I thought it might be cool to do a live premiere. Let me know what you think of doing it this way.

"I showed this to my class" *Everyone had gained respect for you, but now you get respect 10x as fast*

This guy knows how to react He isn't pausing at the worst times He isn't just watching it without saying anything. He is giving information that is unique to the video and is not just saying what the video is saying or ignoring the video. Perfect reaction

“No” “Why?” *“THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER”*

"Not Holy, not Roman, not an Empire" I see you're a man of culture as well. 😂

Your students are lucky to have you

Some teacher have a magical gift of knowing exactly when the right moments are to pause, and I think you nailed it with this.

"SIKE, they both get angrier" lmao damn, I almost choked on my water.

I think it’s cute that he was having a morale dilemma about if he should react to things he has seen because it wouldn’t be a real reaction

"The Sultan of Oman lives in Zanzibar now. That's just where he lives." Literally the only thing I specifically remember from my high school history classes 20 years ago. And I only specifically remember it because it is exactly what my history teacher said, word for word. I even raised my hand and asked him "Why would he live so far away from his country?" And my teacher said "That's just where he lives."

Mr. Terry: *Makes reaction videos* Everyone: You could make a religion out of this

“I’m talking too much” not at all. Please speak as much as you want, I want to learn as much as I can from you.

"by the way where the hell are we". "hi, you're on a rock, floating in space"

Ok so I just want to let everyone know that last "you could make a religion out of this" wasn't just a gag. Robespierre tried to create a new religion as an ideological partner to the politics that sparked French Revolution. Literally tried to make a religion out of it. It was called Cult of the Supreme Being and everyone should know it existed. Our dude Robespierre was an attempted religious leader.

"Gravity is everything right?" *the strong force, weak nuclear force and electromagnetic force would like to have a talk with you*

I recommended my AP World History teacher to play this the last day for review, and she actually did! It was wonderful

"You can't expect the students to remember everything because they are getting so much." Thank you, thank you so much.

Hey dude, don't be afraid to pause the videos you watch whenever you wanna share more of your insights and thoughts about the video. We all came here to watch you, not the video. Keep on educating us like the awesome teacher you are! XD

China has more breakdowns than an edgy teenage emo Change my mind

History of the entire world: Everyone: let’s invade Judea The Jews: can you not? Everyone: no we can not not.

Imagine ur teacher having almost 150k subs on yt

THIS is a reaction, not like everyone else who just watch the video and act surprised 2-3 times during the video

The history of the entire world I guess is my actual favourite video on the internet

I like watching history teachers, or science or doctors doing specific reaction videos in their personal field of work, they can provide more information then other "ordinary" reactors. Not that "ordinary" reactors are bad, but they're normally same-y, in their reactions. Whereas history reactors, or if I'm watching something doctor or scientist related, with doctors or scientist reactors, they can give me more information, which I really appreciate. But yeah, don't be afraid to pause even more, in these types of videos, if you want to. If I wanted to watch the actual video, I'd go to the youtube channel that made the video. (Which I have, numerous of times).

Its really the Domino effect that this video "explains" so well, with a bit of added insight. I guess its because its so short. So many times in my history classes, the domino effect of something was completely overshadowed, because the effects were talked about 10 lessons later. For example, in my mind the Portugese Spice Empire and the Fall of Constantinople were never even logically connected, until this video and your insight pointed it out.

I would be so honored to have you as a teacher.

3:20 I think the vast majority of people are okay with you pausing. Most of us have already seen these videos, we're here for YOUR insight, and commentary, not the video itself.

There are reactors that watch the video and say goodbye at the end. And then there’s Terry, who expands, educates, and gives extra information on what the video is about. I love this channel!

I can totally see a teacher doing the lesson on the crusades: “it’s a bird it’s a plane! iiiiTS the SELJUK TURKS! Ahh!”

I want a history teacher reacts to History Memes

"Catholicism had a monopoly on Christianity“ *sad orthodox noises*

One thing i've wondered about the 7 Year War, why was it not considered WW1 with amount countries involved.

I feel like some people are confusing "reaction" with "watch-along" Reaction is when you're looking forward towards the person reacting. Sometimes for commentary or self insights or thoughts A watch-along is when you _watch along_ with the person in the video. (This is what many people think reaction videos are since most are just the combination of the two and it can get confusing to determine which is which)

"Nobody gets all of India" *laughs in British Empire*

This man extended a 19 minute video into a 50 minute video with sheer _knowledge._ Damn dude.

This felt like history class. Transformed a 20 min lesson to 50 min

I think that this is a great tool to help teach history due to the fact that you can use it, as you did in the video, to effectively show the domino effect of events. Having you pause the video and provide your insights at certain key points was excellent at showing how certain events affected others. Also thank you for doing what is an true react video, rather than all the others where they simple say "Oh wow, that was crazy, tell me what you think in the comments", yours has input and insight, which is very refreshing to see.

Normal reactions:minute longer than original This guy: 30 extra minutes

This is the only “reaction” channel I watch because he has so much interesting shit to add to the video I get a completely different experience…wish you were my teacher god dammm

Wow. I thought this was just gonna be some silly short video, but dang, I really learned a lot today, keep doing what you do man

Great commentary. This is how a reaction channel should be. Thoroughly expressing your opinions & further adding to the content of the video in question itself.

I absolutely love these extra details you give, Really expands on the video

This man plays this video in his class?! He is God given gift

I wonder when early humanoids started thinking of them selves as seperate from the animals

"What elements are necessary" Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus. Or CHONP as i like to call 'em.

9:55 the head tilt along with "the sun is a deadly laser" made me laugh

I loved your little comment about how trade isn't just the exchange of goods and money, but also the exchange of culture and ideas (even if it's just an accidental side effect). I never really thought about that but it makes so much sense in retrospect.

This is the best reaction video i've ever seen to this video. Actual pauses to explain things. I love it, I would've loved to have you as a history teacher. I already love history, but I would've been so invested in it if I had a teacher like you to make it exciting. I think it's really important to make things exciting for your students or else they're gonna totally hate everything. You just go into a classroom and learn a bit but it's so boring and everyone hates it, but if the students are actually looking forward to going to a class, they're gonna be more invested in it and that is so important.

I've seen History of the Entire World I Guess many times, and I was a little disappointed when you said you've seen this already, but watching it with you, and you pausing it to dive deeper was a fantastic experience! Thanks for the increased knowledge! And rad game wall :)

I would like to see him comment on that show "drunk history" from comedy central.

I’m 28 years old. I took Ap government and college history classes. I learn more from your commentary than I did in school. Great channel keep up the good work

You bringing up the alternative history and talking about the "Domino effect". One thing any of my teachers have never taught me about.

You did it right. It is perfectly fine to do a 'reaction video' on something you've already seen, as long as you lead with the fact that you've seen it.

I agree with you that this video would be a great recap at the end of the year. In addition it's also a great video to peak your interest in certain topics, time periods and people in my opinion. Since I live in Europe (the Netherlands more specifically) the history we get taught in high school is almost exclusively focused on our country and the West, which obviously makes a lot of sense, but also means we lose out on some very interesting stuff that happened elsewhere. When we get to the time of exploration and colonization this changes slightly and only when we get to the cold war we really start looking on a global scale and even then there's a lot we don't really learn about. They obviously can't teach us everything due to time limitations (and it would probably be too much to handle for most people) and it can be kind of hard to find a way to start looking into the history of other places because there is so much to learn about. However after watching this video a couple of times I started getting really interested in Chinese and Indian history and had some starting points that allowed me to start learning about them on my own. This is probably a bit different if you major in history in college/uni, but as someone who is studying AI and has always been really interested in history, this video has really helped ignite some new interests and passion for certain topics.

Most reaction videos are essentially excuses to rewatch the video with occasional affirmations that you're reacting the same way everyone else is, but this video was honestly super interesting to watch since it expanded on a lot of the information that was so tightly compressed into 20 minutes. Great job, loved the reaction!

This video is great as a teaching tool because it shows you things that you dont know stuff about. When there is a thing you dont understand, its a great jumping off point to go and investigate (or in the classroom, teach) I can imagine a class project, where a group of students takes any single segment of this video and prepares a 20 minute video/presentation themselves that tries to have the same information density and filter for the most history changing, most interesting things. That way they end up reading a BUNCH of stuff. Honestly the segments of my history classes i remember best is the ones i actually researched myself instead of the stuff just told to me.

Your students must love you! I know that if I was your student you'd be my favorite teacher!

33:44 “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” To be completely accurate there is not a way.

It's always so interesting to see the repercussions carry through history. The devlopment of the sassanid empire and the emergence of competing empires between rome and middle east led to the middle east being sheltered from Rome's implosion, and the information saved from Rome surviving in the middle east. The slow conquering of the byzantines led to the crusades, which brought back treasures and technologies that, with the rise of literacy, sparked the rennaisance. And then when the byzantines fell and the spice trade was cut off, it led to the expansion of portugal east to the india ocean and the expansion of Spain west into the new world.

I just took the first world history lesson that I didn’t want to fall asleep in.

i always hated history in school. I wish there were videos like this back then, because thanks to them I'm really enjoying history now.

Someone: breathes Random people: let's make a religion out of this

We did a great activity in 6th grade where we kind of reenacted the silk road where we were trying to avoid plague and picking up ideas was more important than transferring goods.

I wish I had a history teacher like you; I would've loved this subject much more, I'm sure. I took notes along the way, and now I know what to look into. Thank you! Will check your other videos :)

you seem like a really cool yet informative teacher and I kinda wish I had you when I was in school

I love this... It's so wholesome and people can see that you're so smart because you're not reading from a book or notes but you actually know what you're talking about and your info. Your students must be so lucky, thank you for doing this! You're definitely having impact on history and the story of thousands of people...

Hi, Mr. Terry! I also enjoy Bill Wurtz's History of the Entire World...I Guess, and watch it every few months. I understand a fair amount of the video but, there are a lot of concepts he touches on that I don't really grasp. Though I enjoy learning about history in my spare time, I'm in a field where this knowledge isn't really required (nursing). However, I do love learning history and think everyone should know how we got to where we are today. Not just in the US, but globally. Your reaction video to this is by far my favorite compared to the others I've seen. I realize, as you said, if you kept pausing the video it would go on for a very long while but I still found myself wishing you would pause and explain more. Would you possibly consider doing a series of videos based around this video? Each one could offer further information on what Mr. Wurtz is touching on. At that point, time constraints would be much less of an issue. Of course, you could do something similar using your own curriculum to teach World History. I just would like to find a series of videos that cover the breadth of Mr. Wurtz's video, but also go into detail. I've watched all the history videos available on Crash Course (love that channel!) and they're wonderful, but as much as I love them, they focus on the larger picture because they don't want to propagate "Big Man History". While I understand their reasoning, I think it's important to talk about historically significant figures in depth at times, and to be fair to Crash Course, they do sometimes. Just not as often as I would like, I suppose. I'm guessing you probably use some of Crash Course's videos in your classroom, since you use this one. If I may ask, where do you teach? I'm looking for general locale (such as state if you're in the US), not the specific school, obviously. :) I'm very happy to see you agreeing with Mr. Wurtz's video on such topics as evolution. I'm relatively positive that I can rule Texas out as the state you teach in, unless things have recently changed there. I don't see why Christianity and evolution can't go together, honestly. I'm no longer a Christian, but when I was I believed evolution was part of God's plan and how he intended for life on earth to come about. At any rate, I get a bit heated when religion pushes into a school's curriculum. For example, the state of Texas is metaphorically hamstringing their students when it comes to education. What happens to those students when they go on to college? You seem like a great teacher and I'm sure your students love you. I wish I had a history teacher like you back in high school (I'm assuming that's what level you teach). I'm also curious, how do you get around the cursing in the video in school? Do you have a censored version or is the state you teach in a bit more relaxed about materials containing profanities? As an example, I live in Florida and my children have to get a signed permission slip from me to watch anything that isn't G rated until high school. At the high school level they usually only send permission slips if the video is going to be talking about "controversial" subjects, such as evolution or sexual education. Sorry for such a long comment! I just felt compelled to leave it after watching. You may never even see it and if that's the case hopefully a helpful viewer may be able to answer some of my questions. If you do see it, however, I want to thank you for being a teacher. I truly believe teaching is one of the most important jobs in the world. Making sure young people go into the world with the knowledge they need is crucial, because they are our most important resource, in my opinion. The same thanks goes out to any teachers that happen to see this comment. I appreciate you, even if others (including those responsible for your paychecks) don't. I think in a country as prosperous as the US, teachers should be much more highly valued. Thank you for all the positive ways your impact your students. Edit: Liked and subscribed :)

"THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER" *teacher head bobbing* ok I'll love dis

The way our schools teach world history is like explaining the storyline of Game of Thrones starting with season seven, cutting out all the scenes that take place in any but one location, and then having to fill in details as you go along. I think the reason people love this video so much is because by starting at the beginning and working to the present with the visuals, you get a sense of the overall timeline, and an overview of how civilization came together one puzzle-piece at a time and about where your region's rise to prominence falls on that timeline. It also helps concepts such as trade routes, the spread of religion, and our history of conflict make more sense. I know for me, a few disparate ideas suddenly clicked into place watching this, like someone finally let me actually watch a complete summary of Game of Thrones. Then you fill in some interesting details, like the importance of east-to-west land continuity, latitude, availability of water, and so many things suddenly make more sense.

It’s been so long since I sat in an actual formal setting for a history class. This channel is reminding me why I fell in love with history in the first place, and how many great (and not so great) teachers I’ve had. I still love it, and I appreciate these videos SO much. It’s the one time I will ever say that I miss being at school. When your teacher is passionate and knowledgeable about their subject, it’s totally infectious. Thanks for reminding me why I love history and learning Mr Terry 🤓❤️

That was a GREAT Reaction Mr. Terry WAY to go, your explanation & amount of pausing was insightful, you students are LUCKY to have you as their History teacher

This video literally helped me in AP Euro, US History, and Art History lmao. I've seen it so many times that I just memorized stuff from it and then recognized it in class. It helped me understand so much. Also a great help in games like Trivial Pursuit haha.

1:34 this is a really good approach, i'm veering into the history teaching position myself so i'll remember that method

"History of the World, I Guess" made the history easier, but then there's a teacher...

Aaaaaah your commentary in addition to this video makes it an actual reaction video and an absolute of a history lesson. I wish I could have had a history teacher like you sir...

33:52 “when there’s a will, there’s a way” actually a portuguese writer (Fernando Pessoa) wrote something similar about the Discovery Age (because it’s so important to our Portuguese culture and history): “Deus quer, o Homem sonha, a obra nasce” which roughly translates to “When it’s God’s will, a man’s dream, it happens”. (Sorry, that part just reminded me of one of the most iconic phrases in Portuguese literature) Edit: Also a correction: 39:25 In the 1700s the Portuguese achieved their peak, after freeing of Spanish rule over Iberia they start to heavily colonize Brazil and they find tons and tons of gold there and achieve their peak economical status, that came with their most influential period in Europe, rivaled only with by when they dominated the spice trade (although that didn’t last for very long), which they absolutely squander by signing the Methuen treaty with the English and waste all their newfound riches on buildings. Also, massive earthquake in Lisbon in 1755 and revolution(s) in the 1800s, delayed industrialization and all that goes to shit. But yeah, eventually the English and French just say screw the Tordesillas and take over the world while battling each other to see who will take most of the (new) new world.

I love this channel, and your interjections are all genuinely interesting to listen to. Great educational channel and reactions to these videos!

I personally recommend the kings and generals channel and overly sarcastic productions

I feel like Bill Wurtz should get paid every time a history teacher uses this video in a classroom.

I was so focused on your explanation of every mayor point in history that I noticed just after 20 mins the great stack of games that you have. I really learned a lot, thanks!

He is a teacher, pauses the video to explain things.

Something I've always found beneficial is showing the big picture, diving into details and then showing the big picture again to consolidate it all - in any field (from philosophy to engineering, but definitely in history). The big picture is not enough in itself - but without it it's really hard to connect the dots in a complicated issue. Kudos to you for going the proper way with your students!

In my opinion videos like these are so important to get an idea of the sequence of events and how the world came to be the way it is. I remember learning about a lot of these events in school but if someone had asked me to list them by oldest to newest I would probably have had no clue.

I very much appreciate you having watched it beforehand, so you know what input you have and when to give it. Results in a great flow, and more substantive interjections than other similar videos that simply repeat what was said.

This is like the most wholesome comments section I’ve seen

Another point in the analysis of the development of China. The Chinese were slowed in technological advancements because of the creation of china (plates, bowls, cups etc) This prevented the further development of glass, which can be used for microscopes and glasses. Glasses being of particular importance because the smart people (like Mr Terry) were able to read/write much later into life. Thus making their careers longer and more productive.

unlike other reaction channels, you actually provide extra thought on the topic, and more insight to the video. congratulations

I love watching this as a sort of interest booster, after watching this there is always something I want to delve more deeply into, inspires me to study different parts of history I don't know much about!

Glad to have found this channel! Wish you success.

I think the "I wish I had that in school" idea is more about having a straight forward world history, instead of mainly local recent history, then jumping around out of order and completely skipping over some of it.

I’m so glad you spoke on the first segment regarding time and the nature of existence. I feel like most reactions have that same reaction you described. It’s a philosophical statement about what existing even means, particularly when the universe hasn’t even come into existence. This is exactly why I like your reactions on this subjects!

This is great, thank you so much! It seems like you wanted to say so much more and I'm sure I'm not the only one who would love to watch it! Maybe you could make another video or a little series of videos where you touch on all the things you didn't get to talk about in this one? Stay safe!

The story of Ghandi with this much context and at this pace sounds literally insane

For a history teacher, he's pretty awesome when it comes to science appreciation. Not like some other "history teacher" reactions, where they rather pointedly skip the initial physics-heavy parts of the video. I think this guy is amazing, and his students are lucky.

I love your video. I love the original that you were reacting to as well but it's nice to have a teacher to be able to weigh in on things.

i really love going into videos like this and looking at comments from people saying this is the first time history clicked for them, or that they wish more history was taught like this, etc. i'm so happy that thanks to stuff like this, people get to have the same type of positive experience that made me pursue historical anthropology as a career.

It's like watching a time-lapse video. You don't necessarily learn a lot of detail but you do get some insight into how the world flows.

Youre a really good reactor. I enjoy watching reactions from people with knowledge in the field of what theyre reacting to.

32:00 It has taken me until watching this video to make the connection between the fall of constantinople and the colonial age. It has never occured to me *why* the colonial age and all these great explorations began almost immediatly after the fall of constantinople. The discovery of the americas, brazil, all of that, immediatly after constantinople fell. It took your explanation for me to link the two events, a link my teacher failed to make, or I failed to see. That without constantinople, there is no connection between asia and europe, and they had to find a way around to asia. And the colonial age was a result of that drive to find a way to asia. Thank you.

The video he reacts to is one of my favorites because you get so much knowledge in so little time it’s almost impossible to comprehend all of it on the first time you watch it. I love seeing a professional point of view on a video I thought at first was not even true.