Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35
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In which John Green teaches you about European Imperialism in the 19th century. European powers started to create colonial empires way back in the 16th century, but businesses really took off in the 19th century, especially in Asia and Africa. During the 1800s, European powers carved out spheres of influence in China, India, and pretty much all of Africa. While all of the major (and some minor) powers in Europe participated in this new imperialism, England was by far the most dominant, once able to claim that the "sun never set on the British Empire." Also, they went to war for the right to continue to sell opium to the people of China. Twice. John will teach you how these empires managed to leverage the advances of the Industrial Revolution to build vast, wealth-generating empires. As it turns out, improved medicine, steam engines, and better guns were crucial in the 19th century conquests. Also, the willingness to exploit and abuse the people and resources of so-called "primitive" nations was very helpful in the whole enterprise. Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @raoulmeyer @crashcoursestan @saysdanica @thoughtbubbler Like us! http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse Follow us again! http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse
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make a playlist with war #CrashCourse
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those poppies tho...
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Ethiopia was never colonised
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You forgot jewish imperialism via banking, media, and third world collonialism into all white countries
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Why would these tribes resist British rule if Britain has better technology? Surely you would want use of the technology and live together in harmony?
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this host is Biased towards Britain, wat a racist!!!!
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It's complicated I mean I would not be a kiwi if not for The English taking over NZ but they killed a lot of ppl
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It's good but it misses a big part of imperialism, the american one, USA being a master in this area.
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lol
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I missed the Mongols
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Shout out to crash course for getting through my last finals season of my undergrad
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I have to make a board game based on how nationalism/imperialism lead to ww1. Can you explain the connection/timeline. And does anyone have any board game ideas.
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What was the White Man's Burden? They had no burden. (Unless you count taking over other people's countries and cultures a burden)
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Um Ethiopia was never colonized, in fact its something Ethiopians pride themselves on.
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As a New Zealander I can tell you you're pronouncing Maori wrong, you're saying Ma-ori but it's pronounced Mao-ri
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so. .. where can we hire mongols these days? seems like they could handle ISIS
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LOL!
No one can conquer Afghanistan... unless you are, wait for it... the Mongols.
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all you need is terminators
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I'm seeing a pretty nasty political bias for an educational video
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Writing my thesis about imperialism in Alice in Wonderland. Just can't nail down how long England had been trading with China before they hit upon opium.
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