Imagine being such a brutal ruler that you make the European colonial powers beg you to stop

@krystina662

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking so too, what do you do to prompt such response. Also worth to mention they laid down the groundwork for the future Rwandan genocide to some extent

@Martypuppet

2 жыл бұрын

@@krystina662 he forced the woman in the Congo to behead there male relatives or spouse and boil the skin off the flesh so he can study there skull for a theory that was wrong. He also chopped off hands. Gave the Congo bullets and if they missed there target or wasted a bullet. He would have the killed or mutilated them. When a Congo person killed another Congo person, they were forced to bring back there hands and later testicle to prove that they killed or at least mutilated them.

@rehanmalik5683

2 жыл бұрын

I M P O S S I B L E

@rimabros98

2 жыл бұрын

@Nogent yeah but it wasn’t as severe as the Belgians did it.

@UwU-xk5cx

2 жыл бұрын

Portugal:

Portugal with 5 million people sitting in the corner: Y-yeah guys our population is sooo big...

@klaus2913

4 жыл бұрын

Main difference: Belgium was founded in 1830. Portugal in just a mere 700 years before that.

@UwU-xk5cx

4 жыл бұрын

@@klaus2913 I know, also portugal was the second colonizer ever, but my pointbis that they compared the population in the video

@ThePostalGril

4 жыл бұрын

@@UwU-xk5cx no they wasn't. empires have been colonising for literally thousands of years before portugal even existed how can they be second lol

@UwU-xk5cx

4 жыл бұрын

caitlín forester empires had been existed for years but colonial empires hadn’t, (unless you count Carthage and Phoenicia as colonial empires, which they arguably were depending on what you consider a colony) Portugal was one of the firsts to do it

@ThePostalGril

4 жыл бұрын

@@UwU-xk5cx o that make sense, that would be the romans then the first colony in the world was england, england was known as 'colinae' by the romans, which is where we get teh word colony from now :) the first would be i suppose the akkadians, or maybe the greeks, even the egyptians were colonising thousands of years ago

Leopold: Will you give me the Congo? Great Powers: To civilise it and make life better for the natives? Leopold: Yeees... *hand-chopping time*

@Yengozi

4 жыл бұрын

Kira would like to know your location

@user-xw5xo3bv1n

4 жыл бұрын

@@Yengozi is this a Jo-Jo reference?!

@fatiazizi8825

3 жыл бұрын

Doctor Kongo would like to know your location

@alvydasjokubauskas2587

3 жыл бұрын

First i though hand-clapping, but hand chopping is very clever indeed :D

@yersipest

3 жыл бұрын

actually cuts off hands like a boss

Capetown to Cairo would have been one epic railroad.

@kvandermeersch5753

4 жыл бұрын

L Monk Now that is what I call *T R A N S C O N T I N E N T A L*

@oliviercourmont5689

4 жыл бұрын

It happened. After WWI, Britain got Tanzania. That was the “missing chunck” it it was built. There’s a beautiful bridge over the Victoria Falls ;)

@dragonitzgame

4 жыл бұрын

@@oliviercourmont5689 In fact... The railroad was never completed.

@JonatasAdoM

4 жыл бұрын

@@dragonitzgame Because the colonies gained their Independence.

@theyoshi202

4 жыл бұрын

@JonatasAdoM It wasn’t because of that, it was because Britain was broke from WW1 and WW2

Leopold II was like "bingo bongo gimme that Congo."

@-et37-

4 жыл бұрын

YES

@doctorx2105

4 жыл бұрын

Leopold. Leopold never changes.

@pointlessopinion611

4 жыл бұрын

Never change

@garrettallen7427

4 жыл бұрын

Congo Natives be like: “Bingo bango bongo I need to leave the Congo NOW NOW NOW NOW!”

@garabic8688

4 жыл бұрын

British start considering taking the Congo *Belgians flirt with Germany for protection against Britain* British: surprised pikachu face

Everyone else: He died History Matters: He has a case of the *D E A D S*

@georgeamesfort3408

3 жыл бұрын

He shook off his mortal coil

@Mikebumpful

3 жыл бұрын

Another one from another episode: “He found himself slightly dead”.

@Belgianmapping1567

3 жыл бұрын

He came down with the dead

@manicdgr

3 жыл бұрын

He came down with a case of mortality

@MrMaro1995

2 жыл бұрын

He was a little bit assassinated

Leopold saying "we all win" with a Congolese man rolling his eyes in he background is perfect

Basically Belgium was the little guy playing out the big guys against each other to get what it wants. Smart move.

@DomWeasel

4 жыл бұрын

Until, you know, the First World War and the Germans invaded to get to France... (Unless you were being sarcastic)

@wachtwoorden2

4 жыл бұрын

@@DomWeasel That has absolutely nothing to do with this?

@DomWeasel

4 жыл бұрын

@@wachtwoorden2 Really? You don't think the Belgian strategy of playing the big guys against each other didn't backfire when the big guys later used their country as one big battlefield?

@wachtwoorden2

4 жыл бұрын

@@DomWeasel exactly

@sabercat2178

4 жыл бұрын

Asshole move

I'm Belgian, and at school we are taught about how Leopold II got the congo (and the atrocities that came with it) and that he gave he to Belgium after, however I never learned about the crisis that came with the british and the germans. Great video!

@cant_handle_deeznuts

2 жыл бұрын

same, sadly it was more focused on the atrocities committed and what Leopold built with the money he gained from Congo in Belgium and not the global picture

@bendover4668

2 жыл бұрын

I’m from the Congo area and colonialism isn’t as black and white as it’s portrayed. It helped develop civilization. Sure modern education ignores this but that doesn’t means it’s true.

@gutiwalravens

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Belgium as well but studied in the country side (and yes, maybe that's the reason) but we were never explained much about what happened a lot of bad things of the colonialism were explained but the main focus in our history class were always about Europe and Europe only. How the first and second WW happened how the people suffered and the jews were always the focus. Of course the jews treatment must be told but they had time to go about the blacks and even other mistreated people however they didn't do it. To this day I still wonder why they didn't and if it changed since. Of course, once in university all of this is better explained, but it's almost like it requires maturity or whatever sorts of thing to be able to handle truth. My case is maybe one of a few but still

@gutiwalravens

2 жыл бұрын

@@bendover4668 Yes of course once there is money to be made they will build the infrastructure for it and in the end the people will benefit but this kind of capitalist way of thinking bring improvement but does it compensates the downside? They should have educated the people at least even if it's a minority. However it's true that Belgium went with the flow of the neighboring countries even if it did sometimes worse nobody was right

@salahabdalla368

2 жыл бұрын

@@bendover4668 Compared to UK and France, Belgium didnt offer much

1:07 The one guy with the sign that says "Anyone but France" has me cracking up.

@scotandiamapping4549

2 жыл бұрын

I'll bet he was the Brittish representative

@Emilio2798

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't me!

@tonyz7216

2 жыл бұрын

Always keep in mind History Matters is British

@pieceofschmidtgamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@scotandiamapping4549 Yep. Britain can't let the French have nice things. Because they're French and thus smell.

@USSFFRU

2 жыл бұрын

Britain is alright to give it to some Landlocked Nation in exchange it isn't France

I love how "Empire" went from "Owning a huge amount of land with lots of development and approval from your head of religion" to "Owning even a single piece of land overseas"

@noone3272

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It was actually leopod s personal land-70 times larger than Belgium itself

@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mrcoffe-xw8gz He specifically says that it went from owning a lot of land to owning land overseas, this transition happened basically after the Napoleonic Wars

@siyacer

2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what's happened to the USA lol

@FartCoffin

2 жыл бұрын

That one piece of land being the largest part of africa

@DragonTheOne

Жыл бұрын

So the usa is an empire

The shot of the Belgian guy holding up a "We All Win" sign while the native stands there with narrowed eyes is just great.

Belgium really just pulled a pro gamer move on France and England

@nitat

4 жыл бұрын

You have to act smart if you're not strong enough.

@argenisjimenez8118

4 жыл бұрын

He focused his Diplomacy tree on that.

@garabic8688

4 жыл бұрын

Belgium rolled a 20 in intelligence

@niluscvp

4 жыл бұрын

Àlso mutilation 99

@blacksciencechocolate8984

4 жыл бұрын

Diplomacy is so important in Belgium than it was the country with the more ambassades around the world between the second half of 1800's and first decades of 1900's. Brussels(Belgium capital) is still today the second of the most important plages of the world diplomacy. Belgium by being the capital of the European Union(Belgium is one of these 6 fondators membership), the central place of NATO(its 2 headquarters are in Belgium), fondator membership of OECD and WTO, is assured to be one of the country who count in the world.

“Hey congolese man, great job gathering that rubber, high five!! ... ow wait.”

@CommanderStupid

4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@lukezuzga6460

4 жыл бұрын

Cold Bro, cold.

@freddy4603

4 жыл бұрын

thank God not many people from the Congo are subscribed to this channel XD

@legislativequeery

4 жыл бұрын

Too soon!

@cannonball666

4 жыл бұрын

"It's cool, bro. I can still low five with my foot"

(Whispers) 0:09 *“they never got e t h i o p i a.”*

@vondondolo1582

4 жыл бұрын

"they never got t h a i l a n d"

@Evzone1821

4 жыл бұрын

C. C. A. (Whispers) *”they eventually got e t h i o p i a.”*

@kaitsar8984

4 жыл бұрын

@C. C. A. its a joke in reference to "the history of the world I guess" by Bill Wurtz.

@chaosXP3RT

4 жыл бұрын

Or Liberia

@JonatasAdoM

4 жыл бұрын

Still you hear everywhere that Ethiopia is the "African nation that avoided colonization" Maybe because it was called Abyssinia, so they consider it a different country.

Germany invades Belgium World: poor Belgium Congo: yay 😀🧨🧨

@michielp1922

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, the Congolese had to fight in Africa to, the Allies invaded German East Africa from Congo

@Ngabo3

4 жыл бұрын

After Belgium was invaded by Germany, The Belgian leadership set its capital in Congo and enrolled plus sending Congolese natives to fight the Germans in East africa german territories. Germans were defeated and part of their colony ( Rwanda and Burundi)was annexed to Belgium Congo!

@mrbrainbob5320

4 жыл бұрын

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Belgium treated them worst than the Germans

@DeusExDraconian

4 жыл бұрын

What's key to remember is that the Europeans probably treated them better than the Congolese treated themselves. It was men from the Congo, given guns and authority by the Belgian crown, who were doing all the killing and cutting off of hands.

@mtlicq

4 жыл бұрын

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan don't embarrass yourself there bob

One day I hope you win an Academy Award for animation or something. Your acceptance speech: "And a special thanks to, James Bissanett, Azzaca Flash, Partyboy Co..."

@Real_Tower_Pizza

3 жыл бұрын

There is actually mark H before partyboy :v

@vulpes7079

10 ай бұрын

I love how absolutely no one agrees on how to spell Bissonette

@stooge_mobile

10 ай бұрын

@@vulpes7079 Is that, like, a small bison?

Can't you do a 10 minute special episode here and there?

@feelsgoodman9751

4 жыл бұрын

or 10 minute episodes like before

@perfectlyfine1675

4 жыл бұрын

Listen, he doesn't want to do it, if you like the number "10" rather than smart content then watch bland trending herpes, they are all 10 minutes because of how ads work.

@sparrow7625

4 жыл бұрын

@@perfectlyfine1675 mate im not ordering him to do that. Im saying IF HE CAN. ive been watching him since the history of england. And a big supporter but i kind of miss those episodes.

@dday881

4 жыл бұрын

samurai deadass It’s probably advantageous for him to do the shorter more unique topic specific episodes, there are plenty of higher production value KZread channels that do the 10 minute explanations for things. Doing these shorter episodes probably increases the channels exposure (algorithm wise) and allows him to answer more unique questions people probably don’t think about much but are interested in. Smart adjustment on his part

@feelsgoodman9751

4 жыл бұрын

@@perfectlyfine1675 Well in my opinion even 10 minute videos were overly simplified but atleast they were interesting and i could watch them while having a meal or binge watch for hours, 3 minute videos aren't satisfying at all imo

I love how Britain and France's policy towards Germany from Germany's creation until the Cold War has essentially been "Germany is not allowed to have any friends"

@welshlout3400

Ай бұрын

Not quite the case with Britain. There had been general support there for a unified Germany for decades for the advantages it could offer as a strong continental counterbalance to France and Russia, who were seen as Britain's chief rivals at the time. Plus Britain and Prussia had a long history of allegiance along those lines, so politicians in Britain never really considered the potential threat Germany could have to Britain's own position and influence. Wasn't until a few years after unification that Britain noticed Germany wasn't interested in playing along.

Everyone: We want it Britain (I think): Anyone but France Sounds about right for us

@appleslover

4 жыл бұрын

It was Germany at the time (the British and the french united against Germany)

@jamiengo2343

4 жыл бұрын

apple's lover fair, though I swear that’s Otto von Bismarck in White with a “we want it” sign.

@samarkand1585

4 жыл бұрын

@@appleslover at the time the brits were diplomatically closer to Germany than France

@logoncal3001

4 жыл бұрын

@@appleslover Until the very close end of the Belle Epoque, Germany and Britain were very close, thanks to its royal ties

@samarkand1585

4 жыл бұрын

@Anglo Commando nah, blame his ambition to build a powerful navy which scared the Brits away and into the Franco-Russian alliance

Congo: exists King leopold: it's free real estate

@dajjal3049

4 жыл бұрын

Saif Az King leopold: it’s free state

@Koala1203

4 жыл бұрын

King L"EA"pold II

@mickel1634

4 жыл бұрын

never has a meme been this true

@jurisprudens

4 жыл бұрын

There was no Congo before the CFS. There was a Kingdom of Kongo, but it was in the modern Angola's boundaries.

@half-hazard8903

4 жыл бұрын

Only time this meme actually works now.

1:08 "Anyone but France" It's the British I suppose

@user_698

3 жыл бұрын

Or the Germans

@appleslover

3 жыл бұрын

@@user_698 it was surely Britain since they fought *EVERYWHERE* in Europe(obviously),india, the americas and Africa Germany joined the game too late *800 years* late

@scotandiamapping4549

2 жыл бұрын

@@user_698 No the German guy is the one dressed in white.

Belgium had 6.5 million people, which compared to other nations wasn't very much. Portugal: *You didn't see anything*

2:17 "He came down with the case of the deads."

I might notice that the one of the main reasons for the Berlin Conference was that when Stanley the explorer started to create settlements on the Congo River, Portugal denouced it as it had claimed the Congo Basin as its own.

Nah Belgium didn't have an empire it had the Congo *free* state Like North Korea isn't bad it's called the Democratic Republic of Korea

@the12th68

4 жыл бұрын

ThomasTurnipples69 the Congo free state was Leopolds Not belgiums.Belgian owned belgian Congo,Rwanda,Burundi and a small part of a city in China.

@20thReality

4 жыл бұрын

eXcUsE Me? it's the DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA

@yarpen26

4 жыл бұрын

Congo being designated free meant its international neutrality, not the way it handed internal politics.

@zuboy4272

4 жыл бұрын

@Sunlightshadow BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE SOO HAPPY , THEY DONT NEED TO CHANGE THE LEADER , SOO GOOD I AM FROM NORTH KOREA AND LEADER IS VERY GOOD !!

@JBinero

4 жыл бұрын

@Sunlightshadow They can vote, but their vote doesn't meet democratic standards.

Came down with a case of the deads _thud_

Can you do a multi-part series of episodes on the Scramble for Africa and explain why each of the great nations got their respective shares of the continent?

Well when Europe is ruled by your cousins, it isn't a mystery how Leopold got the Congo.

@yardriapublica6493

4 жыл бұрын

Leopold II*

@jwil4286

2 жыл бұрын

so was WWI just a massive family feud?

@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595

2 жыл бұрын

@@jwil4286 Yes, Nicholas II, George V and Wilhelm II were all cousins I'm pretty sure

@jwil4286

2 жыл бұрын

@@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595 but to respond to @Bebos's comment, was Leopold also a cousin of theirs?

@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595

2 жыл бұрын

@@jwil4286 Probably a cousin of the kings at the time, or some other distant family, a lot of monarchy at the time tended to be related due to constant intermarriages between long-standing dynaties

Last time I was this early James Bizzonet was the only name ten minute history siad at the end of his videos. Ps: I don't know how to spell

@giovannithiene8744

4 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahahna

@allanjbucknol4414

4 жыл бұрын

Noice

Me: *reads the title* Also me: Ahh shit *Thinks of Congo Massacre* here we go again

@Lugrer3113

4 жыл бұрын

Morala je i Belgija malo zaronit.

@neptuneseye7832

4 жыл бұрын

Samo cekam da dođe video Zašto je Jugoslavija propala da bude svađe i pizdarija

"Compared to the other nations who grabbed chunks of africa wasn't very much" Portugal: Laughs in 5 million

@marcelocampos9197

Жыл бұрын

Guess it's more like cries in 5 million.

@BRUH-lx3jv

Жыл бұрын

@@marcelocampos9197 No it's laugh, because having a colony in Africa and South America at the same time isn't cheap and hard to manage if you lack people to manage it and yet they're able managed it.

@metalswifty23

Жыл бұрын

They had been a colonial power for a long time, though (they were the first), and had built up their empire from a time where all the European nations had more comparable populations.

@anassaahirhuq

Жыл бұрын

@@BRUH-lx3jv They lost Brazil in 1822 and had nothing in South America by that point.

They weren't an empire You need 1000 development for that smh

@dickweed4331

4 жыл бұрын

Eu4

@kaitsar8984

4 жыл бұрын

glad I got the reference, however, I don't consider this to make Belgium an "Empire" as far as I am concerned you have to have borders that extend a much larger size and has to have a vast multitude of different cultures/ethnicities within said Empire.

@littlechemie5425

4 жыл бұрын

@@kaitsar8984 Kongo was diverse enough

@dragan3659

4 жыл бұрын

Shadow Emperor Byzantium is also an Empire albeit only 2 provinces large

@thezipcreator

4 жыл бұрын

@@dragan3659 3* Morea has 2 provinces

2:41 "Cape Town to Cairo, yo''

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!

hey thanks a lot for uploading i rly like ur vids

That’s great and all but what about the time Liechtenstein was thicc and owned castles in Czechia

@varana

4 жыл бұрын

It was not the country of Liechtenstein that owned castles in Czechia, it was the Liechtenstein family. They owned castles and lands all over the Holy Roman and Austro-Hungarian Empire and they _also_ bought a small, mostly mountainous strip of land so they could call themselves princes of the HRE. It just so happened that all that remained of their possessions was that insignificant little bit of land.

@appleslover

4 жыл бұрын

You mean Czech republic (a joke)

@alexanderchristopher6237

4 жыл бұрын

That's feudalism 101, Kim. Your family is related to some dude's family and the deed for the castle fell to you or you bought it personally. Royal wealth at the time was personal property of the king. Do you not know this? *Looks at news of Kim's fleet of luxury cars as his people are starving* Oh wait, I think you do understand.

2:59 Omg That is hilarious

@arandomyoutubeaccount3166

3 жыл бұрын

And the worried look on Wilhelm's face, too!

1:30 King Leopold of Belgium: "We all win." Congolese guy: "SRSLY"

@kinyodas

4 жыл бұрын

It's the little things that make this channel great.

0:24 Portugal: *HEAVILY BREATHING*

As a Belgian I approve this video, very well explained thank you

@shanesocial7339

3 жыл бұрын

i am from the netherlands :) so benelux brothers

@galactorsus_i.n.c

2 жыл бұрын

got my approval too lol (also from Belgium)

He, not Belgium, he 😂 Great

While I’m sure it’s a massive amount more work-this style of video would be awesome as LONG videos in depth about these topics. Awesome video as always!

Interesting! Thanks for the history w. animation!

UK: We won't acknowledge the Congo as a Belgian colony! Belgium: Hey, Germany! UK: Sssshhh, alright....

I love the René Magritte painting in the endcard

I enjoy all your videos, please make em a little longer.

I really appreciate the switch in format you made a while ago. They short videos are amazing.

@mikkokivisto4414

4 жыл бұрын

More videos.

Could Belgium being the 2nd strongest industrial country at that time be of influence in this ? And also Léopold II worked with Stanley and did the Brussels Geographic Conference in 1876, paving the way to the Berlin Conference of 1884

“Give it to anyone but france” got me laughing

I’ve got to say the video ideas are amazing

Belgium: * has a colony with 6.5 mil pop in home nation* Portugal: hold my beer

@a2falcone

4 жыл бұрын

Portugal had been in Africa since the 15th century, though. They called dibs first.

@bobbybrazier105

4 жыл бұрын

@@a2falcone ik it's a joke 4 the small brains, u shouldn't over think it

@haitamc5611

4 жыл бұрын

Brazil was also part of portugal and that had a lot more people.

0:42 These "well" moments are hilarious XD

So basically Belgium got an empire in the same way that it got the EU capital: because the major European powers didn't want each other to have it, so they gave it to inconsequential Belgium

@oenrn

7 ай бұрын

That is literally the history of Belgium itself: the country was formed so that the French, Dutch and Germans couldn't get hold of those lands.

@mrbisshie

5 ай бұрын

Leopold was probably like "Holy shit! I can't believe that worked! I can't believe they actually said yes!". lol

At 1:50 you can see his arm shorter since the hand chopping happened

Love this series

I always love the face animations in these videos.

@bayupriyawaskita2222

4 жыл бұрын

Francisco Arboleda soon 😑

@arandomyoutubeaccount3166

3 жыл бұрын

@@bayupriyawaskita2222 Silly man😐

An important aspect of the explanation you have missed is that Belgium being the first country on the European continent to experience its industrial revolution, it had managed to be the third largest economy in the world.

@Pawn2e4

4 жыл бұрын

Man, we should go back to a time when economy and country size had an inverse correlation

@morisan42

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pawn2e4 It wasn't for very long. Although it's worth pointing out that there isn't a perfect correlation between population and economy; look at the difference between Brazil and the UK or France for example

@swamidude2214

2 жыл бұрын

To bad after that they never upgraded their factories or roads. Today crossed Belgium again and its not looking pretty, allthough the nature is. However they need some serious infrastructure investments and a thing called city planning.

0:51 I love the 88's around the portrait's eyes.

I love how when they all said I want it someone holds up a sign saying “anyone but France”

I always wonder, why did the Congolese only Speak french and not also Flemish (Flanders dutch)

@Deelom100

4 жыл бұрын

Because Flemish (Dutch) was a peasant language for the goverment of Belgium at that time and speaking French was a royal, classy language ;)

@MChagall

4 жыл бұрын

Because Leopold spoke French

@sol2544

4 жыл бұрын

@@Deelom100 Ah, so the dutch had a weird case of the Normanism

@seneca983

4 жыл бұрын

Why don't they speak Walloon?

@Alex-qf9ry

4 жыл бұрын

@@seneca983 Wallon is basically French with a belgium accent

And then, a few short years later, that whole "not letting the Germans go through their territory in case of war" thing blew up in everyone's faces, especially Belgium's.

Belgium turned out to be a good 6d chess player

@Eugensson

4 жыл бұрын

Belgium just pulled the trick that was pulled on Belgium by England, France, Austria and Prussia during Treaty of London 1839. History of Belgium 101: Belgium is there because England, France, Austria and Prussia wanted the Territory of modern Belgium, in order to stop fighting they decided to make it an independent kingdom. Belgium is playing the 6D chess ever since, now by having the de-facto capital of EU.

@yarpen26

4 жыл бұрын

​@@Eugensson It's kind of funny how the country perhaps most closely resembling a stereotypical African nation in Europe (no clear ethnic/linguistic majority, no genuine history as a separate entity, created only to accomodate the political needs of great powers of the world) ended up the most notorious African colonizer.

@anthonyc4138

4 жыл бұрын

@@yarpen26 African countries have ethnic what the fuck are you thinking

@MDP1702

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Eugensson Belgium wasn't created by the great powers, why do people keep thinking that. The great powers ensured in 1815 that the low countries where one large bufferstate (the kingdom of the netherlands). After the Belgium revolt most major countries were too busy or just didn't want to interfere. France used the revolt as an opportunity to get a weaker northern neighbour (and ironically this played out bad for them in ww1), however they didn't create Belgium. In the end the British even forced the rebels to give parts back to the dutch in exchange for Belgium being recognised by them. In the end Belgium wasn't a created state, people just think that because there are two large language groups that don't look eye to eye about everything.

@MDP1702

3 жыл бұрын

@@yarpen26 To say there isn't a shared history is completely wrong. Neither was it created for political needs. Only on the language are you correct.

3:06 This begs the question: what if Britain never recognized the annexation of the Congo?

@michielp1922

4 жыл бұрын

WW 1 would have been a lot different, probably ending in a quick German victory over France

@anthonyc4138

4 жыл бұрын

@Anglo Commando lol

@fulcrum2951

4 жыл бұрын

No

@MDP1702

3 жыл бұрын

@@michielp1922 Why? What does Congo have to do with WW1?

@michielp1922

3 жыл бұрын

@@MDP1702 Belgium would ally with Germany and just allow him to pas through its land, so Germany would have a quick victory over france

It's amazing how many historical figures seem to end up coming down with a case of the deads.

I love this channel

The way this channel explains one’s expiration date is a mere fucking goldmine.

“The next her he came down with the case of the dead’s” Never stop making you great death jokes

1913: Belgium: Hey Germany, we are friends with France and Britain now, but I hope we can still be friends. :) 1 year later: Belgium: Why are our friendly German pals marching towards us with guns?

@deeros100

4 жыл бұрын

Technically, the original German plan wasn't to attack Belgium. They merely demanded access so they could march straight past the Maginot Line stating that Belgium ought be neutral over this and not interfere. Belgium denied access which caused the blitzkrieg to fail, sort of.

@paulh3917

4 жыл бұрын

@@deeros100 The Maginot Line didn't even exist during that time. The word "Blitzkrieg" is Nazi slang and used two decades later during the 2ww.

@deeros100

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulh3917 My mistake then. Although I do know that Germany didn't inted to fight Belgium and tried to circumvent the French defenses. Thought it was because of Maginot Line but it seems I was mistaken.

@MDP1702

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulh3917 We know what he meant, even before the maginot line, the Alsace-Lorraine region was not a place you'd want to invade through.

"He came down with a case of the deads" LOL I love the humor on this channel

Amazing video! Can you do one on Hungarian history? For example Mohács(1526) or the conquest of Hungary it would be amazing!

This is an amazing story. Just imagine if Belgium had allied with the Kaiserreich. I won't predict that alternate history, but, wow.

Bongo bongo, Leopold had fun in the Congo

@halthammerzeit

4 жыл бұрын

Cutting off all limbs of little child, because father was lazy at work - Leopold management lvl 300.

@leroiarouf1142

4 жыл бұрын

Leopold nerver go in Congo

@userWCFL

4 жыл бұрын

Hi

@robertm7971

4 жыл бұрын

@Rude Boy 77 Awww, nice try. Better luck next time! You almost made a sentence! We can almost understand you!!! If you're going to be a racist piece of shit, at least make sure you can speak the language you're using, otherwise you just look like a massive dumbass. Not that you didn't already. What the original commenter was doing is this crazy thing called "making a joke." You know; laugh, hahaha, funny words!! That means it was NOT meant to be taken seriously!! Meaning there was NO reason for your racist bullshit!! :DDD

@Malamockq

4 жыл бұрын

I see you proclaim you're a cuban american. Cubans often try to make racist and offensive remarks like yours to fit in with white people because you're ashamed of your race and your country of origin.

Btw, who's that sign-holding man that's in every video?

Art student from Belgium here. Just had to say that I love the background of the end screen.

Another very illuminating read on this topic: 'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

0:25 swizerland did not own savoy at any point in time

@KingKurotrol2000

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering why France's border with Switzerland was looking weird

@nikolaytsankov9066

4 жыл бұрын

They owned Savoy in Kaiserreich

@neptun6761

4 жыл бұрын

@@nikolaytsankov9066 thats not history its alt hist

@aidanator8008

4 жыл бұрын

Well in my EU4 game as Savoy the Swiss kicked my ass really hard and did, in fact, end up taking Savoy

@thelastprussian6491

3 жыл бұрын

The borderregion is part of the greater Liechtenstein Empire

The video seemed longer than 3:49, nice job!

could you do a video about the holy roman empire how it worked etc?

So Belgium did some serious jujitsu--leveraging its biggest weakness to beat its enemies. Its biggest weakness--it was a small country crammed in the middle of three great powers--France, UK and Germany. It got to keep its vast empire (the Congo is roughly 100x the size of Belgium) by threatening to ally with Germany against France and the UK. The two nations folded in exchange for Belgium keeping its empire. Wow. Good on Belgium for playing the game like a boss!

It's strange to imagine that the British had borders with Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, etc with British laws, defence and security forces, currency and official language, and the British monarch as the ruler of the British side of the border, while the other side had French, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese equivalents on the other side of the border. The national boundaries between say Mozambique and Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe (the ex British Nyasaland, Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia) were actually recognized and official boundaries between the United Kingdom and Portugal.. The border between British East Africa (Uganda Protectorate, Kenya Colony, Tanganyika Mandated Protectorate) had British territory adjacent to Belgian, German, Italian, etc territory. The same thing occurred in the British West Africa territories (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast and the Gambia) which were located next to various other European colonial territories.

Could you do a video on the boxer rebellion please?

The Congo Free State and its rubber production is a lot like Dr Seuss' The Lorax but with A LOT more severed hands.

Oh my god , I laughed my ass off when Leopold caught a case of the deads . So f'ing funny .

Belgium is one of my favorite former Spanish colonies.

@sanderd17

4 жыл бұрын

Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Austrian. We've been a colony more times than we had colonies.

@jeanbethencourt1506

4 жыл бұрын

@@sanderd17 Yes but Spain created the modern borders for Belgium when they reconquered it after it had broken away together with the Dutch Republic. This created the Spanish Netherlands(modern Belgium) as a completely separate entity from the Dutch Republic.

@Berstalin

4 жыл бұрын

Um you tend to forget we werent a colony of spain. The ruler of Spain was Charles V (Habsburg dynasty) and he was born in Ghent (Flanders-Belgium) and we were one of the ancestral lands of the Habsburgs (Habsburgs inherited the Duchy of Burgundy and controlled the Archduchy of Austria). He also was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, Naples and Northern Italy. And when his time on this earth was coming to an end he divided his Empire. So you got the Austrian Habsburg line who got the Holy Roman Empire but the ancestral Lands of the Lowcountries, Napels and Milan were were givin to his Son Filip II who also got the Spanish Empire. And thus we became part of the Spanish Empire not a colony. After the protestant revolts the lowcountries became independant a republic and protestant and Flanders remained loyal to our Flemish/Spanish Emperor and catholic. After the Spanish Habsburg Dynasty died out cause of inbreeding. In the succession war that followed. The Son of Louis XIV (Bourbon Dynasty) got the spanish Empire because they won that war and the Austrians gained control of Flanders.

@jeanbethencourt1506

4 жыл бұрын

@@Berstalin Charles was half Spanish by blood and crushed the Rebellion of Ghent demolishing a famous Belgian Abbey and replacing it with "The Spaniard's Castle". The rebellion ended with Spaniards in control as the Belgian ruling class. When the Pro-Spanish Charles died his son, Philip laid down the law in Belgium. And according to Venetians, Philip II a Spanish Habsburg, considered himself a _"Genuine Spaniard"._

@teghem6723

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeanbethencourt1506 Spain never conquered Belgium. Philip II inherited the territories from his father the emperor Charles V. Holland was also part of the so called Spanish Netherlands.

Hayden Christiansen (as Leopold II): “why don’t you just give me the Congo?” Natalie Portman (as rest of the European powers): “To civilise the region, and make life better for the Congolese, right? 😀” (Leopold II stares) “To civilise the region and make life better for the Congolese; right?!? 🧐” (Leopoldese staring intensifies)

Do you know when the 10 minute history videos will be coming back to the channel along with the shorter ones on small events?

King Leopold II is one of history's most notorious monsters.

@zimriel

8 ай бұрын

Because Hochschild slandered him.

@vercot7000

5 ай бұрын

@@zimriel No. If that were the case, then Vasina, Nziem, and van Reybrouck wouldn't have INDEPENDENTLY made studies aligning with Hochschild's views.

wowzers, this changes my perspective on the schleifen plan! For some reason, in all my previous reading and viewing no one has mentioned Belgium flirting with Germany

@alanpennie

Жыл бұрын

The Germans were quite surprised and upset when The Belgians decided to fight them rather than allowing their army to march through.

It’s not fully correct that every great power wanted the Congo. The British were lobbied heavily to set up a colony in the Congo but were reasonably disinterested beyond having it open for their trade (rather than having the protectionist French take over). They wanted Portugal to have it originally (due to their influence over Portugal at the time). I recommend Tim Jeal’s book ‘Stanley’ which goes into greater detail.

@alanpennie

Жыл бұрын

Yep. The Brits backed Portugal here to console them for not getting the southern African real estate they wanted.

You make good vid about home country, i like and subscribe. Thanks

As a Belgian, I was sadly never told specifically of those atrocities at school. (That could possibly be because we had months of teachers strikes back in 1990-1991 when 20th century was the history program for my age) . I dare say that most of us aren't proud of what we did but I'm not sure many of us know the details of the Leopold II period. Leopold II is still however sometimes referred to as the "roi batisseur" (building king) as he took upon himself, using an alias, to help the city of Brussels and we wouldn't have has much greenery in Brussels if not for him. (Just explaining the image he had and still has to some extent). I did learn about Belgium's (and US) involvement in Patrice Lumumba's killing after the independence and the amputations back in Leopold's II time and the division of the Rwanda people into hutus and tutsies... But I don't remember how I learned about it. Any younger compatriots can tell if they have learned about this at school ?

@mcmilk107

4 жыл бұрын

Philippe Nachtergal of corse not history is written by the victors take nazism vs communism for example both are disgusting ideology’s but nazism is focused tremendously in most schooling systems and communism is not and that’s because Germany lost the war. 😂

@deniskerckhofs5936

4 жыл бұрын

This darker part of our history was covered in schools in the German speaking Community of Belgium. I've also heard from many other Belgians that they learned about it in school as well.

@chickenhunter4694

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, from the flemish part of belgium My class covert it multiple times in school so i think it is widly known in the younger generations

@gggggggggggggggggg161

4 жыл бұрын

​@@mcmilk107 The reason is that fascism is inherently evil so you have to teach about it, but if teenagers would understand communism they would become communists so can't teach that ;)

@hephaestus9901

4 жыл бұрын

@@gggggggggggggggggg161 a wild bolshevik has appeard

"Behold". I died laughing.

2:17 '...he came down with a case of the deads'. 🤣

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Imagine how great it would have been if Britain had got that part of Congo we'd wanted. We could have built a railway from Alexandria all the way down to Port Elizabeth or Cape Town.

@JackHankeAnd

Жыл бұрын

Shame this never happened. Would almost certainly have been good for most Africans.

Germany: congo is mine UK: no, it's mine France: no, it's mine Belgium: how about give it to me UK: ok but trade the natural resources to all of us. France: yay now everyone's happy Congo: am I a joke to you?

I believe if Belgium was completely occupied by Germany in WWI, the Belgium government would settle in the DRC (the big Congo) analogically the settlement of the Portuguese government in Brazil during the Napoleonic wars.

@Suksass

6 ай бұрын

I believe there would be no world war 1 and 2 if Prusia was destroyed right after Germans ethnically cleansed Prussia.

Kelly Moneymaker wasn't mentioned at the end credits on this one :(

“If Belgium allied with Germany, Germany will get a way to France. So, to keep Germany away, British agreed with them” Germany in 1914: I would do it anyway *Sad Belgian Noises