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June 22, 2019

History Summarized: The Fall of Rome

Filed under: Europe, History, Humour, Religion — Tags: , , , , , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 21 Jun 2019

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Rome, in one form or another, has been around for a *while*. Kinda seemed like it was going to last forever, like it was basically immortal. Well bad news for everyone involved: Rome goes bye-bye just like all the other empires in world history. So let’s talk about when, how, and why Rome fell!

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SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall: https://amzn.to/2FwBRvO
Mary Beard’s SPQR: https://amzn.to/2Wwu2x3
The History of Rome Podcast: https://apple.co/2U7Q4tq
Lectures from TheGreatCourses: “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?” (Gregory Aldrete), “Late Antiquity — Crisis and Response” & “Barbarians & Emperors” (Thomas Noble)
If I see anyone complaining that I didn’t sufficiently cite this video I’m going to sack your ancient capital and pillage your temples.

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June 19, 2019

Summer Stupidity: NEW YORK (City Review!)

Filed under: Food, Humour, USA — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 18 Jun 2019

Welcome to summer break! We’re beta-testing a new kind of video to punctuate our REAL weekly Friday content on lazy summer Tuesdays. Let us know if this brand of fast-talking stupidity is something you’d potentially like to see more of! As always, regular content returns Friday.

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June 15, 2019

Miscellaneous Myths: Io

Filed under: Europe, Greece, History, Middle East — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 14 Jun 2019

The moon! The myth! The legend! The three millionth woman to live through an absolute nightmare just because Zeus couldn’t be bothered to keep it in his pants!

Still had a better life than Callisto, though.

Pro tip, if someone is listed on wikipedia as a “lover” of zeus, that does not at all indicate that their relationship was consensual.

PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP

June 8, 2019

Blue’s Top Five Domes!

Filed under: Architecture, Europe, History, Humour, Italy, Technology — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 7 Jun 2019

There are questions any self-respecting YouTube Historian must ask: “How do you balance entertainment and educational value?”, “What’s the split between your area of expertise and more foreign topics?”, and, of course, the most important of all: “Which Dome is the best dome?”

Today, Overly Sarcastic Productions takes a stand on this critical issue — and proceeds to shitpost about it.

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May 25, 2019

History Summarized: Late Dynastic China

Filed under: Britain, China, Economics, History, Humour — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

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Published on 24 May 2019

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In a shocking twist of fate, China stays in one piece for a majority of this video. The unfortunate side-effect is that when it does collapse, it collapses HARD. Find out how in this tour through the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties!

Further Reading: China, A History by John Keay

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May 12, 2019

History-Makers: Homer

Filed under: Europe, Greece, History, Humour, Middle East — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 10 May 2019

Visit PhilosophicalPhridays.com to learn more about Blue’s BOOK!

“History-Makers” is a new series from Blue, digging into the backstories of history’s most influential writers and their great works. We begin at the beginning, with the Greek poet Homer, trying to figure out how exactly he wound up with the Iliad and Odyssey!

Let me know which History-Maker you’d like me to cover in the comments below!

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May 4, 2019

Miscellaneous Myths: Hermes

Filed under: Europe, Greece, History, Religion — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 3 May 2019

He’s fast! He’s smart! He should really put on some pants! It’s history’s most marketable deity, Hermes himself!

(but red, who are those other two guys?)
(shhhhh)

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April 18, 2019

Holiday Tales: Easter!

Filed under: Europe, History, Middle East, Religion — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 30 Mar 2018

Happy Good Friday, everyone! Easter’s in two days, so let’s take a hot minute to see if we can figure out what exactly we’re celebrating when we pull out our egg baskets and chocolate bunnies, and why exactly we do it the way we do. Will we be able to unravel the mysteries of Easter before Jesus’s death timer hits zero? (Spoiler: no!)

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April 13, 2019

History Summarized: Steel (Feat. “That Works”)

Filed under: Europe, History, Humour, India, Japan, Middle East, Science, Technology, Weapons — Tags: , , , , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 12 Apr 2019

More from Matt & Ilya on “That Works”: https://bit.ly/2D0A6qk

More about steel from Shadiversity:
— “When Was Steel Invented” https://bit.ly/2uSwcvh
— “The Riddle of Steel” https://bit.ly/2G6TB28
— “The Oldest Steel Sword” https://bit.ly/2VvWVZZ

CORRECTION from 12:10 — The back of a Katana after differential hardening process is a lower-carbon STEEL, but it is still Steel rather than Iron. My mistake. The higher-carbon content Martensite forms the cutting edge, and low-carbon steel forms the spine.

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April 9, 2019

Miscellaneous Myths: The Five Suns

Filed under: Americas, History — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 06:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 5 Apr 2019

Everybody loves a good creation myth. The Aztecs loved it so much they did it five whole times! I’d call it “overkill”, but compared to all the other stuff the aztecs believed, four mythical extinction events is actually remarkably tame.

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Blue’s Dumb History Tales

Filed under: Britain, China, Economics, History, Humour — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 8 Mar 2019

Please check out That Works for the best blacksmithing on YouTube: https://goo.gl/vXsuFt

What do you get when you cross a month that has 5 Fridays with a historian who can’t do math? This nonsense, apparently.

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March 31, 2019

Miscellaneous Myths: Nerites

Filed under: Europe, Greece, History — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 1 Mar 2019

This teenie weenie episode is brought to you courtesy of our patron Ryan The Nomad!

There’s no art of Nerites, which means none of you can prove he WASN’T a mermaid.

🦐

PATREON: http://www.patreon.com/user?u=4664797

March 20, 2019

History Summarized: Medieval China (Ft Jack Rackam)

Filed under: China, History, Humour — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 15 Mar 2019

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Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme…
China broke agaiiinnnnnn — dammit china you only had one job

Jack Rackam’s Channel: https://goo.gl/EgwpGu

PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/OSP

March 13, 2019

How to Do Research

Filed under: Education, History — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 04:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 12 Mar 2019

Ever wondered how exactly I make the magic happen in my deep-dive videos, like Dionysus, Aphrodite and King Arthur? Wonder no longer! Today I’m dishing out all the answers in this extra special bonus video I made in three days!

We’ve… we’ve been REALLY busy, guys. March is CRAZY.

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March 7, 2019

History Summarized: Thebes’ Greatest Accomplishment Ever

Filed under: Europe, Greece, History, Humour, Military — Tags: , , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Overly Sarcastic Productions
Published on 25 May 2017

This story, this ludicrous, insane story, is near and dear to my heart. It also conveniently explains what went on in the century between the Peloponnesian War and Philip II conquering Greece — this story is pretty much it. Speaking of, I hope to cover all that Macedonian shenaniganery at ~some point~

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