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History class didn't teach you everything! Join us as we explore fascinating historical moments that somehow slipped through the cracks. From forgotten revolutions to overlooked scientific breakthroughs, these pivotal events shaped our world but rarely make the textbooks. Which of these historical blind spots surprised you the most?
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00:00And I felt like this is my time to take a stand for justice.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're examining 10 important historical events you've never heard of.
00:11Well, we're still working on that truth.
00:13Yeah.
00:13And I think that's where we are with reconciliation.
00:17The Late Bronze Age Collapse.
00:19Between 3,300 and 1,200 BCE, some of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen rose to power.
00:27This great upheaval in the eastern Mediterranean and Near East lasted about a half a century, from around 1200 to 1150 BCE.
00:36For reasons that are still ambiguous, the structures of society collapsed, and numerous empires of the time were weakened or outright destroyed.
00:44Basically, everything that had been good and great about the previous era now disappears.
00:50Vast interconnected civilizations disintegrated into isolated villages, ushering in the Greek Dark Ages.
00:57It wasn't until about 750 BCE, some 400 years after the collapse, that these Dark Ages came to an end.
01:04No one knows why civilizations in the region fell apart, but it was likely a perfect storm of debilitating factors, including natural disasters, economic disruptions, and invasions by the mysterious Sea Peoples.
01:17The Sea People were a multi-ethnic group, working together to attack the great civilizations of the day.
01:26And as more and more destroyed sites are uncovered, the scale of the attacks is staggering.
01:31Nellie Bly circumnavigates the globe.
01:34Writing under the pen name Nellie Bly in the late 19th century, journalist Elizabeth Cochran was a trailblazer who exposed the mistreatment of women in American factories and asylums.
01:44These women are not insane. Most have been made crazier by this place.
01:49While writing for the New York World in the late 1800s, Bly was inspired by Jules Verne's iconic adventure novel, Around the World in 80 Days, to attempt her own ambitious trip around the globe.
02:00Circling the globe? This is going to be rather amusing.
02:05Her progress became a national sensation, with Bly providing updates via telegraph.
02:11She broke the world record by circumnavigating the globe in just 72 days.
02:16Bly would later publish her personal account in the book, Around the World, in 72 Days.
02:22The Zimmermann Telegram
02:23Just a few months before the U.S. entered World War I, German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sent his now-famous telegram.
02:32The message was intended for Heinrich von Eckhart, a German ambassador who was stationed in Mexico.
02:37Conversations with German attachés frequently took place in Chapultepec, often criticizing America and discussing how the two countries could form closer ties.
02:47The coded telegram instructed von Eckhart to propose an alliance with Mexico, should the United States enter World War I.
02:54We make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the following basis. Make war together. Make peace together.
03:02If they accepted, Mexico would be given territory that had previously been taken from them by the U.S., the states of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
03:11Como Mexico perdió la mitad de su territorio a los Estados Unidos en una guerra injusta, siempre hubo un resentimiento enorme contra los Estados Unidos.
03:23However, British intelligence intercepted and decoded the telegram, which spurred American public support for the war.
03:30Without the Zimmermann telegram, World War I may have turned out very differently.
03:35Claudette Colvin
03:37Most people ask me, were you afraid? Well, I was a teenager. I was afraid, but I was more angry at these white passioners.
03:47Everyone has heard of Rosa Parks. A defining symbol of the civil rights movement, Parks famously refused to vacate her seat on a Montgomery bus.
03:56But she wasn't the first. Nine months earlier, in March of 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman and was arrested.
04:05And I felt like, this is my time to take a stand for justice.
04:11Colvin became one of several plaintiffs to challenge Montgomery's bus segregation laws.
04:16She and civil rights attorney Fred Gray were successful in their challenge, and the city was ordered to end bus segregation.
04:23However, civil rights campaigners didn't publicize her story because she was unmarried and pregnant,
04:28and thought that Rosa Parks, the secretary of the local NAACP chapter, made a more agreeable public face.
04:36I just wanted people to come together and unify and fight the segregation.
04:42The Sultana Explosion. It remains the worst maritime disaster in American history, but few people today have ever even heard of it.
04:49In 1865, the steamboat Sultana sank on the Mississippi River when three of its four boilers exploded.
04:56The initial explosion blew a hole 25 to 30 feet wide through all three upper decks, wiping out most of the main cabin.
05:05Designed to carry 376 people, the Sultana was instead carrying 2,128.
05:12Most of them paroled Union prisoners. 1,167 perished in the accident.
05:17Frantic screams as many slid into the fire.
05:21Wails and cries could be heard as the steamboat began sinking.
05:24The captain was among the dead, and the military was reluctant to go after the officers responsible,
05:29so no one was ever held accountable.
05:32The event was sandwiched right between Lincoln's assassination and the end of the Civil War,
05:36so it didn't receive much attention in the press.
05:39It eventually made news, though this newspaper shows it was buried pages behind the coverage of Lincoln,
05:44and after that, it was quickly forgotten.
05:47The Stonewall Riots.
05:49In the 1960s, police raids on gay bars were common.
05:53You know the drill, huh?
05:55High these, please.
05:57Get in a line up against the walls.
05:59This will all be over your side.
06:01But in 1969, when police raided New York's Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village and became violent,
06:06people fought back.
06:08Why are you all just standing there?
06:10F***ing help me!
06:12Go, go, go, go, go, go!
06:13Police soon lost control of the situation, and several riots occurred over the next few nights.
06:18This one event sparked a national rebellion, and many LGBT activist groups were soon fighting for their rights.
06:25To mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall incident, major cities across the country took part in the very first Pride March.
06:31Today, it's considered a watershed moment in LGBT rights, and the Stonewall Inn has been made a national historic landmark.
06:38Through the Stonewall Riots, the gay rights movement gained mainstream visibility and a momentum that continues to this day.
06:45The Los Angeles Chinatown Massacre of 1871.
06:49A forgotten history remembered here at the Chinese American Museum in downtown L.A.
06:54Only a few of the documented racial massacres in American history have become common knowledge.
06:59In late October of 1871, a shootout between rival Chinese organizations left a local policeman and farmer dead.
07:07As rumors spread and exaggerated events, an angry mob of white and Hispanic Americans descended on L.A.'s old Chinatown neighborhood.
07:16The violence that followed saw the mob assaulting residents and lynching them.
07:20Nineteen Chinese immigrants were killed, their bodies hung in the street.
07:24The 19 that were killed during the massacre represented 10% of all the Chinese living in Los Angeles.
07:34No one was punished for the attack, as those who were sentenced to prison terms had their convictions successfully overturned on appeal.
07:42Canada's Residential School System
07:44It's only recently that Canada's residential school system has made its way into mainstream conversation.
07:50I was imprisoned here, I was put here, and I did my time.
08:00Beginning in 1894, the then-named Department of Indian Affairs made it mandatory for Indigenous children to attend Canadian boarding schools.
08:09The hope was that these schools would sever Indigenous children from their roots and culture through forced conversion.
08:15I got hit. I got hit. Like everybody else that spoke their language here.
08:19These children were subjected to various forms of abuse, and it's estimated that up to 30,000 died.
08:25An Indigenous community in Kamloops, British Columbia found more than 200 likely graves of children, who were forced to attend a boarding school for Indigenous kids.
08:35The next month, 751 more were found in Saskatchewan.
08:39If true, that would account for 20% of all of the children inside the system.
08:43It also led to intergenerational trauma, with many communities suffering from high rates of PTSD, alcoholism, and self-harm.
08:52The Nubian Dynasty
08:53From the very first moment that Kush appears in history, around 2000 BC, it was powerful.
09:00In the 8th century BCE, King Pieh of Kush, a kingdom located in what's now Sudan, invaded Lower Egypt, founding a new dynasty of Egyptian rulers.
09:09From its prime position on the Nile, the Kush Empire controlled trade routes from the south up to Egypt, transporting ivory, leopard skins, precious stones, and gold.
09:21Their reign lasted for almost 100 years, until they were pushed back into Nubia in 656 BCE.
09:28However brief it may have been, the Kushites created the largest Egyptian empire in centuries.
09:33Not since the new kingdom ended in the 11th century BCE had Egypt and Kush been united.
09:39The Nubian dynasty successfully blended Kushite culture with ancient Egyptian practices, and revived the construction of pyramids for deceased rulers.
09:47In Sudan, in fact, there are more pyramids than in Egypt, and this is a thing that people don't think of very often.
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10:10The Toba Eruption
10:1174,000 years ago, we may have teetered on the brink of extinction.
10:20A supervolcano known as the Toba Caldera Complex in Sumatra, Indonesia, exploded, depositing blankets of ash for thousands of miles.
10:28The eruption lasted between 9 and 14 days, spewing out ash and rock at a rate of a million cubic meters per second.
10:37In fact, glass shards from the explosion have been discovered in Africa.
10:41It's theorized that this may have led to a volcanic winter that drastically reduced the human population.
10:47This population bottleneck may have consisted of just 3,000 to 10,000 people.
10:52The theory is disputed, but if it's correct, we're all descendant from a very small group of survivors.
10:59What we can say for sure is that some humans live through that particular apocalypse, and we're here today thanks to their survival.
11:06Which of these do you find the most fascinating?
11:09Let us know in the comments below.
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