The 17th and 18th centuries saw a bunch of top-notch wars, but today we're going to focus on the Seven Years' War, also called the French and Indian Wars, because it was the first truly global war. In fact, no less a historian than Winston Churchill called it the First World War. But we've been so Eurocentric here on Crash Course that all we are going to say about the entire war in Europe is that Prussia and Great Britain fought France and Austria, and that the Austrian Habsburgs wanted to win back Silesia, which they failed to do there. That's all you get, Europe! So the Seven Years' War lasted for... anyone? Anyone? 23 years?