Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to understand content and feature usage to drive site improvements over time. To learn more, review our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Humans and Energy: Crash Course World History #207 (7:20)

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.

Key Ideas

Think about the following questions as you watch the video


  1. 01:25 How does Stan define energy and where does most of our energy come from?
  2. 02:00 What were the first two major energy technologies that humans discovered?
  3. 03:20 Does Stan think that coal is a nineteenth-century technology? Explain your answer.
  4. 05:50 Why don’t we use more nuclear energy?