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Here are some one liners...
Nuns in a Barrel ... Risking Everything for Reform -- Martin Luther will find his wife and the first martyrs for the Reformation will be burned at the stake.
The Chinese Get Portuguese Cannons -- The market relationship between the Chinese and Portuguese will be a love-hate relationship.
The End of the Kalmar Union -- A new Swedish King will take the throne and in less than a century they will produce one of the greatest generals of all time.
Nuns in a Barrel ... Risking Everything for Reform
Martin Luther is now getting requests. He receives a letter telling him how much they agree with his call for reform and asking for help with a special problem. He calls on a friend who is a city councilman and merchant who makes regular deliveries to the local convent. As the merchant pulls away from the convent, his wagon holds 13 barrels, each of which weigh about the same as a nun and smelling like herring. One of those nuns is named Katharina von Bora and she will one day become the wife of Martin Luther. [1]
My Take by Alex Shrugged
It is obvious that the people are ripe for the message of Reform. Things don't fall apart this fast in a world where communication is limited to letters and pamphlets sent by wagon down muddy roads to towns with a literacy rate so low it would make the average modern high school drop out seem like a tireless scholar. Yet... there are people willing to carry a message they consider more important than their mortal lives. This year Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes will become the first to be burned at the stake for becoming adherents of the Reformation. Martin Luther will write a hymn to these martyrs entitled, "A New Song Shall Now Be Begun." [2]
It is obvious that the people are ripe for the message of Reform. Things don't fall apart this fast in a world where communication is limited to letters and pamphlets sent by wagon down muddy roads to towns with a literacy rate so low it would make the average modern high school drop out seem like a tireless scholar. Yet... there are people willing to carry a message they consider more important than their mortal lives. This year Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes will become the first to be burned at the stake for becoming adherents of the Reformation. Martin Luther will write a hymn to these martyrs entitled, "A New Song Shall Now Be Begun." [2]
The Chinese Get Portuguese Cannons
The Chia-ching Emperor of China receives multiple breech-loading culverins as a gift. It's not clear who exactly is giving this gift, but a culverin is a type of cannon, from the smallest portable cannon weighing about 80 pounds to massive brutes on ships. These cannons are Portuguese in make, and the Emperor is delighted. His engineers will copy this design and in the years to come they will buy Portuguese arquebuses [ARK-keh-buses]. The Portuguese are competitors with the Chinese in the market place but there are some goods that the Chinese must have and they will get them from Portuguese. [3] [4]
My Take by Alex Shrugged
It is going to be a love-hate relationship. The Chinese want the Portuguese goods and the Portuguese want Chinese goods, yet the Chinese just won't be able to stop themselves from placing restrictions on trade even to the extent of building separate market places and using price controls. It won't work but they will do it over and over again, in some cases even leading to armed conflict with the Portuguese. [5]
It is going to be a love-hate relationship. The Chinese want the Portuguese goods and the Portuguese want Chinese goods, yet the Chinese just won't be able to stop themselves from placing restrictions on trade even to the extent of building separate market places and using price controls. It won't work but they will do it over and over again, in some cases even leading to armed conflict with the Portuguese. [5]
The End of the Kalmar Union
Remember the Stockholm Bloodbath? King Christian the 2nd of Denmark invited the Swedish rebels to work things out and he worked it out by killing them or imprisoning them. Well... the chickens have come home to roost. The son of one of the rebels has taken the throne of Sweden and he's going to keep it for a good long time. King Christian had acted in bad faith and now he has lost a critical member of Kalmar Union. There is no Union now. [6]
My Take by Alex Shrugged
The new King of Sweden is Gustav the 1st of the House of Vasa. The House of Vasa will be around for a very long time and will produce Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, a critical leader in the 30 Years' War of the next century... perhaps one of the greatest generals of all time. [7]
The new King of Sweden is Gustav the 1st of the House of Vasa. The House of Vasa will be around for a very long time and will produce Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, a critical leader in the 30 Years' War of the next century... perhaps one of the greatest generals of all time. [7]
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