30YearsWar #1: "Prosperity, Profit, Power"
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Start off your new Thirty Years War journey the right way, by exploring our other offering - historical fiction! Matchlock is a series set during the Thirty Years' War, beginning in 1622, when Matthew Lock lands in Europe to investigate the brutal murder of his parents.
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We're back! After running through 17th Century Warfare with a fine-toothed comb, I am finally ready to deliver to you the most exciting series we've ever covered here at WDF Towers. It's eerily familiar, but also breathtakingly different - it sounds like the Thirty Years War!
Our first proper episode of the Thirty Years War begins with a somewhat surprising scene – Hernan Cortez, far away in South America, coming face to face with the Aztecs. Why do we begin our story with such a controversial, pivotal character? Simple – Cortez was, truth be told, an agent of the Habsburgs, or more specifically, Charles V, the King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor.
Charles was the embodiment of Habsburg power and influence; he was arguably the most powerful man in Europe since the era of Roman Emperors, and he owed his position to the incredible marital policy of his forebears, who married their way out of obscurity in an isolated Swiss castle, to become THE predominant European family by the turn of the 16th century. The Thirty Years War is a story which cannot be told without the Habsburg dynasty, so I hope you’ll join me in this first true instalment of our series to see where this dynasty came from, and where it went next!
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| 1:26.4 | And we're back. |
| 1:33.0 | Hello and welcome history friends, patrons, PhD pals all to when diplomacy fails. |
| 1:38.0 | This is the 30 Years' War series and you're listening to the first episode. |
| 1:43.0 | Of course, we've been hammering away at the 30 Years War for a few months now, but mostly looking at 17th century warfare, |
| 1:45.1 | and now we're ready to get into the meat and bones of this narrative. So if you want some |
| 1:50.1 | information on how warfare was done in the 17th century, check those previous 15 episodes out. |
| 1:56.9 | But if you're just here for the story, then oh boy, do I have a story for you? |
| 2:05.8 | Gloria in its jersey's day. |
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