The Spanish Empire: The World's First Superpower
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The territory of Spain today comprises of 195,365 square miles, being principally made up of land on the Iberian Peninsula, sharing borders with Portugal to the West, France to the North, as well as the small principality of Andorra. Spain also controls the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, as well as the two small enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, on the northern shore of Morrocco’s coastline.
However, at the beginning of the 19th century, the total amount of territory to which Spain laid claim to exceeded a staggering 5 million square miles; stretching throughout almost the entirety of the Americas, from California all the way to Argentina and even further afield to the far side of the Pacific Ocean, with the Philippines in Eastern Asia.
Although this marked the peak of Spain’s territorial possessions, many of these lands were brought under Spanish rule in the prior three centuries, in what was one of the most remarkable and rapid rises to power of any nation in history.
This is how Spain became the world’s first superpower.
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire governed by Spain and its predecessor states between 1492 and 1976. In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it was the first empire to usher the European Age of Discovery and achieve a global scale, controlling vast portions of the Americas, Africa, various islands in Asia and Oceania, as well as territory in other parts of Europe. It was one of the most powerful empires of the early modern period, becoming known as "the empire on which the sun never sets". At its peak in 1810, the Spanish Empire covered over 13 million square kilometres (5 million square miles), making it one of the largest empires in history.
A lot of you have commented saying that Portugal was the worlds first superpower, rather than Spain, so I've created a video on how Portugal forged the first truly global empire: ua-cam.com/video/9P7szJRlbxk/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ThisIsHistory
@josearrieta6360 mans gotta put food on the table
Make video on Mongol Empire
This video helped me with a test.
Los portugueses siempre llorando.
@@AlguienDeAzeroth... 'llorando'? Em 1492 Colon (Colombo não era o seu verdadeiro nome) efectuou uma viagem de pura aventura para ocidente, crente de que seria o caminho mais perto para alcançar o 'Oriente'. Em 1488, o português Bartolomeu Dias descobriu o 'fim de África', deitando por terra a tese de 'Colon', que não terá tomado conhecimento da descoberta de Bartolomeu Dias. A posterior presença de Espanha no Oriente não se deveu a Colon, deveu-se, pois, a Bartolomeu Dias. Recomendo a busca de informação sobre Afonso de Albuquerque e sobre a Batalha de Diu em 1509.
Sou português e não estou 'llorando' (ou chorando, em português), o que, aliás, não seria de admirar já que Portugal é 'mui choquitito' comparando com Espanha, em população e em território, algo como cinco vezes mais pequeno.
Whatever the British achieved later in life, remember that the Spanish did it first.
Industrial revolution?
españa fracaso en la industrializacion, hoy son el pais mas atrasado de europa.
Spain never had Industrial Revolution , Never made Spanish the worlds ligua France , Spains inventions is nowhere near as many and important as the British empire.
The British empire created the modern world and the most important culture of todays world the Anglosphere
España sin inventos.
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You’re missing the other European territories Spain had in the Spanish Empire like parts of Italy, Netherlands, France & so on. Also larger portions of North & South America
Exactly what I said. Anglos always do this for the Spanish empire but they include all of India even though the British never controlled all of India. They include the modern borders of African countries even though the British only controlled coastal towns. Pure hypocrisy.
@@xhorxheetxeberria-td1hu The Anglo-sphere of influence is immense, I live in the United States & the education is a joke not to mention Spain & the language Spanish are a nonstarter in anything significant in history here. Most Americans don’t even know Spain helped the most in the American Revolution against Great Britain, most money, weapons, soldiers, more than France. Spanish is looked upon as a Non-white language from Mexico or “South America”. The United States also started to use the word “Hispanic” to identify anyone from part of the former Spanish Empire, “Latin” America even if they don’t descend from the Spanish or Portuguese. The Black Legend was meticulously done, still to this day.
@@xhorxheetxeberria-td1hu The Anglo-sphere of influence is immense, I live in the United States & the education is a joke not to mention Spain & the language Spanish are a nonstarter in anything significant in history here. Most Americans don’t even know Spain helped the most in the American Revolution against Great Britain, most money, weapons, soldiers, more than France. Spanish is looked upon as a Non-white language from Mexico or “South America”. The United States also started to use the word “Hispanic” in the 1970’s census to identify anyone from part of the former Spanish Empire, “Latin” America even if they don’t descend from the Spanish or Portuguese. The Black Legend was meticulously done, still to this day.
@@IblewuponyourfaceIIIIndeed, although Hispanic is in fact the correct term, latin American or 'latinos' it's a wrong term the french popularized to keep away the Spanish influence on America. The first thing that triggered me on this video was the map of the 'highest Spanish extend' which is 100% incorrect, people tend to forget the extend of the empire under Felipe II, which was massive. The second trigger in this video and when I stopped watching, was the massive inaccuracy of how Hernán Cortéz conquered the Aztecs, he didn't sail there out of his own will or by looking for new land, he went there because the crown sent another Caudillo to Havana because he was corrupt and bad, he then proceeded to try to get something for the crown to not be ripped off his titles, but yeah, Spanish history is massively overlooked and minimized.
@@shocku5250 I agree with both of you, I'm also Hispanic, born and raised in Nicaragua, currently live in the 🇺🇸, I sometimes have to explain to my son lots of inaccuracy in History taught in schools today .
Currently the european language with the most native speakers is Spanish, that says a lot about how big the empire was.
Not the British. That why the were jealous about Spain
The most spoken language in the whole world is English though? Stupid comment!
That says a lot about how many people they slaughtered
@@edenanshar9225jealous about what? 😂
The Spanish lost every single war against the British/ Americans. You do realize that while Spanish has more native speakers, english has the most speakers in total? Like it's not even close
NO, that says a lot about the brutality the invaders used in their genocide in “The Americas”
The Spaniards did not conquer America on their own, they were thanks to the natives, there is a popular belief that the natives were and fought against a common enemy, the truth is that the Aztecs had many enemies just like the Incas, the pre-Columbian legacy did not disappear was mixed, Spain named a single continent called America and this is how the rest of Europe and the world knew it.
Finally an educated comment! Thank you
You got it right but by completely wrong reasons. The Aztecs and the Incas didn't know each other. The thing is that the Aztecs were actually exclusively the inhabitants of the city of Mexico and the rest was a maremágnum of different cultures and languages and city states with no polítical unity that were involved in genocidal struggles against each other.
"Aztecs had many enemies like the Incas" .... 🤣🤣🤣 Maybe others, but not the Incas...
When I say that the Aztecs had many enemies like the Incas, I mean that both equally had different enemies, not that the Incas were enemies of the Aztecs.
They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
God bless Spain
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I'm from America
Viva la espana
English is better. Spain has no success world wide nor in their colonies 😂
@@jbcbba5948la corrupcion politica en hispanoamerica condeno la region, Hispanoamérica es muy rica.
@@jbcbba5948no eran colonias, eran virreinatos
@@jbcbba5948Las capitales de los virreinatos eran muy ricos y se asemejaban a otras ciudades de europa como la misma Madrid.
Tuvieron mala suerte con su independencia, todos los que se independizaron a hispanoamerica eran criollos blancos.
El unico indigena que lidero una independencia contra España fue en Filipinas, el mismo afirmo su arrepentimiento.
Thankfully, the terrifying Ottoman threat to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was thwarted repeatedly by the heroism and military skill of Catholic forces in the Mediterranean and at the northern edge of the Balkans. The rise of the Spanish to superpower level was absolutely vital to the defence of Christendom from Islam.
The Spanish lost most of their battles with the Ottomans and let them take lands. The Balkans are crap today because of it, so you can thank the Portuguese and the battle of Diu, one the most important battles in history. We actually defeated Barbarossa in Algiers.
While that European alliance was losing at Lepanto, the Portuguese were up against an Alliance of Venetians, Ottomans, and various Muslim Indian realms and still winning outnumbered because _that is the way_
@@lordcommandernox9197 Lepanto was a huge Spanish/Venetian victory over the Turks. Check it out.
In the end Europeans welcomed them into their countries in droves, and it looks like Islam will take over anyways. Without conquest
@@constantius4654 Huge Phyrric victory, the league won that one with more than 8k dead and half their fleet sunk, but ok.
The rest of Europe defeated the Ottomans 70 years after the Portuguese had already done the same on their own.
They wouldn't have been able to do it without the invention of deep water navigation. They killed the ottoman empire not by the sword, but thru circumventing their asian trade routes. The cost of silk and spiced dropped 90% after Portugal established direct trade with Asia
You miss one of the most important economic effects of the Spanish empire, the intercontinental commerce created between Mexico, China and Spain. All financed with the Spanish Real de a Ocho, the first intercontinental currency that was in use for almost 3 centuries. The economic effects of bringing silver into China were enormous. Other aspects, like the direct intervention of the English in the independence process of South America to open their markets to English products are also crucial because they opened the way for the expansion and dominance of the British empire after they lost North America.
On the social and economic side, is relevant to mention that life in these colonies during the Spanish period was far better than in Europe. There were no wars, public health systems, and more land and opportunities, the problem was the scarcity of population. The large population explosion in 19 century Europe is what triggered the enormous expansion of the USA at the expense of the thinly populated post independence Mexico.
It's an Anglo documentary. What did you expect? Not REAL history free of propaganda.
@@xhorxheetxeberria-td1hu you are right, but in general most videos in UA-cam are very light and quite biased. After the defeat of Napoleon the Brits took over the world and wrote a new vision of world history in which they are the good guys and Spain is the bad guy. The fact is that all the British empire is a commercial network built on top of the world that spain and Portugal discovered, mapped and brought together.
@@julio5pradola verdadera leyenda negra española creada por los de la isla M@ldita del mar del norte 😅, los imbañables de los come baguette, podemos agregar a un par más a esta lista, los obsesionados con las flores hindues y los zapatos de madera y los de la bota peninsular que creen haber inventado los fideos, ellos en realidad se dicen fueron los que empezaron la leyenda negra por celos. ESPAÑA fue una versión (su propio versión) del antiguo imperio romano, saludos a toda la Hispanada, ah! Se me olvidaba, te das cuenta que es pura propaganda Anglo, por qué ni se da cuenta que Guinea Ecuatorial en Medio de África fue también parte del Virreynato de la Plata. Saludos de un Nicaragüense 🇳🇮 👋🫡
And that’s where the $ simbol and the word peso came from, which is ironic because Spain doesn’t use it anymore but the US and Mexico still use it for
their modern currencies
@@justinherrera3722 the real and the peso were mostly generated and used from New Spain (Mexico) and Peru that were the richest and most commercially developed areas of the empire. After independence Spain was too poor as it was till ruined by the napoleonic wars and it moved to other monetary solutions. The paradox here is that the official narrative today is that the Americans were poor and oppressed by Spain when it was not at all like this. They were far richer societies and when the local elites saw the weakness in Spain they left. But they didn’t leave to create a big and powerful nation, no, the local elites left to create small areas of power for themselves and thus ruined their future.
Much respect to the Spanish empire, they lead the way for the rise of the western civilization.. they highly skilled in craftsmanship.. they make good clothing, sword, armory & ships
The Spanish destroyed civillisations they came into contact with in pursuit of conquest & plunder. Are you seriously proud of that??
The British Empire for all it's faults as viewed by modern standards was at least an empire based upon trade rather than mere plunder. The British never wanted to destroy the indiigenous people of India or any other territory they invaded.
@@fedevida1951 Never said the British Empire was faultless. However it was an awful lot better than the Spanish.This is all relatively speaking of course.
@@reddwarfer999 Beter exterminating natives i see.
@@reddwarfer999I doubt very much that the British empire was better than the Spanish one; knowing that great britain became great by always messing with spain and envying her in almost everything.
Thats because of all the knowledge they found all over Spain that the Muslim left behind
*FUN FACT:* Spain had 3 small colonies in Canada: Terra Nova ( New Foundland ) St. Pedro (St. Pierre Island) and Fuerte de San Miguel (Fort San Miguel) on Vancouver Island.
the name for Canada comes from the Spanish word *"Cañada"* which means "pathway"
Actually the most accepted theory is that it comes from the Iroquois word "kanata" which means town, village.
that is the "typical" Anglo make-believe bologna that the Portuguese also use on youtube and "some" history books.
the actual name for Canada comes from the Spanish word "Cañada" which means "pathway". And the Spanish were in Canada long before the English or the French. The last two wiped out *all* Spanish history in Canada and supplanted it with their own as they saw fit!
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@@TrentBrent Jacques Cartier, seeking the Northwest Passage to France, came into contact with the Iroquois in 1534, on his first voyage, and on his second voyage he navigated the St. Lawrence River and founded Quebec (1535), having contact with the Iroquois throughout that time travel, and names those lands as "Canada." They are the first documents in which the word appears, and the most accepted theory is that of the Iroquois word "kanata."
True! the country of Canada is the Spanish word for Cañada which means a pathway. Spanish explorers were the first to reach and settle Canada (wayyyyyyyy before the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇷) so you can make up your Anglo-lies based history, an English tradition of course, but it's *nothing factual* 👍
@@casadeespanaenmanitoba3191 Portugal is not Spain. The first global empire was Portuguese, not spanish.
Viva España 🇪🇸 💪 Orgulloso de tener como Lengua Materna el idioma mas hermoso del mundo el Español. Saludos a los Españoles desde Chile 🇨🇱
🇪🇦♥️🇨🇱
Pero ustedes no hablan español.
Mentiras. Solo una broma
si no eres mapuche no eres chilena, eres gringa.
@@lordcommandernox9197🤡
@@lordcommandernox9197 los mapuche también sacaron a otros. Ese debate estúpido lleva a una regresión infinita
Spain were the 1st. Global Superpower where the Sun Never Set; just an awesome country and an awesome people!
VIVA SPAIN and it's wonderful and friendly people; i am going there on a tapas tour to Madrid and cannot wait🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
It's insane how they lost all importance. Now an irrelevant nation globally
@@chrisj-zk1tgla union europea destruyo a España, ahora si somos relevantes es por el legado del idioma
@@chrisj-zk1tglike britain
ahora dilo en español
Portugal was the first global empire not Spain btw :)
Criminally underrated European empire. Viva España!
1) Roman Empire
2) British Empire
3) Spanish Empire
Surely top 3 in Europe
@@robzsarmy5471
3)russian empire
4)frensh empire
5)German empire
6)ottoman empire
7)spanish empire
Ok
@@zakariabozo1027 I did not put Ottoman since Turkey is not European
no reason to celebrate the death of millions -everytime white people concor an era , its always ends in genocide
@@zakariabozo1027 sorry but wikipedia said 1.British empire 2. Mongol Empire and 3. Spanish empire
Great summary of the Spanish Empire, I really enjoyed watching it. Three comments: 1) The map of the Aragon Empire missed the area in south Italy. 2) The map of Mexico in 1823 is wrong, the borders back then were very different than today. 3) Spanish Louisiana territory would be worth being mentioned.
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@@NazriB 🇹🇳
Yes I don't hear much about the Spanish creoles of Louisiana.
@@louisinese
Then look at the treaty of Paris of 1763 in which France ceded Louisiana to Spain and you will understand.
What most people don't know is that Spain does not have colonies. All the territories they conquered are Viceroyalties and are considered Kingdoms within the Empire. All the people of the Empire are subjects to the Spanish monarchs just like the Spaniards in the mainland.
Basically colonies all the resources gets sent to Spain
No, that is not a fact. 80 % of the wealth produced remained in the overseas regions ( viceroyalties). Only a 20 % of the whole production of any resourses was exported to mainlad ( Iberian peninsula). Thats why jn America most of todays hispanic heritage countries have the first universities and oldest of the continent, hospitals, schools, cathedrals, plazas and many other buildings such as forts, light houses, etc...
Very different in comparison to England, and Portugal. @eashanahluwalia9599
Too bad it was only extended to Europeans their… natives were treated horrible
Same for France. All French territories are just all France.
@@robertb1840A miner in Bolivia earned more than your typical factory worker during the industrial revolution in the UK.
You forgot the European territories of the Spanish Empire: southern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, the marquisate of Finale in northwestern Italy, Milan, the State of the Presidi in Tuscany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, the French regions of Artois and Franch-Comte. And African territories like Oran in Algeria. Or the Marianas and Caroline Islands in Oceania
They had it for a while until losing it again only about 10 years or less
@@danteledesma42 Belgium and Luxembourg were under Spanish rule from 1556 to 1714, the State of the Presidi from 1557 to 1707, Naples and Sicily from 1504 to 1713, Finale from 1602 to 1713, Oran from 1509 to 1708 and 1732 to 1792, the Marianas from 1668 to 1898, Milan 1556-1707. That means those territories were under Spanish rule for over 100 years, some over 150 and 200 years. So, can you tell me which one were ruled for ten or less years, according to you?
Also Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea.
The Portuguese established the first global maritime and commercial empire under the leadership of Henry the Navigator in the 15th century. In the 1440s, Henry sent out key expeditions to Africa and Asia, and in the 16th and 17th centuries, Portugal went on to establish colonies in Brazil, Africa, East Timor, India and Macau. The Spanish quickly followed suit by conquering Mexico in 1519 and, shortly thereafter, Peru, the Philippines and most of Central and South America (except Brazil).
the Portuguese innovated almost every major technological advancement in maritime exploration and naval warfare almost 100 years before Columbus set sail. the astrolabe, cartography. the ship design of the Carracks and Caravels.? cracking the codes of the Atlantic winds ? the Portuguese did most of the hard work long before Spain got in the game.
@@bconni2look at us now 🤣
You do not conquer a global empire by just marching with your army inside of the capital.
They had trading posts, but Spain had territories, this is why every historian recognizes Spain has the first global power, cheers :)
@@bconni2columbus was portuguese. The first land he saw in america call it Cuba.... in Spain what is Cuba???
In portugal is a town with centuries, where columbus was born. He named that land in honour of the place he born
Despite criticism, Spain did civilized the world.
No!!
This is a polemic topic, mainly because there were city dwelling cultures in América before they were asimilated into the spanish empire. What I believe is true beyond a shadow of a doubt is that it integrated the american peoples into western civilization.
The hispanic american independence declaracions happened in step with european enlightenment ideals.
The US independence happened too around that time, but natives were never a part of the equation.
@@alvarorodriguez1592
RUSO ESPAÑOL LENGUAS POLARES USHUAIA ANTÁRTIDA ARGENTINA AURORA AUSTRAL
Como mexicano me siento orgulloso de mi sangre y herencia española , uds los americanos deben sentirse orgullosos de ser la actual superpotencia y no dejar que los chinos les tiren la corona
The Americans are the least responsible super power of all times. I wish there was a ruler like Carlos I de España y V del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico
Nosotros siempre hemos sido aliados de china y adversarios del anglosajon. Nuestro deber es oponernos al protestante
@@hugolxxx nuestro deber no es enemistarnos con nadie, sino crear amistades y alianzas entre nosotros
@@JP-en7cc mientras USA sea la superpotencia hegemónica jamás podremos unitnos
españa hoy es lo mas atrasado de europa.
If we think about it, Spain was actually just the new Romans that time. They have basically make the Roman catholic as the mostly practice religion in the world.
That is exactly what James Michener said
Michener was a historical writer who wrote many volumes of books.
You made a good observation
@@henryperez606 And the greatest builders
No islam was the most practiced religion in the world.
@@HardCore_Islamist You're wrong. Christianity is based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ and is approximately 2,000 years old. Its largest groups are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox churches, and the Protestant churches, and its sacred text is the Bible. Over the centuries, Christianity grew in numbers as it spread around the world, often through missionaries and colonizers making it the most widely practiced religion/belief on the planet.
Indeed, even their method of colonization was similar to the Romans. They introduced their faith and culture and began the process of assimilation. They even integrated Moctezuma's lineage within Spanish nobility and it still exists til this day.
We Latino Americans are proud of our Spanish roots 💪🏼🇪🇸🇲🇽we descend from the FIRST European conquerors of America. Before a “Pilgrim” existed!!
The descendants of the pilgrim aren’t allowed to be proud conquerors
@@professorwoland3181They made the land something to live about, bring faith and unity to an entire continent, and made an union through family and blood ties.
A shame brits couldn't say the same, because the ones being mixed with hindi were totally despised, for example.
some Latinos are proud of their Spanish roots. but sadly, a lot of Latinos are ashamed of their Iberian heritage
@@bconni2 And don't you tell me, you're one of them 🥱
@@valenkierkegaarde3824 nope, not one of them. i'm proud of every last drop of Iberian blood in my veins
The Spanish Empire owned all the west coast and some parts of Alaska, as well as some parts of the Guinean gulf.
In fact, using the Treaty of Tordesillas, Charles III of Spain got into diplomatic conflict with Russia precisely for Alaska
@@cekan14 the Treaty of Tordesillas only happened becuase the Spanish monarchy was complaining to the Spanish pope that it wasn't fair how the Portuguese laid claim to most of the unexplored world. feeling that " it wasn't fair" is how Spain got most of the western hemisphere. LOL
@@bconni2 When a treaty is being made, negotiations are made. The United States and little Albania can seek arbitration to negotiate a treaty. I remember that at that time, 1494, Spain had half of Italy, bases in North Africa, and the first cities in America. Portugal was only exploring the West coast of Africa.
@@bconni2 In fact, it was an update of the Treaty of Alcáçovas of 1479, in which the zones of influence in the Atlantic were already divided, and when it was signed it was both to avoid Spanish interference in the Portuguese route around Africa and to do the same in the new one route to the Indian (later it turned out that they were not the Indian but America) that Columbus had discovered for the Catholic Monarchs.
@@bconni2 Francis I of France insisted that the Pope see Adam's will in the face of successive papal bulls that recognized Spanish preeminence in the conquest of America. «The sun shines for me as for others. I would like to see the clause in Adam's will that excludes me from the division of the world and leaves everything to the Castilians and Portuguese.
Not even the Spanish and Portuguese agreed with the distribution made by the Pope, which is why they ended up signing their own Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
The $panish dollar, which gives the simbol $ dollar today, financed the independence of the 13 Colonies until 1857 .... When also the Louisiana was part of the Spanish Empire all along 40 years. Did you forget also?
Spain held many more territores than portrayed at the video. Guam, marianas islands and many more pacific islands were spanish. Even taiwan wich was called Formosa (beautiful).
At europe, spain also controlled 2/3 of italy. And the lowlands inherited by the habsburgs.
They explored and constructed forts all the way up to Alaska.
About the polemic initial conquest, it wasnt so brutal like its commonly portrayed, they did it roman style, conquest through diplo first, war second. They introduced the western tech and integrate the huge diversity of native populations into the realm as equal citizens, same as european peasants, educated them into catholicisim and modern science and culture. Many natives became popular writers and doctors.
Exactly
Seguro eres español para decir que los españoles trataban como iguales a los Incas o nativos americanos, eran despreciados, hasta los mestizos lo eran sólo los nacidos en España eran privilegiados, los españoles esclavisaron a los nativos en vez de matarlos pero aún así casi extinguen a los Incas, se dice q cuando España comenzó la colonización había 20 millones de Incas q fueron reducidos a 3 millones a causa de la esclavitud y las enfermedades. Y además se llevaron todo el oro que encontraron en América, lo bueno de los españoles eran los religiosos como los jesuitas q hicieron buen trabajo, pero fueron un imperio esclavisador de nativos americanos, la única diferencia con los ingleses es q no los mataron.
100% @GXSergio 🏁👌
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A Spanish Conquistador Puts Accusers of GENOCIDE In Their Place (Con subtítulos)
The Formosa island was named by Portuguese sailors! Not Spanish.
("Formosa" has the same meaning in Portuguese and Spanish)
One not very well known fact is that Spanish América, specially New Spain paid for most of the military campaigns against Napoleon in Europe. Since the Peninsula was taken by the french as most of Europe at that time. The "Juntas" took political control and financially helped Europe get rid of Napoleon. That is why in the Proclanation medals of the Juntas in New Spain read "Restaurador de la Europa" translates to "Restorer of Europe".
The Spanish financed the Brits and Portuguese? I'm pressing F to doubt.
Unless you're saying it wasn't Wellington and the Portuguese that liberated Spain from the mess they got themselves into when they invited their ally, Napoleon, to mediate the crowning of their new King, only for him to swipe the crown and give it to his brother Joseph? Are you?
Not only does Spain accept the Napoleonic embargoes that would dictate France's trade hegemony on land, they thought they would just let their armies march towards Portugal too and invade, and that nothing would happen to them. Served them right.
Spain was allied with France and so weak their King just handed away the Kingdom without a fight.
Were the juntas having any meaningful military successes against the French before the Luso-English Army liberated Spain?
Only the Spanish population is worth praising for their efforts and sacrifice, not the military juntas that did nothing until the Portuguese and English came to the rescue, and certainly never ever Spanish military leaders.
*"Restorer of Europe arch"*
*Pick the winning side
*Winning side eats you up
*You cause your civilians to suffer
*Your military is used to invade neighbors
*Winning side starts losing
*Switch sides!
*Call yourselves winners
*Now you won the war by yourself
*Congrats, no one likes stolen valor
Very interesting!
Yes, Spain literally saved Europe twice, first from the Muslims and then the French but they seem to get no credit for it
@@justinherrera3722 Spain gave to Europe a new continent that was the critical competitive advantage for European civilization to grow faster than the other world civilizations, develop its institutions, its philosophy, its art, its freedom and its progress. The West has a huge debt with the Spanish world (Spain and Spanish Americas) that is forgotten today but is real.
@@justinherrera3722 the French when? After the Portuguese and British liberated Spain who had a deal with France and was conquered because they wanted to allow the French army to just march through Spain towards Portugal?
You were allied with France you cowardly turncoats, you always side with whoever is winning or seems the strongest.
But history does not lie. You get no credit, because you deserve no credit you grifters.
Como mestizo estoy orgulloso de la gran herencia que nos dejaron. ¡Viva España!
🇪🇸 ❤🇪🇨
Ante todo somos hispanos y hermanos
Gracias, hermano, nosotros siempre los sentimos así, y yo personalmente tengo antepasados y familia actual de México, Chile y Puerto Rico, y aquí tenemos una gran comunidad latina. Un abrazo ❤Viva el mundo latino!
Some minor quibbles but important to mention. Spain actually explored as far north as Alaska and established outposts there (there's still Spanish named geographic features there to this day). California was not the northernmost area of New Spain, however it was when Mexico became independent. Also other areas as far north as modern day Montana were also claimed historically by Spain.
Secondly, also a quibble. The viceroyalty of Peru produced most of the silver for the Spanish Empire throughout the 1500s. However by the mid 1600s, the viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico) was the largest producer of silver for the Spanish Empire eclipsing Bolivian/Peru production for nearly the last 200 years of colonization.
In fact it was during the Mexican period of silver production that the Spanish currency the piece of eight became the first truly global reserve currency used in trade in Europe, east Asia, Africa, the British colonies, etc.
*FUN FACT:* Spain had 3 small colonies in Canada: Terra Nova ( New Foundland ) St. Pedro (St. Pierre Island) and Fuerte de San Miguel (Fort San Miguel) on Vancouver Island.
the name for Canada comes from the Spanish word *"Cañada"* which means "pathway"
Spain had more islands in Canada, Vancouver. I know because of my ancestry from Spain, also had Maine, now being affected by a hurricane. Spanish ships sunk off of the coast of Maine, provoked The Spanish American War with The United States fighting for The British. That's why The American Revolution? Who really won, because Spain helped the colonies fight against The British, along with The French.
Spain did help (Admiral Galvez) the American Colonies become Independent from Britain. U.S. ship called the Maine was blown up by the Americanos as a False Flag Operation in Spanish Havana so the U.S. could steal Spanish Guam, Puerto Rico and Cuba.... *IF* the traitorous U.S. treats it's allies like this (Spain) *HOW* do they treat their enemies? Oh wait, they drop 2 nuclear bombs on Japan during WWII...🇺🇸 *=* 💩 *ALWAYS!!* @@anaibarangan4908
@@TrentBrent “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.”- Henry Kissinger
USA focuses on its Anglo history but denies its massive Spanish/Mexican influence: Florida, California, Los Ángeles, Las Vegas, Texas, San Diego, etc
Sorry, not where I studied.
I live in New Mexico and can tell you your wrong!
@@kevinweinz2790 Same, FL is an ancient state, it's so cool!
No influence there.
@@miaya3898 "No influence there", "there" being places with Spanish names.
One thing you got wrong is that Spain did not exploit the Americas resources. During the first decades of the empire, 80% of the gold and silver that was mined, was reinvested in the Americas. That's how Spain was able to build all the cathedrals, schools, churches, roads, aqueducts, hospitals and universities. Then, because the development was still too slow in the Americas, it was decided that 90% of the resources should be reinvested there. That's the reason that Spain had to declare bankruptcy, even though there was so much gold in the Americas. Also, slavery was made illegal in the empire, which didn't prevent some people doing it nonetheless. You should have also mentioned that during the conquest around 80% of the soldiers that helped Spain conquer all these lands were indigenous people and that during the independence, Spanish and indigenous people fought on both sides, which is why the wars of independence were much more of a big civil war, where the Criollos just wanted more money and power and after the independence "sold" the Americas to the British.
The definition of exploit definitely fits what he was describing. The definition of Exploit in this context means to: make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource), use (a situation or person) in an unfair or selfish way, and benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them. Those definitions are all accurate to how Spain acted with it's conquered territories in the Americas. Spain got their resources from the Americas, benefitted from the labor of the Indigenous peoples, and enslaved the Indigenous people and overworked them until their numbers fell even more to which they needed to import new slave labor from West Africa. What you described is akin to someone saying the British didn't exploit Africa, and India because the British built railroads, schools and hospitals.
@@youngarchivest9092 Spain made a Romanization in America, reinvesting 70% of the wealth there (16th-17th centuries. 80% in the 18th century). We made 40 universities in the world (28 in America, 9 in Italy, 3 in the Philippines and 1 in France). In addition to 2,300 stone cities, 900 large hospitals, 400 cathedrals, 300 fortresses, thousands of children's schools, a mixture of races, a religion of peace, bringing the Renaissance, the baroque, the illustration, the opera, the literature of the century of gold, to the jungle. That is why Hispanic America has 90% of Spanish native speakers. 99% speak perfect Spanish. 85% Catholic. Even the Philippines: 85% Catholic. 2-3 million Spanish and Creole Spanish speakers.
I remember that the British had a monopoly on slavery in Africa until 1800, and a trading company in India until 1857, the year of the first non-white university. Almost all the wealth went to London until XX century. That's why 90% of the Commonwealth is the poorest place on earth: India, Pakistan, Botswana, Zimbabwe... The Commonwealth has less than 10% native English speakers. Less than 10% Christians. There are more native Spanish speakers than all native English speakers in the Commonwealth, plus all native English speakers in the USA (60% of native English speakers). 800 million Catholics thanks to Spain (200 million in Europe, 500 million in America, 100 million in Asia and Oceania, 3 million in Africa) thanks to our investments in people of other races. Anglicans: 120 million. The British in India removed food crops from some regions of India, causing 20-30 million starvation deaths in the 18th-19th centuries. Black slavery for 250 years. English industrial revolution, with children aged 5-12 working in coal mines, endless days, sometimes for a plate of food. Children and women in the Spanish Empire could not work in the mines or in hard labor since the 16th century. 48% of Hispanic America has a mixture of Spanish and American blood, because Queen Isabel I of Castile said in 1500: "I want the Spanish, men and women, to marry and form families with the inhabitants of the new lands (America) ". The British had social Darwinism in the 19th century: "The darker races are inferior, as shown by their being poor." Racial segregation in Alabama until 1960, apartheid in South Africa until 1990, now Brexit... We all have good and bad things, but some are more selfish than others.
@@Gloriaimperial1hola amigo estás en lo correcto dices la verdad . yo como argentino te doy la razón . yo no reniego mis raíces hispanas el idioma castellano es un orgullo sino fuera por España mí país argentina 🇦🇷💪 jamás hubiese existido saludos desde argentina 🇦🇷🙋🇪🇦
@@Gloriaimperial1 What a load of bullshit lmao. First off you got a source on the supposed 70% of wealth "reinvested"? You mention all these universities, cities, hospitals, cathedrals, fortresses and schools but don't cite a single source. How telling... All those things listed were not to the benefit of the common person living there but to the Spanish elite who ruled over the land and cared nothing for the Indigenous except to exploit the people and the land. Don't know why you added the "mix of races" as if that was a good thing to the non-Europeans. The Spanish raped, murdered, spread disease, and enslaved the Native populations across the continent so much so that 90% of the population was wiped out! Then once due to the brutality and utter lack of humanity on the Spaniards part, they then brought over tens of millions of enslaved Africans to work on plantations. The so called mixing of races was largely due to rape, not something to brag about and even then racism and colorism exists in the Americas because of the Spanish. Racism and colorism still exists in the Americas and in Spain itself, foh. You mention religion of peace, but that could not be further from the truth! Christianity, more specifically Catholics did not bring peace, but war and chaos. These so called practicers of "religion of peace" brought war, disease and slavery to the Americas and across the world! Hell, these Chirsitians even tried to argue that the Indigenous did not have souls in an attempt to justify the slavery the Spaniards practiced! Religion of peace my ass! The Catholic Church became a massive land-owning class interfering with the politics of the future successor nations, and supported right wing death squads in a attempt to hold onto their power. The Catholic Church served no other purpose than to destroy the identities of the Indigenous populations and control the people through the forcefully imposed fairy tale. You act like people still don't work in mines after the 16th century and they still do to this very day! Fuck out of here with that bullshit. Hmm well it seems like the Spanish did not give a damn about what Queen Isabella had said becaue they did pretty much the opposite of what she had said. The Indigenous were treated as equal vassals but as slaves and then later second-class citizens. The authority of Spain held little weight in many of the laws the monarchs put out. Murder, Rape and slavery pretty much went unpunished. And finally you are talking about Britain a century after the Spanish Empire had collapsed, so what is the comparison? Spain had no control in the Americas since the 1820s yet you are bringing up stuff the British, South Africans and the US were doing?! What a bullshit argument that doesn't even make any sense! Lay off the propaganda and realize what Spain and all the former colonial empires for what they really are, that being largely dogshit.
@Gloriaimperial1 if this was the case, then why was Latin America so much less developed? Obviously some were better than others, but the way you put it, they should have been smooth sailing when they became independent. Why was there so much gold and other treasures on all those ships heading back to Spain? Anyone can play the race card. What happened to the Jews and Muslims in Spain again? It's easy to do that with any people.
Very well-done and informative. This video forgot to include any mention of Spanish Sahara, Ifni, and Spanish Guinea. The histories of these last remaining colonies were significant in the 20th century.
And Paraguay is not
I guess that they weren't included because they became Spanish territories much later, when the Empire was crumbling.
despite tapping into the Atlantic slave trade, Spain's influence in Africa is not that significant. i'd make the argument that Spain's experience with African culture is more paramount in the New World.
hey, we 🇵🇹 committed genocides in Africa and more! 😀@@bconni2
@@bconni2 Only countries I can think of are Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea.
Spain"the empire on which the sun never sets"
the dollar, the yuan and many other currencies are the heirs of the real of ocho, the first global currency
an empire that lasted four centuries
Dolar was a Spanish currency and its two lines of represents the Totres of Hercules of our shield.
HAY QUE POBLAR LA PATAGONIA
BIENVENIDOS
The empire on which the sun never sets. Long live Spain!
-No, that quote was from the British Empire.
@rickberglund2134 No, it was actually used for the Spanish Empire first. Once the Spanish empire collapsed it was then Used for the British Empire. Don't believe me? Look it up.
@@meltedicecreamsandwich -Britain actually did have multiple colonies in virtually every time zone in the world not completely covered by water. Consider all the islands as well throughout the oceans.
@@rickberglund2134 Yes, I know. I'm just saying that the phrase "the empire on which the sun never sets" was used for the Spanish empire BEFORE the British.
@@rickberglund2134 no, it was a quote of King Philip ll of Spain about his empire in the 1500s. Since then until today in the Spanish speaking world it still refers to the Spanish Empire. The Brits took it centuries later, in the late 1800s or early 1900s
No mencionas los territorios europeos de España? Países Bajos, Bélgica, Luxemburgo, Nápoles (sur de Italia) Sicilia, Cerdeña y ducados de Milán y Borgoña en Francia. Además el Virreinato de Nueva España era considerablemente más grande, ya sin contar la luisiana francesa y el territorio de Nootka que llegaba a Canadá y por supuesto las islas Filipinas junto con las islas marianas y las carolinas. La mitad de Taiwán fue parte de España también (estoy seguro de que ni un solo británico sabía eso) . Son bastantes territorios conquistados y muy importantes en la historia de España y de Europa en general (la revolución neerlandesa). España no fue la primera potencia mundial solo por sus territorios en América, hasta 1714 era la primera potencia solo con sus territorios en Europa. Pero bueno tampoco pido nada, es un video hecho por un inglés. El español sigue siendo el idioma europeo con más hablantes nativos mientras que el inglés es el idioma europeo más hablado como lengua secundaria (fue Estados Unidos el país que popularizó en inglés! no Inglaterra). Lo único que hace falta es que paises con un enorme potencial y de los cuales estoy seguro que se van a convertir en potencias como México, Argentina o Venezuela si matan de una vez al tonto que tienen de gobernante. También sería interesante una unión centroamericana. Sé que los que son de allí me dirán que no puedo opinar ya que no soy de centroamérica pero vamos a ser realistas, los paises de centroamérica son 99.9% iguales en cultura y tradiciones. Que sean paises separados porque a una élite que gobierna le interesa me suda los cojones, lo mejor es unirse. El mundo hispano va a crecer en influencia económica y cuando eso pase quiero que nadie tenga que hablar inglés.
Imperio Español.
No sé por qué los Habsburgos y Borbones nunca se declararon Emperadores de América.
Me da a mí que tenían a sus territorios americanos descuidados.
@@Winter-Alpha-Omega la triste realidad es que para cuando terminó el imperio todavía no se habían dado cuenta del tamaño real de América.
@@jmmh1313 Nos veían como como colonias y ya.
Nunca nos supieron apreciar.
@@Winter-Alpha-Omega las leyes no dicen eso.
@@jmmh1313 ¿Qué leyes?
The First Empire the Spanish Empire that can rightfully declare the sun never sets in our Empire! The first world superpower in the 15th century Queen Isabela of Castille married the King of Aragon k!
Nop, Portugal was the first global empire
Lol multiple times lost against the ottoman
@@widodoakrom3938 multiple times kicked ottoman ass. Portugal won more battles against the ottomans than it lost=|
@@Tusiriakest lol named some battle that ottoman lost the ottoman arguably more powerful than the Spanish at 16-17 century
@@widodoakrom3938 oh, against the Spanish? Oh no, sorry, I thought you were answering to my comment about Portugal. I never knew that the Spaniards fought the otomans. I always thought the Spaniards only had courage to fight against foes that didn't have firearms.
The Portuguese on the other hand won a number of battles against the ottomans (battle of Diu 1509, siege of diu 1538, battle of Cochim 1504, the Ethiopian Campaign 1541-1543, and of course the first Portuguese-ottoman conflict of 1538-1557, where the Portuguese won in the indian ocean and the Ottomans in the red sea; the second Portuguese-Ottoman conflicts 1558-1566, which was a Portuguese victory; and then the third Portuguese-ottoman conflict, from 1580 to 1589 which was again a Portuguese victory.
Very true talk, my father traded with the Spanish in those old days in the present day country of Equatorial Guinea. And I have also the chance to connect miraculousy and embrace a similar trading connection in Spain. Spanish people truly are very very civilized with good understanding of what life is all about. I enjoy very well every moment with them during our business relationship. They are very loving and kind people, very well civilized.Long life the nation and people of Spain.
Viva España! 🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
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@@HardCore_Islamistexactly
Adding to this great video, I would also like to mention the Spanish Netherlands and the Spanish territories in the Italian Peninsula, such as Lombardy, Sicily, Sardinia, and the Kingdom of Naples. In fact, to the surprise and disappointment of many Brits, the phrase "The empire on which the sun never sets", was first used to describe the empires of Charles V (Charles I of Spain), and his son, Phillip II. Years later, John Smith and Francis Bacon would use it to refer to the British Empire.
That is due to marriages...not conquering, for limited time
@@useringeneralI literally don’t see Britian having their empire anymore, Britain stole the title. Not that hard to understand
@@useringeneral LMAO
An empire is not forged by conquests alone.
@@vandermorganIn fact, Spain and the Netherlands shared a king, Charles I of Spain, half Spanish and half Flemish, was born in Ghent and educated in Mechelen.
And the 80 years' war (1568-1648), or the independence of the Netherlands, was won by the Netherlands.
@@useringeneral Charles I of Spain.
Spain is beautiful never understood why grandpa wanted us to travel to France, Spain, Germany 🤝👋👏
You know the Spanish Empire is better than the british one when the Black Legend by the british still hits nowadays.
PLVS VLTRA
Well said
My Hero Academia makes the Spanish proud. Which is actually quite ironic as anime is popular in Latin America.
The British empire was the biggest, most spoken about and English is the most spoken language, the Spanish empire was good but doesn’t come close to the British
@@pauliewalnuts5803 Britain only rose to the highest when Spain fell, and Spain only fell because Napoleon invaded them.
@@HolyknightVader999 okay but that doesn’t change my point
As a filipino im proudly have españa friends and i can speak a little bit of Spanish language Viva españa🎉❤
Very nice video!!!! Just a quick observation: Santo Domingo was not the first city founded by the Spaniards, it was actually La Isabela on 1493, on the Northern Coast of Dominican Republic. After that, they founded Concepción de La Vega in 1494, Santiago De los Caballeros in 1495 and finally Santo Domingo 1496, that is how they managed to take control of the Caribbean and start the colonization of Central America and Mexico.
Also, at the end of the video you showed Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico still under colonial rule, but Dominican Republic declared its independence from Spain in 1821, then from Haiti in 1844 and then Spain again on 1865, which was 30 years before the Cuban Independence movement and longer than the Spanish-American War.
Looking forward to see more content from you!!
We , native Spanish speakers , say " speak Christian ! " meaning " speak Spanish ! "
Such a great documentary.. Learned so much & was easy to follow. Loved learning all that! 😊
It's sad that there were a lot of missing parts in the Colonization of the Philippines, like the Battle of Mactan and the Battle of Bangkusay. It is not only the Muslims in the South who defended their island bravely, the Kapampangans and Visayans also defended theirs with bravery. These two ethnic groups, the Kapampangans and Visayans also later conscripted by the Spaniards, pacifying the natives in the island, and helped the Spanish conquest in Formosa (Taiwan) and other pacific islands. Also, helped missionaries with their missions spreading Christianity in Japan.
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The world's first superpower was Portugal and not Spain.
The Portuguese Empire was the First Global Empire in History, and not the Spanish.
Portugal had no dominions in America before Spain. So no fucking global empire😂😂 And not even a superpower, only a strong power annexed by Spaniards.
Nice try 😂
@@roderik3059 '... Portugal had no dominions in America before Spain'. Brasil? '... annexed by spaniards'. 'anexed' ???. What about 'Far East', Japan, China, Malaca ...? Where was Spain then? Please, take some reading about 'Afonso de Albuquerque' and the 'Battle of Diu' (India) in 1509. '... no fucking global empire'. Was the 'fucking' word' really necessary?
@@roderik3059 brother just search who was the first global empire. Portugal will appear, not spain, theres a guiness record for it and everything. Not to mention portugal obviously was a superpower, more powerful than spain during the first half of 16th century and end of 15th
@@silvva5218 😂😂😂😂 For sure bro. You were so powerful mostly America was under your control while Spain only had a small peace of coasts during 15th and 16th. Keep dreaming...
Amazing video!
Your channel is very underrated
Portugal was the worlds first super-power!
Not Spain
I would argue it was the first Great Power due to its ability to influence every region of the world via the first true blue water fleet but it could not subjugate like a true superpower. Spain on the other hand could due to having the blue water fleet on top of its larger population and resources on top of also holding huge influence over Continental Europe via the Spanish Road, its infamous tercios, and Charles V. Even something like the Spanish Armada, which failed, would have been true suicide for someone like the Portuguese to attempt.
El Imperio Español duró 350 años y luchando con todos los países más importantes de su época. La era de los E-E-U-U solo lleva 80 años un y no es comparable. El real de a ocho español fue la moneda más fuerte durante 300 años, reconocida en China, Japon, la ruta de la seda, Filipinas, por supuesto toda Hispanoamérica mientras que el dólar americano está empezando a decaer su influencia.
EEUU solo fue relevante desde 1990 a 2008, antes ni de chiste era la gran "superpotencia hegemonía" .
Muy buen reportaje sobre el Imperio Español. Sin cosas maliciosas y falsas. Gracias. 😊 🇪🇸
Thanks for posting
Top Tier History Content
well done
As a Colonbian i´m really proud to speak spanish and being Catholic Christian ✝ thanks to spain this lands could hear the message of our lord Jesuschrist , even today the bible has been translated to almost every single existing indegenous tongue ❤ and all our biggest cities has Spanish arquitecture in it
dilo en español si estás tan orgulloso
Good video. Between 1580 and 1640 was the Iberian Union and Portugal empire was added to Spanish Empire. I Nord América all lands of western of Mississippi River was controlled by Spain, French Louisiana become to Spanish Louisiana cause the 7 years wars even New Orleans, Bernardo De Gálvez was governor of Spanish province of Louisiana and he was very important in the USA independence war and Bernardo recovered Florida to Spanish. In Alaska there was little Spanish cities named Cordova and Valdes in the maximum expansion of empire. On the Pacific ocean Spain owned a lot of island, like the Nord of Taiwan (Formosa), Solomon Islands, Marianas Island, Nord of Australia (explored) and discovered Hawai Island even Antartican continent where the Spanish tripulation died by cold and hungry.
That's wrong my good friend.
First of all, to be very accurate, the "spanish" empire only existed from 1707 onward, as "Spain" as a unified state only came into being de jure after the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707. If you see the Mayan word for "Spaniard" is "Kastláan", why? because they presented themselfs as "Castellians" not Spaniards. What existed was a Hapsburg House, which had domains all over Europe, including Castile & Leon and Aragon. So what actually existed prior to 1707 was a "Castillian & Aragonese" Empire... not a Spanish one.
Now, unlike Spain, which wasn't (and still isn't) a nation state, Portugal was never defined by the ruler, but by its people, since 1143. You can clearly see that on the "Cortes of Tomar" agreement, which states that the Kingdom of Portugal, and its Empire, would remain independent, with a several guarantees, although the new king would be King Filipe I, which was also Felipe II of Spain - (or to be precise, of Castile and Leon, Aragorn, Navarre, so on so on). The empires were never mixed, the lands of the Portuguese Empire remained of the Portuguese Empire. De iuri, Portugal's sovereignty was never questioned until Filipe III of Portugal (which was the same person as Felipe IV of Spain) tried to demote Portugal's status as an independent kingdom under Spain, and was deposed because of it.
So as you see, Portugal was never added to the Spanish Empire. That is why, historically, everyone (maybe except for Spaniards) calls that period "Iberion Union", and not "Spain", and even in maps the two empires are usually depicted with different colors. Like today's Canada and UK, they have the same king, yet are two separate kingdoms.
@@Tusiriakest Portugal a country with 90,000 square kilometers built the first global impire, with about 11 million square kilometers.
@@Tusiriakest That is not true. The French of the 16th century said: "Spain is a very ambitious empire, which invades all lands and all seas." Luther said in the 16th century: "Spain is our enemy. They have divided the German nation into two religions." The Italian humanists of the XV-XVII centuries said: "Spain is the invading power of our Italy". The English used to say "Spanish Armada", and they wrote works of the Elizabethan theater, such as "Spanish Tragedy". The Dutch never said: "We are invaded by the Castilians." They said: "We are invaded by Spain."
The viceroyalty of New Spain was created in 1535. It is not new Castile, it is New Spain. The first kings of Spain, who call themselves kings of Spain, are the Visigoths of the 6th century. El Cid speaks of Spain, in the 10th century. The Marca España, said by the French, is the border between Iberian Islam and the empire of Charlemagne. Cervantes and the entire Spanish Golden Age are aware of the existence of Spain. Another thing is that Felipe II, and other Spanish kings, were aware of the regional autonomy, with parliaments, of some kingdoms. A bit like today's Spain, or like today's federal Germany. Germany was officially born in 1870, but the Holy German Empire dates from the 9th-19th century. Renaissance Italians were very conscious of living in Italy, even though it was provisionally divided into separate kingdoms. Spain had only one king since 1478. For example, Isabel de Castilla says in 1500: "I want the Spanish, men and women, to marry men and women from the new lands" (America). Sometimes Castile is used, as the English still say England, but the British concept is 2000 years old.
The Habsburg surname comes from Felipe I the "beautiful" a Flemish fond of women, and a fool. The Spanish kings were much more important than the Habsburgs. The capital of the empire was always in Madrid, when the Habsburg surname enters here. For example, André Agassi (tennis player) has 8 grand slams. His wife, Steffi Graft (tennis player) has 22 grand slams. What are the children of that marriage called? Agassi. The machismo of the time gave priority to the male surname. That's all.
Even Portugal, although an independent state, was long before of Hispania. The Portuguese are ancestrally Hispanic-Spain. Not Spain as a country. But yes in the Iberian-Hispanic Roman, Hispanic Visigoth and Hispanic Arab cultural sphere.
Portugal was as independent between 1580-1640 as Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of France and Germany, which also had their local mayors. The King of Spain (Felipe II, Felipe III and Felipe IV) said: "Yes, the Tomar agreement, but it is forbidden to have independent politics and diplomacy. It is forbidden to have another religion that is not Catholic. It is forbidden to have alliances with France, England or Turkey. I choose the viceroy of Portugal or Italy in Madrid. And if you rebel (something that the Portuguese could only do in 1640, when Spain had a very hard war against France, England, Protestant Germany, the Netherlands and the Turkish Empire) I will put 50,000 soldiers in you and I cut the throats of all the Portuguese, Italian or French rebel leaders. And I also love plays written in Spanish by Portuguese and Italian poets and playwrights." The Portuguese were good stewards of their empire, and the Italian mayors were good Italian mayors, but there was only one king.
Portugal preferred to sell cinnamon. Spain had great power priorities, building in Italy 9 universities, 50 fortresses, palaces. And sending troops to central and northern Europe in a 200-year war. If Spain had fallen at that time, the Protestants would have descended on Madrid, Lisbon and Rome, they would have destroyed Catholicism and now we would all be Protestants. Surely Brazil would be half English Anglican and half French Huguenot. But the Spanish empire invaded Rome, Lisbon, Paris, Cologne, Milan, Genoa, Florence, Strasbourg, Aachen, Manheim, Amsterdam, Brussels... That is why the Catholic religion and the heritage of Spain and Portugal exist in the world. Then Spain became a threat to Portugal, and the British and French said: "Do I eat Portugal? I want to eat Portugal and all of her empire. But I better let it live, to prevent Spain from eating Portugal." ". He thinks that the British destroyed the Dutch and French empire without any compassion, and that in 1890 they created the Mozambique and Angola crises, to annex the intermediate territory, which perhaps belonged to Portugal, without any generosity with the former ally.
ALL THAT ANGLOS DO IS EMBARRAS THEMSELVES WITH THEIR AIRES DE SUPERIORIDAD!! LOL!!
@@Tusiriakestyou do not even know what the word spain means do you?
I have Spanish blood and I am so proud. That my ancestors came a America, and founded the New Spain, what is México today. 🇲🇽❤️🇪🇦
The first super power of the world! And the first empire with territories on the five continents! Amazing Spain!! With terriories in all continents and fighting versus al powers of the word during more than 400 years!!
Most underrated european empire. Viva España 🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
Portuguese*
@@Diogo_-tx1zi Portuguese these days and Portuguese culture is known more nowadays then the Spanish sadly.
Not mentioning that Spain ruled Portuguese empire from 1580 to 1598, making its extension even bigger.
*1580-1640
No they didnt...
They had the same king but was the portuguese court who made the decisions.
The spanish were forbidden to enter in portuguese colonies
@@pauloh5167 he did enter anyway,
@@pauloh5167 Oh please, the Portuguese sailed under the Spanish Flag most of the time.
@@sir.fuentes7642 Spanish flag ??
At that time spain didnt even existed what are you talking about?
Excellent content, subscribed, inspiring
Now on another note, the Spanish also vassalized Florence, made the Medici family their stooge, and made an alliance with the Austrian Habsburg family.
Portugal was the first superpower
That could be, cause Portugal somehow was since ancient times a Spain province ?.
@@aromero385Portugal is older than Spain.
I don´t know whether you are right or not. I know Portugal did that before Spain.
The first Global Empire was Portugal not Spain. All the overseas discoveries were made by the Portuguese.
I like the naval history of Portugal. But It is not true that the discoveries are Portuguese. Spain discovered America in 1492. Spain reached the 35 countries of the Americas first, including the United States, Canada (San Miguel, Vancouver Island 1592), and Brazil (1500. Pizón, ahead of Cabral). The Pacific Ocean in 1521, and almost all the archipelagos of the largest Ocean on the planet: I'm talking about the Carolinas, Marianas, Guam, Fiji, Kiribati, Tahiti... In Asia we discovered the Philippines. Other Spanish discoveries are Pompeii and Herculaneum, in Italy (our Italian NATO of 457 years there), The sources of the White Nile (Pedro Paez, 1607), Antarctica (Gabriel de Castilla, 1603), Persepolis (Iran, 17th century). We even have a map of Hawaii (16th century), and a helmet in New Zealand (16th century).
Great job 👍
How interesting, I had never heard of "Grand Columbia." It would be a real rival of Brasil today if it was able to stay together.
I only can imagine such empire in modern times, having Panama's canal, Venezuela's oil reserves and Colombia's cocaine... bruh (I'm colombian by the way so I can make such jokes...)
They were already together when they were part of the Spanish Empire.
Brasil didn't end up broken like the spanish colonies because of the Independence from Portugal. Which is kind of funny because they had a King and the Son Declared Independence and became the Emperor.. Soo did it really change that much? 🤣
They were not colonies, they were viceroyalties.I recommend you read about the laws of burgos. America's first university is still open in Mexico,the first railway was built in Cuba and not in Spain.Spain did not steal any gold, it used it to create cities and infrastructures.The black legend is something spread by the English and French, with very obvious interests. Spain dominated the oceans and that is very important in geostrategy. Why do you think the North Atlantic Union (NATO) exists?
You forget to talk about California and Texas and Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New México...as part of México when It became independent.... Why ?
This was very detailed and organised
Bro and you forgot the spanish territories in Europe: most of Italy, netherlands and parts of France and belgium (even Athens for a small time)
The spanish empire domitated the world for two centuries
Ecuatorial Guinea in Africa, was one of the last-lasting spanish colonies also
Until 1975
@@KrlKngMrtssn In fact was in 1968
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Excellent video but you are missing the fact that Spain was even more powerful territorialy than you explain in your channel.
Nevertheless, Spain was a juggernaut country thanks to their brave sailors and explorers that Opened up the Age of Discovery and mapped out the entire planet before anybody else!! Long Live Spain: *ARRIBA España* 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
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Nice video. do also a video about potyugal, with the battle of ormuz and diu
I actually think you've done a pretty good summary!
I love the comments of the Portuguese feeling envy for Spain, they are adorable😂❤🇪🇸
Just making history true. Spanish are lying. That's your propaganda. Just propaganda
Eu simplesmente adoro os nacionalistas espanhóis da treta, são uma maravilha e nem se dão ao trabalho de esconder o quão maravilhosos são...
@@diogorodrigues747 Hasta nuestra lengua es más bonita y más hablada en el mundo😂 lo siento por ti Diego, la envidia es un pecado capital.
@@roderik3059 Sim sim, vai-te gabando...
@@diogorodrigues747 ¿Hay algo en lo que Portugal gane a España, Diego? 😂 Is there something in which Portugal beats Spain? It is not my fault that your country chose to be smaller when with us you would be better.
Within the past thousand years. Spain set the groundwork and pace for global interconnection and commerce.
'... set the groundwork and pace for global interconnection and commerce'. Did Spain do that really? I suggest some reading about 'Battle of Diu (India) in 1509.
Muy bueno el resumen 👏
Nice video Iam quarter Spain 🇪🇸 from my dad side and I live in Belize 🇧🇿 I did my dna 🧬 test and I have Spain 🇪🇸 Portugal 🇵🇹 and basque dna 🧬
💪🏻😎.... Awesome European history
This video has certain errors, such as not correctly showing the entire Spanish territory since this was larger, they also omit the 50 years that Portugal was Spain as well, I also want to mention that the Spanish territories were not colonies since they were viceroyalties and that it was England taking advantage of the invasion of France in the peninsula who financed the separatist groups,
Spain did not have a "colonial" empire as such. Offshore territories called "virreinatos" were self-governing territories. Slavery was banned by the Catholic kings in the early decades of the 16th century, that is why many black slaves in the British colonies fleed in the XVIII and XIX century to Spanish-ruled territories and became free men.
It doesnt mean that brutalities were committed by local rulers. Some cruel rulers were actually put on trial.
Many of the Spaniards who conquered the Philipines were actually native americans from Mexico. So it was an empire but not a colonial empire but a generative empire. Just see the buildings left in Mexico, Puerto Rico, etc.
Actually Spain financed the struggle of the 13 British colonies in the North East of the USA to become independent. The rest is history.
You mean the second superpower. The first was Portugal.
That is not true. I know that the Portuguese are very proud of their naval history. But the empire of Aragon (España) was already a European power long before. They conquer Sicily with a fleet in 1282, defeating France. Athens in 1311, defeating the Turks. As well as Corsica, Sardinia, Naples, Malta. They had colonies in North Africa before the Portuguese. Castile (España) was a European power before Portugal. Castile destroys an English fleet at La Rochelle 1372, and destroys a Hanseatic League fleet at the same time. Castile invades southern England in 1377, 1380-81 and 1411. Castile reaches the Canary Islands (Africa) in 1404. Portugal reaches Ceuta (Africa) in 1415. It is not enough to say that Portugal is a great world power before Spain, only because he is trading cinnamon and slaves off the coast of Africa, when Spain had half of Italy and colonies in North Africa at that time. Spain arrives in America in 1492, and a great commercial, military, and religious expansion begins there. We even got to Brazil earlier, in 1500. The Portuguese reach India (Asia) in 1498. Spain travels the entire Pacific Ocean in 1519-22. It seems like a very parallel world expansion. When Portugal begins to have influence in Asia and Africa, Spain is in America, Africa, Asia (Filipinas, Brunei, Papúa Nueva Guinea, Taiwán, Camboya, China), Oceania, and we have an empire in Italy, the Netherlands and parts of France and Germany. He is Philip II of Spain, the first king to have land on all continents and all seas. Half of the GLOBE is the Pacific Ocean. There Spain discovers the Philippines, Kiribati, Carolinas, Tahiti. We even have a map of Hawaii (16th century) and a Spanish helmet in New Zealand (16th century). Spain discovers the existence of Antarctica in 1603. In addition, Spain makes the golden century of culture in Europe, participating in the Renaissance and many other innovations. In any case, I am happy with the naval achievements of our Iberians, the Portuguese. Big too.
It May be, cause Portugal was from ancient times another province of Iberian kingdoms as were Aragon or Castille.
@@aromero385You mean kingdoms, right?
In the some time missing Netherlands ; Belgium ; Luxembourg 16-17 century; kingdom of Naples with Sardinia and Sicily 16-18 century ; Duchy of Milan 16-18 century ; in one word missing European territories ; Spain rule in European territories the 16 to 18 century; it happens many times for reasons unknown ; perhaps due to ignorance? to me when it is absolutly historical correct at the same time
Indeed. It goes wrong with the map of Europe right away.
There is no error. The author shows the empire as its maximum territorial extension in a given year. When those European territories were part of the empire, the American territories were much smaller, thus the total surface of the empire was smaller.
@@alvaromartinez8209 They woukd be noticed if it put them be sure and if not that i do it in a way that is noticeable i have seen many maps than even more clearky did not put European territories it is not the first one; it is not dificult to put them ; greetings.
@@Lacteagalaxia again, the European territories did not belong to Spain when the empire was as its largest extension in the early 1800s. That is what the map of the video showed and it is factually correct.
@@alvaromartinez8209 Naples, Sardinia and Sicily were already part of Spain when the Iberian wedding happened yet aren't include in the map.
Spanish empire saved Christianity & brought much of the Christianity to North & South America.
That whole statement of ''the sun does not set on the British Empire'' was something that the King of Spain said first. Charles I of Spain, who was also known as Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, once said that ''the sun does not set on my dominion.''
And don't forget that the iberians Spain 🇪🇸 and Portugal 🇵🇹 had the tratado de tordesillas the only people that conquered the whole world. History has the paper work to prove it.
My people! I am Mexican American and 55% Spanish. Traced all my Spanish ancestors. A lot of folks don’t know that Mestizos made up the BULK of the Spanish Army. Mestizos from all over the empire. There were Mexicans and South Americans and Native Americans fighting with Spain in the Southeast Asian campaigns in Brunei, Cambodia. Yaqui Indians (one of my tribes) were recruited to fight against Amazigh Berbers in North Africa.
Wrong!! Everything West of the Mississippi River was owned by Spain. So this map discounts massive lands. That’s more than half of today’s USA. In 1802 they ceded it to France, and a year later the French sold it to US government in what’s called “Louisiana Purchase”.
That's right.
Mexico also had what is today the US Southwest
LONG LIVE SPAIN I CAN PROUDLY SAY AS A MEXICAN BORN IN LOS ANGELES!!!!
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Great video! Now I'm going to play Civ 6 and start my own conquest.
Portugal is laughing
People, the key word here is world as in global. No other empire did that until Spain.
I love how this pretty much explained latinos and what we are
🇪🇦 Spain is Iberian, Celtic and Celtiberian, on the other hand one of its grandmothers was the Greek Empire, its mother was the Roman Empire 🦅and the Visigoths. Spain fought against the Muslims, defended the Iberian Peninsula, Europe and won.
In Europe she was one of the largest European Empires, she later discovered and conquered a new world, a new continent, she named it "America".
She gave the natives Rights as Spanish citizens granted by Queen Isabel of Castile. She also discovered Oceania and gave it names. If we add up all the territory of the Spanish Empire it was: Territories in Europe (Spanish Netherlands, France, Germany, Central to Southern Italy, Portugal...etc), Territories in America (From the coast of Alaska to Patagonia), Territories in Asia and Oceania, Territories in Africa (Spanish Guinea, Ifni, Spanish Sahara, Morocco...). There's a reason one of her mottos was "The Empire Where the Sun Never Sets." The Spanish Empire traded with the Empire of China and used the "El Real Español" coins.
The USA owes its independence to the Kingdom of Spain from the English crown. The USA has been very unfair to its Hispanic heritage, it forgets that half of its territory belonged to the Spanish Empire.
Spain also saved Europe from Islamization
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@@nosferatus777 you keep commenting like the world depended on you explaining Spain shit nothing
Great video bro! Just a brief comment…Bolívar didnt led the independence of Panama. Panama got independent in 1821 by internal events and decided to unite with Colombia at the same time (see Declaration of Independence of Nov 28, 1821). Indeed, Bolivar led the country as a whole, but not the independence process in Panama. Cheers
Bolívar the Freemason British Agent who was backed by the British crown to start the Revolutionary wars against Spain & Napoleon provided the perfect scenario for it. The British Empire rose after The French Empire & Spanish Empire were taken down. Masterful plan if you ask me.
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@@SAADOFFICIAL436 sadly, it's true. Just not in the way people usually think. Let's just say he was friends with a friend who had friends who were friends of the friend who was literally the king of england. And he got advised regularly by people whom he knew to be masons and even joined at a certain time. Nonetheless by the moment he knew San Martin he realized that he was been played with and decided to prosecute the masons. He was publicly declared a tyrant and killed soonly after. Nonetheless he would manifest in his last will his belief on the holy Trinity as a way to break up with the creed of masonry, and die as part of the catholic church.
It's not as if bolivar was actively working in favor or the british. He just thought he was doing what he was doing with the help of his british allies without realizing that the british were using him as a pawn. And neither he achieved all he wanted since the british prevented any kind of unification of what bolivar had broken. Nor the british got it all in the way they wanted, since at each attempt of invasion as the one of buenos aires they got kicked the hell out hella quick.
@@jmmh1313 I see....
Idk how much of it is true but I can see the pattern now.
@@SAADOFFICIAL436 wait until you realize that he was actually leading a political struggle and not an identitarian one, reason by which he actually didn't think that there were true differences between the americans of all the viceroyalties because for him they were all spanish, as they actually were at the time. The main point for him was the fight against tyranny personified in the monarchy of Ferdinand the VII, not any sort of nationalistic struggle. That was only a sideplot that he held to when the other reasonments failed. But that's a long story that includes Riego, the 1812 constitution, and much more.
Not putting the video down but i would love to have watched it with a 3d globe spinning on axis
Magellan was looking for a route to India, when the expedition failed and Magellan died, El Cano calculated that it was possible to return to Spain by going around the world, that is, the circumnavigation was devised and materialized by El Cano.
Always "Plus ultra" 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
the fact that they managed to achive that level of administration to mantain such a vast and not connected territory for so many centuries without the transport and comunication benefits of the industrial revolution is something to be mentioned. Both Spain and Portugal are underated as fuck in that sense
Portugal is not overrated. They did that worldwide expansion in Brasil, Africa and Asia. Spain is not overrated. The empire was totally connected, with routes in Asia-America-Europe-North Africa-Pacific Ocean. It is 100% that Spain had an empire in Europe. Italy (457 years). Much longer than the British in the 13 colonies (175 years) or Australia (165 years). Spain was in Belgium for 200 years. In some parts of France and Germany we were 162 years. The Spanish golden age of culture is not overrated. It is real. Or participation in the Renaissance, with our NATO in Italy, among many other civilizing contributions.
@@Gloriaimperial1 Sorry, I meant "underrated". I have edited the error
Very nice
Viva España 🇵🇭