I’ve said this before but I think he should make a “What if Everything went wrong for *Insert Country*” basically a reverse of Perfect Countries

@Napolean.Mapping

8 ай бұрын

That's a pretty good idea

@gregoryturk1275

8 ай бұрын

Poland: Get’s invaded by the Nazis and get wiped out. Russia: Get’s wiped out by the Nazis and Japanese. USA: never exists.

@mr.mister9343

8 ай бұрын

thats a good idea👍

@leMiG31

8 ай бұрын

What if everything went wrong for the United States of fucking America

@Ihatebritain

8 ай бұрын

Literally me

The true irony of the Hohenzollern and Habsburg rivalry is that when the two were minor swabian lords, it was the Hohenzollerns who pushed for Habsburg control of the HRE and helped put them in Austria. Later, it was the Habsburgs who put the Hohenzollerns in Brandenburg. Just imagine the two houses remaining friends despite the Reformation.

@gustavotreze3193

8 ай бұрын

Also, their empires ended together, in ww1

@barrankobama4840

8 ай бұрын

@@gustavotreze3193 technically the Habsburg were already exinct by then, and their states and titles were inherited by the House of Lorraine.

@gustavotreze3193

8 ай бұрын

@@barrankobama4840 yes, i know, but the house of Lorraine (or Habsburg-Lorraine) is a branch of the house of habsburg, so for me is a continuation. For me

@barrankobama4840

8 ай бұрын

@@gustavotreze3193 But strictly technically Habsburg-Lorraine is a branch (and the only now surviving) of the House of Lorraine, not the House of Habsburg, since they descend from Francis of Lorraine and Maria Theresa of Habsburg. For Salic law, used by nobility in the HRE, the House is defined by male-line only. Another curiosity is that the current King of the UK, Charles III, would be technically be part of the House of Oldenburg, not Saxe-Coburg-Gotha nor Mountbatten/Battenberg (but this does not matter anymore, since George the V renounced any title of German origin).

@jozeph2932

8 ай бұрын

This would be an interesting althistory scenerio, What if the Hohenzollern and Habsburgs united?

This is a really interesting concept because you could say that some of this might've happened realistically

@profilepicture828

8 ай бұрын

I guess you could say it’s possible history

@MakriaMicronation

8 ай бұрын

​@@profilepicture828HE SAID THE THING

@SpahGaming

8 ай бұрын

@@profilepicture828 roll credits

@user-zn2gb4uh1h

8 ай бұрын

4:08 This is FALSE, Spain never had this social pyramid

@hb8323

8 ай бұрын

​@@user-zn2gb4uh1hthey did have it in the new world colonies, and it actually was way more complex than what is presented, with all the different "casts"

Alternate title: average EU4 austrian game

@Alex1492-tp4xi

3 ай бұрын

*Spain

I would add the French throne to the Habsburgs. Charles V. with HRE and Spain surrounded France, and he claimed the French throne. In our timeline, the nobles gave the crown to Henric IV because they were afraid of Charles. If we are talking about the perfect Habsburg timeline, we should consider this option

@Jay_Johnson

8 ай бұрын

Not to mention Mary I of England still officially claimed the French throne.

@user-zn2gb4uh1h

8 ай бұрын

4:08 This is FALSE, Spain never had this social pyramid

@Amiro19199

8 ай бұрын

@@user-zn2gb4uh1h Spain itself did not. However thee colonies in America (mostly) did there is alot of proof.

@alexzero3736

8 ай бұрын

This wont decide feudalism problem. If current king dies, would the French nobles give the crown to next Habsburg?

@Amiro19199

8 ай бұрын

@@alexzero3736 Probabaly no since...it would give them more power and also.

3:38 Hardly. If that were true, Peninsular Spain would've taken much more resources from their viceroyalties, when in reality, they only took around 20% (known as the Royal Fifth tax) 80% of the wealth extracted from the Americas stayed here to develop the viceroyalties. That's why we see the creation of many universities, hospitals, churches, etc. In fact, the whole reason they're called "viceroyalties" is because they have the same status as any other province in Peninsular Spain.

@mqdboy9278

8 ай бұрын

Thank God I'm not the only one talking about this topic in the comments

@Ajolote_comunista

8 ай бұрын

​@@mqdboy9278Es una suerte que la información cada día más sea más accesible y que mucha más gente la conozca

@mojave3571

8 ай бұрын

That was the tax for private mines, the most productive mines were exclusive for the crown (see Potosí), moreover there were much more taxes than just those applied to mining. Si nuestros virreinatos tuviesen el mismo estatus que la España peninsular, no habría una diferencia entre criollos y peninsulares.

@LisanAlChudDib

8 ай бұрын

Based

@elianes5505

8 ай бұрын

​@@mojave3571So, you're saying that everything extracted from the Potosí mines was transported to Peninsular Spain? Can you show a source for that? Because I didn't find any. Also, the status of the different subdivisions has little to do with political privileges in the empire. Blacks in southern USA were still slaves despite Texas being as much of a state as New Jersey.

0:12 he really named ottomans fake-Rome💀💀💀

@taherbertolinirodrigues9104

Ай бұрын

Its what they were

Perfect Habsburgs = No imbreeding

@Ihatebritain

8 ай бұрын

Really?

@snomcultist189

8 ай бұрын

Be honest, no you aren’t.

@Trollge398

8 ай бұрын

Incest is wincest

@catforce9999

8 ай бұрын

You can’t have one without the other

@mingdingingmasochist

8 ай бұрын

Can’t hate what you haven’t tried bro

Something I should add is that the caste system was not implemented at the time of the Habsburgs, the Spanish population in the Americas was so small that implementing that would be suicide. During that time, mainly in the territory of New Spain and Peru, there were a large number of indigenous nobles and then mestizos since they were the ones who could effectively maintain Spanish control. Of course, the different races were separated into natives, Spanish or mestizos, but that classification was because the indigenous could not be judged by the inquisition. It was not until the Bourbon reforms where peninsular Spanish began to gain more power in the viceroyalties in the context of the Bourbon reforms in order to centralize the power of the viceroyalties and make the exploitation of resources more efficient, that is when there was a real separation of power with the peninsulars and Creoles and mestizos.

@-Justinus-

8 ай бұрын

Interesting. Why couldn't an indigenous individual be tried by the inquisition? Did it have to do with the fact that the inquisition was mainly run by Dominicans while the natives were evangelized primarily by the (highly autonomous, answering only to the superior general and the Pope) Jesuits?

@ivantorres641

8 ай бұрын

@@-Justinus- The inquisition was created to deal primarily with heresies such as Protestantism and false converts. The indigenous peoples were classified as pagans who must be evangelized and taught about the teachings of Jesus, so the inquisition had no jurisdiction over them, much more so when indigenous beliefs were not a threat to the beliefs of Catholicism. For example, there was a fear that Protestantism would expand in Spain, but there was no such fear with indigenous religions because it was impossible for them to expand their religion among the Christian population of Europe.

@Karlos-if9dd

8 ай бұрын

FR I was about to say this, cant believe what the Dutch did to the reputation of a great empire.

@DEIKO19

3 ай бұрын

​@@Karlos-if9dd as a spanniard myself i appreciate your words pal 🗿🗿🗿🗿

As an English person, having a potential hapsburg monarch is really weird to me. I love Habsburg Austria.

@42carlos

8 ай бұрын

Why do you spell it with a P? I thought that was American

@trollinape2697

8 ай бұрын

@@42carlos its habsburg regardless of dialect

@solelak

8 ай бұрын

Just corrected it, but I always heard it with a P.

@trollinape2697

8 ай бұрын

@@solelak the b is pronounce hard, probably because there is an s afterwards

@myrddinemrys1332

8 ай бұрын

​@@trollinape2697There are old spellings with a p, but yes it should be with a b now.

Video idea: What if everything went perfect for the Commonwealth (Poland)

@8Hshan

8 ай бұрын

Whenever I think of it, I come to the conclusion that... there would be no Commonwealth. It came out of a personal union with Lithuania, and that from having a Lithuanian grand duke marry the then ruling queen (formally king) of Poland, which was the indirect result of Casimir the Great having no legitimate heirs. That's the primordial root of the Commonwealth and... the issues that were its ultimate downfall, that being the near omnipotence of the nobility and the unstable political system prone to outside influence. See, to be crowned as rulers of Poland all the kings (and queens) after Casimir the Great had to convince the nobility - as they were no longer of the original Piast dynasty (I feel like this was just an excuse for the nobility to push for power) - and that convincing usually came down to giving more and more privileges, to the point at which the king was just a little bit more than a figurehead and the parliament could be paralysed by just ONE random noble.

@killerp2612

8 ай бұрын

russia and germany would be gone

@Darwidx

8 ай бұрын

I think best thing Comonwealth could do was even earlier democratization, so Comonwelth would be first nation with Constitution, as early as first half of XVIII century that asort Monarchist Comonwelth tradition in futher democratic states, like freedom of religion, culture acceptance and voting system created for nobles titled, that could be every rich person. Farmers under Nobility should be realeased from slavery work, Citizen would grow in importance. This fiew changes would create better Poland than between world wars already, but that's not enought. Poland was very poor diplomatically and military, so main goals would be funding military based on constitution not feudalism and stick with Alliance with Habsburg Austria that share many enemies with. This is important to prevent partition of Poland in XVIII century, allowing Comonwealth to step into Industralization Wit other west European powers in futher. And most important period. Semi democratic-Semi Monarchist Comonwealth would had great chances siding with French in Napoleonic wars, but only after Austria surendered and allied France, then Poland would keep up in Team with Austria without standing aside France. Next Poland would be more than eager to help France in Russian campaign on Moskva and Petersburg efectively giving win to French Empire. I don't know what would happen next but Poland would be strong member of new huge European Alliance with repeared most of they're issues, promising futher within industralization age and building base for democratic state that would probably acure in 1848/9.

@litwin2288

7 ай бұрын

Bro stop forgeting Lithuanna

What about Margaret of Austria, the daughter of Maxmillian 2. She was engaged to the French king before the engagement was annulled for a France- Brittany union. She also ruled the Netherlands on her father’s , and later her brother’s (Charles) behalf, she was incredibly successful and is probably one of the main reasons for the Dutch patrotism in wanting independence from the Habsburgs.

@charlietennent9794

8 ай бұрын

Also what if Henry the 8 wasn’t able to divorce Catherine, meaning the England would remain Catholic.

@squeaky206

8 ай бұрын

Her brother was Phillip the Handsome. That was her nephew you're talking about.

This video is great! But there is something I wanted to point out: It is highly contested that there was a cast system in the Spanish colonies in the americas. Obiously the system was far from being a multicultural paradise, and the etnicities weren't exactly equal, but a cast system is where someone born in a specific cast can't ever move from that cast, he can only have jobs and marry people in that exact cast. This wasn't the case in the spanish colonies, since anyone could marry and have childs with any other ernicity, which is the case form mestizos (spanish+natives) and Mulatos (spanish+africans) and natives+africans as well, and all of them could set their life goals independently of their origin (another question would be how succesful they would be). So basically the spanish barely segregated anyone for etnicity, the only question was on being catholic, where the spanish were highly strict on that. I really don't know where that pyramid was taken from.

@Ajolote_comunista

8 ай бұрын

Yo creo que la pirámide más bien representa la posibilidad de obtener poder político, pero si no es eso, la pirámide se convierte en básicamente una mentira historia :/

@buddermonger2000

8 ай бұрын

​@Ajolote_comunista I think this is accurate, because I've been taught this as well since the colonial period is an important part of our history. The pyramid clearly points to something being true, especially since one of the broader contexts of that pyramid being that the Spanish born got to rule, but no mention of social mobility or economic outcomes really were discussed.

@goosermr6036

8 ай бұрын

@@buddermonger2000 you are not wrong that the pyramid points to something true. The vice kings of the spanish colonies were appointed by the king of Spain, and they were people from noble peninsular families close to the crown. Even thought the different etnicities in the spanish americas weren't economically equal, there are cases of mestizos, natives and some blacks becoming richer than a lot of whites, the pyramid could probably be an average of those etnicities, but never a segregation by law.

@buddermonger2000

8 ай бұрын

@@goosermr6036 Perhaps segregation by political power, even if not economic power

@Lucas24997

8 ай бұрын

The pyramid is a weird mix of social class and caste that existed in the Americas, for example there were native and black landlords, nobles and in the urban middle classes you could find people of all different castes. As castes were not considered a way to classify people in the social pyramid but as a way of racial categorization. Another point to make is that the distinction between the peninsulares and criollos didnt became a thing till the Bourbons reforms.

Thank you PB! There's a really interesting history series about the Austrian Habsburgs that Schwerpunkt just begun I'm sure many of you guys may be interested in

@nejmizrendom

8 ай бұрын

*PH

The Ending of this Perfect Habsburg run turns out to be one perfect recipe for Dynastic Disasters, unless the family will eventually negotiate their way around to form a Balance of Habsburgs and solve these dynastic disputes. Similar as when Louis XIV had to haggle with William of Orange for the fate of Spain, and thus the Balance of European Powers as a whole, but at the demise of envious Habsburg rival houses

@matthiuskoenig3378

2 ай бұрын

just mandate every habsburg have 12+ children, can't have sucession disputes if there is a clear line of succession.

4:25 this is totally wrong. No criollo, mestizo or native wanted to get out of the Empire until the military juntas made to assist Fernando VII decided to change course. Natives, mestizos, Criollos and chapetones (Spanish) had all same rights, of course you'll see politicians are mostly Criollos and Spanish, but in question if rights all same, and in terms of money, natives could reach the same as Criollos. Native nobility was even more prestigious than the Spanish, as Panacas and chiefs played THE role in setting up the governance of the empire.

@Ajolote_comunista

8 ай бұрын

🧐👍

@LisanAlChudDib

8 ай бұрын

I want to point out that normally viceroys were white because they were people the king trusted, and the king was not in America, so the people he trusted were not from there because he did not personally know the people of america

0:11 bro has beef with the ottomans 😂

Fun Fact: the very pronounced Habsburg chin was not a result of inbreeding, it apparently comes from a great grandmother of Charles V, long before the severe inbreeding started. It was simply an actual feature of a person that was heritable, and the inbreeding simply made it far more extreme.

@jobiden2942

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the fun fact Demiurge.

@diprogamer3294

8 ай бұрын

that's exactly how inbreeding works. it's not that weird genes suddenly appear, it's that present genes have more possibilities of showing when both parents are related

@screamingseal4805

8 ай бұрын

@@diprogamer3294it becomes more blatant that the individual is lacking a few chromosomes

@quempire2656

8 ай бұрын

@@screamingseal4805turner syndrome looks pretty normal ngl

@quempire2656

8 ай бұрын

@@screamingseal4805turner syndrome looks pretty normal ngl

6:16 showing ur next planned videos (and them being interesting too) is a rly good argument to convince one to subscribe. smart. if u came up w/ this, hats off.

After Charles V things were still fine for Habsburgs. What really ended their power was the Thirty Years War.

Finally! As an Austrian, I've been waiting so long for this video! AEIOU!

"What if everything went perfect for the Jagielons"

As a Dutchman I'd always like to imagine we wouldn't have revolted, or at least to a lesser extend, if we stayed with the Austrian Habsburgs instead of Spanish Habsburgs, I always found it strange that we're not a part of Germany, or an alternate Austrian Germany

@Drake11476

6 ай бұрын

The spanish heritage of lowlands was the worst idea of Carlos V, just doesn't make sense that territory, Philip II should only kept spain and Italy claims.

I’d love to see a what if everything went perfect for Sweden or Denmark. Both had maximum expansions (Baltics, Britain, etc) that were unrealistic for them to hold, so I’d be interested to see how they either figure out how to keep them or get the best deal out of losing them.

What if Spain never declined as a superpower

@tsaralexis9459

8 ай бұрын

This is kind of that

@sct1718

8 ай бұрын

​@@tsaralexis9459kind of, but not really that though, that would be a continuation of this, since it is, never declined, and specifically Spain.

@lordedmundblackadder9321

8 ай бұрын

Not really possible, they didn’t have the population or industrial capacity to compete with the French, British, and Germans.

@tsaralexis9459

8 ай бұрын

@@sct1718 yes but it would feel kind of repetitive

@sct1718

8 ай бұрын

@@tsaralexis9459 wrong

Would love to see another vid on this scenario about a future Habsburg Civil War/Succession Crisis

A small addition to the caste pyramid of the viceroyalties of Spain, the caste system was implemented for legal uses, but even so it was very possible to rise in social class, if a mestizo married a Creole or Spanish woman, he rose in rank. pyramid and was considered peninsular or Spanish. It was not a perse caste system like in India.

You don't know how much i've been waiting for this one.

What if the Arab Invasions never happened.

PH, in my opinion, this video is way too short. Given the Habsburgs had such a massive (even recognized by you) potential, I think there could be more nuance as in previous videos you've made. In this new video, you could expand on relationships within the mentioned possible Habsburg Federation, and its neighbors, and also implications for what a lasting HF would mean for the rest of the world. That said, I did enjoy your video, and thank you for it.

@brianfrommars

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I think he should have shown multiple timelines, showing how different marriages and wars could lead to completely separate outcomes.

If the threat of infighting between the different empires was that real, inbreeding was no stranger to this dynasty.

Small error, but the counterreformation was a lot more than “an attempt”. It was a largely successful effort to stop protestant expansion and turn the tides. Before the counterreformation, almost all of germany, france and hungary, all of bohemia, and a good chunk of the Austria and the lowlands were all some branch of protestant. Directly after, France, Hungary, Austria and Bohemia were almost completely brought back into the fold, along with ~half of germany and the lowlands.

Starting at an earlier point would have allowed for the mariage between Anne of Britanny and the hasburgs, which was envisioned at the time, and would add britanny to the hasburg realm, thus thightening the noose around France further

I was thinking of this alt history for a while so I'm happy you made it.

Please, oh Please make a part 2! This scenario is just too good!

@stargazer-elite

8 ай бұрын

Yes

Yay 😁 I’ve been eagerly waiting for this one

What if everything went perfect for Poland

The Habsburgs would definitely need to not be in massive debt

YESS can you plz more of these videos? They are really entertaining

Thanks for another great video your quality gets better every video!❤

seeing a habsburg family feud turn into this worlds "ww0" like our worlds 7 years war is a cool idea

8:20 Now I want to see “What if everything went perfect for Poland” video.

Thank you so much. Finally.

This guy is one my new favourite KZreadrs.

This video actually changed my life for the better

This cuold be the best video of this Series

Correction: Spain didn't have colonies. They extracted resources from America of course, but it wasn't an old fashion colonial empire like the English, French, Dutch, Portuguese, etc. Spanish America was a continuation of Spain, just in another continent. Most wealth that Spain had gotten wasn't from extraction but from taxes and trade with the Chinese; the Spanish Real de a ocho was the first global currency and because it was made from silver (something Spain extracted a lot), Spain had basically a monopoly on China.

@matthiuskoenig3378

8 ай бұрын

technically speaking that is what an old fashioned colonial empire is (and what the English colonies were orginally too). colonies not being extensions of the home country in a new location is a newer form of colonialism.

@IronMar1O

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I completely agree, English speaking history videos should give more research to Hispanic historians

@IronMar1O

8 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378well more even technically speaking these first “colonial empire” wasn’t really a colonial empire so the future ways of colonialism that the Uk, the Dutch, the French and Germans brought, for today are old-fashion, so that’s what I think he is referring.

@IronMar1O

8 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378also the first English colonies weren’t nothing like the Spanish/Castilian ones, because they were mostly just companies that extracted resources.

@mqdboy9278

8 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378 Yeah but that really isn't considered colonialism, it's more like integration/expansion

You should do a "what if everything went perfect for hungary" since they lost almost all major wars they were in IRL

FINALLY thank you man🎉

The best part was the Smash Music in the background

YES! Been waiting and asking for this one for so long! Thanks man! AEIOU!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I have been asking since the beginning of the series, can you please make a perfect modern Greece video. 🙏

I like the guitars kicking up :) and it is wear hearing about a European dynasty since I haven't heard of it in recent years, only a Chinese one. But it is very interesting.... :) And I do like the Idea of Spain taking north africa/Italy....... :)

"habsburg circlejerk" is two words i never wanted to hear together, but here they are

The Super Smash Bros Brawl music toward the end is absolutely perfect *chef's kiss*

You should make a continuation video that focuses around a few of the potential habsburg wars

I know this has nothing to do with the vid but,; when are u gonna make that alt Berlin conference vid? It’s been a while and we haven’t gotten any updates on it.

THANK YOU

Great Poland, great video.

Family Fued: Ultimate Edition

11:50 Nahh, nothing bad ever happens to the Habsburgs

I actually love this

Love this video! Have been wanting this one for a long time. Quick idea, though, could you do a, What If Everything went perfect for France. You don’t have to do it, just a suggestion.

The spanish armada didn't sank only a few ships did, they had to retreat due to severe weather conditions, not a minor difference. Having the english throne secured, France could be defeated easy with a three front war against major powers, and then splitted totally. Austria only had to hold the ground until france disappeared and then it was all united europe against ottomans, they could be defeated with not so many complications in the balkans, and at minimum be pushed into anatolia, recovering constantinople. At this point, the only expansion ways were the east med, probably best the approach would be splitting half south west med (mauritania and tunis) for spain, and eastern (egypt, syria and anatolia) for a new family kindom based at constantinople. Once stable, the whole world would be at their reach to take.

Nice video idea, now make perfect Jagiellons

I’d like to see a part 2 to this where the Habsburgs fall.

I like how he referred the ottomans as fake Rome

what if the habsburgs had a normal chin?

@Ajolote_comunista

8 ай бұрын

🤔

I SUBSCRIBED

Black legend, spanish America was even more developed than the península itself

Do “what if everything went perfect for the Byzantine Empire.”

@kaidenhall2718

8 ай бұрын

The perfect timeline

Please make a perfect Italy 🇮🇹 Also, amazing video btw!

The Oñate treaty was not mentioned once and I was left somehow disappointed. That thing menaced to tear apart the Habsburgs even before the Thirty Years' War.

I'm still waiting for that What if Germany Never United? video.

Please, PLEASE do a "What if everything went perfect for Japan" one next

Very cool video, I like it, and avocado

What if Austria wasn't chocolate?

I'd love a video something like "What if everything went PERFECT for the Native Americans" I wonder if it'd be possible for a few nations there to remain for a long time

@arriba_teruel

8 ай бұрын

What does it mean “native americans”? You’re saying it as if there weren’t thousands of diferent peoples with different cultures and many times fighting between each other. The only way they were united under a single throne was via spanish goverment.

@maroonsunshinelaura

8 ай бұрын

@@arriba_teruel No, i know that. I meant for all the larger native american nations to do as well as they could have, maybe having a few of them even survive to the modern day

the faint smash bros music in the background is too well fitting lmao

The Berlin conference went so badly he just decided not to make a vid bout that 😭💀

What is all that " giving the Netherlands to a Habsburg England " about ? Where I can get information avout that ?

We need an Ottoman one now

I was waiting for this one, its gonna be 🔥 🔥 🔥

Another great video!

Can you do perfect for scotland next?

The Habsburgs would never countenance conversion to orthodoxy but reunion maybe.

Habsburg england sounds like a fever dream

Well for one they would have to resist the greatest temptation of them all.... *RELATIVES*

Big Poland! After that, the Polish attack the Habsburgs to form Zapadoslavia! Venice would form Yugoslavia. The Ottoman Empire would form Vostokoslavia! Least cursed timeline! 😂 Great video btw!

You should do a video about Hungary next in the series.

statiscics of subscribers added together: 100,1%

Very good video. Can you do a what if everything went perfect for the ottomans.

Pls make a Venice one

Basically Austrian EU4 gameplay

Brawl final destination as BGM goes crazy

If we're talking about perfect timeline Habsburgs should split France north south, Spanish annexing south, anglo-dutch north, Poles talking Pomerania and Neumark, while Austria annexes Venice and occupies Romania and Balkans.

Please do one of these for the British Empire x

This sounded like an EU4 Austria run

Perfect Poland next please

As a Spanish I like