How the Dance Floor Changed Feudalism Forever | The Life & Times of Louis XIV

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Feudalism was dying. In the age of globe-spanning colonial empires, commercial printing, and the scientific revolution, the idea of a state held together by a myriad of personal arrangements between ruler and nobility was beginning to show its age, and those who could not adapt would be left behind. But history is not a straight road into the future, it is a hydra-like network of half-worn paths mired in shade and brambles. Take, for instance, Great Britain, where the rights and privileges of the king were so contentious as to drive the kingdom into civil war and begin the gradual transfer of power from Sovereign to Parliament... and then, there was the French method.

Music (in order of appearance):
Arcangello Corelli - Follia
Desert D covering Vengaboys - We Like to Party
Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
Andre Cardinal Destouches - Ballet Les Elements
Stories - Brother Louie
Rafael Krux - Baroque Harpsicord and Strings
Kevin Macleod - Gone Beyond
Rafael Krux - 3 Dramatic Classical Violins
Kevin Macleod - Aerosol of My Love
Atrium Carceri - Them
Vengaboys - We Like to Party
Kevin Rix - King Arthur
Kevin Macleod - Voice Over Under
Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Kevin Macleod - Gothamlicious
Kevin Macleod - Griphop
Kevin Macleod - Prelude and Action
LOTR OST - The Shadow of the Past
Kevin Macleod - Getting it Done
(honorable mention to Modern Talking - Brother Louie, which almost made it in at the end but got cut for copyright reasons)