Imagine that in the future, Kim Kardashian's daughter would go to KZread and watch this Crash Course episode to genuinely learn about history but instead sees John Green dissing her mom.

@andpeggy9626

4 жыл бұрын

this is likely to happen and that pleases me

@kellanscheffler8864

4 жыл бұрын

she would probably have more than one daughter, with her skoodily-pooping

@ricardoquintanavallejo341

4 жыл бұрын

One can only hope.

@tuckertinyhometravels7064

4 жыл бұрын

Whahhhh....I'm sure she'll cry into her money. 🤷‍♀️ Mot to mention learning how her mother became initially will be therapy enough.

@yoongischubbycheeks2544

4 жыл бұрын

The fact that you diss her when she’s finally becoming a decent human I-

>"Alexander couldn't make history in a vacuum, and neither can anyone else." Neil Armstrong would like to have a word with you.

@RichyArg

8 жыл бұрын

piecheese1214 you... i like the way you think...

@JonatasAdoM

8 жыл бұрын

What about space walk and the travel to the moon?

@principetnomusic

8 жыл бұрын

***** What about Yuri Gagarin? See, we Russians have better astronauts.

@adamfrisk956

8 жыл бұрын

Imperios Had

@factsabouturmum9250

8 жыл бұрын

+piecheese1214 I once read somewhere that Neil Armstrong used to make unfunny jokes about the moon and then be like, "You had to be there."

Alexander: Let’s go restock supplies at Alexandria Army: Ok, but which one do we go to cuz u literally named every city Alexandria

@nermainmerl3284

4 жыл бұрын

*Alexander* : The closest, *YOU IDIOT*

@EzraDair

4 жыл бұрын

thank you for explaining the joke

"Hey Alexander, naming all those places after yourself is hurting your public image. People are saying that you are a narcissist."..."Ahh, ok...I will name one after my horse."

@aryaankhan3725

4 жыл бұрын

Mah horse

Napoleon looks at a map and sees Egypt. Looks at a picture of Alexander *Kylo Ren Impression Napoleon: I will finish what you started

@Lildrummerboy714

8 жыл бұрын

+Inaccurate Stormtrooper Lol nice

@alexaliona

8 жыл бұрын

+Inaccurate Stormtrooper THAT

@faustinotrejo6062

8 жыл бұрын

*gives gold* oops sorry wrong site...

@Gordon519

8 жыл бұрын

+Inaccurate Stormtrooper THIS VIEWER KILSS MONGOLS

@isectoid9454

8 жыл бұрын

+Inaccurate Stormtrooper *holds up target*

"Legacy. What is a legacy? It's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see."

@alexaliona

7 жыл бұрын

I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me- America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me!

@cathalhughes5996

7 жыл бұрын

annaivanova its doing stuff for people who needs it, its passing down your gens, its making a difference as little as it may be

@magouliana32

7 жыл бұрын

Highest form of legacy is Immortality.True Hellenes valued immortality more than anything else but only few acheived it.

@leonshu4747

7 жыл бұрын

who tells your story...

@magouliana32

7 жыл бұрын

Michael Enquist you and many other millions of living people still speak of them so in the world of ideas they live on, on the other hand when YOU die no will speak of you after thousands of years. See that is a form of immortality and only a few can and will ever achieve it.

I guess Alexander could say...."Iran across Iraq to kill Darius."

@shockingheaven

4 жыл бұрын

And IRAAAAAN, I ran so far away 🎶

my favorite thing in the world is julius ceaser weeping on the ground in front of a statue of alexander the great because he'd never be as great as him

Alexander was called "the great" because nobody dared call him "Alexander the so-so" - Mad magazine

@elenasardarian4587

4 жыл бұрын

Its genies!!!!!!!!!!!!

He chased king darius because he wanted to catch him alive so he can "legally" crown himself as king of persia. Sorry for my english it's not my first language.

@saeedvazirian

5 жыл бұрын

That doesn't justify the act... Clearly he failed...

@pabslondon

5 жыл бұрын

Your English is better than most native speakers

@SrvntoftheKing

4 жыл бұрын

yeah its just about spot on

@rayzas4885

4 жыл бұрын

Hermann Schloffer von Graz He failed due to the incompetence of Darius satraps and their inability to rally around a king.

@kamilaguerrero7264

4 жыл бұрын

Johnny OP so that’s why Octavian wanted Cleopatra to remain alive after he invaded Egypt?

“The situation” has mercifully faded from memory. Kim kardashian is now an occasional humanitarian and the person who has to put up with Kanye.

@Jobe-13

4 жыл бұрын

zach crenshaw yup. Tbh, I had forgotten about the incident.

@briannawaldorf8485

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@zeydalynn8634

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't even know what 'the situation' was til now because i live in a deep dark hole called "not caring"

@chrisdavey5530

4 жыл бұрын

i dont think i couldve predicted that in 2012 lol....first i never wouldve thought he'd still be alive in 2020

@Aldo_raines

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Davey “kim kardashian convinced friend of her husband Kanye West, president Donald Trump, to free a woman from prison”. Family Guy writers would have called that line too outlandish for a joke.

Through action, a man becomes a hero Through death, a man becomes a legend Through time a legend becomes myth And by learning from the myth, a man takes action - A great quote I got from the comments of a video somewhere.

Alex army: Hey Alex, you know what would be awesome? Alex: what? Alex army: Not marching. Alex: k fine....

@6pades

7 жыл бұрын

No, not Alexander Hamilton, Alexander the Great. The guy this entire video was about.

@kennandunn7533

7 жыл бұрын

no, they were fine with marching, they just wanted to march in the other direction, to go home, they even threatened Alexander saying that they were going back, with or without him.

@FirstLast-fr4hb

7 жыл бұрын

It was more like " Ok, we beat thebes, can we go home now?" No, our neighbors are not yet submitted to us. Ok we beat Athens, can we go home now? No our neighbors are not yet submitted to us. Ok we beat Sparta, can we go home now? No, our neighbors acorss the sea are not yet submitted to us. Ok we beat Ionia, can we go home now? No, we're still threatened by the empire of Persia Ok we subdued the mighty empire of Persia , there's really no reason to keep us away from our wives, which are all 10 year older now, we're going home now. No, we're going to india Thats it, kill him.

@doge4157

6 жыл бұрын

Khai Alexander His name means the man eho take the men away

@fintan6514

6 жыл бұрын

James Lourenco it's debatable whether or not Alexanders prime intention was to punish his men. After all he split his force in to three, and only took one of them through the desert; sending one back through the Hindu Kush, and another by sea. It's far more likely he wanted to further his legend and be the first man to successfully march an army through the Gedrosian Desert, which many famous Kings had failed to do. It was his arrogance that got so many of his men killed, not his spitefulness.

#MakeAlexanderGreatAgain

@heavydirtyclique2001

8 жыл бұрын

+JorisEnter true

@Organous

7 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that's the sentiment this time around.

@milkkat9992

7 жыл бұрын

*America

@SeoulMan

6 жыл бұрын

Play Civilization 6 and pick up the Macedonia & Persia DLC.

@codyc1812

6 жыл бұрын

The only good things to come out of the 2016 presidential election are the 2016 presidential election memes

See if I had teachers like you in school, I'd be in honors for all my classes. You teach very well and you would make the class fun :)

@ethancleland4203

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe your just not a good student

@teiadhurup2878

4 жыл бұрын

@@ethancleland4203 wym?

@lydia7023

4 жыл бұрын

Ethan Cleland - it could very much be the teacher 🤷🏽‍♀️

"And Kim Kardashian is good at.......... wait Tim what is she good at?" I just loled

Do you know what Winnie the Pooh and Alexander the Great have in common ? They share the same middle name. Sorry I had to share the joke.

@duckduckgoose8049

7 жыл бұрын

xD

@yiannismichael1148

7 жыл бұрын

Magali you know because americans have middle names it doesn't mean the whole world has middle name

@TheBasjenator

6 жыл бұрын

Catholics have middle names. The really good ones have loads of them.

@damenwhelan3236

6 жыл бұрын

Jay Em Google could have saved you that comment. I'm Irish. I have three middle names. Not a yank in my tree. A few under the yard, but not one in the tree.

@Theworldisbeautiful9

6 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂😂😂

Chased Darius for no real reason? lolz There's a little too much 'crash' here and not enough 'course'...

@jabeztomer

9 жыл бұрын

Letters from a Psychopath tru dat!

@pneu9059

9 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know the reason

@VegaChastain

9 жыл бұрын

In Alexander's own words (from written communication with the Persian 'King'): "Your ancestors invaded Macedon and Greece and caused havoc in our country, though we had done nothing to provoke them. As supreme commander of all Greece, I invaded Asia because I wished to punish Persia for this act-an act which must be laid wholly to your charge….[M]y father was killed by assassins whom, as you openly boasted in your letters, you yourselves hired to commit the crime; you unjustly and illegally seized the throne [of Persia], thereby committing a crime against your country; you sent the Greeks false information about me in the hope of making them my enemies; you attempted to supply the Greeks with money, your agents corrupted my friends and tried to wreck the peace which I had established in Greece-then it was that I took the field against you….By God's help I am master of your country. Come to me, therefore, as you would come to the lord of the continent of Asia….Ask me for your mother, your wife, and your children…and in the future let any communication you wish to make with me be addressed to the King of all Asia. Do not write to me as to an equal. Everything you possess is now mine. If, on the other hand, you wish to dispute your throne, stand and fight for it and do not run away. Wherever you may hide yourself, be sure I shall seek you out." Alexander wanted him captured, but in the end Darius's own cousin killed him.

@krim7

9 жыл бұрын

Letters from a Psychopath Alexander didn't need to run around Iraq and Iran to find Darius. He could have just sent, you know, lots and lots of men out into the countryside to find him.

@fuckakakaka

9 жыл бұрын

***** where's the fun in that

I love it when he adds the existential topics of discussion and makes you actually think about what you're learning. John Green is my freaking hero

@DrDoom-yf2qj

4 жыл бұрын

True, Alexander was just a toxic man full of masculinity I am sure that he shot women who pointed out his masculinity who knows maybe he was Hitlers, cousin ? either way, we need to destroy any evidence of his involvement In history and write more fictional female rulers it doesn't matter if it's real as long as it is female.

Alexander the Great. His name struck fear into hearts of men. Alexander the Great. Became a God amongst mortal men.

@saeedvazirian

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, doubt that.

@SoLazy100

4 жыл бұрын

Maiden!

@armitylekhona585

4 жыл бұрын

Genghis Khan was better

@e.v4892

4 жыл бұрын

@Miguel Baham In a society that was largely based on such relationships. Odd that, how ancient Greeks looked at sexuality. Weird for us, but totally normal for them.

@MyNameIs_Edwin

4 жыл бұрын

@Miguel Baham are you looking for homosexuals?

Alexander was not just Great. He was the Greatest man who walked on this earth.

@anastasiosb6748

10 жыл бұрын

Zeus???

@VladikVP

10 жыл бұрын

What if the god that he believes in never walked on this earth?

@anastasiosb6748

10 жыл бұрын

Gods don't walk. ;)

@marvin5078

10 жыл бұрын

Anastasios B' lol they strut

@bobangelo2268

10 жыл бұрын

Anastasios B' Gods don't exist. ;)

We started out by dissing Kardashian and the Situation, moved on to dissing the accomplishments o Alexander, then defended women's rights, then pissed on history in general. Any questions?

@computo2000

7 жыл бұрын

Can this show not be directed towards kids please?

@saeedvazirian

6 жыл бұрын

killing people is an accomplishment? why dont you glorify xerxes then?

"The biological weapon known as Kim Kardashian Gold"... I'm dead

@SrvntoftheKing

4 жыл бұрын

GHOST!!!

I like the way you talked about leaving a legacy... And how you included celebrities to make your point. Thanks

What the hell was the point of that pseudo-feminist filler? He really couldn't have talked about anything else regarding Alexander instead? Like the battles he was involved in and how they were won or something idk?

@ashbird5570

8 жыл бұрын

+Sarbaṇī Paṣtun Does feminism offend you in someway? I'm always interest in why people get their back up when the progress of women is mention in an context. Social, historical whatever. Why does it annoy you so much? The progression on women over time is a part of history.

@sarban1653

8 жыл бұрын

Ash Bird Lol, I actually like feminism. I can't ever think of a time I made an anti-feminism post on all my years on KZread besides this one. I just felt it was completely unnecessary and irrelevant over here.

@sophchattertonmusic

8 жыл бұрын

+Ash Bird I'm a feminist myself and I agree with this person's comment... I watched this episode because I needed help with my Ancient History essay but I don't feel like I got much out of it... judging by the title I thought I would be learning about ATG but instead it has a major digression into the role of women throughout history. I think the problem is that the title of the video was misleading - this original comment wasn't being sexist.

@runehero90210

8 жыл бұрын

+Sarbaṇī Paṣtun "Lol, I actually like feminism"... and that's where I stopped reading.

@BionicKing

8 жыл бұрын

+Ash Bird "Why does it annoy you so much? The progression on women over time is a part of history." I think the issue here is that it's not Alexander's history. One could easily have inserted his comments into any video about any person or county and it would have fit just as well, which is to say not very. Sure it's part of history, but so are a lot of things. There wasn't anything about Alexander that made women's lack of notoriety particularly relevant, which really just felt like he was going on tangents for no reason. Maybe in another context, sure, it'd be welcome, but it's like if her started talking about the Native Americans all of a sudden in the name of cultural pluralism. Context is important.

Should I be bothered by the fact that this video is primarily composed of value judgments and observations about what makes people revered by others, rather than a history lesson on what Alexander did?

@bramsilbert

7 жыл бұрын

It depends on if you want to view history as a series of facts and dates or as a set of microcosms displaying the fundamental aspects of human nature. The point being, history can show us stuff about ourselves that we don't always notice unless we look at the big picture, and that's part of what makes Crash Course better for stimulation of critical thought than studying for an exam on World History.

@courtneybroadhurst4649

7 жыл бұрын

Joe Dirt it does depend on what your view of history is and how you study it. At the university level, this is more the stuff we write about in history, the implications of what happened then and how they relate to the world today. And for that, John Green is a great historian. If you wanted to know the history of Alexander, in terms of a timeline of events of his life, Wikipedia it.

@sherlockianfannibal3280

7 жыл бұрын

Joe Dirt EXACTLY.

@sakshampandey7342

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, you should be bothered. This video is trying so hard to respecc whamen that it ridicules Alexander's memory by adding all that nonsense. Btw, before anyone call me a toxic white male, I'm a dude from India.

I don't know why he thinks Alexander must've been bad at "empire building" (or empire maintaining?). He died as soon as his conquests were finished. And yet he already laid a TON of groundwork by then. All the cities he founded had Greek theatres and libraries, and despite his death still led to Greek becoming a lingua franca. He produced an heir, had already started training a massive new army (made up primarily of Asians/Persians) in his macedonian style of war, and even forced his Greek officers to take Persian wives in order to integrate his peoples together. Sounds like a solid attempt at laying the groundwork for an empire to me. And this is all despite the fact that he had almost no time at all to do this before dying.

Alexander the Great was taught by Aristotle Alexander had a passion for learning throughout his life. His Knowledge greatly enhanced his power. I have a video on this perspective

Dear Mr. Green, as a brofessor of swoleology, I am deeply concerned by the swole-shaming in this video. It might not have been overt, but by referring to Michael 'The Situation' Sorrentino as a "professional stupid person with big muscles", you are implying a direct causal relationship between Sorrentino's lack of intellect and his gainz. This is a vile stereotype deeply instilled in our society by Broki himself, and it is a struggle we followers of the Iron Path have to face daily. Considering that CrashCourse is trying to be a socially brogressive channel, I would urge you to refrain from perpetuating such unbrodinly stereotypes in the future. Aside from this mishap, I have been enjoying the gainz of knowledge this channel gave me. Keep up the good work, and may Brodin bless you. Wheymen

"It's the soldiers who win the war while the generals win the credit" -Napoleon B

@ethangray8527

6 жыл бұрын

Really? And how will an army do without a competent leader? Or without any leader for that matter?

@KheptlaxaXonu

6 жыл бұрын

Nappy Bonny was a git.

@theobvu

6 жыл бұрын

so you're saying Alexander didn't do anything? Xerxes and Leonidas are great leaders but they can't conquer the world then Alexander was born and destroyed everyone without losing a single battle. Give credit where credit is due lol

@user-dn4ou7io1f

6 жыл бұрын

A V suck a stupid quote . Even a bad general can destroy an army with no general notice how everytime darius flew the battle alexander won . You cant have a battle with no armies but its the generals who decide who wins.

@KingdomCooperFan

5 жыл бұрын

"If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion" "Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment" "A leader is a dealer in hope" Your earlier quote might not be the best choice of quotes from him I must say. Napoleon was a huge believer in the idea that the right leader could have an enormous influence on an army.

2018: 1) The Situation is back on Jersey Shore 2) Kim Kardashian is talked about more than ever wtf is happening

@gatts6217

5 жыл бұрын

Then just skip the kardashian part. Welcome to the future

@joshbeck9761

5 жыл бұрын

Yes 2018 knd Alexander the great, king of Macedon, Pharaoh of Egypt, King of Persia, Lord of Asia is in the same league as Kim Kardashian. It's indeed 2018

@paradisecityX0

5 жыл бұрын

Oxy Gen Culture is dying, that's what's happening

@Snugduchess2341

5 жыл бұрын

Unless you don't watch Jersey Shore... A free life awaits you.

@JakubWojciechowski933

5 жыл бұрын

Does seriously anyone still remebers Kim Kardashian at this point?

11 years in the future and Kim Kardashian is becoming a lawyer

this episode isnt really about Alexander the great is it......

@Powd3r81

5 жыл бұрын

It's more like a clip on the mysogyny of history

@Nickz666

5 жыл бұрын

It's about his legacy rather than his life. Not so useful for character pieces but incredibly satisfying in a retrospective way.

@wanderingrandomer

5 жыл бұрын

@@Powd3r81 That was a small part of it. Don't be 'that guy'.

@TsukiCondor

5 жыл бұрын

Alexander the Grape

@saeedvazirian

5 жыл бұрын

It precisely was, that was the point. And you completely missed it. You wanted to have a video that strokes your ego about a mass-murder murdering and burning cities, but you see him vilified and his memory frowned upon, yet somehow that threatens you. That says quite a lot. The misogyny portion of this video was, which was barely 12 seconds of the whole video, seems to have produced enough salt to provide a salt-mining industry for the ancient Persians.

"Welcome to Crash Course World History, where no woman has ever been called "The Great" because that would contradict my modern political opinions! Catherine the Great? Who's that?"

@aaronmoorefun

8 жыл бұрын

1:41?

@mastercaster02

8 жыл бұрын

+Aaron Moore The original posters point is that women have been called Great, and, honestly, so what if they aren't? It does't change the fact that we call it the "Elizabethan Age" after QUEEN Elizabeth and the "Victorian Age" after QUEEN Victoria and that we acknowledge a host of other profound feminine personalities throughout history. And so what if we don't ascribe the epithet "the Great" to women - it doesn't stop us from recognizing their greatness. It is essentially a moot point that we don't CALL women the great, because we readily acknowledge that they were great and are.

@rattersnatters

8 жыл бұрын

+ninetails593 Dido the great? NAHHHHH.

@Monochromicornicopia

7 жыл бұрын

moron

@saeedvazirian

5 жыл бұрын

@@mastercaster02 You're so butthurt that he threatened Alexander's name. Just shows how weak Westerners are.

Instead of focusing on Alexander, you make a point that women accomplished things in history while at the same time making a point that Kim Kardashian is famous for no good reason.

@freyakemp2822

5 жыл бұрын

Gabriel BP but Kim kardashian in this is not being held up as an example of all women. She is being used to make the point that people are only great, or famous, because we give them that title.

@georgeevangel4292

5 жыл бұрын

@@freyakemp2822 What is so great about her? What exactly did she do?OK so she's beautiful, many women are Can anyone answer this?

@enterchannelnamehere2922

5 жыл бұрын

@@freyakemp2822 Many people have opinions on what Kim Kardashian is, but i don't think anyone would consider her to be some sort of "Great", at least not anything closely resembling Alexander, or Catherine

@barbaraoliveira7249

5 жыл бұрын

If Kim was representing all women I would jump of the nearest bridge. No woman represents all others, that's not how it works.

@saeedvazirian

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, he's making the point of how unimportant Alexander truly was.

My new favorite word: "skoodlypoop"!

Alexander's history is also entwined with the history of a great woman: Olympias, daughter of king Neoptolemus I of Epirus, the fourth wife of the king of Macedonia, Philip II, and mother of Alexander the Great. Her likeness is found on an Imperial Roman medallion with Olympias: part of a 3rd-century series representing Emperor Caracalla as the descendant of Alexander the Great.

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story

@chaithanyadass8742

8 жыл бұрын

These words of John Greene stuck a chord with me "It's not about money, if that is the case, our tabloids would be devoted to the lives of Bankers. We all want to leave a legacy. we want to be remembered, we want to be great."

@annieranai2198

7 жыл бұрын

YEEEEEEEES! I couldn't help but think about Hamilton the whole time (not even talking of the same first name and all). When John spoke about "legacy", I was like "what is a legacy? it's planting seeds in a garden you never get to see"...

@saeedvazirian

6 жыл бұрын

That's why I think everything (almost) on Alexander and Darius III are lies. I refuse to believe Darius III was what Arrian describe him as, same as Alexander. There are literally no signs of Alexander in Iran. Zip. None. Many Iranian archaelogists have found peripheral evidence in northern Iraq about how Alexander was defeated, rather than succeeded at the Battle of the Persian Gates led by Ariobarzane, not long after Gaugemala.

This was a weird episode... Seemed like you were kinda downplaying Alexander The Great's accomplishments.

@RagingRugbyst

5 жыл бұрын

He's a toxic masculine figure, he must be evil.

@applegmes

5 жыл бұрын

Of course. Hes making the point that alexander was not the only one responsible for those successes

@sakshampandey7342

5 жыл бұрын

Also, I'm from India but even I must agree that Alexander the Great was a genius as a general, a true conqueror and a great king. He without a doubt was an innovator. Look at his military reforms.

@sambizz6500

5 жыл бұрын

It was just awful. He total disregard the blending of Greek and Persian cultures, military accomplishments. I could go on. ..

@tm863

5 жыл бұрын

Oxy Gen he hates white history for some weird sense of white guilt.

love these - you guys should do an art series (classical to modern and contemporary) - it would help a lot and I think it's fun to learn about in general idk if I'm the only one but I would be eternally grateful

dude alexander was and is and he will always be great he never lost a battle

@EfrainRiveraJunior

10 жыл бұрын

Neither did Robb Stark... OK, bad joke.

@wrathanet

10 жыл бұрын

He was great, but you have to admit he was was also amazingly shortsighted. I admit I don't know anybody today who could have successfully made an empire on his own, but if I had one I probably would at least have the forethought to name an heir.

@bgiuliano68

10 жыл бұрын

***** That's because he was more of a conqueror than a king. I doubt he had any real interest in ruling the lands he took, he probably just wanted to take them. Napoleon was the same way

What's misogynistic in the title "the Great"? It's gender-neutral. By the way, there was also Tamara the Great of Georgia.

@principetnomusic

9 жыл бұрын

***** Judging ancient societies by modern sensibilities is invalid - they were not sexist out of spite or prejudice, they were sexist out of necessity. Stricter gender roles are born from advancements in feudal hierarchy, modern women's rights are born from industrialisation and militarism.

@SirSoliloquy

9 жыл бұрын

I don't think that he's saying the title "the great" is mysoginistic, but rather that historians have been rather mysoginistic in their application of the title "the great" because it applies more often to male leaders than female leaders. Not that I'm sure this is true... after all, through history there have been more male leaders than female leaders, and I haven't exactly looked into whether a greater percentage of well-known male leaders are called "the great" than the percentage of female leaders. I think it'd be more accurate to say that historically, cultures as a whole were mysoginistic because the vast majority wouldn't allow a female to be a leader unless there were circumstances that prevented a male leader to take power. Male heirs and all that. But you're probably right. Statistically, the title "the great" probably doesn't have any gender-related implications.

@principetnomusic

9 жыл бұрын

SirSoliloquy Not mysoginistic. It is just that early kings and chiefs were first and foremost military leaders, in Russia at least, and it was only after they accumulated more significant political power that female rulers started to appear, like Princess Olga.

@nfinn42

8 жыл бұрын

Imperios So because human society was sexist for most of human history, we can't call historical societies out as sexist. Umm... OK?... *puzzled look*

@principetnomusic

8 жыл бұрын

nfinn42​​​ They did not have a choice like we do. Like with slavery. Sure we find ancient practices of it deplorable, but they could not have lived without it because their economy was based on it. (That being said, martial cultures at the time were more egalitarian by the virtue of women having to do everything while men were off fighting) And I was talking about rulers in particular. Most ancient rulers were military commanders and not every culture allowed women to fight.

It's been eight years since you made this video. The Situation is now irrelevant. Kim K is still sort of relevant. Alexander is still taught in schools and is still mostly "Great".

Wait, so this covers one of the most genius military leaders ever, and it's mostly a tirade against men dominating history?

Calling the title "the Great" misogynistic because it was attributed to a moderate number of historical, male conquerors is about as sensible as saying being a "boiler repair technician" is misogynistic.

@saeedvazirian

5 жыл бұрын

No, that wasn't his reasoning at all, idiot.

@jamesmanuel8517

4 жыл бұрын

@@saeedvazirian you are the idiot. 😂

No Mongol jokes?!

@jali7611

10 жыл бұрын

Wow, I have top comment...?! People really do appreciate these jokes... ._.

@iAMwReckLesss

9 жыл бұрын

*_-MONGOLS-_*

"Olympias" by Elizabeth Carney is the most respected source about the mother of Alexander. Definitely worth a read!!

all my teachers gave us quizes and tests before the APWH exam so now I gotta cram the day before lmai fml

@saeedafrimpong3550

5 жыл бұрын

same lol

@alleyredd

5 жыл бұрын

same! i'm SCARED.

I forgot how uninformative and off topic this episode was

@declan0123456789

8 жыл бұрын

????

@declan0123456789

8 жыл бұрын

Then type it out. Also it really doesn't go over Alexander empire

@declan0123456789

8 жыл бұрын

Well then make a damn series to go through misogyny throughout history don't make on a series that meant to go over history and help students prepare for test. Also the great isn't misogynistic term you can find plenty of women with the great as a title.

@sarban1653

8 жыл бұрын

+Declan Galvin I hate how whenever he talks about empires and stuff, he never talks about the battles or any other factor on how that empire was created. He just says "Alexander conquered Persia" and chooses to talk about misogyny or make lame jokes as filler when that time could be spent going into a little bit more detail.

@RobMarchione

8 жыл бұрын

+Gustavo Larancia It isn;t in the least, that is a bullshit argument. Usually it is used to distinguish one member of a ruling line from others as being Great, and sadly there haven't been many monarchies with multiple women. It isn;t misogynistic in the least, only in the deluded mind of someone overly obsessed with the topic can it be seen that way. For example, Queen Elizabeth the First of England will likely go down as The Great once our current Queen kicks the bucket. These videos always spend more time talking about oppression and repression that it doesn;t take any time to actually talk about what history there is. John didn;t take the time to talk about Enheduanna in his first video about Mesopotamia, even though she was the first known author ever. Who isn;t paying due deference to the women of history here? And didn;t he also just back hand the possible abilities of Roxanne? He dismisses her as a child who'd have been incapable of doing what she's rumored to have done, who is being disrespectful to women? And going back another, he for one assumes that the Chinese never had any empresses, which was wrong, which is to discount their important place in history. (yes I know the correction is in the video, but it is clear he originally did not.) He should get off his fucking horse.

Guys. So interesting that everybody feels such strongly about this. But there is one important thing. History is not the past but it's interpretation. So it has more in common with present time than past. There are things that influence our morals still even after like 2000 years...

For some reason this episode was chosen to talk about how women are often left out of history?

Notwithstanding the travesty of celebrating 'great' men of violence, Alexander very consciously established Greek culture across the conquered lands. Without him we may not have heard of Aristotle, Archimedes, Euclid, Democritus or Pythagoras. We may not have put such value on democracy. These influences predate Napoleon.

Women are not represented as much as men in history because women were discriminated against historically. This makes it hard for women to make great impact in cultures that won't let them lead them, and are biased against them when they do let them lead. The way to fight sexism is not to look for and make bigger women's role in history, but to acknowledge the real historical sexism of the time and why this made it hard for them to have great impacts. It's not sexist to give women a sentence in a text about a society that favored men.

@ridwanjiwawangsa1266

6 жыл бұрын

OK. Make a Crash Course video then. Dipersilakan. Senang mengomong, susah membikin.

@sakshampandey7342

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, the accomplishments of men must be accredited to toxic masculinity and patriarchy. Meanwhile the shortcomings of women are a result of said patriarchy because we all know women are the superior gender. You guys remember that Empire created by women? With a female only army? That conquered the world?

@sakshampandey7342

5 жыл бұрын

Anton but then how would he respecc whamen?

he is the one who found my hometown (alexandria)

@max3zizo

7 жыл бұрын

True. Did you know Alexandria was the greatest during the reign of Sultans Baybars and Qutuz, who both defeated the Great Mongol Empire!

@eboypilled

7 жыл бұрын

Hey! Sultan Baybars! My step-brother-ish, its complicated was named after him. And I knew.

@saeedvazirian

6 жыл бұрын

He burnt a bteer town that existed there before.

@kensamo9376

6 жыл бұрын

which one?

@theobvu

6 жыл бұрын

what Alexandria? There are a lot of Alexandria he conquered so many countries

GOOD LUCK FOR TMRW GUYS!!! WE CAN DO THIS

@alleyredd

5 жыл бұрын

I HOPE SO LOL I'M SO SCARED

@oddballskull1941

4 жыл бұрын

ALL CAPS AND ABBREVIATING TOMORROW IS NOT A GOOD START

@natyolantern7884

4 жыл бұрын

@@chelseamcghee2869 how you gonna do him like that

y’all i’m in college and i’m still watching these videos. it’s crazy to remember this is how i crammed for my ap’s too

you could lead an ancient empire's economy with this much salt in the comment's section.

@bloodfiredrake7259

7 жыл бұрын

i get it

@solarsceptile5908

6 жыл бұрын

So do I. But can you pay all the Roman Legions with this salt?

@harpe9415

6 жыл бұрын

"lol u buthurt bro :D myisoygyne real bro great is racist lol salty man XDD"

Greeting from 2015. The Situation has disappeared.Kim K left.

@angryyogbuscus1578

8 жыл бұрын

She is with Kanye though.

@ruona1andonly

8 жыл бұрын

+Angry Yogbuscus I meant that Kim K is left. Sorry

@zhin4362

7 жыл бұрын

What bs are you spouting? It's 2017 and she's still around

Came for Alexander the Great, left because of "Kim Kardashian sex tape, the word 'great' is misogynist, women are apparently neglected in history, barely touching on Catherine the Great after mentioning how apparently the word "great" is misogynistic, saying that Alexander only won because of technology, etc."

Very inciteful and informative piece of Alex the Great, my son loves this video!

The end of this video is so deep Adele could roll in it. Heh. Get it? No? Okay.

@sknmc35

9 жыл бұрын

Omg😝

@Propsm8

9 жыл бұрын

Just please stop :((((

@TheTaintedWisdom

9 жыл бұрын

Time to get some Guns & Roses because your pun just triggered a Civil War in the comments section.

@gingergamergirl98

9 жыл бұрын

TheTaintedWisdom OH MY GOD

Love the series but regarding this episode, I would have liked to have learned more about Alexander and less about John Green's thoughts about contemporary pop culture icons. The connection to our choice of which values and figures to celebrate was apt, but should have been more a concluding thought than a thesis to interrogate all throughout what's ostensibly a history lesson. Just my $0.02

2019 ap exam cramming? just me? okay

@RenataShen

5 жыл бұрын

hey me too! :)

@sneakyrifle5031

5 жыл бұрын

lol same

@shaileyshah9905

5 жыл бұрын

Same :)

@louisamcdaniel2200

5 жыл бұрын

gang

@ethana6254

5 жыл бұрын

Same here, good luck to everybody.

Man, I'm glad I watched this video on "Women being Marginalized in History". Not sure why you named it after Alexander the Great though...

@abloshow91

4 жыл бұрын

Its calles a red herring

I've watched through several of the crash course series multiple times, but I think the histories are my favourite, and this is a particularly wonderful episode.

Can't make history in a vacuum. Pffft tell that to Neil Armstrong.

@josemedel4372

8 жыл бұрын

lol

@daleporter60

8 жыл бұрын

Technically.....The moon has a very tenuous atmosphere...

@grexjr1420

7 жыл бұрын

+Dale Porter but he was the first man to be in a spacecraft that was in the closest part of the vacuum of space to the moons thin atmosphere. That probably made no sense.

@locngoduy1571

7 жыл бұрын

Grex Jr have you ever heard of Yuri Gargarin? Neil Armstrong is not even the first man or the first living thing that went into space.

@fyukfy2366

6 жыл бұрын

You stole this joke

I liked this episode. It's good that you guys make the effort to look at history with a bigger lens... or rather the lens with which you have to step further from the subject matter to get a better picture and understand HOW and WHY we learn history in the first place. I think I get what the Crash Course team was trying to do and I appreciate it. So thank you.

i love how this was published on my birthday 8 years ago lmao what a gift for the history nerd in me :))thanks crashcourse

John Green is just butthurt because Alexander strongly disproves modern historian's idea that the course of history is not decided by great men. The politcally correct bullshit about the title "the great" and its supposed misogyny is also annoying.

@Stardweller1

8 жыл бұрын

Allzumenschliches44 Having watched his other videos, I must disagree with your assessment of Mr. Green.

@davidtaylor8016

8 жыл бұрын

+Allzumenschliches44 You are an idiot!

@angryyogbuscus1578

8 жыл бұрын

So opinions are only in existence from an objective standpoint? He was undoubtedly a bit of an ass.

@antares1443

8 жыл бұрын

yes killing and raping thousands to be respected and be famous sure makes you a great person.

@JoePescisAngryCousin

8 жыл бұрын

+Allzumenschliches44 *"Alexander proves" - fix your double negatives son. Also, please remove the word butthurt from your idiolect.

Alexander the Great wasn't very good at naming cities...

@alltimewarrior9308

8 жыл бұрын

Agreed :|

@klt2841

8 жыл бұрын

+YellowFlareMC Or he happened to be very egoistic :P

@alexaliona

8 жыл бұрын

+YellowFlareMC bucephalos

@3wGaming

8 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the movie The Dictator! "You are HIV aladeen!"

@oskarhenriksen

8 жыл бұрын

+YellowFlareMC I've been told that, allegedly, the cities originally were settlements for his soldiers, and that they naturally named it after him

I really appreciate that they always work in the social issues, because its so easy to think of history as being this rational static thing, but it was (is) the result of complex social processes which continue today! I know some folks don't appreciate the mentions of social equality, and would prefer strict adherence to "the facts", but I hope they can see how the social aspects of things play a huge role in how those facts came to be. This isn't the way history is usually presented, and not everyone will agree with it, but I think we can agree that being open to different angles and interpretations will make us more informed in the end :)

greek for the glory i got for winning every single war that i fought

An open letter to John Green: Dear John Green, In this episode, You forgot something..... THE MONGOLS! *dadang.. dadang dadadadadang* Best wishes, Vince

There are so many errors and ideological misinformation here.. I don't even know where to start. Alexander was called "Great" because he's seen as a great general/conqueror, and all-round amazingly competent individual. Which he was. Period. The comparison with Kim Kardashian is insulting. We don't talk much about women in historiography because history *IS* made primarily by men. You can like that or not, but its no less of a fact: we're not going to talk about insignificant things, or things we don't even know, simply to accommodate your ridiculous liberal uber-egalitarian ideological views. That's the ideology seeping into this video. The errors, on the other hand, are as follows: Pompey the Great was probably named such *ironically*, by Sulla, not to imply he was actually "great" (though later he did justify his nickname to some degree). Caesar did look up to Alexander but didn't come to Egypt to conquer it, nor did he ever do that. The Library was certainly burned by accident, by whom we don't know, but it was by that time seriously decayed anyway.

@nande4

9 жыл бұрын

I just love that you think that writing period in the end of a argument make it indestructible. Are you what, 12?

@troilusmaximus7547

9 жыл бұрын

I'll agree that the video should have focus more on Alexander and his administration, but not entirely with your point on women. At least considering leadership (I won't go into other aspects of civilization right now), women tended to influence and rule THROUGH their husbands/sons because that's the opportunity that was given to them. While it wouldn't be right to immediately assume equal contribution in everything, it also isn't right to assume it just didn't happen or that we're talking "about insignificant things." Anyway, back to the video. I think it would have been more interesting to approach "the great" situation from the perspective of those that supported Alexander. It seems we tend to attribute achievements to single people (e.g. it was Alexander that conquered the known world). It makes sense - history would be much to taxing if we must remember everyone - but we also forget that these leaders REPRESENT achievements and aren't the full embodiment of them. As Napoleon allegedly said, ""Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."

@dIRECTOR259

9 жыл бұрын

Broseph Stalin The idea that women "influenced their husbands" is little more than unsubstantiated wishful thinking. Women were property, little more than slaves, their intellectual capacity held in contempt. That is the standard from which, in some historical societies, noblewomen managed to rise from - at most to the position of one of the many(!) advisers powerful men had. And those can easily be viewed as the exceptions that prove the rule: men made history. Women did not. Some men were certainly ruled by their advisers, and sometimes those advisers were their wives or mistresses, but those are rare and far-between. To generalize such a statement is very much inaccurate. Yes, they did manage to avoid you asking the crucial questions. Why are we even discussing his title? Why aren't you conveying the historical narrative instead of trying to attack the historical image of this figure? If there's a controversy or disagreement in that regard, why aren't you describing what the disagreement is about rather than pushing your views on it? Instead we get the following political messages: "feel guilty about your ancestors' treatment of women!" and "there are no great historical figures, there are no great men", etc.. This is history from the left-wing block of historians, and extreme even there - all beautifully packaged, with a grin. And a smug air of "correcting your silly misconceptions".

@troilusmaximus7547

9 жыл бұрын

dIRECT0R I don't necessary think discussing the title was bad. The subject doesn't need to be controversial to be discussed. The CrashCourse writers would easily have been justified bringing it up just as food for thought. And, to clarify, I don't necessarily think bringing women into the subject matter was a terrible idea either. I'd argue simply saying an entire gender (in "larger" roles and the civilization in general) simply did absolutely nothing is much more simplistic and unfair. As I was saying earlier, my main criticism is that this was a golden opportunity to focus on a famous figure's supporters as a whole. I think the Napoleon quote summarizes this well without me repeating myself.

@akshayrathore2882

9 жыл бұрын

alexander the great conqueror should be his title. cause simply calling him 'the great' implies he was a great individual. In which case 'alexander the megalomaniac' would be more suited to his personality

We call him alexander the great because he inspires us to be. That’s why he’s great.

This is a very good quarantine binge watch

Re-watching every crash course in prep for the APWH exam tomorrow

@UnicornSmokes

8 жыл бұрын

+Atomicnick same

@xoObsessionistaxo

8 жыл бұрын

+Atomicnick same

@invrrse1452

8 жыл бұрын

+Atomicnick same

@Teledoor24

8 жыл бұрын

+Atomicnick Help... meeeeee

@MorganL12166

8 жыл бұрын

me too!!

"You never hear of Cleopatra the great" Well you never hear of Anthony the great either, fool. there's a reason why neither of them were considered 'great'

I have a history exam tomorrow and I don't know anything about Alexander after watching this video except that he had a hot foreigner wife.

great video!!

how about Harambe The Great

@kirkderr

7 жыл бұрын

the greatest of all time

@taylorcarr6437

7 жыл бұрын

everyone is fucked and i love it

@persnicketyguy

7 жыл бұрын

Mr Tambourine Man yesh

@bagrdigger3176

7 жыл бұрын

😢dat ded meme dou👽lmao

@cathalhughes5996

7 жыл бұрын

Mr Tambourine Man harambe translated means great omg

As much as I love your videos and respect you, Mr. Green, I am afraid I will have to disagree that Alexander was not good at building institutions in his empire. I take this view for two primary reasons, first the Alexandrias were meant to be centers of commerce and military might and therefore political administration (and many are still inhabited today). Secondly, Alexander wished to meld Hellenistic culture with the cultures of the east and was very tolerant of different cultures, religions, and permitted a degree of local autonomy and I thoroughly believe, should he have not prematurely died in Babylon, that he would have constructed a stronger and more stable (not to mention a relatively more liberal) state and society around these principles. Keep up the good work, I am a big fan of your new series as well on American history.

Good lesson at the end.

Awesome for distance learning during the pandemic thanks.

@nikolaos6083

4 жыл бұрын

Same.

When you talked about King Darius, and his death. You forgot the part where Alexander the Great gave King Darius a royal funeral.

So why weren't there any women that was like Alexander, marching and conquering lasting 10-15 years? Is it because of marginalization? Or did they just prefer to be less famous and more safe?

@R6091

10 жыл бұрын

Maybe because they weren´t granted the same rights as men such as ownership of the land, education, right to earn a salary, etc... Which made it hard for them to be independent, so they were culturally encouraged to get married very young and as a consequence they had to devote their life to motherhood and house keeping, Maybe.

@Antropovich

10 жыл бұрын

The rights to make war versus the obligation to make war is the question. The privilege to own land, education was given for the obligation to be conscripted to army. I think most women would have declined that deal. Tho men weren't given a deal, they had to get those rights in order to be useful in wars.

@R6091

10 жыл бұрын

Well, of course things weren´t easy for men either, you are very right, they didn´t have a choice not to go to war... :S Sometimes they didn`t get the chance of ownership and education either.

@BBD1

10 жыл бұрын

LOOOL how old are you?

@Skeloperch

10 жыл бұрын

Raquel Saavedra More like it was because they were, on the whole, weaker than men. For most of history, there wasn't the great equalizer that is firearms. The most used weapon in the world was the spear, followed by the bow, neither of which a woman could wield effectively against a man who, even if she was at peak physical condition, would be up to 60% stronger than her. Women as generals and leaders did exist. Celts and other "barbarians" proved this. Indians and the Chinese proved this. However, to even suggest that they could go toe to toe with a contemporary man is ludicrous. Women aren't in the war making business because they haven't the strength.

"It's like all the worst parts of baby powder and worst parts of cat pee."

Man reading the stories about some dude way back then and all his accomplishments, man really was a LEGEND.

I really love that the crash course not only presents historical facts but also ANALYSES them critically. I really appreciate letter to all the ladies yeah that was awesome and sweet!!

I didn't know who the Situation was.

@MrSqurk

10 жыл бұрын

Same, I had to google it.

@OneTrueEdge

10 жыл бұрын

MrSqurk I'm sorry you had to lose your innocence this way.

@Wafflical

10 жыл бұрын

I knew it was some famous person. A model or actress or singer person or something. There's a vlogbrother's video titles "Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous"

@alannar.5520

10 жыл бұрын

The best Vlogbrothers video ever was about Snooki (whom is basically Kim Kardashian but more orange). Hank was in an airport when he saw her (he didn't recognize her at first, but he figured it out), when someone looked like they were going to ask for a picture with Snooki, but no. They walked up to Hank, and asked for an autograph. "And Snooki... was confused."

Mr. Green lookin' fly af this week, awesome color combos, you go, Mr. Green.

Love this show... so witty. Especially the part about Kardashian's perfume.

Wow these are some salty comments

@slendy9600

7 жыл бұрын

+Matt Bloggs you want some fries with that salt?

@slendy9600

7 жыл бұрын

+Matt Bloggs im not sure what your point is since i only said it once, i didnt use all caps and YOURE the ones who are whining since you cant handle the fact that a stranger on the internet doesnt like an ancient ruler as much as you do

@raisedbybears1991

7 жыл бұрын

+Matt Bloggs I said the first one. Slendy said it the second time. Reading comprehension

@raisedbybears1991

7 жыл бұрын

+Matt Bloggs When did I complain? I was just surprised by the amount of anger from the comments. I wasn't singling out either side of the argument or expressing my own take on the subject. People on *BOTH* sides are being salty. I don't understand why you in particular are being so indignant. It's comments on a KZread video. Do you really think being condescending to strangers is going to teach you anything or that you're going to have an impact on someone else? Or are you just being bellicose?

@iamerikdavis

6 жыл бұрын

make a shitty video ya get salty comments

This turned from Greek history to feminism really quickly wtf

@gabrielhicks8043

6 жыл бұрын

Change your name

@SI-cd7xs

5 жыл бұрын

'crash course' is anti white anti western propaganda. of course they would downplay one of the greatest european military heroes ever with some revionist feminist nonsense.

@ahmedmonime

5 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised you haven't started a comment war between Greeks and Macedonians yet

@fatimatuzzahra4036

5 жыл бұрын

It is always relevant and important to extract the rational and moral lessons from history- apply logic and analysis on it while teaching it to next generation of humans (hopefully humane). this is not a fantasy sword fighting video game where invasion,murder and occupation has to be glorified by putting some mystical war hero character on it to increase excitement and glorify toxic masculinity! Greek history is rid with blood shed, slavery and abuse of women. It is important not to publish totalitarian glorifying articles on it.

@DaDARKPass

5 жыл бұрын

yeah, a democracy that didn't allow women or slaves to vote. also, it's funny how there are facts right in people's vision but they say it's propoganda because of some other thing the person said that was wrong.

i like when johns face flashes on the TV screen when the flood happens XD

People getting 2k likes for comments made just 2 years back. That is great.

Well said! History doesn't happen in a vacuum. Context!

Watched when it came out, commenting now. Crash Course has the unfortunate horrible problem of seeing history through a very modern, hate-for-the-Man, PC filter. CC explains history strictly through our modern ideals, beliefs and customs. We need to understand that modern society is a fairly new concept; only recently has the West been able to achieve a culture where human rights matter and are more prevalent than any time in history. We've mostly been a agrarian society since we first started planted seeds, not all, but most. This means that the ability to do physical work, how strong you are matter the most, and men win. This doesn't make women's lives less important in the modern sense, but a son is capable of doing much more work in the field than a daughter. The Persian Empire wasn't a bad thing on the whole, but everybody hates the current super power, similar how it's cool to hate America. Philip may be more responsible for Alexander's empire than given credit for, but down regulating the man in favor of an episode about male misogyny is ludicrous. Make an entire series on it, but don't present an amazing topic of David vs Goliath, with David winning and going on to be on the biggest X factors in history. Show Macedon and Greece before the campaign. It looks like Rhode Island decided to take over the rest of the U.S. The Hellenistic ideas that were allowed to spread throughout empires changed the world. Buddhism is thought to be inspired by Greek philosophies. Battles are important, the what happens afterward is very important. CC hates the Western culture (it's hip to hate it even though he never explains the deplorable situation of women in other cultures in modern society) and war which is why it's okay if the Mongols did something, but not okay if a Western did, which is understandable, but always affects their ability to explain things with context. Relating Alexander the Great to The Situation and Kim Kardashian shows you how much contempt Jon has for Alexander. The man wasn't perfect, but when looked at through a lens of when the man existed, Great is too small a moniker. Deliberately explaining history from a personal, modern bias is wrong. We have to try to understand people for the times they lived in and not by marginalizing people we don't appreciate because we have a bias.

@poltronafrau

8 жыл бұрын

Northern XY Great comment, said no one ever

@lloppka7080

8 жыл бұрын

+Benjamin Verheijden What are you talking about? This was a great comment.

@towley5567

8 жыл бұрын

+Benjamin Verheijden actually a very good comment, bringing actual discussion.

@poltronafrau

8 жыл бұрын

towley5567 oh yeah, what discussion? Do you agree with him? why?

@saeedvazirian

5 жыл бұрын

Nah, you're just offended because he said the truth about the waekness of Alexander in comparison to the Persians.

Good job 👏