Americapox: The Missing Plague

Why didn't the Europeans get sick when they made contact with the American Indians?
Part 2: • Why Some Animals Can't...
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Brian Mitchell, Danny Z, Joe Pantry, TheAlphaFactor, Duhilio Patiño, Benjamin Morrison, Jordan Melville, Mike Lanier, Martin, Steven Grimm, Alistair Forbes, Lou Rivellini, Tom Maher, Richard Jenkins, Chris Chapin, ChoiceMechanicalDenver.com, سليمان العقل, Andres Villacres, Phil Gardner, Nevin Spoljaric, Tony DiLascio, Robert Kunz, Tod Kurt, Daniel Slater, Sam Pitts, Thomas J Miller Jr MD, Markus Persson, Wenhao Nie, Today I Found Out, Patricio Fons, Mark Govea

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  • @aarianmalhotra7440
    @aarianmalhotra74404 жыл бұрын

    The KZread algorithm has a real dark sense of humour.

  • @georgianaharris4865

    @georgianaharris4865

    4 жыл бұрын

    😔

  • @mattsupertramp6506

    @mattsupertramp6506

    4 жыл бұрын

    And yet it works because here you are

  • @jonahnichols2158

    @jonahnichols2158

    4 жыл бұрын

    No, it's just that it sees more people watching this video and then sends it out to more people. Repeat.

  • @disaster_runner5030

    @disaster_runner5030

    4 жыл бұрын

    Jonah Nichols figures

  • @zacharyshannon9351

    @zacharyshannon9351

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yep

  • @vlogbrothers
    @vlogbrothers8 жыл бұрын

    Great, great video. I'd add one thing: As Grey points out, living in a city pre-1900 had some downsides, specifically you were quite likely to die of plague. But living outside of cities also had some disadvantages--you were quite likely to die of starvation. The Old World had all the domesticatable animals, but the New World had much better non-animal food. Tomatoes, potatoes, corn, avocados, beans, squash, blueberries, and the list goes on. Most of the non-meat, non-wheat foods we associate with contemporary life--from peanuts to peppers--existed only in the New World. -John

  • @InorganicVegan

    @InorganicVegan

    8 жыл бұрын

    Bump. Also, John, Last Week tonight tore pennies up!

  • @garethdean6382

    @garethdean6382

    8 жыл бұрын

    +vlogbrothers 'You don't have any tasty snacks, but in compensation here's a load of lethal diseases. You'll be grateful a few millennia from now, trust me.'

  • @jamesh354

    @jamesh354

    8 жыл бұрын

    +CGP Grey Please do listen to him, I think a lot of people would appreciate the effort.

  • @SimaanFreeloader

    @SimaanFreeloader

    8 жыл бұрын

    As Jared Diamond explained in his book, the problem the New World had with respect to plant cultivation is that it is not very wide, compared with the Old World. Plants tend to require a specific climate to thrive. But in the New World, when when great crops like potatoes and corn, which could potentially support large populations, were first cultivated, there were not many places with the same climate where the cultivation of those crops could spread to. That severely limited the potential of agriculture for ancient civilizations in the New World.

  • @michaelt6753

    @michaelt6753

    8 жыл бұрын

    +vlogbrothers Hey, it's the owner of VidCon that Brady talked about!

  • @blazingsilver7218
    @blazingsilver72182 жыл бұрын

    Speaking of cholera, I remember in high school when talking about Britain, my teacher said she rather have any alcohol than water back in those days, cause alcohol isn’t going to kill you like cholera.

  • @535phobos

    @535phobos

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thats why we got beer and wine. People used to drink (quite weak) beer all day, cause even a little bit of alcohol means that there are no germs in your water.

  • @hertzzgames

    @hertzzgames

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@535phobos wow, thats interesting

  • @jintanarawdsukumaal3000

    @jintanarawdsukumaal3000

    2 жыл бұрын

    but the drunkness' is worth it right ?

  • @dshe8637

    @dshe8637

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jintanarawdsukumaal3000 It was quite dilute. It did harm people in the long run, but they didn't live as long as nowadays anyway

  • @yareyare_dechi

    @yareyare_dechi

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@535phobos more that the production of alcohol involves heating the water, which kills the germs. the amount of alcohol in "small" beer wouldnt do anything to germs

  • @sandrasandra8728
    @sandrasandra87282 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this episode! Back when we learned about American colonization in school my history teacher actually told the class that most natives got killed by european diseases, but when I asked why the same didn’t happen to the europeans with american diseases, the answer I got was: “They just didn’t.” This has bothered me for ages

  • @nenmaster5218

    @nenmaster5218

    2 жыл бұрын

    Veritasium-Fans here? Hbomberguy-Fans here? CGP Grey Fans here? Practical Engineering Fans here? And yes, duh, this is an underhanded way to spread Fun and/or Education: Sue me! Sue me for trying to help my fellow Science-Fans out a bit!!

  • @Drekromancer

    @Drekromancer

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nenmaster5218 Based

  • @8ofwands300

    @8ofwands300

    2 жыл бұрын

    I thought syphilis came from the New World? Or at least that is the prevailing theory.

  • @duycuongnguyen6300

    @duycuongnguyen6300

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@8ofwands300 yes. But it's like the only disease that come from the new world that somewhat affect the old world. And syphilis came no where near the destruction that the old world diseases had (small pox, influenza, bubonic plage,...).

  • @8ofwands300

    @8ofwands300

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@duycuongnguyen6300 I realize that ...perhaps because it is sexually transmiited. AND I guess there is even some question about this hypothesis based on some British archeological digs of a pre Columbian monastery with well- preserved remains of Dark Age monks that show signs of advanced syphilis.

  • @StevenKluber
    @StevenKluber3 жыл бұрын

    “You can’t build a civilization on honey alone.” I guess hexagons aren't the bestagons.

  • @noinfo101roblox2

    @noinfo101roblox2

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yet hexagons are not honey, they are made of wax. Hexagons, still the bestagons.

  • @aldenburke9799

    @aldenburke9799

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@noinfo101roblox2 :O

  • @User-jj1ng

    @User-jj1ng

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@noinfo101roblox2 you can't build a civilization on wax alone too

  • @explosivpotato4582

    @explosivpotato4582

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@User-jj1ng have you tried?

  • @MrLrebelo1

    @MrLrebelo1

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@User-jj1ng of course you can, if you put the wax in hexagon formations. M

  • @RickFrz
    @RickFrz3 жыл бұрын

    i love how he used hexagons even back then

  • @donaldwohlberg6043

    @donaldwohlberg6043

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hexagons are the bestagons!

  • @yellobanana6456

    @yellobanana6456

    3 жыл бұрын

    HEXAGON CULT RISE

  • @robbiestrong-morse730

    @robbiestrong-morse730

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pretty sure it was a civ reference.

  • @thatdude1853

    @thatdude1853

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is actually an updated thumbnail.

  • @ellikesgymnastics1752

    @ellikesgymnastics1752

    3 жыл бұрын

    300th like

  • @Taospark
    @Taospark2 жыл бұрын

    It is also worth bearing in mind that Europeans did continually have outbreaks from their own plagues after arriving in the New World but they simply died at lower rates.

  • @_TheZipper_
    @_TheZipper_2 жыл бұрын

    Humans after dog domestication: “Hey bud, could you guard my cheeseburger factory?”

  • @Egilhelmson

    @Egilhelmson

    2 жыл бұрын

    The problem with this theory is that the paleo Indians had dogs with them when they crossed the Bering Strait, and when the Europeans contacted them. There are still a couple of these breeds around, even if the European genes have taken over, largely. Anyway, if there was any herding instinct left in the Ameridogs, it could have been used and intensified, just like in Eurasia/Africa (except for the problem of fewer people in the Americas than in Eurasia, so fewer chances for that stubborn set of herders to train them right).

  • @nenmaster5218

    @nenmaster5218

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Egilhelmson Veritasium-Fans here? Hbomberguy-Fans here? CGP Grey Fans here? Practical Engineering Fans here? And yes, duh, this is an underhanded way to spread Fun and/or Education: Sue me! Sue me for trying to help my fellow Science-Fans out a bit!!

  • @ashenone3050

    @ashenone3050

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Egilhelmson the dogs from america and Europeans dogs are the same dogs, just they were separated for a long time

  • @electrosthefella
    @electrosthefella5 жыл бұрын

    If smallpox is so deadly, I can't imagine how deadly BIGpox is

  • @EpicProductions121

    @EpicProductions121

    5 жыл бұрын

    You mean chickenpox?

  • @thefreshpeepsarchive8913

    @thefreshpeepsarchive8913

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Legend Heard of a joke.

  • @SomeMamaLuigis

    @SomeMamaLuigis

    5 жыл бұрын

    maybe not but you can look it up, known as the Great Pox or Syphilis.

  • @Meeeeeeeeeeeeh34

    @Meeeeeeeeeeeeh34

    5 жыл бұрын

    Booooooo

  • @Jin-bq4fx

    @Jin-bq4fx

    5 жыл бұрын

    Get off the stage!

  • @Trinexx42
    @Trinexx427 жыл бұрын

    "Now most germs don't want to kill you for the same reason you don't want to burn down your house" this quote is absolutely perfect in every sense of the word.

  • @PramkLuna

    @PramkLuna

    5 жыл бұрын

    Based on the internet, I'm pretty sure those germs would kill you if they saw a spider the same reason most people would burn down their house if they saw a spider

  • @carterrissmiller2510

    @carterrissmiller2510

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like Logan Paul is the black death

  • @staticmind1872

    @staticmind1872

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@PramkLuna if there are spiders inside me, fuck it I'll burn myself alive

  • @imdone8243

    @imdone8243

    4 жыл бұрын

    My spider sense is tiggling

  • @FishuaJo

    @FishuaJo

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bold of you to assume I don't want to burn down my house.

  • @CrashStudios856
    @CrashStudios8562 жыл бұрын

    "You can't build a civilization on a foundation of honey alone" Ok then how did the bees do it?

  • @theeclipsemaster

    @theeclipsemaster

    2 жыл бұрын

    They used the hexagon

  • @featgoose972

    @featgoose972

    Жыл бұрын

    @@theeclipsemaster the bestagon

  • @theeclipsemaster

    @theeclipsemaster

    Жыл бұрын

    @@featgoose972 YES!

  • @mrosskne

    @mrosskne

    Жыл бұрын

    They didn't.

  • @theeclipsemaster

    @theeclipsemaster

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mrosskne do you hear that sound? That's the joke going over your head

  • @Hlhud
    @Hlhud2 жыл бұрын

    "Nothing but drama, these llamas." Sounds like the opposite of their Old World cousins, the camels. When you're a camel, you can put up with anything. :P

  • @rainmanslim4611

    @rainmanslim4611

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yep, know an Arab dude who's family raises camels, he told me the same thing camels can be temperamental but they can also put up with a lot before getting nasty.

  • @petersilva037

    @petersilva037

    2 жыл бұрын

    weirdly... Camels' ancestors came from the new world ... llamas are camelids also.

  • @nenmaster5218

    @nenmaster5218

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rainmanslim4611 Veritasium-Fans here? Hbomberguy-Fans here? CGP Grey Fans here? Practical Engineering Fans here? And yes, duh, this is an underhanded way to spread Fun and/or Education: Sue me! Sue me for trying to help my fellow Science-Fans out a bit!!

  • @baranjan6969

    @baranjan6969

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nenmaster5218 Best I can do is sam o nella

  • @nenmaster5218

    @nenmaster5218

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@baranjan6969 ??

  • @wisedred
    @wisedred3 жыл бұрын

    "Being the patient zero of a new animal-to-human plague is winning a terrible lottery" Sheesh, couldn't be more right

  • @chebic5095

    @chebic5095

    3 жыл бұрын

    Patient zeros of those diseases are like some kind of nega-Dream

  • @wisedred

    @wisedred

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chebic5095 yeah, just imagine how you must feel when your little trip to a market in some random country exposes the whole world to a massive pandemic.

  • @igorwojtyna2158

    @igorwojtyna2158

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah imagine eating something almost nobody eats like a bat for example and catching some new sickness

  • @jaideepshekhar4621

    @jaideepshekhar4621

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@igorwojtyna2158 Why does it feel too relatable-

  • @rootbeer4888

    @rootbeer4888

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@igorwojtyna2158 It was from WHCDC lab doing gain of function studies.

  • @entropy-cat
    @entropy-cat3 жыл бұрын

    "But you can't build a civilization on a foundation of honey alone." [Citation needed]

  • @jordank6961

    @jordank6961

    3 жыл бұрын

    Time to crack open that civ launcher and give it a try 🤣

  • @chairwithoutwheels9148

    @chairwithoutwheels9148

    3 жыл бұрын

    *ahem* minecraft 1.15 *cough*

  • @TitaniumSteelGreatest

    @TitaniumSteelGreatest

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chairwithoutwheels9148 Worst update ever

  • @chairwithoutwheels9148

    @chairwithoutwheels9148

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@TitaniumSteelGreatest i agree i hated it, but worst update goes to 1.17

  • @simonwamsley5939

    @simonwamsley5939

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chairwithoutwheels9148 wh- why??

  • @mistahgrimm9551
    @mistahgrimm9551 Жыл бұрын

    It doesn't really change things. But North America does have a number of native goat and sheep species. The NA Mountain Goat, Bighorn Sheep, and Dall Sheep being among the ones I know of. Natives used to collect their molted fur for weaving, but never domesticated them. Cool thing about Lamas is that coyotes and wolves are afraid of them. I used to work on a goat farm that had a number of lamas for the purpose of scaring away the coyotes. These species are also highly susceptible to diseases such as pneumonic plague from the old world.

  • @mistahgrimm9551

    @mistahgrimm9551

    Жыл бұрын

    Also Muskox were a native species of bovine in Alaska and the Canadian artic but were over hunted in modern times. They've been reintroduced. Point is there were opportunities for domestication. The ancestors of our domesticated animals were just about as large, nimble, and powerful as these native species.

  • @marcustulliuscicero3987
    @marcustulliuscicero39872 жыл бұрын

    Great video, though I feel it leaves out one important factor. Jared Diamonds in his book, 'Guns, Germs and Steel' discusses these questions in depth and also points at the orientation of the continents. In Eurasia, with its East-West orientation, most regions will have a neighbouring region on the same longitude. This means these regions probably have a similar climate, which facilitates the exchange of crops and domesticated animals as these can thrive in both regions. The America’s, on the other hand, have a North-South orientation and on top of this are cut through by various mountain ranges, deserts and jungles. This means that communities in neighbouring regions live on different longitudes and thus in a different climate. This makes for a much slower spread of domesticated plants and animals as direct neighbours have no reason to adopt these from eachother. The societies that do have a similar enough climate to potentially benefit from such an exchange are too far away, being on opposite sides of the equator, to learn about each other's livestock and plants.

  • @megafromagem483

    @megafromagem483

    2 жыл бұрын

    In world history we watched the show they made on the book, great to see it mentioned and some of the points it covered that this didn't

  • @ericcp8757

    @ericcp8757

    2 жыл бұрын

    He read guns germs and steel to make this video, judging by conversations on his podcast. I don't totally agree with the theories of the book but I think grey has reduced it well.

  • @Dunkle0steus

    @Dunkle0steus

    2 жыл бұрын

    Guns, Germs, and Steel is pretty outdated by modern Anthropological standards. Some of Diamond's theories are no longer considered correct by popular consensus.

  • @mogologomanguy770

    @mogologomanguy770

    2 жыл бұрын

    That seems like a pretty weak theory

  • @Bananappleboy

    @Bananappleboy

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Are You Going To Do The 'Ora Ora' Thing? ora ora what

  • @TehVulpez
    @TehVulpez3 жыл бұрын

    7:38 Even now, "buffalo" have only really been domesticated because they've been interbred with cattle. Breeders say the percent of cow DNA is basically how tame they are.

  • @alexandertownsend3291

    @alexandertownsend3291

    3 жыл бұрын

    My takeaway from that is we should just stick to cattle domestication.

  • @selinesbeau

    @selinesbeau

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alexandertownsend3291 Look up heck cattle. Scary milk suckers...

  • @GP-qi1ve

    @GP-qi1ve

    Жыл бұрын

    anyway those are bisons not buffalos

  • @MissMadelynA
    @MissMadelynA8 жыл бұрын

    People probably complained about him talking too fast, so now he slows down and people still complain, yep...

  • @EnragedSephiroth

    @EnragedSephiroth

    8 жыл бұрын

    TO HELL WITH THOSE PEOPLE!

  • @FlameQwert

    @FlameQwert

    8 жыл бұрын

    Complainers will always complain

  • @itscrumbelivable

    @itscrumbelivable

    8 жыл бұрын

    As a part-deaf Newfoundlander, being told i'm talking to loud/fast is the norm for me

  • @emilefeuser9827

    @emilefeuser9827

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Madelyn Miller ikr

  • @HomeofLawboy

    @HomeofLawboy

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Madelyn Miller It's not the same people complaining, you know that right..?

  • @thornthallid950
    @thornthallid950 Жыл бұрын

    I have frequently wondered why the plagues from Western exploration of the new world only went one way. Thanks for explaining that one.

  • @LordIronfist
    @LordIronfist2 жыл бұрын

    This had literally never occurred to me before, and you answered it so thoroughly and succinctly. Thank you!

  • @angryanchouart4384

    @angryanchouart4384

    Жыл бұрын

    Be! 🤪

  • @parallax5543
    @parallax55433 жыл бұрын

    Is nobody gonna talk about that CGP Grey changed the thumbnail of a 4 year old vid?

  • @peperoni_pepino

    @peperoni_pepino

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have no idea what the previous thumbnail was or that it changed, and I'm probably not alone in that aspect.

  • @parallax5543

    @parallax5543

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@peperoni_pepino i remember it was like an old world map.

  • @peperoni_pepino

    @peperoni_pepino

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@parallax5543 Ah, then this is a pretty large change. Strange. I thought it would be something Covid-ly offensive.

  • @parallax5543

    @parallax5543

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@peperoni_pepino i think cgp grey is just trying to appeal to newer audiences by changing the thumbnail.

  • @niydfass1060

    @niydfass1060

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@parallax5543 I feel like that has to be it. It definitely got me to watch the video again

  • @jier9904
    @jier99046 жыл бұрын

    "nothing but drama, these llamas" -- CGP Grey (2015)

  • @JD867

    @JD867

    6 жыл бұрын

    "Ever try to manage a herd of llamas in the mountains of Peru?!"

  • @Ida-xe8pg

    @Ida-xe8pg

    6 жыл бұрын

    yea that's why new world was lesser deavolepd than the old world

  • @peterisawesomeplease

    @peterisawesomeplease

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its a bit misleading though. The real issue with llamas is not so much that they are unruly but that they are just less useful. The produce less and do much much less work than old world animals.

  • @garganrose

    @garganrose

    5 жыл бұрын

    Muhajir the Obama lama drama.

  • @thatdkguy5256

    @thatdkguy5256

    5 жыл бұрын

    Drama Llama is my spirit animal lol

  • @tempy2440
    @tempy24402 жыл бұрын

    "The game of civilisation is decided not by the civilisations but by the map they play on" -Grey This is such a salient quote

  • @Untilitpases

    @Untilitpases

    2 жыл бұрын

    And wrong. As Balkans, North Africa, Middle east and Asia can attest. That's an experiement run 5 times. It failed on all but western Europe. My take is Philosophy (and taking it seriously) was the special sauce of the west. Phil puts thinking prior to the ego (or the thinkers motivation), providing the birthseed for law, politics, economy, sicence etc. And still, having it isn't a guarantee to success, as most of those regions had access to philosophy's style, but none other than the west took it to heart.

  • @tomgreen3242

    @tomgreen3242

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Untilitpases Yes , the medieval scholastics developed the modern style of scholarship , hyper-abstract meticulous close reasoning ,citing sources ,etc and made - notably Thoma Aquino -very persuade arguments that not only did every area of have substantial autonomy each other but also that every field of scholarship had substantial autonomy from each other. The society that relative to it's resources devouted more to it's intellectuals was medieval Europe via the Roman Catholic Church. The medieval universities and many of the monastic orders consumed a substantial amount of quite limited resources . Medieval Europe was not technology stagnant -the moldboard plow , while neither the waterwheel or windmill was new the systematic massive use unique , the stirrup , while iron wasn't new production on a scale where rather than being hideously expensive high-tech material for military and occasional luxury display it was the most common metal was unprecedented , the horse collar which allowed plowing the same amount of land in half the time at half the feed cost , and allowed tansportation of goods at twice the speed of the alternatives was a medieval European development . modern science is a straight line development of medieval natural philosophy , The innovation was going from careful observation to meticulous arranged circumstances for meticulous , ultra-close precise observation that allowed replaced of some ratio by precise numbers . Galilean inertia is medieval impetus theory with some ratio replaced by a precise number .

  • @benbayne-davies2397
    @benbayne-davies23972 жыл бұрын

    This video has changed thumbnails more than any other video on KZread

  • @cakeisyummy5755

    @cakeisyummy5755

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's a Bold Claim.

  • @boyinaband
    @boyinaband8 жыл бұрын

    The narration was slower but for some reason that didn't feel like a 12 minute video, felt like 4 or 5. Probably because it's really frickin' interesting! Awesome topic, can't wait for part 2.

  • @cameronmyers2154

    @cameronmyers2154

    6 жыл бұрын

    I love it when I watch an old video from a KZreadr I've just discovered and find a comment from another KZreadr I love

  • @siri5186

    @siri5186

    6 жыл бұрын

    Boyinaband Hey! It’s you!

  • @KeizerSosebee

    @KeizerSosebee

    5 жыл бұрын

    Still hate school?

  • @bmrave

    @bmrave

    5 жыл бұрын

    omff daveee:3

  • @jacobpledger5101

    @jacobpledger5101

    5 жыл бұрын

    WADDYA DOI; HERE

  • @gwho
    @gwho8 жыл бұрын

    Hex tiles, strategic resources... civilization, baby

  • @rexeleon

    @rexeleon

    8 жыл бұрын

    CIV V ftw

  • @PatrickElliottPizzanui

    @PatrickElliottPizzanui

    8 жыл бұрын

    Who else hyped for Civ VI this November?

  • @mattdanfg

    @mattdanfg

    8 жыл бұрын

    ...settlers of catan

  • @TheRayvin6

    @TheRayvin6

    8 жыл бұрын

    WOOHOO!!!

  • @TheRayvin6

    @TheRayvin6

    8 жыл бұрын

    I remember wiping out a whole continent by lining up a huge line of infantry and tanks.

  • @jfgh900
    @jfgh900 Жыл бұрын

    I love this video, it had such a high rewatchability score. Grey just keeps asking the right questions and it leads to such an in-depth answer to a complex question

  • @whitflores8160
    @whitflores81602 жыл бұрын

    "The game of civilization has nothing to do with the players and everything to do with the map." 👏 well said

  • @kennyg1358

    @kennyg1358

    Жыл бұрын

    Also nonsense

  • @endofinnocence5992
    @endofinnocence59924 жыл бұрын

    sheep 1: "You're a conspiracy theorist." sheep 2: "No. The dog and the man are working together!"

  • @a_diamond

    @a_diamond

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gold.

  • @tellurian7999

    @tellurian7999

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Il Portico Dipinto A Shepard might use a dog to herd the sheep into a location.

  • @jimkid1392

    @jimkid1392

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Wake up! You're all just sheep!" "Well....yeah." "Oh. Right."

  • @drayblesolomonstribulation3045

    @drayblesolomonstribulation3045

    4 жыл бұрын

    Best thing I ever let was the wolf to get that big ole bite... sheep ain't all that bad... check out what's in the wolf...

  • @PennyDreadful1

    @PennyDreadful1

    4 жыл бұрын

    The dog and the sheep never tried to hide it though. Conspiracy theories are just a search for meanings in a meaningless world. There are down to earth conspiracy theories that makes sense. Like the U.S trying to keep democracy down in the middle East because they know the people hates them and would never trade oil with them if they were put in charge. If you can justify a theory with a profit motive it's strong.

  • @matheusm.santana6527
    @matheusm.santana65273 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact, the americas had dogs, and since we didn't have domesticatable animals a few of the 'jobs' went to dog breeds. The alaskan malamute can pull a sled in the cold weather and we have records of the groups of chihuahua-like breeds pulling each a small cart of goods, or being used to hunt by traveling in the backpack and being relesed once the animal is spotted (yes they hunted with purse dogs). And the north america had a breed of dog called wool dog that, you guessed it, had wool like fur that people used to make clothes. The americas also had a dog breeds that were raised as food, to the horror of europeans. TLDR: The americas didn't have domesticatable animals so they had to work with what they had, aka dogs.

  • @xxxBradTxxx

    @xxxBradTxxx

    Жыл бұрын

    Javelinas (peccaries) are a new world pig like animal the Mayans domesticated

  • @jujubeethatsme

    @jujubeethatsme

    Жыл бұрын

    This deserves more attention 👏

  • @alejandroojeda1572

    @alejandroojeda1572

    Жыл бұрын

    Also Guinea pigs! It was a staple for the incans and It's still consumed in peru

  • @deusexaethera

    @deusexaethera

    Жыл бұрын

    So you're telling me the most useful domesticable animal in the Americas prior to contact with Europe was one that proto-Native-Americans brought with them all the way from Africa?

  • @richardpike8748

    @richardpike8748

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh wow very fun fact thanks

  • @theinconsistentgamer1402
    @theinconsistentgamer1402 Жыл бұрын

    Grey, you're my absolute favorite KZreadr. You make seemingly mundane topics exciting, even enthralling to learn about. I eagerly await the next notification bell from your channel!

  • @benjaminamachado2018
    @benjaminamachado20182 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation of these factors. Fun fact, though, the Americas actually had domesticated dogs. I don't mean that they had wolves available to domesticate, which of course they did. I mean that they had their own unique, regional breeds of dog, different from other dog breeds around the world.

  • @williamhastings2718

    @williamhastings2718

    2 жыл бұрын

    wolves can not be domesticated, dummy.

  • @bumbleweaver7571
    @bumbleweaver75714 жыл бұрын

    I shivered as I was reminded how many times I would restart a game of Civilization 3 Gold Edition, specifically because my starting location SUCKED.

  • @citrusblast4372

    @citrusblast4372

    4 жыл бұрын

    Damn, haha

  • @skipp3252

    @skipp3252

    4 жыл бұрын

    If only the native american had that chance xD

  • @GlamStacheessnostalgialounge

    @GlamStacheessnostalgialounge

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@skipp3252 Well they did in the millions of games where I turned the Aztec empire into the world's most dominant militant country.

  • @filipkarwowski6510

    @filipkarwowski6510

    4 жыл бұрын

    SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

  • @bordergore7623

    @bordergore7623

    4 жыл бұрын

    der Skipp they did, since natives didn’t arrive in the America’s until they crossed the ice land bridge in Russia, the bridge that is now underwater.

  • @yuetiansiah8602
    @yuetiansiah86028 жыл бұрын

    I want Civilization 6 made by CGP Grey!

  • @MlMZY630

    @MlMZY630

    8 жыл бұрын

    pleasepleasePLEEAASE

  • @yuetiansiah8602

    @yuetiansiah8602

    8 жыл бұрын

    Mimzy Spire My life needs it.

  • @micahman6873

    @micahman6873

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Yue Tian Siah Agreed

  • @Spatsgavi

    @Spatsgavi

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Yue Tian Siah YES omg please! Grey if you are reading this i am begging you!

  • @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin

    @Usammityduzntafraidofanythin

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Yue Tian Siah Yeah, he's got the money to do that just laying around. Purchase that IP grey.

  • @rubenlucas4629
    @rubenlucas46292 жыл бұрын

    Probably my favorite video on KZread, masterfully executed, as always.

  • @SimonNZ6969
    @SimonNZ69692 жыл бұрын

    I like to rewatch this video a lot. Helps put a lot of things in perspective.

  • @shrikrishnakirtan1341
    @shrikrishnakirtan13413 жыл бұрын

    "The game of civilization has nothing to do with the players and everything to do with the map. "

  • @crockettlauncher

    @crockettlauncher

    3 жыл бұрын

    Obviously it has to do with both but this domesticatable animal point beautifully explains so much of the disparities between civilizations.

  • @benjapizarro981

    @benjapizarro981

    3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine if america progressed first

  • @goldeviolets4314

    @goldeviolets4314

    3 жыл бұрын

    Benja Pizarro That’s very unlikely but if it did then the mainly European inspired countries of North and South America would be replaced with mainly native ones

  • @benjapizarro981

    @benjapizarro981

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@goldeviolets4314 yeah, imagine a native culture but whit years of economical progress, damn, how would it be

  • @timon20061995

    @timon20061995

    3 жыл бұрын

    Native american didn't even invented wheels. And most of the "useful" animals took the old world hundred of years to domesticate. Dog came from wolf and wolf is one of the most dangerous animal in wild but the old world still made it. The theory just doesn't hold it very well

  • @statelyelms
    @statelyelms3 жыл бұрын

    "Why is there no Americapox?" "Germs jumping from animals to humans is extraordinarily rare" Thanks, youtube algorithm. I feel better already.

  • @field5758

    @field5758

    3 жыл бұрын

    We got lucky.

  • @outlawJosieFox

    @outlawJosieFox

    3 жыл бұрын

    But that is most likely how we got Covid 19. Theory is that wildlife habitats are being destroyed in China to feed the ever growing number of slaves to feed the Chinese economic miracle. Those wild animals are forced onto rural arable land where they defecate and urinate their germs for us to catch. Somebody just has to not wash their hands before eating and bingo it's in a human being who will take it to a town then a city a factory and then abroad.

  • @trezapoioiuy

    @trezapoioiuy

    3 жыл бұрын

    extraordinarily rare means that, given enough animals and enough people and enough time it WILL happen

  • @TheGrumbliestPuppy

    @TheGrumbliestPuppy

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@wantafanta01 Every group of scientists that have looked at it agree that it's a naturally evolved virus. Lab-created viruses look incredibly different. Also bioweapon viruses typically wouldn't be designed to kill less than 1% of the population...

  • @Ugly_German_Truths

    @Ugly_German_Truths

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Why is there no Americapox?" Syphilis: "Am I a joke to you???"

  • @Ghav
    @Ghav2 жыл бұрын

    Amazing video. This doesn't just explain why there were no American plagues, but so much more about why there were so many differences between the Eastern and Western worlds before colonization.

  • @GimmeMyHandleBack
    @GimmeMyHandleBack2 жыл бұрын

    I’ve already watched this… but it’s been so long I’ve forgotten it. Perfect time to rewatch it!!!

  • @soundlyawake
    @soundlyawake8 жыл бұрын

    Get it. Plague-ground.

  • @uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    @uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TheJman0205 That's because it got reporter and isn't showing up

  • @uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    @uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TheJman0205 Because you didn't delete it and it's not showing up.

  • @uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    @uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TheJman0205 Oh, sorry I thought you meant reply. Then it's probably because nobody has replied to or liked your post.

  • @Gardner924

    @Gardner924

    6 жыл бұрын

    soundlyawake [Nicola Foti] hanahahahahahah

  • @suwinkhamchaiwong8382

    @suwinkhamchaiwong8382

    6 жыл бұрын

    soundlyawake [Nicola Foti] xD

  • @toonbat
    @toonbat6 жыл бұрын

    "...an unintentional playground for plagues." A plagueground?

  • @kaidatong1704

    @kaidatong1704

    6 жыл бұрын

    plagueround ftfy

  • @kekils7722

    @kekils7722

    5 жыл бұрын

    You savvy human being

  • @stikmiecockenner2098

    @stikmiecockenner2098

    5 жыл бұрын

    fhck

  • @chrisb2240

    @chrisb2240

    5 жыл бұрын

    God dammit barb!

  • @benjaminnewlon7865

    @benjaminnewlon7865

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well ok SANS

  • @mgsPWlover
    @mgsPWlover2 жыл бұрын

    I love how Grey basically does Guns, Germs, and Steel in like three videos for free

  • @JacklynnInChina
    @JacklynnInChina2 жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite of your videos, and it watches so different in 2021

  • @u06jo3vmp
    @u06jo3vmp3 жыл бұрын

    >America had bad animals : Laughs in Australian

  • @garrett9550

    @garrett9550

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don’t complain now, get your herd of kookaburras and have them pull a plow.

  • @IRmightynoob

    @IRmightynoob

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bad in different ways, as far as I'm aware Australia is actually lacking in the "Tank with hooves" department and is more about the "venomous arms race."

  • @notnotcharles3022

    @notnotcharles3022

    2 жыл бұрын

    tbh the aboriginal people basically domesticated the wildlife in a broad sense of the term

  • @kingt0295

    @kingt0295

    2 жыл бұрын

    America (both continents i mean) has far worse animals coming from an Australian. We just have some deadly snakes + spiders and some cute but half braindead marsupials. They have bears wolves moose big cats and a plethora of deadly snakes and spiders that only have the power to kill 5 men per bite instead of our 6

  • @aidanzeitz4940

    @aidanzeitz4940

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kingt0295 man i love that i live in canada where we don't have many deadly snakes/spiders, but i guess we trade that for a lot of powerful beasts

  • @ajaxpinecone.2993
    @ajaxpinecone.29933 жыл бұрын

    KZread channel: mentions the word "pandemic" Comment section: OMG HE PREDICTED CORONA

  • @AlwaysSomeone

    @AlwaysSomeone

    3 жыл бұрын

    Everyone always thinks all of human history was leading up to their specific point in time, which is the most important to have ever been and will ever be.

  • @morfeuszkerzeusz1266

    @morfeuszkerzeusz1266

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AlwaysSomeone That's one of the wisest comments I've ever read on YT. I have to note that somewhere.

  • @wu2166

    @wu2166

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well so did Bill Gates in a Vox interview but nobody really believed him

  • @Kholdilocks

    @Kholdilocks

    3 жыл бұрын

    I get what you mean but in all honesty a LOT of people did predict coronavirus. We'll have another one again before a crazy amount of time passes.

  • @JacklynnInChina

    @JacklynnInChina

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmao he explicitly says in the video that plagues are less common these days due to modern sanitation

  • @Fork2Drive
    @Fork2Drive2 жыл бұрын

    I watched this in my freetime and a month later I remembered the info in this video for a test lmao Thanks CGP Grey!

  • @corionis6
    @corionis62 жыл бұрын

    Yes, there was a lack of domesticated animals but some of that was self-inflicted. I don't know which species went extinct from climate change (ice age to today) or which were extinct due to over-hunting but the Americas did have camels, mammoths and mastodons. Wolves were in abundance but were not widely domesticated to help with livestock management and horses were in the Americas but went extinct.

  • @rileyj7066
    @rileyj70668 жыл бұрын

    I can domesticate a buffalo, just hold my beer

  • @mexicanreformist1522

    @mexicanreformist1522

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Riley Johnson You have no chance I heard they have wings.

  • @Janack

    @Janack

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Riley Johnson RIP

  • @13rute

    @13rute

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Riley Johnson I believe you mean an American Buffalo, aka Bison. Normal buffalo come from Africa.

  • @WakarimasenKa

    @WakarimasenKa

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Brett Tady and Asia

  • @FlyingJetpack1

    @FlyingJetpack1

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Riley Johnson I can domesticate a beer, just hold my buffalo.

  • @leepicfortnitefunniesxdfun4655
    @leepicfortnitefunniesxdfun46554 жыл бұрын

    3:47 “playground for plagues” you really missed an opportunity to say “plagueground” edit: puns are the best humor and it would not mess up the vibe

  • @mileskuma4448

    @mileskuma4448

    4 жыл бұрын

    bruh if grey used a pun in a video his vibe would be over

  • @masterblaster7484

    @masterblaster7484

    4 жыл бұрын

    Miles Kuma yo clearly haven’t seen his recent videos

  • @Oscar4u69

    @Oscar4u69

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mileskuma4448 8:33 you are wrong

  • @Quotenbrtchen

    @Quotenbrtchen

    3 жыл бұрын

    If only he had known about Plague Inc.

  • @Caldaron

    @Caldaron

    3 жыл бұрын

    maybe it's because this kind of humor is sub par?

  • @workshopblackbird
    @workshopblackbird2 жыл бұрын

    These little mini documentaries are incredible for short meal breaks at work.

  • @thecreativecontessa
    @thecreativecontessa Жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite of your work!

  • @lennykenny7851
    @lennykenny78517 жыл бұрын

    " Its just you, couple buddies, and a few stone based tools " Sounds like school

  • @harditbhutani6068

    @harditbhutani6068

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lenny Kenny 100% agree.

  • @baltazarvok2564

    @baltazarvok2564

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is what everyone had for domestication, everywhere. And they did it. The Siberian-Americans (also called "native americans") just did not try hard enough. The europeans/asians did not domesticate cows, those are the result of domestication. They domesticated aurochs, and bred them to be cows. Try looking it up, there is a reason the guy shows a picture of the cow in his video and not a picture of an auroch.

  • @eljanrimsa5843

    @eljanrimsa5843

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@baltazarvok2564 The number of domesticated animals corresponds to the number of animal species. Eurasia-Africa is the biggest land mass on Earth, and has the number of animal species corresponds to this size. Jared Diamond pointed this out. It's not about not trying. It's that only a very small number of species have the right combination of being social, hierarchical, and not too aggressive so they can be fully domesticated. And as maths suggests, most of these animal species live in the biggest land mass.

  • @baltazarvok2564

    @baltazarvok2564

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@eljanrimsa5843 Yes Euro-asia had an advantage, but it was not an owerwhelming advantage (Americas had potatoes and maize - advantage on the crops side to compensate), bison could be tamed, some deer species could be tamed a lot of food animals and llamas actually were tamed (and llamas are excelent animals for domestic use replacing both sheep and goats). As for tamability, even African elephants were tamed (much later, but they were). The first tamed horses could not carry a rider, that came from an extensive breeding effort. What Jared Diamond is doing in his book is throwing smokescreen to hide the most significant factor that decides the level of civilization. Make a guess on what that is.

  • @eljanrimsa5843

    @eljanrimsa5843

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@baltazarvok2564 You confuse taming and domestication. Llamas, alpacas, guinea pigs, turkeys were the animals available for domestication in the Americas. Bisons have historically not been domesticated, neither American bisons nor Eurasian bisons. You need 20-feet high steel fences to hold them in. Elephants have never been domesticated. The domestication of deer has been attempted many times, but without success. Of the many species of ungulates in Eurasia and Africa, many have been tamed, and people have been trying to breed them, but only very few have been domesticated. The Americas started out with less species of ungulates, and only the 2 relatively small camelids could be domesticated.

  • @EstherTheNicey
    @EstherTheNicey7 жыл бұрын

    Who is going on a cgp marathon after the new video came out?

  • @maximosforero8077

    @maximosforero8077

    7 жыл бұрын

    EstherTheNicey I do that every weekend

  • @aegonii8471

    @aegonii8471

    7 жыл бұрын

    EstherTheNicey same

  • @akanicholascage

    @akanicholascage

    7 жыл бұрын

    nailed it

  • @crazgamr6295

    @crazgamr6295

    7 жыл бұрын

    EstherTheNicey I just saw my first video today, and have been watching all day! Lol

  • @elijahe.3704

    @elijahe.3704

    7 жыл бұрын

    I can`t stop re-watching his videos

  • @frankgulla2335
    @frankgulla23352 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating, Grey. Well reasoned and illustrated. Thank you for making such a strong case.

  • @Untilitpases

    @Untilitpases

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which falls down given that middle east, north africa and asia all had access to the same animals. But when the west came, they were severely underdeveloped. (Writing from the Balkans, we had all the ingredients yet none of the results.)

  • @IamEscBoy
    @IamEscBoy2 жыл бұрын

    "meat-markets [without] refrigeration... a more perfect environment for diseases to jump species could hardly be imagined" if only we had learnt from history

  • @Tony-112

    @Tony-112

    2 жыл бұрын

    Those who don't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.

  • @notJafar
    @notJafar3 жыл бұрын

    "Nothing but dramas these llamas" Still laughing at that one.

  • @johanrunfeldt7174

    @johanrunfeldt7174

    2 жыл бұрын

    Also: A llama is no cow.

  • @PrincessLockette

    @PrincessLockette

    2 жыл бұрын

    Are llamas assholes?

  • @Spenfen
    @Spenfen7 жыл бұрын

    "You can't build a civilization on the foundation of honey alone." I'm gonna take that as a challenge. Who wants to come with me to build Honeyopolis? Honey for everyone!

  • @edurlbhhydrel2586

    @edurlbhhydrel2586

    7 жыл бұрын

    Spenfen honeypolis hey that's pretty good!

  • @owbu

    @owbu

    7 жыл бұрын

    Can we ride battle bears?

  • @elijahbenton5279

    @elijahbenton5279

    7 жыл бұрын

    owbu yes

  • @Inconsecuente

    @Inconsecuente

    7 жыл бұрын

    I go

  • @freyja5800

    @freyja5800

    7 жыл бұрын

    Funny thing is, if this Honeyopolis plan succeeds it might just save the entire human race

  • @tlbcanine3748
    @tlbcanine3748 Жыл бұрын

    Is he renaming the videos? I swear it used to be America pox

  • @pop5678eye
    @pop5678eye2 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: what the US commonly calls 'buffalo' is properly a bison not a true buffalo. They are different genus, though closely related.

  • @thunderflare59
    @thunderflare596 жыл бұрын

    "Nothing but drama, these llamas." Horrible joke. 50 points from Ravenclaw.

  • @MishMill

    @MishMill

    5 жыл бұрын

    Prince Thunderflare Snape……

  • @LeachZeech

    @LeachZeech

    5 жыл бұрын

    *to

  • @janema6828

    @janema6828

    5 жыл бұрын

    200 points to Slytherin for the explanation

  • @nr_0001

    @nr_0001

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah ravenclaw is the only house smart enough to understand that

  • @imdone8243

    @imdone8243

    4 жыл бұрын

    DEATH TO THE STORMCLOAKS!!

  • @ClemensAlive
    @ClemensAlive4 жыл бұрын

    "Mommy, why are we the last ones of our kind?" "Because there where no cows in America."

  • @chase522

    @chase522

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@numatichades0175 Yeah bruv, the white man doesn't want us to believe that the natives (before the whites came) had space travel tech and huge cities spanning the entire country!

  • @a_lucientes

    @a_lucientes

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@chase522 _space travel tech?_

  • @chase522

    @chase522

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@a_lucientes Yeah, the white man can't use their superior technology so they hid it away! In a serious note this is as believable as the flat earth 'theory'. It's honestly amazing what people will believe in no matter how mindnumbingly stupid.

  • @nessa6135

    @nessa6135

    4 жыл бұрын

    Chase What? Then whats the real answer, in that case? I thought this theory has been agreed upon for years.

  • @chase522

    @chase522

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nessa6135 To imply the natives at the time had running water and plumbing is completely stupid. Did they have toilets, sinks, or even basic water wells? Well no, because they were too busy killing each other and performing sacrifices. It's the same reason why they didn't have spanning farms or any basic farming techniques and tools... they were nomadic, they had to be. Otherwise they would die staying in one place for too long.

  • @OldManSnickers
    @OldManSnickers Жыл бұрын

    This might be my favourite CGP Grey video. Fascinating stuff.

  • @GrimOrdnance
    @GrimOrdnance2 жыл бұрын

    I love you man. Please make more videos, you're the best!

  • @Warhawk76
    @Warhawk764 жыл бұрын

    As a microbiologist I really appreciated your simple and accurate explanation of this subject. Well done sir!

  • @billb7636

    @billb7636

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Warhawk - this was all written twenty years ago in the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. The explanation was not created by the author of this video.

  • @rusticcloud3325

    @rusticcloud3325

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@billb7636 At least Grey made this video, and Warhawk76 appreciates Grey for making this video. There's nothing wrong with such kind of appreciation.

  • @linusp9316

    @linusp9316

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@billb7636 That book is not well respected. Loads of errors, poor evidence, unsupported conclusions, etc.

  • @billb7636

    @billb7636

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rusticcloud3325 - I never said there was anything wrong with appreciating the VIDEO. The problem is, Warhawk seemed to think that Grey is the one who came up with the explanation, so I was pointing out that he did not.

  • @billb7636

    @billb7636

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@linusp9316 - It may be that YOU do not respect the book. Many other people do. From GoodReads: "It's well written and informative, and worth reading." And many other comments are similar.

  • @catboymothman2495
    @catboymothman24954 жыл бұрын

    Man this video really hits different in 2020, huh... "Cities are playgrounds for plagues" "Sneezing spreads faster than shaking hands which spreads faster than intimacy" and m a n...

  • @Kaiheart

    @Kaiheart

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@Benjamin La Tour What is wrong with the word 'intimacy'? It's defined as 'a closeness or familiarity' or 'a private atmosphere'. It's only vulgar if you make it vulgar.

  • @EappleSandbox

    @EappleSandbox

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Kaiheart I think it was intended as a joke, exaggerating the vulgarity of the word "intimacy" (as opposed to sex)

  • @fresagrus4490

    @fresagrus4490

    3 жыл бұрын

    Comparing Coronavirus to the things mentioned in the video (cholera, black plague, typhus) is ridiculous and hysterical.

  • @matthewthompson6455

    @matthewthompson6455

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@fresagrus4490 why? He didn't compare the severity or symptoms, just compared principles of transmission mentioned in the video to the transmission of covid

  • @litcherally255

    @litcherally255

    3 жыл бұрын

    bruh people really actin like this hits different in 2020 like as if these things didnt transmit diseases as easily as it is transmitting corona

  • @JakeMcGrawType10
    @JakeMcGrawType10 Жыл бұрын

    One of your finest videos still to this day.

  • @gormauslander
    @gormauslander Жыл бұрын

    "Grew and smoldered, grew and smoldered..." Sounds familiar, doesn't it? In the age of travel, the new plague is not limited to a city. The world is the new London.

  • @juango500
    @juango5003 жыл бұрын

    9:30 Which there is more people, so you need more houses for more people, and there's business, laws, money..... SOCIETYYY~

  • @supertechniker11121

    @supertechniker11121

    3 жыл бұрын

    Coming soon to a Dank river valley near you.

  • @jordank6961

    @jordank6961

    3 жыл бұрын

    YES I KNOW THIS REFERENCE

  • @knilolaslynn4994

    @knilolaslynn4994

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bill Returned, my friend

  • @eatavocados7438

    @eatavocados7438

    3 жыл бұрын

    Guess who controls all the islands?

  • @thewestwind_

    @thewestwind_

    2 жыл бұрын

    I understood that reference

  • @Moondye7
    @Moondye78 жыл бұрын

    I understand that you want to slow down your talking in order to make your Videos more understandable to non-native speakers, but I'm missing a bit of the good old CGP Tempo, good that I can watch your Video in 1.25 Tempo :) Thank you for all your efforts!

  • @Tytoalba777

    @Tytoalba777

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Moondye7 I think it's also that this is a much more serious and dark topic to talk about, so he wants to sound serious.

  • @SlipperyTeeth

    @SlipperyTeeth

    8 жыл бұрын

    It's all about the ambiance.

  • @TheMauriki

    @TheMauriki

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Moondye7 My thoughts exactly! I get the slow version, but I love fast talking CGPGrey a lot more!

  • @kingj282

    @kingj282

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Moondye7 To the contrary, I found the slower pace to be beneficial.

  • @pauljmorton

    @pauljmorton

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Moondye7 To be honest, as a non-native speaker I don't think it's the videomaker's duty to make sure non-natives understand the video, unless it's specifically a language-learning video which this is not. :P

  • @johnmanno2052
    @johnmanno20522 жыл бұрын

    Such brilliant, magnificent, erudite, and intelligent oversimplification! Positively breathtaking!

  • @kk4pqr
    @kk4pqr2 жыл бұрын

    2021. Now I understand this video. Thank you for the heads up.

  • @mackenziebeeney3764
    @mackenziebeeney37643 жыл бұрын

    So the new world was basically the worst spawn point conceivable.

  • @ioneiroi8350

    @ioneiroi8350

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yup

  • @zolikoff

    @zolikoff

    3 жыл бұрын

    But it was not a spawn point. It was just a bad decision to fast expand too early in the game.

  • @sarowie

    @sarowie

    3 жыл бұрын

    well, look at Antarctica, Alaska, deserts, ... so the new world is not a bad spawn point for the early game villagers. It is just a bad spawn for the civilization in the long run.

  • @tonydai782

    @tonydai782

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not really, I mean there was lots of fertile land, in contrast with Africa, which as much fewer rivers to use.

  • @varangiangaming7178

    @varangiangaming7178

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's not a bad spawn it has a diverse set of biomes and plentiful resources, it just has the disadvantage of not having disease insurance.

  • @54356776
    @543567764 жыл бұрын

    You can't build a civilization on honey alone, no but you can with tea. *Rule Britannia intensifies*

  • @scottcantdance804

    @scottcantdance804

    4 жыл бұрын

    I once asked my cousin who has spent extended periods of time in Britain if the Welsh hated the English. I told him I asked because I knew a lot of Scots hate the English, and a lot of Irish hate the English, but I didn't know about the Welsh. He replied "Yes; one of the factors that made the English such effective rulers, is they treated everyone the same." It made me fall over laughing.

  • @TheJapanfan

    @TheJapanfan

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scottcantdance804 😂😂 so true! And it can get daft if you are, say, half English/half Scottish, or have parents from one country but live in another. I've had a few friends who speak with a Scottish accent when at home with their families, but speak with an English accent when out with their English friends! This wasn't because of enmity between the countries, they did it more because their parents liked it, and to fit in. And yeah. As a history loving half Scottish/English person myself I can tell you that any country that's had the English lording it over them hates us with good reason. We were proper evil during the Empire, and we still treat the Scots Irish and Welsh terribly at every opportunity.

  • @zedantXiang

    @zedantXiang

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@scottcantdance804 Hate everyone the same

  • @thcrtn

    @thcrtn

    4 жыл бұрын

    What if the honey and tea civilizations did a fox-Disney merger... They would outlaw plain water.

  • @dinamosflams

    @dinamosflams

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or with worms *RUNS CHINESE ANTHEM*

  • @habbie7
    @habbie7 Жыл бұрын

    Your videos are ever so entertaining and educational. Your channel is my exclusive lunch entertainment

  • @diegopacheco5241
    @diegopacheco52412 жыл бұрын

    Bro, all your videos are just awesome

  • @MrAlexkyra
    @MrAlexkyra4 жыл бұрын

    This really helps explain why European colonization had such different outcomes for the Americas and Africa. Europeans brought plagues to which the indigenous people had no immunity. These plagues crippled the Aztec and Inca Empires, caused to the collapse of cultures from the Mississippi to the Amazon and killed so many that it left a vacuum which Europeans (and their imported African slaves) quickly filled. As a result, indigenous Americans are in the minority in most countries in the Americas (with the exception of Peru, Bolivia and Guatamala) and have typically lacked political power and control since colonization. Almost without exception, nations in the western hemisphere are controlled by descendants of the colonizers. In contrast, Africans had the similar exposure to plagues as Europeans, so there was no 'Great Dying' that wiped out 90% of Africa's population. In fact, the situation was somewhat reversed. Africa featured tropical diseases like Malaria, Dengue and Yellow Fever, to which Africans had some adaptation but not so for Europeans. Often entire European colonies would be nearly wiped out by these tropical diseases. As a result, Europeans didn't penetrate into most of Africa (except for Algeria and South Africa) until the advent of more modern medicine in the 19th century, and did not replace the native population like they had done in the Americas. Thus, African countries today all have majority indigenous populations, and are controlled by indigenous people.

  • @ries3554

    @ries3554

    4 жыл бұрын

    I wouldnt say controlled...

  • @Holland1994D

    @Holland1994D

    4 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting to read. I also read that the Europeans needed labor in the Americas and black Africans where perfect for that, because they were more less resistant to the diseases of the tropical climates and have a relatively strong physique.

  • @soulight6091

    @soulight6091

    4 жыл бұрын

    VivaHollandia32 Actually, the strong physique is the result of slavery. Plus They were kidnapped for cheep labor. Slaves died of many illnesses and sicknesses while on the ships. They weren't prized for a strong immune system.

  • @ibnbattuta7031

    @ibnbattuta7031

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@soulight6091 yes, but they were made slaves because literally all other options were either 1. too far away(asia) 2.christians(europe) 3.literally died all the time from european disease or knew how to run away(native americans)

  • @ibnbattuta7031

    @ibnbattuta7031

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Queen_PLATINE! I mean,the Brits had a pretty easy time slapping india around, since the princely states were easily used against each other.

  • @almandinefox5160
    @almandinefox51606 жыл бұрын

    at the last part the plague covered the entire old world except Madagascar and as someone whos played pandemic 2 I applaud your accuracy

  • @pdes_

    @pdes_

    5 жыл бұрын

    shame, should have left Iceland out too...

  • @adamnovak7602

    @adamnovak7602

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@pdes_ Greenland as well

  • @thefreshpeepsarchive8913

    @thefreshpeepsarchive8913

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sorry kid, video games aren’t real life. But, you are right.

  • @susmith6380

    @susmith6380

    5 жыл бұрын

    @*_Lucky LiLy_* the same devastating effects were visited on the First Nations peoples of Australia. Only by then the colonizers had realised the vulnerability of people previously unexposed to these microbes and set about using this to the advantage of the invaders to "clear" areas of resistance to their infiltration by passing out items like deliberately infected blankets. Their go to favourites were smallpox and measles. Thus was weapons imposed genocide abetted.

  • @lhistorienchipoteur9968

    @lhistorienchipoteur9968

    5 жыл бұрын

    Almandine Fox You...understood that it was intentonnaly simplified, right ?

  • @noorkaapa
    @noorkaapa Жыл бұрын

    This is great work. Well done.

  • @spinnirack3645
    @spinnirack36452 жыл бұрын

    I should probably leave a like considering how many times I have watched this

  • @Laughing_Chinaman
    @Laughing_Chinaman8 жыл бұрын

    all hail the dreaded lamapox! biding its time it'll strike any day now!!

  • @itscrumbelivable

    @itscrumbelivable

    8 жыл бұрын

    I knew it! I knew EA would be behind the next big plague!

  • @PartTimeSarah2

    @PartTimeSarah2

    8 жыл бұрын

    "llama pox"

  • @morbidsearch

    @morbidsearch

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Pokemario Fan SHIFT+CTRL+C EnableLlamas!!! And here I was thinking it did nothing!

  • @edwardleachman7131

    @edwardleachman7131

    8 жыл бұрын

    +PitchBlackFox como se llama?

  • @nhp2514

    @nhp2514

    8 жыл бұрын

    +PendulumFTW I am sorry to tell you this but lama, is llama.

  • @technicly.
    @technicly.7 жыл бұрын

    "But you can't build a civilization on honey alone" hold my beer

  • @chipmo

    @chipmo

    6 жыл бұрын

    Surely you mean hold my mead?

  • @Bloodlyshiva

    @Bloodlyshiva

    6 жыл бұрын

    Not just honey, honeycomb and mead, but also wax which gives at least the potential for candles and some form of preservation.

  • @argonauts56au1kera6

    @argonauts56au1kera6

    5 жыл бұрын

    Honey bees would like to disagree with CGP Grey.

  • @michaelmorales1602

    @michaelmorales1602

    5 жыл бұрын

    We can make a religion out of this!

  • @zulqarnain9955

    @zulqarnain9955

    5 жыл бұрын

    Surely you mean "bear"?

  • @cadaverchris6000
    @cadaverchris6000 Жыл бұрын

    Still one of my favorite KZread videos to date

  • @RvB_Fan_since_8
    @RvB_Fan_since_82 жыл бұрын

    Watched this to study for a midterm tomorrow, thanks Grey.

  • @danielg.6649
    @danielg.66494 жыл бұрын

    "Being the patient zero of a new animal-to-human plague is winning a terrible lottery " Hey at least i'm winning!

  • @Mitaka.Kotsuka

    @Mitaka.Kotsuka

    4 жыл бұрын

    well... i came here to llook after the coronavirus plague, i think i found a glad zero patient here

  • @Natalie-101

    @Natalie-101

    4 жыл бұрын

    *ahem* seems like somebody won it now and for a weird reason we aren't happy about it😂

  • @darthmortus5702

    @darthmortus5702

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not sure what is worse, dying to it or living and knowing that you are responsible for countless deaths. I wonder if there is a guy walking around Wuhan thinking about it.

  • @eoinmeenaghan9246
    @eoinmeenaghan92468 жыл бұрын

    Glad to see someone read Guns, Germs and Steel

  • @TheStateOfEarth

    @TheStateOfEarth

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Eoin Meenaghan Right? I'm surprised he didn't list that book at the end for those who want a deeper understanding.

  • @SuperCaptainFail

    @SuperCaptainFail

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TheStateOfEarth He DID do that though...Like the last 30-45 seconds are him talking about Guns, germs and steel.

  • @geringasG

    @geringasG

    8 жыл бұрын

    +TheStateOfEarth I would go so far as to say he should have cited that book in this video.

  • @timmmahhhh

    @timmmahhhh

    8 жыл бұрын

    +geringasG He cited it at the end.

  • @Nickly80

    @Nickly80

    8 жыл бұрын

    +geringasG He spent the last 30 seconds or so giving credit to Diamond, and telling the viewers to go read Guns, Germs and Steel.

  • @andrewthejew6007
    @andrewthejew60072 жыл бұрын

    Tenōchtitlan was a pretty huge city in the americas, numbering around 400,000. Which was bigger than any city in Spain.

  • @evezitrone
    @evezitrone2 жыл бұрын

    I've learned a lot. Thank you 💚

  • @agentc19
    @agentc194 жыл бұрын

    They could have domesticated the Chupacubra and baby sasquatches.

  • @kfoster3616

    @kfoster3616

    4 жыл бұрын

    Don't forget the New Jersey Devil!

  • @vaughnthompson2466

    @vaughnthompson2466

    4 жыл бұрын

    *midwest intensifies*

  • @nija_2587

    @nija_2587

    4 жыл бұрын

    _mothman_

  • @Noneofyourbusiness2000

    @Noneofyourbusiness2000

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or... maybe a turkey?

  • @oppressormk2op547

    @oppressormk2op547

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Noneofyourbusiness2000 turkeys don't exist dummy

  • @sarahglick566
    @sarahglick5664 жыл бұрын

    I asked my teacher this question in middle school and she just gave me a nonsensical answer and then yelled at me.

  • @michaelcrockis7679

    @michaelcrockis7679

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's what school teachers do. Most of them actually, rather poorly educated, know nothing more than their textbooks contain. Also, most of them are afraid to say "I don't know" in the fear of losing their authority.

  • @9nikolai

    @9nikolai

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelcrockis7679 Which, ironcially enough, makes them really untrustworthy and comparably useless, thus also decreasing their authority.

  • @justist3803

    @justist3803

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelcrockis7679 Thats very stupid. I had a teacher who said I dont know sometimes to a question. Next lesson he would start with answering it because he would look it up at home.

  • @justist3803

    @justist3803

    3 жыл бұрын

    @O. M. You may have misunderstood me. I meant that this behavior you just explained is stupid. I completely agree with you.

  • @____-gy5mq

    @____-gy5mq

    3 жыл бұрын

    Michael Crockis not just school teachers. Many of the professors do the same thing.

  • @MadoctheHadoc
    @MadoctheHadoc2 жыл бұрын

    One of the best videos I've ever seen on this site

  • @myaltaccount4438
    @myaltaccount44382 жыл бұрын

    3:45 you mean a plagueground? I have no regrets.

  • @wesleyyisme2586
    @wesleyyisme25863 жыл бұрын

    On a side note, that honeycomb looks great-

  • @spelingnatzee

    @spelingnatzee

    3 жыл бұрын

    Source?

  • @matthewmcclain1316

    @matthewmcclain1316

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@spelingnatzee 9:07

  • @spelingnatzee

    @spelingnatzee

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewmcclain1316 I don't remember replying to this and now I'm confused why I asked for a source

  • @matthewmcclain1316

    @matthewmcclain1316

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@spelingnatzee lol. I figured you were replying to a comment that got deleted... Just thought it was funny tho

  • @spelingnatzee

    @spelingnatzee

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewmcclain1316 thanks for a source tho that's a damn good honeycomb

  • @momorama8832
    @momorama88323 жыл бұрын

    You changed the thumbnail after 4 years, perfectionism at it's highest

  • @eggnogg29

    @eggnogg29

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Roshaun Roache wdYm

  • @QQ-dp1ld

    @QQ-dp1ld

    2 жыл бұрын

    ?

  • @momorama8832

    @momorama8832

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Roshaun Roache is this "What Do You Mean"??

  • @primalreversion7034

    @primalreversion7034

    2 жыл бұрын

    He added a mask

  • @momorama8832

    @momorama8832

    2 жыл бұрын

    4 years ago the picture was the manifest destiny.

  • @akboyz1
    @akboyz1 Жыл бұрын

    Okay, on the domestication point. The bison might be hard to domesticate but there are plenty of very wild beef cattle that are dangerously cantankerous. There hasn't been an concerted effort to breed docile bison. Moose are able to be trained as well. As for deer, they are not big enough for riding. The problem is that there has to be a perceived advantage to those domestication efforts. A year in to raising a moose it would be almost impossible to keep your village from eating it. Dogs were domesticated, but they were useful almost immediately (and still considered very edible if times were tough)

  • @Pratanjali64
    @Pratanjali642 жыл бұрын

    I think this might be my favorite video of yours.

  • @gandamack1900
    @gandamack19004 жыл бұрын

    Until the ceramic water filter was invented in London in the 1850’s,The Thames River killed the crap out of people

  • @gabrielhamilton2880

    @gabrielhamilton2880

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think it was the crap in the Thames River that killed the crap out of people.

  • @gandamack1900

    @gandamack1900

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gabriel Hamilton:Of course😂It was the primary drinking water source for centuries...its a wonder the city had a population survive at all🤦‍♂️

  • @johnyarbrough502

    @johnyarbrough502

    4 жыл бұрын

    Much more likely Bazalgette's sanitary sewers. The filter would remove particulate material but still leave most disease causing microbes.

  • @687gaming9

    @687gaming9

    4 жыл бұрын

    *BA DUM TING!*

  • @BranDenhauer

    @BranDenhauer

    4 жыл бұрын

    Was that a cholera joke? Well done.

  • @c.harris3411
    @c.harris34115 жыл бұрын

    Just a side note: llamas aren’t the only major domesticated animal in South America. Guinea pigs are very prominent livestock. The timeline as to when they were popularized and where they originated I’m unsure of however.

  • @gundorf2063

    @gundorf2063

    5 жыл бұрын

    While they were prominent livestock, I don't think they were domesticated by a big civilization like Inca. The same goes for Alpacas and the Fuegian 'Dog'

  • @YangSunWoo

    @YangSunWoo

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@gundorf2063 They were domesticated by the Inca.

  • @jeretoon8350

    @jeretoon8350

    5 жыл бұрын

    Guinea pigs, interesting. Now I know where my floofy chub-sub is from,

  • @elhombredeoro955

    @elhombredeoro955

    5 жыл бұрын

    Also aurochs were not that easy animals.

  • @michaelfrench8283

    @michaelfrench8283

    5 жыл бұрын

    But how useful were guinea pigs? Llamas were probably the only domesticated animal that provided considerable use.

  • @spongemanicecone5445
    @spongemanicecone5445 Жыл бұрын

    you know when the most replayed part of the video is the start its going to be a banger

  • @austinfeng735
    @austinfeng735 Жыл бұрын

    this is such a chilling video in no small part due to the music