Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism: Crash Course World History #34
In which John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world carved new nation-states out of old empires. Nationalist leaders...
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Hi, I'm John Green. This is Crash Course World History, and today we're going to talk aboutnationalism, the most important global phenomenon of the nineteenth century and also the phenomenonresponsible for one of the most commented-upon aspects of Crash Course, my globes being out of date.USS "R" not a country! [Explosion noise.] Rhodesia? [Explosion noise.]South Vietnam? [Explosion noise.] Sudan with no South Sudan? [Explosion noise.]Yugoslavia? [Explosion noise.]Okay, no more inaccuracies with the globes. Ahhh, the little globes!This one doesn't know about Slovakia [explosion noise],this one has East-frackin' Pakistan [explosion noise]and this one identifies Lithuania as part of Asia [explosion noise].Okay, no more ...
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Hi, I'm John Green. This is Crash Course World History, and today we're going to talk aboutnationalism, the most important global phenomenon of the nineteenth century and also the phenomenonresponsible for one of the most commented-upon aspects of Crash Course, my globes being out of date.USS "R" not a country! [Explosion noise.] Rhodesia? [Explosion noise.]South Vietnam? [Explosion noise.] Sudan with no South Sudan? [Explosion noise.]Yugoslavia? [Explosion noise.]Okay, no more inaccuracies with the globes. Ahhh, the little globes!This one doesn't know about Slovakia [explosion noise],this one has East-frackin' Pakistan [explosion noise]and this one identifies Lithuania as part of Asia [explosion noise].Okay, no more ...
