The History of the Caribbean: Every Year

The history of the Caribbean begins with the migration of several groups from the mainland Americas around 7000 years ago. These groups were almost wiped out shortly after the arrival of Europeans in 1492 transmitted Old World diseases to the region. Several of the Americas' oldest cities were founded in the Caribbean throughout the 16th Century as the Spanish Empire conquered many of the larger islands.
Other European states, notably England, France, and the Netherlands, colonised the Caribbean in the 17th Century. Despite the constant threat of piracy, these small colonies thrived into the 18th Century. By 1800, many of Europe's wealthiest colonies were located in the Caribbean, supplying luxury goods such as sugar back to the Old World.
With the abolition of slavery in the 19th century, plantations became less economically viable, and the region as whole lost importance. The 20th Century was marked by several American interventions in the Caribbean, as well the the independence of most European colonies.
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Music:
Philip Ayers - On a Hunt

[@zebrafinch2955]

The “pirates” symbol is hilarious. Just like cartoonishly described pirates.

[@vtron9832]

And I like that their color was black

[@retf8977]

That was their flag irl. The jolly roger. Or More accurately, One of their flags

[@zebrafinch2955]

red eyed tree frog: Darn it! I forgot all about the Jolly Roger! How!

[@nomore9004]

You want to know more about them then look at this video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIi7oYajesmGqtE

[@Yugoslavia-mw6sv]

Jaaaargh!!! Miharties!!!!

[@mudi7055]

1510's: pirates arrive in the carribeans 2110's: somali pirates arrive in the carribeans

[@dedifanani8658]

Pirate on the Caribbean is Song

[@peterk.9571]

You actually showed the cacicazgos of Hispaniola, thank you so much! Love on behalf of the Dominican Republic and my Taino ancestors.

[@StreetDrilla]

Whats the cacicazgos of Hispaniola?

[@peterk.9571]

@@StreetDrilla Glad you asked! A cacicazgo is what a Taino (the native inhabitants of the Greater Antilles in pre-Columbian times) chiefdom was called. The map shows the cacicazgos present on the island of Hispaniola at the time of the Spanish conquest of the island.

[@gav1233]

If smallpox didn't exist, there would still be people of 100% Taino descent.

[@peterk.9571]

@@gav1233 Though I'd like to have that kind of optimism, there were plenty of other plagues that devastated the natives besides smallpox. Not to mention the conquistadors and their brutal subjugation of the region. Luckily, their blood lives on to this day in Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans among others.

[@gav1233]

How much Taino descent do you have?

[@OllieBye]

What would you like to see in future?

[@WindowsXPMapping1]

Something on Canada? Heart from Canada

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

The History of the Malacca Sultanate: Every Year. Can you please make a video on that topic.

[@vtron9832]

PREHISTORY OF THE WORLD, from 200k BCE, to 3k BCE

[@corentinkaiservonhohenzoll9114]

Why not WW1 and WW2 ?

[@OllieBye]

@@corentinkaiservonhohenzoll9114 Well, both of those have already been done multiple times.

[@haze154]

Knight hospitallers? Cool

[@numanbaran8607]

Yeah tf are they doing there

[@xaph5575]

Where?

[@alejandromomota9509]

Where??

[@Old_Ladies]

Never knew this tidbit of history! Learned something new. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitaller_colonization_of_the_Americas

[@eric11]

1:19

[@clickbait4408]

Love how Denmark shows up then gets absolutely trounced

[@UltraWorlds]

And Brandenburg

[@tommy-er6hh]

I was surprised that Brandenburg was taken over by Pirates!

[@arthur__lt]

England and Spain : loose colonies France : *"what about no?"*

[@hurry2291]

Netherlands too

[@vtron9832]

This is the quality content I subscribed for Love from 🇵🇷

[@andrielow5345]

Love from 🇦🇪

[@pleasedrinkwaterffs]

Love from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@spanishmapper7112]

Entonces por que no escribes español?

[@vtron9832]

@@spanishmapper7112 porque la mayoría de la gente escribe en inglés y la mayoría de mis subscripciones son en inglés.

[@spanishmapper7112]

@@vtron9832 tiempo para quitar su flojera y empezar de estudiar otros idiomas, al final no todo el mundo para ellos.. Por cierto, Saludos desde Ucrania))

[@kailanthecartographer2627]

the music sounds like pirates of the caribbean

[@kingkeeper99]

You didn't included the San Andres y Providencia islands that where colonized by the Spanish, the English, the Dutch, took by the Pirates and served as a headquarter to Henry Morgan, recovered by the Spanish and then liberated by a French corsaire at the service of Simón Bolívar and Santander who ended up claiming the islands for Colombia. The Islands are important because they grant Colombia sovereignty over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea as these are actually closer to mainland Nicaragua.

[@retzyn7711]

It's strange that he didn't include them, as Saba, Saint Barthélemy, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten are all much smaller than San Andres y Providencia yet you can still clearly see them in the video.

[@masn9997]

Si la isla era española ya estaba «liberada».

[@Crackdalf]

It's nice to be acknowledged. Respect from Jamaica.

[@euphoriaggaminghd]

Nice video man. And the Dutch have kept their colonies for a long time. I appreciate the hard work to make these :)

[@yacin5590]

Good job man. Excellent video.

[@Richard_is_cool]

I was just thinking about the Caribbean during those very days of your upload. Synchronicity working again.

[@diegorivera9517]

You ever think, that the Caribbean is the most important region of the Americas, because that is where history began to change for the world?

[@salvadorhenriquez4091]

It's a very important one

[@imperatormundi8955]

It is because this is where Columbus landed bringing the Age of Discovery. The sugar plantation were the foundation of the capitalism to replace mercantilism and helped powered the Industrial Revolution

[@kidgaminggaming5731]

Every literally overlooks the Caribbean and it forget it was the gateway that made many European powers rich today

[@BartlomiejDmowski]

If you put it this way...

[@micahistory]

Great video, I love your channel so much!

[@tommy-er6hh]

another amazing job, Kudos!

[@mikaelortiz1739]

Yes! I was waiting for this one! Thank you from Puerto Rico! 🇵🇷

[@janherburodo8070]

You even showed Curland temporarily owning Tobago. That's impressive

[@Argacyan]

Small change to the intro card: American invasions, "intervention" is just a euphemism.

[@bigpeenerpeen]

They were just that tho. Interventions. The US didn’t want to keep the islands. Just stabilize them and prevent others from getting them. That’s why the only land the US kept was Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (which the US bought)

[@Argacyan]

"Others" already had these islands, sometimes the locals other times still colonial overlords, so they didn't prevent anyone from getting the islands they prevented those factions from keeping their own islands. The virgin islands were bought, Puerto Rico was literally annexed in a war with Spain - they kept half of those gains in the invasions as you observed so precisely, the other half was stable before or went through the same struggles as the US itself did but got far right puppet dictators like Cuba anyhow to stabilize one thing. That being profits. The thing that you might be thinking about is the so called Monroe Doctrine, which mentions the US sphere of influence over the americas and was part of the justification given before invading southwards as things didn't just end at someone writing on some paper.

[@bigpeenerpeen]

Argacyan okay? There’s nothing to say to that. We said the same thing in a different way

[@josephluke5842]

Fuck You

[@kbro7997]

Thanks for the wonderful video 😻 Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

less that 1% of Tabago is europian. What a shame. This is why I hate slavery.

[@ishanr8697]

@@gunarsmiezis9321 Why is that a shame? What would you prefer?

[@salvadorhenriquez4091]

As a dominican, i'm proud of you for making this video

[@_xpawix_hdvideomapper7838]

Great work Ollie!

[@megaponful]

Netherlands Antilles Represent!. Greetings from Bonaire

[@tomster4974]

when I'm bored I watch videos like these the animation is what keeps me watching. If it were a stale history map with little changes, I personally wouldn't have watched it

[@andreluismarin8095]

Best wishes from sunny Aruba! Thanks!

[@anthonymanderson7671]

I love this video ollie bye and thanks for making it.

[@goadelic8]

Pirates = British Empire

[@nazmikaansenel]

"Privateer" term is more appropriate for them

[@javierperalta7648]

The French also sent corsairs to the Caribbean. Actually they sent them before the British

[@simonh6371]

Butthurt Spaniard.

[@tinyrhysherbert7537]

Lol another Spanish Empire cuck seething at the loss of their prized Carribbean territories to the British.

[@crapisnice]

pirates are corporate hierarchy busineses that have not alegiance to countries, so thats bucaners, privaters, corsairs, etc acting in behalf of jerusalems germanic royals and his pawns britain, portugal and rest of spain only were mercenary bases of germany and rhine river area royal houses that fighted against each other to control jerusalem bleaching terrorist expansion

[@BloxxterT]

Congragulations on 5M views on the history of the world video you hit 5M views keep going history legend!

[@arinhoad2936]

Isle of Santiago: You're santiago! He's santiago! I'm Santiago! Are there any other Santiago's I should know about?! Capital of Chile: ...

[@astartes1213]

¡Buen vídeo!

[@saotome6502]

This is by far the best dynamic mapping done of Caribbean history till date! (BTW - Portuguese Barbados was not noted)

[@thetechoasis2179]

you mean British Barbados? it was British for like 500 years. Portugal never owned it only tried claiming it from 1532 to 1620 but the British were a far stronger power

[@Cooyah888]

The capital of Santiago (later Jamaica) was St. Jugo dela Vega. Spanish town is the English name given after the British came.

[@walterbell7193]

I like how you include and called the Couronian kingdom an “Empire” 😆

[@xXShmendanXx]

It was not even a Kingdom, it was a Duchy, and it was a vassal state of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, so it was hardly even independent.

[@javik123]

2:08 never forgive never forget

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

The USA has become a machine of endless war with the intent of destoryed every nation and religion on the planet.

[@MJayzStudio]

Gunārs Miezis that’s usually a common aspect of world dominating civilizations

[@OrionAltHist]

Great video! So, are you ever planning on branching out from just history videos into other subgenres of mapping, or not? You should.

[@stefansauer2382]

Berwick upon Tweed: I've switched countries so many times St-Lucia: Hold my coconut

[@davidegaribaldi1503]

Didn't expect to see the knights hospitaler here

[@spaghettiking7312]

This video is incredibly good.

[@losidiomas8135]

Marvelous music for this video.🇬🇪

[@akkunwakakusa2349]

I love how movies makes us believe pirates were all over the caribbean when they really just lived most of the time in two tiny puertorican islands

[@toparriveria3478]

Port Royal Jamaica, Tortuga Haiti, New Providence, St Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe.. They were everywhere

[@disrespecc9678]

@@toparriveria3478 you mean literally just the eastern Caribbean, and the Bahamas?

[@ZAK-bv8yz]

@@disrespecc9678 everything controlled by the british

[@18thCenturyMulatto]

You giblet-head, they WERE all over. That was just occupied land. That doesn’t mean they were not patrolling the sea…

[@evanyes5762]

They were almost everywhere just in different timelines

[@hil6875]

1:21, look at Jamaica, it was during this time that Port Royal sank due to a major earthquake

[@arch_2932]

Giovani Oliveira love the detail

[@arthur__lt]

I love seeing those Swedish, Danish, Hospitaler, Brandenburgian and Pirate islands

[@lupettoversilia]

Very Nice Video

[@justinskirzenski]

As part Taino, thank you for this!!!

[@pavelavietor1]

Hello thanks so much. Saludos

[@hoyinching9313]

And I just learn some facts that Danish and Swedish did have colonies near Carribean

[@metametodo]

As well as pre-German states and Polish-Lithuanian duchies.

[@miguelaguilar2185]

@@metametodo And Cristian Orders

[@Hale_6530]

wow, fantastic

[@ghosted.01]

Good video

[@pmbartoli919]

Love the music! You kept "French Empire" after 1815 and all through the Third Republic. Maybe you meant "French colonial Empire"? "French Empire" really refers only to 1804-1815/1852-1870.

[@ParadoxNinja]

That's exactly what he means. Denmark has never been referred to as an 'Empire' before. The meaning is colonial empire.

[@LincolnLoud2015]

Can you do History of Malta: Every Year and History of New Zealand: Every Year?

[@OrionAltHist]

What font do you use for country names?

[@baddiesboxingco]

Thx for the real history- from a Hatian

[@TheGuirai]

glory to the spanish kingdom Æ and their latin blothers

[@user-ri5oc5rw5b]

@Guy Who's not gay i got slave btw

[@kh._.5829]

Los latinos: 🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹🇮🇹🇷🇴

[@es8346]

Yes.

[@JNRaudersant]

@@mackie_b_ Who say "Eurolatinos"? It is Latinos , americans are not even latins , they are Hispanics

[@salvadorhenriquez4091]

@@JNRaudersant Americans are latins, that's why we are calles Latin Americans

[@ThereAreNoBlackPpl]

My new Ollie Fave!

[@mcfcfan1870]

Montserrat was Irish territory from 1632-1666. First the British claimed the Island but when Irish rebels were exiled there by Britain they took control, and the Island has a massive Irish link to this day.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

No it wasnt

[@mcfcfan1870]

@@mikeoxsmal8022 I wrote this a year ago and I was wrong sorry. I must have misread something about the french invasion of Montserrat. During the 2nd Anglo-Dutch war Montserrat was briefly occupied and the invading french were aided by the Irish that had been sent there by england

[@shiny_teddiursa]

Can you do a history of the Andes?¿

[@prodogman22]

good you included the Curonian Empire, Latvia's colonial empire

[@teemum.9023]

I played both Sid Meyer's pirates! Should we go to Eleuthera or Campeche for retirement?

[@ogladaczr.t.3168]

too far dude, Dominicana and south to maracaibo, east to saint kitts, thats whee its at

[@dominicperez3777]

The Brandenburger Empire?

[@redcoat4348]

Prussia

[@wolfsoldner9029]

One of the states which unified into Germany.

[@michaelbarboto]

History of Ecuador, every year, please

[@maximilianohernandezhidalg5835]

The pirates were the same as English men. Francis Drake was a pirate

[@alphamikeomega5728]

*privateer. The Queen chose him and God chose the Queen.

[@d.a.g.c961]

@@alphamikeomega5728 lmao

[@richardschiffman7657]

And Spanish conquistadores genocided tens of millions of indians at around the same time but sure let's just get mad at some English lads looking for treasure and adventure.

[@d.a.g.c961]

@@richardschiffman7657 Iam not, but a brittish has no right no talk about genocide hahaha

[@letsgoraiding]

@@alphamikeomega5728 based social liberal

[@siulseven1096]

Hurray !

[@pojokantas]

I hope i can create something like this

[@felipe7x]

Interesting, but what about the history of the Corn Islands ? Now San Andrés and Providencia (Colombia) near Nicarágua's Atlantic coast, doesn't exist them anymore?

[@jesseo_o1342]

i hope puerto rico becomes independent

[@seanbrummfield448]

Well, they better push in the votes next time.

[@joplin8433]

Even though the majority of the population wants statehood?

[@mikaelortiz1739]

We are comfortable in our status quo, and mayority of us want a permanent relationship with USA, either statehood or ELA. 🇵🇷🇺🇸

[@philmuda]

next please, east africa map timeline (sudan,ethiopia,djibouti,somalia,erythrea)

[@OllieBye]

I've done something a bit like that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH6VkISwftiGptE

[@priyaa__9711]

When you go away and find some personal space to get rid of your frenemies, but soon they come back.

[@cdcastro7986]

Umm, can someone explain why the Knights Hospitalier appeared in the New World?

[@miguelmontenegro3520]

They bought It from one of France's companies, than sold It back to France proper.

[@miguelmontenegro3520]

Nethernlands: Well i dont Care with these independent little Islands, im keeping my land. France: Ok ok, but stay quiet. Britain: No one important Will notice right Denamark? ... Denamark?? US: hello there

[@thepielord7201]

Miguel Montenegro D e n a m a r k

[@miguelmontenegro3520]

@@thepielord7201 Actually my autocorrector is to blame. It can handle a portuguese and english at the same time XD

[@ra_alf9467]

Netherland : im keeping my homeland and east indie, with suriname too

[@dedifanani8658]

Song: Bad

[@sugandanataatmaja3331]

Masyarakat makin pintar terhadap Sejarahnya

[@JoeBidenRealLife]

This is pretty good, but the Carib were a lot further north.

[@napoleondidnowrong2063]

>Saint Lucia trades hands twelve times

[@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475]

1:31 and Edward Kenway's journey starts..

[@eric11]

Who is he?

[@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475]

@@eric11 The guy in Assassin Creed's 4 black flag.

[@eric11]

@@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475 oh yes

[@matthewmann8969]

Rest in peace to most of the pure blooded Amerindians

[@gunarsmiezis9321]

Rest in peace pure bloded europian carabean. The greed of slavers won this day.

[@metametodo]

The difference between tribesmen killing and colonial/imperialist men killing is one of scale, speed and brutality

[@TylerSolvestri]

@@metametodo And diseases.

[@blackstar19gammaburst85]

@C R dude, no

[@blackstar19gammaburst85]

@C R i am from the domimican republic and the things Christopher Columbus and his thugs did were terrible. The diaries of a man who followed them described of what happened. And brazil is not the only place you know. All the formelly spanish controller areas included my own, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Columbia, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina had african slaves brought by the Spanish. Many were either mixed or genocided of by the iberian Argentins in the 1880's for example. And there would of not been Tango if not for the African slaves. You might not want to believe me but it is the truth. And i am not making them spaniards as evil today but they certainly were in the past.

[@Dariusz_1.618]

700 CE not Ciboney but Guanahatabey

[@IlleScrutator]

Oh this is why the US took control of the Virgin Islands and Haiti...arrr!

[@axelandersson6314]

Michael Alexander Calì Didn't they buy the Virgin islands from Denmark?

[@IlleScrutator]

@@axelandersson6314 Some of them, the others were stolen from the spanish

[@axelandersson6314]

Michael Alexander Calì Haiti had been independent for centuries and were only occupied temporarily due to the fact that they had suffered through 6 coups in 5 years, and the instability meant that there was a threat that the Germans could land in the region. The UN currently has an identical mission to keep the region from collapsing into a civil war.

[@IlleScrutator]

@@axelandersson6314 I know, I know, I was just joking on the fact that the US occupied those places just in seach of pirate treasures ^-^

[@axelandersson6314]

Michael Alexander Calì Well, good.

[@mr_cookies352]

I’m here after playing AC black flag definitely made me interested in the Caribbean during this era

[@DecinergyAt]

👍🏻👍🏻☺️ *TOP²!* 😉✌🏻🇪🇺

[@Flutterzancelight]

good one, but you need to change name of pirats occupations. I never know Haiti was a pirate colony before be french.

[@Nullius_in_verba]

Are you making some distinction between privateers and pirates?

[@OllieBye]

By 'pirates' I meant forces that weren't loyal to a national government, so yes.

[@americanmapper9258]

Epix

[@YTA51]

Didn't even know pirates had Viequez for a few hundred years

[@LucarioBoricua]

Culebra and Vieques have been this strange buffer zone throughout Caribbean history. At the time when Spanish colonization began, the Taíno were at war against the Caribs, who were migrating from the Leeward Antilles to Puerto Rico, and both islands were at the front lines. Then, as more European colonists snatched up the area, this area became a hot bed for pirates and contraband, as these islands are quite small and not that elevated (limited water supplies) and thus not amenable to sustaining large populations. It wouldn't be until the British and Danish established a firm presence in today's Virgin Islands that Spanish colonial rule from Puerto Rico took clear actions to establish a proper presence in Culebra and Vieques, which then became municipalities of Puerto Rico in the 19th century. Then, during American colonial rule, the USA tried to expel the inhabitants to turn both of these islands into military bases, forming the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base between Ceiba (a coastal municipality with a deep bay on Puerto Rico's eastern side) and the two islands. A combination of massive protests and the scale-back of military investment following the Cold War eventually forced the cease of military activities in this region. Nowadays, both of these islands are confronting severe neglect from Puerto Rico's government.

[@peterwimsey1]

in 1762 Cuba briefly turned red. I must look that up.

[@casio6651]

1:40 British Cuba :p

[@DCDVassili]

Is a fake, Only Havana was British

[@casio6651]

@@DCDVassili the spanish governer abandoned the island and the british appointed their own, meaning de jure british control.

[@spanishmapper7112]

@@casio6651 no es cierto, durante la guerra de 7 años, ingleses han conquistado solo eso, se puede verla a esta información en mucho fuentes de internet.

[@casio6651]

@@spanishmapper7112 de jure is not effective occupation.

[@spanishmapper7112]

@@casio6651 solo puerto Havana fue conquistado, ingleses no han podido conquistar Santiago de Cuba ni Barbacoa por ejemplo... Son datos oficiales!

[@trianamcnamee1005]

The music is hilarious. Pirate's lol I'm dead. This is accurate though.

[@leonconstantinople2343]

Wow. Caribbean pirates are real:0

[@WasteD._.]

1:01 1:13 What was France doing in the Bahamas ?

[@Snoy_Fly]

Vacation

[@panghulan6340]

you forgot in 1986 that aruba became separate constituents country in this time

[@theoffixialdark1584]

I saw the Knights Hospitaller for .359 milliseconds

[@eastasianball4615]

Make the history of East Asia 1100 AD to 2040 AD

[@charito1595]

Spain had a good meal.

[@Timetravel_history]

There were tons of much older indigenous american cities from as far north as canada to as far south chile in pre-columbian, including in the carribean and in some places in the americas there were cities many thousands of years old

[@brazilianmapping56]

You are a pirate

AHHHH our old good friends the brit..... i mean the pirates yeah....

[@crotalus4756]

I'm disappointed you didn't include "He's a pirate" soundtrack...

[@HVLLOWS1999]

Pause at 1:33 Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Map.

[@bradleydobbins6579]

Look at abc islands in early 19th century

[@JoelGonzalez-qt6lo]

Spanish Empire in 1898: I lost so much,almost I have Cuba,Puerto Rico and Philippines yet. USA: _I’m gonna destroy all you love_

[@simonh6371]

Yes well they should have clicked on that 16th century wooden sailships were outdated in 1900 and inferior to ironclad battleships.