Ten Minute History - The Early British Empire (Short Documentary)

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  • @LOLERXP
    @LOLERXP 3 роки тому +3922

    The guy who had the idea to merge the English and Scottish flag was a genius

    • @harryyyyyyyyyyy7273
      @harryyyyyyyyyyy7273 3 роки тому +432

      @Cian Doyle
      People need to stop looking at this from a modern lense. Like all empires, the British empire was formed of exploitation and bloodshed, but that was something any country/region did if they had the opportunity, Britain just did it really well. This isnt to say the British empire wasn’t violating human rights and committing acts of evil, but back then It was justified, and now in the present day there have come many benefits from it, a fairly universal language for example.

    • @eris9659
      @eris9659 3 роки тому +78

      @Cian Doyle bitter potato

    • @DonMadruga72
      @DonMadruga72 3 роки тому +130

      @Cian Doyle Boo hoo, let me press F in the World smallest keyboard

    • @ThePatrioticScotsman
      @ThePatrioticScotsman 3 роки тому +29

      @@harryyyyyyyyyyy7273 the English enslaved Scots aswell. Name a stable kingdom who enslaved their own people

    • @harryyyyyyyyyyy7273
      @harryyyyyyyyyyy7273 3 роки тому +94

      @@ThePatrioticScotsman doesnt counter my point at all. something can be unstable and still classed as good or humane, by the time in this situation of course. Also, invasion and enslavement are two different things, and i dont believe we ever enslaved scots, and if we did, it was before the empire most people are referring to when they say the British Empire

  • @Gontzal7
    @Gontzal7 8 років тому +1525

    Normally people talk about the failure of the spanish armada but know nothing of the disastrous retaliation one. Hats off to you!!!

    • @masn9997
      @masn9997 7 років тому +59

      They don't know either about the English Armada just the following year, nor that Spain won the total war with the Treaty of London in 1604.

    • @ceirwan
      @ceirwan 7 років тому +92

      Not really. The treaty of London had concessions from both sides. If spain had won the total war than England would have been a colony of Spain. It would be better to call it a draw.

    • @masn9997
      @masn9997 7 років тому +51

      RickkyP It wasn't a draw since Spain got more benefits than England. That's called "Spanish victory". I know British propaganda sucks.

    • @jamiengo2343
      @jamiengo2343 7 років тому +19

      214 1341 it was a Spanish victory, England would be Spanish

    • @masn9997
      @masn9997 7 років тому +35

      Great Jamie Spain didn't want to have England as a Spanish colony. They only wanted England to have a Catholic monarch. And Spain did win that war as the treaty confirms. Fake propaganda no, thanks.

  • @lukejohnson1079
    @lukejohnson1079 7 років тому +1678

    Would you like a trade agreement with England?

    • @benalor1973
      @benalor1973 6 років тому +27

      luke johnson, civilization reference?

    • @williamsledge3151
      @williamsledge3151 6 років тому +95

      benalor don't refuse. She will declare war on you.

    • @kimmiw8663
      @kimmiw8663 6 років тому +3

      Check out walter veith on the herodian mind/mark of cain..I learned so much..bless you

    • @sayakdas4159
      @sayakdas4159 6 років тому +9

      Even with the trade agreement, it is the best policy to go with the army behind the negotiator.

    • @TheUnknownPerson
      @TheUnknownPerson 5 років тому +1

      u

  • @johnscanlan6337
    @johnscanlan6337 6 років тому +544

    I absolutely NEVER knew about the Scottish colony in Panama and how it played a part in the creation of the United Kingdom!

    • @fristnamelastname5549
      @fristnamelastname5549 5 років тому +58

      Scotland: 😎 Let's colonyize Panama!
      Spain: 😡 WTF are Scottish people doing in MY colony!
      Scotland: 😳 This is your colony, Spain?
      Spain: 😡 YES! NOW LEAVE!
      Scotland: 😳 Ummmm....funny thing that! I don't have enough money to get my colonists back.
      Spain: 😡 Don't bother! I will blockade it!
      Scotland: 😨 NO MY COLONISTS! MY ECONOMY! NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    • @joedwyer3297
      @joedwyer3297 5 років тому +7

      ​@@fristnamelastname5549 escocia no piensa antes de actuar

    • @PugnaciousProductions
      @PugnaciousProductions 3 роки тому +8

      @@fristnamelastname5549 cringe

    • @maxdavis7722
      @maxdavis7722 3 роки тому

      @HanselManCan not saying your wrong but how were the Scots disproportionately active in the empire?

    • @LWQ15881
      @LWQ15881 3 роки тому +3

      @@maxdavis7722 he is wrong but the Scots were definitely fine soldiers but so were most from the north of the British isles the south are more well just southern

  • @vvmax4375
    @vvmax4375 5 років тому +3687

    “Continued the long tradition of English monarchs and died”

  • @danielmccarthy8091
    @danielmccarthy8091 8 років тому +1079

    Didn't even ask for a like or subscribe? You'll have both, good sir!

  • @jamesmcghie9628
    @jamesmcghie9628 8 років тому +2919

    While watching this video i thought, oh he knows what he is talking about, and the content is good quality, he must have a decently large channel. I was shocked to see his channel was 240 subscribers. I am happy to be the 241st subscriber keep it up!

    • @xDorito121
      @xDorito121 8 років тому +53

      Thought exactly the same thing

    • @aadil3569
      @aadil3569 8 років тому +59

      jokes on you cuz
      subscriber out X10 since you said that

    • @rezox
      @rezox 8 років тому +35

      ive seen many of his videos before but never been a subscriber.... rlly dont know why but i guess ill do it now that u mention it

    • @markvsblack1910
      @markvsblack1910 8 років тому +33

      Subscribed after 0:40

    • @Barthaneous34
      @Barthaneous34 7 років тому +16

      he has 35,000 subscribers :)

  • @robslack5468
    @robslack5468 4 роки тому +385

    Loved the flag-merge animation, I didn’t quite realize how strongly the Scottish flag was represented within the Union Jack, kind of opened my eyes 😀

    • @jackdubz4247
      @jackdubz4247 3 роки тому +1

      It's vile.

    • @TheJeremyHolloway
      @TheJeremyHolloway 3 роки тому +31

      The Welsh flag isn't represented though. Probably because Wales was basically considered part of England at that point. The Tudor Royal Family had Welsh roots.

    • @jackdubz4247
      @jackdubz4247 3 роки тому +3

      "Was." That's the right term. "Was represented." Then they added all of that red. Totally ruined the aesthetic.

    • @phantompizza
      @phantompizza 2 роки тому +22

      @@jackdubz4247 the red is to represent northern ireland tho? it looks good now

    • @phantompizza
      @phantompizza 2 роки тому

      @freneticness _ yes thats what i said

  • @lexonbee
    @lexonbee 5 років тому +1905

    Somebody: Where should we colonise?
    England: Yes

    • @fristnamelastname5549
      @fristnamelastname5549 5 років тому +80

      Everyone: There is land elsewhere?
      Britain: It's free real state.

    • @yarpen26
      @yarpen26 5 років тому +32

      This yes meme is seriously getting old...

    • @センナ-h4c
      @センナ-h4c 5 років тому +14

      @@yarpen26 yeah, it's as cancerous as
      "Hotel? Trivago"
      I hate these memes

    • @yarpen26
      @yarpen26 5 років тому +19

      @@センナ-h4c Don't forget "I'm about to end this man's career." Literally every video from HM is cholk-full of this crap.

    • @frankdawe5156
      @frankdawe5156 5 років тому +7

      Indeed! It's somebody taking a cheap shot, but with nothing important to say.

  • @Baelor-Breakspear
    @Baelor-Breakspear 3 роки тому +57

    3:15 I feel for that Spanish dude. He has to be the saddest character ever shown in this series. Dude is wearing full plate armor is sick as fuck and is drowning to top it off. That poor bastard.

  • @michaelhenman4887
    @michaelhenman4887 8 років тому +486

    "Heny VII continued the long tradition of English Monarchs and died..."
    Lol, didn't realise that tradition was an English Monarchs thing, I was under the impression it was universal.

    • @L3A1N8
      @L3A1N8 8 років тому +49

      A lot of monarchs in other kingdoms resign before they get too old, so they usually aren't the monarch by the time they die. In England the tradition is to die while still King/Queen.

    • @Martin-jk2ng
      @Martin-jk2ng 6 років тому +6

      As is tradition....

    • @raymondhamill270
      @raymondhamill270 5 років тому +18

      Queen Elizabeth the second is still going strong

    • @felps1917
      @felps1917 5 років тому +9

      Well recently the ex-emperor of Japan akihito was too old and slowly to die and so he's abdicated in name of the son Naruhito
      It's was the first time in 2 centuries of emperor of Japan abdicated, it's was expected akihito to die in throne just like his father: hirohito

    • @welshinc5782
      @welshinc5782 5 років тому +13

      The tradition gets even stranger with it being seen as more appropriate to die early in the morning, since people would have found out sooner. George V agreed to be killed if it looked like his death would have had to be announced in the evening paper, because they were less popular and people were more busy.

  • @atlanticalias4407
    @atlanticalias4407 7 років тому +2482

    10 Minute History? More like, 9 Minute and 59 Second history

    • @williamsledge3151
      @williamsledge3151 6 років тому +28

      Zoe close enough

    • @Antiquirom
      @Antiquirom 5 років тому +23

      William Sledge r/whoosh

    • @tobz3229
      @tobz3229 5 років тому +31

      That actually depended on your device for me its exactly 10 minutes

    • @effcee
      @effcee 5 років тому +4

      Zoe 1 second delay

    • @Ad-er5rc
      @Ad-er5rc 5 років тому +71

      Reported for click bait.

  • @OllieBye
    @OllieBye 8 років тому +764

    Really good video, I'm glad I found this!

  • @helenhorsley4660
    @helenhorsley4660 3 роки тому +125

    You covered a lot of ground very thoroughly - and speedily! However, just one error I need to point out: James II was not Charles II's son, he was his brother.

    • @nedeast6845
      @nedeast6845 2 роки тому +1

      There is loads of this video which is incorrect, but panem et circenses

    • @EdgeMan
      @EdgeMan 2 роки тому +9

      @@nedeast6845 Come on then historian make a channel and correct him!

    • @ashtonbarwick6696
      @ashtonbarwick6696 Рік тому

      @Helen Horsley he was still the son of a charles though…😂

    • @vaimantobe3034
      @vaimantobe3034 Рік тому

      Mistaking a brother for a son happens to the best of us.
      Right? Please tell me I'm not the only one...

  • @treynoe8240
    @treynoe8240 6 років тому +131

    Can I just say the dying flop sound is amazing and makes my day

  • @afaella3
    @afaella3 3 роки тому +302

    "The English were not exactly renowned sailors at this point and so Henry did what everyone else did at the time: hired an Italian"

    • @lasakau272
      @lasakau272 3 роки тому +18

      That Italian even changed his name to an English one

    • @DrVSL
      @DrVSL 2 роки тому +1

      Jean Cabot? That sounds french...

    • @gw7624
      @gw7624 2 роки тому +3

      Top marks for quotation. You'll go far in life.

    • @zaqwsx23
      @zaqwsx23 2 роки тому +1

      @@lasakau272 In those times names used to be translated.

    • @tuluppampam
      @tuluppampam 2 роки тому +2

      @@DrVSL Giovanni is an Italian name and, hear me out, Italy is the country with the most surnames in the world (around 300'000 due to the Romans liking using 3-4 or sometimes even 5 names), so many surnames in Europe can sound very similar (also due to the fact that the Romans conquered a lot of Europe, thus spreading what will be Italian surnames)

  • @cielopachirisu929
    @cielopachirisu929 5 років тому +826

    America: *rebels against their noble overlords*
    France: Hey, that’s pretty goood.

    • @FriendoftheDork
      @FriendoftheDork 5 років тому +43

      More like - France: Hey, where did all our money go?

    • @TengkuAmier
      @TengkuAmier 4 роки тому +12

      @Denise Bond Why are you pissed of something that happened years ago. You weren't even there

    • @craftingcameron8636
      @craftingcameron8636 4 роки тому +9

      Americans are British originally

    • @craftingcameron8636
      @craftingcameron8636 4 роки тому +7

      @Lord Takyon you say that when English schools are more successfull than American as we dont have school shootings lol

    • @craftingcameron8636
      @craftingcameron8636 4 роки тому +4

      no your wrong, English colonists rebeled against English goverment rule

  • @jakemapping2868
    @jakemapping2868 8 років тому +349

    Nice format. Subscribed.

  • @cigh7445
    @cigh7445 4 роки тому +75

    As a historian I must say, well done on the historically accuracy of this video. Many youtube history channels are not so well done.

    • @nedeast6845
      @nedeast6845 2 роки тому

      you are joking....where is the Bombay, part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry in 1662, and Tangiers? This is all about America, as usual

    • @balabanasireti
      @balabanasireti 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@nedeast6845 Cry less

    • @spagoot
      @spagoot Рік тому +1

      @@nedeast6845 ned why were you so mad bro

    • @underloveryz2731
      @underloveryz2731 Рік тому

      ​@@nedeast6845History Matters is mainly for middle school in the United-Kingdom. They nostly follow the curriculum

    • @hens_ledan
      @hens_ledan 11 місяців тому

      Nope. The first part is hopelessly wrong, and just uncritically reinforces the English national myth of a settled English nation in 1497, which is complete nonsense. See my comment above.

  • @JBaseball777
    @JBaseball777 3 роки тому +7

    The drool on the soldier's face when the tea part was mentioned had me dying I had to rewind a few times

  • @norgan5064
    @norgan5064 8 років тому +79

    Just found your channel, and after 3 minutes I was hooked. Great channel and keep up the good work.

  • @robinburt5735
    @robinburt5735 8 років тому +254

    At 3:45 is that Blackadder and Baldrick i see? hehe

    • @assassinxex
      @assassinxex 7 років тому +20

      Doreen Green I knew I wasn't the only one w who saw that

    • @terrorfire8505
      @terrorfire8505 4 роки тому +4

      I thought I recognised them

    • @ChuckstaGaming
      @ChuckstaGaming 4 роки тому +5

      @@terrorfire8505 I can't believe I missed them!!!

    • @houssamassila6274
      @houssamassila6274 4 роки тому +1

      I only noticed them today! These videos just keep on giving surprises

  • @Haphazardization
    @Haphazardization 8 років тому +200

    Ten minutes my ass...You owe me a second!
    Entitlement!!!!

  • @rahebalmouaamen3030
    @rahebalmouaamen3030 5 років тому +9

    As a foreign person, I say this is the best video that summarise life in the UK book. Thank you very much it really helped and I hope I pass the exam soon.

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 7 років тому +817

    In England we call pants trousers.

    • @sheev9852
      @sheev9852 6 років тому +17

      sarcasmo57 UK

    • @michaelmoore4043
      @michaelmoore4043 6 років тому +2

      Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    • @yolanda8563
      @yolanda8563 6 років тому +28

      Nah mate in the north west we call em pants

    • @PritchDringle
      @PritchDringle 6 років тому

      Then I say something.

    • @jackguest145
      @jackguest145 6 років тому +2

      iBourne xx 1994 No no no

  • @purplecrayon07
    @purplecrayon07 6 років тому +12

    “Henry VII continued the long tradition of the English monarchs and died” lines like this get me every time

  • @flirkami
    @flirkami 8 років тому +11

    I just found your channel while researching for my english exam, I'm very happy that there are channels like this, which make good historical content with nice videos that even I, as a german native speaker, can understand and watch with fun. Thanks for the good work, keep going :)

  • @RonnieOP
    @RonnieOP 3 роки тому +57

    "The most important consumer good of all time... tea"
    The most British joke ever

    • @TheJeremyHolloway
      @TheJeremyHolloway 3 роки тому +2

      Sounds like you haven't had Starbuck's sweetened green iced tea before. Maybe Starbucks is secretly the East India Company reborn...

    • @armstronggermany2995
      @armstronggermany2995 3 роки тому +1

      It is no joke !

  • @steffifei
    @steffifei 6 років тому +16

    Very helpful and nicely explained, thank you for your effort!

  • @j.6230
    @j.6230 4 роки тому +121

    That's why I like the British, they take land in a matter of minutes, no gimmicks.

    • @chrismith251
      @chrismith251 4 роки тому +5

      In those days we shot anyone in a grass skirt then nicked their country.

    • @JJaqn05
      @JJaqn05 4 роки тому +2

      @half a rasher raytown That's what taking land means

    • @JJaqn05
      @JJaqn05 4 роки тому +4

      @half a rasher raytown And the British Empire weren't even that bad compared to others

    • @JJaqn05
      @JJaqn05 4 роки тому

      @half a rasher raytown And where are you from?

    • @JJaqn05
      @JJaqn05 4 роки тому

      @Benjamin Franklin absolute bullshit

  • @andrematosvdb
    @andrematosvdb 8 років тому +167

    If you're accepting ideas here's one: do a video about the Portuguese empire. Keep up the good work!

    • @HistoryMatters
      @HistoryMatters  8 років тому +52

      The Portuguese Empire is definitely on the list.

    • @chriscepticon7054
      @chriscepticon7054 8 років тому +2

      Andre Matos yay!

    • @niloctrs9581
      @niloctrs9581 8 років тому +3

      Ten Minute History
      THE dutch would ve good FOR next video

    • @tdoge
      @tdoge 7 років тому

      And why it sucked so hard in the end

    • @shrekniteyt4325
      @shrekniteyt4325 6 років тому

      ShroudedPanda ???

  • @dukes1993724
    @dukes1993724 8 років тому +21

    Great video man very informative for a 10 minute video. Someone should make a video game series out of the British Empire's global reach they were involved all over the place back in the day!

    • @oqo3310
      @oqo3310 10 місяців тому

      Eu4 is for you man

  • @anderskorsback4104
    @anderskorsback4104 3 роки тому +9

    The Scottish colony in Panama was the Dunning-Kruger Effect writ large. Establishing a colony at the narrowest point between the Atlantic and the Pacific in order to connect both through shipping. It just didn't occur to them that some Spanish guy might have already thought of it in the preceding 200 years, and that it not already having been done might be due to it not being geographically possible. Which it wasn't. There is a reason for why Spain was already using the longer overland route through Mexico from Veracruz to Acapulco for the purpose.

  • @hellfest85
    @hellfest85 5 років тому +9

    That animation of the thirsty Englishman looking at that Tea was amazing

  • @davidsanchezplaza
    @davidsanchezplaza 3 роки тому +4

    one of the few times I ever saw an English speaking documentary talking about the British Armada
    this channel really rules!

  • @johnscanlan9335
    @johnscanlan9335 3 роки тому +27

    This is a particularly excellent video! I watch History Matters whenever I can so I'm well informed about their style and content. This video fills in several important gaps in what I perceive as the general knowledge of the British Empire and ties various events together in ways I was never aware of!

  • @harrisonshone7769
    @harrisonshone7769 7 років тому +48

    James I - negative eleventh president of the United States.

  • @JeghedderThomas
    @JeghedderThomas 3 роки тому +4

    These nuggets of history are delightful! A lot of knowledge shared in a wonderfully clear and concise manner - I am better for seeing these short vids. Thanks HM!

  • @thenicetroll8759
    @thenicetroll8759 4 роки тому +4

    I love how when people die they're just waltzing around and then just fall over like it's nothing

  • @nightw4tchman
    @nightw4tchman 5 років тому +68

    Amazingly we never covered this in school... Can't imagine why.

    • @gregoryc7926
      @gregoryc7926 4 роки тому +16

      Simply because it shows all about the Empire's ambitions back then. Greed and Invasion

    • @potato88872
      @potato88872 4 роки тому

      @FvckTheEu : History is massive, very massive and you have to study other lesson
      So they give you the general version

    • @Hungabrigoo
      @Hungabrigoo 4 роки тому +1

      @@gregoryc7926 Invasion is not an ambition.

    • @gregoryc7926
      @gregoryc7926 4 роки тому +8

      @@Hungabrigoo the nations of western Europe plundered many parts of the world for their survival so it was definitely an ambitious task which is still done through indirect rule in the same countries and regions they colonised.

    • @cros13
      @cros13 3 роки тому +5

      And UK schools don't like to cover your history with us in Ireland, not wanting to inspire you to think the UK might be the baddies.

  • @stenbak88
    @stenbak88 8 років тому +7

    I subscribed after a few minutes great video, great format, correct info, and not an annoying narrator keep up the great work. I love a good history video without to much fluff or politically motivated, I thank you good sir

  • @djf476
    @djf476 4 роки тому +14

    1:08, the pronunciation of Philip is unusual. In Spanish he would be Felipe, so the final e is pronounced. Our learnèd narrator has opted for the French prononciation it seems.

  • @BDKing77
    @BDKing77 8 років тому +49

    Great job, I can see a bright future for this channel.

  • @eagleowl833
    @eagleowl833 5 років тому +102

    French move into india
    *King*"who cares"
    Solder "that's were we get our tea"
    King"we must take India NOW"

    • @dickterpene8697
      @dickterpene8697 5 років тому +7

      Pretty much

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 5 років тому +6

      *Abonnez-Vous à T-Series*

    • @gutsjoestar7450
      @gutsjoestar7450 4 роки тому +10

      well britain was very late at india
      french dutch, portuguese trade and had portal and colonial cities in india to facilite trades
      way earlier than england even had the idea of moving to india
      but unliek other european
      england when they decided to go to india
      THEY TOOK THE ENTIRE PLACE

    • @mub___lol9297
      @mub___lol9297 3 роки тому +1

      @Olivia Addison im flattered

  • @aloynium
    @aloynium 7 років тому +1

    You managed to keep this relatively impartial, which is rare in history videos. Thanks.

  • @chrisforsyth8323
    @chrisforsyth8323 8 років тому +77

    Good grief; is this where the phrase "Beyond the pale" comes from?

  • @punypunic2224
    @punypunic2224 6 років тому +42

    Every time they just fall over and die I piss myself a little bit.

  • @staahbutteflai9891
    @staahbutteflai9891 3 роки тому +7

    2:02 I guess that's what we call "a smooth transaction of valuables"

  • @jessica-eu2ns
    @jessica-eu2ns 4 роки тому +11

    How had England initially become involved in the trade? 

    
What were some of the reasons Spain and England had gone to war? 

    How had England secured their separation from Spain? 
What were indentured servants?
    How did indentured servants allowed them to establish the colonies? 

    What were some of the motivations behind English exploration? 
What were some of the benefits of colonialism for England?

    • @alejandrososaa.2664
      @alejandrososaa.2664 4 роки тому

      Please help me with a summaryy

    • @stephenwright8824
      @stephenwright8824 2 роки тому +1

      Separation from Spain? I didn't know England ever belonged to Spain?

    • @stephenwright8824
      @stephenwright8824 2 роки тому +1

      _What were some of the motivations behind English exploration?_ Trade. The British Empire, according to novelist Edward Rutherfurd, was actually illegal under the terms of the unwritten English constitution. But being a small archipelago with dwindling natural resources but a vigorous manufacturing base, trade became the main reason to ignore that and grow an Empire that encompassed 1/3 of the world.

  • @jkent9915
    @jkent9915 2 роки тому

    You have a wonderful way of describing death, “continued the long tradition of English monarchs and died”.

  • @SkyColl
    @SkyColl 8 років тому +54

    3:45 - Lord Blackadder and Baldrick!

  • @thecaptain6148
    @thecaptain6148 8 років тому +71

    Why does everyone claim that a different person was the first to reach North America?

    • @Grort
      @Grort 8 років тому +24

      Probably a mistake on this one, as the person included in this video was the first since the vikings to land in Canada (Columbus was undoubtedly the first European to land in North America since the viking age, landing in the Caribbean). The confusion often comes from people forgetting that Scandinavian long ships did land in what sounded like Canada and had records of meeting 'skraelings' (their term for referring to the indigenous people of Greenland, Iceland and America) many centuries before.

    • @masn9997
      @masn9997 7 років тому +9

      Keep making propaganda. I think it hurts too much that Spaniards were the first Europeans in reaching the Americas and discovering a whole continent.

    • @masn9997
      @masn9997 7 років тому +5

      A Very Kind Guy Sure "it doesnt't matter to us". Then why do I find out plenty of comments like that one. If you wouldn't care you wouldn't try to deny the Spanish merit after more than 500 years.

    • @thecaptain6148
      @thecaptain6148 7 років тому +25

      Grort is right. There is plenty of evidence that vikings were the first non-indigenous people to set foot in North America.

    • @masn9997
      @masn9997 7 років тому +2

      The Captain​ There are plenty of web sites that confirm such "evidences" are not valid at all. Spaniards were the first Europeans in reaching America by discovering the whole continent to the rest of the world.

  • @shamarwright1133
    @shamarwright1133 8 років тому +138

    Do a Video about the Ottoman Empire, the rise and fall of the the empire =)

    • @HistoryMatters
      @HistoryMatters  8 років тому +65

      The Rise of the Ottomans is definitely on its way.

    • @royce101st
      @royce101st 8 років тому +2

      Ten Minute History

    • @HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG
      @HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG 8 років тому +8

      No, do Russian Empire next, the foundation of city state in Kievan to the fall of U.S.S.R.

    • @guyfromtheplaceshown3690
      @guyfromtheplaceshown3690 7 років тому +1

      or what about Roman empire including the Byzantines

    • @yahya2231
      @yahya2231 7 років тому

      Space Beats yep

  • @williamfitch1408
    @williamfitch1408 5 років тому +1

    Wow - that's a breathtaking narrative. Thanks

  • @callumsweetlove6425
    @callumsweetlove6425 5 років тому +1

    The Proclaimers at 7:07 is a fantastic touch

  • @andrewjgrimm
    @andrewjgrimm 2 роки тому +3

    0:41 That hits home differently right now.

  • @aback614
    @aback614 6 років тому +4

    I love how people die and the funny remarks he makes when they die it's hilarious

  • @k1er4n544
    @k1er4n544 8 років тому +8

    wow great job for a small channel its definitely is a good one :D

  • @varianschirmer9375
    @varianschirmer9375 Рік тому +2

    4:30. John Smith pulling a "Super Dave" Osborne moment.

  • @anthonylegore1517
    @anthonylegore1517 3 роки тому

    Loved John Smith landing in the background after the gunpowder accident.

  • @littlejoe9478
    @littlejoe9478 8 років тому +26

    do one on the rest of britain's empire
    !! such a tale

    • @HistoryMatters
      @HistoryMatters  8 років тому +7

      The Late British Empire (1783 - 1997) will be out this week. I'm not entirely sure which day but it will 100% be out this week.

    • @littlejoe9478
      @littlejoe9478 8 років тому +3

      Awsome, you got a real nice style that I love about your history videos :P I suspect others feel the same way
      Other ideas,
      Unification of England
      Unification of Italy

    • @gutsjoestar7450
      @gutsjoestar7450 4 роки тому

      @@HistoryMatters wtf the british empire never ended
      it still is today
      the empire never have a official date of end

  • @jamesscannell7951
    @jamesscannell7951 5 років тому +5

    If you pause it when he says " the most important consumer good of all... tea" it is the funniest picture of two hypnotized British. Shit is hilarious

  • @flybobbie1449
    @flybobbie1449 5 років тому +15

    Birth place of the British Empire is Nocton village, Lincolnshire.
    Here traders moved to London and created the East India company.

    • @PikaPluff
      @PikaPluff 5 років тому +1

      fly bobbie well may they be cursed, assuming they exploited the indians

    • @flybobbie1449
      @flybobbie1449 5 років тому +2

      @@PikaPluff Well the east india company was only trying to muscle in on what the dutch were already doing.

    • @richardwills-woodward
      @richardwills-woodward 4 роки тому +1

      @@PikaPluff 'The Indians' did not exist. Two empires dominated today's India and neither were particularly nice either.

    • @NoName-eq9md
      @NoName-eq9md 4 роки тому

      Richard Wills-Woodward The Marathas weren’t bad. The Mughals were. Fuckers looted, pillaged, raped and executed people for their beliefs.

  • @mickmickymick6927
    @mickmickymick6927 6 років тому

    This is much better than your most recent video, not too many names, more explanation and analysis than rattling off names and dates.

  • @umarrk3082
    @umarrk3082 3 роки тому +1

    When in I play your videos I sleep in just a minute. Thanks for solving my sleep issues.

  • @marksnow7569
    @marksnow7569 4 роки тому +3

    8:59 Robert Clive was not responsible for either of these developments. Both indigo and opium had been cultivated in India from time immemorial, but by Clive's time the former was also grown in the British colony of Carolina, in North America. Only after the American colonies gained their independence (in a war which began after Clive's death- otherwise history might have been very very different) did it become practical for the East India Company to prioritise indigo cultivation for export. Although experiments with opium export to China as payment for tea did begin a few years after the East India Company gained power in Bengal, that trade did not become the Company's preferred strategy until the Chinese imperial court rebuffed British diplomatic efforts to expand general imports in the 1790s.

  • @garyrector7394
    @garyrector7394 8 років тому +7

    You've left me breathless! But . . . . . . but I have to say that I learned a lot about the Brtish Empire from watching this video.

  • @friedkeenan
    @friedkeenan 7 років тому +162

    "Ireland revolted"
    Nice
    "It failed"
    Darn it

    • @mikesnow285
      @mikesnow285 5 років тому

      @@HerewardWake No he means darn it

    • @danielinnicg2114
      @danielinnicg2114 5 років тому +8

      It didnt fail we'll have a united lreland soon enough

    • @MidgeCat
      @MidgeCat 5 років тому

      @@HerewardWake Lmao ouch

    • @stinkogresupreme8165
      @stinkogresupreme8165 5 років тому +3

      @@HerewardWake okay imperialist boomer

    • @conorryan8636
      @conorryan8636 5 років тому

      @@HerewardWake wow, you are so ignorant and uninformed hahah

  • @jellyrcw12
    @jellyrcw12 5 років тому +1

    Please add captions. Great and informative video!

  • @Sandlin22
    @Sandlin22 5 років тому +1

    You should consider doing full length documentaries.

  • @williamshortfilm5818
    @williamshortfilm5818 8 років тому +90

    Great job mate ! Keep the good work ! I subscribed :) Could you make the french empire next ? Thank you :)

  • @RB25528
    @RB25528 8 років тому +7

    Only a 1000 subscribers? This is quality stuff you need more well u got me

  • @StepBackHistory
    @StepBackHistory 8 років тому +8

    well done

  • @--Paws--
    @--Paws-- 5 років тому +2

    8:00 This was the simplest explanation for the Seven Years War I have ever heard, especially about US history, compared to how it was taught in school.

  • @dave1741
    @dave1741 7 років тому +1

    Amazingly well done. Also a whole 1 second to spare. Subscribed

  • @Zqppy
    @Zqppy 5 років тому +9

    calling Wales separate but still under English authority is wrong since it had been fully incorporated into England at the time, and also calling Ireland independent is grossly simplified, since Ireland was split between 100s of clans each acting as their own country, the English Pale ((Meath)) was bigger than almost all of the Irish clans at the time ~1490s

    • @bobsmith5441
      @bobsmith5441 2 роки тому +1

      Ireland had a system of law and philosophy of living from the brehon law applied across the island, spoke the same language, had the same mythology, religion, games, song, dance. You are looking at a 'nation' from a modern perspective.

    • @Zqppy
      @Zqppy 2 роки тому

      @@bobsmith5441 ni

    • @deanjones5545
      @deanjones5545 Рік тому

      His video starts in 1497, Wales isn’t annexed into England until the 1536 and 1542 Laws in Wales Acts.

  • @mrelephant2283
    @mrelephant2283 8 років тому +17

    This channel seems awesome

  • @coolwinds1585
    @coolwinds1585 8 років тому +5

    Sooperb..!!
    Nice Documentary..

  • @rajibulalamrikto9032
    @rajibulalamrikto9032 Місяць тому

    2:00 That seizing was smooth

  • @jmalko9152
    @jmalko9152 3 роки тому +1

    Great information!

  • @V1nce_man
    @V1nce_man 5 років тому +31

    0:42
    When you get home from school

  • @FreemanVashier
    @FreemanVashier 2 роки тому +2

    Prisoners of Cromwell's war were also sent to America as indentured servants. It's how one side of my family arrived in America.

  • @bulletbill1104
    @bulletbill1104 8 років тому +6

    suddenly the union with hanover slips in right at the end

  • @Molop87
    @Molop87 4 роки тому

    Probably the single most informative thing I've ever seen.thankyou

  • @omega-ministries3230
    @omega-ministries3230 5 років тому +1

    History is more complex than the establishment would have us mere servants believe! Great videos

  • @Whatamievingdoing
    @Whatamievingdoing 4 роки тому +8

    UK: how many times will you revolt?
    Ireland: Yes

  • @doomsdayJesus8786
    @doomsdayJesus8786 3 роки тому +6

    i learned more in 9mins than i did my entire time in school!!! THANK YOU!!!

  • @HenryJones1703
    @HenryJones1703 7 років тому +39

    So many yanks hating on the Brits in the comments, we're brothers our culture and history is ingrained in one another; We fight by you're side for civilisation. Respect from England.

    • @UserName0043
      @UserName0043 6 років тому

      Cheers ears

    • @SerBallister
      @SerBallister 6 років тому +2

      Most modern day "Yanks" are not British descended, so that brotherhood thing doesn't apply. The "English" are tyrants according to their history.

    • @aznluvr7
      @aznluvr7 6 років тому +3

      We are brothers, the British Empire was the greatest the world had ever seen. Much better to be colonized by the British than say Spain. Everything they touched turned to shit.

    • @colacao6065
      @colacao6065 6 років тому

      @@aznluvr7 And this is the reaseon why Spanish colonial cities was many more richer than british, as Havana, Mexico, Lima, Cartagena, Caracas, Manila or San Juan, all of this when cities like Boston or New York was wooden villages with 4 houses. I dont know if you are hispanophofic Latin American or who are you. But truth its very diferent. Spanish colonies was more developed than English colonies that basically was coast enclaves for trade. The Spaniards respected indians because laws that protected them, by the other way the british pushed and exterminated natives. The problem of Latin America came after the independence, when the Creoles tha only wanted power threw people against them Spanish. Financed by British and Americans, taking advantage of the war in Spain and that the fleet had been sunk in Trafalgar they won and now they turned their countries into huge estates governed by them, where they took everything for people and lived like real kings, all that while they were indebted to the British and American people. Then some countries split between them, like Gran Colombia or Guatemala, because the reality Creoles wanted power and have control of their latifundia, nothing of cheap indigenist patriotisms, the reality was this $. For that reason throughout the 19th century they had wars between them, losing territory, becoming independent from each other, and having civil wars one after the other, causing the ruin of those countries, these at the service of those at the top, who were the ones who really plundered South America, placing dictators at their service in those countries.
      And if we are going to talk about British colonies... We don't give it for good just because 4 of its former colonies are prosperous countries (besides that half of the US was not a British colony). Let's talk about Kenya, Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana, Sudan, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Oman, Yemen, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Jamaica, Belize, Bangladesh, Burma, Malaysia, etc...

    • @MrBlabax
      @MrBlabax 5 років тому

      @@colacao6065 At least some of them are prosperous, unlike spain's colonies, none of which are prosperous. Heck, even their motherland spain itself had only just recently became a developed nation LOL

  • @richdouglas2311
    @richdouglas2311 2 роки тому

    Truly a splendid recap. Thanks!

  • @Sock1122
    @Sock1122 6 років тому +1

    got 8 minutes into this video before realizing "wait jesus, why am I not already subscribed to this guy???"

  • @tylerchurch5322
    @tylerchurch5322 Рік тому +3

    It should be noted that England did not create the infamous triangle slave trade. It was started by the Dutch

    • @TheSMR1969
      @TheSMR1969 Рік тому

      Lmao yeah we didn't create it we just improved it and massively increased production and capture of slaves 😂

  • @awildturtle6002
    @awildturtle6002 8 років тому +6

    Everything is extremely Accurate to what I learned

  • @wmtrader
    @wmtrader 5 років тому +3

    Sir Francis Drake landed a bit further north (at Drakes Bay) than what is on your map at 2:10, it is just north of the Golden Gate. Your map shows him landing somewhere between Santa Barbara and Point Conception.

    • @EdinburghFive
      @EdinburghFive 5 років тому

      Try out the pub at the Pelican Inn in Muir Beach just south of Drakes Bay.

    • @prdarlin
      @prdarlin 7 місяців тому

      Champagne Papi was a pirate

  • @cursed3568
    @cursed3568 3 роки тому +1

    William of orange cracked me up so good!

  • @Angel_Gomez
    @Angel_Gomez 4 роки тому

    Thanks for talking about the English Contra Armada

  • @Nexus-Technology
    @Nexus-Technology 8 років тому +4

    Im so surprised he has only 4 videos! These are amazing! You should do the History of the Empire of Hispania (Spanish Empire) next. After all, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition ;)

  • @tavsultra9458
    @tavsultra9458 8 років тому +4

    This video is fantastic! Keep up the good work.

  • @Agerones219
    @Agerones219 8 років тому +5

    As I expect this channel to blow up soon, I want to note that I was the 407 subscriber.

    • @henrycrabs3497
      @henrycrabs3497 3 роки тому

      I'm sure he doesn't give a flying fuck

  • @obiwanfisher537
    @obiwanfisher537 Рік тому +1

    3:15 WOW I have seen artifacts of that armada the royal ulster museum when I was in Belfast. I love when abstract historical events suddenly seem real because you saw and touched real artifacts connected to that.

  • @smavideo
    @smavideo 4 роки тому

    Like the "10 Minute History" on the USSR, there is not one word in this video that I didn't already know from high school (yes, I paid attention while there). HOWEVER, this is the first time seeing all of the facts put *IN CONTEXT* . What came first, who died first, what happened after that... This is a VERY USEFUL exercise. I'm subscribing...