World Building- Trade, Ports, & Harbors 

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Historians agree mermaid tail was the driving force for human advancement until we found that they didn't exist now we're hunting that alien tail.

Just a quick point - "strict authority" on a ship was/is often a... complex topic. The Captain had the right to keep ORDER - which is different from authority. That order was dependent on the rest of the crew, which meant the whole crew had to WANT order. This means the Captain had to make concessions to the crew and be diplomatic. This was especially true of Pirates and Merchant ships - on them, the Captain could sometimes even be voted out of his position. Ships run by the state gave a lot more authority to the Captain, as the Captain represented the state and therefore any rebellion against the Captain could be tried in court when back in home port.

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the humor, editing and research that went into this video?

THE SPICE MUST FLOW

these videos are unintentionally good for aliens learning about human society to better blend in.

You freaked me out by using a map of my home county (Møre og Romsdal) to represent fjords. My county is ignored even in Norway, so international recognition is weird as hell.

I needed this so bad. Half of my world is seafaring nations. also ＳＰＩＣＥ

Yeah, I'm glad someone else sees that Pearl Harbor is cool. Pearl Harbor is a beautifully strategic defensive harbor... Just... Until naval bombers are invented. Especially ones that are ready and willing to fly right into your face and sink you in the only entrance, trapping all of your relatively undefended ships in a very small space. :(

I laughed way too hard at that ending.

Ports open you to the risk of someone showing up and saying: "Open Your Country, Stop having it be closed"

4:05 G E K O L O N I S E E R D

I love how every one of his videos is weirder than the last one

**The British Empire would like to know your location**

The spice must flow.

The editing of this video is so crackheaded and I love it

Considering how dangerous the waters already are, I wonder what affect sea monsters would have. Or if they suffer fates similar to whales.

Eyy, thank you man, I am currently DMing an island game of DnD and this was helpful.

What, no love for Boston Harbor? We were the OG American maritime power before New York got all uppity

Oh about Malcca, before the Dutch, don't forget the Portuguese in 1511! Edit: I just stumbled upon this channel and I immediately subbed. Great content.

0:36 A TradE AgREeMEnT wItH ENGlaNd

Heavily underrated channel.

2:27 you've probably misremembered the rotten egg bit from ATLA as well as the sludge bombs that happen later in the episode and created a false memory based off of them.

You've really outdone yourself, man!

Jamaca’s natural harbor that the pirates used made one of the richest places to ever be around

One interresting thing are the "zee kamelen" the dutch used to get large ships over the sandbanks in front of the port of Amsterdam during the dutch golden age. The where large flots that would lift the heavy ships up a bit. The dutch saying "voor pampus liggen" came from having to wait for the flots. Pampus is an island that protected the harbour.

I enjoy how I know which RU-vid channels you watch because of the random things you include in these videos.

definitely would love a diplomacy video. the amount of time ive spend theorizing about that game is immense

The peanut butter bombs never actually saw combat if I remember correctly. One went off before the invasion. (The Avatar reference if anyone missed it).

That angelic noise at the end tho

When he put D&D in the title I thought he was gonna talk about Waterdeep. It's basically the New York & Pearl Harbor of Faerun.

A great breakdown of the many details. Gave me some ideas for my fantasy roleplaying campaign; many thanks!

I can’t tell you how helpful and insightful these videos are for world building. Thank you so much

The music at the very start reminds me of a section in the middle of "Impact" by Sean O'loughlin.

The reference you made to ATLA was actually about stink mines after Sokka and Katara meet their dad.

Thanks... I'mma be having kraken nightmares for MONTHS!

also, wow. this is an amazing video. insanely well edited, well paced and funny, extremely researched and informative.... just BEAUTIFUL

More on life at sea; it wasnt as dull and hellish as you and many others make it out to be, mainly around the age of sail. Being a sailor for hire could be a great way to travel the world and earn your keep, like a shepherd of the sea. A sailor could be hired by the navy, in which case you are stationed on a ship until they say otherwise, or you could be hired on the docks by a company during a pit-stop for repairs/ supplies. To the best of my knowledge, simple companies didnt care who you were as long as you could work and negotiated a reasonable salary, but the navy of course would, as to prevent spies from infiltrating at will. The crew wouldnt often be too familiar with each other, and would meet along the journey, and part by the end. You could meet interesting people and see interesting places, and life aboard wasnt pure toil and strife. Around the age of sail, crew slept in hammocks to not roll among the floor, and could chat through the night, and in the day, when not working, many sang songs, played games, or listened to the onboard musicians. Large ships planning on long-term voyages may have had surgeons to perform checkups on the crew, and cooks would spend the day working as best as could to serve enjoyable dinners to the captain and other higher ups. Another thing to note is that, traditionally, the crew would hardly speak to the captain. That was the job of the deckhands, who kept tabs on the crew and would relay any concerns they noted to the quartermaster, who dealt with it and made sure the captain was aware of the general situation while the captain himself simply did what had to be done to keep the ship on course and steady. Whippings or hangings on deck were mostly reserved for situations that lead to mutiny, and would be dealt with by the bosun, who handled all arms aboard the ship, and on brigs or large ships would also be responsible for prisoners, commonly detained in jailhouses below deck. Hope this clears many things up for people and lets you all know it wasnt just scurvy and rats.

When it misspelled “harbours” I felt that.

Sognefjorden in Norway is the longest and deepest fjord. At its mouth it is pretty shallow compared to the rest. No big cities or port is there here. Probably it is because of the not so deep waters at the mouth. Sogn means in old norse: suga, suge. In english suck. The stream here is strong. I pondered on this yesterday after rewatching this video. Just a fun fact. And bump. Almost forgot this wonderful channel.

There is footage of the peanut butter mine, you hear an explosion in Hakota’s ship, and the mechanist comes out coughing saying he was testing “the incendiary capabilities of Peanuts” Pipsqueak and The Duke lick their faces saying what a delicious explosive it is

I would really like to see more stategic geography cases. For instance, China or Russia (well, the European part of the country) and some pre-european American civilizations like Maya.

Your channel is godsent. Thank you for all your work.

The small clip of Pirates of the Caribbean online gave me goosebumps... god i played the hell out of that game.

*Alexander of Macedon* - Nono Drake *King Alexander the Great, Pharaoh of Egypt and King of Greece and Persia* - Happy Drake

2:29 It's in EP 50. The inventor guy from the air temple mentions experimenting with it when they invade the fire nation capital

this video deserves a double like weekend bonus. 👍👍

Arguably tidal difference is less important than position for ports. I think the best example of this is the river Severn (and the river Avon that feeds into it) in England. The Severn has the second highest difference between high and low tide globally if my memory serves, but Bristol and to a much lesser extend Gloucester were major port cities due to their advantageous position and avonmouth is still in use as an cargo port to this day. Also awesome video, just wanted to raise a point.

Always quality from you my man 👌

I like your use of Claude Debussy’s Images I it’s very nice and one if my favorite classical pieces

Damn, the production quality is surprisingly good.

Amazing! Your videos are amazing!

4:04 History with Hilbert, is that you?

Nice touch with aniki scream in the background 5:53

Awesome job, as always! :) Also, that ending. I sensed something coming but I did not expect that. 10/10

Never thought a video about port cities could be so fun to watch

this reminds me of something from my world. THE GREAT NORTH ISLANDS! I'll tell you about it is you ask.

this is your best video in my opinion

the peanut butter mine thing was in the crossroads of destiny or the episode before that, i literally watched it today

Never really officially watched the series, but I feel like the anime Spice and Wolf does a good job at incorporating economics into a fantasy setting (I actually think that’s what the whole story is about, other then a shapeshifing wolf girl lol)

Randomly stumbled on to your channel and I gotta say: "Subscribed!"

great content

This is probably the 5th video of yours ive binged now, they are absolutely fantastic! Not super related to the content, but whats the song at 2:40?

Using a Sam O Nella thumbnail in this just made me smile.

I'm not a slave. I'm a person, and my name is Anakin.

The yea daddy chain killed me

I just binged all your videos, and I can see how they keep improving. Good job! Can't wait for the next one!

The "you wouldn't steal a handbag" part almost made me actually laugh

Great video, a lot of those things were really helpful, and now I know why some of my harbour citys look of. In my defense, I have never seen an ocean. But I don't want to be rude or stuff (as I'm not a native english speaker), but writing harbour without an 'u' just looks wierd.

Fine points about pearl harbor. It's as if that's why there was a naval base there.

The amount of references I understood in this is too high. Was that a MOTHER FUCKING THE CLOAK REFERENCE NO WAY

One of the best videos I've ever watched thanks

the perfect port (in the past ) was the Tagus estuary. Lisbon is protected by hills and its soil is very fertile. the estuary is deep (up to 80m), with a constant flow and protects from the waves (except if it is a tsunami-earthquake of 1755) then it still has a particular characteristic, it has mobile sandbanks. that's why ships that weren't Portuguese or escorted by a Portuguese port ship would get stuck in the sand banks, that's why lisbon was never invaded by sea. it was also defended by 7 forts along the estuary. the fact of being on the tip of europe also made land invasions very difficult, because to reach lisbon you have to cross all of spain and its mountains, the river Tagus, the potuguese mountains and the rest of the country. that is why, to free portugal from napoleonic occupation, the english arrived in the city of oporto, which is not so well protected, and then marched to lisbon along the flat terrain of the portuguese coast, because it would be impossible to take lisbon by sea.

I would love it if you made a video on worldbuilding frozen deserts/ tundras

1:30 dude what is this song In fact tell us all these songs pls

No singing on my boat, it draws in the bards and they like getting it on

I keep having to rewind because of all the sneaky puns that make me laugh.

Thank you man for this video! Really loved it! Don't stop! Btw how is Vesztrév for a port name? (English-Hungarian words mixed and twisted)

Thumbs up for standing against the tyrant that is the superfluous "U".

Really loving your videos man, keep them up!

My story's strongest power is a trade/naval power that essentially exists an extra 3rd of the way to the americas from europe, and has dominated seafaring so well that no one can raise a navy against them, and because they are an island nation (with continental and island colonies throughout the world) no one can build the military power needed to take them. They've even started experimenting with something akin to an ironclad. Any of the best ships other nations own are made by this nation (Peligonia), and as such have to be tended to by Peligonian tradesmen (since they wont give out their secrets with their ships, They have very tricky ways to put things together so fiddling with them can destroy the ship). They also have privateers (though they won't say they do) who hunt down ships that threaten their superiority. Most nations just don't bother to since Peligonia just likes being the worlds "amazon" essentially. They only care about trade and the sea. They really don't care much for anywhere inland, so they still have to buy from other powers. Oh and they're a mix of Roman, Viking, Polish, and Scottish in culture.

4:04 *wilhelmus intensifies*

This guy... While everyone else tries not to irritate people, he specifically tries to.

pearl harbour isn't just an admirals wet dream but also a pilots

12:40 that's the sound of hurricane Ike when it hit San Luis hotel in Galveston TX back in 2008

Love the music and the info

This video is funny af n helpful 4 wrld building

Please do a video on city stated and how to create one. what they need to thrive and optimal geographic locations

If you love bays, youre gonna love Boka Kotorska, a bay in montenegro thats amazing af

HARBOURS

This channel is goodn

Amazing video, subscribed!

DAD MENTIONED MY DUELS IN A VIDEO AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Great and funny stuff

how did i get here its awesome. i was watching a mgsv video essay and political commentary by razor fist . i do run dnd but i haven't watched any stuff on it in ages.

Man, Pearl Habour really sounds impregnable with that one access point, enclosed roomy harbour, with an island in the middle, while being surrounded by hills, on an island in the middle of the Pacific. There's no way enemy ships could ever succeed defeating it. Well, unless the enemy just happens to have planes but c'mon what are the odds of that ever happening?

Love your videos so much i subscribed 💖

There is nothing like watching one of these videoes that'll quiet make me sigh in exasperation and regret my decision to ever write a novel that has anything to do with cities and towns.

Malaca was famously captured by the Portuguese with just 3 ships.

4:13 I’m pretty sure the Portuguese were the first to colonize malacca