Ten Minute History - The Early Spanish and Portuguese Empires Short Documentary
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1. 5. 25 It looks as if Spaniards killed Moctezuma. Moctezuma was killed by the stones of the Mexicas.
2. 5. 50. It looks as if the Mexica Empire had been the center of the conquest of all Central America. Panama was Spanish before Cortes, in 1509.
3. 6. 25 It was not gold that defeated the Inca Empire, but themselves. Atahuallpa's brother Huascar had been killed by Atahuallpa's soldiers. Many that supported Huascar preferred to have all forces of Atahuallpa obliterated and thought Spaniards could be good allies. One Huascarist, Manco Capac, managed to flee and form his own Neo-Inca Empire of Vilcabamba.
4. 6. 50 Since Magellan had been already in Tidore, and he reached Philippines, we could say that he technically was the first man to make a tour around the world: from Indonesia to Spain, to South America, to the Pacific, to the Philippines.
Date: 2022-07-19
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TheLoneTerran
I mean, you say not uniformly evil, but considering it led to 500 years of rape, pillage, and murder, fostered slave trading and immense human suffering, I feel that it'd be fairly safe to file it under mostly evil. Wiping out entire cultures and decimating two continents in the pursuit of shiny rocks and paprika doesn't balance the scale. Even in 2021, there are still imperial remnants though apparently the end of empires was in 1997 with the return of Hong Kong. Not to mention the crappy borders drawn by Europe in the Middle East and Africa is still a source of violence and political instability today. Europe and the Ottomans set the stage for nearly every issue we still face today, all because shiny rocks were that important. At least China, Japan, and a much lesser extent, the USA, had the decency to go into Isolationism.
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I mean, you say not uniformly evil, but considering it led to 500 years of rape, pillage, and murder, fostered slave trading and immense human suffering, I feel that it'd be fairly safe to file it under mostly evil. Wiping out entire cultures and decimating two continents in the pursuit of shiny rocks and paprika doesn't balance the scale. Even in 2021, there are still imperial remnants though apparently the end of empires was in 1997 with the return of Hong Kong. Not to mention the crappy borders drawn by Europe in the Middle East and Africa is still a source of violence and political instability today. Europe and the Ottomans set the stage for nearly every issue we still face today, all because shiny rocks were that important. At least China, Japan, and a much lesser extent, the USA, had the decency to go into Isolationism.
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Victor
I mean, they are not completely good or completely evil in the sense that most people in Western Europe own a lot of the good in their lives to the sheer amount of silver and gold that it took in these era and the next centuries from Central and South American countries, whereas most people in Central and South American countries own the evil in their lives to that same thing.
Britain certainly didn't mind that Portugal paid its debts with gold from those lands that took a little bit of serious genocide to conquer and a lot of work from millions of African slaves. I'm glad that you were not on the receiving end of these neutral actions so that you get to make money off telling these stories so that you have on a good life based sorely on where you were born.
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I mean, they are not completely good or completely evil in the sense that most people in Western Europe own a lot of the good in their lives to the sheer amount of silver and gold that it took in these era and the next centuries from Central and South American countries, whereas most people in Central and South American countries own the evil in their lives to that same thing.
Britain certainly didn't mind that Portugal paid its debts with gold from those lands that took a little bit of serious genocide to conquer and a lot of work from millions of African slaves. I'm glad that you were not on the receiving end of these neutral actions so that you get to make money off telling these stories so that you have on a good life based sorely on where you were born.
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Mbern45
I personally believe that Brasil was already found and that Cabral was just sent to make it official. The records were lost during the Earthquake of 1775, but in 1488 The Portuguese were still following the coast of Africa yet by 1498 Vasco da Gama launched himself into the Atlantic to follow the currents. This means that they had to have been exploring the Atlantic already in order to discover the currents. Plus if Cabral was sent only to India, why did he carry prisoners with him? Leaving prisoners on foreign soil was a common Portuguese tactic so they could have translators in the future.
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I personally believe that Brasil was already found and that Cabral was just sent to make it official. The records were lost during the Earthquake of 1775, but in 1488 The Portuguese were still following the coast of Africa yet by 1498 Vasco da Gama launched himself into the Atlantic to follow the currents. This means that they had to have been exploring the Atlantic already in order to discover the currents. Plus if Cabral was sent only to India, why did he carry prisoners with him? Leaving prisoners on foreign soil was a common Portuguese tactic so they could have translators in the future.
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Dani
Spanish las: the First one to recogiste citicency and rights to American aborigins.
3 centuries before UK and USA made (remember UK colonies no rights for aborigins people.
The Laws of Burgos (Spanish: Leyes de Burgos, promulgated on 27 December 1512 in Burgos, Crown of Castile (Spain, was the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spaniards in the Americas, particularly with regard to the Indigenous people of the Americas (native Caribbean Indians. They forbade the maltreatment of the indigenous people and endorsed their conversion to Catholicism.
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Spanish las: the First one to recogiste citicency and rights to American aborigins.
3 centuries before UK and USA made (remember UK colonies no rights for aborigins people.
The Laws of Burgos (Spanish: Leyes de Burgos, promulgated on 27 December 1512 in Burgos, Crown of Castile (Spain, was the first codified set of laws governing the behavior of Spaniards in the Americas, particularly with regard to the Indigenous people of the Americas (native Caribbean Indians. They forbade the maltreatment of the indigenous people and endorsed their conversion to Catholicism.
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Victor
Not completely good or evil because desipite the millions of people killed in genocide and about a million natives and millions of Africans enslaved it opened European trade routes? Yeah, balances out to me. I mean, it did make the world we live in, that much is true. But it made a very different world for South American vs. for Euopean people.
I mean, it did help us avoid the bad Ottomans, which were so bad they murdered and enslaved people!
Also, funny how in some of your videos x stole y, but in this one Spain and Portugal imported South American silver.
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Not completely good or evil because desipite the millions of people killed in genocide and about a million natives and millions of Africans enslaved it opened European trade routes? Yeah, balances out to me. I mean, it did make the world we live in, that much is true. But it made a very different world for South American vs. for Euopean people.
I mean, it did help us avoid the bad Ottomans, which were so bad they murdered and enslaved people!
Also, funny how in some of your videos x stole y, but in this one Spain and Portugal imported South American silver.
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Javier
Ceuta, the colony that started it all when Portugal took it in 1415, now ironically belongs to Spain since when Portugal got its independence from Spain in 1640, ending the Iberian Union started in 1580, Ceuta was the only part of what was left of the Portuguese empire (most of its Asian colonies had been stolen by the Dutch by that point because they were prior enemies of Spain and Portugal paid the price) that remained part of Spain and still to this day belongs fully to Spain (along with Melilla.
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Ceuta, the colony that started it all when Portugal took it in 1415, now ironically belongs to Spain since when Portugal got its independence from Spain in 1640, ending the Iberian Union started in 1580, Ceuta was the only part of what was left of the Portuguese empire (most of its Asian colonies had been stolen by the Dutch by that point because they were prior enemies of Spain and Portugal paid the price) that remained part of Spain and still to this day belongs fully to Spain (along with Melilla.
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education
6: 35 the video says the Spanish Empire got rich extracting silver in mines using native labor. The world seems to forget 22% of all slaves exported from Africa were used in the silver mines of the Spanish Empire. Also, 41% of all African slaves were used in the Brazilian mines. Only 5% of all slaves exported to the Americas ended up in the U. S. Three times as many slaves died enroute to the Americas as were slaves in the U. S.. Truly tragic.
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6: 35 the video says the Spanish Empire got rich extracting silver in mines using native labor. The world seems to forget 22% of all slaves exported from Africa were used in the silver mines of the Spanish Empire. Also, 41% of all African slaves were used in the Brazilian mines. Only 5% of all slaves exported to the Americas ended up in the U. S. Three times as many slaves died enroute to the Americas as were slaves in the U. S.. Truly tragic.
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Smily
Fact: if the ottomans didnt capture the suez the Spanish king would never be convinced of a new way to india because well the ideia was actually just get to India because you know when they get to Cuba they first think that it was actually japan and not a new island lol
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Fact: if the ottomans didnt capture the suez the Spanish king would never be convinced of a new way to india because well the ideia was actually just get to India because you know when they get to Cuba they first think that it was actually japan and not a new island lol
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Cody
For better or worse? It was for the worse and definitely leaned towards evil. Just because it had a considerable effect on how our world is today doesnt make it good. Staying neutral doesnt make you a better academic, it makes you seem out of touch with reality.
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For better or worse? It was for the worse and definitely leaned towards evil. Just because it had a considerable effect on how our world is today doesnt make it good. Staying neutral doesnt make you a better academic, it makes you seem out of touch with reality.
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Redcode
That mythical Christian king may well have actually existed. See, the Europeans were actually right about there being a Christian land in Africa before they colonized it. Ethiopia was Christian before the arrival of Europeans.
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That mythical Christian king may well have actually existed. See, the Europeans were actually right about there being a Christian land in Africa before they colonized it. Ethiopia was Christian before the arrival of Europeans.
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Rainer
Why is a man that didn't circumnavigate the globe being credited for it? It should be those who made it back to Spain that deserve the credit ferdinand magellan is a failure and doesn't deserve the recognition he gets
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Why is a man that didn't circumnavigate the globe being credited for it? It should be those who made it back to Spain that deserve the credit ferdinand magellan is a failure and doesn't deserve the recognition he gets
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Gregory
It still amazes me how did portugal agree with tordesillas. Hey we just discovered new land after sailing waters for months! Okay, now that we found land everything forward is spain, every sea backwards is portugal.
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It still amazes me how did portugal agree with tordesillas. Hey we just discovered new land after sailing waters for months! Okay, now that we found land everything forward is spain, every sea backwards is portugal.
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Gregory
Theres been many theories debunking this established theory that they thought they arrived in India. Specially for Pedro Alvares Cabral since that expedition was years later from the first american findings.
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Theres been many theories debunking this established theory that they thought they arrived in India. Specially for Pedro Alvares Cabral since that expedition was years later from the first american findings.
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Tyrant-Den
You still get Cortes apologists being all but Mayans sacrificed people! So what if far more people died and in more horrifying conditions in Spanish mines and plantations? Sacrificing is icky.
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You still get Cortes apologists being all but Mayans sacrificed people! So what if far more people died and in more horrifying conditions in Spanish mines and plantations? Sacrificing is icky.
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Jul
It should be noted that that name was Alfonso de Alburquerque; Alburquerque with two R's (not one, which is a city in Portugal. Albuquerque with one R is a city in the United States.
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It should be noted that that name was Alfonso de Alburquerque; Alburquerque with two R's (not one, which is a city in Portugal. Albuquerque with one R is a city in the United States.
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education
Each one of your videos has the same style of delivery, which seems to be saying: now, you may not like or agree with what I am about to say, but here is what happened anyway
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Each one of your videos has the same style of delivery, which seems to be saying: now, you may not like or agree with what I am about to say, but here is what happened anyway
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Lana
You forgot that part they eventually found gold in Brazil and started killing all natives. Then they brought slaves to plant sugar cane and coffee. Other than that. Not bad: )
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You forgot that part they eventually found gold in Brazil and started killing all natives. Then they brought slaves to plant sugar cane and coffee. Other than that. Not bad: )
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Wilmina
It's weird but after they took all that gold, they become extremely rich but their empire started to decay. Maybe gold is not always what it seems to be!
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It's weird but after they took all that gold, they become extremely rich but their empire started to decay. Maybe gold is not always what it seems to be!
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harrytheprince
Didnt the ancient Greeks already have triangular sails? So, were they rediscovered or was there something new about the Portuguese ones?
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Didnt the ancient Greeks already have triangular sails? So, were they rediscovered or was there something new about the Portuguese ones?
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