10 of the Biggest Mistakes in Human History
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- For the most part, history concerns itself with victories and good decisions; there’s a reason for the saying, “History is written by the victor.” But in many cases, the mistakes are just as crucial a part of a story as the right choices are, and sometimes the mistakes are an interesting story all on their own...
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10. George Bell (CEO of Excite) rejected the offer to buy Google - twice
9. Heinrich Schliemann finds Troy, but destroys it
8. A wrong turn put Franz Ferdinand in the right place to start WWI
7. Cost-cutting, broken radar caused the Exxon Valdez oil spill
6. Constantinople fell due to one gate left open
5. The Austrian army attacked itself and killed 10,000
4. Weak weather forecasting left the Germans wide open for D-Day
3. Mao Zedong’s agricultural mistakes led to the Great Chinese Famine
2. A few pairs of binoculars might have saved the Titanic
1. A mistranslation helped to bring about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
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I listen to so much Simon Whistler that he’s begun to narrate my dreams.
Business Blaze Simon or TopTenz/TIFO Simon? Cuz BB Simon narrates mine. He mainly just wants me to do cocaine with him... allegedly.
Next step is narrating your sexual encounters
YO, me too! 🤣
😂😂😂😂
@@Arc115YT he has me locked in a cellar in my dreams
Two major mistakes that ought to have been included:
1. Hannibal's decision after the battle of Cannae to not attack Rome, but plunder the countryside, which likely cost Carthage the war, their civilization and allowed Rome to eventually become the dominant world power.
2. The Taino indians who welcomed Columbus and his three ships with food and gifts, as opposed to trying to sink the ships, which caused the downfall of two entire continents' worth of civilizations.
Things like one guy not buying Google or one ship possibly not being sunk are really blips in history compared to those mistakes.
Hannibal would never have been able to conquer Rome, he didn't have the man power to do so.
Simon, Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer testified at the American inquiry of the Titanic disaster. It was his opinion that binoculars would not have been useful and that he would have had only one lookout on watch, not two men, and the Crowsnest was too high over the ocean to spot an iceberg in time. He said that they "had no right" going that speed in an icefield. Very insightful testimony from Shackleton based on his experience in ice conditions.
Who better than Shack to advise on that??
@@casinodelonge the guy who was the actual lookout
@@firstname4337 Not at all, Shackleton is an "Expert Witness", the lookout would presumably feel some element of blame even if not warranted as as such might not deliver accurate testimony.
@Ms Bliss i have a great pic of me laying a plaque I made on Ernest's grave in South Georgia.Very inspirational man
I remember hearing that on that night the sea was remarkably calm. If there were waves around and crashing on the iceberg, it would have been far more visible than if binoculars were used anyway.
The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-Douglas Adams
Do you really think anyone that recognizes that quote wouldn’t know it was from Douglas Adams?
@@Wild_Bill57 you’d be surprised
Isn't that from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?
@@mrwelshmun Yeah mate, great read
Popup - Don’t Panic
Holy crap, my grandpa was a US Air Force meteorologist during WWII. I’m extra proud of him now.
RIP, Orville Eustace.
It's quite funny that Troy, a place that was destroyed multiple times then built back up got destroyed AGAIN.
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Indeed
1. Business Blaze
2. The rest of them
Its just Business Blaze 10 times
The biggest mistake is one that is made multiple times, Invading russia in the winter!!
Well said lol
Mongols: you're attacking from the wrong side too
@@ballinlikestalin878 The Mongols managed it from both sides...
As Eddie Izzard put it "Hitler never played Risk"
@@franl155 I miss playing that game
the accidential arson of the Library of Alexandria is indeed a very great mistake
And that is why we don't blaze while we're translating ancient scrolls 🌬️💨
@Karla Kirkpatrick Why do you say Julius Caesar burned the library intentionally?
@@nonnayerbusiness7704 I do think Ms Kirkpatrick was referring to the daughter library in later antiquity by an Extremist Christian mob led by Bishop Cryil of Alexandria, not the main library which was accidentally burn down during Caesar's campaign.
@@nicholasburns7970 I did know of a second library you learn something new everyday
The mistake was by the Egyptians: not having a backup copy.
If Excite had bought Google back then, its also possible that it would not be as big as it is today and the purchase would not have been worth it.
I was going to say this.
A mistake like that might actually have been a blessing in disguise, depending on how you look at it.
Fact of the matter is, in 2020... wtf is Excite? But everyone knows Google.
I used to think that Excite was the best engine. Google showed me something better.
I had an Excite email, but used AltaVista search.
Hey Simon, what about the burning of the library of Alexandria?? Some scholars think that it set back the human race by at least about (give or take) 1000 years. Thanks again for your show.
Ya.... the space travelling moors totally sound like a better reality.
It was probably mostly porn, anyway...
The History Guy just did an episode on that.
Well even after the burning. Technology did not stop improving so the bigger mistakes was a later book burning by the pope.
Yes please!!
Even after the two atomic bombs were used Japan was ready and willing to continue fighting. Up until Russia invaded the Japanese Kuril Islands. This happened August 9, 1945. From a Wikipedia article:
"The Soviet entry into the war was a significant factor in the Japanese government's decision to surrender unconditionally, as it made apparent that the Soviet Union was not willing to act as a third party in negotiating an end to hostilities on conditional terms."
Because the USSR had been given an occupation zone of Germany, the Japanese military and emperor favored surrendering right away to just the Americans, so that the Soviets would not get a zone in Japan proper. The USSR already took back northern territorities lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War. The myth that the A-bomb prompted early surrender was promulgated to cover up the fact that the U.S. used the bomb as a test of its damage capacity and effects. Dropping the bombs on civlians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
@@brianarbenz1329 Do you consider the fire bombings of German and Japanese cities to be war crimes too? Germany started to bombings of civilians as far back as the Spanish Civil War. Japan bombed defenseless Chinese cities too amongst many other atrocities Japan committed.
Schliemann destroyed many Priceless artifacts to get at a single Priceless artifact.
This reminds me of the Golden Goose story when the farmer cuts open the Golden Goose to get more gold out of it he finds there is no gold and in killing the goose he gets no more gold
The thing about George Bell and Google is that we really can’t be sure if Google would have become the juggernaut it is today had the sale occurred. Yahoo also could have bought Google for $1 million in 1998 and passed. Most of the companies that Yahoo has purchased over the years languished under Yahoo. Google might have lingered and died under Yahoo.
and also nobody cares
@@jamesdreads7828 I do
@@jamesdreads7828 Obviously you do or you wouldn't have replied.
I can't tell you the last time I was on Yahoo!. When Marissa Mayer (pretty sure that's her name but not positive) became CEO she destroyed it. It may be a decent site again but I haven't been there in years.
@@etonbachs4226 While Marissa Mayer might not have done Yahoo any favors, Yahoo was already circling the drain long before she joined the company. She just happened to the last doctor of terminally ill patient.
Regarding D-Day invasion. My dad, according to his discharge papers, was a staff sargent in charge of classified materials for the US joint chiefs of staff. My mom, now 99 years old, has told a story a couple of times of my dad listening to the radio intently a week prior to the invasion. He new that the invasion was planned for that day, but couldn't divulge why he was so interested in the radio a week before the invasion. Apparently, unbeknownst to my dad, the invasion was postponed for a week due to poor weather.
Loving all your channels Simon. Fascinating subjects and well researched and well written narratives 👌
My second cousin Lester Wanner died on the beach in Normandy. He was my great Aunt Rosina's only son. RIP cuz ♥️🇺🇸
Sorry for you’re loss even though it was 75 years ago. I’m super grateful for his service and sacrifice and I’m sure he would appreciate as I do the wider contribution of men like him rescuing Europe from totalitarianism in WW2. I hope you continue to enjoy the memory of his spirit or if you never got to meet him, the stories that you’re great aunt shared about him. RIP Thanks 🙏
Ooh! I found the fabled Troy of Homer’s Iliad!
Where’s that TNT?
The problem is, if Bell had bought Google, it would have been restricted and changed and subject to a parent company's decisions, so it never would have become what it did.
Exactly this!!! Excite would have probably integrated it with one or more of their existing products and/or killed it when they needed to cut expenses to try to save the business. Google can thank their lucky stars that they didn't get bought by Excite!.
#9 even if Troy was on the bottom he still blasted (pun) away a hell of a lot of history.
This has been, unfortunately, rather common. I knew am archaeologist couple who emigrated from Romania right after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. One was a Roman-era specialist, the other was early medieval. In their careers in Romania, they would just shovel off everything above the era they were interested in. No telling how much they discarded. This appears to have been common in the Soviet Bloc.
3:14 When I heard 'explosives' my heart stopped.
the fact troy was destroyed pisses me off.
You leave the guy who canceled Star Trek out of this!
Ah yes, China, one of two countries to ever have lost a war against birds!
Emus: 👀
One of my favorite Top Tenz so far. Keep rocking, brother.
But there is another point to consider. Emperor Hirohito had said on a radio broadcast to his people that he would "continue fighting until the world around them was destroyed". So, in the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima, the residents thought they had won the war The world was in ashes and ruin around them, they had to have won! That was why it was so devastating when Hirohito went on the radio and those few who still had functioning sets in and around Hiroshima heard him declare the war was over and he had surrendered. So...they may have needed the bomb to show Hirohito the difference between talk and deed.
“I love history. Bring me the dynamite!!” SMH
They did the same when it came to the early days of dinosaur bone hunting, they even blew up competitors finds.
@@kittehgo Sounds about right. I wonder what stupid things we are doing today.
I have seen Exxon Valdez Captain Hazelwood a few times. His home is a block away from a beach in Long Island. I kind of felt bad for him when I saw him. He looked very alone.
And so you should if he’s looking alone and sad. He’s a human being with feelings, I highly doubt he set out that night to create one of the worst ecological disasters ever.
Seems to me like he was made a scapegoat, I personally hope he’s ok and managed to get on with his life.
Was he spilling his coffee everywhere ?
I’m no archeologist but even I yelled wtf when he said he used explosives
Ok that was the best Top Tenz ever!!
Ah yes, lets use explosives to dig down into the unknown instead of a freakin shovel _-----_
Best part of the Iliad is when Hecuba shows her tits to her son Hector from atop the city walls. She claimed suckling Hector gave authority over him. Hector acknowledged this authority and still wanted to exit the gate. Hecuba explained that if he died, as he almost certainly would, she would not be able to honor him in death as the Greeks would defile his body. Nor would his wife, Andromache, be able to honor Hector in death.
Yeah, the war had gotten so bad that body defilement was a thing. And Achilles really did try to do it to Hector as a reprisal for what happened to Patroclus. The gods intervened
Also Hecuba was the divine blood equivalent of Achilles. Hecuba was the illegitimate daughter of a Phrygian princess and a river spirit. While her divine blood mostly fostered her reproductive abilities, I'm pretty sure she had a little super-strength.
This was your BEST VIDEO! (In a long while, Simon)
6:58 The song Istanbul (Istanbul was Constantinople) was actually sung by The Four Lads in the early '50s. They might be giants did a remake of the song. It was actually a pretty decent remake.
Thank you. I hadn't heard The Four Lads version, just TMBG, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Not just interesting, it was fascinating. Thankyou for doing your homework.
Awesome knowlage.
Excellent video
Really cool and informative video!!
Love the They Might Be Giants reference
Technically it's a The Four Lads reference. TMBGs version is a cover from the 1953 song. Give credit where credit is due, please.
@@etonbachs4226 wow thanks, I never knew that!
@@etonbachs4226 True, but it was TMBG who popularized the song so they deserve at least some of the credit.
@@ewestner ...And it was "Animaniacs" that popularized the Giants cover, so there is that.
4:57 "The driver spoke only Czech." Okay, maybe, but Franz Ferdinand's wife, Sophie Chotek, *was* Czech. Why couldn't she have corrected the driver?
Wasn’t her place?
No one asked her for her opinion.
Wasn't near enough to be truly in on or aware of the conversation?
Consider...Archduke Ferdinand's relatives despised Sophie. I assume the dowry hadn't been big enough,and//or she wasn't part of the "true aristocrats". Also, it was a love match, something truly despised as only the peasants did that! She was usually denied permission to accompany her husband on state visits, of which there were many, since that was a way to separate the couple.
Sophia was surprisingly allowed to go on this particular tour, but would have been very constrained in her behaviour to hopefully show the senior relatives that she could behave regally. Conversing with the driver would not have been viewed positively. After all, there she was, putting herself forward, intruding on to men's conversation...and it was about something 'masculine'; ie maps and directions that only men understood! So much as she might have wanted to correct matters, the thought of accompanying Ferdinand on future royal tours would easily have trumped having the car go down a particular street.
She was a woman in the 1900’s
I like the way Simon skirted neatly the line between click bait and truth with The Destruction of Troy.
Nicely played Whistler.
Hoping Blockbuster to not buy Netflix is on the list.
Thank you Simon, for making mention to they might be giants 🙏🏼 legend
Should do: Top Ten animals that are just about everywhere
What animal- its habbits- where is its natural habitat- are they hurting or helping where they are now
great idea, i'd love this
Humans
Nine more: rats (stowed on ships), cats (taken on ships to sort the rats), rabbits, foxes (both imported to countries with none for those who liked hunting). The rest can swim, fly or both.
Simon gets a gold star for the They Might Be Giants reference even though the script writer is most likely the one who listens to them. Such a great band.
Ella Fitzgerald also did it... A few decades earlier.
I like both Ella and TMBG.
Another, much larger factor in the decision to drop the bomb was not wanting to split Japan the way Germany was split.
The Russians were on their way to help in Japan.
Omaha Beach is NOT the only D-Day beach.
Did you really want him to name all the fricking beaches? That would have been an unnecessarily long vidya. We all know there was more than one beach. Omaha gets the most credit. So, Omaha. We know.
@@etonbachs4226 He could've said something more general than naming ONE beach.
@@etonbachs4226 And FYI : of all the forces involved in the Landing, the Canadians and British advanced the farthest after landing on Juno Beach, the most defended beach of D-Day.
@@etonbachs4226 How about, the invasion of Normandy.
Omaha beach had the most casualties , their tank support was lost, so they suffered horrific losses.
I’m pretty sure the ‘if they only had binoculars the Titanic wouldn’t have sunk’ thing has been widely discredited. In a sea that calm there are no waves breaking on the ice to tell you where to look, so having binoculars probably wouldn’t have helped much. Probably wouldn’t have hurt either though, so...
Very true. I wonder what else was locked away. Maybe something that could really help.
@@janejones7638 Reducing spewed in an area known to contain ice would have helped. Hitting the iceberg head on instead of glancing off it would have helped a lot too as that was the type of collision RMS Titanic was designed to survive. Water tight bulkheads the full height would have helped a lot too as the water wouldn't have spilled over the top of them as the ship slowly sank.
I’ve been at sea for over 30 years and I can tell you from experience that binoculars do increase your ability to see things in the water earlier. Even today with all the tech on the bridge including radar and AIS lookouts are still a requirement under the navigation act, because you can’t always rely on technology
Nagasaki was bombed because a thick cloud cover prevented the navigator visually to sight the original target, Kokura. There was a break in the clouds, and as the bomber overflew it, they found it was Nagasaki, which was also on the list of targets. That's where they dropped the bomb.
One thing I never see pointed out... if the bombs had not been dropped on Japan, at that time, when they were JUST developed and weaker, it is far more likely that larger, far more powerful bombs would have been used somewhere else because no one really would have understood their potential.
Simon, how did you keep a straight face delivering that line from TMBG? That was hella funny. LOL
Thank you for clearing up Constantinople. For years I assumed it was nobody's business, but the Turks.
I think it is ridiculous to say that the Turks raised the flag, they panicked so they lost😬 Turks had been planning this for years . they even did carry ships over dry land. Flags are least important.
Been a long time gone Constantinople
No.0: The US government deciding to support "the lesser evil".
"Let's support this Bin Laden guy against the Soviets. What could possibly go wrong?"
"Let's support this Hussein guy against Iran. What could possibly go wrong?"
"Let's support this Shah guy against the democraticly elected president of Iran. What could possibly go wrong?"
"Let's support this Stalin guy against the Nazis. What could possibly go wrong?"
There is a bit of a pattern there...
Don't forget "Let's support this Mao guy over our WWII ally, Chiang Kai-shek. What could possibly go wrong?"
It goes along with other greats such as "Let's stop supporting the South Vietnamese against the North Vietnamese." and "We've been to the moon, got some rocks - we're done! Who needs space? And later Who needs Space shuttles?"
I love your self-corrections. Mispronounced Schliemann's name twice, then thereafter pronounced it correctly... without batting an eye. Two points for you.
excellent story
Can you do one on The Castrati (Castrato) next?
D-day was the attack on "Omaha beach"?! I can think of a few nearby beaches that would disagree with that assertion.
Indeed, that was an error by Simon.
IDEA ALERT!
You should make a top tenz or on one of your other channels of "top funny archaeological pranks or designs discovered" something along those lines...
Like has anyone buried they're dead in a funny pose or something? I remember that there are some raunchy Grafitti in Pompei or something like that.
Hope this helps and keep doing what you guys do!
Meeting my ex should definitely be on that list, fml
I met your ex as well mate. Could have warned me.
Same
Same
Same
We all feel sorry for her.
This one gets my like just for referencing the musical masterpiece that is "Istanbul"
Glad somebody else liked the reference!
Great song
Why'd they change it? I cant say... maybe they liked it better that way....
It's puzzled people for years but why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
As Al Bundy says "one spill and your paying for it for the rest of your life."5:26
Constantinopole was destined to fall anyway. It was not the “capital of Byzantine Empire” anymore, it was almost the only significant remaining part of the once East Roman Empire. The city was an “island” surrounded by Ottoman lands and it would sooner or later be conquered. This “one gate” story is mostly used to belittle the effort given by Mehmet the 2. to take the city. It took him years, thousands of soldiers and a mountain of gold to take the city. It was obligatory because without Constantinopole there would not be a real control of the seaways and the two part of the Ottoman Empire would not be really connected. So it was a survival issue and the city would eventually fall.
By the 1400s, everyone in the European and Middle Eastern world already knew this. The Eastern Roman Empire was hanging by a thread. Centuries of internal intrigues and external force placating had weakened Constantinople to its foundations - in some cases, literally (parts of the famed double walls were already failing). There was no unity with the Emperor - so many powerful people thought so much that they could do better, that the Byzantine pastime was overthrowing the government. Help wasn't coming from the West: France and England were wrapping up the Hundred Years' War. Spain was working on the Reconquista against the Moors and Berbers. Germany and Italy - The "Holy Roman Empire" was a squabbling collection of sovereign states with little interest into yet another expe
Titanic: Imagine if they'd just forced the locker open, instead of being British and saying 'well, it's locked, what can we do, the company wouldn't want us to wantonly destroy its property by forcing the locker open."
I all ways enjoy your narrative of all the stories.
If Pitt the Elder had remained George III's advisor and not Pitt the Younger, America might never have started a revolution. Pitt the Elder was sympathetic to the colonies!
LORD PALMERSTON!
And all I can think is the immortal line "hot crumpets burning my cheeks with shame."
PITT THE ELDER.
@@JohnDoe-vn1we LO-O-O-O-RD PALMERSTON!
Ah the Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. (Credit to Eddie Izzard)
Imagine what we could have known about Troy
And how much knowledge was lost in other places due to obsessed amateurs destroying evidence in pursuit of their hobby-horse.
We do know that Troy was destroyed and built over many times. When Schliemann dug down he went too far down for the Battle of Troy of the Iliad.
Operation Market Garden is a wartime mistake that I would include on the list. Intended to create a quicker route for British troops to make their way into Germany during September 1944, in retrospect it should have been aborted after not all the gliders intended for dispatching the landing party to Arnhem, Holland, were able to set off at the same time on the same day. The fact that the glider crews arrival at the landing sites were staggered over 2 days, blew the one that one key advantage of airborne troops, surprising the enemy. Because of the gliders arriving over 2 days, by the second day, there was no longer a surprise. It was incompetent planning by the top brass in England and is like Dunkirk in being a heroic retreat, rather than utter defeat and being captured. The fact that it was only a retreat was thanks to the near suicidal efforts of Major Robert Caine VC
I've always wondered why they didn't just break into the locker and get the binoculars as they were important for the safety of the ship?
Betcha the first one who did wouldhave been fired for damaging White Star Lines property.
@@barrybarlowe5640 or would have been sacked for apparent theft of white star line property
@@barrybarlowe5640 Better that than the ship sinking :)
@@silverghostcat1924 - If they'd known before hand that the ship was going to sink, agreed. But by the time they knew there was danger, it was already too late.
Wouldn’t have made a difference, binoculars are not useful and never have been useful in looking for icebergs.
My mum always said her worst mistake was me.🤦♀️
well prove her wrong if u want to
@@tarikdx3874 I don't.💨💃🍾🍷
Don't be like that.
Tapping Dale Earnhardt on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.
NASCAR fan? Emp enthusiast?
Praise Dale Raise Hell
Rubbin is racin son
It was dale that made the mistake, the HANS device was available but he refused to wear it, you can't blame anyone but dale for that
Yep Yep! Very Bad and Horrible Day indeed! Can't believe that happened 20 ish years ago. Rip Dale
Troop morale is a crazy thing.
I love that Simon sang my most frequent ear worm....Istanbul is Constantinople....lmao
Istanbul….thanks for the earworm, Simon
Your hindsight is 20/20.
When I heard this about the Exxon Valdis my immediate thought was 'Tories and the NHS'.
Under funded, understaffed and everyone (public) but the 'owners' (government) to blame.
D-Day was NOT the 'attack of Omaha Beach'. It was the invasion of Normandy via Gold, Sword, Utah, Omaha and Juno beaches.
Thank you for the They Might Be Giants reference. I cant help but sing it every time!
That song is older than every member of that band. Their version is a cover.
As far as the nuclear decision goes, it seems to me that the question whether to drop the bomb or not is hardly as intriguing as why a 2nd bomb was dropped.
I wish I could give another like just for the TMBG bit Simon.
Geographics on the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Without mistakes being made there would be no lessons learned!!
6:58
I love you too Simon. Considering you've hearted every relevant comment I've made using that song lmao.
One of the biggest mistakes we don't seem to have fully discovered but it happened in Wuhan China. Either at a food market or a research lab. But someone made a mistake that cost Europe pretty much an entire year. Scotland has been pretty much entirely closed since May.
I'd like to know how it happened and am surprised how little it seems to matter to anyone else considering that would be how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Europe? Scotland? Try the world.
Pandemics will happen. Viruses are just a life form (and nature will always find a way). Whatever caused this one may be quite different than what causes future ones. The mistake that applies to this and all future pandemics was not continuing the vigilance program Bush established and Obama bolstered to spot them soon enough to limit the damage.
Great video, Simon. Also, thanks for pronouncing Valdez correctly. It’s not the Exxon Valdees.
"excite functionally doesn't exist anymore". Yeah it does. Just went there out of curiousity. And it works.
Explosives on an archaeological excavation side? Seriously, one does not need to be an expert in that field to instantly know that this is an idea in the ballpark of "Let's drill a whole into this submarine while submerged"...
I always found Napoleon and Hitler invading Russia in the winter as some of the biggest historical mistakes XD
I'm Austrian and can't stop laughing. 2 out of 10! hahahahaha :x
i dare you take a shot every time he says, “Constantinople”
Could you say that the Gallipoli landing was a mistake?
There's an old Mel Gibson film called Gallipoli based on two guys who sign up and get sent there
The worst plane crash in history (the collision of PanAm and KLM Boeing 747's on a runway) came about due to a series of errors. If just one of these mistakes had not happened, the plane crash would have been avoided.
Simon is taking over UA-cam...
No, Simon is not taking over youtube. You're joking, correct?
I never expected to hear Simon talk about They Might be Giants on TopTenz. Business Blaze, maybe, but not TopTenz. Hehehe...
There are no mistakes... There are just actions that lead to an outcome which shapes the future...
It's only a bad call in hindsight. And sometimes, it's only because of the bad call that there even is any hindsight.
Antiquarians in the age of Schliemann were often, like him, simply well-funded amateurs financing excavations for their own ends. The kind of scientific excavations techniques currently used were developed over time because of people like Schliemann figuring out how to do the job on the fly. If it had not been for Schliemann's discoveries, there likely would have been less interest in seeking out and preserving what still survived. And as a result, those sites would still have been lost as the areas were developed by people with no interest in investigating or preserving their history.
@@flatebo1 yes sir, you are absolutely right..
Historian Michael Wood once said Heinrich Schliemann didn't excavate Hisarlik, he "attacked it!" One of the great losses of archaeology. In fairness to Schliemann, archaeology was in it's infancy during his time. In fact, Schliemann is considered a pioneer of the science.
The more I watch Simon, the more I’m convinced he is the father of Jules from whatculture gaming
#6 - You're showing your age with that They Might Be Giants reference. I doubt most of your viewers have ever heard that song. But great reference for all us old folks.
They Might Be Giants isnt that old bruh. I grew up on Malcolm In the Middle and I’m under 30. And I know plenty of younger kids who also are very. Very. Familiar with the band.
It’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
@@susanrobinson910 You ain't lying!
About the atomic bombs: I rather think that Truman had to consider the consequences of Operation Downfall
I thought they saw the iceberg and hit it anyway, as their ship was alledgedly unsinkable. But I often get real life history mixed up with family guy history so idk
I'm going to throw this out there for the sake of doing so. Had the little boy not been dropped on Hiroshima, we would have eventually used it, maybe not even in that war. But maybe later, maybe more recently. I'm a firm believer that because we used it then, we haven't used it since. How ever horrific it was, it has influenced us today.
10:50 The D-Day attack covered 5 beaches, not just Omaha.
Not to be "that guy" again, but Wilde was Chief Officer (or Mate). Lightoller was Second Officer. Great video, though, as usual.
I think "Star Trek" is to blame for most civilian erroneously believing the second-in-command of a ship is the first officer rather than the chief officer (civilian) or executive officer "XO" (military).
Love the They Might Be Giants shoutout