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  1. The VOC: Where to match the sheer amount of wealth they had (adjusted for inflation) you have to combine the entire Fortune 500
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  2. I love how informative this series has been and cannot wait to hear your team's take on the Mongols! Cue the Mongoltage!
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  3. History via wrestling đŸ€©đŸ€© the team of ExtraHistory is full of genius .
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  4. I read the book around 1973 to 1974, my senior year in high school. I was also taking Russian as a foreign language. The main characters use of Russian was cringe worthy for me. I always did get a laugh out of "horrorshow", anglicized version of "Ń…ĐŸŃ€ĐŸŃˆĐŸ".
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  5. Regular People: I can sing songs and stuff! Son Tinh & Thuy Tinh: Pathetic
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  6. I can't help being reminded of how Alistair Crowley's greatest battle basically came down to two LARPers screaming "Fireball!" at each other until one kicked the other in the jaw (See ExtraHistory: Secret Societies playlist for more on that)
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  7. Peter the third certainly has one of the best influence on history to time on the throne ratio ever. He was emperor for such a short time but in that time he single handedly saved Prussia. What a difference that made Oh btw. It’s Habsburg not Habsberg. They carry the name of their origin-castle in modern Switzerland and „Burg“ means „castle“, while „Berg“ would mean „mountain“
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  8. I'll admit, beer (and alcohol in general) ain't my drug of choice, but this series has been absolutely fascinating regardless!
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  9. Looking forward to this series! Another area I didn't learn much about in my schooling days :)
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  10. 3:21 I have to assume this happened a lot, and I know that for a lot of human history a lot of people didn't really bother distinguishing between history and folklore. History is fascinating.
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  11. I had just cracked a beer before seeing this in my notifications. Perfect timing.
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  12. We need an episode on the history of tea, I would watch that any day!
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  13. I know of him because of the Otter that has been terrorizing the Dr sun yat sen garden in Vancouver BC, and eating all the koi fish.
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  14. I'm genuinely curious, is it a bad thing in norse myth to be undefeated in battle? Would someone who could never be slain, who fought to their last breathe but was taken by age rather than someone else still go to hel?
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  15. Im buddhist and it's nice to see Extra History cover the History of my religion.
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  16. The Battle of "Guan"du One of the reasons why "Guan" Yu, become "Guan" Gong :)
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  17. This woman was literally about to marry useful Aquaman.
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  18. Of course.... Zoe is the mastermind
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  19. This video is amazing just for the references. But looking beyond that, there's also some really good literary education in here too! Extra SciFi - Come for the Walpole cameo, stay for insight into the history of western literature!
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  20. I was horrified at 7:21. Seriously I felt my blood go cold.
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  21. Found the phrase "Deus ex marriage-a" rather clever and funny. Good one.
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  22. So, me being an undecided voter, is the voter with the most influence/attention? Wow
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  23. I was raised on Tolkein literature, and this is always a good story.
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  24. One complaint, Scotland agreed to the act of union after the failure of the Darien scheme and that was proposed by a Scottish dynasty of monarchs in off itself and the Scottish and English parliaments were merged. So, conquest is really the wrong word for that example, right armmy?
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  25. The -by ending is a Norse ending, not Anglo-Saxon. Go look at maps of Denmark, Sweden and Norway and you'll find as many places with that ending as there are in England. The endings -thorpe and -dale are also Norse in origin. Anglo-Saxon endings tend to be -ton (as mentioned), -ham or -bury (plus variations on this word such as -borough, -brough or -burgh).
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  26. Videos like these trip me up because I've heard at least a couple different versions of this story already, and there's always details that differ between them. Still fun to watch though!
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  27. I've been watching extra history for years now I love you guys videos they've taught me a lot of things
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  28. I remember when the poll for this series went live on Patreon, and I was disappointed to see that my pick of Hildegard von Bingen didn't win (especially since I was the one who suggested it as an option). But man, two episodes in, and I've never been so glad to see my suggestion passed over.
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  29. I love that this guy, who's very important, all he really did was let people know "this exists" and then basically failed his way into getting an award named after him.
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  30. My Zoey Plush also finally came in! :_ExtraEmojiShiny::_ExtraEmojiHeart:
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  31. I would really like that "Marginal Votes" as a board game. Where you bid on a table of facedown circles and spend actions and cards to gain or lose votes. for example: playing a card like "Community engagement: gain 5 votes and if no opponent spends an action on this issue: gain all marginal votes." it would be kinda neat.
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  32. The water problem is to pump water from the nearby TonlĂ© Sap (Great Lake). Part of the TonlĂ© Sap Biosphere Reserve, this is Southeast Asia’s largest lake and one of the world’s most significant wetland ecosystems, due to its unique environmental qualities and extraordinary biodiversity. The variety of fauna and flora of TonlĂ© Sap is depicted in the bas-reliefs of Angkor’s Bayon Temple. Many of its plant species are used for religious and medicinal purposes by Cambodians. Two million Cambodians also depend on the bounty of the lake’s freshwater fisheries – one of the most productive in the world, with an annual fish harvest of over 250,000 metric tons. It is crucial for the Cambodian government to weigh the environmental impact before it approves any project to pump water to Siem Reap. The biosphere, which is also the cradle of the TonlĂ© Sap River, has enormous significance for Cambodians. It acts as a flood mediator for the Mekong River, which flows through five other Southeast Asian countries, so its significance reaches far beyond Cambodia. Each year, during the rainy season, the Mekong water level rises and overflows into the TonlĂ© Sap River which, instead of draining the lake as it does during the dry season, is forced to change direction and flow back ‘up’ into the lake. This phenomenon makes the Mekong the only major river in the world to flow in two directions at different times of the year. This annual flood raises the lake level from 1 to 1.5 meters up to 8 to 10 meters, increasing its area fivefold, as it spills out over the floodplain. One of the world’s great conservation success stories, which includes the revival of several species of endangered birds since protection efforts started in 1999, TonlĂ© Sap and its floodplain have been listed as the TonlĂ© Sap Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB). The 20% year-on-year increase in tourism has also contributed to environmental pollution. Waste control remains an ongoing problem, though many of the temples are swept and cleaned ritually. Rubbish heaps are a common sight in Siem Reap, and tourists and locals think nothing of dumping garbage and wastewater directly into the river. Residents living along the Siem Reap river have complained the water is too dirty to use or bathe in. They say that twelve years ago, the water was so clean, they could use it in their homes. Today, the river is dark and dirty, and the water stinks, according to residents. While Phnom Kulen (“Mountain of Lychees”), twenty-five miles northeast of Angkor Wat, is off the beaten track for the hordes of tourists that descend upon the temples each day, the ill effects of deforestation have eaten into the lush tree cover there. Located upstream, water from the Kulen mountain is another source that flows through the Siem Reap river basin and runs into the TonlĂ© Sap lake. Here, illegal logging and the planting of cash crops such as cashew trees and beans have adversely affected hydrological patterns in the entire ecosystem and impacted fish productivity. UNESCO recently launched a pilot project: “Enhancing and Restoring Water Systems in Angkor World Heritage Site and Siem Reap City(link is external)”. It uses the sustainability science approach to propose solutions and initiate a sustainable transformation of socio-environmental interactions in the river basin. Policy, legal and institutional frameworks are strengthened through collaborative linkages, learning alliances and targeted interventions for capacity-building at the pilot area, at the national, regional and community levels.
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  33. My favorite tidbit about reconstructing Latin is how there have been a few preserved rants in latin about how people are mispronouncing it.
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  34. whatever stringed instrument they are playing, they are playing it masterfully the Kiners never cease to impress
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  35. I think it has something to do with population. The coast of the South China Sea was (and still is) historically one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is easier to create massive pirate fleet when you have a larger pool of manpower, who have lost their livelihood due to famine and war, to draw from. Contrast this to the more famous buccaneers who operated in a (by comparison) vastly less densely populated region in the Americas.
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  36. I remember being slightly bored reading it until Darcy proposed I sat straight up in my bed and was hooked for the rest of the book
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  37. Lovely episode for this important and happy anniversary! I really like that you showed the role of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in the process. BTW the Polish elections in June 1989 weren't actually 100% free, but the Solidarity made the most of the compromise negotiated in the Round table Talks preceding the elections, effectively ending the one-party dictatorship. The whole thing could really be its own episode or even series.
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  38. Well, the Declaration of Independence isn't actually a design doc. It was more of a social media post saying that they were going to make a game and why they thought the game needed to be made. Few of the Declarations most famous principles actually made it into the Constitution.
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  39. I'm learning things that I was never taught in school. Thank you and keep up the incredible work! â€đŸ˜Š
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  40. You showed FDR in his wheelchair! As a wheelchair user myself that makes me so happy!
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  41. Why does Liu Bei hold a halberd? I think you may have mistaken him for Lu Bu. In the novel, Liu Bei uses a pair of long swords. Technically, Cao acted with or I would even say under Yuan Shao after the coalition for the quelling of the Black Mountain Bandits, against Yuan Shu and Gongsun Zan. Only when he gained the control over the imperial court, Cao goes on his separate way from Yuan Shao, but even then he had to appease him by giving him a higher court rank than his.
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  42. I think it is interesting how the things that made Fredrick “the antichrist” wasn’t his cruelty to peasants (which is frankly par for the course) but simply his issue with papal authority
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  43. Do Celtic, Polynesian, cambodian, Native American, African, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian.
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  44. "Clearly, Joan's failure came from God punishing her arrogance, for what else could you call a woman expecting to be part of the truce negotiations and whatnot like she was a victorious general or something? Clearly it's not a sign that anything we did was wrong, or the natural result of attacking the best-fottified city in France with tactics designed for field fortifications." And thus Joan learned that being on a mission from God has its drawbacks. Failure is not just the result of a mistake or harsh odds, but of personal moral flaws.
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  45. Being Québécois myself, I got to study this event from the French side, so it's nice to see the other side of the history, in a non nationalistic way. Love every single one of your well researched videos and hope to see more to come!
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  46. Sees Bismarck in the title “I need this” edit: OMG thank you so much for all the likes( 125 are you joking). Also a favorite from senpai. edit 2: I just looked at it again and.. 150 LIKES OMG THANKS!
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  47. I give massive props to this series for constantly introducing me to fascinating historical figures I'd have likely never heard about otherwise 😊
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  48. Especially since it's been in the queue for months beforehand. Fate has a funny sense of humor.
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  49. Thank you for covering something I knew about. It's silly, but it makes me feel smart.
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  50. Catherine de Bourgh is actually Darcy’s aunt not his cousin. She’s his mothers sister.
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