What if the Black Death Never Happened?

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  • Опубликовано: 3 фев 2025

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  • @fatmanwalking8610
    @fatmanwalking8610 5 лет назад +2927

    **Literally anything happens in history**
    Jews: *_Current objective: survive_*

    • @hatinmyselfiscool2879
      @hatinmyselfiscool2879 4 года назад +14

      What what happened in the israeli conflict then :-:

    • @אוהדאריאליופה
      @אוהדאריאליופה 4 года назад +78

      jews have to wash hands before eating and pray, its a religious commendment.

    • @c1berserker744
      @c1berserker744 4 года назад +35

      It even says in the Bible that a lot of bad things will happen to Israel.

    • @eagleowl833
      @eagleowl833 4 года назад +6

      Put that in the Bible 😂

    • @juliethompson8208
      @juliethompson8208 4 года назад +9

      @@c1berserker744 but notably only the bible. Wouldnt use the bible as your only source

  • @MatsRivel
    @MatsRivel 6 лет назад +797

    Funfact: Despite having an even more spread out and isolated society than the rest Europe, Norway lost 70-75% of its population. To this day "Abandoned farm" is a very common last name in Norway. (Ødegård)

    • @2urhc229
      @2urhc229 5 лет назад +1

      So Norway would become richer earleir

    • @bradleyheck7204
      @bradleyheck7204 5 лет назад +1

      Every bit as fun as the plays of Henrik Ibsen! That IS terribly interesting, though.

    • @Quincius
      @Quincius 4 года назад +6

      @@r.chamaemorus8025 Yeah, Trondheim and especially Bergen were crucial trading centers in Northern Europe. Bergen still ended up as one of the largest cities in Scandinavia throughout the 15th and 16th centuries.

    • @youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575
      @youraveragepizzaenjoyer4575 4 года назад +12

      Norway was actually experiencing a golden age before the Plague. Trade increased, Population tripled, and peace, but then the Black Death hit like a truck.

    • @georgeofakind1710
      @georgeofakind1710 4 года назад +1

      that's.... really fucking sad :(

  • @pointlessopinion611
    @pointlessopinion611 6 лет назад +1466

    7:08
    "When I'm done half of humanity will still exist, perfectly balanced. As all things should be."
    Thanos

    • @billyherrington5112
      @billyherrington5112 6 лет назад +22

      the plot of the film does not coincide with the comic canon. In comic book, Thanos want to murder the entire universe, because he loved death, and he intented to impress her.

    • @neonlux1362
      @neonlux1362 6 лет назад +20

      I had a hard time watching that. Like....you KNOW its monsterous what Thanos did....but at the same time.....less people....soooooooooooooooooo....and I mean....its not discriminatory....so equal oppertunity death for all. No single group is spared......honestly....its fair.....problem is that Thanos never seemed to realize culling humanity and all other races of being would be a stop gap measure. In time they would all come back to full strength....long after Thanos was dead and unable to cull again....so basically hes just taking out half of the population of the universe for.....no....reason.

    • @happydemon3038
      @happydemon3038 6 лет назад +10

      Actually, many civilizations would start seeing themselves overpopulate by that point, natural instincts not being compatible with advanced progress.
      If he had instead created more resources, aka. reward a bad behavior. People would continue, maybe more so, because they'll be rewarded again.
      But he killed half of everyone. He punished a bad behavior, overly harsh, but still, an example. And he didn't spare any one group, everyone was punished, everyone learns their lesson. People don't want this to happen again, so they'll keep their numbers manageable.
      If they don't learn their lesson, then they'll repopulate and exterminate themselves. Natural selection. But he gave the intelligent a chance to learn.
      It is cruel, but it works. Better solutions may exist. But it is a solution.

    • @carsoncasmirri3874
      @carsoncasmirri3874 6 лет назад +4

      pointless opinion it’s almost as if scenarios like this and people who have such draconian views were the inspiration for his character

    • @happydemon3038
      @happydemon3038 6 лет назад

      @themesongfan No, they'd keep their population manageable because they just got punished from up high. They can't justify it being targeted at them if everyone suffers equally, friend or foe, rich or poor. And they'd do it for the sake of their kin. Because as a general rule, people want their children to prosper.
      And if they choose to squander this opportunity, they'll die. They were given a chance, but refused to take it. That just means they'd keep consuming no matter what.
      The problem is over-consumption. You don't solve over-consumption by encouraging consumption. If they're punished, they'll try to find out why they got punished, so they can avoid it. If they continue their behavior, then they're unfit for survival, and nature will run it's course.
      And if they're so disproportionately powerful that they can wage war and gain (civilizations set up webs of alliances because they work), then they'd do it anyway, snap or not.

  • @timhalliday5839
    @timhalliday5839 4 года назад +538

    I like how youtube decides now is the perfect time to suggest this to me:
    Here I am listening to the words "The world has gone a century without a horrific plague", while quarantined in my house due to the coronavirus

    • @rapperdonut
      @rapperdonut 4 года назад +3

      @Ethan Steel exactly :)

    • @underthependulum3484
      @underthependulum3484 4 года назад +6

      Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!

    • @dumbskeppy69
      @dumbskeppy69 4 года назад +3

      @@underthependulum3484 what

    • @gVert404
      @gVert404 4 года назад +10

      good thing it has a 99.8% recovery rate so theres an extremely low chance you die even if u get it

    • @craftsncreations1398
      @craftsncreations1398 4 года назад +4

      @@gVert404 if this is true or not, at the end of the day people are still dying. I would rather stay inside than run the risk of my grandmother, parents, etc dying.

  • @InquisitorThomas
    @InquisitorThomas 8 лет назад +1573

    Ironically Justinian actually survived the plague

    • @AlternateHistoryHub
      @AlternateHistoryHub  8 лет назад +247

      +Thomas Scally Coincidence? I think nay

    • @InquisitorThomas
      @InquisitorThomas 8 лет назад +110

      +AlternateHistoryHub well he still got it and went into a coma he was just one of the only people to wake up and recover from the disease

    • @timcondon5184
      @timcondon5184 8 лет назад +18

      +AlternateHistoryHub what if the Golden Horde never broke up because of the family issues it had, where one of them got to power hungry and the other got to suspicious of each other. What if they actually got along perfectly?

    • @declankearns1916
      @declankearns1916 8 лет назад +41

      #justiniandidtheplauge

    • @wellingtonharris4536
      @wellingtonharris4536 8 лет назад +4

      +AlternateHistoryHub ¿what Spanish flu never happened?

  • @AlternateHistoryHub
    @AlternateHistoryHub  8 лет назад +3875

    *cough*

  • @Altoclarinets
    @Altoclarinets 4 года назад +1413

    "almost an entire century without a deadly plague"
    *Welp*

    • @stueyk
      @stueyk 4 года назад +24

      What was that about a plague?

    • @jjammmees
      @jjammmees 4 года назад +7

      @@stueyk spanish flu

    • @stueyk
      @stueyk 4 года назад +23

      @@jjammmees Was joking because it was posted just before this pandemic

    • @triblast9538
      @triblast9538 3 года назад +9

      @@stueyk it’s so funny that their joking about the Spanish flu when now we have *COUGH* CORONA *COUGH*

    • @pabloveloso7736
      @pabloveloso7736 3 года назад +12

      @@blazingfish8486 Sadly, with the new variants of the virus, thats not longer the case.

  • @dannyishii3160
    @dannyishii3160 5 лет назад +148

    On the Mongols launching their plague dead into the enemy city:
    I just want to imagine the launchee NOT being dead first. The fleas will leave a dead body, after all, but not one five days into a seven day inevitable death. So, Mongol warrior struck down by horrid disease blisters, go out with a bang! Use the last of your strength to climb into the catapult arm, and let loose a battle cry as you fly over the rampart, on your way to becoming a flea-shrapnel grenade.

    • @thomastakesatollforthedark2231
      @thomastakesatollforthedark2231 4 года назад +1

      @WithAStick AngryWhiteMan ohhhhh yeaaaddss~

    • @DigiMaverickWorld0rder1155
      @DigiMaverickWorld0rder1155 4 года назад +3

      Okay, I definitely got a laugh outta this idea.

    • @peterwindhorst5775
      @peterwindhorst5775 4 года назад +5

      The Japanese in WW2 had the same idea. They had developed a flea-bomb in China / Korea that spread the plague. Had the US gone further and farther into the home islands - it is likely they would have used the bomb. Fortunately, the US had its own bomb... and the flea bomb "disappeared" into the US military arsenal.

    • @__-yz1ob
      @__-yz1ob 4 года назад +5

      @@peterwindhorst5775
      If I remember correctly, it wasnt a exactly a bomb but fleas laced with germs,
      The operation was called "Cherry Blossoms at Night" And was supposed to take place on 27th August 1945

    • @dylanzlol7293
      @dylanzlol7293 Год назад

      Wouldnt it hurt a lot when you are launched to the enemy city?

  • @alphacat77
    @alphacat77 8 лет назад +1236

    #ripjimmythepeseant

  • @andreideregla8218
    @andreideregla8218 8 лет назад +367

    5:15
    "the king of France even believed that it was the alignment of the planets. Oh France"
    *made me dying* *LOL*

  • @meateater2180
    @meateater2180 7 лет назад +1394

    If the Black Death never occurred I wouldn't be watching this video.

  • @AgentOz1990
    @AgentOz1990 4 года назад +506

    "The western world has gone almost a century with a catastrophic deadly plague"
    Coronavirus: *C-C-C-C-COMBOBREAKER*

    • @thecrispydingle4202
      @thecrispydingle4202 4 года назад +19

      It’s not some catastrophic plague like super virus every smartass ever seems to think you can look that not even 1 million people have died and more than half of the people who got it have recovered and the cdc says that 94% of their Covid-19 diagnosis’s could be caused by underlying heath conditions look at the facts before you post

    • @amar2394
      @amar2394 4 года назад +13

      @@thecrispydingle4202 we are still considered to be in a pandemic even if the virus isn't that deadly its self

    • @voidwalker9746
      @voidwalker9746 4 года назад +12

      @@thecrispydingle4202 1)take a joke, 2) it's still classed a pandemic because it's worldwide

    • @underthependulum3484
      @underthependulum3484 4 года назад +3

      Haha you are so funny, no one else ever would've thought to make that joke right now, only you! Only you!

    • @sagetheassassin3192
      @sagetheassassin3192 4 года назад

      Awesome

  • @xerohr
    @xerohr 8 лет назад +270

    I feel like it would trigger exploration much quicker, to find new farm land and resources to sustain the growing population, technically technologically advancing us by a century or two.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 8 лет назад +25

      Yeah, what he is saying is crap imho. I mean, many historians agree that the black death was what delayed the Renaissance in Italy (Renaissance began in Italy before the rest of Europe and actually before the black death: the first cities were devastated, leaving only Florence to spread it a long time later).
      I think it's kind of ridiculous to think the exact opposite would happen, but well.

    • @xerohr
      @xerohr 8 лет назад +1

      xenotypos Sorry to offend.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 8 лет назад +4

      zoidBergh
      ?
      a misunderstanding? I agree with you you, I just don't understand how the guys from the video came to their unlikely conclusion, since it's been etablished that the renaissance began sooner.

    • @covert8883
      @covert8883 8 лет назад +4

      +xenotypos well starvation would still be a massive problem. More mouths to feed. Europe could only sustain so much.

    • @EmperorDonaldJTrump
      @EmperorDonaldJTrump 8 лет назад +9

      Would it also be considered that Kingdoms would declare war on North African and Oriental Kingdoms to put their ever expanding population?

  • @Jaunsh
    @Jaunsh 8 лет назад +1604

    Dank memes, by far the biggest killer, I remember those days, I lived inside of a coke bottle and ate 1 mouldy bread crust per week. Terrible times

  • @redsea1234
    @redsea1234 8 лет назад +465

    Those console players truly went through a lot.

  • @JenniferJones-hw9wu
    @JenniferJones-hw9wu 6 лет назад +19

    Two thoughts. 1. There is some theory that the 1347 plague was so virulent because anthrax was also experiencing an outbreak at the same time. And there is a difference between bubonic plague and pneumonic plague. Pneumonia can be passed from one to another simply through coughing. Cats can even transmit in that way to humans. 2. Don't forget the impact that The Little Ice Age had on Western Europe at that same time. The ramifications of that event were also far reaching for the future of Western civilization. Great video and great topic!

  • @eaglecohort5259
    @eaglecohort5259 8 лет назад +360

    Says there hasn't been a major plague in the last century, mentions dank memes a minute later. The virus is evolving. The infected no longer see it as the enemy. Soon we will all be the dank memes. The end times are near, and the horsememes of apocalypse ride.

    • @fortress5278
      @fortress5278 8 лет назад +1

      +Eagle Cohort I am dank meme. You will fall to our mighty memes.

    • @zerathius7131
      @zerathius7131 8 лет назад

      +CalmDark ironic memes

    • @Tytoalba777
      @Tytoalba777 8 лет назад +4

      There's only one way to cure it: You must recognize a fact that no one else seems to realize, that Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life

    • @fortress5278
      @fortress5278 8 лет назад

      James A Clouder
      It is but one strain of all meme kind. We will attack, we will evolve, and we will kill

    • @dutch1641
      @dutch1641 8 лет назад

      pretty sure im immune to dank memes

  • @Spieler521
    @Spieler521 8 лет назад +305

    What if Black Death never happened? This video wouldn't exist

  • @Jason-mg3fk
    @Jason-mg3fk 7 лет назад +185

    Anyone else catch the "the mongols are always the exception" joke, crash course and real life lore, two blessings in the world

  • @mikailmq
    @mikailmq 4 года назад +80

    “Almost gone for a century without plagues”
    Emphasis on “almost”

    • @captainayaaya28
      @captainayaaya28 4 года назад +1

      At least it isn’t as bad as the previous ones right? I mean, it hopefully and most likely won’t last a decade.

    • @matusmotlo3854
      @matusmotlo3854 3 года назад +1

      @@captainayaaya28 And come on, how many people are dying? A fraction of a percent? Now, what is that compared to the roughly 50% of the Justinian one, and 1/3 of the Black Death? Nothing, they wouldn't even notice this "pandemic" in the Middle Ages.

    • @uriargaman7241
      @uriargaman7241 3 года назад +2

      This pandemic doesn't compare to the black death, it's true. But the circumstances that enabled Covid-19 to rise will enable the same for deadlier pathogens... Even a Spanish Flu-scale pandemic would be very traumatic.

    • @Marcelelias11
      @Marcelelias11 3 года назад

      @@uriargaman7241 Ideally, no it wouldn't, but this pandemic proved that people are so dumb and stubborn to refuse wearing a fucking mask that I'm not really surprised by anything anymore

  • @jacksonpaul7279
    @jacksonpaul7279 8 лет назад +374

    What if America sided with the Axis during World War 1-2?

    • @monsta1359
      @monsta1359 8 лет назад +62

      Axis would have won without question. Britain survived on the supplies that came from the Lend-Lease Act. The Soviet Union caught a break from the Lend-Lease act as well, they used American Shermans and half tracks while they allocated their factories and workforce to produce an unstoppable war machine.

    • @Xtremedude720
      @Xtremedude720 8 лет назад +2

      bump

    • @robertallen488
      @robertallen488 8 лет назад +2

      +Jackson Paul end of the world

    • @bimblerthomson7417
      @bimblerthomson7417 8 лет назад +10

      +chiken that's not how RUclips works

    • @carsonkundolf3448
      @carsonkundolf3448 8 лет назад +9

      Well, America (LOVING FREEDOM) I don't think they would defend a dictatorship or betray some of there alies. BUT if they did help the axis powers, well we would probably be in WW 3 or 4.

  • @usmc-ws6hl
    @usmc-ws6hl 8 лет назад +135

    please do a alternate history on what if the U.S. never declared war on terrorism

  • @JohnSmith-dz2dc
    @JohnSmith-dz2dc 8 лет назад +176

    Nice crash course reference

  • @andreaolvera55
    @andreaolvera55 5 лет назад +30

    France: “Looks like Mercury is in retrograde again.”

  • @Seetiyan
    @Seetiyan 7 лет назад +58

    "You wouldn't be a peasant living on a farm, today."
    True. In our timeline, you're a peasant living in the city instead.

    • @Mekalor
      @Mekalor 4 года назад +1

      I work on an IT farm! :D

  • @uncouth_wombat7752
    @uncouth_wombat7752 8 лет назад +24

    The "Black Death" was more than just bubonic plague.. It was a mixture of pneumonic plague (which is transmitted from person to person via microscopic saliva droplets expelled during coughing) and septamatic plague as well as bubonic plague.. In fact pneumonic plague would've been the most prominent variation in cities like London and Paris.

  • @robertgronewold3326
    @robertgronewold3326 8 лет назад +46

    Actually, they did not have such terrible sanitation back in those days. They never took baths that often, but they did wash up with a basin of water and a cloth every day, and even had methods of cleaning their teeth. The reason we now think they were all gross and unkept is because movies and books always like to show the peasants as being dirty to enforce how poor they are.

    • @noveseth2863
      @noveseth2863 8 лет назад +3

      Dirty pleb

    • @kobilibero6007
      @kobilibero6007 8 лет назад +16

      +Robert Gronewold You're half right, well more like 90% right...
      I completely agree with all of your statements however the reason their sanitation
      was horrible wasn't mainly about their human sanitation, but with their animal
      sanitation (Go go cow poop all over the place).
      A filthy human can get sick and die, but only a mutated cow-poop (or any kind
      of animal poop) virus could spark a pandemic.

    • @robertgronewold3326
      @robertgronewold3326 8 лет назад

      +Kobi Libero That is very true. They were quite good at cleaning up manure and carting it around, but that still left them with a lot of contact with it.

    • @TheYopogo
      @TheYopogo 8 лет назад +3

      +Robert Gronewold And they hardly had great sewage systems.

    • @Magicarpmaster
      @Magicarpmaster 8 лет назад +4

      Didnt they just shit in buckets and toss it out the window?

  • @lordshoulderbash3273
    @lordshoulderbash3273 4 года назад +13

    Watching this in 2020. Feels weirdly current

  • @bluestrife28
    @bluestrife28 8 лет назад +6

    Man I love your videos. I've sometimes looked through my books and wondered "what if's" of my own, but to see them appear places like this, too cool. Thanks!

  • @Aiden_Volgs
    @Aiden_Volgs 8 лет назад +467

    JIMMY WHY

    • @Igxana
      @Igxana 7 лет назад +6

      Ikr

    • @gregorymacdonnell7914
      @gregorymacdonnell7914 7 лет назад +3

      Dude ,imagine walking down a trash ridden sstreet,full of guts from the butc her shop,horse shit ,rotting food,and people throwing their "chamber pots out the window ,right down on your head!? Nice day!!!!!

    • @jm-gj2ho
      @jm-gj2ho 6 лет назад

      Aiden's Volgs I DON'T KNOW!!!

    • @DeeRadens
      @DeeRadens 6 лет назад +1

      God damn it Jimmy!

    • @travelmaniak3127
      @travelmaniak3127 6 лет назад

      Wait overpopulation means Eroupe has the highest population of 3 billion and the world 10 billion so..the world experiences overpopulation

  • @BDKing77
    @BDKing77 8 лет назад +1206

    Oh shit...

  • @maxcarroll9487
    @maxcarroll9487 4 года назад +69

    "...has gone a century without a horrific plague."
    Coronavirus: Am I a joke to you?

    • @lennysmileyface
      @lennysmileyface 4 года назад

      RIP

    • @Hello-sy7eu
      @Hello-sy7eu 4 года назад +4

      Max Carroll No offense but it is just a buffed modern day flu we can survive it

    • @RynellTV
      @RynellTV 4 года назад +2

      Max Carroll its made before the coronavirus dummy

    • @josephgravley3603
      @josephgravley3603 4 года назад +3

      Except compared to the Black Death it kinda is.

    • @roqu0794
      @roqu0794 4 года назад

      @@Hello-sy7eu it's got so much worse

  • @guyonacomputer1261
    @guyonacomputer1261 8 лет назад +130

    What if the Germans Refused to honor the alliance with Japan after Pearl Harbor? So rather than join WWII the US fights Japan alone and lets the European Conflict sort itself out.

    • @TheRageBlak
      @TheRageBlak 8 лет назад

      This

    • @robertallen488
      @robertallen488 8 лет назад +2

      +Guy On A Computer The US wanted to stop the Nazis already we wouldve fabricated some BS and went to war

    • @mattbenz99
      @mattbenz99 8 лет назад +17

      +Robert Allen Incorrect. The president wanted to fight the Nazis, Congress wanted to stay neutral. FDR was desperately reaching for anything that he could do to help the allies.

    • @curiouswraith8069
      @curiouswraith8069 8 лет назад

      but remember, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

    • @Z4Official
      @Z4Official 8 лет назад +1

      +Robert Allen Actually before PH the US was gonna stay out of it... other than the arms dealing... huh sounds familair...

  • @hensbinator5060
    @hensbinator5060 8 лет назад +27

    "1+1= Anti-Semitism"
    Cody, 2016

  • @AverySkies
    @AverySkies 4 года назад +209

    *2029: What If Covid-19 Never Happened*

    • @thetake-geopolitics4961
      @thetake-geopolitics4961 4 года назад +4

      that would be cool id watch that

    • @janisliepins1991
      @janisliepins1991 4 года назад

      yea

    • @Xanny7777
      @Xanny7777 4 года назад +8

      Honestly not much would change but the economy. And trump might win re-election.

    • @jimboonie9885
      @jimboonie9885 4 года назад

      @@Xanny7777 Dude Biden was officially inaugurated. There’s no going back and trump may face lawsuits

    • @no-np8dw
      @no-np8dw 4 года назад +6

      He's talking about in the alternate timeline you idiot

  • @How23497
    @How23497 4 года назад +15

    "We've almost went 100 years without a catastrophic, deadly plague"
    This aged badly

  • @PockASqueeno
    @PockASqueeno 4 года назад +41

    “Where the western world has gone almost a century without a catastrophic, deadly plague.”
    Who’s watching this in 2020? Oh the irony…

    • @col.nugget1524
      @col.nugget1524 4 года назад +3

      Rip. The streak was long.

    • @lazarous2772
      @lazarous2772 3 года назад

      well covid is much less deadly and more managable

  • @kal3lll
    @kal3lll 8 лет назад +27

    That Crash course reference :D I live this channel

    • @kal3lll
      @kal3lll 8 лет назад +1

      Love*

    • @yellow9053
      @yellow9053 8 лет назад

      +Clark Frederick live*

    • @joee7809
      @joee7809 8 лет назад

      +Clark Frederick *live

    • @MikeMafiaII
      @MikeMafiaII 8 лет назад

      +Clark Frederick Didn't notice one, around what time?

    • @kal3lll
      @kal3lll 8 лет назад +1

      Mike dN 2:22
      :D

  • @XPimKossibleX
    @XPimKossibleX 8 лет назад +11

    Now, you've missed something drastic: Newton. The man was talking a break from the work because the university was closed down for the black death. This was when he came up with his ideas of physics.
    Isaac Newton was a case of when one man changes history and not many. That's because he was both way ahead of his time, and had an influence. He Is the inventor of classical physics and calculus!
    it does also seem non-developed to think that this means Newton wouldn't have come up with these ideas anyway; but it is a major idea gaining traction that historical geniuses do their genius work in times when they take a break from work.

  • @Dagothslur
    @Dagothslur 4 года назад +23

    "Where we have gone a century without a horrific plague"
    That didn't age well

  • @morgand820
    @morgand820 8 лет назад +515

    What if the Byzantine Empire had never been destroyed by the Turks?

    • @xyzqwth
      @xyzqwth 8 лет назад +22

      +Ilias Haqiqi your grammar makes my soul hurt

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 8 лет назад +26

      +The exe Virus he's propably türk

    • @robertwlester
      @robertwlester 8 лет назад +1

      +Morgan Dignowity wasn't the plague a key factor there too?

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 8 лет назад +2

      Robert W. Lester plague somehow missed ottomans?

    • @cubeson4168
      @cubeson4168 8 лет назад

      I don't think so

  • @tasos6429
    @tasos6429 8 лет назад +178

    What if Alexander the Great didn't die young?

    • @b.sapounas5110
      @b.sapounas5110 8 лет назад +10

      YESSS

    • @RRRoyalGames
      @RRRoyalGames 8 лет назад +1

      +Τάσος Κορωνιός He would take Arabia then go west and conquer Rome.

    • @nicholaslonnon7509
      @nicholaslonnon7509 8 лет назад +5

      +Spiniosa I'm not sure Rome was around during the time, and the fact that he stopped expanding wasn't only due to the fact he died young he also was tired of bloodshed

    • @RRRoyalGames
      @RRRoyalGames 8 лет назад +1

      Cole Lonnon
      rome was founded before christ 753.

    • @stannisthebaptist8705
      @stannisthebaptist8705 8 лет назад +1

      +Spiniosa It was only a small town at that time ,pretty meaningless

  • @tkgsg
    @tkgsg 4 года назад +38

    Guy in 2720: what if the COVID pandemic had never occurred

  • @jageroo29
    @jageroo29 8 лет назад +113

    Well if it never happened reaper from overwatch wouldnt have that plague doctor skin

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 8 лет назад

      Neither would medic from tf2

    • @omidtajik7858
      @omidtajik7858 8 лет назад +5

      We wouldn't probably even have games yet.

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 8 лет назад +1

      Omid Tajik Most interesting hypothesis, care to elaborate? I personally assume that we would have video games already, maybe not as advanced yet, but still have them

    • @omidtajik7858
      @omidtajik7858 8 лет назад

      aleksi häkli Anything can be possible :D

    • @aleksihakli1125
      @aleksihakli1125 8 лет назад +2

      Omid Tajik SWEET! Okay i wan't that my pc's graphic card instantly upgrades from 1060 to 1080 NOW! Didn't happen... F*ck

  • @Necrikus
    @Necrikus 8 лет назад +262

    Wait a second... Mongol + "exception"? Cue the Mongoltage?
    "After the pillaging and conquest"
    Close enough.

    • @claremurphy5901
      @claremurphy5901 8 лет назад +26

      Necrikus WE ARE THE EXCEPTION!!!!

    • @suis1822
      @suis1822 8 лет назад +24

      "Except the mongols"

    • @BankruptCart336
      @BankruptCart336 7 лет назад

      Necrikus we'd have 11 billion population now but we have 7 billion!?!?

    • @danielwebber4953
      @danielwebber4953 7 лет назад

      not crash course ;)

  • @nathantoast9793
    @nathantoast9793 8 лет назад +58

    My aunt died from dank memes... XD

    • @J_Leb
      @J_Leb 7 лет назад +2

      Nathan Toast im sorry for your loss

  • @TheThingInMySink
    @TheThingInMySink 5 лет назад +6

    ''Even half of the clergy died''
    I remember one m2tw playtrough, I was playing the Teutonics, and I was producing new popes every turn because they all kept dying from the plague, it was a great time.

  • @Alistocrat
    @Alistocrat 8 лет назад +15

    1:03 An explosion factory? A factory that manufactures explosions? Do they explode the second they're made? Do they need a match to explode? You left me with more questions than answers my friend.

    • @IamNoisyroblot101
      @IamNoisyroblot101 8 лет назад +1

      +Sprango An explosion factory creates the physical explosion, the explosion itself is then physically compressed into whatever the explosive is and that's how you were born.

    • @PoisoningShadow671
      @PoisoningShadow671 8 лет назад

      +Sprango
      Torgue would be proud.

    • @Alistocrat
      @Alistocrat 8 лет назад +1

      ***** I see

  • @johnfrommanagement6037
    @johnfrommanagement6037 8 лет назад +673

    It's all Ogre now

  • @tateadams4382
    @tateadams4382 8 лет назад +17

    3:55 You mean Plague Inc?
    EDIT: Oh you were talking about the online Pandemic 2, I was thinking of the board game.

    • @kristdg
      @kristdg 7 лет назад

      Tate Adams board Game? wtf.

    • @hertogvandamme
      @hertogvandamme 7 лет назад

      KrisTDG
      Plague Inc has a Board Game now

  • @davidberidze5178
    @davidberidze5178 3 года назад +2

    The opening of this video aged HORRIBLY

  • @garnetportal4784
    @garnetportal4784 7 лет назад +10

    "The King of France believed it was the planets aligning. Oh France" Best line of the video

  • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
    @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 8 лет назад +166

    Good thing we have an cure for the Black Death, and that it's super rare too! Boy, I love being born in the 2000s!

    • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
      @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 8 лет назад +10

      Aaah 50's cereal commercials

    • @GeorgiaJCP
      @GeorgiaJCP 8 лет назад +18

      except there is still a problem with over population that nobody will be able to fix that gets worse and worse by the day :(

    • @stikbotshortsandmovies2020
      @stikbotshortsandmovies2020 8 лет назад

      Aw crap, no cereal

    • @benjaminward3912
      @benjaminward3912 8 лет назад +5

      Stikbot Shorts And Movies! We still have a problem... Memes.

    • @julianfletcher1912
      @julianfletcher1912 8 лет назад +1

      Stikbot Shorts And Movies! You still get diseases on Earth? We haven't had a disease in Atlantis in.... Well we never have had to worry about diseases. No, what do humans call them... Bacteria or viruses or whatever you call them, can survive on or in us.

  • @JustYourAverageRetro
    @JustYourAverageRetro 8 лет назад +79

    So, what your saying is that Europe would become India or China.

    • @Iarlen
      @Iarlen 8 лет назад +3

      +JustYourAverageRetro China would be far superior, as it was.

    • @chromitehertz9016
      @chromitehertz9016 8 лет назад

      yep

    • @TheNutmeg33
      @TheNutmeg33 8 лет назад +5

      Maybe Asia would have colonized the Americas then

    • @jommydavi2197
      @jommydavi2197 8 лет назад +8

      +JokingGuyMapping 1342 Great joke now go vote Trump

    • @moctezuma1341
      @moctezuma1341 8 лет назад

      +JustYourAverageRetro how you make no sense

  • @Corncan2
    @Corncan2 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for Jynxing us Cody.

  • @legoleviathan6411
    @legoleviathan6411 4 года назад +8

    “And gone almost a century without a horrific plague.”
    Coronavirus: I’m about to end this man’s whole career.

  • @armergamer2179
    @armergamer2179 4 года назад +10

    “Has gone a century without a horrific plague”.
    Goddam it Potential History you jinxed us

  • @Delta-jc7og
    @Delta-jc7og 7 лет назад +61

    What do you do, *BLAME THE JEWS!!*

    • @nicerock5506
      @nicerock5506 4 года назад +1

      Auf Right doubt

    • @Snow-rp5tv
      @Snow-rp5tv 4 года назад +1

      Maybe they shouldn't call for the genocide of Europeans? maybe they shouldn't call Jesus a Bastard Sourceror boiling if Human Feces?

    • @someone-js6pg
      @someone-js6pg 4 года назад

      @Lazys The Dank Engineer not just hundreds but thousands

    • @Asprawlol
      @Asprawlol 3 года назад

      @@Snow-rp5tv Genocide of europeans? They never called for that man. The Torah also predates jesus by a few thousand years

  • @Mariochicken0609
    @Mariochicken0609 10 месяцев назад +4

    0:05 that aged well didnt it 💀

  • @Tytoalba777
    @Tytoalba777 8 лет назад +73

    3:57 still impossible to infect Madagascar

  • @genericweeaboo1389
    @genericweeaboo1389 8 лет назад +115

    Those fucking plague doctors. They freak the hell out of me. I have nightmares about them all the time.

    • @mlalbaitero
      @mlalbaitero 8 лет назад +5

      They look kinda scary, but not enough to give me nightmares

    • @CyoAFK
      @CyoAFK 8 лет назад

      Wat

    • @juliank6793
      @juliank6793 8 лет назад +5

      +Generic Weeaboo The worst part is that they weren't actual doctors. They were just people that wanted to prove they could be doctors -_-

    • @franksinatra2624
      @franksinatra2624 8 лет назад +2

      Ring around the Rosie...ring around the Rosie...☠ (yes that song is about the plague doctors, they had roses in their masks to help keep the smell of the dead away from them as they worked)

    • @ghostlobster2365
      @ghostlobster2365 8 лет назад +3

      +Generic Weeaboo It scares you because they scared the peasants too. Our fear of crow like men and distrust in doctors can be traced back to the back plague. This infection influenced European culture at levels that a Europe without the plague is unimaginable at times.

  • @zackoshi605
    @zackoshi605 7 лет назад +55

    Then SCP-049 wouldn't exist

    • @theoofensive5689
      @theoofensive5689 7 лет назад +9

      Zackoshi I'm aware this is a joke, but the 'Plauge' It speaks of is in fact not the Bubonic plague OR the black death, the original writer of the SCP has not yet confirmed what the 'plauge' is.

    • @joshuaroblox7174
      @joshuaroblox7174 6 лет назад +2

      DynamoShot The twat plague*

    • @LordBob
      @LordBob 5 лет назад +2

      @@theoofensive5689 it's homosexuality

    • @voidwalker9746
      @voidwalker9746 4 года назад +2

      @@LordBob ah yes the worst plague of them all, currently there is only one cure, it's metal and fired into a skull

  • @AnjelCaido69
    @AnjelCaido69 4 года назад +7

    0:06 you jinxed us

  • @alexcaswell2
    @alexcaswell2 8 лет назад +96

    Kingdom of space bears: JAN MAYEN! thebearhaslanded! I spy with my little eyes an EU4 reference?

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 7 лет назад +23

    "Dank memes."
    You think you're joking, but look at the contamination level on 4chan/pol/.

  • @jordmanbatgod
    @jordmanbatgod 4 года назад +19

    0:09
    Coronavirus be like: *I’m about to end this man’s whole career*

  • @lukascepanovic3609
    @lukascepanovic3609 4 года назад +1

    What a time to be listening to this kind of video

  • @japanamericacar427
    @japanamericacar427 4 года назад +8

    0:10
    you got us there

  • @snowy3896
    @snowy3896 8 лет назад +37

    What if the USA and USSR went to war during the Cold War?

    • @iPolitely
      @iPolitely 8 лет назад +17

      Dead

    • @hypochondriac3194
      @hypochondriac3194 8 лет назад +8

      +Snowy 38
      Mutually Assured Destruction
      The entire Earth would be destroyed in a few hours.

    • @shadow50435
      @shadow50435 8 лет назад +14

      1. WW3 (longer than ww1 and 2 combined.
      2. Nuclear war = Possible extinction.

    • @PeterWolniewicz
      @PeterWolniewicz 8 лет назад

      You die I die we all die. Literally imagine Hiroshima but1,00000 times worse and in every city, on the planet.

    • @cpMetis
      @cpMetis 8 лет назад

      +Snowy 38 X _ X

  • @MrVTEC20
    @MrVTEC20 4 года назад +11

    Bro who’s watching in 2020?

  • @simonpugh3731
    @simonpugh3731 Год назад +2

    "The world has gone a century without a horrific plague!"
    Well that aged like my homemade wine.

  • @glaz-eddonut8199
    @glaz-eddonut8199 8 лет назад +6

    Fun fact: we are not completely certain that the "Black Death" was in fact the Bubonic Plauge

  • @megk761
    @megk761 8 лет назад +63

    crash cours refrence YESSSSSSS

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye 8 лет назад +1

      +JayOnTheBeat It was around 2:20, where the Mongols are noted to be the "exception",

    • @Ticazoid95
      @Ticazoid95 8 лет назад

      👍

    • @Chris_7103
      @Chris_7103 8 лет назад

      Which Crash Course episode was it referencing from?

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye 8 лет назад +1

      ***** It's more loads of the. The Mongols being the "exception" was common feature in that series.

    • @panosjuanis
      @panosjuanis 8 лет назад

      +Ollie Bye (History) love ur vids man!

  • @M0rshu64
    @M0rshu64 8 лет назад +47

    What if the Mongols never went on their conquest.
    What if Stalin Never came to power.

    • @Master_3530
      @Master_3530 8 лет назад +1

      What if Lenin didn't come to power and USSR never existed? That'd also mean no communism.

    • @nedgleed7880
      @nedgleed7880 8 лет назад +1

      +Damian Strupiechowski he already did that

    • @Trueysmir996
      @Trueysmir996 8 лет назад

      What if world war 1 never happened

    • @ungureanubogdan2398
      @ungureanubogdan2398 8 лет назад

      +Damian Strupiechowski i'd rather take lenin still leading ussr still sucks but way better

    • @daman1209
      @daman1209 8 лет назад

      If trotsky came to power instead of stalin he would've supported international communism more. Countries like spain would've likely become communist instead of facist. In Germany the communist party competed closely with the national socialists. If trotsky was in power she would've bank supported a communist take over of germany potentially altering the entire history of world war 2. That said though the USSR ecnomically would likely be worse of as trotsky would sacrafice russain progress in exchange for the spread of communism. Militiarily it is debatable because Stalin and his supporters were better generals but troksy is unlikely to have ever purged the officer cores of the USSR meaning if a war did come around the USSR would've been better prepared. Overal however i think the USSR would've been better off under trotsky. The Germans argueably wouldn't have pushed into Russia as much if hitler still came to power because there would'v been competent soviet officers to counter an invasion because trosky wouldn't have purged the officer core.

  • @60nascar
    @60nascar Год назад +2

    This video just hits different in 2023

  • @adisankar119
    @adisankar119 8 лет назад +6

    The thing is, no trade between the Mongols and Europe would mean at least 75 million wouldn't have died, but gunpowder wouldn't have been traded, meaning no guns or delayed guns. Maybe less deaths.

    • @anon9579
      @anon9579 8 лет назад

      By now Europe would be third world

  • @antony-k
    @antony-k 4 года назад +33

    Soon we will see a "What if the coronavirus outbreak never happened"

    • @masonpyle5929
      @masonpyle5929 4 года назад +1

      I know. If corona never happened, I wouldn’t of had a texting debate with my cousin on it. 2020 would be better because the world doesn’t shut down. Toilet paper companies wouldn’t be getting a raise, less memes, , people would still be sane since quarantine doesn’t happen, the XFL 2.0 doesn’t go bankrupt, CHAZ/CHOP probably won’t exist, and rumors of a second American Civil War probably won’t exist.

    • @jjammmees
      @jjammmees 4 года назад

      i wouldnt be replying to this comment

    • @nxdeflowers
      @nxdeflowers 2 года назад

      Corona has been in many different forms, this was just the many diseases to come from china, so basically there will always be covid in different ways

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 2 года назад

      @@masonpyle5929 honestly i think the world needed the lockdown

  • @gibbo_1061
    @gibbo_1061 8 лет назад +8

    What if gunpowder was never invented?

    • @mestre12
      @mestre12 8 лет назад +2

      +iShadowKing That would be a cool episode. The most impactufull thing would be warfare. We would be still using swords and melee weapons, heavy armor, horses on battle. One thing i belive it would also happend, on this case wouldnt happend, would be the industrial revolution, or the very least, it would heavly delayded. Sorry for my english.

  • @ottootto6285
    @ottootto6285 4 года назад +1

    I went from “what if the plague completely wiped out Europe” to “what if the plague didn’t exist”

    • @emprrpalps
      @emprrpalps 4 года назад

      same

    • @emprrpalps
      @emprrpalps 4 года назад

      ironic opening on this video too damn

  • @seancreef4616
    @seancreef4616 4 года назад +3

    oh lord... 0:05...this man spoke waaaaay too soon

  • @vitocorleone3764
    @vitocorleone3764 8 лет назад +8

    There can be entire episodes based on theories like "what if this one person was never born." History could take an entirely unrecognizable rout if one person did not exist. Now image the millions that were killed as a result of the black death that could have been potential philosophers, scientists, artists, authoritarians, military masterminds, progressive royal family members, fascist royal family members, et cetera. Now imaging all the kids that could have been that may have grown up to be those things. The possible different timelines approaches infinity. We are literally one of an unending amount of timelines, and it just so happens your life is what came to be. The likely hood of that is essentially zero.

    • @EdDeezNuts944
      @EdDeezNuts944 8 лет назад +2

      That's why I constantly wish that when I died, I became omniscient and omnipotent, and view all parallel universes for our universe. It'd be so interesting!

  • @markeyboi6545
    @markeyboi6545 8 лет назад +4

    0:17 "Dank memes" omg lmao, I'm done, lmfao

  • @krisgomez3997
    @krisgomez3997 2 года назад +2

    "almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague" aged like fine milk

  • @CodeDarkBlue
    @CodeDarkBlue 8 лет назад +39

    the people in these animations are so cute ;w;

  • @noahhorner231
    @noahhorner231 5 лет назад +27

    The time Europe got Thanos-snapped.

  • @butterscience7016
    @butterscience7016 7 лет назад +68

    DAMMIT JIMMY!

  • @JOE-ft3gq
    @JOE-ft3gq 3 года назад +1

    5:24 “the kiddies would be killed by the plague just ten years after “

  • @Ramzuiv
    @Ramzuiv 4 года назад +8

    2016: "Good job, us!"
    2020 says hi

  • @exlipse717
    @exlipse717 4 года назад +3

    this has aged well

  • @amberjeez7987
    @amberjeez7987 4 года назад +3

    Cody: What if the Black Death never happened.
    Medieval Poland: Heh.

  • @evanlipscomb6769
    @evanlipscomb6769 3 года назад +1

    2016: “almost a century without a catastrophic deadly plague”.
    2022:"Im about to end this man's whole career.

  • @banrajanand7983
    @banrajanand7983 7 лет назад +46

    what whould have happened if instead of black death never happening it happens at twice the force

    • @randomkitty4940
      @randomkitty4940 7 лет назад +4

      Boncy's funtube then 2/3 of the population would die

    • @carsonh7222
      @carsonh7222 7 лет назад +6

      About 2/3 or all the population would die. Most likely, we'd all be saying "bye bye, Europe."

    • @varunpathak9677
      @varunpathak9677 6 лет назад +2

      There’s a video on that now go check it out

    • @gamingwithjake3206
      @gamingwithjake3206 6 лет назад

      When i looked at the comments on this comment i was expecting idiotts like “hey dumbass there is one” i must say im actually proud of yall in this one lol

  • @mmksquared
    @mmksquared 7 лет назад +16

    *Forgets the polish bubble* YOU HAD ONE JOB ONE JOB

  • @KaiserKosako
    @KaiserKosako 4 года назад +16

    That Intro didn't age well

  • @AwesomeHairo
    @AwesomeHairo 4 года назад +1

    I guess maybe it's the same now with the relieve of resource strains due to more people dying than usual. But basically a drop in the ocean compared to 100 million people.

  • @thekommunistkrusader3921
    @thekommunistkrusader3921 4 года назад +3

    "Its been nearly a century since the last plague" god damn it cody

  • @PigIA
    @PigIA 4 года назад +7

    0:05 About that...

  • @paayton_2981
    @paayton_2981 4 года назад +13

    “The world has gone a century without a major plague” my my how the turn tables

    • @bagelonyt
      @bagelonyt 3 года назад

      it isnt even a plague, its a virus

  • @EchoesOfArson
    @EchoesOfArson 3 года назад +1

    What a great time to recommend this to me youtube

  • @Macconator2010
    @Macconator2010 8 лет назад +8

    3:23 ahhh so this is what's gonna happen in Meereen in the Winds of Winter.