Dutch Golden Age: Crash Course European History #15

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  • čas přidán 12. 08. 2019
  • While the English were falling apart a little, with their civil war and their restoration and their succession problems, the Dutch were getting their act together. They were throwing off the yoke of the Spanish Empire, uniting their provinces, and building out their global trade network. Today, we'll learn about how the Dutch came to their Golden Age, and how it ended.
    Sources
    -Hunt, Lynn. Making of the West. Peoples and Cultures. Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2019.
    -Parker, Geoffrey. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
    -Popkin, Richard. The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
    -Rommelse, Gijs. "The role of mercantilism in Anglo-Dutch political relations, 1650-74." Economic History Review 63#3 (2010) pp. 591-611.
    -Smith, Bonnie G. Modern Empires Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Komentáře • 926

  • @Preygrantess
    @Preygrantess Před 4 lety +1871

    Seeing Belgium orange on the map while the Netherlands is purple grinds my gears

    • @ScheveSneeuwSchuifSchep
      @ScheveSneeuwSchuifSchep Před 4 lety +86

      Fun fact: Carrots where made orange for the Dutch king but it was done so in Belgium

    • @MrMickey1987
      @MrMickey1987 Před 4 lety +29

      Ludivico Carthage Never knew that. But the time in which Belgium’s made carrots orange was during the short time Belgium was not ruled by other European powers or a independent kingdom but the few decades it was a constitutional part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands 😉

    • @steviedufresne6282
      @steviedufresne6282 Před 4 lety +31

      @@ScheveSneeuwSchuifSchep carrots already existed, they just bred them to be orange. Before that they were a whitish color similar to parsnips.

    • @LeBaron101
      @LeBaron101 Před 4 lety +7

      @@steviedufresne6282 Fascinating, I wonder how much Fruits and Vegetables changed since the Middle ages and Early Modern Period

    • @steviedufresne6282
      @steviedufresne6282 Před 4 lety +25

      @@LeBaron101 Very fascinating! The Columbian Exchange and other cross-cultural/geographical exchanges totally remodeled world food systems. For instance, Korea didn't have hot peppers until the Portuguese sailed there in the mid 16th century. Imagine kimchi without peppers! There were still several types of kimchi, but the kind we think of now with hot peppers came after the Portuguese exchange. Potatoes went from the "New World" to the "Old World," bananas from the "Old World" to the "New World," tons of examples!

  • @historywithhilbert146
    @historywithhilbert146 Před 4 lety +1777

    9/10 not enough Wilhelmus

  • @laynetrahan5477
    @laynetrahan5477 Před 4 lety +921

    This video is brought to you by the VOC

    • @shawn6669
      @shawn6669 Před 4 lety +13

      I've heard that there's "so much drama in the VOC".

    • @TheLionEric
      @TheLionEric Před 4 lety +4

      @@shawn6669 VOC?

    • @nikovaalthov5272
      @nikovaalthov5272 Před 4 lety +1

      Thats true... Hopefully they was not so mean to us

    • @shautiknandy4879
      @shautiknandy4879 Před 4 lety +35

      @@TheLionEric Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, aka Dutch East India Company.

    • @tompenningdevries6756
      @tompenningdevries6756 Před 4 lety +4

      or the mostly overlooked WIC the West Indische Compagnie, aka The West india Company, who operated in the America s

  • @jamesbuxton2941
    @jamesbuxton2941 Před 4 lety +335

    I like that John's voice has gotten progressively more cheerful as this season has gone on

    • @bookswithbenjamin8902
      @bookswithbenjamin8902 Před 4 lety +25

      Me too. He seemed downright depressed earlier

    • @melonlord1414
      @melonlord1414 Před 4 lety +9

      I mean, the time is way more cheerfull. Don't get me wrong. They still did horrible things and caused grealt suffering, but europeans themself had a way more positive outlook on the world after the scientific revolution. All life had to offer in the middle ages was death and what came after it. At the point in history, that the show now covers, people thought way more about thier life and less about death than a few centurys earlier

    • @jrex0522
      @jrex0522 Před 4 lety +1

      @@melonlord1414 jokingly teasing. 'grealt' spelling. truthful. no offence is meant

    • @melonlord1414
      @melonlord1414 Před 4 lety +1

      @@jrex0522 Yeah, it's not my native language so what? So in how many languages are you fluently enough to have perfect spelling???
      Nah, I'm kidding. It's not my native language, but my main problem is that I am lazy af.
      No offence taken :-)

    • @jrex0522
      @jrex0522 Před 4 lety +1

      @@melonlord1414 it's okay, considering i only know english i at least gotta make it count. just trying to help ya out while making a fairly (admittedly bad) joke in the process.
      i almost typed 'fairy' instead of fairly, if that makes it any better. and auto correct says i typed english wrong too...

  • @Rimpelmans
    @Rimpelmans Před 4 lety +940

    Apparently mispronouncing names is not John´s thing anymore. Most names were spot on, maybe that time spend in Amsterdam rubbed off.

    • @ryuusei1907
      @ryuusei1907 Před 4 lety +40

      it must be from having lived in one of those 17th century buildings

    • @McMaster1471
      @McMaster1471 Před 4 lety +7

      Rimpelmans not Dutch, but isn’t Vermeer pronounced like “Fermer” or something? that’s what my school textbook says (フェルメール)

    • @jacobandrews2663
      @jacobandrews2663 Před 4 lety +11

      @@McMaster1471 it depends, not all Dutch people pronounce de v grapheme as /f

    • @Peter-li5bc
      @Peter-li5bc Před 4 lety +24

      @@McMaster1471 No, it's a soft 'v' sound, not a hard 'f' sound. He isn't 100% spot on with the name Vermeer, but the first 'Ver' sound is really good.

    • @McMaster1471
      @McMaster1471 Před 4 lety +7

      Peter M oooh. it might just be the limitations of katakana, then. thanks!

  • @timkraan5486
    @timkraan5486 Před 4 lety +476

    Good episode, but I feel like the moeder negotie, the "mother trade", the trade with scandinavia and the baltics shouldn't have been skipped. This trade, while not as exciting as the east indies trade, was crucial too the succes of the dutch.
    It allowed the dutch too get cheap things like wheat and wood from the north. This way dutch peasants could focus on things other than food production and specialize.
    Northern countries have also been influenced by this trade, for example st petersburg.

    • @jaapverwij4620
      @jaapverwij4620 Před 4 lety +72

      It's definitely a missed opportunity because everything discussed in the video could only exist because of the moedernegotie and east sea trade. The marches, peat bogs and polders were notoriously terrible for growing grain and building a ship without wood is quite the challenge. The 'stapelmarkt' (hoarding market) in Amsterdam where the merchants stored grain for years providing food security and hefty profits when harvests failed. Furthermore the wealth distribution was more evenly distributed among the people compared to the VOC's profits whom mainly traded within Asia and only brought back to most expensive and luxurious goods. The east sea trade gave the average household the opportunity to do more than just survive.
      I think he should also have mentioned that the brothers De Witt where killed during the 'rampjaar' (year of disaster - 1672). A year in which the Netherlands were attacked by the English, France, bishop of Münster and archbishop of Cologne. And after years of systematic reductions on military spending by De Witt resulting in half the country being under foreign occupation. The state of Holland not being overrun only because they flooded the polders to create the Water Line and Michiel de Ruyter preventing a naval invasion by defeating the English fleet. From this war the economy never recovered, the moedernegotie declined and Dutch influence in the world followed suit.

    • @freekmulder3662
      @freekmulder3662 Před 4 lety +5

      @@jaapverwij4620 John definitely skipped some things, I also think the moedernegotie and the focus on trade/cooperation should have been more prevalent.

    • @AlbertAlbertB.
      @AlbertAlbertB. Před 4 lety +1

      'Too' should be to. Too much; to Amsterdam.

    • @msdenise1234567
      @msdenise1234567 Před 4 lety

      brr I remember this question on my finals

    • @ysbrandd
      @ysbrandd Před 4 lety +7

      the best part of the moeder negotie is that is was the most important trade, it got the dutch the most money. And the russian flag got based of the dutch one :)

  • @HoofHearted88
    @HoofHearted88 Před 4 lety +302

    Staten Island in New York is named after the Staten Generaal that ruled the country, much like New Zealand is named after the province of Zeeland.
    An other thing John didn't mention is how the Netherlands got to keep control over Suriname with the Treaty of Breda. At the time Suriname was a more profitable endeavour than New Amsterdam was. Suriname was a commercial deal whereas New Amsterdam was a political move first.

    • @rhmw9625
      @rhmw9625 Před 4 lety +17

      The Staten Generaal is still the name of our parliament ;)

    • @aperson22222
      @aperson22222 Před 4 lety +2

      roblinssen88 NYC has certainly turned a profit since.

    • @davedevosbaarle
      @davedevosbaarle Před 4 lety +35

      Several areas of New York are named after Dutch cities. Harlem - Haarlem, Brooklyn - Breukelen.

    • @freekmulder3662
      @freekmulder3662 Před 4 lety

      @@davedevosbaarle I wouldn't call Breukelen a city however, it is barely a village

    • @mr.jj210
      @mr.jj210 Před 4 lety +3

      @@freekmulder3662 and brooklyn was fully build city?

  • @stan2754
    @stan2754 Před 4 lety +81

    Just realized John wrote 'The Fault in our Stars' after all these years.

  • @TainakaRicchan
    @TainakaRicchan Před 4 lety +306

    If I learned two things from Europa Universalis IV it is that golden ages last 50 years and the duch government is the best kind of government!

    • @MisterDutch93
      @MisterDutch93 Před 4 lety +36

      It lasted roughly 80 years, from 1590-1670, but the estimates vary. The Disaster Year (1672) is usually marked as the end of the Golden Age in Dutch school books.
      And yes, the Dutch Government in EUIV is indeed quite overpowered!

    • @RedbadofFrisia
      @RedbadofFrisia Před 4 lety +14

      @@MisterDutch93 Het rampjaar is in zestientweeënzeventig volgens mij.

    • @mokerak8708
      @mokerak8708 Před 4 lety +23

      Glad we got some eu4 fans in here

    • @Arrakiz666
      @Arrakiz666 Před 4 lety +28

      No kidding, that game alone taught me more about geography than I ever learned in school.

    • @Seth_rs
      @Seth_rs Před 4 lety +2

      Well nowadays you could say the same if you dont mind paying 21% of your earnings to taxes

  • @vladimirlenin9120
    @vladimirlenin9120 Před 4 lety +504

    Spices: “Exist”
    Netherlands: “It’s free real estate”

    • @franciscomm7675
      @franciscomm7675 Před 4 lety

      Indeed

    • @Trazynn
      @Trazynn Před 4 lety +52

      And we still manage to have the blandest cuisine in the world.

    • @sporkeh90
      @sporkeh90 Před 4 lety +4

      @@Trazynn Consequence of being such greedy bastards more than anything xD

    • @DrCatdeJong
      @DrCatdeJong Před 4 lety +23

      @@Trazynn cooking up some boiled potatoes, green beans and a beef sausage right now, dutch quisine at it's finest. Can't wait to poor some gravy on those potatoes and mash the hell out of them!

    • @erdnasiul87
      @erdnasiul87 Před 4 lety

      You mean Portugal

  • @SaiyanHeretic
    @SaiyanHeretic Před 4 lety +106

    The spice must flow.

    • @franciscomm7675
      @franciscomm7675 Před 4 lety +8

      By any means necessary

    • @CapitalMort
      @CapitalMort Před 4 lety +8

      Melange is orange. Orange is symbolic to the Dutch. The Dutch were crazy for spice. Hmmmmm.

    • @thatdutchguy2882
      @thatdutchguy2882 Před 4 lety +2

      Ahh, Dune.

    • @thatdutchguy2882
      @thatdutchguy2882 Před 4 lety +1

      @@CapitalMort Ssssttt damit, not so loud yo.
      Sombody might hear,....jeeezz.

    • @XmarkedSpot
      @XmarkedSpot Před 4 lety +7

      Who controls the spice controls the universe.

  • @ilyaelric9539
    @ilyaelric9539 Před 4 lety +174

    - Did the center of the world just opened? Is that a tulip there.
    - NO, IT DIDN'T! What have you done to the center of the world?

    • @tams805
      @tams805 Před 4 lety +8

      It did; it's just that bubble popped so quickly you couldn't see it.

    • @ilyaelric9539
      @ilyaelric9539 Před 4 lety

      @@tams805
      I guess no tulpenmanie for us.

    • @gplthebeast
      @gplthebeast Před 4 lety +5

      Just use 『Sticky Fingers』 to open it

    • @adolfoalvarez6651
      @adolfoalvarez6651 Před 4 lety

      @Jeremy Mettler ah, a man of JOJO culture

  • @borisjo13
    @borisjo13 Před 4 lety +1002

    G E K O L O N I S E E R D

  • @ythehunter755
    @ythehunter755 Před 4 lety +20

    The biggest difference between Dutch trade in the East and Spanish/Portugese is that we didn't come to "teach them", but just for the money (you can decide which one is better morally). You can see this for instance in that almost nobody in Indonesia speaks Dutch, while almost everybody in The Philippines does speak Spanish. Also fun fact is that the Dutch were the only ones to trade with Japan for a long time, because they trusted us to not sneak in some pesky Christian converters.

  • @CamiloSantana
    @CamiloSantana Před 4 lety +310

    "[war] is definitely not good for people which I would argue are more important than business?"
    And you call yourself an American?!?

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 Před 4 lety +1

      Propaganda my friend. They want a monopol to war prosperities

    • @duckwhistle
      @duckwhistle Před 4 lety +20

      Exactly, businesses are people John! next you'll be saying crazy anti american stuff like money is not speach.

    • @PlannedObsolescence
      @PlannedObsolescence Před 4 lety +7

      THIS! All of us Americans have the exact same opinions, damn it!

    • @johnnyherbert2635
      @johnnyherbert2635 Před 4 lety +2

      Dude all the US seems to do is go to war. If anything endorsing war would appear to be more "american" unless thats just british media only showing one side of coin as far as wars goes.
      Ps love watching crash course. Thanks john

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 Před 4 lety

      @@johnnyherbert2635 they go to war because corperate profit is more important then people.
      Both domestic and abroad, corperations don't make that distinction.

  • @gabesusman4592
    @gabesusman4592 Před 4 lety +87

    When your fan base is so passionate they eat those who would oppose you.

    • @jacoblynam923
      @jacoblynam923 Před 4 lety +1

      Gabriel Susman I’m extremely upset that your comment doesn’t have more likes! That made my laugh so hard!

  • @lazlooegema4796
    @lazlooegema4796 Před 4 lety +14

    The Dutch maritime network did actually start in the baltic sea region with the trade for timber and grain, which were relatively rare commodities in the Low countries due to its wet and swampy nature. Those trade routes were named “moedernegotie” and paved the way for more daring expeditions to the far east.

  • @alexrettig7402
    @alexrettig7402 Před 4 lety +36

    As much as I enjoyed this episode, I feel like you really glossed over how ludicrously violent the Portuguese control over trade in the Indian Ocean was. They basically shot their way in, set up fortifications at every entrance to the sea, and then set up a protection racket forcing every merchant in the area to pay them for the privilege to go about their lives. The Dutch usurpation of this system was no less violent, wresting control of Portuguese operations as part of their war against Spain, whose ruler was also the King of Portugal at the time.

    • @askkedladd
      @askkedladd Před 4 lety +9

      And the Portuguese made the natives hostile to them (at least some of them) because they actively seek to convert them. This is also one of the reason why they were driven out of Japan and the Dutch became the only country allowed to trade with Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate.

  • @shirknado7953
    @shirknado7953 Před 4 lety +633

    Can you do a crash course African History? I know almost nothing about the entire continent and would really appreciate it.

    • @RoScFan
      @RoScFan Před 4 lety +43

      The problem is we don't know much about it. Information about African history up until the colonial period is like European history before classical antiquity.

    • @Argacyan
      @Argacyan Před 4 lety +35

      We do have a lot of anthropological records, stories etc. from which we try drawing info. Here on youtube the channel EmperorTigerstar for instance has a history of south africa video in terms of mapping and beginning around the year 500. One issue can be distortion of history, as due to colonialism and later imperialism a lot of things were made up or distorted about Africa to serve overlord purposes.

    • @aratosm
      @aratosm Před 4 lety +40

      Stop hating Africa.

    • @malleableconcrete
      @malleableconcrete Před 4 lety +24

      I think that's a bit of a wide topic.
      I would like to see them do mini-series on the history of individual countries that probably don't warrant an extensive 20+ episode series. So for example it could have something like the history of Ethiopia or South African in 5 episode chunks.
      Of course particularly old and large areas of the world like China and India that are still quite distinct as entities could probably manage to have series like this one on Europe.

    • @Trazynn
      @Trazynn Před 4 lety +9

      History is about that which has been written down. You're referring to prehistory.

  • @skausage
    @skausage Před 4 lety +19

    You're my favorite Hoosier, John. You could be sitting on a beach for the rest of your life but you're here grinding out excellent content for all of us to enjoy. Mad respect.

  • @augustus331
    @augustus331 Před 4 lety +13

    When you see the Golden Age version of your hometown of Groningen at 5:00 on a educational show made in Indiana, US.
    Wow, that's awesome! Thanks, John!

  • @Kevin-ps5wq
    @Kevin-ps5wq Před 4 lety +59

    Wait whut... I've been watching videos of yours for years now. I had NO clue you were the author of the fault in our stars. Heck I didn't even knew you were a famed writer! It's so delightful to still see you here making crash course video's with all that succes! Keep it up I guess!

  • @ronaldderooij1774
    @ronaldderooij1774 Před 4 lety +70

    We still hold the record of the longest war of independence.

  • @Kholdaimon
    @Kholdaimon Před 4 lety +11

    The governor of New Amsterdam had recommended to sell the colony because he said that a war of independence was brewing, that is one of the reasons that the Dutch gave up the colony during the treaty of Breda (he was 100 years ahead of time with his prediction, but still). They also didn't lose the ability to use the port for trade, the owner of the port just changed, so they didn't actually lose that much...

  • @mariasavchuk8016
    @mariasavchuk8016 Před 4 lety +33

    Oh God, John, I've watched all your videos and I didn't know, that you wrote "The Fault in our stars"🙈 I always thought you are a teacher of history or something like that... Oh God, my life will never be the same...

    • @Elenrai
      @Elenrai Před 4 lety +2

      Lemme spice your life up some more:
      The book was hardly original, he literally wrote an older danish book into english and got a career outta it! I kid you not, there is a Danish book from the late 90s that had the exact same overarching plot, characters, etc, the biggest difference was that in the Danish book(forgot the name, trust me I beat myself up about it all the time when I think about the fault in our stars) the vacation destination were not Amsterdam but Spain! If I ever find that book I will throw it your way in case you wanna see for yourself just how close John Green got to outright plagiarism

  • @erikthehalfabee6234
    @erikthehalfabee6234 Před 4 lety +6

    I make quizzes for a hobby and I am Dutch, but I had never heard of the inventor Jan van der Heyden. Thanks!

  • @jipsels
    @jipsels Před 4 lety +39

    Finally. I've been waiting for this one.
    G E K O L O N I S E E R D

  • @David-fm6go
    @David-fm6go Před 4 lety +95

    I find the comparative analysis of this video to be rather sloppy in its execution. Yes the Dutch and the English had divisive political situations on there hands but it wasn't as simple as merely one of them being chaotic while the other dominated. In fact one could say that both suffered similarly during the same periods of time.
    The Orange dynasty derives from a landholding aristocratic family that held the Principality of Oranje in Southern France and were related to a branch of the ancient medieval dynasty, the House of Nassau, which ruled territory in the HRE. After this family inherited the Principality of orange, it began to acquire massive properties through inheritance in the low countries and eventually in the early 15th century began to be appointed by the Dukes of Burgundy to positions of power in the region. When Spain inherited the Low Countries from the Burgundian line this service continued for the first several decades of the 16th century. With the Dutch Revolt though, William I (The Silent) joined and led the revolt until his death anyway. The Orange dynasty were basically a group of land owning, European Princes who like many in the era held disjointed territories.
    After the death of William II just two years I think after Charles I was beheaded, it left his son William III as a toddler and it began a stadtholderless period, during which the DeWitt's rose to power. The Cromwellian regime even cut deals with the DeWitts to keep the Orange dynasty out of power since they were inter-married with the Stuarts (William III's mother was a daughter of Charles I).
    Late in the 17th century, even with its problems with England, disaster came in the direction of France. The English and French joining together in the third Anglo-Dutch War nearly ruined the country. And this meant that the Dutch were keen to remove the threat coming from England. This is why William III was interested in the English throne, because it would prevent another Anglo-French alliance.
    Charles II and his brother James II had been gravitating closer and closer to France and Louis XIV, who had sheltered from for a while from the Cromwellians. This led to the secret treaties and the alliance in the third Anglo-Dutch war as well as the conversions of James II to Catholicism and Charles II followed suit on his death bed. William III meanwhile had married James II's daughter Mary, in an attempt to maintain the peace. Meanwhile the crisis of the war had eliminated (one way or another) opposition to the William III becoming stadtholder.
    When Louis XIV revoked the edict of Nantes it meant that a large number of Huguenots had fled to both London and Amsterdam. The presence of these refugees stirred fears of Catholic oppression in both places and led to the hunger in England to avoid a Catholic dynasty and also caused opposition to an expedition that would have normally existed in anti-War, anti-orangist Amsterdam to melt away.
    In the series History of Britain, Simon Schama said that England concluded with the Glorious Revolution that "it didn't need leviathan, it wanted more a Chairman of the Board and Dutch William fit that role to a tee". The next big political shift in England and Britain as a whole would occur as the that Chairman of the Board role would shift to the Prime Minister during the first two Hanoverian Kings and only with George III, was there an attempt to just restore things to where they had been with William and Anne, but by then it was too late.
    From 1672 onward the Orangists would not really be challenged for control of the stadtholdership again. Meanwhile after 1689, the British had settled on a Constitutional monarchy. Therefore it is incorrect to say that Dutch became politically chaotic while the English got their act together, both countries largely had their act together. The decline of the Dutch golden age came from the fact that the Dutch monopolies would be challenged by the naturally stronger English and the English could always fall back on their Island and colonies while the Dutch would forever be exposed on land to Germany and France. William III got his wish though, his rise to power created basically a Dual Monarchy over the "maritime powers" as they would have been called in the 1690's and this meant that there was a powerful bloc to the north that would check French expansion and in both the war from 1689 to 1697 and the Spanish Succession War this block, would fight alongside the Hapsburg's against the French.
    Ironically, the implementation of several Dutch inspired policies such as the Bank of England in the 1690's, meant to strengthen once again the ability to fight the French, actually empowered the English at the expense of the Dutch. So in a number of ways, to save the Dutch from the Anglo-French alliance, William III indirectly paved the way for English domination of the trade and the seas in the 18th and 19th centuries, to defeat Louis XIV.

    • @garbibaba
      @garbibaba Před 4 lety +6

      Thank you for the detailed comment!

    • @AlbertAlbertB.
      @AlbertAlbertB. Před 4 lety +1

      You could have used one instead of two enters per paragraph.

  • @TheAnthraxBiology
    @TheAnthraxBiology Před 4 lety +18

    "But I would argue that people might be more important than businesses?"
    *industrialists gasp*

  • @mcloughlinandrew2343
    @mcloughlinandrew2343 Před 4 lety +3

    More light than heat!

  • @CrisSelene
    @CrisSelene Před 4 lety +2

    Great episode, as always. But I can't help but be hyped for the next episode. Finally an Eastern Europe focused episode !!!

  • @willh7352
    @willh7352 Před 4 lety +1

    I can't wait for every single one of these episodes.. thanks so much John Green!!
    for real for real.

  • @minellahaas6209
    @minellahaas6209 Před 4 lety +37

    John your pronounciation was on point in this episode! I have never heard an Amercian do so well on Dutch pronounciation! Nice to hear for a change :D
    For example Johannes Vermeer, Zeeland, De Jong sounded nearly perfect (stadtholder was a nice try but no xd)

  • @RoScFan
    @RoScFan Před 4 lety +38

    Glad to see eastern Europe is coming.

  • @_vallee_5190
    @_vallee_5190 Před rokem

    This video is a masterclass in historical analysis, it actually brought me to tears, which incredibly rare for any historical analysis.

  • @tyberius1313
    @tyberius1313 Před 4 lety

    Thank you for making these. Love the history series!

  • @Omnigreen
    @Omnigreen Před 4 lety +29

    Finally, can't wait for the Eastern Europe episodes.

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 Před 4 lety +1

      On what it look it seem to be Ottoman empire and he is western european he will also speach about Russia and less about other,also ignoring 2 centuries.

    • @jesseberg3271
      @jesseberg3271 Před 4 lety +3

      He picks up countries as the Renaissance reached them. So he should cover Poland by the end of the 19th century, and Russia could be mentioned as early as the 24th century.

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 Před 4 lety

      @@jesseberg3271 ok then where the f**k is Italy? He doesn't really speak about them and they are the ones who made the Renaissance.

    • @jesseberg3271
      @jesseberg3271 Před 4 lety

      @@alexandrub8786 What are you talking about? He spent the first two episodes on Italy.

  • @TheYoungWolfI
    @TheYoungWolfI Před 4 lety +7

    Please oh please have a Scandinavian history episode!

  • @MKPiatkowski
    @MKPiatkowski Před 4 lety +1

    Happy to have a segment on the Dutch. Was blown away by the art I saw at the Rijksmuseum. Cool that you lived in a canal house!

  • @windwalker5765
    @windwalker5765 Před 4 lety +1

    Please add Episode #14 (English civil war) to the European History playlist... Thanks! I frequently binge Crash Course series while doing chores, and it's nice to listen to...

  • @Corporis
    @Corporis Před 4 lety +3

    I see that sneaky "More light than heat" reference Thought Bubble...

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 4 lety +5

    I’m originally from Sleepy Hollow which started as a Dutch settlement. Unlike the other Europeans, the Dutch treated the Native Americans fairly and even traded with them too.

    • @dutchuncle2716
      @dutchuncle2716 Před 4 lety +2

      We did. But just because it was profitable. ;-)

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 Před 4 lety

      Didn't the french did the same think?

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 Před 4 lety

      Also what about the natives from Indonesia?

    • @dutchuncle2716
      @dutchuncle2716 Před 4 lety

      @@alexandrub8786 They got their villages burnt if they didn't want to trade, or also trade with the Portugese.

  • @peeves3873
    @peeves3873 Před 4 lety +2

    You are amazing. It gives me a chance to know a great deal about history even though I am in a different stream. Thank you.

  • @septemberavenue8344
    @septemberavenue8344 Před 4 lety

    I love learning from this. Please continue this noble endeavor.

  • @uranusprincess6827
    @uranusprincess6827 Před 4 lety +5

    I feel like Queen Elizabeth 1 needs her own whole episode. Shes a legend.

  • @ADIMontenegro
    @ADIMontenegro Před 4 lety +5

    I love this channel. I have seen almost every video, just want to let you guys know we appreciate this channel!

  • @gbrann100
    @gbrann100 Před 4 lety

    I am thoroughly enjoying this course. I love European history and this is a very good teaching of it.

  • @driverdave1298
    @driverdave1298 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Mr Green, you’re a very humble man, as I was quite surprised that you lay claim to being the author of a very well written book!
    I seriously enjoy you and your brother’s successful content, thus (oddly) have great hope in the continuation of modern family values.

  • @jeanpaulsinatra
    @jeanpaulsinatra Před 4 lety +39

    In this video: all the hipsters move to Amsterdam.
    "Damn," says Amsterdam, "we gotta start pillaging some stuff"

    • @riksnoek6068
      @riksnoek6068 Před 4 lety +4

      haha history of the entire world, I guess.

  • @melda92TRS
    @melda92TRS Před 4 lety +3

    More Light than Heat!

  • @SibusisoBiyela
    @SibusisoBiyela Před 4 lety +1

    Nice touch with the tulips at 9:00

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk Před 4 lety

    And now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head ALL DAY.

  • @EloquentRoasts
    @EloquentRoasts Před 4 lety +7

    Here in Europe this is what we call:
    “History”

  • @thebutzel9752
    @thebutzel9752 Před 4 lety +57

    John: Next is Eastern Europe in the 16th Century
    Me:Do I hear the Polish Lithuaniaian Commonwealth in the distance?
    Poland: AND THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!

    • @SidheKnight
      @SidheKnight Před 4 lety +3

      Sabaton: WHEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 Před 4 lety +2

      17th century*
      (Edit) i am disaapointed that he ignore 2 centuries of eastern european history

    • @Arrakiz666
      @Arrakiz666 Před 4 lety +1

      @@alexandrub8786 Yeah, I'm a bit sad he's apparently going to lump ALL of Eastern Europe's history into a single video. Poland, Hungary, Bosna, Albania, Moldavia, Lithuania, Ruthenia, the old monastic orders occupying the baltic regions for centuries, the various Russian principalities coming together to form the Tsardom, and of course, the Ottoman Empire. All of those are incredibly different countries with different cultures and history interacting with one another in a world very much removed from the broader European conflicts.
      Especially as a Polish person, it saddens me that it can't be expanded on more.

    • @mstakenidentity
      @mstakenidentity Před 4 lety

      @@Arrakiz666 I'm an Australian of Lithuanian descent and while I love Crash Course I feel the same way about how Eastern Europe and Australia/NZ/Oceania get covered.

  • @odina3688
    @odina3688 Před 4 lety

    Dude... I love your "Crash courses". Thank you. :)

  • @Rogue-A.I.
    @Rogue-A.I. Před 4 lety

    Best history series ever! thx John!

  • @bellasgonemissing9705
    @bellasgonemissing9705 Před 4 lety +5

    the 'more light than heat' and 'the sequel' thing made me laugh

  • @Trotty2000
    @Trotty2000 Před 4 lety +10

    In Spain it is called "La Guerra de Flandes" which i suppose can be translated as the dutch war.
    Thinking about it is strange that we dont acknowledge in the name our participation in that war.

    • @PietVandeVelde
      @PietVandeVelde Před 4 lety +8

      No, it is better translated as the "War of Flanders". Why? Because Bruges, Ghent and, Antwerp (part of modern day Flanders) were very important trade ports from the 11th until the 16th century and casus belli for the War. That's why you can even find traces of the Medici's influence way up north. Those Flemish cities, together with a great part of what is now modern day the Netherlands" were unified by the Burgundians during the preceding centuries. It was after the death of Filips I (son of Maria of Burgundy) that Spain, by Charles V (born in Ghent), was made part of Spain. The war that followed was fought for a large part in Flanders. Making the wealthy (mostly protestant) Flemish class flee to the North. The money of those merchants (before 1585) brought with them enabled to kick start the VOC.

    • @Trotty2000
      @Trotty2000 Před 4 lety +2

      @@PietVandeVelde Yeah, you are probably right but in Spain at that time we used to call the whole benelux region (and a couple of other territories that i cant remember right now ^^u) "Flandes" ... That's the reason why i translated it the other way. Because the region of flanders is not the same territory that was called "Flandes" by the Spanish.

  • @janevim11
    @janevim11 Před 4 lety +1

    halfway through the video I realized that even though it's summer vacation I've been looking forward to tuesdays to learn cool new things about history with this series, and I realized what a huge nerd I am, so much so I said it out loud. still, I learned that the netherlands are really cool and that I would love an extra course in dutch history next semester. and visitng amsterdam would be really cool too

    • @MKPiatkowski
      @MKPiatkowski Před 4 lety

      Was in Amsterdam a few years ago and it is really cool. Been learning Dutch since. The history of the Netherlands is fascinating.

  • @mihaylo_kovin
    @mihaylo_kovin Před 4 lety +1

    Thank for your work)

  • @archvermin
    @archvermin Před 4 lety +4

    "I feel like I should apologise to my friends and family for that joke, except...that I'm not sorry!" I would like to steal that line for when I'm old enough to crack dad jokes

  • @Tfin
    @Tfin Před 4 lety +11

    "extracting far more they invested?" Isn't that the whole point of an investment?

  • @MrJonLott
    @MrJonLott Před 4 lety

    This was one of the funniest and best Crash Course episodes I've seen.

  • @dcbaars
    @dcbaars Před 7 měsíci

    WoW i really liked the animations! And it’s always fun to get a crash course in history

  • @VashdaCrash
    @VashdaCrash Před 4 lety +70

    See? They'll talk about eastern Europe too, it'll fun! :D

    • @ilyaelric9539
      @ilyaelric9539 Před 4 lety +13

      I definitely hope so. There are no high quality videos about one of the greatest countries in history (Poland-Lithuania). At least on English-speaking part of CZcams.

    • @NikPL141
      @NikPL141 Před 4 lety +3

      It won't be fun if they reduce it to only one episode though

    • @GoDLiKeKakashi
      @GoDLiKeKakashi Před 4 lety +7

      @@ilyaelric9539 Dude, they won't. That graphic at the end gave it away with every animated character wearing turbans. It's gonna be all about the Ottomans and we'll be lucky if we hear more than 2 sentences about PLC.

    • @myusername6595
      @myusername6595 Před 4 lety +3

      Oxydino I’d really like to hear a lot about the byzantine empire, the migration of the Huns, Slavs, Hungarians, bulgars, etc. Poland-Lithuania, the northern crusades, and the medieval origins of some of the smaller countries. But it probably will mostly be a bit of a repeat of the ottoman and Russian world history lessons.

    • @alexandrub8786
      @alexandrub8786 Před 4 lety +1

      @@myusername6595 he told XVII century,there will be no byzantium and no migration and quit racist to treat eastern europe like they did nothing in the XV and XVI centuries.

  • @KWolf2013
    @KWolf2013 Před 4 lety +2

    As usual, excellent information!
    Also, cheers to Thought Cafe for the easter eggs in your office. When are you going to write 'The Sequel' and 'More Light than Heat', anyways?

  • @ricktimmermans1552
    @ricktimmermans1552 Před 4 lety +2

    You can still see the tongue of Johan de Witt and the finger of Cornelis de Witt in a museum in The Hague.

  • @yoshipercussion5126
    @yoshipercussion5126 Před 4 lety +4

    Excellent content as usual, guys. It'd be awesome if you shed more light into Latin America's history. Keep it up!

  • @FictionWriter95
    @FictionWriter95 Před 4 lety +17

    Fun fact: the first member of my family to move to the New World arrived in New Amsterdam in 1640, meaning that he was one of the first 300-ish settlers of what eventually became New York City.

  • @Tuwakan
    @Tuwakan Před 4 lety +1

    Johns gaining some meat, been a while since I've seen a video! Much love guys

  • @geraldimhof2875
    @geraldimhof2875 Před 4 lety

    Noice video, but oh wow! Looking forward to next video, that's what I wanted to see :D

  • @_iivinnyroxesii_98
    @_iivinnyroxesii_98 Před 4 lety +10

    idk why im watching this even tho this is not part of my social studies but its interesting :>

    • @twistedtachyon5877
      @twistedtachyon5877 Před 4 lety +1

      Not so surprising. If you've got both a good teacher and a good curriculum, the things you cover in school should give you a good framework, but even that's not a given. Don't let what you're specifically told to learn be all that you know. Knowledge is power, as they say, and there's always going to be something interesting you don't know.

  • @michaellyden2580
    @michaellyden2580 Před 4 lety +13

    "War is good for business."
    -Rule 34 of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
    (Not to be confused with Rule 34 of the Rules of the Internet)

    • @canni5760
      @canni5760 Před 4 lety +5

      Ah, but have you forgotten Rule 35 of the Rules of Acquisition? "Peace is good for business."

    • @michaellyden2580
      @michaellyden2580 Před 4 lety

      Emma Moolhuizen and you remember...
      ...Matthew...
      ...21:17.

  • @maremaarten
    @maremaarten Před rokem

    Excellent series, awesome teacher!

  • @arivera8886
    @arivera8886 Před 4 lety +1

    I loved the old version sooooo much

  • @deldarel
    @deldarel Před 4 lety +11

    Stadtholder is an English word so you pronounced it correctly in American and made an attempt in British. The Dutch word is Stadhouder.

    • @davedevosbaarle
      @davedevosbaarle Před 4 lety

      Stadhouder litterally means city holder.

    • @dutchraider2
      @dutchraider2 Před 4 lety

      @@davedevosbaarle Perhaps a better translation (because directly translated it is city holder) would be city keeper. Since it means about the same as the word innkeeper.

  • @augustus331
    @augustus331 Před 4 lety +12

    Finally a video about the Dutch!! I am so hyped before even watching this. Thanks, John!

  • @robitybobitybam
    @robitybobitybam Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you for the pacing of speech!

  • @musewinter9369
    @musewinter9369 Před 4 lety

    Thank you for teaching me so much

  • @MrSonic130
    @MrSonic130 Před 4 lety +105

    Kolonisatie is een drug en ik heb een verslaving

  • @danielmasny1587
    @danielmasny1587 Před 4 lety +34

    John, what are your top two TMBG songs? I need to know.

    • @Fromage10x
      @Fromage10x Před 4 lety +1

      I made some guesses but I would not have put Istanbul as 3 (great song but much lower on my list) so who knows.

    • @chadtindale2095
      @chadtindale2095 Před 4 lety +2

      Birdhouse in your soul. Definitely. Maybe particle man is the other.
      But Istanbul wasn't a tmbg song. It was a cover.

    • @sonicgoo1121
      @sonicgoo1121 Před 4 lety +2

      FISH HEADS!

    • @chadtindale2095
      @chadtindale2095 Před 4 lety +1

      @@sonicgoo1121 that is absolutely not a tmbg song

    • @Fromage10x
      @Fromage10x Před 4 lety

      @@chadtindale2095 it's a Napster joke, heh

  • @rodfer5406
    @rodfer5406 Před 4 lety

    Excellent

  • @geoffreywinn4031
    @geoffreywinn4031 Před 4 lety

    Cool video!

  • @moladiver6817
    @moladiver6817 Před 4 lety +3

    American historians are uncovering more and more about the role of the Dutch in early American history. One notable thing are the parallels between the American declaration of independence and the Dutch act of abjuration 2 centuries earlier. Fun fact: The Netherlands by one of its ships in the Caribbean was the first to salute a vessel with an American flag and thus recognize the US as an independent country.
    The Netherlands as a relative safe haven for all kinds of people became Europe's first true melting pot. This got then transplanted to North America through the colony of New Amsterdam which then became the seed for the North American melting pot.

  • @falnica
    @falnica Před 4 lety +4

    Now I want to play as Holland in EU4

  • @ryanweaver962
    @ryanweaver962 Před 10 měsíci

    Lens, perspectives, and empathy.

  • @freepeanut333
    @freepeanut333 Před 4 lety +1

    Please put a link to the full playlist in the description! Every time i see a new video, i have to waste up to 30 seconds to go to the channel, playlists, scroll down and check if i haven't skip anything.
    Best regards
    A millennial

  • @Frahamen
    @Frahamen Před 4 lety +3

    9:38 see, this is an anachronism. People didn't paint outside until 1841 when the paint tube was invited. Until then the painter or more often the painting company, made the paint at the spot. Landscape paintings were a thing long before of course but there were made either out of memory, or based on previously made drawings or, like in the case of many the golden age Dutch paintings, out of a window.

    • @elise2182
      @elise2182 Před 4 lety

      What about oil-based paint, which took a lot longer to dry and could be transported anywhere?

  • @user-sd5vh1mx5x
    @user-sd5vh1mx5x Před 4 lety +36

    🌷"The Originals of the two Republics are so much alike, that the History of one seems but a Transcript from that of the other."
    John Adams - 1782🌷
    🌷We may derive from Holland lessons very beneficial to ourselves
    John Marshall - Virginia Convention 1788🌷
    🇳🇱🇺🇸🇳🇱 🇺🇸🇳🇱 🇺🇸 🇳🇱🇺🇸

    • @Shivom.Parihar
      @Shivom.Parihar Před 4 lety +3

      🇺🇸 🇳🇱

    • @nannepeters8303
      @nannepeters8303 Před 4 lety +4

      🇳🇱🇺🇸

    • @robertjarman3703
      @robertjarman3703 Před 4 lety

      Hamilton originally proposed life terms for the president and senators believe it or not. They could be impeached, which is what to him made it a republic as opposed to a monarchy. The Stadtholder served a similar role.

    • @kayhoorn
      @kayhoorn Před 4 lety

      The only difference is that you guys won the war against Brittain, we didn't.

    • @gabor7524
      @gabor7524 Před 4 lety +1

      kay hoorn depends on which war you’re talking about

  • @dom9086
    @dom9086 Před 4 lety

    I'm at the point where I watch these for fun instead of when I need to study. (Good job)

  • @Doonsmoo
    @Doonsmoo Před 4 lety +1

    Good stuff.

  • @michaelc5152
    @michaelc5152 Před 4 lety +21

    Wait a second. This is THAT John Green!?

    • @werds1392
      @werds1392 Před 4 lety +8

      Noire yes

    • @BkismNJ
      @BkismNJ Před 4 lety

      I was unaware, as well.

    • @cashmoneychanel1209
      @cashmoneychanel1209 Před 4 lety

      Seriously? People are still shocked 🤣 look up all his books they’re fantastic

  • @sirwolfnsuch
    @sirwolfnsuch Před 4 lety +10

    3:19-3:27 There wasn't one stadtholder, and he wasn't appointed by the Estates General.
    Rather, each of the seven regional Estates elected it's own stadtholder. It just happened to be that the majority usually appointed the same person (while the two northern states usually picked another guy from the same house of Orange).
    Otherwise, great video!

  • @MichielGlas
    @MichielGlas Před 4 lety +1

    God job on you Dutch John! To make it even better, use the vowel 'ou' as in "ouch!: Stadhouder. Thank you for your video's!

  • @daviddeboer09
    @daviddeboer09 Před 4 lety +2

    Wonderful show. Very well produced! Small error: The States General did not elect the stadtholder; the individual provinces did. Most chose the same guy, but the province of Friesland, for instance, had a different stadtholder most of the time.

  • @shawnguy3317
    @shawnguy3317 Před 4 lety +5

    I love John writing "The Sequal" and the More Light Than Heat on the board. What happened on 9/16/2009?
    And John drinks diet Dr. Pepper!

  • @maxchase133
    @maxchase133 Před 4 lety +7

    You’re way of saying stadtholder is on point. (Depending on where you live in the netherlands)

  • @ArcusLibri
    @ArcusLibri Před 4 lety

    I got inordinately excited at 11:46 because my grandparents are from Breda 😄

  • @TheToneBender
    @TheToneBender Před 4 lety

    The brothers De Witt story is always my favourite

  • @Baukereg
    @Baukereg Před 4 lety +5

    Pretty awesome, but not as awesome as Bergkamp's goal against Argentina on the 1998 world cup.