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@SIGMA.UNIVERSE

2 ай бұрын

Bruh

@illuminatiglobal2860

2 ай бұрын

Wow I didn't expect video Rudyard, it's quite concerning you being productive?!!(Should I worry)

@morbiussupportivemother5504

2 ай бұрын

No

@fearrogue

2 ай бұрын

Only reason why we have tarkov

@jinwoomoraes4012

2 ай бұрын

Wait Althist how do you know the Masons think the next great civilization will come from Eastern Europe? Aren't they a secret organization?

I'm also from Nebraska. When Dad and I read about Stalingrad, we kept thinking the land and climate sounded like home

@kirilll7806

2 ай бұрын

when i passed this region on a train i kept thinking this looks just like america and now i see why

@zachtaylor8222

2 ай бұрын

I never realized we were so similar. now i wanna go visit.

@maniac50ae14

2 ай бұрын

What part of nebraska?

@jamesbohling4864

2 ай бұрын

@@maniac50ae14 north of Omaha by Fremont

@deirdregibbons5609

2 ай бұрын

Nebraska is a wonderful state with so many beautiful landscapes and wonderful people. It is definitely a place worth visiting.

A couple of incorrect statements I'd like to point out here: 1) The sentence about Slavs being economically isolated needs qualifying: the group you're relating to there are the so-called Eastern Slavs. They're the group that's largely definded by the proximity of the Eastern Hordelands, resulting in a very war-like, isolationist and relatively non-mercantile community. Western Slavs are usually defined by their relationship with the central european, Germanic neighbors and were more trade-oriented, maintaining historically significant trade routes such as the Amber Road or the Via Regia. 2) The word "slave" is actually based *on* the descriptor that the Slavic people used to identify themselves: "Slowian" comes from "Slowo" - translating literally to "word", as well as "slawa" meaning glory. Esentially, the Slavic tribes called themselves "Those who speak words" or "The glorious ones/ones being praised". It was later corrupted into the greek "sklavenoi" and latin "sclavus", later associated with slavery due to the south-western tribes being a major source of slave labour, both as capturees and (more often) participants in the slave trade.

@pierocavolino1057

2 ай бұрын

Yes, most of the people fall in this Folk-etymological explanation, when actually Slav- means "word, speech". This is reinforced by the application of "dumb" to Germans (Nemecky) speaking people.

@GFortz

2 ай бұрын

@@pierocavolino1057 "Mute" rather than dumb, but the point stands.

@mizutanirin

2 ай бұрын

​@@GFortz dumb sometimes means mute, not just low in intellegence

@beaticulous

2 ай бұрын

he_absolutely_does_not_care.exe

@matthewfarrell6822

2 ай бұрын

🤓☝

Do more civilization videos. They're goated. Do Japanese, Jewish, Tibetan, Iranian

@duncanharrell5009

2 ай бұрын

Wasn't he working on a Jewish civilization video?

@monkeyladder

2 ай бұрын

@@duncanharrell5009 I hope so.

@Mbrace818

2 ай бұрын

Ethiopian would be interesting too.

@thefool1086

2 ай бұрын

​@@Mbrace818true, to me is one of the most confusing civ

@monkeyladder

2 ай бұрын

@@Mbrace818 Yes absolutely.

What a treat, 2 uploads in such a short time! Feels like Christmas

@onionfarmer3044

2 ай бұрын

Depends on how you look at it. One is a look into a culture and history. The other is an exemption on why dudes can't score.

@OmarApps1

2 ай бұрын

It looks like an educational informative treat!

@Merle1987

2 ай бұрын

Makes you wonder why he gets so desperate about the upload order.

@MyronT3

2 ай бұрын

@@onionfarmer3044LMFAO

@MyronT3

2 ай бұрын

I get it now.... he tells me all the reasons I'm single and mad (society) and drops a banger on the history of Russian culture. Priceless 😂😂

6:50 The "taiga" is neither "arctic", nor "uninhabitable". You're mixing up the Taiga with the perfmafrost "tundra" region, rookie mistake.

@spoonerreligionandpolitics

2 ай бұрын

He's clearly aware of the tundra since he put it on the map.

@4grammaton

2 ай бұрын

@@spoonerreligionandpolitics apparently not since in one of his next maps he puts "Siberia" above the "Steppe" and labels all of Siberia "uninhabitable" in brackets.

@TaylorWilmes

2 ай бұрын

@@4grammatonit may be habitable, but it’s inhospitable for agriculture. So yes, basically uninhabitable.

@AttilaKattila

2 ай бұрын

@@TaylorWilmes Interesting, you learn something new every day. I didn't know as a Finn that even though basically our entire country is made up of taiga and is sub-arctic that we haven't had agriculture here for thousands of years.

@Alex-lg6nz

2 ай бұрын

​@@AttilaKattila Don't worry about it. That ignorance is why they constantly attempt to invade Russia and help fertilize our black soil belt.

Slave developed from slav, we call ourselves Slované (and variationas) it means something like "Word people" since we could understand each other and why Germans are called Němci by all slavs, literally "mutes"

@user-je3sk8cj6g

2 ай бұрын

That's basically every single human group ever. The insiders are "humans", the aliens are "barbarians". And it's usually related to language; the outsiders don't "talk", they "bark". Like dogs. Gaijins, gentiles, barbarians.

@antonsamuelsson1317

2 ай бұрын

Slave in Swedish is just slav no difference in pronunciation or spelling. because that is what they were for the longest time. and the word Russia comes from the word Ryssland translated means ruffly the people that attack without thinking it thru

@IroncladHD

2 ай бұрын

​@@antonsamuelsson1317Russia comes from the word Rus', which in turn is derived from the Norse word for rower or rowman, dumbass. It's cognate with Roslagen, which is the area where the Rus' Varangians intially came from.

@10hawell

2 ай бұрын

It stuck to Germans but niemcy started as umbrella term for non-slavs

@Yxcell

2 ай бұрын

@@antonsamuelsson1317 I thought that "Rus" was the Old Norse word for "the men who row."

I think it’s a misnomer to describe Siberia as undeveloped, sure in comparison to more temperate Europe, but in comparison to Canada, Siberia is arguably more developed, ignoring the differences in living standards. They both have roughly 40 million people. Furthermore Siberia is crucial to Russian history in the fact that Siberian furs financed Russia’s imperial rise. Many people make the argument that without Ukraine there is no Russian Empire, however it is really Siberia that fuels Russia’s strength. Without the natural resources of Siberia Russia would’ve never had the finances to conquer Ukraine from the Polish Lithuanian commonwealth in the first place. I will concede that Russia’s far east/pacific coast is hugely underdeveloped and can easily support a larger population, but the rest of Siberia is fairly well populated, considering how far north it is. Novosibirsk (55°03′N): 1,635,338 Yekaterinburg (56°50′08″N): 1,539,371 Krasnoyarsk (56°00′32″N): 1 196 913 Chelyabinsk (55°09′17″N): 1,182,517 Omsk (54°59′N): 1,110,836 Tyumen (57°09′N): 855,618 … Surgut (61°15′N): 396,443 Yakutsk (62°01′48″N): 361,154 … Norilsk (69°20′N): 174,453 In comparison the northern most major city in North America, Edmonton, is only at 53°32′04″N at 1,010,899 people. If you consider Anchorage a major city, it’s at 61°13′00″N but with only 287,145 people.

@matthiuskoenig3378

2 ай бұрын

I do think he means the southern, fertile bits of siberia. especially far eastern siberia. afterall its something he like to highlight when ever he covers russia.

@greasher926

2 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378 where do you think those 1 million plus cities I just listed are located? In the southern fertile regions. Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia. That being said, I did mention that I concede that the Russian far east/pacific coast is very underdeveloped/underpopulated. Vladivostok with a population of only 597,237 should have a population that is easily twice as much for being the major pacific port.

@wayhome5

Ай бұрын

From a lecture by Russian-born professor: they expanded into siberia (colonising and later forcefully russifying local people) because they killed all local animals and there were no more animals for fur

@greasher926

Ай бұрын

@@wayhome5 yes, Russia colonized Siberia in a similar manner to the way the French and British colonized Canada, and in the same time period. Quebec was first settled in 1535 and then founded in 1608. Tobolsk was founded in 1587.

@FADNaR

27 күн бұрын

@@wayhome5 it should be understood that this is a different type of colonization. There are many swamps and forests here. Russians were interested in rivers as highways and until recently they didn't care much about what was in the depths of the forests. The steppe fertile lands of southern Siberia were inhabited by nomads. The same European Buddhist republic of Kalmykia is the people who were given this land for nomadism. Russia also provided the younger zhuz of the Kazakhs with lands between the Volga and the Ural River, where there were no Kazakhs. In the Republic of Buryatia, many European Russians understand or speak the Buryat language. The lands of Siberia were colonized by all the peoples of Russia, including Estonians, Germans, and Mordvins. The situation is not that Russians came, but that everyone had to switch to some one language and become Russian-speaking. If we talk about the fact that the Russians drove the small ones to the inaccessible north, then this is not entirely true, because before that the Turkic nomads had already tried hard.

"There is more Russian money outside Russia than inside it." Somewhere in Douglas Smith's "Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy," he states that Russian aristocrats were very patriotic during the First World War, keeping and even repatriating their funds back to Russia from abroad. Which hurt them big time after the war, when the Bolsheviks easily confiscated all that wealth that had been so helpfully brought back to the country. So now when I hear about Russian oligarchs keeping their fortunes abroad, it makes a lot more sense. Lesson learned, I guess.

@Katsura-San124

2 ай бұрын

Still not patriotic though and should be discouraged.

@Chou-seh-fu

2 ай бұрын

@@Katsura-San124 Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

@heyhoe168

2 ай бұрын

I love oversimplified history.😂

@user-gb5wb9vy2w

2 ай бұрын

lol in your sad fascist world everything is Russia's fault no matter what. In reality you simply stole Russian funds through "Russian" oligarchs that you installed in 1953-1991.

@misterwhipple2870

2 ай бұрын

Russians never learn ANY lessons. That's why they're still Russians.

You know the feeling when you know more than the average person on a specific topic and that said person gets half of the stuff completely wrong, and that makes you question everything they've been saying on other topic you're less informed of, well this is the video lol.

@pikulis

2 ай бұрын

Agreed, my thoughts exactly.

@jmjones7897

2 ай бұрын

Yeah. 13:40 in, keeps conflating Slav with Russian and Russian with the Medieval Rus. I could spend a good 13+ minutes doing a bullet point type outline of all that's ass backwards and/ or modern Soviet-Russian Histriography( Moscow approved mythical Ethno-Genesis/ Propaganda) but doing so would waste another full 30+ minutes of life.

@RealLifeIronMan

2 ай бұрын

Whatifalthist is more a big picture guy. Ask him to describe a forest, and he can tell you which way it grows. Ask him to describe the trees, and many things he says will contradict what you have read in books. Then again, history is a debatable topic; written by the victors, and interpreted by the ivory tower who are funded by the powers that be. And that is true in academia in general. For example, in the last ten or so years, due to changes in who funds them, scientists are now saying biological sex does not exist. Even though scientists knew ten years ago that a body that ever produced seed is unambiguously male and a body that ever produced eggs is unambiguous female. That is all down the drain because that offends people.

@sebe2255

2 ай бұрын

Because this guy is usually just basing all of his views on vibes and massive generalizations. He doesn’t actually know what he is talking about

@The_Custos

Ай бұрын

Yeah

The word "slave" is actually based on the descriptor that the Slavic people used to identify themselves: "Slowian" comes from "Slowo" - translating literally to "word", as well as "slawa" meaning glory. Esentially, the Slavic tribes called themselves "Those who speak words" or "The glorious ones/ones being praised". It was later corrupted into the greek "sklavenoi" and latin "sclavus", later associated with slavery due to the south-western tribes being a major source of slave labour, both as capturees and (more often) participants in the slave trade.

"Let's talk about cultural influences that shaped historical russian lands" "Oh you mean the norse legal code, byzantine traditions, dutch innovations and french court-" "Mongols. I will make 12 more videos on this subject."

@alexer52

Ай бұрын

I still don't get why so few people care about its Byzantine traditions, the Tsars literally proclaimed Russia the 3rd Rome by virtue of sharing the Greek orthodox church with them

@wolliveryoutube

Ай бұрын

@@alexer52Orthodoxy is Russia. It is essential to what makes Russia Russian and not something else. The country may try to reject this, but that doesn’t make it not so.

@alexer52

Ай бұрын

@@wolliveryoutube exactly, that's what I'm saying. I still don't get why so many people overemphasize the place of the Mongols in Russian history and overlook this

@dimokenchev

Ай бұрын

It's really funny youtube westerners trying to explain slavic/eastern history. I'm Bulgarian I remember reading a book on the Ottomans by the best French academicians saying the Ottomans never leveled any fortresses when conquering the Balkans, which is COMPLETELY untrue as ottoman historians themselves wrote that Bulgaria had the strongest fortresses on the Balkans and you can walk through the ruins in so many cities. They'd dismantle the fortresses as they didn't want a strong place for the population to go to if they rebel. Reading a ton of stuff like this over the years made me really cautions when reading western stuff on non-western countries. Also makes you think if he missed so much essential stuff in this video, what his other videos are missing.

@apator2

29 күн бұрын

@@wolliveryoutube How is Russia rejecting orthodoxy?

Haters will say this is just a summary of Putin's interview with Tucker

@anotherbacklog

2 ай бұрын

That’s why greatest enemy of politicians are historians

@EarthForces

2 ай бұрын

The interview was just a propaganda piece with partial takes on the Russian perspective WHICH ULTIMATELY GIVES NO RIGHT FOR THEIR RECENT ACTIONS. The Putin regime has to lose, simple as.

@TheMedWolf

2 ай бұрын

Except he argues why Kievian Rus should win over the Muscovites.

@tterp4228

2 ай бұрын

@@EarthForces Ukraine had been ethnically cleansing Russians in the Donbas for years. To say there is no reason is NPC-level ignorance.

@EarthForces

2 ай бұрын

@tterp4228 nice propaganda talking point we got there. It's not like the fatality counts were recorded to like 25-27 deaths per year on that 8 year period. Holodomor on the other hand is a myth while the population count of having at least 3 million less people after it, checked out. Dear vatnik. 🤡

"Slavs didn't do much trade in antiquity" completely omits the Amber Road

@Leo-ok3uj

2 ай бұрын

Wasn’t more of a german thing?

@ForageGardener

2 ай бұрын

​@Leo-ok3uj it was only a German thing in the German lands to to the south

@Velnias8

2 ай бұрын

It was baltic-germanic trading network, slavs only occasionally were a miniscule part of it

@heyhoe168

2 ай бұрын

Baltic-bizantia trade route, actually. I dont know how you history books call it, but it was economical incentive for the fist russian cities to grow.

@DISTurbedwaffle918

2 ай бұрын

​@@Leo-ok3uj Depends on the period of antiquity. The earliest periods certainly went through Germania, but there was an increasing push to use the river networks of Russia, especially as the land fell into the hands of more cohesive authorities like the Goths.

“Most of America doesn’t have an interconnected river system.” Wutt

@RealLifeIronMan

2 ай бұрын

The Mississippi River and its connected tributaries are indeed massive but limited to the eastern side of the US.

@noeticjustice1535

2 ай бұрын

@@RealLifeIronMan First of all, that alone makes the US far, far more interconnected by waterways than Russia. Second, that is only the beginning.

@isaackellogg3493

2 ай бұрын

Zeihan shakes his head. “You have destroyed Torah.”

I believe it is also important to add the Napoleonic Era, because it is rather important for most modern states: 1) Prof. Lieven writes that Russia had the best horse industry and logistics at that time. 2) It is also the time, were Russian warfare started to deviate from Western Europe's, by focusing more on attrition (see Clausewitz). 3) Lieven also explains why the Czar's power was only absolute on paper: because if the Czar thought he can do whatever, like Paul I., he got a knife in his back. The Czar needed the aristocrats for the bureaucracy, military and courts. If the Czar ruined his relationship with the aristocrats, they would not implement his orders, collect taxes, recruit peasants etc. And often one aristocrat had multiple tasks. 4) The reason why peasants were in the army for live was that these people were given to the army, because they were a mouth too much too feed. So even after they served their time and returned home, they would not be very welcomed. So most stayed in the army. 5) Regarding the Russian nobility speaking French: Russia's first university was founded in the 18th century, but by then you already needed higher education as officer. So Russia imported Western professors who ofc spoke French, not Russian. Additionally the Czar had to promote non-Russians into higher positions to keep the loyalty of certain population groups. For example the army had 7% Baltic Germans, who kept the Baltics under control. Those non-Russians also spoke French, but even though the Russian nobility, including all the non-ethnic Russians, did not speak Russian, most were loyal to Russia and the Czar nonetheless.

You should do an “Understanding Zoroastrian Civilization” I.e. what was Ancient Persia (550 BC - 651 AD) like as a civilization.

@kumel1303

2 ай бұрын

It is a nice idea

@b2crazyeye

2 ай бұрын

Honestly seems like something he'd go for, I know I would.

@FWMuscle

2 ай бұрын

Extremely difficult to research I think

@deepvoicedude4749

2 ай бұрын

That would do very poorly tbh. Videos about past civilizations aren't what draw views.

@eatinsomtin9984

2 ай бұрын

No one would care except for some second-third generation iranian refugees from the iranian revolution who now larp over worshipping fire (Zoroastrians) instead of Allah and try their hardest to connect Iran and Europe because they wish they were white (even though they are brown, on par with indian).

I think there are few point that should be made in regards on your stance with Russia. 1. "Russia will be done in 5/10/15/50/insert-your-number-here years" is somewhere in the same cohort with: "Sanction will kill Russian economy. Any second now!". Broad, over-generalized, overdone. Its far from the most likely outcome for the very reason you've well-described in this video. Sheer tenacity of Russian mindset that basically goes: "Screw it! We'll pull through odds be damned!" is enough reason to doubt purely catastrophic outcome. Rallying behind flag and going on in spite of pressure is what Russians are good at. And current international climate all but ensures the pressure won't recede. 2. As you've pointed out, Russia currently exists in kind of idea vacuum. There are some nascent ideas floating around, sanity of which is varying, as well as traces of both Orthodoxy and Communism (the latter is diminishing though). And Russia is under pressure from inside and outside. This means two things: a) the rallying behind the flag becomes an idea enough due to pressure alone; b) it fastens the process of ideological development. We are yet to see its fruits, since its still developing, but some things can be seen emerging even now. And now to a part most will find surprising. Putin's clique in power is probably the best possible outcome we ALL can hope for. Which is ironic from Ukrainian, but I'll explain. The ideological vacuum in Russia will most likely be filled with some Christian-leaning right-wing ideology, radicality of which is yet to be defined. Outside pressure from the war and sanctions as well as inside pressure from migrant crisis pushes Russia right. Rallying behind the flag is intuitively easier when the flag is shared between at least likeminded individuals, if not outright members of the same nationality. Hence the almost inevitable hostility towards outsiders. There lies a real possibility of outright right-wing Russia, and none of us will want it, trust me. It may not be overtly xenophobic, but it will no doubt be imperial to the max - and very aggressive. 3. One of the reasons the abovementioned scenario is possible is general disenchantment most Russians feel towards the West. Pro-Western people are now a dying breed there - and largely not because of state censorship, but because less and less people see the point in following the West. Get woke get broke? In more ways than you'd think. Current western ideas are no-sellers abroad. Even a complete fool could point out sheer idiocy of what people in the West engage in nowadays - and the fact the West is literally not breeding anymore. More and more people see the West not as kind of promised land, but as a land with no future. And who in their right mind would wager their future on following someone who looks like an idiot slowly destroying himself? People laugh at new BRICS members, pointing out how those countries have too little in common and how their economies are meager. Yet many ignore the fact that those countries were the same who followed West for decades - but less so now. And people in Russia are no different. Many may not like Putin, his clique, his actions - but less and less people like the West. For an average Ivan modern West is a bunch of nosey cretins who gone down the crazy alley with the stuff like LGBTQ+, radical ecologism, the way racial topic is handles nowadays, general anti-natalism and the tendency to meddle with everyone everywhere. Not the icon of progress it once was: a kind of fallen hero, a soured greatness, the mighty who grew senile and weak - at best. People are growing hostile to the West - and to its ideas. Which is good. I am one of those people who no longer see the the West as an idea to follow. More of a warning on what not to do with your society. We need new ideas, so desperately you can't even express it in words. And I really hope anyone would come with something worthy - be it Russia, Latin America, Africa, Iran, Israel. Just anyone with good explanation on what to do with this world except gorge yourself on your own whims and call it a day.

@user-yy5xs6xj7r

2 ай бұрын

I generally agree with your first point. Although temporally there might be a rapid collapse, but that doesn't mean that Russia will disappear as a country or civilization. I completely agree with your third point. I am a Pro-Western Russian, but even for me modern Western civilization looks failing. I hope it will recover from this some time in the future, but right now it doesn't look great. But I have a lot of doubts about your second point. As far as I can tell, Christianity (Orthodox or otherwize) isn't that popular in Russia, and ideological vacuum is filled with lots of different ideas from Communism to Libertarianism and from Nazism to Islamism (and with weird mixes of those ideas). It is very hard to predict any future development, but both a pluralistic parliamentary democracy and a civil war among many different parties seem more likely than a unified Christian empire.

@mauser98kar

2 ай бұрын

@@user-yy5xs6xj7r People mistake faith and allegiance. Orthodoxy is part of nation's cultural code. Even people who do not count themselves among the faithful may still align themselves with the people and the Church because it still speaks to them. They may not visit churches every Sunday, but still at least have respect for the faith and its tenants. Orthodoxy seats too deep in our cultural code to ignore it. So deep, in fact, we rarely even notice its influence. But do say - how often when you see some outright lunacy in the West, something stirs deep in you? Calls to you in terms and emotions not quite rational or secular? Have words like "blasphemy", "sin", "ungodly" or "immoral" ever crossed your mind when you see something like a girl aged 28 deciding to get euthanasia with full state approval? Or just raw emotions of wrongness or revulsion that would perhaps be more fitting for someone living in times of Crusades who had in-hand experience of religious exaltation? It certainly crossed mine. As for the different ideas - with things the way they are now, Fascism will win most likely, I think. Not ru-propaganda or soy-people kind - the OG one: "power to the state - power to the people" kind, which had less to do with nationalism and more with sheer authoritarianism. You can see it - it defines everyone pro-current course. Some lean right, some lean left, all lean imperial. And Christianity would be a good fleur for them. Besides, if the Big Guy goes, who replaces him? Schmele, who unironically went: "finish off the survivors!" in his rhetoric? There are no noticeable non-imperial figures either among officials, or activists. When the liberals waste their time on stuff like: "lets beat the casseroles at 10 am or something", right and left have actual fighting squads with now years of experience. And if Prigozhin showed us anything, is that little to no one wants the boat rocked. So I won't count on infighting either. Simply put, the bellicose imperial course suits everyone with balls, organization and manpower to be worth accounting for. Yes, there are other ideas and other people, but sludge hits the fan and they won't have firepower or manpower to do squat.

@juantorres-dj3fn

2 ай бұрын

Too much text to Say You are a far right conservative that admires Putin and Russia because gay people there can be imprisoned or forced to live a "quiet hidden" life and feminism is not tolerated. You could have just said it..

@apator2

29 күн бұрын

@@mauser98kar Very true, the creator of this video does this often and says that despite westerners not being very practicing protestant tradition still lives on but he refuses to do the same for the much more conservative societies of China and Russia

@mauser98kar

28 күн бұрын

@@apator2 It is true, he has this tendency as much of westerners I've heard. Though we must admit - he has good reason in this specific case. Commies in China and Russia did their best to destroy preceding culture and replace it with their own ideas, which clashes with original culture and still linger to some degree. And it is a weak point and a constant source of squabbles, at least in Russia. But people often make a mistake of exaggerating the weight of these squabbles. I think there are more people in Russia interested in arguing their favorite anime title versus which is better: orthodoxy or communism. And what many fail to notice, WhatIfaltHist included, is that even those people who do argue, are more interested in fighting Ukraine, NATO and whatnot, rather than each other. They have common imperial interest that goes beyond their squabbles. When they captured Lisychansk, on its administration flew flags of Chechen squads, commies and the Imperial Tricolor (white yellow black). Just to paint a picture. So, WhatIf's (and most westerners') error is mistaking differences for fractures. Iran is prime example of this approach, with so many people going somewhere around: "oh, but it has so much minorities, it must mean it will fall apart any moment!". Failing to realize that dealing with those minorities and keeping the country united is basically the entire history of Iran.

Please do an “Explaining Mormon Culture” video. Considering how much religion influences culture, I think such a video would be very interesting.

@MrGunlover12

2 ай бұрын

Knowing betters video about that is very interesting.

@Lusa_Iceheart

2 ай бұрын

That would be an interesting one, lol.

@darksu6947

2 ай бұрын

Magic underwear

@bottledwater4484

2 ай бұрын

I can explain it. Some christian guy got mad he couldn't have multiple wives because of his religion and cultural attitudes, so he invented a brand new version of Christianity so he could bang multiple women.

@weston06.

2 ай бұрын

@@darksu6947 almost makes me want to become one myself

Russia not only has so much natural wealth, it has produced some of the most talented minds in history. It is hard not to lament what it could've been under a decent government.

@z3rz112

2 ай бұрын

When you say this you think of countries perhaps like Germany or Netherlands, but Russia is different. It is too big to be a minor partner in the western project and Ukraine war has put an end to any such ideas. Russia's current standing has nothing to do with the government type but rather the power distribution between civilizations (and empires). After the dissolution of the soviet union, contemporary Russia (former world power) has lost almost all of its soviet manufacturing capabilities and was assigned a resource extractor role in the global distribution of labor, akin to the african dictator states. The oligarch class who took control of the extracting industries has sold their resources to the western states and/or China and moved all profits to the imperial core (mostly London and Switzerland). This was quite profitable for the western world, but it was not satisfied because Russia has not overgone its political transformation to 'demoracrcy', which would destroy Russia's great power aspirations for good. The idea was to capture control over Russia and to chop it down into smaller pieces until its great power status would be completely lost (Chechen wars as a clue). When the first plan did not work, they started focusing on the color revolutions schemes which had occured in all post-soviet countries in the periphery of Russia, even in Russia itself in 2011. It's a long topic and it can be debated whether Russia has chosen correct strategy and whether their current decoupling would lead to a better future ... or not. But in order to have this discussion, both parties need to be open minded and not to spew ignorant nonsense like "government bad, corruption bad". Real life is 1000000 times more complicated than that.

@amandacollyer645

2 ай бұрын

That's the part I can't get over. The music, literature, science....

@lefunnyN1

2 ай бұрын

how so? all famous "russians" were foreigners

@TSEliot1978

2 ай бұрын

If "decent government" means Pro-Western, liberal then I think most Russians have pretty strong views on that topic.

@oldernu1250

2 ай бұрын

And they left if they could. It is a cruel, sick, evil culture, where casual violence is laughed at. Picture blood, pain and laughter by tormentors, egged on by onlookers.

Egypt came up on a poll a while back but it got beat out by something pretty nutty. I’d love to hear your run down on it, considering the civilization is so old and shrouded in an aura of mystery

@mshara1

Ай бұрын

Fall of Civilizations did an excellent one on the collapse of Ancient Egypt. However, modern Egypt since 12-13th century is basically just another Arab state right? Pretty boring actually?

Almost thought this was a history 102 channel video lol. Appreciate the quick uploads

I think there's a few misinterpreted ideas within this video. 1. Vladimir Putins justification for invading Ukraine is not that they're the same people and belong together. Although this seems to be an idea he holds, he explicitly stated that the reason he invaded was due to security concerns for the state, NATO expansion, and a concern for ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine. Whether or not someone believes him or agrees with the justification, that's what he's clearly stated from the day the war began and all the way up to today. With very little deviation from what I've seen throughout it. His deep and complex explanation of the history of the Rus is him shedding context on the events of today. He sees the very long history of his nation and its relationship to Europe to be relevant as far back as Russias conception. He even very clearly stated in the interview that he is willing to accept an independent Ukraine, should the Ukrainians insist on being a sovereign nation. He would not, however, accept NATO on his largest land border in Europe, especially with what he saw as an increasingly hostile Ukrainian population. Whether he's right or wrong in it is beside the point. But he does not use the shared history as justification for the invasion. He uses NATO expansion, nazism, and strategic defense as his justification. 2. Collectivism/family structure is a bit of an oversimplification of Russian culture in contrast to that of the west. Although relative individualism could be linked to productivity and certain values, it's a bit more complex than that. Even a private company has collectivist ethos of their own, and require them to be successful. Lower classes, especially those in poverty, will very often be relatively unproductive whether they own something or not. I think it takes more incentive and a lot of influence to compell lower class laborers of any sort to do more than the bare minimum 90% of the time. Communism certainly was not a good thing for them, but having more collectivist outlooks on ownership in small communities is something even western peasants had. And collectivist thought is not inherently bad on its own when accompanies by individual responsibility (think of every successful professional military). There's a few things that are even deeper in the Russian mindset and outlook that contribute greatly to stagnation in some areas but massive accomplishments in others. It's difficult to describe without the Russian Language but there's a term in Russian sometimes used to label it "Русский Характер" which roughly translates to "the russian character". If you look it up on KZread you'll probably find a video of some old Russian dude talking about it. Subtitles should work.

@lukebruce5234

Ай бұрын

communism was the most successful period in the Russian history

@jacob_dcdn

Ай бұрын

You are absolutely right in your first point. And I do not agree with Putin on anything. It is ill culture falling apart and damn their endless pride.Russia will be stopped eventually from expanding. Whether it is right or wrong is besides the point.

You should debate Monsieur Z on who would win a second Civil War Edit: American Civil War

@TheoHawk316

2 ай бұрын

Most likely a Nationalistic coalition of states. National guard is right-wing.

@noahlebaron1957

2 ай бұрын

That's so funny I barley watched one of his videos.

@crusader2112

2 ай бұрын

They should talk but it shouldn't be a debate. Just a good discussion.

@Windrose86

2 ай бұрын

​@@crusader2112 ^^This^^

@christo-gj1qk

2 ай бұрын

Yeah they should have a debate about an upcoming civil war.

28:07 Rudyard: "The great difference is that freedom eventually won out in America." I think the jury's still out on that one chief.

@ramennight

2 ай бұрын

We're just in the next round.

@zmajooov

2 ай бұрын

There is no such thing as freedom, there is only the length of the leash the central authority gives to the individual.

@ghost21501

2 ай бұрын

For a brief period, I'd say.

@CeoMacNCheese

2 ай бұрын

I mean yeah, but if you want to maintain an empire and country as big as the US you'd need some form of authoritarianism to be involved. Every massive country needs this authoritarianism in some form to exist, but the main concern of everybody is what it is used for exactly.

@PancakeProduct

2 ай бұрын

@@zmajooovGreat Quote

My father was a cartographer at Defense Mapping Agency. I used to be fascinated by the maps he brought home, especially the topographic maps. I think your maps are well done!

@jmjones7897

2 ай бұрын

Hello, St. Louis.

"Falling Down the rabbit hole with Rudyard and Friends," I like it

That part about Russia being expanded by Cossacks escaping the government, then the government moving in, enserfing them and establishing little incentives for development reminded me heavily of Argentina. The way into Patagonia was paved by Gauchos, many of whom lived semi-nomadic lives. When the government moved in it basically forced the Gauchos into conscription in the military or into underpaid rural labor under rich landowners that divided the newly conquered Patagonia amongst themselves after virtually exterminating the Indians. Despite all its profitability, Patagonia today is terribly underpopulated, with the entire territory having less population than the city of Buenos Aires (2,7 million to 3 million)

"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

@moroguin1331

2 ай бұрын

Bro is telking the 501st journal 🗿

@SolarDragon007

2 ай бұрын

"It's a good thing we were wearing helmets because none of us could bare to look her in the eye."

@retromountains

2 ай бұрын

Imagine if WIAH did a video titled "Explaining civilization during the Clone Wars"

@Leo-ok3uj

2 ай бұрын

@@retromountains Explainig Courosantian Explaining Corintian Explaining Hutt Explaining Sith

@DFlaminberry

2 ай бұрын

​@@SolarDragon007 and she was a good friend

a'sabia means "anger" in arabic calling russia "too angry to die" is so hillarious to me and i got no clue why, but i love it

hey bro, it was Koneczny (Konechnee) Yea he also wrote that the best civilization is Latin (Western) and Poland is the highest form of it lol :D But many people on polish right like to refer to his theories.

@Radonatorr

2 ай бұрын

Based Konieczny

@Masquerade456

2 ай бұрын

Everybody likes to think of themselves as the center of the world. Everybody with ambition, at least

@deci2723

2 ай бұрын

And The current situation proves Koneczny right. Not with Poland being the highest form of the Latin civilization, but with Latin being the best civilization and Russia being Turanic.

1. The author’s idea that slavery in Russia was stronger than slavery in the USA is erroneous. Serfdom in Russia became a form of slavery only after the adoption of a set of laws (the “Conciliar Code”) in 1649. Until 1649, peasants who were serfs, once a year, every year, had the right to change their master ("St. George's Day") Only after 1649 did the peasants become the property of the nobles. Thus, serfdom in Russia lasted from 1649 to 1861. 212 years old. In the United States, slavery existed from 1619 to 1865. 246 years old. If we are talking about the equality of all people before the law, then in Russia, people received universal equality in 1917. While in the USA, universal equality came only after the abolition of segregation among the black population. This is the year 1964-1968. Of course, if we consider freedom from the point of view of opportunities for the elites (white elites), then in the USA there has always been more freedom than in Russia. However, if we consider freedom in terms of opportunities for the people as a whole, then until ~2010, Russian society was much freer than American society. 2. The author’s idea of the Russian Tsar as an absolute monarch is also completely untenable. The Russian monarch had less authority and power than the monarchy in the British Empire. Russian tsars were killed, overthrown, and even elected during popular assemblies. 3. Russia did not gain independence “at about the same time as the United States.” The author confuses the proclamation of the Russian Empire (1721) with the beginning of the history of the Russian state. The beginning of the history of the Russian state begins in 862. This date is enshrined in all Russian chronicles. From this moment Russian statehood begins. If we are talking about the date of the end of the Tatar-Mongol yoke, then this is 1480. 241 years before the proclamation of the empire. 4. It’s also amazing how the author paints the entire period of communism in Russia with black paint. It's funny. It's worth stopping at this picture: 35:58 Yes, Stalin “destroyed” all the officers. After which the USSR won the greatest war in human history, winning the largest and most monstrous battles in history. Don't think, trust the author. Yes, Stalin “destroyed” all scientists. After which the USSR developed some of the most advanced weapons of its time, was the second in the world to develop an atomic bomb, the first in the world to launch a man into space, the first in the world to launch a satellite into space, and the first in the world to build a nuclear power plant. After all, other countries did the same thing, right? Yes, Stalin “destroyed” all farmers. As a result, Russia from an agrarian power became an industrialized society. The most reading nation on the planet with free medicine and education. And much more. The author also uses the thesis that the Russian Empire developed rapidly while the development of the USSR was “arithmetic” Here's what it means: Conventionally, in 1905, there was 1 factory in the Russian Empire. In 1906, there were 2 factories in the Russian Empire. Growth 100% In 1923, there were 10 factories in the USSR. In 1924, there were 15 factories in the USSR. Growth 50% Author's conclusion: "The USSR developed less! Its development was arithmetic, not literal" If you have even a little brain, you understand that in this case, actual growth (arithmetic) is more important than percentage. The fact that the USSR built many times more factories, factories, and machine tools than the Russian Empire is undeniable. There is much more that could be commented on, but I have already written too much. The author did not understand anything.

@orthodox-mp6hv

16 күн бұрын

Well, he is an American with a strong tendency to babble about topics he knows nothing about so... unsurprising.

Chess is a lot about patience, predicting behavior, and knowing how and when to sacrifice pieces to trap your opponent and make a decisive move. Aside from simply the geographic origins of the game likely allowing it to reach Russia sooner, if you’re describing Russian culture as one about bearing hardships, sacrifice, and still viewing yourself as a victorious people, seems to me to fit right in

Im drinking coffie and watching this, giving creator virtual marks for understanding the subject. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. I am a russian

@neilreynolds3858

12 күн бұрын

It's hard to find any works of history about Russia written by Russians that have been translated to English so we only hear what the West thinks about Russia and that's an echo chamber. There were some published during the time of the USSR but they had obvious biases. The only way I got some idea of what Russians were like was from being raised with Russians and treated like family. I was lucky. They don't treat many Americans like that and I suspect that no Western "Russia expert" was ever exposed to the real life of a Russian family. There need to be more and better translations of Russian history works. My fiancée is originally from Russia and there doesn't seem to be any other Russian speaker here in a town of 30 000. We both listen to conversations at the store, and there are a lot of different languages spoken, but we haven't heard any Slavic language. The lack of direct knowledge of Russians is crippling the US.

The civilization of the single most wasted potential of a country ever.

@thepeak5819

2 ай бұрын

what else do you expext from an inferior race?

@kvas6255

2 ай бұрын

Agreed

@jasonking9727

2 ай бұрын

Everyone knows you don't go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line, and you don't get into a land war in Asia. Ps Joe Biden is a f*ckin idiot.

@EncoreASMR

2 ай бұрын

Joint most wasted nation along with China

@lordalexanderchristopher2743

2 ай бұрын

unfortunately

Freedom won over slavery in US so much it was abolished 4 years LATER then serfdom was abolished in Russia. Also you have missed near 300 years where russian emperors were russo-germans. Peter the Third who did the most for serfdom was german

@mastersafari5349

2 ай бұрын

In the United States slaves were only a fraction of population which were ethnically African and overwhelmingly lived in the South. In Russia it was the other way around the majority of population of Slavic peasant serfs were controlled by a small class of nobility of many different ethnic origins (Russians, Poles, Germans, Tatars etc.)

@zagadkazakafresko5409

2 ай бұрын

@@mastersafari5349 serfs were 40℅ at the moment of cancellation of serfdom which it substantial but not a majority

@RealLifeIronMan

2 ай бұрын

​@@zagadkazakafresko5409 And yet the US never had 40% of it population as serf or slaves. Certainly not as late as the 19th century. Interesting. Must mean Russia was far more progressive.

@isaackellogg3493

2 ай бұрын

@@mastersafari5349the “fraction” in question was 1/7th (4.5 million out of 31.5 million), and 1/9th of the slaves actually lived in the north, where slavery was still legal until December 6, 1865, more than six months after the war’s end (ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment).

@BWhit-ni5uc

Ай бұрын

@@RealLifeIronManfunny you were still segregated until the 60s. So much freedom in yank land lol

“There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards the same end. I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed; and whilst the attention of mankind was directed elsewhere, they have suddenly placed themselves in the front rank among the nations, and the world learned their existence and their greatness at almost the same time. All other nations seem to have nearly reached their natural limits, and they have only to maintain their power; but these are still in the act of growth. All the others have stopped, or continue to advance with extreme difficulty; these alone are proceeding with ease and celerity along a path to which no limit can be perceived. The American struggles against the obstacles which nature opposes to him; the adversaries of the Russian are men. The former combats the wilderness and savage life; the latter, civilization with all its arms. The conquests of the American are therefore gained with the ploughshare; those of the Russian by the sword. The Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends, and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people; the Russian centres all the authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

@algorithmgeneratedanimegir1286

2 ай бұрын

That didn't age well...

@marinblaze

2 ай бұрын

Now this plot has a lot of holes in it, akin to swiss cheese. Nice fantasy though.

@johndodge4378

2 ай бұрын

It was published in 1835. It's really good. You should read it. I think, yes, it reads differently today now that the US is in steep decline, but during the 1950s for example, it would have been a shock to come across that.

@johndodge4378

2 ай бұрын

But the Russian half the the text certainly jives well with the video. He's read it I'm sure.

@marinblaze

2 ай бұрын

You know, it does starts to make more sense after a while. USA has a different approach, always at a war (military intervention they call it), trying to topple democratically elected goverments, does that make them a better civilization?

Lucio Caracciolo, an Italian expert of geopolitics, says that to know a culture one must read its classic authors. Reading Tolstoj, Dostoevskij, Gogol etc. gives a good glimpse on how Russians see themselves, life and what they think of the rest of the world.

@mesa9724

2 ай бұрын

Are those classic authors recent enough to understand current day Russia?

@leaningtoweravenger

2 ай бұрын

@@mesa9724 knowing some Russians, I would say that the foundational traits are there. Like reading 1800 American literature still gives you glimpses of American people's mind and attitude today. You have to skim the details and keep the core, tho.

@mesa9724

2 ай бұрын

@@leaningtoweravenger Yes, I can’t see it for Russia because I don’t know much about them but that is certainly true for Americans 👍

@The_Custos

Ай бұрын

Nah, mainly focus on communism, and so he misses the boat. Good suggestion on authors.

Those river systems freeze over a good portion of the year, and are super dangerous when they melt causing big floods. Not good for trade or even settling on the banks

@matthiuskoenig3378

2 ай бұрын

I mean they are 'good' for trade compared to alot of alternatives, just not as great as river systems found in say western europe. its not like african river systems which are basically useless for practically the whole year and even more dangerous.

Whatifalthist please make a video on the future of space travel.

@CeoMacNCheese

2 ай бұрын

Heck yeah I want him to study how civilizations will handle space colonies and what new civilizations will rise.

@legtendgav556

2 ай бұрын

That'd be highly, highly speculative.

@jamalisujang2712

2 ай бұрын

It will be most likely the founding of united states part 2 space boogaloo. But with the potential of earth getting destroyed. 😂😂😂

@Boz196

2 ай бұрын

First we colonise the moon, then we start extracting resources from asteroids and refining them on the moon or in space, then we build a Dyson swarm, we use the energy from it to colonise Mars and Venus. Then after that perhaps we colonise the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Then once that’s done we become an interstellar civilisation and expand outwards towards other star systems.

@hohenzollern6025

2 ай бұрын

In short, there is no future. The vast distances are physically insurmountable. That's why every sci-fi requires literal magic as it's basis. Whether that be Star Trekkian warp drives which just outright ignore physics, or completely different planes, like 40k using hell itself as a highway. Even if we could overcome the vast distances with some sort of warp technology, what would be the point? There's so little out there that is usable. The myriad of things that had to happen in perfect unison to make the earth happen, would reach odds in the 1 in a billion range or more. The idea, that a perfectly sized planet (thus have the correct gravity) would be a perfect distance from it's sun (so that temperatures would be livable) and have the perfect mix of gasses in it's atmosphere (for heat retention, radioactive protection, and breathability) alone are so astronomically rare, if we looked hard, maybe, just maybe, we could find one planet that wouldnt just immediately kill us in the entire galaxy. Finding one single sign of "earthlike" just isnt going to cut it, if it's gravity is 10 times that of earth, or it's temperatures reach near boiling during the day, or -100c during the nights, or it's atmosphere is 80% ammonia... then we can do nothing with it. And dont even try to think we could build atmospheric domes or space ships/stations to support a population for any length of time. We cant even build bridges to last more than a couple decades let alone intricate electronics and machinery that could survive a year or two without a catastrophic failure. I mean have you even seen how temperamental a modern automobile is? ...and we've "mastered" those. It would take centuries of the harshest eugenics plan to breed out enough human falibility to find a work force capable enough to build and maintain any sort of colony ship that would leave the earth completely bereft of any capable people which would immediately descend into chaos and starvation when those "perfect" workers flew away. This is all why modern NASA is just used as a pet project to keep a few women employed doing ridiculous busy work.

In poland, as the king was elected by vote, prospectibe kings promised the nobility more and more privileges. Weakening the power of the king and worsening the situation of the farmers. As mostly foreign nobels were elected as kings, most of them weren't interested in the country and let the nobility do as it pleased.

With due respect, you could not legally kill a serf as their master. But if you had ordered to lash your serf and they died on the next day, you wouldn't be responsible for their death. For example the Saltychiha who self handedly killed hundreds of her serfs, ended up imprisoned for life, but as long as "killing wasn't the intent", you wouldn't suffer any legal consequences as a master. Also Poland never in its history conquered Russia. Its true, that a polish nobleman was the Russian emperor, but he was crowned as the Russian emperor, not and in fact was supposed by a large chank of Russian nobility as the empress recognized this polish dude as miraculously survived her deceased son. So Moscow nobility did believe he was Prince Dmitriy. In Russian history this man is called False Dmitriy 1. There was a second pretendor, who also claimed to be prince Dimitri (False Dmitriy 2, but he didn't have as much luck

One day he explains why young men are single and angry, the next day he drops a BANGER on the history of Russian civilization. It's society's fault I'm single. I'm not a nerd 😂

@belroise

2 ай бұрын

What do you mean?

@matthiuskoenig3378

2 ай бұрын

@@belroise they are insinuating that his video about the 'incel revolution' is personal cope about being a nerd resulting in being single. MyronT3 is infact the one coping, ignoring the massive undeniable trends.

@belroise

2 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378 I see... The most sad of this it's that I saw the other video and WhatIfAltHistory was complaining about the lack of empathy and the use of certain word to attack everyone who talks about male problems

@adamnesico

2 ай бұрын

Be a nerd doesn’t disqualify you to marry in a promarriage society.

@MyronT3

2 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378 HAHA bro. i have a gf. it was a joke

Would be interesting to see an understanding of British Civilisation - I notice stuble similarities between Britain (or at least Modern Britain) and Russia as presented here.

@Alex-ur7gk

2 ай бұрын

Yeah we need a video just on Britain alone

Thomas Sowell had a great alternative term to Geographic Determinism and that was Geographic Limitations. Geography won't completely define your destiny, but it will present limits and opportunities that a people will will have to deal with and adapt to culturally, but within those confines anything can happen.

As a huge enjoyer of Russian history, there are a few inaccuracies I want to clear up. First, the Russia (as a whole) does not have good soil for farming. The area around Kiev is very rich, but most of Russia has poor soil. One of the popular farming methods involved burning the trees in the vicinity, using a the ashes as a fertilizer, and farming the land for the next 2-3 years while the soil remained nutrient rich. Another issue is the temperature. Russia is incredibly cold, so most grains cant survive. America was able to capitalize on its temperate climate by farming wheat, which is a very productive grain. Meanwhile, Russia was forced to farm Rye, which is the only grain that would grow in Russia’s harsh climate. Rye is far less economical, but it is certainly a very robust and durable option. I haven’t gotten too far into the video, but those are some of the reasons why Russia lagged behind their neighbors in terms of food production.

@virn333

2 ай бұрын

Did bro just say Kiev is part of Russia?

@mudra5114

2 ай бұрын

Then how did Tzarist Russia and later the now Russian Federation become such huge wheat exporters?

@Философ

2 ай бұрын

​@@virn333Yes. Questions?

@zombopanda

2 ай бұрын

Dude thinks Rus and Russia are the same thing 🤡

@Chaldon-hl6yk

2 ай бұрын

The concept of European development was based on robbery. Because she could afford it. All coastal countries within the reach of European ships were controlled (to varying degrees, of course) by Europeans. As the capabilities of the Europeans grew, they moved deeper into the continents, and in a number of regions they retain influence to this day. In its justification, it must be emphasized that it was an economic necessity. To behave differently would create too many risks. There is also a threat of death in case of unfavorable conditions. There is also a threat from neighbors who will not behave well; they will bring resources with which they will prepare a strong army and capture you. There is also a banal lag in the civilization race, which you will get if you do not export resources from the colonies for your development. Therefore, Russia was constantly losing civilizationally, because we could only obtain additional product from our own economy.

Do one explaining Jewish Civilization pls

@LukeLongboneOfficial

2 ай бұрын

We don’t need Rudyard permabanned for saying the wrong words.

@RealLifeIronMan

2 ай бұрын

Jewish history is already well understood. Outside of former sultanates, at least. Judaism and its followers began as a branch off of the Caanite peoples. They worshiped the caanite god El (later known as Yahweh). Their sect spread (often through conquest), and Yahwehism became the predominant religion in the Levant. Then Babylonia conquered them. Then Assyria conquered them. Then Rome conquered them. Then they scattered all over Eurasia and northern africa. Then, a branch of messianic Judaism became the state religion of Rome. That is the history.

@mudra5114

2 ай бұрын

What is Jewish civilization? Never heard of it.

@rizkyadiyanto7922

2 ай бұрын

you can read qoran for that.

@Dial8Transmition

2 ай бұрын

Civilization? They have only attached themselves to already exsiting civilizations

I thought this must be an old video when it autoplayed. I was pleasantly surprised when I realized that you uploaded twice in a week. No pressure of course. Take all the time you need brother.

11:25 the word slavs might not come from slaves, but from the word slovo, which means word, so thus slavs means people who can speak or understand

@SnowLeopard-lt1vf

2 ай бұрын

Well, slave does come from slav because of how many slavs were enslaved in the middle ages. They were the last to convert to Christianity and the Christians are only allowed to enslave non Christian pagans (ofc they would ignore that rule in the early modern period). And islam forbid enslaving Muslims, it must only be non Muslims. So the word definitely comes from there. But the word slav itself does come from слово, as you said, meaning word, as in the slavic tribes can understand each other as слово is where the words for hear слышать, слышал and слушание and so on are derived from.

Up next please explain Iranic civilization. Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Iran. Including other iranian peoples like Pashtuns, kurds, baloch etc. i think its very unique and distinct from turkic indic and Semitic civilization despite the Islamic nature. Iranics have had influence from Catalonia in spain all the way to Indonesia. They had an empire in north africa (rustimids), and a once had a decent population in hungary. Theres also a massive amount of persian speakers in Uzbekistan. They have influenced india to a massive extent that most of north Indian peoples like urdu speakers can understand Persian decently if they tried. They have influence iraqi and omani Arabic, and even influenced the north Caucasus, with the Alans and tats. And ofc you can talk ab the Persian empire and other iranics like the scythians and sarmatians and later khwarezmians.

@SacClass650

2 ай бұрын

Quite a lot of Iranic cultural dissemination came with the help of Turkic peoples. Indeed, the Khwarazmian Empire was Turkic-Persian, along with the Ghaznavid Empire and the Safavids. But indeed, Iranic peoples have an impressive spread; don't forget the Ossetians of the Caucasus, too.

@SnowLeopard-lt1vf

2 ай бұрын

@@SacClass650agreed 100%. And yeah I mentioned the Alans of the Caucasus who are the Ossetians.

@SacClass650

2 ай бұрын

@@SnowLeopard-lt1vf Forgive me, I scanned through and missed it!

@SnowLeopard-lt1vf

2 ай бұрын

@@SacClass650it’s okay lol

@captainfury497

2 ай бұрын

The Indo-Iranian civilizations should be analyzed together. Buddhism and Manichaeism for example were spread by these people to almost all of Asia. Central Asia and Afghanistan were interesting places of merger of the Indo-iranian civilization. The Indo-Iranian civilization had a huge impact in history. Lesser known civilizations like the Kushans and Sakas are also interesting. The Indo-Iranian people also had a huge role in the ethno genesis of the Turkic people. The earliest Turks for example the Xiongnu (Huns) and Gokturks both had heavy Indo-Iranian paternal lineages (haplogroup R1a). This means that the iconic Turkic nomadic pastoralism (which the Mongols alsorelied upon) was spread to Asia by Indo-Iranian people like Sakas. Their genetic contribution is still evident in Turkic peoples like Uighurs and Kyrgyz

Two videos in two days is damn near a record

@yanbarbosa8092

2 ай бұрын

It goes to show how much quality and effort he puts in

@joshf7321

2 ай бұрын

@@yanbarbosa8092 lol, tru tho

@michaelstein7510

2 ай бұрын

Looks like the previous video got taken down or is now private. Hopefully just a copyright issue and not a censorship issue from KZread.

Great video! Your perspective on things is really refreshing and changed drastically my tale on the world (which i am very thankfull for). Cheers mate!

We'll, the Ukrainian nation didn't fully form until the end of 19th. In mid 19th centuries when the government decided to find out the ethnical composition of the empire about 20% of people in mosern Ukrainian borders answered that they were "locals" and about 30% when asked about their nationality named a close large city, so they had more attachment to the people of one land, than the people of one nation. In the end of 19th century most claimed they were Ukrainians.

@LeadLeftLeon

2 ай бұрын

Those commies granted a bunch of Russian lands to UA. Z SMO is undoing that

People in Russia are also fairly worn out by bloodshed from past revolutions and other related events. Even if it’s the case that majority of Russians were tired of their government, they’d rather not try anything in order to avoid millions more dead.

@The_Custos

Ай бұрын

They don't seem worn out, look to the numbers that volunteered for the latest war/operation. Them being the sick man of Europe doesn't fly well.

@usefulusinguser

Ай бұрын

@@The_Custos *whoosh*

For what they achieved, and their exploits in general, the Turkic people are criminally underknown in the West - for example, the Mongol Empire could accurately be called a Mongolic-Turkic Empire given the amount of Turkic peoples crucially involved in it.

@RealLifeIronMan

2 ай бұрын

Then Jenk Ugar and his nephew Hasan ruined the reputation of Turkey.

@Galdarian

2 ай бұрын

I dont think these steppe peoples are underknown at all amongst people in the west who are interested in history. Ofcourse the general population whose knowledge of history ends short of what they were tried to be taught at school knows nothing of the history of any people or nation, they mostly know some fables about the nazies and ww2.

@juniorjames7076

2 ай бұрын

I was surprised to learn that todays Tatars are descendants of the Mongols? I'm an American who learned Turkish while teaching in Istanbul in the '90s. When I visited Ukraine in 2016 I was pleasantly shocked to find I understood Tatar language/dialect. Its basically Turkish with some Slavic loan words and accents, just like Uygur is basically Turkish with some Chinese loan words and accents.

@heyhoe168

2 ай бұрын

​​​@@juniorjames7076 not really, but close. Also they were basically a core population of a former mongol empire.

@AmirSatt

2 ай бұрын

Tatars are turkic, they were fighting mongols in the past​@@juniorjames7076

Wow,i didn't expect that

What happened to the incel revolution video? Glad I watched it twice before it disappeared.

Slav is not related to "slave". It is derived from the Slavic linguistic root "slov" (pick a vowel for o) which relates to the modern Russian word "slovo" (word). Slav derives from the concept of "people who are intelligible" Compare to the Russian word for Germans ("nemets") which has the original meaning of "mute", relating to how those people were unintelligible.

@TaylorWilmes

2 ай бұрын

It is related to slave. They are a nation of skates to their tyrannical government.

@pikulis

2 ай бұрын

Yes, it is definitely related to "slave" in most Western European languages. It's just that the word "slave" originated from "slav" and "slovo" rather than the other way around.

I liked one idea which you mentioned that reform for autocracies are the worst things you could do. I kind of see it in perspective now. The 90s were very terrible time, we didnt know neither how capitalism works nor democracy for that matter. And that is the tragedy of it all because people have an opposite reaction now to these forces. I maybe could argue against such an idea but it really fits here at least

@neilreynolds3858

12 күн бұрын

Russia got exposed to those ideas while being looted by the West which gave them a better perception of what the West is like than we allow ourselves.

This was incredibly insightful!

Western absolutism, French and Spanish monarchies, and Hitler and Franco dictatorships are laughing together at your argument about “authoritarism and dictatorship is only in Russia, we are very democratic in the west bla-bla”. Dude, history and mentality is not your subject))

@gabbar51ngh

2 ай бұрын

Not the first time he has made such outrageous claims. He reads random popbooks and makes assumption. I mostly follow him because of the discourse and topics. He's unable to stick to one subject and research it deeply.

@user-yc5um2pl5v

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, those were embarrassing claims, don't like to think he's for real with them as he's usually so penetrating on social issues.

@wayhome5

Ай бұрын

the point should be that in western europe dictatorships are either episodes or they interleave with other systems while in Russia from the start till today till the the forseeable future there are no episodes of non-dictatorships taking place, and here it is unique

@FADNaR

27 күн бұрын

@@gabbar51ngh one way or another, we can consider this a schizo run. but you can still find interesting dependencies and data from him, if you don't dig into the details and his personal attitude to communism or something else for the sake of the big picture. We'll make a discount.

Agreed for instance upper and lower Egypt were totally different and had different Gods.

0:21 this somehow not only perfectly sums up russian history but also how most people probably saw the russian kid in their school.

Thank you for the video

Who else came here to ask where did the Incel Revolution video go? I was half way through when it got removed.

Do the Imperium of Man.

@retineyzer1670

2 ай бұрын

This video is about emerging Imperium of Man lmao

@Narvaljodchik

2 ай бұрын

Seconded

@KaleKutter

2 ай бұрын

Nah bro we all know how that fake dune rip off works

@Chaldon-hl6yk

2 ай бұрын

W40k factions: - Imperium of Mankind - Russia; - Eldar - European Union; - Dark Eldar - Great Britain; - Chaos - USA; - Orcs - countries of the Arab world; - Tyranids - China; - Necrons - Japan; - Tau Empire - India.

@Honkious5824

2 ай бұрын

@@Chaldon-hl6yk I would put the Arabs as the Necrons, they have infighting, but not in the barbaric way the orcs have, no civilisation has that (that's why it's called 𝗰𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹isation).

I was going to workout for the first time but can't miss a new vid

Next Video "How Incels will revive Russian Civilization"

@user-md2io4fe1p

2 ай бұрын

Смерть вагинокапиталистам!!!

@mr_quasterhopper

2 ай бұрын

Don't leave out weebs and furies from the equation!

@JosephCummington

2 ай бұрын

Billions must rebuild the Empire

Russians are good at chess because.... what else is there to do during long winters? 😂

@chongqingcapybara1306

2 ай бұрын

ice hockey？

@user-yc5um2pl5v

2 ай бұрын

seggs?

@neilreynolds3858

12 күн бұрын

Screw

hey did ur most recent vid just get striked?

Taiga uninhabitable? I disagree. I've been grown and raised in it. It's habitable. Only there's one growing season so you have to store grain instead of using it all at once.

American with Russian/Eastern European heritage here, you did a swell job. I can nitpick and say some things, but I can't dislike. I really appreciate honesty on this topic, and actually comprehension, not simply "understanding". One thing though: It's Volgograd, not Stalingrad. I got a good laugh out of that. The naming war in the ongoing Russo-Ukraine War is also hilarious, because the naming patterns are contradictory to both sides.

@zombopanda

2 ай бұрын

What's with the name war?

@TaylorWilmes

2 ай бұрын

Your comment is cringe and doesn’t make any sense.

@Poctyk

2 ай бұрын

@@zombopanda Identity markers. Ukraine wants to change names of cities/streets to either pre soviet (example Bakhmut) or new (city of Dnipro), Russia want to return to the Soviet idols.

The incel video is now missing ! It was my favorite!

There is little to no collectivism in russia. It is EXTREMELY individualistic right now with anyone but your closest friends and family being outsiders not to be trusted. Don't listen the nonsense russian government is spreading about traditional values and collectivism.

@0120130140130122

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I got a good laugh out of collectivism claims

@user-yc5um2pl5v

2 ай бұрын

As a Russian, that's true - both sadly and thankfully.

@daniilKRasnov

Ай бұрын

you are right about individualism, but I haven't heard any claim from russian government that russian society is collectivistic from. Usually it comes from the west, and this is because majority of people in the west (video's author incldued) know very little about Russia

I searched “Thrones of Decay” and this video was the tenth search result

21:56 You finally cited Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson), one of my favorite books besides Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond) and Clash of Civilizations (Samuel P. Huntington). You already cited the latter two books in previous vdeos. I am so glad you will return to making civilization videos because this genre, along with your alternate history videos, are my favorite Whatifalthist videos. Here is my wishlist for the remaining civilizations: Mesoamerican Civilization Andean Civilization (I am a Peruvian-American. This video should not stop with the Spanish conquest because Andean cultures are very much alive and well. Quechua is the most spoken indigenous language in the Americas, with 7 million speakers (more than Danish or Slovak speakers). It should also cover the emperience of Quechua and Aymara peoples under the Spanish empire and Hispanic republics, and rise of indigenism/Andean socialist with Evo Morales and Pedro Castillo.) Sahelian Civilization (Please make a separate Sahel video instead of lumping it in with the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Sahel had a much longer history of state-formation compared to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. It has also been an interconnected cultural sphere even before Islam) Sub-Saharan African Civilization (Emphasize the linguistic and genetic diversity, the relative lack of pre-colonial state-formation, Coastal West Africa, African Great Lakes, Kongo, Zulu, European colonial experience, Christianization, explanation of post-colonial common themes of civil wars/coups/democratization, explanation for the region's relative poverty. Sub-Saharan Africa is increasingly resembling a new "civilization", European languages of English, French and Portuguese filling the role of Latin in the West, Arabic in the Islamic world, Sanskrit in ancient India, or Chinese in pre-modern East Asia.) Ethiopian Civilization (Separate due to its 3000 year history, 3rd century AD adoptation of Christianity, its unique Coptic-based Orthodox Church, and its resistance to being colonized). Jewish Civilization (Start with Biblical Israel, then proceed to the Babylonian Captivity, Cyrus freeing the Jews, the Hasmonean and Herodian Kingdoms, the expulsion from Judea by Romans and subsequent Jewish diaspora, experience of Jews in medieval and early modern Europe, differences between Adhkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, mention of other Jews such as Beta Israel (Ethiopia) and Cochin Jews (south India), experience of Jews in Islamic Civilization, tge Spanish Inquisition, 19th century modernity affects on Jewish life and secularization, Jewish philosophers and scientists, Zionism, the founding of Israel, and post-1948 Israeli history) Persian Civilization (Not just ancient/Zoroastrian Persian Empires, but also the cultural influence of Persian-speaking Muslim Empires in Central and South Asia). Tibetan Civilization Japanese Civilization

I disagree with the Slav-slave etymology more in line with Sklabenoi, and also with the emphasis of Norsemen on the generation of that population too.

Where is the young men rebel video uploaded on April 9th?

@The_Comedian556

2 ай бұрын

Its on the wayback machine

@andylu6150

2 ай бұрын

How to access? What the heck is a Wayback machine??

@ahmedinetall9626

2 ай бұрын

@@andylu6150 Manually copy and paste the link, the video is there

@The_Comedian556

2 ай бұрын

@@andylu6150 1. Google "wayback machine" 2. Copy paste the link from his channel

We're eating good this week bros

This is the best of your last 3 imo bro

Do Ethiopian civilization.

@NorthPoleSun

2 ай бұрын

yessir, muh brotha

@danshakuimo

2 ай бұрын

He said he was going to do it a long time ago I think, though this is not the first time I thought that and couldn't find him saying it in the old videos. Mandela effect is real. But I always imagined he said that in a vid where he introduced Orthodox Civilization and that Ethiopia needs its own vid.

My guy drops two vids so close to one another. One before and after my birthday, lucky me 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

The word Slavs does not come from "slavery". It's a derivation from slovo ("word/letter"), originally denoting "people who speak (the same language)", meaning "people who understand one another".

Excellent job

Could you please reupload "The Coming Incel Revolution"?

"Slavs from word Slave" - man, are you serious? Not to mention that in that time there was no word "slave" among neither swedish, nor slav population, from which we can trace direct correlation, but more over, Romans the one who calls barbarians on the east of germany and nort of daccia "Sklavs" or "Sklavens", by the name of they'r tribe.

Hey WIAH, I'm currently studying for a history degree and love watching your videos, at 25:40 you mention how russia has called itself the third rome, or a continuation of the first roman empire from byzantium, which I have such a surface level knowledge of but did known this before watching the vid. If you made a video on how this came to be i think itd be really cool, i should do some self research on it but its a really interesting concept us westerners dont usually think about.

@user-lj5wy6rx3h

2 ай бұрын

Look for the youtube channel Apostolic Majesty. They have a series on Byzantium and Russia.

2 videos back to back!

Where did the Incel Revolution video go?

@servantofthealmighty4701

2 ай бұрын

He deleted it, I didnt see it either

@servantofthealmighty4701

2 ай бұрын

Or it got reported into oblivion, that could be probable as well, I hope he addresses it if thats the case

@The_Comedian556

2 ай бұрын

Wayback machine bro, its there

@ICMFX

2 ай бұрын

Jewtube. Goes to show they are afraid, and know the revolution will come.

@Shadowwalker1717

2 ай бұрын

YT deleted it

Two in two days! Awesome! Thanks!

Wake up guys, Whatifalthist has dropped a video! [Insert funny-catchy phrase]

That ending statement is going to make a lot of war hawks angry, lol.

Would be cool if you talked about the Caucasus

@LeadLeftLeon

2 ай бұрын

Chechens the Russian Empire’s Special DLC Character Pack. Pure White Muslims

@nsdapcommunism2780

2 ай бұрын

@@LeadLeftLeonthey are white but still behave like blacks

2 uploads in 2 days 🗿🗿🗿

3:42 am.I am watching Rudyard video, guess i would sleep later.

Love your stuff Rudyard 👍

Remember when whatifalthist actually made alternate history content ? Pepperidge farms remembers

@danielsurvivor1372

2 ай бұрын

I forgoe ;(

@albert_obey3151

2 ай бұрын

It would be cool if he still did that, but to be honest, I enjoy the new content more

Did they delete his video about the incel revolution?

Great job as always my friend! I have some suggestions: 1- Please put the KZread adds only at the start and end of the videos as they are really big distractions and mess with the continuity of the video. Also they are annoying. I know you have to make money but your videos will be flawless without adds in between. 2- Please also make a video about Iranian/Persian empire. As an Iranian I think we cannot fully understand both western and eastern civilizations without understanding the Persian culture and its vast influence on other cultures through trade,art,war and religion. Thanks for your great work and helping us better understanding the world around us.

@user-yc5um2pl5v

2 ай бұрын

Agree on the 1st point.

“Horse pirates.” Awesome.