Age of Discovery: Exploring the New World (Part 1)

The Age of Discovery was a period when Europeans had found out the world to be much larger than they could ever imagine. Suddenly new horizons promised not only danger and death, but also wealth and glory. This age is also considered the starting point of colonialism as rulers found more profit in capturing lands than resources only. Watch the video to find out how bright dreams of the whole new world turned into plundering and massacres.

[jsaro]

It's nice but some errors:
1-Prince Henry was just a prince, he didn't become king, he was third in the line of succession

2-Columbus lived in Portugal for many years and it was there that he became a navigator and on several occasions tried to sell his idea to the Portuguese King but was always refused because he had flaws in his calculations that were obvious to the mathematicians and cartographers of the Portuguese court. It went from Portugal to Spain and not directly from Genoa.
When he returned to Europe, he first went to Lisbon, Portugal, to announce that he had arrived in India (and was almost murdered. He was saved by the reinforced certainty given by the court's experts that it could only be other lands)

[uvfzrwz]

The Vikings made their way to Greenland, Newfoundland, and (possibly) New England about 470 years before Columbus.

[mynameisjeff]

Henry the Navigator never became to be a Portuguese king. He was a prince, the third son of a king. So no crown for him, but he was of course still influential at the court.

[Aerodo]

Very high quality animation and storytelling, thank you.

[binalcensored]

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!

[slapshot]

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[jayhuxley]

When the Portuguese defeated the Otomans in the Indic, they were at the doors of Viena and Hungary. If the Portuguese didnt defeated them, Europeans would be talking Turk these days.

[pqfboxing]

Hi! I just found your channel. Sounds like it's gonna be a good one. Please do some modern history videos, like "the rise of XXX country from 2000 to present day."

[BeYourselfMan]

The Portuguese are amazing people. Brave & humble.

[tedn]

The ottomans cutting off the routes has been debunked many times.

[jareyvi]

The hispanola is present day Haiti AND Dominican republic, France occupied half the Hispanola, the Haiti side, whilst the other half was ruled by Spain. After independence they both kept their side of the island

[vitorcandido]

The Portuguese were the first to arrive in Australia

[MMartec]

It's a good attempt, but highly unrealistic. Firstly... Henry: "The Navigator" was never a king. Secondly, that wasn't the Portuguese flag at the time.... Well, I could go on like this forever, but I don't wanna bore myself with it...
But hey, the contradictions and mistakes are huge everywhere... This is what happens when Americans try to explain European history!...

[dimushka]

The Dutch flag is funny in Novaya Zemlya.
For what? Did he open it? The islands were not empty. On his expedition, Barents found several Russian sites.
And the islands themselves have been exploited since the 13th century.
From 1557, to the mouth of the Northern Dvina (which is close by Russian standards =)), English merchant ships sailed to trade with the Russian kingdom.
So Russia already had large trading ports in the north. Was the island off their shore really unknown? =)
Moreover, in 1555, English sailors had already been to the new land and beyond it, for example, they climbed the Pechora and Ob rivers that flow further beyond the island from the mainland.
Willem Barents was certainly not a pioneer.
BUT he made a very big contribution to the study of this region. And that is why there is a sea named in his honor. Barencevo sea.
But the flag makes some kind of joke out of it. Do not do it this way.

By the way, the archipelago itself is interesting. Although large islands have been known for a long time. New small islands are still being found.
Due to global warming, they are emerging from the ice.

[fantasticmoments]

Honestly i don't understand when European powers went East for spice.. what for? I don't see spice as ingredients for European dishes to be really such a big deal.. can anyone pls help explain? Thanks

[orrointhewise]

I think u left out several age of discovery graphics
Not sure if people will know which age this video is about 😂

[TimbalandSounds]

was Henry the Navigator english ? Was his nane not Henrique or something

[riefanafrienandarachman]

Title: Dunia Tidak Selebar Daun Kelor (1/3 dari isi Al Quran, Al Ikhlas)

Tidak perlu jauh datang ke negeri India dan Cina, Hindu dan Buddha.

Banyak di sekeliling Arab penuh AJARAN-AJARAN.

Solomon mengikuti AJARAN kaum Sidon, kaum Milkom, kaum Moab, kaum Amon menurut Bible.

1/3 dari isi Al Quran, Al Ikhlas. Nabi Isa. Karena Uzair juga anak Allah. Apa keistimewaan Nabi

Terutama Salomo menurut bible.

[marksousa]

Theirs evidence-based Christopher columbus was Portuguese not Italian.

[JamesKP]

Remove the 70iq trap beat and I could maybe watch a minute of this without wanting to tear my ears off