The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24

Published on Jul 5, 2012

In which John Green teaches you about one of the least funny subjects in history: slavery. John investigates when and where slavery originated, how it changed over the centuries, and how Europeans and colonists in the Americas arrived at the idea that people could own other people based on skin color. 

The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25

Published on Jul 12, 2012

In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.

John Green "Crash Course" on the Columbian Exchange

A Crash Course on the Columbian Exchange (note: this is one of his funniest videos as well as quite informative).


 

John Green, a "crash course" in the Atlantic Slave Trade

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