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The Most Underrated Era in History? (1500s–early 1700s) | Reaction to Ultimate History Hub
Hello everybody! I’m Happy—today we’re reacting to “The Most Underrated Era in History (in my opinion)” by Alternate History Hub. He focuses on early-modern Europe (pike-and-shot, Thirty Years’ War, etc.); I’m adding the wider world: Russia’s Time of Troubles, the Ottoman apex, Mughal India, Tokugawa Japan, Ming→Qing transition, the Atlantic world (Portugal, Spain, Dutch East India Co.), the Little Ice Age backdrop, piracy, and how all this shaped the Americas (Jamestown, Bacon’s Rebellion, the pivot from indentured servitude to racialized chattel slavery).
What we cover
Why the early modern era (c.1500–c.1720) gets skipped in U.S. survey classes—and why it shouldn’t
Pike-and-shot warfare: Swiss pikes, Spanish tercios, cavalry with pistols, and the tactics mash-up phase
Thirty Years’ War and the HRE meat-grinder (religion, state-building, mercenaries, civilians)
Northern/Eastern power swings: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden’s Baltic moment, Russia’s Time of Troubles → Romanovs
Ottoman high tide to Vienna; Habsburg rivalry
Atlantic world & commerce empires: Portuguese routes, Spanish silver, Dutch VOC, pirates, and the slave-trade takeoff
Americas beyond “pilgrims”: Jamestown’s starving time, frontier wars, Bacon’s Rebellion and labor shifts
Climate & science: Little Ice Age “general crisis"
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