As an historian of the modern Middle East, I am impressed by how well you're doing in this series. Although there is a lot that might be added, I would struggle to cover this topic so efficiently in only 8-9 minutes. Good show
I know this isn't a fair question, but how much of the current day issues would you say are a result of political meddling by western powers? Like, certain things would have still happened with or without Britain and France, but, y'know...
@@KaiTenSatsuma Wouldn't that be all of them? I'm not saying they would've been peaceful otherwise, but they'd simply have completely different set of issues. Especially considering much of current day issues emerged from the arbitrary lines drawn by the colonial powers.
@the virtuous man you are fucking not. Phoenicians, egypt, numidians, Assyrians, etc etc. Sharing a languages doesn't mean you share a culture and have the same people. Egypt and Syria are both. Proper nation state emerged with their own identities over the past few years.
@@edrickhuge4637 And who are you to make decisions on Arabness? Syria's borders are artificial and Egypt has loong be a bastion of Arab nationalism. A tunisian is more culturally familiar to an iraqi compared to a punjabi and a bengali, and they can share a singular state in India. Arab irredentism in the natural evolution of Arab politics and anyone against clearly has only ill intentions towards them and their onion should thus be disregarded.
That statement is false, there is more than one ethnic culture in the middle east. The Arabs are not even the original inhabitants. Many of the people in the Middle East claim to be Arab, which to a degree is true. But there are Assyrians, Kurds, Chaldeans, Jews, Armenians, Persians and of course the Turks. All these groups exist and the British failed to create a multi-ethnic state without genocide and war. The establishment of an Assyrian State, Kurdish State and Armenian State would have granted the British more control. As they would have divided the Ottoman lands with better ethnic boundaries. Iraq, Syria, and Transjordan would still exist but the creation of 3 more states would have ensured British domination and peace.
@Max Smith I'd say they are super stable and Jordanians while not as rich as the saudias have more personal and political freedom. Abdullahs descendants have done good.
@@panzertee9790 Saudi Arabia is basically a client state of the US and their geopolitical situation is untenable in the long run, and when that happens, the suppressed internal conflicts will come right up to the surface.
Me: *Just about to start studying for my Econometrics assignment* Extra Credits uploads an Extra History video Me: "Knowing about history is more important than knowing about economics. "
That's actually the specialty of the British. Remember "no taxes without representation"? How about the one time Hindus and Muslims agreed on something? Pretty sure everyone agrees by now that Brexit is a disaster... Great Britain. Connecting people since 1707.
Berlin Conference but it’s in the Middle East.... Seriously, from post ww1 to independence, you can see similarities to the Berlin conference in Africa in the Middle East with the Sykes - Picot agreement
@@Freekymoho not to mention pissing of the chinese which would to the formation of the communist party because of Britain and France not honoring and their deal of giving their lands to the Japanese.
I feel like every other channel I watch regularly has been declining in quality, which I understand with everything going on right now but you guys are so badass that your're just getting better.
After this enlightening little arc is done, you guys should do an Extra History or Mythology video about the ancient Scythian nomads and how the inspired the mythical tales of the Amazon warrior women. I love learning about little bits of history and mythology through your videos and I think this would make for a fun subject to cover in the future.
Wasn't those Sarmatians? They were called the children of Scythians and Amazons by Herodothus, IIRK. Then there's the story of Scythian queen killing Cyrus. Anyway, story on Scythians and Sarmatians should come together, and would be very cool, especially considering one the biggest sexist conspiracies in scientific community when they tried to falsify humans men being much smaller in the past so they could label all women's warrior burials and skeletons with battle and riding deformations as "tiny males" and pretend nomadic women didn't exist, nomads procreated via cloning, and ancient history about them are just fairytales.
@@KasumiRINA Sarmatians and Scythians are a directly related people, both closely descended together from Proto-Indo-European ancestry. To this day it's still quite difficult to distinguish one culture from the other with absolute certainty since they share so much. As a result it's still kind of acceptable to use the two names interchangeably.
Annnnnd here I am, mouth agape, connecting the issues today with the past going "Ohhhhh $@#& we %$#@ed up." There could be a much different political climate today had things gone another way.
The bombing campaign that was mentioned was conducted by Arthur “reap the whirlwind” Harris. Worth watching some videos on him as he had an interesting career. He said something along the lines of “a 200-500lb bomb in every village would solve the problem” when talking about the revolt.
@@a_human8489 yeah I had the same thought. Its an extremely modern perspective on middle eastern strategy. Buff local ground troops and support with low risk air support. That was our strategy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the Sudans, and ISIS.
I really want the people watching to know the obviously huge amount of effort and research you have invested to understand there Crisis of the Middle East "Origin Story" ... Although a bit too summarized, but I'm a Syrian and I approve this video
Love seeing complete stranger dividing the house rooms amongst a family also bringing another complete stranger giving him a room in the house which neither of them own
@Rick K **smacks button** What is... current year. **looks at card** Ugh... no- this was a century ago. Wait, our Judges are telling me they will accept 'current year' as an answer. You get to pick the next category.
Egypt's opposition leader is Sa'ad Zaghloul. He is a very interesting character who got exiled twice but still the British couldn't hold him for long. in 1923 Egypt officially gained independence from Britain and the British left most of the Country except for the Suez canal.
0:55 - W.C. - "There must be some solution!" There's not other than letting the people govern themselves. Like, *Actually govern themselves, not as proxies and puppets* W.C - "We have no idea what could have led to this!" Yes you do. W.C. - "If only we could have foreseen this..." You're literally from a country that has seen this before, several times.
You can draw a straight line between this series and the Iraq wars, 9/11, Israel/Palestine, a good chunk of the Cold War, the oil crisis of the '70's, our current struggle with Global Warming ... Colonialism SUCKS SO BAD, you guys.
Thank you saying that Jacob. Most people in the west refuse to admit that colonialism made the mess in the middle east. Saying that we have always been this way.
The best way to get folks to unite seems to be to give them something to unite against. Ever wondered if the world would actually be a better place if comic-book supervillains were a real-life thing.
Maybe not super villains, but when aliens arrive, a LOT of countries are going to "bury the hatchet" with each other. Edit: in my opinion at least. Who knows?
I think it's more likely that people would ellect comic-book villains and then proceed to defend them the more they show themselves as comic book villains.
I know you tried to explain as simple as possible a very complicated subject, but after 1 minute I got confused. All I understood its that it's a mess. 😅
I thought people would finally understand that it's not a good idea to split kingsdoms because a king has more then on heir, or even to keep all the heirs alive 🤦♀️
7:30 Faisal said in 1922 "I cannot see the army of Iraq fighting a foreign power, but rather able to fight two uprisings in two separate places". After the gulf war of 1991, Saddam Hussein used the now crushed and destroyed Iraqi army to crush the Shia and Kurdish revolts in the south and north in less than 15 days Arab armies can't win wars as they were not designed with the intention to fight foreign wars
To be fair saddam wouldve continued to grow his aramy (4th strongest at its peak) to fight the foreign wars if needed, but dude was (for the most part) betrayed by the people he was fight. F dude was a badass
Churchill's management of the Iraq mandate and shift to airpower was quite significant in military history or at least a successful episodes of airpower use. Rather than having tens of thousands of soldiers from the British Empire trudge along and bankrupting post-war Britain they only needed a couple of bombers for retaliatory attacks.
My history teacher was the person who introduced some of our class (including me) to this channel, and watching the Seminal Tragedy episodes was part of the optional homework a few weeks ago.
It's been 100 years and Western Nations still haven't stopped meddling in the Middle East. Some might say "it's time to stop," but a far more vocal segment of the population is saying "hey, there's still more oil".
I'm sure they'll stop once non-Western nations stop meddling in their affairs as well. Which will never happen because the world is interconnected to begin with lol
An important thing to note is that not only had the Spanish Flu rocked the world in 1918, but during this time the Irish War for Independence was also going on, which was drawing British attention away from the rest of the world and closer to home.
Funny how the one that was portrayed as the weakest of the three kings is the only one who had his kingdom survive, well his blood line, minus Israel Idk why you included Israel with Jordan since they were never part of the same state
After consideration I think the true sins of the British Empire occured in the 20th century, the partion of both India and Arabia and the great Famines in lands that no longer needed civilising/protecting/whatever.
I mean, you can be more specific and accurate. Its crimes happened over roughly a 50 year period between 1870 and 1920. That period covers their fuckups in the middle east, the scramble for africa, the subjugation of pacific islands, the invention of concentration camps in the Boer Wars, the commencement of apartheid in south africa, the famine/genocide in india, the splitting of India and Pakistan, the conquest of Burma, the Boxer Rebellion, the (although ultimately good?) wresting of Hong Kong from China, arguably they helped topple the Chinese Monarchy (plunging china into a bloody totalitarian pit for the next 80 years) by granting the 1911 Xinhua revolutionaries safe harbor and funding in British Hong Kong, and probably much much much more I'm forgetting.
The treaty of Versailles really set up the 20th and 21st centuries for a lot of pain didn't they? WWII, the rise of communism instead of democracy in China and constant unrest in the middle East can all be traced back to this disastrous accord.
I realize now that history is most interesting misconstrued in literature of the time. I'm thinking about Tintin comics and the animated shows. Great stories, awesome adventures, but man, were they one sided.
As entertaining as the Tintin comics were, and I say this having read them, they can be construed as very racist from a modern point of view. They also offer an extremely simplistic view of international politics, but I don't really hold that against them, since they're intended for children.
I'll never get over laughing about Greeks living in Turkey play-pretending to be Romans without even living in Romania. (I know, Romans is how Italians called themselves, still doesn't make either "Eastern Roman Empire" or "Holy Roman Empire" less idiotic. It's been centuries they were rekt and they still look like idiot pretenders.)
@@KasumiRINA The fact that you hold this view only shows that you don't know much about the history the 4th-7th century. The Eastern Roman Empire was Rome, and had been the center of the Roman Empire for centuries before the western half collapsed.
As an historian of the modern Middle East, I am impressed by how well you're doing in this series. Although there is a lot that might be added, I would struggle to cover this topic so efficiently in only 8-9 minutes. Good show
I know this isn't a fair question, but how much of the current day issues would you say are a result of political meddling by western powers?
Like, certain things would have still happened with or without Britain and France, but, y'know...
Kaitensatsuma i’d like to see the answer to this question 👍🏻
@@HudeSpejder Me too
Hey man do like have a jornal or a channel we can follow
@@KaiTenSatsuma Wouldn't that be all of them? I'm not saying they would've been peaceful otherwise, but they'd simply have completely different set of issues. Especially considering much of current day issues emerged from the arbitrary lines drawn by the colonial powers.
-This is a complex region with diffrent cultures and...
*British officer slamming his desk: ARAB IS ARAB!
@Jasper Klee africa ○-○
@the virtuous man you are fucking not. Phoenicians, egypt, numidians, Assyrians, etc etc. Sharing a languages doesn't mean you share a culture and have the same people. Egypt and Syria are both. Proper nation state emerged with their own identities over the past few years.
@@edrickhuge4637 And who are you to make decisions on Arabness? Syria's borders are artificial and Egypt has loong be a bastion of Arab nationalism. A tunisian is more culturally familiar to an iraqi compared to a punjabi and a bengali, and they can share a singular state in India. Arab irredentism in the natural evolution of Arab politics and anyone against clearly has only ill intentions towards them and their onion should thus be disregarded.
That doesn't stop Spain, Russia, China, India, Italy, Great Britain (for now), Germany, France...
That statement is false, there is more than one ethnic culture in the middle east. The Arabs are not even the original inhabitants. Many of the people in the Middle East claim to be Arab, which to a degree is true. But there are Assyrians, Kurds, Chaldeans, Jews, Armenians, Persians and of course the Turks. All these groups exist and the British failed to create a multi-ethnic state without genocide and war. The establishment of an Assyrian State, Kurdish State and Armenian State would have granted the British more control. As they would have divided the Ottoman lands with better ethnic boundaries. Iraq, Syria, and Transjordan would still exist but the creation of 3 more states would have ensured British domination and peace.
I've realized this series has become my version of saturday morning cartoons.
Oh my gods, thank you for putting this into words! Glad I'm not the only one! ^w^
I could have gone my whole life without knowing that.
“There must be a solution”
Oh well that’s goo-
“Says Winston Churchill.”
Oh no.
I mean at least he tried
Hey Churchill actually did better this time.
Al least he didn't starve them to death this time.
Klaidi Rubiku Please go watch Knowing Better’s video on the man. Please I beg you
@@dr.nosborn6330 Too bad he couldn't find a bit of experience in his military operation ideas, even in WWII.
Of these kingdoms, only Jordan and Saudi Arabia still survive today, ruled by the descendants of Abdullah and Abdul-aziz, respectively.
Spoilers!
And, to be fair, both are relatively stable
These kingdoms have a lot of similarities as well huh. They all bend down and spread their legs for the highest bidder
@Max Smith I'd say they are super stable and Jordanians while not as rich as the saudias have more personal and political freedom. Abdullahs descendants have done good.
@@panzertee9790 Saudi Arabia is basically a client state of the US and their geopolitical situation is untenable in the long run, and when that happens, the suppressed internal conflicts will come right up to the surface.
Me: *Just about to start studying for my Econometrics assignment*
Extra Credits uploads an Extra History video
Me: "Knowing about history is more important than knowing about economics. "
Economics and history are intertwined. Why do you think the colonialists did all of this? For economic reasons....
@@erichusayn I bet those colonists won't be able to explain to me how asymptotic variance of error terms works.
Econometrics . Yikes your giving me Econ 326 Flashbacks
Honestly, understanding history will actually help you understand economics better, so...yeah.
@@calebadams6313 Bro, the theories are going way over my head. :(
I think I'm gonna have to watch this several more times to make straight of the tangle...
I must admit the tracking of names is my largest hurdle
@@Nothing2150 Yeah...gonna have to research previous vids to see where we are...
@@trinkab read some of the Qur'an
@@17-MASY
Ameen.
"Three Kings?" We're already at Christmas?
Dog, my Spanish teacher made me learn about them
Nah.. Eid tomorrow
Yeah thanks for talking about the Arab Revolt in the year or the years around 1920.
O no
the west divided our lands and chose our leaders to keep their interest in the region ☪️
Im out of the loop here, why the sarcasm?
it was not your land. @@ahmadfrhan5265
6:18 - Lawrence's Bizarre Adventure - Sandust Crusaders
Stand name
-Dynamite-
yes yes yes
@@shakezmaybe3192 But what does his Stand do?
YES I AM!
Stand Name: The Trooper
Stand Master: T.E. Lawrence
Welcome to another episode of "You had one job"
Well, at least the British got everyone to agree about something.
Hey, they wanted results, they got results. :D
@@shadiafifi54 What do you mean by that?
Hating them ?
Having a common enemy is the best way to unite people.
That's actually the specialty of the British. Remember "no taxes without representation"? How about the one time Hindus and Muslims agreed on something? Pretty sure everyone agrees by now that Brexit is a disaster...
Great Britain. Connecting people since 1707.
Egyptians: Could you leave Egypt?
Brits: *No.*
The Egyptian author and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz rendered the Egyptian revolt very well in some of his novels.
Berlin Conference but it’s in the Middle East.... Seriously, from post ww1 to independence, you can see similarities to the Berlin conference in Africa in the Middle East with the Sykes - Picot agreement
The "war to end all wars" directly lead to even more wars. Ironic
It's also the exact same buffoonery they used to divvy up a defeated germany, and we all know what that later lead to.
@@Freekymoho not to mention pissing of the chinese which would to the formation of the communist party because of Britain and France not honoring and their deal of giving their lands to the Japanese.
the west divided our lands and chose our leaders to keep their interest in the region ☪️
Which Berlin conference, I think there were 3 or 4 in modern history
Eid Mubarak Everyone.....
Eid mubarak brother. :)
Eid Mubarak
Blessed holiday Muslim brothers,you saw how we were divided, pray to Allah and work together to restore the Caliphate.
Eid Mubarak, have a blessed day
I feel like every other channel I watch regularly has been declining in quality, which I understand with everything going on right now but you guys are so badass that your're just getting better.
After this enlightening little arc is done, you guys should do an Extra History or Mythology video about the ancient Scythian nomads and how the inspired the mythical tales of the Amazon warrior women. I love learning about little bits of history and mythology through your videos and I think this would make for a fun subject to cover in the future.
Wasn't those Sarmatians? They were called the children of Scythians and Amazons by Herodothus, IIRK. Then there's the story of Scythian queen killing Cyrus. Anyway, story on Scythians and Sarmatians should come together, and would be very cool, especially considering one the biggest sexist conspiracies in scientific community when they tried to falsify humans men being much smaller in the past so they could label all women's warrior burials and skeletons with battle and riding deformations as "tiny males" and pretend nomadic women didn't exist, nomads procreated via cloning, and ancient history about them are just fairytales.
@@KasumiRINA Sarmatians and Scythians are a directly related people, both closely descended together from Proto-Indo-European ancestry. To this day it's still quite difficult to distinguish one culture from the other with absolute certainty since they share so much. As a result it's still kind of acceptable to use the two names interchangeably.
4:38:
Me: where's Wiston Churchill's top hat? And his cigar?
He hasn't reached his final form yet. ;)
In his defense, dont think there was a scene here that, when he Churchill had a free hand, he did not have a cigar at least
@@ИванСнежков-з9й ooo
I almost cry watching this.
Annnnnd here I am, mouth agape, connecting the issues today with the past going "Ohhhhh $@#& we %$#@ed up." There could be a much different political climate today had things gone another way.
The bombing campaign that was mentioned was conducted by Arthur “reap the whirlwind” Harris. Worth watching some videos on him as he had an interesting career.
He said something along the lines of “a 200-500lb bomb in every village would solve the problem” when talking about the revolt.
Sounds kinda like America’s plan to defeat isis tbh
@@a_human8489 yeah I had the same thought. Its an extremely modern perspective on middle eastern strategy. Buff local ground troops and support with low risk air support. That was our strategy in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the Sudans, and ISIS.
I really want the people watching to know the obviously huge amount of effort and research you have invested to understand there Crisis of the Middle East "Origin Story" ... Although a bit too summarized, but I'm a Syrian and I approve this video
Love seeing complete stranger dividing the house rooms amongst a family also bringing another complete stranger giving him a room in the house which neither of them own
EL LoL and expect the situation to work.
Like how Israel came to be
Jews are the original owners of the room who were kicked out
If only the Arabs had nord VPN, they would have their Arab empire so easily
what's nord VPN?
Alnasr Altair a vpn and that’s something that protects you’re internet privacy
@@TP-ik7nx oh I know that VPN, just thought he's talking about some kind of Norse magic 😅
Dude, uncool
@@TP-ik7nx uP
British: A triumverate sounds like a great idea!
Rome: Yeah... not really.
7:35 "military control would be transferred from the army to the royal airforce"
WHAT IS CURRENT YEAR???
@Rick K **smacks button** What is... current year.
**looks at card**
Ugh... no- this was a century ago. Wait, our Judges are telling me they will accept 'current year' as an answer. You get to pick the next category.
Extra Credits: Abdul-Aziz....
*TommyKay subscribers intensifies**
bruuuuhh im dead lmaooooo
Aahhhh abdul aziz 😢😂
the RAE Abdul AZIIIIIIIIIIIZ
ABDULAZIZZZZZZZZ
The sword of allah
What a terrible mess... Thank goodness it's all sorted now... Oh no.. Wait!!?!!?!
@Feras Awaysheh صح عليك
I hope god will curse english for these mess
@@KouNagai Considering what would happen to the British Empire over the next 30 years I think they've been punished enough.
@Max Smith what peace deals
@Max Smith peace? The chance to live in a cage and on a leash.. With no dignity or respect? How is that a good deal?
Sykes and Picot: * draws random lines on the map *
Sykes and Picot: I did the job boss
3 Kings in a single region never turned out well for anyone
Thanks to the legendary Patrons from a broke and bored fan!
Everyone in Iraq hitting each other and fighting
Britain: we rule you
Everyone in Iraq: anyone wanna beat them up, yea sure why not
Britain: oof
Egypt's opposition leader is Sa'ad Zaghloul. He is a very interesting character who got exiled twice but still the British couldn't hold him for long. in 1923 Egypt officially gained independence from Britain and the British left most of the Country except for the Suez canal.
And follow then by the three partit war around suez canal
@Max Smith Too bad he didn't fuel up the bus before going
0:55 -
W.C. - "There must be some solution!"
There's not other than letting the people govern themselves. Like, *Actually govern themselves, not as proxies and puppets*
W.C - "We have no idea what could have led to this!"
Yes you do.
W.C. - "If only we could have foreseen this..."
You're literally from a country that has seen this before, several times.
This fits perfectly on the British behalf of the quote "Divide et impera/divide and conquer"
In Cairo, nationalist leaders approach the British high command, who responds "Oh, you're approaching me?" and slams a road roller on them
ROAD ROLLA DA!
@@espeon91 *RODO RORAA DA
Za world
*posted 12 minutes ago* me: MUST WATCH
You can draw a straight line between this series and the Iraq wars, 9/11, Israel/Palestine, a good chunk of the Cold War, the oil crisis of the '70's, our current struggle with Global Warming ... Colonialism SUCKS SO BAD, you guys.
Well...
Yup
More or less.
But it’s ok, neo-colonialism is an incredibly great way to really help out struggling nations. Am I right?
Thank you saying that Jacob. Most people in the west refuse to admit that colonialism made the mess in the middle east. Saying that we have always been this way.
3:48 who could have known?
@Aryan Verma seriously asking?
Being under control of someone who wants your lands resources.
@Aryan Verma they were being controlled by the british and the french
@Aryan Verma also i dont think its the "greatest country in the world"
Eid al Fitr everyone 🙏🙏
Happy eid to tou too
Luv u guys, thx for the good but really fast vid
Woodcuck Wilson: “thErE mUsT Be a wAy tO fIx tHis.”
Yeah, threaten war on the imperialists
"How can you enslave people when their mothers bore them free? a quote by the one with mustash, Urabi 0:14
The closest i came to learning this history as a teen was as a subplot in an Agatha Christi novel...
This story is so heart taking :O
The best way to get folks to unite seems to be to give them something to unite against. Ever wondered if the world would actually be a better place if comic-book supervillains were a real-life thing.
Maybe not super villains, but when aliens arrive, a LOT of countries are going to "bury the hatchet" with each other.
Edit: in my opinion at least. Who knows?
But we do have comic book supervillains in the real world.. (follow @PresVillain
on twitter)
I think it's more likely that people would ellect comic-book villains and then proceed to defend them the more they show themselves as comic book villains.
Ozymandias, is that you?
@@andrewlentner The soviet union basically did that for the west
In the thumbnail why is Lawrence in the background like, "I can see, I CAN FIGHT!"
Am I the only one who fell over laughing by T.E Lawrence in the thumbnail. Like no homo but damn dude
hot
@@bakugeki5187 no homo but exactly
I know you tried to explain as simple as possible a very complicated subject, but after 1 minute I got confused. All I understood its that it's a mess. 😅
And THIS is a large part of the reason we haven't known peace in the world since then.
I thought people would finally understand that it's not a good idea to split kingsdoms because a king has more then on heir, or even to keep all the heirs alive 🤦♀️
Nothing unites people like a common enemy.
Middle East tactics for dealing with Imperial Occupiers, or those they perceive as such, really haven't changed in the last century.
7:30 Faisal said in 1922 "I cannot see the army of Iraq fighting a foreign power, but rather able to fight two uprisings in two separate places". After the gulf war of 1991, Saddam Hussein used the now crushed and destroyed Iraqi army to crush the Shia and Kurdish revolts in the south and north in less than 15 days
Arab armies can't win wars as they were not designed with the intention to fight foreign wars
To be fair saddam wouldve continued to grow his aramy (4th strongest at its peak) to fight the foreign wars if needed, but dude was (for the most part) betrayed by the people he was fight.
F dude was a badass
Also arabs united can fight foreign fights, but we are talented in dividing oursleves
Can Extra History do a video about the Prague Spring?
Churchill's management of the Iraq mandate and shift to airpower was quite significant in military history or at least a successful episodes of airpower use. Rather than having tens of thousands of soldiers from the British Empire trudge along and bankrupting post-war Britain they only needed a couple of bombers for retaliatory attacks.
It's funny how the same tactic doesn't work twice.
I mean its rarely a successful strategy, but its definitely a massively influential development that influences us even into today.
Awesome episodes!!! Mexican Revolution episodes next please!!!
This is my my history class now do too quarantine,keep up the good work 😁
You think Extra History can do the 3rd and 4th Crusade
@@Friendlyneighborhoodguy I mean why not 😁
My history teacher was the person who introduced some of our class (including me) to this channel, and watching the Seminal Tragedy episodes was part of the optional homework a few weeks ago.
What's the solution? Call up Lawrence and Gertrude Bell and ignore them completely anyway.
It's been 100 years and Western Nations still haven't stopped meddling in the Middle East. Some might say "it's time to stop," but a far more vocal segment of the population is saying "hey, there's still more oil".
Obi Wan advocating for people's right to rule themselves?
I'm sure they'll stop once non-Western nations stop meddling in their affairs as well. Which will never happen because the world is interconnected to begin with lol
Excellent series.
Really shows how badly colonialism has screwed up our planet, leading to the gigantic dumpster fires we see today.
Just hearing about the mess that is your whole history that was never tought in school.
Sigh. screw the world.
The question is ..why weren't we taught all of this at school ?!!!
M.A.D where are you guys from for a start.
@@jackhopewell1745 me ,Egypt🙂
Because its shameful and depressing
Because they want us to be divided and fragile ,however the caliphate will return once more to unite Muslims
Despite the awfulness of this part of history... Eid Mubarak, everyone. Have a fantastic day! 🌙 🌟 🌙 🌟
Hey imagine being early
Ikr
I think that there should be a Churchill series in the future to be voted on by the patron
Sharif was not because he was sheriff of mecca... Sharif means he was noble lineage.... Family of banu hashim
"Winston Churchill"
Oh boy, this sounds like incompetence RIP. Oh shoot, you're telling me that everyone else actually is?
When I heard Winston Churchill
I was like here we go again
@Max Smith How about Israel?
As someone from the shrief clan myself I am now a proud Saudi 🇸🇦🇸🇦❤️❤️
Ahhh you realize that is not something to be proud of
@@benharira1626 you can be proud of being a saudi
Is that something you guys proud of?
I really love these episodes :३
Eid Mubarak everyone!
Great video your channel is too good
4:31 wait is this the thing where winston churchill said the thing about using bombs on "uncivilised tribes"
"Al Sud"
"Saudi"
how do you fail to say "Al Saud" while being able to say "Saudi Arabia" properly. Jisoos
I seriously can't believe you missed the opportunity to make the 'Three Kings' joke.
Some people saying at least British united arabs.
This sentence totally wrong because arabs in history they had one huge empire even before ottomans.
I say they should make a series on the Turkish War of Independence next!
Yeah definitely
Greek war of Independence is more interesting
Cyber Avenger without russia and britian there would have not been one 😂😂
An important thing to note is that not only had the Spanish Flu rocked the world in 1918, but during this time the Irish War for Independence was also going on, which was drawing British attention away from the rest of the world and closer to home.
Funny how the one that was portrayed as the weakest of the three kings is the only one who had his kingdom survive, well his blood line, minus Israel Idk why you included Israel with Jordan since they were never part of the same state
I think that was just a mistake they made when they drew the map
@MrNorthernSol No the original mandate of palestine was not apart of Jordan, jordan wanted to claim Palestine which is a different story
NOOOO you cant just draw borders the way you want without our participation!
Hahaha go draw border brrrrrr
Border drawing machine: brrrrrrrrrrt! Done!
Hussein:
a great episode with fun tidbits about churchill and Lawrence
The best birthday gift is a new episode
After consideration I think the true sins of the British Empire occured in the 20th century, the partion of both India and Arabia and the great Famines in lands that no longer needed civilising/protecting/whatever.
I mean, you can be more specific and accurate. Its crimes happened over roughly a 50 year period between 1870 and 1920. That period covers their fuckups in the middle east, the scramble for africa, the subjugation of pacific islands, the invention of concentration camps in the Boer Wars, the commencement of apartheid in south africa, the famine/genocide in india, the splitting of India and Pakistan, the conquest of Burma, the Boxer Rebellion, the (although ultimately good?) wresting of Hong Kong from China, arguably they helped topple the Chinese Monarchy (plunging china into a bloody totalitarian pit for the next 80 years) by granting the 1911 Xinhua revolutionaries safe harbor and funding in British Hong Kong, and probably much much much more I'm forgetting.
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES, Now we know where they get this folklore from
0:36. excuse me...
He seems rather "excited" to be riding. He might have some "stiff" competition down the line though.
@@TakoyaKyono that's brilliant LMAO
I mean, there was a sollution... KEPP YOUR GOD DAMN WORD!
The treaty of Versailles really set up the 20th and 21st centuries for a lot of pain didn't they? WWII, the rise of communism instead of democracy in China and constant unrest in the middle East can all be traced back to this disastrous accord.
Thanks to share this history
At around 8:20 , the map of Egypt is a bit off
Everybody gangsta till Winston Churchill appears
Sheriff is not the same as Shareef! Sherrif of Mecca indeed, you got this simple thing wrong in all four episodes
Two Emirs enter. One Emir leaves. Two Emirs enter. One Emire leaves.
As an Egyptian,I would like to pay respect for those who died to make my country free
we love you extra credidts
I realize now that history is most interesting misconstrued in literature of the time. I'm thinking about Tintin comics and the animated shows. Great stories, awesome adventures, but man, were they one sided.
As entertaining as the Tintin comics were, and I say this having read them, they can be construed as very racist from a modern point of view. They also offer an extremely simplistic view of international politics, but I don't really hold that against them, since they're intended for children.
@Extra history are you going to continue the serie about Roman Justinian and Theodora serie?
Please more about the Roman empire!!! ❤️
TheCodeSwordfish I think they did Justinian
@@patrioticwelshman2968 yes thanks, but not finished though :)
I'll never get over laughing about Greeks living in Turkey play-pretending to be Romans without even living in Romania. (I know, Romans is how Italians called themselves, still doesn't make either "Eastern Roman Empire" or "Holy Roman Empire" less idiotic. It's been centuries they were rekt and they still look like idiot pretenders.)
@@KasumiRINA The fact that you hold this view only shows that you don't know much about the history the 4th-7th century. The Eastern Roman Empire was Rome, and had been the center of the Roman Empire for centuries before the western half collapsed.
can you guys make a series about Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa nexted? please
Time to binge extra history to help study for AP world
2:04 do someone have the source of the battle or invasion or whatever called
Welcome back to another episode of "The west should've just left the middle east the hell alone"
That's an unfortunately placed saddle at 0:39