What's in a History Textbook from 1855?

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[@airsoftslav2055]

MMM FOOD

[@apeman9238]

Hello Milo! 👋

[@colebrockman9579]

Helmo

[@VAXHeadroom]

You picked the mug up at the end and I thought to myself "That mug is gonna be hot" ... sure enough :) Merry Christmas, thanks for the info and smiles.

[@jomoma8576]

Were you at the foals concert at the roadrunner last week

[@GibusWearingMann]

The book has aged like wine in the sense that it has long since stopped functioning as remotely acceptable grape juice and has become something else entirely remarkable.

[@legendswarble2845]

Ah yes, the foul taste of vinegar

[@polarknight5376]

It aged like wine. To be specific, prison toilet wine made from Gatorade and orange juice and has bred more Clostridium botulinum than yeast.

[@samuelplyler1511]

More like it aged like Arsenic-tainted wine.

[@jon2679]

Yes, at first it seemed like a sweet, and ripe fruit; now it seems like something alcoholic, like a racist uncle who only shows up on Christmas, or the occasional football game.

[@highdefinition450]

Wine was never grape juice tho, it becomes wine when it becomes wine, it's not wine before lol

[@Moeller750]

My grandfather was a gynecologist and used to collect old pamphlets about women's anatomy for fun. Believe me, some of the stuff in there will blow your mind

[@APotatoMan]

lol im guessing some stuff was wildy innacurate

[@MightyCaesar37]

@@APotatoMan some is generous

[@blar2112]

dont you hate when you get histeria and your uterus just goes for a walk all over your body? 🤣

[@mayochupenjoyer]

dude even TODAY there’s tons of misinformation floating around about female anatomy. imagine what it read like back then

[@Mauzzewulf]

Any women in here; listen to me. DO NOT go on a train! Your uterus will fall out. Thank me later

[@vintageshed965]

I own a 1915 book on "Naval warfare" printed in then Astro-Hungaria. It goes trough the complete history of naval warfare, from ancient Rome, trough the Age of sail, to Dreadnoughts. One thing that caught me off guard, was the end, where the author made predictions about the future of naval engagements. He to the letter described the Wolfpack tactics, used 25 years later by Kriegsmarine in WW2.

[@anon9469]

Sometimes people just guess well.

[@RipperMaggoo]

@@anon9469 That's not a guess it's an educated theory.

[@gabbel4103]

Hey I'd like to read that, sounds might interesting, what's the book called if I may ask?

[@candidob8683]

@@anon9469 That's not guessing. That's using the the past to educate the present. Using critical thinking to extrapolate future outcomes from history. That's what educated people tend to do.

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

I am guessing that the folks in WW2 probably read this book. Mystery solved!

[@MikeC-ry1dk]

I have a 1910 US History Book. In the last chapter they write about two brothers in Ohio invented an aeroplane. "it is a great curiosity, but will never develop into anything useful".

[@billciphergirl6049]

What's the book called?

[@traddpowell6863]

weren't the wright brothers from north carolina?

[@MikeC-ry1dk]

@@billciphergirl6049 US History

[@4rumani]

I bet you 10 dollars it doesn't say that.

[@ScootsMcPoot]

didnt say that. Because it was initially invented in 1903. 1903 they flew. by 1910 it was well known it would be a thing.. by 1915 we had the fokker scourge and that was used as a fighting and recon aircraft in ww1. in 1911 they manufactured and sold their model b. also for 1 the wright brothers were from north carolina, One was born in ohio the other in indiana. and youre about 7 years off.

[@Alexander59059]

“Prowling bands of savages roam throughout Maine and New Hampshire” One of the few parts of this book that is more accurate in the present than when it was written.

[@gringa978]

Heyyyy… well….. it’s actually accurate nevermind

[@christinaFaith84]

Dont forget Massivetwoshits. Those Mass holes actually think of it like a badge of honor.

[@brookejon3695]

It was accurate back then, too. It just wasn't true of the native populations, but instead it was true of the invaders.

[@totower9597]

Accurate for different reasons yet still applicable.

[@duhminant]

i hear they call them WASPs

[@darryshan]

"Eskimo" didn't only refer to the Inuit, and actually isn't a fully outdated term. Many members of groups other than the Inuit (such as the Yupik) prefer it because it prevents them being lumped in with the Inuit - like you unknowingly did here.

[@wolfofthewest8019]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why the self-righteousness of progressives is always laughable.

[@themarlboromandalorian]

This is a great fact and I wish you many up votes.

[@connor3284]

Got'eem.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

It's so confusing, we hear "oh you shouldn't use X term, it's offensive and outdated" but then other people will be like "actually X term is still perfectly valid and some people prefer it" so it's like, do we use the term and get branded as racists by some people because some other people prefer it? It sucks, I wish this whole language thing was easier. I did already know that certain people prefer to be called Eskimo rather than Inuit, but it's just like... language is so stupid. Like how it used to actually be an insult to call someone "queer" but now you're supposed to call people that?

[@miniminuteman773]

That’s very interesting I never knew that! Thank you for sharing this with me I will absolutely keep my eyes peeled for that in the future. I always kind of wondered why Inuit replaced it despite still seeming like one blanket term and this shed a lot of light on that.

[@stoneforest2639]

We found an ancient book for/about boy scouts at a boy scout camp. There was a section about the stalking merit badge. It’s kind of about tracking animals, but also there’s a section where you are required to stalk someone without their knowledge.

[@Ryan.2]

People would think that it meant tracking down escaped slaves, but if this is a book about boy scouts badges then it couldn't have been from those times since the Boy Scout Association was founded in 1910. I'm curious, did you ever learn of the purpose of that requirement?

[@pedropicapiedra4532]

lol "ancient"

[@bethanyjensen7749]

​@@Ryan.2 Baden-Powell or BP, as he is known, was a famed and very successful British army scout in the Boer wars. He felt that children would benefit from bushcraft and community skills. He founded the Scouts and Guides after the war. while it came from war, the skills were actually used in many independence conflicts, such as Poland and India, as well as the Blitz. Thus the stalking is from a survival perspective. however it could definitely be used wrongly. remember, softly softly catchy monkey!

[@dylanfarnham5164]

Yup, that's... Something 😬.

[@jwalster9412]

And there are people who still believe that America hasn't completely fuked itself by being America.

[@awoodward37]

Hello from Australia. I've just found your channel. Sorry about that. (I blame KZbin.) I'm 61 years old and fall into that strange group that likes to read books with few to no pictures. Thank you for your efforts to make the world a more educated place with the odd joke added every now and then.

[@KirkWallace-lw4sl]

G'day to you, mate :P

[@thetaterthot8657]

The thought that a hurricane was a newly discovered phenomena at that time is very interesting.

[@jedveilleux1463]

Rather newly described European and colonial people had been enduring them and recognizing them as something different from ordinary storms for hundreds of years at this point (since the Spanish spent their first years in the Caribbean) Hurricanes were considered especially upsetting to them because they did not resemble anything which had been described by classical authors who were at the time of early colonization regarded as authoritative sources on the natural world It is more likely that only at this time had meteorological science been applied to these phenomena which had been less formally recognized for many years And for the native people they were of course just part of the functions and structures of the universe (even with specific gods relating to them)

[@felderup]

they apparently start as dust devils in africa and join in the ocean.

[@local_weather_dingus]

@@felderup A lot of storms do start off as waves off of Africa, but many form from things like cold fronts and low pressure systems. I love sharing info about Tropical Cyclones so forgive me if this is useless to you.

[@local_weather_dingus]

@@jedveilleux1463 Even to this day Hurricanes/Tropical Cyclones rarely impact Europe and when they do they've lost all tropical characteristics and are typically extratropical windstorms. Things like this are so interesting to me because of things like local folklore and early depictions of tropical cyclones. Just 75 years prior to the publishing of this book the Atlantic saw her deadliest Hurricane slam into the Lesser Antillies with recorded 200 mph gusts of wind, you have to think about how that impacted the ideas about weather in the Americas. This stuff is so crazy looking back on. Sorry for the novel, I'm planning on studying meteorology when I go to college next August so my brain is essentially fueled by discussions like this.

[@felderup]

@@local_weather_dingus i mentioned merely from the point that the storms travel in a way that they never would have experienced, they go the wrong way.

[@NovaStella_]

Member of the Rosebud Sicangu tribe here (Still living on reservation lands)! Just wanna say what a comforting video this was to see someone hold a document of history in their hands and rant for minutes about righteous anger of treatment of indigenous peoples. What a comforting video to watch on Christmas

[@Raccoooo]

Brilliant vid, brilliant subscribers. I couldn't agree more. 👏

[@biaxolotl5171]

Great to see so many cool people in this comment section! Its really sad to see that so much history was lost partly because people made books like these

[@medd-lee]

Cherokee here - I agree! Ulihelisdi danisdayohihvi!

[@elgatto3133]

It's fucking absurd the reservation system means you can't do what you want with your land

[@sedricsaunders3480]

Average Liverpool resident

[@gerwazy6869]

It reminds me of a polish encyclopedia named "New Athens or the Academy of All Sciences" published in 1748. My favorite quote is from the chapter about animals. That's the definition of a horse: _A horse_ _Everyone can see what a horse is like._ And that's the comprehensive definition. Another one: _It's a thing worth admiration in bears' anatomy that every year they grow a new kidney. So as old they are as many kidneys they have, bound together like a bunch of grapes._

[@marcobelli6856]

Like bro how dumb you have to be a horse is a horse i love ancient historians🤣🤣💀💀

[@Ami-jc2oo]

Based

[@abelchavez2463]

It didn't want to deal with the philosophical implications lol

[@OlivierDante]

Only in poland i tell you

[@jaylicious4694]

XD

[@LazyBoolin]

Maybe a little off topic but as an editing nerd I appreciate the fire making intro vary much. The step over the camera was the chefs kiss

[@SariEverna]

18:20 It's worth noting that cupidity means greed, so actually this is one place where this text fairly accurately describes things, even if it's rather abridged. "The richness of their lands provoked the greed of the whites and they were evicted." It's actually interesting to see the self awareness here, in contrast to the descriptions of basically every other conflict between Europeans and the native peoples.

[@colonelweird]

Agreed - I just left a comment making the same point, and now I see others already said the same thing. I think it would be interesting to look at how older thinkers recognized the sinful motives of white people but did so without condemning the genocide as a whole. I suspect they often viewed it as a fait accompli, completed by divine providence, despite the sins of many persons involved.

[@Wohlfe]

Taking someone else's land is one of the oldest injustices, easy to relate to and sympathize with even if you think the other people are inferior.

[@andrewdeleon559]

It's probably because the book was written in the North, and the North and South were only a few years removed from the Civil War. Probably also why the book calls Southerners uneducated and calls them out for stealing land, while they ignore when they did the same thing in King Phillip's War

[@yakobi8434]

Yeah, the North has it’s own demons with there Native population. My State, in the North, has recorded the largest mass shooting/killing of civilians (*not yet recognised*) orchestrated with guns.

[@95keat]

Also likely to do with the fact that they did appear to have assimilated, the lack of which was a justification for the removal of the native nations. Similar I suppose to how Ethiopia received sympathy from the very nations that colonized Africa.

[@tubesurfer8625]

Aussie viewer here, I actually recommended you to my archaeology professor (I’m taking it as a minor) and one of his first questions to the class was what our influence to looking into archaeology. And because he hadn’t heard of you he asked me for a link to your channel and apparently he really likes it!

[@steviefordranger198]

I'm an Aussie too, looks like Milo is very popular and I know exactly why. We love left leaning orators who cut down tall "poppies".

[@CityKanin]

I am a Nordic archaeologist and i love Milo too! :D

[@shortsismakingmybrainrot]

Another Aussie here! I'm not really into archaeology or history but I do like science and he's hot 😂😂 I is a simp... simple girl 😅

[@OmegaThirty]

@@steviefordranger198 It’s really silly to follow educational KZbinrs for their political views. That’s just wholly unscientific.

[@aurorapazviruet4289]

Spaniard here who studied History and Archaeology at University. I don't know how I got here, but yeah, he has fans all around the world XD And yeah, reading ancient History books is weirdly amazing. We had a subjet called "Historiography", meaning History of History, and it's very interesting how Historians (and also Archaeologists) are bound to their own cultural context even when they're trying to be factual. And also, when you read some stuff, you get terrified, yep...

[@davidbrown4849]

The book mentioned the 'cupidity' of the settlers dispossessing the indigenous peoples; cupidity means greed or craving for wealth or possessions - so there is a sense that the author perhaps wasn't completely on board with it. (Another Aussie here)

[@Altrantis]

The way I read it is he has a "They were kind of dicks but oh well what you gonna do."

[@manyplural4265]

or the cognitive dissonance mask slipped for ONE second

[@SavageGreywolf]

I can't speak for Australia but there was some level of resistance to the idea of native displacement in America at first. There's a famous letter exchange between George Washington and one of his cabinet during his first term discussing how they can best prevent illegal territorial transgressions of the border American land and Native land: to be clear, they were talking about how to keep _American settlers_ from grabbing Native land in defiance of the US treaties with the tribes. Unfortunately only about a generation later any remaining interest in coexisting at least relatively peacefully was stomped to bits by Andrew Jackson.

[@stoneagealienz874]

@@manyplural4265I don’t think you know what those words mean. Not trying to be mean but maybe give it a quick google. Cognitive dissonance isn’t a “mask” that doesn’t really make sense.

[@manyplural4265]

@@stoneagealienz874 just using an analogy, but admittedly a bad one, i know it doesn't work like that :)

[@SyrusKLenon]

This once again confirms your character is exactly as wonderful as it seems. Even when you’re doing bits it’s shined through. You’re an admirable man and I’m proud of you making it so far.

[@mattcintron6372]

“History should make you uncomfortable, and make you push for better things”

[@HieMan-g1n]

Imagine history making you feel uncomfortable.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

There are too many people these days who believe we should just stop teaching history from before 2001 and leave out anything that's objectionable, like slavery, war, genocide, sexism, homophobia, etc. Because they think by pretending it never happened, the next generation won't have a concept of it. Ignorance is never the answer.

[@APotatoMan]

@@HieMan-g1n The Holocaust 🤨

[@runawaygemm5397]

@@HieMan-g1nbros never heard of like the Japanese occupation of china during ww2, like the Togo unit and such?

[@davisdf3064]

​@@HieMan-g1n Vietnam War consequences: Korean War consequences: WW2 in general: WW1 in general: The French revolution: Any place that was colonized by Europeans: Old torture methods: Ancient people suffering from illness: There's hundreds more of things that the more you read about the more uncomfortable i get about the past, I'm glad i live now and not as far as 50 years ago.

[@LuckyStone888]

No matter how uncomfortable these books are, we need to keep them around to remind us of how we have progressed. Learn from the past don't hide it.

[@nothanks9503]

We have to say this 🤦🏻‍♂️ it hurts my mind that was forced to learn to read early and started with philosophy psychology and physiology

[@capadociaash8003]

This, I don’t like this growing opinion that we should bury the past as the only way to move into the future. The past is always going to be relevant

[@ultragear207]

Cant wait for people 200 years from now read what we’ve got

[@LuckyStone888]

@@ultragear207 I just hope they are more competent than us and the government actually cares for the people.

[@nothanks9503]

@@ultragear207 how will they read the ashes of your computer hard drive

[@colonelweird]

Somewhere in the video where the text says that Indian lands were stolen (18:20), the author uses the word "cupidity" to describe the motivation of the whites. I think that's especially interesting. This is an old-fashioned religious word used to describe sinful impulses, namely covetous desire. So the author recognized that the colonizers were not acting with virtuous motives. That's worth thinking about.

[@wsads420]

I think cupidity might mean greed because in italian greed is called cupidigia

[@victorstiles8946]

I mean there were people who hated colonization back then it’s not like everyone supported it

[@OMJ_the_Show]

Even at the time they knew they were not acting with virtuous intent. They did it anyway.

[@wsads420]

@@OMJ_the_Show I think they're saying "their plentiful land triggered my greed" the same way a rapist would say "her revealing clothes triggered my lust"

[@paulbedichek5177]

The colonizers were especially virtuous. Hence this remarkable nation. Our tendency to socialism and political correctness are all well and good, but do not insult the people that came before, we stand on the shoulders of giants.

[@Viking_helmet]

I'm not even a third into the video but this is just turning into nerding out about old stuff which honestly I can respect thumbs up

[@johnathancopson9328]

"This is way more depressing than I thought it be" is something I frequently said when I first started reading about US history when I was younger.

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

You think that's depressing? Try reading about the rest of the world!

[@58209]

@@Michael-Archonaeus oh my god michael it's not a fucking competition.

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

@@58209 It's a race to the bottom, that's how social justice works!

[@noahbarnhartandit2365]

@@Michael-Archonaeus Let's do some history lessons! By 1855, the UK, Portugal, Sweden-Norway, Japan, France, Korea, Austria, Russia, Spain, Prussia, Serbia, Haiti, Malta, Denmark, Oman, Mexico, Chile, Japan, Peru, Colombia, Hawaii, Venezuela, Central America, New Zealand, Greece, Bolivia, Uruguay, the Ottoman Empire, British India, Moldova, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil had ALL outlawed slavery... this is a short list, and Vermont outlawed it in 1777, so it's not a matter of moral relativism, these people were monsters in 1855 🙃

[@Epicchannelify]

@@noahbarnhartandit2365 The most lovely part is we still have a few people trying to figure out slavery is wrong today.

[@shigaraja]

"take a shot every time savages is said" - Milo no thank you i like having kidneys and a working liver

[@maggs-zo8um]

I'm going to steal them from you

[@alguem292]

​@@maggs-zo8um3 days until mario steals your liver

[@tplyt12]

😅Same here

[@alguem292]

@@maggs-zo8um "GIVE ME YOUR LIVER" -Mario

[@darkbluemoon211]

Milo would end up dead trying to watch Pocahontas

[@delsydebothom3544]

Regarding the use of the word "country" to describe Africa, our reaction to it might be an instance of being separated by a common language. When we say country, we almost always mean a political entity. In 1855, "country" usually just meant a contiguous region of land of whatever size. This is similar to how we now say crayfish aren't fish; when we say "fish", the word describes a phylogenetic relationship. If, instead, we mean "fish" to refer to any organism that primarily inhabits the water, crayfish *are* fish. This phenomenon doesn't smooth over all the differences between ancient and modern outlooks, but a failure to pay attention to it will always exaggerate that difference. To a lesser degree, the same goes for the word "peculiar", which to our ears almost invariably means "strange". In the 19th century, it was just as easily a synonym for "particular" or "unique". I know that still makes the claim inaccurate (since Africa is so ethnically diverse), but it still has a different tone in 21st century English than it does in 19th century English. Another example is "intercourse"; in the 19th century, the word meant close interaction. It is much funnier to read it in the modern sense, though.

[@XSniper74184]

"So then they met the Spanish and damn, they all started boning! Like we're talking some extensive intercourse here!"

[@Anna-1917]

I feel like intercourse is still used in this way fairly often

[@lloydmartel]

@@Anna-1917 no

[@AurorXZ]

@@Anna-1917 This reminds of how "ejaculated" as a synonym for "exclaimed" is used in the _children's classic,_ Harry Potter. It all depends on time and place.

[@nerdporkspass1m1st78]

Interesting!

[@JarNO_WAY]

"A knight, a guy with a shield, a guy with a stupid hat, a horse-drawn carriage, another guy with a stupid hat..." sounds like nothing changed in England since 1855

[@seaborgium919]

Thoroughly enjoyed this. I'd be down for more "reads antique books, and yells about awful history" videos

[@quinn6160]

Oi, give my name back

[@peterinnes6853]

For sure!

[@ashtray3860]

@@quinn6160 that’s so fracked up man, I’m sorry you got your name stolen

[@quinn6160]

@@ashtray3860 I know, its a real tragedy

[@miniminuteman773]

You be careful what you wish for because it just might happen!

[@TheTramil]

A while ago, i found an old dictionnary in a cabin i rented,one without electricity or any kind of signal. It was missing many of the front and back pages, and we wanted to know what year it was. When we found "the great war" we all stared at each other and said: oh no... a very fun evening, going back and forth in the book, with historical event in mind to find the closest year. We ended un calling it between 1935 and 39.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Imagine if you saw contradictory information, like they still call it the great war but some grammatical rules are post ww2

[@drewharrison6433]

I have a 19th century Stephen Foster song book. The lyrics are frankly shocking. It's why we rarely hear his songs anymore, even though he was the most popular song writer of his time. The most shocking part is that he was abolitionist and considered very progressive...

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@drewharrison6433 what's the name of the song?

[@drewharrison6433]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real It's a whole book of songs. I haven't looked at it in a couple of years. Just search "Stephan Foster song lyrics".

[@TheAlexSchmidt]

I think that soon after WWI ended it was already being called "The World War" which is presumably why "World War II" became the dominant name for the second one. I believe that your dictionary has "The Great War" though just because one term took over doesn't mean the other one was gone yet.

[@thescotslair]

living in an Alaskan village, I can say that "Eskimo" isn't an *outdated* term, but is used more as a generalization for the separate parts of Inupiaq and Inuit communities. Similarly, Indian is used as a generalization for Athabascan, Haidan and the other inland or southeastern communities. Aleuts (from what I remember) is considered separate from both. A great book to read that I read in high school about the relations between Eskimo (more specifically Inupiaq) and Athabascan communities On the Koyukuk. It's really an autobiography but it has several stories relating to this subject. I always love nerding out about my home state lol.

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

I was reading some Lovecraft earlier today.. and he was talking about "degenerate devil worshipping esquimoux" and it took me a while before I realised he was talking about Eskimos. Yeah his writings are racist af at points

[@AwkwardSquirtles]

@@godofchaoskhorne5043 Dude named his cat the N Word.

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

@@AwkwardSquirtles ok to be fair... A pitch black cat called el-negro? (Although having read Lovecraft I'm gonna guess homie used the N word with the hard R and all that) 10/10

[@theq4602]

book name?

[@thescotslair]

@@theq4602 oops lol. I forgot the name. Its _Shadows Over the Koyukuk_ The writers brother also made a book following a similar path. Great reads.

[@MDAyan-e1h]

1:53 smooth ahh transition

[@littlefishiesinthese]

Aussie perspective: The history of America and it's geology, flora, fauna, all that stuff, is WILDLY different to that of Australia and this, combined with the entertaining way you communicate such info, makes your channel very interesting to me.

[@sineadinglis799]

That's one reason why I find pre history so amazing. Everything is different here due to the isolation Australia has from the rest of the world, but everything is also different for the rest of the world. Its just delightfully interesting!

[@JackyBoBacky666]

Bro, legit came to say the same thing 😂 He's a really entertaining presenter and the scripts he writes (if it isn't completely off the cuff?) are fire 🔥 Plus, a lot of Aussie education focuses on world histories since our own country's history is so recent so I don't think these topics are really anything new to us.

[@hadgeron9556]

@@JackyBoBacky666 In my experience all we have been taught about is history class is the gold rush or federation for every single term of history we had. We had like 4 weeks on European history and that’s it.

[@fionaanderson5796]

And yet colonisation was much the same on both continents - treat the local people as animals who had no right to be there and how dare they fight back as their land was invaded. By the time they got to Aus the Brits had refined things to the point of legislating that the Aborigines were fauna and therefore did not have the rights of humans to defend their lands or families, to feel, to vote. That only changed in the 1950s.

[@fionaanderson5796]

@@hadgeron9556 in Victoria in the 80s we did ancient civilisations (Sumer, Egypt, Greece) in year 7, year 8 was entirely English (William the conqueror to Elizabeth I), year 9 was Australia from Captain Cook onwards, although taught badly and I don't remember much other than the attitude that it was "terra nullis" and how dare the Aborigines defend themselves, year 10 was Asian history 1/3 of the year on each of India, China, and Japan. In the last few years my kids have all done medieval history in year 8, but mixed through a more general sociology subject, so far less in depth than any of the histories I learnt.

[@dakotafrazier2985]

"you know for someone who absolutely hates British people, I gotta say tea is pretty good" "That's was a joke. Please don't take that seriously. I don't actually like tea" 😭🤣 that was out of pocket

[@theoldaccount6275]

It was funny though 🤣

[@wrong-unkim9080]

Yes it's always making a joke about hating on an ethnic group to appeal to a viewing demographic; where have we heard that before. How this guy gets any sponsorship I can't imagine.

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

@@wrong-unkim9080 I wonder if those people did anything objectionable to earn that distaste? Like maybe run a world spanning empire looting and killing millions?

[@triplesunofone]

@@antediluvianatheist5262 which, of corse the USA have never done 😂… I wonder what the indigenous people of America feel about that 🤷‍♂️

[@isk3397]

@@wrong-unkim9080 A historian from New England, born in Boston, taking potshots at the British.... is confusing to ya'll? That joke has all sorts of layers you may have missed. I hope you aren't seriously upset, it's pretty hilarious to a loyalist up here in the north.

[@LadyAtoli]

Glad I found this even if it's a year later. History is so important to gain proper perspective.

[@dylankornberg4892]

Just a super quick note for 26:05 The term 'Hottentot' is an old Dutch/Afrikaans word for the Khoi people of southern Africa, and is today generally seen as a slur. Just the more you know :)

[@hq4287]

Bump

[@ditmarvanbelle1061]

To be fair, everything is seen as a slur nowadays. Also, nen Hittentit is Urbanus ;-)

[@Flaktower-expert]

@@hq4287 New slur aquiared, thanks.

[@adamyoung6797]

@@Flaktower-expert yet another for the collection

[@simianto9957]

Hottentottententententoonstelling (f)

[@kingkong381]

25:01 Hi, Scottish person here to explain! The Clyde would be in reference to the River Clyde in the West of Scotland which passes through Glasgow before eventually flowing into the sea as rivers are wont to do. The Firth of Clyde is the coastal inlet around where the Clyde and the sea meet, "firth" being etymologically related to the word "fjord". The Antonine Wall was a smaller and lesser known Roman fortification than the larger, older and better preserved Hadrian's Wall in northern England. The Antonine Wall was a construction of stone foundations and turf that stretched from The Firth of Clyde in the west to the Firth of Forth on the opposite coast.

[@tarajoyce3598]

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[@AbisexualCarpenter]

What would the towers near Perth be?

[@lasse6984]

If you're into this kind of stuff I ogtta recommend cooking books from pre 1920's. At some point the become "housecare" books, and they are fascinating. Gives you a look into not only diet and fads, but also general cultural stuff: how should kids be raised, what should be cleaned (whats important), what men and women do, and so much more. Cooking books are really fascinating from a historians persoective

[@cerberaodollam]

Max Miller collab? Yes please.

[@jakkaljakobie8774]

My mom has this collection of cookbooks she loves called the "southern heritage cookbook", and it's got a bit of that too. It explains the why's of cooking, not just the how's, and I think it has the history of some of the dishes too.

[@KorporalNoobs]

Might want to look into Catos Farming Guide too, if you want to go back a thousand years or two.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

Omg I LOVE those books! I recently found an eggnog recipe from 1895 and I made it for my husband and he said it was the best eggnog he's ever had. He said it was so good it shouldn't even be considered eggnog it tastes so much better than store bought. He said the store version tastes like it's extremely watered down with hardly any flavor. Highly recommend making some for yourself

[@lavinleitrim44]

This style of 'cookbook' is 1000's of years old, some of the earliest texts from the Middle East, Turkey etc, were all about how to live and what to eat. They were medicinal cookbooks too, its really fascinating. I was really surprised how complex they were too, thank you for my course on Archaeology or I'd never have gotten the assignment that led me to finding out. I think it was a presentation on the use of medicinal plants in ancient history. That was a wild ride of research I tell ya, LOL, and the 2nd presentation where I went way overtime and the lecturer didn't notice cos she was so into it. Still lost the time points tho.

[@Ember_Trans_Cat]

gotta love that king philips war and salem get as much time dedicated to them as hello fresh, really just goes to show how important hello fresh is to the history of north america

[@davidfoster3427]

Everything has a price today it was learning about hello fresh. I will gladly trade off a couple of minutes of my time to gain an insight to the education system 6 yrs before the worst tragedy in US history. I would like to see similar books from after the civil war and see how much of the language and attitude has changed. Not much I suspect.

[@Ember_Trans_Cat]

@davidfoster3427 i doubt much would have changed, i can't imagine there's much overlap between union soldiers returning with a new view on race relations and academics writing textbooks, though a few books might shy away from anything *as* racist after the fact

[@midnightwolf9314]

As an Aussie, I am envious of you just grabbing wood from a pile outside without fear

[@cclockwise_ll3]

I genuinely wonder how people with ADHD don't die from forgetting to check absolutely anything they grab in the outdoors.

[@midnightwolf9314]

@colleenwilliams1689 As someone with adhd its kinda how everyone with or without functions, we are taught to check EVERYTHING outside, at least in the outer suburbs and out in the bush, too many spiders and snakes, all year round something out there wants you dead

[@kermitthehermit9588]

@@cclockwise_ll3 I had a panic attack when he didn’t pull the tarp back over the wood pile

[@dodonooblord6224]

Best thing to watch on Christmas night waiting for Santa

[@miniminuteman773]

Just make sure you are asleep before 11:00 so you don't see me come down your chimney.

[@dodonooblord6224]

@@miniminuteman773 😏

[@williamsnekspeare3090]

Oh...

[@Michael-Archonaeus]

Yes, that Santa Maria curry hits the spot just right!

[@vincentstuart9562]

I love how casual Milo is, it sounds like me explaining history and mythology to my friends

[@cerberaodollam]

Stakuyi vibes almost

[@coolpeppper]

I think this might have been one of first, if not the first, video I watched. I've been cleaning a building all day and listening to your videos, and now I'm finally settling in to watch a video rather than just listening, and it's a nice change to see visuals for this one. As I was going through my day with your videos, I found the rewatchablility of them delightful! A lot of the jokes still hit even when I know what happens, the bits of the stories I've forgotten are great to brush up on, the sound cues that signaled a chapter/topic change really helpful to prevent getting lost in the longer narratives, and the questions and comments that arose on my (re) watches of these still engage my brain in a way that makes the work of scrubbing showers less of a labor. You have an amazing way of connecting to audiences (I love the talk recording from VTech you posted, it was a really cool way to see you 'in-person', virtually) that comes across as both open and knowledgeable- you remind me of a younger version of my beloved, Mt. Dew-guzzling geology professor Andy. I think you two would get along, but you'd probably talk each other hoarse. Anyway, basically I really appreciate the effort that you and your team

[@RedDeadSakharine]

More historic book readings please. This was really entertaining in a horrifying kind of way. But also informative. And we have yet to cover mysoginistic norms, Milo! Oh, and happy Christmas!

[@hengedraws]

If you want more videos about debunking racial pseudoscience Hakim made 3 videos about debunking it, and Shaun made a 2 hour video debunking a book called the bell curved, that modern eugenicists like

[@xenos3116]

Seconded

[@dmd_design]

@@hengedrawsplease share links. Who are Hakim and Shaun?

[@hengedraws]

@@dmd_design I hope the links work Shaun, Bell curve Debunking: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3PGaKR4iJaIoNE Hakim, Debunking racial science: kzbin.info/aero/PLX80nwePTowtAJMoyXFjL1_PZ_flGaIDu

[@sadmermaid]

@@dmd_design probably hbomberguy

[@NipplessRage]

As an Australian, I can safely say I know why you are so popular down here. You freakin' awesome and you do all the cool stuff I used to be interested in as a kid.

[@kashiichan]

Also his humour is very Australia-friendly.

[@jodiellkrakouer2227]

As an Aussie, I completely agree 🙂

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Aussie's have dry sarcasm laced liberally with profanity, and this guy has it in spades.

[@Annejuli]

@@PhantomFilmAustralia I was trying to think of an intelligent way of saying that Milo has a very Australian style of humour and you hit the nail on the head

[@lukadaman5077]

Another Aussie here to

[@sailorbychoice1]

2:15 Since you've gone out to the woodpile, let me tell you this: My great grandfather was trained as a shipbuilder but sustained a knee injury so turned to building outhouses to make his living, in the 19th century it was a good business to go into. One thing I learned was the placement of the privy was essential, never too close to your well or water source~ that would be bad, but also just always on the far side of the wood pile~ an arm full of wood was considered the pee tax, everyone brought sticks of wood back from the privy, to fail to do so (even by a house guest) was an insult to the home, but doing so kept the house warm. (Just a historical footnote I thought you'd all enjoy)

[@Puppy_Puppington]

He used to be an adventurer like you, but then…

[@leopoldsalzbrenner7791]

Despite now being nearly 2 years old, this is some of the most interesting stuff I've found recently. I actually quite enjoyed the "unstructured" path as it gave the video a sense of exploration and "re-discovery" of history. I would LOVE to see more.

[@kiki-drawer2669]

Black viewer here! Recently been slooooowly enjoying your content and I think you talked about this history's wonderfully. It's shifty all this happened, but it happened! And I love how you put emphasis on saying something along the lines of yeah we as individuals didn't cause slavery but we are dealing with the repercussions of those actions. And it's true. The sooner we learn to understand the past and acknowledge it it becomes waaaaaaay easier to talk about and even bond. Many people don't realize this. You also make learning abput my history much more digestible for me. I don't always want to hear hoe my family was hurt in extremely gruesome detail, but your still able to talk about the topic without saying much of that at all and it feels healing to someone who had great grandparents who suffered under american slavery. Thank you! You are a doll!

[@selenagamya1612]

@@colinsteeley we absolutely do not and should not. We should remember it happened and acknowledge it for the sake of not repeating it, but we shouldn't let it be definitive of our past, and carry on with our lives.

[@koolaidblack7697]

@@selenagamya1612 the "let it be definitive of our past" is exactly what's been happening though.

[@AngryNegativeHistoryProject]

I wonder why he didn't want to read where it said negroes. I've heard that term a long time ago. I wonder where the word derived from. It's Latin for black people? Then why didn't he read it? Weird

[@kiki-drawer2669]

@@AngryNegativeHistoryProject it can be a slur in different places of the world. Overall ot really depends where you come from but often times it's better to be safe then sorry. The origins of the word in alot places does derive from negative connotations

[@kiki-drawer2669]

@@koolaidblack7697 and that's ok. It is part of my past. My great grandpa was a slave. That is always going to be part of me because it is all the information I hav3 on that side of my family. Every day I wish I knew them more then that but it's what they have been stripped down to. I don't have a choice to remember him as an accountant or a bakery. He never had that chance because he wasnt given that chance. It was taken from him. So it's very much important to remember it.

[@spaceCowboy924]

I have a bunch of engineering textbooks from the 40s-60s that are also interesting reads and a lot less racist. I’ve made two common observations… 1. Much of the books are dedicated to reducing equations into common elements and then including tables evaluating those elements because it was a lot easier to use multiplication with slide rules. 2. You cannot find any materials engineering textbook that doesn’t list asbestos as the absolute wonder material. It’s horrifically fascinating at how often it was used for just everything back in the day.

[@tuxtitan780]

Something that intrigues me so much is the question of whether we have something like that today, that in 60 years people will look back on and say "what the hell were those morons doing with that material." If we do have something like that today, I feel like it's definitely gonna be plastic. We know it's awful, we know micro plastics negatively effect us, but I have a sick feeling we have no idea to the true extent, and one day it'll be asbestos 2.0

[@korgalis]

@@tuxtitan780 probably teflon

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

Asbestos really is great as far as properties go, but we didn't put much thought into safe handling practices back in the day.

[@hankwilliam4861]

You would probably be surprised, I predict plastics, birth control pills, fertilizers, GMO crops and MRNA vaccines. The long term effects on human hormones and fertility with micro plastics, artificial-hormones and fertilizers will be something to watch. Monocultures in farming has a large potential for calamity should we someday lack the resources to continue developing counters to crop diseases, and lord only knows what the long term effects of MRNA vaccines will be. We have lived with hubris on a perpetual growth model for so long, should our resources diminish at any point in the future, we will be in an incredibly bad place

[@DataLal]

@@tuxtitan780 PFAS (per-and-polyfluoroalkyl substances). These are "forever chemicals" used in many products, from the water-resistant coating in paper straws and cups to anti-stick coating on cookware to the coatings on pills to make them go down easier and not break down too quickly in the stomach and intestines, as well as makeup [ex. long-lasting lipstick and mascara]; lubricants; electronics; and the fire-resistant coating on most textiles, carpets, and furniture. Because they don't break down easily, are highly mobile, and are so ubiquitous in the environment (and have been for a few decades now), they can be found in the bodies of damned near every person in North America, if not most of the world as well. The world is just waking up to the full extent of the danger that 4700+ different kinds of PFAS pose when building up inside the body, as (based on extensive studies of some of these substances) they tend to have a negative effect on the liver, kidney, and thyroid, as well as the reproductive, developmental, immune, and nervous systems. The scary part is that we do know the dangers that PFAS pose. But so many chemicals out there have effects that are simply not yet known, either because the substance is so new, or because it's difficult to observe effects over decades in any given population. For example, it's still not clear how safe the "juices" used for e-cigs are (except that we're at least certain they're far less deadly than the chemical cocktail found in actual cigarettes), or how safe many artificial sweeteners really are. It's only very recently, for instance, that we've come to understand that there isn't actually such a thing as a safe level of lead consumption - but just a few decades ago, lead in paint and gasoline was so common. It wasn't until studies were done that proved exposure to even minute quantities of lead over a long period of time can be deadly, since lead can build up easily in the body, and even small quantities are all the more harmful for children. There's even a theory that the rise in U.S. crime rates in the 1980s and early 1990s was partially attributable to the ubiquity of lead in the environment in the '60s and '70s, and that not long after things like leaded gasoline and lead-infused paint became history (at least, as they did in the U.S. and Canada), crime rates began to go down because gradually, there were a lot fewer kids with lead-damaged brains running around. [Although other factors on the lowering of U.S. crime rates in the 1990s included the effect of Roe v. Wade on lowering birth rates, as well as a new crime bill which emphasized harsher sentences overall, plus a huge increase in incarceration for even minor drug offences, along with the introduction of super-max prisons that could hold this surplus population of inmates].

[@gobbolin]

I think the reason why us Aussies love the channel so much is that despite it being less talked about, the way colonisers treated our indigenous population (and how they're treated now) is incredibly similar to how native americans were/are treated in the usa. Plus your enthusiasm and passion for every topic is v aussie haha

[@Flaktower-expert]

You say that as if native Americans are treated poorly currently in America.

[@someguycalledCh0wdah]

@@Flaktower-expert I mean they are.

[@Flaktower-expert]

@@someguycalledCh0wdah They get the most benefits and have gotten some of the best deals ever just because of their heritage. They are given far more than say, people of European descent.

[@foreverdead1248]

@@Flaktower-expert Found the racist

[@deadass5148]

@@Flaktower-expert 🤡

[@DaDunge]

3:45 This idea was actually proven wrong roughly 2400 years ago.

[@sleepydrJ]

Aged like a fine wine…. That was left in a car trunk over a blistering hot summer.

[@bizzyandbart]

From Australia. We really like people who tell it how it is and call people out on their bullshit. Makes perfect sense you have a big audience here. Glad to have recently joined it :)

[@iamthezump]

He mentioned Australia and I was like “hey that’s me!”

[@MKei-nr5tl]

"We have failed as a species" is my new motto.

[@phoebexavier7050]

#EnjoyYourApocalypse is mine.

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

New? You haven't been on Earth long, I take it.

[@FellsApprentice]

No, if anything we're just way, way too successful for our own good.

[@undeadarmy19]

@@FellsApprentice This is def true. We've gotten to where life is TOO easy. Now the #1 cause of death in the US is due to fckin OVEREATING. How insane is that? For most of human history most people lived on the edge of barely having enough food to survive, and now we have so much that we kill ourselves by eating too much. I also think there's a major flaw to the "we've failed as a species" mentality. Humans put themselves on a pedestal, believing that our superior intellect makes us better than everything else on the planet. In reality, deep down we're no different than many animals. We've invented this idea of morality and we use it to judge each other. I get the reason why, the only way for us to have the advanced, civil society that we do is if we have laws and morals to keep people in check and working together. We're conditioned from childhood to act in a "civil" manner, and while this conditioning makes it to where we have a great deal of control over our primal instincts and impulses, its def not perfect, and we still give in from time to time. With all of that being said though, there is more death, pain, and suffering that occurs in the animal kingdom on a daily basis than humans create in a decade.

[@ppnotsmol8538]

I'm Mvskoke, and still live in Indian territory, as far as I'm concerned! 😁 I live on our reservation, and we have about as much autonomy and authority as a state. So the state of OK has no jurisdiction over anything we do (almost). They can't even collect income or property taxes on me. Currently, I can't even get pulled over by police in several counties due to some complex tribal sovereignty issues that have popped up recently. Just wanted to share that we are still around, our tribes have bounced back from near extermination, and our sovereignty as tribes is starting to be recognized as widely as it should be. I though some folks who have never been around IT or reservations might find it interesting to hear. Thanks for the work you do, Milo. Correcting the record to a less-bias spot has come from the hard work of anthropologist and archeologists like you. Folks who actually care like you are the people who can help preserve what little of our culture still exists, and even help us discover things about ourselves that have been lost to time and oral tradition. Damn my b, the Adderall hit too hard this morning ig lmao.

[@D0rlisok]

That’s so interesting. Any resources I could look up to have insights on how reservations work nowadays? Asking as a non-American

[@kettalelo8843]

“ Hell yeah, look at that guy! My man’s got a little basket, we love that!” Couldn’t have said it better myself😭😭😭

[@crimsoncarioca2742]

I did love that.

[@blakksheep736]

WHOOOO

[@BunniSoda]

The sections about the Indians I find to be the most interesting, as a Native person myself, specificly Choctaw (pronounced Chok-Taw). I'm a descendant of the Trail of Tears so hearing Oklahoma, the state I was born and grew up in, be called "Indian Land" Is just an interesting vibe for me

[@TheWoollyFrog]

I like your positivity. Sadly, "Indian Territory" was never meant to become a native-friendly state. It was to be a distant and temporary concentration camp until the 'undesirables' either completely assimilated or became extinct and their land could then be reappropriated. Yet, there was a later proposal by native leaders turn the eastern part of what would became Oklahoma into its own state (called Sequoyah).

[@BenDiscoe]

If hearing "Oklahoma" as "Indian land" is news to you, you really should read how the Choctaw chief named it, literally meaning "red people", because white people weren't supposed to move there, and were only let in 1890

[@obliviousthorne]

Hello and happy holidays from Aotearoa New Zealand! You were surprised about your demographic, but yes, I can confirm at least one person in the southern hemisphere loves your archaeology, history and anthropology content. Your channel is actually what inspired me to finally take the leap into adding anthropology into my science major :)

[@um9876]

Make that two in the southern hemisphere, although in the country some people don’t think exist, AKA Australia.

[@arridexerandco]

@@um9876 make that 3, also Aus haha

[@none-ro9dz]

hey fellow kiwi

[@constantine3348]

Kiwis really showing out on this video aren’t we

[@ILoveDemocracry]

@@constantine3348 Indeed we are, it seems.

[@christinaarcher2872]

Your video has renewed my faith in humanity and is honestly the best I have watched in weeks. Love your candor and info/comedic delivery! Bravo, Sir! 😊

[@dcfromthev]

Funny, it reinforced my absolute lack of faith in humanity.

[@azhdarchidae66]

is infomedy a word yet? as in info+comedy?

[@bonnitaclaus2286]

I mentioned once before, and I’ll say it again, I went to a very unusual high school. About half our teachers were retired college professors each holding multiple doctorates. They were friends of our headmaster, who also held several doctorates. One in particular, the one that you remind me of, wrote our current textbook that we were to be taught out of. When he presented himself in the textbook to us, he informed us that the book was full of crap, and totally erroneous. He knows this for a fact because he wrote it. The new textbook that’s going to replace. This one is a colleague of his, and that textbook will be no better than this one that he wrote. Why? Because the textbook being written, the same sources are being used, along with his textbook as a source. This means…. That we were not learning the truth and new knowledge. We were learning dogma, and erroneous so call facts. He went into what would it take to write a factual textbook with evidence and what we call fact, checking. It was 1964-66, since I was born in 1947. I believe he would love the Internet as well as hate it. The ease in communicating with colleagues, I believe he would find delightful. FYI: this professor was called to help translate the Dead Sea scrolls when they were found, he was an authority on dead languages. He said the greatest regret he had was his temper. As they were translating the scrolls, piecing them together, the real meaning of words at the time the scrolls written was becoming evident. Language is living thing. The meanings of words change over time. Writing helps stabilize words, but we’re still change in common usage. There were common phrases, not on like the ones we use today. Such as “ the whole 9 yards”, in biblical times a common phrase for an awful long time was “ 40 days and 40 nights” it did not mean that it was 40 days and 40 nights. All it meant was a hell of a long time. I digress….. some of the professors did not want the new revelations on the meaning of words to get out because we change the Bible or the Koran or the Torah… he was among those that wanted everyone to know and learn, and have it published for people to read that we’re not there discipline or peers. His temper got the best of him, and he quit and left. He said if he had stayed, he could have influenced, leaving his voice was silenced. As we know, what he felt should happen has happened to some degree. But I still wonder………

[@francescosacca6674]

What was the book about?

[@Ami-jc2oo]

1st, it's Quran. 2nd, We're not supposed to change the Quran. Those that do, aren't true Muslims.

[@zachrabaznaz7687]

​@@Ami-jc2ooLanguage and society ever evolves and the messages of old are lost in our current meanings. Secondly, there is nothing immutable or special about the Quran. It is a set of texts. Texts should be rewritten according to the changes in language, otherwise it would be incomprehensible. You're an imbecile.

[@flingage]

@@Ami-jc2oo Want to know another way to spell "Tradition"? *_"Peer-pressure from dead people"_* Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's accurate. Let alone factual.

[@LiteralCrimeRave]

​@@Ami-jc2ooHe's talking the about interpretation of words, not the literal text

[@doubledoot]

Mini can make the seemingly most boring stuff and make it the most interesting video you've watched all day through sheer personality/

[@alexanderwalden4552]

“ America is making me angry I’m going to a different country”😂😂. One of the best lines I’ve ever heard from a history KZbinr.

[@monkeydude9192]

Yeah, really shows how little he actually knows history to think going to any other country will really make him happy if he actually engaged with its history.

[@CenkZappa]

​@@monkeydude9192 L

[@GDEcM]

​@@monkeydude9192 you completely miss everything he said in that rant

[@monkeydude9192]

@@GDEcM I'm responding to what seems to be the basis of his outrage, that European colonialism is an unique process of territorial gain needing an unique resolution. This is important because it makes a clear deliniation of the beneficiaries and the exploited that makes it easy to assign responsibility; of course that still requires simplifying the interim to allow for a still clear deliniation. Actually understanding world history reveals the pointlessness of what he's advocating for. Hardly helps his point that he just states he'll go to another country, apparently any other, as if he'll be happy with how that may or may not be dealing with a history of "stolen land". Slight more respect if he had named a country that actually meets his standards in this regard.

[@GDEcM]

@@monkeydude9192 first off beautifully put👏 I completely understand what you're saying. But the issue he (to my understand now)is taking about is today's standards in America. Not the history on which it was founded. But then again I could have heard it wrong

[@whispercure9770]

Aussie here, I can confirm your sense of humour resonates deeply with us. ❤

[@SebastianWoodard]

That book was great. I'm Jena band Choctaw, so it's always nice to see some history about them. A lot of people don't realize the Navajo weren't the first or only code talkers. The first were the Choctaw, in WWI.

[@RaffleRaffle]

If your talking about the Americas as a whole, Mesoamerica had written language for thousands of years

[@moshonn9318]

@@RaffleRaffle While true, 'code talkers' were Native Americans in service as US-soldiers during the World Wars talking in a code based on their own natice language. These codes were unbreakable to first the Central Powers and later Axis Powers because they had no idea about the structure of the languages the codes were based on. Each and every of these code talkers had an (presumably white) Sergeant attached, who was tasked with making sure the enemy would not capture the code talker alive. Either keeping them from being captured or, failing that, making sure they were no longer alive. I do not know whether or not this was ever necessary or whether or not the code talkers were aware of this standing order, but it would not in the least surprise me if the answer to the latter of these was 'no'. On a tangentially related note, might be interesting to look up Francis Pegahmagabow, the deadliest sniper of WWI

[@johnsatan117]

It wasn't just that they were using Native American language. The Japanese could've gotten a Navajo Speaker, and they still wouldn't haven't been able to de code it. There was a second part.

[@moshonn9318]

@@johnsatan117 I didn't mean they were speaking Navajo, I meant the code they were speaking was _based_ on Navajo. In any case, I'm fairly certain the Japanese would've been hard pressed to find a Navajo speaker. Still, I'm curious what you mean by 'second part'

[@johnsatan117]

@@moshonn9318 to a Navajo Speaker. It would appear to be random Navajo words. These words had different meanings to the US radio operators. There was a code book.

[@rivergreen1727]

Don't feel pressure to make more structured videos; this was delightful!

[@deborahbranham-taylor6682]

I heartily second this!

[@sigma723]

As a native can confirm first thing i do everyday is hunt a deer come back home grab a stick and declare war on my neighbor its quite fun dont know why you civilized folk dont do it.

[@keysmash_roa]

That sounds so fun I'm a little jealous

[@helendunn9905]

Awesome! 😂

[@romaintagliaferro3189]

Instructions unclear, i am now a libertarian

[@SnailHatan]

I, too, collect scalps for my *_headdress_*

[@TheNightfallRealm]

At the time it was likely for natives to do that more than now in the age of technology, I mean look at you commenting on KZbin.

[@The_Duke_2002]

Milo, your sense of fashion is impeccable, also that transition after you step over the fallen camera was clean AF.

[@SeventhSeraphOfficerRevolver]

Tru

[@stehfreejesseah7893]

You have a little something on your nose.

[@scientificallyaccuratespino]

Where’s the transition

[@veqv]

@@scientificallyaccuratespino precisely.

[@scientificallyaccuratespino]

@@veqv Got me there.

[@TylerBraun-c4m]

I smell a new series, "outdated history" its gonna be gold Milo. Trust me😂

[@LaskyLabs]

Has this book been scanned and preserved digitally? I'd love to flip through the scans and look at all of the old maps if that were possible.

[@pasionlamadrid4240]

Doesn't seem like it's available online

[@earthmama9597]

👆 Imposter, please report. I'm tired of ppl's identity being high jacked on YT and accts not removed but if a YT uploads something "offensive" they can loose their acct. Where is the accountability here!?

[@colonelweird]

Yes, it's available, easy to find from the obvious source. KZbin doesn't seem to allow me to post details.

[@LaskyLabs]

@@colonelweird KZbin gets upset when you post (protagonist to the legend of Zelda series)s in comments. Those get put into spam right away... Unlike those imposters.

[@colonelweird]

@@LaskyLabs It removed my attempt to describe how to get it. I think there must be a filter to prevent the naming of a file format together with the dreaded "d" word.

[@SaszaDerRoyt]

I have an archaeology book from 1914, *The Antiquity of Man in Europe*, and other than a few uses of a particular word for racial categories, it's aged surprisingly well. While their understanding of prehistory is limited, and it predates the widespread use of the term "Mesolithic", the understanding of stratigraphy, flintknapping and art actually hold up pretty well

[@lucygrey37]

Tell me you know nothing about anthropology without telling me you know nothing about anthropology

[@SaszaDerRoyt]

@@lucygrey37 ??? I'm an archaeologist so my knowledge of anthropology is only tangential but I'm not sure what you mean by this

[@gmann215]

@@lucygrey37 Please elaborate for us people who know nothing about anthropology.

[@atom8248]

@@lucygrey37 Elaborate please

[@hedgehog3180]

I guess there's only so much you can learn about rocks.

[@cameronoswald9547]

Now that we know you have a large Aussie viewer count, we gotta demand some Australian based videos. First Nations people have some incredible history that barely anyone seems to know about.

[@TheLaughingDove]

More people should know about the fucking intense age of the oral histories! Some of them are older than the great barrier reef

[@Ramikin]

Its super interesting that Australia wouldn’t be called Australia for another 46 years when this book was written. Its just above Africa in the unfortunate zoom early in the video as New Holland. Indigenous people are notably missing from the description however with how the rest of the book seems to be they’ve probably been lumped in with the “unique wildlife” 🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@GooseMcBruce]

this channel makes me want to build the first aboriginal casino

[@atomicmillenial9728]

@@Ramikin Well, no. Australia has offcially been called Australia since 1824, when the British Admirality formally adopted the name. As for the indigenous people being listed under "unique wildlife", I doubt it. There's several long standing myths about the early treatment and recognition of our Indigenous people. They were never classified as fauna, and George III expressly ordered that they were to be treated fairly and with respect. British and Aboriginal relations were actually very cordial in Botany Bay until an influenza outbreak about 6 months after settlement caused the Eora to become hostile. There were other settlements along the East coast that were far more friendly with the local population, for a much longer time.

[@atomicmillenial9728]

@no wind resistance! You really don't. KZbin comments don't like links, but the ABC has a pretty succinct article debunking the "we wuz fauna" myth.

[@TheJLH]

Thank god for you. Get pissed. Let’s all get pissed. I love to see a young enthusiast of history with a revolutionary spirit.

[@symo161]

Late to the party but, as a British person. the part about being 'racist' to British people made me laugh so much my yellowed crooked teeth wobbled a great deal, as I gave a hearty bellowing chuckle

[@prokyonidae]

Indigenous Australian here! Glad to be a part of apparently making up a huge portion of random aussies in your audience :D Happy new year!

[@runed0s86]

I want more of this series: "Papa Milo Reads:" The production quality, the background noise of the fire, the cat on the piano.... It all comes together into something that makes me nostalgic for when I was a kid. A gripe: You should not have gathered the wood. You should have made US do that, and then yelled at us when we left the door open.

[@jonavanderpal]

i know right! this was so great to watch and i'd love to see more

[@Taijifufu]

That picture of the earth from the moon is pretty freaking close for having been made from somebody's imagination more than a century before we had the real thing.

[@trashcatlinol]

Wow. You hit all the things I like with one video: historical perspective, common sense politics, oddly relevant topic, and a really old book. Plus a bonus research term definition reminder. Thanks and Merry Christmas!

[@TomFranklinX]

Literally every single nation on the planet is on stolen land. Saying "you're on stolen land" is meaningless and only serves to incite hatred. #commonsensepolitics

[@trashcatlinol]

@@kayliw.3086 the fact he understands how important history is so we don't repeat those mistakes.

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

@@kayliw.3086 So you don't think not liking slavery and genocides is common sense?

[@CherryBotV2]

@Kayli W. correction, he doesn't read much propaganda. What he reads is history, not the blatant propaganda you like to call history.

[@jolliwoodstudios]

@@CherryBotV2 ''everything that hurts my feelings is propaganda''

[@Livurochy]

I’m currently in my last year of college for teaching, specifically history. I think this book is actually pretty useful, just maybe not in the way it’s intended to be. I think I could draw a lot of lessons from a book like this; teaching kids how perspective plays a large part of how history is told, how racism and colonialism also greatly paint our history, how to analyze “primary sources” (this one is secondary since it is a history book, but it also can be considered primary as a look into the thoughts of the time), and also recognize propaganda/connotative phrases. I think a large part of history is learning from our mistakes of the past, and this book greatly shows that. Obviously getting a book like this into a classroom would be hard & I would definitely face a lot of push-back due to how offensive a lot of the information in it is, so having something like this probably isn’t super realistic, but I can always hope. To an extent.

[@donjindra]

Just remember that the conventional wisdom of today will be ridiculed in the future -- and for many good reasons.

[@thebelen2359]

It's a shame people wouldn't like to learn about this because it's "offensive". History is not offensive, it just is (or more accuratly, was). And if someone deems it offensive because something that happened was bad, then that's all the more reason to learn about it. There is no way to get better or not repeat mistakes if we don't learn from them.

[@jamiedimond9419]

youre studying Fake history

[@DougieFresh1414]

Unfortunately, modern history is ruled by the Neo-Liberal, Capitalist, Neo-Colonialist west and their narrative that "Free market good, Liberal style democracy good, Russia bad, China BIG BAD (and scary because yellow peril), if you say mean stuff about Israel doing genoicde you're anti-semetic, invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan just big whoopsie mistakes with good intentions! Shhh don't talk about the Contras, or the Mujahideen, or Vietnam, or Cambodia, or suharto or Laos, or pinochet, or Saddam! " *AHEM* Anyways we good, we defender of "democracy".

[@pierregibson6699]

This is the Exact type of Book 📕 that needs to be in school 🏫 and studied….the GAPS in American Learning 😮 is the reason there are so many UNRESOLVED Issues in the Country

[@misssherrie-may1041]

Us Aussies like your sense of humour & sarcasm. Your blatant ability to tell it like it is & we love how you point out the blatant stupidity of the vast majority of conspiracy theories.

[@Cool-Vest]

And we Americans point and laugh at you because you lost a war against birds. Which still isn't as embarrassing as us nearly losing a war against ourselves. And letting Trump get in the White House. And like half of the things the U.S. has done.

[@albertstadt9853]

Don't worry, when he's done slagging the Brits it will be your turn!

[@aarenmyatt4509]

Except we like British people more than Americans and the sheer number of video cuts nearly gives me epilepsy.

[@nahtbergin]

As an aussie living in America (Boston) it brings a nice sense of home and New England cultural bits I get

[@sabusabusabasabasubasubasu8957]

​@@Cool-Vest the great emu was incredibly embarrassing. Just glad it wasn't cassowary's instead

[@MrAhhh33]

I’ve watched a lot of you videos and I’ve always come away with some new nuggets of knowledge. This video was friggin cool. Even though the info was obviously not accurate

[@merrillsunderland8662]

“That looked like it hurt.” Cut the music AAANNNDDD TRANSITION. Can we all give a round of applause to whoever did the editing ? That was beautiful

[@robo2831]

Your videos got me back into geology and archeology, a subject I haven't touched since I was 10 and picked up an Anthropology book. It's always nice to see somebody who thinks that the social sciences are real science.

[@millythebee4768]

To answer your question about why Aussies watch you: You have similar humour to what we are used to (satire, sarcasm and stupid jokes) and we love learning about history and archaeology as we are a touch limited on that topic (being an island and sorta small... sorta 🤣)

[@MustangsCanTurnToo]

I figured it was the drinking

[@rasputin2k851]

What above said and also the fast pace of his words and ideas. I usually find Americans difficult to listen to (because they bore me) they stop to summarise constantly like we can't follow two articles in a whole paragraph lol it's excrutiating

[@rasputin2k851]

@@stealthwarrior5768 better than where? Lmao you don't even learn the metric system.

[@Axius27]

I mean, there are so few high quality, well researched, historical content creators to begin with. Practically none talk about Australian topics except in passing (and it's always the bloody emu war!). There is a gap in the domestic market here, and those of us that are curious are forced to sate that desire abroad with unfamiliar topics and locales. It is completely unsurprising to me that Australians make up such a high percentage of viewer demographics.

[@zoehammond2685]

how is australia lacking in history and archaeological sites of interest???? wtf!

[@sorrelnotaplant490]

Australian watching this at 1am and was not expecting to get called out like that.

[@OverdosedToast]

As someone of the British persuasion I bloody laughed my ass off at that tea joke 🤣. Going through the uncomfortable history of the US in this book is like a minefield xD. Love your content buddy ❤️. Merry Christmas and Happy Yule everyone 🥰

[@Asterion_Mol0c]

Shut up Britain you've done. Worse

[@OverdosedToast]

@@Asterion_Mol0c Oh yeah I know, I was talking about the phrasing and things like that... I fully understand that Britain is an older country with 1000s of years on the states. It's just all the issues we had in those years are compressed for America. As someone who has been through US and British schooling, I can tell you that in the UK you are taught that we haven't always been the "good" guys. In the US I realised that you're not taught much about the darker history points, or much world history for that matter. Anyway I hope that you have a brilliant holiday and that you are able to spend time with your loved ones ❤️

[@robokill387]

@DarkAngel99FTW really? Because I'm from the UK and history about the British empire was very much whitewashed. Not entirely, they definitely talked about slavery and stuff and they didn't really lie about it, it's more that they left out a lot of the more brutal moments of the British imperial history and focused more on other periods.

[@OverdosedToast]

@@robokill387 I wouldn't say whitewashed per say but I would say that they tried to teach it from an unbiased point of view. Especially recent things such as Northern Ireland and the operations there. If I look for it I could probably find my school history book xD Sorry if my point was misconstrued but I originally mentioned that in the UK you are taught unbiased (as much as can be) history. Also another thing is that I'm grateful that in the UK I was taught world history and not just US history like when I lived in MT & IN.

[@cartoonhistory353]

@@OverdosedToast because we won’t the war lmao some American

[@girrion_]

Fun Fact about Nickajack Cave! The cave is home to nearly a quarter million bats that leave each night to hunt mosquitos and the like. It is an amazing sight to see, and there are many caves to spelunk(with permission) Source: I've cannoed there myself with my local scout troop a few years back before aging out.

[@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013]

Less fun fact: going caving in places that have many bats is a pretty bad thing given the pandemic of fungus in the process of wiping bats out entirely. It's spread between caves primarily by people going exploring, and if people *keep* going spelunking there indefinitely, pretty soon Nickajack is going to be home to a quarter of a bat.

[@girrion_]

@@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013 you can’t go spelunking in nickajack for this very reason, the cave is fenced off and only accessible by boat. People canoe or kayak close to the entrance and watch the bats fly out around dusk. Sorry if my first comment wasn’t clear enough. :) Edit: the cave may only be accessed by authorized state personnel

[@hedgehog3180]

I think it's also the setting for one of the oldest text based adventure games.

[@katarjin]

Hell yes, bats are great!

[@darcy501]

I'm from Argentina and have a flu right now, hearing the part about Argentina made me laugh so hard I had a cough attack. Thanks, Milo xD The part about the welsh colony is really cool and interesting, they even have a cool metal dragon that spits fire protecting the town. It's called Trevelin (Spanish pronunciation: [tɾeˈβelin]; Welsh: Trefelin) in case y'all wanna look it up ;D

[@helenr4300]

trefelin = town/ place of thewmill (tref said tre) and felin for a mill said velin - as Welsh letter f is spoken as a v is in english)

[@rafaelsueyro7825]

vamo campeon jajaja

[@feliperomero3634]

somos campeon mundial aguante argentina viva messi viva latino americAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@EmiCheese]

Siempre quize ver Trevelin. Mi viejo fue una vez pero nunca viajo mucho.

[@miniminuteman773]

Right?? My editor added that part in there as he is from Argentina and I thought it was fascinating! Argentina is not the top of my list of guesses when trying to find Welsh colonies. Best holiday wishes and I hope you get well soon!

[@kaitlynbishop2962]

Genuinely please make more of these I love this!

[@severalowls]

Interesting point about the Raccoon Mountain entry: Wikipedia claims the Raccoon Mountain Caverns network was only discovered in the 1920s, while a "Nickajack Cave" doesn't seem to be part of the larger network you showed an image of, and is listed as only having been flooded in the 1960s after previously being a saltpeter mine through the first half of the 19th century (no mention of pre-existing water), and the "original" size of the opening is listed as much larger. It may just be another cave which took the name later. This book may contradict that and be worth citing for some updates if anybody is interested in doing so, assuming it's actually reliable. It's specific mention here almost feels like it was just somewhere the author had visited and thought was neat.

[@rookyrockstar9488]

"education has recieved little attention in the southern states" - well that went south real quick

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

🥁💥

[@savage.4.24]

It's almost as if everyone started on the east coast🧐

[@o0Donuts0o]

And if you zoom out and look at education quality across America you will come to realize that it’s pretty much sub-par and producing the next generation of idiots like an assembly line.

[@petergriffin383]

Not much has changed in that department..

[@maxs.3238]

Unlike education, that really went south

[@bneskylights1152]

You have a large Aussie viewership because you have an Aussie sense of humor. 👍

[@washipuppy]

That's it exactly!

[@shazababe89]

As a fellow Aussie I agree 👍 💯 %

[@ireneo4614]

Consigning that as another fellow Aussie

[@Poliostasis]

I'm an aussie too! It's crazy to think how many Aussies watch this guy despite how large the population of Americans are. It's pretty cool.

[@kashiichan]

Absolutely agreed

[@jam901]

I made eye contact with my sphynx cat right when he said "there's the sphynx"

[@barbararowley6077]

Lots of us Aussies are fascinated by archaeology. Whilst our continent doesn’t have ancient buildings, we do have amazingly early artwork and ancient natural sites that have been continually in use for tens of thousands of years, and are still in use by their traditional owners. My personal favourite place is the Den of Nargun, in the Mitchell River National Park, a site for women’s business - meetings, initiations, etc - for the Gunaikurnai. (Nargun are fierce people/animals from the Dreaming, partly formed of stone.)

[@jeffreylatham3307]

One of the coolest things I've seen recently was they have evidence that ancient Egyptians sailed to Australia and there are large stone facings with Egyptian text detailing their journey and what they had found etc. One of them died from a snakebite while there. I also think they said something about they were given some things from people they met there to take back with them. To have done that thousands of years ago is an awesome thing.

[@thomasdoran8604]

@@jeffreylatham3307 If this is refering to the gosford glyphs, which is the only vaguely related thing to this, they were made by Australians in the 1920s who has gained a fascination with Egypt after serving there and the opening of tutenkamuns tomb. Anyone who say this is evidence of anything else is either lying, stupid or both.

[@leonagahan9539]

@@thomasdoran8604 We don’t actually have concrete evidence of exactly who made it or when if I recall right, that’s just the most supported theory. I’m fairly sure the theory is based on the combination of scripts used, and something about it using Coptic inappropriately for Egyptians at the supposed time which they would have had to have been carved to be anything significant, and also to do with the lack of erosion and weathering on the glyphs themselves in comparison to shown on the rocks around them. Either way, there’s still about no chance in any universe they’re anything ancient or notable though.

[@local_weather_dingus]

Interesting to see just how hurricane season has changed in the time since this book was released, typically August to October is considered the peak season while hurricane season as a whole lasts from June to November. Meteorological history is so damn fascinating to me.

[@fanaticaltechpriest1002]

Frankly that sounds like something to be concerned about

[@local_weather_dingus]

@@fanaticaltechpriest1002 I agree! It's mostly due to climate change and the warming of our oceans providing more time for tropical development, but we've also had more La Nina years recently (warmer waters in the Atlantic Basin, colder in the Pacific) which contributes to that.

[@Matt_Fields_29]

The Seminoles are actually one of the few tribes that successfully fought to keep at least some of their stuff. And they have a very politically active community in Florida today.

[@candyh4284]

wasn't this partially due to the radical republican (the good kind) government in Key West?? or was it what caused the radical government in Key West?? i get everything mixed up...

[@aquaabouttogetfunky]

Actually did a paper about them and yeah, they had withstand some brutal wars from both settlers and Andrew Jackson driving them to stay in Florida until they decided to ask Florida for assistance, then buying their own reservation lands.

[@radyorebelde1142]

another fact, Seminoles also kept slaves

[@candyh4284]

@@radyorebelde1142 that's interesting, because I know that one of the big problems the US had with the Seminoles was that they were allied with runaway slaves.

[@KayleighBull9]

Thanks!

[@velazquezarmouries]

"Patagonia can hardly be said to have history". As an Argentinian citizen may i say based and I agree completely

[@letkwu]

Native people have thousands of years of oral history

[@velazquezarmouries]

@@letkwu yes but that's part of prehistory no writing

[@agentwrench]

​​​​@@velazquezarmouries prehistory is a term for a period in human history, while history is both the following period and also the umbrella concept that includes both, and no historian would say prehistory (the period) is not history (the study of past events, particularly in human affairs). Patagonia has been inhabited by humans since at least 10.000 b.C. That's thousands of years of human evolution, interaction and conflict, that is *history* . A history that, besides milenia of indigenous history , includes at least the colonization by the Spanish, or the Conquest of the Desert, those 2 being some of the darkest episodes in the Modern Era in Argentina.

[@derkommissar4986]

​@@agentwrench chatgpt?

[@explosivepen9199]

El porteño menos ignorante:

[@thebelen2359]

I laughed along with you at a lot of the absurdities and blatant ignorance in the book, but it also made me think about how people will look at _our_ books and ideas in the future. Perhaps my great great grandchildren will be laughing at me and finding my thinking horrific too.

[@ChristmasHarmony2024]

Kindly write me up I have something for you 💢

[@serPomiz]

the belief of "being the most advanced and illuminated culture that ever was" has always been a thing, we saw it since the late mesopotamians, calling themselves better than their forefathers, and today kids have no respect since plato the problem comes that, in this age of archives immediately accessible to pretty much everyone, people will blindly believe whatever, and the documents are wrong, even if is one of their books that hasn't been touched in decades , and they themselves where the latter who did

[@andraskovacs5431]

This is why I think it's important for us to look at the way we look at previous generations and remember it. Then when the time comes that new generations find some of our current views this way we don't try to punish them for it but remember that they have everything we knew and more.

[@joemcgilton2091]

I have no basis for thinking it, but I've always thought people in the future would look back at our industrialization process and gross mistreatment of animals in factory farms and the like with a similar level of disgust. To us it's a normal part of every day life, but we are still causing untold levels of suffering to other creatures for our own benefit. Not trying to tell anyone they should be vegan, I'm certainly not one. Just a normal participant in a society that I know there are ethical issues with.

[@OMJ_the_Show]

I mean we are living at the precipice of another dark ages. Our people are constantly putting out the dumbest things right now and they will absolutely be laughed at and scoffed at in the future. Looking at you, Republicans...

[@jeffwalther3935]

There's another book that I noticed had, uncannily, "aged like a fine wine", like few if any can and that was the classic Alexis DeToqueville's - Democracy in America, written during the first years of the United States. It turned out to be the best social scientific analysis of a new country, culture and people that I have ever read, before and since. After enjoying reading it in my history and political science classes, I reread it again after 40 years and found it more new, interesting, relevant and revealing about what is going on today then today's reporting. How can that happen? But as you read it, the surprises are in every page; still quite accurate and astoundingly true about 230 years later! You'll thank me for the recommendation, I assure you.

[@luthientinuviel3883]

Oh that book! I actually read it for my government class in high school (I mostly read primary sources for the time) its fascinating to read about early America from an outsiders perspective

[@jeffwalther3935]

@@luthientinuviel3883 But the part I was talking about is 1) Democracy In America describes Americans as a people for the first time and brand new American democratic political, social and economic developments that 2) STILL hold true today; describing new things first and thoroughly described by him LIKE NO OTHER before or since. Actually, that he was French, a foreigner, an "outsider", as you say may have aided in his being objective, but his origin or nationality is really irrelevant as to what he found important to report. He is, I think actually an early social scientist, specifically, a political scientist or anthropologist, practicing science before these disciplines were formally known in reporting new and interesting phenomena of his time. He could easily lecture on such subjects today, imho.

[@luthientinuviel3883]

@@jeffwalther3935 well as I said I read it in freshman year in high school so the memories a bit foggy but totally! Maybe I should give it a reread

[@jeffwalther3935]

@@luthientinuviel3883 THAT'S what I meant! It'll shock ya how this guy knew us up and down like nobody else. As a historian, I remind you that the French then had the stability and luxury time to be just about at THE most liberal humanist progressive western culture/civilization of the Eurpoean Enlightenment; that even set the standard and themes of Constitution SOOO French political values, concerns, issues are mutual concerns with this new outgrowth in a democratically accountable republic federation of States and a wholly new type of people not united by anything other than devotion to each other, the land and it's humanist, egalitarian, liberty lifestyle. D in A is remarkably timeless.

[@mr4chn]

this is the first video i’ve seen by you and i just wanna say how much of a breath of fresh air it is to watch someone who is historically and politically educated. ❤ keep up the good work!

[@treeman47]

I feel very noticed as First Nations and great respect for my history, your respect and love will not be unnoticed. Your videos are a blessing.

[@angelawossname]

I heard your colours were similar to ours but can you explain the meaning behind them? For us, yellow is for the sun because it's bloody hot, red is for our blood and our land, black is for our skin and the night sky. We don't use white.

[@spacegrass6632]

@@angelawossname gday :)

[@beneficent2557]

Pre-Columbian History is fascinating to me, but land rights have made archaeology a bit of nightmare. I have heard rumors of a Mississippian Culture near me, but we are considered "too far north."

[@treeman47]

@@angelawossname The medicine wheel has many meanings and teachings but I mainly think of it as a calender for the seasons and for the stages of life. But teachings are hard to find and remember, off the top of my head I'm not entirely sure what some of the meanings for white are.

[@diegoidepersia]

oh are you maya or am i getting my flags mixed up again

[@SoTotallySammi]

It honestly makes me so sad that there's just so much history we are never taught in school. I would've love to have a class just on old texts and been able to discuss them. I think some of the charts and population statistics definitely should be included in modern teaching of history. It really brings so much into perspective.

[@joshuaskyler9739]

As an Australian, the reason why I listen to you is because of the casual swearing and chill attitude. You sound like someone I'd go to the pub with

[@kashiichan]

Milo absolutely passes the pub test