I was born and raised in Mexico and there was NEVER an intentional genocide in the Spanish Crown agenda to outcast and eradicate natives in Spanish America. Such was the case, that presently 80%-90% (Probably even higher) population are from native descent in Latin America. Not quite the same happened with other European countries such as English, Dutch, Belgian, French, etc. where natives where systematically expelled from their homeland, and exterminated as part of a national program. For instance, in the U.S. the natives that survived to the American "West conquest" are the ones whose ancestors lived in what used to be New Spain.
Wolves don't care about the opinions of sheep. Britain's model of colonizing was clearly better seeing how its old colonies are more successful today than Spains.
Spanish black legend again. A story written by the enemies of Spain, who killed much more people, burned witches, etc. The real numbers of the inquisition are ridiculous in comparison with any other European country
absolutly agree. please guys read some neutral books ..ant think..how many people had aztecs or incas bloodline now on mexico ..or pero or whatever..spanish empire was building in latin style with mixed marriages ..please read more and try to know the true
That's BS. It's true that the witchcraze in german speaking territories was likely quite a bit worse, the Spanish inquisition was still up there far above most other European realms. One significant difference was the centralized character of the spanish inquisition, which was quite unique. Significant and quite unique were the expelling of both sephardim and the descendents of muslims. So while the spanish inquisition quite likely was not as gruesome as many like to believe (like he says in the video btw) it still holds up as number one in premodern ethnic cleansing.
@@ithemba quite a bit worse? Spain killed between 10 and 20 witches Germany killed more than 60,000 Inquisition, in total, had around 500 victims in Spain and Portugal in two centuries. We can't even compare it with the huge numbers of other European countries. About expelling Sephardim, all European countries did it earlier the same with the Jews. In Germany, during the black death pandemic, they were just killed just because they were blamed of it. Meanwhile, in Spain there were centuries of pacific coexistence of three religions.
@@aviador76 look I'm not denying the context of progroms and witch burnings, but I highly doubt your numbers. Beside that, the spanish inquisition was uniquely modern in the way it administered violence, interrogation and torture in a quite centralized way combining power and legal perogatives of both church and crown. Both the witch craze and the pogroms if germany were decentralized events committed by mobs and or local authorities and most often against the explicit interventions of both lords and the roman church. That does not make them less bad - but still it's a different phenomenon. And obviously contemporaries of the (late) inquisition like goya had quite the same idea, when he for example drew the torture victims of the inquisition. We have material witnesses about how people saw the inquisition in it's own time and that overwhelmingly is not very positive.
@@ithemba man you would have taken less time googling the numbers than writing a long paragraph. What you are describing is the black legend. The protestant world created vast propaganda against Spain during that time while hiding their own wrongdoings. The power eventually shifted to the English and they rewrote the history as they were the better ones. Where are the indigenous peoples of North America, or even Australia? Almost all of them disappeared. They are not even in the now north Americans or Australian genes. On the other hand, the natives of Latin America and Philippines are alive and also in the genes of mestizos-latinos
Not 100% sure on that, believe they tried to expand their hold on N.America north ward when the British was busy fighting us. Think there was some skirmishes in the backwoods.
As a Mexican American I'm glad the Spanish colonized Mexico ... the French, Belgium or the English even the Dutch all of them intentionally nearly wiped out the natives in those lands and they didn't like to race mix , meaning modern Latinos wouldn't have existed or latin America would've jim crow laws/apartheid.
Depor GZ what truth? That modern Latinos wouldn’t exist without the Spanish. Yes that’s true, but saying that you’re glad that they came to kill our ancestors is nothing to be proud of
Facts: the Spanish Empire is considered evil and destructive ... but if you visit countries like Peru or Mexico today, it's normal to hear several indigenous languages and it's normal to see Native Americans in its streets ... streets and cities of Spanish heritage. Meanwhile, if you travel to the United States or Canada, it's practically impossible to see Native Americans, unless you go to a reservation.
@@AlejandroLopez-ed8kj pues no seas "contundente". Una cosa es la exposición historia de los hechos, y otra muy distinta la exaltación nacionalista. La educación y el respeto ante todo. Un saludo y cuídate.
@@AlejandroLopez-ed8kj desconozco los motivos, entonces. Reconozco que es un tema sensible ahora mismo, con todo lo que está pasando. Los españoles tampoco fueron (fuimos) "santitos" y también es importante tener claro esto y reconocerlo. Como historiador, a mi lo que me importa es la realidad y la verdad más apurada posible, por encima de nacionalismos, dogmas o maniobras de campañas de descrédito de la época que sea. Un saludo y cuídate. Mis mejores deseos. Ciao!!
Jessica also it is believed that some Western European settlers followed the ice shelf during the last glacial maximum. Such tools used by the east coast native Americans were the same as were being used by Western Europeans during the same time period. There is also a difference between tools used by native Americans on the east coast (Western European ancestry) and west coast (Asian ancestry). The Solutrean culture comes from France and Iberia which followed the Europe N.America ice shelf. The Clovis culture comes from Siberian Highlands which followed the Bering Straight ice shelf. DNA tests and modules suggest that the Clovis culture (while being second by 10000 years) overwhelmed and prevailed across both continents mixing the two. However there is also evidence and DNA that places the same ancestors of the Amazon natives with the Australian and Papa New Guinea natives together.
Walks and Such You’re so woke! She actually said nothing about Western Europeans. And put forward something intelligent, maybe some real information, or at least some viable theories besides name calling, and knee jerk reactions, if you want people to take you seriously. Just a suggestion.
Mango T I agree. Name calling does nothing to further the discussion. There is nothing gained and no scientific discovery. You can’t have a rational discussion with someone who refuses to learn, contribute, and wants to live in ignorance. Even my dog likes to learn unlike some people. Although I do have one disagreement with Jessica. She had the two theories mixed up. the Solutrean culture that came through the Bering Straight. That was the Clovis culture.
@@lusquianomoreno Are from? Ni inglés sabes escribir, macho. Y lo de que sean *de* Marruecos de dónde lo has sacado? Acaso sabes algo de Historia o de Geografía?
@@lusquianomoreno las Islas Canarias son españolas y es mejor usar un traductor en vez de escribir mal en otro idioma. Es mejor documentarse antes de escribir, es gratis.
@@ThePranksman no grammar mistakes. I'm just saying what people around the world believe . If Gibraltar is from Spain then those islands are from Morocco.
The narrator is ignoring that people who was born in a Spanish colony they were considered a 100% Spanish citizen. Not happen the same with English colonies, where often segregationist policies were applied, resulting the modern racial conflicts (India, Sudafrica, USA...)
Fue el resentimiento criollo por la discriminación que sufrirán lo que inició las guerras de independencia. Y ese resentimiento venía precisamente de que a ellos no se les trataba como 100% españoles. ¿Que crees que tantos años de lucha fue pi un berrinche?
@@alexiatr La guerras de independencia surgieron directamente de los dirigentes y no del pueblo, a quienes les interesaba obviamente dejar de ser virreyes y gobernantes de segunda, además de que las colonias pagaban un fortísimo impuesto al imperio. Se usó como propaganda precisamente eso, la inmensa cantidad de recursos que se dirigían a la madre patria, y así alimentaron el sentimiento nacionalista de cara a la población (y con toda la razón, ojo, los impuestos de colonias eran abusivos), pero no era por una discriminación racial o cultural, ya que España siempre apostó por el mestizaje en su expansión, inculcando su propia cultura y religión (obviando los inicios de la conquista, claro, eso sí fue una masacre como toda guerra).
@@kittehcatt No tengo necesidad de acusarte a ti de mentira alguna, me basta tener la seguridad de que lo mismo que recomiendas a otros abrir un libro, si lo hicieras tú te darías cuenta. Un saludo.
There are a lot of natives in South America, actually most of the population, with mixed race and spanish surnames. What about North America, how many of them there are? Oh, I forgot, english people sons almost killed them all. Take a look on the population of the territories occupied by the Spanish Empire, and then to the ones by the British Empire. Who's the killer?
yeah Spain pretty much murdered a majority of the Indians, england got the scraps and finished them off. your point? dont be mad cause your ancestors objectively suck
@John Newman It wasn´t an "insinuated act of benevolence" it was the law. You need to read about Leyes de Burgos for example, the origin of human rights, and stop being an ignorant racist. And yes, i´m sure in the north there wasn´t indigenous people, brits didn´t kill any of them JAJAJAJJAJAJAJA
@@ironyelegy A majority? England got the scraps? Objectively? I don't even know if you're even a person I can talk to, definitely you don't care about facts but only contempt. Just to let you know, this is not a speech of hatred to England, but an invitation to think by yourself. If the Spanish Empire was a slaughter (and it was at the beginning), any other empire of the history was definitly worst, if we speak proportionally to its territory. The spanish people weren't saints, but definitely NOT the worst as this man tries to show, also they were the firsts to make laws for human rights to natives. Trying to make the Spanish Empire the worst while comparing to the british one, yeah, I can understand now your nickname. And believe me, I'm not mad, and I'm not specially proud about my ancestors, it's past and I just like history. But this man on the video, he's definitly trying to spread hatred with a skewed speech. And definitely it worked with you.
Well....at least here in mexico the independece movement was more a power struggle rather than a freedom struggle. it was the european decendants here in mexico that lead the movement rather than the locals
@@BangFarang1 no, but what simon says it that it was the oppression that started the movement. Which at least in Mexico it wasn't. Here it started because they wanted to get rid of the french at the spanish throne. Not because they were oppressed
This video could have a more suitable title: “The Black Legend”. And yes, it is a legend in the fact that the Spanish Empire was not more oppressive and unjust than any other European colonial power.
En los territorios conquistados por los españoles sigue habiendo indígenas (Bolivia, por ejemplo). En los territorios conquistados por los británicos los indígenas están en reservas. Que cada uno saque sus conclusiones.
Interestingly enough, it wasn't only Spain that pioneered the concentration camps but also the British during the Boer war. The word comes from the British camps even if the Spaniards were a couple of years earlier.
Pufffff I'd say no historian has contributed to this video. Every point is a historiographic mess and has absolutely no connection to any serious study. It's more like facts taken out of context and mixed with lots of yellowness. It's like a tabloid made a TH-cam history video
Saying that this is "like a tabloid made a TH-cam history video" describes it well, but if you view it with that in mind it serves a purpose. Anyone who finds any part of it interesting may be motivated to do some actual research to get a full and more accurate picture.
Ok, Simon, it seems as if William of Orange has written the script of your video. Let's debunk your thesis one by one. 10. The Royal Family was Dangerously Inbred. True. Charles II the Bewitched did not choose to become so ill-fated. What he did manage was to control the rampant inflation. For that, he surrounded himself with great economists from Salamanca School such as the Count of Oropesa. The author Elvira Roca Barea mentions in her book Fracasología, how after the Spanish War of Succession, Phillip V of Borbon found the economy in shape. (I wish Pedro Sánchez were as intelligent as Charles II). 9. Spain’s Discovery of the Americas led to Millions of Deaths. Wrong. Check the book La Población Indigena y el Mestizaje de América by Venezuelan author Ángel Rosenblat. According to Rosemblat, the native population in America reached 13 million before 1492. Eighty years later, it reduced to 11 million (96% of the total population). Most people died due to diseases brought unconsciously. Anyhow, to set the records straight, the Spanish Crown financed the first worldwide smallpox vaccination campaign (the Balmis Expedition), which even vaccinated people in China. 8. The Spanish Empire Destroyed the Aztec Empire 7. The Spanish Empire Destroyed the Incan Empire. Wrong. The Spanish empire assimilated much of the Precolombian culture. See literature, arts, food in America. Read the book of Pedro Insua titled España contra sus Fantasmas. Did you know that the Guardia Civil was founded by one of the descendants of Moctezuma? That another of his descendants played a lead role in the Battle of Fort Charlotte? Spaniards introduced cattle raising in America, and as a result of it, the height of natives increased considerably. Slavery of natives was prohibited since Isabella of Castile's times. You forgot to mention Leyes de Burgos and the work of Francisco de Vitoria. They contradict your point about slavery. 6. The Spanish Inquisition Destroyed Lives. Partially wrong. To today's standards, the Inquisition is execrable. They tortured as everybody did, but they were the first in Europe in abolishing torture for prisoners. Thus, becoming lenient compared to others. 5. The Spanish Empire Took Millions of Slaves. Partially wrong. They took slaves from Africa, but their living conditions were much better than those in the British or French colonies. The had a salary and were eligible to pay for their freedom. Fort Mosé is the first Afro American city in the US, founded by slaves who escaped from North America, and they were welcomed to settled by the Spaniards. 4. The Spanish Armada Could Have Changed the Course of History. Wrong. The intention was to overthrow Elizabeth I, not to conquer England. 3. Spain Still Managed to go Bankrupt. All empires go bankrupt if they endeavour to long-lasting wars. 2. The Spanish Empire’s Brutality Helped Cost her its Colonies. As Argentian author Patricio Lons says, "Spain had no colonies, but regions". All citizens, including natives such as Apaches or Texans, were fully-fledged Spaniards by law. The only direct taxes levied by the Spaniards was el Quinto Real (one fifth, 20%. I wish we had the same scheme today!), the rest was reinvested into the Americas, that's why there are some many hospitals, churches, forts, universities built by the Spaniards. The living conditions in mines were not worse than those in the rest of the world. The population of Boston in 1780: 17.000 habitants. Bogota & Havana's +100.000 h, for instance. In other words, people in Spanish America were prosperous. Please, read Von Humboldt's work to verify. 1. The Spanish Empire Pioneered the Use of Concentration Camps. Wrong. The Reagrupamiento was a practice intended to disperse insurgents in Cuba, not to exterminate people. Its outcome was unintended. I admit it was brutal, though. Simon, I like your channel, but I am afraid that your grade in Spanish history is C-. Now, I gave you content to write a script titled "Top Ten misleading facts on the Spanish Empire". ;)
thank you, every word you just said is on point. i like his channel too but his sources look like they came from Washington Irving, Monty Python and Simon Bolivar.
Please. Your just engaging in semantics. They clearly had colonies in the Americas. Saying they weren’t colonies because the Spanish didn’t call them colonies is like saying North Korea is a democracy because they call themselves a Democratic Republic.
I had to give a lecture on the Habsburgs during my history degree. I described the family tree as an ouroboros of incest. The professor stopped me there.
@@cagrant4472 Yes, true. I still appreciate his delivery, his style, his tenacity and the variety of his channels! And of course that luscious beard...
Simon: "Columbus mistakenly referred to indigenous Americans as 'Indians'." Also Simon: *Continues to refer to them as "Indians" throughout the entire video*
@@blakewilley2754 Yeah, like, there is native American population in every single American country where Spanish is spoken. Why is USA and Canada so white? They say those places where not populated. Lol. 💀
To be fair, the destruction of the Aztecs is not big of a deal. I mean, their tributaries were very keen on destroying them. Now, the destruction of many mayan artifacts... that's a real tragedy.
6:30 This isn't true. If they converted they were allowed to stay 6:40 The Spanish inquisition wasn't that brutal anyway and it didn't prosecute indigenous peoples for following their native religions. 6:50 It didn't torture and murder a million people. And anyway, even if it did, we hace to understand it was over a period of almost 400 years. 8:24 The Spanish didn't enslave _MILLIONS_ of natives. 13:20 Should've mentioned that that general was deposed and shamed before the war ended for his cruel actions. And Cuba didn't break away, it was invaded by the US A very biased video.
@@jorgeh.r9879 I also have not found a conclusive answer to my question in my own research so I was trying to get an opinion since you seem to have knowledge on this subject.
Let's imagine a video JUST saying: the Spaniards finished off with human sacrifices in America, liberated many peoples enslaved by the Aztecs and others, they made them Spanish citizens,, they built schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, universities, they took horses, the wheel and many other things that made people's lives so much better..., also, they brought many foods to Europe such as the tomato or the potato which helped to save millions of lives not only in Europe, but elsewhere... Although all this is basically true, it would be a rather biased view of the Spanish history, wouldn't it? This video is just the same thing...but opposite.
I totally agree but like the news media, happy facts do not sell. And to be honest, Historians are just humans ergo non objective. English speaking historians are just the same as Spanish speaking ones, a bit subjective to be polite.
Spanish black legend again. I'm sick of hearing the same lies over and over again. How many more centuries are we going to have to suffer the lies of the story told by the English?
How would the world be if people talked about things they know. Just see how 90% of the population of south america have both gens of spanish and indias. All right, now compare it to north america.
The incredible explanation of an Empire 300 years hegemonic and 400 years long, with just ten absurd and miserable and anecdotical points. Instead of talking about the construcction of a new world by Geography, Humanity, Mathematics, Arts and Tecnologies all along 300 years. WoW!!!
Fun fact, here in Ireland there are a lot of people with Mediterranean features, dark eyes, hair and skin, etc, who have been theorised to be the descendants of members of the Spanish Armada who were shipwrecked off Ireland's coast, who settleed down and raised their own families here. These people are known as black Irish.
Sabes perfectamente que eso no es verdad. Y no contento con ello vienes aquí, a youtube, a crear crispación. Solo para regodearte de las respuestas que obtengas, evidentemente en contra de tu posicionamiento que sabes erróneo. No, esto no es gracioso. Tu falta de sensibilidad hacia este tema hace que mucha gente se sienta mal. De acuerdo que eso es TH-cam, pero hay cosas que pueden traspasar la pantalla del ordenador y herir el orgullo de quien te lea. Tú has pasado una barrera que no debías y por eso me causas poco menos que repugnancia. Voy a respetarte a nivel personal, porque sé que en definitiva, solo tratas de divertirte a costa ajena, aunque con dudoso gusto. Por otra parte, te agradecería de que dejaras de considerarte calvo mío. Un saludo, espero que recapacites y no vuelvas a hacerlo.
Incest is illegal in all US states except for Ohio and New Jersey. I hope OP’s comment dies. The south is where some of our hottest women are. We don’t call them “Southern Belles” for nothing.
A Johnson to pretend that inbreeding represents more than .01% of the population is just wrong. I’ve lived all over America so I know firsthand that beauty is in every state. I’ve also seen that most of our women are fat. The average woman over the age of 20 is 170lbs in America.
Slavery and Spain, why this guy has the guts to talk about Spain without knowing that we didn't have slaves? Another video about the dark legend written by the Spain enemies, great.
1589 the British Royal Navy trying to invade Spain with 180 ships and 29000 soldiers and..... They were all defeat and destroyed, only 30 ships and 3000 soldiers return to England...and It was the change in History for Spain to continue the hegemonic power two hundred more years.
People always say "Christopher Colombus was Italian" but Italy wasn't united as a nation back then and parts of Italy were under Spanish (or Catalan, if you're really purist) rule.
Even though Spain brought back literally "boat loads" of gold & silver, they did not significantly increase food production and manufacturing, back in Europe. The result was high inflation during this period, just like printing money. So much for those who think going back to the gold standard will fix our financial issues !
Except the gold standard tends to be more solid throughout history. Currencies come and go but gold never seems to go out of style. The fallacy is that it will permanently solve the “problem” of a market going down when you want it to go up. The very nature of economics is for it to go through boom and bust periods, which is only of a problem to people who want perpetual growth.
@@bryansmith1920 Because it's the only economic system that works. If you think that socialism/communism is the answer, you have no idea what you are talking about. Because every single country that has tried socialism has only done it because they got rich off of a capitalist system, got jealous of people doing better than them and threw a temper tantrum, government switches policy for a decade or so, and then goes back when everything goes south because it turns out to not work. If you look at every single "socialist society" that exists today, you will find that they are going back to capitalism, because that was what was making them money.
I noticed he didn't mention smallpox in the beginning of this video which is one of the first diseases you hear about all the time as one of the factors that led to the decline of the natives during colonialism.
2:47 The natives were never enslaved by the Spanish. Precisely for this reason blacks were later brought from Africa. Testament of Queen Isabella 'la Católica', 1504: "It is not allowed that the Indians receive any injury in their persons and property (...) You must pay each one the day they work as free people, as they are". What a mistake
Latin Americans and Spaniards in these comments be like: 😡 a bunch of Gringo-Guiri lies! 😡 Anglophones and other unsorted nationalities: 😑 Spain man bad. 😑
It's Hispanic Americans. The term Latins was invented by Napoleon the Thirds intellectual ideologues mainly Michel Chevalier and Benjamin Poucel whose propaganda in the 19th century was taken up by hispanic socialist revolutionaries who came in constant numbers to study in France.
No, they didn't, that's what causes the dismay in the comments; if you are Spanish or Portugese, you learnt a totally different collection of so called "facts" in school, to the ones I learnt, even universities peddle different views of the past, so I promise not to believe all the 'facts' in here, provided you do the same about British colonial brutality. 🇬🇧 Love from an ex History teacher!
Great channel. Last illustration on this video actually shows British troops rounding up Afrikaans women and children to place into British concentration camps during the Anglo - Boer war. That would also make an interesting video.
so much anger in comments. while errors may exist, I do not see this as an attack on Spain, it is simply the story of imperialism and corporate/state sponsored genocide for wealth and power. Nothing strange. Brits, Dutch, Portuguese, French etc all did the same ... and now we need to understand how this corporate imperialism is working today...
Fighting back after 300 years of keeping silent. Tough times are coming for the English, French, Dutch and Germans. Hispanics will have a quite yet stern conversation with our Romance brothers the Italians.
Spaniards is offensive, it is a pejorative english word, please utilize Spanian or spanish adjetive as noun. Don't let them play their impolite and narcisist manners.
Regardless of the credibility of this, what is shocking exactly? Nothing's shocking, different times, different world. BRUTAL, SHOCKING, UNBELIEVABLE... you guys love these empty words.
Well these facts are confronting but of course not surprising. Was born in Central America ( raised in Australia) and it chills me to the bone as to the atrocities you’ve discussed. All empires histories are riddled with heinous crimes and acts. Thank you mate for this excellent overview of these dark events in history. The Spanish empire had a lot to answer for.
@@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158 the spanish empire doesn't exist anymore either, the Habsburgs were actually Austrian, today's Spain isn't responsible for those crimes and shouldn't compensate anyone for them
@@jaimegonzaloelices3346 I was thinking about the dictatorship, some people are wealthy and keeping lands stolen by their parents. I've met quite a few. Recent events show the power kept by some families. About the house of Habsburg, I met once a Dutch guy that argued that Charles V (Carlos I) was Dutch and the Spanish empire was actually not Spanish but Dutch, he quoted history he learned at University on his country, unfortunately for him the dialogue was between him, two Spanish lawyers and me. We enjoyed a few beers and finally we agree to disagree but most of his arguments had no base. The high court was established in Madrid and the empire ruled from Spain.
@@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158 you're right, but then at that time Spain didn't even exist as an entity yet, Castilla and Aragón still were 2 regions under the Habsburg rule. I do agree with the fact that the families that obtained lands by cooperating with the regime should not have them anymore.
People in the America's who boast in having Maya, Azteca, Inca or Taino blood should be happy that it was Spain who found you and not jolly old England. Otherwise you would have been exterminated, and those who would have survived would have been dehumanized, removed and living in reservations till this present day. The American Indian Trail of Tears should be engraved in your minds forever. Viva Por Siempre La Madre España!
Guess why...350 - 400 years of world political domination and scientific revolution: Discovery of America, first global maps, first circumnavigation of the planet, first global coin (Spanish dollar, the 'father' of the American dollar), first global shipping lines (China-America-Europe-Africa), discovery of the chemical elements W, V and Pt , development of a new calendar (the gregorian calendar, the one we have today).... ...and the guy is pick picking what is more beneficial for the history of England. All mistakes and problems. Its ridiculous. Not only that. The speaker is hiding the efforts of Spain to make the world more fair, to the point that his laws (Leyes de Burgos y leyes nuevas) are considered by UNESCO and UN, the beginning of the Human Rights and the early examples of International laws (because it was the first global empire). He only focus in the mistakes. Again he talks about the Spanish Armada when the reality is those ships were destroyed by the weather. Later, Spain built an even bigger armada in short time, and yes, that war was a victory for Spain defeating England. He forgets that the world back then was racist and many countries expelled jaws: England in 1290 France in 1182, 1306, 1321, 1322, 1394, 1500 Austria 1421 Lituania 1495 Spain 1492 Portugal 1496 Germany 1510, 1554 Italy 1541, 1550, 1567 See? He also ´forgets' to mention that....EVERY COUNTRY HAD THEIR OWN INQUISITION, not only Spain. Only in Germany, 25.000 witches were burnt while the Spanish inquisition didn't believe witchcraft was real but delusion.
Simon can you perhaps do a biographics episode on the Habsburgs? I could look it up I guess but I feel I'd learn more in 20 minutes or so listening to your one of your posts, being of course the Oracle of almost everything with so many channels. Cheers.
Sorry for not playing cricket in front of the Aztec pyramids, while 100,000 people were killed. You say 10 bad things about the Spanish empire. I double the bet. 1 Spain discovered America 2 Spain discovered the Pacific Ocean 3 Spain made the first round the world 4 Spain discovered Antarctica 5 All of Europe came out of the feudal age after Spanish globalization 6 Spain made the golden age of culture that filled Europe with classics of literature, painting and music 7 Spain made liberalism 8 Spain made the first parliament in Europe 9 Spain made the current calendar 10 Spain made hispanization in America: dozens of universities, 2000 cities of stones, schools, hospitals 11 Spain revolutionized the Asian market 12 Spain made the first international human rights 13 Spain made the first patented steam engines 14 Spain participated in the Renaissance (half of Italy was Spanish, the other almost a vassal) 15 Spain saved Catholicism 16 Spain annexed the Portuguese empire 17 Spanish King Carlos I also became Emperor of Germany. 18 Spanish King Philip II also became King of England. He spared Elisabeth's life (Mary Tudor wanted to kill Elisabeth). 19 Spain entered Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Germany. 20 Spain made the first expedition to vaccinate people from America and Asia against smallpox.
At least the Spanish did not mistreat the Indians as the British did where eventually they ended up living in subhuman reservations 'til this day. Should I move on to what they did in Australia?
No it didn't,Portugal led the conquest of the americas, together with spain, theymade a treaty to divide the americas in half, that is why you have Brasil in the south and México in the north, etc
The conquest of the Américas by spanish were more diplomaticy than brutal. The local agreements were more intelligent and important than the batles. Take care of the words used and the real historical facts.
@Ele Mentos WHAT?! They wiped out whole native populations! Of course the Spanish Conquest was brutal. Read the works of Bartolome de las Casas. He was there and will open your eyes to exactly what the Conquistadors did when they got over here.
@@randomkeir De las casas intention was to create a emotional impact on the king so that he allow the creation of law to protect amerindians. Almost everything said by him was exaggerated or were lies. But of course anglos use his statements to point out how brutal and savages the Spanish were. Today most of us are a mix of european and amerindian ancestry, our countries have a significan amerindian population who still preserved their culture and the best of all is that they don't need to live in reservations.
I honestly think the Habsburg alliance doomed the Spanish. It diverted their interests to Europe and it's new European holdings(Netherlands) that only led to costly wars they mostly lost. If they would have remained focused on their American holdings, Spain might have become as dominant as Victorian 🇬🇧.
Except when the French helped Washington win the land war and the weak Spanish fleet sank or captured the biggest military supply naval convoy Britain sent to overwhelm the new American republic.
How can you mention the King Phillip the ruler of Spain, the Hapsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire and fail to mention that he really only gained his true power when Portugal came under his control.
A lot of simplistic takes that misinform. But I guess the target audience, the average viewer, of this video wouldn't even know where to place Spain on a map.
joshua Stanaway he’s talking about the people that take the info as valid. Being an informative channel, those are the target and average viewers. I assume he ended up here because it is talking about Spain
I was born and raised in Mexico and there was NEVER an intentional genocide in the Spanish Crown agenda to outcast and eradicate natives in Spanish America. Such was the case, that presently 80%-90% (Probably even higher) population are from native descent in Latin America. Not quite the same happened with other European countries such as English, Dutch, Belgian, French, etc. where natives where systematically expelled from their homeland, and exterminated as part of a national program.
For instance, in the U.S. the natives that survived to the American "West conquest" are the ones whose ancestors lived in what used to be New Spain.
Wolves don't care about the opinions of sheep. Britain's model of colonizing was clearly better seeing how its old colonies are more successful today than Spains.
Spanish black legend again. A story written by the enemies of Spain, who killed much more people, burned witches, etc.
The real numbers of the inquisition are ridiculous in comparison with any other European country
absolutly agree. please guys read some neutral books ..ant think..how many people had aztecs or incas bloodline now on mexico ..or pero or whatever..spanish empire was building in latin style with mixed marriages ..please read more and try to know the true
That's BS.
It's true that the witchcraze in german speaking territories was likely quite a bit worse, the Spanish inquisition was still up there far above most other European realms. One significant difference was the centralized character of the spanish inquisition, which was quite unique.
Significant and quite unique were the expelling of both sephardim and the descendents of muslims.
So while the spanish inquisition quite likely was not as gruesome as many like to believe (like he says in the video btw) it still holds up as number one in premodern ethnic cleansing.
@@ithemba quite a bit worse?
Spain killed between 10 and 20 witches
Germany killed more than 60,000
Inquisition, in total, had around 500 victims in Spain and Portugal in two centuries. We can't even compare it with the huge numbers of other European countries.
About expelling Sephardim, all European countries did it earlier the same with the Jews. In Germany, during the black death pandemic, they were just killed just because they were blamed of it. Meanwhile, in Spain there were centuries of pacific coexistence of three religions.
@@aviador76 look I'm not denying the context of progroms and witch burnings, but I highly doubt your numbers.
Beside that, the spanish inquisition was uniquely modern in the way it administered violence, interrogation and torture in a quite centralized way combining power and legal perogatives of both church and crown. Both the witch craze and the pogroms if germany were decentralized events committed by mobs and or local authorities and most often against the explicit interventions of both lords and the roman church. That does not make them less bad - but still it's a different phenomenon.
And obviously contemporaries of the (late) inquisition like goya had quite the same idea, when he for example drew the torture victims of the inquisition. We have material witnesses about how people saw the inquisition in it's own time and that overwhelmingly is not very positive.
@@ithemba man you would have taken less time googling the numbers than writing a long paragraph. What you are describing is the black legend. The protestant world created vast propaganda against Spain during that time while hiding their own wrongdoings. The power eventually shifted to the English and they rewrote the history as they were the better ones. Where are the indigenous peoples of North America, or even Australia? Almost all of them disappeared. They are not even in the now north Americans or Australian genes. On the other hand, the natives of Latin America and Philippines are alive and also in the genes of mestizos-latinos
A discussion of what happened in the Belgian Congo would be most appreciated.
@DF AMO Hey, thanks for the information, bud. I'll have to look that show up.
Spain helped the United States gain its independence from England.
loads of countries helped us out because they hated the British
@@rykerhoppe4789 Yet the US is now the hated imperialistl
Not 100% sure on that, believe they tried to expand their hold on N.America north ward when the British was busy fighting us. Think there was some skirmishes in the backwoods.
So did the French. The effort bankrupted their treasury and contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution.
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What about "Leyes de Burgos"?
Your manipulation it's great
As a Mexican American I'm glad the Spanish colonized Mexico ... the French, Belgium or the English even the Dutch all of them intentionally nearly wiped out the natives in those lands and they didn't like to race mix , meaning modern Latinos wouldn't have existed or latin America would've jim crow laws/apartheid.
Of course it’s a Mexican American saying this. You have no love for your own people
@@convelwolf9544 He only said the truth
@@convelwolf9544 nad you are a ignorant,a proud one,he said only truth.
Depor GZ what truth? That modern Latinos wouldn’t exist without the Spanish. Yes that’s true, but saying that you’re glad that they came to kill our ancestors is nothing to be proud of
@@convelwolf9544 Spanish mixed and gave their faith and knowledge to the indigenous people, they didn't come to kill people like other nations
Facts: the Spanish Empire is considered evil and destructive ... but if you visit countries like Peru or Mexico today, it's normal to hear several indigenous languages and it's normal to see Native Americans in its streets ... streets and cities of Spanish heritage. Meanwhile, if you travel to the United States or Canada, it's practically impossible to see Native Americans, unless you go to a reservation.
@@nigelmarvin1387 I'm a proud Spanish Taoist Buddhist ... I don't know why no one expects me to be such a thing. 😉
Hellboy, yo le he dicho básicamente lo mismo que tú pero un poco más... contundente y me ha borrado el comentario.
@@AlejandroLopez-ed8kj pues no seas "contundente". Una cosa es la exposición historia de los hechos, y otra muy distinta la exaltación nacionalista. La educación y el respeto ante todo.
Un saludo y cuídate.
@@hellboy7424 No le he dicho una palabra más alta que otra, pero \/0\/ ...
En fin, a los nazis los ha tratado con más suavidad
Un saludo.
@@AlejandroLopez-ed8kj desconozco los motivos, entonces. Reconozco que es un tema sensible ahora mismo, con todo lo que está pasando.
Los españoles tampoco fueron (fuimos) "santitos" y también es importante tener claro esto y reconocerlo. Como historiador, a mi lo que me importa es la realidad y la verdad más apurada posible, por encima de nacionalismos, dogmas o maniobras de campañas de descrédito de la época que sea.
Un saludo y cuídate. Mis mejores deseos. Ciao!!
Where are the indigenous population of North America? lol.
Jessica also it is believed that some Western European settlers followed the ice shelf during the last glacial maximum. Such tools used by the east coast native Americans were the same as were being used by Western Europeans during the same time period. There is also a difference between tools used by native Americans on the east coast (Western European ancestry) and west coast (Asian ancestry).
The Solutrean culture comes from France and Iberia which followed the Europe N.America ice shelf. The Clovis culture comes from Siberian Highlands which followed the Bering Straight ice shelf. DNA tests and modules suggest that the Clovis culture (while being second by 10000 years) overwhelmed and prevailed across both continents mixing the two.
However there is also evidence and DNA that places the same ancestors of the Amazon natives with the Australian and Papa New Guinea natives together.
@Jessica racist anglo liar. the natives had lived in the americas for at least as long as europeans in western europe
Walks and Such You’re so woke! She actually said nothing about Western Europeans. And put forward something intelligent, maybe some real information, or at least some viable theories besides name calling, and knee jerk reactions, if you want people to take you seriously. Just a suggestion.
@@mangot589 entertain and dignify eurocentric (or afrocentric) erasure of the actual native americans? No.
Mango T I agree. Name calling does nothing to further the discussion. There is nothing gained and no scientific discovery. You can’t have a rational discussion with someone who refuses to learn, contribute, and wants to live in ignorance. Even my dog likes to learn unlike some people. Although I do have one disagreement with Jessica. She had the two theories mixed up. the Solutrean culture that came through the Bering Straight. That was the Clovis culture.
¿Para cuando el video sobre la leyenda de los ''piratas ingleses''?
You forgot to include the Canary Islands in the map. Maybe you didn’t research enough...
Canary Islands are from Morocco
@@lusquianomoreno Are from? Ni inglés sabes escribir, macho. Y lo de que sean *de* Marruecos de dónde lo has sacado? Acaso sabes algo de Historia o de Geografía?
@@lusquianomoreno las Islas Canarias son españolas y es mejor usar un traductor en vez de escribir mal en otro idioma. Es mejor documentarse antes de escribir, es gratis.
@@ThePranksman no grammar mistakes. I'm just saying what people around the world believe . If Gibraltar is from Spain then those islands are from Morocco.
@Pedro Gutierrez gnu Linux is also Spanish?
The narrator is ignoring that people who was born in a Spanish colony they were considered a 100% Spanish citizen. Not happen the same with English colonies, where often segregationist policies were applied, resulting the modern racial conflicts (India, Sudafrica, USA...)
dejalos, siguen con su leyenda negra mientras en su paises son 50% racistas 50% mojigatos
Fue el resentimiento criollo por la discriminación que sufrirán lo que inició las guerras de independencia. Y ese resentimiento venía precisamente de que a ellos no se les trataba como 100% españoles. ¿Que crees que tantos años de lucha fue pi un berrinche?
@@alexiatr La guerras de independencia surgieron directamente de los dirigentes y no del pueblo, a quienes les interesaba obviamente dejar de ser virreyes y gobernantes de segunda, además de que las colonias pagaban un fortísimo impuesto al imperio. Se usó como propaganda precisamente eso, la inmensa cantidad de recursos que se dirigían a la madre patria, y así alimentaron el sentimiento nacionalista de cara a la población (y con toda la razón, ojo, los impuestos de colonias eran abusivos), pero no era por una discriminación racial o cultural, ya que España siempre apostó por el mestizaje en su expansión, inculcando su propia cultura y religión (obviando los inicios de la conquista, claro, eso sí fue una masacre como toda guerra).
History is vast. This video would be 5 hrs or longer if he went into detail.
@@kittehcatt No tengo necesidad de acusarte a ti de mentira alguna, me basta tener la seguridad de que lo mismo que recomiendas a otros abrir un libro, si lo hicieras tú te darías cuenta.
Un saludo.
There are a lot of natives in South America, actually most of the population, with mixed race and spanish surnames. What about North America, how many of them there are? Oh, I forgot, english people sons almost killed them all.
Take a look on the population of the territories occupied by the Spanish Empire, and then to the ones by the British Empire. Who's the killer?
@John Newman
Wow. No way look up " laws of Burgos" and the " new laws"
yeah Spain pretty much murdered a majority of the Indians, england got the scraps and finished them off. your point? dont be mad cause your ancestors objectively suck
@John Newman It wasn´t an "insinuated act of benevolence" it was the law. You need to read about Leyes de Burgos for example, the origin of human rights, and stop being an ignorant racist. And yes, i´m sure in the north there wasn´t indigenous people, brits didn´t kill any of them JAJAJAJJAJAJAJA
@@ironyelegy A majority? England got the scraps? Objectively? I don't even know if you're even a person I can talk to, definitely you don't care about facts but only contempt.
Just to let you know, this is not a speech of hatred to England, but an invitation to think by yourself. If the Spanish Empire was a slaughter (and it was at the beginning), any other empire of the history was definitly worst, if we speak proportionally to its territory. The spanish people weren't saints, but definitely NOT the worst as this man tries to show, also they were the firsts to make laws for human rights to natives.
Trying to make the Spanish Empire the worst while comparing to the british one, yeah, I can understand now your nickname.
And believe me, I'm not mad, and I'm not specially proud about my ancestors, it's past and I just like history. But this man on the video, he's definitly trying to spread hatred with a skewed speech. And definitely it worked with you.
@Jessica Yup, and if you aren't able to do it by yourself you can always hire and hide behind pirates!
Well....at least here in mexico the independece movement was more a power struggle rather than a freedom struggle. it was the european decendants here in mexico that lead the movement rather than the locals
In all America, Northern and Southern. Beside, the European descendants, although not indigenous, were locals, they never lived elsewhere.
@@BangFarang1 no, but what simon says it that it was the oppression that started the movement. Which at least in Mexico it wasn't. Here it started because they wanted to get rid of the french at the spanish throne. Not because they were oppressed
@@baddreams0919 No, there was still oppression in Mexico by Spanish there was even a whole class system based on race and place of birth.
@@rodrickrori1926 what I mean is that the ones that started and lead the movement where not oppressed and did not started to get rid of it
@@rodrickrori1926 not true, being Spain (meaning the empire) a country were you where able to marry whoever you wanted, no regarding the race.
What happened in Cartagena de Indias??? Suck it. And we are still conquering north America, and winning ;-)
This video could have a more suitable title: “The Black Legend”. And yes, it is a legend in the fact that the Spanish Empire was not more oppressive and unjust than any other European colonial power.
And as crossbred as the rest of "royal" families
Sources, wikipedia, wikimedia... Very professional.
Now do one of the British empire!
@Tediuki Suzuki Who are you talking with?
¡Cartagena de Indias! hahahaha
En los territorios conquistados por los españoles sigue habiendo indígenas (Bolivia, por ejemplo). En los territorios conquistados por los británicos los indígenas están en reservas. Que cada uno saque sus conclusiones.
Interestingly enough, it wasn't only Spain that pioneered the concentration camps but also the British during the Boer war. The word comes from the British camps even if the Spaniards were a couple of years earlier.
Spain did not pioneer nor did they have concentration camps; this is all manufactured Protestant anti-Spanish Propaganda.
How about some shocking facts about the British empire...
Pufffff I'd say no historian has contributed to this video. Every point is a historiographic mess and has absolutely no connection to any serious study. It's more like facts taken out of context and mixed with lots of yellowness. It's like a tabloid made a TH-cam history video
Saying that this is "like a tabloid made a TH-cam history video" describes it well, but if you view it with that in mind it serves a purpose. Anyone who finds any part of it interesting may be motivated to do some actual research to get a full and more accurate picture.
His knowledge about Spain is as plentiful as his hair
Absolutely
On his scalp? Or his face?
Hes reading from a script.
You must be spanish
Now thats uncalled for. Why do you have to talk about his hair?
Sad little person you are. Lets see your picture.
We're just here to hear Simon say 'empah'. :)
Lol I love it, empah!
I shall appoint him as my closest subject
Well that's how the British says. Or shall we called "Bri'ish"?
I used smoke about 4 packets of cigarettes a day, but since I lost one of my lungs, I've cut my smoking in half.
This is hilarious partly because i honesy do smoke 2 packs a dat and trying to cut back
Addict to the end BUT I gave up the weed So that I can live long enough for one last tipple
@Bad Dog bad doggo
Ok, Simon, it seems as if William of Orange has written the script of your video. Let's debunk your thesis one by one.
10. The Royal Family was Dangerously Inbred. True. Charles II the Bewitched did not choose to become so ill-fated. What he did manage was to control the rampant inflation. For that, he surrounded himself with great economists from Salamanca School such as the Count of Oropesa. The author Elvira Roca Barea mentions in her book Fracasología, how after the Spanish War of Succession, Phillip V of Borbon found the economy in shape. (I wish Pedro Sánchez were as intelligent as Charles II).
9. Spain’s Discovery of the Americas led to Millions of Deaths. Wrong. Check the book La Población Indigena y el Mestizaje de América by Venezuelan author Ángel Rosenblat. According to Rosemblat, the native population in America reached 13 million before 1492. Eighty years later, it reduced to 11 million (96% of the total population). Most people died due to diseases brought unconsciously. Anyhow, to set the records straight, the Spanish Crown financed the first worldwide smallpox vaccination campaign (the Balmis Expedition), which even vaccinated people in China.
8. The Spanish Empire Destroyed the Aztec Empire 7. The Spanish Empire Destroyed the Incan Empire. Wrong. The Spanish empire assimilated much of the Precolombian culture. See literature, arts, food in America. Read the book of Pedro Insua titled España contra sus Fantasmas. Did you know that the Guardia Civil was founded by one of the descendants of Moctezuma? That another of his descendants played a lead role in the Battle of Fort Charlotte? Spaniards introduced cattle raising in America, and as a result of it, the height of natives increased considerably. Slavery of natives was prohibited since Isabella of Castile's times. You forgot to mention Leyes de Burgos and the work of Francisco de Vitoria. They contradict your point about slavery.
6. The Spanish Inquisition Destroyed Lives. Partially wrong. To today's standards, the Inquisition is execrable. They tortured as everybody did, but they were the first in Europe in abolishing torture for prisoners. Thus, becoming lenient compared to others.
5. The Spanish Empire Took Millions of Slaves. Partially wrong. They took slaves from Africa, but their living conditions were much better than those in the British or French colonies. The had a salary and were eligible to pay for their freedom. Fort Mosé is the first Afro American city in the US, founded by slaves who escaped from North America, and they were welcomed to settled by the Spaniards.
4. The Spanish Armada Could Have Changed the Course of History. Wrong. The intention was to overthrow Elizabeth I, not to conquer England. 3. Spain Still Managed to go Bankrupt. All empires go bankrupt if they endeavour to long-lasting wars.
2. The Spanish Empire’s Brutality Helped Cost her its Colonies. As Argentian author Patricio Lons says, "Spain had no colonies, but regions". All citizens, including natives such as Apaches or Texans, were fully-fledged Spaniards by law. The only direct taxes levied by the Spaniards was el Quinto Real (one fifth, 20%. I wish we had the same scheme today!), the rest was reinvested into the Americas, that's why there are some many hospitals, churches, forts, universities built by the Spaniards. The living conditions in mines were not worse than those in the rest of the world. The population of Boston in 1780: 17.000 habitants. Bogota & Havana's +100.000 h, for instance. In other words, people in Spanish America were prosperous. Please, read Von Humboldt's work to verify.
1. The Spanish Empire Pioneered the Use of Concentration Camps. Wrong. The Reagrupamiento was a practice intended to disperse insurgents in Cuba, not to exterminate people. Its outcome was unintended. I admit it was brutal, though.
Simon, I like your channel, but I am afraid that your grade in Spanish history is C-. Now, I gave you content to write a script titled "Top Ten misleading facts on the Spanish Empire". ;)
thank you, every word you just said is on point. i like his channel too but his sources look like they came from Washington Irving, Monty Python and Simon Bolivar.
Nothing owned the Spanish Empire harder than it owned itself. They even thought platinum, a super rare metal that doesn't corrode, was trash!
The name platinum means unripe silver they thought it was garbage they were blinded by greed
I didn't know that. That's interesting.
Dam I thought the British invented the Concentration camp in South Africa. Seems they beat us to it.
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True there, but the Brits invented the first extermination camps, so I guess they beat the Germans and Japanese there
Como no, los mayores criminales de la historia hablando mal de España
Stoped the video at "Spanish colonies". Spain did not have colonies in the Americas.
This shows the level of the "stories" he is telling in the video... all of them are partial and/or distorted
Spain didn’t have Colonies, in the eyes of the Spanish at the time they were establishing New Spanish Kingdoms in the Americas.
They had viceroyalties, and everyone born within it limits was a citizen of the empire.
Please. Your just engaging in semantics. They clearly had colonies in the Americas. Saying they weren’t colonies because the Spanish didn’t call them colonies is like saying North Korea is a democracy because they call themselves a Democratic Republic.
I had to give a lecture on the Habsburgs during my history degree. I described the family tree as an ouroboros of incest. The professor stopped me there.
Thank you Simon, you always create some amazing content, on all of your channels.
And he does it so well!
@@calisahardy4845 He doesn't write the scripts. I think it's some dude named Danny.
@@cagrant4472 Yes, true. I still appreciate his delivery, his style, his tenacity and the variety of his channels! And of course that luscious beard...
@@cagrant4472 😂
Hmmm allegedly
Simon: "Columbus mistakenly referred to indigenous Americans as 'Indians'."
Also Simon: *Continues to refer to them as "Indians" throughout the entire video*
@RacerX Reloaded Interesting take, Dutchie. 👍
The famous black legend
Mostly English propaganda, not history.
@@blakewilley2754 Yeah, like, there is native American population in every single American country where Spanish is spoken. Why is USA and Canada so white? They say those places where not populated. Lol. 💀
To be fair, the destruction of the Aztecs is not big of a deal. I mean, their tributaries were very keen on destroying them. Now, the destruction of many mayan artifacts... that's a real tragedy.
6:30 This isn't true. If they converted they were allowed to stay
6:40 The Spanish inquisition wasn't that brutal anyway and it didn't prosecute indigenous peoples for following their native religions.
6:50 It didn't torture and murder a million people. And anyway, even if it did, we hace to understand it was over a period of almost 400 years.
8:24 The Spanish didn't enslave _MILLIONS_ of natives.
13:20 Should've mentioned that that general was deposed and shamed before the war ended for his cruel actions. And Cuba didn't break away, it was invaded by the US
A very biased video.
Don’t we also not know exactly where Columbus was from?
@@Hazelnutssssssss What's your point?
@@jorgeh.r9879 Inaccuracies in the video. It’s not heavily related to the other ones you mentioned so I can see why you would ask my point.
@@jorgeh.r9879 I also have not found a conclusive answer to my question in my own research so I was trying to get an opinion since you seem to have knowledge on this subject.
Everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Their weapons are fear, surprise, and a fanatical loyalty to the pope.
@@myspiderungoliant On this list, everybody would be surprised if they didn't show up. Trust me.
Their chief weapon was predictability.
Just 32.000 people were murdered by that... Just ask yourself why do you know so well something used not to be so big.
As long as it's not the Calvinist Death Courts!
its ya boi with the blaze, without the blaze
Let's imagine a video JUST saying: the Spaniards finished off with human sacrifices in America, liberated many peoples enslaved by the Aztecs and others, they made them Spanish citizens,, they built schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, universities, they took horses, the wheel and many other things that made people's lives so much better..., also, they brought many foods to Europe such as the tomato or the potato which helped to save millions of lives not only in Europe, but elsewhere...
Although all this is basically true, it would be a rather biased view of the Spanish history, wouldn't it? This video is just the same thing...but opposite.
I totally agree but like the news media, happy facts do not sell. And to be honest, Historians are just humans ergo non objective. English speaking historians are just the same as Spanish speaking ones, a bit subjective to be polite.
So where can I get your drug dealers #? Because you are smoking some stellar weed if you actually believe that lmao
@joshua Stanaway I don't think you understand what I mean.
@@dadinkle You're just an ignorant who believed the propaganda.
Spanish black legend again. I'm sick of hearing the same lies over and over again. How many more centuries are we going to have to suffer the lies of the story told by the English?
How would the world be if people talked about things they know. Just see how 90% of the population of south america have both gens of spanish and indias. All right, now compare it to north america.
m m how if you search it in internet instead of talking without knowledge
Now the media calls Spaniards like Javier Bardem and Antonio Banderas people of color. 😂🤣
The Sun and the British never set in the Spanish Empire 😂😂 that's my new word been Hispanic and proud
The British copied that centuries later.
The incredible explanation of an Empire 300 years hegemonic and 400 years long, with just ten absurd and miserable and anecdotical points. Instead of talking about the construcction of a new world by Geography, Humanity, Mathematics, Arts and Tecnologies all along 300 years. WoW!!!
The last sentence you have said is the Exact same thing British also has done
Fun fact, here in Ireland there are a lot of people with Mediterranean features, dark eyes, hair and skin, etc, who have been theorised to be the descendants of members of the Spanish Armada who were shipwrecked off Ireland's coast, who settleed down and raised their own families here. These people are known as black Irish.
Beethoven, who has Spanish Netherlands descent, was known as the Black Spaniard (moreno)
Sabes perfectamente que eso no es verdad. Y no contento con ello vienes aquí, a youtube, a crear crispación. Solo para regodearte de las respuestas que obtengas, evidentemente en contra de tu posicionamiento que sabes erróneo.
No, esto no es gracioso. Tu falta de sensibilidad hacia este tema hace que mucha gente se sienta mal. De acuerdo que eso es TH-cam, pero hay cosas que pueden traspasar la pantalla del ordenador y herir el orgullo de quien te lea. Tú has pasado una barrera que no debías y por eso me causas poco menos que repugnancia.
Voy a respetarte a nivel personal, porque sé que en definitiva, solo tratas de divertirte a costa ajena, aunque con dudoso gusto. Por otra parte, te agradecería de que dejaras de considerarte calvo mío. Un saludo, espero que recapacites y no vuelvas a hacerlo.
thumbnail: "dangerously inbred"
Alabama has entered the chat*
Incest is illegal in all US states except for Ohio and New Jersey. I hope OP’s comment dies.
The south is where some of our hottest women are. We don’t call them “Southern Belles” for nothing.
A Johnson to pretend that inbreeding represents more than .01% of the population is just wrong.
I’ve lived all over America so I know firsthand that beauty is in every state.
I’ve also seen that most of our women are fat. The average woman over the age of 20 is 170lbs in America.
Slavery and Spain, why this guy has the guts to talk about Spain without knowing that we didn't have slaves? Another video about the dark legend written by the Spain enemies, great.
Ah, looks like Simon struck a nerve with this one. I can already see the comments full of whataboutisms and denial.
Leyenda negra.
1589 the British Royal Navy trying to invade Spain with 180 ships and 29000 soldiers and..... They were all defeat and destroyed, only 30 ships and 3000 soldiers return to England...and It was the change in History for Spain to continue the hegemonic power two hundred more years.
England trying invade Spain? jaja England is a joke
@@torresezequiel2988 you'd try to read something about 1589....
People always say "Christopher Colombus was Italian" but Italy wasn't united as a nation back then and parts of Italy were under Spanish (or Catalan, if you're really purist) rule.
My great grandfather was from Spain
Hay algo de vídeo en tu manipulación
Ah, humans. We will never change. Unless we get a real life Bill and Ted.....
Michael Pipkin: Be Excellent to Each Other!
Even though Spain brought back literally "boat loads" of gold & silver, they did not significantly increase food production and manufacturing, back in Europe. The result was high inflation during this period, just like printing money. So much for those who think going back to the gold standard will fix our financial issues !
Except the gold standard tends to be more solid throughout history. Currencies come and go but gold never seems to go out of style.
The fallacy is that it will permanently solve the “problem” of a market going down when you want it to go up. The very nature of economics is for it to go through boom and bust periods, which is only of a problem to people who want perpetual growth.
What exactly makes you think Capitalism will survive ???
@@bryansmith1920 Because it's the only economic system that works.
If you think that socialism/communism is the answer, you have no idea what you are talking about. Because every single country that has tried socialism has only done it because they got rich off of a capitalist system, got jealous of people doing better than them and threw a temper tantrum, government switches policy for a decade or so, and then goes back when everything goes south because it turns out to not work.
If you look at every single "socialist society" that exists today, you will find that they are going back to capitalism, because that was what was making them money.
Merchants charged more because there was so much gold, more gold then wheat.had nothing to do with the gold standard.
I just want to say, I totally expected The Spanish Inquisition.
HERETIC!!! "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
At least according to the funniest flying circus.
I noticed he didn't mention smallpox in the beginning of this video which is one of the first diseases you hear about all the time as one of the factors that led to the decline of the natives during colonialism.
Non English knows what happened with the English Armada 1 year after and another time 200 years after.... Casualty? I don't think so 🙂
Great video, but you forgot the part about when Spanish soldiers were eating children.
You would have a great future in Podemos, with Paul Churches
Will the Brits ever get over the fact that Spaniards arrived at America first? Probably not.
Spaniards is the impolite offensive manner of British to call Spanish people.
2:47 The natives were never enslaved by the Spanish. Precisely for this reason blacks were later brought from Africa. Testament of Queen Isabella 'la Católica', 1504: "It is not allowed that the Indians receive any injury in their persons and property (...) You must pay each one the day they work as free people, as they are". What a mistake
Colombo never believed he arrived on an unknown land. He died believing he landed in India
Latin Americans and Spaniards in these comments be like: 😡 a bunch of Gringo-Guiri lies! 😡
Anglophones and other unsorted nationalities: 😑 Spain man bad. 😑
It's Hispanic Americans.
The term Latins was invented by Napoleon the Thirds intellectual ideologues mainly Michel Chevalier and Benjamin Poucel whose propaganda in the 19th century was taken up by hispanic socialist revolutionaries who came in constant numbers to study in France.
@Mark Martinez it wasnt bad, trust me
Another shocking moment was Blas de Lezo vs Vernom in Cartagena de Indias. Did not they teach you this at school right?
No, they didn't, that's what causes the dismay in the comments; if you are Spanish or Portugese, you learnt a totally different collection of so called "facts" in school, to the ones I learnt, even universities peddle different views of the past, so I promise not to believe all the 'facts' in here, provided you do the same about British colonial brutality. 🇬🇧 Love from an ex History teacher!
Great channel. Last illustration on this video actually shows British troops rounding up Afrikaans women and children to place into British concentration camps during the Anglo - Boer war. That would also make an interesting video.
Spanish East Indies: Am I a joke to you?
Next: British Empire please.
Thank you very much!
Make a video about the wiping out of entire populations carried out by the british.
Not a hope in hell of that happening.
so much anger in comments. while errors may exist, I do not see this as an attack on Spain, it is simply the story of imperialism and corporate/state sponsored genocide for wealth and power. Nothing strange. Brits, Dutch, Portuguese, French etc all did the same ... and now we need to understand how this corporate imperialism is working today...
Ottoman, Russian, Chinese, SOVIET Union etc. etc.
Lo siento, no doy credibilidad a muertos en vida.
que chistoso, porque parece que tú eres calvo también
ah, y quien trajo calvicie, canas y pelo en pecho a América, LOS ESPAÑOLES jjaajajajajajaa
Spaniards: Triggered!
Fighting back after 300 years of keeping silent.
Tough times are coming for the English, French, Dutch and Germans. Hispanics will have a quite yet stern conversation with our Romance brothers the Italians.
Spaniards is offensive, it is a pejorative english word, please utilize Spanian or spanish adjetive as noun. Don't let them play their impolite and narcisist manners.
simon I like your content and all, but this video is not accurate at all
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Really?? How so? I love Spanish Historh
I literally think I've never been this early for a video! It only said 2 views when I started it!
Me too!
Nobody cares
@@tadhgmeagher5983 lol
I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition
An still the myth that Columbus believed that he had reached india...
Luego será de esos que vienen los veranos a estrellarse contra el suelo desde un balcón y a hacer todas aquellas cosas que no hacen en su país
Que hiciera lo primero no estaría tan mal
This is how lies become a problem , when the fools believe like a poison.
Regardless of the credibility of this, what is shocking exactly? Nothing's shocking, different times, different world. BRUTAL, SHOCKING, UNBELIEVABLE... you guys love these empty words.
Well these facts are confronting but of course not surprising. Was born in Central America ( raised in Australia) and it chills me to the bone as to the atrocities you’ve discussed. All empires histories are riddled with heinous crimes and acts.
Thank you mate for this excellent overview of these dark events in history.
The Spanish empire had a lot to answer for.
Unfortunately "reparations" doesn't seem to be in the Spanish vocabulary.
@P K I agree but I have a question, Do they even exist anymore?
@@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158 the spanish empire doesn't exist anymore either, the Habsburgs were actually Austrian, today's Spain isn't responsible for those crimes and shouldn't compensate anyone for them
@@jaimegonzaloelices3346 I was thinking about the dictatorship, some people are wealthy and keeping lands stolen by their parents. I've met quite a few. Recent events show the power kept by some families.
About the house of Habsburg, I met once a Dutch guy that argued that Charles V (Carlos I) was Dutch and the Spanish empire was actually not Spanish but Dutch, he quoted history he learned at University on his country, unfortunately for him the dialogue was between him, two Spanish lawyers and me. We enjoyed a few beers and finally we agree to disagree but most of his arguments had no base. The high court was established in Madrid and the empire ruled from Spain.
@@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158 you're right, but then at that time Spain didn't even exist as an entity yet, Castilla and Aragón still were 2 regions under the Habsburg rule. I do agree with the fact that the families that obtained lands by cooperating with the regime should not have them anymore.
I've been waiting for this episode for a long, long time!
People in the America's who boast in having Maya, Azteca, Inca or Taino blood should be happy that it was Spain who found you and not jolly old England. Otherwise you would have been exterminated, and those who would have survived would have been dehumanized, removed and living in reservations till this present day. The American Indian Trail of Tears should be engraved in your minds forever. Viva Por Siempre La Madre España!
Image reference of British forcing Boers into concentration camps? 13:15
A lot of salty Spaniards in the comments
And what do you expect, that they are happy when they dedicate a video to telling absurd lies and half truths?
Guess why...350 - 400 years of world political domination and scientific revolution: Discovery of America, first global maps, first circumnavigation of the planet, first global coin (Spanish dollar, the 'father' of the American dollar), first global shipping lines (China-America-Europe-Africa), discovery of the chemical elements W, V and Pt , development of a new calendar (the gregorian calendar, the one we have today)....
...and the guy is pick picking what is more beneficial for the history of England. All mistakes and problems. Its ridiculous.
Not only that. The speaker is hiding the efforts of Spain to make the world more fair, to the point that his laws (Leyes de Burgos y leyes nuevas) are considered by UNESCO and UN, the beginning of the Human Rights and the early examples of International laws (because it was the first global empire). He only focus in the mistakes.
Again he talks about the Spanish Armada when the reality is those ships were destroyed by the weather. Later, Spain built an even bigger armada in short time, and yes, that war was a victory for Spain defeating England.
He forgets that the world back then was racist and many countries expelled jaws:
England in 1290
France in 1182, 1306, 1321, 1322, 1394, 1500
Austria 1421
Lituania 1495
Spain 1492
Portugal 1496
Germany 1510, 1554
Italy 1541, 1550, 1567
See?
He also ´forgets' to mention that....EVERY COUNTRY HAD THEIR OWN INQUISITION, not only Spain. Only in Germany, 25.000 witches were burnt while the Spanish inquisition didn't believe witchcraft was real but delusion.
Simon can you perhaps do a biographics episode on the Habsburgs? I could look it up I guess but I feel I'd learn more in 20 minutes or so listening to your one of your posts, being of course the Oracle of almost everything with so many channels. Cheers.
Sorry for not playing cricket in front of the Aztec pyramids, while 100,000 people were killed. You say 10 bad things about the Spanish empire. I double the bet.
1 Spain discovered America
2 Spain discovered the Pacific Ocean
3 Spain made the first round the world
4 Spain discovered Antarctica
5 All of Europe came out of the feudal age after Spanish globalization
6 Spain made the golden age of culture that filled Europe with classics of literature, painting and music
7 Spain made liberalism
8 Spain made the first parliament in Europe
9 Spain made the current calendar
10 Spain made hispanization in America: dozens of universities, 2000 cities of stones, schools, hospitals
11 Spain revolutionized the Asian market
12 Spain made the first international human rights
13 Spain made the first patented steam engines
14 Spain participated in the Renaissance (half of Italy was Spanish, the other almost a vassal)
15 Spain saved Catholicism
16 Spain annexed the Portuguese empire
17 Spanish King Carlos I also became Emperor of Germany.
18 Spanish King Philip II also became King of England. He spared Elisabeth's life (Mary Tudor wanted to kill Elisabeth).
19 Spain entered Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Germany.
20 Spain made the first expedition to vaccinate people from America and Asia against smallpox.
At least the Spanish did not mistreat the Indians as the British did where eventually they ended up living in subhuman reservations 'til this day. Should I move on to what they did in Australia?
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you're quoting yourself? Weird, dude.
They consistently show up in the comments doing some form of self promotion.
No it didn't,Portugal led the conquest of the americas, together with spain, theymade a treaty to divide the americas in half, that is why you have Brasil in the south and México in the north, etc
Tordesilla
Imagine how history would have been played out with cell phones and youtube back then
Imagine no countries... imagine no religion... imagine no possessions.. imagine all the people...
@グールにも愛が必要 hippie? lol, okay.
The conquest of the Américas by spanish were more diplomaticy than brutal. The local agreements were more intelligent and important than the batles. Take care of the words used and the real historical facts.
@Ele Mentos WHAT?! They wiped out whole native populations! Of course the Spanish Conquest was brutal. Read the works of Bartolome de las Casas. He was there and will open your eyes to exactly what the Conquistadors did when they got over here.
@@randomkeir De las casas intention was to create a emotional impact on the king so that he allow the creation of law to protect amerindians. Almost everything said by him was exaggerated or were lies.
But of course anglos use his statements to point out how brutal and savages the Spanish were.
Today most of us are a mix of european and amerindian ancestry, our countries have a significan amerindian population who still preserved their culture and the best of all is that they don't need to live in reservations.
When Cortez arrived in the land he was not yet a Conquistador. Until he sent a shipment of gold to the empire of Spain.
denunciado a youtube, por mentiras e insultos hacia españa y todo los españoles
Jajajajaja, como se ofenden los españoles
Declaren guerra a youtube
Well, just have to compare the % of Native Americans living in North America to that of Native South Americans living in former Spanish colonies
I honestly think the Habsburg alliance doomed the Spanish. It diverted their interests to Europe and it's new European holdings(Netherlands) that only led to costly wars they mostly lost. If they would have remained focused on their American holdings, Spain might have become as dominant as Victorian 🇬🇧.
You mean Flanders. The cursed catastrophe of the Bourbons has been worse.
The black legend strikes again! Next week: France soldiers are weak and are always running away. English propaganda, that's all.
Except when the French helped Washington win the land war and the weak Spanish fleet sank or captured the biggest military supply naval convoy Britain sent to overwhelm the new American republic.
How can you mention the King Phillip the ruler of Spain, the Hapsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire and fail to mention that he really only gained his true power when Portugal came under his control.
A lot of simplistic takes that misinform. But I guess the target audience, the average viewer, of this video wouldn't even know where to place Spain on a map.
@joshua Stanaway people that write "your" instead of "you're" are the intended audience.
joshua Stanaway he’s talking about the people that take the info as valid. Being an informative channel, those are the target and average viewers. I assume he ended up here because it is talking about Spain
@joshua Stanaway You are so stupid that you didn't even understood what was he trying to communicate.
They call the Haspbergs 'Wheat flour' because the were in bread.
Yo sigo meando mirando hacia la Pérfida Albión.
Great video