What if the Black Death Never Happened?

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  • The Black Death killed over 100 million people. It changed the course of Europe's destiny. What would have happened if the Black Death never occurred? Here is one scenario.
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  • @fatmanwalking8610
    @fatmanwalking8610 Před 4 lety +2832

    **Literally anything happens in history**
    Jews: *_Current objective: survive_*

    • @hatinmyselfiscool2879
      @hatinmyselfiscool2879 Před 4 lety +13

      What what happened in the israeli conflict then :-:

    • @user-kt1st4uu9x
      @user-kt1st4uu9x Před 4 lety +76

      jews have to wash hands before eating and pray, its a religious commendment.

    • @c1berserker744
      @c1berserker744 Před 4 lety +32

      It even says in the Bible that a lot of bad things will happen to Israel.

    • @eagleowl833
      @eagleowl833 Před 3 lety +6

      Put that in the Bible 😂

    • @juliethompson8208
      @juliethompson8208 Před 3 lety +8

      @@c1berserker744 but notably only the bible. Wouldnt use the bible as your only source

  • @alphacat77
    @alphacat77 Před 7 lety +1222

    #ripjimmythepeseant

  • @Altoclarinets
    @Altoclarinets Před 4 lety +1347

    "almost an entire century without a deadly plague"
    *Welp*

    • @stueyk
      @stueyk Před 3 lety +19

      What was that about a plague?

    • @jjammmees
      @jjammmees Před 3 lety +5

      @@stueyk spanish flu

    • @stueyk
      @stueyk Před 3 lety +17

      @@jjammmees Was joking because it was posted just before this pandemic

    • @triblast9538
      @triblast9538 Před 3 lety +8

      @@stueyk it’s so funny that their joking about the Spanish flu when now we have *COUGH* CORONA *COUGH*

    • @pabloveloso7736
      @pabloveloso7736 Před 3 lety +12

      @@blazingfish8486 Sadly, with the new variants of the virus, thats not longer the case.

  • @pointlessopinion611
    @pointlessopinion611 Před 6 lety +1439

    7:08
    "When I'm done half of humanity will still exist, perfectly balanced. As all things should be."
    Thanos

    • @billyherrington5112
      @billyherrington5112 Před 5 lety +21

      the plot of the film does not coincide with the comic canon. In comic book, Thanos want to murder the entire universe, because he loved death, and he intented to impress her.

    • @neonlux1362
      @neonlux1362 Před 5 lety +19

      I had a hard time watching that. Like....you KNOW its monsterous what Thanos did....but at the same time.....less people....soooooooooooooooooo....and I mean....its not discriminatory....so equal oppertunity death for all. No single group is spared......honestly....its fair.....problem is that Thanos never seemed to realize culling humanity and all other races of being would be a stop gap measure. In time they would all come back to full strength....long after Thanos was dead and unable to cull again....so basically hes just taking out half of the population of the universe for.....no....reason.

    • @happydemon3038
      @happydemon3038 Před 5 lety +9

      Actually, many civilizations would start seeing themselves overpopulate by that point, natural instincts not being compatible with advanced progress.
      If he had instead created more resources, aka. reward a bad behavior. People would continue, maybe more so, because they'll be rewarded again.
      But he killed half of everyone. He punished a bad behavior, overly harsh, but still, an example. And he didn't spare any one group, everyone was punished, everyone learns their lesson. People don't want this to happen again, so they'll keep their numbers manageable.
      If they don't learn their lesson, then they'll repopulate and exterminate themselves. Natural selection. But he gave the intelligent a chance to learn.
      It is cruel, but it works. Better solutions may exist. But it is a solution.

    • @carsoncasmirri3874
      @carsoncasmirri3874 Před 5 lety +4

      pointless opinion it’s almost as if scenarios like this and people who have such draconian views were the inspiration for his character

    • @happydemon3038
      @happydemon3038 Před 5 lety

      @themesongfan No, they'd keep their population manageable because they just got punished from up high. They can't justify it being targeted at them if everyone suffers equally, friend or foe, rich or poor. And they'd do it for the sake of their kin. Because as a general rule, people want their children to prosper.
      And if they choose to squander this opportunity, they'll die. They were given a chance, but refused to take it. That just means they'd keep consuming no matter what.
      The problem is over-consumption. You don't solve over-consumption by encouraging consumption. If they're punished, they'll try to find out why they got punished, so they can avoid it. If they continue their behavior, then they're unfit for survival, and nature will run it's course.
      And if they're so disproportionately powerful that they can wage war and gain (civilizations set up webs of alliances because they work), then they'd do it anyway, snap or not.

  • @InquisitorThomas
    @InquisitorThomas Před 8 lety +1536

    Ironically Justinian actually survived the plague

    • @AlternateHistoryHub
      @AlternateHistoryHub  Před 8 lety +237

      +Thomas Scally Coincidence? I think nay

    • @InquisitorThomas
      @InquisitorThomas Před 8 lety +107

      +AlternateHistoryHub well he still got it and went into a coma he was just one of the only people to wake up and recover from the disease

    • @timcondon5184
      @timcondon5184 Před 8 lety +17

      +AlternateHistoryHub what if the Golden Horde never broke up because of the family issues it had, where one of them got to power hungry and the other got to suspicious of each other. What if they actually got along perfectly?

    • @declankearns1916
      @declankearns1916 Před 8 lety +40

      #justiniandidtheplauge

    • @wellingtonharris4536
      @wellingtonharris4536 Před 8 lety +4

      +AlternateHistoryHub ¿what Spanish flu never happened?

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub  Před 8 lety +3826

    *cough*

  • @MatsRivel
    @MatsRivel Před 6 lety +758

    Funfact: Despite having an even more spread out and isolated society than the rest Europe, Norway lost 70-75% of its population. To this day "Abandoned farm" is a very common last name in Norway. (Ødegård)

    • @r.chamaemorus8025
      @r.chamaemorus8025 Před 5 lety +13

      I would guess the northern parts survived best. I think it would be harder for the plauge to spread in colder climates. But maybe the people there was so dependent on trade so they could not avoid it.

    • @2urhc229
      @2urhc229 Před 4 lety +1

      So Norway would become richer earleir

    • @bradleyheck7204
      @bradleyheck7204 Před 4 lety +1

      Every bit as fun as the plays of Henrik Ibsen! That IS terribly interesting, though.

    • @Quincius
      @Quincius Před 4 lety +5

      @@r.chamaemorus8025 Yeah, Trondheim and especially Bergen were crucial trading centers in Northern Europe. Bergen still ended up as one of the largest cities in Scandinavia throughout the 15th and 16th centuries.

    • @youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575
      @youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575 Před 3 lety +10

      Norway was actually experiencing a golden age before the Plague. Trade increased, Population tripled, and peace, but then the Black Death hit like a truck.

  • @timhalliday5839
    @timhalliday5839 Před 4 lety +511

    I like how youtube decides now is the perfect time to suggest this to me:
    Here I am listening to the words "The world has gone a century without a horrific plague", while quarantined in my house due to the coronavirus

    • @rapperdonut
      @rapperdonut Před 3 lety +3

      @Ethan Steel exactly :)

    • @underthependulum3484
      @underthependulum3484 Před 3 lety +6

      Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!

    • @dumbskeppy69
      @dumbskeppy69 Před 3 lety +2

      @@underthependulum3484 what

    • @gVert404
      @gVert404 Před 3 lety +10

      good thing it has a 99.8% recovery rate so theres an extremely low chance you die even if u get it

    • @craftsncreations1398
      @craftsncreations1398 Před 3 lety +3

      @@gVert404 if this is true or not, at the end of the day people are still dying. I would rather stay inside than run the risk of my grandmother, parents, etc dying.

  • @andreideregla8218
    @andreideregla8218 Před 7 lety +354

    5:15
    "the king of France even believed that it was the alignment of the planets. Oh France"
    *made me dying* *LOL*

  • @redsea1234
    @redsea1234 Před 8 lety +457

    Those console players truly went through a lot.

  • @dannyishii3160
    @dannyishii3160 Před 4 lety +137

    On the Mongols launching their plague dead into the enemy city:
    I just want to imagine the launchee NOT being dead first. The fleas will leave a dead body, after all, but not one five days into a seven day inevitable death. So, Mongol warrior struck down by horrid disease blisters, go out with a bang! Use the last of your strength to climb into the catapult arm, and let loose a battle cry as you fly over the rampart, on your way to becoming a flea-shrapnel grenade.

    • @thomastakesatollforthedark2231
      @thomastakesatollforthedark2231 Před 4 lety +1

      @WithAStick AngryWhiteMan ohhhhh yeaaaddss~

    • @DigiMaverickWorld0rder1155
      @DigiMaverickWorld0rder1155 Před 3 lety +3

      Okay, I definitely got a laugh outta this idea.

    • @peterwindhorst5775
      @peterwindhorst5775 Před 3 lety +4

      The Japanese in WW2 had the same idea. They had developed a flea-bomb in China / Korea that spread the plague. Had the US gone further and farther into the home islands - it is likely they would have used the bomb. Fortunately, the US had its own bomb... and the flea bomb "disappeared" into the US military arsenal.

    • @__-yz1ob
      @__-yz1ob Před 3 lety +4

      @@peterwindhorst5775
      If I remember correctly, it wasnt a exactly a bomb but fleas laced with germs,
      The operation was called "Cherry Blossoms at Night" And was supposed to take place on 27th August 1945

    • @dylanzlol7293
      @dylanzlol7293 Před rokem

      Wouldnt it hurt a lot when you are launched to the enemy city?

  • @AgentOz1990
    @AgentOz1990 Před 4 lety +497

    "The western world has gone almost a century with a catastrophic deadly plague"
    Coronavirus: *C-C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER*

    • @thecrispydingle4202
      @thecrispydingle4202 Před 3 lety +19

      It’s not some catastrophic plague like super virus every smartass ever seems to think you can look that not even 1 million people have died and more than half of the people who got it have recovered and the cdc says that 94% of their Covid-19 diagnosis’s could be caused by underlying heath conditions look at the facts before you post

    • @amar2394
      @amar2394 Před 3 lety +13

      @@thecrispydingle4202 we are still considered to be in a pandemic even if the virus isn't that deadly its self

    • @voidwalker9746
      @voidwalker9746 Před 3 lety +12

      @@thecrispydingle4202 1)take a joke, 2) it's still classed a pandemic because it's worldwide

    • @underthependulum3484
      @underthependulum3484 Před 3 lety +3

      Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!

    • @sagetheassassin3192
      @sagetheassassin3192 Před 3 lety

      Awesome

  • @BDKing77
    @BDKing77 Před 7 lety +1206

    Oh shit...

  • @meateater2180
    @meateater2180 Před 6 lety +1386

    If the Black Death never occurred I wouldn't be watching this video.

  • @blacktea908
    @blacktea908 Před 4 lety +69

    “Almost gone for a century without plagues”
    Emphasis on “almost”

    • @captainayaaya28
      @captainayaaya28 Před 3 lety +1

      At least it isn’t as bad as the previous ones right? I mean, it hopefully and most likely won’t last a decade.

    • @matusmotlo3854
      @matusmotlo3854 Před 3 lety +1

      @@captainayaaya28 And come on, how many people are dying? A fraction of a percent? Now, what is that compared to the roughly 50% of the Justinian one, and 1/3 of the Black Death? Nothing, they wouldn't even notice this "pandemic" in the Middle Ages.

    • @uriargaman7241
      @uriargaman7241 Před 3 lety +2

      This pandemic doesn't compare to the black death, it's true. But the circumstances that enabled Covid-19 to rise will enable the same for deadlier pathogens... Even a Spanish Flu-scale pandemic would be very traumatic.

    • @Marcelelias11
      @Marcelelias11 Před 2 lety

      @@uriargaman7241 Ideally, no it wouldn't, but this pandemic proved that people are so dumb and stubborn to refuse wearing a fucking mask that I'm not really surprised by anything anymore

  • @halehortler147
    @halehortler147 Před 7 lety +1597

    Dank memes, by far the biggest killer, I remember those days, I lived inside of a coke bottle and ate 1 mouldy bread crust per week. Terrible times

  • @eaglecohort5259
    @eaglecohort5259 Před 8 lety +357

    Says there hasn't been a major plague in the last century, mentions dank memes a minute later. The virus is evolving. The infected no longer see it as the enemy. Soon we will all be the dank memes. The end times are near, and the horsememes of apocalypse ride.

    • @fortress5278
      @fortress5278 Před 8 lety +1

      +Eagle Cohort I am dank meme. You will fall to our mighty memes.

    • @zerathius7131
      @zerathius7131 Před 8 lety

      +CalmDark ironic memes

    • @Tytoalba777
      @Tytoalba777 Před 8 lety +4

      There's only one way to cure it: You must recognize a fact that no one else seems to realize, that Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life

    • @fortress5278
      @fortress5278 Před 8 lety

      James A Clouder
      It is but one strain of all meme kind. We will attack, we will evolve, and we will kill

    • @dutch1641
      @dutch1641 Před 8 lety

      pretty sure im immune to dank memes

  • @PigIA
    @PigIA Před 4 lety +7

    0:05 About that...

  • @JenniferJones-hw9wu
    @JenniferJones-hw9wu Před 5 lety +18

    Two thoughts. 1. There is some theory that the 1347 plague was so virulent because anthrax was also experiencing an outbreak at the same time. And there is a difference between bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. Pneumonia can be passed from one to another simply through coughing. Cats can even transmit in that way to humans. 2. Don't forget the impact that The Little Ice Age had on Western Europe at that same time. The ramifications of that event were also far reaching for the future of Western civilization. Great video and great topic!

  • @jacksonpaul7279
    @jacksonpaul7279 Před 8 lety +367

    What if America sided with the Axis during World War 1-2?

    • @monsta1359
      @monsta1359 Před 8 lety +61

      Axis would have won without question. Britain survived on the supplies that came from the Lend-Lease Act. The Soviet Union caught a break from the Lend-Lease act as well, they used American Shermans and half tracks while they allocated their factories and workforce to produce an unstoppable war machine.

    • @Xtremedude720
      @Xtremedude720 Před 8 lety +2

      bump

    • @robertallen488
      @robertallen488 Před 8 lety +1

      +Jackson Paul end of the world

    • @bimblerthomson7417
      @bimblerthomson7417 Před 8 lety +10

      +chiken that's not how CZcams works

    • @carsonkundolf3448
      @carsonkundolf3448 Před 8 lety +9

      Well, America (LOVING FREEDOM) I don't think they would defend a dictatorship or betray some of there alies. BUT if they did help the axis powers, well we would probably be in WW 3 or 4.

  • @xerohr
    @xerohr Před 8 lety +262

    I feel like it would trigger exploration much quicker, to find new farm land and resources to sustain the growing population, technically technologically advancing us by a century or two.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos Před 8 lety +24

      Yeah, what he is saying is crap imho. I mean, many historians agree that the black death was what delayed the Renaissance in Italy (Renaissance began in Italy before the rest of Europe and actually before the black death: the first cities were devastated, leaving only Florence to spread it a long time later).
      I think it's kind of ridiculous to think the exact opposite would happen, but well.

    • @xerohr
      @xerohr Před 8 lety +1

      xenotypos Sorry to offend.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos Před 8 lety +4

      zoidBergh
      ?
      a misunderstanding? I agree with you you, I just don't understand how the guys from the video came to their unlikely conclusion, since it's been etablished that the renaissance began sooner.

    • @covert8883
      @covert8883 Před 8 lety +4

      +xenotypos well starvation would still be a massive problem. More mouths to feed. Europe could only sustain so much.

    • @EmperorDonaldJTrump
      @EmperorDonaldJTrump Před 8 lety +8

      Would it also be considered that Kingdoms would declare war on North African and Oriental Kingdoms to put their ever expanding population?

  • @jordmanbatgod
    @jordmanbatgod Před 4 lety +14

    0:09
    Coronavirus be like: *I’m about to end this man’s whole career*

  • @tkgsg
    @tkgsg Před 4 lety +33

    Guy in 2720: what if the COVID pandemic had never occurred

  • @usmc-ws6hl
    @usmc-ws6hl Před 8 lety +132

    please do a alternate history on what if the U.S. never declared war on terrorism

  • @Spieler521
    @Spieler521 Před 7 lety +306

    What if Black Death never happened? This video wouldn't exist

  • @How23497
    @How23497 Před 3 lety +15

    "We've almost went 100 years without a catastrophic, deadly plague"
    This aged badly

  • @AverySkies
    @AverySkies Před 4 lety +206

    *2029: What If Covid-19 Never Happened*

    • @thetake-geopolitics4961
      @thetake-geopolitics4961 Před 3 lety +4

      that would be cool id watch that

    • @janisliepins1991
      @janisliepins1991 Před 3 lety

      yea

    • @Xanny7777
      @Xanny7777 Před 3 lety +8

      Honestly not much would change but the economy. And trump might win re-election.

    • @jimboonie9885
      @jimboonie9885 Před 3 lety

      @@Xanny7777 Dude Biden was officially inaugurated. There’s no going back and trump may face lawsuits

    • @no-np8dw
      @no-np8dw Před 3 lety +6

      He's talking about in the alternate timeline you idiot

  • @johnfrommanagement6037
    @johnfrommanagement6037 Před 8 lety +674

    It's all Ogre now

  • @tasos6429
    @tasos6429 Před 8 lety +179

    What if Alexander the Great didn't die young?

    • @b.sapounas5110
      @b.sapounas5110 Před 8 lety +10

      YESSS

    • @RRRoyalGames
      @RRRoyalGames Před 8 lety +1

      +Τάσος Κορωνιός He would take Arabia then go west and conquer Rome.

    • @nicholaslonnon7509
      @nicholaslonnon7509 Před 8 lety +5

      +Spiniosa I'm not sure Rome was around during the time, and the fact that he stopped expanding wasn't only due to the fact he died young he also was tired of bloodshed

    • @RRRoyalGames
      @RRRoyalGames Před 8 lety +1

      Cole Lonnon
      rome was founded before christ 753.

    • @stannisthebaptist8705
      @stannisthebaptist8705 Před 8 lety +1

      +Spiniosa It was only a small town at that time ,pretty meaningless

  • @MrVTEC20
    @MrVTEC20 Před 4 lety +11

    Bro who’s watching in 2020?

  • @AnjelCaido69
    @AnjelCaido69 Před 4 lety +7

    0:06 you jinxed us

  • @genericweeaboo1389
    @genericweeaboo1389 Před 8 lety +115

    Those fucking plague doctors. They freak the hell out of me. I have nightmares about them all the time.

    • @mlalbaitero
      @mlalbaitero Před 8 lety +5

      They look kinda scary, but not enough to give me nightmares

    • @CyoAFK
      @CyoAFK Před 8 lety

      Wat

    • @juliank6793
      @juliank6793 Před 8 lety +5

      +Generic Weeaboo The worst part is that they weren't actual doctors. They were just people that wanted to prove they could be doctors -_-

    • @franksinatra2624
      @franksinatra2624 Před 8 lety +2

      Ring around the Rosie...ring around the Rosie...☠ (yes that song is about the plague doctors, they had roses in their masks to help keep the smell of the dead away from them as they worked)

    • @ghostlobster2365
      @ghostlobster2365 Před 8 lety +3

      +Generic Weeaboo It scares you because they scared the peasants too. Our fear of crow like men and distrust in doctors can be traced back to the back plague. This infection influenced European culture at levels that a Europe without the plague is unimaginable at times.

  • @Jason-mg3fk
    @Jason-mg3fk Před 7 lety +185

    Anyone else catch the "the mongols are always the exception" joke, crash course and real life lore, two blessings in the world

  • @lordshoulderbash3273
    @lordshoulderbash3273 Před 4 lety +12

    Watching this in 2020. Feels weirdly current

  • @maxcarroll9487
    @maxcarroll9487 Před 4 lety +70

    "...has gone a century without a horrific plague."
    Coronavirus: Am I a joke to you?

    • @lennysmileyface
      @lennysmileyface Před 4 lety

      RIP

    • @Hello-sy7eu
      @Hello-sy7eu Před 4 lety +4

      Max Carroll No offense but it is just a buffed modern day flu we can survive it

    • @Gorou350
      @Gorou350 Před 4 lety +2

      Max Carroll its made before the coronavirus dummy

    • @josephgravley3603
      @josephgravley3603 Před 4 lety +3

      Except compared to the Black Death it kinda is.

    • @roqu0794
      @roqu0794 Před 4 lety

      @@Hello-sy7eu it's got so much worse

  • @Seetiyan
    @Seetiyan Před 7 lety +58

    "You wouldn't be a peasant living on a farm, today."
    True. In our timeline, you're a peasant living in the city instead.

    • @Mekalor
      @Mekalor Před 4 lety +1

      I work on an IT farm! :D

  • @Aiden_Volgs
    @Aiden_Volgs Před 7 lety +466

    JIMMY WHY

    • @Igxana
      @Igxana Před 6 lety +6

      Ikr

    • @gregorymacdonnell7914
      @gregorymacdonnell7914 Před 6 lety +3

      Dude ,imagine walking down a trash ridden sstreet,full of guts from the butc her shop,horse shit ,rotting food,and people throwing their "chamber pots out the window ,right down on your head!? Nice day!!!!!

    • @jm-gj2ho
      @jm-gj2ho Před 6 lety

      Aiden's Volgs I DON'T KNOW!!!

    • @DeeRadens
      @DeeRadens Před 6 lety +1

      God damn it Jimmy!

    • @travelmaniak3127
      @travelmaniak3127 Před 6 lety

      Wait overpopulation means Eroupe has the highest population of 3 billion and the world 10 billion so..the world experiences overpopulation

  • @Dagothslur
    @Dagothslur Před 3 lety +23

    "Where we have gone a century without a horrific plague"
    That didn't age well

  • @japanamericacar427
    @japanamericacar427 Před 4 lety +6

    0:10
    you got us there

  • @JustYourAverageRetro
    @JustYourAverageRetro Před 8 lety +79

    So, what your saying is that Europe would become India or China.

    • @Iarlen
      @Iarlen Před 8 lety +3

      +JustYourAverageRetro China would be far superior, as it was.

    • @chromitehertz9016
      @chromitehertz9016 Před 8 lety

      yep

    • @TheNutmeg33
      @TheNutmeg33 Před 8 lety +5

      Maybe Asia would have colonized the Americas then

    • @jommydavi2197
      @jommydavi2197 Před 8 lety +8

      +JokingGuyMapping 1342 Great joke now go vote Trump

    • @moctezuma1341
      @moctezuma1341 Před 8 lety

      +JustYourAverageRetro how you make no sense

  • @guyonacomputer1261
    @guyonacomputer1261 Před 8 lety +129

    What if the Germans Refused to honor the alliance with Japan after Pearl Harbor? So rather than join WWII the US fights Japan alone and lets the European Conflict sort itself out.

    • @TheRageBlak
      @TheRageBlak Před 8 lety

      This

    • @robertallen488
      @robertallen488 Před 8 lety +2

      +Guy On A Computer The US wanted to stop the Nazis already we wouldve fabricated some BS and went to war

    • @mattbenz99
      @mattbenz99 Před 8 lety +17

      +Robert Allen Incorrect. The president wanted to fight the Nazis, Congress wanted to stay neutral. FDR was desperately reaching for anything that he could do to help the allies.

    • @curiouswraith8069
      @curiouswraith8069 Před 8 lety

      but remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

    • @Z4Official
      @Z4Official Před 8 lety +1

      +Robert Allen Actually before PH the US was gonna stay out of it... other than the arms dealing... huh sounds familair...

  • @KaiserKosako
    @KaiserKosako Před 3 lety +8

    That Intro didn't age well

  • @raeb8017
    @raeb8017 Před 5 lety

    thank you for providing info about a question i didn’t know i’ve always wanted to know!!😂😂

  • @nathantoast9793
    @nathantoast9793 Před 7 lety +58

    My aunt died from dank memes... XD

    • @J_Leb
      @J_Leb Před 6 lety +2

      Nathan Toast im sorry for your loss

  • @morgand820
    @morgand820 Před 8 lety +515

    What if the Byzantine Empire had never been destroyed by the Turks?

    • @xyzqwth
      @xyzqwth Před 8 lety +22

      +Ilias Haqiqi your grammar makes my soul hurt

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 Před 8 lety +26

      +The exe Virus he's propably türk

    • @robertwlester
      @robertwlester Před 8 lety +1

      +Morgan Dignowity wasn't the plague a key factor there too?

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 Před 8 lety +2

      Robert W. Lester plague somehow missed ottomans?

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 Před 8 lety

      I don't think so

  • @HandleMyBallsYouTube
    @HandleMyBallsYouTube Před 5 lety +6

    ''Even half of the clergy died''
    I remember one m2tw playtrough, I was playing the Teutonics, and I was producing new popes every turn because they all kept dying from the plague, it was a great time.

  • @BroMaxIII
    @BroMaxIII Před 2 lety +1

    Thanks for Jynxing us Cody.

  • @Necrikus
    @Necrikus Před 7 lety +262

    Wait a second... Mongol + "exception"? Cue the Mongoltage?
    "After the pillaging and conquest"
    Close enough.

    • @claremurphy5901
      @claremurphy5901 Před 7 lety +26

      Necrikus WE ARE THE EXCEPTION!!!!

    • @suis1822
      @suis1822 Před 7 lety +24

      "Except the mongols"

    • @B4nk624GL
      @B4nk624GL Před 7 lety

      Necrikus we'd have 11 billion population now but we have 7 billion!?!?

    • @danielwebber4953
      @danielwebber4953 Před 6 lety

      not crash course ;)

  • @uncouth_wombat7752
    @uncouth_wombat7752 Před 8 lety +24

    The "Black Death" was more than just bubonic plague.. It was a mixture of pneumonic plague (which is transmitted from person to person via microscopic saliva droplets expelled during coughing) and septamatic plague as well as bubonic plague.. In fact pneumonic plague would've been the most prominent variation in cities like London and Paris.

  • @lukascepanovic3609
    @lukascepanovic3609 Před 3 lety +1

    What a time to be listening to this kind of video

  • @PockASqueeno
    @PockASqueeno Před 4 lety +41

    “Where the western world has gone almost a century without a catastrophic, deadly plague.”
    Who’s watching this in 2020? Oh the irony…

  • @i.j.m._s4409
    @i.j.m._s4409 Před 7 lety +164

    do alternate history on what if the U.S. never declared war on terrorism

    • @singletona082
      @singletona082 Před 7 lety +5

      Already happened on the 'what if 9/11 never happened' video.

    • @i.j.m._s4409
      @i.j.m._s4409 Před 7 lety +1

      ohhhh okay!

    • @ahappydolphin937
      @ahappydolphin937 Před 7 lety +3

      The U.S. is a leading terrorist state lol. Come with the hate already and I know you have a whole shit load of that.

    • @ahappydolphin937
      @ahappydolphin937 Před 7 lety +1

      Nuna Im savage.

    • @ahappydolphin937
      @ahappydolphin937 Před 7 lety +1

      No Im 16 and capable of critical thinking.

  • @robertgronewold3326
    @robertgronewold3326 Před 8 lety +44

    Actually, they did not have such terrible sanitation back in those days. They never took baths that often, but they did wash up with a basin of water and a cloth every day, and even had methods of cleaning their teeth. The reason we now think they were all gross and unkept is because movies and books always like to show the peasants as being dirty to enforce how poor they are.

    • @noveseth2863
      @noveseth2863 Před 8 lety +3

      Dirty pleb

    • @kobilibero6007
      @kobilibero6007 Před 8 lety +15

      +Robert Gronewold You're half right, well more like 90% right...
      I completely agree with all of your statements however the reason their sanitation
      was horrible wasn't mainly about their human sanitation, but with their animal
      sanitation (Go go cow poop all over the place).
      A filthy human can get sick and die, but only a mutated cow-poop (or any kind
      of animal poop) virus could spark a pandemic.

    • @robertgronewold3326
      @robertgronewold3326 Před 8 lety

      +Kobi Libero That is very true. They were quite good at cleaning up manure and carting it around, but that still left them with a lot of contact with it.

    • @TheYopogo
      @TheYopogo Před 8 lety +3

      +Robert Gronewold And they hardly had great sewage systems.

    • @Magicarpmaster
      @Magicarpmaster Před 8 lety +4

      Didnt they just shit in buckets and toss it out the window?

  • @legoleviathan6411
    @legoleviathan6411 Před 3 lety +8

    “And gone almost a century without a horrific plague.”
    Coronavirus: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.

  • @jyamez9069
    @jyamez9069 Před 4 lety +9

    The intro didn’t age well

  • @bluestrife28
    @bluestrife28 Před 8 lety +6

    Man I love your videos. I've sometimes looked through my books and wondered "what if's" of my own, but to see them appear places like this, too cool. Thanks!

  • @XPimKossibleX
    @XPimKossibleX Před 8 lety +11

    Now, you've missed something drastic: Newton. The man was talking a break from the work because the university was closed down for the black death. This was when he came up with his ideas of physics.
    Isaac Newton was a case of when one man changes history and not many. That's because he was both way ahead of his time, and had an influence. He Is the inventor of classical physics and calculus!
    it does also seem non-developed to think that this means Newton wouldn't have come up with these ideas anyway; but it is a major idea gaining traction that historical geniuses do their genius work in times when they take a break from work.

  • @aaronrussell8362
    @aaronrussell8362 Před 6 lety

    I love the vids. Keep up the good work

  • @noahhorner231
    @noahhorner231 Před 5 lety +27

    The time Europe got Thanos-snapped.

  • @hensbinator5060
    @hensbinator5060 Před 8 lety +26

    "1+1= Anti-Semitism"
    Cody, 2016

  • @kal3lll
    @kal3lll Před 8 lety +27

    That Crash course reference :D I live this channel

    • @kal3lll
      @kal3lll Před 8 lety +1

      Love*

    • @yellow9053
      @yellow9053 Před 8 lety

      +Clark Frederick live*

    • @joee7809
      @joee7809 Před 8 lety

      +Clark Frederick *live

    • @MikeMafiaII
      @MikeMafiaII Před 8 lety

      +Clark Frederick Didn't notice one, around what time?

    • @kal3lll
      @kal3lll Před 8 lety +1

      Mike dN 2:22
      :D

  • @armergamer2179
    @armergamer2179 Před 3 lety +10

    “Has gone a century without a horrific plague”.
    Goddam it Potential History you jinxed us

  • @Ramzuiv
    @Ramzuiv Před 4 lety +8

    2016: "Good job, us!"
    2020 says hi

  • @megk761
    @megk761 Před 8 lety +63

    crash cours refrence YESSSSSSS

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye Před 8 lety +1

      +JayOnTheBeat It was around 2:20, where the Mongols are noted to be the "exception",

    • @Ticazoid95
      @Ticazoid95 Před 8 lety

      👍

    • @Chris_7103
      @Chris_7103 Před 8 lety

      Which Crash Course episode was it referencing from?

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye Před 8 lety +1

      ***** It's more loads of the. The Mongols being the "exception" was common feature in that series.

    • @panosjuanis
      @panosjuanis Před 8 lety

      +Ollie Bye (History) love ur vids man!

  • @jageroo29
    @jageroo29 Před 7 lety +113

    Well if it never happened reaper from overwatch wouldnt have that plague doctor skin

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 Před 7 lety

      Neither would medic from tf2

    • @omidtajik7858
      @omidtajik7858 Před 7 lety +6

      We wouldn't probably even have games yet.

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 Před 7 lety +2

      Omid Tajik Most interesting hypothesis, care to elaborate? I personally assume that we would have video games already, maybe not as advanced yet, but still have them

    • @omidtajik7858
      @omidtajik7858 Před 7 lety +1

      aleksi häkli Anything can be possible :D

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 Před 7 lety +2

      Omid Tajik SWEET! Okay i wan't that my pc's graphic card instantly upgrades from 1060 to 1080 NOW! Didn't happen... F*ck

  • @krisgomez3997
    @krisgomez3997 Před 2 lety +2

    "almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague" aged like fine milk

  • @antony-k
    @antony-k Před 4 lety +33

    Soon we will see a "What if the coronavirus outbreak never happened"

    • @masonpyle5929
      @masonpyle5929 Před 3 lety +1

      I know. If corona never happened, I wouldn’t of had a texting debate with my cousin on it. 2020 would be better because the world doesn’t shut down. Toilet paper companies wouldn’t be getting a raise, less memes, , people would still be sane since quarantine doesn’t happen, the XFL 2.0 doesn’t go bankrupt, CHAZ/CHOP probably won’t exist, and rumors of a second American Civil War probably won’t exist.

    • @jjammmees
      @jjammmees Před 3 lety

      i wouldnt be replying to this comment

    • @nxdeflowers
      @nxdeflowers Před 2 lety

      Corona has been in many different forms, this was just the many diseases to come from china, so basically there will always be covid in different ways

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 Před rokem

      @@masonpyle5929 honestly i think the world needed the lockdown

  • @alexcaswell2
    @alexcaswell2 Před 8 lety +97

    Kingdom of space bears: JAN MAYEN! thebearhaslanded! I spy with my little eyes an EU4 reference?

  • @garnetportal4784
    @garnetportal4784 Před 7 lety +10

    "The King of France believed it was the planets aligning. Oh France" Best line of the video

  • @cebonvieuxjack
    @cebonvieuxjack Před 4 lety +4

    0:05 aaaaaand spoke too soon.

  • @thekommunistkrusader3921
    @thekommunistkrusader3921 Před 4 lety +3

    "Its been nearly a century since the last plague" god damn it cody

  • @Tytoalba777
    @Tytoalba777 Před 8 lety +72

    3:57 still impossible to infect Madagascar

  • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
    @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 Před 7 lety +166

    Good thing we have an cure for the Black Death, and that it's super rare too! Boy, I love being born in the 2000s!

    • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
      @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 Před 7 lety +10

      Aaah 50's cereal commercials

    • @GeorgiaJCP
      @GeorgiaJCP Před 7 lety +18

      except there is still a problem with over population that nobody will be able to fix that gets worse and worse by the day :(

    • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
      @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 Před 7 lety

      Aw crap, no cereal

    • @benjaminward3912
      @benjaminward3912 Před 7 lety +5

      Stikbot Shorts And Movies! We still have a problem... Memes.

    • @julianfletcher1912
      @julianfletcher1912 Před 7 lety +1

      Stikbot Shorts And Movies! You still get diseases on Earth? We haven't had a disease in Atlantis in.... Well we never have had to worry about diseases. No, what do humans call them... Bacteria or viruses or whatever you call them, can survive on or in us.

  • @simonpugh3731
    @simonpugh3731 Před 9 měsíci +2

    "The world has gone a century without a horrific plague!"
    Well that aged like my homemade wine.

  • @gpmusic6042
    @gpmusic6042 Před rokem +2

    "almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plunge" welp that aged well

  • @M0rshu64
    @M0rshu64 Před 8 lety +47

    What if the Mongols never went on their conquest.
    What if Stalin Never came to power.

    • @Master_3530
      @Master_3530 Před 8 lety

      What if Lenin didn't come to power and USSR never existed? That'd also mean no communism.

    • @nedgleed7880
      @nedgleed7880 Před 8 lety +1

      +Damian Strupiechowski he already did that

    • @Trueysmir996
      @Trueysmir996 Před 8 lety

      What if world war 1 never happened

    • @ungureanubogdan2398
      @ungureanubogdan2398 Před 8 lety

      +Damian Strupiechowski i'd rather take lenin still leading ussr still sucks but way better

    • @daman1209
      @daman1209 Před 8 lety

      If trotsky came to power instead of stalin he would've supported international communism more. Countries like spain would've likely become communist instead of facist. In Germany the communist party competed closely with the national socialists. If trotsky was in power she would've bank supported a communist take over of germany potentially altering the entire history of world war 2. That said though the USSR ecnomically would likely be worse of as trotsky would sacrafice russain progress in exchange for the spread of communism. Militiarily it is debatable because Stalin and his supporters were better generals but troksy is unlikely to have ever purged the officer cores of the USSR meaning if a war did come around the USSR would've been better prepared. Overal however i think the USSR would've been better off under trotsky. The Germans argueably wouldn't have pushed into Russia as much if hitler still came to power because there would'v been competent soviet officers to counter an invasion because trosky wouldn't have purged the officer core.

  • @adisankar119
    @adisankar119 Před 7 lety +6

    The thing is, no trade between the Mongols and Europe would mean at least 75 million wouldn't have died, but gunpowder wouldn't have been traded, meaning no guns or delayed guns. Maybe less deaths.

    • @anon9579
      @anon9579 Před 7 lety

      By now Europe would be third world

  • @amberjeez7987
    @amberjeez7987 Před 3 lety +3

    Cody: What if the Black Death never happened.
    Medieval Poland: Heh.

  • @rubbishdefinitiongaming6436

    0:05 this hasn’t aged well 4 years on...

  • @Alistocrat
    @Alistocrat Před 8 lety +15

    1:03 An explosion factory? A factory that manufactures explosions? Do they explode the second they're made? Do they need a match to explode? You left me with more questions than answers my friend.

    • @IamNoisyroblot101
      @IamNoisyroblot101 Před 8 lety +1

      +Sprango An explosion factory creates the physical explosion, the explosion itself is then physically compressed into whatever the explosive is and that's how you were born.

    • @PoisoningShadow671
      @PoisoningShadow671 Před 8 lety

      +Sprango
      Torgue would be proud.

    • @Alistocrat
      @Alistocrat Před 8 lety +1

      ***** I see

  • @Delta-jc7og
    @Delta-jc7og Před 6 lety +61

    What do you do, *BLAME THE JEWS!!*

    • @nicerock5506
      @nicerock5506 Před 4 lety +1

      Auf Right doubt

    • @Snow-rp5tv
      @Snow-rp5tv Před 3 lety +1

      Maybe they shouldn't call for the genocide of Europeans? maybe they shouldn't call Jesus a Bastard Sourceror boiling if Human Feces?

    • @someone-js6pg
      @someone-js6pg Před 3 lety

      @Lazys The Dank Engineer not just hundreds but thousands

    • @Asprawlol
      @Asprawlol Před 3 lety

      @@Snow-rp5tv Genocide of europeans? They never called for that man. The Torah also predates jesus by a few thousand years

  • @paayton_2981
    @paayton_2981 Před 4 lety +13

    “The world has gone a century without a major plague” my my how the turn tables

    • @bagelfrrr
      @bagelfrrr Před 3 lety

      it isnt even a plague, its a virus

  • @gifyifhkhmcucyk6865
    @gifyifhkhmcucyk6865 Před 4 lety +3

    0:05 damn he jinxed it!

  • @tateadams4382
    @tateadams4382 Před 7 lety +17

    3:55 You mean Plague Inc?
    EDIT: Oh you were talking about the online Pandemic 2, I was thinking of the board game.

    • @kristdg
      @kristdg Před 6 lety

      Tate Adams board Game? wtf.

    • @hertogvandamme
      @hertogvandamme Před 6 lety

      KrisTDG
      Plague Inc has a Board Game now

  • @zackoshi605
    @zackoshi605 Před 6 lety +55

    Then SCP-049 wouldn't exist

    • @theoofensive5689
      @theoofensive5689 Před 6 lety +9

      Zackoshi I'm aware this is a joke, but the 'Plauge' It speaks of is in fact not the Bubonic plague OR the black death, the original writer of the SCP has not yet confirmed what the 'plauge' is.

    • @joshuaroblox7174
      @joshuaroblox7174 Před 6 lety +2

      DynamoShot The twat plague*

    • @LordBob
      @LordBob Před 5 lety +2

      @@theoofensive5689 it's homosexuality

    • @voidwalker9746
      @voidwalker9746 Před 3 lety +2

      @@LordBob ah yes the worst plague of them all, currently there is only one cure, it's metal and fired into a skull

  • @jasonmometto9690
    @jasonmometto9690 Před 4 lety +2

    0:07 this video hasn’t aged well

  • @DaAssman_YT
    @DaAssman_YT Před rokem +2

    0:05 this hasn't aged well...

  • @CodeDarkBlue
    @CodeDarkBlue Před 8 lety +38

    the people in these animations are so cute ;w;

  • @REIDAE
    @REIDAE Před 8 lety +46

    thumbnail looks like Excalibur from soul eater

  • @davidberidze5178
    @davidberidze5178 Před 2 lety +2

    The opening of this video aged HORRIBLY

  • @charlesshelton7989
    @charlesshelton7989 Před 4 lety +12

    1920: Spanish flu
    2020: coronavirus

  • @butterscience7016
    @butterscience7016 Před 7 lety +68

    DAMMIT JIMMY!

  • @glaz-eddonut8199
    @glaz-eddonut8199 Před 7 lety +6

    Fun fact: we are not completely certain that the "Black Death" was in fact the Bubonic Plauge

  • @SirSpiderPig
    @SirSpiderPig Před 3 lety

    “Always the exception” gotta love the crash course reference

  • @theferryman8549
    @theferryman8549 Před 3 lety +1

    “ Almost an entire decade without a plague” well... I think we broke our streak.

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 Před 7 lety +23

    "Dank memes."
    You think you're joking, but look at the contamination level on 4chan/pol/.

  • @WizardGeneral
    @WizardGeneral Před 8 lety +21

    I was half hoping he would pull a pun and say 1+1=Jew

    • @mattneuteboom2763
      @mattneuteboom2763 Před 8 lety +5

      +Sgt. Vodka Thought the exact same thing. I think it would have even made a better joke.

  • @AdamSmith-pp2rt
    @AdamSmith-pp2rt Před 5 lety +4

    4:42 imagine getting killed because you didn't die (and a decent hygiene)

  • @geekchic8798
    @geekchic8798 Před 3 lety +6

    "Where we have gone almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague."
    *4 years later: the beer virus happened.*
    Wow, that comment aged like milk.

  • @snowy3896
    @snowy3896 Před 8 lety +37

    What if the USA and USSR went to war during the Cold War?

    • @iPolitely
      @iPolitely Před 8 lety +17

      Dead

    • @hypochondriac3194
      @hypochondriac3194 Před 8 lety +8

      +Snowy 38
      Mutually Assured Destruction
      The entire Earth would be destroyed in a few hours.

    • @shadow50435
      @shadow50435 Před 8 lety +14

      1. WW3 (longer than ww1 and 2 combined.
      2. Nuclear war = Possible extinction.

    • @PeterWolniewicz
      @PeterWolniewicz Před 8 lety

      You die I die we all die. Literally imagine Hiroshima but1,00000 times worse and in every city, on the planet.

    • @cpMetis
      @cpMetis Před 8 lety

      +Snowy 38 X _ X