Keep up the videos dude, I’m a high schooler in America I’ve watched your videos almost everyday for close to two years now, I don’t have the money to buy your cup or your patron, but please keep it up. 👍
Fun fact about how the US got Alaska in 1867, the main reason the Russian Empire sold Alaska was because they didn't want the British Empire to get it and therefore be right next to the Russian Empire, so they went to sell it. They originally offered it to Liechtenstein as the US was going through it's Civil War at the time but Liechtenstein kept stalling so when the Civil War ended the Russian Empire offered it to the US instead. Another factor was that the US and Russia were very close during the 1800's as they bonded over a common dislike of the British Empire and the Russian Empire was the only major power who openly stated that they supported the Union and the reunification of the USA.
Same for the Louisiana purchase, napoleon already had problems in the Haitian colony so he just sold Louisiana to the USA because he knew he wouldn't be able to defend it against the British as hostilities were once more beginning
Lol how could the tiny country of Liechtenstein use a territory at the tip of north America!? My this world would be very different lol were there liechtenese outposts in Alaska? Lol
@@pdraggy It was more because Liechtenstein was rich at the time and the Russian Empire wanted their money. But because of how hard it would be for Liechtenstein to control the territory and get there, it was one of the reasons the plans to give it to Liechtenstein fell through.
Sad that that bond was broken when US and Soviet leaders decided that it was better to have a ***k measuring contest instead. It really screwed a lot of countries over in the process too. But what can I say, politicians of all ideologies suck.
About the Ottomans, while they did allow other religions to exist within their Empire, they required a blood tax. Basically taking Christian people's children away and making them into slave soldiers. While the Janissaries did eventually become quite powerful politically and have good lives, it still doesn't change the fact that they were quite literally slaves that were brainwashed into being Islamic and weren't allowed to believe in anything else or leave the Janissaries.
The Swiss keeping ahold of Jewish valuables is very true. The Nazis would send priceless jewelry and artwork along with Jewish heirlooms to their own accounts in Switzerland. Especially when the war started going bad for them so they could use the money to either escape Europe or after they survived the war. Since many Nazis didn’t survive the accounts still have those items. I saw a article years ago talking how a Jewish man saw a old family painting up for auction by the Swiss and had to appeal to the UN for aid in getting the painting back, cause the Swiss refused to hand it over.
Not just the Swiss, the Austrians too. They kept 5 Klimt paintings stolen by the nazis. Took one of the family's heirs a seven year legal battle to try and get them back. Search for "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer". There's even a film about the story now.
The Aztecs were a huge empire...and they constantly pissed people off. "You get to tithe...these people we are going to ritually sacrifice. Thanks!" Cortez had a _ton_ of allies from the surrounding countryside fighting beside him, advising him, etc.
People really do gloss over how fucking horrible and truly savage the Aztecs were. Basically everyone hated them and actively aided Cortez in their destruction. It's hard to really condemn it when you consider that it was mostly an American native war and less so a European one.
They wouldn't be there in the first place without Lenin. Even if he didn't give the order (which I find unthinkable), he still enabled EVERY EVENT that led to the guards murdering the Romanovs. A sad day in history. Like all monarchies, bad things happened, but much like the French, we should remember the Soviets not as heroes but as rabid fucking animals that ripped people apart in the streets. You don't respect a dog that mauls a child.
Just so you know the person who made this video is Finnish and something to look at is a Swedish band called Sabaton which is a rock band that sings about history
The French in WW1 were extremely tough and provided the bulk of Entente forces on the western front, taking atrocious casualties. Unfortunately here in the US (and in the UK) WW2 has colored all of the incredible French military history.
Their casualties did not make them 'great', though. There were virtually no competent European militaries at the time, which is why America refused to allow European commanders give orders to American troops, or to allow American troops to be dispersed amongst foreign divisions. Europe's commanding class was happy using the same strategies that would lead to millions dead. America saw this already in its Civil War, and refused to repeat it. America was in its way, much ahead of its time in warfare. This is primarily why American forces were so pivotal in both World Wars. It wasn't really about the equipment, though that did help: The Americans knew HOW to fight wars that didn't destroy their own manpower. What good is victory now when Germany invades France again in 15 years when France hasn't had a chance to rebuild its forces properly?
@@Longey9000 I don't see why. Being great is to do great things. Murdering your own troops due to your overinflated ego? We should NOT celebrate that. That is an incredibly dark and evil thing that Europe did, and tried to do to American troops. Don't misunderstand me, I have a great deal of sympathy for the grunt that was told to either climb up out of the trench or be shot by his own men. Such men were betrayed by their own nation, it's hard not to sympathize. But that is not greatness. It is a tragedy. Oedipus isn't a hero, he is tragic. Still respectable sure but for different reasons. Now things were certainly different in WW2, nations like FInland fought well and bravely against seemingly impossible odds, and even won sometimes (though I don't think the winning is as important to how great an act it was). The French were on paper evenly matched with the Nazis, but due to their LACK of greatness, they folded. They lacked the political willpower to do what had to be done, and made INCREDIBLE strategic errors. That is weakness, not greatness. Naturally, I am not factoring the common French soldier overly much into this evaluation, because the French soldier did not contribute greatly beyond the first half year of the war, if even that long. I am sure there were countless individual acts of greatness, of that I have no doubt, but I would not say that you can apply that to the nation itself.
@@enderoctanus Where did “greatness” come into the discussion? And I’d disagree that the American insistence on operating as their own separate command in WW1 was a reaction to the perceived ability of French commanders. And the Americans relied in many ways on French equipment, supply, intelligence, etc. The only American equipment that could arguably be called superior would be the 1903 Springfield and trench guns, though that was a tactical decision more than an edge in equipment. American forces borrowed tanks, borrowed aircraft, borrowed artillery, and borrowed light automatic weapons from the French. Regarding WW2, On paper French military forces were superior to the German forces at the beginning of the war, so they obviously were able to rebuild. Obviously we can’t argue that they proved superior in combat, though late war French allied forces were effective fighting forces. But, my initial point was simply that the stain of the WW2 fall of France (and to some extent the failure in Indochina) has wrongly colored previous French military history, which was equal to or better than the history of their peer European powers.
When the snow starts speaking finnish is making reference to Simo Häyhä, The White Death. Who in 1939 in less than 100 days got 505 confirmed Russian kills. He could have had more but he liked to let one russian go from a group just so they can report back the entire squad was taken out.
15:02 Mansa Musa's country did have a lot of gold, but more importantly a major African trade route passed through it, and he put a tax on *everything* that came through.
Something I think you might be interested in is a video called Fort Drum: America's Unsinkable 'Concrete Battleship' by a youtuber called Calum. This video talks about a Fort in a harbor that was a major thorn in the backs of the japanese during their invasion of the Phillipino island of Manilla.
In 1919 when Poland broke free from Russia the Soviets tried to retake them, the polish ultimately defeated the Red Army and even managed to advance into Russia. One of the tactics they used was after they found the Soviet radio frequency they started broadcasting readings of the Bible over the soviets military orders to cause confusion Edit: Please refer to Mr Pawel Malek's reply below, he is more knowledgeable on this story than I am
Yes but: 1- we broke free in 1918, in 1919 the war in the east started when German garnisons retreated back home. 2- that wasn't a tactic that was one episode when few polish boys after getting their hands on soviet radio decided to do some trolling. It was very effective since it cut off communication of one of armies (4th I think) and they continued their advance north (away from rest of their forces) instead of turning southwest and Poles managed to encircle them and they had to go into german prussia to avoid destruction (poles allowed it beacause they didn't have the power to lose on destroying them).
The blocking of the Silk Road did kind of lead to discovering America. The Portuguese went south around Africa to get to India so Christopher Columbus had to go to Spain to get support for his voyage. The fact that he proved the world is round is a myth because that was already known but he argued that the world was smaller than was thought (both sides were way off) which would enable his voyage. Since the Earth is bigger than he thought it was had America not been there Columbus would have either been forced to turn around or his voyage would have run out of supplies and starved before they could ever reach India.
I suggest you try reacting to the channel The Front. If you do I suggest you start with either the video called "how a platoon of polish postmen embarrassed the SS" or "The insane diversity of the Lithuanian Resistance" or "The longest march in history" how a legion of Czech Soldiers took over the TransSiberian railway.
The Dutch "police actions" were basically them trying to take back their colony(Indonesia). Pretty successfully(at some point the Indonesians lost most of the country) until they backed off due to international and US pressure.
4:22 Bringing over diseases that the native people had no resistance to, taking advantage of Montezuma's generosity and taking him captive, and rallying neighboring territories against Tenochtitlan once his forces were driven out to retake the city using translators to help is what allowed him to end an empire. This is paraphrased so not all of the details are here but it is the important stuff
At the end of each video you should have a list of your patrons appear on screen or you could do what Drew Durnil does and name them off at the end of your videos to encourage more people to join because they basically get shoutouts at the end of every video!
Keep up the great work as always, your channel is easily one of my favorites I’ve ever watched, by the way country balls 5 is now out in case you haven’t watched it.
The Pepsi/Russia thing was way before 1989. Kruschev famously had one on his tour of the US in like 59 at the recommendation of then-VP Richard Nixon, and they had a plant there in the early or mid 70s. This would come up again later at a very hard time for Nixon when he'd just pulled two respectable terms as VP, lost the Presidential election to Kennedy, then lost the governor election too. A Pepsi PR manager remembered him doing them a solid three years earlier and they hired him, and he was so loyal that he continued trying to push Pepsi to the Soviets all he could, which led to some crazy trade deals involving vodka and goddamn warships (which were scrapped).
Cortez found many allies in neighboring tribes whom the Aztecs would raid and sacrifice captives to their gods. The Conquistadors seemed like a better option at the time.
14:30 The French WW1 was actually still pretty powerful, it's just WW2 when they couldn't really move on and start upgrading their things because they were too prowd of the victory.
9:44 "saxophones are banned", i think it was only briefly. for example shostakovitch who lived in the soviet union wrote a lot of music for saxophone like the suite for jazz orchestra.
At 12:21 no that’s how we started sailing around Africa to get there. America was discovered when some sailors smoked crack and thought “maybe going around the other side is faster” even tho they kinda knew how big the earth was and that it would be farther.
Do a review of Forrest Fenn the fighter pilot during Vietnam. He has a 28 min video where he commentaries what he is doing. Pretty cool old time footage.
Understandable after WW2, between Polish jews being the single biggest group in the extermination camps by far and Poland itself being double teamed by Russia and Germany, they have all the reason in the world to arm themselves for the future.
Actually the map distortion makes places away from the equator appear larger than they are in real life so Alaska looks bigger on a map than it really is. It’s still huge though.
Before gummy vitamins existed, Flinstone's were the schnitzel. They were in the shapes of Fred, Barney, etc, and had the consistency of crumbly chalk, but we'd crunch down as many of them as Mom would give us.
Funny thing about that Scotland meme is that it was actually the Scottish monarchy that gained the English crown, not the other way around, as the House of Stuart were already Scottish before they got the English title
Elon named his company after Tesla, most likely. But the big thing was Edison was pushing for 'alternating current' electricity, and Tesla was a fan of 'direct current'. Both have their pros and cons, but Edison ultimately prevailed.
No, Edison was pushing D.C. That's why he executed an elephant with A.C. to prove how "dangerous" it was. Edison had several D.C. device patents and was looking to get.contracts for electrical production. Tesla designed effective (and efficient) A.C. generators and motors. Edison did a great job adopting good technologies, but he started out completely wrong on A.C. vs D.C.
The Louisiana purchase was the best real estate deal ever for the US 2.144.476 km2 for a total of 15 millions dollars of the time . It included what is now Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado; as well as part of the current provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada.
Fun fact: regarding switzerland, theres around 400.000 bunkers scattered around the country, which is insane considering the size of the country. Even france doesnt even have a fraction of that number. But the army suffers from the same maintenance syndrome as the german army.
I've had two UA-camr mugs and they both broke. After watching your video I did some dishes and I noticed that I don't have the Estonian UA-camr mug. My kitchen feels empty without it.lol. I didn't want to buy a mug because I don't want it to break. But now we are on some good medication. And I miss the Estonian UA-camr cup. I trust that it will be safe in my apartment so I will take a chance and buy another one soon.
Yeah, Russia and newly formed United States were once allies and Russia actually offered to sell Alaska to United States and not Canada(British Colonials). The Russian Empire wasn't friends with Great Britain and refused to sell it to Canada. United States got lucky on this deal and found oil. Russia, of course, regretted this.
@@kamielheeres8687 yeah, I figured. I was making an educated guess based on how many different civilizations had come and gone in the region over the last few thousand years. You know how languages change based on who lives in an area. I figured "surprise" had a Latin base considering how the Roman/ Byzantine empires lived in Turkey
As far as the beauty of people. In my opinion, people wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and see the same damn face looking straight back at them every day. They see every flaw and blemish in themself and feel they are just another average looking man or woman living in a community with a bunch of other normal looking humans beings, living normal daily lives. When we see people from other countries or races, we see features with differences in the color of their eyes, skin and hair and shapes of their bodies. Some of us will see the absolute beauty in one or more of these differences while others will see the same differences as being ugly or maybe just cute. I guarantee you there are people that don't like the color of your skin or how your face looks and I also guarantee there are people that see you as very handsome and the same goes for people in every other country. Then we have the interracial humans that, in my opinion, have a lot of absolutes. One thing that I feel is true is when two people, that are considered below average in looks, from two separate races have a children, the children turn out to be the most absolute, stunningly beautiful, or handsome humans on the planet and the further below average they look the more stunning the child becomes. They also seem to keep their looks into their golden years, plus their children turn out to be lookers as well. So maybe one day we will all blend into one beautiful and handsome race, with no absolutely ugly people and no absolutely beautiful people, no tall people and no short people, no fat people and no skinny people, all with beautiful smiles, the human race. Then we will all know for sure, that all wars on this planet, are started by the ones we put in control of keeping us safe (government, religion and media) by feeding us the fuel of hate and allowing ourselves to believe it. Of course this is all in my opinion so the total bs factor is strong in the evaluation. Thanks again for the entertaining video's and I hope you work out the highest profit producing business structure that works for you. Thumbs up as always!
4:20 answer: guns, germs, and steel. smallpox, muskets, steel weapons and armor. also, Cortes acted perfidiously. he set up a meeting with Montezuma that was supposed to be peaceful, but turned out to be an ambush.
Scientists: We can split the atom to release energy. Unless contained though, t would release a dangerous explosion of energy with unforeseen effects. Military: We can ... release a dangerous explosion. Cool. War Funds granted.
I think you mean 1 world war, France didn't surrender in World War I. On the contrary, they did pretty good against the Germans and handed them some of their greatest defeats not just in that war but ever. World War II is where all the surrender/France being weak comes from.
Napoleon sold it since keeping the Colonies would have been to expensive wile Fitting a war so Getting money for it was better then getting it invaded by an enemy and lose it without getting anything for it. The Russian Zars wanted/needed money so they sold it
As an American, our history teachers barely teach us anything nowadays... Seriously, all my history teacher did was just sit and read textbook chapters to us and didnt really do anything. It was really boring because I was looking forward to learning about a lot of American history. But the book had limited topics and had a lot of filters because of how violent the historical situations were. It was really bland, in my opinion, and very disappointing. This year on the other hand, my world history teacher was absolutely amazing! I couldn't ask for a better teacher, he taught us so much about other countries and their history, we mainly focused on the French revolution and it was really cool because we got into details like the guillotine and King Louis and Marie Antoinette 's life. Unfortunately, next semester my history teacher will not be teaching us anymore and will be replaced with another teacher, I will very much miss him! (THANKS MR. TAYLOR!!!)
There's several factors on how Cortez did it but main thing is down to diseases and modern tactics. So Cortez actually din't have 1,000 men but actually more of about 2,000 and 2 ships total. However, facing a whole Aztec Empire worth over 500,000 men of various forms be it actual army or tribal defenders, that's alot. So the main thing down to what Cortez had against the Aztecas is that he had guns and cannons from his ships that could be ripped and used on land. The Aztecas did not know what's a gun and even with their bows, they had to hit limbs and won't kill anything when Cortez and his men were all wearing cuirasses which the Aztecas din't even know existed and almost everything they used wern't metal items against what Cortez and his men had so for them to even hurt the Conquistador, they had to go veeery near whereas Cortez and his men could sit back hundreds of yards away, fire their muskets and cannons repeatedly and watch the Aztecas fall down or flee before deciding to affix bayonets or draw sabre and chase them down and cut every single one to death during skirmishes. The 2nd thing is disease. Due to the lack of outside trade, the Aztecas did not know of any disease that they already knew but because Cortez came from Continental Europe, he brought in a new kind of disease which if I remember correctly was small pox and during that time, the Aztecas had never seen or even knew what it was. Thus when his men started spreading it towards the Aztecas, the whole nation was ravaged by it as they did not how to cure nor stop the spread thus it went further and further into the country and soon it started to kill off everyone that's infected by it and it's estimated that because of the disease alone, it killed off about 1.3 million Aztecas. Huge numbers.
About the route block of the route to India, basicaly the quickest route to India, through ottoman egypt (suez canal), was blocked by ottomans so everybody looked west to find another way to get those sweet monies
In American school they say that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, Columbus made his way to Spain, where he gained support from the Spanish monarchy. He persuaded King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I to sponsor his quest to find a westward route to China, India, and Japan-lands then known as the Indies.
that one about Chernobyl, was made funnier because the guy who said “im gonna pretend i didn’t see that” was Ray Charles, a famous American musician who was also blind.
Cortez had other native allies in the area who hated the Aztecs. Like the Tlaxcalans for example. Who joined his army of 600 men (He would later betray and enslave those same people) Not only that, most of the Aztecs died from European contact / diseases rather than the actual war. They also had guns, horses, canons and ships. We sadly didn’t ):
Turkish is an Altaic language related to Mongolian, and more distantly Korean, Japanese and Chinese. However, most European languages are related to Indian and Iranian through Indo-European which split off into Indic and Indo-Iranian and Germanic, Latin etc.
Richard Jordan Gatling was the inventor of the Gatling gun and he thought they gun would cause the end of war. Who would want to fight when such a weapon of devastation existed. Unfortunately, he underestimated humanities desire for brutality.
The Holy Bible in Polish refers to the Polish-Bolshevik war 1920. The Poles jammed the Bolshevik radio by reading the bible on repeat.
@@cri.682 also very trolling (Soviet's were anti-religious) and effective, it lead to elimination of one of Soviet armies.
lmao
Poland being epic for ages and ages!
Keep up the videos dude, I’m a high schooler in America I’ve watched your videos almost everyday for close to two years now, I don’t have the money to buy your cup or your patron, but please keep it up. 👍
Same here
I'm a high schooler in America too
Well me too😂😂
The highschoolers that survived
Sameness
Fun fact about how the US got Alaska in 1867, the main reason the Russian Empire sold Alaska was because they didn't want the British Empire to get it and therefore be right next to the Russian Empire, so they went to sell it. They originally offered it to Liechtenstein as the US was going through it's Civil War at the time but Liechtenstein kept stalling so when the Civil War ended the Russian Empire offered it to the US instead. Another factor was that the US and Russia were very close during the 1800's as they bonded over a common dislike of the British Empire and the Russian Empire was the only major power who openly stated that they supported the Union and the reunification of the USA.
That's something I didn't know. Thanks for the knowledge!
Same for the Louisiana purchase, napoleon already had problems in the Haitian colony so he just sold Louisiana to the USA because he knew he wouldn't be able to defend it against the British as hostilities were once more beginning
Lol how could the tiny country of Liechtenstein use a territory at the tip of north America!? My this world would be very different lol were there liechtenese outposts in Alaska? Lol
@@pdraggy It was more because Liechtenstein was rich at the time and the Russian Empire wanted their money. But because of how hard it would be for Liechtenstein to control the territory and get there, it was one of the reasons the plans to give it to Liechtenstein fell through.
Sad that that bond was broken when US and Soviet leaders decided that it was better to have a ***k measuring contest instead. It really screwed a lot of countries over in the process too. But what can I say, politicians of all ideologies suck.
About the Ottomans, while they did allow other religions to exist within their Empire, they required a blood tax. Basically taking Christian people's children away and making them into slave soldiers. While the Janissaries did eventually become quite powerful politically and have good lives, it still doesn't change the fact that they were quite literally slaves that were brainwashed into being Islamic and weren't allowed to believe in anything else or leave the Janissaries.
Thanks to that policy we have Vlad the impaler
Ah I didn't need to know that but thanks haha
And now we have Dracula!!! (lol posted before I looked at replies but xD)
Was this the Jizya or another tax?
@@youraveragepotato9411 Is another tax, blood tax was inventet by the Ottomans. Its called Devshirme programm.
Keep up the work man I've been subscribed for a while, love the content!
The Swiss keeping ahold of Jewish valuables is very true. The Nazis would send priceless jewelry and artwork along with Jewish heirlooms to their own accounts in Switzerland. Especially when the war started going bad for them so they could use the money to either escape Europe or after they survived the war. Since many Nazis didn’t survive the accounts still have those items. I saw a article years ago talking how a Jewish man saw a old family painting up for auction by the Swiss and had to appeal to the UN for aid in getting the painting back, cause the Swiss refused to hand it over.
Not just the Swiss, the Austrians too. They kept 5 Klimt paintings stolen by the nazis. Took one of the family's heirs a seven year legal battle to try and get them back.
Search for "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer". There's even a film about the story now.
Artur, don't sell yourself short, you're a very handsome fellow.
The Aztecs were a huge empire...and they constantly pissed people off. "You get to tithe...these people we are going to ritually sacrifice. Thanks!"
Cortez had a _ton_ of allies from the surrounding countryside fighting beside him, advising him, etc.
People really do gloss over how fucking horrible and truly savage the Aztecs were. Basically everyone hated them and actively aided Cortez in their destruction. It's hard to really condemn it when you consider that it was mostly an American native war and less so a European one.
And not to mention diseases literally did the rest.
7:13 Actually, historians aren't entirely sure if Lenin ordered the guards to shoot the Tsar, or if the guards made that decision on their own.
They wouldn't be there in the first place without Lenin. Even if he didn't give the order (which I find unthinkable), he still enabled EVERY EVENT that led to the guards murdering the Romanovs. A sad day in history. Like all monarchies, bad things happened, but much like the French, we should remember the Soviets not as heroes but as rabid fucking animals that ripped people apart in the streets. You don't respect a dog that mauls a child.
Just so you know the person who made this video is Finnish and something to look at is a Swedish band called Sabaton which is a rock band that sings about history
Primo victoria dude
The French in WW1 were extremely tough and provided the bulk of Entente forces on the western front, taking atrocious casualties. Unfortunately here in the US (and in the UK) WW2 has colored all of the incredible French military history.
Their casualties did not make them 'great', though. There were virtually no competent European militaries at the time, which is why America refused to allow European commanders give orders to American troops, or to allow American troops to be dispersed amongst foreign divisions. Europe's commanding class was happy using the same strategies that would lead to millions dead. America saw this already in its Civil War, and refused to repeat it. America was in its way, much ahead of its time in warfare. This is primarily why American forces were so pivotal in both World Wars. It wasn't really about the equipment, though that did help: The Americans knew HOW to fight wars that didn't destroy their own manpower. What good is victory now when Germany invades France again in 15 years when France hasn't had a chance to rebuild its forces properly?
@@enderoctanus I reallyyyy disagree with your opinion loli
@@Longey9000 I don't see why. Being great is to do great things. Murdering your own troops due to your overinflated ego? We should NOT celebrate that. That is an incredibly dark and evil thing that Europe did, and tried to do to American troops. Don't misunderstand me, I have a great deal of sympathy for the grunt that was told to either climb up out of the trench or be shot by his own men. Such men were betrayed by their own nation, it's hard not to sympathize. But that is not greatness. It is a tragedy. Oedipus isn't a hero, he is tragic. Still respectable sure but for different reasons.
Now things were certainly different in WW2, nations like FInland fought well and bravely against seemingly impossible odds, and even won sometimes (though I don't think the winning is as important to how great an act it was). The French were on paper evenly matched with the Nazis, but due to their LACK of greatness, they folded. They lacked the political willpower to do what had to be done, and made INCREDIBLE strategic errors. That is weakness, not greatness. Naturally, I am not factoring the common French soldier overly much into this evaluation, because the French soldier did not contribute greatly beyond the first half year of the war, if even that long. I am sure there were countless individual acts of greatness, of that I have no doubt, but I would not say that you can apply that to the nation itself.
@@enderoctanus Where did “greatness” come into the discussion? And I’d disagree that the American insistence on operating as their own separate command in WW1 was a reaction to the perceived ability of French commanders. And the Americans relied in many ways on French equipment, supply, intelligence, etc. The only American equipment that could arguably be called superior would be the 1903 Springfield and trench guns, though that was a tactical decision more than an edge in equipment. American forces borrowed tanks, borrowed aircraft, borrowed artillery, and borrowed light automatic weapons from the French. Regarding WW2, On paper French military forces were superior to the German forces at the beginning of the war, so they obviously were able to rebuild. Obviously we can’t argue that they proved superior in combat, though late war French allied forces were effective fighting forces. But, my initial point was simply that the stain of the WW2 fall of France (and to some extent the failure in Indochina) has wrongly colored previous French military history, which was equal to or better than the history of their peer European powers.
People know, we just don’t care. The memes are funnier than the depressing reality, so…
When the snow starts speaking finnish is making reference to Simo Häyhä, The White Death. Who in 1939 in less than 100 days got 505 confirmed Russian kills. He could have had more but he liked to let one russian go from a group just so they can report back the entire squad was taken out.
"Do you know any cute Russians?"
Wide Putin: **cries in the corner**
15:02 Mansa Musa's country did have a lot of gold, but more importantly a major African trade route passed through it, and he put a tax on *everything* that came through.
Blizkrieg actually stands for lightning war, but guess it counts as a surprise
DUDE! always speak your mind! we might not always agree but we'll have a good conversation!
Something I think you might be interested in is a video called Fort Drum: America's Unsinkable 'Concrete Battleship' by a youtuber called Calum. This video talks about a Fort in a harbor that was a major thorn in the backs of the japanese during their invasion of the Phillipino island of Manilla.
In 1919 when Poland broke free from Russia the Soviets tried to retake them, the polish ultimately defeated the Red Army and even managed to advance into Russia. One of the tactics they used was after they found the Soviet radio frequency they started broadcasting readings of the Bible over the soviets military orders to cause confusion
Edit: Please refer to Mr Pawel Malek's reply below, he is more knowledgeable on this story than I am
Yes but:
1- we broke free in 1918, in 1919 the war in the east started when German garnisons retreated back home.
2- that wasn't a tactic that was one episode when few polish boys after getting their hands on soviet radio decided to do some trolling. It was very effective since it cut off communication of one of armies (4th I think) and they continued their advance north (away from rest of their forces) instead of turning southwest and Poles managed to encircle them and they had to go into german prussia to avoid destruction (poles allowed it beacause they didn't have the power to lose on destroying them).
@@Bolshevik.remover thank you for the clarification
The blocking of the Silk Road did kind of lead to discovering America.
The Portuguese went south around Africa to get to India so Christopher Columbus had to go to Spain to get support for his voyage. The fact that he proved the world is round is a myth because that was already known but he argued that the world was smaller than was thought (both sides were way off) which would enable his voyage.
Since the Earth is bigger than he thought it was had America not been there Columbus would have either been forced to turn around or his voyage would have run out of supplies and starved before they could ever reach India.
Fun fact:in a conference pepsy's ceo said "we are disarming the soviet union more than the us government has ever done
Honestly I’d love to see you do some more history stuff. I love seeing your reactions to this kind of stuff.
hi! Love your videos! fan from latvia! happy new year :)
Learning history 40 years ago: Damn, that is horrible, we must ensure it never happens again.
Learning History now: haha funni mustache man go *brrr*
More like 70 years ago lol I'm 40 and the 80s is when it all started to go wrong lol
I suggest you try reacting to the channel The Front. If you do I suggest you start with either the video called "how a platoon of polish postmen embarrassed the SS" or "The insane diversity of the Lithuanian Resistance" or "The longest march in history" how a legion of Czech Soldiers took over the TransSiberian railway.
Artur: ever seen a cute Russian guy?
Gigachad: am I a joke to you?
This is the first video I've gotten from you in my home page in a long time.
The Dutch "police actions" were basically them trying to take back their colony(Indonesia). Pretty successfully(at some point the Indonesians lost most of the country) until they backed off due to international and US pressure.
4:22 Bringing over diseases that the native people had no resistance to, taking advantage of Montezuma's generosity and taking him captive, and rallying neighboring territories against Tenochtitlan once his forces were driven out to retake the city using translators to help is what allowed him to end an empire. This is paraphrased so not all of the details are here but it is the important stuff
Also there were a lot of small native tribes wanting revenge
Keep in mind Montezuma regularly kidnapped and sacrificed neighbors so probably didn’t take much to get to want them to return the favor
Got myself a mug now :) Thanks for the blast, have a good new years eve! Greetings from Norge
Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!!!! Love from Canada🇨🇦
At the end of each video you should have a list of your patrons appear on screen or you could do what Drew Durnil does and name them off at the end of your videos to encourage more people to join because they basically get shoutouts at the end of every video!
Keep up the great work as always, your channel is easily one of my favorites I’ve ever watched, by the way country balls 5 is now out in case you haven’t watched it.
I just now noticed the little edits in the video and I'm so glad to see this UA-camr making it. Can't wait for your next vid 😁😁
This was a really good compilation. I'm a fan of history memes.
Don't sell yourself short. You are the Estonian Superman.
The Pepsi/Russia thing was way before 1989. Kruschev famously had one on his tour of the US in like 59 at the recommendation of then-VP Richard Nixon, and they had a plant there in the early or mid 70s. This would come up again later at a very hard time for Nixon when he'd just pulled two respectable terms as VP, lost the Presidential election to Kennedy, then lost the governor election too. A Pepsi PR manager remembered him doing them a solid three years earlier and they hired him, and he was so loyal that he continued trying to push Pepsi to the Soviets all he could, which led to some crazy trade deals involving vodka and goddamn warships (which were scrapped).
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The Aztecs pissed off their neighbors, who were also city states mind u, so when Cortez came over they gladly joined.
I'm saving up for a fish shirt next week. Love your merch, wish it was listed in USD
15:53 | Turkish is a different branch, but it has a lot of loanwords from French mainly.
Cortez found many allies in neighboring tribes whom the Aztecs would raid and sacrifice captives to their gods. The Conquistadors seemed like a better option at the time.
Fun fact : the same pope that freed the polish from the USSR was the first person to recognize slovenian independence
I mean who else could?
14:30 The French WW1 was actually still pretty powerful, it's just WW2 when they couldn't really move on and start upgrading their things because they were too prowd of the victory.
@@grandobsserver3260 kind of yes, but remember both Colonies and British fundament.
9:44 "saxophones are banned", i think it was only briefly. for example shostakovitch who lived in the soviet union wrote a lot of music for saxophone like the suite for jazz orchestra.
At 12:21 no that’s how we started sailing around Africa to get there. America was discovered when some sailors smoked crack and thought “maybe going around the other side is faster” even tho they kinda knew how big the earth was and that it would be farther.
Happy new year Artur.
Do a review of Forrest Fenn the fighter pilot during Vietnam. He has a 28 min video where he commentaries what he is doing. Pretty cool old time footage.
All I know about Poland is that they are quite determined to never be wiped off the map again. I for one appreciate my Polish brothers and sisters!.
Understandable after WW2, between Polish jews being the single biggest group in the extermination camps by far and Poland itself being double teamed by Russia and Germany, they have all the reason in the world to arm themselves for the future.
Actually the map distortion makes places away from the equator appear larger than they are in real life so Alaska looks bigger on a map than it really is. It’s still huge though.
Yep, alaska is the only reason the us is bigger than brazil.
lets go, 2022! it doesn't feel any different and it probably won't get better. but 2022 lets go!!!!
14:17 Arthur after seeing a meme about France begins speaking French: _"Oui, oui..."_ :D
Before gummy vitamins existed, Flinstone's were the schnitzel. They were in the shapes of Fred, Barney, etc, and had the consistency of crumbly chalk, but we'd crunch down as many of them as Mom would give us.
Funny thing about that Scotland meme is that it was actually the Scottish monarchy that gained the English crown, not the other way around, as the House of Stuart were already Scottish before they got the English title
I love how the backround for a lot of these memes are the french flag
Happy new year, Artur!! :)
Story has it that on his ”hajj” (pilgrimage) to Mecca, Mansa Musa built a mosque every friday.
Elon named his company after Tesla, most likely. But the big thing was Edison was pushing for 'alternating current' electricity, and Tesla was a fan of 'direct current'. Both have their pros and cons, but Edison ultimately prevailed.
No, Edison was pushing D.C. That's why he executed an elephant with A.C. to prove how "dangerous" it was. Edison had several D.C. device patents and was looking to get.contracts for electrical production. Tesla designed effective (and efficient) A.C. generators and motors.
Edison did a great job adopting good technologies, but he started out completely wrong on A.C. vs D.C.
@@Stevarooni thank you for the correction, it's been a while since college...
@@AcridSoul and even longer since Edison vs. Tesla. 😁
The Louisiana purchase was the best real estate deal ever for the US 2.144.476 km2 for a total of 15 millions dollars of the time .
It included what is now Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado; as well as part of the current provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada.
Fun fact: regarding switzerland, theres around 400.000 bunkers scattered around the country, which is insane considering the size of the country. Even france doesnt even have a fraction of that number. But the army suffers from the same maintenance syndrome as the german army.
I've had two UA-camr mugs and they both broke. After watching your video I did some dishes and I noticed that I don't have the Estonian UA-camr mug. My kitchen feels empty without it.lol. I didn't want to buy a mug because I don't want it to break. But now we are on some good medication. And I miss the Estonian UA-camr cup. I trust that it will be safe in my apartment so I will take a chance and buy another one soon.
Who would win?
The British Navy or 1 Scottish Guy?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year!
Yeah, Russia and newly formed United States were once allies and Russia actually offered to sell Alaska to United States and not Canada(British Colonials). The Russian Empire wasn't friends with Great Britain and refused to sell it to Canada. United States got lucky on this deal and found oil. Russia, of course, regretted this.
15:39 If I remember correctly, Turkish is kind of a mixture of Arabic, Latin, and some Mediterranean languages.
While it does have loanwords from those languages. It is actually (surprise surprise) a turkic language.
@@kamielheeres8687 yeah, I figured. I was making an educated guess based on how many different civilizations had come and gone in the region over the last few thousand years. You know how languages change based on who lives in an area. I figured "surprise" had a Latin base considering how the Roman/ Byzantine empires lived in Turkey
I learned alot about world history from you. This is a good video. 🇵🇭
17:10 Yes, it was Lenin. The execution of Nicholas II’s family took place in 1918.
Dude you're amazing
As far as the beauty of people. In my opinion, people wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and see the same damn face looking straight back at them every day. They see every flaw and blemish in themself and feel they are just another average looking man or woman living in a community with a bunch of other normal looking humans beings, living normal daily lives. When we see people from other countries or races, we see features with differences in the color of their eyes, skin and hair and shapes of their bodies. Some of us will see the absolute beauty in one or more of these differences while others will see the same differences as being ugly or maybe just cute. I guarantee you there are people that don't like the color of your skin or how your face looks and I also guarantee there are people that see you as very handsome and the same goes for people in every other country. Then we have the interracial humans that, in my opinion, have a lot of absolutes. One thing that I feel is true is when two people, that are considered below average in looks, from two separate races have a children, the children turn out to be the most absolute, stunningly beautiful, or handsome humans on the planet and the further below average they look the more stunning the child becomes. They also seem to keep their looks into their golden years, plus their children turn out to be lookers as well.
So maybe one day we will all blend into one beautiful and handsome race, with no absolutely ugly people and no absolutely beautiful people, no tall people and no short people, no fat people and no skinny people, all with beautiful smiles, the human race. Then we will all know for sure, that all wars on this planet, are started by the ones we put in control of keeping us safe (government, religion and media) by feeding us the fuel of hate and allowing ourselves to believe it.
Of course this is all in my opinion so the total bs factor is strong in the evaluation.
Thanks again for the entertaining video's and I hope you work out the highest profit producing business structure that works for you. Thumbs up as always!
Hi Arthur my cup just arrived and it is very good 👍 😊
Happy New Year
The nuke was always a bomb. The gatlin gun was the same concept. To much death to sustain a battle.
4:20 answer: guns, germs, and steel. smallpox, muskets, steel weapons and armor. also, Cortes acted perfidiously. he set up a meeting with Montezuma that was supposed to be peaceful, but turned out to be an ambush.
I mean, technically the richest man in history wad Solomon. With an approximate annual income of 12 trillion dollars
Scientists: We can split the atom to release energy. Unless contained though, t would release a dangerous explosion of energy with unforeseen effects.
Military: We can ... release a dangerous explosion. Cool. War Funds granted.
On Alaska, there’s also gold, silver, copper, tin, nickel, iron, coal, gem stones, amber, and other valuable commodities.
I think you mean 1 world war, France didn't surrender in World War I. On the contrary, they did pretty good against the Germans and handed them some of their greatest defeats not just in that war but ever. World War II is where all the surrender/France being weak comes from.
Napoleon sold it since keeping the Colonies would have been to expensive wile Fitting a war so Getting money for it was better then getting it invaded by an enemy and lose it without getting anything for it.
The Russian Zars wanted/needed money so they sold it
As an American, our history teachers barely teach us anything nowadays...
Seriously, all my history teacher did was just sit and read textbook chapters to us and didnt really do anything. It was really boring because I was looking forward to learning about a lot of American history. But the book had limited topics and had a lot of filters because of how violent the historical situations were. It was really bland, in my opinion, and very disappointing.
This year on the other hand, my world history teacher was absolutely amazing! I couldn't ask for a better teacher, he taught us so much about other countries and their history, we mainly focused on the French revolution and it was really cool because we got into details like the guillotine and King Louis and Marie Antoinette 's life. Unfortunately, next semester my history teacher will not be teaching us anymore and will be replaced with another teacher, I will very much miss him!
(THANKS MR. TAYLOR!!!)
Yeah ever since learning what Andrew Jackson did many years ago, I highly question why we ever put him on the $20 bill..
For the most part it was to be petty
There's several factors on how Cortez did it but main thing is down to diseases and modern tactics.
So Cortez actually din't have 1,000 men but actually more of about 2,000 and 2 ships total. However, facing a whole Aztec Empire worth over 500,000 men of various forms be it actual army or tribal defenders, that's alot.
So the main thing down to what Cortez had against the Aztecas is that he had guns and cannons from his ships that could be ripped and used on land. The Aztecas did not know what's a gun and even with their bows, they had to hit limbs and won't kill anything when Cortez and his men were all wearing cuirasses which the Aztecas din't even know existed and almost everything they used wern't metal items against what Cortez and his men had so for them to even hurt the Conquistador, they had to go veeery near whereas Cortez and his men could sit back hundreds of yards away, fire their muskets and cannons repeatedly and watch the Aztecas fall down or flee before deciding to affix bayonets or draw sabre and chase them down and cut every single one to death during skirmishes.
The 2nd thing is disease. Due to the lack of outside trade, the Aztecas did not know of any disease that they already knew but because Cortez came from Continental Europe, he brought in a new kind of disease which if I remember correctly was small pox and during that time, the Aztecas had never seen or even knew what it was. Thus when his men started spreading it towards the Aztecas, the whole nation was ravaged by it as they did not how to cure nor stop the spread thus it went further and further into the country and soon it started to kill off everyone that's infected by it and it's estimated that because of the disease alone, it killed off about 1.3 million Aztecas. Huge numbers.
About the route block of the route to India, basicaly the quickest route to India, through ottoman egypt (suez canal), was blocked by ottomans so everybody looked west to find another way to get those sweet monies
This was amazing
In American school they say that Christopher Columbus discovered America. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451, Columbus made his way to Spain, where he gained support from the Spanish monarchy. He persuaded King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I to sponsor his quest to find a westward route to China, India, and Japan-lands then known as the Indies.
It’s actually unknown if Lenin ordered the execution of Nicholas the second or if it was the guards preventing them escaping on there own actions
21:45 So, *THAT’S, WHY* so many Americans choose to live unhealthily 💡.
that one about Chernobyl, was made funnier because the guy who said “im gonna pretend i didn’t see that” was Ray Charles, a famous American musician who was also blind.
Cortez had other native allies in the area who hated the Aztecs. Like the Tlaxcalans for example. Who joined his army of 600 men (He would later betray and enslave those same people) Not only that, most of the Aztecs died from European contact / diseases rather than the actual war. They also had guns, horses, canons and ships. We sadly didn’t ):
Oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR my it bring you wealth and joy
6:10 I’m now downloading my summer car again
Both Switzerland and Sweden still got stonks of Nazi gold. Neutrality with reservations!
Guy with the mashed potatoes.."Please send me to die in war! I don't want to starve to death instead!"
Happy new year!!! 1:08 AM
Estonian soviet soldier watching memes after siege of leningrad in color 1944
Alaskan oil wasn't discovered until like five years after the sale lol
Turkish is an Altaic language related to Mongolian, and more distantly Korean, Japanese and Chinese.
However, most European languages are related to Indian and Iranian through Indo-European which split off into Indic and Indo-Iranian and Germanic, Latin etc.
You should do a video on Scotland🏴🏴
I just saw this video. Can we have more?
Richard Jordan Gatling was the inventor of the Gatling gun and he thought they gun would cause the end of war. Who would want to fight when such a weapon of devastation existed. Unfortunately, he underestimated humanities desire for brutality.
If I die in a car accident or something I'll have in my will a section where you can have my hair follicles
Yes!
I would have thought of that but I think you're right as far as that meaning the ocean route and finding North America. 👀