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The Agricultural Revolution: Crash Course World History #1

The first episode of Crash Course World History, in which John Green covers the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and how it shaped civilization. It is delivered fast and with jokes.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends the series as a funny, coherent high-school-level overview of world history that teaches a lot in a few hours.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
CrashCourse
Topic
world history
Format
explainer
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
6
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • I'm quite surprised that nobody has suggested Crash Course. The first one they did - Crash Course World History by John Green - is really great, and I personally found both endearing and funny ( [VIDEO] ). It's not advanced material, mostly high-school level, but …

    dunk010 on Hacker News · 2018-09
    In Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?

  • Interesting is also that you can learn history much better outside of school. In contrast to education institutions youtubers for instance usually succeed at presenting the stuff in an interesting fashion. And if you listen to these kind of presentations in several languages or from …

    runyor on Hacker News · 2019-02
    In The Decline of Historical Thinking

  • If you're interesting in this kind of history. I can recommend the youtube series: Crash Course - World history. [VIDEO] Only 42 videos of around 12 minutes. Gave me a good brush up on history.

    jhaand on Hacker News · 2015-09
    In The World We Have Lost: On the Silk Road Roots of Our Global System

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