For some reason I can't understand there's a severe lack of Spanish History content on UA-cam, so thank you for this! And the XIX century, such an incredibly difficult and confusing century to explain so well!
Because it failed miserably before the French, British and German colonial efforts collapsed. They almost always look at those three instead of Spain. Only a few places exist that are in the hands of the original colonial masters, today.
History is wrote by anglosphere and they tend to overlook Spanish. I don't get why since they have another historic rilvsry with France and don't do that much.
@@johngreen3543 failed miserably is an overstatement. Spanish domains lasted longer than most french, dutch or british colonies. The war of independence against Napoleon wrecked Spain, which caused the independence of the virreinatos. Spain was doing fine until then even of the royal family was a bunch of corrupt retards.
@@herrero4270 I know dude my family tried to overthrow him because of that. It doesn't mean he didn't make the statement for political reasons and rhetoric.
@@marcuspacheco3815 The statement seems too frivolous for Charles V. And too modern. From somebody who hates the Germans. But Charles V was a serious person, and loved his germanic states too much to offend them.
The history of Spain is amazing, unique, and very fascinating. I do think you could have included a little more of the events going on in Spanish America. The history surrounding the independence of continental Spanish America is very extense and interesting as well. It is part of the history of Spain after all. One fact that could be of interest was the Plan in New Spain to bring Fernando VII to the continent or even his brother or another member of a royal house of Europe but the authoritarian nature of Fernando prevented this from happening and that is why Agustin Iturbide of Agustin I became emperor.
Also the Cubans and Puerto Ricans had issues with Spain because Spain wanted to officially prohibit the african slave trade but the influence of the Southern United States was making them want to join the USA if that happened. But have in mind that was only the elite of Cuba. The common cubans where loyal to Spain as a country. It was the USA and Cuban elites that wanted the independance of Cuba.
An entire vlog on the independence movements in the New World needs to be discussed in one of your youtube shows. It must focus on events here( North and South America, not just Spanish America) with only a backdrop to the European side and their wars. There is so much to discuss that it could take several episodes.
There is a rose legend about independence. They are very dark without the idealisation Of the independence. And we have to acknowledge that the reason for independence was the void of power caused by Napoleon invasión. The provinces here did not wanted Joseph I so they rebelled and declare autonomy, criollo after this, declare independence because they wanted to control the provinces in their own benefits, but it is a error to think this movement was promoted by everyone, this was just made by a parte of elite class. And the movement lack of popular support because Bolivar used English support, and that people was hated a lot in America because English were the eternal enemy of Spain and by logic, enemies of Americans too. In this war we lost s lot of people, cities, towns, ports, farms, industries were destroyed, all the money from real haciendas was robbed by libertadores and British. We got huge debts with UK, the comercial block that was the Spanish empire here disappeared and Local artisans and rich investers could not match the Europeans market and much less now with all these countries destroyed. Indigenous that was " liberated" their lands were expropiated by the libertadores of independence because they were equal to everyone so indigenous ndid not need all these laws protecting their lands. And all our countries fall into what we did not have here: revolutions, civil wars for years. All thanks to there's shitty government and shitty libertadores. They did not fight for freedom but their own benefits and for glory. Now Spain is blame by by all their errors and say Spain did never invested in these provinces.
The Spanish Empire was already in decadence before the conflict with Napoleon. There were already problems within the Iberian peninsula and America; Napoleon merely revealed how deep these issues were. Additionally, corruption was already present throughout the Empire, a condition that is present even in modern Spain. I have yet to find a single reputable historian who believes the various independence movements in Hispanic America were "promoted by everyone"; it is of public domain that there were also Royalist forces that were also part of the elite class of that time, but they _lost_ the wars of independence. And if even part of the Establishment were the only ones that wanted and promoted attaining independence from Spain, it would not have been possible without the support of the people; especially when taking into consideration the size of the territories in America emancipated from Spain, and the overall short time it took to achieve it (approximately ten years on average per country). This pink legend about the various independence movements in America is just part of the rhetorical dynamics of the fanatical Hispanists to lick their wounds. If you believe that's not the case, please share significant academic sources of American (the Continent) authors and historians that believe the independence process (and posterior effects) of Hispanic America was pure bliss. Idealization is part of the human condition, and Spain-centric Hispanists do not escape to that premise.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 la decadencia española comenzó en plenas guerras napoleónicas al verse estos envueltos en ellas sin poder desligarse o aislarse debido a que no eran una isla, sino vecinos de la Francia revolucionaria. En la clase elitista española en las Américas había un interés por destruir el proteccionismo en el mercado, este proteccionismo favorecía al productor local y las industrias propias del imperio que eran de particulares y del Reino. Estas para prosperar no debían tener competencia de industrias foráneas como la británica, francesa o de cualquier índole. A los criollos poco lew importaba eso sino acceder a los rubros aún cuando fuera una catástrofe para el mercado. También querían adueñarse del gobierno por completo y ellos poner las pautas a como debían funcionar. Los británicos lo que hicieron fue aprovechar la situación de anarquía y apoyar las revueltas, saquear las haciendas, llevarse todo el oro y la plata y dar empréstitos altísimos con grandes intereses, endeudar todos los países recien nacidos en el concierto internacional, hacerlos productos de las materias primas de l reino unido, y destruir su mercado debido al libre comercio que empobrecido al ciudadano común. Las independencias tuvieron catastróficas consecuencias, que fueron más de 500 mil muertos, pueblos, ciudades, campos, fincas, hatos, astilleros, industrias destruidas. Universidad, colegios, miseria, anarquía y destrucción. Caos social y político que continúa a sol de hoy. Ese es el legado e la indeodencia, caos desde que España se fue. Y a los indios se les expropiaban sus tierras
0:00 Introduction 1:54 Thanks to the Patreon Patrons 2:12 1788 - Charles IV 2:51 1789 - The French Revolution 5:08 1799 - Spain returns ownership of The Louisiana Territory to France. 5:35 1801 - The War of The Origins. 7:54 1805 - Unchallenged British Naval Supremacy. 9:00 1807 - French Occupation of Spain. 10:18 1808 Peninsular War, The War of Spanish Independence from France. 11:48 Guerilla Warfare is coined as a term during The Peninsular War. 12:41 The Cortez of Cadiz. 1812 - Liberal Constitution of Spain. 14:53 The French Revolution influenced The Mexican Revolution. 16:55 1833 - Spain recognizes Latin America as Independent. 17:53 1820 Spanish Military Mutiny Revolt. 20:03 Chaos and Civil War 20:33 Spain became a Lagging Power, less developed, weaker, than the other European Powers such as Great Britain, France, etc. 24:18 1843 - Isabella II and The Moderate Decade. + Expansion of Infrastructure + Small Economic Recovery - La Gloriosa Revolution 26:20 Amadeo I - Inexperienced 26:46 1872 - The Third Carlist War/Uprising. 27:20 1868 - Cuban Uprising. 27:55 1873 - The First Spanish Republic. 28:10 1874 - The Bourbon Restoration. "The Peacemaker" 28:57 The Berlin Conference adds Western Sahara to Spanish ownership. 29:36 Economic Slow-Down. Regionalism. 30:00 1895 Cuba Revolution 30:10 1896 Philippino Revolution 31:06 February 1898 - Spanish American War. America Crushes Spain in Cuba. - Philippines - Guam - Puerto Rico transferred over to America. 32:30 1914 - Spain chooses Neutrality in World War I. Their Neutrality is respected by the other European Powers. 33:00 The Disaster of Aunjou 33:41 1923 - Coup. 34:03 The 2nd Spanish Republic 34:10 1936 Spanish Civil War.
Fire of Learning is BACK, and with one of my biggest passion areas! I can't wait to visit Spain one day, want to bring my Spanish back, and admire this culture and people so much! Quite literally the doc I've been waiting for.
Fun fact: The phrase Guerilla Warfare comes from the Spanish word Guerrilla which means small war. It was the tactic of dividing large military formations into smaller groups which would use surprise and stealth to attack supply lines and raid French formations from unexpected sides. Spaniards have been successfully using "Guerilla" in their mountainous terrain since they were invaded by Rome 2000 years earlier.
The Spanish Empire lasted for 300 years, its collapse in c.1810, it was due to a ruling class that fell into Napoleon’s trap; when the French occupied Spain and installed a puppet king, the Spanish in both sides of the Atlantic revolted, leading to a civil war, which in the Americas led to independence. Futhermore These huge quantities of silver first encouraged the Spanish monarchy to take out huge debts, always with the belief that it would be able to pay back the debts in a timely manner through silver shipments. Unfortunately, that’s an awful way to run a government, as silver shipments can be quite irregular.
@Imanol Aizpurua The SPanish were good at exploiting the natives and its colony, they were good at finding valuable resources while enslaving the natives.
@@davidfernandez-valdes8977 well people like to talk bad about Spain do nothing new. This guy obviously don't know how Spain invested here and how hard was to do that and encourage it. Also ignore the fact why Spain relied I. Godly.and silver and that was due that the height of the war in Europe was just on that tiny region called castille, when they wanted to share the height among the other regions of the empire they revolted. Now castilled poor, the industry dissapesred so they used the silver to buy stuff that spain could not produce anymore in their homeland and this lead to inflation and debts. And also de silver anf gold that arrived fork America's was used to pay salaries and debts from the wars a Spain had in Europe. People think that Spain was just , hey let's use the gold for everything because we want. No , it was their only option in their long run because they could not produce the enough wealth to keep on the defensive war in Europe and at the end they fall and the first sign of that was the battle of rocroi. This dude thinks that after independence all was of pink color, when in reality was the begign of a dark era for all Americans in the Hispanic sphere.
In a HUGE coincidence, I stumbled into the first two videos of this series on both my travel to and first day stay in Madrid! Can’t wait to watch this one tomorrow :)
La guerra civil española es un tomo-libro aparte. No se puede entender esta sin antes retrotraerse a las continuas injerencias británicas desde 1808 para desestabilizar su hegemonía. "Humillar a España" cuaderno encontrado recientemente escrito por un inglés del siglo XVIII para apoderarse del Mar del Plata
Is there ever going to be a history of Mexico? It seems pretty interesting how the US and Mexico are both like inverses of each other despite having similar origins of peoples created through colonization and resulted in Republicanism and later both tried to expand into the west
They were the biggest of allies when Mexico didn't have puppet Spanish-Mexican leaders such as Santa Ana... And instead bad ass Indigenous leaders like Benito Juarez who defeated his opposition during their civil war( against former royalistas) as well as the French, Spanish, and parts of the British empire while the US was dealing with the CSA... If they both lost ground it would have staged possibly the first full European empire attack on two nations outside of Europe(to retake claimed European empire land), Benito and his Army are the reason we celebrate "Cinco de Mayo" in the United States (which many Latins hate for some reason💀), also Benito Mussolini's father named him after Benito Juarez the Zapotec warrior(although not sure if that is a good thing granted he was a fascist dictator according to historians).
@@Redeemedeno no Mexico has a whole pre-colombian period which ranges for hundreds of years, colonial era which was over 300 years, the early Republican ear, civil war and invasion from France, Reign of Porfirio Diaz, Mexican Revolution, and modern era. So it would be a long video
@@Ralfi_PoELA Not at all US only supported Mexico because wanted Mexico to remain a mediocre country under puppet politicians, not a France next door, or any smart, militaristic population to be a threat to the US, later in history you can see some parallelism when American politician Brzezinski said: “we don’t want a Japan south of the border” Spain, USA, France and Britain have been thenatural predators of Mexico, none of them are our allies, unless you call your offender your allied.
@@jmgonzales7701 No. Russia never had lands in the Atlantic time zone. and the land they owned in the Americas was Alaska which has its own time zone that's not connecteds to any other American time zone.
Gracias por hacer este gran documental de mi patria España ,Deberías hacer Unos Documentales sobre la Guerra de los 30 años o La guerra de los 7 años en detalle, si es posible
30 Wars war would be awesome the 7 years war as Well. But there are many "Short" Videos about it. So I would prefer a longer Doco movie series about both of them. There would be enough Material tbh.
To complement this video, there should be a mention of how the British and freemasonry were behind the independentist movements that appear all over Spanish America. They financed Bolivar, San Martin and Juarez. Then introduced "free market" to the newly born nations and made sure to create external debt and conflict between the countries so they never get together again.
It always makes me laugh whenever I see comments from fanatic Hispanists crying and whining when it comes to the British. Such _hypocritical_ zealots often forget the historical fact that the Spanish Empire was a hardcore supporter of The U.S.-American independence movement, which happened way before the independence movements of Hispanic America.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 and we talk about That, the hypocresy comes from the British ppl who wont admit they payed and help Spanish América to emancipate having all the proofs
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 Yes without Bernardo de Galvez de US independence would have ended in disaster. Nevertheless you are making a straw man fallacy, and not addressing my argument.
@@alexisern5815 You didn't comprehend my point. No one in this specific post has denied the involvement of Freemasonry and the British Empire in the independence movement of the Spanish Viceroyalties in America. The hypocrisy comes when the Hispanists whine about the British and forget that the Spanish Empire _first_ supported the independence of the Thirteen Colonies.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 Well if you actually understand what was going on in North America in the late 1700's, you wouldn't have made such a pretentious statement. Spain helped the US as a geostrategic defense, because the British were menacing with taking all Florida (they already had West Florida), Lousiana and Cuba. Not to mention their failed attempt in Cartagena de Indias with Blas de Leso. Meanwhile the Brittish helped the spanish american separatist movements out of commercial control and hemispheric domain. "Divide et impera". If you were an ounce honest you should at least consider that. The 13 colonies wanted the independence. The Spanish American didn't want independence except for some creoles that saw the opportunity to profit from it. Basically your strawman argument goes like this: I argue about Peter punching John's face, but then argue that John was a bad brother to his sister 20 years ago. You mix 2 different things. And try to rescue yourself saying, yes I know that Peter is a good mason puncher, but lets focus again in my strawman argument about John being a bad brother. The communist-indegenism is strong on you.
Awesome video this is another awesome series! Spain’s empire is definitely one of the most notable stories in world history Actually the “Spanish Morocco and Spanish West Africa” series over on the Wayback history channel basically picks up right where this video leaves off. Thank you sir for a great video!
19:03 wow, I didn't know Harambe lived such a long life and traveled so widely. He was even present in early 19th century Spain. Such a fascinating life. 🤣
Me ha gustado el respeto que ha manifestado el relator acerca de nuestra historia. Una tragedia para todos los españoles pero que se explica desde una perspectiva global. Muchas gracias
Pero una tragedia tampoco. Lo sería en su momento, pero ¿qué imperio ha durado más de 400 años? Lo importante es el legado civilizador, y España lo hizo perfectamente. Como les dimos universidad a los americanos, aprendieron a ser occidentales y se rebelaron, como las 13 colonias contra los británicos. Los que no podían rebelarse hasta el siglo XX eran los indios, los indonesios y los africanos, a los que los británicos y holandeses no dieron casi ninguna herramienta para convertirse en gente occidental o moderna hasta el siglo XX
@@bilbohob7179 Roma, claro, es un modelo más parecido al español. Transportar una civilización a un mundo con otra cultura y otras razas, e integrarlas.
@@Gloriaimperial1 Ya existían universidades y hospitales en los imperios Mexica e Inca. Y no hay nada de malo con no tener una cultura occidental o "civilizada" como lo llaman. Solo son culturas diferentes a las occidentales no son inferiores como lo insinúa.
I knew, that spanish history was a mess, but didn't knew HOW BIG of a mess it was. Almost 100 years of constant civill wars, i'm amazed, that spanish people endured for the whole time and retain the country.
Probably It is because the base of spanish society was catolicism and after of 30 years war were neccesary to lost the catolicism (world Empire) as goal of international polítics.
France was another mess: French revolution, Napoleonic wars, which ended with the invasion of Paris and Napoleon imprisoned. Revolution of 1830. Revolution of 1848. Defeat in the Franco-Prussian War... Germany was another mess in the 20th century: two defeats in the world war, revolution in 1918. Germany divided into East and West. Fall of the emperor and the monarchy... Austria the same. Italy: fascism, defeat in the world war, red brigades... Russia? Russia is still in a mess. Eastern Europe something similar. The only ones who could stay out of invasions and revolutions were the islands difficult to invade or to influence with revolutionary agents: the British, the Icelanders and the Greenlanders.
@@Gloriaimperial1 I agree,the one difference between the ones you mentioned and Spain that is this failed to keeping his power and influence overall in America,while the others had a inside conflicts but it didn´t affected in theirs possesions,colonies,or maybe what is the most important,industrial muscle.
@@danielguerrero894 The independence of the continental American republics in the 19th century (1810-1825) is equal to the independence of the 13 colonies (the basis of the current USA) against the British in 1776-1783. The two territories had a Western culture, with universities, modern hospitals, cathedrals, schools, European weapons, ships. The British, French and Dutch empires retain their possessions in Africa, India, Indonesia or Angola and Portuguese Mozambique, because those lands are not civilized. It is very difficult for them to become independent before WW2, because they live in very poorly developed tribal regimes. Australia and Canada had a very British population, and only 3 or 4 million inhabitants in 1900, and could not dream of independence. But shortly after they began to propose reforms along those lines, and the UK had to give in, amicably, to avoid problems. The proof is that the British empire shrank 144 times in 20 years in the 20th century.
@@Gloriaimperial1 😂😂😂😂You absolute Spanish 🤡, always having to bring in and talk about Britain when this video discusses what a weak pathetic nation Spain became in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Something important was missing from the perliferous bonanza of the island of Cubagua sighted in 1498 by Christopher Columbus together with the islands of Coche and Margarita, present-day Venezuela. The local indigenous people of the Guakeri ethnic group had begun to exploit the abundant pearl oyster deposits as expert divers. The pearls they used as ornaments were exchanged for glasses and trinkets worn by the crew of Columbus sheeps. Shortly after, these Cubagua pearls became one of the most valuable resources of the incipient Spanish Empire in the Americas, which partly financed the conquest of Mexico and Peru.
Great video , as other comments have said , there’s not a whole lot on UA-cam about Spanish history . Would be nice to see some more in depth videos about colonial era Mexico/Latin America, and there struggle for independence.I noticed there’s a few more videos on this topic in your channel , I’ll be sure to watch them . Thanks for uploading
The strategic importance of Trafalgar is somewhat exaggerated. Napoleon had already decided to forgo an invasion of England. He saw the French navy as curiously impotent, but more importantly, the massing of Russian-Austrian arms to the east prompted N's move to Bavaria. Ulm and Trafalgar happened at nearly the same time in October. Spain was only a junior partner in this. It was N, not Spain, that planned to send troops to England.
31:29 We have known for several years now, to a certainty that USS Maine's sinking had nothing to do with the Spanish. Modern diving analysis of the wreck has shown that explosion was the result of an internal explosion, almost an accidental magazine ignition. This is in direct contrast to the US claim at the time that it was intentionally mined by the Spanish, which would have blown the armor plating inwards, not out; setting aside the obvious lack of political desire to do such a thing in the first place.
It was the Napoleonic invasion of Spain that in part precipitated the Latin American independence movements. They supplied the vast majority of silver and other precious metals to Madrid's treasury throughout most of the empire's history.
Sadly in every side they wanted nothing to help the natives, sad thing about colonization is that at the end of the day the Evil invaders will be on top of the social chain while the natives are treated as second class citizens.
@@Ralfi_PoELA wrong, the ones who led the independence were criollos. If you don’t know learn more about everysinlge Hispanic America knows that but we are are taught to praise them as heroes. And I won’t deny there weren’t revolts led by indigenous people, but guess what? It was also rich indigenous people, owners of African slaves and farms, who got mad for raise of taxes. The independences were that, white criollo men fighting for their interests and the British, when they achieved independence they talked shit about those new countries, and one of those so called “liberators” talk and treated like shit native people.
@@angelasmr8818 Lol why would a group of people who benefit from a system change it... Than actually try and bring back the people who once controlled that system? That makes no sense. Also there are things called propaganda. We have it here in the US because they don't teach about how and why the first treaty and constitution was created. Which Europeans hate all these constitutions and treaties because they're used to being controlled by a king, queen, or pope.
Very interesting history. I think the Napoleon Invasion of Spain was the deathblow to Spain and its Empire after the war Spain never fully recovered and it led to century of chaos and political unrest thereafter. Not to mention Carlos IV and Ferdinand VII were probably two of the worst King in the history of Spain.
The actual 'deathblow' was the declaration and actual war of independence in the Americas. Napoleon was a temporary political setback, whereas all the colonial taxation & benefits from slavery as well as all of the stolen goods kept the Spanish economy going and Economy is everything in order to sustain an Empire...
@@castlebound2010 lmao why do you give the american colonies so much importance, without Napoleon they wouldn't have won anything, they even practically lost fighting against an invaded Spain
@@castlebound2010 I agree with most of what you say, but it was in part the Napoleon invasion of Spain that precipitated the Latin American independence movements.
@Acusticamente Convusional The Spanish American colonies supplied Spain with a lot of silver at various points forming the largest part of the Spanish treasury and borrowing capacity.
This documentary starts in the 18th century and focusses on internal revolts and loss of colonies. There has been an interesting article about the fall of the Spanish empire on Zerohedge. Due to the massive influx of silver from the Americas and the subsequent Price Recolution. The empire was already collapsing under C 34:44 harles the second and Philip under bureaucracy and hyperinflation in the 17th century, which was the Golden Age for the Dutch who succesfully managed to revolt agains Spain and liberate part of their country at the end of the 16th Century and became the dominant World Power.
For example king Charles abdicated in 1559, because Spain went bankrupt and couldn't pay off its loans to the bankers. Famous bankers were Fugger and the Genoese
Overall is a correct video, but there are history details that would give so much better understanding of the real context and situation, for example, after Filipinas "independence" experience, the leader of the revolutionaries, Emilio Aguinaldo, publicly repented their actions against Spain declaring his love for the Spanish motherland while assisting to the funeral of the King Alfonso XIII to the surprise of many. As he stated, and actually it was the truth for nearly half a millennium, all Spanish subjects across the globe were citizens of the realm, with their rights guaranteed by law. They experienced firsthand the change from being under the hispanic catholic prism, to become just a market to play with for the usa government, or british for their hispanic american courterpart...
Excellent documentary... but I cannot believe that not even a mention of the Central American process of independence was cited, which was non belic and as a whole saw a province split into the 5 countries including mine.. Costa Rica
I think it's because, while the situation in Spain influenced Latin America, ther other way around... not so much. Spain was more influenced by Europe and (specially) internal strife. That's why the emancipation of Latin America is usually treated as its own separate entity.
Thank you for another excellent video! I've been waiting to get into more modern Spanish history as it's a subject I know little about. I would also be interested in the history of some South American nations now too! Thank you again for the great content! Stay well out there everybody, and God be with you, friends. ✝️ :)
"British support" to Spain has its own ulterior motives. Besides counteracting the French in Spain, they also destroy much of the Spanish textile industry to eliminate competition.
I seriously did not know that the Louisiana territory was Spanish before French. I was always taught that we bought it from France, which is technically true. I just didn't know about the Spanish ownership for a time
New Orleans was largely built by the Spanish--why its historic district resembles other Mexican coastal cities along the Gulf of Mexico. In fact what is today Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, etc. were at various times in Spanish hands, as part of the viceroyalty of New Spain, all administered from its capital in Mexico City. It was captains and generals and footsoldiers from New Spain that helped the American Revolutionaries in the south drive off the British on land and sea. Spain also established posts/forts all the way to Alaska, at one point extending New Spains territory to Alaska. However the inability to defend it or colonize it from far away allowed the Russians and British to move in and make claims. Eventually through treaties, Spain ceded most of this area to the British.
@@SchmidtyProductions27 Louisiana was Spanish long before it was French. Before the year 1600, Spain had carried out more than 50 expeditions in North American territory, such as that of Hernando de Soto or that of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Those lands were claimed and explored with the legality of the Tordesillas Treaty of 1494. Also the Colorado Canyon, Vancouver (San Miguel) and great plains. The French settled there due to the impossibility of massively colonizing the territory. They lost Canada in the war against the British, and they gave Louisiana to Spain, because Spain could defend it.
I don’t understand why we say the US got its independence only from UK when half of the country was either owned by France (2/3 of Canada and 2/3 of modern US) or even Spain who had 2/3 of modern day US
There is a difference between "claimed land" and actually controlled settlements by those empires. Even though Spain claimed majority of North America it was sliced into pieces very fast because in order for something to be considered "legit" it has to be enforced. Spain at the time in North America could barely control the State(not the nation we see today) of Mexico its outskirts and maybe isolated settlements of the original people close to a shore. There biggest settlement in North America past the Mexican state was when they tried to control the already inhabited settlement of Toas Pueblo(where Albuquerque is pretty much is today) until after the Pueblo revolt of 1680 the Spanish had very little presence in the Southwest North American region(today the Southwestern United states, and Northern Mexico) that officers wrote about how little European influence was in these regions.
@@Ralfi_PoELA British Empire: frozen islands of Canada, Africa where Livingston is lost and India with 540 independent princes Commonwealth: 10% of the population speak English as their mother tongue. Less than 10% Christian. Hispanic America: 90% speak Spanish as their mother tongue. 99% speak Spanish. 85% Catholic. We Spaniards also have the right to have desert lands, like the British, who paint the entire empire red, even in northern Canada.
@@Gloriaimperial1 the Spanish have a right to nothing because the US declared the pands belong to Indigenous people and independent nations are intrusted with taking care of the land. Its a weird obsession that the Spanairds today are still trying to reclaim what they stole("discovered") in the first place. If you want to reclaim and reconquista you're going to have to come through us here in the United States. Lets get it cracking then.
“I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.” - Sarah Vowell
The phrase is brilliant, but it is only half the truth. In gratitude for the discovery of chocolate, the Spanish made 25 universities for all races, 2,000 stone cities, 850 large hospitals, 130 cathedrals, and brought the Renaissance, the Baroque, and the golden age of Spanish culture. The British had a trading company in India until 1857. The only university in the Dutch empire is in Indonesia 1946, 2 years before independence, and 300 years of renting Indonesia. Chocolate-colored children could not sit on a bus with whites, in Alabama until 1960, and in South Africa until 1990. Queen Elizabeth of Castile said in 1500: "It doesn't matter if there is no gold (or chocolate) in the West Indies, I want Spanish men and women to marry and form families with the people of these new lands." The territory with the most mestizos in the world: 43% of the population. Chocolat people o coffe people :)
I love this. Very well done. Anyone else think this was a Jack Rackham video from the thumbnail tho? Lol. You guys should collab. Great minds think alike. As do great history tubers.
King Carlos III. had a very funny looking face. Imagine you had been brought before him, back then, without knowing what he looks like and then you get to see him... for me, that would have probably been a "life of brian" moment.
Well, Charles III was a great king, not Benny Hill. He was king of Naples, first. He built the palace of Caserta, in Italy, bigger than Buckinham Palace. He also discovered Pompeii and Herculaneum. Under Carlos III, the Spanish empire was the largest empire in the world, extending to Alaska, Uruguay, Tahiti, Equatorial Guinea, Louisiana, the Great Plains of the United States, Florida, the entire west coast of Canada... He directed operations in the defeat of the British in the war of the 13 colonies, with the Spanish victories in Louisiana, Florida, Bahamas, Central America, Minorca. Also in the naval blockade of England (1779-80), with the capture of two British fleets of 24 and 55 British ships, full of weapons, soldiers and money, which sank the London stock market. Then he gave the 8 real or the Spanish dollar to the United States. I don't think the British thought of Charles III as very funny :)
@@Gloriaimperial1 Claiming land is very different than actually controlling and defending your legitimacy to the land in which you want to control. Spain can barely control the state of Mexico(not the actual nation we know it today with many other states) before the Mexicans kicked them out of North America. If they actually did control the parts they said they did they would have just had a land stronghold adjacent to it like the British did when they flew to Canada and started more attacks from there on the US.
@@Ralfi_PoELA Spain spent 200 years in Belgium and Luxembourg. 100 years in Holland. 162 years in parts of Germany and France. 60 years in Portugal. 70 years in Athens. 457 years in Italy. Do you think we have a problem controlling the frozen islands of Canada, Africa where Livingston was lost, or India with 300 semi-independent princes? In Italy we won 10 wars against France, capturing the king of France and his son in the battle of Pavia, taking them prisoners to Madrid. We destroyed the Turkish fleet at Lepanto, with our Italian NATO. We dominate the Vatican. In Italy we made 9 universities, splendid baroque cities, palaces and discovered Pompeii and Herculaneum. Controlling America (great plains, Florida, Louisiana, part of Alaska), Borneo, Tahiti, Taiwan, the Philippines and other places where the Spanish empire was, was not too difficult, due to the technological difference that existed at that time between Europe and those lands isolated. The fortress adjacent to the icy British Baffin Island (visited by a whaler every 3-4 years) was 3000 km. The British paint the map of the British Empire in red, in places where no one lived. If we Spaniards did the same, we would have an empire of more than 30 million km2 in the XVI-XVII centuries
1:46 That map thing is pretty clever: I can clearly see all the backlog I can catch up on I’ve seen channels like economics explained do a similar thing.
I enjoy your videos but history is more than battles and treaties. I’d love to hear the full history including economics, cultural change, art, agriculture, language, religion, etc.
In his work Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain containing researches relative to the geography of Mexico he says that the Indians of New Spain lived in better conditions than any Russian or German peasant in Europe. According to Humboldt, despite the fact that Indian farmers were poor, under Spanish rule they were free and slavery was non-existent, their conditions were much better than any other peasant or farmer in northern Europe.
Spain pretty much claimed control over societies that been functioning and thriving for thousands of years before the Spanish brought their pestilence on many on those people before those same people had uprisings and gave Spain the boot. Lol that's not saying much from an OG Americans point of view like myself.
@@Ralfi_PoELA The Spanish did not bring pestilence, they brought 25 universities, 2000 stone cities, 140 cathedrals, 850 hospitals, roads, ports, the wheel, the horse, agricultural techniques, the golden age of Spanish culture, the Renaissance, the baroque, opera, violin... it would be endless. It's like calling you house, Sillicom Valley home with the innovations of the 25th century. He kicked us out because they had gone to college, like the 13 colonies kicked out the British. It is difficult that India or Africa could be liberated, until XX century, because the British only made universities for whites.
@@Gloriaimperial1 our societies were doing just fine until your people started to kidnap people, and enslave them. Yall stole all that from the Moors who already were in contact with certain societies why the Moors were used as guides mostly.
@@Gloriaimperial1 also the Manroe Doctrine was enforced after our military wooped that Spanish Empire a** which states that no European Empire or outside powers can have direct control over any independent nation in the Western Hemisphere. Why Canada is not controlled by the crown its a commonwealth meaning its a trusted committed trading partner with the crown. They can give that up in a heart beat like Caribbean Nations did and are doing.
@@Ralfi_PoELA Who said that we Spaniards want to reconquer America? We do not need to reconquer America: we are brothers from both shores, we are closely related, through emigration, literature, language, traditions... Like the United Kingdom and Portugal with Australia and Brazil. We don't steal anything. We reinvest 70-80% of the wealth there. The British stole from India and Africa, and left her pretty much as they found her as a pauper. Latin America is the West. In America there were human sacrifices. The Aztecs alone ate 10,000 people each year. Another 10,000-20,000 died in battle. Multiply that by 500 years without Spaniards: 10 million people would have died in sacrifices. Well, in America they had 2000 years of human sacrifice. Hispania and the Celtic cultures also had human sacrifices. That is why the Romans came to our land, to civilize us. Such is the history of humanity. The Inca empire itself civilized many American lands that were very backward. America, like Australia, was a very isolated continent. The Monroe Doctrine was only the law of the strongest, because the British had Jamaica, Belize and Guiana in America. The Spanish empire had the Netherlands doctrine, the Italian doctrine, the German doctrine and the French doctrine. That is why the Catholic religion is the majority in Europe. Now comes the Chinese doctrine in the Pacific and Asia, and the Indian doctrine in the Indian Ocean. 2.8 billion people, compared to 330 million people in the United States. I prefer the influence of the United States than China, which is a dictatorship. But remember: all empires end. 2030-2040
I note that the French Army was superior in stand up battles. It reminds me of a late 1970s diplomatic encounter between an American general and a North Vietnamese general -- American: We won every battle. N. Vietnamese: But that is irrelevant since we won the war.
I don't understand why people of the same culture want to stay divided, then they wonder why outside force target them. if we united, we would be a force to be reckoned with. No entiendo por qué las personas de la misma cultura quieren permanecer divididas, entonces se preguntan por qué la fuerza externa los ataca. si nos uniéramos, seríamos una fuerza a tener en cuenta.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 Somos la misma cultura en general, pero con muchos matices enriquecedores. España mismo tiene también esos matices, con diversas lenguas regionales y costumbres, dentro de España. Incluso las culturas indígenas de Paraguay o México, no son siempre iguales unas a otras. Pero es cierto que la religión católica se adaptó en América a muchas costumbres locales, y tiene un colorido especial, y el idioma español está lleno de matices. Además se conservaron 40 lenguas locales, y se pasaron a escrito, porque los misioneros estaban obligados por la corona a hablar las lenguas locales de América. La romanización que comenzó España la completaron las mismas repúblicas independientes en los siglos XIX y XX, para entrar en el mundo occidental, promocionando también esos rasgos culturales propios.
Quizás si los reyes de españa hubiesen gastado recursos en mejorar las condiciones de la gente en el imperio, las elites no de hubiesen revelado. Que prohibieran comerciar y participar en el poder político fue lo que llevó a las elitrs americanas a oponerse al rey de españa. Los libertadores fueron hijos de oficiales del imperio, donde hasta sus propios padres los apoyaron ya que estaban condenados a no poder ser parte del gobierno.
@@nicolasignaciomerinonunez114 Bueno, España intentó prevenir revueltas, poniendo gente de la península en los altos cargos, cierto. Pero también es cierto que España había hecho una sociedad occidental en América, y los americanos tenían los mismos recursos políticos, tecnológicos y culturales que España. Por razones parecidas se rebelaron los habitantes de las 13 colonias contra los británicos, pero no los africanos y los indios de la India, que estaban mucho más atrasados. La guerra en América también fue una guerra civil, los españoles contaron con la ayuda masiva de gente popular, especialmente los indígenas, que como ellos mismos temían, luego fueron explotados. ¿Qué pasó después de los 300 años casi de paz del imperio español, donde los únicos conflictos fueron algunas guerras contra los mapuches o alguna flota británica fracasada de la que no se enteraba casi nadie? Latifundios, matanzas de indios, golpes de estado, invasiones entre países hermanos, fragmentación de la tierra, delincuencia, narcotráfico, guerrillas, contraguerrillas, patrocinado casi todo por Reino Unido y Francia en el siglo XIX y por Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética en el siglo XX.
The Spanish Empire was not a colonial empire such as the English, French 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.
Best History channel on youtube.
Thank you!
Facts‼️ I used to tune into this kinda stuff to sleep, this channel I actually stay up & watch
@@VickHushpuppy215 I listen to these while working 😆
INVICTUS AND KINGS&GENERALS you’re welcome👍🏽
@@Fireoflearning great but u shuld do modern history
For some reason I can't understand there's a severe lack of Spanish History content on UA-cam, so thank you for this! And the XIX century, such an incredibly difficult and confusing century to explain so well!
👍 cierto
My people fought a 100 year war against Spain and there’s almost no content on it. So frustrating
As of matter of fact there's so much info that's not in you tube channels...or they produced but...delete from ✅
Spanish history is literally a clusterfuck of non-stop fuck ups
@@crowo1620 indeed
As a spaniard from Lisbon I appreciate this video. People overlook the Spanish Empire a lot.
Netherlands: first time?
As a swede from Oslo I appreciate this comment. People overlook Marcus Aurelius comments a lot.
Because it failed miserably before the French, British and German colonial efforts collapsed. They almost always look at those three instead of Spain. Only a few places exist that are in the hands of the original colonial masters, today.
History is wrote by anglosphere and they tend to overlook Spanish. I don't get why since they have another historic rilvsry with France and don't do that much.
@@johngreen3543 failed miserably is an overstatement. Spanish domains lasted longer than most french, dutch or british colonies. The war of independence against Napoleon wrecked Spain, which caused the independence of the virreinatos. Spain was doing fine until then even of the royal family was a bunch of corrupt retards.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Charles V
Is this quote real?
@@marcuspacheco3815 I don't think so. Charles V barely spoke castilian. Ha has to learn it when he was already adult. He was raised in Flanders.
@@herrero4270 I know dude my family tried to overthrow him because of that. It doesn't mean he didn't make the statement for political reasons and rhetoric.
@@marcuspacheco3815 The statement seems too frivolous for Charles V. And too modern. From somebody who hates the Germans. But Charles V was a serious person, and loved his germanic states too much to offend them.
@@herrero4270 that sounds fair. I wonder where the quote comes from then?
The history of Spain is amazing, unique, and very fascinating. I do think you could have included a little more of the events going on in Spanish America. The history surrounding the independence of continental Spanish America is very extense and interesting as well. It is part of the history of Spain after all. One fact that could be of interest was the Plan in New Spain to bring Fernando VII to the continent or even his brother or another member of a royal house of Europe but the authoritarian nature of Fernando prevented this from happening and that is why Agustin Iturbide of Agustin I became emperor.
Also the Cubans and Puerto Ricans had issues with Spain because Spain wanted to officially prohibit the african slave trade but the influence of the Southern United States was making them want to join the USA if that happened. But have in mind that was only the elite of Cuba. The common cubans where loyal to Spain as a country. It was the USA and Cuban elites that wanted the independance of Cuba.
An entire vlog on the independence movements in the New World needs to be discussed in one of your youtube shows. It must focus on events here( North and South America, not just Spanish America) with only a backdrop to the European side and their wars. There is so much to discuss that it could take several episodes.
There is a rose legend about independence. They are very dark without the idealisation Of the independence.
And we have to acknowledge that the reason for independence was the void of power caused by Napoleon invasión. The provinces here did not wanted Joseph I so they rebelled and declare autonomy, criollo after this, declare independence because they wanted to control the provinces in their own benefits, but it is a error to think this movement was promoted by everyone, this was just made by a parte of elite class.
And the movement lack of popular support because Bolivar used English support, and that people was hated a lot in America because English were the eternal enemy of Spain and by logic, enemies of Americans too.
In this war we lost s lot of people, cities, towns, ports, farms, industries were destroyed, all the money from real haciendas was robbed by libertadores and British. We got huge debts with UK, the comercial block that was the Spanish empire here disappeared and Local artisans and rich investers could not match the Europeans market and much less now with all these countries destroyed.
Indigenous that was " liberated" their lands were expropiated by the libertadores of independence because they were equal to everyone so indigenous ndid not need all these laws protecting their lands.
And all our countries fall into what we did not have here: revolutions, civil wars for years.
All thanks to there's shitty government and shitty libertadores. They did not fight for freedom but their own benefits and for glory.
Now Spain is blame by by all their errors and say Spain did never invested in these provinces.
The Spanish Empire was already in decadence before the conflict with Napoleon. There were already problems within the Iberian peninsula and America; Napoleon merely revealed how deep these issues were. Additionally, corruption was already present throughout the Empire, a condition that is present even in modern Spain.
I have yet to find a single reputable historian who believes the various independence movements in Hispanic America were "promoted by everyone"; it is of public domain that there were also Royalist forces that were also part of the elite class of that time, but they _lost_ the wars of independence. And if even part of the Establishment were the only ones that wanted and promoted attaining independence from Spain, it would not have been possible without the support of the people; especially when taking into consideration the size of the territories in America emancipated from Spain, and the overall short time it took to achieve it (approximately ten years on average per country).
This pink legend about the various independence movements in America is just part of the rhetorical dynamics of the fanatical Hispanists to lick their wounds. If you believe that's not the case, please share significant academic sources of American (the Continent) authors and historians that believe the independence process (and posterior effects) of Hispanic America was pure bliss. Idealization is part of the human condition, and Spain-centric Hispanists do not escape to that premise.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 la decadencia española comenzó en plenas guerras napoleónicas al verse estos envueltos en ellas sin poder desligarse o aislarse debido a que no eran una isla, sino vecinos de la Francia revolucionaria.
En la clase elitista española en las Américas había un interés por destruir el proteccionismo en el mercado, este proteccionismo favorecía al productor local y las industrias propias del imperio que eran de particulares y del Reino. Estas para prosperar no debían tener competencia de industrias foráneas como la británica, francesa o de cualquier índole. A los criollos poco lew importaba eso sino acceder a los rubros aún cuando fuera una catástrofe para el mercado. También querían adueñarse del gobierno por completo y ellos poner las pautas a como debían funcionar.
Los británicos lo que hicieron fue aprovechar la situación de anarquía y apoyar las revueltas, saquear las haciendas, llevarse todo el oro y la plata y dar empréstitos altísimos con grandes intereses, endeudar todos los países recien nacidos en el concierto internacional, hacerlos productos de las materias primas de l reino unido, y destruir su mercado debido al libre comercio que empobrecido al ciudadano común.
Las independencias tuvieron catastróficas consecuencias, que fueron más de 500 mil muertos, pueblos, ciudades, campos, fincas, hatos, astilleros, industrias destruidas. Universidad, colegios, miseria, anarquía y destrucción. Caos social y político que continúa a sol de hoy. Ese es el legado e la indeodencia, caos desde que España se fue.
Y a los indios se les expropiaban sus tierras
Thank you for your hard work and all the quality in-depth analysis on your channel!
Excellent, clear and unbiased content about this topic, which is hard to find on UA-cam. Congratulations!
Just right when i start learning about the Spanish Empire, Fire of Learning drops a video talking about the fall of the Spanish Empire
0:00 Introduction
1:54 Thanks to the Patreon Patrons
2:12 1788 - Charles IV
2:51 1789 - The French Revolution
5:08 1799 - Spain returns ownership of The Louisiana Territory to France.
5:35 1801 - The War of The Origins.
7:54 1805 - Unchallenged British Naval Supremacy.
9:00 1807 - French Occupation of Spain.
10:18 1808 Peninsular War, The War of Spanish Independence from France.
11:48 Guerilla Warfare is coined as a term during The Peninsular War.
12:41 The Cortez of Cadiz. 1812 - Liberal Constitution of Spain.
14:53 The French Revolution influenced The Mexican Revolution.
16:55 1833 - Spain recognizes Latin America as Independent.
17:53 1820 Spanish Military Mutiny Revolt.
20:03 Chaos and Civil War
20:33 Spain became a Lagging Power, less developed, weaker, than the other European Powers such as Great Britain, France, etc.
24:18 1843 - Isabella II and The Moderate Decade.
+ Expansion of Infrastructure + Small Economic Recovery
- La Gloriosa Revolution
26:20 Amadeo I
- Inexperienced
26:46 1872 - The Third Carlist War/Uprising.
27:20 1868 - Cuban Uprising.
27:55 1873 - The First Spanish Republic.
28:10 1874 - The Bourbon Restoration. "The Peacemaker"
28:57 The Berlin Conference adds Western Sahara to Spanish ownership.
29:36 Economic Slow-Down. Regionalism.
30:00 1895 Cuba Revolution
30:10 1896 Philippino Revolution
31:06 February 1898 - Spanish American War. America Crushes Spain in Cuba.
- Philippines - Guam - Puerto Rico transferred over to America.
32:30 1914 - Spain chooses Neutrality in World War I. Their Neutrality is respected by the other European Powers.
33:00 The Disaster of Aunjou
33:41 1923 - Coup.
34:03 The 2nd Spanish Republic
34:10 1936 Spanish Civil War.
Thank you 🙏
This is as close to perfection as I have seen with fall of the Spanish empire
Fire of Learning is BACK, and with one of my biggest passion areas! I can't wait to visit Spain one day, want to bring my Spanish back, and admire this culture and people so much! Quite literally the doc I've been waiting for.
Fun fact: The phrase Guerilla Warfare comes from the Spanish word Guerrilla which means small war. It was the tactic of dividing large military formations into smaller groups which would use surprise and stealth to attack supply lines and raid French formations from unexpected sides. Spaniards have been successfully using "Guerilla" in their mountainous terrain since they were invaded by Rome 2000 years earlier.
But never won a war by guerilla.
@@herrero4270 echamos a Napoleón de esa manera🤷♂️😮💨
@@k12tonight You didn't.
@@herrero4270morían más de 200 Franceses al día!!! 😔
The Spanish Empire lasted for 300 years, its collapse in c.1810, it was due to a ruling class that fell into Napoleon’s trap; when the French occupied Spain and installed a puppet king, the Spanish in both sides of the Atlantic revolted, leading to a civil war, which in the Americas led to independence.
Futhermore These huge quantities of silver first encouraged the Spanish monarchy to take out huge debts, always with the belief that it would be able to pay back the debts in a timely manner through silver shipments. Unfortunately, that’s an awful way to run a government, as silver shipments can be quite irregular.
Its because Spain was a extraction econmy and did not invest in other sectors of the economy.
@Imanol Aizpurua The SPanish were good at exploiting the natives and its colony, they were good at finding valuable resources while enslaving the natives.
@Imanol Aizpurua they were exploited and there was cultural genocide.
@@jmgonzales7701 Just repeating the black legend mantra without any historical base
@@davidfernandez-valdes8977 well people like to talk bad about Spain do nothing new.
This guy obviously don't know how Spain invested here and how hard was to do that and encourage it.
Also ignore the fact why Spain relied I. Godly.and silver and that was due that the height of the war in Europe was just on that tiny region called castille, when they wanted to share the height among the other regions of the empire they revolted. Now castilled poor, the industry dissapesred so they used the silver to buy stuff that spain could not produce anymore in their homeland and this lead to inflation and debts. And also de silver anf gold that arrived fork America's was used to pay salaries and debts from the wars a Spain had in Europe.
People think that Spain was just , hey let's use the gold for everything because we want. No , it was their only option in their long run because they could not produce the enough wealth to keep on the defensive war in Europe and at the end they fall and the first sign of that was the battle of rocroi.
This dude thinks that after independence all was of pink color, when in reality was the begign of a dark era for all Americans in the Hispanic sphere.
In a HUGE coincidence, I stumbled into the first two videos of this series on both my travel to and first day stay in Madrid! Can’t wait to watch this one tomorrow :)
I missed your long videos about civilisations. Keep em up! Love it
Thank you for yet another fine video. It seems to me, as a general rule of thumb , that where reason is lost, turmoil prevails.
I'd love to see a detailed breakdown on the Spanish Civil war!
La guerra civil española es un tomo-libro aparte. No se puede entender esta sin antes retrotraerse a las continuas injerencias británicas desde 1808 para desestabilizar su hegemonía. "Humillar a España" cuaderno encontrado recientemente escrito por un inglés del siglo XVIII para apoderarse del Mar del Plata
The map at 3:10 has me intrigued about Italian history post-Rome. I hope that's your next series! Love your videos!
The Spanish civil war is so interesting please continue this incredible documentary!!!!!
You forgot to mention the last two colonies that officially ended The Spanish Empire. Western Sahara and then shortly after Equatorial guinea
Babe, wake up, new fire of learning just dropped
Another great documentary wrapped up. Can’t wait to see what country you do next.
Is there ever going to be a history of Mexico? It seems pretty interesting how the US and Mexico are both like inverses of each other despite having similar origins of peoples created through colonization and resulted in Republicanism and later both tried to expand into the west
They were the biggest of allies when Mexico didn't have puppet Spanish-Mexican leaders such as Santa Ana... And instead bad ass Indigenous leaders like Benito Juarez who defeated his opposition during their civil war( against former royalistas) as well as the French, Spanish, and parts of the British empire while the US was dealing with the CSA... If they both lost ground it would have staged possibly the first full European empire attack on two nations outside of Europe(to retake claimed European empire land), Benito and his Army are the reason we celebrate "Cinco de Mayo" in the United States (which many Latins hate for some reason💀), also Benito Mussolini's father named him after Benito Juarez the Zapotec warrior(although not sure if that is a good thing granted he was a fascist dictator according to historians).
it is to short
@@Redeemedeno no Mexico has a whole pre-colombian period which ranges for hundreds of years, colonial era which was over 300 years, the early Republican ear, civil war and invasion from France, Reign of Porfirio Diaz, Mexican Revolution, and modern era. So it would be a long video
@@BobPantsSpongeSquare97 fueron 3 siglos
@@Ralfi_PoELA
Not at all
US only supported Mexico because wanted Mexico to remain a mediocre country under puppet politicians, not a France next door, or any smart, militaristic population to be a threat to the US, later in history you can see some parallelism when American politician Brzezinski said: “we don’t want a Japan south of the border”
Spain, USA, France and Britain have been thenatural predators of Mexico, none of them are our allies, unless you call your offender your allied.
Very well made doc. Great sound effects and in the right moment which makes a great doc. Thanks for making it. 👍
Ah the Spanish... they and the British are the only two Empires that can claim the sun never truly sets on them.
Different way to govern their people though.
russians? for a time they have colonies in asia and americas. they have loads of different time zones
@@jmgonzales7701
No. Russia never had lands in the Atlantic time zone. and the land they owned in the Americas was Alaska which has its own time zone that's not connecteds to any other American time zone.
Y la Frase es de los Españoles "El Imperio donde nunca se oculta el sol" . los Ingleses les copiaron en su idioma
@@sdb7092 ok. so it is spain and British. what about the french? regardless screw all of them.
Gracias por hacer este gran documental de mi patria
España ,Deberías hacer Unos Documentales sobre la Guerra de los 30 años o La guerra de los 7 años en detalle, si es posible
30 Wars war would be awesome the 7 years war as Well. But there are many "Short" Videos about it. So I would prefer a longer Doco movie series about both of them. There would be enough Material tbh.
Tu "Patria" permanece cagado y sigue siendo la Argentina de Europa
Huehuehuehue
@@johnsmith-ir1ne Argentina Es un gran Pais, Gracias por el cumplido.
@@doyouevenpraise189 No sabe ni ofender 🤣
@@doyouevenpraise189 la mejor respuesta que se podia dar
To complement this video, there should be a mention of how the British and freemasonry were behind the independentist movements that appear all over Spanish America. They financed Bolivar, San Martin and Juarez. Then introduced "free market" to the newly born nations and made sure to create external debt and conflict between the countries so they never get together again.
It always makes me laugh whenever I see comments from fanatic Hispanists crying and whining when it comes to the British. Such _hypocritical_ zealots often forget the historical fact that the Spanish Empire was a hardcore supporter of The U.S.-American independence movement, which happened way before the independence movements of Hispanic America.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 and we talk about That, the hypocresy comes from the British ppl who wont admit they payed and help Spanish América to emancipate having all the proofs
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 Yes without Bernardo de Galvez de US independence would have ended in disaster. Nevertheless you are making a straw man fallacy, and not addressing my argument.
@@alexisern5815 You didn't comprehend my point. No one in this specific post has denied the involvement of Freemasonry and the British Empire in the independence movement of the Spanish Viceroyalties in America. The hypocrisy comes when the Hispanists whine about the British and forget that the Spanish Empire _first_ supported the independence of the Thirteen Colonies.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 Well if you actually understand what was going on in North America in the late 1700's, you wouldn't have made such a pretentious statement. Spain helped the US as a geostrategic defense, because the British were menacing with taking all Florida (they already had West Florida), Lousiana and Cuba. Not to mention their failed attempt in Cartagena de Indias with Blas de Leso. Meanwhile the Brittish helped the spanish american separatist movements out of commercial control and hemispheric domain. "Divide et impera". If you were an ounce honest you should at least consider that. The 13 colonies wanted the independence. The Spanish American didn't want independence except for some creoles that saw the opportunity to profit from it.
Basically your strawman argument goes like this: I argue about Peter punching John's face, but then argue that John was a bad brother to his sister 20 years ago. You mix 2 different things. And try to rescue yourself saying, yes I know that Peter is a good mason puncher, but lets focus again in my strawman argument about John being a bad brother.
The communist-indegenism is strong on you.
Great video I'm glad that you're finally back with another great history video .
Awesome video this is another awesome series! Spain’s empire is definitely one of the most notable stories in world history
Actually the “Spanish Morocco and Spanish West Africa” series over on the Wayback history channel basically picks up right where this video leaves off.
Thank you sir for a great video!
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19:03 wow, I didn't know Harambe lived such a long life and traveled so widely. He was even present in early 19th century Spain. Such a fascinating life. 🤣
Thank you for this video. The unbiased and bold telling of how events unfolded and the art make your videos a joy to watch.
This Spaniard loves your Spanish history video!.Viva Espana!
as a Spaniard of USA love my Spanish history!
I love how all the pictures used in the first half are Goya paintings/sketches. Makes sense tho since he was the court painter at the time
So well done can you make more videos about classical Era history like about the Gallic Wars
Now, every time I have an idea, that sound with the Fire of Learning logo is what comes to my mind first.
That quote in the beginning of the video fits Charles II more than anyone, great video by the way.
I patiently await for the history of Portugal to be added to your list!
Still waiting for history of the netherlands
Me ha gustado el respeto que ha manifestado el relator acerca de nuestra historia. Una tragedia para todos los españoles pero que se explica desde una perspectiva global. Muchas gracias
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Pero una tragedia tampoco. Lo sería en su momento, pero ¿qué imperio ha durado más de 400 años? Lo importante es el legado civilizador, y España lo hizo perfectamente. Como les dimos universidad a los americanos, aprendieron a ser occidentales y se rebelaron, como las 13 colonias contra los británicos. Los que no podían rebelarse hasta el siglo XX eran los indios, los indonesios y los africanos, a los que los británicos y holandeses no dieron casi ninguna herramienta para convertirse en gente occidental o moderna hasta el siglo XX
@@Gloriaimperial1 Roma por ej. y si hablamos propiamente muchos más... Constantinopla cayó en el S.XV
@@bilbohob7179 Roma, claro, es un modelo más parecido al español. Transportar una civilización a un mundo con otra cultura y otras razas, e integrarlas.
@@Gloriaimperial1 Ya existían universidades y hospitales en los imperios Mexica e Inca. Y no hay nada de malo con no tener una cultura occidental o "civilizada" como lo llaman. Solo son culturas diferentes a las occidentales no son inferiores como lo insinúa.
That's so history, Mr, Fire of Learning. Looking forward for the next video.
I knew, that spanish history was a mess, but didn't knew HOW BIG of a mess it was.
Almost 100 years of constant civill wars, i'm amazed, that spanish people endured for the whole time and retain the country.
Probably It is because the base of spanish society was catolicism and after of 30 years war were neccesary to lost the catolicism (world Empire) as goal of international polítics.
France was another mess: French revolution, Napoleonic wars, which ended with the invasion of Paris and Napoleon imprisoned. Revolution of 1830. Revolution of 1848. Defeat in the Franco-Prussian War... Germany was another mess in the 20th century: two defeats in the world war, revolution in 1918. Germany divided into East and West. Fall of the emperor and the monarchy... Austria the same. Italy: fascism, defeat in the world war, red brigades... Russia? Russia is still in a mess. Eastern Europe something similar. The only ones who could stay out of invasions and revolutions were the islands difficult to invade or to influence with revolutionary agents: the British, the Icelanders and the Greenlanders.
@@Gloriaimperial1 I agree,the one difference between the ones you mentioned and Spain that is this failed to keeping his power and influence overall in America,while the others had a inside conflicts but it didn´t affected in theirs possesions,colonies,or maybe what is the most important,industrial muscle.
@@danielguerrero894 The independence of the continental American republics in the 19th century (1810-1825) is equal to the independence of the 13 colonies (the basis of the current USA) against the British in 1776-1783. The two territories had a Western culture, with universities, modern hospitals, cathedrals, schools, European weapons, ships. The British, French and Dutch empires retain their possessions in Africa, India, Indonesia or Angola and Portuguese Mozambique, because those lands are not civilized. It is very difficult for them to become independent before WW2, because they live in very poorly developed tribal regimes. Australia and Canada had a very British population, and only 3 or 4 million inhabitants in 1900, and could not dream of independence. But shortly after they began to propose reforms along those lines, and the UK had to give in, amicably, to avoid problems. The proof is that the British empire shrank 144 times in 20 years in the 20th century.
@@Gloriaimperial1 😂😂😂😂You absolute Spanish 🤡, always having to bring in and talk about Britain when this video discusses what a weak pathetic nation Spain became in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Been waiting for this a long time Salute to you sir
Awesome. I've been looking forward to this for a while.
The fact you only post about the fall and not the rise shows all you need to know about historians for the past 100 years.
This is part 3 of the History of Spain documentaries
@@Fireoflearning I didn’t see it on your feed, I stand corrected! I’ll go watch those
I've been waiting excitedly. Thank you! Always loved your big picture view of a nation's creation and development.
Hi, Justin! Thanks for another video!
These documentaries are perfect for me while I work. Thank you for the content and history I would’ve never known about
Something important was missing from the perliferous bonanza of the island of Cubagua sighted in 1498 by Christopher Columbus together with the islands of Coche and Margarita, present-day Venezuela. The local indigenous people of the Guakeri ethnic group had begun to exploit the abundant pearl oyster deposits as expert divers. The pearls they used as ornaments were exchanged for glasses and trinkets worn by the crew of Columbus sheeps. Shortly after, these Cubagua pearls became one of the most valuable resources of the incipient Spanish Empire in the Americas, which partly financed the conquest of Mexico and Peru.
Please do another part for this series 🙏
EXCELLENT job with these presentations/videos! Thank you. Keep them coming 🙌
Great video , as other comments have said , there’s not a whole lot on UA-cam about Spanish history . Would be nice to see some more in depth videos about colonial era Mexico/Latin America, and there struggle for independence.I noticed there’s a few more videos on this topic in your channel , I’ll be sure to watch them . Thanks for uploading
Yes! Been waiting for Prt3! I'm glad it's out. Btw how's Peanut doing?
The strategic importance of Trafalgar is somewhat exaggerated. Napoleon had already decided to forgo an invasion of England. He saw the French navy as curiously impotent, but more importantly, the massing of Russian-Austrian arms to the east prompted N's move to Bavaria. Ulm and Trafalgar happened at nearly the same time in October. Spain was only a junior partner in this. It was N, not Spain, that planned to send troops to England.
31:29 We have known for several years now, to a certainty that USS Maine's sinking had nothing to do with the Spanish. Modern diving analysis of the wreck has shown that explosion was the result of an internal explosion, almost an accidental magazine ignition. This is in direct contrast to the US claim at the time that it was intentionally mined by the Spanish, which would have blown the armor plating inwards, not out; setting aside the obvious lack of political desire to do such a thing in the first place.
Napoleon broke Spain and Spain broke Napoleon
Who?
@@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of the French you might have heard of him.
It was the Napoleonic invasion of Spain that in part precipitated the Latin American independence movements. They supplied the vast majority of silver and other precious metals to Madrid's treasury throughout most of the empire's history.
@@danmur2797 en Si les motivo a los Criollos ,más no al resto del pueblo que eran monarquícos
@@danmur2797Thats untrue, there were times fleets would not croos the atlantic.
I love the punch in edits you do lol. it's hard to keep the same delivery ect when redoing something
One thing: the wars of independence had nothing to do with helping natives. Don’t let them fool you.
Sadly in every side they wanted nothing to help the natives, sad thing about colonization is that at the end of the day the Evil invaders will be on top of the social chain while the natives are treated as second class citizens.
It was mainly Native that lead them... They were just coopted because the royalistas new the Spanish were going to lose.
@@Ralfi_PoELA wrong, the ones who led the independence were criollos. If you don’t know learn more about everysinlge Hispanic America knows that but we are are taught to praise them as heroes. And I won’t deny there weren’t revolts led by indigenous people, but guess what? It was also rich indigenous people, owners of African slaves and farms, who got mad for raise of taxes. The independences were that, white criollo men fighting for their interests and the British, when they achieved independence they talked shit about those new countries, and one of those so called “liberators” talk and treated like shit native people.
@@angelasmr8818 Lol why would a group of people who benefit from a system change it... Than actually try and bring back the people who once controlled that system? That makes no sense. Also there are things called propaganda. We have it here in the US because they don't teach about how and why the first treaty and constitution was created. Which Europeans hate all these constitutions and treaties because they're used to being controlled by a king, queen, or pope.
@@Ralfi_PoELA They did it because they were doing what the brits told them to do.
One of my favourite UA-cam channels
Very interesting history. I think the Napoleon Invasion of Spain was the deathblow to Spain and its Empire after the war Spain never fully recovered and it led to century of chaos and political unrest thereafter. Not to mention Carlos IV and Ferdinand VII were probably two of the worst King in the history of Spain.
The actual 'deathblow' was the declaration and actual war of independence in the Americas. Napoleon was a temporary political setback, whereas all the colonial taxation & benefits from slavery as well as all of the stolen goods kept the Spanish economy going and Economy is everything in order to sustain an Empire...
@@castlebound2010 lmao why do you give the american colonies so much importance, without Napoleon they wouldn't have won anything, they even practically lost fighting against an invaded Spain
@@acusticamenteconvusional9936 Read my comment slowly and try to understand it. Take your time, no rush...
@@castlebound2010 I agree with most of what you say, but it was in part the Napoleon invasion of Spain that precipitated the Latin American independence movements.
@Acusticamente Convusional The Spanish American colonies supplied Spain with a lot of silver at various points forming the largest part of the Spanish treasury and borrowing capacity.
This documentary starts in the 18th century and focusses on internal revolts and loss of colonies. There has been an interesting article about the fall of the Spanish empire on Zerohedge. Due to the massive influx of silver from the Americas and the subsequent Price Recolution. The empire was already collapsing under C 34:44 harles the second and Philip under bureaucracy and hyperinflation in the 17th century, which was the Golden Age for the Dutch who succesfully managed to revolt agains Spain and liberate part of their country at the end of the 16th Century and became the dominant World Power.
For example king Charles abdicated in 1559, because Spain went bankrupt and couldn't pay off its loans to the bankers. Famous bankers were Fugger and the Genoese
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Thank you so much for this historichal and educational video!! Muchas gracias!!❤😊
Overall is a correct video, but there are history details that would give so much better understanding of the real context and situation, for example, after Filipinas "independence" experience, the leader of the revolutionaries, Emilio Aguinaldo, publicly repented their actions against Spain declaring his love for the Spanish motherland while assisting to the funeral of the King Alfonso XIII to the surprise of many.
As he stated, and actually it was the truth for nearly half a millennium, all Spanish subjects across the globe were citizens of the realm, with their rights guaranteed by law. They experienced firsthand the change from being under the hispanic catholic prism, to become just a market to play with for the usa government, or british for their hispanic american courterpart...
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Amazing, I'd love if you did one on Portugal 🙏
I can't watch this until I finish my homework, so please no spoilers.
Excellent. Most of the world society forgot the history of how country were formed.
This job history will put people on track.
Excellent documentary... but I cannot believe that not even a mention of the Central American process of independence was cited, which was non belic and as a whole saw a province split into the 5 countries including mine.. Costa Rica
I think it's because, while the situation in Spain influenced Latin America, ther other way around... not so much. Spain was more influenced by Europe and (specially) internal strife. That's why the emancipation of Latin America is usually treated as its own separate entity.
DUDE I'VE BEEN WAITING SINCE PART 1! YES!
Thank you for another excellent video! I've been waiting to get into more modern Spanish history as it's a subject I know little about. I would also be interested in the history of some South American nations now too! Thank you again for the great content!
Stay well out there everybody, and God be with you, friends. ✝️ :)
Yay! So happy this has returned. Been waiting patiently.
Honestly, a history of the Mongol empire in your style would be amazing!
I love the battle sounds and use of drunken sailor
"British support" to Spain has its own ulterior motives. Besides counteracting the French in Spain, they also destroy much of the Spanish textile industry to eliminate competition.
Yep the Brits had a habit of doing that, never trust the Brits
Congratulations Justin, great video, muchas gracias!
I seriously did not know that the Louisiana territory was Spanish before French. I was always taught that we bought it from France, which is technically true. I just didn't know about the Spanish ownership for a time
Spain got ownership after the French and Indian War if I remember correctly
Yeah, it was colonized by the French, given to Spain, given back to France, and then sold to the USA.
Around half of the territory of what's now the US was claimed by Spain at some point. However, they were also the first territories to be lost.
New Orleans was largely built by the Spanish--why its historic district resembles other Mexican coastal cities along the Gulf of Mexico. In fact what is today Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, etc. were at various times in Spanish hands, as part of the viceroyalty of New Spain, all administered from its capital in Mexico City. It was captains and generals and footsoldiers from New Spain that helped the American Revolutionaries in the south drive off the British on land and sea.
Spain also established posts/forts all the way to Alaska, at one point extending New Spains territory to Alaska. However the inability to defend it or colonize it from far away allowed the Russians and British to move in and make claims. Eventually through treaties, Spain ceded most of this area to the British.
@@SchmidtyProductions27 Louisiana was Spanish long before it was French. Before the year 1600, Spain had carried out more than 50 expeditions in North American territory, such as that of Hernando de Soto or that of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Those lands were claimed and explored with the legality of the Tordesillas Treaty of 1494. Also the Colorado Canyon, Vancouver (San Miguel) and great plains. The French settled there due to the impossibility of massively colonizing the territory. They lost Canada in the war against the British, and they gave Louisiana to Spain, because Spain could defend it.
I've been eager for this! Thank you!!!
I don’t understand why we say the US got its independence only from UK when half of the country was either owned by France (2/3 of Canada and 2/3 of modern US) or even Spain who had 2/3 of modern day US
they only fought the British - otherwise they paid for their independence from France/Spain in coin
They love to blame the brifor everything whilst ignoring the facts.
Sound familiar?
There is a difference between "claimed land" and actually controlled settlements by those empires. Even though Spain claimed majority of North America it was sliced into pieces very fast because in order for something to be considered "legit" it has to be enforced. Spain at the time in North America could barely control the State(not the nation we see today) of Mexico its outskirts and maybe isolated settlements of the original people close to a shore. There biggest settlement in North America past the Mexican state was when they tried to control the already inhabited settlement of Toas Pueblo(where Albuquerque is pretty much is today) until after the Pueblo revolt of 1680 the Spanish had very little presence in the Southwest North American region(today the Southwestern United states, and Northern Mexico) that officers wrote about how little European influence was in these regions.
@@Ralfi_PoELA British Empire: frozen islands of Canada, Africa where Livingston is lost and India with 540 independent princes
Commonwealth: 10% of the population speak English as their mother tongue. Less than 10% Christian. Hispanic America: 90% speak Spanish as their mother tongue. 99% speak Spanish. 85% Catholic. We Spaniards also have the right to have desert lands, like the British, who paint the entire empire red, even in northern Canada.
@@Gloriaimperial1 the Spanish have a right to nothing because the US declared the pands belong to Indigenous people and independent nations are intrusted with taking care of the land. Its a weird obsession that the Spanairds today are still trying to reclaim what they stole("discovered") in the first place. If you want to reclaim and reconquista you're going to have to come through us here in the United States. Lets get it cracking then.
It’s ironic the Spanish Empire originally had no interest in what is now the US, yet the US was the nation that ultimately defeated the Spanish Empire
“I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
- Sarah Vowell
Leftoid literature and sensibilities sure are rancid and putrid.
The phrase is brilliant, but it is only half the truth.
In gratitude for the discovery of chocolate, the Spanish made 25 universities for all races, 2,000 stone cities, 850 large hospitals, 130 cathedrals, and brought the Renaissance, the Baroque, and the golden age of Spanish culture. The British had a trading company in India until 1857. The only university in the Dutch empire is in Indonesia 1946, 2 years before independence, and 300 years of renting Indonesia. Chocolate-colored children could not sit on a bus with whites, in Alabama until 1960, and in South Africa until 1990. Queen Elizabeth of Castile said in 1500: "It doesn't matter if there is no gold (or chocolate) in the West Indies, I want Spanish men and women to marry and form families with the people of these new lands." The territory with the most mestizos in the world: 43% of the population. Chocolat people o coffe people :)
This is excellent the best yet keep up the brilliant work
Muchas gracias, que por siempre viva la madre patria.
Gracias, hermano, y mis deseos de que América Latina sea una potencia mundial este siglo, por población y territorio
I love this. Very well done. Anyone else think this was a Jack Rackham video from the thumbnail tho?
Lol. You guys should collab. Great minds think alike. As do great history tubers.
King Carlos III. had a very funny looking face. Imagine you had been brought before him, back then, without knowing what he looks like and then you get to see him... for me, that would have probably been a "life of brian" moment.
Well, Charles III was a great king, not Benny Hill. He was king of Naples, first. He built the palace of Caserta, in Italy, bigger than Buckinham Palace. He also discovered Pompeii and Herculaneum. Under Carlos III, the Spanish empire was the largest empire in the world, extending to Alaska, Uruguay, Tahiti, Equatorial Guinea, Louisiana, the Great Plains of the United States, Florida, the entire west coast of Canada... He directed operations in the defeat of the British in the war of the 13 colonies, with the Spanish victories in Louisiana, Florida, Bahamas, Central America, Minorca. Also in the naval blockade of England (1779-80), with the capture of two British fleets of 24 and 55 British ships, full of weapons, soldiers and money, which sank the London stock market. Then he gave the 8 real or the Spanish dollar to the United States. I don't think the British thought of Charles III as very funny :)
@@Gloriaimperial1 That´s all very interesting... but still... or even more so...
@@mrscruffy8045 Probably Carlos III, in historical terms, is the most handsome man in the world at that time :)
@@Gloriaimperial1 Claiming land is very different than actually controlling and defending your legitimacy to the land in which you want to control. Spain can barely control the state of Mexico(not the actual nation we know it today with many other states) before the Mexicans kicked them out of North America. If they actually did control the parts they said they did they would have just had a land stronghold adjacent to it like the British did when they flew to Canada and started more attacks from there on the US.
@@Ralfi_PoELA Spain spent 200 years in Belgium and Luxembourg. 100 years in Holland. 162 years in parts of Germany and France. 60 years in Portugal. 70 years in Athens. 457 years in Italy.
Do you think we have a problem controlling the frozen islands of Canada, Africa where Livingston was lost, or India with 300 semi-independent princes?
In Italy we won 10 wars against France, capturing the king of France and his son in the battle of Pavia, taking them prisoners to Madrid. We destroyed the Turkish fleet at Lepanto, with our Italian NATO. We dominate the Vatican. In Italy we made 9 universities, splendid baroque cities, palaces and discovered Pompeii and Herculaneum. Controlling America (great plains, Florida, Louisiana, part of Alaska), Borneo, Tahiti, Taiwan, the Philippines and other places where the Spanish empire was, was not too difficult, due to the technological difference that existed at that time between Europe and those lands isolated. The fortress adjacent to the icy British Baffin Island (visited by a whaler every 3-4 years) was 3000 km. The British paint the map of the British Empire in red, in places where no one lived. If we Spaniards did the same, we would have an empire of more than 30 million km2 in the XVI-XVII centuries
Is the music at the start from Total Annihilation:Kingdoms? Or am I mistaken since hardly anyone knows this game
You'll have stiff competition when it comes time for the History of Japan video that I assume is hiding behind one of those question marks.
So glad the documentaries are back!
I loved this series! Can you do a video on Mexican history?
Wonderful Wonderful. I thank you for this wonderful job you did Sir
oshit history is back on the menu bois
It is interesting to watch the progression of these nations/empires/kingdoms and finally watch them enter into the modern world of today.
Man Spain was in a chaotic time old or empires just crumble around them empires don't last forever
1:46 That map thing is pretty clever: I can clearly see all the backlog I can catch up on I’ve seen channels like economics explained do a similar thing.
I enjoy your videos but history is more than battles and treaties. I’d love to hear the full history including economics, cultural change, art, agriculture, language, religion, etc.
Will there be any additions to the history of nations and peoples series anytime in the near future?
In his work Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain containing researches relative to the geography of Mexico he says that the Indians of New Spain lived in better conditions than any Russian or German peasant in Europe. According to Humboldt, despite the fact that Indian farmers were poor, under Spanish rule they were free and slavery was non-existent, their conditions were much better than any other peasant or farmer in northern Europe.
Spain pretty much claimed control over societies that been functioning and thriving for thousands of years before the Spanish brought their pestilence on many on those people before those same people had uprisings and gave Spain the boot. Lol that's not saying much from an OG Americans point of view like myself.
@@Ralfi_PoELA The Spanish did not bring pestilence, they brought 25 universities, 2000 stone cities, 140 cathedrals, 850 hospitals, roads, ports, the wheel, the horse, agricultural techniques, the golden age of Spanish culture, the Renaissance, the baroque, opera, violin... it would be endless.
It's like calling you house, Sillicom Valley home with the innovations of the 25th century. He kicked us out because they had gone to college, like the 13 colonies kicked out the British. It is difficult that India or Africa could be liberated, until XX century, because the British only made universities for whites.
@@Gloriaimperial1 our societies were doing just fine until your people started to kidnap people, and enslave them. Yall stole all that from the Moors who already were in contact with certain societies why the Moors were used as guides mostly.
@@Gloriaimperial1 also the Manroe Doctrine was enforced after our military wooped that Spanish Empire a** which states that no European Empire or outside powers can have direct control over any independent nation in the Western Hemisphere. Why Canada is not controlled by the crown its a commonwealth meaning its a trusted committed trading partner with the crown. They can give that up in a heart beat like Caribbean Nations did and are doing.
@@Ralfi_PoELA Who said that we Spaniards want to reconquer America? We do not need to reconquer America: we are brothers from both shores, we are closely related, through emigration, literature, language, traditions... Like the United Kingdom and Portugal with Australia and Brazil.
We don't steal anything. We reinvest 70-80% of the wealth there. The British stole from India and Africa, and left her pretty much as they found her as a pauper. Latin America is the West.
In America there were human sacrifices. The Aztecs alone ate 10,000 people each year. Another 10,000-20,000 died in battle. Multiply that by 500 years without Spaniards: 10 million people would have died in sacrifices. Well, in America they had 2000 years of human sacrifice. Hispania and the Celtic cultures also had human sacrifices. That is why the Romans came to our land, to civilize us. Such is the history of humanity. The Inca empire itself civilized many American lands that were very backward. America, like Australia, was a very isolated continent.
The Monroe Doctrine was only the law of the strongest, because the British had Jamaica, Belize and Guiana in America.
The Spanish empire had the Netherlands doctrine, the Italian doctrine, the German doctrine and the French doctrine. That is why the Catholic religion is the majority in Europe.
Now comes the Chinese doctrine in the Pacific and Asia, and the Indian doctrine in the Indian Ocean. 2.8 billion people, compared to 330 million people in the United States. I prefer the influence of the United States than China, which is a dictatorship. But remember: all empires end. 2030-2040
I note that the French Army was superior in stand up battles. It reminds me of a late 1970s diplomatic encounter between an American general and a North Vietnamese general --
American: We won every battle.
N. Vietnamese: But that is irrelevant since we won the war.
I don't understand why people of the same culture want to stay divided, then they wonder why outside force target them. if we united, we would be a force to be reckoned with.
No entiendo por qué las personas de la misma cultura quieren permanecer divididas, entonces se preguntan por qué la fuerza externa los ataca. si nos uniéramos, seríamos una fuerza a tener en cuenta.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 una mancomunidad como la forma en que los británicos tenían su imperio sería igual de buena.
@@xolotlmexihcah4671 Somos la misma cultura en general, pero con muchos matices enriquecedores. España mismo tiene también esos matices, con diversas lenguas regionales y costumbres, dentro de España. Incluso las culturas indígenas de Paraguay o México, no son siempre iguales unas a otras. Pero es cierto que la religión católica se adaptó en América a muchas costumbres locales, y tiene un colorido especial, y el idioma español está lleno de matices. Además se conservaron 40 lenguas locales, y se pasaron a escrito, porque los misioneros estaban obligados por la corona a hablar las lenguas locales de América. La romanización que comenzó España la completaron las mismas repúblicas independientes en los siglos XIX y XX, para entrar en el mundo occidental, promocionando también esos rasgos culturales propios.
Quizás si los reyes de españa hubiesen gastado recursos en mejorar las condiciones de la gente en el imperio, las elites no de hubiesen revelado. Que prohibieran comerciar y participar en el poder político fue lo que llevó a las elitrs americanas a oponerse al rey de españa. Los libertadores fueron hijos de oficiales del imperio, donde hasta sus propios padres los apoyaron ya que estaban condenados a no poder ser parte del gobierno.
@@nicolasignaciomerinonunez114 Bueno, España intentó prevenir revueltas, poniendo gente de la península en los altos cargos, cierto. Pero también es cierto que España había hecho una sociedad occidental en América, y los americanos tenían los mismos recursos políticos, tecnológicos y culturales que España. Por razones parecidas se rebelaron los habitantes de las 13 colonias contra los británicos, pero no los africanos y los indios de la India, que estaban mucho más atrasados. La guerra en América también fue una guerra civil, los españoles contaron con la ayuda masiva de gente popular, especialmente los indígenas, que como ellos mismos temían, luego fueron explotados. ¿Qué pasó después de los 300 años casi de paz del imperio español, donde los únicos conflictos fueron algunas guerras contra los mapuches o alguna flota británica fracasada de la que no se enteraba casi nadie? Latifundios, matanzas de indios, golpes de estado, invasiones entre países hermanos, fragmentación de la tierra, delincuencia, narcotráfico, guerrillas, contraguerrillas, patrocinado casi todo por Reino Unido y Francia en el siglo XIX y por Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética en el siglo XX.
The Spanish Empire was not a colonial empire such as the English, French 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.
I’ve been desperately looking for the song that starts in 6:36, can anyone help.
Drunken Sailor - Cooper Cannell
@@Fireoflearningthanks my guy