Horrible Histories - Christopher Columbus

[@lprocks555]

"Where we saw those mermaids, remember?" "You mean sea cows." "They weren't the best looking, but..." XD

[@achanwahn]

"Sea cows" "They weren't the best looking, but 'Sea cows' is a bit harsh."

[@LiveLoudandLiveAlive]

"It's pear shaped!" "This trip is pear shaped." LOL, I'm going appoint my self the duty of making that a popular saying.

[@emp437]

How did the mission go

[@goodnight-moon564]

KillerDuckasaurus Updates?

[@ihaveamonstrousego4442]

It must have went pear shaped

[@LiveLoudandLiveAlive]

@@goodnight-moon564 ......... wonky oblong fruit figured.

[@NexusDarkworld338]

So any luck?

[@ryjoe8]

i am going to be 90 years old in years to come and i am still gonna fucking love Horrible Histories.

[@cameronmorris9868]

The world is only pear shaped if Mount Everest was ten times bigger.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago, at a locale he named San Salvador. Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire.

[@jinnycha9797]

The feather he was "writing" with didn't even touch the paper XD

[@kstormgeistgem461]

better late than never... i'm guessing the prop master told him if he mucked up their only "parchment" the next one would be made of his hide.

[@goodnight-moon564]

kstormgeistgem Probably

[@carolinemalone4037]

Love Horrible History vids! Use them all the time in class…brilliant! :)

[@PyroGothNerd]

I had a social studies teacher who HATED Christopher Columbus. He basically went up to the king and queen of Spain and told them to make him king of the sea.

[@fabulousmyriad267]

1:55-2:00 -Holla! India!! deserves to be a cheer

[@elainelane1946]

I'm glad to talk to you ,never knew about this atrocity glad you shared it with me..thxs!

[@TheHandymanQld]

It's not mentioned here that the cabin boy of Christopher Columbus discovered America and, was the father of the first Phantom (The Ghost Who Walks)

[@SpadaccinoLuciano]

Why does everyone make Cristopher Colombus out to be an idiot? Yes, he AT FIRST thought he landed in India, YES, he didn't really "discover" America, but he WAS a brilliant sailor and navigator, with almost no formal education.

[@tucobenedictopacificojuanm23]

Disease killed off a sizable portion of the populations before European observations (and thus written records) were made. After the epidemics had already killed massive numbers of natives, many newer European immigrants assumed that there had always been relatively few indigenous peoples.

[@FringePrincess]

sensing a little Gervais in this character lol

[@Liza8275]

I'm pretty sure it was named after Amerigo Vespucci. That's what I always heard.

[@ipwnyorass]

"the earth is pear shaped" *looks at map* seems legit.

[@lovesingread]

Dying of laughter--- ahh this is great.

[@elainelane1946]

Whatever I know it was the earliest find thus far!

[@EmetTalmudim6]

Then again the world isn't PRECISELY round. So Columbus was ahead of his time in that according to the accepted scientific concensus of his day since Eristostanes the world was round.

[@weldonwin]

Leif Eriksson discovered Iceland and Greenland, but its spotty as to whether or not he ever landed on mainland North America. There is a Postscript to Cabbot's story, that claims that the Continent was named, for a Portsmouth customs official who funded Cabbot's voyage, named Richard Ammeric

[@elainelane1946]

WOW I'M IMPRESSED..THXS!

[@rashkavar]

Actually, the oldest major homo sapiens archeological site is Omo 1, dated a bit shy of 200 000 years ago, in East Africa. The 4 million year old find you refer to is Australopithecus, the genus of hominids that predates the homo genus - notable for being the first to show genetic signs for advanced brain activity. Not the same genus, let alone species. Nobody looking at an Australopithecus that had been given a modern haircut and clothing would mistake him/her for a human.

[@EleanorWhite-ml9xw]

I like Mathew Baynton very much I always have and I always will💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

[@racheyfacey92]

The door bit 😂 I'm dead

[@elainelane1946]

Wounded Knee comes to mind...That's just one atrocity of many of the CALVARY!!

[@weldonwin]

First man to actually land in America Was... *clips ends* Fear not, for I have the answer. His name was John Cabbot, a British explorer who set sail from Bristol around the same time as Columbus, but only spent a couple of hours ashore, when he and a small landing party were exploring up the beach, found the remains of a campfire and promptly legged it back to his ship The Mathew and sailed right back to England

[@putbye1]

Like you learn about the word "Fuck" in school.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World.

[@davidjl]

@prawn2003 he said "the FINEST sailor and navigator on the planet".

[@MTLHR]

I love this show!

[@knotofnine]

Amerigo Vespucci was a mapmaker. Three guesses as to how he got a continent named after him :)

[@tilli1514]

A german sholar wrote it down

[@BlessedToBeSaved333]

Haha yes but the America's are two continents!

[@knotofnine]

Rendering this sketch perhaps more accurate than intended...

[@Smoothbluehero]

is there a track for the background music playing around 2:14?

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus' speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a chance to gain the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia.

[@davidjl]

I haven't heard of a track, and i think the music is made specifically for horrible histories, so i doubt it.

[@elainelane1946]

I didnt say you said that!

[@SpadaccinoLuciano]

He made the mistake of using an outdated map, that's all...

[@Agent1W]

Well, if Columbus were have thought that the Earth was "narrow" at the ice caps then I can see how he would have gotten his idea of the pear-shape.

[@rashkavar]

This is my point. I'm saying why does one count and not the other? Either they both independently discovered the Americas, or neither of them did. (Columbus was not working off some Norse map, he was looking for India). I just can't remember the name of the first European explorer to actually hit the mainland itself. And if you want to get technical, the original discovery is a group that crossed the Bering Sea land bridge. At least, that's one theory. ~9000 years before Erikson.

[@hotdogs9and9milk]

Lol. It was hard to make it out, but it was that. It sounds so much like he's saying "The fuckingest" lol.

[@1JOHNBARLEYCORN]

Yes in Alexandria. He was only off by less then 1%

[@Estella1507]

And then the Map maker made a mistake in the naming process...

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios (Spanish for "Indians").

[@tinaloye2014]

i feel so sorry for the person sailor :P

[@prawn2003]

2:07 - 2:08 XD he did say what i think he said didn't he? XD!

[@Doriesep6622]

Yes, it is.

[@Smoothbluehero]

What is the music that players during the vid?

[@potatoxkateri]

The way he says "Hola" bothers me a little.. It's pronounced like "ola." C'mon, Matt!

[@bankrobber6993]

Mat* And he was obviously supposed to say it like that sooo...

[@cgt3704]

I mean matt plays a guy who was italian so i dont think its bad.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas (having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century), Columbus' voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries. They had, therefore, an enormous impact in the historical development of the modern Western world.

[@leoberg118]

2:07 does he drop the F-bomb ??

[@aquenwisey]

I thought it was Erik the red, father of leif Eriksson who discovered greenland

[@davidjl]

Quite possibly

[@yuecarstairs]

its surprising where you can get from "related videos" I started out by searching for grease Hopelessly devoted to you then somehow I was watching naruto... now in here. still don't know how...

[@elainelane1946]

Where are you compiling your facts from , give me a source of reference?

[@CharlesDickens111]

2:06 ..."finest" sounds like...

[@bankrobber6993]

yesh Mat

[@lirisa1869]

He also thought the Earth was smaller than what others did, not a different shape that's why he thought a westward journey to Japan was feasible.Any sailor would know the Earth isn't flat.

[@rashkavar]

Leif Erikson? So we count Newfoundland as part of the mainland of the Americas, but we don't count the West Indies? Admittedly, Newfoundland is closer to the mainland and much larger, but it's still an island.

[@potatoegirl31]

For a show that loves funny accents even more than APH: Hetalia did...I'm very dissapointed they didn't give Columbus an Italian accent! That'sa crazy!

[@powerist209]

I wonder how the word about the New World did not got out from Vikings. I mean they had Greenland to relay the message until 1400s.

[@Zajin13]

Well, they had found "Greenland", a island so cold that they had to call it Greenland in order to trick some vikings into believing it was good for farming and living, some say they sailed further west but well, vikings were more interested in fertile land and metals then in endless forest.

[@rashkavar]

The first nations were Mongolian a while, and they came before anyone else. That's the Bering Sea group I mentioned. (Unless you buy into their origin myths which are approximately as believable as those of the Norse or the whole Adam/Eve thing, it's the only explanation that actually works.) And where in that comment did you get the idea I was trying to defend the idiotic assertion that Columbus was the first explorer to find the Americas?

[@elainelane1946]

Wow, the Romans didn't have the significant impact as COLUMBUS, due to the fact it was more recent and had more of an impact!

[@elainelane1946]

I was raised on the truth that this man was brutal given the things he did to the people.....Given earlier in school we were told those lies in the movies and school that he sailed the world and discovered America..He was supposed to be pious and good which he was not.

[@elainelane1946]

Go head!!!

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Columbus' strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

[@eduardobarrezueta5247]

actually he landed in America. The name America is fot the whole continent from Alaska to Argentina, the thing here is that geneal Washington gave the name of COLUMBIA (because of COLUMBUS) to the country but the continental congress changed it to AMERICA but since they wanted to preserve general Washington's wish after his death they proposed to give that very name to the new capital city, not Philly anymore (Philadelphia) but to Washington, District of Columbia better known as WASHINGTON D.C.. The fact here is that either CANADIANS, MEXICANS, BRAZILIANS, JAMAICANS, ETC ARE AMERICANS, just as SPANIARD, FRENCH, ITALIANS OR GREEKS ARE EUROPEANS. But somehow i know they are gonna corrected me, although they know that what i'm saying it's true.

[@heatherbowman9450]

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[@elainelane1946]

All im saying are the Olmecs visited the Americas also they had contact with the indigenous people here.

[@elainelane1946]

Well I have a ancestor who was of the lumbee tribe north carolina but im tri- racial.My culture is Afro- American.

[@kathyforshee5947]

I like it

[@heatherbowman9450]

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[@elainelane1946]

good

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón; Portuguese: Cristóvão Colombo; born between October 31, 1450 and October 30, 1451 - 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Columbus himself saw his accomplishments primarily in the light of spreading the Christian religion.

[@prawn2003]

i know but it just sounds like it.

[@tucobenedictopacificojuanm23]

What? Proof?

[@Sander198422]

I never really thought about this but the West Indies? If you were to reach India by sailing due west the islands you would come across would have to be east of India... So the East Indies surely.

[@dianaspencer1073]

Where can i watch the real truth about Columbus?

[@tucobenedictopacificojuanm23]

Look up "The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition" by BBC on You Tube. The reason they know this is because the Spanish left records!! The Spanish Inquisition was bad but blown out of proportion by the British and Dutch which is called the "Black Legend'.

[@sashawalker7556]

The earth is not a pear shape!!!

[@JesusMakeUpMyDyinBed]

Poor Rodrigo de Triana

[@thaniuskavivas6477]

hola! india. hola! india. how classic.

[@iamdavid132]

Finest... I don't think fuckingest is even a word mate...

[@blondielyric5486]

Hola India, Hola India, you say hola, I say India Hola India HOLA INDIA

[@prawn2003]

THE FUCKINGEST!? HAS HE SAID WHAT I THINK HE HAS SAID ON CHILDERENS TV!?!? FOR TH WORLD TO SEE!?!

[@heatherbowman9450]

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[@elainelane1946]

The original man was African im not making it up you can google it! The oldest find is 4million yeArs old East Africa .You might try to marginalize it but its true.The Mongolians are originally a group that split out of from Africa

[@lirisa1869]

Wasn't he looking for Japan?

[@awhecknaw123]

I know or else they'd have the same fate as native Americans who are now the poorest minority in America.

[@sammakhan5407]

Hello big buoys

[@Frothenbath1]

I thought the Native Americans discovered America first. :/ It's kinda in the name. Actually, I suppose if you back far enough, it was microorganisms that first discovered it.

[@SharkRecordFilms]

HOLA

[@tucobenedictopacificojuanm23]

Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia Under Depopulation from disease and pertaining to the Spanish.

[@Litzen2k]

And who is this "fella" then ?

[@LNER4771]

No it's not, it's shaped like a cantaloupe!

[@elainelane1946]

GOOGLE THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

[@elainelane1946]

No they weren't ,they came to the Americas from west Africa.

[@bigbodbod]

INDIA!!

[@elainelane1946]

You have half truths regarding the impact of Columbus. I agree with you on one account that Columbus led the way for colonialism and later slavery...You tell history from a Eurocentric view point like that's the begin all and end all?