Number One: “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

You should make a top 20 or their list of worst decisions in history. I’d love to see your list and hear why

Videos like this from WatchMojo are "history for those who don't really want to learn history"

Pete Carrol calling a passing play in the Super Bowl has to be up there

Turning off my alarm and telling myself, "just 5 more minutes," is undoubtedly one of the worst mistakes in history

The worst decision in history has to be Franz Ferdinand's driver making a wrong turn 😂😂

Watch mojo deciding to make historical content is one of the Top 20 worst mistakes in history

The Donner Party: 40 people died
The Carolean Death March: 4000 soldiers and Sweden's great power status

I'm so sorry but watching Chris's face during number 19 just had me DEAD, this man was dying inside LMFAO

I vaguely remember something about Guy Du Chalic slandering another medieval surgeon for hand washing and this caused lack of hygiene in surgery till Ignaz Semmelweis. 500 years of not washing hands probably caused as many deaths as the world wars perhaps.

Yeah, this list is incredibly U.S and 20th century focused. How they haven't included the burning of the Library of Alexandria, yet have included Little Big Run and some travellers I've never heard of getting lost and dying (which happens literally every single day worldwide) is completely beyond me.

Romanian here, i remember learning about China and asia in the 7th grade i believe, in world history, and we did cover China's struggles with the European Empires in 1800s, the boxer Rebbelion, WW1, WW2, it's civil war and the communist Era (with both the Long March and The Great Leap Forward) up to the 1990s(and yes we also covered the Tianamen Square masacre, but it was only a side note). We also covered other asian countries such as Japan, the struggles of Vietnam and Korea, but not in great detail, and part of it was through the perspective of the Impact of European Colonial Empires had in that part of the world. I don't know if it is still covered today, BUT BACK IN MY DAY it was covered. Not in much detail, but it was covered

WatchMojo isn't really doing justice to the thousands of costly mistakes in history because rather than produce their own historical documentaries, they edit together clips from ACTUAL documentaries.

WatchMojo's scope of Human History is limited to what documentaries have been produced that they've been able to take clips from.

The Chernobyl argument could be how it impacted the world's view on the safety of nuclear power. Had it not occurred, we may be way further along the transition towards clean energy than we currently are as a global community.

The consequences for eastern Europe, as a result of the fracturing of the Roman Empire after the Fourth Crusade, were, I think, hugely significant - not to mention the consequences for the Turkish beyliks in Anatolia (or potential lack thereof). There could be so many, many other examples from other parts of the world that could easily rank far higher (in terms of consequences alone) than some of the US-centric examples here, as you say, Chris.

Lenin not naming a successor.   Not saying Lenin was a nice guy, but it sure would have been swell of him to spare his USSR 30 years of Stalin.

A wise person once said, "history is new people making the same old mistakes".
Thanks for helping JD.👍

More accurate title:
"20 random mistakes in mostly recent history, that the masses can relate to"

That's quite the thumbnail... man watch mojo doesn't do a good job outsourcing it's script writing.

If Chernobyl is on this list then the mistakes that led to the Bhopal disaster in India should also be considered.