Just brilliantly honest. Very well written, performed and shot. The camera and direction, were on point! Everyone that worked on this deserves a raise.
The natives extended hands of love, accommodation and friendship to greedy and murderous expansionists. Sadly, the stronger nations are still not relenting in their insatiable quest for other people's resources!!! Thanks for the great job!
"You might call them economic refugees" This dude simply cannot keep his politics out of this documentary. He's doing better than most but you can see how he slips it in at every opportunity.
Awe inspiring history. Love it or hate it, Europeans have built this world in their own image - there is no corner of the world that is not, positively or negatively, influenced by their work or idea.
This is an extremely well -scripted and well-presented series. Christopher Clark speaks, not from an ivory tower of historical knowledge, but from a deep understanding of what appeals to people like ME.
the Renaissance era of European exploration was driven by a combination of intellectual curiosity, the competitive ambitions of powerful states, and advancements in technology. These factors worked together to propel European nations into undertaking voyages of discovery and colonization across the globe.
What a fantastic overview of the history of Europe. Most of this I was never taught in school. Question: Where do the wonderful, realistic film clips come from? I am sure they were not done for this documentary, as they would have been horribly expensive to create.
Columbus wasn't dismissed as madman by Portugese. Actually his plan was unrealistic and both Portugese and Spanish experts in the respective courts had correctly pointed out inaccuracies of his calculation and improbability of his success. He may have knowingly lied about the distance to ensure backing for his plan. Any case Spanish crown eventually backed his plan only to prevent him from going to Yhe French court who were also enthusiastic about financing his adventure. The Spanish Court did it just as a what if.
"Columbus wasn't dismissed as madman by Portugese. Actually his plan was unrealistic and both Portugese and Spanish experts in the respective courts had correctly pointed out inaccuracies of his calculation and improbability of his success. " So they dismissed him as a madman.* (Colloquially speaking)
Congratulations..thoroughly enjoyed all three parts..very precise and comprehensible..I, too, was born and bred in Australia but am living in Greece...once again, well done..
How come this documentary series never talks about the Ottoman slave trade that targeted the southern coasts of Europe along the Mediterranean and in eastern Europe for hundreds of years, taking millions of Europeans as slaves back to Constantinople and other parts of the empire? Is that not part of the story of Europe? Or that Eastern Europe, southern Europe and the Balkans was in a constant state of war and invasion against the Ottomans from 1453 onwards until the late 1600s when Eugene of Savoy effectively ended the Ottoman's attempts to conquer Europe? This was a war that would have altered Europe forever had the Turks succeeded. Much of eastern Europe and the Balkans was conquered, enslaved and the land utterly devastated by continual Ottoman campaigns by the Sultan trying to break into Europe through Hungary and eventually Vienna. Isn't that part of the story of Europe? Is it because this doc is from a Western European perspective who's postmodern 21st century historians love to self flagellate themselves over their "evils of the past" while ignoring the historical fact that well over a million Europeans from eastern Europe and the Balkans were taken as slaves themselves? Does anyone wonder where our word "slave" even comes from? This isn't to take away at all from the horrific trans Atlantic slave trade, which was an awful thing. But that happened in other places too. This is a huge piece of European history that is conveniently ignored. In fact, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottomans, Europe was in a state of perpetual fear and panic of the Turks. The Battle of Lepanto, the 2 Sieges of Vienna, Battle of Mohacs, Siege of Belgrade, Siege of Buda, the great conquests of Hungary, the Balkans and slave raiding parties all over the southern coasts of Europe are a huge part of European history that dominated the European psyche for hundreds of years, and was part of the reason Europeans turned their eyes west across the Atlantic. The wars between the Europeans and the Ottomans are a fascinating story that seems to be totally forgotten, yet a hugely important piece of history, considering what would have happened had the Ottomans broken through Vienna. I guess it's just inconvenient history for modern bedwetting Western historians where Europeans are the only people on earth ever who conquered or enslaved. Everyone else was singing kumbaya!
Did you see Part 1 & 2? I guess it’s an overview of the events that changed the face of Europe up to modern times, not an in-depth account of any particular time or event otherwise it would take more than a 3 Part series.
Exactly.I agree. No , "Europeans" didn't get in to slave trading , no ,"Europeans" didn't conquered Asia , America and Australia. Some countries did it , some not it all.
Extraordinary work , but the title is totally wrong. It should be: The story of Western Europe. It's like Central and Eastern Europe didn't existed at all...For example: they were seeking the western route to India , b/c the Ottoman Empire occupied the so called "silk road" and made it impossible to import goods on land to Europe. The Hungarian Kingdom was defending Europe and themselves from the Turks for decades but finally was overpowered and defeated , while the western part of Europe was conquering the world and getting richer and richer.
Europe was wealthy and had beautiful art before the African slave trade. You intellectuals make such a big deal out of this as if the Roman empire never existed with of course the slaves of every ethnicity, just like every other empire in the world. Or Austria Hungary and Germany and Russia and Scandinavia, all did not profit from slavery. Even Italy. The Arab world would have been prosperous per this metric given they also had slaves and farm land.
With the amount of wealth (to say nothing of blood) that Europe expending in abolishing slavery (not only their own) it cannot be said in truth that they gained in any lasting measure from it.
Especially the Dutch Republic got wealthy from fair European trade and was both late and very small in the slave trade, and all these 'facts' are wrong, because this British guy can't face his country's own far worse history, so he falsely hangs it on the Dutch.
Diego de Velazquez is the one who destroyed the main city; most Aztecs rallied with Cortez to escape what can only be described as Aztec aristocracy's bloodlust toward their own people. They gladly converted to Catholicism. This is the reason why Spaniards and native peoples intermarried. Tragically, not many people do the research about this fascinating history. I recommend reading "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico", by T.R. Ferenbach.
I have no problem with mentioning crimes committed by Europeans, but lets not paint native people as angels either. There's a reason many tribes sided with Cortes against their Aztec overlords. Natives were extremely brutal to each other in general. Also, it should be mentioned that African chieftains sold their own people into slavery, as European were not catching slaves themselves.
Exactly. Check out my comment. SJW's are on the rise everyday. Hey, it's ok to be white. If you're white, you are not to blame for the "suffering" of today's "minorities," ait? It's really ridiculous, knowing that those "conquerers" or "colonizers" carried great, huge, gigantic big balls to venture to the unknown. The time, effort, energy, money, dedication, patience and, most importantly, faith to prepare for such expeditions must have been so taxing that they could have easily lost hope, given up, doubt and turned around, and thus creating another kind of history. Ain't it weird that he mentioned why China didn't otherwise start colonizing instead? Ah, hello, why on Earth would China even do that considering its massive land and dominating location in Asia? They built a wall around for crying out loud!!! History must be observed objectively. Otherwise, it's propaganda.
wonder why all of a sudden at the same exact time cortex arrived in America is when the aztec decided to go completely euro and destroy everything around them their ancestors built. same with natives in the north when the french, english, and dutch, arrived hmmm maybe just a coincidence.
You have a point but Nigeria did not conquer it's self...it was occupied by brittain until it regained it's independence in 1978... Europe and Portugal did take slaves themselves...they didn't give Africans guns to take their own...they took them by gun point...u think they would use an African to take Africans...no they took all of them ... Who ever spread that Africans sold Africans was lying.... brittain invaded every thing they could plundering it's resources and it's people not only african ...other countries in Europe also before they made it to Africa... They did it themselves they didn't need no one to do their dirty work for them...same in north America...they killed and took indian slave themselves
Please, as mexican, I ask that the Conquista is better investigated. 400 castellanos were not capable of conquering 200,000 habitants of Tenochtitlan. And there were other kingdoms, Texcocanos for example. Also, coffee is from arabic origen. Isabel de Castilla order not to mistreat locals and Tlatoanis were treated as kings. Thanks for all the information, it helps to imagen all the inticate moments that shape the world.
Great series! It was interesting how the most recent colonialism was described as so horrific. I agree it was horrific, but when painted from a pure history standpoint it was a slightly less horrific way to rob weaker countries than say the Mongols who raped then killed everyone, including women and children and took everything. Or even the Spaniards who decimated entire civilizations in the Americas. Even what Russia is doing to Ukraine seems more horrific than some of the last colonial endeavors. Not trying to justify any of it, the strong will steal from the weak if they feel the need. Nothing has changed, just how it's done has evolved.
@@christopherhanson9578 not sure exactly what you mean? Slavery has been around since beginning of time. The losers in conflict became slaves throughout history. More "modern" widespread slavery as a business was introduced by the Muslim culture it seems.
@@christopherhanson9578 triangular slave perhaps but slavery has existed as long as man has existed. Man conquers man then enslaves him and uses him or sells him. Still goes on to this day.
Wrong, big mistake. Coffee is not a new world product, it is African, specifically Ethiopian, For your future edification here is a list of new world produce: Tomato, Potato, Avocado, Pumpkin, Corn, Blueberries, Cranberries, Dragon Fruit, Grapefruit, Pineapples, Cacao. But not coffee!
Lindesfarne, the first Viking raid? I don’t think so. The first Viking raid of England maybe. I’m sure they raided in the Baltic and eastwards before they set out for England, but the English have always been Anglocentric.
Portugal started the first global empire in 1415. You forgot the great navigators Gil Eanes, Bartolomeu Dias, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Vasco da Gama, João Fernandes, the Corte Real brothers, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Fernão de Magalhães, Afonso de Albuquerque, Pêro da Covilhã, João Gonçalves Zarco, Francisco Zeimoto, Diogo Cão, well ...there are 138 portuguese navigatores❤
There's another documentary on syphilis and how it mutated through the American Indians but was originally from Europe and wasn't lethal. It's fascinating.
Belgium is and was catholic. The Netherlands was multireligious and was not really involved in the exploitation of Africa. Portugal was huge in Africa, Spain, catholic also, was huge in the Caribbean. So you are talking nonsense.
You are a European. You aren't an Aboriginal Australian. You are a descendant of European colonizers in Australia. If you don't know that what kind of historian are you.
Remember the Aztecs, Incas and others were very fond of daily child sacrifice. It was only until Catholic Spain and Portugal came that this was stopped.
The deep scars of conquest and cultural destruction and just a matter of scale. Tribes, cities, countries and empires have been, throughout history, and all across the world, conquering and destroying 'others'. It's just that in the last 500 years the scale and scope is much larger. The issue is not about the nature of one group of people, it's about the nature of all people. And as history has shown, and Mr Clark has so well illustrated here, that nature is very disappointing. But fingers crossed the people of the future can now, in the age of recordable history, truly learn from the mistakes that have been made so far. Unfortunately, if you watch the news on any given day, that seems pretty unlikely.
You are wrong. Many areas of the world retain over 4000 languages and tribes- including India and Africa..... worldwide harm has been maximum with Europeans where 3 continents now are overwhelmingly populated by europeans.
I didn't know they still teach the black legend as historical fact at Oxford. Hilarious an "Australian" fell for it ( (Sush, I secretly consider him a Brit who happens to be born in the colonies)
His Anglo prejudice shows when he describes the wealth that the Dutch and English made as opulent and wonderful palaces. While he describes the Spanish and Portuguese architecture as overpowering and grandeuse, that it intimidates the Native Americans. The Dutch and English were responsible for the slave trade for 300 years. The English queen never apologized even though the Palaces and stately homes were built on African blood of millions.
Nonsense, his Anglo prejudice shows by telling the story of slavery through the Dutch, while Britain got rich from colonial crime and slavery. The Dutch didn't join the transatlantic slavetrade until 1637 and already were filthy rich from dominating all European trade. They were huge in the fair trade and tiny in the unfair trade and the slave trade. The British were huge in the slave trade and unfair trade, and incompetent in the fair trade in Europe.
I think the Clover 🌿 leaf is not the national symbol of the Irish but it is the "Shamrock ☘️ leaf ...where Saint Patrick while converting the pagans used to convince them about the Trinity demonstrating the Shamrock as The "Father , Sont ,and the Holy Spirit.
It's beautifully told but after saying how bad slavery by Europeans was for the 10th time we get the impression the narrator got the assigment to emphasize on that topic a bit too much. We get it that Americans love their racial issues and can't stop talking about them but the rest of the world doesn't care...
This is a wonderfully done documentary free from the typical anglo-centric view of European history. However it still suffers from some hard to loose prejudices and myths of ignorance: It seems here that Columbus started the age of navigation in 1492 for Spain when if fact it was kicked off by the Portuguese in 1415. But for some reason that never counts for anglophone historians. Brazil is omitted, the extent of the Portuguese trade empire in Asia is omitted but, of course... The horrors of the slave trade are emphasised. Also the emphasis on the undeniable wrong doings of Iberian countries on indigenous peoples is used to whitewash the genocide of North American indians by British colonisers in North America. Finally, the Portuguese were the first to abolish slavery, not the English. But overall, wonderfully done!
@@unidentified5390 and the English didn't do the exact same thing, by any chance? From the Wikipedia: "The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) provided for the _gradual_ abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire". You know what gradual means, right? Fact: Portugal abolished slavery in 1761 (homeland or not) and England in 1833. This means that between 1761 and 1833 Portugal had no slavery in its homeland while the English kept having it in its homeland. Period.
@@ARTIMEDIApt There was a legal anti-slavery precedent in England, when a judge decided in 1772 that a runaway slave should be set free, because slavery was not recognized by English law. But that's still not as early as 1761, of coursse.
about sl@very, somehow in other parts of this documentary it wasn't mentioned how the european people themselves were sl@ves too, i.e., in roman empire, in middle east, etc. were those facts deliberately ommited to fit the current PC climate?
little over six hundred thousand were shipped to the United States over five million went to Brazil. there are families in Nigeria and Ghana still Filthy Rich from the slave trade. they built statues of slave Traders in Nigeria Ẹfúnpọ̀róyè Ọ̀ṣuntinúbú, was a powerful Yoruba female aristocrat, merchant, and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria. Chief. when the British colonized Nigeria told her she'd have to free her slave she said she would rather kill them.
It’s an incredibly anglo-centric narrative (he's a British colonist born in Australia) thus he tells the story from a very cheesy British perspective. It's incredibly one-sided throughout the series. Basically he tells history like Britain sees it. Clearly non British historians poorly researched.
Every continent had slavery. Let's look it in the eye and ve honest that it's horrific however for centuries slavery was a practice as normal as any other. Europeans weren't "worse" in that. Arabs, Native Americans and Africans enslaved others
Those excited by crypto currency should pay attention to the tulip craze at around 30 mins in. At least they ended up with a really expensive onion to eat.
Legend has it 1INR was 13USD before British Invasion. While I agree India was incapable to safeguard itself from British Invasion. Don’t run this false propaganda that British played any part in the making of India.
@@hb9145 Sanskrit is a language with 64 alphabets. While red meat and alcohol are part of daily western diet despite being shown by your science - you cannot stop these habits.... Ayurveda is a highly refined diet and lifestyle that the west is partly approaching via the plant-based-whole-foods-diet..... Ahimsa is a cencepts from the Vedas.... The wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, Yoga Sutra and other texts have kept us as is, despite major geo-tectonic plate movements and 1000 years of invasions by people without a code of ethics in daily life.... The list goes on.... Ask yourself- what have you lost by not seeing beauty, grace and knowledge?... Why is the risk of many diet related cancer 70-90% higher in the western diet?.... Why is addiction and mental health very high in North America and the UK, places gorging on stolen wealth?..... "Sarve Shyam Swasthi Bhavatu". May all be calm and well.
@@saikrishnak8631even if i agree it was not united even then it had a lot that makes it distinct from rest of the world. 1> Genetic data shows how mix all indians are and that there is no seperate race in india, you can find a dark skin and light skin individual in every caste ,region and religion in india. 2.>Indians have same view of life that is burning the body after death which is starkly very different from arabs and europeans. 3.>There is a clear influence of religion seen in milk and fietary consumption(India is country with largest vegetarians by percentage and population) 4.>What the world might be attempting now,aka atheism, India has had centuries of full fledged materialism. There is indeed many examples to show that indians have a shared common heritage from himalayas to tamil nadu,The ccommon heritage may not be an empire or a country but a civilization ,just like european civilization, India is the only bronze age civilization that has not lost it flavours to abrahamisation and communism (Apart from japan maybe) . So even though if i agree india was just some petty little kingdom but india was and is a civilization.
The systematic enslavement of people has occurred throughout European and human history. A more balanced perspective was needed, seeing the majority of Arican slaves never made it to Europe. 🤷🏽♂️
Africa was never "Bled Dry". In fact; the native population skyrocketed under European influence, and development. Modern agricultural methods gave Africa abundance in food. It gave Africans modern medicine, and a higher standard of cultural existence! Please stop the tales about "victimhood" under European rule.
More breath-taking is an Australian historian in a pretentious bowtie lapsing into woke presentism and stooping to insipid relativist moralising. He ignores the fact that slavery has been an accepted practice throughout history; that Britain, by its own volition, outlawed slavery and policed the world to stop it; that more Americans lost their lives in a civil war to atone for slavery (600,00) than the number of slaves the Dutch traded (550,000). Which was worse? I suggest Chris talks to David Starkey.
Dale Doré I completely agree with you and I write as one with an extensive knowledge of European expansion by sea. As for colonisation, that like slavery has very ancient origins that way pre date the Spanish / Portuguese colonisation.
I love how the narrator uses words from other languages and still pronounces it perfectly!
It is not Rocket Science, to learn proper pronunciation.
He speak German German perfectly.
One of the best history documentaries. Insightful, interesting and engagingly narrated. Highly recommended!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks a lot!
Phenomenal, extraordinary work!!! 500 years of thoughtful world history in under an hour. Seems impossible but you did it!
Just brilliantly honest. Very well written, performed and shot. The camera and direction, were on point! Everyone that worked on this deserves a raise.
Except for when he sings.
Really glad to listen to someone who speaks the truth about Europe and it's culture...
This man has to be the most balanced historian I’ve come across and I’ve seen and listen to a few. Much respect.
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These are all fantastic little synapses. I really like Christopher Clark!
excellent documentary series! Thank you!
The natives extended hands of love, accommodation and friendship to greedy and murderous expansionists. Sadly, the stronger nations are still not relenting in their insatiable quest for other people's resources!!!
Thanks for the great job!
"You might call them economic refugees"
This dude simply cannot keep his politics out of this documentary. He's doing better than most but you can see how he slips it in at every opportunity.
How can one create a documentary about the history of a continent without talking about politics?
Awe inspiring history. Love it or hate it, Europeans have built this world in their own image - there is no corner of the world that is not, positively or negatively, influenced by their work or idea.
Respect!
Proud to be European and French 🇫🇷✝️
Son of millennium of History 💪
And people of proud of the genocides; harms of corporate greed and pollution inflicted on all continents !
Same for the Middle Easterners
Its Chinese who supplied you most goods ...in past
This is an extremely well -scripted and well-presented series. Christopher Clark speaks, not from an ivory tower of historical knowledge, but from a deep understanding of what appeals to people like ME.
He landed in the Dominican Island. The Natives were subjugated. Haitian were African Slaves who rebelled and form their half of the Island.
Please add English subtitle, love this series so much!
Love watching documentaries like this
Impressive presentation, thoughtful information!
А masterpiece of a documentary!❤
Loving this documentary from India 🇮🇳❤️
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Brilliant Works! So true! Thank you very much for presenting a high-quality Full Historical Documentary to the world.
the Renaissance era of European exploration was driven by a combination of intellectual curiosity, the competitive ambitions of powerful states, and advancements in technology. These factors worked together to propel European nations into undertaking voyages of discovery and colonization across the globe.
So fascinating! Thank you for making these documentaries
Absolutely excellent documentary!
What a fantastic overview of the history of Europe. Most of this I was never taught in school.
Question: Where do the wonderful, realistic film clips come from? I am sure they were not done for this documentary, as they would have been horribly expensive to create.
Excelente, muchas gracias.
Empires are Villains by their contemporaries, and heroes in antiquity.
Columbus wasn't dismissed as madman by Portugese. Actually his plan was unrealistic and both Portugese and Spanish experts in the respective courts had correctly pointed out inaccuracies of his calculation and improbability of his success.
He may have knowingly lied about the distance to ensure backing for his plan. Any case Spanish crown eventually backed his plan only to prevent him from going to Yhe French court who were also enthusiastic about financing his adventure. The Spanish Court did it just as a what if.
In fact they didnt give him a lot of resources, nor the best men, cause they knew they might never see him again.
Yes Alex, because Columbus himself wasn't one of the best. His calculations were doomed to fail. He succeeded but extraordinary luck
"Columbus wasn't dismissed as madman by Portugese. Actually his plan was unrealistic and both Portugese and Spanish experts in the respective courts had correctly pointed out inaccuracies of his calculation and improbability of his success. "
So they dismissed him as a madman.* (Colloquially speaking)
I love the way u explain history things, no personal, national, regional view
Congratulations..thoroughly enjoyed all three parts..very precise and comprehensible..I, too, was born and bred in Australia but am living in Greece...once again, well done..
So much informative. Thanks.
Commendable to watch!
Excellent documentary 👏👏👏
How come this documentary series never talks about the Ottoman slave trade that targeted the southern coasts of Europe along the Mediterranean and in eastern Europe for hundreds of years, taking millions of Europeans as slaves back to Constantinople and other parts of the empire? Is that not part of the story of Europe? Or that Eastern Europe, southern Europe and the Balkans was in a constant state of war and invasion against the Ottomans from 1453 onwards until the late 1600s when Eugene of Savoy effectively ended the Ottoman's attempts to conquer Europe? This was a war that would have altered Europe forever had the Turks succeeded. Much of eastern Europe and the Balkans was conquered, enslaved and the land utterly devastated by continual Ottoman campaigns by the Sultan trying to break into Europe through Hungary and eventually Vienna. Isn't that part of the story of Europe?
Is it because this doc is from a Western European perspective who's postmodern 21st century historians love to self flagellate themselves over their "evils of the past" while ignoring the historical fact that well over a million Europeans from eastern Europe and the Balkans were taken as slaves themselves? Does anyone wonder where our word "slave" even comes from?
This isn't to take away at all from the horrific trans Atlantic slave trade, which was an awful thing. But that happened in other places too. This is a huge piece of European history that is conveniently ignored. In fact, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the Ottomans, Europe was in a state of perpetual fear and panic of the Turks. The Battle of Lepanto, the 2 Sieges of Vienna, Battle of Mohacs, Siege of Belgrade, Siege of Buda, the great conquests of Hungary, the Balkans and slave raiding parties all over the southern coasts of Europe are a huge part of European history that dominated the European psyche for hundreds of years, and was part of the reason Europeans turned their eyes west across the Atlantic. The wars between the Europeans and the Ottomans are a fascinating story that seems to be totally forgotten, yet a hugely important piece of history, considering what would have happened had the Ottomans broken through Vienna. I guess it's just inconvenient history for modern bedwetting Western historians where Europeans are the only people on earth ever who conquered or enslaved. Everyone else was singing kumbaya!
Did you see Part 1 & 2? I guess it’s an overview of the events that changed the face of Europe up to modern times, not an in-depth account of any particular time or event otherwise it would take more than a 3 Part series.
Exactly.I agree. No , "Europeans" didn't get in to slave trading , no ,"Europeans" didn't conquered Asia , America and Australia. Some countries did it , some not it all.
Typical liberal revision of history that is Christaphobic.
@@evasmith2705your comment denies slave trading. Are you sure about that?
@@alderbaranorange2553 , read it again.
Extraordinary work , but the title is totally wrong. It should be: The story of Western Europe. It's like Central and Eastern Europe didn't existed at all...For example: they were seeking the western route to India , b/c the Ottoman Empire occupied the so called "silk road" and made it impossible to import goods on land to Europe. The Hungarian Kingdom was defending Europe and themselves from the Turks for decades but finally was overpowered and defeated , while the western part of Europe was conquering the world and getting richer and richer.
As a new history enthusiast your comment is welcomed
Have you watched his series on Europe? #1 #2, and another to follow this one.
Brilliant documentary
Europe was wealthy and had beautiful art before the African slave trade. You intellectuals make such a big deal out of this as if the Roman empire never existed with of course the slaves of every ethnicity, just like every other empire in the world. Or Austria Hungary and Germany and Russia and Scandinavia, all did not profit from slavery. Even Italy. The Arab world would have been prosperous per this metric given they also had slaves and farm land.
With the amount of wealth (to say nothing of blood) that Europe expending in abolishing slavery (not only their own) it cannot be said in truth that they gained in any lasting measure from it.
But with NO MORE ~ natural resources not even
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@@MarikHavairNot on their own? Actually Europeans were the First to abolish slavery what history have you studied🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@MarikHavairWho in your fantasy world Made European stop trading slaves?
Especially the Dutch Republic got wealthy from fair European trade and was both late and very small in the slave trade, and all these 'facts' are wrong, because this British guy can't face his country's own far worse history, so he falsely hangs it on the Dutch.
Really eccellent detail but clear.
Splendid!
Nice work but it also contained many mistakes !!
Diego de Velazquez is the one who destroyed the main city; most Aztecs rallied with Cortez to escape what can only be described as Aztec aristocracy's bloodlust toward their own people. They gladly converted to Catholicism. This is the reason why Spaniards and native peoples intermarried. Tragically, not many people do the research about this fascinating history. I recommend reading "Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico", by T.R. Ferenbach.
Brilliant documentary. I must ask though, Have the Europeans (especially the French) really given up their colonies?
Thank you
Really unmatched
Amazing 😍
I have no problem with mentioning crimes committed by Europeans, but lets not paint native people as angels either. There's a reason many tribes sided with Cortes against their Aztec overlords. Natives were extremely brutal to each other in general. Also, it should be mentioned that African chieftains sold their own people into slavery, as European were not catching slaves themselves.
Agreed, they dwelled too long on the colonial crimes, completely overlooked important developments in Europe like fascism and communism
Exactly. Check out my comment. SJW's are on the rise everyday. Hey, it's ok to be white. If you're white, you are not to blame for the "suffering" of today's "minorities," ait? It's really ridiculous, knowing that those "conquerers" or "colonizers" carried great, huge, gigantic big balls to venture to the unknown. The time, effort, energy, money, dedication, patience and, most importantly, faith to prepare for such expeditions must have been so taxing that they could have easily lost hope, given up, doubt and turned around, and thus creating another kind of history.
Ain't it weird that he mentioned why China didn't otherwise start colonizing instead? Ah, hello, why on Earth would China even do that considering its massive land and dominating location in Asia? They built a wall around for crying out loud!!!
History must be observed objectively. Otherwise, it's propaganda.
wonder why all of a sudden at the same exact time cortex arrived in America is when the aztec decided to go completely euro and destroy everything around them their ancestors built. same with natives in the north when the french, english, and dutch, arrived hmmm maybe just a coincidence.
divide and concour
You have a point but Nigeria did not conquer it's self...it was occupied by brittain until it regained it's independence in 1978... Europe and Portugal did take slaves themselves...they didn't give Africans guns to take their own...they took them by gun point...u think they would use an African to take Africans...no they took all of them ...
Who ever spread that Africans sold Africans was lying.... brittain invaded every thing they could plundering it's resources and it's people not only african ...other countries in Europe also before they made it to Africa...
They did it themselves they didn't need no one to do their dirty work for them...same in north America...they killed and took indian slave themselves
Please, as mexican, I ask that the Conquista is better investigated. 400 castellanos were not capable of conquering 200,000 habitants of Tenochtitlan. And there were other kingdoms, Texcocanos for example. Also, coffee is from arabic origen. Isabel de Castilla order not to mistreat locals and Tlatoanis were treated as kings. Thanks for all the information, it helps to imagen all the inticate moments that shape the world.
So beautiful 😻
Fantastic series! So well produced and presented.
HOW to ensure that a “pro-European Union” (propaganda) series doesn’t appear “biased” toward any particular member state? ….
….”Let’s get an AUSSIE!”
only 10k views. That is sad. This is so great.
I think it will gain momentum in time. Too well done not to.
Great series!
It was interesting how the most recent colonialism was described as so horrific. I agree it was horrific, but when painted from a pure history standpoint it was a slightly less horrific way to rob weaker countries than say the Mongols who raped then killed everyone, including women and children and took everything.
Or even the Spaniards who decimated entire civilizations in the Americas.
Even what Russia is doing to Ukraine seems more horrific than some of the last colonial endeavors.
Not trying to justify any of it, the strong will steal from the weak if they feel the need. Nothing has changed, just how it's done has evolved.
historical rule of thumb, if there is a european around death and destruction are nearby
@@krono5el haha, depends what era you're talking about. The Asian Mongols were far more brutal than the Euros at their worst.
@@andrewphilips2457 How do we really know that? Slavery lasted 400yrs.
@@christopherhanson9578 not sure exactly what you mean? Slavery has been around since beginning of time. The losers in conflict became slaves throughout history.
More "modern" widespread slavery as a business was introduced by the Muslim culture it seems.
@@christopherhanson9578 triangular slave perhaps but slavery has existed as long as man has existed.
Man conquers man then enslaves him and uses him or sells him.
Still goes on to this day.
A lot of worked done in this films….But the angloworld doesn’t seem to grasp the Spanish great achievements for civilization in the new world.
Wrong, big mistake. Coffee is not a new world product, it is African, specifically Ethiopian, For your future edification here is a list of new world produce:
Tomato, Potato, Avocado, Pumpkin, Corn, Blueberries, Cranberries, Dragon Fruit, Grapefruit, Pineapples, Cacao.
But not coffee!
Ya I noticed the mistake as well. No wonder alot of millenials get things wrong these days. An old white guy with an accent said it. It must be true?
Is there a book to accompany this series?
I never thought carl from up would knows so much about european history... 😊🎉
31:37 the historical version of NFTs
Best documentary ever made on European colonialism!
Lindesfarne, the first Viking raid? I don’t think so. The first Viking raid of England maybe. I’m sure they raided in the Baltic and eastwards before they set out for England, but the English have always been Anglocentric.
vikings....batusis, zulues....who matters? we are talking abut europe or about low cost people???
It's their first recorded raid in Europe.
Portugal started the first global empire in 1415. You forgot the great navigators Gil Eanes, Bartolomeu Dias, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Vasco da Gama, João Fernandes, the Corte Real brothers, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Fernão de Magalhães, Afonso de Albuquerque, Pêro da Covilhã, João Gonçalves Zarco, Francisco Zeimoto, Diogo Cão, well ...there are 138 portuguese navigatores❤
There's another documentary on syphilis and how it mutated through the American Indians but was originally from Europe and wasn't lethal. It's fascinating.
Also it was mostly the Protestants (England, Belgium, Holland, Germany) not Catholics that exploited Africa and the Caribbean.
Belgium is and was catholic. The Netherlands was multireligious and was not really involved in the exploitation of Africa. Portugal was huge in Africa, Spain, catholic also, was huge in the Caribbean. So you are talking nonsense.
Eurasia is an amazing continent
I was wondering how Europeans pacify their conscience over what their forefathers did !
Where are you from?
Weather shapes humanity (or lack thereof)
No mention of Abel Tasman discovering Tasmania in 1642. Bloody mainlanders
You are a European. You aren't an Aboriginal Australian. You are a descendant of European colonizers in Australia. If you don't know that what kind of historian are you.
You're not an aboriginal european, you're a descendant of the indo-european yamnaya invaders
He Made a dna Test in a Video and of course he knew already🤦🏻♂️
Remember the Aztecs, Incas and others were very fond of daily child sacrifice. It was only until Catholic Spain and Portugal came that this was stopped.
Daily seems bit exaggerated, the entire population would vanish in few years😅
The deep scars of conquest and cultural destruction and just a matter of scale. Tribes, cities, countries and empires have been, throughout history, and all across the world, conquering and destroying 'others'. It's just that in the last 500 years the scale and scope is much larger. The issue is not about the nature of one group of people, it's about the nature of all people. And as history has shown, and Mr Clark has so well illustrated here, that nature is very disappointing. But fingers crossed the people of the future can now, in the age of recordable history, truly learn from the mistakes that have been made so far. Unfortunately, if you watch the news on any given day, that seems pretty unlikely.
You are wrong. Many areas of the world retain over 4000 languages and tribes- including India and Africa..... worldwide harm has been maximum with Europeans where 3 continents now are overwhelmingly populated by europeans.
I didn't know they still teach the black legend as historical fact at Oxford. Hilarious an "Australian" fell for it (
(Sush, I secretly consider him a Brit who happens to be born in the colonies)
Based on parts watched thus far by me the rule of thumb is: sheer power wins.
His Anglo prejudice shows when he describes the wealth that the Dutch and English made as opulent and wonderful palaces. While he describes the Spanish and Portuguese architecture as overpowering and grandeuse, that it intimidates the Native Americans. The Dutch and English were responsible for the slave trade for 300 years. The English queen never apologized even though the Palaces and stately homes were built on African blood of millions.
Get over it
Nonsense, his Anglo prejudice shows by telling the story of slavery through the Dutch, while Britain got rich from colonial crime and slavery. The Dutch didn't join the transatlantic slavetrade until 1637 and already were filthy rich from dominating all European trade. They were huge in the fair trade and tiny in the unfair trade and the slave trade. The British were huge in the slave trade and unfair trade, and incompetent in the fair trade in Europe.
Proud to be of white European ancestory. Hail the west.
Africans can barely build mud huts. Ps jews ran the slave trade. Many black have written about this.
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I think the Clover 🌿 leaf is not the national symbol of the Irish but it is the "Shamrock ☘️ leaf ...where Saint Patrick while converting the pagans used to convince them about the Trinity demonstrating the Shamrock as The "Father , Sont ,and the Holy Spirit.
It's beautifully told but after saying how bad slavery by Europeans was for the 10th time we get the impression the narrator got the assigment to emphasize on that topic a bit too much. We get it that Americans love their racial issues and can't stop talking about them but the rest of the world doesn't care...
Looks like u have a problem
English soil - some of the most invaded and colonised lands anywhere in the world, especially the last couple of thousand years.
Apparently almost no Eastern Europe in this story, repeating the exclusion of Slavs....Right?
All Europeans are great people except Slavs by fellow Europeans
Is this the true history?
Yes but it Skip many things and it’s in the British view Not Perfect Not Bad
This is a wonderfully done documentary free from the typical anglo-centric view of European history. However it still suffers from some hard to loose prejudices and myths of ignorance:
It seems here that Columbus started the age of navigation in 1492 for Spain when if fact it was kicked off by the Portuguese in 1415. But for some reason that never counts for anglophone historians.
Brazil is omitted, the extent of the Portuguese trade empire in Asia is omitted but, of course... The horrors of the slave trade are emphasised.
Also the emphasis on the undeniable wrong doings of Iberian countries on indigenous peoples is used to whitewash the genocide of North American indians by British colonisers in North America.
Finally, the Portuguese were the first to abolish slavery, not the English.
But overall, wonderfully done!
Portugesse only abolished slavery in the homeland slavery contuined on other portugese colonys
@@unidentified5390 and the English didn't do the exact same thing, by any chance? From the Wikipedia: "The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. IV c. 73) provided for the _gradual_ abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire". You know what gradual means, right?
Fact: Portugal abolished slavery in 1761 (homeland or not) and England in 1833. This means that between 1761 and 1833 Portugal had no slavery in its homeland while the English kept having it in its homeland. Period.
@@ARTIMEDIApt There was a legal anti-slavery precedent in England, when a judge decided in 1772 that a runaway slave should be set free, because slavery was not recognized by English law. But that's still not as early as 1761, of coursse.
no point in watching this, thx for the comment...i prefer history to stories!
@@unidentified5390 when you stay silent, you're a poet.
about sl@very, somehow in other parts of this documentary it wasn't mentioned how the european people themselves were sl@ves too, i.e., in roman empire, in middle east, etc. were those facts deliberately ommited to fit the current PC climate?
It talks about how the conquered Germans were given to the legionnaires as slaves.
can you tells us why they got no the boats to come to north America
Well done Europeans
Well done? Nothing to regret????
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Horrible person u are
little over six hundred thousand were shipped to the United States over five million went to Brazil.
there are families in Nigeria and Ghana still Filthy Rich from the slave trade. they built statues of slave Traders in Nigeria
Ẹfúnpọ̀róyè Ọ̀ṣuntinúbú, was a powerful Yoruba female aristocrat, merchant, and slave trader in pre-colonial and colonial Nigeria. Chief. when the British colonized Nigeria
told her she'd have to free her slave she said she would rather kill them.
Lol 😂 fake.
Why skip over the trade with Africa? It took the Portuguese almost 100 years to work the African coast before they made it to India.
Every thing revolved around greed.
hey lauren how are you?
We learn enough of yours, but where silk and dye came from?? And silk oak trees forests and sudden death of flags!!
The Spanish conquest of the world told in English is a very superficial story 😂😂😂
It’s an incredibly anglo-centric narrative (he's a British colonist born in Australia) thus he tells the story from a very cheesy British perspective. It's incredibly one-sided throughout the series. Basically he tells history like Britain sees it. Clearly non British historians poorly researched.
Every continent had slavery. Let's look it in the eye and ve honest that it's horrific however for centuries slavery was a practice as normal as any other. Europeans weren't "worse" in that. Arabs, Native Americans and Africans enslaved others
Those excited by crypto currency should pay attention to the tulip craze at around 30 mins in. At least they ended up with a really expensive onion to eat.
English East India company arrived in India ACE 1600.
Kama napenda historia, kwa nini nisipende hii documentary??
Please do make a documentary about the British colonialists in India, the way it looted and dismantled the country….
What would you be without the British?
Legend has it 1INR was 13USD before British Invasion. While I agree India was incapable to safeguard itself from British Invasion. Don’t run this false propaganda that British played any part in the making of India.
@@hb9145 Sanskrit is a language with 64 alphabets. While red meat and alcohol are part of daily western diet despite being shown by your science - you cannot stop these habits.... Ayurveda is a highly refined diet and lifestyle that the west is partly approaching via the plant-based-whole-foods-diet..... Ahimsa is a cencepts from the Vedas.... The wisdom of the Vedas, Upanishads, Yoga Sutra and other texts have kept us as is, despite major geo-tectonic plate movements and 1000 years of invasions by people without a code of ethics in daily life.... The list goes on.... Ask yourself- what have you lost by not seeing beauty, grace and knowledge?... Why is the risk of many diet related cancer 70-90% higher in the western diet?.... Why is addiction and mental health very high in North America and the UK, places gorging on stolen wealth?..... "Sarve Shyam Swasthi Bhavatu". May all be calm and well.
it was never united. a land of petty kingdoms
@@saikrishnak8631even if i agree it was not united even then it had a lot that makes it distinct from rest of the world.
1> Genetic data shows how mix all indians are and that there is no seperate race in india, you can find a dark skin and light skin individual in every caste ,region and religion in india.
2.>Indians have same view of life that is burning the body after death which is starkly very different from arabs and europeans.
3.>There is a clear influence of religion seen in milk and fietary consumption(India is country with largest vegetarians by percentage and population)
4.>What the world might be attempting now,aka atheism, India has had centuries of full fledged materialism.
There is indeed many examples to show that indians have a shared common heritage from himalayas to tamil nadu,The ccommon heritage may not be an empire or a country but a civilization ,just like european civilization, India is the only bronze age civilization that has not lost it flavours to abrahamisation and communism (Apart from japan maybe) .
So even though if i agree india was just some petty little kingdom but india was and is a civilization.
The systematic enslavement of people has occurred throughout European and human history.
A more balanced perspective was needed, seeing the majority of Arican slaves never made it to Europe.
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New France? Napoleon? A little Anglo centric don’t you think?
He is Australian so he only knows Greece -> Rome ->????? -> reneissance->enlightment->Moon Landing 🤣
Africa was never "Bled Dry". In fact; the native population skyrocketed under European influence, and development. Modern agricultural methods gave Africa abundance in food. It gave Africans modern medicine, and a higher standard of cultural existence! Please stop the tales about "victimhood" under European rule.
I think you might exclude the Congo under Leopold II from your comment.
This is basically a history of violence. They saw, they took, and they conquered.
A bit disappointed... Again, a very "Anglo-saxon" view of History. Still, interesting.
More breath-taking is an Australian historian in a pretentious bowtie lapsing into woke presentism and stooping to insipid relativist moralising. He ignores the fact that slavery has been an accepted practice throughout history; that Britain, by its own volition, outlawed slavery and policed the world to stop it; that more Americans lost their lives in a civil war to atone for slavery (600,00) than the number of slaves the Dutch traded (550,000). Which was worse? I suggest Chris talks to David Starkey.
Dale Doré I completely agree with you and I write as one with an extensive knowledge of European expansion by sea.
As for colonisation, that like slavery has very ancient origins that way pre date the Spanish / Portuguese colonisation.
Creators of this series seem to be just pandering to their financial supporters 🙄
Colombo landed on the Islsnd of Hispaniola.
seeing Europeans make contact with Americans in high middle ages/early modern period is always such a sad thing knowing what it would bring.