What if the Black Death Wiped Out Europe?
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What if the Black Death wiped out Europe? Say instead of half of Europe being killed, it was instead 90%? What could we see happen? Here is one scenario.
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countries surrounding europe: "its free real estate"
Islam you mean, Islam would have dominated the world if Europeans didn't exist, I cannot see any civilization living up to the might of Islam at the time of the medieval ages. Islam was only stopped because of Europe. If not for Europeans, America would all be Islamic
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"Half of everyone died"
Me: "Perfectly balanced, as all things should be"
Thanos Agrees
Thanos:I like this plauge thing
maybe he shouldve made an auto generating disease lol
Are you volunteering?
*wheeze*
"disease isnt fun"
mild joke in 2017, relatable meme today.
@@legionsoldier1342 a virus is a disease
@@legionsoldier1342 Covid’s a Disease, do you know what a disease is?
I was just thinking that
So Poland during the Black Death was like Switzerland during the World Wars?
@Titanium Mapping
Yeah, the reason Poland did so well was because of hygene. For example - the Polish king and his court took regular baths, and the kings of France bathed often under 10 times in their whole lives. You can see how that would lead to resistance to plagues for Poles.
@@jek_si2251 Nope. Poland and northern Europe was more rural than than its southern counterpart so the disease wasn't transmitted easily there. This is also why Mid East was less affected by the Black Death than in the West, because many part of it were isolated by arid, unpopulated desert. But.. the Black Death did wreck more concentrated place like Nile Delta in Egypt and between Euphrates and Tigris in Iraq.
@@jek_si2251 dude, the only way to survive the plague is to be bloodtype O.
It gives you a natural immunity.
This is why most of Europe is bloodtype O.
Poland was also a place where many Jews lived, and they as a religion were typically more hygienic than the Christians
@@kelseyc5102 poland did became the center of european jew, but that happened AFTER black death.
The Black Death is like one of those people who got a god-like killstreak.
Miguel De Manuel *K.E.M* INBOUND
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It's owning the matches!
You mean like Genghis Khan, who killed 40 million people or 10% of the world's population at the time?
Master Zyrel does he have a stat clock on his empire?
that would never happen if I'm on the case.
Thank you for your service Plague Doctor
Thank you doc, for helping the world evolve how it did.
Hahahahahaha
Ah! So good to see another from the Plague Doctor association!
*cough cough* help please
Europe: Dies
Middle East: *It's free real estate*
Turkey: *Cries in Istanbul*
@Da Turk Mapper oh yes,I thought the video said it would happen in modern world
@@oklahoma7213 that would be dark
this is kind of like an uno reverse card
WARLORD of the desert no it wouldent!!! It would be black 🐸
Poland was affected by the black death, just not as much as the rest of Europe. This is due to Casimir the Great quarantining the borders and Poland's less dense population size.
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Mystery Train Why not?
Read "The years of rice and salt". It's a alternate history novel where 90% of europe is wiped out and it's consequences and ripple effects.
Really good book.
Muslims also conquer Europe. But they have competition from China and the Native Americans.
He mentioned it in a newer video. I read it.
Cody namedropped the book- the audiobook version, to be precise-in 8:57... And funnily enough, the book is the inspiration for this video lol
Tbf, he namedropped it in an ad read for Audible so yeah.
“hey guys, you like my new tattoo? It’s pronounced ‘Stultus essem’ it mean great warrior, I am like, so in touch with my 6.25 percent european ancestery, my tribe were called the Veekoongs”
Lol
"Rest assured, tens of millions of Africans are enslaved,"
REST ASSURED
rofl!
Just in case you were worried about them not becoming enslaved.
Well i was a little concerned, but im glad there's no reason to worry.
The Americans can sigh in relief, but Africa is just perpetually fucked in all timelines.
Lol XD
their should be a video game or a tv series about this alternate universe, seeing a ruined medieval europe slowly being invaded by the other powers would be pretty interesting
Play crusader kings and start a plague in Europe via console commands. The story writes itself from there.
Later, the Inca and the Mayan invade the islamic world with their ww1 weapons
@@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447 the mongols,aztecs,abbassids and ummayads would take over europe and fight among themselves
@@alphagamer9505 That's the idea.
@@oneofmanyparadoxfans5447 in my game that is happening,except is the byzantines instead of the aztecs
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Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!
It can always be worse.
Yeah, its only killed about 2 million people and still going.
The moral is:
Dont be nasty
Always live healthy
Moral: Live or else die
Your profile picture is Tintin. That makes me happy.
Everyone is dying
the world is ending
Oh god
the apocalypse is nearing
Poland: Heh
poland was at war then
Peppermint Cat me:*robs stores*
Oh thank God I live in poland
It's myth, lack of hygine =in Europe started in 16th century when pardime in medicine changed , high nad late Middle AGes was very hygenic in whole Europe, oland simply avoided black death simply becouse king Casimir the Great done same what Venice did-quarantine, great invention of Medieval medicine, he had time to close trade routes fo a while in a north (Pomerania back then was teporaly taken by Teutonic Order) and in the south through Sudets and Carpathians, that is why semi indpendet silesian dukedoms and prinicplaities avoided the spread of plague either just like mostly Venice and Milan, lack of hygine was an effects of such pandemics in later centureis not the cause, just remeber that plague spred form central Asia and touched all that hadn't been imune to it vast of Middle East and China was also depopulated, the plague was reason why Mongol dynasty in China has been overthrown. So reason why we avoided black death were sanitary cordons on trade routes
Peppermint Cat HAHAHAHA I GOT IT POLAND ON SPACE HAHAHAH
I love that you used 90% fatality rate because, regardless of if you knew it or not, its actually estimated that around 10% of people were immune to the disease. Now, almost every disease has people immune to it anyway but the 10% is because lots of small villages of germany were not warned about the disease at all and all lived in the same large building. They also didn't know how to counter it which means that they still took care of the diseased themselves and buried the bodies instead of burning them. So, everyone in those villages probably got infected but around 10% survived everytime without ever showing any symptoms. So if it infected absolutely everyone in Europe, it would indeed be around 10% that would survive.
They weren’t immune well some of them where but a lot of the, got symptoms but they survived they might have been resistant.
Ottoman Empire be like in the Balkans:
Hippity hoppity this is now my property
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"It's estimated at least a third to even half of Europeans died over 7 years."
*THANOS HAS JOINED THE CHAT*
Dang it the Black Death stole my kill again
Matt Williams It stole mine too
The plague got killed by chuck noriss
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was it Black_PLague27?
Interesting counter point: The world may very well have achieved the same technological and intellectual complexity that we have today in this timeline, but it would not have originated in Europe, but in the Americas.
Few civilizations were more complex, diverse, grand in scale, and understanding of astronomy, science, and mathematics than the Mayan empire. Of which we now know, at its peak, was essentially the population center of the earth. During its classic period (A.D. 250-900) its reach covered an area about twice the size of medieval England whilst being far more densely populated. Though the Maya eventually died out, history has proven the geography and resources of the area is capable of sustaining a massive civilization, and even after the Maya empire fell, the western world was no stranger to complex societies among its territories.
By the time the European colonization had started and Cortes went off on his mission, there were population centers still present in the area like Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, all three of which were complex, partnering city states with their own laws, economies, politics, soldiers, and infrastructure. This wasn't the only coalition of its kind either, there were other areas of the Americas that had equally complex people and settlements, such as the Iroquois confederacy which was comprised of five smaller nations (later six nations in 1722), that was governed by a Grand Council, an assembly of fifty chiefs, each representing one of the clans of one of the nations, all of which adhered to a constitution they called the "Great Law of Peace" of which the founding fathers of the United States took HEAVY inspiration from when drafting their own constitution.
Evidence has shown the Americas were an equally diverse and complex set of societies, tribes, and nations like Europe was, just spread out over a much greater distance, despite which didn't hinder their ability to communicate, travel, and trade with each other for thousands of years.
Had European intervention not occurred and had the Americas been left isolated, there's no doubt in my mind one or few dominant forces in the region would, through however many cycles of power needed, eventually stabilize and sustain a massive civilization or set of civilizations close to or as complex as the one we have today... we would all just be speaking some much, much stranger languages.
Yea it's not like native Americans were less smart, which given the right resources they could be on the same level of technology as Europe, but they lacked a lot of tameable animals like cows for milk and meat, chickens for eggs and horses for easy travel, and so on. They didnt have easily domesticateable animals. Sure a bull would have been nice to have but how could you domesticate a bull with just yourself, maybe a friend and some sharp sticks. It was to difficult and even with our technology we are just starting to domesticate the bull
Had the animals like horses cows and animals like that, they very well could have been the first to cross the Atlantic and go to Europe. CPG Grey covered it well in the video Americapox:the missing plague I think
But none of them had a gun...
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@@cookiemuffin3208 Maybe the Inca empire would trade with the Mesoamerican empires. The Llama for easy travel.
I really like this idea and I think in this timeline it would be the inhabitants of the Americas that would go exploring. I think they would be astonished at the rituals of Islam and especially Catholicism (ritual symbolic cannibalism).
Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a book with this as the premise: "The Years of Rice and Salt"
I'm suprised he didn't touch heavily on that already and borrow ideas. Overall the premise and it's history (bar the butterfly effect) seems plausible.
Without any external threat or competition from the neighboring European states, Poland can finally achieve it's destiny and can into Space!
I imagine a soda can in space with the Polish flag on it.
Noice lol
EpicEevee Probably there's one.
Note: I know this joke is from Polandball.
It is rather interesting how Poland did not capitalize on/exploit (no significant change in borders) the weakened neighbors right after the plague ebbed out.
BTW, the Polish lands where not affected because the king issued strict quarantine orders on the borders that where enforced. Sure, commerce took a plunge dive but the people at least did not die in agony.
Probably because they were worried about getting infected by the plague.
Poland...
You’re danm lucky you are
Jaybae My love Really? They are already far behind western european societies in every regard. Conservatism, nationalism and isiolationism aren't going to help catching up.
WW2 time
@@trollemall7016 how is your regresive "progressivism" working out so far?
@@jezuz6668 You do understand how ridiculous your term "regres[s]ive preogressivism" sounds to people with a brain, right? First of all you could try to explain to me what "progressivism" is supposed to mean.
But I guess what you wanted to ask me is how my life in a free society without racial, religous and sexual discrimination and without the constant paranoia of minorities works out. I have to say it's working out great. It's really nice to have left the dark ages behind and to live by the ideals of the enlightment, science and logic rather than by blind, undeducated and ignorant fears.
@@trollemall7016 Ok, first of all, this isn't a dichotomy between literal feudalism and modern technocratic social liberalism. (I hope you consider this to be non-braindead)
A conservative nation-state can without internal philosophical contradictions still use science, "logic" and most descriptive parts of the enlightenment, although I must say that the "enlightenment" is a hard thing to define. Conservatism, in this case, refers to modern European style conservatism
Second of all, "progressivism" depending on what "type" you are talking about, isn't very "pro enlightenment" if we look at it from a value perspective. The enlightenment in many ways laid the foundation for institutions like the British and French empire and is in general pretty imperialistic.
Also, the scientific enlightenment created moralistic and civilisational meta-narratives and was in general very reductionist, this being the opposite of what post-modernism proposes. (although it is in line with marxism)
Lastly, I think you're making a logical mistake (if I have interpreted you correctly), as you seem to use the authority of "logic" and "science" to strengthen your value position. This is a fallacy as neither science or logic leads to anything, it is purely descriptive and therefore using it in this way doesn't really make sense.
I would recommend you this video as a general explainer of the fallacy I believe you have committed czcams.com/video/KX62hnzucDE/video.html
I hope this is useful :)
The coronavirus taking notes like: *hmmmmm 👀*
Black Death
Coronavirus hold my beer
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Why are people giving the gods ideas?
fuck
Six months later this hasn't aged well especially in the United States
"Disease is bad"
*goes on to explain how the Black Death helped Europe develope.*
Proud Thanos noises*
So true.
The more you know
Us Poles are very good at surviving
Spacey - it's all the sour cream. P.S. SLAWA
Thank God for the Polish Race!
Spacey - Also very bad at winning wars.
Keep defending yourselves against Islam please.
When the world blows up, Poland is just gonna fly up in one piece and continue to exist because they survive everything .Now finally free from Russia and Germany, they become an interstellar empire, leading the universe with kielbasas in hand. We need an alternate history video on this.
Plague Inc. Intensifies
Me playing on brutal:
WE SHOULD HAVE ANNEXED CANADA
“No more Southern Europeans”
Well now I start to care about this
No pizza
@@Historyboi-vn7gd YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No greek! It’s awesome
Βλέπω? Είναι! Μην αφήσετε την πανούκλα να σκοτώσει την Ελλάδα.
Lmao same😭😭 I was like woah woah this has gone too far
Disease isn’t fun.
Everyone in 2020: You don’t say?
this ain't on that scale
Yeah, but, Covid ain't got shit on the Black Death.
I wish
Not as bad as the black death but still not fun
Poland knew the importance of a big and beautiful wall
looking at how many terror attacks and immigrants Poland has, they still do
That could still theoretically be enough for some practices to spread to non-Jews. If a lot of your neighbors are trying this new thing called "washing your hands so that you're not getting your own shit in your food," you might pick it up.
*when everybody takes the joke seriously*
And before you went to the city, you had to take a bath.
Jews came to Poland AFTER the black death period took place. Poland was saved because the king Casimir the Great was smart as fuck and completely shut down the borders
"half of everyone died EXCEPT FOR POLAND"
pikminexplorer Polska stronk.
lol
Its actually all because of Casimir the Great, he just started a quarantine.
We survived (Poland) but some time later we will be raped by our neighbours soooo
Error3000 Poland started the raping first by attacking Muscovy in the early 17th century to convert Russians to Catholicism. I love how you always skip that part.
Does anyone here know why Poland was never affected
Because of the quarantined borders and isolation. Poland was well-prepared for incoming disease.
Poland still got affected, but not much like their neighbours.
Harsh Sidhu Harsh Sidhu No, but actually yes
Poland successfully installed quarantine and was just more caring about taking a fucking bath. They still got affected,but in comparison to rest of Europe,they didnt have so much of a problem.
The Jews in Poland were far more hygienic than Christians
@@DeeRod10 Um does this have anything to do with religion?
thanos: you should have gone for the head! *snaps*
half of europe: I don't feel so good! *dies*
Europe doesn't make "The Final Countdown" in this scenario.
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
You won the comment of the year award
Damn... He's good
Milsurp Mike I don't get it..
A band called Europe made a song called The Final Countdown :P
"Disease are bad"
Well atleast you can skip school
ASMR GOD do you to school when you’re dead?
You can skip life
If you die
no he means you stay alive but since you're sick you wil not go to school.
Richardson Productions but like no school
"Disease isn't fun" really hits more in 2022 than it did in 2017
Play of the game
Black Death as Reaper
Elimination:75 million
😂😂😂🤷♂️
One hell of a death blossom.
And those 10% are in Poland
KubA KubA literally Poland.
Ha screw you im polish
Nothing to be proud of haha!
oczywiście że nam sie nic nie stało, jesteśmy po prostu fajni :)
I wish he went into more detail about what happened to Poland in this timeline. I.e. the last bastion of Europe is *Poland* of all places.
Europe being wiped out might be the most peaceful alternate timeline
@Nathaneal Mann Okay
@Nathaneal Mann Someone hasn't read The History of India,China,Japan and The Middle East
Lumbago, Tubeculosis and Not Having a plan is the worst disease know to man.
Poland, place where even plagues don't want to go :,)
lollll
szymon boniecki przez to jest zajebista
ThatOneChillMofo You do know that Poland has a large minority of Muslims right?
That's right. I even have muslim neighbour
Estonia is 98% Blue Eyed White Europeans. Hope it stays that way.
"Disease isn't fun"
That's subjective Cody
Right? Who doesn't love Ebola-chan?
Dancing Plague of 1518
papa Nurgle is that you?
alaster boneman
Ha ha... references...
DESTROY US ALL
“Every European city in town”
What?!
Man, the more I look at videos like this the more I start feeling glad we live in this timeline, even if the world sucks sometimes. Imagine those alternate timeline countries and nations seeing us and how we turned out.
What if i could get a girlfriend?
That timeline doesn't exist. It's just impossible.
You picked the wrong video fool!
Lighting in a bottle scenario
You will have less money in your wallet and higher stress.
Same for me!
Some strange fluke of nature, I am just not compatible with human women... apparently?
Poland has to save Europe again like they did in Vienna
kotzpenner more like Europe saves Poland your country is shite
Poland didn't save Europe, they just won a battle. If they lost, the ottomans would've been defeated anyway.
Adam David How exactly is Europe today going to save Poland?Refugees?
Jan III Sobieski has been my historical husband for months now lmao
I agree, no one could capture Monte Casino, then the Polish did it, with heavy losses, but still conquered and held it, after failed attempts from Italy, Germany, France, Greece, and Croatia.
Thanks for recommending this to me during the middle of the CoVID pandemic CZcams!
CoronaVirus: What are you?
Black death: I am you but better.
video idea: what if the winged hussars hadn't arrived?
Meme Lord then Vienna falls.
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Arrived where? I'm from Poland, but I hate history so.... XD
El Deplorable yey and you're welcome
El Deplorable But what about us Croats? Without Croatia Vienna would've fallen way before that. They saved Europe once while we saved Europe once... for 400 years.
who need a history teacher when you got AlternateHistoryHub
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FullMetalBlackBeard no
There's a book about this very subject called "The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Poland: ouch!!
Rest of Europe: *ohhhhhhhhh my God please help me AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!*
"Disease Isn't Fun"
That would explain how terrible the cancerous comments feel
Obscure History *Inserts Fnaf*
Alternatehistorymapper 420 Inserts undertale
Obscure History I C WUT U DIDERE.
;)
*Inserts fidget spinner*
It will be like you're in Plague Inc
Hack Codex well first you don't know how to speak or type English and second no no it wouldn't
Oh, is that so? Can you correct my sentence? Mr. Grammar Nazi
OK, Hack. But a comma where your second question mark is. Put the question mark where your period is.
Thank you for not being rude. My first language isn't English and I'm still learning
But for some reason my classmates think I'm good and always ask me to correct their sentences, which is a little bit annoying
Ottomans and Arabic’s when they colonise Europe and see all the ruins but no people:
*what the hell happened here?*
Muslims is not a Race, I think you mean Berbers and Turks
@@elharvey5032, were they turks at that point? Weren’t they just called ottomans?
@@cryingcatgoesbark310 during the Ottoman Empire yes
Good video, Cody. Serious food for thought.
Here, let me contribute to the discussion.
[LOUD WHINING]
I concur
Poland cannot to plaque.
cannot into space as well :(
"a key factor was that King Casimir the Great wisely quarantined the Polish borders. By holding the plague off at the borders, the disease's impact on Poland was softened."
Slashplite can
Ah. That explains why.
Just got this in my recommended videos. Great.
"The Years of Rice and Salt"
I would like make some requests:
1. What if Nationalists won the Chinese Civil War?
2. What if the Ottoman Empire/Turkey never existed? (Like your Russia video, but in this case, it's Anatolia this time)
3. What if Byzantium extended to up to until the 19th century?
4. What if Britain joined the Central Powers?
5. What if Yugoslavia never fell, but reformed into a democratic one that is a member of the EU as well?
6. (BONUS) What if Native Americans invaded Europe? (I hate invading at Sunset, isn't it?)
Fucking Aztecs.
The answer to #5 is no more bananas in the Balkans
Justin Patrick for 6, not much would really change. Any natives that would come over would die from disease, and could/would bring it back to America and it would spread. And since Europeans still are more technological advanced, They would still have the urge to colonize for easy trade access (and we know how this turns out).
The only way this could be different is if the natives either had equal or better technology (plausible if the natives are discovering Europe first). Also now it's possible that there are no plagues that would kill off the natives (*See CGP Grey for more on why the plagues were more effective*) assuming they tech advanced civilizations lives in big groups together.
Would definitely love to see a video on this, there are lots of outcomes
Here's a comment by this guy named Genghis Khan, but he's marked spam, and I cannot remove it due to Jewgle's bullshitery.
I believe he already did a video of Britain in the central powers.
He did, but IDK where did it go. I think it was deleted by him or something.
James Burgess
It would be rather interesting if the Natives had equal technology to the Europeans, and attempted to invade them. Let's say they have better armor in compensation of them having no gunpowder and such. But there's this real problem, they cannot stand against the Europeans because they don't have horses. They can do with the spears, but with guns? I think they wouldn't survive with that.
1. If this China chose to side with the Americans, the wars in Vietnam and Korea would've likely resulted in victory for America and her puppet states. 2. The Byzantine Empire doesn't fall (at least not as fast), so the Indian spice trade is never blocked, so Spain never has to look for an alternative route to India, so the Americas survive a bit longer. 3. No idea. 4. The central powers would've won, and since Germany never loses, WWII doesn't happen, at least not in the way it did in our world. But the Soviet Union would likely still rise, so maybe they'd take the Nazi's place. 5. Couldn't happen. 6. Perhaps if the Black Death or a similar plague wiped out at least 90% of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, this could happen after a few extra centuries. But predicting what would happen next is virtually impossible.
Hey AlternateHistoryHub
The civilizations in Mexico-ish area were pretty interested in technology, advancement, and were overall not doing too shabby. Is it possible that with these extra centuries of time to develop, they become the technological superpowers of the world? (or at least gotten a lot farther than in our timeline)
Sadly no. While their civilizations were impressive, they were geographically kind of screwed. They didn't have proper resources for advanced weapons, and even if they did, Old World diseases still would have brought them down after contact
Sorry if my questions are annoying I'm just really curious
So disease would get them eventually regardless, but they did at this point, have a history of drought wiping out populations
Do you think in these centuries they would have eventually attempted to invade the amazonian area for better resources, farmland, and water?
Its unlikely that they would have ever reached the Amazon, as that would have been large distance, and they would have to cross the Darién Gap at the panama-colombia border, which is impassable even to this day. They would also had to contend against Mayan city states in the Yucatan-Guatemala region. They would have overextended themselves to much.
And even if they by some miracle they did reach the Amazon region, they would be fighting the peoples that lived there, who some theorize where actually more advance than was previously believed.
Well the reason why something like Smallpox was so big. Was because of the domestication of Animals and Plants in the Old World. That spread all over, from Africa to Japan. There was very little in the way of that animal husbandry in the Pre-Columbian Americas the only animals were the Turkey (Only in a few areas in North America) And the Llama in the Incan Empire. People became immune to diseases such as small pox and many others. It would seem that no matter what if it were the Chinese or the West Africans they would have come in contact with these diseases.
As for attempting to expand in the Amazonian Area. I would say it would be very unlikely that they would since how would they chop down the Amazon's very dense trees with a lack of knowledge of metallurgy. I would think that they would have expanded to the Rio de la Plata Area or Columbia in the North a bit. Since they are mostly mountains and plains. Seeing how some people like the Incans would be use to that. Or maybe new civilizations would form out of influence with these empires.
Oh right I forgot that panama area is super hard to get through :/
Plague: *exists*
Europe: Ight imma head out
There is no colonialism, no world wars, no cold war, no racism, we will live in peace...
Except
Slavery would still be a thing
And women would not have rights
Argue with me
Haven't you seen the middle east
Except
Slavery would still be a thing
And women would not have rights
Argue with me
Haven't you seen the middle east
If the Americas were never colonized, wouldn’t the indigenous people keep advancing much farther than in our timeline?
Malika Brown but in our timeline they just died by European diseases. They would advance but not in a fast way
Why would they? Aside from the Incas, and the Mississippian culture (which crashed for reasons of its own), there is no sign of any advancement trends in any of the cultures existing in 1492.
They stopped advancing since the neolithic, i don't see them suddenly changing given a couple centuries.
I was expecting him to expand on that :( Indigenous societies in Mexico and South America were incredibly advanced before being colonized
The trouble is, only the Incas had bronze tools/weapons. None of the other American civilizations had yet got out of the Neolithic age, and none showed any signs of doingf so.
3:55 "Its free real estate"
0:01 so true in current period....
Iceland would probably be one of the last Christan holdouts as the black death never reached the island until the beginings of the 15th century
what if the nuke was never invented?
polish dud solidarnosc WWII would go on much longer and the allies could potentially have lost.
No. The war in Europe would still be over, the nuclear bomb had nothing to do with that. The war in the east between Japan and the US would be affected. With or without the bomb, Japan was already doomed. Their allies, the Germans and Italians, are defeated. They are rapidly running out of resources. Their navy is in shambles. They can't keep up with new advancements like radar. They are being bombed day and night. The question is what would be the nature of their defeat without the fear of a weapon that could rain massive destruction on their cities on a scale never before seen.
It would be the difference between "unconditional surrender", which the US demanded, and conditional surrender, in which Japan could sue for peace, thus avoiding a total occupation of their nation.
And the Cold War could've been much hotter considering MAD isn't as big a threat to the world.
the us probably co u don't fuck up japan
There would have been loads of wars
We probably would gave Been in WW4 or 5
Simply because nukes now make countries too scared to go into war with each other.
*IM TRYNA SLEEP OVA HERE*
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Who all watching this during COVID-19?
What if Einstein did become the president of Israel?
Maybe Einstein would help forge peace between the Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs that early with perhaps a Palestinian state. Relations with the rest of the Middle East would be good and any troubling event such as the oil crisis, the Islamic Revolution and 9/11 would not have happened.
+NikolaiNochnoiTV03 Probably not quite all that but definitely some of it. Einstein was politically liberal and a pacifist. That's quite the opposite of the ultra-right wing nationalism and militarism of Israel today. I'm not saying it would solve all the problems, but when one side in a conflict is moderate it's much more likely to end peacefully than when both are right wing assholes, which is kind of the case today. Israel and Palestine kind of drive each other further down this vicious cycle of becoming more and more nationalistic and aggressive toward each other and someone like Einstein could have defused things. That being said, he would have been a HORRIBLE head of state, he was not a political man, and would have likely had no talent for running a bureaucracy. Also it wouldn't change the power dynamics of Israel having big brother USA to back it up whatever it does, which is the real problem here.
He did help found the Technion institute in Haifa, but he had no desire to be a politician.
More like what if the head of the so called "Palestinian state" wasn't a terrorist enabling twat and was actually interested in peace
Maybe due to him being supportive of Palestinians, He would've done a Palestinian-Israeli State
you should do if all computers blew up on January 1st 2000
Sexy Lightswitch Yes please
I imagine it going something like this:
"Computers are the most important tool in human history, yada yada yada... So what if all the computers stopped working on Y2K?"
*black screen*
"You wouldn't be watching this video."
*video ends*
The computers would have been replaced.
it would have been big, but not nearly as bad as today.
The alternate history novel 'Years of Rice and Salt' comes to mind - although I think it was much harsher than this scenario by wiping out 99% of Europeans! The Gate of Worlds by Robert Silverberg also had a worse Black Death in Europe as its premise.
CZcams algorithm be like:
2017: no
2018: no
2019: wtf bro? No
2020: RECOMMENDED VIDEO!!!
The Black Death or the Plague didn't just occur in one 10 year span, it recurred multiple times over multiple centuries.
Yeah but this was the latest and most deadly
It happened in England in the 1600’s and on the west coast in the early 1900’s just not as bad.
The one in England was devastating
The okay recorded major outbreak of plague in Europe was, IIRC, in the early 1800s.
Yeah, but the later waves demonstrably pale in comparison to the wave that hit Europe in the late 1340s. Not to make light of the ones from the 1660s or 1800s, but even they were no comparison.
The Black Death: Lets go to Poland
Poland: Reverse Card
Kim Stanley Robinson explored this idea in his book, "The Years of Rice and Salt."
this would be such a great story for a video game or movie
1:55 Poland is illuminati confirmed! Thus, Russia and Germany want Poland!
I’m polish xddd
LightStra I'm from Poland too XD
nah thats just a crazy theory.... lets not talk about this further....... its just a crazy theory.......... BTW IM POLISH:)))
Dead meme
Joshua Brown Poland, no plagues, no terrorist attacks.
WTF is Poland doing
Do you ever think, "If just one of my ancestors would have died before having kids, I would not be alive." It's truly amazing the history we have in our own lives.
*Technically* , none of your male ancestors had to live long enough to actually have children; just long enough that your female ancestors to get pregnant. There's a 9 month window where they can die and not effect your existence (at least not directly)
Time traveler: hello there
I wouldn't mind being born
Anyone ever wonder how many surnames and facial types disappeared after the world wars
The CZcams algorithm has a funny way of doing things
Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!
@@underthependulum3484 ok boomer
Wow, that was one of your best videos
Mongols weren't islamic at that time. They followed a shamanic religion called Tengrism, and were deeply influenced by Buddhism and some variants of Christianism such as Manicheanism. They wouldn't share islam with the Arabs, but would could maybe claim to be the rightful heir to christianism. In any case, the tengrist faith would probably not fade out as it did in our timeline.
Nope, Golden Horde became muslim during first half of XIV century, just before Black Death
The Turks were Tengriists once as well. In the timeline of the Black Death mongolian succesor nations just as the Golden Horde adapted Islam as their religion.
Years of rice and salt ???
Ares Brandon 1997 just what I was thinking
at the end he says that reading it gave him the inspiration to make this video
I literally finished than book today
James George I think I read that one sometime last years? good book though
Everybody will be salty ;)
Reminder, that Poland was largely unaffected, and polish people would have mostly surviwe
He said "except Poland"
You know how they said that the industrial revolution couldve happened in china as well.maybe in this alternate timeline this would happen.
What if CZcams allowed Porn videos?
What if pornhub allowed gameplay and vlog videos?
isnissen it allows gameplay and blog videos already.
+isnissen I legit saw the whole Bee Movie on Pornhub once.
*cough* hentai *cough*
less murder will happen
What if earth was never invented
Franco Vera Earth wasn’t invented and short answer: Nobody would be here
Franco Vera we wouldn’t be here
the f u talking about earth wasnt ivented
Franco Vera Long story short - We wouldn't be here.
Different planet
Covid be like: Interesting
You should do an episode or series on the "Fermi paradox", Filters and Great Filters.
I think you can tell a lot about how we could NEVER have emitted radio transmissions into space.
Do: What if the Australians won the Great Emu War ?!?!?
Look at me Im de captain now I think their world be more than one emu war because if the first one was a victory why stop
Yes!
lmao
Half of every one died EXCEPT POLAND me:😐
This is just fact. Check this.
Basically, Europe wasn't into cleaning themselves and thought that leaving waste of every sort in the street was fine, but Poland had a lot of Jewish immigrants, who weren't liked in most of Europe because no one in history likes the Jews apparently, and they brought the sanitary habits Poland needed to not be affected by the plague, or in the least dampen the effect severely.
>Jews bringing sanitary habits to Eastern Europe
Hadn't have a laugh this good for a month. Slavs and Finns have an ancient tradition of saunas/banyas. And have you ever been around orthodox jews? They're not the sort of people you'd remember as blossoming with pleasant aroma, to say the least.
Alexey Saranchev
Good point!
Edward Nygma That’s also why muslims had a lesser death rate than Christian Europeans, because they washed themselves 5 times a day.
Watching this in March 2020...
"The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson explores this idea as well.
Wouldn't Poland just take over all of Europe though? If they weren't affected then they would of been powerful enough.
Great History they probably would have expanded, but think about how small Poland is, and compare it's size to the Mongols and Ottoman Empire. Chances are the would just carve Poland up. Just as Africa is doomed to one way or another always be a slave trade state, Poland will always be doomed to be split between two greater countries.
Well Poland would have had a very big head start so I'd imagine they'd be a very large Empire before the others. Also the Mongols basically were nothing after Genghis Khan's death and ran out of resources by the time they hit the Levant so they wouldn't be much competition.
You also have to remember things like the battle of Tours, where an outnumbered European force was able to kill up to 6x as many Muslims and force them out of western Europe almost for good. It probably wouldn't have been unlikely that Poland would've eventually expanded, conquering a lot of Europe. In turn revolutions could've been likely, and some other European nations could exist. It would be almost a second dark age. Regardless, this would've hurt technological advancements due to there not really being a renaissance era until sometime in the 1800s or 1900s.
Great History no.The plague was still there.
+White Porl Yeh but