2:37 French Problems 4:15 Seven Years War, France 🇫🇷 vs England 🏴, England Won. Huge Land Grabs. 5:43 Three Estates 9:07 The Age of Enlightenment 9:53 USA not gonna pay you back pal 11:03 Marie “Look At My Boat Hat” Antoinette 12:05 Lay down the Tax hammer on the peasantry 13:58 Harvests Crippled, Bread Prices Increased (We Are STARVING) 15:16 Ad Break 15:25 Louis XVI, What are you gonna do? “Call The Estates General” 1 Vote for Each Estate 19:12 Third Estate is Not Happy. Born _The National Assembly_ 22:00 The Jacobins Fear -> Anger -> Violence -> Revolution 24:00 Another ad 25:30 Bastille Overrun 26:30 29:20 _Jean Paul Marat_ 31:17 Declaration of The Rights of Man and Citizen 33:14 Women’s March To Versailles 34:43 _NordVPN_ 35:44 End of Part 1 Commentary
@@TheDaibu Thankfully this is a video and you can pause on his pause. Take the time you need. Research things a little bit more once you hear about the information Terry gives you.
@@ernestrimbeck7630 Narrowing your learning to a single medium is foolish. Especially since visual and audio lessons can help you learn a lot more in a shorter amount of time. Have you never heard a picture is worth a thousand words? Books are important yes, but I want to learn from other ways.
In the beginning when Oversimplified said 80%, he was referring only to the very, very lowest classes. (Dirt poor farmers, peasants, etc) Later on, the well known 98% figure is everyone in the third estate who was unhappy with the inequalities found in French society. (Middle classes, business owners, lawyers thrown in as well)
Yes, there is something that few people mentionned is that the third estate was actually very diverse, a lot more than the two other estates. As nobility and clergy titles were almost entirely inherited, during the 18th century a lot of bourgeois (usually merchants and bankers) who were part of the third estate actually became much richer than many nobles, and that's also a factor that led to the revolution, as they were heavily taxed and not the nobles. In fact, most of the assembly deputees and revolutionnary figures were parisian bourgeois, and the illiterate poor peasants were mostly left out of the whole process. As mentionned in the second french revolution video by oversimplified, a lot of these peasants later rebelled with the pressure of the local nobles and clergy against the republic and especially the military circonscription.
12:20 The window tax did exists. It was also a real tax in Great Britain. That is why some people walled up the windows. Having a lot of windows ment you were very wealthy.
Also was a thing in old Austria. That’s why a lot of buildings had windows that faced alleyways and inner courtyards. Tax collectors could only tax on windows they can see from the outside.
Lots of teachers might have books. this guy has video games. I'm a fan. Helps that the video's super informative too, and adds plenty of insight to the Oversimplified video.
my aunt gave me age of empires 2 in german. lets say i suddenly got very into learning history. and made my teacher go :O holyshit. i went from bad grades to aces. all because it was fun to learn. what happened to joan of arc. barbarossa. genghis khan. how the people itself lived and what not. i even got decent grades for germanic and english cuz of the games.
Video games are great for learning all kinds of stuff, especially history and English (if you're a non native speaker). It just stimulates your brain in general and trains it to focus more, nothing better than a quick gaming session as study break imo.
NES library is classic. Contra, Zelda, Tetris, Mario Bros., Rad racer, TMNT trilogy, River City Ransom, Dragon Warrior, Battletoads, Captain Skyhawk, Double Dragon trilogy, Ninja Gaiden trilogy, Cobra Triangle, RC Pro Am, list goes on. Also I love Tecmo Super Bowl and other crazy sports games. Technos character games are still good.
fun fact : these days in France, you can sometimes see on old buildings some windows that are walled with bricks because of the "windows taxe". People were trying to pay less that way. And yes, those taxes at 12:05 are all real (except the tears one, of course).
Me: We time travelled Friend: But to what year Me: Let's ask that person over there Me: Who is the King of France Person: King Loius of course Me: We could be anywhere
20:18 this was a very good point and oversimplified actually put this in their video even though they didn’t explicitly mention it. If you look closely when it’s paused you can see a member of the 3rd estate greeting a clergy member and a nobleman, showing that they could be part of the assembly if they chose to follow the laws by the 3rd estate
Why do I picture people having major misconceptions about the Area 51 raid? "Actually, the Area 51 raid wasn't an attempted invasion by American citizens. It was actually a popular joke that..." "Oh, shut up, Gary!"
The tax about windows is real BUT it applied to nobles as well (not clergy). It had an effect on urbanism in villages that can still be seen today. You were only taxed on the windows on the front of your house. The poor started building long thin houses, most often with one or no windows on the front and several on the side, while nobles, rich merchants, mayors and such built wide houses, with a lot of windows on the façade. Also, there is a distinction to be made between higher and lower clergy. The higher clergy is composed of people that come from the nobility and assume leadership roles in the church: bishops, cardinals, etc. People from the third estate that became priests, monks etc, were the lower clergy. They sided with the third estate. Small precision about de Launay's death: while being escorted (quite brutally) out of the Bastille, he stepped on the foot of a baker (from what I remember). After he presented an apollogy to the baker, the crowd deemed it insuficient. They pressured the baker to cut de Launay's head. The guy was not exactly keen on doing so and only had the equivalent of an opinel to do so, but it was either that or he would be considered unopatriotic and most likely die himself. So... brutal things.
I'm learning through your videos what I didn't bother to learn in school. The cartoons these youtubers make + your insightful commentary makes this a very fun way of learning bits of history.
The "Let them eat cake" line, reportedly she was told that Bread was more expensive thank cake so she thought the perfectly rational answer was for them to have cake instead.
@@PomegranatePomPom aaand this is why the revolution was a lot less righteous than everyone else thinks. For a revolution based on equality, they certainly refused to be equal to a lot of people. It they were gonna be executed anyway, why did people hold so much hatred for people they think were at fault. Ok, Marie wasn't the most... Down to earth woman, yeah, but the way they treated the royalty after imprisonment is just completely inhumane.
@array s nope... I live in Cyprus and the most common tax which was disbanded only 59 years ago after we declared independence from the British, was the salt tax... it was almoat exactly as my dude Awesome Austin527...
99% sure he was criticizing the "weight in gold" bs, though by no means cheap salt was nowhere close to the value of gold per lb. According to what I've read it wasn't even worth it's weight in silver at the time.
@theadam22 sea salt is labor intensive. Salt has never been a luxury good, but it was one of the more expensive commodities for most of history, this is why most old timey recipies have nearly no salt compared to modern ones. Like I said to the other guy it wasn't worth it's weight in gold, or even silver, but it wasn't cheap.
Moonlight Quartz Oversimplified’s vids are full of details though. I know you meant the literal definition of “oversimplified” but what are you basing that on?
5:30 strangely enough, there was a reason for them doing all that partying and pretending like everything was ok even when they had massive war debts: creditors. I think the term was "rational opulence", or something to that effect. Their reasoning was that if you party super crazy like nobody's business, then maybe you can get enough loans to get yourself out of the hole you dug fighting a war and bankrolling a revolution!
What extra commentary? He just stole a video made by far more talented people, then superficially comments things like: "Yes, this is true" or "Wow, I didn't know that". This is the lowest form of RUclips video humanly possible; theft under the guise of meaningful additions.
@@madanus8850 Lol... nice try. You mean composers who work directly with the original artists? No, this is much more like a composer making a song, then an untalented singer taking that song and playing it in front of a bunch of people while speaking loudly over it and pausing it frequently.
I wish I had you as my AP history teacher. All we did for my junior and senior year was study packets from Monday to Thursday and on Friday we would have a test based on the study packets. My teacher would rarely talk unless we had a question about something and even then all she would do is tell us to open our books and find out the answer ourselves
The Chad I’ve had a teacher like that before in elementary school. Hated it. I wish this guy was my teacher to but I do like my history teacher right now.
Pastry chef here to talk about bread. The bread they ate is absolutely nothing like the bread of today. Most of the bread were these whole-grain bricks that were incredibly dense and chock full of nutrients from the whole grains. I studied under a chef who would make a similar style of bread for breakfast for us. The stuff was like infinite energy. It was amazing. Edit: "let them eat cake" was more likely "let them eat brioche". Brioche is a type of French enriched dough heavily laden with butter and eggs, making it incredibly expensive and not readily available to most of the population at the time but commonly eaten by the upper classes. This period is also great for the history of modern-day restaurants as the shift of chefs out of the palaces and into the population. It's the beginning of how most people view eating out.
He mentioned the link to their video twice and also recommended to subscribe to them so if anything this video is only helping them. It would be foolish to copyright this.
I loved history class in high school. I am from Guatemala and went to high school in CA. Having to learn much history and world history, although I could barely understand English back then I loved history/world history. (Translated by dictionary most of my material)
history was the only school i always aced in. close to english and mathematics. as my 4th grade teacher told me. you should learn from your mistakes. but also learn from peoples mistakes in the past. and it never hurts to learn how this all started.
It is so wonderful to see someone who knows a lot about the event. I love history so much and it is great to see others who know so much about it react to such videos.
Can I just say how refreshing it is to see a reaction video which actually adds something meaningful to the original video. Props for shouting out the channel before you start.
I just stumbled across your channel and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your content. Videos like Oversimplified gives us the skeleton of history in a highly entertaining and compelling format. But you put meat on the bones once we've become invested. This is how history should be taught everywhere!
I don’t ever watch “reaction videos” because I always feel they steal something and add nothing to it. This video is great to know more of what such a complex video brings. 10/10
You have a very calming voice Mr. Terry. Keep up the good reactions!! Your videos benefit the Educational Section of RUclips. Good collaboration between Oversimplified and your own knowledge. 10/10 would recommend to others.
Im pretty sure the window tax was an emphasised part of the glass tax back then like how Britain was doing to the colonies plus the salt one i can believe due to the fact its a resource as far as the child one im highly unsure how that works but then again its taxes in the view of the nobility theyll tax anything they see fit even absurd ones Hopefully this answers your question on the window tax and the salt one
Love the additional information :D Also, I think a janitor or someone else lost to history locked the door to the building, and the NA thought it was the king and the first two estates.
Hiya, Window taxes were a thing here in France between the 17th and 18th century; it's why certain older buildings in France have walled up doors or windows. The people at the time weren't too big on disclosing their income to random strangers so the governments taxed them based on how their house looked. First in the middle ages(if memory serves), the lords would taxe based on the surface the ground-floor took, so the french built balconies to get around that. So the governments later on said "fine... Your house will have a fix taxe and the amount of opening will be variable costs" so people turned their houses into the Winchester mystery house.
The best reaction videos on youtube happen when the person reacting to the original video can actually add some of their own insightful commentary and knowledge for the viewer to get a better understanding of what they were watching in the first place. This channel is an amazing example of that
"This right here you should definitely understand" Teacher speak for it'll be on the test Also: the Social Hierarchy hasnt changed much... 1% controls all the money everyone else gets the scraps. Except the church is just there
12:20 aah the window tax, it affected many nations at the time, in Georgian Britain many peasant houses didn’t have windows, the amount of windows you had was a symbol of wealth, in Britain they would brick up their windows so they didn’t have to pay as much. The same applies to France, it was quite unfair. You can see this tax in effect on many surviving Georgian era homes. Where it looks like there ought to be windows, there are bricks. It is vey weird looking. Edit: I put church tax instead of window tax. Edit: I forgot the last full stop (or period IDC).
Around 14:00+ regarding bread being the most common food. We have a word for "friend" that is "copain" (co-pain = co-bread). It's someone we're in good enough terms to share our bread with them. Solid reaction, it's nice to have a history teacher react to that.
Oversimplified brought me here. I really love your channel too. It's great to hear an actual history teacher comment on Oversimplified. You got yourself another subscriber.
I love how you don't just sit and say nothing. When someone reacts like that, they don't really contribute much by not saying anything. I enjoy how you add in extra information and elaborate at times!
I started watching your vids because the reason I look for oversimplified reaction is for people to react to history and talk about history, so this channel is great and keep the great work! I'm sure your channel will blow up if you keep up with the informative videos.
French Revolution: Failed Revolution after the Napoleonic Wars, Internationally remembered because of its violence 1848 Revolution: Successful revolution, nobody cares... EXCUSE ME BUT MR. NAPOLEON III SURELY HAS SOMETHING TO SAY BOUT THIS
@Commentator Is this an American talking? How're you doing overthrowing governments in Latin America and supporting an oppressive regime in Saudi Arabia or a war hawk in Israel?
@Commentator Indeed. Just as I fail to see how relevant to the video your comment on France would be even if it was true. Good thing it's a flaming pile of BS then.
@Commentator Yeah, I'm pretty sure France hasn't had colonies since 1962. There are overseas departments and regions and overseas collectivities, but colonies are long gone.
@Commentator I did, thank you. I'm confused at how this is any different than American companies doing what they did in Latin America. Yeah, it's bad, but no, it's not colonization, and if the US, a great power, is doing it, then how is France a "small backwater nation preying on its colonies"? Unless you mean to tell me that the US is also a small backwater nation. I'm not a fan of France's continued presence in Africa. But this is classic great power geopolitics, and if everyone's doing it, why shouldn't France be? I din't see how China or the US have a leg to stand on criticizing Françafrique when they're doing the same thing or worse. You want powers to stop exploiting fragile countries? All right, then have them all back off simultaneously. Because morality has nothing to do with geopolitics.
@Commentator Yes, and? I fail to understand how this shocks you; you seem to be a much more insightful geopolitical expert than I. Every great power exerts influence over foreign nations in its sphere of influence: you think China doesn't use African countries' debt to pressure them into giving them their infrastructures or their resources? You think the US didn't use their weight in trade relations with Latin American nations to obtain agricultural land or oil reserves? Of course they try and keep these things silent; it's hard to pass as a respectable partner and nonthreatening player on the international stage if people learn you bully smaller states to get what you want. Doesn't mean everybody doesn't do it. It's not pretty, it's not moral, it's not even slightly democratic, but if you think it's wrong and it needs to change (which I rather agree with, but my opinion is hardly relevant), singling out one country for functioning this way isn't going to amount to much. Or, y'know, if you're just doing this in another American attempt at French bashing, that's a pretty weak argument, especially coming from someone whose nation has such a record of harmful influence.
3:55 exactly what I was thinking too when I first saw the original video. But I think in the 3 classes, clergy nobility and peasantry it's like 98% peasantry but a lot of population who aren't actual peasants still fall under the peasantry class. I think this is why I (and maybe you too) got a bit confused by the 80% number. (sorry if I am being unclear in English, not my first language).
Been tuning in to your channel for a few weeks now. As a history major, and overall fan, I'm curious as to your education background - never caught your back story. Either way, love the vids, keep it up!
Marie Antoinette never said “let them eat cake” but here’s something worth noting . She founded a home for single mothers, gave food to the poor, and even sold royal flatware to buy grain for people in need. So she wasn’t all bad
There were 7 detainees in the Bastille when it was stormed, including 4 money counterfeiters, a murderer and a "mad Irishman" a de Launey described him before being beheaded by members of the district the Bastille was standing in.
I am happy to see someone who at least knows the real purpose of the bastille storming... even the most part of French people didn’t know it was the place where the gunpowder was stored... Of course it was also a symbol of the absolute monarchy but at this point in the history very few people really wanted to stop the monarchal system... The people of Paris goes to the Petit Châtelet in the first place which was the French army fire weapons storage building to plunder the bayonets, mousquets and almost every weapons they could take but they needed the powder to make them works. Of course there was no way to store it in the same place for security purposes. Some of the group leaders who was former conscripts and used to knew better decided to goes to the bastille where the powder was supposedly stored. The bastille governor hesitations just served to fuel the rage of the citizen...
26:00 regarding the events of the Bastille, it passes over a crucial anecdote every frenchj kids are taught in shcool : the king was uninformed until late in the night and famously wrote in his diary at the entry for july 14th 1789 : "nothing". Inquiring as to what had happened, he asked if this was a riot, and was answered "no sire, this is a revolution". That last bit is probably invented, but it is has a part in the french collective memory
Little (grown ? im 22) fan of history because of my elementary class teacher who transmitted her love for history to me. And as a french i like your very informed point of view on this very matter, so i will watch your other vidéos, and hope to see more like that in the futur ! (with pertinenent réaction ofc) But +1 Sub.
France, Habsburgs (Austria, Spain and some smaller states (sorry I have no idea how it spells in English)) stayed Feodal, while in 17th century Netherlands (homeland of capitalistic economic scheme), Britain were - capitalists so they become rich and rich + colonies etc. Remember communist and capitalist 'war' which called cold war? Basically is the same British and France here...
I have been watching history videos, and videos like this where a person with a job watches or plays a game related to their job, for a while now. I have not been recommended to your channel before, and as I see other comments about them just finding you I assume your going to get to a high point in veiws, likes, and etc. Great video even though I have a bad taste for reaction videos. Edit: I always like my own comments
Hey Mr.Terry, you are doing a great work! So about the french consumption of bread, I really don't know about all of France. But according to Alexander von Humboldt who published a comparative analysis of bread and meat consumption in New Spain (México) compared to other cities in Europe such as Paris (the experiment dated between 1799 and 1804). In Paris, 377 kilograms is consumed per person per year in comparison to 363 kilograms of bread per person per year consumed in New Spain.
When you rely to much on a source of something when it fails your done for like almost all of Europe and especially Ireland who relyed on potatoes when they fails the great fammine happened
about the first estate: what many people dont realise is that the first estate itself was split up into the lower clergy (people born into the third estate) and the upper clergy (born into nobility). and of course in the assembly, the first estate was represented by members of the upper nobility (minority of a tiny minority). those upper clergy people were all related to nobles. so obviously they had similar interests.
2:37 French Problems
4:15 Seven Years War, France 🇫🇷 vs England 🏴, England Won. Huge Land Grabs.
5:43 Three Estates
9:07 The Age of Enlightenment
9:53 USA not gonna pay you back pal
11:03 Marie “Look At My Boat Hat” Antoinette
12:05 Lay down the Tax hammer on the peasantry
13:58 Harvests Crippled, Bread Prices Increased (We Are STARVING)
15:16 Ad Break
15:25 Louis XVI, What are you gonna do?
“Call The Estates General”
1 Vote for Each Estate
19:12 Third Estate is Not Happy.
Born _The National Assembly_
22:00 The Jacobins
Fear -> Anger -> Violence -> Revolution
24:00 Another ad
25:30 Bastille Overrun 26:30
29:20 _Jean Paul Marat_
31:17 Declaration of The Rights of Man and Citizen
33:14 Women’s March To Versailles
34:43 _NordVPN_
35:44 End of Part 1 Commentary
Michael Pisciarino thanks for the time stamps!
Sure thing. No problem Mr. Terry
Michael Pisciarino Small error, Marie Antoinette had boat HAIR. Not a boat hat.
@@wisemankugelmemicus1701 its accident
Bro cool
Reacting to an Oversimplified video?
Oooh, there's gonna be a tax for that
ROLF..... Nice xD
To the guillotine
🤣🤣🤣
*Stamp.*
@@saltmine_snake1487 hei look my hair is a boat
Do me a favor. If anyone ever says that you are pausing the video too much... Ignore them. I want to learn. : )
Not pausing = no time to learn.
Pausing too much = no time to acquire what he is trying to teach.
A middle ground is great, tho.
@@TheDaibu Thankfully this is a video and you can pause on his pause. Take the time you need. Research things a little bit more once you hear about the information Terry gives you.
Read a book
@@ernestrimbeck7630 Narrowing your learning to a single medium is foolish. Especially since visual and audio lessons can help you learn a lot more in a shorter amount of time. Have you never heard a picture is worth a thousand words? Books are important yes, but I want to learn from other ways.
Commenting? There's a tax for that
"If you become that dependent on one food source it becomes a problem"
Me: *Sad Irish noises*
Your name says it all
*sad nord italians noises*
No potatoes for you.
Sad American noise
LMAO 🤣
In the beginning when Oversimplified said 80%, he was referring only to the very, very lowest classes. (Dirt poor farmers, peasants, etc) Later on, the well known 98% figure is everyone in the third estate who was unhappy with the inequalities found in French society. (Middle classes, business owners, lawyers thrown in as well)
Titanmoon _ good point!
Yes, there is something that few people mentionned is that the third estate was actually very diverse, a lot more than the two other estates.
As nobility and clergy titles were almost entirely inherited, during the 18th century a lot of bourgeois (usually merchants and bankers) who were part of the third estate actually became much richer than many nobles, and that's also a factor that led to the revolution, as they were heavily taxed and not the nobles.
In fact, most of the assembly deputees and revolutionnary figures were parisian bourgeois, and the illiterate poor peasants were mostly left out of the whole process. As mentionned in the second french revolution video by oversimplified, a lot of these peasants later rebelled with the pressure of the local nobles and clergy against the republic and especially the military circonscription.
conscription*
Yeah, I know
Thanks
12:20 The window tax did exists. It was also a real tax in Great Britain. That is why some people walled up the windows. Having a lot of windows ment you were very wealthy.
Theturtleowl I didn’t know that. Thanks for sharing!
The tax in Britain was also the origin of the phrase "daylight robbery." Fun fact.
Under the rule of Matthias in Hungary, there was a tax called 'smoketax' which taxed the chimneys of a house.
That's why a lot of todays building still look like that
www.smartstyleinteriors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/stantonhouse40.jpg
Also was a thing in old Austria. That’s why a lot of buildings had windows that faced alleyways and inner courtyards. Tax collectors could only tax on windows they can see from the outside.
This is how reaction videos should be:
-gives credits
-adds some interesting facts
Lots of teachers might have books. this guy has video games. I'm a fan.
Helps that the video's super informative too, and adds plenty of insight to the Oversimplified video.
my aunt gave me age of empires 2 in german.
lets say i suddenly got very into learning history. and made my teacher go :O holyshit.
i went from bad grades to aces. all because it was fun to learn. what happened to joan of arc. barbarossa. genghis khan. how the people itself lived and what not. i even got decent grades for germanic and english cuz of the games.
Lol
Video games are great for learning all kinds of stuff, especially history and English (if you're a non native speaker). It just stimulates your brain in general and trains it to focus more, nothing better than a quick gaming session as study break imo.
@@miciso666 Wololo!
NES library is classic. Contra, Zelda, Tetris, Mario Bros., Rad racer, TMNT trilogy, River City Ransom, Dragon Warrior, Battletoads, Captain Skyhawk, Double Dragon trilogy, Ninja Gaiden trilogy, Cobra Triangle, RC Pro Am, list goes on. Also I love Tecmo Super Bowl and other crazy sports games. Technos character games are still good.
fun fact : these days in France, you can sometimes see on old buildings some windows that are walled with bricks because of the "windows taxe". People were trying to pay less that way.
And yes, those taxes at 12:05 are all real (except the tears one, of course).
Denying the tear tax? Yeah, there is a tax for that.
wait what the head tax is real
@@Hohhot Sir, you misunderstood. I'm talking about the tear tax with a "T", I am not denying the head tax.
You want to be a history teacher?
“That’s gonna be a lot of responsibly”
“Our school is in financial ruin”
You better be a good teacher, you fat ill-bred boy
and you have to pay tax for that
@guldgroup mainchannel severely
Charlie Theanteater there’s going to be a tax for that
OoooOh NoOOoo
Me: We time travelled
Friend: But to what year
Me: Let's ask that person over there
Me: Who is the King of France
Person: King Loius of course
Me: We could be anywhere
Stolen, but still funny
You time traveled? Sorry, but there's going to be a tax for that
@@johnlevin4567 you impose taxes? There's going to be a tax for that!
Just gonna ignore the fact that you asked who’s the king of France of all other things you could of asked
You want to have a non default profile picture?
Sorry
Theres gonna be a tax for that
Me:*breathe*
French tax collector:you’re being taxed for that
Sorry to say but your comment, well, there’s a tax for that.
Field Marshal Hans dammit :(
Also me: TO THE GUILLIOTINE
@Arnaud MULLER DJKSDJKS
Are you complaining TO THE GUILLATINE
"If you rely on only one food you've got a problem"
>Is brazilian
>Looks at both the sugar and coffee crisis
Yup
he's right boys
well that doesn't really count as food, but mostly as an export product i guess
your diet isn't like 30% sugar, 30% coffee
Umm Looks at Ireland's Potato Famine
@@taistealai5523 Yeah... Can't compare to the irish famine but still was a problem
Bruh we don't eat sugar and coffee
20:18 this was a very good point and oversimplified actually put this in their video even though they didn’t explicitly mention it. If you look closely when it’s paused you can see a member of the 3rd estate greeting a clergy member and a nobleman, showing that they could be part of the assembly if they chose to follow the laws by the 3rd estate
2083: History teachers react to Area 51 raid
"It was the Naruto running charge that really overwhelmed the defenders"
yeah it was a concert the whole time sorta
Why do I picture people having major misconceptions about the Area 51 raid?
"Actually, the Area 51 raid wasn't an attempted invasion by American citizens. It was actually a popular joke that..."
"Oh, shut up, Gary!"
Students learning the covid pandemic in 2656
*If only*
The tax about windows is real BUT it applied to nobles as well (not clergy). It had an effect on urbanism in villages that can still be seen today. You were only taxed on the windows on the front of your house. The poor started building long thin houses, most often with one or no windows on the front and several on the side, while nobles, rich merchants, mayors and such built wide houses, with a lot of windows on the façade.
Also, there is a distinction to be made between higher and lower clergy. The higher clergy is composed of people that come from the nobility and assume leadership roles in the church: bishops, cardinals, etc. People from the third estate that became priests, monks etc, were the lower clergy. They sided with the third estate.
Small precision about de Launay's death: while being escorted (quite brutally) out of the Bastille, he stepped on the foot of a baker (from what I remember). After he presented an apollogy to the baker, the crowd deemed it insuficient. They pressured the baker to cut de Launay's head. The guy was not exactly keen on doing so and only had the equivalent of an opinel to do so, but it was either that or he would be considered unopatriotic and most likely die himself. So... brutal things.
"This graph does not show that at all"
So you're saying it's oversimplified?
No, he is saying that there is a tax for that.
*STAMP*
@@noahgray543 No! Just sell me a deck of cards so I can gamble my pain away.
@@maximilienrobespierre7927 we sell cards individually here. *stamps 52 times*
There's a tax for that. *Stamps on Noah's face*
I'm learning through your videos what I didn't bother to learn in school.
The cartoons these youtubers make + your insightful commentary makes this a very fun way of learning bits of history.
The "Let them eat cake" line, reportedly she was told that Bread was more expensive thank cake so she thought the perfectly rational answer was for them to have cake instead.
she never said it though. it was propaganda.
@@PomegranatePomPom I once heard her final words were an apology due to stepping on the executioner's foot
@@PomegranatePomPom aaand this is why the revolution was a lot less righteous than everyone else thinks. For a revolution based on equality, they certainly refused to be equal to a lot of people. It they were gonna be executed anyway, why did people hold so much hatred for people they think were at fault. Ok, Marie wasn't the most... Down to earth woman, yeah, but the way they treated the royalty after imprisonment is just completely inhumane.
@@PomegranatePomPom
Well, she was rather generous as far as nobility goes, but a feudal leader nonetheless, so bad by default.
Well actually the salt tax WAS real... in almost all of Europe
Salt was worth as much as it's weight in gold in some cases, so it makes sense.
@array s nope... I live in Cyprus and the most common tax which was disbanded only 59 years ago after we declared independence from the British, was the salt tax... it was almoat exactly as my dude Awesome Austin527...
There colonies too
99% sure he was criticizing the "weight in gold" bs, though by no means cheap salt was nowhere close to the value of gold per lb. According to what I've read it wasn't even worth it's weight in silver at the time.
@theadam22 sea salt is labor intensive. Salt has never been a luxury good, but it was one of the more expensive commodities for most of history, this is why most old timey recipies have nearly no salt compared to modern ones. Like I said to the other guy it wasn't worth it's weight in gold, or even silver, but it wasn't cheap.
Great video as always! I wish oversimplified did a video of the 7 years war between the british and France
They will soon.....
@Moonlight Quartz why? 7 years war is filled with events. Its basically the first world war. Or world war 0 as some refer to it as.
Moonlight Quartz Oversimplified’s vids are full of details though. I know you meant the literal definition of “oversimplified” but what are you basing that on?
also, the war of 1812 oversimplified should be a thing.
22:37
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate, leads to suffering."
-Yoda
5:30 strangely enough, there was a reason for them doing all that partying and pretending like everything was ok even when they had massive war debts: creditors. I think the term was "rational opulence", or something to that effect. Their reasoning was that if you party super crazy like nobody's business, then maybe you can get enough loans to get yourself out of the hole you dug fighting a war and bankrolling a revolution!
Because that's never going to fail...
@@SonsOfLorgar just get a loan 4Head
Tax collector: what’s your job.
Mr Terry: teacher and youtuber.
Tax collector: oh there’s a tax for that.
A history teacher criticized Oversimplified’s video
*All of this enraged Adolf’s Father, who punished him severely*
Making an oversimplified reference!?
There is a tax for that!
Noah Gray trying to tax a reference?
*TO THE GUILLOTINE*
Mushroom Entente Trying to send someone to the gullotine for making a reference while making a reference? *To the gulag!*
The_One_Titan trying to send me to the gulag? There’s a tax for that
But by this time, Alois was an old ass man, so he just sort of let it go, and then died of a lung hemorrhage.
See THIS is a reaction channel he is actually putting his input
Good job man
You are great sir. The extra commentary is very much enlighting . :D
What extra commentary? He just stole a video made by far more talented people, then superficially comments things like: "Yes, this is true" or "Wow, I didn't know that".
This is the lowest form of RUclips video humanly possible; theft under the guise of meaningful additions.
@@ajnode He gives them credit and allows them ad revenue. Not 'stolen' :/
@@ajnode he gives them credit dude.
@@ajnode if he didn't offer commentary then the video would be half the length
@@madanus8850
Lol... nice try. You mean composers who work directly with the original artists? No, this is much more like a composer making a song, then an untalented singer taking that song and playing it in front of a bunch of people while speaking loudly over it and pausing it frequently.
I wish I had you as my AP history teacher. All we did for my junior and senior year was study packets from Monday to Thursday and on Friday we would have a test based on the study packets. My teacher would rarely talk unless we had a question about something and even then all she would do is tell us to open our books and find out the answer ourselves
The Chad
I’ve had a teacher like that before in elementary school. Hated it. I wish this guy was my teacher to but I do like my history teacher right now.
Pastry chef here to talk about bread. The bread they ate is absolutely nothing like the bread of today. Most of the bread were these whole-grain bricks that were incredibly dense and chock full of nutrients from the whole grains. I studied under a chef who would make a similar style of bread for breakfast for us. The stuff was like infinite energy. It was amazing.
Edit: "let them eat cake" was more likely "let them eat brioche". Brioche is a type of French enriched dough heavily laden with butter and eggs, making it incredibly expensive and not readily available to most of the population at the time but commonly eaten by the upper classes. This period is also great for the history of modern-day restaurants as the shift of chefs out of the palaces and into the population. It's the beginning of how most people view eating out.
"Let them eat Brioche" was actually said by Maria Teresa, the Queen and wife of Louis XIV.
@@dplocksmith91 if you meant Maria Theresa, that was the mother of Marie Antoinette who is credited with the quote
So our bread is shit? Nice!
Mr Terry made a video on oversimplified
This enraged oversimplified, who copyrighted him severely.
He mentioned the link to their video twice and also recommended to subscribe to them so if anything this video is only helping them. It would be foolish to copyright this.
@@brent8407 doing that doesn't stop copyright from being used
@@eh86055 "YTers copystriking other YTers doesn’t go down well from what I can tell."
Right! Just ask the Fine Brothers how well _that_ works out. ;-)
@@eh86055 its an inside joke this mate on the oversimplified channel.
There’s also a tax for that
I loved history class in high school. I am from Guatemala and went to high school in CA. Having to learn much history and world history, although I could barely understand English back then I loved history/world history. (Translated by dictionary most of my material)
history was the only school i always aced in. close to english and mathematics.
as my 4th grade teacher told me. you should learn from your mistakes.
but also learn from peoples mistakes in the past. and it never hurts to learn how this all started.
It is so wonderful to see someone who knows a lot about the event. I love history so much and it is great to see others who know so much about it react to such videos.
I’m a marine and I look forward to watching these videos every time I go to the barracks great job mr T!
Thank you for your service!
Can I just say how refreshing it is to see a reaction video which actually adds something meaningful to the original video. Props for shouting out the channel before you start.
I just stumbled across your channel and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your content. Videos like Oversimplified gives us the skeleton of history in a highly entertaining and compelling format. But you put meat on the bones once we've become invested. This is how history should be taught everywhere!
I don’t ever watch “reaction videos” because I always feel they steal something and add nothing to it. This video is great to know more of what such a complex video brings. 10/10
You have a very calming voice Mr. Terry. Keep up the good reactions!! Your videos benefit the Educational Section of RUclips. Good collaboration between Oversimplified and your own knowledge. 10/10 would recommend to others.
Reacting to Oversimplified, are we? To the Guillotine
Gefitrop349 Dude... Uncool.
@@holographicbunny3297 calling the guillotine? Yeah, there is a tax for that.
Hey, please react to "The history of the entire world, i guess"
Please
Oh that rapping video😂
😕
@@Fleus346 what
IF THAT WHER TO HAPPEN MY FREINDS AND I WILL UNLEASH THE FULL RATH OF THE SUN THERE IS NO BLANKET THAT COULD EVEN PROVIDE SHADE !!!
Omaha346
It isn’t rapping. What are you talking about?
Ok now why is this on my recommendations?
I love it
Liking this video? Ooh, there’s going to be a tax for that!
Im pretty sure the window tax was an emphasised part of the glass tax back then like how Britain was doing to the colonies plus the salt one i can believe due to the fact its a resource as far as the child one im highly unsure how that works but then again its taxes in the view of the nobility theyll tax anything they see fit even absurd ones
Hopefully this answers your question on the window tax and the salt one
I just discovered your channel and I love it great video keep it up
Love the additional information :D
Also, I think a janitor or someone else lost to history locked the door to the building, and the NA thought it was the king and the first two estates.
Hiya, Window taxes were a thing here in France between the 17th and 18th century; it's why certain older buildings in France have walled up doors or windows. The people at the time weren't too big on disclosing their income to random strangers so the governments taxed them based on how their house looked. First in the middle ages(if memory serves), the lords would taxe based on the surface the ground-floor took, so the french built balconies to get around that. So the governments later on said "fine... Your house will have a fix taxe and the amount of opening will be variable costs" so people turned their houses into the Winchester mystery house.
The best reaction videos on youtube happen when the person reacting to the original video can actually add some of their own insightful commentary and knowledge for the viewer to get a better understanding of what they were watching in the first place.
This channel is an amazing example of that
"This right here you should definitely understand"
Teacher speak for it'll be on the test
Also: the Social Hierarchy hasnt changed much... 1% controls all the money everyone else gets the scraps. Except the church is just there
I would have LOVED you as a history teacher! Great job you should earn more subs!
No
Yes
@@AS-Stardust YER DONE!!!
There’s a tax for that
History was my favorite subject in hs,could you react to extra credits justinian video.
JN Animations Especially him being trolled!
@@justinleecw you mean the khorsau videos rigth
or any other Extra History Video.
Maths and history are probably the most important subjects ever.
JN Animations be careful with the extra credit videos might make you a nazi
12:20 aah the window tax, it affected many nations at the time, in Georgian Britain many peasant houses didn’t have windows, the amount of windows you had was a symbol of wealth, in Britain they would brick up their windows so they didn’t have to pay as much. The same applies to France, it was quite unfair. You can see this tax in effect on many surviving Georgian era homes. Where it looks like there ought to be windows, there are bricks. It is vey weird looking.
Edit: I put church tax instead of window tax.
Edit: I forgot the last full stop (or period IDC).
What I’ve learned about these videos is that
DO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH AMERICA THEY FUCK YOU UP EVEN WHEN YOU DONT FIGHT THEM
Around 14:00+ regarding bread being the most common food. We have a word for "friend" that is "copain" (co-pain = co-bread). It's someone we're in good enough terms to share our bread with them.
Solid reaction, it's nice to have a history teacher react to that.
God...I can't put into words how much I love your game collection
baublittr thanks! Long live the classics!
Oversimplified brought me here. I really love your channel too. It's great to hear an actual history teacher comment on Oversimplified. You got yourself another subscriber.
Would you ever consider making a history QnA? Btw, keep up the good work!
Liepa Rom. That’s a great idea. I will think about it!
I love how you don't just sit and say nothing. When someone reacts like that, they don't really contribute much by not saying anything. I enjoy how you add in extra information and elaborate at times!
I started watching your vids because the reason I look for oversimplified reaction is for people to react to history and talk about history, so this channel is great and keep the great work! I'm sure your channel will blow up if you keep up with the informative videos.
What if Congress hasn’t been in session since the Civil War??? That really put this into perspective for me.
French Revolution: Failed Revolution after the Napoleonic Wars, Internationally remembered because of its violence
1848 Revolution: Successful revolution, nobody cares...
EXCUSE ME BUT MR. NAPOLEON III SURELY HAS SOMETHING TO SAY BOUT THIS
videos like this make me miss highschool history class, teachers like Mr.Terry are what helped my love of history grow
As a French person fond of history, nice to see an American history teacher well knowledgeable about France history...
Good video
Cheers mate !
@Commentator Is this an American talking? How're you doing overthrowing governments in Latin America and supporting an oppressive regime in Saudi Arabia or a war hawk in Israel?
@Commentator Indeed. Just as I fail to see how relevant to the video your comment on France would be even if it was true. Good thing it's a flaming pile of BS then.
@Commentator Yeah, I'm pretty sure France hasn't had colonies since 1962. There are overseas departments and regions and overseas collectivities, but colonies are long gone.
@Commentator I did, thank you. I'm confused at how this is any different than American companies doing what they did in Latin America. Yeah, it's bad, but no, it's not colonization, and if the US, a great power, is doing it, then how is France a "small backwater nation preying on its colonies"? Unless you mean to tell me that the US is also a small backwater nation.
I'm not a fan of France's continued presence in Africa. But this is classic great power geopolitics, and if everyone's doing it, why shouldn't France be? I din't see how China or the US have a leg to stand on criticizing Françafrique when they're doing the same thing or worse. You want powers to stop exploiting fragile countries? All right, then have them all back off simultaneously. Because morality has nothing to do with geopolitics.
@Commentator Yes, and? I fail to understand how this shocks you; you seem to be a much more insightful geopolitical expert than I. Every great power exerts influence over foreign nations in its sphere of influence: you think China doesn't use African countries' debt to pressure them into giving them their infrastructures or their resources? You think the US didn't use their weight in trade relations with Latin American nations to obtain agricultural land or oil reserves? Of course they try and keep these things silent; it's hard to pass as a respectable partner and nonthreatening player on the international stage if people learn you bully smaller states to get what you want. Doesn't mean everybody doesn't do it. It's not pretty, it's not moral, it's not even slightly democratic, but if you think it's wrong and it needs to change (which I rather agree with, but my opinion is hardly relevant), singling out one country for functioning this way isn't going to amount to much.
Or, y'know, if you're just doing this in another American attempt at French bashing, that's a pretty weak argument, especially coming from someone whose nation has such a record of harmful influence.
3:55 exactly what I was thinking too when I first saw the original video. But I think in the 3 classes, clergy nobility and peasantry it's like 98% peasantry but a lot of population who aren't actual peasants still fall under the peasantry class. I think this is why I (and maybe you too) got a bit confused by the 80% number. (sorry if I am being unclear in English, not my first language).
Please react to WW1 from Oversimplified
Love the additional information to each topic
your commentary is a great addition to the videos. I love the extra knowledge and extra view. Go for it!!
I come here to listen to your knowledge and that smooth, smooth mocha in your voice
Been tuning in to your channel for a few weeks now. As a history major, and overall fan, I'm curious as to your education background - never caught your back story.
Either way, love the vids, keep it up!
Yes window tax was a real thing. In fact people would brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
I’ve binged your videos and am enjoying every moment. Love the elucidation, and the format of your videos.
You are so badass a teacher to own a wall display of Nes cartridges
Marie Antoinette never said “let them eat cake” but here’s something worth noting . She founded a home for single mothers, gave food to the poor, and even sold royal flatware to buy grain for people in need. So she wasn’t all bad
Amazing video. A video that you might be interested in is the history of the entire world, I guess
Marcus Edwards seconded!
There were 7 detainees in the Bastille when it was stormed, including 4 money counterfeiters, a murderer and a "mad Irishman" a de Launey described him before being beheaded by members of the district the Bastille was standing in.
You should definitely watch history of the entire world (i guess) by bill wurtz
23:02 « Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate. Hate... leads to suffering »
I am happy to see someone who at least knows the real purpose of the bastille storming... even the most part of French people didn’t know it was the place where the gunpowder was stored...
Of course it was also a symbol of the absolute monarchy but at this point in the history very few people really wanted to stop the monarchal system...
The people of Paris goes to the Petit Châtelet in the first place which was the French army fire weapons storage building to plunder the bayonets, mousquets and almost every weapons they could take but they needed the powder to make them works. Of course there was no way to store it in the same place for security purposes.
Some of the group leaders who was former conscripts and used to knew better decided to goes to the bastille where the powder was supposedly stored. The bastille governor hesitations just served to fuel the rage of the citizen...
Most reaction youtubers don’t add anything to the video but you add extra facts and information to the videos and that is great.
3rd estate wasn't all "hard working starving poor", so 80% could be just the "hard working starving poor", not the "3rd estate"
26:00 regarding the events of the Bastille, it passes over a crucial anecdote every frenchj kids are taught in shcool : the king was uninformed until late in the night and famously wrote in his diary at the entry for july 14th 1789 : "nothing". Inquiring as to what had happened, he asked if this was a riot, and was answered "no sire, this is a revolution". That last bit is probably invented, but it is has a part in the french collective memory
You could react to the videos of a channel named "history matters". I found them interesting. But short. You could put more details in.
Found your channel yesterday, been binging almost all your OverSimplified videos already. Love your input! Cheers!
*I learned more history here than in the classroom*
Little (grown ? im 22) fan of history because of my elementary class teacher who transmitted her love for history to me. And as a french i like your very informed point of view on this very matter, so i will watch your other vidéos, and hope to see more like that in the futur ! (with pertinenent réaction ofc) But +1 Sub.
Let them eat cake, is actually a quote from her. Queen the band make a reference of that in the song Killer Queen
Love the video, also I love those bookshelves behind you.
If you guys have any doubts about this guy, he’s got N64 end labels.
He knows what he’s talking about.
Not only that but the closer one is all 1986 nintendo.
Just found this in my recommended. I love your videos. Keep up the good work
Is it truly a democracy when there is voting but it's not a correct representation?
hunterkiller1440 what do you mean?
Tax collecter: how much air do you breathe a minute
Peasant: about 60 breaths
Tax Collecter: yep there is a tax for that
France, Habsburgs (Austria, Spain and some smaller states (sorry I have no idea how it spells in English)) stayed Feodal, while in 17th century Netherlands (homeland of capitalistic economic scheme), Britain were - capitalists so they become rich and rich + colonies etc.
Remember communist and capitalist 'war' which called cold war? Basically is the same British and France here...
absolutely love your videos!!!
I like how he even reacted to the nordvpn ad
I have been watching history videos, and videos like this where a person with a job watches or plays a game related to their job, for a while now. I have not been recommended to your channel before, and as I see other comments about them just finding you I assume your going to get to a high point in veiws, likes, and etc. Great video even though I have a bad taste for reaction videos.
Edit: I always like my own comments
Wait, Mr. Terry isn't my history teacher???
*Sooooo uncool*
Hey Mr.Terry, you are doing a great work! So about the french consumption of bread, I really don't know about all of France. But according to Alexander von Humboldt who published a comparative analysis of bread and meat consumption in New Spain (México) compared to other cities in Europe such as Paris (the experiment dated between 1799 and 1804). In Paris, 377 kilograms is consumed per person per year in comparison to 363 kilograms of bread per person per year consumed in New Spain.
The Americans: Bloody hell there's no way a Revolution could be worse than this.
The French: Hold my Beer.
No-no
Its
France:hold my baguette and wine
@@datboi-cu8jw france:hold my white flag
@@datboi-cu8jw oh..... Euuhhhh
why bloody they America not britain
@churrchil tank they still were quite British because it had only been a few years since the revolution.
When you rely to much on a source of something when it fails your done for like almost all of Europe and especially Ireland who relyed on potatoes when they fails the great fammine happened
about the first estate: what many people dont realise is that the first estate itself was split up into the lower clergy (people born into the third estate) and the upper clergy (born into nobility). and of course in the assembly, the first estate was represented by members of the upper nobility (minority of a tiny minority). those upper clergy people were all related to nobles. so obviously they had similar interests.
To prevent ads in the middle of your reaction videos, you should get an ad blocker for your browser.
He probably wants to support Oversimplified.
@@pinksocks8697 Fair enough.
@@dexmoonfire3785 YT Premium?
@@thepurityofchaos No, just a free ad blocker extension for your browser.
@@dexmoonfire3785 To both support Oversimplified and remove ads, YT Premium is the way to go.
I LOVE THIS CHANNEL IM BINGE WATCHING ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS YOU'RE THE BEST
I would be interested in seeing your opinion on the video "Ancient Rome in 20 minutes" by Arzamas.
Thank you for making your voice reaction louder than the video!