Comments by "黑龍 - Hắc Long" (@-haclong2366) on "Premodernist" channel.

  1. My view is that it's like calling the U.K. (Iran) as England (Persia). English isn't called the "British language". Though I've seen Iranians hate the term "Farsi" because the F-sound was brought in by Arabs and that a lot of people use the term "Parsi" and want to continue using the term Persian in English.
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  2. France, though.
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  3. I read a lot of Asian history, it is very common to see Asians defeat Europeans in warfare as late as the 18th century, but during the 19th century the exponential technological growth of Europe allowed for them to win.
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  4.  @premodernist_history  This is common in history, Bolshevik Russia isn't legally a continuation of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic but we treat it as such, in a lot of revolutions they try to completely break away from the preceding state but will claim continuity for diplomatic reasons (especially for territorial claims). The modern Kingdom of the Netherlands was established under the guise of continuing the Republic of the 7 United Netherlands, but its institutions are more similar to that of Revolutionary France than the old confederation. The People's Republic of China has nothing in common with the Republic of China, but claims continuity, meanwhile nobody recognises the actual Republic of China as a continuation of itself seeing it rather as "Taiwan". This is despite all of its institutions and administrative culture surviving there to this day. Legal continuity is always difficult to determine with revolutionary changes.
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  5. 13:57 I just like how dry and direct that message is "British America and Mexico clearly belong to us". Edit: grammar
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  6. 08:55 "Chinese" at the time was already fragmenting into different languages, dealing with the Jurchen Empire an early form of Mandarin was being spoken there, but Chinese people didn't speak the language we today would call "Chinese", rather they spoke the languages that evolved into what is today "Taiwanese" (Southern Min), and Hakka, Cantonese, Etc. This would be like trying to use Old French to an Old Italian speaker, they were the same language recently, but they're different enough to be seen as almost separate languages.
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  7. 01:00 The Indigenous Americans also adopted Afro-Eurasian technology and during the 19th century fighting against Indian tribes often meant fighting against well-armed modern armies.
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  8. 01:45 Especially since some theorists believe that the average I.Q. of people during the Stone Age was higher than today.
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  9.  @premodernist_history  Not all Koreans say Hanguk, North Koreans say Chosŏn.
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  10. 04:30 It actually came from Champa, not Vietnam. Although Champa is today a part of Vietnam
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  11. ¿Why didn't Southern China use the camel? In Beijing you couldn't go anywhere without seeing lots of camels but they were nowhere in Guangzhou during the same period.
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  12. Unless something drastic happens I don't see de-industrialisation ever happening, for now it only exists in the fantasies of Green-Anarchists and the global population is projected to shrink due to people having less children everywhere outside of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  13. The Ottoman Empire was the successor to both the Roman Empire ("Byzantine Empire") and the Roman Sultanate ("Sultanate of Iconium"). There were multiple Roman Empires.
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  14. 07:04 We already had that, that was the French Revolution.
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