Leif Erikson: "I found a land beyond the sea, with friendly people too!" Scandinavia: "Oh, cool! How much loot is there?" Erikson: "Actually they don't seem to have much gold on them at all." Scandinavia: "I'm gonna pretend like we never had this conversation."
Columbus: "I found a land beyond the sea, with friendly people too!" Europe: "Oh, cool! Do they have spices?" Columbus: "No, just these potato things." Europe: "I'm gonna pretend like we never had this conversation."
@@Amlaeuxrai it would be pretty convenient. Out of all the dozen languages I'm familiar with to some degree, Norwegian is by far the simplest and easiest. It really is like simplified English both grammatically and pronunciation-wise. Yes, it surprised me too, but it's true.
Idk about friendly people more, "Those strange people arrived, built a big hall, and started shooting us with invisible dart guns. I don't like them very much, let's not be friends. Oh good they left."
They find new planets all the time, some even potentially habitable. Until we have the ability to visually image them, most people will shrug and say "neat". If we set up a gravitational lens telescope on our own sun that let us take actual, high-res pictures of planets in distant solar systems, then people might be more excited.
@@planescapedAnd if we find actually living life on them, that would be the story of the century. Though hopefully unintelligent life cause that usually never ends well.
People being disappointed that America was in the way of Asia feels kind of like spotting a UFO one night and being a bit irked that it blocked your view of the stars.
@@looinrims in the 17th century Spanish America made less money than the province of the Netherlands. People just don't see that America was for a long time "a backwater continent almost devoid of people". Asia was the moneymaker, but even Africa was way richer than America. HECK there were kingdoms in India which were worth more than America. France preferred to loose the Louisiana and Canada than Haiti. Much of North America was quite literally worth nothing.
"Vespucciville" might be my new favorite name for a place, that doesn't actually exist. Just imagine how different history would have been if that was the actual word given to the Western Hemisphere. On second thought, the United States of Vespucciville just doesn't have the same ring to it. I'm glad they used his first name, rather than his last.
It's one of the leading arguments that it isn't named after Vespucci at all. Most placenames named after explorers or their expeditions take their last name, not their first. There is a theory that it was named after either a Welsh navigator on John Cabot's expedition, or a Welsh patron of Cabot's expedition. That being Richard ap Meurige (anglicised as Amerike).
@@itisprofile yes I guess Europe is feminine female name. Definitely Asia. And China..and India..Africa. I didn't know there's even human females named "China," I thought yeah what about China? Oh wait that's the females name this is weird. Ok I guess but I didn't think about it logically because I then went out in a grammatical Nazi fashion of sorts and ended up making enemies
James Bisonette is hands-down the most loyal person I have ever heard being mentioned time and time again for three three years as a patron supporter, hats off to this great individual
I don't know why I found it so funny but I laughed out loud when he said that the new lands were named after Amerigo Vespucci and VESPUCCIVILLE appeared in giant letters over it
In the (what-if type) series DaVinci's Demons there is a scene where Leonardo and Amerigo et. al. follow clues that lead to the Aztec Empire. Amerigo stays near the landing site so they can make a quick getaway if things go sideways. He tells DaVinci, "...if you're not back by then, I'll name this place after myself......Vespuccia!" I fell off the couch laughing!
The debates regarding the humanity of the natives were really interesting. With the Church’s intervention they concluded that they were indeed human and had a soul (they were still awfully mistreated in the Caribbean tho)
“Did you know, there’s a whole other FREAKING CONTINENT out there!” “And you think I should care about this, why?” “Oh I’m sorry, did I forget to mention that there’s GOLD EVERYWHERE!” “Gold...? AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!”
@@YahyeAli-ki1wt Civilization is a very loose term. Did they have some form of governance, culture and so on? Yes, but it was extremely primitive compared to asian and european civilizations, thousands of years behind in fact.
if it had a rare resource that can solve a major issue on earth, like edible plants that digest methane, or a chemical compound on the planet that can heal a mjor health issue like Aids or cancer, or a thing people did seek for ever like the Elixir of youth etc...... then people will invest heavily in it. what most people don't realize is that for all of human history, the greedy and power hungry always ruled, and not the curious or the most compassionate, that's why our advancement is slow.
Columbus didn't think it was Asia later on, only literally like the first time he saw it till he started exploring it more and saw the massive rivers in south america and knew it was a new continent.
Interesting as always. Can we have an episode explaining how long distance communication worked in the past and generally how long it took? Especially when it comes to overseas travel and language barriers.
Better than you may think. In 1518 a letter from Mechelen (the Flemish city that was the de facto capital of the Spanish Empire, where Carlos V lived) to Paris took less long than in 2018.
@@alexcuenca404 I mean it's an Englishman behind the Chanel, what more do you expect (_^~^)- Out of Plain Curiosity, what will You do to this Video/Chanel to make it less Anglocentric, seemed quite Neutral to me...
@@cerebrummaximus3762 for the Spanish pony of view to have a little bit more of relevance. The discovery of America was a huge deal for us and for the Portuguese
the Ottawa museum recognized that the portuguese settlements in terra nova and labrador date back 16 years before the official discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus. they would have been discovered by fishermen from the azores in search of cod, much appreciated, but rare in azorean waters. however, it is very difficult to be absolutely sure because the villages were razed during the French occupation and most of the documents related to the Portuguese empire were destroyed during the Lisbon earthquake. we don't even know half of what the lisbon archives could tell us ...
Honestly can’t believe you don’t have 1 mil subs. I have recently found your channel and, as a History teacher, I will be sharing your videos with my students to help them understand what they are learning about in more breadth and depth. Keep up the hard work 👍
@@dcarbs2979 no, not 400 years later. Idk if youre on about the Gold Rush but there was a variety of things that profited spain and other colonial powers but I wanna keep it
Yeah, same it's not that I don't learn anything in history class. My teachers actually do a very good job it's just that I like learning about different things.
The schools I feel like help us, but do it in the hardest ways for like a hour. While watch this once and its like school in 3 minutes. And than use an hour on these videos, +100 bih brain.
Here's an idea: What happened after the defeat of Napoleon and the Restoration? Did lords just go to the peasants and say we own you again? Did the soldiers just switch sides and went pro-monarchy? Were there any attempts to immediately overthrow the king? Ultimately, how did the people react to the restoration of feudalism after 30 years of fighting it?
I think In France people reacted pretty badly and Napoleon even made a comeback showing french people still loved him. The rest of Europe still saw him as an oppressor and thus for germans, Italians and Spanish it was seen as a liberation though it also brought new revolutionary ideas which burssed in 1848 during the spring of the people.
Thats a really good idea for a video! Did they really reinstate feudalism and the ancient regime? I thought they only reinstated the monarchy... but I'm honestly not sure.
Essentially, Louis XVIII (Louis XVI's brother) restored some noble prerogatives and attempted to compensate nobles and the clergy for lands lost during the Revolution, but he knew he couldn't undo what the Revolution had achieved in terms of equality before the law, nationalizing and selling Church lands (which made up 6% of French lands in 1789), and instituting new local administrations like the préfets in the départements, or even going back to an absolute monarchy. The nobility of the First Empire was maintained, but gradually sidelined, especially after the Hundred Days and Waterloo. Louis XVIII refused to have a constituant assembly draft a Constitution due to previous experience, but accepted granting a Charter which basically acted the same way but came from the king and not an elected assembly. The king wasn't quite "chosen by God" anymore, more by "Providence", but more emphasis was put on the centuries of monarchical tradition. There were two houses of Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Peers, but the lower house (the former) was elected by 100,000 men, based on a poll tax (300 francs), which excluded even the business bourgeoisie, only giving power to noble hereditary landowners (which caused the 1830 revolution). The king appointed the prime minister (president of the Council of ministers), who had to command a majority in Parliament. Basically, it was both an attempt at compromise between the legacy of the Revolution and the Empire and the restoration of the old order, while at the same time basing itself off the British model. Charles X, who succeeded his brother Louis XVIII, was an Ultra-Royalist who attempted to bring back the Ancien Régime, even having himself coronated at Rheims, which his brother hadn't done and which most people found utterly ridiculous. That eventually backfired in 1830, when, after losing a snap election to the liberal faction, he dissolved the Chambers, suspended freedom of the press and modified the rules for the legislative elections, which promptly triggered the July Revolution in which he was ousted and Louis-Philippe of Orléans became king of the French in the more liberal and constitutional July Monarchy, which put the emphasis on national sovereignty, the legacy of the Revolution, and widened the voter base.
oh dang that actually had happened when i was in school I said to someone a really funny joke once and when he told the others everybody praised his achievement cause they liked him more lol
1:35 there was no Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth back then. It was formed in 1569, under Lublin Union. Also, Teutonic Order didn't have access to Livonia under Melen Peace of 1422.
It wasn't even one of the lands that vanished in mid-map! Either he forgot to draw Denmark, or that place is so forgotten, he doesn't even acknowledge its existence!
"Hey England, there's new lands across the ocean." "Eh..." "France is sending colonists over there to trap beaver." *"IN 1607, WE SAILED THE OPEN SEA, FOR GLORY, GOD, AND GOLD, AND THE VIRGINIA COMPANY"*
"I found a thing." In fact, I found several things in this video that were just clever and hilarious. But if I may make a request--when texts and blurbs go by, please slow them down just a bit as I couldn't read them quickly enough. Had to back track the video a few times to make sure I got the messages--very clever and delightful they typically are. Thank you History Matters--one of the very best history channels out there. Your devoted fan and subscriber.
Makes sense that kind of news would only excite merchants, even when trade boomed in the East even then people didn't really care or perhaps when the east opened up to Europe after the first crusade, it didn't have an impact on their lives.
Kinda funny when you think about it. Many of those historical events we today see as big deals that changed everything were probably regular old days for most of the people living at that time
This video misses one important point. There was a deep and long-lasting ideological effect on European thinking. Up until that point, medieval Europe had looked back in time for inspiration in exploring the world's truths. Ancient Rome and Greece were held up as pinnacles of civilization, philosophy, and science. But when the new world was found, as one thought leader of the time was quoted as saying, the Europeans had now discovered something the Ancients never dreamed of. By this line of argument, it is no coincidence that Copernicus developed his heliocentric model in the early 1500s, starting at almost exactly the same time when people finally realized Columbus had discovered a new continent. The discovery of the new world "broadened the horizons" of Europe in more ways than one.
Love your videos! Minor correction: I think the longitudes behind which Brazil was to be found wasn't actually granted by the Spanish-leaning Spanish pope, but by skilled negotiations Portugal had with Spain later. But History Matters makes me question my knowledge now ;p
@@CausticSpace Belgium is ISP and a few other people (fictional country, really just part of France, etc). Finland is reference to a meme that says the error in world population being about the size of population of Finland, therefore Finland may or may not exist.
Hi "History Matters Dude". New fan here. Loving your videos buddy. If you do Requests could you look up something called Jallianwala Bagh? It's to do with Indian history, I'm sure your independent research will tell you the whole story including the explosive ending to the whole saga. I'm sure a whole bunch of Indians would love to see your depiction of this tragic event and it's unexpected end. Cheers mate. Keep up the brilliant work. Love from India!
Europe's reaction to the discovery of the Americas is basically how a parent reacts to their kid doing something they don't care about 😂 Columbus: Europe, Europe look! I found a new thing! Euorpe: That's great sweetie...
I remember the discovery of the new world. There was a pretty cool article in the daily newspaper about it, next to the one about the rising popularity of a bevarage called coffee and the one that was about property developers evading land tax by building multi-story houses. Then I had to get off the chariot and go back to work.
So, like I said, the place is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed" and this sign says "Formerly Chuck's", which means that when Chuck owned the place, well, I don't have to tell you…
I love this tiny cult this channel has. I want this channel to grow but I believe this is the peak of History matters. Soon it'll have millions of followers and will lose it's touch
@@sapphoschild3019 I like to Call it the Milne Effect, named After the Author of Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, who Capitalised certain Random letters for Emphasis. It also helps People read the things you Write easier if you Use it.
Idea: what exactly did the Roman senate do during the imperial period? Because I heard that commodus had a bunch of senators killed, so if he was paranoid enough to want them dead, they must have still had some purpose.
The senate in Rome in fact survived the fall of the Western Empire in 476 AD, and existed until at least 603AD, it ceased to exist later in the 600s though. This was revived in the 1100s under the medieval commune of Rome, and the title of Senator was preserved under the papal states as a sort of civilian officer well until the 19th century. In 395AD, a second senate was created (for Constantinople) that existed until the 1400s.
0:57 They actually did think he found a new continent/islands off of the coast of Asia, not just "India," since even the maps Columbus had said there shouldn't have been land there.
The "landed in India" myth comes from later language associations and revisionist history. Because the native peoples somehow got called "Indians" along the way (origins of the term are hotly debated), some bright spark decided that Columbus must have confused them for people from India. Except that in 1492 the European world knew the place we call India by the name Hindustan. So if the myth were true, he would have called the natives "Hindustanis" and the racial slurs in cowboy movies would be very different.
"The English were much more concerned with whether or not to fight France that day."
I love this channel
This is golden.
God tier history jokes.
The roulette wheel because, you know, the Bissonettes.
That why, I subscribed this channel.
usually the answer was yes
"Whether to fight France that day"
Sums up most of history of Anglo-French relations
Most days? Yes. Some days? Get ready because we fight them tomorrow.
Oh yeah yeah
Or Polish-Lithuanian-Teuton history.
More like was wondering whether to fight or ally France that day...
What makes this funnier is that england was rules by the french via the normans. So france do you want to invade france?
Leif Erikson: "I found a land beyond the sea, with friendly people too!"
Scandinavia: "Oh, cool! How much loot is there?"
Erikson: "Actually they don't seem to have much gold on them at all."
Scandinavia: "I'm gonna pretend like we never had this conversation."
Columbus: "I found a land beyond the sea, with friendly people too!"
Europe: "Oh, cool! Do they have spices?"
Columbus: "No, just these potato things."
Europe: "I'm gonna pretend like we never had this conversation."
Should've looked further south. Imagine a world where we'd be speaking Norwegian instead of English..... pure horror
@@Amlaeuxrai it would be pretty convenient. Out of all the dozen languages I'm familiar with to some degree, Norwegian is by far the simplest and easiest. It really is like simplified English both grammatically and pronunciation-wise. Yes, it surprised me too, but it's true.
@@mysteriousDSF I'm german, and imo Norwegian is snow-German with senseless grammar. Been a bit of a running joke with a Norwegian friend of mine
Idk about friendly people more, "Those strange people arrived, built a big hall, and started shooting us with invisible dart guns. I don't like them very much, let's not be friends. Oh good they left."
I love how simple yet complex these animations are. There are so many nuances and subtleties and I can’t get enough of it.
I love how the discovery of the Americas can be summed up as “Cool but how can we get to Asia?”
The Silk Road, The Red Sea, & the long way around Africa!!!
@@darkdragon7210yeah but they just wanted a quicker route by going around the globe, except there was America
I mean how would you react if they found a new planet?
"Huh, that's neat. Back to work"
it has oil on it...
@@OnionChoppingNinja i'm not a US citizen, don't work in the army, so, back to work guys
Now most of them minor planets discoveries are like "We have been following this minor rock for ten months, lets follow another!"
They find new planets all the time, some even potentially habitable.
Until we have the ability to visually image them, most people will shrug and say "neat". If we set up a gravitational lens telescope on our own sun that let us take actual, high-res pictures of planets in distant solar systems, then people might be more excited.
@@planescapedAnd if we find actually living life on them, that would be the story of the century. Though hopefully unintelligent life cause that usually never ends well.
"Like most Spanish dreams this one was brought to an end by the Portuguese." Oooof.
Portugal loves History Matters
They try to crush our independence, we crush their dreams. It's how it works
"We want to own all of Iberia!"
"Não"
@@jacintovski Sounds like a toxic relationship ngl
Every time they try to invade Portugal, they get a nasty surprise. Now the Spanish only invade Portugal as tourists, just to be safe. :D
People being disappointed that America was in the way of Asia feels kind of like spotting a UFO one night and being a bit irked that it blocked your view of the stars.
Well, they didn't know how big and resourceful it was. At that time Asia was the real Moneymaker
little do they know the stars are UFO's (my tin foil hat proves my theory)
@@secretname4190 I was waiting for someone to mention this (:
@@alejandroojeda1572 Asia was still the moneymaker even later on, recall the opium wars influences
@@looinrims in the 17th century Spanish America made less money than the province of the Netherlands. People just don't see that America was for a long time "a backwater continent almost devoid of people".
Asia was the moneymaker, but even Africa was way richer than America. HECK there were kingdoms in India which were worth more than America.
France preferred to loose the Louisiana and Canada than Haiti. Much of North America was quite literally worth nothing.
"Vespucciville" might be my new favorite name for a place, that doesn't actually exist. Just imagine how different history would have been if that was the actual word given to the Western Hemisphere.
On second thought, the United States of Vespucciville just doesn't have the same ring to it. I'm glad they used his first name, rather than his last.
USV! USV! USV!
It's one of the leading arguments that it isn't named after Vespucci at all. Most placenames named after explorers or their expeditions take their last name, not their first. There is a theory that it was named after either a Welsh navigator on John Cabot's expedition, or a Welsh patron of Cabot's expedition. That being Richard ap Meurige (anglicised as Amerike).
@@itisprofile No actually, I didn't.
@@itisprofile yes I guess Europe is feminine female name. Definitely Asia. And China..and India..Africa. I didn't know there's even human females named "China," I thought yeah what about China? Oh wait that's the females name this is weird. Ok I guess but I didn't think about it logically because I then went out in a grammatical Nazi fashion of sorts and ended up making enemies
Vespucciville does sound funny. I like The United States of Smash way better on the highway on my ridgeway YUPEEE!
James Bisonette is hands-down the most loyal person I have ever heard being mentioned time and time again for three three years as a patron supporter, hats off to this great individual
I’ve always assumed it’s the narrator - I mean, presumably he’s the biggest contributor
I don't know why I found it so funny but I laughed out loud when he said that the new lands were named after Amerigo Vespucci and VESPUCCIVILLE appeared in giant letters over it
You're not alone. I did the same.
In the (what-if type) series DaVinci's Demons there is a scene where Leonardo and Amerigo et. al. follow clues that lead to the Aztec Empire. Amerigo stays near the landing site so they can make a quick getaway if things go sideways. He tells DaVinci, "...if you're not back by then, I'll name this place after myself......Vespuccia!"
I fell off the couch laughing!
I shall now refer to the continents as Vespucciville
Me too Lol
Richard amerike sponsored John Cabot, but after the revolution they didn't want America named after a Brit. So they ce up with the Vespucci version
"How did Europe react to the discovery of the New World?"
*Unexpectedly.*
Nobody Expects the Spanish Inqusition !
well, they sure seemed to have loved those potatoes that were brought back
Well
"So you're saying there's another goddamn landmass blocking the way to Asia? Fantastic."
@@ecurewitz And the gold.
"Guys we just found a whole new continent!"
"Eh. Meh. Oh look a frenchman!"
"Let's challenge him!"
Polish Kingdom: ,,Ok, whateve... oh shoot, my King died!"
I fart at the continents general direction!
- A French Lord, circa 1500's
"I hate them French, they even speak French! How dare they... "
@@Admiral45-10 hmm... It think we need a Jagiellon
The debates regarding the humanity of the natives were really interesting. With the Church’s intervention they concluded that they were indeed human and had a soul (they were still awfully mistreated in the Caribbean tho)
Michael Wood wrote a fab book about this. The first legal rights of humanity, enshrined human rights 500 years ago. Go Spain! 🎉
@@belbrighton6479poor spain, they had one time of glory and then they became irrelevant forever lol
“Did you know, there’s a whole other FREAKING CONTINENT out there!”
“And you think I should care about this, why?”
“Oh I’m sorry, did I forget to mention that there’s GOLD EVERYWHERE!”
“Gold...? AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!”
Spains consolation prize would have to be soooo much silver and gold, that they would temporarily and accidently fuck up their currency and economy
I see, an Oversimplified fan
Truly a man of culture.
Using an oversimplified meme?
There’s a tax for that.
@@idotso hey its a stumpy little manlet
@@idotso woah it's a big stick
Basically:
Europe: "Neat, a new continent or two. Anyways-"
@Luís Andrade Norway: Old news
Europe: Island or Continent? Anyways: Conquere it anyways.
@Luís Andrade england: hoaks, fake i'll show you what real business looks like
@Luís Andrade see, even Norway din't care :)
@@YahyeAli-ki1wt Civilization is a very loose term. Did they have some form of governance, culture and so on? Yes, but it was extremely primitive compared to asian and european civilizations, thousands of years behind in fact.
How to discover an Alien-Planet be like:
"Interesting, but still have our own problems on Earth."
they have oil
@@OnionChoppingNinjaBy the time we actually go to the world and back fossil fuels will most likely be long since obsolete.
if it had a rare resource that can solve a major issue on earth, like edible plants that digest methane, or a chemical compound on the planet that can heal a mjor health issue like Aids or cancer, or a thing people did seek for ever like the Elixir of youth etc...... then people will invest heavily in it.
what most people don't realize is that for all of human history, the greedy and power hungry always ruled, and not the curious or the most compassionate, that's why our advancement is slow.
Won't matter till we can get there.
@@OnionChoppingNinja USA: Lets bring democracy for aliens !1!111!!
“Like most Spanish dreams, this one was brought to an end by the Portuguese.“
That was a damn good joke.
Not only that, it's completely accurate.
Pls pass me the historycal context :(
I had to pause to laugh for a while
@@zap3231 no examples
I see no joke, only facts
GOD these videos are the best quality. That switch between Cuba and Guinea is the best explanation of Columbus' confusion I have ever seen
1:45 "Try not to die today."
How relatable.
Columbus: "Hey guys! I found Asia!"
Europe: "You found Asia?" :D
Americo: "No, it's the New World."
Europe: "Eh." :/
"Not nice Christopher, now go sail back there so you can think about what you have done"
Portugal was the firt to reach Asia
@@martimking1craft yes. We know. It was literally said in the video.
Columbus didn't think it was Asia later on, only literally like the first time he saw it till he started exploring it more and saw the massive rivers in south america and knew it was a new continent.
I am a simple man, I see History Matters, I click.
I like your name and profile picture
@@windwaker105 What is his profile pic?
@@angelsaavedra633 British and American flag
*and like
@@angelsaavedra633 it is the top left of the American flag, with the bottom right of the Union Jack, put together as one flag
1:04 The entirety of Portugal loves you.
Can confirm
he is already our idole.
we are already opening a space for him in the pantheon.
I'm sorry Camões, it's not personal. we need space.
@@Duck-wc9de now we need to compile all the sentences regarding Portugal, and we have our work of art!
Portugal, ruining Spain's fun since 1492
@@clementlefevre5384 No, since 1143.
Interesting as always.
Can we have an episode explaining how long distance communication worked in the past and generally how long it took? Especially when it comes to overseas travel and language barriers.
Better than you may think. In 1518 a letter from Mechelen (the Flemish city that was the de facto capital of the Spanish Empire, where Carlos V lived) to Paris took less long than in 2018.
0:46 “Dear Europe, I found Asia. Now name a day after me. Love, Chris” lol
2:09 “Empire as consolation prize”
Spain:”Eh... I guess a massive empire will due”
do*
All the perspective impregnated in this video is so Anglo-centric... But as they rule the world, I'd rather say no more 😒
Do i care about spain ? HELL NO
@@alexcuenca404 I mean it's an Englishman behind the Chanel, what more do you expect (_^~^)-
Out of Plain Curiosity, what will You do to this Video/Chanel to make it less Anglocentric, seemed quite Neutral to me...
@@cerebrummaximus3762 for the Spanish pony of view to have a little bit more of relevance. The discovery of America was a huge deal for us and for the Portuguese
0:37
Lol Denmark's missing in the map after
Lovely and hilarious details ;^)
What do you mean missing? Denmark doesn’t exist.
@@supremturtle4491 Denmark has ascended to a higher form. so superior u cant see it anymore
@@crazydinosaur8945 that higher form being my imagination!
@@JastwatchingYT lol
"The peasents had much more pressing issues"
"try not to die today"
best history channel period
But We discovering potato
@@afdalridwan3813 heck yeah
@@bariendexterelgar4312 f*ck yeah inca empire!
People lived pretty well back then. Yes, all had to work to survive, just like now. Today we work even more than they did
@@timurermolenko2013 back then, People payed with gold for their little work, nowday... You know, paper
the Ottawa museum recognized that the portuguese settlements in terra nova and labrador date back 16 years before the official discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus. they would have been discovered by fishermen from the azores in search of cod, much appreciated, but rare in azorean waters. however, it is very difficult to be absolutely sure because the villages were razed during the French occupation and most of the documents related to the Portuguese empire were destroyed during the Lisbon earthquake.
we don't even know half of what the lisbon archives could tell us ...
Very interesting.
Honestly can’t believe you don’t have 1 mil subs. I have recently found your channel and, as a History teacher, I will be sharing your videos with my students to help them understand what they are learning about in more breadth and depth. Keep up the hard work 👍
"How did Europe react to the discovery of the New World?"
"muh" - Europe
"Alright bitches wheres the gold"
@@trollinape2697 "Alright Bitches where's my Spices at"
@@trollinape2697 400 years later maybe.
@@charlesjakesamadan4008 Or something as simple as sugar and tea
@@dcarbs2979 no, not 400 years later. Idk if youre on about the Gold Rush but there was a variety of things that profited spain and other colonial powers but I wanna keep it
Love that at 0:39 you removed Denmark in accordance with the joke on screen two seconds ago
I swear I learn more about history in you're amazing videos than I do in class!
Yeah, same it's not that I don't learn anything in history class. My teachers actually do a very good job it's just that I like learning about different things.
Yeah
Same
The schools I feel like help us, but do it in the hardest ways for like a hour. While watch this once and its like school in 3 minutes. And than use an hour on these videos, +100 bih brain.
@@Orion9374 well said I agree
Since english is not my main language, every time I read something in english I read it with your voice and it turns out easier for me to understand.
0:21 Thank you for a proper pronunciation of Leif Erikson. Most English-speakers I've encountered pronounce his name as "leaf".
Im sure thats anybody who doesnt speak any Scandinavian language
Here's an idea: What happened after the defeat of Napoleon and the Restoration? Did lords just go to the peasants and say we own you again? Did the soldiers just switch sides and went pro-monarchy? Were there any attempts to immediately overthrow the king? Ultimately, how did the people react to the restoration of feudalism after 30 years of fighting it?
I think In France people reacted pretty badly and Napoleon even made a comeback showing french people still loved him. The rest of Europe still saw him as an oppressor and thus for germans, Italians and Spanish it was seen as a liberation though it also brought new revolutionary ideas which burssed in 1848 during the spring of the people.
Thats a really good idea for a video! Did they really reinstate feudalism and the ancient regime? I thought they only reinstated the monarchy... but I'm honestly not sure.
@Vexillarius wow I had no idea, thank you so much for the reply! That is so interesting.
Essentially, Louis XVIII (Louis XVI's brother) restored some noble prerogatives and attempted to compensate nobles and the clergy for lands lost during the Revolution, but he knew he couldn't undo what the Revolution had achieved in terms of equality before the law, nationalizing and selling Church lands (which made up 6% of French lands in 1789), and instituting new local administrations like the préfets in the départements, or even going back to an absolute monarchy. The nobility of the First Empire was maintained, but gradually sidelined, especially after the Hundred Days and Waterloo. Louis XVIII refused to have a constituant assembly draft a Constitution due to previous experience, but accepted granting a Charter which basically acted the same way but came from the king and not an elected assembly. The king wasn't quite "chosen by God" anymore, more by "Providence", but more emphasis was put on the centuries of monarchical tradition.
There were two houses of Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Peers, but the lower house (the former) was elected by 100,000 men, based on a poll tax (300 francs), which excluded even the business bourgeoisie, only giving power to noble hereditary landowners (which caused the 1830 revolution). The king appointed the prime minister (president of the Council of ministers), who had to command a majority in Parliament. Basically, it was both an attempt at compromise between the legacy of the Revolution and the Empire and the restoration of the old order, while at the same time basing itself off the British model.
Charles X, who succeeded his brother Louis XVIII, was an Ultra-Royalist who attempted to bring back the Ancien Régime, even having himself coronated at Rheims, which his brother hadn't done and which most people found utterly ridiculous. That eventually backfired in 1830, when, after losing a snap election to the liberal faction, he dissolved the Chambers, suspended freedom of the press and modified the rules for the legislative elections, which promptly triggered the July Revolution in which he was ousted and Louis-Philippe of Orléans became king of the French in the more liberal and constitutional July Monarchy, which put the emphasis on national sovereignty, the legacy of the Revolution, and widened the voter base.
@@samrevlej9331 how do you know all this?! Im so glad you do, its so hard to find deep French history when you live in the US
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I simply love this channel‘s humor xD
That little Trade Mark sign...
Every time we call it The New World™ Amerigo Vespucci's descendants get 1 lira.
Leif was that dude in your class that has just said a really good joke that only became so popular when you repeated it.
oh dang that actually had happened when i was in school I said to someone a really funny joke once and when he told the others everybody praised his achievement cause they liked him more lol
@@Iason29 Large oof size
St Brendan was the guy who said it the previous day.
He is more like someone that think a really good joke but it's alone and dont know how how write it down so he forgot it
Yes.
Also who are you, my good Egyptian sir? Your fabulous prim moustache caught my eye 😌🍵
Yet another subject that I have often wondered about! Well done and with your awesome sense of humor, to boot! I love this channel.
Great video! loved the humor in it while maintaining all accuracy, thank you! 😁
0:07 Oh dang, mixing things up with a new field of view
0:39
You didn't put Denmark on the map. That is some accurate information you got there.
LMAO, you might be a swede
1:35 there was no Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth back then. It was formed in 1569, under Lublin Union. Also, Teutonic Order didn't have access to Livonia under Melen Peace of 1422.
@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 I doubt it
@@Iason29 yeah i saw his name after i commented lol
It wasn't even one of the lands that vanished in mid-map! Either he forgot to draw Denmark, or that place is so forgotten, he doesn't even acknowledge its existence!
"Hey England, there's new lands across the ocean."
"Eh..."
"France is sending colonists over there to trap beaver."
*"IN 1607, WE SAILED THE OPEN SEA, FOR GLORY, GOD, AND GOLD, AND THE VIRGINIA COMPANY"*
And then... cannibalism.
I swear, the history of America is a horror story.
@@deiansalazar140 Pretty sure the history of the entire world is a horror story not just america.
@@ManCheat2true that
I love that your map right after "Fake Places: Vinland, Denmark" is lacking the Danish peninsula.
Well done, man. Well done.
"I found a thing." In fact, I found several things in this video that were just clever and hilarious. But if I may make a request--when texts and blurbs go by, please slow them down just a bit as I couldn't read them quickly enough. Had to back track the video a few times to make sure I got the messages--very clever and delightful they typically are. Thank you History Matters--one of the very best history channels out there. Your devoted fan and subscriber.
You guys talk about James Bisonette a lot and how rich he is, but never Kelly Moneymaker. It’s actually in his name!!
I miss Feed the Oink Oink and Spinning Three Plates. :(
Her name
Why do you assume 'Kelly' is a man?
@@aleksapetrovic6519 3:16 Spinning Three Plates
@@HistoryScott Maybe it's R. Kelly?
Modern historians: Probably the biggest event ever happened in human history
People at time time: Meh
Polish schools today: ,,It's one of the most important events in history"
Poland at time: *Who cares, man*
Would we think it was that if the US wasn't the prime political mover of out time?
Makes sense that kind of news would only excite merchants, even when trade boomed in the East even then people didn't really care or perhaps when the east opened up to Europe after the first crusade, it didn't have an impact on their lives.
Kinda funny when you think about it. Many of those historical events we today see as big deals that changed everything were probably regular old days for most of the people living at that time
Things you can only grasp the massive impact they had by taking a look back centuries after the facts
0:37 “fake places: Denmark”
The map after that is missing Denmark lol
Hahahahaha THANK YOU for pointing that out, I did not see that! Damn, History Matters really commits to their jokes!
Great catch!
This video misses one important point. There was a deep and long-lasting ideological effect on European thinking. Up until that point, medieval Europe had looked back in time for inspiration in exploring the world's truths. Ancient Rome and Greece were held up as pinnacles of civilization, philosophy, and science. But when the new world was found, as one thought leader of the time was quoted as saying, the Europeans had now discovered something the Ancients never dreamed of. By this line of argument, it is no coincidence that Copernicus developed his heliocentric model in the early 1500s, starting at almost exactly the same time when people finally realized Columbus had discovered a new continent. The discovery of the new world "broadened the horizons" of Europe in more ways than one.
I guess it influenced Renaissance & Enlightenment political philosophy as well
The map without Denmark at 0:40 was hilarious, I don't think most people noticed even though you set it up right beforehand
“But instead empire would be Spain’s consolation prize” god I love this channel.
Do a video about the 1600 brief unification of Romania under Michael the Brave
N-ar fi o idee rea
I don't think that would get many views
First. I love your work. Keep it up, a fellow history buff
Love the direct and factual delivery.
Love your videos! Minor correction: I think the longitudes behind which Brazil was to be found wasn't actually granted by the Spanish-leaning Spanish pope, but by skilled negotiations Portugal had with Spain later. But History Matters makes me question my knowledge now ;p
You should do a video about how countries reacted to the building of the Suez Canal.
My man still reference ISorrowProductions with the weird "country" called "Denmark" reference
Its a myth perpetrated by the elite, alongside the supposed countries referred to as "Belgium" and "Finland".
@@Sarsol1989 I never heard this part of the lore? Was this recently added to the canon?
@@CausticSpace Belgium is ISP and a few other people (fictional country, really just part of France, etc). Finland is reference to a meme that says the error in world population being about the size of population of Finland, therefore Finland may or may not exist.
@@Sarsol1989 it's iSorrow, fuck that ISP guy
@@Sarsol1989 Bro ISP literally got Johnny Sins to say Denmark isn't real.
Hi "History Matters Dude". New fan here. Loving your videos buddy. If you do Requests could you look up something called Jallianwala Bagh? It's to do with Indian history, I'm sure your independent research will tell you the whole story including the explosive ending to the whole saga. I'm sure a whole bunch of Indians would love to see your depiction of this tragic event and it's unexpected end. Cheers mate. Keep up the brilliant work. Love from India!
"Like most spanish dreams, this one was brought to an end by the portuguese"
Here, have a *LIKE* good sir!
PS: much love to our spanish hermanos
This is one of the most entertaining channels on UA-cam.
And it educational. 😃
Tbh I learn more about history from History matters than my History class
Everybody gangsta until the history book says James Bissonette was the discoverer of the Americas
That 3rd place sign should have said James Bissonette
That's how he got all that money; he plundered El Dorado before the Spanish even tried
I love those "what did people back then think about X" videos, it's not discussed enough IMO and really fleshes out what the past was like
Your humor has gotten so much better over the years
Editing Denmark out of the map after the sign saying it isn't real was a beautiful touch
Europe's reaction to the discovery of the Americas is basically how a parent reacts to their kid doing something they don't care about 😂
Columbus: Europe, Europe look! I found a new thing!
Euorpe: That's great sweetie...
Poland: ,,That's fine. Now back to bullying Teutonic Order and dating my hot girlfriend, Great Lithuanian Duchy..."
Except Spain and Portugal were very interested, so much so that the Pope had to settle their claims to avoid war
Can you do more episodes on ancient times? Greek city-states, the Sumerians, ancient Egypt, those type of things, if possible? Thank you.
They reacted by sending James Bisonette to colonize the Americas so he could fund History Matters
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I remember the discovery of the new world. There was a pretty cool article in the daily newspaper about it, next to the one about the rising popularity of a bevarage called coffee and the one that was about property developers evading land tax by building multi-story houses. Then I had to get off the chariot and go back to work.
2:29 i love the look of that horse
So, like I said, the place is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed" and this sign says "Formerly Chuck's", which means that when Chuck owned the place, well, I don't have to tell you…
no one bothers to the Sneedclave!!
Okay.
Me and my girlfriends anniversary and a history matters video ? Today’s pretty good
2:46 ahhh, I see, so _that's what the Tudor Rose was for_
They all scrambled to get a piece of the world before James Bizenette could claim it all for himself.
I love it how 0:38 Denmark is a “Fake Place” and the Jutland Peninsula is removed from the subsequent map.
At this point, James Bissonet should be made into a character in your animation style and used as the channel's header.
Lol they totally should
I hope not
@@jamesbissonette8002 THE MESSIAH HAS BEEN BORN! HAIL THE MESSIAH
@@jamesbissonette8002 😱😱😱😱, it the man himself 😮😯😲😆
They discovered that James Bisonette wasn’t there yet
I love this tiny cult this channel has. I want this channel to grow but I believe this is the peak of History matters. Soon it'll have millions of followers and will lose it's touch
Welcome to Bizonettica.
@@Discosaturn too bad that name didn’t stick
@@jamesbissonette8002 a pleasure to finally meet you
Yes same joke everytime. Extreme funny so humor hahhaha
Favorite channel
Excellent summary, and love the ironic humor---this channel at its best!
I love watching your minis. Great work
I would love to know that he actually came back and said “I found a thing”
probably so.
Europe : We discovered another continent !
France, England, Spain and Portugal : Let's make a second Europe :p
Also England: Should we fight France today........ nah, let's burn some heretics.
I have a habit of listening to these until I hear the names “James Bizenet, Kelly Moneymaker”
thank you sm this has been one of the exact questions ive had in my head about history
Ahhhhhh when Spain and Portugal divided the world in two halfs.
Good old times (when people knew the difference between Spain and Mexico)
mexico didnt exist
@@user-uw3fi2zg4t Precisely...
I like how “New World” had a trade mark on it.
Britain: "This is mine."
(Years Later)
America: "Mine now. Now get out!"
Spain: This was our America
Spain: Bagsy it’s mine
Ratcliffe: Mine mine!
But to be fair America got a lot of help from France and after the Napoleonic wars Britain could of invaded and taken America but they didn’t
@@oshb5559 True
All nations in Europe: MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE
Spain: BRUH
England In Virginia: THIS IS MY SWAAAAAAAAAAAMP.
Fake lands
-Vinland
-Denmark
I love this channels humor it is golden
Edit: Denmark got removed too from the map i am currently laughing my ass off
Love this channel but could you upload sources again - i enjoy reading more about these fantastic topics :)
1:52 until Joseph Smith came around.
Discovering different continents in that time period was like discovering alien life
I love the Times History Matters makes a Video on Exactly what I want to Know
that capitalisation hurts
@@sapphoschild3019 I like to Call it the Milne Effect, named After the Author of Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne, who Capitalised certain Random letters for Emphasis.
It also helps People read the things you Write easier if you Use it.
@@sapphoschild3019 However it was Early in the Morning, I was Tired, but very Excited from the Video, so I misused it.
*Overused it
Would have been more Accurate.
@@cerebrummaximus3762 damn
A great and interesting video, as always, but MAN you really had me laughing specially hard on this one, holy mother of gawd
Wonderful, fun channel!!!😃👍
Idea: what exactly did the Roman senate do during the imperial period? Because I heard that commodus had a bunch of senators killed, so if he was paranoid enough to want them dead, they must have still had some purpose.
Chose emperors,declared campaigns of conquest,passed laws but after the third century they were mostly ceremonial and didn't do much
The senate in Rome in fact survived the fall of the Western Empire in 476 AD, and existed until at least 603AD, it ceased to exist later in the 600s though. This was revived in the 1100s under the medieval commune of Rome, and the title of Senator was preserved under the papal states as a sort of civilian officer well until the 19th century.
In 395AD, a second senate was created (for Constantinople) that existed until the 1400s.
0:57 They actually did think he found a new continent/islands off of the coast of Asia, not just "India," since even the maps Columbus had said there shouldn't have been land there.
Didn’t they think at first, they landed in India? I miss you guys doing 10 min history videos!
Me too
Well, the video did mention the Europeans thinking it was Asia and not a new continent. And India is in Asia.
Not India exactly, but the Indies. Columbus himself thought he was on some outlying islands east of the Philipines
The "landed in India" myth comes from later language associations and revisionist history. Because the native peoples somehow got called "Indians" along the way (origins of the term are hotly debated), some bright spark decided that Columbus must have confused them for people from India. Except that in 1492 the European world knew the place we call India by the name Hindustan. So if the myth were true, he would have called the natives "Hindustanis" and the racial slurs in cowboy movies would be very different.
1:11 "nailed it"
What a madlad.
Also, how is James Bisonette?
The animations on this are amazing.