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What period in history was the most horrific? The American Time magazine decided that 2020. And it seems to me that Time magazine would not hurt to hire a competent historian to the editorial staff. Yes, it was a time of heated political debates, racial unrest that escalated into violence, and most importantly, a pandemic that threw us off track. Each of us had disturbing thoughts. It seemed that we had encountered this planet at a strange time in its life. But, believe me, not the worst. In this video, I will give you the opportunity to wake up in other, more difficult time periods so as not to judge 2020 with your heart.
You will learn what it is like to live without the sun, how the absurd rule of one person can [__] the destinies of thousands of people. And what year was the worst in human history? You woke up very early to sharpen your spears for the mammoth hunt. You are a representative of the Clovis culture and live in the Late Adriaan period in North America. Suddenly you see a strange star with a long white tail in the sky. It continues to grow every day. You live in a time when people, of course, still know nothing about space, including the fact that this strange star was actually a giant asteroid consisting of
fragments up to 4 km in diameter. And here this deadly object crashes into the ice sheets of North America and Europe. The energy released at that moment triggers a series of fires. You grab your wife and children and run from the fire. The huge amount of ash formed from the burning of dense continental forests mixes with the astronomical amount of water vapor released into the atmosphere by the asteroid impact. This black wormwood has blocked out the sun, so you continue your journey in darkness. The water in the glaciers is starting to melt. You see 60mt high waves rushing north. In our time, they have completely covered the Taor Bridge. You recently ran away from
a fire, and now you are afraid that a wave will cover you and your family. Meltwater rushes into the Atlantic. Ocean currents will be disrupted for decades, plunging the world back into a small ice age that will last for years. Now you are a homeless nomad, traveling in search of at least some non-extinct plants or animals to feed your family, or rather those who did not die along the way. If in ancient times, human life was threatened by cosmic phenomena, then with the development of society, damage on a cosmic scale could be caused by people themselves. The worst time for political reasons.
You wake up again at dawn, because you are a poor farmer from China at the end of the 20th century. You need to go to work, earning points. Many years later, such wages will be shown in the series Black Mirror, as a variant of the development of events in the not-so-distant dystopian future. The audience won't even know that this has happened. Chinese leader Mao Zedong developed an economic and social plan for rapid modernization. There is no salary, and money has been replaced by a system of work points. There is also no private property. From now on, everything belongs to the commune.
Millions of skilled farmers were transferred from agricultural work to industrial work. There is no one to harvest the crop and it begins to rot. You are desperately trying to save the harvest, and then the MAO orders all the sparrows to be destroyed so that they stop eating the grain seeds. You are shocked by such a stupid political reform. After all, when the sparrows were destroyed, there was no one to deal with the locusts. You are unable to stop the invasion of these pests on your own. You have nothing to eat. And as a result, you, like 55 million other people who have suffered from the Maoist's homeless policies, are dying of hunger.
Sitting at home during quarantine is nothing compared to the times of UIA. At any moment we could order food delivery and sit peacefully in the safety of our apartment, which no one will take away from you. Now imagine the following. You wake up on the shores of North America, where you live with your tribe. Strangers are approaching you. They don't ask very politely to replenish your supplies. And if you get rejected, one of them threatens to deprive you of your moonlight The next night, it was as if someone had stolen the moon from the sky. When strangers come again, you share food with them.
You just don't know yet that you're dealing with Christopher Columbus. He is well versed in astronomy, so he managed to fool you, because there was a lunar eclipse that day. This man's visit set off a series of horrific events. When Columbus discovered America instead of Asia, all of Spain went to this unusual country. Portugal rushed after the Spaniards, and then France, England and Holland. Thus began the colonization of America. Having initially met no resistance from the local population, the Europeans behaved as aggressors, killing and enslaving the indigenous inhabitants of America. The Spanish conquerors were particularly cruel, looting and burning the villages of the Indians, and then killing them.
You managed to escape the attack of the aliens, but after a few days, the people in the tribe began to have fevers and nausea, and their bodies ached with pain. The fact is that after contact with European settlements, entire tribes, which had been isolated from the world for years, were exposed to diseases that were new to them. For example, Wispy. You die in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, knowing that your tribe and culture have been destroyed by conquerors. Only times of large-scale military conflicts, when there were great losses on all sides, could be scarier than this. You wake up, but this time it's in the middle of the night.
You and your associates have decided to set fire to a Catholic church at midnight tonight. You are a student at Charles University in Prague. And instead of getting an education, you are forced to fight for your religion and freedom in military conflicts between the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation and the rest of Europe. It all started with a series of religious clashes between Protestants and Catholics. In southern Germany, only a third of the population survived the war, which ultimately lasted for 30 years. Many regions have taken more than a century to recover from the effects of economic and social decline. Total losses, according to various
estimates, ranged from 5 to 8 million people. But the scariest thing is that you could have fallen undefeated in battle, and died from typhus, or from dysentery, or from the bubonic plague. There is evidence that more people died in Germany from it than in battles. We could also have woken up in the first half of the 20th century. During this period, two world wars occurred in 30 years. And all over the world, genocides and mass murders have been committed in the name of political ideologies, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of millions of people. Even if you were a veteran who managed to survive World War I, you could die from the Spanish flu pandemic, which killed up to 100 million people.
This is 5% of the total world population. But the most destructive conflict of all times and peoples is World War II. This was the limit of human cruelty. In addition to military actions, which, of course, took many lives, the Nazis were given the order to exterminate all persons of Jewish nationality, as well as Roma, some Slavs, Jehovah's Witnesses, representatives of the LGBT + community, and people with mental and physical disabilities. 18 million people died in those years. But the aggression was not only from the Nazis. On August 6, 1945, America dropped a nuclear bomb on the civilians of Hiroshima, Japan.
It had an explosive power of exactly 15,000 tons of TNT equivalent. The bomb destroyed and burned about 70% of all buildings. The explosion killed about 100,000 people, and those who survived suffered from chronic diseases, cancer, and other effects of radiation for the rest of their lives. Therefore, when you went to bed during World War II, you couldn't be sure that you would wake up. Your house could be blown up, burned down, or you could be shot in the open. But what is the worst time of life in all history?
The event with which I will conclude is very reminiscent of the disaster with which I began. The most terrifying morning in history looks like this: You wake up in Iceland in the year 536 and can't see anything around you because of the thick fog. At that time, the skies of Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia were covered in a fog so dark that it blocked out the sun for a year and a half. Thus began the dark times. The thing is, there was a catastrophic volcanic eruption in Iceland, spewing ash into the northern hemisphere. But you don't know about it and consider the tragedy to be some terrible sign from
heaven, as if a higher power is punishing you for something. You try to dress as warmly as possible, because the average temperature of the Earth has dropped very sharply by 1.5-2.5° for 18 months. Thus began one of the coldest decades in the last 2,300 years. Drought and famine spread everywhere. Suddenly you feel sick. You seem to be burning. You are weak. My head feels dizzy and bursts with pain. You are constantly losing consciousness. Throws you all over the bed. You cough up blood and see strange visions. So your life will be taken by the plague.
This disease has been killing people for 15 or 18 major pandemic waves. The plague killed about 50 million people. The streets were covered with corpses like a carpet. What would you say about the pandemic period now? Are the years of our lives really the worst? In fact, people have never lived longer, better, safer, or richer than they do now. In the 10th century, the average life expectancy in the world was only 29 years. Today, on average, we can live to 70. In just the last 25 years, a full seventh of humanity has been lifted out of extreme poverty thanks to economic growth.
More people than ever before still have enough food. Modern medicine has made significant progress, and the spread of democracy has made the world a freer and safer place. This stunning leap is the greatest achievement in human history. Write in the comments your reasons why you think the time we live in now is the best. And subscribe to the channel. Yeah.
