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Comments by "lif3andthings" (@lif3andthings763) on "Another 11 Historical Misconceptions." video.

Because they saw his ancestors as lesser and barbarians.
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@mpampislarsons he isn’t and is a Conservative Christian.
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@Rhys5945 this channel is legit garbage. So many bad history takes its fucking unbelievable.
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So basically Africa was just like any other continent. Also for those who are going to say “most of it was illiterate Hunter gatherers and herders”. The places in purple, violet, and neon were the most heavily populated parts of the continent everywhere else except for the West, East African coast and Horn were very sparsely populated. Still to this day you will find the same answer.
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@mpampislarsons i said he isn’t jewish also why would it matter if he was?
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@mpampislarsons You have no peer reviewed accepted study that proves whatever the fuck you have just spewed.
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@mpampislarsons exactly he isn’t the other description of him was extra.
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@toledochristianmatthew9919 That’s part of the reason why I got mad when he didn’t mention the Swahili coast which was vital part of the Indian Ocean trade for like 1,000+ years.
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Most of the people sold were prisoners of war likely warriors and peasants. If you were a scholar you were likely wealthy and very unlikely to be captured.
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Please dont look up to this fucking idiot when it comes to history. This man literally put Somalia as illiterate goat herders. He cant even do basic research. I suggest you look to other who dont use sources from the 50s and source Thomas Sowell keep in mind neither of these sources focused on Africa at all.
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@MiloTheCrotonian he labels somalia as illiterate goat herders but if he even searched up African history he would find the exact opposite it. The Ajuran sultanate literate and quite powerful. There was also the city of Mogadishu one of the most important ports on the Indian Ocean and its trade network. Wtf is jungle farmer? Nigeria and Ghana were not illiterate. He forgot the entire Swahili Coast. Vast majority wasn’t stone age for millennia. You should find the reddit post by a African history educated guy who makes podcasts about African civilization interesting. He explains way better. https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/ma9sus/whatifalthist_claims_precolonial_africa_had_no/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=tp_title
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@mpampislarsons How does ethnicity effect your psyche and behavior? Any sources for that?
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@mpampislarsons Golden dawn lmaooo.
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@shaun2823 The main things is that we just kept on breaking treaties with them and continually encroached even for the most useless lands. We gave them Oklahoma but then still went in there anyway.
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@demun6065 The swahili is relatively new term to describe people of the East African coast. The people there had begun forming city states from the bantu migration as early as 0 AD. The influence of islam and other things would come later with the rise of the Indian ocean trade network.
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@demun6065 What the fuck are you talking about? The bantu migration started in 2,000 BC they reach modern South Africa by 300 AD probably earlier even. Do you realize how far south the Swahili coasts stretch? Nubia had little impact on them.
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@demun6065 They weren’t migrating from elsewhere they were migrating within their region due to the wars and their way of life. In that area its very hard to stay in one place for long. How do you think the Xhosa and Zulu had clicks in their language if there were just migrating into South Africa?
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This guy is bias as fuck. Stop taking the views of a Conservative Christian as fact. They are literally like the worst voting block in the US.
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They built it on top of the old one. Timbuktu wasn’t even the capital. There are likely structures that we will never see again.
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The things is that map is absolutely shit. The right is very wrong given that Somalia the Swahili Coast much of the south eastern portion of Africa had cities and Swahili and Somalia were literate. Its like some of this map is like 1,000 BC and the other half is like the 1300s. Also given that farming urban peoples population literally counted as the vast majority of the continents small population the you are now very very wrong. What you think they were millions of Hunter gatherers running around? By the time Bantu peoples reached the the region of Southern Africa iron age farmers became the vast majority of the continent (geographically speaking).
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@Mrminibagel THANK YOU
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@Ueiksg Which explains why Historians are one of the most left leaning fields. What you said makes no sense and absolutely false. Its like when you really study history you realize how stupid conservatism and right wing ideology is.
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@adamnesico his entire bit about Africa ESPECIALLY that cursed map. Jesus fucking christ I have never seen anything like that.
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Yes they definitely fucking do.
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The US where no where near winning it was South Vietnam that was always on the verge of losing.
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@jussim.konttinen4981 ok?
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@thefrenchareharlequins2743 He is right it literally rose by like 20 years. Mao served until 1976. Lowering birth rates was actually kind of good for China. The great famine was caused by the unforeseen consequences of killing of pests important to the environment which collectivization only increased it. Also im pretty sure there was bad weather around that time as well.
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Turnabout Turnip Null Stalin did not kill 60 million. Likely less than Hitler.
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@kingstarscream3807 Am I or this guy wrong or will you do the research yourself?
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@ShadeStormXD No.
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@ShadeStormXD They did not colonize West Africa they tried and failed just the North. The caravans were coming from the African states themselves lmaooo.
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Sam Aden What other states “invented” a writing system. No European civilization invented any writing. Writing was invented only a few times throughout history.
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Those were the Etruscans and roads and aqueducts were created before them.
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@Athian_Athian Hot areas isn’t really problem. As steel and iron were independently invented in Sub Saharan Africa. The problems were population density and ease of travel/trade to other people groups. Eurasia is basically one continent. The Middle East, East China, and Western Europe could all be connected with a constant stream of knowledge nearly always going east to west. Africa history was very sparsely populated. The regions with the highest concentrations of people prospered the most.
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That was the best and cost effective material they had for their environment its also pretry impressive there were able to make them that big. There also may be larger structures buried under the sand. Many cities around the Niger river became abandoned as the rivers flow changed over time. Similar to the Niles movements causing the shifting of different populations.
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@randomanon2999 Why the fuck would the be making gothic cathedrals? With what materials? They did build with stone but usually supplemented with mud. Stone isn’t that good for very hot environments like the Sahel. Limestone is also not as common.
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@JcoleMc What? The Swahili were trading before Islam was even a thing. First with themselves along the coast and the kingdoms in the interior then with outside world. What you just said is the typical African couldn’t do it by themselves bullshit.
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@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl The overwhelming amount of the slavery in sub Saharan Africa was not as severe as chattel slavery.
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Crazy how we bombed Cambodia to dust which allowed Pol Pot to come to power in the chaos and he was defeated by the “Communist” Vietnam.
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@MLGSHINGOJI_3000 did you read it?
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He is a fucking idiot.
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@Jotaro97 What?
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@FeliussRexx ok
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@ShadeStormXD I think there was meant to be a democratic election for unification but the Westerns stopped it.
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What I understand from what this guy is saying is that Europeans literally got jack shit from anything they conquered thats pretty shit to me.
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@DoomTrooper90 Wait. So what did the Indo Europeans mix with when they went into Europe other Indo Europeans?
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@ikengaspirit3063 fuck Sowell he has some of the most dumb fuck ideas. He is one of those pull yourself up by your bootstraps people.
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Western Europeans got rich by exploiting the Americas with Native, African slaves and European laborers.
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@demun6065 The sugar plantations of the New World was highly profitable.
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@demun6065 That was because they were sending their silver and gold to Asia not investing it back into their economies.
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@demun6065 Also the French, Portuguese and Britain were producing the most Sugar I believe.
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@mappingshaman5280 They benefitted from the diffusion from Western Europe also when unified (Germany) they would become quite powerful. Also im pretty sure the Scandinavian countries were quite involved in the Atlantic slave trade. Switzerland just kept out of trouble. Italy once unified got a bit better but they were pretty fucked up which is shown by the HUGE Italian diaspora who fled the country.
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@thefrenchareharlequins2743 Im looking at you data under Mao life expectancy rose 20 years.
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Turnabout Turnip Null But Germany could have not been the one start it. It could have been the Soviets then it would it still be the treaty of Versailles what a dumb point you are maiking.
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@PhillyPhanVinny The South Vietnamese leader was a US puppet.
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Sam Aden Why are you so fucking stupid?
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There was constant war in Africa. Empires like Mali, Songhai, Ethiopia etc etc were almost perpetually at war kind of like the Romans.
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Im 1 percent Northern Italian so dont @ me on this.
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@absolutelynothing3621 He didnt really “kill” them though out of his expressed will.
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@absolutelynothing3621 6 million slavs? you are out of your fucking mind.
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@absolutelynothing3621 Why though the Germans were ordered to commit atrocities. Is stuffing an entire village of people in a church and setting it a light just war?
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@absolutelynothing3621 no it isn’t or else it would be much higher. So why is a famine exacerbated by collectivization policies Stalins fault. But a war started by Hitler and him specifically ordering food to be taken away from civilians to starve just war. The army literally was literally ordered to be as brutal as possible.
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@absolutelynothing3621 It clearly isn’t because your number is 12 million.
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No
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@JIM Its like when he makes these geopolitical and historical vidoes he doesn’t do the most basic of research on any fucking thing. You guys use his world views as facts. When he is a conservative Christian what the fuck? Did you even look at the sources he posted for the African part? One was written in the 1950s and it wasn’t even focusing on Africa. One was written by Thomas Sowell and notorious right wing economist which was also not even about Africa. He literally put Somalia as Illiterate Goat Herders the fuck is he on?
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Why isn’t the 20 million Russian civilians added to Hitlers death toll?
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@adamnesico the fuck you mean by that?
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@hiqmetkamberaj4220 There is no fucking way that India or the Sugar plantations of the west indies were useless.
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@demun6065 not really. Don’t really know why people appreciate the opinions of conservative christian when the are literally the most brain dead voting block in the US.
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@Athian_Athian Yeah I dont know to much about that. I think it mostly depends on the culture. Like the Zulu or Aztecs who were very war like.
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@Jotaro97 I think he is saying that these exploits kept them wealthy and allowed for more and more people to become wealthy as well.
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How the fuck did even get Europeans countries gdps in the 1500s
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@jlord9638 what?
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This guy is citing sources from the 50s and Thomas Sowell I bet he doesn’t even know.
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@bladefox-ik5iy The USA is big a fuck and Im pretty sure we had the most inventions of the 20th century.
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@DPRK_Best_Korea they sure as fuck did
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@ivokantarski6220 Facts this guy is a joke.
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The cotton gin was created at a time when slavery was prevalent made it even more widespread. Needs, and spontaneous thoughts/random happenings create inventions.
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@hewhoyeet4953 because he didn’t kill that many.
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@davidcoquelle3081 I would say they stayed that way by repressing the rest.
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Ty Jackson Its for sure at least half.
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Ty Jackson Why is that ridiculous? Its perfectly reasonable to assume that the chaos caused by the Congo free state contributed to many things such as starvation caused by force production of rubber, wars and instability, and just the sheer brutality of their work. You got any actual evidence to prove otherwise or are you just going to say that’s ridiculous?
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@illuminaticomfirmed6948 It definitely was plenty of pictures of Congolese with missing hands and other shit.
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Pretty sire only 10-15 million SOVIETS not just Ukrainians died from the holdomor. How the fuck is it getting that high?
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@Walterdecarvalh0100 No. Hitlers invasion of the Soviet Union was meant to kill most slavic peoples and have the rest be enslaved.
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What does that last part mean? The far left denies the colonization of Asia?
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@ManiacMayhem7256 The black book of communism is so gay. They factor in people that weren’t even born yet or german soldier deaths from ww2 just to get to 100 million. Even one of the authors confirmed it.
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@ManiacMayhem7256 Black book of Capitalism?
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@ManiacMayhem7256 What the fuck you mean whataboutism? Why cant you compare the death tolls of ideologies? Pretty sure capitalism killed more in the same time and you dont even have to bend numbers to get to 100 million easy.
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@freddy4603 But he even denies that the slaves farming sugar cane one of the most profitable resources at the time were worthless.
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@freddy4603 was palm oil, rubber, cocoa, rare earth minerals not important to European industries?
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@golagiswatchingyou2966 genealogy.
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@PhillyPhanVinny The US lost the war dawg. Simple as that.
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@PhillyPhanVinny Because we lost the will to fight and the enemy was able to achieve their objective its simple as that. In what universe is that not a loss. Isnt that the point of asymmetric warfare in the first place when you are going up against a better equipped and technologically advanced enemy? The mental gymnastics is insane with you guys.
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Slavery doesn’t slow down tech the south were already well on their way to industrialization through the use of slaves. I have no idea where this idea comes from.
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@TrainmasterGT What is that? Is Nubia not important? Also you realize that the Sahel/West Africa in general and the Eastern part of Africa from Sudan down to Tanzania contained the overwhelming majority of the African population. The Swahili Coast went pretty far south.
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@TrainmasterGT I was just saying that those places were those very complex civilizations formed was were the most people lived and so those places better represented the continent. It would be like saying that most of Asia was horse nomads just because of the Mongols. The “less advanced” people in Africa were the minority. They were just spread out over a MASSIVE Continent.
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Bro what the fuck are you talking about? Contact with outsiders is literally how all great civilizations formed since the beginning. The Greeks saw the northern europeans as inferior and stupid. Their levels of development would slowly change after the fall of Rome. The overwhelming majority of the African continent lived in West Africa and East Africa from the Sudan all the way down the coast to Tanzania. By the time the Arab slave trade had begun the overwhelming majority of Africa hadn’t been stone age for millennia. The West African Sehalian empires got their slaves from within West Africa. As they never controlled the whole region and always had war captives as they were continuously at war. Besides those regions that I mentioned the rest of Africa was very sparsely populated given the Congo Rain forest Kalahari desert, and the vast open savanna. That is still the case today as well. So by just knowing what you are talking about when it comes to African history you can find out that Africa was just like any other continent at that time, and you wouldn’t say that a few Hunter gatherers could represent the entirety of Asia?
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What the fuck is wrong with you bro?
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@MyUsersDark Stop being an idiot.
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@domenstrmsek5625 Kind of weird when you say “racial” supremacy as they didn’t see race as we do see it now.
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Sherman still burns lmaoo
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@RaidsEpicly Yeah but you aren’t the only doing it thats why it was so detrimental in the end you were getting ravaged while ravaging others.
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@keroroguns0867 Was misinformation. Historians are the most left leaning social study which makes a lot of sense once you look at history and see how conservatives have held us back since forever.
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