17th Century Europe be like

Europe in the 17th Century was quite the place. History has not been so kind. Also an honorable mention to Asia in this one
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00:00 17th Century Europe be like
00:10 War of the Three Kingdoms
00:21 Deluge
00:33 Time of Troubles
00:53 Price Revolution
01:09 Thirty Years War
01:29 Ottoman-Habsburg Wars
01:54 Dutch Golden Age
02:09 Greatest Military Conflicts in the Century
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[@MasterofRoflness]

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[@johnmariustan3080]

Everything

[@RajaIsThatGuy]

Chinese switching from Ming to Qing Also maybe Nader-shah?

[@teal_m_101]

Have you done a video about the Safavids, and the absolutely madlad that is Nader Shah?

[@visicircle]

Well, if you bothered to watch the whole video you wouldn't miss anything.

[@death-istic9586]

Love your videos!💚

[@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly]

_If you think about it, Europe being largely peaceful after WW2 is really just a historical aberration._

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

Except for Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, and Yugoslavia

[@fhmcateer]

In part due to the institutions created, in part due to an increased awareness of the peace and trade dividend, perhaps in part due to less emphasis among leaders that land = money and power, and of course, all backed up by the threat of nuclear war wiping the board clean at the first sign of any serious territorial incursion

[@cpp3221]

It's just that we wasted so much energy in those fun games that we need some time to rest. Don't worry tho, Macron and Putin are about to do le funny again.

[@waffle6376]

There were the Yugoslavian wars Chechnya war and Russia ukraine war

[@kiwuuspurr1927]

@@fhmcateer just a general question to anyone who sees this, but was it worth sacrificing the lives of the Japanese people at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in return for a world where wars are fought on a much smaller scale and more so digitally in fear of nuclear devastation? I personally don't wanna comment on this, but I'd like to know what others think of this question

[@wikansaktianto9215]

Small Chinese quarrel indeed.

[@wikipediaintellectual7088]

I straight up did the 2019 joker laugh when I saw that death toll.

[@kubikkuratko188]

Dudes changed ONE SINGLE letter in its dynasties name and most of its population died!

[@wikansaktianto9215]

@@kubikkuratko188 Imagine changing two letters...

[@altithoraxperotorum5133]

I always wonder how China always almost depopulates itself

[@vercot7000]

@@altithoraxperotorum5133 It's a gaint place. Manchuria is the size of western europe, right? pretty sure? or did I make that up

[@FinianFhomhair]

Europe death toll 6.000.000: Population decline by 50% China death toll 25.000.000: Just another tuesday afternoon.

[@muhammadscott1488]

China moment

[@OmegaTrooper]

@@muhammadscott1488certified

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

10-20% percent of the population were killed.

[@SergeantArchDornan999]

Most Average day in China be like:

[@giacomoromano8842]

There will always be more chinese in china. I thought it was a racist joke, but i am starting to believe it.

[@Based_Finn]

Ahh yes, Europe, The most peaceful continent.☺

[@RajaIsThatGuy]

All the (not)fun game ended in 1945.

[@isidrobadani1657]

​@@RajaIsThatGuy pero vuelven la próxima semana

[@houseplant1016]

they only really stopped a bit, when they realised they could use their talent in violence against other continents lmfao and still they couldn't withstand causing 2 world wars

[@nanashi7779]

​@@houseplant1016 Westerners when they invent an entire system of supposedly objective human rights just because they killed each other a little bit too much this time:

[@RockSmithStudio]

“Mostly peaceful” continent

[@NucleaRaptor]

>camel-mounted cannons That's some Metal Slug shit.

[@wikansaktianto9215]

Judgement X be real

[@superspies32]

Wait until you see Cannon-mounted Elephants used by Vietnamese during Trinh-Nguyen Civil war (also during this time) and Tay Son dynasty later. And its not a puny cannon like on the camel, its a howitzer and turned Elephant into tanks.

[@mattsterh7740]

​@@superspies32did they fire the cannons on the animals or just use them as transports? Im assuming the animals would go apeshit, let alone the concussive force would break their bones so they would just pop the artillery off.

[@Dell-ol6hb]

@@mattsterh7740 yea, I think they actually fired them from the camels but those were much much smaller guns, for the elephants I’m pretty sure they would just be moving the canons for repositioning but if the canons on their backs were small enough they definitely could fire them from the back just like they did with camels

[@mattsterh7740]

@@Dell-ol6hb thats nuts

[@malaisto925]

When the casualties of one of your civil wars matches with those of multiple wars of an entire continent.

[@wadejg_blaze0n213]

I’m still curious on how is Asia the most populated continent with conflicts like these compared to europe.

[@RajaIsThatGuy]

​@@wadejg_blaze0n213 Rice farmer grindset >Entire country genocided >grow 80000 tons of rice >repopulate >repeat

[@TTminh-wh8me]

classic chinese moment

[@MultiKommandant]

@@wadejg_blaze0n213 Could just be the way we define "wars" in a European context is state vs state (we have a lot of small states so this happens pretty regularly) as opposed to Asia where the empires tended to be larger, so the rate at which states actually fought each other was lower but each state had way more resources at their disposal so it would inevitably be far messier. Frequency vs Scale, I guess.

[@samotter9509]

@@wadejg_blaze0n213 rice paddies were op before pesticides were a thing, fish eat all the bugs. china is also massive and had a kind of postfuedal command economy, didnt have to trade for any goods except silver. also just lots of arable land in the south and near Beijing. india similarly has insane ammounts of arable land and both areas had quite profitable trade routes in the late medieval early modern days exporting goods like silk, spices and some dyes (which they had a monopoly on hence made some big money)

[@f3ismyname]

'Small Chinese War'

[@kubikkuratko188]

China: Changes M to Q 25 000 000: "Guess ill die."

[@tuongtang8974]

Funfact: The reason why Manchu can cross the Great Wall was due to a guy who decides to open the gate after hearing his concubine has been rape by a peasant revolt leader

[@superspies32]

Compared to An Lu Shan rebellion its a very small casuality.

[@nicodominguez5898]

Truly a Splendid Little War 🤗

[@StepanBakshaev]

"They had just... small Chinese civil war, with usuall 20 million casualties"😁

[@fritzVirginSteeler]

"What a century, uh?" "Captain, it's 1618"

[@iplaygames8090]

prague defenestrations my beloved

[@figtree_video_archive]

Knights with muskets

[@RajaIsThatGuy]

It actually exist Search up early 17th century Cuirassier

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

17th century Cuirassiers were supposed to ride into an enemy formation while wearing bulletproof plate armour and fire their (wheellock) pistols, before drawing their sword and continuing to charge. In reality however, they often fired their pistols at close range and retreated away to reload and repeat the process. Cuirassiers also tended to be some of the wealthiest soldiers, unlike pikemen or common musketeers.

[@altithoraxperotorum5133]

Camels with guns

[@berankb]

Best era by far

[@ernstschmidt4725]

and braces of huge pistols

[@lasecte5416]

Europe: *is on fire* The dutch: "what a time to be alive"

[@LMvdB02]

And fought an 80 years long war with the Spanish

[@luckyluciano1584]

Unless your the prime minister who got ate

[@RedRocketthefirst]

​@@LMvdB02 that was in the 16th centure though

[@DanielWW2]

It was even better. During the 17th century, there was a lot of Dutch armaments production and financing of foreign rulers for their wars. Some of the merchants became insanely rich because of it. The rest of the continent was busy murdering each other, but they needed something to do the killing with and pay the soldiers doing the murdering. And if you where in need, Amsterdam was the place to be. Nor did that really change in the 18th century. The American colonies for example, also got a lot of their weaponry and funding via Amsterdam.

[@xenotypos]

It was a good time for Sweden and France too. At least the second half of the century.

[@Rct3master44]

Never ask the Swedish how they got all that Polish artwork.

[@megakillerx]

Oh we’ll answer proudly: No refunds lmao.

[@marekkapusta9597]

​@@megakillerx Hey, greetings from Poland, I honestly hope that at least you enjoy all that loot. By the way, welcome to NATO.

[@sulphurous2656]

@@megakillerx Is that what the Brussels commission told your people before sending millions of pontoon riders to raid, pillage, and plunder all your women?

[@AntoineELismysalvation]

You'd be surprised ;)@@megakillerx

[@danvernier198]

Shouldn't have tried to give us that catholic king back now should you, we sent him away for a reason.

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

And they say we live in the worst period in human history... And I agree! How is an honest warmonger supposed to make a living?

[@Godzillafan78]

just go to Africa

[@areaxisthegurkha]

​​@@Godzillafan78i bet some people had they not stand out from the crowd due to their race.

[@zephlodwick1009]

I'd say the Bronze Age Collapse was the worst time in history (that we know of), but the 6th Century AD was pretty awful and the American plagues were dreadful to live through.

[@randot6675]

​@@Godzillafan78Africa's just gettin a bit too peaceful

[@user-qn1zp5bi2h]

We just emerged from the bloodiest century in human history and another world war is coming.

[@angusyang5917]

And top it all off, this took place during a period in Earth's climate history where global temperatures cooled significantly in an event known as the Little Ice Age, causing colder temperatures, smaller harvests, and more famine across the world.

[@mrgalaxy396]

That's likely the reason everything went tits up in the first place. Famine's a bitch.

[@angusyang5917]

@@mrgalaxy396 Europe wasn't the only place suffering from war; the Ming dynasty was getting overrun by the Qing in one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history (but par for the course for a Chinese civil war) and King's Philip War was taking place in the colonies (where The Sudbury Devil takes place)

[@RAAM855]

It was from Krakatoa erupting right? Edit: nvm, still I wouldn't bet that some volcano erupted and caused Temps to drop

[@ultraspicypineapple3405]

Just imagine how much worse things would have been if there was something like the winter of 536 around this time

[@tylerphuoc2653]

The leadup to the Little Ice Age may have been one factor that contributed to the decline of the megalopolis Cahokia back along the Mississippi River

[@JakubSobczyk2137]

PLC in the first half of the 17th century: We are so back PLC in the second half of the 17th century: It's so over

[@SamuelRodrigues-hr6ii]

I don't want to sound stupid, but what is PLC ?

[@RedTRM]

​@@SamuelRodrigues-hr6ii Poland Lithuania Commonwealth

[@JakubSobczyk2137]

@@SamuelRodrigues-hr6ii Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

[@SamuelRodrigues-hr6ii]

@@RedTRM Oh yes

[@namphannguyenhuu2105]

What are you talking about? The relief of Vienna aka “When the Winged Hussar arrived” happened in the later half of the 17th century (1683)

[@inconemay1441]

The most forgotten part of history that isnt Bronze Age civilization.

[@someguysomeone3543]

Along with early medieval history except for charlamange maybe the Islamic conquests if you're lucky.

[@ernstschmidt4725]

gotta play cossacks rts

[@williemherbert1456]

Also, he should add French War of Religion into the fray being told.

[@orthodox-mp6hv]

@@ernstschmidt4725 Ah! I see you are a man of culture as well!

[@xenotypos]

@@williemherbert1456Most of it was in the 16th century though. Overall, the 17th century was good for France (and Sweden).

[@unknownpack5717]

Europe finally realised playing tall was better then playing wide

[@Ratimir101]

Doesn’t really work well if you are aware of economic circumstances in Europe

[@joycereed6952]

Playing wide is in a vacuum superior to playing tall, you only play tall due to circumstances or because of bonuses (for example the tall civs in Sid Meiers Civilization)

[@pedrolmlkzk]

No they are just occupied by the US

[@Mr.Heller]

Yeah, because a wide player with a ton of resources was nearby and sold for cheap. Not anymore.

[@solinvictus6562]

I struggle to imagine how terrible a time must be by the standard of *russian history* for them to be pointed out as "yea those were particularly bad"

[@happyhawk84]

What do you mean by the standard of Russian History this is really the only prolonged time without actual order in the country. Sure there were other bad times but none would be as prolonged or damaging in terms of relative population loss (%) or long term economic damage. The rough periods of time have always been overshadowed by golden ages and strong rule from the Tsar or whoever else was in charge. The closest would probably be WW2 or the civil war but I cant really think any other times, of course if I am wrong please correct me.

[@Godzillafan78]

@@happyhawk84after the collapse of the soviet union is probably one

[@cynicat74]

@@happyhawk84 The Russian Civil War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, what? You also had the Holodormer, and the Great Purge, which caused 20 million deaths. You have the Mongolian invasions of the Kievan Rus, etc.

[@Korrus_]

@@cynicat74where tf did u get 20 million from. The black book of communism?

[@cynicat74]

@@Korrus_ It's called "being educated", dipshit. It would take you five minutes to check this.

[@alexernst9448]

And everyone assumes the Renaissance was some kind of reprieve from the violence and brutality of the Middle Ages. Oh sweet summer child...

[@fritzVirginSteeler]

Yeah that's really a surreal take when you think about it

[@ryannathaniel9296]

That's the kind of take you'd get from cringe Renaissance fans

[@fritzVirginSteeler]

@@ryannathaniel9296 Actually I think that most people think that. Little do they know that a great portion of stuff they deem "medieval" is far more representative of the early modern period.

[@ryannathaniel9296]

@@fritzVirginSteeler Yeah. Like for some reason, pop culture "Medieval Era" is basically anywhere from the fall of WRE to *the frickin Industrial Revolution* (as pop culture-wise, post Industrial Revolution tended to be represented as Steampunk instead)

[@lunaria3542]

I call it "Early Modern Age" That has an opening of a lot of wars and trade

[@oooshafiqooo4722]

1:16 German Muslims vs German in HRE in 17th century 💀

[@hubertino855]

True and real

[@motivationallizard6644]

Just an average EU4 campaign

[@Stench512]

“They transitioned from Ming to Qing… death toll… pretty small.” I laughed out loud.

[@LordRambo]

European century of turmoil: 1 million dead from wars of succesion, 5 million dead from cholera epidemic Meanwhile in china: 25 million dead in minor land dispute, 200,000 civilians eaten Decisive Tang Victory moment

[@dulguunjargal1199]

Tang would later die from falling down a Peasant Designated Womens Toilet which caused a War of Succesion. Minor War - 274,928,000,000 Casualties - 28 Failed Crop Harvests due to the 'Tang Toilet Crop Infection' - Cannibalism in Widespread Levels - Destruction and Rebuilding of the Largest City - Inconclusive

[@stachelerde1698]

Funfact: During the Thirty Years War death was worshipped as a way of salvation, because it was such a common experience of everyday life. You can see similarities to cartell infested Latin American countries worshipping Santa Muerte today

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Sounds like heresy to me.

[@Rynewulf]

@@moritamikamikara3879well the Catholic church agrees, but thats only because they feel theyre in a strong enough position to go after them. Theyre happy with syncretism like Lady of Guadalupe or St Brigid of Ireland when it keeps the angry natives happy, then throw them out once the priests have got a strong hold on the kids

[@olseneudezet1]

would love to read up on this,

[@wandererofalbion1642]

​@@RynewulfSt Brigid was a real person. A historical fact cannot be syncretic

[@Rynewulf]

@@wandererofalbion1642 the hagiography stories of her miracles match pre christian myths, as well as a variety of old irish sites from before conversion have her name. Shes as a physical historical saint as santa meurte, our lady of guadelupe or saints baathalem & josephat

[@donnydonadio1185]

World War-esque levels of loss before the World Wars.

[@GarlicPudding]

That terrifies me. We hadn't figured out *steam power* and we were killing each other in the millions, with swords and black-powder weapons made in workshops.

[@FaultlineSurfer]

The World Wars were an European anomaly because they were actually teaming up instead of 'teaming up' and immediately turning on each other halfway through the ongoing war of the year lol

[@mrhonkhonk6116]

@@GarlicPudding most of the casualities on those ancient war was due to famine and epidemie

[@SamuelRodrigues-hr6ii]

​@@FaultlineSurferIt's an even worse scenario, millions were killing themselves while millions were dying from disease. It's as if the Brazil and the US went to war at the height of the COVID pandemic, only worse.

[@fdhgbjsk]

Google 'all of human history'. Population booms and declines by 50% in a couple decades are commonplace.

[@tomyproconsul]

Camels with cannons, ahh an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

[@the90thhunter92]

It's a surprise tool that will help someone named Nader later

[@lambert801]

They were the predecessors of tanks.

[@Mrkabrat]

0:54 Good to see that spain (or was it still castille and aragon?) has never truly grasped the basics of economy since its very origin

[@GarkKahn]

They unified the kingdoms the previous century

[@Mrkabrat]

@@GarkKahn Alrighty, so spain since its very beginning has had economic troubles, got it

[@Guisherobest]

The Kingdom of Aragon was disolved at the end of the Spanish War of Succession (1714), so it was still a thing during the time showcases in this video. It happened to have the same king as the Castilian one, but legaly they were separated kingdoms

[@Rynewulf]

@@Guisherobestits like the Great Britain- England/Scotland distinction. Only us history nerds care that technically these were separate countries, especially since one king and government was ruling the collective lot as an empire centuries before they caught up on paperwork

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

@@Rynewulf Not necessarily, just because they had the same king didn't mean that they had the same government. The British King was also King of Hannover from the mid 1700's to the mid 1800's, but the British didn't really have any control over Hannover and it mostly operated as an independent state. The only time it came into play was because the Royal Family would send a member in as a representative, and during wars where Hannover would be a British ally. For much of history, the King of England was also King of Scotland and Ireland, but these countries maintained a separate government and in Scotland as separate parliament. In Spain there was a distinction between Aragonese and Castillian for a long time. It wasn't until later when Monarchs got to consolidating and centralizing power did the distinctions go away

[@bobbyferg9173]

Notice how a time of prosperity for the Dutch meant bad times for everyone else

[@KARKATELCESARENVIADODESA-pv4yd]

The eternal dutch, the war starter the war instigator.

[@LMvdB02]

They were fighting the 80 years war with Spain

[@insertnamehere001]

​@@LMvdB02Never heard of it.

[@narraliveproject2576]

Especially for Indonesian 😢

[@yazui.i.9368]

China sneezes: 25 Billion died

[@hertzwave8001]

10-30 morbillion eaten

[@Ultimate_Kars]

I love how Habsurgs and Ottomans just spontaneously combust when they are left alone.

[@avisdunrandom]

Like when the Eastern Rome empire (basically Byzantium but I will respect them by calling by them romans and not Byzantium) and Sasanian empire exhaust they ressources by fight each other just to let the Muslim free real estate lead by a 6/6/6/4 general.

[@gudavbourgas]

The Netherlands was litterly the dog from the "this is fine " meme.

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

Nah, during this time, even if we ignore the Trans atlantic slave trade that they dominated, they also were embroiled in the Bloody Eighty Years War where Spain kept trying to put them back under control. It continued into the Thirty Years War and was going on at the same time. IDK why the video portrays it as peaceful as this war was deeply traumatic for the Netherlands and Belgium to this day.

[@gudavbourgas]

@@TheDirtysouthfan damn.That is pretty sad.

[@luckyluciano1584]

@@TheDirtysouthfanI always wonder how history would play out if the Dutch took Belgium in the treaty of Munster. Since Belgium was more populated but had a recovering economy. While the Netherlands had an excellent army economy and navy that. Like there would just be a small nation in between France Germany and the UK that had the ability to bully them

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

@@luckyluciano1584 Weren't the Dutch losing in Belgium anyway as support for Spain was much higher there because they were predominately Catholic?

[@luckyluciano1584]

@@TheDirtysouthfan initially the Flemish provinces joined the revolt but cause the Spanish took Antwerp many Protestant people fled to the north which caused the Flemish states to become dominantly Catholic. The siege of Antwerp also ended the Flemish golden age. The Catholics still didn't like Spain and felt that the Dutch would have a better interest for them, but all the high ranking jobs where given to devout catholics or loyalists of Spain. So basically the Flemish they had no economics, no higher officials who backed the republic. A risk of an even worse economy not to mention Antwerp and the other cities were pretty well fortified given the war. And I don't know about Wallonië but I know Brussels and Luxemburg (gone count it as Wallonië) where the only 2 really important cities

[@the90thhunter92]

Meanwhile in Japan, Edo is set on fucking fire and Japan is thrown into a famine that claimed 100k lives

[@TheDirtysouthfan]

Then, when they’re finally done and unified…. They re establish a caste system and launch two failed invasions of Korea, before withdrawing and going into one last civil war before a long period of relative peace and isolation.

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

@@TheDirtysouthfanOsaka is like the DLC to the Sengoku period

[@Gitsmasher]

​@@akechijubeimitsuhide curse yah for murdering the Great Nobunaga😂

[@pelinalwhitestrake3367]

@@TheDirtysouthfan Until the United States arrives. With huge boats. With guns. Gunboats.

[@darthmaul7434]

@@pelinalwhitestrake3367 "Open the country" USA said calmly.

[@thiagoulart]

Forgot the Shimabara Rebellion, 37k+ christian peasants and ronin slaughtered, women and children included 💀

[@Anonymous07192]

But they were Catholic so nothing of value was lost 👍

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Oh no, not 37,000 people... that's utterly teeerrible... *Europe and Asia screaming in pain*

[@thiagoulart]

@@Anonymous07192 only God know people's values. We're in no way to condemn our brothers in Christ, who profess Jesus as Lord and saviour. Whichever doctrinal system we belong in, the final judgment is God's.

[@goncaloferreira8543]

​@@Anonymous07192 Bro is still mad for what the Catholics did to his ancestors 😭

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

And the Dutch helped

[@mesa9724]

The grim dark century of Europe.

[@ferencjenoerdei2893]

There is only war

[@tenshihinanawi4546]

Grim for everyone. Except for dutch. Aaand maybe for swedish

[@chuckles5689]

@@tenshihinanawi4546 Grim for them too because of the Little Ice Age and being conscripted to fight in overseas wars all the time

[@fritzVirginSteeler]

@@tenshihinanawi4546 the dutch were in the middle of the EIGHTY years war. Pretty grim for them too

[@tpower1912]

​@@chuckles5689 The Great Northern War was waiting just around the corner for Sweden though

[@zosimustarkas]

"Prices rose on average roughly sixfold over 150 years." Central banks with inflation targets of 2% (about 19.5x over 150 years): Pathetic.

[@leesimmons5453]

"You gotta pump those numbers! Those are rookie numbers!"

[@jacopoarmini7889]

people think that the middle ages where the dark brutal period of history dominated by superstition and religious persecution... But they've just been gaslit by the pretty paintings of the seventeenth century. That time period was absolutely hellish.

[@shinsenshogun900]

The General Crisis pits the world into darkness. The Dutch Republic is only the shining beacon of progress shrouded at the cyclone of suffering.

[@svon1]

please ignore the millions of casualties the VOC genocided for spices in Asia

[@mesa9724]

@@svon1Not genocide if you don’t consider them human.

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

​@@svon1not a genocide. There was no attempt to replace natives with Dutch people.

[@kimashitawa8113]

​@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 Banda Islands?🤨

[@zsombortelek8411]

@@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901 It really worries me how genocide has basically become a buzzword at this point.

[@undefinederror40404]

The Dutch, seeing the suffering around them: "Suffer? What do you mean? _We're the ones who cause the suffering for others_ "

[@OrangutanKiwi19]

The Time of Troubles was absolutely batshit. Basically, Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV) got into a heated argument with his son Ivan one day, and got so pissed, that he decided to *cave his skull in with a scepter.* It wasn't even as if he discovered a plot by his son to usurp him earlier than he wanted to or anything, he just got really pissed off and killed him. The problem with this of course being, that now there was no clear heir to throne, so when Ivan the Terrible kicked the bucket in 1584, somebody had to be the Tsar and it ended up being the son who wasn't expected to be the heir, Feodor I. Feodor was effectively a puppet of Boris Godunov, who was his main councilor and former advisor to Ivan T for close to 14 years until 1598, when Boris decided Feodor was about to have a _misfortunate accident_ after which, Godunov of course took over as regent. Godunov then served as regent from 1598 - 1605, when he then had a stroke and died. Power then went to his son, Feodor II, but he only served for a month until he was murdered. The problem with Godunov and his son, was that nobody trusted them because they were from outside the dynasty and they wanted them gone. People's distrust of Godunov and his son is important, because it turns out that Ivan T did have another son after all; *Dmitry.* Because he was the _real_ heir to the throne, he went straight into Moscow in 1605 and took it without any issue. The problem with this, is that turns out Dmitry Ivanovich had actually died when he was 8 years old in 1582; this imposter was *False Dmitry I* (yes, that's what he's actually referred to as in Russian history) . False Dmitry I became active at around 1601 as a former monk who found a lot of support from Cossacks and Poles. To make it story as the forgotten son of Ivan T, Ivan's widow and real Dmitry's mother, Maria Nagaya, had *stated that he was her son Dmitry.* All seemed well and good for Dmitry, until he decided to marry Polish noblewoman, Marina Minszech, and convert to Roman Catholicism. He died in 1606. What happened afterwards, was that his body was left out in the open for a week, had what was left of the corpse burned, and then stuffed it into a cannon and fired it west, towards Poland. After False Dmitry I had died, there was still a succession problem. A Boyar (highest ranking nobles) by the name of Vasili Shuisky (ruled until 1610) takes charge and he had _some_ backing, but only from the upper crust. The big problem for him, was that the Cossacks didn't like him, so they tried to promote the real Dmitry, *False Dmitry II,* who gathered an army with the help of the Cossacks and parked himself right outside of Moscow, leading to a rather tense situation. *False Dmitry II even married Marina Minszech, the exact same Marina who married False Dmitry I and Maria Nagaya, again, claimed that he too was the real Dmitry.* Some people believed him, but as it turns out, less people get fooled the second time so he never managed to take Moscow itself but had enough support to engage in a stalemate with his camp set up in the neighboring town of Tushino. This situation caught the eye of foreign powers, namely Poland, which managed to take and shortly hold Moscow itself in 1610. False Dmitry II himself had a rather anti-climatic end as it turns out he was an angry drunk and after he had hit someone, they hit back a lot harder, killing him. After the Poles were driven out in 1612, the Orthodox Patriarch Filaret got a message from God himself telling him who the next Tsar of all of Russia should be, and it was none other than his own 16 year old son, *Michael Romanov.* With Michael Romanov as the new Tsar made official in 1613, the Time of Troubles _in Moscow_ had ended. There was one, _maybe two_ other False Dmitrys. False Dmitry III was promoted by the Cossacks in 1611, but this didn't really get anywhere and he was executed in 1612. False Dmitry IV may or not have actually just been referring to False Dmitry III due to the record keeping of the time.

[@janpol466]

Famine was pretyy big deal before industrial revolution, if harvests were fine non of the events of the video happened. Including Times of Trouble.

[@sayerglasgow115]

Most orderly and peaceful feudal succession.

[@akechijubeimitsuhide]

Boris wasn't just a regent after Fyodor died, he was the first non-Rurikid Tsar. Also he may or may not have assassinated the actual Dmitri, but we got a kickass opera out of it so win I guess?

[@ElonMuskrat-my8jy]

Is Pushkin's drama pretty true to life or did he take liberties with the history?

[@ElonMuskrat-my8jy]

I have a book called Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales which has a narrative of Pseudo-Dmitry written by Avraamy Palitsyn.

[@pandoranbias1622]

There was a reason the 1600s century was called "The General Crisis". It was a secular cycle winding down and society began to tear itself apart under the weight of itself.

[@mertala8520]

1:40 ottomans trying not to win: it's just not possible

[@Iamnotracistlmao]

After 1571 it's either inconclusive or Austrian victory lol

[@Dr.Happy11]

They must have started trying really hard for their remaining 3 centuries it seems

[@mertala8520]

​@@Iamnotracistlmao you mean 1593?

[@Iamnotracistlmao]

@@mertala8520 Yeah almost

[@hikmetugur2943]

​@@Iamnotracistlmao not really

[@starmaker75]

*meanwhile in east and southwest Asia* Japan: okay after 100 or so years of clans fighting, we have some peace and quiet Qing dynasty: *doom fighting music plays* Mughal empire: I have conquer India, nothing can't go wrong. South India: oh no you don't Ottoman and Iran: *intense stand off with battle anime music playing* bonus: dutch: would like me to take over your trade ports? southwest asia: HOW ABOUT NO, you crazy dutch bastard. dutch: *naval battles*

[@the90thhunter92]

>Peace and quiet in Japan >Meanwhile Meireki conflagration and Kanei famine in the distance

[@altithoraxperotorum5133]

"Peacefull for a 100 years " meireki conflagration and Kanei famine : oh i don't think so

[@namphannguyenhuu2105]

More like the Dutch: HET KRUID MOET VLOEIEN

[@ibrahimihsan2090]

You've got to listen to some Turkish tracks. Some of them are atesh🔥.

[@BOONDAAo]

2:35 average Chinese war casualties

[@erwannthietart3602]

What i love about the XVIIth century is that France barely go out of its previous religious civil war of the last century, still was at sorta religious civil war till just prior joining the Thirty years war and making it last longer because Franco-Spanish war. While funding the protestants prior to joining during the war anyway while being Catholics because screw the Habsburgs. And thats the PEACEFUL half of the century for France. Because Louis XIV declared wars after wars League of Augsburg at the end was another massive European war that had an effect in the world through colonies and only stopped because Spanish succession. But prior there were like 2 invasions of the Netherlands *legal* annexations of land on threat of war support of other countries at war. Like they were essentially an entire century at war with everyone overall

[@discipleofdagon8195]

Ottomans in 1682: 😃 Ottomans after 1683 and onward: 😭

[@ikik1648]

I’m Chinese and bro, these are rookie numbers you gotta pump them up Europe 😅

[@jessietricia1609]

You've GOT to make a video on Chang and Eng Bunker, the real-life "Siamese Twins" who had slaves, married sisters and had 21 children combined.

[@Feuerhamster]

21 children combined or 21 combined children?

[@5h0rgunn45]

The Beaver Wars in and around the Great Lakes region of North America may not be able to compete with these Eurasian wars in terms of the sheer number of deaths, but for the people who lived there at the time, this was basically the apocalypse. The wars shattered entire people groups, who either died out or were absorbed into other groups, it caused whole nations to migrate out of their traditional homelands and collide with other peoples in their search for a new home, and it left whole regions of North America depopulated.

[@USSResolute]

For most of history, most people have lived through upheaval, war, and rumors of war. Peace is a passing fancy and a blessed respite, even outside of Europe.

[@wariodude128]

Might as well do a video like this but for 17th Century Asia. Especially with the honourable mention of the transition from the Ming to Qing dynasty at the end there.

[@1creeperbomb]

I like how it was 2 minutes of insanity in Europe only to be completely yeeted by "Small Chinese War"

[@someguysomeone3543]

Btw during the ming to qing transition the 2 largest massacres in world history happened, the first one happened from the ming emperor losing his mind. And the second from the Manchus. The third largest massacre in world history being the hamidian massacres from the Ottomans against Christians in the Middle East (who would have guessed) Very fun fact: after the sichuan massacre, according to the imperial census, the population of the province fell from 3,102,073 to 16,096 men. There's a stele in Chengdu, which is said to have the emperor's words that read: "Heaven brings forth innumerable things to nurture man. Man has nothing good with which to recompense Heaven. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill." At one point, he even had imperial "examniators" to witness the sheer amount of killing only for them themselves to get killed.

[@hertzwave8001]

This user was never seen again.

[@tuivre3198]

Also missing in the map : France having a noble revolt/city revolt/peasant uprising every other week

[@erwannthietart3602]

Hell every week and often differant revolts at the same time in differant places of France, and thats excluding Religious revolts too

[@Cityinlead]

God we need a Total War game set in this 17th century, I wanna turn shit up as the Swedes as Gustovus Adolphus

[@therac197]

there is a mod in development for Shogun 2, also 1648 for medieval 2

[@oddposty]

This channel is a gem.

[@royrieder2113]

Very amusing channel!

[@wythore]

It's crazy how wartorn europe was in the 17th century, meanwhile Portugal at the time just chilling expanding its empire in Brazil and Asia pretty much unimposed

[@thatskeletordude5271]

Wasn't Portugal in conflict with Spain at the time ?

[@erwannthietart3602]

​@@thatskeletordude5271they took their indepandance during that time i think, but Spain gave it quickly because they focused on destroying Catalonia instead

[@kingdomofheaven9002]

Europe, The most peaceful continent😊

[@xo-1320]

Europe was the thunderdome... the moment they started spilling out of their continent was the moment everyone was doomed.

[@erwannthietart3602]

​​@@xo-1320tbf everyone was always doomed the world wasnt peaceful without Europe, Europe only upschaled the conflicts world wide instead of local conflicts but everywhere

[@asianperson104]

Please do one on all the rebellions/wars in the century of humiliation, so much death and chaos

[@REAPERthePRUSKIE]

*At the end of the 17th century* Eourope:finnaly it's over Napoleon: wanna see my cool cannon? *At the end of the napoleonic wars* Europe:finnaly peace Revolutionary ideas spread across the continent: hey wanna become free? *sometimes later* Eourope:.....done? Germany: i feel like i need to unite myself *after that* Eourope:okay it can't get wrost than that right? Ww1: hi *years later* Eourope:.........please stop Funny austrian man:☻️

[@user-qn1zp5bi2h]

You skipped a century. The 17th century is the 1600s.

[@REAPERthePRUSKIE]

@@user-qn1zp5bi2h mahh you know what I mean

[@REAPERthePRUSKIE]

@@user-qn1zp5bi2h you get what i meant

[@user-qp2ps1bk3b]

there were also 1648-1657 Cossak revolts in Ukraine under Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi. Pretty big deal in these parts. Cossaks inflicted huge defeats on the Poles but after Khmelnyskyi's death and decades long internal instability lands of Zaporizhian Host (Військо Запорізьке) were divided between Poland and Muskovy along the Dnipro river

[@pickle6599]

Happy end

[@andreascovano7742]

part of deluge

[@bakumadarame850]

Ахаха, Московия. У украинцев такая интересная история

[@HunterTracks]

The Cossack Revolts and the Ruin are all counted as part of Deluge.

[@olseneudezet1]

there's a Polish movie "With Fire and Sword" (1999) about these events, quite objective I think for both sides, can recommend it to any fellow historical nerds

[@abcdefg91111]

the civ 6 is perfect

[@HampOoze]

I'm sure it's quite well known at this point, but the myriad of conflicts which sprung up and prolifirated during the 17th century can often be seen as a partial consequence of the period of the Little Ice Age, known as the First Climatic Minimum. As we all know the period started during 1300s and can be seen as one of the reason for why the Black Death was so devastating, wreaking havoc on a malnourished Europe, however the coldest and worst period started late 1500s and really kicked into overdrive during the 1650s and wouldnt really calm down until the 1850. Basically everything was cold and wet, and all of a sudden people needed to kill each other more for control of suddenly sparse resources. Global Cooling is a real bitch.

[@cadmus204]

Time traveler: What year is it? Has the Dutch Prime Minister already been eaten? Johan de Witt: Ik begrijp je niet

[@thegrimmarcher202]

I genuinely thoght that was a keyboard smash

[@abarette_]

​@@thegrimmarcher202nope, just your usual word in Ned*rlands

[@dwarow2508]

If I had a penny for each time when the population of a European major power decreased by 50%, I would have two pennies, which isn't a lot but it is weird that it happened twice.

[@delta1404]

Iirc the first Manchu/Qing leader Nurhaci died in battle like age 65 during a siege after getting hit by a cannonball. Real Crusader Kings vibes, or maybe Mount and Blade.

[@turulszervac1714]

Ngl this was pretty useful

[@Krasipol]

In theory i have heard about all these before but i never realized it was all happening in such close proximity (in time).

[@kasoshai6383]

Oh man I got get in on this with you rofl

[@raihanwidodo1042]

Huge shoutout to my country Indonesia for carrying the Dutch in the golden age

[@tigovanderpauw111]

Not really tho

[@vercot7000]

@@tigovanderpauw111 I mean...yeah. Even the dutch will admit that lol; that's why they fought against Indonesian independence.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

They didn’t really start colonizing Indonesia (at least other than ports) until after the napoleonic wars

[@5thMilitia]

​@@vercot7000 We shouldn't admit it though. The Dutch Golden Age was funded by the trade in the Baltic region. It is called the mother of all trade in the Netherlands. The VOC was the cherry on top and it was only later that Indonesia became vital for the Dutch economy

[@hassanminbaghdad]

behind every successful European country is.. a huge colony somewhere

[@adolfschicklgruber4858]

There was also the mughal-martha wars which killed 5 million making it the deadliest war ever fought in India

[@hopeundertheblacksun]

That was in the 18th century

[@zandaroos553]

Isn’t the increasingly accepted term for this time period “The General Crisis”?

[@d.whillmar1740]

It simultaniously scares me and makes to laugh that Kalinka song fits Trouble Times so good

[@maarten452]

Also the 80 years war

[@bodassassin6387]

The 17th century and the early modern period in general, is definitely one of the most underrated eras in history.

[@PaganPilot]

*Landsknecht* be like: Trollage face with loads of emone while Brigador ost them plays

[@TheWebsOfCorruptionNeverFail]

I did a Bachelor's Degree in Indian History and I have never read about or even heard of the Camel-Punk Mughal-Safavid War and am freaking pissed!! The people who make the courses, really only care about the economy, taxation, religion and freaking pottery...every other chapter is about bloody pottery...or taxes on pottery, by the Gods, do I hate writing about pottery and taxes! And to think, that all the while, I could have instead been researching about the units from Rise of Nations....Camel Artillery is real! I swear, if I ever have to write another college history dissertation, it'll be about Elephant Mounted Vickers Machine Guns.

[@josephbrown1153]

When you got to the Dutch Golden Age bit, you forgot to explicitly mention the Dutch eating their own prime minister in 1672. Honourable mentions should also go to the Frondes in France from 1648 - 1653 and the Neapolitan Revolution of 1647. Probably the biggest omissions though are the witch craze and the Little Ice Age.

[@pawelglowacz5263]

its a week of the uniconrn population declined by 50%

[@kuafer3687]

The amount of tsar imposters during the Times of Troubles is just hilarious

[@fgdxfdvd8746]

Next Gombe Chimpanzee War

[@toastvontophat320]

U should do something on the central plains war :]

[@LakesideTrey]

If you find this time period interesting reading the Ring of Fire/1632 book series is an absolute must

[@MichaelAMVM]

Forgot about the english-dutch wars, french-dutch then french-english-dutch war, the french-spanish war for the low lands.

[@furkanindere3848]

17th Europe looks like a gigantic Barfight.😵‍💫😵🤜🤛😵😵‍💫

[@trivialgravitas9581]

Geoffrey Parker's Global Crisis was harrowing

[@gorgeousgentleman5390]

Thanks to the Dutchmen, now we have among the first NFT, (Non-Fungible Tulips) and Developed Stock-market. Hoarding gold and silver is prety cringe by the way

[@user-xl5cj1dv9k]

The 20th century historians: "The 20th century was the most turbulent period of human history!" Early modern era historians: "Hold my beer"

[@NapoleonBonapartet]

I love how its just constant chaos and wars and Spain is just becoming rich

[@thatskeletordude5271]

Too rich for their own good!

[@kryzys904]

Nightmare blunt rotation war

[@azexnewmai3607]

Wait just a single line about camel artillery?damn it need a whole video

[@JohnRDVSMarston]

2:22 HEAVY MACHINE GUN

[@theliato3809]

Honorable Ming Qing mention at the end.

[@CheckmateMagician]

The General Crisis was crazy

[@mz.projiekt]

The deluge were my tears for the Republic. 😢

[@untotenattentaeter368]

civ music is crazy

[@mareksicinski3726]

The Deluge destruction was bigger than some neighbours, also much higher proportion so it shouldn’t be on a lower tier

[@kuafer3687]

30% of the population gone compared to the 50% of Russia and Germany. But these two managed to recover

[@calebwelch6393]

This is where the fun begins

[@kuafer3687]

The English can't go a century without doing some Irish trolling

[@vonbeedle554]

Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland: minimum 600,000 dead. mad displacement. Puritan fanatics colonising land. Another day of spreading civilisation.

[@tacky4237]

It feels like its only a matter of time before we get massive conflicts like these again.

[@Lil.Yahmeaner]

That Ming to Qing death toll is insane, more than all other wars in this video combined