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Season 1

God (1) [Jan 2023] Hell on Earth

A man, a hammer, a nail, a door, history. Martin Luther sets off the protestant reformation and lays the groundwork for a century of violence in Europe.

Death (2) [Jan 2023] Hell on Earth

The Black Death, the rise of the Habsburgs, and the dream of the Universal Monarch.

Kings (3) [Jan 2023] Hell on Earth

The royal dynasties of Europe strain to confront reformation, centralization and modernization in their own distinct ways as we bring them up to the eve of the Thirty Years War.

Windows (4) [Feb 2023] Hell on Earth

Dynastic ambitions, messianic delusions and One High Fall topple the Holy Roman Empire into war.

Intervention (5) [Feb 2023] Hell on Earth

The Danes stage a daring intervention against the Habsburgs. Enter: Wallenstein & Richelieu.

The North (6) [Feb 2023] Hell on Earth

King Gustavus Adolphus brings the seemingly unstoppable power of Sweden crashing through central Germany.

Hell (7) [Feb 2023] Hell on Earth

The apocalyptic effects of years of war on the population transform central Europe into Hell on Earth.

The State (8) [Mar 2023] Hell on Earth

The Peace of Westphalia concludes the war and introduces a new phase of political and economic conflict to Europe.

Rebellion (9) [Mar 2023] Hell on Earth

While the Thirty Years War rages on, in England, a similar set of crises leads to Civil War.

A New God (10) [Mar 2023] Hell on Earth

Commonwealth, Restoration, Glorious Revolution: we complete England’s cycle of political instability and, with a little help from our old friends the Dutch, birth a new order into the world.

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