New Zealand! You mentioned us! This is the most famous we've ever been.

You have yet to talk about Antarctica. Checkmate, crash course.

I , as a Tongan/New Zealander, would LOVE to hear the history of the Pacific Nations ( Melanesian, Micronesian and Polynesian history). Pretty please John??

"Until the Story of the hunt is told by the Lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." - African Proverb

As someone who has lived most of their life in Hawaii I can't describe how awesome it is to hear John tell this story. This is a story I've heard in school, at home, everywhere basically, so it feels so wonderful to hear such a familiar story from a person like John Green.

so when did he encounter Peter Pan?

"Is our inability to escape our biases a good excuse for not even trying?" No, we must never give up. We must acknowledge our biases whenever we find them and keep trying to see the story from the other point of view. By studying who we were, history can help us better understand who we are. Studying who they were can also help us better understand who they are.

Yayyy!!! You mentioned Australia and New Zealand! You have satisfied our respective nations' self-worth. It was the pick-me-up that we all needed today so thank you sir.

tumb up if your doing a marathon of all episodes

Hold the phone... You're the same John Green who wrote "The Fault in Our Stars" and you're also doing this?! You sir have escalated up the respect ladder.

really appreciate how you guys have begun incorporating open-ended questions at the end of each video. it aids in the further thinking, incites curiosity and displays the rationality of crash course's team of writers and producers. bravo!

Would be cool if there was a Crash Course on Australian Aboriginals.

No, you did NOT become an official world history class this episode! YOU CANNOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANTARCTICA.

Not just being "PC" here, I think a video about Australian Aborigines would be fascinating. There is definitely enough historical information about Aboriginal culture to fill up an 8 minute video (half of John's videos are filler anyway) because Australian and Aboriginal cultures coexisted for a hundred years or so, and there is a plethora of oral tradition which is being proven right by archaeological excavations (for example, there are accurate drawings of megafauna which have been found dating to something like 30kya). Aboriginal land management practices have also recently been examined as a sort of midway point between agriculture and nomadism, as they used fire to change entire landscapes while maintaining ecological balance. It really changes the traditional idea of pre-agricultural humans as just hands-off wanderers and fractures the whole dichotomy of "civilised" and "uncivilised" itself.

"We finally noticed you Australia!" [me, sipping a room temperature beer in my underwear] hey yeah. cheers

Although Captain Cook ventured into the Pacific for the first time in 1768, I think it should be mentioned that the Polynesian people (made up of the pacific Islanders, Hawaiians, Easter Islanders and Maori (NZ natives) should have a mention or even have its own crash course as its own history is fascinating. Polynesian people are known to have ventured into the pacific realm before Christ (BC) - descending from Asia and eventually arriving at South America (and some say North America of the Coast of California) using only star navigation. New Zealand itself was occupied by the Polynesian Islanders approximately around 300-1200AD (this point is being argued but it is around this time). It would be awesome if Crash Course would delve into this untapped topic as there is not much mention or recognition for this culture globally.

The reason that I enjoy Crash Course History is that you present the information, the questions left unanswered and provide multiple interpretations. This gives me the impression that you attempt to at least provide an educational series without an agenda. I thank you for this and as long as these videos are online I know myself and others will refer back to them to educate ourselves on history.

I really appreciate the fact that you cover different views and interpretations of historic events. Thank you for helping me to broaden my perspective.

At the end of his videos, he always sounds like he's about to laugh.

OH MY GOSH Not enough pacific island history!!!!! PLEASE DO MORE! It's crazy awesome!

These videos are pretty cool, good for a refresher.

+ Aviel Geronimo, in Hawai'i they definitely don't teach that. They teach that Cook died during an attempt to get back a stolen life boat (and the fracas that resulted in a scuffle along the black beach in Kealakekua Bay), and he was killed in Kealakekua (where a memorial today still stands---possibly not on the exact spot), he was stripped of flesh common ancient Hawaiian practice (also documented on other native chieftains) because it enables them to "gain the mana" of that chief, and or that's it's a common practice of respect among high noble blood. They then hide the bones after cleaning it. That's actually a sign of respect. Despite the shit bag ways of many Europeans navigators and colonizers (who often pay hospitality of the natives with violence) in the Pacific, eg Magellan, these so called "savages" actually have a lot respect. I grew up on the Big Island and been to Kealakekua (which a town uphill is named after Captain Cook aka Capt Cook, HI) and the Captain Cook memorial many times. If anyone's is visiting the Big Island definitely a nice place to snorkel.

John! I think I’m going to take those last three questions with me into a lot of the issues I’m trying to really think critically about right now. THANK YOU FOR THOSE!

*Gets excited when John mentions New Zealand* *cries when he continues to just say Australia* CCWH should have a special on NZ history, it's the most unique of the colonies since the British didn't treat the Maori anywhere as horribly as they treated the aboriginals and native Americans, and pretty much the only time a large majority of Maori died by the hands of the British was during the NZ civil war between the British and the Maori

Just caught up on all of the crash course videos (not all in one day, of course). I absolutely LOVE thought bubble graphics!! Bravo for the neat and humorous artwork. Also bravo to you John (and Raoul Meyer) for writing and making the show so entertaining and educational.

I just figured out you wrote the fault in our stars...... good book, good movie.

Dear, Mr. Green, your show is fantastic! Thank you so much!

Absolutely love the in-depth analysis of validity of sources, inherent problems with Hawaiian sources due to European-contamination, and whether that should be a deterrent on proposing such arguments. Awesome job, Mr. Green!

Captain cook chased a chook all around Australia, he lost his pants in the middle of France and found them in Tasmania!

As an Australian I thank you and you must talk about us more

I have been waiting for a year for you to talk about Australia!!

I watch these while I eat dinner. It's like mealtime TV, but AWESOME and super crazy educational.

i heard that when he came back it caused a lot of c9nfusion with the hawaians. before Cook and his crew played along with the initial belief they were associated with Lono (not actually lono) but when they came back the hawaiians were understandably pissed and confused. in the "pissed and confused" period (which included the king being kidnapped) one of Cook's men panicked and shot a child, resulting in the melee which killed cook and forced his crew to flee the island. when the europeans returned they returned Cook's remains, things got smoothed over and Hawaii became a popular port for Europeans in the Pacific.

He talked as much about his life as Zheng He or Mansa Musa, but I think his demise covered a lot about what kind of person he was perceived as in life.

the rhetorical questions are such a good demonstration of what I've learned in the Post-structuralism Anthropology!!

I love it! I used some info for a school project and I got an A, so funny. "I'm sorry I destroyed your temple but I'll give you two hatchets one for each hand I mean what would you even do with a third hatchet!"

"The White Mans Burden", the earliest example of Poe's Law.

Wow! My class loved your video. We find it interesting that there are always two or more sides to a story. From Mr Guiso and 4/5G from Pittsworth State School Australia.

Awesome. I love the way these crash courses are presented. Informative and entertaining.

Thanks for the information. Is it possible to do another video. As some of the facts are in such fast pace so for the learners or ESL STUDENTS it can hard or difficult to follow through. Thanks for the various formats of your presentation!!

Ι have one major complaint to make about this series... You know... like... vikings? Nothing? Seriously? Like they didn't contribute in any way to world history...

I want a whole Crash Course just on Russia.

the end was really good, your ideas are worth shearing, thank you.

hey ! thanks for this video, which is great !! i wonder, do you have any historical references i could use for a paper, about the fact that it was customary for islanders to be allowed to take things from ships that came by and anchored by their bay? thanks ! :)

Did you just say JIF, Mr. JREEN?! - just kidding ;)

1:40 You still have to do: -Ned Kelly -Mawson -The Stolen generation and the decimation of the Aboriginal life style -The Mouri and Aboriginal Resistance -How/Why Australians celebrate their worst loss Galipoli MORE AUS!

Thank you very much, very informative.

I'm watching them just because I love history and the way John teaches!!

Finally you mentioned us

I loved this episode and found it really thought provoking, but there is just one thing that bothers me about this whole thig, and that is the fact that we struggle so hard to understand the deaths of Europeans in the colonies when what's most terrible is actually the natives' death. It'd just make sense that a native would want to kill some one who attacked their people!

I really enjoyed this one 👍

Love the insights given at the end of every video.

Very interesting to watch as I am related to captain Cook through my mums dad, and our modern family now spreads from England, Australia and over to the USA, just as Cooks voyages did :)

bingin for ap world history 2019

hello Danica :) You throw tv cables like a pro

I would love to see a crash course on the spread of Austronesian Languages, the introduction of the Kumara to Polynesia from South America, the spread of the Polynesians from South East Asia, the giant stone monuments of polynesia and the development of writing in Rapanui.

Thank you James Cook for all you done for us. A true legend and pioneer

I think you missed the joke about 'burring the hatchet'

Yay! I finally got a mention in a Crash Course World History episode!

Yay we were mentioned you are awesome Mr Green!

Ah captain cook a Middlesbrough legend

"Half-devil and half-child, 'cos in retrospect that seems to describe......you" - John Green. YOU HILARIOUS, OCCASIONAL AUTHOR YOU!!! small mic drop

Definitely one of the best CCWH videos

One of your best, true teaching!

Aloha (Hi) everyone. I live in Hawai'i and would like to comment that the Hawaiians obviously killed Cook because of a conflict that he wasn't prepared for. It's hard to say what the primary reason was. Hawaiians stealing, Cook disrespecting the buildings and people or some unknown cultural misunderstanding could have been the primary reason. But whatever it was he was probably not prepared because of the season. During the season of Lono it is forbidden to go to war. Also him showing up on a ship with a big white (sail) symbol of Lono probably made the first encounter much more civil. When he came back it was during the season of Ku, the god of war. So, Cook probably didn't change the way he conducted himself. The Hawaiians would have treated everyone different depending on the season. Cook probably didn't know that the politeness was only seasonal and that later people expected to go to war. So, Cook acted culturally very appropriate (initial arrival) and then very inappropriate (returning during season of WAR). I'm not sure if any Hawaiians thought he was Lono or just a representative. Old Hawaiian culture thought of gods, volcanoes and powerful people as being kind of similar in that they all have spiritual power known as Mana. It's like the ideas of qi, ki, or prana. Anyone or anything could have Mana and the important thing is how righteous (socially appropriate) the thing/person is. So, a Hawaiian saying "That's Lono" is not as big of a jump as a European saying "That's Jesus". They definitely thought he was important because you don't try to eat and absorb the Mana of just anyone. Yea, we ate him. Probably. Maybe. But Hawaiians weren't normally cannibals. Just if your name is "Cook".

One things to be said is that Cook was a very compassionate person when he started his first voyage however he eventually became desensitised in his later voyages. A good example of this is how in his early voyages he ate what his men did in order to prevent scurvy however in one of his later voyages he forced his men to eat (either seal or walrus) as their food supply was in danger

"Is our inability to escape our biases a good excuse for not even trying?" Sounds good to me! ;)

Great questions at the end :)

YASS Finally New Zealand!!

That Danica's hand though.

My grandmother's second husband was an explorer, and spent a few years as president of the Explorer's Club in NYC. Lowell Thomas was a friend of his, and sent him a small hand carved boat along with a note. It stated the boat had been carved by a crew member from a branch of a tree under which Cook died. There is writing on the boat with a date. The boat was supposed to go to the Peabody Museum but he died shortly after and my grandmother gave me the boat. I need to get some imaging done of the writing on the boat and the note that came with it for proof as it is getting hard to read.

I love history,John Green vids,and captain cook stories. I heard cook was fluent in a few polynesian languages and introduced the west to the idea of the amazing seafaring pacific island cultures all having the same origin. THE HAWAIIAN VERSION i heard around waiamea,kuaii was that cap'n cook had dissed and pissed off the locals,agreed to leave,started to leave,then came back with a few armed guys for survey equipment or something. Several armed islanders (including the young k'meameah in some accounts) intercepted cook on the beach. They didnt really want to fight guns with sharktooth clubs but hoped their bravery would scare off the haolis. One of the inexperienced white guys panicked and fired a wet or misloaded straightbore pistol and the ball bounced off an ali'i warrior's wooden armor. The islanders then cast aside all fear of firearms and get stabby. Cook survives long enough to drag himself to yhe ocean and attempt to swim to his boat but still died because the greatest western marine navigator in history COULDN'T SWIM. if its not accurate its still a good story.

Here in Hawaii, Cook's arrival has been seen as the worst event that happened to Hawaiian people.

IT'S GIF NOT JIF

this helped me a lot with my project because I was way behind schedule, since I went to San Diego. :P

thanks i needed this for homework :)

It's kind of sad that he skips over the 50000 year history of Australia and the Polynesia island

At a young age I was taught that the Samoan word for Europeans was: Palagi. In some cultures like the Maori their representative word reflects how they see the world. Maori by the way means normal (or so I was taught). So anyone not Maori was by this meaning as "not normal". Back to Palagi. Which I can't spell with this keyboard cause the first A in Pa should have a bar above the letter A. The closest I can get is Pà which means explosion or break. "Uh Pà'a le mea" that thing is broken/exploded. Lagi the second half the word means Heaven. Or the close approximation to it. The first sittings were of clouds drifting in from the horizon (the sails) to the peoples of little island a vessel that to them was larger then life (because any ship bigger than what they could build were large ships were none existent). So the arrival would have been celebrated cause fair skinned peoples bringing new things were viewed as tidings of good fortune. BUT them returning limping and battered and seeking refuge would be a show of weakness. The Hawaiians probably sought to take what they viewed as easy pickings. Just my two cents.

the best episode so far

You know Mr.JREEN, I think that all your videos are JOOD. Also what was that voice in the BACKJOUND

How would they still have a king after the Ritual Killing of the king on a yearly basis? Would they just pick some random dude out of the island?

Wow im from australia and I wont shut up. Fight me

Thought bubbles are awesome, content is great... ya got yourself a fantastic team backing you there

Nephew of Cook here(6th displaced)and this is HILARIOUS! THUMBS UP!!!

Not even 1 million views??

He forgot to mention the fact that Cook was eaten. As a young child that was always the most intriguing.

I wrote an article about Captain Cook; well, actually about the Americans who accompanied him on his voyages, especially the last one. There was John Ledyard who had a very interesting career and life and wrote "A Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean." And Pierre Landais was was a French naval officer who accompanied Bougainville before becoming a naturalized American citizen (and a thorn in the side of John Paul Jones). Also, Nicholas Biddle was a naval officer who sailed with Captain C. J. Phipps on his polar expedition, serving with Horatio Nelson. It's very interesting history.

As a New Zealander I am SO happy as almost everyone forgets about us!

I'm a Hawaiian and we sure we're smart. We didn't let a British colonize Hawaii. We had our own king and made our own Hawaiian constitution. When captain cook brought his weapons our king wanted their weapons for war and uniting the islands. Us Hawaiian we can learn fast about reading and languages. In the late 1800s hawaii was the top readers and education until U.S.A overthrown hawaii. When will man kind know imperialism is wrong.

So he wasnt cooked?

I read somewhere that Captain Cook asked a native Australian what the word for a certain marsupial was, and they said "kangaroo" which basically meant "what's this guy trying to ask me i don't speak English"

Hilarious... funny way to learn. Thumbs up!

What if he was killed because he introduced gonorrhea and the Hawaiians were not happy about that?

3:05 you said jifs... Grrr

Thank you for the (TruLy, TRue) AWeSoMe Story of Captain Hook, Line & Sinker

I just love this show so much!

Don't come here. There's drop bears.

Captain Cook is pretty much the only part of Australian history that people all around the world know/care about. What about federation! Or even the fact that the allies would have definitively lost WW1 and WW2 if it wasn't for the Australians and New Zealanders. And what about the fact that Americans and Britons choose to overlook our involvement in the wars as footnote even though we struck Hitler his first fatal blow in the desert and he never won another battle!!! We Australians and New Zealanders (I'm both) have shaped the world more than anyone else gives us credit for!!! I want to see at least one Crash Course video on the real history of Australasia. Also with a focus on Maori and Aboriginal heritage.

I know I do. Just discovered Green like a month ago and I've been watching 1 episode per day, sometimes two. Beats television by a long mile. I know about 50% the things shown here, but i sure learn about the other 50%, plus John is a really great entertainer.