American Reacts The Most Underrated Era in History (In My Opinion)
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2023
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Dutchman here. This is actually the most important era in our history. The 16th century was dominated by the Reformation & emperor Charles V. The Dutch Revolt, or 80 Years War, started between the Spanish Empire & revolting Dutch states of the Low Countries. The 17th century is considered the Dutch Golden Age. The Dutch Revolt ended in 1648, and the Dutch Republic was the most prosperous nation in the world. The Dutch Republic ruled the waves, and controlled world trade with the VOC. The Republic was a safe haven for free thinkers, Jews, Huguenots & other prosecuted. Making it a melting pot of people from all around the world. With loads of philosophers like Spinoza, Voltaire & John Locke. Scientists like Huygens & Van Leeuwenhoek etc. The biggest art market in the world, with painters like: Rembrandt, Frans Hals & Vermeer.
pretty much same for Poland.
The spanish empire ruled the waves. The Dutch were a bunch of glorified pirates.
@@RESTITVTOR_TOTIVS_HISPANIAE in the 16th century, yes. But not in the 17th century. This bunch of glorified pirates controlled all trade east of South Africa. And defeated the combined Portuguese/Spanish navies multiple times. Not even mentioning the fact that the Dutch had a navy bigger than all the other European navies combined.
@@MLWitteman as I said, pirates. The empire they built, a hellhole of colonial extraction.
@@RESTITVTOR_TOTIVS_HISPANIAE ahh well, those were the good old days. But I sense a little grudge there? Still, after all that time? Haha
6:23 Breeding horses large and strong enough to carry humans, not to mention domesticating them, took tens of thousands of years. Horses appear on prehistoric cave paintings around 30,000 BCE, but they were wild horses. Earliest possible domesticated horses are estimated to have been in around 3,500 BCE, in modern-day Kazakhstan (Central Asia).
Just love how he shows all these Dutch paintings, yet doesn’t mention the Dutch Revolt or the Dutch Golden Age at all.
There is too much going on in that era. He also doesnt mention France (which was also kinda in its peak under Louis 14)
@@user-pg9qb3wy7s exactly! Nothing about the second half of the 17th century. The time of the Franco-Dutch Wars & Anglo-Dutch Wars. A period crucial to understand the balance of power in the 18th century.
6:45 horses weren’t originally ideal for riding, except maybe as like a shuttle for infantry and scouting. In the meantime, it was mainly first used in combat with chariots.
Came here for this; we literally had to breed these horses into existence, like most dogs
@@brysn6112 also fruits, vegetables, grains. Those started out pretty bad too, and we also had to genetically modify them to be a lot more useful.
The 1700s became known as the Age of Enlightenment, ideals such as freedom an equality became prominent among lower class citizens, and there was an occurrence of several revolts and revolutionaries to bring about change in society.
It is normal Anglo-Saxon schools don't teach much about their main enemy of the time.
The fear they had for the spanish universal monarchy was quite palpable. God, glorious times.
For Poland the historical blind spot would be the time between Napoleonic Wars and WW1
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED! - Sabaton
As a German *this* is the period where the great and mostly subconscious national traumata come from, it's the era that is the key to why Hänsel and Gretel need to go into the woods.
It's the era the Empire (that's the Holy Roman one, for most of history *the* Empire) tore itself into pieces in a maelstrom of blood and powder and gold over religion (ostentatiously) unendingly continuing the massacre because it was cheaper than to pay off the mercenaries and cease the bloodshed.
There where areas in the Empire that where almost completely depopulated when everyone worked out a solution out after 30 bloody years ("let's make the emperor pay!"...) and demographics didn't recover until the Napoleonic crisis.
It's also the time when my birthplace of Frankfurt was the heart of the Empire, the place where Emperors where voted and the City of Frankfurt (a state on it's own) decided the Prince Electors where not getting around to voting an emperor fast enough and they put them on water and bread until they got to a decision.
It's weird.
And awesome.
And horrible.
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You are wrong about 18th century. There were so many wars. It is Great Northen war, wars of Spanish, Polish, Austrian and Bavarian succession, War of the quadruple alliance, American war of Independence, Seven years war, all of russo-austrian-turkish wars, all of russo-swedish wars and so on. And also in Asia you have Qing dynasty wars, you have mughal-maratha wars, afgan-maratha wars, campaigns of Nader Shah (the persian Napoleon) and so on. So, yeah, the 18th century are not boring. (Sorry for the mistakes)
It was much more peaceful in Europe than the 17th century tho
@@5thMilitia perhaps
@@user-pg9qb3wy7s certainly
6:37 its very far from being perfectly designed to carry humans - humans are saddled probably in most uncomfortable position for horse, resulting in spine deformation after years of service. 7:50 Musketeers my ass, musket wasnt even a thing when pike&shot took off. Arquebus was the weapon of choice for those who could afford it, usually a substantial part of "gunners" used crossbow.
Yeah, I'd argue Bactrian camels at least look a lot better suited to carrying humans. They have a sturdier build and even have a niche for the human to fit into xD. I don't know how well their backs are actually suited to that, though, and they also have a pretty bad temper compared to horses. And yeah, they obviously don't go nearly as vrooom as horses do.
😮 Not all horses develop kissing spines. They more often get windgalls, spavlins, splints, navicularitis, capped hocks, etc. A lot are classed as blemishes (which count against showing) but not as physical lamenesses.
Originally nobody was riding on horses because they were too small and they were used with chariots and when after a long time they were breed to be big enough you start to see more cavalry but often as skirmisher or light equipment and later when proper warhorses are more common you see more and heavier armour being used. So it was a very gradual change and the reason why they seem so perfectly "designed" is literally because they were. BY US using selective breeding
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Cavalry or calvary?
❤Cavalry.🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴❤
spanish golden age, that´s it
Recommended movie: "Alatriste" with Viggo Mortensen
Gustavus Adolphus basically invented light artillery. Before that cannons were very large and slow to both move and use, and their main use was for sieges. Good old Gus basically ordered his engineers to come up with something that would be easier to carry and could be used more frequently than imperial cannons.
May I guess : this vid was made for US only? .. "nobody thinks of this time'' . o.O The 30y War in central europ was one of the main topics in my history school lessons.
Is it just me getting annoyed by “Calvary” being said instead of cavalry. Two totally different things 😡😂😡
❤YES !! I have remarked upon this particular mispronounciation "a ton" of times on _various_ Reactor's videos !! Only _one_ of which (Mark From The States) thanked me and said he'd _try_ to remember it !) 😊
Cavalry 🐴Cavalry 🐴Cavalry 🐴❤😊🖖
It's _not_ hard !!
@@brigidsingleton1596 to be fair, at least Connor is getting it right most if not all the time. Still drives me nuts when so many people mess it up.
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Absolutely - yes I heard Connor say it correctly as I was typing. 🧡🖖😊
It does "grind my gears" though whenever I hear things - not just "calvary" grrr - Mispronounced !! I am a self-confessed pedant but an unapologetic one !! 😊🧡🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 I will confess that I have words that my brain can’t properly send from my brain to my mouth, makes my family laugh, I get around it by not using them in public and substituting them with others that I can pronounce properly. I don’t think I could make a video or script without having it checked by someone else to ensure I got the point across correctly and didn’t mislead others however unintentionally.
@@charlottehardy822
Oh I do that all the time - if I cannot think of the word I want, or if I cannot spell it (other than when I ask my daughter to help me)
I try instead to use an alternative.
Recently, after I'd had a CT scan which appeared to find something "odd" on my liver, I had to then have an ultrasound...
(It found nothing untoward) and when I let my friends know, I managed to misspell "lesion" - and was promptly asked if it "was like Steve Coogan"s 'Night At The Museum' s little "legion" ?!! Oops...!!
I corrected it straight away (and felt a little foolish for the error), but I was glad to have a friend who could correct me 'kindly' ! 😊🧡
Im American and I love history Blud didn’t need to give the rundown
Strange that he didn't mention Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba in a video about the combined use of guns and pikes in european warfare.
Ummm......people also ride elephants. Horses were first used to pull chariots, dogs were used to pull sleds. Not to mention donkeys and camels being ridden and other animals used to cart around goods on their backs. Oxen were used for pulling plows among other things.
Yep, this human world is hell for nonhuman nimals.
How so unlucky for all horses were human domination and the pike aquare and guns.
Shows a ton of pics of the 80 years war (1568 -1648) doesn't mention it once...
Yes, in the middle of the 1600s Great Britain had a 9 year civil war. The monarchy lost and the king was executed and GB became a republic. Then the republic ended and we went back to being a Monarchy. The puritans kind of took over and were executing catholics left right and centre. Mayhem for 20 years then straight back to empire building.
The wild horses that were first domesticated were not so perfect to human use as their descendants eventually became after generations of selective breeding which lead to a human made artificial evolution, making domesticated horses stronger, bigger and faster.
6:32 do you think before you speak? 1. It was breed to be comfortable for humans 2. Horses are not perfect for riding you just think that because you don’t know any better! Btw key word “seems” not is.
Originally people didn't ride horses. The first use of horses in battle is with chariots
how could you get better than a horse? one word, rhinos.
9:45 You're lucky! 😅
He'll be made to see the light.
Horses are very much not "perfect" for humans. They are ridiculously fragile, time intensive to train and take a lot of maintenance. Not to mention this only being possible through thousands of years of selective breeding
This narrator seems unable to pronounce the word Cavalry. Either that or he's dyslexic. It's certainly not "Calvary".
1700s is not boring buddy