Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Today I Found Out" channel.

  1.  @veemie8148  Yeah that's a similar not not the same timeline as mine. One major difference is that the demographics was called "human geography" and was an elective for me in sophomore year with world history being taught first in 6th grade and then in 9th grade (mostly the older civilizations in 6th grade). We also got American history to the Civil War in 8th grade and then from reconstruction to today in junior year. 7th grade for me was a civics class.
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  2. As unique at it is it's not really relevant to British history until America actually became a world power because they just didn't really interfere with Britain. There was the war of 1812 which was right around the Napoleonic wars and so I'd imagine that taking precedence over a small colonial war largely fought by its colony against the former colonies (The Canadians were the ones who burnt down DC btw) as the loyalists went to Canada and so their militias were the Primary forces against the American army. So for much of America's history it was just kind of less relevant to the other goings-on in Europe which were much closer to home and had a larger effect on their political situation. Until the ACW when America's trade was enough to make the European powers make plans of intervention and largely acknowledge that the Americans were a rising power that it really has any relevance. I mean... check out how relevant Latin America is on the world stage even today and that's about how relevant the US was in the grand scheme of things until roughly around the Civil War. When America really couldn't be Ignored was about the time Japan couldn't either (Spanish-American War and Russo-Japamese war respectively) as even though they were largely second rate powers at the time it was still said countries beating a European power in a war. Coincidentally in US history I'm pretty sure that's about the time Japan becomes relevant (after all we did send Commodore Perry to open the country) and sets the stage for the Great War.
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