What if the Black Death Never Happened?

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  • @fatmanwalking8610
    @fatmanwalking8610 5 років тому +2915

    **Literally anything happens in history**
    Jews: *_Current objective: survive_*

    • @hatinmyselfiscool2879
      @hatinmyselfiscool2879 4 роки тому +14

      What what happened in the israeli conflict then :-:

    • @אוהדאריאליופה
      @אוהדאריאליופה 4 роки тому +77

      jews have to wash hands before eating and pray, its a religious commendment.

    • @c1berserker744
      @c1berserker744 4 роки тому +35

      It even says in the Bible that a lot of bad things will happen to Israel.

    • @eagleowl833
      @eagleowl833 4 роки тому +6

      Put that in the Bible 😂

    • @juliethompson8208
      @juliethompson8208 4 роки тому +9

      @@c1berserker744 but notably only the bible. Wouldnt use the bible as your only source

  • @pointlessopinion611
    @pointlessopinion611 6 років тому +1461

    7:08
    "When I'm done half of humanity will still exist, perfectly balanced. As all things should be."
    Thanos

    • @billyherrington5112
      @billyherrington5112 6 років тому +22

      the plot of the film does not coincide with the comic canon. In comic book, Thanos want to murder the entire universe, because he loved death, and he intented to impress her.

    • @neonlux1362
      @neonlux1362 6 років тому +20

      I had a hard time watching that. Like....you KNOW its monsterous what Thanos did....but at the same time.....less people....soooooooooooooooooo....and I mean....its not discriminatory....so equal oppertunity death for all. No single group is spared......honestly....its fair.....problem is that Thanos never seemed to realize culling humanity and all other races of being would be a stop gap measure. In time they would all come back to full strength....long after Thanos was dead and unable to cull again....so basically hes just taking out half of the population of the universe for.....no....reason.

    • @happydemon3038
      @happydemon3038 6 років тому +10

      Actually, many civilizations would start seeing themselves overpopulate by that point, natural instincts not being compatible with advanced progress.
      If he had instead created more resources, aka. reward a bad behavior. People would continue, maybe more so, because they'll be rewarded again.
      But he killed half of everyone. He punished a bad behavior, overly harsh, but still, an example. And he didn't spare any one group, everyone was punished, everyone learns their lesson. People don't want this to happen again, so they'll keep their numbers manageable.
      If they don't learn their lesson, then they'll repopulate and exterminate themselves. Natural selection. But he gave the intelligent a chance to learn.
      It is cruel, but it works. Better solutions may exist. But it is a solution.

    • @carsoncasmirri3874
      @carsoncasmirri3874 6 років тому +4

      pointless opinion it’s almost as if scenarios like this and people who have such draconian views were the inspiration for his character

    • @happydemon3038
      @happydemon3038 6 років тому

      @themesongfan No, they'd keep their population manageable because they just got punished from up high. They can't justify it being targeted at them if everyone suffers equally, friend or foe, rich or poor. And they'd do it for the sake of their kin. Because as a general rule, people want their children to prosper.
      And if they choose to squander this opportunity, they'll die. They were given a chance, but refused to take it. That just means they'd keep consuming no matter what.
      The problem is over-consumption. You don't solve over-consumption by encouraging consumption. If they're punished, they'll try to find out why they got punished, so they can avoid it. If they continue their behavior, then they're unfit for survival, and nature will run it's course.
      And if they're so disproportionately powerful that they can wage war and gain (civilizations set up webs of alliances because they work), then they'd do it anyway, snap or not.

  • @MatsRivel
    @MatsRivel 6 років тому +788

    Funfact: Despite having an even more spread out and isolated society than the rest Europe, Norway lost 70-75% of its population. To this day "Abandoned farm" is a very common last name in Norway. (Ødegård)

    • @r.chamaemorus8025
      @r.chamaemorus8025 5 років тому +16

      I would guess the northern parts survived best. I think it would be harder for the plauge to spread in colder climates. But maybe the people there was so dependent on trade so they could not avoid it.

    • @2urhc229
      @2urhc229 5 років тому +1

      So Norway would become richer earleir

    • @bradleyheck7204
      @bradleyheck7204 5 років тому +1

      Every bit as fun as the plays of Henrik Ibsen! That IS terribly interesting, though.

    • @Quincius
      @Quincius 4 роки тому +6

      @@r.chamaemorus8025 Yeah, Trondheim and especially Bergen were crucial trading centers in Northern Europe. Bergen still ended up as one of the largest cities in Scandinavia throughout the 15th and 16th centuries.

    • @youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575
      @youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575 4 роки тому +12

      Norway was actually experiencing a golden age before the Plague. Trade increased, Population tripled, and peace, but then the Black Death hit like a truck.

  • @timhalliday5839
    @timhalliday5839 4 роки тому +535

    I like how youtube decides now is the perfect time to suggest this to me:
    Here I am listening to the words "The world has gone a century without a horrific plague", while quarantined in my house due to the coronavirus

    • @rapperdonut
      @rapperdonut 4 роки тому +3

      @Ethan Steel exactly :)

    • @underthependulum3484
      @underthependulum3484 4 роки тому +6

      Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!

    • @dumbskeppy69
      @dumbskeppy69 4 роки тому +3

      @@underthependulum3484 what

    • @gVert404
      @gVert404 4 роки тому +10

      good thing it has a 99.8% recovery rate so theres an extremely low chance you die even if u get it

    • @craftsncreations1398
      @craftsncreations1398 4 роки тому +4

      @@gVert404 if this is true or not, at the end of the day people are still dying. I would rather stay inside than run the risk of my grandmother, parents, etc dying.

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub  8 років тому +3873

    *cough*

  • @andreideregla8218
    @andreideregla8218 8 років тому +364

    5:15
    "the king of France even believed that it was the alignment of the planets. Oh France"
    *made me dying* *LOL*

  • @alphacat77
    @alphacat77 8 років тому +1233

    #ripjimmythepeseant

  • @Altoclarinets
    @Altoclarinets 4 роки тому +1408

    "almost an entire century without a deadly plague"
    *Welp*

    • @stueyk
      @stueyk 3 роки тому +24

      What was that about a plague?

    • @jjammmees
      @jjammmees 3 роки тому +7

      @@stueyk spanish flu

    • @stueyk
      @stueyk 3 роки тому +23

      @@jjammmees Was joking because it was posted just before this pandemic

    • @triblast9538
      @triblast9538 3 роки тому +9

      @@stueyk it’s so funny that their joking about the Spanish flu when now we have *COUGH* CORONA *COUGH*

    • @pabloveloso7736
      @pabloveloso7736 3 роки тому +12

      @@blazingfish8486 Sadly, with the new variants of the virus, thats not longer the case.

  • @InquisitorThomas
    @InquisitorThomas 8 років тому +1568

    Ironically Justinian actually survived the plague

    • @AlternateHistoryHub
      @AlternateHistoryHub  8 років тому +246

      +Thomas Scally Coincidence? I think nay

    • @InquisitorThomas
      @InquisitorThomas 8 років тому +109

      +AlternateHistoryHub well he still got it and went into a coma he was just one of the only people to wake up and recover from the disease

    • @timcondon5184
      @timcondon5184 8 років тому +18

      +AlternateHistoryHub what if the Golden Horde never broke up because of the family issues it had, where one of them got to power hungry and the other got to suspicious of each other. What if they actually got along perfectly?

    • @declankearns1916
      @declankearns1916 8 років тому +41

      #justiniandidtheplauge

    • @wellingtonharris4536
      @wellingtonharris4536 8 років тому +4

      +AlternateHistoryHub ¿what Spanish flu never happened?

  • @dannyishii3160
    @dannyishii3160 5 років тому +147

    On the Mongols launching their plague dead into the enemy city:
    I just want to imagine the launchee NOT being dead first. The fleas will leave a dead body, after all, but not one five days into a seven day inevitable death. So, Mongol warrior struck down by horrid disease blisters, go out with a bang! Use the last of your strength to climb into the catapult arm, and let loose a battle cry as you fly over the rampart, on your way to becoming a flea-shrapnel grenade.

    • @thomastakesatollforthedark2231
      @thomastakesatollforthedark2231 4 роки тому +1

      @WithAStick AngryWhiteMan ohhhhh yeaaaddss~

    • @DigiMaverickWorld0rder1155
      @DigiMaverickWorld0rder1155 4 роки тому +3

      Okay, I definitely got a laugh outta this idea.

    • @peterwindhorst5775
      @peterwindhorst5775 4 роки тому +5

      The Japanese in WW2 had the same idea. They had developed a flea-bomb in China / Korea that spread the plague. Had the US gone further and farther into the home islands - it is likely they would have used the bomb. Fortunately, the US had its own bomb... and the flea bomb "disappeared" into the US military arsenal.

    • @__-yz1ob
      @__-yz1ob 3 роки тому +5

      @@peterwindhorst5775
      If I remember correctly, it wasnt a exactly a bomb but fleas laced with germs,
      The operation was called "Cherry Blossoms at Night" And was supposed to take place on 27th August 1945

    • @dylanzlol7293
      @dylanzlol7293 Рік тому

      Wouldnt it hurt a lot when you are launched to the enemy city?

  • @meateater2180
    @meateater2180 7 років тому +1395

    If the Black Death never occurred I wouldn't be watching this video.

  • @AgentOz1990
    @AgentOz1990 4 роки тому +505

    "The western world has gone almost a century with a catastrophic deadly plague"
    Coronavirus: *C-C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER*

    • @thecrispydingle4202
      @thecrispydingle4202 4 роки тому +19

      It’s not some catastrophic plague like super virus every smartass ever seems to think you can look that not even 1 million people have died and more than half of the people who got it have recovered and the cdc says that 94% of their Covid-19 diagnosis’s could be caused by underlying heath conditions look at the facts before you post

    • @amar2394
      @amar2394 4 роки тому +13

      @@thecrispydingle4202 we are still considered to be in a pandemic even if the virus isn't that deadly its self

    • @voidwalker9746
      @voidwalker9746 4 роки тому +12

      @@thecrispydingle4202 1)take a joke, 2) it's still classed a pandemic because it's worldwide

    • @underthependulum3484
      @underthependulum3484 4 роки тому +3

      Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!

    • @sagetheassassin3192
      @sagetheassassin3192 4 роки тому

      Awesome

  • @xerohr
    @xerohr 8 років тому +267

    I feel like it would trigger exploration much quicker, to find new farm land and resources to sustain the growing population, technically technologically advancing us by a century or two.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 8 років тому +25

      Yeah, what he is saying is crap imho. I mean, many historians agree that the black death was what delayed the Renaissance in Italy (Renaissance began in Italy before the rest of Europe and actually before the black death: the first cities were devastated, leaving only Florence to spread it a long time later).
      I think it's kind of ridiculous to think the exact opposite would happen, but well.

    • @xerohr
      @xerohr 8 років тому +1

      xenotypos Sorry to offend.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 8 років тому +4

      zoidBergh
      ?
      a misunderstanding? I agree with you you, I just don't understand how the guys from the video came to their unlikely conclusion, since it's been etablished that the renaissance began sooner.

    • @covert8883
      @covert8883 8 років тому +4

      +xenotypos well starvation would still be a massive problem. More mouths to feed. Europe could only sustain so much.

    • @EmperorDonaldJTrump
      @EmperorDonaldJTrump 8 років тому +9

      Would it also be considered that Kingdoms would declare war on North African and Oriental Kingdoms to put their ever expanding population?

  • @Jaunsh
    @Jaunsh 8 років тому +1603

    Dank memes, by far the biggest killer, I remember those days, I lived inside of a coke bottle and ate 1 mouldy bread crust per week. Terrible times

  • @JenniferJones-hw9wu
    @JenniferJones-hw9wu 6 років тому +19

    Two thoughts. 1. There is some theory that the 1347 plague was so virulent because anthrax was also experiencing an outbreak at the same time. And there is a difference between bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. Pneumonia can be passed from one to another simply through coughing. Cats can even transmit in that way to humans. 2. Don't forget the impact that The Little Ice Age had on Western Europe at that same time. The ramifications of that event were also far reaching for the future of Western civilization. Great video and great topic!

  • @mikailmq
    @mikailmq 4 роки тому +80

    “Almost gone for a century without plagues”
    Emphasis on “almost”

    • @captainayaaya28
      @captainayaaya28 3 роки тому +1

      At least it isn’t as bad as the previous ones right? I mean, it hopefully and most likely won’t last a decade.

    • @matusmotlo3854
      @matusmotlo3854 3 роки тому +1

      @@captainayaaya28 And come on, how many people are dying? A fraction of a percent? Now, what is that compared to the roughly 50% of the Justinian one, and 1/3 of the Black Death? Nothing, they wouldn't even notice this "pandemic" in the Middle Ages.

    • @uriargaman7241
      @uriargaman7241 3 роки тому +2

      This pandemic doesn't compare to the black death, it's true. But the circumstances that enabled Covid-19 to rise will enable the same for deadlier pathogens... Even a Spanish Flu-scale pandemic would be very traumatic.

    • @Marcelelias11
      @Marcelelias11 3 роки тому

      @@uriargaman7241 Ideally, no it wouldn't, but this pandemic proved that people are so dumb and stubborn to refuse wearing a fucking mask that I'm not really surprised by anything anymore

  • @eaglecohort5259
    @eaglecohort5259 8 років тому +359

    Says there hasn't been a major plague in the last century, mentions dank memes a minute later. The virus is evolving. The infected no longer see it as the enemy. Soon we will all be the dank memes. The end times are near, and the horsememes of apocalypse ride.

    • @fortress5278
      @fortress5278 8 років тому +1

      +Eagle Cohort I am dank meme. You will fall to our mighty memes.

    • @zerathius7131
      @zerathius7131 8 років тому

      +CalmDark ironic memes

    • @Tytoalba777
      @Tytoalba777 8 років тому +4

      There's only one way to cure it: You must recognize a fact that no one else seems to realize, that Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life

    • @fortress5278
      @fortress5278 8 років тому

      James A Clouder
      It is but one strain of all meme kind. We will attack, we will evolve, and we will kill

    • @dutch1641
      @dutch1641 8 років тому

      pretty sure im immune to dank memes

  • @redsea1234
    @redsea1234 8 років тому +465

    Those console players truly went through a lot.

  • @jacksonpaul7279
    @jacksonpaul7279 8 років тому +373

    What if America sided with the Axis during World War 1-2?

    • @monsta1359
      @monsta1359 8 років тому +62

      Axis would have won without question. Britain survived on the supplies that came from the Lend-Lease Act. The Soviet Union caught a break from the Lend-Lease act as well, they used American Shermans and half tracks while they allocated their factories and workforce to produce an unstoppable war machine.

    • @Xtremedude720
      @Xtremedude720 8 років тому +2

      bump

    • @robertallen488
      @robertallen488 8 років тому +2

      +Jackson Paul end of the world

    • @bimblerthomson7417
      @bimblerthomson7417 8 років тому +10

      +chiken that's not how UA-cam works

    • @carsonkundolf3448
      @carsonkundolf3448 8 років тому +9

      Well, America (LOVING FREEDOM) I don't think they would defend a dictatorship or betray some of there alies. BUT if they did help the axis powers, well we would probably be in WW 3 or 4.

  • @andreaolvera55
    @andreaolvera55 5 років тому +31

    France: “Looks like Mercury is in retrograde again.”

  • @Spieler521
    @Spieler521 7 років тому +305

    What if Black Death never happened? This video wouldn't exist

  • @Jason-mg3fk
    @Jason-mg3fk 7 років тому +185

    Anyone else catch the "the mongols are always the exception" joke, crash course and real life lore, two blessings in the world

  • @bluestrife28
    @bluestrife28 8 років тому +6

    Man I love your videos. I've sometimes looked through my books and wondered "what if's" of my own, but to see them appear places like this, too cool. Thanks!

  • @jordmanbatgod
    @jordmanbatgod 4 роки тому +19

    0:09
    Coronavirus be like: *I’m about to end this man’s whole career*

  • @usmc-ws6hl
    @usmc-ws6hl 8 років тому +135

    please do a alternate history on what if the U.S. never declared war on terrorism

  • @uncouth_wombat7752
    @uncouth_wombat7752 8 років тому +24

    The "Black Death" was more than just bubonic plague.. It was a mixture of pneumonic plague (which is transmitted from person to person via microscopic saliva droplets expelled during coughing) and septamatic plague as well as bubonic plague.. In fact pneumonic plague would've been the most prominent variation in cities like London and Paris.

  • @Aiden_Volgs
    @Aiden_Volgs 7 років тому +467

    JIMMY WHY

    • @Igxana
      @Igxana 7 років тому +6

      Ikr

    • @gregorymacdonnell7914
      @gregorymacdonnell7914 7 років тому +3

      Dude ,imagine walking down a trash ridden sstreet,full of guts from the butc her shop,horse shit ,rotting food,and people throwing their "chamber pots out the window ,right down on your head!? Nice day!!!!!

    • @jm-gj2ho
      @jm-gj2ho 6 років тому

      Aiden's Volgs I DON'T KNOW!!!

    • @DeeRadens
      @DeeRadens 6 років тому +1

      God damn it Jimmy!

    • @travelmaniak3127
      @travelmaniak3127 6 років тому

      Wait overpopulation means Eroupe has the highest population of 3 billion and the world 10 billion so..the world experiences overpopulation

  • @maxcarroll9487
    @maxcarroll9487 4 роки тому +70

    "...has gone a century without a horrific plague."
    Coronavirus: Am I a joke to you?

    • @lennysmileyface
      @lennysmileyface 4 роки тому

      RIP

    • @Hello-sy7eu
      @Hello-sy7eu 4 роки тому +4

      Max Carroll No offense but it is just a buffed modern day flu we can survive it

    • @RynellTV
      @RynellTV 4 роки тому +2

      Max Carroll its made before the coronavirus dummy

    • @josephgravley3603
      @josephgravley3603 4 роки тому +3

      Except compared to the Black Death it kinda is.

    • @roqu0794
      @roqu0794 4 роки тому

      @@Hello-sy7eu it's got so much worse

  • @Seetiyan
    @Seetiyan 7 років тому +58

    "You wouldn't be a peasant living on a farm, today."
    True. In our timeline, you're a peasant living in the city instead.

    • @Mekalor
      @Mekalor 4 роки тому +1

      I work on an IT farm! :D

  • @BDKing77
    @BDKing77 8 років тому +1206

    Oh shit...

  • @robertgronewold3326
    @robertgronewold3326 8 років тому +46

    Actually, they did not have such terrible sanitation back in those days. They never took baths that often, but they did wash up with a basin of water and a cloth every day, and even had methods of cleaning their teeth. The reason we now think they were all gross and unkept is because movies and books always like to show the peasants as being dirty to enforce how poor they are.

    • @noveseth2863
      @noveseth2863 8 років тому +3

      Dirty pleb

    • @kobilibero6007
      @kobilibero6007 8 років тому +16

      +Robert Gronewold You're half right, well more like 90% right...
      I completely agree with all of your statements however the reason their sanitation
      was horrible wasn't mainly about their human sanitation, but with their animal
      sanitation (Go go cow poop all over the place).
      A filthy human can get sick and die, but only a mutated cow-poop (or any kind
      of animal poop) virus could spark a pandemic.

    • @robertgronewold3326
      @robertgronewold3326 8 років тому

      +Kobi Libero That is very true. They were quite good at cleaning up manure and carting it around, but that still left them with a lot of contact with it.

    • @TheYopogo
      @TheYopogo 8 років тому +3

      +Robert Gronewold And they hardly had great sewage systems.

    • @Magicarpmaster
      @Magicarpmaster 8 років тому +4

      Didnt they just shit in buckets and toss it out the window?

  • @How23497
    @How23497 4 роки тому +15

    "We've almost went 100 years without a catastrophic, deadly plague"
    This aged badly

  • @XPimKossibleX
    @XPimKossibleX 8 років тому +11

    Now, you've missed something drastic: Newton. The man was talking a break from the work because the university was closed down for the black death. This was when he came up with his ideas of physics.
    Isaac Newton was a case of when one man changes history and not many. That's because he was both way ahead of his time, and had an influence. He Is the inventor of classical physics and calculus!
    it does also seem non-developed to think that this means Newton wouldn't have come up with these ideas anyway; but it is a major idea gaining traction that historical geniuses do their genius work in times when they take a break from work.

  • @JohnSmith-dz2dc
    @JohnSmith-dz2dc 8 років тому +176

    Nice crash course reference

  • @guyonacomputer1261
    @guyonacomputer1261 8 років тому +130

    What if the Germans Refused to honor the alliance with Japan after Pearl Harbor? So rather than join WWII the US fights Japan alone and lets the European Conflict sort itself out.

    • @TheRageBlak
      @TheRageBlak 8 років тому

      This

    • @robertallen488
      @robertallen488 8 років тому +2

      +Guy On A Computer The US wanted to stop the Nazis already we wouldve fabricated some BS and went to war

    • @mattbenz99
      @mattbenz99 8 років тому +17

      +Robert Allen Incorrect. The president wanted to fight the Nazis, Congress wanted to stay neutral. FDR was desperately reaching for anything that he could do to help the allies.

    • @curiouswraith8069
      @curiouswraith8069 8 років тому

      but remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

    • @Z4Official
      @Z4Official 8 років тому +1

      +Robert Allen Actually before PH the US was gonna stay out of it... other than the arms dealing... huh sounds familair...

  • @lordshoulderbash3273
    @lordshoulderbash3273 4 роки тому +13

    Watching this in 2020. Feels weirdly current

  • @Alistocrat
    @Alistocrat 8 років тому +15

    1:03 An explosion factory? A factory that manufactures explosions? Do they explode the second they're made? Do they need a match to explode? You left me with more questions than answers my friend.

    • @IamNoisyroblot101
      @IamNoisyroblot101 8 років тому +1

      +Sprango An explosion factory creates the physical explosion, the explosion itself is then physically compressed into whatever the explosive is and that's how you were born.

    • @PoisoningShadow671
      @PoisoningShadow671 8 років тому

      +Sprango
      Torgue would be proud.

    • @Alistocrat
      @Alistocrat 8 років тому +1

      ***** I see

  • @tkgsg
    @tkgsg 4 роки тому +38

    Guy in 2720: what if the COVID pandemic had never occurred

  • @morgand820
    @morgand820 8 років тому +515

    What if the Byzantine Empire had never been destroyed by the Turks?

    • @xyzqwth
      @xyzqwth 8 років тому +22

      +Ilias Haqiqi your grammar makes my soul hurt

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 8 років тому +26

      +The exe Virus he's propably türk

    • @robertwlester
      @robertwlester 8 років тому +1

      +Morgan Dignowity wasn't the plague a key factor there too?

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 8 років тому +2

      Robert W. Lester plague somehow missed ottomans?

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 8 років тому

      I don't think so

  • @AverySkies
    @AverySkies 4 роки тому +210

    *2029: What If Covid-19 Never Happened*

    • @thetake-geopolitics4961
      @thetake-geopolitics4961 4 роки тому +4

      that would be cool id watch that

    • @janisliepins1991
      @janisliepins1991 3 роки тому

      yea

    • @Xanny7777
      @Xanny7777 3 роки тому +8

      Honestly not much would change but the economy. And trump might win re-election.

    • @jimboonie9885
      @jimboonie9885 3 роки тому

      @@Xanny7777 Dude Biden was officially inaugurated. There’s no going back and trump may face lawsuits

    • @no-np8dw
      @no-np8dw 3 роки тому +6

      He's talking about in the alternate timeline you idiot

  • @JustYourAverageRetro
    @JustYourAverageRetro 8 років тому +79

    So, what your saying is that Europe would become India or China.

    • @Iarlen
      @Iarlen 8 років тому +3

      +JustYourAverageRetro China would be far superior, as it was.

    • @chromitehertz9016
      @chromitehertz9016 8 років тому

      yep

    • @TheNutmeg33
      @TheNutmeg33 8 років тому +5

      Maybe Asia would have colonized the Americas then

    • @jommydavi2197
      @jommydavi2197 8 років тому +8

      +JokingGuyMapping 1342 Great joke now go vote Trump

    • @moctezuma1341
      @moctezuma1341 8 років тому

      +JustYourAverageRetro how you make no sense

  • @nathantoast9793
    @nathantoast9793 8 років тому +58

    My aunt died from dank memes... XD

    • @J_Leb
      @J_Leb 7 років тому +2

      Nathan Toast im sorry for your loss

  • @garnetportal4784
    @garnetportal4784 7 років тому +10

    "The King of France believed it was the planets aligning. Oh France" Best line of the video

  • @PockASqueeno
    @PockASqueeno 4 роки тому +41

    “Where the western world has gone almost a century without a catastrophic, deadly plague.”
    Who’s watching this in 2020? Oh the irony…

    • @col.nugget1524
      @col.nugget1524 4 роки тому +3

      Rip. The streak was long.

    • @lazarous2772
      @lazarous2772 3 роки тому

      well covid is much less deadly and more managable

  • @tasos6429
    @tasos6429 8 років тому +178

    What if Alexander the Great didn't die young?

    • @b.sapounas5110
      @b.sapounas5110 8 років тому +10

      YESSS

    • @RRRoyalGames
      @RRRoyalGames 8 років тому +1

      +Τάσος Κορωνιός He would take Arabia then go west and conquer Rome.

    • @nicholaslonnon7509
      @nicholaslonnon7509 8 років тому +5

      +Spiniosa I'm not sure Rome was around during the time, and the fact that he stopped expanding wasn't only due to the fact he died young he also was tired of bloodshed

    • @RRRoyalGames
      @RRRoyalGames 8 років тому +1

      Cole Lonnon
      rome was founded before christ 753.

    • @stannisthebaptist8705
      @stannisthebaptist8705 8 років тому +1

      +Spiniosa It was only a small town at that time ,pretty meaningless

  • @hensbinator5060
    @hensbinator5060 8 років тому +27

    "1+1= Anti-Semitism"
    Cody, 2016

  • @kal3lll
    @kal3lll 8 років тому +27

    That Crash course reference :D I live this channel

    • @kal3lll
      @kal3lll 8 років тому +1

      Love*

    • @yellow9053
      @yellow9053 8 років тому

      +Clark Frederick live*

    • @joee7809
      @joee7809 8 років тому

      +Clark Frederick *live

    • @MikeMafiaII
      @MikeMafiaII 8 років тому

      +Clark Frederick Didn't notice one, around what time?

    • @kal3lll
      @kal3lll 8 років тому +1

      Mike dN 2:22
      :D

  • @Dagothslur
    @Dagothslur 4 роки тому +23

    "Where we have gone a century without a horrific plague"
    That didn't age well

  • @tateadams4382
    @tateadams4382 8 років тому +17

    3:55 You mean Plague Inc?
    EDIT: Oh you were talking about the online Pandemic 2, I was thinking of the board game.

    • @kristdg
      @kristdg 7 років тому

      Tate Adams board Game? wtf.

    • @hertogvandamme
      @hertogvandamme 7 років тому

      KrisTDG
      Plague Inc has a Board Game now

  • @Tytoalba777
    @Tytoalba777 8 років тому +73

    3:57 still impossible to infect Madagascar

  • @Corncan2
    @Corncan2 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for Jynxing us Cody.

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 7 років тому +23

    "Dank memes."
    You think you're joking, but look at the contamination level on 4chan/pol/.

  • @genericweeaboo1389
    @genericweeaboo1389 8 років тому +115

    Those fucking plague doctors. They freak the hell out of me. I have nightmares about them all the time.

    • @mlalbaitero
      @mlalbaitero 8 років тому +5

      They look kinda scary, but not enough to give me nightmares

    • @CyoAFK
      @CyoAFK 8 років тому

      Wat

    • @juliank6793
      @juliank6793 8 років тому +5

      +Generic Weeaboo The worst part is that they weren't actual doctors. They were just people that wanted to prove they could be doctors -_-

    • @franksinatra2624
      @franksinatra2624 8 років тому +2

      Ring around the Rosie...ring around the Rosie...☠ (yes that song is about the plague doctors, they had roses in their masks to help keep the smell of the dead away from them as they worked)

    • @ghostlobster2365
      @ghostlobster2365 8 років тому +3

      +Generic Weeaboo It scares you because they scared the peasants too. Our fear of crow like men and distrust in doctors can be traced back to the back plague. This infection influenced European culture at levels that a Europe without the plague is unimaginable at times.

  • @TheThingInMySink
    @TheThingInMySink 5 років тому +6

    ''Even half of the clergy died''
    I remember one m2tw playtrough, I was playing the Teutonics, and I was producing new popes every turn because they all kept dying from the plague, it was a great time.

  • @Mariochicken0609
    @Mariochicken0609 9 місяців тому +4

    0:05 that aged well didnt it 💀

  • @johnfrommanagement6037
    @johnfrommanagement6037 8 років тому +673

    It's all Ogre now

  • @Necrikus
    @Necrikus 8 років тому +262

    Wait a second... Mongol + "exception"? Cue the Mongoltage?
    "After the pillaging and conquest"
    Close enough.

    • @claremurphy5901
      @claremurphy5901 8 років тому +26

      Necrikus WE ARE THE EXCEPTION!!!!

    • @suis1822
      @suis1822 8 років тому +24

      "Except the mongols"

    • @BankruptCart336
      @BankruptCart336 7 років тому

      Necrikus we'd have 11 billion population now but we have 7 billion!?!?

    • @danielwebber4953
      @danielwebber4953 7 років тому

      not crash course ;)

  • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
    @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 8 років тому +166

    Good thing we have an cure for the Black Death, and that it's super rare too! Boy, I love being born in the 2000s!

    • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
      @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 8 років тому +10

      Aaah 50's cereal commercials

    • @GeorgiaJCP
      @GeorgiaJCP 8 років тому +18

      except there is still a problem with over population that nobody will be able to fix that gets worse and worse by the day :(

    • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
      @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 8 років тому

      Aw crap, no cereal

    • @benjaminward3912
      @benjaminward3912 8 років тому +5

      Stikbot Shorts And Movies! We still have a problem... Memes.

    • @julianfletcher1912
      @julianfletcher1912 8 років тому +1

      Stikbot Shorts And Movies! You still get diseases on Earth? We haven't had a disease in Atlantis in.... Well we never have had to worry about diseases. No, what do humans call them... Bacteria or viruses or whatever you call them, can survive on or in us.

  • @AnjelCaido69
    @AnjelCaido69 4 роки тому +7

    0:06 you jinxed us

  • @jageroo29
    @jageroo29 8 років тому +113

    Well if it never happened reaper from overwatch wouldnt have that plague doctor skin

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 8 років тому

      Neither would medic from tf2

    • @omidtajik7858
      @omidtajik7858 7 років тому +5

      We wouldn't probably even have games yet.

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 7 років тому +1

      Omid Tajik Most interesting hypothesis, care to elaborate? I personally assume that we would have video games already, maybe not as advanced yet, but still have them

    • @omidtajik7858
      @omidtajik7858 7 років тому

      aleksi häkli Anything can be possible :D

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 7 років тому +2

      Omid Tajik SWEET! Okay i wan't that my pc's graphic card instantly upgrades from 1060 to 1080 NOW! Didn't happen... F*ck

  • @zackoshi605
    @zackoshi605 7 років тому +55

    Then SCP-049 wouldn't exist

    • @theoofensive5689
      @theoofensive5689 7 років тому +9

      Zackoshi I'm aware this is a joke, but the 'Plauge' It speaks of is in fact not the Bubonic plague OR the black death, the original writer of the SCP has not yet confirmed what the 'plauge' is.

    • @joshuaroblox7174
      @joshuaroblox7174 6 років тому +2

      DynamoShot The twat plague*

    • @LordBob
      @LordBob 5 років тому +2

      @@theoofensive5689 it's homosexuality

    • @voidwalker9746
      @voidwalker9746 3 роки тому +2

      @@LordBob ah yes the worst plague of them all, currently there is only one cure, it's metal and fired into a skull

  • @alexcaswell2
    @alexcaswell2 8 років тому +96

    Kingdom of space bears: JAN MAYEN! thebearhaslanded! I spy with my little eyes an EU4 reference?

  • @armergamer2179
    @armergamer2179 4 роки тому +10

    “Has gone a century without a horrific plague”.
    Goddam it Potential History you jinxed us

  • @Delta-jc7og
    @Delta-jc7og 7 років тому +61

    What do you do, *BLAME THE JEWS!!*

    • @nicerock5506
      @nicerock5506 4 роки тому +1

      Auf Right doubt

    • @Snow-rp5tv
      @Snow-rp5tv 4 роки тому +1

      Maybe they shouldn't call for the genocide of Europeans? maybe they shouldn't call Jesus a Bastard Sourceror boiling if Human Feces?

    • @someone-js6pg
      @someone-js6pg 4 роки тому

      @Lazys The Dank Engineer not just hundreds but thousands

    • @Asprawlol
      @Asprawlol 3 роки тому

      @@Snow-rp5tv Genocide of europeans? They never called for that man. The Torah also predates jesus by a few thousand years

  • @courtellis8226
    @courtellis8226 8 років тому +6

    This series has really changed my world view. I now realize that war and conflict Is necessary for growth to occur in the world. Thank you alternate history.

    • @courtellis8226
      @courtellis8226 8 років тому

      5:01 HAHAHA Wow.

    • @TheHawkeye0725
      @TheHawkeye0725 8 років тому +2

      Everything happens for a reason I guess...

    • @KeepCalmAndPwnNoobs
      @KeepCalmAndPwnNoobs 8 років тому +2

      +Court Ellis That's definitely not the message of this video

    • @frackitos
      @frackitos 8 років тому +1

      +Court Ellis No. Incentives are necessary for growth and development to occur in the world. War and conflict are extreme incentives*. Doesn't mean they're the only incentives.

    • @andrewizsvak8923
      @andrewizsvak8923 8 років тому

      I agree with war comes growth and a decline in population

  • @glaz-eddonut8199
    @glaz-eddonut8199 8 років тому +6

    Fun fact: we are not completely certain that the "Black Death" was in fact the Bubonic Plauge

  • @legoleviathan6411
    @legoleviathan6411 4 роки тому +8

    “And gone almost a century without a horrific plague.”
    Coronavirus: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.

  • @adisankar119
    @adisankar119 8 років тому +6

    The thing is, no trade between the Mongols and Europe would mean at least 75 million wouldn't have died, but gunpowder wouldn't have been traded, meaning no guns or delayed guns. Maybe less deaths.

    • @anon9579
      @anon9579 8 років тому

      By now Europe would be third world

  • @M0rshu64
    @M0rshu64 8 років тому +47

    What if the Mongols never went on their conquest.
    What if Stalin Never came to power.

    • @Master_3530
      @Master_3530 8 років тому +1

      What if Lenin didn't come to power and USSR never existed? That'd also mean no communism.

    • @nedgleed7880
      @nedgleed7880 8 років тому +1

      +Damian Strupiechowski he already did that

    • @Trueysmir996
      @Trueysmir996 8 років тому

      What if world war 1 never happened

    • @ungureanubogdan2398
      @ungureanubogdan2398 8 років тому

      +Damian Strupiechowski i'd rather take lenin still leading ussr still sucks but way better

    • @daman1209
      @daman1209 8 років тому

      If trotsky came to power instead of stalin he would've supported international communism more. Countries like spain would've likely become communist instead of facist. In Germany the communist party competed closely with the national socialists. If trotsky was in power she would've bank supported a communist take over of germany potentially altering the entire history of world war 2. That said though the USSR ecnomically would likely be worse of as trotsky would sacrafice russain progress in exchange for the spread of communism. Militiarily it is debatable because Stalin and his supporters were better generals but troksy is unlikely to have ever purged the officer cores of the USSR meaning if a war did come around the USSR would've been better prepared. Overal however i think the USSR would've been better off under trotsky. The Germans argueably wouldn't have pushed into Russia as much if hitler still came to power because there would'v been competent soviet officers to counter an invasion because trosky wouldn't have purged the officer core.

  • @butterscience7016
    @butterscience7016 7 років тому +68

    DAMMIT JIMMY!

  • @KaiserKosako
    @KaiserKosako 4 роки тому +16

    That Intro didn't age well

  • @snowy3896
    @snowy3896 8 років тому +37

    What if the USA and USSR went to war during the Cold War?

    • @iPolitely
      @iPolitely 8 років тому +17

      Dead

    • @hypochondriac3194
      @hypochondriac3194 8 років тому +8

      +Snowy 38
      Mutually Assured Destruction
      The entire Earth would be destroyed in a few hours.

    • @shadow50435
      @shadow50435 8 років тому +14

      1. WW3 (longer than ww1 and 2 combined.
      2. Nuclear war = Possible extinction.

    • @PeterWolniewicz
      @PeterWolniewicz 8 років тому

      You die I die we all die. Literally imagine Hiroshima but1,00000 times worse and in every city, on the planet.

    • @cpMetis
      @cpMetis 8 років тому

      +Snowy 38 X _ X

  • @japanamericacar427
    @japanamericacar427 4 роки тому +8

    0:10
    you got us there

  • @MrVTEC20
    @MrVTEC20 4 роки тому +11

    Bro who’s watching in 2020?

  • @lukascepanovic3609
    @lukascepanovic3609 4 роки тому +1

    What a time to be listening to this kind of video

  • @antony-k
    @antony-k 4 роки тому +33

    Soon we will see a "What if the coronavirus outbreak never happened"

    • @masonpyle5929
      @masonpyle5929 4 роки тому +1

      I know. If corona never happened, I wouldn’t of had a texting debate with my cousin on it. 2020 would be better because the world doesn’t shut down. Toilet paper companies wouldn’t be getting a raise, less memes, , people would still be sane since quarantine doesn’t happen, the XFL 2.0 doesn’t go bankrupt, CHAZ/CHOP probably won’t exist, and rumors of a second American Civil War probably won’t exist.

    • @jjammmees
      @jjammmees 3 роки тому

      i wouldnt be replying to this comment

    • @nxdeflowers
      @nxdeflowers 2 роки тому

      Corona has been in many different forms, this was just the many diseases to come from china, so basically there will always be covid in different ways

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 2 роки тому

      @@masonpyle5929 honestly i think the world needed the lockdown

  • @megk761
    @megk761 8 років тому +63

    crash cours refrence YESSSSSSS

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye 8 років тому +1

      +JayOnTheBeat It was around 2:20, where the Mongols are noted to be the "exception",

    • @Ticazoid95
      @Ticazoid95 8 років тому

      👍

    • @Chris_7103
      @Chris_7103 8 років тому

      Which Crash Course episode was it referencing from?

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye 8 років тому +1

      ***** It's more loads of the. The Mongols being the "exception" was common feature in that series.

    • @panosjuanis
      @panosjuanis 8 років тому

      +Ollie Bye (History) love ur vids man!

  • @g0bas535
    @g0bas535 4 роки тому +17

    UA-cam be like:
    2016:no
    2017:still no
    2018:a no is a no
    2019:do you wanna die?
    2020: RECOMMENDED VIDEO!!!

  • @davidberidze5178
    @davidberidze5178 2 роки тому +2

    The opening of this video aged HORRIBLY

  • @gibbo_1061
    @gibbo_1061 8 років тому +8

    What if gunpowder was never invented?

    • @mestre12
      @mestre12 8 років тому +2

      +iShadowKing That would be a cool episode. The most impactufull thing would be warfare. We would be still using swords and melee weapons, heavy armor, horses on battle. One thing i belive it would also happend, on this case wouldnt happend, would be the industrial revolution, or the very least, it would heavly delayded. Sorry for my english.

  • @Ramzuiv
    @Ramzuiv 4 роки тому +8

    2016: "Good job, us!"
    2020 says hi

  • @mmksquared
    @mmksquared 7 років тому +16

    *Forgets the polish bubble* YOU HAD ONE JOB ONE JOB

  • @simonpugh3731
    @simonpugh3731 Рік тому +2

    "The world has gone a century without a horrific plague!"
    Well that aged like my homemade wine.

  • @PigIA
    @PigIA 4 роки тому +7

    0:05 About that...

  • @banrajanand7983
    @banrajanand7983 7 років тому +46

    what whould have happened if instead of black death never happening it happens at twice the force

    • @randomkitty4940
      @randomkitty4940 7 років тому +4

      Boncy's funtube then 2/3 of the population would die

    • @carsonh7222
      @carsonh7222 7 років тому +6

      About 2/3 or all the population would die. Most likely, we'd all be saying "bye bye, Europe."

    • @varunpathak9677
      @varunpathak9677 6 років тому +2

      There’s a video on that now go check it out

    • @gamingwithjake3206
      @gamingwithjake3206 5 років тому

      When i looked at the comments on this comment i was expecting idiotts like “hey dumbass there is one” i must say im actually proud of yall in this one lol

  • @noahhorner231
    @noahhorner231 5 років тому +27

    The time Europe got Thanos-snapped.

  • @JOE-ft3gq
    @JOE-ft3gq 3 роки тому +1

    5:24 “the kiddies would be killed by the plague just ten years after “

  • @CodeDarkBlue
    @CodeDarkBlue 8 років тому +39

    the people in these animations are so cute ;w;

  • @seancreef4616
    @seancreef4616 4 роки тому +3

    oh lord... 0:05...this man spoke waaaaay too soon

  • @Macconator2010
    @Macconator2010 8 років тому +8

    3:23 ahhh so this is what's gonna happen in Meereen in the Winds of Winter.

  • @krisgomez3997
    @krisgomez3997 2 роки тому +2

    "almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague" aged like fine milk

  • @amberjeez7987
    @amberjeez7987 4 роки тому +3

    Cody: What if the Black Death never happened.
    Medieval Poland: Heh.

  • @JD1010101110
    @JD1010101110 8 років тому +37

    surely people would migrate east and south from Europe into Asia and Africa?

    • @blacky3ard
      @blacky3ard 8 років тому +21

      Yes, with the disease.

    • @Khrene
      @Khrene 8 років тому +2

      JD1010101110
      Nope. To migrate you have to store food and water for trips that took months, which is basically impossible when you can't even get food day to day.
      Even if a select few Royalty were able to pull it off, they'd have a hard time fighting off the poor, the starving, and the brigands with everyone being so desperate.

    • @magnuslh84
      @magnuslh84 8 років тому

      which disease?

    • @GeorgiaJCP
      @GeorgiaJCP 8 років тому +5

      it's not like they could just jump on a plane and move...

  • @AdamSmith-pp2rt
    @AdamSmith-pp2rt 6 років тому +5

    4:42 imagine getting killed because you didn't die (and a decent hygiene)

  • @raeb8017
    @raeb8017 5 років тому

    thank you for providing info about a question i didn’t know i’ve always wanted to know!!😂😂

  • @WizardGeneral
    @WizardGeneral 8 років тому +22

    I was half hoping he would pull a pun and say 1+1=Jew

    • @neutybooty
      @neutybooty 8 років тому +5

      +Sgt. Vodka Thought the exact same thing. I think it would have even made a better joke.

  • @vitocorleone3764
    @vitocorleone3764 8 років тому +8

    There can be entire episodes based on theories like "what if this one person was never born." History could take an entirely unrecognizable rout if one person did not exist. Now image the millions that were killed as a result of the black death that could have been potential philosophers, scientists, artists, authoritarians, military masterminds, progressive royal family members, fascist royal family members, et cetera. Now imaging all the kids that could have been that may have grown up to be those things. The possible different timelines approaches infinity. We are literally one of an unending amount of timelines, and it just so happens your life is what came to be. The likely hood of that is essentially zero.

    • @EdDeezNuts944
      @EdDeezNuts944 8 років тому +2

      That's why I constantly wish that when I died, I became omniscient and omnipotent, and view all parallel universes for our universe. It'd be so interesting!

  • @jyamez9069
    @jyamez9069 4 роки тому +9

    The intro didn’t age well

  • @aaronrussell8362
    @aaronrussell8362 6 років тому

    I love the vids. Keep up the good work

  • @geekchic8798
    @geekchic8798 4 роки тому +6

    "Where we have gone almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague."
    *4 years later: the beer virus happened.*
    Wow, that comment aged like milk.