Top 10 Events I Wouldn\'t be able to Predict in History.
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Also, the natives in the US didnt lose because the whites were so brutal. They lost because they were too brutal. They lapsed into violence too readily and as result couldnt maintain alliances with each other, much less with white governments. The narrative of brutal whites constantly breaking treaties is largely a product of anti-white historians who are content to ignore the violence which emanated from indigenous populations and made coexistence impossible.
Date: 2022-07-15
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David
WhatifAltHist: Brazil has fertile soils and amazing Geography. Peter Zeihan: Brazil has awful soils (jungle soils have to be treated with incredible amounts of alkali to kill off other stuff before it can be used for agriculture); no winter to kill insects, i. e. chronic crop infestations; and an awful geography where produce and mineral exports from the interior have to be TRUCKED down the escarpment to ports. (The exception is in the far north, where ONE city is on the amazon, a river that is impossible to build infrastructure or bridges over because it is so big) Basically, Brazilian agriculture is ENORMOUSLY more expensive than American. Yes, the slave culture (what one author calls an extractive model) hindered their development too, but they had a terrible geographic starting point.
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WhatifAltHist: Brazil has fertile soils and amazing Geography. Peter Zeihan: Brazil has awful soils (jungle soils have to be treated with incredible amounts of alkali to kill off other stuff before it can be used for agriculture); no winter to kill insects, i. e. chronic crop infestations; and an awful geography where produce and mineral exports from the interior have to be TRUCKED down the escarpment to ports. (The exception is in the far north, where ONE city is on the amazon, a river that is impossible to build infrastructure or bridges over because it is so big) Basically, Brazilian agriculture is ENORMOUSLY more expensive than American. Yes, the slave culture (what one author calls an extractive model) hindered their development too, but they had a terrible geographic starting point.
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Alfonso
In Latin America, the Catholics we're corrupt and suppressed everything for the King and Vatican. The Native kingdoms were conquered with the majority of the natives, enemies of the Kingdoms, encouraged by the few Spaniards. The diseases that the Eropeans brought killed off a large percentage of the native population. The perfect Strom. Oh oh. I lost some respect for you (narrator) for clapping for the conquer of the Inca, as if they were heroes. I might cancel your vids. oh oh both Mexico and Brazil are members of the G20. That means Brazil and Mexico are the 13 and 15 top economies in the world out of almost 200 countries. That's better that most Eropeans countries although they are relatively new nations. Hope your future vids are better researched and accurate.
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In Latin America, the Catholics we're corrupt and suppressed everything for the King and Vatican. The Native kingdoms were conquered with the majority of the natives, enemies of the Kingdoms, encouraged by the few Spaniards. The diseases that the Eropeans brought killed off a large percentage of the native population. The perfect Strom. Oh oh. I lost some respect for you (narrator) for clapping for the conquer of the Inca, as if they were heroes. I might cancel your vids. oh oh both Mexico and Brazil are members of the G20. That means Brazil and Mexico are the 13 and 15 top economies in the world out of almost 200 countries. That's better that most Eropeans countries although they are relatively new nations. Hope your future vids are better researched and accurate.
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Da
The driver behind the Industrial Revolution was the ecological catastrophe of the UK decimating their forests. They then turned to coal as their new energy source. And these coal mines had this nasty habit of flooding.
THIS is what forced the invention of the Steam Engine. Necessity. The need to overcome adversity, to prevent freezing to death.
In places like Bangladesh, you hang out under the mango tree. There is nothing to push you to invent anything to help you survive. You're doing ok.
So it is NO SURPRISE whatsoever that the people who ended up conquering the entire world got their start by conquering their home environment which was trying to kill them.
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The driver behind the Industrial Revolution was the ecological catastrophe of the UK decimating their forests. They then turned to coal as their new energy source. And these coal mines had this nasty habit of flooding.
THIS is what forced the invention of the Steam Engine. Necessity. The need to overcome adversity, to prevent freezing to death.
In places like Bangladesh, you hang out under the mango tree. There is nothing to push you to invent anything to help you survive. You're doing ok.
So it is NO SURPRISE whatsoever that the people who ended up conquering the entire world got their start by conquering their home environment which was trying to kill them.
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Sinvicta
The reason the west gained so much dominance, in my opinion, is the rediscovery of lost Greek and Latin texts. The great minds of the past such as Cicero, Archimedes, and Aristotle etc. were reintroduced into western civilization, but at the same time it seemed as though there was a mixture of the common abstract thinking that prevailed in the era of the Greco/Roman philosophers and the new practice of actual scientific experimentation that was notably absent from the ancient world. This created a perfect storm of progress that the world had never seen up until that point. The collective trauma of the Black Death seems to be the catalyst for this unlikely event.
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The reason the west gained so much dominance, in my opinion, is the rediscovery of lost Greek and Latin texts. The great minds of the past such as Cicero, Archimedes, and Aristotle etc. were reintroduced into western civilization, but at the same time it seemed as though there was a mixture of the common abstract thinking that prevailed in the era of the Greco/Roman philosophers and the new practice of actual scientific experimentation that was notably absent from the ancient world. This created a perfect storm of progress that the world had never seen up until that point. The collective trauma of the Black Death seems to be the catalyst for this unlikely event.
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Ryan
The answer is coffee. In the 15th-16th century Europeans started importing coffee from their colonies on a massive level. For the first time in its history, Europe had a drink that wasn't beer to keep them hydrated. Like any college freshman, they drank WAY TOO MUCH of it and spent all night talking about enlightenment. Eventually these ideas turned into revolutions from middle class coffee drinkers. The traditional coffee drinking areas of the world (Middle east, Ethiopia) discovered coffee before the trauma of running into plague and the golden horde. They already had their caffeine binge.
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The answer is coffee. In the 15th-16th century Europeans started importing coffee from their colonies on a massive level. For the first time in its history, Europe had a drink that wasn't beer to keep them hydrated. Like any college freshman, they drank WAY TOO MUCH of it and spent all night talking about enlightenment. Eventually these ideas turned into revolutions from middle class coffee drinkers. The traditional coffee drinking areas of the world (Middle east, Ethiopia) discovered coffee before the trauma of running into plague and the golden horde. They already had their caffeine binge.
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Mateusz
regarding South-East Asia. could it have anything to do with Buddhism? Those regions are known to be the most buddhist of all, more than China which has stronger influences of Confucianism and Legalism to balance that.
If you are primary a buddhist society, material and political conquest could rank lower on your hierarchy of values than in other people. The most important thing is to be free of desire and don't get too involved in all those worldly goals, so you know.
Just a thought.
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regarding South-East Asia. could it have anything to do with Buddhism? Those regions are known to be the most buddhist of all, more than China which has stronger influences of Confucianism and Legalism to balance that.
If you are primary a buddhist society, material and political conquest could rank lower on your hierarchy of values than in other people. The most important thing is to be free of desire and don't get too involved in all those worldly goals, so you know.
Just a thought.
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Carl
After reading Robert Grave's Count Belisarius, where the Italians of roman descent are described as apathetic, my reaction was that all the people with warrior genes were wiped out of the gene pool by the constant wars of rome. What remained and reproduced were people who di not care for wars or being militant. This need not be a gene thing, it can also be a meme thing. I have absolutely no proof, and I understand it is controverial. Even I don't want to beleive this is the way of things.
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After reading Robert Grave's Count Belisarius, where the Italians of roman descent are described as apathetic, my reaction was that all the people with warrior genes were wiped out of the gene pool by the constant wars of rome. What remained and reproduced were people who di not care for wars or being militant. This need not be a gene thing, it can also be a meme thing. I have absolutely no proof, and I understand it is controverial. Even I don't want to beleive this is the way of things.
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Clint
People have never understood colonialism and how it works. You need to things to start, a relatively large population, and a relatively large portion of it that wants to get the hell out. Britain had lots of people and malcontents. Scandinavia did not. Also most of the Chinese interior is mountainous and dry, subsidized essentially by the coast. And if you want a native state, try Paraguay, where a native language is the most widely spoken.
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People have never understood colonialism and how it works. You need to things to start, a relatively large population, and a relatively large portion of it that wants to get the hell out. Britain had lots of people and malcontents. Scandinavia did not. Also most of the Chinese interior is mountainous and dry, subsidized essentially by the coast. And if you want a native state, try Paraguay, where a native language is the most widely spoken.
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Some
The Scandinavians probably didn't colonize much because many of their major ports were in the Baltic where Denmark and god forbid, Germany, controlled the only strait coming out. Yes there is Trondheim in Norway which IS pretty far north but the waters there are more icy than in the south and the Baltic. Denmark was only able to get Greenland and Vinland because they controlled the Danish Straits. It likely came down to restricted geography.
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The Scandinavians probably didn't colonize much because many of their major ports were in the Baltic where Denmark and god forbid, Germany, controlled the only strait coming out. Yes there is Trondheim in Norway which IS pretty far north but the waters there are more icy than in the south and the Baltic. Denmark was only able to get Greenland and Vinland because they controlled the Danish Straits. It likely came down to restricted geography.
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