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Changing Faces of Colonial Masters – A Look at the Rivalries in Europe and its impact on Colonialism

The Forever War for Europe (1618-1945) – How Europe Peaked and Fell, Fighting Each Other

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9 Jul
The last hurrah of a dying nation as winged soldiers came down on a sieging army to rescue the besieged.

Story in the evening ...
Jan Sobieski was born in 1629 to Jakub Sobieski and Zofia Danilowiczova. He belonged to the nobility of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with his father and maternal ancestors becoming the Voivode of various Voivodeships of the Commonwealth. 1/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Well educated, Sobieski travelled Europe in his early years and took part in the battles the Commonwealth had to deal with, when Jan Kazimierz became King in 1648. He showed good potential for a future military career, though his elder brother, Marek, died in these wars. 2/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
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7 Jul
If you have looked at the progress of the population of humanity in history, you will find a remarkable leap after 1800 AD.

So, what changed in the past 200 years? After all, we have most certainly found deadlier ways to kill more and more people, with bombs and machines. 1/15
Beyond a shift in population from Europe to Africa and the Americas, there hasn't been a considerable change in the proportion of population in these 200 years.

But two other factors have changed substantially in this time period. 2/15
For a long time, roughly one in four infants never made it beyond the age of 1 and roughly one of two humans born never reached adulthood.

Now over 95% of the children reach adulthood.

Life expectancy, which was only around 28 years in 1800, is now around 72 years. 3/15
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6 Jul
An unfortunate death leaves a King without an heir. An election gives a new King, one who was never considered for rule. A great nation begins its long slide into obscurity.

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Jan Kazimierz Vasa was born in 1609 to Sigismund, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Konstanza of Austria. He had an elder half brother, Władysław, who was elected the Tsar of Russia in 1610, but his father's Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy did not match. 1/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_II_Casimir_Vasa#/media/Fi
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was at its greatest extent in 1619, but things were not entirely rosy. Russia had pushed back the Polish after 1613 and elected a new Tsar. While Sigismund was at war with the Ottomans, Sweden invaded Poland capturing Riga and Livonia. 2/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truce_of_Deulino#/media/File:T
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4 Jul
So last week's Salem Junction started off with bells which marked the dead during the Great Plague of London in 1665.

The plague has killed, and is still killing, a lot of people around the world for many millennia now. History marks four major outbreaks of the disease. 1/10
The earliest known strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the disease, is over 7,000 years old, and was found recently in the jawbone of a person who lived in the Baltics 5,000 years (oddly) ago. sciencenews.org/article/oldest… 2/10
A younger strain was found from another 5,000 year old remains, in Sweden, indicating the likelihood of a major pandemic in Scandinavia at the time. livescience.com/64246-ancient-… 3/10
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2 Jul
Baby steps for a young nation, but with a ruler with 12 sons, each vying for a piece of it.

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Vladimir Sviatoslavich was born around 960 to Sviatoslav, Grand Prince of Kiev and Malusha. Sviatoslav was the leader of an East Slavic tribe known as Rus', who had started organizing into a nation during the time of Sviatoslav's grandfather, Rurik and his relative, Oleg. 1/10 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8
The Kievan Rus' was formed near the trade route connecting Byzantium with Scandinavia. Initially centred at Novgorod, Oleg added Smolensk, Lyubech and Kiev, and made Kiev his capital. Sviatoslav added onto the Rus' state, but he died in battle against the Pechenegs in 972. 2/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_route_from_the_Varangianhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rus%27_people#/media/File:Euro
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30 Jun
This was the beginning of what I see as the 300 year long Forever War for Europe.

From 1618 to 1945, Europe saw consistent warfare spread across the continent, though it was intermittent at times.

Europe peaked during this war, but it also led to their undoing as well. 1/20
Europe had seen many wars after the collapse of Roman Empire in the West in 476, but they were mostly bilateral and local. It was only in the 1500s that Europe saw multi national alliances fight it out, with France, Holy Roman Empire, Spain and England fighting over Italy. 2/20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pavia#/media/File:Th
But the fighting was limited to Italy.

The event in 1618 Prague was a story that was 200 years in making. It started with Jan Hus and his move to reform the Catholic Church in Bohemia.

With the Church unhappy about it, he was summoned to the Council of Constance in 1414. 3/20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus#/media/File:Hus_(Lessi
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