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[Coop and Dino singing]

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Believe it or not, the oldest feud in the history of humanity is not cats versus dogs. [Cat and dog in a room with people]

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Though, yeah, that one does go back a long way.

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But there’s a much older feud… one that goes all the way back to the 1600s between

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England and France. Those two just happened to be the most powerful

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countries in all of Europe, so naturally, they wanted to defeat each other to become [England and France men arm-wrestling]

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the undisputed reigning champion.

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You can think of them as kind of like John Cena and the Undertaker, except instead of

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fighting over a belt, they were fighting over the free world. Same thing, kind of….not

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really…okay, moving on. So when both countries sent settlers over [British settlers on a ship]

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to the New World, of course those people carried on the legacy of fighting, in what was called

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The French and Indian Wars.

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Both countries wanted to control North America and one way to do that was to control the

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most territory where hunting and trapping for animal furs happened.

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Because whoever had the furs had the power. Why? Nobody knows. Seriously, we’re starting [Man wearing animal fur]

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to think that the colonists just made a hobby out of doing anything that wasn’t very nice.

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Despite the French having more Native American allies than the English, the English eventually

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took over most of the French colonies.

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Which, if you think about it, is the reason we’re speaking English today and not French. [English soldiers on a beach and French colonists on a ship]

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Which is honestly fine with us because, seriously, that language is really into vowels and it

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gets really confusing.

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“Eau”? How is that a word? Anyway, this conflict was part of the Seven [Coop discussing the seven years war]

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Years' War which took place between 1754 and 1763.

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The French and English and their many European allies fought in Europe, West Africa, India,

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the Philippines, Central and South America, and North America.

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Not a bad way to see the world, but uh….not exactly a fun way to see the world. [Canon launches]

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And because it was fought in so many different places and involved so many countries, many

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historians actually consider it to be the real First World War.

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Also, we should mention before all the mathematicians out there do that yes, there are definitely [Calculator subtracting 1754 from 1763]

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more than seven years between 1754 and 1763.

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The “seven years” in Seven Years War refers to the main conflict that occurred from 1756

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to 1763, but most people often include the surrounding years, too.

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Sure, it’s confusing. It’s war. When the Seven Years War ended in 1763, France

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signed a treaty giving up much of the land they fought for in North America, including

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the Ohio River Valley. [Ohio River Valley highlighted on a map]

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But luckily for all involved, they didn't give up their fries or their toast.

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…Wait, neither of those are from France?

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Whoa. Mind. Blown. [Frenchman with fries and toast at a restaurant]

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