America Before Columbus - The Secret Continent | Full History Documentary - Part 1

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It is the year 1491. America is a vast land with vast resources, but it is not a pristine wilderness. The continent is inhabited by a hundred million people. They live in complex urban societies that know little of each other.
This is the story of the Columbian Exchange, the greatest cultural exchange in history. We explore life in America and Europe in 1491, and why America was “discovered” and not the other way around.
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[@griffith500tvr]

Strange to see a KZbin channel still push the "Columbus discovered America" line....

[@anthonymathews3872]

'Get.factual' should get their facts right re who discovered America nearly 700yrs earlier.

[@a-world-view]

They also push `Clovis First* and `10.000 hunters ate 3 million Mammoths and Mastodon....

[@anthonymathews3872]

@@a-world-view I have not seen that.

[@hahaha9076]

Brilliant, a great view of how we came to be, what we ate and why.

[@tallowturq]

Great stuff! Many thanks!

[@abdulRashid1537]

Wonderful and Comprehensive documentary.

[@chrisdimadura3918]

I love this documentary...

[@basilmangra3786]

Beautiful.history.i.love..this.documentary.it.opens.inspirations.of.vast..history.of.learling.so.nice.

[@user-rm5md2do6d]

Great documentary. Thank you so much.

[@Rex-wn3yf]

Like always i always like your videos before i watch them😁

[@ahamedmuhaideen5206]

Beautiful history

[@ZainKhan-px7zl]

Absolutely lov it

[@AnnabelleBeaudoin]

Great video ❤

[@arigatoigosaimasu]

Very interesting documentary

[@suyanarayanamurthysistla1513]

Excellent!

[@johngreen4147]

Great resourceful documentary for teachers in class. Thanks, Get.factual.

[@eric144144]

Excellent !!!

[@Blue1Sapphire]

Worth a follow. .

[@al7385]

an eye opener!

[@arupsan]

Best documentary …I have ever watched

[@shopldt538]

But its mostly totally false.

[@stuart5107]

Very enjoyable documentary. Thank you.

[@tichy6141]

These early guys were so intelligent. And to think they had no electricity but still built functional cities and societies

[@manuelavila869]

???😮

[@wor53lg50]

Yep so busy like ants building splended palaces and buildings of higher learning and commerce they literally forgot to build their own country, instead they had to whip villiages up quick so used mud and poo, also they can build a grand water feature for stately gardens along side capability brown, but cant plumb in flushing water into the huts back home...

[@martintowse6812]

Amazing musical career but what makes you great is that you always take care of people. Don’t get scared we love you.

[@psantshrestha8258]

It's such a wonderful documentary. ❤

[@rahulkrishna7256]

Great documentary, hope it reaches million

[@shlomomarkman6374]

Europe was not that overpopulated, especially given the plagues of the 14th and 15th centuries. Europe also had the capacity of long distance trade even in basic items like grains, fish or timber so those were imported to western europe from eastern europe and scandinavia through the Hansa. The peripheral regions retained their forests and were surely not overpopulated. The periphery had very destructive wars fought on the fault lines between Europe and the Ottomans and Tatars with mass raiding, slaving and battles larger then those of the 100 years war. The issue of money and trade were more immediate factors in pushing maritime exploration as europe didn't have gold mines and very few silver mines. Also, from the 3 routes to the far east only one remained open. The disintegration of the Golden horde and the incessant warfare in Poland, Russia and Ukraine closed the north silk route and transformed vast regions into no-mans land. The South route was blocked by the Ottomans (and the warfare going on in Persia) and the only open route was the Indian ocean to Suez and Alexandria, monopolized by Venice.

[@pyconsable]

Very interesting and well documented thank you

[@matthias04]

There was no Queen of Spain or anything like the Spanish Crown in 1491 - Isabella was Queen of Castile and married to Ferdinand, King of Aragon. Only her grandson, Charles I. (or Charles V. as Holy Roman Emperor) was considered King of Spain from 1516 onwards. Nevertheless I enjoyed the Documentary, thanks for sharing.

[@TheReka62]

thanks a lot

[@DhirajRai-gv4sg]

!!! Fine story.

[@javierramirez4722]

We live better before those thieves came

[@yalonyun2785]

Living under Aztec rule was absolute hell, human sacrifices and cannibalism was carried out on an industrial scale. The subjugated tribes allied with Cortez against this cruel Aztec rule. There is an unreasonable rosy coloured indigenous propaganda against an incredibly negative anti hispanic propaganda. In just 50 years the Spanish had already built hundreds of cities, hospitals and universities, yet all that is told to the world by the anglo Saxon narrative is death, destruction and theft. Most of the gold extracted remained in America to build infrastructures. It's terribly unfair that the Spanish, who were by far the most humane of all in comparison to the English, Dutch and French should be the target of ABSOLUTE SLANDER AND DEFAMATION.

[@kentkihl1946]

Leif Ericsson sailed from Iceland, via Greenland to America long time before Columbus

[@smallnad1]

Let's look forward..

[@afzalhakeen4941]

when i was in grade school ,we were doing history and a teacher said Columbus discovered america ,so i had to ask questions ,she answered them all until i asked was there people living already in america before Columbus

[@afzalhakeen4941]

@mirkasKoseze she didn't answered back

[@AlanRPaine]

Columbus never visited the area now occupied by the United States and it seems he didn't even believe that it existed. Other Europeans visited the Americas before him and of course it had been 'discovered' many thousands of years before. Columbus's voyages are notable because they marked the beginning of the wholesale colonization and exploitation of the New World.

[@stephenr80]

Yes, like in Northamerica, spaniards respected the population much more than the anglosaxons in the north.

[@wor53lg50]

​@@stephenr80well thats no lose, as im positive they feel the same way about you lot dewn sewf.

[@johnmurray8454]

Mexico is part of the americas

[@soner818]

All I can say is that people are so destructive even to this day. They do not live one with the earth and do not care for the earth.

[@dwaynegamble244]

Yup you said it Seek Destroy

[@Toddle-fullthrottle]

The earth will never flourish again until humans are gone,humans are no gd

[@bradparker1020]

a great documentary well filmed and explained

[@shopldt538]

It was a nice fictional story yes. But totally untrue as far as Europe and Columbas went,

[@edithuszka3324]

@@shopldt538 GREETINGS FROM HUNGARY. You are right about this moovie.

[@aheroyaheroyalproductions7631]

AI movie?

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

I was pretty impressed when he said they could store potato for 10 years!

[@Krankenwagen571]

Using foot 🦶🤮🤮😵🤯🤕

[@albertpeh9217]

What about the Killing of the indigenous people? How many were killed?

[@bowenbangura1491]

I like the documentary

[@josepbernetvalles1841]

M 50:05. The desesperate ones were the succesive crews since they came to enlist from all over. Also desesperate,the Successive European royal houses all wanted to pair up with the King of Spain

[@christopherx7428]

0:20: I wouldn't call 12th October "summer of 1492"... 49:20: No, of course it was not Columbus that discovered America, the vikings were there long before him. His voyage was the important one though. He may have gotten inspiration from church records that made note of the churches built on Greenland

[@analoguejerry9066]

Among quite a few omissions in this docudrama one stands out head and shoulders above the rest: the European hunger for spices. Some spices were as valuable as gold per weight. And the spices were in Asia, especially in India, but also in the islands farther east, but the Muslims controlled the access. The Portuguese chose the route around Africa, whereas Columbus chose the western route. When he reached the Caribbean islands he was convinced he reached the shores of India, and believed in it to his dying day. Hence the Indians.

[@AlanRPaine]

Translations of Columbus's log only talk about 'natives.' I wonder if 'Indians' is a corruption of indigenes or indigenous people.

[@wor53lg50]

Thats because he'd been india first and they was the closest he could describe them as, its not rocket science is it...

[@dasholaitonjam2663]

Love it frm india🇮🇳 northt east

[@pedroteixeira9903]

PLEAASE READ THIS : 1- Columbus may have been born in Genoa, Venice, or even Portugal as suspected. But one thing is certain No one knew about Navigation like the Portuguese long before the Spanish, Infante Don Henrique, son of the King of Portugal João I, founded the first Naval School in the City of Sagres - Portugal in 1417, where Nautical Charts were made for the first time. with the Compass Rose (indicating the cardinal points), with the design of the sea coasts and the use of the Astrolabe, as well as the creation of the Portuguese Caravel inspired greatly by the Arab Triangular Sail 2- In this way, Columbus knew nothing about navigation on the high seas, just as all Italians (if he were Italian) would only know at most about navigation in the Mediterranean, and even at that time those who brought the Spices to Venice were the Arabs on land and eventually by vessels 3- For this reason Columbus must have remained in Portuguese lands to develop his knowledge, and for this reason he first addressed the King of Portugal before even turning to the Crown of Spain. 4- It is also suspected that Columbus may have been a spy in the Service of the Portuguese Crown as the King of Portugal wanted Spain far away from the Maritime Route to India. despite the Treaty of Tordesillas that handed over the seas of the East to Portugal, the King of Spain paid Columbus to find this sea route and not to go for navigation completely opposite to what everything indicated. 5- If you check Portuguese Maritime Charts long before Columbus (between the years 1440 and 1480) they already indicated red and blue markings at the ends of the Antilles and the Canadian Coast, where there is evidence (writings in rock and buildings in stone) that had arrived, but there was a big Problem - The famous Treaty of Tordesillas that divided the World in Half and even with the corrections that the Portuguese made to the Treaty (signed by the POPE) they only gave the possibility of going to the lands of Brazil (later discovered - of course the Portuguese knew about this land from storms in the Atlantic on the route to India), but it was no longer possible to indicate the Antilles as the Coast of Canada more in EAST already inside quadrant of Spain as a Portuguese land , because that would imply violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas = this would mean War between Portugal and Spain. In Conclusion: Before Columbus it could have been the Vikings, but there will have to be documentary proof and we Portuguese will accept this truth, but until proof to the contrary it was the Portuguese who secretly discovered America, but could not formalize this Discovery for the obvious reason of being able to go to war with Spain and this could mean losing the Reign of Portuguese Discoveries to the Spanish, including the entire Africa Coast and of course the Route to India and the East via the Sea. End of quote.

[@amirmuhammed7687]

Informative documentry about America. When America was not advanced region then India & Baghdad were developed and Prosperiteous Countries in the world.

[@cassieoz1702]

'Corn' is the colloquial term for the dominant grain in many places in Europe. This grain is maize

[@ekesandras1481]

Its only called 'corn' in English. In German it is called 'Mais', in Spanish 'maíz', in French 'maïs', in Italian 'mais'. There are also other colloquial terms, like 'granturco' in Italian, 'Kukuruz' in German ... but non of them is 'corn', because corn is wheat, not maize.

[@sabineb.5616]

@@ekesandras1481 , true!

[@jenniferwittridge4163]

Maze and corn are completely different, try eating maize, it's animal food.

[@sabineb.5616]

@@jenniferwittridge4163 , that is absolutely not true. Maize can be used as animal food - just as other grains. But cooked or roasted maize cobs with salt and butter are delicious :) And maize is also used for making pop corn! There are also many other recipes which require maize - tortillas and polenta, to name just two dishes.

[@692ALBANNACH]

@@jenniferwittridge4163 Sweet corn and then there is seed corn !

[@jeffalobill]

The first thing “America before Columbus“ shows us is Columbus, and the first thing I did was tune out.

[@howardhales6325]

A Viking settlement has been found in Newfoundland, Canada that pre-dates Columbus. I thought this might have a little information about that.

[@differentfins]

I am sure pretty much every person watching this video knows that. This documentary is showcasing the before and after Europeans changed the continent. Vikings found North America centuries earlier but they didn't introduce livestock, plant life or establish large colonies for long periods. So yes you are right but it's a moot point.

[@dwaynegamble244]

And the Welsh were here too 300 yrs before Columbus also the Vikings up in Canada that's why it's called North America not America now days.😊 Canada the United and Mexico Are all in North America

[@dwaynegamble244]

Sorry the United States

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Most interesting ,informative documentary coverage video about relationships between humans foodstuffs ( their's natural sources) & human activities for guaranteed its ..in European countries ,North American content & south America contents...what is notable how much human population had less ultittude of civilization..how much their methods for gains foodstuffs less harmful for nature, environmental health ,much harmony to the natural preserved..Get .factual channel always sharing excellent subjects which surprises me

[@AliHassan-yt8rh]

fantastic documentary made on the factors that gave rise to civiliazations

[@dopeboyhyphen8796]

Only the noblemen enjoyed life in ancient Europe

[@fireofhislove3395]

This was such a pleasure to watch. I loved how the focus was on the landscape. I find the tundra to be a beautiful place. I also loved the Gypsy Kings singing at the end.

[@carollever4662]

Great educational material

[@surajitroy3764]

No doubt it is very important 😮

[@benediktmorak4409]

...and the illnesses, sickness and other ailments. THAT is quickly forgotten...

[@M1ggins]

The Incas did have the wheel, and understood axles, they just didn't use it for transport as it wasn't useful in a mountainous terrain with no draft animals

[@dAssasin355]

After watching this documentary you come to the conclusion that people in different continents learned to live with and along side nature leaving the environment completely eco friendly until the anglo saxons from europe discovered such places.

[@analoguejerry9066]

The indigenous "eco-friendliness" is a western Romantic fantasy.

[@cshartley101]

Yes, it's a shame we can't still live in the stoneage, raiding neighbouring tribes and pillaging. To hell with technological and medical innovation and natural human evolution.

[@markazulislam5143]

Anglo Saxons are really the parasite race

[@ssppeeaarr]

mhm. anglos just disrespected the eco systems. natives had their share of faults too tho but one side tilts the scale more... oh well. thats life. 😟 now modern farming has ruined lakes and forests even more.

[@aheroyaheroyalproductions7631]

The natives in North America, burning the woods, so they get the prairies,and grass, for bisons,.. And then hunt them.

[@paulstanak689]

America before Criminal Columbus was a giant paradise…

[@aleksandarmarkovic5519]

Bellisimo

[@uchiha6284]

So, Americans are not Americans

[@Mclovin96X]

everyone knows 😂

[@user-bs5qr5ie4s]

Well American are Americans now Coz they conquered the land

[@ogmagicman546]

Yanks

[@10keneho]

all of them are pronoun

[@Man-in-the-green]

@@ogmagicman546That’s Jan Kees. 😂 you know I am sure.

[@cavendish009]

Where is Part 2 ?? This one is Part 1 but I cannot find another "part" of this story ??

[@firouz256]

The music is grand and dramatic for no reason whatsoever! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Its a classical score like in a Hollywood movie. Must have cost a fortune. Love it.

[@gulfy09]

There was many buildings already here in north America.. John Levi has lots of info on you tube

[@kimnorth7060]

Aztecs didn’t exist in Guatemala , those were the Mayans. Aztecs were only in and around Mexico City

[@jackparry6983]

sweet mate nice one it cool if I post this as my own oh really thanks bro

[@bodhranlowd]

Curious that in a medieval field, there is a rifle big-game hunting stand.

[@greentv9967]

Well done 👍. Ideal for students. I enjoyed the language. May Allah bless the producer to make more videos of this kind. Thank you 😊

[@arturofontanilla9094]

This is a story Columbus not America before he landed in America. We want to know more about Amrica during and before Eric the Red then Leif Ericson.

[@J19D82]

Columbus did not discover the Americas...show the natives some respect

[@fabiank4396]

But they already lived there... He discovered it from a European perspective...

[@okorno22]

​​@@fabiank4396Then tell the story accurately. Teach the true history. An European comes to a place first time. Locals already living there, show him about take him to go and see a river where people fish travel to distance places, do farming, and history books say this European discovered let's say River Niger or lake Victoria, a lake that already has a name.

[@dannywalters2365]

The word discover means learning. You discover the score of a football game. The answer to 4 plus 9. That you have preferences .there is a different meaning to Aware .a common misconception. Thanks

[@aeronkcendssecret2805]

wow

[@SuradkarTushar]

At 2:22 Riches of Asia? he was clearly heading for India for its vast riches, hence the names West Indies, Indiana, and Red Indians.

[@christianbailey2695]

I think I’ve just seen one of the coolest men in the history of the world in this clip. After the late Gianni Agnelli of Fiat that is. If you know, you know 😉

[@laniedelacruz4993]

From d Philippines😇👼🏻🌷🎻🎄😍🧚🏻‍♂️🎄🎄🎄love to research

[@robertevans9897]

Has anyone read guns germs and steel by Jared diamond

[@MiguelAngel1080]

I` ve found a few mistakes. Mapuche have hens before spanish arrival. Andinean people grow a lot of corn by year. Im just in minute 15 XD

[@justme-tj3jt]

We lived quite well here before Europeans came. IT's what they brought with them that sucks.

[@MrWww1987]

I love to watch the movie 13th Warriors

[@Bestofthebest383]

I think this is exactly what happens now but in modern Europe. Europe concurred by people from east ant south.

[@jeffsmith5787]

After hundreds of years of colonialism and imperialism; it's called facing consequences.

[@Robert-ts2ef]

2000 years ago

[@steveday4797]

I feel sorry for the indigenous people

[@maieldmik5233]

Vikings were there 500years earlier.well known fact

[@dougclendinning2588]

People from Asia were here ar least 20000 years before that. Columbus is a fraud

[@tallowturq]

Yes, we all know that. But they made little impact on the skraelings

[@sabineb.5616]

@@tallowturq true! We don't know exactly how far the Vikings penetrated the North American continent, but their impact wasn't noticeable in the long run.

[@sabineb.5616]

@@tallowturq , it's kind of ironic that the dreaded Vikings, who plundered, raped and destroyed countless settlements all over Europe, have been successfully repelled by the despised people whom they called skraelings ;)

[@gordonfrickers5592]

@maieldmik5233, agreed, and not only the Vikings. For certain the Portuguese who kept the route a closely guarded secret. I think it would be fairer to say Columbus is the one who made known to the Spanish Crown the existence of the lands we now call America😏 after which this became general knowledge.

[@columbannon9134]

The Irish monks were in America long before the Vikings, the Vikings only found out about the new world (America) after being told by early Irish settlers in Iceland, which the Vikings had seen when they first arrived in Iceland

[@jimbell4864]

I don't believe that.

[@tim.jenkins75]

There are chronicles of a Welsh prince doing similar.......but Hay celts were backwards.....😢

[@duane8228]

It's true its in the Vinland sagas 'Landnámabók'. The vikings called the land to the south of Vinland 'Írland hið Mikla' meaning greater Ireland were they met white men among the tribes that spoke a language they already knew, Irish.

[@Joanna-il2ur]

@@duane8228 wishful thinking.

[@user-jj8ry9pn2g]

❤

[@nicolaasvanroosendael697]

no secret for the Basque fishermen on the St Lawtence who traded with the local tribes for 150 years before Columbus. or so he noted in his journal

[@EdinburghFive]

You can point to evidence of this trade that goes back into the 1300s?

[@tatayrobertvlog5305]

❤❤❤

[@thegeek2930]

The nature reclaims it after it was destroyed by those coloniser..

[@bertrandcarel9511]

As soon as 0.27, soldiers of the eleventh century (as those of Hastings, 1066) in that film about the fifteenth !

[@yalonyun2785]

The Venezuelan scholar Ángel Rosenblat calculated the population of America, before 1492, at 13.3 million people. Kroeber, for his part, calculates it at 8.4 million souls.

[@vijayragunathan9503]

queen isabella and columbus greatlandmark in world history

[@guillermomenehanez2476]

The last line makes me wonder how much of the rest of this is incorrect. Columbus did not discover the Americas. He only found some Caribbean islands and never stepped foot in or saw North America... Others from Europe and Asia were in the Americas before him. That is an important fact to get wrong.

[@gordonfrickers5592]

I agree with you, I do hope though that the majority of this video this is more factual than "Columbus is the one who discovered America"😃. I think it would be fairer to say Columbus is the one who made known to the Spanish Crown the existence of the lands we now call America😏 after which this became general knowledge. Who first crossed the Atlantic East to West we know not😶. As the Ra expeditions demonstrated, the Egyptians have a claim and for sure the Vikings did make the voyage and returned to talk about it. There is evidence that suggests Portuguese, French and Englishmen where pre Columbus fishing the Grand Banks but only making summer camps ashore. We know the Portuguese had found South America and used it as a trade wind stop over while bound for the East Indies. Did Columbus sail with the Portuguese? He kept two log books, one the 'Official Log' for the King and Queen, the log upon which 95% of his stories are based, and another which is likely the true course he sailed. A careful study with a mariner's experience which I have😇, of the the 'Official Log' suggests it can't possibly be correct🤭. I'm not alone in doubting his the 'Official Log'.🙄🤔 Having studied early Atlantic voyages and the life of Columbus in some depth I think it very likely Columbus had sailed as a crewman on the European Atlantic coasts quite possibly as far South as the central African coast (already known to the Portuguese) and maybe as far North as Iceland.😉 During those voyages he would have had many opportunities to discuss with other experienced seamen what may or may not be beyond the Atlantic's horizon🧐⚓.

[@pantelisb.6411]

@@gordonfrickers5592 I would like to show another dimension by listing the key points of a text I read recently. An Italian professor at the University of Rome, Lucio Russo, insists that this "New World" was already known to the ancient Greeks. One of the relevant examples mentioned by Russo concerns the achievements in the field of navigation. The size of the ships during the Hellenistic period was exceeded only during the Napoleon period, while Columbus, planned the journey based on part of the mathematical knowledge of the Hellenistic period they had managed to rescue. As pointed out, the Greeks were also the only culture of his time who had understood that the Earth was round. In addition, Plutarch described the discovery of a "Great Epirus" 1,500 years before Columbus.

[@jamesrobinskellorn1161]

He apears to hace been born un Portugal

[@phylissleask849]

Well I don't have to watch the video now 😄 Thanks everyone 🙂

[@MMArigo]

That’s a false semantic distinction. The Caribbean is most certainly part of the Americas and YOU just have a politicized issue with a widely accepted connotative definition of “discover”. Columbus discovered the Americas, you’re just being intellectually difficult

[@Tonystarkes888]

first youtuber not to use total war series games for the battle scenes

[@lukelewkowicz2233]

Smallpox traveled west syphilis east.

[@bellamina9571]

Wasn't Corn being cultivated before by the Egyptian civilization on the Great Nile !!!??? 🤔🤔

[@AlanRPaine]

The Egyptians didn't have maize which is an American crop. Corn can specifically mean maize but it is also a general term applied to grains such as wheat and barley.

[@bellamina9571]

You right Intel does exist some drowning on Keops Pyramid a six foot of Maize 🌽 plants .

[@atlantisboliviaorg]

Columbus sailed from Palos de la Frontera...

[@vaargwolf]

"It is a plant native to the Americas, unknown to the rest of the world". Hmm... corn was grown in Ancient Egypt 3000 BC...

[@Mlalaya444]

Big killer 😢

[@fabiank4396]

He talks about maiz ...

[@vaargwolf]

@@fabiank4396 from "horticulture magazine": Are They The Same Plant? Yes, the terms maize and corn are generally used to refer to the same plant, Latin name Zea mays.

[@Joanna-il2ur]

I guess that why they refer to maize as Indian Corn. It looks nothing like wheat or barley.

[@chinthanaillukwatte]

the time of Native American civilization before genocide by European settlers

[@dezmod1644]

It wasn't call the America's then, that's a mistake in the title

[@manuelmendes286]

Documentary full of historical errors.

[@smiles8719]

It irritates me to hear "Europe discovers this and that and everything in the world!" Forgetting the fact that there were already native people living in those so-called "discovered land" by Europeans. That's too arrogant! Stop being too high and almighty! Facts please!

[@MrEvilTurkey]

Does it? Well it irritates me when people are too stupid to comprehend that "discover for Europe", is the context.

[@blanckieification]

when people say "we have eaten meat for thousands of years". Show them this docu

[@VinayakKumar-kq3ex]

Did Columbus/Colon/Colombani and Isabella have a thing going on😁🤔

[@Anglo_Saxon1]

Could the natives smelt iron?