What If Everything Went PERFECT for the Habsburgs

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[w.n]

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

[khronostheavenger]

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.

[sutrajaiz]

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

[bringer_of_empire]

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

[whyareallofthegoodnamestaken]

Alternate title: average EU4 austrian game

[MaceY._.]

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

[ivantorres]

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.

[elianes]

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.

[charlietennent]

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.

[solelak]

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

[internetchunk]

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

[GarfieldRex]

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.

[thomasfurtwangler]

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

[goosermr]

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.

[mqdboy]

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.

[nqnqnq]

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.

[shinsenshogun]

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

[aaronfire]

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.

[henrybacolor]

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.

[olekcholewa]

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