Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Jabzy" channel.

  1. Bear in mind that in 1870 clothing people, naked Congolese or paying customers in the industrial world, was not the main use of cotton. From the US Civil War through the end of WWI, the main use of cotton was in gun cotton. The average artillery shell took about 17 pounds of cotton, or about the same as a paid of jeans and a cotton jacket. The industrial countries stored artillery shells by the tens of millions and fired off tens of millions more. Only the invention of artificial fixation of nitrogen by the Germans (dated as 1919 by some, with I do not know how much accuracy) ended this major use of cotton. I know of no histories typing the gun-cotton market to race relations in the US South, and I would love to hear from anyone who has reliable thoughts and information on that aspect of the topic.
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  2.  @devintaylor8702  "Europe helped Africa alot with infrastructure " Because the Europeans had steel and gunpowder, they destroyed civilizations superior to their own with ease. Europe's two contributions to Africa were slavery and smallpox.
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  3. This article suffers from the Western "poor isolated Asians" trope. As soon as the Anglo-Americans learned about steam engines, everybody else started signing treaties, and that showed that they were no longer isolated, see?
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  4. Yoruba ==> yaw' ruh ba. Your yaROO-ba would be funny if it weren't so ugly and insulting. And the 1700s are the 18th, not the seventeenth century. I.e. what you're giving us here is a rushed, unedited and unchecked, piece of night-before-the-exam hack work. Take it down and redo it from scratch, OK? At present this is a negative contribution to knowledge, an active spreader of error and ignorance. :You are a nasty example of what YouTube is doing to the Western intellect: destroying it.
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  5. Plebian, Flies conquering fly-paper. Japan's most amazing accomplishment at the height of its domination of the map was losing a million men to malaria in Malaya during WWII -- out of a total garrison of 300,000. How do you lose three times more men than you have stationed there? You just set up a bureaucracy in a wooden shack in Toranomon, call it your Ministry of This and That, and have it send down 30,000 men a month without thinking about it too much. As long as your farmers keep breeding, it works. Sorta. You still get to put your colour of ink on all those maps you print...
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  6. Maxatrillion, It works both ways. Are there more Koreans in Japan or Japanese in Korea?
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  7. MDto, You should log off your computer when you leave it. Some very stupid person has been writing ignorant foolish posts in your name while you were away.
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  8. Valerian Tiger, Well said. The problem here is that a lot of people think the full aim and content of history is the justification of whatever they like about today, the "It all led up to wonderful me" syndrome.
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  9. Red, You've posted your little whimper the wrong place. There is no mention of Americans and atom bombs in this at all. You may be on autopilot, and need to get yourself under control again... Good luck.
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  10. Three and a half hors of book-work interspersed with a steady stream of idiocy, inaccuracy, and half-wit simplification. A horrid little pimple on the arse of documentary history.
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