Comments by "HomerOJSimpson" (@Homer-OJ-Simpson) on "How Europe Stole Africa (so quickly)" video.

@Jashercapital Yes, that is why few empires if any lasted as long as the Romans. China is tricky because you basically had a bunch of different states in the region but all of the same culture ('Chinese') so when one got taken down, the replacement continued the culture. But Roman Republic and Empire basically held from 700BC or so to 1453 AD. But in terms of true power, they were probably from 250BC to 1200AD so that's better range if you want to include the Byzantines. Many of the historically popular Empires had a short stay as powerful empire before collapse. 100 - 300 years seems very common in the middle ages and before. Something's changed since the middle ages with many countries or states around in the 1500's still around today.
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@Oldmanplum The most powerful and advanced countries were able to come together and form a system that drastically decreased the amount of war and invasions in the world nearly 100 years ago because society evolved. The world mostly the same from 1000BC to 1400AD. Then there began to be more advance weapons and more support for ideas and thinking-- the renaissance. The progress was slow but you slowly saw early forms of capitalism that changed societies. Capitalism ideas likely spurred from the effects of the renaissance. Then the big changes happened with the Industrial revolution. People began to concentrate around cities creating more opportunity to share ideas. People also began to get wealthier and new industries meant less and less to Kings as people who weren't in the noble class began to become more influential and this included workers. With all these thoughts about democracy and rights, when WW2 happened and much of the world realized weapons were too powerful, they were in position to come together and forma a system that drastically decreased the amount of war and invasions. Wars of conquest all but disappeared in the west and other parts of the world. Most wars after that became wars over territorial rights among bordering stats or a civil war. And a lot of the civil wars were drawn along the lines of communist vs non-communist. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, those civil wars became far less common as communism began to die out. What did increase was the rise of Islamic groups starting civil wars and starting in 2011 a rise of the people against authoritarian governments such as the color revolutions. But it's the series of events that evolved society to get to the point where the world could decrease war.
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@tzenzhongguo Liberators? So terrorism is liberation? "Taiwan govt is puppet govt just like Japan & South Korea." You just mad that China's economy will never reach their level of per capita wealth. China's economy is STRUGGLING. The average Chinese will forever be much poorer than the Koreans, Taiwanese, Japanese. And defending Assad of Syria who dropped chemical weapons on his people?? nice...... It really does prove your values.
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@tzenzhongguo "all US friend nations are puppets " Of course Beijing worker would say. Beijing so upset that China economy doing so bad and average Chinese will be forever much poorer than South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
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@tzenzhongguo Yeah, world would have been better if Imperial Japan was allowed to keep China. I agree.
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@carlmunene Yeah, the most land that is conquered, the more deaths they tend to be. Mongolians were responsible for so many deaths because they fought many times in many different regions. If Europeans weren't the first to get the edge, we would still colonialism but from someone else.
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Johnny, this was perhaps the best of your "How X stole Y" episode. It was very on point with the facts, provided the right amount of context, and discussed some of the more nuanced issues like how many advancements in medicine came out the African colonies. And I love the ending...colonialism was brutal and terrible but many have learned from it and are trying to make progress as we move forward. Most of what I see as the best societal values generally comes from the west or Europe. By that I mean individual and human rights, civil rights for minority groups (including gender, sexual orientation, etc), democracy or just giving people power. What I do see lacking tend to be more personal values and parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America have something to share there, especially on the importance of close family ties. It does make me wonder what the world would be like if Soviet Union or Imperial Japan or some other current power like China were the ones influence values around the world.
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@tzenzhongguo You are right, China and Iran are models for the world. We need more oppression!
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@tzenzhongguo no, they are Middle East imperialist and East Asian imperialist
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@tzenzhongguo you are right, it's not like China is currently trying to steal the SCS from it's neighbors nor threatening to invade Taiwan. Not like Iran isn't involved in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen?
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@tzenzhongguo "Those individual human rights are immoral, " Yes, someone that supports dictators who drop chemical weapons on it's people and supports dictators that round up and sent millions to concentration camps (or "re-education" camps as Xi likes to call it ) would indeed say human rights are immoral.
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@tzenzhongguo Russia is wining yet they keep losing ground? And they have 100k casualties? Even if they were winning, winning doesn’t make right. But you support concentration camps and chemical weapons on civilians so that explains it all.
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@eski_truv Actually, a lot of those values were well before 25 years ago but certainly not 250 years ago. That's besides the points since yes, most of the values are from the past century or so and those values came at different time. Democracy, human rights, protesting, equality, etc. They may not have been given to the colonized but they arose from the colonial powers and when those colonies began to get their freedom, many of those rights were transferred either directly or indirectly. Hong Kong before 1997 when the UK handed it over to China had spent a couple decades before that using British type laws and democracy. Compare Hong Kong to China and you see exactly the point I and Johnny Harris are making.
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