@The Crusader You've just described cultural suppression. Bro. The European colonist only ever wanted what was best for them, they didn't give a single shit about the African population, which is why they were sold as slaves, transported across the Atlantic where they literally died, and those who managed to stay in Africa didn't have a much better fate. They died. Lots of them died, horribly, and brutally. Quit your bullshit, We should be amazed most Africans and Arabs aren't calling for our immediate death.
@@RealOsquo Arabs and Africans used and traded slaves thousands of years ago while Europeans were mostly hunter-gatherer tribes. You should quit YOUR bullshit. It was karma.
@@RealOsquo arabs have been selling the slaves since the times of rome, so what are you talking about? They have been buying slavs as slaves, that's actually how the term was created since slavs were the slaves, also Arabic slave trade? And you are mixing atlantic slave trade and colonization:) about some century difference at least
Poland never colonized anything :P We weren't under a protectorate, and we didn't get "colonized" (conquered) throughout our history except the Teutonics which we won against anyways and when Prussia (not Germany -_-), Austria (-Hungary) and Russia decided to get our terrain together. We couldn't win, so we remained conquered 123 years but the generations survived and kept the polish culture and it's the same Poles now who live today and lived back then. If you in the first comment mean that Poland colonized Lithuania then sry to tell you that's bullshit... Poland gained a personal union over Lithuania (our monarch gained their throne cuz they had no heir kinda). Something similiar was happening by the Habsburgs
And cuz our big country was a problem to Russia cuz we blocked their border they decided to corrupt our country with a puppet-king and he simply allowed Russia many things that a normal king wouldn't do like: give them our land in gifts step by step. He was so ridiculous that HE spent so much money on fun for him that he somehow managed to use all the country's money, then debted Poland for the same reason by other countries. Ever heard of a king who debted his country for his fun wishes? Ofc he also didn't do other shit than have fun in his palace, most hated Polish king.
@@hym7844 I agree with you, Lublin Union 1569 made us united nations, we were strong, but at 17 century we failed war with Russians, got occupated by Sveden and then splited up at 1795, thats history folks, dont create you own, such like in Russia: that Lithuanians are ancient Russians, uhhh, discusting.
that's called:"soo basically our multinationals get here, and they pay the Africans 2 dollars an hour to get (obviously without helmets and security measures) a shit ton of minerals" So yeah they pay like nothing the single African miner and they bribe the politician for the permissions
@@jamesxia9523 No india can't lol, it's got to focus on it's development, it's absurd corruption rates to ever think about embarking deals with Africa.
@@kasperknutsen8283 No I'm not talking about the slaves resisting, I'm talking about leaders resisting. Specifically tribe and monarchy leaders against selling thier prisoners as slaves meanwhile others were notorious for selling them as slaves. Eg Queen Nzinga of Ndongo fought against slavery and others like king Diogo of Kongo did sometimes sell slaves to the Portoguese. Hence it's half true some did some didn't.
shield&sword peace u are so stupid that was spain not portugal. Portugal was fair to all. Did not kill no babies. Did nothing that u say they did. Take history classes to know better.
It’s pretty impressive how the smallest continent fought over control for over half the planet then had to give most of it up due to diplomacy and not fighting
@@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2 in my opinion,we gotta classify every island in a continent(even the tiny ones). So I think putting those islands in the Pacific together with Austrália is fine. And even though Australia occupies the entire continental area,calling it Australia would be confusing. But I also don't like the name Oceania, we should call it Australasia.
I suggest you independently research the subject and not blindly take the word of a TH-cam video, you'll quickly realise how much war was necessary to oust the Europeans.
For a short period of time, one of the Polish-Lithuanian vassal states had small colonies in Trinidad and West Africa. Nothing super important, but still a little fun fact.
FREE 3021 you’re an exception, no offense. But Africa has never modernized, nor have they had any sort of golden age, enlightenment, etc. they’re stuck. And it isn’t due to colonization. If anything, the introduction of western civilization has benefitted them.
Well, the biggest drawback I see in the modern day African continent is their lack of strong institutions (arguably the most important factor of stability and economic growth). During the colonization of Africa, it is no question that European institutions that were imposed on the Africans were better than the institutions that are present in Africa rn. However, the institutions brought in by the Europeans were based off of mercantilist policies (make your own country rich by making all trade in your empire flow to the colonizing country... includes the triangular trade) not based off of the betterment of everyone in the societies they control. I personally see conquering and consequently colonization as a normal part of history that has only come into scrutiny in the modern age, but I do think it is somewhat inaccurate to say that the introduction of westerners in Africa made it better since these colonizers institutionally and systematically kept local colonized populations down while prioritizing the wealth of the colonizer. When a continent has been exploited like that for more than a century, I can see how local strongmen would exploit their African nation in the same, or similar, way that Europeans did with no focus on making institutions for the betterment of society but rather corrupt (in this sense) institutions that put money into the pockets of the strongman and his loyal subjects. Not saying Africa isn’t a mess nor would I blame Europeans for the impoverishment of Africa, but saying that western rule over the African continent made it better is a very complex and nuanced argument that honestly can be made, but I believe that the Europeans cared too much for attaining their own wealth to make any good, lasting change in Africa.
Casa Blanca means white house. Costa Rica means rich coast. Puerto Rico means rich port. So what? A lot of meanings escape from the common knowledge. Most people dont know what Sahara means. So for us it makes the perfect sense to say Sahara the desert.
@Raine Riny 7 When the whites trekked to the interiors of the country, there was no development, no civilizations, nothing. Explain why the black languages did not have numerals , only "maningi "which means many.
@Raine Riny 7 Africans obviously had civilization. But those civilizations were 5,000 less technologically advanced than europeans. They were in the stone age. And no, egyptians are not black. Go to egypt and try to convince me they are the black and not arabic.
@@mtraa.942 britain ireland british america hanover prussia portugal brazil brunswick wolfenbuttel hesse kassel and schaumburg lippe vs france new france holy roman empire austria saxony russia spain new spain sweden and mughal empire
Ethiopia never colonized by Italy. The 5 years they occupied Ethiopia was not colonization it was occupation and Ethiopian remained fighting for 5 years the Italian troops until the So no colonization got Ethiopia.
123 456 we are taking about colonialism. Even though they won the initial war and occupied Ethiopia for 5 years the never colonized Ethiopia. You are missing the point.
@@enegess1479 no, you are missing the point, the moment your emperor left and italy definitely conquered ethiopia, the colonization started, you were being colonized, not occupied
one day african country will say stop to Franceççç Then France will become poor countryç right now France still getting money african countrys and no1 saying anything only Turkey trying stop them. thats why France so mad to Turkey.
After all these years of schooling I look back in retrospect at my High school years history lessons only to realize that "Discovery" back then really meant colonizing.
@@elovhak2354 They're not independent at all. They have special status but they don't have more powers than any administrative region in the Iberian peninsula. Source: I'm Spanish
@@elovhak2354 Yeah, but as I said these are powers that other regions have too. You're not more independent than Catalonia or Madrid. Btw I haven't liked my comments people sometimes agree with your ideas you know
Very interesting video, thank you for your efforts in making this possible. We as a people easily recognize slavery and colonialism but when it changes into Neocolonialism it’s not so apparent and people forget about it but it never went away, it only adjusted
Belgian King Leopold II owned the Congo himself. I believe it is the only instance of a single person and not a nation claiming ownership. His rule was incredibly brutal and led to international outcry. When he ceded it to Belgium it really didn’t get better,
@@the12th68 There never was mass murder to begin with. He didn't even "rule" there, he leased the lands to various companies, and they did some nasty shit there.
@@BamBamGT1 nee man, geef gewoon toe da leopold een massamoordenaar was. Ookal heeft hij daar nooit een fout in gezet, hij was wel de aanleiding dat miljoenen dood gingen. Je gaat toch ook niet zeggen dat Hitler amper iets fout heeft gedaan, want hij persoonlijk heeft geen miljoenen mens doodgeschoten, het waren zijn bevelen, en zo ook bij Leopold was het zijn doen dat ervoor gezorgd heeft
Haven't started the video yet, but you've easily become one of my favorite geographical/historical channels on TH-cam. The animation with the maps and the detail is amazingly perfect yet simple enough for everyone to understand. Thank you for doing these!!! I would love to see a video on the history of the Roman Empire, or even the history of the evolution of mankind, from the origin of humans today.
This is just European colonisation. Only a part of the story. To be complete, accurate and honest this "history" should include the huge colonies and slave empires African nations, from the Egyptians to the Berbers to the Zulus and everyone in between, established over other African peoples from pre historic times to the present day.
Load of bull, you think Egyptiann and pharoahs and Muslims destroyed Africa like Europe? Leopold II killed more people than Hitler, as did the french, million and millions of people dead, European soldiers using black hands as currency in the Congo, the worst crimes ever committed in history, sure there were Romans in North Africa before and they treated the locals as second class, but not like this, Africans were worse than animals, my grandpa has marks of dog bites all over his legs, it was like imagining a scene of a Django movie when he told me the story, Africa still has problems today, terrible problems, and those problems are still caused by Europe, 15 African countries don't even control their currencies or trade laws, we re forces to sell resources to the EU however they choose, they are still stealing our resources, only paying the guys at the top to make them work for them, and they use nationalism that they created to keep us separate, Europe won, Machiavelli approves, and hell awaits.
The British Empire still exists but the word empire is something of a bad word that offends a lot of people these days so instead its called British Overseas Territories that consists of 250.000 people and nearly 700.000 square miles
@Finnish Perkele first off, stop saying Portugal and spain are European countries, they are not, they are arab, secondly, why the FUCK they trying to appear white and do the white mans work for them??? why didn't they just try to colonize Europe instead
@Finnish Perkele As far as i know those overseas territories aren't colonies anymore. For example, Macao was always Cantonese, while the Falklands are completely British. And at last, it was from 1415(Conquest of Ceuta) to 1999(Return of Macao) Meanwhile the English Empire only started in 1583 with the foundation of Newfoundland and ended in 1997 with the return of Macao. Even if we included the lasting territories until today, there are still 148 of years that the Portuguese colonial Empire lasted more(as it started 168 years earlier)
You are on history video we talk about history, if u want to talk about football just go on football match video like I do when I want to talk about football
As a South African it was wild to me to find out that we colonized Namibia at some point, I was a bit disappointed that the video didn't touch on Namibia gaining its independence from SA and apartheid. Overall it was a good video.
Great video. You forgot to mention the tension between Portugal and the United kingdom in the late ninetieth century due to Cecil roads and the pink map
Somalia didn't get colonized until 1920s by the French, English, and Italians. The first country outside of Europe to get bombed by airplanes. And Somalia got independence in 1950 but agreed for 10 years of trusteeship.
@JonnR Ragga Italy colonized southern Somalia. Also Djibouti is Somali land too and the majority natives are Somali. Ethiopia took the Ogaden region and Kenya the NFD region.
@@CDRNY25 Well he's right in that the Italians really only had control in Mogadishu and parts of the Juba river. Somali sultans held sway in most of the country until the 1920s when Mussolini tried to establish a more Italian Somalia.
greeks and Egyptians were black dumbass, not white like you look in your profile picture, nowadays the only people that inhabit Greece and Egypt are arab colonizers, invaders, not the original inhabitants
GREAT VIDEO. WELL DONE. SERIOUSLY GREAT JOB. very easy to understand and rich in knowledge. There is hope for me to finally start appreciating history lol
Fun fact: Ghana (Gold coast) is the first country to gain independence in Africa and inspired other countries like Nigeria, Guinea, "CANADA" and help many countries.
Excellent summary of the sad, unfortunate history of the domination and oppression of Africans by the France, England, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Belgium. You could do a separate video about King Leopold II, a singulary brutal, evil man who American Civil War veteran, Baptist minister and politician George Washington Williams first used the prhase "crimes against humanity" to describe the atocities and horrors comitted during his "ownership" of Congo Free State.
Where does all that nonsense keep coming from? Leopold never even set foot there. He got the land, then leased it to various companies. He was like an absent landlord, that's the worst you can say about him.
@Phillis "Dick" Black These were self governing entities. There was a rebellion in one of their villages, the local abir guy in charge hired a cannibal tribe to go eat them (this actually happened) I can't say that the crimes the renter commits in the property of the landlord, are the landlord's fault. The 'A' in ABIR stands for Anglo, which is the reason the Brits so heavily focused on Blaming leopld, to hide their own connection to crimes against humanity committed by a parlty British company.
@@weasle2904 The change in population over a few decades has been studied by various people and is attributed to 3 main factors: 1 diseases, 2 famines, 3 natural decline of population due to birth rates dropping. There was no genocide.
The southern part of Somalia that Italy were colonizing was called Italian Somaliland while the northern part that British were colonizing was called British Somaliland. after independence the two parts become The Democratic Republic of Somalia
@@keeganmoonshine7183 in reality if you go read about the Italian trust territory of Somaliland you can read that at the time (the 60s) it was much more wealthy that the British one, the problem with Somalia came with the Siad Barre the shitty communist dictator that genocided the northern population of ex British Somaliland, threw the country in to bad wars with Ethiopia. With his death the northern part saw the opportunity to free themself while the southern part was going trough a Civil war
The guy didn't even refer the Portuguese Pink Map, where the British sent an ultimatum to Portugal, as so their settlers would have to leave the area, and cede Zambia to Britain.
Fun fact: In WW1, Belgium only allowed aprox. 30 congolese soldiers to fight in the western front in Flanders, because of fear that people would see the congolese as peers
one day african country will say stop to Franceççç Then France will become poor countryç right now France still getting money african countrys and no1 saying anything only Turkey trying stop them. thats why France so mad to Turkey.
I know someone who used to live in Rhodesia. He and his wife owned 2 businesses and as soon as Mugabe took over ceased both of them. As well as all the money they had in the bank. They were forced to flee to the UK with no money. And both in their 80s both work still which is really sad.
South Africa wasn’t a European power colonising Namibia, so I think that’s why he didn’t mention it, cause this vid’s specifically about the colonial empires
@Master Yoda I'm Irish and don't even know its status until 1949. Post 1922 it was an Irish free state, in 1937 irish constitution removed power of monarchy then in 1949 formally removed any possible claim. Certainly not a protectorate before then as Ireland had its constitution but I don't know what it could be called?
3:55 Namibian panahandle is shown to have been created in the initial conference, however this was actually gained after the British had seized Rhodesia and the panhandle was a way for the Germans to reach possible river fronts to access the Indian Ocean. This was in exchange for transference of claims to Zanzibar which is still shown highlighted. No mention either of the Moroccan crisis during which Kaiser Wilhelm spurred Moroccan independence movements, but was later resolved with the seizure of more land to expand German NeuKamerun. The Belgian Congo was claimed by Leopold earlier than the Congress. But is still a good video. Earned a subscriber.
One thing I failed to understand is that the "slave trade" is looking at from the angle that Africans were oppressed but it was a TRADE. Someone somewhere, an African was receiving payment for their own people. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I love how everyone acts like colonization is strictly an American or European thing. Basically every group that currently exist has colonized or is colonizing or attempted to coloniz. The thing is in the west were very sympathetic towards the losing side
I would've loved living in this time period. Trading posts all over the world and exchanging product from India to Somalia. The Portuguese were really ahead of their time.
Highly informative.. is it possible to make a flow chart of the events at the end of the video then it would be easier to remember the chain of events.. but anyway great job 👏👏👏
On the map colonization is gone, but when you look deeper into Africa, you can see that all over Africa there is stil a form of colonization. All the big and rich countries are still stealing resources from most African countries, and only 1 country was able to break through that colonization for couple of years, its Tanzania, but the president some time after he decided he is closing gold mines for France, UK and USA died out of mysterious reasons. Sad world we live in
What this fails to say is that Europeans initially operated with the approval of local African chiefs and Kings from costal forts. The African interior was far too deadly for Europeans due to various diseases such as malaria, yellow fever etc. It was only late into the colonial era that cures for these aliments were discovered
@@gwtekz7796 On most occasions African Kings allowed Europeans to build coastal trading posts, it was a two way street these coastal kingdoms got access to European goods, who do you think went into the interior to catch slaves? Clue it wasn't the Europeans. Europeans set up these trading posts all over the world as a first step, in India, China, South East Asia etc. Africa was actually the last continent to be colonised
@@Spartan-jg4bf yeah so I'm asking after the king's and chiefs cooperated with Europeans did the Europeans kill the kings and chiefs to take over the land
@@Spartan-jg4bf because when they talk about colonisation they make it seem like the Europeans went into African countries peacefully and were welcomed with open arms or did the Europeans commit genocides
@@gwtekz7796 Did the chiefs kill other chiefs to take over their land? People have been taking other people's land throughout human history, there are no good or bad guys. Like I said earlier Africa was the last continent to be occupied by Europeans
It really changes your perspective when you realize that Europeans really started to colonize Africa only 150 years ago and first colonies started to get independence only 30 years after that, while America was colonized for centuries
The first European colony was actually in Africa when the Portuguese seized ceuta (part of spain today) from the muslims. The Americas were just prioritized.
Hi! Very good video. Maybe you didn't know but Occidental Sahara is still technically not an independent country. The moment you mention it, you say that Spain left and Morocco took it. That's correct, although it was what happened "practically". Theoretically, Spain under the pressure of the UN to de-colonise Africa, decided to transform the country into a province, just like the Canary Islands. However, when Morocco invaded Spain's province, Spain abandoned them (they were Spanish CITIZENS) and they let them become invaded. Since no independence referendum was ever carried, it is still considered a non-independent country.
Spain: Red
UK: Yellow
WTF?
Don't get it
@@trollinape2697 Usually UK is represented in red and Spain in yellow.
@@sljemic k thx
@Anthony Perez Flag, centre of UK's flag is red while the Spanish is yellow
@@sljemic especially in Paradox games.
France
United Kingdom
Germany
*Leopold II*
the virgin ancient european powers,
*AND THE CHAD LEOPOLD II*
Chad was not ruled by Leopold ||
@@paudelfamily4812 a different kind of chad is what i meant. :P
&$+$_ did biggest massacre as a ruthless dictator
@@aztekenen1 xd
I like how you can also see other areas being explored at the same time as this one. Great detail
"explored" feels like quite a euphemism here...
@@jamaike1185 LMAO
People often forget how recent overall the colonization of Africa ended
@The Crusader You've just described cultural suppression. Bro. The European colonist only ever wanted what was best for them, they didn't give a single shit about the African population, which is why they were sold as slaves, transported across the Atlantic where they literally died, and those who managed to stay in Africa didn't have a much better fate.
They died. Lots of them died, horribly, and brutally. Quit your bullshit, We should be amazed most Africans and Arabs aren't calling for our immediate death.
@@RealOsquo Arabs and Africans used and traded slaves thousands of years ago while Europeans were mostly hunter-gatherer tribes. You should quit YOUR bullshit. It was karma.
@@RealOsquo arabs have been selling the slaves since the times of rome, so what are you talking about? They have been buying slavs as slaves, that's actually how the term was created since slavs were the slaves, also Arabic slave trade? And you are mixing atlantic slave trade and colonization:) about some century difference at least
@@LGMechanic Two wrongs don't make a right. How about no one fucking sells anyone?
@@RealOsquo prisoners of war were kept as slaves in africa before the atlantic slave trade.
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth : You know, I'm something of a colonizer myself
Poland never colonized anything :P We weren't under a protectorate, and we didn't get "colonized" (conquered) throughout our history except the Teutonics which we won against anyways and when Prussia (not Germany -_-), Austria (-Hungary) and Russia decided to get our terrain together. We couldn't win, so we remained conquered 123 years but the generations survived and kept the polish culture and it's the same Poles now who live today and lived back then. If you in the first comment mean that Poland colonized Lithuania then sry to tell you that's bullshit... Poland gained a personal union over Lithuania (our monarch gained their throne cuz they had no heir kinda). Something similiar was happening by the Habsburgs
And cuz our big country was a problem to Russia cuz we blocked their border they decided to corrupt our country with a puppet-king and he simply allowed Russia many things that a normal king wouldn't do like: give them our land in gifts step by step. He was so ridiculous that HE spent so much money on fun for him that he somehow managed to use all the country's money, then debted Poland for the same reason by other countries. Ever heard of a king who debted his country for his fun wishes? Ofc he also didn't do other shit than have fun in his palace, most hated Polish king.
Tinnakorn Wantae 3 Not Polish- Lithuanian but Courland have colony in Gambia river island
It was surprise that Polish-Lithuania had colony
@@hym7844 I agree with you, Lublin Union 1569 made us united nations, we were strong, but at 17 century we failed war with Russians, got occupated by Sveden and then splited up at 1795, thats history folks, dont create you own, such like in Russia: that Lithuanians are ancient Russians, uhhh, discusting.
africa: we're not colonies anymore.
neo-colonialism: allow us to introduce ourselves
*Chinese aid intensifies*
Privyet Tovarisch
that's called:"soo basically our multinationals get here, and they pay the Africans 2 dollars an hour to get (obviously without helmets and security measures) a shit ton of minerals"
So yeah they pay like nothing the single African miner and they bribe the politician for the permissions
@@Ethiopianexposer Are you dumb or something? It's nothing to do with the Jews.
@@luxembourgishempire2826 You are all Jews
Berlin Conference:
Everyone: HOW DOES LEOPOLD GET HIS OWN PROPERTY
He killed 15m people but his name isn't Hitler you won't hear about it
@@mananaVesta And what is that supposed to mean?
We heard about in school, just everybody said Belgium
@@biliminsrlar5752 Don't forget about the Irish famine and Bengal famine.
@Bolaji Windapo it only matters when white people do it to white people.
What a great way for learning history and geography. Brilliant channel.
First the Arabs, then the Europeans, now the Chinese
And in the future the Indians
@@jamesxia9523 Nope. nah, Not interested, we are Busy in our Development so We are Good Alone with our 2nd Largest market of WORLD. 😂
Jeet Sasmal When you've developed sufficiently your economic growth will slow down and you will quite possibly look towards Africa.
@@jamesxia9523 No india can't lol, it's got to focus on it's development, it's absurd corruption rates to ever think about embarking deals with Africa.
@@axelandersson6314 hope it never happen. We indians hate colonism.
Moral to the story, he who gets the best weapons first wins.
Not only that... the african leaders and higher powers were willing to sell slaves. Which europeans did not
@Rapstick pardon me?
@@kasperknutsen8283 that's only half true, some wanted to sell slaves, some resisted slavery, simple as.
@@Echani3007 well ofcourse the slaves didn't consent this action. Still their tribe leaders sold them. That's a fact
@@kasperknutsen8283 No I'm not talking about the slaves resisting, I'm talking about leaders resisting. Specifically tribe and monarchy leaders against selling thier prisoners as slaves meanwhile others were notorious for selling them as slaves. Eg Queen Nzinga of Ndongo fought against slavery and others like king Diogo of Kongo did sometimes sell slaves to the Portoguese. Hence it's half true some did some didn't.
*KNOCKKNOCK*
- Who is it?
- It's ya bois, Portugal and Spain
The Iberian bros
@shield&sword peace lmao
@shield&sword peace I think you mean the Japanese
@@thebigsad9463 LMAO
shield&sword peace u are so stupid that was spain not portugal. Portugal was fair to all. Did not kill no babies. Did nothing that u say they did. Take history classes to know better.
It’s pretty impressive how the smallest continent fought over control for over half the planet then had to give most of it up due to diplomacy and not fighting
Isn't Oceania the smallest continent?
@@gustavosauro1882 Oceania isn't even an actual continent, you probably mean australia
@@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2 in my opinion,we gotta classify every island in a continent(even the tiny ones). So I think putting those islands in the Pacific together with Austrália is fine. And even though Australia occupies the entire continental area,calling it Australia would be confusing. But I also don't like the name Oceania, we should call it Australasia.
I suggest you independently research the subject and not blindly take the word of a TH-cam video, you'll quickly realise how much war was necessary to oust the Europeans.
The diplomacy of nuclear annihilation is very persuasive
1:46 Poland can into Africa?
@FREE 3021 Africa will never become fully independent. Their goverments are too corrupt and the people are uneducated
Poland have colonies but partitions of Poland begin in 1772-1795 and lost
independence to 1918
For a short period of time, one of the Polish-Lithuanian vassal states had small colonies in Trinidad and West Africa. Nothing super important, but still a little fun fact.
FREE 3021 you’re an exception, no offense. But Africa has never modernized, nor have they had any sort of golden age, enlightenment, etc. they’re stuck. And it isn’t due to colonization. If anything, the introduction of western civilization has benefitted them.
Well, the biggest drawback I see in the modern day African continent is their lack of strong institutions (arguably the most important factor of stability and economic growth). During the colonization of Africa, it is no question that European institutions that were imposed on the Africans were better than the institutions that are present in Africa rn. However, the institutions brought in by the Europeans were based off of mercantilist policies (make your own country rich by making all trade in your empire flow to the colonizing country... includes the triangular trade) not based off of the betterment of everyone in the societies they control. I personally see conquering and consequently colonization as a normal part of history that has only come into scrutiny in the modern age, but I do think it is somewhat inaccurate to say that the introduction of westerners in Africa made it better since these colonizers institutionally and systematically kept local colonized populations down while prioritizing the wealth of the colonizer. When a continent has been exploited like that for more than a century, I can see how local strongmen would exploit their African nation in the same, or similar, way that Europeans did with no focus on making institutions for the betterment of society but rather corrupt (in this sense) institutions that put money into the pockets of the strongman and his loyal subjects. Not saying Africa isn’t a mess nor would I blame Europeans for the impoverishment of Africa, but saying that western rule over the African continent made it better is a very complex and nuanced argument that honestly can be made, but I believe that the Europeans cared too much for attaining their own wealth to make any good, lasting change in Africa.
Sahara means desert,
So when you say Sahara desert, you say:
Desert desert
The Saharan Sahara Desert
Casa Blanca means white house. Costa Rica means rich coast. Puerto Rico means rich port. So what? A lot of meanings escape from the common knowledge. Most people dont know what Sahara means. So for us it makes the perfect sense to say Sahara the desert.
KY ..Ferrari La Ferrari
@Artem Kh
Woosh?
East timor=east east
History of the worlds in 3 words
Here comes Europe
Here comes Civilization!
@Raine Riny 7 When the whites trekked to the interiors of the country, there was no development, no civilizations, nothing. Explain why the black languages did not have numerals , only "maningi "which means many.
@Raine Riny 7 Big difference between northern Africa and sub-sahara Africa. Egyptians were not black.
@Raine Riny 7 The pharoes were whites and only became darker when intermarried with the nubians. Black Africa has never produced a civilization.
@Raine Riny 7 Africans obviously had civilization. But those civilizations were 5,000 less technologically advanced than europeans. They were in the stone age. And no, egyptians are not black. Go to egypt and try to convince me they are the black and not arabic.
3:23
Spain
Portugal
United Kingdom
France
_Leopold II_
God I love these videos, they combine Both history and geography.
me too
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*me too*
Can you do a summary of the seven year war on a map please
Connor in charge yes He should do this
Connor in charge yes yes yes
It was between who ?
@@mtraa.942 britain ireland british america hanover prussia portugal brazil brunswick wolfenbuttel hesse kassel and schaumburg lippe vs france new france holy roman empire austria saxony russia spain new spain sweden and mughal empire
Connor in charge is it for school?
Fun fact: Even Poland had a colony in the Gambia.
*disappointed Poland lover noises*
Technicaly it was a colony of Duchy of Courland and Semgalia (South and West Latvia now) but it was a puppet of poland
Its the polish lithuanian commonwealth
The poles were victims in WW2, but they were not necessarily morally superior or anything.
@@deadby15 what
I wish there was more context on a lot of that history but the ending was greatly appreciated!
I'm impressed by Ethiopia aka previously Abbasydia.
*Abyssinia.**
They were Christians for the longest time. That had its advantages.
@@billyjohnson3674 Ethiopia is a great Christian civilization. Respect
*they never took Ethiopia*
BillyJohnson367 excuse me what are u saying u don’t know anything about Ethiopians so u Better stop talking
Ethiopia never colonized by Italy. The 5 years they occupied Ethiopia was not colonization it was occupation and Ethiopian remained fighting for 5 years the Italian troops until the So no colonization got Ethiopia.
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123 456 read your history books!
you lost the war, they defeated you, doesnt matter if they didnt manage to completely colonize you, they won, and you're a fool
123 456 we are taking about colonialism. Even though they won the initial war and occupied Ethiopia for 5 years the never colonized Ethiopia. You are missing the point.
@@enegess1479 no, you are missing the point, the moment your emperor left and italy definitely conquered ethiopia, the colonization started, you were being colonized, not occupied
List of largest countries in 1884:
Russia
UK
China
USA
Brazil
France
*Leopold II*
YoshiMusic999 canada is bigger than usa
@@bloxknight1145 Canada was colonised by UK
one day african country will say stop to Franceççç Then France will become poor countryç right now France still getting money african countrys and no1 saying anything only Turkey trying stop them. thats why France so mad to Turkey.
@@kayacenk4164 oh my god so France is tsking money from it’s old colonies?????
@@Jawadshahzad101 to be honest China is the real danger. We have become to dependent on them.
After all these years of schooling I look back in retrospect at my High school years history lessons only to realize that "Discovery" back then really meant colonizing.
Portuguese colony: is called gold coast
Australians: nice
Gold coast= ghana bruh
@@ruzzou9536 There is a city in Australia called Gold Coast. But yeah, it was Ghana which was under British control.
When you try to travel to australia but end up in Ghana: *what*
Spain still has control of Ceuta and Melilla in Africa
Yes, but they were acquired long before the age of Colonization. The areas are considered Spanish.
They are integral parts of Spain.
@@elovhak2354 They're not independent at all. They have special status but they don't have more powers than any administrative region in the Iberian peninsula. Source: I'm Spanish
@@elovhak2354 Tell me in what way you're independent
@@elovhak2354 Yeah, but as I said these are powers that other regions have too. You're not more independent than Catalonia or Madrid. Btw I haven't liked my comments people sometimes agree with your ideas you know
Congo: gets independence
Also congo: lets call it after the person who cut off our hands
They didn't get to name their country. To they it shouldn't really even exist.
Obviously they didn't name it themselves 🤦🏽♂️
you dummy obviously they didnt name it after their oppressor
@@haziagat if that's a joke then it's a bad joke
Congo goes back to the Congo river which in turn gets its name from the Kongo Empire which existed a while back mostly in modern day Angola though.
Very interesting video, thank you for your efforts in making this possible. We as a people easily recognize slavery and colonialism but when it changes into Neocolonialism it’s not so apparent and people forget about it but it never went away, it only adjusted
Belgian King Leopold II owned the Congo himself. I believe it is the only instance of a single person and not a nation claiming ownership. His rule was incredibly brutal and led to international outcry. When he ceded it to Belgium it really didn’t get better,
Michael Brennan But was There still mass murder?
Augustus Caesar (the first emperor of Rome) personally owned Egypt...
It got much better...
@@the12th68 There never was mass murder to begin with. He didn't even "rule" there, he leased the lands to various companies, and they did some nasty shit there.
@@BamBamGT1 nee man, geef gewoon toe da leopold een massamoordenaar was. Ookal heeft hij daar nooit een fout in gezet, hij was wel de aanleiding dat miljoenen dood gingen. Je gaat toch ook niet zeggen dat Hitler amper iets fout heeft gedaan, want hij persoonlijk heeft geen miljoenen mens doodgeschoten, het waren zijn bevelen, en zo ook bij Leopold was het zijn doen dat ervoor gezorgd heeft
Haven't started the video yet, but you've easily become one of my favorite geographical/historical channels on TH-cam. The animation with the maps and the detail is amazingly perfect yet simple enough for everyone to understand. Thank you for doing these!!!
I would love to see a video on the history of the Roman Empire, or even the history of the evolution of mankind, from the origin of humans today.
they don't produce the ideos, they just translate them from french (the original channel is french)
@omg9261 still, I think they are the same person. They just translate into other languages
And now mobile and mining companies have colonized it, cycle continues...
thats what they want u to believe......if u dont remove ur self from their equation u wont get the scheme
They killed Gaddafi because he wanted to stop that...
@@hnys7976 was that the sole reason why they killed gaddafi?
@@Legendaryium He also wanted his own currency away from world bank and was heavily influenced by socialism when it came to social issues.
@@s.a.8548 true iff hhe would have done that the world would hce gone broke since he wanted to pay in gold...
This is just European colonisation. Only a part of the story. To be complete, accurate and honest this "history" should include the huge colonies and slave empires African nations, from the Egyptians to the Berbers to the Zulus and everyone in between, established over other African peoples from pre historic times to the present day.
You don t think so
Load of bull, you think Egyptiann and pharoahs and Muslims destroyed Africa like Europe? Leopold II killed more people than Hitler, as did the french, million and millions of people dead, European soldiers using black hands as currency in the Congo, the worst crimes ever committed in history, sure there were Romans in North Africa before and they treated the locals as second class, but not like this, Africans were worse than animals, my grandpa has marks of dog bites all over his legs, it was like imagining a scene of a Django movie when he told me the story,
Africa still has problems today, terrible problems, and those problems are still caused by Europe, 15 African countries don't even control their currencies or trade laws, we re forces to sell resources to the EU however they choose, they are still stealing our resources, only paying the guys at the top to make them work for them, and they use nationalism that they created to keep us separate,
Europe won, Machiavelli approves, and hell awaits.
Fun Fact: Portugal was the last empire, giving up on Macau and giving it to China in 1999
Iberian Mapper what about Byzantine or Japan, or do you just mean out of the European Colonisers?
I mean the colonisers
The British Empire still exists but the word empire is something of a bad word that offends a lot of people these days so instead its called British Overseas Territories that consists of 250.000 people and nearly 700.000 square miles
@Finnish Perkele first off, stop saying Portugal and spain are European countries, they are not, they are arab, secondly, why the FUCK they trying to appear white and do the white mans work for them??? why didn't they just try to colonize Europe instead
@Finnish Perkele
As far as i know those overseas territories aren't colonies anymore.
For example, Macao was always Cantonese, while the Falklands are completely British.
And at last, it was from 1415(Conquest of Ceuta) to 1999(Return of Macao)
Meanwhile the English Empire only started in 1583 with the foundation of Newfoundland and ended in 1997 with the return of Macao. Even if we included the lasting territories until today, there are still 148 of years that the Portuguese colonial Empire lasted more(as it started 168 years earlier)
You know it’s a good day when GeoHistory uploads a video
Man I really love your vids. It represents it very well similar to Eu4. Vids like these help visualize the events of the past better
Great video though man! You put a lot of work into I see!!!
Everyone in this comment section are those weird kids that correct and argue with the history teacher.😂
Majority of people in the comment section are adults.
The same for you
You are on history video we talk about history, if u want to talk about football just go on football match video like I do when I want to talk about football
U call intellegwnt people wierd?
@@Wiktor33 unfortunately you're not one of them
It's also called the Scramble of Africa btw
0:29 navarre: exists
geo history: ima end this mans entire career
This video just blew my mind. I learned more about Europe’s involvement on other countries here than I did in high school World History.
Nambia:exists South africa: im about to end this mans whole carrier
As a South African it was wild to me to find out that we colonized Namibia at some point, I was a bit disappointed that the video didn't touch on Namibia gaining its independence from SA and apartheid. Overall it was a good video.
The most unbiased video I have watched recently. Thank you.
Great videos! Simple and informative!
Excellent presentation, thank you!
Great video. You forgot to mention the tension between Portugal and the United kingdom in the late ninetieth century due to Cecil roads and the pink map
As well as you omitted the independence of Namibia in 1990ies along with modernisation of South Africa to be more African.
You mean Cecil Rhodes, hence Rhodesia (former name of Zimbabwe)
Damn this comment section is a battleground 😐
Nah. I seen worse.
this is how it starts
@@sharkfinbite balkan comment section??? 😂😂😂
@@mf18591 yeah and atheists vs religious
@Mr. Anonymous Indians vs pakisthanis
Somalia didn't get colonized until 1920s by the French, English, and Italians. The first country outside of Europe to get bombed by airplanes. And Somalia got independence in 1950 but agreed for 10 years of trusteeship.
@JonnR Ragga Italy colonized southern Somalia. Also Djibouti is Somali land too and the majority natives are Somali. Ethiopia took the Ogaden region and Kenya the NFD region.
According to Somalis, Somalia has never been invaded or conquered. 🤣
@@CDRNY25 Well he's right in that the Italians really only had control in Mogadishu and parts of the Juba river. Somali sultans held sway in most of the country until the 1920s when Mussolini tried to establish a more Italian Somalia.
@@imperator692 Somalia resisted up-to 15y against 3 European powers
@@A.D.540 More than 15 years. Somalis had been resisting since the Europeans came to our land in the 1600s
Amazing video, thanks a lot!
So accurate I'm so surprised!! Thank you for the efforts you did a really great job
Yeah except he forgot to say what those colonizers did in those colonies and to the natives
I also liked how other recently independent African countries support other African colonies achieve independence
He isn't accurate because Ghana was the first country to be independent
Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth has a colony! My mind explodes.
Please also make video on expansion of the United States after it's Independence, history of Russia, history of China etc
No
The history of China would be a fuck long video
Hey Spain didn't loose the Canarian islands xD they are still part of the country
Not something to be proud of
If you look closely portugal and framce still have island too 😉
I research more and i realize that technically the british and even italians have some island in African territory
@@exfujoshiad2096 how is he not allowed to be proud of his country (spain) that took an island and still has it to this day.. kinda awesome ngl
@@TearDaTaco yeah took something that doesn't belong to them ....proud of stealing
Basically The Greeks knew that africa existed cause of Egypt
@Dante Alighieri look africa its a greek word : Αφρική = africa = afro
greeks and Egyptians were black dumbass, not white like you look in your profile picture, nowadays the only people that inhabit Greece and Egypt are arab colonizers, invaders, not the original inhabitants
@@jermainjackson8626 I can accept you saying that the egyptians were black, but the greeks? Mate I hope you're joking.
@Son of Kemet Then what were they? They certainly weren't white. In fact what's your definition of black?
PliantSanity you’re just a dumb victim, my friend. Even if they were black, they were not related to you. Stop trying to steal the history of others
Ethiopia was not colonized. It was under occupation for 5 years until 1941. The video failed to mention it. Very bad.
Occupation and colonization are somewhat the same I suppose
@P C not half they only conquered west & north. South, east are free including most of central Europe.
Bruh Italy colonized Ethiopia
Brah Italy didn't colonize Ethiopia not once but tried twice and failed
@@ya_boi_jerome3768 Brah Italy didn't colonize Ethiopia not once but tried twice and failed
So how many colonies how many do you want?
France and U.K.: *Yakko's World*
**happy Yakko's World music starts playing**
Got assigned this video for class, it's actually quite interesting.
GREAT VIDEO. WELL DONE. SERIOUSLY GREAT JOB. very easy to understand and rich in knowledge. There is hope for me to finally start appreciating history lol
1:46 Hello I’m the mighty power of the Commonwealth and I shall control this continent wait wait goodbye
Clear and insightful without undue prisms, a great learning tool
Your actually learning the wrong history
@@senseisenpaianimes5612 Can you elaborate on the right history?
yes please tell us colonizer@@senseisenpaianimes5612
Fun fact: Ghana (Gold coast) is the first country to gain independence in Africa and inspired other countries like Nigeria, Guinea, "CANADA" and help many countries.
Excellent summary of the sad, unfortunate history of the domination and oppression of Africans by the France, England, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Belgium. You could do a separate video about King Leopold II, a singulary brutal, evil man who American Civil War veteran, Baptist minister and politician George Washington Williams first used the prhase "crimes against humanity" to describe the atocities and horrors comitted during his "ownership" of Congo Free State.
Europe
Where does all that nonsense keep coming from? Leopold never even set foot there. He got the land, then leased it to various companies. He was like an absent landlord, that's the worst you can say about him.
@Phillis "Dick" Black These were self governing entities. There was a rebellion in one of their villages, the local abir guy in charge hired a cannibal tribe to go eat them (this actually happened) I can't say that the crimes the renter commits in the property of the landlord, are the landlord's fault. The 'A' in ABIR stands for Anglo, which is the reason the Brits so heavily focused on Blaming leopld, to hide their own connection to crimes against humanity committed by a parlty British company.
@@BamBamGT1 Leoupold profited and allowed the atrocities to take place. Over 10 million people died, it was literal genocide.
@@weasle2904 The change in population over a few decades has been studied by various people and is attributed to 3 main factors: 1 diseases, 2 famines, 3 natural decline of population due to birth rates dropping. There was no genocide.
The southern part of Somalia that Italy were colonizing was called Italian Somaliland while the northern part that British were colonizing was called British Somaliland. after independence the two parts become The Democratic Republic of Somalia
However British Somaliland today is independent from Somalia.
@@samwell8 not yet but maybe in the future
And what a great success it has become today ???
@@jackkruese9929 As usual the British colonies are always better
@@keeganmoonshine7183 in reality if you go read about the Italian trust territory of Somaliland you can read that at the time (the 60s) it was much more wealthy that the British one, the problem with Somalia came with the Siad Barre the shitty communist dictator that genocided the northern population of ex British Somaliland, threw the country in to bad wars with Ethiopia.
With his death the northern part saw the opportunity to free themself while the southern part was going trough a Civil war
The guy didn't even refer the Portuguese Pink Map, where the British sent an ultimatum to Portugal, as so their settlers would have to leave the area, and cede Zambia to Britain.
If I'm correct, that was a catalyst for the abolition of the Portuguese monarchy.
This was so fun to watch & informative... Thanks
Fun fact: In WW1, Belgium only allowed aprox. 30 congolese soldiers to fight in the western front in Flanders, because of fear that people would see the congolese as peers
That's correct! They were part of the Congolese Volunteer Corps
Poor mama Africa 😢😢
one day african country will say stop to Franceççç Then France will become poor countryç right now France still getting money african countrys and no1 saying anything only Turkey trying stop them. thats why France so mad to Turkey.
@@kayacenk4164 france will never get poor fool
@@kermitthefrog7425 you will when African people say stop to France!
@@kayacenk4164 lol
I can understand pain of Africa uk looted enough money from India which is equal to 43 trillion dollar today
I know someone who used to live in Rhodesia. He and his wife owned 2 businesses and as soon as Mugabe took over ceased both of them. As well as all the money they had in the bank. They were forced to flee to the UK with no money. And both in their 80s both work still which is really sad.
Nothing sad here, Mugabes policies should've spread to South Africa.
@@Ntombi_Red look at zimbabwe now and tell me if that would have been good for south africa
Good channel........ Love from india 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳.... " Vasudhev kutumbakam"
10:07 also you forgot to say that Nambia 🇳🇦 gained independence from South Africa 🇿🇦
South Africa wasn’t a European power colonising Namibia, so I think that’s why he didn’t mention it, cause this vid’s specifically about the colonial empires
Again ignoring a lot of ottoman and arab influence, you need to rename this EUROPEAN colonization of Africa
This Wikipedia list about “Places named after Queen Victoria” is incomplete. *You can help by expanding it*
Hmmmm
brilliant video!
7:20
Egypt: noice I got full control
France Israel Britain: bye bye Egypt
Soviet Union: *STARES AT F.I.B*
USA: stop offensive on Egypt
It was much more than that, the U.S gave Egypt billions in funds, and much of Egpyt's government was formed of SS lieutenants.
Ethiopia what a great inspirational country dameee
Why is spain red and Great Britain yellow 😂 as a eu4 player that looks so cursed
thank you tho
As a hoi4 player I also agree
Same
Education is all well and good but man it's satisfying to watch the map get filled in.
I think you could've mentioned the independence of Namibia and the apartheid in South Africa, but overall, great video!
6:48 Ireland become an independent Republic in 1949....
No, It got Independence from UK in the 1923 ;)
@Master Yoda I'm Irish and don't even know its status until 1949. Post 1922 it was an Irish free state, in 1937 irish constitution removed power of monarchy then in 1949 formally removed any possible claim. Certainly not a protectorate before then as Ireland had its constitution but I don't know what it could be called?
3:55 Namibian panahandle is shown to have been created in the initial conference, however this was actually gained after the British had seized Rhodesia and the panhandle was a way for the Germans to reach possible river fronts to access the Indian Ocean. This was in exchange for transference of claims to Zanzibar which is still shown highlighted.
No mention either of the Moroccan crisis during which Kaiser Wilhelm spurred Moroccan independence movements, but was later resolved with the seizure of more land to expand German NeuKamerun.
The Belgian Congo was claimed by Leopold earlier than the Congress. But is still a good video. Earned a subscriber.
Amazing Video!
1975:
- **Almost all europeans are gone of Africa**
-Spain: Let me just stay here a little longer...
LMAOOOO
CarlosBarrero Technically they're still there with Cueta and Melilla, but they've been there longer most African countries.
Holy shit, I had no idea any of this happened. Thank you!
R u serious 😂😂😂😂I thought the whole world knew fr sm reason😆😆😆😆😂
Literally learnt today.. explains why they speak french in some parts I never understood it.
One thing I failed to understand is that the "slave trade" is looking at from the angle that Africans were oppressed but it was a TRADE. Someone somewhere, an African was receiving payment for their own people. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Huh? Being enslaved is an obvious form of oppression.
2 things can be true at once my sister…
@@AddBowIfGirl Yes but ask yourself this: Who oppressed first? The Europeans to the Africans or An African King to another African King?
The captions are appreciated.
The Greeks where the first to colonize Europe and Africa
Phoenician were the first .
@@mohdadeeb1829 Carthaginians?
Hamzus Hammami Carthaginians were north africans Amazigh most of them ... only one ship came from the east ...
@@AA-cj2rz yeah i know that
@Ethan Mobile Ethiopia colonized Yemen. Lmao that is why they stayed independent
Do the balkans and everything that came with it.
No just the British,French and Spain,Portugal,Germany,etc...
Native Americans: We are doomed.
Native Africans: Naah, we are good.
Europeans: Hold my beer..
ScarletDespair 😳 thats cold 🥶 Native Americans are alive too just in lower numbers
🏴 is independent
@@LilBigTv2k atleast they live in a developed country where they can study and work hard to ensure financial stability.
@@AdityaDeo-cg6eu who ?
@@LilBigTv2k well u said it ✨lower numbers ✨
I love how everyone acts like colonization is strictly an American or European thing. Basically every group that currently exist has colonized or is colonizing or attempted to coloniz. The thing is in the west were very sympathetic towards the losing side
I would've loved living in this time period. Trading posts all over the world and exchanging product from India to Somalia. The Portuguese were really ahead of their time.
you would’ve been a slave 💀
Don't know why France think Controlling a Giant desert is a good thing
Money
Algeria coast is the best (i'm from France)
And Sahara is just the dessert
Highly informative.. is it possible to make a flow chart of the events at the end of the video then it would be easier to remember the chain of events.. but anyway great job 👏👏👏
Excellent video
It's truly heartbteaking to watch all these colonies gaining independence one by one.
Why is it heart breaking?
@@teoteo3522 Cause Europe lost its territories.
@@Hienox u are sick in the head
womp womp 🗣🗣🔥🔥@@Hienox
Please also do a video on the white slave trade by the Barbary cosairs from Morocco during the 1700
On the map colonization is gone, but when you look deeper into Africa, you can see that all over Africa there is stil a form of colonization. All the big and rich countries are still stealing resources from most African countries, and only 1 country was able to break through that colonization for couple of years, its Tanzania, but the president some time after he decided he is closing gold mines for France, UK and USA died out of mysterious reasons. Sad world we live in
@Pole that isnt businesses doing their job, thats called neo-colonization, its different
very good video
What this fails to say is that Europeans initially operated with the approval of local African chiefs and Kings from costal forts. The African interior was far too deadly for Europeans due to various diseases such as malaria, yellow fever etc. It was only late into the colonial era that cures for these aliments were discovered
I know I'm late lol
But are you saying that Africans just gave their land up to Europeans wasn't there wars but Africa's lost
@@gwtekz7796 On most occasions African Kings allowed Europeans to build coastal trading posts, it was a two way street these coastal kingdoms got access to European goods, who do you think went into the interior to catch slaves? Clue it wasn't the Europeans. Europeans set up these trading posts all over the world as a first step, in India, China, South East Asia etc. Africa was actually the last continent to be colonised
@@Spartan-jg4bf yeah so I'm asking after the king's and chiefs cooperated with Europeans did the Europeans kill the kings and chiefs to take over the land
@@Spartan-jg4bf because when they talk about colonisation they make it seem like the Europeans went into African countries peacefully and were welcomed with open arms or did the Europeans commit genocides
@@gwtekz7796 Did the chiefs kill other chiefs to take over their land? People have been taking other people's land throughout human history, there are no good or bad guys. Like I said earlier Africa was the last continent to be occupied by Europeans
It really changes your perspective when you realize that Europeans really started to colonize Africa only 150 years ago and first colonies started to get independence only 30 years after that, while America was colonized for centuries
The first European colony was actually in Africa when the Portuguese seized ceuta (part of spain today) from the muslims. The Americas were just prioritized.
Yes the whole African affair only lasted 60-80 years, pretty short duration historically looking.
Hi! Very good video. Maybe you didn't know but Occidental Sahara is still technically not an independent country. The moment you mention it, you say that Spain left and Morocco took it. That's correct, although it was what happened "practically". Theoretically, Spain under the pressure of the UN to de-colonise Africa, decided to transform the country into a province, just like the Canary Islands. However, when Morocco invaded Spain's province, Spain abandoned them (they were Spanish CITIZENS) and they let them become invaded. Since no independence referendum was ever carried, it is still considered a non-independent country.
Western Sahara is Spanish colonization
Bro before colonisation morocco has the entire Sahara and parts of West algeria .💀