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But he did become what his dad wanted. He became very involved in the military after his dads death, and actually started enjoying it, just like what his father wanted
@@johanroyce6324 and yet he lost in the end because he couldn’t defeat the team of Near and Mello, even though Light’s followers managed to kill Mello. And Matsuda did most of the damage to Light that caused his death.
Yeah, like the misogyny for example. I'm honestly the LEAST shocked about that, considering how badly women had it universally in most societies. For some reason, women just drew a short straw, because men for some UNGODLY reason decided to claim women were inferior, and stacked countless systems against them. Not that men didnt suffer either, but the point is, oof. So Frederick being misogynistic is like monarchs being tyrannical; some of them are better than others and a few even nearly progressive, but its such a common trait across most societies that like...is anyone surprised?
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 If I were to guess the original reason for men to take over was hightened risk taking and agression which supports decision-making under pressure as well, no? But then when we got brains big enough to process the idea, we didn't had brains big enough to get this so it became "bigger monkey = better monkey" and the rest is history, I guess.
There’s a saying in Chinese, “a pitiful man always has a hateful side”. I think that describes Fredrick. He could have grown up more open minded and enlightened, but it was squashed by his father. It’s hard to blame him for not being able to shake off his father’s influence entirely
That's what made him famous. His father may have been very harsh, but shaped the Prussian army and Frederick's military mind. We probably wouldn't talk about him if his father didn't have that influence.
"For everything you'll learn about him that you'll like, he'll tend to have an equally awful quality." Applies to a lot of mostly fondly remembered historical figures, honestly. Or even prominent present ones.
Oh man, I visited Sanssouci during a work trip to Berlin about 7 years ago and took a tour. The castle was extravagant. The stories the guides told about that place, some of the people who stayed there, etc were pretty crazy.
I’ve been watching this with my roommate’s brother, and he finally said what I’d been thinking, “Why are people so mean to talented people? Like, okay, you’re jealous, better yourself. Don’t ruin others.” I cackled.
A lot of people are jealous of those who have a talent or something they’re good at, and instead of finding their own calling, they choose to bring the other down
Thank You guys so much, I never knew Fredrick the Great was so interesting! You present what could be a stale encyclopedic article in a fun and engaging light.
@@kalterverwalter4516 Is Frederick I really that interesting? I barely ever found info's on him and most say he was mediocore despite formally creating the Kingdom of Prussia.
@@dunkelheit5055 Yes absolutely. At least in my opinion. But more as a Person than Just from an Political Standpoint. He wasnt great but He wasnt a Garbage King Like Prussian Histography make him Out to be. He shared many similarities with His Predeceasora. Like His Grandson He wasnt His Fathers Favourite and wasnt meant to become the Elector/Duke of Prussia. And Like him He Loved Architecture, Science and Arts. He founded the Ancestors of the Prussian Academy of Science and the Prussian Academy of Arts. Like the Last Emperor Wilhelm the Seconds He was also crippled. His Nickname among the people was crooked Fritz. Dude there are so many Bigger and smaller Storys about him I cant wrote all down. If you are Interested House Of Historys has a 20 minutes Documentary about him. IT Just Covers the Basic stuff but still is a Great Video
@@kalterverwalter4516 Thanks for the answer, I'll definitely watch that video. I always thought he was sort of mediocore, never considered him to be a bad King, but thank you alot for the Documentary. I didn't even know he founded thoose Institutions, they probly couldn't reach full potential though since his son imidately defunded them...
If a period biopic of this man were made today, it would be not only a legit Oscar contender, it would be the hands down favorite. Hollywood needs get their thumbs out and do this project already.
I would assume Germans have already more something? Hollywood doesn’t make that often biopics of non English speaking people. And biopics set prior to 20th century are quite expensive.
Thank you for explaining the French-British alliance switch for the Seven Years’ War. So many history channels have just mentioned it as a funny thing that happened without elaborating
Love these episodes. Been interested to know more about Fredrick since he was mentioned in the Catherine the Great series. Wonderful job guys! Thank you!
4:03 "For everything you learn about him that you like, he'll tend to have an equally awful quality." I feel like you could say that about most historical figures, especially the further back you look.
I think it's a bit sad that the series nearly never mentioned one of Frederick's inner politics like his big educations programs for the common population, his big migration program's were he provided shelter for oppressed Protestant's all over Europe in prussia or his big establishment of the potato that was one of the big factors why Prussia will become so powerful.
The Ottoman empire at this period was not as strong as it had once been and was still recovering from previous wars with Austria and Russia. The Ottomans had little to gain from the 7 years war for the cost that it would incur. This is why they didn't join the conflict aside from some border squabbling with Austria near the end. Fredrick's poor diplomacy and the fact that Prussia did poorly in the war for the longest time, probably wouldn't have inspired the Sultan with his reliability as an ally
Well that was actually being one of the reasons of the first particion of poland ( stoping russia from gaining to much ottoman land and thus using them as a target to throw against the austria and russia itself) I am not native english speaker
All I really know about the Seven Years War is while Prussia was fighting everyone in continental Europe, Britain was taking every French colony in America and India.
The biggest thing to remember is rather how Russia changed side just when Prussia was finally starting to break, and even helped them. It was due to a rather unbelievable reason. Truly a miracle.
Oh no 7:25 A coalition of nations against one small nation who will save them form the bullies the parallels to the napoleonic wars are so fascinating and Frederick the great deserves a lot of credit.
Have to agree with the "Using Professional Wrestling to Teach History" argument. If American education had used this tactic when I was a young adult, American Adult Males nowadays would be among the most historically educated people in the entire universe (every boy I knew in Middle School, including myself, was nose-deep in WWF/WCW Wrestling back in the day)!
I love your content, the way you describe historic events in an easygoing, humorous and relaxed fashion is a breath of fresh air. You're a joy sir, I hope you keep this content up for a long time coming. I'm glad I subscribed to you.
@@patrickjeffers7864 no the Austrians were more competent than years before,but that badbutt of Frederick still managed to kick their butt and elevate a nation that before him could challenge no more than Saxony into a great power
@@GigaRoman not saying he wasn't a great general, perhaps the greatest tactician..and yes the Austrians under Daun were way more formidable. But dude was on the point on collapse, even suicidal because he couldn't prevent prussia's destruction. Like the u.s civil war, the south had better commanders but the north had numbers, eventually that will start to show. But unlike the u.s, where Lincoln lived until the theater, the tsarina died. Fred was saved. That's it
Cannot wait for next weeks episode, cause oh boy does Frederick nearly get ganked, where his only reason for not dying was thanks to Peter the 3rd idolizing him so much and essentially ending the war with Prussia against what Elizabeth had wanted before her passing.
It almost feels like a good thing to learn about Fredricks flaws at this point. When learning about history I tend to take broad sweeps at peoples moralities and not see them as complex and nuanced human being. While I myself am part of the lgbtq+ community and love learning all sides of queer history the hateful beliefs he harboured, and more importantly inforced as an influential ruler shouldn’t be ignored.
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 Thats a grand sweeping judgment in and of itself though. Plus it's vague as hell, so it can sadly be easily weaponized against them too. You should at LEAST consider rephrasing this sentence.
I hope this is understood. A lot of people get the title great, not because everything goes great for them, but because despite everything hitting rock bottom for them, they find a way to rise to the challenge, they create their success, they walk it off, and keep moving forward, and by doing so, they become great.
I genuinely love your guys's content but I'd probably still watch it on RUclips only for the fact that it's like watching TV I got to wait a week for the next new episode
Thank you for at least mentioning some of the less savory thing Fredrick did/ was, even if i wish youd gone into more detail. All too often historical figures are mythological near gods rather than human people
@@poilboiler it did, Britain got involved and that meant that there was fighting in America, India, Africa and the Philippines. This was not just Europeans fighting in those places either, the Mughals, several African kingdoms and several American and Asian groups were involved.
@@poilboiler Yeah it was everywhere. It's actually how Washington and co got their start and basically led to the US Revolution. Like it was fought in Detroit and St. Louis for example
Out the gate, first servant of state! Oblique attack tactics ain't exactly straight! He's got creative talents and battle malice! Hard as steel on the field, genteel in the palace!
...in the classic anime 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' Major Misato Katsuragi says: "A miracle only happens, if somebody effects it." ...and she's right...! ...so it was a miracle, because Frederic griped the opportunities...!
@@daspotato895 Frederick himself called it “the miracle of the house of brandenburg”. Besides, the house of Hohenzollern can also be called the house of brandenburg as they ruled and ruled from the electorate of brandenburg, just as the house of Habsburg has also been called the house of Austria because they ruled and ruled from the archduchy of Austria
To quote from my favourite film: "It would require a great philosopher and historian to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years' War, in which Europe was engaged... Let it suffice to say that England and Prussia were allies, and at war against the French, the Swedes, the Russians, and the Austrians"
Yesterday I visited Potsdam and saw his palace Sanssouci , his grave his park it was so emotional for me that walking in his park his garden. The garden he walked and lived I really would want to travel to the past and wanna see him alive while he walk in Sanssouci Park..
Hey extra history. Would you kindly write "finale episode" when the last episode of any series is uploaded? I start watching these series once the finale episode is available. (sorry, I'm too impatient to watch one single episode per week and wait one week for the next episode to be uploaded.) Love you guys❤️❤️❤️
Great series but I'm a bit disappointed that there was no mention of Fritz meeting Catherine and sending her to Russia as a plug for the Catherine-series...
The art historian Waldemar Janusczak (I am not sure I've spelt that exactly!), during a series on the art of Frederick's time, came up with a beautifully simple explanation to the name of his "pleasure palace". You see it's written as "Sans, soucis." There's been a lot of debate among art historians about the meaning of the punctuation in a building's title. The point mentioned in the first episode that he spoke French as a preferred language is the key. The comma is _virgule_ in French, the full stop is _point. Virgule_ is an euphemism for a gentleman's... eh hem, _saucisse_ (trying to keep it PG here!), and _point_ has another meaning as in the English "no point" - _pas de point._ So, read it with the punctuation in full, so to speak, and you get, _sans virgule soucis point_ (it's a play on words, and _sans virgule, ça ne sert à rien_ is a bit more obvious!), or "without a 'comma' there is no point." (I hope I don't have to elaborate on that!) The explanation is, I find, beautiful in its simplicity and is far more likely than any other long-winded hypothesis!
In a 12 minute video there were around 9 minutes of content and 3 minutes of talking about Nebula/ending. So now the videos are 75% content, and the rest go towards encouraging us to support the channel and shout-outs to patrons, which is a nice deal.
5:43 Its a oversimplification that Silesia was Protestant. While the larger part of it, known as Lower Silesia, was mostly Protestant at the time, Upper Silesia was almost completely Catholic (with the exception of Duchy of Cieszyn/Teschen, which remeined with Austria anyway), and even Lower Silesia had a large minority of Catholics, espacially before Prussian takeover.
that's good, i don't think there is many peoples that realised that peace is temporary and it's always only a question of time before the next one broke out so better prepared yourself for the worst and hope for the best. 5:11 A shame their personnal relationship wasn't as good...
Well, the way the Seven Years’ War started can be one diluted mess, but here’s how it truly started, militarily speaking. In 1754, a young George Washington attacked French troops in western Pennsylvania under Jumonville; the French called it an act of war. And it was in North America where the Seven Years’ War started and saw some of its most savage battles: the Braddock Expedition, Fort William Henry and Louisbourg being among them. While Prussia was keeping France occupied in Europe, the Royal Navy blockaded the Atlantic coast, preventing the French from sending reinforcements. Yet still, the French were able to defeat the Brits in battle, due to the fact that France had the upper hand in Native American alliances. This was possible because the Valois and later Bourbon kings of France allowed a very limited number of people to emigrate to their colonies. British foreign policy saw Native Americans as people who had to conform or move west, whereas French foreign policy was to befriend them, treat them as Allie’s and make them partners through trade. As a result, France enjoyed a far more prosperous alliance with its Native American allies than the British. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I hope that there will be an Extra History series on the French and Indian War someday!
As great as freddy is, this is where you see the difference between him and napoleon. One was bad at diplomacy, the other had a bigger alliance to face and no fucks to give
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Bruh 🤣
Ok but im not downloading
I think I can wait on yt
Please do Texas revolution please extra credit please
your maps are atrocious and incorrect, overall very lazy and low quality video
Fredrick really had an advanced No Girls Allowed pillow fort.
😂😂😂
Sanssouci is quite the pillow fort. It's definitely on my agenda when I visit Berlin and eastern Germany in the next few years. :D
That’s a great way to describe it.
@@extrahistorybro replied 😂
It's crazy how Frederick fulfilled his fathers dreams, without being the son he wanted.
Yeah but at the same time his father raising him that way kind of created a man who was a bit of a douche
But he did become what his dad wanted. He became very involved in the military after his dads death, and actually started enjoying it, just like what his father wanted
You often complete destiny on the road to avoid it
@@johnnymonsters9717 ...indeed...
...that's how greek tragedies work...!
Shows you the power of discipline
Fredrick :- I ain't bloodthirsty .
Also Fredrick :- But to win you must strike first .
Light Yagami said it best
Machiavelli did nothing wrong.
'Let he who wishes for peace be ready for war'
@@johanroyce6324 and yet he lost in the end because he couldn’t defeat the team of Near and Mello, even though Light’s followers managed to kill Mello.
And Matsuda did most of the damage to Light that caused his death.
Well, that's still not being bloodthirsty. He made preemptive wars for strategical reasons, not because he had fun killing peoples.
Fredrick's dad: You need to like manley thigs!!!
Fredrick: I like men
real
True
1 masculine thing + another = 2 masculine things after all
manly²
Exactly my argument if the middle east region wants to silence women so much they should just kiss eachother
"For every quality you learn about Frederick you like, there is one that you dont" Almost like people in history books are actual people!
At this point, we take what we get and aknowledge the ugly stuff. Humans will be humans.
Yeah, like the misogyny for example. I'm honestly the LEAST shocked about that, considering how badly women had it universally in most societies. For some reason, women just drew a short straw, because men for some UNGODLY reason decided to claim women were inferior, and stacked countless systems against them. Not that men didnt suffer either, but the point is, oof.
So Frederick being misogynistic is like monarchs being tyrannical; some of them are better than others and a few even nearly progressive, but its such a common trait across most societies that like...is anyone surprised?
Weird they said that at anti-semitism, but then didn't specify what the unlikeable thing against that was?
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 If I were to guess the original reason for men to take over was hightened risk taking and agression which supports decision-making under pressure as well, no? But then when we got brains big enough to process the idea, we didn't had brains big enough to get this so it became "bigger monkey = better monkey" and the rest is history, I guess.
@@Limrasson what an edgelord
There’s a saying in Chinese, “a pitiful man always has a hateful side”. I think that describes Fredrick. He could have grown up more open minded and enlightened, but it was squashed by his father. It’s hard to blame him for not being able to shake off his father’s influence entirely
That's what made him famous. His father may have been very harsh, but shaped the Prussian army and Frederick's military mind. We probably wouldn't talk about him if his father didn't have that influence.
and at the same time without his father's influence there would be no Frederickthe Great
@@ahnafahmed4951 maybe so but would that be a bad thing ?
@@revilokidTrue.
@@xenotyposDebatable, honestly.
"For everything you'll learn about him that you'll like, he'll tend to have an equally awful quality."
Applies to a lot of mostly fondly remembered historical figures, honestly. Or even prominent present ones.
Applies to most people honestly. Everyone has an ugly side.
@@Prodigi50everyone has at least one stupid opinion, most have many.
"It would require a great philosopher and historian to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years' War." -The Narrator from Barry Lyndon
"Everyone finna catch these hands" - Sun Tsu
"The score is still 5-2" -Napoleon Bonaparte
😆😆😆
Oh man, I visited Sanssouci during a work trip to Berlin about 7 years ago and took a tour. The castle was extravagant. The stories the guides told about that place, some of the people who stayed there, etc were pretty crazy.
it's a lovely monument
(even though the neighbouring Neues Palais outshines it in my opinion)
Envy! 😁
I’ve been watching this with my roommate’s brother, and he finally said what I’d been thinking, “Why are people so mean to talented people? Like, okay, you’re jealous, better yourself. Don’t ruin others.”
I cackled.
But what are the jealous ppl in case?
A lot of people are jealous of those who have a talent or something they’re good at, and instead of finding their own calling, they choose to bring the other down
@@MyFandomsAreLit No, but I mean in the video, who was jealous of whom?
I don’t remember what the video was about but it this kid is a kindergartener acing middle school level math I don’t feel like questioning him tbh
Thank You guys so much, I never knew Fredrick the Great was so interesting! You present what could be a stale encyclopedic article in a fun and engaging light.
That is Not even the Tip of the Iceberg! Besides that His Father, Grande Father and Grande Grande Father Had all extreme Interesting lifes.
@@kalterverwalter4516 Is Frederick I really that interesting? I barely ever found info's on him and most say he was mediocore despite formally creating the Kingdom of Prussia.
@@dunkelheit5055 Yes absolutely. At least in my opinion. But more as a Person than Just from an Political Standpoint. He wasnt great but He wasnt a Garbage King Like Prussian Histography make him Out to be.
He shared many similarities with His Predeceasora. Like His Grandson He wasnt His Fathers Favourite and wasnt meant to become the Elector/Duke of Prussia. And Like him He Loved Architecture, Science and Arts. He founded the Ancestors of the Prussian Academy of Science and the Prussian Academy of Arts.
Like the Last Emperor Wilhelm the Seconds He was also crippled. His Nickname among the people was crooked Fritz.
Dude there are so many Bigger and smaller Storys about him I cant wrote all down. If you are Interested House Of Historys has a 20 minutes Documentary about him. IT Just Covers the Basic stuff but still is a Great Video
@@kalterverwalter4516 Thanks for the answer, I'll definitely watch that video. I always thought he was sort of mediocore, never considered him to be a bad King, but thank you alot for the Documentary. I didn't even know he founded thoose Institutions, they probly couldn't reach full potential though since his son imidately defunded them...
@@kalterverwalter4516 Thank You! I guess I have a rabbit hike to fall into!
This series has been absolutely amazing
If a period biopic of this man were made today, it would be not only a legit Oscar contender, it would be the hands down favorite. Hollywood needs get their thumbs out and do this project already.
They'd amplify his homosexuality and practically hide his misogyny.
I would assume Germans have already more something? Hollywood doesn’t make that often biopics of non English speaking people. And biopics set prior to 20th century are quite expensive.
@@Thoralmir How do you ‘amplify’ homosexuality? It’s either there or it isn’t
So Frederick the Great literally had a Hakuna Matata palace
Yes
That’s the first thing I thought too 😂
Frederick the Great really said every night is boys’ night
Thank you for explaining the French-British alliance switch for the Seven Years’ War. So many history channels have just mentioned it as a funny thing that happened without elaborating
Love these episodes. Been interested to know more about Fredrick since he was mentioned in the Catherine the Great series. Wonderful job guys! Thank you!
Thanks so much! We loved doing the series!~
4:03
"For everything you learn about him that you like, he'll tend to have an equally awful quality."
I feel like you could say that about most historical figures, especially the further back you look.
I think it's a bit sad that the series nearly never mentioned one of Frederick's inner politics like his big educations programs for the common population, his big migration program's were he provided shelter for oppressed Protestant's all over Europe in prussia or his big establishment of the potato that was one of the big factors why Prussia will become so powerful.
Spoiler: youre gonna love episode 5
@@DaJalster28 alright, thank you!
See the title of next episode: "Do You Want to Live Forever?"
What a coincidence: I've watched the first Highlander movie yesterday.
You better rewatch Starship Troopers. 😏
"If they ever got married, he'd kick them out."
Freddy the Based: Girls have cooties, I might catch it from you!
He was like the boys from the movie The Little Rascals.
I loved both movies
With those opinions about Austria and Christianity, I'm surprised that Frederick didn't tried to ally himself with the Ottoman Empire.
In fact, France had already had alliances with the Ottomans, so allying the Ottomans would've preserved the Prussian-French relations.
The Ottoman empire at this period was not as strong as it had once been and was still recovering from previous wars with Austria and Russia. The Ottomans had little to gain from the 7 years war for the cost that it would incur. This is why they didn't join the conflict aside from some border squabbling with Austria near the end. Fredrick's poor diplomacy and the fact that Prussia did poorly in the war for the longest time, probably wouldn't have inspired the Sultan with his reliability as an ally
What did you think he wouldn't hold a similar opinion on Islam?
Well that was actually being one of the reasons of the first particion of poland ( stoping russia from gaining to much ottoman land and thus using them as a target to throw against the austria and russia itself) I am not native english speaker
@@spartanx9293 but they both hate the Austrians
All I really know about the Seven Years War is while Prussia was fighting everyone in continental Europe, Britain was taking every French colony in America and India.
The biggest thing to remember is rather how Russia changed side just when Prussia was finally starting to break, and even helped them. It was due to a rather unbelievable reason. Truly a miracle.
Frederick is so cool! Thank you so much for sharing him!
Frederick's reign feels like a 4x game
Specifically, _Europa Universalis._
Honestly the best ad for Nebula is You Tube itself, I had for ads watching this video, gonna get Nebula now
Oh no 7:25 A coalition of nations against one small nation who will save them form the bullies the parallels to the napoleonic wars are so fascinating and Frederick the great deserves a lot of credit.
Have to agree with the "Using Professional Wrestling to Teach History" argument. If American education had used this tactic when I was a young adult, American Adult Males nowadays would be among the most historically educated people in the entire universe (every boy I knew in Middle School, including myself, was nose-deep in WWF/WCW Wrestling back in the day)!
I love your content, the way you describe historic events in an easygoing, humorous and relaxed fashion is a breath of fresh air. You're a joy sir, I hope you keep this content up for a long time coming. I'm glad I subscribed to you.
Amazing animation and the history is so freaking great.
Man, I hadn't seen an extra history series for a loooong time, like 2021-2022 long.
Feels good to come back to quality content once again :D
Frederick was at his peak in the 7 years war
In 1757 yeah, after that it was only downhill until Empress Elizabeth died.
He got lucky...
@@patrickjeffers7864 no the Austrians were more competent than years before,but that badbutt of Frederick still managed to kick their butt and elevate a nation that before him could challenge no more than Saxony into a great power
@@GigaRoman not saying he wasn't a great general, perhaps the greatest tactician..and yes the Austrians under Daun were way more formidable. But dude was on the point on collapse, even suicidal because he couldn't prevent prussia's destruction. Like the u.s civil war, the south had better commanders but the north had numbers, eventually that will start to show. But unlike the u.s, where Lincoln lived until the theater, the tsarina died. Fred was saved. That's it
The Prussian army was getting ground to dust, Berlin was burning. The Kingdom on the verge of extinction. 🎵 Thooooose were the daaaaaaaaaays.....🎵
Cannot wait for next weeks episode, cause oh boy does Frederick nearly get ganked, where his only reason for not dying was thanks to Peter the 3rd idolizing him so much and essentially ending the war with Prussia against what Elizabeth had wanted before her passing.
Frederick the Great! Out the gate, first servant of state!
It almost feels like a good thing to learn about Fredricks flaws at this point. When learning about history I tend to take broad sweeps at peoples moralities and not see them as complex and nuanced human being. While I myself am part of the lgbtq+ community and love learning all sides of queer history the hateful beliefs he harboured, and more importantly inforced as an influential ruler shouldn’t be ignored.
Exactly. Saints become monsters and monsters become saints. Only people remain people.
It's common for members of the LGBT community to make sweeping judgements without looking for deeper context.
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 Kek
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 Thats a grand sweeping judgment in and of itself though. Plus it's vague as hell, so it can sadly be easily weaponized against them too. You should at LEAST consider rephrasing this sentence.
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653
It's common for people to make sweeping judgements without looking for deeper context.
There, I fixed it for you.
I hope this is understood.
A lot of people get the title great, not because everything goes great for them, but because despite everything hitting rock bottom for them, they find a way to rise to the challenge, they create their success, they walk it off, and keep moving forward, and by doing so, they become great.
Fantastic episode! Have you ever considered doing a serie on Alexander the Great of Macedonia?
I genuinely love your guys's content but I'd probably still watch it on RUclips only for the fact that it's like watching TV I got to wait a week for the next new episode
"Privately, he was an outspoken atheist"
😄 Attention Editor: pick one 😄
Thank you for at least mentioning some of the less savory thing Fredrick did/ was, even if i wish youd gone into more detail. All too often historical figures are mythological near gods rather than human people
You lot should do a series on Alfred the Great!
Showing Guthrum and The Great Heathen Army who's boss
Seconded.
Go frederick! Can't wait to see his masterpiece!
Man Frederick really said “bros before hoes”
Not getting nebula. Can't get enough of the cliffhangers and the suspense.
9:54 That was so sudden, yet so welcome
You know, in hindsight, it's weird that the SYW wasn't remembered as the legit First World War 🤔
Was it fought in and involved many nations fron several other continents as well? That's kinda a requirement for a WORLD war.
@@poilboiler it did, Britain got involved and that meant that there was fighting in America, India, Africa and the Philippines. This was not just Europeans fighting in those places either, the Mughals, several African kingdoms and several American and Asian groups were involved.
@@pluemas
It was almost as World Warry as WW1.
@@pluemas Neat, I didn't know that.
@@poilboiler Yeah it was everywhere. It's actually how Washington and co got their start and basically led to the US Revolution. Like it was fought in Detroit and St. Louis for example
Out the gate, first servant of state!
Oblique attack tactics ain't exactly straight!
He's got creative talents and battle malice!
Hard as steel on the field, genteel in the palace!
Nice erb reference.
Now it makes sense
You know its a good day when extra credits upload and you find out that holding a sawblade in public is technically legal in the UK
6:48 that explosion zoom in is so good!
I'm kinda dissapointed that one of these episodes isn't called "the miracle of the house of brandenburg"
...in the classic anime 'Neon Genesis Evangelion' Major Misato Katsuragi says: "A miracle only happens, if somebody effects it."
...and she's right...!
...so it was a miracle, because Frederic griped the opportunities...!
Hopefully this is how the next episode is called
He wasn't of the house of Brandenburg, it was the house of Hohenzollern
@@daspotato895 Frederick himself called it “the miracle of the house of brandenburg”. Besides, the house of Hohenzollern can also be called the house of brandenburg as they ruled and ruled from the electorate of brandenburg, just as the house of Habsburg has also been called the house of Austria because they ruled and ruled from the archduchy of Austria
@@evilofparadise I genuinely didn't know that. Thanks for the correction.
The nebula ad is indeed the last entire quarter of the video. If it feels like it's weirdly wrapping up early that's why.
This series about Frederick the Great ist really great!
5:45 bro the fact they hate each so much and never even DATED
Since you covered the Hundred Years War and the Field of Cloth of Gold could you cover the Anarchy, Henry II of England, or the Wars of the Roses?
They already did the 100 years war
@@henrysolarta9552 Yeah, Michael had already said that.
To quote from my favourite film:
"It would require a great philosopher and historian to explain the causes of the famous Seven Years' War, in which Europe was engaged... Let it suffice to say that England and Prussia were allies, and at war against the French, the Swedes, the Russians, and the Austrians"
Just watched the next episode on nebula... Loved the Bastard Pac cameo!
Yeess! Extra Mythology! I had almost given up on expecting more videos.
Great history lesson once again! Keep up the good work! :D
the seven years war could be *multiple* of these series on its own
100%
I think Napoleon said that if you fight the same enemy to much they learn to defeat you ( I can’t remember the Exact quote)
@@idontfeellikegivingmynamet1298 thank you
Yesterday I visited Potsdam and saw his palace Sanssouci , his grave his park it was so emotional for me that walking in his park his garden. The garden he walked and lived I really would want to travel to the past and wanna see him alive while he walk in Sanssouci Park..
This is awesome! Its my birthday today and all im watching is this series AGAIN. Thank you extra credits!!! amazing birthday gift!
Happy birthday
Hey extra history.
Would you kindly write "finale episode" when the last episode of any series is uploaded?
I start watching these series once the finale episode is available. (sorry, I'm too impatient to watch one single episode per week and wait one week for the next episode to be uploaded.) Love you guys❤️❤️❤️
6:39 You showed a larger British-Hanover than it was, as you added Swedish-Pomerania.
Yeah the maps on these series are never accurate.
* Frederick the Great feeling great on his "accomplishments" *
Barbarossa and Bismarck: * FACEPALM * this imbecile...
Visited Sanssoucci many years ago. Impressive place!
Great series but I'm a bit disappointed that there was no mention of Fritz meeting Catherine and sending her to Russia as a plug for the Catherine-series...
0:57 *Laughs in Casimir III the Great from Poland*
“Privately outspoken” is an oxymoron.
He’s playing the flute backwards.
We all have postive and negative qualities, yet is the value we place on those qualities which determines our character and our moral compass
So his summer home was named Hakuna Matata? What a wonderful phrase!
Imagine Frederick the great fighting napoleon the world would shake
"finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!" -Frederick
French columns vs prussian calvary and lines, sounds apocalyptic to me
Would love to see a video on George Washington's involvement in helping to trigger the Seven Years War at Fort Necessity.
Make it 'choose your 9wn adventure' with assasination of diplomat
A video series on the Takeda clan would be great or just on Takeda Shingen.
The music for this series is is my favorite!
this is so cool
The art historian Waldemar Janusczak (I am not sure I've spelt that exactly!), during a series on the art of Frederick's time, came up with a beautifully simple explanation to the name of his "pleasure palace". You see it's written as "Sans, soucis."
There's been a lot of debate among art historians about the meaning of the punctuation in a building's title. The point mentioned in the first episode that he spoke French as a preferred language is the key.
The comma is _virgule_ in French, the full stop is _point. Virgule_ is an euphemism for a gentleman's... eh hem, _saucisse_ (trying to keep it PG here!), and _point_ has another meaning as in the English "no point" - _pas de point._
So, read it with the punctuation in full, so to speak, and you get, _sans virgule soucis point_ (it's a play on words, and _sans virgule, ça ne sert à rien_ is a bit more obvious!), or "without a 'comma' there is no point." (I hope I don't have to elaborate on that!)
The explanation is, I find, beautiful in its simplicity and is far more likely than any other long-winded hypothesis!
I was that weird kid that literally went to the library every day to get new history books. Eventually I was allowed to take an extra book! Hooray!
In a 12 minute video there were around 9 minutes of content and 3 minutes of talking about Nebula/ending.
So now the videos are 75% content, and the rest go towards encouraging us to support the channel and shout-outs to patrons, which is a nice deal.
I will admit though, I get irate when it is a 3-minute Hello Fresh ad.
Excuse me while I geek out so hard over the fWo shirt and Jim Ross style big hat.
I like Frederick more with each episode.
5:43 Its a oversimplification that Silesia was Protestant. While the larger part of it, known as Lower Silesia, was mostly Protestant at the time, Upper Silesia was almost completely Catholic (with the exception of Duchy of Cieszyn/Teschen, which remeined with Austria anyway), and even Lower Silesia had a large minority of Catholics, espacially before Prussian takeover.
He has the Best videos ever 😊
3:37 still better than whatever the Da Vinci Code came up with, lol. (Like this wasn't the actual reason for Leonardo's artistic choices)
You guys did a great job. I have been watching your videos since 2021, and I really have enjoyed it 👍👍👍👍👍
that's good, i don't think there is many peoples that realised that peace is temporary and it's always only a question of time before the next one broke out so better prepared yourself for the worst and hope for the best.
5:11 A shame their personnal relationship wasn't as good...
If the next episode doesn't have Frederick the Great telling his troops the line from Starship Troopers, I'm going to be highly disappointed.
And thus began my nation's long revolution
Well, the way the Seven Years’ War started can be one diluted mess, but here’s how it truly started, militarily speaking.
In 1754, a young George Washington attacked French troops in western Pennsylvania under Jumonville; the French called it an act of war. And it was in North America where the Seven Years’ War started and saw some of its most savage battles: the Braddock Expedition, Fort William Henry and Louisbourg being among them. While Prussia was keeping France occupied in Europe, the Royal Navy blockaded the Atlantic coast, preventing the French from sending reinforcements. Yet still, the French were able to defeat the Brits in battle, due to the fact that France had the upper hand in Native American alliances. This was possible because the Valois and later Bourbon kings of France allowed a very limited number of people to emigrate to their colonies.
British foreign policy saw Native Americans as people who had to conform or move west, whereas French foreign policy was to befriend them, treat them as Allie’s and make them partners through trade. As a result, France enjoyed a far more prosperous alliance with its Native American allies than the British. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I hope that there will be an Extra History series on the French and Indian War someday!
Fredrick is a great name. Fredric ♧ 📺
Ah yes, the 7 years war. The time two powers took on the whole of Europe and won.
Even th so. He just became my fave war idol.
Because of Paddy for making me obsessed with war.
As great as freddy is, this is where you see the difference between him and napoleon. One was bad at diplomacy, the other had a bigger alliance to face and no fucks to give
A French femboy tyrantcal ruler is something i didn't know i wanted till now
Did visit his summerhouse in Potsdam once. Can recommend.
Have you guys done a series on Maria Theresa?
Great video as always. But why is a third of this video about stuff not related to Frederick?
Because you can't understand Frederick without understanding the world he lived in.
I love this series
Finally!’