Queen Nzinga - Rise of a Legend - Part 1 - Extra History
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- 📜 Queen Nzinga: Rise of a Legend - Nzinga didn't start out as a queen--but when she saw how incompetently her brother was running affairs in Ndongo (what would become Angola), she took advantage of his decision to send her to negotiate with the Portuguese--much to his grief later. Nzinga established herself against colonial forces and did not budge.
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Queen Nzinga of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms, a scion of the Mbundu
people, will spend forty years standing between the Portuguese and their ambitions, using everything at her command -- her cunning, her ruthless intellect, her military acumen, even the bodies of her people -- whatever it takes to succeed.
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Extra Credits pls do aztecs
Another good video!
Been waiting for this one! Can't wait for the rest of the series.
Wakanda- uh...I mean, Ndongo foreva!!!
King: "Kill my sister's child, and sterilize her."
Advisor: "Ok, but don't you think she will want revenge?"
King: "Nah, what reason would she have."
Why brutality is never a good idea for long term health
@@clayxros576 For the point of the joke ladies and gentlemen, look above.
@@clayxros576 ahem... Noone can avenge their sons if there is Noone alive to avenge
Dead men don’t grudges.
@@user-xq5og9lt8p He's right,tho, brutality isn't a good idea.
Nzinga: *sits on her servant as a throne*
Weird flex but okay
Would you like to elaborate?
Sorry.
servant=slave= whatever I want you to be atm
There was no chair, what else could she sit on? The floor? That would be barbaric.
@@np7736 would not want to be around her when she needed tp
Nzinga : Hey Guys !! i figured it out, i know the weakness of the Europeans
Everyone : Really what is it?
Nzinga : They really , really hate each other.
svon1 lol
Yeah... that’s sounds about right
Lol true.
that's almost every European country in that century
@@annoyingamerican515 still now tho, (to an extent lol)
the enemy of my enemy is still probably my backstabbing enemy.
realistic
If the enemy of my enemy is a Dutch I have two enemies
@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio wow
@spider879 Exactly. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy (in this case)
@Tyler McDaniel In alliances of convience that is usually true.
"can i have a chair"
"i dont know can you"
*sits on servant*
"Yes; yes I can."
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Portuguese: Exists
Dutch: *Im bout to end this mans whole career*
Dutch: Gets kicked from Brazil by a handful of portuguese some slaves and Indians
Portugal: What a noob
Brazil in the future: My Childhood was wierd
*WILHELMUS VAN NASSOUWE*
*BEN IK, VAN DUITSEN BLOED...*
@@miguelmontenegro3520 It didn't matter that you eventually kicked us out. By the time you got it back, brazil had already lost it's sugar monopoly.
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Brasil: “Hold my coffee... Time to kick some dutch ass!”
16th century...the year 1626...
Somebody made an oopsie!
Remember century names are always one plus than the actual century itself
Yeah they do that pretty consistently throughout all of their videos. Not sure why.
@@reddyforlenny9389 2000 was in the 20th century though ;)
@@realhawaii5o Not 2001 though.
@@bobbylewis2 Probably because the rest of the world doesn't do that.
Queen Nzinga to the Portuguese: *_I am inevitable_*
Hehehe
Lachelle Lewis hehehe
Hehe
I am the Senate
Is that going to be a new meme? I'm all for it.
Nzinga had a great cultural impact on Brazilian slaves, many today don't know, but the word we use "Ginga", is directly related to queen Nzinga. Ginga means something like "finding a way through adversity, no matter how", deeply related to creative means. That word seems to originate based on queen Nzinga's persistence, and creativity towards the challenges of her life.
I wish we had TH-cam videos like this available back in the 90's; when I was a teenager. I think I learned more from this than I did an entire semester in Global History.
❤
Funny thing is, Maria, a woman, would eventually lead Portugal.
Also, random, bottom of the stack of papers request, maybe do a Series on Eva Peron.
Wasn't she crazy? That rather help the portuguese governator.
@@alexandrub8786 Well, She went crazy but she wasn't always crazy
@@alexandrub8786 the first queen gave back political power to the noble families that the previous prime minister had taken in an attempt to end feudalism due to his ideals in the enlightment, allowed the return of the jesuits and later she became insane, the second one on the other hand was the daughter of a traitor so you can see how well we've had with queens
@@averymetaboi5317 Eh, still, the way her reign went sorta lent ammo to the idea that women were incapable of leadership positions, since she spent the last 20 years of her life (approximation here) living in Brazil, in screaming madness
She was a pretty shitty leader actually
Queen Nzinga to Portugal: *"YOU CAN'T SEE ME, MY TIME IS NOW!"*
@Holy Sealandic
TO THE SKIES!
@@evelyngravatt3198 SEE CARO-wait is this even allowed here?
What's EU4
Aksumite, Ethiopian, Kemet and kushite empires would be lovely. You guys are great in narrating these over looked gems of history. The history it’s self will reshape the way the world views Africa as well as other continents. None of this is mentioned in westernized curriculum so I use videos like this as well as global encyclopedic entries to teach my children their history. Thank you.
"And stole adolescents to fill their ranks,"
Some things never change.
Preston Jones they just want to speed run the kids,
Huh. She seemed way more willing to make deals with the Portuguese than I expected at first.
Also,, way to screw a profitable business and diplomatic relationship on the governor's part.
The Portuguese looked Africa and saw resources they could forge. Nzinga looked at the Portuguese and saw an anvil she could forge with.
@@timothymclean As a Portuguese person myself, you're right.
racism and self obsession is one hell of a drug
And that's the "good" governor of Luanda. Just you wait until the next one comes.
She did not want war, keep in mind that the Portuguese would of completely destroyed her country if they went to war at the time. Her making deals with the Portuguese was not her being open minded, in fact, she hated them, she just did not want them to come in and destroy the country because she was being difficult
*Meanwhile in EU4* Byzantine Africa.
Kinda surprised an african leader hasn't managed this already. The number of capable administrators out there in comparison to Europe is staggering
@@clayxros576 Eh, depends. Europe had many competent administrator's but only few were mentioned due to the way they affected the continent. But Africa on the other hand was usually made up of smaller tribal societies in which making an impact was much easier.
A man of culture as well
Byzantine Africa, and Ming California
@@archsteel7 That is an awfully common colony for Ming to gain not gonna lie
bloody hell I'm in the middle of my EU4 Kongo run (around 1550)
kriegwhatever African Power?
@@theliberator5126 of course!
Make nzinga proud, to colonise the Portuguese
now in 1700s pushing through morocco to tangiers. next war I'll grab Lisboa
Lol I shall amass troops to aid you Krieg
I really appreciate how you incorporate African history into your series! I feel it's oft overlooked and it's nice to see this channel value it :)
Much agreed. Eurocentric channels through me off. Even though of course European history is just as valuable and interesting as African, Asain, and American history it just doesn't sit right. So major props to this channel for inclusion
Side note: Extra Credit's series on Shaka is one of their best
Unfortunately, a great deal of (Sub-Saharan) African history was only recorded orally. And through war and colonization, those stories inevitably would get lost. So we have to rely on foreigners writing down events as they saw it (whether Arab or European).
@@jackson0335 hell yeah it is. Mansa Musa was really good too.
They do a lot of non-European (ehem) history. And it is great.
Portuguese: "We want to enslave your people."
Queen Nzinga: "Dracarys 🙃"
A trivia. In Angola local language "Quimbundo" there are 4 or 5 categories of names according to certain circumstances of the baby birth. For examples Queen Nzinga as a baby born with the umbilical cord around her neck would traditionally receive the name of "Lubambo".
(Oscar Ribas is the most comprehensive author about the subject of myths, language and culture of Angola.)
bro it nice to see a person how haves interest in my home country history but Quimbundo is one of the 16 Local languages of Angola and the most spoken among the people is Portuguese
Fascinating
@First Last
I have an intrest in Language & culture
@First Last nah its fascinating men
@@Dzinho29 I am from angola too living in luanda now actually and meus pais são do kuanza norte. And the both my parent are from the tribe of mainly quimbundo speakers. And this is why i said "one language of Angola, quimbundo" not "the language of angola". I know the other exists but besides Portuguese being our main language, in the local dialects today you are more likely to find quimbundo speaker's than others.
From which province did you came from?
Portugal: AFRICA IS OURS!!!!
Nzinga: GTFO, I won't say it again.
I love how you guys always bring us history that we wouldnt learn about in normal schooling. THANK YOU!!! Keep it up you guys I'm always learning something new and its always interesting:)
They should teach about her in school. Absolute badass woman.
You should research her more thoroughly.
?
Today my teacher made us watch this very video
Unfortunately, I really am upset that EH didn't go into this, she was a bigger slaver than Portugal. She wasn't upset at slavery, she was upset she couldn't profit from it. That story at the beginning? That was her slave, and after the conversation she gave the slave to the Portuguese dignitary.
@@Dr.Starboundeven if that happened, she’s still way better than most people in history
The fact that here in Portugal, we don't learn anything about her its for me perplexing, I mean, we should know about her as our neighbors in Spain know about Montezuma
in general we gloss over this time period because it is during the Filipin dynasty. it just resumes itself to "the british, french and dutch are taking our land in South America, Asia and Africa. case in point: the dutch have arrived to help Nzinga.
I found out just recently that she is my great+ grandmother. Now I'm trying to learn as much as possible about her. So far, I've found that she was a total badass. More research to come...
Are you by chance Brazilian?
Great grandmother?
@@afrolofi The plus
@@idiosyncraticlawyer3400 appreciate you 🙏
@@anoon- gotta be Angolan...
Queen Nzinga: Like Cersei Lannister if she lived up to her own hype.
Smarter
Remember Tywin's words, "You're not as smart as you think you are"
Oof, indeed. Her time ruling, as far as the books are concerned, was a *shipwreck* . Or should I say, - book spoiler alert, ignored by the series - a *"shipsgiving"* to a brand-new pirate crew.
And was actually smart.
And Competent.
@@mykomatos5445 Yup. Nzinga is way smarter. By "her own hype," I also meant how Cersei thought of her own intelligence.
Didn't get the turn of words my bad
Since they didn't have tubal ligation in 17th-century Africa, I shudder to think of what 'sterilization' method was used on Nzinga and her sister.
CUT YOU KNOW WHAT OFF
Marilyn Pickles WE DON’T KNOW WHAT BECAUSE THERE ARE NO REMOVABLE SURFACE FEATURES FOR STERILIZING WOMEN
They would usually stick hooks or other sharp things to rip apart um, you know were...
Or made them drink poison
Nurlinda F Sihotang aren't you forgetting they were supposed to remain alive after the sterilization? -.-
SHE IS A LEGEND IN OUR COUNTRY.♥️🇦🇴
God bless Angola and long live the MPLA! 🇨🇺❤🇦🇴 ☭
You guys must be short on legends if this is the type of person you admire LMAO
4:04 When you place something on top of a shelf only for it to fall back down and crush your toes.
Thank you so much for including African history in your work without the bias we encounter so often.
@Fatin Marwat True but European history does the same.
I love your channel, not only do I learn more than I did at school about the period of history that were taught (Irish potato famine to name just one) but I learn about fascinating periods of history that were ignored completely. I look forward to learning more about this woman.
Please do Atilla the hun or something about the Vandals
There's already a video series about the founding of the Hun empire
@@Elonyx.studios They haven't done a series on the Huns.
@@Elonyx.studios it's the Mongols that they did. Nothing for the huns yet
I second that
I agree with the latter.
I read about this story from that book series where its written like a diary and it goes back in time with history. I absolutely fell in love with this story and it just goes to show how resilient a people can be. I encourage EVERY ONE OF YOU to watch all of these videos because I think you'll love this story as well.
I remeber reading that! the royal diaries, right?
@@wajeehahmumin1675 Yes! Exactly! It was an amazing book.
3:15 "window" of opportunity, dang it
0:46 The look in Nzingas eye of "Ill flip the Portuguese" is beautiful
new world/ africa: *exist*
europe: "HIPITY HOPITY, YOUR LAND IS NOW MY PROPERTY"
It's free real estate.
I really appreciate you guys including African history it's extremely refreshing and a great reason why I value you guys above all other channels of History
"You might treat your own people with some slight sliver of human rights, but I treat mine as litteral objects !"
Weird to spin it as a positive thing.
I don’t know what you mean here. Both Nzinga’s kingdom and Portugal were slave empires, therefore both treated some of their ‘subjects’ (as slaves technically are ‘subjects’ of the crown or private individuals) as objects.
I really enjoy this. I know very little about African history and, as a Brazilian, looking for other once-Portuguese-colonies seems like a great place to start.
"How dare you, I won't be degraded like this and sit at your feet. I deserve respect".
"You there, servent, get down on all fours so I can use you as a chair. No it's not degrading it's completely different!"
Or she just wanted to suffer one servant to secure the dignity of all ngondo.
Yeah nothing says dignity more than reducing someone to furniture.@@evrensaygn1017
Very accurate narration. I am from Angola too and I feel really privileged for seeing you guys making a video on one of the most encouraging and iconic shares of our history! Thanks @Extra Credits
man, this sure smells like a truthful retelling of history with no biases in the manuscript or source material for that matter.
Sarcasm orrrrrrr
We will never whether Nzinga was as brutal as the Portuguese say or genuinely Christian (the Portuguese claimed she converted at the end of her life) we have to remember that, like the Romans with Attila the Hun, most of our knowledge of Nzinga comes from Portugal.
I've just showed your channel to my grandmother
We where talking about ghanghis khan (for some reason)
And I recommended your ghanghis khan series she seems pretty exited to see more stuff from you guys!
hold on they were made a year before this
I like the funny voices but maybe they should be kept in the mythology series.
I honestly hate them and I feel like it really detracts from the seriousness of the series. It's already a pretty casual retelling of history, which is fine, but dear god man the voices really bother me. I would actually watch their mythology stuff if it wasn't pretty much based around doing the voices
I'd settle for no funny voices.
I think it fits very well to represent the individual in question, such ideas and people who hold them are pathetic and should be treated as such, I feel.
@@vazak11 I understand what you mean, but I personally think that you don't need funny voices to make fun of them.
I stopped watching the whole mythology series because of all the over-acting...
Make a series about the Paraguayan War
Melhor não... Imagina a encrenca...
Better not... Just imagine the trouble...
@@abcdef27669 Extra credits is pretty capable. Even thoug the theme is VERY sensible (and not without reasons), I belive they could make a well balenced series of the war as how it was, and not how extremists on both sides want it to be remembered.
Please
The triple aliance war
Muito bom. Mas os Paraguaios iam dizer que o paraguai era o pais mais forte das galáxias
Stoked for #2 of Queen Nzinga ! This is by far one of my favorite YT channels
Uhm thats the 17th century...you said 16th
16th century, 1600-1700 so is it done in my country. I for example am 25 and two month old, and I do not call myself 26 years old, the same reasoning is used in Sweden when it comes to centuries. when you pass into the 1600 its the 16th century, not the 17th. Same we call its the 20th century right now, and the world wars was in the early 19th century etc.
To me its weird to say 17th century and mean the years 1600-1699 instead of 1700-1799.
MrEmiosk it’s the 21st century right now
@@MrEmiosk i am sure what you're saying is true but with all due respect ,generally when we talk about centurys we call the 16 hundreds the 17th century. I am sure you dont need an explanation but year 0 to year 100 is the 1st century so the 1600 to 1700 is the 17th century.
Portugese King: Doesn't provide a chair, hoping to humiliate Nzinga
Nzinga: Uses her servant as a throne
What a power move
“Assert dominance by becoming a chair” is not something I had heard of until Nzinga’s servant
Portuguese colonial empire: **exists**
Dutch: *It's Free Real Estate*
United Kingdom: *DID SOMEONE SAY land?!?!!!!?!!*
*G O D S A V E T H E Q U E E N I N T E N S I F I E S*
*captain smiling background
Hi i love your videos you should do one on rasputin
Ra ra Rasputin lover of the Russian queen..
@@finner_1415 love that song.
@@finner_1415 There was a cat that really was gone
Ra ra Rasputin
RA RA RUSPUTIN RUSSIAS GREATEST LOVE MACHINE
Will Rasputin be on Extra History or Extra Myth though? He was a slavic deity after all.
thank you for having African history into these videos
Episode idea:
The 80 years war and Dutch Revolt.
Very influencial and very complicated. Also not so well known. I think it would make for a great series!
That human chair move seems like such a dickish thing to do to your own subjects when you can't be bothered to bow to anyone in the first place.
Foreign politics are a vicious thing. Had she sat on the floor, it would’ve been an admission of weakness.
Yeeees!! She has been one of my hero’s since a was a small child! Thank you for covering her! ❤️❤️❤️
I love these african stories guys/gals! We never learn of these in school. keep it up
listening to history here is a painkiller for me, ends my sarrows for a few mins, i love you extra history
7:58
I like the chess metaphor, but that other piece is the Queen, defeating the point of the metaphor
Well a king can capture a queen
“A woman can’t be a ruler!”
Nzinga: Hold my tribe!
@@doubled6490 No we did not.
1:35 as Noah Sterling once said: "she's pretty much better than you in every way"
Dutch: If only we had a way to stick it to the Portuguese.
Nzinga: Allow me to introduce myself...
Nzinga's brother: I AM KING
Nzinga: Sit yourself down, son.
Thank you for treating African history with the same grace as all your wonderfully produced videos 👍
All salute the servant who accomplished her task as throne of Queen Nzinga
Do Empire of Benin, Haile Selassie, and Yaa Asantewaa next, please
@First Last What do you mean "why?"?
@spider879 That's what I was asking
Very intense, so glad Queen Nzinga is being covered I had never heard of her before today!
There's only one thing I like better than an EH video: an EH video about a bit of history I had never heard about :D
That slave seems suspiciously happy to be a chair... Servant I mean...
She wasn't a slave and she knew she was helping give the middle finger to the colonists.
@@vazak11 no, she was a slave she probably mostly brought slaves to a meeting, and most 'servants" were salves anyway
TheRedHunter how do YOU know?! Were YOU there?! This was her entourage! The servant KNEW what she had to do to avoid humiliation for her princess. Nzinga’s own mother was a slave cretin!
@@antoniacapellaborges6566 How do you know how the servant was feeling? Were YOU there??
@@antoniacapellaborges6566 wErE yOu ThErE?
As a Portuguese I feel compelled to say that when she stod up she left that sevant girl there, saying "You can keep her. Have more like her."
?? wdym
Ah man, I was so invested! Will have to wait for part 2 to come out. ‘Sigh’ 😔
YES, great choice for a video series, I LOVE IT
Wtf she’s such a badass
NEVER HEARD OF ANY OF THIS! Thanks guys, this is why you're my favorite channel. If I had a job, I would totally give you money.
I love the fact that you showcase very unknown history
Thanks for this series. Great so far.
It’s always nice when you do a series in Africa
Yes that partvis pretty ignored.
MORE REEeeee
This series is off to a great start :D
buddy says reee in 2019 with a ugandan knuckles profile picture.. no wonder you like this shit video
-._-.
I've been watching you vids for a loooong time. And I would like to know if you'll ever do a series on the 4th crusade? Or the northern crusades?
this video was just soooooo good I
want to watch it again your doing a great job
Thanks for doing a video with a part of Portuguese history... As a Portuguese I am greatfull... As an Fan of History thanks for show me the other side of the Portuguese colonial expantion....
02:54 I have never seen a depiction of Power as cute as this one
Portuguese: I fear no man….. but that woman is scary
Nzinga: >:3 you know what happens not
Thank you so much for telling this story.
1:24 same happened to me.........Still waiting for the unusual tho !
Portugese colonial ambitions: *exist*
The Dutch: I'm going to have to stop you right there
Dutch Republic Mapping
The English: how dare you interfere with my ancient ally?
I love how happy the human chair looks :D
I love how the servant is just like >:) "My back hurts but not as much as your ego"
she seems like the definition of the saying "she is beauty, she is grace, she will punch you in the face"
the rise of the legend 47 the Nzinga
Yo why am I subscribed to you
Love how the servant is just as smug about Nzinga sitting on her as Nzinga is.
I suspect what's going through her mind is, "I elevate my queen, I elevate my people."
@@hestiathena4917 That's what I assumed too.
The Portuguese surprised a Queen will not sit down...... is the missed lesson
Thanks for shedding light on this lady!
Please Extra History, a video about great brasilian people!! :D
such diverse elements as "her cunning, her ruthless intellect, her military acumen and" almost fanatical devotion to the pope - no? damnit! (1:12)
That was awesome.
Always glad to learn more about African history, it doesn't get enough focus.
Sterilize and murder...
Surprised when she wants revenge...
What?
5:48 so she killed an innocent soul who had done nothing but being son of some bad guy? What a cruel atrocity.
She got back at him for killing her child
I. Am. So. HYPED!
I love how u do videos about lesser know histories!