Forging an Empire - The Portuguese Empire - Part 2 Commerce
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- The fabled sea passage to India was now a highway. The Indian Ocean was a massive free trade zone. Upon its waters the trade in spice brought in immense wealth to anyone willing to brave the dangers, the currents, and the politics. The Portuguese now burst into the scene like a storm and were determined to disrupt everything
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#age #discovery #Portugal
I have Portuguese ancestors, but I am from the United States. When I was a child, my father would talk about the Portuguese with pride and admiration, going in depth about the discoveries of Portugal and how they changed the history of the world. My father passed when I was 12, but I always had a fascination of my ancestors and their feats. Your videos go so in depth of the specifics, and I thank you for your research and efforts in making these documentaries.
Christian I'm really happy that you liked my videos so much. Thank you for the awesome comments and sharing your story about your father. Portugal did the impossible here
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I'm Puerto Rican, but me grandfather on Dad's side was also Portuguese, from Oporto. I also grew up on legends of Portuguese greatness, seamanship and ultimate betrayal by the Spanish, who clipped Portugals empire in favor of their own after the unification of the crowns in the 1580s, embedding the Portuguese to fight Spains losing wars against its former ally, England. It broke Portugals Empire and spirit.... Funny though, my Grandma from Mom's side is of Norwegian descent, and I grew up hearing from her Norwegian sea legends, from Snori, the first European born in the Americas (Greenland), the voyages of Eric the Red... The Norse, another of Europe's great discoverers and sea people. ✌️
@@pupysb6267 I've been debating about doing an age of discovery series and including the Scandinavian countries - they were most likely the first to make it to N America after all
Wow. These guys were super aggressive! How does one king have so much power? Ordering the Planet around, taking lives , stealing riches? I'm exhausted. 😮
How’s this guy Duarte Pereira not known as one of the greatest battle minds ever? That battle was impossible, it was insane, and he pulled it off brilliantly.
Totally agree
The Portuguese Achilles
He has some skills
It is amazing to think that these seafarers traveled around an unmapped Africa to foreign and alien India where they lacked supplies, starved, made enemies, and managed to crush them in battle despite being outnumbered.
It was a voyage into the unknown - anything could have happened. Yet these men were undaunted
Gunpowder, India was conquered on it.
@@prathameshjoshi007 As you can see from the video, you had gunpowder as well. You were fighting on home turf and had almost a hundred times as many soldiers and you lost. No, it wasn't just gunpowder.
Please hurry with the rest of this series! we love it so much, we know this is hard to produce but understand that no one else has this content about Portugal.
I make them as fast as I can =)
Dudeeee @@FlashPointHx don't you rush anything, take your time.... pls. Every episode of these is absolute Gold
@@FlashPointHx Can't wait to see your videos on Afonso de Albuquerque (conquest of Goa and of Malacca)!
Love the series! Congrats Guys for your amazing and hard work! I will be ready to watch more episodes! 😀
@@goncalosm Any time ! I've already started planning the next three videos - Francisco de Almeida is up next!
I'm a catholic ( Syro- Malabar Eastern Catholic) which used to be nestorians mentioned in the video. It really is great to watch this video sitting from my home in Calicut.
An interesting fact; the kingdoms in Kerala ( state which includes Calicut, Cochin,Kannoor and Kollam) used to have a matrilineal dynasty. More specifically, the heir to the throne is always the king's sister's son, ie, his nephew. Hence the reason the nephew's of kings keep popping in the video.
"This is the fleet of the King of Portugal, my sovereign, who is the Lord of the Sea, the World, and also OF YOU!"
- Based Vasco da Gama. 😄.
I loved that quote - knew it needed to go into the podcast :)
Height of presumption
@@FlashPointHx It reminded me of this other quote:
"Following the god Neptune,
The first ruler of all that is sea
Was Manuel I, Portuguese king."
- Rainer Daehnhardt.
We need more men like him in this woke world :))
@@fabianojotanot if you have the guns to back it up
Not to insult my history teachers, or those who wrote the history books from when I was in school, but these 2 videos alone were sooooooooooooooooo much more effective on teaching me my own country history (from that period) then the school books or the teachers ever did, and on top that these videos are super entertaining and oh sooo well narrated. This is truly valuable stuff, I hope it gest translated to Portuguese (of Portugal hopefully) so not only the kids, but every Portuguese in general can learn our history, in a less "glorified" way, because truth be told, there's almost as much to be proud of as there is to be ashamed of. Anyway, amazing stuff, I truly have no words, congrats to all involved.
Thank you so much for such an awesome comment! I've been approached by two people who would be interested in translating into Portuguese - but it would be a lot of work. It may take a bit of time to produce. Again, thanks !
Here in the states we learned alot about France Spain UK but almost nothing about Portugal we knew they where players on the open sea but thats it
@@tyronemaroney335 and now what do you think Tyrone?
I think it may have something to do with the leftist-marxist run education system. They can't stand the fact the individuals achieved such greatness.
I never comment on youtube videos but damn man 10/10!
Stop that Netflix! I HAVE TO watch this Portugal documentary!!
Genuinely this is among the best channels out there.
Thank you so much - appreciate the comment
@@FlashPointHx I just binged your 'age of discovery' series and loved it, can't tell why but i like your style much more than history marche's, kings and generals and invicta, thank you.
Absolutely right !! Super awesome
I'm Brazilian, and your videos had a big impact on me. Hearing how the pirates of the world, and how they take everything, the school story says with pride, made me see who Europeans are wild. And they still are.
Every age had its opportunists - every civilization was built on the blood of others
Mr. Neto! You never thought of the fact that
You are a descendant of those 'pirates of the world'? Your name tells the story......shame on you!
@@cesarsilva5605 Well, I am descendant of Jews who became New Christians in Portugal by the 1500s. That's a long time ago. And migrate to Brazil after that. But what that has to do with what I said? Shame on me? What?
And I never thought I am a descent ... lol
Great music for this type of video documentary 👌
Those birds over the battlefield must have been time traveled drones? 🤣 Twisted Aerial Supremacy Theory
what a wonderful video thank for these masterpiece about the history of Portugal as being portuguese i am very proud to see these, thanks again!
Glad you enjoyed it!
First worldwide super power videos are always great. Such a great job right here. Thank you, from every human being.
Amazing that such a small country could do this much
@@FlashPointHx I do not think it is a small country. Roman Empire started from Etruria and Latium villages. Thank you, once again. For such great work I have been following should be seen to grow knowledge and understand the Western culture.
Speak for yourself mate, leave me out of this! ✌😏
@@FlashPointHxwe had the right people at the right place at the right time. Much like other meteoric rises, like Alexander, or the Fath, or Gengis Khan’s empire.
Good work. Congratulations. Without wanting to monopolize, I suggest a look at the battle of Diu with Francisco de Almeida and the battles of Hormuz and Malacca by Afonso de Albuquerque, authentic works of art of military strategy from that time.
Funny that you mention it - Almeida and Albuquerque are up next
@@FlashPointHx
Beautiful!! 😊💙
The Battle of Diu is something as extraordinary as Lepanto, Salamis or Trafalgar, but unfortunately not as well known.
Thanks for your amazing work. You’re one of the best if not the best in TH-cam doing videos about my beloved country. A small country with such rich history. He had lots of conquests and brave battles to make videos.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much 😀
Amazing videos.
I am Portuguese and our history has always fascinated me.
It’s amazing to get this more in depth look at it.
Keep up the great work!
Fun fact: here in Brazil we have a football team that is in honor of Vasco Da Gama, the team have the same name as the navigator, they won the Brazilian league 4 times, the Brazilian cup 1 time and the Copa libertadores, the biggest throphy in the continent 1 time in 1998, right now they are in bad situation they were relegeated 4 times and disputed the Second division 5 times, now they played in the first division but they were fighting against the releagation in the last season
The difference is that unlike Vasco the man, the team is always sinking…! (Just kidding…) 😂
Just watched it fully! This is epic! What an amazing video you did! The battle for Cochin would make such an epic movie!
So impressed by this documentary! I watched the 1st part also, this one was even better!
Congrats, can't wait for the sieges of Diu!
Really happy you liked both videos - yeah I’m reading up for the next part even now
Makes me feel like i am playing a RTS game
Nice. I’ve always been a fan of RTS games
A perfect voice for narration. More great work, thank you. Great series.
Thank you for these videos, I know the time and work and research that takes to create this!!! Thank you for helping to share our history and to the world. Being such a small country I think it’s extraordinary how much we impacted the world. Greetings from Portugal!!
Hello!! Thank you for this awesome comment - your country’s history is so interesting. It needs to be shared! All the best!
One of the best and most underrated history channels on TH-cam, and most of the channels that pump out content I find boring (e.g. Kings and Generals, historia civils). They lack the charisma, drama, and enthusiasm that this channel brings.
They had galleons that were scary at that time, just to name one, the Sao João Baptista, nicknamed Botafogo, the most powerful warship when it was launched (1534) by the Portuguese, it became famous during the conquest of Tunis. (1535) with a variable estimate between 80 and 200 cannons with varying shooting weights, mainly anti-personnel swivel cannons, they could do great damage to very well fortified cities.
Great country and history!
I can't wait for the next episodes! Amazing job! I like how you quote the sources and explain the different accounts without sharing only one
Thank you very much!
I love it how you're spreading the portugyese sayings.
I had to look up a series of Portuguese saying - that one seemed just right
Francisco de Almeida and Afonso de Albuquerque the real makers of an empire.
Amazing job, loved it! Can't wait for part 3! 😁 Netflix should really make a movie about these Portuguese heroic battles and their untold maritime adventures.
Hey thanks! Yeah hoping Netflix will do that one of these days. The first video of part 3 came out yesterday BTW
There are beautiful videos about Late Medieval Portugal by Schwerpunkt that I strongly recommend as a background
his voice is hard to understand and he rambles on about nonsense for way too long
I agree about him rambling about nonsense. He comes off pretty unhinged at times. I had to unsub after a few months.
I listened for about five minutes and gave up for the same reasons others have mentioned
he uses sock accounts to advertise his channel on like every other history related channel. Go away.
LOVE these long videos guys! Thanks!😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
Always appreciated Daniel!
@@FlashPointHx np
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about Portuguese (Armada) around African 🌍 content shores , on Indian 🇮🇳 Ocean surface ,and around Indian peninsula shores.. Portuguese 🇵🇹 Armada trade activities ,concurred flourish costs , expelling Muslims ☪️ traded, threatened others... So Portuguese was a top dog in its glory and shiny times ( 1500 AD forward ...thank you 🙏( flash point history )channel for sharing.
Hey - you are so welcome - really happy you liked my video
Отличная работа! Вам огромное уважение и почтение за Ваш труд!❤👍
Никто так круто не освещал эту тему, кроме Вас. Привет ото всех ваших почитателей из России!
Saudações de Portugal
Greeting from America, sorry we're at war
@@davinfreeman1 Спасибо. У нас вполне хорошо относятся к простым американцам и не испытывают к вам никакой вражды, это я вам могу сказать со всей уверенностью)
Thank you so much! Спасибо!
@@primatons like putin said... there are no frontiers for russia... well try to invade portugal and you will see.. hahaha just kidding.
The quality of these videos is truly impressive. Congratulations!
Thank you - and agree with your other comment - Diu should be amongst the most impressive battles in history
Brilliant work! I've been learning so much about our history with this series! Thank you so much
You are so welcome Bruno !
F.P.H.- Magnifico trabalho, perto de ser perfeito. Obrigado. 😊💙
🤴💪🏾❤️ thank you for bringing history to life in such a beautiful way.
You’re so welcome !
You deserve a statue in downtown Lisbon facing the Tagus River. Thanks!
That would be cool!
I loved these two Portuguese Empire vids. Keep up the excellent work with the next episode!
Thanks, will do!
Thank you for this, I really needed an escape today. I just went to patreon and realized I never updated my card on there so here's some back pay 😅. Thanks for many past hours of education and entertainment and the many future hours I'm sure are to come
You are so welcome! Thank you for this as well - Appreciated!
Bravo, Bravo!! Absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much. 😊❤
So happy you liked this ! Thank you!
Thank you for this videos! They make me feel really connected to Portugal
This era of Portuguese history is fascinating. There is a publisher in Portugal which has been dropping new editions of king's biographies. The Aviz ones are very good, João II and Manuel are out (João I and Duarte also), and Sebastião is in pre sale. Hopefully João III and Afonso V will come soon, to complete my collection.
I agree - this was the period that Portugal went from a backwater to world empire in a 100 year stretch
I truly enjoyed this man, was so immersed in the storytelling that I totally forgot that I was watching a youtube video.🙌
Hey - happy you liked my video!
this entire series is a work of art. 👌
Thank you so much - took a lot to put this together
Sweet baby Jesus can't wait for part 3
Hahaha - I take it you liked my video
@@FlashPointHx I love them all and watch them multiple times and share them among Portuguese folks that don't even know their legacy. Thank you so much for this, I wish you could be the director of a hollywood movie portraying these adventurous and treacherous times.
Really appreciate you doing all that Edge - thank you@@edgeuplink
There are many great historical channels on TH-cam, but this is very special. It may be due to a more profound presentation combining science and art. Keep up the excellent work, and thank you for bringing to light some lesser-known episodes from the past.
I really appreciate this comment - thanks !
This series is great! I'd love to see one about the Spanish Empire too!
Spanish are up next
Mis hermanos ❤ Iberians te Amo!!!
😊❤
Cabral - I found Brazil, I found Madagascar, I brought 6+ ships full of spice from half the world away.
Portugal - You are a failure.
Seriously - the man was given an impossible task and then they nobility was shocked he didn’t do everything
Perhaps because, just because, they already knew about Brazil. 😉.
@@SylvaHodracyrda Have you any link or page that explain your comment? I´d like learn much more about this era.
@@danielguerrero894it’s an old rumor that we already knew about Brasil at the time of the Treaty of Tordesilhas, since we were weirdly insistent on moving the boundary further west than the proposed line. But that might have been to secure the equatorial route we used to sail up and down Africa.
We’ll probably never know, since a lot of the relevant documentation went up in smoke in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.
@@feastguy101 Thanks
Well...Part 2 just as good, if not better than Part 1. Nicely done, turning the History into "Educational Entertainment". I learned SO much about the Battle of Cochin, I didn't know how strategic the Portuguese were - I used to think it was mostly..."Divine Intervention". So enjoyed UR work, that subscribing was a must. Thx for UR time, talents & effort. 🙏✨
For the algorithm gods!
Best youtube series ever, though...
keep up the good work!
Woot!!
@@FlashPointHx🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I love the maps in this video, really feels like you're going back in time to the age of discovery! Can't wait for part 3!
Medieval European merchants' tagline: THE SPICE MUST FLOW
It is after all the most precious substance in the universe
@@FlashPointHx too bad the colonisers only used it to prophesy and not to season their food 😭
@@bethmarriott9292 The "colonisers" did use spices and to this day depending on the dishes.
Almost a 2h video! Yeah, definitely worth the wait. Thanks FPH!
Oh yeah !!
Mais uma história contada com excelência, parabéns.😊
i have a book from roger crowley about this adventures
really great
It's the best one on the topic written for the English-speaking world, for sure.
The light and dark side bar of Vasco da Gama 🤣 btw, awesome work. Congrats from 🇵🇹 👌🏼
Yeah I'm big into Sci fi - that had to go in =)
Liked, commented, just doing my job Capitao!
Hahaa - appreciated !!
Is Vasco da Gama the GOAT admiral? He heard that 150 ships are coming to attack so he quickly attacks first and destroys everything... Multiple times and after getting away by a hair thread from his death? WTF? GOAT 🐐
He had nerves of steel - but also got insanely lucky
Indeed, super lucky at times. But the courage is unbelievable 🤣 these stories, these battles... It's hard sometimes to believe these men actually existed and they were of steel pretty much
@@kranffel emerging from the Reconquista - they felt that they were doing gods work and were favored by divinity to win - against any odds
Yeah and it worked 😄
@@kranffelfor a while… until it didn’t. Look up Mers Al-Qibir to see what I mean.
Such a wild age in human history. Your work is incredible as always!
Thank you very much!
amazing series :)
nas escolas do Brasil, aprendemos que Vasco da Gama chegou a Calicute, encheu as caravelas de especiarias e voltou para Lisboa. A ideia era de que os portugueses chegaram nas Índias e foram recebidos de braços abertos .... infelizmente a história não foi bem assim.
Na maioria das vezes só se aprende o nome do Vasco da Gama e do Pedro Álvares Cabral, sem se ensinar nem o motivo das expedições.
The Portguese 🌳 ⛵️ inside Mafi Port.
You won't miss the taste of imagination.
Manuel is just spamming fleets
Can't wait for your video on Francisco de Almeida
O "Xico" Almeida foi qualquer coisa de fascinante.
Time for Part 2
Amazing content!🇵🇹
Great video guys! Can't wait to see the rest of the series! Keep up the good work
Wow what a great documentary. Really enjoyed it
This is epic, thank you! 🙌
Welcome :)
So happy this came out!
Yes! The full history in one video. Brings back wonderful memories of the Reconquista series.
Yeah - I love getting the smaller videos together for these larger compilation ones
@FlashPointHx I love the smaller ones too. I use these long ones for my round trip commutes and long drives; they ate a great way to pass the time.
Here I am 6 years later, still waiting on Hernan Cortez 🤣🤣 great videos though, m enjoying it all the way
hahaha - yeah me too - never thought this journey would be this long =)
Excellent cant wait to watch this
Let me know what you think
Epic! Thank you so much
Anytime!
Interesting piece. Thanks.
Any time :)
These videos are definitely my favourite way of learning history
Glad you like them!
Woohoo i was waiting for this.
Lusitânia ⚔️⚔️
Enjoy!
TOP!!!
Good work!
Thank you! Cheers!
This was great
Hey thanks Ryan !
Thanks
Hey thanks so much! Really appreciated!
hell yeah!
Can you come to Portugal and teach our children the history of Portugal? Because no one does it like you. ❤
I definitely want to get to Portugal one of these days and my boy will definitely learn the history of Portugal before we get there!
@@FlashPointHx I don't know if you ever been to Portugal, but if you need any tips or advice, feel free to ask and I'll gladly help ;)
Good Stuff!
Hey thanks !
👍 🍻
A Belgium citizen here born in East Europe.
Given our half millennium not-good relations with our wannabe Islamic Ottomans I now wonder:
Why Portugal didn't colonize us ?!
We have/had gold !
So why didn't you ? !
SHAME !
Just need to make part 3, from part 2 to 1581
Part 4 from 1581 to 1668
Part 5 from 1668 to 1808
Part 6 from 1808 to 1851
Part 7 from 1851 to 1975 and 1999, 2002.
hahaha - I'll be doing Portuguese history for the next 5 years then
Think about it seriously, if you plan well many Portuguese will sponsor you. But you have to work your communication reach the public. The series should be about the longest European colonial empire, not so much about history. Cheers. @@FlashPointHx
The spice must flow.
It is the most precious substance in the universe
LETS GO!!!
You bet!!
pls, doo something about Pero da Covilha, the 007 portuguese, he arrived in india 10 years before vasco da gama
I mention him in my video on B Dias. I wasn't able to find more information on the guy to do an entire video.
Lesson learnt - if a technologically advanced civilisation shows up with gunboats and wants to trade, don’t fuck them around
Well, both sides had gunboats.
@@SylvaHodracyrda the technological difference was immense. Like the difference between cannons and modern artillery
so well done, sir. and a neglected subject.
Hey thanks!
Portugal Impérial !
tell me when part 3 comes up
13:24 Nothing changes!
Thank you for feeding my YT addiction
Hey anytime
👍👍👍
Thank you Henk!!
Whats the name of the soundtrack around minute 43? Great videos btw. Thank You so much for this chanel❤
Its called "Water's Edge" from the video game 0 AD soundtrack
Best video ever lol