True. Added to the effect of the fog, was the fact that ships sailed miles offshore to avoid rocks and invisible obstacles. Looking due east past the inlet to the San Francisco Bay they would’ve seen what look like a contiguous landscape with the islands of Alcatraz and Angel Island, etc. appearing to obscure the mouth of the bay as if they were part of the coastline.

This is crazy interesting

& sourdough

Ño golden gate back then...."Cali Formo" may have been indigenous name....

Francis Drake sailed right by.

Who would of that a bunch of junkies, trans n f🏳️‍🌈gs have so much money.

Strongest country in what means. Military you mean? California has nearly as much population as France and UK, when California has 50 million population, so check the facts next time before you write again. When you let California invent the electrnonics we use all around the world today, like Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Tesla. Of course California becomes rich then.

@@jout738 he said has around half the population...

@@jout738 they said gdp not millitary

No if it didn’t have the US government propping it up its socialist policies would cause the state to collapse. Or it would have to undertake serious reforms. It is essentially a failed state at this point albeit the world’s most successful failed state.

It is a LOT different now.

@@Golfnut_2099 I guess I need to visit again.

Until the dems ruined it😅😂😅

@@redcardinal714what state do you live in

I'd rather be dead in California than alive in the south

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Viva Joaquin Murrieta!!!

His real name was Juaquin Murrieta

His nicknames were Jack & Jim, favorite color was gold, liked long walks on short beaches, was not a surfer

Im gonna visit California next year! Im so excited!

@@V935_ytwhich part of California

Unlike that other guy lmao you clearly do live here. Bout time I started seeing people speak on corruption and lack of moral values.

Likewise, our family has been here now for 100 years in Southern California

As a native in San Diego all I can say is it's different but I love it 😂

Transplants are ruining the state!

Perfectly put. "Sweet and Bitter Fruit" Rolling Stones.

Perfectly put. "Sweet and Bitter Fruits." Rolling Stones

Kit Carson was a true man. Truly a man of vast skill, sheer survival instinct, and will. Not many men in our day could accomplish what he did.

Absolutely. But not to be overlooked, Carson killed more Indians than Spaniards in the SW. And the U S Army tried to displace US Tribes, the Navaho Long Walk, just one example. The central and northern NM Pueblo Tribes still live where the Spaniards found them 400 years ago. Were granted legal Spanish land grants under Spain which are honored by US Federal Government as legal documents.

Colonizers!!!!

​just another pilagir!!!

Here to stay.

How about your taxes?????

Me too. I LOOVE California! I’ve lived up and down the coast of California and it’s beautiful. It’s expensive but if you can afford it, that’s the state to live in. I can’t imagine living in any other state.

Oalkand?

Hoping to visit Cali soon always love to learn the history of the places I visit first

There is no very safe place in the immediate Bay Area, you probably live in Walnut creek. Or Dublin and pretend you still live in the Bay

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The word ultimately comes from the Arabic 'Khalifa' which designates 'strong woman'. The Spanish replaced the 'Kh' with a 'C'. There were at least three prior uses of the name for lands in Spain.

And also San Francisco was called Yerba Buena

And now we are 40 million people

​@gorillaplays8 Los Ángeles became Los Ángeles caídos.

​@@Octavian7771Why would they call it "strong woman"? Spain was not feminist. That shit didn't exist back then. The world was better. Khalifa might be feminine in relation to another word with the female grammatical gender. In Spanish, la tierra is female, after all.

Usa started the Mexican independence just to still land. Mexico is just a puppet government

Spain wasn't running It from the distance It was part of Spain like another region same as Mexico they lose It apart of the internal fights inside the empire and to be in war with multiple empires at the same time apart of the decay of their resources the Empire was so big that It was really difficult to control everything at the same time, Napoleon and the French empire decided to invade Spain so they focused in the Peninsula letting those regions much more vulnerable to be invaded. But for example the Independence of a lot of countries like Mexico was just Spanishs mixed with the natives taking apart a region of the spanish empire.

U obviously missed where the video mentioned Cabrillo in the 1500's and Vizcaino i think in the 1600s.

The name California is Spanish which =Spain

Yeah I noticed this too. Why no mention of the Russian Californians? They had Fort Ross from 1812 to 1841

Where the hell are you getting those Russian colonies in California from??

@@sierra5713 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_colonization_of_North_America

The lack of mentoning and showing Texas Independence surprised me, too.

Why Texas? Its a video of Cali

Hola mi amor

Un saludo para ti, Álvaro desde San Pedro Mártir, Baja California. :)

Me gustaria ir a San Pedro, Baja California.

@@alvarotorres9057 Ah, pues cuando gustes! Yo soy de Tijuana, Playas de Tijuana pero actualmente vivo en San Pedro Mártir. Es muy bonito aquí..¡Un saludo!

Como te puedo contactar? Me gustaria conocerte.

California will never be affordable for guys like you and me to actually live in. It is only going to continue to grow more expensive. Also, I guarantee you will not like the politics of that state. You're better off simply living in Nevada, Oregon, or Arizona, and visiting California frequently for fun.

​@@jacob4920Gavin Newsom for Prez 2028

Father Serra and Crespi accompanied Gaspar de Portola and founded twenty one missions between San Diego and San Francisco.

Slightly correct but in reality, in your worldview, Alta California was taken FROM Spain BY the revolutionaries who sought independence. It was not a part of Mexico and should therefore have remained Spain even after the revolution. As for "taking it over" after the Mexican/American war, Mexico was paid for the land they actually had no "legal" right to in the first place. A sweet deal for them in the long run as it was never seen as land worth investing in by Spain OR Mexican revolutionaries.

This is why the cartels no le gusta the inhabitants today

​@@Laceykat66You are right as the Mexican were paid for the land for the reason which you have correctly stated but Spain already a nation in Europe despite the Spanish and Mexican could have made California a state in Mexico but yeah,the state is not worth investing,good friend!!!🧚‍♀️

@@Laceykat66 Seeing as how the United States army actually made it all the way down to Mexico City, and occupied it for a time, the US could have been well within their rights to take ALL of Mexico for themselves, not just California. But the US didn't want Mexico (or the Mexicans). So they handed the country back to Mexico, pretty much in exchange for Alta-California.

@@Laceykat66What sweet deal? The “real Americans” (White) stole that land from the newly Americanized Mexicans that owned that land for generations. The United States does what it does best and violates the treaty and their word.

The entire empire had about 6 million people from coast to coast

Before American migration the natives and Californios tried to rebel against Mexico because of neglect and the secularization of the mission system. Californian or Californio no one really wanted to be part of Mexico.

And they didn’t just say “oh well” and join the US, there were battles and skirmishes all around, nothing huge like in other places but still fighting. A few in San Diego area alone.

Britannica says that they were approximately 500 Americans living in California at the time of the Bear Flag revolt. Where did you source your statement of 30 men?

@@jonfoster6626 reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit huh? I said the number of “revolutionaries” not the number of Americans living in California. Btw my source is the memorial in the town of Sonoma where this all happened

I would wipe my a$$ with the stupid bear flag.

Ah Bakersfield, the unwashed anus of California :)

Hello there from Bakersfield, CA as well aha

Yes! 2Pac's California Love!

OK gangster

@@johnc3473

I'm curious: Do the average CA even realize that the state became Mexico-like and became way closer to Latin America rather than EU or any proper developed country?

@@AngelicoCiudad”Became mexico like” yet you will see more homeless people in cali than you’ll see in Mexico. EU? 😂 your an immigrant

And weird pronunciations by the robot.

I only entered the video hoping for that to be mentioned

Argentinian as well

@@riveraJG Argentinian colonies?

We don't want to encourage Putinism.

​@@riveraJGthe video is about Cali as in California, not about Cali, Colombia lol

For the Hollywood part of your expectation, although he didn't mention it by name, at 12:40, he did mention that California as a whole was the home of cinema and fame.

The map says so!

That island refers to Baja California you clown. 🤡

​@@McfunfaceHe/she is talking about how California got its name.

What the heck is a Cali?

We uploaded videos for Texas and New York by now. Make sure to check those out :)

​@@Knowledgia why did you bring up in the video The Russian Californians? They had the colony of Fort Ross and were there from 1812 to 1841.

Didn't know that history. Did the Native Americans never collect and use the gold that they surely encountered?

@@389383 Good Question. Google says: "Did Native American Indians have gold? "In Indian graves of the Colonial period and later, occasional gold coins are found, but it is a fact realized by few that the greater number of American Indians in pre-Columbian days had never seen nor heard of gold." Gold dust found in streams would need to be melted into bigger nuggets that could then be hammered into plates or jewelry, etc. They worked with beads instead apparently.

@@389383 They apparently didn't find it as useful as pottery and leather, and preferred beads as an adornment.

Spain is garbage now. Bunch of lazy losers. Mexico kicks their a**es in every combat sport.

Vivo en la alta califorina. Orgulloso novohispano que radica en el condado de riverside y tiene la aspas de Borgoña ondeando enfrente de su casa

La Iglesia católica también merece crédito en este aspecto. Todos los soldados españoles que acompañaban a los misioneros querían regresar a México, pero Junípero Serra insistió en seguir adelante. En términos de años, España estuvo activamente involucrada en California durante 52 años, de 1769 a 1821. México durante 27 años, de 1821 a 1848. Luego, Estados Unidos, que ha estado gobernando durante los últimos 175 años.

Pues sí, pero España no lo colonizó (pobló), México tampoco lo pobló porque no tenía gente (la población total de México en 1840 era de 6,5 millones de habitantes). La falta de población fue uno de los factores para que Estados Unidos se apropiara (mejor dicho Robara) la Alta California a México junto con Nuevo México, Tejas, y partes de Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Sonora e Incluso una pequeña parte de la Baja California. En total 2.500,000 Km cuadrados Robados, o sea, 5 veces el Tamaño de España.

No mames los mayas andavan en California

Totally awesome game.

Not to mention fake boobs and plastic surgery 😂

Ur a fool. Bodybuilding was shaped by the Greeks. They also made weight lifting a sport. Bodybuilding's Mr Olympia trophy literally is of a Greek statue. Californians were into bodybuilding more than other Americans, but Californians did not shape bodybuilding.

That shits crazy

Lincoln expedited building a railroad to connect with California to save it from joining sides with the Confederacy. After that, the Union Soldiers stationed in California were assigned to deal with the Native American Populations, instead of fighting with the Southern States. California was hosting Chinese Slaves at the time. Yes, California was utilizing Chinese Slavery. There is a network of tunnels dug under Los Angeles by Chinese Slaves.

Make a better video.

What do you want in 13 minutes. I learned more in 13 minutes than my school taught us in 12 years in the L.A. school system

William Walker tried but he was defeated by the Mexican army, you always crossed the border to make Mexican territory independent, turn them into slave republics and annex them to the USA to look "legal" and not an usurpation 🙄

Agreed! I'm a fifth generation Californian, from WLA, since 1870, 60,000 people migrated from Northern France when there was a war with Germany. And now I'm trying to find a new place to live, but that too has turned out badly. Everywhere I go now, I feel displaced. Why do I have to leave so that everybody else can come? That's an invasion. They wrecked our easy-going garden-outdoorsy healthy culture.

@MissBabalu102 You're absolutely right. It's like they want to turn California into a state where to live here you either have to be either super rich or willing to be a servant of someone who is. Welcome to California: only millionaires and maids need apply. If you don't make at least a million dollars a year, or are willing to work for less than $50,000 a year, the get the fuggout! I think that's going to be a new state law effective starting next year...

@@benjauron5873 It's outrageous! I think we overwhelmingly voted to save our State from over-immigration (sanctuary) 24 years ago, it won by a huge majority, but the courts overturned it, and that was the start of the end. Someone decided to give our State to the world. It was always expensive, but the culture is just selfish now. You could easily make friends and your life would change overnight. They don't know how to assimilate, and don't care. It's just way too much! It's infuriating when someone not from here suggests I move away. I'm angry as hell now, I looked and tried and it doesn't work.

@@MissBabalu102 No doubt about it.

As a Californian...I greatly disagree....California has always been a crappy place... only people who thought otherwise probably were of the upper class and/or part of the group that eventually was part of the 'white flight'...plus if you are from California you should know by now people complaining about 'strain on resources' and 'overcrowding/congestion' are more often than not using code wishing there weren't so many Mexicans, African Americans and increasingly Asians....you don't know 'congestion' lmao we have NOTHING on New York alone. Uber Capitalism, Racism, Police Brutality(have you forgotten their horrendous historical beginnings which is why to this day California's law enforcement have a very negative rep?), Corruption and the 2 party corrupt system is why California is in the state it's in and is largely why it's always been a shitty place to live... Funny part you claim everyone wants to move here (I beg to differ)...every non Californian US citizen I know who has moved here either has left (many going to Florida, Nevada and Texas) or wish they could leave but don't have the $$$ to go back home...only people I know for certain who wants to come here are foreigners who desire citizenship and try to 'make it in hollywood' not realizing it's no where near that easy or simple or straight forward. Let it be known we Californians have $$$. In fact America has $$$. Our 2 parties (and their gullible supporters thinking their vote for either parties will make a change) other hand do not wish to waste their pockets on the working class majority. Hell barely care for the middle class. There is no strain on resources. Our gov just don't care. That's Capitalism baby...

No, your racist view of Genocide is. The Genocide actually took place before 1846. The reason why US was able to take over California was Mexicans genocided the Natives, and the natives fought back, leaving California defenseless. or are you talking about the Chinese exclusion act, forcing all teh Chinese out of the country. I joke that my patron saint was San Quintin. The one who fought against Mexican occupation and how they brought disease to the natives to get rid of them.

​@@slewone4905 wtf is wrong with you. Nothing I said was racist on my part. Why tf would I be talking about the Chinese? I think youre the racist. The US genocided my people the native Americans within California from.1846 to 1937, so says the Wikipedia anyway. I sincerely urge you seek help.

Why just 1846? It started with the Spaniards and continued until recently based on cultural destruction.

All over the US the commited genocide against the indigenous. Why do you think their isn't that many in the US compared to Mexico.

I’m unaware of said transaction, but if true, it wouldn’t have been the first anyway. Manhattan was bought to the natives as well, way before any european set foot on the west coast. The Brits did many similar tresties while settling the east coast.

I was going to mention it. Spain didn't have any real claim, north of San Francisco, and the land further inland from San Francisco is also up for grabs. Some guy was planning to make the Sacramento area, a Swiss colony. That is how weak the Spanish claim was.

The Russians were left out because, let's be honest here, their impact on California's history is so negligible that it really doesn't make a splash in the history books.

Spain was all the way up to Nutka Alaska. Natives all over the coast still spoke Spanish until the Anglos came. San Diego was not the first mission. There are missions all down Baja California Norte and Sur. You also say that it had no interest in its northern claims yet they built Nuevo Mexico. Also most natives wanted to be part of the empire. They still hold the titles and rights given to them by the Spanish monarchs

The Spanish had already claimed what is now California in 1542 through Carrillo’s expedition-that’s two centuries before Russia even sent a ship. Then the Spanish reasserted that existing claim through the Portillo expedition in 1769 with the mission system. The Spanish always had the greatest claim to California as evidenced by the history that followed.

This video is clearly about Alta California, not Baja California.

@@theejayzeeable clearly illustrated the point. Thanks.

American settlers in Alta California were invited by the Mexican government to settle what is todays Americas southwest because Mexico wanted the land to have a bigger economic output, Mexicans weren’t moving to those territories, and because the Amerindians were harassing the local Mexican officials in those territories. When Americans started to settle in those territories the Mexican government forced Americans to assimilate into Mexican culture and they had to learn Spanish and if they didn’t the settlers could be jailed. These laws weren’t enforced on a large scale but in Sonoma California they were and that’s where the bear flag revolt started. Many local Spanish missionaries, Amerindians, and Mexican settlers supported the uprising because they too did not like the laws set before them by Mexico City. Even before the bear flag revolt there were a few uprisings by Spanish missionaries and other settlers for various reasons.

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He skipped a lot of important stuff. Like Alta California being independent in 1836 for a bit. That’s what happens when you make low effort pop history videos I guess lol

We can improve the place by replacing the governor, mayors, and prosecutors that have encouraged and promoted the crime and inflation.

​@@DavidMcdonald-df8tbWhen is that ever going to happen?

Politicians come & go. This astonishingly beautiful land will continue

...or "pres-i-DEOS"

had to check the pronunciation, thought I had been saying presidio wrong my whole life

Definitely from Utah or Idaho

Ft. Ross. Though the Russians frequented the San Diego Bay area when seal hunting. There was a freshwater spring called "Russian Springs" along the Coronado Stand well into the 1950s. It is even recorded that the Russians would build house-size ovens to bake bread for the ships and that these ovens, once abandoned, were used by the native people for dwellings.

100% California is getting killed by the drugs alone coming from the border

California was never independent, the bear revolt was only an attempt by 30 Americans who barricaded themselves in the municipal palace of Sacramento

In that century the USA spent its time trying to make states independent of Mexico to annex them legally, years later William Walker tried to "independent" Baja California and Sonora but was defeated

@@emmanuelake421 I’m not talking about the bear revolt bozo

yes California was Mexican territory we all know the whole South West was stolen by the whites no offense It's the history

my condolences