First Reaction to Miniminuteman! | What's in a History Textbook from 1855? | History Teacher Reacts

[@MrTerry]

Was this history textbook what you expected to see from 1855?

[@CaseyMcGregorAu]

Yeah Milo's an archaeologist, he regularly posts shorts reacting to pseudoarcheological conspiracy theories.

[@StarkTripod2006]

please review a lore lodge vid

[@munkeefinkelbeen5395]

Absolutely yes. Aside from the religious bits, and absolutely covering up and glossing over the blatantly racist parts instead of facing them head-on, I feel it wasn't too different from my history textbooks pre-2010 😅

[@Adiscretefirm]

The "biblical inerrancy" beliefs began in the US right about the time this book was published

[@PingvinAnd1]

@@CaseyMcGregorAu inviormental sciantist tecnialy edit: and profesional conspiracy theorist debunker

[@IkedaHakubi]

My grammar school had an Encyclopedia from 1938. "Germany has accomplished an economic miracle, but some people are concerned about their social policies..."

[@DanielMWJ]

Understatement of the century, right there.

[@bellajonson6765]

Ooh boy. That sure aged well

[@pilsplease7561]

lolol

[@genericscottishchannel1603]

only concerned?

[@Ryzard]

Well SOME people were concerned that Germany was taking DEFENSIVE MILITARY EXERCISES to defend Germans across the border, and protect from allied countries staging military actions from bordering countries. But they were clearly just defending themselves, yk? God, glad that doesn't sound familiar in the modern day... ​@genericscottishchannel1603

[@NickGreyden]

If you want to see a wonderful and wholesome video of Milo's, check out his video of him reacting to him getting fact checked by an expert on the Baghdad battery. A master class on someone (milo) attempting to educate the general populace, an expert stepping in and saying "um, actually", and milo loving every moment.

[@matito7963]

Nr Terry would react to reaction to reaction of debunking video. Reaction to reaction to reaction.

[@ourfamilytogether]

@@matito7963Reactception

[@bobcatred]

@@matito7963gets very meta after a bit, lol

[@toria-j]

@@matito7963 reaction inception.

[@Sliberry]

As a Googledebunker, I’m very happy you reacted to miniminuteman! (:

[@Murderousbob1]

I second this!

[@HeiwaTori]

proud googledebunker!

[@Jan_Koopman]

Googledebunkers, unite!

[@RyanLamothe]

hell yeah, Googledebunkers unite!

[@thelocalwitch5731]

Googledebunkers unite for real! (also, I love your pfp)

[@TheUnknownCapy]

YOU TWO WOULD BE THE COLLAB OF THE CENTURY! Milo loves working with other creators!! Reach out to him! He’d be a super cool friend to have! I love his content!!

[@LadySkyfire]

Ditto. Milo is awesome.

[@assimilation9]

I second this notion

[@EvilGNU]

thirded

[@rooster6461]

Fourth…ded… yeah

[@janewayofchaos3255]

An archeologist and a history teacher could do so many interesting dives!! Especially these two!

[@tylarjackson7928]

Milo's series debunking Ancient Apocalypse is fantastic. Watching him debunk conspiracies is my idea of a great Friday night.

[@Mercure250]

Milo is hilarious, I love his shorts where he debunks nonsense. His longer videos are also great. And he's humble, he reacts very well to legitimate criticism and uses his mistakes as opportunities for everyone to learn.

[@bj.bruner]

12:47 An antebellum lexical relic that both Milo and Mr. Terry looked over: The textbook refers to the United States as a plural ("The United States occupy") instead of a singular like we do today (e.g. "The United States occupies"). The change happened during the civil war to emphasize the union and the inseparability of the United States

[@christopherhammond9467]

I'm still pissed about that. Strong federalism is a recipe for oligarchy

[@herecomesaregular8418]

@@christopherhammond9467Oh yes, of course nothing bad has ever been done in the name of or defended by "muh State's Rats". It's definitely the federal gub'ment that's the problem.

[@benoitcecyre7081]

6:10 It's not tea you're supposed to hate, it's taxes on tea. It's why the Boston tea party happened. Not the tea, it was the taxes. So clearly Americans loved tea. You don't revolt if something you don't like gets taxed, you wouldn't have bought it anyway. But if something you love gets taxed,it does affect you.

[@OkieOtaku]

It's a massive oversimplification, but you're not wrong. I mean that's what the whole "no taxation without representation" was about. And it wasn't the taxation itself that was being protested, it was the structure of the taxation among other things. I don't remember the details off hand, but the whole thing is actually kinda complicated

[@MSTavares]

Hello fellow Google Debunkers PS: I can't believe over 1000 of you like this comment, it's crazy, Love you all

[@KingHenryIXX]

Googledebunkers unite!

[@Rul4rzR4achFan]

Sup

[@adamfletter5842]

present

[@wiledman2430]

Howdy

[@getontheupswing853]

This comment is driving me googledebonkers

[@davidhodgson1011]

Milo's main niche is debunking pseudo-archeology. He's got a really good 4 part series on Graham Hancock's Netflix documentary and his "Awful Archeology" series is a fun watch. His collab w/ an actual expert on the Baghdad Battery (who debunked part of his video on the Baghdad Battery) is also really really good.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

its not that the expert debunked milo more so added information that milo didnt or couldnt find

[@KarmasAB123]

The way the "savages" are described reminds me of another KZbinr reacting to the phrase "shark-infested waters:" "That's their living room!"

[@CajunCrustacean]

Oh, dude, I love this guy! If you want any others to see, just take your pick. They're all gold. The Doggerland video springs to mind, but you literally can't miss.

[@jakeferreira1211]

Milo makes some awesome content. He's definitely more towards the archeology side of history, which I personally love, so I don't know how much of that stuff you're actually super knowledgeable about as a history teacher, but it would be really cool to get your perspective on some of the things he talks about.

[@sverrg]

"Intercourse" on its own does not have any sexual context, it just means "communication or dealings between individuals or groups" by a dictionary definition. The phrase "sexual intercourse" refers to, well, the act of sexual intercourse. It's like "relations", you can have "relations" and "sexual relations" and hopefully the two are very different

[@Knight-Bishop]

Ah, archaic English. Reminds me how Sherlock Holmes frequently "ejaculates" in the books. 🤭

[@angiepangie989]

Holy crap. I feel stupid 😂😅 I'm from pa and there's a town called intercourse and we always chuckled at the name but for the first time in my life I understand 😂😂. Thank you for that.

[@NothingXemnas]

"Relationships" Without context, you have relationshios with family members, friends, enemies and whatnot. "Romantic relationship" specifies it is romantic.

[@fawng8017]

From the 1828 Webster's dictionary: IN'TERCOURSE, noun [Latin intercursus, intercurro; inter and curro, to run.] Literally, a running or passing between. Hence, 1. Communication; commerce; connection by reciprocal dealings between persons or nations, either in common affairs and civilities, in trade, or correspondence by letters. We have an intercourse with neighbors and friends in mutual visits and in social concerns; nations and individuals have intercourse with foreign nations or individuals by an interchange of commodities, by purchase and sale, by treaties, contracts, etc. 2. Silent communication or exchange. Note no reference to sex or romance in this reference. The 1850 Webster's definition is unchanged.

[@sverrg]

@@angiepangie989 Most people no longer know the distinction, I'm just old, not smart :D

[@Sparrow0330]

MINIMINUTEMAN! LETS GOOOOO! He is one of my favorite history/archaeology KZbinrs of all time. I always watch his videos the minute they come out

[@emhoj97]

The happy gasp I did when I saw this notification! Milo is one of my favourite creators so I'm glad that another of my favourite creators (you!) is reacting to him :)

[@kevilleb]

Fun fact: There are two editions to this history book. He's reading the one for adults. The school edition combines the populations of each state, removing any distinction between white, free and slave. I noticed the difference when my sister bought me a copy of the history book when the Amazon reprint I bought was so poorly copied that it made it hard to read. FYI the Amazon reprint is the censored edition.

[@Runatyr9]

As someone from the south I have to correct you at 6:09. We absolutely do drink tea. It's just iced and sweetened to hell, as it should be.

[@reid5885]

Wisdom, justice, moderation. Wise enough to sweeten it to hell, doing it the justice of being served right, and practicing moderation by having the wisdom to drink as much of that s**t as possible…. Which is a justice to the soul.

[@spratman1100]

Tea should only be adulterated with a splash of milk and 1-2 teaspoons of sugar. Regards, The British. But I forogive you. The south is the only part of the US with manners

[@dobber43]

​@@spratman1100well as a southerner I appreciate the acknowledgement of our manners but as an American your take on tea is invalid and I will continue to ice and douse it in sugar.

[@spratman1100]

@@dobber43 Your aberration of teamaking is begrdugingly accepted. At leat you enjoy it more than the "northen americans" do

[@dobber43]

@@spratman1100 🤝

[@Crab_Man420]

Thanks for the entertainment Mr. Terry. I'm from Erie PA and we got 4 feet of snow so i've been stuck inside the house for a week and wouldn't make it without the content lmao.

[@nontrashfire2]

No

[@Byerly2k20]

I'm in the city too. It kinda sucks that we got so much snow lol

[@WillWilsonII]

I used to have a history book from like 1898 that said "You can tell the Akkadians were of Mongolian stock by their unattractive features"

[@NothingXemnas]

H-How are they even "similar"?? Yeah, old history really was something LMAO

[@skindred1888]

Mental to think about what future generations think of what we're doing/teaching.

[@SyntheticParanoia]

As a fellow Googledebunker and certified contemporary citable primary source for future Internet archeology grad students: I aprove this video. This video was definitely part of ceremonial fertility rites.

[@andyf4292]

old chemistry textbooks are wild as well,,, ' interesting reaction' means a fire that won't go out

[@SarahExpereinceRequiem]

The Luddites weren't as anti-technology as you might think, the main thing they objected to was the fact that the benefits of machines were used to increase the profits of the owning class rather than benefiting workers at all.

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

Yeah, they mostly fought for better working conditions, decent wages and a degree of job security though an apprenticeship system where industrials could only hire people who went through such an apprenticeship. The core of the technology they attacked existed for like 200 years at that point. Smashing machines was simply a way to make the bosses actually listen to them, striking would probably not even have worked back then, because they would've been immediately replaced. So they needed another way to apply pressure. And industrials only really listen when their profit is at risk.

[@MS-io6kl]

35:30 In my native German it's more clear Inder are Indians, Indianer are American Indians, and Indios are specifically South and/or Latin American Indians.

[@carpediem5232]

That's because we took the different languages of the colonisers as a basis. "Inder" stems from Greek and is taken from the conquests/ expedition of Alexander the Great. "Indianer" comes from the English "indian" from the colonies of north America. And "Indios" from the Spanish "indios" from the Middle- and Southamerican colonies. So it's more a translation accident than purposeful distinction.

[@napoleonfeanor]

​@carpediem5232 No because those people actually knew English and Spanish. You just have a political chip on your shoulder.

[@carpediem5232]

@napoleonfeanor What? What "chip" do I have on my shoulder? In German we just took the names from the language of the particular colonisers and used them aswell. What do you think is wrong about what I wrote? For names, it matters rather little if you speak the language or not. Names are often transferred from language to language with some changes to fit the norms of the new language but are not often directly translated.

[@Persun_McPersonson]

Answer them, what chip?

[@swayback7375]

@@napoleonfeanoryou been called out you little flea flickin feanor! What chip!?!

[@Ecto_0oze22]

Milo is one of my favorite content creators, im happy my favorite teacher is watching him!!

[@hellssatansfc]

The section on Africa is exactly what I expected. The publication of this textbook predates "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" and his attempt to find the source of the Nile by 16 years.

[@inegom1735]

I have an encyclopedia that has a world map insert where Africa is only roughly outlined, and in the centre just says "various tribes, communicate with primative grunts and groans". The whole book is hilarious, horrifying, and eyeopening in equal measure.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

no fucking way it actually says "communicate with privative grunts and groans" thats jsut as racist as it can be basically stating that african was nothing more then unga bunga land to them at the time (im not saying it is unga bunga land, africa is a gigantic continent full of thousands of ethno-linguistic people groups)

[@honorablechairmanmeow8698]

So glad you’re checking out the Archeology Twink.

[@tanuvazi]

I chuckled at that. I feel like I am going to hell. Weird. IIRC he is married to a woman. Not that I really care. Milo is great.

[@25malum]

personally i don't care about his debunking conspiracies as others have suggested but he does some great videos about history like touring gobekli tepe and a tour of the Penn museum with the director. you might really like those. as far as debunking conspiracies his debunk of the baghdad battery led to a really wholesome exchange with a more experienced archaeologist that should be an example for how to debate and recognize expertise.

[@tmanknoll9702]

Interestingly enough, not only is Milo big in archeology, he was asked to take part in and tour one of the most important ongoing excavations at this time in turkey (not 100% I am right on the country). He is well worth checking out!

[@guilhermecastro9893]

you mean gobekli tepe? ya its in turkey, also that is a great video he has one in saqsaywoman in peru as well i think

[@Norn_Ambassador]

Milo is amazing. We need more people/channels like him.

[@idcwtfitis]

Tea is delicious. We refused excessive taxes on said beverage. What's even better is when you add more whiskey than tea, then honey and lemon.

[@melbatoast.]

What’s funny to me is that tax was about 3% and people were incensed but then a bunch of people voted for much higher tariffs recently

[@jerryactrik1901]

This was outstanding. It was like watching a great NFL commentating team. You've got Milo doing the play-by-play and you coming in with the color commentary to really fill in all gaps. It was great. Chef's kiss.

[@castform57]

7:48 things are divided into minerals, vegetables, and animals. In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

[@iansahleen1173]

7:33 the Egyptians calculated the circumference of the Earth while there were still living mammoths on earth.

[@Gidi66]

The Egyptians have been a people building and studying for at least the last 8 thousand years while the last mammoths died 4 thousand years ago on wrangle island, sure Europe was still a lose collection of tribes, but the ancients where around and kicking as it was pre bronze age collapse.

[@AkahigeNoAmo]

oh, I watched that video when it came out. Milo is very entertaining and informing altogether - always time well spent!

[@shadestained]

i like how all the comments are either "oh i love milo he's my favorite content creator!" or "i hate this stupid gen z college kid with every fiber of my being"

[@alex-fs9yt]

as an archaeology and history uni student, i love miniminuteman

[@columbus8myhw]

By the way, notice how the capital of the Cherokees was called New Echota. I'll give you one guess as to why they weren't in Old Echota.

[@jenniferdaniels701]

Russians called Alaska "Aljaska", so we didn't really change the name of the place that much.

[@columbus8myhw]

Or Alyaska.

[@jenniferdaniels701]

@columbus8myhw My college professors would have taken away points if I transliterated like that. In IPA, the y represents a different sound found in Russian. Only Aljaska or Aliaska would have been ok.

[@columbus8myhw]

@@jenniferdaniels701 If you wanted IPA, you would have written /aljaska/, or better yet /ɐˈlʲaskə/. IPA doesn't have capital letters, and it's indicated with slashes (or brackets, depending on phonemic vs phonetic transcription). Also, in IPA, the letter y does not represent a sound found in Russian. If you're thinking of the ы sound, the proper IPA symbol is /ɨ/. Yes, it is commonly transcribed as "y" in many systems, but these are _not_ IPA.

[@jenniferdaniels701]

@@columbus8myhw When we transliterated quotes from Russian to English, we weren't expected to go full IPA, but this one thing was stressed.

[@radicalpasta7040]

You should watch a video by J. Draper called "Would you watch a public execution". The video really goes into the perspective of the people at the time when public executions were seen as normal.

[@FINXainarskrastins]

As a latvian, the lake name titikaka is just as funny as pipipupu is for English speakers

[@endersdragon34]

Looked it up for you, Arctic Foxes are considered least concern, so not endangered much at all, though there are still worries about global warming killing off their habitat and some worry about hunting but probably not as much anymore.

[@emeraldstandardconsultancy5959]

had a history teacher bring us in a really old map he owned where it shows a couple of colonies in africa and then eerything else in africa is just labelled uncivilised

[@sassysuzy4u]

I'm very glad you found Miniminuteman773. I love his videos!

[@gabibourgeois6654]

"we don't drink tea" as an American currently drinking my breakfast tea i would like to rebuke you good sir!

[@angelaarsenault]

My ancestor was killed in the Salem Witch Trials. His name was George Burroughs.

[@swirvinbirds1971]

Don't tell the South about not drinking Tea... We love our sweet tea.

[@dusfitz]

Sweet tea is the great exception, the brits cannot fathom such goodness. It bothers them to no end.

[@swirvinbirds1971]

@dusfitz Earl Grey... All we need to know about how uptight them Brits are. 😂

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

Is sweet tea just ice tea?

[@dusfitz]

@@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei sort of. Sweet tea is black tea that has copious amounts of granulated sugar mixed in while still hot. Then it's chilled overnight. My grandmother made it a days long process, making sun brewed tea and then adding simple syrup and letting that steep for a few more days.

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

@@dusfitz Sounds a lot like ice tea. I actually come from like THE tea trinking area in Germany (East Frisia), we have a very similar tea culture to Britain that goes just as far back (start of the 17th century when the Dutch East India Company brought tea to Europe), but we skipped the "tea for aristocrats only" phase and went right to absolutely everyone drinking tea. And when the Emperor tried to outlaw it to prevent money flow to China we had a rebellion - okay, we mostly just smuggled tea and drank it in secret and our Landstände wrote some angry letters to the Emperor. Anyway, I actually make Ice Tea just like that sometimes. Although I use rock candy which we also use for drinking the tea in general. I will brew a super strong tea and put far more rock candy in it than usual and once it's all dissolved I will fill the rest of the pot with ice cubes and put it in the fridge. I use ice cubes because when black tea cools down too slow it will release bitter substances.

[@frostyguy1989]

I have a British school history book from around 1900, it's incredibly pro-Empire and proudly nationalist. It even has a word from a Duke at the end, with a warning to anyone looking for mischief to "look upon that flag, and forbear".

[@ericvicaria8648]

38:00 "intercourse with the Spanish." At this time "intercourse" would have been used to mean "communication or dealings between individuals or groups" and not have a sexual meaning. The meaning still exists but it's been used as a euphemism for sex for long enough that I don't think anyone can use "intercourse" with a straight face any longer.

[@blitsriderfield4099]

"NO MORE TEA IN AMERICA!" The south:

[@cmlemmus494]

I have a book from around the same time period that collected articles from a London newspaper called "The Satirist, or the Censor of the Times". In addition to a lot of political satire, it had little fun articles such as: "If you're hosting a garden party, go down to your local chemist's and buy a lump of sodium about the size of a walnut. Get a block of ice a foot on a side and drill a hole an inch wide and six inches deep on the top face. When you drop in the sodium, your guests will be astonished by gouts of flame up to six feet high." To be fair, this isn't wrong.

[@thomasbarnett2425]

As a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, our language is not stupid, but ut was extremely easy for the ancestors to intergrate into white society because a lot of our beliefs easily adapted to it

[@jasonpatterson8091]

In the late 1800's the estimate for Earth's age had increased to 10-100 million years, based on the rate of cooling required for a molten object to cool sufficiently to have a solid crust. Without any knowledge of nuclear fusion (to provide a meaningful way to understand the Sun) or radioactivity (which has provided significant heat to Earth's interior) they didn't have any way to know that they were off by a couple of powers of 10. There were also geologists who believed that it was all eternal, with a cycle of rock formation then destruction over long periods of time.

[@eivindkaisen6838]

Small quibble: While the seeds of social Darwinism in economics may have been lid, it's a bit difficult to apply the term Darwinism in a book publshrf 4 yrats befor Darwin's 1859 work. Old Charled D didn't mention economics at all, and he maintained that there was just one human race (but he did share some of his contemporaries' misapprehensions and prejudices).

[@napoleonfeanor]

But there are several human races. It's a fact unless you want to ditch every sub species level destinction. Race necessarily means mixing will happen when in contact.

[@carpediem5232]

@napoleonfeanor The lines between "races" have been drawn arbitrarily between different skin colours. Races are not a fact. There are genetic differences, but the genetic variation within each "race" is greater than between them. It's funny that you write comments about others being politically motivated.

[@farkasmactavish]

24:47 Yes, when you use a word that calls someone out for doing a bad thing, you're being pejorative. But you're also being correct.

[@robertberatheon4213]

You are also narrowing the focus on political talking points…

[@farkasmactavish]

@robertberatheon4213 "Your ancestors treated a group of humans like they aren't humans so they could take their stuff" isn't a political talking point, it's an objective assessment of what happened.

[@robertberatheon4213]

@@farkasmactavish we don’t need this in the classroom, we need the state and federal government to pay for school supplies. In my classroom they aren’t paying for it. I have a kid whose mother is a stripper and somehow can’t find the time to get this kid some clean clothes or a meal. That child needs 3 meals, 2 at school and 1 for home, plus weekends. Instead we have to worry about politics because of people like you. Thanks I appreciate it…

[@farkasmactavish]

@robertberatheon4213 I hate to break it to you, but we all have to worry about politics. They affect us directly. The current political environment could very well kill me and my siblings, and a lot of other people I know.

[@robertberatheon4213]

@ it should not make its way into the classroom. We have huge problems in the classroom right now and don’t need anymore stress. I Truely hope you’re not going to die because of politics.

[@lvrobertus]

If you liked this, you should definitely check out some of his debunking conspiracies videos. They're genuinely fantastic content.

[@yogi9116x]

Milo’s videos are so good especially his debunking ones and the one on the Baghdad battery

[@liamodynsky4871]

This video is one of my favorites on the web, thanks for reacting to it! You should check out more Miniminuteman!!

[@dragoninthewest1]

6:12 as a man whose Grandma came from Arkansas, how dare you insult tea. There's nothing better than on a hot day of drinking a nice cold, tall glass of sweet tea. Congratulations Mr Terry, you've upset all your American Southerner listeners. 😂

[@jeffblanchard2406]

Another context to think about is that the kids being taught from this textbook were the same ones who fought in the Civil War.

[@osterpenpen9379]

Note: Making a bunch of weird contortions to keep this fully SFW. It's worth noting that at the time the book was published "intercourse" still mostly used for "conversation", with the not-safe-for-work meaning being euphemism made from two words.

[@fram79]

Correct me if I am wrong, but before the arrival and spread of Europeans to the Americas, wasn't the law of the land basically, "If you can take it and you can keep it, it is yours"? Yes, the native populations had "core territories", but they would also fight with other tribes to expand their territory.

[@MrTerry]

I guess it depends on what agreements different indigenous groups had with each other.

[@pedroguerrero3862]

That is actually not true, several native group didn't have the concept of land ownership, to them it was like owning the ocean.

[@Ironysandwich]

Asking what historical land ownership was like in "The Americas" is rather like asking what historical land ownership was like in "The Eurasias". You are talking about a lot of different cultures, from nomadic hunter-gatherers to large agrarian civilizations with highly structured governments. It varied.

[@joshuawillingham6363]

My understanding is that it's fairly rare for tribal societies to have a concept of personal ownership at all. That tends to be something that develops more with large static societies where you're interacting with a lot more people you don't personally know. There were plenty of wars among some of the more extreme tribes, and there were actually a fair number of tribes that were static and agrarian, but you honestly have to get to a fairly high population density and resource scarcity for things like borders and who owns what land to matter.

[@RickJaeger]

It also wasn't exactly the law of the land in the sense that there was no competing law. That would be banditry. And we know that it wasn't entirely mandatory by the Europeans, because they would often negotiate and make contracts and treaties with the natives. Even if they would go on to later break them, the fact that they would even bother with negotiation shows that they considered them competent owners of the land, and also roughly equal partners. You don't make treaties with bandits, for the most part, and I'm sure if they felt that they could take all of it, at least in the first place, they would never have bothered with a treaty.

[@DD-mp1kl]

shoulda called alaska "New Russia" like how we named New Mexico, New Jersey, New York, etc.

[@mutecryptid]

I love miniminuteman. My family has an old book that describes different races, it’s insane 😅

[@GuyNamedSean]

We're not supposed to hate tea! We dumped it in the harbor because we didn't want to pay taxes on the tea. We drink a bunch of tea, and drank so much then that it was the good that Britain chose to tax.

[@MrTRich]

Hello Mr. Terry! I've heard/seen you mentioned by VTH a few times, and I'm a big fan of Milo's channel, so I was very pleased to finally have the algorithm work and give me a video of yours. Enjoyed your input, and you now have a new subscriber!

[@scloftin8861]

My issue with "colonizer" is that ... technically, everyone in the world has done this over time ... we're just closer to the situation with the divide between Europe and everyone else. No one refers to Rome as colonizers ... but they did. Alexander the Great! The Aztecs. Russia, post WWII Somehow when one spreads out beyond one's original borders it just seems sooooo much worse. Maybe it is, from a 21st century POV, but is it? Every political entity that expanded, conquered and planted colonies, from before written history to now, has pretty much done exactly that and gets completely ignored by the people using it as a pejorative today.

[@Lunareclipse3268]

While this is technically correct, I presume you also understand that when someone, particularly an indigenous person, uses the word Coloniser in reference to someone directly benefitting from the legacy of colonial imperialism, trying to counter that using a semantic argument to say that everyone's technically a coloniser to everywhere is being deliberately obtuse to attempt to dodge the discomfort of that legacy. They aren't making reference to everyone whose ancestors journeyed to settle where they currently live, or even everyone who lives on land that at one point belonged to another people and was annexed via invasion, and you know that.

[@savan968]

When he says the the use of colonizer isn't used to refer to current people is isn't true, especially when there are videos of people actually calling white Americans as colonizers to their face. Slavery, colonization, yes, all bad, but it existed long before America was even an idea. He's referncing a history book from the 1850's, before many Americans died in a war to stop the southern states which resulted in the end of slavery. We would have failed as a species if slavery was still widely practiced in the US and the rest of the world today.

[@Byakurenfan]

Rome is ofter refered to as colonizers.

[@robertberatheon4213]

@@savan968i don’t see the pearl clutching on any other topic…such as the sites found in Peru where ~200 children were sacrificed, or the Aztecs sacrificing people to their gods. I am for teaching facts but it’s been overly politicized to demonize groups of people today. We know it happened we know it was bad. You can’t force people to empathize.

[@tacohaloman]

As a southerner who drinks diabetes juice, I would like to say we claim sweet iced tea.

[@llandrin9205]

Mr. Terry, you should look up Sequoyah and read about his Cherokee alphabet and his efforts to unify the Cherokee Nation through a written language. He succeeded in the Cherokee becoming almost 90% literate in reading his Cherokee alphabet and documents written in it.

[@lobsters12111]

Going through the comments it sounds like he's gonna have to make an apology video to the south about tea lol

[@OfficialAuntieJenn]

Context is so important. I love these videos!

[@1guysdumbopinion669]

5:58 *Me a southerner sipping my sweet tea in protest

[@user-gc9yr1be6r]

"tea is so un-american". Lolz. They didn't throw the tea in the harbor because they don't like tea. It was because they didn't like taxes. Tea isn't un-American, taxes are un-American. Yet, about half of the money I earn still goes to taxes in one way or another. Even if I want to buy some tea.....

[@thedemolitionmuniciple]

A. I love to see that you've reacted to Miniminuteman, I hope you enjoyed and perhaps can find time to enjoy much more of his content. B. I think it might be worth, even if you were pretty sure you are not pausing at an important point, to rewind 10 seconds or so sometimes when you do. Quite a few jokes/bits found themselves split in half.

[@NestorCustodio]

When your history textbook says "consult the Old Testament for an account of the emergence of Man on Earth", it was either printed in 1855 or 2025... 😬

[@WIKKRMUSIC]

6:00 the southerners and their sweet tea would love to speak to you

[@Avalikia]

Nah, a true southerner would assume he couldn't possibly lump in sweet tea with unsweet tea. They're not at all the same thing, after all.

[@WIKKRMUSIC]

@Avalikia A great point, my apologies.

[@christopherjahn2044]

As an American with ancestors who participated in the Salem NJ tea party, we didn't dump tea because we hated tea; we dumped tea because the Crown said we could only buy it from the East India Company, and their tea wasn't as good as the tea Dutch smugglers were bringing in.

[@fishyjoes4615]

actually more like the merchants were pissed that the new British tea was cheaper so they dumped it

[@christopherjahn2044]

@fishyjoes4615 few people realize that the Tea Act reduced the cost of tea, but that was intended to make enforcement of the East India Company's monopoly more palatable. My point is that if Americans had hated tea, they wouldn't have gotten so riled up about it.

[@irrelevant_noob]

9:54 yeah, that's an interesting one... "history *_of the world_* for 2,000 years after that event" -- guess there was no Asia, Americas, Australia in the world yet... 🤪

[@ajohnson153]

Ok, but can we just take a second to appreciate that transition with him stepping over the fallen over camera. That was nice.

[@OkieOtaku]

It's not tea we hate, and the Boston tea party want about the TEA, and it wasn't (exactly) the taxation itself that was being protested, it was the structure of the taxation of the tea, among other things. I don't remember the details off hand, but the whole thing is actually kinda complicated. It's part of the whole "no taxation without representation" thing

[@nabbar]

From the context, the use of "intercourse" around 38 minutes in almost certainly refers to social intercourse - interaction between groups.

[@YuriLunaris]

Regarding using the bible as a source. A few Semesters ago, my Seminar looked at some history class materials for secondary school(german equivalent of middle school) and one of the books talked about the Hebrew people in ancient times(weird to topic to put in a school text book, really isn't that relevant compared to other topics, but anyways). In this chapter they did cite the bible as a source and that book wasn't that old, like the late 2000s or early 2010s, like there is a good chance this book is still used in some schools (german schools are really underfunded, good luck replacing any material before it is outdated).

[@alchemicpink2392]

Whether the Talmud, the Bible or the Quran is a bad history source largely depends on which text. First Maccabees for example is an entirely (though kind of hard to date) historical account that doesn't really feature g-d beyond the occasional blessing and the religious politics of the time, such as Helenic oppression of the Israelites, and even while divine visions and miracles are present the Evangelion of Mark as well as the recounting of Peter and Paul's Bizarre Adventure (into Rome) are somewhat accurate when you strip the magic out. This is because a lot of these texts oscillate between Gaius Iulius Caesar-real and Robin Hood-real in terms of both the characters and events being told.

[@gatr2897]

His Awful Archaeology series is spectacular I'd love to see you check that out! Each episode he picks a subject in the field of archaeology that has a lot of misinformation surrounding it, and the way he presents it is very entertaining

[@AbigailMaureenVI]

I’m from the South, we disrespect tea by putting it on ice.

[@guilhermecastro9893]

and making it the most sugary thing on earth

[@THE-TRUE-Doi]

I wouldn't say history is always changing but our understanding and perception of history is.

[@caliban2805]

My town just had a week of snow getting about a quarter of the way up my shin and it was pretty washed away in 24 hours of rain

[@vendasch666]

I've just read "The Begum's Fortune" by Verne to my 10yrs old son. The book dates like 50yrs before WWII and I think every young historian should read it.

[@Callimachus33]

I once found an old dissertation in my university library from early 20th century titled "unchristian behaviour among fleas" which dealt in same sex intercourse of fleas.

[@GreenMMs100]

I am a huge fan of Milos videos, so i can confirm he is an archaeologist. He has travelled to Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe in Turkiye to film so videos, he also debunks historical and archaeological misinformation that gets spread online. He has a book called Encyclopaedia of the Weird and Wonderful and its a wonderful read full of interesting stories from across history. He really is a wonderful creator and its nice to see his stuff being seen by more eyes

[@Ryzard]

Milo is GREAT, awesome coverage, and a lot about modern disinformations or... Weird history controversy.

[@jakkanadarpainting6031]

As a fellow denizen of the annals of history and prehistory, anyone who views colonizer as anything other than derogatory or factual statement of an individual who has enacted or participated in colonization of another culture by force, has lost their connection to humanistic principles. The acts of genocide, cultural genocide and ethnic cleansing that were performed during the colonization process alone make this irrefutable but we can then go into subjugation, oppression and otherization that always followed as well. Those people who get upset about being called the descendant of a colonizer, are the same people who like to claim that the Civil War was about State's Rights and conveniently forget the primary "right" being fought over was the right to own another human as farming equipment when told they could no longer do so. Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term "genocide," literally argued that colonialism involved the destruction of indigenous cultures as an inherent feature. This included both the physical annihilation of people and the imposition of the colonizer's cultural practices on the oppressed group. Cultural genocide, while not formally codified in international law, describes acts such as forced assimilation, suppression of languages, and destruction or theft and reinvention of the history of cultural artifacts​. The legacy of colonization persists in global structures of power and economy to this very day though many of them are shrouded in propaganda. For example, neocolonialism continues to exploit former colonies through external economic dependencies and geopolitical pressures, as seen in post-independence instability across the Global South. These inequities are directly tied to the colonial imposition of artificial borders, resource extraction, cultural domination​ and direct policy intervention through various ways and means.

[@mattstacyandthepomskies]

Ah, you raise good points… but you’re very much only seeing this from the context of an American. For example, Italians don’t get massive pushback for their colonial past all that much, either from their Roman Empire etc eras or from their African etc colonies. But they are by default colonisers, but that term just doesn’t seem to be used there much. And the British Empire was undoubtedly a huge colonial act that included barbaric practices. But the vast majority of the population of the UK were little much more than serfs, the working class were not in any way benefitting from the acts of the minority upper class and the dependents of the working class are the vast majority of the population today, and rightly will push back against being labelled a coloniser. And as a group of islands they themselves have been victims of slavery and colonialism too! A real historian needs to find a way to remove emotion and segregate history into pure fact. Perhaps for Americans that history is just far too modern to be able to do so.

[@jakkanadarpainting6031]

@@mattstacyandthepomskies Two things, while you are right that other countries do not teach it as a moral horror connected to their history, this has multiple factors as to why that would take far too long to go into for a comment I think we can agree. First, No historians do not need to remove emotion, ever. That is an antiquated and obsolete concept that has not been true for over a century. They do need to remove bias however as best as possible which is what most confuse as emotion. Second, the other countries you speak of, where they are not offended by such a label being applied to them or lack the use of the term as a pejorative in their culture. They are in such a state because the do not teach the propagandized version of history intentionally. As new evidence comes out they change their teachings over time once it is confirmed accurate etc. They, generally mind you as nothing is a monolith, do not attempt to rewrite history into whitewashed versions trying to minimize the horrors of the past. They accept them and move on instead of attempt to gloss over them. Now I do thank you for the thoughtful comment as many would have latched onto the point I made about State's Rights instead of the whole comment made. You are much appreciated for that. I will point out though my comment was directly to a point the creator made in the video about a subset of people who react a particular way as opposed to a scholarly refutation of the claims those people or the creator may/may not think are accurate. I know I am long winded and context can be lost because of it, but that was my intent.

[@marxmaiale9981]

I wonder how much of the book was due to actual beliefs of the author, how much was documenting the sentiment of the time, and how much is worded to get published. In terms of a camera, get one that works well for your offline purposes and has an option to output live video to the computer or hdmi (use a capture card).

[@noahcaplan7681]

Historiography is one of the most interesting topics ever. In 10th grade, my world cultures teacher showed us a textbook from the late 19th - early 20th century in America. What I remember the most was in the beginning pages where you typically have maps and all, they had a section about the “five races of the world” and were just caricatures of the “whites”, “blacks”, “yellows”, “browns”, and “reds”. As you may expect, it was extremely racist. Also fun fact: gorillas had just been discovered (more like proven to definitively exist) and had not had a documented encounter with humans yet.

[@sststr]

I recently acquired a pop history of New York City published in 1929. While a few of the chapters are based on what we now believe to be myths, at the time it wasn't so obvious, like New York winning Staten Island from New Jersey by sailing a boat around it in under 24 hours. But on the whole I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was, especially for being a pop history and not a serious academic work. That said, I did notice very early on they weren't talking about slavery at all, and the first mention of it wasn't until the chapter about freedom of the press (i.e. the Peter Zenger trial), so not until the 18th century, thereby completely skipping over the Dutch use of slaves in their colony, and quite a few decades of subsequent British control of it. That's a pretty glaring oversight... And even after that, slavery barely gets any further mentions, although at least in the state of New York they did have slavery abolished by 1827, so you wouldn't expect much talk of it after that as relates specifically to New York City. There is some talk in later chapters about race relations, they don't ignore that black people exist, but it comes very late in the work. They do at least give a shout-out to James Reese Europe and the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) in the WW1 chapter!

[@Ryzard]

35:25 - my favorite reply I've seen was "People who call GIF "Jiff" when they are sent to hell after calling God "Jod" at the pearly gates:" It just is such a funny way to point out the stupidity. Same as saying "Jraphic Interchange Format" (since ofc, the G stands for... Graphics...)

[@wyattlauth1453]

Sweet tea is everywhere in the American south

[@YashmitRana-im7wu]

Hell yeah! Two of my favorite creators!

[@kier0063]

I watch his googledebunking videos, they're amazing and I'm glad you reacted to one of his videos