War and Civilization: Crash Course World History 205
In which John Green investigates war, and what exactly it may or may not be good for. Was war a result of human beings organizing into larger and more ...
========== Hi I'm John Green; this is Crash Course World History, and today, we're going to talk -- for the absolute last time, I promise -- about war. Well, it's not the last time we're going to talk about war because we're gonna talk about the 20th century later, pretty much defined by war, but it's the last time we're going to talk about war in an abstract way. [John from the past] Mr. Green! Mr. Green! And then we can get to the battles? Because this has been pretty ... esoteric. [Present John Green] Oh, me from the past, I remember when I spent 30 minutes with an SAT prep book and emerged with the word "esoteric" in my vocabulary. But fair enough, me from the past. It is a little bit esoteric. You know what else is esoteric? Human existence. Anyway, in the las...