Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Premodernist" channel.

  1. Here's how you know the Mongol's didn't genocide anyone is how many collaborators they had because by the time they controlled most of central China they were already a majority Chinese army. Pirate armies create new kings, they do not destroy nations
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  2. Caveat: Many Arabs change their names or become known by other names several times in their lives especially if they're into politics. Yes, these names are often much too flattering.
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  3. You should always be skeptical when extortion is involved.
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  4.  @ObiJoanQuenobi  Stalin definitely murdered Trotsky for personal reasons.
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  5. Vhut? Even if the arbitrary losses are taken as fact that isn't genocide
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  6. I've seen people keep refusing to believe it was worth the money despite the amount of oil per year alone exceeded the purchase price
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  7. Tzar means Emperor and is gender neutral, and it was Alexander III
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  8. We idolize the founding fathers, but really democracy was just an historic accident. We could have just as easily had a King Washington.
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  9. Only when you're involved
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  10. Not just money, but money, family, and power. That is everyone's bottom line, and that will dictate where they live and who they serve.
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  11. Didn't happen. The Russian territory extended as far as their farthest fishing village
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  12. Note: International organizations with quasi-government power were actually the norm in the 18th century. The Holy Roman Empire was actually hundreds of sovereign states and all the Swiss Cantons were sovereign. The Ottoman Empire was an absolutist monarchy on paper but in fact it was hundreds of sovereign states. The Spanish and Tsarist Empires were likewise only unified only on paper as it could take over a year for any message to travel and it could take a decade for any royal intervention to materialize if at all.
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  13. There's no debate. There are those who read Plato, and those who are liars.
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  14. It would help if you weren't full of shI*t
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  15. We've only gotten richer with science advancement and economies of scale. Even so, the purchase paid for itself a hundred times already
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  16. They didn't stop naming themselves like this. That's why there's confusion over which is a surname. Many Arabs actually have to change their names in order to have a first-last name. Most Arabs still do not have birth certificates or other records.
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  17. About Chinese census: The census these days are intentionally bloated by state governments competing for Beijing budget allocations and Beijing making empty threats about how many men they can throw at an enemy. I don't doubt medieval China was any different because they had a bloated government admin due to many men competing for high office. I.E. Administrators carefully recorded the progress of plagues but no one cared to do anything about it.
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  18. ​@Kenan-Z the Turks are more or less from central asia.
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  19. Only if your teacher was a fraud. But frankly since I started teaching it seems k-12 history is way more cursory than I remember
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  20. This has nothing to do with religion
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  21. No one knows, no one cares
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  22. Except that never happened.
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  23. What?
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  24.  @musicmaker1617  Colonial and rape are as unrelated as US parties are to Europe.
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  25. The Feds rule the world. You support the Feds. Get over it.
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  26. Because even at this stage America unofficially owned Canada
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  27. The myth that the middle ages were horrible stems from the "enlightened" period when newly built universities spread lies about the era before universities. It's like how the myth that Victorian era women were abused comes from the Sufferagette Movement. People don't distinguish between historic eras, they see it all as "the past" and almost all they know (and lie about) tends to be the immediate past.
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  28. Everyone does. A government has dominance over its land in order to be called a government
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  29. Nah. Direct elections came later and the electors and population always vote the same
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  30. It's partially true. The alcohol was actively diluted because they didn't know any other way to sanitize water. Usually people only trusted straight water they knew for a fact was clean, which meant they were acutely immune to local germs. Whole armies have been halted by diarhea when men were forced to drink local water, though.
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  31. That would take a whole series
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  32. Shut up
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  33. Constitutional revisions only really happen at gunpoint.
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  34. Found the college dropout
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  35. Liar
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  36. Liar
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  37. Personal identification. Yes, there are loads of fake family members associated with large and powerful clans.
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  38. ​ @Stickminbasi90 educated guesses based on family stories, I'll judge?
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  39. ​@premodernist_history Arabic names applied to very large cities and modern Arabs. For instance, there is President called Abu Mazen Mahmoud Abbas.
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  40. @Albukhshi  dude, Arabs change their names and falsify family connections among dead people all the time. Usually this was to make their family connections reflect their political/national affiliations so it's not so common now that we have political parties rather than tribes.
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  41. The silly part is when people start dick measuring with how many people the Commies and Nazis killed even though a lot of that was fighting each other. But also note the US coined the term totalitarian in order to get one word that described both nazis and commies because they're both seen as bad
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  42. Liar. The Feds rule the world.
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  43. Shut up
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  44. You say that as if you know it's bullshit
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  45. Liar
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  46. @bawsack69  it's intentionally misleading to the point you might have well made it up. A number of early politicians were freemasons but that organization played no role in politics
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  47.  @bawsack69  I'm a grad student in my late 20s. I got a feeling you're over 50
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  48. @bawsack69  Military history. Now don't you have a divorce to finalize, you failed abortion?
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  49. They were also at war with Japan and was too far away to settle or defend it
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  50. Watch the video
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