What if the Black Death Wiped Out Europe?
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What if the Black Death wiped out Europe? Say instead of half of Europe being killed, it was instead 90%? What could we see happen? Here is one scenario.
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countries surrounding europe: "its free real estate"
Islam you mean, Islam would have dominated the world if Europeans didn't exist, I cannot see any civilization living up to the might of Islam at the time of the medieval ages. Islam was only stopped because of Europe. If not for Europeans, America would all be Islamic
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@@alex7715 Commie bastard
Lyn he didn’t disagree with you.
"Diease isn't fun"
You my friend, have not played Plague Inc.
"Communism is spreading quickly"
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I love that you used 90% fatality rate because, regardless of if you knew it or not, its actually estimated that around 10% of people were immune to the disease. Now, almost every disease has people immune to it anyway but the 10% is because lots of small villages of germany were not warned about the disease at all and all lived in the same large building. They also didn't know how to counter it which means that they still took care of the diseased themselves and buried the bodies instead of burning them. So, everyone in those villages probably got infected but around 10% survived everytime without ever showing any symptoms. So if it infected absolutely everyone in Europe, it would indeed be around 10% that would survive.
"Half of everyone died"
Me: "Perfectly balanced, as all things should be"
Thanos Agrees
Thanos:I like this plauge thing
maybe he shouldve made an auto generating disease lol
Are you volunteering?
*wheeze*
So Poland during the Black Death was like Switzerland during the World Wars?
@Titanium Mapping
Yeah, the reason Poland did so well was because of hygene. For example - the Polish king and his court took regular baths, and the kings of France bathed often under 10 times in their whole lives. You can see how that would lead to resistance to plagues for Poles.
@@jek_si2251 Nope. Poland and northern Europe was more rural than than its southern counterpart so the disease wasn't transmitted easily there. This is also why Mid East was less affected by the Black Death than in the West, because many part of it were isolated by arid, unpopulated desert. But.. the Black Death did wreck more concentrated place like Nile Delta in Egypt and between Euphrates and Tigris in Iraq.
@@jek_si2251 dude, the only way to survive the plague is to be bloodtype O.
It gives you a natural immunity.
This is why most of Europe is bloodtype O.
Poland was also a place where many Jews lived, and they as a religion were typically more hygienic than the Christians
@@kelseyc5102 poland did became the center of european jew, but that happened AFTER black death.
their should be a video game or a tv series about this alternate universe, seeing a ruined medieval europe slowly being invaded by the other powers would be pretty interesting
Play crusader kings and start a plague in Europe via console commands. The story writes itself from there.
Later, the Inca and the Mayan invade the islamic world with their ww1 weapons
@@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447 the mongols,aztecs,abbassids and ummayads would take over europe and fight among themselves
@@alphagamer9505 That's the idea.
@@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447 in my game that is happening,except is the byzantines instead of the aztecs
"disease isnt fun"
mild joke in 2017, relatable meme today.
@@legionsoldier1342 a virus is a disease
@@legionsoldier1342 Covid’s a Disease, do you know what a disease is?
I was just thinking that
Poland was affected by the black death, just not as much as the rest of Europe. This is due to Casimir the Great quarantining the borders and Poland's less dense population size.
Ripbandit ah thank you
Dancing Deity Right
Ripbandit Good leader!
BUILD THE WALL
John Smith Ha!
The Black Death is like one of those people who got a god-like killstreak.
Miguel De Manuel *K.E.M* INBOUND
Showery Tactical nuke inbound!!!
It's owning the matches!
You mean like Genghis Khan, who killed 40 million people or 10% of the world's population at the time?
Master Zyrel does he have a stat clock on his empire?
Read "The years of rice and salt". It's a alternate history novel where 90% of europe is wiped out and it's consequences and ripple effects.
Really good book.
Muslims also conquer Europe. But they have competition from China and the Native Americans.
He mentioned it in a newer video. I read it.
Cody namedropped the book- the audiobook version, to be precise-in 8:57... And funnily enough, the book is the inspiration for this video lol
Tbf, he namedropped it in an ad read for Audible so yeah.
I heard about it from one of Cody’s videos. I’ve been reading it at the beach for years because it’s so dense, but it’s fun
that would never happen if I'm on the case.
Thank you for your service Plague Doctor
Thank you doc, for helping the world evolve how it did.
Hahahahahaha
Ah! So good to see another from the Plague Doctor association!
*cough cough* help please
Dang it the Black Death stole my kill again
Matt Williams It stole mine too
The plague got killed by chuck noriss
Matt Williams MVP: XxX_Bl4cK_D3aTh_XxX
was it Black_PLague27?
Without any external threat or competition from the neighboring European states, Poland can finally achieve it's destiny and can into Space!
I imagine a soda can in space with the Polish flag on it.
Noice lol
EpicEevee Probably there's one.
Note: I know this joke is from Polandball.
It is rather interesting how Poland did not capitalize on/exploit (no significant change in borders) the weakened neighbors right after the plague ebbed out.
BTW, the Polish lands where not affected because the king issued strict quarantine orders on the borders that where enforced. Sure, commerce took a plunge dive but the people at least did not die in agony.
Probably because they were worried about getting infected by the plague.
Poland...
You’re danm lucky you are
Jaybae My love Really? They are already far behind western european societies in every regard. Conservatism, nationalism and isiolationism aren't going to help catching up.
WW2 time
@@trollemall7016 how is your regresive "progressivism" working out so far?
@@jezuz6668 You do understand how ridiculous your term "regres[s]ive preogressivism" sounds to people with a brain, right? First of all you could try to explain to me what "progressivism" is supposed to mean.
But I guess what you wanted to ask me is how my life in a free society without racial, religous and sexual discrimination and without the constant paranoia of minorities works out. I have to say it's working out great. It's really nice to have left the dark ages behind and to live by the ideals of the enlightment, science and logic rather than by blind, undeducated and ignorant fears.
@@trollemall7016 Ok, first of all, this isn't a dichotomy between literal feudalism and modern technocratic social liberalism. (I hope you consider this to be non-braindead)
A conservative nation-state can without internal philosophical contradictions still use science, "logic" and most descriptive parts of the enlightenment, although I must say that the "enlightenment" is a hard thing to define. Conservatism, in this case, refers to modern European style conservatism
Second of all, "progressivism" depending on what "type" you are talking about, isn't very "pro enlightenment" if we look at it from a value perspective. The enlightenment in many ways laid the foundation for institutions like the British and French empire and is in general pretty imperialistic.
Also, the scientific enlightenment created moralistic and civilisational meta-narratives and was in general very reductionist, this being the opposite of what post-modernism proposes. (although it is in line with marxism)
Lastly, I think you're making a logical mistake (if I have interpreted you correctly), as you seem to use the authority of "logic" and "science" to strengthen your value position. This is a fallacy as neither science or logic leads to anything, it is purely descriptive and therefore using it in this way doesn't really make sense.
I would recommend you this video as a general explainer of the fallacy I believe you have committed ua-cam.com/video/KX62hnzucDE/v-deo.html
I hope this is useful :)
Europe: Dies
Middle East: *It's free real estate*
Turkey: *Cries in Istanbul*
@Da Turk Mapper oh yes,I thought the video said it would happen in modern world
@@oklahoma7213 that would be dark
this is kind of like an uno reverse card
WARLORD of the desert no it wouldent!!! It would be black 🐸
Plague Inc. Intensifies
Me playing on brutal:
WE SHOULD HAVE ANNEXED CANADA
Everyone is dying
the world is ending
Oh god
the apocalypse is nearing
Poland: Heh
poland was at war then
Peppermint Cat me:*robs stores*
Oh thank God I live in poland
It's myth, lack of hygine =in Europe started in 16th century when pardime in medicine changed , high nad late Middle AGes was very hygenic in whole Europe, oland simply avoided black death simply becouse king Casimir the Great done same what Venice did-quarantine, great invention of Medieval medicine, he had time to close trade routes fo a while in a north (Pomerania back then was teporaly taken by Teutonic Order) and in the south through Sudets and Carpathians, that is why semi indpendet silesian dukedoms and prinicplaities avoided the spread of plague either just like mostly Venice and Milan, lack of hygine was an effects of such pandemics in later centureis not the cause, just remeber that plague spred form central Asia and touched all that hadn't been imune to it vast of Middle East and China was also depopulated, the plague was reason why Mongol dynasty in China has been overthrown. So reason why we avoided black death were sanitary cordons on trade routes
Peppermint Cat HAHAHAHA I GOT IT POLAND ON SPACE HAHAHAH
Europe doesn't make "The Final Countdown" in this scenario.
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
You won the comment of the year award
Damn... He's good
Milsurp Mike I don't get it..
A band called Europe made a song called The Final Countdown :P
Interesting counter point: The world may very well have achieved the same technological and intellectual complexity that we have today in this timeline, but it would not have originated in Europe, but in the Americas.
Few civilizations were more complex, diverse, grand in scale, and understanding of astronomy, science, and mathematics than the Mayan empire. Of which we now know, at its peak, was essentially the population center of the earth. During its classic period (A.D. 250-900) its reach covered an area about twice the size of medieval England whilst being far more densely populated. Though the Maya eventually died out, history has proven the geography and resources of the area is capable of sustaining a massive civilization, and even after the Maya empire fell, the western world was no stranger to complex societies among its territories.
By the time the European colonization had started and Cortes went off on his mission, there were population centers still present in the area like Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, all three of which were complex, partnering city states with their own laws, economies, politics, soldiers, and infrastructure. This wasn't the only coalition of its kind either, there were other areas of the Americas that had equally complex people and settlements, such as the Iroquois confederacy which was comprised of five smaller nations (later six nations in 1722), that was governed by a Grand Council, an assembly of fifty chiefs, each representing one of the clans of one of the nations, all of which adhered to a constitution they called the "Great Law of Peace" of which the founding fathers of the United States took HEAVY inspiration from when drafting their own constitution.
Evidence has shown the Americas were an equally diverse and complex set of societies, tribes, and nations like Europe was, just spread out over a much greater distance, despite which didn't hinder their ability to communicate, travel, and trade with each other for thousands of years.
Had European intervention not occurred and had the Americas been left isolated, there's no doubt in my mind one or few dominant forces in the region would, through however many cycles of power needed, eventually stabilize and sustain a massive civilization or set of civilizations close to or as complex as the one we have today... we would all just be speaking some much, much stranger languages.
Yea it's not like native Americans were less smart, which given the right resources they could be on the same level of technology as Europe, but they lacked a lot of tameable animals like cows for milk and meat, chickens for eggs and horses for easy travel, and so on. They didnt have easily domesticateable animals. Sure a bull would have been nice to have but how could you domesticate a bull with just yourself, maybe a friend and some sharp sticks. It was to difficult and even with our technology we are just starting to domesticate the bull
Had the animals like horses cows and animals like that, they very well could have been the first to cross the Atlantic and go to Europe. CPG Grey covered it well in the video Americapox:the missing plague I think
But none of them had a gun...
These are sum long paragraphs
@@cookiemuffin3208 Maybe the Inca empire would trade with the Mesoamerican empires. The Llama for easy travel.
I really like this idea and I think in this timeline it would be the inhabitants of the Americas that would go exploring. I think they would be astonished at the rituals of Islam and especially Catholicism (ritual symbolic cannibalism).
"Rest assured, tens of millions of Africans are enslaved,"
REST ASSURED
rofl!
Just in case you were worried about them not becoming enslaved.
Well i was a little concerned, but im glad there's no reason to worry.
The Americans can sigh in relief, but Africa is just perpetually fucked in all timelines.
Lol XD
“hey guys, you like my new tattoo? It’s pronounced ‘Stultus essem’ it mean great warrior, I am like, so in touch with my 6.25 percent european ancestery, my tribe were called the Veekoongs”
Lol
Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a book with this as the premise: "The Years of Rice and Salt"
I'm suprised he didn't touch heavily on that already and borrow ideas. Overall the premise and it's history (bar the butterfly effect) seems plausible.
He mentions it in his iceberg video
"It's estimated at least a third to even half of Europeans died over 7 years."
*THANOS HAS JOINED THE CHAT*
And those 10% are in Poland
KubA KubA literally Poland.
Ha screw you im polish
Nothing to be proud of haha!
oczywiście że nam sie nic nie stało, jesteśmy po prostu fajni :)
I wish he went into more detail about what happened to Poland in this timeline. I.e. the last bastion of Europe is *Poland* of all places.
"Disease are bad"
Well atleast you can skip school
ASMR GOD do you to school when you’re dead?
You can skip life
If you die
no he means you stay alive but since you're sick you wil not go to school.
Richardson Productions but like no school
Us Poles are very good at surviving
Spacey - it's all the sour cream. P.S. SLAWA
Thank God for the Polish Race!
Spacey - Also very bad at winning wars.
Keep defending yourselves against Islam please.
When the world blows up, Poland is just gonna fly up in one piece and continue to exist because they survive everything .Now finally free from Russia and Germany, they become an interstellar empire, leading the universe with kielbasas in hand. We need an alternate history video on this.
2020: Coronavirus Outbreak
UA-cam’s Algorithm: ...
Yeahhhh
The algorihm is a Harsh mistres
Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!
It can always be worse.
Yeah, its only killed about 2 million people and still going.
Imagine astronauts being the first Old World people to discover the Americas.
You mean opposite
In this scenario we don't go much of...well anywhere.
That's actually kinda amazing.
"Discover America" there were already humans in America. You are looking things from an Eurocentric point of view.
@@ernestov1777 difference is how structured there society is? In native american tribes you realize they did not come up with much that the Europeans did not and were still living like nomads. They had no records, did not discover metallurgy and urban areas were highly sparce.
"Disease isn't fun"
That's subjective Cody
Right? Who doesn't love Ebola-chan?
Dancing Plague of 1518
papa Nurgle is that you?
alaster boneman
Ha ha... references...
DESTROY US ALL
The Black Death or the Plague didn't just occur in one 10 year span, it recurred multiple times over multiple centuries.
Yeah but this was the latest and most deadly
It happened in England in the 1600’s and on the west coast in the early 1900’s just not as bad.
The one in England was devastating
The okay recorded major outbreak of plague in Europe was, IIRC, in the early 1800s.
Yeah, but the later waves demonstrably pale in comparison to the wave that hit Europe in the late 1340s. Not to make light of the ones from the 1660s or 1800s, but even they were no comparison.
The moral is:
Dont be nasty
Always live healthy
Moral: Live or else die
Your profile picture is Tintin. That makes me happy.
"half of everyone died EXCEPT FOR POLAND"
pikminexplorer Polska stronk.
lol
Its actually all because of Casimir the Great, he just started a quarantine.
We survived (Poland) but some time later we will be raped by our neighbours soooo
Error3000 Poland started the raping first by attacking Muscovy in the early 17th century to convert Russians to Catholicism. I love how you always skip that part.
Hey AlternateHistoryHub
The civilizations in Mexico-ish area were pretty interested in technology, advancement, and were overall not doing too shabby. Is it possible that with these extra centuries of time to develop, they become the technological superpowers of the world? (or at least gotten a lot farther than in our timeline)
Sadly no. While their civilizations were impressive, they were geographically kind of screwed. They didn't have proper resources for advanced weapons, and even if they did, Old World diseases still would have brought them down after contact
Sorry if my questions are annoying I'm just really curious
So disease would get them eventually regardless, but they did at this point, have a history of drought wiping out populations
Do you think in these centuries they would have eventually attempted to invade the amazonian area for better resources, farmland, and water?
Its unlikely that they would have ever reached the Amazon, as that would have been large distance, and they would have to cross the Darién Gap at the panama-colombia border, which is impassable even to this day. They would also had to contend against Mayan city states in the Yucatan-Guatemala region. They would have overextended themselves to much.
And even if they by some miracle they did reach the Amazon region, they would be fighting the peoples that lived there, who some theorize where actually more advance than was previously believed.
Well the reason why something like Smallpox was so big. Was because of the domestication of Animals and Plants in the Old World. That spread all over, from Africa to Japan. There was very little in the way of that animal husbandry in the Pre-Columbian Americas the only animals were the Turkey (Only in a few areas in North America) And the Llama in the Incan Empire. People became immune to diseases such as small pox and many others. It would seem that no matter what if it were the Chinese or the West Africans they would have come in contact with these diseases.
As for attempting to expand in the Amazonian Area. I would say it would be very unlikely that they would since how would they chop down the Amazon's very dense trees with a lack of knowledge of metallurgy. I would think that they would have expanded to the Rio de la Plata Area or Columbia in the North a bit. Since they are mostly mountains and plains. Seeing how some people like the Incans would be use to that. Or maybe new civilizations would form out of influence with these empires.
Oh right I forgot that panama area is super hard to get through :/
It will be like you're in Plague Inc
Hack Codex well first you don't know how to speak or type English and second no no it wouldn't
Oh, is that so? Can you correct my sentence? Mr. Grammar Nazi
OK, Hack. But a comma where your second question mark is. Put the question mark where your period is.
Thank you for not being rude. My first language isn't English and I'm still learning
But for some reason my classmates think I'm good and always ask me to correct their sentences, which is a little bit annoying
Ottoman Empire be like in the Balkans:
Hippity hoppity this is now my property
Nice pfp
Nice pfps
Lmao
Nice pfp
Nice PfP
Poland knew the importance of a big and beautiful wall
looking at how many terror attacks and immigrants Poland has, they still do
That could still theoretically be enough for some practices to spread to non-Jews. If a lot of your neighbors are trying this new thing called "washing your hands so that you're not getting your own shit in your food," you might pick it up.
*when everybody takes the joke seriously*
And before you went to the city, you had to take a bath.
Jews came to Poland AFTER the black death period took place. Poland was saved because the king Casimir the Great was smart as fuck and completely shut down the borders
who need a history teacher when you got AlternateHistoryHub
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FullMetalBlackBeard no
1:55 Poland is illuminati confirmed! Thus, Russia and Germany want Poland!
I’m polish xddd
LightStra I'm from Poland too XD
nah thats just a crazy theory.... lets not talk about this further....... its just a crazy theory.......... BTW IM POLISH:)))
Dead meme
Joshua Brown Poland, no plagues, no terrorist attacks.
WTF is Poland doing
"Disease is bad"
*goes on to explain how the Black Death helped Europe develope.*
Proud Thanos noises*
So true.
The more you know
If the Americas were never colonized, wouldn’t the indigenous people keep advancing much farther than in our timeline?
Malika Brown but in our timeline they just died by European diseases. They would advance but not in a fast way
Why would they? Aside from the Incas, and the Mississippian culture (which crashed for reasons of its own), there is no sign of any advancement trends in any of the cultures existing in 1492.
They stopped advancing since the neolithic, i don't see them suddenly changing given a couple centuries.
I was expecting him to expand on that :( Indigenous societies in Mexico and South America were incredibly advanced before being colonized
The trouble is, only the Incas had bronze tools/weapons. None of the other American civilizations had yet got out of the Neolithic age, and none showed any signs of doingf so.
Here, let me contribute to the discussion.
[LOUD WHINING]
I concur
I would like make some requests:
1. What if Nationalists won the Chinese Civil War?
2. What if the Ottoman Empire/Turkey never existed? (Like your Russia video, but in this case, it's Anatolia this time)
3. What if Byzantium extended to up to until the 19th century?
4. What if Britain joined the Central Powers?
5. What if Yugoslavia never fell, but reformed into a democratic one that is a member of the EU as well?
6. (BONUS) What if Native Americans invaded Europe? (I hate invading at Sunset, isn't it?)
Fucking Aztecs.
The answer to #5 is no more bananas in the Balkans
Justin Patrick for 6, not much would really change. Any natives that would come over would die from disease, and could/would bring it back to America and it would spread. And since Europeans still are more technological advanced, They would still have the urge to colonize for easy trade access (and we know how this turns out).
The only way this could be different is if the natives either had equal or better technology (plausible if the natives are discovering Europe first). Also now it's possible that there are no plagues that would kill off the natives (*See CGP Grey for more on why the plagues were more effective*) assuming they tech advanced civilizations lives in big groups together.
Would definitely love to see a video on this, there are lots of outcomes
Here's a comment by this guy named Genghis Khan, but he's marked spam, and I cannot remove it due to Jewgle's bullshitery.
I believe he already did a video of Britain in the central powers.
He did, but IDK where did it go. I think it was deleted by him or something.
James Burgess
It would be rather interesting if the Natives had equal technology to the Europeans, and attempted to invade them. Let's say they have better armor in compensation of them having no gunpowder and such. But there's this real problem, they cannot stand against the Europeans because they don't have horses. They can do with the spears, but with guns? I think they wouldn't survive with that.
1. If this China chose to side with the Americans, the wars in Vietnam and Korea would've likely resulted in victory for America and her puppet states. 2. The Byzantine Empire doesn't fall (at least not as fast), so the Indian spice trade is never blocked, so Spain never has to look for an alternative route to India, so the Americas survive a bit longer. 3. No idea. 4. The central powers would've won, and since Germany never loses, WWII doesn't happen, at least not in the way it did in our world. But the Soviet Union would likely still rise, so maybe they'd take the Nazi's place. 5. Couldn't happen. 6. Perhaps if the Black Death or a similar plague wiped out at least 90% of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, this could happen after a few extra centuries. But predicting what would happen next is virtually impossible.
“No more Southern Europeans”
Well now I start to care about this
No pizza
@@Historyboi-vn7gd YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
me too seen im one of them
No greek! It’s awesome
Βλέπω? Είναι! Μην αφήσετε την πανούκλα να σκοτώσει την Ελλάδα.
Lmao same😭😭 I was like woah woah this has gone too far
3:55 "Its free real estate"
Poland, place where even plagues don't want to go :,)
lollll
szymon boniecki przez to jest zajebista
ThatOneChillMofo You do know that Poland has a large minority of Muslims right?
That's right. I even have muslim neighbour
Estonia is 98% Blue Eyed White Europeans. Hope it stays that way.
What if i could get a girlfriend?
That timeline doesn't exist. It's just impossible.
You picked the wrong video fool!
Lighting in a bottle scenario
You will have less money in your wallet and higher stress.
Same for me!
Some strange fluke of nature, I am just not compatible with human women... apparently?
The coronavirus taking notes like: *hmmmmm 👀*
Black Death
Coronavirus hold my beer
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Why are people giving the gods ideas?
fuck
Six months later this hasn't aged well especially in the United States
Poland has to save Europe again like they did in Vienna
kotzpenner more like Europe saves Poland your country is shite
Poland didn't save Europe, they just won a battle. If they lost, the ottomans would've been defeated anyway.
Adam David How exactly is Europe today going to save Poland?Refugees?
Jan III Sobieski has been my historical husband for months now lmao
I agree, no one could capture Monte Casino, then the Polish did it, with heavy losses, but still conquered and held it, after failed attempts from Italy, Germany, France, Greece, and Croatia.
This is probably one of your best alternate history videos. I like it when you spend more time on speculation than context.
video idea: what if the winged hussars hadn't arrived?
Meme Lord then Vienna falls.
Meme Lord DUH DUH DUH DUH DUHDUHDUHDUHDUH DUH
Arrived where? I'm from Poland, but I hate history so.... XD
El Deplorable yey and you're welcome
El Deplorable But what about us Croats? Without Croatia Vienna would've fallen way before that. They saved Europe once while we saved Europe once... for 400 years.
Does anyone here know why Poland was never affected
Because of the quarantined borders and isolation. Poland was well-prepared for incoming disease.
Poland still got affected, but not much like their neighbours.
Harsh Sidhu Harsh Sidhu No, but actually yes
Poland successfully installed quarantine and was just more caring about taking a fucking bath. They still got affected,but in comparison to rest of Europe,they didnt have so much of a problem.
The Jews in Poland were far more hygienic than Christians
@@DeeRod10 Um does this have anything to do with religion?
History is just so fascinating.. I mean my relatives probably lived in Europe during the time of the black plaque and they survived. I would really love to know more about the history of my own family and where i really come from and what it was that my relatives did to survive some of the fiercest catastrophies
Makes sense. Then you could find out if you have a counterpart there.
What if Einstein did become the president of Israel?
Maybe Einstein would help forge peace between the Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs that early with perhaps a Palestinian state. Relations with the rest of the Middle East would be good and any troubling event such as the oil crisis, the Islamic Revolution and 9/11 would not have happened.
+NikolaiNochnoiTV03 Probably not quite all that but definitely some of it. Einstein was politically liberal and a pacifist. That's quite the opposite of the ultra-right wing nationalism and militarism of Israel today. I'm not saying it would solve all the problems, but when one side in a conflict is moderate it's much more likely to end peacefully than when both are right wing assholes, which is kind of the case today. Israel and Palestine kind of drive each other further down this vicious cycle of becoming more and more nationalistic and aggressive toward each other and someone like Einstein could have defused things. That being said, he would have been a HORRIBLE head of state, he was not a political man, and would have likely had no talent for running a bureaucracy. Also it wouldn't change the power dynamics of Israel having big brother USA to back it up whatever it does, which is the real problem here.
He did help found the Technion institute in Haifa, but he had no desire to be a politician.
More like what if the head of the so called "Palestinian state" wasn't a terrorist enabling twat and was actually interested in peace
Maybe due to him being supportive of Palestinians, He would've done a Palestinian-Israeli State
Imagine if there was an alternate timeline in which this happened, but somehow UA-cam still existed, and you were doing this exact video but on if the plague killed less people and what would have happened if only a third of the population died.
That's really fucked my head up
"Disease isn't fun" really hits more in 2022 than it did in 2017
What if earth was never invented
Franco Vera Earth wasn’t invented and short answer: Nobody would be here
Franco Vera we wouldn’t be here
the f u talking about earth wasnt ivented
Franco Vera Long story short - We wouldn't be here.
Different planet
you should do if all computers blew up on January 1st 2000
Sexy Lightswitch Yes please
I imagine it going something like this:
"Computers are the most important tool in human history, yada yada yada... So what if all the computers stopped working on Y2K?"
*black screen*
"You wouldn't be watching this video."
*video ends*
The computers would have been replaced.
it would have been big, but not nearly as bad as today.
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thanos: you should have gone for the head! *snaps*
half of europe: I don't feel so good! *dies*
Half of every one died EXCEPT POLAND me:😐
This is just fact. Check this.
Basically, Europe wasn't into cleaning themselves and thought that leaving waste of every sort in the street was fine, but Poland had a lot of Jewish immigrants, who weren't liked in most of Europe because no one in history likes the Jews apparently, and they brought the sanitary habits Poland needed to not be affected by the plague, or in the least dampen the effect severely.
>Jews bringing sanitary habits to Eastern Europe
Hadn't have a laugh this good for a month. Slavs and Finns have an ancient tradition of saunas/banyas. And have you ever been around orthodox jews? They're not the sort of people you'd remember as blossoming with pleasant aroma, to say the least.
Alexey Saranchev
Good point!
Edward Nygma That’s also why muslims had a lesser death rate than Christian Europeans, because they washed themselves 5 times a day.
Poland cannot to plaque.
cannot into space as well :(
"a key factor was that King Casimir the Great wisely quarantined the Polish borders. By holding the plague off at the borders, the disease's impact on Poland was softened."
Slashplite can
Ah. That explains why.
Play of the game
Black Death as Reaper
Elimination:75 million
😂😂😂🤷♂️
One hell of a death blossom.
Man, the more I look at videos like this the more I start feeling glad we live in this timeline, even if the world sucks sometimes. Imagine those alternate timeline countries and nations seeing us and how we turned out.
*IM TRYNA SLEEP OVA HERE*
Disease isn’t fun.
Everyone in 2020: You don’t say?
this ain't on that scale
Yeah, but, Covid ain't got shit on the Black Death.
I wish
Not as bad as the black death but still not fun
Poland is dont scared of flees
Damian Duzel But Poland is scared of your grammar.
Ken Shiro oooooooooooooh damn!
He just got roasted!
Ken Shiro it's a reference. Poland is scared of your lack of knowledge of pop culture
Ken Shiro it’s not grammar is spelling
EpiX Cookie I know this is late but it's grammar
There's a book about this very subject called "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson.
What if since the beginning of humanity, everyone worked together for one goal, to colonize the galaxy? Kind of a weird scenario, but I find it interesting. Keep up the good videos
yea
Mongols weren't islamic at that time. They followed a shamanic religion called Tengrism, and were deeply influenced by Buddhism and some variants of Christianism such as Manicheanism. They wouldn't share islam with the Arabs, but would could maybe claim to be the rightful heir to christianism. In any case, the tengrist faith would probably not fade out as it did in our timeline.
Nope, Golden Horde became muslim during first half of XIV century, just before Black Death
The Turks were Tengriists once as well. In the timeline of the Black Death mongolian succesor nations just as the Golden Horde adapted Islam as their religion.
“Every European city in town”
What?!
CoronaVirus: What are you?
Black death: I am you but better.
"Disease isnt fun"
Cody -2017
what if the nuke was never invented?
polish dud solidarnosc WWII would go on much longer and the allies could potentially have lost.
No. The war in Europe would still be over, the nuclear bomb had nothing to do with that. The war in the east between Japan and the US would be affected. With or without the bomb, Japan was already doomed. Their allies, the Germans and Italians, are defeated. They are rapidly running out of resources. Their navy is in shambles. They can't keep up with new advancements like radar. They are being bombed day and night. The question is what would be the nature of their defeat without the fear of a weapon that could rain massive destruction on their cities on a scale never before seen.
It would be the difference between "unconditional surrender", which the US demanded, and conditional surrender, in which Japan could sue for peace, thus avoiding a total occupation of their nation.
And the Cold War could've been much hotter considering MAD isn't as big a threat to the world.
the us probably co u don't fuck up japan
There would have been loads of wars
We probably would gave Been in WW4 or 5
Simply because nukes now make countries too scared to go into war with each other.
"Disease Isn't Fun"
That would explain how terrible the cancerous comments feel
Obscure History *Inserts Fnaf*
Alternatehistorymapper 420 Inserts undertale
Obscure History I C WUT U DIDERE.
;)
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Poland: ouch!!
Rest of Europe: *ohhhhhhhhh my God please help me AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!*
Black Death was more severe in the Middle East and North Africa (+they are in the busiest trade route of the time) so if european population was wiped out, the same would happen with the middle east and north Africa
Then Probably east asians or central asians would inhabit europe and the middle east as well as north africa indians could inhabit the middle east aswell especially Iran
Are you suggesting that Brown people could not or would not have the intelligence to start an Industrial Revolution ? That only Europeans could only ever have made the Industrial Revolution happen ?!
@@nicholasbaez1568 It's probable that an Industrial Revolution would have happened regardless. However, the fact that Europeans began to colonise and create oversea empires allowed them access to the vast untapped wealth of the Americas, Africa and Oceania which allowed for them to instigate it as the amount of resources needed to create the large factory machines would have been a heavy cost that may not have appeared worthwhile in the less competitive climate. If the Moors, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Chinese, etc. never needed to open new trade routes, the Age of Exploration would have been severely delayed by many centuries (though may have gotten started by Turkish and Moorish explorations of the African coast lines from either side, but it may take even longer to dare sailing out into the Atlantic when there would have been no necessity during this time-period). If the Ottomans hadn't blocked the spice trade to Europe, then Europeans wouldn't have set out into the oceans for alternative trade routes in the first place, and the fact that it even led to the current technological innovations we use today is a fluke in an absurdly high figure.
@@nicholasbaez1568 The feeling of integrity menaces and cultural extinctions made the Europeans have the urgency to find new philosophies to "rightly deal" with these "upcoming dangers". Savagery and old ways wasn't an option anymore because it would be extremely inviable for them. Europeans then became more strategists than before, with more liberal ideas and wide thinking, but that doesn't mean very nasty shit wouldn't happen in the future (like genocide and slavery).
People blame Europeans today because those f*cked up events are pretty recent if you think about it, and happened too much at a large scale.
Or We could just all die and hand it over to Animals.
If taking a bath, the Europeans say: "Hell nawh!"
Who killed cats?
Europeans.
The source of the plague in first place.
Finland wasn't effected by the Black death at all. That is a fact.
Akseli Halonen and what is a source?
Roderick Van Hees facts actually. Finnish culture is one of the few cultures who regularly wash themselves and keeps themselves clean. Even in the 1300.
So, you're telling us, you've got no source. Just 'facts'.
northern europe werent exactly clean. Do you think peasants who lived on farms knew what soap was? i am FROM northern europe, we spent literally two full years of junior university learning about the black plague.
Comparing the roman empire with northern europe is idiotic. It literally killed over 70% of my countrys population because we didnt know that tossing the disease ridden bodies in our drinking water was a bad idea. And you talk about the people washing themselves lol
i am FROM scandinavia you fool. I know MY history, the history of MY PEOPLE. We literally threw dead bodies in the streets for them to rot. we threw shit and piss out the window. and we let our drinking water become contaminated with the diseaseridden bodies of the plague victims. Denying facts from someone who has literally spent two years of his life studying this shit is "ignorant beyond belief". We may have had combs, so fucking what? We knew NOTHING of bacteria and viruses.
Years of rice and salt ???
Ares Brandon 1997 just what I was thinking
at the end he says that reading it gave him the inspiration to make this video
I literally finished than book today
James George I think I read that one sometime last years? good book though
Everybody will be salty ;)
Plague: *exists*
Europe: Ight imma head out
Do: What if the Australians won the Great Emu War ?!?!?
Look at me Im de captain now I think their world be more than one emu war because if the first one was a victory why stop
Yes!
lmao
This is one of the most horrifying videos i've ever seen...
Might I recomend a youtuber named Dark 5 to you?
Well thats just malarkey, there are many more horrific videos out there.
NCR Rangers Nope nope nope.
Tom Awesomeface your pic tho
Yeah, the idea of islam being a world wide religion terrifies me
I can imagine a planet we someday find which essentially is a parallel to our own. And may go in a route like this scenario. They'd be incredibly advanced, but in waaaaaaaay different ways. It's really fascinating to think about. This is also my first video I've seen from you. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for recommending this to me during the middle of the CoVID pandemic UA-cam!
years of rice and salt
Are we really the only two people in the comment section who know about that? It appears so.
I read that book too. Nice read.
joshua ho I've read that too! Interesting book! I loved the reincarnation plot device
joshua ho What's the book? I'll give it a read.
Here's five!
Because Poland is badass
Smol Trash Cat Because Poland actually took regular baths.
Smol Trash Cat Hell yee
Get invaded by Germans and Russia
Polan can into survive
Also Lyon survived we even have a célébration about it
That reaper got such a fucking good play of the game
"The Years of Rice and Salt"
Poland didn’t deal with anyones bullcrap.
Europe couldn't possible bounce back...
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I couldn't not think about that.
when white kids try to be cool.
sumin156 when black kids comment on an educational history video
Now I want a book about 7 million poles making an epic crusade against Muslims.
Just ask your mother I bet she knows 7 million males ;)
Winged Hussars!
Some Russian Guy I'd would just rip off "Dances with Wovles" and make a young emir fall in love with a Polish princesses. So his army and the poles fight the Mongols or something.
That was mostly Hungarian crusade tbh.
Lumbago, Tubeculosis and Not Having a plan is the worst disease know to man.
90% is not 100%. I was promised "wiped out," I got "Kinda wiped out."
It is impossible to wipe out an entire population with a disease. There are always some isolated people that the plague can't reach.
Civilisation/society was wiped out. Close enough, trust me.
Just upgrade animal transmission, cold resistance, and don't get anything lethal like total organ failure or coma, THEN we can wipe everyone out. Hopefully we can also catch Greenland off guard.
DanBoy lol player inc
POLAND STRONK!
I need food... And there's no other animals here soo....
They were the only hygenic people in europe
Poland Sanitary!
Xsawor except ww2
Xsawor Also Finland.
The Black Death: Lets go to Poland
Poland: Reverse Card
The alternate history novel 'Years of Rice and Salt' comes to mind - although I think it was much harsher than this scenario by wiping out 99% of Europeans! The Gate of Worlds by Robert Silverberg also had a worse Black Death in Europe as its premise.
1:57 Why wasn't Poland affected?!
King Casimir the Great shut down the borders
Alonzo Aldaba there werent that many jews in poland
Chris The First
No that is true. Poland was one of the first countries to actually make good hygiene a social norm, and they avoided the playful doing so.
Stephen Coffey
nvm i read my comment again and deleted it, you are right
Kamarovskygames BOY, THATS FUCKED UP
4:21 it could reach Vienna
10 seconds later
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
Hey Cody, could you do 'What if Operation Market Garden succeed?' It would have defiantly cut the war by at least a year
Movie Man Operation Market Garden took place in September 1944, the war in Europe ended in May 1945. That's way less than a year :)
What a defiant operation it was indeed
Ottomans and Arabic’s when they colonise Europe and see all the ruins but no people:
*what the hell happened here?*
Muslims is not a Race, I think you mean Berbers and Turks
@@elharvey5032, were they turks at that point? Weren’t they just called ottomans?
@@cryingcatgoesbark310 during the Ottoman Empire yes