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Genre: News & Politics
Date of upload: Aug 18, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.913 (3,346/150,137 LTDR)
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Great video. I really appreciate the way you approached this and appreciate the amount of work that went into creating this discourse. I'll just say it right away: I accept your points here, and to be candid, the response to this video was a pretty big wake up call for me. The research on this was overly biased towards a simplistic narrative to which most of the facts bent. My hope with this series was to give an highly simplified almost āstory bookā version of a vastly complicated 500-year history so that those who are not usually interested in history could access the broad arc of European imperialism. I still believe in that goal but missed the mark with this one. So thank you for the compelling dissent.
Iāll do some soul searching on how Iāll address this in the channel and series itself. Again. I appreciate the way you approached this critique. Also REALLY great job on the production. new sub here.
Oh the Irving analogy at the end was pretty š„
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Excellent video. As an English/History teacher-in-training, this video inspired me to create an assignment where students criticize popular YouTube history videos, finding the perspective of the video, their mistakes and falsehoods, their lack of nuance or oversimplification, as well as their merit. I think it's a great starting point to explore the complicated concept of historical narratives, interpretation, myth and contemporary issues connected to popular retellings of history.
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He definitely plays to the "just discovering the world" crowd. He reminds me of me at 20, figuring things out, reading a ton, idealistic, surprised by it all, etc. His real talent, or the talent of the production team, is exactly that, the production. The content is so so, and obviously not objective. Says a lot about the value of production.
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2:48: Not only labor was scarse. The plague didn't discriminate, and a lot of landlords died, leaving land up for grabs. Thank you for this video!
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A big reason Renaissance happened was the scholars that came from the Byzantine Empire at that time and they brought much knowledge and texts that they actually were aware off. And in general there is a very frequent tendency for historians and people discussing history to refer to Europe and just completely forget about the Eastern Roman Empire and also the Middle East which was actually still very close to the rest of Europe even after Arabs and then Turks conquered these areas. The continent groupings and categorisation are sometimes very wrong.
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Great great video. For a long time Iāve grown weary of advice regarding creating content emphasising āstorytellingā so much. In my area of science exactly the same phenomenon leads to adjusting reality to fit an appealing ānarrativeā. But as you say, often the truth, while more complex, is often much more interesting than a simplified black and white version. In many ways itās a problem with YouTube, journalism and so on, and Johnny, as a pre-eminent creator/journalist, simply exemplifies that.
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I loved this rebuttal. It was so respectful and thought out. Johnny Harris sounds so intelligent and his videos are so slick and fast paced, I had never really questioned the accuracy of them before. I will still love he's videos but I'll definitely try to be more critical. I'm also really happy he saw and responded to this video in the comments. He seems like a really principled man who accepts criticism š
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Update: since the release of this video Johnny has contacted me and he has started citing sources. I fact checked his part two and wrote part 3 of this series with him. Go check it out here: https://youtu.be/LjieOlWXwTw HI everyone! This got a bit out of hand š®. This video has the same viewcount as the original. Insane. A lot of you have commented on the points I made and so I thought itās time for some housekeeping. Mistakes Even though I actually have been educated as a historian and do my research, I can and will make mistakes. I donāt have team to check every word I say. So don't take the word of a youtube historian as the absolute end-all truth. You probably shouldn't do that with any (internet) person. If you spot an error, please include the source that backs your claim. - The graphic showing European population 1300 - 1450 is not right. The script is correct. Graphic should say 1000 ā 1340. - I said slavery was forbidden in Europe. This not entirely true. In the 17th century 10% of Lisbonās population consisted of enslaved peoples. Generally seen white slavery was not accepted in Medieval Europe however. Some people talked about slavery in Roman times. That is a different time period. Some mentioned slave trade by the Kievan Rus. Rus is an interesting one. But most enslaved people were sold to Muslim rulers. A lot of people have said Isabella was responsible for giving the gig to Colombus. The source I used says the King Fernando stepped in at the end. archive.org/details/worldsofchristop0000phil/page/ā¦. If you have a different source do share it with me. Omissions/nuance I didnāt mention some things because the video had to be viewable. Some extra pointers: - Yes the Portuguese were expanding along Africa in the 1400s. But they hadnāt made it to India. My point was you canāt alter the dates for storytelling. - Iberian colonial expansion has certainly been influenced by Spanish and Portuguese experience in the Reconquista. Both in colonizing land as in how to rule this land. - One reason Spanish colonialism got such a bad rep is because of the Black Legend. The low countries fighting Spain from 1568 found a text from Bartholomeus de Las Casas describing atrocities in the New World. They and others spread it religiously. Casas his work was overly negative and propaganda for reform. Initial lawlessness in the first 30 years had by then been replaced by a more stable colonial administration. The Spanish did not deliberately cause the catastrophic loss to the population. They wanted a work force. This does not mean Spain should have colonized it in the first place or that no atrocities happened. - Some commenters pointed out how local factions that helped Spanish got titles and lands awarded, so it did work out for them in the end. Iād say that is a small consolation for seeing your entire society disrupted. - Some people thought I was not critical enough of JH and have said some nasty things. Making content is hard and shouting from the sidelines is easy. I still think JH has the best intentions. And I think being critical can be done in a civilized manner. - The flag of Spain doesn't show Aragon. But I think that might've been just a mistake. I do think you can say Spain instead of 'Union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon' to make the topic more accessible. - Europe is too big of a term. Eastern Europe was mostly colonised instead of a coloniser. But I understand the decision to say this. When discussing these things please keep it civil
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