>polish deluge>thirty years war>cromwell conquest of ireland>entire regions losing over half of their populationsThe 17th century is barbaric as fuck, holy shit
>>16803916https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Crisis
>American colonists almost get completely btfo'd not once, but twice by coordinated Indian attacks>first time Virginia came within a hairs breath of being completely wiped off the penninsula 17th century is PEAK kino
>>16803937Who was provoked first?
>>16803916Charles I getting beheaded and his son being sworn in as his successor 10 years later by the men that killed his father
>>16803916Swedish brutality knows no bounds
17th century was most kinoNot enough media on that era. Europa Universalis comes close but those shitty games are gameover by 1600 anyways.I want Empire: Total War set 100 years earlier.
>>16804193Sometimes I wonder if Peter the Great somehow managed to wipe out all of the testosterone and viking DNA in the swedish population in 1709. They were absolute monsters in the 1600s and then they just become a peaceful nation after their king gets domed.
>>16803916Eh it was the same old story of humans killing humans. >>16804205Sweden was involved in multiple wars well into the 20th century but they got effectively checked by other powers (most notably Russia and Denmark) after their defeats of the Great Northern War and the Russo-Swedish War.
>>16804040The Red Man, obviously.
>9 replies>not one mention of privateering
>>16803916All of these have something in common.
>>16804202>17th century was most kinoAnd yet all media about it is wasted on how the heckin colonizers hurt savage feelings
