3:15 This guy actually helped the workers there. Before this workers literally had zero day off work at all, and he realized the productivity was very low, so he changed that to 5-day work week.
8:42 It was the first among companies, whether talking about chronologically, size, amount of warcrimes and devastion left in it's wake or it's impact on history. It litterally built de Gouden Eeuw (Golden Century).
Re: Hanging gardens of Babylon - there's some archaeological evidence that the Hanging Gardens were actually in Nineveh, not Babylon, there are a couple of documentaries about it
He run with all his armor immidietly after the battle of marathon where he fight against the persians and when he arrived to athens he said " we win " ( " Νενικήκαμεν ") and he died on the spot . The distance from Marathon to Athens is 26 miles .
Yeah, the Art of War was indeed written on purpose in that way, is not supposed to be an advanced guide, but War 101 for dummies, basically a tutorial for apprentices, although it has a bunch of advanced information it focuses mostly on teaching the basics You wouldn’t know that the high ground is advantageous if no one had told you (or you were to have learned the lesson the bad way, which I hope not need to explain is bad)
@@mmmmmmok5292 In Ancient Greece, Macedonia was always looked at as foreigners, hence the meme. Speaking Greek doesn’t mean he was Greek. Otherwise speaking English makes us British
The Hanging Garden do exist, just not in Babylon, but in Nineveh. It's the Garden of Sennacherib, go check it out. It even had the water canals and tiered gardens like the Greek's description!
Yeah, that one doesn’t fit, the concept of Greek that exists today didn’t exist back then, Greece wasn’t a cohesive entity, only after Alexander’s death did Macedonia and all the kingdoms and cities states conjoin into a single identity.
As indonesian i can confirm i'll always blame them even though i know that our corrupted kings in the past that sold everything to them in the first place
Good thing the English national hero is the Duke of Wellington... would be a shame if he was somehow, let's say Irish. Ah well they can always go with either St George or William the Conquerer.
It should be noted that Pheidippides allegedly run from Athens to Sparta and Back, a Distance of 150 Miles each. Since 1983 there is a "Spartathlon", an Ultramarathon from Athens to Sparta. In 2023, Fotis Zisimopoulos run that in 19 Hours 55 Minutes.
Napoleone Bonaparte'sfamily was Italian (his father was called Luigi, his mother Maria, his brother Giuseppe: more than that.....) However he was born in France, he felt French and fought for France so he was...... Italian-French 😅
@@Enigmashoot people do not cease to exist if they do not have a nation. the Irish and Indians existed under British rule, as did the Poles and Italians in the 1800s. the French were French even under German occupation. today the Kurds exist, the Palestinians exist. whether we like it or not
Art of war is actually amazing. It's not a technical handbook on combat, but more of a collection of situational guideline and the occasional tips for the bigger picture of war waging strategies. Nowadays it might seems like only a recommended for 9 yr old kind of book, but back then 2500 years ago it was straight up magic scroll for generals.
@@Kr-nv5fo yeah and that's exactly why the book had massive impact, with ooga booga generals that had the power over thousands of people to die for them now knowing better after reading the book
2:46 the man was a soldier who ran to Athens to deliver the news of the battle after it had ended. He first fought in the battle of marathon against the persian invaders and then ran the 26 miles as fast as possible in full armor.
2:41 Pheidippides ran from Athens to Sparta and back again which is 240 km or 150 miles and from Athens to Marathon and back again which was 42 km or 25 miles. Meaning that the marathon race today which honours the battle fought in 490 BC was no big deal for him.
As an italian, we would like to let people say and think that Napoleon is the most famous french person, because if he was considered italian he would be like, number 3 on the list, but we will gladly lend him to our cousina on the other side of the Alps, so they have someone of important on the list who is rembembered for something that is't being the ispiration for Viva la Vida by Coldplay
Uh, well, not really, no. He was from Macedon, just north of Greece. There was a lot of mixing between the two, sure, but calling Alexander the Great a Greek is a bit like calling William Wallace an Englishman.
Had William Wallace conquered Sussex, Essex , Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex before they were unified and then he proceeded to call himself English and spread English culture all over Europe whikst also being a student of one of the greatest English philosophers then yes I would call him an Englishman. Macedon was a Greek kingdom just like Sparta or the city state of Athens. THEY COMPETED ON THE GREEK ONLY OLYMPICS FOR CHRIST SAKE
@@benpearson49 Back then, Greece wasn't a country. It was many small states. Macedon was one of them. That is literaly 5th grade history. What you're saying is like me saying that Sparta isn't Greek because it was south of Athens😂 Alexander was Greek, spoke Greek, ruled a Greek army, led a Greek coalition against Persia, spread Greek culture, and Greek language.
France did have ONE friend. Denmark-Norway, who was forced to Being Their friend by the Allies. Denmark-Norway was the only country that kept fighting for France until 1814 when Sweden managed to capture Kiel, forcing Them to surrender Norway to Sweden.
Technically Alexander is an hellenic (and Pella today is in Greece), and Napoleon is french ( born one years after the Republic of Genoa ceced Corsica to France)
Technically France didn’t conquer Corsica, but was sold. Technically he was born 3 months later. Technically he is considered Italian-French. Technically France forced the population to become French with the army. Technically they banned Italian words and converted it in French. Technically the name is “Napoleone Bonaparte”
6:31 Because of this fact you can technically argue that Austria caused both wars or at the very least an austrian convinced the germans to go to war both times
Yeah that's why Drew stopped there for a sec. Cause Macedonian or Greek is the same thing. Spartan still is Greek for example same goes for Athenian and Macedonian.
@@grandly2214Athenian and Spartan are specifically Greek cultures though. Macedonian is not Greek and was not considered so by Alexander’s contemporaries. Though again the empire Alexander ruled was a Macedonian empire not Greek, thus Alexander really shouldn’t have been included at all since he’s just a Macedonian ruling a macedonian empire.
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People S talk Ford for making the modern american work week, but fail to understand the "norm" for the period was a 12 hour (or more) by 6 day work week. 8 by 5 was a HUGE quality of life improvement for most americans.
And every king and queen of England has been foreign, ever since 1066. The Tudors were Britons, The Plantagenets were Norman French, The Stuart’s were Scots, The Hanoverians and Windsors are German.
And France didn’t “conquer” Corsica. It had a pact with Genoa to use some territories in Corsica. Then France just declared the whole thing. Corsicans weren’t happy but they were repressed with the army. Just as it happened in Nice for example. After it was sold to France italian was banned, they closed Italian newspapers and forced the population to learn correct French as they spoke a mix of Italian and French. They even destroyed things written in Italian on paper. That is why even today we have a lot of buildings in Nice with Italian writings as they were one of the things not destroyed.
