How Much Land Did Europeans Really Discover?

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[@adonaiyah2196]

I can't believe so many are living in the countries we didnt even know existed a few years ago. Australia and America comes to mind More importantly, Its crazy to think the Portuguese discovered so many lands. i think it has something to do with them living in the southwestern part of Europe, pushing them into the Atlantic ocean

[@CM-ss5pe]

It has to do with the rise of the Ottoman empire to the east, blocking sea and land routes to India, so, first the Portuguese and then the Spanish, Dutch, etc went the long way around to facilitate trade and they stumbled across many new lands on the way.

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

You've got to praise the Portuguese themselves though. They set up navigation schools and taught generations of sailors the art of navigation, using compasses, the stars, charting maps and finding and discovering territories. And they did this 100 years before Columbus ever set on his journey. The portuguese throughout the 15th century, slowly and steadily, through painstaking effort, travelled the length of the African coast and found a land route to India. It took generations of sailors, each going a little further than the previous generation, until Vasco da Gama reached India in 1502.

[@enfys8147]

Porque somos brilhantes caralho

[@Maus_Indahaus]

SOMETHING pushing them into the Atlantic ocean? You mean España?

[@m.o.a.s1127]

@@CM-ss5pe need leads to discovery

[@libelldrian173]

I'm always fascinated at how people from several hundred years ago were able to reach such remote places and sail to isolated pieces of land in the middle of the oceans.

[@harukrentz435]

Several hundred years? How about several hundred thousand years? Take Homo Erectus for example, they were great sailors sailing from Africa to Taiwan and Indonesian archipelago.

[@Cwg.]

Well apparently humans in the ancient hiatory were just as smart as we were they just had less knowledge to base on. And apparently humans up to maybe a million years ago was the furat appearance of modern human thought

[@johnlewis8934]

@@Cwg. I’d say that the vast majority of humans didn’t have basic reading and math knowledge that most people have in first and second world countries.

[@Cwg.]

@@johnlewis8934 yes but the congnit8ve brain functions for learning and socilizing wpuldve been laegly the same. They didnt gwt brought up with a fluent well developed launguage to learn thsts all

[@bernoworl]

That's so true and like how do they keep contact with their home country? And how do they find home after exploring the new places? It's so mind-blowing tf

[@guspolly]

There’s a tiny island off the coast of Labrador that was first discovered in 1976 based off of Landsat satellite imagery

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

Yeah, he said the Severnya Zemlya was the last "significant" set of islands to be discovered, not the very last.

[@fallendown8828]

Also there are some lake islands that are being discovered in Northern Canada but they are extremely tiny

[@tomind5784]

It's amazing that the Portuguese discovered so many small islands so early on.

[@insertnamehere6096]

@Mr Wonder 🎩 yes, discover. Now seethe

[@vitormanuelfernandes5353]

@Mr Wonder 🎩 the ones of the video where unhabited

[@aryanbaviskar4127]

Just because he says it very dramatically and in a loud voice doesn't mean that they actually discovered very much.

[@tomascostaPT]

@Mr Wonder 🎩 We discovered and developed them as ports. We didn't genocide like the Brits and Spanish

[@jasonhaven7170]

@@tomascostaPT You literally genocided Brazil and replaced the populace with African slaves, then you forced Mozambique and Angola people to abandon their culture and religion or you would make them do forced labour. This was less than a century ago and is why Angolan war of independence was one of the worse wars of African independence despite Portugal being a tiny country is because Portugal is just that evil compared to the British or Spanish

[@Zachruff]

still have no clue how ppl would just sail off into this huge ocean and hope to find these tiny specs of land

[@ZontarDow]

Most of the time they didn't, basically all of these discoveries where made by accident trying to reach a place they already knew existed.

[@jasonreed7522]

Everyone called Columbus and idiot not because they thought the world was flat but because they knew its radius and the long way from Lisbon Portugal to India or China (places they had already started trade with around Africa) was unsurvivable with their current technology. Just going from Europe to North America already was a journey of several months where food and water was a serious concern. Imagine having to then sail the width of North America and then the Pacific with only tiny easily missed islands to possibly resupply at. He was expected to starve and got really lucky and landed in the Carribean, and found some useful spices and sailed home with this knowledge of these "Indian" islands. (He assumed he hit islands east of Asia, only after much more maping did the realize this was definitely not Asia) Only the first wave of settlement was truly blind, everyone else was just sailing from point A to point B and got lucky and found a piece of land. (Some bad theories did encurage exploration looking for a landmass in the south equal in size to that in the north, instead they got Australia and Antarctica) As far as how people knew the size of the earth thats basic geometry the Greeks figured out to very near our modern figure. Know the distance between 2 cities due north/south of eachother, measure the elevation of Polaris (or the shadow from the sun at both at the exact same time, say high noon on the solstice) and you know the arc length and arc angle, simple proportion to get the whole circumference.

[@iwersonsch5131]

Considering we're going with Iceland, let me quickly mention that Europeans also discovered the British Isles

[@kj-pro9991]

True

[@cobinasaur]

The children of the first people who arrived in Europe, too. They discovered the continent itself.

[@qlum]

Considering different species of humans lived in what is now britain for at least roughly 900k years, long before homo sapiens became a thing. and during ice ages they where not even island I think this is not true. It is not even certain the first human who lived here was born in europe. Granted it's probably more likely but the same could be said for other pats of europe. With no real boundries I would say this statement is meaningless at best.

[@icelandinreallife2042]

I hope you will enjoy your stay!

[@12D_D21]

But they weren’t Isles when they were first inhabited, they were connected to the mainland via Doggerland.

[@ziggs3837]

Portugal really paved the way for European expansion. Excluding uninhabited islands shown in this video, they showed europeans that there existed massive landmasses previously only known to arabs or other indigenous people in Asia , africa, Oceania and america. They were the first to map these massive continents for other europeans, and the first to shift their wealth into Europe.

[@onnimannimaki8846]

Wasn't most of Oceania and South east asia "discovered" by Dutch

[@henrymugello3387]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 EPICMANN IS TRASH LOL 😂 REALLIFELORE'S CONTENT IS WAY BETTER

[@Luismvm90]

@@onnimannimaki8846 nah, Portugal was there way before the Dutch, all the way to Japan, and there are even some maps that appear to show that Portuguese navigators were aware of the existence of Australia over a century before anyone settled it. The Dutch did conquer quite a bit of land from the Portuguese when they got there.

[@hotman_pt_]

@@Luismvm90 Dutch literally built their empire on top of the Portuguese

[@pablopizarro1826]

Not really, more like killed thousand of people and took their goal. Moreover, they are not the first to discover Asia

[@kevinboros7427]

What Europeans did was explore all of the world in a very short amount of time and create a network between it; making sure that all places are charted and not forgotten, also that trade flows through every corner of the Earth. In that sense, it's the Europeans that truly discovered the world in its entirety, and that's why the age of discovery is so important.

[@au2262]

Shush

[@husseymangtv]

And that's why whites ruled the land back in the day. Life has and will always be a gang related war. That's just how it goes. People living in society aren't any less crazy

[@mohq9573]

that's not discovery, it's mapping.

[@t900badbot]

I'm proud to be European.

[@johncole4882]

@@t900badbot racist

[@maxwellwarren2981]

I had to take a history course in college, and it was about the age of European discovery. It was actually crazy how much the pope was involved telling where some countries could and could not “discover” places. Super interesting video!

[@irishpolyglot]

The name "Brendan" (my name; Benny being my nickname) is often inspired by one of those famous Irish monks who set sail almost a thousand years before Columbus. Many believe he is the actual first European on any American soil, and the voyage was even recreated in modern times to show that the simple boats he would have had, could indeed have made it across the Atlantic, but it's not accepted widely enough yet to be included in a video like this. Us Irish were emigrating by sea before any other Europeans! Great video as always!

[@synnox9246]

Ima be honest chief, they most likely didn't reach the Americas.

[@ws4857]

Just because he could doesn't mean he did.

[@henrymugello3387]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 Just give it up.

[@marciavasquez7423]

@@ws4857 then again, if so many irish believe in it then it is probably true, heck even vikings could of been to the americas before any europeans.

[@object-official]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 shut up

[@monkeyfist.348]

An interesting observation perhaps, you use a sketch of the Arctic(circle with bears) to show the Antarctic(circle with no bears). Love your material dude...

[@quinnoconnor2605]

Thank you. I saw that and thought “wait a minute”. Still another fantastic video, probably my favorite channel on here

[@than217]

East Greenland, South Greenland, and Southwest Greenland also weren't inhabited when the Vikings discovered them. Only after the Vikings left did the Inuit continue to inhabit them. Only the Northwestern top tip of Greenland was discovered by the Inuit before the Vikings. Edit: Also when I say Inuit I mean their ancestors the Dorset and Thule people but most people are familiar with their modern descendant name "Inuit".

[@balderleidland6357]

I was looking for this comment.

[@ryanjnunes]

Although I am about as American as they come, my family comes from the island of Terceira in the Açores. I'd love to visit one day and learn more about my Portuguese roots.

[@hotman_pt_]

You should, Azores is beautiful. Terceira does have an American military base too

[@itsv1p3r]

this is so crazy, my mom just started getting deep into ancestry and our family tree and a large percentage of my dna comes from the Açores region. some of my ancestors were also Nunes, hello my likely distant cousin👋

[@ryanjnunes]

@@itsv1p3r Yep lots of Nunes. Very common for people to think I’m Mexican and misspell my name as Nunez.

[@VideoDotGoogleDotCom]

One of the most beautiful and fascinating places on earth. Go there no matter what it takes.

[@avantelvsitania3359]

12:25 - wait. So, if the Franz Josef Land was claimed by Austria-Hungary, and only incorporated by the Soviets in 1926... does that mean that there is a possibility that the Austro-Hungarian Empire technicality survived in the Arctic for 7 years after 1919 as a juridical anomaly??

[@Spacemongerr]

I'm not sure it was ever claimed by Austria-Hungary, maybe they were just the first to tell other people about it. Sealhunters from Norway probably were there about 8 years before the Austrians but didn't want to tell anyone about their hunting spot. Anyway, the answer is no. It was considered terra nullius when the Soviets claimed it.

[@Spacemongerr]

Italy (and Norway) tried to complain when the Soviets annexed it, the Italians because they were the legel inheritors of the port of Trieste, where the Austrian ship sailed from.

[@adolfodef]

@@Spacemongerr This is extremely interesting! I wonder what may happen with Cape Canaveral in the far future (that is assuming sea level rise does not make it dissapear) regarding all spacecraft that "first touched" the Moon, Mars & asteroids [the russians alreadu have exclusivity on the entire planet Venus].

[@goli8699]

@@Spacemongerr fairly sure He Said that Austria Hungary actually did Claim it for themselves

[@coconutcore]

2:28 I wouldn’t say that’s fair. None of the people you mentioned discovered things on the literal opposite side of the world from them, the reach and extent is what made it an impressive historical anomaly. I think it’s more so that the Polynesians were very early to explore to the other side of an ocean. No one in the entire world could have done anything like them in the century they did it in. Exploring whilst staying close to the coast is one thing, but crossing the Pacific…damn…it blows my mind every time.

[@All_Hail_Chael]

This whole video was the typical western self flagellation that these yotube types love to take part in. They are terrified of being proud of their heritidge. They don't want to upset those who were still in the stone age when Europe turned up because they will have a good cry about it. I mean, well, they are here and doing it right now.

[@bristoled93]

I don't get how they did it on such tiny boats sailing across the massive pacific ocean, how did they survive large waves and had enough food and water.

[@wizardtuga]

Proud to be Portuguese despite of all the State sponsored slavery that was the Portuguese empire's engine for centuries. Still, Portuguese history is pretty cool

[@hotman_pt_]

Well, slavery was a business back then. Can't blame it.

[@cutiebeauti2442]

SMH

[@jrr6947]

A KZbinr called Jabzy made a 5 part docuseries about slavery and colonization of Africa. A lot of it stemmed from external factors.

[@All_Hail_Chael]

Fuck that noise, slavery was the norm for all of human history until Europeans changed that.. Don't let them beat you down with that bullshit.

[@jose_pesta]

The first undisputed sight of Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), was made by Sebald De Weert on his homeward back to Netherlands. I think thats why on the map shown on 13:40, it apear a Dutch flag over the Islands.

[@martindione386]

in fact there's maps showing the Falklands as early as 1520, from the Maguellan expedition

[@penguin8615]

It’s crazy how much time and effort you put into these videos. Huge respect. Keep up the good work

[@Anthomemes]

Dude. Say something different for once.

[@PakBallandSami]

Thanks you Portugal is often over look on these types of dissection it was really in the shadow of Spain but it is such an amazing place to learn about and Portugal discovered so much of the world that is great thank Love to Portugal form Pakistan 🇵🇰♥️🇵🇹

[@vascobranco5296]

Thanks, that really means a lot to us. Love to Pakistan from Portugal 🇵🇹🤝🇵🇰

[@GoldenBoyDims]

another fun fact the portuguese started the trans Atlantic slave trade in the 1400s

[@kingstarscream320]

Not to mention that Portugal’s child, Brazil, is the strongest country in South America. Good job, Portuguese. Your legacy lives on.

[@sumimaind]

Don't forget that the Portuguese destroyed many communities and enslaved millions of human beings for their own gain... They are not so saint

[@henrymugello3387]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 EPICMANN IS TRASH LOL 😂 REALLIFELORE'S CONTENT IS WAY BETTER

[@yellowsquashmedia]

It's interesting there isn't a lot of aggregated info out there. I immediately searched this subject and really only came up with the map referenced at the end of the video. Would love to see all these locations mapped on a newer and better resolution map. Great video as always!

[@thetube237]

The Vikings came to North America first in the mid 950 AD. There is a Viking ruin, of stone buildings in l'Anse aux meadows in north Newfoundland Canada.

[@savioblanc]

What's even more insane is that they were Catholic Vikings and Greenland even had a Bishop for 300 years in the Middle Ages

[@balderleidland6357]

The vikings actually discovered Greenland just before the Americans came

[@CMZneu]

Actually the first undisputed sighting of the falklands was made by a Dutchman Sebald de Weerdt in around 1600.

[@zhiro_3]

No, the first european in the Falklands was Magallanes in 1520.

[@nderitos]

Yup. as said, I feel like a lot of these places were discovered... centuries or even millennia before. But the technology and practicality of trying to settle those random islands in those times was completely unfeasible... so people just moved on to somewhere more reasonable. It's crazy to think how some village of people on ramshackle boats went across the ocean, without any established entity supporting them, and maintained a civilization in some of these remote places though.

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

Population pressures and food struggles, etc must have pushed them to find more and more lands to settle. Mainland and big Islands with many people probably saw Islanders leaving to find better territory & settling it, or groups of fisherman accidentally getting stranded by storms on a new island and settling it.

[@johnwolf2829]

Yes, and from the number that didn't make it at all..... wow. Planes and ships still vanish all the time, but back then they didn't even have clocks. People can do what they set their minds to and instead of listening to people who say "nope, can't be done" they sit down and figure out how they COULD do it. Those are history's winners.

[@JsJdv]

Why would you think that? Is it because there were literal societies in some of those places? Like actual people who had their own culture, traditions and are capable of trading in distant lands in those places? ABSURD!

[@henrymugello3387]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 Give it up.

[@itsytyt5192]

מנ

[@Tusiriakest]

“E ao imenso e possível oceano Mostram estas quinas que aqui vês Que o mar com fim pode ser grego ou romano, Mas o mar sem fim é português.” “And to the immense and impossible ocean These cinchonas teach, what you here see, That the sea with an end might be Greek or Roman: But the endless sea is Portuguese.” (Cinchonas-short for Portuguese coat of arms)

[@joaofernandorossimazzoni617]

"Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal são lágrimas de Portugal!"

[@brunosurrador2161]

Lindo

[@imlovely6522]

La "esclavitud, el colonialismo y la colonización" son todas las cosas malas hechas y beneficiadas por los malhechores. Los europeos cristianos son los principales participantes y benefactores de siglos de duración global, - Esclavitud, - Colonialismo, - Colonización en todo el mundo, desde América del Norte/Sur hasta Australia/Nueva Zelanda hasta Siberia/Extremo Oriente asiático, hasta el día de hoy.

[@rottenrobbie8466]

@@imlovely6522 ¿Puedo preguntarle si le interesa saber el hecho de que los nativos americanos y su población en los continentes de América hace 500 años era de alrededor de 15 millones, mientras que la población europea en Europa era de alrededor de 25 millones? Hoy en día, la población de nativos americanos es de 15 millones, mientras que la población europea, en los continentes de América + Europa, ¡es la asombrosa cifra de 'DOS MIL MILLONES'! Por ejemplo, hace 200 años aquí en los EE. UU. vinieron alrededor de 3 millones de alemanes, y ahora hay 65 millones de germano-estadounidenses; mientras que hace 150 años llegaron alrededor de 2 millones de irlandeses, y ahora hay 45 millones de irlandeses-estadounidenses. Mientras que hace 500 años se estimaba que había de 5 a 6 millones de nativos americanos indígenas en los EE. UU., antes de la llegada de Cristóbal Colón, hoy en día solo sobrevivieron alrededor de 2 millones de nativos americanos indígenas. Imagínese este escenario, si los nativos americanos cruzan el Atlántico, invaden y colonizan Europa, masacran a la mayoría de los europeos y colocan a las poblaciones restantes en pequeñas reservas durante 500 largos años. ¿Cómo se sentirían los europeos al respecto? Piénsalo. Todo lo que necesitan es recuperar su amada patria, las tierras en las que los antepasados ​​de sus antepasados ​​habían vivido en las buenas y en las malas, soportado las dificultades y todo durante generaciones. Además, los nativos americanos indígenas en tierras colonizadas de anglo-británicos, españoles y otros son más de lo mismo. Matar a los indígenas Nativos y a quien quede, marginarlos y crear una pobreza artificial, una vez que esa pobreza se convierte en delincuencia y bebida, los medios de comunicación señalan a los pobres y los culpan de seguir estigmatizando a la 'otra' comunidad, cabrones, etc. Sorprendente hecho de que los indígenas nativos hayan construido civilizaciones tan grandes como la maya, la inca y la azteca sin ayuda externa, y todo desde cero, y por su cuenta, ya que habían estado aislados del resto del mundo durante veinte mil años. En otras palabras, en realidad son personas grandiosas y orgullosas. ¿Imagínese cómo sería hoy si los nativos americanos hubieran poseído algún tipo de armas nucleares para defenderse a sí mismos y a sus queridas patrias de los invasores colonizadores? La respuesta es que aún tendrían sus amadas patrias, además de una población comparable a la de la población europea. En mi humilde opinión, ya es hora de descolonizar las tierras colonizadas y devolverlas a sus legítimos propietarios, los nativos americanos. Recuerde, los notorios crímenes cardinales globales que Occidente ha cometido, y se ha beneficiado mucho, como la Esclavitud y el Colonialismo, habían terminado hace mucho tiempo, ¿por qué diablos es esta otra colonización notoria que aún persiste, puedo preguntar?

[@imlovely6522]

@@rottenrobbie8466 Me quedé boquiabierto cuando me enteré del megagenocidio de los nativos americanos indígenas, y su población en los continentes de América hace 500 años era de alrededor de 15 millones, mientras que la población europea en Europa era de alrededor de 25 millones. Hoy en día, la población de nativos americanos es de 15 millones, mientras que la población europea, en los continentes de América + Europa, ¡es la asombrosa cifra de 'DOS MIL MILLONES'! Una triste verdad. 😔 Estoy de acuerdo, ya es hora de descolonizar las tierras colonizadas y devolverlas a los propietarios legítimos, los pueblos indígenas nativos americanos. Cierto, notorios crímenes cardinales globales que Anglo West ha cometido, y se ha beneficiado mucho, como la Esclavitud y el Colonialismo habían terminado hace mucho tiempo, ¿por qué la notoria Colonización aún persiste, lo cual tiene sentido?

[@AvidSonicFan]

I have a very loose theory as to what happened to Pitcairn Island before the Spanish discovered it abandoned. I believe the Polynesian settlements there may have all been wiped out by a volcano eruption, and literally nobody there lived to tell the tale.

[@quinceyjohnson6250]

Is there any proof from carbon dating?

[@mattdombrowski8435]

Last I knew the theory was that they were dependent on food imports from a "nearby" island and the population died out after trade dried up. This is backed up by finding Pitcairn stones on islands in French Polynesia.

[@HarJBeRw]

2:00 Uuum, dunno where you got your figures but modern humans definitely didn't arrive in australia before they arrived in europe hahaha. The general accepted figure for australia is about 45kya, whereas humans arrived in europe over 120kya. Which only makes sense considering europe is right next to africa, and australia's on the other side of the globe 😅 Additionally, you're assuming that those people that initially arrived in australia were the ancestors of today's aboriginals. We're not certain of that, we just know the aboriginals have lived there for a long time. Edit: I seem to have been mistaken in my belief. Apparently earlier human arrivals to europe weren't homo sapiens, and sapiens made it 48kya to australia, while evidence in europe suggests 40kya. I'm astonished, but good job RLL, leaving this up as a testament to a learned lesson. Edit2: would love for someone to explain how the hell homo sapiens could make it to australia before europe considering the distance though?!

[@footballnerd277]

Maybe he meant to say Western Europe?

[@h____hchump8941]

Homo sapiens didn't leave Africa until 100k years ago, and reached Australia before they reached Europe. At least that was the consensus 5/10 years ago.

[@ignemuton5500]

you're confused, you're thinking about homo genus in general which indeed has arrived to europe before to australia (because only homo sapiens reached australia) early modern humans (you) only arrived to europe at the earliest 45,000 years ago. the earliest early modern humans who reached australia did so at the very least 50,000 years ago, at the current moment these first arrivals are believed to be the direct ancestors of the modern aboriginals as well, there might have been more migration waves later but we are not sure of that yet.

[@p00bix]

Homo sapiens didn't arrive in Europe until about 40,000 kya. The closely related Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalis, which may or may not be considered true humans depending on who you ask, did arrive earlier though.

[@HarJBeRw]

@@p00bix Hah, in that case I take it the humans that arrived in australia 45kya were likely to be Erectus and Denisovans then?

[@okapijohn4351]

It pretty much depends on the definition of discovery. If you arrive to a new land and: 1. you have no idea that that is new, never before seen piece of land. 2. you are not capable to tell to the rest (or the majority) of the world that you have the knowledge of that new land (lack of writing system, records, means of communication, etc). 3. you have no capacity to "point on the map" that piece of land so you can return and go back there. Pretty much you have not discovered anything. I doubt the first humans arriving to AUS, NZ or the Americas had the notion that they were in a new place never before touched by other humans.

[@anarcho.femboyism]

No one ever said they were the first to discover anything except European colonists. Aborigine and indigenous folks never claimed to discover these lands either. Just that the way lived there before Europeans arrived. Don’t see the issue with point out that Europeans didn’t discover something. You’re other definitions aren’t for discovery they’re definitions for first contact and for mapping/cartographing a place for the first time.

[@okapijohn4351]

@@anarcho.femboyism that is why there is a difference between, the ones who discover and the first ones who arrive there. As I explained in my comment you can be the first one to arrive there but it doesn't make you discover the place if nobody elses knows about that. As an example, it was recently found that the vikings were in the Azores before the Portuguese. But they failed to tell everyone else they were there. How do we know? The fossils of Rats in the Azores are genetically close to those of Scandinavian origins. But the portuguese not only found them as well they reported their finding and they mapped their new discovery. Attention, when I say mapping, I am not only referring to European cartography but to navigation description in general. Polynesians did not have cartography but they were still capable to describe the navigation among the Pacific and share that info.

[@animatorofanimation128]

​@@neo-didact9285 No one here is claiming anyone is "sub-human". Also by your logic, Polynesians and Amerindians were way behind as well because they failed to "discover" Europe. The term "discover" is ultimately relative, to Europeans the fact the people had lived in the America's long before they knew about it was totally irrelevant to them in every way prior to the Europeans arriving. Since the original Americans didn't tell any other part of the world they existed (regardless as to the reason), their discovery was irrelevant to everyone else in every other part of the world. When Europeans found the landmass and them, it was the Europeans who spread their existence to the world and made their existence "known", thats why some say Europeans "discovered" America. Relative to the original Americans they didn't, but relative to literally everyone else, they kinda did since it's the only reason we (non-native americans) know about them

[@jasonhaven7170]

@@animatorofanimation128 Stop using Europeans. Eastern Europe, except Russia, never did anything during the Age of Colonisation. Especially not somewhere like Poland or Romania. It was specific countries, the UK, France, Spain, Netherlands and Portugal. That's not even half of Europe, so it's not Europe. It wasn't Europeans. It was certain explorers from certain countries. Also, with your logic, Asians and Africans "discovered" Europe

[@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER]

Thats a bunch of useless semantics. To discover something means to be somewhere where it is known that no one has been before beyond reasonable doubt. And the only places like that for Europeans are a bunch of islands.

[@conman128]

As someone who is living in America, I’m SO glad the Europeans settled this place and in just a few centuries turned it into one of the most developed and technologically advanced places in the world🇺🇸

[@mathsdebater231]

The natives where there thousands of years before

[@conman128]

@@mathsdebater231 Yeah and what did they do here for thousands of years? They warred with and pillaged with other native tribes, made child sacrifices, enslaved each other, didn’t wear clothes, made no technological advancements, and hadn’t even domesticated cattle. Europeans enter the picture and in a few centuries create the most free, richest, technologically advanced nation to ever exist on this planet.

[@mathsdebater231]

@@conman128 I just stated a fact that’s all I’m not here for a big debate

[@conman128]

@@mathsdebater231 Ok but the fact u states is completely irrelevant to the topic I discussed in my comment

[@mathsdebater231]

@@conman128 not completely irrelevant

[@snowdog03]

Discovery in that time meant discovering for themselves, not the World.

[@anarcho.femboyism]

Yet we still say they discovered it, having our current connotations of the word “discovered” so that’s not exactly a good argument, since that only gives a (frankly quite valid) reason they did it but not a reason we do.

[@5frogfrenzy]

How about you discover some bitches? (For yourself)

[@realharlow]

exato

[@anarcho.femboyism]

@@5frogfrenzy 😠😔😞😞

[@nickfisher8569]

The Portuguese are the GOATs of European Exploration

[@SteffonDudley]

The reason Europe gets credit for these discoveries: they were the only ones advanced enough to actually keep a record of their discoveries.

[@mohq9573]

Everyone made records, euro records just happen to survive because they were last to the game of exploration so it wasn't that long ago.

[@NCRonrad]

“Advanced” wouldn’t shower or bathe because of sin entering the pores 😂 They were brutal enough to murder and burn the records being kept - look up the burning of thousands of Mayan books and their libraries by friar Delanda. Strange superiority stance you want to pin yourself to

[@Excalibur-pj3jb]

Not at all. The Arabs made extensive records of their discoveries too, as did the Chinese when they sailed. In fact, these records were what motivated the Europeans to go exploring in the first place in search of gold.

[@CJonesApple]

Europeans were late, well the first inhabitants of the now Americas were late to discover Europe.

[@snowdog03]

The Norse also traveled through Hudson's Bay and far inland to the S.W. Also to Long Island.

[@anarcho.femboyism]

Do we have evidence/archeological sites? Never heard of em making that far inland before

[@brandonb8035]

“The Russians discovered Antarctica.” (shows image of polar bears) 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I really think the Polynesian people really had such a huge role in so many locations that they travelled to. Think of all we don't even know about. Man just image what knowledge was lost in the burning of the library of Alexandria?

[@jasonhaven7170]

Nothing, everything was copied and stored in other libraries.

[@gamerwim9095]

The amount of people in the comment section mad that European nations untied the world. None of us would exist if this exploration didn’t happen

[@mahoganydoughnut6082]

2:28 that's a very disingenuous statement. Sure europeans weren't the first to discover everything but none of the peoples mentioned were "global" explorers. They lived around where they were born like everyone else, europeans were very much the first people to travel to multiple continents on opposite sides of the globe.

[@mikeykwaak272]

Let's gooooo, finally something we Portuguese are/were the best at for once :)

[@duartevader2709]

Les gooooo

[@thelordnaevis4946]

The only thing the Europeans did (except discovering these new land included in the video) was record all the previously discovered land, essentially making it known to the whole world I mean, I think no one has explored every piece of land on Earth except for them

[@AllenLinnenJr]

You really need to go and look up the meaning of the word discover. Discovering something isn't just about finding it. That's only half of the story. In order for something to actually be discovered you have to find it and then tell the world about it. If you discover a secret and intern keep it a secret yourself. Then you have essentially covered over your discovery which negates the discovery. I know you want to be politically correct but that doesn't excuse misusing the word discover.

[@gcircle]

Thank you. Video should've been called "what lands were the Europeans the first humans on"

[@denelson83]

Hence the word, dis-cover.

[@mohq9573]

You're wrong. The definition is simple and just says finding something. You're just angry that the misleading labeling of "Age of Exploration" and "European discoveries" is rightly being pushed back on as the idiotic, racist trash propaganda that it is. dis·cov·er /dəˈskəvər/ Learn to pronounce verb 1. find (something or someone) unexpectedly or in the course of a search.

[@AllenLinnenJr]

@@mohq9573 no. Your definition is simplistic and wrong. Here's a good one: "discover (v.) c. 1300, discoveren, "divulge, reveal, disclose, expose, lay open to view..." Implicit in the meeting of discover is showing it to other people. A discovery is only a discovery if you tell everyone about it. Otherwise it's just something you found out.

[@ph6560]

Totally agree. Great comment btw!

[@entombedentity7059]

I’m cape verdian, I had no idea our islands were amongst the first to be found. Awesome man

[@sambeaumont395]

Got to love that the Antarctic picture/drawing (or at least the one shown while discussing Antarctica) has Polar Bears on it.

[@obbeachbum69]

After the last ice age, ~10,000 years ago, the oceans levels were much lower, exposing countless land bridges that would soon be under water. That’s how primitive people made what appears now to be impossible treks across the ocean.

[@CosmicCreeper99]

It’s called the age of European Exploration because it was exploration for Europe.

[@globe7640]

🤯

[@Clippingithub]

No shit

[@Omer1996E.C]

Why is it called discovery?

[@globe7640]

@@Clippingithub Sherlock

[@randomuser5443]

@@Omer1996E.C It was with the going trend of the empirical revolution

[@Rishi123456789]

ALL countries today have some territory that was colonised by Europeans. For example, parts of what is now present-day Thailand were colonised by the French Empire. Parts of what is now present-day Liberia were colonised by the Portuguese Empire. A part of Japan (Nagasaki, to be precise) was colonised by the Portuguese Empire. A part of what is now Saudi Arabia was also colonised by the Portuguese Empire. Parts of what is now present-day Mongolia were colonised by the Russian Empire. Parts of what is now present-day China were colonised by both the British Empire and the Portuguese Empire. Parts of what is now Iran were colonised by the Russian Empire. Parts of what is now present-day Afghanistan were colonised by both the British Empire and the Russian Empire during the Great Game. Parts of what is now Ethiopia were colonised by the Italian Empire. So you see, every single country in the world today was colonised to some extent by Europeans. Every single country. No exceptions. No other group has achieved this. Even the Mongol Empire, which was the largest contiguous empire of all time, is still second to the British Empire in size and the British Empire was only ONE of multiple European colonial empires (although undoubtedly the most influential one, the fact we're all typing in English being a testament to that). In terms of empire-building, Europeans are collectively unparalleled in human history.

[@williamromine5715]

The Europeans may not have been the first people to " discover" the New World", Pacific Islands, etc, but they were the first to put these places on the "map". Except for the people living these places, nobody in the rest of the world knew about them until the age of discovery by the Europeans. Most of the world new nothing about these lands before the Europeans started stumbling on them. In that sense, they were "discovered" by Christopher Columbus et al.

[@relaxingsoundsforsleeping4852]

how can u claim to discover something that's already been found? how can u claim to be the first to do something when u destroy and burn the works of those that did it before u; and showed u how to do it? only ppl who WANT to believe lies will uphold their fallacy

[@williamromine5715]

@@relaxingsoundsforsleeping4852 The answer to your first sentence is contained in my comment. The rest of your reply has nothing to do with video.

[@relaxingsoundsforsleeping4852]

@@williamromine5715 exactly 😉

[@relaxingsoundsforsleeping4852]

@@williamromine5715 there's a reason columbus et al would like to start history books from 1492. google when the Moorish empire ended in europe

[@AchyutChaudhary]

1:11 Just curious, since the Viking (Norse) has already ‘discovered’ 🇬🇱Greenland - which forms part of the North American Continent, why don’t they get credit for ‘founding’ the Americas?

[@diogorodrigues747]

Greenland was inhabited before the Vikings.

[@danielfernald7626]

Because they didn't stay for very long and their discovery was unknown to most of Europe, even to most Norse, and was forgotten afterwards. The only reason why we know they were there before Columbus is because of archeological evidence. When Columbus landed in the Caribbean it led to the age of European colonialism which changed European and world history drastically.

[@mattdombrowski8435]

A really good analogy I've heard is imagine you have a friend who offered to sell you bitcoin in 2010 for $0.01 a coin but you refused because you thought it was stupid. Then, in 2019, you tell everyone you know how you "knew about bitcoin in 2010 but didn't buy in". You only get credit if you do something with it. Columbus, on the other hand, has had a broad and profound legacy on the history of the world (for good and for ill).

[@savioblanc]

Because the Norse themselves forgot about their possessions after they left the place

[@brendzbeats]

True followers of real life lore will remember his remote island videos back in the day - good to see Pitcairn and Tristan da Cuhna make a comeback 🥳🥳🥳 - on another note though Pitcairn was actually rediscovered by the British not the Spanish no ?

[@InciniumVGC]

Whether or not other people were already living there is irrelevant, the Age of Exploration was when Europeans discovered the rest of the world and that is the only discovery that is historically relevant to Western civilization. Europeans were also the first to correctly map the entire world.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

Thank you!

[@GUSTA99X]

God bless Europe and the USA

[@XX_MelobraacRedux]

Why do people keep acting like the Vikings discovering America is some big deal? They literally didn’t do anything of substance, stood here for so little time and didn’t leave any impact on the continent or change history. I think the channel Knowing Better made a really good video on this topic, and I don’t care if he rescinded his stance on the Christopher Columbus video, those were legitimately arguments against this stupid Viking notion.

[@bjrnerikternstenhaukens5541]

I mean it isn’t really a big deal, it just means that Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first european to discover America

[@milochapman5804]

@@bjrnerikternstenhaukens5541 Americans can’t hack it for some reason to have anyone talk against Columbus

[@Zayk74u]

@@milochapman5804 hell I'm American and I'm glad CC lost that title

[@mathmeetsmusic]

Who made the music for that hello fresh ad at the end. Some really sick chords going on there.

[@electro10306]

It's also believed by some historians (many people don't know this) that the Portuguese actually "discovered" America before Columbus and Spain and had little colonies on modern Day Canada( New Scotia) (They were unsuccessful) and the name of the country it self may be from the Portuguese you the name Canada can come from a expression in Portuguese (Cá nada) Wich means (Here Nothing or Nothing Here) or the Spanish (aca nada) that means the same thing ( I believe the Portuguese way is more likely Because of the way it's said today)because when they arrived there the Portuguese/Spanish didn't found what they were searching (I think it was gold or something like that)

[@User31129]

It comes from the Huron-Iroquois word Kanata meaning Settlement. The Latin word for "Here is Nothing" is just a funny coincidence.

[@electro10306]

@@User31129 That's the most believed origin of the name(The one you said), there's also the chance that what I was saying Is correct or maybe it's both

[@Abby-ln9nd]

@@electro10306 it’s the most believed origin because it is by far the most likely and reasonable explanation. There’s also primary documents from Jacques Cartier that support this. Your explanation is purely circumstantial and speculative.

[@electro10306]

@@Abby-ln9nd That's what I said in the response above,I should have clarified

[@electro10306]

@@Abby-ln9nd Yeah, I didn't say it was official, I said it was kinda believed by some people that when choosing the name they also based it on what I said

[@realhawaii5o]

Interestingly, rat populations suggest the Azores might have been discovered by Scandinavians before the Portuguese were there.

[@desanipt]

Well, in some maps, islands arround the place the Azores and Madeira are today, show up in previous Italian maps as well. Although it is disputed whether they knew of them, or just randomly dree islands there which wasn't uncommon. But most likely, people have seen the islands before, yes

[@MrMhidoTheBoss]

Why the title change? The title 1 hour ago was: "what lands did the the europeans really discover? (not much)".

[@shreyasbhat0506]

Europe is the kind of student who ace the test inspite of coming late to class

[@levi12howell]

At the very least Europeans were the first to discover all of these locations at once. By “at once” I mean it was the first time one group of people had knowledge of all these distant places. Yes there were people on New Zealand, but the people on New Zealand didn’t also know about the people in Europe, Asia, Africa, Hawaii and the America’s. It was the first time the whole puzzle was put together. Looking at how that shaped our world today does make it seem like a big discovery

[@yolo8283]

saying that the maori people didn't know about asia and hawaii is a stretch considering these people have long been trading with each other through southeast asia

[@kiaora7214]

We might not have known about Europeans until they arrived on our shores, but we knew about the other places you state, centuries before the euros got here. That's because we know who we are and where we come from. But your education system told you another story and you believed it. That's your choice.

[@kiaora7214]

​@@yolo8283thank you for doing your research, respects 🙏

[@patrickt4533]

Being in Australia for 50.000 years. And stil live in huts. With no clothes. Living in the americas for 15.000 years and still be highly underdeveloped than the europeans. We were one of the last people that developed(euros). But dominated the world.

[@GrimmDelightsDice]

Oh leave with the white supremacy. Different doesn't mean worse.

[@montz1757]

@@GrimmDelightsDice where did you get that he was a white supremicist? Also, if it doesn't mean worse then get off the internet and go live in the woods with a leaf covering your small pepe

[@patrickt4533]

@@ignemuton5500 in 50.000 years.................

[@ignemuton5500]

@@patrickt4533 yes, isolation and lack of proper grain and draft animals does that to a mfer. why do yall go on about europeans anyway? the first civilazations weren't even in europe, they were in the middle east, china, south america and india.

[@ZontarDow]

@@ignemuton5500 someone read Guns, Germs and Steel and never bothered to look into the hack who wrote it and ask why China, India and the Middle East fell so far behind as to all be dominated by Europe despite the theory dictating that such a thing shouldn't have been possible if it held true.

[@BienvenidoAlHoloceno]

Very cool video!

[@Alahlyandsalahfan11]

So if the people who discovered are from Europe.. Then who Discovered Europe?

[@icelandinreallife2042]

Me.

[@danielkarbozov8026]

I think you little bit wrong the first Europeans who settled in Azores where vikings the reson because of the rats that was discovered on islands according to experts was settled by other people long before Portuguese settled there but still thanks for uploading the video it was awesome 👍

[@miguelpereira934]

What experts are those? Stop making stuff up

[@Ash_Lawless]

as a newfoundland & Labradorian, you almost pronounced it right. also Labrador was 100% discoevered, made contact with by norse and they called it markland

[@balderleidland6357]

And the Norse also discovered Greenland

[@Ash_Lawless]

@@balderleidland6357 depends on your definition of discovered. Norse weren't the first people's to find it, but they were the first Europeans, same with labrador, the Cree and Inuk were here for hundreds of years prior

[@fatalalchemy602]

People look back at European discovery of the Americas, Australia, as such a bad thing always associating it nowadays with the negative aspects of colonization. But the spirit of discovery is inherent in humans, it should be celebrated.

[@saetainlatin]

Fernando de Magallanes already discovered Las Malvinas (Falklands) in 1519

[@zeq9021]

The Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands) were invaded by a dictatorship in Argentina that tried to legitimate their rule. Argentinian people never wanted that war and was lid on the how it was going. Even more considering that prior to that conflict, the British agreed on a peaceful hand-over of the Islands to Argentina.

[@martindione386]

not exactly, the brits were using their colonists as an excuse to not hand them over

[@zoomerboomer1396]

"In truth the Europeans were very late to the game of global exploration". Pretty sure that's factually wrong, don't think the people named in the video like the Polynesians,Aborigines or even the Vikings were in the game of "global exploration", they were in the game of regional exploration and trading at best. I think it's bad to be eurocentric but just doing a 180 in the other direction is also a bit too much.

[@21rhocke]

That's racistt

[@ashbyalec14]

So proud of Europeans! Such an intelligent and productive group of people.

[@kasperjuulrasmussen7331]

Let me guess you’re European

[@staticsnow22]

How dare a white person be proud of their ancestry! /s

[@raphlvlogs271]

12:37 why did you show a picture with polar bears when you said Antartica?

[@amanofculture9440]

Columbus was actually Portuguese too xD since the Portuguese wouldn't pay him to go to India through the, undiscovered, américas, he proposed the same to Spain

[@KevinXD]

Did Modern humans discover Africa or was it their predecessor, a more primitive form of human?

[@ignemuton5500]

modern humans originated in africa, so did pretty much every single species in the genus homo except for neanderthals, floresiensis and denisovans, our ties to africa go back even before the apes.

[@KevinXD]

@@ignemuton5500 but those all evolved from early humans that left Africa into Europe and Asia

[@KevinXD]

then modern humans left Africa and gang graped them.

[@ignemuton5500]

​@@KevinXD you uh, you are aware all humans alive today are the exact same species right? some people have slight leftovers from neandethals and denisovans but like, everyone is the same species, you know that right? homo erectus, the most likely direct ancestor of homo sapiens lived all across africa and parts of asia, however homo sapiens evolved species from one population of homo erectus in east africa and eventually spread out from there

[@KevinXD]

@@ignemuton5500 Why are you trying to be a smart as? I'm very well educated on the subject, your response makes no sense.

[@GonzaTarna]

There is just as strong evidence that the British arrived first to the Malvinas/Malouines/Falkland Islands as there is in favour of the Spanish or French. Since all territory of the current Argentina obtained independence from the Spanish crown, that's the claim Argentina implied in the archipelago.

[@troybailey9524]

Thank you for using metric RealLifeLore. I hope it influences other Americans to do the same in their videos.

[@akai4942]

the falklands islands were known to the natives in southern argentina, like the Yaghan, Ona and Tehuelches. And southern Greenland was unknown to the Dorset people (pre inuit natives) who only lived in the far north of Greenland. When the norse discovered them, those lands were unknown, so i guess that also counts.

[@martindione386]

no conclusive evidence that Patagonian natives visited the Falklands before the Europeans

[@akai4942]

@@martindione386 yes, there is. The falkland fox could have not reached the island without human interference. There is also more evidence

[@Raph-ug6ll]

"The europeans didn't discover it, the scandinavians did", how dense are you !?

[@packaperc]

did you know that in 1170 over 300 years before christopher columbus landed on america a welsh prince named madoc owain gwynedd landed on north america and died there.

[@cptthunderbolt5084]

At 0:00 Who first thought we were watching a GEO-HISTORY Video? Lmao 😂🤣

[@EyeOfThePhi]

heckin wholesome BIPOC content =-)

[@fitco111]

Just like Europeans just stumbled in Europe, Native americans stumbled in America, aborigines in Oceania. The Europeans and some seafaring tribes were the first to activily sail in search of lands. Stumbling somewhere doesn't mean discovery. But I understand it's trendy nowadays do deminish European accomplishment. Truth is we just did it better than everybody else.

[@abebrosiczki637]

Wh.. what.. how did the Austro-Hungarians end up in the Arctic Ocean.. 😱

[@noahpelletier6616]

You forgot Europe itself, smh. Though in all seriousness, shouldn't Greenland have also been mentioned? It's in pretty much the same boat as Iceland after all.

[@asitwaghmare01]

It was already inhabited by the native people of Greenland.

[@hansandresen4392]

...slightly misleading in that - the Europeans were the first to discover the WHOLE planet, and add this information to our common body of knowledge - essentially uniting us all. Nobody else did that.

[@jovansjj]

The Portuguese also found Bermuda first, not the Spanish as most previously believed. (I'm Bermudian)

[@FBIagentObama]

“It’s not discovery if there are already people there” -unknown

[@ScienceMathematics101]

the funny part of this is that the portuguese actually started the navigation colonial era when prince henry the navigator(the king of the actual time)got on a boat and got to the atlantic islands of flores and corvos and then got on with discovering capo verde,sao tome and principe,angola,brazil,Mozambique,cape of good hope(a part of the city of cape town in south afrca)saint helena,ascension,trista da cunha,seychelles,reunion,mauritius and rodrigues, goa(a colonial province in india) moving on t the pacific with macau,timor leste,parts of china,indonesia an Malaysia but then the robers come in when king philip II come in and invades portugal forming the forced iberian union and then the dutch and british take notice of colonization and invade places like indonesia,the british were the portugues alliance which fights the robber dutches for portugal under iberian power and robbe some colonies like malaysia,india and much more.but jmped some parts like major portuguese navigators like ferdinand magellan,vasco da gama,bartolomeu diaz but the asians and kingdooms such as denmark and otoman didnt start former colonialism,fun fact brazil would be dutch colony if it didnt get independence from portugal

[@someguycalledcerberus9805]

"What Lands Did Europeans Discover First?" Thumbnail: Europe. Checks out.

[@Punpz]

PORTUGAL CARALHO!!!

[@EsotericOccultist]

I would like to see the grandiosity and scale of African warships in the next episode please

[@sangetube]

The best segway into an advert I've ever seen.

[@TheBestPrevail]

The reason that European discovery of these lands is important beyond it being the first discovery of the Europeans of the lands (which is VERY important) is that, whilst people had lived there before, they were not aware of anywhere outside of where they lived. Whereas the Europeans would discover basically everywhere and be the first to know about all of these different places. Also, the Europeans were far more civilised that the "natives", so it was much more important for that reason, too. Basically, imagine if an alien race were to land on Earth. Sure - we already know that Earth exists, but being contacted by this alien race would inform us that there is life outside of our planet, and we would learn a lot more about the universe than we did, previously. So, the discovery of the Americas, Asia, etc. by the Europeans is important for the progression of humans as a whole.

[@SandjyLima]

Great video! RealLifeLore. It brings me joy that you talked about my homeland Cape Verde. So i guess the islands weren't first found by Moors. I thought i saw some ancient maps from them that had some islands of the coast of West Africa

[@pointlessproductions13]

Question, I wonder if there was any time where another seafaring culture discovered an island already with a European population or around the same time as the Europeans leading to a dispute where the Europeans are the colonised.

[@DanCooper404]

Greenland

[@briangarcia7384]

Depends what you define as European, the Mediterranean probably has some examples

[@gchecosse]

Greenland and Taiwan, kind of.

[@gchecosse]

@Brian Garcia yes, arguably Cyprus, Crete, Sicily - conquered by Muslims. Also, going back far enough, Sardinia and Corsica conquered by Carthage.

[@savioblanc]

@@gchecosse technically all those islands were well known to the people in the region, so the analogy doesn't work. They weren't unknown islands in the Mediterranean.

[@Augustus_Imperator]

The discovery is meant in a culturally meaningful way. There might have been other humans in north and south america, but they had no clue, no maps and very little text of any cultural relevance beside their own tribal traditions. So yes, by humanity at large europeans discovered the new world. As an example this didn't happen when europeans met the asian, mostly Indian, Chinese and Japanese civilizations, because they were already culturally relevant, they had texts, maps, advanced technologies and a culturally meaningful knowledge of the world and their surroundings, so european sailors who went there didn't claim to have discovered the place for humanity, only to have found a way to have contact with asian civilizations.

[@ALYTALyrics]

@@lilwerner1518 I don't think anyone ever uses that word.

[@richardnixon2445]

@@BlueWhisperer what language are you typing in?

[@ALYTALyrics]

@@BlueWhisperer they are, just think about in what language your comment is written.

[@ALYTALyrics]

@@lilwerner1518 so?

[@richardnixon2445]

@@BlueWhisperer why do you continue speak in English if you dislike it?

[@peterthegreat6385]

If you dont put it in maps and books you cant call it discovery, so Europeans discover it all.

[@DEAN18349O]

12 55: i had a stroke listening to real life lore try to say the name of that island.

[@cliftonsargent1572]

I haven’t been impressed with the effort, editing and visual style sense I found LEMMiNO, keep it up I’m very happy I found your channel

[@ivanos_95]

Let's be honest, people usually don't care about the native people of those places, but rather give the Europeans credit for colonizing/civilizing the distant lands and by this way making them known to everybody else in the world through the European civilization, in which case the most successful nations are: #1 England, #2 Spain, #3 Russia, #4 France #5 Portugal, #6 Netherlands #7 Germany #8 Italy.

[@dgen77]

your opening statement is kinda wrong.. id say native americans didnt know about Europe or Africa, Aborigines didnt know about Europe or America etc.. Meanwhile Europeans were discovering whole globe.

[@historylover8139]

The discoveries of america and other continents were mainly about europeans discovering land that was unknown to the civilized world at the time, not about being the first to live there. I thought youd know this.

[@anarcho.femboyism]

“Unknown to the Civilized world” So the empires covering South America and Central America are what exactly? Uncivilized empires?

[@historylover8139]

@@anarcho.femboyism They were, however they did not know about for example the carribean, or Brazil. The lands they knew about mostly ended at their borders.

[@richardandersen5813]

The Europeans discovered everything that they didn’t know before. Just because peoples live somewhere doesn’t mean it wasn’t discovered from the European point of view. Perspective is a important thing. From European history this is all correct, granted history from the POV would be different but we learn European history in the west.

[@keithfromireland]

So, who discovered the Canary Islands first? They are today a spanish archipelago of the west coast of Africa