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Jack Rackam
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Did you get a kick out of learning that Zeus got around and Columbus wasn't all he's cracked up to be? Enjoy quick-paced narration and visual gags? Then welcome to my channel, filled with the Wikipedia-cited "great man" history your teachers warned you about. I think we're going to have a good time here.
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How (Not) to Be the Messiah
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Welcome class, please sit down. You’re here because you want to be the Messiah, the saviour, the chosen one. Listen up buckaroo, the Messiah industry is cut-throat. Ever since this Jesus guy came out of Nazareth, there have been a staggering number of would-be Messiahs. But the vast, vast majority, even of the ones who are still remembered, are unsuccessful, and frankly uninspired. But I know you can do better.
Welcome class, please sit down. You’re here because you want to be the Messiah, the saviour, the chosen one. Listen up buckaroo, the Messiah industry is cut-throat. Ever since this Jesus guy came out of Nazareth, there have been a staggering number of would-be Messiahs. But the vast, vast majority, even of the ones who are still remembered, are unsuccessful, and frankly uninspired. But I know you can do better.
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When a Stan Becomes King | The Life & Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria
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What languages would you like to learn? Get 60% off Babbel at go.babbel.com/t?bsc=usa-influ-eg-dt-1m&btp=default&UA-cam&Influencer..Jun-2024..USA-TATAM..1200m60-yt-jackrackam-jun-2024 One of the questions I get asked a lot is, “If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be?” And you know my response has usually been “Oh, I want to see what Nero was really like, I want to ...
Math's First Cult Leader | The Life & Times of Pythagoras
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Math's First Cult Leader | The Life & Times of Pythagoras
How Stalin Rebranded the USSR
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Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video & for the free product! Head to keeps.com/jackrackam to get a special offer. Individual results may vary. Hey boys and girls, who wants to talk about communism? As much as it’s a meme to say “no one’s ever tried real communism”, the USSR under Stalin... was the world's largest company town? Music (in order of appearance): J.S. Bach - Ricercar a 3 BWV 10...
Alexander the Great Breaks All the Rules | The Life & Times of Alexander the Great
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Hey, so uh, can we talk about Alexander the Great for a sec? You probably know who he is and what he did, he done conquered a whole bunch of land, he did like one thing in his life and he was the best at it, we don’t need to cover everything today, we’re keeping it real brief, because I just, I only need you to understand, that this man. This man is insane. Last time the Greeks went to war with...
The Brother You Wish You Had - The Life & Times of Yoshitsune
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💻 Stay protected! Try our sponsor Aura FREE for 2 weeks at aura.com/jackrackam Japan, 1160 AD. Tokiwa Gozen holds two young boys in her arms. She’s the wife to the head of the Minamoto Family. This used to be a pretty good gig, were it not for the fact that the Taira family existed. The Taira were the Capulets to the Minamoto’s Montagues, two houses alike in dignity who hated each other’s guts,...
Ruins to Riches: The Secret to Europe's Post-War Glow-Up
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Thank you to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to keeps.com/jackrackam to get a special offer 1946. Europe has 99 problems, but a dictator ain’t one! A genocida - A fasci a *German* dictator ain’t one! Booyah! Unfortunately, it still had 99 other problems. Famine, energy shortage, housing shortage, unemployment, monetary instability, trade imbalances, foreign exchange shortages, social disc...
Magellan Never Made it Around the World!
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Thank you to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to keeps.com/jackrackam to get a special offer. Missed Part 1? Find it here! ua-cam.com/video/dTk6Mz-bJ9I/v-deo.html 1494. Spain and Portugal are both really into this new business of sailing the seas and owning everything you touch, but they have a problem. What if the other country sails the seas and touches the stuff that they own? That woul...
What you Missed in the Age of Discovery - Ferdinand Magellan
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Sign up for a 14-day free trial and enjoy all the amazing features MyHeritage has to offer. If you decide to continue your subscription, you’ll get a 50% discount. bit.ly/JackRackam3 I was born too early to... *checks notes* die of malnutrition. 1494. Spain and Portugal are both really into this new business of sailing the seas and owning everything you touch, but they have a problem. What if t...
When History Repeats: A Tale of Two Mothers
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Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to keeps.com/jackrackam to get a special offer You ever read a book, watch a movie, learn some history, and think to yourself “That was pretty good, but what if it turned out this way instead?”. Me too! I like speculative history as much as the next person, but the world is such a complicated place. The more accurate you try to be, the more vague ...
The British Empire Didn't Go Quietly
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Get 50% off your first month of Armchair History TV using the code JACKRACKAM at checkout! armchairhistory.tv/ The dissolution of the British Empire is actually a story of subterfuge and tremendous violence. It’s a lot of different stories happening all over the world all at once with centuries of context, so for my own convenience I’m going to commit a cardinal sin and oversimplify all of this...
What Ended Islam's Golden Age?
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Warfare, politics, taxes, tribes, tribute, religion, family dynamics, bribery, incest, assassinations, oh my! Play your own role in history at play.crusaderkings.com/JackRackam The man who escaped, Abd Al-Rahman: ua-cam.com/video/ZwJf59wXZSs/v-deo.html You may have heard it said that in the Middle Ages, when Europe was thrown into centuries of darkness, far to the east there was a shining examp...
Long Connecticut: A True Story
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Hiya friends. I know we’ve been doing this whole “What happened in between WW2 and the Cold War” thing, and I’m very excited to tell you more about the rocky history of America’s plan to save Europe from economic collapse and the implosion of the British Empire, maybe even how close France was to going communist, but you see, there’s something that’s been living in my brain rent-free for a year...
The Cold War Wasn't Supposed to Happen
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📲 Install Raid for Free Mobile and PC: pl.go-ga.me/siujysze and get a special starter pack with an Epic champion Tallia 🔥 So my generation probably remembers the Cold War as the chapter at the back of the history textbook that we never had enough time to learn about in any detail. But we know the long and short of it: America and the USSR pretended to like each other just long enough to give Ge...
After Occupation: Why Didn't Germany Hold a Grudge?
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After Occupation: Why Didn't Germany Hold a Grudge?
The US backed an autocrat in 1953. Shah-nanigans ensued
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The US backed an autocrat in 1953. Shah-nanigans ensued
The Day the US Gave Up on Democracy
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The Day the US Gave Up on Democracy
This King was Dethroned for Being Too Tolerant
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This King was Dethroned for Being Too Tolerant
Medieval Knights were Surprisingly Thirsty
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Medieval Knights were Surprisingly Thirsty
The Life & Times of Oliver Cromwell... Without Cromwell
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The Life & Times of Oliver Cromwell... Without Cromwell
Why the King Can't Say No to Parliament | The Life & Times of Charles I
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Why the King Can't Say No to Parliament | The Life & Times of Charles I
The Most Overrated Person in History? A History Youtuber Q&A
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The Most Overrated Person in History? A History UA-camr Q&A
History Abridged: John Wilkes Booth (ft. Atun-Shei Films)
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History Abridged: John Wilkes Booth (ft. Atun-Shei Films)
How the Dance Floor Changed Feudalism Forever | The Life & Times of Louis XIV
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How the Dance Floor Changed Feudalism Forever | The Life & Times of Louis XIV
The OTHER United States of America | The Life & Times of Tecumseh
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The OTHER United States of America | The Life & Times of Tecumseh
Britain's Unkillable Soldier | The Life & Times of Adrian Carton de Wiart
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Britain's Unkillable Soldier | The Life & Times of Adrian Carton de Wiart
Warrior Queen of Brittania | The Life & Times of Boudicca
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Warrior Queen of Brittania | The Life & Times of Boudicca
PEDRO the First WAS never married to the woman in the video. Empress Teresa Cristina was INDEED married to HIS son DON Pedro THE SECOND. Pedro The First’s Son he left behind still a 5 yo boy in 1931 when he left for Portugal to fight a revolution there against his brother who wanted to be king and by doing so he made it possible for this Daughter Maria the Second to be crowned queen of Portugal.
This isn't aging well
6:30 you would be surprised how little of the German legal system was uprooted. We still have a large amount of laws dating back to the third reich, including a quite difficult definition of murder.
What’s the best choice of music for a video about an insane monarch who was obsessed with Wagner and focuses mainly on to his obsession with Wagner? Tchaikovsky!
You know, I think we can learn a lot from this "experiment". Mainly that most people are work well together and can work maturely through aggression. It's only when there's someone with an agenda that goes beyond overall group benefits that it breaks down.
Something crucial that was not mentioned here at all is the "Marshall Plan".
TOTAL TOTAL BULLSHIT! Ludwig was a devout Catholic, his supposed Homosexuality was claimed from his Dream Diaries, they dissappeared soon after his death, did they ever exist. His staff denied any rumours of homosexuality with the actor Kranz as well, or anybody else. A local guy was claiming to be the Grandson of Ludwig. The Bavarian Government colluded with his Uncle Leopold to get rid of him, so FAKE NEWS was the order of the day, do some research! Read some modern books about Ludwig, much better than spreading old rumours.
Just wait 1000 years
How did hard work cure his depression but hard work doesn’t cure mine?
The amazonians?
Parliament holds all the tyrants so the monarch doesn't have to be one and avoids the chop.
Now you need a video on Babak Khurramdin. 8th c rebel against the Abbasid Caliphate.
😂😂😂 We are all related to someone famous
love the thumbnail question, what stopped the nazis from comming back? literally nothing, they are back, für Deutschland exisists
Sir a monopoly is excatly what communism is A State monopoly
This is anti germany propaganda.
Nato
well, this aged poorly.
Hey Jack, I'm just suggesting, that you should do a video about Prophet Muhammad SAW because Michael Hart says he's the most influential person in history, but don't show the prophet's face
Napoleon was the child of the French revolution
still mad about the income tax, but other than that, great guy
as someone who hadn't learned much about france's history / revolutionary history. i only know robespierre as the crazy guy who guillotined many people in paris. after this video i got to ask. how everybody are talking about napoleon's role in the revolution and not robespierre?!?!
0:13 WTF?! I was thinking "okay, he became a warlord cause they were being attacked"
4:38 killed me 💀
the only man that could come close to his level was Major General Cassius Marcellus Clay!
"...Oh my God he just ran in... SAVE HIM!" -The very last Varangian Guard (probably)maybe)
As the great Indian historian Shashi Tharoor once said the Sun never said on the British Empire, because even God didn’t trust the British in the dark
It's not gonna work that way
So what I got from this. The number one factor in changing the minds and hearts of the German people. Investments and improvements allowing an economy where everyone was eatting and working but wasn’t based on militarism. I mean sure a simplification. But that kinda seemed to be what did it. Makes you think a little about current world problems? Is this what could solve so many problems… simply investing in improving peoples situation?When probably the worst modern society we can think of… lost the war and was still dabbling and considering remaining nazis while starving were shown… if you try this way we’ll invest money and your life will improve…. They got investments their lives improved and they decided on their own to fully turn away from negative deep held destructive beliefs. I mean when fascists took over it was because they were broke and struggling with unemployment repaying reparations…. Hitler gave an angry broken people someone to blame and in his militarization he gave them jobs which gave them income… of course also simplified.. it’s almost like people will believe and follow anything as long as in the process their own life is better when they do it. Interesting…. That it might be revolutionary to think that investing in people and places and improving peoples lives can actually make the world a better place and fix a lot of social woes.
2:40 to 2:58 I understand that you oversimplified here but you took it too far and made it very INACCURATE because that is not how that happened
some random soldier: What are your orders Corporal Wojtek: *Bear Noises*
Jack my boy your too kind
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7:13 Why Turkey is in the list?
denial of the armenian genocide
As a Native Floridian….we still have Carpetbaggers.
Its like a talking history book
Alright, pirate lovers, time to sail the seas again
I mean, I have six. All human. None are mine though.
ain't nothing but a goat thing good thing ok stop stop 🌆
Islam: Practicing imperialism and settler colonialism for 1,500 years and counting!
boils down to "Fuck Stalin!", and the massive flex that was the Berlin airlift.
2:17 Okay i just realized i'm in danger now 😨
ALEXANDER THE GREAT is King of Clubs ♣REST IN POWER Blessings and HUGS!
No matter the size of the problem, Belisarius' sheer Roman chaddiness cannot be beaten.
I realize this is sort of a “for entertainment value only” history channel, but quite a bit of this is outdated nonsense.
My Heritage sponsors a Nazi video. 😂
Because the post WWII German government is oppressive and jails dissident voices to this day. Hence preventing any opposition. They pretend to be free and democratic but have all kinds of anti free speech laws. Even jailing a 95 year old woman for denying the holocaust.
Basically when people are poor. They radicalize. So what does that mean about the usa and europe now? I hope people realise this themselves. Because the goverment they vote for just does what it is voted to do and wont warn you that the fourth reich is about to form.
Funny asf something i wanna watch without disrespecting any religion
I despise his crime of famines etc, but i still impressed how he left ussr as an one of the biggest industrialized state