its where my interest in the 16th and 17th century came from, before EU4 i did not care at all about the period, love paradox games but my bank account hates them
Yeah, and he had a bodyguard even taller than he. (His sceleton is now in St. Petersburg museum, which had been collecting strange things all across the globe)
@@metametodo well, names like Charles, Louis and Henry are different in different languages. Charles is Karl in Swedish and e. g. Louis and Henry are Ludwig and Heinrich in German. Also Charles XII of Sweden wasn't the 12th Charles in Sweden, but instead the 6th. This mess was started by Charles IX, who was actually the third Charles, but believe that there were probably more Charles' before that and the 9th was about right he felt or something like that. That idea was based and a partly fictitious list of swedish kings.
The reason the Swedish Charles' have such high numbers is due to a fictional history of Sweden published nder the reign of Gustav Vasa that invented a boatload of fictional kings, many of them named Charles and Eric (which was the name of Gustav Vasa's oldest sons). The latter of these eventualy went insane and stabbed a guy which is why you don't see any Swedish kings named Eric anymore.
That Erik isn't one of the made-up ones. He was attested as early as Adam of Bremen, though him being a pagan is mostly speculation by later historians.
Minor gripe: Sweden by the time of Charles XII had only had *6* Charleses But the Swedes at some point in the 1500s decided to set their regnal numbers by the equivalent of the Historia Regnum Britannia I.e. a work of fiction.
Charles XII was the sixth Charles. Charles IX was the one that based his regnal number on "The history of all Geatish and Swedish kings" but by then there had already been two Charleses (Including Charles "VIII" that actually called himself Charles II during his lifetime, Charles "VII" didn't use any regnal number).
Random fact. Bulgaria was known as the Prussia of the Balkans. They mobilized 25% of their entire country in WW1 (1 million out of 4). It was for a small time and didn't accomplish anyhing but it's neat.
Mr Green, Mr Green! I am a big fan of what you're doing in the community and a while ago you inspired me to produce a similar project to crash course aimed at primary school children. It's been a while since then but I'm finally beginning to put writing into action and get some of it filmed. I am a teacher in England and have used small excerpts of your show for the 8 year olds I teach, however the whole videos are usually too adult focused or intense for the kids. As a teacher I am always looking for good educational videos and last year decided that there is such a gap for well produced educational videos for kids like mine (which do not talk down to them) that I should just do it myself. I watched your Ted Talk two days ago and loved every thing you said and it made me so excited to potentially be part of an online community of educators and learners that I decided it would be good to comment on the video and hopefully communicate a wish to you and the crash course team. What I'd like to humbly request is a behind the scenes video that explains how you make these brilliant shows and what hurdles you had to clamber over to get to this point. I think that if a community of learners is what you'd like to grow then this would be like putting the fertilizer down to help it grow... (Except the fertilizer in this case doesn't stink!) Thanks for reading, I'll see you next week for the enlightenment!
Charles (Karl) is the most common name for Swedish kings, and we're actually on number 16 now. However, a fair few of them never really existed as numbers 1-6 were just made up in the middle ages to make Sweden sound more ancient and important than it actually was. We also invented a whole bunch of Eriks etc.
So far he has talked about : Germany Italy France Turkey(if you want to make that Europe) Russia The Netherlands Poland Lithuania Spain Portugal England and some how still hasn't about the most important European country,Andorra SMH.
Well, Ottomans were holding most of the southeastern Europe back then. Modern Turkey has a fraction of a land in Europe(about %10-15 of its total land) but Ottomans were huge and still very strong in Eastern Europe. I mean, they even managed to take Otranto twice. Otranto is in Italy, if you want to know where exactly their grip was starting to reach. For Europe's luck, 10th sultan Suleiman lost his enthusiasm for conquest after he saw that getting real results in Europe is not easy anymore. He had to pass all that land, fight very strong armies and breach very strong cities. Never tried to make a full scale war IN Europe after his failure in Vienna
The first time I heard 'Prussia' was from a history teacher from Germany with a THICC accent and for half the semester I thought he was mispronouncing 'Russia'😬
Fun fact about that battle at Narva, Peter the great had the habit of inviting foreign experts to advise him on various things. At narva he left during the winter to return to saint petersburg and left a foreign expert in charge the only issue was that this expert was french and spoke no russian and so could not actually properly order the troops to form up to repel the swedes.
while peter is a very important historical figure and modernizer, the entire russian state was gradually reforming and taking on the best practices of the time (which were european ones thanks to you know, renaissance and age of discovery and all that). for example, the first russian military units taught in the ways of 17th century european warfare formed in 1640's. The first institution of higher learning (essentially a university except in name) formed in the 1680's, and foreigners have had a sizable presence in Moscow since Ivan the terrible. Peter the Great was successful in formalizing these changes and implementing them amongst all of nobility. Some do make a pretty convincing argument that his reforms may have been needlessly intrusive and that things were heading in that direction regardless. Obviously this is all very nuanced history that you don't have time to cram into a 10 minute video, but I thought I'd give some insight into some of the modern academic debate surrounding the figure of peter the great. Tying russian history into the wider european fold was done very well. Much better than ur video on Ivan the 4th that painted a very sort of cold war era understanding of his long rule
Sort off... Well the real reason was that he wanted to inflate the number to make his linage seem more impressive. (Personally I forget which of the Charles it was. There have been a lot of them even if we remove the inflated numbers. >_>)
I love this series! I especially like that besides sharing political, economical and social systems and incidents you remain a critical view on how this circumstances are widely interpreted by modern history making and therefore deconstructing widely accepted views on historical "facts". I love love love your approach and recommend your videos to everyone I know. When I'm done paying off my student loans I'll support you financially as much as I can. Your work is so important! Thank you
9:55 There's no house of Brandenburg Prussia, there's the duchies (actually Brandeburg was a march not a duchy but still) of Brandenburg Prussia, but the house is von Hohenzollern.
To make it more confusing Frederick was named King IN Prussia, not King of Prussia. King OF Prussia would have signalled that he was entitled to the whole Prussian region, which in parts still belonged to Poland.
Sidenote: Charles XII wasnt actually the twelve king nsmed Charles in Sweden. His official title was this but since an earlier king (known as Charles IX) during the 16th century had based his own number on a fictional story of Swedish history. This was something done before in Sweden during the 16th century partly to make the rulers more legit but also because they kinda believed that these fictional kings actually had existed. I beleive Charles XII actual title should have been (without the fictional kings) Charles VI.
Charles XII wasn't actually the twelfth Charles to rule Sweden, but the sixth. An earlier Swedish king called Charles IX had taken a false regnal number which messed up the numbering of Swedish kings.
To be fair to Sweden; Denmark attacked Sweden and pulled in Russia and Poland. Sweden had to go on the offensive and took out Denmark and Poland but finally Russia decided to mobilize and improve their military after being disgraced at Narva. Charles (Karl) XII being unable to take St. Petersburg tried to go for Moscow and well we know how that all went.
exactly sweden fought a DEFENSIVE war it was the coalition that tought swedens baltic empire and influence to strong and russia was seeking a seaport in the baltic. sweden didnt do anything wrong....except wandering into the russian winter ofc
And Poland-Lithuania was pulled into it by it's current elected King Augustus II, who also happened to be the Elector of Saxony, and he did so using his Saxon troops without Polish-Lithuanian parliament approval. This and initial Swedish victories plunged Commonwealth into a civil war between the supporters of Augustus and his opponents (backed by Sweden), who elected Polish nobleman Stanisław Leszczyński as the king.
"A large army with s small state attached, like Russia today"....says the man from a country with the biggest army budget in the world, 10 times bigger then Russia's.
Actually until Frederick the Great conquered west Prussia from Poland Lithuania during the first partition of Poland Lithuania the title the Hohenzollerns used was King in Prussia
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Some facts you may find interesting about Russia during Peter's reign: 1. During the first battle of Narva Russian army was betrayed by its foreign officers: there were just not enough literate Russian nobles, so a lot of English, Scottish, Polish and even Swedish mercenaries were recruited. 2. Russian recruits in many cases couldn't tell left and right apart, so drill instructors had to strap hay and straw to their boots. Instead of "Left, right, left, right..." They marched like "hay, straw, hay, straw!" 3. When Peter found out his closest friend count Menshikov stole state money instead of buying new uniforms, he beat him with his own fists during diplomatic negotiations. And he was considered lucky as other corrupted officials were hanged for such crimes. 4. Saint Petersburg people had to pay their taxes in stones for some time in order to pave the roads of the city. So many peasants died during it's first years it was said to be standing "on bones". 5. After the defeat of Narva Russia lost almost all of its artillery and there was not enough copper to make new guns. Peter ordered to take church bells off and melt them. Church declared him new Antichrist and it was said icons were bleeding cause our tsar isnt a good Christian. Peter literally said "well, if icons won't stop to bleed soon, clergymen will have their asses bleed too!"... And then icons suddenly stopped. As you can say, he was very different from all the previous tsars. 6. Oh, by the way: Peter was a godfather of Abraham Hannibal, quite possibly the first negro man to become an orthodox christian and Russian nobleman. He made an inpressive career as a military engineer and was awarded for bravery. Most importantly though, he was a grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, a founder of Russian literature and poetry. That's right: he had African ancestry, was a poet and even died by a gunshot wound! First Russian gangsta!
Great video! European history is so interesting, but so complicated... I love the variety on this channel, and every video inspires me to work even harder on my own channel. I just released my 8th video, this one about logical fallacies! It's so fun making videos about all kinds of topics. I'm not that good, but I hope to become better!
Absolutely fantastic. You are a wonderful teacher, and so much of this history I always wanted to know but was never able or willing to make time to read. Hallelujah all for your talents to put this up for us; and for about the best use of the technology of Video production that I have seen.
These extraordinarily tall soldiers however where not really intended for the battlefield but rather for parades - Friedrich liked to impress others with his collection.
Shame this episode wasn't split into 2 separate topics. Also one of the things I liked about Fredrick the great of Prussia, was that all children had to go to school no matter their societal standing and modern schools are based on the Prussian System...
Great video, like always! However, the Habsburgs pushing out the ottomans/turks with the help of romanians? As an Austrian, this seems a little bit inaccurate. Most of the troops were imperials (from all over the HRE) and especially polish. Some minor contigents were italian etc.
Also, when exactly was that discussed in the last episode? They just shortly mentioned the 2nd ottoman siege, but there was nothing about Prince Eugen or any pushing the Ottomans out of the balkans.
Charles the 7th of sweden is the first known king of Sweden with the name Charles. I think he used legendary fairytale kings as his justification for the number
No Sweden didn't have 12 kings called Charles (Karl). Most of them were made up so it would look like Sweden had a long royal length going way back in ancient times just like they had in continental Europe. But Sweden formed as a feudal Christian state much later since we used to be pagan until about the 10th century.
was charles XII power hungry? if i understood it correctly, he fought a defensive war to protect his borders. it was when he defeated, denmark, saxony and poland when he went powerhungry and tried to march into russia during winter like so many others did and lost at poltava 1709.
John says in the 5th second of this video that “in our last episode [i.e., #16] we saw how the Hapsburgs with the help of Romanians and some others drive the Ottomans out of large swaths of Eastern Europe” but I couldn’t find any mention of Romania or Romanians in that episode. Is John always that close to historical truth? :)
Fun fact: "aristocracy" etymologically means about the same thing as "meritocracy". "Ariste" is Greek for "excellence", so "aristocracy" is ostensibly "rule by the best", which is what "meritocracy" is supposed to mean too.
Crash Course South America would totally be worth the time IMO. It's such an important part of the world, especially now adays, and I just don't think most people understand the history responsible for their current political system.
Sweden had 12 kings named "Karl" (or Carolus in Latin). In Swedish he is Karl XII The current king of Sweden is the 16th of his name although his name is spelled Carl XVI Gustaf. I guess in English you could call him Charles the 16th.
Love these videos. Two comments: 1) No, Sweden has not had 12+ kings named Charles/Karl. The first one that there is historical mention of, Karl VII, reigned in the 12th century and was only numbered as seven in the 16th century in what I'd assume was a propaganda move to indicate that the realm was more ancient than the records would imply. Many Europeean monarchs at the time tried to trace their lineage back to Adam and Eve. 2) While Karl XII certainly got greedy for land it was the Russians and their allies that started the Great Northern War. After Sweden had spent the 17th century taking land from most of its neighbours they all saw the chance for a comeback when Karl's father Karl XI died and left him the throne at the young age of 15.
Yes, they preferred it so much, that in Finland, for example, people were not allowed to speak it's own language, or sometimes even have local government without complete Sweden oversight. Must have been worth it, just to be ruled by the "enlightened" Swedes.
@@nathanielbrown5791 German Nobility of Baltic states was not against Russian Rule. Who would care at those times about the feelings of Latvian and Estonian peasants.
For Russian state (tsar Peter) it was not about the nationality, religion or affiliation of local people, it was all about to get hold of sea and trading ports. German People in Baltic areas were one of the loyal citizens (or subjests if that is more corret) and influential actors (from the word action) in Russian hsitory thereafter. And they - Germans (as others) are still very welcome to come in and settle in Russia now
When are you going to talk about old Fritz? you stopped right before his reign, are you going to talk about him in next episode? I mean, if you're mentioning the rise of Prussia you will surely mention the man who made Prussia one of the great powers of Europe?
I wonder if that's all we will hear about the partitions of Poland-Lithuania? Probably, since this series is a rather broad overview of European history with a focus on Western Europe. There is much interesting stuff to look into there, particularly the last-minute efforts to reform and strengthen the Commonwealth, which obviously came too late and some say they "provoke" Russia and Prussia to finish Commonwealth off (classic victim-blaming and damned if you will damned is you won't type of situation). From the Commission of National Education (which I think John could find particularly interesting) to the reforms of the Great Sejm (1788-1792) culminating in the Constitution of 3 May 1791, considered first in Europe and second in the world modern constitution. Then there's Tadeusz Kościuszko, who also played a role in the American Revolution. His last desperate attempt to resist the partitioning powers might have been unsuccessful, but it sort of accidentally provided a significant diversion for the French Republic during the War of the First Coalition, which is often overlooked.
The Rise and Prise of Russia and Prussia
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6'9" is just over 2 meters, but 3 meters is only off by 1, so close enough!
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Pretty sure he was joking.
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As my OOP professor used to say, "the three most common programming errors are missing semicolons and off-by-one errors."
"As we learn from history, paradox is not unusual"
Also not unusual: learning history from Paradox.
Use historical lucky nations , or use historical ai focuses
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its where my interest in the 16th and 17th century came from, before EU4 i did not care at all about the period, love paradox games but my bank account hates them
Accidentally giving your Grand daughter as a concubine to your nephew
also not unusual: to be loved by anyone
Can you imagine being 6'9 in the 18th century when everyone was like a foot shorter than they are now. Absolute lad.
Yeah, and he had a bodyguard even taller than he. (His sceleton is now in St. Petersburg museum, which had been collecting strange things all across the globe)
He lived most of his life and adulthood in the 17th century*
Mr. Green! Mr. Green! are we getting a crash course Asia in near future??
The return of the Mongols
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@@monsouranda2822 hahaha
No he is too old
lol, China might need an entire Crash Course on its own. Could never keep those darn Dynasties straight. Would love a Crash Course Asia though.
Jhon Green: is Sweden have 12 kings named Charles??
France: Louis the 18th.
Although in my head Louis is the most french name ever, and Charles probably wouldn't be in my top 10 guesses for swedish names or regents.
@@metametodo well, names like Charles, Louis and Henry are different in different languages. Charles is Karl in Swedish and e. g. Louis and Henry are Ludwig and Heinrich in German. Also Charles XII of Sweden wasn't the 12th Charles in Sweden, but instead the 6th. This mess was started by Charles IX, who was actually the third Charles, but believe that there were probably more Charles' before that and the 9th was about right he felt or something like that. That idea was based and a partly fictitious list of swedish kings.
Also Sweden's current king: Charles XVI
Also France: Charles the 10th
We had a lot of kings since the 5th century...
@@metametodo so what will u call swedish kings then?
The reason the Swedish Charles' have such high numbers is due to a fictional history of Sweden published nder the reign of Gustav Vasa that invented a boatload of fictional kings, many of them named Charles and Eric (which was the name of Gustav Vasa's oldest sons). The latter of these eventualy went insane and stabbed a guy which is why you don't see any Swedish kings named Eric anymore.
Regnal numbers are always arbitrary
Too bad because Erik the Heathen af Munso in ck2 is great.
That Erik isn't one of the made-up ones. He was attested as early as Adam of Bremen, though him being a pagan is mostly speculation by later historians.
"Where some states have an army, the Prussian army has a state."
Fairhair a beautiful description.
And when army looses there is no state. Prussia land was divided by Poland and Russia and it's capital is now Russian city Kaliningrad.
@@wrudn Actually prussia was killed by Adolf Hitler. Not Russia
Minor gripe: Sweden by the time of Charles XII had only had *6* Charleses
But the Swedes at some point in the 1500s decided to set their regnal numbers by the equivalent of the Historia Regnum Britannia I.e. a work of fiction.
Charles IX probably just wanted to feel cool and with a long line behind him (tho Karl the first might be cooler...)
Charles XII was the sixth Charles. Charles IX was the one that based his regnal number on "The history of all Geatish and Swedish kings" but by then there had already been two Charleses (Including Charles "VIII" that actually called himself Charles II during his lifetime, Charles "VII" didn't use any regnal number).
Todaem ah thanks corrected the number now
All regnal numbers are arbitrary. In Britain, there were three Edwards before Edward I
"Every European state has an army, except for Prussia, Prussia's army has a state"
Random fact. Bulgaria was known as the Prussia of the Balkans. They mobilized 25% of their entire country in WW1 (1 million out of 4). It was for a small time and didn't accomplish anyhing but it's neat.
Anyone notice that John speaks waaaay slower than he did in the earlier CC History series?
The tides of time wait for no man..
verdatum first thing i noticed.
No, I didn't notice it, even though I read the same stupid comment every new episode. Stop copy pacing, idiots!
Karl Karlos learn how to write “copy pasting”, idiot!
I actually like it :) it's very calming
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Don’t worry ,P. Shall be back 200 years later.
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ivan lau lol
Mr Green, Mr Green!
I am a big fan of what you're doing in the community and a while ago you inspired me to produce a similar project to crash course aimed at primary school children. It's been a while since then but I'm finally beginning to put writing into action and get some of it filmed.
I am a teacher in England and have used small excerpts of your show for the 8 year olds I teach, however the whole videos are usually too adult focused or intense for the kids. As a teacher I am always looking for good educational videos and last year decided that there is such a gap for well produced educational videos for kids like mine (which do not talk down to them) that I should just do it myself.
I watched your Ted Talk two days ago and loved every thing you said and it made me so excited to potentially be part of an online community of educators and learners that I decided it would be good to comment on the video and hopefully communicate a wish to you and the crash course team.
What I'd like to humbly request is a behind the scenes video that explains how you make these brilliant shows and what hurdles you had to clamber over to get to this point. I think that if a community of learners is what you'd like to grow then this would be like putting the fertilizer down to help it grow... (Except the fertilizer in this case doesn't stink!)
Thanks for reading, I'll see you next week for the enlightenment!
Charles (Karl) is the most common name for Swedish kings, and we're actually on number 16 now. However, a fair few of them never really existed as numbers 1-6 were just made up in the middle ages to make Sweden sound more ancient and important than it actually was. We also invented a whole bunch of Eriks etc.
So far he has talked about :
Germany
Italy
France
Turkey(if you want to make that Europe)
Russia
The Netherlands
Poland
Lithuania
Spain
Portugal
England
and some how still hasn't about the most important European country,Andorra SMH.
Well, Ottomans were holding most of the southeastern Europe back then. Modern Turkey has a fraction of a land in Europe(about %10-15 of its total land) but Ottomans were huge and still very strong in Eastern Europe.
I mean, they even managed to take Otranto twice. Otranto is in Italy, if you want to know where exactly their grip was starting to reach.
For Europe's luck, 10th sultan Suleiman lost his enthusiasm for conquest after he saw that getting real results in Europe is not easy anymore. He had to pass all that land, fight very strong armies and breach very strong cities.
Never tried to make a full scale war IN Europe after his failure in Vienna
Also Austria!
@transylvanian About 1 billion Catholics disagree my friend
I don't see why he hasn't, he already talked about the mega European super power Lithuania.
You forgot Scotland
The first time I heard 'Prussia' was from a history teacher from Germany with a THICC accent and for half the semester I thought he was mispronouncing 'Russia'😬
My teacher always just said it in German (despite us all speaking English) 😂. So for us it was ‘Russia’ and ‘Preußen’
"there were problems and they proved to be catastrofic"
*Laughs in Bolshevik*
Fun fact about that battle at Narva, Peter the great had the habit of inviting foreign experts to advise him on various things. At narva he left during the winter to return to saint petersburg and left a foreign expert in charge the only issue was that this expert was french and spoke no russian and so could not actually properly order the troops to form up to repel the swedes.
while peter is a very important historical figure and modernizer, the entire russian state was gradually reforming and taking on the best practices of the time (which were european ones thanks to you know, renaissance and age of discovery and all that). for example, the first russian military units taught in the ways of 17th century european warfare formed in 1640's. The first institution of higher learning (essentially a university except in name) formed in the 1680's, and foreigners have had a sizable presence in Moscow since Ivan the terrible. Peter the Great was successful in formalizing these changes and implementing them amongst all of nobility. Some do make a pretty convincing argument that his reforms may have been needlessly intrusive and that things were heading in that direction regardless. Obviously this is all very nuanced history that you don't have time to cram into a 10 minute video, but I thought I'd give some insight into some of the modern academic debate surrounding the figure of peter the great. Tying russian history into the wider european fold was done very well. Much better than ur video on Ivan the 4th that painted a very sort of cold war era understanding of his long rule
Sooo, what did peter do? Enbolden such reformers?
Bravo, congratulations Mr. Green. Fantastic narration of this important part of European History
I hope you do an episode on the fall of Poland Lithuania. It's a very interesting case study in the failure of democracy and legislative gridlock
“Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state.” ~ Voltaire
4:54 No. Charles IX was just bad at counting.
Sort off... Well the real reason was that he wanted to inflate the number to make his linage seem more impressive. (Personally I forget which of the Charles it was. There have been a lot of them even if we remove the inflated numbers. >_>)
Charles IX was a usurper who only became king after a long civil war. He thus needed to boost his lineage through propaganda.
I like that you’re speaking slower than at the beginning. I’d even watch 20-minute long videos with that pace.
Saint Petersburg is a place I really want to go see.
I love this series! I especially like that besides sharing political, economical and social systems and incidents you remain a critical view on how this circumstances are widely interpreted by modern history making and therefore deconstructing widely accepted views on historical "facts". I love love love your approach and recommend your videos to everyone I know. When I'm done paying off my student loans I'll support you financially as much as I can. Your work is so important! Thank you
One of the best episodes of Crash Course. Very fascinating topics discussed.
In short, Russia becomes great by becoming Europe. True stonks
9:55 There's no house of Brandenburg Prussia, there's the duchies (actually Brandeburg was a march not a duchy but still) of Brandenburg Prussia, but the house is von Hohenzollern.
Really well made and informative!
To make it more confusing Frederick was named King IN Prussia, not King of Prussia. King OF Prussia would have signalled that he was entitled to the whole Prussian region, which in parts still belonged to Poland.
There was also the issue that this would have been a challenge to the holy roman emperor as all the other rulers in the HRE were known as princes.
@@Ice5643 True.
Sidenote: Charles XII wasnt actually the twelve king nsmed Charles in Sweden. His official title was this but since an earlier king (known as Charles IX) during the 16th century had based his own number on a fictional story of Swedish history. This was something done before in Sweden during the 16th century partly to make the rulers more legit but also because they kinda believed that these fictional kings actually had existed. I beleive Charles XII actual title should have been (without the fictional kings) Charles VI.
Excellent..I think these guys honestly had an awkward start back up but they are totally back onto what they had going with the early episodes.
Very little was said about Prussia in terms of watch time
Seeing the Dutch wealth, Peter is filled with DETERMINATION!
This is one of the only outlets of entertainment that I enjoy learning from.
It’s the house of hollenzoleren! That is the house that ruled Brandenburg Prussia.
I once heard a joke that while most countries have armies, Brandenburg could be thought of as an army with a country.
Charles XII wasn't actually the twelfth Charles to rule Sweden, but the sixth. An earlier Swedish king called Charles IX had taken a false regnal number which messed up the numbering of Swedish kings.
To be fair to Sweden; Denmark attacked Sweden and pulled in Russia and Poland. Sweden had to go on the offensive and took out Denmark and Poland but finally Russia decided to mobilize and improve their military after being disgraced at Narva. Charles (Karl) XII being unable to take St. Petersburg tried to go for Moscow and well we know how that all went.
exactly sweden fought a DEFENSIVE war it was the coalition that tought swedens baltic empire and influence to strong and russia was seeking a seaport in the baltic. sweden didnt do anything wrong....except wandering into the russian winter ofc
And Poland-Lithuania was pulled into it by it's current elected King Augustus II, who also happened to be the Elector of Saxony, and he did so using his Saxon troops without Polish-Lithuanian parliament approval. This and initial Swedish victories plunged Commonwealth into a civil war between the supporters of Augustus and his opponents (backed by Sweden), who elected Polish nobleman Stanisław Leszczyński as the king.
Mr. Green, (0:55) 1 meter is approximately 3 ft., now if he was 6'9" he would be around 2.1 meters tall.
The Brandenburg Conceto plays in my mind as I melt faces with the sheer power of my sophistication and intelligence. ENLIGHTENMENT TO THE MAXXX!
"A large army with s small state attached, like Russia today"....says the man from a country with the biggest army budget in the world, 10 times bigger then Russia's.
Yeah... that's a pretty fair point.
Got love the large army with a state attached. The underdog of history.
Actually until Frederick the Great conquered west Prussia from Poland Lithuania during the first partition of Poland Lithuania the title the Hohenzollerns used was King in Prussia
I feel like the only people not thinking “what’s Brandenburg?” after hearing the word are EU4 players and Historians.
Also germans, lol.
Brandenburg is one of the 16th State in Germany.
As a person born in St.Petersburg and of Russian decent it delights me to see this video.
I wish crash course would do an entire season of Roman history
Thank you very much Crash Course for your effort to bring us more education! Because in Brazil life is difficult and I live in north of Brazil Amazon forest where all is in 🔥
6:41 extra points for "hang in there" poster
12:12; Reinfeudation, bringing feudalism back. 😩
4:50 France's louis's say Hi
I honestly appreciate this man for doing to for us
Some facts you may find interesting about Russia during Peter's reign:
1. During the first battle of Narva Russian army was betrayed by its foreign officers: there were just not enough literate Russian nobles, so a lot of English, Scottish, Polish and even Swedish mercenaries were recruited.
2. Russian recruits in many cases couldn't tell left and right apart, so drill instructors had to strap hay and straw to their boots. Instead of "Left, right, left, right..." They marched like "hay, straw, hay, straw!"
3. When Peter found out his closest friend count Menshikov stole state money instead of buying new uniforms, he beat him with his own fists during diplomatic negotiations. And he was considered lucky as other corrupted officials were hanged for such crimes.
4. Saint Petersburg people had to pay their taxes in stones for some time in order to pave the roads of the city. So many peasants died during it's first years it was said to be standing "on bones".
5. After the defeat of Narva Russia lost almost all of its artillery and there was not enough copper to make new guns. Peter ordered to take church bells off and melt them. Church declared him new Antichrist and it was said icons were bleeding cause our tsar isnt a good Christian. Peter literally said "well, if icons won't stop to bleed soon, clergymen will have their asses bleed too!"... And then icons suddenly stopped. As you can say, he was very different from all the previous tsars.
6. Oh, by the way: Peter was a godfather of Abraham Hannibal, quite possibly the first negro man to become an orthodox christian and Russian nobleman. He made an inpressive career as a military engineer and was awarded for bravery. Most importantly though, he was a grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, a founder of Russian literature and poetry. That's right: he had African ancestry, was a poet and even died by a gunshot wound! First Russian gangsta!
Played it on 1.25x like it's meant to 😁
Charles, or Karl i the Nordic languages.
Great video! European history is so interesting, but so complicated... I love the variety on this channel, and every video inspires me to work even harder on my own channel. I just released my 8th video, this one about logical fallacies! It's so fun making videos about all kinds of topics. I'm not that good, but I hope to become better!
The mystery of John's Green missing energy is on.
The beard tax/healthcare bit cracked me up.
Hey, Sweden was not the agressior in The Great Northern War, but yeah Karl the 12th was definitely land hungry.
was he really power hungry? he was ambitious cus he had so much success early on...i mean the whole invading russia...
But Charles was
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Absolutely fantastic. You are a wonderful teacher, and so much of this history I always wanted to know but was never able or willing to make time to read. Hallelujah all for your talents to put this up for us; and for about the best use of the technology of Video production that I have seen.
Never forget Voltaire “Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state.”
Peter the First could've been a basketball player if basketball existed at that time
Love the Eastern European history videos! Thank you!
For Enlightenment, can we bring coffee to class Mr. Green?
These extraordinarily tall soldiers however where not really intended for the battlefield but rather for parades - Friedrich liked to impress others with his collection.
Beautiful video. :D
Shame this episode wasn't split into 2 separate topics. Also one of the things I liked about Fredrick the great of Prussia, was that all children had to go to school no matter their societal standing and modern schools are based on the Prussian System...
Another great episode
WHERE'S MY NEW CRASH COURSE IT'S WEDNESDAY
It’s awesome to learn about the creation of the city that my lineage is traced back the furthest to. Not even taking European history.
Great video, like always! However, the Habsburgs pushing out the ottomans/turks with the help of romanians? As an Austrian, this seems a little bit inaccurate. Most of the troops were imperials (from all over the HRE) and especially polish. Some minor contigents were italian etc.
Also, when exactly was that discussed in the last episode? They just shortly mentioned the 2nd ottoman siege, but there was nothing about Prince Eugen or any pushing the Ottomans out of the balkans.
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This. Is. Perfect.
Шо это за мем?
Charles the 7th of sweden is the first known king of Sweden with the name Charles. I think he used legendary fairytale kings as his justification for the number
"The Cities of New York and Portland would pay for healthcare for everyone"
The best lines to ever be uttered in a TH-cam video
No Sweden didn't have 12 kings called Charles (Karl). Most of them were made up so it would look like Sweden had a long royal length going way back in ancient times just like they had in continental Europe. But Sweden formed as a feudal Christian state much later since we used to be pagan until about the 10th century.
I dunno why but he seemed more enthusiastic in the old CC history episodes
Prussia, the most peaceful and pacifist nation ever existed...💣🧨⚔️
Declares war on Austria
Fights everyone else.
Love these videos!!!!
I hope he talks about Charil XCX in future episodes
was charles XII power hungry? if i understood it correctly, he fought a defensive war to protect his borders. it was when he defeated, denmark, saxony and poland when he went powerhungry and tried to march into russia during winter like so many others did and lost at poltava 1709.
John says in the 5th second of this video that “in our last episode [i.e., #16] we saw how the Hapsburgs with the help of Romanians and some others drive the Ottomans out of large swaths of Eastern Europe” but I couldn’t find any mention of Romania or Romanians in that episode. Is John always that close to historical truth? :)
is no one talking about peter's cute nod animation when he does anything....hahaha
Fun fact: "aristocracy" etymologically means about the same thing as "meritocracy". "Ariste" is Greek for "excellence", so "aristocracy" is ostensibly "rule by the best", which is what "meritocracy" is supposed to mean too.
Did he just have to softly drop the HRE. Like hey kids donuts look.
You know I was gonna fight you on the polo thing, but you're right. You have good taste in polos.
Crash Course South America would totally be worth the time IMO. It's such an important part of the world, especially now adays, and I just don't think most people understand the history responsible for their current political system.
South America is insignificant compared to north America, Europe, and Asia
4:46 Carl XVI Gustaf would like to have a word with you!
Mr green! Crash course music theory would be super cool
Actually the first Charles named himself "Charles IX" to give the impression of an old and venerable monarcy.
Sweden had 12 kings named "Karl" (or Carolus in Latin). In Swedish he is Karl XII
The current king of Sweden is the 16th of his name although his name is spelled Carl XVI Gustaf.
I guess in English you could call him Charles the 16th.
Makes a series about European history
*uses inches and feet as measurement*
Love these videos. Two comments:
1) No, Sweden has not had 12+ kings named Charles/Karl. The first one that there is historical mention of, Karl VII, reigned in the 12th century and was only numbered as seven in the 16th century in what I'd assume was a propaganda move to indicate that the realm was more ancient than the records would imply. Many Europeean monarchs at the time tried to trace their lineage back to Adam and Eve.
2) While Karl XII certainly got greedy for land it was the Russians and their allies that started the Great Northern War. After Sweden had spent the 17th century taking land from most of its neighbours they all saw the chance for a comeback when Karl's father Karl XI died and left him the throne at the young age of 15.
Can this series come out faster? Also, when are the histories for the other 5 continents coming out?
Charles 12 wasn't 'land hungry', it was a defensive war. And the Baltic states they owned were Protestant who preferred Swedish rule to Russian.
Yes, they preferred it so much, that in Finland, for example, people were not allowed to speak it's own language, or sometimes even have local government without complete Sweden oversight. Must have been worth it, just to be ruled by the "enlightened" Swedes.
@@karry299 You do know where the Baltics are, right? I wasn't referring to Finland.
@@nathanielbrown5791 German Nobility of Baltic states was not against Russian Rule.
Who would care at those times about the feelings of Latvian and Estonian peasants.
For Russian state (tsar Peter) it was not about the nationality, religion or affiliation of local people, it was all about to get hold of sea and trading ports. German People in Baltic areas were one of the loyal citizens (or subjests if that is more corret) and influential actors (from the word action) in Russian hsitory thereafter. And they - Germans (as others) are still very welcome to come in and settle in Russia now
When are you going to talk about old Fritz? you stopped right before his reign, are you going to talk about him in next episode? I mean, if you're mentioning the rise of Prussia you will surely mention the man who made Prussia one of the great powers of Europe?
Class Consciousness.
I saw someone post something similar... Can we get a crash course on African history.... And not just Mali... That'll be awesome.
I wonder if that's all we will hear about the partitions of Poland-Lithuania? Probably, since this series is a rather broad overview of European history with a focus on Western Europe. There is much interesting stuff to look into there, particularly the last-minute efforts to reform and strengthen the Commonwealth, which obviously came too late and some say they "provoke" Russia and Prussia to finish Commonwealth off (classic victim-blaming and damned if you will damned is you won't type of situation). From the Commission of National Education (which I think John could find particularly interesting) to the reforms of the Great Sejm (1788-1792) culminating in the Constitution of 3 May 1791, considered first in Europe and second in the world modern constitution.
Then there's Tadeusz Kościuszko, who also played a role in the American Revolution. His last desperate attempt to resist the partitioning powers might have been unsuccessful, but it sort of accidentally provided a significant diversion for the French Republic during the War of the First Coalition, which is often overlooked.