The Modern Revolution: Crash Course Big History #8
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Peter
Go read Germs, Blood and Steel by Jared Diamond. It's pretty misleading to say Europeans were able to spread over the world because of crops from the Americas. Eurasians were ahead of the rest of the world because they found themselves in a region with the best plants to use for crops, most suitable animals for domestication, and a West East continental axis that provided a large area with a similar climate so that crops, domesticated animals and technology could spread easily.
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Go read Germs, Blood and Steel by Jared Diamond. It's pretty misleading to say Europeans were able to spread over the world because of crops from the Americas. Eurasians were ahead of the rest of the world because they found themselves in a region with the best plants to use for crops, most suitable animals for domestication, and a West East continental axis that provided a large area with a similar climate so that crops, domesticated animals and technology could spread easily.
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darkfang
Because China was so advanced they culture revolves around the fact that they were more advanced, so they did not innovate. Keep in mind half of their innovators, women, had very little rights. In fact, it wasn-t until a few decades ago that China finally modernized. And even then it was only caused when warmongers outed diplomacy in it-s infancy and took modernization by it-s horns and steered it towards communism and the World Wars.
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Because China was so advanced they culture revolves around the fact that they were more advanced, so they did not innovate. Keep in mind half of their innovators, women, had very little rights. In fact, it wasn-t until a few decades ago that China finally modernized. And even then it was only caused when warmongers outed diplomacy in it-s infancy and took modernization by it-s horns and steered it towards communism and the World Wars.
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Eric
Why not in China? You're not -collective learning- if you're not literate. Despite their numbers in population, the English had numbers in educated literate and hence a superior education system. Chinese characters are perhaps more useful than letters - but only after you've learned them, which was prohibitively difficult.
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Why not in China? You're not -collective learning- if you're not literate. Despite their numbers in population, the English had numbers in educated literate and hence a superior education system. Chinese characters are perhaps more useful than letters - but only after you've learned them, which was prohibitively difficult.
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TinMan354
At 2: 32, you mention that European states were relatively small compared to the vast empires like China and India. Why were Asian empires able to unite far greater numbers of people and areas of land under a single central authority while in Europe there were much smaller groups kingdoms and empires?
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At 2: 32, you mention that European states were relatively small compared to the vast empires like China and India. Why were Asian empires able to unite far greater numbers of people and areas of land under a single central authority while in Europe there were much smaller groups kingdoms and empires?
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thereal
Not sure if that cat is your older brother or younger. I got 3 older brothers. i gotta think the protection/defensive instinct i have for them is enough. Noone is ever gonna shock them or me on purpose without a fight.
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Not sure if that cat is your older brother or younger. I got 3 older brothers. i gotta think the protection/defensive instinct i have for them is enough. Noone is ever gonna shock them or me on purpose without a fight.
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Johann
Maybe Western Europe and the United Kingdom had developed a system of collective learning that made it possible for rapid development at a more rapid rate than in Asia. That would typically have been since 1500-1918
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Maybe Western Europe and the United Kingdom had developed a system of collective learning that made it possible for rapid development at a more rapid rate than in Asia. That would typically have been since 1500-1918
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Mike
The Portuguese were first to explore the seas than Colombos ( who was actually also portuguese but Portugal refused to allow him to sail the Atlantic from Portugal to China and the spanish Kingdom picked his idea up)
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The Portuguese were first to explore the seas than Colombos ( who was actually also portuguese but Portugal refused to allow him to sail the Atlantic from Portugal to China and the spanish Kingdom picked his idea up)
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The
i say the modern era started in 1914 durring the first world war, and the -Pre-modern- era started around the late 1400s, and the post modern era started around 1991 when the united states became the sole hyper power.
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i say the modern era started in 1914 durring the first world war, and the -Pre-modern- era started around the late 1400s, and the post modern era started around 1991 when the united states became the sole hyper power.
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Hernan
I notice you two have mention how the europeans stole -the silver- from the natives of the Americas. But, how come neither of you metion ALL THE GOLD they took from our ancestors. -
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I notice you two have mention how the europeans stole -the silver- from the natives of the Americas. But, how come neither of you metion ALL THE GOLD they took from our ancestors. -
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Joseph
2: 19 But 14th century Portugal was already beginning its empire with actions against Moroccan pirates & trade expeditions to the Canary Islands one hundred years before 1453
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2: 19 But 14th century Portugal was already beginning its empire with actions against Moroccan pirates & trade expeditions to the Canary Islands one hundred years before 1453
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