Status Updates From The Middle Kingdoms: A New ...

Americanization of european culture following the first world war, and discussion of economic collapses throughout europe

Reached ch 28 “assimilation, biology, and the skull-measurers”

Rise of german musicians, wagner, then rise of bismarck

Rise of nationalism in later 1800s, people started dressing in styles supporting different national causes and even wore different mustached to symbolize the different movements

1848 revolutions. Peasants toppled absolute monarchies all over central europe

Rise of romanticism and strum und drang literature movements in 19th century. Started by Goethe

Napoleon is restructuring central Europe and assigns Goethe to a govt post. Napoleon is the GOAT

Napoleon conquers the Holy Roman Empire

A few pages on the thirty years war, not enough….

During the Counter Reformation, the Cossacks fought to defend Orthodoxy in Ukraine against those attempting to convert them

Rise of alchemical and occult practicing people in 1500s following protest reformation

Cossack influence on Ukraine’s founding as a nation

The Protestant Reformation led to political reform where the Holy Roman Empire could enact laws managing people’s morals and conduct, banning sex before marriage for example

Ch 13 done, roman law discovered and caused large scale legal reform. Central european renaissance and larger fixation on death in the culture. Dance Macabre.

Ch 12 discussing king wenceslaus and king sigismund

The knights hospitaller fighting endless wars against north eastern europe. Poland and hungary constantly fighting invading muslims, nomads, and ottomans. The start of the Hanseatic League which was lead by merchants and guilds all over europe to defend their trade routes on land and sea, and leveraged real power against nations

Medieval pagan prussians would bury horses alive, sacrifice entire barns of horses aflame, put animal skulls on poles around their houses to ward off evil