How Portugal Lost Its Empire

The Portuguese were the first nation in history to build a global empire, yet somewhere along the line things fell apart. So how did Portugal lose its empire?
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[@SideQuestYT]

CORRECTION: @5:22 I incorrectly said King Sebastian went to fight the Ottomans. He actually fought the Sultan of Morocco, Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik (who was nevertheless supported by the Ottomans).

[@petiteexplication6249]

Oh wow i just clicked on this

[@thewilltheway]

@@thedonkey6704 They recently got algorithm'd and pulled a 35% increase in subs since Sunday. They are doing some housekeeping I bet.

[@janettymojilin9018]

Oh okey... Nice. Anyway, the subs is increasing..

[@nufvcosta]

The 1755 quake also played a role in Portugal's downfall, Lisbon was decimated by a quake, followed by a tsunami, and since it was All Saints Day, candles were lit everywhere, turning the city into a burning pyre.

[@nufvcosta]

@Thisis Gettinboring it was extremely ironic, timing wise. It was not only a massive blow to economy, but to religious morale as well. I picture those few hundred who ran to the shore, only to be swallowed alive by a tsunami. "World is ending" alright..

[@ruben34]

To this day in Portugal, whenever it gets foggy someone always says that king Sebastião is returning. It was such a mistirious defeat that the portuguese people kept hoping for the safe return of the king year after year, decade after decade, until it became embedded in our language.

[@sergiodasilva6505]

Any day now......any day now

[@AleaRandomAm]

It wasn't mysterious at all, it was doomed to fail from the beginning and the experienced nobles asked the king to turn back many times. He literally had never fought a single battle before and the army was composed in great part of mercenaries and soldiers who also had never fought a single battle before. Also the legend about him disappearing or whatever is BS, there are testimonies from survivors of him getting struck in the head by a sword and falling dead. And apart from Filipe III, the Habsurg/Filipine dynasty wasn't even that bad, Filipe I actually did quite a good job, Portuguese autonomy was respected and he even governed from Lisbon for some years. Its reputation is exaggerated by the House of Bragança for propaganda purposes (ironic since the House of Bragança initially supported Filipe against António). Read Frederico Mendes Paula's book or articles about the subject. Sebastianism is cringe as hell, Sebastião deserves no praise or sympathy.

[@sergiodasilva6505]

@@AleaRandomAm Don't question absolute authority for the king knows all

[@zyzzsdisciples6707]

That’s hilarious

[@robtoe10]

I wonder how people would react if he did turn up after centuries lol "Oh well, at least I still have my throne...you did WHAT in 1910?!"

[@vitorluigi2911]

Also, a portuguese king declared himself the emperor of an independent country from himself, that helped a little

[@danielch6662]

Pedro wasn't king. He was crown prince. As it turned out, he never did become king. In Brazil he was crowned emperor instead.

[@tausifchowdhury8180]

Pedro was so cool in civ 6 or 5

[@kermitthethinker1465]

@@danielch6662 He was for some months king Pedro IV,one of the worst kings ever in my opinion

[@Yeorl]

Ya I am surprised he entirely glossed over that

[@akaysarkahyaoglu9075]

He was the heir to the Portuguese throne when he declared independence as the emperor of Brazil.A few months later his father died and he also became king of Portugal.He believed that the Brazilian people wouldn't take a union with their former overlord well so he abdicated.

[@ColorwaveCraftsCo]

"Spice Daddy" 🤣

[@ultraapple3997]

So sugar dads give slaves?

[@Sabundy]

That had me dying too

[@Tudomummeum]

Mmmm I love callin Papa Port ma Spice Daddy...

[@safi6749]

Paul Muaddib

[@cinemacritic9571]

Sooo funny

[@samiamrg7]

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough how much Portugal got screwed when it joined Spain. That was when Portugal lost some of it’s most crucial outposts in India, Southeast Asia, and the Persian Gulf because Spain was way too overextended to defend them. The British and Dutch ended up taking a lot of islands and outposts off the hands of both Spain and Portugal.

[@himesilva]

And now days people always say “Spain” when taking about Iberia… Never trust the Spanish 😂

[@kermitthethinker1465]

Iberian union effects are overrated,the only really bad stuff that happened were that we became enemy of the Dutch,Phillip I(II)of Spain was actually a pretty good ruler to Portugal and actually better than some kings of dynasty of Avis like D.Afonso V or D.Manuel I

[@kermitthethinker1465]

@@himesilva technically Portugal it's part of Spain(geographically),but not of the Kingdom of Spain,to you have a idea King D.João II,protested that Castille and Aragon merge calling themselves Spain,because that was implying that they were claiming Portuguese land,since Portugal was part of Spain(geographically),so if Castilian kings claimed themselves king of Spain,they were in theory including Portugal

[@samiamrg7]

@@kermitthethinker1465 I mean, yeah, but becoming the enemies of Britain and Netherlands is not exactly small! The places taken from Spain and Portugal were what gave them a stranglehold on world trade. Losing them meant that they now had to compete on more even footing with Britain and the Netherlands. A competition that the British pretty soundly trounced everybody else in. If Portugal hadn’t been drawn into Spain’s conflicts, I think Portugal would have been a MUCH more relevant power going forward. For example, maybe Portugal would have even taken control of India instead of the British, or much of India could have remained independent. Of course, it’s possible Portugal would have eventually ended up in colonial conflict with Britain or France or the Netherlands anyway, but still…

[@Gloriaimperial1]

The Portuguese empire could never have survived by itself, after the Protestant Reformation, if Spain had not waged a brutal war for 150 years in the Netherlands, Germany and France, to save Catholicism, against 5 European powers, stopping the advance of Protestants to Madrid, Rome and Lisbon. Many times with the help of the Portuguese, Italian and other Catholics. That saved our Mediterranean and Catholic civilization. The other way that the Portuguese empire had to survive is by seeking the protection of England and sometimes France, after 1640. If the British had been able, they would have easily invaded all of Brazil, as they did with the empire of the Netherlands. But they feared that Spain would invade Portugal, so they allowed Brazil to be Portuguese, to avoid that Spanish invasion. Those two factors saved the Portuguese empire. The Dutch empire was less lucky. When Spain was no longer a great power, in the 19th century, the British annexed the territory between Mozambique and Angola, in 1890, without worrying if the Portuguese felt betrayed. On the other hand, Spain destroyed a Dutch fleet that threatened Brazil in 1625, and the little interest Spain had in the Amazon jungle allowed the Portuguese to advance there. The territories in Asia, which all the empires have lost, have been compensated with Brazil.

[@barbiquearea]

I'm surprised you didn't address the Portuguese Colonial War which took place between 1961 to 1974 where in a vain attempt to hold onto their colonial possessions, the Portuguese fought bitterly to put down revolts in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea. These revolts were so bad that the Portuguese were spending 40% of their annual budget fighting to keep a stranglehold over their overseas colonies, and even introducing a draft to force all available men to serve in the armed forces for four years to make up for the shortfall of troops they had overseas. Eventually by 1974, with 20% of its total male population fighting the war, with so many casualties taken and no end in sight, popular protests back home and a military coup overthrew Portugal's dictator Antonio Salazar and the new government immediately called for an end to the war.

[@overdose8329]

The rebels were supported by every single major foreign power of the time that’s why it was so costly. The new treasonous government should never have given up Cape Verde or São Tomé and Prencipe

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Salazar died in 1968. His successor Caetano was the one ousted. The new democratic left leaning provisional government was deeply anti the colonial war, which was a breath of fresh air for the masses so exhausted from the war and the sadness it brought By the end of the war, large part of the armed forces in Africa were manned by native Africans. Alongside that, many Portuguese men fled overseas to avoid conscription, the shit was rough

[@KnightofAges]

Those "many casualties" were actually a bit over 20.000, of which only 8.000 were in combat, rest were accidents.

[@densort27]

didn't know that about the history of portugal, here in argentina something similar happened almost in the same years

[@himesilva]

That’s why my Dad’s family left Portugal actually! They didn’t want my dad to get shipped off to an idiotic war

[@brunoalves-pg9eo]

The single biggest factor for the portuguese empire decline was the 60 years where Portugal was under spanish rule. Spain used portugal's resources to fight their wars, while at the same time ignoring the portuguese territories in the indies that were being attacked by spanish enemies like the dutch.

[@MrCEO-1]

Yeah dude the Spanish messed up the portugueses empire up

[@MrWertheron]

Saying that portuguese merchants didn't know capitalism and that the Portugal empire was just an absolut centralist monarchy is a little bit wrong. (Without talking about this weird belief that Protestantism created capitalism, like Venetian or French merchants were jokes). You should read Subrahamanyan work on the Portuguese empire, it gives a better view of the Portuguese possession where merchants were actually really autonomous while the State had just a distant influence.

[@ThatHabsburgMapGuy]

This was the biggest simplification of many in the video that bothered me. It glosses over the antagonistic relationship between spain and portugal prior to the union, and the fact that portugal up to that point had managed to remain fairly friendly with other european powers. Imo Absolutism had very little to do with it. The biggest question that really ought to have been asked, is not how Portugal lost its colonies (conquest while subjugated by spain) but how it managed to maintain a global empire and large navy of galleons with such a small domestic population.

[@kermitthethinker1465]

@@ThatHabsburgMapGuy Well this video is pretty bad actually,he wasnt actualy Portuguese Jews that founded VOC,even though VOC had Jewish investment of course,and motive England and Netherlands were after Portuguese colonies was because Spanish denied them spice trade,but he glosses over French and British pirates that hunted down Portuguese cargo ships(especialy French),and Portuguese actualy hunted down pirates,and this video almost make believe that we state sponsored pirates,while forgeting Sr.Francis Drake attacks and kidnappings in Portuguese colonies(Cape Verde attack),also he didnt metion the depopulation of southern zones of Portugal like Alentejo that became almost devoid of males thanka to mass exodus to India,we were actualy barelly managing keeping the Empire even our apex,for every Portuguese the enemy had 10000 warriors.

[@ajones3038]

Yeah these videos are presented well, but the misinformation is out of control in these videos... which is a shame

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Definitely interesting

[@anselmo4952]

Capitalism was created in the North of Italy

[@miguelsilva1446]

Generally good and fun, but the war was with Morocco not the Ottomans even if they may had their support Also a important event you've missed was the great earthquake of Lisbon in the 1700 something on all saints day it turned the city to dust as it caused wildfires and a tsunami hit the city besides the earthquake, it was seen as a punishment from God given the day it happened, the city had to be rebuilt from zero It was a devastating blow for the Portuguese Also i always heard Macau was give to Portugal for destroying a Pirate fleet plaguing China

[@ayoayuthalin8361]

Morocco never relied on the ottoman empire

[@overdose8329]

@@ayoayuthalin8361 that’s a lie your rulers have told you. Do some basic history reading

[@76456]

The ottomans took pary on the batle. Thats why the batle of 3 kings happened. Morroo was becoming friend of ottoman. And Portugal went there to stop that. The hearthquack was on 1755

[@aym.s5827]

@@ayoayuthalin8361 it didnt rely on it but the ottomans did suply the moroccans with weapons

[@starmyk100]

And that was the plot twist, the pirate fleet was Portuguese xD

[@maddog4u31757]

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[@Papa_Staline]

im bingewatching all of it now. its just so good

[@ajones3038]

You 2 are getting plenty of misinformation with these videos

[@maddog4u31757]

@@ajones3038 thanks for the unwanted input. 👍

[@ajones3038]

@@maddog4u31757 I wasn't considering your feelings and desires when making the post, was just warning you. I subbed to this channel because I am a history buff and liked the presentation here. As I watched more videos I realized how inaccurate many of them are. This is a really bad one, if you don't believe me read some of the other comments or research this topic independently. I hate to say it but it almost seems like he's misleading people according to his own biases in a lot of these videos.

[@redandblackpill]

​@@ajones3038 can you tell me what is mainly wrong with this video I know that Portugal tried to preserve the dying empire by trying to keep Goa Diu And Daman

[@ricardoregalado4124]

Nice video, allow me to add that the treaty with Spain did not included officially Brazil since it was signed in 1494 and Brazil was "discovered" in 1500 ( many say that the portuguese were already there and that is why they negotiated the extra miles in the agreement).

[@lhd4278]

We (portuguese) don't know either, but it is said that, although we hadn't discovered it yet, we already had maps of that part of the world that were brought to us by the Knight Templars that fled France when they were betrayed by the French king. They formed the Ordem de Cristo (Christ's Order) which was led by the Portuguese king of the time D. Manuel I

[@williamthierry5976]

​​@@lhd4278É difícil provar, mas muito provavelmente àquela altura Portugal já sabia dessas terras do atual Brasil, talvez essa conhecimento veio à partir dos templários que se tornaram a Ordem de Cristo mesmo. Como eles sabiam? Aí é a questão difícil. Ou apenas deduziram que existiam mais terras ao sul já que ao norte já sabiam com certeza que existia.

[@goyoelburro]

“He who controls Spice, controls the universe!”

[@gryphonbotha1880]

The spice must flow.

[@ivok9846]

lol! dune, portugal.....it's still silly: how many people in those centuries cared about spices? hell, how many care today? i mean, it's not salt...

[@jemoedermeteensnor88]

@@ivok9846 It was about luxury goods including diamonds silk and chinaware, but those were way harder to monopolise given the size of China and India

[@hokamo3209]

Actually Sebastian Died in a battle named the the Battle of Alcácer Quibir, in this battle three kings died, and the location of this battle is in Morocco in the period of Saadien dynasty, not versus The Ottoman empire.

[@KolaNutKing]

For those confused, spices at the time were very important. Before refrigerators, spices were used to preserve food, or at least make it palatable when it was spoiled.

[@winters4960]

Europe middle age was full of spice, and then modern europe came

[@juanpablo6307]

An among that tons of spice they traffic the more profitable POPPY SEEDS for OPIUM

[@jonpirovsky]

Entertaining, though somewhat inaccurate... Portugal was a small country, with small population and no professional army, punching above its weight. It relied heavily on trade and mercenaries. Portugal was already in debt when they started their empire, this wasn't a result of the Iberian Union at all... So, it relied heavily on public-private enterprises, with great use of private entrepreneurship, distributing concessions to private explorers and traders. The feitoria model of the Portuguese explorations is a result of this era and it the economy of Portugal worked somewhat different than other absolutist monarchies, being very much on the innovative side at the time. The Dutch East India trading company sure created a revolution, but please keep in mind that portuguese expeditions were joint efforts of the crown and private parties, so it's not like the crown held everything in its hands... The Portuguese came up with its own version of an East India Trading company, but the damage that the Iberian Union brought to its possessions drove this effort to failure... Also, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake was the final nail in the coffin to Portugal's ambitions, it really crippled them and made things much more difficult...

[@TangiersIntrigue]

This was a more accurate analysis of Portuguese history. I found it weird that the feitoria model was neglected. Showing the Portuguese Empire occupying tiny specks of land all over the place and glossing over it just to point at inaccurate information that is directly contradicted by that very same map. Kings weren't the best strategists back then, and many of the private enterprises were mostly led by nobles and merchants or joint ventures of both, under the crown flag, with significant autonomy. The focus was on enabling trade, not large-scale land grabs.

[@kermitthethinker1465]

1755 earthquake didn't seriously crippled Portugal,since Marquis of Pombal made serious reforms after that and greatly improved Portuguese economy,military and education

[@jonpirovsky]

@@kermitthethinker1465 A 2009 study estimated that the earthquake cost between 32 and 48 percent of Portugal's GDP. That is huge. And Portugal wasn't exactly swimming in gold before that... The long term effects of the Pombaline reforms surely lead to improvements, but its colonial ambitions were crippled. The Portuguese ultramarine empire slowly diminished after this.

[@kermitthethinker1465]

@@jonpirovsky lol,no during Pombal reign we didn't lose any serious colonial possession, actually we increase our colonial possession and expanded in Mozambique and destroyed Kingdom of Munatapa in Zimbabwe,we didn't lose any serious possession until 1825 with Brazil loss.In India Pombal,got two small enclaves,we actually gave us our last useless bastions in North Africa and some Swahili coast possession that we haven't lost to Ajurran Sultanate before,this were mostly not very important colonies.Our gains in Brazil,Mozambique and Angola were more important,Portugal was stronger after Pombal,than before,so despite we actually have to give up some colonies and cut corners in the army for some years(and we still managed to defeat a Spanish invasion),overall Portugal was way better after the earthquake,since the Natural disaster and the murder attempt of King Joseph I in 1756, basically gave Pombal dictatorial powers that he used to strengthen Portugal and turn Portugal in a independent player not only Britain knock-off that was reduced since Whitehall treaty of 1660 and Methuen treaty of 1703. PS:"Portugal wasn't swimming in gold before the Earthquake",bruh you don't know my country history,Portugal was the richest country in Europe during 1720-1740s,because of Brazilian gold mines that produced so much gold that price of gold in Europe reduced by 25%,the problem of Portugal was that Portugal had a rich state(read government) with shitty poor mainland,Pombal tried the best he could to change that paradigm.

[@jonpirovsky]

@@kermitthethinker1465 I'm Brazilian, I think I know that story very well, dude. This is what history books say, not me. Go check it.

[@999carlosjorge]

about the Portuguese Gallion with the 366 bronze canons,rechargeable from the rear,that was the São João Baptista also known by Botafogo,one of the valiant sailors was a guy who was officially decorated by the King and recieved some land near the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro,after some time that neighborhood was named Botafogo and also a football club was named after him.

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

"little more than pirates" Me, an anglo, who's navy was built around stealing spice and metals from the Spanish, french and Portuguese: "ain't no harm in joinin the winnin side" My mate the Irishman: oh I understand everything, but that wig

[@Gloriaimperial1]

The winner is the island, which saved the British from the invasion of Spain, Napoleon and Germany. The English/British could not steal much gold from Spain. 70% stayed in America to build a Western civilization. 80% in XVIII century. Of 1,200 voyages of the Spanish Indies fleet between America-Europe, and Europe-America in 300 years, the English captured 2 fleets in port, in the 17th century, without a previous declaration of war. The Dutch captured 2 fleets. 4 wrecks. Success of the Spanish fleet that changed the world, 99.75% With that money we had an empire in Europe for centuries. That is why the Catholic religion is the majority in places like Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Italy, South Germany and the Palatinate. The only successful pirate actions were 9/11-type attacks on isolated cities. The British captured 1 of 400 parts of the Spanish empire in 300 years (Gibraltar by treaty, Belize, Jamaica when Spain was at war with half of Europe and Trinidad and Tobago, 50,000 km2 in total), receiving dozens of defeats in the landings. The Spanish legacy was carried out in Europe and in America and the Philippines, as was the objective. 490 million mother-speakers of Spanish (second language after Chinese) and 800 million Catholics today thanks to Spain (200 million in Europe)

[@johnwhite1534]

What about that massive earthquake in 1755 that caused Lisbon to burn down? Deserving of at least a mention I'd think 70,000 I think the death toll was in just Lisbon If anything I'd say it really hastened their decline

[@kermitthethinker1465]

The death tool was about 10000,not 70000

[@johnwhite1534]

@@kermitthethinker1465 According to the Britannica it was around 60,000 in Lisbon alone So about 10,000 off on my part

[@sheogorath6804]

@@johnwhite1534 Also most of the Brazilian gold was either re-invested into Brazil or spent rebuilding Lisbon, due to that earthquake

[@ghandi2801]

This channel blew up and rightfully so. I dont think I've seen a channel blew up this fast. 150k subs in less than a week. Thats amazing

[@ryota6208]

5:19 Well King Sebastien fought against Abd al Malik and Abd al Mansour in Morocco, he lost the fight vs Moroccans not the Ottomans.

[@KristianSandvikk]

Probably could have gone a bit more into how portugal became a de-facto junior partner of Brazil because the king was in Brazil while he had his family ruling in portugal. Before they broke off and went their seperate ways

[@Oli-Wood]

My new favorite KZbin channel, keep up the good work!

[@vinfacts11]

king Sebestian actually fought the Moroccans, not Ottomans.

[@68guerreiro]

It was Ottomans ans some Moroccans. 3 Kings were killed in that battle ...

[@phoenixbird2078]

@@68guerreiro Ottomans NEVER ruled Morocco. To the battle, they sent a small insignificant contingent just in case Morocco lost so they can quickly take the capital and proclaim it Ottoman dominion. It was the Moroccan Empire under the Saadian dynasty who fought and won the battle of the Three Kings. No king of the three was Ottoman. King Abdelmalek Assaadi of Morocco King Sebastian of Portugal And ex-king of Morocco “Almasloukh” (ally of Sebastian) Please, before commenting, read a little bit and check your facts instead of spreading nonsense and fake history. Thank you!

[@kawaiiappleproductions3902]

@@SuperSuper-vg6ji XD

[@immuslimisupportqatar7591]

@@68guerreiro ottoman never ruled morocco lol

[@MrJovision]

Portugal was the first and the last empire. It started in 1415 and it only ended in 1999 when Portugal delivered Macau to China! I never understood, why there are people who confuses the period between 1580 and 1640, when Portugal lost the independence for Spain and in consequence had to fight Spanish wars around the world, which made lost almost all the fleet in Asia, that the Dutch took advantage. Yet and once for all, lets know the TRUE: The Dutch vs Portugal War was the first Global War in Human History and Portugal WON THIS WAR! Ok, the Dutch started winning in Asia, during the time Portugal was "spanish", however Portugal recovered the independence in 1640 and thats when the North Europeans dont like to talk about, because the war continued and Portugal defeated the Dutch in Angola and the most important Victory of All wars in History, Portugal total defeated the Dutch in BRAZIL!!! Why do you think the Brazilians speak Portuguese and not Dutch? In fact, why the Portuguese is the 6th most spoken language in the world? The War of True!

[@lucasaparecido5227]

The power of the Portuguese Empire was the spices trade, when Portugal lose this power, his empire was destroyed, and replaced by the Spanish Empire.

[@alexandremarques3265]

Sir you seem to be a wise man

[@everythingiseconomics9742]

The Dutch Empire was really just a lesser Portuguese Empire. Well, I guess Portugal had a better empire, while the Dutch had a better economy.

[@rhetoric5173]

1999.... LOL

[@everythingiseconomics9742]

@@lucasaparecido5227 you are completely wrong. Portugal was annexed by Spain for some 60 years, but that was due to its monarch dying in a war against Morocco; not because the country was too weak. Portuguese identity was maintened in the meantime, and that union allowed Portuguese colonist to expand Brazil to its modern borders. 18th century Portugal might not have been a Great Power like France Britain and Spain, but it was a very powerful country. And the Spanish Empire never replaced the Portuguese Empire. Spain never ventured into Africa, they never held colonies in India, and Portuguese colonization of the Americas was radically different from Spanish colonization (white people born in the colonies were on equal grounds to those born in Europe, but the upper class was expected to get an education in Portugal). If anyone replaced Portugal it was the Dutch, who were also a maritime trading empire. They even conquered many Portuguese colonies.

[@xyan819]

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[@miguelcarunchod.1493]

4:03 thank you, you just explained to me why Japan went full isolation for 300 years for the presence of Portuguese missionaries in their territory and only Holland trade boats were allowed in, during that time.

[@Tom19142]

It was a mix of many factors. - Catholicism was challenging the power of the recently established shogunate - the incident of a Spanish ship supposed to have a plan to invade Japan - rivalry of the jealous Dutch and the English; economically, religiously and politically The only reason the Dutch were allowed is because they didn't allow their religion with them

[@errrzarrr]

@@Tom19142 good thing the dutch did.

[@errrzarrr]

Miguel Japan did the right thing to protect themselves. 300 of isolation might seem as extreme but in the end they did well. Heck, they are Japan, much better than Portugal, Spain and any other catholic country you could ever imagine.

[@miguelcarunchod.1493]

@@errrzarrr Not really, there might be other factors but the elephant in the room is that after those 300 years the japanese population still had a 'medieval mentality' which took a big part of the reason for the japanese war crimes during WWII. And since North Korea used to be Japanese territory and they are also in forced isolation, it could be the comparative same thing but with nuclear element.

[@feelthepony]

@@errrzarrr you don't really know much about japan if you think japan is doing well...

[@thejecs8]

A Brit calling the Portuguese pirates, oh the irony. And gotta love the "Britain got a little bit cross" part, you know, that moment when Britain made an ultimatum to Portugal (it's oldest ally), which eventually lead to the fall of our monarchy. Snakes are more trustworthy than the English (let's not forget the role England had in the decline of the Portuguese Indian colonies).

[@68guerreiro]

Portugal helped the british to expand to India; On 11 May 1661, the marriage treaty of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV of Portugal, placed Bombay in the possession of the British Empire, as part of Catherine's dowry to Charles, along with the North African city of Tangier.

[@hamedahmadi1382]

Sadly politics is never personal nor moral but brits were playing on a completely different level

[@mainsmain]

That big ass earthquake didn't help

[@Software2TF2]

I was here, man. Before this channel blew up.

[@thecherryontop1867]

Me to

[@davestylehenry]

Me too

[@Software2TF2]

200k now! Well done, SideQuest!

[@markpiersall9815]

In 1755 a large earthquake occurred resulting in a Tsunami which flooded Lisbon and killed a third of the inhabitants. This was the largest city and finished goods manufacturers. Many skilled tradesmen were killed. It was November 1st All Saint's Day and the Royal Court was out having a picnic and this saved. Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations to promote the trade of English wool for Portuguese Wine. The earthquake and Tsunami resulted in Portugal becoming a Vassal State to England.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

When you're a Star Wars fan, the double meanings make this ever so much more entertaining

[@sofhispalis]

I’m brazilian and that’s the story we learned at school, but your story telling is amazing!

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

That king Phillip impersonation is now retroactively his canonical voice. It's just too good lol. I think it's exactly as we all truly imagined. I hope sid meier contacts you soon about voicing him in the next civ game lol.

[@achrafmahfoud7254]

Sebastian was killed in the Battle of the Three Kings, when he decided to launch a crusade on Morocco (to get back some outposts from the Moroccan Atlantic coast) reigned then by Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik of the Saadian Dinasty which was at one point supported by the Ottomans

[@immuslimisupportqatar7591]

ottoman wanted to kill the sultan and take morocco .

[@timotej292]

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[@drotterton793]

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[@joemckim1183]

Its crazy that countries the size of Portugal can have empires across the world. When the countries in modern times aren't really that big to begin with. A country the size of Portugal is only slightly bigger than the state of South Carolina.

[@mainsmain]

"look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power"

[@austinh7110]

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[@Dayvit78]

Funny how they lost all their empire while being allied to the largest empire the world has ever seen. Truly a great ally!

[@CyberDagger003]

You should see the original lyrics of the song that became the Portuguese national anthem.

[@mainsmain]

biggest but also one of the shortest lasting ones, but I guess you make a lot of enemies while being the biggest one lol

[@MrJovision]

The Americans supported the communists in Portugal, just to keep Angola's oil. Interestingly, the person responsible for US foreign policy, who had always been opposed to the participation of communists in European governments, being even this its main concern since practically the beginning of the process. policy initiated by the military coup of April 25, 1974, now accepted for this to happen in Portugal, claiming that Portuguese methods had had success and could not "argue with success". (One commentator quipped that never before in history had it been so easy to get billions, expel more than two million people at once and still charge interest). On the very day of the meeting of the PPD leader with Henry Kissinger (Jew), Helmut Sonnenfeldt drafted a memorandum to the Secretary of State to prepare dialogue with the Portuguese politician. In the document, the Counselor of the Department ofThe State rightly underlined the fact that Sá Carneiro complained that "economic aid of the US was being treated in a way that favored the Socialists in the elections" and commented in this regard: «he has some reason as the original announcement was made how much Soares was here and the finance minister, who will be coming to Washington soon, is also a socialist»; for Sonnenfeldt this issue should be taken seriously by the US government because Sá Carneiro was «an extremely ambitious man» and he could 'become Prime Minister. (*Dangerous because it could make the process of appropriation of Angolan oil by North American and European companies unfeasible). The New Colonizers of Angola Oil Companies Present Today in Angola: ▪ Chevron - American ▪ Esso - American ▪ Vaalco - American ▪ Cobalt - American ▪ ConocoPhilips - American ▪ Total - French ▪ BP - British ▪ ENI- Italian ▪ Repsol - Spanish ▪ Pluspetrol - Argentinean ▪ Statoil - Norwegian ▪ Maersk - Danish ▪ Sonangol P&P Angolan (state oil company) Following the work of this joint economic commission, as well as the diplomatic efforts undertaken mainly by Mário Soares, on 16 March the US government made public the decision to grant a loan of 240 million of dollars to Portugal. Not by chance, the announcement was made shortly after the meeting between Salgado Zenha and Henry Kissinger in Washington through a press release released by the Department of State where it was stated that the assistance was to support the country's economic recovery in the continuation of its progress towards democracy and included a $35 million subsidy for "help" the reintegration of Portuguese from Africa (to be expelled more quickly). PS. if any Angolan woman has access to oil management, they should be immediately stopped through the traditional coup of "international media propaganda accusing someone who is a national of the left of being corrupt and if he is of the right, he will be accused of dictator", after all, only foreigners can corrupt and still appear honest and even ecological friendliness, even when they are the ones who destroy this world the most. JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!

[@andrevenancio]

You forgot to mention the earthquake which destroyed Lisbon. That, actually was quite important.

[@BigBroTejano]

You forgot to mention that Portugal “lost” one of its kings to Brazil. As in said king decided “I’d rather be Emperor of Brazil” and gave the crown of Portugal to his daughter.

[@kermitthethinker1465]

Then proceeded to lose Brazilian crown,came back to Portugal,caused a civil war and then died with the government he formed being overthrowed two years later

[@Soulbotagem-BR]

Pedro I (Pedro IV in Portugal) intended to remain in Brazil, so much so that he abdicated the Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria da Glória... He had to abdicate the Brazilian throne later, in favor of his Brazilian son (D. Pedro II), for reasons beyond his control. Pedro I died with the hope of one day returning to Brazil, and he returned symbolically, with the transfer of his "earthly home" to Rio de Janeiro after his death...

[@kermitthethinker1465]

@@Soulbotagem-BR after 140 years buried in Portugal with his heart in Porto,also he refused to come back as Emperor when given the chance,if he remained alive he would probably have to remain in Portugal,because it was a mess during 1834-1851 and his daughter did a poor job of managing unrest.

[@javierburgos7]

Northern European "capitalism" didnt destroy or weaken the Spanish/Portuguese empires. It was simply what had always happened in Europe until the foundation of the EU: when 1 or 2 states started getting more powerful than the rest the other envious/fearful states would often ally themselves to outnumber and outmatch them either by fighting them in wars and/or by snatching some of their colonies or simply by taking over new colonies. The balance of power in Europe worked like that since the end of the Roman Empire until the end of WWII.

[@NeoPokebonz]

I love your humor so much. I'm so glad I found these

[@leenacalaca4640]

Cute video, nice typical humour! A lot of information missing/hidden though... such as “letter of marque”, the Methuen treaty, among others. It would be nice to see the sources used for the video please!

[@Gloriaimperial1]

There are two ways to lose empires 1 If you make universities and a western civilization there, you are going to lose the empire in the 18th and early 19th centuries (13 colonies, Hispanic America, Brazil) Because they have the same ideas and technology 2 If the empire is in the third world (Africa, Asia) and the empire only wants to make money and not invest in people, that empire has to wait until the end of WW2, because the majority of the population ignores human rights, European military progress and technique (India, Angola, Indonesia, Vietnam, even the Philippines 1898) There is a third case. The colonies of Australia and Canada, but they were so sparsely populated (and still less populated, combined, than the UK) that they couldn't think of any revolts until 1918-30. Or Cuba, which was very small

[@marlaferrari9608]

auatralia had a revolt aganst the crown in 1851 in the grand state of victoria

[@Gloriaimperial1]

@@marlaferrari9608 I did not know that information. I have just seen the motivations for that mining revolt, and the progress it made in democracy. The population of Australia at that time was very small: half a million people, in a territory of 7682000 km2. It is like 15 km2 of emptiness for each inhabitant (european!). The United Kingdom had more than 25 million inhabitants. It was not an independence revolt, but yes, they were the first revolts.

[@fandemusique4693]

6:52 under the rule of the heir of Portugal, so it's quite different.

[@RodolfoDM]

Thank you!

[@alpacaofthemountain8760]

“The writing was on the wall, and it wasn’t in Portuguese” is a brilliant line

[@FaithfulOfBrigantia]

This is actually surprisingly accurate and nuanced for such a short and light-hearted video. Have my portuguese like friend.

[@benramos4783]

Amazing video ❤🥰

[@DinoWinoSaur]

Just found this and instantly subscribed. Please make more. You have an amazing voice.

[@SideQuestYT]

Rest assured, there's more to come!

[@estranhokonsta]

Thanks for the video. There was some generalisations and oversimplifications bordering on not correct (but that come with the territory of doing any comedy ). But it was fun and the overall argument is very interesting and deserves more exposition.

[@PaleBluePot]

I would advise more research on Macau and the formation of the Dutch indies company

[@privatefoenix]

This channel is so underrated 🙂

[@pedrorodrigues7285]

Portugal always came back, you can't beat a country with almost 900 years of history as nation, country and state.

[@pedrorodrigues7285]

@moonshine 2 we have plenty of water.

[@pedrorodrigues7285]

@moonshine 2 with salt plenty.

[@xirogs]

Channel gained 12k subs today wow youtube giving you lots of love.

[@Charliemmag]

Terrific narration, amazing animation!

[@t.bfisher5855]

Sir may I just say you have a impeccable talents with voices like seriously I inspire to be at your level sir you are seriously awesome

[@nunoalves616]

Keeps showing Portugal and Spain as friends and UK as “having to pay for spices” when the Portuguese - English alliance was often pivotal in history: for good and bad. 🤷🏻‍♂️ The Jews were expelled and the inquisition instituted as a condition of the treaty of Tordesilhas. Also portraying Portuguese and Spanish as pirates is the tired “black legend”. Time to get over it.

[@joaofabio5927]

a sinagoga mais antiga das Américas foi fundada no Brasil e ainda é frequentada

[@AlissonWololo]

Essa da pirataria acho q é a maior hipocrisia de todas

[@newweaponsdc]

Fantastic job. The only thing missing was the explanation of how the Portuguese were able to leave the Iberian Union after 60 years of Spanish rule.

[@drmdrmdrm-hz1gf]

King Sebastien didn't fight ottoman empire but Moroccan empire...

[@christiaanswart2646]

This was a good video, thanks

[@Batalia122]

The beginning of the end was the earthquake of 1755. The earthquake caused most of Lisbon to be destroyed then a massive tsunami completely wiped out the rest of Lisbon I clouding most of the stored wealth. After 1755, Portugal couldn't recover then Napoleon conquered Portugal and took the rest of their wealth.

[@kermitthethinker1465]

This is a mistake,Portugal recovered well from the earthquake,since we easily defeated a Spanish invasion some years later in 1762,what ruined Portugal was Napoleonic invasion and King João VI crap policies.

[@miguelsilva1446]

​@@kermitthethinker1465 not really Portugal was crippled after the great eathquake It barely had a standing army by the time of the 7 years war It beat back the Spanish and French invasion with guerrilha warfare and some luck But yeah it rebounded afterwards and a things were looking hopeful until the Napoleonic wars came

[@kermitthethinker1465]

@@miguelsilva1446 Yes,we rebounded after to the earthquake to a better position before the earthquake so saying that the earthquake actually ruined us,it's a mistake,the biggest lost was cultural heritage,not territorial ones.

[@lucyreynolds4739]

I love these videos. Needs millions of subscribers

[@jon6309]

Lol I think the expanded stories of Star Wars got its inspiration from this part of history! Spice was actually a traded commodity in the Star Wars galaxy and the planet corellia discovered main trade routes that connected a lot of planets so I would say corellia was kind of like a mix of Portugal and the UK

[@NinjaTyler]

Actually Star Wars spice is drugs, and it got that idea from Dune

[@jon6309]

@@NinjaTyler in Star Wars spice could also be legally used for medicinal purposes but they were mostly notorious for being used as drugs. Many hyperspace routes were used to smuggle spice.

[@bestiedosalazar]

I would like to see more videos about Portugal in the Future, keep the good job going on! ;D

[@josealmeida76]

Portugal in the Future? It's easy, look at Argentina, Angola, Venezuela, and Cuba!

[@irishmakbeth]

There are a lot of mistakes here and I am only 2:17 into the video.

[@BMAA2009]

Most people are unaware, but there are different kinds of Monarchy. I think Portugal was only absolutist during the reign of King Miguel.

[@josephswindeman3184]

I wish that we could have a middle ground between an overly romantic and a stoneage characture of the middle ages. Statements like ideas werent common in the middle ages is pretty gross characature. The University system was developed in the middle ages and there was a diversity of competing philosophical and theological schools for example: Oxford, Paris, Cologne, and Naples. Also, absolute monarchy is a modern invention, not a medieval relic. Most western medevial kings were spiritually subordinate to the Pope. And, Thomas Aquinas has a treatment of political philosophy that recomend a Constitutional, quasi-Democratic Monarchy.

[@strakhovandrri]

Pope didn't mean shit if a king was powerful enough, but the fact that nobelty was an extremely potent class really was something that made medieval period absoluteless.

[@josephswindeman3184]

@@strakhovandrri Thanks for you reply and challenge. Perhaps, I slipped a little into a Romanic image of the middle ages. Perhaps, to some King the Pope was only a worldly adversary, and we can never tell how many were spiritually subordinate in their minds or private lives. Further, you are right a few of the most powerful king directly attacked the Pope. Yet, those emperors were largely the exception rather than the rule. Similar to how Saintly kings like St. Louis were the exception, powerful rebellious kings were also the exception. So, as a generalization, I believe my first comments remains true. For clarification, with respect to absoluteness, I am referring to the philosophy of the Divine Right of Kings, which only became popular during the reign of King Henry VIII in Britain and Louis XIV of France. With respect to Aristocracy, I think we are in some disagreement that I don't expect us to settle. I think the Aristocracy precisely represents in-absoluteness of middle ages. Kings did not have an absolute or totalizing power because they depended on the consent of the lower Lords for their support. The wide diffusion of power among the aristocrats prevented any ubiquitous state from militarizing the population into forced obedience, like we saw in the 20th century.

[@strakhovandrri]

@@josephswindeman3184 aaaahh, shit, that's a lotta words. I can't keep up with that. Absolutism is deeply tied to the dawn of the empires. I refer to the first Russian Tsar, Ivan IV the Terrible. His reign brought not only a great inflation of Russian territories, which too increased the need in a centralised rule, but also some government policy inventions. Firstly, he purged boyars - the highest class of nobelty (I think, they were something like Lords), closest to a then great prince, thus gaining more direct control over the Russia. He halved population of a free, respublican city of Novgorod in an expedition to assert his power over them. He founded an army, serving the government, not his nobelty, and a secret police, which played the biggest role in his purges. He also went against the Church, killing Russian Metropolitan and taking is lands; also he assembled a council to organize it. His new policies don't end here, as he was also behind some new governmental institutions, like gunpowder and cannon plants and first Russian printing press, which, as you can see, were also aimed at increase of Russia's power and concentrating it under the Tsar's rule. I have to say that Ivan the Terrible's rule had not brought the absolutism to Russia, as it was the boyars who have chosen the new Russian Tsar after the Great Troubles. Still, I assume that his ways represent transition to the absolutism pretty well. To conclude, I have to say that I do agree with you that the aristocracy was the reason behind the non-absoluteneess of kings' power in a Medieval period.

[@josephswindeman3184]

@@strakhovandrri Yeah, my narrative was pretty Western. Its really interesting to hear the eastern story about Empire and Aristocracy and cool it leads us to agree.

[@Pedro-vl7yr]

From what I understand, universities did exist but were totally different from the ones you know today. In those times you would go to university to learn something and if your ideas deviated from the ones tought you were seen as an heretic. The idea that you go to university to learn to "think for yourself" is much more recent.

[@CountingStars333]

I read how "the overseas war", war of liberation in West Africa, angola etc.. Ended after a long struggle and ultimate Portuguese military coup against the ultra conservative Portuguese govt in 1974.

[@iuedfsqdkqhjdhjqsd5162]

king sebastien fought with the morrocan not othoman

[@pedrorequio5515]

Saying it was the fault of the Dutch is an exageration the Dutch Portuguese war began with massive Portuguese losses, but it end out of fear of Loosing the East Indies. The second part of the war Portugal took back Brasil, Angola and many parts of India, this was possible because the Armada of Brasil was built and it was easily one of the most Powerful in the world, This armada could threaten the area around South Africa, a death sentence for the VOC. How big was this armada? When Brasil became independent it was the second most powerful in the world, it was used in the XVIII century to trow out from Portuguese Congo none other than the Royal Navy.

[@jway9097]

As a Portuguese man, this video amuses me a little. Shame that it's wrong, makes dumb leaps in logic and simplifies things that can't be simplified.

[@20zakmorris]

This channel should have far more views !

[@samuelcampos497]

What an amazing channel. Quality, funny, good animation, excellent narrator, educational… this channel has very good conditions for expansion. Good work!

[@towrofterra]

Can't wait for this channel to get graced by the algorithm

[@chrisshelswell3222]

I have a feeling this might become a big channel - great content / animation on every video I’ve watched.

[@tj2375]

The dutch and english east indian companies weren't modern capitalism. There's a lot of anacronism here and historical errors and misrepresentation. You are correct that it was capitalism and Spanish rule period that prevented Portugal from profiting from the trade routes they'd created but this video is oversimplified to the point of being innacurate and untrue.

[@koenbierens5902]

Is this channel is so so good

[@lt8833]

This channel will have a million subscribers within a year

[@TheRealGigachad1848]

I like watching your videos after I take my sleep medicine so I feel kinda like I'm high myself.

[@Yvolve]

3:50 This is not what happened and isn't about Jews. The Dutch Golden Age came out of the 80 Years War against Spain. Antwerp was taken by the Catholic Spanish, which led to all the Protestant, and highly skilled, very rich merchants and labourers moving to what is now The Netherlands. This influx of knowledge, skill and wealth led to a small industrial revolution as the construction of ship could be done in a third of the time with windmills. This, along with innovations in design, gave the Dutch a very strong and large navy, along with a massive merchant fleet. The wealth that came out of the VOC (valued at 7.9 trillion in today's money) paid for many of the expeditions, as the Dutch explored the world. The stock exchange came about because ships would sink and the investment would be lost. If you can spread the investment across multiple ships, it wouldn't be as big of a loss when one sank. This led to shares and the creation of an exchange, the building it still there on Beursplein 5 (Exchange Square 5).

[@Yvolve]

@Tom Potter Hadn't noticed it on other video's, but if it happens more often, I agree it shows prejudice against Jews. As I said in my previous comment, it is a very well known fact that it was a Protestant migration to Amsterdam that started the Golden Age, Jews had very little to do with it. There were Jews in Amsterdam for sure, but they're everywhere.

[@thegooglegnome8933]

God you can really tell who's a jew and who isnt....watch as they recoil as you speak their name

[@Yvolve]

@@thegooglegnome8933 No, not at all. It just that the video is 100% wrong on what started the Golden Age, which for a historical video is a pretty big issue. I don't care what religion someone is, your childish assumption I "recoiled" when someone said Jew is just that: childish. Do you live in such a simplistic world?

[@hakol5938]

Yeah this totally struck me, like *wow* that was just wildly incorrect!! I’m a little concerned actually that this is the first comment I’ve seen pointing it out. It’s even more hilariously wrong when you know that the actual chief architect of the VOC, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, a prominent leader of the early Netherlands, was executed for being part of the Arminian movement of Calvinist Protestants during an early Dutch religious/political conflict. Yes, a lot of Sephardic Jews fled from Portugal to the Netherlands and founded a flourishing community there. And yes, a small number became merchants. But they didn’t found the VOC and they didn’t create modern capitalism. I’m hoping this is just a wildly bad mistake but it sticks out as a very weird and frankly somewhat suspicious connection to make

[@SamSeban]

@@hakol5938 Wow I'm so glad I'm not the only one noticing this!! what the hell?!

[@flawyerlawyertv7454]

Thanks! I learnt a lot from this. 😀

[@stefanc4520]

3:43 Why didn't you mention the fact that the Jews charged interest, which was a sin according to the Catholic Church.

[@palofrasca1775]

You're literally the only person in the comment section complaining that the video is not antisemitic enough

[@ratioriot107]

Jolly great video.

[@diogobarbosa1044]

Funny way to tell portuguese history but telling as you are telling may trigger many people to not really understand it at all. And by the way we fought the ottomans by sea. Lost some times... Won many 😉

[@mittensfastpaw]

You really make quality stuff and I’m glad I found the channel.

[@aquan11111]

This one is ridden with false information

[@speedzero7478]

Is there ever a way Portugal and Brazil can join together again? I love both countries. Great video

[@AleaRandomAm]

@Miguel Conceição You can't have a claim on a Republic.

[@zakazany1945]

@Miguel Conceição Both Brazil and Portugal are republics. Monarchy is long gone. These families have no authority anymore over nothing.

[@ChongLi99]

@@zakazany1945 But there is a restoration movement in Brazil. I know they are weak but we cant predict the future.

[@zakazany1945]

@@ChongLi99 It's never going to happen.

[@ChongLi99]

@@zakazany1945 It can happen if a foreign country think its convenient.

[@FailBotGodHD]

i just found your channel, Very good work !!

[@diogobarata6346]

This video has a lot of mistakes, I will only mention some of them. A brit talking about pirates lol. What about your Elizabethean pirates, like Francis Drake who kidnapped a portuguese pilot in africa responsible for guiding england to its circun-navigation voyage around the world. The portuguese sailors, knights etc. were not pirates, they conquered land or built factories with the permission of the local kingdoms and empires (or they fought them for control when necessary). Unlike Drake whom never conquered anything and only did raids attacking people without them being prepared (in opposition to this Francisco de Almeida warned the Mameluks of his attack on diu to revenge his son). Also you suggested the portuguese didn’t follow their orders on the other side of the world, which is a lie, but you did not talk about how Drake in 1589 dismissed his queens orders to attack Santander (which would fail anyway) because he heard of a tower of gold in Galicia. “The protestant reformation gave people ideas”, more like gave the monarchs ideas of the profit they could make for themselves stealing their people, and also let them do whatever they wanted (which reminds me of Henry the VIIIth bringing protestantism to england just because he wanted to marry someone else and also of Martin Luthers texts speaking against Jews and other Christians). Btw I don’t know why you talked about protestantism, it makes no sense. By the way portugal had private investment during the XVth and XVIth centuries. Most of the portuguese voyages in the XVth century were funded by the order of Christ and also sometimes merchants, like fernão gomes. About the “English east india company conquering india” dont forget their first territory there was given to them by the portuguese, because of the wedding of Catherine of braganza. England didn’t conquer india, other european countries remained there, and england never conquered any territory from portugal. The spanish armada didn’t make a difference to portugal, some ships were destroyed in storms but they were quickly rebuilt and a year later in 1589 both portugal and spain defeated the fleet sent by the pirate queen and her pirate admirals who almost broke england do to the money invested in the failed expedition of the english armada. As a result of this, king Philip the 2nd (whom a year before wanted to dethrone elizabeth and have another ruler in england because of her pirate attacks in the americas, her support of dutch independence and her treatment of Catholics) rebuild his navy to dominate the oceans for several centuries after. Brazil didnt keep portugal on life support, rather it remade portugal the richest empire in the world. The portuguese monarch was much richer than any other in europe, and remember portugal had still a lot of trade bases in india (portuguese was the language of trade there for centuries, the dutch in the 18th century had to ask for portuguese translators to trade). “After the napoleonic wars the portuguese royals returned to europe and brazil declared independence”, that is wrong on so many levels, the portuguese prince and later king Pedro IV (1st of brazil) was the one that declared indepence from portugal since the portuguese after the napoleonic wars wanted to make brazil again a colony of portugal instead of letting it continue to be the kingdom of portugal, brazil and the algarves. Pedro and the nobles in brazil saw this as relegation and declared independence. At the 7th minute of the video you claim portugal had by the 19th century lost india, its asiatic coast territories as well as brazil. This is wrong! Portugal had territories in the asiatic coasts and india until the 20th century. “From the moment the dutch started their crowdfunding expeditions, the writing was on the wall”, this is ridiculus, the portuguese empire was at its peak in terms of influence in the 15th (with mina as its main territory) and the 16th century, but still it was very relevant in the 17th century (Portugal destroyed the Gwc and defeated the voc most of the times, and always being outnumbered, [the Dutch never conquered the main places of the state of India]) and in the 18th century it became again one of the richest empires in the world. The independence of brazil in 1825 was the beggning of the end of the portuguese empire in terms of great relevance, even tough portugal still was had a large empire trough out the 20th century and built many schools, the national banks still used today, homes etc. in the african provinces which were some of the richest places in africa. Macau was given to the portuguese since they protected china from pirates. I dont understand why protestants continue to build this false narratives from their own propaganda written in panflets centuries ago. Let me tell you something, do you know who the dutch empire was mostly inspired to, to create its empire? It was mostly inspired by portugal as they stole information from portugal a lot of times at their trust. For instances there was this dutch man who worked at the service of the portuguese state of india’s governer in goa and copied every information the portuguese had on their maps, from wind patterns, to the ocean currents, the monsoons and many more things. Also another dutch came to lisbon and saw its wealth which made write about why the should build a similar empire. You also suggest private enterprise was very important but dont forget the dutch were already rich trough out the 16th century since they were the main supplier of the spices brought by portugal to northern europe (so again the dutch profited from portugal on that). What I mean by this is that portugal did all the hard work while the others just waited for a momentary time of weakness to strike (even tough the dutch portuguese war ended in a stalemate, since the portuguese destroyed the gwc, reconquered the lost parts of Brazil and Angola, maintained a lot of territories in india, all of that while fighting the Spanish, Dutch, French, English and local kingdoms and empires of the Indian Ocean at a moment of crisis with a population a little larger than a million people). Basicaly had portugal remained independent other europeans wouldn’t even dare to face portugal, or they they would meet defeat at the hands of the first naval world power and first global empire. The portuguese empire among many other accomplishments was the percursur of global economy and the first to trade with all the corners of the world, it also started a period that would connect all the peoples of the world for the first time (for instances in ghana, the natives were so shocked to see white people that they spat in their hands and tried to remove “the white ink” of the europeans skin, since they didn’t know about them). This empire also destroyed the silk road to create the cape route that would be followed by europeans until the 20th century. Furthermore portugal estabilished european domination in the indian ocean by wining in diu and being the first to scare muslisms in the red sea with the armada sent by Lopo Soares which brought a lot of confidence to the europeans. Portugal did everything, building the bases, the others just copied portugal and came after. To conclude remember that Catholics started most scientific and philosofical revolutions (plus a lot more things): the Renaissence, the scientific age, the age of discoveries, the enlightnment among most of the most important periods in human history. All this to say they were the main contributers to the existence of the modern world. Ps: you put a lot of enphasis on absolutism while the british were also absolutists troughout their history for several times, just look at Cromnwell, who could do whatever he wanted with the parliment without asking anyone.

[@tomwilliams1849]

yawn

[@robbson2390]

Whats with the anti-british tone to this comment? The video has nothing to do with Britain

[@AlissonWololo]

Vídeo anti católico patético

[@bdrferreira]

@@robbson2390 Because the video was extremely anglo-centric to begin with so he felt had to have a go at the brits.

[@robbson2390]

@@bdrferreira wasnt critical of portugal though was it

[@FlashPointHx]

Lovely!!

[@kingbillycokebottle5484]

So ya just explained the JQ in 2 minutes @ 3:50 Neutral (ish) Quick to the point, so much so this most controversial yet crucial to topic to understanding European history would be passed over in a second but still covered. Dude, you would make the best history teacher. If you are already, your students were certainly lucky to have you, mine just threw dusters at me when probing for causes of events.

[@psycho-analyticgamer7452]

Portugal went from we got all dat money BURR BURR spice machine to penny for the poor plz xD Good episode btw. Love to see when content creators share history especially within a comedic context

[@paulom8804]

Over simplistic explanation in my view, saying that capitalism killed the portuguese empire. There was many absolutist powers in Europe that continued until the XIX century and some even beyond. The main causes for me its the Iberian Union whith mamy resources spent on spanish meaningless wars, the Lisbon Earthquake and the lack of manufactories in Portugal which caused a relience on products made abroad, mostly the UK. Much of the gold extracted in Brazil was directed to pay that said products, because we produced so little in Portugal. Also, many of the monuments we love today costed a lot back then, which weighed a lot on the kingoms purse.

[@zakazany1945]

Devolve o nosso ouro

[@paulom8804]

@@zakazany1945 não posso devolver o que semrpe foi meu

[@jonathancartaxolopes7138]

Here ladies and gentleman is what you get by summarizing 500+ years of history into a 8 minute long video.

[@ohdude6643]

There are a lot of imprecisions and some false statements. What expect from an English.

[@gabrielpaludo6913]

Some interesting facts: During most of the 17th century, Portugal's economy was essentially moved by the production and exporting of sugar in the brazilian northeast. It was during the Iberian Union that the portuguese american colonies were "left aside" by Spain, and in this period there were many invasions of french and dutch in Brazil, trying to claim the territory. After a while, sugar lost it's value, and Portugal kind of lost their monopoly over it. Around 1640, Portugal is finally able to get out of the Iberian Union, with the House of Braganza as the royal family. At the end of the 17th century, gold is discovered in the braziliand lands, and then the whole economy rellied on the gold mining, having it's peak around the 1750s. In the second half of the 18th century, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquess of Pombal, achieves a position of deep influence in the portuguese court. Basically, he becomes State Secretrary in 1750, eliminates all his political enemies, and, despite not being the ruler of Portugal, he rules over the country and it's colonies, having a lot of influence over the King and doing many changes while in power, that includes expelling the jesuits from Portugal and it's colonies, increasing the taxes over the colonies, etc. He is very relevant if you look a bit deeper inside of history. When King José I dies in the 1770s, his daughter inherits the throne as Queen Maria I, and banishes Pombal from court. This same queen will come to Brazil when Napoleon invades Portugal, but with her son D. João VI as prince regent, on behalf of her mental issues. Brazil has it's independence in 1822. It begins with the portuguese royal family coming to the colony in 1808, and, because of that, there was a high investing on infraestructure, economy, culture and other areas, trying to make the area more suitable for the royal family. In 1821, the now king D. João VI is forced to go back to Portugal to stop a revolution that was happening. He leaves his son Pedro in Brazil. Over the years, the portuguese nobility and the government insist that Pedro must come back to Portugal and Brazil should go back to being a colony. Pedro decides to stay in Brazil, despite threats from the Portuguese Crown, and the country has it's independence declared not long after.

[@kermitthethinker1465]

Don't speak like Pombal was bad,he was the best thing to have happen to Portugal since the Count of Ericiera,and he made people in Brazil pay taxes and rampant tax evasion in Brazil.

[@ilyaXshuffler]

The Jews of course invented Capitalism, how convenient. With the discovery of the new world and opening of new trade routes the Jewish people were a minority and definitely couldn't have invented the concept that which was already growing in Europe and it's colonial possessions. The Dutch were already developing their own unique ways of insuring voyages and investments overseas to join an on going trend of colonization, especially after fighting for independence from the Spanish. So although it seems to be a nutshell of historical progress, this little statement felt to me quite wrong.

[@SamSeban]

There seems to be some weird obsession about jews in his videos unfortunately...

[@georgemx4136]

1:19 i think im the only guy wio noticed the french guy’s text blink at the last second

[@madewithrealdiamonds]

weird how you left out how hard Portugal fought to maintain its colomies even while the other colonizers were condemning them for it. They even tried to utilize the colonies as separate Portuguese states on paper, while fighting bloody revolutions to further subjugate the colonies up until the 1970s and 1980s. You also left out the crazy dictators as well.

[@carolinacruz0]

Thank you!