Umm... I hate to say it, but that statement about the Industrial Revolution sounds like the opening statement of the Unibomber's Manifesto. Not claiming anything, but it just sounded odd.
5:27 this I believe is in reference to a Viking tradition where they figured out putting bones in their weapons made them stronger. If I recall correctly, the belief was that the spirit of the Viking warrior would reside in their blade, making it stronger (funnily enough it actually worked as they made a form of steel due to the carbon in the bone)
I'd just like to add that the Iron the vikings would most likely have used was fairly low quality too as it was Peat-Bog Iron which has a lot more impurities than mined ore. So the carbon from the bones probably made a big difference to the resultant weapons. Can totally understand why they thought that their ancestors were giving their strength to the blades.
@@mikitz yeah people are very good at correlation and detecting patterns. Don’t know why, but the bones put out better results, so something special is happening.
02:22 I read a Nat Geo issue about the Moai. Turns out several theories (including the most popular) of how the Rapanui people moved the Moai were tested by groups led by one Thor Heyerdahl. Some tests were performed with real Moai (one of which resulted in damage to the statue’s base), some with replicas, and one with a computer model.
4:19 > Food was way healthier back then You should look up the concept of "ersatz food" in the 19th and early 20th century. Remember, this was a time when it was legal to use sawdust and other industrial waste as filler material in industrially processed 'food', and the lower classes still bought whatever was the cheapest because it was all they could afford.
When I was in school 10 and a bit years back we were taught that the Easter Island heads were moved by using logs as rollers, and that this deforestation was part of what led to the decline of the island's population
4:40 "Schnapsidee" is a German word to specifically describe an idea that only sounded great when lots of schnapps was involved. German has a word for everything.
The funny things is that the people saying "look at all the dangerous things we did as kids, kids these days are soft" became the parents of these "soft" children, and the reason the gravel was replaced with rubber granules was those parents suing schools etc. if the children hurt themselves.
The unspoken secret is that each generation wants to be more badass than their children, so they intentionally soften the world in their wake. They complain about how weak the children are, then pat themselves on the back when no one's looking. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
@@Choalith_Ikanthe I would rather say that parents don't want to go through parenting the hard way. It is much more convenient to make the surrounding world safe as can be rather than taking the chances that something bad would ever happen to their kids.
2:45 IDK about that Molotov Cocktails ain't exactly the most complicated things to make. Fuse (burning rag), flammable liquid bonus points if it is explody, clay jars that break upon impact; load them in the trebuchet and launch. Hand grenadiers where a thing for a long time.
03:54 the thing is that the Eiffel tower was originally painted instead of the bare metal beams of today and was supposed to be removed after the Exposition Universelle of 1900 rather than become a permanent resident of "La Ville lumière". Fun fact it was used as a radio tower during world war 1 ... and hijacked the signal of German zeppelins to trick them into crashing into Haute-Marne making it an early exemple of electronic warfare.
Let's just say cannon weren't always the solution to long sieges. Engineers found ways to make walls that scould stand up to cannon fire. If you could afford those fortifications and had some means to keep people fed, sieges could go on for a looooong time (26 years qualifies, doesn't it?).
2:25 People in the past were not stupid, they were ignorant. Big difference. If you were born into a farming family... you had generations upon generations of techniques, skills, heirloom tools and crops... you wouldn't know as much about trivial things as modern people, but you'd know everything about farming and your local community. People were more specialized in knowledge. The people who worked on the pyramids... their Fathers were architects, and their grandfathers, and their great grandfathers...
There was a park I went to as a kid with a modern version of 8:39 it’s a story tall net thing now. But they also had the old equipment still, I would only do the metal slide or just stay at the top of the net for an hour 💀
Re: Kids playgrounds in the past.: I had a kid in school that fell off the 1950s era jungle gym and got paralyzed. I remember it being a big deal in like 7th grade seeing him get back the use of his arms. I had another friend that fell off the parallel bars and got knocked out and lost his vision for 2 days...
1850's women body builders get professional photo shoot. Yet somehow Mr. Terry thinks she was being ridiculed It couldn't possibly mean that some noble lord had a thing for muscle mommies🙄😆😆😆
9:52 Ironically the longest lasting siege concluded in 1720 with 26 YEARS! So very much during the presence of cannons. The second longest, at 21 years, even was by the Ottomans who brought these cannons to the table in the first place.
1:20 Those things designed by PhDs is the result of many people and many years of effort and cost. Those things build by ancient peasants is the result of the efforts of ENTIRE NATION/KINGDOM/EMPIRE commissioned by leaders with the power of armies and deadly consequences and took decades.
One note the entire Amazon Rain forest was formed because of man made soil. There was a massive civilization there that was wiped out by the illnesses from the first 2 explorations from Europe. So much changed by the third trip no one believed the first reports until the last couple decades revealed that a canal system covers nearly all of modern Brazil and the black soil has now been proven made by a build up of purposely slow burned material in a practice that produces a high charcoal content and lowers the native PH while having fertilizer like effects. The natural soil is very poor for growth and with clearing for farming again many structures are being revealed for the first time in 400 years. Also helps to explain why the vast majority of Amazon trees and plants are highly useful for man as they came from runaway gardens and farms. The sad thing is that it is still for the most part a prehistoric civilization because of very few records from only 2 trips to the region by Europeans and the rapid fall without outside contact. Hancock covers much of it well (though on this one, his conclusions and many others are wild theory at best.) I also agree with you on the Ancient Aliens show jumping to that way too fast, one on the Pyramid in Greece would have been a far better show without the alien bit. The concrete there they said must be aliens because of time frame and being 10X stronger than Portland was something I got mad at right away. While it does push the date back farther than previously known, I recognized the concrete as being the same as Roman Concrete (made with volcanic ash instead of the man made Portland) The Roman form is 10x stronger and hydraulic without the need for latex to be added or as limited a life. In recent years I have even seen some new research into Roman concrete showing a self repairing property as old cracks fill with recrystallized material much like what happens in the the process that turns limestone into marble over time. In school I took a History of Technology course and also liked the old Burke's show Connections and the numbered follow ups. While I am not opposed to the idea of ancient aliens, I do think all the ones making such claims need to have a course in how tech was developed and often not when just a novelty of the rich. Just because we do something one way today because it is easier to mass produce at will, doesn't mean it is the only or best way. Roman Concrete did require active volcanos to mine the ash from. Imagine the added cost in transport alone to rebuild NYC with volcanic ash instead of Portland cement with the closest material near the other coast or over seas.
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 See you made my point though there are many sites in the western US besides Yellowstone, Mt. Saint Helens is a viable site to mine such ash and close to the needed sand but the shipping east would be the expensive part. The cascade range runs through the western side of the Rockies down through CA. Also it would need to be resent eruptive material or the ash will form a hardened fused tuff material that is no longer useable as is. Rome mined the sides of the volcanoes near them. As to Hawaii, I'm not sure that the right material is produced. More runny lava and little exploded ash, same with Iceland. The stratovolcanoes are what to look for (BTW some also produce Diamonds or Gold too, with diamonds the right pressure and heat is key in a rhyolite producing one. Need enough to form but not so hot to destroy them too. One rains gold ash on the base in Antarctica and another in Columbia spews gold)
0:19 Meme clearly says that map makers put sea monsters to represent unchartered areas, not because they thought monsters exist. 0:31 Mr Terry: D'ya think people thought that ships that disappeared were eaten by monsters? 😅😅😅😅
The one about medieval cathedrals being built by iliterate peasants annoys me because it heavily undersells the amount of organization and professionalism that went into such building projects. The only peasants involved in building such a cathedral would have been the people transporting the construction materials to the building site with their oxen-drawn carts.
I think a big reason so many people believe in ancient aliens, especially in regards to the pyramids, isn't because they think ancient people were "stupid" but it's because most of these ancient creations are far more impressive than anything we're capable of today. I personally don't believe in ancient aliens, but it does beg the question how did the ancient Egyptians create the pyramids, which have the scale and structural integrity that no modern culture is even able to come close to.
It literally a bunch of stones stacked on top of each other in the shape of a pyramid (which is a fairly strong shape). The interior spaces are small so they don't affect the structural integrity and it is in the middle of the desert meaning it doesn't have to deal with the mountain of water related damage that almost every other building on the planet does. (I swear water damage has to be the leading reason for the decay of buildings both old & new).
We know where the stone comes from, we have records from workers on site. What more do you need? Really the only impressive thing is the scale. How is Burj Kahlifa and several km long bridges less impressive? We have more shared knowledge on how to build things than ever before. Of course we can build the pyramids today if we really want to. But who does? What would even be the point of building such structures today?
Why do people insist that "We can't" build the Pyramids? We literally have the tallest fucking building ever, we don't make pyramids because we don't want/need to, if some random millionaire wanted a pyramid, they could have the biggest in the world in a couple of years
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 People went to New York to gaze at the skyscrapers. Had they built pyramids instead, they would jsut have laughed at the useless waste of resources and space.
sorry mr. Terry but humanity was also attracted to furries, otherwise we wouldn't have so manny myths about anthropomorphic animals or people having intercourse with animals
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Oarfish and sunfish played a part in the seamonster sightings. Don't forget about vitamin deficiencies and dehydration.
Also, mammoths existed on Wrangel Island up until 4,000 years ago. That also had to be around the time people made it to the island. 😅
Umm... I hate to say it, but that statement about the Industrial Revolution sounds like the opening statement of the Unibomber's Manifesto. Not claiming anything, but it just sounded odd.
5:27 this I believe is in reference to a Viking tradition where they figured out putting bones in their weapons made them stronger. If I recall correctly, the belief was that the spirit of the Viking warrior would reside in their blade, making it stronger (funnily enough it actually worked as they made a form of steel due to the carbon in the bone)
I'd just like to add that the Iron the vikings would most likely have used was fairly low quality too as it was Peat-Bog Iron which has a lot more impurities than mined ore. So the carbon from the bones probably made a big difference to the resultant weapons. Can totally understand why they thought that their ancestors were giving their strength to the blades.
Yeah, the years are the period called the official Viking age: From the first raid on Lindisfarne to Harald's defeat at Hastings.
The thing is, despite people in the past weren't necessarily aware of how science works, they definitely knew that if something works, it works.
@@mikitz yeah people are very good at correlation and detecting patterns. Don’t know why, but the bones put out better results, so something special is happening.
A lot of those "dragons" were just cartographers not knowing what whales look like.
That, and cartographers wanting to put something into what would otherwise be a big, boring stretch of ocean on the map.
10:00 the two longest sieges in history started in the 17th century(after fortifications adopted to deal with cannons)
02:22
I read a Nat Geo issue about the Moai. Turns out several theories (including the most popular) of how the Rapanui people moved the Moai were tested by groups led by one Thor Heyerdahl. Some tests were performed with real Moai (one of which resulted in damage to the statue’s base), some with replicas, and one with a computer model.
4:19 > Food was way healthier back then
You should look up the concept of "ersatz food" in the 19th and early 20th century. Remember, this was a time when it was legal to use sawdust and other industrial waste as filler material in industrially processed 'food', and the lower classes still bought whatever was the cheapest because it was all they could afford.
When I was in school 10 and a bit years back we were taught that the Easter Island heads were moved by using logs as rollers, and that this deforestation was part of what led to the decline of the island's population
4:40 "Schnapsidee" is a German word to specifically describe an idea that only sounded great when lots of schnapps was involved. German has a word for everything.
8:40 you can clearly see one of the kids mid air falling on his back.
I think that kid is on a swing. There are two more and above all there are two attachments each to which the swings are connected to be bars above
5:32 This is the plot of the Doctor Who episode “Vincent and the Doctor”.
Spoilers:
Van Gogh still ended up killing himself
Still one of my favorite episodes
The funny things is that the people saying "look at all the dangerous things we did as kids, kids these days are soft" became the parents of these "soft" children, and the reason the gravel was replaced with rubber granules was those parents suing schools etc. if the children hurt themselves.
The unspoken secret is that each generation wants to be more badass than their children, so they intentionally soften the world in their wake.
They complain about how weak the children are, then pat themselves on the back when no one's looking. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
@@Choalith_Ikanthe I would rather say that parents don't want to go through parenting the hard way. It is much more convenient to make the surrounding world safe as can be rather than taking the chances that something bad would ever happen to their kids.
2:45 IDK about that Molotov Cocktails ain't exactly the most complicated things to make. Fuse (burning rag), flammable liquid bonus points if it is explody, clay jars that break upon impact; load them in the trebuchet and launch. Hand grenadiers where a thing for a long time.
03:54 the thing is that the Eiffel tower was originally painted instead of the bare metal beams of today and was supposed to be removed after the Exposition Universelle of 1900 rather than become a permanent resident of "La Ville lumière". Fun fact it was used as a radio tower during world war 1 ... and hijacked the signal of German zeppelins to trick them into crashing into Haute-Marne making it an early exemple of electronic warfare.
Why did I read the title as History Meme Reacts to History Teacher
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience
Which Eiffel Tower design was best?
The second
First one, second row (6th one)
Personally I liked the coke bottle one (second row far right)
Let's just say cannon weren't always the solution to long sieges. Engineers found ways to make walls that scould stand up to cannon fire. If you could afford those fortifications and had some means to keep people fed, sieges could go on for a looooong time (26 years qualifies, doesn't it?).
Or even more importantly. Have access to a source of fresh drinking water.
2:25 People in the past were not stupid, they were ignorant. Big difference.
If you were born into a farming family... you had generations upon generations of techniques, skills, heirloom tools and crops... you wouldn't know as much about trivial things as modern people, but you'd know everything about farming and your local community. People were more specialized in knowledge.
The people who worked on the pyramids... their Fathers were architects, and their grandfathers, and their great grandfathers...
Late night with Mr. Terry!!
For me it was at 7 am😅
There was a park I went to as a kid with a modern version of 8:39 it’s a story tall net thing now. But they also had the old equipment still, I would only do the metal slide or just stay at the top of the net for an hour 💀
If I ever have twins, the older one will be Geminus and the younger one will be Geplus.
Re: Kids playgrounds in the past.: I had a kid in school that fell off the 1950s era jungle gym and got paralyzed. I remember it being a big deal in like 7th grade seeing him get back the use of his arms. I had another friend that fell off the parallel bars and got knocked out and lost his vision for 2 days...
1850's women body builders get professional photo shoot. Yet somehow Mr. Terry thinks she was being ridiculed It couldn't possibly mean that some noble lord had a thing for muscle mommies🙄😆😆😆
9:52 Ironically the longest lasting siege concluded in 1720 with 26 YEARS! So very much during the presence of cannons. The second longest, at 21 years, even was by the Ottomans who brought these cannons to the table in the first place.
3:54 The middle one looks like straight up Tower of Babel by Gustave Dore.
At least they care more than Willy Wonka LMAO!!!! “That’s just a theory a film theory!”
1:20 Those things designed by PhDs is the result of many people and many years of effort and cost.
Those things build by ancient peasants is the result of the efforts of ENTIRE NATION/KINGDOM/EMPIRE commissioned by leaders with the power of armies and deadly consequences and took decades.
Have you seen the "Climb Bottle"
It's a playground Jungle Gym in the shape of a Klein bottle.
Dragons on maps were fan fiction.
One note the entire Amazon Rain forest was formed because of man made soil. There was a massive civilization there that was wiped out by the illnesses from the first 2 explorations from Europe. So much changed by the third trip no one believed the first reports until the last couple decades revealed that a canal system covers nearly all of modern Brazil and the black soil has now been proven made by a build up of purposely slow burned material in a practice that produces a high charcoal content and lowers the native PH while having fertilizer like effects. The natural soil is very poor for growth and with clearing for farming again many structures are being revealed for the first time in 400 years. Also helps to explain why the vast majority of Amazon trees and plants are highly useful for man as they came from runaway gardens and farms. The sad thing is that it is still for the most part a prehistoric civilization because of very few records from only 2 trips to the region by Europeans and the rapid fall without outside contact. Hancock covers much of it well (though on this one, his conclusions and many others are wild theory at best.) I also agree with you on the Ancient Aliens show jumping to that way too fast, one on the Pyramid in Greece would have been a far better show without the alien bit. The concrete there they said must be aliens because of time frame and being 10X stronger than Portland was something I got mad at right away. While it does push the date back farther than previously known, I recognized the concrete as being the same as Roman Concrete (made with volcanic ash instead of the man made Portland) The Roman form is 10x stronger and hydraulic without the need for latex to be added or as limited a life. In recent years I have even seen some new research into Roman concrete showing a self repairing property as old cracks fill with recrystallized material much like what happens in the the process that turns limestone into marble over time. In school I took a History of Technology course and also liked the old Burke's show Connections and the numbered follow ups. While I am not opposed to the idea of ancient aliens, I do think all the ones making such claims need to have a course in how tech was developed and often not when just a novelty of the rich. Just because we do something one way today because it is easier to mass produce at will, doesn't mean it is the only or best way. Roman Concrete did require active volcanos to mine the ash from. Imagine the added cost in transport alone to rebuild NYC with volcanic ash instead of Portland cement with the closest material near the other coast or over seas.
Sourcing from hawaii or the attempted manipulation of the yellowstone caldera would be somewhat costly...
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 See you made my point though there are many sites in the western US besides Yellowstone, Mt. Saint Helens is a viable site to mine such ash and close to the needed sand but the shipping east would be the expensive part. The cascade range runs through the western side of the Rockies down through CA. Also it would need to be resent eruptive material or the ash will form a hardened fused tuff material that is no longer useable as is. Rome mined the sides of the volcanoes near them. As to Hawaii, I'm not sure that the right material is produced. More runny lava and little exploded ash, same with Iceland. The stratovolcanoes are what to look for (BTW some also produce Diamonds or Gold too, with diamonds the right pressure and heat is key in a rhyolite producing one. Need enough to form but not so hot to destroy them too. One rains gold ash on the base in Antarctica and another in Columbia spews gold)
I would love your reaction on „Alternate World War I Every day with army sizes“ !! Giving your opinion on how realistic it really is
I'm a proud quarter French Cajun and a very very distant relation of Napoleon. Ggggg Grandpa wanted that bag 100%
5:54 Not all westerners. Only in America. In Europe we still walk or ride bikes, only grab the car if we have to
LMAO 😂 WW1 were all related Family affair lol Fax 💯
As you say Elder.
LOL
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Woo! Super Early to this one! LETS GOOOO
0:19 Meme clearly says that map makers put sea monsters to represent unchartered areas, not because they thought monsters exist.
0:31 Mr Terry: D'ya think people thought that ships that disappeared were eaten by monsters? 😅😅😅😅
Good man 🤝
Nah, us napoleon simps love him for it (literally us)
Wait i know that guy @08:05. 😂 He is or atleast used to work for swedens second biggest political party in sweden
The one about medieval cathedrals being built by iliterate peasants annoys me because it heavily undersells the amount of organization and professionalism that went into such building projects.
The only peasants involved in building such a cathedral would have been the people transporting the construction materials to the building site with their oxen-drawn carts.
When it comes to the statues "walking" I'll give them a pass because if someone told you a statue walked what would you think?
Pretty sure I wouldn’t want that “old fashioned” coke taste. You know. With the cocaine and all that
10:39 You mean: "the cars in the story are older than those in the picture", right?
Im second born, not Sam jr. (We’re Jewish and my older brother is Sam, not my dad, but my dad didn’t know how naming stuff worked)
Hey, MrTerry, when will you make a hate-watch reaction to Ancient Aliens? :-))))
We can't talk about Persian philosophy in the west or we'd have to admit that Iranians were actual people...'god' forbid.
I am a twin but I’m the first born and I have a twin sister
I think a big reason so many people believe in ancient aliens, especially in regards to the pyramids, isn't because they think ancient people were "stupid" but it's because most of these ancient creations are far more impressive than anything we're capable of today. I personally don't believe in ancient aliens, but it does beg the question how did the ancient Egyptians create the pyramids, which have the scale and structural integrity that no modern culture is even able to come close to.
It literally a bunch of stones stacked on top of each other in the shape of a pyramid (which is a fairly strong shape). The interior spaces are small so they don't affect the structural integrity and it is in the middle of the desert meaning it doesn't have to deal with the mountain of water related damage that almost every other building on the planet does. (I swear water damage has to be the leading reason for the decay of buildings both old & new).
We know where the stone comes from, we have records from workers on site. What more do you need? Really the only impressive thing is the scale.
How is Burj Kahlifa and several km long bridges less impressive? We have more shared knowledge on how to build things than ever before. Of course we can build the pyramids today if we really want to. But who does? What would even be the point of building such structures today?
Why do people insist that "We can't" build the Pyramids? We literally have the tallest fucking building ever, we don't make pyramids because we don't want/need to, if some random millionaire wanted a pyramid, they could have the biggest in the world in a couple of years
@@Xirpzy Flex and tourism, flex and tourism.
@@xyreniaofcthrayn1195 People went to New York to gaze at the skyscrapers. Had they built pyramids instead, they would jsut have laughed at the useless waste of resources and space.
persian philosophy didn't go nowhere! it served as a step in the broader philosophic studies carried from one culture to another
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sorry mr. Terry but humanity was also attracted to furries, otherwise we wouldn't have so manny myths about anthropomorphic animals or people having intercourse with animals
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