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Slap47 said:

This is some high quality Bad History.
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Those opening few lines, oof.

Did this guy turn his college essay into a script or something because after hearing those I don't think I want to waste time even skimming the video. This guy even does the gay Europe was a technological backwater compared to everyone else argument. He even brought up the Chinese propaganda point of China having ships they used to sail around the world, except they didn't. They had a few voyages to Africa and stopped them. He even does the gay haha wypipo food bland shit.

If Europe was such a technical backwater compared to everyone else, then how come they dominated the fucking globe for a couple centuries and to some extent still do by proxy of their retarded stepchild America? Can this guy just admit he is a selfhating white guy paying an absurd amount of rent money for his studio apartment already? It's literally just Columbus sperging like we don't get that at all nowadays.
 
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Corpun said:
Those opening few lines, oof.

Did this guy turn his college essay into a script or something because after hearing those I don't think I want to waste time even skimming the video. This guy even does the gay Europe was a technological backwater compared to everyone else argument. He even brought up the Chinese propaganda point of China having ships they used to sail around the world, except they didn't. They had a few voyages to Africa and stopped them. He even does the gay haha wypipo food bland shit.

If Europe was such a technical backwater compared to everyone else, then how come they dominated the fucking globe for a couple centuries and to some extent still do by proxy of their retarded stepchild America? Can this guy just admit he is a selfhating white guy paying an absurd amount of rent money for his studio apartment already? It's literally just Columbus sperging like we don't get that at all nowadays.
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Heres a breakdown of the awful:
 
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Heres a breakdown of the awful:
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Hey man, he may have white guilt, but he seems like a good sport about shit he fucked up (or he's covering his ass). I can't hate him he's just some slick editor who wanted to cash in on history/bread tube
 
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Corpun said:
Thanks, I couldn't continue watching that garbage. No idea who this guy even is, is he a breadtuber or something?
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No idea he just popped into my feed he has sources in the description so he gets massive points
 
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Hey man, he may have white guilt, but he seems like a good sport about shit he fucked up (or he's covering his ass). I can't hate him he's just some slick editor who wanted to cash in on history/bread tube
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Alright so he's not too bad, just your typical white guilter. Apparently, he worked for Vox or some shit, I can see that now with his editing based on the handful of Vox videos I suffered through.
 
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Both Johnny Harris and to a lesser extent the guy that did the response video, give history takes that seem more influenced by reddit than anything else.

This idea that 15th century Europe was some sort of cultural, economic and technological backwater popped up in the last 30 years because History remains part of the humanities and is just down the corridor from the social sciences.

It allows for the argument that Europeans were only able to conquer the rest of the world because they were uniquely evil. It discounts the fact that by the end of the 15th century Europe had made huge advances in Ship building (being able to a limited degree to sail against the wind), Mettallugy, Agriculture, all linked to developments in banking that allowed the funding of complex ventures such as overseas exploration and colonisation.

The rest of the world in the 15th century was chaotic, even the most successful civilisations such as the Ottomans and Chinese had societal and governmental problems that they were never going to come close to dealing with.

For example people get excited by the few surviving historical accounts of the Ming Dynasty sending a fleet into the Indian Ocean (fleshed out by a fair degree of bullshit from western historians and CCP sponsered hacks), however they don't consider details like, that the Fleet consumed massive amount of resouces, achieved nothing (because the Chinese refused to engage in trade) and the fact that it was broken up and the records suppressed kind of speaks for itself.

The rest of Asia were a mass of warring states, no civilisation in the Americas had even discoverd the wheel and meanwhile the Africans were busy being Kangz.

Of course Europe conquered the rest of the world, the only thing that held them off anywhere was disease. An exception being again the Ottamans and Chinese which eventually got to the state where they were just being propped up because European nations didn't want to risk a war between themselves.
 
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Our favorite history autist once again gives us a surface level look at cultures.

Trig.Point said:
Both Johnny Harris and to a lesser extent the guy that did the response video, give history takes that seem more influenced by reddit than anything else.

This idea that 15th century Europe was some sort of cultural, economic and technological backwater popped up in the last 30 years because History remains part of the humanities and is just down the corridor from the social sciences.

It allows for the argument that Europeans were only able to conquer the rest of the world because they were uniquely evil. It discounts the fact that by the end of the 15th century Europe had made huge advances in Ship building (being able to a limited degree to sail against the wind), Mettallugy, Agriculture, all linked to developments in banking that allowed the funding of complex ventures such as overseas exploration and colonisation.

The rest of the world in the 15th century was chaotic, even the most successful civilisations such as the Ottomans and Chinese had societal and governmental problems that they were never going to come close to dealing with.

For example people get excited by the few surviving historical accounts of the Ming Dynasty sending a fleet into the Indian Ocean (fleshed out by a fair degree of bullshit from western historians and CCP sponsered hacks), however they don't consider details like, that the Fleet consumed massive amount of resouces, achieved nothing (because the Chinese refused to engage in trade) and the fact that it was broken up and the records suppressed kind of speaks for itself.

The rest of Asia were a mass of warring states, no civilisation in the Americas had even discoverd the wheel and meanwhile the Africans were busy being Kangz.

Of course Europe conquered the rest of the world, the only thing that held them off anywhere was disease. An exception being again the Ottamans and Chinese which eventually got to the state where they were just being propped up because European nations didn't want to risk a war between themselves.
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It baffles me this isn't as well known in mainstream circles. Then again, giving Europeans credit where credit is due has frowned upon in recent years.
 
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Trig.Point said:
Both Johnny Harris and to a lesser extent the guy that did the response video, give history takes that seem more influenced by reddit than anything else.

This idea that 15th century Europe was some sort of cultural, economic and technological backwater popped up in the last 30 years because History remains part of the humanities and is just down the corridor from the social sciences.

It allows for the argument that Europeans were only able to conquer the rest of the world because they were uniquely evil. It discounts the fact that by the end of the 15th century Europe had made huge advances in Ship building (being able to a limited degree to sail against the wind), Mettallugy, Agriculture, all linked to developments in banking that allowed the funding of complex ventures such as overseas exploration and colonisation.

The rest of the world in the 15th century was chaotic, even the most successful civilisations such as the Ottomans and Chinese had societal and governmental problems that they were never going to come close to dealing with.

For example people get excited by the few surviving historical accounts of the Ming Dynasty sending a fleet into the Indian Ocean (fleshed out by a fair degree of bullshit from western historians and CCP sponsered hacks), however they don't consider details like, that the Fleet consumed massive amount of resouces, achieved nothing (because the Chinese refused to engage in trade) and the fact that it was broken up and the records suppressed kind of speaks for itself.

The rest of Asia were a mass of warring states, no civilisation in the Americas had even discoverd the wheel and meanwhile the Africans were busy being Kangz.

Of course Europe conquered the rest of the world, the only thing that held them off anywhere was disease. An exception being again the Ottamans and Chinese which eventually got to the state where they were just being propped up because European nations didn't want to risk a war between themselves.
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I couldn't continue watching either when they both seem to think that conquering land is somehow uniquely European, and that the colonisation of the canary Islands is the first European genocide, or even first genocide in the world
 
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I couldn't continue watching either when they both seem to think that conquering land is somehow uniquely European, and that the colonisation of the canary Islands is the first European genocide, or even first genocide in the world
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Meanwhile Asia especially the middle east had it's fair share of brutal oppressors but except for the Ottomans no one there build an empire which had lands on several continents at once and stayed there for centuries which lead to a global increase of living standards.. Genghis Khan's empire for example began to disintegrating as soon as he and his sons died.
The entire "all big empires were evil" is just a nihilistic cope of people who can't comprehend that an empire could massively increase living standards despite killing some few thousands most people didn't even care about.
 
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Our favorite history autist once again gives us a surface level look at cultures.


It baffles me this isn't as well known in mainstream circles. Then again, giving Europeans credit where credit is due has frowned upon in recent years.
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American Nations (and Albion's Seed that it's based on) is a much better argument.
To begin with, the Great Lakes stations are really three belts, the Lakes themselves being culturally linked to New England, the Ohio River Valley greatly resembling the Upper South in attitudes, and the middle resembling Pennsylvania.
Then the South has tons of internal divisions of great significance (Ohio River Valley, Tidewater, Deep South, Appalachian Mountains, French Louisiana, Texas).
 
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Book recommendations for the thread Hell To Pay by DM Giangreco(sp?). Its a little boring but full of infomation about the invasion of japan, and highly relevant information about thhe atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Its very good 9/10

Heres a podcast with the author(audio quality is a bit shit):

 
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Sam Aronow is covering the jewish contributions to the american civil war i wonder if he'll cover what the charleston jewish community was doing there?
 
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