African History

The Age of Exploration: Crash Course European History #4

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5 years ago

May 3, 2019

The thing about European History is that it tends to leak out of Europe. Europeans haven’t been great at staying put in Europe. As human beings do, the people of Europe were very busy traveling around to trade, to spread religion, and in a lot of cases to try and conquer other people. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Europeans developed a bunch of tools and techniques that would allow them to travel around the world, in numbers and force heretofore unseen on the planet. And a lot of the results weren’t great for the people who already lived in the places Europeans were “visiting.”

Sources
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

Smith, Bonnie G. Modern Empires: A Reader. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

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26 Comments

@samraatdabolay1998

August 20, 2022 at 8:01 am

really good video

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@mydogdeli

September 15, 2022 at 8:10 pm

I love this series and learn so much from it. Your emphasis on an objectively accurate description of history is admirable. As such, to say that "Africa was rich in slaves", while perhaps technically true at the time from a European perspective, is glaringly tone-deaf from the more enlightened perspective that we enjoy today.

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@jonathanlong9176

September 26, 2022 at 12:06 am

Whose watching this because they don’t want to read their textbook

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@tianfangren2066

September 28, 2022 at 12:34 pm

Nice

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@TransoceanicOutreach

October 29, 2022 at 1:14 am

0:56 – they're representing europe with the EU flag?!? So Russia, Ukraine, UK, Norway etc aren't part of european history? Wtf is going on….

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@maxdoesrandomstuff9518

October 29, 2022 at 8:53 pm

put on a few hu john

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@pbohearn

November 28, 2022 at 2:50 am

Error alert: you had given the Spanish king the title of Ferdinand of Aragon. That is not correct; he was Ferdinand of Leon. Their daughter was Catherine of Aragon who married King Henry VIII of England. When Ferdinand and Isabella married they united two of the big provinces of Spain that then formed its foundation, and when they drove the moors out, they had most of the country at that point, and that became Spain going forward. Portugal has been able to maintain its own boundaries long predating this.

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@gokuthetypeofningen1688

November 30, 2022 at 10:53 pm

Bro you’re coming in clutch this is perfect for the lesson plan I’m editing for my college class bless you John
And hank too haha

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@bconni2

January 24, 2023 at 12:09 am

OMG. you misspelled "Portuguese", how embarrassing.

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@oliviahartmann9647

February 13, 2023 at 5:18 pm

are you ok?

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@jamescanningauthor

February 27, 2023 at 7:05 pm

6:37 Difference between enslavement and forced labor?

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@yoghurt7448

March 6, 2023 at 11:48 am

1:20 i love the Gorillaz reference

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@plaguster

June 10, 2023 at 10:50 pm

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@plaguster

June 10, 2023 at 10:54 pm

11:29 "stan would like me to point out that it was actually 8 dollars"

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@HelenaSzep-bw1ok

June 13, 2023 at 5:39 pm

this video was informative

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@windynate1826

July 13, 2023 at 11:37 pm

funny how Portuguese men were basically gold diggers

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@ryanweaver962

August 4, 2023 at 8:36 pm

“Truth resists simplicity”… so good

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@ryanweaver962

August 4, 2023 at 8:40 pm

Fascinating how inquisition helped fuel exportation with a tenor of hierarchy…. It’s a lot to take in… even now.

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@lukesandoval5578

October 2, 2023 at 4:39 pm

Love this video ❤❤❤❤

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@navidutube

November 8, 2023 at 2:10 pm

Amazing video

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@REBORN_YT908

November 15, 2023 at 12:57 pm

Damn history’s hard

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January 11, 2024 at 2:33 pm

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April 17, 2024 at 10:19 am

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@AlfredBatemanMartin-ty2xs

May 6, 2024 at 2:44 pm

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@DylanDalleVedove

May 28, 2024 at 3:06 pm

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@DylanDalleVedove

May 28, 2024 at 3:06 pm

calm down

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