Sweden: HAHA YES! WINNING ROCKS!!! SUCK IT, LOSERS!!! Sweden: *loses once* Sweden: Let us be a bastion of neutrality.
@KitagumaIgen2 ай бұрын
It was more like losses during a 100 years long period (of economic and demographic decline).
@jabbertwardy2 ай бұрын
Sweden: Let's become a seafaring power! Builds the Vasa, which promptly sinks upon launch. Sweden: Navies are overrated.
@cleeiii3572 ай бұрын
Up until this year, 2024.
@timmccarthy99172 ай бұрын
Sweden 2022: "y'all got any more of them NATO memberships?"
@KitagumaIgen2 ай бұрын
@@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!!!)
@ElysiumCreator2 ай бұрын
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
@SulistaComunista2 ай бұрын
and depend on it for map games
@SharkyMcSnarkface2 ай бұрын
@@SulistaComunista And block games. Really, they just seem big on cultural victory.
@rawjawbone2 ай бұрын
...those meatballs, man....
@mvl95912 ай бұрын
and the Swedish Fish candy.
@SL168672 ай бұрын
*heavy breathing by Americans butchering the pronunciation of IKEA*
@Siptom3692 ай бұрын
Paradox stopped buffing them
@paireon34192 ай бұрын
Paradox will never stop buffing them until they outright rewrite reality in Sweden's favour.
@MausOfTheHouse2 ай бұрын
In CK3 the Norse culture is so hilariously overpowered that it's impossible to compete
@haikalmiftah25292 ай бұрын
😂
@maxsmith81962 ай бұрын
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
@Anthropomorph02 ай бұрын
"Sweden is not overpowered." 🙄😂
@markmarano9132 ай бұрын
1:08 - Single greatest visual representation of "mixed arms" ever!
@lukesalazar92832 ай бұрын
💯
@vicino.2 ай бұрын
How do you mean?
@Emmelive2 ай бұрын
@@vicino. 3 pairs of different looking minecraft like arms
@richardwallerstein5392 ай бұрын
At its strongest, Sweden had a colony in the Americas, New Sweden, on the Delaware River as well as ownership of St Barts.
@titanuranus30952 ай бұрын
I would say at it's largest, not necicarrily at it's strongest.
@reindeerflrp90412 ай бұрын
No. Saint Barthélemy didn’t belong to Sweden until the 1700s, while New Sweden was a Swedish colony during the 1600s. 🤓☝️
@JosePerez-vz1qq2 ай бұрын
Philadelphia's municipal flag is evidence of Sweden's brief North American presence.
@egregius93142 ай бұрын
And then the Dutch were like: 'Hey, it's free real-estate'.
@otavainen2222 ай бұрын
Fun fact: the colonist were actually mostly Finnish
@olegoose5742 ай бұрын
1:40 "I use army to fund army" - Sweden, probably
@hentehoo272 ай бұрын
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.
@lokensicarius93472 ай бұрын
How to fund a Viking army 101
@albion60872 ай бұрын
the viking mentallity
@frenzalrhomb69192 ай бұрын
@@albion6087 I love it!!
@Iason292 ай бұрын
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.
@gegecry2 ай бұрын
So essentiely until 1700 sweden was prussia before prussia was prussia.
@cia56492 ай бұрын
yeah basically
@Tridentofmemes2 ай бұрын
Before 1721
@luisfilipe20232 ай бұрын
Except Prussia had a much more reliable financial system and a much stronger economy
@hevnervals2 ай бұрын
@@luisfilipe2023 When? Prussia has gone through several iterations.
@fildafernandes43662 ай бұрын
@@luisfilipe2023Sweden was prussia but just with a absolutely horrendous population
@apc97142 ай бұрын
Problem: Expensive army Solution: James bisonette
@eacalvert2 ай бұрын
I think Kelly Money Maker would be a better choice but that's just me
@Matakshaman2 ай бұрын
Hotel: Trivago
@BigyetiTechnologies2 ай бұрын
@@eacalvertclue's in the name really.
@MetDaan29122 ай бұрын
😂
@D.S.handle2 ай бұрын
Imagine that some of these guys just forgot that they have subscribed to him on Patreon.
@realhawaii5o2 ай бұрын
Here in Estonia, they still call the Swedish rule period "The Golden Swedish Age".
@Erik_Taurus2 ай бұрын
Interesting! Are there any articles about this some place so I (we) can read?
@phil_cassidy2 ай бұрын
Well, given that it was followed by Russian occupation the bar for a good time wasn't particularly high.
@heh93922 ай бұрын
Here in Finland we call them the homoage
@Adam-dd5fx2 ай бұрын
I've also heard it called "The good old Swedish times"
@frenzalrhomb69192 ай бұрын
@Erik_Taurus And how did you Estonians enjoy being ruled by the "Livonian Brothers of the Sword" and their descendants, the Baltic German's?
@nixlarfs10022 ай бұрын
State control of the church was mostly important because the church kept detailed records of people, and these records increased taxation efficiency immensely.
@-tn-kitten80672 ай бұрын
And helped in finding and keeping track of potential recruits or conscripts for the army.
@youtaku69662 ай бұрын
Cool, I thought this was just some Paradox shit.
@masterspark98802 ай бұрын
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
@thanakonpraepanich42842 ай бұрын
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.
@pan2aja2 ай бұрын
Old day version of Big Brother
@iOnlySignIn2 ай бұрын
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.
@magnushultgrenhtc2 ай бұрын
The section of the Swedish constitution that guarantees freedom of speech is a decade older than the US: 1766.
@ledrash60792 ай бұрын
@@magnushultgrenhtc As a Swede, i think Sweden prohibits hate speech, which means its not fully freedom of Speech.
@blueseercontent2 ай бұрын
@@ledrash6079 I mean, so does the American policy on free speech as well. Tolerance of intolerance usually just leads to more intolerance.
@rajm.q.17762 ай бұрын
@@blueseercontentAmerican Free Speech actually guarantees complete Speech protection, even for hate Speech and blasphemy
@anttibjorklund18692 ай бұрын
Freedoms have limits.@@ledrash6079
@HerbertLandei2 ай бұрын
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.
@spacecube85612 ай бұрын
oh that's where ''alter schwede'' comes from
@Dwarfi012 ай бұрын
Also in Hamburg there's a stone named alter schwede, a stone from Småland :>
@MrNathanael942 ай бұрын
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)
@anthemsofeurope24082 ай бұрын
Yeah, I come from Rügen and people here jokingly ask "When is Rügen going back to Sweden?"
@phildman1322 ай бұрын
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
@erickonami12 ай бұрын
I tell my girlfriend i have her as my wallpaper but in reality i switch it to Gustavus Adolphus when nobody is looking
@mappingshaman52802 ай бұрын
>implying his gf is not guatavus adolophus We both know you like the skeltonussy
@Iason292 ай бұрын
HAHA this comment:D
@Alexq79-2 ай бұрын
That painting of him riding a horse in such a flamboyant manner during battle as if he’s the sugar plum fairy 😍
@SeverityOne2 ай бұрын
Maybe you should get a Swedish girlfriend instead. 🙂
@bjarniiii2 ай бұрын
king
@clockie19902 ай бұрын
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
@AdvocateOfJamaica2 ай бұрын
Too bad they didn't stick with Norway--they would've been able to get some of that oil money.
@edmerc922 ай бұрын
@@AdvocateOfJamaica Norway didn't want to stick with them
@paintingdreams2902 ай бұрын
@@AdvocateOfJamaica actually they wanted to but the Norwegians did what was smart: they broke up w them.
@Boomforce2 ай бұрын
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.
@jmolofsson2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Quin_Ram2 ай бұрын
They didn’t decline. The many locations of IKEA all over the world just shows how influential Sweden is!
@colindaniels9452 ай бұрын
Lol,I hate IKEA Ever tried putting together something from them? Not fun at all,lol
@o.w.n.13272 ай бұрын
@@colindaniels945 you must be "special" kind of person if you cannot put together a furniture you bought from IKEA. That shit practically builts itself.
@Kokong2 ай бұрын
@@o.w.n.1327But I always get lost in there😢
@greymagic8572 ай бұрын
@@colindaniels945 IKEA furniture has a bit of parts but tbh it just takes time it's not that bad
@skylarius37572 ай бұрын
@@Kokong I know what you mean. It's like they built the shop in a maze.
@ShyGuyShow2 ай бұрын
In Swedish history class this is called "Stormaktstiden" or The age of great power
@MetalLP2 ай бұрын
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..
@ShyGuyShow2 ай бұрын
@@MetalLP brings a tear to my eye :(
@antonjohansson38192 ай бұрын
Typo StormaktsTiden
@ShyGuyShow2 ай бұрын
@@antonjohansson3819 Thanks, missed that!
@nattygsbord2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@gideonmele15562 ай бұрын
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-gb1eu2 ай бұрын
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.
@ReichLife2 ай бұрын
@@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-gb1eu2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@ReichLife2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@quakeknight96802 ай бұрын
Closest thing to Russia and Poland ever being allies
@mrwillss58882 ай бұрын
James Bisonette didn’t fund us enough 🇸🇪
@jc3drums9162 ай бұрын
Your mistake was not going to Kelly Moneymaker instead. I mean, it's right there in her name.
@mrwillss58882 ай бұрын
@@jc3drums916 she was funding the Danes during the great Northern war.
@tausifchowdhury81802 ай бұрын
@@mrwillss5888I knew there was something wrong with her when she started speaking weirdly rather than speaking the beautiful and efficient Swedish language
@CouchTomato872 ай бұрын
I immediately started looking for a comment about why James Bisonette was now gone
@coltafanan2 ай бұрын
I keep thinking one day we’re gonna hear: “But fun fact… Yes!”
@seavixen1252 ай бұрын
But fun fact......no
@patrickt6012 ай бұрын
My week was so bad, glad you uploaded a new video
@vincentiusx2 ай бұрын
Aw I hope next week will be better
@martinmortyry74442 ай бұрын
Hope for the best next week. Stay strong, buddy!
@Iason292 ай бұрын
Your week wasn't as bad as Charles running from Poltava, you have to look at the bright side
@thatoneperson1342 ай бұрын
⚡️⚡️⚡️😡😡😡
@youtubeaccount5153Ай бұрын
Hope things are going better this month.
@adamesd36992 ай бұрын
This whole “let’s fight Russia…Hey, it’s going well, let’s go further…Oh shit!” is a recurring theme in history.
@leeharveyoslik2 ай бұрын
The time has come for another iteration.
@writerconsidered2 ай бұрын
And there's always a bad winter.
@kristenburnout12 ай бұрын
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.
@chipslejonet88402 ай бұрын
Interesting video and also it is always fun to see somebody talk about swedish history. Hälsningar från sverige
@nolancooper58842 ай бұрын
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!
@Lord_Raymund2 ай бұрын
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.
@nolananderson47822 ай бұрын
"Mixed arms" really got me
@LNERA02 ай бұрын
It's because James Bisonette wasn't funding the treasury
@TheCimbrianBull2 ай бұрын
IKEA + James Bissonette = the most dynamic duo ever! 😊
@rennor34982 ай бұрын
I guess the greatest patron of the Swedish Army from France must have been James Bisonette.
@MrJeremybowling2 ай бұрын
Wow! What a time to be alive. We got a video on a Sunday heck yes
@PhoenicksUK2 ай бұрын
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.
@Trolligi2 ай бұрын
because James bisonette
@alastairward27742 ай бұрын
He stopped funding them and switched to this channel.
@jamesbissonette80022 ай бұрын
Nah
@NBrixH2 ай бұрын
@@alastairward2774This comment was fact checked by real Danish patriots. ✅✅✅
@paulcowlishaw2 ай бұрын
Who
@W4NKHA2 ай бұрын
Kelly was not yet making money at this time
@ThePikminCaptain2 ай бұрын
2:18 I expected Joakim to show up here because he made a cameo in the 30 years war video
@timfortune92 ай бұрын
"Listen excuse for a King! Trust me, this fight you can't win!"
@spacecube85612 ай бұрын
i'm sorry he what?
@chairpersonofthecharlotteh56462 ай бұрын
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
@BigSnipp2 ай бұрын
Is Estonia a real place?
@triadwarfare2 ай бұрын
@@BigSnippof course it is. Don't let Russian propaganda fool you otherwise. Also, Estonia is known for its digital governance
@BigSnipp2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@solce8092 ай бұрын
lmao cucked
@tj-co9go2 ай бұрын
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.
@Gosudar2 ай бұрын
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.
@Xabeutt2 ай бұрын
you could ask portugal and england the same question
@blubbson2 ай бұрын
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.
@konanpl89362 ай бұрын
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.
@gustavnilsson27952 ай бұрын
@@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 🇸🇪
@konanpl89362 ай бұрын
@@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.
@health019Ай бұрын
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.
@David_Crayford2 ай бұрын
My idea of Swedish history was either the SAAB 900 or the Vikings. Thanks for bringing in some illumination.
@cgnnfxfhh482 ай бұрын
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
@mema00052 ай бұрын
Hate to be a grammar nazi but you really need some full stops in there. Its hard to read such a long sentence
@glenglen63862 ай бұрын
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.
@kemarisite2 ай бұрын
Me at start: "I've listened to enough Sabaton to guess ..." "Poltava" Me: "Yep. Swedish soldiers met their bane."
@largezo75672 ай бұрын
They diminished as they lost us, the Finns!
@magnushultgrenhtc2 ай бұрын
Back in a common military alliance with all of the Nordic countries for the first time in 501 years...!
@dwarow25082 ай бұрын
*lost to the Russians
@citinox17782 ай бұрын
Finland was the true key to Sweden's power.
@ae-jo5gc2 ай бұрын
@@citinox1778France money I would say.
@quandangle93972 ай бұрын
@@citinox1778 No, no it really wasn't. It was poor, and considered a backwater place basically.
@hurleybot2 ай бұрын
Spinning Three Plates… what a History Matters GOAT
@prysthaea77352 ай бұрын
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.
@iwuedfh2 ай бұрын
i did not see the mixed arms visual coming
@BenedictSigley2 ай бұрын
Your channel has got me through school this year with the highest grades in the year and 100% in every test thank you
@TheRatOnFire_2 ай бұрын
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.
@Veritas.02 ай бұрын
"Good old fashioned generalship" -- "Kill The Enemy" I enjoy your one liners, but this one was one of the best.
@M0R3gOfF2 ай бұрын
Explain Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-nassau next!
@YetAnotherSADXFan2 ай бұрын
Something something James Bizonette
@YetAnotherSADXFan2 ай бұрын
Or Bisonette, no idea how it's written
@Iason292 ай бұрын
Your silly comment got more likes than one I made the other day on a video discussing the collapse of the Chinese economy.
@YetAnotherSADXFan2 ай бұрын
@@Iason29 ok
@Malabarista12 ай бұрын
This is this week’s obligatory James Bissonette comment
@jamesbissonette80022 ай бұрын
Obligatory response
@barsukascool2 ай бұрын
@@jamesbissonette8002obligatory disagreement
@ethanreyes95492 ай бұрын
Obligatory Kelly Moneymaker comment.
@KevinWebb2 ай бұрын
@@ethanreyes9549 they both gave it all to some KZfaqr. Back to furniture making and I assume Xeroxing cash.
@TrashBoxer2842 ай бұрын
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.
@doglover314186 күн бұрын
Skol!!!!!
@TrashBoxer2846 күн бұрын
@@doglover31418 skål!
@anthonyruby26682 ай бұрын
I'm an American. To me the world in the 1600s was the caribbean, New England, Old England, New Spain, Old Spain, New France, and Old France.... And maybe the HRE.
@calebroberts54222 ай бұрын
Again one of those things ive aleays wondered but never looked into for some reason...great channel btw
@borissand38912 ай бұрын
1:22 Swedish empire: no i swear it gets bigger, it only looks small because its cold
@matthew4168112 ай бұрын
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.
@issemayhem2 ай бұрын
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
@fredsoh40272 ай бұрын
Literally every single monarchy in Europe had foreigners as their monarchs throughout their history, that eventually married and became nationalized.
@Deltaflot17012 ай бұрын
@@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
@ankoku372 ай бұрын
took me a while to realize that this wasn't an elaborate setup to a James Bissonette joke
@joesomebody33652 ай бұрын
Some people argue the English monarchy is technically French (from 900 years ago), since it started in Normandy.
@SwedieYT2 ай бұрын
If only we had made IKEA and Volvo 250 years earlier...
@SandsOfArrakis2 ай бұрын
and Saab to build jetfighters
@fisk02 ай бұрын
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.
@RikkiPakoputki2 ай бұрын
Volvo 250 Cab min drömbil, dock taget ur sitt sammanhang.
@ladganan47762 ай бұрын
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"
@akechijubeimitsuhide2 ай бұрын
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
@elicref79892 ай бұрын
The damage done by Sweden to Poland during the Deluge was worse than the Nazis in WW2
@williamshakesbeer41632 ай бұрын
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
@elicref79892 ай бұрын
@@williamshakesbeer4163 material-wise yes but in terms of percentage of the population killed, the Swedes were way worse
@BartlomiejDmowski2 ай бұрын
@@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
@Cheesemax5952 ай бұрын
Sweden really lost once and then stopped playing. A true paradox Gamer
@eddiehancockii2 ай бұрын
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.
@eh25872 ай бұрын
Can you do a video on why Poland-Lithuania declined?
@dvv182 ай бұрын
The Szlachta, the Crown, and the Cossacks didn't see eye to eye with each other. And the Russians wouldn't forgive the Time of Troubles. And yes, I already suggested the Time of Troubles couple-three years back.
@ReichLife2 ай бұрын
Simple, atrocious political system which destroyed central authority and made state paralyzed to both properly act and react.
@Admiral45-102 ай бұрын
Reason was, ironically, quite contrary to Sweden - in XVIIth Century it entered a state of almost constant, never-ending war - with Sweden in the early XVIIth Century, Russia during the Dymitriades, Ottoman Empire, Russia again (Chmielnicki's Up-Rising), Sweden, Russia and Prussia altogether (VIth Polish-Swedish War, also known as ,,Swedish Deluge"), civil war (Lubomirski's Mutiny, one of the bloodiest civil wars in Polish history), Ottoman Empire again (Sobieski's Rescue), Ottoman Empire *again* (Vienna Campaign) and then Sweden once more (Great Northern War). Yet another factor was just how ineffective Polish-Lithuanian pollitical system was in times of crisis (which, in case of Poland-Lithuania, lasted for almost 200 years non-stop). _Nihil Novi_ (,,Nothing New" in Latin) privilege ensured, that in order for *any* Royal decree to be passed, literally *every single envoy* must agree. During the _Golden Century_ it worked well - in fact, Polish Nobility was praised for ability to debate and even allowed women to vote and veto on certain occasions - but went crushing down in times of Swedish Deluge, when Noblemen were just cancelling Sejm Negotiations for no reason than to cancel them (mainly because they were bribed to do so or wanted to force the King to submit to their wills). King had very little real power over his country, and it took time to assemble the Sejm - the shortest waiting time was over 2 weeks, just to pass a single decree - which didn't work well for the Polish-Lithuanian economy. Ironically, one of the things that bankrupted Poland-Lithuania was also the Winged Hussars. They were a little like Tiger tank during WW2 for Germany - scarily effective, almost absolutely undefeated, and could, in many cases, single-handedly win a battle even without a numerical advantage, but were also extremely costly. In Sejm of 1724, when Poland-Lithuania disbanded the Winged Hussars as military formation, it was clear the nation was in severe need of reforms, but it took another 60 years (and 2 another bloody wars, being put under Russian Protectorate and one partition), in Great Sejm Negotiations of 1788-1792, to actually do something - but by that time it was already too late. Any trials of reforms were just resulting in more and more wars (War of Polish Succession, Bar Confederacy, War of Polish Constitution and Kościuszko's Up-Rising), and to at least somehow pay off massive external debt, Poland-Lithuania had to literally sell its lands (the Partitions). In 1795 King has been given a choice he could not refuse - to accept the 3rd and final Partition and retire in lands of his precious lover, Catherine II of Russia, or face horrendous debt (that even forced him to become a bis-xual prostitute to pay it off somehow. No, I am *not* making this up. He was doing this to afford bribes for Noblemen in Sejm Negotiations). He's made his choice.
@ayararesara62532 ай бұрын
Because of ukrainians
@advocatusdiaboli48612 ай бұрын
@@Admiral45-10 Wasn't it "liberum veto", not "nihil novi"?
@Ryan-ij3ge2 ай бұрын
I always enjoy your videos! ❤
@jamesbisonnette2 ай бұрын
Here in Peru, they still call the Swedish rule period "The Golden Swedish Age".
@Robert-do3cd2 ай бұрын
As a history buff with ADD, your videos are absolutely amazing.
@_inveterate2 ай бұрын
😅😅
@SeoulMan2 ай бұрын
1:59 "I WAS CHOSEN BY HEAVEN!"
@franc53772 ай бұрын
"SAY MY NAME WHEN YOU PRAY"
@ajax14752 ай бұрын
TO THE SKIES SEE CAROLUS RISE!
@Folkraider17592 ай бұрын
"WITH THE LORD MY PROTECTOR"
@ppyorii47482 ай бұрын
As a swed i have been waiting almost 2 years for another video on Sweden. Thx History Matters
@thorpeaaron11102 ай бұрын
Fun Fact No will always be my favorite line from this channel.
@KevinDavis3382 ай бұрын
I do miss the thumps.
@muhammadhabibieamiro36392 ай бұрын
Another amazing video
@ayrtonpavot30962 ай бұрын
1709 was a DISASTROUS winter btw
@farhanmizra2 ай бұрын
"Ready for your massage, ja?" - Swedish Phoebe
@messithegoat61422 ай бұрын
This is my Roman Empire...
@erickonami12 ай бұрын
det är så över...
@joninator78582 ай бұрын
Haha husk Fredriksten festning hvor vi skøyt kongen deres. Vi kan kjøpe hele Sverige om vi vil!
@messithegoat61422 ай бұрын
@@joninator7858 ehm vi ägde er i 100 år
@messithegoat61422 ай бұрын
Och danmark ägde er i typ 350 år också 💀💀
@joninator78582 ай бұрын
@@messithegoat6142 Union hvor vi hadde mye selvstyre kan neppe telles som å "eie" Når vi erklærte oss selv selvstendige gjorde dere ingen verdens ting
@modst842 ай бұрын
3:00 Norway: "hehe... wait what!?"
@cgt37042 ай бұрын
3:21 for now
@gojira403619 күн бұрын
Forever
@fabiansall24412 ай бұрын
Wow. Probably the best 4 minute summary of the Swedish Empire's rise and decline I have ever seen. Well done.
@arbyjack25522 ай бұрын
Great video! Good to hear Swedish history!
@mcbruh142 ай бұрын
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)
@kellenlean20762 ай бұрын
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.
@marlarki52802 ай бұрын
Just like one of my American TV shows!
@GimbalosMorkinar2 ай бұрын
"I am 5% Finnish so I know pretty much everything about Finland."
@kellenlean20762 ай бұрын
@@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!😁
@ygma14602 ай бұрын
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-od7mf2 ай бұрын
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.
@Lighthammer182 ай бұрын
Paska haisee ruotsin rannala
@KeveTeller2 ай бұрын
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.
@blubbson2 ай бұрын
@@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.
@RikkiPakoputki2 ай бұрын
@@Lighthammer18 Vain Suomessa istutaan reunalla
@ethans.97442 ай бұрын
You forgot to mention the brief resurgence under Gustav the Third
@trentweston83062 ай бұрын
Ohhhh so this isn't about Sweden's recent decline.
@CJRULESWORLD2 ай бұрын
James bissonnette is the demise of many great things empires fear him
@DimaDima-sz4tp2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the information
@DarthVader-ig6ci2 ай бұрын
2:07 I was chosen by heaven Say my name when you pray To the sky, see Carolus rise....
@TTisIH2 ай бұрын
With the lord my protector Make them bow to my will To the skies See Carolus rise!
@brandonhunt53142 ай бұрын
Your channel is my favorite!!!!
@brandonhunt53142 ай бұрын
Shout out James Bizennet!!
@jamesbissonette80022 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@nickvandergraaf10532 ай бұрын
Really interesting, thanks!
@bhasty12 ай бұрын
Mass immigration!
@markanderson3870Ай бұрын
Wow. I never knew. Now I do. Thanks!
@JM-mg4el2 ай бұрын
I'm from the swedish part of Germany that everyone always forgets about!
@Admiral45-102 ай бұрын
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"
@sliftyyАй бұрын
Is there any lasting Swedish influence on those parts of Germany?
@JA4321232 ай бұрын
It’s wild that Napoleon had such a wide range of impact across literally all of Europe at one point, great video again!
@shzarmai2 ай бұрын
Why is there no Assyrian country? or Assyrian nation-state?
@thela255Ай бұрын
Most of them are dead
@MrMainA2 ай бұрын
Tell us about GDL (Grand Duchy of Lithuania) next, please!
@familygash75002 ай бұрын
*VIDEO SUGGESTION:* What happened to The Vikings' settlements in North America?
@user-gw2vz5gh2n2 ай бұрын
that's a banger idea
@SRMC232 ай бұрын
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.
@mikewilliamson72462 ай бұрын
I remember a great amusing lecture, enlivened by great computer graphics, in front of a large audience and shown on BBCTV given by world class Swedish statistician Hans Rosling. His explanation for Sweden no longer being so aggressive internationally, included the fact that it was one of the first countries to arrange a national census. A key fact that the census highlighted was that Sweden's population was significantly smaller than had previously been assumed. The government realised firstly, that there were probably no where near enough men (it did in those days mainly concern men, of course) to fill up a good sized army. Also, there were not enough citizens in general to pay enough taxes to pay for wars. So they decided that a better course of action might be to try to get on with other countries, and so save the expense (and the loss of people through them being killed). Consequently. Sweden became more often a "nice" peace living usually neutral country.
@nattygsbord2 ай бұрын
The corruption and mismanagement of the country in the 1700's prevented it from regaining it former position as great power. Then in the 1800s came the growing power of Russia and Germany made it hard for any Swedish dreams of becoming the most powerful country in northern Europe again. In the past was it also possible for a small country (like Sweden) with large amounts of cheap natural resources to build a large powerful navy that could compete with the navy of other great powers. Sweden even managed to get the largest navy in the late 1500s and early 1600s. But in the 1800s did navies begin to build ships made out of iron and steel. And Sweden which had been amputated and lost its Finnish, Baltic and German provinces could no longer compete with great powers in the world in shipbuilding. Because building a large fleet of huge battleships made out of metal had become too expensive for a small country to afford. Only countries with large populations and industrial power could compete in this club.. like Germany, Britain, France, Russia, USA, Japan and Austria. So retaking lost lands in the 1800s was not realistic.
@blubbson2 ай бұрын
That's a nice story but also not even close to correctly representing what happened historically. Rosling was a statistician, not a historian.
@chheinrich84862 ай бұрын
Because grantville wasnt there to help Gustav Adolf in 1632😂 ("1632" by erich flint)
@halnywiatr2 ай бұрын
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
@benmaharaj68542 ай бұрын
Using the military to pay the military was actually pretty common for a long time. Conquest used to be a part of the economy. Of course these days wars are way too expensive to be done for profit. Some countries are slow learners...
@HistoryNerd72732 ай бұрын
Sweden in 1800s: WE ARE STRONG Sweden In 2024: We want peace :)
@carlosferreira64202 ай бұрын
What a sad destination...
@BoereViking2 ай бұрын
How sad that such brave warriors have been pussified.
@hobbitluck2 ай бұрын
I love that it was also a bit of: "WE ARE WINNING! DO MOAR WAR!" And then after losing a lot: "Be more neutral is what we meant!"
@carlosferreira64202 ай бұрын
@@BoereViking yeah...all because of that cuckold of gramnsci and progessists
@justsomeguy16952 ай бұрын
1700s*
@ArthurCSchaperMR2 ай бұрын
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?
@ExpellTheInvaders2 ай бұрын
Mass immigration
@mrgopnik59642 ай бұрын
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
@kungolaf44992 ай бұрын
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.
@blubbson2 ай бұрын
@@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.