France cared. It toke parts of Sahara already claimed by Spain to its Mauritania; also note it left almost no Morocco to Spain, and if there was any part of Africa that Spain really wanted and tried actively to colonize before the Berlin Confence was Morocco, and that was what made it to colonize the dessert just bellow it. Spain also tried to colonize western Algeria, but... France
Western Sahara is an Illusion, in 1975, Morocco organized The Green March, a peaceful march to liberate it's southern provinces, as Spain withdrew from Western Sahara due to this march, they spilt the territory in half in favor of Morocco and Mauritania. In 1984, Mauritania gave it's half to some sort of gangs originally from Tindouf (an Algerian city) claiming that territory is theirs as Saharawi people. Morocco perceived this as a move of the Algerian regime to gain control of an area coasting the Atlantic Ocean, thus he proclaimed the other half that it historically proven his. Now Morocco controls over 2 thirds of the territory while these gangs who named Polisario control the rest. Till this day , this gang is still preforming Hit-and-Run operations all over the borders. If you think about it, how can a proclaimed "country" with less than 100 000 citizens own such advanced military equipment without even a proper command chain. This clearly shows that they're just a bunch of thugs backed by a foreign power to initiate conflicts.
Portugal claims half of the world for itself, Portugal claims Africa for itself, Portugal claims half of africa for itself, Portugal claims territory between their already existing colonies, Portugal gets scammed, Portugal is now sad :(
@La nova renaissance that's not entirely true, since germany and italy were trying to get into the game and UK kinda backed up some of the interests of Portugal (luso-british alliance) even if some of the claims were incompatible between them both
Just a clarification: Ethiopia should not be included in the treaty of Tordesillas claim for Portugal because it is a Christian nation and thus exempt from Portuguese control per the Pope's decree. Any undiscovered Christian lands (and remember some Europeans at the time thought there was a powerful Christian king Prester John out there somewhere, probably in Africa) have the right to their own sovereignty. So in short, Portugal could not lay claim to Ethiopia as the map indicates.
Yeah, thats why Ethiopia was left alone by the Western Powers for pretty long. Can't really plunder a region's ressources with the argument that you are converting the natives to your religion if said natives already practice said religion. Being basically the first state in history to adopt Christianity really payed off for Ethiopia in the long run because thats also how they got all these russian military advisors and french guns they used to chase the italians around in the first italo-ethiopian war.
I like how Leopold just wanted the entirety of Portugal as a colony,not like their islands off the coast or their colonies,THE ENTIRE FUCKING PORTUGAL.
@@trey5747 The man was responsible for over 8 million Congolese deaths, who he killed and dumped there bodies in the river. Even the survivors didn't get out 100%. Instead he would take their hands first.
@@capnsteele3365 Why? French citizen are never own by guyana. I don't understand. Can you explain to me the link between french guyana and guyana? I hope it's not only the name
And then goes tyrannical maniac. The Congo "Free" State really isn't mentioned enough in genocide conversations. I don't know how Leopold II slept at night.
That's basically how the colonial powers viewed it. The conference even included a treaty which made the colonies neutral if the mother countries went to war. It was broken when WW1 broke out, but still.
Now I have this horrific image of Leopold sending his goons into Wisconsin and forcing the population to make huge quotas of beer and cheese, and beer-cheese... and chopping off hands if they didn't.
Leopold wanted Wisconsin because that's the US State with the biggest concentration of Belgian-descendants. It's the second largest Wallophone (people who speak Walloon, a Belgian dialect) place in Earth after Wallonia itself (the Belgian region where the Wallonian language was born)
Did anyone realize britain was that friend who wants to get in the middle of everything? LITERALLY!? France, Germany, Portugal why don't we make colonies more simple? From east to west. Britain: How about I create a fucking thicc line between you all?
@@R-H-B the treaty of tordesillas signed by the pope divided the world between spain and portugal but the spanish still got to keep the canary islands somehow eventhoguh all the other atlantic islands were portuguese
@@teixeira476 Portugal owned part of the Canaries but the Castillians were harassing Portugal for the rest of the Islands, plus the Canaries had natives populations that the others islands did not (Azore,Madeira and Cape Verde), so Portugal gave the islands fully control to Castille in exchange for any new islands in the Atlantic.
I don't think the Belgian army ever helped Leopold with his conquering ambitions. Leopold was more sneaky, hiring British explorers who let local kings and leaders sign contracts to hand over the land.
By the way, so if the Austrians were mentioned, then why not Poland too! Quoted from the wiki link "Colonization attempts by Poland". But first my addition: Duchy of Courland was a vassal state of the Polish Empire, which is why all areas of this duchy were under Polish sovereignty. So here is the wiki quote: " Gambia in Africa: In 1651 Courland bought James Island (then called St. Andrews Island by the Europeans) from a local tribe, establishing Fort James there and renaming the island. Courland also took other local land including St. Mary Island (modern day Banjul) and Fort Jillifree. The colony exported sugar, tobacco, coffee, cotton, ginger, indigo, rum, cocoa, tortoise shells, tropical birds and their feathers. The governors maintained good relations with the locals, but came into conflict with other European powers, primarily Denmark, Sweden, and the United Provinces. The Dutch annexed the Courland territories in Africa, bringing an end to their presence on the continent." By the way, in addition, Kurland has also acquired islands in the Caribbean. Wiki quote on! "Cameroon expedition: In 1882, almost a century after Poland was partitioned and lost its independence, Polish nobleman and officer of Russian Imperial Fleet, Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński organized an expedition to Cameroon. Officially that was an exploration expedition, but unofficially the expedition was looking for a place a Polish community could be founded abroad. He had no official support from the Russian Empire, nor from its puppet Congress Poland, but was backed by a number of influential Poles, including the famous Polish writers Boleslaw Prus, and Henryk Sienkiewicz. On 13 December 1882, accompanied by Leopold Janikowski and Klemens Tomczek, Rogoziński left French port of Le Havre, aboard a ship Lucja Malgorzata, with French and Polish flags. The expedition was a failure, and he returned to Europe, trying to collect more money for his project. Finally, after second expedition, Rogoziński found himself in Paris, where he died 1 December 1896." "Poland regained independence in the aftermath of World War I with the so-called Second Polish Republic. While colonization was never a major focus of the Second Polish Republic, certain organizations like the Maritime and Colonial League supported the idea of creating Polish colonies. The Maritime and Colonial League traces its origins to the Polska Bandera (Polish Banner) organization founded on 1 October 1918. The League supported purchases of lands by Polish emigrants in places like Brazil and Liberia. The League became highly influential in shaping the government's policies with regards to Polish Merchant Marine, despite its long and ongoing campaign (publications, exhibitions, speeches, lobbying, etc.) and public support, it has however never succeeded in following up with its plans to obtain a colonial territory for Poland." "Angola: On 14 December 1928, the Maritime and Colonial League sent an expedition to Angola, which was then a Portuguese colony. The plan was to try to bring as many Polish immigrants as possible, and then try to purchase some land from the Portuguese. However, after five years, one of the first pioneers in Angola, Michal Zamoyski, wrote: "Personally, I would not persuade anybody to live in Angola". Living conditions were difficult, profits were marginal, and the idea was abandoned." Liberia: Liberian and Polish governments had good relations because of Polish support for Liberia in the League of Nations. In the fall of 1932, the League of Nations drafted a plan which projected turning Liberia into a protectorate, governed by one of members of the League. The plan was the result of internal policies of Liberia, where slavery was widespread. Since Poland was not regarded by the Liberians as a country which had colonial aspirations, in late 1932 unofficial envoy of Liberian government, dr Leo Sajous, came to Warsaw to ask for help. In April 1933, an agreement was signed between Liberia and the Maritime and Colonial League. The Africans agreed to lease minimum of 60 hectares of land to Polish farmers, for a period of 50 years. Polish businesses were awarded the status of the most favoured nation, and Warsaw was permitted to found a society to exploit natural resources of Liberia. Liberian government invited settlers from Poland in 1934. Altogether, the Liberians granted to Polish settlers 50 plantations, with total area of 7,500 acres (3,035 ha). In the second half of 1934, six Polish farmers left for Liberia: Gizycki, Szablowski, Brudzinski, Chmielewski, Januszewicz and Armin. The project was not fully supported by the Polish government but rather by the Maritime League; only few dozens of Poles took on that offer (because of Liberian requests that the settlers should bring significant capital) and their ventures proved to be, on the most part, unprofitable. The original of the agreement has been lost, but, according to some sources, there was a secret protocol that allowed Poland to draft 100,000 African soldiers. The Polish involvement in Liberia was harshly opposed by the United States of America, creator of the nation of Liberia. As a result of American pressure, in 1938 the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs closed the office of the Maritime and Colonial League in Monrovia." "Mozambique: plans for colonization of Mozambique were tied to business investments by some Polish enterprise near the late 1930s and never progressed beyond normal foreign investment (acquisition of agricultural lands and mines)." "Tanganyika and Cameroon: Various Polish authors, unsupported by the government, expressed interests in this region on the grounds that they were in part discovered by Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński and that Europe owed a general debt to Poland for the Polish-Soviet War." So at least as noteworthy as the colonial efforts of Austria and Sweden.
Fun fact: similar to the island of Fernando Poo and Spanish Guinea (administered by the Viceroyalty of "La Plata"), the Philippines at the time were also administered from Mexico by the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
9:28 "led to a Portuguese defeat" Actually they were military victories for the Portuguese in Angola and Mozambique. They lost their colonies because of a new government that formed as a result of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon in 1974. The revolution led to the end of the Estado Novo regime, began a transition to democracy, and a gradual decolonization process. Recognizing the independence of their former colonies in Africa in 1974 and 1975
Equatorial guinea was administrated by the united provinces of the rio de la plata, aka argentina + other territories, either that or the islands of the galapagos and easter island
It would still be a problem. Too many ethnicities with too many languages and cultures would still create the social problems that come with large multiethnic and multicultural states.
Europe: hey the Monroe doctrine is all about America protected from our imperialist ambition, gtfo of our continent and have fun elsewhere, i dunno the middle east? Twould give us more reasons to spite you
@Safwaan There would've been a time, that all of North America would've been US states. Mexico? Polk actually wanted the whole country under the US after the Mexican America war. Canada? Invaded it numerous of times. Like, during the American revolution, the War of 1812. But, the British defended it hard. Cuba? Haiti? Honduras? Nicaragua? El Salvador? Best believe, if plans were stronger back then, (scoff) the US would've been the largest country instead of Russia. But, who's to deny that it still wouldn't happen though?
@@imafkingbeastandrewtateise9563 Kinda, it's more like the just sent former slaves there and just let them do what they wanted. We didn't have much influence in Liberia so, it's hard to call it a true colony.
Small Note: I've once read that there was a deal between Germany and Britain that if Portugal used income from its colonies as security for a loan Germany and Britain would take the colonies for themselves. Germany for example was supposed to gain Angola and North Mozambique as well as some Islands. All the conditions were met in July 1914 but further proceedings were cut short by a minor international incident that you might have heard of.
@@Daniel-jm7ts Longest alliance ever, but of course the British had drafted a deal to backstab them in any case as they did with any of their alliance ever signed, British diplomacy rules.
European congress: "So, what would you guys like to colonize?" Portugal: All of Africa. The entire continent belongs to us. King Leopold: *WISCONSIN* AND PORTUGSL
Leopold used the rivalry of the different superpowers and his country's neutrality to get the Congo. The power of Belgium is in its diplomacy, not its army.
@@funnySIMON99 no body cared very much about the Congo, only when they knew about the resources. They villefied ( rightfully) leopold2 and later Belgium.
Portugal: *ALL IS MINE* Russia: _yo, can i have this island thousands of miles away from me at the opposite pole of the earth?_ France: *s a n d* Britain: *l a n d* America: _send off slaves only for them to enslave_ Spain: *cocololonyny* Belgiu --- Leopold: this. this shall be mine. not belgium's. *mine* Ottomans: ... *fuck my life* ...
On Italy's note, i feel like you should've mentioned that the Italian desire for Tunis and France cucking them by annex the region escalated tensions and started a Franco-Italian trade war which then lead Italy into joining the central powers.
Kind of funny how everyone sold us land just to block their rivals. "Here, want Louisiana? We need money, but also to contain Britain and Spain". "Here, want this icy Alaska thing? We need to stop Canada from expanding to the edge of Siberia".
@@thunderbird1921 It was the United States baby shower lol They don't even touch on how we got Alaska in school or at least they barely mention it. There's a few things left out of our history especially in modern times
I mean, America actually obtained and held onto the territory they obtained in the Louisiana Purchase; the same cannot be said for Portugal's hemisphere.
Every country: We want a nice connected line from west to east, so we can all nicely line up roughly in parallels, surely we can work out the details Britain: I want a connected line from north to south!
Portugal: So according to this treaty roughly 200 years ago that you weren't part of we deserve everything. Everyone else: How about no. Portugal: Okay, but we put up totem poles across the entire southern half of the continent, so we get the whole southern half. Everyone else: How about no. Portugal: Please let us at least keep these very few areas we are actually administering. Everyone else: Good enough lol.
Western Sahara actually exports sand in vast quantities. It is full of phosphate & gets turned into fertiliser. Not that the Spanish knew that at the time. It was just a lucky guess 😃
oh the ones that Small Pox and et all killed, or the ones that attacked, fought and lost wars ageist the US, this was not a one sided afire except the early bronze age tribes had no chance ageist a steam age nation state.
@@Delgen1951 I guess there is no arguing against delusion, but maybe a list of Wikipedia articles can what I cannot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Native_American_genocide
@Morgan V still more then every other country. :D I mean...ok you could argue that netherlands, UK and france still have some colonies, but all this areas are more or less fully incorporated. thats why the EU has a border in south armerica. :D
@Josip Aha I think I get it now, I had Slivovica when I was invited by a Serb shop-owner, quite a strong liquor, the Czechs make something similar themselves.
I’d expect britain or France to want all of Africa PORTUGAL WANTS ALL + thankyou guys for 500 likes without pointing arrows at the like bar thats just astounding and it’s amazing how humanity started in Africa (Ethiopia) and migrated across the world for a few hundred thousand years and knew a lot about Europe but even though a lot of ancient civilisations started in Africa we knew nothing about it until the Portuguese found the southern parts of Africa in the 15th century (btw I am talking about europe finding the southern parts of Africa not the north)
The british and french were more realistic and focused that's why they got actualy most of what they wanted. Portugal was a joke in every conceivable way, from what they demanded to why they demanded to the fact that their military and commercial power at that time was comparable to that of Liechtenstein.
@@RoScFan To be fair, Portugal didn't claim the entirety of Africa in the Berlin Conference, as far as I'm aware. It was simply what was stipulated in the Treaty of Tordesillas, which by this time was very much ignored by everyone, including Portugal. Portugal's final claims on Africa - the Pink Map - were also realistic and focused. I can't imagine anything more logical than simply wanting the territory between two already existing colonies. Considering Portugal's declining state, that's not a farfetched goal at all. However, Portugal's oldest ally - Britain -, who was already getting like fucking half of Africa, could not relinquish that bit of territory just to pursue their ambitious project which they didn't even manage to complete in the end. That's "realistic" according to you? "Realism" and "focus" aren't why Britain and France got what they wanted. I mean, just look at the map, they both got gigantic portions of Africa. The reason is far simpler - power. They were the strongest colonial powers, so they made the rules, and they got what they wanted, for the most part.
But Portugal's claim on the whole of Africa was from 400 years prior to the conference, when they were a big deal, and they dropped it along with their decline in power. It was obviously insane from the begining, but it seems that most people didn't quite understand that this came from loooong before (more than double the time between the conference and now, and look how much changed since then)
@La nova renaissance I am aware. But that other dude called Britain's goals realistic and focused, and Portugal's a joke. Yet Portugal's goals were pretty much the same as Britain's but at a smaller, much more modest scale. So why is the more attainable of the two "unrealistic"?
Lol imagine a Portuguese planning to get the entire Africa: So they have the following convo: -Which country do you want in Africa? -I want Africa! -Yeah, but which country in Africa you want? -Heh? Africa is the country I want! -But Africa is a continent, not a country!! -Just gimme Africa dude!
@La nova renaissance The difference is that Portugal won both of the main fronts, the angolan and the mozambican one, pushing the guerrillas out of the colonies, into the neighboring countries, the only front that they weren't winning, was Guinea because the guerrilla was much more organized and the colony was much less controlled than Angola and Mozambique, the only signs of the Portuguese presence in the Colony was the Cape Verdean doing administrative work in the cities.
The Scramble for Africa is proof to why Japan closing off to Europe except for the Dutch was probably a smart move. From a Japanese perspective, if only.
They would be better served with a centralized state in place of isolationism, they only escaped because of the isolated geographic position and because those islands have literally nothing useful, not even the terrain or the climate is suitable for plantations.
@@Melnek1 The Meiji Restoration is what saved Japan. By 1890s, Japan had a formidable force that could compete with European powers and was even able to defeat China and the other Asian powers around it. Japan's progress in the 1800s is astounding and does not get enough attention.
@@volbound1700 And where did I say otherwise? I just stressed that they could have done even better. I don't know where you live, but the achievements of the Meiji restoration are not an unknown topic for anyone who sets out to understand Asia's policies. If the Japanese have a problem with that, they may not have waged a war against the entire planet while they were committing the most depraved acts and atrocities imaginable on an industrial scale, they may have more recognition, but the way things are, they came out with very lucky, the Germans for example cannot say anything about their past without first and necessarily showing guilt and remorse, otherwise they will be immediately antogonised, something that the Japanese do not do and no one forced them to do, they didn’t even give in to work on solving all the problems with his nominal ally and neighbor in South Korea, let alone the rest.
8:20 You (as many others) totally misunderstood what the "padrão" was supposed to symbolise, as well as what the Teaty of Tordesillas was meant to establish. The "padrão" did not mean the Portuguese considered themselves the owners of that place, i.e., they were not expecting to convince the locals to obey them by erecting pillars... (In fact, until the very end of 19th century, the Portuguese made little effort to conquer territory in Africa, they were satisfied with establishing trading posts to trade with the natives - under favourable conditions, of course, so violence was used whenever needed.) The "padrão" was meant to be both a sign to other Portuguese navigators ("We've been in before") and a warning to other foreign powers: the Portuguese have been here, you may come into conflict if you insist on coming here, too. So, it was a diplomatic object of sorts, or like the bright coloured skin of a poisonous animal, warning potential enemies in an attempt to avoid conflict. Likewise, the Treaty of Tordesillas was not meant as Portugal and Spain each claiming to own half of the World. Actually, it was the opposite: each party to keep out of half of the world. This may seem the same thing as claiming ownership of the other half, but it's not. Portugal and Spain did not claim to own an hemisphere, they stated their interest in *trying* their best in that hemisphere. They were not naïve to the point of thinking that presenting a signed piece of paper would convince the natives that they were their overlords. The Treaty was meant only as a gentlemen's agreement that they would go different ways so to avoid conflict among them: I go this way, you go that way. But if they wanted to actually conquer something, they knew they would have to fight (the natives), the paper was worthless. It's like when 2 drug dealers divide a territory: that's meant to avoid conflict between them, but it does not translate in them owning the entire place (each house, each car, each person). They just assured their rival will not be around, but if they want to actually make a profit, they know they still have to find clients in "their" territory.
@@Pierre-Rambal_Cochet like France was under German colony in ww2? but, unlike France ethiopia didn't surrender. the Italians were fighting everywhere in ethiopia that whole five years.
This was the 1880's, before most of those lands were taken. Even than those lands were kinda not treated as colonies due to the US dislike of it. The Philippines is the big example of this, which was taken in the 1890's
I would say that Hawaii and Cuba+surrounding islands are the only real cases of American colonies, as we straight up bought Alaska and the Philippines from Russia and Spain respectively, I agree that America was not absolved from it, but the video is mostly right with the whole “America din’t particularly like the whole colonialism thing” thing.
Its a good thing the Filipinos fought back for their independence too; stopped the USA’s imperial ambitions there, even though our government regime already had to do mental gymnastics to justify colonialism as a former colony ourselves
Ah yes except the Philippines was given their freedom in 1949 as the US promised in the 1920s, Hawaii is part of the Union and Puerto Rico will be as its last vote the statehood party won, American Soma wants to stay like it is, Guam wants to enter the union, Micronesia wants to join Guam and join the US as as a state. Jay you need to stop beeing so nineteen thirtyish and try to be at lest early twenty-first in outlook. You just so outdated.
Ok boys,mr Portugal it is your turn,which part of Africa do you want? Portugal:I want Africa delegators:ok which part? Portugal: África, takes the entire map and walk away from the conference.
Actualy, up untill the end Portugal was winnig it's colonial wars with the exception of guinea-bissau. It was the war exausted portuguese people that allowed the colonies to become independent.
@@alphagamer9505 lmao, no, America lost because it failed to achieve any of its objectives. You don't understand that in order to win you have to be on good terms with the people. The whole we lost only becaue of commies back home is a revanchist myth created in order to justified their failure. The thing is that they lost because they lost. But it will take time before they accept that
@@RoScFan Germany lost because it simply couldn't compete on two fronts and did not have sufficient manpower and industrial capacity to wage such a war. Not because of some "stab in the back". All of this "we lost, not because we lost, but because of those back home" is a revanchist BS made up by people who are just trying to justify their failures. The thing is that they lost because they lost. Some people are just too weak to admit defeat.
Portugal delegate: "We'll take this part." *points in the middle of Africa* Rest of EU powers: "You want the Kongo?" Portugal delegate: "No, I want the whole bloody Africa!" Leopold: "KoNg0 iS mInE bItCh fIgHt mE!!!" *REEEEEE*
People: The German Empire was so ambitious, they wanted most of the world under their rule! Germany: *has some generic reasonable claims* Portugual: *h u e*
That paved the way for one of the biggest tragedies in history: The Congo Free (Slave Labor) State. Leopold II really should be ranked up there with mankind's greatest monsters.
I really enjoyed this video. It was incredibly well researched, great graphics and narration, and great sense of humor. Really well done! Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!
The US has "territories" in the pacific, if you think about it, the US has an obvious reason they are called territories. but liberia wasnt a US colony and yes it was administrated by the people living there.
No it's governed by the "black people" the US sent there, but these "black people" don't originally belong to that land, and even they did they had already become a new identity due to generations of slavery, so they soon start to have conflict with the actual native people there.
@@joshhyyym The Spanish-American war, which resulted in the vast majority of the American colonies (including the Philippines), happened in 1898, fourteen years *after* the 1884 Berlin conference.
Guys just an addendum, Portugal did NOT claim the whole of Africa during the Berlin Conference, they only claimed the whole of Africa when there was no other European Power in the region, with the claim of the whole of Africa existing during the 15th and 16th century, then only claiming the southern part and some areas around Guinea, and when the Brits got into southern African they stopped claiming all of the south too. In the Berlin Conference they only wanted the pink map.
Well done researching and putting together this. Good to see the often overlooked (potential) colonial powers. Austro-Hungarian perspective was especally fun. You're totally right on point with Western Sahara, it was a stupid idea for A-H to make a play for it.
The 'Conference of Berlin' had been asked for by Portugal in order to avoid future conflicts over Africa, but contrary to what it had hoped for, it became the most disadvantaged by the conference; being gravely betrayed by England -- for instance, many of the uninhabited islands discovered by Portugal, have been robbed by England!
Contrary to what i stated in this video, the Dutch had no colonial ambitions in Africa at the time of the Berlin Conference. The Netherlands was busy with the different wars in the Dutch East Indies, namely Aceh.
@@JardaAndriessen I mean, they did enjoy independence, but that was mainly an attempt at trying to kick the British out. They would welcome the colonial Dutch forces with open arms if they ever wanted to help them
The fact that so much of the reasoning was about making lines all the way across Africa really drives home how little the Europeans cared about the existing political and cultural map of the Africans themselves.
the problem is say they followed cultural lines they might miss out on resources or strategic places plus they didnt excpect the colonies to go independent and follow those borders that was there own decision
Fun fact: When Brazil became independent there was a revolt in Angola (started by settlers and soldiers) that wanted a union with the recently independent country. That's why the 3rd article of the Brazilian Treaty of Independence says that " His Majesty (Emperor Pedro of Braganza) promises that he will not accept proposals from any other Portuguese colony to join Brazil." In fact, Brazil had a great influence in Angola mainly after it was reconquered from the dutch by (proto) Brazilian forces. For this reason some say that in the 17th century Angola was a colony of a colony. On the other hand the Brazilian economy relied on slaves that came from Angola.
Actually Angola was a colony of Brazil before Brazil's independence (and maybe also Sao Tome e Principe), since they were reconquered from the Dutch West Indies Company by Brazilian men in 1648. In Brazil's independence by 1822/4/5 they reverted back to Portugal possibly with that treaty.
@@sergiocalves Yes,you are correct that brasilians,reconquered back angola from dutch,but they were admnistrated by Portugal,so they dont count as Brasilian colonies,the guys that revolted were the slave traders,joining brasil to keep the slaves going to America.
8:15 Pedrraawwwssszzz 😂😂 jokes aside the video is amazing although, i have to say Portugal never claimed the whole continent! The treaty defined what spain could explore and what Portugal could explore and the other nations later would have denied the treaty!
@@alterego9791 earlier the video says that Eritrea was given to Italy during the conference. Italy participated to Berlin conference just as an observer, like Russia, Austria and Sweden, since it didn't had any ambition outside of the colonies it already had and didn't had, in that moment, any territorial dispute with other colonial powers.
"Spain proclaimed ownership over the western Sahara. No one cared."
That just seems sad tbh.
France cared. It toke parts of Sahara already claimed by Spain to its Mauritania; also note it left almost no Morocco to Spain, and if there was any part of Africa that Spain really wanted and tried actively to colonize before the Berlin Confence was Morocco, and that was what made it to colonize the dessert just bellow it. Spain also tried to colonize western Algeria, but... France
@@asherl5902 France just like, NO
Be careful with what you colonized, you may get their immigrants.
Western Sahara is an Illusion, in 1975, Morocco organized The Green March, a peaceful march to liberate it's southern provinces, as Spain withdrew from Western Sahara due to this march, they spilt the territory in half in favor of Morocco and Mauritania. In 1984, Mauritania gave it's half to some sort of gangs originally from Tindouf (an Algerian city) claiming that territory is theirs as Saharawi people. Morocco perceived this as a move of the Algerian regime to gain control of an area coasting the Atlantic Ocean, thus he proclaimed the other half that it historically proven his. Now Morocco controls over 2 thirds of the territory while these gangs who named Polisario control the rest. Till this day , this gang is still preforming Hit-and-Run operations all over the borders. If you think about it, how can a proclaimed "country" with less than 100 000 citizens own such advanced military equipment without even a proper command chain. This clearly shows that they're just a bunch of thugs backed by a foreign power to initiate conflicts.
The Austrians cared. They keep looking out for each other
Portugal claims half of the world for itself,
Portugal claims Africa for itself,
Portugal claims half of africa for itself,
Portugal claims territory between their already existing colonies,
Portugal gets scammed,
Portugal is now sad :(
Belgium: Portugal would do as a fine colony of mine
Portugal needs to revise it's friendship with England
@@riograndedosulball248 Without England as an ally Portugal would now probably belong to Spain.
@@DiogoSantos-ln1nz not at all. But it wouldn't have got that much colonies in the treaty.
@La nova renaissance that's not entirely true, since germany and italy were trying to get into the game and UK kinda backed up some of the interests of Portugal (luso-british alliance) even if some of the claims were incompatible between them both
"So Leopold, what do you want out of Africa?"
"Uhh, lemme have Wisconsin"
"Can I please have the entire American continent?"
Leopold walked into McDonalds and asked for a Whopper
Let me kill 15 million people
Belgium shocked wisconsin not in africa
He really liked cheese
Portugal claiming the entire continent of Africa was a total chad move
Chad Portugal Vs Virgins other Europeans countries
@@rafaelsantosnovais7813 It was such a chad move that a nation named chad spawned
No one else like this comment it has perfect number of likes
portugal omegalul
"Dibs" -Portugal
Portugal: Claims the entire continent
Leopold: Claims Portugal
He was always one step ahead
hands down the best move of leopold ...
@@AleaRandomAm you mean one hand ahead
@@baconator2427 i like dark humor but holy shit
checkmate
Just a clarification: Ethiopia should not be included in the treaty of Tordesillas claim for Portugal because it is a Christian nation and thus exempt from Portuguese control per the Pope's decree. Any undiscovered Christian lands (and remember some Europeans at the time thought there was a powerful Christian king Prester John out there somewhere, probably in Africa) have the right to their own sovereignty. So in short, Portugal could not lay claim to Ethiopia as the map indicates.
Thats actually an amazing detail, the more you know.
Yeah, thats why Ethiopia was left alone by the Western Powers for pretty long. Can't really plunder a region's ressources with the argument that you are converting the natives to your religion if said natives already practice said religion.
Being basically the first state in history to adopt Christianity really payed off for Ethiopia in the long run because thats also how they got all these russian military advisors and french guns they used to chase the italians around in the first italo-ethiopian war.
@@sherlocksmuuug6692 *The French didn't help us, we traded gun with their merchants and also Italians themselves before the war*
@@Zeyede_Seyum All my love to Ethiopia, the greatest African nation, from Hungary. I hope there will be peace soon for all the Christians there.
@@h.sandor6245 Thank you
Others ”want something”
Portugal ” want’s everything”
Leopold ”want’s Portugal.”
5head because then he would have all of portugal and the world.
Funniest comment in the world :D
ahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah
Did you get rid of that yee-yee ass haircut?
Want is
I like how Leopold just wanted the entirety of Portugal as a colony,not like their islands off the coast or their colonies,THE ENTIRE FUCKING PORTUGAL.
He truely was insane. Woe to those that lived under his rule.
@@Orlunu what
@@trey5747 The man was responsible for over 8 million Congolese deaths, who he killed and dumped there bodies in the river. Even the survivors didn't get out 100%. Instead he would take their hands first.
@@Orlunu ooooooh ok sorry I didn’t see that it was a joke lol my bad
Holly jesus , ele fumava ganza só pode
1:07 - Germany
2:10 - UK
3:50 - France
4:50 - Belgium
6:15 - Italy
7:46 - Portugal
9:36 - Spain
10:57 - Austria-Hungary
12:00 - Netherlands
12:22 - Russia
13:56 - United Kingdoms of Sweden & Norway
14:39 - Denmark
14:53 - Ottomans
16:00 - USA
Nice 👌
4:50 is mostly Leopold
Africans had no saying in this?!
@@joelmonteiro1419nope. Not at all. This was the 1880s. Czechoslovakia wasn't consulted during the Munich Agreement
Wait it two uk
"sharing is caring"
Portugal: *i don't care*
I mean they did discover most of the continent for Europe so don’t ya think they can, ya know claim?
New world: 🖐😑
Portuguese World: 👈😎
I mean honestly it’s kinda happened with Brazil
Portugal:
*communist detected on Portugese soil*
@@Bruh-hq1hx *António de Oliveira Salazar spawns*
Colonies are soooo last year Jessica, we’re on “protectorates” now
true
Well, technically a few colonies still exist. French Guiana is still governed by France, but it actually has representatives in the Paris legislature.
@@thunderbird1921 French Guyana it's a full territory of France tokay.It's not an colony anymore. The citizens of Guyana are fully french citizens.
@@lionelmas6296 they shouldnt they should go back to guyana
@@capnsteele3365 Why? French citizen are never own by guyana. I don't understand. Can you explain to me the link between french guyana and guyana? I hope it's not only the name
6:32 “Italy had long had ambitions on North Africa” is an understatement
Thanks for the timestamp, I can’t stop repeating the way he says Italy
@Mina saleh20 America delenda est
@Mina saleh20 Vandal delenda est
@Mina saleh20 The city may be gone, but Carthage is eternal
6:33
The Belgian Congo is what happens when the weird kid really wants to join the group project
And then goes tyrannical maniac. The Congo "Free" State really isn't mentioned enough in genocide conversations. I don't know how Leopold II slept at night.
@@thunderbird1921 The Congolese Genocide is pretty much the poster child of genocides
That's basically how the colonial powers viewed it. The conference even included a treaty which made the colonies neutral if the mother countries went to war. It was broken when WW1 broke out, but still.
@@volbound1700 lmao why would he be in hell? The strong always win
*sad belgium sounds*
Ol' Leo played in smart. He knew Portugal claimed the entire Africa, and so, by gaining Portugal, he would also gain the entirety of Africa
Big brain
Absolute genious out of the box move, but sadly Leopold had no forces to claim Portugal and Portugal no forces to claim the whole of Africa.😭
Lord knows what horrors would have occurred
Chad move🗿🇹🇩
@@randomyankee8923there would be a whole 23 Africans living on the whole continent
Now I have this horrific image of Leopold sending his goons into Wisconsin and forcing the population to make huge quotas of beer and cheese, and beer-cheese... and chopping off hands if they didn't.
Haha 😂
Leopold wanted Wisconsin because that's the US State with the biggest concentration of Belgian-descendants. It's the second largest Wallophone (people who speak Walloon, a Belgian dialect) place in Earth after Wallonia itself (the Belgian region where the Wallonian language was born)
@@funnySIMON99 in this logic Pennsylvania would be german.
@@stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 It's the price to pay for Belgian Wisconsin
Funny how that myth of them chopping off hands still persists when it was the locals doing it before he even showed up.
Did anyone realize britain was that friend who wants to get in the middle of everything? LITERALLY!?
France, Germany, Portugal why don't we make colonies more simple? From east to west.
Britain: How about I create a fucking thicc line between you all?
well if Portugal, Germany and France gang up on Britain they now "encircled" half their forces lol
Oh everyone realized that real quick in Europe
That is why US spends $800 Billion in Military, to be in the middle of everything
they wanted to build the Pan-African Highway which sadly never came to fruition :(
@@DSAK55 your could create a literal utopia if they spent that on there actual country
Portugal: claims all of Africa
Canary Islands: *pathetic*
I don’t get this joke. Could you explain it?
@@R-H-B I think it’s because Portugal got all of the canary islands
@@R-H-B the treaty of tordesillas signed by the pope divided the world between spain and portugal but the spanish still got to keep the canary islands somehow eventhoguh all the other atlantic islands were portuguese
@@teixeira476 ohhh. Thanks I didn’t know that
@@teixeira476 Portugal owned part of the Canaries but the Castillians were harassing Portugal for the rest of the Islands, plus the Canaries had natives populations that the others islands did not (Azore,Madeira and Cape Verde), so Portugal gave the islands fully control to Castille in exchange for any new islands in the Atlantic.
Portugal: **Claims all of Africa**
Leopold II: “I’m gonna do what’s called a pro-gamer move.”
Also Leopold II: **Claims Portugal**
He didn't claim Portugal, only had interest.
@@byzantium0086 that the joke
@@byzantium0086
But he wanted to claim, but does he think Belgium military can defeat Portugal military, so he could claim the whole of Portugal.😂
I don't think the Belgian army ever helped Leopold with his conquering ambitions. Leopold was more sneaky, hiring British explorers who let local kings and leaders sign contracts to hand over the land.
Portugal: wants the entire continent, gets a few large colonies
Spain: wants a bit of coastal land, gets a small square and some desert
EQTG’S CAPITAL IS ON AN ISLAND IS MOSTLY JUNGLE
@Safwaan btw Spain couldn't colonize northern Morocco without the help of France and chemical weapons .
And still the small square was the same size as Belgium.
By the way, so if the Austrians were mentioned, then why not Poland too! Quoted from the wiki link "Colonization attempts by Poland". But first my addition: Duchy of Courland was a vassal state of the Polish Empire, which is why all areas of this duchy were under Polish sovereignty. So here is the wiki quote: " Gambia in Africa: In 1651 Courland bought James Island (then called St. Andrews Island by the Europeans) from a local tribe, establishing Fort James there and renaming the island. Courland also took other local land including St. Mary Island (modern day Banjul) and Fort Jillifree. The colony exported sugar, tobacco, coffee, cotton, ginger, indigo, rum, cocoa, tortoise shells, tropical birds and their feathers. The governors maintained good relations with the locals, but came into conflict with other European powers, primarily Denmark, Sweden, and the United Provinces. The Dutch annexed the Courland territories in Africa, bringing an end to their presence on the continent."
By the way, in addition, Kurland has also acquired islands in the Caribbean.
Wiki quote on! "Cameroon expedition: In 1882, almost a century after Poland was partitioned and lost its independence, Polish nobleman and officer of Russian Imperial Fleet, Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński organized an expedition to Cameroon. Officially that was an exploration expedition, but unofficially the expedition was looking for a place a Polish community could be founded abroad. He had no official support from the Russian Empire, nor from its puppet Congress Poland, but was backed by a number of influential Poles, including the famous Polish writers Boleslaw Prus, and Henryk Sienkiewicz. On 13 December 1882, accompanied by Leopold Janikowski and Klemens Tomczek, Rogoziński left French port of Le Havre, aboard a ship Lucja Malgorzata, with French and Polish flags. The expedition was a failure, and he returned to Europe, trying to collect more money for his project. Finally, after second expedition, Rogoziński found himself in Paris, where he died 1 December 1896."
"Poland regained independence in the aftermath of World War I with the so-called Second Polish Republic. While colonization was never a major focus of the Second Polish Republic, certain organizations like the Maritime and Colonial League supported the idea of creating Polish colonies. The Maritime and Colonial League traces its origins to the Polska Bandera (Polish Banner) organization founded on 1 October 1918. The League supported purchases of lands by Polish emigrants in places like Brazil and Liberia. The League became highly influential in shaping the government's policies with regards to Polish Merchant Marine, despite its long and ongoing campaign (publications, exhibitions, speeches, lobbying, etc.) and public support, it has however never succeeded in following up with its plans to obtain a colonial territory for Poland."
"Angola: On 14 December 1928, the Maritime and Colonial League sent an expedition to Angola, which was then a Portuguese colony. The plan was to try to bring as many Polish immigrants as possible, and then try to purchase some land from the Portuguese. However, after five years, one of the first pioneers in Angola, Michal Zamoyski, wrote: "Personally, I would not persuade anybody to live in Angola". Living conditions were difficult, profits were marginal, and the idea was abandoned."
Liberia: Liberian and Polish governments had good relations because of Polish support for Liberia in the League of Nations. In the fall of 1932, the League of Nations drafted a plan which projected turning Liberia into a protectorate, governed by one of members of the League. The plan was the result of internal policies of Liberia, where slavery was widespread. Since Poland was not regarded by the Liberians as a country which had colonial aspirations, in late 1932 unofficial envoy of Liberian government, dr Leo Sajous, came to Warsaw to ask for help. In April 1933, an agreement was signed between Liberia and the Maritime and Colonial League. The Africans agreed to lease minimum of 60 hectares of land to Polish farmers, for a period of 50 years. Polish businesses were awarded the status of the most favoured nation, and Warsaw was permitted to found a society to exploit natural resources of Liberia. Liberian government invited settlers from Poland in 1934. Altogether, the Liberians granted to Polish settlers 50 plantations, with total area of 7,500 acres (3,035 ha). In the second half of 1934, six Polish farmers left for Liberia: Gizycki, Szablowski, Brudzinski, Chmielewski, Januszewicz and Armin. The project was not fully supported by the Polish government but rather by the Maritime League; only few dozens of Poles took on that offer (because of Liberian requests that the settlers should bring significant capital) and their ventures proved to be, on the most part, unprofitable. The original of the agreement has been lost, but, according to some sources, there was a secret protocol that allowed Poland to draft 100,000 African soldiers. The Polish involvement in Liberia was harshly opposed by the United States of America, creator of the nation of Liberia. As a result of American pressure, in 1938 the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs closed the office of the Maritime and Colonial League in Monrovia."
"Mozambique: plans for colonization of Mozambique were tied to business investments by some Polish enterprise near the late 1930s and never progressed beyond normal foreign investment (acquisition of agricultural lands and mines)."
"Tanganyika and Cameroon: Various Polish authors, unsupported by the government, expressed interests in this region on the grounds that they were in part discovered by Stefan Szolc-Rogoziński and that Europe owed a general debt to Poland for the Polish-Soviet War."
So at least as noteworthy as the colonial efforts of Austria and Sweden.
That desert is propably for Spain to protect its Carribean islands from France invasion.
Ah yes, Argentine Guinea
My favourite
Africa sudamericana 🤑
Argentina is black
@@NeepsHD212 Argentina is the most white country in South America lol
@@j.c-6424 It’s a joke we say in South America... but you wouldn’t know
I think the funniest thing is Leopold just claiming random landlocked us states, without even claiming territory to connect them to the ocean
Texas is connected to the ocean.
Fun fact: similar to the island of Fernando Poo and Spanish Guinea (administered by the Viceroyalty of "La Plata"), the Philippines at the time were also administered from Mexico by the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Mexican Philippines
>Fernando Poo
Fernando Poo? lol
Also, There's Nueva Filipinas which was Administered by Manila in the Philippines, by extension New Spain and By extension again, Spain
lol
European countries: "What part of Africa do you want?"
Portugal: "Yes."
Listen, I don't want anybody to annoy you about this this so I'll say it.
CoPIeD CoMMENT. also listen for some reason autocorrect to Chad
@@Chris14_ Listen, i don't want anybody to annoy you about this so i'll say it.
nO oNe cArEs :)
I'll improve your comment.
Portugal replies with " Africa" instead of yes
@@legendaryking913 What do you expect from a small country?
@@legendaryking913 Besides, Portugal has a higher gdp per capita than Nigeria.
Does anyone else just imagine that the Berlin conference was like an auction with Bismarck shouting countries and the others were shouting prices
No, but that sounds genius.
Bismarck: "Congo!"
(This created tension)
And then leopold is just running in circles shouting Wisconsin! Paraguay! Portreagul! Until someone gave him the Congo to shut him up
literally can't breathe LMAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Random_Panda_eating_cake 😂😂😂😂
"So what parts of Africa do you want?"
Portugal: "Yes."
Everyone just forgets that Britain also wanted all of Africa to be British but ok
@@baconator2427 No, they wanted to connect the Suez and Cape Town.
And with that logic everyone else wanted it too.
@@baconator2427 no they didnt they just wanted the east, not even Britain, the sole hyperpower on the earth could claim all of Africa
Delegators : So, Portugal, what do you want in Africa?
Portugal : Yes
Bruh, so true 👁👄👁
They didn't ask for any of these though just the pink map.
There was already a lot of portuguese presence along the whole african coast before the berlin conference. the portuguese got scammed
I mean, to be fair they could’ve at least got their Grand colony of Brancamar, after all they basically started European colonialism in Africa
@Luís Andrade was it really? Uniting your 2 colonies is a stretch? And France claiming North Africa isnt a stretch?
9:28 "led to a Portuguese defeat"
Actually they were military victories for the Portuguese in Angola and Mozambique. They lost their colonies because of a new government that formed as a result of the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon in 1974. The revolution led to the end of the Estado Novo regime, began a transition to democracy, and a gradual decolonization process. Recognizing the independence of their former colonies in Africa in 1974 and 1975
Hi Mr. Everywhere
@@seronymus i was thinking exactly the same
@@seronymus äääöööäääöööööäi
" gradual decolonization process" lol..it was a mess a disorganized, corrupt and criminal process.
@@br3menPT o qué que raio estás para aí a falar.
Spain made a colony so big it makes colonies
@@guruchintanan5686 nah, australia
the diference: USA was already independent when they could do it
@Alex Smith Britain was the last to own the US before it got out. Not all of the thirteen colonies were originally settled by the British.
Who?
Equatorial guinea was administrated by the united provinces of the rio de la plata, aka argentina + other territories, either that or the islands of the galapagos and easter island
imagine how epic it would be if Africa was just one massive country if Portugal had gotten what it wanted
It would still be a problem. Too many ethnicities with too many languages and cultures would still create the social problems that come with large multiethnic and multicultural states.
@@deltapapa130 yes but it would be big
@@geheimnis8187 You do be spitting facts.
@@geheimnis8187 Chunky Africa.... Chunfrica
@@deltapapa130 they would be under control by one language and ethnicity wasn’t big at the time for that area
*Belgium:* We claim Pennsylvania, Florida, Wisconsin, Texas, Missouri, and Kansas
*U.S.A.:* We would like to announce the newest US state of Belgium
Europe: hey the Monroe doctrine is all about America protected from our imperialist ambition, gtfo of our continent and have fun elsewhere, i dunno the middle east? Twould give us more reasons to spite you
*U.S.A* :We Have Added The State Of Tibet To The Union
*Puerto Rico* :Can I Be A State Now
*U.S.A* :No
@Safwaan There would've been a time, that all of North America would've been US states. Mexico? Polk actually wanted the whole country under the US after the Mexican America war. Canada? Invaded it numerous of times. Like, during the American revolution, the War of 1812. But, the British defended it hard. Cuba? Haiti? Honduras? Nicaragua? El Salvador? Best believe, if plans were stronger back then, (scoff) the US would've been the largest country instead of Russia. But, who's to deny that it still wouldn't happen though?
@Safwaan they did make an Africa colony though
@@imafkingbeastandrewtateise9563 Kinda, it's more like the just sent former slaves there and just let them do what they wanted. We didn't have much influence in Liberia so, it's hard to call it a true colony.
TheJaviXD Marry me lol.
Bruh imagine half of Africa spoke Portuguese
Well, they did control much of the coast in those times
YOU'RE GOING TO BRAZIL
@@snifferfiffer2773 *wrong country, cabrão.*
Portugal: Get on the boat kid, we’re going to Brazil
Small Note: I've once read that there was a deal between Germany and Britain that if Portugal used income from its colonies as security for a loan
Germany and Britain would take the colonies for themselves. Germany for example was supposed to gain Angola and North Mozambique as well as some Islands. All the conditions were met in July 1914 but further proceedings were cut short by a minor international incident that you might have heard of.
U mean the First World war
@@sumreensultana1860 no, the July crisis
just shows how much the british love and respect their portugese allies...
@@Daniel-jm7ts Longest alliance ever, but of course the British had drafted a deal to backstab them in any case as they did with any of their alliance ever signed, British diplomacy rules.
@@ComradeHellas time honored British tradition of dealbreaking and back pedaling
European congress: "So, what would you guys like to colonize?"
Portugal: All of Africa. The entire continent belongs to us.
King Leopold: *WISCONSIN* AND PORTUGSL
Again someone memeing 2 different congresses 400 years apart.
Leopold was the founder and had genes from different countries I think he was good but Leopold II
Portugal: Claims the entire African continent
Belgium: Claims Portugal
Belgium pulled the UNO reverse card
Belgium be like:You might have outsmarted me but I outsmarted your outsmarting
Outstanding move!
4D Chess
*Leopold claims portugal
Whenever two countries can't have the same part of Africa
Belgium: By default it is mine
Leopold; No! Mine!!!!!!!
Leopold used the rivalry of the different superpowers and his country's neutrality to get the Congo. The power of Belgium is in its diplomacy, not its army.
@@funnySIMON99 no body cared very much about the Congo, only when they knew about the resources. They villefied ( rightfully) leopold2 and later Belgium.
We should do this for any disputed territories from now on.
Crimea? Belgian.
North Cyprus? Belgian.
Kosovo? Belgian.
Gaza strip? Belgian.
@@quintiax The first Christian King of Jerusalem after the first Crusade was Belgian (Godefroid de Bouillon)...and the territory is disputed...so...
Portugal: *Claims all of Africa*
Leopold: *Claims all of Portugal*
“Oh yeah, it’s BIG BRAIN TIME.”
Portugal, claim belgium (Tordesillas)
No they can’t claim Belgium per say but they can establish a Catholic puppet in Belgium and steal the Congo
You made me spill my drink with that one 😂
@@baconator2427 At one point Belgium and Portugal were both part of the same Spanish Empire.
Am I missing something with all these Leapold memes (I'm assuming)?
Portugal: *ALL IS MINE*
Russia: _yo, can i have this island thousands of miles away from me at the opposite pole of the earth?_
France: *s a n d*
Britain: *l a n d*
America: _send off slaves only for them to enslave_
Spain: *cocololonyny*
Belgiu --- Leopold: this. this shall be mine. not belgium's. *mine*
Ottomans: ... *fuck my life* ...
Bruh, so true 👁👄👁
Germany - *I didn't even wanted colonies*
Portugal claims the old world, Leopold outbrains them and claims Portugal
Also Belgium/Leopold: I would like Texas, Wisconsin and *P O R T U G A L* plese
*italy: does the unimaginable and loses to someone they wanted to colonize*
Notably the UK did manage to unite the Cape to Cairo land when Germany had to give up its west African lands post-war.
South Africa gained defacto independence after ww1 when they annexed Namibia they never controlled the cape to Cairo.
@La nova renaissance After the statute of Westminister all the dominions were independent.
@La nova renaissance Yes, but you said that South Africa was only independent in 1948
They were independent, to an extent, they weren't really fully independent, they still did what the British told them to do.
@@JB-uy1bw case in point, joining WW2 with the British
The Ottoman diplomat coming back home after the Berlin conference:
"So ummm guys.... hehe.. uh idk how to say this but... we got a slight problem"
"we kinda used to own most of those lands way before you ya know?"
Portugal in the Berlin confederation be like : ok ok than I will be a nice guy and stay with just half of Africa
Pois...... se fosse eu olha que conectava Angola com Moçambique
@@NibanoTransmontano eu dominava o sul todo
@@NibanoTransmontano esse era o plano, mas a Inglaterra traiu Portugal, os portugueses já estavam no territorio da Rodesia, que é hoje o Zimbabue
@@Luzitanium Isso que deu ficarel de aliançinha durante a era napoleonica, se tivessem seguido o plano de napoleão, nada disso teria acontecido.
@@MauricioRomanov aconteceu mais de 100 anos depois de Napoleão XD
On Italy's note, i feel like you should've mentioned that the Italian desire for Tunis and France cucking them by annex the region escalated tensions and started a Franco-Italian trade war which then lead Italy into joining the central powers.
it's called "the slap of tunis"
Ironically the reason Italy went to east Africa was because Tunisia was already taken
Portugal: Claims half the planet for itself
Belgium: Ho ho ho, I bet I can do one better, _Bucko._
Americans: Lol we got the best land deal ever with the Louisiana Purchase
Portugal: Hold my hemisphere
Britain : can invade louisiana
France : sell it fast to anybody who hate britains as much as us
Kind of funny how everyone sold us land just to block their rivals. "Here, want Louisiana? We need money, but also to contain Britain and Spain". "Here, want this icy Alaska thing? We need to stop Canada from expanding to the edge of Siberia".
@@thunderbird1921 It was the United States baby shower lol
They don't even touch on how we got Alaska in school or at least they barely mention it. There's a few things left out of our history especially in modern times
I mean, America actually obtained and held onto the territory they obtained in the Louisiana Purchase; the same cannot be said for Portugal's hemisphere.
@@vegetomsayen1837 as much as US
Some random person in Madagascar :
🇷🇺 👁👄👁
Imagine Soviet Madagascar, though.
The Russian did actually got to Djibouti tho...but that was just a temporary expedition that they ever got to venture to Africa
@@trabaregocer Madagascar has been a socialist country aligned to Soviet Union between 1975 and 1991
@@trabaregocer Would still be superior to current Madagascar
Russians: came to djibouti
France: leave
Russians: ok
As a Texan, having King Leopold (or Belgium) as my ruler is both laughable and horrifying, knowing what happened in the Belgian Congo.
@@Tombstone_Active truth.
It was extremely exaggerated by the press as his government wanted to find reasons to get rid of him.
@@Imperium83 that sounds hilarious if true
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 it is not true.
As a Texan ? imagine being a Congolese.
Portugal : Africa is mine.
France, UK : *OUR Africa*
Plotwist: Gets bombed by the same years later
Africa: "Why do I hear 15 different kinds of boss music?"
Best comment.
USSR and Cuba: I gotchu fam.
Now I want an earrape version of those 15 national anthems playing at the same time.
Ethiopia: Im going to do whats called a pro gamer move
😂
Every country: We want a nice connected line from west to east, so we can all nicely line up roughly in parallels, surely we can work out the details
Britain: I want a connected line from north to south!
Yes
They did get that after WW1
Portugal: I claim everything!
King Leopold: I support this and i claim Portugal!
If he claims portugal, which has everything, he will claim THE WHOLE OF AFRICA. Big chad move
Lmao, everyone wanted a part of Africa.
Meanwhile Portugal wanted the entire continent.
Or be fair, they claim the ENTIRE OLD WORLD as theirs
Portugal: So according to this treaty roughly 200 years ago that you weren't part of we deserve everything.
Everyone else: How about no.
Portugal: Okay, but we put up totem poles across the entire southern half of the continent, so we get the whole southern half.
Everyone else: How about no.
Portugal: Please let us at least keep these very few areas we are actually administering.
Everyone else: Good enough lol.
You thought Angola was è nossa? EVERYTHING IS E NOSSA
@@conejitorosada2326 bo not the entire world ... just half of it
@@markcasila8310 Old world, emphasis on *old*, it's different from just "world", as it's referring to most of Afro-Eurasia
Nobody:
Absolutely nobody:
Spain: I love sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere...
Lawrence of Espanola
Western Sahara actually exports sand in vast quantities.
It is full of phosphate & gets turned into fertiliser.
Not that the Spanish knew that at the time. It was just a lucky guess 😃
Ottoman Empire: Wait what, no no no why our land. Stop.
"The United States was not a colonial power"
The Natives would probably like a word with you
Puerto Rico be like: Bitch, what do I look like to you?!
@@nicogarciaelautentico the 51st state.
oh the ones that Small Pox and et all killed, or the ones that attacked, fought and lost wars ageist the US, this was not a one sided afire except the early bronze age tribes had no chance ageist a steam age nation state.
@@Delgen1951 Sadly it's not
@@Delgen1951 I guess there is no arguing against delusion, but maybe a list of Wikipedia articles can what I cannot
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Native_American_genocide
We claim the world
the world would be filled with rainbows and happiness if they all followed the Juche ideology
juche is mongolian though right?
WAIT ARE YUO FOCKEN KIM JONG UN FROM BTS
@@SingeStheos North Korean
"America wasn't a colonial power"
The Philippines don't exist I guess.
Do you think Puerto Rico can be considered one too?
Usa was definitely colonial...
@Morgan V or all the other "oversea" territories? In fact is the USA atm the only active colonial power left in this world. @Vologda Mapping
@@Jade-ns9tg I would agree, only a few of them tho would be considered colonies: American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands.
@Morgan V still more then every other country. :D I mean...ok you could argue that netherlands, UK and france still have some colonies, but all this areas are more or less fully incorporated. thats why the EU has a border in south armerica. :D
Austria-Hungary wanted Western Sahara to exile the Serbs.Serbs refused because were no plum trees
Really so?
ah so russia wantet same with madagascar and ukrains?
@Josip Aha I think I get it now, I had Slivovica when I was invited by a Serb shop-owner, quite a strong liquor, the Czechs make something similar themselves.
@Josip Becherovka is another one, they make their own Slivovice as well.
Bruh western Sahara was morocco
Uk: what colonies you want in africa portugal?
Portugal : intesify yakko world song*
*Any European empire voices a minor interest in Congo*
*heavy, heavy Belgian breathing*
Shouldn't it be: Heavy, Heavy, Leopold Panting ?
I’d expect britain or France to want all of Africa
PORTUGAL WANTS ALL + thankyou guys for 500 likes without pointing arrows at the like bar thats just astounding and it’s amazing how humanity started in Africa (Ethiopia) and migrated across the world for a few hundred thousand years and knew a lot about Europe but even though a lot of ancient civilisations started in Africa we knew nothing about it until the Portuguese found the southern parts of Africa in the 15th century (btw I am talking about europe finding the southern parts of Africa not the north)
and we deserved at least the whole of South Africa, after all we were the ones who discovered
The british and french were more realistic and focused that's why they got actualy most of what they wanted. Portugal was a joke in every conceivable way, from what they demanded to why they demanded to the fact that their military and commercial power at that time was comparable to that of Liechtenstein.
@@RoScFan
To be fair, Portugal didn't claim the entirety of Africa in the Berlin Conference, as far as I'm aware. It was simply what was stipulated in the Treaty of Tordesillas, which by this time was very much ignored by everyone, including Portugal.
Portugal's final claims on Africa - the Pink Map - were also realistic and focused. I can't imagine anything more logical than simply wanting the territory between two already existing colonies. Considering Portugal's declining state, that's not a farfetched goal at all.
However, Portugal's oldest ally - Britain -, who was already getting like fucking half of Africa, could not relinquish that bit of territory just to pursue their ambitious project which they didn't even manage to complete in the end. That's "realistic" according to you?
"Realism" and "focus" aren't why Britain and France got what they wanted. I mean, just look at the map, they both got gigantic portions of Africa. The reason is far simpler - power. They were the strongest colonial powers, so they made the rules, and they got what they wanted, for the most part.
But Portugal's claim on the whole of Africa was from 400 years prior to the conference, when they were a big deal, and they dropped it along with their decline in power. It was obviously insane from the begining, but it seems that most people didn't quite understand that this came from loooong before (more than double the time between the conference and now, and look how much changed since then)
@La nova renaissance
I am aware. But that other dude called Britain's goals realistic and focused, and Portugal's a joke. Yet Portugal's goals were pretty much the same as Britain's but at a smaller, much more modest scale. So why is the more attainable of the two "unrealistic"?
Portugal: Claims the entire continent.
Leopold: Claims Portugal.
Leopold: I'm going to do whats called a pro gamer move.
Lol imagine a Portuguese planning to get the entire Africa:
So they have the following convo:
-Which country do you want in Africa?
-I want Africa!
-Yeah, but which country in Africa you want?
-Heh? Africa is the country I want!
-But Africa is a continent, not a country!!
-Just gimme Africa dude!
The portuguese didn't lose the colonial war. There was a coup.
Bruh, so true 👁👄👁
Doesn't matter the outcome was the same 🇲🇿
They lost by being unable to participate
@@beu9245 bruh, hahaha
@La nova renaissance The difference is that Portugal won both of the main fronts, the angolan and the mozambican one, pushing the guerrillas out of the colonies, into the neighboring countries, the only front that they weren't winning, was Guinea because the guerrilla was much more organized and the colony was much less controlled than Angola and Mozambique, the only signs of the Portuguese presence in the Colony was the Cape Verdean doing administrative work in the cities.
The Scramble for Africa is proof to why Japan closing off to Europe except for the Dutch was probably a smart move. From a Japanese perspective, if only.
They would be better served with a centralized state in place of isolationism, they only escaped because of the isolated geographic position and because those islands have literally nothing useful, not even the terrain or the climate is suitable for plantations.
@@Melnek1 The Meiji Restoration is what saved Japan. By 1890s, Japan had a formidable force that could compete with European powers and was even able to defeat China and the other Asian powers around it. Japan's progress in the 1800s is astounding and does not get enough attention.
@@volbound1700 And where did I say otherwise? I just stressed that they could have done even better. I don't know where you live, but the achievements of the Meiji restoration are not an unknown topic for anyone who sets out to understand Asia's policies. If the Japanese have a problem with that, they may not have waged a war against the entire planet while they were committing the most depraved acts and atrocities imaginable on an industrial scale, they may have more recognition, but the way things are, they came out with very lucky, the Germans for example cannot say anything about their past without first and necessarily showing guilt and remorse, otherwise they will be immediately antogonised, something that the Japanese do not do and no one forced them to do, they didn’t even give in to work on solving all the problems with his nominal ally and neighbor in South Korea, let alone the rest.
@@Melnek1 Japan of 1800s or even early 1900s can't be blamed for the Japan of the 1930s and 1940s .
@@volbound1700 Again, I didn't say anything to that effect, if the Japanese are not getting due recognition, they can only blame themselves.
4:53 "Gib Congo" - Leopold II, (c.1984). Ah yes, an amazing speech by his 149-year-old majesty. The 80's were truly amazing times haha.
honestly they want everything. but they cant. so the split it, and take it later if the opportunity arise.
Exept for the Brits, they got everything
COLONISATION
@ჶ Troopa3xd ჶ They lacked that part of the Congo...
@@TheSonofGod1 they didnt get kenya(?), it went to the germans
@@cryed0 i think they did
@@cryed0 tanzania* and they later got it after ww1.
8:20 You (as many others) totally misunderstood what the "padrão" was supposed to symbolise, as well as what the Teaty of Tordesillas was meant to establish.
The "padrão" did not mean the Portuguese considered themselves the owners of that place, i.e., they were not expecting to convince the locals to obey them by erecting pillars... (In fact, until the very end of 19th century, the Portuguese made little effort to conquer territory in Africa, they were satisfied with establishing trading posts to trade with the natives - under favourable conditions, of course, so violence was used whenever needed.)
The "padrão" was meant to be both a sign to other Portuguese navigators ("We've been in before") and a warning to other foreign powers: the Portuguese have been here, you may come into conflict if you insist on coming here, too. So, it was a diplomatic object of sorts, or like the bright coloured skin of a poisonous animal, warning potential enemies in an attempt to avoid conflict.
Likewise, the Treaty of Tordesillas was not meant as Portugal and Spain each claiming to own half of the World. Actually, it was the opposite: each party to keep out of half of the world. This may seem the same thing as claiming ownership of the other half, but it's not. Portugal and Spain did not claim to own an hemisphere, they stated their interest in *trying* their best in that hemisphere. They were not naïve to the point of thinking that presenting a signed piece of paper would convince the natives that they were their overlords. The Treaty was meant only as a gentlemen's agreement that they would go different ways so to avoid conflict among them: I go this way, you go that way. But if they wanted to actually conquer something, they knew they would have to fight (the natives), the paper was worthless.
It's like when 2 drug dealers divide a territory: that's meant to avoid conflict between them, but it does not translate in them owning the entire place (each house, each car, each person). They just assured their rival will not be around, but if they want to actually make a profit, they know they still have to find clients in "their" territory.
Whispers: *"they never got etiopia"*
_they never got Thailand_
@@Pierre-Rambal_Cochet Actually yes. You got punked by Greece and then invaded by the Allies and Germany.
*you can make a religion out of this*
TheMagicMudkip
Not even the Galactic Empire could find a single man in the universe who asked
@@Pierre-Rambal_Cochet like France was under German colony in ww2? but, unlike France ethiopia didn't surrender. the Italians were fighting everywhere in ethiopia that whole five years.
Thanks for sending this awesome historical video, love you from Chad 🇹🇩
Portugal: We deserve all of Africa
Everyone: The best we can do is Angola and Mozambique
Maybe Cabo Verde and Guinea-Bissau as well
@@chateauferret And São Tomé e Principe
@@Kronos777Lusos How could I forget?
Imagine if all those nations get what they wanted somehow
A dutch sout africa....ok, time to stop dreaming
@@Bamsi-tl4nk where is the dream?
well, yo know, dutch south africa wasn't a thing from 18th century I think
@@Bamsi-tl4nk what do you mean? It was perfectly real before Britain stole it during napoleonic wars.
If every country got what they wanted then only Portugal would get what they wanted
16:08
The Phillipines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and many minor pacific islands might want to say something about that one.
This was the 1880's, before most of those lands were taken. Even than those lands were kinda not treated as colonies due to the US dislike of it. The Philippines is the big example of this, which was taken in the 1890's
America was more interested in building an island colonial empire that grabbing continental land
I would say that Hawaii and Cuba+surrounding islands are the only real cases of American colonies, as we straight up bought Alaska and the Philippines from Russia and Spain respectively, I agree that America was not absolved from it, but the video is mostly right with the whole “America din’t particularly like the whole colonialism thing” thing.
Its a good thing the Filipinos fought back for their independence too; stopped the USA’s imperial ambitions there, even though our government regime already had to do mental gymnastics to justify colonialism as a former colony ourselves
Ah yes except the Philippines was given their freedom in 1949 as the US promised in the 1920s, Hawaii is part of the Union and Puerto Rico will be as its last vote the statehood party won, American Soma wants to stay like it is, Guam wants to enter the union, Micronesia wants to join Guam and join the US as as a state. Jay you need to stop beeing so nineteen thirtyish and try to be at lest early twenty-first in outlook. You just so outdated.
0:02 love the Ottoman representative in the back left looking sad because everyone is saying they want Ottoman land :)
Ok boys,mr Portugal it is your turn,which part of Africa do you want?
Portugal:I want Africa
delegators:ok which part?
Portugal: África, takes the entire map and walk away from the conference.
Ye u used the "Á", U really need to disable the autocorrect
@@gmdblurryface7883 hmmm é assim que se escreve...
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@@gmdblurryface7883In Portugal u say África
Actualy, up untill the end Portugal was winnig it's colonial wars with the exception of guinea-bissau. It was the war exausted portuguese people that allowed the colonies to become independent.
Yep,we won the war military but lost politically,kind how it went with the americans in Vietnam
That's how many colonies got their independence and how Germany was defeated in WWI.
@@alphagamer9505 lmao, no, America lost because it failed to achieve any of its objectives. You don't understand that in order to win you have to be on good terms with the people. The whole we lost only becaue of commies back home is a revanchist myth created in order to justified their failure. The thing is that they lost because they lost. But it will take time before they accept that
@@RoScFan Germany lost because it simply couldn't compete on two fronts and did not have sufficient manpower and industrial capacity to wage such a war. Not because of some "stab in the back". All of this "we lost, not because we lost, but because of those back home" is a revanchist BS made up by people who are just trying to justify their failures. The thing is that they lost because they lost. Some people are just too weak to admit defeat.
Guinea was literally Portugal Achilles' heel
Portugal delegate: "We'll take this part." *points in the middle of Africa*
Rest of EU powers: "You want the Kongo?"
Portugal delegate: "No, I want the whole bloody Africa!"
Leopold: "KoNg0 iS mInE bItCh fIgHt mE!!!" *REEEEEE*
People: The German Empire was so ambitious, they wanted most of the world under their rule!
Germany: *has some generic reasonable claims*
Portugual: *h u e*
@Kaiser Von Bahr yeah, ww1 germany was not nazis, they did do some bad stuff still however.
@@dodolulupepe The Kaiserreich was a more moral and efficient state than any world power except for the US
@@BlueGamingRage I wouldn't say more moral in everything, but ok
@@dodolulupepe i would say ww1 everyone was on the same field as going with morality. It wasn't good vs evil but nation vs nation
@@Castornator Yeah, I agree.
France, Germany and Portugal: lets make an empire going from east to west
Britian: *N O*
Britain: Let’s make a long line of colonies going North to South
Germany: N E I N
@@knightartorias746 britain to Germany: how about I do anyways
“One could argue, that originally, Spanish Guinea was an Argentinian Colony. A colony of a colony, also known as a Cocololonyny”
- Vologda Mapping
underrated
"Congo was given to the Belgians"
Congo: "I'm in danger"
That paved the way for one of the biggest tragedies in history: The Congo Free (Slave Labor) State. Leopold II really should be ranked up there with mankind's greatest monsters.
@@thunderbird1921
You have 0 clue what you're talking about.
@@thunderbird1921 And even though that happened try going there as a homosexual and see what they'll do to you, they aren't any better lol.
"Congo was given to -the Belgians- Leopold"
The Belgians were the nicest colonizers by every metric, Leopold wasn’t
I really enjoyed this video. It was incredibly well researched, great graphics and narration, and great sense of humor. Really well done! Please keep the outstanding videos coming and God bless you, my friend!
Portugal: I want the entirety of Africa, what do you want my Belgian friend?
Belgium: I want you
No one:
Vologda Mapping: cocololonyny
Rococololonolny
Ha ur mean
The US has "territories" in the pacific, if you think about it, the US has an obvious reason they are called territories. but liberia wasnt a US colony and yes it was administrated by the people living there.
Including the Philippines. The US was completely a colonial empire.
No it's governed by the "black people" the US sent there, but these "black people" don't originally belong to that land, and even they did they had already become a new identity due to generations of slavery, so they soon start to have conflict with the actual native people there.
@@UltramanII Why do you put quotation marks around black people?
@@joshhyyym The Spanish-American war, which resulted in the vast majority of the American colonies (including the Philippines), happened in 1898, fourteen years *after* the 1884 Berlin conference.
@@pdes_ I didn't say it had anything to do with the Berlin conference, only that the US had colonies.
Guys just an addendum, Portugal did NOT claim the whole of Africa during the Berlin Conference, they only claimed the whole of Africa when there was no other European Power in the region, with the claim of the whole of Africa existing during the 15th and 16th century, then only claiming the southern part and some areas around Guinea, and when the Brits got into southern African they stopped claiming all of the south too. In the Berlin Conference they only wanted the pink map.
Did you watch the video? He explained it 3 seconds after ffs
@@thehalofan12345I'm just giving more context, just by the comments you can see that some people didn't understand that.
@@jackyex I think most of the comments are in jest.
Well done researching and putting together this. Good to see the often overlooked (potential) colonial powers. Austro-Hungarian perspective was especally fun. You're totally right on point with Western Sahara, it was a stupid idea for A-H to make a play for it.
The 'Conference of Berlin' had been asked for by Portugal in order to avoid future conflicts over Africa, but contrary to what it had hoped for, it became the most disadvantaged by the conference; being gravely betrayed by England -- for instance, many of the uninhabited islands discovered by Portugal, have been robbed by England!
Contrary to what i stated in this video, the Dutch had no colonial ambitions in Africa at the time of the Berlin Conference. The Netherlands was busy with the different wars in the Dutch East Indies, namely Aceh.
The Boers were still wishing for the return of the Dutch in Southern Africa
@@outerspace7391 Really? I always thought the boers already had a fully independent mindset at the time. Interesting to hear👍🏻.
@@JardaAndriessen I mean, they did enjoy independence, but that was mainly an attempt at trying to kick the British out. They would welcome the colonial Dutch forces with open arms if they ever wanted to help them
@@outerspace7391 Too bad the Dutch never went there. We should have taken them home, or at least supported their future.
@@JardaAndriessen It's true. Perhaps if the Dutch retook South Africa, apartheid would never had become a thing
This video is gold. Thank you very much for this, very very educational. The ambitions vs reality were just awesome :p
The fact that so much of the reasoning was about making lines all the way across Africa really drives home how little the Europeans cared about the existing political and cultural map of the Africans themselves.
Well they at that time didn't think their countries would no longer have these colonies. Kinda how the Natives of Americas didn't matter, to them.
I was thinking the exact... same... thing...
the problem is say they followed cultural lines they might miss out on resources or strategic places plus they didnt excpect the colonies to go independent and follow those borders that was there own decision
they treated an entire continent like a slice of people, the old time really were brutal
Fun fact: When Brazil became independent there was a revolt in Angola (started by settlers and soldiers) that wanted a union with the recently independent country. That's why the 3rd article of the Brazilian Treaty of Independence says that "
His Majesty (Emperor Pedro of Braganza) promises that he will not accept proposals from any other Portuguese colony to join Brazil."
In fact, Brazil had a great influence in Angola mainly after it was reconquered from the dutch by (proto) Brazilian forces. For this reason some say that in the 17th century Angola was a colony of a colony. On the other hand the Brazilian economy relied on slaves that came from Angola.
Actually Angola was a colony of Brazil before Brazil's independence (and maybe also Sao Tome e Principe), since they were reconquered from the Dutch West Indies Company by Brazilian men in 1648. In Brazil's independence by 1822/4/5 they reverted back to Portugal possibly with that treaty.
@@sergiocalves Yes,you are correct that brasilians,reconquered back angola from dutch,but they were admnistrated by Portugal,so they dont count as Brasilian colonies,the guys that revolted were the slave traders,joining brasil to keep the slaves going to America.
8:15 Pedrraawwwssszzz 😂😂
jokes aside the video is amazing although, i have to say Portugal never claimed the whole continent! The treaty defined what spain could explore and what Portugal could explore and the other nations later would have denied the treaty!
The "cocololonyny" joke was the thing that made me subscribe instantly lmao. So stupid and so good
Very good video, high quality !
Everyone talking about Portugal being Scammed, but noone's talking about how the Ottomans were scammed worse
other countries: want a part of africa
Portugal: *I’m four parallel universes ahead of you*
well according to Tratado of Tordesilhas, Portugal clamied more than half of the world land mass, much more than any empire ever lol
Obviously Spain wasn't part of the deal since it was the one they signed it with.
@@bypyros1933 yes
But since i was a kid i tought it was a bit funny that Spain was inside Portugal clains lol, or now, that Spain would have lost a lot
Pope says yes
The Netherlands would basically be asking to get their shit back
Portugal: I WANT ALL AFRICA
Belgium: I want You
Sounds like a love declaration
Eritrea was already established as an Italian Colony years before the Berlin Conference.
Its what he said.
@@alterego9791 earlier the video says that Eritrea was given to Italy during the conference.
Italy participated to Berlin conference just as an observer, like Russia, Austria and Sweden, since it didn't had any ambition outside of the colonies it already had and didn't had, in that moment, any territorial dispute with other colonial powers.
Portugal was like:
*I'll take your entire stock*