John Green might as well be the one presenting every video on crash course, because every host annunciates and structures the flow of their speaking just like he does.
Regarding the Great Famine, as it's known here in Ireland, it's worth noting _why_ such a reliance happened in the first place: Irish peasant farmers were effectively serfs, and were only allowed to farm crops and raise livestock that were not wanted for export, and even then only to the extent that they didn't negatively impact the profits of the landlord. The Lumper was an extraordinarily good potato, giving excellent crop yields on even very marginal land, and as potatoes are almost a complete food, when supplemented by other traditional staples such as buttermilk, bacon, and cabbage, lead to a healthy population, _in spite of_ the conditions they had to live in. IIRC, Irish people were, at the time, some of the tallest people in Europe. Of course, this health in spite of circumstances, masked a timebomb. When the blight hit, it hit hardest in Ireland. The British government at the time wasn't solely to blame. In fact, I'd put a lot of the blame within the British government at the feet of Sir Charles Trevelyan, who regarded the famine as '[an] effective mechanism for reducing surplus population'. Keep in mind that, at the time, the population of the island of Ireland was half that of England, whereas it is now 1/8 the size. He certainly achieved his wishes. Added to that, and arguably as culpable, where the landlords, who didn't want to divert profitable crops to feed the very people farming those crops for them. Right throughout the famine, Ireland was still the UK's bread basket.
Can you give clarification on the claim that the Chinese sailed off the coast of America in a precolumbian context? I did a video on this and every part i researched most credible archaeologists are very dubious of it.
They add bits like that to try and lessen the importance of European history. Same reason they felt like they needed to discuss wood block prints for 5 minutes before mentioning the invention of the European printing press. Or how the 100 million European deaths are glossed over while 50 million American deaths was devastating.
i've heard the claim before as well and although as you said most are skeptical, there isn't any definitive proof especially considering how genetically closely related chinese and some natives were
I've heard that about the the Chinese before too, but never saw much proof. There was no mention here of the Norsemen reaching North America before Columbus, though, unless I missed it, and there's a lot more proof of that.
Steven Truant or they are just spitting facts. Like Iron and ore work was something that came out of west Africa (Benin)the Portuguese were huge fans and metal work was picked up and spread across Europe. Also...the intentional and unintentional killing of 50 million ++++++ the death from disease of 100 Million from lack of knowledge about storage and also disease from lack of hygiene practices that other parts of the world were doing....its not the same
It's really weird to me that people subscribe to this channel just to give a thumbs down to anything with at title that sounds vaguely like something they disagree with, without even watching the video.
I think we're at or near the peak of our ability to globally communicate, considering we have small devices in our pockets that allow us to instantly communicate with people literally anywhere on Earth. Now if we could just grow up enough to be able to globally communicate without it always devolving into a name calling contest. Hopefully we'll see more large social media platforms in the future that aren't designed specifically to be gossip propagation machines like our current ones.
Is this the end of the series? We are going on 6 weeks without a new episode, last gap was ~2 weeks. I'm enjoying this return to the big history ideas, please keep it alive.
While it may be argued that globalization brings benefits, I'm not sure that necessarily means that its uncontrolled spread is desirable. It was repeatedly stated in the video that more globalization brought a greater number of innovators to the fore to contribute to the sum of human knowledge. The same flawed logic could be used to suggest that war & conquest should be encouraged, as that is when most innovation & knowledge transfer occurs. Oversimplification & reliance on one factor is a high risk strategy, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Radioactive Snake Sorry if I think banks ruling the world might be worrying. Trump getting elected was the greatest thing to happen if you think there is no problem in the whole world being owned by one organization
Except this is explicitly talking about early globalization. You know, how the white people got to the Americas and tomatoes got into pasta and pizza. You're just talking gibberish that have nothing to do with that.
Uuuuh... This just talking about EARLY Globalisation??? Not modern day globalisation (which is kinda shitty, I admit). This video is just basic unbiased history
There was a mention that the potato was domesticated in mesoamerica first, but my research, and even later in this video seems to show that it was south america. Is there a source I don't know about?
Hi! There's a mistake in the video. Potatoes were domesticated in the Andes, not in Mesoamerica. It'd have been a chance to mention that other cultural area as well, which I see is often ignored or left aside.
Recommended reading for this lesson: “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century“ by Thomas Friedman. You may not agree with everything Friedman has to say-I know I don’t-but the book is a fascinating examination of globalization and its effects.
Potatos are not from mesoamerica, they come from the andes plateau, in south america, precisely where Bolivia and Perú are. Another detail, maíz was widely consumed in south america, since it was also a native plant on the región.... and with potatos, the base of the andes gastronomy…
Very interresting video, I love how unbiased, well researched, interresting and packed with new information it is. Thanks, keep up your great work. This is definitely a good side of globalization, that I can watch videos from America here in Austria.
Recently revealed personal accounts from the early European settlers include observations of farming practices being used in Australia. There were selective grasses grown for grain and grinding stones that have been dated before the Egyptians started. Unfortunately the English law at the time required a status of terra nullis to claim the new found land. The grasses grown were better adapted to the harsh Australian climate but with the introduction of grazing sheep and cattle the grasses were eaten out.
That potatoes would be first domesticated Mesoamerica was a controversial claim. The Andes are the more probable and got scientific support, see, A single domestication for potato based on multilocus amplified fragment length polymorphism genotyping. Spooner et. al.
So the dislikes are from people who think globalization is always bad, while using a network that only could've been derived thanks to globalization, while the video itself talks about a whole different from of globalization and the dislikers are too dense to notice that?
Could there be a more reasonable reason for the dislikes? Isn't it more charitable to always try to consider the strongest counter argument not the weakest? Perhaps you're bringing in a caricature of some fictional alt-right person. most of those types, if they do exist, don't subscribe to this channel. I disliked it because it either downplayed or didn't mention other downsides of globalisation. Clashing cultures being one (e.g. the crusades, colonization, the Mongol Ilkhanate...).
+Josh Blazek I mean the video talked about the destruction of the Native American culture (aka "clash of Civilizations"), the Irish Potato famine, and the black death. They don't have the time to detail every single downside, just like they weren't able to talk about every benefit.
Marco Hakim very interesting point. I don't disagree with you. I removed my dislike for what it's worth... though the destruction of Native American culture is the only thing that fits in the cultural context (i.e. plague being unrelated to culture though indeed related to globalization). My larger point is that +Lawrence Tider made some strongly negative statements about people that didn't agree with him and we've all been awfully quick to dehumanize people like that lately. Perhaps we should be considering why good people hold views that we (presumably also good people) disagree with.
Trump supporters think "Globalism" is a propaganda from the left, which means hard working Americans will lose jobs to Chinese and Mexicans, bring "Islamic terrorists" and so on. I wish I was kidding, but that's what they really think.
io543 that isn't what Trump supporters literally believe. plus, I'm sure you are lumping everyone who disagrees with modern globalization into one group of people. I for one, am not a Trump supporter, but I'm don't want to lose freedoms rather than gain them because of forced immigration. It's a much more complicated issue than I am going to lay out here, besides, I'm just going to get some snarky response anyhow.
@10:08 "We can't understate this catastrophe." I think you mean you can't overstate it or you shouldn't understate it, but you can all too easily understate it.
It's a flaw of these ideas (I believe Jared Diamond's book inspired the video) that the native americans were wiped out. In the great cities with the great populations it really happened: but let's not forget that there were few centers like that here. Most peoples resisted in smaller comunities through the centuries in the huge wilderness and diferent enviroments of America. The video was great, but it's important to add this point to the great work of Diamond and historians dedicated to early globalization as well.
Estoy de acuerdo con la idea de que la globalización es un proceso mas largo que solo la década de los 90! Sin embargo es cierto que se vive en los últimos 30 años un aumento cada vez mas rápido de los medios de comunicación, quizás una nueva "Revolución industrial". Lo que sucede es que frente a los cambios se crean nuevas categorías que ayudan a entender mejor cosas que pasaron hace mucho pero que no llamaban tanto la atención hasta que el presente se les empezó a parecer. -Seba
Ugh so many mistakes. The potato originated in the Andes not Mesoamerica. The tuber that was a big hit in China was the sweet potato, a totally unrelated plant from tropical Central America. Yam is from Africa, not the Americas.
Is anyone else having difficulty seeing the newest Big History videos under the Big History Playlist? Under the videos tab, I'm able to see all the new Big History videos. However when I go to the playlist tab, select the Big History Playlist, none of the new videos are set up on that queue. All of the other playlists like Film History or Computer Science show when they were last updated right below the image/icon of the playlist. However Big History doesn't say it's updated nor is it close to all the other playlists that are creating new content.
um...the potato famine was yams or sweet potatoes. Those were primarily the only ones being grown in Ireland, not the standard Idaho type american potatoes. It seems like a small thing, but the introduction of the american potato when yams were getting crushed by a rot that ruined most of the crops the american potatoes were immune from kept good cheap food still available and producible.
The Irish potato famine; we still haven't recovered. Before 1840 the human population of Ireland was ~8 million, today it has only managed to get to ~4.5 million.
It was 8mil for the whole island at the time. The current population of the whole island is ~6.6mil, which the Republic accounting for 4.7mil of that, and NI accouting for ~1.9mil. But yeah, we're nowhere close to recovering. Another 20-30 years, maybe, but that's 200 years after the famine happened.
Keith Gaughan yeah, that's right actually, my bad. Although I wouldn't say we're going to hit 8 mil any time soon, because we've reached the economic point where our births are significantly lower. Higher than many similarly developed nations for various cultural reasons, but on average still not that high.
Globalization is something different than Globalism, which, is the continuing task of the most powerful people on the planet to reduce the rest of us to abject servitude with no rights, no self determination, and no relevance exceeding that cattle. This video is more about the roll played by collective learning, the black plague, and potatoes in globalization, which is the increasing integration of different areas of the world into a global economy. I find the confusion of these two words understandable and amusing. I am glad people are leery of what might go horribly wrong as thing progress. They should be.
James Tuvell no you got it wrong stone age bronze age destruction of bronze age alot of technology lost iron age medieval age renaissance technology recovered from the bronze age industrial age modern age
I don't even care about the back and forth going on in the comment section. I'm here to figure out where the blazer with Dinos came from and how do I get my hands on similar attire?!
the idea that humans got to the Americas by the land bridge 15k years ago has already been outdated. They've been in the America's for at least 30 to 50k years and arrived in multiple different locations by boat, not just the land bridge.
Only one point of contention with this video... It wasn't the inaction of the Irish government, but rather that active suppression of the mostly Catholic poor with the Penal Laws, that lead up to the great famine of Ireland.
I love this channel, but I’m a little concerned by the over simplification of a very important matter in this video. I’m very curious to know how many people understand that the destruction of indigenous and colonized populations was intentional. It wasn’t simply a chance byproduct of globalization. This is a vital fact to consider when discussing “globalization.”
I think the point is that it happened, not why. CrashCourse does a good job not getting involved in political matters intentionally in my opinion. They're trying to teach in a manner that is as unbiased and unoffensive (for better or worse) as possible.
Mel Tee Facts are facts. To mention that anything linked with the original tradition was sentenced to death, burned, destroyed, viewed as diabolic and Europeans perpetrated a genocide to one of the most advanced civilization at that time is not to be biased or offensive. That happened and can't change it. Yes, plagues had much to do with it, but the Inquisition too, that's History. The fact this is now an economic, social, political, cultural problem derived from, first European and the US imperialism, well, that's another story...
Okay, as a Jew on the internet I see where these comments are going. I don't even care anymore. Put my name in the triple parentheses and be done with it.
3:55 I don't really think that it is valid to say that the colonisation of the Americas and Australasia revolutionised the speed of collective learning. Surely ideas created by movements like the renasounce and prodistant reformation where more significant in the birth of the modern age.
i don't know how you can explain Globalization in terms of the Americas without talking about to its relationship to Imperialism. It just doesn't make sense, European belief in their superiority was used to justify Imperialism, this is a greater factor for the destruction of the Knowledge from the Americas and its people then Globalization itself could ever be.
John Green might as well be the one presenting every video on crash course, because every host annunciates and structures the flow of their speaking just like he does.
Regarding the Great Famine, as it's known here in Ireland, it's worth noting _why_ such a reliance happened in the first place:
Irish peasant farmers were effectively serfs, and were only allowed to farm crops and raise livestock that were not wanted for export, and even then only to the extent that they didn't negatively impact the profits of the landlord. The Lumper was an extraordinarily good potato, giving excellent crop yields on even very marginal land, and as potatoes are almost a complete food, when supplemented by other traditional staples such as buttermilk, bacon, and cabbage, lead to a healthy population, _in spite of_ the conditions they had to live in. IIRC, Irish people were, at the time, some of the tallest people in Europe.
Of course, this health in spite of circumstances, masked a timebomb. When the blight hit, it hit hardest in Ireland. The British government at the time wasn't solely to blame. In fact, I'd put a lot of the blame within the British government at the feet of Sir Charles Trevelyan, who regarded the famine as '[an] effective mechanism for reducing surplus population'. Keep in mind that, at the time, the population of the island of Ireland was half that of England, whereas it is now 1/8 the size. He certainly achieved his wishes.
Added to that, and arguably as culpable, where the landlords, who didn't want to divert profitable crops to feed the very people farming those crops for them. Right throughout the famine, Ireland was still the UK's bread basket.
This comment section will be nice...
Is the layer of irony that you are suggesting that you are a Neo Nazi?
What are you on about.
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...And everything changed when the European Nations attacked.
...and Japan ( and technically the US as well) later on.
Can you give clarification on the claim that the Chinese sailed off the coast of America in a precolumbian context? I did a video on this and every part i researched most credible archaeologists are very dubious of it.
They add bits like that to try and lessen the importance of European history. Same reason they felt like they needed to discuss wood block prints for 5 minutes before mentioning the invention of the European printing press. Or how the 100 million European deaths are glossed over while 50 million American deaths was devastating.
i've heard the claim before as well and although as you said most are skeptical, there isn't any definitive proof especially considering how genetically closely related chinese and some natives were
The map shown in the video doesn't seem to pass the sniff test, what with the inland mapping and detailed coasts of all the Americas.
I've heard that about the the Chinese before too, but never saw much proof. There was no mention here of the Norsemen reaching North America before Columbus, though, unless I missed it, and there's a lot more proof of that.
Steven Truant or they are just spitting facts.
Like Iron and ore work was something that came out of west Africa (Benin)the Portuguese were huge fans and metal work was picked up and spread across Europe.
Also...the intentional and unintentional killing of 50 million ++++++ the death from disease of 100 Million from lack of knowledge about storage and also disease from lack of hygiene practices that other parts of the world were doing....its not the same
I could not be more in love with an entire series.
It's really weird to me that people subscribe to this channel just to give a thumbs down to anything with at title that sounds vaguely like something they disagree with, without even watching the video.
welcome to the internet, with the rise of alt-right and extreme nationalism.
It's like book burning except you don't have to buy the book first. Nasty thing this history nonsense /s
You said Mongols and there was no montage! I feel it should've been put in.
Never heard that theory of the Chinese discovering the Americas, very interesting. I'd be interested in seeing more evidence.
lmao globalists - yah I was researching it and the sources say this map is a 19 century copy of a 15 century hoax or something lol
There is really no much evidence.
I think we're at or near the peak of our ability to globally communicate, considering we have small devices in our pockets that allow us to instantly communicate with people literally anywhere on Earth.
Now if we could just grow up enough to be able to globally communicate without it always devolving into a name calling contest. Hopefully we'll see more large social media platforms in the future that aren't designed specifically to be gossip propagation machines like our current ones.
homeycdawg when ever I try too engaga3 a decent argument with someone it always ends with people screaming at each other and aflame war
Is this the end of the series? We are going on 6 weeks without a new episode, last gap was ~2 weeks. I'm enjoying this return to the big history ideas, please keep it alive.
While it may be argued that globalization brings benefits, I'm not sure that necessarily means that its uncontrolled spread is desirable. It was repeatedly stated in the video that more globalization brought a greater number of innovators to the fore to contribute to the sum of human knowledge.
The same flawed logic could be used to suggest that war & conquest should be encouraged, as that is when most innovation & knowledge transfer occurs.
Oversimplification & reliance on one factor is a high risk strategy, with potentially disastrous consequences.
Can you feel the repercussions of a missed opportunity?
GUYS TAKE IT EASY SHE IS TALKING ABOUT POTATOES NOT THE ROTHSCHILDS !
For as broad of a subject as it is, they took a very nuanced approach to globalization. Lots of good stuff, and a few major hurdles and dangers.
Wondering if there are citiations or sources we could use for further research. Please help.
Plagues wiped out huge numbers of indigenous people here in Aus too
potatoe was domesticated in the andes, not meso-america, wasn't it?
So many people are gonna see the word globalisation and throw a massive hissy fit.
Christ i don't look forward to these comments...
Radioactive Snake Sorry if I think banks ruling the world might be worrying. Trump getting elected was the greatest thing to happen if you think there is no problem in the whole world being owned by one organization
Except this is explicitly talking about early globalization. You know, how the white people got to the Americas and tomatoes got into pasta and pizza. You're just talking gibberish that have nothing to do with that.
I am very much against banks ruling anything, your interpretation of globalisation is off.
Uuuuh... This just talking about EARLY Globalisation??? Not modern day globalisation (which is kinda shitty, I admit). This video is just basic unbiased history
Yeah, Trump is really gonna crack down on banks by gutting Dodd-Frank and lowering taxes on capital gains... They must be scared shitless
There was a mention that the potato was domesticated in mesoamerica first, but my research, and even later in this video seems to show that it was south america. Is there a source I don't know about?
Hi! There's a mistake in the video. Potatoes were domesticated in the Andes, not in Mesoamerica. It'd have been a chance to mention that other cultural area as well, which I see is often ignored or left aside.
Stan at the edutainment panel was pretty cool.
Recommended reading for this lesson: “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century“ by Thomas Friedman. You may not agree with everything Friedman has to say-I know I don’t-but the book is a fascinating examination of globalization and its effects.
The potato is native to the Andes, not MesoAmerica as shown in this video.
I really think for people to understand the vast amounts of time I think the Holocene calendar should be used.
@2:30 It's a bit ironic to show a rabbit as part of a pre-colonial version of Australian land management.
Potatos are not from mesoamerica, they come from the andes plateau, in south america, precisely where Bolivia and Perú are. Another detail, maíz was widely consumed in south america, since it was also a native plant on the región.... and with potatos, the base of the andes gastronomy…
Globalization is fantastic and the major driver of economic growth around the world. Open up the borders, the goods and labour must flow.
10:08 "We can't understate this catastrophe." I know, right? Totally overblown.
Very interresting video, I love how unbiased, well researched, interresting and packed with new information it is. Thanks, keep up your great work. This is definitely a good side of globalization, that I can watch videos from America here in Austria.
dat dislike ratio
do they really think history is also fake news or something
No, people are really good at making the distinction intiutively. That"s how they could always go for the fake news.
Recently revealed personal accounts from the early European settlers include observations of farming practices being used in Australia. There were selective grasses grown for grain and grinding stones that have been dated before the Egyptians started. Unfortunately the English law at the time required a status of terra nullis to claim the new found land. The grasses grown were better adapted to the harsh Australian climate but with the introduction of grazing sheep and cattle the grasses were eaten out.
You mean either "We can't OVERstate this catastrophe." or "We SHOULD NOT understate it.", but not "We can't UNDERstate it."
That potatoes would be first domesticated Mesoamerica was a controversial claim. The Andes are the more probable and got scientific support, see, A single domestication for potato based on multilocus amplified fragment length polymorphism genotyping. Spooner et. al.
A great book for reading more on this is Charles Mann's 1493
Fire-stick farming is interesting bcs it gave a lot of food and also rejuvenates the forest ....and also potato is great ,cheap source of energy
I have a bad feeling about this
"... which is definitively the least fun. Plagues!" :D
RE: the Irish famine it was NOT government inaction it was the actions of the British Government.
I'm DEFINITELY showing this to a buddy of mine who is hardcore into Alex Jones.
So the dislikes are from people who think globalization is always bad, while using a network that only could've been derived thanks to globalization, while the video itself talks about a whole different from of globalization and the dislikers are too dense to notice that?
Could there be a more reasonable reason for the dislikes?
Isn't it more charitable to always try to consider the strongest counter argument not the weakest?
Perhaps you're bringing in a caricature of some fictional alt-right person. most of those types, if they do exist, don't subscribe to this channel.
I disliked it because it either downplayed or didn't mention other downsides of globalisation. Clashing cultures being one (e.g. the crusades, colonization, the Mongol Ilkhanate...).
+Josh Blazek
I mean the video talked about the destruction of the Native American culture (aka "clash of Civilizations"), the Irish Potato famine, and the black death. They don't have the time to detail every single downside, just like they weren't able to talk about every benefit.
Marco Hakim very interesting point. I don't disagree with you. I removed my dislike for what it's worth... though the destruction of Native American culture is the only thing that fits in the cultural context (i.e. plague being unrelated to culture though indeed related to globalization).
My larger point is that +Lawrence Tider made some strongly negative statements about people that didn't agree with him and we've all been awfully quick to dehumanize people like that lately. Perhaps we should be considering why good people hold views that we (presumably also good people) disagree with.
Big History needs a playlist? Or am I blind?
Am I the only one who can't find a Crash Course Big History Season 2 playlist on their channel?
Here comes a comment section filled entirely with people complaining about the comment section.
incarnedine That's what I've noticed too.
Progressives have now evolved to a point where they can craft their strawman argument in advance of the actual argument.
I don't really get the dislikes. No seriously, I actually don't, I thought it was an interesting history lesson. Would someone care to explain?
Trump supporters think "Globalism" is a propaganda from the left, which means hard working Americans will lose jobs to Chinese and Mexicans, bring "Islamic terrorists" and so on. I wish I was kidding, but that's what they really think.
I guess the word 'early' is lost on them, huh?
io543 that isn't what Trump supporters literally believe. plus, I'm sure you are lumping everyone who disagrees with modern globalization into one group of people. I for one, am not a Trump supporter, but I'm don't want to lose freedoms rather than gain them because of forced immigration. It's a much more complicated issue than I am going to lay out here, besides, I'm just going to get some snarky response anyhow.
WanderingRandomer Too much Alex Jones bandwagon who cannot think straight
@10:08 "We can't understate this catastrophe." I think you mean you can't overstate it or you shouldn't understate it, but you can all too easily understate it.
Globalization is a good concepts for world, but only if national interests are not hampered.
The intro music is considerably louder than the narrator's voice. This is an issue particularly on headphones.
thank you SO MUCH for the big history series
It's a flaw of these ideas (I believe Jared Diamond's book inspired the video) that the native americans were wiped out. In the great cities with the great populations it really happened: but let's not forget that there were few centers like that here. Most peoples resisted in smaller comunities through the centuries in the huge wilderness and diferent enviroments of America. The video was great, but it's important to add this point to the great work of Diamond and historians dedicated to early globalization as well.
The potato is not a root vegetable - Cunningham's Law.
Estoy de acuerdo con la idea de que la globalización es un proceso mas largo que solo la década de los 90! Sin embargo es cierto que se vive en los últimos 30 años un aumento cada vez mas rápido de los medios de comunicación, quizás una nueva "Revolución industrial". Lo que sucede es que frente a los cambios se crean nuevas categorías que ayudan a entender mejor cosas que pasaron hace mucho pero que no llamaban tanto la atención hasta que el presente se les empezó a parecer. -Seba
Ugh so many mistakes. The potato originated in the Andes not Mesoamerica. The tuber that was a big hit in China was the sweet potato, a totally unrelated plant from tropical Central America. Yam is from Africa, not the Americas.
This bugged me as well. Maize was also grown in the Andes, it might not have had the same significance to agriculture there as it did in Mesoamerica.
Maize originated in Mexico, but even in South America it was a more important crop than potato, except high in the Andes.
Hey Emily, John, Hank!I believe I'm not the only one wondering what's happening with this series! care to elsborate? It's been over 1 month now
Is anyone else having difficulty seeing the newest Big History videos under the Big History Playlist? Under the videos tab, I'm able to see all the new Big History videos. However when I go to the playlist tab, select the Big History Playlist, none of the new videos are set up on that queue. All of the other playlists like Film History or Computer Science show when they were last updated right below the image/icon of the playlist. However Big History doesn't say it's updated nor is it close to all the other playlists that are creating new content.
My favorite of these yet! Thanks Emily!
Why isn't big history 2 in a playlist yet? Do they only do that once the series is finished?
The potatoes are from South America, not from Central America
Guys this video isn't about a message of today's globalisation, it's just history, don't dislike until you know what the video is about..
desperately waiting for new big history 2 episodes !
What was the human population before the spread of disease in the Americas? Wondering what % loss was. Thanks!
Thanks Emily. Great job as usual.
um...the potato famine was yams or sweet potatoes. Those were primarily the only ones being grown in Ireland, not the standard Idaho type american potatoes. It seems like a small thing, but the introduction of the american potato when yams were getting crushed by a rot that ruined most of the crops the american potatoes were immune from kept good cheap food still available and producible.
the Mongols were not the exception
I love your jacket
Meanwhile, Antarctica is angry at its exclusion from "Globalization".
Don't show Alex Jones this. We'll never hear the end of it.
G'day... that's a Nope from me... it is not called a forest fire. It is called a "bushfire" not forest, not brush... it's a "bushfire"
Thank you. Please continue to do great work.
The island of java is part of Afro-Eurasia not Australasia
the series finished..?
You guys showed maize eating regions (central america), when talking about potatoes (which are south american). Please fix!
Great ending, thank you very much!
The Irish potato famine; we still haven't recovered. Before 1840 the human population of Ireland was ~8 million, today it has only managed to get to ~4.5 million.
It was 8mil for the whole island at the time. The current population of the whole island is ~6.6mil, which the Republic accounting for 4.7mil of that, and NI accouting for ~1.9mil. But yeah, we're nowhere close to recovering. Another 20-30 years, maybe, but that's 200 years after the famine happened.
Keith Gaughan yeah, that's right actually, my bad. Although I wouldn't say we're going to hit 8 mil any time soon, because we've reached the economic point where our births are significantly lower. Higher than many similarly developed nations for various cultural reasons, but on average still not that high.
Potatoes are not native of Mesoamerica. They are from the Andes.
They're also not root vegetables.
Good watch. Thanks.
Globalization is something different than Globalism, which, is the continuing task of the most powerful people on the planet to reduce the rest of us to abject servitude with no rights, no self determination, and no relevance exceeding that cattle. This video is more about the roll played by collective learning, the black plague, and potatoes in globalization, which is the increasing integration of different areas of the world into a global economy. I find the confusion of these two words understandable and amusing. I am glad people are leery of what might go horribly wrong as thing progress. They should be.
this is a good topic
well this taught me just what globalization was ^^
in ROB we trust
awesome video thanks guys
Loved the video!
colonial age ---->industrial age ------> Information age ----> Artificial Intellegence age ------> Borg. Mwaaahaaa.
James Tuvell no you got it wrong stone age bronze age destruction of bronze age alot of technology lost iron age medieval age renaissance technology recovered from the bronze age industrial age modern age
longest 12min of my life
I don't even care about the back and forth going on in the comment section. I'm here to figure out where the blazer with Dinos came from and how do I get my hands on similar attire?!
Michelle Ortega i was scrolling thru the comments just make some headway re the dino blazer. no luck so far...you?!
7:13
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT
I've heard that people are buying dislikes from a german company, now.
And that disabling dislikes are the only solution
the idea that humans got to the Americas by the land bridge 15k years ago has already been outdated. They've been in the America's for at least 30 to 50k years and arrived in multiple different locations by boat, not just the land bridge.
IS IT THE LAST EPISODE OF THIS COURSE?
incoming people who don't know what globalism means
Only one point of contention with this video... It wasn't the inaction of the Irish government, but rather that active suppression of the mostly Catholic poor with the Penal Laws, that lead up to the great famine of Ireland.
There was no Irish Government at the time: that went away four decade before the famine with the Act of Union of 1801.
This series is so dope
I love this channel, but I’m a little concerned by the over simplification of a very important matter in this video. I’m very curious to know how many people understand that the destruction of indigenous and colonized populations was intentional. It wasn’t simply a chance byproduct of globalization. This is a vital fact to consider when discussing “globalization.”
I think the point is that it happened, not why. CrashCourse does a good job not getting involved in political matters intentionally in my opinion. They're trying to teach in a manner that is as unbiased and unoffensive (for better or worse) as possible.
Mel Tee Facts are facts. To mention that anything linked with the original tradition was sentenced to death, burned, destroyed, viewed as diabolic and Europeans perpetrated a genocide to one of the most advanced civilization at that time is not to be biased or offensive. That happened and can't change it. Yes, plagues had much to do with it, but the Inquisition too, that's History. The fact this is now an economic, social, political, cultural problem derived from, first European and the US imperialism, well, that's another story...
The first step to a good globalization is to lay down the money system
The "Big History" seasons aren't listed on the Crash Course playlist page, and there hasn't been a new episode in two months ... what's going on?
ahhh, Emily.Graslie!! one of my favourite CZcamsr here!
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I love her too.
Great show
Okay, as a Jew on the internet I see where these comments are going. I don't even care anymore. Put my name in the triple parentheses and be done with it.
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I don't really think that it is valid to say that the colonisation of the Americas and Australasia revolutionised the speed of collective learning. Surely ideas created by movements like the renasounce and prodistant reformation where more significant in the birth of the modern age.
i don't know how you can explain Globalization in terms of the Americas without talking about to its relationship to Imperialism. It just doesn't make sense, European belief in their superiority was used to justify Imperialism, this is a greater factor for the destruction of the Knowledge from the Americas and its people then Globalization itself could ever be.