Thirty Years War - Chaining the Dragon - European History - Extra History - Part 5

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As the war continued onwards draining the land of blood and coin, enough was finally enough. While the conflict started over religious grounds, by this time it had changed to a conflict about political power. Oddly, that made it much easier to find compromise and terms to finally bring the conflict to an end. We see its effect on the maps as the Hapsburg empire began to splinter but the Thirty Years War left a lasting legacy on Europe and the way we think about global conflict forever.
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[@ItRemindMeOfHome]

That image of the Dragon standing over the Western Front of the Great War is somewhat haunting

[@TheShrike616]

Wasn't a thousand years though

[@princemapping9123]

"HANS, THE DRAGON IS BACK" "GOTTVERDAMT" ( Gottverdamt means God dam it I think )

[@hamzaferoz6162]

Where? What point in video

[@fromfareast3070]

@@hamzaferoz6162 0:49

[@nomanor7987]

The Chinese dragon 🐉 hangs over Europe now.

[@stormsurge1]

Catholic states: I consent Protestant states: I consent France: Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[@inquisitordave2751]

Is that a Tau symbol?

[@Cainthegodslayer]

Fucking T'AU!

[@renuduner2]

DYE heretic for the EMPEROR.

[@Tru7hiness]

@@inquisitordave2751 a Marathon symbol, if i had to take a guess? Bungie's big fps game from the mid 90s, before Halo

[@lasttarrasque6223]

No, that’s a Tau Symbol

[@creatoruser736]

"The dragon will not be released for a thousand years." *WWI happens 300 years later. "Shit, who let it out early!"

[@lukeandersen5386]

Everyone also seems to have forgotten the French Revolution=>Napoleanic Wars, on-again-off-again war across the continent from 1789 to 1815.

[@ehuanchen3794]

Paroled early for good behavior, i guess

[@ahmedamine24]

WHOOO LET THE DRAKES OUT?

[@martincastro6051]

Lock-picking skills

[@therealcollin1201]

@@lukeandersen5386 the 30 years war was the most deadly European war until ww1

[@f3tsch906]

"chaining the dragon for a thousand years" Ya forgot the dragon was a lock picker apparantly

[@boyscouts83712]

Yeah apparently the Napoleonic wars weren't on the same scale

[@martijn9568]

@@boyscouts83712 Casualties according to Wikipedia: Thirty Years' War: ~8.000.000 Napoleonic Wars: 2.500.000 + 1.800.000 = 4.300.000 World War I: 15.000.000 - 22.000.000 World War II: 70.000.000 - 85.000.000.

[@ZetaPyro]

"Nothing on 1. Little click on 2. 3 is binding..."

[@jdavis9817]

It’s a quote from the Bible in the last book of Revelation

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

More like someone blundered into the prison and knocked over the walls...

[@edwardmcintosh7952]

I love how they got the outfits for the Westphalia council to look exactly like that Frye and Laurie skit 😆

[@sherabtod3728]

did you notice the items on the table, its all the same

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

Right down to the charming clock.

[@robbybeckmeyer828]

Too bad they never got around to the Balkans

[@brandon074]

That was an hilarious scene. It's on KZbin btw.

[@gatlinggun511]

Can someone link the video? I’ve never seen it

[@hamzaferoz6162]

Ah yes the time when Luxembourg's fate as storage was decided

[@asierescobal1248]

Idk if you are refering the Monty Python but i think it was Luxembourg not Liechtenstein

[@TheDemonx55]

If you're referring to the Laurie and Fry sketch, you mean Luxembourg

[@brew_guy8947]

30 years of war, because Sweden needs a place to store some rotten fish. 🤷‍♂️

[@TheDemonx55]

@@brew_guy8947 why cant they eat a fish like a proper person?

[@brew_guy8947]

@@TheDemonx55 there is nothing wrong with it. If you're Swedish.

[@BrazenBard]

"...and not by a horde of nobles that throw someone out a window. Step in the right direction." Occasionally debatable, I guess, but sure. ;)

[@rparl]

Subtle reference to defenestration. Thanks.

[@TheOmegaXicor]

@@rparl 1) not subtle 2) subtle implication that that might be a good thing to do today ;)

[@biggusdickus9652]

@@TheOmegaXicor Haha. I have to agree :D

[@ethanhatcher5533]

The dragon re-emerging as the Western Front of the Great War is chilling

[@Xerxes2005]

After Walpole and Bismarck, Richelieu certainly deserves his own series.

[@tylerboyce4081]

The phrase "But Richelieu had a plan..." does roll off the tongue.

[@cosmedelustrac5842]

I couldn't agree more.

[@Kino_Cartoon]

@@tylerboyce4081 And they already have a series with Bismark constantly saying:"But Bismark had a plan. Bismark always has a plan."

[@mcallisterwill]

@@Kino_Cartoon I'm fairly certain he was referencing that.

[@antoine8649]

He's actually named cardinal "OF" Richelieu but I'm nitpicking, and yes, he does.

[@maaderllin]

Cue Homer Simpson: "The worst war Europe has seen YET".

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

They say that every war until the next one. The next war will be even worse!

[@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051]

@@mcmarkmarkson7115 well no war had more casualties since the second world war

[@srelma]

Yes, WWI and WWII had more casualties in absolute terms, but neither came to the level of percentage population drop in Germany as the 30 years' war. (Ok, a lot of that was due to disease, but the war made everything worse as explained in the previous video).

[@ahmedamine24]

Einstein said he didn't know what WWIII would be fought with, but IV would be fought with sticks and stones.

[@sanhcman666]

Hope so. Only from european nonsense comes good call of duties xD. Besides, thats the only way eurocentrism would end in the world

[@LudicrousPlatypus]

0:03 I love the reference to The Treaty of Westphalia sketch with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.

[@skuyken]

Good catch on that one! That's great.

[@GrandpaStories826]

𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒂𝒚♥️ 𝑴𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒕 10𝑲 𝒔𝒗b𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒚'𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎♥️🙏.. (𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒔)🙏🙏🙏♥♥

[@leopoldmalfer7530]

Oh coitus, we forgot the Balkans

[@imperiumbrasiliae]

Use luxembourg for storage

[@cebonvieuxjack]

"-just because we all hate the Germans doesn't mean we have to like the Swedes!! -oh c'mon the Swedes are alright ! -Well they hate you!!"

[@Volnas97]

It's interesting, that this war started in Prague with conflict of Protestants against Catholics and ended in Prague with Catholics and Protestants fighting side by side against Protestant Sweden.

[@matheuspinho4987]

"never thought I would fight side by side with a heretic" "what about a friend?"

[@Volnas97]

@@matheuspinho4987 Aye, I could do that.

[@Jan-gh7qi]

Time to recommend the Sabaton Song "1648" :) "Unconquered city in Vltavas shore, start of the conflict and end of the war..."

[@Volnas97]

@@Jan-gh7qi yeah, I know this one

[@Scotty1817]

“Well I think that settles it. Gentlemen, a toast, peace in Europe.”

[@philip8498]

But what about luxenbourg?

[@TheDoctorFromArknights]

The Dragon: But I came Back!

[@raphl8026]

We forgot Luxemburg -treaty of Westphalia

[@papapok13]

There is one more task: the savage lands of the Balkans!

[@aldinhodzic5741]

We are a history of our own😂

[@ludvercz]

Oh coitus, we forgot the Balkans.

[@philip8498]

So we already settled the question of what to do with luxenbourg?

[@zealousdoggo]

@@ludvercz most historically accurate mistake ever

[@thewafflegamer6152]

*and then ww1 began…*

[@barondarc8459]

Great detail bout dragon being unleashed again representing WW1

[@crownpenguin9180]

I think they might do ww1 again considering how much ww1 symbolism

[@twotone3471]

Totally skipping the Napoleonic Wars/war of 1812/US war of Independence

[@gzer0x]

@@twotone3471 trust me when I say, the nepoleonic wars, as a series, almost are a world war- but those others are nothing in the scope of alliance-binding and pointless death of 30 years and the first world war

[@justinh6651]

@@twotone3471 none of those were even close to ww1, even all combined

[@GaldirEonai]

@@twotone3471 None of which were even _remotely_ on the scale of the 30 years' war. The napoleonic wars came closest, but they had far less of an economic impact and most of the casualties were actually on the military side of things, not civilians.

[@skybluskyblueify]

7:38 This is partly why the teaching of history is important. Twisting what happened for political reasons is easy to do if the public has no idea of what happened.

[@jjjsalang]

True!

[@revieman1]

Holy shit A Letterkenny reference! 5:07 This is the last place I expected to find one. I wonder who has been watching it?

[@adambosman9611]

My whole family XD

[@meyfrootandy]

Same here man xD

[@imperiumbrasiliae]

4:00 I see fry and laurie and pickleherring sweden talking about using luxembourg for storage

[@thestarjon]

Nice conclusion of the series, but you swapped Münster and Osnabrück: Münster was exclusively catholic and Osnabrück was controlled by lutherans.

[@benediktnett669]

Münster is still exclusively catholic

[@thestarjon]

@@benediktnett669 No. Mostly, but not exclusively. We now have a thing called religious freedom. :D

[@willkenny5687]

I find no small amount of humor in the fact that just over a century prior, Muenster was the site of the worst Anabaptist uprising to occur during the reformation, and was firmly controlled by said Anabaptists for over a year.

[@benediktnett669]

@@thestarjon Yes, but they are many catholic hospitals for example, in wich you cannot work if you are not catholic or you get bullied until you quit.

[@thestarjon]

@@benediktnett669 That's true, but a hole other topic.

[@ChocoboProduction]

Minor nitpick: The german state shown at 7:10 is called "Brandenburg" and not "Brandenberg". :) "Burg" and "Berg" are very different words in german, "Burg" meaning "castle" and "Berg" meaning "mountain". By the way, the German Federal Republic of today still has a federal state in that general area (in a much different shape) that is called "Brandenburg". :)

[@suiadan_4283]

So is "the mountain castle" pronounced "der berg burg"

[@PG-kt1hz]

@@suiadan_4283 Yes

[@itsonlyafleshwound9024]

@@suiadan_4283 Die Bergburg steht auf dem Burgberg (the mountain castle stands on the castles mountain) :D

[@swordsnspearguy5945]

5:41 While Europe speak of peace, all other battles cease There's a man who aims for more than he can reach (Blood) All over (Prague) On fire (Burn) All of Bohemia set ablaze Stand on their own

[@dumbnewyorker7379]

The road to the city has been blocked Denied To enter the gates Though they tried When Prague was called to arms They fought them on the bridge Their freedom was at stake

[@gimps3937]

@@dumbnewyorker7379 is this a song?

[@geoffreyherrick298]

Sabaton reference?

[@Hussar117]

Stand and fight, the city is burning Königsmarck lost, stopped him at Karluv Most. Stained by blood, their brothers die side by side Did what they could Died where they stood

[@pendragonxt3674]

That’s a sabaton reference to a very violent German king who attacked towns while Europe was trying to end the thirty years war. I think.

[@twotone3471]

It wouldn't be until 1914 till the Horsemen rode again. Napoleon: Am I a Joke to you?

[@robertjarman3703]

Not even the Napoleonic Wars and the French Revolutionary Wars combined would be even half of the casualties of the 30 Years War.

[@srelma]

@@robertjarman3703 true. Napoleon was way too effective to crush everyone in central Europe that the wars tended to be much shorter and less destructive. And then he decided to go to Russia....

[@alejandroojeda1572]

@@robertjarman3703 except they are. Anywhere from 4-12M people died in the 30 years war. Anywhere from 3-7M people died in the Napoleonic wars

[@robertjarman3703]

@@alejandroojeda1572 Hum, must be reading different sources.

[@arthurlaffon7088]

Napoleon made his conquests cleans, but crushed a lot of armies.

[@G_Okr]

Cardinal Richelieu deserves his own series!

[@chiblast100x]

Yeah, he does.... Hell, really he deserves his own series of EH with crossover lit/media analysis of his myriad portrayals... say from OSP or the like.

[@cosmedelustrac5842]

Agreed.

[@bernhardmeysel]

And a proper pronunciation of his name.

[@JaimeNyx15]

5:08 That Letterkenny shoutout warmed my heart.

[@lukeh2556]

And that's what I's appreciates about you

[@mattries37315]

@7:10 The Electoral Palatinate is on the Rhine bordering France not in Austria. You gave the heirs of Frederick V the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg on the map.

[@jimluebke3869]

Yeah, I was wondering about that. "Rheinland-Pflaz" is a (West) German state, isn't it?

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

Guess the new video would be Lies about this topic

[@mattries37315]

@@judicatorhurayth1927 There is usually a one-off history video then the Lies episode.

[@hungryhungryplatypus8602]

upper palatinate is where eastern Bavaria is today (Landshut area) - Lower Palatinate is surrounding Heidelberg and Mannheim or thereabout. But yeah, they highlighted Salzburg.

[@mattries37315]

@@hungryhungryplatypus8602 yeah, I forgot the Frederick V's Palatinate was split between territories on either side of the Rhine and another closer to Bavaria. Whenever I hear Palatinate I think of the Rhenish area only.

[@gryffith1378]

The more I learn history, the more I’m convinced there’s no better time than now

[@RobotShield]

That all depends on who you are right now I guess

[@Dougie373]

On average, possibly, there's still a lot of people suffering today. I think it's dangerous to treat the current system as the end point history has been aiming for.

[@AubriGryphon]

0:45 WHOOF that's some imagery.

[@LeJumsAib]

love your work! you helped me through depression with these video's... they are fun and just make one feel part of a community that really is just incredible..

[@robzonefire]

Swedish Ambassador: What's wrong with pickled herring? 🤨 French Ambassador: Nothing if you're swedish 🙄

[@foam3132]

In the pit: The angel: Your ass ain't gonna cause a war for 1000 years between humans The dragon: K Two minutes later The dragon/devil: Hey, immas gonna continue the war now The angel: Didn't I just lock you up? The dragon: You did? The angel: Visible confusion

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

More happened in the 270 Years between the 30 years war and WWI than had happened in the 1000 years before the 30 years war.

[@thewafflegamer6152]

Apparently 2 minutes is 150 years

[@ShankarSivarajan]

0:45 That's a great illustration!

[@mccdortzer7459]

I have really loved this series. It's recognition of complexity, patterns, and religion has impressed and informed me. I also appreciate the letterkenny reference.

[@briangarrow448]

Still waiting for my “1632” alternative history peeps to show up and represent! Go Grantville, West Virginia!

[@karljonasson8429]

Great series!

[@creatoruser736]

I'm still waiting for Sabaton fans to post the lyrics.

[@chiblast100x]

Damn... I haven't read that series is so long. I wanna say 1635 was when I fell off.

[@ralphjosephacobo8014]

I'm more interested in the Gazette's.

[@SidheKnight]

0:03 Ohh I love the "Nearly Complete And Utter History of Everything" reference at the beginning. That was epic humor.

[@alexhussinger3550]

Its actually impressive that the Napoleonic Wars 150 years later, despite lasting almost as long and involving an even wider stretch of Europe, had comparatively fewer civilian casualties, especially considering the much larger populations of the time. The 30 year's war left such a massive scar on Europe that no one wanted to go back to that kind of warfare.

[@alejandroojeda1572]

Well they only lasted 12 years and if you count the reign of terror in France they're not that far appart. But yeah the thirty years was just monstrous.

[@andreaswidham3607]

7:10 Ehhhh... That is note the Lower Palatinate. It's to the west of Bavaria closer to France.

[@carbonium1264]

INACCURACY !!! ST. Vitus cathedral in middle of prague castle wasn't finished until 1929.

[@Andecay117]

3:50 Münster was the Catholic city, while Osnabrück was the headquarter of the Protestant negotiators.

[@KYLETIBOR]

@0:05 "... and England for applying within 28 days gets this charming carriage clock."

[@Angel24Marin]

In Spain, french backstabbing is a meme as famous as France surrendering.

[@samrevlej9331]

In France, Spanish hairiness is a running joke as common as Spanish civil warring.

[@juancarlosdegoya2757]

@@samrevlej9331 here in Spain too, we like to joke around that French women have hairy armpits as well as other parts 😎

[@Angel24Marin]

@@samrevlej9331 I would say that french people riot too often to be criticizing in that regard.

[@maverick7291]

@@juancarlosdegoya2757 the french had more memes but they just gave up. 🙃

[@jorgebarriosmur]

This has probably more to do with the napoleonic invasion of Spain (under the excuse that the where just "marching through", while trying to invade Portugal), than with the peace of Westphalia. But, hey I am spanish citizen. A spanish citizen who lived many years outside of Spain, and was offered several times to become citizen of my guest-nations........ I refused every time. Because, if couldn´t be spanish, the only other thing I would accept, would be beeing french........ the second best option in the whole world........

[@blockofmeat3272]

Did anyone else see the Letterkenney reference?

[@revieman1]

Allegedly

[@pileofcheese5017]

7:04 and on top of that, the Netherlands was declared a part of Atlantis, and sank into the ocean.

[@AB-gk8cs]

Like your visual nod to the fry&laurie video about the Peace of Westphalia😉. And all episodes were excellent to give a short overview to the horrors of this conflict.

[@JaffeCakeINC]

i absolutely loved this series! good work guys!

[@BobHerzog1962]

I would argue the 7 years war and war(s) sorounding the French Revolution/Napoleon are arguably just as large as WW1 in terms of scope compared to population and economy size. Especially the Napoleonic wars took a lot longer.

[@amiscellaneoushuman3516]

I think what they meant was that it wasn't until WW1 that Europe saw a conflict as proportionally destructive as the 30 Years War

[@ocadioan]

Yeah, saying that the next war to rival the 30 years war was WWI completely ignores just how large of a conflict the Napoleonic wars were, as well as the enormous legacy that they brought with them.

[@shrimpisdelicious]

I think they’re referring to destruction and death on the scale of the 30 Years War. Yes, the Napoleonic Wars were big and consequential, but you don’t get the kind of apocalyptic imagery associated with them that you do with the 30 Years War or World War I.

[@wiseSYW]

@@shrimpisdelicious spain did get badly damaged by the napoleonic wars

[@BobHerzog1962]

@@shrimpisdelicious Then they can't read as it seems. The French revoloution alone was horrific. It wasn't called Reign of Terror for nothing. Napoloen too let his armies live of the land (in combination with the corps system that was how he achieved the astonishing speed his army could march with). Russia deployed a strategy of burned earth to defeat his grand army. That sounds smart but always entails horrific loss of live on the civilian side. One could go into the other coalitions, into conflicts connected like the Haiti Slave Rebellion they already have a series on which had horrific numbers of causalties as well. Or the Penisular war (often a mixture between Gurellia and Civil war and thus horendus loss of life). I would even argue in terms of destroyed infrastructure the Naploanic Wars hit a far wider area than the first World War On the Western Front it was basically a stalemate because Germany's infrastructure was basically unharmed and France's outside of the are of the fighting as well. It is also hard to decide what to count and what not. With the 30s War victims of disease and faime are usually counted in. In more modern wars they are often not. I.e. the story of the Spanish Flue is often told with the intorduction that the pandemic killed more people than the war. So if you want to use the estimates from the Naploenic wars (I would also count the whole French revolution in any rate so including reign of terror, counter revoloutions and the subsequent merciless put down of those) you either have to add all death that could feasible caused by the circumstances they created (France was hit by several major famies due to the stress the revolution and the wars due to it created and in famine people die ...) or you have to substract those from the 30 years war. In either case they become much more comparable. For similar reasons I'm kind of annoyed how small the 7 years war is often made. That lies purley to the strange fact that most people only talk about the military deaths. But of course as in any war civilians suffered from diseases the soilders brought, from food and material the soilders lived on/stole, from outright destruction and so forth.

[@lohfert86]

You mad a little mistake. Showing Sweden having control of Scania. Denmark still had control of Scania until 1658 where we lost it to Sweden.

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

Denmark-Norway?

[@RoomateNSNL]

The dragon in WW1 had me pause the video to make this comment. Just spectacular imagery! Well done.

[@JonEffinZoidberg]

Very good series! Thank you to you and your team for creating such excellent content!

[@johnyricco1220]

“A government controlling a piece of territory should be free to govern as it sees fit without interference from other states” US State Department heavy sweating

[@stephenjenkins7971]

Not really, since literally nobody listens to that rule lol

[@The360MlgNoscoper]

State has a very different meaning in Europe in comparison to USA. Nation-States. US States aren't Nation-States.

[@joffreybaratheon4904]

What about individual states who are opposed to Roe v Wade being overturned?

[@RK-cj4oc]

​@@joffreybaratheon4904Those are free to stop wanting to force their abortion rules on other states and just put their rules in their own state.

[@victoralonsobercianos7466]

That Frye and Laurie reference made my day. Top quality here lads!

[@fds7476]

0:03 Well, Extra History, with all your intricate retellings of the various complexities and horrors surrounding the 30 Years' War, you are really spoiling us! *Sappy Italian music plays.*

[@SchwarzSSB]

Me: doing busy work Extra credits: releases new extra history vid Me: Drops everything and watches it

[@foam3132]

Hello there person of culture

[@SchwarzSSB]

@@foam3132 hello there

[@zflowes]

Them Swede's and their pickle herrings

[@maxfieldjoyner5244]

I was rewatching and finally realized the “to be fair” Letterkenny reference. Perfection, you guys just got even more of my respect.

[@bmoney2011]

cheeky reference to "Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything" in the intro.

[@abcdef27669]

6:56 - "France got Alsace". But the subtitles says "France got Ulcers". Ahahahaha!

[@zenogias01]

Well, I mean, it's kinda true . . .

[@euansmith3699]

0:09 "Ambassador, with these Ferro Rocher, you are spoiling us."

[@mogrin66]

"OH YOU SWEDES AND YOUR PICKLED HERRING!" I see your 'The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything' references there ;)

[@hamzaferoz6162]

"To peace in Europe forever"

[@kucimaka8092]

Another great series! Thx

[@MrThePsychologist]

thnx for uploading favorite part of history

[@spearworld6055]

5:08 To Be Fair ...

[@BattalionCommanderMK]

Nice! Please make more!

[@bladestorm337]

I can't believe they forgot about the balkans.

[@shadiafifi54]

Ottoman Empire: "You rang?" Yeah, it was pretty much Ottoman territory at the time, thus not really tied to the war or its causes.

[@xenotypos]

@@shadiafifi54 He was refering to a sketch with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Named after the Peace of Westphalia.

[@itarry4]

I loved the clever way you structured the video series but it's a pitty you missed so much important stuff but I guess it's a look at rather than a history lesson so nice work.

[@jorikrouwenhorst7220]

Let's hope that the protestant East Swedish Luxemburgers and the catholic West French Luxemburgers can live with one another.

[@TickleMeSenpai]

Really a wonderful series of videos, the horrors of war are awful to contemplate

[@sickyDlx]

Nice Video on the conclusion of the War. Although Münster was Catholic and Osnabrück Lutheran.

[@joshpiearegood411]

Love the reference to The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything in the opening

[@davididiart5934]

Would love to see some more World War I specials, building off the connections made with this series.

[@Ryu_D]

Thank you for the video.

[@TheRamblingBooth]

This was a very well done series.

[@Epic0201]

Ok i have to say 0:45 and that WW1 reference really got me good... It's just the perfect exemple of that "dragon" waking up

[@gertvanderstraaten6352]

Also in that Peace of Westphalia it was recognised that the Netherlands and Switzerland were no longer part of the Holy Roman Empire. The Spanish/Austrian Netherlands weren't either, they were just controlled by the Habsburgs.

[@heart4740]

If you want an accurate retelling of the treaty of of westphalia, look up "The treaty of westphalia" by monty python

[@tanzbaer2go]

I really loved that series, great work on giving different aspects of the Thrity Years War more attention. Just wanted to mention that you have a typo on your map towards the end. It's spelled "Brandenburg", not "-berg" ;)

[@TheKQDaVRQ]

Opening scene with a reference to The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything sketch, lovely.

[@steefvandijk9587]

I love you guys finally mentioned the 80 years war it a very interesting war like the 30 years war

[@alphaviki7987]

And you thought I wouldn't recognise the setting / sketch that was drawn ;) I know the Swedes want storage for their pickled Herrings!

[@amdreallyfast]

The best part about Hello Fresh is that it comes in a box. Best for the cat, at least.

[@vinaymane5538]

0:06 that carriage clock is a nice touch :)

[@brunoethier896]

What?? Your jump to 1914 seems to completely forget the Napoleonic wars!

[@meongmie1524]

That miaw at the end 😭👌

[@sygnusadun4832]

I cannot help but picture Laury and crew during your table scene.

[@Pikashockdragon]

5:00 Fred III: *sheepishly* Yeah that's want we came to..... :( SOMEBODY'S GETTING THROWN OUT A WINDOW!!!!

[@DoctorWilsonVer1]

I was not expecting to see Squirrely Dan in an extra history. 5:08

[@raheenayab5539]

Please do a series on the history of the Mughal Empire! Absolutely love all your content

[@christopherfinn4018]

Love the reference to that Stephen Fry comedy sketch in the first scene!

[@wreckthesecond3883]

I'd like to see a series about the Mongol invasion of Japan. As far as I'm aware, you only take requests from patrons, but putting it out there for someone who might be interested and is able to get the idea to where it would be heard.

[@usernotfound-jw7xs]

the 1914 line was bone chilling

[@MonarchRigel]

Sneaking in a Letterkenny reference. nice work.

[@halopkmnlego]

To be faaiiiir~ I appreciate the reference, that gotta good giggle outta me!

[@noahstahl5936]

I was a bit sceptical about the apocalyptic methaphor for this series at first, but now I can just say, I loved it, really added somethig to the episodes and besides at the end it is historical as many people felt like it could be the end times

[@olivermorassut462]

Stephen Fry: "And England get this lovely artisinal clock for writing back in 30 days."

[@Nerdznewznow]

Oh my god I never expected a Letterkenny reference in an Extra credits video. Love squirrely dan

[@krauskorl]

What is described as "Lower Palatinate" at 7:08 is in fact the archbishopric of Salzburg; now an Austrian state. The Lower Palatinate (Unterpfalz) is located in South-Western Germany.

[@colonalleedle1361]

Love the Letterkenny reference. 10/10

[@DDWyss]

Is that a pyramid of Ferrero Rocher on the table in the opening scene? If so, that is awesome and hilarious!!!

[@carlpult5235]

You are really spoiling us. These on the other hand, are revolting!