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short time ago i made a poll on my channel to ask you a lot what the most important historical events are and a lot of you said the internet which really surprised me so let's actually look at the most important you know historical events in history of the human beings the most important first historical event is the agricultural revolution that is the humans domestication of plants and animals aka you know first cultivations of grains first cultivations of
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dogs and horses which are you know very important um first steps to actually gain food sustainably a lot of these happen in the middle east you know the region of levant and also at the same time china and around mexico the second very very important historical invention is first cities for example mesopotamia aka nowadays iraq they were the first big human settlements where they realized that the you know meeting together might have some benefits because you have a lot of agriculture
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and around the area so you could then go trading after that the first vehicles the wheel is crazy important to be able to bring something from a to b without have to carrying it heavily and through some freaking sick burnouts the next kind of big step is the ancient uh pyramids which were built where i mean the old pharaohs were buried but still landmark till today and that was 2500 bc you know next big step is the development of the modern alphabet first writing well
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if you can write stuff you can give it on to the next generation pretty useful the earliest legal codes were made in 1700 bc in iraq by king hamurabi to give our society a bit of structure kind of important if a lot of people in one place should have some ground rules then the next crazy big step is metallurgy so use having better tools aka farming tools aka making better tools to survive get more food then the ancient greek civilization rose kind of big boy time a lot of the big
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the first greek city states were founded ak athens and sparta and philosophy aka plato aristotle sokratis which was followed by the ancient roman civilization which founded rome the roman republic conquered all of this it was kind of trunk but then they ran into the parsian empire and the germanic boys weren't too happy and kind of got slapped fell apart split in two and yeah you probably know this story after that the life of buddha birth of buddhism we can make a religion out of this and
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confucianism can make a religion out of this then we had the alexander the great who kind of got angry at all the people living east and just you know talk all of it and then he died super young but he went quite far till india calendar was invented in italy then we have the next big you know religious event aka jesus christ they gave him crucified and then respawning after three days the next big religious event is again the life of muhammad and the verse of islam then we had some big
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historical wars which should be the franks basically uniting quite a bit under the carolina empire under king charlemagne then it's splitting apart into three states the first invention of gunpowder in china around 800 till 8 1300 so chinese alchemists actually tried to uh produce the elixir of life and accidentally make gunpowder you know instead of creating life you can of course the opposite but which would really lead to the first you know fire arrows and then later on
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the first guns which would modernize war after that we have the norse exploration next quite important step is first university being established in bologna well they did many crusades some of which almost didn't fail the khmer empire built angkor wat which is still a big sight till today the next one might be around 1200 the first juggernaut uh in japan jing is khan from poland to korea and then the whole thing split apart as it always happens the aztec civilization
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rose quite a bit became super powerful in central america around the city of tenochtitlan aka modern mexico city after that we had after we had the renaissance in italy a lot of painting word of culture inca empire
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columbus in 1492 he in quotation marks discovered america looking for india at the same time the ottoman took constantinople and made kind of a huge empire which peaked at 1600 something portugal also with vasco lagama found a sea route around africa and started quite a massive trading empire the spanish coming back from central america brought along a lot of food which is tomatoes potatoes corn squash and cacao with especially potatoes and tomatoes becoming one of the biggest
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food sources in all of europe the slave trade started to ensue between the new world and africa next kind of big thing is that martin luther said 95 ceases he was very angry ceases this and started the split of the church ferdinand magellan kind of tries to circumnavigate the globe and gets slaughtered in the philippines so it does not complete this voyage we got quite far then we had the boy copernicus uh realizing that there should be maybe a hello centrical model that the earth
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arrows on the sun and not the other way around as was so before queen lizzy then repels the spanish invasion shakespeare writes hamlet and the english kind of slapped spanish a few times in the colonial wars in another wonder which we have mughal emperor shah jahan builds the taj mahal for his favorite wife we can make origin no that's not it's not the english go through the first steam engine discovery industrialization the first industrialization hits making england one of the most important
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countries ever the hre po lithuania kind of slapped the ottomans at the battle of vienna in the name of god [Music] um stopping the ottoman expansion into europe then we have the boy isaac newton having an apple slapped on his head and inventing you know just a few laws of ocean and gravitation before people just floating all the time boston tea party kind of becomes a thing 1773 so that's the first creation of the us then the french country was so bankrupted by helping the
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americans that they revolted themselves had the french revolution which was kind of an important part but at least it had some good things like the declaration of man france having like six wars all of europe first revolutionary france then was napoleon turns into the dictatorship but then in the end the poland loses in russia we all know the story but it has some quite lasting changes for all of europe that we had the medical revolution going on in well especially england us and france
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they started using anesthetics and surgery in 1846 and a lot of different germ theories start spreading out making everything a bit more understandable especially you know relating to viruses then in 1800 we have the first railway rail transport route 1802 till 1830 the first train travels making quite an important thing because again you can travel things from a to b for mines faster to cities making stuff a lot more mobile like warfare as well the abolition of this late slave trade
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happened between 1807 till 1888 between 1817 and 1835 a lot of the spanish colonies fight for independence and science control on south america the first telegram is invented pavel schilling started the electromagnetic telegraph but then karl friedrich austin wilhelm weber built the first electromagnetic telegraph we have the boycott marx writing the first command is manifesto which you know might later on you know attract some people to doing certain things charles darwin
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publishes the origin of species which basically is the theory of natural selection and biological evolution the american civil war happens basically a short war not very short between pro-slave and anti-slave states the pro-slave the anti-slave states win so slavery gone the shogun rule in japan ends in the meiji restoration suez canal is also built in 1869 making trade routes way faster between europe and asia the first telephone is invented by alexander graham bell in 1876 this split of africa
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happens where all of africa split up into this map in a big conference with all the europeans the way main winners are the french british and germans also gained quite a lot of lands um the portuguese and the italians gained some to spain doesn't really participate and nobody really no one of the three big powers france germany and england wanted to give each other the congo so everybody just said in the end yeah sure belgium take it the issue is then the belgian congo
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actually just goes to the belgian king not to belgium which creates a lot of issues the suffrage movement for women starts in the u.s between 1839 and 1928 self-governing colony of new zealand grants voted uh suffrage to women so women could wrote the first ever new zealand good or new new zealand colorado becomes the first u.s state to grant full voting after australia did it finland and in the end in 1920 the usa also allowed women to vote radio was invented between 1799 and 1901
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x-rays kind of important for you know medical procedures were invaded as well in 1895 the first aircraft by the wright brothers took off after that the russians were beaten in the russian japanese war japan is recognized as a world power in 1904 very big surprise nobody expected the european grand power could lose to an asian nation albert einstein was born 1905 and you know kind of made a lot of series about fault electronics brownie emotion relativity and the
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equivalence of energy and matter aqa e equals c squared after that we had a little war in all of the world world war one uh between two factions germany uh austria-hungary and the ottoman empire versus basically england france russia and us with the latcher winning the war leading to the russian revolution though because russia lost having our first communist government spanish flu killing over 20 million people more in the first world war the great depression hit all of the markets from
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1929 where it started in the us where the stock market crashed and the kind of leads so huge collapse in all of europe which also might lead to the rise of mr hotler in germany it's a team of germany japan italy versus the us france uk russia with the latter winning again so don't be on germany's side if you fight the world war and italy switching sides united nations was fought after it the digital revolution was the first computers happening india obtains independence from the uk
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cold war happens kind of important thing almost goes hot a few times especially in the cuba crisis and the berlin crisis the u.s civil rights movements happen giving equal rights to all citizens this is led by martin luther king malcolm x the vietnam war kind of important as well the u.s got slapped by some vietnamese farmers soviet unions launches the space race with the us sent the first man satellite us as the first man on the moon u.s president kennedy's assassinated the internet is born
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lawrence g roberts and thomas muriel create first wide area computer network after it kind of goes berserk you can see the difference today but the internet technically started the first time in 1965 which is quite crazy would have saw the engine is that old the cold war ends between 1989 and 1991 with the dissolved dissolvation dissolution of the soviet union and the unification of germany the berlin wall falling the end of apartheid and says africa also becomes a thing
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there we have the sad thing of 9 11 happening 2001 which kind of changed travel till today so these are kind of important big topics which happened i think you should be informed about these things thank you for watching and informing yourselves we should have a nice day nice weekend and special my patreons crimson dan deutschmann hanson fleming verifier lonely rook brewman wolfie demon wanted free for 100 alex savage austrian hd donna gopnik robotnik happy cow james meredith jonas becker
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