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  1. Finally! A book I’ve actually read and don’t need to worry about spoilers when watching it XD
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  2. I'm really enjoying this series on Elon Musk
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  3. I thought this was going to be a video about an orange based mechanism for keeping time. On that point, I was disappointed. However, what I received was rather good. 3.5 / 5 stars.
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  4. So this channel now has Mythology among History, Game Design and Sci-Fi?...Dude, this channel just keeps getting better and better!
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  5. The beginning is like "History of Beer, part 7"
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  6. I'm used to the Little Ice Age being a passing note in history, usually not going much deeper than "food shortages caused by..." Seeing a deep dive into how it overturned daily life all around the world is a lot of fun.
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  7. As an Icelander who has read most of the old sagas (in the original language) and loves norse mythology I have to say that this is a fairly accurate accounting. I love it! Thanks EC for doing a little bit of work undoing what Marvel has made of our history :)
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  8. Loved the series, but I think that jumping from the Battle of Plassey of 1757 directly into the Indian Revolution of 1857, an exact 100-year jump, was too much. There should have been one or two more videos in between 4th and 5th.
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  9. First History matters, now Extra history. I'm eating well tonight. How about you guys?
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  10. Just remember Vlad the Impaler didn't start impaling people until his mid-30s. It's never too late to become a legend!! 😂
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  11. @4:44 why is it easier for some people to believe in a conspiracy that requires comic book levels of plotting than accept that humans are collectively a disorganized mess
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  12. To clarify for those confused: The Jurchen/Jurched were a Tungusic tribe (related to the later Manchus) from Manchuria who had established the Jin Dynasty in North eastern China, an empire with its capital at the modern site of Beijing. The ruler caste were all Jurchen, while they ruled over Han Chinese and Khitans, and they were the Chinese empire Temujin would have interacted with here. The Jurkin were a Mongolian steppe tribe who were destroyed by Temujin here in this video. Important to understand the difference!
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  13. Eunity is my favorite program
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  14. I like how history hinges on such small details like the one worker who was careless enough to toss a cigarette (IN A CLOTHING FACTORY!!! What an idiot.) Reminds of the London fire of 1666 where a baker left an oven open next to dry wheat flour.
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  15. I know it’s too early to say this, but the art throughout this series has been amazing so far.
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  16. Noice
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  17. Ibn Battutah's reaction to the syncretic form of Islam practiced in the Mali Empire touches on a conundrum in religion that I've seen come up time and again as far as spreading Abrahamic religions is concerned: If the religion you seek to spread forbids something that is an integral part of the culture you seek to spread it to, how do you approach spreading your religion? Do you insist that the locals abandon the parts of their culture that your religion forbids, or do you leave those parts of their culture alone? On the one hand, trying to put an end to practices that have endured for centuries will almost certainly make it harder to attract converts--and will likely make the locals hostile toward you. On the other hand, if you allow the locals to keep their sinful customs, can you truly say that your proselytizing is helping them rather than hurting them?
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  18. India: "Finally, we're freed from the EIC." "Great" Britain: "I wouldn't say freed... More like; under new management."
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  19. I hope the Collyers found some peace. After so long together, their last thoughts must have been of each other. Langley quickly realizing he couldn't free himself, and Homer slowly realizing that something had gone horribly wrong but he could do nothing about it. Incredibly poignant horror.
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  20. This video did a great job at describing the conditions imposed upon Ireland at the time. A few points left though: Some penal laws were still in place under different names. They also included limiting of the Irish language to the point it nearly died out. They were also expanded in new ways during the famine. The limited aid sent to Ireland was actually used as leverage to gain even more land. If someone wanted to avail of food aid they had to do one of two things: farmers had to give up their tiny strips of land and keep only 1/5 of an acre, essentially meaning after food aid was gone they would die. This was because of Malthusian economic thought at the time proclaimed this as just. This allowed the British to consolidate even more control over Ireland. The other option for urban working poor was work houses. They could not farm so they had to make use of the limited aid which required them to work in work houses. Families were separated, disease was rampant, the diet was terrible and many never left. Families were destroyed by this and was another way of making the Irish population dependent on the English government to suppress rebellion. The Ottomans organised 2000 tonnes of aid to be sent to Ireland, and although some saw this as a political move to anger the British, most of it was actually collected from the poor in the ottoman empire who had heard of the Irish plight and had sympathy for them. The British didn't allow the food to come into Ireland and threatened to sink their ships. The English purposely created conditions that would allow a famine to destroy Ireland. Given the land laws, potatoes were the only option. The English wanted to exterminate the Irish and take their land but wanted to make use of their labour too, so they struck the balance with these laws and conditions which in a way...kind of resembles an island wide gulag or concentration camp. Death as the end goal but making use of their labour in the meantime. The topic of the famine being a genocide is hotly debated today, however the UN definitions of genocide actually define the famine as a genocide. Because the English intentionally created the conditions for it to happen, it kind of is a genocide. After a smaller famine in the 1700s, they changed the laws further to worsen the effects of a future famine. This added with their apathetic response and literal rejection of outside aid means they exacerbated it too, taking advantage of a situation they could remedy, and using it as a genocidal tool. By definition of this UN convention, the famine was indeed a genocide for which the English government has not officially apologised for. There are appeals being issued in international courts to make them acknowledge it as a genocide and possibly even pay reparations. India are going through something similar in relation to their famine in the twentieth century.
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  21. This video felt way too short. D: I was just getting into the groove and thinking we'd passed the intro when the outro music started to fade in. T.T
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  22. First half of the video: "Yeah, so Ford was basically Steve Jobs, but not an asshole" Second half of the video: "about that..."
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  23. uhh nihh nih nah haa AWWWW uhhhh hnnnNNNNNNNNnnnnn AHHHHHHHHH DAAAHHHHHHHH AAAAAAWWwwwwww! Ok... who the heck made subtitles for this?!
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  24. I live about an hour from Blair Mountain and this is something I never see talked about enough, but outside of unions and anarchist circles it never gets brought up because it shows Americas apathy for it’s citizenry.
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  25. As someone studying Bachelor's level Mathematics I understand very well the feeling of trying to proof something and end up screwing up by accidently proofing the thing with itself. Also I greatly admire everyone coming up with those amazing and abstract constructs all by themselves, when I myself suck at most more theoretical applications of Math.
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  26. Loki, the primary example of someone who just can't keep it to himself
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  27. Final installment? It's been a great series on this channel. Thank you David
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  28. But what happened to the emperor's teddy?
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  29. As someone who struggles with social anxiety, I can relate to Pygmalion wanting company and simultaneously to have that company be happy, but simultaneously not being sure how to act. I express similar feelings when I craft chatacters for the short stories I write. Stories a lot of my IRL and Online friends enjoy reading.
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  30. As someone used to the Celsius scale I had a brief "wait, what?" moment at 5:40, before realizing it's Fahrenheit. BTW, a very interesting episode!
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  31. Such a tragedy. Poor John Harper. As with so many moments in history, a simple misunderstanding sends greatness sideways. And the vitriol with which the townsfolks rather would burn their own than see salves liberated. Now that is unflinching evil.
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  32. Native American and indigenous stories should be shared. They are so interesting and we shouldn't be forgotten
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  33. My, so many things that were caused not by Diocletian this time!
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  34. As much as we credit Ford for his work for helping shape america, the darker side of him during his later life is unforgivable. Not to mention how he treated Edsel even after he learned he had stomach cancer. Goes to show us that figures of history aren’t as squeaky clean as we wish they were. Thank you Extra History for telling this tale! Your work is always a joy to watch!
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  35. The "ideologically radicalized faction of the military wags the dog and seizes power" thing is something even modern states need to remember.
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  36. WHO WOULD WIN? A smart guy who knows a lot about his enemies OR.... One king boi of a place called Wessex.
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  37. If it fits your schedule and budget, I'd seriously love to see some more mythology content, specially since I know you folks would absolutely cover some of the lesser known pantheons, like the indo-americans and africans.
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  38. That rollo walking segment made me laugh so much
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  39. Also fun fact, General Edward Rydz-Śmigły, the former commander of Polish Forces before the war, actually escaped internment in Romania and joined the Underground Army but went under another name, because he still felt guilty for Poland's loss. He died in 1941-2 due to a heart attack though.
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  40. Frederick the Great also had an appearance on one of my favorite Epic Rap Battles of History. Hail the flute-busting Prussian!
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  41. I don't have much to say besides the fact I enjoy how Wu is portrayed in this series.
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  42. 8:23 and it was at that point that Charles VI's glass body shattered from a handshake.
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  43. The fact that our population hasn't recovered goes to show how bad this was
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  44. No wonder Matt is the Game Master for the majority of D&D sessions for EH crew: The way he narrate battles is mesmerizing.
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  45. I want to really credit Scott and the other artists on these new amazing artworks like how better their artworks got since the Punic wars and the uses of gif. as well. Also credits to Wargaming on sponsoring Exra Credits and pays them to teach us a lesson about World War 2 rather than pick up a book(well books are great but videos are greater)
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  46. Fun fact about the covers shown, they were made by a woman named Margaret Brundage. It's a shame that for her work that not even you guys mentioned her.
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  47. Um i thought the yamato was the biggest battle ship on earth.....
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  48. Fun fact: Rob wrote this script back in October. It's great that you folks are out here drawing conclusions on your own about what this could mean for modern-day issues. History has a great way of making us think about the present. --Belinda
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  49. No way beer history a day before thanksgiving
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  50. Eleanor is one of a kind. 1. She is the only woman to ever be the queen of France AND England at different points of her life. 2. Childhood mortality plot armor for her children and herself. Most of her children lived to adulthood. She gave birth to John at the ripe age of 43 and lived to her 80's in an era of shitty medical care 3. Rebelled against her husband by siding with her ex-husband and bringing her sons with her. 4. Joined a crusade.
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