Chinas Whole Again Then It Broke Again

how did this happen?

"hi. you're on a rock floating in infinite. pretty cool, huh?"

—The intro to the video. Information technology only goes deeper from there.

history of the entire earth, i guess is a video fabricated by bill wurtz, a follow up to his 2022 video history of japan. The video condenses the entire history of Earth, from the universe'southward formation to the very nearly time to come, summing up nearly every major event usually taught in standard Western Globe History classes (and some which aren't), into a 20 minute crash course with the aid of catchy jingles and humorous visuals.

Non to be confused with History of the Earth Part I.

Watch it here.

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the tropes are a deadly lazer:

• 20 Minutes into the Futurity: The last event featured in the video (the singularity) occurs in 2028.
• Adjusted Out: Several modern-day countries make no appearances in the video. The largest of these is Canada. Other notable omissions include Ireland, Romania and Republic of finland, in addition to whatever state in one case associated with Yugoslavia.
• all lowercase letters: Like in the previous video, the title and all captions are in all-lowercase.
• Always a Bigger Fish: The Persian Empire is introduced this way, being the terminal of a rapid-fire food concatenation of empires starting with the Assyrian Empire existence consumed by the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which is in turn succeeded past the Median Empire, which is gobbled up at terminal by the Western farsi Empire, which becomes bigger than all of those.

• Black Comedy: There were already hints of it in the original, but information technology's in full force here.
  • "(PERMIAN EXTINCTION) Aw, fuck, now everything'due south dead."
  • "Japan is conquering the east, and they're so excited about it they rape Nanking style as well hard. They should probably just deny information technology."
  • The Black Death gets a comically curt mention: "Whoops, half of Europe but died."
  • "[Sugar plantations in the Caribbean] are so goddamn assisting, you might forget to not practice slavery."
  • "I know! allow'due south rape Africa!" said Europe, scrambling to see who could rape it the fastest." ^note Don't worry, they never got Ethiopia.
  • "United kingdom and French republic are nevertheless hungry." ^note Don't worry, they never got Thailand.
  • 9/11: "Whoops, someone merely attacked America."
  • "Nosotros got to offset pillaging some stuff."
  • "Frg'due south back, featuring Hitler the aroused moustache model! And he's mad at the Jews for existing!"
  • "The Aztecs and Inca empires are off to a practiced first. Wonder if they know that Europe just discovered their continent..." (Grim Reaper Looms)
• Banal-Name Product: "squirrel search" appears in the technology montage.
• Blatant Lies: the great war is and then great, they won't demand a second i!
• Bookends: The video ends with "by the fashion where the hell are we?" and starts with "hello, you lot're on a stone floating in space, pretty cool huh?".
• Bowdlerise: Some smaller YouTubers have fabricated edited versions of the video that omit the swearing from the original, and then information technology could exist used by schools and teachers. Watch one of these here.
• Staff of life, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The three main philosophies of China under the Qin dynasty: "having expert morals" (Confucianism), "go with the flow" (Taoism), "fuck y'all, obey the law" (Legalism).
• Buffy Speak: Used a few times, like when Charlemagne's kingdom was dissever into "French republic and Not-France".
• Call-Back: A couple of jokes return from history of nihon:
  • "Knock-knock—er, clop-clop. It's the horse people."
  • The "how about sunrise state?" jingle can exist heard every bit an instrumental when Bill mentions Nippon as the "sunrise kingdom".
• The Cat Came Dorsum: Napoleon, briefly.
• Crazy Enough to Piece of work: Fifty-fifty Gandhi seems surprised that starving himself in public actually succeeded in getting the British to leave India.
• Damned by Faint Praise: Turns out that some of the Crusades almost didn't fail. ^annotation While the crusades as a whole did fail in their implicit goal of permanently removing Islam from the Holy Country, many of them succeeded in their explicit goals of conquering sure regions or repelling Islamic expansion.
• Dark Reprise: "now you can eat sunlight!" is reflected around two.5 billion years later when "the sun is a deadly lazer ^note [sic]"
• Dead Artists Are Better: Neb describes the effects of Jesus'south death as making him more than popular, thus birthing Christianity.
• Demoted to Actress: Nippon is merely mentioned a handful of times.
• Department of Back-up Department: Brought up a few times:

  "Use a stronger egg. And put water in it. Have a infant, on land, in an egg. Water is in the egg. Infant in the egg, in the h2o, in the egg."
  "Guess who's in Rome? Barbarians! What's a barbarian? Non-Romans, said the Romans, being invaded by non-Romans."
  "Permit'south bring stuff to the coast and sell it, and become the Swahili on the Swahili Coast, said the Swahili on the Swahili Coast."
  "What should we blame on Espana? Permit's arraign the Maine on Spain! So they blamed the Maine on Espana."

  russian federation's to do list:
  ✓ expand
  ✓ grow in size
  ✓ get larger
  get bigger

• Does This Remind You lot of Annihilation?: When Bill describes the Bronze Age, he notes that tin is necessary to brand bronze, but that he doesn't know where it comes from because "his dealer won't tell him".
• Eleventy Zillion: How hot was the universe at the big bang? A "kjghpillion" degrees.
• Faux Reassurance: Frequently invoked to betoken sarcasm.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: The video says Adolf Hitler is "mad at the Jews for existing"
• Flipping the Bird: Done by the American colonies in response to Britain taxing them ^annotation without representation. Ironically, the Bowdlerised version linked above edits out the verbal swearing, but not this instance of potentially offensive content.
• Foregone Conclusion: The narrator knows time and space tin can be invented because "everything is here and probably already happened".
• Foreshadowing: When he talks nigh society "coming presently to a chilly river valley virtually you", rivers on the map start glowing in the exact areas where he later starts list the earliest civilizations.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • "I take nightmares" appears briefly during the Large Blindside.
  • During the foundation of Israel, there'southward a brief nautical chart providing a Beige Prose version of the Ten Commandments.
  • A "hippo-mobile" can exist seen amid the actual tech during the "technology is about to go crazy!" jingle. In fact, it was a real thing, invented in 1863, and that is an actual drawing of it, albeit with a hippo head added onto it.
  • During the "technology's better likewise" aside, one of the graphics is a VHS record with the explanation "my terrible holiday".
  • When an e-mail inbox is shown, addresses include "george-bush@whitehouse.gov".
  • When the video gets to nine/11, earlier the planes crash into the Earth Merchandise Heart, a cat appears on the plane that crashes into the North Tower a fraction of a 2d before bear on.
• Funny Background Event: While Columbus is begging Male monarch Ferdinand to be granted the ships needed to achieve the Indies by sailing west, Queen Isabella tin can be seen thinking "WTF".
• Dark-green Aesop: Downplayed. Pecker says that global temperature is rising and the body of water is total of plastic. Everybody comes together and says, "permit's salve the planet!" (not actually knowing how).
• How We Got Here: You're on a rock. Nosotros're separated by oceans. How did this happen?
• Promise Spot: Napoléon Bonaparte gets banished to an isle when trying to conquer Europe, but he came back! And and so he got banished to another island.
• Interruption: The video has a joke intermission that lasts exactly one second. And it'southward after the showtime time it mentions Japan, so information technology might be in that location just in example yous want to scout the outset 1.
• Intoxication Ensues: How does Beak describe Christopher Columbus "discovering" America?

  "wait!" Said Christopher Columbus, probably smoking crack. "if the world is circular, permit'south go this way [due west] to india."

• Jewish Lament: A justified case, since it'south in response to their homeland getting invaded by the Romans.
• Layman's Terms:
  • The names for the many war weapons featured in the video, similar "burn down gun" ^note flamethrower, "exploding pineapple" ^note grenade, and "extinction brawl" ^note diminutive flop.
  • The "engineering's improve now" montage later in the video includes "thinking box" ^note estimator, "thought container" ^annotation floppy disk, and "music box" ^note radio.
• Mind Screw: The video begins by explaining what information technology was like before the universe began.

  "A long time ago, actually never (and also now), zero is nowhere. When? Never. Makes sense, right? Like I said, it didn't happen. Nothing was never anywhere. That'southward why it'south been everywhere. It's been so everywhere you don't need a where. You don't fifty-fifty need a when. That'south how every it gets."

• Motor Rima oris: Every bit with history of japan, this is necessary when you desire to tell billions of years worth of history in twenty minutes. There is exactly one minute worth of video with no dialogue.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Robespierre's answer to French wealth inequality? Cut everybody's heads off! ^note Yous could make a religion out of this.
• Proper name's the Same: Invoked, Chandragupta and Gupta... outset name Chandra. ^{Ok, I become it.} For those non in the know, the first one is Chandragupta Maurya, India's kickoff emperor, and the latter is rex Chandra the beginning of the Gupta dynasty, several centuries after. But that would ruin the joke.
• Non-Indicative Name:
  • The Norse detect a state of green and a country of ice. Pecker says "they named them accordingly." prankd
  • The Sultan of Oman, who lives in Zanzibar now. That's just where he lives.
• Oh, Crap!: The Byzantine Empire has this reaction to the rise of the Seljuk Turks.
• Out-of-Genre Experience: The video momentarily turns into a Boob tube commercial to introduce the machinery of photosynthesis.
• Overly Long Gag:
  • The pause later on the in a higher place mentioned heed screw lasts 10 seconds earlier continuing with the idea to invent fourth dimension and space.
  • One of the longest jingles. "New arrivals in Bharat! Peradventure it'due south those equus caballus people I was talking well-nigh... Or their cousins or something... And they wrote some hymns, and mantras, and stuff."
  • And the second-longest. "...many dissimilar types of machines and factories with machines in them and then they can make a lot of products existent fast."
• Pun: China "breaking."
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: Only similar its predecessor, only it stretches on for more than twice as long.
• Rhymes on a Dime:
  • Twice, when Kingdom of cambodia is touched upon.

    Gauge who's hither?
    Central khmer!

    Hey, Khmer, time to share
    New kingdoms here ^notation Ayutthaya and there ^annotation Lan Xang

  • During the Spanish-American War:

    "What should we blame on Kingdom of spain?"
    "Let'southward blame the maine on Spain!"

• Rooting for the Empire: In-Universe, empires are often praised for their conquests.

  "So yous retrieve you can conquer the Byzantine Empire? 'yep', said the Ottoman Turks. Dainty chore, Ottoman Turks!"

• Running Gag:
  • Congratulating various Turkish empires over history for invading Southwestern Asia.
  • "You lot could brand a faith out of this!" is repeated several times throughout the video. Eventually, when the people of France cut the heads off of the royalty, he interrupts it. ^annotation The attempts at establishing the Cult of Reason and later the Cult of the Supreme Being as national religions during the French Revolution didn't really become anywhere.

    "you could brand a reli- no, don't."

  • The many states of China; "China is whole again... then information technology broke over again."
• Sarcasm Way: "'thank you for invading our homeland,' Said the Jews, who were starting to get tired of people invading their homeland."
• Scare Chord: Regarding pre-ozone Globe:

  "hey, tin can we continue land?"
  NO
  "Why?"
  The sun is a deadly lazer
  "Oh okay."

• Serial Escalation: The original took 9 minutes to explain the history of Japan. This one takes 20 minutes to explain the history of the entire world... i guess.
• Shout-Out:
  • CHRISTIANIZE ALL THE KINGDOMS!
  • "it's a bird! it's a airplane! information technology'due south the seljuk turks!" ^note aah!
  • "Please remain Christian. We will bank check in later to come across if you're still Christian when you least wait."
  • Terminate Him!!
  • It's subtle, merely during the scene where the nomads are ransacking China, if sped upwards, the rhythm of the equus caballus nomad smacking Red china for coins resembles the rhythm of the intro music of a familiar game'due south first level. Non to mention that the smacking causes gilt coins to announced with a very familiar sound from the aforementioned source.
• The Singularity: hinted to happen in the twelvemonth 2028. ^note thank you to affair inventor inventors, who invent thing inventors, being invented by matter inventors!
• Sir Swearsalot: Martin Luther (founder of Lutheranism and instigator of the Protestant reformation), at least compared to the rest of the cast.

  "That'due south bullshit. This whole matter is bullshit. That's a scam. Fuck the church. Here's 95 reasons why."

• Sudden Video-Game Moment:
  • The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are presented like a fighting game, dissimilar its predecessor.

    Cease Him!!

  • The pillaging of china past the horse nomads of Mongolia is likewise depicted similar a grapheme collecting coins in a platformer past bouncing confronting the scenery.
• Talking to Themself: wanna run into a map of the world? sure!
• Tempting Fate:
  • The narrator ponders on whether Buddhism would achieve Mainland china by the time it breaks upwardly once again. As presently equally he finishes his judgement, Mainland china breaks upward into three kingdoms.
  • "Don't worry about Rome, information technology won't fall."
  • "The Mongols just invaded nearly of the universe. Overnice going, Genghis! I bet that will final a long time." Mongolia and so immediately breaks into several large kingdoms.
  • About World State of war One: "It's gonna be a Keen War. So slap-up nosotros won't need a second 1."
  • During the 1920s:

    The economy'due south great and it'll probably be great forever. [Boom] Just kidding.

  • "Hopefully the Arabs won't mind giving part of Palestine to Israel for the Jewish people to live. And dividing upwardly the land between Israel and Palestine volition surely brand everyone happy."

    "SIKE! they both go ang-ri-eeeeeeer."

• The Theme Park Version: Since he wants to take a large global view of history in a short time, Bill offers single thumb-tack summaries of famous events, some of which are Dated History (such every bit Imperial Germany beingness fabricated to pay undue and castigating reparations) and others are overly simplified, such equally his explanation of The French Revolution as simply out of non-payment of taxes for funding The American Revolution (which most see at all-time as a small-scale cause) ^note The king of France at the fourth dimension is also mislabeled as "louis the 14th" (he was actually the 16th). and also reducing the Reign of Terror to mere head-chops rather than Emergency Authority fighting a civil state of war.
• Tradesnark™: Fourth dimension™
• The Unpronounceable: Bill goes through every combination of syllables before getting "Majapahit" right.

  "Oh, look who controls all the islands. It's the Mahajapit (incorrect), Majahapit (wrong), Mapajahit (wrong), Mahapajit (wrong), Mapajahit (incorrect)... Ma-ja, pa-hit? (right!)"

• Understatement: The narrator's reaction to the gargantuan size of the Persian Empire is a rather flatly articulated "wow, that's big."
• Exact Backspace: When Chandragupta starts to conquer all of India—er, nearly of Republic of india! (Considering no one conquers the Tamil kings.)
• Visual Pun: When talking about Christopher Columbus sailing to America when trying to actually become to India, he remarks that Columbus found the Indies and Japan. The visuals show it'south really the Bahamas and Cuba, angled similarly to Japan.
• Who's on First?: "Hey, guess who's here? Central khmer!" "Where?" "Hither!"

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past the mode, where the hell are we?

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess

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