The Enlightenment: Crash Course European History #18
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So far in this series, we've covered a lot of war, disease, climate disaster, and some more war. Well, prepare yourself for something a little more positive. This week, we're talking about the Enlightenment. In this video, you'll learn about the ideas of Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Kant, Smith, Hume, and a bunch of other people whose ideas have been so impactful, they still influence the way we think about the world today.
Sources
Hunt, Lynn et al. Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2019.
Smith, Bonnie G. et al. World in the Making: A History. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Sources
Hunt, Lynn et al. Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2019.
Smith, Bonnie G. et al. World in the Making: A History. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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@juliaann4200
does anyone else have to take notes on these vids? that’s my homework lmao
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@TenorMan96
Lol I remember how energetic he used to be. Now he’s just calm
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@aliciakoepke560
"Men should take off their makeup, wigs, and high heels"
oh how the tables have turned
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@theadamatwar
The Chinese: Politely waits to let each other pass
Europeans: Dude you gotta see this
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@GrassesOn97
Britain when they discovered tea: every day I grow stronger...
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@nothingtoospiffy7913
I really miss young John Green asking questions...😢😢
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@amith9042
Only OG fans remember the Mystery Document and where he gets shocked by a pen.
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@mstretanski1
" A letter to Crash Course"
Dear John Green,
Thank you for developing Crash Course into a great educational tool. It has been inspiring to watch you develop this platform into a resource that is relatable. I use it often as a supplement to my Eighth grade U.S. History course. Based on the changing styles of production from US History made years ago and the new European series, you have grown and matured. My students love them and many honest and (relatively) mature conversations are sparked. The unassuming production and script allows them to understand the content without being overwhelmed by the sometimes complex topics.
Thank you for Crash Course.
Sincerely,
Matt Stretanski
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@SamBellows
"Speaking of Terrible, lets talk about slavery." that was a heck of a transition and i feel like it deserves a high five.
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@sir-elephant
0:00 Answers vary
0:47 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal
2:51 Luxuries included coffee tea chocolate tobacco
3:41 Travellers to Asia were impressed with how much less quarrelsome they were
4:29 Montesquieu wrote Persian letters
5:06 Voltaire wrote Candide
6:18 Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote Emile
7:18 Women hosted the enlightenment salon to share ideas or to meet a philosopher called a philosophe
8:56 Denis Diderot edited the encyclopedia
9:34 David Hume promoted reason above religion, Deists argued God existed but didn't influence everyday life
11:23 Enlightenment views led to abolition of slavery
11:42 Olaudah Equiano, a freed slave, described the middle passage after being enslaved
13:00 An Inquiry into... was written by Adam Smith
13:21 Rousseau' wrote The Social Contract. He discussed the General Will
14:04 Immanuel Kant argued everyone should think for themselves
14:51 Moses Mendelssohn believed enlightenment would lead to the end of Jewish persecution
16:22 Enlightenment leads to individualism (answers vary)
Tldr: Europeans decided life sucks and women spilled some tea
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@samrzepkowicz9331
11:10 "Don't get me wrong: things are bad. But they used to be so much worse."
THANK YOU. I've had enough of either ultraconservative people or nihilists, often ecologist nuts, grumbling about the world being rotten and doomed and wanting to go back to "better times".
Those times were not better. The world of today might be deeply flawed, but it's far from completely doomed. And as a fan of history, although I enjoy studying the past, I wouldn't want to live in it. Understanding the past also means not being stuck in it, or rather in some idealized vision of a past that never existed.
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@Sara-ur8fv
Nothing like some history on a Tuesday morning. 😎
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@JoaoPessoa86
If I could go back in time I'd never go further back than the invention of splinter free toilet paper
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@alexisoftroy926
I feel like these comments are skipping over the fact that apparently europeans would argue in the street for hours about who could pass? Like what was everyone just really petty?
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@leedent6796
How to Colonize the new world in one simple step
3:56 climb on top of each other to assert your dominance (and small pox)
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@joshbobst1629
Fun fact about Smith: his only use of "the invisible hand" in Wealth of Nations was when he said that the owners of industry would be prevented from offshoring their labor costs, as if by an invisible hand, by their concern for the welfare of their own nations. It was Ricardo who called markets' price setting mechanism the invisible hand.
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@HSReinhardt
The little tea and tobacco guys at 2:45 are so cute?! 😫
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@vonclaren1
Calas was taken through the streets to the city’s main square, then led up to a scaffold and tied to an X-shaped cross. Whereupon an executioner, iron rod in hand, crushed Calas’s bones, two blows apiece to the upper and lower arms, two to the upper and lower legs, three to the midsection. Calas, his body broken, was then tied to a wheel, face to the sky, where, for two hours, he refused to convert and refused to confess.
“I die innocent,” he said.
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@ymirishere7108
8:56
"Facts don't care about your feelings"
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@JoannaRives
Thanks!
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