Farming Gold! - Tulip Mania - European History - Part 2 - EXTRA HISTORY
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Amsterdam 1625, The competition for new plant specimens is fierce! Especially since Europe has a new love affair with TULIPS! Not just any tulips though! Specimens with broken colors fetched a higher price but how DID these non-native species make their way to Europe?
Find out now, as we geek out and show you how the seeds were sown for Tulip Mania!
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I spy with my little eye a Necron in the cabinet of curiosities
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can we just take a moment to appreciate the mirror trick at the beginning, though?
It’s fascinating.
Yea. That was pretty genius!
I wanna know how much those mirrors cost. It wasn't exactly a *cheap* trick back then. Given the time period, there was probably a lot more silver behind the glass. And silver wasn't cheap.
@@Grizabeebles But apparently cheaper that designer tulips.😂
Sorry, haven't got time for that.
“Ah you Dutch think tulips are your mania? You merely adopted the fad. I was born in it, molded by it!"
---Ottoman tulip enjoyer to Dutch tulip fan, maybe
Hmm
Executed by it!!
My tulips have pointy petals, your tulips are rounded and sickly
- Ottoman tulip merchant ~ 1600
multilayered meme, I like it
@@hamish5214 *laughs in rewriting border*- British person
Dutch Merchants: “Now that I’ve got all this money, what am I going to spend it on?”
John Calvin: “Shameless debauchery is a no-no.”
Dutch Merchants: “Dang it. Tulips it is then…”
How about a new torture device? No one has to know
Actually sounds like 50 shades of Grey but 1600’s 🤔
Religion: These are banned as frivolous status symbols.
People: Time to find a status symbol that isn't banned!
Goes towards confirming my personal hypothesis about religious people: 99% of them are just paying lip service! Which is why I never really bother with making assumptions about Catholics, Protestants, Sunnis and Shi'ites etc.
The fact that trazyn the Infinite appears in a personal museum of dutch nobility is deliciously fitting considering trazyns profession.
I live in Leiden. Besides the botanical gardens, which still exist today, it's also a major staging ground for public transport to the Keukenhof, which is basically one massive flower garden that's extremely popular with both national and international tourists. I'm still seeing my fair share of rare tulips to this day.
Hmm cool
Rather than going to Keukenhof, might I suggest going to the tulip fields around Lisse? Short bike trip from Leiden. Just ask permission from the farmers, I guarantee you the huge tulip fields is a lot better than Keukenhof
Well I now have a new destination for the globe-trotting trip in my head :D
I've been there twice it's a very nice place.
@@xennialscrutiny4273 Unfortunately clear skies are impossible to predict with Dutch weather, especially the last few years. I would suggest May-July as the months with the 'best' weather, but again, no guarantees.
It’s interesting how the rise of popularity for tulips in both the Ottoman Empire and the Netherlands was largely influenced by crazy religious proscriptions and taboos that restricted how rich people could show off their wealth.
I think restricting wealthy using wealth as status symbol does make sense for societies or they can get completely crazy with it (see baroque architecture of rococo dresses for styles of modern day nonsense like edible gold or oligarc super yatchs).
@@sarasamaletdin4574 Don’t forget New York being filled with empty skyscrapers.
I think Extra History is my comfort show, I have been watching since I was 13 or so and I am 18 now, I still feel so excited for every new thing you post
Fr man, getting high and learning obscure history is my passion
SAME, also weird coincidence, I started watching at like 13 and I’m now 18
Same! I'm almost 18 and started watching when I was 13 or 14 too
Hmm
@@Ethan-cz8xq My first watch was the 2nd punic wars! Still very nostalgic!
Always found the non-broken, regular tulips to be prettier. Rows and rows of deeply coloured tulips!
Yeah, but they are *common*. Bleh.
@@tams805 Upper-Class tulips turning their petals up at the lowly *commoner* tulips
Gardner, Guard, and Executioner sounds like an interesting combination of jobs
Sounds like it would take a patient man.
All of those require a lot of waiting.
@@rockCity777 we have all the time we need
To my knowledge it was supposed to remind the guard that life was precious and fragile.
Also executions were done by strangling. You could run and if you escaped you could live. if he caught you... you'd be strangled to death.
It would've made the movie Being There a lot more interesting
That's another interesting parallel with NFTs, as their emergence was largely prompted by lack of stuff to do with cryptocurrency, outside of cashing out.
Interesting take 😃
You're right!
true, but their emergence is also tied to a scam tho
Trazyn the Infinite hanging out in a museum is such a meta joke I love it
He's not hanging out. He's there to add some dank tulips to his collection. ;)
@@davididiart5934 He needs to grab them before the Bloody Magpies do
I had to Google this but dang that is a cool meta reference
The fact that I know what you mean, just means it is time for me to leave the hobby.
Trazyn over there adding tulips to his collection, nicely done EC :)
He probably has one of the original 'broken' tulips in his collection, somehow
@@freakymoejoe2 he definitely does
Found it. Brilliant
Glad to see that the ancient Dutch calvinists were people of culture...
@@scarsofhonor6333 That's literally Trazyn the Infinite in the cabinet, dude. In which way is that _not_ 40k? 😁
The fact that the "wealthy merchant" has a Trazyn The Infinite mini in his curio-cabinet really nails that he HAS the money. God WH minis are expensive....
6:40 "One fish, two fish, selfish dead fish" That's some high quality children's literature there.
What’s wild is that mirrors were also crazy expensive at the time. It’s like buying 10 Teslas just to make your driveway look better
Well mirrors are a complicated process in which you connect a silver alloy to a glas plate. Silver=expensive. Glas=expsensive. And even the slightest manufacturing mistake, e.g. an air bubble in between the, could ruin the whole thing.
Plus Venice had a quasi monoppl back then, including drowning people who spread manufacturing infoy.
@@hangebza6625 Silver mirrors are a much later invention, back then it was tin, applied as an amalgam (mercury alloy).
@@hangebza6625 Isn't it also possible that when they say "mirror" they just meant "highly polished metal"? I certainly wouldn't want to leave an ACTUAL mirror outside in the elements...
@@tz8785 true. Still expensive as f*** and extremly difficult to manufacture correctly
@@ccggenius I do not know what the deal with the tulip garden was, but I too think its unlikley that 1st grade mirrors were placed in the open.
Though neither alternative was cheap within the 17th century, which shows how highly tulips were seen back then. Going to such expenses only to make your tulips look better
Putting Trazyn the Infinite in a episode about collecting and collections is highly appreciated 😂👍 7:02
Puting him in a cabinet of curiosities is just perfect!
If trazyn was real he would own every NFT
I'm seeing a LOT of parallels between this and my own hobby of reef aquariums and coral collecting. Granted, it's not mainstream at all, but the amount of named varieties and prices have absolutely ballooned over the past decade.
I remembered a fish craze in the early 10's, some fish that have patterns that look like chinese characters could go for $1000 or more
@@wiseSYW that's still a thing. More with fresh water. Certain koi or arawana sell for thousands, but there are a select few marine fish that are similarly expensive. $100-200 isn't at all unusual.
Hmm
I'd imagine with the ongoing environmental issues, prices aren't going to get any better anytime soon - or at all.
@@shadiafifi54 The majority of the coral traded these days isn't wild collected, but grown in homes or stores. I don't imagine environmental factors would have much of an impact. That said, new strains of corals pretty much have to come from the ocean, so if collecting gets entirely shut down, we'll pretty much be stuck with what we've got. Certain fish ARE becoming hard to find since they're VERY difficult to breed in captivity. Hawaii shut down their marine fish exports, which drove the price of yellow tangs from like $30-40 to $300-400. There are some captive breeding programs going on though.
Another little interesting way in which tulips fit in with Dutch Calvinism of that era is that the five defining points of Calvinist theology are still summarised with the initials TULIP
And those points would be?
@@GameyRaccoon
Okay, here goes:
T- Total Depravity (Humans are fallen and sinful by nature, until transformed and saved by god)
U- Unconditional Election (god has chosen who to save and who to condemn based on his choice alone)
L- Limited atonement (Only the sins of the elect were forgiven through jesus' sacrifice )
I- Irresistible Grace (If god chooses that you will be saved or condemned, you cannot reject your fate by your actions)
P- Perseverance of the saints (If god has chosen to save you, you cannot later fall away from grace- those that appear to do so were never really saved in the first place. )
A lot of this ends up being tied in with the idea of predestination, where the path of your life has already been foreseen by an all-knowing god.
These tulips are still commonly used in the greenery areas in Dutch cities. These areas include the centers of roundabouts, the areas around the younger trees in residential neighbourboods, as well as lanes of grass that separate roads. I recently spotted a bunch of these rare "broken" tulips by walking along a sidewalk the other day. They're quite beautiful!
I'm so glad to see Dutch history on this channel!
Also, bonuspoints for the extremely meta Necrons reference!
I love the fact there is a Warhammer 40k figure in the peoples little museum! 7:06
Real cultured people here
It is Trazyn the Infinite, and there is a meta joke behind it.
I did not expect Trazyn the Infinite to make a cameo
It's crazy to think that tulips still hold their power over people to this day. Many of our farmers have to fend off tourists wanting to take pictures in the fields, because of the damage that is caused. 🌱
Points for the "intrinsic value of tulips" camp.
I find that this is a trait common to everywhere in the world with a lot of tourists: you need people around to stop tourists from wandering to off-limits areas to take pictures (or to steal things...or, for particularly bad cases, to vandalize things).
For some, but I never know the value or heard of his tulip craziness until I saw this video. Crazy. People place value on something and others profit from that value that is placed on it. That is what it is, Its worth is based on the people who value it.
Seeing our boy Trazyn the Knfinite in the Calvanist merchant's curiosity cabinet genuinely made me laugh out loud. Kudos to whoever thought of that!
Trazyn adding tulips to his collection around 7:30 😂
What is the reason behind the gardener-executioner thing? This smells like something that could be a separate story.
If you could beat him in a footrace through the garden your life would be spared. No one's life was ever spared..
I assume that the Gardener was also a Janissary. Janissaries were the Sultans' personal army and trained to be ONLY loyal to said Sultans. In other words, if the Sultan was told to kill someone, their answer would ALWAYS be "Evet." Though I think it was executioner first, gardener second.
@@Toonrick12 Maybe in theory, but even the most... enthusiastic governor is probably going to need a lot more gardening done, in term of time spent, than executions.
The red “broken tulips” look like they are made of prosciutto.
ima gonna eat it
I kept thinking they looked like streaky bacon
Mmmm. Ham flowers. Yummy!
@@JCdental You make me want to cry. That’s (In my opinion) kind of cruel. But even so, I do respect YOUR opinion
@@slopflop9006 Hah. Nice reference.
Those canal side mansions had many windows to show.off wealth because there was a tax on windows.
Isn't that a myth..?
I think its adorable that Clusius was all "I just think they're neat! :D " for tulips
I love how Trazyn the Infinite is in the mini museum :D Cant escape him when you collect stuff :P
@extra credit. Whilst the east Asia trade was indeed very big, it was not the main source of wealth. The 'moedergenotie' (triangle trade of grains from Poland, wood from Sweden and goods (+war goods) from Netherlands was by far the biggest trade income
Nice to see someone with some actual historical knowledge for a change.
Ahhh…Trazyn the Collected. Well played, EC. Well played.
BLOODY MAGPIES!
Honestly this Story about a Botanist showing of His cool flowers to his botanist friends is so wholesome
I love Trazyn the Infinite hiding in the cabinet of curiosities. Better take stock on the cabinet after though - he might have taken somebody!
Little do they know that they too are part of Trazyn's collection!
That Trazyn the Infinite in the "Cabinet of Curiosities" got me. Best kleptomaniac robot!
HA! Looks like Trazyn the Infinite got collected himself! 7:02 for all you 40k fans out there.
I see you Trazyn! get outta there!
Yeah, we Ottomans literaly had an era named after them called "Lale Devri".
EC: And the man who got him that gig was, guess who?
Me: Oh! Walpole!
EC: The man who sold him those tulip bulbs.
Me.: oh… 😢
I find it HILARIOUS that Trayzn the Infinite is kept in the closet of curios at 7:04. Such delicious iron.
Hilarious that you have Trazyn the Infinite, Necron Overlord, within a cabinet of curiosities. For those who don’t know, Trazyn the Infinite, is an ancient alien who travels across the galaxy collecting the rarities and has known to place intelligent beings in a timeless stasis chamber which expand his “collection”.
damn you, I came here to say the same thing
7:05 Seems someone collected Trazyn. Bit of a step down from his museum lol
So... I a sense, you could say that the murderer was always the gardener?
Absolutely given that there are so many plants found in gardens that are poisonous if eaten - aconite, belladonna, foxglove and hemlock just to name a few
NFT = non-fungible tulip 🌷
Clusius must’ve been a lovely person.
This is the first time I've seen that written about a historical figure in a non-sarcastic way
The necron on the shelf has me dying 😂😂😂😂
Really cool to see the Menkemaborg feature as the “outside Amsterdam” mansion! As someone from the province of Groningen it’s always fun to see something from our little province represented in international media!
Pineapples as well as tulips were also a status symbol in Europe in these times.
I've heard stories of people putting them on display in their homes, putting them up on the mantel piece until they rotted
That cheeky cheeky Trazyn, how ironic for him to be on the cabinet for once.
Holy crap- Carolus Clusius was the original developer and documentation curator for tulips. 🌷🥺🌷
Fun little thing with the tulips on Ottoman art, is that stylized tulips are incredibly easy to draw.
Tulips are definitely the least ostentatious way to spend your wealth
Also, I appreciate how you switched to “United Provinces” instead of “Dutch Republic”
Subtitles should be Adriaan Pauw. And he was only "raadspensionaris" (basically prime minister) from 1631-36, not yet in 1625
Yeah. Wasn't he the major of Amsterdam? Also an important position
7:01 the collector becoming the collected for once
Thanks to you, I googled "baroque painting holding seashells." There weren't too many of people holding seashells, but definitely plenty of baroque paintings of seashells.
little do we all know Trayzn has the biggest tulip garden
7:02 I see you there, Trazyn
Trazyn the infinite is a great meta joke about cabinets of curiosity and private museums.
This seems eerily well timed with the Crypto crash.
History repeats itself way too often.
@@francisman60 A similar thing happened to comics in the early 90’s with the speculator boom.
The stock market is also crashing
Love the Trazyn the Infinite right there 7:00
Clusius not just sewing the seeds of tulip mania, but also of the Open Academics principles
Hmm... from the mountains of Tibet, sounds like some monk magic...
The Tian Shen mountains are in Uyghuristan, not in Tibet, I think.
I cannot help but some parallels between the tulip mania of the past and today’s mania of growing your own mushrooms and the urban gardening movement. Dunno if anyone agrees with me on this.
Is that a mania?
@@dvklaveren well, not in the sense that it’s causing financial ripples,but more along the sense of more and more people are buying grow-your-own mushroom kits and reselling the mushrooms they grow for a profit. In New York alone,there are people growing mushrooms in confined space and selling them to upscale restaurants. There is even videos on UA-cam about it.
@@AnimeOntheRoof23 That's... Just a hobby who's community is growing. I promise there's no shortage of mushroom spores, lol.
@@dvklaveren well, no it’s not a mania ,I agree with you there. But it is always heartening and wholesome that people in urban environments want to grow and cultivate plants.
There’s the whole thing with Crypto and nft mania as well.
Like a necron overlord couldn’t help but notice that
I cant believe they made Dutch Van Der Linde in real life
I love extra history soooo much!!! I have been watching you guys for four years, and your video is getting ever better!!! Thank you!
I was waiting for this connection all through Part 1 XD The Turkish love of tulips is so prolific in their art and landscape!
It's funny that the nft market crashed before you even finished making this series
I love the idea of a man planting in a ruff
As a gardener at a manor, hearing about the Bostanji puts a smile on my face :)
Received my hello fresh of this week this morning, great meals ! And of course, great vid !
yes the Trazin mini in a cabinet of curioseties is a perfekt fit
This was basically the true Flower Power.
Trayzn is my favorite, and that did not escape my notice :)
5:15 I think "western" shape would be better as Turkey and Asian countries still grow a lot of tulips like the original ones
loving this series
Cute Trazyn reference at 7:05
All right. Who is the warhammer nerd in the office. i keep on seeing this little background art. so yes traysin was noted in the collection.
awesome video and channel...cant wait for part 3
I understand how people love tulips in the past but for me the real beauty are orchids 😁
Greetings and thanks from the netherlands 🙂👍
Trazyn in a collection himself. The irony.
7:05 :o Trazyn the Infinite! the best collector of curiosities on the galaxy
Well played
Tulip Mania still makes more sense than bored ape NFTs.
Classic AP with the mirrors!
Helllooooo I’ve been watching since your genghis Kahn series never stop making vids
some notes: 1-Lale is the Persian word meaning the soft one and also use for auricle so in middle east & not just Ottoman empire used the similarity with Allah not that is from the word Allah 2-fun fact is the original word is Kamgar or Kamakar the name of a Sassanid prince who his decadents became rulers of Transoxiana before Seljuk arrival but why his name? no one knows really
Okay, so sad flopped over Zoey in the first 50 seconds or so hurt my heart. :'(
Trazyn the Infinite in the rich peoples cabinet... nice work EH... nice work
Although I do not live in the Netherlands, I do love tulips. I love my city’s Tulip Time if you know what that is. These are so interesting
Matt: "what *blooms* next"
Hah! Flower pun!
I can't get over how one of those broken tulips designs looks like raw bacon 😂
You're making really nice vids man. Keep it up ;)
Holland, MI, USA just had its annual Tulip Festival. I highly encourage that trip if you can't get overseas. ⚘️⚘️
That would be an overseas trip for many of us though..?
I flipin love tulips. If i hade a big mansion and wanted to show off I would be planting a tulip field too!
Surprise Trazyn made me do a double-take
Interesting, this must be why Calvinists base their view core theological belief on an abbreviation known as TULIP
T - Total Depravity - We're all sinners who can't known God in our own capacity
U - Unconditional Election - God chooses us despite ourselves
L - Limited Atonement - God chooses particular people
I - Irresistible Grace - When your chosen, you cannot resist salvation
P - Preservation of the Saints - When your saved, you can never lose your salvation
(Source: I went to a Calvinist seminary)