Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions" channel.

  1. I thought it was a reference to the Empty Chair Crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstein_Commission#Empty_chair_crisis
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  2. Iron has one big advantage over copper and copper alloys like bronze and brass. It's much more plentiful.
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  3. (SPOILER about Terminator 2.) I have one comment about changing the past/future in Terminator 1 & 2. In Terminator 2 it indeed seems that Skynet may have indirectly caused itself to be created. But since all relevant data and future technology is destroyed at the end of the movie as an attempt to change the future. Of course, that could be just another unsuccessful attempt, but it seems to be implied that that time they actually were successful. On the other hand, we're not shown whether the future actually changed so we can't know for sure.
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  4. I think History Matters said that he wasn't called "Bloodaxe" in his time.
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  5. I'm sure the Mongols are having a chuckle as well.
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  6.  @VulpesHilarianus  "Victorians used to use to romanticize certain things" And the word "romanticize" of course yet another term named after a place: the city of Rome.
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  7. Next: Pirates of the Baltic (a.k.a. Victual Brothers)
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  8. Portugal wasn't even in the game Colonization.
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  9. The Normans also had archers, though I don't know what kind of bows they used. William used archers in the Battle of Hastings.
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  10. Who's al-Dente? Some Arab guy?
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  11. France would probably often have preferred to fight in England but getting over the Channel isn't so easy.
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  12. "a lot of the great advancements and famous people that lived in France and other places we're given the opportunity to do what they did because of the wealth generated by the colonial empires" I'm very skeptical of the claim that the colonies contributed that much.
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  13.  @ChiChiLand299 : But it's not like European countries without colonies (e.g. Switzerland) were poorer, or were they?
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  14. "Yeah, I still don't know why France and Spain don't get as much trash talk as England does over its colonial past." Don't they? I thought they did. (And the Dutch were pretty horrible too.)
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  15. Awesome!
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  16. What about Andorra?
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  17.  @alexandredesbiens-brassard9109  Ah, I somehow missed that "As a...".
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  18.  @jynexe3056 : It is? Please explain.
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  19.  @jynexe3056 : Ah, OK. Makes sense.
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  20. Sam from Wendower also explained it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EVxLLhciQ
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  21. Isn't Stockholm bigger?
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  22. You should have mentioned the Imjin War.
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  23. Does it mean that Canadians are Village People?
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  24. Any relation to William Rowan Hamilton?
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  25.  @zlatko8051 : I did realize who you were talking about. I was just asking if the famous mathematician Hamilton descends from the same clan as well (even though he's from Ireland).
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  26.  @zlatko8051 : Ireland is at least closer than the US so roots in Scotland are hardly impossible.
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  27. 16:00 Why do the Seleucids get a capital letter while the Greek states and the Ptolemies have to do with a lower case letter?
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  28. Must have been a pretty jarring experience for Ares. Maybe we can call him Jares after this.
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  29.  @maya-cc2sx  In what way?
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  30.  @maya-cc2sx  That's a bit different from the HRE which was, at least formally, a state.
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  31. The Dutch were more racist as a colonial power than Britain.
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  32. I genuinely thought this video really ended with "So, if you want more Greece content..." but it was just an ad right before the end.
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  33. Europe was in a "Warring States Period" for at least over a millennium. China and Japan had it much easier in that respect.
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  34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7VdeHdBn-g
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  35. Basil clearly didn't just rest on his Laurels.
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  36. In the English orthography, it's the vowels that are most messed up. Consonants are somewhat better. Regarding French, one of my friends who knows both English and French said that the orthography of the English is even worse than that of French and that that's saying a lot. With Danish, the problem probably isn't irregular orthography (though this is just my guess based on Swedish since I don't actually know Danish) but rather that the phonology is so weird.
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  37. I'd be interested to hear about Mozi (墨子) and Mohism.
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  38. They're at fault for the Great War! And no, it isn't more complicated. ;)
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  39. Blue bored in Greek class? How's that possible?
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  40. Langfocus has a nice video on Maltese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7VdeHdBn-g
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  41. I think the South Sea Company did get the right to send one ship per year to each Spanish port in South America. Of course, that's not nearly enough.
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  42. What about the Mughals?
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  43. So there was a Han vs. Hun war. Well, that's confusing (when said out loud). Incidentally, why didn't you mention the best ancient Chinese philosopher, Mozi (墨子)? :)
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  44. "or legitimate acts of self defense" Typically I would expect a defensive war to result in territorial gains for the defender or else it's not purely defensive (even if it might have been in the beginning).
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  45. Ebola is much deadlier but it doesn't spread nearly as easily.
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  46. "kinda like our government" Have things been improving?
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  47.  @AoiLucine : But because Napoléon was an artillery officer isn't it more of a cannon rush?
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  48. An interesting tale from legitimate medicine. Do you know what was one of the earliest ways to cure syphilis? Why deliberately contracting malaria of course. It induces a fever high enough to kill the syphilis bacterium.
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  49. They still exist.
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  50. 9:05 IT WAS 1527
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