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and set off on the next stop on my love letter to the world. Record a microphone, action.

Much of Europe is made up not of nation states, but vast landed East states, ruled over by monarchs and nobles.

With Charles II, the King of Spain dies, dynastic dynamite is ignited.

Dagers are drawn for a brutal war that explodes across the European continent, wrecking havoc and watched one of the true

geniuses of science at work. Where are we this week?

Good morning Paul. Well, we're leaving Isaac Newton behind and along with the outbreak of

Bubonic plague that forced him into isolation and we're heading

smack bang into another deadly curse, which is war, the greatest curse of them all.

It's 1704 and we're traveling to Blenham in Germany to witness a battle which many

regard as one of the most significant in history. This week we're in the midst of the

war of the Spanish succession. It's the time of a very significant conflict in the story of Europe.

When we start... a very significant conflict in the story of Europe.

When we started the love letter to the world

we made the point that Europe's not in the picture for the longest time.

You know the love letter to the world starts in the old world of Mesopotamia and

Babylon and Persia and Greece and so on and it's relatively late in the day that Europe and events in Europe start to be the flavor,

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