“Your worst year is someone else’s best year.” Pretty sure nobody’s having their best year in 2020

@paulaaquino

4 жыл бұрын

Toilet paper manufacturers disagree with you

@Alex-ji6lg

4 жыл бұрын

*Mask companies laughing in the corner*

@Matthewgb204

4 жыл бұрын

Zombie Man I’m not having the best but it’s my top 5 best (I’m 14)

@manicreblex3949

4 жыл бұрын

this is my best year for me. i'm doing three hour long home schooling and spending the rest of my time playing roblox or watching youtube

@jw-vs7wh

4 жыл бұрын

im kinda living it up tbh, in boston all school was canceled

John: 2001 is the worst year 2020: hold my corona

@anthonydavis5288

4 жыл бұрын

Well played

@samsulkarim164

4 жыл бұрын

wow

@naledimyabi2686

3 жыл бұрын

Nice😂😂😂😂😂😂

@anthonyJones-ll4ei

3 жыл бұрын

this was made in 2012

@InfinityFilms0

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyJones-ll4ei yes I am aware of that

*People in the Comments:* God 2020 is the worst! *2021:* I'm about to ruin these peoples' whole education

@fordakacar

4 жыл бұрын

what?

@bread6088

4 жыл бұрын

@@fordakacar he knows something we don't

@catloomer431

4 жыл бұрын

Yes Ive been thinking about that and omg

@E.h.a.n

3 жыл бұрын

GOD : *Parry this you filthy casual*

Worst Year: 19BBY - When order 66 happened. Best Year: 4ABY - When the Empire has fallen.

@mehgurine_

4 жыл бұрын

YAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSS!!!!!!!

@mehgurine_

4 жыл бұрын

the force has brought me here

@BearsThatCare

4 жыл бұрын

Ik it has something to do with a battle but I always read that as “before baby yoda” and “after baby yoda”

@crispyninja3593

4 жыл бұрын

fan star wars see i

@starwarsenjoyer7567

4 жыл бұрын

Yay

worst: 2017 when the first dog I have ever loved enough was hit by a car so much that he was paralysed best: 2017 when the vet told me he was just being melodramatic and nothing was wrong with him

@rileypegram277

5 жыл бұрын

WOW

@franscameraroll

5 жыл бұрын

LMAO OOPS

@salahelhaddad4872

5 жыл бұрын

Omg hahahah

@EireHammer

5 жыл бұрын

Dark lol!

@jmagg2492

5 жыл бұрын

weird flex but ok

Best year: 100 BC (Birth of Julius Caesar) Worst year: 100 BC (Birth of Julius Caesar) I'm both Patrician and Plebeian.

@MrCheesysmell

9 жыл бұрын

That's impressive

@SirAdrian87

9 жыл бұрын

Professor Mercury So basically you're Julius Caesar?

@superalibros

8 жыл бұрын

Professor Mercury So technically you are 2100+ years old?

@kylemelito7130

8 жыл бұрын

If you like July then you should probably like Julius lol

@sorchasnow-shiva3858

8 жыл бұрын

+Professor Mercury nice i just studied that in school

Best year: 2015 Worst year: 2020 Thank you John Green, for writing amazing books and being so supportive of students and teachers everywhere! As someone who just finished being a student, and is about to be a teacher, I am grateful for your work. Best wishes, Clara Nims

Best Year: Literally anything other than 2020 I am stuck and home watching our special guest John Green for the next month (I do love john green tho) but also ah

@aarzookothari180

4 жыл бұрын

I feel you

@supernut04

4 жыл бұрын

Retweeted 💕

@muhammadrizkialamsyah7566

4 жыл бұрын

Same feeling

@manicreblex3949

4 жыл бұрын

SAME ikr

@jamespurvis2569

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

worst year: 1993 (i quit smoking) best year: all that followed because i quit smoking :-)

@maxwell8787

8 жыл бұрын

Lol life is upside down

@sithmaster4305

8 жыл бұрын

+KingTesticus Well good on you pal that's a hard thing too do.

@KingTesticus

8 жыл бұрын

Jake Azz been there done that. i think i'll take being a "puss" for a while, thank you very much ;-)

@KingTesticus

8 жыл бұрын

***** Jake Azz and how many things you can smell and taste after you've quit ;-) how much further you can walk and run, how much longer you can fukk

@sithmaster4305

8 жыл бұрын

KingTesticus I wish my old man would just do that. He's been trying those vapors smokers it sorta worked for awhile but we haven't had money for awhile and he's frankly just too thick headed to quit cold.

Literally live for the "wait for it...the Mongols"

@ananyaupadhya1974

5 жыл бұрын

*Cue Mongoltage*

@orecvetkovic904

5 жыл бұрын

Aaaaaaaaaaaa!

@saeedhussain4646

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@zzxp1

5 жыл бұрын

*The Mongol tide*

@susanvinson2667

5 жыл бұрын

We’re the exception!

“Nothing gold can stay” *sobs* stay gold ponyboy 😭

Worst, 2025. So much studying. Best 2026-2015. When I finally finished the time machine and invested in Bitcoin. Man, it was a weird year.

@dr1zz3n

4 жыл бұрын

Can I loan your time machine?

@TheJulioToboso

4 жыл бұрын

drizzeN Sure. Meet me yesterday at the pub.

@dr1zz3n

4 жыл бұрын

​@@TheJulioToboso Can't we meet tomorrow instead? I'll pay for your studies once I start earning the money from the bets I intend to make.

@AlphaGeekgirl

4 жыл бұрын

drizzeN you mean borrow... unless you mean that you want to loan it to a third party

@newmantopia

4 жыл бұрын

2023 was by best and worst year. This first time through it was great, then I used the time machine to try it again, and it was awful.

it's always the Mongols.

@brrrhup9320

7 жыл бұрын

They are the exceptions.

@diogenescasares4294

7 жыл бұрын

Always....

@GutsLikesItInTheAss

7 жыл бұрын

Always. Genghis khan was probably the only guy to snort coke from a 100 girl's asses with each being a different ethnicity in a row, you never know with these Mongols.

@mania1154

7 жыл бұрын

Godamn Mongols

@starwarsloverandgamer2237

7 жыл бұрын

Mania115 hey they are the exception

Worst year : 2009 Diagnosed with cancer Best year: This Year. :) Graduated high school, made a lot of good friends, becoming an adult, etc.

@HoldUpStrong

9 жыл бұрын

Wow.

@PossiblyNic

9 жыл бұрын

HoldUpStrong Yup. ^^

@Jo0o0odie1995

9 жыл бұрын

You're an awesome person just know that !

@cehrriins123

9 жыл бұрын

In the face of cancer, you're still kicking ass at the entire idea of DFTBA. :) You deserve all the gold stars and high fives - and here's a virtual high five from me. Keep rockin' it!

@lovemakesmehappy1

9 жыл бұрын

I wish you good luck!

the best year: every year in the 2000's except for 2020

Worst year(s) 2001-2019 Fun fact, I was born in 2001.

@ianwilson6536

4 жыл бұрын

The Lone Wanderer me too

@DiscordDashie

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@juliareste

4 жыл бұрын

yeouch

@DimApple705

4 жыл бұрын

wow thoese depressed kids

@samfatima4426

4 жыл бұрын

2003-19 me!

Abbasids vs China was definitely not in my history books growing up, thank you for the brain food

@MrBander1

7 жыл бұрын

Me Too

@dabest6680

7 жыл бұрын

studying for ap world history quizzes here. i can't find the crash course on islam in india.

@pete2389

7 жыл бұрын

da best he has a mughal dynasty video

@dabest6680

7 жыл бұрын

Pete oh sweet thanks. luckily my ap world quiz on it wasn't very hard and i was able to get by with the textbook

@adrianatgaming8640

7 жыл бұрын

751 ad :D

I'm disappointed. Your heading is misleading. The dark ages, in most minds, refer to EUROPE. Whether that's Eurocentric or not is irrelevant. I came here to listen to what happened in the dark ages in... you guessed it... Europe. Now you focus mainly on the Arabs and the Chinese. So now I'm non the wiser about what happened in Europe during that time.

@Beastinvader

9 жыл бұрын

I don't know a single person who, when he hears "Dark Ages" thinks about - to show the absurdity - Zimbabwe or Australia.

@FryguyDylan

9 жыл бұрын

the headline doesn't include the word europe so just because your eurocentric mind only thinks of europe when you hear the dark ages doesn't mean that's all hes going teach because we need to know about the whole world to understand the world and to not repeat the bad parts of history. this is world history not european history

@PsychicChris

9 жыл бұрын

Dylan Fry the dark ages refer to a time in EUROPE.... Like what the heck. Its like if he made a video about the three kingdom era in china and the last half talks about europe..

@Beastinvader

9 жыл бұрын

PsychicChris I agree. This is ABSURD! Next thing you know when the topic is the Pax Romana people will start talking about Mesoamerican civilization.

@emilstanca3122

9 жыл бұрын

i get what ur saying but this is a course on WORLD history, hes gonna have to talk about Europe and Arabia and everything else. I think he did a good job in explaining the European side of it. And i do think that in history it is necessary to sometimes acknowledge when traditional historians have been a little bias. Also its a 12 minute video so appreciate how much detail he fed u on both Europe and the rest of the world.

My worst year was 2017, a year where idiocy and anxiety almost took over. I'm still looking for a best year, since the rest were mostly good.

I always thought it was called the Dark Ages because we had very little recorded history of the time.

I actually find it interesting how the end of the dark ages and the beginning of the enlightenment in Europe coincided with the start of a regression in the Middle East, and how heavily intertwined both were.

@dkupke

8 жыл бұрын

+ahens74ah Except it wan't just Muslims. Throughout the dark ages Europe was constantly under siege; the Visigoths, the Vikings, the Eastern Empire, the Muslim Caliphates, the Mongols-the list goes on. Toward the end, that dynamic switched-the Muslim Caliphates were the ones under siege from Persians, Turks, Mongols, and Europeans. And in fact, it was knowledge brought back from the Caliphates during the Crusades that helped spark the intellectual awakening that became the Enlightenment.

@raczbela9609

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Ryan it did not end. It simply did not happen. The historians called this period of time dark because they find only very few evidences the life was going on. But Herbert Illig theory (this times never happened) seems right. Around 300 years was insert into the calendar.

@Knighted456

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Ryan That seems to be a bit of an overstatement for the middle east. The Ottomans and Safavids were just starting to flourish at this time.

@arzttod6331

8 жыл бұрын

***** wrong lmao..it was the muslims.

@dkupke

8 жыл бұрын

+qd FATE Its one of those ironies of history. As utterly brutal and even pointless as the Crusades and the Mongol invasions of Europe where, the flow of knowledge, goods, and languages that both brought to Europe was undeniably a key contributor to the start of The Enlightenment.

Life expectancy was short because infant mortality rate was so high due to lack of knowledge in hygiene. Once people passed certain age, they actually lived relatively longer than what we thought. The skeleton findings prove this.

@WokeandProud

4 жыл бұрын

Well that and increase to standards of living due to industlization helped as well.

@jcincorporated6207

4 жыл бұрын

Bryan Yang The Greek philosophers’ lifespans were relatively long; I don’t know if the rest of the Greek population lived long lives though.

@Chilukar

4 жыл бұрын

@@jcincorporated6207 other places were the same. Psalm 90 says "As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years" And Isiah 23 says "Now in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the days of one king. " There are other sources from other places too, but these are quickest examples to quote.

This was 8 years ago?! This is 2020-Quarantine Quality show ❤️ Excellent job!

10:44 someone is trying to do something in the background. o.O

Just a sneaky little hand behind John at 10:44 who also wants in on the fun

@ckee7012

4 жыл бұрын

STAN

@darkknight6724

4 жыл бұрын

STAN LEE CAMO

@jaydenlee2092

4 жыл бұрын

stan fix this now

I JUST REALIZED YOU ARE THE JOHN GREEN, THE ONE WHO MADE FAULT IN OUR STARS AND PAPERTOWN. I LITERALLY WOULD'VE NEVER KNOWN EXCEPT FOR AN AD IN TARGET

@jonathanrich9281

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I learned John Green was the author of those books just last night. Pretty mind-blowing.

@genner-vincenthodgson5177

5 жыл бұрын

Wow

@allisonscanlan4144

5 жыл бұрын

What really

@septianprawisudaputra6398

5 жыл бұрын

I’ve googled it and its legit, yeah he’s the same dude

@christyarticola1206

5 жыл бұрын

This is crazy to learn right now here on this thread because I am reading The Fault in Our Stars right now, I am at about 50% in it, and I just started binge watching Crash Course World History last week. Mind blown

Best year and worst year= 2019. Mom and Best Friend died. BUT I also branched out, fixed my bulimia, made friends, and learned what it was to smile because I wanted to (not because it was expected to make them family look better or make someone else happy).

When you are doing your history task for the Silk Road and your empire is... wait for it.. *The Mongols* That's me!

@unsharded8503

4 жыл бұрын

Have fun! The mongols have a looong history.

@youllneverknow_123

4 жыл бұрын

Was that a joke

@thesyathiruchelvam2066

4 жыл бұрын

@@youllneverknow_123 nope it wasn't. I have to do a presentation with 2 other people about the Mongols in 7th grade :)

@youllneverknow_123

4 жыл бұрын

Nah man I was talking to the other guy

The dark ages weren't named "dark ages" because they were unenlightened, but because they didn't leave behind much written history, leaving historians "in the dark" about their civilizations.

@LogosTheos

6 жыл бұрын

That term was first used by Francisco Petrarch (1304-1374) to basically mean nothing happened. No advancements.

@CarlosRios1

6 жыл бұрын

It was called the fall ages because there were many knights

@bladedge3573

6 жыл бұрын

True man

@flamingdragon8962

6 жыл бұрын

Adelester The Dark Ages was a time where people lacked knowledge. Everything they were told they believed in and didn't question. The importance of the Age of Enlightenment, is it changes people's views of the world they knew. Without Enlightened ideas Feudalism and the strict absolute rule would have been around much longer. As peasants would not have question how unfair their lives were

@BillMcHale

6 жыл бұрын

Umm, no. Modern historians would object to the term Dark Ages to cover anything other than the first couple of hundred years following the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. It is called dark because very little written documentation exists from that period. Starting with the Carolingian Renaissance in the 9th century, literacy and learning definitely started to spread again. Things were slowed down a bit by the Viking invasions (which actually played a major role in the development of Feudalism), but after the end of the Viking Age (1066 is a good end point), things started to develop pretty rapidly. The 12th century would see the development of Universities leading to a whole bunch of important philosophers (Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus and William of Ockham among others showing up in the 13th. Also, the 14th century (still part of the Middle Ages which essentially would end with the the 15th century) saw peasant revolts. And actually absolute rule was not a Medieval thing; Feudalism was a relationship of mutual obligations; obviously the military classes took advantages of it, but the Peasants in that era had rights. In addition, following the Black Death in the 14th century, the system started breaking down because following the Black Death, the power of the peasants grew in direct proportion to how many fewer of them there were. Absolutism actually came with the Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment were for the first time the princes and emperors of Europe no longer had to worry about answering to the Pope.

We're Europe! The Prime Meridian runs through us, we're in the middle of every map, and we get to be a continent even though we're... not a continent! Watch in 0.5 speed!

@XalphYT

8 жыл бұрын

It's good at any speed.

@thatchacre5763

8 жыл бұрын

+Lanivan King I followed your suggestion, it's really funny ;)

@EASYTIGER10

8 жыл бұрын

+Lanivan King He sounds a little like Emo Phillips at that speed

@rashidaakter2250

8 жыл бұрын

+Lanivan King try the into in speed 2x

@Number1SUS_alt

8 жыл бұрын

+Lanivan King needs to be more drunk

Worst year 2015 (started smoking, brother left for college, depression) Best year 2018 (second and third semester at college, met my girlfriend, started the shamefully long process of quitting smoking)

i'm just here coz i wanted to hear excited john again, he sounded so sad in the crash course Europe history ;-;

Finally someone speaks truthfully about Islam . thank you

@tehrealfake

7 жыл бұрын

Huss S About the Arabic empire in the Middle Ages. It's not like people are criticising Islam 1000 years ago, and the Islamic world today is a total mess.

@cr3160

7 жыл бұрын

Fakey Directly because of western imperialism trying so vehemently to force democracy on people that DONT WANT IT. But intervention from the west is caused mostly by the desire to continue their extortion and oppression of the Middle East. Gaddafi for example wanted a pan African gold dinar currency for trading, which would topple the west's economic dominance of Africa and finally liberate the continent from western influence. America and NATO didn't like that, and they funded terrorists to destroy the greatest country in Africa. Sad really, how the West used the knowledge of the east i.e. Gunpowder to imprison us in impoverishment. As of now, Russia is the last bastion against the influence of the west.

@cr3160

7 жыл бұрын

Fakey Not imperial, imperialist, those are two different things. Russia is way more imperialist than the US? Are you joking? The US has over 600 military bases outside of the US, and Russia has only about 2 or 3. The US has WMDs pointed straight at russia and moscow in eastern europe. I've already explained this, the US seeks to indirectly control the economy of any place it can, and as I said, when Gaddafi proposed an idea that would dismantle America's extortion of Africa, they funded radical and savage Islamist to destroy the greatest country on the continent. That isn't globalist, that is intensely imperialist. The US wants to control the African and middle eastern economy, not guide it. "Islam with it's lack of personal freedoms " What lack of personal freedoms? This has nothing to do with personal freedoms. The middle east is a shithole strictly because of western imperialism. Jesus christ, westerners with their overly biased view of the world. Absolutely disgusting.

@Sam-xd9xt

7 жыл бұрын

"Truth about Islam" is a history lesson of the 'dark ages'?

@cr3160

7 жыл бұрын

***** No one needs to hear it, it's obvious from their actions. Example: Gaddafi was planning on a pan african gold dinar currency that would topple western banking in Africa. Soon after, US funded terrorists destroyed Libya and savagely murdered Gaddafi. I wish I could see every american behind the libyan terrorists murdered just like Gaddafi was, slowly, while begging for mercy.

Maybe it's just because I really enjoy medieval European history but I find John Green's outlook here a bit bothersome. It seems like many people, in an attempt to avoid euro-centrism he is rather dismissive of Europe in general(including poetry although he does mention a few notable European theologians from that period). He chooses instead to speak incredibly positively regarding Muslim culture, which really could have used a more balanced approach. I understand time is limited, but I feel like this video should have been divided into a few parts, one for the Muslim world of the middle ages, another for Europe.

@JacquesRatonLaveur

9 жыл бұрын

That's interesting. Since i enjoy medieval European history as well, I extra much enjoyed this particular episode specifically because it went into different directions. I had no idea what China was like in those centuries; this was a great, fresh, new perspective that made my day.

@doneanddusted8119

9 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately its hard to find good documentaries/books on china, other than the ones meant for PHD's. actually, it's hard to find any history documentary, what with the history channel as it is.

@JLakis

9 жыл бұрын

I too felt this was a tad dismissive. There are many dark ages in world history, but the period between the fall of the Western Empire and say the Norman invasion of England, generally known as The Dark Ages, is the title so, yeah, weak. He made the feudal system sound benevolent, as though lords didn't use their knights against peasants, other lords or their king constantly. Not to mention the threat of constant invasion by tribes displaced by the Huns or over-population, or just because you're a Viking and that's what you do! (Where are the Vikings in this show?!) For the the Romanized peoples of Europe, the withdrawal of the legions and ensuing chaos WAS the end of the world -- exactly the level of social breakdown that "preppers" build bunkers for. Yes, do talk about the accomplishments of the Arab world at this time, they carried the torch of civilization (maybe devote an episode to it, deserves one) but talk about China in an episode on, say, China. I'd also add that The Black Plague, while obviously not a great time, was key in dismantling the feudal system and in setting the stage for Europe's social, economic, artistic and scientific rebirth. The episode about the Crusades didn't talk about China. It was about the Crusades. If you want "Stuff that happened in the world between 500 AD/CE and 1400" call the episode that. There are so many brilliant tacks one could take on this both destructive and formative moment in history, this seemed like an intellectual cop-out. I thought, maybe all he'd say was 'the Dark Ages weren't so dark', but benevolent feudal rule? Guess he forgot to be awesome that day.

@JLakis

9 жыл бұрын

DoneAnd Dusted Try Michael Wood "Legacy: The Mandate of Heaven." It's on KZread.

@murirokcs5518

9 жыл бұрын

yeah but what is called the middle ages in europe wasn't so dark everywhere else.

To everyone taking the AP World exam tomorrow- good luck, I believe in you!!

“Was the age really so dark? Depends on what you find depressing : )”

Okay, but how many angels CAN fit on the head of a needle??

@MachineElf_Official

7 жыл бұрын

One for every brain cell I lose by thinking about it

@worldshaper1723

7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Kjerland You listen to me!! We are NOT going BACK!!

@ceka50

7 жыл бұрын

my friend dean might know someone with an answer

@hoseadavit3422

7 жыл бұрын

You might say endless because angels are not from a physical form rather a spiritual form so no matter how many angel fit inside the head of a needle it is still have enough room for more angels to fit Just like faith it is endless

@saandyyvh6682

7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Kjerland How big is the needle?

I love how this channel sheds light on history that is not taught in American classrooms. Thank you guys so much for educating all of us!!

I luv John n Hank - they are fighting for education to be fun, open and crazy in a good way. And they are winning

3:46 Looks just like when u color ur textbook with ur highlighters

Excellent content! Thank you for putting together all of these... the histories of the Persian, European, and a bit of Chinese during the “Dark Ages.” I’ve been looking for something like this. I’ve always been interested in correlating time periods in history! Thank you very much!! It helps a lot in my lifelong journey in learning our world’s history!!

I'm only 16 so I don't think I've lived long enough to know if I've had a worst year

@ayanhart

8 жыл бұрын

+Matthew Hardcastle You can always say 'so far'. I'm only 20, and so far my worst year was 2012 and my best year is 2016. That will probably change with time, but with my current experience, that's what it is.

2020: corona virus almost WW3

@choggerboom

4 жыл бұрын

"Almost ww3" sounds a lot better than "start of world war 2"

@overlychaotic

4 жыл бұрын

NOT EVEN CLOSE!

Watching every video in this series only for "wait for it....The Mongols" 😂

2014: When I was diagnosed with Depression 2017: When I graduated high school and beat my depression.

@BlackLegion12621

6 жыл бұрын

DarkSoulsUnleashed congrats my dude

@angery950

6 жыл бұрын

Dang

@adamcollins1551

6 жыл бұрын

Gay.

@louiswilliamson2191

6 жыл бұрын

2016: When I got straight A's in my A levels and had a great year all around, making many new friends and enjoying my courses 2017: When I stopped enjoying my courses, they became substantially more difficult, one of my friends killed himself and my mental health rapidly deteriorated btw congrats on graduating and beating your depression - two significant achievements

@isaiahrosner3780

6 жыл бұрын

This conversation certainly includes a range of emotions

best year 2013, worst year 2016 tommorow because of the test

@thetreeme92

8 жыл бұрын

+DJ Ryan lol the AP test right?

@thedarklight6752

8 жыл бұрын

+Justin Loeung yep

@ashleygonzalez8226

8 жыл бұрын

I feel you👌

@comedynewsgaming4527

8 жыл бұрын

2014 worst. 1015 best.

@Jgvcfguy

8 жыл бұрын

HIV test?

John Green: Watch as I redefine the Dark Ages into a topic about non-European history.

For an educational KZread video, I was not expecting this to be so good 😊

At 10:44 somone pops their head behind the chalkboard.

Speaking of prejudices like "Eurocentrism", the example he holds up as a typical theological debate owes its origins to the anti-religious, anti-clerical prejudicies of the so-called 'Enlightenment': medieval theologians/philosophers NEVER debated how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, that was made up by one of their critics to make fun of them.

@powerist209

10 жыл бұрын

And there was a renaissance called "Carolingian Renaissance," where universities were built and standardized writing with Carolingian Miniscule. Then, Charles' stupid sons managed to ruin it all.

@SpectatorAlius

10 жыл бұрын

powerist But they did not manage to "ruin it all" for the Eastern Roman Empire.

@SpectatorAlius

9 жыл бұрын

***** Well, any presentation that tries to cover all of the "dark ages" in such a short time is going to gloss over a lot -- especially because despite the common prejudice, those ages were not really 'dark'. But I have to agree that there were several things he could have talked about less in order to spend more time on 1) the Carolingian Renaissance and 2) the Roman Empire in the East, which avoided most of this 'darkness'.

I love how he mentions the Mongols in every single episode

I love how emphasized the fact that "the Dark Ages" may have been "dark" in Europe, but for the rest of the world, there was an incredible amount of progress made with technology, art & trade

best year 2015 got my gaming pc worst year 2015 pretty much failed school

@TheXGamer213

8 жыл бұрын

i feel u *hugs*

@ProfessorEisenoxid

8 жыл бұрын

+TooDamnLitten Coincidence? Who knows..

@MrGrunt-dw7lg

8 жыл бұрын

there may be a correlation there bud.

@BalvornLupus

7 жыл бұрын

I think not.

Worst: day i was born Best: Day i die

@mandaloretheangry9043

7 жыл бұрын

that was dark

@dianatagle8079

7 жыл бұрын

literally was going to comment that

@courtneyball8306

7 жыл бұрын

no mr. poop butt hole!! Life if pretty cool.

@syncout9586

7 жыл бұрын

Oooo weeee! Mr Poopy Butthole is clinically depressed! Ooooo weeee!

@Sam-xd9xt

7 жыл бұрын

Bear. Tomorrow will be the best day of your life.

Life expectations was 30, but I wish more people would include the fact that that's including infant and child mortality. If you made it to adulthood you'd usually last until 60 or 70.

Just to put it out there, from 1985-c.1997 were decent years from me, but after a family tragedy, the next 22 years were the Dark Ages for me, as was often cut off from a lot of people, but this year thanks to good technological advancement have certainly entered a new era of remaining in touch with people, good friendships etc, so this is kind of like the Communication Age. Like, we did have internet for a long time, but it's only recently that it's pretty safe to say that reliable internet with decent speed is more the norm now.

I find this series a little too focused on the eastern world. I mean, there's a lot to be said about the European middle ages. How come there isn't an entire episode describing the relations, treasons, and wars between the different european kingdoms ? Nothing about the Hundred Years' War ?

@DonAl_Capone

7 жыл бұрын

But it's boring and depressing; do you really want to learn about the plague 40 times.

@arttukirjavainen1119

7 жыл бұрын

i believe its because European history is well talked about in many history classes but rest of the world is left allmost untouched.

@ethanj454

7 жыл бұрын

I'd even say that it could pay more attention to Africa and the Americas.

@Tripserpentine

7 жыл бұрын

Because focus in western school lies with the west, while history is not just the west. Plus the term Dark ages is a western based word, in the Dark ages the Eastern part of the world (Islamic Empires and China, Asia and so on) where enlightened and most certainly not Dark. so to explain why the Dark ages are a wrong way of describing the world you should focus on the east. Greetings a western History student. Besides western school's drown you in European History XD

@arttukirjavainen1119

7 жыл бұрын

Tripserpentine You are completely right. Its pains me that our history classes focus so much on europe and later north america. this leaves an expression that nothing major or intresting happened outside of europe and because of this many people think that Africa and Asia were just full of tribal barbarians who never did anything great.

I thought medieval times were call the dark ages because it was knight....

@baronprocrastination1722

5 жыл бұрын

*ba dum tss*

@enderageous

5 жыл бұрын

Ha Ha Ha

@makinbacon6395

5 жыл бұрын

Get out.

@saeedhussain4646

5 жыл бұрын

Joseph Murphy lol

@tejashwiniramesh1

5 жыл бұрын

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

best: 2004 because i was born and i had zero responsibilities worst: 2018 because I had anxiety attacks throughout the whole year and I lost two of my pets and one of them was abducted

@orionbaker7494

4 жыл бұрын

Heyyyy 2004 kids unite

@mightyelf2660

4 жыл бұрын

@@orionbaker7494 yo

10:45 there was a hand behind the blackboard.

Worst year: 1998, cause I was born. Best year: 1997, cause I wasn’t suffering

@mitchc802

5 жыл бұрын

found the bhuddist

@donaldjesus6086

5 жыл бұрын

Edgy

@shmnl_af1993

5 жыл бұрын

Hi5

@YungTrvpL0rdDaG0d

5 жыл бұрын

The Puppetteer that’s tuff

@luciuspaullus1948

5 жыл бұрын

All life is Suffering

worst: 2016. was cheated on, kicked out of home, totaled my car, contacted bacterial meningitis, and became homeless. best: so far 2018. I have an amazing boyfriend, my mental illness is somewhat under control, I have a job that I think will lead to my career, and I'm pretty much fully independent. in short?? life gets better. just keep on living.

@arawn1061

5 жыл бұрын

Did it get worse again?

@garmadoon9472

5 жыл бұрын

WELL SCREW YOUR EX! Life gets better just you wait~ Just you wait~ (Hamilton lyrics! What! I can’t help myself!)

@sr1987

5 жыл бұрын

your the best

@jmagg2492

5 жыл бұрын

weird flex but ok

@spideredo8017

5 жыл бұрын

@Sass Master I'm very proud, must have been hard to carry on yet you did! :D

Hey! In the English subtitles you wrote Hildegard of Bilgen, is it not Bingen? (3:46)

wow such a nice narration of history!

I watched this, and then did a project on the Golden Age of Islam / Islamic Golden Age in school. So thank you for showing me such an interesting side to the Middle Ages.

As a History teacher, I enjoy watching these courses and how simply they are explained. However, most of my students complain about them due to the rapid speech. Is there any way you could slow it down a bit in order to allow for deeper understanding?

Anyone her just cause you wanted to hear a little history?

@jaxona3544

4 жыл бұрын

Maarttiin obviously

@strongbear3369

4 жыл бұрын

Me too and my last names Martin too

@Hayanomie

4 жыл бұрын

Im replaying it any time I'm free so I can hard press it into my mind that the world didn't begin in the 90s when I was born lol

@leen9609

4 жыл бұрын

Maarttiin i hv a test coming up lol

@NathanStamey

4 жыл бұрын

No I’ve been watching all of theese since next year I will be in tenth grade world history P.S I’m in 8th

anyone else cramming for the WHAP exam tomorrow? because uhhh me

@sudsv1850

5 жыл бұрын

bruh same tho realized i didn't know what the middle ages was :( oops

@clairedominguez

5 жыл бұрын

Suds V yeah, the whole 1000-1700’s is just a haze for me

@jacksparrow-ib5ih

4 жыл бұрын

Saaaaame

@juliay4874

4 жыл бұрын

What’s a WHAP lmao

@tybrosarmy9621

4 жыл бұрын

Claire D yeesssss

The dark ages are one of my favorite periods in world history. The weaponry advanced at a very amazing speed, and the battles were absolutely amazing, for example, Lechfeld

@powerist209

10 жыл бұрын

One invention that we underrepresented, Carolingian Miniscule.

@alalize

10 жыл бұрын

And scientist, who could advance weapns even more (and do other great things, too), were killed and treated as witches, if were women. Yeah, a great period, really...

@powerist209

10 жыл бұрын

Daaloul Chiheb Ummm, that was a myth actually. Medieval Church tend to frown on Witch Burning since it's pagan culture. Well, Monks do research on science but tend towards sheep breeding and clock making.

@akhilmaheshwary771

10 жыл бұрын

See, a great time to be alive

@akhilmaheshwary771

10 жыл бұрын

It just makes you think about all the things you would do if you had a Tommy, a time machine, and a hell of a lot of ammo

Best year : 2014 - Began year 11 in High school Worst year : 2015 - Began A levels

@lumburgapalooza

8 жыл бұрын

+Flying Spectacles I can't relate to any comment LESS. Just reading the words "high school" puts an anxious pit in my chest that spirals into an existential crisis where I have to reconcile my morality and feelings of responsibility to my family with my overwhelming urge to cause suffering to people who have wronged me and a sincere desire to die. It helps to talk though.

@lumburgapalooza

8 жыл бұрын

Alex Peters lol

@WillyTheComposerOfficial

8 жыл бұрын

Best year: 2015- Found myself Worst year: 2014- Abused drugs

@Shadowfox-ms5hh

8 жыл бұрын

+WillyTheComposer best year 2013 found a best friend worst year 2007 I got type 1 diabetes

@rjn8001

8 жыл бұрын

Best year 1996. I was finally tall enough to ride upside down roller coasters.

Worst: 2011 - shoulder surgery right before summer school, college transfers, school & personal crises Best: 2017 - trip to Australia, solar eclipse, multiple graduations, family reunion

Best year: 2014 because everything was so simple and fun :) Worst year: 2016 everything was going down hill and I hit major depression :(

2013 worst broke my back and lost my mom. 2014 best I'm still alive. I miss my mom but I know she'd be happy I'm learning on my free time.

@morganburt2565

9 жыл бұрын

Best wishes and stay strong, my friend.

Best year, 1999. It's been all downhill since. And yes, that's when I was born. :P

@trentonnewman9683

6 жыл бұрын

baseballlover312 same here bro. But personally I think that humans never should have even come down from the trees. Maybe we shouldn't have ever left the water.

@audng9934

6 жыл бұрын

baseballlover312 Relatable.... but.... If everything has been downhill since, meaning it got worse, doesn't that mean 1999 was your best year??

Wow you have a very young audience, that's great!

Abbasids are descendants of the uncle of the prophet, his name is Abbas bin Abdel Motaleb and are Arabs Your videos are unbelievably informative I love your style man

Lmao my year gonna be the worst as soon as college board hits me with that 2

@giovannamunoz1120

8 жыл бұрын

lol that's what im thinking with this AP exam . . .

@boblol811

8 жыл бұрын

+Atomicnick lmao true

I'm binge-watching this entire series to prepare for my World History SAT. Thanks, John Green, AKA "a student's best friend." (Also Hank.)

i am just watching this video because it was assigned for online schooling.

@narutothewinnerof100

4 жыл бұрын

That's cute.

@elenasardarian4587

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@mylienoyas2008

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@jackyoutube8931

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@nosuchthing8

4 жыл бұрын

Go watch the video clip about the mongols

omg your holden shirt made this year best somehow

Not really sure it's fair to characterize Europe as being particularly ethnocentric... It's not as if other cultures (or collections of cultures) aren't as equally given to it at various times and places in history.

@k3nny111

10 жыл бұрын

Actuall, speaking from a psychological background, ethnocentrism is universal to everyone and every culture on record. It is a very fundamental human sensation, and people who deny it do so usually from shame as a result of over-the-top political correctness. It is also something everyone has to be very self-aware about. There is nothing unnatural oder especially depraved about being ethnocentric (people can't help the impuls), but one has to be reflective as well, and check emotions with rational thinking.

@navdragoni

10 жыл бұрын

the point is that world history classes are supposed to teach about, well, the whole world, but instead its stuck to an european point of view, so the common knowlege says that the middle ages were dark...and they were not. That's not over the top political correctness, it's basic hystorical correctness (i'm not sure that sentence makes sense, english is not my first language, sorry)

@JoeNietzsche

10 жыл бұрын

Thiago Navarro Dragoni Yeah but I've never seen or heard the Dark Ages taught as something that was universal rather than localized to Europe. So, I imagine that if it's being assumed, its being assumed by uneducated people. So, while that would be a problem, I'd think the more important issue there is the lack of education in general.

Worst year: 1812 best year: 1776

@albertgizatulin167

7 жыл бұрын

Haha 1812 and 1945 my best years and 1991 worst one....

@mitchross4002

7 жыл бұрын

But what about 1945 and the entire 1920s?

@ameenadnan8408

6 жыл бұрын

Adonis Excuse me? But do you have a problem with Tchaikovsky masterpiece??????

@uponamidnightdreary

6 жыл бұрын

Adonis 1812 was a good year because it started off the era of good feelings

@Damo2690

6 жыл бұрын

worst 1204 best 1314

Buddy, you do a hell of a job with this series. Kudos

huge fan of you john green, i watch your videos for fun all the time. thank you

After the work of Peter Brown, the concept of 'dark ages' in Europe in this period has been refuted. It was not a golden age, but it was certainly filled with improvement and advances that paved the way for the Renaissance.

My worst year will be 2016 when Donald trump will be president

@SCIFIguy64

8 жыл бұрын

build wall

@erurehto931

8 жыл бұрын

What do you mean

@SCIFIguy64

8 жыл бұрын

b

@sithersproductions

8 жыл бұрын

+Joshua Guzman donald trump is a boss and the president will be sworn in in 2017 moron

@TheToffeeLlama

8 жыл бұрын

+Joshua Guzman My best year will 2016 when Donald trump will be president

nice work bro

"The Dark Ages weren't a time of great poetry" Beowulf, the Arthurian Legends, the Song of Roland, the Tales of Alexander the Great, the Divine Comedy, the Canterbury Tales, etc.: Are we a joke to you?

@apollo77877

4 жыл бұрын

He didn't say there wasn't poetry, just no great poetry

@cuthbertsboots5733

4 жыл бұрын

Rob B Yes, and that is all great poetry…

@hallamhal

4 жыл бұрын

The Canterbury Tales and Divine Comedy were both 14th-15th century, weren't they?

@cuthbertsboots5733

4 жыл бұрын

@@hallamhal Yes, but the "historian" in this video does not realize that the "Dark Ages" designation only used to refer to the period between 500 and 1000, so when he uses it, he is also referring to the 14th and 15th centuries.

@YouhavetoBelieve3347

4 жыл бұрын

This is a Cultural Marxist channel sponsored to spew a specific propaganda n agenda against European culture

Reading over the comments, it looks like the primary point of contention is that John seems to be implying that the term "Dark Ages" was meant to refer to the entire world during this period, when really it's SUPPOSED to just refer to Europe - because, as he says, other groups were doing pretty well. These commentators then see the video as off-topic and/or "revisionist." The issue that I think they're missing is that the pop culture view of the "Dark Ages" is that it really WAS a worldwide phenomenon. And given that the Crash Course videos are meant as a simple introduction to world history, it makes sense to debunk that narrative. It's not Eurocentric to talk about a solely European phenomenon. It IS Eurocentric to let people keep believing that because Europe wasn't improving by leaps and bounds, other cultures weren't either.

@Sibbot

10 жыл бұрын

True but he also seems to be producing a negative stereotype of medieval Europe i.e. the medieval Catholic church. This is why I have a problem with him.

@krizs4287

9 жыл бұрын

I read medieval historians who claim, based on their readings, that those who call the Middle Age dark, are ignorant. The term Dark Age comes from "enlightened" French philosophers who were anti-God and church. These gentlemen are Voltaire, Diderot, D'Alambert. By reading Pierre Duhem who researched philosophy and history of science, one can realize what an enormity is to say, "Dark Middle Age." This guy should go back to school and de-brainwash himself.

best year: 2001 bc Shrek was released worst year: 1997 bc i was born

@susankakakhel4644

6 жыл бұрын

Riya Lukose soo you're 4...ummm...ok..i guess...

@mouadgranderson9618

6 жыл бұрын

gay

@RipzCritical

6 жыл бұрын

susan kakakhel How could you think she's 4?

@susankakakhel4644

6 жыл бұрын

T-Wrex oh wait i just finished reading it 3 times...thx for telling me..

@RipzCritical

6 жыл бұрын

susan kakakhel No problem. In case you're still having trouble, she was born in 1997 meaning she's 20 years old right now. Her favourite year was 2001 because Shrek, her favourite movie, was released.

OH THAT'S WHY 'OH THAT'S WHY' is my favourite part from this episode~ XD

Excellent as always John! Thanks from Argentina.

I'm about 2 minutes in: 1) The Dark Ages usually only refer to the Early Middle Ages (at least nowadays it does), which runs from about the 600s to the 1000s (fall of Rome and Germanic Tribe Kingdoms up to Carolingian Empire and its fall, which led to the creation (somewhat) of the modern states of Western and Central Europe). 2) Feudalism (generally) was a political system. Manorialism (generally) was an economic system. Generally refers to the generality of the terms (like there were a bunch of different types of feudalism and manorialism), not that sometimes one was the other.

@ethanlevine1935

10 жыл бұрын

***** In general historical practice, Feudalism is the set of political relationships between actors in the Middle Ages, while Manorialism was the set of economic relationships between actors. Feudalism can appear to take on more of an economic aspect once inter-manor relations (like Noble-Noble relations) are the object of study, but that's just because trade wasn't as prevalent or defined in that period, so the political relationships necessarily took on more of an economic aspect.

worst 2008 I was violently bullied best 2011 started a new school, was actually challenged mentally, made cool new friends, discovered my passion for theatre.

I learned SO much in this one

It is cute that john thinks I’ve had a whole good year

I feel like people really missed the point of this video. Rather than sitting down and ranting about how the Europeans had some nice poetry and were starting to re-embrace science, he decided to show people that East was flourishing quite well at the time - and that other two major powers in the world at the time actually existed, and should not be glazed over as they so often are. He's made videos about Rome where he never once mentions Carthage, yet people don't complain about that (much). Yet when he makes a video about a time period, people go insane that he doesn't mention that the Europeans were paving the way to their enlightenment era while the rest of the Eurasian world happily continued on with theirs.

@wpw8570

9 жыл бұрын

***** He dedicates at minimum a twelfth of this video to the discussion of European feudalism. He mentions that Europe in this time saw theologians rising, with his major examples being Thomas Aquinas and Saint Hildegard. He isn't saying Europe sucked - he consistently says that the Dark Ages in contemporary views are quite Eurocentric, which they are, but beyond that all he's saying is that the little goods Europe saw were overshadowed by the goods outside of it.

@Dorian_sapiens

9 жыл бұрын

I, for one, didn't miss the point of the video. I just think the title is misleading. "The Dark Ages" refers to a period in the history of Europe. Interesting though it was, John's content dealt, not with the Dark Ages, but with things happening contemporaneously with the Dark Ages. If John was going to focus so little on Europe, he shouldn't have named the video after a period in European history.

Anyone see the hand appearing out behind the chalkboard in the end when he shoots the poppers?

@audreywarner3067

7 жыл бұрын

yes omg!!

@superfrizzyizzy

7 жыл бұрын

lmao i did

This dude seems like someone that had ADHD and finally figured out how to focus all the energy on the things they love.