The German Colonial Empire

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Komentáře • 934

  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +269

    Which other colonial empire do you want videos on?
    *CLARIFICATION* : The map on the thumbnail and beginning of the video (plus a couple times throughout it) is wrong guys, sorry!
    I used an interwar map with Danzig connecting West-Prussia to Germany. It should also have Memel, Alsace-Lorraine, and some more territory. Poland was also not independent at this time and the Austro-Hungarian Empire existed.

    • @uncanadien3272
      @uncanadien3272 Před 3 lety +13

      Italy

    • @vukmastilovic1467
      @vukmastilovic1467 Před 3 lety +2

      can you make more videos about friendships beetwen countries and interesting maps?
      P.S. Great video

    • @elharvey5032
      @elharvey5032 Před 3 lety +7

      The Japanese Empire and the First French Empire

    • @loubaxo9339
      @loubaxo9339 Před 3 lety +7

      Japanese and Italian

    • @lubolubchev8722
      @lubolubchev8722 Před 3 lety +5

      It's not a colonial one, but still i think a video about Austria-Hungary would be very interesting

  • @hwg5039
    @hwg5039 Před 3 lety +821

    I’m from Qingdao (Tsingtao), the German buildings are still very well preserved. When I was little I was living in one of them and I literally couldn’t believe other Chinese cities don’t have German architectures! They were so normal to me that I didn’t even notice how beautiful they are until I left my hometown.

    • @Raiy09
      @Raiy09 Před 3 lety +23

      Get a Blutwurst and a med Brötchen if you’re think That tastes good than are the German houses beautiful

    • @JH-hb5cc
      @JH-hb5cc Před 3 lety +51

      Out of all the colonies of China, Qingdao is the only one I find people view favorably only because of Tsingtao Beer (also probably because it didn’t last that long and Germany didn’t exploit China as much as the other colonizers).

    • @hwg5039
      @hwg5039 Před 3 lety +11

      @@JH-hb5cc Yes that's very true

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw Před 3 lety +4

      World renowned Chinese beer!

    • @zoomerboomer1396
      @zoomerboomer1396 Před 3 lety +30

      @@JH-hb5cc When we talk about "exploiting" we also have to keep in mind that the locals in African didn't really us their resources either. So their standards of living increased and they were better off then before the colonization.

  • @yungstallion2201
    @yungstallion2201 Před 3 lety +751

    Ok Germany you can have a colony, just don’t do anything stupid
    Germany: El dorado

    • @NishiMiyamura
      @NishiMiyamura Před 3 lety +20

      If Germany would have just kept their territory they would have joined the Japanese during the pacific war

    • @scintillam_dei
      @scintillam_dei Před 3 lety

      @Angelo River The US was a vulture waiting for Russians and others to do much of the work.

    • @yosuasilaen8197
      @yosuasilaen8197 Před 2 lety +4

      @@NishiMiyamura this is a contradiction. Japan had a propaganda to boycot all western powers in asia. If the reich still at asia, means they cant be allied no?

    • @dawoifee
      @dawoifee Před 2 lety +1

      @@NishiMiyamura I doubt that. Germanys forces were stretched already, they were not able to spare ressources there as well. But also Germany having colonies there would have made an Alliance with Japan way more difficult.

  • @harri7014
    @harri7014 Před 3 lety +512

    2:14 Venezuela was called "Little Venice" because an early explorer saw the natives living in silt houses which reminded him of Venice

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 3 lety +521

    German empire: exists
    WWI allies: *And I took that*

  • @tonytwinkletoes3149
    @tonytwinkletoes3149 Před 3 lety +702

    Italian colonial empire be like: "we have stuff" *points to desert*
    "And we have other stuff" *points to mountainous desert*

    • @evandelck8541
      @evandelck8541 Před 3 lety +4

      Oof

    • @moshedayanihatesweedish
      @moshedayanihatesweedish Před 3 lety +35

      Cries in Ottoman

    • @Exoneos
      @Exoneos Před 3 lety +26

      Tbf Italian had their time when they were Roman.

    • @piekay7285
      @piekay7285 Před 3 lety +8

      @@Exoneos The Roman empire was (after it's beginning Mord Anatolian and Greek than Italian). TBF the Italians just stopped working in the military

    • @ThisTheAviator
      @ThisTheAviator Před 3 lety +38

      The only good thing was Libya as it contains the largest oil reserves of Africa,if only they knew how much of an impact oil made in the post wwii they probably wouldn't have even bothered with the war and just fortified the alps in case of a german victory while selling oil to everyone.
      Imagine losing the most valuable region in Africa because you wanted some pointless coastlines in Croatia,that's a real oof.

  • @sixmill70
    @sixmill70 Před 3 lety +275

    Denmark: Oh we have colonies!
    Greenland and Iceland: Empty snow noises

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt Před 3 lety +7

      Hey Greenland is valuable it will be an American possession soon enough

    • @sixmill70
      @sixmill70 Před 3 lety +7

      @@TheLocalLt about as useful as fire in the desert

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt Před 3 lety +10

      @@sixmill70 it’s a geostrategic strong point and has vast oil resources. China’s own resources are starting to pour in due to Denmark’s neglect. America may need to step in and take over with more funding, the Trump proposal wasn’t a joke it was a contingency the state department already had planned, that shows the line of thinking even in the notoriously non-China-hawk civil service of America.

    • @sixmill70
      @sixmill70 Před 3 lety

      @@TheLocalLt your paragraph long response has been ignored and discarded

    • @TheLocalLt
      @TheLocalLt Před 3 lety +9

      @@sixmill70 yeah sounds like you’re full of counterpoints…

  • @dewangrajkakati132
    @dewangrajkakati132 Před 3 lety +277

    Bonus fact; the city of Kitchener in Canada was known as Berlin until 1916. Due to the large amount of Germans who migrated there. The capital of North Dakota is Bismarck; same reason.

    • @kagenlim5271
      @kagenlim5271 Před 3 lety +6

      Imma say this, not a good idea to name your city Bismarck

    • @niklaslow3254
      @niklaslow3254 Před 3 lety +29

      @@kagenlim5271 Why?

    • @kagenlim5271
      @kagenlim5271 Před 3 lety +2

      @@niklaslow3254 I mean, the Bismarck fell, It's just bad karma to name your city after that

    • @ehanoldaccount5893
      @ehanoldaccount5893 Před 3 lety +18

      Canada had several cities with German names that were renamed due to discrimination

    • @ehanoldaccount5893
      @ehanoldaccount5893 Před 3 lety +51

      @@kagenlim5271 You know Bismarck was the guy who unified the German empire right?

  • @MonsieurDean
    @MonsieurDean Před 3 lety +696

    *Mittelafrika intensifies*

  • @sahahorria
    @sahahorria Před 3 lety +184

    It was called Little Venice (Klein-Venedig) because the local indigenous peoples built settlements with canals, resembling Venice. In fact, Venezuela means Little Venice in a very old Spanish form.

    • @howardthealien2606
      @howardthealien2606 Před 3 lety

      Shut up

    • @howardthealien2606
      @howardthealien2606 Před 3 lety

      @@ordecanlom8520 spell right I can’t even understand you

    • @aequisaequus8723
      @aequisaequus8723 Před 3 lety +7

      @@howardthealien2606 tough guy

    • @howardthealien2606
      @howardthealien2606 Před 3 lety

      @@aequisaequus8723 you being sarcastic?

    • @landoRyder
      @landoRyder Před 3 lety +8

      Guys im a german and he is right klein venedig means logically little venice bc these indigenous built little houses on stilts like in venice like he said

  • @loubaxo9339
    @loubaxo9339 Před 3 lety +143

    2:18 "Venezuela" is literally "Little Venice" in Spanish

  • @wilhelmzhegerman2143
    @wilhelmzhegerman2143 Před 3 lety +143

    One German colonial fact: Germany did attempt to and wanted acquire Philippines, but was cut short due to America annexing it after the treaty of Paris post Spanish-American war

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 3 lety +31

      If the Philippines had been german instead of american, it could have become independent much earlier (1918 instead of 1946) and spanish would probably still be spoken as a lingua franca. Sad.

    • @kzaanimefan4836
      @kzaanimefan4836 Před 3 lety +2

      Pretty sure everyone was interested in it after they revolted against the spaniards

    • @ARG0T
      @ARG0T Před 3 lety +12

      @@theangel3232 Nah, the Philippines likely would've just been a L.O.N """ trust territory """ while in reality being annexed by the British.

  • @JoaoSilva-hf5wf
    @JoaoSilva-hf5wf Před 3 lety +52

    Melhor momento é quando dizes palavras portuguesas, uma pessoa á espera de um sotaque inglês mas depois sai aquele português de Portugal, sou quase sempre apanhado desprevenido. Continua o bom trabalho. Não sei se preferes os comentários em inglês mas prontos. Abraço!

  • @JoaoPedro-gc8mw
    @JoaoPedro-gc8mw Před 3 lety +34

    I like the fact that you are Portuguese because you never forget to mention Portugal. Most do, sadly so.

    • @caeruleusvm7621
      @caeruleusvm7621 Před rokem +5

      Apart from the fact that Portugal's empire was by far the longest-lived in Africa, millions in Africa speak Portuguese now - only a few speak German.

  • @makiskanyt9269
    @makiskanyt9269 Před 3 lety +40

    *bismark sea is next to australia*
    Germany : and it marks my colonial empire

  • @vonKraehe
    @vonKraehe Před 3 lety +128

    Whew, as a Bavarian, I've never heard of this colonial attempt, although I heard of the other 3 attempts by the other states before the unification... Imagine it would have been successful & New York would have been called Neu München for a short time ...

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +24

      The page I found was unclear as to what the idea was. Did they want to buy it from the Dutch? Conquer it somehow? I didn't really understand what it was other than a plan that ultimately failed.

    • @johannesfranck1770
      @johannesfranck1770 Před 3 lety +2

      It would suck, as Munich sucks

    • @marijnverheggen6611
      @marijnverheggen6611 Před 3 lety +3

      I dont think the could conquer it from the netherlands in that time so Maby buy it because that would have got the Brits of there back

    • @howardthealien2606
      @howardthealien2606 Před 3 lety

      Shut up

    • @susactivities6982
      @susactivities6982 Před 3 lety +1

      @Howard The Alien why are you replying shut up to everyone? If you want attention, you’re not gonna get it.

  • @MrTohawk
    @MrTohawk Před 3 lety +90

    There is still a not insignificant German population in Namibia.

    • @elharvey5032
      @elharvey5032 Před 3 lety +29

      Yeah German is taught there

    • @user-zo9hg4fw3t
      @user-zo9hg4fw3t Před 3 lety +22

      in my country of Belize German Mennonites have already outnumbered certain native ethnic groups here in central America now about 18,000 of them now but most people here like them they greatly help the economy.

    • @RV-cv2yt
      @RV-cv2yt Před 3 lety +5

      @@user-zo9hg4fw3t That's so cool!!

    • @user-zo9hg4fw3t
      @user-zo9hg4fw3t Před 3 lety +9

      @@RV-cv2yt another thing is most of them self think of them self's not as German but as Belizean's pretty cool some of there villages also have majority German signs so we have to learn a bit of German to read the signs but there slowly adopting the English language some are really religious' and were traditional clothes and some are modern and look like the normal people. certain village names. they lived in America for a while so sometimes the name of the villages sound American. VILLAGES: Springfield, Shipyard, Friesen town, Riemer's camp, New Prussia

    • @RV-cv2yt
      @RV-cv2yt Před 3 lety +5

      @@user-zo9hg4fw3t I know, I have recently seen a Deutsche Welle documentary about the german mennonite colonies of Belize :)

  • @davimoneylender4112
    @davimoneylender4112 Před 3 lety +116

    As a southern brazilian, I can tell for sure that the towns founded by the german and italian immigrants are among the gorgeous ones in Brazil.

    • @thelondoner1526
      @thelondoner1526 Před 2 lety +2

      as an Italo-Brazilian, though not from the South, I feel flattered :)

    • @familyandfriends3519
      @familyandfriends3519 Před rokem +2

      @@thelondoner1526 your Italian not Brazilian true Brazilians are of Portuguese decent ♥️🇧🇷🇵🇹♥️🤜🇮🇹

    • @familyandfriends3519
      @familyandfriends3519 Před rokem +1

      Go back to Germany and Italy

    • @thelondoner1526
      @thelondoner1526 Před rokem +3

      @@familyandfriends3519 1) wrong, I strongly encourage you to actually set foot in Brazil, you'll then notice how this narrow blood-oriented view is completely dismissed by basically everyone here. We are a people proud of our land, even more than any bloodline: Brazilians are whoever are born in Brazilian soil. 2) I've lost count of italians who wouldn't consider foreign-born descendents of Italians as "real genuine italians", especially if the italian relative was 2, 3 or more generations backwards. 3) I never claimed I don't have portuguese ancestry (I actually do), I only said I have italian one, the two are not mutually exclusive.

    • @shawnnbits
      @shawnnbits Před rokem

      anythings better than those shitty favelas

  • @snoopy1alpha
    @snoopy1alpha Před 3 lety +27

    Your accent when reading out German names and terms is so adorable

  • @PetriW
    @PetriW Před 3 lety +13

    1:40 the music playing in the back, is actually a finnish/swedish military march from 17th century. Its called the March of The Finnish Cavarly or in Finnish Hakkapeliittain marssi. Its one of the oldest military marches in the World!

    • @Dave_Sisson
      @Dave_Sisson Před 3 lety

      The German military march Preussens Gloria is also in the later part of the video.

  • @089roblox1
    @089roblox1 Před 3 lety +127

    Our mind either jump to Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, or the Netherlands
    History nerds: Germany and Italy

    • @Robbie-pc1dl
      @Robbie-pc1dl Před 3 lety +21

      Our minds either jump to UK, Spain, Portugal, or France
      History nerds: Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Belgium

    • @UltmateKngofNothngthest
      @UltmateKngofNothngthest Před 3 lety +17

      Men of culture: Latvia

    • @089roblox1
      @089roblox1 Před 3 lety +7

      @@sneksnekier6764 I mean I guess you could call courland a colonial empire if you wanted to, just with very few colonies (I think its trinidad & tobago and the gambia)

    • @parmentier7457
      @parmentier7457 Před 3 lety +10

      @@Robbie-pc1dl The Dutch discoveries of new islands and the establishment of colonies in the world were many times larger than Italy, Germany and Belgium.

    • @thelastprussian6491
      @thelastprussian6491 Před 3 lety +13

      Super master of history: Austria-Hungary
      Top that internet

  • @MrTTar
    @MrTTar Před 3 lety +93

    "The British Empire at present covers a quarter of the globe, while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganyika".
    Sorry, I couldn't pass up this opportunity to post one of my favourite quotes from Blackadder Goes Forth, probably my favourite comedy series.

  • @torvidbente7889
    @torvidbente7889 Před 3 lety +335

    Germany! Yay

  • @koldaussie
    @koldaussie Před 3 lety +1

    This is one of my favourites. I've only just found your channel.

  • @fernandolacerda0133
    @fernandolacerda0133 Před 3 lety +11

    Are you Portuguese? Amazing English accent. But no non Portuguese would say Rio Grande do sul like that. Great channel. Subscribed

  • @ricardoguanipa8275
    @ricardoguanipa8275 Před 3 lety +17

    Little Venice, it comes from the Palafitos Houses, that the natives of the Maracaibo lake live, the whole structure lies untop of Sticks that had been hammered into the bottom of the lake, the house lays a little bit higher than the water levell incase of high ties, so "it kinda looked like Venice"

  • @karolz545
    @karolz545 Před 3 lety +29

    Amerigo Vespucci coming in 1499 called land ‘Venezziola’ what means Little Venice. Venezuala is kind of modification od this name.

    • @kreznreich
      @kreznreich Před 3 lety

      Great!

    • @karolz545
      @karolz545 Před 3 lety

      I got it from wikipedia. If it's not fully true please be more precise than "not exactly".

    • @karolz545
      @karolz545 Před 3 lety

      es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etimolog%C3%ADa_de_Venezuela

    • @karolz545
      @karolz545 Před 3 lety

      Language lives so it could be just old form. True or not it would be good to provide any source to confirm claim that this is/was bad form? I know that wikipedia is not a best of sorces, but it's allways more than nothing.

    • @karolz545
      @karolz545 Před 3 lety

      @Sebbo h Great. A have respect for you knowledge of current italian. Also 500 years is very much for language. Also regional defferences were bigger before traveling becomes common.

  • @wonderfulweavile5563
    @wonderfulweavile5563 Před 3 lety +42

    Always a pleasure to look at German history and German topics. Germans are by far one of the kindest, friendliest yet most serious and most honest people I’ve ever met. And of course their history is so unique and complex (yes, it’s by far not only about the Third Reich: their history is way more interesting and fascinating).
    Ich wünsche allen Deutschen einen schönen Abend und eine erfolgreiche Zukunft für ihr Land.

  • @biopapapa
    @biopapapa Před 3 lety +5

    Thanks general knownledge for doing my suggestion!

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 3 lety +92

    Who needs South America when you have mighty Samoa

  • @victorjash874
    @victorjash874 Před 2 lety +5

    A lot of old German building in Namibia are still in peak condition. And the guerilla tactics explained at 15:00 they learned from us during The War of Liberation in the early 1900s

  • @user-ft3jq5vi2l
    @user-ft3jq5vi2l Před 3 lety +18

    Merchant: little venice
    *is larger than normal venice*

  • @jasmikko
    @jasmikko Před 3 lety +8

    I love the disclaimer at the end. Nailed it! Respect man!

  • @HahnJames
    @HahnJames Před 3 lety +30

    I would be interested in seeing a history of Brazil.

  • @shawnyepes2389
    @shawnyepes2389 Před rokem

    Love these types of videos !

  • @samuele_giletto3130
    @samuele_giletto3130 Před 3 lety +2

    great vid, you should do swedish and danish colonies next!

  • @davout5775
    @davout5775 Před 3 lety +16

    The greed on the Allies in WW1 is the whole reason for everything that happened from 1918 onwards

  • @jeanbonnefoy1377
    @jeanbonnefoy1377 Před 3 lety +4

    2:18 simply because when Amerigo Vespucci discovered the region, some of its indigenous stilted houses reminded him of Venice, leading him to name it "Veneziola" ("little Venice") which became later the Spanish name Venezuela...

  • @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150

    Great video! Love this channel

  • @M_Dun
    @M_Dun Před 3 lety +30

    "Come to Brazil" - King João VI, 1808

  • @JannaMontana_
    @JannaMontana_ Před 3 lety +35

    The map at the beginning hurt my brain. Germany had Memel, Alsace-Lorraine, and some more territory in now modern day Poland but the map just showed some weird map with Silesia and Prussian lands connected to modern Germany

    • @joshhsieh1579
      @joshhsieh1579 Před 3 lety +3

      It’s the interwar Germany

    • @JannaMontana_
      @JannaMontana_ Před 3 lety +5

      @@joshhsieh1579 It cant be, the map at the beginning had all its Colonies. Post world war 1 Germany also had the polish corridor disconnecting east and west prussia.

    • @willywodka1924
      @willywodka1924 Před 3 lety +6

      @@joshhsieh1579 It isn't, in interwar Germany, East Prussia was seperated from the restt through the polish corridor. This corridor is also missing.

    • @MrDonut-ch8dr
      @MrDonut-ch8dr Před 3 lety +1

      In that map posen is missing

    • @dbriner-jo5tv
      @dbriner-jo5tv Před 3 lety

      I did too i commented in it too

  • @ann-carolinemorner6405
    @ann-carolinemorner6405 Před 3 lety +13

    My family lived in Tanzania in the sixties. We met an old man who could speak -German. We also stayed at the Tabora Hotel which was built for Kaiser Wilhelm. Only he never did visit Tanganyika. People in Tanzania still remeḿbeered the Germans and the terrible way they treated people, especially in tne Arusha province.

    • @jaswindersinghsraa9435
      @jaswindersinghsraa9435 Před 3 měsíci +1

      yes it’s a nice building in Tabora ,,, a beautiful town ,,,,stay blessed ,,, i was born in Dodoma

  • @mikaelvilhjalmsson6068
    @mikaelvilhjalmsson6068 Před 3 lety +2

    This is a really good video. The one thing I find a little misleading is at 0:40 the caricature of that guy looking a bit like Hitler, but in fact it's no German person, but the British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, demonstrating Britain's claim on Africa from North through to South. Apart from that, a great and interesting video.

  • @ferhatdikmen3762
    @ferhatdikmen3762 Před 3 lety +8

    15:00 didn't know that zebras are used like horses .

    • @fireflyfireworks668
      @fireflyfireworks668 Před 3 lety +5

      It takes literally balls of steels to tame a zebra, but better than having to "import" horses.

    • @ferhatdikmen3762
      @ferhatdikmen3762 Před 3 lety +2

      @@fireflyfireworks668 it wasn't that easy to import thousends of horses to another continent in that time .

    • @wolfsoldner9029
      @wolfsoldner9029 Před 3 lety +3

      Its stature doesnt look like a zebra. It looks like a horse with a zebra camo painted on it.

    • @niccolopaganini4268
      @niccolopaganini4268 Před 3 lety

      @@wolfsoldner9029 outstanding move

    • @fireflyfireworks668
      @fireflyfireworks668 Před 3 lety

      @@ferhatdikmen3762 As I said, it was easier to sacrifice some poor man's balls than importing.

  • @FikAb
    @FikAb Před rokem +3

    Better to make next video about the German settlements in the various places like Wolga-Deutschen, Pskau Deutschen and even German settlers in Azerbaijan (the Caucausus region), where settlers from Baden-Württemberg founded such villages like Andreasdorf and Helensdorf.

  • @ammoniumphosphate
    @ammoniumphosphate Před 3 lety +9

    Maybe the swedish colonial empire? (can't remember if you've already done that)

  • @Jonasm501
    @Jonasm501 Před 3 lety +3

    There were also german-british plans to divide the portuguese colonies in 1898 and 1913, to improve Anglo-German relationships.
    Britain wanted: Mozambique, south of the Zambezi, Portuguese India, Macau, Timor-Leste, the eastern part of Angola and Cape Verde and
    Germany wanted: Mozambique, north of the Zambezi, the rest of Angola + Cabinda and Sao Tome and Principe while Portuguese Guinea would be ceded to France.

  • @kreznreich
    @kreznreich Před 3 lety +16

    Top footage!
    I am very interested in German colonization and thus I have seen several videos so far on this topic, and I must tell you that this is the best video I have seen so far!

  • @Kameliius
    @Kameliius Před 3 lety +38

    Diese Kommentar-Sektion ist nun offiziell Teil des Deutschen Kaiserreiches!

    • @Raiy09
      @Raiy09 Před 3 lety +7

      Das Gefühl habe ich auch xD

    • @TheGogeta222
      @TheGogeta222 Před 3 lety +6

      EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN KOMMENTARBEREICH!

    • @ulrikschackmeyer848
      @ulrikschackmeyer848 Před 3 lety

      Ok. As long as you don't tell anyone and don't make a fuzz. Or we'll have to take it off your vands. The World

    • @wendigockel
      @wendigockel Před 3 lety +1

      Man Spricht Deutsch, mein Herr!

    • @ulrikschackmeyer848
      @ulrikschackmeyer848 Před 3 lety

      @@wendigockel If you know how to do it PROPERLY! As a Dane I would rather speak correct English than bad German, neh?

  • @cesargonzalez4146
    @cesargonzalez4146 Před 3 lety +3

    The name Little Venice (Klein Venedig), according to some records, has its origins in the houses the anu and other natives built around the shores of Lake Maracaibo and the Gulf of Venezuela, named in spanish palafitos (stilt houses), supported by long and strong wooded poles to keep them over the water level, there were complete villages with dozens of houses built in this fashion, they also preferred to use canoes to travel between the villages around the area rather than exposing themselves walking around the coast, where wild animals and hostile tribes could attack them. The spanish and italian explorers, many of them seasoned mediterranean merchants, called the area Pequeña Venecia or Venezziola for its likeness to the legendary City of Channels even before arrival of the germans, and that's also the origin of the country name, Venezuela, the Little Venice.

  • @seguir4827
    @seguir4827 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you

  • @rodrigomejia953
    @rodrigomejia953 Před 3 lety +1

    The reason the Welsers refered to Venezuela as little Venice is because that is how Americo Vespucci had refered to it in one of his books, he was italian so when he saw the native building huts along and on top of the Maracaibo lake he instantly thought of it and called the area Venezola (Little Venice) which is also where the name Venezuela comes from.

  • @OmegaLegacy972
    @OmegaLegacy972 Před 3 lety +14

    Germany sure did lose a lot of territory in the 1900s but it’s still strong and proud today.

    • @elharvey5032
      @elharvey5032 Před 3 lety

      And don't forget also non German
      I'm joking

    • @danorott
      @danorott Před 3 lety +6

      I don't know about the "proud" part but ok.

    • @Raiy09
      @Raiy09 Před 3 lety +3

      but not proud of history or today. We can say we are a better democracy than the USA or were strong in economy. But proud not this is so an old word better new and better or something

    • @elharvey5032
      @elharvey5032 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Raiy09 Is that one of the main reasons why Germans migrate to Switzerland and Austria?

    • @elharvey5032
      @elharvey5032 Před 3 lety

      @S K Sadly that might be the case because even Austrians were Protesting against Immigrantion and now with recent Terrorists attacks it might have increased the Anti Immigrantion movement

  • @ordinary_magician
    @ordinary_magician Před 3 lety +41

    Is it just me or does that Germany look... kinda off in the thumbnail

    • @Irrelevantnerd1918
      @Irrelevantnerd1918 Před 3 lety +27

      Yeah it looks like Posen, Alsace Lorraine, and North Schleswig aren’t apart of Germany for some reason

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +28

      Shhhh... I might have not been able to find a proper map so I used a post-ww1 one and just connected danzig by hand while forgetting the rest

    • @M_Dun
      @M_Dun Před 3 lety

      @@General.Knowledge Professional 😂

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o Před 3 lety +1

    It was called Little Venice because the guy that discovered Venezuela (name comes from small Venice) spent a lot of time in Venice and the native Americans there built houses on stilts in an area on a river estuary that looked like canals.

  • @emilymalden3310
    @emilymalden3310 Před 3 lety

    This is fascinating.

  • @ZK_1234_
    @ZK_1234_ Před 2 lety +4

    I want.....
    *MORE*

  • @willywodka1924
    @willywodka1924 Před 3 lety +28

    That map is really strange, Poland exists, Germany lost all of its WW1 losses except the polish corridor and Austria-Hungary is split up. What happened there?

    • @sallmandar1027
      @sallmandar1027 Před 3 lety +8

      Its a ww2 map, but germany has its colonies and the polish corridor

    • @oscarbray4854
      @oscarbray4854 Před 3 lety +2

      @@sallmandar1027 i saw that too

  • @SpaceMonkeyBoi
    @SpaceMonkeyBoi Před 3 lety +1

    3:03
    Nice

  • @efecar5929
    @efecar5929 Před rokem +2

    Pretty amazing how large they got a empire in just 47 years

  • @ralfm.schroder8188
    @ralfm.schroder8188 Před 3 lety +11

    Too less about German Samoa ...
    By the way, I visited the formerly German part of Samoa twice, and many Samoans asked me:
    Where do you come from?
    When I said:
    Germany,
    all of them smiled more than before, and some told me details of German history there, no German has ever heard about.
    Many (western) Samoans are very proud of their German part of history.
    It felt like the Kaiser‘s Empire has never gone there.
    It‘s one of the few really German-friendly places in the world.
    And that’s although we Germans deported some of their chiefs, didn’t allow them to build traditional high sea ships anymore, didn’t allow them to bury their dead relatives at home like before, accept the Kaiser as their Tupu Sili, their highest king, and many other repressions.
    They could REALLY forgive.
    What wonderful people they are!
    I hope one day they will be re-united with the eastern brothers.
    They are still under US rule.

    • @MrSicc274
      @MrSicc274 Před rokem

      And in Tonga also. My aunties family Sanft

  • @arturogiovannic.6473
    @arturogiovannic.6473 Před 3 lety +3

    King João VI: “Come to Brazil!”

  • @waiting4aliens
    @waiting4aliens Před 7 měsíci

    Nice over view, thank you.

  • @rub-al-khali4265
    @rub-al-khali4265 Před 3 lety +1

    Venezuela was names after Venice because in 1499, an expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda visited the Venezuelan coast. The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, Italy, so he named the region Veneziola, or "Little Venice".

  • @Unknown-wk3bh
    @Unknown-wk3bh Před rokem +3

    Most people in germany don't know anything about its colonial past + the genocides in Africa.

  • @sidneilefredopadaratz6048

    Another charttered German Colony was settled in 1850 in Santa Catarina (Brazil) and it was named after its manager Doctor Hermann Bruno Otto Blumenau. So, my ancestors came along with him to Blumenau to start a new life out of Prussia, which became part of the Germany after a while. Till the WWII the main language in Biumenau Town was German and its several dialects. And speak this language from 40's decade was forbidden by The Federal Brazilian Government and my family had got to learn Portuguese liking or not. As consequences of this almost anybody speaks German at all. It's easier to find those which are English speakers instead. I meant, Rio Grande do Sul was the first part of Brazil where Germans have taken place but there were Santa Catarina and Espírito Santo colonies as well. It's to say the least.

  • @offtraileddino5989
    @offtraileddino5989 Před 2 lety +1

    Beautiful!

  • @MakriaMicronation
    @MakriaMicronation Před 9 měsíci +1

    They called Venezuela "little venice " because in the colony there was a city with houses built on stilts just like venice

  • @spinx2709
    @spinx2709 Před 3 lety +3

    When you run out of territory, you take islands.
    *LOTS OF ISLANDS*

  • @cassianoneto1553
    @cassianoneto1553 Před 3 lety +5

    They called it “little Venice” because Venezuela’s coast reminded them of the Italian city. That is also the origin of the name Venezuela in Spanish, too, meaning little Venice.

  • @alui3619
    @alui3619 Před 3 lety

    Great as usual! Where are you from? I've been asking myself asking the same question video after video.

  • @originalhistory4446
    @originalhistory4446 Před 3 lety +1

    Could you do the French colonial empire? I really want to learn more about their North American possessions before 1763. If that one is to complex could you try the Swedish colonial empire?

  • @cedricdalbalcon5999
    @cedricdalbalcon5999 Před 3 lety +9

    It was called little Venice because the Venezuela’s landscape resembles the lagoon-like City of Venice. That’s why Venezuela 🇻🇪 is named like it is.
    Vene comes from Venezia (Italian)

  • @boosh5827
    @boosh5827 Před 3 lety +5

    British colonial empire pretty thicc tho

  • @alphastorm1466
    @alphastorm1466 Před 3 lety +2

    The sufix -uela/o in Spanish means "little", for example, a little well (pozo) it's pozuelo, so Venezuela literally means Little Venice in Spanish

    • @engelsteinberg593
      @engelsteinberg593 Před 2 lety

      No in today Spanish.

    • @alphastorm1466
      @alphastorm1466 Před 2 lety

      @@engelsteinberg593 well i'm Spanish and even if it's not really used today, many people from rural areas specially make use of it, specially in Andalusia and sorrounding areas.

  • @caiosiqueira6138
    @caiosiqueira6138 Před 3 lety +1

    2:14 When the europeans arrived in present-day Venezuela, there were a lot of indian's stilt houses(which is actually quite common in the amazon region) and they thought: "hey, that resembles what we see in Venice(Venezia in italian), so let's call this place VENEzuela(which stands for litte venice, just like the name the germans gave to it)"
    By the way, the country's name was Americo Vespucci's ideia.

  • @TurkishPanzer
    @TurkishPanzer Před 3 lety +16

    hmmm what dose the german empire look like
    (general knowledge) just give them ww2 borders with danzig.

    • @oscarbray4854
      @oscarbray4854 Před 3 lety +1

      i saw that too

    • @lefrenchaudir188
      @lefrenchaudir188 Před 3 lety

      Imagine if there is a universe where germany kept Norway and Denmark after a peace deal some how...

    • @TurkishPanzer
      @TurkishPanzer Před 3 lety

      @@lefrenchaudir188 HOI4 TNO?

  • @irohito622
    @irohito622 Před 2 lety +3

    This explains why Chilean military helmets are German

  • @eybaza6018
    @eybaza6018 Před 8 měsíci

    A Dinosaur from Tanzania was named after general von Lettow-Vorbeck: Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki. It means Lettow-Vorbeck's untouchable lizard, probably in reference to his long and fierce resistance against the British forces.

  • @StefonMilosivich
    @StefonMilosivich Před 3 lety +1

    First “Come to Brazil”
    6:30

  • @galiciangladiator5857
    @galiciangladiator5857 Před 3 lety +21

    6:44 Brazilians, asking people to come to Brazil since 1808.

  • @lukealexander2135
    @lukealexander2135 Před 3 lety +4

    Cool

  • @GamingStation-kh3hz
    @GamingStation-kh3hz Před 5 měsíci

    About Brazil: 300.000 thousand of Germans and some Swiss come to Brazil until XX century.
    Today, the state of Santa Catarina are the most german populate state of Brazil, the city of Blumenau is famous for it's Oktober Fest (Baravarian Hereditage), and we can see all over the state the german architecture.
    Some places is commom for people to speak German (actually it's ''Poma'', because of the Pommerania influence).

  • @ElDiosMashiar
    @ElDiosMashiar Před 5 měsíci +1

    When i heard Colonial Empire i remind:
    Netherlands
    UK
    Portugal
    France
    Spain
    Latvia
    Denmark
    Sweden
    Norway
    Japan
    Belgium
    USA
    Austria-Hungary

  • @leoschladebach1582
    @leoschladebach1582 Před 3 lety +11

    Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪!

  • @caleb.z
    @caleb.z Před 3 lety +6

    Nobody:
    GK:
    "cHRistIanIsM"

  • @s.t.384
    @s.t.384 Před 3 lety

    Thanks

  • @THe_D-se9hp
    @THe_D-se9hp Před 3 lety +2

    Can you do the Italian Colonial Empire?

  • @collaborisgaming2190
    @collaborisgaming2190 Před 3 lety +3

    14:16 they blamed it on the Germans for attacking first, you know who was the first to defy the colonial neutrality act of 1884? Belgium. then brtiain, France followed suit and South Africa had it's own plans. Germany was forced to defend against the breakers of international law. the Germans only tried attacking after the second week of entaunt assaults

    • @engelsteinberg593
      @engelsteinberg593 Před 2 lety

      Actually was Austria, and if was no by Kiaser Wilhelm II the devil, there would be no war.

    • @collaborisgaming2190
      @collaborisgaming2190 Před 2 lety +1

      @@engelsteinberg593 Serbia Sponsored the Assassination. So if Anything It's Yugoslavia that takes the Blame since it Came into Existence because of the Outcome of the war
      Serbia also didn't extradite the Terrorists Responsible to Austria-Hungary which internationally was Illegal.
      All Russia Had to do was Stay out but Noooo. They had to Go Burr with their Incompetent Military and Pan-slavism that only Inspired the German Version a Generation Later

    • @engelsteinberg593
      @engelsteinberg593 Před 2 lety

      @@collaborisgaming2190 Actually the Serbians were willing to colaborate, they asked for internacional arbritation, therefore Wilhelm should have ordered Austria to accept and invite America to arbritate.
      PD.: Hail Deutschland.

    • @collaborisgaming2190
      @collaborisgaming2190 Před 2 lety +1

      @@engelsteinberg593 they didn't want to collaborate on 2 specific terms, one being 24 hour compliance and the second being to turn in a Serbian Army Major (Whom also had a Hand in Killing Greek monarchs) who threw a Bomb in a Failed Attempt the day before Princip killed Franz, they agreed to the rest of the Terms that Honestly sounds like it was Written to the part of France that Wasn't Vichy
      I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want outsiders to Mediate when some foreign country's state sponsored terrorist Group kills someone in equivalency to Vice President (America Might Pursue war anyway if it was them (Given they almost went to war with Mexico over Pancho Villa), otherwise Embargo was the main tactic). International Law was Also on Austria-Hungary's side so Mediation would only Complicate things
      Only Russia and Serbia Cared about the Ultimatum. the Chain of Alliances did the Rest. the Entaunt was the "We are Scared of Germany" Club because France and Russia (the Tsar was the Kaiser's cousin so it would make sense for Russia to be a mediator). then the Entaunt became the "Gang Bang Germany" Club when Germany wanted to End the War Quick in the West because Russia was more Feared Despite being Relativly De-industrialized

    • @engelsteinberg593
      @engelsteinberg593 Před 2 lety

      @@collaborisgaming2190 Certainly maybe having America arbitring may complicate things, but having some external country to testify the things may help to avoid scalate the crisis.
      Also Frace just wanted Alssac-Lorraine back. Maybe offering self-determination to the regions of Alssac-Lorraine, so the French can be no longer obssesed with war with Germany.
      Also Germany should have search a Alliance with America so if something goes to war, Germany could win easy.

  • @lennartzimmermann3500
    @lennartzimmermann3500 Před 3 lety +12

    A Video about germany without german comments?
    Das muss ich ändern

    • @renetabbert2645
      @renetabbert2645 Před 3 lety

      Da mach ich mit

    • @charliemarlie1994
      @charliemarlie1994 Před 3 lety

      Ein Volk, Eine Nation, Eine Kommentarsektion.
      Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun eine deutsche Kolonie.

  • @gabrielfrancisco3055
    @gabrielfrancisco3055 Před 3 lety +1

    Faça um vídeo sobre o império colonial belga por favor.

  • @isaacrandomrussell5630
    @isaacrandomrussell5630 Před 2 lety +1

    The German colony was called little Venice, because all the houses there were on stilts, and that’s how Venezuela was named.

  • @ryanthomas5299
    @ryanthomas5299 Před 3 lety +10

    uh why does Poland own posnan?

    • @mtszlr
      @mtszlr Před 3 lety +7

      @@piotrmichalowski3601 not at that time dude

    • @piotrmichalowski3601
      @piotrmichalowski3601 Před 3 lety +1

      @@mtszlr Of course that time was in German hand's , because Poland lost it that land before.

    • @mtszlr
      @mtszlr Před 3 lety +5

      These regions were inhabited by german people during that time and were part of Germany. They might have been part of poland at some point, but this does not matter in this context. But hey, if you wanna go that route who was there first , germanic people lived there way earlier.

    • @piotrmichalowski3601
      @piotrmichalowski3601 Před 3 lety +2

      @@mtszlr if you wanna go this way.... genetic searches are showing something different. Are Slavic people lived here for few thousand years...

    • @MagdaleneNimptsch
      @MagdaleneNimptsch Před 3 lety

      ​@@piotrmichalowski3601 Genetic searches? What? What do genetics have to do with anything? Do you have any idea, how many civilizations lived and died out across human history? If genetics mattered, that not a single people in this world would have a claim to the land they are living in today. That just isn't how it works.
      I am so annoyed by this Polish bickering. You own these lands now. You live there now. No one is trying to take that land back. BUT, Germans have lived there for several hundreds years up until the world wars. Those places have been their homeland. Many are still alive and remember it. You cannot deny them that. One third of every German alive today has relatives who came from those parts of the German empire.
      Just let it got already. Be glad that Poland never had to compensate all those Germans who lost everything when they were forcefully driven out of their homes, leaving everything behind.

  • @officialzji1828
    @officialzji1828 Před 3 lety +12

    Kinda depressing for the German Colonial Empire losing its colony and just became the "German Empire".
    Sad times for the Germans.

    • @cassianoneto1553
      @cassianoneto1553 Před 3 lety

      Why? The colonies never turned a profit, they were able to save tons of money in garrisons in Africa and the Pacific, and avoided the post-colonial wrath that Britain, Portugal and France had to deal with. No German really suffered as a result of that loss.

    • @speer1778
      @speer1778 Před 3 lety

      FRIED PIPINO HERE😈

  • @whataworldwelivein1624

    I was planning to make a video related to this

  • @robertholmberg6485
    @robertholmberg6485 Před 3 lety

    The Swedish Empire, which at 1 time included part of the what would become the U.S.A. (mainly in Delaware area), part of present day Ghana, the Baltic states, and Finland

  • @justsomepersononyoutube9271

    The german empire reunion

  • @Auralluz
    @Auralluz Před 3 lety +9

    I dont know but, africa dont looks like south america

    • @sergeantsharkseant
      @sergeantsharkseant Před 3 lety +2

      he means it is about the german colonies and as an additon the history in south america

    • @howardthealien2606
      @howardthealien2606 Před 3 lety

      Shut u

    • @sergeantsharkseant
      @sergeantsharkseant Před 3 lety +2

      @@howardthealien2606 why? What is your problem Angry person? I just wanted to help a bit

    • @maikotter9945
      @maikotter9945 Před 2 lety

      Amerika und Afrika bildeten den gemeinsamen Kontinent ... Gondwana!
      Südamerikas Ostküste und Afrikas Westküste sind wie Puzzleteile zusammenlegbar!

  • @aforever007
    @aforever007 Před 3 lety +1

    I want a video about the spanish empire (colonial)

  • @kiviimusic
    @kiviimusic Před 3 lety +1

    Prussia also had the island of Arguin from 1685-1721