Wait For It...The Mongols!: Crash Course World History #17 

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what kind of savage does that right?!

No wonder he made the largest empire...if only fools today knew this trick.

Funny how people assume we are different now. In the last 30 years two families have had the US presidency for 20 of them and only just missed out on another term. The same families have also had other members who were state governors and senators. Of the other candidates for president and vp in that time the parents of 4 were "ruling class" (governor, congressman, diplomat and admiral) and several more were the sons of millionaires. In the UK many, if not most, government and shadow government posts are filled with people who studied the same degree at the same university - 42% of who's students come from private schools. To put it another way you are 6 times more likely to get into government if you are in the right family. Even more stark is that 15% of the house of Lords are hereditary peers. We could do with some more "mongol thinking".

Chilukar word. These fools up here think it’s not families power playing everything

Lamooo but tbh even now, your family matters more than you up to like 90 percent chance probably.

india never got taken over by alexander or khan...India should be feared by all....thats insanity

@@razkable I was never taken over by Alexander, Khan, Napoleon or any of these triflers... I must be feared by all.

😂 😂 😂

@@razkable especially the tamil kings who weren't even conqured by the man who conquered india, Chandragupta

@@jojobabok9373 why does he say mongles

Totally agree

did the mongols kill their wives after the "floopity flop"?

XD

😀

Try washing the pygmies before you run the mountain gimmick. Thrash away at the humble platypus, it may be your lazy pie owl.

I know right?? It's put my frustration into words.

Its what i love about johns video's he i teaches us how to always see things from all perspective's specially in today's world..

yeas i love this channel

Evan Oliver watched this in my world studies class. :)

im watching this to study for my ap world history test actually

Fanta Soft Drinks omg me too !!!

Where literally all freshman preparing for an Ap world history exam tomorrow lol

Coda Mission That is good.

there is a book series about him and they are great, the first book is called the "wolf of the plains", when he was around 8yrs old and his father died his family was banished from the community and had to survive by themselves. in the book it says that he killed his brother because he kept food for himself and didnt share with his family.

nice, ill have to check that out, thanks for the info. :)

I've been directing all my teacher friends to this channel. Their students absolutely love it. The Green brothers need to be on TV!

Puranjay Singh TV? You mean that increasingly irrelevant thing old people are used to stare at?

Andrew Raphael Lukasik no we mean the boob tube that America gets half its worldview from....

Andy Ramirez are how each soldier lit dozens of bonfires for the same reason

yeah, but the dummies worked.

"It's also pretty funny that they put dummies on horses so that their armies would look bigger from far away." It's not funny, it's war tactic and strategy from Sun Tzu. Western and middle eastern that time were too gullible to understand such war tactic. That's why they lost.

In Skyrim, some forts have dummies on the walls and i always mistake them for the enemies every time XD

There's a theory that the Chinese, who built the ships, deliberately fucked them over

Its a very common thing in modern Kazakhstan. Plenty of people trace their roots from Ghenghis Khan. Its customary to ask a person which tribe he/she belongs to. And saying you're from Tore (Ghenghis khan descendants) is like saying you're a Lakers fan )

Yeah We Mongolians love saying we’re descendants of Genghis Khan

you well might be, check it out :)

@@gallivantingsprt are you kazakh or russian?

@@finnthehuman5232 I am Kazakh, yes. why?

Hey! I know you! And I like your videos! And yet I haven't subscribed yet! ...Yeah...

The idea is awesome, but realisation could be a better

***** They didn't exactly migrate to southern Europe. They were either taking in by Romans, after an invasion of course, or they expanded INTO Roman lands, for example the germans who sacked rome

And only at the low-low cost of approximately 40 million lives; roughly 8-10% of the world's population. A murder rate that, if it occurred in the 20th century, it would have taken the lives of 280 million people. The second highest death rate in the world following the An Lushan Revolt. Just try to keep that in mind. There was hardly a single conquered tribe in his confederacy that wouldn't have defected if they had a choice.

***** .... 1. kinda raciest. 2. did you watch his videos on eastern Islam and the dark ages, it had significant impact on modern society.

Ger

It’s true it’s ger

I am mongolian

Second wave did get to the shores of Japan, but there was left too few to conquer the whole Japan.

Even the typhoon could not completely stop them...they managed to hit the shore and take some territories.

Wrong. They had two major invasions 1274 and 1281 and typhoons helped Japaneses but its Samurai warriors who defeated Mongels.

what would happen , if mongols successfully landed on japan islands and invade all of u ? U better thank to weather .

Even if the Mongols hadn't died in 2 typhoons, they would still have been finished off. Explanation: Japan is almost entirely composed of forests and hilly, mountainous terrain. Horseback archery would have been incredibly difficult for the Mongols who grew up battling in the vast Eurasian steppes with hundreds upon hundreds of miles of vast landlocked terrain.

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Yesss

*mongoltage plays*

Mines Wednesday the 18th 😭

Yup

Alexa Rudley lmao

Alexa Rudley may the mongols be with you

Alexa Rudley May the Mongols be with you too

Because he didn't..

Also I hope their women didn't have facial hair like the picture

I have been subscribing on CrashCourse for a long time, but it is only in your comment that I realized that he is the author of the 'The Fault in Our Stars'. I feel so bad. Thanks anyway.

Best book ever.

Johniel smithuel OMG......he is???🤐😱😱😱

Yeah real psychopaths

if khan didn't get sad and lose his motivation after the death of his mother he probabaly takes over most of asia and europe...crazy to think about...

@@eliza1826 You don't seem to know the definition of that word and use it as a derogatory term. Let me remind you that morals back then are not the same as they are now, and in different cultures.

Rune One could argue morality is objective, and applied differently, sometimes incorrectly

@@cmarley314 Yes, though determining if someone is a psychopath still uses factual evidence.

watching it 7 years later like me

Me watching it 8 years later

lostbladder Why do they hate this channel?

Because dumbass kids hate school. Wish i cared more back then.

My classmates hated whenever my teacher put one of these videos on because "he speaks too fast" and that's it. I've always enjoyed them, and look at me now, graduated high school yet still watching them.

i like the channel too.

Because they watch PragerU

that is already a thing

Wanr

i would like this comment but it's at 69 likes and i don't want to ruin that

@@sidneym2919 It's at 80 now. U can like it

I don't class Russians as Europeans because thier speech and writing looks and sounds like explosive diarreha. While the west of europe sounds normal.

Calemb Jackman Arrogant much?

No just dislike Russians

And Russia's hates Western Europe then wants to be classed as europe?

Calemb Jackman Russians are European, there writing is using the Greek alphabet unlike western Europe that uses the Latin one. Their speech is slav part of the indo-European family of languages that spread across Europe pushing out languages like Celtic and replacing them with french or English. other then that most of what we consider Russians are Scandinavians that speak Russian, so ya there European

+Genghis Khan mmmhmmmm ;) fully agree brother!

+Genghis Khan u know, this world is not painted with only black and white.

Irwan Andaltria yes. i know. I'm yellow

Genghis Khan I know you do, O Great Khan.

fuck you

cgarrand08 r

And Judaism and Islam, since Ghengis Khan basically outlawed circumcision and kosher/halal slaughter.

Jack Turner aside from the fact that the rulers of 3 of 4 khanates eventually converted to islam...

Doesn't negate the fact that Ghengis Khan outlawed halal slaughter; he was not as tolerant of religious differences as has been suggested.

Don't forget safe. A man can walk across the entire empire with a gold plate on his head without getting robbed.

The Mongols basically let people rule themselves as long as they paid. And you were safe, if someone tried to attack you the Mongols would utterly annihlate the attackers.

That last part was awesome

Step 5: ??? Step 6: Profit

Julian King .

Julian King You’re very correct, my friend, except on the last point; the Forbidden City was constructed by the Yongle Emperor, the second leader of the Ming Dynasty, which overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and replaces the Khans with native Chinese emperors again.

Actually, most mongols live IN China. One of the largest provinces in China is Inner Mongolia. They have a fair amount of autonomy, and mostly speak Mongolian. They also tend to write in the traditional Mongolic script instead of in Cyrillic, which is pretty cool.

British empire was actually far bigger.

They are our descendants, every country ruled by us are now strong and powerful

@@1943rfagan nah

@@airwakkerre1861 It actually was. Do your research.

+godzilla964 They do technically

True, but we haven't heard anything about a new Mongolian empire. Yet!

+godzilla964 well imagine if their enemies had guns and tanks and jets! whats that supposed to mean?! lol

They do know and they military is awful

+godzilla964 it wouldnt mean anything. what made them so effective was their unconventional tactics combined with brutal willingness to be violent as well as their massive logistical advantages.... they were good at what they did with what they had in a time period when they couldntve faced a foe that was orginized or disiplined enough to stand up to them.

3rd largest empire... in the history of India. Yeah. That's like saying the Scottish had the 2nd largest empire in Great Britain...

Babur was not the descendant of Genghis Khan from both his sides. He was Half a Mongol and the other half was Timurid. The Mughals did not wish to be associated with Genghis Khan because of his image as a brutal ruler so the entire Mughal dynasty called themselves the TIMURID DYNASTY. Besides, it was the British who gave them the name Mughals.

he was a Turk, no?

But Tamerlan is the most well known Moghol tho

@@shubhammeena5177 yes they were a Turkish dynasty

🥁 Da da tiss

well this guy thinks he is funny

he is tho

Yeah it's amazing how they managed to Khantrol so many people

Ok thanks for that

Rhat was before the empire Will.. listen better

+Will Trill actually kidnapping a bride and committing adultery was prohibited in the Mongol Empire. The punishment was often death.

+Phanteus than why did they raped all those people the conquered

ssj4mighty gogeta who said they raped?

Phanteus​ history

Draguinny hahahhahahahahhahahahha

same.

ditto

Relevant username

SAME!

wtf

+Buzz Zu lol..yea

+Buzz Zu How about the fact when he says if they arent easy questions to answer it says, "darn you fifa 11"

I went back and turned caption on just to see that XD

+Colin Gray and after he says "no one can best crash course viewers, well except for the Mongols" and the captions say [when the mongol-tage rolls, we all win]

I went back to see that also XD

sofia shaw Lol

Yeah, lots of products and raping and pillaging, while the long suffering keep calm and carry on british built the internet you are using

It doesn't mean anything. They were probably just jealous and intimidated. The Mongols never had the money or the brains to build such palaces. They were always on the run being poor, barbarian, plague-spreading parasides who never fulfilled any purpose as a human. What children always get taught by their parents is that it's easier to destroy something than to embrace its beauty, but the Mongols obviously were too stupid to understand this concept. They had brainless zombie slave armies that knew how to destroy this planet and everything others had spent millenia on building and developing. If it was because of them we'd still all be hunters and gatherers. They were sick and like Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Nero or any other terrible leaders you can think of destroyed everything.

Clark Orion They actually helped the Earth. Carbon ratings went down during their reign and the land started to restore itself to it's former glory. They also were very intelligent, as I see it at least. They were incredibly knowledgeable in the arts of War and Trade and were masters of numerous skills such as Horseback Riding, Archery, and various forms of combat. They also were one of the few Civilizations in history to be truly devoid of the division of power between Sexes and Religions, and were the first Civilization to promote warriors based on merit instead of heritage and class. Sure, they killed thousands of people, and that is a very bad thing. But don't think other "Great" nations didn't also. The United States has killed over 260 THOUSAND people, during the Civil War alone, counting only casualties to Confederate soldiers... as I can't find statistics for the civilians. And while the war did free the slaves, it was not about that in the beginning, it was actually just about keeping the Confederacy from breaking off from the states. Plus, even if the cause may have been a good one, you cannot excuse the fact over 600 thousand lives were lost overall just so that the States could stay in control of it's revolting underlings. Also, keep in mind that had the Confederacy won the war, they would have treated the United States just as well as we treat Colonial Britain today in school. Yep, we would have been the oppressive "father" Nation and they would have been the underdogs who won. Not saying I'm supporting their fondness of slavery in any way, but instead I'm saying that we pretty much had two Revolutions in less that 100 years. Food 4 Thought ya' know.

Clark Orion No, thats not about jealous or intimidated at all. Problem with the Mongols is they couldnt stand much about static settlements and agricultural living. Only such way of life would be the seed for cultural and technology to boom. You can see that clearly at other civilizations like Ancient Egypt, Persian or the Chinese. The Mongols cant have this kind of life because they are the nomads, so they only "borrow" others to do it for them (like, "borrow" engineers from the Chinese). So in the end, they did not be defeated by any nation but be converted eventually. For example, the Ilkhanate empire, one of the Mongols - many empire - did converted to Islam eventually but not in a war.

Clark Orion As someone who has been to Mongolia and met real live Mongols instead of just making assumptions about them, I have to disagree with you. Mongols have plenty of brains - they survive in environments that would kill most Westerners within a week or two. The Mongols have remained herders for two reasons: 1) Much of Mongolia is quite arid and not good for farming, and 2) They are HAPPY. They are a happy people, like their lifestyle, and have success with it. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. The Mongols didn't have money for much of their history because they never settled enough to start mining activities, so they didn't have any precious metals. Not only did they not have it, but they didn't really need it. Most traditional Mongolian families are essentially self-sustaining, and they never really "outgrew" the barter system. I don't look down on them for this; it worked for their way of life, so there is nothing wrong with that. And for those who think the Mongols are still barbarians, consider that the literacy rate in Mongolia for both men and women is higher than that in the US.

Egshiglen Amgalanbayar yeah, same here. i learnt much more about our history from RU-vid than my entire secondary school.

At least the USA didn't slaughter entire towns and cities after they were captured.

Ethan Roush I hope you are being sarcastic.

actually, it also slaughtered tons of villages in the 1800s. just for conquest.

Excuse me, did you serve in the military? Because if you didn't that is really rude. You're judging people who risked their lives for their country, and other countries who were being threatened. The U.S is made out to be the bad guy, but the minute anyone has any problems the call the United States for help.When you're in war you have fight. What did you think? That they all get together and have a fucking tea party. So, yeah they bomb towns, but the other side fights back just as much.

Mackenzie Morgan I never said the US was the bad guy. just that almost EVERYONE is the bad guy. the mongols are made out to be barbarians but, did nothing worse than the USA. and were actually more culturally tolerant. and the US has fought about 4 wars of self defense out of dozens. my point is that the US is nothing special. not much different than the mongols or romans.

Everything has its beginning and its end. Law of the Universe.

This is true for almost everything in the known world. Especially when you forcefully take something that doesn't belong to you(like the Mongols). There will be some opposition to that at some point.

Lkhagvasuren Davaatseren Except for (Wait for it) THE MONGOLS descendants

TiTixWhite When you say that instead of showing people on horses it shows people holding I-Phones and playing flappy bird or something.

Hah that was hilarious MrCanadiangenius

anytime there's an exception.

+Ian hintz Tally: OVER 9000!!!!1!!!!1!11111

+Ian hintz in every single one.

+Ian hints he acts like a twelvie

+Ben Tran You act like a twelvie

Nobody can beat his record, 65-1 with 32 nations subjugated.

What about Alexander The Great?

Matthew Gamblin Alexander the "Great" was a comparative underachiever. He conquered a lot of land area but he was mostly rampaging across poorly-defended farmland. He had nerve and the initiative required of great military leaders, but he never really faced an enemy that challenged his conquest seriously, at least not after the Granicus. He is remembered as "great" because history is written by the apologists of powerful rulers. In reality, dying young is probably the best thing he ever did for human civilization. He lived long enough to spread Greek concepts far and wide, but died before he could clamp them down into a tyranny that would be remembered with hatred for generations. Perfect timing. By comparison, Subutai maneuvered an army across Russia and Eastern Europe in winter through unfamiliar terrain, crushing experienced armies all along the way, usually while heavily outnumbered and without any supply lines or hope of retreat if he failed. He won the battles of Mohi and Legnica (500 km apart!) in two successive days, having split his force in the face of superior numbers, outmaneuvering and outwitting his enemies and crushing the knights of Poland and Hungary. At Mohi they allowed the panicked Hungarians to "escape" the encirclement, because killing fleeing men was easier than killing desperate men with their backs to a wall... If that's not clear, here it is in one sentence: outnumbered, without hope of retreat, and in unfamiliar territory, Subutai split his forces into two wings over 500km apart and *conquered two kingdoms in two days*. Only Napoleon and Hannibal, in all of military history, stand on that level of sheer brilliance (in my opinion).

nfinn42 Don't forget his expeditionary campaign around the Caspian Sea/Caucasus Mountains where his force of 20,000 defeated several armies 4 times his own. This guy ate numerically superior armies for breakfast.

pugilist102 65-1? What was the defeated battle?

No, it did start after Ogedei. Batu Khan and Ogedei's son did NOT like each other at all, which is why Batu refused to attend the khuriltai that was held after Ogedei's death. Genghis Khan's sons got along pretty well, but their grandkids... wow, family issues indeed.

Marco Polo reference? If so, this is lovely 💜

Marla Valeria Santos its actually from a book I read a couple of years back but yeah, I kinda remembered it because of the show

+Marla Valeria Santos That show is such trash.

You understand me. I really like that show.

Hussars and Mangudais 8)

yes mangudai

Yes! ... But why were the Koreans soo strong in that game?

Isaac Kim Their unique unit.

+Isaac Kim k, What is the Korean unique units?

LOL Then fail said test. >_

TheBasjenator Happy Birthday!

TheBasjenator Closer to 17, actually.

TheBasjenator Netherlands were mostly in Europe though... Although one thing that Netherlands and Mongols (as well as arctic/siberan natives) have in common is very high Cranial capacity. However, Netherlands needed high cranial capacity to control large stock muscle groups.

XZDrake Its population is declining. So... not for long.

Enna Silkov Netherlands is still pleasantly growing in population though :-)

+Destiny Renee I am procrastinating history by learning other histories xD

mushroom man HeHeHeee

Hamza yasser m7tot 3lena dayman kda :D

Simone King Eh really ?

Simone King Good to know.

Except for the mongols , we were the ones that stopped them ! انت هتسيحلنا قدام الاجانب ليه يا عم َ؟؟ :D :D

he published a book that was made into a movie u know

lazyboy395 While I loved the book and am super excited it's being made into a movie I'm getting a little frustrated that it's now the only thing people associate him with. He is more then a YA author who was thrust into fame. He has a great all around purpose of wanting people to be informed and intelligent and generally make people's lives more awesome. I just hope people don't forget one of John and Hanks main goals is to create their vlogs, explantions, crash course videos etc.- and not just their pop culture claim to fame as the author of tfios.

And he and his brother created VidCon!! :D

Tuurngait15 byzantine horse archers byzatine horse archer everywere

Tuurngait15 lol good luck they are hard because they are Wait For It...The Mongols!

Good job Mark. It's such a long game.

Mark So, basically you beat the mongols by fighting like the mongols. And are you excited for Attila Total War or what!?!

GoErikTheRed Get hyped!!!

Except by Nerdfighteria, we love them, for they are THE exceptions

Bidyut Roy not funny did not chortle

Mongols

Wolfgang Von Zubaz exaggerated perhaps but still present which is better than condemning the other religions

True enough. But many people want to portray their Laissez-faire attitude to religion in some kind of liberal democracy narrative. They had this policy because it was the most practical way to run a ginormous empire. If cracking down on religion served their purposes they would've done that

Source?

Wolfgang Von Zubaz they were muslims

George Little europeans raped all young native girls when they meet them, columbus raped many young girls. native americans dont consider him hero anymore.

“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” ― Genghis Khan

medeelliin suvag That's awesome. I should have had that as my yearbook quote.

medeelliin suvag "IF GOD WOULD HAVE WANTED YOU TO LIVE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE CREATED ME!" - Soldier, TF2

so if there is too much carbon just go conquer some people

medeelliin suvag I know this comment is old but...I wonder if that quote is a direct response/jest to the fact than the Islamic World thought the Khans were punishment from Allah