Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Thales Gagliardi Downing Street, Fleet Street, Wall Street...
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  2. He’s right: that is Europe’s ass.
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  3. I think he was based on John of Gaunt, but history is always repeating itself.
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  4. The Wilsonian boundaries around Turkey aren't so bad, genuinely intending to reflect the ethnic makeup of the region, but with the Arabs, the attempt to impose a European-style national order was always kind of iffy: the Levant and Iraq were basically a collection of city-states, and Arabia proper was defined by nomadic tribes (let's leave aside North Africa which actually does have strong national identities owing to base cultures that predate the Arab influence); the linguistic ties used to form European nations was not anymore applicable than if the US, Canada, and all the English-speaking nations of the Caribbean were made one country. It was politically necessary to fight the Ottomans, but hopelessly naive as a functional postwar order.
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  5. Fox-tossing gradually lost popularity in favor of fish-slapping.
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  6.  @seanwilliam2856  HOOK IT TO MY VEINS
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  7. (clicks video) (checks comments) "Yep."
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  8. imthebrush72 things Thank God I wasn’t the only one who heard the theme playing.
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  9. The whole mess we're in can be traced back to Australopithecus.
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  10. John Dee was the guy who coined the term "British Empire." Mind you, this was over 100 years before "Britain" was a country, but he did get to see England become a Great Power. He was also that guy who was played by Richard O'Brien in Jubilee.
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  11. 4:39 "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
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  12. Fun fact: the story of Samson is probably heavily influenced by Mycenaean Greek heroics– the Philistines being a Mycenaean people. ... And yes, you can find out more about this on my channel.
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  13. 1:40 Grant?
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  14. Does this mean they're hiring?
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  15. Robert Jarman after the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135.
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  16. Further than that, even. What Lawrence realized (and Mark Twain saw some fifty years earlier) was that the concept of an Arab "nation" was fundamentally vacuous and rooted in Eurocentric ideas of sedentary temperate and subtropical societies. Arabia was nomadic/tribal and identity in the Levant was driven foremost by one's city. The rise in Arab nationalism on the eve of war was driven by the Young Turks' reforms, which shifted the position of the Ottoman Sultan from a religious leader to a secular, more nationalistic one, alienating the empire's many, many minority groups of which Arabs were the largest– and Arab Nationalists were overwhelmingly Christian. Perhaps a Middle East under Faisal could have been peaceful between neighboring states, but just as likely his Greater Syria would have been plagued by hyper-local insurrections.
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  17. NEVER GET INVOLVED IN A LAND WAR IN ASIA
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  18. L O S T
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  19. Probus never gets enough credit for ending the Germanic invasions.
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  20. Robert Walpole stars in... ...The Big Escheat
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  21. Correct. It's not for nothing that the Age of Exploration made great powers out of European nations with access to the Atlantic (UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands) and did jack shit for the continental powers of the time (Austria, Poland, Turkey).
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  22. 2:38 Simpsons reference?
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  23. The end of Mycenaean Greece and the beginning of the Israelites!
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  24. Lord Palmerston!
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  25. Sevres, not Versailles. The Middle East was carved up at the Treaty of Sevres.
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  26. The Sykes-Picot Agreement is itself vague in its relation to the mandates. It envisioned Jerusalem Mustaffariate as an international protectorate, and Mosul Governorate under French control.
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  27. The Syrian Government is Shia.
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  28. Yeah, that sounds like Mercantilism, which we definitely don't have anymore.
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  29. 0:51 Why is Lorraine missing from France in 1848?
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  30. We all know Stephen Maturin got to the Galapagos first.
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  31. Who else is here (or back) because of The Favourite?
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  32. 1920 holy shit.
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  33. (Obligatory John Wayne joke)
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  34. I too got a lot of enjoyment out of knowing the insane, movie-worthy story happening just offscreen.
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  35. Check out Historia Civilis.
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  36. If you're an artist and someone wants to pay you in experience and/or exposure, blame the Romantics.
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  37. Spain didn't join NATO until 1982. You were thinking of Portugal.
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  38. 2:20 Flag alert! Flanders is part of Belgium, and Holland ≠ the Netherlands. You've got the flag of the Province of Holland there.
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  39. If Carthage means "New Town," was New Carthage actually "New New Town?"
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  40. Not only did Henry V die just two months before Charles VI, but his son grew up to have disabling mental illness much in the same vein as Charles had had.
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  41. Obligatory Anchorman 2 reference
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  42. 2:12 MIDDLE CLASS INTENSIFIES
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  43. Which period? It's really, really old. I was there a few weeks ago and walked through an 3800-year-old aqueduct. That said, Hezekiah would be a good one.
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  44. Wow, you just Walpoled us right up front.
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  45. Warning: Do not watch the 2001 film The Affair of The Necklace if this interests you. It is awful history and an awful movie. It grossed only $400k for a reason.
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  46. YEE
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  47. The story of Guy Gabaldon is the most LA thing I have ever heard.
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