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角川まんが学習シリーズ 世界の歴史 #9
角川まんが学習シリーズ 世界の歴史 9 ヨーロッパの世界進出 一六〇〇~一七九〇年
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May 16, 2024
WORLD HISTORY: Volume 9; 1600 - 1790.
Still a good read, though the most horrible so far. After a first section on Europeans fighting amongst themselves, this volume goes into the more unseemly (i.e., enslave and pillage) aspects of European colonization, before ending with the history of Ruzzia through Catherine.
First, Louis the Fourteenth claims part of The Netherlands for himself, which leads to France going head to head with The Netherlands, Spain, England and the Hapsburgs, for Seven (long) Years and eventually losing. (The costs of this war destabilize French government finances and prompt England to raise taxes on the American Colonists, both of which have very far reaching consequences, to be covered in the next volume.)
Also surprising, the Dutch massacre the British in what will become Indonesia, due to a dispute over … money. (again).
Then over to the British East India Company and the scheming Robert Clive, who strong-arms Indian ruler after Indian ruler, while stocking up on soldiers, guns and money, and then bloodily clears the field for the East India Company, and the “British Empire.”… (I am reminded of the Warren Zevon song: Lawyers, Guns and Money).
We then turn to the Americas where the Portuguese start the sugar plantation system with African slave labor and the Spanish plunder gold and silver from everywhere they can, indenturing the locals for labor. Pirates and British (and British pirates) keep plundering the Spanish ships. The transatlantic slave trade catches on big time for the Dutch merchants, who make a killing. But everywhere long term problems are in store…
And, after all that, part four: Ruzzia. The story of Russia starts with the Normans from Scandinavia invading the area of the Slavic people, and then killing and raping/intermarrying with them.
In terms of development, Kiev (Ukraine) is established first, and adopts Christianity first, and Kiev rules the area to the north and east. But the settlements in this region continuously fight each other for supremacy, until the Mongols (called Tartars by the locals) bring peace by occupying the whole area. Under Mongol rule, the Muscovy area grows. Enter Ivan the 3rd. He adopts the Byzantium crest of the two-headed hawk, and Christianity (1453), unites with the republic of Novograd (1478) and manages to defeat (“throw off the yoke of”) the Mongols in 1480.
Ivan then appoints himself Tsar, ties the peasants to the land, and Ruzzia is off to the races!
After Ivan 3 dies, the aristocrats fight amongst themselves for position until Ivan’s grandson, Ivan (the 4th) is old enough to assert himself, in 1547. The lack of a clear procedure for succession by the regime starts a pattern that will continue in Ruzzia until the present day.
Under Ivan 4 (later to be called “the Terrible”), the Rooskies expand east into Khazakstan, but expansion in the west is stopped by Lithuania, Sweden and Poland. Ivan forms a special military police group to arrest and execute his internal enemies. So Ruzzian. In 1581, Russia makes it to the eastern side of the Urals and enlists the Cossacks for further expansion. The Cossacks go as far as Siberia. But as usual, the bothersome peasants want to be free. To address this problem, Ivan 4 renews the requirement that NO PEASANT LEAVES THE LAND!. After Ivan 4th dies in 1584, confusion reigns once again as the wealthy and powerful vie for control of the throne,
Sweden and Poland see an opportunity, and around 1600, invade and occupy Moscow. Whoa. I did not see that coming.
In reaction to the capture of Moscow, the Russian aristocrats … flee east, call a meeting, and appoint a sixteen year old kid, Michael Romanov, from Ivan the Terrible’s family, with the idea that they will be able to control him. Michael is succeeded by Alexei Romanov is 1649, who again requires that NO PEASANT LEAVES THE LAND. The serf system becomes (finally?) official. Alexei also changes the Russian crest’s wing orientation of the Byzantine two-headed eagle from downward pointing to upward pointing, like the Roman Empire, and a third crown is added.
But the peasants continue to flee the land, and many join the Cossacks, who now become a threat to the stability of the throne. Cossacks from the Don River region revolt against the serf system in 1670, but are put down the following year. Russia has taken over Kiev, but in the Baltic region, Sweden and Poland are stronger.
Enter Peter (1682), age 9, with his older half-sister, Sophia, exercising the real power. Sophia tries to side-line Peter, and is successful until 1689/1690 when, after Russia fails to win Crimea from the Ottoman Empire, Sophia is put in a convent. Peter formally assumes power in 1694 and organizes study tours to Europe to gather western technology. Peter builds up the Russian navy and makes an attempt to fight Sweden in 1700. THIS WAR, THE BALTIC WAR, LASTS TWENTY-ONE YEARS. In the course of this period, Peter establishes St. Petersburg and moves the capital there (1713). The Russian navy finally defeats the Swedish navy in 1714, and the king of Sweden dies in battle in 1718.
After Peter dies in 1725, the leadership of Russia is once again a confusion. A variety of persons assert their leadership for short periods until Peter the Second takes the throne in 1762. But, he is too soft on Prussia for the Rooskie aristocrats, who want reparations from Prussia, so they dethrone him and anoint Catherine, the daughter of a Prussian general. Catherine sets out to out-Rusky the Ruskies. First she takes a bite out of Poland. When Poland fights back, she doubles down and takes more. (Prussia and Austria also decide to grab their own bits of Poland—rough neighborhood.)
The Cossacks lead another uprising against the serf system, and Russia puts this down the following year, 1775. In response, Catherine sends directors to strengthen the central government’s grasp on regional governments.
Following victory in her continuing war with Turkey, Catherine finally obtains access to the Black Sea at Azov, and Crimea is awarded independence from the Ottoman Empire, which Russia then snaps up like a ravenous alligator in 1783. When the Ottoman Empire requests Russia to remove itself from Crimea and the Azov Sea in 1787, Catherine teams up with Austria and sends her best general. Russia keeps the pressure on the Ottomans until they get land concessions, this time the area around Odessa, in 1792.
In a response to the French Revolution, Catherine takes more of Poland, until, together with Prussian moves, there is no Poland left.
The now elderly Catherine grants her blessing to her grandson Alexander, instead of to her son Pavel/Paul, but Pavel takes over anyway. He later dies mysteriously. Alexander is Tsar.
What a sh*t show.
The End. On to Volume 10! (Which promises to be refreshing after this Volume, because it has GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON riding his horse on the cover. Sweet.)
Still a good read, though the most horrible so far. After a first section on Europeans fighting amongst themselves, this volume goes into the more unseemly (i.e., enslave and pillage) aspects of European colonization, before ending with the history of Ruzzia through Catherine.
First, Louis the Fourteenth claims part of The Netherlands for himself, which leads to France going head to head with The Netherlands, Spain, England and the Hapsburgs, for Seven (long) Years and eventually losing. (The costs of this war destabilize French government finances and prompt England to raise taxes on the American Colonists, both of which have very far reaching consequences, to be covered in the next volume.)
Also surprising, the Dutch massacre the British in what will become Indonesia, due to a dispute over … money. (again).
Then over to the British East India Company and the scheming Robert Clive, who strong-arms Indian ruler after Indian ruler, while stocking up on soldiers, guns and money, and then bloodily clears the field for the East India Company, and the “British Empire.”… (I am reminded of the Warren Zevon song: Lawyers, Guns and Money).
We then turn to the Americas where the Portuguese start the sugar plantation system with African slave labor and the Spanish plunder gold and silver from everywhere they can, indenturing the locals for labor. Pirates and British (and British pirates) keep plundering the Spanish ships. The transatlantic slave trade catches on big time for the Dutch merchants, who make a killing. But everywhere long term problems are in store…
And, after all that, part four: Ruzzia. The story of Russia starts with the Normans from Scandinavia invading the area of the Slavic people, and then killing and raping/intermarrying with them.
In terms of development, Kiev (Ukraine) is established first, and adopts Christianity first, and Kiev rules the area to the north and east. But the settlements in this region continuously fight each other for supremacy, until the Mongols (called Tartars by the locals) bring peace by occupying the whole area. Under Mongol rule, the Muscovy area grows. Enter Ivan the 3rd. He adopts the Byzantium crest of the two-headed hawk, and Christianity (1453), unites with the republic of Novograd (1478) and manages to defeat (“throw off the yoke of”) the Mongols in 1480.
Ivan then appoints himself Tsar, ties the peasants to the land, and Ruzzia is off to the races!
After Ivan 3 dies, the aristocrats fight amongst themselves for position until Ivan’s grandson, Ivan (the 4th) is old enough to assert himself, in 1547. The lack of a clear procedure for succession by the regime starts a pattern that will continue in Ruzzia until the present day.
Under Ivan 4 (later to be called “the Terrible”), the Rooskies expand east into Khazakstan, but expansion in the west is stopped by Lithuania, Sweden and Poland. Ivan forms a special military police group to arrest and execute his internal enemies. So Ruzzian. In 1581, Russia makes it to the eastern side of the Urals and enlists the Cossacks for further expansion. The Cossacks go as far as Siberia. But as usual, the bothersome peasants want to be free. To address this problem, Ivan 4 renews the requirement that NO PEASANT LEAVES THE LAND!. After Ivan 4th dies in 1584, confusion reigns once again as the wealthy and powerful vie for control of the throne,
Sweden and Poland see an opportunity, and around 1600, invade and occupy Moscow. Whoa. I did not see that coming.
In reaction to the capture of Moscow, the Russian aristocrats … flee east, call a meeting, and appoint a sixteen year old kid, Michael Romanov, from Ivan the Terrible’s family, with the idea that they will be able to control him. Michael is succeeded by Alexei Romanov is 1649, who again requires that NO PEASANT LEAVES THE LAND. The serf system becomes (finally?) official. Alexei also changes the Russian crest’s wing orientation of the Byzantine two-headed eagle from downward pointing to upward pointing, like the Roman Empire, and a third crown is added.
But the peasants continue to flee the land, and many join the Cossacks, who now become a threat to the stability of the throne. Cossacks from the Don River region revolt against the serf system in 1670, but are put down the following year. Russia has taken over Kiev, but in the Baltic region, Sweden and Poland are stronger.
Enter Peter (1682), age 9, with his older half-sister, Sophia, exercising the real power. Sophia tries to side-line Peter, and is successful until 1689/1690 when, after Russia fails to win Crimea from the Ottoman Empire, Sophia is put in a convent. Peter formally assumes power in 1694 and organizes study tours to Europe to gather western technology. Peter builds up the Russian navy and makes an attempt to fight Sweden in 1700. THIS WAR, THE BALTIC WAR, LASTS TWENTY-ONE YEARS. In the course of this period, Peter establishes St. Petersburg and moves the capital there (1713). The Russian navy finally defeats the Swedish navy in 1714, and the king of Sweden dies in battle in 1718.
After Peter dies in 1725, the leadership of Russia is once again a confusion. A variety of persons assert their leadership for short periods until Peter the Second takes the throne in 1762. But, he is too soft on Prussia for the Rooskie aristocrats, who want reparations from Prussia, so they dethrone him and anoint Catherine, the daughter of a Prussian general. Catherine sets out to out-Rusky the Ruskies. First she takes a bite out of Poland. When Poland fights back, she doubles down and takes more. (Prussia and Austria also decide to grab their own bits of Poland—rough neighborhood.)
The Cossacks lead another uprising against the serf system, and Russia puts this down the following year, 1775. In response, Catherine sends directors to strengthen the central government’s grasp on regional governments.
Following victory in her continuing war with Turkey, Catherine finally obtains access to the Black Sea at Azov, and Crimea is awarded independence from the Ottoman Empire, which Russia then snaps up like a ravenous alligator in 1783. When the Ottoman Empire requests Russia to remove itself from Crimea and the Azov Sea in 1787, Catherine teams up with Austria and sends her best general. Russia keeps the pressure on the Ottomans until they get land concessions, this time the area around Odessa, in 1792.
In a response to the French Revolution, Catherine takes more of Poland, until, together with Prussian moves, there is no Poland left.
The now elderly Catherine grants her blessing to her grandson Alexander, instead of to her son Pavel/Paul, but Pavel takes over anyway. He later dies mysteriously. Alexander is Tsar.
What a sh*t show.
The End. On to Volume 10! (Which promises to be refreshing after this Volume, because it has GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON riding his horse on the cover. Sweet.)
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