OverSimplified

Created a page for OverSimplified, the YouTube channel that oversimplifies complex topics usually pertaining to politics and war.

As of now, the page is rather... sparse. Reaching out to those of us who also watch it to see if they can add that wiki love to it and make it into a proper article.

Also, new video came out a couple of days ago about the Three Kingdoms.

Oversimplified does the French Revolution.

Did you like it? Well there's a tax for that.

I've watched their stuff in the last few weeks. It's surprisingly entertaining.

Oversimplified does the War of the Bucket.

And it turns out, the whole story about a city state stealing another's city state bucket that led to war is false since the cities have always hated each other due to each side supporting the Pope or the Holy Roman Emperor. And the bucket was nothing more than a spoil of war which the winner took to mock the loser.

The Russian Revolution. Where even you can get a girlfriend!

Edited by terumokou on Aug 17th 2020 at 8:36:13 AM

Russian Revolution part 2 where nobles try to kill evil wizard monk and Civil War happens because one jerk was a sore loser that he lost an election and insist it was rigged and he was the real winner. Hopefully something like this won't happen in real life. Right?

Hmm, sore losers complaining they only lost due to rigged election and just won't let go of it years to come...

...I think that part is already happening.

Latest Oversimplified episode is about the Prohibition era in the US during the 1920s-30s.

The Napoleonic Wars.

Two episodes at once? What is this madness?

Really good episodes

Part 1 had the most hilarious opening ever, in my opinion.

He always uploads two-part videos on the same day.

It's fascinating how these videos show that some people came to power basically out of nowhere: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and now Napoleon.

You got to wonder what would've happened if Britain didn't interfere with Napoleon. That country had a huge impact on the Napoleonic Wars for economic reasons.

Edited by Kevjro7 on May 28th 2021 at 9:31:22 AM

Well, Napoleon would have won. XD

Like really, seems the only reason the empires of Europe would just not leave him alone was because Britain was bankrolling every coalition like it was going out of style.

He also would've won if he had actually been able to cross the English Channel so he could attack Britain directly, but Admiral Nelson wrecked that plan. Oh well.

Theres so much impact from those war. Portugal financial collapse following the wars would help spur the independence of Brazil as it gained greater political power against Portugal. Spain, similarly diminished, would begin losing its American colonies. Belgium would be broken off from the Netherlands as a buffer against France. Sweden would absorb Norway. And of course the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire sets the ground for Prussia and Austria's rivalry and attempts to unite the sundered German states behind their banner, which would eventually give birth to modern Germany when Prussia under Bismarck would manage it. And like the video mentions, all those republican ideals seeded around.

It's really hard to imagine what the world would be like had Napoleon managed to keep continental Europe under him. On one hand it's hard to imagine such an empire of very diverse people lasting all that long the moment Napoleon past away.

Edited by Ghilz on May 29th 2021 at 12:37:08 PM

That birth scene was hilarious. 😂

Oversimplified kinda missed an chance to tell how Napoleon was able to divorce his 1st wife Josephine and marry Marie Louise: Josephine was barren and to prove to the court iirc that it wasn't he who was barren, he brought his children from his mistresses as proof.

Speaking of his children, Napoleon descendants from his mistresses are still alive today (he and Marie Louise's only son, Napoleon II, died from tuberculosis before he had any children) so can they be considered the true heirs of Napoleon's legacy instead of those who are the descendants of Napoleon III, Napoleon's nephew and the man who brought back the French Empire until the Prussians came.

Edited by MrTerrorist on May 29th 2021 at 10:33:09 AM

Nope, because the kinda people who care about birthright also look down on "bastardry". Nevermind that the same social class who insisted on legitimacy were also the people who kept siring children out of wedlock left and right.

Isn't hypocrisy beautiful.

Well, "brought back" is a big word. It was more like a washed-up rock star trying to "bring back" their old sound but embarrassing themselves instead. >.>

Two things just happened: the Napoleonic Wars are currently the top two videos on trending, and the official YouTube channel commented on the second video.

To be fair, Napoleon III's domestic policy was overall not badly received (he was fairly poplar with the lower classes) - it was his foreign policy that was a disaster.

And because people love to pay more attention to wars than to administration, his failed military adventures is what everyone (outside of historians) remembers him for.

Well Paris got the name "City of Light" while under Napoleon III reign. It kinda funny that the people who help to put Napoleon III to power did so because they though he would be easy to control... up until he flipped the table and make himself President for life.

Edited by BattleRaizer on May 30th 2021 at 1:50:36 AM

The Pig War. In which a territory dispute on some islands somewhere in between Canada and Washington state nearly started another war between the US and the UK because an American shot a British pig that ate an American potato.

Edited by terumokou on Dec 6th 2021 at 6:32:06 AM

I didn't know George Pickett of the infamous Pickett's Charge was involved in the Pig War. Had he stayed in the Union Army, Pickett might have been known as the guy whose superior officer almost started a war with Britain over a pig instead of his current reputation as the rebel guy whose doomed charge was the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.

Define "out of nowhere"?

I imagine not groomed for it but mostly took advantage of societal upheaval to rapidly make their way up the ladder (usually by throwing other people off that same ladder).