What if Horses Never Existed?
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Horses changed the course of history, but they almost didn't arrive in Asia. What would happen if horses never existed?
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Happy 2019 everyone. This video was supposed to be out weeks ago, but you know how this time of year goes. Perhaps I'll talk about if horses just stayed in North America instead of Asia, and how that'd change colonization. But that's a tale for another day.
Was this because of my suggestion or was it in the works already?
I love you.
I've never thought I'd see you as a Neo-Nazi, Cody, but ever since your comment on E;R's video on Solo: A Star Wars Story, I can't see you as the same man (; P lel jk)
Hey, Cody! When would you release What if the Roman Empire Never Existed Part III?
Where is Without Rome III? 😞
He didn't address the issue of how the Trojan Horse would look like. :(
#TrojanBull
A Person No...
#TrojanBat
Trojan cow
Trojan rabbit
Trojan salmon
Before Horses were a thing we used pigs and carrots on a fishing pole.
Underrated comment, I was the 50th like and 2nd to comment
No you didn't
They're too slow to be useful, and they always were...
That wasn’t even that long ago either
@@theshonenshow8813 It’s been 7 years what are you talking about
@@NorthSudan when I say that I mean in history 7 years is a blink
Horses: Not Existing*
Mongols: Terrified Screaming*
heh
Don't forget about napoleon
Me a hungarian:
You guys know we exist...
RIGHT?
Camels and donkey standing on the side line: "now is our time to shine"
uh why? no horses means mongols just chill in their own little villages without too much of an issue.
Finally a new video after you spent days just horsin arou-I can’t do it. It’s not worth a pun that bad.
yeet
furry
The pun is always worth it always
*drinks polyjuice potion to look like snape* always
Quit horsin around Ninja 2018
EmperorTigerstar Why the long face?
That would be unepic
I've subbed to u, what are u gonna do about it?
You’ll see.
No mongols ever
Thomas Turner mongols on elephants tho
Ok, this is unepic
We would have a movie called EQUESTRIAN PARK
I'd rather have that than My Little Pony.
@@AlexanderCheff
Don't say that about My Little Pony!!!
I am the Vaush, and I love the horses.
If horses didn’t exist, no shrinking ballsacks in RDR2.
This is the true tragedy...
Truly the darkest timeline
not even a wild west
If horses didn’t exist, rdr2 wouldn’t exist lol
@@leahtofu bro they could just travel on pigs lol
You forgot to mention probably the most impactful void left if there were no horses -- ancient Indo-European/Aryan peoples wouldn't have been able to expand as effectively into the Iranian plateau, northern India and Europe without them.
Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Persian, Germanic languages and all their derivative languages (English, Hindi/Urdu, French, Iranic languages, German, Spanish, etc) wouldn't even exist, because the proto-Indo-European language would've been confined to the eastern European steppes.
Horses were incredibly vital to the Indo-Europeans, as evidenced by the ritualistic and divine importance of horses in the Hindu Vedas, Greek/Roman and Norse mythology, and the fact that the Hittites used them in chariot warfare.
Exactly
Horses were so important in Indo-European cultures that the word horse itself has cognates in many other languages, like latin equus (from which we get equestrian) and greek hippos.
Not to mention how awkward it would be when the winged hussars don't arrive...
A potato the Turks wouldn’t even be at Vienna, so the winged hussars wouldn’t be needed
Aryan people?
Aztecs and Incas: Laughs in not being affected*
who know,,, maybe they would croos the atlantic first
Not even...
*Laughs in Positively Affected*
Probably would've been a blessing for them, though they'd still face diseases
I am the Vaush and I love the horses.
Traveling across tamriel would be a lot harder
Sieger You are carrying to much to run
Rip
Yo that means the Dragonborn would never be sent to get his head chopped off
Wagons whould not be able to operate that means no stores would have any supplies or life in tamriel would be so much harder
They would finally learn how to teleport...
We'd have a bunch of weirdos talking about the latest episode of My Little Cow.
My Little Goat would have been much cuter!!!
My Little Calf
Elaine B My Little Kid
@@elaineb7065 My Little Goat... I'd be down, lol.
@@NatureShy The Boys would have beards & some would have tassels under their chins, & can you imagine how we'd decorate their horns??? Lol...
What about the Incan empire in south America? They had no horses and had a huge system of runner messengers that would run from one outpost to another outpost until the message was delivered
Well they didn't make it.
@@lilwater7358 wdym
@@katherineforero4883 So we talked about that horses are important for traveling and messenges...
The argument was that Incans had no horses and simply ran their way.
Well... do they stick arround today?
Or was there simply no way to compete with the industrial power of europe and the more important part: they simply couldnt beat the spanish conquistadores with their mounted and armoured knights.
It's very sad and i wish they had horses and at least some sort of defensive clothing...
ancient greeks also used runneres instead of horses, thats why marathons are called marathons
messages were often forgotten or misinterpreted (according to horrible histories) so runners were pretty shitty
So basically our timeline is the one where pegasus never existed.
What if we had unicorns, but not horses?
Then no brony shit would happen. That's like 50% of the furry population.
@@stitchgroover
We do have unicorns, they are a variant of the rhinoceros.
@@JohnZ117 And Narwhals are what you get when you cross a rhinocorn with a manatee.
Craig McDonald stabby cows
_Gengis Khan has already touched the dislike button_
YOU ALERDY
At least he knows history :/
You use Discord?
Dawg you must literally be constantly pressing refresh on the subs tab
Is that a JoJo reference?
I think a more interesting scernario would be if horses never went extinct in the Americas
Eric Hawkins how do horses live in jungles and the Sahara
Weren’t camels more effective for desert travel anyways? Why would the African kingdoms use horses for trade instead of camels?
@Semih Sahin There were already horses in parts of africa. Horses werent widespread because of the tse tse fly which kills them very easily.
@@j0nhurry459 Yeah a bit of both, horses couldn't live in certain areas because they died off. Effectively cutting off people and discouraging trade and proper development. Camels are much more useful in the northern desert climates, which allowed powerful kingdoms like Mali to exist
Hi, just a little fyi, doesn't really matter but...
Calvary = The hill Jesus was crucified on.
Cavalry = horse-mounted soldiers
Calvary ≠ Cavalry
Hey maybe U are The One's Hearing it WRong and accents are very tricky and also always changing even within the same language OhKK!
@@mrmarmellow555 Accents don't change the order of letters within a word
@@mrmarmellow555 Nope. AltHistHub is wrong. That's not accent. Dyslexia maybe, but not accent.
Not saying it's a big deal and the vid is not understandable. Commentor just added some more knowledge to the conversation. Maybe try to learn from it instead.
Also Kazakhstan is three syllables, ka + zakh + stan, not four syllables "gazackistan" like he pronounces it at 6:58
Wow. Honestly, I know the difference, but I never thought about the fact that I might be mispronouncing cavalry, just because it is so similar to Calvary. It's not really a term I use in casual conversation anyway, but I will definitely be paying more attention to my pronunciation if it does come up. :P
I need a “What if Sweden won the Great Northern War”... p l e a s e .
Read Lars Wilderäng’s “Redovisningsavdelning Marviken”!
Wait, they made horses from Red Dead Redemption II a real thing?!?
@Ohkae can i be in the screenshot
@@kinga6347 no
Hippatty Hoppatus lol
@@daveshoe4574 Rakesh 😎
Hippatty Hoppatus the germans would have still lost no matter what had happened in world war 2
Huns, mongols, turks have left the chat.
Also Avars,Magyars,Scythians,Mughals,Cumans, and Bulgars.
Joshua Kemmett Avars, magyars, bulgars were the Huns.
@@azoz-so5qr don't forget persians and poles
@@Storming360 Are Poles Slavic, Germanic or something else? I have always wondered that.
@Džudžan Absolutely not, they stayed in Europe. Avars, magyars, bulgars were all Huns.
Magyars and huns had 100% same genetic:
dailynewshungary.com/genetic-study-proves-hungarians-descendants-huns/
Kubrat the bulgar king was son of Attila, bulgars were his tribes:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubrat
The hun language belong to Oghuric group, just like avars, bulgars:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oghur_languages
Hun community in Switzerland:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anniviers
Pls educate yourself :)
Alexander the great
Genghis Khan
Jan III Sobieski, winged hussars
Blücher,Murat,Lasalle
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Ashoka and the mughals with their war elephants and camel gun 😎
*Hasbro:* I'm gonna pretend I didn't see that.
OH GOD I WHY DID YOU REMIND ME THAT THE SAME COMPANY THAT MAKES TRANSFORMERS ALSO MAKES MY LITTLE PONY!
Friendship 😂
Hasbro has Power rangers now :D
@@oomguy9423 is it wrong that I really want to see some sort of deranged crossover between the two now, where the deceptions invade equestria or something like that
@@MultiNoname999 I don't know a thing about mlp but it would probably be slaughter. Also just necause the crossover will legally be easy doesn't mean it will be good.
What if alaska and north east asia was still connected
I like your thinking! ;)
Cold War would be a mess and the America’s could be settled much earlier by asians instead of Europeans
@@TTMPmusic animals and diseases would come to America and this would change everything
@@TTMPmusic the cold War would probably never happen
@@TTMPmusic Maybe not, because, they would have to go through Sibiria. People at the time of the discovery of the americas weren't around that area of Sibiria. However as soon as they discovered the americas, maybe then the settlement of the americas would be quicker and more asians would settle it.
Here's a good alternate history scenario: What if early humans domesticated woolly mammoths/ what if the australian aboriginal people domesticated tasmanian tigers instead of dogs?
While the scenario sounds interesting I don’t know if it would be possible. Domestication is a hard process and not every animal can be domesticated. Here’s a video that explains it better than I ever could: ua-cam.com/video/wOmjnioNulo/v-deo.html
Felines are hard to domesticate since they're usually solitary animals. Wolves (or the ones that adapted to eating leftovers) bonded with humans more easily due to their social behavior.
@@fbiagent9666 good thing tasmanian tigers aren't felines then!
No, really. They're marsupials named afrer stripes on their flanks.
@@theunreadyone Yeah no shit thats why its a What If
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This video sort of misses a huge opportunity, in that we already have examples of how complex societies would develop without horses: Precolumbian civilizations in Mesoamerica and the Andes. In Mesoamerica, the lack of horses had a few impacts: Directly governed empires were much rarer, with most larger states and Empires, such as the Aztec, The Zapotec kingdom out of Monte Alban, the Mixtec Empire out of Tututepec, the various superower Maya city-states, and presumably the Toltecs and Teotihuacan, and various other smaller regional kindoms all ruled indirectly (the only notable example which did have direct imperial rule was the Purepecha Empire, rival to the Aztec). The specifics varied, but they either making subservient cites merely pay tribute but still self rule as vassals, by installing rulers, and/or by just cementing political influence via political marriages, prestige, and genelogical ancestry to mythologized or older respected states.
Sieges were rarer as well, since as all supplies on military campaigns needed to be carried by porters, who also needed their own supplies, setting a hard cap on how long you could be out on campaigns before needing to resupply., vs pack animals being ablr to graze. A larger emphasis was put on armies outnumbering their enemies then in Eurasia due to the lack of calvary, and as a result of all of this, warfare needed to be seasonal: Soldiers would go on campaign in winters, but would return home to tend to farms in the summer.
Finally, this is a bit more speculatory on my part then the above, but it may have been a factor for the lack of metal weapons and armor. The Mesoamericans could smelt bronze, but didn't use it in warfare. A part of this is likely due to the climate: Even the Conquistadors largerly gave up their steel armor due to the heat and humidity in favor of various native kinds, such as Ichcahuipilli; and if that hindered the development of metal armor, metal weapons would be as well since Obsidian's main detriment compared to metal weapons, it's durability, wouldn't be as much of a problem without metal armor it needs to get past. But the logistical issues of going on campaigns I mention above is also a likely factor: Metal weapons and armor are harder to replace out in the field, wheras wood and stone weapons are much easier to repair and produce, and given the logistical hurdles long distance campaigns faced without horses, the latter might have been prefferable.
Mesoamericans didn't have wheels. Heavy things can be pulled even by dogs or cows, even by humans, if you have wheels. Horses are not as cruical as this video would like to suggest. Ok, if you didn't have horses, cows, goats, dogs, wheels, and if our brains were like 20% smaller and Asteroid hit the Earth two more times, I get it, civilization wouldn't come to existence.
@@guestimator121 The Mesoamericans had wheels, with axels in them, at that, in toys: Go look up "Mesoamerican wheeled toys"; and they also used wheels for pottery production. They understood the mechanical properties of wheels, but did not use them for transportation, as there were no cows, oxen, mules, or ANY sort of large mammal in Mesoamerica other then Deer and Jaguar, which don't work well as draft animals for various reasons.
@@MajoraZ
Yep. Wheels are kinda useless when you have nothing to ex pull a cart. The Inca's had at best the lama that is to weak to do anything useful but it made a small difference. Without decent animals development still occur but at a much much slower pace, more people involved in producing/gathering food since you have no ox/cows to pull plows. The meso-americans barely had it better than the north americans that had nothing in the terms of either good crops (corn in central) or any animals to use (lama in south).
@@SuperAerie There was more cultivation in North America than most people think, and I'm not just talking maize.
You make a great point.i noticed this in the video and it kept bothering me how he just ignored Mesoamerican civilizations
We would tame bears and use them as mounts instead.
Note: this is awesome.
*[Bear Cavalry Intensifies]*
@a number two numbers a bear with armor
@a number two numbers thats epic
Then Red Dead Redemption 2 would have cars instead
Yer alright boah
Only rich people had car back then
isn't that just GTA ?
What bout transformers
:thinking:
Can you do a follow up about if horses remained in the Americas?
Maybe the few remaining weren’t hunted by the new people, or maybe they just fared better during the ice age and never went extinct in the Americas. How much more would they be able to advance? Would the Europeans still conquer and colonize them?
Hmmm... what if the peoples of the Americas advanced further than the Europeans because the horse stayed there... and it was they who developed empires, ships, and then colonized Europe?
Well, we know from history what the natives did once they actually got their hands on horses from the Europeans (there's a good reason why the stereotypical Spaghetti Western Indian rides a horse). They lapped them up, and in some places, like the Great Plains, they even adopted nomadic lifestyles, abandoning agriculture for the now far more profitable life of hunting buffalo, which is way easier when you have horses.
@@CantusTropus Excellent post. There is theory that the horse never went extinct at all in the western hemisphere.
I wrote a comment about this before scrolling down.
I too agree this would be great.
Even if they had not have been as advanced, i believe the conquest would not have been as effective because with domesticated horses, native americans would have had animals too, to share diseases with, and maybe not have been as affected by ours...
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*Based off the existence of Flat Earthers, I strongly disagree*
In fact , in ancient Mesopotamia they would used a donkey for chariots
And perhaps by using breeding like we do for dogs we would have been able to create an alternative from donkey by making them taller and faster.
man what about them camels???
Ramses says: Generals, take the donkeys and make them charge to the enemies
then suddently the donkey stops during the charge. I don't think donkeys would have made a good donkalry
Can we slap this guy?
Donkey's and camels frighten easily and won't charge into battle like a horse.
War elephants on the other hand are very aggressive and would have dominated in a world without horses.
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Given the horse itself took a lot of breeding to reach a size and state people could ride it, it does make you wonder what sort of species of ox or maybe deer would have been bred into something to fill a similar role and what it would look like.
Now this is podracing
TheRussianBager reference?
@@swiggedyswoner7315
Its a referance to my mighty length
A surprise to be sure but a welcomed one
Spartan-B312 A bold one
What if UA-cam wasn't bought by Google?
Porn.
Bankruptcy
Emperor Lemon did a pretty good video on this that will answer your question.
UA-cam rewind 2018 May have been better
Less demonization?
Cavalry. Not Calvary.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_(linguistics)
@@liv5645 "Metathesis is responsible for some common speech errors, such as children acquiring spaghetti as pasketti." You gonna tell me pasketti is correct too?
Donnie Pendleton there’s no accent mark in fuck
It appears both are correct.
I blame the romans for giving such confusing names to the horse and the hill
Calvary is the place where the Romans Crucified Jesus Christ. Cavalry is a mobile military unit.
@Christian W Not pedantic at all. People need to say what they mean and mean what they say or don't bother. There is a reason why the words are different. I blame it on the lack of teaching Phonics in schools.
Most people don't think about either term very often so mistakes are going to be made.
I haven't seen the video yet. Is Cody still saying Calvary like a 6 year old instead of Cavalry?
@@yourethatmantis5178 Yep.
@@CarrotConsumer When you have a channel posting videos covering the subject on a regular basis and get called out on it continually it stops being a mistake. It's either carelessness, illiteracy, or even worse a lack of caring. And people making allowances for it doesn't help. The first time could be considered a mistake. It stops being a mistake when one continues to make that same error over and over again. People need to be held accountable for egregious mistakes like this.
If you read more of the comment threads below you'll see that I wasn't the only one who brought it up again.
*_What if Big Chungus never became a meme?_*
@@alexandrine1558 then a worse meme would probably take its place. You don't fuck the timeline, Barry!
Then god would still love us
Y’all wrong, this planet would cease to exist if big chungus never did
What if the Ugandan Empire formed in early 2018? (dead meme)
then most of europe wouldn't have died
Way too many changes to imagine. One of the rare instances where an alternate history scenario would really be mind boggling.
*_Indian war elephants intensify_*
Btw. you could do the video "What if Pangaea never broke apart?"
_Edit: Didn't see you already did that_
He did
India would been a lot bigger India intensifies
He did ua-cam.com/video/eaFdUh6j3aE/v-deo.html
Multi110978 go get a life.
A remake would be nice though
Bronies wouldn't be a thing lol
marja 1 mongols tho
Elephants tho
marja 1 Silver linings ya know?
India intensifies
/ elephants
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Shaqcepticeye India joins the server cause elephants
Iran used horses.
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Jared Jams It’s a great shame. Quite unfortunate.
I'm German and [many other] European descent[s], I think of Aryans as rich entitled, noble [class group of] people from Africa, Asia, and Europe. None of that mindless [racial] fascist crap from the 1920s-1940s.
Perhaps camels, donkeys (if there would be any?), or oxen would have been selectively bred to fill that niche, just look at what we did with dogs. Or elephants, maybe bred to be smaller for speed and big ones for heavy units.
I think that's definitely possible. It would take several generations to get camels or elephants used to the European climate, but it could be done.
or domesticated reindeer
wagon dogs?
Elephants, due to their immense size, would simply be too expensive to upkeep in large enough numbers to domesticate. Horses were already extremely expensive to feed, water, clean and house in ancient times so imagine doing that for an animal that is much bigger that requires much more food. That isn't to say it can't be done but it simply wouldn't be practical or would be monumental costly to do so.
Stephen T it wouldn’t be that tough to get camels in Europe. Asian, Himalayan camels can handle cold winters
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What of horses never existed?
Answer: Europeans wouldn’t exist.
Let me explain. Proto-Indo-Europeans were the first to domesticate horses on the grassy plains of the Eurasian Steppe. Proto-Indo-Europeans used their height, strength, and *horses* to conquer Europe. Modern day Europeans are a mix of three ancient populations- Western Hunter-Gatherers, Anatolian Farmers, and *Proto-Indo-Europeans*
Without the horse Proto-Indo-Europeans would never conquer Europe thereby never giving their DNA to Europeans which in turn means Europeans as we know them never exist.
im sure they would still exist but not as we know them. every piece of land will eventually be settled. its inevitable even with no horses. but they would stick more to the coast and rely on boats.
@@godemperorofmankind3.091 So Basque people would be more dominate in Spain right?
you butchered the names for Macedonia and Kazakhstan
also said punic wrong, just saying
And said calvary instead of cavalry.
Regional accents in the USA will do that.
He also forgot to call it the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia. Naaaahhhh! I'm just joking.
McDonald’s burgers would go out of business
Ford motor company (Pinto, Bronco, Mustang) would have had the Greyhound, Dashound, and Poodle.
In some parts of Europe and Central Asia, horse meat is considered a delicacy
You mean Burger King lol
@@Supermegamanuel01 In Mongolia, horse meat is a staple.
I loved this video! Especially since I am a horse rider and know how special horses are and how much they are in touch with us as humans.
Do “What if the Queen of England didn’t die on January 5th, 2019?”
Ocean Man There is no Queen of England, the last one died centuries ago
Adam Daher thats just wrong there is a title of Queen in the United Kingdom
The Kegster Yes not Queen of England, British people can be Scots or Welsh
@@adamdaher2292 England is the the UK you pedantic weiner.
@@CarrotConsumer England is a part of the UK, not "the" UK
My Kingdom for a Horse!
"a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"
Absolutely fascinating video
since Rome kinda got its highly Militarized society thanks to a Gaulish Raid of Footman
and since the Romans had not much to do with the Greek world at their early years and since the Romans were never good Horseman in the first place, relying mostly on their heavy infantry
This might be Very good news for them
If the Roman Republic would still be founded , it would Probably even become more Powerful with their Heavy unflankable Infantry , and their huge variation of Artillery (ya know stuff like Manuballista and whatnot )
not to mention their ridiculously fast Marching Speed
what would they be using to pull everything? most other animals either A eat more than a horse does, or are far slower
@@Cherubim666999 Horses are not the best for pulling heavy loads. Oxen are far superior for that chore and it's oxen that were most often used to pull heavy wagons.
@@QarthCEO i know they can pull more, however a team of horses have multiple purposes, do not eat as much, and oxen are slower stuborn beasts
@@Cherubim666999 It takes 4 horses to pull the weight of 2 oxen. 4 horses eat more then 2 oxen and horses are FAR more spirited and unruly than oxen. Oxen are rather dumb and just do what they are told. They are not stubborn at all, they are very compliant, like cows. A child can control an ox and often did. Oxen are much cheaper, and far more hardy and healthy as well.
Besides, the only reason you would need a team of horses is for pulling something very quickly over a short distance, like a strong box full of gold. And the only reason you would need to pull it very quickly is because bandits on horseback are very fast as well. Without bandits on horses, you eliminate the need for fast-traveling wagons altogether. Oxen are far more efficient for pulling wagons which is why ox teams were used far more often than horses for pulling cargo. If you were going west, you had an ox team pulling your wagon, not horses.
@@Cherubim666999 Oxen. Rome was held back because their harnesses were designed for oxen and would strangle horses if the horses tried to pull significant weight. Messages slow down, but freight does not.
(Before watching video)
WAR ELEPHANTS and RHINOS of course.
**exists video***
**publishes a book**
Please do 'What if Britain wasn't an island?'
that would be cool to see, especially Germans invading the British Isles in World War two
Would britain as a country even exist at that point? It would probavly be a part of france.
@@luftwaffle3566 Why would it be a part of France? 😄
England and latterly the UK has been defeating France in wars since the Norman Conquest.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 ... because they had the Channel to fall back and regroup, as well as it being a discouraging factor for any non-seafaring nation
@@rustyeyeby You do understand that the Channel runs between the UK and France.....🤔
It's as much a barrier for the UK as it is for France.
Surely you're not suggesting that the UK was historically impossible to invade...tell that to the Norsemen, Danes, Saxons and of course the Normans themselves.
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I think that the Mongol Empire would have still existed. But, that their culture would have been based around the camel instead.
@@wildfire3986 can u stop
Lol I was watching your vids with no earbuds and my cat loves you voice haha
He jumped up on my bed and just closed his eyes and listened. He purred so loud lol
Then we would call an Uber
Brilliant;
Gosh darnit, Cody, you couldn't even bother thinking about that, huh ? So f-ing stupid...
The winged hussars would not have arrived, and they wouldn't be hussars either.
They wouldn't even be coming down the mountainside.
They wouldn't be able to turn the tide
And there wouldn't be a tide to turn.
Turks wouldn't swarm EU and ME either
They wouldn’t be a unique unit for Poland in Civ 6
i love horses cant imagen life without them
51 Indo-Europeans, Polish and Hungarian hussars, Egyptian charioteers, Seljuk and Ottoman Turkish horsemen, Macedonian cavalry, Scythian Amazons, Native American hunters, medieval knights, cowboys, Mongol archers, Hun soldiers, and Scots Greys disliked this video.
Angus Yang I'm hungarian and i liked it ;)
QUIT HORSIN' AROUND!
-Ninja 2018 (epic gamer moments)
I was told to quit "whoring" around once for talking kinky stuff to girls at work.
Play some of that jumping music
Imperialis THE FUCK YOU SAY ABOUT ME YOU LITTLE SHIT
What if Nuclear Weapons never existed ?
He already did that one.
World War 15
@@eagle7076
True. I don't know what happened to it, though.
War
Lots of war
We’d be living in a better world that’s for sure
Then we wouldn't have bojack horseman
@BMAN488877
You take that back!
Bojack camelman
It's cavalry Cody, not calvary. Calvary is the hill where Jesus was crucified.
Jackson Ross Go fuck yourself. It doesn't matter.
@@silasbetit9659 It DOES matter.
he also said "KazakhAstan" rather than "Kazakhstan"
Cavalo- Cavalaria- Cavaleiro
Calvário- Jesus
Portugues 😉😊
It’s a pretty common mispronunciation in America...I use caviar to avoid the wrong pronunciation.
What if the Megafauna never dead out/were hunted to extinction in North America?
What would Tesco do then?
Sam Patterson Lol you’re profile pic 😆
Sam Patterson you’re here too!
EDIT: your to you’re
Tesco? More like Walmart
Thomas Turner ?
Findus lasanga
There are so many minority tribes in Siberia riding elks. They must be alternative. What else? Camel. Elephant. Even the bull can be counted.
Yeah, I really feel like he underestimates camels here.
Dog sled too.
All of those are good in a niche, but nothing is as dominant and versatile as the horse. From farming, to travel, to war.. the horse let people do a bit of everything.
Camels were used a lot for war and are raced in the middle east to this day. They definitely are not as reliable or fast as a good horse, but they do deal better with heat and cold and can go far longer without food or water.
I suspect if there were no horses then the Europeans and Asians would have developed better breeds of Camels just like they developed better breeds of horses.
@conan263 quite possibly, but same as horses spread from the Asian step camels would spread because they would be seen as desirable. Plus once any animal is moved to a different environment it's highly likely it will adapt over time. Would have been interesting to see how camels turned out after a few hundred years of selective breeding in a lush, wet European country.
"humans are the smartest beings on earth." Clearly someones never listened to the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
What if Mexico won the Mexican American war
I don't believe they could've
A world without horses is more likely
Mexico could’ve never won in any universe.
You Say "Could've"...
win as in taking the lousinia purchase or stalemate?
*cries in mongol*
A rip Mongolia
Laughs in India elephants
Damn, that made me shed a tear
*What if horses never existed?*
We wouldn't know how powerful our motors are.
P.S. Do a collaboration with TierZoo?
8:46 Nice GoT reference. If horses didn't exist we could just ride red elk instead. Also, the world wouldn't have MLP, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Yeah. It's such a travesty that a girls' cartoon exists. How manly of you to feel threatened by such a thing.
I mean, I'm not a man, but whatever gets you off.
@@Reverberate_ You're not? Wow. Could have fooled me with your rugged refusal of gender norms. Guess you're just too complex for us basic girls to understand.
@@kimifw58 Exactly, I'm not a basic bitch that gets triggered by every little thing. Go back to posting selfies with your Starbucks on Facebook and Instagram.
@@kimifw58 Anyone who doesn't love MLP is automatically a man? Really?
That ending was fantastic! Great video!
"What if Horses Never Existed?"
Then the Proto-Indo-Europeans would have used spaceships instead.
Incas had a huge Empire without horses. There are other ways to travel and communicate. These technologies/metodologies would have developped.
Indeed. Consider also the use of light to signal from point to point using mirrors and signal fires.
Yup, ancient humans would have just domesticated giant eagles to ride if there were no horses.
But consider that Eurasia is the longest continent in the world, and there was interaction at both sides. The Mongols were able to travel from China to the Eastern Empire within someone's lifetime for example. In the Americas, yes there were large empires, but they were generally isolated. For example, the Aztecs and Incans never had any contact that we know of despite being relatively close to eachother (at least compared to China-Turkey).
@@RRW359 Yeah but the Aztecs and Incas both had contact with the Mapuche kingdoms that lay in between. And there is evidence of small interactions between Aztec and Inca envoys via Mpauche lands
@@partibananathurai5862 Sounds similar to Roman-Han relations, again over a smaller distance.
Horse: Exists
Man: *That's free real estate*
I just got your book,and I'm lovin' it
The Incas and Aztecs did great without horses, though
Until they were overrun by the spanish within a few years, just because they had horses. See the significance?
But they slaughtered like thousand of innocent people per day
Where are they now
@@berndmeyer5297 pretty sure the guns were the decisive factor
@@dolla316 disease
When you copy of The Atlantropa Articles finnaly arrives
"I've been looking forward to this"
What if __________________ didn't exist?
FILL IN THE BLANK
Steel
pizza
Asia
underscores
Rascism.
What if Spain conquered England in 1588
Spanish would be the world language.
What if Spain landed on the moon in 1588?
Ñ would be the world language
What if the Aztecs reverse engineered Spanish weapons and conquered Madrid??
@@SteezyRedStars that would have been hilerious.
You're the reason my channel has Hub in it so thanks for the idea :)
What if genghis Khan conquered Japan
gengis never even atempted the conquest of japan you've meant Kublai Khan?
Then they'd have Japan really that seems like it. The world wouldn't change. Japan culture wouldn't even change that much.
What if Alexander The Great didn't die from malaria??
@@maldonadoaxel5 not there culture but there history . It is possible that the era of sengoku jidai never happened => no nobunaga=>no tokugawa dynastie => no isolationism . That means that the japanese would maybe develope earlier and earlier coloniese the pazific and they would be included in the scrable for africa. They would also probably conquer more trade citys from china
There'd probably be no anime. ;-;
What if NordVPN didn't exist
the advertisement at the end would be from a different sponsor.
Tunnel Bear!
The horses actually migrated out of North America much much earlier than you suggested. The American Pleistocene extinct, I believe, was mostly caused by the hunting of mastodons, mammoths, and sloths, the slowest animals that gave the most meat. with their removing, the landscape changes, as does in Africa when a region loses elephants. Moist savanna becomes dry deciduous forest. Much of eastern US is composed of many acres of oak hickory forest and interspersed among the range is species like honey locust, kentucky coffee tree, osage orange, etc, which were either thorny or toxic plants meant to exist in a savanna created by mastodons and mammoths and sloths. With the extinction of these animals, the change of cover type helped end the horses, camals, llamas, the other pronghorn species that used to exist, and their carnivores, a cheetah type cat, lions, sabertooths, jaguars, dire wolves, short faced bears, teratorn birds, etc. The ice age alone did not kill these species as the ice age had been going on for some time and had already experienced 3 other interglacial periods like we have today and they survived all that. It was just the removal a few species that maintained the habitats that caused the ecological collapse in the Americas. Eurasia had more large animals because when early humans arrived on the scene, they were more primitive and animals had time to adapt. And Africa has the most megafauna because they adapted to the earliest of humans.
6:59 It's "QAH-ZAHQ-STAHN", not "KAE-ZAEK-STAEN".
Borat
Kek
Ir sounded like Kazaki Stan
What's the difference between K and Q, in the way you transliterated Kazakhstan? Give me some examples in other languages of similar sounds. Which one sounds most like the English K? Is one of them perhaps equivalent to the German CH or the Russian X?
Kaz-ak-Stan
They switched to the Asian server, because the NA server is filled with hackers.
The way you did the brains made them look like upside down yelling faces and I love it
What about if the horse survived in the Americas and was domesticated and never migrated to Asia?
Would it have been the American Indians that concurred the world? Or do you think that even with the horse is that not possible? This could be a follow up video to this one.
I don't think they would have risen to the same level of power Europe did in our timeline, but I think they would have been powerful enough to firmly rule the Americas, at which point European colonization wouldn't have happened.
Stephen T
Correction
It wouldn’t have happened until the Europeans learned how to ride horses.
90% of Native Americans died due to European diseases. Horses wouldn't change that fact, so it wouldn't save them.
@hussein abbas
Haha. No. Horses aren't enough to change the tide that much.
@@ethangray8527 horses would 100% effect their disease resitance. Much less people would die due to old world contact
I have a suggestion for a new scenario. What if instead of the old world being more developed than the new world, the new world became more developed than the old world?
The old world (not counting sub Saharan Africa) would change since they were the ones who had and used horses. The rest of the world would not be as effected.
The Native Americans would of colonized Europe Africa, and Asia.....
There would be casino's everywhere.....
Imagine using ostriches instead of horses. Without horses, I think there would be a lot more pressure on using reduction gears, and later even gearboxes, to speed up common cattle, into what could only be called cattle-powered cars and trucks, which would also allow trains to appear much sooner than in our world. Imagine using cement and even wood to keep cattle-powered cars going a certain way, the cement making grooves in which wide oval (side-to-side) wheels to ride, so every time they get too close to getting off track, they're gently guided back to the middle of the track. Not only that, but bicycles, tricycles, and quadcycles/quadricycles would be a lot more popular, since people would not need to worry about an animal's whims when traveling, as long as they don't carry too much weight for long distances of not-flat not-straight roads. Imagine a commuter land train (somewhat similar to the Arctic Land Train but mostly wooden and with carts/wagons carrying 6-12 people pedaling) being the precursor of buses, and similar trains used to get people in and out of cities at much higher speeds. Heck, people could even get the chance to pedal as paying for the ticket, especially if there's an extra load being carried.
Pedaling alone could be the beginning of the industrial revolution in an alternative timeline, because a set of attachments for the bikes could make them kickstart the wave of curiosity which gave birth to the widespread concept of machines working instead of humans. Examples of that would start with the following pedal-engine attachments for those vehicles: Grindstone for sharpening knives and axes, washing machine so you don't need to spend as much time and energy washing, grains mill for quickly turning your grains into flour, mixer for making sauces and doughs, blender for mincing tings much easier, fans for the hot weather and for replacing bellows, saws for wood and circular knives for cutting food thinner in shops (especially for meats) and restaurants, dough rollers for pasta and for crushing some vegetables (i.e. green onions or other soft plant stalks), and even pumps for getting water in a water tower, from which pipes made from wood and/or ceramics and hoses made from leather and resin could be used to connect to a sink with the tap being pushed in to allow water to flow out, and a hook on a rope which can be coiled around a stick could ge the water flow fixed (at least until the water in the water tower got too low).
I can already imagine a group of invaders riding ostriches, while the defenders receive cavalry support which is riding bicycles, with infantry being deployed behind the bicycles with pedal-powered trucks in which half the people pedal so the other half are in top shape when they're on the field, and the pedaler then rest and act as a resupply point, or shooting arrows at the approaching enemies while retreating.
What if communism became the dominant ideology in the cold war ?
Wasn't it tho?
spanish conquistadors and attila left the server
@Hoàng Nguyên LOL
Two theories, one being that i believe naval civilizations would become the most predominant world powers in this alternative timeline and that in some way, i believe the invention of vehicles may have been accelerated because of the need to solve a massive problem for all civilizations at the time, Transportation. I could see slave cranked wood carts, or other animals such as elephants and dogs filling some gaps but in overall summary i believe you are completely correct, the world and empires we know today would be completely transformed if in existence at all. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you for making a video I can show people to finally explain my obsession with horses with, haha. People always say it's quite a bit girly or weird of a main interest to have and I try to explain it's foremost a anthropological and historical fascination but no one seems to quite get it. :p Horses are more and more fascinating the deeper you look at them in the context of their relationship with humans as well as biologically, their closest living relatives being elephants and tapir rather than deer or antelopes like most people assume.
On a related note it's deeply depressing to me that the most important domesticated animal by a vast amount for things like human cultural development and warfare is now seen as equivalent to the interests of a young girl. The noble history of the horse was quickly forgotten and patronized after the industrial revolution
LOL I can just imagine victorian london, with loads of COWS AND DONKEYS SLOWLEY MOVING CARTS
I got your book as a gift for Christmas. Just wanted to say kudos for a well written book but did not see that ending coming, though bro. it was brutal!! for me though, I hope you keep up your writing though, your first book was really good.
Cries in ‘My Little Pony’
Cries in neckbeardish
Elephants tho
India 🇮🇳 intensifies
Cries in "Furry"
Laughs in India elephants