Absolute Monarchy: Crash Course European History #13

So far, the rulers of Europe have been working to consolidate their power and expand their kingdoms, and this is it. The moment they've been working toward: Absolute Monarchy. We're going to learn about how kings and queens became absolute rulers in Europe, and where better to start than with Louis XIV of France, who is really the model for absolute rule.
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[@michaelpisciarino5348]

30 Years War Treaty of Westphalia 0:18 Divine Right Monarchy, Absolutism 0:48 King Louis XIV 2:40 A quick French langauge lesson 3:45 The Paulette Tax 5:16 Jansenism 5:45 The Fronde 6:07 Thought Bubble *_Palace of Versaille_* 8:00 Divine Right theory 10:00 Mercantilism 11:00 Louis XIV Major Wars

[@lyllianpinson4787]

Thank you random person with your time marks.

[@josh3658edwards]

Robespierre: "The state will decide your fate." Louis XIV: "I am the state!" *Lunges at Robespierre*

[@TheTexas1994]

I wonder what will happen to the French absolute monarchs in a future episode

[@Vesnicie]

Well they are demigods, so clearly they'll be just fine! Especially around the late 18th century.

[@orlandofresno7694]

😂

[@Madhattersinjeans]

Surely they will ascend to godhood, They would never lose their absolute rule over the peasantry.

[@DaDunge]

A couple more will live extremely.long and lead France to kickstart the enlightenment. Then enlightenment will come back to haunt them.

[@niggo.0300]

SPOILERS

[@Blabla130]

12:10 "Again, satisfying one's ambition and one's vengeance makes you a great reality TV contestant but maybe not necessarily the perfect king" I can't possibly imagine what american political situation would inspire John to say this...

[@Retotion]

Tim Kiseljak No, that tends to be the case when you’re talking about the most powerful person on the planet.

[@RedbadofFrisia]

@Tim Kiseljak you will not have respite from that for a very long time.

[@FutureKnut]

Tim Kiseljak - You mean the man who has the power to launch nuclear missiles that would end most life on Earth? I imagine that kind of person would be a keen topic of discussion for a lot of people.

[@niggo.0300]

@Tim Kiseljak i am totals on your side here, Trump uses media memes and controversies to stay in the center of attention so perfectly it’s almost scary, I for one don’t care any more, let him do his thing, there ain’t a whole lot I can change about it anyway

[@jeppel1972]

@@FutureKnut Which one of these people are you talking about? I'd say Modi flies under the radar when he really shouldn't, especially with what's going on in Kashmir.

[@Sora-sl8lj]

I hope this European history series will lead to future series on other continents. I'm particularly interested in potential Asian, African and South American history series.

[@Ms.K305]

SoraQuil0 yes!!! More Africa and Asia (outside of just China/Japan)!!!

[@hiddenhist]

Kayleigh Krackenberger one on africa is probably impossible haha. Different regions were so different from one another. That said, I want one on West Africa anyway.

[@Ms.K305]

HiddenHistory why would a series on Africa be difficult? European countries are as different from one another as African (or Asian) countries and nations are from one another

[@hiddenhist]

Kayleigh Krackenberger africa is over 3 times the size of europe, and its main regions (north, south, east and west) were very different from one another in terms of historical development. I cant make a general statement about historical developments in all of africa as i can about all of europe. I cant say, for example, that during the medieval era the use of arabic and ajami scripts rose in africa, because while that applies to west, north, and some parts of east africa, it doesnt apply to much of central africa and southern africa.

[@Ms.K305]

HiddenHistory So the fact that it is such a massive and complex continent, with diverse cultures and histories, we shouldn’t cover it?

[@CliffCardi]

“The state will decide your fate.” “L’etat c’est moi.”

[@howlibertydies]

not. yet.

[@howlibertydies]

but seriously, this is the most underrated comment of the year

[@dylanobrien7565]

"I am the senate" in french is: Je suis le sénat

[@hypokratesthehypocrite3513]

Dylan O'Brien Green: Louis then sprung from the throne chanting in Sith and struck down the Jedi Masters

[@lordr1c325]

Thank you for explaining what Absolutism is and how I can use it in EU4.

[@UnitedJupiter91]

Gotta boost that admin efficiency somehow

[@hargeongreen435]

Gotta spend all those overflowing mil points somewhere.

[@arthas640]

God I love you

[@gregorybrew427]

Unless you’re the Dutch Republic ☹️

[@Anonarchist]

"how desperate you have to be to add saw dust to your dough." *contains powdered cellulose*

[@bardes18]

Well at least the tell ya.

[@beth8775]

This is why making your bread is such a valuable skill. Not to mention how much better it tastes.

[@majorfallacy5926]

@@beth8775 Does it though? Sure fresh bread is great, but no bread I've ever made myself was even close to as good as the bread you can buy around here (Central Europe)

[@Minimoimaximus]

@@majorfallacy5926 the original comment was probably american. Being french, I can assure you there is no added cellulose in OUR bread. And having liked the central Europe (Pragua, München and Warsaw atm) breads I've tasted, they probably don't either. After almost 30 years, I like to think I acquired taste for good bread.

[@l.jishere1058]

Wow John is speaking really slow (blink twice if you've been kidnapped)

[@maggiee639]

L.j is here I know super weird!

[@rationalbushcraft]

Maybe it is whatever is growing on his face is slowing down his speech? “Thou hast the patchy beard of a prepubescent squire. “ said by the first heckler.

[@nicholasmaniccia1005]

It's because he is getting old his lips can't move as fast as they once did. But to be honest it's probably a reflection of a mental paradigm shift like his perspective of the world has changed.

[@abijithp92]

@@nicholasmaniccia1005 Is he going to die?

[@magtovi]

Watch it at 1.25x speed and magically you get good ol' John back.

[@Chris-hp9be]

“His high heels shows his shapely legs” 😂😂

[@feitocomfruta]

Funny story, in college I took a European history course and our final essay question for the Final was "Based on historical figures and using the university and surrounding county as location, design your own totalitarian regime." It was a little easy for us because our professor gave us that question ahead of the final, so I'm sure she loved reading the responses. I based my control of governmental on Versailles and Louis XIV by housing all the student government and department heads in our fanciest Residence area, which had really amazing food (including really amazing cookies that were also calorie bombs). I didn't do well with the first half of the exam (just not great at memorizing dates and names), but I know she gave me full marks on the essay.

[@poorplayer9249]

Wow, this is eerily timely. It's almost as though there really is something to the aphorism that history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

[@JonPomarico]

Pretense... Shush!

[@poorplayer9249]

@Marcelo Zuniga Haven't you heard? It's the go too replacement for popcorn while watching people pick cherries.

[@michaelk4740]

John Green's energy is much different from years ago. Still great content

[@cortneylove2765]

"I don't know what kids like, TiokTok"

[@Xerxes2005]

I believe this video is overly negative about absolutism. Sure, absolutism certainly wasn't democratic, but it still was an improvement over the feudalism of the previous centuries. Since the end of the Hundred Years War, both French and English monarchs sought to increase their power and to reduce the powers of the great nobility. During the 16th century, France had to live through multiple religious wars caused by great houses forming leagues and warring each other. It ended with Henri IV and the King's ministers (Sully under Henri IV, Richelieu under Louis XIII and Mazarin under Louis XIV) undermined the power of the great nobles, which culminated with "La Fronde." When the Fronde was crushed, the Great Nobles were humiliated at last. Absolutism gave birth to a centralised, modern state. The King was ruling effectively over his whole kingdom, but he had to heed the advices of his councils, to obey the fondamental laws of the Kingdom and respect the rights of his subjects (whatever rights they had). His ministers were not necessarily nobles. Intendants (stewards) were appointed to oversee the administration of the provinces (both financial and laws). These were real administrators, and not nobles of the sword. This was a great improvement from the constant bickerings of the High Nobility.

[@cathykeller8551]

Xerxes2005 I think this is one of those things where it all depends on perspective. You’re right that it was increased state efficiency, and less bickering amongst the nobility, mostly. Peasants and others were more heavily taxed to pay for that state power, so they probably had it tougher

[@almahperditae]

I said this in another video. The problem with this series, is that it focus mainly in British and French History. Europe is more complex than that. I'm from Portugal, and every step in history made by France and England, is almost always 2 centuries after it happen in Portugal. Absolutism is a specific period in France, But it's no different that what happens in Portugal centuries before. The king, centralize all the state power in himself, ended all the pety rivalries between lords and powerful mans, and put a entire nation working not to some individual lords, But all working together to a greater good. To the nation. By the time France do that, Portugal have discovered the entire world, had a global network of trade, and have seen it starting to crumble when join the Iberian Union. France and England just had to centralize power in the king, as Portugal done it centuries before, to try to take bits of that empire to themselfs. In that England was more sucesseful than France. But both just follow a model that had proven to be sucessful, a state focus a a common goal (embodied by the king), and not various lords trying to gain power to themselfs

[@beth8775]

That's why it's called Crash Course. It's not super in-depth, and doing the critical thinking part (like comparing this era to the previous one) is still your job as the learner.

[@ryanpasumbal]

Britain rules the seas. France ruled over the continent. France's influence is so strong within the continent and that is why she has the spotlight

[@alejandroojeda1572]

@@almahperditae well, if we go back we might find the Roman emperors...

[@LangThoughts]

So if Colbert wrote an account of what was going on in France, was if called The Colbert Report?

[@epsilonjay4123]

His first name was Jean Baptiste. On the Late Show, the music leader, who is always next to Stephen Colbert is named Jon Batiste. This is such a coincidence.

[@tatelamoreaux6131]

I really appreciate that CrashCourse continues to make these videos even if their lives and them as individuals-and so their attitudes-have all changed. They’ve helped me far beyond my long-passed school years.

[@Oxtocoatl13]

An interesting contrast could be made with the contemporary states that moved away from absolute rule, like the Netherlands and Poland-Lithuania, and of course England, where the two ideas of government collided violently.

[@Oxtocoatl13]

@no privacy they did but the way they framed it makes me think they're going to focus mostly on England, which would be a shame.

[@excession100]

"England, where the two ideas of government collided violently." That is a beautiful bit of understatement

[@cathykeller8551]

Stay tuned! All of those countries are in future episodes

[@MaskofPoesy]

Yea it's evil an all but dat discipline and admin eff tho.

[@wildpearrunning1408]

JC Denton oof

[@niggo.0300]

Ikr

[@moonbog1952]

Didn’t even mention court and country 😔

[@matthewhellmann5759]

Ahh another glorious player of the eu4

[@chasonelledge1788]

A man of quality

[@JulieHerrick]

At 9:35 there's a mention of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Did anyone else immediately think of JON BATISTE, the bandleader for The Late Show with Stephen COLBERT?

[@user-jg2me1wx2w]

You’re john green the best thing to pick and watch on the internet, i was amazed by this new european history videos, please , please , don’t stop making videos and please keep them coming free because you’ve given us a completely new exciting way to learn about history, being greedy in history I’m hoping for more and more, it is becoming a history encyclopedia, thank you all very much crash course team you’re the best.

[@Draqshorul]

+5% Discipline +40% Administrative efficiency −50% Foreign core duration

[@drjohnsmith5282]

Mr Green! Mr Green! Didn’t you do high school French? Drop those final consonants 😀

[@NatrualAthum]

When I watch these shows you always make me want bread...

[@RandomYT05_01]

Fun fact, even after the reign of queen Elizabeth, Louis XIV still holds the record for longest reigning monarch in the world. I am glad the French get to keep their record for now.

[@Flowerz__]

Hi I like how these new episodes are slower paced. It’s a lot easier to follow. Thank you for all the content you guys put out. Such a treasure trove of knowledge and information that will forever exist as long as this platform and the internet sticks around.

[@laynetrahan5477]

Man idk about you guys but I missed John Green doing history

[@themkerich]

New crash course history vids with John Green? What more could a histo geek want! :D

[@augustus331]

I love you, John. You are exactly the dorky teacher I aim to become myself one day.

[@alexfido2935]

I know that the French Revolution is going to be covered because John LOVES to talk about it, but can we also have an episode on the English Civil War before we wrap up the 17th Century?

[@apple.lemonn]

Now that I’m out of school I can say I ALWAYS had to watch these videos in school and when it came on it was LITT

[@vigilantsycamore8750]

John, other people in the comments have said this and so will I: please do some episodes on other parts of Europe! There's so much interesting history there too. Also, a lot of politicians in my country love justifying hatred with inaccurate narratives of history, and I'm sure other Central and Eastern European countries have similar problems. You have a worldwide audience, including a lot of young people, and Crash Course has been challenging those kinds of popular narratives since Crash Course Word History Part 1! You could make a difference - and a small difference can easily become a big one, I'm pretty sure you taught me that

[@kathrynkroll5700]

Just wanna give some sincere positive feedback; I really like the pace of speech in this vid. Sometimes crash course can feel like way too many words in way too short of time, making these already big ideas overwhelming. Feels a lot more calm. Thanks for all you do at any rate! :D

[@kira-py8gt]

its weird like this

[@checkmate5101]

I’ve learned so much from this channel.

[@M0rshu64]

I thought you stopped making videos john. Its good to see you back in the saddle!

[@nataliemccarthy9140]

I wasn’t the only one imagining Stephen Colbert when he talked about Colbert right?

[@Meagan-Renee]

And his band leader Jon Batiste!

[@FunkyHonkyCDXX]

I hope this series addresses the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth

[@Bobbylim323]

FunkyHonkyCDXX and the winged hussars arrived!!!

[@billboyd2009]

Yes more on East Europe please.

[@EmethMatthew]

This would be excellent!

[@sakakaka4064]

It's basically Western European History Crash Course so I doubt.

[@EmethMatthew]

@@sakakaka4064 Sorry to the rest of the world, but Crash Course has always heavily leaned on being a supplement to USA curriculum, so the major historical focus is western Europe. I'd figure the Greens want to and will try to be more inclusive in future videos, but part of their goal is helping educate kids and building credibility with parents/teachers is helping with those test scores! So here's a peek into American education... Enjoy?

[@paulscottfilms]

completely excellent > now I go back and check the other episodes.

[@TheDannypat44]

Johns back! I can watch these again.

[@drakkken4787]

My favourite Course so far :D Could you guys add subtitles, like in the previous ones?

[@hatimmohamed2345]

I love this channel!

[@calebbalzer4518]

Wow John talking about absolute monarchs. That’s funny because he’s absolutely cool

[@ronaldtongol4058]

European history is so amazing to know about it

[@dennisdomnig3601]

Because it's a tangled mess

[@niggo.0300]

It also kinda has the most far reaching consequences for the rest of the world at least until the Cold War

[@dennisdomnig3601]

@@niggo.0300 let's say between the start of colonialism and the cold war

[@niggo.0300]

Dennis Domnig agreed

[@lvd8122]

@@dennisdomnig3601 that's true for all history:D

[@vanshbatra9767]

Someone tell me 5 things interesting about this information, for school due in 5 hours

[@quartzy412]

Thank you John, very cool!

[@PRubin-rh4sr]

damn. I was just binge watching your Chemistry classes

[@arjunchaudhuri3206]

Crash course is back!!!!

[@lolzmcfree6996]

Man I love this series

[@juniorberns]

Great video guys

[@gregwiens9146]

As a Mennonite Christian, the absolute ruler and the fact that the state church said things like "the princes are like God" makes me shutter. And so did it with my ancestors. And this is why the absolute monarches tried to kill them. This is the very reason why my family on my mother's side ended up in America.

[@herodotus945]

Since when are you allowed to use the internet ? Arent you the Amish ?

[@gregwiens9146]

@@herodotus945 Mennonites and Amish are related, but we are to cheap to buy the uniform. Ok seriously. Our three main theological views that separated us from the high church 1. We believe that only those who choose for themselves are Christians. That means we only baptize people who have come of age and want to be baptized Oh and baptism isn't magical, it's symbolic 2. We don't believe that when we eat the bread and drink the wine, that too is symbolic. Nothing magical happens. It reminds us of what Jesus did. 3. All believer are equal and local congregations choose their own leaders. 4. War is a bad idea. And the one that applies to this forum: 5. We believe in the separation of church and state. The state does not have a right to tell the church what to do or believe in matters of faith. For instance the state does have the right to say that must baptize our children. This last one has landed us in a heap of trouble with governments over the years. To which we say, "Oh well" and we carry on. The difference between the Amish and the Mennonites is that the Amish want to cut themselves away from you scary world, we Mennonites want to be your "good neighbor" and thus change the scary world. And one way we have done that is to convince society that separation of church and state is Good.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Absolute monarchy surprisingly still exists in the Middle East, Brunei, and eSwatini

[@Bobbylim323]

Avery The Cuban-American many colonisers prefer indirect rule after all

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

Not exactly "absolute" but close.

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

@Booper Dooper They have a constitution.

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

@Booper Dooper But if the King does some unislamic,he can be thrown out by the clergy.

[@tasinal-hassan8268]

@Booper Dooper Those are secular laws. He can never change the Islamic ones in his land.

[@nourzouarii2362]

We missed you !

[@rparl]

And today we have Jean (Jon) Batiste providing the music for Stephen Colbert, an echo from the past.

[@arjunsinha4845]

I Love Crash Course Please make video on Nationalism in Europe

[@noahfasoformoso]

I have a feeling they'll be doing that once they get to the early to mid 1900s

[@CaptainBohnenbrot]

@@noahfasoformoso It's more likely to be about the mid 1800s

[@_vallee_5190]

They will almost certainly do that soon. Natonialism in europe did not arise until the that 1800s and the effects and brutal horrors of it was not seen until 1900s and 1930-1940s.

[@CaptainBohnenbrot]

@@_vallee_5190 The effects were not seen until the 1900s? Sorry, that's completely wrong. I think you're mixing up different definitions of nationalism.

[@nicholasmaniccia1005]

@@CaptainBohnenbrot the major effects yeah, the 1800s was like the pressure maker and the early 1900s were the explosion.

[@walkerjohnclark3573]

I don't know why but that bagel gag really got me.

[@JimFortune]

10:00 I thought Colbert was most famous for The Colbert Report.

[@Nicarand]

I also tought it was a funny coincidence that his first name is Jean-Baptiste. Isn't that also the first name of the leader of the band that plays for Stephen Colbert's show?

[@Barebittelitt]

@@Nicarand The band leader is Jon Batiste, so close :) Love this coincidence.

[@sanjaylingala8112]

Hi Fortune, Good morning, Pls check my video and do the needful

[@JimFortune]

@@inafranzani3576 I say you must be ignorant and illiterate in at least two languages. Your mother must be so proud.

[@JorgeGomez-um9qb]

Mercantilism seems so incredible... natural. Is just logic. The weird thing is that it's not true, like the real miracle is that no, we don't have to kill each other for a finite amount of wealth, but if we cooperates, we would all end with more wealth seems just counterintuitive.

[@GdzieJestNemo]

will the series move over to other parts of europe as well? We are in around 1700s and countries like Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Sweden, Spain, Ottomans, Hungary were barely mentioned if at all

[@jorisbraem8384]

It's pretty much the curriculum I learned in school so probably not. They will just move on to French revolution, Napoleon, Colonialism of Central Africa by European states, WW1, the rise of Hitler, WW2, Communisme VS Kapitalisme, Fall of the Communism Start of the EU, The Balkan war, and the modern Europe with a smidge of terror and current affairs.

[@Argacyan]

*nationalist coup in the soviet union, not "fall of communism" even if indeed propagandized and labelled as such in western curriculums. People also called it the "end of history" for instance.

[@adamlatosinski5475]

Unfortunately, the modern view of what Europe is is skewed by the post-World-War-II division of Europe, which caused many people today to behave like only the West Europe is the true Europe, and the Eastern Europe (by which they understand everything east of the Iron Curtain) is not worth mentioning.

[@AbbeyRoadkill1]

Eastern European history in general, and Slavic history in particular, always get ignored in America.

[@hanagreg]

Joris BRAEM correction: you’re referring to the yugoslav wars, not the Balkan wars. The latter was in the beginning of the 20th century.

[@weirdtyler4932]

Please talk about music in courts of Europe especially the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all of it 13:09

[@viliussmproductions]

I'm happy you highlighted the fact that absolutist France wasn't a completely centralized state that followed the king's every whim, like they taught us in school. It was still a garbled mess of medieval laws, subjects and privileges. Also, I'm really sorry for you Americans not having black bread.

[@rozempire2843]

Williamz It sounds really good

[@jeffmerrell4019]

Under rated topic

[@shanarniatrice2560]

This is so interesting

[@andlabs]

>Jaden Smith Studio Oh no what happened

[@alexandermiller2975]

fr can someone uncover what is going on w this

[@CanuckMonkey13]

I came here looking to see if anyone else had asked about this. I don't think I had heard about the Jaden Smith Studio before. Is this a new studio? Renamed? In any case, I'm all for having Jaden Smith sponsor Crash Course to the degree of having a studio named for him, I'm just curious about the details!

[@deniserendon686]

So I just saw Jaden Smith tweet about this. The way to get a studio named after you is to be a Patreon supporter and plegue $3000 or more per month and it will be named after you for 1 year.

[@TrevorReis]

@@deniserendon686 ...An Icon living...

[@shawnguy3317]

+

[@AidasMedziunas]

Crash Course Western European History continues.

[@strawberrymilksamurai]

Jean Baptist Colbert... I almost heard the Jean Baptist as Jon Batiste and wasn't sure for a moment if it was a weird reference to The Colbert Show

[@demskippy]

7:07 Mel Brooks: S'good to be da king!

[@Apodeipnon]

The nobles of the sword paid the iron price

[@bcg6760]

CRASH COURSE ASIAN HISTORY PLEASE!

[@kellenbrinton5637]

I have the feeling that Louis the 14 basically said “ you know what people want, taxes to fund my parties!” To Colbert

[@Sunberries84]

And now I want to re-read *Twenty Years After* (the better of the two sequels to *The Three Musketeers*). I got all of the English history in that book, but I missed a lot of the French history.

[@brendo1143]

France: absolutism is the only way to build an empire Venice And Poland-Lithuania: *laughs in Republic*

[@tuxedosteve1904]

Venice wasnt an empire and poland-lithuania was a Monarchy.

[@xunzhang9586]

energy! Mr. Green, Mr. Green, we need more energy! you sound like you are sleepy! lol but still good

[@CanuckMonkey13]

I don't think I had heard about the Jaden Smith Studio before. Is this a new studio? Renamed? In any case, I'm all for having Jaden Smith sponsor Crash Course to the degree of having a studio named for him, I'm just curious about the details!

[@geoffreywinn4031]

Educational!

[@Rogue-A.I.]

Don't you dare leaving us again, John Green, we missed you :(

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Make a clip on the Jacobite Wars to regain the throne.

[@jeffro7856]

First time I caught "Jaden Smith Studio", shows how random Crash Course's reach is!

[@breemarie1743]

Okay, so I’ve already watched this episode but I’m having trouble king this worksheet

[@HecHocceH]

I'm not sure of your definition of the West, but Lui XIV couldn't hold a candle to the absolute power of Peter the Great of Russia. To Peter, the country was his to play with and everybody - everybody! - had to serve.

[@alextna3522]

And in a way, the Byzantines had this for a millennia until they fell. All emperors were autokrator , from where we take our terms for autocracy and such. Worth a mention imo, but people always forget about the Eastern Romans.

[@beth8775]

I hope they do an Eastern European history series.

[@sean..L]

Absolute monarchy is the best type of monarchy and the best type of government.

[@Palducks]

As someone who lives in Northern-Germany, I was kind of shocked that the closest approximation to blackbread you could find was a light Pumpernickel-bagel. I would eat as a child this very dark black bread with zero fluffines, interesting how bread culture differs

[@rbzvncnt]

They call themselves the Land of Freedom and have apparently no bread worth eating. As a fellow German I deplore their lack of culture... ;)

[@jrasquared1]

We have that bread too, but it's hard to find sometimes because they'll put it in the "international" aisle of the grocery store, hidden among the Digestives and Aero Bars.

[@owbu]

Remember when David Hasselhof's song made John kickstomp the Berlin wall so hard it united Berlin?

[@hanagreg]

Western European History #13

[@CybershamanX]

(11:00) Apparently Louis learned to really like war, as each successive war was longer than the previous one. The first lasted just 1 year, but the succeeding wars each, in order, lasted 6, 9, and then finally 12 long years. Like I said, the ol' boy seemed to acquire quite a taste for it. :P In retrospect, though, I'm sure there were other reasons for why each war was as long as it was. ;)

[@Kriegtime101]

Crash course is filmed in Indiana!? Look out for the demigorgon John!!!

[@tarionmarsden157]

Please mention Gulliver's Travels in a future episode

[@kikoizme]

For those who are wondering, I'm pretty sure the Jaden Smith studio thing is one of their patreon tiers

[@briantime3762]

What about the absolute monarchism of Charles the 1st and the subseqant English civil war? Edit: just realised there's a quick mention at the end but still

[@briantime3762]

Well looking at the next episode this was a stupid comment

[@MRdaBakkle]

Louis the 14th: *I am The Senate!*

[@DaDunge]

Again there are other countries in Europe than England and France. What was going on in all the other countries at the time? Also no mention of Madame de Pompadour?

[@TheIceColdBikeDestroyer]

This isn't just one video on the 17th century I'm sure they will touch on the dutch

[@elise2182]

Madame de Pompadour was the mistress of Louis XV, not Louis XIV.

[@DaDunge]

@@elise2182 Yeah but she was a pivotal figure of the enlightenment movement.

[@ryanpasumbal]

France had the biggest influence in Europe at that time, just like our US is today

[@NPJGlobal]

@@ryanpasumbal true that

[@rickharold69]

Cool. Thx.

[@skiteufr]

The war of the league of Augsburg was not a defeat for France. Most battles were French victories and even if he renounces to some of his conquests, he definitly acquired Alsace, which would later cause some problems with the Germans. The war of the Spanish succession was a defeat in North America for France but in Europe if was a victory. The borders were defended and Louis XIV's grandson took the crown of Spain, turning Spain as an ally of France like Louis wanted

[@NPJGlobal]

Finally someone speaking the truth

[@SamAronow]

I hope the intendants are ready for an unforgettable luncheon!

[@adamlatosinski5475]

It's sad that there are still people that believe that their lives can only get better if they make the lives of others worse.

[@jrasquared1]

Mmm, pumpernickel bagel.... *Homer Simpson drooling noises

[@drmaggot1173]

One of the current theme to study to become history teacher in France is centered around absolutism in France in that period. Now you may find, reading James B. Collins, that absolutism is somewhat overused and never defined. Also according to him, it has more to do with the rise of the "good of the State" over the "common good" than of absolute power. And there are many many resistances to the establishment of the State up until it all implodes during the Revolution. Only to be reborn after.

[@nafrost2787]

Anyone else is worried that now CrashCourse are now only publishing videos on 1 course?

[@besotoxicomusic]

Perhaps the mercantilist's were incorrect in their assessment of finite resources in this world. However, they were correct that there is a finite amount of resources on Earth. Wealth might be complex and ownership along with it. Though, land isn't tangible. It's fixed minus physical events involving obstruction.

[@ryanweaver962]

Synergy is an interesting thing.