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The Thirty Years’ War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with an estimated death toll between 4.5 and 8 million. What began as a localized religious dispute quickly escalated into a multinational war that devastated the Holy Roman Empire. Sadly, civilians bore the brunt of the destruction and perished at a staggering rate of nearly 7 to 1 as foreign armies pillaged and looted their way across the land. Then Famine came, which was worsened by environmental shifts creating an economic collapse, forcing desperate people into unspeakable acts—while the nobility profited. Disease quickly followed as armies spread the plague through war-torn cities, turning the empire into a deadly melting pot of infection. The war eventually evolved into a struggle for political power, making peace negotiations nearly impossible and the resulting treaties reshaped Europe, fracturing the Habsburg Empire and leaving a lasting legacy on global conflicts to come.
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*CHAPTERS*
00:00 – Intro to 30 Years War
01:19 – Chapter 1: Conquest
09:15 – Chapter 2: The Second Horsemen
18:05 – Chapter 3: Famine
27:07 – Chapter 4: Death
36:24 – Chapter 5: Chaining the Dragon
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Artist: Nick DeWitt | Writer: Robert Rath | Showrunner & Narrator: Matthew Krol | Video Editor: Devon House Creative | Audio Editor: Clean Waves | Studio Director: Geoffrey Zatkin | Social Media: Kat Rider | ♪ Music “May 15, 1648” by Tiffany Roman
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Wouldn't wipper start with a V instead of a W?
Hear the Chapo Traphouse podcast of this as well !!!
I recently learned that one of the writers for Extra History writes Warhammer fiction novels as well.
It just makes so much sense.
Wait, did he say that they were "Eating the cats! They were eating the dogs"? 😂
I love how Extra History doesn’t just focus on battles, but really captures the human side of the conflict—famine, disease, and the staggering social consequences make it feel so real.
Great video. I’ve been interested in this period for a long time and I’ve always found it extremely dense and hard to follow. Thanks for the break down, this really helps.
This gives badly needed perspective on the sci-fi novel series "1633" from Baen Books (a West Virginia coal town is Isikaed into 1633 Germany, forming a new alternate timeline with Yankee ingenuity and Protestants vs the Hapsburgs and Cardinal Richileu)
15:25 mr krabs pulled a palpatine a staged a war
It's amazing how many pivotal events in history were not taught to me in public school.
I was offered a position at a school for gifted children but declined because I did not want to be separated from my friends (in retrospect this was a goof decision….but I was 11 so 🤷🏿♂️). Luckily my grandfather had a well stocked library complete with encyclopedia AND PBS in the 80s and early 90s was a beast so I got by despite poor schooling.
I look at channels like this and sites like nebula and envy kids today. The ability to access the knowledge of the world simply by reaching in my pocket would have created a supervillain out of prepubescent me.
Let's popularize channels like this, that they become the norm of social media. ESPECIALLY as our current idiotic and self serving administration attempts to eradicate the facilitation and ubiquity of public education.
Hey man. I am really big fan especiall for this video. I am a hungarian history teacher and I would love if you could create a hungarian sub. For this very reason I would be able to give homework assignment to watch this video.