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

  1. 5:50 Correction: Short selling is the act of borrowing assets to sell immediately and profiting when you buy them back later at a lower price and return them. The word you are looking for is "leverage," the use of borrowed funds to amplify gains/losses.
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  2. Mauritanian and a bunch of Arab nations are the same. Slavery only ended on paper over there.
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  3. The Ottomans didn't refer to Palestine as Palestine, that was the British name for the place. This was all part of the functionally independent province of Syria in those days with most of the holy sites being in the functionally independent county of Jerusalem.
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  4. Holy Week corresponds to Ramadan and Purim. The custom in Ottoman Jerusalem was to have a month of festivities centered around the Patriarchs and Moses who are holy men in all three religions. Festivities were after nightfall, and things were rowdy as there was political violence and drunken shenanigans every year.
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  5. The smallest independent communities have the most interesting politics and microeconomies, I find.
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  6. Drug cartels totally do that...
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  7. Ethiopia is about as Christian as it is Muslim. Certain remote cultures inside Ethiopia are Christian, but the area as a whole has no particular ethnic or religious patter.
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  8. Fears of Haitian style revolutions were very real. The horror of freedmen genociding the French and then enslaving each other caused many countries to immediately restrict some of the rights of current and former slaves.
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  9.  @AjarTadpole7202  buying on margin is borrowing.
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  10. Are you sure Nicolas was as involved in these "Christian revolts" as your sources say? The Ottomans had a habit of blaming external enemies for their infighting. Like the time they blamed the Russians for a revolt among the Armenians even though the Russians were not even aware of the war until after the fact.
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  11. IIRC it is because some parts of eastern Europe still use the Julian calendar, which doesn't have leap years.
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  12. Ethiopia. The only country where some emperors claim decent from Solomon and some call themselves the exterminator of the Jews.
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  13. It was a cartoon caricature of him, but yeah. IIRC he yanked the beard of an Irish diplomat during an argument once.
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  14.  @ericdillingham6858  not exactly. The Fascists enforced their warped view about how empires worked by both building schools, and wiping out most of the existing literate population (mostly Christian priests). Even the bishop of Ethiopia was offed.
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  15. Lose the rhetoric
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  16.  @florians9949  except nothing of consequence is happening
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  17. I got news for you: America writes global history books.
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  18.  @tams805  No, I mean that history books written in America are read all over the world and Americans write history about all sorts of exotic places. In fact, in many places such books are among the few history books available. There's a wildly disproportionate amount of people familiar with US and European history.
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  19. The day of crash is said to have been caused when one group of traders wasn't at market that day, so another group decided to trade something else that day. The last buyer simply evaporated.
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  20. Not when Arabs are involved
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  21. The Muslims definitely don't.
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  22. Laughs in Levantine.
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  23.  @ericdillingham6858  the one I didn't read
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  24. There never was any known monarch named Prestor John.
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  25. Yes. Mostly in places with small slave populations. Many northern states in America simply made slaves uninheritable, removing slavery within a couple generations. Normandy in the 11th century also outlawed the buying and selling of slaves, and while we don't know exactly how effective this was we do know that slavery was not the norm in high and late medieval France and England. Mexico also outlawed the ownership of slaves, but had several major exceptions which included slaves legally bought in another country and followed their masters into Mexico.
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  26. That explains why it shows up on so many "dumb laws" lists...
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  27. Vhut. Is the problem?
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  28.  @seytanuakbar3022  Easter is always on a Sunday, though
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  29. @Kasumi Rina  easter is literally the sunday after the full moon
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  30. Blaming your losses on the system. Where have I heard that one before?
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  31.  @abbasshachem3383  Palestine is the Latin mispronunciation of Pheonician, referring to the people on the southern coast of Palestine also known as the Philistines.
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  32.  @adamlatosinski5475  although at that time it only referred to four towns while the area as a whole was still called Canaan allegedly named after the first man who settled there.
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  33.  @davisjackson9154  Kinda. The Grand Mufti's power was not absolute although about 5% of the county's land mass was registered as a "religious endowelment" in the Ottoman register and listed as the Mufti's private property on the Jerusalem register. More like the Papal states when they existed.
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  34.  @tagmata1872  What?
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  35. The Italians ripped Ethiopia a new butthole with on hand tied behind their back and the Ethiopians needed the Brits to rescue them, don't pretend otherwise.
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  36. There are dozens of so-called "First modern wars."
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  37. The reason tulips went crazy was gardening was a popular hobby back then and one guy managed to bring back a rare flower from Vienna. He refused to sell as that made his garden unique, but someone stole the plants.
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  38. Such as?
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  39. Vhut?
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  40. Don't think these type of myths are a thing of the past. Look at Chupacagra or the Main Mutant or other "cryptids."
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  41. That's an expensive game of hot potato...
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  42. Yourself included.
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  43. So?
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  44.  @user-os2yp6ph2z  so why take a side?
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  45.  @spaghettimon3851  shut up
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  46.  @66sec65  I don't give a damn where yer from and yer proving the point.
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  47. This story is like a soap opera.....
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  48. Monks punching each other still goes on in Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is shared by 6 sects and each has veto power over all decisions. You can't even move a chair without getting permission from 6 men and Israeli police routinely arrests monks for fighting each other. Welcome to al-Quds.
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  49. There are wars, there are crimes, but there are no war crimes.
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  50. The line was a star trek quite
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