The Enlightenment: Crash Course European History #18

[@sir_elephant814]

0:00 Answers vary 0:47 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal 2:51 Luxuries included coffee tea chocolate tobacco 3:41 Travellers to Asia were impressed with how much less quarrelsome they were 4:29 Montesquieu wrote Persian letters 5:06 Voltaire wrote Candide 6:18 Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote Emile 7:18 Women hosted the enlightenment salon to share ideas or to meet a philosopher called a philosophe 8:56 Denis Diderot edited the encyclopedia 9:34 David Hume promoted reason above religion, Deists argued God existed but didn't influence everyday life 11:23 Enlightenment views led to abolition of slavery 11:42 Olaudah Equiano, a freed slave, described the middle passage after being enslaved 13:00 An Inquiry into... was written by Adam Smith 13:21 Rousseau' wrote The Social Contract. He discussed the General Will 14:04 Immanuel Kant argued everyone should think for themselves 14:51 Moses Mendelssohn believed enlightenment would lead to the end of Jewish persecution 16:22 Enlightenment leads to individualism (answers vary) Tldr: Europeans decided life sucks and women spilled some tea

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Thanks man

[@mstretanski1]

" A letter to Crash Course" Dear John Green, Thank you for developing Crash Course into a great educational tool. It has been inspiring to watch you develop this platform into a resource that is relatable. I use it often as a supplement to my Eighth grade U.S. History course. Based on the changing styles of production from US History made years ago and the new European series, you have grown and matured. My students love them and many honest and (relatively) mature conversations are sparked. The unassuming production and script allows them to understand the content without being overwhelmed by the sometimes complex topics. Thank you for Crash Course. Sincerely, Matt Stretanski

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[@nothingtoospiffy7913]

I really miss young John Green asking questions...😢😢

[@jbwilk511]

@ger du that was my thought

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@ger du lol weaker, it's almost time to make our move guys just a bit longer...

[@amith9042]

Yes, he is turning gray, his voice is weaker, and he isn't asking more questions.

[@subutaynoyan5372]

That's in the past, now. See what i did there?

[@ThEuNkNoWn9999999]

@ger du He was in his 30s?

[@SamBellows]

"Speaking of Terrible, lets talk about slavery." that was a heck of a transition and i feel like it deserves a high five.

[@aliciakoepke560]

"Men should take off their makeup, wigs, and high heels" oh how the tables have turned

[@thephantomgamer8243]

I don’t think so, did you see James Charles?

[@tobiasmouer7581]

oh how the turns have tabled

[@nightowl4536]

@@tobiasmouer7581 have you seen modern "quirky and not like other girls" women? Oh how the stables have filled... Get it? Because every quirky girl is a horse girl? Haha...

[@shrekphoria134]

@@nightowl4536 hahahaahHaHAHAhahAAHahhaHAHAHAHHHAAHHAahhahahahaHAHAAHHAhahaHAH

[@100AngelBoy]

Reverse, eh?

[@TenorMan96]

Lol I remember how energetic he used to be. Now he’s just calm

[@elizabethhoffman8126]

The entire video I couldn't stop thinking about how tired he looks, instead of being excited he almost seems bored.

[@AithaChannel]

He is been Enlightened.

[@moose_squirrel_colombo5786]

Wow i was going to say the same thing i used to love watching his videos because it didn’t feel like homework, it was fun and interesting but now...

[@Silvermoonmaker]

I just put it at 1.25x speed it makes it better

[@edluisrivera3317]

Probably got married, marriage sucks your energy slowly and enthusiasm dies

[@theadamatwar]

The Chinese: *Politely waits to let each other pass* Europeans: Dude you gotta see this

[@takod323]

@P. Taylor for real tho

[@tunnar79]

@theadamatwar How the tables have turned since then....

[@RoScFan]

@P. Taylor Good point . i doubt it really happened that way.

[@vonclaren1]

Calas was taken through the streets to the city’s main square, then led up to a scaffold and tied to an X-shaped cross. Whereupon an executioner, iron rod in hand, crushed Calas’s bones, two blows apiece to the upper and lower arms, two to the upper and lower legs, three to the midsection. Calas, his body broken, was then tied to a wheel, face to the sky, where, for two hours, he refused to convert and refused to confess. “I die innocent,” he said.

[@justanotherguyful]

@P. Taylor Nah I think Crash Course presents a lot of pertinent information in an unbiased and concise manner. I'm very glad to think that they are a mostly politically unbiased channel.

[@leedent6796]

How to Colonize the new world in one simple step 3:56 climb on top of each other to assert your dominance (and small pox)

[@BIoknight000]

are they asserting the small pox?

[@samrevlej9331]

11:10 "Don't get me wrong: things are bad. But they used to be *so much* worse." THANK YOU. I've had enough of either ultraconservative people or nihilists, often ecologist nuts, grumbling about the world being rotten and doomed and wanting to go back to "better times". Those times were not better. The world of today might be deeply flawed, but it's far from completely doomed. And as a fan of history, although I enjoy studying the past, I wouldn't want to live in it. Understanding the past also means not being stuck in it, or rather in some idealized vision of a past that never existed.

[@apalsnerg]

Ok simp

[@connormcdonnell3061]

Much agreed , another thing people need to take into account is that when a lot of people look up history , its usually from the perspective of the privelleged few as opposed to the majority .

[@samrevlej9331]

@@connormcdonnell3061 Exactly. 18th century? Yeah, sounds great if you're a noble in Western Europe, Russia, India or China, but if you're a low-class commoner like 90% of the population, then good luck surviving the plague, measles or smallpox, or avoiding starvation, or any of the other appealing deaths offered by a life in extreme poverty. The Enlightenment? Yeah, good luck hoping for liberal reform and tolerance when you can't read. So no thank you.

[@alexisoftroy926]

I feel like these comments are skipping over the fact that apparently europeans would argue in the street for hours about who could pass? Like what was everyone just really petty?

[@Udontkno7]

They had the time to do it, so they did

[@d.m.collins1501]

What do mean "petty," you stinkin' pus bag! I'm going to stay RIGHT HERE until you wipe that smug smile off your face!

[@christinete4553]

@@d.m.collins1501 yea because it's totally worth it to argue with someone about who walks past each other hahaahaah

[@amith9042]

Only OG fans remember the Mystery Document and where he gets shocked by a pen.

[@kyndramb7050]

Classic!

[@SK-uj1hz]

only REAL OG fans remember the open letter...

[@amysnapp823]

And when he sat on a whoopie cushion and went "Stannn!!"

[@chrismain7472]

I really appreciate the calm tone of this series. Crash Course is as educational as ever, but now easier to watch and follow. Thanks for great educational content!

[@unon735]

11:11 "Don't get me wrong--things are bad, but remember: they used to be so much worse" 15:07 "Much exploitation and oppression has taken place under the guise of reasoned thought" 15:43 "Enlightenment challenges to the idea that we were already living in the best of all possible worlds would also help us to imagine, and eventually live in, better worlds -- albeit ones that are still profoundly imperfect" John being John, showering us with invaluable little nuggets of worldly wisdom and observations in the middle of teaching History, love Crash Course sooo very much, the entire team that is responsible for bringing it to us, THANKYOU SO MUCH.

[@juliaann4200]

does anyone else have to take notes on these vids? that’s my homework lmao

[@GrassesOn97]

Britain when they discovered tea: every day I grow stronger...

[@stevencooper4422]

Amazing what a little caffeine will do to a nation!

[@GeoffreyBronson]

@@stevencooper4422 and what one nation's insatiable taste for it can do to the world

[@vonclaren1]

Calas was taken through the streets to the city’s main square, then led up to a scaffold and tied to an X-shaped cross. Whereupon an executioner, iron rod in hand, crushed Calas’s bones, two blows apiece to the upper and lower arms, two to the upper and lower legs, three to the midsection. Calas, his body broken, was then tied to a wheel, face to the sky, where, for two hours, he refused to convert and refused to confess. “I die innocent,” he said.

[@spectraphantom9374]

Bankai Media they didn’t discover tea tho💀

[@vonclaren1]

@@spectraphantom9374 yes they did. Not saying they were the first, but, they did indeed discover tea Eventually

[@numismatist93]

@John Green - Teaching AP Euro this year and want to shout out this series for helping me organize my thoughts before each lecture and consider things I may have missed (My kids loved Christine de Pizan and I had never heard about her before your Northern Renaissance video). Also as a trained historian I want to say this series is really top notch from a methodological standpoint, doing a really good job incorporating a range of perspectives and notably never forgetting to discuss the lives and history of women in videos. A+

[@KW-vy1rf]

I know this is an old comment but if you haven't yet, you should check out the podcast episode about Christine de Pizan by Stuff You Missed in History Class. It's how I first discovered her and was delighted to see her included in this series as well.

[@numismatist93]

@@KW-vy1rf Thanks! I'll check it out!

[@KW-vy1rf]

@@numismatist93 you're welcome. They do a great job covering women's lives and issues as well as other groups of people largely left out of history lessons.

[@joshbobst1629]

Fun fact about Smith: his only use of "the invisible hand" in Wealth of Nations was when he said that the owners of industry would be prevented from offshoring their labor costs, as if by an invisible hand, by their concern for the welfare of their own nations. It was Ricardo who called markets' price setting mechanism the invisible hand.

[@lostbutfreesoul]

I highly agree with shining a light on Tradition. This is not because I have something against the old ways of doing something, it is because I accept that humanity has a poor memory. We easily forget why we begun doing something the way we do, and in doing so we might fail to realize when the action is no longer required. Some of these actions can harm us, individuals and race as a whole, so we should never blindly repeat these actions simply because it is how our fore-fathers did it.

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Nothing like some history on a Tuesday morning. 😎

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It's Monday evening 6:15 pm here. Where do you live? I'm in Texas

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NothingToo Spiffy I’m in Texas too. It’s 6:20pm

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@@rozempire2843 peeps just dont get martian joked

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Time traveler.....that pretty sweet

[@sketch1910]

8:55 am in school _------_

[@DJH1312]

I don't know if someone already mentioned it but Emmanuel Kant is wrong. It is Immanuel Kant.

[@vonclaren1]

Calas was taken through the streets to the city’s main square, then led up to a scaffold and tied to an X-shaped cross. Whereupon an executioner, iron rod in hand, crushed Calas’s bones, two blows apiece to the upper and lower arms, two to the upper and lower legs, three to the midsection. Calas, his body broken, was then tied to a wheel, face to the sky, where, for two hours, he refused to convert and refused to confess. “I die innocent,” he said.

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I’m enjoying the his critical thinking process in explaining the importance the overall events and how things that can’t be helped, weather and other natural phenomena, shaped decisions and events.

[@johndunkelburg5143]

It’s a joke that Voltaire was a man who valued honesty as he made his fortune by rigging a French national lottery in his favor. His writings are very interesting, but the man himself was a rake and a rogue. He was very much a man of his time.

[@jazminserrano3486]

Yeah, also investing in slavery

[@nuhaomar9542]

But the lottery thing is genius 🤣🤣

[@boris2342]

History _ the science of how bad things used to be

[@IkeOkerekeNews]

You mean the story of how the world came to be.

[@amellirizarry9503]

Or the science of how all good things came to be

[@TheTariqibnziyad]

They were bad for our perspective, but for them, they were just as disatisfied as us if not less, unless there is a famine or a plague.

[@siratshi455]

Think 1890s were that bad. Nah, our world isn't that good at all

[@vonclaren1]

Calas was taken through the streets to the city’s main square, then led up to a scaffold and tied to an X-shaped cross. Whereupon an executioner, iron rod in hand, crushed Calas’s bones, two blows apiece to the upper and lower arms, two to the upper and lower legs, three to the midsection. Calas, his body broken, was then tied to a wheel, face to the sky, where, for two hours, he refused to convert and refused to confess. “I die innocent,” he said.

[@ymirishere7108]

8:56 "Facts don't care about your feelings"

[@koksallce6750]

Hello there. Enjoyed this format much better. No loud bacground music, no antics either. Keep it up please!

[@grumpyturtle9682]

This is my favourite historical period.

[@phantomstrider]

Yes! Been looking forward to you covering this. One of my favourite times in history.

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Anyone else find this stuff super fascinating?

[@raquelnunes9793]

well yeah. history is fascinating

[@Robert399]

... no, that's why it has 0 views...

[@HotRatsAndTheStooges]

no, no one else

[@sincerelylavender6147]

Yes. Many sarcastic comments here but this channel is a great starting point for learning history.

[@JM-qv7fe]

You enlightened us, John.

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Jan nice pun

[@Ny0s]

"Thinks used to be so much worse". So much people need to hear that.

[@Ny0s]

@@Modest-op2vv And that astonishes even himself! ^^ Sorry for the tipo, I'll leave it here though. For posterity.

[@Tokechan]

Facts and Logic and Diderot don't care about your feelings.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

Diderot was not that good at facts and logic actually.

[@Tokechan]

@@EuropeanQoheleth People who try to opt out of empathy with the excuse of "being objective" rarely are. :p

[@Baamthe25th]

Diderot did a pretty good job for his time, what are you talking about ?

[@Tokechan]

My bit was just based on what the portrait blurb said in the video (and its similarity to Ben Shapiro's catchphrase), not sure what Complaining Qoheleth is referring to.

[@TheMogul23]

@@Tokechan I always find it pretty hilarious that "facts don't care about your feelings" is Shapiro's catchphrase considering how weirdly emotional he gets every time someone uses logical arguments to point out why his opinions aren't actually "facts."

[@arunlewis4416]

Oh my god. John has grown old and it’s shocked me! Don’t grow up! We need that strong voice!

[@abbzg]

WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WAS STRUGGLING IN GRADE 11????

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Waiting for me to get into the 11th grade

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"Crash Course Colonial History", please do this🙏🏾... it would fit so well with all the other things:(

[@jaojao1768]

That's quite vague, colonialism existed all over the world

[@JoaoPessoa86]

If I could go back in time I'd never go further back than the invention of splinter free toilet paper

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water.......waterr..try water

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Fulano de Tal I’d never go further back than the invention of AC

[@zelenisok]

You are mistaking Rousseau with Hobbes, Hobbes is the one whose thought can be characterized by obedience to the state. Rousseau says in the Social Contract that every state is bad except one where the legislature would be directly democratic (and where the executive is chosen by election instead of inheritance, and judiciary is chosen by lot). Kant wasn't at the opposite end of Rousseau, in fact, he held Rousseau's teaching about the general will in such high esteem that he called Rousseau the "Newton of the moral universe". Both talked about how individual rights must be universal /general.

[@varana]

But Rousseau's assumptions about the volonté générale lead to similar ideas - the "general will" is objectively the best way for a public body, and the virtuous single individual submits their own interests to the general good of the community. The actual problem of this comes not with Rousseau himself but when later on, some groups in society (like the Jacobins) claim that their way is this objectively best way, and demand obedience to that proclaimed "general will".

[@zelenisok]

But Rousseau explained what he meant. He says simply (in the Discourse on Political Economy) that a society ruled by general will is a society which works for good of all people in it, where there is rule of law, where that law applies equally to all, and establishes the rights to life, liberty, and property for all members of society.

[@peka2478]

"dare to know" is a misleading translation, actually going against his philosophy; "dare to use your own reason(ing) without being led by others" (his own words) comes much closer to his ideas.

[@adrianpetrovai6297]

You helped me to pass my exams at faculty of history, thanks

[@samuelcalto]

Potential correction: At 11:40, John Green states 1788 as the year of Olaudah Equiano’s comments, while the screen states 1778. Equiano’s memoir was first published in 1779.

[@ainsley5563]

these videos help so much especially since i’m taking AP European History!

[@Freepalestine2882]

Just because of this guy i love history now 😺💀🥳💗

[@HSReinhardt]

The little tea and tobacco guys at 2:45 are so cute?! 😫

[@lad9732]

As a philosophy enthusiast I am very happy to see more than Voltaire and Rousseau being covered. Especially happy about Hume and Kant who have had as much if not more of an effect in History than the other two (yes I know about the revolution and yes I know Voltaire slept w the King of Prussia and yes I know it's not a competition, but trust me when I say Hume and Kant planted the seeds for the 19th Century).

[@frednyberg7408]

Good summary of the Enlightenment, tough to capture in 16 minutes. Freedom of thought, speech, choices also advanced the industrial revolution.

[@GregChacon]

I'm so glad he has slowed down the speed of his voice! Man, it used to be hard to retain all that he would talk about when he'd go so fast you could barely keep up. Definitely didn't help when you had an assignment due for school.

[@michaelaburns734]

The age of enlightened ideas and the start of the fall of monarchies France and United States and Britain remains Constitutional Monarchy. Memories of my freshman year in high school.

[@rateeightx]

Wait What? Did You Just​ Say The U.S. Is A Constitutional Monarchy?

[@michaelaburns734]

@@rateeightx no ideas of US liberty were influenced by these ideas. After the French and Indian War and the 13 Colonies were taxed and led to the American War of Independence. Before that they had the Articles of Confederation and was abandoned in 1783 for the U.S Constitution. Influenced by the enlightenment thinking.

[@rateeightx]

@@michaelaburns734 Ah, Okay. The Way You Phrase Your Comment Is A Bit Confusing, I Think Mainly Due To Lack Of Commas.

[@michaelaburns734]

@@rateeightx it what came after the age of new ideas for enlightened thinking such as freeing people who were under British Imperialism short answer.

[@rateeightx]

@@michaelaburns734 That Still Sounds A Little Off, Is English A Second Language For You?

[@hughdidit]

Your courses are awesome! You are doing the internet a GREAT service!

[@thetitansofbrahma6702]

I’m really enjoying this series.

[@lukemitchell5470]

As a historian, one of the questions I get asked all the time is "if you could go anywhere at any point in history, where would you go to?" I'm always like "...2024?"

[@elizabethstart7466]

Can we go through another Enlightenment? We need one. Desperately.

[@peculiarlittleman5303]

So sorry. You were born into the Endarkenment.

[@subutaynoyan5372]

Well, Kant would have some other ideas about the enlightenment, if he saw that song ''Gucci gang gucci gang gucci gang gucci gang.......''

[@gre3nishsinx0Rgold4]

I got lost staring into John green's majestic eyes. Now I have to rewatch it again just to get what the episode was about.

[@r.s7733]

tmi

[@TheEDBShow]

All of Moses Mendelssohn’s children ended up converting to Christianity because of his “enlightened” philosophy.

[@thevirtualjonathan1284]

That's just like kids becoming conservative because of their hippy parents. Just rebellion, not reasoned choice.

[@masterpeace7630]

Voltaire's smouldering selfies hahaha I'm dying!

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

11:11 - September 2019 'Don't get me wrong, things are bad...' Oh you innocent little boy, you have no idea.

[@ibrahimatakankubilay9462]

I loved how meritocracy is explained by the juggler :) Great one.

[@junaidkharal8655]

Bring back the energy, John Green

[@jgacfhhahjjshggqhhqikwhh3919]

i hope The Enlightenment: would come soon to india. we realy need it.

[@BRP]

Screen shots of notes is LIFE

[@joarulvnes6421]

Test in history tomorrow, watching in 2x speed. So much more effective.

[@soup7913]

Joar Ulvnes Same!

[@XzoahX]

"18th century torture was the worst" I find it funny that, despite being hyperbole, this is literally true.

[@xSTTS]

I love getting high and watching these videos ahhh self care and so forth

[@smurphy7756]

I have a midterm this week and this is really coming in clutch love ya man

[@SplitSundae]

Biggest lesson i got was to not travel back in time to before 2003. A lot of the main content of the vid flew over my head. Imma watch it again

[@forschooluseonly7697]

This is what I’m learning right now.

[@awesomename2544]

Born too late to chill in a banyan at the salon with the boys discussing natural philosophy and the rights of man

[@jeanpaulsinatra]

Early capitalists: "maybe if we improve productivity in agriculture, thousands of people don't have to be one famine away from death" Late capitalists: "Or alternatively, they could be?"

[@chrismain7472]

Desperate workers work harder for less pay. Bonus points if you can convince them that anyone who complains about it is lazy, stupid, or unpatriotic.

[@aspiringretard]

no

[@apalsnerg]

@@aspiringretard Capitalism is predatory in its nature. Those who push it to its extreme in search of greatest profit do so at the expense of their employees and partners.

[@aspiringretard]

@@apalsnerg Capitalism benefits everyone. The poor, the middle class and the rich. What is the alternative? Socialism? Everywhere its been tried there was has been oppression, fear and suffering. And at the expense of who? People in government. Examples USSR DPRK China Cuba

[@apalsnerg]

@@aspiringretard I love capitalism and fully believe that capitalism à la Nordic Model is the apex economical system. That doesn't mean I can't see the flaws of capitalism; it isn't perfect.

[@ryfernandez]

Fantastic work as always, John. I like how you discussed how coffee and chocolate made an impact. Have you read the book "A History of The World in 6 Glasses"?

[@Jaydoggy531]

"Speaking of terrible, let's talk about slavery." - That is up there with 2001's segway from the bone to the satellite. Smoother than a silver mirror.

[@cheyennenewman7805]

This popped up just in time. I’m learning about the Enlightenment in America and Europe!

[@victorangeles655]

This was like a week late BUT IM STILL HAPPY

[@jrapcdaikari]

The German Philosopher, Immauel Kant... *cries in East Prussian, humming the Konigsgrater hymn solemnly, waiting for Konigsberg to return to the Fatherland

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

Wayland-Yutani -- Building Better Worlds

[@seagreen42]

John: The Enlightenment - The Age of Light My Brain: huh, light is the opposite of dark Me: The Enlightenment is the opposite of the Dark Ages. IT TOOK WAY TO MANY YEARS OF MY LIFE FOR THAT TO CLICK!

[@jasonmain6398]

There is no dark ages......

[@ValentinaGiraldo0918]

This is coming out at the perfect time as i’m taking AP World History and currently learning and reading about the enlightenment

[@thesexydevil780]

I love the enlightenment. My writing is heavily influence by that time period.

[@grumpyturtle9682]

Same here, high five! *Slap!*

[@thesexydevil780]

Slap!

[@calinculianu]

Man the quality of these videos is through the roof. From the humorous illustrations to the script writing. Jesus. Keep up the good work. I'm enjoying them tremendously.

[@leggonarm9835]

Given how young a species we are I think we're doing well.

[@zs9652]

Maybe. We would have to compare ourselves to another species to determine that and we may never get the chance to.

[@toserveman9317]

"Young species" is gibberish in the context you're using it.

[@leggonarm9835]

@Cassius Brown Bruh

[@rsr789]

"Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable" ~Monty Python

[@penelopedalton7500]

These videos save my life! Thank you!

[@ryanweaver962]

Fascinating needs of understanding helps elevate

[@Torus2112]

People like to focus on all the bad things Western culture has produced, but Western ideas are also the reason we think many of those things are bad in the first place.

[@Madhattersinjeans]

You have to bear in mind many of these renaissance people were upper class as well, they did not live the same lives as the ordinary folk. It took a while for their ideas to filter down to the masses. (the printing press despite it's great ability to spread ideas, still required the ability to read that information. Something the lower classes would be lacking in.) And it would be a mistake to mix all renaissance thinking as some homogenous entity, there was no "western culture" back then. It was still very much a divided series of countries working toward their own ends. only the wealthy people had connections in other countries. But as Trade and merchants spread around the globe these ideas would eventually get around to the lower classes too. And culminate in a series of protests and rebellions among the lower classes in different countries for various reasons. It took a long time for ideas to spread around back then.

[@varana]

@@Madhattersinjeans A long time by today's standards, sure. Everything moved slower. But that paints a too one-sided picture, I think. Yes, the Enlightenment (and the Renaissance, which is something different) was very much a product of the elites. But these elites were in constant and close contact with one another. They travelled, they wrote massive amounts of letters (Voltaire alone over 20.000), they wrote books and talked about them. Voltaire, Montesquieu, or Rousseau visited Germany, Italy, England, and their works were published in the Netherlands; Rousseau's father lived in Constantinople for a while, Voltaire's private library was bought by Catherine of Russia. With Latin and French, the scientists and philosophers shared international languages and could easily communicate. The world of the Enlightenment elite was very much interconnected throughout Europe. It took a while for many ideas to trickle down to the common people, but there's a reason why the Enlightenment immediately predates the French Revolution.

[@Jaydoggy531]

One thing to keep in mind too is the vast majority simply didn't know what was going on with the world at large. Your average person didn't read. Most worked six-seven days a week with church being the only break, and the rest of the day was devoted making sure you had enough food for the next few days while trying to preserve/pickle others to get you through the winter. If you spend 12 hours a day just trying to survive and someone said to you "There was an earthquake in Istanbul and it's making me question whether it was an act of God or it was a natural occurrence and making me ponder whether there's more we need to discover about ourselves in the universe!," the response is likely "Hey, you going to help out here or what or you can just leave."

[@nesa1126]

Yea, that is what I find hilarious with this episode. It is episode about movement and progress that changed whole world for the better (made it more rich, free, humane (eventually, not over nigth) and reasonable) and they shitted all over that culture while presenting everybody as people living in John Lenons Imagine utopias. It is true artifact of current Western culture and: europeans bad (from white people evil part of thinking). I mean, it is just funny to watch from a side.

[@varana]

@@nesa1126 I'm pretty sure you commented under the wrong video. Because what you wrote has not much to do with it.

[@rparl]

The Wonderful One-hoss (horse) Shay (chaise) is a humorous poem about a sturdy vehicle completed on Lisbon Day, which lasts for a hundred years "to the day."

[@luxeproultimate360]

9:01 Denis "the original ben shapiro" Diderot

[@spiritusmundi70]

Not all individuals can think for themselves, not yet.

[@dogcarman]

"You are all individuals." "I'm not!"

[@Aper-re1xh]

Thank you for what you do John

[@vidpece2361]

Best episode yet!

[@ericpadan422]

John, don't be so shy! Encyclopedie is the first French word that you actually pronounced well.

[@Alightbourne]

I recognize Franklin and Jefferson, but who's the rocking founding father?

[@doubleirishdutchsandwich4740]

James Madison or John Adams. Tough to tell because they had similar hair.

[@Rdasboss]

yes i've always thought if you go back in time, you wont know the language even if you're a specialist you'll sound weird and people are suspicious, so the best thing to do is to play mute and a little dumb, and then over time feel yourself out. Maybe try to introduce a simple piece of technology, If you do get captured, try to play your knowledge of advanced technology to hopefully be useful enough to make weapons for someone in power. with your technology you earn the trust of the ruler and maybe you play the game of thrones.

[@michaelciarla3836]

I love crash course!!

[@shawnguy3317]

Pineapple at the table in 3:20. The beginning of the anthropicine.

[@AshwinMaloo79]

Dhanyavad 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@policeman6592]

I REALLY ENJOYED IT U GUYS ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST

[@jessicalv6442]

I can hardly believe that John Green can talk so friendly slower than ever before. (I even thought I switched the speed to 0.75)😂

[@itsmeharperjacksons6633]

I found it ironic how we talk about this yesterday and we should do a research on it and this video pops up.

[@astro.mp3]

I’m four weeks into the French Revolution in my European History class, so this is well timed!

[@sach7762]

my favorite historical "event"

[@roselandron1591]

Can I get a coffee plush? Joyful wiggly noodle arms included?

[@nurbekvlog2399]

Dude, During this online learning crash course, helps me so much. THANKS, JON!!!