History Summarized: The Portuguese Empire
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What happens when you spend a few decades casually getting really good at seafaring, only to find that there's suddenly a whole new world that's only accessible to societies with exceptional sailing prowess? - You get fabulously rich, that's what. Watch along and learn all about the surprising success of Portugal!
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Portugal didn't follow Spain. Portugal started the discoveries 60-70 years before Spain
BenficaHaze 1904 THANK YOU!
@@ricxhenz9748 He is right, Benfica was founded in 28/02/1904, i support Porto.
BenficaHaze 1904 Portugal was a county of Galicia
@@ricxhenz9748 fui ao Google pesquisar.
@@susanastephens7156 no it wasnt, Portugal is/was an independent kingdom since 1143
I am from Spain and for me it's an honor to share the Iberian Peninsula with such a great country as Portugal and it's people. For me, Portuguese are not only friends but our brothers. Viva Portugal!
you are the greatest Spanish guy in the world. I would love that your fellow countrymen were more like you! Viva a Península Ibérica!
Hermanos
Ola my brother. Visit Cascais! I love Spain as well, Sevilla is amazing.
raul tamudo, you are a cool dude.
I am from New Bedford Ma. U S A . My city has a HUGE Portuguese influence and rich culture. They respect the foreign land they adopted, proudly present their homes with beautiful landscape. Work harder than most in the city . And take shit from No one. My ancestors flourished in this a couple of decades before them and gained mutual respect for one another. I'm glad the proud people of Portugal are on my team 😎👍
The video already starts badly by suggesting Portugal only entered the Discoveries as a response to the Spaniards, when in reality the Portuguese pioneered the Age of Discovery, starting it half a century before Columbus' Voyage.
True, the portuguese princes were sending to recruit italian sailors and captains while the spaniards were still struggling to make the final push against the muslims in Granada.
And there is proof that Colombus voyage was going to be done by Portugal.
More proof there's that the King of Portugal was a stingy scrooge. He was unable to pay in gold for silk at Calicut.
The Europeans were morons.
One pound of fine silk=600 grams of gold in ancient times until the arrival of the Portuguese pirates.
*I am from Portugal and for me it's an honor to share the Iberian Peninsula with such a great country as Spain and it's people. For me, Spaniards are not only friends but our brothers. Viva Spain!* ❤🇪🇸
Bro copy-pasted the spaniard's comment and switched names lmao
*wrong bro...* 🇵🇹 *=* 💩💩
@@dieu7905 Portugal uma 💩 isso sim 👍
Dieu creates a fake account to comment, and changes his name each time, well done brazuka👍
vem a Portugal para uma sopa dos pobres bem quente🥣
Kkkkkkk tadin dos tuga qualquer coisa eles se sente ofendido e culpam os Brasileiros...
😂
People forget that long ago, Portugal and the Netherlands were a huge deal, and tend to focus more on England.
USA educational system.
I heard that the Japanese love for the Dutch switched to the French and Germans once they got a look at a map of Europe. Based on the Dutch influence in Asia, they had assumed the Netherlands to be a European Superpower.
@Psycho Flicks Productions My guy, if you think the Dutch Empire wasnt hugely influential in American history, youve been lied to.
Well that is omly true for the Us educational system , we here in brazil learn a fuckton about portugal and the dutch (mostly because of the whole "new holland" debacle but still
@Yora
After opening the country they went to France first and then after Prussian troops marched through Paris and what we call Germany was formed they went to them.
Let that 1755 Earthquake be a reminder to you all. No matter how much power you have, how many strides you've made, or how awesome you think you are, you are still no match for the *High Ground.* Or in this case a very angry, very unstable *Low Ground.* Either way, you underestimate the *Ground* in general and you will surely find yourself on fire. I'm looking at you Anakin!
Do you think Portugal is not familiar with the way of the high ground?
You are ignorant, Kenobi.
ua-cam.com/video/jowtiKZ2Qnw/v-deo.html
Okay... but let's just all agree that the new Star Wars movies have a monopoly on being bad... no Star Wars movie before the new ones had any issues what so ever.
*(hides her Star Wars EU novels from before Luke and Leah were made twins canonically)*
I still haven't watched the video, but if he stated the Earthquake broke or destroyed the Portuguese Empire then he is wrong master Kenobi...
P.S- Hello again! we gotta stop meeting like this, people will talk xD
I remember when Luke Skywalker said that to Darth Vader , and it had such more significance when Vader threw his lightsaber in anger dropping Luke to the ground.
You are a bold one!
Portugal discovered the world.
Now, the world forgot Portugal.
But our history it will be in all of our hearts.
This is Portugal, caralho!
👏👏👏👏 os fdps precisam de uns bons caldussos para ver se não volta a memória logo...
Sebastião voltará e a glória de portugal será restaurada!
This madness has been going on for two years so far! This insanity started before COVID hit! For those of you who would like to join efforts to stop José Lugo's obsessive hate speech against Portugal, the Portuguese people and Discoveries, and, by extension, against all Lusophone History and nations around the World, I invite you all to go visit his channel and dennounce it with the following text:
" This insane individual has been compulsively spreading hate speech against Lusophone nations and peoples - eg., the Portuguese, Brazilians, etc - for over two years. He was already morally assaulting us freely in comment sections of History videos way before COVID pandemic hit. UA-cam does nothing. "
I've got all of it printed and saved here. Shouldn't it solve the problem, I will post his sickest rants on social media in order to raise popular awareness to this guy. Legal action is not to be discarded, also.
Try not to respond to his provocations, as he might call attention to shift blame to us, the factual victims of his hatred.
@@dinamosflams D sebastiao fez o imperio cair
LOL 🤣 portuguese *delusional as always!* LOL🤣
I attended many history classes throughout my school year and noticed that many European countries like Spain, Italy, France, Etc. always get the most history, but when it gets to Portugal they will only talk about Vasco de Gama and Magellan. When I first visited Portugal and learned about the culture from the locals there were so much history that many textbooks and lectures miss and was surprised on how big the Portuguese empire was. Thank you for this video!
Magellan renounced his Portuguese nationality to be Spanish
@juansalvador1192 Fake 🤡
I feel this was a rather paltry video on Portugal:
- The Roman province of Lusitania occupies modern Portugal (as well as the Spanish province Extremadura)
- Didn't mention how Portugal originally split from the Kingdom of Leon
- How England and Portugal have the world's OLDEST ACTIVE ALLIANCE, dating back to the time of the Crusades
- Origin of the Portuguese Cross: Comes from when the Knights Templar escape to Portugal by becoming the Portuguese "Order of Christ", and (myth?) using their money to kick start Portuguese navigation with a huge fleet. This is why Portuguese fleets have the Templar's cross on them.
- How much of a head start the Portuguese had on colonization. South Africa, Indonesia, Osaka used to be owned by Portugal
- No mention of Luis Camoes, who paged "The Lusiads" an epic poem describing da Gama's journey from Cape to Goa
- How Portugal introduced Jesus, Guns, and Tempura to the Japanese
- How Britain backstabbed Portugal with an ultimatum of war in order to have colonies "from Cape to Cairo" but cutting in between Mozambique and Angola
- How it was Marquis de Pombal who rebuilt Portugal after the Earthquake
- How during the Napoleonic era the Portuguese monarchy moved to Brazil
I'm not Portuguese myself, but loved reading up on the Portuguese empire because it just seems so exotic. I especially one day want to read more closely on their efforts in Asia, just take a look at the wiki page to hear how cool it sounds!
And how in the world did the monarchy fall? Anyone?
@@jevinliu4658
the monarchy falled simply because Portuguese republicans thaught that the Portuguese King was to subservient to the British, and that he was an obstacle for the general progress of the nation.
Masonry ended the monarchy
You complaining that they didn't mention how we split from the kingdom of Leon makes me extremely proud. First because your not Portuguese and second because I am. I'm also from Guimaraes, the first Portuguese city. I live minutes away from the castle where D. Afonso Henriques lived and started it all.
Umm wasn't the Portugal split from Galicia instead of Leon?
Portugal, the nation that discovered the world but the world forgot about it.
That's because Portugal was the only European country (out there) which never settled North America. Far from sight, far from heart, as they say.
+Carlos Saraiva Tourism doesn’t always correlate to people recognising historical significance. I mean America is a popular tourist destination at the end of the day.
+Carlos Saraiva I never made any bold claims that Portugal is completely void of historical sites or significance I like yourself and others think the opposite that wasn’t my point at all. My point was that you only said that tourism had risen without specification that doesn’t mean anything at all in correlation to the world populations view on Portugal’s historical significance. They might just be the types of people that go on holiday to relax in the sun etc. That was my only argument. For example Istanbul has a crap ton of history yet if the Turkish govt saw an increase in tourism it doesn’t mean its appreciated necessarily it might just mean more people are capitalising on their economic crisis. In conclusion be more specific with stats or don’t trust them on their own.
+Carlos Saraiva you should’ve just said that, Porto is a great City even when it rains.
Brazil will never forget our fellow Portuguese brothers and sisters!
Spain began the Age of Discovery and were the first to both Discover and the settle the Americas.
Love those Texas long horns the Spanish sent out way for the riblets for fatties like me 🥰
🤣
Very good! Each one adapted the discovery of America to their needs
It was Portugal who started....arriving Canarias in the 14th century
verdade, exploradores Espanhois muito fortes isso sim gordinho
Espanhois os primeiros a dar a volta ao mundo, descobriu o Brasil, primeiros no Japão, Coréia e China e muito mais
@@portuguesitoignorante2023 isso tudo é mentira os portugueses foram os primeiros a chegar ao Japão e foram os portugueses que descubriram o brazil...mas tu és estupudo ou que?
Saudações do Brasil! Tivemos nossos conflitos, Portugal, mas sempre respeitei e admirei a sua história. Não é por ser o nosso pai, mas para mim, você é o melhor país europeu! Abraços.
Germany is better then Portugal tho...at least it is economicaly stable
I like how I could *almost* read and understand this. 😜
@@AK-um5us Germany sucks. Portugal is going through a rough phase but we are undoubtedly the best country in Europe
@@ezequiel717 As a Portuguese citizen i proudly say we are taking this pandemic extremely well but our economy is still shit and needs a reform
@@chrisg1621 Google translator, my Friends!
‘Pew-pew boats’
- Blue
when did he say that i want to hear
@@colorado1164 during his sponsorship read.
Somebody's calling my Moskva a PEW PEW bote. It's actually a POW POW bote
CopyRightedSnake around 0:47
everyone knows it is dakka dakka
rookie mistakes
World: Its Impossible for a tiny insignificant country to be a superpower!!
Portugal: HOLD MY BEER !!
PORTUGAL CARALHO 💪💪
Fu**** A Caralho!!!!😂😂😂😂
even smaller Netherlands: HOLD MY BEER !!
FUCK YEAH
És de Tomar?
And then blow it all....
You forgot to say that the Portuguese Empire was the Last Empire to fall.
and the first to rise
Even at that, Spain beat Portugal with the beginning of the colonization of the Canary islands in 1402!🤣🤘😂😎
@@joselugo4536 Portugal arrived there first, but because the pope was Spanish he claimed the islands to Spain.
@@joselugo4536 Btw, i love Spain, but Canary Islands, Badajoz and Ceuta make me like more the Brazilians.
Actually it was the slave raids made by the Portuguese slavers that obligated Spain to claim the islands, to stop the depopulation of the Canary islands.
Portugal already had a massive overseas/maritime empire by the time of Columbus' voyages. It was not the Portuguese who were spurred to act by the Spanish, but the other way around. This video is horrendously ahistorical.
Not true, at all, in 1498 the Spanish reached South America before Cabral, and Vasco da Gama India. From 1496 to 1540s just a single nation, Spain, on the other side of a vast Ocean, in an age of primitive sailing vessels, managed to Conquer an area from Mexico, the big islands on the Caribbean, to the River Plate, is unparalleled in history.
The circumnavigation of Africa was accomplished by the Phoenicians many centuries ago.
@@joselugo4536 Phoenicians circumnavigated from the Indian ocean to the Atlantic ocean a much easier endeavor than from the Atlantic ocean to the Indian ocean and back. Not to mention that happened a over a thousand years before Dias, so i doubt that any maps were around for the Portuguese to take reference.
As far as Dias goes, i heard from a source (not who was the source), that Dias likely reached the Indian ocean without actually being aware of his feat but regardless the hardest part of the journey was accomplished by him.
Also, the Portuguese at this point had colonized both the Azores archipelago and Madeira island, as well as made numerous diplomatic relationships with locals at West Africa and charted the region.
How unfortunate no copy from Herodotus of Halicarnassus reached the Portuguese, as the Phoenicians knew the extent of Africa, imagine when they stopped at today's Saint Helena Bay, 150 km north of modern Cape Town, and, what the Portuguese never did, sowed wheat in June, repaired the ships, and harvested the wheat on November, so Phoenicians beat the Dutch in sowing the seeds of wheat at Cape Town by 2,256 years!
it was the opposite, the spanish copied portuguese.
I am obsessed with the design of the maps, they are gorgeous
I like how they change them depending on what country they're talking about. (saying they cause I don't know how much Blue is in charge of the visuals on his videos)
@@wadespencer3623 I'm guessing every scene with Blue onscreen is done by Red (or done using some poses Red once drew for him since you need only so many poses for these sorts of videos) and the rest is Blues doing?
@@BeckettBaladas I know she does the character portraits, I'm just not sure about the maps. Her stuff almost never has maps, so that might be Blue's doing.
@@wadespencer3623 I'm curious too, props to whoever made them!
in Portuguese school, we learn these maps made by Spanish sailors, explorers and cartographers, cool👍@@Mars-vi2nf
So... Not a single mention to Pedro Alvares Cabral, who "discovered" the land where now is east brazil, which became the most important colony of the portuguese empire? Cool
1500
He mentions it in his Brazilian history, don't worry
Do Brazilians only speaks Portuguese?
Warz Thunder the official languages of Brazil are portugueses and international sign language, however many people from the south still speak German, some from São Paulo still speak Italian/Japonese/Russian, and some from central and north Brazil speak English as their first language.
@@analuizanoleto9705 All those other languages are quite uncommon, amounting to below 4% of the population all together. Also, English? Since when? The Confederate exiles have long since stopped speaking English
Portugal destroyer of Nations 💀
*Never forget Wiriyamu, Mozambique*
Great video.
Just 2 things:
-Portugal didnt follow spain in the discoveries. It started first actually.
-Lisbon before the earthquake wasnt that much of an amazing city actually. There were already plans to level some parts of the city to renew it. But of course the earthquake just did much worse
Actually, Lisbon had great architectural stuff, like the "Hospital Real de Todos os Santos" or "Hospital dos Pobres", and many other stuff, full of tiles and other portuguese craftsmanship. But yeah mostly it was just tiny streets with decaying buildings, and completely nasty, since there was no sewer system, nor places to deposit trash for the poor majority.
I really like the Portuguese empire, I see them close, like Iberians. But the Spanish began the world expansion before. Canary Islands in 1404. The Aragonese were already exploring the Atlantic, with sailors from the Balearic Islands, traveling to the Canary Islands and North Africa, in the 13th and 14th centuries. Aragon expanded in the 13th century to Italy (defeating France), and soon after to Greece and North Africa, with colonies there. Castile was a power that defeated the English and Germans in naval battles, such as La Rochelle 1372 and 1410, twice invading southern England in 1380 and 1410.
The Portuguese spread along the African coast, in a slow exploration. Castile was defeated in 1475 in the Gulf of Guinea, true, but Castile was also exploring those places.
The great journey that changes the world is in 1492, with the discovery of America. Only then do we move closer to global empire. The hypotheses of the Portuguese in America before that date may be possible, but they are like the hypotheses of Basque (Spanish) and French whalers, and Vikings before the Portuguese. 1492 is the year that transforms all of humanity, and the most important event in history.
Even Brazil was explored before, by the Castilian fleet, the Pinzón brothers. Portugal took advantage only from 1598, when it reached Asia. In 1500 there are three continents (Brazil, Africa and Asia). But the world has 5 continents. The Pacific Ocean is half of the earth. Spain puts a belt to the land in 1522, bringing products from the 5 continents for the first time. It is true that the first part of the trip was made with Magellan, but he was a nationalized Spaniard. 2/3 of the fleet were Spanish sailors. Spanish ships and Spanish money. We must not forget that at that time Spain became a hegemonic power in Europe, even invading Portugal (Philip II was the son of a Spanish queen born in Portugal). Only with Felipe II can it be said that there is a king in the 5 continents and in all the oceans. The only university in the Portuguese empire is in Brazil 1912 (90 years after independence). Spain built 9 universities in Italy, 25 in America, 1 in France and 3 in the Philippines, in addition to thousands of hospitals, schools and more than 300 fortresses in Europe and all the continents. Italy was a Spanish NATO. There was a Spanish domain in the Vatican. Rome had a quarter of the Spanish population in the 17th century. We also invaded France, Germany, the Netherlands, saving Catholicism in Europe and the legacy of Rome. Even Felipe II was king of England and Ireland, sparing Elisabeth's life. And Carlos I, King of Spain, was Emperor of Germany with Spanish gold. It would be too long to talk about the political, cultural, economic and military innovations that influenced the whole of Europe. Spanish explorations and discoveries include the Amazon, the Colorado Canyon, Vancouver (San Miguel 1592), the Great Plains (hunting bison and fighting Apaches in the 16th century), the Andes, Machupichu, Aztec and Inca empires, Antarctica (discovered by Gabriel de Castilla in 1603), the sources of the White Nile in Africa (Pedro Paez 1606), Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, Persepolis in Asia (Spanish diplomatic discovery), the Philippines and almost all the archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean. There is a 16th century Spanish helmet in New Zealand, and a 16th century Spanish map of Hawaii.
But when I see the Portuguese empire in Africa, India, China and Indonesia, I feel a lot of admiration. I find it spectacular that a country with 1 million inhabitants at that time could cover so much. Spain had 8 million inhabitants, and that was undoubtedly an advantage.
PORTUGAL CARALHO!
...no, I don't know what that means. It's just that thing that always gets brought up when Portugal is mentioned on the net.
Thanks for the new vid, Blue!
Basically is the same as "Fu**ing Portugal". In Portugal it's used a lot to express entusiasm.
Can confirm, in Brazil too
Inês Costa not really "fucking portugal", more like "portugal goddamit!"
Yep what they said.
What tehy said above... Caralho is also an insult if ya call it to someone.
Patiently waiting for D. Sebastião to return
Everyone is, my friend. Everyone is.
The legend says that in a foggy night, D. Sebastião will return with his white horse...
Everytime it gets foggy I start looking for him.
@@ivanc.l.3580 It also says that he'll come when the country needs him the most
He's kind of like our little King Arthur.
**Crowd of Englishmen chases me down**
The Spanish Empire was not a colonial empire such as the English, French, Potuguese or Dutch, but on the contrary, it was the last empire of the ancient type, closer to what Rome or Greece were. 300-400 years of domain based on miscegenation, alphabetization and conversion of different peoples; construction of universities, cathedrals and cities worldwide; a huge cultural and artistic explotion; deliberation of new phylisophic, teologic and juridic debates in human history (like f.e., if all humans were equal); discoverments that changed the conception of the world; opening of new shipping routes; creation of an undefeated infantry for 2 centuries; expansion of the Hispanic culture throughout the Atlantic and Pacific ocean (called "the spanish lake" at that time) as Rome did throughout the Mediterranean... All of this, in a world as big as the one we know today, but using a technology from 5 centuries ago.
From there onward, european empires had a colonial model based on mercantilism, slavery, and large-scale production, creating factories or plantations in overseas possessions, instead of a civilizing reproduction of their society. The former were a global market, the latter a global kingdom. European empires shouldnt be generalized by the fact of having overseas territories, because not all of them were the same.
. almost everything you're saying Spain did in the Americas , Portugal also did in Brazil. it's actually quite astonishing when you consider how small Portugal was back then, less than 2 million people , yet their language is the 3rd most widely spoken European language on the planet today. just look at the top 5 most widely spoken European languages and the corresponding current populations of the countries of origin.
1) UK - 68 million
2) Spain- 47.5 mil
3) Portugal 10 mil
4) Russia 144.5 mil
5) France 65 mil
@@bconni2 Butthurt poortuguese comment 🤣
The Magellan-Elcano expedition never reached Lisbon. It was a Spanish fleet that left from Sanlucar de Barrameda (Seville), in Spain, and arrived at the same place 3 years later led by the Spanish sailor Juan Sebastian Elcano....
You missed an opportunity to mention how Brasil got it's independence. Basically the royal family of Portugal went to Brasil escaping from Napoleon and the prince Pedro I fell in love with the place. After his fathers court decided it was time to return to Portugal, he decided he wanted to stay in Brasil forever, but the Portuguese nobility wouldn't have it. So he declared Brasil independent and made himself emperor of Brasil, renouncing the Portuguese throne so he could stay there without being nagged by nobility.
King João VI was forced by the people to return to Portugal after the Revolution of 1820 and he renouced the throne in name of his 7 year old daughter D.Maria that would marry her uncle D.Miguel and make him king under a Constitucional Letter written by D.Pedro so D.Miguel would rule in the liberal laws
I think you did it good enough 😁
Pedro I of Brazil don't renouncing the Portuguese throne, in fact, to avoid his brother Miguel to become king he back to Portugal and become Pedro the IV of Portugal...
That's what we were studying in history class last month, here in Brasil
@@user-db7vy8sf2h He did renounce the portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, but his younger brother Miguel wasn't having it and took her the fuck out of the throne. So when Pedro was sorta kicked out of Brazil as he wanted to have absolute power and the coffee farmers didnt't want to give it to him, he came back to Portugal and joined the liberals to take his brother out of the thone and assume it himself.
What about Angola and Mozambique? Those are pretty big parts of the former Portuguese empire. They still speak Portuguese. Also Cabo Verde. Mozambique and Angola were under Portuguese rule until 1975! A conflict that put them in a proxy war with the USSR as Angola became a communist state. The battles for independence were super intense. That's not the quiet period you stated at all.
Yes and all the free labor they supplied to Spain from the African nations
And we know that 5.8 enslaved human beings were transported by the Portuguese, and 3.6 slaves were transported by the British.
And, oh! all the free labor supplied to Brazil by those 5 million enslaved Africans, brought there on Portuguese slave ships, equipped with iron bottom, so as not overturn their cargo in heavy seas.
my grandfather actually fought in the ultramarine war
@@marianapina7074 Yeah well, my DAD fought in the ultramarine war..... i feel old now.
One big part of Portuguese colonization was their discovery of the "Volta do Mar", or "Turn of the Sea", a technique where instead of sailing against the current they'd sail perpendicular to the current, out into the sea. Since ocean currents are circular, this would lead to them being picked up by the other side of the current, taking them to their destination quicker, and also allowing them to use the original side they were sailing against for their return trip.
Mind = Blown
Columbus was Spain trying to step up it's game, since Portugal had kicked Moorish ass generations earlier and was discovering new lands left and right.
Then from the shadows walks in Erik the Red.
@@gaizkagonzalez9926
What does that matter? Portugal is also directly connected with Asturias and is on the same peninsula. Asturias is like the father of two children, and Portugal and Spain are those children.
@@robertdicke7249
Yeah, whatever. When Erik the Red gets anywhere close to the level of significance we Portuguese attained in the world he can come talk to us. Until then, he can step back into the shadows.
invading*
The Portuguese and Spain both kicked moorish ass. They did it together not just one or the other.
>*Portugal doing fine*
>king Sebastian: "hold my throne"
Portugal goes Pacman on the whole frickin world.
World: *exists*
Portugal and Spain: Allow us to introduce ourselves..
Wiriyamu Mozambique African Genocide compliments of Portugal is a Black Mark on Portugal's history but we were also the *1st, to Start the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade* so wazz up, wazz up Buoy😗
The slave trade to brazil is insane! So many people, so many lives...
The armada of 1588 was not devastating to Spain lol... it was a storm... Spain was and continued to be the dominant superpower of the World, that it had been since the 1520's, for almost another 70 years. (End of the thirty year's war) making it 120+ years of Spanish military dominance in Europe and the Americas/Seas, the reigns of Charles V, Philip II,III and first 25 years of Philip IV, and even after losing dominance in Europe continued to hold the largest Empire until the mid 18th century.
More devastating for England was it's counter-armada te following year... lol... want to make a video on that?
Fun fact: Vasco da Gama fired some cannonballs at the shore when he arived at Calicut because the idian governors tried to kick him out of there, so Vasco da Gama being Vasco da Gama fired some canonballs to the shore, just to see if they would let him enter and well... It surprinsingly worked.
Yeah that sounds like us
We got some crazy stories
@@Alertacobra12 yes we do, yes we do
Deixa o Jack Sparrow no chinelo.
I think all Portuguese leaders that got sent there had the courage to do the most hilarious stuff and get away with it unscathed :D
Even though it didn't last nearly as long as most, the Portuguese Empire is one of my personal favorite colonial empire. I honestly wish they hadn't entered the Iberian Union. Since Portugal had no real enemies and was amazing at keeping up with naval technology, I could foresee their empire lasting quite a while.
"Entered" is not a word I'd use to describe that process. "Got unwillingly glomped by Spain" is more how I see it
-B
It's one of the longer lasting empires, only ended in '75 (or '99 if you count Macau)
@@OverlySarcasticProductions Not that unwillingly… The country was leaderless and most of the merchant class supported Philip II as King, as he had somewhat of a legitimate claim (His mother was a Portuguese Royal Pricess)
@@darkdave1998 If you're referring to the releasing of Goa, Angola, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
However, I'm talking about their entire colonial empire. At their height the Portuguese held way more then the few meagre colonies I just named.
I don't know, man. The Empire was already getting financially depleted by João III/John III reign. The population was small and the state supported a large rich and noble peoples (magistrates and such). Maybe the death would be slower, but I cannot foresee a way to survive.
I was just in Lisbon a couple months ago. It was my first ever trip to Europe. I loved it! Truly amazing place🤗❤
Millions of Africans, Asians and Brazilians enslaved and killed on an unprecedent level by Portugal🇵🇹, and the trajectory of history significantly altered.
Only thing I can think of that was remotely similar is World War 2, the Mongol invasions, the Bubonic Plague, and the Bronze Age Collapse.
You missed a great chance to go into King John II of Portugal as in my opinion, he was the one that made the empire. Before, kings thought about it, after, kings fought for it and eventually lost it but King John II, he bent Europe and the world!
How was this sent 2 days ago on the day it was realeased
@@burntfoot695 they posted 2 days ago and then set it to private
I would argue that João I/John I was the one who initiated the Empire, with the conquest of Ceuta. John I and Duarte were also the ones who started colonizing the isles in the Açores and Madeira archipelagos. John II made a more... "Visually impressed move", I guess. Still, an impressive king, considering he is called "The Perfect Prince".
@@Alexeiyeah I didn't mean king John II started it. I literally mean he made it! It was his initiative that transformed discoveries into empire. Before him, kings had a timid idea, he wrote the book not only for the empire but for the country, protecting intelligence like maps and shipbuilding, pushing the Spanish back and bringing royalty in Portugal to heel. In my opinion it is kind of a sick joke that it was his successor, Manuel I, that cut the proverbial ribbon with the embassy to the Pope. Of course this is all my opinion on the matter, and I agree with you, he was impressive and for me, the most impressive king in Portuguese history.
@@EcoRedRiver This makes a lot of sense, actually!
10:00 - This event helped inspire Voltaire's novel "Candide", as he considered the optimistic (in the context of the philosophy of Leibniz) take on it to be severely lacking. In essence, the optimist would say "Yeah, it sucks that tens of thousands of men, women and children were wiped off the face of the Earth by an act of God, but what can you do? God, in His infinite wisdom, decided that earthquakes' raison d'être is to thoroughly wreck stuff and those that died were put in this world TO die so we can all feel sad about it now. It's all part of the Plan." Voltaire, understandably, called shenanigans and, in doing so, became a cornerstone in Enlightenment era thought.
Right you are.
I would have spent another 10 minutes talking about Candide but I had to stop myself.
-B
qdHazen But to be fair, that’s not a totally incorrect or 100% believed in philosophy of the time. I mean determinism isn’t exactly a defunct worldview now a days since you could argue that we are just machines based on chemical reactions. Also I’m not too knowledgeable on Christian thought and stuff, but isn’t the idea of free will a cornerstone of thought at the time. Like God gave us the ability to choose or something like that?
@Carl Cruton That's really interesting!
I don't know a whole bunch on the subject of Voltaire's opinions, I've only read some of the light stuff, not directly philisophical, by Voltaire; "Letters on the English" and the like.
Thanks for better informing me on the mentality of Leibniz's subject matter.
Candide was one of the few books I enjoyed in High School.
@@OverlySarcasticProductionsIf that is how you feel about Candide, then by all means you should make a video JUST about Candide.
I love Portugal, and no matter how cool Lisbon was before the earthquake, its still one of the most beautiful cities on earth! 😳❤️
i❤the poverty and sky-high unemployment in Portugal today👍👍
e a imigração em massa@@danielribeiro6743
It is not clear that the world was discovered by Portugal, people say. I know that Portugal has very good sailors and a great history.
But Brazil was a discovery of Pinzón (Spain), not Cabral. Spain officially came to America in 1492, with Christopher Columbus, and that was the moment when the world knew that America existed (discovery). If someone arrived earlier and it was not known, the Vikings would be the first. We also reached Africa before that Portugal. Aragon had colonies in North Africa (13th-19th century), and Castile reached the Canary Islands in 1404. Portugal reached Ceuta in 1415. Although I know that the Portuguese, like the Genoese, were exploring before. And Portugal reached the Gulf of Guinea, and southern Africa. The eastern coast of Africa and India were already known to the Arabs and the Greeks. Spain explored the entire Pacific Ocean. Portugal never entered the Pacific Ocean. Yes, Magellan did, with Spanish ships. And the Spanish were the ones who completed the first round the world. The discovery of almost all the archipelagos was made by Spain: Carolinas, Tahiti, Marianas, Guam, Vanuatu, Philippines (and bases in Borneo, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan). There's even a 16th century Spanish map of Hawaii and a 16th century Spanish helmet in New Zealand. Spain saw Antarctica in 1603, but officially the first ship to arrive was the San Telmo ship, 1818, two months before the English. Spain was the first European country to discover the sources of the White Nile in Africa, the Cambodian city of Angkork (Asia), the city of Persepolis (identification in Persia), the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum (in Italy), the Amazon ( Orellana), the Colorado Canyon and the great plains of the United States (Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and Hernando de Soto), the Andes, Machupichu, Vancouver (San Miguel Island, 1592) ...
To this must be added the European and world hegemony of Spain, which annexed the Portuguese empire, we defeated the French in 12 European wars, capturing the French king. We put a king in England (Felipe II, who spared Elisabeth's life de ella), another king in Germany (the Spanish emperor Carlos V, who ruled Germany from Spain). Spain also saved Catholicism, in a 200-year war against 5 European powers. The religious map of Europe coincides with the expansion of the Spanish empire. We invade all the capitals of Western Europe: Rome, Paris, Lisbon, Genoa, Milan, Florence, Manheim, Cologne, Amsterdam, Brussels. Only the English were saved, because they live on an island, and by three storms (1588, 1596 and 1597). In 1589, without storms, Drake's English fleet was crushed by the Spanish fleet.
We had a NATO in Italy for 454 years, which dominated the Vatican and filled Italy with palaces. I want to say that Portugal had a great history, but Spain was 5 times more extensive and populated, and that was noticeable in the Spanish hegemony in Europe and the world.
The cultural influence of Spain was immense: the first parliament of Europe, the first international human rights, the first influential liberal ideas, the first scientific explorations, the current calendar, the participation in the Renaissance, the first patented and used steam engines industrialization, Hispanization (with 24 universities in America, 3 in the Philippines, 9 in Italy, 1 in France, 2000 cities of stone), the golden age of culture, with the best work of fiction in history: Don Quixote, the best composer of the 16th century: Tomás Luis de Victoria. The best baroque painter: Velázquez. A very influential theater throughout Europe: Lope de Vega, Calderón, Tirso de Molina ...
Anyway, I like to see the history of Portugal, and I like to embed the history of Spain within a common Iberian heritage. What Portugal did was extraordinary, because it only had 1 million inhabitants in the 16th century, and it became one of the richest countries in the world, thanks to its explorations.
Portugal arrived in Brasil in ~1454. Also about those greek expedition, they were basically forgoten at that time like the vikings in US.
@@76456 13,000 years before, the Siberians arrived. But humanity only knows of America in 1492. It is the moment in which several continents come together. All the rest are hypotheses. There is a 16th century Spanish helmet in New Zealand, and a 16th century Spanish map in Hawaii. And Gabriel de Castilla arrived in 1603 in the vicinity of Antarctica. A Spanish diplomat discovered Persepolis, in Iran. A Spanish missionary discovered the Sources of the White Nile in Africa. A group of soldiers discovered the secret city of Angkorg, in Cambodia, and an expedition of Spanish excavators discovered Pompeii and Herculaneum. Those are our "Viking-Spanish" discoveries. Some are well proven, but others need more evidence. Although the map and the helmet exist. There were also Spaniards hunting bison and fighting Apaches in 1540, 100 years before other countries.
10:52
Portugal: Hmm, this is boring. Alright, show of hands, who wants to overthrow the monarchy?
Me: Dead
The King: Dead
@@darkdave1998 the king: alive, but in exile
The King:Dead
The new king: runned the hell out
@@etromtoa
He really wasnt that bad of a guy, even in exile he was a big patriot, unsure if he should support the two monarchist uprisings, helping to solve a debt-dispute between the UK and Portugal, standing with the republic and asking the monarchists not to use the chaos of WW1 in their plans (didnt work), getting heavily and personally involved with the red cross, to finally passing all his possessions and fortune in his testament to the portuguese state, resulting in the foundation of the house of Braganza.
Aidan Maricic that’s just how it be. Idle hands do a revolutionaries work.
"It was also a more polite form of piracy enforced by a sovereign state." Pirates operate and enforce rules outside the law; the Portuguese were the law. The fact that they are a sovereign state is what makes the difference. The Portuguese effectively owned the Indian Ocean at this time, so as far as they were concerned they could do as they pleased within the confines of that control. Its the same thing that makes a sovereign leader different from a warlord, taxation different from coercion, etc.
I see. in other words...., might makes right. I am familiar with this 'concept'.
@@paradoxward2533 good for you
@@feihceht656 Ok then, all leaders of sovereign nations are pirates and warlords who extort people for money. Happy with that description?
@@feihceht656 kings generally have to keep at least a facade of respectability, warlords just do what they please, or end up buying a crown to go legit.
@@lloydbautista2055 The effect every nation has on most of its cattle is that of extortion. Even nations built on a policy of peace will and have culled the those they often swear they are in service to should they prove unyielding, slaughtering them for their own good. Every nations powers like to operate under the guise of being what is best for everyone, their imposed "benefits" however accepted end up being added hinderance particularly onto those inevitably born into with the "responsibilities" never having asked for them.
Point it out and the short sighted always say "you don't have to be here". Where one goes to be free of a nations influence without it being in effective exile to the waste lands of the world I don't know and none have been able to answer.
Having been a patriot earlier in life I have come to believe what really makes the difference between a gang of organized crime and a government isn't might but ones acceptance. Its the difference between sacrifice and loss in wars, giving ones contribution and being stolen from in taxation, justice and subjugation in law.
To many of us the "choice" to live life in modern society isn't slavery, no, but it is pretty close as to be indentured servitude. We see those that don't notice this as careless, those that deny this as idiotic, and those that are okay with this as willfully amoral.
Portugal and Spain have the same victory bloood baby, 2 difrent countrys who was 2 of the biggest empires ever
india would have been under Portuguese rule but because of their mistake of trading, trying to rule & conversion to Catholicism they failed.
Oi amigos da Portugal amor da india
what about the french?!
obrigado
@@rudrapsarkar who cares about the french?
Do you even know what are you talking about?
No chance for the Portuguese to conquer India, it took the British a hundred years to subjugate the subcontinent, why, the Portuguese were unable to conquer tiny Ceylon, although the Portuguese destroyed every trace of Buddhism, massacres of monks, burning of Buddhist libraries during 131 years of a Crusade.
Just to add some information. When Portugal and Spain divided the world in two, Portugal demanded to have 500 more nautical miles West in the Atlantic.
This was before Columbus discovered America.
Although there isn't concrete proof today, we suspect that the reason for Portugal to demand these 500 miles was because we had already discovered America, mainly what would become Brazil.
Because it was such an important discovery, and Portugal had a much weaker army than Spain, it kept it a secret for a few years.
I read a book on Columbus' voyage, and apparently even historians believe there's some possibility that Basque fishermen were already sailing that far out West and possibly were already making it to the Americas. Columbus may have just been the first important person to make it to the Americas. Fisherman were following the fish really far West into the ocean and who knows where they ended up, and we don't remember it because they were illiterate and unimportant.
Really, the secret was hitching a ride on the gulf stream, which is like a conveyor belt of water that circles the Atlantic ocean. It turns a three month crossing into six weeks. Trouble is most ships hugged the coast and wouldn't find it unless they traveled out beyond the Canary Islands. But if 15th century Portuguese merchants were traveling south along that route, they would have stumbled upon it, which would have taken them straight to... Brazil.
@Skull Killer the viking thing is probably a myth, aztecs lived more to the west,so there is a bigger chance to make contact with aztecs coming from asia than from europe.
a viking landing in mexico and then crossing happily the hellish jungle is bending chances way to much.
@@feelthepony Vikings predate the aztecs by about 300 years
And before all the Europeans, the Siberians themselves arrived, 13,000 years before Christ, it is said. But the voyage of Christopher Columbus revolutionized the world. If a family has a talented child, who only sings at home, the world does not discover anything. Christopher Columbus made a world tour to America and introduced Europe to America. Thanks to Christopher Columbus and the Spanish fleet, all the continents are related.
and until 1975, Portugal still had two HUGE colonies in Africa: Angola (west coast) and Mozambique (east).
furthermore, Guiné Bissau (1974), Cape Verde and Sao Tomé and Principe (both 1975) also were portuguese colonies, and Macau, in China, until 1999.
Don't forget East Timor!
I spent a month traveling on the Iberian Peninsula. 1 week in Lisbon and surrounding area. it was very San Francisco like and you can see the diversity of people who were not Portuguese origin but from the former colonies. Very dynamic, lots of European tourists and reasonable prices for lodging and food. Not as clean and manicured like Madrid a little more gritty. October was rainy and cold. A great tourist destination.
James Matthews the Timor Leste or East Timor, get independence in 20 of May of 2002, on same that in Portugal we celebrate a Navy Day and Maritime route to India by Vasco de Game. So Portugal is the last and old Empire from history, since 1415 in Conqueror of Ceuta until 2002 from Timor Leste independence.
P.S: Timor Leste and Portugal have one old pact between traditional local warriors "liurais" and Portuguese, that call Pacto de Sangue (PT) / bloody Act (Eng).
Wasn't Taiwan (Formosa) named by Portugese?
Macau was a lease
The excellent example of Portuguese alternative reality, in this case alternative history. Thanx. Some parts are funny. :-) Thank you.
This is what actually happaned what are you talking about?
você tem arroz? Portugal #1 em sopas dos pobres e nada mais...
@@portuguesitoignorante2023 Its actually sad to see a Brazilian pretend he is Portuguese.
@@VRDejaVu it's refreshing to see 🇵🇹 admit they = 💩💩
May I just say, that the map style used in this video is absolutely amazing.
Mmmmm... A video about -Galiza do sur- Portugal and Blue doesn't even mention us, Galicians? Unsubscribed.
Jokes aside, I'm glad he covered the history of Portugal. Sometimes it seems like the world has forgotten that Portugal was (and still is, kinda) a great nation. Saúdos aos nosos irmáns de máis alá do Miño, carallo!:D
Saúde, As a portuguese, I think it's really odd for a region to have more pride than its country. For example, in Galiza, people say that they are first *galician" (hope not make an mistake) and then Spanish. For the exterior, we are first portuguese and then maybe an regionalism. And we (Portuguese) are proud of "nuestros hermanos de la Galiza"
Grande abraço mano velho
@@andrepereira4941 To begin with, Galicia has a distinctive culture and language, so we are not a mere region (don't let the fact that the only nationalist party is a joke fool you). Also, I don't know how exactly regionalism works there, but here is almost tribalistic; even in the most «españolistas» regions, like Andalucia or Castilla y Leon, people will often be extremely proud of Castille, Leon and Western and Eastern Andalusia (yes, there is an important division between West and East down there). Of course, in the end we are an united nation, united in our hatred of «guiris» and people mocking our country and our love of «guiri's» money and mocking ourselves.
And yes, it's said «galician»
Ae porra nois que voa bruxão...
José Manuel Blanco Goldar desde Portugal, uma saudação aos nossos irmãos de Além-Minho!
Fun fact: when "Mr. Pope" was planning the meridians, D. João II "whined" to the Pope to mark them 370 leagues (léguas) from Cabo Verde instead of the previously dealed. Portugal had a "Política de Segredo" (Secrecy Polity) and that policy hindered record, in other words, there is nothing about D. João II reign. But, the king's whine is interesting because Historians think that Portugal had already knowledge of Brazil's existence and wanted to explore that region.
(sorry about my broken english, i'm not a english speaker - as you may had understood - and i just wanted to point this out)
Portuguese here, and I'm just watching the video, reading all the comments and wondering... *How in the world did I manage to get bored during history classes?!?* This is amazing!!! All the commentators adding details to its history and debunking slight imperfections in the video! Shows how vast and incapable of being summed up in a video Portugal's history is! I can remember studying some of these subjects, but, only now I see... Thank you... *Thank you everybody for making me see just how rich and interesting my country is in history!*
Yeshey ya, eu tambem. Que pena, mas.... não é tarde!!!
Speaking of the Iberian peninsula, I’m a bit surprised you haven’t covered Spain / the Spanish empire yet. *please do Spain* *please do Spain*
From a beautiful and powerful empire to a place to go on vacation
Damn it's just like Grece but our debt isn't as big
João Figueiredo Pereira Welp, seems like our histories merged again. Wouldn’t it be nice if both Brazil and Portugal retained it old imperial glory?
Carlos Saraiva That’s a valid point.
Our debt is 1/2 off Frankfurts GDP ( PIB ) só waht the Fuzz, it's just negative publicity to increase interstates...
Portugal is amazing, been there 3 times and i love it more everytime more
We are being invaded by tourists, its getting to unbereable levels, in the south where i live, its just hell, this was such a nice and calm place before...
As a brazilian, this is really weird to watch cuz it's like my history classes, but cool. Please do Brazil's independence someday, meu amigo Azul!
I find it odd to see so many things I'm only used to hearing in Portuguese and in my school like this...
I was really hoping he would say a few things about our _little_ country but nope
Perhaps in the future right?
BRASIL TUM TUM TUM
You know what else could be cool? The brazilian empire and the paraguayan war
Em verdade, é bem vago e um tanto impreciso
But at the end of the day, no one really cares about South America. And this is really shitty.
@@pliniomelo6295 A sad, long and nearly useless world that left one build country destroyed, and three yet-to-be built nations broke? Yeah, sounds like a nice topic to talk....
I'm from Portugal and the whole introduction is wrong
No it isnt he was right yes he ommited some stuff but it wasnt wrong
@@guilhermecastro9893 I'm talkinmg about the part where cristopher columbus kicked off anything, portugal already knew where the americas where and had started to settle there before cxristopher ever put is project forth to reach india all the way around, in fact it was because we knew what was there that we didnt fund is project and he then turned to the spanish crown
@@Mrkipousa97 yes that is true
So, that means the Portuguese started the slave trade of Africans to the Americas well before the voyages by Cristóbal Colón?
@@joselugo4536 yes and were the first to abolish it, but mind you taking inot account what you are saying Portugal wasn't the first to engage in slave trading
Nice, well produced video, despite having a few mistakes. I think this sums up most the Portuguese discoveries well! Gratz
Portugal is The first to arrive to Japan 💪💪💪
Words like tempura, Cristo, Sacramento. Cocept of chair that we brought from China. And even we contribuite the the unification of Japan. At that time in Japan were ruled by Shoguns. The stroger shoguns with ( Arcabuzes, weapons ), start to federate Japan
Aboard a Chinese ship? The first?
Nope...the Japanese beat them!
What about the Ainus, the shame of Japan, besides their whale-free oceans.
Check how Portugal is appropriating Spanish feats, as now the Portuguese pretend that Magellan never ceased to be Portuguese, as the King of Portugal stripped him from any legal obligation to the Portuguese Crown, so Magellan was free to serve Charles V King Emperor, the King of Portugal was so incensed that sent bands of assassins, warships, every dirty trick on the book, to stop Magellan, 2 fleets waiting in ambush at Cape of Good Hope, the place that the Portuguese fools left vacant for the Dutch, as they were afraid of the KhoiKhoi sharpened sticks, that put to sleep forever the Viceroy of India. So, to come in 2019, that Magellan did the circumnavigation of the globe is false, as HE died on transit. Sorry Portuguese, but your ridiculous trade war in the Indian Ocean was for control of spices, nothing of a well thought Crusade, say, why never invaded Mecca, just 80 km from the Red Sea? Why? Because the only thing the Portuguese wanted was riches, not converts.
Eu tou só feliz que um dos meus canais favoritos fez um vídeo sobre o meu país
eu também lol
Ya quase berei de felicidade
Eu também 😁
E eu!
Tb eu
Your videos are getting better and better, Blue! It has the same energy and cadence of your hijinks videos, and it wasn't even about Venice! Great video dude!
Great Channel! I'm from Brazil, but I respect my Portuguese Ancestors. And I like when somebody remembers Portugal. Subscribed...
this is indirectly about my country (Brazil) so, I needed to like and see this without skiping any thing
Isso mesmo meu irmão
@@starfyre59 exato
Se reparares, não é
@@KakosKairos eu disse Indiretamente
Vei, ele pulou o Brasil todinho XD Té lezo é?
You kind of skipped over the conquest of the Indian Ocean by jumping straight from exploration to ownership. Its a little disappointing, because that means you didn't get talk about Afonso de Albuquerque, the military genius who probably played the single largest role in establishing Portuguese dominance in the region.
Oh surely you mean the mass murderer of Native Indian Malabari Christians and Hindus was a saint. He did play the big gun diplomacy and conquered Goa, but placed the Jews, Native Christians and the Hindus under the apartheid regime. I am glad he did not include him.
@@nikhiljoshiPi Uh bro, I said military genius; not saint. I would probably rank him as the third or fourth greatest naval commander in history, and possibly the greatest at conducting amphibious assaults. Also, he was definitely very brutal and hostile toward Muslims in conquest and governance, but usually gave preferable treatment to the Hindus and Chinese who he often allied with to encourage direct trade with in place of overland Muslim intermediaries. A good example of this would be in his conquest of Malacca, in which during his siege by sea he let all Chinese and Hindu ships leave the harbor before the fighting started, and then after his conquest of the city ordered his men to only raid Muslim buildings, and to avoid all Chinese and Hindu ones. On a side-note I would also regard the Conquest of Malacca as being the height of Alfonso's tactical and diplomatic abilities.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Malacca_(1511)
For that he would also need to talk about Francisco de Almeida, the previous vice-roy that dealt a desicive blow to the Otomans making Portugal the only major player in the Indian ocean
@@nikhiljoshiPi we are all equal, except you, shut up indian
there's a lot of great info and corrections bellow! Wanted to drop a slight comment: Columbus had pitched his expedition west to the king of Portugal before he went to the Spanish crown, but was shot down. And in fact, there is a theory that Portugal knew about the New World and Brazil even BEFORE Columbus got to America. That is based on the negations of the Tordesilhas treaty (the one that decided the world in half between Portugal and Spain), since it initially had been set much more to the eats, only to be pushed west enough to allow Portugal to capitalize on Brazil.
Overall, despite beefing up the Spanish too much and making Portugal seem like we were the runner-ups (which we weren't), a very solid video
Thank you so much for this video! You made me feel proud of being Portuguese.
Blue, as a Filipino, I highly encourage you to read HOW Magellan got killed here. It's hilariously embarrassing in SOOOOOO many ways. Astounding navigator as he may be, military tactician he was not. Let's just say Leeroy Jenkins is looking at him and going "You're a reckless and overconfident idiot".
not as bad as Attila the Hun
@@artski09 I'd sure like to read how Attila tops "sending pretty sick men into battle", "completely refusing the superior numbers of his ally coz he's overconfident in their superior civilized power", "misjudging the tides so he ends up too far out of cannon range and thus having to wade thru the water", and "calling out to Lapu-Lapu's forces and thus ruin any element of surprise they still had".
reyonXIII the antichrist, the scourge of god died from ...
a nosebleed
Don't want to rely on Wikipedia, so why don't you tell us...
It was worse how Dom Francisco de Almeida, Viceroy of India, was slain by stone-age herders in March 1, 1510.
OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS
Oh jeez I'm so happy right now. Thank you Blue, you're amazing!
4:00 "SOUNDS FAIR" said nobody else on the planet. Boy I love this channel lol
Yeah, love seeing my country represented in such great channels!
Though, you forgot to mentioned certain aspects (nothing major but it's still interesting for anyone who wants to know...):
1) Portugal purposefully asked Spain to move the line that separated the two hemispheres a precise amount of space to the left. No one knows why but the theory states that they already knew how far Brazil was, as the line fits the country perfectly on Portugal's side.
2) King Sebastion was asked to have an heir before going to Africa but he refused to do so, and (fun fact) his death was so traumatizing for the whole nation that a legend/myth was made saying one day he'd come in a white horse in a foggy morning. Needless to say, that day never came...
3) King Philip became king of Portugal by marrying the princess, making him as eligible for the monarch title as the other two candidates (distant cousins and such). He won by convincing the higher social classes to be on his side.
4) There is one last reason that made Portugal go downhill, and that was what the king did with all the gold we had left from Brazil. Needless to say, we needed money badly to get us out of all the other problems the country was starting to find in its way, but like any other European monarch, the king decided it was best if all his vehicles and rooms and plates were dyed in gold, and we all suffered because of it.
Hope I could teach you something new, as this video did to me about my own country!
Yo momma's politically insignificant.
- Portugal
Yo Fck yrself. :V
@@MrMaxibombo Não entendeste o que ele quis dizer. O que ele disse foi uma referencia ao inicio do video, quando o narrador diz que Portugal era um país politicamente insignificante, o comentário dele é a dizer que Portugal está a chamar a mãe do narrador de politicamente insignificante
@@MrMaxibombo It's cool man, it's cool ;-)
Now we need Red's "Classic Sumarized" of the "Os Lusiadas", an epic poem by Luis Vaz de Camoes about the portuguese sea route to india, while, get this, alowing the Christian God and Roman/Greek gods in the same literary universe!
I need that movie to exist
I've been working on a translation...
Here's my version of the first stanza: I sing of arms, of noblemen outstanding
Who from Lusitania’s western shore
Set out on oceans never sailed before,
Yet beyond Taprobana sailing, landing,
Perils grave and many a war withstanding,
Beyond mankind’s familiar strength to endure,
Among those faraway hosts to erect
The sublime New Kingdom, and protect...
@@BlaqjaqshellaqDont try more...please!
@@Blaqjaqshellaq Do, try more...please.
But... you do know there is already a translation, don't you?
Colombo learned navigation in Portugal. Portugal didn't wait for Colombo to begin its exploration of the world.
A few points:
-Portugal was systematically mapping the coast of Africa and setting up trading posts all along previously unknown areas of West Africa 50 years+ before Columbus landed in the Americas. They colonized Madeira, the Azores, Fernando Po, and established Elimna Castle in Guniea which they would hold until the 1970s.
-One of the reasons why Portugal became so dominant in the Indian Ocean was that its government mandated its ships (and ships operating under its flag) be equipped with cannons.
-Portugal rejected Columbus's expedition because they knew Columbus's calculation of the distance was waaay off. Of course nobody knew that he would run into the Americas through dumb luck. So his bad navigation turned out to be a happy accident for Spain. However, Portugal's goal was India and Southeast Asia. They got there long before Spain.
AH DUDE! You didn't mention just how influential Portugal was on WORLD cuisine! Like they introduced the sweet-orange to the West. The sweet orange was not known in Europe or the Middle East until the Portuguese brought them in boats from China and the Far East. Many languages today use a derivation of the word 'Portugal' for Orange Turkish Persian Greek Albanian ect.. See My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Also the Portuguese introduced tempura to Japan.
There was a time in the 16th and 17th centuries when Asian merchants used Portuguese as a commercial "lingua franca," something like English today! (The Japanese word for bread, "pan," comes directly from Portuguese.)
@@Blaqjaqshellaq Not only that! A Jesuitic Monk called João Rodrigues actually had the balls to STANDARDIZE the mess that was the written japanese at the time! His work is referenced until today!
yes even in arabic, we call it "bortoqal"(برتقال)
@@KlavierMenn According to his wiki page he also went on various expeditions through china to show (sell?) portuguese cannons and train chinese forces on how to use them. Born in the valleys of Beira, what a life
Ok it's couple of years old and some recent facts are outdated, we did won a Eurovisão 😁, but summs up what Portugal did over the past years ua-cam.com/video/bqk9auab4FM/v-deo.html
A bit sad you didn't mention the expeditions that went further and further down the coast of Africa. Portugal did these for about a century and put markers on the furthest point they got until De Gama made it to India.
Also the fact they weren't on the Mediterranean was the main reason they captured Ceuta.
Also a bit odd you didn't mention they k'now captured and conquered cities like Malacca but bought others like Macau but that wasn't much of an important detail.
i mean, you really have to read way more about the history of this beautiful country. just throwing this out there, but thank you for making this and for sharing some parts of the history of Portugal.
Hello, Overly Sarcastic Product-. Thank you for yr interesting subjects and rich info. I also appreciate yr sarcastic sense of humour. Would u try to make yr clips longer for such stories? this way you mat put more sarcasm in yr clips. Thank U.
Blue please talk more about the earlier years in portugal history , because they are really amazing ^_^
The later years on Brazil were a really cool deal though
The Kingdom of Portugal was basically the creation of one man: Afonso the Conqueror!
@@Blaqjaqshellaq not really...the nobles were supporting him and gave him a lot of ideas...
I'm a simple person. I see Portugal; I watch.
And that's the way it is.
There are not nearly enough videos about Portugal's history
Thank you for this! ♥️
Love your fresh story telling style !
scholar of navigation, master of sailing, expert in naval tactics < *H O W T O B O A T*
Portugal has one of the most amazing(ly underated) histories. It's arguably one of the worlds oldest nation (in the post 19th century/fichte meaning of the word), clearly an overacheiving underdog that made it big. A nation usually defined by being "late to the party" and quite conservative, but also one that has learned the lessons of its political history. Really an unique and amazing place in terms of its geopolitics (and just politics).
Thank you for taking the time to talk about this lesser known rectangle, a great video worth viewing.
Portugal started european slave trade in 1441, colonized and destroyed Africa, and India.
Stole Brazilian gold and left death💀 everywhere they set foot, nothing great bout' that!
I just finished an essay test on Angola’s independence from the Portuguese. I did not study well for the test so I knew absolutely nothing about it, but I did know how the Portuguese first went into Africa from this video. Thank you a million times over because without this video i would probably would have finished with only a single paragraph on the page.
my country of Portugal has to transition to a more open society than the xenophobic society we have created since 1975 when the Salasar Dictatorship ended. We are currently in social and economic upheavel with no end in sight thanks to the Socialist Costa programs that have made us the poorest country in Western Europe.
Portugal has to make ammends with it's Slavery driven history of the past and return stolen territories to it's rightful owners such as the Azores islands to Greater Morocco.
the sopas dos pobres🥣 are *always open* in Portugal sister so come get your fix👍
a previously uninhabited island discovered and completely settled by the Portuguese in rightfully Moroccan?
moors were the first to discover, explore and settle the Azores Archipielago in the Atlantic. Portugal stole those islands later though
Blue pls do the Dutch Empire next
nobody in holland calls it a empire, but I would love some history about our colonization and trading or the 80 year war against spain
@@razagan1343 you may not call it an empire but it definitely was an empire just like Rome had an empire before it ever had an emperor.
@Prussian Eagle Nooo haha they definitely invaded/colonized parts of India and straight up conquered Sri Lanka, along with fighting European powers for their colonies in America, Brazil, the Virgin Islands etc. They also had Malayasia, a presence in the Middle East, Australia, and South Africa. They still own their old colonies of St Maarten as the Netherlands Antilles and I'm pretty sure I'm not even listing everything.
Prussian Eagle that’s the same as saying Portugal only had east-timor... the Dutch had colonies in the caribbean, north America, Suriname, Taiwan and sri lanka and had factories along the coasts of Africa, India and indonesia (before properly colonising indonesia)
@ForTaxReasons Meh. Don't need to, nothing much interesting. As a Dutchman, i've heard a bunch of it, and it's just war, murder and trade, except without anything like the portuegese or other empires that made it interesting.
As a Portuguese student, I've been waiting for this for a while. Thank you!
DAMMIT I THOUGHT A FLY WAS ON MY SCREEN!
As a portuguese I'm glad you took time to make a video covering the history of my country, but you could have been careful with some things you said
Portugal didn't follow anyone. My ancestors needed a trade route to India since the Ottomans (Constantinople sad nigga hours) were taxing it too heavily, so they searched around Africa. By 1460 Portugal had already colonized Cabo Verde. If someone followed, that someone was Spain.
The Treaty of Tordesilhas was not an "arbitrary line". It was a meridian outlined 370 leagues (an ancient measure) west of the island of Santo Antão (archipelago of Cabo Verde)
You should add at the end, when the monarchy was deposed [aka fucking kill the king in a cart, just like the Archduke Ferdinand (we did it first)], one of the main reasons for discontent was the lack of pride of the portuguese identity. I explain, in the late XIX century, Portugal was trying to do the most of what it had, Angola and Moçambique pratically. So we tried to unify those two (we call that "Mapa cor-de-rosa" (Pink Map)), but the english just yeeted that dream of ours and as good allies like they were, posed a fucking Ultimatum on our asses. So yeah, we ended up getting fucked, at least our king did in 1908. At least Britain lost India and a fuck ton more in the following years.
But yeah, good video overall
So, we're not gonna mention the chaotic fuck fest that was the 1st Republic? Governments after governments, weird shit happening,
I was really hoping to hear about Cape Bojador. If you don't know what that is, I highly recommend doing a deep dive on the topic
I'm little disappointed that you didn't mention Bartolomeu Dias and his ground work for Vasco's voyage. Portugal was already figuring out the way around africa years before Kolumbus set sail.
This is great.Our (USA) schools gloss over so much history,other than our own,and Western Europe(mostly England).
Bro... Portugal is western europe.. they didn t teach u that also
Is more western than England 😂😂😂 more matrix greek-roman😅
First let me say this, love America and Americans or some at least. I have sand from Omaha beach (Normandy) in my home as a sign of gratitude and respect BUT...
Your history? What history? You are a country for about 5 minutes. You can learn all about American history in a few days. And most of it are embellished lies, like the Alamo (loool), or your disastrous pacific campaign. Gen MacArthur was not a genius, he was an idiot. So was admiral Halsey who committed a terrible tactical mistake and got lucky.
Then we have Coreia, Vietnam, the war on drugs, Iraq and Afghanistan.
You treat your constitution as a Bible and your founding fathers as gods. Some of which were slave owner pedophiles. And one them and several cadavers under his home while he was in England. But I digress...
And by the way, yes you are the home of the brave...but no, you are not the land of the free.
I specifically remember learning about portugal and how awesome they were. Including Italy, France, Spain. Heck I even remember learning about Russia in High school. Maybe your school district sucked.
@@richardpatton2502 Not to mention the systematic genocide of the natives. Sioux, Mohawk, Apache and many many others,
I love the silly little guy on the chair he is so silly and funny I love it
My Vovo is portugese and I have always been interested about Portugal, so thanks for the video
Politically insignificant? Oh dear, my oh my!
Love you guys, makes education entertaining for those with short attention spans
I’m doing a project on Portugal for school and this helped a lot,thanks
Portuguese were destroyers of nations and Pirates 🇵🇹🏴☠
Reading tip: Portuguese Sea, from the words wizard Fernando Pessoa. It explains the emotional impact of portuguese seafaring. Of course, there is Os Lusíadas, the massive Luis de Camões epic, but it's a different subject altogether.
never forget
europe conquered the world for a spice rack
this is why the british did it so much
Europe conquered the east for spices. And then refused to put any on their food, cause spices are foreign, and thus like foreigners, dirty and beneath the pure white race and *racism intensifies*
@@sogghartha british food is by no mean all of europe.
italy spain greece germany and france are cross with you sir.
+sogghartha I realize you're trolling, bu I'd just like to point out: the cuisines of western europe all use cinnamon, clove, pepper, saffron, nutmeg, mustard seed, (reed) sugar, and ginger, and none of these spices are native to Europe.
And don't forget tea leaves, coffee beans, quinine (cinchona), cannabis, and poppy (opium).
+tim van rijn Have you ever been to the UK? British food is basically curry, kebab, only occasionally fish & chips.
+tim van rijn Lol you've clearly never been to the UK.
after all these years i still love how the english language translated Fernão de Magalhães to Ferdinand Magellan as they sound nothing alike
Portuguese were destroyers of nations and Pirates 🇵🇹🏴☠
It really grinds my gears how this video establishes Portugal's achievements as a reaction/response to Spains achievements when it was totally the other way around. Portugal's empire "starts" in 1413 with the conquest of Ceuta, Madeira was discovered in 1419, the azores in 1427, and they were already in the Gulf of Guinea by 1460, in their way of searching for a sea route to India. This was why Colombus, that studied in lisbon, wanted to try to sail westerwards. Because there was already a campaign by the portuguese to reach India.
The idea that Colombus journey started the European discoveries age is a complete misinterpretation of history from an American POV that completly overrates Christopher Columbus journey (no, no one in Europe "lost their collective minds". While certainly important, news of new lands being found were common place due to portuguese african exploration, and the knowledge that "a new world" had been found was only truly understood much later.) Portugal started the European age of exploration by trying to go around Africa, Spain sponsored Colombus after the portuguese king rejected his project because they also wanted to try to reach India and saw how Portugal was getting rich with african commerce and discovering lands, and then everyone else copycat on Spain that had copycat Portugal.
Sorry...I just had to get this out of my chest.
I don't know why the Portuguese say they are pioneers of navigation, ahead of Spain.
Empire of Aragon (Spain). Mediterranean power
-1282. Conquest of Sicily, defeating France
-1311. Conquest of Athens, defeating the Turks and Byzantines
-1385. First colonies in North Africa. Exploration of the Canary Islands in the 14th century
-1442. Conquest of the Kingdom of Naples
Castile (Spain). European power.
-1372. Battle of La Rochelle. Castile destroys 48 English ships, without losing any
-1380. Castilian invasion of southern England
-XIV century. Spain defeats the Hanseatic fleet, destroying 40 ships, in the North Sea.
-1404. Castile invades the Canary Islands (10 years before Portugal in Ceuta)
-1475. Castile's fleet reaches the Gulf of Guinea
SPAIN
-1492. Discovery of America. There is no proof of Portuguese explorations before 1492 in America, and that in any case they did not change the world. (Spain, the first country to be on 3 continents, crossing the sea, with people living on another continent). Christopher Columbus and the Spanish fleet changed the world. Pinzón (Spanish) arrived in Brazil 4 months before Cabral. Orellana traveled the entire Amazon River for the first time in 1542
-The Portuguese skirted the coast of Africa (already explored by the Arabs and the Romans, in part. Portugal completes that exploration) and arrived in India in 1498. Portugal is on 4 continents.
But the earth has 5 continents. The Spanish Magellan-Elcano expedition fulfills the dream of Christopher Columbus to travel to Asia through the West. Elcano goes around the world for the first time. First global empire. Spain puts a belt around the earth and shows that it is round. Annexation of the Portuguese empire in 1580 (Duke of Alba and Álvaro de Bazán, undefeated general and admiral in Europe and Africa)
Portugal had very good sailors. Spain had very good sailors. The two explorations are parallel, in any case.
Spain had an empire in Europe (200 years in the Netherlands, 60 years in Portugal, 70 years in Greece, 160 years in parts of France and Germany, 450 years in Italy, domain of the Vatican). The Spanish influence in Europe was extraordinary in every sense (political, military, cultural, religious). Spain saved the Catholic religion in Europe. Portugal was small, and could not have an empire in Europe. Spain had a decisive influence in Asia and Oceania, with Spanish silver and explorations in the Philippines, Taiwan, Borneo, Cambodia, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and all the archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii (Spanish map of the XVI century) and New Zealand (Spanish helmet of the XVI century), and in the independence of the United States, defeating the British and giving the Spanish dollar to the United States.
@@Gloriaimperial1 mate, I don't think Spanish achievements aren't great, they are. And it's true that Castille started colonizing the Canary islands (which were fairly well known...it wasn't like they were discovered by Castille" prior than the conquest of Ceuta. But the goal of reaching new undiscovered lands came with the Portuguese goal of going around Africa. The first reported lands never seen by Europeans were from Portuguese african exploration, not Spanish.
Has for the first global empire thing, even the Guiness World Records points the Portuguese with that title. And it makes since. From New Foundland to Nagazaki, passing through Brazil, Azores, a bunch of African, middle eastern and asian small colonies, as well as the indonesian spice islands.
And you cant count the Iberian Union (not Spain) as "Spanish Empire". The Tomar Cortes Agreement is clear that Portugal never lost its independence, although it had the same king as Spain. When Filipe III of Portugal (Felipe IV of Spain) wanted to end Portugal's independence and make it a part of Spain, the revolt took place. So the Spanish empire never included Brazil, or India, or Japan or Macau... They were always under the administration of the Portuguese empire, even if the king was the same. So no "absortion" can be said to have happened.
@@Tusiriakest I have nothing against the Portuguese legacy. I like that an Iberian country has such successes. But I am surprised by the many Portuguese who establish a rivalry with Spain, minimizing Spain's achievements, as if it were a competition. "Christopher Columbus was Portuguese, America was already discovered, the Spanish sailors did not know how to navigate...". Only then do I speak here of what Spain did. There was no Iberian base outside the Iberian Peninsula before 1404, when Castile arrived in the Canary Islands (which, in fact, were known, among others, by Majorcan sailors from Spain and Genoese, and Portuguese). But if we talk about Ceuta in 1415, as the beginning of globalization, because the Portuguese crossed the small Strait of Gibraltar, and made their first base there, we have to talk about the Canary Islands in 1404, as the first Iberian base in Africa. I think the Portuguese were more willing to connect Asia with Europe, bringing spices, especially when the Turks close the Venetian spice road. But that only starts in 1498 (not before,) when the Portuguese arrive in India. Spain arrives in America (establishing itself there, not only sporadic contacts) in 1492). There was previous traffic during the fourteenth century with Africa, such as the Gulf of Guinea, where the Portuguese take advantage. The Spanish (Empire of Aragon) had a very intense trade in Italy, Greece and North Africa, since the 13th century. Actually, the Iberian Peninsula has always been connected to African products, since the Muslims invaded the peninsula, with routes that penetrated deep into Africa. There were black people on the peninsula in the 10th, 11th centuries... All the African land above the Gulf of Guinea was known to the Arabs. The Portuguese arrive to the south of the Gulf of Guinea, after the discovery of America in 1492. But I don't mind admitting that the Portuguese were more active in the exploration of Africa. But they discovered new lands (undiscovered by the Arabs) when the Spanish had already discovered America (the Vikings came to America, but that didn't change the world. Christopher Columbus changed the world). The Guinness World Records is a British institution. The British have never been very friendly with Spain.
Does globalization begin when a country brings products from Europe, America, Africa and Asia to Europe? Is globalization 4, 5 or 6 continents discovered? The first trip around the world is made by Spain, bringing products from deep Oceania for the first time. I mean that they are parallel explorations: the Empire of Aragon and Portugal in North Africa, Castile in the Canary Islands in 1404, Portugal in Ceuta in 1415, Portugal on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea, Castile competing with Portugal in the Gulf of Guinea (although Portugal wins ), Spain in America in 1492, Portugal in India in 1498, Spain in Oceania in 1522...
The first global empire, with all the oceans within that empire, is the empire of Philip II. Felipe II even decides who is the governor of India or Portugal or Brazil. The capital of that empire is in Madrid. British India had 560 independent princes. The British cannot rule every kingdom, but everyone agrees that India was administered by the British, with foreign policy in the hands of the British. Look at the map of the British empire in India. Remember how Portugal was conquered, with the Duke of Alba. It is not that the Portuguese feel humiliated by it. We have all had military invasions. Spain was at war against 5 European powers in the XVI-XVII centuries, to defend the Catholic religion (France, England, the Netherlands, Protestant Germany and the Turkish Empire) and we could not allow the political independence of Portugal, (if Felipe was the son of of a Portuguese queen and he had a right to the throne!). Spain acted like this everywhere. No matter what this or any other treaty says, any sign of Portuguese independence (politically, territorially) means another Spanish invasion at that time. The same in Italy or Belgium or Franche-Comté.
If you tell me that the Portuguese administered the Portuguese empire... Yes. The Italian or Belgian mayors also took care of administering their cities. But there was only one king, and this king lived in Madrid. I repeat that Spain was forced to invade those countries, because the entire Catholic and Mediterranean civilization was in danger at that time.
@@Gloriaimperial1 I don’t think there is a hatred associated with Spain or Spanish history. I only think that there are contested history perceptions from both sides of the border. And I also think there is a reaction to what is perceived as an injustice in judging the role of the iberian kingdoms in the discovery age. I think there is a variety of facts that can sustain claims from both sides, nevertheless, the view of Portugal’s role as pioneering exploration seems right to me. Portugal was by far the country that discovered most previously unknown and inhabited lands. The first european attempts to conquer the Canary Islands were Portuguese, not spanish, in 1336. The madeira and azores were discovered in 1341 and 1420, Gil Eanes reached Cape Verde in 1445, Diogo Cão reached Namibia in 1484, all before Columbus reached the Americas. Ceuta is just a symbolic date to count that start of European exploration.
As for the “conquest” of Portugal, it simply isn’t so. Filipe I(Felipe II of Spain) went to great lengths to legitimise his claim before entering Portugal. Alba’s campaign had the intent of putting down a rebellion from forces opposing the Iberian Union, but the clergy and most of the nobility were in favor of Filipe’s claim. ( although this was seen at the time as a defeat. Even Marquês das Minas, when the Portuguese army conquered Madrid in 1706, said he was “finally avenging Alba’s entering in Lisbon”). Felipe II was the one that called for a Dual Monarchy, legitimising is claim by separating the two empires. There wasn’t an equivalent with other kingdoms under the Habsburg monarch. The king could even only use his powers according to Portuguese law, which were smaller than in Spain. This status was respected until 1628, when for the first time, and two kings latter, a tax was demanded by the king bypassing the Portuguese courts. Uprises started immediately in 1929 and lasted until the full declaration of the end of the crown union. So one can say that de facto Portugal was part of the spanish empire for 11 years. But never de iuris.
@@Tusiriakest Portugal the country that discovered the most land (inhabited and uninhabited)? It seems spectacular to me that the Portuguese had colonies all over the coast of Africa and Asia, including Brazil.
But remember that Spain discovered America, Oceania, Antartida, Parts of Asia, while our army and fleet attacked France, Italy, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland...
Spanish discoveries.
-Amazon, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Central America, Andes, Tierra del Fuego, all the Caribbean islands, (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Bahamas, Bermuda...) Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado (Colorado canyon ), California, New Mexico, Maine, Virginia, North Carolina, Vancouver Island-St. Michael, southern Alaska, western coast of Canada. More than 20 million km2. Not only the coast, but deep explorations, 2,000 or 3,000 km within South and North America.
-Africa (inhabited areas) Canary Islands, Algiers, Oran, Tripoli, parts of Morocco, Sources of the White Nile in Ethiopia, interior of Equatorial Guinea. Remember that the Arabs had reached the Gulf of Guinea and Mozambique before the Portuguese.
-Asia: Philippines (7000 islands), Persepolis in Iran,.
-Oceania: Polynesia, Kiribati, Guam, Micronesia, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Marquesas Islands, Mariana Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand (Spanish helmet, XVI century), Hawaii (Spanish map XVI century)
-Antarctica.
Spain made these explorations while we were invading Italy, France, Germany, the coast of England, parts of Ireland and Scotland, the Netherlands...
The Portuguese empire outside Europe never had more than 11 million km2. The Spanish empire had 20 million km2 (almost all of it is land that Europeans did not know). India and the Middle East was known to Alexander the Great and the Arabs. Brazil has 8.5 million km2, and the Amazon (Orellana, Aguirre...) and the coast had been explored by Spain (Pinzón)
The Genoese and Majorcans (Balearic Islands) were in the Canary Islands at the same time or before the Portuguese. Finally the point 0 of the Spanish exploration is 1404, conquest of the Canary Islands.
The Marquis of Minas in 1707 is like the Spanish blue division in Russia in 1942-44. We won some battles against the Russians, but we cannot say that we conquered Russia. They are small expeditionary armies in a context of war with 15 or 20 powers, with much larger armies.
Does that serve to say that Spain conquered Russia, or that Portugal conquered Spain? Portugal was ruled by Philip II after that war, and the Marquis of Minas arrived within another 7-8 power army.
The Independence of Portugal after 1640 was in a context where Spain was simultaneously at war with France, England, Protestant Germany, the Netherlands, the Turkish Empire, control of Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Morocco, Berber pirates, Mapuches from Chile, Apaches from North America, Moro Filipinos... We beat the French in Italy, Catalonia and Belgium. Portugal could not win a direct war against Spain. None of these European powers reached Madrid before 1700, during the civil war between the supporters of the house of Bourbon and the house of Austria.
Spain had 4 and a half times the population of Portugal. It is as if the 47 million Spaniards were fighting against a country of 197 million inhabitants (Germany, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium) with respect to Spain.
Although a lot of mistakes and oversimplification, finally a historian youtuber that remembered the great empire of Portugal!