Forging an Empire - The Portuguese Empire - Part 1 Exploration
Portugal forged a massive trading empire. It was an incredible achievement for a small country that had a very modest population. In this first part, we review the initial stages where Portuguese sailors and explorers launched themselves into the unknown and took the first steps at exploring. Men like Prince Henry the Navigator who set the ball in motion, Bartholomeu Dias who was the first to round the tip of Africa, and Vasco da Gama who was the first European to find a sea passage to India.
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Well lovely people - I'm gonna try my best to get Cabral out before I leave for Normandy. I'm about half way done dictating it and will have it out in Audio Podcast form by the end of the week. In the meantime enjoy this compilation!! Viva Portugal !
Great job you got here. Congrats! Keep going!
Can't wait for the Normandy vids :)
Learning how to use this mini drone just for that ! @@3idraven714
Viva! 🇵🇹
After all the plunder, Viva Portugal?
Funny fact: King John II rejected the Columbus proposal because his carthographes alerted him a gross error in Columbus estimation of the size of the Earth. And they were right. Spain discovered Americas because, different from Portugal, they had no idea what they were doing.
If the Americas didn't exist, Columbus expedition would completly die in the ocean because of his miscalculation.
Spain may not have had the inside track with knowledge, maps, seafaring - but they hit the N American (and later S American) continent like a force of nature
another fun fact is that King John II always refered to Columbus as a "special friend of Portugal"
@@FlashPointHx i would argue that the Spanish were misguided to N.America, like a magician draws attention with his right hand to perform the trick with the left. Portugal had been in Canada, most likely looking for cod, the alliance with Britain was made so the Portuguese could fish cod in the north sea. Dry cod conserved in salt lasts a long time, perfect to provision ships in long voyages. Like you mentioned, due to a small population, they had to outsmart the other nations, in particular, Spain. Everything was kept secret ( most documents with important information were destroyed in the 1755 earthquake), but the story of Columbus that is taught makes no sense, starting with his wife. It's just not possible an Italian commoner marry a noble woman...he never spoke in Italian, the letters he wrote in Spanish are like Portunhol, a mix of Spanish with terms that would be used in Portuguese... Just like they knew about Brazil before the official date of discovery, in 1500. The Treaty of Tordesilhas, signed in 1494 between Portugal and Spain, to divide the world in two, had the dividing meridian more to the east, leaving Brazil out of Portuguese control...the Portuguese didn't accept it and made it so it was moved more to the west, the only reason for that is that they already knew about Brazil. just didn't announce it to prevent other nations to flock there, while they were trying to reach India, that that was their main goal...diverting Spain to N.America was just a stepping stone on the path to India, and "Columbus" did his part.
That is not entirely true. The castillians also deduced that Colombus stimations about the size of the Earth were wrong, there were other reasons why the catholic monarchs sponsored him: 1. Bartolomeu Dias had just returned from his voyage, and since Castille couldnt go South (treaty of Alcaçovas) they were getting desperate. 2. Nobody knew how big or small Asia was (example when a Japanese embassy arrived at Philip II court it was thought that Japan was as big as all of Europe.) 3. A banker offered to cover the expenses so the kings didnt have to pay for the expedition inmediately.
I was playing Starfield and the robot companion is called Vasco, when i asked him about his name he explained that the name was given to him in memory of Vasco Da Gama, a Portuguese explorer. Now i understand why modern historians compare what the Portuguese did to the space travels we do today. A voyage to the unknown!
Nice! I had no idea about this - nice to see they included a historical reference like this
I would arguably say is even bigger. Because space exploration is based on mathematics and you have a lot of information before you send a human to space or the Moon for example. The world exploration of the 15th century was based on empirical knowledge. Each successfull voyager bring a lite more information about winds and sea currents that where used by the next one
@@Orionte9 Very true, although the Portuguese had some limited theoretical knowledge as well. For example, they had a better grasp on the size of the globe than did Columbus. The Portuguese refused to fund his voyage, because they knew the distance was far too great for Columbus to reach Asia by going west.
As soon as I saw that reference in the promo material I knew it had to be about Vasco da Gama, it's quite the homage from Todd and company, and it couldn't be more apropriate! Good thing he's not as controversial in the Indic as Columbus is in the Americas!
@@Orionte9 The Portuguese made some incredible contributions to navigation, meteorology, and seismology. They were also brilliant mathematicians and astronomers, that's why they were amazing sailors. They invented a device called the astrolabe, which helped them navigate using the stars. Think about it, they could sail across vast oceans by measuring angles between celestial objects and the horizon. People like Vasco da Gama and Fernão Magalhães used these astrolabes with the same reliability we use Google Maps! The Portuguese were pioneers in meteorology and oceanography too. They started developing models to predict weather patterns and ocean currents based on careful observations of the natural world and laid the groundwork for our modern understanding of weather and oceanography, that's how they tamed the currents that had barred humans from going around Africa. Seismology has a tragic connection to Portugal also. In 1755, a 9.0 earthquake struck Lisbon and devastated the City. This catastrophe led to the interest of the scientific minds of the time in understanding and predicting earthquakes. The Portuguese, along with scholars from around the world, began studying the causes and effects of earthquakes, leading to the birth of seismology as a scientific field. So, the next time you're using GPS to navigate or check the weather forecast, remember that the Portuguese played a significant role in shaping these fields. Now, onto the Stars, marujos!
I'm Moroccan and I always have immense respect to my Portugaise friends , we had wars in the past and now we are friends , how cool is that !
That’s awesome to hear - I’m Indian and I have Pakistani friends - there’s hope for the future :)
@@joesoares-pu8og ???? What a pathetic comment, the Azores were never colonized before the Portuguese, nothing was stolen, in fact in Macaronesia, only the Canary Islands were previously colonized, and then conquered by the Spanish...
why are you pushing this false narrative? berbers from now Morocco first colonized the azores islands and Portugal came centuries afterward. That is factual despite your pathetic ignorance on the historical facts@@MMartec
@@TrentBrent Oh, really?? And where are the archeological evidences for that?
@@MMartec @joesoares deleted his comment after I posted my previous comment asking for archeological evidences. Let´s see if @TrentBrent does the same 😂 These two accounts are all over this video comments always trying to bash Portugal and trying to rewrite History. Let´s give them a shoutout for their efforts 🥳🤡🤡🥳
The Portuguese have my greatest respect --they are tough people! Worked with them /lived amongst them --powerful characters !
Lies again? Adult Empire USD SGD
And now they are super rude and racists because they loose everything and they want that people recognize them like a empire, but they’re not…
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@@NazriBwhat part of their comment is a lie
Don’t forget they have great food too. If you ever travel to Sydney Australia the Portuguese Barrio is in Petersham. There you’ll get food from Portugal, Brazil and Timor Leste
I am an history investigator from Portugal, in FCSH, Lisbon. I enjoy your videos, you glaze over many details (simply because you don't have access to secure documents in Torre do Tombo and these are not on the internet) so some context gets lost in the details. Even so to be honest is one of the most complete series on youtube in english about the portuguese empire. Keep up the research. Cheers from Portugal
Wow, thank you!!
Have you seen his videos about the Reconquista? Also a great work. Check it out.
I suppose you dont mean those forged documents by the Jewish anti Portugal Propaganda, who falsifies books to say riducule, impossible things, like: . "and Henry the navigator saw some blacks and he said: oh they must be good for slavery!!!! Henry died in 1460, when slavery was Arab and Jewish.
no, Portugal started the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1441 so he was around then @@binalcensored2104
You two show collaborate then. Trabalhem juntos. Imagine o video que voceis poderiam fazer?!?
This video blew my mind at how the Portuguese accomplished what seemed to be the impossible.
We are known for that
with a population of 1 million inhabitants.
@@mauricesteel4995 and when you consider it was mostly their male population responsible for their empire, it's more like 500,000 inhabitants
@@bconni2its even less, not every portuguese man was throwing himself at the sea.
Portuguese people, be very proud. you had the first global maritime empire the world had ever seen, starting modern day globalization and forever changing the course of human history. incredibly brave men with huge balls , who never stopped pushing forward despite the never ending misery & death on those long expeditions into the unknown. don't listen to that outside noise, the detractors trying to take away or diminish what your people achieved because of jealousy and / or political correctness. there's always 2 versions of history, the winning side & losing side. i think somewhere in middle is the best way to approach it. never be ashamed, Portugal.... amazing culture and history..!!!
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Oh shut up
@@lynnfisher3037 triggered.?
What an amazing history, respect from Croatia 🇵🇹❤️🇭🇷
Hehe I'm Portuguese happily married to a Croatian.
Respect!
From Goa we love Portuguese and Portugal
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I have always been fascinated by the Portuguese navigators. They felt to me like madmen, obssessed with adventure, ambitious, fearless.
I agree, you’d have to be a little crazy to do what they did
They were murderous heathens who will burn in hell for what they did to Africa
Well, they had just finished a long war of the Reconquista in the iberian peninsula. And for Portugal there was nowhere else to expand.
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@@htconex19062012That you have to ask the Arabs, they made the biggest genocide in India from all times and then to the British
You are the first to recognize that the Portuguese king wouldn't pay a king's ransom just to move the line if he didn't possibly know of Brazil. Especially because the ocean currents that we used to go around Africa passed just off the coast of Brazil. Thank you soo much, it's so hard to see Portuguese history withouth omissions
Your conspiracy theory that Porkugal knew all along makes no sense because that would have meant that Porfuckall had GIVEN THE LION'S SHARE OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA TO THEIR RIVALS, PLUS THE BIGGEST OCEAN IN THE UNIVERSE! That would make sense only if both countries were controlled by the same shadow government using them as puppets...; a Templar shadow government... And that's what happened, as proven in my series "The British Empire Was NOT The Biggest." See also: "Portuguese 'discoveries' are a joke" and "Islam was invented by Jews." Most people are simpletons who believe whatever their Templar slash masonic government tells them to believe, so they will bark at me to defend their superficial, PG, Disneyesque, contradiction-filled and retarded mainstream, superficial version of history.
Indeed. LOVED IT.
The Portuguese wouldn’t pay to move the line?
I am traveling to Portugal next week as my first time ever in Europe. What a fascinating country!
*save your $$$ it's a pile of 💩 there....*
Do not leave Portugal without visiting "Sintra" (near Lisbon). Google some images of the place.
Portugal is a demonic terror state👿 that my India threw out for good in 1961
Bem vindo !!✌
It is an ok country. Interesting to start European travels in Portugal, as you go East you will find greatest cultural stuff.
Todos os Impérios desmoronam e o nosso não foi excepção mas fomos sublimes sim, tenho muito orgulho de ser Portuguesa e ter nascido neste canto à beira mar, obrigada pelo vídeo, bem haja 🙌🏻
I love Portuguese culture language food etc 😊
Orgulho de ser Brasileiro neto de Portugueses, povo valente desbravador!
Viva Christo Rey
@@danielng4454 A melhor coisa que aconteceu, foi o nascimento de nossa querida Portugal, que fundou o meu Brazil. O Brazil nunca foi explorado, nunca sofreu nenhum abuso, como dizem as escolas. Fomos educados como portugueses, tudo o que foi descoberto aqui, como o ouro, foi usado aqui para desenvolver nosso país. Nós éramos um estado de Portugal, não colônia. Brazil-Luso. A melhor coisa que deveríamos fazer, é a união dos países lusófonos, a antiga Brazil, Portugal e Algarve. Ave Christos Rex.
Muitos impérios acabaram em um bang, mas no caso do Império Português foi um suspiro. Eu considero Macau e Timor Leste tão importante quanto Portugal, Brasil, Angola e Moçambique.
My origin is from India and precisely the location, wherein Vasco landed. I had the opportunity to visit the church wherein he was buried. His final his remains were transferred back to Portugal. Interesting bit of history. I would like to check on the more comprehensive elaboration of history regarding Vasco and his journey. As a passionate student of History, i found this piece of information interesting. Thank you
How such a small country became the first global Empire in history its a Feat that changed the world has we know today. Very Brave Man who voluteer to go to the unknow in "ships" that today nobody would even risk to cross a river...but their sheer wiil prevailed and pay big time for them and for Portugal.
Well said !
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It is not true that Portugal is the first global empire. Spain expanded much earlier in Europe: Sicily (1282), Athens (1311), invasion of southern England (1377, 1380-81 and 1411), Naples (1443)... Spain arrived earlier in Africa (Derba, Tunisia 1380), the Canary Islands (1404, although we had settlers there in 1341) The Portuguese arrived in Ceuta in (1415). That is to say: Spain expands into 2 continents. Portugal 1 continent. During the 15th century the Portuguese only explored the western coast of Africa: that is not a global empire. Spain arrived first in America (1492). Spain on 3 continents. Portuguese expansion only in Africa. Spain even reached Brazil earlier, in 1500. Portugal only surpasses Spain in 1500. First reaching India (Asia) in 1498, and then Brazil in 1500 (America). 4 continents. Spain 3. But the world has 5 continents. Spain places a king in the Netherlands and Franche-Comté (1516), Spanish emperor in Germany (1519), discovery and exploration of the deep Pacific Ocean and arrival in the Philippines (1520). Spain is on 5 continents. Portugal is on 4 continents. Spain invades Portugal in 1580. It is the first time that a king has lands on the 5 continents and on all the seas: Philip II of Spain, Philip III and Philip IV. Spanish Empire with capital in Madrid. Spain discovers the area of Antarctica (1603). 6 continents. Although it seems to me that it was a parallel Iberian expansion.
@@Gloriaimperial1 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Portugal was the First Global Empire in History. All history books and in all the schools around they teach that. Portugal was an Independent Country (1143) 300 years before Spain became One (1492). Portugal is the oldest country in Europe and with the oldest standing navy in the world. Oh,who Discovered the passage to the Pacific Ocean and discovered the Philippines was Fernão de Magalhães that is Portuguese,do you know that. Do you remember what happen in the 14/08/1385 in Aljubarrota...??!! I Help you,the King of Castilla with the Support of the French with 35.000 thousand troops tryied to invade Portugal that had only 5.000 thousand men. Battle result : Spanish and French defeated suffered between 10.000 to 15.000 casualties while the Portuguese won the battle suffered only abaut 500 casualties. You Spanish always lived on the Shadow of the Portuguese Greatness around the world. Bunch of loosers.
@@Gloriaimperial1 Cala-te ó Castelhano de merda. Para ti, só te digo, PADEIRA DE ALJUBARROTA, pesquisa.
Much love to the Portuguese from Panjim, Goa ❤
Thank you from Portugal
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My father is from Kurtorim, Goa! Now he lives in Brazil where I was born.. such are the echoes of the former Portuguese Empire!
Abraço para Panjim!❤
Goans are our brothers. Cheers.
The Portuguese Age of Discoveries is the most trailblazing and finest example of a multi-year (actually, multi-century) strategic plan, executed to perfection. It should be a case-study in modern business and military schools
It is 😉
Portuguese history is underrated here in Brazil. People here tend to overrate Italian immigrants, German immigrants, and others, but these ethnic groups are, in fact, all refugees in a country discovered, conquered, and maintained by musket, spear, and cannon by the Portuguese.
The honest truth! Anti-Portuguese sentiment was born as a consequence of the separation of Brazil and Portugal. It worsened with the natural decline of a small country that is one of the most perfect examples of against all odds, almost 1000 years of independence with a small interregnum and achievements that would not be expected. Thus, it lost its glamor to be remembered by Brazilians, inhabitants of a giant country with enormous potential. But little by little, a movement begins to emerge that will rescue the history of Brazil and look at it for what it is: the most successful son of the Portuguese empire and whose history does not begin in Pindorama (geographical space is not a nation), but in Iberia in the 12th century. The work of geneticists such as Sergio Pena also helps, demonstrating that the Portuguese contribution overwhelmingly surpasses any other genetic contribution from another country to the formation of the current Brazilian people.
Não te preocupes o importante é que tu e os mais cultos conhecem a história, os outros são isso mesmo os outros, abraço de Portugal para todos menos os outros.
Perhaps some of us are unaware that it's because everyone wants to hide WHO the Israelites are. It isn't called Iberia for nothing. Study Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Expulsion from primary sources in order to immunize oneself from white surpremacist scholarship.
the problem is that Brazil wasn't even discovered by Portugal. A Spanish sailor named Vicente Yáñez Pinzón did that. Then Portuguese steal Brazil from Spain and start mining your gold and filling it up with black slaves and killing you all. This is why you are so confused as a Brazilian😔
Portugal is a demonic terror state👿 that my India threw out for good in 1961
Gimme more of those 15th,16th centuries of Portuguese history. Much appreciated.
An hour and a half long video about the Portuguese Empire??? Birthday and Christmas came early this year!!!
You made my day with this comment :)
@@FlashPointHx and now that I’ve finished it, I can confidently say that my expectations were far superseded. Continue the amazing work. You’ve certainly earned yourself a loyal subscriber!
@@Centristlol awesome to hear! And welcome !
Portugal is a demonic terror state👿 that my India threw out for good in 1961
Great worriors, amazing people these portuguese. So few and yet so brave and victorious.
They’re nothing but filthy pirates
@@htconex19062012literally everyone was back then lmao ur very salty
@@htconex19062012another jealous idiot
Amazing that they industrialized the slave trade.
@@htconex19062012 you are confusing them with englishmen, or, perhaps, with arabians
Still have my respect --you paved the way for ancient trading routes --fearless in your ships round Africa In Zambia --long ago --your people were the hardest workers I have ever seen -----I am retired -but never forget the great Portuguese !
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Thanks! Justice is beeing made to the Portuguese history! Cheers from Brazil!
It's funny how technically it was Portugal that gainindependence from Brazil and not the other way around.
@@Alaryk111 Indeed! Tanks to Napoleon who invaded Portugal and forced the royal family to flee to Brazil!
@@Alaryk111That's an idiotic myth invented by brazilians to inflate their sense of importance.
@@truthismycause2800 portuguese history is an exercise of inflated importance in a world were dutch, english and spanish had real empires!
@@LC-jh9lp lol mae fun lol Dutch?? Portugal ahve more land more relevance much more but you dont know all history of Portugal
The portuguese conquest makes me so proud of my Iberian descent 🫡🇪🇸✝️
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If Iberia were to ever have unified in the past it would be what America is today, if not better. A shame we won’t see it
Meu nome é Vitor Kennedy e tenho muito orgulho de meus ancestrais. Meus ancestrais são de Braga e construíram uma vida aqui no Brasil. Nossa família prosperou e cresceu e até hoje mantemos nossa herança viva. Portugal mostrou que tamanho não importa.
Punching above it's weight in exploration and football 🇺🇦✌️🇵🇹🇧🇷
Kennedy is an Irish name?
@@tipptop9 My grandfather gave my father the surname Kennedy as a tribute to the American president. My father was born in january of 64.
Brazil is America keep Europe out
The age of exploration is absolutely fascinating. Hope you continue spoiling us with great documentaries like this one!
Oh yeah - I see at least another 7-8 videos on just the Portuguese
WHY NOT CALL IT THE : "AGE OF EUROPEAN CONQUEST?" --more accurate.
@@khubza8999 because the Europeans did not conquer everything they explored. For example, Portugal eventually reached Japan (the first European nation to do so), and while the Portuguese built Nagasaki, they did not attempt to conquer Japan. The only Japanese territory Portual actually annexed was a tiny artificial island which they established and took over with the permission of the Japanese government.
The Portuguese are amazing people. Brave & humble people.
Thank you. Much love from Portugal
We been thru just about everything is why
Amazing content for a country that deserves a lot more recognition as their contribution to Europe and world history was invaluable
one of the biggest players in world history. yet, doesn't get the recognition they desrve.
????? all they do is get recognition. the nation that gets snubbed the most when discussing these matters is Portugal, not Spain.
oh yeah it should indeed by well know, for their contribution to slavery.
Their contribution to the enslavement, death, and torture of millions of Africans as well as the pillage of resources absolutely should be remembered. Every European Empire came at a devastating cost to Indigenous folks and environments. THAT is our legacy.
Ok. Sure you guys can see that way, but I, as a Brazilian, know that we have only surpassed Portugal because they brought those people here. We are a proud and mixed people that, even if we had a dark past, worked hard to stand globally among the biggest, richest and most important countries of the world. If the europeans want to tax the son for the sins of the father they're free to do so, but Brazil, unlike the USA, never suffered from racism of the same scale and every racist movement spawned were immediately suppressed even by its own population. Those were different times and should serve only as a guidance for what not to do, if people really wished Europe to take a stance of non-supremacy over Africa they should be against all the "humanitarian aid" they send and the removal of their forces from their lands. Like what Europe is doing to Niger after they insist to meddle in internal affairs of the country and force ECOWAS to sanction them. What Europe and USA are doing today should be much more concerning than any historical debt they think they owe.
As a Portuguese man, I thank you
I love Portugal too.
The Portuguese accomplished was mind blowing! They were the first truly global empire!
Grandioso povo um dia fomos , pequenos em números gigantes em coragem ⛵
Impressive how a small country had an empire that endured for centuries… but no one know about it.
Seriously - I knew I needed to do this history
Brazilians know it. There is a tradition in anglo world of dismiss and hide the latin (probably because of the bitter religion wars against catholic Spain)
Diaz and Da Gama are still well known even today.
pretty common knowledge man...
it's not that no one knows about it. it's just that many historians tend to down play or delegitamize Portugal's infulence . here in the United States, schools really don't emphisize Portugal's great maritime history, instead focusing more on Columbus and the arival of the Spanish. it's a shame when you consider how infulencial , powerful and far reaching the Portuguese empire was.
when it came to the age of exploration, i remember my high school history teacher started out the class session by saying "yeah, the Portuguese were good sailors" and then preceded to the Santa Maria and Columbus. that was it? the men who spearheaded the age of discovery and innovated almost every major technological advancement in maritime exploration and naval warfare the near 100 years before Columbus got Spain in the game , was reduced to a 6 word sentence. ?
History books do stuff like this all the time! The reconquista I did covered 781 years of history - it's reduced to two lines: in 711 the Muslims conquered Iberia. Then in 1492 Queen Isabella and Ferdinand took Granada and created Spain - done. If we did that will other time frames it would be: Then Henry V of England won the battle of Agincourt using his brilliant longbow-men. Later the internet was invented.
in that same vain i can tell you Portuguese also have a strong legacy of inventing/exaggerating our history due to our collective ignorance as a nation. This may be the reason we prefer to invent our past rather than stick to the historical facts?@@FlashPointHx
Probably your teacher was of Spanish origins !
because everything the Portuguese know they learned from the Spanish🇪🇸 🇪🇸@@gordonfrickers5592
In what country did you attend High School? I'm portuguese and I have seen videos of canadian elementary schools explaining the portuguese age of discovery for 9 year olds. The australians seem to have a better understanding of the portuguese voyages of explorations, way before High School. I'm guessing you are from the USA? Even in Russia and the Ukraine, the portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama is taught at their schools. I would like to share what my 8th grade History teacher told us in Portugal: The portuguese made landfall in South America (Brazil) before Culumbus aproached the kings of Spain, as described in the 15th century secret letter from Pero Vaz de Caminha to the King of Portugal, kept in our archives in Lisbon at "Torre do Tombo". For secrecy and diplomacy the king of Portugal, let the Spanish Crown claim the discovery of the Americas. This is what I was taught in the late 1980's, at a portuguese school, when studying the age of discovery.
I’m now inspired to do a Portugal campaign in EU4.
These videos are getting amazing. I don't know how far this series goes, but I would like to see the battles that the Portuguese will fight in Brazil to expel the French from the coast of Rio de Janeiro and the Dutch and English from the mouth of the Amazon River, practically unknown stories
After the Dutch knocked you out of Japan and the rest of Asia, which was way more profitable than the Americas. Hence, the VOC; The first and by far biggest multinational ever to exist. 8 times bigger than APPLE. LOL.
They had slaves yet only USA get whacked for slavery
What a nice surprise to see a relatively deep dive into the making of the Portuguese Empire in English. As descendant of Afonso de Albuquerque the Portuguese Viceroy who basically really re-enforced and consolidated Portuguese presence in India I am eager to see the next episode!
I'm always impressed with comments like this - can't believe that people can trace their heritage back that far! Impressive.
@@FlashPointHx I know some stories about my Gran gran gran that you wont find in any History books, some of them are bleak...one of those old family tales regarding the garrison of troops stationed in Goa under Albuquerque command explains they had to change armour cloths 3x a day to give the impression we had more boots on the ground while marching on the streets.
@@FAAMS1 deception is the core of all warfare - Rommel had his tanks parade through a city in North Africa in WW2 in a continuous loop so that British spies would report back that the Germans had overwhelming strength
I found that I have old hungary connection via genetics tests... I am portuguese... and I am more connected with old hungarians than newer ones. weird... Then I found out the visigoths, then... haaaa I see... then I have visigoth blood... ;) that attilla pushed away into the roman empire to escape.
@@powervr Every European gets that connection with "old hungarians" in genetic tests - the reason for that is that some very important prehistorical samples from Hungary turn out to be the highest resolution human DNA we have ever analyzed, and as such, no matter where you are in Europe, you are going to match those samples simply because of the number of matches any European will get with such a high resolution sample when the commercial DNA tests you take only examine a small resolution portion of your DNA.
Portugal rules the waves!
É dar uma Comenda a este cavalheiro, tá tudo dito. Mais vídeos, por favor! Viva Portugal!
E viva o mundo luso!
Viva o maior império escravagista da história!
Qual? Os califados islâmicos? Pois estes sim foram os maiores da história. Tá precisando se informar,@@Cecil_Augus
@@Cecil_Augus viva a síndrome de vira-lata... Cresce.
@@Cecil_Auguscaluda zuca. Nao fossemos nós ainda andavam de tanga hoje
5* excelente i am portuguese and proud of the achivements of portugal, and for that matter europe, true that we were not, saints, but that was the law of the time
Detailed documentaries about Portuguese history are hard to come by; very greatly appreciated!
Amazing Video, looking foward to the Cabral episode! :D
Gimme more of those 15th,16th centuries of Portuguese history. Much appreciated.. Astounding quality and tremendously entertaining. Thanks so much for this content..
You are so welcome ! Happy you liked this
God bless Portugal 🇵🇹
Portugal was built upon wickedness, their empire collapsed. Same with every empire that begins by building on the backs of other people's brutally. So how can you bless mess and demonic ways? Grow up ya JACKASS MZUNGU!!
Bless🇵🇹?? Cry....because Portuguese are all going to hell😈 for their Colonial butchering and Slave trading of Africans
I can only imagine what it must have been like for the Portuguese of that time to stand on a beach or cliff at the most western part of continental Europe. Looking out over the never ending vastness of the Atlantic ocean and wonder ‘ what’s out there’.
Amazing Portuguese age of discovery is the best series on your channel & YT
Thanks Patrick - I'm really happy to see so many people getting into this!
An absolute shining gem of quality once again brother an hour no less! Portuguese involvement around the globe was truly impressive & radical for the time period.
Thank you so much !
It's too bad that there isn't much detailed literature about the journeys of Pero da Covilha. I'm sure his adventures were fascinating.
Yeah his journey really resonates with me - I feel like I would have liked to have joined him on this adventure
@@FlashPointHx Exactly! Surely he endured a lot of hardship but at the end it seems almost as epic as the journeys of Marco Polo. And his final chapter is amazing. After completing his mission and passing all the information gathered to his nation, he decided to retire is obscurity with an unsung last adventure, instead of rotting until his death in Portugal as a trophy display for the crown. He did his duty to his king and country with high marks, he deserved to choose his own fate.
@@nunodasilva5449I thought he was not permitted to leave Ethiopia! Do you have the idea that he did that on purpose?
Interesting and informative. Forgot about Portugal having a navy. A wonderful refresher course to enjoy. Vasco de Gama is in my book as the top 10 captains of all time!!!⚓⚓⛵⛵
what a joke!!! you must be smoking heavy stuff!!😂😂😂
The story telling in this channel is amazing. A true inspiration to small history youtubers like myself
Hey thanks so much - your battle of Issus is amazing BTW. Contact me later and I'll share it on my community post. Remind me however
@@FlashPointHx You are amazing thank you and I definitely will:)
I put this video on thinking it would be very boring and help me sleep at 3am. 1 hour later I had to turn it off, way too entertaining. I'm hooked!
hahhaah - hope you got some sleep
@FlashPointHx 😂❤
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One of the best history videos I have ever watched - fantastic.
The slave trade did not start with Portugal. They might have been the first European power to engage in it since the Christianization of northern Europe (Scandinavian pirates, aka vikings, took many slaves and Irish pagans took a few [including St. Patrick], but for geographic reasons these slaves were pretty much all European, so perhaps the Portugeuse trade did racialize slavery and thus made it more caste-like [harder to buy one's way out, or to escape when an enemy of the slaveholder attacked your master]. The Africans themselves (almost always enemy tribes, collecting a form of "war booty") captured the slaves, then used some of them themselves but sold many to foreign merchants (initially Arabs and tribes they had converted to Islam, but eventually also the Portugeuse and other Europeans who encountered the public slave markets run by Africans). Islam seems to have been the driving force in internationalizing and expanding the slave trade, and even during the worst of the transatlantic trade, the Muslim slave trade was more extensive. Fewer descendents resulted, of course, since the Arabs and most other Muslim powers castrated their male slaves. Please don't perpetuate false history.
when the portuguese arrived in Africa they bought slaves....1 horse worth 13 slaves...
Portugal started trans-Atlantic Slave trade in 1441
Ummm... since the Dawn of Humanity... slavery was common place throughout all Earthen peoples across all Earthen lands. We should not place blame on any one people nor denomination merely because they became efficient slave traders. There is one "tribe" who, for thousands of years, has largely remained "behind the scenes" and yet they remain the most prolific slavers in all of Human history. Their "trade" harkens back to Egypt's 24th Dynasty... and culminated into today's "F.I.A.T. money system".
People turn stupid when the topic is slavery. They don't understand that "slave trade" and "black slave trade" are not the same thing. They also are okay with hearing tails of kings having bouts of jelousy and slaying their wifes, or whole kingdoms fighting century old bloody wars against one another......or accepting raping and pilaginng where the norm in the past.............but then get incredibly aggravated that people in engaged in slavery. It's pure ignorance and/or hypocrisy.
They were the first and by far biggest slave traders in Europe.
I'm loving this videos on the exploration, just wanted to share that when the Portuguese explorers were going down the African coast they entered every river they could and sailed until they couldn't physically take the ships any further because they thought that some river could go all the way through africa to the east and in turn India/Prester John. So i think in the 19 century a dutch exploration mission came upon a undiscovered padrão from the 15 century, what a funny thing to happen.
Also source: I don't remember where i saw but it was very reliable.😅 And the discovered padrão is in a navy museum in Lisbon now.
It was a german expedition over the Congo river. I think the 'padrão' is the Berlin museum.
In the 19th century, Sir Richard Francis Burton explored the Congo River in a canoe. After weeks, when he already believed he was the first European in that region, he found a Portuguese 'padrão'. He was so impressed that, later, he insisted on translating the poem Lusíadas, by Camões, which narrates the Portuguese adventures.
As a Portuguese person I love everything. So much more light was added to what I learned in school. Thank you to the Chanel 😊
Really happy to hear this - your history is incredible . How did such a small country forge such a large empire!
@@FlashPointHx guns, germs and steel. And balls!
Of course you do. You should embrace how the former empire was built through exploitation, mass deletions and subjugation.
@@FlashPointHx we are just crazy... we even think we can take down the russians... and we actually could if we want. hahaha
@@slimpickens01 well the tiny ones, could kick ass bigger empires... so dearlier than the great empire in egipt collapse (maybe 100x bigger than portugal), and the ottomans started their's collapse... ha...:D well again 100x bigger... even the chinese gaved up and gived us land to us. :D hahaha imagine tiny portugal and china... :D
There were Christians in the Malabar coast, They were known as Nasrani Christians or Saint Thomas Christians and they had a kingdom named Villarvattom and their power was declined on hearing that Vasco Da Gama and this crew are Christians the Villarvattom sent their sceptor and crown to the Portuguese crew in order to protect them and as a gift to Portugese King they sent a silver cross , This marks the beginning of Roman church in India and convertion of saint thomas Christians to Roman catholic.
Thats really interesting, never knew there were home grown Christians that far down in India.
what a joke!!! they arrived in India and were greeted by christians???you must be smoking heavy stuff!!😂😂😂
I've recently moved to Portugal, thank you very much for creating this rich documentary, it's a great way to learn the history of this nation.
I heard it’s beautiful there - plus they got a Golden Gate Bridge in Lisbon like the one we have here in SF.
This was a really good and fun way to depict the portuguese age of discoveries. As someone who used to play Europa Universalis a lot, all editions of the game, the presentation was lots of fun. I often played as my country Portugal in an attempt to also do the discoveries and try to outdo the real history.
Seems like I get a lot of EU players here! I would think playing Portugal would be a difficult challenge considering how small it was and where it was located - no real place to expand. Castile / Leon or later Spain would have been a tough opponent
@@FlashPointHx playing Portugal is hard only if you make the mistake in trying to conquer land from Castille. On the other had its easy to make a peace treaty and a royal marriage alliance with Spain and that does actually work and Spain will not bother Portugal because it has first Andaluzia to bother with and then France. As long Portugal remains neutral in europe's politics and you never make sn alliance rith an enemy of Spain you eill be ok and sdve snd your major problem eill be dealing with native uprisings while you are still colonizing unclaimed provinces in Africa, douthern asia and the easter coast of the Americas.
@@FlashPointHx It´s actually relatively easy to "win" the game with Portugal as long as you follow the same initial steps of diplomacy, discoveries and colonizations of the real Portugal. I once not only made the Portuguese empire the most powerful but also managed to colonize big parts of North and Central America (besides South America, Africa, etc). The Spanish the British and all the others always arrived too late to the new found lands because my Portuguese empire was already well establish in them and had already colonized the best lands.
Portugal is a demonic terror state👿 that my India threw out for good in 1961
Portuguese either completely destroyed whatever colony they had at first or sold off the slaves still alive for profit; you proud of this Neanderthal brain? @@lunog
Stirring! Informing! Compelling! INSPIRED! What History *IS* and should always convey: *GLORY* !! *ADVENTURE* !!!
TOTALLY agree - its a incredible narrative if told in the right way
Thank you so much for this video. I'm very proud of my History, and this video made me even prouder. A lot of people don't know our past, but we used to be the most powerful country in the world and the blood that flowed through the veins of these courageous men still flows through ours! PORTUGAL SEMPRE!
It was the first world empire - stretched across four continents
I learned more details about my country’s history in this channel than in any of my years in school.. I see why the teachers don’t give all these details.. some are too much for any children to comprehend and some to heavy.. we were no saints trashing and burning a lot along the way, but still I can’t feel nothing except pride for being a descendent of this mighty and brave small country.. thank you sir for making me feel this again. Much love ❤️
Hey my pleasure - your country’s story - both good and bad parts - was amazing.
I enjoyed the presentation. A pity the video did not elaborate on the crusades of Dom Afonso V during the 1460s & 1470s, the detailed Pastrana Tapestries would've looked beautiful in the video. I'm hoping the next video/s focuses on the battles of Duarte Pacheco Pereira, the ones of Dom Lourenço de Almeida, his father Dom Francisco and, of course, the terrifying Afonso de Albuquerque. Considering you're using a great book reference, of which I was very happy to see quoted so frequently, Roger Crowley's 'Conquerors' (2015), I'm counting on the knightly bits to not be disregarded within the next chapter, when the fun truly begins. I'm also hoping that the gory bits - of which Crowley doesn't shy away from referencing - to be described in the next presentation/s, as well as the awesome full plate armors, the giant swords (montante/s) and the crazy berserk melee fighting style of the Fidalgos.
The portuguese discovery-invention of the african route to India, an effort that lasted 1 century is the most admirable feat of the collective human spirit.
Nothing compared what we the spanish achieved, yours is a minor stuff
@@Enrique-Pascual-MailloEspanholitos invejosos e ressentidos desde 14 de Agosto de 1385😂😂😂
@@truthismycause2800 🥰🥰🥰 un saludo portuguesito
@@Enrique-Pascual-Maillo Bom domingo, mouro.
@@truthismycause2800 , Igualmente quinqui
Wonderful video and extremelly well narrated. I am going to wacth the next sequences of these extraordinary descoveries from my glorious ancesters- Thank you so much for this imperdível (never to be lost) video and the ones to come.
In 1956, I was born on the island of Sao Miguel, Azores - grew up hearing lots of Sea faring tales, but watching this excellent presentation filled in a lot of historical gabs for me. In 1960, we migrated to Canada, yrs later I met People from Newfoundland & PEI who spoke a few Portuguese words & cooked similar Fish dishes too. My Dad claims that by Nautical miles, we are closer to Canada's eastern shore than Portugal itself. ~ I'm so eager to watch Part 2 now 😍
Thank you for sharing your story - a friend of mine visited the azores and spoke of how beautiful it was. Let me know what you think of part 2
thank you for this! i highly enjoy this type of content and look to absorb it from every channel i find
Loved it. Can't wait for more in this series.
Astounding quality and tremendously entertaining. Thanks so much for this content.
This was fantastic. Thank you again
Thank you, awesome job
Finally a video that covers this in detail. This channel is awesome, cant wait for next video
I just wanted to drop a line to thank you for these great series. I am finding the Portuguese Empire videos really informative and entertaining. I binge watched Part 1 and 2 twice. Great work. I also learned quite a bit from the Reconquista long form video. Amazing a trip to Mexico brought all of this out.
Hey I’m so happy that you liked this series so much - btw, I just got started on Part 3. Impressive that you watched parts 1 + 2 twice!
Great video! Waiting patiently for the next part
wonderful content as always.
Amazing! Looking forward to the next part.
Fantastic job, friend!
Very interesting !! Keep up the good work 👍
Thank you for all this work!! It’s amazing 👏👏👏
Hey my pleasure - happy you liked my video
Absolutely brilliant
Love these long videos
i can't wait for the next one, this video was amazing
Fascinating! I didn’t know so much valuable information. Thanks.
Great video, as always! Very eager about the next chapter 😁
Thank you! 😁 I'm about half way done dictating it. Will have it out in Audio podcast in a week
As always, it has astonishing content with excellent narration. Your channel is one of my favorites!
Appreciate the comment Magi!
Thank you, very interesting!
I am a Brazilian of italian heritage but I am proud to have some portuguese inheritage/connection by being brazilian. The age of exploration, discoveries, mapping of the world and culture exchange is too fascinating. Thanks for another awsome episode.
Columbus landed in Portugal because he was actually Portuguese.He named all the islands he discovered after towns in Portugal.
Only an lying idiot would believe that a man that dis not speak or write italian and spoke and wrote in Portuguese could be from Genoa… At some point these cabal of jealous historians from bigger richer nations that produce movies and series lying about the past and hiding the nation that did it all will end and Portugal epic feats will start being known. The TRUE Empire where the sun never settled
He was Genoese/Italian
@@MW_Asura If he was Italian, how come he couldn't read and write Italian but could read and write Portuguese? In addition if he was Italian and sailed for Spain why did he name the island he found after towns in Portugal? Why not towns in Italy or Spain? He was the illegitimate son of a Portuguese royal and a Jewish mother. Look into it.
you must be smoking heavy stuff!!😂😂😂 Columbus was born in Asturias, Spain and named Cuba after the city of La Cuba which is in Teruel, Aragon, Spain🇪🇸 🇪🇸
@@AmazingSpiderman-wg8yv Why are the other islands he found named after Portuguese towns and not Spanish towns. He was Portuguese not Spanish. He was a secret agent for the Portuguese Crown. That is why Portugal received Brazil in the treaty that gave all western hemisphere lands to Spain and All eastern hemisphere lands to Portugal. Look in to it.
Excellent! And what a fascinating subject, a story like no other.
Another FPH super-cut to sit back and enjoy 🙂 I love acquiring historical knowledge in such a visual and eloquent way.
Many thanks!
happy i found this channel. love this kind of stuff! thank you
Nice!
I just have to see a part 2 The work u done is just incredible, and as a hobby historien I am very excited to see what your next video on this topic is like😍😁
fascinating absolutely fascinating
Many thanks and gratitude for this history lesson... Greetings from Bucarest ROMANIA 🍀☀️👏😊
Seeet, very cool video 😎! Keep up the great content! 👍
an absolutely superb video, thoroughly informative! Thank you.
Thank you so much !
I love your videos!! Extremely well done ! I appreciate your dedication and acruite information
Hey Danny, thanks so much! Really happy that you liked my video so much. Saw your other comment - never knew that Sega had such a game
Loved the film great work carry a bigger stick nice one very good 🎉❤
Cant wait for the next part to come out :)
What a wonderful, fascinating, astonishing production you've made! Congratulations, and thank you!
So welcome victor!
Really interesting and informative. Good context