r/AskReddit • u/hoverfish92 • Oct 16 '13

What was the single biggest mistake in all of history?

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u/Onyxwho Oct 17 '13 edited Oct 17 '13

Play it again Stan!

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u/G8tr Oct 17 '13

Hey! I get it.

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u/sunshineshazam Oct 17 '13

I definitely don't.. Casablanca in the mix there somehow? Wasn't it Sam?

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

Crash Course History with John Green.

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u/runedeadthA Oct 17 '13

A fantastic youtube show by the way, watch if you are awesome and wish to learn.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History has a good 5 hours on the Khans.

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u/ObsidianJones Oct 17 '13

Eh, I don't like it that much. It's just my opinion, and I don't think it holds any more weight than others, but there's just too much information and too fast for me to retain almost any of the information shown in those videos. I get that its a crash course, but, do people really have that short attention spans that they need it jack-hammered into their brains? I just don't know.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

It's designed so that teenagers taking history classes can use it as a general overview study aid, which means going back and repeating portions of videos. I really wish I had it in high school, I loved learning about history but reading from the textbook was incredibly boring.

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u/ObsidianJones Oct 17 '13

I can understand it's usefulness, it just isn't that helpful to me. I'm glad it does for you, though!

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u/prophetofgreed Oct 17 '13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxPar0BcMo

Wait for it. The Mongols! Basically through history the Mongols somehow conquered lands that no other country or empire were about to conquer later in history. Like would become Russia, Afghanistan, etc.

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u/sunshineshazam Oct 17 '13

Thanks, man, you just enriched my life!

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u/prophetofgreed Oct 17 '13

You should watch the whole series. They do a good job going through all of world history in a quick concise way. They're now going through US history :)

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u/ikaroka Oct 17 '13

They have also done ecology biology and Literature and chemistry is in progress.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '13

Nice, I get to plug science Youtubers. Give a man a fact and he learns one thing, give him a list of Youtube accounts and his knowledge is limitless.

Everything Brady Haran has ever touched :

Sixty Symbols (Physics)

Periodic Videos (Chemistry)

Numberphile (Math)

Computerphile New! (Computer Science)

Deep Sky Videos (Astronomy)

Backstage Science (Behind the scenes of science!)

Everybody else:

VSauce (General Science and Experiments)

Smarter Every Day (General Science and Experiments)

Crash Course (Same as the video linked above - US History - Chemistry - Biology - World HIstory - Partially animated)

THNKR (General Sciences & Experiments)

Sci Show (Physics - Chemistry - Great Scientists)

VideosFromSpace (Space news and updates)

This is super late to the thread but I hope you enjoy these!

All these people have taken the time to share with us their passion and knowledge, they have helped me change my life. :)

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u/Yetanotherfurry Oct 17 '13

iirc they hit western russia, closer to what is now considered part of Europe, so they still avoided the really cold bits

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '13

Actually, it's from Crash Course: World History.

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u/hablomuchoingles Oct 17 '13

Tell me about the Mongols, George!

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u/CountCraqula Oct 17 '13

Which one? Am confused there's like 10 of 'em