What if the Industrial Revolution Never Happened? (Ft. List 25)

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  • Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
  • The 21st century is defined by technology. But what if it, wasn't? What if the Industrial Revolution never happened? With help from List25, here is one scenario.
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  • @josephstalin8423
    @josephstalin8423 8 лет назад +3347

    Only 1700s and 1800s kids will understand this.

  • @Cafferssss
    @Cafferssss 8 лет назад +293

    well, the environment would be happier for sure......

    • @romulusnuma116
      @romulusnuma116 8 лет назад

      Probably

    • @itsjustnils
      @itsjustnils 8 лет назад +23

      +FantasticMr.Fox Not really that much, if nothing changed every home would burn coal/wood for heat and not use electricity wich would be almost the same if not more hurtfull for the environment

    • @davidlewis6728
      @davidlewis6728 8 лет назад +7

      +FantasticMr.Fox the environment would be safer, the population wouldn't be happier. you are referring to global warming, a thing, don't pretend it can have feelings. (also, fossil fuels are going to be replaced hopefully soon, pretend the earth has entered it's teen years and started smoking like crazy, but then the e-cig (or something else) happened in a few years... that. or young death :P)

    • @felipevasconcelos6736
      @felipevasconcelos6736 8 лет назад +15

      Farming really impacts the environment. Animals fart methane, and agriculture take lots of space, replacing forests, plains, jungles, etc.

    • @CasperVanLaar
      @CasperVanLaar 8 лет назад

      +I ItsJustNils I no wrong.

  • @gcircle
    @gcircle 8 лет назад +707

    So basically...we would stay in pre-industrial technology. Surprise.

    • @captainvanhorn773
      @captainvanhorn773 5 лет назад +37

      What an idea, why didn't I think of that

    • @aurelia8028
      @aurelia8028 4 года назад +25

      No thank you. I like everything about the modern world and no amount of whining about the enviroment will make me give that up

    • @mateovazquez6685
      @mateovazquez6685 4 года назад +11

      @@aurelia8028 Hahaha nobody talked about that

    • @JakubWojciechowski933
      @JakubWojciechowski933 3 года назад +7

      Yeah exactly. Why did he almost didn't tackle on the topics of the actual things that happened in the world and wouldn't because of the Revolution?

    • @bruh-db8by
      @bruh-db8by 2 года назад

      @@aurelia8028 so you like corporations and big government breathing down your neck watching every movement, and more than 50% of workers feeling unsatisfied due to a lack of genuine impactful work? bro keep living in ignorance, contributing to the death of nature, individuality, and human creativity. the chances are high you provide nothing genuine to this world, and you're not even a gear but the grease in the machine

  • @michaelhyams632
    @michaelhyams632 8 лет назад +763

    Basically, we would live like the Amish.

  • @list25
    @list25 8 лет назад +973

    Thank you for the collab! We really had fun working with you and the final product is AWESOME!

    • @jaymar4438
      @jaymar4438 8 лет назад +3

      hola

    • @turtledude83
      @turtledude83 8 лет назад +4

      :D

    • @dapenguin4637
      @dapenguin4637 8 лет назад +6

      You suck

    • @captain1254
      @captain1254 8 лет назад +6

      +list25 please acquire a better mic, it really hurt the production.. other than that, glad to have you on here

    • @skreb7336
      @skreb7336 8 лет назад +3

      Yay two of my favorite channels

  • @aliaselysum4401
    @aliaselysum4401 8 лет назад +172

    "Faster and cheaper than in China" not something that will ever happen again

    • @Mystic-Dust
      @Mystic-Dust 6 лет назад +5

      Can't really say they're collapsing. It gets old after people kept saying for decades, it's like saying the apocalypse will happen, then it doesn't happen.

    • @os8mm178
      @os8mm178 5 лет назад +1

      No labor laws means cheap production

    • @phoenixfeather1337
      @phoenixfeather1337 4 года назад +1

      Will now lol

    • @syghdeaar4753
      @syghdeaar4753 3 года назад +1

      @@os8mm178 dude china is booming right now have you seen pictures of it they look like every stock photo of a futuristic city minus the flying cars its sick

  • @elfboi523
    @elfboi523 7 лет назад +431

    What if the Neolithic Revolution never happened? We'd all be nomadic tribes of hunter-gatherers. No alternative history, in fact, no history at all, because no writing. :P

    • @elfboi523
      @elfboi523 7 лет назад +10

      The Unknown
      Don't forget wild starchy roots and tubers, grass seeds, wild honey, fish, clams, crabs, shrimp, snails, locusts, whatever happens to be available and edible.

    • @kaukolaurila9861
      @kaukolaurila9861 7 лет назад +14

      elfboi523 Then what the hell are cave paintings other than history, thus writing...? A good point otherwise, though.

    • @elfboi523
      @elfboi523 7 лет назад +3

      The Unknown
      Most children dying before their 5th birthday. Most of those who live long enough to grow up dying before the age of 60. There are still places on this planet where that's quite common.

    • @elfboi523
      @elfboi523 7 лет назад +1

      The Unknown
      They usually wouldn't attack an able adult human though, just children and elderly people. And humans would stick together in groups most of the time, keeping their young and old people safe.
      As long as there is easier prey than humans, there isn't much danger, except from a few individual predators with a taste for manflesh. And those can be identified and killed.
      Remember, we co-evolved with African predators, and as soon as you can organise a group and make flint-tipped spears, you can kill enough of them to make the survivors look for different prey. You might lose a few thrillseeking adolescent boys and young adult men hunting down the man-eaters, but later generations of predators wouldn't be as likely to hunt humans. A single human, however, or a small number of mostly children and/or old people, would attract predators, and therefore, situations like that were avoided by sticking together.
      Once the predators know that it isn't safe to get too close to a human tribe, you can be pretty safe just by singing and dancing around the campfire at night, to show off your presence and your strength. Every once in a while, one of your people will get eaten, well, bad luck.
      You'll have more children killed by sickness or hunger than by predators. A lot more. And you'll still have population growth as long as there is enough fertile land to be explored.
      Once the Neolithic Revolution takes hold, predators become a huge problem: Sheep, cattle, chickens, pigs, all those are much easier to prey on than their wild ancestors. That's why farmers always want to hunt all the predators to extinction, and to hell with the ecology. Now we have human hunters trying to regulate wild animal populations as good as we can (which means, badly), because we're the only apex predators left. We've got far too many deer and wild boars here in Germany, because the few dozen wolves living in a few locations just can't take care of them. Yet farmers keep shooting or poisoning wolves, even if they might go to prison if they're caught.

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT 7 лет назад +1

      That sounds like America after the 2016 election.

  • @joshuapartridge5092
    @joshuapartridge5092 3 года назад +25

    A huge factor sort of glossed over here, is that the initial need for coal was driven by a need for fuel for fireplaces and furnaces because agriculture had cut down most of the trees in england. So, the initial spark was actually resource scarcity imo

  • @wojtekimbier
    @wojtekimbier 8 лет назад +269

    But wait! Wasn't industrial revolution inevitable? Wouldn't machines be built eventually?
    -Billy

    • @gittevandevelde2208
      @gittevandevelde2208 5 лет назад +17

      Well, no, actually. Mechanics were already a thing for centuries, and happened everywhere. But actual machines and industrialization basically only existed in Europe for a while and came to exist because of the bad living conditions: after the black plague in the 14 century it regularly returned so there was quite a bit of population lack. People needed machines to do the work, as there weren't people to do so. And before we knew it...Boom industry.

    • @BeverlySchnett
      @BeverlySchnett 5 лет назад +1

      it could be possible to focus more on the mechanization of agriculture than on industry so that a farmer could produce with machines more food and he does not need the support of animals and other humans. or somewhere in teh 19th century the ordinary people overthrow their "capitalist" elites and run the fabrics and the economy by tehmselves

    • @bleachlasagna3341
      @bleachlasagna3341 5 лет назад +2

      wojtekimbier
      Gosh darn it billy

    • @laurie1183
      @laurie1183 4 года назад

      Not if you have a cheap enough labour force that would result in mechanisation not being worthwhile economically. It happened mostly because the cost of labour in England became weirdly high and subsequently replacing that labour force became a handy plan. This video's biggest problem is that it forgets that.

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 3 года назад

      Well the industrial revolution could've happened in ancient Greece but the dude who invented the steam engine (Aeolipile) gave up on it.

  • @johnroy5169
    @johnroy5169 8 лет назад +252

    OMG PERFECT TIMING!!!!! We are just starting the Industrial Revolution in school and I can use some facts you state to show off to the class :D no hour-long documentaries this chapter!

    • @bobtheflyingdonkey
      @bobtheflyingdonkey 8 лет назад

      Not so great timing for me bc we just finished the chapter on development in AP human geography. ):

    • @johnroy5169
      @johnroy5169 8 лет назад

      bobtheflyingdonkey :/

    • @robdog7
      @robdog7 8 лет назад

      I just finished my section on it :(

    • @MrMinerGuy142
      @MrMinerGuy142 8 лет назад

      +bobtheflyingdonkey AP US History is already deep into the Cold War for me so....fuck...

    • @aggbak1
      @aggbak1 8 лет назад

      same here

  • @DakkogiRauru23
    @DakkogiRauru23 8 лет назад +138

    My guess is that countries would have remained less stable, including the United States. Because of the vast distance, it would have been much easier for a Union to break up or change structurally.
    However, I still imagine an age of sail, just not an age of colonization.

    • @dv9239
      @dv9239 3 года назад +11

      Large kingdoms existed way before industrialization
      Like mughal empire in India

    • @DakkogiRauru23
      @DakkogiRauru23 3 года назад +2

      the mysterious Which collapsed

    • @dv9239
      @dv9239 3 года назад

      @@DakkogiRauru23 yes because of many things happening at right time but there are many that succeeded tho
      American kingdom could've been one

    • @DakkogiRauru23
      @DakkogiRauru23 3 года назад +3

      the mysterious Not really. See, before industrialization, there was no way to produce more food to feed a growing population as much as we have today. There also wasn’t a free market that could address shortages via trade. The state owned everything.
      Whenever a state started lacking in resources, which was all the time, the only solution was to concur another territory and extract its resources.
      This led to frequent collapse of kingdoms, no matter how long lived they were.
      Frequent collapse is the opposite of stable.

    • @qui-gonjim6440
      @qui-gonjim6440 2 года назад +5

      @@DakkogiRauru23 and yet the Roman Empire and Egyptian kingdoms lasted for millennia, not quite a series of "frequent collapses".
      There are no rules to history that happen 100% of the time if certain conditions are met.

  • @brendanfligger1669
    @brendanfligger1669 8 лет назад +107

    What if Gunpowder was never invented?

    • @StuziCamis
      @StuziCamis 8 лет назад +5

      Yes! This is an amazing idea! :D

    • @appaloosahill4499
      @appaloosahill4499 8 лет назад +9

      What if Britain never colonized American

    • @gr7476
      @gr7476 6 лет назад +6

      Brendan Fligger that was already done

    • @derekv1183
      @derekv1183 6 лет назад +4

      Brendan Fligger What if There was no pollution.

  • @sherifelsharkawyful
    @sherifelsharkawyful 8 лет назад +194

    Also guys, when you talked about the UK in the year 1760 you used the wrong flag, the Union Flag wouldn't have had the red stripe over the white stripes since that didn't occur until the Act of Union of 1801.

    • @chair7573
      @chair7573 8 лет назад +1

      17?0-1860

    • @sherifelsharkawyful
      @sherifelsharkawyful 8 лет назад

      Illium What?

    • @bluegravestone58
      @bluegravestone58 8 лет назад +2

      I'm pretty sure it happened in 1707

    • @sherifelsharkawyful
      @sherifelsharkawyful 8 лет назад +15

      ***** There was an Act of Union in 1707, but it was the one that unified Scotland and England, not Ireland and the United Kingdom. The Union flag was born in 1707, but it didn't have the saltire of St Patrick(the red 'x' running over the white 'x') until 1801.

    • @CupidFromKentucky
      @CupidFromKentucky 8 лет назад +3

      +Kyle Edwards Talk when you're sure not pretty sure.

  • @DvDick
    @DvDick 8 лет назад +115

    And what if industrial revolution happened before the 19th century? Ancient greeks were able to create a very simple machine that worked with steam... what if they explored that machine further?

    • @DvDick
      @DvDick 8 лет назад +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile

    • @hedgeknight3194
      @hedgeknight3194 8 лет назад +3

      or the romans, who had problems with production and keeping a large empire

    • @hoseadavit3422
      @hoseadavit3422 8 лет назад +5

      +SniperShy96 Then it will become like Atlantis

    • @elsasslotharingen7507
      @elsasslotharingen7507 8 лет назад +25

      Greek Bourgeoisie exploiting Persian Proletariat.

    • @VCYT
      @VCYT 8 лет назад +4

      +SniperShy96 - in England we created a knitting machine 230 years before our industrial revolution, but our queen wouldn't finance it as knew it would cause unemployment.

  • @antaine1916
    @antaine1916 5 лет назад +35

    "...how society changed so quickly and in such a quick amount of time..."
    Does "quickly" mean anything other than "in a quick amount of time"?

  • @kyrakia5507
    @kyrakia5507 6 лет назад +2

    I cannot imagine two more different youtubers making a collab together, but it somehow worked, so props to you

  • @NineDollars9D
    @NineDollars9D 8 лет назад +233

    What if Persia (Modern-day Iran) never converted to Islam?

    • @Awakeningspirit20
      @Awakeningspirit20 6 лет назад +30

      The world would be a better place... it's not even Iran's fault, people in Iran today seem to love their country as the Islamic Republic, but it's just Iran's crazy relationship with, well, everyone else... Iran and America hate each other so much it makes the situation in the Middle East a lot more difficult.

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 6 лет назад +13

      awakeningspirit20 well who's fault was it then that cause the coup de that that created the unnecessary monarchy in iran in the first place to pissed off the iranians then?

    • @BeverlySchnett
      @BeverlySchnett 5 лет назад

      we would fight against Zoroastrism as the Greek and Romans did

    • @harisjutt69
      @harisjutt69 4 года назад

      @rétro that comment was 1 year old why did u even bother to correct him?

    • @cherkas009
      @cherkas009 4 года назад

      They have a splinter group form of Islam so in a sense they never had true Islam in iran

  • @Lucy-ng7cw
    @Lucy-ng7cw 8 лет назад +159

    Not liking having list25 on this....

    • @Music_games_history
      @Music_games_history 8 лет назад +22

      Why

    • @Lucy-ng7cw
      @Lucy-ng7cw 8 лет назад +51

      Cool cat saves the kids From crippling depression thats really going to help kids from crippling depression

    • @ApocalypticTards
      @ApocalypticTards 8 лет назад +6

      +Cool cat saves the kids From crippling depression Seriously, fuck off.

    • @daraj02
      @daraj02 8 лет назад +1

      +Cool cat saves the kids From crippling depression MY NAME IS COOL CAT AND I LOVE ALL KIDS
      I LOVE BABIES
      THEY'RE PAINTING ON SOMEONE'S WALL AND IT'S NOT COOL TO PAINT ON SOMEONE'S WALL

    • @daraj02
      @daraj02 8 лет назад

      +Sharqueesha Johnalaneesha *IHE

  • @gifyifhkhmcucyk6865
    @gifyifhkhmcucyk6865 5 лет назад +99

    This video title: *exists *
    Ted Kaczynski: hold my pipe bomb

  • @lowmandave
    @lowmandave 3 года назад +9

    Michigander here. We may go to war with Ohio for many other reasons, but in the pop vs. soda battle, we and our buckeye brethren fight as one.

    • @imperiumromanum7375
      @imperiumromanum7375 2 года назад +2

      My dad won't even buy Ice Cream if it's made in Michigan

  • @charleskidd2028
    @charleskidd2028 8 лет назад +4

    I seriously just had a huge conversation about this two days ago and Cody and I said the EXACT SAME STUFF. This is so cool. It's awesome hearing support on how realistic an alternative scenario is.

  • @p..._...p6437
    @p..._...p6437 8 лет назад +128

    What if Britain sided with the central powers in World War One?

    • @flamingtrashcans9502
      @flamingtrashcans9502 8 лет назад

      Yes

    • @minecraft4blt
      @minecraft4blt 8 лет назад

      Very unlikely, yet intriguing nevertheless.

    • @shrekdank3473
      @shrekdank3473 8 лет назад +12

      +Brandoosky well if Germany never went through Belgium we probably would of

    • @shrekdank3473
      @shrekdank3473 8 лет назад

      +Shrek Dank *have

    • @ray_99
      @ray_99 8 лет назад

      Unlikely just because they had a few wars against the US and France wouldn't make them not side which us

  • @grumpiesttitan7930
    @grumpiesttitan7930 3 года назад +17

    Industrial society and it's consequences

  • @johnmarkreddick8496
    @johnmarkreddick8496 Год назад +7

    We would all be happy and content

    • @JubulusPrime
      @JubulusPrime Год назад +1

      Yeah, Under capitalism we are all slaves to desire, Saving up for the next new toy is the only thing that keeps us going.
      I don't want mindless consumption anymore, I just want to be happy. . .

  • @MrImperatorRoma
    @MrImperatorRoma 8 лет назад +31

    What if MacArthur used nuclear weapons on the Chinese during the Korean War? The USSR at the time had very few nuclear weapons and the Chinese had absolutely none, so I don't think a nuclear apocalypse would be likely.

  • @numberneinlarge9965
    @numberneinlarge9965 2 года назад +36

    Ted Kaczynski approves of this video

  • @MVSSENJU
    @MVSSENJU 8 лет назад +115

    Do a: What if the Portuguese never explored the world? Could europe be discovered by the Indians or Chinese? Or even by the Astecs? How the world would have been nowadays?

    • @calebtimes453
      @calebtimes453 6 лет назад +11

      Or if Portugal was united with Spain and never left from the middle ages onwards.

    • @Awakeningspirit20
      @Awakeningspirit20 6 лет назад +36

      India and China already knew Europe before Portugal, they were trading back in Roman times. Do you mean the Americas?

    • @ottovonbisquick6996
      @ottovonbisquick6996 6 лет назад +1

      awakeningspirit20 yeah your right because In 100 c.e (a.d) the Indians had been in the Silk Road along with the Chinese

    • @ycasto1063
      @ycasto1063 6 лет назад +4

      Somebody would take their place probably the Spanish or the French, maybe the Hanseatic cities or Venetians will be their rivals

    • @juanfranciscocosta5387
      @juanfranciscocosta5387 6 лет назад +3

      There wouldn't be a Tordesillas Treaty, meaning the world wouldn't be divided between Castille and Portugal. Since Portuguese domain in Brazilian coasts was legitimized by this treaty, and Castille's discovery of the Americas had more to do with Columbus getting information from Aragonese fishermen, I believe that would result in Spaniards total control of South America and the Caribbean. The stablishment of trading points in India and China are a whole different topic. I imagine any European potency would have arrived sooner or later.

  • @stevemcdigstraightdown2404
    @stevemcdigstraightdown2404 4 года назад +19

    Cody “Just doesn’t happen” Alternate History

  • @Guitarfollower22
    @Guitarfollower22 8 лет назад +14

    Perfect timing. I have one week to write a college paper about the Industrial Revolution, gonna steal your stuff. Thanks bra

  • @matthewprice8362
    @matthewprice8362 8 лет назад +11

    This actually sounds a lot nicer than real life

    • @SkoomaGodDovahkiin666
      @SkoomaGodDovahkiin666 Год назад +4

      Poor transportation logistics and medical tech slowly progressing sounds like a lot of fun for you, I bet.

    • @eduardsusai559
      @eduardsusai559 Год назад +2

      @@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666 yes. Yes it does liberal

    • @SkoomaGodDovahkiin666
      @SkoomaGodDovahkiin666 Год назад +1

      @@eduardsusai559
      Another Hippie luddite being wrong.

  • @imanukekaboom3715
    @imanukekaboom3715 6 лет назад

    Probably one of my favorite of your videos. Keep it up!

  • @TheWiking982
    @TheWiking982 3 года назад +5

    The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a major catastrophe for the human race... ~ Teddy K.

  • @lordofbrokenplains6952
    @lordofbrokenplains6952 8 лет назад +5

    "Thank you good King jolly jolly what what" had me laughing. Seriously though, this was an interesting one..

  • @Lands_Verader
    @Lands_Verader 8 лет назад +37

    I have a suggestion.
    What if Leon Trotsky took power after lenin died (not Stalin)?

    • @CatMaster90001
      @CatMaster90001 8 лет назад +6

      As an avid communist myself, I wholeheartedly support this suggestion. The future of communism would be far different if Lenin's final wishes to put Trotsky in charge of the USSR were respected.

    • @gifyifhkhmcucyk6865
      @gifyifhkhmcucyk6865 5 лет назад +2

      @@CatMaster90001 comrade🚩⚒

    • @phasmas1803
      @phasmas1803 4 года назад +2

      Task completed successfully

    • @123dan165
      @123dan165 4 года назад +1

      that question is answered in the video ''What if Stalin never rose to power?''

  • @SyndicateBrink
    @SyndicateBrink 8 лет назад

    This was great, love it

  • @christopherwinne5434
    @christopherwinne5434 8 лет назад +20

    "Without steam engines, factories are left dependent on rivers to turn their turbines. Like Barbarians." I laughed.

  • @orthodoxcrusader8568
    @orthodoxcrusader8568 3 года назад +3

    Basically we wouldn't be choking on air

  • @BigBobsh2o
    @BigBobsh2o 8 лет назад +96

    On the bright side global warming wouldn't exist and the environment as a whole would be a lot cleaner.

    • @kalyanarc4467
      @kalyanarc4467 8 лет назад +26

      +Rob Ski You want another bright side ??
      No capitalism. Wealth would remain balanced in all classes, and generally, employance would not be such a problem, meaning that no man would be starving.
      Also, since colonisation is absent, Africa would remain untouched and nobody would take its resources, meaning that you wouldn't have children in Africa starving.
      Cultures rarely meet, globalisation would not even be a thing, ammunition would not have been made in such ammounts, ideas would not spread and people would revolt much less, meaning that, generally, there would be less wars and less bloodshed.
      I also belive that, even without medicine, people would not die or be sick from diseases that much, because people travel much less without modern transport, and so, diseases themselves would have hard time spreading.
      And yes, we would have healthier people and safer enviroment, because, besides global warming, air pollution that has strong effect on pulmonary diseases (asthma, bronchitis, even lung cancer) would be absent.
      There would be no drugs, because they wouldn't be able to travel from distant parts in Asia and South America.
      There would be no tobacco, too, reasulting in, again, healthier population.
      I see a brither world without Industrial Revolution.

    • @BigBobsh2o
      @BigBobsh2o 8 лет назад +16

      Samsung Galaxy Good points. Although I think the tobacco trade began before the industrial revolution. And I think our life expectancy would be much shorter and our health care system would be a total joke by today's standards.

    • @kalyanarc4467
      @kalyanarc4467 8 лет назад

      +Rob Ski Yah you're right, I said it wrongly. Sure, there would BE tobacco, but it wouldn't be able to TRAVEL so quickly without steamboats and trains.

    • @googane7755
      @googane7755 8 лет назад +1

      +Samsung Galaxy Good points but then we're forcing ourselves to be blissfully ignorant. No future or past, who knows, maybe it's a good thing.

    • @gr7476
      @gr7476 6 лет назад +20

      Kalyan Arc without the industrial revolution the agricultural revolution wouldn’t progress as much and there would be much less food so there would still be a lot of starvation when disasters struck

  • @torvinentv5197
    @torvinentv5197 7 лет назад

    Great videos I love all of them!

  • @sub-nautical_chill4379
    @sub-nautical_chill4379 6 лет назад

    Great plug.

  • @benjigoulbourne
    @benjigoulbourne 7 лет назад +6

    9:22
    "less people around to talk to"
    sounds good to me

  • @stephenw.4390
    @stephenw.4390 8 лет назад +6

    I think you should do something about if an industrial revolution happened on the 1st century. There was actually a Greek scientist screwing around with a miniature steam engine IN THE 1st CENTURY! cool

    • @AlDuke14
      @AlDuke14 8 лет назад

      I would LOVE that video!!!!

    • @Elvesflame
      @Elvesflame 8 лет назад

      +Steve Chadwarz The Greeks also invented an early analog computer. Ever heard of the Antikythera?

    • @stephenw.4390
      @stephenw.4390 8 лет назад

      +Elvesflame I have! It was found in a ancient ship, wasn't it?

    • @Elvesflame
      @Elvesflame 8 лет назад

      Steve Chadwarz Yup, at the bottom of the sea

  • @mm-ez6xn
    @mm-ez6xn 5 лет назад +25

    Then the creepy Valve-in-back-of-head guy from the intro to steam games wouldn't exist.

  • @christianch5037
    @christianch5037 8 лет назад +61

    Hey AlternateHistoryHub!
    Being an Armenian, I've always been fascinated by everything Armenian, specifically their wars. Just in case you didn't know (which I highly doubt), Turkey, and Armenia have sort of been in a feud. In the early 1900's, due to religious differences and jealousy, over a million Turkish-Armenians were massacred in an unrecognized genocide. I was wondering:
    -What if the Armenian Genocide never happened?
    I know for a fact that Adolf Hitler actually brought up the Armenian Genocide to convince people on how no one would realize the Jewish people would be exterminated, and I'm sure a lot more would have happened if the genocide never took place.
    Since the Armenian Genocide remembrance day is this coming April 24th, I was hoping you could possibly make a video about it.
    Sincerely
    ~A random internet person

    • @christianch5037
      @christianch5037 7 лет назад +1

      Here's a link explaining it all: www.armenian-genocide.org/ottoman.html

    • @Awakeningspirit20
      @Awakeningspirit20 6 лет назад +1

      Turks still don't recognize it to this day, so sad. Yes I believe the genocide inspired both Hitler and Stalin.

    • @CraftQueenJr
      @CraftQueenJr 6 лет назад

      Death shall come in droves good idea!
      Ps. Love the username!

    • @tanmayawahal1160
      @tanmayawahal1160 6 лет назад

      Everytime you said Armenian, I read American

    • @savyor9985
      @savyor9985 5 лет назад

      exactly right, The Assyrians and Greeks heck even the Armenians never rebelled against the ottomans and were basically murdered for no reason other than being Christians, the fact that the turkish government today denies the existence of these genocides means these pieces of shit in power are no different than the ottomans

  • @SuperGman117
    @SuperGman117 8 лет назад +20

    What if, at the end of WW2, Germany wasn't split, and instead was a single, neutral country left to its own devices?

    • @wampower6848
      @wampower6848 8 лет назад +4

      It would probably just become wedded to the West and America after the Marshall plan rained money on it like in our time line with West Germany. The Soviet Union would have a wall on the border of Poland, not Germany.

    • @wisemankugelmemicus1701
      @wisemankugelmemicus1701 3 года назад

      @@wampower6848 there probably wouldn't have been a wall at all. There was no wall in East Germany, but East Berlin, which was far beyond the East German border. Berlin is on an island. So it's much easier to wall off than an extensive 290 mile border.
      That being said they actually got close. 2 walls both roughly 82 miles. Maybe they could have done it if enough Poles defected, but certainly not overnight.

  • @Samuel_Brinkley
    @Samuel_Brinkley 2 года назад +4

    Miners gathering coal: 😃
    Minors gathering coal: 😨

  • @Tommzzes07
    @Tommzzes07 6 лет назад

    This video taught me so much thank you!

  • @Gigas0101
    @Gigas0101 8 лет назад +1

    Could you cover another WW1 scenario? Mainly what if "Halt in Belgrade" occurred and Austria-Hungary was able to mobilize fast enough to invade and occupy Belgrade after the death of Archduke Ferdinand.
    Also this video was amazing, thanks for making it and collaborating with List 25!

  • @fezdalek
    @fezdalek 8 лет назад +4

    If the Industrial Revolution never happened,there would be no dank memes,and there would be no reasons for me to exist.

    • @ebonyaxe
      @ebonyaxe 8 лет назад +3

      Born too late to explore the earth. Born too early to explore the galaxy. Born just in time to browsr dank memes.

  • @__europa
    @__europa Год назад +5

    It will be 8 billion by 2025
    wrong

  • @pakistaniobama4212
    @pakistaniobama4212 6 лет назад

    This really helped me on my econ debate about this, thanks!

  • @TallGuyProds
    @TallGuyProds Год назад +1

    Enjoyable intro and context, great setting of baseline (what WOULDN'T have happened without the Industrial Revolution) but I wish we had some takes on what WOULD have happened instead. Though that is incredibly more speculative.

  • @adamthornton7880
    @adamthornton7880 8 лет назад +5

    This is basically the future Thomas Malthus was afraid of.

  • @josephstalin2829
    @josephstalin2829 7 лет назад +47

    Powered by Steam.

    • @josephstalin2829
      @josephstalin2829 7 лет назад +4

      I'm immortal

    • @os8mm178
      @os8mm178 5 лет назад

      Another Stalin which one is imposter!?!?!?!?!?!?

    • @Robbie-pc1dl
      @Robbie-pc1dl 3 года назад

      @@os8mm178 early among us player

  • @MarCel-ih6ui
    @MarCel-ih6ui 7 лет назад

    Very interesting video!

  • @alijan2903
    @alijan2903 4 года назад

    I love the animation of the video so much as I have been through it all but I have got to chat with the concept of this story

  • @lwalfrid
    @lwalfrid 8 лет назад +3

    I've spent most of my spare time today, viewing your entertaining vids.
    Personally, I love studying alternate history by playing God-games - like Civilization.
    Being Scandinavian, I always play Viking. And I sometimes use my longboats to colonize the America's.
    This actually happened, but in our timeline the colonies were abandoned.
    So here's my proposition:
    WHAT IF... The Vikings extensively colonized the America's ? And held on to their colonies?

  • @accountburner4714
    @accountburner4714 8 лет назад +10

    What if the industrial revolution happened 100 years earlier

    • @hughb.b4069
      @hughb.b4069 8 лет назад +1

      we'd be more advanced now probably

    • @MegaDuras
      @MegaDuras 8 лет назад

      +Hugh B.B I heard that the industrial revolution could have happened several centuries earlier in China. But one of the key elements was missing. There is no water in the chinese coal mines so, no need for a steam engine. If it did happen the worl woul be quite different.

  • @someguy1865
    @someguy1865 7 лет назад +1

    dude you deserve more subs

  • @Promethean_Knight
    @Promethean_Knight 8 лет назад

    Cool video Cody. Perhaps one day you could do a ''what if the boxer rebellion never happened?''

  • @jxchu1056
    @jxchu1056 8 лет назад +6

    2:13 who noticed that Chinas character had really small eyes 😂😂😂

  • @imperiumromanum7375
    @imperiumromanum7375 2 года назад +5

    Ah yes, this is what shaped our modern technological world

  • @Lin-ob2wz
    @Lin-ob2wz 7 лет назад

    THNX HELPED ME ON MY POWERPOINT HAD NO IDEAS TIL I SAW DIS

  • @EthanDyTioco
    @EthanDyTioco 8 лет назад +1

    4:15 what a jolly smart idea, hanging munitions in the air, suspended over more munitions

  • @uhhhscizo6531
    @uhhhscizo6531 3 года назад +6

    We would become a utopia

    • @user-yy5di3qg5u
      @user-yy5di3qg5u 3 года назад +1

      Where you would die in your 20's, is that utopia?

    • @uhhhscizo6531
      @uhhhscizo6531 3 года назад +1

      @@user-yy5di3qg5u how would I die in my 20s? In a war? The "enlightenment" was still before the industrial revolution, dumbass, so they didn't levy people anymore.

    • @IkarosDC
      @IkarosDC 2 года назад +1

      @@user-yy5di3qg5u да, вопросы? Жизнь наполненная жизнью, а не соевым существованием, действительно лучше.

    • @user-yy5di3qg5u
      @user-yy5di3qg5u 2 года назад +1

      @@IkarosDC К тебе у меня вопрос получше - что ты в интернете забыл тогда?

  • @spike9653
    @spike9653 8 лет назад +78

    what if England won the 100 years war instead of France?

    • @mayonaka558
      @mayonaka558 8 лет назад +16

      Actually, the 100 Years War was a draw, neither country won.

    • @spike9653
      @spike9653 8 лет назад +13

      SomeRandomHetalian Oh yeah my mistake. I just thought France won because they took back France from England.

    • @mayonaka558
      @mayonaka558 8 лет назад +1

      Okay okay sorry *Hands in air, backing away*

    • @birdsqautchman1116
      @birdsqautchman1116 7 лет назад +6

      what if public education was outlawed by government (today) and all those who sought education had to pay businesses or craftsmen to teach them skills, much like guilds and apprenticeships during renaissance.

    • @godemperorofmankind3.091
      @godemperorofmankind3.091 5 лет назад +10

      @James what the hell does that mean? France held the line the entire time in WW1. and then theres the french resistance.

  • @jackbelinski2661
    @jackbelinski2661 11 месяцев назад +1

    It should be remembered that for most of the period of the Industrial Revolution, the majority of industries still relied on wind and water power as well as horse and man-power for driving small machines. In which case, without steam engines, there still technically would have been factories, just not steam powered ones. Instead they would have been sophisticated wind and water mills, as well as solar updraft engines like the one first proposed in 1903 by the Spanish Colonel Isidoro Cabanyes. There may have also been mills powered by geothermal steam vents, hence steam mills. Not to mention concepts like “Division of labor” and “Assembly lines” would still be applied. In short, mass production would still be possible.

  • @loganstill4390
    @loganstill4390 7 лет назад +1

    Cody your SO close to 1000000 subs

  • @richhornie7000
    @richhornie7000 2 года назад +3

    Working hours would be shorter than today and so is life expectancy. Value of life increases relative to today's and thereby a shorter living but happier society. Also no climate change to battle and thereby no massive extinction of life and destruction of environment in an unprecedented scale.

  • @michaelcutler5538
    @michaelcutler5538 7 лет назад

    I get the best screen shots from this guy's videos

  • @mrScififan2
    @mrScififan2 4 года назад

    Excellent

  • @CallsignBasilisk
    @CallsignBasilisk 8 лет назад +50

    What if the Cold War never happened?

  • @australopithecus_lucis
    @australopithecus_lucis Год назад +4

    "The agricultural society and its consequences have been a disaster for our society" - Ked Taczynski

  • @xRougeShadowx
    @xRougeShadowx 8 лет назад

    I died when you showed that shot of you on the pony.

  • @jackbelinski2661
    @jackbelinski2661 11 месяцев назад +1

    One of these days, can you please do a video on What if Rome Industrialized?

  • @joshuabeck5579
    @joshuabeck5579 2 года назад +4

    I prefer this timeline.

  • @matthewcollins4764
    @matthewcollins4764 4 года назад +6

    So it seems like it was simpler but more culture in individual areas and some atrocities such as African colonization and the horrible conditions factory workers faced were prevented sounds good to me. Although there would also be the absence of modern medicine but the obesity epidemic would be avoided.

  • @thatradfailure5197
    @thatradfailure5197 8 лет назад

    Convenient that my first time watching this channel is a collaboration LoLz

  • @Rkenichi
    @Rkenichi 6 лет назад +1

    Hahaha I love how he uses the umbrella terms "Billy" and "Jimmy" to describe his viewers

  • @Clee-os6pv
    @Clee-os6pv 8 лет назад +7

    Cody you should do "What if the industrial revolution happened in China first?"

    • @identitycrisis4557
      @identitycrisis4557 8 лет назад

      Nothing changes

    • @potato467
      @potato467 8 лет назад +2

      either way they would still be the most industrial country today

    • @forgefathereli8354
      @forgefathereli8354 8 лет назад

      +Starkiller Look up recent events in china... It was, is, and always was, going to be a house of cards with no real industrial foundation. And I won a $50,000 bet i made with my political science professor back in 1999 recently, because of just how crappy china is doing and that it's literally on the brink of collapse unless it starts using its army, and creates a enemy to unify the people again. They chose Japan in the last few weeks. Seriously do u not read the news?

    • @potato467
      @potato467 8 лет назад

      +Eli Gutman I watch European news

    • @GamingSwampert
      @GamingSwampert 8 лет назад

      +Starkiller ....usa is number one.

  • @proudnoob124
    @proudnoob124 8 лет назад +13

    HOL UP......SO U BE SAYIN'...........no porn? ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

    • @TheStrikeBlitz
      @TheStrikeBlitz 8 лет назад

      +proudnoob124 we dem boiz

    • @Crusender
      @Crusender 8 лет назад

      +proudnoob124 there was porn at that time but too costly for peasants.

    • @ray_99
      @ray_99 8 лет назад

      My god I'm 10 how do you think I'm so posed to react. I'm atheist so I used got to express a strong feeling

  • @Crurned
    @Crurned 4 года назад

    My boy Mike slaying in that Hannibal Lecter mask. LMAO!

  • @hellowelcometochillis2781
    @hellowelcometochillis2781 4 года назад +1

    "They upload a video every 200 years on a wide range of fascinating subjects"
    - a ytp i saw about this

  • @4formsofMATTer
    @4formsofMATTer 8 лет назад +6

    Unscramble these words!
    1.)PNEIS
    2.)HTIELR
    3.)NGGERI
    4.)BUTTSXE
    Did you get SPINE, LITHER,
    GINGER, and SUBTEXT?

    • @mrwildweasel
      @mrwildweasel 8 лет назад

      +4formsofMATTer Lol

    • @AsymmetricalCrimes
      @AsymmetricalCrimes 8 лет назад

      +4formsofMATTer You sir, are the oddest Bernie Sanders supporter I've seen yet. And I've seen quite alot on the internet.

  • @Zeldaschampion
    @Zeldaschampion 8 лет назад +3

    Its sad to think the industrially revolution could have happen back in the first century had the people not realized the potential of the Aeolipile aka the Greek Steam Engine also called the Hero's Engine.

    • @Zeldaschampion
      @Zeldaschampion 8 лет назад

      If the Greeks would saw the potential on that engine to be used in like for example chariots or other things it would have started a possible trend.Burhan the Somali

  • @cyberleone00
    @cyberleone00 8 лет назад

    i like how mike from top 25 with over 2 million subscribers is animated

  • @ultimatereviewer01
    @ultimatereviewer01 8 лет назад

    Really interesting scenario

  • @salokin3087
    @salokin3087 8 лет назад +7

    What if China maintained its Imperial rule during the 19th and 20th century? Would have it fallen eventually or stay afloat as a major power?
    God i love this channel!

    • @papajack222
      @papajack222 8 лет назад +1

      +Salokin Sekwah He already did the russian revolution and the hannibal thing.

    • @salokin3087
      @salokin3087 8 лет назад

      +papajack222 Thanks!

  • @theroguenetwork1083
    @theroguenetwork1083 2 года назад +3

    “Who has over 2 million subscribers”
    Modern day viewer: He did it, that crazy son of a bitch did it

  • @mandaloriancrusader3746
    @mandaloriancrusader3746 7 лет назад +1

    Sometimes I watch one of your videos... And when I came out I think, "what did he just say?"

  • @TairnKA
    @TairnKA 5 лет назад +1

    Have you made a video of; "What if the Depression never happened?", I can't find one.

  • @DeniseFisher422
    @DeniseFisher422 6 лет назад +6

    Wonder if we time travelled back to that time and gave them clean electricity, would the earth ne cleaner today, or still the same

    • @justinsutton5005
      @justinsutton5005 3 года назад

      It would not be. You gave them the technology but they do not have the technology to produce it. Thry would go to coal.

  • @freddyboy800
    @freddyboy800 8 лет назад +4

    Love how 80%of the video isn't about the actual alternate timeline.

  • @BlackTemplar40k
    @BlackTemplar40k 8 лет назад

    what are these characters throughout all your videos called? They always make me laugh

  • @jamescook5487
    @jamescook5487 2 года назад +1

    I was drinking a dr pepper when he said the part about drinking a pop lol. It caught me off guard.

  • @CosmicDalmatian
    @CosmicDalmatian 2 года назад +6

    The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries.

  • @martinb532
    @martinb532 8 лет назад +6

    What if the AlternateHistoryHub channel Never existed?

  • @ted7264
    @ted7264 Год назад +2

    Breathing in the dark, lying on its side
    The ruins of the day painted with a scar
    And the more I straighten out, the less it wants to try
    The feelings start to rot, one wink at a time
    Oh-oh, forgiving who you are, for what you stand to gain
    Just know that if you hide, it doesn't go away
    When you get out of bed, don't end up stranded
    Horrified with each stone on the stage, my little dark age
    Picking through the cards, knowing what's nearby
    The carvings on the face say they find it hard
    And the engine's failed again, all limits of disguise
    The humor's not the same, coming from denial
    Oh-oh, I grieve in stereo, the stereo sounds strange
    I know that if you hide, it doesn't go away
    If you get out of bed and find me standing all alone
    Open-eyed, burn the page, my little dark age
    I grieve in stereo, the stereo sounds strange
    You know that if it hides, it doesn't go away
    If I get out of bed, you'll see me standing all alone
    Horrified on the stage, my little dark age
    Giddy with delight, seeing what's to come
    The image of the dead, dead ends in my mind
    Policemen swear to God, love seeping from their guns
    I know my friends and I would probably turn and run
    If you get out of bed, come find us heading for the bridge
    Bring a stone, all the rage, my little dark age
    I grieve in stereo, the stereo sounds strange
    I know that if you hide, it doesn't go away
    If you get out of bed and find me standing all alone
    Open-eyed, burn the page, my little dark age
    All alone, open-eyed, burn the page, my little dark age

  • @princebeglar7722
    @princebeglar7722 Год назад +1

    Do you think you’ll do another collab with list25 now that he back.

  • @cisco3111
    @cisco3111 8 лет назад +9

    What if Napoleon succeed in his plan to invade Great Britain?