Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Top 10 Events I Wouldn't be able to Predict in History." video.

  1.  @zmegatrolls  Not really. LANGUAGE is where culture lies. What the Chinese did, going back forever, is force ALL into using a unified WRITTEN language. The oral languages still exist. Korean being an exemplar. Have you ever wondered how a North Korean can cross the Han river and mix in -- for years? It's because everyone on both sides speaks the same Korean language. It's just written differently on the Chinese side. If you were to add back the number of Korean speakers within Manchuria, Korea would explode in size. This is true all over Red China. Cantonese is written in the same ideographs -- it's not an alphabet -- as Mandarin. The fact that the Chinese use ideographs instead of a phonetic alphabet is why this system ever worked -- and still does.
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  2. Yet I predicted it TO THE DAY. I thought the timing was obvious. But then, I predicted Watergate, the crisis of the Nixon White House and many another event. The drivers of such events are normally lost in the fog of the MSM -- all noise and no insight. So, just stick to mathematics.
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  3. It's a myth that small pox was the vector. MEASLES was the killer. Small pox is actually TOO deadly for the Spanish to carry it in a virulent state during their travels. Whereas measles is 'perfect' in this regard. For those without immunity, measles is as lethal as small pox. Measles did in the Hawaiians, too. Those witnessing the tragedy had NO CLUE as to what was different between small pox and measles -- for both disfigure the skin -- and at lightning speed, too. Since even Europeans were terrified of small pox... anytime contagion swept through native populations they jumped to a small pox conclusion. The one disease is SELECTIVE against non-Europeans -- the other kills all and every -- straight off. You see the difference?
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  4. The QUEEN had an outside influence on the SPANISH Inquisition. Yes, there were inquisition courts all over the Catholic lands. The SPANISH courts became infamous due to a propaganda war with the Protestant lands. Though the Jews were the primary targets of such courts, it was the Protestants that were psychologically most inflamed... because their scandal sheets made hay about the Spanish -- who were the ultra-power of that age. The loot being stolen from the New World was so great that the other reigning monarchs had no clue as to how vast it was. Elizabeth almost fell off her throne when presented with her 'end' of the re-stolen booty. In short order she was able to liquidate the Crown's debt with a mere fraction of the Spanish haul -- in one year. This was the economic basis for the 1588AD invasion project. BTW, the English did not defeat the Spanish -- the Spanish defeated the Spanish. They hadn't a CLUE as to their enemy, nor the seas surrounding the English isles. WHAT A GAFF. Who could predict that such a massive effort would proceed without a scouting campaign? Whatever those in Spanish Holland knew, they kept their mouths shut WRT royal battle fleet. They were already quite alienated with their masters, plainly. [c.f. eighty-years war 1568-1648] You would've expected that at least SOMEONE would open their mouths to an open purse. Yet, plainly, the Spanish remained astoundingly clueless about the essentials of such northern waters. Yeah, they're not at all like the mid-Atlantic. 'Roaring-forties' comes to mind. BTW, Smith lost the Titanic precisely because he went north-most to avoid stormy seas. This is why he was ripping along -- just like his peers -- right up towards the iceberg zone -- on mill pond waves. Anglo-Allies of WWII never forgot the Spanish lesson. And well they did not. [ c.f. the June, 19thru21, 1944 storm that came out of Sweden, it, not the Nazis, nearly destroyed Overlord.]
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  5. Britain had GOLD. Rome invaded whenever and wherever gold was available. The Emperor needed a new land conquest, ASAP. So conquering Britain was virtually a one-man invasion decision, too. The other fronts had no gold, whatsoever. As for the Spanish New World: its gold and silver thefts put their ENTIRE empire in the 'oil trap' of excessively easy exploitable wealth. This caused all other economic growth// intellectual growth to atrophy... with dire results. After a fashion, this is happening to the USA via the Reserve Dollar addiction. Brazil has a staggering bottleneck: rotten ports// lack of water right on the coast where industry needs it. The Amazon is no help. The INCA operated like Sparta. Their underclasses hated them. The Spanish were often deemed as liberators -- hard to believe, I know. Then measles did the rest. The ancient legend of white super-men was a huge psychological factor, too. The Indians held the same ideas as the Chinese: Africa was an economic and cultural desert. BTW, India's culture goes back 14,000+ years not 4,000. See Gobekli Tepe. Southeast Asia has Brazil's problem: too much Jungle. Even its main river pretty much goes the 'wrong way' -- unlike the Rhine/ Thames/ Yellow/ Nile/ it just is no economic corridor. Contrast it with the Mississippi... which is just about the sweetest economic asset on Earth. Islam became huge directly because of the super-volcano nightmare of 536-539AD. This super-eruption totally devastated agriculture generally, and especially so in the water-challenged lands that became Islamic. BTW, the Persians were no flakes. They couldn't hold off the Muslims, either. Ditto for the Egyptians. Rice produces a lot of food per acre -- but it also traps its labor force. (Symbiosis with plants? Are we humming birds?) The West rose due to a run-away reinforcement loop that is not unique. It happened with the Edenists, 14,000 ybp. Their fantastic rise was just as abrupt -- probably more so. Their culture expanded faster than that of the USA. We still live under its heritage -- and don't know it -- for the most part.
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