Commerce, Agriculture, and Slavery: Crash Course European History #8
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Date: 2022-04-04
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okay jon the trade on the east coast may have transported as many as 17 million slaves most of them suffering castration prior to being sold. this fact doesn't not make the compatibly smaller and less brutal European slave trade okay but it does show how you have in attempting to counter your own bias as a white man miss represented history from a western centered point of view
p. s the western centered point of view comment was meant to point out how this kind of behavior erases the agency of non European people and falsely ascribes a special level of brutality to Europeans in a way that makes the academic study of history harder not to mention granting white people the same -special- role in history that your trying to remove from them only this time as the worst destroyers rather then as the founders of civilization. if by some chance you do read this comment i hope you understand that i'm not trying to insult you or degrade you i'm merely trying to point out a place where bias has harmed your presentation of history.
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okay jon the trade on the east coast may have transported as many as 17 million slaves most of them suffering castration prior to being sold. this fact doesn't not make the compatibly smaller and less brutal European slave trade okay but it does show how you have in attempting to counter your own bias as a white man miss represented history from a western centered point of view
p. s the western centered point of view comment was meant to point out how this kind of behavior erases the agency of non European people and falsely ascribes a special level of brutality to Europeans in a way that makes the academic study of history harder not to mention granting white people the same -special- role in history that your trying to remove from them only this time as the worst destroyers rather then as the founders of civilization. if by some chance you do read this comment i hope you understand that i'm not trying to insult you or degrade you i'm merely trying to point out a place where bias has harmed your presentation of history.
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John
I disagree with his comment at time stamp 6: 52(approx) where he talks about candidate for most important plant of the last 500 years, stating his vote is for the potato. I had a recent conversation with an Illinois farmer and in talking with him he said that you need a TON of potassium and a lot of fertilizer for potatoes. Get too much rain and it could destroy your potato crop by washing the potassium out of the soil. Corn on the other hand can and is planted around the world and is more responsible for population increases and avoiding famines, it's also the most manipulated crop humans have ever grown. Consider that it started as a small stalk of grass and now we have drought, blight, pest resistant strains of corn. This farmer said you need less land to grow corn than potatoes and get a much bigger yield. So, my vote for most important plant of the past 500 years is maize/corn, with potatoes in second place.
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I disagree with his comment at time stamp 6: 52(approx) where he talks about candidate for most important plant of the last 500 years, stating his vote is for the potato. I had a recent conversation with an Illinois farmer and in talking with him he said that you need a TON of potassium and a lot of fertilizer for potatoes. Get too much rain and it could destroy your potato crop by washing the potassium out of the soil. Corn on the other hand can and is planted around the world and is more responsible for population increases and avoiding famines, it's also the most manipulated crop humans have ever grown. Consider that it started as a small stalk of grass and now we have drought, blight, pest resistant strains of corn. This farmer said you need less land to grow corn than potatoes and get a much bigger yield. So, my vote for most important plant of the past 500 years is maize/corn, with potatoes in second place.
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M-rtan
No mention of indentured servitude, an important means of controlling population growth in Europe and of disposing undesirables and the impoverished. 'Transportation' was the principle means by which north America was peopled and provided the earliest workers for the nascent cash crop economy of North America. Political tensions were eased by deporting political and religious radicals, landed aristocrats made money on cultivating tobacco and cotton. Many Jacobites composed songs about the woes of the Highland clearances and being transported to 'Virginny'. A key component to the survival of the Hanoverian regime in Britain. Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe as a means to empty London's debtors' prisons. When the wars of the 18th deprived Britain, France of indentured servants, they resorted to importation of Black African slavery.
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No mention of indentured servitude, an important means of controlling population growth in Europe and of disposing undesirables and the impoverished. 'Transportation' was the principle means by which north America was peopled and provided the earliest workers for the nascent cash crop economy of North America. Political tensions were eased by deporting political and religious radicals, landed aristocrats made money on cultivating tobacco and cotton. Many Jacobites composed songs about the woes of the Highland clearances and being transported to 'Virginny'. A key component to the survival of the Hanoverian regime in Britain. Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe as a means to empty London's debtors' prisons. When the wars of the 18th deprived Britain, France of indentured servants, they resorted to importation of Black African slavery.
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Victoria
I just wanted to thank you for your hard work. I am an 8th grade Social Studies teacher in New Jersey. I have been using your videos throughout the year to supplement our textbooks and give the students a visual guide before testing. Since we have been remote teaching I have relied more on the internet vary content and keep students interested as a result Crash Course European History has become a staple. Thank you for making history interesting and humorous. Keep up the hard work and producing great videos!
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I just wanted to thank you for your hard work. I am an 8th grade Social Studies teacher in New Jersey. I have been using your videos throughout the year to supplement our textbooks and give the students a visual guide before testing. Since we have been remote teaching I have relied more on the internet vary content and keep students interested as a result Crash Course European History has become a staple. Thank you for making history interesting and humorous. Keep up the hard work and producing great videos!
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honesty
As a Scot, we still talk about the Highland Clearances as to why cities like Glasgow and Dundee were able to power the industrial revolution (jute, cotton, manufacturing) while also depopulating the Highlands and Islands, making them essentially empty. Even today, the majority of Scotland's population remains in the central belt and becomes less as you travel north (although, the area around Aberdeen is the exception after the discovery of oil in the North Sea in the 60s/70s.
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As a Scot, we still talk about the Highland Clearances as to why cities like Glasgow and Dundee were able to power the industrial revolution (jute, cotton, manufacturing) while also depopulating the Highlands and Islands, making them essentially empty. Even today, the majority of Scotland's population remains in the central belt and becomes less as you travel north (although, the area around Aberdeen is the exception after the discovery of oil in the North Sea in the 60s/70s.
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Villagehardcore
I wish there was a whole crash course series dedicated to covering the subjects in this video. This is the meat of history! Telling the stories of famous -important- people is an easy way to digest history, but those stories are only meaningful and remembered because they came to embody or contrast the zeitgeist, the mass shifts in culture and behavior by everyday people.
Also, will ya'll ever do a Black History crash course? Its sorely needed!
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I wish there was a whole crash course series dedicated to covering the subjects in this video. This is the meat of history! Telling the stories of famous -important- people is an easy way to digest history, but those stories are only meaningful and remembered because they came to embody or contrast the zeitgeist, the mass shifts in culture and behavior by everyday people.
Also, will ya'll ever do a Black History crash course? Its sorely needed!
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Javier
Enclosures destroyed sustainable land management practices to favor monocrops and deforestation. There is no clear proof that this produced more food. It did produce more wealth for the wealthy at the expense of food security for the rural communities. Please John, look back to John C. Scott, his Against the Grain book is full of insights.
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Enclosures destroyed sustainable land management practices to favor monocrops and deforestation. There is no clear proof that this produced more food. It did produce more wealth for the wealthy at the expense of food security for the rural communities. Please John, look back to John C. Scott, his Against the Grain book is full of insights.
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Katie
The clearing of tenants from land in Scotland by wealthy landowners talked about in the video (in this case The countess of Sutherland) is called -the highland clearances- which is still considered to be devastating to most people who still live in the areas that took place.
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The clearing of tenants from land in Scotland by wealthy landowners talked about in the video (in this case The countess of Sutherland) is called -the highland clearances- which is still considered to be devastating to most people who still live in the areas that took place.
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Alex
John Green! Thanks for all the great videos on History. The European History series is my favorite as Crash Course keeps getting better over the years. I would champion any more videos you would create about communication or medical technology history!
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John Green! Thanks for all the great videos on History. The European History series is my favorite as Crash Course keeps getting better over the years. I would champion any more videos you would create about communication or medical technology history!
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peterinbrat
Along with the potato in Europe, corn and the sweet potato were game changers in Asia.
1493 is a great book on the impact of the Columbian Exchange with an emphasis on commodities and the impact of diseases in that era.
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Along with the potato in Europe, corn and the sweet potato were game changers in Asia.
1493 is a great book on the impact of the Columbian Exchange with an emphasis on commodities and the impact of diseases in that era.
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