at the start of the video they said that England's rivals were Portugal and Spain.But at that time Portugal and England had great alliance and I understand that Portugal had started up all the trade business and colonialism but England wasn't unfriendly,and France and Spain were more of a rivals.
They may be covering period when Portugal was ruled by the Spanish king, referred to as "Iberian Union" which was bad time for Portuguese; Netherlands was at war with Spain and used this opportunity to seize many Portuguese colonies in India and Indonesia.
Portugal lost its independence in 1580, with the defeat of D.António Prior do Crato and the victory of D.Filipe's Castilian forces after the disappearance of King D.Sebastião and the death of Cardinal-King D.Henrique, therefore the Treaty of Alliance of 1373 and the Windsor Treaty or Luso-English friendship treaty of 1386 were inactive until Portugal restored its independence in 1640. The video starts in 1581, so Portugal is just another kingdom of the Spanish Empire in a Personal Union, probably the most important and relevant kingdom at time considering the history of discoveries, conquests, trade, trafficking, exploration, knowledge and etc.
@@Ok-but Yes, Portugal and the United Kingdom have the longest alliance in history, it is true that it was interrupted from 1580 to 1640 and that there were episodes of shock between both countries, such as the British occupation of Portugal during the Napoleonic invasions and the obligation of Portugal to open the ports of Brazil for a privileged and exclusive trade with the British and later the British ultimatum in Scramble for Africa, that was one of the motivations for the fall of the Portuguese monarchy... but we were always allies and Portugal always followed British policy very carefully and always tried to do the maximums to help and this continues until now
Only critiques are towards the start. 1) Portugal and England weren’t rivals, they actively aided each other as they both had the common enemies of France and Spain. 2) British slaves weren’t sold to Spain. We sold them to other African kings and mainly Portugal (when they weren’t taken to the 13 Colonies).
The video starts in 1581, and the Kingdom of Portugal had lost it's independence by 1580 due to the Portuguese War of Succession. So basically, Portugal was just in a union with Spain (Iberian Union, until 1640). Technically, Portugal was a temporary rival of Britain for 60 years.
Noticed several inaccuracies in this one, I'm not an expert so I may be wrong but: 1) In 1581 England and Portugal weren't rivals but actually their oldest allies. 2) There's very little evidence of raids carried out by the British into Africa to capture slaves like suggested in the song. In fact the majority of the slaves transported across the Atlantic were purchased from pre-existing African kingdoms 3) Nanny the Maroon most likely didn't exist and was a folk tale 4) The Kingdom of Mysore is described as a 'strong and diverse society' which is ironic because by the time of British invasion it was experiencing waves of civil strife and was in fact ruled by a Muslim elite class over a large Hindu population. 5) Ireland wasn't the first place the English colonised, it was Wales 6) The industrial revolution was attributed to wealth coming into Britain through the Atlantic slave trade which is inaccurate as industrialisation was mostly caused by population growth and urbanisation. And only began to 'revolutionise' society after the slave trade was abolished in 1829
@@lesscringeymapperdude The UK and France weren’t allies in 1885 during the scramble for Africa. It took up until the beginning of WW1 for Britain and France to ever become allies.
@@arkroyal Legit they spoke about slavery for a huge chunk of the video and left out how the British also put a stop to global slave trade but Britain bad guys
@@Brothy Yeah they definitely put too much “slavery bad” in this video. They didn’t even mention the Napoleonic Wars which was very important to the British Empire because they acquired South Africa and various Dutch colonies
I agree but I think this is the "video for rebellions" hence the video being about the British EMPIRE, not Britain. But I definitely felt the same when watching it but then I was like oh I think that's the point.
@@arkroyal I wouldn’t disagree that maybe they could have been more specific about what the video is called but I think the point of the video is Empire, including the British Empire, is bad. I agree that this is not really a video about the complete History of the British Empire but this is the video that talks about all the rebellions as the original comment was saying.
I appreciate you all for mentioning the 1798 Rebellion, it never gets any attention outside Ireland itself yet its such an important event in our history.
This was a great video on the atrocities and reforms of the British Empire, but a terrible one in relation to the overall history of said Empire. History is more than just what’s politically relevant right now.
The atrocious are hardly even accurate in this, it’s just another “lets shit on Britain” video because it’s easy and cliche. To paint Britain as the “bad guy” simply for being the country with the biggest stick.
This video went full woke and it came across cringy as hell. If the people in the video really feel bad about what their country did in the past then they should go out and do charity work instead of rapping about it. 3/10
This is less the history of the British empire and more a highlight on British atrocities and the victims of it. This video is anachronistic. Although i wont argue that these these things didn't happen, they are expressed in a dominating way to the point where British empire building gets completely overshadowed. This feels more like a political message conveyed trough atrocities that were inspected trough a modern-western lens, than it is history. Yesterday the history channel OverSimplified also released a new video on the punic wars, which also highlights barbaric elements of the Roman empire which still often gets glorified by our modern times, without making their history just singularly about it. People are cruel, but we now live in a time where cruelty is no longer something we are okay with. And i think its important to educate people on the facts without making history solely about them, which in my opinion, this History Bombs video fails to do.
@@BLC888 Imperial expansion involves the mostly unwilling subjugation of other people. Ignoring it, or brushing over it, does damage to the reality of what it was, and creates a glossy narrative that people like you look at and admire. The British Empire's feelings aren't going to be hurt by leaking all it's skeletons, an empire is just an abstract concept, and it's important to understand the faults of history lest we be doomed to repeat it.
@@ShooterBangStudios all of society is the subjugation of other people, but none more than the modern society that people like you have constructed on the faux-opposition of traditional societies. Our modern society is all encompassing and removes any ability to exit. The idea that 'no-one is hurt' by critiques of empire completely ignore that such ahistorical nonsense is made to beat a people down and facilitate mass movement of wealth from our current regimes rivals, to our current regimes friends. Of course, you'll never actually have the humility to attempt to justify any of this, you'll just continue to hide behind your dumb platitudes.
@@eoghancarpenter8546 Thats just how life was back then, but Britain did alot of good, Britain was one of the first country to ban slavery and fought tooth and nail to stop it worldwide. Obviously it took part in the horrible practice of slavery but so did every other nation at the time, Europeans, Arabs, Africans and Asian countries had the dreaded practice. Or how the reason you have democracy today is Britain, while you can point out exemptions, broadly most democracies today are as a result of British influence or outright copying the British system. Fact is every empire or historical society is terrible compared to modern standards, and we've talked and brow-beaten Britain enough.
@@eoghancarpenter8546 yarn, it’s just not though is it. Yes of course there were negative individual events, but that will always happen, it is quite literally human nature. In the grand scheme of things the British empire was a force for good, and if you’re going to whine about indigenous populations the fact is that they don’t truly exist, people move, they fight for land, they survive. It’s happened since the dawn of time.
The video was entertaining, but had a blatant agenda. Also interesting that you mentioned Olaudah Equiano, but nothing about Josiah Wedgewood, Thomas Clarkson, John Newton, Granville Sharp, not even William Wilberforce, who was perhaps the most important person in the abolitionist movement.
Exactly the slave trade was ended by Christian Englishmen who used the religion to lever the british public into realising it was wrong. It was most definitely not a Nigerian public speaker
Saying this video had an "agenda" for condemning the British empire is like saying their video for Nazi Germany had an agenda for condemning their atrocities. The British empire was the most genocidal entity in history, sitting alongside the third reich and imperial Japan.
@@jamahiriya7528 how? if you look up a list of genocides the uk doesnt even show up and comparing uk to the axis is just not true the japanese during ww2 killed somewhere between 3 million to 10 million in the span of 8 years the german reich killed 20,946,000 and yes on numbers the british have killed more not only was it over 200 years the mongols killed 1/10th of the population of the time. im not defending the british im just saying ur wrong :)
@@jamahiriya7528 i would say it had an agenda because it makes britain out to be an evil slave empire when the fact is we were never the biggest, only partook in it for 200 years, ended it and then nearly bankrupted ourselves trying to end slavery globally. When the rest of the world partook in slavery for 1000s of years and still continue to.
I have often enjoyed History Bombs' productions and have directed my students in history class to the concise, informative and entertaining videos. However, this one seems an overdo of self-flagellation. Lately, many historians have sought to expose the ills of empire-building (in any case, the history of 'civilizations' has been much the history of empire) so as to present a more objective narrative overall. In my Singapore, once a British colony, we are quite aware of the empire's inadequacies, failings, faults and ills, but we acknowledge that much of what we have now has been constructed on the platform laid out by the British in colonial times - parliamentary system, judiciary, education, housing, sports, even military and policing practices/traditions. Eight min is of course too brief a fit for everything, but it's just too bad that History Bombs have dwelt almost solely on its ills. Is that really the only 'true story'? If the 'Singapore story' was less traumatic than has been made out to be in this rap, then surely it represents aspects of empire history that could have possibly been squeezed into this presentation.
Exactly my thinking. It really should of been more than just "British Empire bad" and discussed the goods as well as the bad, especially since everywhere else discusses the bad these days.
@@ironicallyscreaming You can discuss the good of something whilst acknowledging the bad it did as well. You can point out the fact the empire got into huge debt (which only finished being paid off in 2015) to work towards abolishing slavery across the world, whilst also pointing out the fact they profited from said slave trade previously. Both are important parts of history and one shouldn’t be ignored because of the other.
@@ironicallyscreaming People want to talk at length about the good aspects of empires such as the roman empire, the mongol or ottoman empires, China, the aztec empire and so on, but suddenly when it's the british empire it's exclusively bad simply because you said so? Literally every empire in world history has engaged in brutality to further its own agenda, but also contributed good things to human civilisation as well. Britain included. Westerners seriously need to get over this cringe white guilt.
They couldn't mention Rorke's Drift because it was an example of British victory and bravery. This video is supposed to highlight all the "bad" things we did against non-whites and ignore anything good.
@@reefconvy7291 A bit late to reply, but that would be a bit silly to praise him because he was one of the harshest slave traders ever before he started to campaign against slavery.
It is nice to see another in one take, however this one could have been done better. Atriocities seemed to be the videos main focus. There is more to the British Empire than just commiting atriocities.
I understand what your saying, but it’s important to know these atrocities. The British empire was for lack of a better word villainous and the vast public is unaware or knows little about it. And after all history bombs is a learning channel
@@kingpenguin1580 it called history of the British Empire tho. Not Atrocities of the British Empire. Sure put some part in there about that but show the good aswell. This just pushes all the bad things of the British Empire too much as they have also done a lot of good.
Not gonna lie recently I've felt that we've almost washed away the goods that came with colonialism to replace it with all atrocities to fit our modern woke narrative, I understand all that is said in the video is quite informative and true to a good extent but its almost like people just can't except there's so many sides to History and not a sole avenue of pure evil in this case, there's no denying there were atrocities and evils that were committed, but there were triumphs aswell which I can recognise alongside the brutal and horrifying side of The British Empire
There other one take videos are better. There ww1, ww2 and Cold War one take videos got me more interested in history. They made ww1 and ww2 have silly characters and actual sets I don’t see why they can’t do it now. They seem to be more focused on pushing political messages then making a entertaining video that will get more people interested in history, so they can form there own opinion on the British empire.
Is this a video about the British empire or the British colonies? Cause I saw absolutely NO British soldiers mentioned during the ww1 part. They actually didn’t put one famous British person who did good on there either. They didn’t mention the napoleonic wars or the war of 1812. Or British expeditionary forces in France or British soldiers along with Australian troops in the Ottoman Empire or Lawrence of Arabia which definitely could have fit into the video’s narrative. It’s clear the video’s intention is to claim that Britain was a horrible empire (which can be debated because the British empire DID do atrocities in Africa and caused a famine in India) without acknowledging actual British history or the good stuff it did. This is not the history of the British empire. This is the history of the British COLONIES.
Where's the fucking difference??? An empire is defined as an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state. When people say "the sun never set on the British Empire" this is what they mean. Are you seriously going to sit there and try and convince me that imperialism is a good thing???
6:45 The Boers were much more racist and oppressive of the African people than their British counterparts, and the concentration camps the British used were not like the ones we think of today [horrific places like Auschwitz] rather just a settlement to keep the Boers in the same place so that they wouldn't run off and kill innocent civilians for the independence of their racist state. Furthermore, when the British left South Africa [this is where the Boer War happened], this kind of people took power and established the apartheid system [a kind of racial segregation, where non-white citizens and white citizens were split apart, with non-white citizens living in worse conditions, lower pay, and being forced from the cities for whites to live in], showing that the Boer war was justified in some way.
under the briish rule, there was racial segregation in south africa apartheid was just a harsher continuation of what the briish had already established the briish also had segregation in zimbabwe, india, kenya not to mention in austarlia, nz and canada when these countries were under the briish rule briish empire was an incredibly racst empire.
I would be willing to bet my right arm, if history bombs were to do a video on the Chinese Empire, Mongolian Empire, Japanese Empire, Ottoman Empire, Aztec Empire, Mayan Empire, Zulu Empire it wouldn't be nearly as negative or so focused on atrocities, slavery and opression. No one in the right mind today is denying the British Empire is responsible for its fair share of crimes against humanity but to brow beat the viewer over the head with not but a entire nation's worst crimes without acknowledging is great achievemnts is misleading at best and bigoted at worst.
@@TurtleFist3556 Well yes your right. When it comes to WW2 it's pretty undefendable. Still if it were to cover the entire history of Japan it wouldn't be nearly as negative.
@@uc5581 there were plenty, be it legal reform, technological science ( a Japanese study claims approx 50% of modern times were invented in Britain), medicine, infrastructure etc…
I loved the WW1 and WW2 ones but this one honestly seems like more of a political message only focusing on the atrocities committed by the British Empire and none of the positives. Can't say I'm surprised though as everyone loves to bash on Britain nowadays.
I'm not going to sit here and say the colonists were lovable people coming to spread good will because that would be fucking lie but what I'm not also going to say is that the natives were lovable peaceful people because that would also be a fucking lie people like to gloss over the fact that overall britian was hardly a cruel ot evil empire especially compared to others. The british empire took land goods money and valuables of other empires who had acquired said riches the exact same way and its a load of bollocks to think these natives were innocent.
@@RoyalRegimentofScotland Agreed a lot of people love to pretend that the natives were peace loving harmless monks. When in reality they were also responsible for massacres of their own.
@@jamahiriya7528 this is one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen on a history video if you have no interest in learning history or have no actual clue what your talking about don't comment on history videos
I'm all for exploring a nations dark history, but it seemed like this video only focused on the bad parts of the British Empire. I feels like they completely skipped over all the good things that happened during their history and was more of a hit piece than a history piece.
but the british empire did do so many horrific things which still impact the world today, yes there are some positives but history is violent and brutal and we can’t forget that
@@aceattorneyruinedmylife by that definition, every empire or kingdom that existed since the dawn of Mankind, should be given a video like this. Like bruh, the middle Eastern politics were messed up anyways
@@aceattorneyruinedmylife everyone was brutal back then. in fact, after britain got rid of slavery, they helped outlaw slaves in africa over african empires, helping save millions of slaved. bet they didn’t teach you that.
When Britain first, at heaven's command Arose from out the azure main Arose arose from out the azure main This was the charter, the charter of the land And guardian angels sang this strain Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves Still more majestic shalt thou rise More dreadful from each foreign stroke More dreadful, dreadful from each foreign stroke As the loud blast, the blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves Still more majestic shalt thou rise More dreadful from each foreign stroke More dreadful, dreadful from each foreign stroke As the loud blast, the blast that tears the skies Serves but to root thy native oak Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves The Muses, still with freedom found Shall to thy happy coasts repair Shall to thy happy, happy coasts repair Blest isle regardless, with countless beauty places And manly hearts to guard the fair Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war's desolation. Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And still we can see, as the years have gone by, There's a dream in our land, like a flame that keeps burning, And the lantern of hope, from the harbor still shines, Those who seek freedom's dream, to its light are still turning Now we look to the skies, and we lift up our eyes For we know with the dawn, we will see our flag rise! And this is our Star-Spangled Banner yet wave; O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
SOLDIERS ARE WE WHOSE LIVES ARE PLEDGED TO IRELAND SOME HAVE COME FROM A LAND BEYOND THE WAVES (GOD BLESS THEM) SWORN TO BE FREE NO MORE OUR ANCIENT SIRELAND SHALL SHELTER THE DESPOT OR THE SLAVE TONIGHT WE MAN THE GAP OF DEATH IN ERIN'S CALL COME WOE OR WEAL MID CANNONS ROAR AND RIFLES' PEAL WE WIL CHANT A SOLDIERS SONG
I feel like this focuses way too much on the negative. No empire in history was perfect and golden, but the British Empire definitely had good aspects too.
The 1 take videos for WW1/WW2/CW really got me into history, I love it so much now. I can't imagine how much effort these 1 take videos take, but pls, continue
It’s not woke, you people just have a massive victim complex so whenever someone talks about the British empire you think it’s an attack because all the British empire did was bad
That’s the thing: it ISNT controversial. It’s easy to hate on the English because they were just better then pretty much everyone. Despite all the good, people will bitch about the bad solely. Mongolians raping, burning and murdering LITERAL BILLIONS? Great tacticians! Romans slaving millions INCLUDING the British? Wow, what a great empire! So mighty! Like, what the fuck?
@@socire72 They also completely misunderstood what the Irish rebellion was The Irish rebellion wasn’t about “sending the invaders home” (Wolfe tone was literally English and French Heugenot) the war was about effectively about implementing the American system in Ireland, similar revolutions and movements also existed in Scotland and England
@@Somerandomdrummer8 Well, kind of. It was inspired by the American and French revolutions but the goal was to make the Irish people no longer second class citizens. The Easter Rising however planned to implement a leftist system - as James Connolly, a Marxist, was one of the leaders.
Thank you for this amusing video, but I want to present my sincere comments out of respect for your work not hatred. Firstly, rap-wise, I felt it is a bit inferior than the other history bombs videos, you could have done much better. Secondly, I didnt like how you only mentioned the negatives of what the british has done in the past, neglecting, hopefully not purposefully, all the good things they have achieved and done such the industrial revolution, the invention and spread of smallpox vaccines throughout the world, the spread of education and medecine, them being the first to abolish slavery to name a few. As a history enthusiat I want us to study and recognize the past both for the good and bad things, not just focusing on one side of the story because then it is propaganda not actual historical inquiry. Thank you for your time ❤️
An excellent comment. Britain not only was amongst the first nations in the world to abolish slavery, it then forced other nations to do so - often risking war such as during the blockade of Brazil in 1850 and the invasion of Zanzibar in 1873.
@@stealthotrapo9123 does feel like a bit of pandering to me kind of feels like they are misdirecting some hate to a nation that bought everyone their current way of life just because what they did in the past that they have already amended for.
@@andro7862 We have to credit the great Icelandic navy and their resolute government on ending the slave trade due to their immense wealth and status in the world at that time, Huzzah for Iceland.
6:20 That's very true! The British Empire got rich from the Opium Wars against China. When it was the British who were the ones that was responsible for the Opium Wars. Not only did they flood China with drugs they also forced China to buy it too it also made many Chinese people addicted to opium. That is also why? Most of Asia especially China has strong laws against drugs to this modern day.
They don’t want us to be proud of our Ancestor's achievements, but they want us to be forever ashamed of their misdeeds. (I must also add) 7:51 This is a false narrative; the Marshall Plan rebuilt the British economy; these people weren't ‘invited’; they were unskilled labour imported to make deficient domestic industries cost-effective, ultimately undermining the British Working Classes. It was never expected for them to remain.
Probably the least informative video - everybody knows slavery happened and the atrocities committed by white rulers in colonies. No context to the Napoleonic Wars or the Seven Years' War, just all about the colonies. And while Olaudah Equiano's book was influential, William Wilberforce was the real architect of the end of slavery in the British Empire.
I wonder how they’re gonna talk about the Napoleonic wars. A defining moment in British history which led to the start of the pax Britannica…… aaaaaaand nothing. Also you can’t just put the blame solely on the United Kingdom for the partition of India. The partition was solely due because the Hindus and Muslims couldn’t get along and when discussing a united India neither side could agree on anything. Even Gandhi saw that it was next to impossible to satisfy all parties involved. They chose to partition India. Could the British have done more? Probably, but in the end it was up to the two groups to decide. Also, if you’re gonna talk about the slave trade then you should also talk about how Britain took an active role in stopping the slave trade in the 19th and 20th century’s. A nice mention of the African squadron would’ve been nice. As for the First Nations yes we had our ups and downs, but so does every other nation. When they first met there were problems on both sides. English slavers would kidnap First Nations people well at the same time the first nations would kidnap English settlers. However both sides managed to put away their differences and come to terms with each other and even form alliances. In the seven years war, the revolutionary war and the war of 1812 the first nations were valued allies of the British. In fact one of the big reasons for the American revolutionary war was because the British band the expansion westward into First Nation territory in order to keep the peace between Britain and the first nations. Also in 1812 if it wasn’t for Tecumseh and his people British North America would’ve fallen into American hands. Unfortunately the first nations did suffer from diseases spread by Europeans but so too did Europeans suffer from diseases from the New World. Medicine and medical knowledge at the time were less than stellar.
"blame solely on the United Kingdom for the partition of India. The partition was solely due because the Hindus and Muslims couldn’t get along and when discussing a united India neither side could agree on anything. " So you're saying its okay they exploited this and conquered and systematically starved millions? Neat. "As for the First Nations yes we had our ups and downs, but so does every other nation. When they first met there were problems on both sides." "Ups and downs"? Really you call genocide ups and downs? Thats so ignorant its not even funny. It doesn't;t matter if they fought with the English, in the end the English we're in a land that wasn't theirs to conquer, and to try and blame natives for the reason why they got conquered is so incredibly ignorant, literally. Look in the mirror, stop sticking up for empires, when they are inherently oppressive.
@@marksonner3162 most of them died from disease. lets not act like the Sioux wouldnt completley wipe out the Crows if they could. People were savage back then and war was a normal state for almost every nation that existed
@@danielharrison9237 theres a distinct difference between two people, from the same continent warring with eachother than that of the British coming to a new one, and conquering it. They died mostly from disease yet if I may pose a question…where did that come from? Definitely not them.
You forgot that both hindus and muslims fought in sepoy mutiny though. The british to combat this divided india by martial race theory and even supported a Maulana who seeked to further two nation theory.
@@marksonner3162 again you're describing events that are completely normal in human history. People have been invading other continents and spreading disease for thousands of years
"The Real Story" - completely ignoring the leading democracy that Britain is today and everything they have brought to the world that has improved it. Not to mention a lot of the civil wars that broke out after the British left were just a continuation of fighting that had existed before the British arrived.
Note, the European states that did the whole Atlantic slave trade purchased all (or hereabouts) of the slaves from local African states, as they sort of forgot how to enslave people and either the Portuguese or the Dutch actually sent people to research how their trade partners (the local kingdoms) were getting all the slaves they were selling to them, since Europeans usually lasted less than a week on the continent let’s just say it was a bit of a challenge
That's one aspect of the slave trade that often gets overlooked. People forget that Africans themselves contributed a lot to the enslavement of their people.
This is not fully accurate of all the European powers involved in the Slave Trade; the English had completely abolished slavery centuries before their involvement, so they had indeed completely forgotten how to enslave people (and in fact the first enslaved Africans they purchased were given Indenture contracts and released after a set term, as that was the closest model they had to slavery in the early 17th century). The Portuguese, meanwhile, were simply not very good at slave raiding; they had a continual practice of slavery (including purchasing slaves both from Italian and Islamic merchants), and attempted to engage in slave raiding themselves, with it being common practice for Mediterranean merchants (whose ships were typically well armed to slave off pirates) to besiege cities and capture their citizens as slaves if they were found to lack defenses, but it was very risky as the cities were often better defended than they realized. As they began to navigate along the Western coast of Africa, they also attempted slave raids, thinking the weaker bows of the locals were no threat, but the common use of poisoned arrows made local archers harder to fight than they expected. It wasn't that they'd forgotten how to enslave people, they just kept losing when they tried to do so militarily (though they were able to enslave their own Jewish populations more easily, which helped to build the early slave plantation system, and also had some success in capturing Canary Islanders). These early failures did prompt them to start respectfully engaging with African leaders in order to buy slaves from them instead of kidnapping (though they would also return to slave raiding later, famously capturing enough people from their ally the Kingdom of Kongo that the King of Kongo wrote to the King of Portugal asking him to reign in his people). The Spanish, meanwhile, had a great deal of success enslaving people in the Canary Islands and Caribbean, though they ultimately stopped doing so because of a combination of legal restrictions on who they were allowed to enslave and the high death rate among the groups they targeted; still, the early enslavement of Canary Islanders was an important early step in building up the Spanish plantation system. I'm not sure about the Dutch, as I haven't read about the development of their slavery specifically.
@@SomasAcademy... I agree but also that Africa was involved the slave trade even before the Europeans got there... Also you had the Ottoman empire that took out lower blacks at Africa than any other group and enslaved 20,000 million white people and it was considered the most brutal slave trade.... So history tell us that pretty much everybody was involved in the slave trade and when the Europeans did go to Africa.. Kings of tribes and countries sold their own sons and daughters for exchange for golden weapons to attack other tribes and countries... And here's a fun fact but not really a fun fact.... Slavery is abolished around the world but you still have 700,000 slaves in Africa today and here in the western continent... The central countries have the most sex trafficking slaves around the world... I get nobody says anything about it why it's because they're not white....
I'm not sure why this needed to be noted. This is one of the few things in modern times that deliberately stated the slaves were bought rather than saying captured.
8:19 I don’t understand how Britain is blamed for the deaths after the partition. they were made by the people of the British raj themselves and that was the partitioning they wanted
@@amaadshah91 It isn't like you were all happy clappy before the Europeans arrived; further partitions were necessary, in my opinion. India is effectively a Hindu-nationalist state that examples the rights of its minority groups.
@@amaadshah91 the Indians voted on the borders. The partition was something the UK didn’t want to touch with a ten foot long pole. We drew no borders there when we were leaving.
the fact that the British caused the India-Pakistan partition killing over 2 million people was absolutely heart breaking and i'm rlly happy that you guys ended it with that fact. love from a Pakistani
India's contribution to world GDP before brits arrived : 25 % ( also the India was the richest country of the world for 1600 years by then, the longest for ANY country ever, the record still stands ). After brits left : 2% Famines in India in the 2000 years before brits arrived : 17 Famines that occurred under british rule of 200 years : around 25 Here's a list of some of them : The British era is significant because during this period a very large number of famines struck India.[2][3] There is a vast literature on the famines in colonial British India.[4] The mortality in these famines was excessively high and in many cases it has been increased by British policies.[5] The mortality in the Great Bengal famine of 1770 was between one and 10 million;[6] the Chalisa famine of 1783-1784, 11 million; Doji bara famine of 1791-1792, 11 million; and Agra famine of 1837-1838, 800,000.[7] In the second half of the 19th-century large-scale excess mortality was caused by: Upper Doab famine of 1860-1861, 2 million; Great Famine of 1876-1878, 5.5 million; Indian famine of 1896-1897, 5 million; and Indian famine of 1899-1900, 1 million.[8] The first major famine of the 20th century was the Bengal famine of 1943, which affected the Bengal region during wartime; it was one of the major South Asian famines in which anywhere between 1.5 million and 3 million people died.[9] The total number of people who died because of this Famines alone and in India alone goes over tens of millions of people. If you add to this the total number of people who died by any cause that was a result of brits or their policies in all of their colonies then the number easily crosses hundreds of millions. Hence, the lady is correct on this point. Infact, the last great famine under british ruled India was the great Bengal famine of 1943, of which multiple photos and videos you can find in the internet including on TH-cam. When multiple concerned british officials wrote to churchil how his actions have created the most devastating famine of the world in the 20th centuary, he replied, " why hasn't Gandhi died yet ". India's contributions to the world : The Hindu numerical system, also known as the decimal base system which forms the basis of mathematics and is the system we use today, and which may as well be the greatest invention ever in the history of humanity, Madhava, an Indian mathematician who founded the Kerala school of Mathematics almost discovered calculus over 200 years before newton or leibnitz were even born, and a LOTS AND LOTS of other fundamental contributions to maths, physics, logic, philosophy, biology, etc. India is one of the 3 earliest, oldest civilization, namely, the Harrappan civilization (India), the Masopotamian civilization ( modern day iraq) , the Egyptian civilization. Which one of these is the oldest is highly debatable and a topic of ongoing research, but India was the most extensive and widespread civilization of these all. Ancient Indians invented/ discovered many things some of which are, soap, shampoo, buttons, diamonds, steel, city planning, drainage systems, underground drainiage systems, the world's first port, the game of chess, etc. The first language in the world is also an Indian language ( one of these, Sanskrit or Tamil, both Indian languages). India has also made tremendous contributions in the modern times in STEM and almost every field. On top of it all, the brits committed littoral atrocities in India and other colonies, the most famous of this is the Jaliawalla bagh massacre, whose committer was later treated as a hero, and when an Indian, named Sardar Udham Singh, shot dead him in London as a revenge, he was tried as a terrorist and hanged, his testimony before the court was recorded and I encourage you to read it. In short, if you have studied history from british or european textbooks, I suggest you to for once try different sources like the internet or history books from other countries, manly former colonies.
You could make a similar video about the Roman empire and mention every genocide, crime and all the violence, but you don't admit that the Romans were ultimately responsible for forging West, North and Central Europe into the best, most free and most progressive regions to live in the world in the 21st century. Understanding the benefits does not mean you have to forgive the crimes. Let's not forget the bloodshed but we musn't forget the progress, Common law, democratic and industrial achievements either.
@@DaveSCameron What should`ve they done instead? Praise that they built up India, Australia and the USA and not mention the fact that they left africa in rubbish (Not to say that it wasnt in rubbish before, but back then it maybe would`ve worked out different.)
Well, I would argue british colonialism didn't exactly do that for its colonies and that "we make you better by making you like us!" is never a good reason to take anyones land away. That said, I also think this video does not really work as even a summary of the British Empire. It only talks about colonialism. Which is totally fine, but then why not just call it "History of british colonialism" then? Seems way more fitting.
To be honest I am not sure if the massage of this video is anti imperialism or anti british in general because it brings on mostly negative things about this subject I myself am from egypt and my country was ruled by the british for relatively 75 Years both directly and indirectly and I will tell you that the british did some horrible things to my country both before and after the independence of my country (see the suez crisis) but keep in mind that most european powers at the time did the same thing and other powers from other regions did it (see the arab slave trade and the omani empire for example) , I am not trying to justify imperialism and colonialism just because everyone did it I mean look at slavery for example do you think that slavery had been abolished just because it's bad ? do you think that people from the past are evil because they accepted slavery as a normal thing? slavery only have been abolished because it's not needed anymore thanks to new technologies and machines just like cigarettes isn't it bad ? then why wasn't it abolished ? because money and power those two are the things that drive statemans and politicians to do such horrible things (look at the war in ukraine) . what I am trying to say is british people or people in general shouldn't be ashamed by things that their ancestors had did instead they must think about what they will do in both the present and future BUT also they should acknowledge what happened in the past so we could at least learn from history (Thanks for reading)
That's the one issue I had with the video, it really didn't show any positives of the Empire and seems as if whoever was the script writer was is a bit biased. The Empire did have many issues like you said and was said in the video, which is taught about here
I’m British and I didn’t see the video as anti-British because…well ultimately it is merely stating facts. No one is claiming that only the British had slaves, an empire etc. But that doesn’t stop the British Empire being worth discussing in itself. The Empire was about money and power from start to finish of course. The British were not and are not inherently evil - no race or country is. Nothing in this video makes me feel any shame to be British. I am British because two British people had sex and mine months later there I was. A simple fact of biology and geography. There is no point in my feeling personal guilt for what happened before I was born. And there is no point feeling pride for what happened before I was born either. As you say, I can only change the present and the future.
@@HeyHey-yn8cw it’s somewhat anti British, the majority of it is about rebellions (not even that important ones) and misses out hugely important events. I can’t believe they didn’t mention the industrial revolution, debatably the most important and impactful event in history which was a result of the British empire and they didn’t think to mention it.
What do you Egyptians say happened in the suez crisis? From what I am aware the Egyptian government took British and French property and got punished for it until the USA and USSR stepped in. What do you Egyptians say happened?
This is as well made as previous ones, but "History of the British Empire" is misleading. More like "Atrocities of the British Empire", since it mostly goes about the horrible things commited instead of it's general history (which you would expect from the title).
the general history is largely atrocities the british empire overall did a lot more bad than good but they did mention abolition which most would consider good done by them
It's a solid video but the lyrics fall a bit flat for me and the scenery is not up to snuff compared to your older videos. You are also only showing negatives about the Empire. Yes it is right up bring it up and even focus on the negatives imperialism but one must also showcase some positives that came out of it. For instance industrial development, communication and a more interconnected world. Glad to see you guys are back and I'm interested to see what you will be bringing us in the future.
@@andro7862 The UK kickstarted the industrial revolution, which from there on spread to the rest of Europe, and the fruits of which then spread out across the whole world, colonies included. Vaccination programs and other disease eradication programs were brought to the colonies by most European powers. And when decolonisation happened, those countries were left with a vast network of modern infrastructure.
They only talked about discovery, atrocities and only bad things. The British did far more then that. Also, the British had 4 ppl act them, all the independence activists git way more. The also glossed over napoleon and a number of important things.
yes, but they should also add the good things about the ottoman empire and not list just all the bad things and make the ottomans look like villains like they did in this video
@@andro7862 Ottomans had contributed to the development of hospitals and healthcare, and witnessed advances in medicine, mining and military technology. To say what good things implying that in the over 600 years of the ottoman empires existence they did nothing good is preposterous.
@@stealthotrapo9123 I reread this and I think your saying this video is not inaccurate but unfair and I think we can agree. They only list the bad, and they should also list lots of the good things that empires did in history, obviously lots of awful stuff aswell but history is history and we need to know about both.
The only main issue I have is that with the American revolution it’s acting more like the British we’re defeated but over looks issues like Spain and other countries assisting America as well as Britain giving up due to it being inefficient for money but could have sent more armies furthermore this focuses very little on the rise and fall of the empire as well as ignoring benefits it has had and seems more to focus on the downsides
@@d-boi9785 which 5? there was quite literally only the dutch and spanish in which the spanish provided 1 fleet and the dutch were pretty much doing their own thing
@@elconcaro8031 yeah I was referring to the countries who were mainly fighting off of the continent, mainly naval powers, spanish and dutch, cause i was just calling out that BS about 5 countries being dealt with independently of the war
@@clarencehemphill3403 Because it does nothing but preaching about how bad and bad the British Empire was. While slavery is still going on in this world.
Didnt African slavery started first by the Africans themselves and not Britain? And what about British involvement in preventing the slavery trade in the slavery routes?
Oh and Ghandi himself never actually had a problem with the British, especially since he was educated in London… Ghandi wasn’t even anti British as such, he just wanted an independent state, much like the colonies in America.
Not defending the atrocities of the BI, but this video isn't about the British Empire, but about it's colonies, so here's some BI facts: They stopped Napoleon Bonaparte and ended a war of +20 years against him They helped defeat the Axis in both World Wars It was the biggest Empire in history in army size, land extension and more The BI was one of the longest lasting empires, lasting more than 400 years If there's more facts, comment here, and remember, i'm just saying the facts, i am not defending or attacking the BI, so there's no need to discussions
“Yeah man, the problem with Schindler’s List is they never talk about all the positives of all that free labour” what the hell kind of point are you making? What positives should they have brought up for an empire that for most of its history, did nothing but pillage and conquer?
@@socire72 personally, I’d put more of an importance for the victory of the allies on the Soviets, but India was an important player in the pacific theatre yes
Well colony means implanting a invading force into another peoples land so like what England did with the plantations, they didn’t do that with wales they were more of a protectorate(puppet state)
@@SWTORROLEPLAY1998 No they took Wales and extracted the resources from the land, almost wiped out their language and Anglofied the population. Its the same as with Ireland just much earlier
@@flerkan2802 again, not colonisation that’s fucked up but not colonisation for colonisation to happen their needs to be a foreign force occupying land which could be argued happened back in 450AD. Unless your a ethnic nationalist I consider everyone white in Britain native, considering were all mixed together I’m not one of those celts and anglosaxons idiots.
This is honestly less of the history of the empire and more of just the attrocities and bad parts of it. Although we cannae deny that these events happened, this video is not doing the actual history of the British Empire any good. If anything this video should be titled "Failures and attrocities of the British Empire (in One Take)
@@erozionzeall6371 And you have a profile picture with both the flag of the Soviet Union, and Guuci. Don't try to lecture me about screwing over the world. 💀 The British Empire was a colonial empire, what did you expect from it? "Oopsie poopsie, I just did a stinky within my colonies, I guess I need to give it independence because the 18th century version of woke should have been more advanced!" And the video is supposed to be about the actual history and some of the good as well, not just the bad things to demomize the entire thing.
Every country has them. No country has ever committed so many atrocities against foreign peoples’. And the ones that have, apologised (excluding Japan and the USA.)
Some fun facts about UK: The Opium Wars is an under appreciated part of British history that plays a greatly understated role in current events in regards to how China handles itself. Now USA and Europe say that G0D created heaven and earth and the rest is made in China. Latin America is the best kept secret of the British Empire and Venezuela the real jewel of the Crown England is like the baseball team New York Yankees . You either love or hate, but either way, you appreciate its greatness.
When Britain started its own navigations in 1581, Portugal was already in the Iberian Union. So, the period between 1581 and 1640 was the only period in modern history where Portugal and the British were competitors instead of allies.
It turns out 8 minutes is in fact long enough to shit on the British. Seriously if you want a still critical but fair video on the British Empire see History Summarized: The British Empire by Overly Sarcastic Productions, it's only 4 minutes longer, and significantly more balanced and informative.
This video had a blatant agenda. Yes, the British Empire was not perfect, but you didn't tell the whole story. It was not all evil and atrocities, the British Empire was also a great source of good for the world (for example, refurbished Taj Mahal, end famine in India for 80 years, spread democracy throughout the world, ended many aspects of Indigenous brutal culture like Sati, I could go on). Very disappointing.
The Australian part is missing the fact that the Brits actually never acknowledged the aboriginal people as people. Australia was only considered for colonisation because it was said to be completely uninhabited or “Terra nullis.”
Gotta love how in a video that claims to be the history of the British Empire they never talk about Drake's involvement in the defeat of the spanish armarda, nepoleonic wars, how slavery was actually abolished and the extents to enforce it globally, or you know ww2. The biggest war in history that directly led to the collapse of the Empire itself, but hey at least we got to learn about a failed rebellion in 1798 that literally led to nothing since it would take another century and the tribulations of a world war to achieve Irish independence. In reality its more of a list of all the attrocities the British Empire committed and not an actual well rounded short account on the British Empire. All in all, this is the worse history bombs in one take video and its sad to see them trying to curate history to fit a political agenda.
how weird almost mentioned all colonies yet left the the middle east and the hejaz war against ottomans in ww1? i think it was the most important one because it led to the colonize of egypt and sudan and palestine and jordan and iraq and kuwait and yemen and oman and dubai and qatar in mean time
This was good but was kinda dissapointing. Only focused on the bad things the british did and slavery was common among almost every nation in history. Blaming it on only europeans is dangerous because it encourages hate against them ( im from a colonised country btw) oh and saying the pakistani indian rivalry is because of britain is one of the stupidest things i have seen.
Surprised Hong Kong wasn’t mentioned. Some say that’s when the British empire truly ended.
yeah and now they want back
Yeah probably too embarrassing, having to end the Empire by handing a city back to an autocracy
@@garmenlin5990 We couldn’t exactly go to war over it could we?
Was waiting for that.
@@fod1855 Nah, that's crazy. It's much easier to go to war over drugs.
at the start of the video they said that England's rivals were Portugal and Spain.But at that time Portugal and England had great alliance and I understand that Portugal had started up
all the trade business and colonialism but England wasn't unfriendly,and France and Spain were more of a rivals.
They may be covering period when Portugal was ruled by the Spanish king, referred to as "Iberian Union" which was bad time for Portuguese; Netherlands was at war with Spain and used this opportunity to seize many Portuguese colonies in India and Indonesia.
Portugal lost its independence in 1580, with the defeat of D.António Prior do Crato and the victory of D.Filipe's Castilian forces after the disappearance of King D.Sebastião and the death of Cardinal-King D.Henrique, therefore the Treaty of Alliance of 1373 and the Windsor Treaty or Luso-English friendship treaty of 1386 were inactive until Portugal restored its independence in 1640. The video starts in 1581, so Portugal is just another kingdom of the Spanish Empire in a Personal Union, probably the most important and relevant kingdom at time considering the history of discoveries, conquests, trade, trafficking, exploration, knowledge and etc.
arent they still allies ?
I agree the Portuguese were allied to England before the end of the Hundred year war between England and France.
@@Ok-but Yes, Portugal and the United Kingdom have the longest alliance in history, it is true that it was interrupted from 1580 to 1640 and that there were episodes of shock between both countries, such as the British occupation of Portugal during the Napoleonic invasions and the obligation of Portugal to open the ports of Brazil for a privileged and exclusive trade with the British and later the British ultimatum in Scramble for Africa, that was one of the motivations for the fall of the Portuguese monarchy... but we were always allies and Portugal always followed British policy very carefully and always tried to do the maximums to help and this continues until now
Only critiques are towards the start.
1) Portugal and England weren’t rivals, they actively aided each other as they both had the common enemies of France and Spain.
2) British slaves weren’t sold to Spain. We sold them to other African kings and mainly Portugal (when they weren’t taken to the 13 Colonies).
They were active Allies, and hated fr*nce (a good thing)
The video starts in 1581, and the Kingdom of Portugal had lost it's independence by 1580 due to the Portuguese War of Succession. So basically, Portugal was just in a union with Spain (Iberian Union, until 1640). Technically, Portugal was a temporary rival of Britain for 60 years.
@@Havaspierre exactly
Thank you for clarifying.
@@WalkingW1 bro you shouldnt play with the philippine flag like that
Noticed several inaccuracies in this one, I'm not an expert so I may be wrong but:
1) In 1581 England and Portugal weren't rivals but actually their oldest allies.
2) There's very little evidence of raids carried out by the British into Africa to capture slaves like suggested in the song. In fact the majority of the slaves transported across the Atlantic were purchased from pre-existing African kingdoms
3) Nanny the Maroon most likely didn't exist and was a folk tale
4) The Kingdom of Mysore is described as a 'strong and diverse society' which is ironic because by the time of British invasion it was experiencing waves of civil strife and was in fact ruled by a Muslim elite class over a large Hindu population.
5) Ireland wasn't the first place the English colonised, it was Wales
6) The industrial revolution was attributed to wealth coming into Britain through the Atlantic slave trade which is inaccurate as industrialisation was mostly caused by population growth and urbanisation. And only began to 'revolutionise' society after the slave trade was abolished in 1829
Yeah, for a group of history teachers they seem rather uneducated on history.
most historians would agree that nanny the maroon did exist, however the use of literal supernatural ability's most historians agree didn't happen.
U can be rivals with ur allies like France and UK carving up Africa
@@lesscringeymapperdude The UK and France weren’t allies in 1885 during the scramble for Africa. It took up until the beginning of WW1 for Britain and France to ever become allies.
True Ireland wasn't the first but the second but at the time a lot of people thought Wales was England
I think a separate video for rebellions and other lesser known stuff would’ve been better than having it be 75% of the video
@@arkroyal Legit they spoke about slavery for a huge chunk of the video and left out how the British also put a stop to global slave trade but Britain bad guys
@@Brothy Yeah they definitely put too much “slavery bad” in this video. They didn’t even mention the Napoleonic Wars which was very important to the British Empire because they acquired South Africa and various Dutch colonies
I agree but I think this is the "video for rebellions" hence the video being about the British EMPIRE, not Britain. But I definitely felt the same when watching it but then I was like oh I think that's the point.
@@arkroyal I wouldn’t disagree that maybe they could have been more specific about what the video is called but I think the point of the video is Empire, including the British Empire, is bad. I agree that this is not really a video about the complete History of the British Empire but this is the video that talks about all the rebellions as the original comment was saying.
@@Brothy Welcome to modern day history teaching. Slavery...slavery...west bad...Indigenous people good...West bad...slavery
I appreciate you all for mentioning the 1798 Rebellion, it never gets any attention outside Ireland itself yet its such an important event in our history.
We know about it in France, remember Castlebar ?
@@djliottchannel6416 and Bantry bay. Its a shame that you lads did'nt reach us in time
@@ruairiodonohoe2533 if we had, we might have had them swimming across the irish sea, without even catching breath!
True
@@djliottchannel6416 yup it would've been a glorious sight, the amassed armies of green and blue kicking some redcoat arses
Fun fact: This channel has now talked about the atriocities of the British Empire more than the atriocities of the Germans or the Soviets in WW2.
They're...British? Do..you not expect that?
@@marksonner3162 lol
What’s your point?
@@dankmemedankmeme3887 this video only focus on bad things the British did not good things
@@marksonner3162 I did not expect a history video with a political agenda
This was a great video on the atrocities and reforms of the British Empire, but a terrible one in relation to the overall history of said Empire.
History is more than just what’s politically relevant right now.
This, all of this
The atrocious are hardly even accurate in this, it’s just another “lets shit on Britain” video because it’s easy and cliche. To paint Britain as the “bad guy” simply for being the country with the biggest stick.
This video went full woke and it came across cringy as hell. If the people in the video really feel bad about what their country did in the past then they should go out and do charity work instead of rapping about it. 3/10
Nah, British Empire was goatted. May it come again.
Based af
Seems more like a history of 'British Colonial Exploitation' than the British empire itself, but even then the format doesn't work for it.
Imagine saying this in twitter XD
Are the two not one in the same?
@@bigpapa8225 Not really, while it is an aspect of the history of the British Empire, it is not all there is.
@@sithben5837you're wrong it. Did not include any British colony
@@sithben5837 Then...what else are they missing
This is less the history of the British empire and more a highlight on British atrocities and the victims of it. This video is anachronistic. Although i wont argue that these these things didn't happen, they are expressed in a dominating way to the point where British empire building gets completely overshadowed. This feels more like a political message conveyed trough atrocities that were inspected trough a modern-western lens, than it is history.
Yesterday the history channel OverSimplified also released a new video on the punic wars, which also highlights barbaric elements of the Roman empire which still often gets glorified by our modern times, without making their history just singularly about it. People are cruel, but we now live in a time where cruelty is no longer something we are okay with. And i think its important to educate people on the facts without making history solely about them, which in my opinion, this History Bombs video fails to do.
You cant define a human by every bad thing they have done, so why should that apply to an empire?
Because an empire is a fundementally oppressive concept
@@BLC888 Imperial expansion involves the mostly unwilling subjugation of other people. Ignoring it, or brushing over it, does damage to the reality of what it was, and creates a glossy narrative that people like you look at and admire. The British Empire's feelings aren't going to be hurt by leaking all it's skeletons, an empire is just an abstract concept, and it's important to understand the faults of history lest we be doomed to repeat it.
@@zo1o281 throughout history it has been rule or be ruled, it’s human nature. The British just did it best
@@ShooterBangStudios all of society is the subjugation of other people, but none more than the modern society that people like you have constructed on the faux-opposition of traditional societies. Our modern society is all encompassing and removes any ability to exit.
The idea that 'no-one is hurt' by critiques of empire completely ignore that such ahistorical nonsense is made to beat a people down and facilitate mass movement of wealth from our current regimes rivals, to our current regimes friends.
Of course, you'll never actually have the humility to attempt to justify any of this, you'll just continue to hide behind your dumb platitudes.
This skipped many important events and only focused on the harsh and negative side of the empire
Because the harsh and negative side is like 95% of the Empire
@@eoghancarpenter8546 true
@@eoghancarpenter8546 Thats just how life was back then, but Britain did alot of good, Britain was one of the first country to ban slavery and fought tooth and nail to stop it worldwide.
Obviously it took part in the horrible practice of slavery but so did every other nation at the time, Europeans, Arabs, Africans and Asian countries had the dreaded practice.
Or how the reason you have democracy today is Britain, while you can point out exemptions, broadly most democracies today are as a result of British influence or outright copying the British system.
Fact is every empire or historical society is terrible compared to modern standards, and we've talked and brow-beaten Britain enough.
@@eoghancarpenter8546 it’s not as if life in general was easy back then
@@eoghancarpenter8546 yarn, it’s just not though is it. Yes of course there were negative individual events, but that will always happen, it is quite literally human nature. In the grand scheme of things the British empire was a force for good, and if you’re going to whine about indigenous populations the fact is that they don’t truly exist, people move, they fight for land, they survive. It’s happened since the dawn of time.
The video was entertaining, but had a blatant agenda.
Also interesting that you mentioned Olaudah Equiano, but nothing about Josiah Wedgewood, Thomas Clarkson, John Newton, Granville Sharp, not even William Wilberforce, who was perhaps the most important person in the abolitionist movement.
Exactly the slave trade was ended by Christian Englishmen who used the religion to lever the british public into realising it was wrong. It was most definitely not a Nigerian public speaker
Nor the West African Squadron, which historians conclude is the most expensive moral action ever undertaken by a country
Saying this video had an "agenda" for condemning the British empire is like saying their video for Nazi Germany had an agenda for condemning their atrocities. The British empire was the most genocidal entity in history, sitting alongside the third reich and imperial Japan.
@@jamahiriya7528 how? if you look up a list of genocides the uk doesnt even show up and comparing uk to the axis is just not true the japanese during ww2 killed somewhere between 3 million to 10 million in the span of 8 years the german reich killed 20,946,000 and yes on numbers the british have killed more not only was it over 200 years the mongols killed 1/10th of the population of the time. im not defending the british im just saying ur wrong :)
@@jamahiriya7528 i would say it had an agenda because it makes britain out to be an evil slave empire when the fact is we were never the biggest, only partook in it for 200 years, ended it and then nearly bankrupted ourselves trying to end slavery globally. When the rest of the world partook in slavery for 1000s of years and still continue to.
I have often enjoyed History Bombs' productions and have directed my students in history class to the concise, informative and entertaining videos. However, this one seems an overdo of self-flagellation. Lately, many historians have sought to expose the ills of empire-building (in any case, the history of 'civilizations' has been much the history of empire) so as to present a more objective narrative overall. In my Singapore, once a British colony, we are quite aware of the empire's inadequacies, failings, faults and ills, but we acknowledge that much of what we have now has been constructed on the platform laid out by the British in colonial times - parliamentary system, judiciary, education, housing, sports, even military and policing practices/traditions. Eight min is of course too brief a fit for everything, but it's just too bad that History Bombs have dwelt almost solely on its ills. Is that really the only 'true story'? If the 'Singapore story' was less traumatic than has been made out to be in this rap, then surely it represents aspects of empire history that could have possibly been squeezed into this presentation.
Exactly my thinking. It really should of been more than just "British Empire bad" and discussed the goods as well as the bad, especially since everywhere else discusses the bad these days.
FACT OR FICTION Trans-Atlantic slave trade & the opening of I.A.A.M th-cam.com/video/W_gCtiptRPU/w-d-xo.html
@@legozen12345678 "We should remember to mention the good parts of brutal imperialism" mate do you hear yourself?
@@ironicallyscreaming You can discuss the good of something whilst acknowledging the bad it did as well. You can point out the fact the empire got into huge debt (which only finished being paid off in 2015) to work towards abolishing slavery across the world, whilst also pointing out the fact they profited from said slave trade previously. Both are important parts of history and one shouldn’t be ignored because of the other.
@@ironicallyscreaming People want to talk at length about the good aspects of empires such as the roman empire, the mongol or ottoman empires, China, the aztec empire and so on, but suddenly when it's the british empire it's exclusively bad simply because you said so? Literally every empire in world history has engaged in brutality to further its own agenda, but also contributed good things to human civilisation as well. Britain included. Westerners seriously need to get over this cringe white guilt.
i wish they could have brought up the war of 1812 and the Zulu war, especially the last stand at roakes drift
They couldn't mention Rorke's Drift because it was an example of British victory and bravery. This video is supposed to highlight all the "bad" things we did against non-whites and ignore anything good.
They should have also brought up William Wilberforce, the man who was responsible for bringing Britain out of the slave trade.
@@reefconvy7291 A bit late to reply, but that would be a bit silly to praise him because he was one of the harshest slave traders ever before he started to campaign against slavery.
@@RandomAussie-dx9fj Well good thing he changed his mind then.
@@reefconvy7291 Good point
It is nice to see another in one take, however this one could have been done better. Atriocities seemed to be the videos main focus. There is more to the British Empire than just commiting atriocities.
I understand what your saying, but it’s important to know these atrocities. The British empire was for lack of a better word villainous and the vast public is unaware or knows little about it. And after all history bombs is a learning channel
Hi, American here.
No there isn’t.
@@kingpenguin1580 is there someone who doesn't know the atrocities? I could swear lately it's just about guilt rather than learn.
@@kingpenguin1580 it called history of the British Empire tho. Not Atrocities of the British Empire. Sure put some part in there about that but show the good aswell. This just pushes all the bad things of the British Empire too much as they have also done a lot of good.
Not gonna lie recently I've felt that we've almost washed away the goods that came with colonialism to replace it with all atrocities to fit our modern woke narrative, I understand all that is said in the video is quite informative and true to a good extent but its almost like people just can't except there's so many sides to History and not a sole avenue of pure evil in this case, there's no denying there were atrocities and evils that were committed, but there were triumphs aswell which I can recognise alongside the brutal and horrifying side of The British Empire
So glad to see a new History Bombs In One Take, but damn was this one less fun than usual…
And rightfully so.
@@thebrutusmars still a good video to watch tho
@@thebrutusmars there was really no flow like the old ones also no visuals in the background like the past wars they did
There other one take videos are better. There ww1, ww2 and Cold War one take videos got me more interested in history. They made ww1 and ww2 have silly characters and actual sets I don’t see why they can’t do it now. They seem to be more focused on pushing political messages then making a entertaining video that will get more people interested in history, so they can form there own opinion on the British empire.
@@JSA-Studios then dont the video jesus christ such a cry baby
Is this a video about the British empire or the British colonies? Cause I saw absolutely NO British soldiers mentioned during the ww1 part. They actually didn’t put one famous British person who did good on there either.
They didn’t mention the napoleonic wars or the war of 1812. Or British expeditionary forces in France or British soldiers along with Australian troops in the Ottoman Empire or Lawrence of Arabia which definitely could have fit into the video’s narrative. It’s clear the video’s intention is to claim that Britain was a horrible empire (which can be debated because the British empire DID do atrocities in Africa and caused a famine in India) without acknowledging actual British history or the good stuff it did. This is not the history of the British empire. This is the history of the British COLONIES.
Where's the fucking difference???
An empire is defined as an extensive group of states or countries ruled over by a single monarch, an oligarchy, or a sovereign state.
When people say "the sun never set on the British Empire" this is what they mean. Are you seriously going to sit there and try and convince me that imperialism is a good thing???
@@freniisammii Try again but read carefully this time.
You know the video is going to be misleading when they say Portugal and England where rivals
There are such things as friendly rivalries i'd say, but yeah, spain and portugal where nowhere near the same when it came to english diplomacy.
6:45 The Boers were much more racist and oppressive of the African people than their British counterparts, and the concentration camps the British used were not like the ones we think of today [horrific places like Auschwitz] rather just a settlement to keep the Boers in the same place so that they wouldn't run off and kill innocent civilians for the independence of their racist state. Furthermore, when the British left South Africa [this is where the Boer War happened], this kind of people took power and established the apartheid system [a kind of racial segregation, where non-white citizens and white citizens were split apart, with non-white citizens living in worse conditions, lower pay, and being forced from the cities for whites to live in], showing that the Boer war was justified in some way.
under the briish rule, there was racial segregation in south africa
apartheid was just a harsher continuation of what the briish had already established
the briish also had segregation in zimbabwe, india, kenya not to mention in austarlia, nz and canada when these countries were under the briish rule
briish empire was an incredibly racst empire.
@@Tony-lj5lrso?
@@Tony-lj5lr yeah, but so were the Boers, that's the point of the comment
I would be willing to bet my right arm, if history bombs were to do a video on the Chinese Empire, Mongolian Empire, Japanese Empire, Ottoman Empire, Aztec Empire, Mayan Empire, Zulu Empire it wouldn't be nearly as negative or so focused on atrocities, slavery and opression. No one in the right mind today is denying the British Empire is responsible for its fair share of crimes against humanity but to brow beat the viewer over the head with not but a entire nation's worst crimes without acknowledging is great achievemnts is misleading at best and bigoted at worst.
I wouldn’t bet on the Japanese one because there’s is pretty undefendable , But as for the others yeah you’re probably right.
@@TurtleFist3556 Well yes your right. When it comes to WW2 it's pretty undefendable. Still if it were to cover the entire history of Japan it wouldn't be nearly as negative.
@@sealstorm1935 I agree
None of those empire actions still have grave consequences in the present.
@@erozionzeall6371 the mongol empire left large parts of asia uninhabited because they slaughtered the entire population that lived there.
Quality video as usual but this one seemed to only focus on the harsh, sometimes obscure negatives and skip over many important events.
Self loathing Brits got an agenda to push
Yes they should've managed to squeeze in every event that every happened during the British empire
I dont know, if you know that but there werent many good things in the british empire.
@@uc5581 there were plenty, be it legal reform, technological science ( a Japanese study claims approx 50% of modern times were invented in Britain), medicine, infrastructure etc…
@@uc5581 Abolishing slavery throughout the world?
I loved the WW1 and WW2 ones but this one honestly seems like more of a political message only focusing on the atrocities committed by the British Empire and none of the positives. Can't say I'm surprised though as everyone loves to bash on Britain nowadays.
I'm not going to sit here and say the colonists were lovable people coming to spread good will because that would be fucking lie but what I'm not also going to say is that the natives were lovable peaceful people because that would also be a fucking lie people like to gloss over the fact that overall britian was hardly a cruel ot evil empire especially compared to others. The british empire took land goods money and valuables of other empires who had acquired said riches the exact same way and its a load of bollocks to think these natives were innocent.
@@RoyalRegimentofScotland Agreed a lot of people love to pretend that the natives were peace loving harmless monks. When in reality they were also responsible for massacres of their own.
@@blitzen435 tbh many natives were significantly worst the Britain and committed incredibly inhumane acts
There were no positives lmao. That's like saying "but hitler built the autobahn"
@@jamahiriya7528 this is one of the dumbest comments I've ever seen on a history video if you have no interest in learning history or have no actual clue what your talking about don't comment on history videos
I'm all for exploring a nations dark history, but it seemed like this video only focused on the bad parts of the British Empire. I feels like they completely skipped over all the good things that happened during their history and was more of a hit piece than a history piece.
Because It's more interesting
Because It's more interesting
Couldn't agree more.
Why not just balance it out, or keep it subtle?
Ok then I can also say make video on positive things nazis did . Like you said they skipped good things.
@@rome316ae3 The quality sucks too.
They weren't even trying.
i like how george washington has an american accent even though he was british
Because obviously he started talking like that the second he declared himself 'American' (well, part of the new USA).
@@orangeairsoft7292 yes im proud to be american
He is English Colonist and born in Virginia
I do appreciate your work, but in my opinion you focused too much on the negative sides of the empire. History is more than brutality and racism
but the british empire did do so many horrific things which still impact the world today, yes there are some positives but history is violent and brutal and we can’t forget that
@@aceattorneyruinedmylife by that definition, every empire or kingdom that existed since the dawn of Mankind, should be given a video like this. Like bruh, the middle Eastern politics were messed up anyways
But that’s all the British did
@@aceattorneyruinedmylife everyone was brutal back then. in fact, after britain got rid of slavery, they helped outlaw slaves in africa over african empires, helping save millions of slaved. bet they didn’t teach you that.
@@The_Honourable_Company ok but Britain did fuck ton of bad
When Britain first, at heaven's command
Arose from out the azure main
Arose arose from out the azure main
This was the charter, the charter of the land
And guardian angels sang this strain
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves
Still more majestic shalt thou rise
More dreadful from each foreign stroke
More dreadful, dreadful from each foreign stroke
As the loud blast, the blast that tears the skies
Serves but to root thy native oak
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves
Still more majestic shalt thou rise
More dreadful from each foreign stroke
More dreadful, dreadful from each foreign stroke
As the loud blast, the blast that tears the skies
Serves but to root thy native oak
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves
The Muses, still with freedom found
Shall to thy happy coasts repair
Shall to thy happy, happy coasts repair
Blest isle regardless, with countless beauty places
And manly hearts to guard the fair
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves
Britons never, never, shall be slaves
@The Styng Irish Rebellion song. Nice
@@TheStyng 😂 ffs mate
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war's desolation.
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And still we can see, as the years have gone by,
There's a dream in our land, like a flame that keeps burning,
And the lantern of hope, from the harbor still shines,
Those who seek freedom's dream, to its light are still turning
Now we look to the skies, and we lift up our eyes
For we know with the dawn, we will see our flag rise!
And this is our Star-Spangled Banner yet wave;
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
@@miscellaneoussarnian5282 AHHHH AMERICA
SOLDIERS ARE WE
WHOSE LIVES ARE PLEDGED TO IRELAND
SOME HAVE COME
FROM A LAND BEYOND THE WAVES
(GOD BLESS THEM)
SWORN TO BE FREE
NO MORE OUR ANCIENT SIRELAND
SHALL SHELTER THE DESPOT OR THE SLAVE
TONIGHT WE MAN THE GAP OF DEATH
IN ERIN'S CALL COME WOE OR WEAL
MID CANNONS ROAR AND RIFLES' PEAL
WE WIL CHANT A SOLDIERS SONG
I feel like this focuses way too much on the negative. No empire in history was perfect and golden, but the British Empire definitely had good aspects too.
I challenged them to make a video about Mongol empire
Let’s be fair, they focus on the negative on all videos.
Yeah but the negatives have to be focused on because so far history books have not paid any attention to them
@@thepeach03 ^^^^
BRITISH EMPIRE MAKE PEOPLE SUFFER
The 1 take videos for WW1/WW2/CW really got me into history, I love it so much now. I can't imagine how much effort these 1 take videos take, but pls, continue
This one felt more controversial than fun. It felt really "woke".
Because it is. This was absolutely hate propaganda. It's evil.
It’s not woke, you people just have a massive victim complex so whenever someone talks about the British empire you think it’s an attack because all the British empire did was bad
Yeah. I mean it really listed more bad than good something that many people across the globe seem to focus on these days.
Absolutely
That’s the thing: it ISNT controversial. It’s easy to hate on the English because they were just better then pretty much everyone. Despite all the good, people will bitch about the bad solely. Mongolians raping, burning and murdering LITERAL BILLIONS? Great tacticians! Romans slaving millions INCLUDING the British? Wow, what a great empire! So mighty! Like, what the fuck?
Extremely bias video, you chose to only focus on the atrocities, rather of focusing on both the good and the bad.
They didnt even get all the atrocities in. Instead focusing on some books from random black dudes that didnt have an effect
@@socire72
They also completely misunderstood what the Irish rebellion was
The Irish rebellion wasn’t about “sending the invaders home” (Wolfe tone was literally English and French Heugenot) the war was about effectively about implementing the American system in Ireland, similar revolutions and movements also existed in Scotland and England
@@Somerandomdrummer8 Well, kind of. It was inspired by the American and French revolutions but the goal was to make the Irish people no longer second class citizens. The Easter Rising however planned to implement a leftist system - as James Connolly, a Marxist, was one of the leaders.
Thank you for this amusing video, but I want to present my sincere comments out of respect for your work not hatred.
Firstly, rap-wise, I felt it is a bit inferior than the other history bombs videos, you could have done much better.
Secondly, I didnt like how you only mentioned the negatives of what the british has done in the past, neglecting, hopefully not purposefully, all the good things they have achieved and done such the industrial revolution, the invention and spread of smallpox vaccines throughout the world, the spread of education and medecine, them being the first to abolish slavery to name a few.
As a history enthusiat I want us to study and recognize the past both for the good and bad things, not just focusing on one side of the story because then it is propaganda not actual historical inquiry.
Thank you for your time ❤️
An excellent comment. Britain not only was amongst the first nations in the world to abolish slavery, it then forced other nations to do so - often risking war such as during the blockade of Brazil in 1850 and the invasion of Zanzibar in 1873.
yeah this did seem a bit british hate
@@stealthotrapo9123 does feel like a bit of pandering to me kind of feels like they are misdirecting some hate to a nation that bought everyone their current way of life just because what they did in the past that they have already amended for.
Iceland abolished slavery and serfdom in 1117. Britain did in 1833.
@@andro7862 We have to credit the great Icelandic navy and their resolute government on ending the slave trade due to their immense wealth and status in the world at that time, Huzzah for Iceland.
6:20
That's very true! The British Empire got rich from the Opium Wars against China. When it was the British who were the ones that was responsible for the Opium Wars. Not only did they flood China with drugs they also forced China to buy it too it also made many Chinese people addicted to opium. That is also why? Most of Asia especially China has strong laws against drugs to this modern day.
*_"Oh no we lost america, oh im fine, time to fight another war"_*
British empire in a nutshell
AHAHAHA. Finaly found some comment that made my day ahaha.
They don’t want us to be proud of our Ancestor's achievements, but they want us to be forever ashamed of their misdeeds.
(I must also add)
7:51
This is a false narrative; the Marshall Plan rebuilt the British economy; these people weren't ‘invited’; they were unskilled labour imported to make deficient domestic industries cost-effective, ultimately undermining the British Working Classes.
It was never expected for them to remain.
Wah wah we took people in and now theyre staying???? Fucking overthrow your government or something, dont blame it on the workers
Probably the least informative video - everybody knows slavery happened and the atrocities committed by white rulers in colonies. No context to the Napoleonic Wars or the Seven Years' War, just all about the colonies. And while Olaudah Equiano's book was influential, William Wilberforce was the real architect of the end of slavery in the British Empire.
Also absolutely no Credit to the West Africa Squadron
I love how the accurate 1500's map had a full world knowledge and had timetravelled into 2022 and changed it's bordrs and returned
I wonder how they’re gonna talk about the Napoleonic wars. A defining moment in British history which led to the start of the pax Britannica…… aaaaaaand nothing. Also you can’t just put the blame solely on the United Kingdom for the partition of India. The partition was solely due because the Hindus and Muslims couldn’t get along and when discussing a united India neither side could agree on anything. Even Gandhi saw that it was next to impossible to satisfy all parties involved. They chose to partition India. Could the British have done more? Probably, but in the end it was up to the two groups to decide. Also, if you’re gonna talk about the slave trade then you should also talk about how Britain took an active role in stopping the slave trade in the 19th and 20th century’s. A nice mention of the African squadron would’ve been nice. As for the First Nations yes we had our ups and downs, but so does every other nation. When they first met there were problems on both sides. English slavers would kidnap First Nations people well at the same time the first nations would kidnap English settlers. However both sides managed to put away their differences and come to terms with each other and even form alliances. In the seven years war, the revolutionary war and the war of 1812 the first nations were valued allies of the British. In fact one of the big reasons for the American revolutionary war was because the British band the expansion westward into First Nation territory in order to keep the peace between Britain and the first nations. Also in 1812 if it wasn’t for Tecumseh and his people British North America would’ve fallen into American hands. Unfortunately the first nations did suffer from diseases spread by Europeans but so too did Europeans suffer from diseases from the New World. Medicine and medical knowledge at the time were less than stellar.
"blame solely on the United Kingdom for the partition of India. The partition was solely due because the Hindus and Muslims couldn’t get along and when discussing a united India neither side could agree on anything. "
So you're saying its okay they exploited this and conquered and systematically starved millions? Neat.
"As for the First Nations yes we had our ups and downs, but so does every other nation. When they first met there were problems on both sides."
"Ups and downs"? Really you call genocide ups and downs? Thats so ignorant its not even funny. It doesn't;t matter if they fought with the English, in the end the English we're in a land that wasn't theirs to conquer, and to try and blame natives for the reason why they got conquered is so incredibly ignorant, literally. Look in the mirror, stop sticking up for empires, when they are inherently oppressive.
@@marksonner3162 most of them died from disease. lets not act like the Sioux wouldnt completley wipe out the Crows if they could. People were savage back then and war was a normal state for almost every nation that existed
@@danielharrison9237 theres a distinct difference between two people, from the same continent warring with eachother than that of the British coming to a new one, and conquering it. They died mostly from disease yet if I may pose a question…where did that come from? Definitely not them.
You forgot that both hindus and muslims fought in sepoy mutiny though. The british to combat this divided india by martial race theory and even supported a Maulana who seeked to further two nation theory.
@@marksonner3162 again you're describing events that are completely normal in human history. People have been invading other continents and spreading disease for thousands of years
"The Real Story" - completely ignoring the leading democracy that Britain is today and everything they have brought to the world that has improved it. Not to mention a lot of the civil wars that broke out after the British left were just a continuation of fighting that had existed before the British arrived.
"leading democracy" that treats the Queen's death like how North Korea reacted to Kim Jong-il's and Kim Il-sung's deaths. Nationalist apologist much?
If the screaming in the House of Commons is a "leading democracy" then this society is screwed
@@disneymore7941 Would you rather live under a dictatorship like that of China, Russia, NK or most of the third world?
@@Yes-pd3cbRussia and China is strict but still good
Note, the European states that did the whole Atlantic slave trade purchased all (or hereabouts) of the slaves from local African states, as they sort of forgot how to enslave people and either the Portuguese or the Dutch actually sent people to research how their trade partners (the local kingdoms) were getting all the slaves they were selling to them, since Europeans usually lasted less than a week on the continent let’s just say it was a bit of a challenge
That's one aspect of the slave trade that often gets overlooked. People forget that Africans themselves contributed a lot to the enslavement of their people.
This is not fully accurate of all the European powers involved in the Slave Trade; the English had completely abolished slavery centuries before their involvement, so they had indeed completely forgotten how to enslave people (and in fact the first enslaved Africans they purchased were given Indenture contracts and released after a set term, as that was the closest model they had to slavery in the early 17th century). The Portuguese, meanwhile, were simply not very good at slave raiding; they had a continual practice of slavery (including purchasing slaves both from Italian and Islamic merchants), and attempted to engage in slave raiding themselves, with it being common practice for Mediterranean merchants (whose ships were typically well armed to slave off pirates) to besiege cities and capture their citizens as slaves if they were found to lack defenses, but it was very risky as the cities were often better defended than they realized. As they began to navigate along the Western coast of Africa, they also attempted slave raids, thinking the weaker bows of the locals were no threat, but the common use of poisoned arrows made local archers harder to fight than they expected. It wasn't that they'd forgotten how to enslave people, they just kept losing when they tried to do so militarily (though they were able to enslave their own Jewish populations more easily, which helped to build the early slave plantation system, and also had some success in capturing Canary Islanders). These early failures did prompt them to start respectfully engaging with African leaders in order to buy slaves from them instead of kidnapping (though they would also return to slave raiding later, famously capturing enough people from their ally the Kingdom of Kongo that the King of Kongo wrote to the King of Portugal asking him to reign in his people). The Spanish, meanwhile, had a great deal of success enslaving people in the Canary Islands and Caribbean, though they ultimately stopped doing so because of a combination of legal restrictions on who they were allowed to enslave and the high death rate among the groups they targeted; still, the early enslavement of Canary Islanders was an important early step in building up the Spanish plantation system. I'm not sure about the Dutch, as I haven't read about the development of their slavery specifically.
@@SomasAcademy... I agree but also that Africa was involved the slave trade even before the Europeans got there... Also you had the Ottoman empire that took out lower blacks at Africa than any other group and enslaved 20,000 million white people and it was considered the most brutal slave trade.... So history tell us that pretty much everybody was involved in the slave trade and when the Europeans did go to Africa.. Kings of tribes and countries sold their own sons and daughters for exchange for golden weapons to attack other tribes and countries... And here's a fun fact but not really a fun fact.... Slavery is abolished around the world but you still have 700,000 slaves in Africa today and here in the western continent... The central countries have the most sex trafficking slaves around the world... I get nobody says anything about it why it's because they're not white....
I'm not sure why this needed to be noted. This is one of the few things in modern times that deliberately stated the slaves were bought rather than saying captured.
8:19 I don’t understand how Britain is blamed for the deaths after the partition. they were made by the people of the British raj themselves and that was the partitioning they wanted
They could have drawn the betters better than by a man who never even visited the raj
@@amaadshah91 It isn't like you were all happy clappy before the Europeans arrived; further partitions were necessary, in my opinion.
India is effectively a Hindu-nationalist state that examples the rights of its minority groups.
@@amaadshah91 the Indians voted on the borders. The partition was something the UK didn’t want to touch with a ten foot long pole.
We drew no borders there when we were leaving.
@@amaadshah91 Britain tried their best to not do partition such as the cabinet mission India of 1945
1946
As someone who absolutely hates British empire, this video was biased and didn't show good side (industrial revolution) also where is napoleon
No seven years war as well
the fact that the British caused the India-Pakistan partition killing over 2 million people was absolutely heart breaking and i'm rlly happy that you guys ended it with that fact. love from a Pakistani
they didn't
the partition was voted upon by Indians, not by the british
I am glad history bombs didn't sugarcoat things.
This is biased. Its the complete opposite of sugarcoatting it only focuses on the bad and atrocities of the empire.
India's contribution to world GDP before brits arrived : 25 % ( also the India was the richest country of the world for 1600 years by then, the longest for ANY country ever, the record still stands ).
After brits left : 2%
Famines in India in the 2000 years before brits arrived : 17
Famines that occurred under british rule of 200 years : around 25
Here's a list of some of them : The British era is significant because during this period a very large number of famines struck India.[2][3] There is a vast literature on the famines in colonial British India.[4] The mortality in these famines was excessively high and in many cases it has been increased by British policies.[5] The mortality in the Great Bengal famine of 1770 was between one and 10 million;[6] the Chalisa famine of 1783-1784, 11 million; Doji bara famine of 1791-1792, 11 million; and Agra famine of 1837-1838, 800,000.[7] In the second half of the 19th-century large-scale excess mortality was caused by: Upper Doab famine of 1860-1861, 2 million; Great Famine of 1876-1878, 5.5 million; Indian famine of 1896-1897, 5 million; and Indian famine of 1899-1900, 1 million.[8] The first major famine of the 20th century was the Bengal famine of 1943, which affected the Bengal region during wartime; it was one of the major South Asian famines in which anywhere between 1.5 million and 3 million people died.[9]
The total number of people who died because of this Famines alone and in India alone goes over tens of millions of people. If you add to this the total number of people who died by any cause that was a result of brits or their policies in all of their colonies then the number easily crosses hundreds of millions. Hence, the lady is correct on this point. Infact, the last great famine under british ruled India was the great Bengal famine of 1943, of which multiple photos and videos you can find in the internet including on TH-cam. When multiple concerned british officials wrote to churchil how his actions have created the most devastating famine of the world in the 20th centuary, he replied, " why hasn't Gandhi died yet ".
India's contributions to the world : The Hindu numerical system, also known as the decimal base system which forms the basis of mathematics and is the system we use today, and which may as well be the greatest invention ever in the history of humanity, Madhava, an Indian mathematician who founded the Kerala school of Mathematics almost discovered calculus over 200 years before newton or leibnitz were even born, and a LOTS AND LOTS of other fundamental contributions to maths, physics, logic, philosophy, biology, etc. India is one of the 3 earliest, oldest civilization, namely, the Harrappan civilization (India), the Masopotamian civilization ( modern day iraq) , the Egyptian civilization. Which one of these is the oldest is highly debatable and a topic of ongoing research, but India was the most extensive and widespread civilization of these all. Ancient Indians invented/ discovered many things some of which are, soap, shampoo, buttons, diamonds, steel, city planning, drainage systems, underground drainiage systems, the world's first port, the game of chess, etc. The first language in the world is also an Indian language ( one of these, Sanskrit or Tamil, both Indian languages). India has also made tremendous contributions in the modern times in STEM and almost every field. On top of it all, the brits committed littoral atrocities in India and other colonies, the most famous of this is the Jaliawalla bagh massacre, whose committer was later treated as a hero, and when an Indian, named Sardar Udham Singh, shot dead him in London as a revenge, he was tried as a terrorist and hanged, his testimony before the court was recorded and I encourage you to read it. In short, if you have studied history from british or european textbooks, I suggest you to for once try different sources like the internet or history books from other countries, manly former colonies.
Well the last monarch of the empire is gone. Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth And Long Live The King
You could make a similar video about the Roman empire and mention every genocide, crime and all the violence, but you don't admit that the Romans were ultimately responsible for forging West, North and Central Europe into the best, most free and most progressive regions to live in the world in the 21st century.
Understanding the benefits does not mean you have to forgive the crimes. Let's not forget the bloodshed but we musn't forget the progress, Common law, democratic and industrial achievements either.
They prefer a racial and denunciation approach. unsubbed
@@DaveSCameron What should`ve they done instead? Praise that they built up India, Australia and the USA and not mention the fact that they left africa in rubbish (Not to say that it wasnt in rubbish before, but back then it maybe would`ve worked out different.)
@@GeneraIKurt they didn't build up the usa, the usa built up the usa, now you forgot canada
@@cantripleplays The US came out from many different nation and still, the spark originated from the british colonies.
And yeah, Canada. Sorry Canada.
Well, I would argue british colonialism didn't exactly do that for its colonies and that "we make you better by making you like us!" is never a good reason to take anyones land away.
That said, I also think this video does not really work as even a summary of the British Empire. It only talks about colonialism. Which is totally fine, but then why not just call it "History of british colonialism" then? Seems way more fitting.
To be honest I am not sure if the massage of this video is anti imperialism or anti british in general because it brings on mostly negative things about this subject
I myself am from egypt and my country was ruled by the british for relatively 75 Years both directly and indirectly and I will tell you that the british did some horrible things to my country both before and after the independence of my country (see the suez crisis) but keep in mind that most european powers at the time did the same thing and other powers from other regions did it (see the arab slave trade and the omani empire for example) , I am not trying to justify imperialism and colonialism just because everyone did it
I mean look at slavery for example do you think that slavery had been abolished just because it's bad ? do you think that people from the past are evil because they accepted slavery as a normal thing?
slavery only have been abolished because it's not needed anymore thanks to new technologies and machines just like cigarettes isn't it bad ? then why wasn't it abolished ? because money and power those two are the things that drive statemans and politicians to do such horrible things (look at the war in ukraine) .
what I am trying to say is british people or people in general shouldn't be ashamed by things that their ancestors had did instead they must think about what they will do in both the present and future
BUT also they should acknowledge what happened in the past so we could at least learn from history
(Thanks for reading)
That's the one issue I had with the video, it really didn't show any positives of the Empire and seems as if whoever was the script writer was is a bit biased. The Empire did have many issues like you said and was said in the video, which is taught about here
I’m British and I didn’t see the video as anti-British because…well ultimately it is merely stating facts.
No one is claiming that only the British had slaves, an empire etc. But that doesn’t stop the British Empire being worth discussing in itself.
The Empire was about money and power from start to finish of course. The British were not and are not inherently evil - no race or country is.
Nothing in this video makes me feel any shame to be British. I am British because two British people had sex and mine months later there I was. A simple fact of biology and geography. There is no point in my feeling personal guilt for what happened before I was born. And there is no point feeling pride for what happened before I was born either. As you say, I can only change the present and the future.
@@HeyHey-yn8cw it’s somewhat anti British, the majority of it is about rebellions (not even that important ones) and misses out hugely important events. I can’t believe they didn’t mention the industrial revolution, debatably the most important and impactful event in history which was a result of the British empire and they didn’t think to mention it.
What do you Egyptians say happened in the suez crisis? From what I am aware the Egyptian government took British and French property and got punished for it until the USA and USSR stepped in. What do you Egyptians say happened?
This is as well made as previous ones, but "History of the British Empire" is misleading. More like "Atrocities of the British Empire", since it mostly goes about the horrible things commited instead of it's general history (which you would expect from the title).
the general history is largely atrocities the british empire overall did a lot more bad than good but they did mention abolition which most would consider good done by them
It's a solid video but the lyrics fall a bit flat for me and the scenery is not up to snuff compared to your older videos. You are also only showing negatives about the Empire. Yes it is right up bring it up and even focus on the negatives imperialism but one must also showcase some positives that came out of it. For instance industrial development, communication and a more interconnected world.
Glad to see you guys are back and I'm interested to see what you will be bringing us in the future.
*Industrial development for the UK and its settlers.
@@andro7862 The UK kickstarted the industrial revolution, which from there on spread to the rest of Europe, and the fruits of which then spread out across the whole world, colonies included. Vaccination programs and other disease eradication programs were brought to the colonies by most European powers. And when decolonisation happened, those countries were left with a vast network of modern infrastructure.
@@andro7862 wrong, industrial development throughout the world
They only talked about discovery, atrocities and only bad things. The British did far more then that. Also, the British had 4 ppl act them, all the independence activists git way more. The also glossed over napoleon and a number of important things.
You should do this for ottoman empire and talk about the enslavement, displacement, and genocide of the balkans.
yes, but they should also add the good things about the ottoman empire and not list just all the bad things and make the ottomans look like villains like they did in this video
@@stealthotrapo9123 What good things?
@@andro7862 Ottomans had contributed to the development of hospitals and healthcare, and witnessed advances in medicine, mining and military technology. To say what good things implying that in the over 600 years of the ottoman empires existence they did nothing good is preposterous.
And also talk about all the Muslims expelled from and killed in the Balkans, Caucasus and Crimea as well
@@stealthotrapo9123 I reread this and I think your saying this video is not inaccurate but unfair and I think we can agree.
They only list the bad, and they should also list lots of the good things that empires did in history, obviously lots of awful stuff aswell but history is history and we need to know about both.
The only main issue I have is that with the American revolution it’s acting more like the British we’re defeated but over looks issues like Spain and other countries assisting America as well as Britain giving up due to it being inefficient for money but could have sent more armies furthermore this focuses very little on the rise and fall of the empire as well as ignoring benefits it has had and seems more to focus on the downsides
britain was also being helped and money is something that is managed on both sides of war
The British had to deal with like 5 countries up their ass while fighting America lol
@@d-boi9785 which 5? there was quite literally only the dutch and spanish in which the spanish provided 1 fleet and the dutch were pretty much doing their own thing
@@Nemo-ew2hd France Also Joined on the American Side
@@elconcaro8031 yeah I was referring to the countries who were mainly fighting off of the continent, mainly naval powers, spanish and dutch, cause i was just calling out that BS about 5 countries being dealt with independently of the war
Where's Napoleon, and Wellington, and Jinnah?
I know right? It’s like they just left out any figure that wasn’t extremely famous
Why are the English made out to be villans in our own country it’s crazy
you kinda were………
I don't like how they acted like the slave thing was because of us White's and not that slavery has existed since the ancient times.
Also Muslims took part in the african slave trade long before any europeans did.
You can tell this video is made in 2022
How so
Sadly yes
Lol
@@clarencehemphill3403 All of the "white man bad" rhetoric.
@@clarencehemphill3403 Because it does nothing but preaching about how bad and bad the British Empire was.
While slavery is still going on in this world.
Didnt African slavery started first by the Africans themselves and not Britain?
And what about British involvement in preventing the slavery trade in the slavery routes?
Was kind of hopeing there would be more about Napoleon or Crimea but still very good. Would love to see the German Empire next
this video was explosive for sure
Only talking about all the atrocities?
Finally, someone noticed
Oh and Ghandi himself never actually had a problem with the British, especially since he was educated in London… Ghandi wasn’t even anti British as such, he just wanted an independent state, much like the colonies in America.
All the people insult Britain and they live and work in Britain in any other nation they would be exiled for this
Honestly if they hate the country so much, they should just leave, but they never will due to the much higher standard of living.
Not defending the atrocities of the BI, but this video isn't about the British Empire, but about it's colonies, so here's some BI facts:
They stopped Napoleon Bonaparte and ended a war of +20 years against him
They helped defeat the Axis in both World Wars
It was the biggest Empire in history in army size, land extension and more
The BI was one of the longest lasting empires, lasting more than 400 years
If there's more facts, comment here, and remember, i'm just saying the facts, i am not defending or attacking the BI, so there's no need to discussions
May I suggest a more accurate title?
“Every shitty thing the British Empire has done (in one take)”
Not exactly the entire history…
wait england and portugal were never rivals they have had an alliance sence 1386
I think it means friendly rivalry
Problem with this video is they never speak if the positives
None of there videos do
@@jasonaldana1470 good point
“Yeah man, the problem with Schindler’s List is they never talk about all the positives of all that free labour” what the hell kind of point are you making? What positives should they have brought up for an empire that for most of its history, did nothing but pillage and conquer?
What positives? The only one i can think of is WW2, and thats far more India’s accomplishment, not Britain.
@@socire72 personally, I’d put more of an importance for the victory of the allies on the Soviets, but India was an important player in the pacific theatre yes
Ireland being Englands first colony? What a Wales of a time that was
Well colony means implanting a invading force into another peoples land so like what England did with the plantations, they didn’t do that with wales they were more of a protectorate(puppet state)
@@SWTORROLEPLAY1998 No they took Wales and extracted the resources from the land, almost wiped out their language and Anglofied the population. Its the same as with Ireland just much earlier
@@flerkan2802 again, not colonisation that’s fucked up but not colonisation for colonisation to happen their needs to be a foreign force occupying land which could be argued happened back in 450AD. Unless your a ethnic nationalist I consider everyone white in Britain native, considering were all mixed together I’m not one of those celts and anglosaxons idiots.
Is wales a state of USA (
Does it count as a colony if it isnt overseas though?
This is honestly less of the history of the empire and more of just the attrocities and bad parts of it. Although we cannae deny that these events happened, this video is not doing the actual history of the British Empire any good.
If anything this video should be titled "Failures and attrocities of the British Empire (in One Take)
As it should be. Britain has screwed the world over.
@@erozionzeall6371
And you have a profile picture with both the flag of the Soviet Union, and Guuci. Don't try to lecture me about screwing over the world. 💀
The British Empire was a colonial empire, what did you expect from it? "Oopsie poopsie, I just did a stinky within my colonies, I guess I need to give it independence because the 18th century version of woke should have been more advanced!"
And the video is supposed to be about the actual history and some of the good as well, not just the bad things to demomize the entire thing.
@@Norridon All the British empire deserves now is blame
"the actual history" except this is still the actual history. Gonna cry, like you do for Her Majesty who's now in a box?
@@disneymore7941
The disrespect I do not appreciate.
I will not deny this is *part* of the history, but it's not the entire thing.
Well done for not dwelling too long on all the many cultural and industrial innovations but instead focusing on the atrocities.
Every country has them. No country has ever committed so many atrocities against foreign peoples’. And the ones that have, apologised (excluding Japan and the USA.)
Some fun facts about UK:
The Opium Wars is an under appreciated part of British history that plays a greatly understated role in current events in regards to how China handles itself. Now USA and Europe say that G0D created heaven and earth and the rest is made in China.
Latin America is the best kept secret of the British Empire and Venezuela the real jewel of the Crown
England is like the baseball team New York Yankees . You either love or hate, but either way, you appreciate its greatness.
Lord mighty it’s the next take in one ?!!??!
I heard that Hamilton “ Here comes the general” for George Washington 👀
HERE COMES THE GENERAL, RISE UP!!
British empire made the world better!!!
When George Washington said here comes the general i thought of Hamilton
OMG UR BACK!
Great video tbh however I feel like it didn't have the same energy as the usual History Bomb again still good
History bombs and oversimplified take so long for a video but at the end it’s amazing and with a few videos from both of them you will pass history
no
oversimplified maybe but definitely not this
Ok u might be right
Armchair historian is the G.O.A.T.
When Britain started its own navigations in 1581, Portugal was already in the Iberian Union. So, the period between 1581 and 1640 was the only period in modern history where Portugal and the British were competitors instead of allies.
1580-1640
“This videos just 8 minutes!”
*Biggest anime betrayals*
And now. Just nine days after uploading. Her Majesty has passed away and an era has ended while a new one begins in whats left of the "empire"
She gave freedom and independence to the colonies based
@@terrorgaming459Fucking hell, constitutional monarchy or not!?!?
Now the queen has died,
Long live the queen
I love how you made a Hamilton reference!!
Here comes the general
RISE UP@@xyiux
The fact that this came out a few days before the queen died
This video should just be called "bashing England in under 8 minutes"
It turns out 8 minutes is in fact long enough to shit on the British.
Seriously if you want a still critical but fair video on the British Empire see History Summarized: The British Empire by Overly Sarcastic Productions, it's only 4 minutes longer, and significantly more balanced and informative.
This video had a blatant agenda. Yes, the British Empire was not perfect, but you didn't tell the whole story. It was not all evil and atrocities, the British Empire was also a great source of good for the world (for example, refurbished Taj Mahal, end famine in India for 80 years, spread democracy throughout the world, ended many aspects of Indigenous brutal culture like Sati, I could go on). Very disappointing.
You Should Do A History Of Queen Elizabeth II One Take
Elizabeth II HAS PASSED AWAY
No
The Australian part is missing the fact that the Brits actually never acknowledged the aboriginal people as people. Australia was only considered for colonisation because it was said to be completely uninhabited or “Terra nullis.”
Me and my baby brother who needs a nap really like this song, thanks to history bombs I'm a history geek
Gotta love how in a video that claims to be the history of the British Empire they never talk about Drake's involvement in the defeat of the spanish armarda, nepoleonic wars, how slavery was actually abolished and the extents to enforce it globally, or you know ww2. The biggest war in history that directly led to the collapse of the Empire itself, but hey at least we got to learn about a failed rebellion in 1798 that literally led to nothing since it would take another century and the tribulations of a world war to achieve Irish independence. In reality its more of a list of all the attrocities the British Empire committed and not an actual well rounded short account on the British Empire. All in all, this is the worse history bombs in one take video and its sad to see them trying to curate history to fit a political agenda.
Lets go a new One Take episode can't wait for more!
bro they legit only pointed out negatives
@@stealthotrapo9123 can you please tell me the positive.
@@uc5581 ending slavery and the industrial revolution
@@uc5581 basically mostly everything you're using now
@@uc5581 When the British outlawed slavery the Royal Navy used to patrol the coast capturing slave traders and punishing them.
6:50 why is Gandhi standing like he’s filing an early 2000s rap video
I just got recommended this and its been over 2 or 1 year not watching u guys. My first watch of your videos was the WW1 that one was bangar.
I can’t stop replaying the part of Ireland like that accent Ireland is not your home
how weird
almost mentioned all colonies yet left the the middle east and the hejaz war against ottomans in ww1?
i think it was the most important one because it led to the colonize of egypt and sudan and palestine and jordan and iraq and kuwait and yemen and oman and dubai and qatar in mean time
This was good but was kinda dissapointing. Only focused on the bad things the british did and slavery was common among almost every nation in history. Blaming it on only europeans is dangerous because it encourages hate against them ( im from a colonised country btw) oh and saying the pakistani indian rivalry is because of britain is one of the stupidest things i have seen.
Utter and vile lies for the most part.
the one takeaway is that the influences of British empire shaped the world in a very bad way and people are still suffering.
This hit different now