Yes, more History Matters! And yeah there videos are on the shorter side. They used to be all 10 minutes, with his channel previously being ‘10 Minute history’. However UKposts shenanigans caused him to have to use shorter videos.

Frederick sure liked first strikes in war. I hope that doesn’t become a trend in German history

There is no one answer to the question "When was Prussia founded?" but my favorite answer is that the Teutonic Knights founded Prussia and the Teutonic Knights were founded during the Siege of Acre (1189-1191) in the Third Crusade. In that siege, a German merchant took the sails off his ship and used it to make the roof of a hospital. Supposedly, the sail was blessed by the Holy Spirit and the men treated under that roof were miraculously cured of their wounds. This hospital eventually transitioned into a militaristic order of warrior monks known as the Teutonic Knights in a similar transition that the Hospitallers underwent. Teutonic Knights were required to swear oaths of celibacy, poverty, and charity. They could not have children or inherit property. The grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights was rarely related to the previous grandmaster. Some Knights did scurt the rules and had illegitimate children but these children were not eligible to inherit property. All property belonged to the Teutonic State, a Crusader state on the Baltic shore. Since the Teutonic Knights had virtually no landed aristocracy and all land was owned by the Teutonic Order or the Bishop of Riga, you could almost say it was an Army with a State. In 1521, the last Grandmaster of the Teutonic Knights, Albert of Brandenburg took a trip to the Diet of Worms and liked what he heard. In 1525, Albert of Brandenburg dissolved the Teutonic Knights, founded Ducal Prussia, converted to Lutheranism, renounced his oath of celibacy, poverty, and charity, took a wife in a matter of weeks. While the Pope and Emperor were furious with his decision, the Polish king, actually supported this decision. This was not a big deal in Poland-Lithuania since religious pluralism was settled law. The new hereditary aristocracy were called the Junkers. And that is the story of how the Pope's own crusaders became Lutherans.

I love the story of Fredrick the Great imagine taking all kinds of abuse from your dad for not being manly enough and then turning out to be one of the greatest monarchs in history

Lets gooo, History Matters' is always a fun content creator and love watching the short vids as well as the longer ones, happy to see you react to to em now as well!

I recommend you watch Old Britannia it talks about Geopolitics from the 17th to the 20th century. It has a great series on the relationship between America and Britain and he’s now creating a series about Austria.

4:48 France had a permanent standing army from the end of the 100 Years' War onwards, which to my knowledge was the second major European power to do so since the Roman Empire. The Ottomans probably did it beforehand (and if anyone says they don't count, just look at the size of their European holdings in the 1400s), but in Western Europe at least France was a precursor.

Small note for soccer fans: The third gray bit on the map (in the west) is why we have Borussia Dortmund and Mönchengladbach, and Preußen Münster

It is absolutely worth pausing History Matters videos on every scene and read every word of text that appears on screen. Often you can identify every person that appears in group scenes and the ones who appear in portraits on the walls.

Absolutely love that channel, I frequently have their playlist "Ten Minute World History" running in the background while doing other stuff, great list of 17 10-minute videos going chronologically through history

If you remember the Extra History series on Frederick the Great you reacted to a while back, Frederick William I (the Soldier King) was covered extensively in the first episode due to the abuse he inflicted on his son, the future Frederick the Great. But they also mentioned his militarism and fiscal conservatism.

Can we get Caesar against Pompey Roman Civil War Documentary by Kings and Generals Reaction?

Thank you for the reaction!

Greetings from Macclesfield.

I love your videos - love to listen to them while I’m cooking, cleaning, or doing repetitive tasks at work. As an American who has spent the majority of my life in Europe, I especially love how you fill in the gaps on American history that I never learned in school! You seem like such a cool genuine guy. Thanks for making these!

In my classes on military history there was one main textboook. It was called On War by Carl Von Clausewitz. that book is still used to this day by military leaders in every country on how to strategize, knowing when and where to attack, when to go to war. Etc. It set the rules of engagement for centuries and helped make the Geneva Conventions

Let's go probably the best History Channel history matters thanks for finally covering him

How fitting you put up a video about my favourite king and country at the end of our trip. Had a great time, thanks for that, hope to see you again in the future. - Michael J.

History Matters has a TON of historical vids. All really good. Hope there’s more reactions to their videos.

Yes yes yes yes another history matters video

What a great reaction to a video of one of the most interesting nations, I recommend you react to his 'English and British History' series (which is all 10 minutes), it's slow paced at first but it gets better as it goes, so you can check it out if you want to sooner or later.

There's no channel I know that can condense history as artfully as History Matters. And no better history commentator than VTH! 🎉

I really do recommend his English/British history series, especially the later episodes about the Civil war are so good, he has such a unique way of delivering his jokes

Literally was looking for a Franco Prussian war video from VTH yesterday! This is close!

Frederick changed history by pushing for increased potato production. Which stabilized its food production

You should watch his 10 minutes full english and british monarchs history series.

Hey VTH, just want to recommend the Hundred Years’ War from History Matters, love both your channels, great video

LET’S GO THANK YOU

History Matters makes his content super condensed and quick, so even his videos that are under 5 minutes are still worth reacting to!

This is probably history matters’ best old content style video

Would Love to see you react to House of History's series on Frederick the Great, they go into a lot of detail

Love the KoP mall reference. I live near there and love it because it’s the closest Lego store to me

Yay, more History Matters!

Loved all the 10 min history videos. Still play the “English history” ones almost every night going to bed lol. Would love to hear you expand on those because I fully understand a lot of it but some things , especially with the royals , still confuse me lol

History matters now covers a lot of obscure topics, questions that no one asks, but ones that everyone wants to hear the answers to.

Its rare but amazing what happens to nobodycaresville when you get any kind of prolonged sequence of solid leadership. Its even more rare and unique when that sequence of great leaders is a hereditary dynasty.

You should really consider going through his whole series on English history. Lots of knowledge, Easter eggs, and reaction fodder in there

most videos on him just go: That war, that war, that war, the end. Which is a shame. The guy wasn't in cryo sleep in the other decades. Groundbreaking legal reforms his non-war lifes work, new farm land (un-swamped at huge expense) given to free farmers, (partly stumped) attemts to abolish serfdom, compulsory school for all children, freaking free press in 1740... Also signing one of the first treaties/trade deals with the new US in 1785. Look it up, it is a remarkable document for the time, signed by Frederick the Great and George Washington. But also remarkable in content. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce. For a absolute ruler, with no pressure to do anything but having a good life, he was remarkably progressive and hard working . That is very relative by modern standards obviously and if you apply them you find many things wrong. But compared with for example France or Russia... The law book was called "Allgemeines preussisches Landrecht and it applied to everybody independent from rank and standing. And witrh some early hickups, it worked. Bits of it are still in modern german civil law. All of it predeated the french revolution by years or decades. Some of his advances (the free press) was rolled back by a series of very lacking successors in especially the Metternich era, but the legal reforms stuck.

Love history matters, they have occasional errors but i appreciate their concise material

Bismarck famously said to Napoleon III after he captured him at Sedan in 1870 "this was for Jena. Without Jena there would have been no Sedan". Arguably, Jena was for Rossbach. And Verdun was for Sedan. And Sedan (1940) was for Verdun.

History matters! Let's gooooooo!

With this ten minutes, your "interruption" was good, as for me it was hard to follow (well second language), while I genuine knew the things fro school. But now they came back to mind! Thank you.

Another great example would by Charles 5th who was the holy Roman emperor but also the king of Spain

I would love to see your reaction to the "Flash Point History" channel, specifically the series about the Portuguese empire, being from Brazil and having consumed a lot of the history of Portugal, which we Brazilians call "Terrinha" with great affection, it would be fantastic! I hope you get better soon and all the best to your family!

For the algorithm!!!

Finally, about damn time we got to history matters

3:48 Fairly true. The Duchy of Prussia became Hohenzollern ruled when the last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Albert, was awarded the region by Sigismund I, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (who just so happened to be his maternal uncle). The Electorate of Brandenburg was acquired by a distant cousin, Frederick I, when he was granted it by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund who had seized the land from a cousin of his as a reward. They became unified when Albert's son, Albert Frederick, died without male heirs so his eldest daughter Anna's husband, John Sigismund (who also happened to be Elector of Brandenburg) was awarded the duchy (although he only held it for a year before dying, after which it passed to his son, the Great Elector's father, George William).

10:57 Historian Charles Tilly even said that war made the state, and the state made war.

The faces of the figures kill me 😭and when they hold up a sign.

Please react to more History Matters as his videos are great and it’s always nice to see you react to them 🎉

Do More History Matters Videos Please

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Europe is a really weird case of a lot of small wars that escelate into "conflicts". So the war between the Habsburgs and the Bohemians (The Bohemian Revolt) started the Thirty Years War for example. The really interesting part about the standing armies idea, is that standing armies had been a thing in the ancient world. Particularly in places like Macedon, Rome, Sparta, Persia (though they relied largely on levied forces) and even early medieval Poland and Viking Huscarls. But it really came down to a few things. (Disclaimer im not a historian, they are some of the reasons I can think of/have heard or read.) 1: maintaining a proffesional army is expensive and only large empires could typically afford medium to large standing armies. Especially when considering the alternative of... 2: Mercenaries were decently common. And why have a highly trained army of extremely expensive troops, when you could hire a less organised batch of battle-hardened veterans. Most people at the time recognised a proffesional army/guard was better, but simply it was a cost-saving measure 3: Corruption, frankly Monarchs and nobles want lavish lifestyles and especially if your in a resource-scarce region, materials of war (Iron, Steel, horses, oak for warships etc.) can be hard to come by. 4: Not necesary. Frankly for a long time, proffesional men-at-arms/standing armies weren't necesary. Most countries would be a small contingent of knights and proffesional soldiers, which could be house guard, warriors etc. that the crown employ for other purposes. And then that core would be supported by levies covering their flanks. And sometimes the idea was probably, we can break/rout them before they rout our levies. That's also the fundamental idea of why a lot of armies would put the best part of their armies opposite to each other, with a emergency reserve to reinforce where needed.

We went to Vienna over spring break, and went to see many of the sights, but my wife wasn't interested in seeing a bunch of tombs. 😂

History Matters has a whole series on English history. I think you would like the ones dealing with Medieval England.

Would the video series “The Men Who Built America” be something you would react to? I just finished binging the frontier edition and it was awesome. A question about book recommendations, do you have a book on Davey Crocket that you recommend?

i would like to see you reacting to 1920 Polish-Soviet war. i think a lot of people dosen't know about it

Id like to recomend watching Old Britannia they have made some great videos on the reign of Maria Theresa and her son Josephs reign and one my favorites a video explaing the war aims of the Great Powers during ww1.

I've been working on a video about the rulers of Prussia (for like 7 months, I can't draw well enough to finish it) and I've found the Prussian and later German rulers to be extremely fascinating and strange, even for European monarchs. The whole relationship between the two states, and even the founding of Prussia in the first place. is really unique. An Imperial elector state gains control over what used to be the lands of the Teutonic Order until they were secularized by virtue of a marriage between the two ruling families, and then manages to use their strategic position to manipulate the HRE, the PLC, Sweden, and basically everyone else until they become the strongest empire in Europe. Also, to the point of having good leadership, Prussia only really had 3 "bad" rulers out of 14 in total (Wilhelm II, Georg Wilhelm, and Friedrich Wilhelm III). They had a very long and rarely broken chain of excellent leaders from 1525 to 1619, when Georg Wilhelm ascended, then again from his death in 1640 all the way to 1797, and then again after Friedrich Wilhelm III from 1840 to 1888.

Has there been a nation blessed with good leadership more than Prussia was? The line of Fredericks setting the stage for greatness, culminating in Otto Von Bismarck doing Bismarck things with William I being none too shabby himself.

I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos on Frederick the Great's infantry

React to more of 10 minute history videos!! There’s one on westward expansion and the civil war!

I think if you just blitzed through shorter ones, it would work as a reaction. I know it might be more editing, but would be great! Especially since you can match a bunch per period, like doing the ww2 ones in a clump, and so on.

I wanted to recommend epic history Islam's golden age the Abbasid Caliphate series since it is something different from most of your content while being one an important and interesting chapter of history.

Really interesting to think how relatively recently some European countries became united. Italy, Germany, many of the eastern European countries.

Please do more History Matters videos!

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was not just next to Sweden. They shared a single ruling family at that time, the house of Vasa. In fact King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland /Sigismund Vasa of. Lithuania had briefly been King of Sweden and Grand Duke of Finland. This collapsed because the Swedish Empire was Protestant and Sigismund was Protestant so his nephew Charles IX replaced him in the Swedish Empire and would invade the Lithuanian Polish Empire under his successor Władysław IV Vasa.

King Of Prussia mall 30 minutes from me. Could get lost in the mall.

being from NJ, I can say we all call is "kinga-prussa" not King Of Prussia

You gotta do multiple videos of History Matters in one review.

Assistant TO THE regional manager (aka - the king in Prussia)

More history matters!

I love History Matters

Great video, i do hope you watch his spanish civil war video

Hi vth you are my idol I love you

One of the big thing that was missed about the great elector in the beginning was how he got his title. During the Brandenburg-Swedish war he fought the Swedish at the battle of Fehrbellin with a much smaller army and won an crushing victory against the Swedish. The result of that was that Sweden lost all of his lands in Northern Germany which it ruled for nearly a century and finally lost its status as super power. That's why he was called "the great ellector" as the English translation is a bit misleading

U should check out history matters videos on the early and late British empire. He made 2 of them both 10 min long so u will have plenty of content to talk about!

I watched hisory matters when he was still called "10 minute history" that's literally what he was called when he started, he changed his content about 6 years ago

If u see this comment, since your talking about Prussia, there's a video called I believe "a military with a state" which is about Prussia By Brandon F

Hope you react to more history matters videos

Gracchi Brothers by Extra History!

Have you done his history of England series

Your presentation is oversimplified as well. France was consistently opposed to Habsburg. Both were catholic. Also several protestant German states allied with catholic Habsburg. Luther had been dead for several decades when the Thirty Years War started.

Maybe go the history of dueling by history matters. Short but fun.

Can you watch all quiet on the Western front 1979 version? Please

If your still interested could you do some videos on early Islam or early Roman Empire particularly the reign of Claudius

DO MORE 10 MINUTE HISTORY!!!

Does anyonw know if he intends to react to more historia civilis?

Please do a reaction to History Buff's "Master and Commander"

Isn't it neat that throughout history, nations like Sweden, Prussia, Portugal, were able to form formidable kingdoms/empires, despite having significantly less people/land than their competitors? I mean, your country can have 50 Million people, but if don't have a lot of money, or backing, you might only be able to form an army of like 40,000 in these times, while a different kingdom/empire who has more money and backing can raise a similar, if not higher number. It just really depended/Depends on how much resources you have, not just how much people you have. (and other reasons like army professionalism as well)

dude in what world is austria prussia's "natural ally" they were arch rivals from the start, had detentes sometimes bc circumstances demanded it or when personalities aligned but like thats a crazy statement to make

Ah! I was wondering when you would come back to History Matters! You only had 2 videos on it before so i was worried they contacted you and politely asked you to stop reacting or something, but apparently that was not the case!

The only thing cleaner than the background is the haircut champ. Nice video.

The rise of the Ottomans is a good video

is the 30 years war the most devestating european war(only the fighting within europe so only europe for ww2 is mentioned) ever?

You could do 2 at the same time? 00:17

Kinda sad the only thing I knew about Fredrick came from Epic Rap Battles of History.

Prussia basically rolled four 6/6/6 rulers in a row.

Please react to some Polish history videos!

The Holy Roman Empire the weirdest and worst successor to Roman Empire