Why did Sweden Decline? (Short Animated Documentary)

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  • Опубліковано 23 лис 2024
  • In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power and spent most of its free time wrecking the faces of Austria, Russia, Denmark and Poland-Lithuania but nowadays its definitely no longer considered a great power. So why not? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
    A special thanks to my Patreon supporters below:
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 1,8 тис.

  • @Siptom369
    @Siptom369 5 місяців тому +5690

    Paradox stopped buffing them

    • @paireon3419
      @paireon3419 5 місяців тому +307

      Paradox will never stop buffing them until they outright rewrite reality in Sweden's favour.

    • @MausOfTheHouse
      @MausOfTheHouse 5 місяців тому +134

      In CK3 the Norse culture is so hilariously overpowered that it's impossible to compete

    • @haikalmiftah2529
      @haikalmiftah2529 5 місяців тому +5

      😂

    • @maxsmith8196
      @maxsmith8196 5 місяців тому +204

      I like how the Sweden economics explained in the video is basically normal expansive gameplay economics in EU4.
      >Hire a huge army
      >Go deep into debt
      >Win against a larger enemy with huge army
      >Pay off debt with war reparations
      >Buy bigger army and repeat
      Sweden only messed up the fool proof strat by losing. Shoulda gotten good

    • @Anthropomorph0
      @Anthropomorph0 5 місяців тому +33

      "Sweden is not overpowered." 🙄😂

  • @ElysiumCreator
    @ElysiumCreator 5 місяців тому +7194

    Simple, Sweden switched up its strategy for world domination. It stopped invading everywhere (Denmark) and made us all rely on them for usable furniture, quite clever really

    • @SulistaComunista
      @SulistaComunista 5 місяців тому +429

      and depend on it for map games

    • @SharkyMcSnarkface
      @SharkyMcSnarkface 5 місяців тому +395

      @@SulistaComunista
      And block games. Really, they just seem big on cultural victory.

    • @rawjawbone
      @rawjawbone 5 місяців тому +137

      ...those meatballs, man....

    • @mvl9591
      @mvl9591 5 місяців тому +62

      and the Swedish Fish candy.

    • @SL16867
      @SL16867 5 місяців тому +62

      *heavy breathing by Americans butchering the pronunciation of IKEA*

  • @alexross1816
    @alexross1816 5 місяців тому +1945

    Sweden: HAHA YES! WINNING ROCKS!!! SUCK IT, LOSERS!!!
    Sweden: *loses once*
    Sweden: Let us be a bastion of neutrality.

    • @KitagumaIgen
      @KitagumaIgen 5 місяців тому +65

      It was more like losses during a 100 years long period (of economic and demographic decline).

    • @jabbertwardy
      @jabbertwardy 5 місяців тому +141

      Sweden: Let's become a seafaring power!
      Builds the Vasa, which promptly sinks upon launch.
      Sweden: Navies are overrated.

    • @cleeiii357
      @cleeiii357 5 місяців тому +11

      Up until this year, 2024.

    • @timmccarthy9917
      @timmccarthy9917 5 місяців тому +28

      Sweden 2022: "y'all got any more of them NATO memberships?"

    • @KitagumaIgen
      @KitagumaIgen 5 місяців тому +6

      @@jabbertwardy one of the most amazing details of this is that the Dutch (IIRC) ship-builders made it out of Sweden alive.
      (Just one more gun-deck! Above? Below? I don't care one more!!!)

  • @gegecry
    @gegecry 5 місяців тому +3144

    So essentiely until 1700 sweden was prussia before prussia was prussia.

    • @cia5649
      @cia5649 5 місяців тому +177

      yeah basically

    • @Tridentofmemes
      @Tridentofmemes 5 місяців тому +35

      Before 1721

    • @luisfilipe2023
      @luisfilipe2023 5 місяців тому +222

      Except Prussia had a much more reliable financial system and a much stronger economy

    • @hevnervals
      @hevnervals 5 місяців тому +26

      @@luisfilipe2023 When? Prussia has gone through several iterations.

    • @fildafernandes4366
      @fildafernandes4366 5 місяців тому +172

      ​@@luisfilipe2023Sweden was prussia but just with a absolutely horrendous population

  • @olegoose574
    @olegoose574 5 місяців тому +3007

    1:40
    "I use army to fund army"
    - Sweden, probably

    • @hentehoo27
      @hentehoo27 5 місяців тому +86

      There was a saying in Sweden:
      "We'll fight to the last Finn!"
      When Sweden lost the Finnish War in 1808-09, it declined for good.

    • @lokensicarius9347
      @lokensicarius9347 5 місяців тому +25

      How to fund a Viking army 101

    • @albion6087
      @albion6087 5 місяців тому +20

      the viking mentallity

    • @frenzalrhomb6919
      @frenzalrhomb6919 5 місяців тому +3

      ​@@albion6087
      I love it!!

    • @Iason29
      @Iason29 5 місяців тому +16

      If one thinks about it that is how the viking system worked pretty much, so no surprise even in later centuries nordic countries continued to follow this mentality. Maybe Sweden's biggest mistake was not coming up with some ideas of how to minimize army expenditure during peacetime. The british were much better at this, like for example in the royal navy officers would get demoted or lose command in peacetime, which meant lower pay. I'm sure the same applied in the army.

  • @richardwallerstein539
    @richardwallerstein539 5 місяців тому +1531

    At its strongest, Sweden had a colony in the Americas, New Sweden, on the Delaware River as well as ownership of St Barts.

    • @titanuranus3095
      @titanuranus3095 5 місяців тому +77

      I would say at it's largest, not necicarrily at it's strongest.

    • @reindeerflrp9041
      @reindeerflrp9041 5 місяців тому +57

      No. Saint Barthélemy didn’t belong to Sweden until the 1700s, while New Sweden was a Swedish colony during the 1600s.
      🤓☝️

    • @JosePerez-vz1qq
      @JosePerez-vz1qq 5 місяців тому +32

      Philadelphia's municipal flag is evidence of Sweden's brief North American presence.

    • @egregius9314
      @egregius9314 5 місяців тому +28

      And then the Dutch were like: 'Hey, it's free real-estate'.

    • @otavainen222
      @otavainen222 5 місяців тому +19

      Fun fact: the colonist were actually mostly Finnish

  • @markmarano913
    @markmarano913 5 місяців тому +582

    1:08 - Single greatest visual representation of "mixed arms" ever!

    • @lukesalazar9283
      @lukesalazar9283 5 місяців тому +7

      💯

    • @vicino.
      @vicino. 5 місяців тому +2

      How do you mean?

    • @Emmelive
      @Emmelive 5 місяців тому +9

      @@vicino. 3 pairs of different looking minecraft like arms

  • @apc9714
    @apc9714 5 місяців тому +1795

    Problem: Expensive army
    Solution: James bisonette

    • @eacalvert
      @eacalvert 5 місяців тому +196

      I think Kelly Money Maker would be a better choice but that's just me

    • @Matakshaman
      @Matakshaman 5 місяців тому +29

      Hotel: Trivago

    • @BigyetiTechnologies
      @BigyetiTechnologies 5 місяців тому +19

      ​@@eacalvertclue's in the name really.

    • @MetDaan2912
      @MetDaan2912 5 місяців тому +3

      😂

    • @D.S.handle
      @D.S.handle 5 місяців тому +13

      Imagine that some of these guys just forgot that they have subscribed to him on Patreon.

  • @iOnlySignIn
    @iOnlySignIn 5 місяців тому +1257

    Arguably Sweden, instead of Revolutionary France, is the first modern state, with a modern army & taxation system. Later its competitors (especially Russia) learned from Sweden and caught up.

    • @magnushultgrenhtc
      @magnushultgrenhtc 5 місяців тому +190

      The section of the Swedish constitution that guarantees freedom of speech is a decade older than the US: 1766.

    • @ledrash6079
      @ledrash6079 5 місяців тому +64

      @@magnushultgrenhtc As a Swede, i think Sweden prohibits hate speech, which means its not fully freedom of Speech.

    • @blueseercontent
      @blueseercontent 5 місяців тому +184

      @@ledrash6079 I mean, so does the American policy on free speech as well. Tolerance of intolerance usually just leads to more intolerance.

    • @rajm.q.1776
      @rajm.q.1776 5 місяців тому +72

      ​@@blueseercontentAmerican Free Speech actually guarantees complete Speech protection, even for hate Speech and blasphemy

    • @anttibjorklund1869
      @anttibjorklund1869 5 місяців тому

      Freedoms have limits.​@@ledrash6079

  • @nixlarfs1002
    @nixlarfs1002 5 місяців тому +345

    State control of the church was mostly important because the church kept detailed records of people, and these records increased taxation efficiency immensely.

    • @-tn-kitten8067
      @-tn-kitten8067 5 місяців тому +13

      And helped in finding and keeping track of potential recruits or conscripts for the army.

    • @youtaku6966
      @youtaku6966 5 місяців тому +2

      Cool, I thought this was just some Paradox shit.

    • @masterspark9880
      @masterspark9880 5 місяців тому +13

      That’s not why Sweden converted to Protestantism at all, or why state control of the church was important. The state could probably access tax lists whether they were Catholic or Protestant. Some of the reasons the king converted the country were that partially he was in conflict with the Archbishop of Stockholm Gustaf Trolle, and that he wanted to confiscate (i.e. steal) church assets

    • @thanakonpraepanich4284
      @thanakonpraepanich4284 5 місяців тому +1

      And without that census, the allotment systems that Swedish kings could made every hovel supply one man and each hovel paid for his gun and uniform possible.
      I wonder what step Prinz Eugen missed when he tried the same with Landwehr system and ended up with recruits missing guns and shoes.

    • @pan2aja
      @pan2aja 5 місяців тому

      Old day version of Big Brother

  • @HerbertLandei
    @HerbertLandei 5 місяців тому +198

    In Germany, the regions at the Baltic coast are still jokingly referred to as "South Sweden". They were Swedisch territory for over 200 years, and there are still some words and traditions alive from this period. As Sweden was a major steel producer, the expression "behind Swedish curtains" means "behind bars" in German. And "Old Swede!" is an expression of utter astonishment.

    • @spacecube8561
      @spacecube8561 5 місяців тому +16

      oh that's where ''alter schwede'' comes from

    • @Dwarfi01
      @Dwarfi01 5 місяців тому +13

      Also in Hamburg there's a stone named alter schwede, a stone from Småland :>

    • @MrNathanael94
      @MrNathanael94 5 місяців тому +13

      I had picked up a slightly different story to that Baltic connection, namely that the "old Swede!" exclamation (which is still very commonly used here in Germany, although mostly in a kind of joking/ironic ways nowadays since it's such a weird thing to say) came from the old Swedish soldiers that stayed around for one reason or another in Germany after the Thirty Years' War (in which the Swedish army became known and feared all around the country)

    • @anthemsofeurope2408
      @anthemsofeurope2408 5 місяців тому +14

      Yeah, I come from Rügen and people here jokingly ask "When is Rügen going back to Sweden?"

    • @phildman132
      @phildman132 5 місяців тому +8

      Sweden didn't just used to be a major steel producer, it is still the largest iron producer in the EU, and the mine in Kiruna is one of the largest single mines in the world

  • @ShyGuyShow
    @ShyGuyShow 5 місяців тому +208

    In Swedish history class this is called "Stormaktstiden" or The age of great power

    • @MetalLP
      @MetalLP 5 місяців тому +7

      Yeah, they declined from being a somewhat major power by trying to become a major power in the first place. Kinda harsh version of "just be yourself" statement..

    • @ShyGuyShow
      @ShyGuyShow 5 місяців тому

      @@MetalLP brings a tear to my eye :(

    • @antonjohansson3819
      @antonjohansson3819 5 місяців тому +1

      Typo StormaktsTiden

    • @ShyGuyShow
      @ShyGuyShow 5 місяців тому

      @@antonjohansson3819 Thanks, missed that!

    • @nattygsbord
      @nattygsbord 5 місяців тому

      @@MetalLP Just conquering Moscow, unlike Hitler. And then conquering all of modern day Germany. Plundering Prague in 1648. Beating the crap out of the Danish empire and taking a large number of provinces: Scania, Jämtland, Halland, Blekinge, Gotland, Bohuslän, Trondheim, Bornholm. And then taking all of the Baltics, and basically conquer all of the gigantic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth twice in the 1650s and in 1706s. Plus crushing the Saxon army which was the richest country in Europe and the Silicon Valley of its day.
      Sweden built Europes largest fleet of warships in the late 1500s and early 1600s. It saved protestantism in the 30 years war, and created freedom of religion, and created a new world order with the Westphalian peace. And in 1640 it had the largest army in Europe. And a saying in that time period was that if you wanted to learn how to fight, then you needed to join service with the Swedish army. Because that was considered the best most modern fighting force of its time.
      For 300 years was Sweden a major power in northern Europe.
      And then I am not including medieval times or the viking age.

  • @clockie1990
    @clockie1990 5 місяців тому +175

    I like how sweden just tagged in to whatever nordic country it felt like. At one point Denmark and Sweden were one country, then it was Sweden and Finland, and lastly Sweden and Norway

    • @AdvocateOfJamaica
      @AdvocateOfJamaica 5 місяців тому +12

      Too bad they didn't stick with Norway--they would've been able to get some of that oil money.

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 5 місяців тому +32

      @@AdvocateOfJamaica Norway didn't want to stick with them

    • @paintingdreams290
      @paintingdreams290 5 місяців тому +10

      @@AdvocateOfJamaica actually they wanted to but the Norwegians did what was smart: they broke up w them.

    • @Boomforce
      @Boomforce 5 місяців тому +21

      Well.. Finland belonged to Sweden for 600 years and that's why it was a major blow to Sweden when we lost them to Russia. The Swedish general in charge of Sveaborg fortress outside of Helsinki was executed as soon as he sat foot in Stockholm.

    • @jmolofsson
      @jmolofsson 5 місяців тому +5

      ​@@AdvocateOfJamaicathe countries had one and the same king but separate governments and partial "democracy" (for tax-payers).
      The intention was to deepen the union. But that failed, chiefly because Sweden was dominated by conservative politicians and Norway more liberal.
      The conservative establishment of Sweden wanted to control and dominate also the Norwegians.
      But when Norway had gained independence, the conservatives soon lost their dominance in Sweden too and common suffrage was introduced.

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o 5 місяців тому +808

    Here in Estonia, they still call the Swedish rule period "The Golden Swedish Age".

    • @Erik_Taurus
      @Erik_Taurus 5 місяців тому +14

      Interesting! Are there any articles about this some place so I (we) can read?

    • @phil_cassidy
      @phil_cassidy 5 місяців тому +279

      Well, given that it was followed by Russian occupation the bar for a good time wasn't particularly high.

    • @heh9392
      @heh9392 5 місяців тому

      Here in Finland we call them the homoage

    • @Adam-dd5fx
      @Adam-dd5fx 5 місяців тому +70

      I've also heard it called "The good old Swedish times"

    • @frenzalrhomb6919
      @frenzalrhomb6919 5 місяців тому +10

      ​@Erik_Taurus
      And how did you Estonians enjoy being ruled by the "Livonian Brothers of the Sword" and their descendants, the Baltic German's?

  • @Quin_Ram
    @Quin_Ram 5 місяців тому +861

    They didn’t decline. The many locations of IKEA all over the world just shows how influential Sweden is!

    • @colindaniels945
      @colindaniels945 5 місяців тому +9

      Lol,I hate IKEA
      Ever tried putting together something from them?
      Not fun at all,lol

    • @o.w.n.1327
      @o.w.n.1327 5 місяців тому +63

      ​@@colindaniels945 you must be "special" kind of person if you cannot put together a furniture you bought from IKEA. That shit practically builts itself.

    • @Kokong
      @Kokong 5 місяців тому +6

      @@o.w.n.1327But I always get lost in there😢

    • @greymagic857
      @greymagic857 5 місяців тому +5

      @@colindaniels945 IKEA furniture has a bit of parts but tbh it just takes time it's not that bad

    • @skylarius3757
      @skylarius3757 5 місяців тому +4

      @@Kokong I know what you mean. It's like they built the shop in a maze.

  • @mrwillss5888
    @mrwillss5888 5 місяців тому +276

    James Bisonette didn’t fund us enough 🇸🇪

    • @jc3drums916
      @jc3drums916 5 місяців тому +43

      Your mistake was not going to Kelly Moneymaker instead. I mean, it's right there in her name.

    • @mrwillss5888
      @mrwillss5888 5 місяців тому +32

      @@jc3drums916 she was funding the Danes during the great Northern war.

    • @tausifchowdhury8180
      @tausifchowdhury8180 5 місяців тому +5

      ​@@mrwillss5888I knew there was something wrong with her when she started speaking weirdly rather than speaking the beautiful and efficient Swedish language

    • @CouchTomato87
      @CouchTomato87 5 місяців тому +1

      I immediately started looking for a comment about why James Bisonette was now gone

  • @erickonami1
    @erickonami1 5 місяців тому +1282

    I tell my girlfriend i have her as my wallpaper but in reality i switch it to Gustavus Adolphus when nobody is looking

    • @mappingshaman5280
      @mappingshaman5280 5 місяців тому +1

      >implying his gf is not guatavus adolophus
      We both know you like the skeltonussy

    • @Iason29
      @Iason29 5 місяців тому +19

      HAHA this comment:D

    • @Alexq79-
      @Alexq79- 5 місяців тому +51

      That painting of him riding a horse in such a flamboyant manner during battle as if he’s the sugar plum fairy 😍

    • @SeverityOne
      @SeverityOne 5 місяців тому +21

      Maybe you should get a Swedish girlfriend instead. 🙂

    • @bjarniiii
      @bjarniiii 5 місяців тому +4

      king

  • @gideonmele1556
    @gideonmele1556 5 місяців тому +300

    When Poland-Lithuania and Russia put aside their differences to see your empire put in the ground peanently, that’s when you know you effed up

    • @GM-gb1eu
      @GM-gb1eu 5 місяців тому +22

      Commonwealth was the country that existed only theoretically at this point. August II would do anything what Russia asked him, because without them, he wouldn't stay as a king in the first place.

    • @ReichLife
      @ReichLife 5 місяців тому +43

      @@GM-gb1eu Except not really. You're mixing last two kings with August II, all while Commonwealth still could recover from 17th century debacles. Problem though, August II basically brought Commonwealth into his personal war with Sweden, where he naively thought Russians and Danes would take the brunt while he would take modern Latvia for himself and gain political power via that. Instead he failed in spectacular way and brought upon Commonwealth decade long war which was in retrospect the decisive nail to it's coffin, as country was yet again ruined and plundered, political spectrum devolved, all while Commonwealth became de facto puppet of Russia.

    • @GM-gb1eu
      @GM-gb1eu 5 місяців тому +11

      @@ReichLife Nah, as a Pole, Poland was doomed when John III Sobieski died, and even before, the Polish state was really degenerated by its own political system. Only radical changes to the system could change things, but it happened 100 years too late.

    • @ReichLife
      @ReichLife 5 місяців тому +22

      @@GM-gb1eu Except not really. Commonwealth was hardly doomed when August II got the crown. It was exactly his idiotic decision to bring upon country yet another war which doomed it. As mentioned, Great Northern War was basically Deluge 2.0. On another hand, civil war during it neutered any chance of meaningful reform for next 2-3 generations. Finally, it was only due to Great Northern War that Commonwealth lost it's sovereignty, instead falling into Russian sphere.

    • @quakeknight9680
      @quakeknight9680 5 місяців тому +1

      Closest thing to Russia and Poland ever being allies

  • @LNERA0
    @LNERA0 5 місяців тому +389

    It's because James Bisonette wasn't funding the treasury

  • @coltafanan
    @coltafanan 5 місяців тому +67

    I keep thinking one day we’re gonna hear: “But fun fact… Yes!”

    • @seavixen125
      @seavixen125 5 місяців тому +16

      But fun fact......no

  • @kristenburnout1
    @kristenburnout1 5 місяців тому +109

    1:07 The Swedish updated their military by emphasizing mixed arms-
    *Illustration: Literal mixed arms*
    I am afraid the humour used in these videos have done irreversable damage to me, but I will still watch and like every single one of them.

  • @nolancooper5884
    @nolancooper5884 5 місяців тому +6

    Your videos are always so briefly comprehensive! I will start showing your videos in class soon to give students a greater understanding of why the world is shaped the way it is. Thank you!

  • @chipslejonet8840
    @chipslejonet8840 5 місяців тому +25

    Interesting video and also it is always fun to see somebody talk about swedish history. Hälsningar från sverige

  • @patrickt601
    @patrickt601 5 місяців тому +40

    My week was so bad, glad you uploaded a new video

    • @vincentiusx
      @vincentiusx 5 місяців тому +7

      Aw I hope next week will be better

    • @martinmortyry7444
      @martinmortyry7444 5 місяців тому +4

      Hope for the best next week. Stay strong, buddy!

    • @Iason29
      @Iason29 5 місяців тому +4

      Your week wasn't as bad as Charles running from Poltava, you have to look at the bright side

    • @thatoneperson134
      @thatoneperson134 5 місяців тому

      ⚡️⚡️⚡️😡😡😡

    • @youtubeaccount5153
      @youtubeaccount5153 4 місяці тому +1

      Hope things are going better this month.

  • @Lord_Raymund
    @Lord_Raymund 5 місяців тому +14

    Swede here we didn't choose the new french king at random. The old king had no children and his nephew had been deposed to put him on the throne ultimately ending his house and forcing him to adopt a heir, which is very rare. First he and the parliament chose a distant relativ of the dynasty "Karl August". However Karl August ended up dying before the old king. The parliament was at a loss at this point until someone mentioned the fine treatment of the Swedish soldiers in the conquest of Swedish Pommerania by the French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte. He also had a son Oscar which was a great boon for starting a new royal house. He was adopted and took the Swedish name of "Karl Johan" and shortly after conquered Norway to prove his leadership. After the old king died he was crowned Karl XIV Johan 1818 and since then Sweden has been a neutral country all the way until we recently joined NATO putting an end to over 200 years of official neutrality.
    A interesting fact speculated by historians is that Jean-Baptiste could have just as likely been a conqueror of Sweden, after he took Pommerania he could have taken his troops over to Sweden and ended the reign of the nephew king, but he didn't because the parliament had already deposed him because of the pressure of invasion by Finland by the French "ally" the Russians. Hence if history had gone in a different way Jean might not have been seen in such a favourable light if he had done so and not been chosen to be king.

  • @Trolligi
    @Trolligi 5 місяців тому +485

    because James bisonette

    • @alastairward2774
      @alastairward2774 5 місяців тому +54

      He stopped funding them and switched to this channel.

    • @jamesbissonette8002
      @jamesbissonette8002 5 місяців тому +20

      Nah

    • @NBrixH
      @NBrixH 5 місяців тому +20

      @@alastairward2774This comment was fact checked by real Danish patriots. ✅✅✅

    • @paulcowlishaw
      @paulcowlishaw 5 місяців тому +2

      Who

    • @W4NKHA
      @W4NKHA 5 місяців тому +32

      Kelly was not yet making money at this time

  • @rennor3498
    @rennor3498 5 місяців тому +31

    I guess the greatest patron of the Swedish Army from France must have been James Bisonette.

  • @adamesd3699
    @adamesd3699 5 місяців тому +72

    This whole “let’s fight Russia…Hey, it’s going well, let’s go further…Oh shit!” is a recurring theme in history.

    • @leeharveyoslik
      @leeharveyoslik 5 місяців тому +7

      The time has come for another iteration.

    • @writerconsidered
      @writerconsidered 5 місяців тому +2

      And there's always a bad winter.

    • @Merecir
      @Merecir Місяць тому +1

      The later attempts at least had the Swedish example to learn from.
      For Sweden, it was not so easy to predict, as Sweden had already taken Moscow in an earlier war.
      The current score for Swedish-Russian wars are 8-3 to Sweden.

    • @pi2repsilon644
      @pi2repsilon644 Місяць тому

      Not really? I mean, it has happened several times, but it is not the general case.
      Muscowy/Russia has been defeated after invasion by Sweden, Poland-Lithuania, Persia, China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan that I can think of off the top of my head.
      The idea that invading Russia and pushing deeper leads to almost inevitable defeat doesn't stand scrutiny given the many counterexamples. Add to that the many wars Muscowy and Russia fought on foreign territory and lost, and the idea of Russian invincibility based on endless reserves and General Winter is relegated to the status of myth, where it belongs.

  • @MrJeremybowling
    @MrJeremybowling 5 місяців тому +16

    Wow! What a time to be alive. We got a video on a Sunday heck yes

  • @prysthaea7735
    @prysthaea7735 5 місяців тому +2

    People like James Bissonette and Spinning Three Plates keep these patreon credit sequence alive. Because of their patronage sure, but also because their names are so fun to hear to I find myself listening to the end even knowing the main video is already over.

  • @cgt3704
    @cgt3704 5 місяців тому +58

    3:21 for now

  • @ThePikminCaptain
    @ThePikminCaptain 5 місяців тому +25

    2:18 I expected Joakim to show up here because he made a cameo in the 30 years war video

    • @timfortune9
      @timfortune9 5 місяців тому +4

      "Listen excuse for a King! Trust me, this fight you can't win!"

    • @spacecube8561
      @spacecube8561 5 місяців тому +1

      i'm sorry he what?

  • @iwuedfh
    @iwuedfh 5 місяців тому +21

    i did not see the mixed arms visual coming

  • @Gosudar
    @Gosudar 5 місяців тому +34

    Sweden plundering Prague and looting the Castle in 1648 is still well remembered in Czechia. I was always wondering how such a small nation was able to inflict so much damage so far away from their homeland.

    • @Xabeutt
      @Xabeutt 5 місяців тому +14

      you could ask portugal and england the same question

    • @blubbson
      @blubbson 5 місяців тому +4

      Well, one reason was that the vast majority of the soldiers in the army that plundered Prague weren't actually Swedish - the army relied very heavily on mercenaries at that point, most of whom were from the various German states of the time (as well as many English, Scottish and Dutch people). So they didn't have to ship over that many people from Sweden.
      Even then, though, I think you overestimate the distances involved here. Even with 17th century technology, you're looking at a 1-2 months travel time from Stockholm to Prague at most. People moved over that kind of distance all the time, even back then. And the armies were mostly supplied locally, either through plunder or by purchasing from local merchants.

    • @konanpl8936
      @konanpl8936 5 місяців тому +3

      Same in Poland. Swedish Deluge was more dewastating than WWII. This is somehow impressive how much damage were able made swedish soldiers despite the fact they even didnt try control all ours lands by longer time.

    • @gustavnilsson2795
      @gustavnilsson2795 5 місяців тому

      ​@@konanpl8936As a Swede, I understand that what we did was devastating but if you claim it was worse than WWII then you're delusional. Kind regards from Sweden 🇸🇪

    • @konanpl8936
      @konanpl8936 5 місяців тому +2

      @@gustavnilsson2795 No hate for Sweden. We like our nothern neightbours, but this is true. At the time of Gustavus Adolphus Sweden had more soldiers than can maintain. So Swedish kings HAS to plunder their neighbours, or their economy would collapse. We call this war ,,Deluge (1655-1660) becuse it was very dewastating. King Adolf Gustaw wasn't interesting in rulling Commonwealth (polish and lithuanian nobility offered him crown during invasion but he rejected it) so his army just plundered everything instead try to seize control over new territories. Commonwealth never really recover from this until partitions. In terms of economy it was at least comparable with WWII. Most our historics counting this as more dewastating.
      But no one keep grudge for this today, because Deluge is now just long gone history.

  • @largezo7567
    @largezo7567 5 місяців тому +75

    They diminished as they lost us, the Finns!

    • @magnushultgrenhtc
      @magnushultgrenhtc 5 місяців тому +16

      Back in a common military alliance with all of the Nordic countries for the first time in 501 years...!

    • @dwarow2508
      @dwarow2508 5 місяців тому +7

      *lost to the Russians

    • @citinox1778
      @citinox1778 5 місяців тому +16

      Finland was the true key to Sweden's power.

    • @ae-jo5gc
      @ae-jo5gc 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@@citinox1778France money I would say.

    • @quandangle9397
      @quandangle9397 5 місяців тому +1

      @@citinox1778 No, no it really wasn't. It was poor, and considered a backwater place basically.

  • @kemarisite
    @kemarisite 5 місяців тому +20

    Me at start: "I've listened to enough Sabaton to guess ..."
    "Poltava"
    Me: "Yep. Swedish soldiers met their bane."

  • @cgnnfxfhh48
    @cgnnfxfhh48 5 місяців тому +14

    three things swedens minning industry was also really important to it becoming a great power especially falun cooper mine and the looting foreign countrys was vital early on but with charles xi military reforms which created a real standing army not made up of mercenarys meaning it wasnt as expensive anymore since it was relatively cheap to maintain in peacetime since the soldiers where paid in land reclaimed from the nobility who had gotten the land through the lengthy regencies earlier in the centuary
    and it must also be mentioned that the peasentry was represented in the riksdag meaning they would not rebel over high taxes or conscription because tecnically they where included in decision making this also created a lot of stabillity and meant
    theres a lot more ti this aswell like weak neigbours and a more meritocratic rule but that was just some things i wanted to mention otherwise great video

    • @mema0005
      @mema0005 5 місяців тому +2

      Hate to be a grammar nazi but you really need some full stops in there. Its hard to read such a long sentence

    • @glenglen6386
      @glenglen6386 5 місяців тому +1

      The mining industry never came to exceed over 10% of Swedish gdp. Copper and silver prices swayed due to large imports from the new world while high grade deposits of silver and copper were being exhausted. By the 1700's, the importance of the copper and silver had entirely been replaced by iron which from there on came to be Sweden's most valuable export product.
      Around 90% of the state's income was from taxes and primarily it was from taxing the peasantry. Around 1-2% of the state's revenue was from tariffs. Hence why Sweden took small provinces on the German coast. These were trade ports where shipping tariffs were collected. Most of the tariff revenue however was from Sweden's interior. Domestic tariffs meant you had to pay to sell your goods in a different town. Which in general stifled Sweden's trade and why the country remained a mainly agricultural economy. Other industries was in forestry, where again it was mainly raw goods in the form of timber and tar were the exported goods. (Sweden's economic history, Lars Magnusson).
      An example of Sweden's not so well handled economy was how Swedish iron were mainly exported to Britain. While England exported nails and iron made tools to Sweden. The emphasis on the army caused Sweden to neglect its own merchant class and it took far longer for Sweden to build up its class of skilled craftsmen.
      The first real growth spurt for the economy came by mid 1700's and it was still in agriculture. Centuries of land reclamation and deforestation opened up more farmland. An enclosure act that consolidated and standardized farms plots. Empty/abandoned farms were also free to be settled by any aspiring farmer without having to purchase the land. Followed by a law that forced all villagers to provide labor to neighboring farms making sure no harvest was lost to due lack of manpower meant Sweden for the first time had consecutive years of agricultural surplus that went into exports.

  • @nolananderson4782
    @nolananderson4782 5 місяців тому +22

    "Mixed arms" really got me

  • @TheRatOnFire_
    @TheRatOnFire_ 5 місяців тому +5

    Little note: On the map of the Great Northern War, Saxony is missing. They were actually the ones to get Poland involved, as they had the same king.

  • @David_Crayford
    @David_Crayford 5 місяців тому +4

    My idea of Swedish history was either the SAAB 900 or the Vikings. Thanks for bringing in some illumination.

  • @hurleybot
    @hurleybot 5 місяців тому +8

    Spinning Three Plates… what a History Matters GOAT

  • @Veritas.0
    @Veritas.0 5 місяців тому +1

    "Good old fashioned generalship" -- "Kill The Enemy"
    I enjoy your one liners, but this one was one of the best.

  • @health019
    @health019 4 місяці тому +4

    As a person from Sweden, I can confirm the reason why we even had an empire in the first place is due to James bisonette and Kelly moneymaker being able to defend off the Russians from narva and St. Petersburg so well.

  • @M0R3gOfF
    @M0R3gOfF 5 місяців тому +11

    Explain Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-nassau next!

  • @PhoenicksUK
    @PhoenicksUK 5 місяців тому +6

    We did the 30 Yrs War in A Level History & at the start of the course the teacher told us we'd be focusing on a country that dominated northern Europe & asked us to guess which one it was (obviously we failed to get it right). We honestly didn't believe him when he told us it was Sweden. And that's how we learned about Gustavus Adolphus.

  • @BenedictSigley
    @BenedictSigley 5 місяців тому +1

    Your channel has got me through school this year with the highest grades in the year and 100% in every test thank you

  • @SwedieYT
    @SwedieYT 5 місяців тому +18

    If only we had made IKEA and Volvo 250 years earlier...

    • @SandsOfArrakis
      @SandsOfArrakis 5 місяців тому +5

      and Saab to build jetfighters

    • @fisk0
      @fisk0 5 місяців тому +1

      the Swedish scientist Emanuel Swedenborg conceptualized a flying machine in 1714 as well, imagine if he had managed to persuade the rest of the country's scientific community to figure out how to make it work.

    • @RikkiPakoputki
      @RikkiPakoputki 5 місяців тому

      Volvo 250 Cab min drömbil, dock taget ur sitt sammanhang.

  • @ArthurCSchaperMR
    @ArthurCSchaperMR 5 місяців тому +1

    Please do a video on the following subjects:
    1. Why did the People's Revolution of 1848 fail in Spain and the German States?
    2. Why do people drive on different sides of the road in different countries?

  • @YetAnotherSADXFan
    @YetAnotherSADXFan 5 місяців тому +24

    Something something James Bizonette

    • @YetAnotherSADXFan
      @YetAnotherSADXFan 5 місяців тому

      Or Bisonette, no idea how it's written

    • @Iason29
      @Iason29 5 місяців тому +2

      Your silly comment got more likes than one I made the other day on a video discussing the collapse of the Chinese economy.

    • @YetAnotherSADXFan
      @YetAnotherSADXFan 5 місяців тому +2

      @@Iason29 ok

  • @Malabarista1
    @Malabarista1 5 місяців тому +134

    This is this week’s obligatory James Bissonette comment

    • @jamesbissonette8002
      @jamesbissonette8002 5 місяців тому +32

      Obligatory response

    • @barsukascool
      @barsukascool 5 місяців тому +14

      @@jamesbissonette8002obligatory disagreement

    • @ethanreyes9549
      @ethanreyes9549 5 місяців тому +16

      Obligatory Kelly Moneymaker comment.

    • @KevinWebb
      @KevinWebb 5 місяців тому +2

      @@ethanreyes9549 they both gave it all to some UA-camr. Back to furniture making and I assume Xeroxing cash.

  • @ladganan4776
    @ladganan4776 5 місяців тому +48

    Plundering someone else's country is a gross understatement here. I assure you that there is a reason why we Poles call the Swedish invasion of our country the "Swedish Flood"

    • @akechijubeimitsuhide
      @akechijubeimitsuhide 5 місяців тому +2

      My entire knowledge of this time comes from The Trilogy because the history teacher we had for the year it was covered was absolutely worthless

    • @elicref7989
      @elicref7989 5 місяців тому

      The damage done by Sweden to Poland during the Deluge was worse than the Nazis in WW2

    • @williamshakesbeer4163
      @williamshakesbeer4163 5 місяців тому +4

      If i remember correctly so was it something about Sweden alone doing more damage to Poland during the Deluge than what the Nazis did. I could be wrong tho

    • @elicref7989
      @elicref7989 5 місяців тому +12

      @@williamshakesbeer4163 material-wise yes but in terms of percentage of the population killed, the Swedes were way worse

    • @BartlomiejDmowski
      @BartlomiejDmowski 5 місяців тому

      @@akechijubeimitsuhide The Trilogy is kind of romanticised, some events and people are fictious. Other than that, it gives you a good impression of what happened

  • @ayrtonpavot3096
    @ayrtonpavot3096 5 місяців тому +8

    1709 was a DISASTROUS winter btw

  • @borissand3891
    @borissand3891 5 місяців тому +6

    1:22 Swedish empire: no i swear it gets bigger, it only looks small because its cold

  • @kellenlean2076
    @kellenlean2076 5 місяців тому +34

    As an American with Finnish heritage. Finns were like the Jesse Pinkman or Saul Goodman to Swedens Walter White. They couldn’t have done it without them.

    • @marlarki5280
      @marlarki5280 5 місяців тому +3

      Just like one of my American TV shows!

    • @GimbalosMorkinar
      @GimbalosMorkinar 5 місяців тому +1

      "I am 5% Finnish so I know pretty much everything about Finland."

    • @kellenlean2076
      @kellenlean2076 5 місяців тому +2

      @@GimbalosMorkinar I know a lot about a lot of countries it’s called learning history and having a functional brain. You should try it sometime!😁

  • @chairpersonofthecharlotteh5646
    @chairpersonofthecharlotteh5646 5 місяців тому +27

    In Estonia, we call Swedish rule the Swedish golden age.
    We have a school named after Gustavus Adolphus, a monument for Swedes who fought in the battle of Narva etc 🇪🇪🇸🇪
    We actually had quite large Swedish minority as well, called rannarootslased (coast swedes) but that ended with soviet rule

    • @BigSnipp
      @BigSnipp 5 місяців тому +3

      Is Estonia a real place?

    • @triadwarfare
      @triadwarfare 5 місяців тому +5

      ​@@BigSnippof course it is. Don't let Russian propaganda fool you otherwise.
      Also, Estonia is known for its digital governance

    • @BigSnipp
      @BigSnipp 5 місяців тому +1

      @@triadwarfare I'm just being silly. Of course Estonia is a strong nation with a rich heritage, eager to protect their homeland. No disgrace was intended.

    • @solce809
      @solce809 5 місяців тому

      lmao cucked

    • @tj-co9go
      @tj-co9go 5 місяців тому +1

      there is still a large Swedish minority in Finland. About 300 000 people out of 5 500 000. There are often called "rantaruotsalaiset" (coastal Swedes) here since they are mostly concentrated in the coast, but unfortunately this term is seen as impolite or joking and the prefered term is "suomenruotsalaiset" meaning Fenno-Swedes.

  • @calebroberts5422
    @calebroberts5422 5 місяців тому +1

    Again one of those things ive aleays wondered but never looked into for some reason...great channel btw

  • @Cheesemax595
    @Cheesemax595 5 місяців тому +6

    Sweden really lost once and then stopped playing. A true paradox Gamer

    • @Merecir
      @Merecir Місяць тому

      There is a good reason the Swedish paradox devs built in the 'fuck around and a coalition is going to bring you down'-mechanic...

  • @Robert-do3cd
    @Robert-do3cd 5 місяців тому +1

    As a history buff with ADD, your videos are absolutely amazing.

  • @CJRULESWORLD
    @CJRULESWORLD 5 місяців тому +8

    James bissonnette is the demise of many great things empires fear him

  • @eddiehancockii
    @eddiehancockii 5 місяців тому

    I'd love to see this in longer form. I love thd frequent vids but an occasional longer vid would be fun and this would be a good one to do.

  • @TheCimbrianBull
    @TheCimbrianBull 5 місяців тому +11

    IKEA + James Bissonette = the most dynamic duo ever! 😊

  • @TrashBoxer284
    @TrashBoxer284 5 місяців тому +6

    I am swedish and once we took a walk with my work around Stockholm as a guided history tour. We have a danish woman at my job. The guide kept talking about all the danish invasions and horrors that had occured to Stockholm in the old days. Drunken danes decapitating swedish noblemen and so on. We all had a laugh about it. The norse way.

  • @ethans.9744
    @ethans.9744 5 місяців тому +4

    You forgot to mention the brief resurgence under Gustav the Third

  • @fabiansall2441
    @fabiansall2441 5 місяців тому

    Wow. Probably the best 4 minute summary of the Swedish Empire's rise and decline I have ever seen. Well done.

  • @SeoulMan
    @SeoulMan 5 місяців тому +24

    1:59 "I WAS CHOSEN BY HEAVEN!"

    • @franc5377
      @franc5377 5 місяців тому +13

      "SAY MY NAME WHEN YOU PRAY"

    • @ajax1475
      @ajax1475 5 місяців тому +12

      TO THE SKIES SEE CAROLUS RISE!

    • @Folkraider1759
      @Folkraider1759 5 місяців тому +6

      "WITH THE LORD MY PROTECTOR"

  • @Ryan-ij3ge
    @Ryan-ij3ge 5 місяців тому +1

    I always enjoy your videos! ❤

  • @arbyjack2552
    @arbyjack2552 5 місяців тому +3

    Great video! Good to hear Swedish history!

  • @muhammadhabibieamiro3639
    @muhammadhabibieamiro3639 5 місяців тому +2

    Another amazing video

  • @matthew416811
    @matthew416811 5 місяців тому +57

    2:56 Sweden is one of the only monarchies in the world being French.
    The other one? Spain.
    P.S. Unlike Spain, the king of Sweden wasn't from the descendants of the French King, but a French general called Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. Long story short, the previous Swedish King Karl XIII from the house of Holstein-Gottorp (the same one as Russian Emperor Peter III, 3rd cousin with Karl XIII) didn't have an heir, so the Swedish nobles chose Bernadotte as the crown prince. Karl XIII died in 1814, thus Bernadotte became Karl XIV Johan of the house of Bernadotte, wich reigned to this day.
    The coat of arms of the house of Bernadotte still has the French Imperial Eagle on the right.
    P.P.S. Initially, the kings from the house of Bernadotte wasn't related to any previous Swedish kings (as said above, he's adopted) until 1881, when King Gustaf V married Victoria of Baden, the great-granddaughter of Gustav IV Adolf, the nephew of Karl XIII. Therefore, Gustaf V's son, Gustaf VI Adolf became sort of the Swedish version of Henry VII.

    • @issemayhem
      @issemayhem 5 місяців тому +4

      Actually the king is Swedish, because even though Bernadotte was French he married and had children with a Swedish woman. If you're going to claim current monarchs aren't actually their own nationality you're probably going to lose 99.9% of the time, it's not like monarchs always married within their own nationality, in fact often they would marry other royal houses royalty for alliances. Pretty sure you could go back far enough and find some French monarch that wasn't a native Frenchman, heck maybe if you dug deep enough into Bernadottes past maybe his great grandparents were German or Swiss, would that make Swedens current monarch German-Swiss-French? By that logic, yes

    • @fredsoh4027
      @fredsoh4027 5 місяців тому +11

      Literally every single monarchy in Europe had foreigners as their monarchs throughout their history, that eventually married and became nationalized.

    • @Deltaflot1701
      @Deltaflot1701 5 місяців тому +1

      @@issemayhem Marshall Bernadotte was born in the old Gascon town of Pau, so he was probably closer to being Spanish than anything northern European. After he was king, mostof his descendents spouses were French or Dutch, with the occasional German

    • @ankoku37
      @ankoku37 5 місяців тому +3

      took me a while to realize that this wasn't an elaborate setup to a James Bissonette joke

    • @joesomebody3365
      @joesomebody3365 5 місяців тому +1

      Some people argue the English monarchy is technically French (from 900 years ago), since it started in Normandy.

  • @TheRealMycanthrope
    @TheRealMycanthrope 5 місяців тому

    As far as I can ascertain, James Bisonette is first thanked for supporting the channel in the video "Ten Minute History - World War One and International Relations (Short Documentary)", uploaded November 6th, 2018

  • @modst84
    @modst84 5 місяців тому +5

    3:00 Norway: "hehe... wait what!?"

  • @jamesbisonnette
    @jamesbisonnette 5 місяців тому +4

    Here in Peru, they still call the Swedish rule period "The Golden Swedish Age".

  • @ygma1460
    @ygma1460 5 місяців тому +61

    Fun fact: Sweden stopped going to war after it lost access to Finnish hakkapeliitti troops.
    In Finland, we have a saying: "Kingdom of Sweden fought to the last Finnish conscript".

    • @ak-od7mf
      @ak-od7mf 5 місяців тому +27

      Thats a funny meme although not true, because when you look at the conscripts from all over the kingdom it was equally divided and proportionally the same.
      No doubt that Swedens eastern half (todays Finland) provided an important part but the western part was just as important.

    • @Lighthammer18
      @Lighthammer18 5 місяців тому +1

      Paska haisee ruotsin rannala

    • @KeveTeller
      @KeveTeller 5 місяців тому +1

      Except that is false, & it was actually equally divided conscription. Together with that Swedens majority in the army wasn't Swedish or Finish, but mercenaries & recruited soldiers from their campaigns.

    • @blubbson
      @blubbson 5 місяців тому +1

      @@KeveTeller That was definitely true for the early 17th century (e.g. the 30 years war, the Polish war etc) but not so much for the Great Northern War (early 1700s) or the later Russo-Swedish wars of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Mercenaries, who were expensive and unreliable, were not used nearly as much once Sweden started being able to produce a proper standing army towards the end of the 17th century, rather than having to rely on either conscripted farmers or expensive mercenaries.

    • @RikkiPakoputki
      @RikkiPakoputki 5 місяців тому

      @@Lighthammer18 Vain Suomessa istutaan reunalla

  • @farhanmizra
    @farhanmizra 5 місяців тому +3

    "Ready for your massage, ja?"
    - Swedish Phoebe

  • @JM-mg4el
    @JM-mg4el 5 місяців тому +5

    I'm from the swedish part of Germany that everyone always forgets about!

    • @Admiral45-10
      @Admiral45-10 5 місяців тому

      Polish people have never forgotten about it. We sing about it in our National Anthem:
      🇵🇱 _Jak Czarniecki do Poznania_
      _Po szwedzkim zaborze_
      _Do Ojczyzny ratowania_
      _Rzucim się przez morze_
      🇬🇧 ,,Like Czarniecki to Poznań
      Through Swedish Partition
      To save the Fatherland
      We'll march through the sea"

    • @sliftyy
      @sliftyy 4 місяці тому

      Is there any lasting Swedish influence on those parts of Germany?

  • @nickvandergraaf1053
    @nickvandergraaf1053 5 місяців тому +1

    Really interesting, thanks!

  • @messithegoat6142
    @messithegoat6142 5 місяців тому +62

    This is my Roman Empire...

    • @erickonami1
      @erickonami1 5 місяців тому +3

      det är så över...

    • @joninator7858
      @joninator7858 5 місяців тому +2

      Haha husk Fredriksten festning hvor vi skøyt kongen deres. Vi kan kjøpe hele Sverige om vi vil!

    • @messithegoat6142
      @messithegoat6142 5 місяців тому +2

      @@joninator7858 ehm vi ägde er i 100 år

    • @messithegoat6142
      @messithegoat6142 5 місяців тому

      Och danmark ägde er i typ 350 år också 💀💀

    • @joninator7858
      @joninator7858 5 місяців тому

      @@messithegoat6142 Union hvor vi hadde mye selvstyre kan neppe telles som å "eie"
      Når vi erklærte oss selv selvstendige gjorde dere ingen verdens ting

  • @JA432123
    @JA432123 5 місяців тому

    It’s wild that Napoleon had such a wide range of impact across literally all of Europe at one point, great video again!

  • @trentweston8306
    @trentweston8306 5 місяців тому +7

    Ohhhh so this isn't about Sweden's recent decline.

  • @halnywiatr
    @halnywiatr 5 місяців тому +1

    The history book on the shelf
    Is always repeating itself
    Waterloo, I was defeated, you won the war
    Waterloo, promise to love you forevermore
    Waterloo, couldn't escape if I wanted to
    Waterloo, knowing my fate is to be with you
    Woah, woah, woah, woah, Waterloo
    Finally facing my Waterloo

  • @brandonhunt5314
    @brandonhunt5314 5 місяців тому +5

    Shout out James Bizennet!!

  • @brandonhunt5314
    @brandonhunt5314 5 місяців тому +1

    Your channel is my favorite!!!!

  • @familygash7500
    @familygash7500 5 місяців тому +9

    *VIDEO SUGGESTION:*
    What happened to The Vikings' settlements in North America?

    • @user-gw2vz5gh2n
      @user-gw2vz5gh2n 5 місяців тому +2

      that's a banger idea

    • @SRMC23
      @SRMC23 5 місяців тому +1

      Abandoned due to many factors. On one hand it was uncharted territory and the Skraelings(natives) were all over the place so they wouldn't have been able to expand without sufficient military force which required a lot of resources and time, on the other, skandinavian longboats weren't really designed for interoceanic travel compared to the later Galleons/Carabels(they were mainly to sail across the coast and also for going up the rivers) so it was only possible to get to America because Iceland -> Greenland -> Vinland were close enough geographically to make a stop and resupply along the Arctic Ocean but the Little Ice Age ended all that due to Greenland becoming too cold to survive and the icebergs and sea ice becoming too thick to cross.

  • @Shantari
    @Shantari Місяць тому

    Still hoping to see a video more focused on the Kalmar Union. (How it got started, how it affected the countries in it, how it ended, etc.) For me in particular it would be fun with an outside view of it as I only really know the Swedish side of the story.

  • @zhcultivator
    @zhcultivator 5 місяців тому +3

    Why is there no Assyrian country? or Assyrian nation-state?

    • @thela255
      @thela255 4 місяці тому

      Most of them are dead

  • @MrMainA
    @MrMainA 5 місяців тому +1

    Tell us about GDL (Grand Duchy of Lithuania) next, please!

  • @DarthVader-ig6ci
    @DarthVader-ig6ci 5 місяців тому +4

    2:07 I was chosen by heaven
    Say my name when you pray
    To the sky, see Carolus rise....

    • @TTisIH
      @TTisIH 5 місяців тому +2

      With the lord my protector
      Make them bow to my will
      To the skies
      See Carolus rise!

  • @mcbruh14
    @mcbruh14 5 місяців тому +1

    Some video ideas: Why did Iberian Taifas fails while Turkish Beyliks are successful in Anatolia?
    (For context: 10th century is where two opposite peninsula have two opposite outcomes: one being Andalusian caliphate collapsed into petty kingdoms (taifas) and other one is the collapse of Byzantine authority in Anatolia following the battle of Manzikert against the seljuk turks)

  • @thorpeaaron1110
    @thorpeaaron1110 5 місяців тому +8

    Fun Fact No will always be my favorite line from this channel.

  • @mrgopnik5964
    @mrgopnik5964 5 місяців тому +2

    Something people often ignore that it wasn't surprising that the Swedish empire declined, but rather that it rose to begin with. When you look at 17-18th century demographics, you realise that Sweden got extremely lucky and had no business to be this powerful. When they invaded Russia, they were undergoing their worst political crisis since the Mongols. Same with Poland and the HRE. The problem was that when Russia finally got it's sh*t together, it turned out that they had 5 times Sweden's population and despite Sweden's king being a reincarnation of Gustavus Adolphus, he wasn't able to sustain a war of attrition

    • @kungolaf4499
      @kungolaf4499 5 місяців тому +1

      This. And the fact that 50% Swedish army was mercenaries from all over Europe, 15% were disporportionally Finnish and the rest were Swedish. And their tactics were ridiculously brutal, so much so that the plunder of Prague in 1640’s is still to this day remembered. They had no business running around Europe doing any of that.

    • @blubbson
      @blubbson 5 місяців тому

      @@kungolaf4499 That depends entirely on what period you're talking about. The reliance on mercenaries was mostly an early/mid 17th century thing (30YW, Polish war etc) but towards the latter part of the 17th century, Sweden managed to set up a standing army (through indelningsverket) which meant that mercenaries became much less important from that point onward.

  • @chheinrich8486
    @chheinrich8486 5 місяців тому +6

    Because grantville wasnt there to help Gustav Adolf in 1632😂 ("1632" by erich flint)

  • @DimaDima-sz4tp
    @DimaDima-sz4tp 5 місяців тому +1

    Thanks for the information

  • @zhcultivator
    @zhcultivator 5 місяців тому +3

    Why doesn't an Assyrian country exist? please make a video on this

  • @markanderson3870
    @markanderson3870 4 місяці тому +1

    Wow. I never knew. Now I do. Thanks!

  • @ThatGuyFromEgypt
    @ThatGuyFromEgypt 5 місяців тому +6

    Because James Bisonette got overthrown by the people of Sweden

    • @CookRacingUK
      @CookRacingUK 5 місяців тому

      Had a heart attack thinking James wasn't the first shout out... don't say tuff like that without thinking my friend!

    • @ThatGuyFromEgypt
      @ThatGuyFromEgypt 5 місяців тому

      @@CookRacingUK?

  • @CuriosityPilled
    @CuriosityPilled 5 місяців тому

    Watching these made me close in on pursuing animated storytelling without any prior exposure to it, so I spent around 90h producing my own first animated story📌. If any one of you is dying to quench their unhinged animation thirst, perhaps you could stop by and share a laugh or two with me! :)

  • @da6ko1
    @da6ko1 5 місяців тому +3

    James Bisonette fans where yall at??

  • @swedichboy1000
    @swedichboy1000 5 місяців тому +1

    No mention of Falun copper mine?

  • @RufusWall
    @RufusWall 5 місяців тому +27

    Well i as a swede (not bias) think Sweden is still amazing and influencial 🇸🇪

    • @wheeliebeast7679
      @wheeliebeast7679 5 місяців тому +3

      i smell sarcasm there

    • @idrathernot_2
      @idrathernot_2 5 місяців тому +4

      ​@@wheeliebeast7679I hope he's being sarcastic. Because now with the NATO BS, they can no longer be the neutral diplomatic negotiator of the world.

    • @DeerJerky
      @DeerJerky 5 місяців тому +5

      i will never forget your guys' amazing meatballs, furniture, peaceful games, war-focused games, game games, fish, and amazing meatballs
      oh, and welcome into NATO!

    • @kingmarre9130
      @kingmarre9130 5 місяців тому +2

      @@idrathernot_2 Sweden was only neutral on paper since start of the cold war

    • @SalmonJonesTheMagnificent
      @SalmonJonesTheMagnificent 5 місяців тому

      @@idrathernot_2 Correct, they're just another american satrapie now.

  • @anderspalm4859
    @anderspalm4859 5 місяців тому +1

    As a swede I can assure you this is 100% accurate and very entertaining!