The French Revolution: Crash Course World History #29

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In which John Green examines the French Revolution, and gets into how and why it differed from the American Revolution. Was it the serial authoritarian regimes? The guillotine? The Reign of Terror? All of this and more contributed to the French Revolution not being quite as revolutionary as it could have been. France endured multiple constitutions, the heads of heads of state literally rolled, and then they ended up with a megalomaniacal little emperor by the name of Napoleon. But how did all of this change the world, and how did it lead to other, more successful revolutions around the world? Watch this video and find out. Spoiler alert: Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake." Sorry.
Chapters:
Introduction: The French Revolution 00:00
The French Declare Bankruptcy 0:41
Ancien Régime, Estates General, and the National Assembly 2:05
Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen 3:16
Louis XVI, Marie Antionette, and the Women's March 4:00
The Jacobins 4:43
Austria and Prussia Intervene 5:35
An Open Letter to the Guillotine 6:48
Guillotines Galore 7:35
Napoleon Bonaparte 8:23
How Revolutionary was the French Revolution? 9:44
Credits 11:22
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Комментарии : 9 тыс.

@Lejo04 4 года назад

I just realized that this John Green is the same John Green who wrote 'The Fault in Our Stars'. My life is a lie.

@jinglemich4941 6 лет назад

2:15 No No No! The first estate was the *Clergy* not the nobles! First Estate Clergy, Second Nobles, Third everyone else (Peasants, Bourgeoisie).

@jinglemich4941 6 лет назад

Please up vote this comment so people see!

@jinglemich4941 6 лет назад

I just saw that they have an annotation there (after I turned them on) but many people have annotations off.Please still up vote so people see.

@jinglemich4941 6 лет назад

This should be the first line the in description because it is an error!

@nikasworld6868 6 лет назад

this video is very help full not only for higher class but also for 9class because some students get bored from book I am also like that type

@CookieeMonstarr666 5 лет назад

Never believe in what you get 100% (especially on Internet) errors, fake and propaganda everywhere.

@timmyl6398 3 года назад

“So Robespierre, how many people are you gonna execute?” Robespierre: “Yes”

@pufflesfox 4 года назад

Marie "I never actually said let them eat cake" Antoinette

@amarguerirem6890 4 года назад

Reese Kesler imagine “I never actually said let them eat cake” as her epitaph 😂

@landofold 5 лет назад

"the people with the money never paid taxes" hmmm where have I heard this before

@str.77 4 года назад

It's actually not true as the 3rd Estate was not all poor men. Nor were most of the clergy rich.

@garethbaus5471 4 года назад

It's almost like most tax systems are created by the people with money.

@captainwolf3805 4 года назад

Everywhere that’s where you herd it

@forrestspradlin8015 4 года назад

Solution: Let Antifa take charge

@igesbpro 4 года назад

@@forrestspradlin8015 Dude wth

@Handledgovernment 4 года назад

Anyone else watching this for school during quarantine?

@swolby9230 4 года назад

Mr. Wentzel's class?

@markbarron3378 4 года назад

Yup

@cleopatra8734 4 года назад

Chicilo

@colmlynam9812 4 года назад

Yeadh

@adivs6750 4 года назад

Me too

@gyohza 5 лет назад

"You did not take the dying out of execution" killed me. Uh, no pun intended.

@cmontgomery7213 5 лет назад

4:05 the creeper in the background... :)

@swagonometry223 4 года назад

Ah man

@aworldofcaroline7239 4 года назад

awe man

@fjz10706 4 года назад

aw man

@bychen5011 4 года назад

Aww mann

@Fluerix 4 года назад

Lol

@margueritecazalsdefabel3773 8 лет назад

I'm French, and I've spent the last 21 years of my 21 year-long life trying to understand and learn all the regimes that went from 1789 until today and it is absolutely impossible

@bjtibbs6436 8 лет назад

I used to watch these in my AP classes. I'm not in these classes anymore, but I still love these videos. Especially now that I can learn about whatever I want.

@horseenthusiast1250 8 лет назад

My AP class watched a couple of these, and now I've watched every video twice, and whenever my teacher puts on a video in which the Mongols are mentioned, and I end up reciting the whole, "Except, wait for it...the Mongols" thing. XD

@sophiadryden7761 5 лет назад

"which they did, because everyone is afraid of armed peasant women" 😂😂😂

@spdbolt2269 4 года назад

LOL

@alicezozo1 4 года назад

Can't help but correct: the first estate was the clergy, the second estate was the nobilty*

@scanderson80 4 года назад

Not correct.

@philip3413 4 года назад

First estate was the clergy. Second the nobles. Look it up

@philip3413 4 года назад

@Landen Gilliard I was correcting the other person

@taylor8153 4 года назад

yes you are correct. we are learning this in history rn

@emily___jh 4 года назад

Yeah its true but in my opinion nobility sounded more like 1st estate

@lailla3764 8 лет назад

AP exam tomorrow time to watch crash courses till I crash this course

@noahhill5625 8 лет назад

Dude same good luck

@gillianfeeney2047 8 лет назад

+Lailla Ahmady you and me both sister

@thephantasticshakthi6211 8 лет назад

+Lailla Ahmady lol me too

@Sherf... 8 лет назад

I have one too. fantastic.

@gillianfeeney2047 8 лет назад

***** okay mom.

@saurenlhields6745 7 лет назад

The first estate was actually the clergy the second estate was the nobility and the third estate was the bourgeoisie and the peasants

@Questron71 7 лет назад

WERE the peasants actually involved in the 3rd Estate? I was under the impression that it was similarly bound to property / wealth as the british system (or the US stumbling stone of the electoral college as a filter between the popular opinion and actual political power, although that one was more by accident than by intrinsic design as only a wealthy man could afford to stay away from home and go to the election for months without losing all livelyhood in the meantime, theoretically an organized mob of the poorer citizens could have thrown their money together and paid someone to become their elector and go on that voyage)

@joshuabunt33 7 лет назад

Urs F most of the third estate in the estates general were made up of rich merchants and even some nobles from the second estate just representing actual members of the third estate

@NimpayPvP 7 лет назад

3. Clergy 2. Nobility 1. Tiers-Etat. Then all others (rich peasants are called bourgeois )

@beveG 7 лет назад

From France history student, Noble comme first because the king was part of, then comme the clergy ( they were often little brothers of noble family) and then the Tiers État was all the society doesn't matter what you are working on. The bourgeoisie is born during the revolution but really exist during the Directoire ( 1795-1799) and under Napoleon

@MrHide59 6 лет назад

+ Brévenn L'unique, clergy has always been first, ever since the setting up of feudal system. Oratores (religious people), bellatores (Warriors) and laboratores (those who work). + Shex ! Bourgeoisie is basically those who live in town (frome the french bourg = city), like merchants, bakers, butchers ...etc. it didn't matter their wealth, peasants were peasants, no matter if they were rich or poor. XIXth century brought up the idea that bourgeois were rich people, it had not been like this during the Revolution.

@jake7073 5 лет назад

Who’s here 2019 for a test you haven’t studied for Edit: Omg this comment blew up, ily guys keep up the grind for 2020 ✊🏻 Edit 2: Ok so it turns out 2020 is the end of the world basically

@ericsong8398 5 лет назад

meeeeeee

@Jjj-yc8sh 5 лет назад

@Meow.com73 5 лет назад

moi même

@brokenbutler12 5 лет назад

What do you mean? This is my “studying”

@VFuzball 5 лет назад

ya yeet

@awesomebroke 5 лет назад

The whole semester in just 11 mins

@kuhlebaba9087 4 года назад

😂😂😂😂😂

@alvyhernandez1931 4 года назад

Who is Jean Paul Marat?

@xexpaguette 3 года назад

@@alvyhernandez1931 A newspaper writer who supported radical and revolutionary ideas, and even encouraged the mass killings Robespierre soon caused. Fun fact: he had a skin condition which kept him in a bathtub.

@faytme8420 6 лет назад

The cake was a lie -MARIE ANTOINETTE

@hazellevesque3626 5 лет назад

U l y it is still a lie

@giacoco2726 5 лет назад

It was "cROIsSANT"

@dominicksebastien2254 4 года назад

@@giacoco2726 Brioche actually 😎

@lagtechgamer9767 4 года назад

Well she kinda escaped by a portal in her room

@gabriellea-hb5ri 4 года назад

Thats why in minecraft when you make a cake you get the achievement "The Lie" lol :)

@therandomvlogger1 9 лет назад

My world history teacher shows us your videos in class. You're awesome Crash Course!

@Thindorama 9 лет назад

The Random Vlogger How is formal world history education compared to crash course? Which one gives deeper insight?

@blownspeakersss 9 лет назад

Thindorama Well, a typical class (at least in the U.S) is about an hour. So, the teacher could use this video as a quick 10 minute summary, and then divulge the complexities and details later in the class.

@Thindorama 9 лет назад

blownspeakersss From the limited experience of formal schooling I've had, it's very poor in nature as the topics are taught very slowly and in low density, your thought?

@eshadoshi5467 9 лет назад

The Random Vlogger yeah my teacher showed me the video too! Loved it :D

@chicagata 9 лет назад

Valls Degage Not really... it is actually really good and says the important things that are most important to retain

@ayazhussein4866 5 лет назад

You speak very quickly man !

@caillematthews5679 5 лет назад

slow down the video speed. left-click on the gear next to the captions near the exit full screen/full screen and you will see a speed tab on the third row. left-click on that, select desired speed, and continue.

@bobtheagent9087 5 лет назад

Caille Matthews i am on Mobile lol

@caillematthews5679 5 лет назад

@@bobtheagent9087 an old version?

@bobtheagent9087 5 лет назад

Caille Matthews nvm I got it

@zawseh1553 5 лет назад

I watch him on 1.25x gets my brain working nicely

@vleessjuu 5 лет назад

In my opinion, the most insane part of the French Revolution was the war in the Vendée. In a matter of just less than a year over 100,000 (or more, depending on who you ask) people were killed in a geographic region of about 800,000 people. Those numbers are just absolutely bonkers, especially in that age.

@Arwen_xx 7 лет назад

Actually, Guillotine was against the death penalty, but, being unable to get rid of it, tried to make it more humane. He also tried to change the guillotine's name and his own names many times to disassociate himself from it.

@alexaliona 8 лет назад

'you want to keep a treaty with a king whose head is now in a basket. would you like to take it out and ask it? "should we honour our treaty, king louis' head?" "uh, do whatever you want- i'm super dead!'

@porterhuyck4182 8 лет назад

HAMILTON IS THE BEST!!!

@corsehaigazia 8 лет назад

+Samara Duffie tu m'as tué! x'D

@elliecat4807 7 лет назад

I love how the first comment I see on this video is a Hamilton reference.

@alexaliona 7 лет назад

***** did you expect anything else?

@tigerfanfrv 7 лет назад

winning is easy, governing is harder

@yamiblade 5 лет назад

You could make a religion ou...

@sa-yu7un 5 лет назад

no dont

@MisterTipp 5 лет назад

Like the cult of reason?

@jasonoh8403 5 лет назад

LMAO

@metal9535 5 лет назад

@@MisterTipp its a nod.

@aronjoshbernaldo4723 5 лет назад

No.

@Moabmaker247 5 лет назад

Thank you so much, John Green! I got an A+ in my History exam and this video helped me a lot!

@ivanchudyk6129 4 года назад

Congratulations But nobody 🅵🆄🅲🅺🅸🅽🅶 cares

@unamed2516 4 года назад

Iván Chudyk He was typing to John Green. If you didn’t care than you didn’t need to read it. Why do people like you have to be so rude?

@alvyhernandez1931 4 года назад

Who is Jean Paul Marat?

@Nurelius 6 лет назад

Great video again guys! Loving the whole Crash Course series so far! Just one minor inaccuracy on the guillotine: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine, he only campaigned for the method of execution to be standardised to beheading, unlike previously when social status decided how you were legally murdered. When the law passed and lawmakers eventually got around to deciding how this was to be done, the executioner of Paris (Charles-Henri Sanson) informed them that there was no way he could execute the number of condemned at the rate they were sentencing them. It was then decided to design a machine for this purpose and this task was given to a committee headed by Doctor Antoine Louis from the Royal Academy of Surgery. Taking inspiration from the Halifax Gibbet of northern England, the Scottish Maiden of Scotland and the Mannaia of Italy, they drew up a design which he sent to a German harpsichord-maker residing in Paris named Tobias Schmidt who then modified it further before beginning production. So credit should really go jointly to Louis and Schmidt for the guillotine's invention. The machine was also variously called the "Louison" or "Louisette" in its early days but, for some reason, Guillotin's name just stuck. Sources: Delarue, Jacques, Le métier de bourreau, 1979, Fayard Kershaw, Alister, A History of the Guillotine, 1965, Tandem

@TheSpearkan 8 лет назад

It just occured to me that CC History has covered every notable European nation... Except Poland...

@HaloFTW55 8 лет назад

Poland cannot into CC History.

@user-em1sf3js9u 8 лет назад

+Spearka There's a WWII video...

@Neotokyo6 8 лет назад

+Ivan Chen but poland can in to space!!

@HaloFTW55 8 лет назад

Neotokyo6 Polen can into being Anschluss.

@JonHT96 8 лет назад

+Spearka Well... There's always WWII...

@skylarwalters2718 5 лет назад

6:56 when u have the AP World test tomorrow and arent ready

@bizarre3051 5 лет назад

I'm so screwed.............

@necrobiome6527 5 лет назад

Oh my gosh yes sameee

@prarthanarawall 5 лет назад

same.

@uhyuh4901 5 лет назад

About to get a 1 lmao

@bizarre3051 5 лет назад

We survived boys, best of luck to you all!

@isaacbakan1295 4 года назад

I love learning about the parts of history where everything and everyone just went totally apeshit

@Barde_Jaune 7 лет назад

Fun fact : It is often said on the internet that frenchs wave the white flag before every battle. And yet, under dire circumstances, facing multiple nations in war, they manage to win every one of them while changing the world. I say, props to them !

@flakylaflaque9915 7 лет назад

France has been the most succeful nation in military history for the past 1000 years.. Yes they lost to germany in ww2, but so did everyone else( exept country surrounded by water).. Only the russian winter defeated hitler...france lost 3million men in ww1 but still defeated the germans.. France has been the mightiest country in europe for centurys..

@doneyhon4227 7 лет назад

France was 5 times a superpower and never was out of the top 5 richest countries on earth since Clovis according to 2 studies estimating the GDP during each century.

@matthewlaurence3121 7 лет назад

Perhaps their waving of the White Flag is due to the banner of the Monarchy was a white flag covered in fleurs de lis :P

@Ara-gp4yj 7 лет назад

Great Britain became a superpower after Napoleon was outta theee

@cboisvert2 7 лет назад

have you got a source for the studies?

@blazer6995 8 лет назад

I was taught the 1st Estate is the clergy. The 2nd Estate is the nobles. The 3rd estate is everyone else including the bourgeoisie, urban workers and peasants

@purplederple1665 8 лет назад

+Blazer thats because its true, they made a mistake here

@jordanheblinger9661 8 лет назад

+Blazer same

@mbglosser 8 лет назад

You're right, the first is the clergy

@JSparo-TotalWarMachinima 8 лет назад

+Blazer I am french, you are right it was like this, many people think Bougeoisie and Nobles was the same but it wasn't in many ways.

@glitterychik 8 лет назад

+Blazer That's correct. they put in a correction annotation in the bottom right hand corner.

@xfirephoenixx3028 4 года назад

Watch it in 0.75 x speed to understand

@aviezerscop401 4 года назад

Have you listened to Hope of Morning by Icon for Hire? Just go. Do it. Then listen to Ariel's cover of All I Do is Win. Then come back and tell us it's better sped up.

@capecyn 4 года назад

I wish there was a .85.

@NyAsiaMathis-kk1wb 4 года назад

X Fire Phoenix X lol

@pbj930 5 лет назад

I’m here from les miserables and I’m EXTREMELY SAD and I want to learn more about the French Revolution

@fjz10706 4 года назад

The Assasin of Gachaverse fellow les mis stannie and les mis is NOT about the 1789 French Revolution, it’s about the 1832 June rebellion

@caco2532 8 лет назад

My history teacher taught us that the 2nd estate are the nobles and the 1st estate are the clergy

@th3tacklebros 8 лет назад

he made a note saying this is a mistake and 1st is clergy and 2nd is nobles

@evalex71 8 лет назад

+TL-Ace ... and he/she was correct!

@sugarcookie148 8 лет назад

Same. A little confused about that

@garrettmeyers3297 8 лет назад

+TL-Ace thats true.

@caco2532 8 лет назад

jamie o'leary Oh thanks, didn't even see it!

@Crystalthe1st 7 лет назад

You have no idea how much you have helped me (a French major who has been learning French since Kindergarten but couldn't make sense of the context needed to understand 30+ 18th-19th century French texts that I have to master for a midterm 4 days from now). All I can say is thank you.

@aditishastri6087 4 года назад

We’re doing this right now in class, and I love it! This is like a violent anime that never ends and keeps introducing new characters!

@Tangerine2600 Год назад

Watching this one night before my test. Thanks john green, you gave me laughs throughout my childhood, basically taught me what emotions were with our books, and are basically saving me and making sure I get into college.

@FaceUnreality 9 лет назад

This just makes me want to play as France in Empire Total War.

@SportstalkDudes 9 лет назад

Haha great game

@lieminhson2982 9 лет назад

FaceUnreality Napoleon Total War is better ^^

@kassamabutarboush8205 8 лет назад

No actually empire total war is better because it has 3 continents and has better starting positions

@JonatasMonte 8 лет назад

kassam abu tarboush Napoleon Total War has Napoleon which is the reason most people like to play as france and his army is better looking.

@TheNeoton 8 лет назад

kassam abu tarboush Just try EU4 and you will forget about TW.

@elephantwarrior53 9 лет назад

-Do animals deserve rights? -If they do, do they deserve more, less, or the same rights as humans? -Should we continue to consider ourselves non-animals when we are an animal species? -Do I need to post pointless philosophical questions on RU-vid? -Are these questions pointless? -Do you care? -Should you care? -Is philosophy a wast of time? -Why am I still posting questions? -Why are you still reading this?

@RiderofRiddermark 9 лет назад

- Yes. - I would say less, but it's up to more competent People to decide. - This depends on what aspect of life you're looking at. - Maybe. I can't read your mind. - Not at all. - Only a bit. - I guess I should. - Certainly not. Psychology is a waste of time... - No f****** idea. - Because I finish what I start.

@weebovv3176 9 лет назад

D.) All of the above.

@ekambrar5448 9 лет назад

no to all obv

@TheSaltyAdmiral 9 лет назад

Ekam Brar You are against animal rights? Wow, just wow.

@Fuzzycat16 9 лет назад

why give animal rights? they have the right to be pets? ..give rights to animal and you destroy the whole meat business

@daughter_laura2908 4 года назад

Who has an exam tomorrow?

@alicemurray4078 6 лет назад

I would love to see a history crash course on the Irish Rebellions of 1798 and 1916, as well as the Irish War of Independence of 1922

@mehakhira2924 6 лет назад

Awesome,I understood the whole french revolution in just 12 minutes. Thanks to John Green and his whole team for making it so easy

@robertandersson1128 7 лет назад

There was a _creeper_ in the Thought Bubble at 4:03.

@mad1282 7 лет назад

+N.A.T.O Allience no it is a regular creeper

@Olodrin 7 лет назад

It's a pun, being a Minecraft creeper, and just plain old creeper the plant.

@Jesszicar 4 года назад

I never comment on these things but I have to say *this is the BEST french revolution crash course video.* I have watched 4 so far, and none have been as clear as this one. It fills all the gaps and answers all the questions the other videos left me wondering. now I can watch audrey hepburns war and peace with some clue c:

@thomremo3978 4 года назад

From watching the previous episode to this one I've been hearing hamilton and les miserables in my head

@straliamate5650 6 лет назад

"Thank you France we will pay you back in ww 1 and ww2" CAME IN A LITTLE BIT LATE DON'T YOU THINK

@Gabriel-kb1ju 6 лет назад

Stralia Mate ha ha

@ArtSagGut 5 лет назад

Owed long and owed BIG :D

@adriengaidella576 5 лет назад

The French army durring the first world war are really powerfull.

@LeGob 5 лет назад

did this guy realy belive France need US in WW1 ? damn americans suck at history :v

@godotlettice2938 5 лет назад

There was no US Army in WW1, like literally. Lack of resources and poor equipment in comparison with the other European powers. Many Americans joined this war fighting in the English army, because they had better equipment.

@marlenapowers478 9 лет назад

My history teacher showed this in class today and he said "This guy needs to calm down" and turned it off halfway in. I was so angry.. I love this channell and John Greene

@kelleymcdonald1 9 лет назад

That is too bad. He should have previewed it before showing it rather than turning it off. We watch as much John Green as we can in our home school.

@Phazon8058MS 9 лет назад

Last year I introduced Crash Course to my history teacher, and this year she is showing all of her classes, American History, Canadian History, European History, Geography, etc. a crap ton of Crash Course!

@keltinquesnel1055 9 лет назад

Most history teachers are boring and never add excitement to lectures. Then they wonder why high school students avoid it or drop out .

@taylorsmith8366 9 лет назад

I tried to get this into my social studies class, but nobody liked it (I don't understand) and some of my classmates said they got a headache from the fast talking (????). It made me sad. I really like this show.

@omarchsingh3490 5 лет назад

HE SAID THAT THERE ARE 3 ESTATE 1 KING IT IS WRONG

@bennyl9228 9 месяцев назад

4:05 nice creeper!

@leahstarr3561 4 года назад

only here for nostalgia...once upon a time i was here cramming for an AP Euro test.

@Mitjitsu 10 лет назад

The conditions which caused the French Revolution are nearly identical to the conditions we're experiencing today. The trigger will be when food and utility prices begin to represent the majority of most peoples budget.

@mandangalo18 10 лет назад

no... just no.

@reimant1 10 лет назад

You're wrong, no need to even point out why, you're just wrong.

@Mitjitsu 10 лет назад

Chris Nicklas I demand proof from you.

@reimant1 10 лет назад

The fact that the vast majority of first world countries to which utilities apply too lack monarchs in control of food distribution and taxes. Most countries with monarchs still have governments. France lacked this at the point of the revolution, well the start of it. Simply off that the conditions are different. Vast majorities of the population will never be allowed to go starving, governments don't want people to die no matter what. They all have stores of food and other products ready to flood the market to drive prices down any time they get too high.

@Mitjitsu 10 лет назад

Chris Nicklas Let me bring up some of the similarities you're overlooking. Firstly, you had two distinct classes of people. The very many poor, and the very few super wealthy. You had the wealthy not paying their taxes, but poor being expected to pay their share. More importantly you had inept leadership. Who showed little concern for most people, and were more concerned with themselves and the elites of the day. People may unlikely to starve in Western countries, but they might not be able to keep a roof above their head. If there is runaway inflation.

@ryand730 9 лет назад

You should re-make this video. Drink two bottles of fine French red wine and do a Drunk History version of it.

@thegod04 9 лет назад

You sir are correct.

@Justin-te2kg Год назад

My high school History teacher used to show us these videos covering different events in history. Very nostalgic and strange (in a good way) to return to these videos for my college History course.

@joehegedus5790 11 месяцев назад

Excellent Crash Course, cheers for making it. Going through Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution at the moment and this video served as a great primer, thank you!

@sarlukowski 8 лет назад

Gotta get that last minute AP euro studying in

@stephentian6518 8 лет назад

Same...

@isharaj-silverman2411 8 лет назад

+Sarah McCreery My final is tomorrow. Gotta double-study. Which I am currently failing at.

@gilliandoolittle9618 8 лет назад

+Isha Raj-Silverman everyone's final is on Friday

@jackikr6204 7 лет назад

@keatonsilver5197 6 лет назад

Yeah my test is tomorrow for Euro

@theonlylampshade 10 лет назад

The British don't even call the 'American revolution' by that name. We call it the American War of Independence, which is what it was. Unlike the Russian, French, German, Austrian, Chinese revolutions, America did not overthrow a King or a political system, they just separated from it.

@BruneSixtine 10 лет назад

Same in France, we call the American revolution "La guerre d'indépendance".

@TomZanovich 10 лет назад

Well I am happy to see that everyone agree with. The americans must really have a high ego.

@kasoono14 10 лет назад

Well, I don't know how much you guys know so much about the American Revolution, but we did overthrow and change a system. For a lot time, we were left alone, then suddenly they starting bring troops and to force us to pay higher taxes, etc... you guys should know this, but the reason why we call it the revolutionary war is for the fact, George Washington, by winning the war, he was king at the time... He was the president, and the only one. He had all the power, he could of done whatever he wanted to do, since most of our documents that make us "American" were not active, for lack of a better word, yet. So he had all of the 13 colonies, he had a country, but he gave that all up... He let his power go and established the way that our Presidency works. So, how many kings of that time, was just like, "Yeah, I give you all my land and power."? That is one of the bigger reasons why.

@TomZanovich 10 лет назад

Michael Lafleur Meh, if that was just that, we have other exemples through history, and we don't call them "Revolution". When De Gaulle took power in France after WW2, despite the fact that the americans were scared he would become a new dictator, and he invented a constitution (Who is the current one today) nobody called that a Revolution. It is not like the American Republic was even the first republic ever... The idea of a system controlled by white rich citizens was already in motion into old Greece.

@theonlylampshade 10 лет назад

Michael Lafleur Taxes that were, btw, lower than in mainland Britain... but let's not get into that. Where in France (and so on) the ruling classes were ousted from power, executed or exiled. The entire political situation of France and it's empire changed. In America the rebels formed a new state, but the ruling classes remained the same and Britain and the empire continued to be ruled by it's aristocracy. You should that we don't call the English Civil War, the English Revolution. The King was executed, the royal family was exiled. But the political system remained the same. The ruling classes remained the same. And though it better qualifies as a revolution, than the American revolution - it still wasn't one.

@lalune9938 5 лет назад

I always like John's lessons !

@GWoodward29 Год назад

WOW. I came here to learn about the French Revolution b/c I'm considering writing a historical-fiction novel taking place in this time period. Watched the whole video -- which was EXCELLENTLY done, btw -- and then saw the comment about this being the author of The Fault in Our Stars... which is one of my favorite novels. Weird, wild stuff. Anyway, big thank you to John for your wonderful novels as well as unknowingly helping me with mine!

@reggiepollock4669 8 лет назад

I have an exam on this in two days this basically procrastinating

@BeauJames59 8 лет назад

+Lucy Pollock You're doing research.

@kingdra36 8 лет назад

+Lucy Pollock Naw I wait till the night before

@kshitijpanwar153 8 лет назад

me too

@tabasajustinjakej.7715 6 лет назад

Lucy Pollock lol

@stubbynmn 6 лет назад

Love these! My students also enjoy, but with this one I do point out that US Bill of Rights left out not only slaves, but also women and Native Americans.

@detemmie4148 5 лет назад

U heard of dance dance revoultion now get ready for *FRANCE FRANCE REVOLUTION*

@aracelyrodriguez6077 5 лет назад

I died XD

@riley-dd9pm 4 года назад

GENIUS

@Chris-hp9be 3 года назад

😂😂

@kevinzhu2610 6 лет назад

This helped me for my french presentation, thanks!

@lilysoares8855 7 лет назад

AP is tomorrow. Don't know anything. Still don't know anything. Pray for me please

@IamAliShamim 5 лет назад

@dhruvsirohi9670 5 лет назад

@onlinename2637 5 лет назад

Same here

@priyankadatta4376 5 лет назад

How was ur test?

@karlmudsam2834 5 лет назад

@komradetuniska2003 7 лет назад

I have a History test tomorrow about the French Revolution and this video was really worth it. Great job!

@franciiew9759 5 лет назад

Hey! Crash Course was one of my main study materials for the National History Bee and it really helped to prepare for the competition! Yesterday, I made it past the pre-eliminary rounds and was supposed to compete in the playoffs today. However, they changed my(and dozens of other kids) scores, which changed my testing location and caused me to be late. I was unable to compete in the playoffs and the hotel it currently in chaos. But, thank you Crash Course for helping me because who knows, maybe I could have won. We'll never know....:)

@EPDUBSKIII Год назад

Thank you for this John Green!! It is so easy to learn from you!

@lelik0911 6 лет назад

A few corrections. Firstly, the First Estate was the clergy, whilst the Second Estate comprised the nobles. This corresponded with the idea that the Crown came from above. Secondly, the Nobles and the Church paid taxes, although the distribution of the taxes was highly regressive. Thirdly, it’s fairly unreasonable and execessively simplistic to describe the French Revolution as “terrible”. The Revolution helped to abolish feudalism and ancient privilege, and ultimately led to a more meritocratic system of civil and military appointments. It also laid enlightenment ideals that subsequent (autocratic) regimes would retain and expand. For example, Louis XVIII was restored on the condition that he adopt a Constitution of sorts. When his successor, Charles X, threatened the Charter, he was overthrown and replaced by Louis Phillipe who publicly supported the Charter.

@lakshmidipukumar7935 5 лет назад

I agree although the clergy did not have to pay taxes as they were guaranteed rights and privileges by the laws and customs of the kingdom which guaranteed exemption from taxes

@MontySwet 5 лет назад

omg...

@Flowerz__ 5 лет назад

They also beheaded 40,000 ppl in like a year lol

@torismund2100 5 лет назад

No it was terrible! Simple as that

@user_____M 4 года назад

It was horrible, it killed the idea of church and God and people became hedonistic, look at the demographics.

@RachelJayn 7 лет назад

My history exam is in 3 days and i'm binge watching every French, Scientific & Industrial Revolution video on RU-vid :/

@jean-mariecollotdherbois4769 7 лет назад

It is important to learn history, lest you repeat it.

@AnloProductions 7 лет назад

xD gg

@WrathOfAthena 6 лет назад

Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois Good one. Did you think of it yourself?

@mimo__.- 6 лет назад

SAME MINE IS TOMORROW

@simetry6477 6 лет назад

Just read those chapters, or books you should learn how to binge read because obviously no.

@IcarusPhil 4 года назад

"Also, like a lot of monarchs, Leopold II liked the idea of monarchies" *huh i wonder why*

@chloel6135 5 лет назад

Thanks for captions,very helpful ♥️

@MWDFrancis 6 лет назад

5 years pass, and these history videos are still some of the best on the internet. Love ‘em!

@deathlyhallows888 8 лет назад

"that's a long way from Thomas Jefferson" but Jefferson himself worked on the declaration on rights of man and citizen with the marquis de lafayette

@alinaedwards5685 6 лет назад

im pretty sure lafayette consulted with jefferson but he wasnt a formal author?

@JoeKaneB 4 года назад

and Lafayette fled the Country like two years later before he was executed for being a noble.

@isabelalvarez4730 4 года назад

who else is here because they are struggling on an assignment and that makes no sense 🙋🏽‍♀️

@Ppapman 5 лет назад

Helps with my midterm on French Revolution! Thank you!!!

@charliemedss 9 лет назад

Came here to learn what I'll encounter in Assassins Creed Unity, great video!

@angrypredator2704 9 лет назад

Tragic that it takes a historically inaccurate video-game to get humans reading history.

@charliemedss 9 лет назад

Lenzy Williams Lol already knew about it, just needed a little refresh.. Turns out the game also kinda sucks haha

@alixundr9519 9 лет назад

Lenzy Williams In what way is it inaccurate then?

@GregTom2 9 лет назад

Right, right, right... But tell us more about the assassins and templars.

@gabrielethanlatorre2278 6 лет назад

This is why i love history

@yunnaimodi4680 5 лет назад

gave me a lot of info on the revolution and would love to see another french revolution video

@merel3699 8 лет назад

Okay, I just watched this with Dutch subtitles, and Don't Forget to be Awesome was translated as: Vergeet niet, metaal bal, ik kan u horen. That means: Don't forget, metal ball, I can hear you. Wtf? :')

@ZEtruckipu 10 лет назад

I appreciate the fact that CrashCourse is trying to give history lessons to everyone, but 11 minutes are just enought to tell a bunch of historical shortuct combined whith a militant vision of history.

@VR-dq3ew 10 лет назад

Lol this is just where everybody goes to for AP World History

@TubbyLumpedKins 10 лет назад

vincent robbins Exactly. These videos are more for review than to actually teach, in my opinion.

@Greyz174 10 лет назад

well you're supposed to actually pay attention in class, so you can't really be picky when stuff like this isn't opportune unless if you watch these for other reasons than the fact that daydreaming is more fun than watching your teacher drone on making you copy notes off a powerpoint. ironically, though, i learned about these from global class

@VR-dq3ew 10 лет назад

Yeah, we're supposed to actually read the book lol

@Greyz174 10 лет назад

vincent robbins yeah, but...textbooks suck...

@lewismansfield7320 5 лет назад

No wonder the queen of England WANTS to pay tax

@LilyEvans1996 5 лет назад

😅😅😂😂😂😂😂

@joycerouget2379 5 лет назад

True she is not obligated to do so but she do it anyway.

@joycerouget2379 5 лет назад

She is not queen of England but of the United Kingdom

@joycerouget2379 5 лет назад

Basel Othman, dear, The kingdom of England (Kingdom =country having at its head a monarch)doesn’t exist since 1707, Jacques 6 had united the Kingdom of England and Scotland to form Great Britain and the story continues with the unification of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Some Americans still think that it’s said England but hehe England is now a region it’s like saying that the US president is just president of Virginia .Her royal (there are other aristocratic titles that she possessed)title is based on the country that she is the monarch. But you can say that she is queen of Canada without saying that she is queen of Australia (She truly is )because this is two different countries unlike England and Scotland which are two different regions of the same country (Kingdom)

@joycerouget2379 5 лет назад

Now something differ from “Queen of the United Kingdom ” and “Elizabeth the second ” .The person, her majesty ,has an countless number of title that passed by the cold forest of Canada to the Highlands without forgetting the beautiful beaches of Fidji .some of her titles are passed generations by generations of monarch during more that one thousand years and don’t forget about the remains of the British Empire (which differ from the monarchs that keep many of their titles unless the Fragmentation of the British empire that now « Elizabeth the second » possessed .Wait a second now we must consider the religious titles,the international titles and etc etc...

@fionamaack4338 5 лет назад

it's currently. 12:27 am. and i have a test. covering every period thus far discussed in ap world history. john green, you are truly my only hope; if you can't help me, i don't think anyone can at this point.

@roninelenion4805 8 лет назад

"Holden Caulfield thinks you're a phony"? Where can I get that shirt!? I love it!

@alannar.8701 8 лет назад

+Ronin Elenion dftba.com

@chioma916 8 лет назад

+Ronin Elenion store.dftba.com/products/holden-caulfield-thinks-youre-a-phony-shirt

@RobertHo987 8 лет назад

+Ronin Elenion ironically wearing shirts like that is exactly the sort of phonyism Holden Caulfield would be whining about, no offence

@roninelenion4805 8 лет назад

+ChristopherWalkman Non taken. I just like the shirt because of the literary allusion.

@alannar.8701 8 лет назад

ChristopherWalkman Honestly, I couldn't care less if the things I do in life piss off Holden Caulfield.

@iClone316 10 лет назад

I love the Portal reference

@shakaman2112 10 лет назад

What did he say?

@iClone316 10 лет назад

Remel Sosa One of the pictures had a slide of Marie Antoinette saying "the cake was a lie"

@shakaman2112 10 лет назад

Ohh thanks brah!

@Imhornydadcomeinside 9 лет назад

Remel Sosa Why did you have to be clueless BRAH?

@carlinmcnulty677 4 года назад

this helped me pass my final. thank you john green

@littleblockser8d840 Год назад

whenever my teacher plays one of these videos I just perk up and listen. I find it hard to keep the information, but it somehow sticks to my brain sometimes. I love it!

@FraserSouris 9 лет назад

I used both Crash Course and Assasin's Creed as my only study tools, got 100 percent in my exams

@squamish4244 9 лет назад

Genetic memory brah. It's a thing.

@Jackbro29 9 лет назад

Gold

@joeallen7981 9 лет назад

You rock.

@pianofluteflute 9 лет назад

You are my hero.

@300daysandnights 9 лет назад

Assassins Creed changes a lot of shit to format the storyline they want to tell. I wouldn't rely on it.

@Thumbsupurbum 8 лет назад

So why do paintings from the French Revolution always depict women topless? And why can't the US ever have a topless revolution?

@justusbrugge3279 8 лет назад

+Flintstoned that painting isn't about the french revolution of 1789 but the revolution of 1848

@HvedrungLaymore 8 лет назад

+Flintstoned Ok it's very simple. The woman depicted on the Delacroix's painting is an allegory of the Freedom. And the Freedom is the Mother of the Nation, she feeds it, so the breast symbolize the milking mother of the Nation.

@HvedrungLaymore 8 лет назад

+Flintstoned Then, if US should have a topless person to feed them, it should be an old capitalist ^^

@eirikfausko8241 8 лет назад

+Flintstoned You have one ! #freethenipple

@yvan1401 8 лет назад

don't be mindblown but the statue of liberty ever wondered how/why was it a female ? ;)

@seanramey9559 5 лет назад

Im watching this because i have a project due in 4 days and we started it 2 weeks ago. I've been putting it off because i was mainly focused on my research paper for English.

@dhruvgajjar4953 5 лет назад

This is probably the most useful show in the world

@mudkipwithsunglasses7436 10 лет назад

Thanks for helping me with understanding the French Revolution and my report on it!

@niki3722 7 лет назад

maybe after john mentioned austria a few times people will finally stop confusing it with australia

@przemysawbogdan7699 7 лет назад

*amenricans, not man. americans.

@lowrider3913 7 лет назад

Przemysław Bogdan lol get your grammar right (no offense)

@itierney 7 лет назад

Niki throw another shrimp on the barby Austria!

@dwarfking6657 7 лет назад

Niki thats how i would be i would be confused between Austria and Austrlia

@davidisaac5340 7 лет назад

Dwarf King

@thesenate5913 4 года назад

Learning about history is my hobby now Thanks alot John Green

@francoisjohannson1458 4 года назад

The events look chaotic, because we see them form the end, from the outcome. The people who lived through them had no masterplan for the whole process, they acted and reacted step by step.

@luli1867 6 лет назад

I learned so much for the series! One thing: Zhou Enlai was the premier of China back then, never the president. Could you add a note to that to clarify?

@armenshahinyan9163 8 лет назад

All kidding aside, this one video helped me understand more in 12 minutes than a month of class! :)

@zakiaslam8228 5 лет назад

Wow great Info!! Really clears things up! Thank you!!

@dianaj8480 5 лет назад

That was very helpful and interesting.Thank you

@payden9464 7 лет назад

These are how I study for my history tests.

@emmadornan2022 7 лет назад

Payden same

@macemurphy 7 лет назад

same

@theodoreterlinden8506 7 лет назад

well it's stupid, since the video doesn't provide enough information. It doesn't even talk about Danton or Hebert. It is highly inaccurate and doesn't provide enough information. Don't wonder if you have a bad grade after....

@soulyheaven9600 6 лет назад

Does it help

@alexgonzalezdepinera8699 6 лет назад

Payden same for me

@MazzyMars 7 лет назад

Love the Alot reference.

@khalilyepez1006 6 лет назад

MazzyMars I love your profile pic

@zaiden6929 3 года назад

i feel like you should mention more timelines, like when all these things happened more often, you said like *in august they did _* which meant i had to go back and find out the initial time and follow it until i got to a specific point. Like when exactly did Prussia and The holy roman empire decide to invade and when did France fight back?? Etc. thank you.