The Seven Years War: Crash Course World History #26

In which John teaches you about the Seven Years' War, which may have lasted nine years. Or as many as 23. It was a very confusing war. The Seven Years War was a global war, fought on five continents, which is kind of a lot. John focuses on the war as it happened in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. the "great" European powers were the primary combatants, but they fought just about everywhere. Of course, this being a history course, the outcomes of this war still resonate in our lives today. The Seven Years' war determined the direction of the British Empire and led pretty directly to the subject of Episode 28, the American Revolution.

Chapters:
Introduction: War 00:00
The Seven Years War: When, Where, and Why 1:43
The British vs. the French 2:52
Native American Participation in The Seven Years War 4:04
Fighting in the Caribbean, West Africa, and India 6:16
An Open Letter to Robert Clive 8:30
The Outcome of the Seven Years War 9:47
Credits 11:29

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[claudekennedy]

"Winning is losing and losing is winning is losing. Such is life, and such is history."
This show makes me happy.

[badatthegame]

"The Muggle Empire."
Everyone else had magic.

[drewtrevaskus]

Best last words, John Sedgwick; "they couldn't hit an elephant from this dista-"

[SuperHamsterhuey]

"The first treaty was signed in Paris"

*Arrow points to Western Spain*

Is there a Paris in Spain now?

[sorenhoefel]

I've wanted to watch this series in its entirety since it first came out. Took me 10 years, but I finally got around to it and it's amazing to watch a few of the same videos 10 years apart. A better grasp of the scale and complexity of history has made me realize how impressive it is that you managed to make this entertaining, relatively short, and still give a coherent outline of world history.

[TheSecondVersion]

Petition to change the lame (and inaccurate) "Seven Years War" to the better "World War Zero"

[kayaanyoti]

John! You should do a video about the history about Prussia, which then became Germany! It'd be so interesting!!

[CollinBuckman]

I'm annoyed you skipped the European part of this war, nobody ever talks about it in history classes.

[coldplay]

i know this doesn't have much to do with the actual lesson but i love all of the little easter eggs in the thought bubble. finding cows in trees during the dark ages and a star fox arwing in this episode just shows how much fun people have making this series. thank you very much to all who make this possible.

[anacadian]

A few points of correction;
Most of the Acadians were actually from what is now Nova Scotia. 
While many Acadians were deported, thousands were killed. That tends to get glossed over a lot.
A lot of Acadians actually returned to Atlantic Canada, and Acadian culture is very much a thing today, distinct from Cajun culture. The province of New Brunswick is basically bilingual because of the ongoing Acadian population there.

Credit to you though for mentioning the Acadians at all. They tend to get passed over a lot when talking about that era of North American history.

[isardiv]

I'm french and i didn't know about this war. Probably because the events in France at that time were bigger, but thank you so much for this show! I never stop learning

[Sandouras]

You should have mentioned more of the continental fight and particularly the man of the war, Frederick of Prussia and his space marines, running from one side of prussia to the other to fend off attackers. Hell, the guy deserves his own episode. Who's with me?

[Throughtheireyes]

Not even a single mention of Frederick the Great? Probably the most important man in the 7 years war. His name alone would shadow over Robert clives name. This crash course is lacking.

[alicatz]

I love this topic. Such an underrated event in human history. Wished we talked more about it in school, not everything is all about the American civil war and ww2

[dfconfused]

I teach Social Studies and just stumbled on these today- you are brilliant. Thank you for all the effort you put in to create these!

[edhaje]

the flag more likely represent the napoleonic war rather than seven-years war.

[piggypeincesspeyton]

I am loving crash course history. It's been a great review for my A.P. Modern European History class and great for background about the wars we are studying! THANK YOU!!!!

[aegir]

"We have been so Eurocentric on crashcourse that all we are gonna say about the war in Europe is that Prussia and Great
"Fought France and
"It was mainly fought by the british and
"And as previously noted, the Prussians were fighting the French and the British were fighting the Austrian"...*cough*BritainNeverEngagedInBattleAgainstAustria, PrussiaFoughtAustria, France, RussiaAndSwedenPracticallyAloneOnTheContinentWithTheExceptionOfHannoverThatFoughtAgainstTheFrench*cough*
"But the war wasn't really about land, it was about our old friend trade"...*cough*ItWasAboutLandAndGeopolitics, LandWasDesiredForEconomicReasonsAndAlsoForPoliticalReasons*cough*
Ah, yeah, this was a bad history video about the SEVEN YEARS WAR, cannot wait for the video where you talk about the thirty years war and never mention Gustav Adolfus and rather talk about how the English participated...sort of...oh wait, I forgot, the thirty years war doesn't get a video because there was no way to turn it into a narrative about trade and it took place in Europe.

[nancechonx]

Please do a US History segment! I'm in AP US History & these would be really helpful to everyone. Last year, I used the World History ones to prepare for the AP exam & they really helped!

[pascaleandr]

As a french canadian whose history classes taught A LOT about the Seven Years War, I feel so included right now! :D