Fun little thing: the last thing you hear is “by the way where are we?” Which sets up the whole video, as it starts by answering: “Hi, you’re on a rock floating in space.” And the cyclical nature of the video is further alluded to by “I know it’s possible (to create the universe) because everything is here and it probably already happened, I just don’t know where to start.” The whole video is meant to be an infinite loop. And no matter how many times I watch it it never gets any worse.
Also, he had a past video just titled "history of the world" and the entire video is "q&a whats the history of the world once upon a time we were lost in space we still are"
@@gergopiroska5749 I mean to the fair the 2 main big history things we know happened in that age was “the dinosaurs showed up.” And “the dinosaurs died off.”
The little jingles Wurtz makes really does make a profound difference to the overall experience. I'm also mad that my country barely pays attention to the countries around our territory. Just assorted European history. I was shocked to realize that there was previously an empire that was right next to us that I barely knew about. I don't pay attention to geography but it still doesn't excuse why we were never taught about the countries around us in high school. I'm a Filipino, so we got a lot of spanish, japanese and western influence in our history where there was brief period of colonization, which pretty much guaranteed that our development was dependent on their success until there was a push for a declaration of independence and cessation of occupation from colonials. Maybe I got some things wrong but this video got me thinking a lot about where our country stood on the historical side of things. Of course I'm still very happy we got featured on a Bill Wurtz video. Any Filipino is connected to their country on an almost irrational level, so seeing even the name Philippines makes us happy and excited despite the lack of detail.
The Ozone layer came after plant based creatures appeared because they 'exhaled' oxygen during photosynthesis. Prior to this there was little oxygen in the atmosphere. Ozone is a molecule of three oxygen atoms.
It's not exactly from plant based creatures. It's from microbes like cyanobacteria which release oxygen. Later on, plant ancestors ate some cyanobacteria to be able to photosynthesize.
Fun Fact about The Majapahit Empire : [21:13] The Story about how they came up with the name is a bit interesting. So the original king of the empire was trying to find a place to settle his kingdom. And on the way, him and his followers were getting hungry and thirsty. So they went to go find some food. A Courier found some low hanging fruits from a tree and collected them for the group. After they took a bite, a sudden bitter taste splashed around their mouth. And they quickly spit out the fruit. That fruit was called "Maja" by the local residents there and "Pahit" was an Indonesian word for Bitter. So they named their empire "Majapahit" from the bitter fruit that were growing around The Kingdom.
I was watching a Discovery program the other day about Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in modern humans. It was pretty mind blowing. A significant portion of the Neanderthal Genome is still present in modern European Humans. While each person only has about 2-4% of Neanderthal DNA, my 2% Neanderthal DNA might not be the same 2% Neanderthal DNA British Guy has. And Denisovan DNA is present in Asian populations. While Africans have just modern human DNA. It was called "The Evolution of Us" or something like that. Thanks for the video British Guy.
Iirc there has been some evidence that certain african populations might contain DNA fragments from other, unknown branches of the human family tree. Africa has more human genetic diversity than all other continents combined, so it's certainly not impossible. This stuff is fascinating and we're learning more all the time.
@@corvuscallosum5079 Thanks for the information. Can you tell me your favorite sources for this information. It's one of the most fascinating subjects to me, and I would love to read/watch them. I've heard similar things regarding unknown species having been found in native american populations as well. I'm too old and too broke to go back to school for this stuff, but if I could go back in time, I'd try to put myself on the front line of this branch of discovery.
I saw some program long time ago (1-2 years so I might have gotten something wrong), but If I remember correct, the reason homo sapiens "won" vs. the other was our memory and we were better at communication. While we were physical weaker than for instance the Neanderthal we were better at strategy and traps (ambush). They can see that by the shape of our skull and where the "communication/talk" center of the Brain is located. And then compare the different races of humans..
For me (as a history teacher) our knolowdge of history is more eurocentric than western centered, the fact that "american history" is only USA says a lot
@@AllCatsAreBlack it's just a function of the US being the biggest of the Americas, kinda like how uninformed people confuse the terms Britain and UK with England but not with Scotland or Northern Ireland, because England is the most powerful. Or the conflation of the Soviet Union with Russia. So that effect combined with the extremely boring, unoriginal, abominable, and overly descriptive name "United States of America" made it kinda inevitable. That's why I really wish they had come up with an original name for the US that wasn't just a description of what it is, a bunch of states in a continent. I understand it in the beginning, since each state had their own identity very similar to a nation's and the United States was if anything closer to the modern European Union than a single country. But as that has shifted, with the Civil War uniting the countries further in its aftermath and several 20th century wars, I wish someone at some point would have fixed the stupid name to be something with some character. Maybe one day, but people are too attached to it for any time soon
I'm from Brazil and our knowledge of history is really eurocentric as well, usually history teachers here they like to split the subject between "Brazilian history" and "General history" but this "general history" thing could pretty much be called "european history" except when they are teaching about early civilizations like Mesopotamia or Egypt.
I'm from Iran and our history in school is pretty well balanced... up until the golden age of Islam. Then it's all west=bad, islam=good. shia=best 😅 The stories of Alexander and Gengis are also very much told as tragedies (which they are for our land).
I agree, you actually seemed to enjoy the video and could follow it. Naturally, a century only get like 2 seconds and he mentions so many countries. However one gets an impression you were actually i terested and followed it. So many reactors visibly shut down half wzy or moan about how it's way too much information for them. They stop trying. I appreciate how you kept dedicated to the content. It was a fun reaction with insightful commentary. All available thumbs up Sir. :) Greetings from "not France". ;)
Your question about the ozone layer made me look it up lol From wiki: Stratospheric ozone is formed naturally by chemical reactions involving solar ultraviolet radiation (sunlight) and oxygen molecules, which make up 21% of the atmosphere. ... In the second step, each of these highly reactive atoms combines with an oxygen molecule to produce an ozone molecule (O3). So after it started producing oxygen causing blue sky, the solar radiation naturally formed the ozone layer - the more you know 🌟 🌟 🌟 lol
@@moongirl786 I'm not personally ultra knowledgeable about that, but my guess is ozone is hit by the radiation, gets split into the O2 and the single O, and they very shortly after return to being ozone by just kinda warming some of the surrounding air
The Soviets could have challenged the US economically with it's size, population and resources. The mass death in WWI, the Revolution, the Russian Civil War and WWII really wrecked it's demographics.
@@JakkFrost1 They are massively overrated after the Red Scare and the fall of USSR. Russian Empire was growing scarily fast, but yeah, they really blew it with the Russian-Japanese War, WWI and the Revolution. Soviets were strong, but got messed up badly in WWII while USA, on the opposite, got out of it rich and powerful. Then the Cold War, economic and political stagnation and bam, picking stuff up again, second time in a century
@@pro1oollo151 You're forgetting that fact that Stalin basically ran the country into the ground. They rounded up all the farmers, or any peasant that owned even as little as a donkey, called them "wealthy peasants," in one of the most oxymoronic terms ever, killed or gulaged all of them, then "decided" that plants are communist and should be all planted right on top of each other. Then all their crops died due to water starvation as the plants were all bunched up instead of being in neat rows. What followed was the mass starvation of the Russian people as Stalin sold all the remaining grain to other countries and didn't leave enough for his own citizens. That massive policy fuckup only cost as many lives as WWII, it's no big deal. Dumbasses.
Yeah, if you're into the Western academic discipline of "history", then you know European and American history. If you want African, Indonesian, Malaysian, Papua New Guinea and Indigenous (Australia and the Americas) history, anthropology is what you want. But even that is lacking, particularly when it comes to Indigenous history (as a new anthropology grad, I'm allowed to say that :P)
One month ago??? The original video's been up for 4 years. I'm surprised there are still people making reaction videos to it. That said, more people seeing Bill Wurtz' content is always good. Everyone go watch the songs and history videos on Bill Wurtz's channel.
It was fun watching you react to this video. I enjoyed your depth of knowledge. This is one of my two absolute favorite history videos making the rounds on UA-cam. You may also want to check out one called "The Fallen of World War II" which is also amazing.
22:00 I just spent almost 3 weeks in Portugal (I'm in Phoenix Arizona) and I think the answer is not for a long time. Columbus was trained (at least indirectly) by Henry the Navigator and most of the naval technology came from his expeditions.
I learned about the ancient world in middle school here in America and we talked mostly about the Greeks, Egyptians and some Roman and Indus Valley stuff
Probably to late but thought I'd share. Ozone can be made from the UV rays emitted by the sun splitting O2(oxygen) apart then the lone O rejoining an O2 to O3(ozone). Thought I might also add ozone can be produced by high voltage. Its can actually be a problem at power generation and transition station(I know cause I work at one). Ozone is more or less corrosive to the delicate tissues in our lungs. So lightning produces ozone because of the high voltage it produces. I don't know how much though, or if it significant enough to build up Earths early ozone layer. That would something I would like to know.
21:43 there is also the prejudice angle. Since the Italian Renaissance was Italian there was a desire to trash the Middle Ages hence why it is called Gothic Art, the Goths being barbarians that attacked Rome. Of course it is complicated naturally.
You should read this book series "earths children" by Jean M. Auel a finnish canadian writer its about a homo sapiens child who gets separated from her people and is taken in by neanderthal clan which then leads to her growing up with them. Its honestly 1 of the best books ive ever read! :D
my history teacher who was born during segregation told us a story about growing up in texas his mom and him went to huston to visit his grandma. he kept asking his mom to take him to get water and she would take him to the white water fountain and after about ten times she tells him to just get his own water. when he goes the “white” water fountain was too high so he used the “black” water fountain. a sheriff saw him and pick him up by the neck and asked where his mom was. he pointed to his mom and then he asked her if she knew his son was drinking out of the “black” water fountain. her being her said “put my son down. i wont teach him to be a damn racist” it’s crazy how racist the united states was not even that long ago. times are changing for the good he was born in 1953 i believe
mesopotamia had the first writing system, they had hammurabi’s laws written down and they recorded trade on clay tablets and used tablets as communication between people as well, and they recorded stories and myths as well
It was very nice to watch someone else nerd out as well about history. Good point about the video not being western centeric - some reactors get a lil butt hurt about it 😂 I believe cuneiform was the first documented writing system in the Mesopotamia areas. I remember being obsessed with Mesopotamia and ancient archeology while in primary school lol.
I think smelting metal went like this: Heat food, food good. Heat dirt, oh it now hard. Thus now pottery was invented. Let's heat rocks now. Oh shiny rock thing is now liquid. Ow hurt! Oh now shiny thing changed shape. I wonder if I can make a sharp knife with it. Must find more shiny stones. And thus smelting was made.
Just found this guy in my recommended I kinda like that he gives his knowledge and stuff he knows so after 1 video wich is a record he’s got my subscription
When you said “human progress went like this *arm swoop*” , I’d kinda beg to differ! There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the arc of early civilization had a much flatter curve than you mimed and may have begun its ascent much earlier than what is currently thought.
I think technology will continue to advance for a little while longer before plateauing. Kinda already see this in processors. Processing power of CPU's chips has not advanced much in long while where before it seemed like they were advancing 500 mhz every month. Also China has an issue with population. It's about to decline, rapidly, due to years of one child policy and now a situation where their birth rates have dropped significantly. That is going to wreck their economy.
I've noticed that too, even though I'm more of a gamer type person so my comparison is mostly involving game consoles. Truthfully it seems like game technology is going backwards in some parts, the switch for example can't even run games from the N64, which came out in the 80's/90's, and it currently can't run things that even lower budget mobile devices can.
@@SairinEarthsea you confuse raw capability with efficiency. emulating other platforms is typically very inefficient. your n64 games would be child's play for the switch if those games were redeveloped for the switch's hardware, but nobody wants to put in that kind of effort. it's easier, but much less efficient, to run the original game on an emulation of the original hardware.
Those GDP through history videos are very informative. I think the US had a quarter of the globes economic output in the WWII era and just dominated the charts for 120 years.
Actually it didn’t go into the future, th sprinting of the brain was referring to the use of printed “brainlets” now used in biological-science experiments.
So, interestingly enough, humans did deal with Neanderthals, as they did make necklaces and huts and art in the form of paintings on cave walls and stuff. (Learned in my uni anthropology class). Humans now have 2% Neanderthal dna. We bred with them at least sometimes.
Great video and reaction! If you're interested in Roman history I'd love to see you react to some videos of the channel "Historia Civilis" there's a depressing lack of reactions to his amazing content.
Yes, the number of things in space is increasing. If it increases much more, we might block our ability to go into space. There's already a lot of stuff up there that has crashed into each other and made a lot of debris to be avoided, and it keeps getting worse.
It would help if idiotic countries stopped testing space wepons by shooting old satalites. That alone has probably doubled space debris in just 2-3 events.
@@elevown Or at least shot the satellites that are safe to shoot down rather than ones that will cause a problem. But yes, better to stop shooting them down all together.
I don't think there's any reason to feel bad or embarrassed about not knowing the history of all the regions. Not even taking into account how much of history we don't have written accounts of, there's just way too much to know unless learning those lesser known (to the west) goings on is what you've dedicated your life to. Even then though, you'll know those specific things and miss others.
I remember sophomore yr (10th grade) my history teacher was just like "hey i found this video and its funny so lets watch it" the video ur reacting to is said video! the entire class was laughing most of the time. that was 6 yrs ago and I still love this video sm!
No new Zealand already had indigenous people for thousands of years before the British invaded. The Maori arrived over 3000 years earlier and remained basically untouched by the rest of the world, but it was colonised in the 1800's by British soldiers.
9:43 I could see a man watching lava/fire melt some metal on an adventure, to come back and see that it glistens, and it's harder than the stone he'd chip at to get it.
With the water in meteorites, that is the current hypothesis as to how water reached earth, and there is a further hypothesis that suggests there where amino acids, and nitrogenous bases (essential for the formation of RNA which then derived DNA.). Also, with "snowball earth", it has been theorised that it is this that kickstarted the Cambrian explosion, leading to multicellularity and the diversification of the animal kingdom. With the ozone layer appearing, that was caused by U.V light splitting diatomic hydrogen (O2). The atomic oxygen combined with the split oxygen to create triatomic hydrogen (H3) giving us the ozone layer. Also the Permian extinction event was the biggest and most devastating of all of the extinction events, and led to the extinction of 95% of all sea life (my uni dissertation was on this) and ~84% of all land animals was also wiped out. You questioned about the comparative history of humans living with other hominins, we actually lived alongside H.heidelbergensis, and H.neanderthalensis, and as mentioned by "Belgoarth the sorcerer" (below in the comments), we actually interbred successfully with the neanderthals and may well of hunted/bred them into extinction, just because we had a slightly different physiological structure. Love your reaction mate, have another sub!
Ozone is due to the solar wind that also makes the Northern and Southern lights. When the lights happen, the sun is burning away the atmosphere that exists and the regular oxygen turns into ozone. Ozone is also made when we burn stuff like nitrogen and oxygen in our vehicles and other such reactions. But ozone is deadly down where the animals and plants are, but protective up in the higher atmosphere. I mostly notice that the history covered is the history not utterly or nearly erased through getting curbstomped by the European civilizations. So basically Native North and South Americans and Africans barely have their history covered in general. We get more Native American history in America, but barely touch on Africa, and both get forgotten before High School ends anyways by most students.
there's a book series by Robert J Sawyer, a Canadian screenwriter called The NEanderthal Parallax, which is a trilogy of books where multiple humans exist called Hominids, Humans and Hybrids
Totally agree about the African and to an equal extent the Central and South American histories. The record is particularly sparse in those areas of the globe!!
As this is my first video of yours I have watched, and seeing your knowledge and how western-centric it is, I wonder how you would react to most of Sabaton's music. Metal band teaching history lessons in each song (with minor exceptions). My favorites to recommend to people first are The Last Stand which is about the Swiss Guards during the Sack of Rome, or Christmas Truce which is about... the Christmas Truce in the World War
6:48 One of the most prominent theories as to what happened to the other species is that we outcompeted them or even outright killed them off. And some scientists theorize that this is where the phenomenon "uncanny valley" comes from. The theory goes, because we had to compete with other human species, so we started to align things that sort of looked like us but not quite with danger.
I would imagine that smelting probably developed because somebody was eventually going to notice that the metal they were bashing into shape became softer (and easier to work with) when it was really hot. For people who use open fires for cooking, situations to notice this would arise pretty regularly. It's only a matter of time before somebody decided to make a fire hot enough to melt and cast it. Tin, one of the ingredients of bronze, has a melting point significantly lower than lead, and you can melt lead over a charcoal fire.
For the Haitian Revolution/Toussaint, it was actually really interesting (I did a school project on Toussaint last week so it's still very fresh)! Basically Toussaint was an educated slave and called himself a Frenchman and also hated slavery; he was freed and then led the slave revolt. He did end up succeeding at first, abolishing slavery in Haiti. He respected Napoleon a lot, but was most focused on ending slavery by any means necessary (including the killing of Spaniards after France 'abolished' slavery and Spain didn't). Then Napoleon wanted his land back, sent over a general, and that was succeeding, but Toussaint made an agreement with the general that if he surrendered they wouldn't reinstate slavery, and he surrendered. End of story right? Wrong. He was called over to France for 'diplomacy' where he was arrested, tried and charged with treason (with little proof), and tortured in a French prison until he died!
You seem so knowledgable about a lot of different topics of history! If you made videos discussing/teaching history (as opposed to just reacting to other videos), I'd totally watch them! Just a suggestion :)
The opening... where did it all start. The big bang. What happened before? Well it was everwhere and everywhen and it never happened... etc. Essentially, when you get back to that point there are theories and no good words to describe things. Given that time and space came into existence in the big bang how do you answer what happened at that point? Yeah, it's a head trip.
I absolutely love your reactions! Just one thing, I'd like to add: Unlike you say, in my opinion, technological progress has significantly slowed down in the last 40 years. Yes, smartphones. And? Almost everything else was already there in 1983. Even the internet was already invented. So were mobile phones and genetic engineering and, and, and ... Technological progress has become incremental and the steps are getting smaller and smaller.
its really interesting the difference between education in countries, because im from the us and we learn all about the native civilizations like the mississippi, the pueblo, the aztec, the maya, and the inca but we learn next to nothing about asia and africa
That's true. I'm from Germany and we mainly learn about European civiliizations or those close to Europe, like Ancient Greece or Egypt, but next to nothing about Mesopotamia, Assyria, China or any American civilization. I can understand why, since schools don't have enough time to cover everything, but it should at least fundamentally teach something about those very important topics.
that's so interesting. I'm from brazil and here, we learn about mesopotamia, china and mostly africa but I don't remember learning anything about north-american history
@@SirQuadrat i guess it makes sense to learn the history of the countries geographically closest or those that have some significance to where ever you live, but i agree that i wish we could learn more about places that have nothing to do with where i live, i think asian history, especially china, japan, and taiwan, is really interesting but all of what i know comes from my own research, we didnt learn all that much about asian countries other than china
My big question of this caliber is who decided gold was cool? I mean who just walked up and said, “hey, this is a soft shiny thing thats basically useless but is worth everything you own”
It's as simple as it doesn't react/degrade in water or air. And it's pretty. Pretty thing stays pretty. And I have it and you don't. Monkey brain want permanant shiny.
the O-zone i always figured was short for Oxygen Zone, basically it's the area where Oxygen has settled and our breathable air chemistry refracts light to just the right degree that it doesn't kill us straight away. Takes a few years now but it still kills you.
30:50 Arguable. Bigger, yes. Just as wealthy, soon if not already. More powerful, probably not. More influential, maybe? We'll just have to wait and see.
Here's what's nuts: this entire video is pretty much the sum total of all the history I got in the US public school system. I'm stunned they didn't go over this stuff in the UK. My high school _regular_ (non-honors or AP) history class in 10th grade covered literally all of this, and I'm impressed how much I remember of it, like, almost all.
when it comes to belgium, we pretty much only learned about WWI, WWII, egypt, greeks and romans. and then lil bits of the mayor era's and thats it. i learned more from this video then all the years ive spend in school. that, and i remember more, because humor. funny things are easier to remember. every history teacher should show this video at least once in a class just to enjoy and to give some random historic facts
I agree about not knowing much about history outside of Europe. I don't think I took a history class that wasn't Eurocentric until college. For my upper division GE I took a class in Modern African History where, among other things, we covered the Scramble of Africa from the African POV, which I had never been taught before. I did learn some non-European history and culture through reading on my own though. This is because I've always been interested in reading. For me I started learning about Japan via manga & anime. I also learned about Maoist China (and also a bit before) in a book my uncle sent me when he was stationed overseas.
Recommend "The Fallen of WWII" it will change the way you view that war and leave you shook but in the end, there's something unexpected to break out from the darkness of the topic
Funnily enough, to I think Egypt it wasn't so great when Mansa Musa came around. The place where he showed up was the most central to the economy at the time, and it had a lot of gold because of that. But when Mansa Musa showed up, he threw around so much extra gold, that the value of gold dropped so much that it collapsed, and it took years to recover.
20:27 fun fact when he went on tour he actually broke the economy of every country he visited by just giving away his gold to random people.
That's called inflation folks
@@johnmurphy6928 but I need gold...
@@EduardoEscarez you mean communism ?
Yup! Then he learned what happened, and went back through trying to fix it lol.
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Fun little thing: the last thing you hear is “by the way where are we?” Which sets up the whole video, as it starts by answering: “Hi, you’re on a rock floating in space.”
And the cyclical nature of the video is further alluded to by “I know it’s possible (to create the universe) because everything is here and it probably already happened, I just don’t know where to start.”
The whole video is meant to be an infinite loop. And no matter how many times I watch it it never gets any worse.
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I'm not sure the video is meant to be a loop. Rather, the video is meant to cover world history up until... the video
Play the exposition song sometime
Also, he had a past video just titled "history of the world" and the entire video is "q&a whats the history of the world once upon a time we were lost in space we still are"
i noticed that the first time i watched it
"Ah, now we're in the 'dinosaur age'..."
"AND THE DINOSAURS ARE GONE"
"Nooo!"
6:28 Best part
Guy just put 135 million years In a few seconds
@@gergopiroska5749 I mean to the fair the 2 main big history things we know happened in that age was “the dinosaurs showed up.” And “the dinosaurs died off.”
@@crowsenpai5625 formation of mount Everest
And a few other things too
First appearance of flowers
And bees
@@crowsenpai5625 also like 3 of the 5 mass extinctions
@@crowsenpai5625 I guess there's an argument to be made that birds were the most important thing that happened from the dinosaurs
Thank you! Wurtz's video should be shown in classrooms across the world
Lots of teachers actually do that :)
@@kuromiLayfe really wish my teachers would 😂
my history teacher used his Japanese video to give a brief explanation of their history and to explain their thoughts behind their their actions
@@catmcflooffloof4832 I wish the video came out when I was still in high school so I could’ve watched it in my history class
I wanna get my world history teacher to show it
The little jingles Wurtz makes really does make a profound difference to the overall experience. I'm also mad that my country barely pays attention to the countries around our territory. Just assorted European history. I was shocked to realize that there was previously an empire that was right next to us that I barely knew about. I don't pay attention to geography but it still doesn't excuse why we were never taught about the countries around us in high school.
I'm a Filipino, so we got a lot of spanish, japanese and western influence in our history where there was brief period of colonization, which pretty much guaranteed that our development was dependent on their success until there was a push for a declaration of independence and cessation of occupation from colonials.
Maybe I got some things wrong but this video got me thinking a lot about where our country stood on the historical side of things.
Of course I'm still very happy we got featured on a Bill Wurtz video. Any Filipino is connected to their country on an almost irrational level, so seeing even the name Philippines makes us happy and excited despite the lack of detail.
do you mean the Chola Empire?
I'm from the Middle of Europe, by the way.
The Ozone layer came after plant based creatures appeared because they 'exhaled' oxygen during photosynthesis. Prior to this there was little oxygen in the atmosphere. Ozone is a molecule of three oxygen atoms.
This comment deserves more likes :3
absolutely right
It's not exactly from plant based creatures. It's from microbes like cyanobacteria which release oxygen. Later on, plant ancestors ate some cyanobacteria to be able to photosynthesize.
Fun Fact about The Majapahit Empire : [21:13]
The Story about how they came up with the name is a bit interesting. So the original king of the empire was trying to find a place to settle his kingdom. And on the way, him and his followers were getting hungry and thirsty. So they went to go find some food. A Courier found some low hanging fruits from a tree and collected them for the group. After they took a bite, a sudden bitter taste splashed around their mouth. And they quickly spit out the fruit. That fruit was called "Maja" by the local residents there and "Pahit" was an Indonesian word for Bitter. So they named their empire "Majapahit" from the bitter fruit that were growing around The Kingdom.
I was watching a Discovery program the other day about Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA in modern humans. It was pretty mind blowing. A significant portion of the Neanderthal Genome is still present in modern European Humans. While each person only has about 2-4% of Neanderthal DNA, my 2% Neanderthal DNA might not be the same 2% Neanderthal DNA British Guy has. And Denisovan DNA is present in Asian populations. While Africans have just modern human DNA. It was called "The Evolution of Us" or something like that.
Thanks for the video British Guy.
Iirc there has been some evidence that certain african populations might contain DNA fragments from other, unknown branches of the human family tree. Africa has more human genetic diversity than all other continents combined, so it's certainly not impossible. This stuff is fascinating and we're learning more all the time.
We can see from evidence that Neanderthals didnt like us very much, but Denisovans did.
@@corvuscallosum5079 Thanks for the information. Can you tell me your favorite sources for this information. It's one of the most fascinating subjects to me, and I would love to read/watch them. I've heard similar things regarding unknown species having been found in native american populations as well. I'm too old and too broke to go back to school for this stuff, but if I could go back in time, I'd try to put myself on the front line of this branch of discovery.
I saw some program long time ago (1-2 years so I might have gotten something wrong), but If I remember correct, the reason homo sapiens "won" vs. the other was our memory and we were better at communication. While we were physical weaker than for instance the Neanderthal we were better at strategy and traps (ambush). They can see that by the shape of our skull and where the "communication/talk" center of the Brain is located. And then compare the different races of humans..
For me (as a history teacher) our knolowdge of history is more eurocentric than western centered, the fact that "american history" is only USA says a lot
The "American" in "American history" is probably meaning of the US
@@JonahNelson7 sadly it is in a lot of places
@@AllCatsAreBlack it's just a function of the US being the biggest of the Americas, kinda like how uninformed people confuse the terms Britain and UK with England but not with Scotland or Northern Ireland, because England is the most powerful. Or the conflation of the Soviet Union with Russia. So that effect combined with the extremely boring, unoriginal, abominable, and overly descriptive name "United States of America" made it kinda inevitable. That's why I really wish they had come up with an original name for the US that wasn't just a description of what it is, a bunch of states in a continent. I understand it in the beginning, since each state had their own identity very similar to a nation's and the United States was if anything closer to the modern European Union than a single country. But as that has shifted, with the Civil War uniting the countries further in its aftermath and several 20th century wars, I wish someone at some point would have fixed the stupid name to be something with some character. Maybe one day, but people are too attached to it for any time soon
I'm from Brazil and our knowledge of history is really eurocentric as well, usually history teachers here they like to split the subject between "Brazilian history" and "General history" but this "general history" thing could pretty much be called "european history" except when they are teaching about early civilizations like Mesopotamia or Egypt.
I'm from Iran and our history in school is pretty well balanced... up until the golden age of Islam. Then it's all west=bad, islam=good. shia=best 😅 The stories of Alexander and Gengis are also very much told as tragedies (which they are for our land).
Guy: "Clearly the history of humans will be like, 1.5 seconds..."
bill: I find your understanding of human ego disturbing 😅
Your reactions are so genuine and fun, you’re such a joy to watch! Keep doing what you’re doing 😁
Thanks - glad you enjoyed :)
Thanks - glad you enjoyed :)
Thanks - glad you enjoyed :)
Thanks - glad you enjoyed :)
I agree, you actually seemed to enjoy the video and could follow it. Naturally, a century only get like 2 seconds and he mentions so many countries. However one gets an impression you were actually i terested and followed it. So many reactors visibly shut down half wzy or moan about how it's way too much information for them. They stop trying. I appreciate how you kept dedicated to the content. It was a fun reaction with insightful commentary. All available thumbs up Sir. :) Greetings from "not France". ;)
Wurtz has another one on the history of Japan, which covers a few more blind spots on Asian history, if you're interested
I love this guy he's so happy all the time and he looks like he has such a pure personality
It remains unclear exactly where all the Earth's water came from. "Maybe inside asteroids" is probably the best theory we've got.
yeah from comets and asteroids. Not like liquid water or even ice mostly - but molecular water within rock.
UH HELLO THE COMETS!?
@@Keithoboi Have you seen how much water there is? You think all that came in comets?
@@elevown We got all the oceans from molecular water inside the rock?
considering the ammount of ice on planetary rings and moons in the outer planets of the solar system, it's very plausible.
Your question about the ozone layer made me look it up lol
From wiki:
Stratospheric ozone is formed naturally by chemical reactions involving solar ultraviolet radiation (sunlight) and oxygen molecules, which make up 21% of the atmosphere. ... In the second step, each of these highly reactive atoms combines with an oxygen molecule to produce an ozone molecule (O3). So after it started producing oxygen causing blue sky, the solar radiation naturally formed the ozone layer - the more you know 🌟 🌟 🌟 lol
Yeah. UV rays break oxygen molecule(O2) into nascent oxygen (O) which forms a bond with another O2 forming O3(ozone).
@@mvy2607 So ironic, considering ozone protects us against UV
@@moongirl786 I'm not personally ultra knowledgeable about that, but my guess is ozone is hit by the radiation, gets split into the O2 and the single O, and they very shortly after return to being ozone by just kinda warming some of the surrounding air
Imma leave this to y'all
The Soviets could have challenged the US economically with it's size, population and resources. The mass death in WWI, the Revolution, the Russian Civil War and WWII really wrecked it's demographics.
You forgot the mass deaths under communism.
@@JakkFrost1 They are massively overrated after the Red Scare and the fall of USSR. Russian Empire was growing scarily fast, but yeah, they really blew it with the Russian-Japanese War, WWI and the Revolution. Soviets were strong, but got messed up badly in WWII while USA, on the opposite, got out of it rich and powerful. Then the Cold War, economic and political stagnation and bam, picking stuff up again, second time in a century
@@pro1oollo151 You're forgetting that fact that Stalin basically ran the country into the ground. They rounded up all the farmers, or any peasant that owned even as little as a donkey, called them "wealthy peasants," in one of the most oxymoronic terms ever, killed or gulaged all of them, then "decided" that plants are communist and should be all planted right on top of each other. Then all their crops died due to water starvation as the plants were all bunched up instead of being in neat rows. What followed was the mass starvation of the Russian people as Stalin sold all the remaining grain to other countries and didn't leave enough for his own citizens. That massive policy fuckup only cost as many lives as WWII, it's no big deal.
Dumbasses.
Yeah, if you're into the Western academic discipline of "history", then you know European and American history. If you want African, Indonesian, Malaysian, Papua New Guinea and Indigenous (Australia and the Americas) history, anthropology is what you want. But even that is lacking, particularly when it comes to Indigenous history (as a new anthropology grad, I'm allowed to say that :P)
One month ago??? The original video's been up for 4 years. I'm surprised there are still people making reaction videos to it. That said, more people seeing Bill Wurtz' content is always good. Everyone go watch the songs and history videos on Bill Wurtz's channel.
Never get tired of this video.
It was fun watching you react to this video. I enjoyed your depth of knowledge. This is one of my two absolute favorite history videos making the rounds on UA-cam. You may also want to check out one called "The Fallen of World War II" which is also amazing.
this is what i call an interesting and good reaction haha, good video! it's nice to see that someone's actually interested in what they're watching
22:00 I just spent almost 3 weeks in Portugal (I'm in Phoenix Arizona) and I think the answer is not for a long time. Columbus was trained (at least indirectly) by Henry the Navigator and most of the naval technology came from his expeditions.
how far are you from queen creek? :)
I learned about the ancient world in middle school here in America and we talked mostly about the Greeks, Egyptians and some Roman and Indus Valley stuff
Probably to late but thought I'd share. Ozone can be made from the UV rays emitted by the sun splitting O2(oxygen) apart then the lone O rejoining an O2 to O3(ozone).
Thought I might also add ozone can be produced by high voltage. Its can actually be a problem at power generation and transition station(I know cause I work at one). Ozone is more or less corrosive to the delicate tissues in our lungs. So lightning produces ozone because of the high voltage it produces. I don't know how much though, or if it significant enough to build up Earths early ozone layer. That would something I would like to know.
Omg yes thank you!
21:43 there is also the prejudice angle. Since the Italian Renaissance was Italian there was a desire to trash the Middle Ages hence why it is called Gothic Art, the Goths being barbarians that attacked Rome. Of course it is complicated naturally.
2:18 "It's a good place to start."
The universe also thought so.
My kids love this video, and it's really helped them to see where historical events fit into the bigger picture.
You should read this book series "earths children" by Jean M. Auel a finnish canadian writer its about a homo sapiens child who gets separated from her people and is taken in by neanderthal clan which then leads to her growing up with them. Its honestly 1 of the best books ive ever read! :D
I highly recommend "Overly Sarcastic Productions!"
They do History and mythology and more, all incredibly well!!
my history teacher who was born during segregation told us a story about growing up in texas
his mom and him went to huston to visit his grandma. he kept asking his mom to take him to get water and she would take him to the white water fountain and after about ten times she tells him to just get his own water. when he goes the “white” water fountain was too high so he used the “black” water fountain. a sheriff saw him and pick him up by the neck and asked where his mom was. he pointed to his mom and then he asked her if she knew his son was drinking out of the “black” water fountain. her being her said “put my son down. i wont teach him to be a damn racist”
it’s crazy how racist the united states was not even that long ago. times are changing for the good
he was born in 1953 i believe
mesopotamia had the first writing system, they had hammurabi’s laws written down and they recorded trade on clay tablets and used tablets as communication between people as well, and they recorded stories and myths as well
I can watch hundreds of reactions to this video without getting sick of it lol
It was very nice to watch someone else nerd out as well about history. Good point about the video not being western centeric - some reactors get a lil butt hurt about it 😂 I believe cuneiform was the first documented writing system in the Mesopotamia areas. I remember being obsessed with Mesopotamia and ancient archeology while in primary school lol.
"That's how every it gets". It does make sense, he's talking about the universe as a whole.
I think smelting metal went like this: Heat food, food good. Heat dirt, oh it now hard. Thus now pottery was invented. Let's heat rocks now. Oh shiny rock thing is now liquid. Ow hurt! Oh now shiny thing changed shape. I wonder if I can make a sharp knife with it. Must find more shiny stones. And thus smelting was made.
FUN FACT: Humans actually did live alongside and mate with Neanderthals for a good 10 000 or so years.
5:13 oxygen being converted into ozone by the sun's radiation.
Just found this guy in my recommended I kinda like that he gives his knowledge and stuff he knows so after 1 video wich is a record he’s got my subscription
Thank you very much for reacting to this video.
the intermission at 17:00 is for his other video the history of japan which i'd love to see you react to
Man the beginning really trips me out. Like I can’t seem to wrap my head around coming from absolutely nothing literally before time started.
When you said “human progress went like this *arm swoop*” , I’d kinda beg to differ! There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the arc of early civilization had a much flatter curve than you mimed and may have begun its ascent much earlier than what is currently thought.
this is the best guy i've seen at keeping up with bill wurtz's fast talk.
Your "whahey"s made me laugh, especially for the quarks getting married.
I think technology will continue to advance for a little while longer before plateauing. Kinda already see this in processors. Processing power of CPU's chips has not advanced much in long while where before it seemed like they were advancing 500 mhz every month. Also China has an issue with population. It's about to decline, rapidly, due to years of one child policy and now a situation where their birth rates have dropped significantly. That is going to wreck their economy.
I've noticed that too, even though I'm more of a gamer type person so my comparison is mostly involving game consoles. Truthfully it seems like game technology is going backwards in some parts, the switch for example can't even run games from the N64, which came out in the 80's/90's, and it currently can't run things that even lower budget mobile devices can.
@@SairinEarthsea
you confuse raw capability with efficiency. emulating other platforms is typically very inefficient. your n64 games would be child's play for the switch if those games were redeveloped for the switch's hardware, but nobody wants to put in that kind of effort. it's easier, but much less efficient, to run the original game on an emulation of the original hardware.
19:46 or so, he mentions the Pueblo. I live near there. It's called Mesa Verde. Absolutely phenomenal to visit. Hugely beautiful scenery to boot.
Those GDP through history videos are very informative. I think the US had a quarter of the globes economic output in the WWII era and just dominated the charts for 120 years.
his true excitement about silly stuff like planets existing or microscopic specs made my day
Actually it didn’t go into the future, th sprinting of the brain was referring to the use of printed “brainlets” now used in biological-science experiments.
I can guarantee that that amount of views would be over a billion if all reaction vids to this were counted
So, interestingly enough, humans did deal with Neanderthals, as they did make necklaces and huts and art in the form of paintings on cave walls and stuff. (Learned in my uni anthropology class). Humans now have 2% Neanderthal dna. We bred with them at least sometimes.
Great video and reaction! If you're interested in Roman history I'd love to see you react to some videos of the channel "Historia Civilis" there's a depressing lack of reactions to his amazing content.
1:11 Video starts
1:34 "I think it lost me about 20 seconds ago."
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history class in america be like: wait there are places other than north and South America?
Yes, the number of things in space is increasing. If it increases much more, we might block our ability to go into space. There's already a lot of stuff up there that has crashed into each other and made a lot of debris to be avoided, and it keeps getting worse.
It would help if idiotic countries stopped testing space wepons by shooting old satalites. That alone has probably doubled space debris in just 2-3 events.
@@elevown Or at least shot the satellites that are safe to shoot down rather than ones that will cause a problem. But yes, better to stop shooting them down all together.
I don't think there's any reason to feel bad or embarrassed about not knowing the history of all the regions. Not even taking into account how much of history we don't have written accounts of, there's just way too much to know unless learning those lesser known (to the west) goings on is what you've dedicated your life to. Even then though, you'll know those specific things and miss others.
It's okay to not know everything. To admit you do not know means you are learning, and there is always more to learn.
@@prometheanrebel3838 best way to look at it👍
In my imagination smelting was the result of someone shortly after cooking food came into their lives tried to cook rocks.
I’d suggest reacting to the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Animation by Force Thirteen!!
I remember sophomore yr (10th grade) my history teacher was just like "hey i found this video and its funny so lets watch it" the video ur reacting to is said video! the entire class was laughing most of the time. that was 6 yrs ago and I still love this video sm!
Epic teacher! It is very funny.
No new Zealand already had indigenous people for thousands of years before the British invaded. The Maori arrived over 3000 years earlier and remained basically untouched by the rest of the world, but it was colonised in the 1800's by British soldiers.
9:43
I could see a man watching lava/fire melt some metal on an adventure, to come back and see that it glistens, and it's harder than the stone he'd chip at to get it.
With the water in meteorites, that is the current hypothesis as to how water reached earth, and there is a further hypothesis that suggests there where amino acids, and nitrogenous bases (essential for the formation of RNA which then derived DNA.). Also, with "snowball earth", it has been theorised that it is this that kickstarted the Cambrian explosion, leading to multicellularity and the diversification of the animal kingdom.
With the ozone layer appearing, that was caused by U.V light splitting diatomic hydrogen (O2). The atomic oxygen combined with the split oxygen to create triatomic hydrogen (H3) giving us the ozone layer. Also the Permian extinction event was the biggest and most devastating of all of the extinction events, and led to the extinction of 95% of all sea life (my uni dissertation was on this) and ~84% of all land animals was also wiped out.
You questioned about the comparative history of humans living with other hominins, we actually lived alongside H.heidelbergensis, and H.neanderthalensis, and as mentioned by "Belgoarth the sorcerer" (below in the comments), we actually interbred successfully with the neanderthals and may well of hunted/bred them into extinction, just because we had a slightly different physiological structure.
Love your reaction mate, have another sub!
I actually once had a teacher that showed this to our class, it was fascinating then, and still is now!
That's a good chance I want to watch all of your history videos, please keep making them.
Ozone is due to the solar wind that also makes the Northern and Southern lights. When the lights happen, the sun is burning away the atmosphere that exists and the regular oxygen turns into ozone. Ozone is also made when we burn stuff like nitrogen and oxygen in our vehicles and other such reactions. But ozone is deadly down where the animals and plants are, but protective up in the higher atmosphere.
I mostly notice that the history covered is the history not utterly or nearly erased through getting curbstomped by the European civilizations. So basically Native North and South Americans and Africans barely have their history covered in general. We get more Native American history in America, but barely touch on Africa, and both get forgotten before High School ends anyways by most students.
there's a book series by Robert J Sawyer, a Canadian screenwriter called The NEanderthal Parallax, which is a trilogy of books where multiple humans exist called Hominids, Humans and Hybrids
6:50 Other species of humans? We barely tolerate different races of the same species or even the same race just different countries.
with an anvil and hammer you can make a lot of complex tools. the question is how did we make the first hammer and anvil
Your videos are always so much fun to watch😊
This is the first video I'm watching on his channel. And I'm really glad that I found it cause' this man's energy is just killing me :)
Totally agree about the African and to an equal extent the Central and South American histories. The record is particularly sparse in those areas of the globe!!
-"Doctor Who drunk.
I like that analogy
one thing i love about america is how new it is, like my old school was older than america
As this is my first video of yours I have watched, and seeing your knowledge and how western-centric it is, I wonder how you would react to most of Sabaton's music. Metal band teaching history lessons in each song (with minor exceptions). My favorites to recommend to people first are The Last Stand which is about the Swiss Guards during the Sack of Rome, or Christmas Truce which is about... the Christmas Truce in the World War
You should check out his ‘History of Japan’ video as well!
6:48 One of the most prominent theories as to what happened to the other species is that we outcompeted them or even outright killed them off. And some scientists theorize that this is where the phenomenon "uncanny valley" comes from. The theory goes, because we had to compete with other human species, so we started to align things that sort of looked like us but not quite with danger.
I would imagine that smelting probably developed because somebody was eventually going to notice that the metal they were bashing into shape became softer (and easier to work with) when it was really hot. For people who use open fires for cooking, situations to notice this would arise pretty regularly. It's only a matter of time before somebody decided to make a fire hot enough to melt and cast it. Tin, one of the ingredients of bronze, has a melting point significantly lower than lead, and you can melt lead over a charcoal fire.
28:31 men i always loved this diss at the US in this video XD
For the Haitian Revolution/Toussaint, it was actually really interesting (I did a school project on Toussaint last week so it's still very fresh)!
Basically Toussaint was an educated slave and called himself a Frenchman and also hated slavery; he was freed and then led the slave revolt. He did end up succeeding at first, abolishing slavery in Haiti. He respected Napoleon a lot, but was most focused on ending slavery by any means necessary (including the killing of Spaniards after France 'abolished' slavery and Spain didn't). Then Napoleon wanted his land back, sent over a general, and that was succeeding, but Toussaint made an agreement with the general that if he surrendered they wouldn't reinstate slavery, and he surrendered. End of story right? Wrong. He was called over to France for 'diplomacy' where he was arrested, tried and charged with treason (with little proof), and tortured in a French prison until he died!
Will Burtz's video was revolutionary, a beginning of a sorta golden age of UA-cam and small youtubers all alike.
You seem so knowledgable about a lot of different topics of history! If you made videos discussing/teaching history (as opposed to just reacting to other videos), I'd totally watch them! Just a suggestion :)
Jabzy did a series on the Africans kingdoms and the scramble. Highly recommend it.
The growth rate of technological innovation is far outpacing the growth rate of our wisdom in using those technologies.
It used to be "cutting edge;" now it's "we are cutting ourselves and bleeding to death."
@@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself lol
The opening... where did it all start. The big bang. What happened before? Well it was everwhere and everywhen and it never happened... etc. Essentially, when you get back to that point there are theories and no good words to describe things. Given that time and space came into existence in the big bang how do you answer what happened at that point? Yeah, it's a head trip.
the beginning made me smile. very wholesome!
Whenever i need a refresher on history i watch bill wurtz, very imformative
I absolutely love your reactions! Just one thing, I'd like to add: Unlike you say, in my opinion, technological progress has significantly slowed down in the last 40 years. Yes, smartphones. And? Almost everything else was already there in 1983. Even the internet was already invented. So were mobile phones and genetic engineering and, and, and ...
Technological progress has become incremental and the steps are getting smaller and smaller.
Love this guy's energy, solid reaction video with an entertainment boost which is rare with reaction videos. Nice job 😁
its really interesting the difference between education in countries, because im from the us and we learn all about the native civilizations like the mississippi, the pueblo, the aztec, the maya, and the inca but we learn next to nothing about asia and africa
i should specify im from sc because the education state to state is vastly different too
That's true. I'm from Germany and we mainly learn about European civiliizations or those close to Europe, like Ancient Greece or Egypt, but next to nothing about Mesopotamia, Assyria, China or any American civilization. I can understand why, since schools don't have enough time to cover everything, but it should at least fundamentally teach something about those very important topics.
that's so interesting. I'm from brazil and here, we learn about mesopotamia, china and mostly africa but I don't remember learning anything about north-american history
@@SirQuadrat i guess it makes sense to learn the history of the countries geographically closest or those that have some significance to where ever you live, but i agree that i wish we could learn more about places that have nothing to do with where i live, i think asian history, especially china, japan, and taiwan, is really interesting but all of what i know comes from my own research, we didnt learn all that much about asian countries other than china
@@SirQuadrat also you seriously arent missing anything with american history, its been a shit show since the beginning
My big question of this caliber is who decided gold was cool? I mean who just walked up and said, “hey, this is a soft shiny thing thats basically useless but is worth everything you own”
It's as simple as it doesn't react/degrade in water or air. And it's pretty. Pretty thing stays pretty. And I have it and you don't. Monkey brain want permanant shiny.
@@trinnychops oh cool lmao
the O-zone i always figured was short for Oxygen Zone, basically it's the area where Oxygen has settled and our breathable air chemistry refracts light to just the right degree that it doesn't kill us straight away.
Takes a few years now but it still kills you.
Ozone is O3 and not breathable O2 in the atmosphere. It sure is oxygen zone but ozone zone.
30:50 Arguable. Bigger, yes. Just as wealthy, soon if not already. More powerful, probably not. More influential, maybe?
We'll just have to wait and see.
Here's what's nuts: this entire video is pretty much the sum total of all the history I got in the US public school system. I'm stunned they didn't go over this stuff in the UK. My high school _regular_ (non-honors or AP) history class in 10th grade covered literally all of this, and I'm impressed how much I remember of it, like, almost all.
when it comes to belgium, we pretty much only learned about WWI, WWII, egypt, greeks and romans. and then lil bits of the mayor era's and thats it. i learned more from this video then all the years ive spend in school. that, and i remember more, because humor. funny things are easier to remember. every history teacher should show this video at least once in a class just to enjoy and to give some random historic facts
I agree about not knowing much about history outside of Europe. I don't think I took a history class that wasn't Eurocentric until college. For my upper division GE I took a class in Modern African History where, among other things, we covered the Scramble of Africa from the African POV, which I had never been taught before.
I did learn some non-European history and culture through reading on my own though. This is because I've always been interested in reading. For me I started learning about Japan via manga & anime. I also learned about Maoist China (and also a bit before) in a book my uncle sent me when he was stationed overseas.
you're blinking so much in this video i'd think you were taken hostage.
Recommend "The Fallen of WWII" it will change the way you view that war and leave you shook but in the end, there's something unexpected to break out from the darkness of the topic
Bill Wurtz also made a History of Japan.
Love the react and the enthusiasm! Liked and subscribed.
Funnily enough, to I think Egypt it wasn't so great when Mansa Musa came around. The place where he showed up was the most central to the economy at the time, and it had a lot of gold because of that. But when Mansa Musa showed up, he threw around so much extra gold, that the value of gold dropped so much that it collapsed, and it took years to recover.