"Defenestration" is a word that always made me wonder why it exists. It's so oddly specific. Makes you wonder how often people used to throw others out of windows to merit inventing a word for it.
I am very very very very veeeery very sure a lot did.. just not whole lot sometimes.. kinda forget to ask when having so much fun.. or when your mother in law demands to know why you have not avenged your whoever looming looking at you in a way that made the others think youre too much a sissy.. etc etc ..?
Combatant : "Is this what Jesus would do?" Catholic priest : "No... but for 3 gold coins - yes !" Combatant : "Seems legit" Protestant Combatant : "Dammit !"
Do you mean non-monotonic? Monotonicity refers to the directionality, i.e. something always getting or worse. A non-linear function could still be constantly improving/positive/monotonic.
Well, lots of things been thrown backwards and forwards, it may not have been an apple that was falling. Newton may have had another law...keep my head down be quite
Well Newton was a nerd.. one our best nerds ever. Looked at the moon and invented calculus.. invented a new type of telescope to look at it better... cmooon.. NEEERD! Nerds rock!
Imagine it, having an elite telling you that there's wealth pouring into your nation but yet you and many people you know are finding it harder and harder to pay for the basics of life.
Please, understand that inflation is more than this. The elite had the silver, but they also experienced the inflation caused by the massive influx of silver. Many nations (By nations I mean royal families) experienced bankruptcies during this time because of the fact that they had to use more silver to pay soldiers, and not just that they also had even more soldiers to pay than before. This is when the monarchies became weak because they too lacked money, they literally had to go to debt just to continue their extravagant lifestyle because they had to keep their prestige at the same time to show their nobles and rivals that they still had power. Remeber that the royalty of the time were not usually as rich as many people think. They were almost always in debt after the 16th century due to the larger armies and navies they had to maintain and due to the inflation brought by the sudden influx of precious metals and gems.
@@RD-eg1df Good Idea. Why not.. Automation and A.I. should end dependancy for the most neccesary things for all.. so no person will be dependent on others for survival.. *Cough! except nerds *COUGh! But good nerds don't abuse others so.. in theory everyone will be theyre own C.E.O. just doing theyre thing... me.. I'm going to sell dirt. Dirt for sale! Will be my company logo. Yours?
The solution is to be more and more in touch with the authenticity of yourself and the authenticity of events, not just what you're told or you're supposed to think.
@@FlosBlog -isierung is still very much in use in words like Modernisierung, Radikalisierung. The early modern german was different but similiar enough to make such an assumption, although there where many dialects which weren't to a large degree intelligible.
WHEN THEY FACE DEATH THEY'RE ALL ALIKE, NO RIGHT OR WRONG RICH OR POOR NO MATTER WHO THEY WERE BEFORE GOOD OR BAD THEY'RE ALL THE SAME REST SIDE BY SIDE NOW *HAS MAN GONE INSANE*
"Unlike the Hundred Years War, the Thirty Years War did last for 30 years." While John isn't wrong, it is worth noting that, because of the international character of the Thirty Years War, that statement is only true when talking about the German states of the Holy Roman Empire. The war also included the Spanish and the Dutch fighting in the Eighty Years War, the Polish-Swedish War, and others beside. Seriously, the history of the Thirty Years War is a cluster**** of epic proportions.
DietrichvonSachsen 😢 Indeed so! Add the English Civil Wars (there were two) that also involved Scotland and Ireland hardly anywhere in Europe was unaffected. Include the Anglo - Dutch War and it appears that no nation was immune to war with any other nation during this period of history.
They used to post sources in the description box earlier but nowadays they never post sources. I was writing a term paper and found a video of Crash Course History to be immensely helpful however when I went to check sources, he didn’t post any in the description box so I couldn’t use it. Edit: They updated the description now. They added sources. Lol.
Man crash course has always been like a safe form of entertainment ya know? Like the intro, everything, just makes me feel safe and comfortable, I listen to crash course while I’m studying related topics, just to get me in that fun learning mode. I used to listen to crash course to fall asleep cause it’s so consistent and informative while not being boring
Nice video, shame that you barely mention anything that happened in Eastern Europe. In 17th century both Russia and Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth went through destructive wars and civil wars. Moskov was sacked. And Wars in 17th century killed up to 30% of population of Polish Kingdom (more destructive than II World War), which lead directly to 3 partitions of PLC in 18 century.
Heck, the Commonwealth didn't need to be involved in 30 years war to be as (if not more) affected by warfare and famine as the rest of Europe. Also, this series largely ignores Eastern Europe, because it's adressed mostly to American students, to whom Eastern European history is irrelevant.
@@nimajneb1219 Wait a minute. I've never suggested that the Americans are dumb. I merely stated that this series is aimed at them - and what they learn in schools.
This is exactly a case like you mentioned in the dark ages episode of World History. For the Dutch, this is considered the golden century, far from a period of crisis.
Good video, but you definitely should have talked about places outside Central Europe. Cromwell was completely destroying Ireland, Poland had sacked Moscow, etc.
This series does seem a bit idk..vague? Europe is a huge huge continent, in this way it feels like they are picking what they deem important for us to know, but what about all these countries individual history that we may otherwise never learn about
I was starting to feel bleak when John said "some good news is coming next week" and all of a sudden I got enormous goosebumps and teared of hope as if I had lived in the 17th Century. You rock, keep on making these videos forever.
Fun fact - It was actually the Third Defenestration of Prague! The second one took place already in 1483, but it remains less famous, because the uprising it was part of was not very succesful. Many minor errors, but the Thirty Years War is soooo complex and confusing, it would be impossible to cover it in less 14 minutes with no simplifications whatsoever. Good job! :)
@@bobjordan9227 As John mentioned, it took place in 1419 in the beginning of the Hussite wars (Czech "pre-protestants", Hussites, against the catholic authorities and crusaders mostly from the Holy Roman Empire). The war was just beginning as a sprawling uprising. The rebellious Hussites took over the city halls of Prague (there was more of them) and threw the catholic councillors out of the windows and the angry mob outside finished the job.
Ah, good ol' defenestration! The scriptwriter's method of choice for dispatching your villain in a G to PG-13 film. Unless you show the landing. Then it is very R-rated.
Our continent has been savaged by religion, yet people say that Christianity has never lead to conflict, unlike Islam. All of them have, which shows that the content doesn't really matter, because the problem is our tribalism.
A small comment on something you said. In the second defenestration, Ferdinand's people didn't say it was a miracle because they were saved by the manure. According to them, angels lowered them gently to the ground.
The realistic human hands in the "though bubble" section fit surprisingly well. Like if Eldritch abominations were playing with the contenders of the war. Great stuff.
Hi Mr Green I have always been a fan of Crash Course! They are concise, informative, appropriately planned etc. I really hope you guys can start a Clash Course Geography because it will be beneficial to our lessons in school and a variety of other reasons. Thank you so much!
Not only that. That peace and the war itself had a profund impact on the German mindset. Outside of a small period from 1888 to 1945, the main goal of German politics has been to equalize the power balance between various actors in the German speaking realm. Also, the sometimes morbid obsession with death and crime in arts (you think the US has many criminal TV series? Think again.) is attributed mainly to the 30 years war.
The causes of the war were complex. There are many historians that argue that when the Protestants seized all church property that that caused the war. Had they not, there may not have been battle or at least not to the scale we saw. So yes, there are different interpretations for the cause or causes (more than one) of the war. For John Green to say religion (a term used for everything from druidism to Catholicism) caused the war, is just a poor choice of phrasing at best.
@@tacokoneko Deus vult translates to "god wants (it so/ this way)", Gott mit uns simply means "god with us". Both phrases shall transport the idea that whoever says it is acting with a deity's explicit approval.
@@lamole329 In English, -berg and -burg sound quite similar. In German, they're totally different - the "e" in -berg sounds like the "e" in "get", and the "u" in -burg sounds like the "u" in "put".
Fun fact, in Sweden the fact that the Catholic were called "The Catholic League" has tainted the word league. Any sort of criminal groupe tends to be called a league for example.
I was reading about the defenestrations of Prague because of work a few months ago and they're fascinating. Especially the second one. Not only did the people that got thrown out of a 20 meters tall window survived but, also, they threw a secretary too (I'm guessing 'cause it's fun to throw people out of windows). As a side note, I think it's important to mention that before the conflict started, in Bohemia, there was freedom of religion. That probably made things even worse. That said, great video. Keep it up!
*right. The right usually dismisses or outright fakes history. The alternative would be capitalist cause faking history is very lucerative in the right situation.
@- king- well Stalin did the great purge with that one famous photo, Hitler faked archeological digs that "showed the superiority of the German race". Idk what Churchill did to fake history but I dont think it would be as egregious? I'm kinda ignorant on the subject though as Hitler and Stalin were, you know, a little bit more cruel and more prominent than churchill
Ever wondered, how the rich and densely settled hanse land of Mecklenburg and Pommerania could become the almost depopulated wilderness it is today? Loosing 75% of your population during the 30 years war, followed by the lengthy reconquest from the Swedes, Napoleon, the soviet conquest in WWII and finally the depopulation of the unification... it's a lot that this landscape had to take, but the tombstone basically was planted during the 30 years war.
And as always literally just 1 mention to Spain who was together with Austria, France and Sweden one of the most important participants, besides being involved in the war from the beginning.
Eh, I was looking forward to this episode since there was a small chance my hometown was going to be mentioned in it but sadly that didn't work out. Anyway, greeting from Münster.
Man, this topic (Crisis of the 17th Century) requires more than a crash course considering the multitudes of violent deadly events causing human suffering on an epic scale globally. Issues like the Witch hunts which peaked during this time. Issues like 41% of the population of Ireland being wiped out, the English civil wars, French civil wars (which the great general Viscount Turenne fought in), the Great Northern War, the slow collapse of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Also aside from Western Europe, China was utterly devastated by the 4 decade long transition from Han Ming rule to Manchu Qing rule, such that over 25 million people died, 3 times the casualties of the Thirty years war. Regions like Henan lost 7/10 of their entire population to disease, drought and violence. Heck even in Africa, there was a Mauritanian Thirty Years war between the Arabs and Berbers. Truly one of the most interesting times to learn about.
No wonder my people on my father's side of the family migrated to the midwest from Germany in Stuttgart, Baden Baden and the black forest. If they could't farm anymore, everything was too expensive and there was war everywhere it explains why about 15 people came over here. They came over her around 1780 and some even fought in the US Civil War.
4:05 SECOND Defenestration of Prague. It sounds silly, but the First Defenestration Of Prague brought on the Hussite wars, which were between Catholics and Protestants in the 1500s, and they featured the first use of mobile artillery (wagons with cannons mounted on them), the early models of Pike&Shot, pikes, in general, proved their worth on the battlegrounds of the Hussite wars, so it is kind of a big difference. It's kind of like the First and Second world wars - the first invented all the stuff and yes was a big deal everywhere but it was just a bunch of "local" wars, then the second turned out to be far bigger, and improved on and used the inventions of the first one.
Up until the Peace of Westphalia part, I had no idea this video was the same thing that my college class spent a semester talking about. The video wass significantly better and cheaper
I found this video super interesting! Raised in Sweden, I leaned about the 30 Years War in history class, but never about the little ice age and (surprisingly and very sadly) never about the human misery that the war and the changing climate caused. It was always "Kings did that, Empire was that"... Thank you Crash Course, for providing me some nuance.
The real terror of the casualties you can see if you look at the per-capita deaths. Millions died (estimates range from 3 to 10) out of a European population of 80 million. It's unfathomable.
@@WombatKnul yeh, they were so wealthy that the farmers didn't even have to plant grain or other low earnings crops because they could just import them from the baltic sea. thats how big of an overflow of food and wealth they had. And then im supposed to believe that while this was going on every other nation in Europe was starving?
@@god5620 I think you know your version is also a bit 'short through the corner' as we like to say in the Netherlands. But I do indeed agree with your statement that the narrative of this show tends to push a distorted view of the past that primarily focusses on the negative aspects of the time and exaggerates them.
Calling the forces of a 17th century Bohemian king or even Wallenstein himself "Czech" is a wild misrepresentation. Czech is a national term. It could possibly be used for the Slavic speaking peoples of Bohemia at the time but even that would be misleading. Until the late 18th century a national label like this was meaningless to the people of central Europe. Otherwise chances are, the Thirty Years War wouldn't have been started for religious reasons but rather national ones, as practically all modern wars do
So if you think George R. R. Martin's style of writing the horrors of war are too gruesome, just watch the bit starting with 9:50 ''Roasting people alive, torturing people's genitals until victims died and raping girls to death became standard behaviour by then''
@@SuviTuuliAllan Huh, interesting! You are right, even though Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, the word "burj" has either Persian or Greek roots, both of which _are_ Indo-European languages.
Hey John, thanks for explaining this century for me - it really helps. I still am not convinced the "Wars of Religion" were about religion. It seems that political ambitions were at the root of the 30 years war, and religious difference was simply used to permit the violence which would have been censured without it. As with France, eventually they didn't need to bother to pretend the war was for religious reasons. I also think the whole 'taking land away from people for the Catholic church' doesn't tell the whole story: these monasteries were violently occupied by rulers using the protestant reformation to do openly what they had been trying to do on the sly always: steal wealth that was given for religious reasons so that they could use it for worldly reasons, like war. That's my view.
Chris Frank I only bring it up because a portion of this episode is dedicated to discussing the 30 years. The most potent effects of the 30 years war were the creation of sovereignty in western states along with the formation of the idea of nationhood which is why I though it be worth mentioning...
i tought u would dive deeper into the 30 years war and its phases itself more directly then discussing the little ice age again. but yeah it connects tho. imo 30 years war itself deserves a own episode just like 100 years war, 7 years war and ww1 and ww2.
In the area I am from (Eastern Bohemia) around 50% of total population was lost during the 30 years war. No all perished though: as a consequence of the counter-reformation, many people had to leave their homes to avoid forces conversion to the catholicism..
"the war stopped being about religion" i think it happened far sooner than that. like maybe before the war started. most religious wars are merely excuses for wars to get other stuff.
So we gonna get some a episode after the sience one involving louis 14 th aka sun god? How about the great northern war and war of spanish succession? Cant wait for 18th century in this series. So many wars, so much enlightment and discovery!
My 8th Great Grandfather on my mother's maternal side, Johann Peter Nickum, was born in Ulmet, Pfaltz, Germany October 5th, 1715 and married his wife on April 29th, 1745 in Irtzeiler, Palatine, Germany, when it was still the Holy Roman Empire. They first came to the New World aboard the ship Samuel, taking off from Rotterdam, Netherlands to Deal, England and then finally to Philedelphia, Pennsylvania. Johann is listed in Pennsylvania German Pioneers by Hinkle & Strassburger. They lived in Berks Co. Pennsylvania until they moved to Emmitsburg, Maryland where he would eventually be buried. Three of his sons (Michael Nickum Sr., Johann George, and Peter Nickum) were a part of the Revolutionary War. 🇺🇸
And now I think I know why high school history skimmed past this whole war almost as if it were a footnote. Partly because it's obviously *hugely* complex. Partly because I don't think the faint of heart could have withstood hearing about it. I am by no means the toughest person when it comes to hearing and understanding disastrous things. I cried at this week's Animal Wonders video, for instance. But this made my stomach turn even as I tried my best to pay attention. And this happened hundreds of years ago, yet reminds me so strongly of things happening right NOW. It physically hurts me to think about that.
"Defenestration" is a word that always made me wonder why it exists. It's so oddly specific. Makes you wonder how often people used to throw others out of windows to merit inventing a word for it.
It's German. Enough said.
@@danielfrancis3736 It's Latin. The language of the time, used by historian and scientists. German would be "Fenstersturz", literally, "window drop".
I think it was invented by writers or upper class socialites to sound smart. Shakespeare used to invent words too, iirc.
@@cellbiol7298 i always thought it was a german word because it literally translates to un-windowing in german
Origins: Latin-fenestram (meaning window) was adopted into German and the adapted to English structure.
I like how this 13 minute video explained this better than the college board anointed 40 minute video.
Olin cus the college board is filled with underpaid, uninspired, boomers.
Me: Wow game of thrones is so violent!
30-years war: *hold my beer*
Reality is often much stranger than fiction.
At no point did anyone stop to think "Is this what Jesus would do?"
I am very very very very veeeery very sure a lot did.. just not whole lot sometimes.. kinda forget to ask when having so much fun.. or when your mother in law demands to know why you have not avenged your whoever looming looking at you in a way that made the others think youre too much a sissy.. etc etc ..?
Jesus kicked the Jews out of the market yeet
As Nietzsche once said, "There only ever existed one Christian, and he died on the cross."
Combatant : "Is this what Jesus would do?"
Catholic priest : "No... but for 3 gold coins - yes !"
Combatant : "Seems legit"
Protestant Combatant : "Dammit !"
They didn't care. It was all power consolidation for them.
Sir Isaac Newtown was born during the Thirty Years' War.
It shows how nonlinear human progress can be.
So, maybe not an apple so much as a brick? A head?
Do you mean non-monotonic? Monotonicity refers to the directionality, i.e. something always getting or worse. A non-linear function could still be constantly improving/positive/monotonic.
Well, lots of things been thrown backwards and forwards, it may not have been an apple that was falling. Newton may have had another law...keep my head down be quite
it's clear that the apple fell along a fractal dimension of jesuit poppycock. close to e^pi.
Well Newton was a nerd.. one our best nerds ever. Looked at the moon and invented calculus.. invented a new type of telescope to look at it better... cmooon.. NEEERD! Nerds rock!
Imagine it, having an elite telling you that there's wealth pouring into your nation but yet you and many people you know are finding it harder and harder to pay for the basics of life.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...
Lust like now: CEOs getting richer than ever while middle and low earners see their purchasing power diminish
@Trigger Troll Yeah! Let's all be CEOs!
Please, understand that inflation is more than this. The elite had the silver, but they also experienced the inflation caused by the massive influx of silver. Many nations (By nations I mean royal families) experienced bankruptcies during this time because of the fact that they had to use more silver to pay soldiers, and not just that they also had even more soldiers to pay than before. This is when the monarchies became weak because they too lacked money, they literally had to go to debt just to continue their extravagant lifestyle because they had to keep their prestige at the same time to show their nobles and rivals that they still had power. Remeber that the royalty of the time were not usually as rich as many people think. They were almost always in debt after the 16th century due to the larger armies and navies they had to maintain and due to the inflation brought by the sudden influx of precious metals and gems.
@@RD-eg1df Good Idea. Why not..
Automation and A.I. should end dependancy for the most neccesary things for all.. so no person will be dependent on others for survival.. *Cough! except nerds *COUGh! But good nerds don't abuse others so.. in theory everyone will be theyre own C.E.O. just doing theyre thing... me.. I'm going to sell dirt. Dirt for sale! Will be my company logo. Yours?
''Now, I know what you're thinking, this whole history business is just one crisis after another''
... *Human life is just one crisis after another.*
*life in general
_"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."_
*Edward Gibbon*
That it ain't.
The solution is to be more and more in touch with the authenticity of yourself and the authenticity of events, not just what you're told or you're supposed to think.
Human life maybe full of crisis, but it should not be defined by them.
The torching of Magdeburg led to the word "magdeburgisieren" which means to tptally destroy and plunder a city.
Ich werde mein Freunden magdeburgisieren.
Although, I never heard somebody use the word.
@@FlosBlog It probably was more used in the days of the 30 years war and not nowadays.
@@johgu92 Was -isierung a productive morpheme in Early Modern German?
@@FlosBlog -isierung is still very much in use in words like Modernisierung, Radikalisierung. The early modern german was different but similiar enough to make such an assumption, although there where many dialects which weren't to a large degree intelligible.
“Three decades of war”
*begins rocking in Sabaton*
HAS MAN GONE INSANE?!!?!?
Name of the song?
@@lvd8122 A Lifetime Of War
WHEN THEY FACE DEATH THEY'RE ALL ALIKE,
NO RIGHT OR WRONG
RICH OR POOR
NO MATTER WHO THEY WERE BEFORE
GOOD OR BAD
THEY'RE ALL THE SAME
REST SIDE BY SIDE NOW
*HAS MAN GONE INSANE*
8 decades of war
"Unlike the Hundred Years War, the Thirty Years War did last for 30 years."
While John isn't wrong, it is worth noting that, because of the international character of the Thirty Years War, that statement is only true when talking about the German states of the Holy Roman Empire. The war also included the Spanish and the Dutch fighting in the Eighty Years War, the Polish-Swedish War, and others beside.
Seriously, the history of the Thirty Years War is a cluster**** of epic proportions.
DietrichvonSachsen 😢 Indeed so! Add the English Civil Wars (there were two) that also involved Scotland and Ireland hardly anywhere in Europe was unaffected. Include the Anglo - Dutch War and it appears that no nation was immune to war with any other nation during this period of history.
When starting a fire in a bakery causes the whole of London to burn down
😑
Please consider posting sources in the desc. Myself and I’m sure many others would appreciate it greatly
Assuming there are sources, that would be splendid.
They used to post sources in the description box earlier but nowadays they never post sources. I was writing a term paper and found a video of Crash Course History to be immensely helpful however when I went to check sources, he didn’t post any in the description box so I couldn’t use it.
Edit: They updated the description now. They added sources. Lol.
@@kaihtheloner Which does not imply a dearth of quality sources, of course.
Source: I already knew a lot about this just trust me on this one.
@Sam Smith If you "click" on show more you will find the links that you want.
Man crash course has always been like a safe form of entertainment ya know? Like the intro, everything, just makes me feel safe and comfortable, I listen to crash course while I’m studying related topics, just to get me in that fun learning mode. I used to listen to crash course to fall asleep cause it’s so consistent and informative while not being boring
Nice video, shame that you barely mention anything that happened in Eastern Europe. In 17th century both Russia and Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth went through destructive wars and civil wars. Moskov was sacked. And Wars in 17th century killed up to 30% of population of Polish Kingdom (more destructive than II World War), which lead directly to 3 partitions of PLC in 18 century.
Heck, the Commonwealth didn't need to be involved in 30 years war to be as (if not more) affected by warfare and famine as the rest of Europe.
Also, this series largely ignores Eastern Europe, because it's adressed mostly to American students, to whom Eastern European history is irrelevant.
This is for APEH (Advanced Placement European History) which I took last year. We dont focus much on Eastern Europe until the 20th century.
They are mentioning Middle Europe (Bohemia) several times, there we have it xD
@@nimajneb1219 Wait a minute. I've never suggested that the Americans are dumb. I merely stated that this series is aimed at them - and what they learn in schools.
I would be interested in watching a whole other series on eastern European history.
I guess you could say that in 1570, *winter was coming*
I have long argued that Game of Thrones has actually as much in common with the 30 years war as with the war of the roses.
Ferdinand: All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive. Make your time.
"coming news"
2070 extreme summer is coming
This is exactly a case like you mentioned in the dark ages episode of World History. For the Dutch, this is considered the golden century, far from a period of crisis.
Raping Indonesia
Good video, but you definitely should have talked about places outside Central Europe. Cromwell was completely destroying Ireland, Poland had sacked Moscow, etc.
This series does seem a bit idk..vague? Europe is a huge huge continent, in this way it feels like they are picking what they deem important for us to know, but what about all these countries individual history that we may otherwise never learn about
I was starting to feel bleak when John said "some good news is coming next week" and all of a sudden I got enormous goosebumps and teared of hope as if I had lived in the 17th Century. You rock, keep on making these videos forever.
Fun fact - It was actually the Third Defenestration of Prague! The second one took place already in 1483, but it remains less famous, because the uprising it was part of was not very succesful.
Many minor errors, but the Thirty Years War is soooo complex and confusing, it would be impossible to cover it in less 14 minutes with no simplifications whatsoever. Good job! :)
Adam Hošek what was the first
@@bobjordan9227 As John mentioned, it took place in 1419 in the beginning of the Hussite wars (Czech "pre-protestants", Hussites, against the catholic authorities and crusaders mostly from the Holy Roman Empire). The war was just beginning as a sprawling uprising. The rebellious Hussites took over the city halls of Prague (there was more of them) and threw the catholic councillors out of the windows and the angry mob outside finished the job.
Adam Hošek could give sources or at least a source for there being a defenestration in 1483
And the second?
Stop defenestrating people.!😂
Ah, good ol' defenestration! The scriptwriter's method of choice for dispatching your villain in a G to PG-13 film.
Unless you show the landing. Then it is very R-rated.
SaiyanHeretic this is Sparta Prague!
Kill the beast!
@@nope2dat Isn't it ironic that Prague's football team is called "Sparta Prague"?
Our continent has been savaged by religion, yet people say that Christianity has never lead to conflict, unlike Islam. All of them have, which shows that the content doesn't really matter, because the problem is our tribalism.
oh!OH! Mr. Green MR. GREEN? "Yes me from the past"
Guys they forgot to add European History after crash course in the title. Lol
I was gonna say!
Crisis!
- Joseph when I was watching it it which was just 2 or 3 hours after its upload, it didn’t have European history in the title.
When you're a Sabaton fan and just waiting eagerly for Gustavus Adolphus to enter the story.
LIBERA ET IMPERA!
Anon Ymous augusta per angusta
I WAS THE KING OF SWEDEN!
A small comment on something you said. In the second defenestration, Ferdinand's people didn't say it was a miracle because they were saved by the manure. According to them, angels lowered them gently to the ground.
Very stinky angels
The realistic human hands in the "though bubble" section fit surprisingly well. Like if Eldritch abominations were playing with the contenders of the war. Great stuff.
I was thinking, a clear Monty Python homage.
So how much famine, war, death and devastation are we gonna see?
30-Years-War: Yes.
Hi Mr Green I have always been a fan of Crash Course! They are concise, informative, appropriately planned etc. I really hope you guys can start a Clash Course Geography because it will be beneficial to our lessons in school and a variety of other reasons. Thank you so much!
Peace of Westphalia also brought the idea of sovereignty and nation-states.
Not only that. That peace and the war itself had a profund impact on the German mindset. Outside of a small period from 1888 to 1945, the main goal of German politics has been to equalize the power balance between various actors in the German speaking realm. Also, the sometimes morbid obsession with death and crime in arts (you think the US has many criminal TV series? Think again.) is attributed mainly to the 30 years war.
@Nub93 You didn't get my point at all.
“History resists simplicity” John Green
“This war was caused by, you guessed it, religion”
John Green
It was "caused" by religion -- Not, it was all about religion. Does semantic even matter anymore to people?
The causes of the war were complex. There are many historians that argue that when the Protestants seized all church property that that caused the war. Had they not, there may not have been battle or at least not to the scale we saw. So yes, there are different interpretations for the cause or causes (more than one) of the war. For John Green to say religion (a term used for everything from druidism to Catholicism) caused the war, is just a poor choice of phrasing at best.
Sabaton and Crush Course have video on same topic in the same week? That's interesting.
So, a tradition states:
GOTT MIT UNS!
Or
Noch ein bier!
deus vult?
@@tacokoneko Deus vult translates to "god wants (it so/ this way)", Gott mit uns simply means "god with us". Both phrases shall transport the idea that whoever says it is acting with a deity's explicit approval.
It's Magdeburg not Magdeberg
You did the same mistake with Augsburg in the last Episode
It's Magdeburg, not Magdeberg, though.
but it's pronounced the same?
@@lamole329 no it''s not
@@lamole329 In English, -berg and -burg sound quite similar.
In German, they're totally different - the "e" in -berg sounds like the "e" in "get", and the "u" in -burg sounds like the "u" in "put".
Flavius Stilicho no, they mean hill und fortress.
@Flavius Stilicho Berg is essentially a mountain/hill. While burg is a fortress, quite common equivalent in English would be -burry
How can you mention the treaty of Westphalia without talking about Westphalian sovereignty.
Fun fact, in Sweden the fact that the Catholic were called "The Catholic League" has tainted the word league. Any sort of criminal groupe tends to be called a league for example.
8:25 Wherever there is Catholic brutality there is also Jesuits.
5:58 yo what's Ethan Klein doin there
I was reading about the defenestrations of Prague because of work a few months ago and they're fascinating. Especially the second one. Not only did the people that got thrown out of a 20 meters tall window survived but, also, they threw a secretary too (I'm guessing 'cause it's fun to throw people out of windows).
As a side note, I think it's important to mention that before the conflict started, in Bohemia, there was freedom of religion. That probably made things even worse.
That said, great video. Keep it up!
Victor Cabanelas bddhd
No mention of the English civil war?
There is a separate episode in constitutionalism coming
are you sure the painting at 7:52 is Christian IV of Denmark? I believe it's Christian V of Denmark (the grandson of Christian IV)
It's literally the Wikipedia picture of Christian the 5th
@- king- Two mistakes in this one that would have taken literally one google search to fix doesn't bode well for quality control. So I care.
- king-
People who value accuracy; you must lean Left politically, the way you dismiss context.
*right. The right usually dismisses or outright fakes history. The alternative would be capitalist cause faking history is very lucerative in the right situation.
@- king- well Stalin did the great purge with that one famous photo, Hitler faked archeological digs that "showed the superiority of the German race". Idk what Churchill did to fake history but I dont think it would be as egregious? I'm kinda ignorant on the subject though as Hitler and Stalin were, you know, a little bit more cruel and more prominent than churchill
No mention of the 80 years war, which was active at the same time.
Still a great video tho.
Crash course has inspired me to make my own educational channel! Thanks so much!
Math Triangle love it ! I subbed
HBO should make a 30 years war TV series.
YES
Ever wondered, how the rich and densely settled hanse land of Mecklenburg and Pommerania could become the almost depopulated wilderness it is today? Loosing 75% of your population during the 30 years war, followed by the lengthy reconquest from the Swedes, Napoleon, the soviet conquest in WWII and finally the depopulation of the unification... it's a lot that this landscape had to take, but the tombstone basically was planted during the 30 years war.
Everyone else in the comment section: Hey nice video Joh-
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I owe this man every passing grade I’ve ever received
Sooo .. this series is actually Western European History ...
Almost at 10mil because of how much knowledge you bring to the table. Also, loved the art today.
And as always literally just 1 mention to Spain who was together with Austria, France and Sweden one of the most important participants, besides being involved in the war from the beginning.
Eh, I was looking forward to this episode since there was a small chance my hometown was going to be mentioned in it but sadly that didn't work out.
Anyway, greeting from Münster.
Munster was a beautiful city and full of buzz during this time!
Where’s the next episode? I’m looking forward to it
European history? More like Western Europe's history.
Man, this topic (Crisis of the 17th Century) requires more than a crash course considering the multitudes of violent deadly events causing human suffering on an epic scale globally. Issues like the Witch hunts which peaked during this time. Issues like 41% of the population of Ireland being wiped out, the English civil wars, French civil wars (which the great general Viscount Turenne fought in), the Great Northern War, the slow collapse of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. Also aside from Western Europe, China was utterly devastated by the 4 decade long transition from Han Ming rule to Manchu Qing rule, such that over 25 million people died, 3 times the casualties of the Thirty years war. Regions like Henan lost 7/10 of their entire population to disease, drought and violence. Heck even in Africa, there was a Mauritanian Thirty Years war between the Arabs and Berbers. Truly one of the most interesting times to learn about.
And today, most of their churches are empty.
No wonder my people on my father's side of the family migrated to the midwest from Germany in Stuttgart, Baden Baden and the black forest. If they could't farm anymore, everything was too expensive and there was war everywhere it explains why about 15 people came over here. They came over her around 1780 and some even fought in the US Civil War.
4:05 SECOND Defenestration of Prague.
It sounds silly, but the First Defenestration Of Prague brought on the Hussite wars, which were between Catholics and Protestants in the 1500s, and they featured the first use of mobile artillery (wagons with cannons mounted on them), the early models of Pike&Shot, pikes, in general, proved their worth on the battlegrounds of the Hussite wars, so it is kind of a big difference. It's kind of like the First and Second world wars - the first invented all the stuff and yes was a big deal everywhere but it was just a bunch of "local" wars, then the second turned out to be far bigger, and improved on and used the inventions of the first one.
Wait 5 seconds before you comment
Maybe people in Prague should just stop throwing people out of windows. It never ends well.
Up until the Peace of Westphalia part, I had no idea this video was the same thing that my college class spent a semester talking about. The video wass significantly better and cheaper
I found this video super interesting! Raised in Sweden, I leaned about the 30 Years War in history class, but never about the little ice age and (surprisingly and very sadly) never about the human misery that the war and the changing climate caused. It was always "Kings did that, Empire was that"... Thank you Crash Course, for providing me some nuance.
You’re really killing it in these videos John - great job, very fun learning.
The real terror of the casualties you can see if you look at the per-capita deaths. Millions died (estimates range from 3 to 10) out of a European population of 80 million. It's unfathomable.
You might have forgotten about the Dutch in all of your videos....
it was a pretty good time for them. lots of money, not a lot of dying
@@god5620 Yeah, It probably doesn't fit in their narrative.
@@WombatKnul yeh, they were so wealthy that the farmers didn't even have to plant grain or other low earnings crops because they could just import them from the baltic sea. thats how big of an overflow of food and wealth they had. And then im supposed to believe that while this was going on every other nation in Europe was starving?
@@god5620 I think you know your version is also a bit 'short through the corner' as we like to say in the Netherlands. But I do indeed agree with your statement that the narrative of this show tends to push a distorted view of the past that primarily focusses on the negative aspects of the time and exaggerates them.
Bruh everybody in the comments section is saying all this smart stuff and I’m here writing random things down hoping my teacher will accept it-🗿🗿🗿
This week war and devastation but stayed tuned for SCIENCE next week!
2020 human crisis 'Covid19' 🙄
The winter was actually coming
0:21 DO we, though, John?
Do we humans REALLY learn from our past mistakes?
It certainly doesn't look that way.
3:33 Yeah.
5:55 Again; Yeah.
'Don't shoot the messenger'? More like 'Don't throw the messenger out a window' :/
The Thirty Years war had the most casualties till WW1!!!!
Calling the forces of a 17th century Bohemian king or even Wallenstein himself "Czech" is a wild misrepresentation. Czech is a national term. It could possibly be used for the Slavic speaking peoples of Bohemia at the time but even that would be misleading. Until the late 18th century a national label like this was meaningless to the people of central Europe. Otherwise chances are, the Thirty Years War wouldn't have been started for religious reasons but rather national ones, as practically all modern wars do
So if you think George R. R. Martin's style of writing the horrors of war are too gruesome, just watch the bit starting with 9:50 ''Roasting people alive, torturing people's genitals until victims died and raping girls to death became standard behaviour by then''
MagdebUrg, not MagdebErg. (Burg = Castle, Berg = Mountain) Today that city is the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Anglophones make such mistakes frequently. The many times I saw Konigsburg instead Konigsberg or Nurmburg instead of Nuremberg...
Just realised that the 'burj' in Burj Khalifa is basically 'burg'. Cool beans!
@@SuviTuuliAllan Huh, interesting! You are right, even though Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, the word "burj" has either Persian or Greek roots, both of which _are_ Indo-European languages.
Hey John, thanks for explaining this century for me - it really helps. I still am not convinced the "Wars of Religion" were about religion. It seems that political ambitions were at the root of the 30 years war, and religious difference was simply used to permit the violence which would have been censured without it. As with France, eventually they didn't need to bother to pretend the war was for religious reasons. I also think the whole 'taking land away from people for the Catholic church' doesn't tell the whole story: these monasteries were violently occupied by rulers using the protestant reformation to do openly what they had been trying to do on the sly always: steal wealth that was given for religious reasons so that they could use it for worldly reasons, like war. That's my view.
How this episode was written without mentioning the creation of the nation state along with barely mentioning state Sovereignty is beyond me
Aspen Everclear Because it’s a 13 minute video covering several hundred years.
Chris Frank I only bring it up because a portion of this episode is dedicated to discussing the 30 years. The most potent effects of the 30 years war were the creation of sovereignty in western states along with the formation of the idea of nationhood which is why I though it be worth mentioning...
"Defenestration" is a pretty old-fashioned word. Most scholars today prefer to call it the "2nd Window Yeeting of Prague".
i tought u would dive deeper into the 30 years war and its phases itself more directly then discussing the little ice age again. but yeah it connects tho. imo 30 years war itself deserves a own episode just like 100 years war, 7 years war and ww1 and ww2.
In the area I am from (Eastern Bohemia) around 50% of total population was lost during the 30 years war. No all perished though: as a consequence of the counter-reformation, many people had to leave their homes to avoid forces conversion to the catholicism..
"the war stopped being about religion"
i think it happened far sooner than that. like maybe before the war started. most religious wars are merely excuses for wars to get other stuff.
But which Crash Course is this? Is it Biology? (they forgot European History in the title)
If all this mess was severely intensified by a 0.5°C average temperature variation, imagine what we'll have with 2°C.
Volcanic Winter.
I got WAY too excited about the Defenestration of Prague. Probably my favorite moment of history.
John, are you suggesting we are borne back ceaselessly into the past?
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imagine a world where religion or gods was never invented.
i have two old mirrors with the artwork at 0:49. Where did you find it? thanks.
It’s Pieter Brueghel, The Hunters in the Snow. It’s in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna :)
"History is not one human story. It is all human stories"
You couldn't have said it better
MagdebUrg. This is the second time you did it the wrong way round. Last time it was a hill not a castle.
Aaahhh, yes! The good old days!
There was only one king in the Holy Roman Empire, the kingdom of Bohemia.
How about Poles' twopence in the 30 years war?
So we gonna get some a episode after the sience one involving louis 14 th aka sun god? How about the great northern war and war of spanish succession? Cant wait for 18th century in this series. So many wars, so much enlightment and discovery!
Was our golden age in the Netherlands lol
8:52
Spent the night in formation
To the battle we march in the dawn
We were ready to die for our king
On the fields of Breitenfeld
Elsa must’ve been furious if she caused the Little Ice Age
This is the second time some the center of the world spit out something from Prague! Is Prague closer to the center of world than other places?
Game of thrones startedd with the defenestration of Bran Stark.
My 8th Great Grandfather on my mother's maternal side, Johann Peter Nickum, was born in Ulmet, Pfaltz, Germany October 5th, 1715 and married his wife on April 29th, 1745 in Irtzeiler, Palatine, Germany, when it was still the Holy Roman Empire.
They first came to the New World aboard the ship Samuel, taking off from Rotterdam, Netherlands to Deal, England and then finally to Philedelphia, Pennsylvania. Johann is listed in Pennsylvania German Pioneers by Hinkle & Strassburger. They lived in Berks Co. Pennsylvania until they moved to Emmitsburg, Maryland where he would eventually be buried. Three of his sons (Michael Nickum Sr., Johann George, and Peter Nickum) were a part of the Revolutionary War. 🇺🇸
Cool family history
And now I think I know why high school history skimmed past this whole war almost as if it were a footnote.
Partly because it's obviously *hugely* complex.
Partly because I don't think the faint of heart could have withstood hearing about it. I am by no means the toughest person when it comes to hearing and understanding disastrous things. I cried at this week's Animal Wonders video, for instance. But this made my stomach turn even as I tried my best to pay attention.
And this happened hundreds of years ago, yet reminds me so strongly of things happening right NOW. It physically hurts me to think about that.
And now we go to realize that wars stopped being about religion and it began about just stopping Holy Roman Empire
Meanwhile... POLAND is better than it's ever been.
Can you show more maps please? Helps place events for more visual learners like me, thx