French Revolution (Part 4) - The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte

[THEKING531]

what was the logic behind the revolutionaries..? Why would one ever want kings and queens..?

[swagdatbe]

SO hard to focus with facebook a click away....

[redcorona14]

The wealth of the Kahal exerts itself through the Freemasons.

And the Freemasons exert themselves locally through the Jacobins.

And the Jacobins exert themselves through the revolution which directs Napoleon to Egypt.

The first real scientific exploration of Egypt follows in the wake of Napoleon which is what the Kahal desired all along.

[LegitScience]

@redcorona14 how u know

[redcorona14]

@LegitScience Of course they also wanted the end of the Holy Roman Empire and the end of Tzarist Russia.

[LegitScience]

@redcorona14 sir, where you alive back then or what

[redcorona14]

@LegitScience Liberte, Egalita, Fraternite = Dictatorship of the proletariat = bank owned world. Thanks for nothing Rothschild.

[mwillis1000]

Woop! We showed the French to not fuck with us. After this war, the French DID learn to never fuck with us again.

[romesfinestlegion]

LOL what about them men :'( poor sods

[BamJamza]

"The losing end of the Guillotine" hahahahahah!



[bogart99]

Didn't Napoleon have a thing about Alexander The Great?

[narcomanel]

So they got rid of the king, and in the end chosed another king anyway.

That's very effective.

[narcomanel]

"But the dude knew what he was doing!!" XD lol

[xoMissMeliss]

at 5:50-6:10 i know your drawing a canon.. but thumbs up if you think it looks like something else ;) GREAT VID btw!!

[studolf]

I studied all this in school, but I had no idea what my teacher was blabbering on about. He used no visual aids at all, so I had no clue which part of Europe he was referring to. Not to mention, the map of Europe was very different from what it is today.

[trkstr13]

@pongman wow...your extremely ignorant

[Jamm3r498]

we do this in school. and it bores me to death. cuz its morning and the lights are off and all im thinking about is...SLEEP

[nuzeo]

Thank you!

[awsomeninjaofcheese]

this is what a breif understanding of what i found out: LOIS THE 16th WAS A COMPLETE RETARD!!!!!

[Ibahz]

@awsomeninjaofcheese you made me lol

[skyclaw441]

I disagree with the abolishing of public schools. Public schools allow for children to grow up learning social norms (though in a harsh manner from their peers) and are crucial to formation. Besides, one reason I am against simply playing these videos for kids is that few children are motivated in their education, and will not really care. In this case we will have apathetic video-drones just watching the Khan Academy to learn. We must use these videos constructively, not deconstructively.

[TheDUDE101GOOD]

history repeats itself for the better or worse, mostly worse

[cocometimber]

does this person play empire total war??? id you dont GET IT! you would be veryyy veryyy good at this game!

[Thutmosis7]

Europeons didn't do anything. There were no school in europe prior before the moors arrival. They were always illiterate and dark mentally and still is today.

[PhotoPlankton]

@Thutmosis7 What about the Roman and Greek civilization?

After the fall of Rome it went downhill for Europe (apart from the Byzantine Empire perhaps) and that's why the period is called the Dark Ages. The moors certainly introduced a lot of knowledge into Europe, but as I said, it's only really with the arrival of Byzantine scholars and the invention of the Printing Press that Europe starts to overtake the rest of the world (which it factually does; socially, economically, and technologically)

[Thutmosis7]

@PhotoPlankton Not to take away some of your thunder. But what do you expect when they all went to the school of the moors? Wouldn't they come back with some to build on. So yea they were educated by the moors and they use it as their advantage and disadvantage against the own masters which is the moors. In the play Othello, Shakespeare depicted him as black and wasn't he a moor? So the europeons knew who the moors were. Its until the late 19th century they change it to arab or white.

[PhotoPlankton]

@Thutmosis7 Again, I am not disputing that the moors brought knowledge with them. Though, the main reason they were overrun in the end (the "Reconquista" took centuries) were manpower issues and a lack of political unity.

I need to ask you to offer a credible source that describes the moors as all black African. I cannot find one. Again, I am not disputing that there were many black moors, but not all of them were.

Please don't waste my time if this is all just misguided racism.

[Thutmosis7]

@PhotoPlankton I can't remember the king name. But it's a king in france during the dark age describing the moors as black as ink. So i know right there. But anyway i am not going to get into this cuz it's getting old arguing over something that happen over a thousand yr ago.

[Nicksvoiceinthewild]

@Thutmosis7

Black people should start thinking about the future - all this history loving is kind of... Most people don't know anything about these eras - except that there were full of tyranny, superstition, war - those are bad.

I think there were notable exceptions to that and some times, things like the French Revolution may have been necessary to overthrow the same old tyranny and superstition.

That being said, I think the future could be better if we stopped basing it on the past.

[Thutmosis7]

@Nicksvoiceinthewild I could careless about the past. My focus has always been about the future. The only thing the past can tell me is who the real enemies of my people are. I already know the answer to that. But i would love to see a more unity amongst all people in the near future. I doubt we are going back to the period of the revolution. I highly doubt that will happen. Anyway Godbless

[PhotoPlankton]

The portrayal of Napoleon is pretty negative in this one. It's funny how one side reveres him as the greatest man since Julius Ceasar, an intellectual, a reformer and saviour of the virtues of the revolution (or something along those lines) etc etc, and the others consider him a corrupt character, tyrant, warmonger etc..

[Thutmosis7]

Like i said before napoleon was a opportunist. He was not suppose to be emperor of france. It was dumas. But saying things about jews getting rights is ridiculous. Cuz it's the same jews been controlling the money before napoleon was born.

[PhotoPlankton]

@Thutmosis7 Your knowledge of history is a little sketchy.

Napoleon was certainly not an idiot. In many respects he can be considered a genius ... simple as that. You don't have to revere him as @MrBillcale does to recognise that.

Don't make the mistake

"Africans live peacefully for many thousand of yrs side by side." In a sense, yeah, war is an invention of civilizations, but at the same time civilization is what drives human progress. We couldn't have this discussion without it.

[Thutmosis7]

@PhotoPlankton Yes moors were black african. Even a french king said that after he stopped them at a certain point in the battle. Moors did conquered all of spain, portugal and southern france. Their influence was felt alot by the europeons. Without the moors the europeons would still be in cave and suffering from the bubonic plague they got from the nasty lifestyle of living.

[PhotoPlankton]

@Thutmosis7 You appear to be right, to an extend. I always assumed that they were mostly Arabs and Berbers, but the definition of what a Berber seems to have changed over time. Nonetheless, the moors were a diverse people comprised of all sorts of African tribes and not just Black Africans.

The Muslims never conquered all of the Iberian Peninsula.

I agree that most of Europe was underdeveloped. The "Middle East" and North Africa were clearly far more advanced at the time.

[Thutmosis7]

The only reason napoleon went back to france wasn't because he was popular. He setup General dumas and hand him over to the ottaman. Dumas was so popular, so he decide to prevent dumas from returning to france. Dumas was going to be the new first consul of france. Napoleon is nothing but a opportunist. Napoleon is no different from hitler. They both are fools.

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 The Napoleonic Code — or Code Napoléon (originally, the Code civil des Français) — is the French civil code, established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified. It was drafted rapidly by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on March 21, 1804.

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil legal system — it was preceded by the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis (Bavaria, 1756), the Allgemeines Landrecht (Prussia, 1794) and the West Galician Code, (Galicia, then part of Austria, 1797).

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 But it was the first modern legal code to be adopted with a pan-European scope and it strongly influenced the law of many of the countries formed during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The Code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law, was a major step in replacing the previous patchwork of feudal laws. Historian Robert Holtman regards it as one of the few documents that have influenced the whole world.

did hitler leave such a legacy of equality and justice ?

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 for you to say that makes you sound like such a typical product of american public education stop being such an ignorant baboon you embarrass your culture, or lack of one

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 Napoleon emancipated Jews from laws which restricted them to ghettos, and he expanded their rights to property, worship, and careers. Despite the anti-semitic reaction to Napoleon's policies from foreign governments and within France, he believed emancipation would benefit France by attracting Jews to the country given the restrictions they faced elsewhere.

[Thutmosis7]

@MrBillcale ANcient africans didn't enslaved people like how you think. What you call slaves are not what you would call in ancient time. ROmans probably did, but not africans. Africans live peacefully for many thousand of yrs side by side. It was the arabs and then the europeons came and steer things up. Created division and different classes of people. The rwanda incident was the result of the french. They went there and steer things up.

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 yes they did my god man they were naked savages that engeged in canibalism save your lies for some uneducated guilt ridden liberal

not only did you enslave each other you ate each other, and it was islam that enslaved black for 7 centuries european slavery only lasted three and was by comparison more humane black tribes caught othe black tribes and sold them to europeans your own brothers were as guilty as we were and black slaves were better off than people in africa were

[PhotoPlankton]

@MrBillcale You don't have a civilized discussion like that. C'mon, stick to plain historical facts without becoming a condescending ass.

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 He stated "I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country. It takes weakness to chase them out of the country, but it takes strength to assimilate them." He was seen as so favourable to the Jews that the Russian Orthodox Church formally condemned him as "Antichrist and the Enemy of God" - does this not sound the opposite of hitler? you are a fool sir

[Thutmosis7]

@MrBillcale Dude napoleon did nothing. Maybe for you he was a hero, but to the world he was a idiot. The reason why the world is in the bad mess today, are the result of europeon colonalism. The same goes for arabism. Had europeons stay north and arab stay in their asia area, the world would be a better place. So forth they both change history and enslaved, kidnapped and murdered millions of people together. That's unforgiven.

[MrBillcale]

long live the memory of the emperor of the French people

the greatest man who ever lived

Napoleon Bonaparte

[Thutmosis7]

@MrBillcale There is nothing great about him. He was a murderer and a loser.

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 he was the greatest man the greatest european to ever live

who does not kill look at rwanda or bosnia or sudan lok at history all any of the races do is slaughter each other its what we do, and the strangest end up on top

the revoltion top humanity for the first time three steps forward out of barbarism

europeans were the first society to invent the idea slavery was wrong

no one else felt it unacceptable it existed in african asia it still exists in the muslim world

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 the directorate tried to apply enlightenment principles something no other culture did, but there was chaos, napoleon established order for the mobs

two steps forward one step back you cannot judge him by modern standards he had to deal with mobs of cannibals who were little bette than animals , people were not ready for democracy yet but his reforms created conditions so that slavery could be abolished in 1848

and we can have democracy and freedm in europe and the world

[Thutmosis7]

@MrBillcale Europeons didn't brought civilization with them, cuz they are not civil peoples. We all know that. To make claims they without them passing some laws the world wouldn't be better its ridiculous. Cuz in truth all that you mention the idea of democrazy came to europe through the egyptians priest who thought the greeks. But then they lost it, and it was the moors who were majority black african people came back with it. It's not new to africans, its ancient way of living.

[MrBillcale]

@Thutmosis7 every piece of technology you use was invented by a european

every arguement you use to protest injutice was created by a european

africans were running naked eating each other no written language no use of the wheel there was no society on earth that did NOT accept slavery as part of the social order the whole idea that slavery was immoral and people are equal is a concept invented by europeans not you, we gave you everything your clothing the language you speak

[PhotoPlankton]

@Thutmosis7 "But then they lost it, and it was the moors who were majority black african people came back with it. It's not new to africans, its ancient way of living."

I doubt the Moors were majority black africans. Also, modern Europe received most of the classical knowledge of things like democracy and republicanism, as well as a whole bunch of other philosophies through Byzantine scholars mainly. They ushered in the Renaissance in Italy.

[Thutmosis7]

@PhotoPlankton Nonsense there were no higher learning in europe prior before the moors arrival there. Many moors after their fall or before that went up into germany, italy, and france and spread wisdom. The first university in europe came from the moors, not vaticans. Plus the headquarter of italy was in turkey, not rome. The europeons benefit alot from the moors than the byzantine which is nothing but nonsense. It's the moors who brought in the renaissance age in europe.

[AlissaSommerregen]

I am actually from germany but I just love this video and my presentation tomorrow will be ways better because of this

[ArtemisSchenck]

These videos are amazingly helpful for studying for my French Revolution to Napoleon final exam.

[Barnekkid]

Excellent series, a whole semesters worth of work in a relatively short time. Thank you.

[DennisWagenaar]

I like the idea of teaching history however there is a big difference between history and math, and that is that historians often disagree with one another. They especially strongly disagree about the intentions behind the actions of people and Napoleon is one of these topics they strongly disagree on. To French historians he's a hero while other historians depict him as Hitler. Khan is reasonable moderate though but a bit on the negative side. Khan academy is still great though!

[rockYhre]

Great video. It's completely different then was reading a history book in school.

[hifhif123]

Will there be a part 5??? Thanks

[zengrz]

Napolean is a jerk lol

[savethetrees433]

Very informative. I like your technique of filling in the details before repeating the main ideas and then moving on with the topic. It allows the listener to take in as much as possible and then have the knowledge solidified before moving on. Thank you for your dedication and making the internet a more intelligent, educational place.

[trwsandford]

This is Awesome Sal!

Well Done!

Maybe the Mexican American war next?

[thestonedowl]

Can you do a Engilsh writing class?

[arev1977]

Awesome idea to add history to the collection! Salman, you are doing a important jobl! I on my part do my best to spread the word about your site and this youtube chennel. Thank you for all your hard work and inspiration.

[iloveyou8forever8]

the french never won! those guys are all pussies!

[quitejaded]

he makes history videos now????!!!

[eljpayne]

Wasn't Russia also a large threat to France

[charlessmyth]

A foreshadowing of 7 days in May :-)

[matrix1951]

This is really interesting ! I wish he would do one on Vietnam.....

[personkid20]

his "general" rokambo(not sure of this son of a pigs spelling) was the devil in Haiti from what our Black folk suffered. Some atrocities that equate to ten times the so-called holocaust.

Well this REAL hellacost against Afrikans was the last stand for that transvestite napolean and it's ilk(eurropean alliea).

No worries though as Haiti(although systematically being kept impoverished to this day but the world's eurocentric society) was pivotal in the "louisiana purchase"

may these enemies burn

[personkid20]

"egypt"real name Kemet) was the target of napolean due to his ongoing defeats in Haiti

as many non Black folk like to gloss over this fact. Jean Jacques Dessolaines was giving those bastards french the beat down of a lifetime(and well deserved as does pat robertson)

this was promptin that faggot napolean to retaliate against ALL vestiges of Afrikan Symbols the the Horemakeht(the sphinx) a well as attacking Afrikans everywhere(lthough he eventually failed).

there is so much for many to learn

[personkid20]

very scary sal is this "foreshadowing"?

[artdeco101010]

Good timing on this series !

[Brian626]

i am very impressed with the extent of your education sal

[Davitofrito]

no, its bicameral. We have the lower house (house of representatives), which is based off population distribution with each house getting at least one representative.

Next we have the upper house (Senate), with two senators per state.

Senate: 100

House : 435 (+ 6 non voting members)

House:

Democrats: 253

Republicans: 178

Senate

Dem : 59

Repub: 41

[pongman]

Senate has one independent

[TheProdigyGeneration]

doesn't the usa have a tri-leguslative?

[MarvelsofaLifetime]

Where as most people will disregard history as being unimportant and meaningless, Sal has seemingly re-defined this view point. In my opinion, what the Kahnacedemy has created is one of the greatest leaps for man kind, and that is to set a foundation for learning that actually works! May god bless you Sal. [2]

[pongman]

I agree. Abolish public schools in America and the world and give every child a laptop programmed to Khanacademy. Imagine the the tens of trillions of dollars in savings on a global scale and not to mention the educational benefits the world would get with all these geniuses in the world. No war, no famine, no poverty, no pollution; just peace and prosperity. Thanks Sal for this potential vision of a whole new planet Earth.

[theinquisitor]

@pongman, not to mention the fact that the curriculum in the US is under attack by those who would rewrite history. Religious conservatives on the Texas board of education have been systematically removing references to the enlightenment in the history of the formation of the US and trying to insinuate that the country was founded on the principles of Christianity. Because of the way the textbook industry works, this will affect the whole country.

Online resources are a way to fight that.

[Tinyunknown]

@pongman

[Nicksvoiceinthewild]

@pongman

Fuck you pongman you just don't want to pay taxes.

LOL

[GlowyKangaroo]

@pongman

Yes, but there is a flaw, the world's population will become social shut ins and you can kiss goodbye social diversity. Just imagined that, however I do love khanacademy videos, I just believe your thought is a little bit to extreme.

[PrincessMiaMya]

@GlowyKangaroo Grow up stop beating up yall keyboards up arguing over youtube like wooohooo grow up get life

[donmarley69]

@pongman what about human interaction; what experiences will advocate that complex part of life?

[underfire987]

@pongman you forget with lack of diversity of education lacks the diversity if different views and growth of individualism. If you want too stop famines, humanitys populations need too drop and be maintianed at a low level since humanity doesnt live in balance with nature it will over populate and only cause its own harm. secound wars are more caused by those in power than for any other reason now adays, and even an education will not change humanitys cowardness and submissiveness towards dictat

[Thule000]

@MarvelsofaLifetime Who are these people who regard history as meaningless? Wow

[MarvelsofaLifetime]

@Thule000 Ignorant youths who have absolutely no knowledge, or even awareness of, current events and pressing problems. But unfortunately, and very sadly to say, these ignoramuses will someday be the preponderant mass dictating this country’s future – pretty scary indeed.

[shallonjade]

@MarvelsofaLifetime Who says you know what we do and don't know. As for the ignoramuses comment, I would like to remind you who will be paying for you when you get old, that would be us, the ignoramuses of the future, and the fact that there was a baby boom possibly around the time you were born, we have to pay for it , so thank you very much. Next time you want to insult us, please remember that you will be getting old soon. Have a beautiful day. :)

[MarvelsofaLifetime]

@shallonjade What a way to totally misconstrue the act of pointing out a problem in our society, as an insult against our society instead. According to your epistemology, every time someone points out something that is wrong with our world, they should receive scorn and contemptuous scrutiny instead of a normal diplomatic skepticism. Quite the intellectual you are, dumb ass.

[shallonjade]

@MarvelsofaLifetime Do you ever get tired of calling people dumb? What makes you so much better then the rest of society your age?

[MarvelsofaLifetime]

It simply blows my mind to see one man, re-define education. The Kahnacedemy is seemingly creating an entirely brand new balance between the importance of mechanical subjects, and non-mechanical subjects specifically speaking history. [1]

[carcabe]

All without one penny looted from taxapyers or mandate handed down from out rulers!!!! Power to the people.!!

[rinwhr]

I hope you will start continue making videos on Physics and Calculus after this...