HOLY HOLY!!! I can proudly say that I have the two HOTTEST women on this planet as MY GIRLFRIENDS! I am the unprettiest TH-camr ever, but they love me for what's inside! Thanks for listening nova
Considering his Italy trip got trashed by the plague and some incompetent douchebag halfassing a response for a year I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
like when i was fleeing for my life in world of warcraft through Alliance territory with my Horde main because i really, really wanted to fill in my map
As a portuguese myself, I love how heavily featured we were in this video. We are usually skipped over when speaking about the age of discovery despite being the ones who started it in the first place.
As a Canarian myself I really appreciate when a youtuber calls the native population with the proper name (guanches) Although guanche only refers to the people from Tenerife...Still great research!!! PS: it took almost a century to conquest the 7 Canary Islands (1402-1496)
@@Azraeltheangelofdeath They came in waves to the different islands. Three were conquered by the normans (1402-1405), another one was diplomatically anexed (1447). The remaining three they tried to conquered in the 1460s but failed. Then, between 1478 and 1493 Gran Canaria and La Palma were conquered. The Spanish failed to conquer the last island (Tenerife) twice (1462 and 1492) until the final annexation in 1496
Blues feelings on Roman empires can be boiled down into two Queen songs: Rome, Byzantine; *Don’t stop me nooow* *Im having such a good time, I’m having a baaaall* Italy in the 40s: Mamma Mia Mamma Mia MAMMA MIA LET ME GO
In the interest of complete transparency, the king of Portugal should have reconstituted the bottom tip of Africa as "Cape of Good Stormy Hope" thereby allowing the death-provoking storms to still be accounted for but also effectively giving said storms a more positive and hopeful connotation of possible survival.
*John II of Portugal:* "This "Cape of Storms" sounds too intimidating. What do I do to encourage more people to sail around it to the East Indies?" *Ghost of Erik the Red:* "Rename it something deceptively hopeful and optimistic."
We're in 2021, and still not having an Assassin's Creed set in Portugal is a missing opportunity. The middle east and templar conections are right there!
Technically, you can blame 20th century Italian-Americans for that. They were pissed off with being second class citizens in the US (a few years prior, the largest lynching ever had taken place in the US, where 11 Sicilian boys were hung) and being that Columbus might have been Genovese, hence Italian, their argument was "Hey, if it hadn't been for an Italian, there wouldn't have even been an America" It had nothing to do with the actual Christopher Columbus. This argument was in regards to all those statues and commemorations that took place in 20th century America. As for the earlier Columbus love, well, since he was the first one to find the place, he gets the credit irregardless of how he found it or if he was even meant to find it
I'm honestly surprised that when the Americas were (re)discovered, Europeans didn't just name them Atlantis. Well, there's always alt-history fiction, I suppose...
For anyone who doesn't know what Blue is talking about with the Platinum allow me to illuminate: You see some Spanish Chad came back with some silver but thought it was a little strange so he went to get it appraised, and he found out that what he had been given wasn't silver at all. to them it was just Fool's Silver (like how there's Fools Gold) and so they just dumped whatever they got into the ocean without realizing that is was far more rare and far more valuable. And this went on for ~150 years or so
@@vaughnjohnson8767 Since, just because a comment is approvable doesn't mean anyone sees a need to respond to it? You didn't even respond to it, you just asked why it doesn't have a response. Some things are fine just the way they are; it confuses me when people seem to think a good comment needs further comments, just...because.
It was a bit strange to seen the name "Prince Henry the Navigator" because in Portugal we call him "Infante D. Henrique O Navegador". But it's okay. We do same thing with your Henrys.
Fun fact: "Stacy's mom" and "Prester John" have the same amount of syllables and rhyme. Make of that what you will. Also I've always found it really funny that the Prester John myth focused on the king and not the country because I'm not sure how long that myth went on for exactly, but it was WAY more than enough time for Prester John the guy to have died. It'd be like someone coming to the US and going "hey can I see President Washington"
@@AlexYorim he’s all I want, I’ve been waiting so long. Prester can’t you see? You’ve got Christian lands for me! The Muslims are all wrong ‘cause I’m allied with Prester John
9:00 He was going with what was widely believed to be accurate maps at the time which were mostly based on the very poor estimations based on Marco Polo. People thought Asia actually did extend out that far.
Though too be fair he also rejected the actual size of the Earth and instead did his own math (which was wrong) and which showed the Earth to be smaller.
@@a-drewg1716 He didn't do anything. He was using a map that was widely accepted. He was never lost and knew where he was at longitude and latitude wise. The issue was the map said Asia was so big, it extended half ways into where the Americas are.
@@dezbiggs6363 He did though. Columbus substituted 53.66 Italian nautical miles for Ptolemy's measurement of a degree of latitude/logitude, and shortened the circumference of the earth even more than Ptolemy already had. That's also apparently where he got the idea that the earth was pear shaped with a nipple at the north pole. Besides which, Fra Mauro had already made a map using Ertosthenes' much more correct model fifty years before.
Imagine being the dude in the crow’s nest on the ship that accidentally discovered South America. “...What?” [Pulls out spyglass] “Uhh.. L-LAND HO!” “Ha ha, very funny! Captain’ll throw you in the brig for a joke like this!” “No really! Over there!”
For a moment I read "Atlantic Exploration" as "Atlantic Exploitation", which is... a perfect description of what this section of history was all about.
Oh god... The fact the spanish conquistadors completly ignored the literal mountain of platinum they walked over just cuz they were obcessed with the El Dorado and only wanted gold is both hilarious and painful. Top tier 'bruh' moment.
@@fabiocosta3830 also when Spain dumbed literally their entire supply of platinum into the ocean because it was a material most commonly used to make fake gold
The Pillars of Hercules, made from the Rock of Gibraltar. On these natural pillars was written an ancient phrase, non-plus ultra. It is latin for "Nothing further beyond". It was a warning to sailors not to sail any further out to sea or they would get lost and die. But in 1492 Spain went even further beyond, discovering the new world. And as such, the coat of arms was changed from non plus ultra to plus ultra, further beyond.
1:42 Portugal was conquered by Alfonso Henrique’s the first king of Portugal , ligit the most interesting part of Portuguese history till the brazil centric thing
technicaly not wrong but Afonso I died before he conquered the algarve region in the south he went as far as lisbon, his great great grandson Afonso III (Afonso I, Sancho I, Afonso II, Sancho II and Afonso III) was the one to conquer the alargave region
The second-greatest period of exploration in human history (behind the Polynesian expansion across the Pacific, of course), and arguably the most influential event in human history (for a broad enough definition of event).
YOOOOOOO OCEAN. TERRIFYING. ITS SO SCARY. THE WATER IS SO DEEP AND COLD AND SCARY. AND THERE ARE CRABS, I MEAN HAVE YOU SEEN THEM THEY ARE SO BAD AND THEY ARE EVERYWHERE IN THE OCEAN AAAAAAAAAAAA
Wdym crabs are scary?? I'm a portuguese girl, my childhood are beaches and catching crabs with my bare hands, getting stung by stingrays and taking rides in the ocean waves. Deep water is scary?? I have almost drowned twice and still going to the waves, the portuguese go to the ocean, almost die and then go back for more!!
Portugal: Methodically exploring and colonizing islands of Atlantis and coast of Africa, mapping and planning next voyage further to south and east, using Trade winds to sail all over South Atlantis, finally reaching to India after decades of careful planning and many different voyages. Castille: "Hey baby I tell you, I could easily sail to India by west. Truly! After my cool calculation's, I say to you baby, India is practically just over the western horizon. So baby, could you lend me little bit gold so I could travel to India with no time."
Could you please talk about the battle of diu of 1509? Its a imense sea battle where the portuguese faced an enormous army just so that the captain could avenge the death of his son. It also changed the history in a very substancial way. I love your channel!!
The Platinum joke made me literally lol. "We are looking for rare and expensive metal!" * finds a crap ton of platinum * "Nope! The stuff we are looking for is more yellow and less white! You can just toss all that stuff into the sea!"
Ive been getting spammed by school notifications all day today and this is the only good notification today. Like I saccutally heard the notification and went "god what now" and then did a double take and was happy. very happy.
hey blue, I know you guys don't usually take requests but it would be cool if you talked about the Basque people, their language is the last surviving pre indo european languages and it is a culture being recoreded all the way back to the roman republic, it is literally a culture that survived the celts, romans, goths, moros, reconquista, and Francisco Franco, and is still going strong. I'm Basque and its a really interesting ethnic group typically ignored in world history even though it was there for most of it. On a side note a video about Francisco Franco would be cool too
As a Canarian, I'm so happy the islands appear in one of your episodes!!!!!! Fun fact, it is believed that the language the aboriginal population spoke came from Amazigh and they were from Berber origin. Awesome video as always Blue :)
@@morriganbermejo4042 It's a really useful metal but we don't use it much because it's fucking expensive. in part, because so much of it is now at the bottom of the ocean.
Man I would love a follow up video discussing how after the Spanish and Portuguese explorations discussed in this video the British, French and Dutch continued what they had started
"The island colonies were farming so aggressively, they nearly destroyed their ecosystems" Adam Smith may have codified capitalism, but he really didn't have to look that far ...
@@a-drewg1716 Nope. The four field crop rotation is pretty much THE foundational invention on which the High Medieval feudalism was based on. In a way, feudalism was the perfect economic system for when the Romans had run the Mediterranean so hard into the ground that control of all available local (and only local) resources mattered.
@@a-drewg1716 Capitalism didn’t invent crop rotations, but it benefits from using crop rotations obviously because new land/fertilizer is expensive, bad for business
Ok but to be fair to Columbus, European maps at the time were way off on how big Asia was, so on his maps it looked like he landed off the coast of Japan.
No Columbus signed on to a radical overestimate of Asia’s breadth whilst simultaneously believing a mistranslation of unit values to come up with a much smaller world then Eratosthenes’ substantially correct and decently well known estimate. He wasn’t quite the only that thought this but it was pretty close to climate change denial level nonsense and everyone knew it.
Blue has no interest in being fair to Columbus. He just wants to apply modern moral standards to people who have been dead for centuries, so that he can feel superior.
@Doctorteapot I don't think it's a matter of trying to paint him as an idiot because of his legacy. The fact is, the general scientific consensus at the time was that his calculations were way off and he was told that more than once. And sure, he might have had Toscanelli on his side, but in the end they were both still wrong. If he was to trust his calculations, and America didn't exist, as was expected, we would have died at sea, despite being warned multiple times. If he wasn't an idiot, he was idiotically stubborn.
"Quick, no one tell Spain what Platinum looks like. It'll be hilarious." Sick callback. It's this kind of fanservice that we've come to expect from Overly Sarcastic Productions.
I don't get it and I feel stupid because of it, on Wikipedia it's said that platinum was often thrown away as a worse gold, but I know there must be something more to this reference
I'll break a spear for Chris Cumberland, he actually thought he would have reached Japan, he also understood that those weren't any, let's Say, "commonly known" places and that could have been colonized, Other spear, he and other used a map where Asia covered a bigger Landmass, so he knew where he was in regard of latitude and longitude, but geografically not much.
We, the Portuguese, grew up regarding the Atlantic Exploration as our biggest historical pride. Don't be surprised if we get too defensive when confronted with the dark implications of said exploration - we have only started having that conversation very recently.
I truly recommend a book called:""Conquistadors: How Portugal created the first global empire" about the Portuguese explorations, the settlement in India, Japan and Indonesia, and the Portuguese crown's master plan of closing up the Indian ocean. I think it would make a wonderful video for this channel.
If you want to keep dunking on Crisco Clambo, the intra-story on how he got his 1st expedition financed by Queen Isabella is quite interesting, involving several rejections, bouncing from country to country in order to pitch the project, court astronomers double guessing his calculations and branding them as crap. It's like a late medieval Shark Tank!
It's funny how I learn more about history here than I do at school..... we've been learning about the American revaluation for 7 years school give it a break.
Hi! I'm portuguese and I liked this video very much. It was really interesting to see how you guys on the other side of the pond view our history. It's interesting because e spend a big part of our school talking about this period. Still there are some things that I didn't knew, like that christian kingdom you talked about. Still there are some things really interesting that you didn't talked about, like the fact that in the 'Tratado de Tordezillas' we kinda knew that Brazil existed (before it was "discovered") so we asked for the line to be moved (just a little bit to the letf). I mean, what's the difference Spain, it's just a few miles of "ocean". There is a great book, "Os Lusíadas" that tells the story of Portugal until just before the spanish annexation. It's a great book because it's an odyssey, made to have the style and feel of de Eneiad, the Eliad and the Odyssey. Even Afrodite, Dionysus and the other gods make an appearance. It's agreat book and real classic that should be summarized.😉
I've always considered "crisco clambo" to be the reigning world record holder in being lost, because it's near-impossible for him to have been further away from where he thought he was and still be on the surface of planet Earth. And of course that's why he's sometimes called "The Great Navigator".
While Blue waxes poetically about how awesome Al-Andalus was (and emphasizes how terrible Portugal's slavery was), it is important to remember that the reason the Iberians were the first the accept african slaves as cargo in trade with africa was that the slave markets that dealt in african slaves continued after the christian kingdoms took over. It would take more northern countries a few more decades to get involved in the slave trade because their countries did not have those markets.
Finnaly friquing finnaly I wanted u to do this video sense u talked about PT the first time, another fun Myth we alredy had found brazil but we keeped a secret to soo "spain" wouldnt interfere in the mercate, and when doing the treaty dividing the world in half King Jonh the 2 or "Rei joão 2" in portuguese was negotion the treaty it self he keeped pushing the line to the left because he wanted something or at least he was pushing to get sure he got something that he alredy had.
This might sound weird but I'm Spanish and I absolutely love seeing videos like this dunking on our history. Boh my family and the school I studied in are very much right wing, so when it came to our history they'd either gloss over it or straight up make shit up. I still remember how once, on like first grade, my class was sent to the projector room to watch a movie about El Cid, in which basically the muslims were all either Jafar from Aladdin or cowering, fearful serfs, and the Christian kingdoms were a single unified force of good. Fuck.
“My friends, I have gone off topic. Let us correct this error by jumping into the ocean.” Is my new favourite quote
4:17
perfect timestamp too
HOLY HOLY!!! I can proudly say that I have the two HOTTEST women on this planet as MY GIRLFRIENDS! I am the unprettiest TH-camr ever, but they love me for what's inside! Thanks for listening nova
@@AxxLAfriku ikr guts are delicious
Considering his Italy trip got trashed by the plague and some incompetent douchebag halfassing a response for a year I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
@@AxxLAfriku what?
Read the title as “Atlantis Exploration” and i felt the spirit of Plato get hyped
Sad
But they were, all of them, deceived
@@belegl.7721 For another continent was made...
@@merrittanimation7721 In the land of the western hemisphere
The exact some thing happened to me
Hungry people: "Just one more bite"
Readers: "Just one more book"
Portugal: "Just one more port off the coast of Africa."
Clambo; just one more expedition to India
You know it, hun
The Cold War: Just One More Proxy Conflict
Spain: "just one more gold mine"
CIA: "Just one more asassination attempt on castro"
So Portugal is a typical gamer who doesn't like blank areas on his map.
@SlightlyEmbittered Productions
...I’d say “but with more fascism!” buuuut as a casual gamer. Y E A H we all know how the majority believe and behave.
As a Portuguese gamer who loves historic strategy games... I've been had 😅
Lol rip
like when i was fleeing for my life in world of warcraft through Alliance territory with my Horde main because i really, really wanted to fill in my map
attempting to get the exploration achievements in zones with big towns and guard npcs who attack on sight is an Experience
Words that I never thought I'd hear Blue say: let's jump in the ocean.
I was totally ready for him to hyperventilate from saying that
"THERE'S ALWAYS A BIGGER FISH"
"im gonna throw myself into the sea"
-Blue David Gilbert
"Let's rewind slightly to see how Castile was handling their atlantic frontier"
Spoiler alert:
They weren't
Bill Wurtz: That’s my boy! Or girl.. But mostly boy!
I want to like your comment but it’s at 666... and I wanna be the one to make it 669
@@darkfang797 A true hero
It’s at 666 now
I’m not ruining this
Blue: "Let us correct this error by jumping into the ocean."
Me, knowing from live streams Blue is Thalassophobic: "Wait... That's illegal"
It's a punishment.
Red also said it in the Atlantis video
"There is always a bigger fish!"
Its treason then
wtf blue has lore
"Nobody tell Spain what platinum looks like", wow this video is filled with callbacks.
I read this comment just as blue said that
Which video is that from? I'm new here.
@@unistrut red’s Eldorado videos
and nobody tell crispo clambo why the locals were drying out those leaves
@@unistrut
They dumped the most valuable metal on earth into the ocean...
Unripe silver they called it...
You bet they're kicking themselves now!
As a portuguese myself, I love how heavily featured we were in this video. We are usually skipped over when speaking about the age of discovery despite being the ones who started it in the first place.
vdd
Funnily enough, you people are usually eclipsed by your own colony, Brazil. Don't worry you lot are featured in Indonesian history books too.
OURO
@101 010 That just means Morocco would be wrong as well.
Portugal wasn't even in the game Colonization.
As a Canarian myself I really appreciate when a youtuber calls the native population with the proper name (guanches)
Although guanche only refers to the people from Tenerife...Still great research!!!
PS: it took almost a century to conquest the 7 Canary Islands (1402-1496)
You mean that EU4 has lied to me, and can't be done in like 5 years? :O
Okay I am wondering then, was that actively trying to conquer the islands or more like, give a try every couple years or something
damn
@@Azraeltheangelofdeath They came in waves to the different islands. Three were conquered by the normans (1402-1405), another one was diplomatically anexed (1447). The remaining three they tried to conquered in the 1460s but failed.
Then, between 1478 and 1493 Gran Canaria and La Palma were conquered. The Spanish failed to conquer the last island (Tenerife) twice (1462 and 1492) until the final annexation in 1496
How has no one noticed that you’re like 600 years old?
20th century: *exists*
Blue: "Imma head right out of here"
Blues feelings on Roman empires can be boiled down into two Queen songs:
Rome, Byzantine; *Don’t stop me nooow*
*Im having such a good time, I’m having a baaaall*
Italy in the 40s: Mamma Mia Mamma Mia
MAMMA MIA LET ME GO
Nerd, what are you, in the school band?
"But also vastly more accessible."
"The world's still the same there's just less in it."
Never thought I would a Jack Sparrow used in a historical context.
@@incitossol Unless we're talking about the age of piracy.
What a coincidence, watched that one last night. :D
In the interest of complete transparency, the king of Portugal should have reconstituted the bottom tip of Africa as "Cape of Good Stormy Hope" thereby allowing the death-provoking storms to still be accounted for but also effectively giving said storms a more positive and hopeful connotation of possible survival.
The Flying Dutchman is gonna lose it.
Portugal: Hippity hoppety, these coasts are now my property
"Iberia was home to 4 seperate states; Portugal, Castile, Aragon and Granada"
*Angry Navarran/Basque Noises*
Navarran, because it was called the Kingdom of Navarre, Basque Country were inside of The Crown of Castille at that time.
I thought of that when he said it! Like ''man, I know they were techinically part of the castillian crown alredy but that's harsh.''
Also where the heck is Catalonia in all this?
@@discountchocolate4577 Catalonia was part of the Crown of Aragon at that time.
@@immeen4868 Obviously.
Portugal in this period was just jonesing for three things: Spices, Conversions and slaves
The OG triple-threat!
Take away the spices as their trade routes got STOLEN
Thankfully Africa had those in abundance thanks to the trade with the middle east.
And maps. If you wanted the most accurate maps at this time, you had to get a portuguese one
Later all are stuff would get decked after an earthquake tsunami and fire all packaged in one.
*John II of Portugal:* "This "Cape of Storms" sounds too intimidating. What do I do to encourage more people to sail around it to the East Indies?"
*Ghost of Erik the Red:* "Rename it something deceptively hopeful and optimistic."
Our most famous Renaissance writer even created the Adamastor, a human-looking kaiju that lived over there.
Yet Lewis and Clark left the mouth of the Columbia River with such enchanting names like "Cape Disappointment" and "Dismal Nitch".
Me, glancing at my notification: History Summarized: Atlantis Exploration...wait what?
SaME
Mood!!
Crisco Clambo: The risk I took was calculated but F U C C I’m bad at math.
Crisco Clambo: I am as equally lucky as I am bad at math - and I am so, so fucking bad at math
wait this isn't Asia? you jest
"Let us correct this error by jumping into the ocean."
-Me, following most minor inconveniences caused by none other than myself
Reminds me of the "Hyperbole and a Half" comic about getting out of awkward situations by setting yourself on fire.
I'm surprised he didn't scream in panic, thalassophobia and whatnot.
@@typacsk That really is that book in a nutshell, haha.
EITHER PLATO IS A GOD, OR COULD KILL GOD, AND I DO NOT CARE IF THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
@@goroakechi6126 so we’re just quoting BDG now?
So basically what you're saying is that Templars caused colonialism.
My god, Assassins Creed was right
And we still use the Templar's Cross, especially our national Sports Teams... I'm going to get shiv by an Assassin, aren't I?
The Templar Order would like to know your location.
We're in 2021, and still not having an Assassin's Creed set in Portugal is a missing opportunity.
The middle east and templar conections are right there!
@@RicardoNecrofear No history. Only meme vikings
Well, technically it was the Order of Christ established in Portugal, the sucessor order to the Templars which had been extinguished in Europe.
4:17 *sounds of 15 minutes of script being cut out*
Columbus: *stumbles backwards into “discovering” America*
Columbus: “I’d like a bunch of statues and places named after me now.”
Technically, you can blame 20th century Italian-Americans for that.
They were pissed off with being second class citizens in the US (a few years prior, the largest lynching ever had taken place in the US, where 11 Sicilian boys were hung) and being that Columbus might have been Genovese, hence Italian, their argument was "Hey, if it hadn't been for an Italian, there wouldn't have even been an America"
It had nothing to do with the actual Christopher Columbus.
This argument was in regards to all those statues and commemorations that took place in 20th century America.
As for the earlier Columbus love, well, since he was the first one to find the place, he gets the credit irregardless of how he found it or if he was even meant to find it
TO ATLANT- oh it's just america.
Britain will be equally disappointed
I'm honestly surprised that when the Americas were (re)discovered, Europeans didn't just name them Atlantis. Well, there's always alt-history fiction, I suppose...
For anyone who doesn't know what Blue is talking about with the Platinum allow me to illuminate: You see some Spanish Chad came back with some silver but thought it was a little strange so he went to get it appraised, and he found out that what he had been given wasn't silver at all. to them it was just Fool's Silver (like how there's Fools Gold) and so they just dumped whatever they got into the ocean without realizing that is was far more rare and far more valuable. And this went on for ~150 years or so
"Let's rewind slightly to see how Castile was handling their atlantic frontier"
Me: *Looks over at a depressed donkey wearing a sombrero*
How does this have over 200 likes and no comments.
@@vaughnjohnson8767 Since, just because a comment is approvable doesn't mean anyone sees a need to respond to it? You didn't even respond to it, you just asked why it doesn't have a response. Some things are fine just the way they are; it confuses me when people seem to think a good comment needs further comments, just...because.
@@vaughnjohnson8767 Why respond or try to elaborate on perfection? That would turn something superior into something inferior.
@@aaronsirkman8375 ...ok
@@Mainnalle yes. Perfection
It was a bit strange to seen the name "Prince Henry the Navigator" because in Portugal we call him "Infante D. Henrique O Navegador". But it's okay. We do same thing with your Henrys.
I was more startled to see a Portuguese king named Edward. He's even called that on his Wikipedia page. They have "Duarte"in translations.
Spain: "Oh boy, a new continent full of riches! How could this go wrong for us!"
A few decades later
Spain: "So inflation is a thing. Welp."
Meanwhile in the Netherlands:
"Spanjaarden zijn niet in staat om de economie te doorgronden."
Not gold, generally
Fun fact: "Stacy's mom" and "Prester John" have the same amount of syllables and rhyme. Make of that what you will. Also I've always found it really funny that the Prester John myth focused on the king and not the country because I'm not sure how long that myth went on for exactly, but it was WAY more than enough time for Prester John the guy to have died. It'd be like someone coming to the US and going "hey can I see President Washington"
Also Portugal trying to find the lands of Mansa Musa (admittedly successfully) about a hundred years after he died.
"Prester John has got it going on"
According to the legend he was also immortal so it makes sense
@@AlexYorim he’s all I want, I’ve been waiting so long. Prester can’t you see? You’ve got Christian lands for me! The Muslims are all wrong ‘cause I’m allied with Prester John
10:15 Reds El dorado video is one of my favorites so this line speaks to me.
9:00 He was going with what was widely believed to be accurate maps at the time which were mostly based on the very poor estimations based on Marco Polo. People thought Asia actually did extend out that far.
Exactly, he thought he was on a new island, not in india
Though too be fair he also rejected the actual size of the Earth and instead did his own math (which was wrong) and which showed the Earth to be smaller.
@@a-drewg1716 He didn't do anything. He was using a map that was widely accepted. He was never lost and knew where he was at longitude and latitude wise. The issue was the map said Asia was so big, it extended half ways into where the Americas are.
@@dezbiggs6363 He did though. Columbus substituted 53.66 Italian nautical miles for Ptolemy's measurement of a degree of latitude/logitude, and shortened the circumference of the earth even more than Ptolemy already had. That's also apparently where he got the idea that the earth was pear shaped with a nipple at the north pole.
Besides which, Fra Mauro had already made a map using Ertosthenes' much more correct model fifty years before.
Heck yes, more cartography
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!
"my friends, I have gone off topic. let us correct this error by jumping into the ocean."
-Me writing an essay
It's my tribute to Brian David Gilbert's "I am going to throw myself into the sea". A feeling we all, at one point, share.
-B
@@OverlySarcasticProductions
This is only valid if Blue then proceeded to jump into a river fully clothed.
Also rip Unraveled.
@@OverlySarcasticProductions he knew it was gonna be cold but he didn’t think it was gonna be that cold.
@@OverlySarcasticProductions what is this, a crossover episode?
As a Capeverdian, very happy to see that Cape Verde is referenced in OSP
Prince Henry "The Navigator"! He was named such because he was not a navigator......
As opposed to all the navigator kings of European history??
So turns out Assassins Creed was right. Templars popping up in random ass places
Fun fact; the Order of Christ lasted until 1910.
@@goroakechi6126
Even funnier fact: it was reestablished in 1917 and it exists to this day, with the President of Portugal as its Grand Master.
@@Floristini
Okay, it’s official. We need a Portuguese assassins creed game.
@@goroakechi6126 Assassin's name: João Falcão
Brings a wooden spoon for non-lethal takedowns
Imagine being the dude in the crow’s nest on the ship that accidentally discovered South America.
“...What?” [Pulls out spyglass] “Uhh.. L-LAND HO!”
“Ha ha, very funny! Captain’ll throw you in the brig for a joke like this!”
“No really! Over there!”
"Over where?!"
"Over every-freakin'-where! It's HUGE!!!"
@@euansmith3699 "You realize that from down here we can't see a thing, right?"
"Then just tell the damn Captain to redirect a few meters west!"
*Hits land, aka Brazil*
"See Juan. Land."
@@phantombeard6262 It's less Juan and more Pedro
@@phantombeard6262 João, Pedro, Carlos, António...
For a moment I read "Atlantic Exploration" as "Atlantic Exploitation", which is... a perfect description of what this section of history was all about.
Could have called this:
Flight of Price Henry "The Navigator"
Assassin’s Creed; Discoveries
“Quick! No one tell Spain what platinum looks like! It’ll be hilarious!”
This is both hilarious and pains me to my soul.
Oh god... The fact the spanish conquistadors completly ignored the literal mountain of platinum they walked over just cuz they were obcessed with the El Dorado and only wanted gold is both hilarious and painful. Top tier 'bruh' moment.
@@fabiocosta3830 also when Spain dumbed literally their entire supply of platinum into the ocean because it was a material most commonly used to make fake gold
@@fabiocosta3830 this is what I call karmic punishment.
The Pillars of Hercules, made from the Rock of Gibraltar. On these natural pillars was written an ancient phrase, non-plus ultra. It is latin for "Nothing further beyond". It was a warning to sailors not to sail any further out to sea or they would get lost and die. But in 1492 Spain went even further beyond, discovering the new world. And as such, the coat of arms was changed from non plus ultra to plus ultra, further beyond.
Other than "Os Lusiadas" this is probably one of the best ways to learn how portugal started the exploration of the atlantic
Lmao shut up
"Os Lusiadas" is not at all a good way to learn about the Portuguese exploration of the Atlantic lmao
Blue: "No one tell Spain what Platinum looks like"
Me: "hahaha El Dorado. And I'm sad again."
1:42 Portugal was conquered by Alfonso Henrique’s the first king of Portugal , ligit the most interesting part of Portuguese history till the brazil centric thing
technicaly not wrong but Afonso I died before he conquered the algarve region in the south he went as far as lisbon, his great great grandson Afonso III (Afonso I, Sancho I, Afonso II, Sancho II and Afonso III) was the one to conquer the alargave region
"Nobody tells Spain what platinum looks like"
That's gotta hurt
“My friends I have gone off topic let us correct this error by jumping into the ocean” - blue
The second-greatest period of exploration in human history (behind the Polynesian expansion across the Pacific, of course), and arguably the most influential event in human history (for a broad enough definition of event).
We really need a video on the history of Polynesia and the maritime travels of the Pacific islanders.
Wouldn't the greatest period of exploration of human history be that time modern day homo sapiens left Africa?
LOL. Pathetic. This period of exploration was the first GLOBAL exploration. Not even slightly comparable.
YOOOOOOO OCEAN. TERRIFYING. ITS SO SCARY. THE WATER IS SO DEEP AND COLD AND SCARY. AND THERE ARE CRABS, I MEAN HAVE YOU SEEN THEM THEY ARE SO BAD AND THEY ARE EVERYWHERE IN THE OCEAN AAAAAAAAAAAA
Fuck crabs. All my homies hate crabs.
I see you have played subnautica
crabs are just pinchy boys :(
Wdym crabs are scary?? I'm a portuguese girl, my childhood are beaches and catching crabs with my bare hands, getting stung by stingrays and taking rides in the ocean waves. Deep water is scary?? I have almost drowned twice and still going to the waves, the portuguese go to the ocean, almost die and then go back for more!!
ok but what if you didn’t
This is my favorite TH-cam channel
Ah my favorite time of the week.
11 am EST when OSP uploads
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Why yes, thank you. Are your teeth serving you well?
They in fact are. Are your eyes healthy?
@@abthedragon4921 Yes, yes they are
Portugal: Methodically exploring and colonizing islands of Atlantis and coast of Africa, mapping and planning next voyage further to south and east, using Trade winds to sail all over South Atlantis, finally reaching to India after decades of careful planning and many different voyages.
Castille: "Hey baby I tell you, I could easily sail to India by west. Truly! After my cool calculation's, I say to you baby, India is practically just over the western horizon. So baby, could you lend me little bit gold so I could travel to India with no time."
Could you please talk about the battle of diu of 1509? Its a imense sea battle where the portuguese faced an enormous army just so that the captain could avenge the death of his son. It also changed the history in a very substancial way. I love your channel!!
The Platinum joke made me literally lol.
"We are looking for rare and expensive metal!" * finds a crap ton of platinum * "Nope! The stuff we are looking for is more yellow and less white! You can just toss all that stuff into the sea!"
Heyy I have a video suggestion: y'all could make a trope talk about revenge arcs
Ive been getting spammed by school notifications all day today and this is the only good notification today. Like I saccutally heard the notification and went "god what now" and then did a double take and was happy. very happy.
Good luck, brave potato. May your education flourish like a well-nourished tuber.
This has to be a t-shirt: "Spain puts the Pain in Genealogy since 1449"...
hey blue, I know you guys don't usually take requests but it would be cool if you talked about the Basque people, their language is the last surviving pre indo european languages and it is a culture being recoreded all the way back to the roman republic, it is literally a culture that survived the celts, romans, goths, moros, reconquista, and Francisco Franco, and is still going strong. I'm Basque and its a really interesting ethnic group typically ignored in world history even though it was there for most of it.
On a side note a video about Francisco Franco would be cool too
As a Canarian, I'm so happy the islands appear in one of your episodes!!!!!! Fun fact, it is believed that the language the aboriginal population spoke came from Amazigh and they were from Berber origin. Awesome video as always Blue :)
"Conquistadorks". How understated.
Recently rewatched the El Dorado video. I'm still mad about the dumping of so much platinum by the Spanish.
@@morriganbermejo4042 It's a really useful metal but we don't use it much because it's fucking expensive. in part, because so much of it is now at the bottom of the ocean.
I should tell you, I've started loving these topics now. We need more channels like you to make education interesting. Thank you!
Man I would love a follow up video discussing how after the Spanish and Portuguese explorations discussed in this video the British, French and Dutch continued what they had started
The last time I was this early, the roman empire hadn't collapsed
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Venice would like a word...
I LOOOOOVE how you talk about things that aren't commonly taught!! I've only ever heard about Columbus on full blast. This is incredible!
"The island colonies were farming so aggressively, they nearly destroyed their ecosystems"
Adam Smith may have codified capitalism, but he really didn't have to look that far ...
That's why you need to do crop rotations to keep the nutrients up in the soil.
@@danielsjohnson which capitalism invented because nothing cuts into product lose than bad soil
@@a-drewg1716 Nope. The four field crop rotation is pretty much THE foundational invention on which the High Medieval feudalism was based on. In a way, feudalism was the perfect economic system for when the Romans had run the Mediterranean so hard into the ground that control of all available local (and only local) resources mattered.
@@a-drewg1716 Capitalism didn’t invent crop rotations, but it benefits from using crop rotations obviously because new land/fertilizer is expensive, bad for business
Ok but to be fair to Columbus, European maps at the time were way off on how big Asia was, so on his maps it looked like he landed off the coast of Japan.
No Columbus signed on to a radical overestimate of Asia’s breadth whilst simultaneously believing a mistranslation of unit values to come up with a much smaller world then Eratosthenes’ substantially correct and decently well known estimate. He wasn’t quite the only that thought this but it was pretty close to climate change denial level nonsense and everyone knew it.
Blue has no interest in being fair to Columbus. He just wants to apply modern moral standards to people who have been dead for centuries, so that he can feel superior.
@Doctorteapot
I don't think it's a matter of trying to paint him as an idiot because of his legacy. The fact is, the general scientific consensus at the time was that his calculations were way off and he was told that more than once. And sure, he might have had Toscanelli on his side, but in the end they were both still wrong. If he was to trust his calculations, and America didn't exist, as was expected, we would have died at sea, despite being warned multiple times. If he wasn't an idiot, he was idiotically stubborn.
@@blacksage2375 He also based his estimate on Ptolemy, rather than Eratosthenes
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You know its gonna be good when your cat starts watching.
I’m so excited to watch this when I get home from work! This channel gives me life!
last time i was this early the Vikings had dibs on colonizing the Americas
"nobody tell Spain what platinum looks like it'll be hilarious" made my afternoon, thank you 👏
Any TH-cam comment section: Come to Brazil!
Portuguese colonialism: Don’t mind if I do!
Blue your content just keeps getting better. Keep up the good work my dude.
"Quick, no one tell Spain what Platinum looks like. It'll be hilarious."
Sick callback. It's this kind of fanservice that we've come to expect from Overly Sarcastic Productions.
I don't get it and I feel stupid because of it, on Wikipedia it's said that platinum was often thrown away as a worse gold, but I know there must be something more to this reference
@@freddekl1102 Watch their episode "Legends Summerized: El Dorado".
@@Bluecho4 ooooh hoho
I'll break a spear for Chris Cumberland, he actually thought he would have reached Japan, he also understood that those weren't any, let's Say, "commonly known" places and that could have been colonized,
Other spear, he and other used a map where Asia covered a bigger Landmass, so he knew where he was in regard of latitude and longitude, but geografically not much.
I 100% read “Atlantis Exploration” and was thoroughly confused for about 2 minutes 😂🤦🏻♂️
blue already did that video
My family is from the Azores so it’s pretty cool to hear someone talk about them
Colombus: We have reached a new world!
Vikings: First time?
Portuguese: Ahhh you found our hidden lair. welcome to the new world, Spain.
We, the Portuguese, grew up regarding the Atlantic Exploration as our biggest historical pride. Don't be surprised if we get too defensive when confronted with the dark implications of said exploration - we have only started having that conversation very recently.
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I truly recommend a book called:""Conquistadors: How Portugal created the first global empire" about the Portuguese explorations, the settlement in India, Japan and Indonesia, and the Portuguese crown's master plan of closing up the Indian ocean. I think it would make a wonderful video for this channel.
DId OSP do a video about Atlanits?
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If you want to keep dunking on Crisco Clambo, the intra-story on how he got his 1st expedition financed by Queen Isabella is quite interesting, involving several rejections, bouncing from country to country in order to pitch the project, court astronomers double guessing his calculations and branding them as crap. It's like a late medieval Shark Tank!
It's funny how I learn more about history here than I do at school.....
we've been learning about the American revaluation for 7 years school give it a break.
@@xionmemoria If only
10:16 please let this be the running gag it deserves to be ....
Conquistadorks, yes as a Spanish I aprove that term. XD
4:19 I never expected to get as much joy out of "let us correct this error by jumping into the ocean" as I did.
Nice to see Madeira be mentioned in a OSP video, it is the story of my people. PORTUGAL CARALHO
I came here looking for this comment. Obrigada.
Will you ever do a video discussing Crispy Clambake? I think you’re take on Cincinnati Cleveland would be appreciated
Columbus basically butterfingered his way into discovering a continent
Mmm....butterfingers....
Who is this 'Columbus' you speak of? Did you mean Crisco Clambo?
@@D0cSwiss
No, we mean Leif the Lucky.
Right?
Hi! I'm portuguese and I liked this video very much. It was really interesting to see how you guys on the other side of the pond view our history. It's interesting because e spend a big part of our school talking about this period. Still there are some things that I didn't knew, like that christian kingdom you talked about. Still there are some things really interesting that you didn't talked about, like the fact that in the 'Tratado de Tordezillas' we kinda knew that Brazil existed (before it was "discovered") so we asked for the line to be moved (just a little bit to the letf). I mean, what's the difference Spain, it's just a few miles of "ocean".
There is a great book, "Os Lusíadas" that tells the story of Portugal until just before the spanish annexation. It's a great book because it's an odyssey, made to have the style and feel of de Eneiad, the Eliad and the Odyssey. Even Afrodite, Dionysus and the other gods make an appearance. It's agreat book and real classic that should be summarized.😉
Last time I was this early, Atlantis still exists
I've always considered "crisco clambo" to be the reigning world record holder in being lost, because it's near-impossible for him to have been further away from where he thought he was and still be on the surface of planet Earth. And of course that's why he's sometimes called "The Great Navigator".
While Blue waxes poetically about how awesome Al-Andalus was (and emphasizes how terrible Portugal's slavery was), it is important to remember that the reason the Iberians were the first the accept african slaves as cargo in trade with africa was that the slave markets that dealt in african slaves continued after the christian kingdoms took over. It would take more northern countries a few more decades to get involved in the slave trade because their countries did not have those markets.
Finnaly friquing finnaly I wanted u to do this video sense u talked about PT the first time, another fun Myth we alredy had found brazil but we keeped a secret to soo "spain" wouldnt interfere in the mercate, and when doing the treaty dividing the world in half King Jonh the 2 or "Rei joão 2" in portuguese was negotion the treaty it self he keeped pushing the line to the left because he wanted something or at least he was pushing to get sure he got something that he alredy had.
Blue wanted to avoid talking about Mr. Clambo completely but couldn’t resist a good history burn.
This might sound weird but I'm Spanish and I absolutely love seeing videos like this dunking on our history. Boh my family and the school I studied in are very much right wing, so when it came to our history they'd either gloss over it or straight up make shit up. I still remember how once, on like first grade, my class was sent to the projector room to watch a movie about El Cid, in which basically the muslims were all either Jafar from Aladdin or cowering, fearful serfs, and the Christian kingdoms were a single unified force of good. Fuck.
04:09
Wait, it's all Ethiopia?
Always has been
Every time I hear Castile I keep thinking Blue’s trying to say Castiel