The Dutch seem like such a sensible people. So their 17th century craze for tulips seems inexplicable. Lord Clark doesn't even attempt to actually explain it in his "two minute's digression on the subject of tulips." In fact the Dutch are still crazy for tulips I understand.
@Dannys998877 The craze was all to do with money; the mania for these new flowers, tulips, let to a market with constantly rising prices and fantastic sums being paid for promising rare bulbs - just like investing in the stock market. Some investors in tulips made a fortune. But the market later collapsed, and many people lost everything. Just like a classic modern stock market crash.
There is an extreme bias in this series, I am not going to say racist at all however there is a very Eurocentric point of view. How can any series about "Civilisation" be made without addressing Egypt, Sumer and Ur, Persia, the number system 0-9 which was invented India, Algebra from the Middle East, the preservation of mathematics by Arab civilisation. Is it because during this period in antiquity Europeans were still living in tribes and huts? Civilisation without Egypt=WOW!
What is the musicical cue?
ericintohistory 3 months ago
lol @ someone downvoting this video. barbarians
josephbadams 1 year ago
lol @ someone downvoting this video. barbarians
josephbadams 1 year ago
The Dutch seem like such a sensible people. So their 17th century craze for tulips seems inexplicable. Lord Clark doesn't even attempt to actually explain it in his "two minute's digression on the subject of tulips." In fact the Dutch are still crazy for tulips I understand.
Dannys998877 1 year ago
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We do grow lots of tulips, mainly for export I believe.
fritspas 9 months ago
@Dannys998877 The craze was all to do with money; the mania for these new flowers, tulips, let to a market with constantly rising prices and fantastic sums being paid for promising rare bulbs - just like investing in the stock market. Some investors in tulips made a fortune. But the market later collapsed, and many people lost everything. Just like a classic modern stock market crash.
DrZenith 8 months ago
Damn Dutch fat cats with their tulips, always leaving their stunning architecture laying about the streets for the riff-raff to trip on!
Inediblehulk 1 year ago
A most superb and profound episode. My own personal favourite.
noblesir1 1 year ago
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There is an extreme bias in this series, I am not going to say racist at all however there is a very Eurocentric point of view. How can any series about "Civilisation" be made without addressing Egypt, Sumer and Ur, Persia, the number system 0-9 which was invented India, Algebra from the Middle East, the preservation of mathematics by Arab civilisation. Is it because during this period in antiquity Europeans were still living in tribes and huts? Civilisation without Egypt=WOW!
theone1087 1 year ago
Yeah, I grew up in Holland, you have horizons too. That's what I remember most.
TwoMunchuTwo 1 year ago
In Holland, we have mountains floating above us.
vanderbilt887 1 year ago
Thanks for posting these, they are a real help in my revision.
cook119 1 year ago