Reacting to History of the Entire World...I Guess

[@SoGal_YT]

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[@a-jbrown7178]

Here's an interesting subject to react to Castellas. A Catalan tradition. kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3raZpqZZd-fi5Y

[@lemo8986]

Gotta watch the new Sabaton song, Christmas Truce. Literally just came out and it's fire

[@casslane3932]

yep the ottomans basicaly started the chain of events as europe wanted to find another route to india

[@090giver090]

The best thing about this video is that it gives a "big picture" to observe how different things in history are interconnected. Most videos on more specific topics are lacking this kind of perspective. And yes, your conclusion about Ottoman influence on the Age of Discovery is generally correct.

[@richardlandrum1966]

The world would've been SOOOOO different if the ottomans just gave some spices to Europe

[@Davey-Boyd]

Bill Wurtz said this took him 11 months to put together and said he nearly went insane.

[@marksadventures3889]

I get that

[@ilcondottierocartografo6770]

Kudos to him

[@_Killkor]

He's considered a legend for a reason.

[@edmundsmith3943]

That is literally my favourite video on KZbin. Thanks for reacting!!

[@mikedignum1868]

I grew up at the end of the British Empire and schools still had maps that were 3/4 pink (empire). Within ten years that had all changed and so had the map and I had to learn new names of the new countries.

[@hasibalfuad9652]

That's british empire for you. Morons

[@user-tx3md6up5m]

I thought the British Empire covered 1/4 of the world’s land mass, not 3/4🤔

[@aygianalt]

@@user-tx3md6up5m Maybe it's a typo/mistake or just wrong maps for Propaganda...

[@user-tx3md6up5m]

Yeah I guess it was a typo

[@CM-1723]

@@hasibalfuad9652 what's your country done then ??

[@hendrikusscherphof7348]

You are spot on about blocked spice trade leading to a lot of developments that shaped the centuries after, including today. The fall of Constantinople is generally seen as a turning point between the medieval period and the modern era for that exact reason

[@motionpictures6629]

31:00 the sultan of Oman moved down to Sansiba is importend becouse it was the high point of arab imperialism in Africa. If a Arab Lord rules a African country with his navy from a African island it changes the whole upper class of society. Swahilli was a new language that came into beeing by mixing arab and african languages.

[@SerbwithGod]

29:02 Yugoslavia stopped existing decades ago... 😂Yugoslav wars were one of the most recent european wars , you could do a reaction video to that part of history?

[@Hammadz-li]

18:04 ottomans didnt banned it , they taxed it heavely

[@AbenZin1]

So you're saying the US exists because people didn't want to pay taxes?

[@ekinb.3524]

No people still would explore the world... High taxes is just a little push amongst many other reasons.

[@momentary_]

@@ekinb.3524 Nah, no one wanted to fund Columbus' trips even with the payoff of a shorter route to India. It's not a foregone conclusion that someone would have still discovered the new world at that time. It could have been decades or even centuries till someone actually decides to explore out that far for no reason except exploration. Remember, trips of that length and distance required a great deal of money due to the technology that they had at the time.

[@Wanys123]

@@AbenZin1 Well... yes, twice. Considering the last straw that led to american revolution was a 3% tax on tea.

[@WaywardVet]

Taxes? IMMA GET IT MYSELF! (Also applies to prohibition).

[@Charlie._.Niron22]

Aaaa! Finally reacting to one of the funniest videos on KZbin! Let's go! Thanks for reacting for it! Also could you react to some of Lemmino's stuff? His great!

[@alexanderdario]

Your thinking at 14:00... Pure gold!!

[@stephenparker6362]

Yes, decolonisation in Africa essentially started in the 1950s and 60s. If you looked at a pre war map of Africa you would find the countries completely different to now. That is another interesting subject to look at more.

[@xenotypos]

Another thing I think people don't always realize is how the demographic distribution changed dramatically lately, especially in Africa (which went from 100 million people in 1900 to 1.4 billion now). The share of the world population in each continent is completely different now.

[@vergil8833]

The map of Europe is really old but it has just been altered by wars. So the exact way it looks right now has only been for a little while, but 2000 years ago it was still similar with the Roman Empire, Gaul, Germania, Scandza, Brittania, Hispania, and so on. Africa on the other hand was introduced these nations based on regional powers and so on, they simply didn't have countries before that, it was all tribal regions where spheres of influence is what made the loose borders.

[@akimananikita5374]

Kings and generals has good series on the ottomans I definitely recommend checking that out

[@fraso7331]

He forgot the 30 Years War. At its end international peace as normal state was invented.

[@mikelavoie8410]

I don't think anyone can truly comprehend the mind of Bill Wurtz. It's one of the reasons I love his videos so much. They're all so relentlessly creative.

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello SoGal and Roger. So many videos tonight I got the football video first. This was fun, but from my Yorkshire way of thinking lacked a bit of Celts and Anglo Saxons and could have done some more Vikings, thinking of the culture thing you talked about in the football one.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Good point sir, here on the wirral, site of the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD, we are a fusion of Welsh ..Wallasey ( Welsh island) ,..Irish...Noctorum (dry hill/ridge) ,Hiberno Norse Irby (place of the Irish) Angl/ English post 937ad ,Thurstaston ( Thorstein,s enclosure)....E

[@alansmithee8831]

@@eamonnclabby7067My friend from university wargames lived in Bromborough and a coursemate was from there and knew him. The latter heard me and another Yorkshire lad speaking Yorkshire dialect and declared in Wirral Scouse "don't you talk funny!". Confused by Viking words obviously. I went to see Widnes v Castleford (Martin Offiah played) when I stayed with my friend above who was a Salford fan (though I did not say too much in my Yorkshire accent then). Funny that Widnes are called Vikings now. I discussed the battle with my friend, but never used the Viking army I painted in competition as the lack of cavalry was too much of a disadvantage.

[@generalsaufenberg4931]

Nothing is constant, only change. when i was a kid, a computer was borderline star trek stuff, at least in my eyes^^. i never dreamed about something like the internet. these days, everyone and his dog has a computer+internet in his mobile phone 🤣🤣🤣

[@steved6092]

😲 that's a heck of a lot of information to process at 12.30am whilst trying to get to sleep

[@sookendestroy1]

Technically the core ideas of communism came from the factions of the french revolution. A lot of the ideas from that time whether it be capitalism, anarchy, democracy, labor etc would later be expanded on. Marx took a lot from the french communes in his writings about communism and tried to turn it into a unified ideal.

[@marvelfannumber1]

17:57 This is actually not even *remotely* true and the video gets this wrong: 1) The Ottomans didn't "ban Europe from the Indian spice trade", in fact, European trading there actually increased because the Ottomans provided much needed stability in the Balkans (at the time) by conquering everyone. 2) Europeans were already looking for new trade routes prior to the Fall of Constantinople, the Portuguese had already been exploring the African coast for decades by this time. 3) The Ottomans didn't own the main trade routes to India at the time either. Constantinople fell in 1453, but Egypt and Syria were still under the Mamluks, if the Ottomans really did ban Europeans, they could have just gone through the Mamluks anyway. 4) The Roman Empire at in 1450 was literally just Constantinople and the Peloponnese, they hadn't been a crucial strategic trading point for almost a century. It had basically been a city state since the 1350's The real reason the Europeans started looking for new trade routes was because of the Venetian/Genoese monopoly on the trade in the Eastern Mediterranean. After the Ottomans conquered Constantinople, they seized many of the last Genoese outposts in the area, and the Venetian monopoly became even greater. This made new trade routes very attractive to get around the Venice's insane prices and tolls.

[@RESTITVTOR_TOTIVS_HISPANIAE]

A man of culture I see

[@hzhang1228]

so at the end of the day the catalyst is the same, trade was restricted, said event disrupted an already constraint route forcing exploration. seems more than remotely true to me. ancient history is complex and poorly recorded with no standard. if you want to dissect each point we would be stuck for years on the very beginning with the creation of space/time.. thus defeating the purpose of the video

[@RESTITVTOR_TOTIVS_HISPANIAE]

@@hzhang1228 but this ain't ancient history, in the grand scheme of things, it was pretty recent.

[@sahar3820]

So basically Venice continued being greedy as always huh? But yeah thnx for the explaination.

[@haaxeu6501]

This video is a classic, surprised you haven't reacted to it already

[@Slavaboo1]

He also made another video in the same style titled History of Japan. You should check that one out too if you haven't seen it!

[@Quickshot0]

Everything shown in this video so far I can tell from what I know is close enough and at least a reasonable interpretation. Even the supposed 'philosophical' things aren't necessarily really that, physics and the nature of thought become pretty different from what we tend to experience in our day to day lives when you look at their extremes, like say the beginning of time. So if one ever looks in to such areas, one will probably find things that sound like it come back.

[@xenotypos]

The most subjective interpretations I noticed (personally, there are probably other ones) are calling all the crusades failures (the first was spectaculary successful and the third more or less successful), and calling the 7 Years War a world war (a very common exageration imho, while other global wars existed before like the 9 Years War and the War of Spanish Succession, not even mentioning how all those wars had a really small scale in terms of troups/casualties compared with the Napoleonic Wars). Yet, those aren't totally wrong indeed, there's a bit of truth in everything he mentioned.

[@Quickshot0]

@@xenotypos The trick is understanding how much I guess, though understanding those eras well with out more in-depth study could be difficult imagine.

[@pauldryburgh6346]

If you like this then you've got to watch The Mystery at the Bottom of Physics by Exurb1a. I'm not fussed for a reaction, just a wee nudge for you lass.

[@bucklberryreturns]

Since 1990, more countries have come into being than years have passed.

[@chrisshelley3027]

Much of Europe changed after the Berlin Wall came down in the 90's, many "old" countries returned and are still finding themselves, so much is still fluid right now in Europe.

[@armchairgeneralissimo]

I own some old tools which have "made in West Germany" engraved on them, crazy to think the Berlin wall was standing when I purcahsed them.

[@sahar3820]

19:49 In case you didn't understand why he labelled Cuba as "Japan" there, Columbus actually thought he had reached Japan in East Asia. He believed this fact all the way till his death.

[@Lothian55]

Well, he was smoking a lot of crack at the time :P

[@ryanfrancis827]

My favourite video!!! And my favourite reaction channel! This must be Christmas! There’s a great channel that talks about historical misconceptions (I think it’s called whatifalthist). He also did a video on the most extreme societies in history, which I thought was pretty cool! Keep up the good work!!

[@shanenolan8252]

Thanks i love this video

[@NarynbekGilman]

3:29 Well, actually, that part is not comedy, but might be reality. Yes, it is confusing, but it is not a joke, so you can definitely think about it seriously, which is what scientists are indeed doing (not only thinking, of course). But I agree about joking in that video in general.

[@ladykaycey]

I've been hoping you'd do this reaction for a long time now. I love it 😀

[@voidseeker4394]

The video is actually looped. He finishes with the question "Where the hell are we?" And starts with "We are on the rock floating in space." Also, the begining and end are not just philosophical, at the start he talks about the things before the Big Bang, therefore before space and time existed. All the things in tne universe existed in a single point of zero size (space didn't exist yet), and everything happened simultaniously (because time didn't exist). In the ending he is referring to the recent intrerest in neural networks and AI development, I believe. ChatGPT and other stuff.

[@bodan1196]

@23:15 -ish. "I was totaly oblivious about it, until I started to learn about it". How ever much I do indeed encourage the sentiment of learning, I have to... comment; "Well... yeess. That is one property of reality. You don't know, until you find out." :-)

[@DieGoetterdaemmerung]

Communism before the Soviet Union was only a theoretic form of government or an alternative model for society, the basic idea came around in the late 1700s in france and was written down in the "Communist Manifesto" by the german philosiphors Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1846 and published around the revolutions of 1848. It was originally a heavy criticism of the capitalist system and it's exploitative nature towards the working class. Before the industrial revolution there really wasn't a working class to begin with and exploitation was mainly through serfdom or slavery. Russia was the first country to attempt a communist society and by all means failed due to authorianism, maybe if Lenin wouldn't have died so early it could have had a chance but Stalin was a totalitarian through and through.

[@RwandaBob]

as a history nerd with adhd this is one of my favorite videos of all time

[@shoutinghorse]

(24:19) Although never part of its empire, Britain had huge influence over Siam (Thailand) dating back to James I (VI) where British merchants first established trade. Britain's East India Company signed trade deals with the Kingdom of Siam and the two countries signed the Bowring Treaty of 1855. In exchange for this trade Britain helped Siam to modernise and we still have close trade links today. - Footnote - It is during this period that the story of Anna and the King of Siam comes from, made famous by the musical 'The King and I' starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr. One of the lasting legacies of Britain's influence in Thailand is that they still drive on the left.

[@andrewcomerford9411]

The Ottoman Turks didn't ban European trade with India per se, but they levied heavy import/export duties on goods entering or leaving their territory, and spices in particular became insanely expensive. The Ottoman/USA connection isn't far off the mark. The trouble with Africa is that modern, "Countries," were based on the boundaries between colonial powers. People with entirely different cultures, languages, religions, and philosophies were suddenly lumped together in an artificially-created area. It wasn't unusual for natural enemies to suddenly find themselves in the same country and trying to form an effective government.

[@ronalddobis6782]

What was shortchanged in the video was things were also happening in the Americas and Australia. Of course since they were isolated from the three connected continents they didn't have an effect on the great tides of world history until relatively recently.

[@grabtharshammer]

I think what he is actually saying is not that the countries in Africa didn't exist pre WW2, just that they were partitioned and named by the Europeans mostly in the 19th / early 20th centuries. They did exist previously but were on a more Tribal territory basis (and that was constantly changing too). Mostly after WW2 they went back to their original areas and names. But even that took some time. When I grew up we learned about Rhodesia, Northern and Southern, that didn't change until the 60's / 70's

[@stephenparker6362]

Yugoslavia ceased to exist in the early 90s. It eventually split into 7 different countries. It was said that Marshall Tito was the only Yugoslav and that may be right considering how it split after he died.

[@HankD13]

Great video, but it really does skip the details. Details do make a difference - British merchants wanted tea, from China - but Chinese authorities would only sell it for pure silver, nothing else. The British merchants also discovered that "non official" Chinese merchants would trade tea for opium (the Chinese were already addicted, but the authorities had banned its import). British merchants started smuggling it in for the tea - until the Chinese authorities cracked down on it. Which lead to the Opium Wars. (Then spies stole a tea plant, and we took it to India!) Plus it was not only Britain, Hong Kong was founded in 1842 - while was Portugese Macau 1557! Qingdao (1898) was German, France had Guangzhouwan and other European powers had their own - Shanghai (1842) being the great international one. Reality is always a lot more messy than the sound bite.

[@tersse]

When i was learning about the British Empire, back when i was like 12- 14, it made me more interested in what came before us, and i found librarys the most interesting buildings in the univers, :)

[@andrewclayton4181]

That was fun. Galloped through at a hello a rate. Yes you are right about the Ottoman turks and the fall of Constantinople in 1453 causing a disruption to the spice trade. Henry the Navigator, king of Portugal was already sending ships down the west coast of Africa, but this gave him a massive incentive to go for the indies and ship spices home. Of course this trade was jealousy guarded, so if Spain wanted to get in on the act, it meant war, or sail to the west. Columbus sailed west. Interestingly 1453 was also the year that Henry VI of England had a nervous breakdown , which led to his overthrow in the wars of the Roses. I wonder if the shock of the infidel Turks sacking the city of Constantinople contributed to that. African countries today often have borders which can be traced back to the old colonial outlines, which obviously contributes to some of the squabbles between neighbours we see there. When the maps were drawn up by European's, no account was taken of locals interest. Also he missed the construction of the syez canal. That was quite important.

[@xisudra384]

Really good video!!! You sharing your thoughts on all of it was very cool also. 🙂 I believe it was Marcus Aurelius that wrote the study of the past was important to understanding the present.

[@oliversherman2414]

Something he left out of the video was that the Vikings actually discovered North America (specifically Newfoundland) some 500 years before Christopher Columbus

[@generalsaufenberg4931]

28:00 when it comes to europe and new countries, i guess it starts even before ww1, with napoleon. but yeah, we always think that everything is set in stone, but no, everything changes, always and forever. even our knowledge. the earth is flat. there is nothing faster than the light... everything we know is a fact, until someone finds out something new.

[@benriful]

America owes their existence to the Ottomans! Good call. You could also say it owes its existence to China and India (spices and silk), since that's what those Portuguese and Spanish were after in the first place. Talk about "globalization"!

[@eamonnclabby7067]

I think we should invite SoGal to run the BBC...well done...peace and love from a very wet and windy wirral....namechecked albeit in Welsh in the medieval poem, sir Gawain and the green knight..

[@stephenparker6362]

The Europeans were certainly looking for new trade routes to India and thought they'd found them, hence calling the inhabitants Indians although I hadn't heard that the Ottomans were the main reason for this.

[@fritoss3437]

Still waiting for my "why France is on its 5 republic" by history matter vidéo :(

[@marvelfannumber1]

Joke's on you, I'm still waiting for the Holy Roman Empire video lmao

[@icechoc]

Yeah, it's the same Ottoman Empire. They're a 600 year old empire. They didn't outright ban Europe but taxed them more than the previous Byzantine Empire or Mumluk Sultanate did. However, this decision did influence and cause Europeans to begin travelling and exploring more which eventually led to the European discovery of the Americas and eventually the formation of the U.S. Had the Ottomans not done that then there would not have been as much incentive to go exploring. I highly recommend Kings and Generals' series on the Ottoman history. It's very well-told and animated. You can tell they put a lot of work into it. It details the rise of their empire and relations they had with Europe and Asia as well as the battles.

[@citisoccer]

Yes. The African nations we know today were basically parcels of land distributed among the winning Euro nations of World War 1. Berlin Conference, I think. Oh, and Columbus didn't "discover" anything. Native American heritage, and get slightly bothered by just his name. It may have been the beginning of modern day America, but it was the beginning of the end for countless peoples. The Caribbean land and people that he encountered, enslaved, abused, murdered, and pillaged were already there, and the land known as the USA would have turned into a nation over time, probably several. Many different native people throughout the land now know as the US would have continued to grow as anywhere else did, and Mexico would have wound up much larger. I'd suggest reading 1491 by Charles Mann for a true depiction of pre-Euro North America.

[@wewenang5167]

The Ottoman didn't actually ban Europe they just taxed more, so it became so expensive and not all Europe though because the Italian, Genoa and Venetian got all the goods and prosperous because of it because it's actually the Venetian and Genoan who were the middlemen of western europe, the arabs and Turks sold stuff to them and they then sold it with higher price to western Europe.

[@BlameThande]

You are essentially right about the Ottomans blocking the spice trade (or it becoming a Venetian/Genoese monopoly with other Christians shut out) being the reason why America was discovered. Even after Columbus, the main reason why England settled what became the USA is because we thought North America was narrower than it is, so it'd only take a few days to march to the Pacific and then set sail to trade with the Indies and Japan.

[@wewenang5167]

Not Malaysia as the modern country but the Malay people that actually came from all over the archipelago, especially from Sumatra, the Malay peninsula (Malaysia now) and Borneo. The language of the Madagascar native are actually the same group to the Austronesian or Malayo Polynesian language and it is closely related to the Bornean branch of Malayik language such as the Dayak and Banjarese language which are intelligible language to the Malays.

[@glendakeating405]

They did exist but we're owned by UK, France, Spain etc! They just recently gained independence!

[@Handle0108]

You should watch oversimplified’s video on the Russian revolution.

[@markwilliamson2864]

That was exhausting! Did the guy who did this use to write radio jingles?😆

[@untruelie2640]

25:30 The idea/school of though of socialism was around during most of the 19th century. It was essentially a reaction to the social implications of the industrial revolution. There were several different branches like Anarchism and Marxism (which itself was split into a reformist branch (social democracy) and a revolutionary branch ("communism"/bolshevism). While many social democratic parties became part of state governments after WW1 (Germany, Britain, France, etc.), Lenin and his Bolsheviks forcefully took over Russia. It was the first "communist" state, yes, but the political movement had been around for many decades.

[@richardrichards9180]

There was a popular TV comedy theme that did this even more concisely,in about 20 secs..

[@davidhyams2769]

Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery, That all started with the big bang!

[@Alex-vx5ql]

When you said that you only started to think about how the world keep changing after you started watching all these history channels. The first thing I thought of was the song Sword of Glory by Motörhead...listen to the lyrics, Lemmy (R.I.P) was a genius when it came to writing songs because it is spot on. I also recommend Motörhead - 1916, listen to the lyrics, it is about the forgotten soldiers of WW1 that enlisted when they were only 16 years of age.

[@Kveldrunari]

You should also watch the history of japan! same style of video as this one.

[@gerritvalkering1068]

Basically, Britain was importing so much stuff from China (mostly tea, silk and porcelain) that they had a terrible trade deficit, so they were trying to see what China would buy from them. That turned out to be nothing. So, opium and then the opium war (and the second opium war)

[@gerritvalkering1068]

One of the biggest problems in Africa is that the countries didn't 'spring up', they were arbitrarily decided by European countries drawing lines on a map, regardless of the peoples and cultures

[@tonybaker55]

It would have been great to show my 7 year old granddaughter, but a few words put me off the idea! I always thought the USSR, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany and Yugoslavia would be around my entire life, as a teenager, but how wrong I was.

[@dlanor9312]

The three constants of life : change, choice and principals.

[@Melisadz]

A great reflexion and I'm just mid video

[@joachimkylhammar5084]

he missed that viking was at america first but abandond it´s colony due to native resistent and the voyage there was dangerus and just was not worth it in the end

[@gabrielethier2046]

The Ottoman Empire existed way before they conquered Constantinople, the name come from its founder named Osman, who was a Turkish Warlord who rose to power after the dissolution of the Seljuk Sultanate

[@glastonbury4304]

You ever thought when the founding fathers landed in Plymouth, what a coincidence it was they also set off from Plymouth?!! 🤷🤔🙃

[@ay0vee978]

If you want to know more about the opium wars where Britain got hong kong I suggest watching extra credits' opium wars

[@Someloke8895]

I like the plaid shirt, it suits you immensely.

[@blankcdcd1372]

FOR YOUR BUCKET LIST TO VIEW: How did each european country got its name by youtube channel General Knowledge.

[@ianprince1698]

basically, stuff happened so other stuff happened

[@adypendlebury3975]

British Empire not mentioned when we ruled most of the world

[@ssordernstaatburgundslavar3632]

The opium war begin because Britain export a lot of Tea from the Qing and since Britain is lacking silver coin which was mainly used in Qing's trade led Britain to sell opium to the locals to raise some money to maintain the export of tea. Soon the Qing found out about this and started to throw the opium into the sea just like Boston Tea but this ended Qing Dynasty getting their cheek slapped by British Army and this continues until the 2nd Opium War. At which Britain would own a lend-lease Hong Kong Port for 99 Years.

[@iainmalcolm9583]

Completely random history of the world. People worried about the accuracy have missed the humor. Not by any means the biggest views on YT but the one in my 'recommended' list with the most views at 18.5M is.... 'First Time in Full Length: Lewandowski's 9-Minute Miracle'. Video shows the 2nd half Bayern substitute scoring 5 goals in a little over 9 minutes. Remarkable (and worth a watch)

[@tonym480]

The only constant is that nothing is constant, except Physics, maybe ?

[@opticmidnight2629]

The vikings found USA 500 years before columbus but they didn't stay for too long.

[@GoroScornshard]

I've a suggestion (for the patreons I guess) history of the world backwards. It's on yt

[@InquisitiveBaldMan]

@24:36 Britain just found oil in the middle east... this is kind of a misleading statement. It seems like it's when oil was discovered but oil had been around for ages... China as with many discoveries mined and used oil first. (Bucket chicken is my fave. Ma Yu Chings Bucket Chicken house started in 1153)

[@davidfuters7152]

Not sure why he didn’t mention the biggest empire in history , especially as it carved up the planet making new countries as it went . Not always good but not always bad

[@chwilhogyn]

In my lifetime the historical moments I've observed and how much the world and society changed since 1980s or has it?

[@YouHaventSeenMeRight]

The last great shake-up of Europe was after the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990. So there are countries in Europe and Asia that have only existed for about 30 years. Of course, there have been minor changes since then (for instance the conquering of the Crimean peninsula by Russia, which was part of the Ukraine before).

[@claveworks]

Random, chaotic and hilarious - a pretty good description of life in general! This is such a good video it should be school curriculum stuff - like "Intro to History 101" or something....

[@BASSOSOVIETICO1987]

Communism was actually "founded" in Germany about year 1848 and the first country, in some extenct, that wanted to try to adopt it was actually France during the Paris Commune but it was crashed by the french government in blood. The russian attempt was the first succesful one.

[@cassu6]

I mean tbh the modern european map really just became what it is today in the 1990s

[@philippahusain7778]

Aww, Scarlett zonked out on the bed. 💖

[@robet007]

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[@Mercure250]

Well, we often conflate communism and socialism, and in recent years, we've also conflated socialism and social-democracy, so that's a big mess to dive into, but to answer your question, we kinda have to. Socialism is the idea that the means of production should not be owned by a single owner, but should be owned by the workers, as opposed to capitalism. Basically, for instance, instead of having a boss own a factory, like it is the case in capitalism, you would have the workers working in it own the factory. How to achieve that is up to debate, however, and so, there are MANY socialist ideologies out there, including communism. Communism is the idea that we can have a classless and stateless society. A communist society is a society where you don't have rich people with a lot of power and poor people with almost none, nor a bureaucracy where there are powerful bureaucrats, nor, of course, a monarchy; nothing like that. Everyone would own everything collectively and would have the same powers, and everything would be decentralized, without a state. We never managed to create such a society. Of course, by definition, a communist society would also necessarily be socialist (but, as you can guess, the inverse is not necessarily true). There are competing ideas within communism as to how we can achieve a communist society. Marx believed we needed a transitionary socialist society with what he called a dictatorship of the proletariat (the proletariat being the ones who don't own the means of production, as opposed to the bourgeoisie). Lenin basically followed Marx's ideas, but added a few of his own, so Lenin's idea of socialism isn't exactly the same as Marx's idea of socialism, but they are in both cases supposed to be a transitionary thing in order to one day achieve a communist society. So when bill wurtz says "Communism in the Soviet Union", it's actually supposed to be "Socialism in the Soviet Union". It's just that we call it "communism" because the leaders of the Soviet Union hoped to be able to create a communist society one day, as opposed to other socialist ideologies that might not have that as a goal. This is probably where the two words got confused in the West, especially in the US. There was however another attempt at achieving communism, through different means, and it was the Paris Commune in 1871, but it was short-lived. Lenin's attempt was the first successful attempt at creating a socialist society, but it's also a very controversial one even within the ranks of communists and socialists, for many reasons. But since it was the first successful attempt, many communists ended up modeling their ideas of how to run a socialist society after what happened in the Soviet Union. So this controversial way of doing socialism ended up dominating in other socialist countries as well throughout the 20th century. As for social-democracy, it is not a kind of socialism, but an ideology which works within capitalism. It incorporates socialist ideas into a capitalist society; things like social security, universal healthcare, free education, nationalizing certain areas of the economy, and so on. This is what people like Bernie Sanders actually support, and this is what Northern European countries do; it's NOT socialism, despite them saying it is. Indeed, with social-democracy, the means of production are generally still owned by a few individuals, rather than by the workers, so by definition, it cannot be socialism. It should also not be confused with democratic socialism, which is socialism, but achieved through the current parliamentary democratic system, rather than through, for example, revolutionary means (like Lenin did).

[@shuvamchakraborty1255]

You can react to Ashoka and rise of Mauryan empire

[@RelaxingMusic-oq9oi]

World War 2 oversimplified is amazing .Can you react to it?

[@LynxLord1991]

The Norse discovered America around the 900th so Columbus more like he rediscovered it

[@Ozzpot]

Bill Wurtz, the creator of these videos, puts a lot of time and effort into his videos, and he's taught a lot of people a lot of things. Kudos to him, truly. But... purely subjectively... please don't take offence anyone... as someone the wrong side of 40, the spasmodic, irreverent, meme-heavy presentation makes me want to tear my face off. It's like a video make by a Gen Y on cocaine, to appeal to Gen Zs with ADHD. I can't watch personally... but I hope you enjoy it and learn from it! Please remember though, it is VERY summary.

[@amerigorosso8099]

The ottomans was in constant war whit europe for religious and economic motivation, and so when they took constantinopole they stop the trade between est and west, so Europeans find a new way to arrive in est and for a mistake cristoforo Colombo an Italian navigator find America

[@daletrecartin1563]

Pick any random 15 seconds. Now we can talk about it or a day or so. There's a lot in this video.

[@Skiltra]

Communism wasn't started in Russia You could argue it started from the French revolution but it definitely became a political ideology in the 19th century, the idea behind communism can be linked to the bible despite being known for an athiest ideology. USSR was socialist though

[@michael_177]

I hope you didn't actually get the impression that all those African countries were just 'born overnight'... Many of them are ancient

[@adypendlebury3975]

Columbus discovered Columbia so why do US have Columbus day when it's named after Americo who discovered it?

[@argantyr5154]

The one thing that is true for all empires though History, and is they will fall at some point. In other words nothing last forever. If you look at Africa, and you will see that a lot Borders, seems like they have been drawn by with a Ruler, which they pretty much were and not respecting things like cultures.