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@@mihaisus32244 None required, a statement offact such as this rewuires no addition.

@@DrLennieSmall i guess you're right

Somewhat eaten too as I recall

Hey that’s my country

@Gagan Singh ppl here really liked him becuse he was very charismatic and inspiring, when the news came that Sebastião was dead ppl got really sad

@@metan616 He Will return My Brother, just Wait.

Didn’t he die from attempting a crusade in Morocco?

@@swagonometry223 yes but people made this legend to have some faith that he would return

@@swagonometry223 old wifes tales . He will be back in a morning of fog and the people will follow Him to a new age of happiness and glory.

I cracked up at that as well. :)

In our history, he's merely a villain. I didn't know how he was that important until I grew older.

What did he do that was so bad?

Well, the narrative was he started the invasion or colonialism. It's probably hindsight, so Lapu-Lapu, was considered our first hero. Even though there was no concept of a nation throughout the whole island. I would say our real hero against colonialism was the polymath Jose Rizal, but we're only talking about Magellan.

Okay, interesting

With a population of 1.1 million in the year 1500, nearly 500 thousand inhabitants were somehow involved in the overseas exploration.

So true....

It was the most logical option given their situation.

watch the dutch colonial. even a smaller country doing also quite good and even beating the English . before getting trampled by the French by land

portugal discovered the most countries in history and was the wealthiest and had the strongest navy plus portugal were the first to discover north America way before Columbus out anyone else and they were the first pirates ever. and portugal discovered Australia too!!!!

Como brasileiro, pensei o mesmo.

Not enough accuracy, so it seems... Why? Well, for starters, he made no mention of the Arab influence on the iberian peninsula at the time; the Moors had conquered the peninsula 800 years previous (700's ad) under Tariq ibn Aziz and were there ever since. The Moors actually raided north over the pyrenees into France as far as tours, France only to be stopped by Charles Martel (Charles the hammer) father of pepin the short, and grandfather to charlemagne... The Moorish invasion wained and eventually settled back across the pyrenees into Spain/Portugal and exerted their hegemony and influence there. (Also changing the bloodlines) The Moors had a direct line to Arabia which at that point was the world's leading authority in medicine, Earth sciences, mathematics, astronomy, navigation, ship building and the like... It's the reason the iberian peninsula never actually experienced a dark age... Tbh, the world's oldest "university" is in Seville; not to mention all the Arab architecture that inundates the entire peninsula to this day--- in a nutshell, Arabic technology is the sole reason Spain and Portugal were the first European countries to leave Europe on ships headed in southerly and westerly directions... Are you kidding me, How could he leave this out???

@@chrisnyasia7 the moors had some influence, but our success was mainly due to geography and political stability, really...

chrisnyasia7 Because it wasn’t needed to be noted. It was about their Empires,not their homelands.

chrisnyasia7 yeah but the Catholics kicked the arabs out.

Phil Ad You just proved his point. Go read a bit more.

For example, in the food we eat. Much of it originated in different parts of the world, but was introduced to Western dinner tables by Portuguese explorers and traders.

Phil Ad brasil, angola, mozmbique, guine bissau, sao tome e principe, southern india, macau, timor all speak portuguese. And lets not forget brazil is an enourmos country

To think that for 2 centuries the Global Slave Trade was a Portuguese monopoly.

@Phil Ad they built the first global empire ever!!!!!

yes Magallanes was Portuguese but he became a Spanish citizen and was given money to circumvent the world. The deputy commander was Sebastian el Cano, Basque, who finished circumventing the world as Magallanes, who apparently was stubborn and ill tempered died in the Philippines. the part that his crew hated Magallanes is another black legend, such as the Spanish inquisition. The British, Dutch and Portuguese have been giving Spain many false black legends. It is about time to bring truth to these historical events. The British empire has the honour to be the number one killers and have committed genocide around the world. Congratulations, nation of killers.

@@Pleittor In the crew, as a pilot, was a portuguese named Carvalhinho. It was a 'degredado' in brasil that was picked up in Cabo Frio Rio de Janeiro. Carvalhinho even had a son and both went on the expedition. When in southeast asia he and his son were dropped on an uknown island as the crew lost confidence on him since he was portuguese.

@@Pleittor it is always the basque who finish the job,really.

@Rick K... Australia?

@Rick KMy point is not to make the Portuguese or Spanish look better,but who did the worst. Let me remind what Lieutenant Moore or others did back in Australia. I'm not telling that those guys back in Iberia are better, but to tell that you are not also.

That's weird considering Castillans started sailing the seas AFTER the Portuguese. At least from what I know. The Venetians are a different matter.

@@jeanlundi2141 yes, but they had some knowledge of the layout of Europe at the time and assumed if a country was gonna do it eventually, it would be a powerful or wealthy/influential kingdom.

@@DielsonSales Yes but Portugal wasn't much different from Spain in terms of influence at the time, was it? From what little I know from history back then, not really.

@@jeanlundi2141 Well, I can’t speak about what I don’t know, but I imagine the fact there were merchants in India who did speak Castilian and not Portuguese might be relevant.

@@jeanlundi2141 The fact that Spaniards started sailing after the Portuguese is not entirely true. On a global scale, yes, but the Kingdom of Aragon had built up an Empire in the mediterranean by the time the reconquista was over.

Lol the History of the entire world I guess video

Vasco de gama did it

Following closely the guidance of a Gujarati trader, who routinely did the commercial route between Africa and India.

Portugal: I'll find a route to India... Is that India? Geography: No... Portugal: Ive just found India then!! Geography: Dafuq?

Viva Portugal

r/suddenlybillwurtz

"Damn" said Amsterdam "We gotta start pillaging some stuff"

everyone knows that the English were always the pirates of the world, always trying to attack the Spanish empire

@@purohueso5644 yes that is true

CHINA IS WHOLE AGAIN THEN IT BROKE AGAIN

That being said, Cortez and the other conquistadors absolutely saw the natives as sub-human therefore warranting their derision and contempt. Goes to show how sickening and self jerking off the catholic kingdoms were at that point in time, to instill such despicable values unto their champions and subjects.

Ten Minute History The sarcastic quips you make are great. Keep them in!

But dude it's too good :( I've watched them all and now I need more .-. , your art style is very funny btw, keep up the good work, whenever you feel like covering more portuguese history, or brazilian... hint, hint, I'd appreciate

Ten Minute History The British isles

One of my favorite new channels.

Ten Minute History visual jokes over spoken ones is the best way to go!

No one did...

Hannibal Barca Their chief weapon is surprise.

Surprise and fear.

Suprise, fear and fanatical loyalty to the Pope

I know its a joke. But just for some cultural knowledge, actually the spanish inquisition didn't even reached to kill 5000 people in several centuries. In germany and france, though, people were killed and burnt for thousands every year. But black legend I guess

Ten Minute History Suleiman the magnificent

Ten Minute History the swedish great era of power, not so much info about that, Love this channel btw

Ten Minute History Kalmar Union would be a delight

Ten Minute History Middle East Caliphates

as a dutch i would love to see you do the 80 year war, or the dutch revolt.

Yeah, the first gold mine was found in Brazil in 1697 only. Almost 200 years later.

The brazilian gold rush came almost 200 years after the first colonies

The region of Brazil that had gold was not discovered neither occupied by the Portuguese at the time

a couple centuries later, not decades.

couple centuries later. not decades

Prester John baby!

I’m a but confused about this statement. They thought they were Christians UNTIL they met the local Syriac Christians? I’m confused.

@@connorgolden4 What that means is, they thought every Hindu was Christian untill they met the orthodox christian community and realized Christianity was actually a minority there.

@@zap3231 in other words, they met the Saint Thomas Christians, but then also met the Malankara Church under the Orthodox?

@@HolyKhaaaaan Yea basically

TCC Same here

@Sjwaria Law What?

@Sjwaria Law I can't make any sense of your comment.

@Sjwaria Law haha XDXDX u ar *le phunny banterman xDD!11!!! See? Ironic shitposting is still shitposting

@Sjwaria Law Oh god people who talk like that and basically hate education are the reason america has its head in it's own ass

"They had been consistently beating the French in the Italian Wars since as early as 1503" It depends what you call consistently, let's say the majority of the Italian wars, a notable part were won by the french, and some were even inconclusive. In general though, it's true that Spain remained dominant in Italy and not France. Is that enough to be a "superpower" ? I don't know. The Ottoman empire was clearly more powerful, except during Charles V's reign since he had other titles. But then again, as opposed to what you're suggesting, the Holy Roman Empire was Charles's possession, not Spain's. Spain was only one of the possession of Charles, which should I remind you comes from an Austrian dynasty (that's actually the main reason why he was emperor of the HRE: Austria). Personal unification is different from "taking over", all the territories of the Habsburg empire were distinct. Spain still was dominant in Europe, but I believe that in continental Europe it was a relative dominance (expect during Charles V reign), "superpower" seems really a very big word for me, clearly too common nowadays.

Charles the Vth was already the greatest monarch in Europe before the income from the Americas had a significant impact. He was recognized as ruler of the HRE as early as 1520, again, way before Amrica had had an impact, and by then the Spanish were already at almost at the peak of their territorial expansion in Europe. The Ottomans were probably more powerful than the Spanish during Charles the Vth rule, but it's hard to assess that, since they never got into significant conflicts with each other. After Vienna and Lepanto and the further expansion of the Spanish colonies, you might consider that Spain was ahead. But you yourself say that the top powers in the first half of the XVI century (aka, before the gold from America had an impact) were Spain and the Ottomans... if clearly being one of the two most powerful states in the most powerful continent in the world at the time does not make you a superpower, I don't know what does. Charles came from an Austrian Dynasty as much as he came from Spanish or Burgundian Dynasties. He was king of Spain before he was Holy Roman Emperor. The current kings of Spain come from a french dynasty and the current queen of England from a german dynasty... so what? Charles' father, Philipp, was King of Spain and duke of Burgundy but never was Archduke of Austria, her mother was Queen (not consort) of Spain, his direct descendants stayed as rulers of Spain and not of Austria, and he retired in Spain... I'd say the Spanish ascendance takes precedence. He did not "technically" own the HRE, but he had control over it, to the point that he was able to set his brother as heir there. And even if you want to leave the HRE out, you still have to consider the Spanish DIRECTLY owning the richest region in the north (Low Countries), one of the richest cities in the south (Milan), had the support of both german and genuese bankers and many of the main italian states (Savoy, Tuscany...), an alliance with the only other global empire of the time (Portugal) as well as with England and was keeping in check the other main western european power (France). Which is to say... save for France and Venice, west of the Ottomans, Spain owned half of Europe and had the other half under its influence. And I'm not going to go as far as to get to the time of Lepanto, St. Quentin or the union with Portugal. By your same arguments you can't call the United States a superpower because their dominance is relative. Spain had dominions in all the known continents, directly owned the richest regions in Europe, indirectly owned many more, kept in check the other two most powerful states of the time ALLIED TOGETHER, dominated the battlefields for 150 years, owned the largest empire since the Mongols... I don't know, none of that sounds like "regional power" to me. And yes, personal union is not the same as "taking over", but as the United States show nowdays, you don't really have to own a country to rule over it. In any case, my point was that Spain was, alongside the Ottomans, THE power in Europe already in the early XVI Century (like under Charles V) before they had even discovered the main metal mines in South America, so you cannot discredit Spanish/Habsburg successes during that time using "they were only powerful because of american gold and silver" as an argument. Even before Charles the Vth they were already steamrolling over the French (like the Great Captain during the ITalian Wars).

@@higochumbo8932 In Dutch history Charles the V is really important because he united part of the Low Countries and established the border with Germany (RIP Rhineland and East-Frisia). I always find it fascinating how a guy born in Ghent became the Duke of Burgundy, Lord of the Netherlands, King of Castile and Aragon, King of Germany, King of Italy and the Holy Roman Empire. An impressive record

@@lopezdecastilla What the fuck are you saying? He is completely right, and I have a degree in History as well. Spain was already a superpower when Isabel and Ferdinand married, they had a powerful army, respect, and a huge territory. Thats why christopher went to see them after the Portuguese rejected him. Spain and Portugal where seen as growing superpowers of their time. All the Silver from Potosi taken during the time of the Spanish Empire is mined nowadays in 1 year. Most of the gold and silver taken in the Colonies was actually spent on wars by Philippe II in the Netherlands and fighting the protestants or was invested back in building infraestructure in the Colonies. And It took very long for the Spanish to get an efficient way of mining the mines successfully. For spain the little gold and silver that entered the country, actually destroyed its penninsular economy, destroying the inicial industrial centers that were being created in cities in Central Spain, such as Toro, León, Zamora, Valladolid, etc... and well... Wealth can come from many sources, and industrial cities can be a source of wealth on its own.. look at Flanders,all its wealth originated on its industry and later commerce of that industrial production. And by the way, Spain has its own gold mines. Actually during the roman period, the largest mining and silver mines of the Roman empire where in Spain, with most coins being printed there. The ores didnt go empty until recent times with some still existing today.

Ah yes the Habsburg, famous Spanish dynasty, had secured the Holy Roman empire uh. Can't be the other way around

Ah, I see you're man of culture as well!

Yes to the point of stealing our colonies

@@teresaleite2892 And then the English did the same to us. Only we didn't get most of our colonies back...

@@Snoflakes_1 you never gave them back, plus not to mention stealing our spice, sugar and tobacco trade

@@teresaleite2892 I mean you got back Brazil and Angola... which are basically the only ones that mattered

Yes I understand what you say, most can't have a discussion about colonialism and exploration without bias now a days. So much negativity in the subject prevents us from ever fully getting into and understanding the subject though.

I agree completely his US revolutionary war coverage was great too. He is great at presenting things in an impartial manner.

John Green is very bad at separating personal opinions from facts.

Crash Course History is the worst

Nothing beats California being named after a fictional black women-run island from a 16th century novel though.

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me too...

wish we could turn back time~

Phillip II Von Habsburg Hell yeah bro!

KVRGANIVS NOSTRATORVM

And unless there's an _Ü_ after the _Q_ one would say it like "_con_*_kee_*_stador"

in romanian the h is pronounced, :)

@@Osterochse Homeo and Huliet, or Hezus?

@@robertrichard6107 what? the h is pronounced like a x or like ch in other languages. We are not talking about the J.

So we are just gonna exclude j from the Spanish alphabet?

It's over 9000!

Haven't they technically invaded every country in the world?

There was some flow of information. Not mentioned here was that Portugal entered the Ethiopian war to help the Christians against the Muslims. Vasco da Gamas brother was one of the leaders and was decapited by the Muslims, who counted on the Ottomans as allies

Obrigado /Thank you we love Goa

​@aenarion WPcl spain? ahh the southern part of france

@aenarion WPcl france is more visited

Thank you Gonsalves! Portugal does not forget Goa, Damão and Diu! God Bless you!

Obrigado Goa, Damão and Diu. Nunca vos esqueceremos. We will never forget you brothers ❤️🇵🇹!!

It sucked, sincerely Spanish empire gang 4life

How are you proud of that? Do you mean you would like for me to take most of your food and make you work for me?

@@gggggggggggggggggg161 hmm, dude you might be to late to tell that to him it's been two years.

Fuck India! Victory for Pakistan!

@@Darthwgamer Am I late lol?

@@pedroapinto06 No im still here bud

What's interesting is that had Vasco Da Gama made his voyage around the Cape a few years earlier, he would have encountered large Chinese fleets made up of ships far bigger and more sophisticated than the state of the art caravels. The Chinese most likely even made to America before the Iberians.

TagusMan Chinese ships were not as advanced as the caravels and carracks. That's bullshit

Columbus discovered America and Vasco da Gama didn’t, is it so hard for the Portuguese to stop trying to undermine Spain or anyone working for Spain? Do you need it so badly? Let’s have some peace...

+Lucas Villar actually Vikings did in the 11 th century

Tom 2142 no, the Amerindians crossing Bering’s straight from Asia during an ice age did it long before and the fish able to cross the Atlantic in the ocean currents did it before all of those and the animals on the American continent taken with it after the drift of the Atlantic dorsal even sooner than them... and Newton didn’t discover gravity, we all fell to the floor before him, or Maxwell electricity, we all got electrocuted before him and Pluto was already up there before it was discovered by a telescope many people saw it without knowing what it is... The difference is Newton described gravity, Maxwell described electricity, the guy that “discovered” Pluto gave it a name and a trajectory and the Spanish located America on a map in relation to all the other land masses, the Spanish described America. One thing is knowledge and the other is not. The Vikings had no idea they were stepping on a different continent or where it was in the slightest, the same for the Amerindians. That’s the reason Columbus connected America to the rest of the world and the others failed to do so after centuries of having reached it. *The whole point of discovering is reaching a conclusion regarding that new experience, if you just experience gravity or walk on America you are not reaching any conclusion, you are not discovering. I’m so tired of this argument someone thought he/she was very smart for saying the Vikings did (as if the native Americans had just materialised there), they Vikings experienced America, like the fish in the Atlantic long before them, but both had no concept of where they were.*

They wanted to impose same rules as of Eastern Europe technically tax farms but portugese and Spanish saved Europe

@@noone7692 Yeah. But it's interesting how Spain was ultimately weakened by all the silver it extracted from the New World. I think the term used to describe Spanish silver is a "resource curse".

@@promethium-145 Too much of a good thing is not, as it turns out, a good thing. (On a side note, someone should inform Alan Jackson.)

@@odinfromcentr2 Exactly. The only exception I can think of is happiness (as a stand-alone, not the product of an unhealthy habit). But I don't know who Alan Jackson is. Could you tell me about him?

@@promethium-145 Country singer. He did a song where the line "too much of a good thing is a good thing" appeared in the refrain of the song. I think the context of the song was a relationship, but it was, I think, 15 or 20 years ago, so the memory is a bit muddled.

Nanaka GN we dont want shitty people like you either honey :D

ohhh jorge i feel so happy for you, at least you can understand since retarded is your main language...

Nanaka GN i will never let you walk alone this path of sorrow love :*

of course not :))), youre the first on the run

Nanaka GN obviously, portuguese are always behind the spaniards

S A U D A D E

Well yeah, that and money.

Well yeah, and anything to avoid trading with muslims lmaooo

They were surrounded by several more powerful empires than them (spanish, french, british). Their only choices were to either be curious about finding something better (which they did), or just succumb to people around them. They made the most of their little country and formed a massive empire. Ofcourse being so far west in europe and removed from mainland europes ridiculous conflicts for the most part helped them out tremendously.

@@PolishBehemoth Your comment is mostly correct but is wrong in one part: We were not being threatened by more powerful empires. The British were historial allies by then (still are), the French didn't give a shit, and the Spanish weren't, compared to Portugal, too powerful, believe it or not. In fact, Portugal, at the time of the expansion, had just kicked Castille's ass at the Battle of Aljubarrota, where, together with Britain, the Portuguese won a decisive victory against the much larger Franco-Spanish armies invading Portugal for its crown.

your knowlage of Portuguese History is trash Mr Rodney, go back to the pub

what are you talking about Rodney? they eventually colonized all the land later on anyway. Exept usa and Canada.

he didn't even talk about mare clausum its a policy that was aproved by the pope that sayed that only portugal and spain were allowed to sail and any other nation had to pay a royalty to both

Well, isn't it evident? Practically ALL of America speaks Spanish except some parts of the USA, Canada and Brazil. And then we add Portuguese to the soup and we have that the majority of the continent still has a super strong iberian legacy Spanish is still the 2nd most spoken language in the world by native speakers after Chinese....

yeah, right, not really Nanaka, I don't know what you're talking about. By continent: Africa: Islas Canarias (desde 1478). Cazaza (1505-1532). Mazalquivir (1505-1708, 1732-1792). Mozambique (1580-1640). Orán (Oranesado) (1509-1708, 1732-1791). Argel (1510-1530). Bugía (1510-1555). Peñón de Argel (1510-1529). Santa Cruz de la Mar Pequeña (Sidi Ifni) (1510-1644; 1930-1969) Trípoli (1510-1523) Madeira (1580-1640). Honein (1531-1535). Bizerta (1535-1573). La Goleta (1535-1574). Túnez (1535 y 1574). Monastir (1541-1550). Susa (1541-1550). Mahdia (1550-1553). Angola (1580-1640). Casablanca (1580-1640). Mazagán (1580-1640). Guinea-Bisáu (1580-1640). Tánger (1580-1640). La Mamora (1610-1619). Cabo Verde (1580-1640) Larache (1610-1689) y (1912-1956). Somalia (1580-1640). Tetuán (1860-1862) y (1912-1956). Spanish Guinea (1843-1968). Gran Ifni (1860-1969). Santo Tomé y Príncipe (1580-1640). Spanish Sahara (1885-1975). Spanish Morocco (1912-1956). Cabo Juby (1916-1958) Plazas de soberanía: Melilla (desde 1497) Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (1508-1522; desde 1564). Isla de Limacos (desde 1509). Isla de Alborán (desde 1540). Islas Alhucemas (desde 1559). Ceuta (desde 1580). Islas Chafarinas (desde 1848). Europe: Spain and Balears. Portugal: (1580-1640) Napoli. Franco Condado (1654-1679) y Charolais [France] Ducado de Milán [Italy] Spanish Netherlands, including: Belgium, Luxemburg, Artois, Ardenas, Mosela, Norte-Paso de Calais,Bitburg-Prüm. Rosellón[France] Baja Navarra[France] Niza[France] Oceania: Isla de Pascua (1770) Islas Marianas [Guam] (1521-1899) Islas Carolinas (1528-1707, 1875 and 1885-1899) Islas Santa Cruz (1595). Islas Vanuatu (1606). Spanish New Guinea: [Tahití] (1774 - 1775).

As a Spaniard I must say keep the Spaniards of that time out of the "most impressive traders". Actually they were not. Excellent explorers, managers, soldiers, diplomats, scholars, artists, jurist, etc, but as bussinessmen and traders definitively they were not excellent. That was one of the crucial flaws of the Spanish Empire that ultimately lead to its fall.

so how was the 16th century, tell us more

Most were Italian sailor captains though

Castilla (España) en Canarias en 1404. Colonias de Aragón en el norte de África, siglo XIV, (aparte de Sicilia en 1282 y Atenas en 1311).

You are wrong. Because Fernão Magalhães has been on that route before on the portuguese side of the Tordesilhas Map, só IN fact even being murdered in the Molucas Islands he was in fact the 1 st man to surround the planet earth... And of course the project and the know how was his...so don’t be so nationalist... Encano was important. But not the BIG MAN.

@@hjs8092 that's not circumnavigating the world

Yes it is Ignacio... He just started in Asia and El Cano Started in Spain

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Although bigger than the portuguese I think is what he meant

lol spain had more than 2 x the portuguese population

@@naze2659 Yeah but that's still not much France had 2 x the Spanish population. The HRE collectively had even more than France. Despite this Spain got to be the worlds greatest power with the Tercio been regarded as invinsible. Then the 30 years war happened, the HRE nearly lost 60% of their population, Spain lost their claim to invinsibility and a handful of Armadas, paving the way for France to become the new European world power.

Underrated.

The Cold War is definitely on the list. I'm currently trying to decide whether to divide it into two episodes or not (Europe and Asia).

Ten Minute History Alright thanks man!

Ten Minute History yes. divide it. more info please. i would be fine with 60 minute videos

absolutely u should! I am so sick and tired seeing videos regarding cold war in youtube which are really eurocentric, WW2 as well. As the cold wars in Asia is totally different from the Cold War in Europe and Africa. Not only that, it's not really a USA vs USSR thing in my opinion.. UK, French and China played a huge role in decolonisation and industrialisation during the era...

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