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Well if you've ever had a dad, you know it's typical for them to remark that the world population is too high and industrialization happened too fast (before industrialization, they complained about any new diplomacy, literacy, and roads from the previous 50 years). The weirdest thing is that it's not a fad. Just being honest here. You can't study only history: when you study history there's probably a part of the brain which gets suffocated 🤷♂️, turns you into a mercenary, and makes you want to normalize Montessori Parenting and 4 hours of video games per day, so that South Park becomes real again.
@aarongreer7621 How was it odd when they had surrounded France with their alliances and France saw a moment of weakness to utterly destroy their political power and increase its own? If anything, a civil war in Habsburg lands could only lead to French intervention.
Allying protestant to piss off german Allying ottoman to piss off spaniard Allying american to piss off englishmen Allying italian to piss off austrian Allying english to piss off german
Major European Conflicts be like: A small region is attacked by an enemy. The leader of the region calls for help. The enemies also call for help, causing the initial help to have to call for help themselves. Everything eventually snowballs until half the civilised world is murdering each other for what they swear is the last time in history.
Imagine being a Belgian Soldier fighting for his Spanish king with Swiss ethnic origins in France against a Swedish man because a Czech man following orders of an Austrian Catholic dude was thrown out of a window
Back in the days when Europe was THE PvP server. China had bigger numbers but sometimes they spent few centuries chilling before the next big PvP event, Europe was just PvP non stop.
China may have had bigger absolute numbers, but the relative deathtoll is absolutely staggering. More than 50% of the entire German population dead, in some regions more than *80%!* As a comparison: If WW2 had had the same relative number of casualties, it'd have had more than 1.1 *billion* casualties (and that's just the dead). An increase of more than 1571% relative to actual events.
Well if you've ever had a dad, you know it's typical for them to remark that the world population is too high and industrialization happened too fast (before industrialization, they complained about any new diplomacy, literacy, and roads from the previous 50 years). The weirdest thing is that it's not a fad. Just being honest here. You can't study only history: when you study history there's probably a part of the brain which gets suffocated 🤷♂️, turns you into a mercenary, and makes you want to normalize Montessori Parenting and 4 hours of video games per day, so that South Park becomes real again. Is there any doubt as to whether the first father to ever write about China like you have done has not been born yet?
I was reading a book on the 30 years war while with some relatives, my Aunt asked what it was about Me: “Well it was over whether Protestantism or Catholicism would dominate the Holy Roman Empire, but a lot of other European powers got involved” Her: “Oh so it was the Protestants fighting the Catholics?” Me: “Well yes but no”
"It was the Catholics fighting the Protestants, although also sometimes the Catholics fought other Catholics. Then the Protestants, without anyone to fight, fought other Protestants. Occasionally someone would get thrown out a window for fun"
@@kerdart351France feared the Spanish Empire more than France feared the Ottoman Empires is why they allied with Islam against the saviours of Europe.
Absolutely hilarious that despite this in like 2-3 centuries German population would vastly overshadow French population Seriously tho wtf is up with french they started middle ages with like half the population of western Europe how do you fuck up this bad
Well if you've ever had a dad, you know it's typical for them to remark that the world population is too high and industrialization happened too fast (before industrialization, they complained about any new diplomacy, literacy, and roads from the previous 50 years). The weirdest thing is that it's not a fad. Just being honest here. You can't study only history: when you study history there's probably a part of the brain which gets suffocated 🤷♂️, turns you into a mercenary, and makes you want to normalize Montessori Parenting and 4 hours of video games per day, so that South Park becomes real again.
It is still a mess ruled by "state beyond The Great puddle" and by idiotic, arrogant, evil, foolish and greedy buerocrats from brussels. And will be much worse in The future when said buerocrats will gain even more power.
I'm proud to know that England sat back from all this madness, and simply pursued our time-honored tradition of throwing money at whomever we liked on that particular day 😂
with ww1 we finaly managed to fuck your pockets so hard that you are now simply known as the island that cant afford the spices of the areas it once used to own Wich is even more hilarious as a lot of truly british cuisine is actually quite tasty
Spain casually interfering in every shit was truly fun back then, but a pain in the butt to remember all the conflicts nowadays when we study history, then to at least make the names and places more friendly we started to fight a lot within our borders
Spain be like: -Isn't related at all with the conflict and is in financial ruin. -Joins anyways. -Dominates the battlefield during 3 of the 4 phases of the war. -Gains nothing more than debt and the hate of the german people. -Is crushed by the french. -Loses Portugal and the Netherlands. -Somehow matains it's control over italy and belgium. -Declares bankruptcy. -Goes to war with france again without gaining anything again. -Refuses to elaborate.
I would say: My king our allies needs our help and france has declared war on us again. King: more than 80 years of non stop war, we are going bankrupt for the 6 th time again!
@@meow-chan9062 Some numbers go up to 100+ million killed which is more than WW2 but its unlikely. However the An Lushan Rebellion of 755 AD got up to 36 million confirmed dead
The best part of medieval and early modern european conflict is that there are almost no changes. 500 different dukes and kings who are all related fight with like 50 soldiers each, virtually no borders change and everybody goes bankrupt. Its like the only winners in these conflicts are the people that dont take part at all
@@Mcbignutsborders didn’t change much though, the English crown was simply owned by him. And before you say Normandy was now English, it was still considered a french vassal and the English monarchy paid homage (when the felt like it) as the duke of Normandy to France.
@@lord_duckian9521 I can list the reconquista , the unification of France ,the expansion of Poland , growth of rus etc off the top of my head as having a major influence on borders
@@Mcbignuts sure but why bring up William the conqueror? Even within English history there’s the angervin empire with the inheritance of Aquitaine, where England controlled more of France than the king of France did
Dude.. look at Spain that was changing whole fkin middle age until the final conquest of Arabs there and uniting Kastile with Aragon. Actually early medieval was full of change .. the Frank Empire going Big and then split up in 3 parts, Byzantines that were looking like they gonna reconquer old Roman Empire but then Arabs appeared and changed everything in middle east, North Africa and also Spain as mentioned. There were crusades changing things in middle east - this region was changing a lot… so was balkan for example.. eastern Europe too atleast until solid strong states were enstablished like Poland or Hungary .. but still after that - Russia is still changing a lot and you have the Mongol invasion later on so not exactly there will be no changes. Western Europe isnt that chill after all too. Vikings? Conquest of England? Fkin hundred years war? England owned half of France at one point. Germany was a changing mess, Italy was a changing mess. Northern countries were dooing their form of colonialism by exploring Atlantic if you are norwegian or danish .. or settling in Finland and Baltic states if you are from sweeden. I can only agree with you on that for the early medieval part. Where Habsbourg got powerfull. Ottomans absorbed everything on Africa, middle east and balkan. This was trully a stalemate of coalitions. But dont forget that borders not changing doesnt mean there is nothing going on(cough WW1 cough) and also by this point colonialism is already going on so the map painting kinda switched attention elswhere too.
Martin Luther pretended to hate Jews to hide the identity of his masters who wanted Europe more divided for checks and balances, as Iberians were way too powerful.
As someone who is half German It really is wild that my ancestors survived this and I’m here hundreds of years later watching a RU-vid video meme-tribute of it.
Fun fact: During the 30 Years War, a popular torture method used by Swedish troops was the so-called "Schwedentrunk" (Swedish Drink). It involved tying up a victim and forcefully pouring piss and shit down their throat.
@@ncrvakowhat? No?!? Waterboarding ans the Schwedentrunk have basically nothing in common. Waterboarding does not even include a lot of fluid entering your body
(1/3) One account of the siege of Magdeburg comes from a German man named Fredrich Friese who was a boy in 1631 during the infamous Sack of Magdeburg by the Catholic League forces of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. The Sack of Magdeburg came following a two-month siege during which the Protestant defenders refused to surrender, choosing to hold out in the hope of Swedish reinforcements that never came. On the morning of May 20, 1631, the Imperial forces launched a huge surprise attack on the city which finally overran the defenses. Thousands of enraged, unpaid soldiers entered the city and the situation quickly descended into widespread looting and raping and killing that lasted for several days, during which 20,000 civilians lost their lives. Some soldiers were just looking for food or a little money or some shoes, while others were much more ruthless. The evening before the city was sacked, Fredrich Friese accompanied his father Daniel Friese (a well-off senior city clerk employed at Magdeburg) for a walk along the wall of the city where they saw that all the posts appeared to be well-guarded. The password that night was "angel." Additionally, they did not suspect an attack because they believed a truce was in the process of being negotiated. Despite this, the next morning at around 7 AM the Friese family could hear heavy firing. Fredrich writes: We children had scarcely got up and crawled out of the cellar, where we had been hiding because of the fire bombs and other shooting. We were almost used to it now, because the Imperials had already assaulted the city over four times and been repulsed on each occasion. However, this assault got longer and fiercer. Meanwhile, our father came running from the city hall and asked where mother was. She had left our house and was at that moment in the church ... Just as she had heard the firing and had left the church with other people, a maid was sent running to fetch her ... (157) The children were then told to pray until their mother arrived at the house a few minutes later. Then the family changed into dark, torn clothes in an attempt to disguise their wealth and especially so that their father wouldn't be recognized and held for ransom. Fredrich then writes: The firing now got more and more out of control until there was a final great and terrible salvo. There were no more shots after that, from which everyone deduced that there was no more resistance and the city was taken. This was obvious from the fleeing burghers. They came running with their guns and cried Oh and Woe. Everyone shut their doors and prepared as best they could. Soon after, Imperial soldiers came through the streets shouting that all was won and started hammering on people's doors to let them in. Fredrich writes: We poor people were so scared that we nearly died in our houses, prayed and called to God to have mercy. Soon they thumped on our door. Our tutor, Johann Muller, a student, looked out from above [the upper window of the house] and called:'Quarter!' But two shots were quickly directed at him. The soldiers threatened they would not leave a soul alive if they got in unless we opened up. We had to let them in; they soon attacked father and mother and craved money; they were only two musketeers. Father and mother gave them the money they had with them, as well as some clothes and utensils. They were satisfied with this, and only asked for shoes and went away again. The family then pleaded with the soldiers to help them get away but the soldiers "didn't listen, because they said they had to find booty first." The university student Johann Muller who was the children's tutor then decided to go with the soldiers on the pretext of somehow getting the family safe conduct passes out of the city, but he never returned and they didn't wait for him. Fredrich's father then took an axe and smashed up their own house, breaking the windows and making it appear they had already been thoroughly looted. They also put ham and sausage and other foods out on their dining table in hopes of momentarily distracting any soldiers who next came in so they could have time to hide. The house was left alone for a while after this, but eventually four more soldiers entered in and again began violently attacking Fredrich's father and mother while demanding money. Fredrich vividly describes the violence inflicted on his parents that he and his siblings were forced to watch and desperately tried to stop: There were four of them, all musketeers with burning matches. They hit and punched father hard. Mother put up her hand, but it didn't help. We children hung like chains around the soldiers, cried and screamed that they should let father and mother live for us. And though we hung on and pulled at the soldiers, God nonetheless ensured that no soldier did the least harm, hit us or beat us. On the contrary, the furies were moved to rage a little less against the parents. They were then forced to give the soldiers some of their jewelry and other valuables, and the soldiers then left. Shaken by this more vicious attack, Fredrich's father then decided they should leave the house as well and take refuge in a dark coal shed in the back of their house near an empty stables. As they crossed the backyard, they were startled by their terrified neighbor, a university student who boarded with the family next door, who had been forced by the soldiers there to go light a torch so they could search the house's dark cellar. From their neighbors’ house they could hear the soldiers rampaging about and swearing and yelling for him to "get a light" as they held the others hostage. The family hid in the coal shed for a while and listened to the soldiers ransacking the house next door: They cried, swore and blasphemed for booty and money without end. We heard all this as we sat in our coal shed as quiet as mice. Eventually Fredrich's father went out to see what had happened but the soldiers immediately saw him, yelled and began running toward him. Fredrich writes: Mother heard the shouting and also ran out and we children all followed. There were about seven soldiers, all with burning matches. They spoke a foreign tongue and no one understood what they said. They kept putting out their hands for money. Excuses were no good, father could say what he liked. They didn't understand, but fired at him twice in the house. ... The bullets buried themselves in the wall. Father and mother fled into the lounge. One of them who was probably an NCO, lunged at father with a halberd. At that moment father went through the lounge door; the rogue hacked a large piece out of the ledge above the door. Finally Fredrich's father was able to speak Latin to one of the officers and tell him they have nothing except clothes and linens and such, which seemed to calm the soldiers down. However, the officer still wanted money and refused to leave until he got it. Fredrich's mother then retrieved another stash of money and valuables and gave this to the officer while the soldiers ate in their house. They then pleaded with the officer to help escort them out of the city but he got angry and left along with his men after taking Fredrich's father's "best cloak with lace and satin cuffs." The family then went back and hid in the coal shed near the stables for the next half hour while more soldiers came and ransacked their house but didn't find them. After this, things started to quiet down again, and they decided to come out of the coal shed and hide in the dark of the stable loft instead. However, the children's maid or nanny who was taking refuge with the family caused them to be discovered again: We all went up to the old loft and hid ourselves. Our old maid, who had married a tailor who had stood guard that day at the Lakenmarcher Gate, was our fortune and misfortune. This maid had run to us during the great terror and wanted to stay with us, because she thought her husband was dead, since he had been on guard duty. While we hurriedly crept up to the loft, she stayed a while in the coal shed and put her things into a basket. Now she wanted to run from the stables across the yard to join us. A soldier saw her and came in after her shouting: 'Stop! Stop!' The maid, who wasn't slow on her feet, ran crying 'Oh! Oh!' quickly up the stairs to us in the loft. The soldier followed her into the stables and found them all together with Fredrich's father yelling at the maid for giving them away. Fredrich writes: The soldier then came at father with a pick axe. We children crowded round the soldier, begging and crying that he should please let father live. Christian, my fourth brother, was then a small child who could barely walk and stammer a few words. He spoke in the greatest fear to the soldier: 'Oh please let father live, I'll gladly give you the three pennies I get on Sundays.' Father used to give each child something each Sunday if he learned a phrase [from the Bible].
(2/3) This apparently got the soldier's sympathy who was also German, and he became friendly and advised them to get away as soon as possible before the Croat mercenaries arrived who he said would probably kill them all. They asked for his help getting out of the city and but he said he had to "get booty" first and tried to leave. They pleaded with him to stay but he was insistent on getting money although he promised to go back and help them after. Then the maid who had given away their hiding spot told the soldier she had money hidden at her house and would take him there to get it if he would then go back and help the family get away. They then waited in fear in the loft for another half hour, during which time they saw and heard their neighbors being beaten and killed by soldiers: Thus, the soldier left with her. We soon despaired that she would ever return, put ourselves in God's hands and crawled back underneath the old roof. From there we heard how things went in our house. Boxes and chests were smashed open in our house and at our neighbor's. We could see through the tiles how our neighbors, the poor people, were beaten, broken on the wheel and martyred and we all foresaw the hour of death. We remained in such fear for a good half hour. Finally the maid and the soldier did indeed return as promised and Fredrich's family was allowed to come out of the loft. Other soldiers tried to harass them but the soldier escorting them said they were his prisoners and they were even allowed to retrieve some goods and bread from the house (even secretly a bundle of valuables that Fredrich retrieved from a rafter beam and they hid in a basket). The family then walked through the streets with the soldier heading for the Imperial camp. The soldier even gave Fredrich's father his gun so he would look more like a soldier too to discourage harassment. They saw many dead bodies and agonized people. Fredrich writes: Our Anna carried our small sister ... on her arm in her cot behind us and, together with the tailor's wife [the maid] ... made sure that we children didn't fall behind or get separated. Finally, father and mother brought up the rear. The soldier gave father his musket to carry so that he could get through better. In fact, he quite resembled a soldier, because his face was blackened by the shooting and he had roughed himself up quite nastily from smashing the oven, windows and doors, and had no collar and wore a brown leather waistcoat and grey cloth trousers and old boots. He walked next to mother like this. When we encountered crowds in the alleys he often barked out like a soldier: 'Woman, get moving!' such as one would never say to strangers. Once we had walked through various alleys we saw various dead bodies lying atop each other, and in the great crowd often had to walk and step over the corpses. Among others we saw a peasant jump down off a gable who was scalded by hot water and smoking mightily. He lay in the street writhing and crying piteously. A maid also lay in the street who had been carrying meat in a basket; she had been shot and a dog stood nearby eating the meat. At one point a random university student grabbed a shawl from Fredrich's mother and a soldier tried to grab and force away the maid while she carried Fredrich's baby sister, but he was prevented by the soldier guarding them. Then Fredrich describes another scene of horror in the street and evidence of rape: We saw many dead bodies, including some women lying quite uncovered. They lay with their heads in a great beer barrel, which stood full of water in the alley, into which they had been pushed and drowned, but half their bodies and legs were hanging out. It was a wretched spectacle. They also see a soldier who had found two large oxen and wanted to take them out of the city by himself, but they were startled by the sounds of gunfire and ended up dragging him through the streets while he screamed, and Fredrich presumes he died. Finally the family arrived at the Imperial camp where the soldier's wife was living in a hut. He also had a child of his own. The soldier's wife was initially displeased that he had brought back children instead of booty, but eventually seemed satisfied and Fredrich's mother helped her prepare food that night for the officers of the regiment. He writes: She cooked for the officers of the regiment and had a lot to do with the food. Mother helped her prepare, cook and brew and assisted her like a maid. That night they could see the entire city of Magdeburg which looked to be in flames. The next day the soldier went back into the city to continue looting, while Fredrich's mother had to watch the soldier's own child along with her own which Fredrich says she did "willingly and happily." Fredrich's father had to hide in the hut all day for fear of being recognized as an important person and held for ransom. Outside they saw many prisoners, including women, being led through the camp tied with ropes. When other wealthy citizens saw Fredrich's mother sitting outside the hut, they addressed her and seemed resentful that she was free and hadn't had to ransom herself as they had. Fortunately this didn't give them away. Eventually another soldier came to the soldier's hut and wanted to talk to the soldier guarding them. Fredrich says his father was resting in a bed at this time and the children waited around their mother while she cried. The other soldier showed off a bunch of jeweled rings he had collected. When the children demanded a drink from Fredrich's mother she didn't have enough on her to buy a beer but the soldier gave her some money. Toward the evening of this day the soldier guarding them came back with more loot and seemed pleased. The next day he was sent off to do guard duty but arranged for Fredrich's family to go in an officer's coach to a nearby town the next day. That night the soldier brought back a jug of what he said was fine Spanish wine which pleased his wife, but when she tasted it after he had gone to sleep it turned out to be weak beer instead that he had gotten by mistake, and she spit it out and then poured the rest on her husband's head, poked him in the ribs and yelled at him. He apologized and said it was a mistake and they were eventually reconciled. Fredrich writes: This tomfoolery made us laugh in the midst of our distress and fear, because the woman had looked really funny when she spat out the Kofent [weak beer]. The next day the soldier was as good as his word and they traveled to the nearby town in the officer's coach (which cost them a pearl hat band they had kept hidden). The soldier didn't ask for any ransom (despite having found out Fredrich's father was a city clerk) but Fredrich's mother gave his wife two silver spoons. Others Fredrich Friese's family was extremely lucky, as should be clear from the above story. Their neighbors were badly beaten and killed and only about 5,000 of the 25,000 residents of Magdeburg at the time it was sacked survived. Many citizens who weren't killed by soldiers died in the fires that destroyed the city. The Catholic observer Zacharias Bandauer described the carnage: After three days General Tilly had the dead -- they were burnt and all black so that one could not tell whether they were male or female -- collected from the streets and pushed into the Elbe. It was impossible to bury them all. One could not dig deep holes since all the open spaces and squares, even the churchyard, were covered with stones and rubble, that it would have taken a long time ... They were certainly carried downstream and many were left on the banks by the wind and the waves. The birds in the sky and the ravens ate whatever had not been burnt on the bodies. Bandauer, although a Catholic priest, lived in Magdeburg and described the atrocities committed by the Imperial Catholic forces and how they effected women and children. Nonetheless, he may have been biased as he implies a lot of the women who were carried off by soldiers and raped were whores and deserving of it. Either way, it shows that this did happen: Some preachers have claimed that Magdeburg virgins followed Lucretia's example and preferred death or suicide to losing their honour; but such Lucretias weren't heard of in this city. This, however, was heard: when the soldiers brought the Magdeburg virgins on the back of their horses as booty into their quarters outside the city, the soldiers shouted 'Whore! Whore!' after them in the martial tradition. There was one among them of 16 or 18 who replied: 'Oh soldiers, you can't congratulate yourselves that you have made the Magdeburg virgin your whore, she was that already, before you arrived.' And so the preachers' picture of chastity isn't true. However, he describes another gang-rape and murder of a 12 or 13-year-old girl in a more sympathetic light: A terrible deed took place on Saturday, the 24th of May: six godless soldiers raped a girl of 12 or 13 in the churchyard of Our Lady so that she died by their hands. When this was brought to the attention of Mr. Sylvius, he decided to inform His Excellency Tilly, so that such vices could be avoided. Because none of the clerics dared to do this, Mr. Sylvius finally went himself to Tilly in his quarters where he found him sitting at his desk. [Tilly acts surprised and orders that the perpetrators should be arrested but none of them can be found].
(3/3) After the Imperial soldiers entered the city, many Catholic residents took refuge in the monastery and were joined by non-Catholics as well hoping to escape the soldiers. Bandauer describes that people refused to leave the monastery for weeks out of fear, and conditions became very bad for lack of food and water and sanitation. Finally the people were forced out through threats from the soldiers. He describes orphans of the siege who were taken to the monastery: The soldiers also said that they had found children of five or six years old in various places, who were still alive, but all wasting and starving; they brought some of them with them and kept them, but others starved to death. One sight was truly hideous to see. Two old women had collected small orphaned children in an old chapel in the monastery's vineyard, around 23, some of nine months, others six months or a year old. They sat and lay on the earth; some played in the sand, some cried, some screamed: Mother! Mother! But there was no mother there, and the women couldn't say who the parents had been; but in some cases they knew well enough. These received bread and beer, so that they didn't starve to death, because the parents were taken prisoner or killed or burned in the fire. When the prior of Jerichow went in the garden with Father Henricus to see the poor children, he found two women burying two small children who had died. He asked them what they were doing. They replied: 'Two children have died; we have buried them here.' 'You have made the grave too shallow, that isn't good.' They said that they had nothing with which to dig. When he returned to the vineyard three days later, he found that the dogs had dug the children up and eaten them. [Bandhauer then goes on to say how the Magdeburgers could have avoided these things if they "had wanted to" and essentially argues it was divine retribution for not surrendering to the Catholic forces]. Accounts cited are from The Thirty Years' War: A sourcebook by Peter H. Wilson. The Thirty Years' War was one of the most devastating and brutal European conflicts before the modern era and drastically depopulated Germany for decades and centuries to come. Magdeburg did not recover for over a century. Rape and the killing of civilians was very common, although perhaps not as common as could be inferred from selectively reading the most violent accounts. Peter H. Wilson in his book The Thirty Years' War: Europe's tragedy writes: The causes of mortality are as controversial as its scale. Accounts of battles and notorious massacres convey a false impression of violent death. Contemporary diaries are indeed full of stories of rape and murder, most of which rest on hearsay. Half of the 72 eyewitness accounts analyzed by Geoffrey Mortimer note the killing of named individuals, and one in five report personal assaults by soldiers, yet very few say these resulted in serious injury. Official papers rarely recorded rape, due to the difficulties of prosecuting such cases: only five rapists were convicted in Munich during the first half of the seventeenth century and three in Frankfurt between 1562 and 1695. The actual incidence was far higher and was probably one of the most common forms of interpersonal violence during the war. (pp., 789-790) Note on Fredrich Friese's account: His father Daniel Friese also wrote an account of what happened to him during the sack of Magdeburg (that is now lost) which his son Fredrich would have drawn from in his own account where his childhood memories may not have been clear on some details. Fredrich also would have been able to draw on the memories of other members of his family who were there.
@the_kimchi_kommandant2603 Man thank you for this account, despite all the memes that can be made from these conflicts, we can never forget stories like these.
@@the_kimchi_kommandant2603 Thank you for yur contribution. The living impressions you get from reading such accounts are worth so much to get a feeling, an understanding how and why things happened as they did and what connects (or separates) us to people of long bygone generations. Reading this source here was an oppressive experience, but worth every minute and thought spent.
Ancient historian: "Wow, I wish we had the wealth of evidence that early modern historians have!" Early Modern Historian: "I've spent 16 years in a library in Germany, and I still don't know what the hell was going on!"
atheist fanatics: religion bad. History: atheism spread by the bloody French Revolution, communist holocausts and forced indoctrination because it can't spread by reason. Atheism: Duuuude! What if, like... Reason had an irrational origin? (Burp. Stumble.)
Not really. The yeet happened as start of a rebellion, always was ment to be ... against a guy that wasn´t in power ... and never said anything about implementing the law the rebelled against Did I mention they tried to become part of the Ottoman Empire?
As a Spaniard, see the video "Spain created the British Empire and the USA" and the series "The British Empire Was NOT The Biggest" plus the series "Islam was invented by Jews." Then you can understand real history; not mainstream, government-approved PG Disneyesque superficial hole and contradiction-filled "history."
@@darthplagueis13 We could make it less confusing and complicated in the Balkans too, but we need a certain g word to be carried out to completion many, many times.
New commercial proposals were made, and, more importantly, a Swedish proposal for Safavid Iran to join the European-led anti-Ottoman alliance known as the Holy League.[2] The discussion during Fabritius' private audience with the Safavid king and the writings of Engelbert Kaempfer, secretary to the mission, present different versions of Charles XI's readiness to send troops to assist Iran in its struggle against the Ottomans.[2][3] The Safavid king eventually declined the invitation to join the Holy League, based upon his "pacifist inclination" and a realistic assessment of his army's strength compared with the Ottomans'.[2] Over the next three years Fabritius was received eleven times by the Safavid monarch, who assured him that he would oblige the Swedish king in all his wishes and proposals except "to resume hostilities with the Ottomans".[2]
@@stevenkaranov6801 he's already got a mini global war going on in his head about how to make his next gossipy comment, as if his goal is to make Southern Europe sneeze.
I remember learning about the Defenestrations of Prague back in college. Funniest lecture I've ever heard and my professor explained it as "The Art Of Throwing Of People Out Windows." It's an artform, and it's beautiful.
Oddly the Thirty Years War was truly the First World War, since the French, English, Dutch, and Spanish fought in their colonies and oceans as well. There was fighting in India between the East India Companies (Dutch, Portuguese, and French) and the Caribbean.
@@aliblackmountain3788 China wasn’t a major power, it was a regional power. By the Thirty Years War, China was being run by the Qing, who focused entirely on internal disputes, like fighting the remaining Ming and the Mongols. The Ottomans didn’t care so why would they get involved. A “World War” doesn’t have to involve everyone. It’s not like the entirety of the world was involved in WWI or WWII. Lots of neutral countries that weren’t touched or didn’t get involved.
@@cgallegos2106 Not intervening outside of it's region doesn't mean China wasn't a major power. Other power couldn't intervene in China's sphere that easily neither. Also it's sphere of influence was kinda big.
@@DarthFhenix55 Qing China wasn’t Ming China. The Ming treasure fleets were the largest navy in the world at the time, creating a sphere of influence that (if continued) could’ve created a colonial empire to rival the British, but corruption, nationalism, and isolationism ruined it. The Qing and Ming fought each other for the entirety of the 17th century. Qing China wasn’t a major power. There’s a reason they lost Outer Manchuria less than a century later and the Century of Humiliation in the 19th century. Qing was a regional power that stayed in China, no puppets beyond Korea (Kingdom of Joseon) [Tibet and Mongolia were integrated states by the Century of Humiliation, not yet taken by the 17th century].
@@cgallegos2106 This was the start of their empire tho, not the century of the humiliations, so the reasons they were humiliated weren't a thing yet. They weren't that behind in technology compare to Europe yet. Also their military was something even the Russians couldn't mess up with at the time.
@Emil.Fontanot The guy could maneuver Tercios like no other. A lifelong Soldier to the end. Although it seems after putting 20,000 civilians to the sword karma hit him hard. That, and the Swedes’ novel field formations. In fact I believe it was either Swedish cannon or musket shot that eventually did him in. In his 70’s as well! RIP to a real one
The Bohemians threw their rules out the windows so many times they made a word for it: "Defenetration". Fenetration which comes from the French word "Fênetre" which means window and the the "De" part which means a lack of something is created. That's a short ethymological explanation of a word that just means "to throw someone out of a window".
@@Montaggg33 Yeah you're considering french is directly linked to Latin, Hell I could even derive it from Italian where window us Finestra. You're right but I guessed they pulled from the french because it was a language that is actually still being spoken.
@@leburrito8678 Also in italian (defenestrazione), portuguese (defenestracao), spanish (defenestraciòn), romanian (defenestrare). Probably they all derive from the latin "fenestra" (window) and the prefix "de" wich is a negation prefix. You have to remember that in the XVI century (when the first defenestration occurred) latin was still used by the nobility for official documents and things like that.
These wars shows us, that its not the reasons for a war that causes the war, no its to have the murderous intent in the first place and then just find excuses to have the war. But this conflict was utter stupid the more actions were taken. Everyone wanting gain, but also to spread chaos and to hurt each other
As Spanish, Im proud of what my ancestors did ^^ showing the world than some dirty, low-class soldiers with balls of steel and God in their hearts are stronger than some fancy soldiers with feminine wigs.
China saw that number and began planning for their next big Civil War project to take the trophy back, it may took them few hundred years but their 20th Century Edition Civil War bringing new feature that stand out from the previous edition
The war had a colonel by the name of Cratz who left Bavarian service for Lorraine after he wasn’t instantly made general, then planned to return to Bavaria, but got better terms in Imperial service, then tried defecting with his regiment to the Swedes, but got caught and executed. Imagine doing all that for no shiny rank.
Whatifalthist's video comparing the 30 years war to similarities today is pretty wild, I couldn't imagine the death toll if we experienced similar events today ☠
I've watched K&G's series on this war long ago and am currently watching Sand Rhoman's series on this war too, and let me tell you, this video *barely* scratches the surface
Also is wrong on a couple accounts, GA died at Lützen not Alte Veste for example. Leaves out the funny bit that Alte Veste was ended because both sides couldn´t shoot due to rain.
I've seen the documentary on ARTE channel named 30 years war - an iron age, it's a great show I've learned that in Germany they invented a new word after the siege of Magdeburg (to magdeburize) And that the civilians got slighly less spared than the ones during the siege of La Rochelle.
@@therac197 Yes, the inhabitants just died during the siege. The siege of La Rochelle lasted 1 year, among the 28 000 French soldiers and civilians and the 8 000 English soldiers besieged, 22 500 and 5 000 died. I know the outcome of Magdeburg's siege was even worse, I wasn't clear enough in my previous message.
I was talking to a Dutch person the other day. Didn't know the thirty years war. Apparently it's just classified as the end bit of the Eighty years war there.
France: joins the Protestant side Spain 1 second later: so you have chosen death. Also Spain: Jesus help me, my navy is gone the Netherlands are being invaded and my troops are routing.
Tbf, they were trying to fight a war on multiple front while France was fresh with a bigger population pool, "oh no we lost an army? Heres 2 more lets go at it again sucker"
Early modern European battles be like: 40,000 soldiers ivolved. 20 artillery pieces involved. 16,000 die in battle. 150,000 die of disease. 3,500,000 civilian casualties.
From the Hispanic perspective it was everyone against the Spanish Empire also nobody talks about the role of Freemasons in all of this, they were balls deep in it , and were enemies of the Spanish Empire since day one and they kinda still are today 😂
