The ENTIRE Story of the Danish Empire Detailed Documentary

Описание: Sail through more than a millennium as this documentary traces how a seafaring people built, lost, and reinvented an empire. We begin with market towns and longships, then follow the rise of Christian kingship, the bold North Sea realm of Sweyn Forkbeard and Cnut, and the Baltic turn under the Valdemars and Absalon. Watch Margaret the First forge a union across three crowns, then see Sweden’s break reshape the map.

The Lutheran Reformation binds Norway to Copenhagen and funds a stronger state; Christian the Fourth bets on shipyards, commerce, and early colonies from India to the Caribbean. Disaster strikes with winter marches and the treaty at Roskilde, triggering an absolutist rebuild, a drilled navy, and chartered companies on the Gold Coast and in the West Indies. The narrative confronts slavery, early abolition of the trade, and emancipation.

Napoleonic bombardments shatter neutrality and end the Dano-Norwegian union, leading to a constitution, defeat in Schleswig, and a turn toward farms, schools, and cooperation. The final chapters follow the sale of the Caribbean islands and the North Atlantic legacy of Greenland and the Faroes, where autonomy and Arctic strategy define the modern Kingdom of Denmark.