When Venezuela was Colonized by German Bankers | German Conquistadors, History of Venezuela

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    Klein Venedig, German Colonization of the Americas, German Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Banking Family, Fuggers, Welser Family, German Colonies, History of Venezuela, History of South America, 16th Century History, Age of Discovery, Colonization of the Americas, German Explorers

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  • @JabzyJoe
    @JabzyJoe  Před 2 lety +23

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    • @SafavidAfsharid3197
      @SafavidAfsharid3197 Před 2 lety +1

      Hey can you do a series or video on Mughal-maratha wars?

    • @JabzyJoe
      @JabzyJoe  Před 2 lety +1

      @@SafavidAfsharid3197 I did 3MH vids on them ages ago

    • @Sirikazy
      @Sirikazy Před 2 lety +1

      keeps is just monoxidil, you cand buy Monix for half the cost

  • @jackshiels6282
    @jackshiels6282 Před 2 lety +123

    The Scottish attempt at siezing Panama or the Swedish attempt in Maryland, Ghana and others are bizarre and very interesting topics. It was actually one of the main reasons Scotland joined the union in 1707, being broke from expeditions.

    • @Orlando_P
      @Orlando_P Před 2 lety +13

      And curland in Tobago

    • @Unrandom_User
      @Unrandom_User Před 2 lety +4

      @@Orlando_P or Austrian colony in Mozambique established with the help of the British

    • @Orlando_P
      @Orlando_P Před 2 lety +1

      @@Unrandom_User and the attempts of chescolovaquian and Poland colonies in africa after WW1

    • @athomicritics
      @athomicritics Před 2 lety

      there is also a belgian one around nicaragua if i remember right

    • @Orlando_P
      @Orlando_P Před 2 lety +2

      @@athomicritics belgian attempts of a colony in guatemala

  • @nathanhooks7775
    @nathanhooks7775 Před 2 lety +39

    I think a very odd colonial pursuit was the colonies acquired by the knights hospitaller being the smallest nation to ever acquire colonies

  • @Kizunaut
    @Kizunaut Před 2 lety +79

    In Finland during the 1920s there were some people who wanted to acquire a part of present-day Namibia. The initiative was led by people who had left Finland to work as missionaries in the area, so beyond the usual power projection politics of the day there was kind of a moralistic bend to it. Nothing came out of it, but apparently you can still find namibians who have finnish-sounding first names because of the missionary work.

    • @presidentforlife1732
      @presidentforlife1732 Před 2 lety +5

      Martti Rautanen helped to develop Ovambo culture. He helped them achieve things like written language. Apparently he is greatly respected by the Ovambo of Namibia for that.

  • @ivanstrydom8417
    @ivanstrydom8417 Před 2 lety +62

    I would like to know more about the Russians in Djibouti.

  • @thadsul
    @thadsul Před 2 lety +29

    As you mentioned Hans Staden, it's worth noting that other germans and also italians participated in the beginning of the colonization, at the service of Spain and Portugal as mercenaries or qualified people in some areas. Thats also the case much later with the dutch West India Company, which brought, at least in their 24 years in Brazil, people from different origins employed by them, like the german governor Mauritius von Nassau and the polish military engineer colonel Arciszewski (just to name 2 of the most famous in the top ranks).
    Some of those people settled and stayed beyond their contract, raising family

  • @korakys
    @korakys Před 2 lety +33

    What a weird collection of stories.
    Kind of like Germany back then I guess, a weird collection of states.

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami Před 2 lety +44

    dame this is interesting more people should cover topic like this especially you and history with hilbert (side note here i really like you and his art styles) we should not always learn about the most famous events in history obscure stuff like this is also interesting and should be learned about more really like this to see some one to care about things like this thanks

    • @shycracker
      @shycracker Před 2 lety +1

      Everytime i saw your comments, you always give one of the most interesting and insightful comment for the videos, great job.
      🇮🇩❤️🇵🇰

  • @Artur_M.
    @Artur_M. Před 2 lety +15

    Fun fact about the Welser family: they claimed that they are somehow descendent from Belisarius (yes, that one). I guess that is the sort of a silly thing that happens when you are a rich and powerful house in Renaissance Europe but, instead of being old aristocracy, you are some burghers that got ridiculously wealthy and are compensating too hard.

  • @PikeProductions23
    @PikeProductions23 Před 2 lety +12

    I love how much you cover the Western hemisphere. Most of your videos are on topics I've never come across before. Your channel is much appreciated.

  • @agonistadenoche7806
    @agonistadenoche7806 Před 2 lety +12

    11:25 You really REALLY should do a video on von Humboldt, a very underrated character in history

  • @ricardoguanipa8275
    @ricardoguanipa8275 Před 2 lety +9

    Suriname is a Dutch-speaking country in South-America as it was a Dutch Colony and off the coast of Venezuela you Aruba, Bonaire & Curacao who are Autonomous States and Special Municipality of the Netherlands The Official language is Dutch but the Native Language is Papiamento/Papiamentu. The Higher on the windward Islands there are Sint Marteen( one half is Dutch the other half of the island is a French territory) , Sint Eustatius and Saba who are also Autonomous States and Special Municipality of the Netherlands The Official language is also Dutch but the native language is English

    • @Orlando_P
      @Orlando_P Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah, I have family in aruba

  • @ftrgs7720
    @ftrgs7720 Před 2 lety +10

    There was a greek request on the Versailles treaty that Cyrene in modern day Libya would be handed to Greece.
    Plus many african cities, like juba, capital of south sudan were founded by Greeks, but i dont know if this was an organised effort for the establishment of a colony

  • @tomasjakovac7950
    @tomasjakovac7950 Před 2 lety +3

    Aside from the Courlanders, my favourite strange colonization attempt has got to be the Ragusan trading colony near Goa, India

  • @kingstarscream3807
    @kingstarscream3807 Před 2 lety +4

    I remember first learning about this in AOE3. Keep up the great work, Jazby. You're really helping to fill a niche topic in history (early modern exploration and colonization) that I don't see many other history CZcamsrs cover in any real detail besides SandRhoman history and Pike and Shot Channel.

  • @zarketlarket9625
    @zarketlarket9625 Před 2 lety +5

    Hey there Jabzy, I would love for you to do something on the Darien Scheme! A move that effectively bankrupted the Scottish crown and added to the spiral that would crush the Scott’s.
    It would be in topic with this recent video and it includes Scottish Affairs in Panama

  • @Orlando_P
    @Orlando_P Před 2 lety +6

    Buenísimo saludos desde Venezuela

  • @oceejekwam6829
    @oceejekwam6829 Před 2 lety +1

    @Jabzy, I can't knock your hustle with "keeps".

  • @nastycanastas1548
    @nastycanastas1548 Před 2 lety +4

    Maracaibo is too hot, they had to go further to the center, where now is the Guaira and there go to Caracas, the climate is cool, and they could have established a colony there, with time they could take control of more territory and reached the south and find treasures, but they didn't do it so bad for them haha.

  • @Rynewulf
    @Rynewulf Před 2 lety +3

    Lanfan in west Borneo. It was an independent Chinese state allied to the Qing empire. It started off as a kongsi (essentially a cooperative democratic business settlement of Chinese people looking to make their money abroad) that became so big, well organised, wealthy and powerful it became a state. It controlled territory, engaged in diplomacy, and ultimately got caught up fighting the Dutch and invaded. The Qing didn't respond to their calls for help despite years of traditional tribute and even political assurances

  • @mojom.9221
    @mojom.9221 Před 2 lety +1

    Very interresting. I didnt know this. Another reason why I sub so long ago. We long for more History from Jabzy!
    And I personally would vote for a 1519 HRE Empore Election Video

    • @JabzyJoe
      @JabzyJoe  Před 2 lety +2

      I've done one on the 1519 election, towards the beginning of the year

  • @tommy-er6hh
    @tommy-er6hh Před 2 lety +3

    other interesting maybe colonies: Belgium in Texas, Belgium in Cuba, before they settled in Congo.

  • @sem_identitificador
    @sem_identitificador Před 2 lety +5

    Danish colony in India is pretty wild to me.
    Another forgotten french attempt to make a colony in Brasil was the Equinoctial France in São Luis Island in Maranhão right besides the Amazon Rain Forest.

  • @CraftsmanOfAwsomenes
    @CraftsmanOfAwsomenes Před 2 lety +4

    Have you covered the Adelsverein and the multi-national German attempt to establish a colony in Texas yet?

  • @futureshocked
    @futureshocked Před 2 lety

    That was one hell of a Keeps ad I have to say

  • @Jesse_Dawg
    @Jesse_Dawg Před 2 lety

    More videos please

  • @efnoro1336
    @efnoro1336 Před 2 lety

    @Jabzy can you please make a video about the Iron Guard from Romania and the legionary movement, and Oswald Mosley from England.

  • @al_khalid_248
    @al_khalid_248 Před 2 lety

    I first heard about this years ago in a reprint of Scrooge Mcduck's adventures (the last lord of Edorado). Weird how comics can teach you about these little quirky historical facts.

  • @davidk5954
    @davidk5954 Před rokem

    8:23 this is a portrait of Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, not Federmann.

  • @noobsaibot7006
    @noobsaibot7006 Před 2 lety +5

    Next video do about the failed colony of Sagallo in Djibouti. Russians wanted a piece of the African action.

    • @JabzyJoe
      @JabzyJoe  Před 2 lety +2

      That will be mentioned in the scramble for Africa series

  • @ahoraya1047
    @ahoraya1047 Před 2 lety +3

    Welser were very incompetent in their colonial management. They didn't fullfil the contract, they did much less than was agreed. So they lost the concession by the Emperor Charles. If their management had been good, they would have continued. In fact, they didn't attract many German settlers to Venezuela, leaving it as a target for the English, French, Dutch and Portuguese Navies.They were a complete disaster

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 Před 2 lety +2

    More on it yeah

  • @sevenstepsurvival
    @sevenstepsurvival Před 2 lety +2

    I never had any idea of this!

  • @mahatmamartinus
    @mahatmamartinus Před 3 měsíci

    The Dutch East India Company (VOC) was not in the West, that was the Dutch West Indian Company (WIC).

  • @theletterw3875
    @theletterw3875 Před 2 lety +1

    Hey Jabzy are you still in Turkey with the currency catastrophe? Also please post your sources somewhere.

  • @citguero1
    @citguero1 Před rokem

    The Dutch were not always in Curacao ,Bonaire or Aruba. Originally they took Over Tortuga Island ,Araya peninsula and mainland Venezuela in a place called Unare. After so many sea battles and land battles ,the only solution the Spaniards found was to destroy the salt pans on those areas. Large flotillas of Dutch ships exploited them for decades. Even today from satellite pictures you can see a mayor work done during colonial times ,they diverted the course of the Unare river to destroy those salt pans in the main land (huge lagoons were created). Once they moved to the ABC islands ,a Dutch ship coming from their small colony in Tobago escaped a Huge French Invasion made of more than 20 man-o-war. This small dutch ship dropped a bunch of buckets with candles in between the archipielago of Las Aves. The complete French fleet thought it was a Dutch flotilla and in chasing them they lost the whole fleet (even today they keep on finding Brass cannons) .. X-D. I would say somehow Dutch also attempted to colonize Venezuela ,that there stood longer than Klein Venedig

  • @okapijohn4351
    @okapijohn4351 Před 2 lety +6

    Portuguese colonisation of Canada. Portuguese discovery of Australia.

  • @gabrielthompson7581
    @gabrielthompson7581 Před 2 lety +3

    I think a cool colonization attempt was Germany wanting to take Texas when it had become independent

  • @alejandroblanco2071
    @alejandroblanco2071 Před rokem

    This German/Venezuelan chapter is so perplexing...

  • @gamebawesome
    @gamebawesome Před 2 lety +3

    Tuscany nearly colonized French Guiana called the Thornton Expedition

    • @quck5651
      @quck5651 Před 2 lety

      Makes sense since the, at the time royal family of Tuscany, de' Medici reeeaaally liked ananas

  • @xe2594
    @xe2594 Před 2 lety

    This is fantastic. Will have to lookup those families and see what happened to them -2% of all Europe’s wealth, wow

  • @hafizfirliansyah7784
    @hafizfirliansyah7784 Před 2 lety

    do forgotten attempts by Italian-city states that almost colonize the areas outside Mediterranean Basin (for instance Siberia, Americas, Southeast Asia, or Africa)?

  • @miguelandresfg
    @miguelandresfg Před 2 lety +1

    Specially In that region in Zulia, which is located Maracaibo city, (also known by the popular song Luisa Lu Colombo - Maracaibo) The Second Biggest city in Venezuela and the most hotter too and rich are located very big community of White Venezuelans, but the most interesting part isn't the white people, is actually the majoritarian popular population who has Dark skin and Blue, Yellow and Green eyes and, very common also to find Family members very drastically mixed which your mom can be white and your Dad Darker but nobody knows how will be the next son looks like. it's happen in all Venezuela but in Zulia State is very normal. Venezuela has rich interesting culture, unique like Brazil for Portuguese Empire and USA for British Empire. The history never known was that the "City El Dorado" wasn't actually a city, was a country called Venezuela!. Take everything in consideration about what happens now, for the first time in Venezuela's History, the population is forced to migrate for better future thanks of something called "Socialism XXI". It is now Venezuelans are watching the world by their eyes how it works, having big changes in mind and culture of a country which was very closed and conservatives by their popular population. Nice video material!. Information confirmed. Good Job!. Thank You!

  • @mixererunio1757
    @mixererunio1757 Před 2 lety +5

    Poland after First World War tried to get some colonies. In Brazil, which angered Brazilians, on Madagascar and also allied Liberia.

  • @hafizfirliansyah7784
    @hafizfirliansyah7784 Před 2 lety +2

    when Borneo almost being an Austrian colony, 19th century.

    • @Isolierter_Hazim
      @Isolierter_Hazim Před 2 lety

      Oof!! Learnt a bit about it in History subject when I was in secondary school

  • @jovanweismiller7114
    @jovanweismiller7114 Před 2 lety +2

    New Sweden in what is now Delaware if you haven't already done it.

  • @giakichanpan4022
    @giakichanpan4022 Před 2 lety

    Russian California, or danish(?) Kunta kinteh, or however it's written, come to mind

  • @jayturner3397
    @jayturner3397 Před 2 lety

    65..baldness skipped my dash.. got me lol

  • @BountyFlamor
    @BountyFlamor Před 2 lety

    6:22
    That made me think of Bernie Sanders

  • @dittmannrudolfrohr2149
    @dittmannrudolfrohr2149 Před 2 lety +8

    "German"bankers.

  • @gabrielsa9751
    @gabrielsa9751 Před 2 lety

    The french tried to colonise most of brazil in the XVI and XVII century's, the frança antartica was just the most famous case, usually they would build a fort and use it as a trading post, allying with natives rival to the natives allied to the portuguese in the region
    One of this forts for instance, taken by the Portuguese after the battle of Guaxenduba is the city of São Luis, one of the greatest cities of the country with more than one million inhabitants
    The english and the dutch also had lots of colonies in brazil, with other state capital, the city of macapa, being founded by the english on the amazon river
    The dutch invasion of Brazil is one of the most fantastical parts of our history and its my personal favorite
    But what I think is the most strange colonization attempt ever was one that never got out of paper
    In the late 1500s, the Moroccan kingdom was at his zenith, they had trashed their greatest rival at a great battle and destroying the remains of the sahel empires of songhai e mali
    So two of the greatest rulers of all time, Al mansur and Elizabeth I made an alliance to fight the Spanish
    One of the plans was for the English to send a great fleet to Morocco where they would send a giant expedition to the Americas, with the immediate objective of cutting the Spanish from the silver mines, but with the plan of taking colonies and dividing the colonies of the Iberian union
    But the plan was discarded in favor of an attack on Portugal

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 Před 2 lety +3

    the Geographical location as well as the political situation of the HRE were far from ideal for becoming a colonial empire.

    • @farajaraf
      @farajaraf Před 2 lety +1

      Yup. They had to travel through Dutch, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese waters just to get out of Europe. Germany will always have this problem too.

  • @Dai_Abdurrahman
    @Dai_Abdurrahman Před 2 lety +1

    There are still a few dietsch speakers down there. Grüße aus Gradac Austrija brate moj

  • @lughmanwatandust1020
    @lughmanwatandust1020 Před 2 lety

    Persian had some ambitions Zanzibar
    I think some people in there still celebrate some sort of Nowruz

  • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014

    Welser are the descent of the Byzantine General Flavius Belisarius. Quite a Prestigious heritage

  • @ruthanneseven
    @ruthanneseven Před 2 lety +1

    I have a puzzle to try to solve from my genetic report. I have 2.3% native S. American in there, but its so spread out. There's Peru, Columbia, Puerto Rico, and less than 1% Mexican. Also some from two areas in India.
    My ancestors, 97.3% Euro, had itchy feet. 😂

    • @westrim
      @westrim Před 2 lety +2

      Itchy something.

    • @rosiehawtrey
      @rosiehawtrey Před 2 lety

      @@westrim You beat me to it 😂😂. However she's made an incorrect assumption based probably on being a westerner. Ruthanne, you're assuming that each subset is from a different area. What probably happened given the percentages - one of your ancestors copped off with a native a few generations back. Probably a female incidentally, although you'd need more tests to be sure. You are probably 3-7% neanderthal too - be happy it's why Europeans are more resistant to cv19..
      The India bit is probably something similar but either further back or a less direct relation.

  • @whiskywolff
    @whiskywolff Před 2 lety

    2:50 you're welcome

  • @GwainSagaFanChannel
    @GwainSagaFanChannel Před rokem

    If in this timeline the dutch carribean and dutch guyana united with german venezuela that would be funny to see a big germanic nation in mostly hispanic and anglo americas

  • @dermajor4472
    @dermajor4472 Před 2 lety

    On strange colonial stuff the german africa holdings where profs, merchants and other orpotunist startet the scramble for africa because the german Gouverment didn't want to have colonies at that point.

  • @hafizfirliansyah7784
    @hafizfirliansyah7784 Před 2 lety +2

    Latvia is the only Baltic nation that did established at least one colony in Americas (modern-day Trinidad and Tobago)
    or
    Poland also one of the two Slavic states (other being Russia) that successfully set up settlement on Americas via Latvia only short lived.

    • @sualtam9509
      @sualtam9509 Před 2 lety

      He mentioned Kurland. Latvia didn't exist then.

  • @m.a.9571
    @m.a.9571 Před 2 lety

    Can't wait for an hoi4 submod for this.

  • @boomerix
    @boomerix Před 2 lety +1

    Ah yes, the Imperial expedition to Lustria.

  • @baldaction3510
    @baldaction3510 Před 2 lety +1

    Please stop advertizing for minoxidil, it's not an harmless product.

  • @susactivities_
    @susactivities_ Před rokem +1

    If only…..

  • @LolLol-gd7ly
    @LolLol-gd7ly Před 2 lety +2

    Rothschild's be like

  • @romaboo6218
    @romaboo6218 Před 2 lety +1

    Cool

  • @SHAHIDKC
    @SHAHIDKC Před 2 lety

    Expropriate!
    - hugo von chavez.

  • @scottanos9981
    @scottanos9981 Před 2 lety +2

    I think by "bankers" you mean chews

  • @tootlingturtle7254
    @tootlingturtle7254 Před 2 lety

    Congratulations, you have now won a free mandatory trip to (German) Brazil!

  • @oriffel
    @oriffel Před 2 lety

    i still miss the old video formats

    • @JabzyJoe
      @JabzyJoe  Před 2 lety +1

      3MH? I liked doing them as well. Was a shame so few people joined us in that club.

  • @jayturner3397
    @jayturner3397 Před 2 lety +3

    Nothing new..'Bankers' 😆 🤣

  • @MichiMind
    @MichiMind Před 2 lety +1

    Found a genetic connection

  • @MsPaintMr
    @MsPaintMr Před 2 lety +2

    German Venezuela is just the Weimar Republic

    • @loona_mew
      @loona_mew Před 2 lety +1

      Now it needs a failed art student to come fix it

  • @Master_of_Critique
    @Master_of_Critique Před 2 lety +1

    German with small circular hat

  • @Ammmssk
    @Ammmssk Před 2 lety

    spanish in cambodia

  • @decantabriaball938
    @decantabriaball938 Před 2 lety

    The English Taking over the city of Tangier from 1661-1684

  • @hakon_brennus_wolff106
    @hakon_brennus_wolff106 Před 2 lety +2

    I already knew about this but da%#. It’s a shame this colony failed because if it hadn’t, German language and culture could have been so much more widespread like their other European counterparts.

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 Před 2 lety

    1 of the many minor colonial powers in history.

  • @tsar389
    @tsar389 Před 2 lety

    Poland had attempted to colonize Madagascar several times and there was one Polish Explorer who was proclaimed "King of Madagascar".

    • @tsar389
      @tsar389 Před 2 lety

      Also the Belgian Attempt at Colonizing India, South Africa, Wisconsin, Cyprus, Argentinia, Texas, and Portugual the Country.

  • @ronmaximilian6953
    @ronmaximilian6953 Před 2 lety +5

    It wasn't exactly German, because there was no country of Germany at the time. Most of what is now Germany was part of the Holy Roman Empire as was Austria. The Austro Hungarian emperor Charles v was also the King of Spain and Archduke of Austria. His grandson Ferdinand II married Phillipine Welder.

    • @Phantom-xp2co
      @Phantom-xp2co Před 2 lety +8

      There was no Austria-Hungary before the 19th century, just the Archduchy of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary

    • @sualtam9509
      @sualtam9509 Před 2 lety +2

      Also there were Germans as this ethnicity preceeds a nation state. The same goes for Italians, Greeks in the Ottoman Empire without Greece, Slovakians when there was no Slovakia, Kurdish people today etc.

    • @Phantom-xp2co
      @Phantom-xp2co Před 2 lety

      @@sualtam9509 correct, europeans knew their own nationality, even in the middle ages.
      Hence why the full name of the HRE became "Holy Roman Empire of the GERMAN Nation" in 1512

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Před 2 lety

    That Explains Inflations / Economic Crises both in Venezuela and Weimar Republic!Germany

  • @BuckBreaker
    @BuckBreaker Před 2 lety

    3:10 your Polish flag is upside down and Indonesian. Poland is full of white people, white on top. ;-)

  • @Infidelx
    @Infidelx Před 2 lety

    Still is.

  • @rosiehawtrey
    @rosiehawtrey Před 2 lety +1

    You forgot to mention Neizches sister - right wing nutteress - and all the inbreeding in the German South America colonies. We're talking Appalachian-grade plus here and they're still at it.

  • @Curvelo23
    @Curvelo23 Před 2 lety +1

    Germany with the oil and gold from Venezuela would today be the best economy in the world. 🇩🇪🛢🇻🇪

  • @nsg_kuunda4786
    @nsg_kuunda4786 Před rokem

    Strange colonial pursuits: canada in the Caribbean. Mostly Jamaica and Turks and Caicos if my understanding is correct.