The Thirty Years’ War could have been over after five years. The Catholics defeated the protestants first at white mountain, then in the Palatinate. But the war did not end. It got caught up in international affairs and power politics more and more. France, the Spanish Habsburgs, England, the Dutch Republic and other major European powers were quickly sucked into the conflict and because many of them were in the process of establishing colonies, they expanded the scope of the war overseas to Indonesia, Africa and the Americas. This was in part due to the fact that the trade routes to asia became less reliable and more expensive due to the Ottoman control of most of the vital ports in the mediterreanean.Because the Thirty Years’ War is usually looked at with a focus on Germany, the global aspect of the war is often neglegted. But in 1624/25 little actually happened in Germany while Globalisation, colonization and mercantilism pushed the war far beyond the German territories. That is why in this video we’re looking at the European and even global dimension of the thirty years war.

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