I just realized that the Ottoman Empire was dealing with like 50 fronts at once.

@omercanasik6

4 жыл бұрын

And still managed to win battle of Kut and Gallipoli

@friedrickhugo7562

4 жыл бұрын

*ONLY kut and galipolli*

@Yourantsally

4 жыл бұрын

And had an incredibly fractilized and irregular army

@seymentheboss5194

4 жыл бұрын

@@friedrickhugo7562 there is another

@angusyang5917

4 жыл бұрын

four to seven, depending on time of war and what you classify as a front: Caucasus, Sinai & Palestine, Arab Revolt, Mesopotamia, Gallipoli, Persia, and Romania.

Can we all acknowledge that the Bolsheviks just pulled off the biggest middle finger to the British?

@KasumiRINA

4 жыл бұрын

To themselves. That move has effectively made Soviet Union isolated and jumpstarted the Cold War which... is kinda still ongoing with Soviet Union losing and now whole world (except Iranian, North Korean and Assad's faltering regimes) hating russia.

@Postoronniy

4 жыл бұрын

​@@KasumiRINA Oh no, how dare they isolate themselves from the Western capitalist ruling elites by revealing their dirty little secrets. And if by "whole world hating Russia" you mean the same Western politico-economic elites and some East European nationalists, then sure.

@purpandorange

4 жыл бұрын

That wasn't the only one, they also armed Turkish Revolutionaries against the British and their allies that occupied Turkey.

@alizaheer6722

4 жыл бұрын

@@KasumiRINA By the "Whole World" do you mean a few Western countries? Lots of African, Asian and South American countries have good relations with Russia. Why does the western media always refer to Britian, France, Germany and USA as "The international community", when there are 260+ countries in the world.

@brandonbohr.7301

4 жыл бұрын

Postoronniy hahahahaha and the end the evil west WON THE COLD WAR and the USSR dissolved haha ;)

It is said that the blue in the Arab Kingdom of Syria's flag represents their faithful allies.

@Darasilverdragon

4 жыл бұрын

But there isn't any blue in- ohhhhhhhhhhh...

@Ex0dus111

4 жыл бұрын

The Polish flag uses blue as the same kind of symbolism.

@samyebeid4534

4 жыл бұрын

Clever

@earthscrust9092

4 жыл бұрын

Haha .. faithful allies huh

@Alaryk111

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ex0dus111 And they have the same allies.

Nooo! You cannot just draw a line dividing territories with no thought given to local ethnic groups: France and Britain: Haha, pencil goes *BRRRR*

@bigoooof6332

4 жыл бұрын

doom ref lol

@nyon7209

4 жыл бұрын

History in a nutshell right there

@FelisTerras

4 жыл бұрын

That's what Africa said...

@andrewlentner

4 жыл бұрын

More like "Haha, pencil go *war crimes, civil wars, and decades of poverty* "

@regularman5914

4 жыл бұрын

Yep that’s Britain

So they’re drawing literal lines in the sand

@killerqueen7592

4 жыл бұрын

Not lines Lines are straight and make sense They are drawing a disaster

@mrluk-ci4os

4 жыл бұрын

they caused so many problems, civil war, and war crimes

@KingofAwesomness14

4 жыл бұрын

yep! That song is a good one!

@robertwalpole360

4 жыл бұрын

More like using rulers to draw chaos.

@drkFenix9

4 жыл бұрын

British cartographers had a true knack for drawing fault lines all over the world. They were responsible for more shockwaves through modern history than actual earthquakes.

“I think that’s what you could call foreshadowing.” Is a mood

@windywendi

4 жыл бұрын

Isn't that the Gulf War hahaha

@navetal

4 жыл бұрын

@@windywendi yup

@RoomateNSNL

4 жыл бұрын

To be real that quota could describe the whole series. As every single thing the french and british did would blow up big time.

@neko__lover

4 жыл бұрын

Wow he actually mentioned kuwait i am from Kuwait didn’t know we played a part

@codyshi4743

4 жыл бұрын

Yep later Iraq would invade Kuwait.

I WoNDeR wHat CoULD hAvE EvEr DeSTabaLisEd tHe MidDle EaSt.

@pike8290

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe the people living there and the fact that it's a very diverse region with sparse recourses.

@merzoukmohamedislam2291

4 жыл бұрын

@@pike8290 Or maybe the video above has a clear message that you've missed .

@guguss3804

4 жыл бұрын

MERZOUK MOHAMED ISLAM Well, making it a unified arab country wouldn’t have worked either... all the different ethnic and religious groups would have still fought each other

@chinsaw2727

4 жыл бұрын

MERZOUK MOHAMED ISLAM You know they didn’t actually watch the video, they just went straight to the comment section

@ytismylife7057

4 жыл бұрын

@@pike8290 Imagine being this dense.

Every decision just has me screaming "Please No, Just Stop , Do not do that" I feel like a parent with a troublesome child.

@freakymoejoe2

4 жыл бұрын

Karen, your kid has been in the neighbours yard drawing arbitrary lines again. Please keep them under control.

@FelisTerras

4 жыл бұрын

Who are you, Mother Nature? ;)

@kazmark_gl8652

4 жыл бұрын

The middle east: is a complicated region with various ethnic and religious divisions requiring extreme care to create a stable and balanced region Europeans: RECTANGLES!

@pike8290

4 жыл бұрын

@@kazmark_gl8652 Well most of the lines are drawn out in the deserts where nobody lives, there is no good way to draw up ethnic/religious/clan borders in for example Lebanon or Iraq becasue the different groups don't live in large continous areas but rather smaller areas where one neighnorhood in a city can belong to one group and next street to another group. A whole unified arabia woudn't work either becasue of all the same conflicts.

@Koya550

4 жыл бұрын

Pike what about Europe then? Asia? The same thing can apply across the entire world, Britain and France simply didn’t care.

So Iraq is essentially three different states pushed together to be a country because of European influences? That... explains some things.

@grayscribe1342

4 жыл бұрын

And the Kurds got divided by 3 countries. I'm starting to wonder how many other groups were divided up like that.

@kurdishgeneral

4 жыл бұрын

@Klaidi Rubiku Yeah, because Saddam didn't kill people. He killed more people than the current instability here have.

@andrewklang809

4 жыл бұрын

@Klaidi Rubiku Kurds and Shia Arabs were both repressed and killed by the Baathist regime. Hussein could keep Iraq together, but only through brutality and corruption, same as we're seeing in Syria. He was more Stalin than Tito. Both states were artificial entities that combined peoples who have long histories of mistrust.

@GeN56YoS

4 жыл бұрын

They aren't "3 nations" they were Three Wilaias (States) within the Ottoman empire. Basrah and Baghdad both are mostly Arabs mixed Between Shia Sunni and Christians, with a kurdish minority in Baghdad. However, Mousul is Mostly Arabs and Kurds, but there are many many Minorities like Christians, Assyrians, Shabek, Ezidies... Etc. BTW I feel that not many people realise that Kurds are mainly Sunni Muslims as well. In the end if India can be United, Iraq is a piece of cake all we only need is a secular government and politicians ( I'm One of the many people that support this idea in Iraq ). Also, Saddam was especially harsh towards Kurds and Shias; he killed people recklessly and made horrible crimes. Annnd the word of Iraq isn't a new term that the British created. It's an Arab word that means deep-rooted referring to Mesopotamia.

@GeN56YoS

4 жыл бұрын

@Klaidi Rubiku I believe he refers to the chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein against the Kurds in Hallapcha. Saddam at the time said that Iran did that attack

I have always wondered why Iraq attacked to Kuwait in 1990s. Now I get a new perspective to war.

@kaosarahmed6560

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Kuwait was part of Iraq once

@DaleHusband

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the conflict between Iraq and Kuwait was no one else's business. The Persian Gulf War was an imperialist stunt.

@fabbro8747

4 жыл бұрын

The precursor is what's mentioned here in the video, but the immediate reason was that Kuwait drilled horizontally and started sucking up Iraqi oil.

@DaleHusband

4 жыл бұрын

@@fabbro8747 And there was proof of this? In any case, we American people need to be more critical thinkers. I am constantly embarrassed by how easily manipulated we are by the corporate owned media and by lying religious figures.

@chakatfirepaw

4 жыл бұрын

@@kaosarahmed6560 Other than the little problem of Kuwait being _older_ than Iraq. By like a century and a half.

British: hey Russia wanna get in on this action? Some “imperialism” Bolsheviks: I’m about to end this whole man’s career

@ewok40k

4 жыл бұрын

Bolsheviks: then they start imperialism of their own :P

@Infernal460

4 жыл бұрын

@@ewok40k Agreed and they were far more brutal than the "imperial" nation's.

@kommunevonberlin7611

4 жыл бұрын

@@Infernal460 Eh, the Imperialism of the USSR started in the early 1930 after the so-called thermidor. I don't know if it even Counts as Bolsheviek because most of the old Bolsheviek Leadership (such as the here mentioned Leo Trotsky) had been executed, exiled or send to Gulags.

@shannonparkhill5557

4 жыл бұрын

@@Infernal460 True, but not until Stalin had killed almost every Bolshevik that was ever involved in the revolution, and not until the communist party had come under the control of all the same bureaucrats that had ruled the Tsar's Russian empire. So by and large it wasn't the Bolsheviks themselves who were ever Russian imperialists.

@satrioimam4288

4 жыл бұрын

@infernal460 I think it’s just equally brutal

British: oh boy here I go empire'in again

@abloogywoogywoo

4 жыл бұрын

Fact: The largest empire that has ever existed.

@bearsayshet710

4 жыл бұрын

America: This is wrong, we want the middle east to have their own independent identity Also america several decades later: URM YOU GOT SOME OF THAT MOTHER FUCKIN OIL!?

@darkbozo11

4 жыл бұрын

@@abloogywoogywoo Fact , falling more and more to this day..

@fictionfan0

4 жыл бұрын

Me: Oh boy, here I go facepalmin' again.

@fictionfan0

4 жыл бұрын

@@abloogywoogywoo The sun never sets on the British Empire! Because God doesn't trust them with the lights off.

The United States being the only ally actually willing to consider giving the Arabs what they want, and the Arabs later asking the US to make their country a protectorate? Man the early 1900s were weird.

@rabbischlomobengoldbergstein

4 жыл бұрын

Tbh I would rather be America's bitch than France's , America invest and give you fasfood chains and hotels , France just loot and genocide.

@darthducky7002

4 жыл бұрын

Alliances shift. Rolling back another 100 years and the British and “Germany” were allied fighting France. If the US wants something now, they won’t need the approval of British or France like 100 years ago.

@rafimuhammadzakaria482

4 жыл бұрын

@@darthducky7002 they do need approval actually. If not of entire NATO, atleast the UK. No matter how powerful you are, in this 21st century you never isolate yourself. Ever.

@davidgomez7882

4 жыл бұрын

@@rabbischlomobengoldbergstein You're not wrong about France but Nicaragua, Haiti and Philippines disagree with you on US.

@wyleong4326

4 жыл бұрын

Darth Ducky they were unallied when The Windsor (some German royalty) became British

And so, everyone got along forever after. Right guys? Guys?

@theanglo-lithuanian1768

4 жыл бұрын

Right?! Guys.......

@uwumoney3389

4 жыл бұрын

no

@diegokaqui60

4 жыл бұрын

That was really oversimplifyed.

@raymondemsworth4877

4 жыл бұрын

@@diegokaqui60 Mhm

@rovert881

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Totally

Britain: It's good Arabs dont know what we are planning. Russian Newspapers:

@ElBandito

4 жыл бұрын

When you pander to too many sides, eventually it is gonna backfire.

@racoonlittle1679

4 жыл бұрын

Russia ALWAYS tells the truth!

@theemperor-wh40k18

3 жыл бұрын

@@racoonlittle1679 hehe, because one of their newspaper is called "truth".

pandemics still suck a century later

@influenza3736

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

@theanglo-lithuanian1768

4 жыл бұрын

@@influenza3736 Name checks out.

@riverofblood4362

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@stinky_rear9168

4 жыл бұрын

Even with colored tv

@abloogywoogywoo

4 жыл бұрын

For as much as we hate each other, flus hate us even more.

The only thing WW1 actually accomplished was to just set the scene for all the problems the world faced afterwards 😟

@SQUASHtamer

4 жыл бұрын

Very true

@arnav9009

4 жыл бұрын

And, I mean, it also did help bring an end to monarchy in Europe. But yea, more cons than pros

@bhargavadutt8827

4 жыл бұрын

Hence it's The Seminal Tragedy.

@abloogywoogywoo

4 жыл бұрын

We're still reeling from the losses of WW2, wars screw up everything.

@fawadidrees2005

4 жыл бұрын

True

Finally a documentary about post ww1 middle east that goes into detail and isn't just like: British & French drawing tools go scribble scribble everyone today sad

@safe-keeper1042

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, this is great.

@TheTeletrap

4 жыл бұрын

Check out Sabaton History and The Great War Channel

@MrSam1er

4 жыл бұрын

Arabs: NOOOOO, YOU CAN'T JUST DRAW LINES ON A MAP WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE PEOPLES WILL! British & French: haha, pencile on ruler goes SCRRRRRRR

@ritagasper1958

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrSam1er thats so repeated

@stamatiamichelaki5008

4 жыл бұрын

@Austerlitz What? Do you even use your brain?

The actions of a few men basically set the region's geopolitical and religious problems more on fire.

@kevinsullivan3448

4 жыл бұрын

And we're still living with those repercussions today.

@ericjohnson7234

4 жыл бұрын

Yet. We have to understand, that those tensions have been there long before the Europeans had any influence over them. That is a fact.

@maddie9602

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's crazy to think how many of the world's problems stem back to Britain and France being colonialist dicks a hundred years ago. Cf. a lot of the issues in sub-Saharan Africa.

This era of history is always infuriating to review. The British and French were so slimy and poured gasoline on all the tensions in the Middle East. Modern Islamic Terrorism likely would not be the threat it is today without the French and British duplicity, racism, and arrogance.

@dariogomes3598

4 жыл бұрын

They nearly are

@00Abrams00

4 жыл бұрын

Damn right !

@DeconusMaximus

4 жыл бұрын

This sure was a dick move, but I'm not convinced there was actually any good solution to this problem. The Otoman Empire was bound to explode one day or another because every empire do. And this always, always lead to a mess. Look at what resulted of the break up of Yougoslavia. They partitioned it themselves and still found a way to wage war on each other for every piece of land. I mean, sure they could have done referendums and asked the people. But that's a modern Idea. 1919 was still the era of imperialism and no one really gave a shit about people right's to self determination. And I don't believe dividing the place between some ultra religious kings would have been any better... And when you add on top of that (or rather beneath it) the world's biggest reserve of the most precious ressource for the next century... Plus the fact this is a naturally strategic place between Europe, Russia, China, India and Africa... Not that I want to justify the Sykes-Picot agreement, but man, I don't see any good and realistic outcome. This region was bound to be a war torn place. And will certainly remain one a long time, unfortunately.

@raphaelalexandreyensen6291

4 жыл бұрын

@@DeconusMaximus eh, a strong united Arab state would have been a damn sight easier to talk with then this mess. Personally, I'm all for making Jordan that state simply because of the fact we can't trust the saudis.

@johnronn845

4 жыл бұрын

Well they kind of created modern islamic terrorism by supporting a man who had extreme views

“ *What can possibly happen wrong in the future right guys* “ Allies while dividing middle east.

@axiezimmah

4 жыл бұрын

It's not like they haven't done it before to Africa, Asia and America (both North and South) the difference with North America is that there's not enough original population left to even make a revolt. And the original population is treated like second class citizens. Ironically NorthAmerica is very anti immigration while they are all immigrants, and Mexicans have way more claim to the land than they ever or ever will. It's very obvious that the so called war on terrorism had nothing to do with terrorism, but everything to do with control.

@sanhcman666

2 жыл бұрын

@@axiezimmah yeah about northamerica, i guess we will see when usa enters again in civil war

The camels look so good in this series

@abloogywoogywoo

4 жыл бұрын

As cute as the extra credits horses? What blasphemy is this?

@kingkai3862

4 жыл бұрын

can't beat ibn battuta's donkey hehe xD

@jackdavids2723

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but Arabs used horses in their revolution, camels were only used for traveling

@dfax_2108

4 жыл бұрын

Jack Davids 👌🏻

@naifalanezi1670

4 жыл бұрын

@@jackdavids2723 Actually, camels as well used but to travel great distances without eating or drinking much and once they reach their place they dismount to use their bolt-action rifles.

Damn, remember when the USA was the good guy in the middle east? Good times man, good times.

@brutal4341

4 жыл бұрын

The good guy?! I want to hear that story!

@falconJB

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Imagine how different the world would be if the USA continued to push an anti-colonial agenda even as it gained more global power.

@jonjohns8145

4 жыл бұрын

The US wasn't just the Good guy .. they were Heroes to Many in the Middle east. It all went down hill in 1953, one decision that set American policy on the Disastrous path it is STILL on to this day. The decision to choose short term interests over principle.

@hestiathena4917

4 жыл бұрын

Superpower imperialism is a helluva drug...

@boogaloo2.017

4 жыл бұрын

More like having a crippling reliance on oil from the middle east will make you do some questionable things to ensure you get that sweet black honey

Somebody else who was appealing to Versailles and wasn't listened to was a young Ho Chi Minh, btw

@petergray2712

4 жыл бұрын

@@dimapez He was an ally of the USA during WW2. Go figure.

@belhariry

4 жыл бұрын

He literally quoted the American declaration of independence when he was writing Vietnam's' declaration from France.

@user-oh6eg4ny3h

3 жыл бұрын

He was pro American one thing. Another thing he visited the us. He was trained by the us. He almost died of illness but US agents saved his life from dying during ww2

Ahh yes.. geopolitics, promise everything and honor nothing. A very British and French thing to do.

@mitchellgruninger9992

4 жыл бұрын

What a very US thing to say

AKS: You can’t just draw lines on land with no regard for populations and consent! Allies: Haha. Pen goes swoosh swoosh.

USA and Russia: "We believe in self determination! Down w/ imperialism" Native Americans, Filipinos and various Soviet-controlled nationalities: *stares in bemusement*

@bthsr7113

3 жыл бұрын

With palm over face: We were doing better in the states, but then after WWII we just threw that progress out bit by bit. We took the time to clean up the messes we made in Germany and Japan, but after that we really went downhill.

@NoName-hg6cc

3 жыл бұрын

uk: really chaps: don't you have any shame? Everyone: DO YOU uk?

@mewmew8932

9 ай бұрын

I mean as a Filipino we got jeepneys so it was worth it

I didnt understand what "I think that's what you call forshadowing..." And then I clicked on a recommended video over Suddam Hussein.

You know situation is really crappy when Soviets was the most moral side in the deal.

@falconJB

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, when the USA and USSR agree that you are being a bastard and need to leave the native people alone you really should reexamine what you are doing.

@tesso.6193

4 жыл бұрын

the Soviets were the more moral side more often than American education portrays. For instance they never invaded the US, France or Britain but hey, the opposite was true.

@joyhow2106

2 жыл бұрын

@@tesso.6193 they would have if they could

@tesso.6193

2 жыл бұрын

@@joyhow2106 and you're so sure of that for totally non red scare related reasons

@EnigmaEnginseer

Жыл бұрын

@@tesso.6193 They did, however, invade Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Moldavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, and Germany. Repeatedly I might add.

Extra Credits can probably do a whole series on "How Europeans drew the borders of almost every country in the world"

Arabs: "Finally, a nation of our own!" Britain and france: "Im about to do what's called a pro gamer move"

This is hard to watch knowing what happens in modern times

@TheDeathopper

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine being an Arab and knowing that your entire country is basically a modern construct of European imperialism. Feels bad man.

@jonjohns8145

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheDeathopper That's not exactly right. There have always been a Syria and an Iraq and an Arabia. And people from those regions knew they were Syrians or Iraqis, but that was more of a regional identity, not a national one. You were Arab in All those countries (or Kurd or Armenian or whatever) and you moved across these regions freely through out all of history. What changed is that those lines in the sand became hard borders and people were forced to live in them like caged animals unable to truly maintain any semblance of cultural and social cohesion as they had for Millennia. That is what is frustrating to the peoples of those lands.

@ygiuzebbe

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonjohns8145 actually while there has always been a syria and iraq and arabia, there are also many other nationalities which got mixed into those nations, like a sunni monarchy in a shia bahrain, or the mess that is iraq, or the kurds not having their own nation, or lebanon existings, or jordan existing, or qatar existing, basically the nations that shouldn't exist exist and the nations that should exist don't

@-chairs-9541

4 жыл бұрын

Youssef Guizani The nations should’ve been created by ethnic groups rather than random borders and stuff

@ygiuzebbe

4 жыл бұрын

@@-chairs-9541 yes, i definitely agree

Reminds me of the wise words: "Never trust any agreement with those who are more powerful than you, for they can easily go back on their words and you can't do anything about it."

Both my grandfathers fought the French for Syrian independence!! They always told me stories of war and the grenades they would throw under vehicles and tanks! Almost all the middle eastern issues that exist today began or are directly to the sycus-pico unlawful agreement. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict being the biggest one (no picking sides I love all Jewish people) it’s beautiful to be represented in your videos I love your channel!

When countries find oil: Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down

Its also worth noting that the Sykes-Picot agreement divided shared resources needed for various communities. This was specifically in regards to water. 3 of the main conflict areas in the Israeli-Palestinian are about water and arable land, 2 of which have their origin in the splitting of the middle east. Israeli-Lebanese conflicts are in part about access to the Lebanese aquifers and springs. While conflic over the Golan heights is about control of the Jordan River watershed.

@AntonAdelson

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and no. I live here. It's waaay more complicated than just water. It's also the idea that Jews don't deserve their own state

Drawing Lines: Europe's favorite way to screw over natives

@freakymoejoe2

4 жыл бұрын

hey they were really good lines. They used a ruler and everything

@kingkai3862

4 жыл бұрын

*cough* treaty *cough* of westphalia *cough*.

@Oxtocoatl13

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, after smallpox, sure.

British and France : *lest draw straight line like what can posibly go wrong?*

@FatimaZahra-ow5ej

4 жыл бұрын

EVERYTHING

As an American who used to reside in the ME, This series is BLOWING MY MIND!!!!

@00Abrams00

4 жыл бұрын

yes ..... the complete picture is probably a messy one !!

@Weibaolien

4 жыл бұрын

@@00Abrams00 btw Tarek is my actual favorite Arabic name!!

My challenge for the team is to do a short series on a part of the world that the British did not screw up. I am not sure you can find one.

@Ex0dus111

4 жыл бұрын

Extra History: Antarctica!

@jonjohns8145

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ex0dus111They meddled there too

@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709

4 жыл бұрын

south america

@andrewklang809

4 жыл бұрын

Atlantis was probably not their fault. Probably.

@andrewklang809

4 жыл бұрын

@@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709 Argentina and Venezuela say hola.

Been a while since I've seen a video that mentions the Palestinian nationalists were advocating for "greater Syria" and not "Palestine"

@wei270

4 жыл бұрын

you mean Isis?

@terner1234

4 жыл бұрын

@@wei270 I'm a zionist, but hammas and ISIS are not the same terrorist organization.

@rabbischlomobengoldbergstein

4 жыл бұрын

Hasbara trolls get out of here , Israel is not legitimate

@talknight2

4 жыл бұрын

@@rabbischlomobengoldbergstein Username checks out :D

@ohyeahyeah6313

4 жыл бұрын

@@terner1234 hammas isnt even a terrorist organization bruh

ha ha ha the British are in trouble when Russian revealed the secret treaty

@rrosski

3 жыл бұрын

British: Hey Russia, wanna make a treaty? Russia: Haha sekret go brrrrrrrrrr

On the 24th of July 1920, a Syrian national hero and, at that time, the minister of defense, Yusuf Al Azmah, decided to stand up to Syria and the the Syrians in the face of the French army. A battle took place in the valley of Maysalun, 40 km to the west of Damascus. Al Azmah and most of his companions and officers died that day, few survived including my grandfather. And Faisal.. he had run away a week earlier.

@merzoukmohamedislam2291

4 жыл бұрын

And just like that they will tell you that "At least Faisal was looking at the bigger picture" How big that was though other than his own interests , and keeping his life .

Yes make video about the Turkish War of Independence

@MrEmre3294

4 жыл бұрын

Kara Watchi british france greece russian invasion.

@wowyourereallyreadingthis

4 жыл бұрын

mustafa mustafaa Actually the British, Greeks, Italians ,French and some Armenians invaded Anatolia/ Western Thrace. So the Turks fought back and won.

@MrEmre3294

4 жыл бұрын

@@wowyourereallyreadingthis is that difference from what ı said?

@apob1259

4 жыл бұрын

@@wowyourereallyreadingthis looooooooooooool

0:52 , look, I know its the saddle. But that looks like he is EXTREMELY happy to see that man raise his arms

@terner1234

4 жыл бұрын

this can't be unintentional

@pinheadlarry1977

4 жыл бұрын

You are one dirty minded individual

*after watching this video explaining how Iraq was formed* Geez, no wonder Gilgamesh is always cranky when summoned in modern times

no you cant just cut the middle east in half! what about the diffrent ethnicities? haha pencil on map go draw draw

@grayscribe1342

4 жыл бұрын

And no one remembered the Holy Roman Empire where something like that didn't work out well either.

@krim7

4 жыл бұрын

Which is ironic because the big 4 were dividing Europe up into ethno-states at the same time as they were just drawing lines in the middle east.

Honestly, respect for the Ottomans. They were already falling apart, and then attacked in like 30 different fronts, but still managed to hold on for a while and even won a handful of battles like Gallipoli. Congrats

Wow, glad to see the U.S. being the ones advocating for self-determination.

@falconJB

4 жыл бұрын

If only they were consistent about that.

@thoughtfulinsanity3050

4 жыл бұрын

And Wilson's idea of self-determination was pretty paternalistic. Basically all nations should be free to choose their own path so long as that path is a us style democratic republic that gives favorable trade deals to the us and its companies.

@lordgzstg6181

4 жыл бұрын

@@thoughtfulinsanity3050 to bad he only felt that way about Europe and not Latin America.

@OKANGUVEN99

4 жыл бұрын

I have a question. As a foreigner why Americans don't want to do that anymore? When Trump said he would pull troops out of Syria let people there fight it out among themselves what I saw from American media was outrage against this idea. Why?

@VideoDepot999

4 жыл бұрын

It was a Presidente Wilson thing. The rest of the americans don't give a damn including Congress

me and the boys betraying ottoman empire for getting slaved:

I love your content, keep it up :)!

4:47 he seems like a reasonable man sadly reasonable men rarely get what they want

@pinheadlarry1977

4 жыл бұрын

There is no point in being reasonable to Zionist Imperialists who want to steal other people's land

@joshuaevans6295

4 жыл бұрын

Faisal and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann signed an agreement in which Faisal agreed to support Weizmann's Jewish state as long as he got his Syrian Arab state, and Weizmann agreed to support Faisal's Syrian Arab state. The agreement didn't end up amounting to much since Faisal didn't end up getting his Syrian Arab state

That’s how the middles East is mess up.

@toledochristianmatthew9919

4 жыл бұрын

Not just the middle east but the entire world. People also forget this but did you also know that China was also a part of ww1 and they were offered their lands back from the allies that were occupied by the Germans. But instead they were given the Japan instead. This effectively led the rise of the communist part in China and led many like Mao to join the cause.

Can you do a turkish war of independence series in future

@peykanjavanan2226

4 жыл бұрын

No

The last 100 years of endless conflict in the Middle East and Africa can literally be explained as simply as: "A meeting or two, where old men drew lines on a map".

i honestly kinda wish you did an entire series on the *year long* Versaille treaty jezus that sounds so complex & nuanced GIMME

5:49 that is going into bad maps. What the hell is that!??

@falconJB

4 жыл бұрын

They started coloring in the blue and pink for the French and British from the Sykes-Picot Map but only filled in the French Territory and then forget to color the sea a different color than the land.

@Nicarand

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, seriously, what *was* that? What is that enourmous landmass right across from Syria? What is that gigantic gulf? Is the thing southwest of it supposed to be Palestine? Where's Lebanon? Wtf?? Edit: The thing is, if you imagine the water as coastline and whatever the green part in the West is as water, it kiiinda looks like the Turkish and Levantine coastlines? They just swapped it around and forgot a bunch of borders, for some reason. And even then it'd be wrong cause Syria wouldn't have a coast. They could make a full 10 minutes "Lies" video just on this map.

@wowyourereallyreadingthis

4 жыл бұрын

Bestcool5 we need better mapping

The ottomans warned them this would happen and now look where we all are now.

@wei270

4 жыл бұрын

If human has the wisdom to listen to one another, i wonder where we as a civilization would be right now.

@Marshal_Rock

4 жыл бұрын

The Ottomans were no better by any means

@bigoooof6332

4 жыл бұрын

@@Marshal_Rock they would of been replaced like all monarchies in Europe normally, there wouldn't of been any carving up of lands.

You are my favorite history KZread channel !!!

never clicked any video so fast in my life !! great series !

Extra Credits: Mentions the words "Palestine" and "Zionists" Me: Uh yes, let the commands war begin.

@adnanchinisi7871

4 жыл бұрын

As it should be. The ottomans let the jews (and Christians) live in peace. Besides what happened to the Three Oaths that the Jews were supposed to stand by?

@omarkhatib7266

4 жыл бұрын

Because it's historically accurate

@joehajj5823

4 жыл бұрын

Long live Palestine God destroy Zionism

@adiveler

4 жыл бұрын

@@joehajj5823 Start the war and call neighbor countries -> lose it -> pay the price!

@selahanany5645

4 жыл бұрын

@@joehajj5823 palestine and israel could and should, coexist.

Middle East in a nut shell: You get a country, You get a country, Everybody gets a country!!!! (Except you natives come back when your European)

@pokemonmaster0079

4 жыл бұрын

Except the people who live there.

French and British: (Claim a bunch of land that was promised to the Arabians) Arabians: That wasn’t part of the deal! British and French: I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.

7:06 Absolutely hilarious guys. Keep up the comedy!

Colonial powers never have the best interests of the local people in mind. Another Line that could be mentioned is the Pakistan and India "line" which literally led to the biggest human migration in the history of humanity!

@CornishCreamtea07

4 жыл бұрын

Yes it would not have been needed if it were not for the Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent. As the countries population would have been just Hindus.

@spinyslasher6586

4 жыл бұрын

@@CornishCreamtea07 Mughals weren't really that much of an oppressive force towards hindus though. If they were hindus would've been completely removed from northern india.

@spinyslasher6586

4 жыл бұрын

I don't know what galaxy brain decided to split pakistan like that.

@zekedia2223

3 жыл бұрын

And resulted in millions dead, if I’ not mistook.

@mirzahamzabaig5667

3 жыл бұрын

@@spinyslasher6586 They left Kashmir unsettled.. had that area been settled there would have been no enmity between the two countries..

The Brits and the French: "Let's divide the middle east! What's the worst that could happen?" *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Theme starts playing*

In school we have a whole chapter dedicated to this topic, so we thank you for making it interesting

This was the subject of my graduate thesis. And, usually not in the centre of historical attention. Glad to see this, and may I say: Good job!

@ahmed0ya07abibi

4 жыл бұрын

Would I be able to get a hold of your thesis?

I found something common at Polish and Arab flags,blue presents good allies at both.

Who's Lebanese here? By the way, very good video.

@TheDeathopper

4 жыл бұрын

Sup

@baranxlr

4 жыл бұрын

Lebanon is a beautiful country have a nice day

@Sea-zu4bj

4 жыл бұрын

A certain Khalifa

@AkiNoTsuki

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sea-zu4bj Whiz ? I didn't know that!

@Sea-zu4bj

4 жыл бұрын

AkiNoTsuki yeah...

oh my im early love your vids huge fan of extra credits

man this explains why things are so messed up in the region concerning borders

2:37 this is why you save text messages

I'm early! It's only been 7 minutes! Love you EC.

God damn, this episode made me like the USSR EVEN MORE than before. I didn't know that was possible.

It's interesting how many things end up linking together. The 'Spanish Flu' and the drawing up here, South Sea and policing.

hello from Saudi Arabia . I love your show

5:50 I think you placed the blue at the incorrect spot. And got mixed while drawing the western borders.

@falconJB

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had to pause the video and try to figure out what was even going on there.

@biliminsrlar5752

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like Anatolia and Mediterrean switchee places,or blue was gonna be French occupied zone but they accidently made Mediterrean green.

Rarely I can find such an explanation of the History of our region (Great Syria) that is simple yet true to the facts. As a Syrian myself, I approve the information in this video, although it is too summarized ... for example, they skipped on of the most important resistance battle at Maisaloun fought by volunteers from the used to be Syrian army dissolved by Faisal, after France threatening to invade if not dissolved, but did it anyway.

2:35 I never knew this. I literally lol’d

Faisal be like "One who rides two boats is sure to be overthrown". That traitor commit treason against ottomans and faced treason from the biggest traitors in the history - The British.

@jonjohns8145

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

7.05 Turkish civil war ? did you mean Turkish war of indipendence?

ooo excited for pt 4

Damn, so many "what could have been" moments where it looked like there was some hope for a better solution only for it to be horribly crushed... I guess that's a bit of a theme in Extra History. Makes me wish for a Thomas Sankara episode, that would be like the ultimate heartbreak...

HOLY SHID THERE'S AN ARM IN THE THUMBNAIL

I just wanted to remind everyone that Bungee gum has both the properties of rubber and gum.

@A_Man_Of_Culture_

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

@cyasta2357

4 жыл бұрын

Almost forgot my daily reminder, thanks bro

@Real-1

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks lad, really useful for the understanding of the causes of the destabilization of the ME.

So happy an episode came out on my birthday. (5/16)

I can't wait for the time when I will watch a 4-episode series on the Coronavirus pandemic by EC!

there's still the al saud unification of the arabian peninsula and me being a saudi citizen i think it would be an interesting story and an important one regarding the modern arabic world

British and French: We are going to divide the Middle East for ourselves Arabs: Say syke right now British and French: Sykes-Picot Treaty Arabs: ... Aight imma go revolt now

I love extra history

People in the sciences and technology fields are pretty familiar with Lawrence’s situation. When the “expert” says “I don’t know.” That actually means something needs investigating, it does NOT mean you get to fill in whatever you want!!!

What can we learn about this and the borders of British Raj? - Don’t let outsiders, (especially the British) whom have never stood on the soil draw the borders that would define the soil, people, wars and religion for centuries to come

There are/were huge populations of Turks in Iraq and Syria, they worth a mention, yet they are not spoken of.

@darthcalanil5333

4 жыл бұрын

Because they're not "huge". Most of them are what we call Turkman (sort of Eastern turks) and yeah quite a bit of their villages found themselves in New countries because of the French obsession with straight border lines

@NAYRUthunder99

4 жыл бұрын

@@darthcalanil5333 Straight lines = bad. But there is another really REALLY ungood mistake in border-making: precisely follow ethnic-majority borders. From this the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh border was made, or, even worse, the death spiral of the Ferghana, between Uzbekistan, Kirghizistan and Tagikistan. Borders should first of all make sense geographically.

@user-sx1mm1sl6u

4 жыл бұрын

No there wasn't. In both countries they make up below 5% of the population and aren't a majority except in a few villages (Tell Afar and Tuz Khurmatu are the only real cities where they were a majority)

@systemreset9410

4 жыл бұрын

@@darthcalanil5333 1956 Iraq census shows 12% Turkish. So, add those who left Iraq and came to Turkey after 1918 and those ottoman officials, soldiers, and their families. They were racking up high.

@systemreset9410

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-sx1mm1sl6u see my previous comment. Also they were majority in Kirkuk, Erbil and Mosul by the end ww1

How come I never realized history was so full of interesting facts?

2:33 Oof. This is what we in the biz call a "pro gamer move". "What do you know, all your secret deals are no longer secret. Woopsies!" XD

Speaking as a a Brit - we did some god awful things within the lifetime of some folks still alive today

@emdadahmed5592

4 жыл бұрын

As a Bengali person, I don't have anything against Britain and Britons now. But I am just dumbfounded that millions just starved to death because Churchill wanted to stockpile for the war and sit tight and cozy instead of, you know, ATTACKING THE DAMNED NAZIS. It was only the Soviets and the Americans whose involvement stopped the war as early as it did

@zuboy4272

4 жыл бұрын

@@emdadahmed5592 and he blamed you for starving , he said you bred like rabbits , then takes ur food and then blames you for starving

@mirzahamzabaig5667

3 жыл бұрын

@@emdadahmed5592 Hey I am from Pakistan and most of the people in the region were used as cannot fodder against Ottomans

I hope you guys mention Saudi Arabia, they played a huge role in this after the war.

5:51, great map.

Tiffany knows how to make some *good* music!