The video details the horrible sacking of a large peaceful German Protestant city of Magdeburg by plundering Catholic mercenary troops from countries such as Spain, Italy, and Croatia, where 20,000 people were killed and many women were raped.

This Smithsonian documentary explains the strange and extravagant life of the French King Louis XIV, who ruled for 72 years between 1643 and 1715.  He built Versailles, and he is said to have bathed only three times in his life due to having a belief that bathing makes people susceptible to the plague due to it opening pores of the body.

From the video: “Learn how tapestries were made in the time of Louis XIV and are still made today.  Explore the process of tapestry weaving at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris, where historical techniques dating to the time of Louis XIV are used to make contemporary works of art.”

This video explains “Ivan the Terrible’s” brutal reign in Russia in the 1500’s, where he engaged in decades of pointless wars and employed secret police henchmen who raped and brutalized the populace.

In this video, Ohio State University history Professor Robert Davis explains the white slave trade that happened in Europe between the years 1500 and 1800, where an estmated 1 to 1.25 million white Christian Europeans were enslaved in North Africa by slave traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli (with those numbers not including the European people which were enslaved by Morocco and by other raiders and traders of the Mediterranean Sea coast.)  Davis also explains that Istanbul’s slave import from the Black Sea may have additionally totaled around 2.5 million from 1450 to 1700.