@imraanjalal5358
Absolutely brilliant trip into history. With introspection, I wouldn’t be alive today. One of my ancestors was captured by the Dutch, holding him for ransom as he was the son of the sultan of the Moluccas. The Dutch brought him as a prisoner to the Cape in the 1700’s. He never went back to his home and made a life in this new land after being freed from his imprisonment.
@terrystyles5271
I can't believe how much I just learned in 55 minutes. Great video.
@all-thingstv
I remember when you only had 800 subs, I have been folllowing you ever since, I am so glad you blew up and that your channel grew so much! Your content is amazing and you put lot’s of effort and research into it which I respect. Thank you for putting out these videos and congrats on reaching 80K subscribers!
@odarrien
Very well put together and researched! My maternal grandfather's lineage is French and my dad's is African through the triangular trade. My country, St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Eastern Caribbean, went back and forth between French and British rule for many years until finally staying under British rule from the late 1700s until independence in 1979. Neighbouring islands of St Lucia and Dominica still have strong French influences evident in their culture, and of course Martinique and Guadeloupe are still French territories.
@binalcensored2104
The most important scholars of Renaissance humanism consider Prince Henry the Navigator to be the most important man in European history. As attested by a letter written by the Italian sage Poggio Bracciolini to the Infante, in 1448-1449. The literate Italian compares his achievements to those of Alexander the Great, or those of Julius Caesar, praising them even more for being conquests of places unknown to all Humanity. Poggio Bracciolini (1380 – Florence, 1459), was one of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance. Without a doubt, no one else in history has managed to make their actions change the world as much as Prince Henry. He transformed the old world of small villages frozen in time, into a world where the entire planet is part, where all cultures become part of human knowledge. Especially poor old Europe, full of famine, will benefit most from this. Until then, rich Arab and Asian merchants said that Europe was so poor that the only valuable merchandise were white European slaves. The world becomes truly global. However, in the 19th century the war for European national pride will make other countries that were looking for the scepter of glory in European history, try to destroy the importance of Henry the Navigator to assume the throne of global history themselves and the only way to achieve this was by accusing him of having "invented" slavery, which is totally false and scandalously shameful on the part of all those who wrote books full of lies just to try to impose slavery on him. It is so criminally false that there is not a single true document linking it to slavery. Only after the death of Henry the navigator in 1460 did slavery become necessary for the Americas, which had not yet been discovered at the time of Henry's death. Therefore, the only way to denigrate him was to say that he took the slaves to the sugar plantations in Madeira. But at the time of his death, Madeira produced little more than cereals. It was the Flemish, Jewish and Genoese who introduced sugar to Madeira. They had already exploited sugar and slaves for over 100 years in the Mediterranean and especially in Sicily. The Portuguese did not know about sugar and even less about the slavery of Africans. In 1441, the first black people arrived in Portugal, who were brought by Antão Gonçalves, in the Rio do Ouro region. The captives and not slaves, as the racists like to call them, were treated very well, but Andahu, the native chief, constantly asked to be allowed to return to his land. Infante D. Henrique acceded to his wish, and Antão Gonçalves, when he went back to the Coast of Africa, took the black leader with him. The relationship with the king of Congo was so good that the Congolese elites began to adopt noble titles, that is, they wanted to be called counts and even dukes. In the following centuries, the Dutch and companies of German-Jewish capital arrived, and from then until the Belgian king's hands were cut off, the situation of the Portuguese was completely reversed. Unfortunately, anti-Catholic and anti-Lusophone propaganda spends millions of dollars every year, just to "sow" false stories, designed to praise profit maximization, perpetuating human exploitation and destruction of the planet, through financing books, written intentionally to blame others for their own atrocities. However, there is a big difference between what Europeans read and what they see when they get to know Portugal and the Portuguese. The difference between mere dogmatic theory and knowledge through experience was precisely what the Discoveries introduced and that was what made humanity evolve like never before. Therefore, if we go back to blindly believing in mere propagandistic theory, we will be going back 500 years. What everyone can really see is that the world has completely changed from before to after Henry the Navigator!
@sirusjohnsepar4248
Wonderful thanks so much best wishes sirus London
@juniormichael354
This was a good journey to history😊
@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
After the first successes and conquests in India, Portugal's main objective at the beginning of the 16th century was the conquest of China. The Portuguese king even dispatched an Ambassador to Beijing with two tasks: to celebrate the first trade agreements between Portugal and China and; spy on the Chinese and assess their defensive capabilities. The mission commanded by Tomé Pires was held in Canton, after leaving for Pequin the Portuguese were arrested on various charges (espionage, cannibalism, etc.) and eventually executed. Only after this Embassy failed did the King of Portugal abandon his dream of conquering China and decided to invest 1/3 of the crown's annual income in the construction of the city of Salvador in Brazil to centralize and intensify the colonial exploitation of his largest colony. Tomé de Sousa was responsible for being the first governor general of Brazil.
@MotDoiAnLac258
Thank you again
@albashir7140
Thank you that was brilliant ❤
@maxi2009ca
This took me back to really ty thanks
@Uzair_Of_Babylon465
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍
@jayb-wickorsnow5956
Awesome content on this history channel. Thanks
@Naidu-k8m
So now we see why Chaina has been exerting itself in south east asia. Their early emperors had decrees that claimed all lands set foot on by its people belonged to their empire.
@youtubehatesus2651
just found channel and greatly enjoying. thank you
@hermanosoares3860
Portugal was great!❤🇵🇹
@claramente8087
The Spanish Armada never was defeted by Drake, most of the Spanish Armada returned to Spain because the storms. Next year, the British Armada with Drake and Norris was absolutely defeted and destroyed by the Spanish Army...
@rogeriobranco2152
It would have been a very different world if the Portuguese had backed Christopher Columbus in his planned voyage to reach India and instead discovered America.
@cardboardempire
I always find it amusing that when explaining the slave trade in Africa, it is greatly glossed over that the majority of slaves came from African territory warfare and chieftains selling subects to traders. It is very popular to declare that the United States was the only nation to engage in the slave trade. Slavery is a profession as old as homo erectus.
@MadeInHistory