Thirty Years' War - Conquest - European History - Part 1 - Extra History
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The Thirty Years War is one of the bloodiest conflicts in all of human history. Depending on which historian you're consulting, the death toll ranges from 4.5 to 8 million. The next conflict that would claim more lives would be WW1, several hundred years later. And civilians died at an astounding rate, nearly 7 to 1. While there is a lot of focus on the military aspect of this conflict, we want to try something different. We'll be examining the effects of the war as a humanitarian crisis. To those living at the time, such conflict must have felt like the end of the world. And so, we start with the first herald of apocalypse: Conquest.
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Fun fact: one of the men thrown out of the window in Prague would later be granted the title "baron von Hohenfall" by the emperor for his service, which literally means baron of the high fall.
"In credit to your survival, I hereby name you Viscount of Buttstab"
Sounds cool
Lord of Harrenhal vibes
@@Nolaris3 HAHA, that would be an excellent name for a character in a medieval comedy.
John Green: “Historians suck at naming things.”
Extra History: “The Second Defenestration of Prague”
To be fair, historians call this the 30 years’ war. That’s pretty bad
@@janMelantu laughs in 100years war
@@janMelantu at least unlike the 100 years war... the 30 years war was only a few days off lasting as long as it's name...
@@fatrobin72 that and there are two hundred years wars...
@@Nonsense010688 And let's not forget the seven years war a.k.a. WW1 alpha build.
Today is a great day for history fans: Oversimplified, History Matters, History Buffs, and now Extra History!
WW2 channel too ig
@@sharkronical Cold war, Civil war week by week too.
Much needed distractions.
@@TheJulior1983 What do you mean? Fistraction from the hellhole? Maybe???
Dont forget jack rackam :D
Other things going on around this time
1610s:
Japan: Tokugawa Ieyasu celebrates his reign as Shogun
China: the Manchu Invasion and collapse of the Ming Dynasty
Yucatan: Itza Maya engaging in a Guerilla war against the Spanish to keep the last few Mayan city-states independent
England: Puritans planing travel to North America and found Boston
Russia: Time of Troubles and the rise of the Romanovs to power
@@GeneralLuigiTBC I forgot about that one
In 1614, the samurai stabbed a conquistador in Mexico on his way to Rome, recorded by an Aztec nobleman.
Philippines: Chinese pirate Limahong and his associates attempt to capture Manila from the Spanish
It's always so startling and amazing when I learn about points in history as 'global years', rather than the narrative series of events.
Can we all agree that Bohemia is a great-sounding word?
almost as great as "chimighanga"
@@ecurewitz tf is that supposed to be
Flem is better
@@dargtagnan3696 Do you not know what a chimichanga is?
@@chickenwarriorr I pity anyone who hasn't experienced a chimichanga
Oversimplified: Napoleon
Extra history: 30 years war
Best day in years.
Yessir
Absolutely
Absolutely
Do you think oversimplified will ever do a video on the thirty years war?
Eventually One day😂 There is also the Vietnam video in the line.@@joellaz9836
Doctor: "Your majesty, your death is near, but you have no child to succeed you. What is to be done?"
Holy Roman Emperor Matthias: "SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!!!"
Warhammer's Empire is kinda based on the HRE, so this actually works well. :D
@@CrazyYurie Kinda? The Warhammer empire is the HRE with some fantasy elements thrown in.
In the HRE they were called Prince-Electors, while in the Empire of Man they were Elector Counts. That and the fantasy element is pretty much the only difference between them.
It's "Prince Electors" in the HRE!
@@xnikolasbs2230 Also, basically in permanent Thirty Years War crisis mode.
The Fantasy element is a pretty big difference, though: For instance, the Empire of Man is polytheistic, with a fairly large contingent of priests who can work actual miracles. Religious strife often comes between cults of different gods and their different interpretations of the same god, but it's generally at once more stable and more fractious. Their scholastic establishment includes a large number of wizards, who... do a lot of research, on top of being wizards, but are also weird mystery cults. They have enemies on all sides who cannot be bargained with. Travel is much harder, because the woods are full of monsters - at the same time, they're larger, because, well, enemies on all sides who cannot be bargained with, helps to band together. These factors make them more diverse as well.
4:19, Prince on the right has 3 hands lmao love the little things to watch for whilst learning new stuff
must be a Hapsburg
Every prince, in order to rule, needs a left hand, a right hand, and an underhand. ;)
Not gonna lie, one of my favorite things is not only that the word “defenestration” exists, but that there are two whole ass wars that where started by a Defenestration in Prague 😂
The Bohemians certainly know how to throw a party. 😂
@@Handygamer Take my angry upvote. Throw a party (out of the window). seriously. How do you come up with that?
Thee shall be spared of our tradition, for thee are supportive of this act of ours
What was the other one?
@@Terrkas0 I must admit, I am rather proud of myself for this stroke of genius.
I grew up loving idioms, (terrible) dad jokes and just playing with words and language in general.
Watching Overly Sarcastic Productions certainly inspired me to think about missed opportunities for narrating history in an even more fun and non-traditional way. If you're a regular on Extra History, you'll likely love their historical content as well.
lol, I just learned the word "defenstration" and when he got to the part about the person being thrown out a window I thought "hey, that'd be a chance to use that new word I just learned". Then he goes on to say "now, with this act of defenestration..." xD
Fancy name for yeeting someone out a window
Defenestration originates from the French word "défenestration", where "fenêtre" is French for "window".
Ok?
The word was literally created to describe the defenestrations of Prague
yeetus politicanus
Is that a... NEW ARTSTYLE? it looks so gooood
Overly simplified might use the same artist
@@rexmann1984 u mean Oversimplified?
I think Nick is doing the art for this series
@@underwrld_lynx13 yes
@@rexmann1984 he did a new vid btw
“Why do us Christians fight? The big stupid similarities are more important then the small stupid differences”
-Bart Simpson
I believe that god's last prophet Bart Simpson preached a message of tolerance and love!
Concerns over who got money from lands, mainly.
The Muslims have their schism between Sunni and Shia.
@War Criminal their religion is ingrained with politics. That why there is no such thing as separation of church and state in muslim majority countries except for Albania, Bosnia, turkey and Lebanon. And that's because of the heavily influence Christian areas or populations within those countries. Turkey is unique in the sense that secularism is built-in their constitution. But recently the politics have been attacking that institution.
That could be said for all humanity itself
Thirty Years War: mercenaries are bad, don’t get foreign powers involved in internal conflicts, don’t get married in Magdeburg.
Don't go to Magdeburg full stop!
Good timing. Recently started playing a horror game set in 1839 Prussia, amnesia the dark descent, and it’s hinted that the monsters in the game are disfigured dead soldiers from the thirty years war.
Oh really? That's so cool!! The second one (Machine for Pigs) kind of references WWI and WWII, but it's more like "what horrors the 20th century will bring".
Legendary game. Hope you enjoyed it. I really liked the different ways it can end and how there's more than one "good" ending depending on what you think is best. Classic horror masterpiece of a game IMO.
martin luther: "All I wanted to do was spark a debate not half of a millennium of bloodshed."
Century not millennium
@@Ace-ym9hz well the reason I put half a Millenium is that after the reformation there were still some schisms between Catholics and protestants that carried on until I believe the 1800s-1900s maybe even the modern-day I could be wrong and you could be right but thanks for your opinion.
"All I wanted to do was being antisemitic"
@@ibnbattuta7031 ok but why though
@@ibnbattuta7031
Martin Luther wasn't an anti semite though.
"Conquest, War, Famine, and Death!"
Pestilence: "Am I a joke to you?"
*applies bread mold*
*replaces with pollution*
After this past year, to short shrift Pestilence.
Pestilence as one of the horsemen is a modern invention, the other 4 all originate in the Bible from the Revelation of John
Pestilence is not one of the four horsemen, he is described as being one of god's punishments but in the book of revelation only these four are mentioned (granted only death is called by name while the others are open to interpretation)
For example:
Conquest is sometimes seen as pestilence
Famine is sometimes seen as justice or law and order due to the fact that he carries scales with him
@@ICountFrom0 Pestilence retired in 1936, “muttering about penicillin”
English, a language where you have a word for throwing someone out of a window but not for the day after tomorrow.
May be because acient english men loven trowing people out of the windows but have no expectancy to live after tomorrow...
(Its a joke, please do not defenestrate me )
We do. It’s overmorrow
It's not even an English word, it's I think from French, but it's used in Czechia the most
English, an amalgamation. A flexible amalgamation but still, an amalgamation.
"Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues"
- Thomas Hobbes
Nice to learn that Zoey is a real cat.
Also, does anyone else LOVE the way Extra History draws horses? :)
4:20 No wonder she chose the red prince, the blue prince has three hands. He's clearly a demon.
7:10 Also, POOPSMITH
Poopsmith sighting!
Glad someone else already pointed out the three-handed prince.
Clearly a heretic.
@@the6ofdiamonds ....ahem. high!
Good to know that blue king has 3 hands at 4:19, very informative and not talked about much!
Glad to know I wasn’t the only one who saw that!
8:02 Philip II’s son Philip III was king of Spain in 1620 as Philip II died in 1598
They aren't talking about that Phillip II sir.
@@timothystamm3200 Yes, yes they are, belive me, I'm Spanish
@@Isenie5 I got my f sounds switched (I saw Phillip and thought Fersinand) and they forgot an ordinal number. Whoops!
@@timothystamm3200 Common mistake, don't worry
Yeah they mixed that up, they also called Ferdinand II. Frederick twice
“No wild beasts are so hostile to men as Christian sects in general are to one another.”
- Ammianus, 4th century Roman historian
Well he was ahead of the curve
Yep, that tracks
@yossarian wanna have a talk with priests... defenestrated... from Cathedral spires by atheist Bolsheviks? Oh that's Eastern hemisphere all right.
I believe the key problem may be the violent heart of men.
Every religion has done this... Hindu, Islam, Buddhist, etc. They all have had conflicts in their own religion and have had wars over it
"A lifetime of war" intensifies
This was truly the eternal war.
HAS MAN GONE INSANE!!"
@@akhsinilhami2418 WHO WILL REMAIN
4:20 A prince magically grows a third arm
I'm so excited for the 30 years war episodes, possibly my favorite part of European history
What was the Orthodox Church’s perspective on the religious conflicts in Europe? Also, what about the anabaptists during this period?
Dude this is Extra History not History Matters
The orthodox patriarch of Alexandria Cyril Lucaris wanted to bring Calvinism into the Orthodox Church but he died before doing anything.
The Czar in Russia at the time had talks with Protestants. Since they were anti-Catholic.
Instituted some of their reforms. Saw other aspects of the Protestant cause as dangerous to Russian stability and became hostile to them.
They did not care and were busy arguing and burning people over weather the sign of the cross should be made with 2 fingers or 3, or they were under the Islamic yolk
The anabaptists went Amish and crossed the atlantic
0:53 “There’s a man, goin’ ‘round, taking names...”
to quote the Sabaton song that touches on this subject:
"Two ways to view the world,
so similar at times
two ways to rule the world
to justify their crimes
Jesus said there is only one way, he is the Truth the Way and the Life.
@@averdadeeumaso4003 amen
@@averdadeeumaso4003 the unified Christianity, Chalcedonian Christianity.
I’m so happy just for the fact, that I can hear a story involving my country on one of mine favorite UA-cam channels :) 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿
This is what you get when you don't summon the elector counts
Did someone say... Sum on the elector counts? OH GOD I HEAR KARL FRANZ OUTSIDE MY DOOR
HEADING OUT
Careful how you say his name dude amen 🙏
I mean the elder gods.
I'm so stoked that you decided to do some episodes on this period! I've been fascinated by the Thirty Years' War ever since I read the Ring of Fire series by Eric Flint. This whole conflict is so interesting!
Prince with three hands on 4:19 XD
XD
Habsburgs be like:
@@TheMementoOfElysia Sweet home Vienna
Ah yes, the Defenestration of Prague. Great story. Also, hail to the Poopsmith!
So great they had three of them.
The Poopsmith's job is obvious.
I never expected a homestarrunner reference in my history lesson
I love how you guys drew The Poopsmith in that one scene of Ferdinand’s governors falling into a pile of feces. Nice homage to Homestar Runner.
That was a great Easter egg. I used to love watching homestar runner. Especially strong bad.
I like the different sort of perspective you all are going for. I've been wanting you all to do this war for a while, but yeah this war would need 12 episodes to figure out wtf happened.
Can't wait for more and when the swedish come in. The start of their ascent to great power, there badass king Gustavus Adolphus, and Brietenfeld, a great battle and, in my opinion, the story behind the best Sabaton song ever by the same name.
It's Breitenfeld, but I agree, great song xD
Honestly, having 12 episodes on this would not be a bad thing. I'd love some longer series where they really go a bit more into detail. I mean, the consequences of the treaty of Westphalia on even just the concept of souvereignty would be worth a video of their own.
Oh boy I seriously can't wait for my country's greatest king to show up!
If only he had survived Lützen. He would have accomplished so many other things given the chance.
@@jakobtarrasericsson4295 He was a genocidal maniac and what swedes did in Poland was unforgivable.
@@herodotus945 lets forget what the poles did shall we 🙄
Thirty Years' War? Nice I hope we get more episodes than normal. Specially because this war need a good amount of episodes to understand what happen clearly..Looking foward to the series
Well, they said (in this video and more in the last "lies" episode, when talking about the upcoming series) that this is going to be mostly a relatively quick look at that war as a humanitarian disaster, glosing over the political and military complexities. However, they might revisit the Thirty Years War in other series in the future, maybe multiple ones.
I love the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, there so creepy. Famine is my personal favorite with his scales and the only one to talk. "One quart of wheat for 1 weeks pay, 3 quarts of barly for one weeks pay, but do not spill the olive oil and wine." Sorry if I quoted that wrong.
Alright Sabaton fans, you know the drill.
Two way to view the world, so similar at times.
Two ways to view the world, to justify the crimes.
I think this is a special occasion, so...
Jag ser mig om och ser mitt hem försvinna bort
Min tid där hemma känns nu alldeles för kort
@@Elnadrius ah . The proper way to sing this song . Man of culture
@@Elnadrius Blott ungdom, knappt en man då plikten kallade mig
Om jag får se mitt hem igen det vet jag ej
Which song is this
@@rafaradzik5541the english version is a lifetime of war
4:19 The Blue King with three hands. He hates to see you go, loves to watch you leave.
Definitely an overlooked part of history. Also Martin Luther is worth a future series.
I love how the blue prince on 4:19 grows a third hand. LOL. Keep up the good work guys ;)
Gotta love that PoopSmith at 7:20!! Haven’t seen him around in a while!!
As a non denominational protestant, I have been considering Catholicism as of late. But on the other hand, I do understand why people are hesitant to embrace the Catholic or Orthodox churches. But in the end, we're all brothers and sisters in Christ. God Bless you all.
I wish there was just one Church but in practice Catholicism had too many issues then and now so it’s understandable and good split happened. But I do hope we Christians can get all along.
Finally someone is talking about this war!
Bohemia: *Has a largely local conflict about religious tolerance*
Frederick II: I need EVERYONE!
Apparently this is a war I need to learn a lot about.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
YES! I’ve been trying to find information on the Thirty Years War, but I can never find any good channels. Thanks so much!
Kings and Generals are good
Kings and Generals described whole war in video series and over 3 hour video.
@@Volnas97 ^^
Love the perspective you chose for this series! History is far too often focused on wars and conquest and the human victims are mere side notes
Edit: well maybe later?
Yes! I’ve been hoping for the Thirty Years’ War for so long!
Looking forward to this series
4:14 creepy third hand for the blue prince
I can't wait to Gustavus Adolphus makes an entrance. Im so proud to be swede. I have an ancestor that fought in his army and in Charles XII and every king in between.
Sweden right now is not something to be proud of just saying
Gustavus Adolphus was a genocidal maniac who literally wanted every Catholic slaughtered.
@@herodotus945 stop spamming bruv
@@herodotus945 Not really, there are meeting transcripts preserved which show how Gustavus Adolphus and his advisors reasoned before making the decision to intervene in the war. They were more concerned about strengthening Sweden geopolitical position and preventing a rivaling power to establish ports in the Baltic sea than outright religious zeal.
I can't stop seeing the prince with three hands at 4:21
This looks so cool
I love this channel and I'm not saying this in a mean way but did anyone else notice the animation error at 4:19, if you don't see it it's that one of the kings has three hands two giving thumbs up and one on the arm rest.
0:02 *Bohemian Rhapsody intensifies*
Finally a video series on the 30 years war, This will be DOPE
Extra Credits: Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, 1621
Me: OoOhhhh, it’s defenestration time!
EC: Bring the ax
Me: :o
About time y’all did the 30 years war I’ve been waiting for this one for years.
Catholic governors: You better behave
Bohemian protestants: YEET
I don't mind if you do a series of how started. I mean not just 30 years wars also others you guys already done or going to do. I want more details!!
I don't really see how comparing the death toll of the 30 Years' War to World War I is all that impressive. They didn't have industrial weapons by they did have, well, 30 years. When a conflict lasts more than 7 times as long as another despite the era its casualties will keep piling up.
Here’s the reason why:
*[Insert Paragraph Of Why That’s Wrong]*
WW1 had 100 times the manpower used at any given point in the thirty years war. The casualty number is absolutely staggering in the thirty years war.
You ignore the fact that 100 years war was a thing, as well as other longer conflicts, and in Europe we didn't have so many dead until a century ago.
The Population was way smaller back than, the region of today's Germany had a population of 15 million, only 10 million of them survived.
ayo this new style looks amazing
Conquest and War were considered separate? Interesting 🤔
Yeah, there have been a few different interpretations of the names of the Horsemen. They've gone back and forth between Conquest and Pestilence.
Oversimplified and History Matters yesterday, Extra Credit History today? Let’s goooooo!
4:19 The Three Handed Prince of Dreihändig! (or an animation goof, one or the other)
I am finally reading the Peter Wilson book for my grad school history class thanks for making something to help me get through this book
Oh yes I would really like the Treaty of Westphalia series, maybe more general development of nations (nation state, nationalism, etc).
Ah yes. Nationalism, the deadliest of ideals.
I haven't watch this is Channel and you in months so it's good to be back
Atleast bohemia gets a mention
glad someone also shares my view :D
New artstyle is pretty good
I see you once again have summoned the Sabaton fans.
The beginning of the video: Sad and pretty deep message
The intro music: HEARD Y’ALL WERE TALKIN BOUT HISTORY!
From the SNES game «Actraiser»
Conquest? I see why it's not used as a horseman regularly. In most contexts it's so war adjacent that they're considered the same.
Hence why Darksiders switched him out, alongside Pestilence.
But not to worry, he's gonna get popular again in a year or two, in a certain new show.called --
Wooo, this is cool. Hope the Irish chapter of this terrible period will be covered including the Battle of Kinsale, the Flight of the Earl's and the Plantation of Ulster
I wish wars like these had better names than "X amount of years war"
Especially when they don't last X years. So what would you call this one?
The Holy Roman clusterfuckery sounds undignified.
I vote for “the Central European Catastrophe”
well, this wasnt just ONE war, but many in a short time span
The War of Cheesemaking?
Yesterday I got Oversimplified's Napoleonic Wars.
Today I get this.
Best two days of my life.
Imagine this, the 30 yrs wars casualty can be surpassed in just 4yrs.
I live in Münster, the city of the westphalian peace treaty, so this series is kinda personal for me. thanks a lot!
Philip II sent aid did he? That's a neat trick for someone who's been dead for 20 years.
Philip III sent aid to his cousin; mainly in the form of Spanish gold and Spanish professional troops from the Army of Flanders
I am always happy when there is new Extra History :D
Who isn’t?
@@armannbrar4532 True lol!
I hope you have a fantastic day :D
@@ghostie7028 thank you same to you
**sabaton music intensifies in the background**
7:09
Poopsmith: *Holds up sign that reads "WTF?!" then gets back to work*
0:30 anyone notice the dude being executed is mooning the guards behind him?
I’m so excited to hear about gustavus adolphus his impact on military strategy as a whole cannot be understated
Damn was hoping this was a fall of Constantinople series considering it’s may 29
4:20 lmao nice reference to the severed hands at the beginning of the episode
In the subsequent peace, we’re going to forget about Luxembourg and the Balkans.
Honestly you guys should do another 3 series on the other 3 topics you mentioned (when you have the time). Always ready to learn what caused certain events and whatnot.
Ah yes a video that helps me learn about the 30 years war, 1 week after I take my test for the 30 yers war
OOF
I’ve been waiting on this 🔥
I think you guys are forgetting about the Anabaptists and Hussites who were also a very important protestant groups that just as the Calvinists faced persecution. I think it's a little harsh to forget to mention them when they suffered greatly for their beliefs and did good works.
The Hussites rose up nearly 2 centuries before, and what little had remained of them after the Hussite Wars was stamped out and driven underground by Ferdinand (the largest Brethren population at the time was a town in Poland near the border with Bohemia)
@@CollinBuckman yeah, that's what I'm saying. This was a period in which hussites were forced to convert and were mass genocided.
I loved the Poopsmith cameo at 7:09.
If i had a Nickel for every time someone threw someone else out of a Window in Prague for religious reasons i'd have two Nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Three at least.
1:57 In the grimdarkness of the 16th century, there is only war, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
Welp...I'm now going to listen to "A Lifetime of War" in both English and Swedish
HAS MAN GONE INSANE
When I saw this in my notifications I got excited!
We all know how this started the great defenestration* of Prague.
*to throw some one out of a window
Yeah, both
Nice Poopsmith cameo at 7:10! Homestar Runner for the Win!