The Spanish Empire - History Documentary

[@Fireoflearning]

Note - Spanish is spoken as a *native language* by more people than English. English is more common when those who know it as a second language are included. Source: www.ethnologue.com/guides/most-spoken-languages

[@batmanismexican1873]

🤔 the Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@bellywood7688]

Thanks for the link. I see Mandarin has more native speakers than does Spanish and English combined.

[@texasborn2720]

@@batmanismexican1873 Iberian Peninsula was governed by many kingdoms. Spain did not really exist. And the Moors were on the way out long before 1492. And it was not like "Spain" was conquered one day and free the next ?

[@taketimeout2share]

@@batmanismexican1873 Absolutely. So why do the Arabs complain when others do the same to them? Spain and Portugal also left every part of their Empire an economic backwater just as the Arabs and Ottomans did.

[@zalacainbilbao]

@@taketimeout2share That is simply not true. Argentina was one of the 2 or 3 richest countries in the world in 1900. Cuba was richer than Italy when Castro came to power. Angola was richer than Portugal in GDP per person when it got its indepencance in 1975. Other Spanish colonies such as the Netherlands and Belgium are very rich. I suggest you read up more history.

[@AndrwsAnimatics]

As a Spaniard im really happy you took the time to made this, also as a history enthusiast and video producer !!! THANK YOU !!!

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

Vives en el pasado.

[@dougrodriguez4977]

El pasado es parte del presente.

[@conquista2923]

@@dougrodriguez4977 El pasado es loque entendemos hoy. Orguelloso de ser de mi tierra Iberiano.

[@poleroso85]

@@Halcon_Sierreno Tú vives en un sueño creado por los políticos más tontos de tu país e influídos por los anglosajones. Eres preso de la propaganda de tus enemigos y ni lo sabes por que estás radicalizado 🤦‍♂

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

@@poleroso85 No me caen bien los Españoles. Todavía los detesto por el abuso que le hicieron a las Americas.

[@alexmartin4772]

Cool video. I've always wondered how Spain became what it once was and how that grew to becoming a big language dominance around the globe. Greetings from USA 🇺🇲🤝🇪🇸

[@dagseyoum3361]

Who is here just for fun ? Not because you got an essay or test coming up, but because you just love learning history?

[@Theophoruz]

That's me

[@solveigsvensson6491]

Aye

[@giggityeffyou]

I’ve fallen in love with history recently. American here. Both of my parents came from El Salvador

[@justinmolina2638]

@@giggityeffyouIm here for the same reason and my dad came to the states from El Salvador in the 80s. He didn’t have a formal education but inspired my family to love learning. So glad you commented!

[@jmfr030201]

Hell yeaa

[@texasborn2720]

Not only do you not learn about Spanish history in U.S. schools . But you never hear how Spain (Along with France) played a major part in the American revolution ? In fact you never hear about George Washington Spanish friend Juan De Miralles who was sent from Spanish King Carlos III to Washington to help in the American revolution ! Another tid bit the $ sign originally with two lines. Comes from the Spanish abbreviation for peso and the pillars of Hercules that you see on the Spanish flag. And Spanish currency was also legal U.S currency until 1857

[@luisfranmarpu]

In addition to that and the campaign of the Spanish army commanded by Fernando de Galvez, there is another event of great importance for the American war of independence that is not known today in the USA: the capture of the double British convoy by the Spanish-French Navy on 9 August 1780, the greatest single-day logistical disaster for the Royal Navy in its entire history. The fleet under the command of the Spanish admiral Luis de Córdova y Córdova managed to seize 52 of the 55 armed merchant ships of the convoy, successfully taking them to the port of Cádiz. Of the 55 armed merchants, six belonged to the Western Indian Company and were heading to India. The others were heading to reinforce the royal army in the USA. The list of goods they carried includes: 80,000 muskets, 294 cannons, 3,000 barrels of gunpowder, uniforms for twelve infantry regiments, naval equipment for the maintenance of the Royal Navy ships in America, a million pounds sterling in gold, etc. . The blow to the English war effort in the war of independence must have been very important, but they will not teach American children in school either. The Spanish black legend still has too much force. es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acci%C3%B3n_del_9_de_agosto_de_1780

[@stuartdodson6630]

Weird, I did, and to your point, everything cannot be encompassed within a finite amount of time. Merely, the basics of history as is pertinent to being basically informed about major world events relevant towards contemporary understanding of societal circumstance.

[@luisfranmarpu]

@@stuartdodson6630 I totally agree with you, however keep in mind that the French and La Fayette are mentioned in schools. With the same effort and without hardly extending the lesson, they should also mention Spain and Bernardo de Galvez. That would go a long way toward overcoming the racism toward Hispanics that still persists in society, and would give Hispanic children a source of self-esteem and pride for their lives.

[@joegonzalez6241]

I am sure Juan was there to disrupt British rule and it ultimately backfired on them. When Americans took over .

[@joseantoniolavilla321]

you're right man, it's a shame. This is why we have to fight the battle of ideas and make the world know the historical importance of today's weak Spain, especially its great role in all of America and in the United States. Viva España and God bless America

[@yowsg8421]

I love learning about the Spanish empire. But it’s hard to find videos the are intriguing and interesting to me. But your content is really good!

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@chibiromano5631]

They had no Empire in the Americas, matthew Renstall confirms this. It was more like the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE & Catholic Church in Mexico (Charles V). If you read Maximilian of Hapsburgs journals, he mentions that he is returning to the lands of his fathers and return Mexico to its former glory when it was under Hapsburg- HRE rule. He never mentioned Castille or Extramdura. It was also a lot of TLAXCALANS who expanded into Texas and California. Most of the manilla galleon crew was Mayan and Nahuatl, hence why CHAVUCANO-Philipines has more Nahautl in its langauge.

[@rubencuadros7174]

@@chibiromano5631 what!? 😂😂😂 la cantidad de chorradas que tiene que leer uno.

[@javiruiz9876]

​@@batmanismexican1873only a very small part of the country was under muslim rule for so long, so that isn't accurate.

[@robotube7361]

Thats because the media is Anglo Centric. You will be hard pressed to find exciting and well done content about the Spannish Portuguese French or the Dutch Empires.

[@VoiceOfVoiced]

Thank you for your videos. I'm a Brit living in Spain for nearly 10 years now with shamefully little knowledge of the history of my daughter's country... but you are now helping me fix that. Your videos are an enjoyable way to learn some history so I now also want to keep watching more and exploring your channel beyond the Iberian peninsula.

[@Gringotomi]

Very cool that you care enough to learn

[@Replicaate]

Having grown up mostly in various colonial outposts of the decaying British Empire, I'm surprisingly ill-educated on matters of Spanish history. As I often joke, "History is written by the British", and so we're not taught much in school about the huge world dominating empire that came before their particular world dominating empire, and good books on it are harder to find than I imagine they are in he USA any other country that Spain had more presence in historically. So I'm eternally grateful for your videos on Spain - now back to the video, Plus Ultra and all that.

[@cristinabhagavan3576]

The best hispanists are British.

[@Magplar]

How old are you? 200?

[@dougrodriguez4977]

I grew up in Puerto Rico, went to a private catholic school where history teaching was from Spanish perspective. I don’t know if that was the case for public schools. We learned our modern Spanish history and grew up proud of it. Now I live in mainland USA and see the history my children are learning is from Anglo perspective. I often feel trapped between two different worlds when it comes to historical perspective.

[@robf1648]

I'm in the US and in public schools they spent a lot of time teaching about the Spanish empire. I always hear about what wasn't taught and wonder if people do not pay attention in class. Maybe these people are not even from the states and are just talking shit.

[@dougrodriguez4977]

Happy to hear you had some Spanish history attending school in the USA. I’ve never been to school in mainland USA. I have a 15 year old and a 9 year old growing up in the mainland, I have not seen any Spanish history on their learning material that comes home. Neither want to learn to speak Spanish, when I talk to them in Spanish they reply in English. I end up talking to them in English and so they are not learning to speak Spanish. That is my own fault, sadly.

[@EvilSmonker]

Finally, the most underrated (and first) truly global superpower; presented beautifully.

[@EvilSmonker]

@Rap Star Have no idea what you are talking about my man.

[@imperator692]

@Rap Star While they did begin the transatlantic slave trade, they did indeed buy those slaves from West African kingdoms, although there were some examples of Portuguese slavers raiding inland to capture slaves. Calling those people "black Africans" is such a huge generalization as they did not see themselves as "black Africans", they saw themselves as Igbos, Fulanis, Hausas etc. Those who were sold to European slave traders were mostly prisoners of war, captured in local conflicts. It's like saying Europeans sold their fellow Europeans into slavery when you really mean Romans enslaved Gauls or Germans.

[@imperator692]

@Rap Star The Europeans couldn't even conquer African states until the late 19th century, how could they have feasibly captured a total of 12 million people from kingdoms they couldn't conquer?

[@clvrswine]

@@imperator692 Rap is not music.

[@imperator692]

@@clvrswine Okay? Not sure what that has to do with this discussion. Also, who gave you the right to decide what is and isn't music?

[@SixHundredandThirteen]

I'm Dominican and in the D.R. they have the oldest Hospital and College from the spanish on the western hemisphere from 1497

[@holabuenas7200]

@Zabulon why would you do that?

[@nelsonceballos1637]

@Zabulon poor soul....

[@Merry19ss]

@Zabulon Porqué se haría eso ? Es nuestra cultura Española .

[@Merry19ss]

@Zabulon 😀

[@karloangelocamagay9485]

i am from the philippines a former spanish colony, thank you for enlightening us about the spanish empire

[@batmanismexican1873]

🤔 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@philipthegreat7230]

@@batmanismexican1873 do you mean visigoths

[@elcidsolorzano]

Spain never had '"colonies" they had overseas provinces (provincias de ultramar).

[@allen2770]

@@elcidsolorzano correct. That's the difference between the British and Spanish empire. The British had colonies while Spain when it gets new territories, it becomes part of Spain not just a colony.

[@englandsniffdirective3914]

@@allen2770Hahaha . Why are they not a part of Spain now then? ( it'sRhetorical, I need no answer). You are colonialists just admit it & the most hated.

[@Angeli28]

¡FINALMENTE!

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@davidmartineztorres8731]

@@batmanismexican1873 half of spain*

[@gml4776]

@@batmanismexican1873 Y dejaron Un gran legado El oscurantismo Jamás dominó toda España, en España y el Mundo, Averroes el mayor comentarista de Aristóteles en la edad media, Abulcasis el mayor cirujano del mundo en la edad media con su libro Al-tasrif, Los Españoles tradujeron la Filosofía Clásica que Europa Olvidó, esto en la Escuela de traducción de Toledo, Introdujo los Números Indoarabigos a Europa

[@gml4776]

@@batmanismexican1873 And they left a great legacy The obscurantism never dominated all of Spain, in Spain and the World, Averroes the greatest commentator of Aristotle in the Middle Ages, Abulcasis the greatest surgeon in the world in the Middle Ages with his book Al-tasrif, The Spanish translated Classical Philosophy that Europe Forgot, this in the Toledo School of Translation, Introduced Indo-Arabic Numbers to Europe

[@nadie2919]

@@gml4776 el oscurantismo nunca existió. es un término que emplearon los ilustrados neoclasicistas anti-cléricales para referirse a la edad media. la edad media no es para nada cómo lo cuentan las películas, novelas y muchos periodistas

[@Chebva]

Thank you for the information about my family. My family first built a home and settled in Colorado in 1598. We are the settlers of the Sangre De Christo Mountians. My grandfather was born in the town of San Luis Colorado, the oldest town in Colorado.

[@21crepes37]

I was born and raised in San Luis, as well. As my my father and grandfather. 😊

[@mercy1459]

Colorado ,Montana, Texas, California,Nuevo México, etc... Son HISPANOS desde siglos antes de que los Estados Unidos sean país. El Imperio Español todavía vive en estos lugares ,aunque ahora los progres quieran borrar la historia Hispana del Imperio Español en USA

[@gregorypilau3530]

Long live Spain, one of the greatest country in the world. Regards from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 🇪🇸

[@marc-antoine6298]

The only thing I absolutely HATE about your videos is that I seem to find them really late at night, but since they are SOOOO good, I have to finish them, leaving me to stay awake way too late.

[@NRSKristensen]

God damn. Chill, dude.

[@plazmikpond]

@@NRSKristensen ikr

[@americana4193]

Go to bed!

[@memoavila5288]

Yes they are.

[@elcidsolorzano]

The Spanish Empire which the first true 'Empire in which the sun never set'.

[@amandabankai2775]

The English stole that saying to patch up their inferiority complex... same thing as "Hispania rules the waves"

[@robertfluxx]

@Hayden Moore superiority complex has its roots on feelings of inferiority

[@robertfluxx]

@Hayden Moore in other words. Yes they have the complex, and at least back then they did feel inferior to Spaniards

[@marcostenorio496]

Te gusta españa por casualidad?

[@TheFedGuy]

@Hayden Moore After the Spanish Armada, the Inferiority Complex the English had prior turned into Superiority Complex.

[@saetainlatin]

A mention of Blas de Leso in the jenkin's ear war would have been great. The British were humiliated ion Cartagena de Indias

[@panagiotisxaralampidis2368]

Long awaited, thanks a lot Mr Justin

[@pedromeowgisuparperv2844]

Spanish empire is Trash!!! Ottoman empire is bigger!!!! 10 times better

[@demiansolis]

The American historian John Elliot, in his work "Empires of the Atlantic" claims that when the British started building their own colonial empire in the 17th century, they looked at Spain for ideas and methods to run a global transatlantic empire. During the reign of Philip II, Spain was able to build a complex administrative machinery that allowed it to govern its huge empire in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. It is false that the Spanish empire was ill administered, as some Anglo-Saxon KZbinrs and bloggers claim. For 4 centuries Spain was able to keep together much of its empire, in a time where communications across the Atlantic and the Pacific could take several months. The Spanish Crown created an effective system to prevent, detect, investigate and punish abuses of power on the American native populations at the hands of the viceroys, governors and Spanish settlers. The native Indians were more protected under Spanish rule than under local independent governments. As all human constructions, the Spanish empire had its lights and its shadows, no different than other empires throughout human history. Anglo-Saxon historians interested in the history of the Spanish empire need to approach it objectively without prejudices inherited from the Black Legend. I think this series of videos on the Spanish empire are a good attempt to summarize and explain more than 500 years of history.

[@sandraleiva1633]

Agreed except for native Indians, it's native Americans. In the Spanish speaking American countries the populations of unmixed Americans number in the hundreds of millions completely the opposite of what happened in the Anglo world were the native Americans were murdered by genocide to take over the land and completely supplant the native American populations with exclusive European populations.

[@lauramartin-bk9nr]

Yes. And the Laws of Burgos, of 1512!, for native Americans were more progressive than USA, Canadian and Australian laws for natives until the XXth century. One correction: John H. Elliott was an English historian.

[@josecipriano3048]

The Black Legend is a legend in itself, a poor attempt at hiding the realities of the Spanish empire. It's easy to rule an empire when 9/10 of the land's former inhabitants have died and the rest are your slaves. The real tragedy of the Spanish empire is, however, that the only thing it created was lots of gold-stuffed churches in Spain and lots of dead people in Europe and America.

[@francisco-pk5rt]

Gracias por tus palabras. Saludos

[@drosales43]

What books and/or videos do you recommend?

[@manuelcunha3297]

Força Espanha saudações de Portugal ❤🇪🇸 Spain was, is and will always be the Best European Country!! Cheers from Portugal🇵🇹

[@enilstyle2706]

Irmão minho Portugal and Spain should unite once more, Iberia will be unstopable 🇪🇸🤝🇵🇹

[@sionbarzad5371]

Not really, no. More like Europe's third world.

[@bragaboyz4435]

@@sionbarzad5371 sounds like you are talking about my 5th world Portugal🇵🇹 😭

[@juancarlosalonso5664]

Sion Barzad Europe’s third world? I think everyone would agree that’s the UK lol

[@duff0120]

@@juancarlosalonso5664 UK is a african and middle eastern country today, just like sweden,france and netherlands

[@31ll087]

Roses are red, violets are blue, I dropped everything, for Spain part two.

[@pedromeowgisuparperv2844]

ottoman empire is better SPANISH empire is just a JOKE

[@31ll087]

@@pedromeowgisuparperv2844 Nah Byzantines are more of my cup of tea.

[@pedromeowgisuparperv2844]

@@31ll087 Ottoman defeated ROME won 1000 battles

[@31ll087]

@@pedromeowgisuparperv2844 cool

[@stevebeave9252]

@@pedromeowgisuparperv2844 you talkin about turkey? you goofball, western military to this day is superior, isreal didn't need anything but supplies to f you up

[@adrillaverosanchez]

Rigorous and accurate. Huge documentary, I’ve enjoyed it so much ! Congrats from a Spanish viewer.

[@stefanvella9807]

👍🤴🦁🏰🤺🏇⚔🛡🏹✝⛪ As a Roman Catholic and great fan of the great European History and incredible achievements, i love Spain and its Great history. The Reconquista really fascinates me, the discovery and incredible conquests of the New World. And Especially during the Great Siege of Malta 1565 apart from the few volunteers and mercenaries, no country gave us help, Only the Spanish Empire sent much needed reinforcements and supplies, and helped us win the siege. Long Live SPain

[@jorllima]

Yes, Spain spent tons of gold keeping the Ottomans off the Mediterranean shores without any economic interest. In the case of Malta, when the holy league was planning the attack on the Ottoman army in Lepanto, the Knights of Malta were willing to follow the orders of the Spanish crown, but the Pope claimed that they were a religious order, so he had to power over them. I guess they knew who the most powerful man in the league was. Regards!

[@dominickandale8580]

long live Spain greetings from the Philippines and we’re catholic brothers! 🇪🇸🇵🇭

[@yaantsudnbesdai972]

I'm not "Catholic".........I'm not "Catholic"........I just....'walk'........like I'm Catholic......

[@NEY-uu3lx]

@@yaantsudnbesdai972 what?

[@mariaamparo9781]

Después Usa entro en Filipinas e hizo una limpieza étnica...

[@dominickandale8580]

@@mariaamparo9781 De acuerdo, pero no totalmente porque haya un islam tratando de evitar nuestra cultura

[@juliennepadua826]

@@yaantsudnbesdai972 ?

[@Juanlescano17]

VIVA ESPAÑA 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 proud to have Italian Spaniard French Guaraní 🇮🇹🇪🇸🇫🇷🇦🇷Blood

[@fearvo]

It astounds me how someone can get their head around all these details. And then present them so clearly.

[@JonathanLovitt]

Great video. I'm looking forward to the next one. I never understood the complexity behind Spain's rise and fall and you reveal much.

[@robotube7361]

Whenever the Spanish Empire is mentioned the Vangelis Music "Conquest of Paradise" plays in my head.

[@江俊杰-z9t]

Wonderful documentary sir! Great quality and details on one of my favorite nation in Europe. Can you make a video about history of China in the future? It’s long and may need 2-3 part or any dynasty you like. It might be boring because there’s lots of infighting but it’s also the craziest place to live at the time.

[@poleroso85]

Are you chinese? Hispanic people and chinese have a long and positive history together. Hopefully we can pick it up where we left it! Your 100 years of humiliation are over, hopefully our 200 years of humiliation will end soon.

[@tiagocerejoandrade9851]

Great work! Both part 1 and 2 of the spanish documentary were great! Now we want to see the documentary about Portugal!

[@joaoteves7067]

💩💩 🇵🇹

[@Hvllow99]

Spain got put so on, so fast that they thought they could tank all of Europe by themselves. They were wrong obviously. 🇪🇸 PLVS VLTRA 🇪🇸

[@Gloriaimperial1]

England / UK never had an empire in Europe. Napoleon's French empire lasted 15 years. Nazi Germany lasted 5 years of war. The Spanish were in Italy for more than 480 years. In the Flandes 200 years. In parts of France and Germany 160 years. In Athens 90 years. In Portugal 60 years. Spain's goal in Europe was to save Catholicism. That is why there are 200 million Catholics in Central Europe and Italy. Italy was filled with universities, infrastructures, fortresses, Baroque cities, Spanish churches and palaces.

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@Gloriaimperial1]

@@batmanismexican1873 Por supuesto, fuimos invadidos por los árabes, los griegos, los fenicios, los romanos, los cartagineses, los franceses, los visigodos... Cada uno de ellos dejó su civilización. Los árabes no estuvieron 800 años en toda la península, Granada fue pequeño reino entre el 1200 Y 1492. Pero los árabes de España tuvieron una fase esplendor, cuando la ciudad de Córdoba era la ciudad más importante de Europa durante dos siglos, con 450000 habitantes, baños públicos, un índice de alfabetización infantil del 90%, palacios de mármol, 170 mujeres intelectuales, la ciencia y la cultura más avanzada y el legado de los griegos, que los árabes conservaron. En esa época, París, Londres y Berlín eran pueblos de 15000-30000 habitantes, con casas de madera, calles llenas de barro, analfabetismo y fundamentalismo. Y la España cristiana algo parecido.

[@steve5123456789]

@@batmanismexican1873 And they sent them back into the sea after 1492 where they remain.

[@Skanderberg79]

@@Gloriaimperial1 La supuesta "edad de oro" del Al Andaluz es pura patraña. Quienes preservaron la cultura clásica en la Hispania dominada por los muslimes fanáticos fueron los mozárabes.

[@andyreginald6272]

Thank you so much for this! We’ve waited so long and it’s so worth it!!!!!

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@eduardoesteban9823]

@@batmanismexican1873 spam, spam, spam.

[@luisfranmarpu]

Very good video. By the way, "Plus Ultra" is not correcty translated in the video: at the beganing it was "Non Plus Ultra" (on the Hercules columns of Gibraltar strait), meaning that that is the end of the known world and "nothing else exist beyond this point". After discovering the new world in 1492, it was changed by "Plus Ultra", meaning that "a beyond exist".

[@for_light_and_life]

I can’t wait for part 3! Keep up the amazing work

[@edwardschneider280]

Thanks!

[@Fireoflearning]

Thank you!

[@theukrainianhistory]

Interesting history, thanks for video! Greeting to Spain from Ukraine!

[@Alex_FRD]

"Es hora de rezar!" *Gains 5 prestige*

[@franbalcal]

For a video called "the Spanish Empire" it sure barely mentioned the empire (outside of Europe). I guess this makes sense in the context of a series on the history of Spain but would have been cool to actually add how the Empire worked, the trans pacific trade, how the Empire was administered, etc. since technically these was place WERE Spain at one point.

[@goldcic]

You forgot Philip V married Savoya, a 13 year old Spanish woman which caused unity. She died in 1714, He went into depression, Charles took over, died, Philip came back & remarried Gabrielle who was also very popular. The sinking of the 11 ship 1715 plate fleet with huge treasure in the coast of Florida was an economic disaster for Spain 1733 also.

[@zalacainbilbao]

No mention of the disaster that was the English Armada

[@jonathanrecinos5894]

Sadly no.. so many ppl don't know about it, how the English were humiliated one year after the Spanish armada had failed. School systems around the world don't/ wont teach it cuz I guess it's forbidden to speak about their atrocious, hilarious defeats.

[@gml4776]

You forget the Disaster of the English army in Spain in response to the attack of the Invincible army, this defeat brought a great crisis to the English Empire that would end in the Oliver Cromwell Revolution, it is also important to remember the crushing defeat of Vernon in Cartagena de Indias ( present Colombia) and in Buenos Aires (present Argentina)

[@anonfaceless6088]

There might be no mention of that. But there are plenty of mentions of other defeats. I'm English. And at school I learnt more about other countries then I did my own

[@zalacainbilbao]

@@anonfaceless6088 but 99% of British people could not mention a single defeat at the hands of France or Spain. While French or Spanish people are fully aware of Trafalgar or Waterloo or the Spanish Armada. History as traditionally taught in Britain is triumphalist.

[@anonfaceless6088]

@@zalacainbilbao your not wrong. Most if not all don't know. Most of the defeats they know off is WW2 only. And then only the big ones.

[@eduardoortizrolon2176]

We must learn more about of the Spanish empire in the US. Spain played a crucial role in US independence and the defeat of the British. Truth and facts due count.

[@FalcoSorreo]

Yeah, americans tend to ignote the significant role that Spain played in the conquest of north america, the founding of the first european territories there, and later the formation of their country.

[@smartman8606]

Finally a video from the best history channel. Awesome❤️

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@FalcoSorreo]

It was Columbus's idea to go west to reach the indies, but the mission, the ships, the money, and all the other explorers of the three ships were spanish. People outside of Spain sometimes forget that (I am not criticizing the video on this point, just making a comment).

[@jcs3142]

You mention and explain many nuances that are too often omitted by English histories of the Spanish Empire, well done. It's just a pity that the maps you chose to illustrate the video contain many errors or inaccuracies.

[@jakestephano3145]

callese español, nadie les recuerda ahora😂 latino america es el centro del mundo ahora

[@patatilla6727]

​@@jakestephano3145 Deja la droga por favor

[@danmur2797]

What inaccuracies, if I may ask?

[@mercy1459]

​@@jakestephano3145 lo dice un anglo que no tienes nada que ver con nosotros los Americanos hispanos. No escribas en nuestro nombre. Recuerda que hoy en día hay más unión con América Hispana y España .

[@arielriquelme913]

Gratias Tibiago Iustinian. Also, would you mind doing a documentary on the history of Korea as well as it's split, I'd like to watch it for research purposes, but you just do it so well.

[@thattimestampguy]

*The Founding of The Kingdom of Spain* 0:12 Spain. The Reconquista. The Age of Exploration. The 1st European Global Empire. 1:54 Welcome to the Documentary 2:10 Thank you to the Patreon Patrons. 2:45 1406 - John II, King of Castile 3:50 1454 - Henry IV 4:34 1464 to 1468 - Henry IV staving off Rebel Castilian Nobles. 4:47 1468 - Isabella will be heir of Henry IV. 5:10 War of Castilian Succession. 1476 Battle of Toro. 6:27 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas Toledo recognized Isabella as Queen of Castile. 6:56 Ferdinand II, King of Aragon. 7:15 The Union of The Crowns of Castile and Aragon cement the union of the 2 into The New Kingdom of Spain. 7:42 1482 to 1492 Reconquista Battle to expel Muslims from Grenada. 8:43 Isabella and Ferdinand fortify the united Castile-Aragon lands. _The Habsburgs and The Spanish Empire_ 9:13 Constantinople 1453 --> Ottomans capture and rename Constantinople into Istanbul. 10:18 1492 - Columbus and his crew head to the Indies. 11:30 Spanish Expansion for God, Gold, and Glory. 13:03 Treaty of Tordesillas. 13:47 Santo-Domingo, Hispaniola. 14:23 1478 - 1834 The Spanish Inquisition. 14:47 March 31st, 1492 - Alhambra Decree 16:21 Isabella died in 1504. *Around 1516, Castile y Aragon become referred to as Spain* 17:33 17:55 Charles I/Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. 20:40 Charles V fought War with The Turks. 21:21 Spanish Empire. 21:53 Profit-Seeking Conquistadores, Hernan Cortez, conquers Tenochtitlan and The Aztec Empire is killed/a large percentage of the Aztecs die to disease. 22:58 1532 - Fransisco Pizarro conquers The Inca Empire. 24:42 Mixed-Race Marriage. 27:08 1566 - Protestantism in The Netherlands. Repress The Protestants. 28:40 1571 - Battle of Lepanto, Spain + Italy vs Ottoman Empire. 29:59 1585 - Spain vs England. Spanish Armada defeated. 31:51 1618 - Thirty Years War Begins. Internal Conflict in The Holy Roman Empire. *Spanish Empire Decline* 33:22 1638 - Spanish Military Supremacy is weakening. 34:08 Catalonian Reaper's War 34:43 The Battle of Racqua signifies the decline of Spain's Power, and the rise of the rest of Europe. 36:08 1658 Anglo-French Victory/Defeat and Decline of Spain. 37:28 1667-1668 The War of Devolution. 37:42 1672-1678 The Franco-Dutch War. 38:02 1688-1697 The War of The Grand Alliance against Louis XIV's France. 39:00 The War of Spanish Succession. 39:55 1704 - British Capture of Gibraltar. 41:11 Prevention of 1 State becoming too powerful. 42:01 1716 - Legal Centralization of Spain. *Bourbon Spain* 42:39 42:52 Invasion of Sardinia 1717 sparks The War of Quadruple Alliance. 43:37 1727-1729 Spanish failed attempt to recapture Gibraltar from England. 43:40 1733-1735 War of Polish Succession. 43:53 1739 - The War of Jenkins Ear. 44:20 The War of Austrian Succession. 45:35 The Seven Years War 1762-1763 Spanish involvement in the War. 46:53 Carlos III, Enlightened Despot. - Education - National Bank - National Anthem 47:30 Equitorial Guinea. 48:10 Supporting American Independence. _Next Video: Spain, Fall of An Empire_ 49:55

[@tomhiscocks242]

Man your videos brought me so much joy last year through a long winter. Thank you!

[@robespierre466]

Sería interesante también si hicieras uno sobre la Inquisición en España, víctima de la propaganda. Protestante anti-catolica. Especialmente sobre la figura del inquisidor Alonso de Salazar y Frías, que puso fin a dicha caza en España, mientras que en el resto de Europa continuó durante casi un siglo más. Saludos y buen video!!

[@benmcmahon928]

Your History of Nations and Peoples videos are my favourite! Another great video, keep up the great work

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@sergiosolano6773]

@@batmanismexican1873 Two hundred Spaniards conquered your country. Show respect.

[@DidierDidier-kc4nm]

the conquest of america by men like Cortez or Pizarro is stunning ! small handful of conquistadors managing to conquest an entire empire! some arguing they have fire gun or horses come on! it was not machine gun !or big cavalry units ! as french i always find amazing this epic ! sometimes i like teasing some spaniards on the italians wars vids but i have a great admiration about conquistadors and tercios !

[@dougrodriguez4977]

Happy 5 de Mayo.

[@marco94a]

La conquista fue porque hicieron Alianzas en el caso de los Aztecas hicieron Alianzas con los pueblos oprimidos por los aztecas y en el caso del imperio inca había una guerra civil entre Huascar y Atahualpa y Pizarro aprovecho para hacer sus Alianzas con un bando y luego con el otro

[@DidierDidier-kc4nm]

@@marco94a yes i agree you do right but like i said they didn t land with Abrahms tanks and F15 backing them up. they were small number with fire arms that shot one round by minute and huges balls .I know nowaday it s trendy by the woke to deny the stunning conquest by conquistadors .The other day i watched a german doku about aztecs and of course so called experts claimed tha aztecs were peacuful ppl and conquered just by pure luck by spanish ! come on spanish were at this time the best soldiers in europe and maybe more and the way of modern historians to minimized the strenght of euopreans armies pissed me of !maybe im to butt hurt !

[@pipeflush]

They made alliances with other Native tribes that hated the native empire.

[@Homelandz]

Like 95% or so of Cotez's army consisted of native allies. Same with the Incas, they already were fighting a civil war, the spanish just took a side, intermarry with their allies nobility, called the natives Kings gobernadores, or cabilderos or whatever, pour some water over their heads (this was considered of the utmost importance) and voilà, you've got yourself an empire.

[@TheBrakedown]

It always amazes me how these historians get their hands on these artwork pieces and paintings. Really cool!

[@catherinechimilio1935]

as a spanish country of honduras it is very important to learn about tHE SPANISH EMPIRE THIS IS HOW WE AND OTHER SPANISH/LATIN NATION WERE CONQUERE WE ONLY LEARN SOME PARTS IN SCHOOL

[@leanorofaquitainemysonisaf2691]

Fire of Learning: You're a really good historian. I'm going to hire you in my court in France. :-)

[@Fireoflearning]

An honor, your majesty!

[@eeeero4275]

Though remembered for his physical features and impotency, Charles II’s reign acted as a precedent to the reforms of Charles III. For more than a century and a half, inflation and debt had increased and population declined. He inherited the throne in a difficult time but by the 1680s, monetary reforms ended the instability and population began a slow recovery.

[@jeanamparan893]

Gracias hermano. Been waiting for this!

[@regulusmuphrid4891]

Such an underrated empire even though it was the closest thing to the Roman Empire apart from Napoleonic France.

[@desmondmolina3142]

How does it resemble rome in any way?

[@regulusmuphrid4891]

@@desmondmolina3142 The way they conquer, is the closest thing to the roman way, also hispannia was the most roman province outside of Italia.

[@Merry19ss]

@@desmondmolina3142 El Imperio Español nace del Imperio Romano es su hija era la provincia de Hispania/España en castellano . Además su abuela es Grecia

[@Jean-vp1yr]

It’s not that underrated, it might be if you live in the UK or any of the former British colonies, but not in former Spanish colonies which are mostly found in Latin America with the exception of Equatorial Guinea in Africa, we’re taught most of that in schools.

[@rickyxxsi9177]

@@Jean-vp1yr Well, that will be in a few schools but in most schools in Latin America they do not teach anything about the achievements of the Spanish empire, they only teach pure black legends.

[@Rodrigobolcioni]

OMG, I've been waiting so long for this moment! Amazing work!!

[@zhcultivator]

Great video and please consider making a video on the Portuguese Empire.

[@alexanderscherer4537]

YES! I Have been waiting for this for months, this is amazing!

[@alexeiromanov2250]

The [almighty] Spanish Empire which the first true 'Empire in which the sun never set'. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@chaseofori-atta2225]

Beautiful history of beautiful Spain!

[@aniketdhumal2692]

Great job Justin. What a gem of a video

[@808_rafa]

Hey man thanks for the upload. Most importantly- I hope that you're in a better place now. Wish you the best

[@Fireoflearning]

Thank you!

[@nighthawk_1]

An absolute great synopsis of how Spain became but, slowly lost its super power status throughout Europe and the Americas. I was unaware of how Spain participated and or, encouraged United States independence from Great Britain (England).

[@Armandorockso95]

The wait is finally over..... it’s here 👍👌🤘 You do a great job Mr Justin 😎

[@malleus9778]

Great stuff, FoL. Love all your vids. Some docs focusing on famous conflicts would be rad 👍🏻

[@FixTheLanes]

I've been waiting so long for the next video, thank you

[@300fusionfall]

Yooo there'll be a part 3, nice man.

[@leomendoza6649]

Where TF is part 1

[@kingstarscream320]

@@leomendoza6649 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKOUgZSngLKlg8U

[@Fireoflearning]

@@kingstarscream320 Thanks

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@steelballrunner636]

I can't believe that "Plus ultra" came from Spain. I can never look at My Hero Academia the same again.

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@edwinsparda7622]

@@batmanismexican1873 Quit spamming everyone.

[@JoemamaGaming-md6je]

@@batmanismexican1873 just Granada the half of it teritories had reconquista early, untill finally granada

[@johnnyjoestar5193]

Fr

[@dariomartingu]

@@batmanismexican1873 Y orgulloso estoy de que lo hicieran así puedo disfrutar yo ahora del gran patrimonio que dejaron y de su historia y su sociedad. Que por cierto es mucho mas apasionante que la del resto de reinos del momento, por no hablar de la cultura que dejaron en lo que posteriormente se llamaría España.

[@tolgacetiner1243]

I just watched the Spain history video yesterday without even knowing about this one. What a coincidence. A welcome one : )

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

It's like the Al_Gore-rythm knew! 😵

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@notimetowaste1254]

@@batmanismexican1873 and then they conquered the Aztecs!

[@777Gaile]

Please advice when the 3rd part of Spanish History. Looking forward to understand Philippine history as well. Thank you for very detailed n educational !

[@thorpeaaron1110]

Can you do a documentary on Portugal next if you have the time

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Second this, I'm obviously biased for being Portuguese

[@batmanismexican1873]

🔥 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492 they also conquered Portugal

[@batmanismexican1873]

Lisbon was founded by Arabs

[@luisgoncalosilva6194]

@@batmanismexican1873That is simply not true

[@luisgoncalosilva6194]

@@batmanismexican1873 Lisbon was found in 1200 BCE, well before the muslin conquered Iberia.

[@Xiuhcoatl_]

Neat. Thank you for blessing us with this Mr Fire of Learning Justin.

[@ALBERTOLUIS2100MMJ]

Nice video, very rigorous indeed I was hoping that Jenkins ear war showed the "Cartagena de Indias" battle which resulted in one of the most epic victories in history and the humiliation of the British navy Very recommendable video Keep the good work!

[@francoisdaureville323]

why is that relevant??? why are spanish people so eager to talk shit about britain ???? literraly everytime i see an spanish empire video theres spaniards ramdonly talking about britain as if modern british people care about that??? the age of empires is over

[@ALBERTOLUIS2100MMJ]

@@francoisdaureville323 Do you realize the documentary its about The Spanish Empire and that's literally part of the history of the Empire. Whether you like it or not that's not my business

[@francoisdaureville323]

@@ALBERTOLUIS2100MMJ are you that salty??? Im french the country that had more wars with britain in history and french people could care less about that unlike spaniards.

[@ALBERTOLUIS2100MMJ]

@@francoisdaureville323 they aren't Francophobic, they don't hide/ignore the accomplishments of your nation while spreading rumors or directly false "history". They don't treat your people/culture with disrespect. Anglo-Saxon's are hispanophobic. By the way I'm from Hispanic America, I know first hand how they treat us and have every reason to not tolerate their behavior.

[@francoisdaureville323]

@@ALBERTOLUIS2100MMJ you mean americans are hispanophobic im sure brits arent, and maybe it has to do with millions of ilegal inmigrants entering the USA EACH year maybe??? We french people are the same with arabs and majority inmigrats germans are the same with turks, sadly when millions of inmigrants treaten your culture thats what happend, mexicand would be the same of millions if americans enter México each year illegally nobody likes when foreing people try to enter your country specially illegally

[@Yo-Uncle]

Another Fire of Learning Documentary, at last. Thank God, and Thank You

[@alexcorvuscazador5596]

I have been waiting for months, finally, my spanish heritage and ancestry thanks you.

[@batmanismexican1873]

🤔 Spaniards were conquered by the Arabs and Moors from 711 to 1492

[@Barqop]

Aye! I’ve been waiting on this one for awhile. Great work as always🙌👏

[@joshuarenenicholsonreyna5861]

Please also focus on the events in the Philippines. Great video!

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

My man uploaded again. Arrrriiiiiiiiba!

[@popeyemarino-ds8gh]

👏🏼 proud to be mestizó Spanish and indigenous

[@jimmyrodasmolestina979]

Take those shackles off now

[@popeyemarino-ds8gh]

@ I think we all in shackle even in this time and age by the government

[@jonathansanchez8802]

As always, great video!

[@captainmurphy4720]

Love your videos. Hope you consider doing a separate Sicily video when you get to Italy.

[@leanorofaquitainemysonisaf2691]

Spain: 300 years of peace in Latin America. America was well known for their roads. There were no thieves or mercenaries lurking for assault people during Spanish Viceroy period.

[@newyorkislanders6425]

then the British masons came and destroyed all the countries and Natives and blamed it on the Spanish in their history books - shameful

[@СтефановићКараџић]

The Spanish Empire is so underrated

[@Schiff252]

Considering it gave to the world a Socialist backwater with all citizens totally dependent on the government and has contributed absolutely nothing to the Industrial Revolution, a low rating is pretty well justified.

[@franj8224]

En realidad crear y mejorar rutas de comercio y crear ciudades donde producir y comerciar fue fundamental para la industrialización, así como utilizar una lengua común en 4 continentes. También está el tema de la Escuela de Salamanca. Toda civilización ha aportado algo para llegar al mundo actual. Ser soberbio y ser exitoso son cosas diferentes.

[@franj8224]

Además hablar de socialismo en el Imperio hispánico es un descrédito automático. Vergüencita, o "cringe", como prefieras.

[@happyChappy96621]

Well done for this, hope your doing well Justin keep putting out the quality content.

[@Amcsae]

Worth the wait! Taking your time with videos is important- we get better quality, and, hopefully, you have a better work-life balance!

[@Fireoflearning]

Thank you!

[@JsDanny]

Epic bro! Love your videos!!

[@Kolchak_Enjoyer]

¡Viva España!

[@wilsontheconqueror8101]

Fascinating how the influx of all that silver caused inflation. And eventually disrupted the economy! Pieces of 8! And the size of The Spanish empire was amazing!

[@Gloriaimperial1]

Inflation was not the main problem, although it was a problem, of course. Spain reinvested 70% of America's wealth (80% in the 18th century), in America and the Philippines, to create a Western society: 2,000 stone cities, 28 universities, 25 colleges, thousands of hospitals and nursery schools, 130 cathedrals, 250 fortresses, bridges, ports, roads... 90% of Hispanic America speaks Spanish as their mother tongue. 99% speak Spanish. 85% Catholic. UK and Holland got rich. Spain no. But the Commonwealth is 10% native English speakers (in growing competition with China and India this century), less than 10% Christian. The United States was instrumental in saving the British legacy after WW2, as a second language, reintroduced. Spain spent almost the other 20-30% of the wealth on our NATO in Italy of 457 years, which filled Italy with universities, palaces, ports, baroque cities, controlling the Mediterranean... and in Europe's wars of religion, to save the Catholic religion and the legacy of Rome, in Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, France, Italy, South Germany, Palatinate, the Czech Republic, Austria... Wars of 1500-1700. Those were the two objectives of Spain. Hispanization-Romanization, and saving religion in Europe. With that double spending, which no empire had, inflation and bankruptcies were inevitable. Spain had 8 million inhabitants, and our enemies 60 million.

[@PCampano]

Best empire ever 🇪🇦 PLVS VLTRA.

[@BlizzardOfSteel]

Top notch quality media here!

[@matthewmann8969]

So flexible, versatile, consistent, and longevity

[@artemisarrow179]

I love these videos you make dude. Weird suggestion but have you ever considered doing a video on the history of currency?

[@BMLA00]

I love these videos, would love to see a future video on the history of Mexico because I think you'd do a great job with that.

[@chibiromano5631]

Yeah, but it should have more focus on Nahuatl /Otomi-Oto Manguen and Pre colombian Mexico, especially since we are mainly Haplogroup Q (C-Austronesia and Siberian) and linguistics have confirmed Uto Aztecan to be related to the Altiac region. The narrative of Cortes being a founding father of Mexico is getting annoying, very eurocentric and is not the history for 95% of Meixcans like the Mayans and Zacatecans who defeated the Iberians and weren't annexed until the Porfiriato in the late 1890s. Mexico is older than 1810 the word is Nahautl for Crescent of the Moon-Navel. so the Nahautl influence should not be denoted for one minute. It was the lingua franca of Mexico until Cardenas. Even Emiliano Zapata wrote a manifesto in Nahautl. But even before Nahautl there was Mayan and Otomi that were the lingua francas per their region for thousands of years. Iberianism only represnts such a small percentage of Mexicans and has been around for a short time. And really honestly Iberianism doesn't really arrive until the 1940s after the Spanish Cvil War with Franco with many Basque ariving to Mexico. Gael Garcia Berna, Guillermo del Torro , Vicent Fox all these prominent Mexicans are of Iberian descent but not from the 1600s but from 1950. The majority of Mexicans with Iberian heritage are mainly from the 1940s. We also forget that the French were highly influental to Mexico in 1800s. We also downplay the Italian heritage in Regio Monterrey. We are more than just Aztec and Iberian. We are Uto Aztecan, Mayan, Altiac, Italian, French, Lebanese, Philipine, Chinese, Basque, Anglo(William Yarbrough), Slavic, Otomi, Apache, Portugese, Korean. We are just as diverse as the United States and Turkey/ Central Asia. We are not mestizo but multi ethnic like the Turkic peoples. So it's time for the real history of Mexico to be displayed. This channel should have the honor of explaining the real Mexico with a North American focus.

[@crimson1453]

@@chibiromano5631 Bro you are high as shit

[@chibiromano5631]

@@crimson1453 thanks.

[@trashcantacos]

​@@chibiromano5631I agree it would be awesome to explore history before the Europeans, but did the natives even record their history that much?

[@miecraftandmoregames]

you are better than any history teacher i've had, Grácias! :D

[@dopejoel]

Could be argued that the wealth acquired through the Spanish Conquistadors saved Europe from the fate Constantinople suffered. Nobody talks about the context in which Spain did what they did. They were literally conquered for hundreds of years. But, Christopher Columbus is the controversial one, not the Islamic conquests that could have swallowed Europe.

[@timboslice980]

As a catholic, i cant thank you enough for pointing out the exaggerations made by protestants about the inquisition. Also that the protestant witch hunts in salem and elsewhere were probably worse

[@Maxxeine]

it's all fun and games until someone expects the inquisition /s Great vid, looking forward to part 3 :)

[@DANTAS-p8l]

Amazing work! Greetings from 🇧🇷

[@luismarin8853]

Thanks to the spanish empire there are 400 millions of spanish speaking individuals which are a great advantage