Rose M // Rose, really grateful you can use them as a homeschooler. At some point I hope to do a series of church history at a more basic overview level of around 15:00 a video, but have to finish these more indepth lectures first. :)

Ryan Reeves I'm a graduate of a prestigious divinity school on the east coast of the US. Your lectures are what my church history lectures were not. While theology is still my favorite interest, I still read church history, but not in a systematic way. Organization, dissection of similarities and differences between so many groups of Christians is a great bonus, even in the gray years of life. Thank you for this series as well as Early and Medieval Church History.

Jay Dugger // That's a good suggestion. I'm not quite sure how to do that, though. :) I built everything in PremierePro and then upload here, so the links would not carry over. I could include them in the descriptions section below the video, though, which may help.

KZfaq's own tools make this possible as part of the upload process. See the "Annotations" tab for an individual video in the Video Manager of KZfaq's Creator Studio. I don't know Adobe PremierePro at all, and cannot give a good suggestion about it.

Thanks, man. Well my training is in intellectual history and so much of this time is well-known for its history but less so for what theology is going on during this time. But also this is part of a seminary course on church history, so kinda has to be in there. :)

100% my man i just thought i would make my point that i thought church had pride of place...just my opinion though, as i have said yours is one of the best history channels on youtube. cheers

AliceMarieM // I did, but without some agonizing over what to leave out. I had an entire section on Sweden and Russia but in the end worried it would be piling on everything. When I looked at the upcoming lectures on the 17th century there was not much on Sweden, so I had to put it on the editing floor. As always, I have this desire at some point to go back and tell the wider stories that are less well-known--and Sweden and the church in Europe is a fun one. One fine day...:)

I know that time constraints and the number of historical events you want to cover is a problem but you should really look into Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late 16th and 17th century. It didn't have visible effect on the western world but if you consider what I'm about to say then maybe you will look into this. From 1577 to 1677 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was in the constant state of war with its four powerfull neighbours: Sweden, Russia, Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate. Of course Poland couldn't take it and by the end of 17th century it was irrelevant wreck of a country. But this wars had a great effect on politcal structure of Europe in 18th century. Poland suffered the blunt of the Ottoman attacks on Europe and their wars crippled Ottomans so that later in 18th century Habsburg Austria could easily take over the fight and become even stronger. Russia moved its borders and influence west so that it became European player. Sweden lost many wars to Poland at first but then in 1650s and 1660s they won and occupied whole country. They plaundered so much wealth out of Poland that the destruction is the same as WW2 had on Poland (25% of Polish population died). This allowed Sweden to become major European power. Also, the weakness of the Commonwealth made another country possible: Prussia. They were Polish vassal but due to Swedish influence they broke off in 1701 and then united with Brandenburg created a powerful state. By the way you speak of Dutch wealth in this video. Its origins could also be traced back to Poland. Back in 16th century Poland and the Dutch traded in the port of Gdansk huge ammounts of grain and food. American discoveries of food (like potatoe) weren't widespread yet so the Dutch made great money out of the trade and so did the Polish nobles. The money gained in that trade made the Dutch expansion into the world and colonies possible.

Ryan does have an 18th century lecture.