European conquest of America - Summary on a Map

Let's retrace here the colonization by Europeans, from the discovery by Christopher Columbus until the end of the Seven Years’ War.
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Portuguese version (Brazil): Coming soon
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Music: Drop - Anno Domini Beats (YouTube Library)
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Software: Adobe After Effects
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Chapters
00:00 Situation in Europe
00:30 Rounding the Cape
01:43 The first voyage
03:15 European impulses
04:04 Spanish settlement
05:50 Submission of the Aztecs
07:16 Fall of the Inca Empire
08:20 Resistance
09:33 Rebellion in Peru
10:22 European competition
11:30 France and England
12:49 New Netherland
13:54 Triangular trade
14:56 New France
16:13 Franco-British tensions
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#geohistory #history #america #europe #conquest #discovery

[enzo]

I really liked that the unknown territories were in black, it gives a better context.

[davidgreenwitch]

Fun fact.
The city of New Amstetdam was defended by a big wall. But the British attacked from the sea. When they conquered the city and renamed it to New York, they also tore down the wall and reused the stones by building a street.
That street got the name "Wall Street".

[RorinoTheGreat]

I just cannot fathom docking on a place like Florida without any prior knowledge of the land. That had to be such a unique human experience that may never be replicated. Like imagine living in 1500 Spain and seeing all of the trees and crocodiles and shit. That’s just so insane to me

[JosephOntime]

Spain's hegemony over the Pacific Ocean was so great that it was called the Spanish Lake.

[danielmartins]

Everyone at war over gold and land



The Portuguese: damn, sugar cane tastes good

[AverageAlien]

Imagine living in a time where there were unknown lands on earth. Would've been epic

[joshmcdonald]

This shit goes so hard. I’d like to think I would’ve actually enjoyed history and geography if it were formatted like this when I was in school

[MegaBaconMonster]

Imagine travelling an unknown sea for countless days, only having heard stories and myths to then stumble upon land. What an amazing and also scary feeling that would of been

[joseluisfernandez]

Spain reached Alaska in 1791, at that moment Spain ruled the whole Pacific coast of America, from cape of Horn in south Chile to Alaska cities like Valdez or Cordova

[dphone]

The original voice over has quite a bit of character. Iconic, even. This version is good and pro style, but more generic.

[athomicritics]

Spain really took a gamble with that meridian treaty when you think about it, they didnt knew how the continent shape was yet they decided the divide, they really could have ended up having the short stick

[vincentjulien]

Great summary! Precision : European fishermen (Basques, Bretons, Normans, etc.) visited the Saint-Lawrence River through the 16th century, even before Jacques Cartier's claim for New France in 1534 ; this is one century before what is shown in this video. Also, important settlements in the New France area are omitted : Montréal (Ville-Marie, 1642), Détroit (1701), La Nouvelle-Orléans (1718), whereas a lot of settlements are shown in the 13 colonies.

[rbamondes]

Portugal financed an expedition in the Amazon River in 1563 that finished in Quito, in the 1800s a new expetion was done using the diaries information, and they were able to reach Quito again.

[rfvtgbzhn]

6:21 it was not just impresion by firearms and horses. These peoples were actually enemies of the Aztecs and saw their chance to win a war against them in an Alliance with the Spaniards.

[FalandraAoC]

I love the use of the black, unexplored areas of the map, kinda like it's in strategy games with the fog of War! It's interesting that the fog of war like its known in games is actually a real military theory (Clausewitz, 19th century), yet so many people connect it with games (which got the idea of it from the military theory as well).

[Ravie]

I like how Columbus’s voyage only occurred because he was wrong about the circumference of the earth. The other monarchs had rejected funding his expedition precisely because their scholars knew perfectly well that the earth was round and roughly how large it was, and knew (correctly) that there was no way that the Indies could be within sailing distance going west.

[DeadEyeDave]

This completely ignores the northward Spanish expansion along the west coast of North America beginning in 1542 with Cabrillo's expedition. That is a HUGE hole in the story. Vizcaino came along 70 years later. Most of the place-names in coastal California are from that second expedition.

[polishedpebble]

Fog of War adds A LOT to the video. You get to see what european people at the time saw.

[thomasr]

This was so amazing. I learned about all of these expeditions in Latin American Studies courses, but to see the real-time progress map was really interesting.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I'm just glad we managed to keep away colonization for such a long time. The Americans tried to force us open like they did with Japan, but we didn't give in. They tried to make their way to Pyongyang and we managed to destroy their ship and eliminate its crew. This became known as the General Sherman incident. But when Japan tried to do it, they played tricks and did it well. The Kingdom of Joseon signed a treaty with Japan in 1876. This eventually led to Korea becoming a part of the Japanese sphere after the First Sino-Japanese War as the protectorate of the Korean Empire, and then outright annexed