khan.? The man was a murderer and rapist on an unimaginable scale. He should be spoken in the same breath as Hitler in my book. But that's just my view.
@tomstorey85593 жыл бұрын
Simon when talking about the good the bad and the ugly about the Great British Empire, you should have pointed out that it ended widow burning in India, as well as crusading against the slave trade and were the first major power to stop slavery !
@mebsrea3 жыл бұрын
Charles Napier is my hero.
@alfnoakes3923 жыл бұрын
Here in NZ the local custom of taking members of neighbouring iwi's (tribes) as slaves, and eating them if it was a hard winter, was also ended by the terrible British.
@Ankit-d9f4u3 жыл бұрын
They didn't ended it It was already in decline And it was already banned in many kingdoms Britain should have ended witch hunt in the UK
@Ankit-d9f4u3 жыл бұрын
There stopping of slavery doesn't mean it was innocent Good thing don't wash away bad things
@tomstorey85593 жыл бұрын
@@Ankit-d9f4u so black people who keep talking about it should just leave it in the past !, When was the last time you heard a white person complain about another race who owned white slaves ?
@thomasmorin749 Жыл бұрын
Britain lost its geographical Empire but gained its financial Empire in the City of London.
@mrsentencename73349 ай бұрын
Is it still the real deal or did 2008 end it?
@MusicNerd-ui6gr8 ай бұрын
@@mrsentencename73342008 end it Britain hasn't been the same since.
@angr38197 ай бұрын
The square mile isn't a part of Britain. It is a separate sovereign state run by the Bank of England. Similar to the State of Colombia, Washington DC and the Vatican in Rome.
@CaptHollister3 жыл бұрын
One thing you can hand to the Brits is their willingness to openly discuss the evils committed in the name of empire. Would that other countries could do the same... looking at you, Japan.
@wtorules47433 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if that's entirely true. There are some examples of the British starting to face up to their past but it's slow and patchy. There is no formal mention in school curriculums and the current government is trying to ban the national trusts from mentioning links to slavery attached to historic buildings. The conversations are just starting but not in full swing.
@twofortyrida3 жыл бұрын
They were visited by the fat man and his little boy. Arguably more than enough payment long term
@CaptHollister3 жыл бұрын
@@twofortyrida It's not a matter of payment. It's a matter of recognizing that their grandfathers and great-grandfathers committed some unspeakable crimes. Japan does not recognize historical events such as the rape of Nanking, medical and chemical experimentation conducted on Chinese citizens, the plight of Korean and Dutch comfort women. Young Japanese grow up believing that their country was an innocent victim of World War II which culminated in unprovoked atomic attacks.
@EdgyDabs472 жыл бұрын
@@wtorules4743 Do you have any evidence of that?
@thecalmclone28132 жыл бұрын
@@wtorules4743 slavery gets taught in secondary schools lol
@brendademeritte80533 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for covering the true history of your home country with honesty. There is a good and bad to all things. History is always teaching.
@kiltmaster70412 жыл бұрын
I'm not entirely sure that this is entirely honest. Parts of this feel as though he's just saying what will get the approval of KZbin. I'm gonna spend the next hour or two reading.
@csvickers1512 жыл бұрын
As a Brit being born in England having a Sierra Leonian mother gives me a very good perspective. Both on the empire and on slavery. Considering my mothers people decend from freed slaves. British colonists exploited something that was already there however in Sierra Leone the slave trade had been started by Portuguese and Spanish slavers which resulted in the slave fortress of Lomboko and bunce island, which took slaves to the Caribbean and from there to the United States and South America. It is with good authority that a lot of black peoples residing in these areas come from and decend from those belonging to the tribes of Sierra leonne. A film known as la amistad based on real events talks about the journey of a select group of liberated slaves of the Temne and Mende being tricked into sailing to the United States which sparks off a legal case and then is the spark that sets off the American civil war. Slavery had been abolished in England at least since 1066 but not in the empire, and was abolished eventually in 1806. All in all a lot of criticism of the Atlantic slave trade goes to the British but honestly not enough attention is given to the Spanish or Portuguese slavers. It is my belief that although we should be taking responsibility and acknowledging the evils the British empire brought on the world, the blame should not solely rest at its feet simply because it was the largest.
@opola14322 жыл бұрын
No one is denying the role of the Portuguese and Spaniard. In fact, most of the Europeans did it
@chinogambino93752 жыл бұрын
@@opola1432 In anglosphere discourse we gloss over it because we are English speakers sharing some stock with the English the focus is generally on Atlantic and indigenous slavery our states engaged in. I've seen it among educated people, they think there's something uniquely savage about white people and the colonial era, the states of south America are just 'poor browns' in their mental space. Kind of ignoring the larger scale of African slavery in places like Brazil or the 1400 year old sub-saharan slave routes to Arab markets from west Africa. Ultimately a lot of anglos who go woke still take pride in white people being special, even if its being exceptional in inhumanity so they can act enlightened on the topic. Christian cultures still take great pleasure in self-flagellation.
@csvickers1512 жыл бұрын
@@chinogambino9375 exactly couldn’t agree more, there isn’t so much of a debate in the Latin realms of the impact of slavery in the southern americas. Martin Luther king jr often said to beware of white liberals “when the issues were joined concerning local conditions, only the language was polite; the rejection was firm and unequivocal.” Malcom X had the same view as that they both believed that the liberal or woke liberals in the north would simply use the cause of black community to further their own gains for white liberals, but when it comes to issues concerning both groups of even just black people they would simply but politely say no and disagree. A lot of people will forget the first suffragettes did not allow black women to protest with them. Most woke liberals forget that the latins are white Europeans, but you often here just simply how bad the English or even the British are.
@italianstallion389 Жыл бұрын
Reason you dont hear much is because many deniers use it as a scapegoat.
@shahin738 Жыл бұрын
Aren't you glossing over the role of other Africans in the trade? In the end the British fought wars to stop Africans from trading other Africans.
@davidsheeran5144 Жыл бұрын
Very infromtive videos , keep up the good work
@wildcatsstorm2 жыл бұрын
We are destroying ourselves with self loathing. We are judging ourselves by our faults and everyone else by their virtues.
@williamwilliam50662 жыл бұрын
Not "we" but mentally ill leftists.
@JohnSmithFromOhioOblast Жыл бұрын
And looking at the comments on this video no matter how much you feel bad people will still see you as a cartoonish villain. They will claim that all British people touch themselves constantly thinking of imperialism. Then when you say you are sorry for things long dead people possibly not even related to you did, they will demand more and more while still demonising you. Screw them.
@mikesmith29053 жыл бұрын
As a British MP of Nigerian descent noted recently in parliament the largest statue in Nigeria is of a Queen of an African empire who made a fortune from trading in slaves, in competition with the slave traders from North Africa (the US marines sing about the shores of Tripoli because they went there as part of a punitive expedition to discourage the Barbary Pirates from enslaving the crews of US ships). The British did not invent the slave trade, they exploited an existing trade at the time and a trade that still exists today with greater numbers of affected people than ever before. It was, and remains, an abomination but the danger in characterising it as a 'British Empire thing' the assumption will be it is over. Slavery is, was and probably will be disgusting, but the British did not 'invent it' they exploited it (no more morally justified but it helps to get your facts right when forming an opinion). If you dig a little deeper it was more a 'Norman' empire than a British one, the Normans and their kin folk have had a major impact on history, from making Britain the class ridden society it became (thereby facilitating many of the excesses of the British Empire), to protecting the Ottoman sultans and subtly colonising places mostly around the Mediterranean. It is dangerous to start trying to group people by arbitrary features (skin colour, nationality, what scale their model railway is in etc.) the problem is they are all people, prone to delusional paranoia, riddled with insecurities, clever at some things (putting a satellite in orbit around a far flung asteroid is damned clever) absolute rubbish at other (religion being one of the worst). A more fruitful approach, if understanding is the goal, would be 'comparative empires', comparing and contrasting the features of various examples (with reference to the work of psychologists, in particular those researching conformity and obedience such as Asch, Maslow, et. seq.), however if 'clicks' are the goal then carry on making vague references lacking the essential context that serve to reinforce people's prejudices. Culture is just the way humans seek to organise to confront their environment, as the environment changes so the culture must evolve (but humans hate that kind of change). Politics is what we resort to when we don't know, ideology is what we fall back on when we find out but don't like it and dogma is the last bastion of ego-protecting ignorance. Politics at it's best is the art of expediency and diplomacy is the art of obscuring that ugly fact, but politics at its worst is thinly veiled criminality (but hey, humans innit as they say in westminster - Allegedly). Personally I think knowing is a better option, I am less interested in politics than in the results of double-blind, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed and published experiments that have been replicated, but given human insecurities and the need for self justification (and if possible aggrandisement) the research suggests that would not be a popular position to take (the Seligman Gove Problem, as I choose to call it).
@janiekrig52323 жыл бұрын
Right you are! Thanks for sharing your insight.
@TejasNaik013 жыл бұрын
That last line about looking back at history for all the things we have done is gold.
@philippedefague38352 жыл бұрын
there is no "we" however unless you're attributing generational, blood based collective responsibility. If people are collectively responsible for slavery, they are also collectively responsible for the modern world and all its luxuries. So, are you sure "we" want to go down this road?
@iseeundeadpeople92 жыл бұрын
The British empire still exists
@Mute0404042 жыл бұрын
@@iseeundeadpeople9 In your head
@iseeundeadpeople92 жыл бұрын
@@Mute040404 It's called the Commonwealth.
@DrBretPalmer3 ай бұрын
The British didn't invent the slavery (been around for thousands of years) or the transatlantic trade, that was the Portuguese. We did however take the idea and expand it. But also Abolished it.
@MrKingkzАй бұрын
And the British only stopped the transatlantic slave trade nobody can stop slavery they same way we can't stop drug use and prostitution
@iagosevatar48653 жыл бұрын
Perfectly synchronised with Overly sarcastic production's channel
@kilotun83163 жыл бұрын
As all things should be...
@lejibus3 жыл бұрын
I was wondering about that, is it a British holiday or something?
@williamchamberlain22633 жыл бұрын
@@lejibus not that I know of; school year starts 4th September, then nothing else till Explodey Day on 5th November.
@Beryllahawk3 жыл бұрын
@@williamchamberlain2263 I love that. Explodey Day. Fabulous. I too came to see this video because of Blue's recent one hehe
@ULlisting3 жыл бұрын
One could argue that the English language was the greatest legacy of the British Empire and in some ways creates lasting links among all former British territories. In addition the English language has become, since the end of WW 2, the international language of trade and diplomacy.
@wanghui5623 жыл бұрын
English is the language of international barbarism. Mandarin is the language of international trade.
@checker2973 жыл бұрын
@@wanghui562 language does not mean you are a barbarian, just something you use to communicate with, it is not good or evil. Sure you can argue which language is better to use/learn, but ultimately all languages evolve to suit communication
@eugenemurray29403 жыл бұрын
@@wanghui562 Ooo.... Love yr Irony...
@wanghui5623 жыл бұрын
@@checker297 Language shapes culture, culture shapes behaviour.
@TranscendianIntendor2 жыл бұрын
English won out as the international language of aviators, though for the far flung empire that dominated trade routes and used every port where there was trade to conduct it had a great foothold. If you only know one language it had best be English if you are the pilot captain of an airliner. This is fairly recent history since flying hasn't been something mankind does till 1903, WWI & WWII. At this time the French quietly have taken control of the financial systems for the nations of Northern Africa and are a defactO De Fact To empire where French is the dominate language and textbook language. France has long competed using its language in competition with the British and the Americans. While I am not the most articulate educator when it comes to French power internationally and how it holds the world stage power that it does, because of its financial machinations controlling North African fortunes, evidence supports that argument.
@louiswilliamterminator28872 жыл бұрын
"The British started slavery" ROFL If such an unfounded statement is made, then you can take nothing said for granted
@kevanbodsworth98682 жыл бұрын
Are you being serious,, Try history of slavery , Slavery was endemic for ten thousand years even peoples such as American tribes had slavery, The major slavery driver in later times was Arab and Islamic,, The british made slave trading illegal, and stamped most of ot out at great cost and loss of life , , You need some history.Look things up before you speak I would suggest, Very weird how people blame the nation who stopped slavery for the thousands of years of slavery before , Some political skulduggery there i think ,
@jalejablonsky23962 жыл бұрын
@@kevanbodsworth9868 The British weren't the first to end slavery. If anything that belongs to China
@kevanbodsworth98682 жыл бұрын
@@jalejablonsky2396 So what your point ,Did the Chinese end any slavery for the world, ? and the laws we have today, ,The Chinese dwelt very much in thier own world, ..Lets have some reason and ballance ,It seems there have been some really crappy lecturers at Universities lately, Or do the darlings just pickout what they like to hear,
@PaulSmith-wz2xv Жыл бұрын
the British did NOT start the Slave, that’s the daftest sentence that Simon has ever read from his script. ! this video needs to be redone using a better source of information which is freely available.
@RRHardyHar3 жыл бұрын
Speaking of megaprojects, could you perhaps do a video on the eventual abolishment of slavery throughout the world? It would be interesting to see the inception of the abolitionism movement, the slow implementation of laws prohibiting the African slave trade, and how different countries reacted to these laws at the time. Love the videos, keep it up?
@jordanwilliams93003 жыл бұрын
Great video idea!
@tarn11353 жыл бұрын
You understand slavery STILL exists, right? Slavery is very popular in the Far East, the Middle East, and wait for it………. Africa. The idea that slavery was abolished is true if you are referring to the western world.
@gladlawson613 жыл бұрын
Boring
@Zeb703 жыл бұрын
Get yourself to libya….. you can buy your own today
@Zeb703 жыл бұрын
Get yourself to libya. You can buy one of your own today
@asb3583 жыл бұрын
No empire is bloodless, slavery was not invented by the British, and whilst it was brutal we also have the British empire to thank for starting the modern age. Industrialisation and globalisation was pioneered by the British empire. The world before empire was one of extreme poverty. We only have it to thank for the industrialisation and organisation of the world that has seen billions lifted out of poverty, and through the principles of trade and democracy that were born from the British Empire we continue to see that progress today. History is ambiguous, and people need to understand that few things are fully evil or fully good, and I understand that the colonial British were also responsible for a huge number of atrocities, but at the same time it was the start of the modern world and I think few would chose to go back to the medieval and under developed world that came before the British Empire.
@terrancehall97623 жыл бұрын
love your excusemaking
@mattsmith54213 жыл бұрын
@@terrancehall9762 ha and your nation is atrocity free right?
@olanmills643 жыл бұрын
@@mattsmith5421 saying the British empire was an evil enterprise sowing massive amounts of misery for the profit of elites does not oblige me to have to also list every other atrocity that every happened. I can call Michael Jackson a child abuser without also having to name every other famous abuser in history. The inverse is also holds. Calling Michael Jackson an abuser doesn't obligate me to mention all the charity work he did. Besides what the OP mentioned are all unintended side effects. It would be like saying, "sure 9/11 was bad, but we have to acknowledge the nice park and sculptures we got as a result of it!"
@terrancehall97623 жыл бұрын
@@mattsmith5421 love your deflections. my country's problems are out in the open
@asb3583 жыл бұрын
@@terrancehall9762 I’m not making any excuses, the British empire is responsible for a huge amounts of atrocities that are clear and are out in the open. It was the main country involved in the transatlantic slave trade, responsible for the death of thousands, and a lot of historical tensions that last to this day. It was also the empire that spread industrialisation, democracy and began the process of globalisation that has created the modern world which is an awful lot better than what came before. The point is history is ambiguous, and we need to look at it in a balanced way. What good did it do? What bad did it do? On balance I would say the world is better of for what the British empire contributed, but it’s also understandable why so many nations and peoples view it as a bad thing.
@TJH13 жыл бұрын
Don't be careful, it's more fun when you aren't careful. Also, do it FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!
@piermariobarozzi3 жыл бұрын
For Queen and Memes and Country
@ChristinaMaterna3 жыл бұрын
Meme back and think of England
@nucleargandhi1013 жыл бұрын
Just in case you wonder why Indians fail to hate Hitler as much as the west does, do ponder over it. (Hint: It has nothing to do with Jews) 1857: Small mass of Indians revolted against "the" British Empire, in and around Delhi. And later with help of other greedy Indian kings, the British were able to suppress it. The revolters were eliminated but that didn't quench the thirst of then British People(and I mean mainland British civilians). They passed the order from parliament & monarch with full PUBLIC approval for revenge. The British army drove thousands of peasants in Delhi out, made them stand in line and shot them INDISCRIMINATELY. These 'uncivilised' peasants had nothing to do with revolt. Infact they were hiding in their homes with their families when all the fight was going on outside. Then they would bring their children out and make them lick blood splatters on walls and roads, so that they learn never to question "civilised" Sirs and Lords! Rivers were full of blood and bodies, they even put young boys and girls in boiling water and make horror show out of it. This went on for months. All this because "uncivilised people" opposed the 'civilised' and 'superior' race. This is just one such instance in about 200 years of similar treatment. Wait, you telling me that a man in Germany just started expansion in Europe which threatens Britain's sovereignty, because he thinks he is SUPERIOR RACE and MORE CIVILIZED? Wait what? Did he just start bombing, burning and slaughtering British in London INDISCRIMINATELY? Hmm I wonder why we dont hate hitler as much as he deserved. I wonder.
@aldosigmann4193 жыл бұрын
@@nucleargandhi101 Tissue for the issue poopkins?
@raviolitrail3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, don't be a PC soy boy.
@itsbolixreally Жыл бұрын
I acknowledge that its hard to fit in everything in a 20 minute video but I think that Ireland and Britains relationship was somewhat glossed over. It was only as recent as 1972 that that British soldiers committed Bloody Sunday in Derry. The atrocities of the empire can not be written off as a thing of the ancient past
@allenhill12239 ай бұрын
Sad UK has found another way to mess with the irish.send immgrant. And put money in the pockets of Irish leaders to close there eye's. Ireland don't want those immgarts😢
@faheemwyne50983 жыл бұрын
While being part of an empire is never great for the colonised. I'm thankful that it was the British who colonised us rather than the Belgian, Portugese, French or Germans. The barbaric atrocities committed by them in their colonies is nothing short of extreme evil. BTW I'm from Pakistan.
@EvenWaysMusic3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad someone has some perspective on empire and history.
@saulgoodman92783 жыл бұрын
What did they do?
@gatling2163 жыл бұрын
@@saulgoodman9278 If you feel like not being able to sleep soundly for a month, look up the Belgian Congo. For such a small country, they sure got around to a lot of atrocities.
@jacobbaumgardner34063 жыл бұрын
I think the British Empire is often seen as the most evil is thanks to the prominence of the Anglosphere and specifically American in the modern world, alongside that is was the most widespread empire. I think one thing to keep in mind for many is that the British did everything for business, I would describe its actions more along the lines of Criminally Negligent than evil, which is a word that should be reserved for parties such as the Nazi's or Bolsheviks. I always think of POTC's Lord Beckett and his quote "it's just good business" as a perfect interpretation of the empire. Was he a good man? Of course not, but he wasn't a traditional villan who wished to see his foes suffer, he did whatever it took to bring the most coin to the empire and to further his own goals. Take from that what you will. As for what you said the racial issues, the British were horrific by modern standards, but relatively mild compared to the atrocities committed in Central Africa by the Belgians and Germans. The British made famine in India were caused my negligence and a lack of care, while the Belgians actively murdered thousands. I think one thing they always seem to miss is that slavery isn't new, and while Britain helped industrialize it, it was a commercial market worldwide forever, and blacks in Africa happily sold their neighbors for a buck. As for the thing with Pakistan and India, I actually don't know much about the split, so was it a good idea, and would have doing nothing been worse? Anyway, I like being in the middle. Britain did some horrible things and is still riding that wealth train to this day, but context is important. In how it was one of the more mild empires, how many if not most of its former colonies keep friendly and even military Alliances to this day. Very few former empires have any such friendly ties to the same extent. Heck Pakistan and India to this day still have a tense relationship, yet are both apart of the commonwealth. So yeah, context is key. BTW I am half British and half American for reference, so if you see any bias from my end please correct me.
@charlescarson43373 жыл бұрын
@@saulgoodman9278 There’s reports (not sure how true this is) that France used to introduce small pox to areas to decimate the local populations in North America while Spanish rule in South America was so severe it’s why you see almost all Latin America doing badly economically
@davidwatt15563 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, as usual, Simon. However, your coverage of the atrocities committed against the Irish, was glaringly absent.
@tommyrotton94683 жыл бұрын
indeed it was but there was more to it than just Norman kings putting down non Catholic Bishops because the Pope wanted authority. Seems the Pope won after all?
@willmfrank3 жыл бұрын
@norman-m [KANDAGAIGO] Not that Factboi hasn't done long-running mini-series before... ;o)
@definitelynotatroll2462 жыл бұрын
Didn’t even bring up the Middle East and why the uk is responsible for much of the troubles there still to this day
@seafodder61293 жыл бұрын
Natives: But this is our land! British: Yes, but do you have a flag?...
@als30223 жыл бұрын
I believe they did not have a flag. Viva Espana
@Daniel-qy9mb Жыл бұрын
Of the 20 minute video 15 minutes is slavery, colonialism, and war. 2 minutes discussing health care and infrastructure. 3 minutes of ads. There I just saved you 10 minutes!
@TheL0wner2 жыл бұрын
i feel like we need more open animosity between England and France, it just helps the world make sense.
@valentinlageot41012 жыл бұрын
every nations looking ackwardly towards Britain and France knowing far too well if those two did not exist it probably would have be them that would be the most hated nation in the world.
@standalby69492 жыл бұрын
Portugal started the slave trade as far as I know quickly followed by Spain but Arab countries took whites & blacks years before then then there was the Roman Empire , I’m sure they’ve been taking slaves since time began tbh ,I’m not saying it’s right but that’s how empires are built mainly , look at the Egyptians , but yeah great work mate
@Juho2212 жыл бұрын
@@standalby6949 Even before the pyramids were built in Egypt slavery was a thing. It's stupid to say Britain started it, because in reality they just took part in it for a while and then ended it everywhere
@paulgearing30182 жыл бұрын
Lets hope they dont meet in the World Cup (football)
@Juho2212 жыл бұрын
@@paulgearing3018 They will play next week😂
@SadBoy242993 жыл бұрын
Literally laughed the whole time u talked about the opium wars in such a “careful” way 😂
@manzelli19813 жыл бұрын
Simon’s facial expression in the first 10 seconds of the video was that of a man knowing just how bad this was going to get 😂
@indahooddererste3 жыл бұрын
@@manzelli1981 But he never gets tired pointing the finger during ww2 at germany.
@tomowens15713 жыл бұрын
Yeah its weird rights the Chinese have smoked opium in Europe since medieval times then all of a sudden they have a problem with those selling them it
@Denazon3 жыл бұрын
You say that you tried to be balanced but there were far more negative aspects you went into detail with and simply glossed over anything positive. Also the British Empire did not start slavery, that is just false and you are a fool if you believe that.
@sirfinleygaming94903 жыл бұрын
Toke to the 19th minute to say anything positive, and that lasted 30 seconds
@Catkilledmeowbob3 жыл бұрын
I think he said the slave trade. Slavery has been around for eons up to today, and will be here tomorrow but he means the British started the business of the slave trade across the Atlantic to the Americas and Caribbean.
@Denazon3 жыл бұрын
@@Catkilledmeowbob Actually it was the Portuguese in 1526 who started the Atlantic Slave Trade. The British were not even the largest, that was also the Portuguese. It was also the British who eventually stopped the trade all together and forced the other nations to comply. Always do your own research.
@Catkilledmeowbob3 жыл бұрын
@@Denazon you’re right, it was the Portuguese. Not sure what source he was drawing his info from. I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I thought your argument was based on the “act of enslaving people” which has been around since human civilization, not the slave trade which was also an incorrect assertion that it was started by the British Empire.
@MrDragon19683 жыл бұрын
@@Denazon Yeah, it was the Portugese and Spanish who started the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, with the Portugese having the largest numbers overall - and both those countries did it for the longest period around 1500-1875. Britain was particularly bad in the 1700's, but before 1650 there was very little by comparison, and between 1807 and 1833 it was hugely reduced and then banned by Britain.
@zombiedalekweck2243 Жыл бұрын
Always got the remember to first judge history through the lense of what was normal back then and then judge history by the values of today.
@Bernie_Lomax3 жыл бұрын
The British did not start the slave trade in any form. The exploitation of Africans had been carried out for years by the Portuguese and the Spanish.
@richbrown58523 жыл бұрын
And the Moors of course
@abbofun90223 жыл бұрын
They did start it at almost industrial levels and integral part of the colony exploitation model
@jakedonlon4903 жыл бұрын
The Dutch were actually the first
@tensevo3 жыл бұрын
I think he is talking about the global slave trade, which, the British, did indeed enable, if not start (I have no idea). What is undisputed, is that the British were the first to claim global naval supremacy, and their shipping routes were used to trade in slaves globally, though not exclusively, which was by all accounts, incredibly lucrative. Slaves were traded only, since the British also knew that slaves, were basically useless as workers, they were more interested in commodity trade, but if you want to trade in slaves and the price was right, then I'm sure it could have been arranged. What is clear, is that the slaves were sold to the British by tribal leaders. What differentiated the British, was commerce, over savagery. Other empires failed, where the British succeeded to the extent that the British used high finance to play the game, whilst other empires, used primarily barbarism.
@user-ug8wx5er1w3 жыл бұрын
@@abbofun9022 You seem Anglophobic in many comments, making sweeping statements to paint U.K. in a bad light. You’re welcome for the internet by the way x
@dailytact13703 жыл бұрын
The British empires global abolition of slavery and the fact that it was so expensive that they finished paying of the loans just a few years ago would make for a good Megaprojects video.
@krackerman36283 жыл бұрын
So you want to ignore the UK running the slave trade for 200 years and compensating the slave OWNERS and not the slaves? Do you think this is in anyway a good look for the Empire?
@Siteus13 жыл бұрын
@@krackerman3628 definitely a good look. Everyone at the time was trading slaves and the British were the ones that ended the international trade of them as best they could.
@krackerman36283 жыл бұрын
@@Siteus1 No - I think you misunderstand history. The UK used it's naval power to dominate and run the ENTIRE African/Altantic slave trade for 200 years - over 4million souls enslaved in this time under the UK flag. And when it ended they did not compensate the victims but the ones who run the entire business. You might think ending slavery was an act done out of the goodness of Britain but the fact is that slavery was a competitor to the new industrial powerhouse of the UK that wanted to sell steam engines and that the compensation went to those who now having no slaves HAD TO BUY STEAM ENGINES FROM THE UK...
@Siteus13 жыл бұрын
@@krackerman3628 sounds like you made your conclusions and found evidence to fit it. Firstly the Portuguese traded more African slaves than the British. Secondly they paid off the slave owners because so many of them made up parliament at the time and passing the act would have been impossible without the support of them. Rich people always find a way to pay themselves off. Some things never change. Regardless of the reasons Britain should be commended for ending the international slave trade.
@krackerman36283 жыл бұрын
@@Siteus1 Other way round but it's fun to see you try and excuse the crimes of the British Empire which far exceed Nazi Germany - over 100 million people were murdered or died as a direct result of the British Empire. I'm guessing as you are trying your best you excuse these horrible British crimes against humanity that you are a British or English Nationalist? You keep tilting at windmills and lying to yourself.. the rest of the world has not forgotton the crimes of the British under the flag of the Butchers Apron
@kencaid12 жыл бұрын
The most enlightening covno's I've ever had on Brit colonialism has been with friends from India and Pakistan. Convo's of good, bad, and a whole lot of grey. Definitely advise others to have chats with those on the other side of colonialism (my father is English), as its both humbling and inspiring.
@YuddhaVeera2 жыл бұрын
It was a nightmare
@veerakocha46302 жыл бұрын
bad? How? Higher GDP growth than Mughals and 🍆 worshipping kings. Much benevolent than the Portuguese and Spanish. Higher literacy than Lindhoo reign. Today India is a more horrid state than ever under the British.
@playedout1482 жыл бұрын
India is hundreds of years away from a democratic system.
@donquixote39272 жыл бұрын
@@YuddhaVeera: Wait until you hear about the Delhi Sultanate. The Brits were amateurs by comparison.
@YuddhaVeera2 жыл бұрын
@@donquixote3927 British were a class apart in the damage they did through economy and culture. Islamic invaders were another class. 😂
@99mage997 ай бұрын
A channel called Megaprojects spending only 20 minutes talking about the British Empire is peak irony.
@deephish3 жыл бұрын
we started the slave trade. Im sick of hearing this. hardly. slavery has been around since the beginning of civilization. The mayans, the middle east, there are still slave markets today were you can buy yourself a human being.
@TheCrackbinge3 жыл бұрын
I think he’s referring to the transatlantic slave trade. Not sure it was us and not the Portuguese that first sent slaves across the Atlantic but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Obviously the slave trade has been around since tribes have been formed. I think mentioning our role in the slave trade is necessary but I don’t think it’s fair to focus on that without also mentioning our role in ending it. Full history and context are important otherwise single facts without context exist to confirm people’s previously held beliefs.
@danhodson71873 жыл бұрын
Agreed, also the Portuguese were the first to start dipping in to West Africa and shipped more slaves across the Atlantic than any other nation. Britain did a full 180 after 1807 in stopping the slave trade with the West Africa squadron and transferring now freed slaves back to Freetown in Sierra Leone. Then using their power to force other nations still involved to also outlaw it. America even fought a civil war where half of the nation wanted to keep it. Britain never should’ve been involved in the trading of human lives, but at least they stopped it.
@smogdog3 жыл бұрын
I agree, the East African slave trade run by the Arabian states waa established 1000+ years before the Europeans got involved. This is not to dismiss Britains involvement but to correct the new history.
@mrmagoo-i2l3 жыл бұрын
@@TheCrackbinge “referring to”. Yeah sure.
@tensevo3 жыл бұрын
Mate, he is not talking about slavery as a thing, he is talking about the global trade of slaves, which the British did enable, if not start, through naval supremacy.
@garylichtenberger79762 жыл бұрын
In spite of the black effects you mentioned, you did not speak to one of the most recognizable effects of the British Empire: the establishment of the English language as the dominant language in the world today. And many of the former areas of the empire still rely on the precepts of English Common Law to guide their judicial systems.
@ViDeOMaStErPaUl Жыл бұрын
I believe thats a quite literal thing too. Apparently if a crime or some random arse scenario ends up in a court, if the courts have no precident or clue on how to manage it, they'll look to see if Britain has dealt with the issue. If British courts have ruled on that paticular strange scenario then the courts overseeing the case will follow that set precident. Its pretty interesting how the court systems are so interlinked and how a court can literally change the law by ruling differently, law set by precident is a quirk not many acknowledge or appreciate.
@neilwilliams929 Жыл бұрын
Gary .i very much do agree on this point. And here's I think is a simple example .....When you look at the Nuremberg trials .Im sure it followed english common law .Even those vile creatures had the right to face their accusers and give their side of the story .If starlin had his way he would have simply taken them out and have them shot NO trial .
@johnclapperton82113 жыл бұрын
Q: Morocco, Uruguay, Mexico, Sarawak, Katanga - What do these all have in common? A: They all had their requests to join the British Empire refused.
@eustache_dauger3 жыл бұрын
Though Sarawak ended up being a crown colony in July 1946, against the principle of the Atlantic Charter & the will of the local populace. Ended up being annexed by Malaya in its expansion to form Malaysia, as Britain attempts to retreat from the East of Suez.
@tomfrazier11033 жыл бұрын
They gave Hawaii back, after less than a year in 1842.
@cooldev161177 Жыл бұрын
The video could have run significantly longer if we delved into the specifics like Cromwells genocide in Eire, the famine, the coffin ships to america, prison ships to the penal colonys, partitioning, pain and trauma that will take decades to reconcile..but the video is in the right direction and I appreciate how difficult it is to cover this topic
@fieldagentryan Жыл бұрын
Haughey finished slavery in ireland in 1990 .. i know my mother was classified as one and couldnt own a say in our farm ... AND HER BIRTH FAMILY AND DADS THE OLDEST NATIVE ONES IN CONNOCHT .. THE black and tans were the first swatzika wearing lorries in the world ! the tax gathered always went to london and fitzgerald was worse than maggie and thats saying something but true .
@angloirishcad Жыл бұрын
Irish historians have brought into doubt the shrill claims of genocide.