The Peace of Westphalia in 5 minutes

[@arladicey]

England just knew Luxembourg was on the continent, and didn't give a tosh, really...

[@arladicey]

England got the charming carriage clock. 😄

[@arladicey]

😄

[@venomdust1]

You didn’t just fancy kicking some Germany ass …….. That does appeal to us too…. 🤣

[@arladicey]

@@venomdust1 😂

[@JohnDaker35p]

I visited their gift shop after watching one of their spectacles of burning a kid at the stake as the devil. They have some lovely little trinkets! Smells of fish near the warehouses, though.

[@ConquestChronicles2]

Swedes love pickled hairings

[@SidheKnight]

But what about Luxemburg?

[@fischX]

@@SidheKnight The plague people crawl gracefully - I think some should claim it.

[@waitwhat1264]

@@SidheKnight oh the width!. 😁

[@SidheKnight]

@@waitwhat1264 *whiff

[@waitwhat1264]

@@SidheKnight so you too also witnessing the historic moment of the treaty of Westphalia? Nice 😁😎

[@gabrielzara3909]

Currently reading your article "The Peace of Westphalia and the Origins of Sovereignty (1999)". Having a hard time to digest this, thank God for your videos!

[@jackbeck913]

turn the audio up please!

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Thanks for your comment. It took me a while to appreciate how much quieter it sounded after I uploaded a video to KZbin. The next two have much better audio: The Holy Roman Empire in 5 Minutes (kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKmwoGuhfsebh7s) and The Habsburg Dynasty in 5 Minutes (kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnKlpaRpmcugi7M).

[@ethanfreel1222]

I just finished reading your book *Westphalia: The Last Christian Peace* and it was really good. I learned a ton from it, way more than I ever thought. And it was actually kinda funny some places too. Thanks for your efforts!

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Wow, thanks for that, I really appreciate it. My goal was to write the book so someone with no knowledge of the subject could pick it up and understand it. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@achudakhinkudachin2048]

According to the New Chronology, The orthodox rendition of the Peace of Westphalia conceals the fact that it was the legacy episode for the Orda Empire dismemberment

[@RS4KING]

I have no idea how I ended up here, but glad I did. Never heard of any of this, thanks for the info!

[@atticusjordan499]

best video on Westphalia I’ve ever seen

[@jauregi2726]

The SECOND Defenestration of Prague!

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Well, you've seen one defenestration of Prague, you've sen them all...What I want to know is, what is it about Prague that makes its inhabitants so willing to throw officials out of windows?

[@Aester]

great overview. good job.

[@hypersp3ce596]

totally unrelated but I'm just amazed at how big the ottoman empire was

[@Fermifire]

Yo dude, been playing way too much Hoi4, needed to know more on this shit just outta curiosity ya feel me. Thanks for the vid dawg!

[@droland3949]

this is a good video, thank you

[@mrsnoop1820]

low audio

[@MEXANIKKA93]

Who owns Luxembourg?

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Great question! The answer is Spain, but I should do a video analyzing that Fry and Laurie parody and discuss how it relates to the actual negotiations.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@DerekCroxtonWestphalia There was what was called the "Spanish Road" by which Spanish troops in Italy, much of it under Spanish control, travelled to get to what is now Belgium, also under Spanish control. Luxembourg was one of the stops on the road. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Road Incidentally Spanish was widely understood in the Spanish Netherlands, now essentially Belgium. Cervantes' "Don Quixote" was almost as widely read there as in Spain. There were many Spanish soldiers and officials but even local inhabitants seem to have had a grasp of the language.

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

@@stevekaczynski3793 As I well know, since my advisor wrote the book on the Spanish Road! www.amazon.com/Army-Flanders-Spanish-Road-1567-1659/dp/0521084628/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KML2EUNX09II&keywords=army+of+flanders&qid=1653225771&sprefix=army+of+flanders%2Caps%2C291&sr=8-1

[@Rumptertumskin79]

Luxembourg is where the Swedes store their pickled herring.

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

@@Rumptertumskin79why not just store it in Sweden?

[@peaveawwii1]

Well done. Thanks for posting

[@fergrt01]

Good video mate, cheers

[@brandonchamberlain7094]

Seems like good information but I can barely hear the speaker.

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Thanks, I redid the audio in another video. Everything is the same except louder audio: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epLRfZJ-mb1_lc0

[@windwaker105]

Very good video. I can’t believe I haven’t found your channel until, I am gonna do some binging

[@Gam3rnathan]

*I am gonna do some binging* should take you about 20 mins bro

[@peterlehman8448]

What is this "binging" you speak of? 😀

[@johndurham6172]

It was also considered the rise of the nation state. I got an A for that paper.

[@gts3004]

1618 the year of the start of the Thirty Years War was the same year that the Hohenzollerns acquired the territory of Prussia?

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

The Hohenzollerns had ruled Prussia since it was secularized in 1525. In 1618, Prussia was inherited by the branch of Hohenzollerns that ruled Brandenburg, uniting them in Brandenburg-Prussia.

[@gts3004]

@@DerekCroxtonWestphalia so was Prussia originally Polish territory?

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

@@gts3004 Yes, basically. As with any territory, a lot of people fought over it. The original Prussians were a Slavic people not related to Poles; then the Teutonic Knights conquered the area, but the Knights also took lands from Poland. Eventually the Teutonic Knights had to give back the Polish territory (although it remained mainly German culturally because of colonization during the rule of the knights), and the rest of the Knights' territory accepted Polish suzerainty when it was secularized in 1525. So, Prussia was governed by Poland but had a large German element. (The original slavic Prussians were wiped out or assimilated as far as I can tell.)

[@gts3004]

@@DerekCroxtonWestphalia thanks. I do know that Germany and Poland were at war during ww2 over the territory of Danzig and West Prussia . Im currently reading the biography of Frederick the Great by Nancy Mitford .

[@halfhouse5760]

Echoing the other comment about your audio, please turn it up. Good content otherwise.

[@marcghiggeri4965]

Iykyk

[@RaimoHöft]

And then in late 1631 the Ring of Fire happened and Grantville entered the battle! 😁

[@olorin7611]

Love that series

[@joshwilson4282]

Does anyone know the actual reasons why Sweden joined the 30 years war?

[@ericwilliams1832]

-They wanted to help the german protestants against the Habsburgs- they wanted northern german clay.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

@@ericwilliams1832 The Habsburgs were winning and the Swedes wanted to at least stalemate them. If they had not intervened it would probably be called the Twelve Years' War now.

[@arnold3768]

Genuine desire to help german protestants AND for empire building opportunity - the swedes at that time had ambitions to turn the Baltic Sea into a Swedish lake

[@RaimoHöft]

What about Luxembourg...? 😜

[@ManofMystery89]

We need Luxembourg to store our pickled herrings

[@MewTube-o4l]

Just about stealing more lands

[@akshattiwari4957]

2:26 Ugliest king i've ever seen.

[@alexcarrillo5510]

LOUDER I CANNOT HEAR

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Sorry, I learned the trick of making audio loud enough to hear but not so loud that KZbin would decrease the volume after this video. I made another version, the exact same video with the audio louder, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epLRfZJ-mb1_lc0

[@thisxgreatxdecay]

HUH?!

[@j.p.vangordon9876]

Booooring ! I liked the Fry and Laurie version better...

[@099Nitro]

Was the premise of european politics always to fuck germany over?

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

The principle has always been that weaker states lose.

[@099Nitro]

the holy roman empire was the major catholic power on the continent. Yet they lost because all protestant powers attacked at the same time. 30 years war was like a genocide for germany back then and it took 100 years to reocver.@@DerekCroxtonWestphalia

[@karlkarlos3545]

Nobody will understand anything from this video. You just can't explain the 30 years war in 5 minutes.

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Then you really won't like the "Thirty Years' War in One Minute" video I've got planned.

[@cranberrysoup2318]

Karl Karlos then please take thirty years to explain to us commoners.

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@cranberrysoup2318 You could just use the Wikipedia page instead. But that, of course, requires time and reading.

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@cranberrysoup2318 I don't need it, you idiot. How is learning from obscure KZbin channels going for you?

[@primeroyal7434]

OK boomer!

[@7aqa2e2mutherah]

seriously? go to sleep already! the voice is like speaking from below the blanket

[@DerekCroxtonWestphalia]

Sorry, I learned the trick of making audio loud enough to hear but not so loud that KZbin would decrease the volume after this video. I made another version, the exact same video with the audio louder, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epLRfZJ-mb1_lc0