The 17th Century Crisis: Crash Course European History #11

The 17th Century in Europe was pretty rough in a lot of ways. The Thirty Years’ War involved a lot of countries and a lot of battles, and it was terrible for everyone involved, as wars have a historical tendency to be. At the same time, disease and hunger were common, thanks in part to the climate change of the Little Ice Age. Get ready for some misery.

Sources

• German History in Documents and Images: Volume 1. From the Reformation to the Thirty Years War, 1500-1648 A Local Apocalypse –The Sack of Magdeburg (1631). http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/pdf/eng/85.SackMagdeburg_en.pdf
• Parker, Geoffrey. Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century. New Haven: Yale, 2013.
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-catalogue-grisly-deaths-soldiers-thirty-years-war-180963531/ [for image of mass graves in Thirty Years War.
• Wilson, Peter H. The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/how-the-little-ice-age-changed-history