Crash Course European History

  • Premiered: Apr 2019
  • Episodes: 50
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Season 1
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Medieval Europe
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Apr 12, 2019
Our European history is going to start around 1500 with the Renaissance, but believe it or not, that is not the actual beginning of history in the continent. So, today, we're going to .. show full overview
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Florence and the Renaissance
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Apr 19, 2019
The Renaissance was a cultural revitalization that spread across Europe, and had repercussions across the globe, but one smallish city-state in Italy was in many ways the epicenter of .. show full overview
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The Northern Renaissance
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Apr 26, 2019
The European Renaissance may have started in Florence, but it pretty quickly moved out of Italy and spread the art, architecture, literature, and humanism across Europe to places like France, Spain, England, and the Low Countries.
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The Age of Exploration
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May 03, 2019
The thing about European History is that it tends to leak out of Europe. Europeans haven't been great at staying put in Europe. As human beings do, the people of Europe were very busy .. show full overview
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Expansion and Consequences
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May 11, 2019
European exploration had a lot of side effects. When the Old World and the New World began to interact, people, wealth, food, animals, and disease began to flow in both directions. In .. show full overview
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The Protestant Reformation
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May 18, 2019
You may have noticed that the internet is terrible at religious discourse. Well, this is not a new phenomenon. In the early 16th century, the Roman Catholic church dominated Christianity .. show full overview
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Reformation and Consequences
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May 26, 2019
The Protestant Reformation didn't exactly begin with Martin Luther, and it didn't end with him either. Reformers and monarchs changed the ways that religious and state power were .. show full overview
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Commerce, Agriculture, and Slavery
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Jun 02, 2019
We've been talking a lot about kings, and queens, and wars, and religious upheaval for most of this series, but let's take a moment to zoom out, and look at the ways that individual's .. show full overview
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Catholic Counter-Reformation
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Jun 07, 2019
When the Protestant Reformation broke out in Western Europe, the Catholic Church got the message, at least a little bit. Pope Paul III called a council to look into reforming some .. show full overview
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Witchcraft
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Jun 22, 2019
During our last several episodes, Europe and the European-controlled world have been in crisis. Wars, disease, climate changes, and shifts in religious and political power threw the .. show full overview
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The 17th Century Crisis
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Jun 29, 2019
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 .. show full overview
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Scientific Revolution
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Jul 14, 2019
There was a lot of bad stuff going on in Europe in the 17th century. We've seen wars, plagues, and unrest of all types. But, there is some good news. Huge advances were underway in the .. show full overview
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Absolute Monarchy
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Jul 27, 2019
So far, the rulers of Europe have been working to consolidate their power and expand their kingdoms, and this is it. The moment they've been working toward: Absolute Monarchy. We're .. show full overview
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English Civil War
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Aug 06, 2019
The Glorious Revolution. Or, The English Civil War. Whatever you call it, we're talking about it in this episode. We'll talk about England after Elizabeth, in which things didn't go that .. show full overview
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Dutch Golden Age
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Aug 13, 2019
While the English were falling apart a little, with their civil war and their restoration and their succession problems, the Dutch were getting their act together. They were throwing off .. show full overview
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Eastern Europe Consolidates
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Aug 19, 2019
While the focus has been on Western Europe so far, there has also been a lot going on in Eastern Europe, which we'll be looking at today. The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, The .. show full overview
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The Rise of Russia and Prussia
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Aug 27, 2019
In eastern Europe, in the 17th century a couple of "great powers" were coming into their own. The vast empire of Russia was modernizing under Peter the Great, and the relatively tiny .. show full overview
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The Enlightenment
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Sep 09, 2019
So far in this series, we've covered a lot of war, disease, climate disaster, and some more war. Well, prepare yourself for something a little more positive. This week, we're talking .. show full overview
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Enlightened Monarchs
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Sep 16, 2019
Last time we learned about the Enlightenment, and the philosophers and thinkers whose ideas would shape governance for hundred of years. This week, we're learning how monarchs across .. show full overview
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18th Century Warfare
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Sep 24, 2019
European powers had a lot of wars in the 18th century, and they weren't confined to Europe. Conflict raged across the globe, in what might be called a World War...but we don't call it .. show full overview
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The French Revolution
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Oct 08, 2019
In 1789, the French Monarchy's habit of supporting democratic popular revolutions in North America backfired. Today, we're talking about the French Revolution. Across the world, people .. show full overview
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Oct 21, 2019
We try not to get into too much great man history here at Crash Course, but we have to admit: Napoleon Bonaparte is a pretty big deal. Join us as we track the rise, further rise, fall, .. show full overview
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The Congress of Vienna
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Oct 29, 2019
The end of the Napoleonic Wars left the great powers of Europe shaken. Judging from the destruction that had been wrought across the continent, it seemed to the powers that be that the .. show full overview
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The Industrial Revolution
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Nov 05, 2019
We've talked about a lot of revolutions in 19th Century Europe, and today we're moving on to a less warlike revolution, the Industrial Revolution. You'll learn about the development of .. show full overview
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Reform and Revolution 1815-1848
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Nov 12, 2019
In the aftermath of the revolutions and upheaval in 18th and early 19th century Europe, there was a hunger for reform across the continent. Reformers like Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, .. show full overview
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Revolutions of 1848
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Nov 19, 2019
In 1848, Europe experienced a wave of revolutions. Last week we covered some of the reform movements that presaged these uprisings. This week, we're learning about what the people wanted .. show full overview
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Italian and German Unification
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Nov 26, 2019
So, we haven't talked much about Italy and Germany so far in Crash Course Euro, and that's because prior to the mid-19th century, those two nation-states weren't really a thing. Today .. show full overview
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Expansion and Resistance
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Dec 03, 2019
In 19th century Europe, with nation building well under way, thoughts turned outward, toward empire. This week, we're looking at how Europeans expanded into Africa, Asia, and Oceania .. show full overview
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Migration
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Dec 10, 2019
Between 1840 and 1914, an estimated 40 million people left Europe. This is one of the most significant migrations in human history. So, who was leaving Europe? And why?
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Modern Life
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Dec 17, 2019
So, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the 19th century turned into the 20th. We'll look at what .. show full overview
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Modern Thought and Culture in 1900
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Jan 08, 2020
Europe was in transition politically and culturally at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, we're looking at the dawn of modern science, and the rise of Modernism in the arts, .. show full overview
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The Roads to World War I
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Jan 16, 2020
Much has been written about what exactly caused World War I. As befits a true global war, the reality is that there isn't a single cause. There aren't even three causes. There are a vast .. show full overview
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World War I Battlefields
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Jan 23, 2020
Europe's system of alliances and centuries-old tensions erupted into war in August of 1914. This week on Crash Course Euro, we're talking about the military history of World War I, and .. show full overview
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WWI's Civilians, the Homefront, and an Uneasy Peace
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Jan 29, 2020
World War I was a total war for millions of people in Europe. Many men were enlisted in the fighting, but the war work had implications for the daily lives of a huge number of Europeans. .. show full overview
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Russian Revolution and Civil War
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Feb 13, 2020
World War I was very hard on the Russian Empire. So hard, in fact, that it led to the end of the Russian Empire. As the global conflict ground on, Tsar Nicholas II faced increasing .. show full overview
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Post-World War I Recovery
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Feb 25, 2020
In which John Green looks at Europe's attempts to recover from the devastation of World War I and forge a lasting peace. The peace did not last. Today we're talking about the economic .. show full overview
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Economic Depression and Dictators
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Mar 05, 2020
We're still leading up to World War II, but first we gotta talk about the rise of the dictators. Today we talk about the rise of militaristic dictatorships in Germany, the Soviet Union, .. show full overview
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World War II
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Mar 17, 2020
Only a couple of decades after the end of the First World War--which was supposed to be the War that Ended All Wars--another, bigger, farther-flung, more destructive, and deadlier war .. show full overview
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World War II Civilians and Soldiers
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Mar 31, 2020
Our look at World War II continues with a closer examination of just how the war impacted soldiers in the field, and the people at home. For many of the combatants, the homefront and the .. show full overview
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The Holocaust,Genocides, and Mass Murder of WWII
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Apr 10, 2020
During World War II, Nazi Germany undertook the imprisonment and summary execution of many of its own citizens, and citizens of the nations they occupied. One of the groups that came .. show full overview
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Post-War Rebuilding and the Cold War
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Apr 21, 2020
Sometimes, friendship isn't forever. At the conclusion of World War II, the old structures of power were a shambles. The traditional European powers were greatly weakened by years of .. show full overview
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Post-World War II Recovery
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May 05, 2020
At the end of World War II, the nations of Europe were a shambles. Today we'll learn about how the various countries and blocs approached the problem of rebuilding their infrastructure .. show full overview
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Decolonization
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May 19, 2020
After World War II, Europe was changing radically, and its place in the world was changing as well. European powers had colonized around the world in the 18th and 19th centuries, and in .. show full overview
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Revolutions in Science and Tech
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Jun 01, 2020
In the decades following World War II, life changed in many ways, and a fair number of those changes were for the better. Many of those improvements were driven by advances in science .. show full overview
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Protests East and West
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Jun 20, 2020
The post-World War II decades in Europe are sometimes called the Thirty Glorious Years. As those years wore on, tensions between East and West grew, and economic growth slowed or was .. show full overview
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The Soviet Bloc Unwinds
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Jun 30, 2020
In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, protests and unrest continued continued across Europe, and the Soviet Union was having increasing trouble holding its sphere of influence .. show full overview
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The Fall of Communism
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Jul 16, 2020
The aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact had a huge impact on the countries of Eastern Europe. As the former satellite states turned away from communism and .. show full overview
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Europe in the Global Age
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Jul 30, 2020
In which John looks at what it even means to live in a global age, as we've been talking about Europe's role in the gobal community for 47 episodes now. But, pedantry aside, the world is .. show full overview
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21st Century Challenges
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Aug 14, 2020
The 21st century brought a whole new host of challenges to the world, and Europe was no exception. In this video you'll learn about how an increasingly connected and complex world led to .. show full overview
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What History Was, Is, and Will Be
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Aug 28, 2020
At the end of our journey through modern European history, we're taking an episode to look back at how the practice of history developed and what the aim and goals and purpose of history .. show full overview

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