South America's Forgotten Countries

[@GhostCountries]

Hey man, thanks for collaborating with us here; it was a lot of fun, glad you reached out! Here's hoping both our videos do well and there's more collaboration to come in the the future. 👍

[@SignoreGalilei]

I'm glad I reached out too! Your video turned out great and everyone should go watch it :)

[@GhostCountries]

@@SignoreGalilei Thank you so much!

[@zaraiwzara]

@@SignoreGalilei as a brazillian i am quite surprised you didn't mention more brazillian entities which had statehood or proto-statehood, such as amazonian cultures/civilizations, such as the Marajoara, Kambeba, the cuicuro, the most likely founders of Kuhikugu, Nokugu. and of course the jesuitic missions, which happened in the south of Brazil of course, but also in both Argentina and Paraguay

[@zaraiwzara]

@@SignoreGalilei also, i genuinely believed you were hiding a swastika in the 2nd venezuelan republic's flag

[@SignoreGalilei]

@@zaraiwzara Nah, it actually had that black rectangle on it. Also, good point about the Amazonian societies - the pre-contact era wasn't the main focus of the video, but there were a lot of well organized societies across the continent.

[@DJuuJ]

Fun fact about the Bahia Republic and sabinada, they declared independence from Brazil, but it was only temporary, the plan was that Bahia would be independent until Pedro II reach the age of majority, then Bahia would again become part of Brazil, it was the regency period back then, things were pretty bad and unstable, so the uprising happened

[@SignoreGalilei]

That is a fun fact, thanks!

[@DJuuJ]

@@SignoreGalilei i am glad you liked, it's a pleasure to share it with you

[@MajoraZ]

I think there's a lot more that could have been said about Prehispanic states here, since pretty much only the Inca Empire and Muisca confederation where mentioned, and basically only in passing. My area is more Mesoamerica then the Andes and South America, so I can't exactly give an extremely in depth response myself, but I can type up a few paragraphs: The first signs of complex societies in South America would be at Caral, a site belonging to the Caral-Supe culture dated to around 3000BC, which had a variety of large monumental structures and temples. This has been called the first city in the Americas, but the Andean archaeologist I've spoken to about it has said that the site and most (all?) other monumental sites in the Andes between 3000BC and 500BC were more ceremonial centers that were visited on a regular basis rather then actual urban centers people permanently lived in, aside from small groups of priests. There's a change in this pattern around 500BC, when Chavín de Huántar, a monumental site built by the Chavin civilization, apparently picks up a permanent population of craft specialists and merchants and develops into a proper city, which kicks off Andean urbanism on a more widespread basis, though some cultures during the late 1st millennium BC and later still had more cermonial centers then proper cities, like the Nazca. Some other cultures during this period around the turn of the millennium were the Paracas (closely related to the Nazca) and the Recuay, though I'm unsure if the 3 could be called state socities/countries. The Moche civilization early to mid 1st millennium AD is one of the most famous Pre Inca andean civilizations, and had a variety of city-states or kingdoms in Northern Peru, the most notable site being Cerro Blanco or Huacas de Moche, named after two large temple complexes, the Huaca del Sol and Huaca de La Luna, the latter of which is pretty well preserved today ("Huaca" is a general term for these Ziggurat like temples, though also for sacred objects/natural features to other Andean civilizations). The Moche are pretty well known for their ceramics, as they produced incredible lifelike ceramic busts/portrait vessels which seem to depict specific rulers and nobles, as different busts show the same people in different stages of life; as well as ceramics showing sex acts., though both types have a distictive "stirrup" style spout/opening at the top. They also produced a lot of fine metalwork art. In the mid to late 1st millennium AD, you had the Huari or Wari Empire, which covered some of Northern Peru's coasts and much of Central and especially Southern Peru, as well as the Kingdom of Tiwanku, centered around Lake Titicaca and covering parts of Peru, Bolivia, and some other countries, and the two were rival powers though I'm not sure if we have evidence of direct warfare. I also know that while it's generally accepted that the Wari Empire was an Empire, the first true one in the Andes/South America with I presume more political centralization and unification then the Moche etc had, and I know that there's more debate over that for Tiwanku, I'm not exactly sure what the differences between the two are from an adminstrative perspective or on what evidence those assessments are made. Again, Andes isn't really my area. I can say though that there's a lot of very similar art made by both cultures judging by what I've looked at. The Moche were either conquered or developed into the Sican civilization in the following centuries, and in turn they were conquered by the Kingdom of Chimor. Chimor/the Chimu civilization, liked the Moche, developed along the northern coasts of Peru, and during this period in the early 2nd millennium AD, became the largest state in the Andes at the time, conquering much of Peru's coasts, and their captial city of Chan Chan became the largest city in Precolumbian South American history, with 60,000 peope (though I suspect Cusco may be larger if you include adjacent settlements, but that may be the Mesoamerican urbanism nerd speaking since radial suburbs were a big thing in Mesoamerica and I've seen some images suggesting Cusco had them too... on that note, there WERE Mesoamerican cities much larger then Chan Chan). The Chimu, like the Moche, produced amazingly detailed metalwork art, some of the finest in the Precolumbian Americas, but eventually they got into conflict with the up and coming Kingdom of Cusco, which was rapidly expanding. Eventually Cusco conquered Chimor in in the late 15th century, and without any other huge rival kingdoms, Cusco swalloed up every other state in the Andes and expanded further into surronding non-urban parts of South America as the Inca Empire. Again, this is probably a big oversimplification, I know i'm missing cultures, I may have gotten stuff wrong, etc: I know much more about Mesoamerica, but hopefully this is a interesting enough overview and isn't too off... and if either of you wanna do anything on Mesoamerica, and I happen to be open when you ask, i'd be down to help out.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks for the extra information! The focus of the video was on the postcolonial era, but I agree there's a lot more prehispanic societies that would be interesting in their own right. I had to make decisions about what time periods and places to include, and as always there are good reasons to draw the boundaries differently than how I did in this video.

[@notafrog2040]

All that for 33 likes? RIP

[@L1M.L4M]

This deserves thousands of likes

[@L1M.L4M]

Cusco discovered Netherite first 💀

[@BocVel]

Since u touched a lot in Peru, post colonial eras i recall 2 revolts that declared independence in some way, one revolt in Arequipa wich to this day still plays with independence along with some other provinces in the south of Peru, and also a revolt in Trujillo 1932(where ChanChan is) where a revolt caused the then government of Peru to air strike the city to put the rebels down there by being the first time an air force attacked a city in south America, the rebels were executed in ChanChan

[@vulpes7079]

As a Brazilian I feel extremely proud to know all of these

[@liflof12]

Great video! Thank you for introducing me Ghost Countries!!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks, glad to do it!

[@Dornana]

Im actually from Acre, glad you included our forgotten republic. VIDA LONGA AO ACRE!!!

[@the_reaperr_165]

voce é um alienígena

[@nelsondfg211]

Nós terráqueos te saudamos 🖖

[@Dornana]

eu trago paz e conhecimento para o bostil

[@sainjor3932]

Quantos triceratops vc tem na sua garagem?

[@Dornana]

@@sainjor3932 27

[@mikaelakerfeldt4379]

Love the whole "forgotten places" idea. I think a good one to cover might be some of the islands in the arctic - Svalbard gets a decent amount of attention, but something like Franz Josef Land could be considered it's "forgotten" sister; a place that I think is just as interesting, but gets comparatively almost no media attention. Might be a fun place to do a deeper dive into, especially since Russia has a full blown military base there. Or any one of the places in the Canadian high arctic, those islands are massive yet I know very little about them.

[@SignoreGalilei]

That could be cool - there's definitely a lot of great islands up there with interesting histories.

[@Menezarian]

btw, the name of the Dutch Brazil was "New-Holland", or in portuguese "Nova-Holanda". In the years that it existed (16th century) it brought a lot of development to the rural areas of the country and after the reconquest by the Portuguese, they started caring about the previous Dutch territories.

[@Menezarian]

@Kaii ata no corretor apareceu Holanda c/ o acento, erro meu!

[@dinamosflams]

btw, yes, a lot of them were responsible to build New Amsterdam on North America, which is today's New York

[@vulpes7079]

They didn't do much for the rural areas. Most of the development spearheaded by Mauritius of Nassau (who, by the way, was ousted by the Dutch West India Company for spending too much money) was in the big cities and ports for outgoing cargo

[@StekTM1]

A ocupação holandesa foi horrível, cara. Até os indígenas lutaram pra expulsar eles.

[@Menezarian]

@@StekTM1 depois de 1 mês, posso confirmar, eles foram horríveis.

[@gedgar]

supa cool video :-) idlk why it didnt notiffy me when u posted it!

[@chimpazoo1143]

6:58 Fun Fact! The cerimony pictured here "Cerimonia do Beija-Mão" (literally "hand kissing cerimony") has D. João VI of Portugal on the throne. D. João was a bit of a 18th century neckbeard, and he was considered a dirty person even by the standards of his time... He also suffered from scabies on his groins, which he would often wash on the dirty, excrement filled waters in front of the Imperial Palace. And people kissed his hands....

[@SignoreGalilei]

That's a fun fact, though a bit distressing

[@dougrossi9467]

You need to read "Guia Politicamente Incorreto da História do Brasil" of Leandro Narloch and "1822" of Laurentino Gomes. The mainstream created a stereotypically wrong image about D. João VI, althrough some things are true he was not merely a "buffon".

[@chimpazoo1143]

@@dougrossi9467 I have read 1822, and that's where I got the factoid from, I think. My father has a copy of Guia Politicamente Incorreto, I might check it out. Thanks for the recommendations!

[@guilhermem.cintra2535]

Your pronunciation of Portuguese names is actually impressive for a non native speaker. Grat content.

[@Cr7Micto]

You forgot the Canudos revolt in Brazil, which wanted the return of the Monarchy. And also from the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, where São Paulo for some time did not respond to the Brazilian government and replaced the state flag, which before (and currently) had the entire map of Brazil, but during the revolution only that of São Paulo

[@astk5214]

The coolest revolt I learned in school was the "guerra de canudos" or straws war, they won against brasil 2 times before getting genocided. It happened because a bunch of unfranchised people got together to make a city under the guidance of "Councilor Antonio"( a preacher who alleged started walking around the brazilian desert converting people after discovering his wife cheating) and after paying for a bunch of lumber and not getting it, some of them started making a commotion on a port, getting the attention of the state, and since there were rumors that Counselor Antonio was pro-monarch, the brazilian army invaded their cramped and crooked slum, but because of that the people could subdued the army and get guns and ammo which they used to win against the army a second time, but in the third time the brazilian army loaned cannons from France blowing up everything

[@oole0111]

Canudos is a proper noun, it can't be translated.

[@astk5214]

@@oole0111 mas significa canudos pois o local tinha muito bambu logo canudos, eu não ligo q é nome, prefiro passar a mensagem de que lá tinha canudos

[@vulpes7079]

Today Canudos is a flooded area

[@Schultz3]

Canudos is Canudos, not straws, that's like those Mandarim to English map translations you see online where The USA is suddenly Land of Few Sand or some shit.

[@Baddon]

They won THREE times

[@SoapheadPog]

Didn't expected the collab, great vid!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@carlosmagnodealmeida9500]

Two more in Brazil: The Farroupilha Revolt, in Rio Grande do Sul, lasted 10 years (1835-45); The Kingdom Of São Paulo, lasted a few days, because the king refused the insurrection (1641).

[@wilavg]

Ele não falou sobre porque nos critérios que eles usaram já é considerado parte do cone sul.

[@Soredli]

Glad that someone finally mentions the Confederated Cities of the Cauca Valley as someone who is actually from there. I really enjoyed this video. There are still some other forgotten countries such as Antioquia who existed also in Colombia around the era of the Confederated Cities of Valley of the Cauca as well as the United Government of Casanare which existed in 1831 I believe in Eastern Colombia. Also there was the Cauca Federal State which included the Amazonic Colombia and Pacific Coast of Colombia.

[@gtPacheko]

I'm from the former Republica Juliana in the South of Brazil. Great video!

[@michaelpinto4286]

A big one was not included. The Guerra dos Farrapos, a republic in the south provinces of Brazil

[@SignoreGalilei]

That's probably in Ghost Countries'video then - they covered southern Brazil.

[@Nachoto]

Great video, however you missed quite a few countries like the following: Chile "conquered" a kingdom in Patagonia after a frenchman conviced the local mapuches he should be king of the region. In Argentina, the provinces of Tucumán, Corrientes, Entre Rios and Buenos Aires were independent republics at some point. Uruguay formed the League of the Free Peoples out of many of Argentina's provinces In Southern Brazil there were two breakaway republics. The Juliana Republic and Riograndense Republic In Bolivia there were a lot of "republiquetas" (or revolutionary republics) before combining into the Republic of Bolívar. Many native revolts in Perú declared independence during the times of the Confederation.

[@jptrrs]

Good Call. Also, the Republica Riograndense was the longer, most organized and likely to succeed breakaway revolt in Brazil. It was a whole civil war! It should definitely have been mentioned.

[@JoacoG11]

​@@jptrrs yea, i hope he makes a second part

[@SignoreGalilei]

You should check out Ghost Countries' video - they're in there!

[@blab1265]

Uruguay NEVER was "an Argentinian" province; there was a whole vast piece of land that included parts of what we actually know as several different countries of South América (rio gde do sul, banda oriental, argentina, norte de chile, Bolivia, Paraguay). Regards!

[@nikolaipdestro]

Here in Brazil we had a lot of secessionist movements that most people never heard of 🤷‍♂️

[@ArcueidBrunestudReal]

It's a bit sad that most of the video was focused on Greater Colombia and Brazil. But from southern South America (Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) you barely mentioned them

[@zachl3330]

That’s the other half of the collab, I started with that one and didn’t realize this one was up yet for another three hours

[@SignoreGalilei]

Like Zach said, that's in Ghost Countries' video

[@Soulbotagem-BR]

Nobody cares these countries...

[@thegoosefrioecalculista5878]

@@SignoreGalilei Another ghost country was only state that turned independent of Brazil to 9 years and was the Republica Rio-Grandense witch today is Rio Grande do Sul and where I live

[@RafaelCavalcantePaulino]

I actually live in the city where the Revolt of Quebra-Quilos started. The lake where they threw out all of the broken measures is like 2 kilometes from here.

[@theculturedjinni]

Good video, I got here through your collab with Ghost! 👍

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks! Glad to see you over here on this channel!

[@theculturedjinni]

@@SignoreGalilei You have some other seemingly good content that I will look into!

[@SignoreGalilei]

Hope you enjoy!

[@IrishMcScottish]

I really enjoyed the great lakes of north America vids, how about more lakes?

[@SignoreGalilei]

I'm planning on a lakes video some time next month!

[@IrishMcScottish]

@@SignoreGalilei noice! Can't wait 🤟

[@matthewwelsh294]

@@SignoreGalilei Like Crater Lake or Lake Vostok?

[@SignoreGalilei]

@@matthewwelsh294 Those are very impressive lakes. I ended up doing a fjord video instead of a lakes video in the end, but there are definitely still more lakes to be covered!

[@VoidHalo]

I just read the other day about how Central America was an actual country at one point. I forget exactly which areas it encompassed, but I believe it was from Guatemala and Belize, just south of Mexico, down to Panama, north of Colombia. I didn't realize Central America was ever a sort of "conglomerate nation" like what the British did to India or Africa by forcing its many people of different cultures, religions and heritages to live under one government in one country. Only it was Spain instead of England.

[@laudemar-A.B.6386]

Yes, it was called the Federal Republic of Central America,but these countries attempted to unite under a federation many years after independence from Spain.

[@Sce68]

Thanks for showing our south american history in this video! There are many more countries that once existed like the republic of antioquia which was one of the first to abolish slavery, the free state of maracaibo or the state of socorro

[@tabletgenesis3439]

Socorro means "Help" in portuguese. I hope that is a spanish country because if not that must be terrifying.

[@Sce68]

@@tabletgenesis3439 in spanish it also means help, but el Socorro is a small city here in Colombia, and it was one of the first to declare independence

[@cranmzvg]

Great video, although i would also add the Iquicha Republic, (1824-1839), an indigenous government founded in Ayacucho, Peru led by Antonio Huachaca who at first wanted to return under the Spanish Crown, and the Republic of Alto Peru (1828-1829), a republic founded by Bolivian unionist in La Paz that wanted to be anexed by the Peruvian government

[@chiefmonrovia6691]

Oh south America, so mistreated, so misunderstood, so so much potential!

[@SignoreGalilei]

I agree, it's really a great place

[@chompythebeast]

As Parenti says: The Global South isn't under-developed, it's over-exploited. Only when South America can escape the murderous shadow of the Monroe Doctrine and find another path forward will its countries' peoples know true control of their socioeconomic destinies

[@bigboyman5743]

will africa get its own forgotten countries video? it would be a pretty long video

[@SignoreGalilei]

I might split it up into regions

[@Erwyn_]

Nice video new sub

[@thezombiecreeper]

The flag of the First Republic of Venezuela both looks awesome and crappy at the same time.

[@SignoreGalilei]

I imagine the original fabric ones look a little different but basically yeah

[@raaviolli]

Congrats on the pronunciation of accented words like Maranhão and Pará. Not many gringos care to pronounce it right, but it's visible that you studied the phonetics of Portuguese at least a little bit.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks - I do my best to at least make a good attempt at every pronunciation, even though I know I'm going to get a lot of them wrong still.

[@nikolaipdestro]

The Acre part 8:46 isn't right actually. It was too many things in the game to Brazil accept that territory, including a funny tale about buying Acre's republic with a horse, or something (and it's no true, of course).

[@geoffreylee5199]

Argentina wants territories from Chile as well. Last imperialist nation in South America.

[@Phantasma999]

2:02 A painting depicting Joaquim José da Silva Xavier a.k.a. Tiradentes

[@davimartins7637]

you forgot the most significative revolt in Brazil, the Ragamuffin War, or, in portuguese “Guerra dos Farrapos”, a revolt in the southernmost state in Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, to separate from Brazil, the war lasted 10 years, and the state declared their independence, but later, with a treaty, united back with Brazil, but still to this day there are strong separatist movements in the region. great vid tho

[@Supernova2464]

2:47 why does the Viceroyalty of New Granada “control” (for lack of a better word) parts of Nicaragua??

[@xiuhcoatl4830]

Thats how it was since the colony

[@Supernova2464]

@@xiuhcoatl4830 but why? It seem odd

[@xiuhcoatl4830]

@@Supernova2464 because Nueva Granada had an actual navy to protect the caribbean coastline. Nuevo México had one but in the pacific, which they used to explore Asia, fight the ottomans and trade with China.

[@Supernova2464]

@@xiuhcoatl4830 that explains it

[@lilSaltee]

Will you do a forgotten counties for all continents?

[@SignoreGalilei]

My first thought was "well, not for Antarctica" but now that I think about it, there might something I could do.

[@lilSaltee]

@@SignoreGalilei just found out about your channel. great content!

[@munolio]

great video

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thanks!

[@sergiocabada2385]

Ur pronunciation is on point

[@washyrose5904]

I probably laughed too hard at that sulfur monoxide bit. But it made me smile so it’s fine.

[@hispalismapping155]

There were even more countries proclaimed in the independence wars. Such as an venezuelan oriental republic or zulian democratic republic.

[@JoJoDude1997]

El espíritu de la Gran Colombia still lives in the four nations We're like brothers we figth, insult and despite each other sometimes But our strength is in our mutual cooperación to keep going , a share history that stars long before Colón en tougth about crosing the sea

[@roncedoniafinossenoresVCG1724]

This revolt broke out exactly in the city where I live

[@Gustavogukpa]

Getúlio Vargas in the video = Automatic like

[@DoisMitosEmBuscaDeAventuras]

7:41 This was my country, Confederação do Equador 😕

[@cristianiiv6418]

Seria uma porcaria sem a união Se acha que está ruim estaria muito pior sem nós

[@Wesyan1999]

7:18 actually Pedro was called back on jan 9th (dia do fico)

[@notachannel447]

you forgot the Ragamuffin War (Guerra dos Farrapos), that did declare independese from Brazil and create the Riograndense Republic and the Juliana Republic.

[@SignoreGalilei]

That's in Ghost Countries' video!

[@alecity4877]

the flag you used for the second republic of Venezuela isn't the one of the republic, that was the flag of the "war to death" campaign, during the second war of independence the flags of the first republic were used again by the independence movement, the second republic didn't really have a specific flag.

[@SignoreGalilei]

That makes sense. I remember something like that in the sources I was using - I might add it in the description.

[@bebedor_de_cafe3272]

What about Canudos?

[@who9387]

I'm very impressed by the pronounciation here

[@adorman]

History of south America is really interesting. It's a shame lot of it is lost.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah, that is a shame.

[@marym7104]

Within 2 hours!

[@SignoreGalilei]

You just missed one hour by a few minutes

[@marym7104]

@@SignoreGalilei ok

[@interrobangings]

0:05 "or half-continent" god i hate the "America continent" argument north and south america are different tectonically and culturally there isn't an "or" here, it's objectively wrong to say it's one

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah, but so are like Arabia and China and we still call them the same continent (though maybe we shouldn't). I personally think of the two Americas as two continents but I think that says more about how I first learned it than about the places themselves.

[@tchumango9131]

You missed the Republica Rio grandense, the result of over 10 years of civil war, started because of high taxes on domestic jerky production. It was by far the longest revolt that ever happened in Brazil.

[@SignoreGalilei]

I think it's in Ghost Countries' video, if I recall.

[@kirilvelinov7774]

My fanmade continent! It has 23 countries(15 Uruguay sized,8 Chile sized)

[@SignoreGalilei]

Fantasy maps can be real fun :)

[@gilsonlcunha]

You forgot the Farroupilha revolution in Brazil, what gave birth to the Farroupilha Repúblic, that endured for ten years, (1835-1845).

[@DeltaHydrixian]

All this time I thought it was on pause

[@SignoreGalilei]

Thought what was on pause?

[@DeltaHydrixian]

@@SignoreGalilei the continent of South America

[@SoxExcalibur]

You forgot about the Piratini and Juliana Republics that fought for independence from Brazil in the 1835-1845 Ragamuffin War

[@Cr7Micto]

They're in Ghost Countries' video

[@myceliation]

you speak exactly like xidnaf and historia civilis. interesting

[@SignoreGalilei]

I mean I haven't ever seen the three of us in the same room together

[@vaiyt]

Ah, the Muisca, the often forgotten mesoamerican giant between the maya and the inca.

[@kojismiles]

bro literally had a southern cone 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@JessmanChicken86]

I ain't afraid of no ghost countries

[@nikolaipdestro]

10:01 Hey, the island's name for us, brazilians (who speaks Portuguese and not Spanish) is Ilha da Trindade, not TriNIdade. That's annoying.

[@LittleMushroomGuy]

Rio Grande do Sul?

[@tigrecito48]

there is evidence of some huge empire in the Amazon jungle which disappeared a bit like the Maya, except they didnt leave ruins etc... i saw a documentary ages ago about it.. apparently in the amazon there are some strips of black soil.. i forget the name of this type of soil but, most soil in the amazon is red and not very fertile and this black soil it was said, can only be produced by humans and agriculture/animal husbandry etc.. ie from dropping rotten vegetation & sh*t etc.. huge tracks of land are with this soil and suggests a large arable empire.. although it might be from various tribes moving around over a long period of time.,. however it was also suggested that some of the pre inca civilisations that were big, and coastal & in the mountain regions, originally might have come from the amazon... for example, most of the Nazca lines are showing amazonian creatures like monkeys and birds etc. things that dont live in the desert of the Atacama where the drawings are found.

[@SignoreGalilei]

The soil is called called Terra Preta, I came across it too during my research for this video. It's pretty neat stuff there.

[@juliosilveira7891]

And, wow, Trindade, who would know?

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yeah, it's a little wild.

[@aud20.]

The map for the confederation of the equator is wrong

[@nohablogringo]

That is not accurate, look up in the books, the Free Province of Guayaquil achieved independence on its own, most notably with the help of José Joaquín de Olmedo, Guayaquil was one of the few regions that got their independence on its own, however, it was taken away and annexed as part of Gran Colombia thanks to the plotting between San Martin and Simon Bolivar.

[@Driendel]

Did you just skip the Ragamuffin war entirely?

[@SignoreGalilei]

I think it's in Ghost Countries' video

[@estebanmorales6487]

Oh, South America, my dear South America. What would we do without your chaos? We'd get bored to death, that's for sure!

[@SignoreGalilei]

It certainly makes for a fun topic to research.

[@geoffreylee5199]

Every two bit politician wants to head their own county. Does not matter where!

[@juliosilveira7891]

Additional kudos for playing the Corta-Jaca by awesome Chiquinha Gonzaga at the end. For the Farrapos or Farroupilhas war, which was rather a war to remain in Brazil, should I look for the South Cone video?

[@SignoreGalilei]

I don't remember off the top of my head, but it might be in there. It's a good video either way.

[@luiscc2884]

Let's gooo Bora galera kkk

[@shonenjumpmagneto]

● South America is a Continent ● America is a Super-Continent ● Pangea is an Ultra-Continent Don't say nonsense on a channel that's supposed to inform people.

[@luangabriel5577]

But Acre dont existe

[@Herrenvolk]

Maranhwao

[@Basedindividual69]

Me when no Riograndense Republic

[@eaturcookiescookie7462]

We forgor 💀

[@ismorezro]

the Independent Republic of Guayaquil will live forever!

[@SignoreGalilei]

It's got a cool story, that's for sure

[@alvarocastrosebastian9592]

Analysing even the smallest microstate but not a single word about the Mapuche people :/

[@SignoreGalilei]

I am specifically leaving out the Southern Cone because Ghost Countries covers it - the Mapuche are in their video!

[@-RunninNGunnin-]

I'm from Finland and I find it interesting that people usually assume that only Spanish and Portuguese are spoken in South America even though people also speak English, French and Dutch there (Guyana, French Guyana, Suriname) Cheers 🍻

[@laudemar-A.B.6386]

But these countries are insignificant compared to Portuguese and Spanish, which are the majority.

[@iandoster4680]

Het Koninkrijk Nederlands Brazilië.

[@SignoreGalilei]

Yep, that's in there!

[@iandoster4680]

Ik wil een alternatieve geschiedenis voor het Koninkrijk Nederlands Brazilië.

[@SignoreGalilei]

@@iandoster4680 Why not make one yourself, since it's something you're interested in?

[@iandoster4680]

Alright, Galileo.

[@stargazer-elite]

And it stayed the same ever since

[@carinaslima]

I am a Brazilian Monarchist. Unstability ever since the coup.

[@chompythebeast]

Stability" is not itself a goal. Government doesnt exist just to exist. Bad government is to be destabilized. Absolute dictatorship with a total police state and absolutely no right to free expression might produce 'stability' via murder and repression, but that would hardly be a government worth preserving. Monarchists always talk of 'stability' as if the world didn't openly conclude that it preferred lesser 'stability' outside the regressive dominion of the autocrat. Besides, I think the recent British Coronation will be the last time we ever see such an outrageous and repressive ritual in the Western Hemisphere

[@diemulltonnencrew3020]

Who else had to laugh at the sulfuroxide?

[@SignoreGalilei]

Glad you caught that haha

[@jorgejonuario5379]

south america is a half continente, not a continente because the history of colonization of america (America not is USA) i am from Brazil and this is a form to put Brazil and soth america contrys inferior to USA. America is a continent and USA is a part of it in North America(i am Sorry if you study geograph and know this but i hate this situations )

[@SignoreGalilei]

In the US, we're always taught that North and South America together are two continents that together become "The Americas". Neither way is geographically any better or worse, they're just different. WonderWhy has a good video about this if I recall.

[@halotingata7432]

Nah but Melchizedek is pronounced Mel-Ke-ze-dek. Not Millchizdek. lol

[@SignoreGalilei]

Oh, thanks haha

[@cienfu_egos]

Latin America has 5 times more countries than it should. I think an ideal division of Latin America should be: -Mexico -Central-American Nation (from Chiapas to Costa Rica) -Antilles Nation (Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico) -Colombia (inc. Venezuela, Panama and the ecuadorian Costa region) -Peru (inc. the culturally Andean regions of both Ecuador and Bolivia, as well as northern Argentina) -Chile -Argentina (consisting basically of the Pampas and Rio de la Plata regions including Uruguay) -Paraguay (including the eastern lowlands of culturally non-andean Bolivia and the culturally guaraní northern Argentina) -Brasil.

[@losfer2008]

Las Malvinas son ARGENTINAS

[@supernova7966]

South America belong to Spain and Portugal.

[@mrmerdum7494]

This is Fake FAKE!

[@john2432]

Wrong flags for Bolivia and Peru at the beginning