How to World Build History

History, how does it unfold? What can we learn from it? How do historians actually shape their narratives? Today let's look at how to world-build history as we write our next Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, write fictional stories, or just world-build our projects for fun!

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Plus these history channels: Historia Civilis, UsefulCharts, AlternateHistoryHub, Sam Aranow, M. Laser History, Kraut, Ancient Americas, Al-Muqaddimah, Stakuyi, Odd Compass, Atun-Shei Films, Overly Sarcastic Productions.

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0:00 - 1:46 Introduction
1:47 - 2:58 History from a God's Perspective
2:59 - 4:36 Mythology vs History
4:37 - 5:22 Inspiration from other Sources
5:23 - 8:53 Historiographical Narratives
8:54 - 12:05 Legends in History
12:06 - 14:16 How Historical Trends Work
14:17 - 19:35 How Power and Institutions Work
19:35 - 22:22 Change is a Constant

MUSIC IN THIS VIDEO:
Aaron Paul- Scherzo for Nightmares
Giuluo Fazio- Last Journey of Ulysses
Peter Nickalls- Final Thoughts
Enzalla- Somewhere
Adi Goldstein- Moving Forward
Chris Zabriskie- Air Hockey Saloon
Kevin Macleod- Infados
Chris Zabriskie- Divider
Chris Zabriskie- Undercover Vampire Policeman
Chris Zabriskie- John Stockton Slowdrag
Peter Nickalls- Against the Odds

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[Stoneworks]

*Shout out to my patron KJV who requested this video! And PLEASE! Comment your best historical interpretations so we can add them to the cheat sheet at **21:22**!*

[wooblydooblygod]

I'm a pretty big history buff, and overall my rule is "nothing is too insane" in real life history people did shit 10× more impressive and 10× dumber than you could ever write.

From one man holding a trench line, to a revolutionary dying from eating weeds in his backyard, people do some things.

[iLoveBigKnockers]

Benjamin didn't discover electricity, he wielded it.

[lukeclaudio]

Here is an archetype you may not have
A hero in a great conflict loses a lover and starts wiping out the enemy. they tend to be mostly undefeatable until something special hits them in battle. at the end of the battle they fall. They tend to fall at the last battle. the battle tends to wipe out the enemy.
The historical/mythological example is Achilles in the Trojan War.
A fictional example is the Elder Scrolls character Pelinal Whitestrake from the Alessian Slave Rebellion.
i hope this is helpful towards filling out you list

[pohiena]

An event suggestion to add to the sheet. If a political entity exists for a long and continuous time, its idea become a legitimatizer for potential claimants and unifiers. Example: China and Rome.

[alehaim]

This is fun to watch as a history student in uni whose first proper history lecture/lesson is next monday :D

[cloverpod]

Me stuck writing cause a prerequisite event needed to be establish.

Stoneworks: So anyway History.

An ancient technology resurfaces as a solution to an energy crisis, turning a small city-state into a world superpower. While this technology had been vaguely understood for almost two millennia, the original inventor had no ambition for greatness and the only working prototype was lost in a major disaster, so history turned its attention elsewhere. (Based very loosely on the Industrial Revolution and the burning of the library of alexandria). Not totally original, but what if ancient Egypt had steam engines?

[Anglo-mapping]

1:39 I think you forgot to close a tab of yours.. XD

[mid]

I wonder what would happen if we invented nitroglycerin before we invented gunpowder, wars would probably be very brutal. just coat the fields around the fortress with nitroglycerin, you got your own primitive mine field, probably.

[aurumcobalt]

I CANT be the only one that sees those tabs

[lmarsh]

Love worldbuilding. Your videos have been helpful to me! I have a world i buuld with my siblings and its super amazing discovering what they have nade at the same time

[ghostclaimax]

My favourite part of history was when a person called Samuel Kinnyee (S. Kinnyee) set out a fleet of lone warriors with the help of a military commander called Blake Erdwin (B. Erd) to attack an ancient Kingdom of Santonia. S. Kinnyee was able to conquer the Kingdom with ease because B. Erd brought all of his well known skilled warriors from the Russian Kingdom of OldFang, S. Kinnyee then set up his own colonial Empire by the name of Vanakunia which later went on to conquer massive parts of the region and became a quite well respected example of how skilful warriors beat the quantity of warriors in history.

[BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

I actually have a background empire which "fixed" (aka, perpetually delayed) that problem at 20:50! It's a multi-multiversal empire who has been in a golden age for a couple millenia. The reasons why it's so successful? It's still run by the same dude who started the whole thing, ~40% of the population is (technically) that same dude, the ruler somehow manages to balance every single thing so that it doesn't spontaneously combust, and ultimately most citizens realise that living in this near-utopic empire is better than whatever would replace it. It's like holding together a bunch of repelling magnets together with magnets in hopes of creating a spider-tank, but somehow, like the immortal words of Todd Howard: "It just works.".

[Guylock]

Watching this makes me want to make/simulate a persistent world for myself with permadeath, random events/ kingdoms etc in rpg maker, would be pretty fun to do. :D

[diro]

Some examples to add to the cheat sheet:

• Bernadotte’s wild story of how he ended up being the king of Sweden.
• Pol Pot’s Kampuchean extreme ruralization experiment.
• Japanese imperialism being fueled by lack of land and resources coupled with the need to fit into a cultural and societal mold imposed on them by colonialists.
• How Napoleon’s armies were sent to arrest him and instead came back to him when he escaped exile.
• A scientific golden age being fueled by a mandate from God to know and study (Islamic Golden Age).
• Countercultural movements becoming so mainstream they become the norm and status quo and henceforth the traditional ways become revolutionary, and the cycle turns again...
• The parallels between China and Rome, a unitarian civilizatory ‘eternal’state.

[userNEREMAR]

This is actualy the thing I have been strugling to do right. Thank you so much! Very helpful 👍














Also, that sneacky Dagot Ur cameo made me chuckle. Great video, keep it up ❤

[a_RD_]

I noticed in your history channels you didn’t have the Fall of Civilizations Podcast, which I would really recommend

[oceping]

always a good day when stoney uploads (its midnight and i need to go to bed)

[avollant]

Good video! It highlights many of the challenges I face in my own worldbuilding. However, there's one aspect you didn't touch on: the point of divergence OR the art of taking our contemporary world and veering it toward a future (or another reality) that aligns with our vision for our fictional world.

Or more precisely, how to create a future historical narrative starting from a specific point in our own timeline (kind of a "What If?" scenario). More concretely, I'm grappling with the challenge of creating a historical framework for my universe that spans from the present day to the year 2300. Normally, I would use an excuse like "There was a terrible war, and many records from that period no longer exist." Unfortunately, I have to consider another faction (or a second humanity, if you will) whose origin I need to explain. So, I'm forced to conceptualize a timeline that explains how this split occurred and their individual evolution.

It's not as easy as it sounds... That's why I think a follow-up video on this very topic would be just as welcome.

Thank you,

Alain.