How Much Land Did Europeans Really Discover?

[@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

[@DenDave_]

Imagine living in a world where you can sail the oceans and just happen to find islands that - to your knowledge - no one has ever been to before. That thought fascinates me.

[@Anne-ku3lj]

Correction: That no one white has ever been to before. Brown people will remind you that we were always there in those places. Eurocentricity is alive and well.

[@TugaThings]

@@Anne-ku3lj Did you watch the video?

[@JoaoCosta-ly1sw]

@@Anne-ku3lj You made it about race, no one else.

[@rafaelalodio5116]

Brown people are also people, and they arrived there through sailing as well.

[@mam0lechinookclan607]

@@rafaelalodio5116 But this Video is mostly about islands no human being was probably ever on before.

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

You've got to praise the Portuguese themselves. 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. Love to Portugal from India!

[@BigMan5338]

See I would but what they have done to the people of the African continent cannot be excused.

[@henrymugello3387]

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

[@bactuga764]

@@BigMan5338 every european country did that and some did even worse like belgium, atleast portugal was the first country in the world to abolish slavery completely, and they didnt have many wars, or atleast big wars of independence in their colonies like some other europeans countries had like the uk and france

[@Miguelgameiro00]

Love to India from Portugal!

[@SkittleBurstsxoxo]

@@bactuga764 Oh doing the bare minimum. Guess I should be sooooo appreciative.

[@alexanderklee6357]

I think the most important about the "age of exploration" was the map making and advances in shipping & trading technology, setting the stage for the industrial revolution as well as globalization. Edit: confused globalism with globalization

[@anarcho.femboyism]

That’s not discovery and no one ever said they’re not important. Simply dispelling a colonial myth called “Terras nullus” which was the justification for centuries of slavery and genocide. Pointing out these people didn’t discover something, and instead, as many people in these comments (unintentionally) pointed out that Europeans were the first to have mapped the world. Not discover most of the world. The age of exploration should be called an age of recording, age of mapping. Because that’s all they really did in terms of being first, along with the first to colonize on a global scale

[@Historiale2895]

@@anarcho.femboyism Your opinion doesn't make sense, while mapping you are exploring. If you don't explore or discover then you can't map the world. You are just bitter of what the Europeans have achieved and how they helped on shaping and modernizing this world.

[@itsanu1420]

@@Historiale2895 “modernization” is a largely inaccurate term operating in some definitions from a “western civilization is much better than other cultures” kind of stance. I think you may want to use industrialization instead, because industrialization is fine it’s great europe invented that.

[@Tu51ndBl4d3]

False

[@urphakeandgey6308]

I think you mean "globalization." "Globalization" and "Globalism" are two different things. Japan is the best example: They participate in international trade, but being staunchly monocultural and mostly monoethnic makes for a rather non-globalist society.

[@morbital]

I think it's more the fact that the Europeans linked together all the known places into a cohesive world map than actually "discovering" them.

[@jasonreed7522]

I think a reasonable way to put it is Europe was the first to publish their discoveries. Most of the natives found lands by following migrating animals or settling a couple valleys over in a slow march and then forgetting about old lands. The Polynesians had maps of the currents they sailled on but probably didn't even know about China, let alone Europe. What Europe gets credit for is not being the first to live somewhere but the first to map out the entire globe in a short time and make everyone aware of eachother. Even the Romans and Chinese were barely aware of eachother, they traded but after countless middle men all they really knew was that a large empire existed really far away and we like their goods. China was probably the first to try to do the same, making it all the way to south Africa with fairly accurate maps before thr dynasty (or just emperor) changed and they burned their navy and became isolationists again.

[@5frogfrenzy]

@@jasonreed7522 "They forgot" when there's proof of trade in the Americas over hundreds of miles? You can talk about the achievements of Europe without acting like other cultures were savages.

[@rottenrobbie8466]

"Slavery, Colonialism & Colonization" are all evil things done and benefited by evildoers. Christian Europeans are major participants and benefactors of centuries-long global, - Slavery, - Colonialism, - Colonization worldwide, from North/South America to Australia/New Zealand to Siberia/Far-East Asia, to this day. For God's honest truths, pls read informative multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment (on UTube) at, "China-US tensions: A closer look at the 'Five-Eyes' intelligence partnership / CGTN"

[@myparceltape1169]

Yes, they did this by going back home and making it known. The knowledge was pooled to an extent but most importantly it was never forgotten. At least, not yet forgotten.

[@myparceltape1169]

@@5frogfrenzy You are certainly right when you can use proof of trade. Especially when the stories between merchants of 'shortages' can be found. If archaeological evidence is found two millennia hence of food rationing in a part of Europe, there will be the question of Why that part only? Once a lack of trade is established to have happened at the same time in another area, there could be the possibility of No existing civilisation.

[@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

[@Potato-m1l]

@@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_]

@@Potato-m1l 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

[@thatiowan3581]

When people say Europeans "discovered" a land, they usually mean that they connected that land to the rest of the world

[@OldestHouse]

?

[@drksideofthewal]

You mean they “civilized the savages.” Old talking point.

[@JsJdv]

Trading already existed before we Europeans came. South East Asians for example had a long history of being sea farers which accounts were mostly destroyed during the colonial era. To say that we connected the land to the rest of the world is arrogance and dehumanizing to the people who live there, specially with the inherent subjectivity of the phrase "The Rest of the world".

[@RockSmithStudio]

Ya. There's a reason the Americas were called "New World" while the rest of the Euasian/Africa was considered "Old World". Europe's entrance into the Americas has forever tied the Americas to the rest of the Old World

[@henrymugello3387]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 Make better "content".

[@bangscutter]

It's weird that Antartica was discovered so late. You would have thought someone would be curious enough to just point their ship exactly south and just keep sailing until they reach the south pole.

[@sephreed1938]

I'm sure people were curious, but that's one hell of a sail. Super deadly.

[@MarkJGGs]

While it's still contentious new academic research from New Zealand indicates that Polynesians likely had at least seen Antarctica more than a thousand years ago. The articles about this were published in the last few years.

[@krlost4405]

It's more about logistics and sailing capabilities than curiosity... It's more remote than people able to grasp, since maps are biased towards the 'north' side, give a false impression of an easy task.

[@joaolemes8757]

@@krlost4405 it's not only far as hell, it's a terrible sea to sail at

[@GeorgeVenturi]

Once their balls started to freeze I am sure they turned the ship around to some tropical island.

[@Akislav1990]

The Canary Islands used to be settled and later abandoned, only to be later discovered by the Romans. The temple they found there told them they weren't first.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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!

[@shreyasbhat0506]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@The_Andy_H]

Isn't it obvious that the natives of course discovered the land first and didn't just spawn there? Just like the europeans didn't just spawn in Europe. So the europeans weren't late at all, that's just bs.

[@mohq9573]

It's obvious now because people have pushed back against bullshit eurotrash propaganda for the last 30 years. Euros were objectively late to the exploration game because their civilization wasn't even capable of large scale exploration at a time when places like China easily could. If anything it's an "Age of Mapping" not discovery.

[@zew1414]

I'm surprised the Polynesian's were able to fit into their boats with their enormous balls! It's seriously amazing how far and how many lands they discovered with what they had to sail in! Can't give them enough kudos! 👏💪

[@ChineduOpara]

Moana

[@wanitooo]

Austronesians are so good at sailing that they found Madagascar first instead of the Africans even though Madagascar is just right next to Africa

[@ChineduOpara]

@@wanitooo Right???

[@JohnDoe-sw1rs]

@@wanitooo There was never a land or ice bridge between africa and Madagascar so migrations were difficult and there was no reason for people to sail east because Africa’s already very large

[@jennyzubiri9312]

Austronesians in general were good sailors, not just the Polynesians. Other Austronesians never get any credit

[@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

[@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

[@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 😠😔😞😞

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@mikeykwaak272]

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

[@duartevader2709]

Les gooooo

[@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]

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[@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

[@lightningslayer100]

I love how the Europeans back then didn't even know they changed almost the entire world.

[@1999mreli]

Yea for the worst

[@jasonhaven7170]

What Europeans? It was a few thousand people, there's a good chance you're not even descended from any of these explorers

[@jasonhaven7170]

@george floyd's 20 dollar bill Wow, you're just racist

[@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.

[@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

[@rottenrobbie8466]

@I M Lovely ¿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?

[@rottenrobbie8466]

Slavery, Colonialism and Colonization are all evil things done by evildoers. 😔

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@CJonesApple]

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

[@jiayuzhang9681]

Columbus, and Europeans in large, mapped everything and linked the world together. I don’t think we should cancel age of exploration just because others lived in North America or Asia before the discovery. Without European voyagers, we could still be isolated pockets of humans. We also wouldn’t be as globalized as today.

[@FabioTheGreat]

Nope, other civilisations were doing the same.

[@anarcho.femboyism]

No one said that. We are simply saying he didn’t discover it, didn’t say he didn’t map it. Cartographing an area for the first time isn’t discovering it. You don’t go and map a part of the woods in your local park or be the first to update google maps with a picture or location of something and call it discovering. You’re just mapping stuff. But don’t equate one accomplishment with another. Mapping something for the first time is a Completely different accomplishment than discovering something for the first time. Celebrate them for what they actually did, not for the myths about what they did birthed by colonialism. They were the first to map most of the world, not discover it. Also one’s cancelling anyone, cancelling isn’t even real, besides he’s fucking dead lmao, wtf??? So sensitive that you call people pointing to facts as cancelling.

[@arryn786]

It wouldn’t and the world world would be completely fine without Europe existing at all tbh.

[@inigobantok1579]

@@anarcho.femboyism look at twitter and reddit mate. Columbus and Cortez are being cancelled like crazy.

[@notime9616]

@@inigobantok1579 - No. Most people don't live their lives according to Twitter and Reddit.

[@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

[@mukulutudu7056]

So beautiful To see the discoveries of Europeans. We are believers

[@desanipt]

I mean, "discover" doesn't imply you were the first to discover it. It just means you discovered something you didn't know before yourself. And those were definitely discoveries for Europeans, they found places they didn't know of. No one ever claimed they were the first human to do that for most of those place.

[@entombedentity7059]

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

[@brandonb8035]

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

[@strelnikoff7]

Arguably, according to the recent findings, Vikings may have reached Azores before Portugese. And this "may have" seems like - most certainly, even though they did not stick around.

[@henrymugello3387]

@@UnkownKZbinr286 Like we care.

[@ten_tego_teges]

There's also a theory that Phoneticians ventured far outside of the Mediterranean or even around Africa. We'll never know for sure though.

[@miguelpimentel5623]

There was litterally one shady university paper made on that, and all of the 5 "proofs" for that claim can be disputed/do not completly justify the claim

[@strelnikoff7]

@@miguelpimentel5623 Which one? About Phoenicians or nordic peoples (a.k.a. Vikings)?

[@miguelpimentel5623]

@@strelnikoff7 the vikings one, it was pretty much dismissed as of now by the cientific comunity

[@staticsnow22]

Not sure why people get so hung up on the term “discover.” Everyone knows Columbus wasn’t the very first person to reach the Americas, but it was still a discovery for the old world.

[@User31129]

I think it's crazy we have Columbus Day, when Ponce De Leon was the first person from Europe to set foot in modern day United States.

[@smg65]

Discovery is about mapping. If you don't know where you are at least relatively then it is not a discovery

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@someguycalledcerberus9805]

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

[@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?

[@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

[@parisfrance6483]

It wasn't just Vikings that discovered north America there were Basque people there as well .

[@PalkkiTT]

Disputed...

[@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

[@cptthunderbolt5084]

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

[@jasonb111222]

Would have been interesting // more complete to talk about when specific parts of Europe may have been first inhabited by humans, or what we do know from archeology (proto Europeans). By starting with Iceland, you're ignoring the rest of Europe that came before it, i.e. Ireland Britain, Scandinavia, etc...

[@CM-ss5pe]

That would be a totally different video because it happened so far back that we barely have any archaeological evidence of it. The earliest evidence of human activity in Ireland, for example, is dated to 33,000 years ago during the prehistoric era.

[@ignemuton5500]

that would make the video too unfocused, it would be too much information for one video.

[@xpusostomos]

Europeans discovered ALL lands... Just not always first.

[@ShihammeDarc]

2:27 "Very late to the game of global exploration" but they are literally the second or third civilizations who ventured out to unknown lands after prehistoric humans colonized the world.

[@anarcho.femboyism]

Yeah, that’s not what he’s disproving. He’s saying that they didn’t discover much, since they’re often weren’t the first. Never said they weren’t the third to do so. Just said they weren’t the first. Maybe don’t win an argument in your head before you make it

[@ShihammeDarc]

@@anarcho.femboyism the last line can be applied to you as I am arguing with no one. He said exploration, not discovery. Most civilizations didn't explore lands unknown to them.

[@mohq9573]

@@ShihammeDarc every single civilization explored lands unknown to them before satellites were a thing.

[@MrDoYouKnowMe2211]

People really hate the massive progress that europeans made for all of human history, and will take any opportunity to discount it.

[@BienvenidoAlHoloceno]

Very cool video!

[@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 ?

[@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

[@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

[@HunterAllyn]

Buttery smooth transition into the ad

[@MrMhidoTheBoss]

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

[@patrickazzarella6729]

2 mins and I'm wondering so what? The vikings never told anyone and it was lost to history for a long time and The Polynesian had no real influence on the world at large, it was Europe's discovery of the Americas that changed Europe, Asia and Africa forever.

[@Gynkys]

You answered your own question. The "so what" is the impact Europeans have had on the continents they discovered. Arguably the discovery of the Americans by Europeans are what built the modern world and the way of life you live right now.

[@randomuser5443]

The Americas were still discovered by the Europeans just whiter and cooler than we thought europeans

[@lokomiapax]

Falkland Islands were in the Portuguese Maps in the 15th century, so yees, portugal discovered alot of islands

[@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

[@Pence912]

We won’t discover any aliens because they were there first apparently

[@FBIagentObama]

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

[@EyeOfThePhi]

heckin wholesome BIPOC content =-)

[@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.

[@1984-XIXc.]

Recently I have been thinking what was the largest island actually discovered by Europeans.

[@Spacemongerr]

It was Iceland. Because Britain wasn't an island when humans from Europe went there thousands of years ago.

[@Faerandur]

@VidsOf2Friends Greenland had previously been inhabited by the inuits, I believe

[@gchecosse]

@@Faerandur there were indigenous people, but not yet the inuits, who arrived after the norse.

[@savioblanc]

@@gchecosse I believe they did encounter indigenous locals in Greenland when they landed there and settled the island

[@troybailey9524]

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

[@alanvictor5799]

Well, like you said, the Europeans discovered Antarctica. Don't know but, for me, an entire continet is a pretty huge deal.

[@nathanghesquiere6266]

It is true that the Europeans weren't the first people to walk the lands of Australia, the Americas etc., but they are the first to discover them. They were the first humans to venture outside their own continent and create a map of the world that became widespread knowledge in the centuries to come. The conclusion of this video is wrong.

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

How can the Europeans be the first to discover the Americas, Australia, etc. when there were already people living there?

[@nathanghesquiere6266]

@@adarshmohapatra5058 Imo, 'discovering' in the historical sense means venturing out of the known area with the aim of gaining knowledge about unknown areas. Aboriginals lived in Australia, but they did not have the means nor ambition to exit their continent in the search of new lands. They weren't explorers, which the Europeans definitely were.

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

@@nathanghesquiere6266 Oh well, I guess we can say that the Europeans "discovered" these lands, and made it known to the rest of the old world. But I wouldn't say that humanity discovered them at the same time as the Europeans discovered them, as the Native Americans, Aboriginals etc. were the first to discover these lands. The Native Americans are most likely Siberians who over generations crossed the Bering Strait into America. The aboriginals did the same thing but from South-East Asia. They definitely had the means (boats, walking) and ambition (to find new places to live) to discover these lands.

[@Faerandur]

To everyone disputing the use of "Discovery" in the video as dismissive of the major european discoveries that led to the whole world being integrated and knowledge of all lands being given eventually to all peoples, this video is not doing that. It's just that the video is focusing on land the Europeans discovered FIRST. The other discoveries also happened, they are discoveries, but they weren't the first to discover them.

[@newtfigton8795]

I don’t think these MFers are actually watching it, they just want to be outraged and change the subject.

[@matejpavel2296]

Europe was pretty late, true. I think the mire important thing was spreading knowledge of the discoveries or whatever you want to call them. Almost every land was settled before Europe got there, but they didn't know about each other. Asians didn't know about the Americas (except maybe some of the Bering strait tribes), the Maori didn't know about Europe, etc etc

[@TheKewlPerson]

Don't forget Europeans were also the first humans to discover Europe

[@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!

[@Raph-ug6ll]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@eduardocl3351]

The English didn't discover the Falklands, the Spaniards did decades before, thank you.

[@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!

[@heffe1287]

Damn imagine enslaving the world on a quest for seasonings

[@Fools_Requiem]

The Cayman and Falkland islands as well as Bermuda being first discovered by Europeans is pretty surprising.

[@carlinthomas9482]

Same with Cape Verde and Sao Tome just off the coast of Africa.