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Start of video: They’re 5 towns in Pennsylvania that are exactly 10 miles apart End of video: If the human race were to start over again the center of civilization would be Bangladesh Me: Dang that escalated quickly
While having a pedagogical teacher is important and can spark enthusiasm, it is largely up to you how much you actually get out of your education. While entertaining and informative, these types of videos don't really teach you how to think critically and solve problems.
@@elise3455 That can't be taught, or at least it usually isn't. Just look at all the morons out there with multiple master degrees. Countless prolific examples as well as peer reviewed studies say this.
This 15 minute video is one persons view on the subject . Question it like you would if you were in the classroom . Information is only as good as the person receiving it really . Not to make a fuss but something that stood out at 0:52 was the quote "Each one of these towns were founded before the formation of the United States , so that means of course nobody had cars and pretty much everybody walked everywhere " True , nobody had cars but the 1700's weren't so far back in history that people didn't have access to horse & cart transport .. These towns would not have sprung up based on people walking around everywhere . Anyway it is minor point i guess but this gets the antennas up to detect for other discrepancies in these " information " style videos. Cheers .
I was shocked at the end! I’m living here in Dhaka and it seems like most residents have no choice but to live here because of jobs and education. But, proper planning and order can make the city a great place to live. There must be some good reasons why this city was chosen as capital 5 times during last 400 years by different empires.
@@md.alfayed I'm not talking about whole India. In 1604, during Mughal reign, Dhaka was the capital of Sub-e-Bangla. In 1947, it was made capital of East Pakistan. And after 1971 onwards, it is the capital of Bangladesh.
This video just says its geographically ideal. So you need a lot of investment to make bangladesh reach its full potential. Also it explains why bangladesh is growing this fast.
I am Bengali. When heard Dhaka as the best place for a city, my brain just stopped functioning. I couldn't comprehend Dhaka being the best place for a city. I just was thinking "How? How?"
population: 500,000 man leaves Connecticut to pursue a job in Atlanta, Georgia population: 499,999 people next day: BREAKING NEWS APPLE TRUMBULL STORE HAS GONE OUT OF BUSINESS AS THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE TO SUSTAIN IT
Apple would just bump up the price of it's phones to it's loyal fans, it's the Apple way after all and they have to keep profits rising so they'll take it out on the loyal fans lol.
Allow me to add that Milan is directly connected to the rivers that lead to the sea. It’s cathedral, the third largest in the world, was constructed entirely with materials brought all the way to the city center by river. There is even a place in Milan called “sea port” (porto di mare).
And now Mr Modi, Indian's PM, wants to send elderly Muslims from India to retire in Bangladesh because they don't carry a birth certificate to prove they are Indian.
I sort of disagree. Everyone knows Bangladesh. It's well-known to at least China, Russia, and America. Its exports are pretty heavy. It's also Islamic, which despite being second in population to Christianity, Islam is growing while Christianity is shrinking. So, yeah, the data actually makes sense.
To all the people mentioning the high flood risk in Dhaka, remember that flood plains are a very real thing and a very prominent feature of massive megaregions throughout ancient history. No wonder for all its life that region has been reaming with people, it just makes sense.
Byzantium Yes, I agree. Extremely fertile land (the floods leave an annual deposit of silt), plentiful supply of food, hundreds and hundreds of rivers making travel and transport of goods an effortless affair, tropical hot weather with plenty of sunshine and rainfall helping a wide variety of agricultural produce grow easily, the flat land means it's easy to build on and develop. For these reasons, humans have thrived in this region since prehistorical times.
Lmao ad plays: "This is my voice one day in Minnesota." "This is my voice one week in Minnesota." *skips ad ro start video* "This is a wendover production"
You used the correct flag for England. That is so rare it deserves an applause and we'll ignore the fact that you included Wales in the land mass. Most people ignore Wales though.
That line of similar climates that he drew at 11:20 passes through the north european plain, ural mountains, gobi desert, manchurian taigas, not sure what he meant there
@@treydonnell2871 the models are wrong over and over again. Hence why SO MANY models are made and constantly adjusted because despite many models they are never accurate. Also why Scientists have been caught many times falsifying Data in regards to Temperature readings and also why they have constantly gone back and made adjustments to old temperatures to alter them to fit there conclusions instead of admitting their theories are BS. Weather patterns are not more extreme at all as there has been Hurricanes, Blizzards, Tornadoes, Heat Waves, Droughts etc for all of human history. For example at the same time Global Warming Propaganda was saying that Hurricanes were getting more Severe there was at the same time a record span of a decade with no Major hurricanes making US landfall from 2005 on. Another good example is Early Hurricane Landfall. The USA has not seen a Hurricane make landfall in June since 1985. However 100 years earlier in 1886 there were THREE hurricanes that made landfall in June. But I am supposed to believe weather is getting more severe? Another example is 2018 was the FIRST year the USA saw no Major tornadoes. Scientists claimed for years that Antarctica was melting and losing Ice however they were only studying one part of Antarctica. When they went to study another part they had to admitted Ice was GROWING there twice as fast as it was melting in the other location. As recently as a couple of years ago Arctic Ice Minimums set a RECORD HIGH meaning less ice melted over summertime in the Arctic than ever before. I could go on and on with examples that prove Climate Science wrong. The reality is climate is always changing but has nothing to do with Mankind or our emissions. There were hot and cold periods in history long before mankind developed modern technologies. This is natural. Additionally there have been rises and lowering of sea levels constantly throughout history. Glaciers melt and expand constantly throughout history. In the end you could never prove climate change scientifically as there are too many variables that can not be accounted for such as Solar Intensity down to our position in the Galaxy and other phenomenons. Similarly Sea Level rise can never be scientifically tied to Global Warming or Ice. The minuscule level of Sea Level rise we see is vastly blown out of proportion and lied about. Yet this very small rise is always tied to "Climate Change" and subjects like the draining of underground aquifers, disappearance of Lakes (such as Aral Sea) and land reclamation (such as Netherlands) are never even mentioned as the Fake "experts" and Fake "studies" are pushed as propaganda and meant to be just accepted without question by society. In reality this is FAKE Science as real science thrives on doubt and questioning theories. Climate Change Propagandists say the "debate is over" which is actually one of the most blatant Scientifically blasphemous things you can say. This "debate is over" rhetoric is wholly congruent with known Propaganda techniques and in complete contrast to the accepted Scientific Method.
5:55 yeah having lived all my life in Milan I was wondering about this so I looked up on wikipedia recently and it seems that originally, in the roman version of the city, there was a tiny cutey river passing by - plus artificial canals were built at some point so it just shows that water connections are really really useful even though that's not the only thing that can contribute to make a city yknow wealthy and good and stuff
I just want to say that the numbers for shop efficiency can fluctuate quite often. I live in a city of about only 160,000 people, and we have an Apple store in our mall. We are the largest city for a couple hundred miles, so I imagine that the rarity of cities in an area can dictate the shops as well.
It is affected a lot by how many people in the surrounding area in smaller cities are willing to travel to reach a store. The town I live in has a population of 25,000, but 23 car mechanic shops. However, over half of the mechanics in my county of ~80,000 are within city limits even though around 2/3 of the population doesn't live in city limits. So clearly by placing themselves in the economic center of the county, these shops are drawing in people living in a 20 mile radius. In fact, all of the towing companies in the county are located within my town.
So much that might be said, but if you permit moving the most optimum single city a bit, it could be in the Indus Valley, an actual site of earliest civilization.
ThomasRocksU Not as much as you might think, until recently. We're in a Goldilocks period. The last 10,000 years had been remarkable stable, preceded by repeating ice ages of the Pleistocene up to about 500,000 years age. Here's a useful perspective. muchadoaboutclimate.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/blog4_temp.png
People can though. And cities are just a bunch of people in the same place. So cities can't move, but people can move from a bad city to a better city. Over time, the better city will grow at the expense of the bad city shrinking. Effectively, the city has moved. This has happened thousands of times over history, as new technology made bad cities better and good cities relatively worse. Cities don't move. But people do. And ultimately, cities are just nothing more than people. Compare it to natural selection. Individuals don't change, but species do. Because the individual is just a natural emergent property of the species. Similarly, cities are an emergent property of people. Cities don't move. But people do.
How did you compute the average location of everybody on Earth? Because in reality that either depends on the projection youre using or is in the center of the Earth. Also why is average location a good indicator of a nearly qualitative idea (the characteristics of a good city)?
I'd guess you find where it is on a 3D scale (basically, where in the middle of the earth it is) and then draw a line between the center and that point. Then see where that line passes through the surface of the earth.
And apparently the core of the earth is a ok place to put cities because it has a Tonna resources and there’s an ocean of lava which is an ocean. And apparently below care about whether there’s burning Lava
It doesn’t matter what projection you use, whatever projection you use whether the pacific is on the sides of is in the middle or gal peter or Mercator, if you average every location of humans it will be in the Indian subcontinent region. Just likes how the avg location if you average the location of every American you will end up in Missouri. If you flip the US map upside down, it will still average in Missouri.
But, wait a second... If there was only one city in the world, it wouldn't need to be near a body of water because there would be no other cities to ship goods to or from... Right?
Uh..okay. Obviously you need fresh water and rivers... What I meant by body of water was like an ocean or a large river that connects to an ocean. You know, like he explains it in this video.
+Ray Evans Yes, but not all resources wold be close to the city. They still need to get resources they don't have from somewhere. If the city is near a body of water, it can travel to islands, or make land trips shorter( ships).
Dhaka is also bang in the middle of the largest delta in the world formed by Ganges and Brahmaputra. As a matter of fact, the area shown at the end to be the most suitable area to live (north India) is also the doab region containing the flood plains of Ganges and Yamuna. As such, people came and settled here and survived (because of alluvial soil, water sources, good produce etc) and today contain India's most populous states of UP, Bihar, Delhi, West Bengal and Bangladesh (a sovereign nation). Also you will still need other resources for a city to function (so close to a large body of water is important). Food is perishable - so it is better to have cities in areas where good farm land is available.
"Block" is not used so frequently in non-grid cities. But anyway, usually you can define a "block" easily unless the road network at your town is acyclic...
Blocks were partially developed as an intrinsic defensive and crowd control structure for cities. Compared to open landscape or convoluted "organic" city plans with difficult to control backstreets, it is easier for a relatively few number of people to control a city by barricading strategic intersections.
Jack Gardel Well. Most of the Civ series had squares. It's either 4 or 5-6 where it started to have hexes. I think. I don't play Civ so don't take my word for it.
No. They're hexagons because Civilization is a strategy *game*. Hexagons allow for 6 adjacent move options. That opens up a lot more interesting things in design because you can use the number "3", such as requiring 3 adjacent resources to do something on a tile or having 3 units surrounding an enemy traps it. The square also doesn't approximate the circle as well as the hexagon, with the hexagon being the next step up in the most simple regular shape that isn't really confusing (pentagons).
"Southern Hemisphere contains 32% of the world's landmass". But 30% (5.4 million square miles) of the Southern Hemisphere is Antarctica. So, really you're looking at 22% (as in 0.7*0.32) of the world's landmass is in the hospitable part of the southern hemisphere.
A major advantage in the development of Dhaka Bangladesh is that the site of the original city is elevated above the surrounding plains. These plains are subject to annual flooding by rivers descending from the Himalayas. When I worked in Dhaka in 1984, a domestic flight returning to Dhaka from a district capital city crash-landed on the floodplain in several meters of water and all passengers and crew drowned. Many intercity roads leading to Dhaka are built on embankments. Today the roads are much improved, wide enough, and built solidly enough so that cars do not have to move to the shoulders of these intercity roads. Formerly, a car or truck might move onto the shoulder to allow an oncoming bus to pass and tumble down the embankment either into a dry or flooded field, depending on the season.
I thought the world city would be Constantinople (Or Istanbul as it's called nowadays). It has lots of water, Easily defendable due to it's geography, close enough to mountains and it had history to back it up. But it turned out to be Dhaka but I'm still not convinced since the flooding is too strong in the region.
Istanbul is the most strategically located city (or was at least until Suez canal was opened). Anyway, Dhaka is too far inside Indian subcontinent. Any other place in the Mediterranean would be a better choice.
If Bangladesh has floods, Turkey has earthquakes. Istanbul is a container port though, and Dhaka isn't. It's also water gateway to the farmlands of Ukraine and southern Russia, which are even more fertile than the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Is Istanbul's water supply stressed given it's population, I wonder? That could be a factor in putting the world's biggest city there again.
Paul Bickmore1 I guess but it's still a better place than Dhaka Which also has Earthquakes alongside very powerful Cyclones since the bay if Bengal funnels Cyclones into Bangladesh :/
For hundreds of years we call Istanbul as Istanbul. Not nowadays. Consantinople was located at the historical peninsula (south of Golden Horn) of Istanbul City and just a little part of it. The important city centers like Kadikoy, Besiktas, Sisli and Sarıyer are NOT located at once Constantinople's land. So calling Constantinople as for these places and the rest of the city would be very wrong while most of the population is living outside of this area.
What a world we live in. School has taught people to develop critical thinking. You can see it in the comments pointing out to things that don't make sense in this vid. This video is like someone's paper which as a great deal of opinion over just plain facts. There are more cities in the north because there are more people in the north. The numbers would be a lot different if you took China and India out of the equation. The "long" extension of land east west doesn't make sense. Most of the land marked by the arrow shown in Eurasia refers Central Asia and Siberia, hardly populated. Overall, I'd give a B+ to this paper.
@@theultumateprezes6379 He marked a city in Belgium or The Netherlands ... The largest city there is 1,2M. Maybe he's looking at metropolitan areas, which are a lot larger then how most cities are defined in Europe.
loved the video, I just want to say, as a resident of the Cumberland valley, these towns have grown dramatically in the last 30 years, and as you said, are still population centers of a more suburban landscape. It's mostly warehouses these days.
Human Geo is really interesting, especially when you start to see all the connections to real life and see all those theories and concepts being applied.
6:11 "Fourteen of the fifteen largest cities of the world are within a few dozen miles of the oceans" ... and that 15th city, my dear friends, is undoubtedly New Delhi, India
Thanks, now I know the science why my city (Dhaka) has so many people! It's true, Dhaka is in the center of Bangladesh which has very fertile land to provide all the foods for so many people and has many rivers to provide easy access and fresh water.
If the largest, most powerful city on Earth were located in Bangladesh though, you can bet the world's civil engineers would make it their singular goal to control that flooding.
13:30 i’m sorry to be that person. It’s just that the country(s) with the English flag on is actually England AND Wales. I don’t think people care that much, but still.
In the far west of Germany where I live it is the same. But I would add that I looked up the towns mentioned in the video and they have on average between 5000 and 15000 inhabitants. They are not little villages. "Little" are for me villages with 500-1000 inhabitants, like the one I am from.
Rivers: Rivers are also essential (in addition to transport) because they: * tend to have clay deposits; * tend to contain food sources (eg. fish, crustaceans, molluscs) * wash away undesired outcomes (eg. bodily wastes, industrial wastes) * promote soil fertility Mountains: Consider the role of mountain ranges on rain, especially, and on the formation of rivers. Rule of thumb: Never build on a floodplain!
Bruh! This was amazing to listen too. If only this could have been like a 2 hour lecture! This makes me so happy about my country Bangladesh, whilst living here in the UK. Not many bengalis would know this..
Bangladesh is basically Ganges delta, Ganges has the largest delta in the world and too much water. A little towards the West and into India would be a better location. Indo-Gangetic plains extend from Pakistan all across Northern India and into Bangladesh.
Not all all. I live in Dhaka, and Dhaka is nowhere near to 'flooding'. Bangladesh, on the other hand, has many rural areas that flood often. But not Dhaka itself, not even close to where Dhaka is actually
I live in Carlisle PA (one of the towns mentioned in this video) and I was watching this video in the Taco Bell parking lot. When you said "Where do you go for something more specialized, like a mechanic?" I realized I was right across the street from JiffyLube. Craziest coincidence I've ever had.
I live in a city called Manizales in Colombia and eventhough the city and landscape is completely beautifull...The city is literarilly in top of several mountains making it hard to build roads, buildings and a better airport.Anyway, we have the best quality of life in Colombia(statistics say it).Very cool video!😄
呂紹熙 yeah. You are right. Maybe that's why Colombian's capital city, Bogota, has grown so much, even though is very high on the mountains. And is because its altitude gives it a fresh weather all year long, and you don't have to suffer the heat of the tropics.
I study geography. and when I did my exam about urban spaces I realized that I haven't studied sufficiently. So when the professor asked me" tell me why cities are where they are" this video came to mind and literally saved me . thank you wendover productions
I loved this video! When I was at Leavenworth, KS and explained to my classmates why towns in the US were almost uniformly between 10-12 miles apart up until the 100th Meridian West in the US due to people being able to walk the maximum of 6 miles to and from their farm to a place of commerce they looked at me like I had a banana growing out of my forehead... Would have loved to have shown them this video! PS I grew up in Mechanicsburg, PA which was featured in this video.
I get where you are coming from , but Wendover actually quoted at 0:52 "Each one of these towns were founded before the formation of the United States , so that means of course nobody had cars and -pretty much everybody walked everywhere "...... Everybody walked everywhere ? Yeah i am pretty sure they had horse & cart transportation back in the 1700's though . I'm starting to wonder whether the person who narrated / wrote the script for the video has a banana growing out of their forehead Lol .
@@MERCURYSUNSET horses and carts were used rarely in the colonial era unless transporting goods. Horses were very expensive and were used mainly for transporting goods and plowing fields. People walked a lot. Fact.
@@patrickwentz8413 Yes people walked a lot but not to the extent that Wendover implied. A 5- 10 mile walk in the middle of winter would have been impossible in PA .
+Celina k They started I crash corse (now discontinued) about Human Geography in which they said they were not fond of the idea that the geography of a region is responsible for the success of a civilization, empire or people. They criticized a book called Guns,Germs and Steel that apperently is very regarded by some people. They adopted a humanistic point of view instead of a critical one. People got very upset and they were forced to stop the series. Watch: "A Note on CC Human Geography".
Carlos Almeida oh so like a resource vs idealistic reasons to go to war. But with geography, and societal, philosophic and religious reasons too probably. I mean it could be interesting, there are plenty of history channels if that's what people wanted, meh.
Celina k Carlos gave the general idea, but based on his perspective. The series was terminated after it received backlash from people that didn't seem to understand the point the channel was making. They saw a girl that looked like a hipster/feminist and that is a sin on the Internet. Being a girl is bad enough but once you add the elements I gave, plus a point of view that triggers racist that don't understand the message and you get a whole series being deleted and terminated before it starts. We can get down to the details of the content itself but this is just a general idea of what I saw. And I consider by point of view as objective. As I dislike both sides equally and had already done some research on the topic of the series (by accident) months before they even announced the new series. And she wasn't wrong on her main point, which, again, most people didn't understand or didn't want to listen to it.
4:16 its no wonder why where I live in Albany NY. We have no high end luxury stores in malls. We have retail shops but no gucci, chanel etc. i always think people’s salaries have to meet the criteria to open a store but also the the population isn’t that large. Good point
1.Mountains also cause a rain shadow effect that influences city location by reducing rainfall. 2. Your Map of England contained Wales for some reason. 3. Dhaka would be great...until climate change caused rising sea levels and then it wouldn't be so great., but more underwater. BTW,, I love your work
Only one side experiences rain shadow. Look at the Himalayas, the Indo-Gangetic plains in India is the most fertile region and, the other side of Himalayas, Tibet is mostly uninhabitable. Rains come from the Indian Ocean and India takes all of it.
Another great example is right in the pacific northwest US. Every one sees Oregon/Washington as nothing but lush forest and mountains but that's not true. In fact, all of eastern oregon and washington are highland desert because the cascade mountain range creates a massive rain shadow.
+ChemicalFun27 Yeah, you don't have to worry about that because you're to busy just trying to understand how do you even make money in that game. That trade system WTF! EU is crazy man. It's too damn complicated!
i freaking hate humans sometimes. the video is not suggesting that present day Dhaka is the optimal place to live. He is simply stating that from a geographical point of view based on how cities were developed in the best, that this would be the best spot to start from scratch. no one is telling you to live there, so why bash the weather, economy or vaguely throw shade at religious practices and beliefs.
the weather would remain fairly similar to what it is now, if we had to start again, so that part at least is valid, but the rest of your point is right
well. there is a difference between weather and climate you know. the climate (lasting - what is sustained over the course of years) is getting worse. - Bangladesh is due to global warming under extreme threat of being completely annihilated within the next 100-200 years. Dhaka will most probably be the first major city in the world to get completely devoured by the ocean, due to how we're fucking up the climate. so no. Dhaka isn't really a good point to start civilization from scratch at, with present day knowledge. humanity doesn't look thousands of years ahead! we know as a species what is awaiting our descendants in a single century and still most don't give the slightest fuck. with that in mind, Dhaka would be the worst place to start civilization from scratch. with that in mind, the best would most probably be to start civilization from scratch somewhere where there are absolutely no resources for humans to exploit, for the city to tumble down in some megahole they created, extremely high in the sky not to get swallowed by the ocean and to not get affected by a future nuclear winter. i would say Bhutan or Nepal. those are my candidates. pretty safe place for humanity to hide from itself and save civilization from itself, in order to recreate the mess all over again!
Well they can be so stupid that a reasonable individual leans towards hate. Like all the people freaking out over global warming who still travel thousands of miles a year, spewing Co2 all the way. If you love your planet stay home or walk.
Dhaka actually was one of the richest and most prosperous cities on earth, even few centuries ago. During the Mughal era the bengal subah (state) alone contributed 13% of global GDP with Dhaka being it's capital. Armenians, Portugese, Biharis, Marathas, English, Dutch, French, Arabs and so many other people lived here and did business, which made it the center of the world back then. That is why Bengalis look so diverse, we're a complex race of dark/light skinned, short/tall people of every face shapes. The ultra luxurious/elite fabric "Muslin" originated from Dhaka, not Mosul. Hundreds of years of constant oppression and looting of colonizers, wars, natural disasters, riots and etc damaged Dhaka and surrounding. But its quickly improving. Dhaka city has five rivers in/around it. Ocean isn't too far away, mountains with rich minerals are close as well. The Bengal Delta makes the region the most fertile soil of the planet. Every inch of Dhaka and surrounding is arable land.
Dhaka is the best place to "put a city on". Not the best city.... I live there so I know.... And this video made me more sad than inspired, realising that we are not only letting down our country but the world itself....
@@evanray8413 Dude only said vertically. Climate changes no matter what direction you're going. He drew a line from France to Russia and said "they all have roughly the same climate". He couldn't be ANYMORE wrong. You're telling me there's arable land in the Gobi Desert? There's a desert in the Swiss Alps? Come on now...
@@shchorss Climate changes A LOT more vertically as opposed to horizontally... Check FL to TX to Cali as opposed to traveling the entire Pacific Coast or I-95 from FL to Maine. Imagine traveling the equator vs. traveling between the north and south pole.
French empire at its largest extent was 15 mil km2 Portuguese empire at its largest extent was about 10 mil km2 Here's my source: books.google.com/books?id=5wIXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false
+Wendover Productions And 9:34 Detroit DOES NOT have over 2 million residents. They have less than 700,000 residents due to corruption. Check your facts, have you never seen Detroit blight?
Also knowns as Christaller's central spaces theory. Its nice to see someone putting some light on the most basic thing to look when planning a city's expansion and relations
Australian develop of towns and cities is fascinating because most of the towns were founded late 1800s and thus the development is low density. Australian cities have immense urban sprawl due to them primarily developing in the mid 1900s. Australians have one of the highest uses of cars in the world per capita, and it is extremely hard to live without access to one unless you live close to a central business district. Australian population also has well over 95% of the population within 50km of the coast, despite most resources being inland. The reason for this is becasue people live along coast and only workers travel inland, transiting to the coast to get supplies. Once again, Australian spread was limited for half a century because of the Great Dividing Range, preventing early development in the more fertile inland areas of the Murray-Darling Basin. The indigenous people's of Australia did not develop cities earlier, despite being 50,000 year old culture, because there is no domesticated plant breeds in Australia. There are no native grains or crops that could be grown to domesticated use. T
Joel Reid I live in a 10,000 person town in WA, we mine coal here. We are a 45min drive away from the ocean, I reckon because it's close to my coal mining town, which means efficiency . The town that has the ocean is bunbury. And sure enough it's got 200,000 people and unlimited cargo ships. It also has a lot of services.
I am going to presume you live in or near Collie then. First: 45min by car from a large centre is actually a really long distance in most countries when travelling to a central hub. If you are in Collie you are about 55km away from Bunbury (34 miles)... which as shown in the video is over twice the distance for towns in the US and Europe. To put tha tin perspective: a person carrying a load will walk about 30km per day comfortably, but could manage more if they were fit and weather was comfortable. Thus a trip to those "services" by foot would not be a day trip, it would take the whole weekend, presuming you do not stay long. here in Australia we think this is a reasonable distance for town to be apart, but as I indicated in my comment, Australia was developed post industrial revolution, thus has had access to rail and car for most of its existence. Collie was founded in 1897, which is why there are no similar sized towns within walkign distance... becasue it was developed as a "remote" settlement (with the introduction of cars that is no longer true). It was also developed directly as a result of the industrial revolution... for coal. Collie is actually a perfect example of the reason Australia is different to Europe and the US.
Mark Raymond the requirement for a grain to be domesticated is that it can not drop its seeds. There are no native grains in Australia that keep their seeds on the stalk. All Australian grains either rely on unpredictable weather patterns or drop their seeds too rapidly and thus harder to harvest in large quantities. Fruits and other food sources are not easily preservable (unlike grains which store easy in dry conditions).
The Yangtze basin around Nanjing would be far more optimal than Bangladesh, greater amount of agricultural land, not as hot of a climate and less risk of flooding and disease.
Ahmad Hussein Haha very nicely said, I'm from there, although that region severely lacks minerals and other strategic resources. The Chinese had to move tons resources from the north to the Yangtze basin including coal, iron, oil so on so forth. Without the northern and western China, that region what not have been what it is today. And it lacks natural defence/barriers as well for that matter, it's rather flat.
You've no idea how hard it is to not laugh at the pun in your channel's name, I'm sure others have commented about it to the dead and maybe seem childish, but when you repeat it so much at the end, is nearly impossible to avoid it. Great video by the way, this helps a lot.
What a surprise to open the video to seeing towns that I've stepped foot in, I live in Harrisburg. All those cities are notorious for the *way too busy* I-81 that goes from town to town. Past harrisburg to the right you've got Hershey, yes the home of the chocolate, which is also a little over 10 miles away. Further heading west on chocolate avenue, hershey's most popular street, you'll have a bunch of more towns which vary in distance, but are all under 10-15 miles including Cleona, Annville, Lebanon, Myerstown, Womelsdorf, Robesonia and so on of small towns until you hit the bigger cities of Reading/Wyomissing. A handful of other cities connect further southeast until you hit philly. It's interesting to look at in detail how carefully placed cities were generations ago, it made it possible to travel far and still be able to reach a city within a span of time on foot. Great video!
Daniel McDonough hi, because of the fact that it is a River Delta, it's common to have floods in Bangladesh. it's part of life over there and people have learned to live with it and improve conditions with control methods for a long long time. 50-60 years ago floods would have been major concerns and threats, but it is much better now. Changes in natural weather cycles due to Global Warming and rising sea levels are becoming more of a concern though
Flood season kills a tonne of people and causes billions of dollars in damages. You constantly need to rebuild stuff in monsoon areas. Not to mention the diseases that are rife in wet areas.
Ever heard of Venice? They are flooded 365 days of the year for centuries. Admitedly, the floods do limit how far technology can develop in this specific place. A lot of hte technology to life there modernly has to be developed elsewhere.
What is the chance that I’d watch a Wendover Productions video that features not just one place I have visited, but a whole chain right when the video starts, sweet
Bangladesh: Theoretically, a great place to live!
Hausser THEORETICALLY.
Not theorethically, is pretty bad.
Salt!
Yep, if you look away from hostile nations invading you and stealing your shit.
yeah if you don't consider cyclones and flooding
It's true that the Southern Hemisphere has about 32% of the land, but about over a quarter of that is Antarctica...
Tbf the north has siberia, greenland, and northern canada.
@@kartman568 Yes but the south has Australia and the Amazon Rainforest - as well as a pretty sparsely populated region of Africa.
kartman568 how about Alaska????
@@westernyay1701 Practically Canadian.
Catherine Conlon my cousin lives in Alaska (anchorage ) and is us citizen .. Also it's a us state get over yourself.
One of the best thing I like about this channel is that your English is really understandable to me as a foreign English speaker. Thanks for informative and inspring videos.
Start of video: They’re 5 towns in Pennsylvania that are exactly 10 miles apart
End of video: If the human race were to start over again the center of civilization would be Bangladesh
Me: Dang that escalated quickly
Vsauce parallels
That us talking deeply after some herbs. 🤣
You will be amazed how the story unfolds.
i live in Pennsylvania!
humanity gonna end soon
@@ashish9urun9 should it be mumbai instead..LMAO
Where do you put something more specialized, like a mechanic?
In Mechanicsburg, of course...
THANK YOU!!
Duh.
Mechanicsville actually,
a real place that is much larger to support car repair
I live in Mechanicsburg, kinda cool to see it in a video
god damnit i commented this ajd didbt see ur comment
This fifteen minute video just conveyed the same amount of information as a year long AP Human Geography class taught me.
it be like that
my aphug teacher played this lol
While having a pedagogical teacher is important and can spark enthusiasm, it is largely up to you how much you actually get out of your education. While entertaining and informative, these types of videos don't really teach you how to think critically and solve problems.
@@elise3455 That can't be taught, or at least it usually isn't. Just look at all the morons out there with multiple master degrees. Countless prolific examples as well as peer reviewed studies say this.
This 15 minute video is one persons view on the subject .
Question it like you would if you were in the classroom .
Information is only as good as the person receiving it really .
Not to make a fuss but something that stood out at 0:52 was the quote "Each one of these towns were founded before the formation of the United States , so that means of course nobody had cars and pretty much everybody walked everywhere "
True , nobody had cars but the 1700's weren't so far back in history that people didn't have access to horse & cart transport ..
These towns would not have sprung up based on people walking around everywhere .
Anyway it is minor point i guess but this gets the antennas up to detect for other discrepancies in these " information " style videos. Cheers .
I was shocked at the end! I’m living here in Dhaka and it seems like most residents have no choice but to live here because of jobs and education. But, proper planning and order can make the city a great place to live. There must be some good reasons why this city was chosen as capital 5 times during last 400 years by different empires.
Vector Galore It’s all about geographical advantages like near mountain and near sea. Not about current metropolitan facilities.
@@md.alfayed I'm not talking about whole India. In 1604, during Mughal reign, Dhaka was the capital of Sub-e-Bangla. In 1947, it was made capital of East Pakistan. And after 1971 onwards, it is the capital of Bangladesh.
This video just says its geographically ideal. So you need a lot of investment to make bangladesh reach its full potential. Also it explains why bangladesh is growing this fast.
I am Bengali. When heard Dhaka as the best place for a city, my brain just stopped functioning. I couldn't comprehend Dhaka being the best place for a city. I just was thinking "How? How?"
It had high amounts of rivers before
Unfortunately because of floods, cyclones and earthquakes, Dhaka is maybe not the best place.
dont forget the monster tornadoes that happen in bangladesh that nobody seems to know about
Lol... Floods and cyclone don't happen in Dhaka ... Earthquakes are very rare and weak...what are you talking about??
@@FATTYBONGRIPS what??
@@bluefairy7304 floods and cyclones DO happen in dhaka. tornadoes also do happen alot
@@FATTYBONGRIPS I live in Dhaka... Do you know more than me??? The city is full of high rises...how can tornado hit Dhaka?? Crazy
population: 500,000
man leaves Connecticut to pursue a job in Atlanta, Georgia
population: 499,999 people
next day: BREAKING NEWS APPLE TRUMBULL STORE HAS GONE OUT OF BUSINESS AS THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE TO SUSTAIN IT
Connecticut gang 🔥🔥
trumbull gang 🤟🤟
Lol
Apple would just bump up the price of it's phones to it's loyal fans, it's the Apple way after all and they have to keep profits rising so they'll take it out on the loyal fans lol.
@@paul1979uk2000 i can smell how angry you are at apple for seemingly no reason
This went from some random towns in Pennsylvania, to Starbucks and Apple, and finally to Dhaka being the ideal city. Wow.
Wacky shit
Dhaka is a nightmare,more shittier than our shittiest city delhi
"Since MacBooks are purchased less frequently, they need a larger amount of people to sustain them"
MattressFirm: I don't have such weaknesses
Mattress Firm is a money laundering scheme
Allow me to add that Milan is directly connected to the rivers that lead to the sea. It’s cathedral, the third largest in the world, was constructed entirely with materials brought all the way to the city center by river. There is even a place in Milan called “sea port” (porto di mare).
Civilization 5 disagrees with this video. Settling near the ocean always gets you killed by England.
Where Else Should I But The Glorious City Of Venice? If It's Not On The Sea I Can't Trade With Literally Everyone And Get All The Monies.
I disagree with the whole video because I got nuked by Gandhi
You've got to settle in a defencive spot, from sea and land.
WOULD YOU LIKE A TRADE AGREEMENT WITH ENGLAND?
@@ReyndOut dont do it
Lol, Bangladesh clearly not living to its full potential right there.
Heyyy it's the place where my shirt was made ... I'm guessing that's why there are so many sweatshops there ?
Not for long... Bangladesh will spring back up and it already is. Love from India
And now Mr Modi, Indian's PM, wants to send elderly Muslims from India to retire in Bangladesh because they don't carry a birth certificate to prove they are Indian.
The problem there is the land is very low lying and floods when the sea so much as has a burp. It isn't easy to develop land that constantly floods
I sort of disagree. Everyone knows Bangladesh. It's well-known to at least China, Russia, and America. Its exports are pretty heavy. It's also Islamic, which despite being second in population to Christianity, Islam is growing while Christianity is shrinking. So, yeah, the data actually makes sense.
To all the people mentioning the high flood risk in Dhaka, remember that flood plains are a very real thing and a very prominent feature of massive megaregions throughout ancient history. No wonder for all its life that region has been reaming with people, it just makes sense.
Byzantium
Yes, I agree. Extremely fertile land (the floods leave an annual deposit of silt), plentiful supply of food, hundreds and hundreds of rivers making travel and transport of goods an effortless affair, tropical hot weather with plenty of sunshine and rainfall helping a wide variety of agricultural produce grow easily, the flat land means it's easy to build on and develop. For these reasons, humans have thrived in this region since prehistorical times.
Bob T why isn't this comment first?
The floods in Dhaka are largely due to the shitty (nonexistent) drainage systems.
Alright so, I live in Dhaka, and there's virtually no flood risk in here. The coasts? Absolutely. Dhaka? Not a million years.
It is so rare to hit a flood in Dhaka!
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You used the correct flag for England.
That is so rare it deserves an applause and we'll ignore the fact that you included Wales in the land mass.
Most people ignore Wales though.
Whales is a Canada oytpost so it is not existant
Fuck you Englishman.
Wales is a country fuck off
3:36 that is the Union Jack the combined flag of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales
The St. George’s flag used f9r England is red and white
@@quwuirkyturkey bro Wales is a dump
Have you been playing Civ lately?
He ragequit when he found 3 barbarian camps located near his city, and they kept stealing his workers.
lol
*****
lel
don't settle bangladesh, you'll get nuked by Gandhi
Were those barbarian camps sent by the leg- Wait wrong game.
That line of similar climates that he drew at 11:20 passes through the north european plain, ural mountains, gobi desert, manchurian taigas, not sure what he meant there
Probably didn't want to take the time to explain the more sinewave-like line of similar climate.
because all climate knowledge and theories now adays are bullshit due to global warming propaganda
@@thomasdemay9805 Right, rather than the models not being able to predict consistently more extreme weather patterns.
@@treydonnell2871 the models are wrong over and over again. Hence why SO MANY models are made and constantly adjusted because despite many models they are never accurate. Also why Scientists have been caught many times falsifying Data in regards to Temperature readings and also why they have constantly gone back and made adjustments to old temperatures to alter them to fit there conclusions instead of admitting their theories are BS. Weather patterns are not more extreme at all as there has been Hurricanes, Blizzards, Tornadoes, Heat Waves, Droughts etc for all of human history. For example at the same time Global Warming Propaganda was saying that Hurricanes were getting more Severe there was at the same time a record span of a decade with no Major hurricanes making US landfall from 2005 on. Another good example is Early Hurricane Landfall. The USA has not seen a Hurricane make landfall in June since 1985. However 100 years earlier in 1886 there were THREE hurricanes that made landfall in June. But I am supposed to believe weather is getting more severe? Another example is 2018 was the FIRST year the USA saw no Major tornadoes. Scientists claimed for years that Antarctica was melting and losing Ice however they were only studying one part of Antarctica. When they went to study another part they had to admitted Ice was GROWING there twice as fast as it was melting in the other location. As recently as a couple of years ago Arctic Ice Minimums set a RECORD HIGH meaning less ice melted over summertime in the Arctic than ever before. I could go on and on with examples that prove Climate Science wrong. The reality is climate is always changing but has nothing to do with Mankind or our emissions. There were hot and cold periods in history long before mankind developed modern technologies. This is natural. Additionally there have been rises and lowering of sea levels constantly throughout history. Glaciers melt and expand constantly throughout history. In the end you could never prove climate change scientifically as there are too many variables that can not be accounted for such as Solar Intensity down to our position in the Galaxy and other phenomenons. Similarly Sea Level rise can never be scientifically tied to Global Warming or Ice. The minuscule level of Sea Level rise we see is vastly blown out of proportion and lied about. Yet this very small rise is always tied to "Climate Change" and subjects like the draining of underground aquifers, disappearance of Lakes (such as Aral Sea) and land reclamation (such as Netherlands) are never even mentioned as the Fake "experts" and Fake "studies" are pushed as propaganda and meant to be just accepted without question by society. In reality this is FAKE Science as real science thrives on doubt and questioning theories. Climate Change Propagandists say the "debate is over" which is actually one of the most blatant Scientifically blasphemous things you can say. This "debate is over" rhetoric is wholly congruent with known Propaganda techniques and in complete contrast to the accepted Scientific Method.
@@thomasdemay9805 shut the fuck up virgin
5:55 yeah having lived all my life in Milan I was wondering about this so I looked up on wikipedia recently and it seems that originally, in the roman version of the city, there was a tiny cutey river passing by - plus artificial canals were built at some point so it just shows that water connections are really really useful even though that's not the only thing that can contribute to make a city yknow wealthy and good and stuff
I just want to say that the numbers for shop efficiency can fluctuate quite often. I live in a city of about only 160,000 people, and we have an Apple store in our mall. We are the largest city for a couple hundred miles, so I imagine that the rarity of cities in an area can dictate the shops as well.
It is affected a lot by how many people in the surrounding area in smaller cities are willing to travel to reach a store. The town I live in has a population of 25,000, but 23 car mechanic shops. However, over half of the mechanics in my county of ~80,000 are within city limits even though around 2/3 of the population doesn't live in city limits. So clearly by placing themselves in the economic center of the county, these shops are drawing in people living in a 20 mile radius. In fact, all of the towing companies in the county are located within my town.
So much that might be said, but if you permit moving the most optimum single city a bit, it could be in the Indus Valley, an actual site of earliest civilization.
achtungcircus +
hasn't the climate changed since the dawn of recorded civilizations though?
ThomasRocksU yes xkcd.com/1732/
And what was your point with that?
ThomasRocksU
Not as much as you might think, until recently.
We're in a Goldilocks period. The last 10,000 years had been remarkable stable, preceded by repeating ice ages of the Pleistocene up to about 500,000 years age. Here's a useful perspective.
muchadoaboutclimate.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/blog4_temp.png
I don't think so
because cities can't move
People can though. And cities are just a bunch of people in the same place. So cities can't move, but people can move from a bad city to a better city. Over time, the better city will grow at the expense of the bad city shrinking. Effectively, the city has moved. This has happened thousands of times over history, as new technology made bad cities better and good cities relatively worse. Cities don't move. But people do. And ultimately, cities are just nothing more than people.
Compare it to natural selection. Individuals don't change, but species do. Because the individual is just a natural emergent property of the species. Similarly, cities are an emergent property of people. Cities don't move. But people do.
moon knight what about trailer parks?
moon knight you sure?
Tell that to Detroit lmao
moon knight the can when they grow, earthquake, and tectonic movments
How did you compute the average location of everybody on Earth? Because in reality that either depends on the projection youre using or is in the center of the Earth. Also why is average location a good indicator of a nearly qualitative idea (the characteristics of a good city)?
I'd guess you find where it is on a 3D scale (basically, where in the middle of the earth it is) and then draw a line between the center and that point. Then see where that line passes through the surface of the earth.
Haha and all of those extremely poor people in India...
The center human civilization is the core of the earth not bangaladash.
And apparently the core of the earth is a ok place to put cities because it has a Tonna resources and there’s an ocean of lava which is an ocean. And apparently below care about whether there’s burning Lava
It doesn’t matter what projection you use, whatever projection you use whether the pacific is on the sides of is in the middle or gal peter or Mercator, if you average every location of humans it will be in the Indian subcontinent region.
Just likes how the avg location if you average the location of every American you will end up in Missouri. If you flip the US map upside down, it will still average in Missouri.
But, wait a second... If there was only one city in the world, it wouldn't need to be near a body of water because there would be no other cities to ship goods to or from... Right?
You got a point, but it is just theoretically ;)
Uh..okay. Obviously you need fresh water and rivers... What I meant by body of water was like an ocean or a large river that connects to an ocean. You know, like he explains it in this video.
No need to be patronising
+Ray Evans
Yes, but not all resources wold be close to the city. They still need to get resources they don't have from somewhere. If the city is near a body of water, it can travel to islands, or make land trips shorter( ships).
Dhaka is also bang in the middle of the largest delta in the world formed by Ganges and Brahmaputra. As a matter of fact, the area shown at the end to be the most suitable area to live (north India) is also the doab region containing the flood plains of Ganges and Yamuna. As such, people came and settled here and survived (because of alluvial soil, water sources, good produce etc) and today contain India's most populous states of UP, Bihar, Delhi, West Bengal and Bangladesh (a sovereign nation).
Also you will still need other resources for a city to function (so close to a large body of water is important). Food is perishable - so it is better to have cities in areas where good farm land is available.
"How many miles would you walk to buy a Macbook?" lol Zero
None, order it on your phone, Mr. GeekSquad.
I would order it online. So from my couch to the front door.
I wouldn't even want a mac in the first place the quality to price ratio is too damn high.
Mister.P unKnow PC master race
Absolutely true. Buy it online ffs
He said best place to put a city. not best place to live. very different
current cities in that area could also be sitting on a gold mine for all we can hypothesis.
I disagreed with what he said until I saw this comment
This is regardless of government or economic reasons..just on the parameters he discussed.....makes sense.
The whole concept of blocks is really weird to me, towns I’ve grown up in always just have roads instead of structured blocks
"Block" is not used so frequently in non-grid cities. But anyway, usually you can define a "block" easily unless the road network at your town is acyclic...
How to say you've never been to Chicago, New York, Paris, Washington, Los Angeles, San Diego...etc...etc. Without saying so.
@@boxsterman77 No it's how to say that you've never visited a place with more then 100 people per square mile, without saying it.
Blocks were partially developed as an intrinsic defensive and crowd control structure for cities. Compared to open landscape or convoluted "organic" city plans with difficult to control backstreets, it is easier for a relatively few number of people to control a city by barricading strategic intersections.
@@IamNerfDart also flipside = youve never visited place with less than 20k ppl sq/m
Ironically, Dhaka was sadly hit hard with a 5.5 magnitude earthquake today. The city is also a tsunami target.
George Moore 5.5 is nothing, it starts gtting crazy until you hit 8
Except for Dhaka is 400KM away from nearest sea.
+Rodrigo Heckel dont forget the houses build with no restrictions an made of crap in this country...
5.5 is pretty strong...
Tell that 5.5 to Haiti lol
1:45 Is this why tiles in The Civilization Series are hexagons?
Jack Gardel Well. Most of the Civ series had squares. It's either 4 or 5-6 where it started to have hexes. I think. I don't play Civ so don't take my word for it.
It was 5 that introduced Hexes, made the game much better IMO
Jack Gardel It's the same reason that bee's honeycomb is made of hexagons. It's the most efficient way to subdivide space.
Jack Gardel D&D also uses hexagons.
No. They're hexagons because Civilization is a strategy *game*. Hexagons allow for 6 adjacent move options. That opens up a lot more interesting things in design because you can use the number "3", such as requiring 3 adjacent resources to do something on a tile or having 3 units surrounding an enemy traps it. The square also doesn't approximate the circle as well as the hexagon, with the hexagon being the next step up in the most simple regular shape that isn't really confusing (pentagons).
"Southern Hemisphere contains 32% of the world's landmass".
But 30% (5.4 million square miles) of the Southern Hemisphere is Antarctica. So, really you're looking at 22% (as in 0.7*0.32) of the world's landmass is in the hospitable part of the southern hemisphere.
still 22% and 14%
it's 238% correct.
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Hey Kylirr.
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A major advantage in the development of Dhaka Bangladesh is that the site of the original city is elevated above the surrounding plains. These plains are subject to annual flooding by rivers descending from the Himalayas. When I worked in Dhaka in 1984, a domestic flight returning to Dhaka from a district capital city crash-landed on the floodplain in several meters of water and all passengers and crew drowned.
Many intercity roads leading to Dhaka are built on embankments. Today the roads are much improved, wide enough, and built solidly enough so that cars do not have to move to the shoulders of these intercity roads. Formerly, a car or truck might move onto the shoulder to allow an oncoming bus to pass and tumble down the embankment either into a dry or flooded field, depending on the season.
I thought the world city would be Constantinople (Or Istanbul as it's called nowadays).
It has lots of water, Easily defendable due to it's geography, close enough to mountains and it had history to back it up.
But it turned out to be Dhaka but I'm still not convinced since the flooding is too strong in the region.
Istanbul is the most strategically located city (or was at least until Suez canal was opened). Anyway, Dhaka is too far inside Indian subcontinent. Any other place in the Mediterranean would be a better choice.
If Bangladesh has floods, Turkey has earthquakes. Istanbul is a container port though, and Dhaka isn't. It's also water gateway to the farmlands of Ukraine and southern Russia, which are even more fertile than the Indo-Gangetic Plain.
Is Istanbul's water supply stressed given it's population, I wonder? That could be a factor in putting the world's biggest city there again.
Paul Bickmore1 I guess but it's still a better place than Dhaka Which also has Earthquakes alongside very powerful Cyclones since the bay if Bengal funnels Cyclones into Bangladesh :/
well dhaka is far enough from coast-line to suffer badly due to cyclones but not too far from it.
For hundreds of years we call Istanbul as Istanbul. Not nowadays. Consantinople was located at the historical peninsula (south of Golden Horn) of Istanbul City and just a little part of it. The important city centers like Kadikoy, Besiktas, Sisli and Sarıyer are NOT located at once Constantinople's land. So calling Constantinople as for these places and the rest of the city would be very wrong while most of the population is living outside of this area.
just found this channel now. absolutely love it. peace and love from Indonesia.
This is a great Civ tutorial
david rodriguez fuck in Venice and spawned on a lake
What a world we live in. School has taught people to develop critical thinking. You can see it in the comments pointing out to things that don't make sense in this vid. This video is like someone's paper which as a great deal of opinion over just plain facts.
There are more cities in the north because there are more people in the north. The numbers would be a lot different if you took China and India out of the equation.
The "long" extension of land east west doesn't make sense. Most of the land marked by the arrow shown in Eurasia refers Central Asia and Siberia, hardly populated.
Overall, I'd give a B+ to this paper.
Ha ha this is exactly what I was thinking the whole time.
9:47 there's actually 4 cities in Australia with a population of 2 million or more (Brisbane and Perth were left off).
In Poland, he marked a city of Kraków (1 mln) instead of Warszawa (2 mln)
@@theultumateprezes6379 He marked a city in Belgium or The Netherlands ... The largest city there is 1,2M. Maybe he's looking at metropolitan areas, which are a lot larger then how most cities are defined in Europe.
Melbourne is about 2.7 m and spheres of influence
loved the video, I just want to say, as a resident of the Cumberland valley, these towns have grown dramatically in the last 30 years, and as you said, are still population centers of a more suburban landscape. It's mostly warehouses these days.
I'm at the point where I like your videos before I even see all of it, you make great and reliable content, it's always enjoyable to watch.
Here in the Netherlands most towns are 2km apart
Xenon Tijd is geld voor Nederlanders :P
Jonatan Weenink hahaha
Maybe thats just the best distance for a cyclist society :P Greets from somewhere behind the german border ;)
lampenkabel I like your name 😂😂
you have to ship chocolate and tulips between cities in optimal conditions??
12:43, this region is the northern plains of India. It is suitable for intensive agriculture.
I just realized, this is human geography. Crap! I kinda like it now
Read Guns, Germs, and Steel. This is not a new theory.
Human Geo is really interesting, especially when you start to see all the connections to real life and see all those theories and concepts being applied.
+Atlas Enderium Crash Course reference? ;)
daddyleon I didn't even realize it was, that's what I genuinely thought. I loved human geo when I took it.
I really wanted to follow that too, but sadly.. it wasn't available at my university. But it's a fascinating topic.
Bruh, Brisbane has 2.011 as of 2012. Breaking my heart.
Ahhh I get it now, kinda hard to determine what is and isn't metropolitan area, much like the coast line, depends how you measure.
phillyslasher What? No he didnt
Bruh, class of 2015 Electrical Engineering QUT say 'bruh'.
Quincy Clearly you are not familiar with Internet talk. It's not the same as real life talk.
I am pretty sure he had way too many US cities too, according to a quick google search there is only 4 US cities with 2mil ppl.
10:07 New Zealand doesn't like being cut off this map! :(
Mac Angus what’s New Zealand?
Yeah I’m pretty sure that place doesn’t exist
KINGU CRIMSON my life is a lie... Where am I? who am I if I’m not New Zealander?...
I noticed that as a Kiwi, and thought: it's because NZ has no cities over 2M anyway. But give Auckland a few more years...
lol
6:11 "Fourteen of the fifteen largest cities of the world are within a few dozen miles of the oceans" ... and that 15th city, my dear friends, is undoubtedly New Delhi, India
All credit goes to Fertile planes of Ganges.
The horizontal and vertical expansion blew my mind. It all makes sense now.
he copied it from Guns Germs & Steel without even attributing it
Except if you consider the Inca empire
Thanks, now I know the science why my city (Dhaka) has so many people! It's true, Dhaka is in the center of Bangladesh which has very fertile land to provide all the foods for so many people and has many rivers to provide easy access and fresh water.
High flood risk in Bangladesh thought
exactly what i thought
Both from storms/monsoonal climate and river flooding!
If the largest, most powerful city on Earth were located in Bangladesh though, you can bet the world's civil engineers would make it their singular goal to control that flooding.
The coast cities of BANGLADESH are at high risk of flooding but Dhaka isn't a coast city ....
Yep, Bangladesh is pretty much doomed by sea level rise.
13:30 i’m sorry to be that person. It’s just that the country(s) with the English flag on is actually England AND Wales. I don’t think people care that much, but still.
It triggered me
6:15 I live in Mexico city and the nearest shore is 200 km away more or less, no way a dozen miles... Anyway, great video as always
Emilio Zorrilla Igual recuerda que cuando se fundó Tenochtitlán habían grandes lagos en esta zona entonces no fueron necesarios ni los ríos ni el mar
Emilio Zorrilla he said 14 cities out of 15, mexico city is the one not included in these 14 cities.
Si es verdad, saludos!
Yes I thought that after posting my comment :/
What about Beijing and Dhaka then?
That's weird how rivers find a way to flow near most cities. ;-)
In Poland all the little villages are like 2km apart
***** are you being serious right now?
I bet the land is fertile enough enough to support that population density.
In the far west of Germany where I live it is the same. But I would add that I looked up the towns mentioned in the video and they have on average between 5000 and 15000 inhabitants. They are not little villages.
"Little" are for me villages with 500-1000 inhabitants, like the one I am from.
John Sinclair everything's bigger in America
Very informative, thank you! I like it that your videos are quiet, with soft snd smooth classical background music.
This opened my eyes to interesting uses of geometry in geography, so thank you.
Jesus Christ this was a semesters worth of a 100-level geography class in 15 minutes. Well done!
This has re-watch potential. Also besides Civ, I want to play Catan right now
Nostalgic of *Cigarette Chomping Joseph Stalin of the Russians* :P
Rivers:
Rivers are also essential (in addition to transport) because they:
* tend to have clay deposits;
* tend to contain food sources (eg. fish, crustaceans, molluscs)
* wash away undesired outcomes (eg. bodily wastes, industrial wastes)
* promote soil fertility
Mountains:
Consider the role of mountain ranges on rain, especially, and on the formation of rivers.
Rule of thumb:
Never build on a floodplain!
Dumping Industrial Wastes into rivers is a horrible idea. That's how Flint, Michigan happened.
Rivers can also be covered up and are called "sewers"
team up with RealLifeLore again! You two make amazing vids! Love the information!
Bruh! This was amazing to listen too. If only this could have been like a 2 hour lecture! This makes me so happy about my country Bangladesh, whilst living here in the UK. Not many bengalis would know this..
Doesn't Dhaka have too much water? Like flooding and all
MultiSciGeek tell that to Amsterdam
Kiimosabe
hahaha nice one
Bangladesh is basically Ganges delta, Ganges has the largest delta in the world and too much water. A little towards the West and into India would be a better location. Indo-Gangetic plains extend from Pakistan all across Northern India and into Bangladesh.
meh, helps rice grow.
Not all all. I live in Dhaka, and Dhaka is nowhere near to 'flooding'. Bangladesh, on the other hand, has many rural areas that flood often. But not Dhaka itself, not even close to where Dhaka is actually
I live in Carlisle PA (one of the towns mentioned in this video) and I was watching this video in the Taco Bell parking lot. When you said "Where do you go for something more specialized, like a mechanic?" I realized I was right across the street from JiffyLube. Craziest coincidence I've ever had.
Bruh, Dhaka would be good, but the monsoons would destroy the agriculture.
And earthquakes the infrastructure
The monsoons actually help agriculture. Without monsoons, India wouldn't have grown to 1 billion people.
Have you guys heard about Tornado in Bangladesh?
@Nasaq Licos same
just don't settle your cities near Ghandi or Montezuma and you'll be fine ^_^
No no no, the first rule is to settle on the opposite side of the map than the Zulu are in. Montezuma and Ghandi got nothing on Shaka :D
Whenever I think about Shaka Zulu I just picture this: epicrapbattlesofhistory.wikia.com/wiki/Shaka_Zulu_vs_Julius_Caesar/Gallery
niteshmurti Nukes are peace ^_^
I live in a city called Manizales in Colombia and eventhough the city and landscape is completely beautifull...The city is literarilly in top of several mountains making it hard to build roads, buildings and a better airport.Anyway, we have the best quality of life in Colombia(statistics say it).Very cool video!😄
Alejandro Castillo Trujillo
probably because no one wants to live the hotass land below the mountain
呂紹熙 yeah. You are right. Maybe that's why Colombian's capital city, Bogota, has grown so much, even though is very high on the mountains. And is because its altitude gives it a fresh weather all year long, and you don't have to suffer the heat of the tropics.
Alejandro Castillo Trujillo statistics lol
I study geography. and when I did my exam about urban spaces I realized that I haven't studied sufficiently. So when the professor asked me" tell me why cities are where they are" this video came to mind and literally saved me . thank you wendover productions
3:23 what sensible person buys a macbook in 2016/2017?
That's why Apple stores are located in Manhattan, full of rich, computer illiterate fuccckkksss.
But Macbooks look really shiny.
Ryio5 Apply Apple logo, mark the price up by 200%
I have one, but it is 2014 so it isn't the trash toucher model
me
I loved this video! When I was at Leavenworth, KS and explained to my classmates why towns in the US were almost uniformly between 10-12 miles apart up until the 100th Meridian West in the US due to people being able to walk the maximum of 6 miles to and from their farm to a place of commerce they looked at me like I had a banana growing out of my forehead... Would have loved to have shown them this video! PS I grew up in Mechanicsburg, PA which was featured in this video.
I get where you are coming from , but Wendover actually quoted at 0:52 "Each one of these towns were founded before the formation of the United States , so that means of course nobody had cars and -pretty much everybody walked everywhere "......
Everybody walked everywhere ? Yeah i am pretty sure they had horse & cart transportation back in the 1700's though .
I'm starting to wonder whether the person who narrated / wrote the script for the video has a banana growing out of their forehead Lol .
@@MERCURYSUNSET horses and carts were used rarely in the colonial era unless transporting goods. Horses were very expensive and were used mainly for transporting goods and plowing fields. People walked a lot. Fact.
@@patrickwentz8413 Yes people walked a lot but not to the extent that Wendover implied.
A 5- 10 mile walk in the middle of winter would have been impossible in PA .
@@MERCURYSUNSET you have got to be kidding me.
careful, you might trigger the Crash Course people with this video :p
GroovingPict why, did I miss something?
+Celina k They started I crash corse (now discontinued) about Human Geography in which they said they were not fond of the idea that the geography of a region is responsible for the success of a civilization, empire or people. They criticized a book called Guns,Germs and Steel that apperently is very regarded by some people.
They adopted a humanistic point of view instead of a critical one. People got very upset and they were forced to stop the series. Watch: "A Note on CC Human Geography".
Carlos Almeida oh so like a resource vs idealistic reasons to go to war. But with geography, and societal, philosophic and religious reasons too probably. I mean it could be interesting, there are plenty of history channels if that's what people wanted, meh.
GroovingPict
You guys are dumbaf.
Celina k
Carlos gave the general idea, but based on his perspective. The series was terminated after it received backlash from people that didn't seem to understand the point the channel was making. They saw a girl that looked like a hipster/feminist and that is a sin on the Internet. Being a girl is bad enough but once you add the elements I gave, plus a point of view that triggers racist that don't understand the message and you get a whole series being deleted and terminated before it starts.
We can get down to the details of the content itself but this is just a general idea of what I saw. And I consider by point of view as objective. As I dislike both sides equally and had already done some research on the topic of the series (by accident) months before they even announced the new series. And she wasn't wrong on her main point, which, again, most people didn't understand or didn't want to listen to it.
4:16 its no wonder why where I live in Albany NY. We have no high end luxury stores in malls. We have retail shops but no gucci, chanel etc. i always think people’s salaries have to meet the criteria to open a store but also the the population isn’t that large. Good point
Optimal place to found a city. rivers/sea, resources, mountains... I'm sure civilization players knew all about that already.
England is MY city.
Jerry Rupprecht
It’s every day bro
"A sociopath is basically someone who is more savage than the rest of us" - LP
@Jackson Anderson r/woosh
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@@thegreatestshenfan6484 That's what she said
1.Mountains also cause a rain shadow effect that influences city location by reducing rainfall.
2. Your Map of England contained Wales for some reason.
3. Dhaka would be great...until climate change caused rising sea levels and then it wouldn't be so great., but more underwater.
BTW,, I love your work
Only one side experiences rain shadow. Look at the Himalayas, the Indo-Gangetic plains in India is the most fertile region and, the other side of Himalayas, Tibet is mostly uninhabitable. Rains come from the Indian Ocean and India takes all of it.
Permafrost - I know, but that still affects whether there are any large settlements in that area.
Lol, Bangladesh is full of marsh and jungle, and already floods in monsoons. Definitely less than optimal.
Another great example is right in the pacific northwest US. Every one sees Oregon/Washington as nothing but lush forest and mountains but that's not true. In fact, all of eastern oregon and washington are highland desert because the cascade mountain range creates a massive rain shadow.
The crown of England also includes Wales so one could argue that wales is a part of england.
THIS HELPED ON MY GEOGRAPHY CLASS
Just play Civ V and dont let the AI take the sweet spots.
In eu4 you have to worry about the 10 day long tutorial videos, ayyyyyy
+ChemicalFun27 Yeah, you don't have to worry about that because you're to busy just trying to understand how do you even make money in that game. That trade system WTF!
EU is crazy man. It's too damn complicated!
Carlos Almeida the trade system is the easiest thing on EuIV
eu rome was obviously the best one
12:20
holy shit xD, we're clearly not in our fullest potential 🤣😭
Yeah. Theoretically, we could be the "center" of all cities in the world.
i freaking hate humans sometimes. the video is not suggesting that present day Dhaka is the optimal place to live. He is simply stating that from a geographical point of view based on how cities were developed in the best, that this would be the best spot to start from scratch. no one is telling you to live there, so why bash the weather, economy or vaguely throw shade at religious practices and beliefs.
the weather would remain fairly similar to what it is now, if we had to start again, so that part at least is valid, but the rest of your point is right
well. there is a difference between weather and climate you know.
the climate (lasting - what is sustained over the course of years) is getting worse.
- Bangladesh is due to global warming under extreme threat of being completely annihilated within the next 100-200 years. Dhaka will most probably be the first major city in the world to get completely devoured by the ocean, due to how we're fucking up the climate.
so no. Dhaka isn't really a good point to start civilization from scratch at, with present day knowledge.
humanity doesn't look thousands of years ahead!
we know as a species what is awaiting our descendants in a single century and still most don't give the slightest fuck.
with that in mind, Dhaka would be the worst place to start civilization from scratch.
with that in mind, the best would most probably be to start civilization from scratch somewhere where there are absolutely no resources for humans to exploit, for the city to tumble down in some megahole they created, extremely high in the sky not to get swallowed by the ocean and to not get affected by a future nuclear winter.
i would say Bhutan or Nepal.
those are my candidates.
pretty safe place for humanity to hide from itself and save civilization from itself, in order to recreate the mess all over again!
He hates the general human populace's ignorance(w/ access to internet). So yes, he does, and I'm sure we all hate humans sometimes.
Well they can be so stupid that a reasonable individual leans towards hate. Like all the people freaking out over global warming who still travel thousands of miles a year, spewing Co2 all the way. If you love your planet stay home or walk.
"Throw shade" ?
Around 2 the minute mark, the flyover view is Two Rivers, Wisconsin. My hometown!
This was truly fascinating, thanks for the great work!
Dhaka actually was one of the richest and most prosperous cities on earth, even few centuries ago. During the Mughal era the bengal subah (state) alone contributed 13% of global GDP with Dhaka being it's capital. Armenians, Portugese, Biharis, Marathas, English, Dutch, French, Arabs and so many other people lived here and did business, which made it the center of the world back then. That is why Bengalis look so diverse, we're a complex race of dark/light skinned, short/tall people of every face shapes. The ultra luxurious/elite fabric "Muslin" originated from Dhaka, not Mosul. Hundreds of years of constant oppression and looting of colonizers, wars, natural disasters, riots and etc damaged Dhaka and surrounding. But its quickly improving. Dhaka city has five rivers in/around it. Ocean isn't too far away, mountains with rich minerals are close as well. The Bengal Delta makes the region the most fertile soil of the planet. Every inch of Dhaka and surrounding is arable land.
0:33 "radii" is the most elegant, fanciest vocabulary I've ever had to privilege to witness
mysteriousDSF are you like 5 lmao
@@chrisding1976 no, I'm part of the 3 billion who speak English as a second language.
ngl radii is a simple word and im also part of your 3 billion ppl who speak english as a second language
Plural of radius :radii
@@aditidasgupta8913 I get that lol
Dhaka is the best place to "put a city on". Not the best city....
I live there so I know....
And this video made me more sad than inspired, realising that we are not only letting down our country but the world itself....
Bangladesh uh? I'll keep that in mind when founding a city in Civ 6 :P
I sexually identify as a city don't tell me where to go.
my name is Claire and I sexually identify a Cheezit
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Dunold Tramp I'm sexually identified as a town don't tell me how much mile.
Dunold Tramp oh I'm an attack helicopter.
Call me Atlanta
When you go horizontally - climate changes a lot (depends on how far you are from oceans)
He said in the video. So what's your point Parrot?
@@evanray8413 Dude only said vertically. Climate changes no matter what direction you're going. He drew a line from France to Russia and said "they all have roughly the same climate". He couldn't be ANYMORE wrong. You're telling me there's arable land in the Gobi Desert? There's a desert in the Swiss Alps? Come on now...
Evan Ray he also said that chairs are window sills. what’s your point parrot?
Yeah. Dude pulling facts out of his sleeve like Penn & Teller.
@@shchorss Climate changes A LOT more vertically as opposed to horizontally... Check FL to TX to Cali as opposed to traveling the entire Pacific Coast or I-95 from FL to Maine. Imagine traveling the equator vs. traveling between the north and south pole.
I was born and raised in Dhaka and I absolutely fell out of chair watching this.
you have about 3-4 misinformations like portuguese was a larger empire than france. check your facts
French empire at its largest extent was 15 mil km2
Portuguese empire at its largest extent was about 10 mil km2
Here's my source: books.google.com/books?id=5wIXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false
Wendover Productions lel
+Wendover Productions And 9:34 Detroit DOES NOT have over 2 million residents. They have less than 700,000 residents due to corruption. Check your facts, have you never seen Detroit blight?
But you are contradicting his statement. Do you agree with that comment then?
shrekt
What was your Master thesis about?
Justin L how dare you
2:10
Of course, in Mecanicsburg!
Also knowns as Christaller's central spaces theory. Its nice to see someone putting some light on the most basic thing to look when planning a city's expansion and relations
Australian develop of towns and cities is fascinating because most of the towns were founded late 1800s and thus the development is low density. Australian cities have immense urban sprawl due to them primarily developing in the mid 1900s. Australians have one of the highest uses of cars in the world per capita, and it is extremely hard to live without access to one unless you live close to a central business district.
Australian population also has well over 95% of the population within 50km of the coast, despite most resources being inland. The reason for this is becasue people live along coast and only workers travel inland, transiting to the coast to get supplies.
Once again, Australian spread was limited for half a century because of the Great Dividing Range, preventing early development in the more fertile inland areas of the Murray-Darling Basin.
The indigenous people's of Australia did not develop cities earlier, despite being 50,000 year old culture, because there is no domesticated plant breeds in Australia. There are no native grains or crops that could be grown to domesticated use. T
Joel Reid I live in a 10,000 person town in WA, we mine coal here. We are a 45min drive away from the ocean, I reckon because it's close to my coal mining town, which means efficiency . The town that has the ocean is bunbury. And sure enough it's got 200,000 people and unlimited cargo ships. It also has a lot of services.
I am going to presume you live in or near Collie then.
First: 45min by car from a large centre is actually a really long distance in most countries when travelling to a central hub. If you are in Collie you are about 55km away from Bunbury (34 miles)... which as shown in the video is over twice the distance for towns in the US and Europe.
To put tha tin perspective: a person carrying a load will walk about 30km per day comfortably, but could manage more if they were fit and weather was comfortable. Thus a trip to those "services" by foot would not be a day trip, it would take the whole weekend, presuming you do not stay long.
here in Australia we think this is a reasonable distance for town to be apart, but as I indicated in my comment, Australia was developed post industrial revolution, thus has had access to rail and car for most of its existence.
Collie was founded in 1897, which is why there are no similar sized towns within walkign distance... becasue it was developed as a "remote" settlement (with the introduction of cars that is no longer true). It was also developed directly as a result of the industrial revolution... for coal.
Collie is actually a perfect example of the reason Australia is different to Europe and the US.
Joel Reid interesting... does collie have any future? Or will it cease to exist like worsley?
Mark Raymond the requirement for a grain to be domesticated is that it can not drop its seeds. There are no native grains in Australia that keep their seeds on the stalk.
All Australian grains either rely on unpredictable weather patterns or drop their seeds too rapidly and thus harder to harvest in large quantities.
Fruits and other food sources are not easily preservable (unlike grains which store easy in dry conditions).
Mark Raymond that is true. Although it does require harvesting befor it ripens in order to collect efficiently.
The Yangtze basin around Nanjing would be far more optimal than Bangladesh, greater amount of agricultural land, not as hot of a climate and less risk of flooding and disease.
Ahmad Hussein Haha very nicely said, I'm from there, although that region severely lacks minerals and other strategic resources. The Chinese had to move tons resources from the north to the Yangtze basin including coal, iron, oil so on so forth. Without the northern and western China, that region what not have been what it is today. And it lacks natural defence/barriers as well for that matter, it's rather flat.
Ganges river plain is similar
Yo I live in Mechanicsburg. this is dope!
Om Patil do ya u really live there?
do u have a mechanic there
Yes and yes
@@ompatil1975 incredible
@@FATTYBONGRIPS ikr
You've no idea how hard it is to not laugh at the pun in your channel's name, I'm sure others have commented about it to the dead and maybe seem childish, but when you repeat it so much at the end, is nearly impossible to avoid it.
Great video by the way, this helps a lot.
“You seee” always means it’s about to be a big point.
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2:26 That's my town!!
Connor :0
Where is that?
Dominic Guye Pennsylvania
Stock footage in your town?
Mine is at 3:47
9:38 Australia has 4 cities with over 2 million, not 2.
What a surprise to open the video to seeing towns that I've stepped foot in, I live in Harrisburg. All those cities are notorious for the *way too busy* I-81 that goes from town to town. Past harrisburg to the right you've got Hershey, yes the home of the chocolate, which is also a little over 10 miles away. Further heading west on chocolate avenue, hershey's most popular street, you'll have a bunch of more towns which vary in distance, but are all under 10-15 miles including Cleona, Annville, Lebanon, Myerstown, Womelsdorf, Robesonia and so on of small towns until you hit the bigger cities of Reading/Wyomissing. A handful of other cities connect further southeast until you hit philly. It's interesting to look at in detail how carefully placed cities were generations ago, it made it possible to travel far and still be able to reach a city within a span of time on foot. Great video!
"How far would you go to buy a Macbook?"
Me: Fuckin minus infinity.
Have fun trying to build a computer yourself, with the form factor of a Macbook.
Peter: You're starting off with the assumption that I give two fucks about the form factor of the MacBook. I don't.
Corvus That's a long way back.
The narrator sounds like a younger Sam, with similar inflections and accent.
But during flood season around 2/3 of Bangladesh gets covered wouldn't that kill a shit ton of people?
Daniel McDonough hi, because of the fact that it is a River Delta, it's common to have floods in Bangladesh. it's part of life over there and people have learned to live with it and improve conditions with control methods for a long long time. 50-60 years ago floods would have been major concerns and threats, but it is much better now. Changes in natural weather cycles due to Global Warming and rising sea levels are becoming more of a concern though
i live in dhaka, dhaka rarely ever gets flooded it happened twice in the last 17 years but not many people died
Flood season kills a tonne of people and causes billions of dollars in damages. You constantly need to rebuild stuff in monsoon areas. Not to mention the diseases that are rife in wet areas.
Daniel McDonough, he didn't factor it in the video, you see
Ever heard of Venice? They are flooded 365 days of the year for centuries.
Admitedly, the floods do limit how far technology can develop in this specific place. A lot of hte technology to life there modernly has to be developed elsewhere.
What is the chance that I’d watch a Wendover Productions video that features not just one place I have visited, but a whole chain right when the video starts, sweet