England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt - Extra History - Part 1 

Yo three months later, why'd he leave? Joined the channel after he left.

@@MYTRYAAIN idk, but he did a wise move.

@@dorkfish1275 why Wise? It's a great channel that talks about all kinds of history

@@darrenbutler9819 Have you seen how downhill everything other than their history series has gotten?

@@dorkfish1275 what do you mean exactly?

fewer

eggertstwart Shut up Stannis.

+Vicente Parker It is a very odd topic for an Extra History series. Who could've possibly put forward so many votes on Patreon to choo--it was Walpole.

So negative amounts of people expect the south seas bubble? My god....

Vicente Temes I

EDMOND DANTES!

WALPOLE

*Historical Materialism intensifies*

A pun is a punishable crime alone, but when you use the already made pun on the video of the creator of the pun in which they made the pun, you must commit seppuku.

+Bliffity PUNishable action? Was that intended?

gijijijijijijijijijijji *FACK*

What if his rival Mr. Sharp was quite blunt

+Bliffity Sudoku* Common typo

That was their first mistake. XD

probably why there was no spanish inqusition.

NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!

Blue Wolf Pack That's been driven so far into the ground it's burrowed through the crust, mantel, core and burst out through the other side.

Burkutace27 and found... THE SPANISH INQUISITION....AND DIDN'T EXPECT IT!!!!

Cabinet: So which countries are we fighting? King: *Yes*

*Insert The King being chased by a mob of Soldiers* The King: O.o EVERYONE BUT ME!!!!!!!

Why did he leave?

@Stellvia Hoenheim Dont be spreading false information

@@W-I463 Not 100% sure, but he said Extra Credits was just a University project.

How bout the south seas bubble but in the direction of inaucci

@@seanwilliam2856 HOOK IT TO MY VEINS

i was thinking the same. the original pump and dump scheme

Blunt was the Lion of the Corporation of London.

Does thou think any of these happening are legal? Absolutely fucking not legal my friend.

Kaine Bishop I know I'm two years late responding, but you're onto something. If they made an educational history show for kids when I was a kid, I would have never stopped watching it.

Way better than whatever the history channel is nowadays

@@homemadefilms5718 The worst part is, it used to be good, but the stupid stuff is more profitable.

Yes

Omg u made my spill my soymilk,hahahah

@EmperorJuliusCaesar what do you mean?

@EmperorJuliusCaesar Its a meme of a very unrealistic person looking at literal stock footage.

Two words: Confused stonks

It always is. ;)

Sam Wolfenstein Walpole was the first English PM, and his rule lasted 22 years. It's not surprising that he pops up everywhere.

God damn it Walpole.

This series is the origin of that meme

Sam Wolfenstein another man of culture I see

yea

Well, too many wars, too many Colonies uprising, too many soldiers to be fed and paid and transport, too many guns needed. And then the Colonies achieve independence so the money King George III spent in the American Revolutionary War gave him no revenue. And then later on we have to consider the debt with China before the Opium Wars.

r/woooooosh

Americas economy can only work by maintaining a certain amount of debt

Or an England uni

You get to control the money of the nation in country that is OK with you just ignoring 100s of years of debt, who wouldn't want that job.

Jeremiah B Plus you may get to be Prime Minister one day.

It's a job well done if you're able to placate angry creditors who demand immediate repayment by paying off debt by borrowing money in the hope that in sometime in the future you will have enough surplus to be able to pay off the debt created by borrowing money to pay of the original debt . Deep , isnt it ? The art of the job is pushing immediate debt into the future WITHOUT ending up in a debt trap .

In fairness, the old debt is pretty small now. The debt from the two world wars is bigger. And since the economy expands and inflation happens, even those debts are diminished so that the most recent debt dominates. Though austerity should handle that.

Jay I'm also british

I am.

Well i certainly didnt expect the inquisition in this episode.

Not Even the Spanish Inquisition

Next episode will look like it's a continuation on the South Seas Company, but halfway in: BAM! Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! I'm calling it.

Perhaps it's a ploy to keep you from expecting them?

4 years now

At this point I’m expecting the Spanish Inquisition

@@chipua2230 That's probably their tactic. Wait until everybody has forgotten they mentioned the Inquisition and then spring a series on them out of nowhere.

June 2021 Jewish pirates is the closest we’ve gotten to Spanish Inquisition and cleopatra is closest to Julius Caesar

Like mother like daughter

There was a writer who claimed "an American is an Englishman left to his own ends" around that kinda time.

The two cultures are more alike then different. Hell Americans cared about the royal baby for some reason.

Alexander Kamensky Monarchies, even constitutional ones like in Great Britain, have always been a curiosity for us Americans. I imagine said curiosity is even more pronounced over in Australia, though I doubt its various news centers cover it overmuch like ours do.

Farscryer0 I am not sure, because Australia has the Queen as their head of state.

Yeah. I'm enjoying this a bit more than the Sengoku Jidai. All those names x_x

TheSlimyDog Oh those names! I could never keep track of who was who between episodes

TheSlimyDog I kept track by looking at the colour of their armour .

Pinkie Pie I tried but failed. Also kept forgetting which clan each one was from. Would have been a tiny bit better if they color coded it that way.

yeah so many lords at war and i have a feeling the lotto scheme i this episode is going to come back and bite britain in the butt

Thorntonian Why do the war of three kingdoms? Why not the battle of five armies?

Tristan Phillips... I honestly don't even know what you're trying to say here. Possibly an unrelated note, but have we met? Your name seems familiar.

I don't believe we've met. But I'm making a joke about the Hobbit.

Tristan Phillips I got the joke, i'm just not sure how it relates.

Thorntonian Three kingdoms war will be awesome. That's what got me into loving history in the first place.

The Wayfarer Hello from across the pond in 🇺🇸!

Hey, right now here in the states we have a secretary of energy who’s educational background is in animal husbandry.

The United States and the United Kingdom seem to be in a competition over who can perform the biggest political fuckup. Brexit was a good try, but I think the United States won.

Leftover problems from the fall of the RBS?

@@thegardenofeatin5965 The game isn't over yet, wait and see our next move... :P

+snakes3425 The War of the Quadurple Alliance? (1718)

+Captain Inc That would be good also a few more The English Civil War The Greco-Persian Wars The Panic of 1857 The Life of Simon Bolivar The Mexican Revolution The Nine Years War/League of Augsburg Great French War/French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars German Unification Italian Unification Classical Greece The Fall of the Western Roman Empire The Hundred Years War War of the Roses Franco-Prussian War Napoleon III Crimean War The Rise and Fall of Napoleon I The French Revolution Louis XVI-XVI The Seven Years/French and Indian War

snakes3425 Pretty good, here are mine. Russian Civil War 1921-1923 War of 1812. Warring States Period El Capone Black Beard War of Texan Independence War of Mexican Independence Haiti Rebellion 100 Years War 30 Years War Anglo-Russian War 1812 Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire Rise of the Ottoman Empire.

+snakes3425 Portuguese Discoveries!

+snakes3425 World's First Circumnavigation by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian de Elcano (1517-1521)

Ben Toth nobody expects the dragon age inquisition

Hooray! Soul crushing depression and confusion!

Today's story will be about pirates and action.NOPE JK its about economics n boring money stuf

They did what teachers should do

FonVegen Well, I think teacher don't do this because of the audience. If theachers did this the whole class would be like whatever and there would be one or two like us extremely exited. That would be nice but their job is to ensure everyone learns. That's why I'm proud of making part of an audience full with people like you :D

João Pinto Well, thank you ^^ I wasn't trying to criticize teachers, although I guess it looks a lot like it; I just wanted to say that this is a lot more fun than learning numbers all the time; of course it isn't a realistic method for scholl as it is, but it would definitely be awesome ^^

Sory then, I thought you were. Hope I didn't sound too harsh

João Pinto No problem there ^^ I tend to say things differently than I intend to, it's alright to correct me :) Only way to learn, after all ;)

Yep, figured somebody had already made this joke when I scrolled down (a month after making this comic). It was me, but I was still right.

Same here :)

Binge re-watching all of the Extra History series (While checking out the NMS Update) :D

The interesting thing is about the way it ended. The Whigs won. I don't mean they won two elections or three. They won, all of them. They destroyed the Tories. So much so that the Tories never existed against in real terms. Those people from 1783-1840 who were called "Tories" (Pitt, Addison, Wellington, Burke etc) were actually Conservative Whigs . One of them even said, "the government of the last century is and could only have been a Whig Gov't", despite the fact that since 1783 Pitt the Younger and his "friends" had basically run Britain for 30 years at that point, with only a short interlude after Pitt died in 1806. Part of this was because the Tories were barred from gov't office for several decades, another is because they associated themselves twice with the Jacobite pretenders, which is not a way to ingratiate yourself to the loyal voters of the land, and especially younger generations. And indeed once the older generation passed away in the 1750's, the Tories went from having a significant enough presence in Parliament during Bonnie Prince Charlie's uprising, to having nothing by the 1760's. A similar thing happened in the US, with the Federalist Party in place of the Tories and Democratic-Republicans in place of the Whigs. There were actually many similarities between the Federalists and Tories and between the DRs and Whigs. The most important of which was the former holding on to anachronistic view of government. Tories to Jacobitism, the Federalists to elitist over populism. Just like with the Whigs, when the DRs owned the whole political landscape, they split in two. And the Democrats strained every effort to label their National Republican and later American Whig counterparts as latter day Federalists and elitists, just like dissident British Whigs would label their opponents as Tories. Lord North was labeled a Tory when he was Prime Minister, though he ended up forming an alliance with Charles James Fox that formed the basis for the Whig party in the 19th century (later forming the Liberals). Meanwhile, Pitt and eventually after maneuvering between both sides, Edmund Burke, formed the basis of what would become the Conservative Party.

No, you're absolutely right. It's not just the impression you get on TV.

Agreed

The republicans are way worse actually. If you are even mildly moderate. You are either very rare or a democrat.

And also worth pointing out: its in a situation like that where bottom feeders like Blunt see opportunity.

Oh boy do I have news for you

Predicting 100

And your prayers have been answered.

Um, she already has recognition.

would not surprise me if he was.

You'd probably have to go much further back, since GoT is based loosely on the Wars of the Roses

that would be Walpole.

if you think of it, Littlefinger was based not on a certain man, but on an image that one man created - Machiavelli

Can you like not N BECAUSE IT! turned others nation's into...greeceS,ISNT anymore...

@@vasilykatuma5689 Do you even English?

@@HistoryNerd808 THANK GOD, after your LEAVING, in a generation or two,our children wont have to, PIMPS of nations!

@@vasilykatuma5689 What are you talking about?

@@HistoryNerd808 This will happen after brexit...finally your england will show its ROTTEN TEETH behind its polished (with the blood of others...) front...that.

what is that meme and feel free to meme me to death for not knowing

@@thomasspolidoro5301 I think Walpole gets mentioned in episode 5 of this series, but tl;dr he's a mad lad who was the reason behind a lot of things happening

@@EthanDyTioco thanks

The shall make the Inquisition Episode right after this one. Because nobody expects the Inquisition.

Everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Nobody was expecting the Spanish Inquisition! ...To lose.

Sticker704 Seems he did.

The Spanish Inquisition is a conspiracy invented by the jews, you guys!

It's five episodes.

Years later, thanks for helping me find the song, I swear the used to say what it was in the end credits.

No, all the 18th century, when one could see a European in its natural habitat.

Robl Nathan the 18th century, where Europeans spent most of their time in other peoples' lands.

You are thinking of the modern idea of Great Britain they are talking about the Kingdom of Great Britain, Grey's video does not apply to this period of history.

Jeremiah B In the beginning of the video they imply that Great Britain arose after Scotland and England were reunited, and that's still a wrong implication, given that Great Britain is a geographical term.

VixVixious When it was first united it was called the Kingdom of Great Britain as it did not include the Kingdom of Ireland and as such only was the Kingdom of the island of Great Britain, hence the name. After 1801 the Kingdom of Ireland was merged with the Kingdom of Great Britain to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After most of Ireland seceded, the name was changed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which CGP Grey explains.

VixVixious An argument in semantics really, as Great Britain is BOTH a geographical and political term. "Great Britain" refers to the island and it also refers to the kingdom. It should be known that "Great Britain" is also the name of the island, but considering that we are dealing with the relationships of countries and kingdoms here (and since most people associate the term with a kingdom *anyway*), it isn't really necessary.

No, Great Britain James the 1st of England/6th of Scotland came up with the term.

Illegal, but beautiful

Refreshingly Cynical dude, me too. Love when there’s crossover between EH and other things I’ve seen, or hell, when EH crosses over with EH.

I too got a lot of enjoyment out of knowing the insane, movie-worthy story happening just offscreen.