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I don't see how that affects his arguments. I am also very sceptical of databases that purport to provide objective data on historical societies since all such measurements involve large amounts of guessing and interpretation.

Do you have a citation from this book to that effect? Why would 19th century Italy, which he spends considerable effort explaining away as a not an empire, be a different kind of a society than 19th century Britain? Why would he focus on the Mongols, which are not agricultural but pastoralist?

" He just says the Normans and Franciens were different GROUPS." No, he says they are different metaethnicities. This is essential for his argument, because otherwise, how could an empire arise on their frontier? According to him, empires only arise on metaethnic frontiers.

Because I wasn't doing a video on Peter Turchin's thought, I was doing a video on this book in particular, which is on a subject that interests me and still seems to be widely read. Unless his views have changed, this book is as valid a subject as any other one.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

That is an interesting comment. This video has been especially frustrating because it has about a tenth as many views as comparable ones I have done. I suspect that UA-cam has been throttling it for some reason.

That was sloppy on my part. The treaty, of course, didn't specify any boundaries (web.archive.org/web/20190713125909/www1.umassd.edu/euro/resources/dutchrep/14.pdf). Whether the Dutch "owned" territory up to the Orinoco is highly doubtful. They may have had salt pans that far (I don't know) but I seriously doubt they had any permanent settlements.

@@DerekCroxtonWestphalia The Dutch was a trading power. It had trading posts not settlements. After the peace of Westphalia and Munster these were considered Dutch possessions.

@@jayyy3456 I doubt seriously if the Dutch had trading posts up to the Orinoco, where the Spanish were based. If you can find evidence to the contrary, I would be interested to see it

The principle has always been that weaker states lose.

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

What arguments did you not agree with?

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.

@@DerekCroxtonWestphalia so was Prussia originally Polish territory?

@@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.)

@@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 .

Love that series

We need Luxembourg to store our pickled herrings

Thanks, I redid the audio in another video. Everything is the same except louder audio: ua-cam.com/video/DanL_HdXL_k/v-deo.html

Interesting question. They fell in 1918 along with the Romanovs, Hohenzollerns, and the Ottomans. The Hohenzollerns existed for about as long. They weren't as important until the 18th century, but they had a huge influence on modern history, especially the unification of Germany and the first World War. The Romanovs came to power in 1613 and ruled one of the most powerful countries in the world for 300 years. Arguably the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns did more to bring their small principalities to great power status; Russia was already an empire by the time the Romanovs took over. The Ottomans had perhaps the biggest rise from a small Turkish tribe to a huge empire.

It's symbolic of how they scraped for the smallest advantages. :)

England got the charming carriage clock. 😄

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

@@venomdust1 😂

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.

Habsburgs had serious testosterone (in addition to the inbreeding)

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.

Thank you for your comment. Italy and Belgium are also not part of Spain, but I highlighted them because they were ruled by the Spanish crown at this time, as was Portugal.

Sorry, I learned the trick of making audio loud enough to hear but not so loud that UA-cam would decrease the volume after this video. I made another version, the exact same video with the audio louder, here: ua-cam.com/video/DanL_HdXL_k/v-deo.html

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

What is this "binging" you speak of? 😀

Sorry, I learned the trick of making audio loud enough to hear but not so loud that UA-cam would decrease the volume after this video. I made another version, the exact same video with the audio louder, here: ua-cam.com/video/DanL_HdXL_k/v-deo.html

I'm an historian, I thought it would be appropriate to use technology from the past. :)

It is a double-headed eagle (Doppeladler), adopted in the 15th and 16th centuries. The symbol has been widely used, particularly in European heraldry. It started to be used in Freemasonry in the 18th century.

@@DerekCroxtonWestphalia OR, the holy roman empire was the satanic empire