The Biggest Empires in World History

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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +579

    What are some other big/interesting empires?

  • @enesakhan4032
    @enesakhan4032 Před 3 lety +1210

    i think most of the ppl didnt watch the ending part where he mentioned "there are also important empires like Rome - Ottoman and Macedonian Empires" cause everyone in the comments arguing about those :D .. and lets not forget that this video about biggest empires in size ..

    • @grindelz
      @grindelz Před 3 lety +20

      @Anthony Suarez why do the ummayyad appear tho? The Roman empire was bigger.

    • @chunkyboi7443
      @chunkyboi7443 Před 3 lety +109

      @@grindelz it wasn't. Europe is far smaller than you think.

    • @Sceptonic
      @Sceptonic Před 3 lety +65

      @@grindelz Persia + Arabia is bigger than the Roman European possessions

    • @grindelz
      @grindelz Před 3 lety +8

      @@Sceptonic oh ok I didn't know Persia and Arabia were bigger then most of europe

    • @DT2007
      @DT2007 Před 3 lety +5

      Why has it gotta be us intellectuals that watch videos fully?

  • @yanuchiuchihaanimegamesand3907

    the reason why russia focused so heavily in expanding east, was to make sure mongols 2.0 don't happen

    • @trollinape2697
      @trollinape2697 Před 3 lety +24

      Lol no, it was to reach a new route to the sea

    • @trollinape2697
      @trollinape2697 Před 3 lety +3

      @Pan-European Confederate White Movement A route the sea is a route to the sea, also no, it was the west where the PLC Austria Sweden and the ottomans were, they wanted to expand westward to protect its core as their borders are just plains

    • @trollinape2697
      @trollinape2697 Před 3 lety +4

      @Pan-European Confederate White Movement Ah ig Im wrong then

    • @hamzabites1168
      @hamzabites1168 Před 2 lety +1

      @@trollinape2697 I think it’s a joke

    • @trollinape2697
      @trollinape2697 Před 2 lety +1

      @@hamzabites1168 maybe idk

  • @KP762a
    @KP762a Před 2 lety +413

    Weird fun fact: The closest European country to Canada geographically is France. The islands of St. Pierre et Miquelon are located at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, and they are officially part of France. Denmark is second, as Greenland is a Danish Territory.

    • @rodri_rf9200
      @rodri_rf9200 Před 2 lety +9

      and Portugal the 3rd because of Azores

    • @mickbull7547
      @mickbull7547 Před 2 lety +13

      Adding to this... France is something like the 3rd closest country to Australia, thanks to New Caledonia.

    • @joaopedroalmeida9089
      @joaopedroalmeida9089 Před 2 lety +17

      Adding to this, Brazil is the country that has the largest boarder with France, due to the French Guiana

    • @seelim-3863
      @seelim-3863 Před 2 lety +5

      the longest land border france have is with Brazil

    • @iurope4834
      @iurope4834 Před 2 lety +1

      @@seelim-3863 because of french guiana

  • @himetex
    @himetex Před 2 lety +535

    It is funny that when considering the Spanish Empire when the Unión Hiberica was happening, people consider only the territories under the Portugal/Spanish rule, like the case of the Capitanias Hereditárias in the shores of Brazil, instead of the whole country of Brazil in actuality. Which is the right thing to do. But when considering the British Empire, they take into account whole masses of land that were only in part or in different points in history, belonging to the British.

    • @MariaMMCardoso
      @MariaMMCardoso Před 2 lety +32

      Marketing and Public Relations are more important than economic and military power. If the first 2 are correctly done, the last 2 will follow.

    • @arnix6787
      @arnix6787 Před 2 lety +27

      I got a stroke trying to read this

    • @MariaMMCardoso
      @MariaMMCardoso Před 2 lety +13

      @Rui Patricio "Cala a boca" Lol... porque so tu podes falar?! Vai-te encher de moscas amiguito.

    • @MariaMMCardoso
      @MariaMMCardoso Před 2 lety +2

      @Rui Patricio Lol!

    • @himetex
      @himetex Před 2 lety +2

      @@MariaMMCardoso fiquei na dúvida se foi sarcasmo.

  • @Narstak
    @Narstak Před 3 lety +624

    General Knowledge: Here is the map of the entire British empire
    Colorblind people: Where?
    General Knowledge: Yes

    • @rome316ae3
      @rome316ae3 Před 2 lety +4

      U blind ??check the video

    • @kedi948
      @kedi948 Před rokem +3

      Roses are red
      All land is mine
      And if you dont agree,
      You are a lie
      -British empire

  • @ziyang5106
    @ziyang5106 Před 3 lety +1006

    We need top 10 smallest empires

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +355

      Good idea!

    • @andresp1582
      @andresp1582 Před 3 lety +19

      @@General.Knowledge do this please

    • @fwebber13
      @fwebber13 Před 3 lety +90

      I have now created a new empire
      The empire of my bed
      I guess I win title of smallest empire then

    • @chevrolet-poitiers9507
      @chevrolet-poitiers9507 Před 3 lety +34

      Freddie Webber sorry I created a empire the size of a iPhone screen. Sorry.

    • @ziyang5106
      @ziyang5106 Před 3 lety +3

      @@General.Knowledge Thank you!

  • @KendrixTermina
    @KendrixTermina Před 2 lety +160

    "because water"
    gotta feel sorry for scotland, ireland and wales, they were basically the tutorial level

    • @BritishEmpireForHisMajesty
      @BritishEmpireForHisMajesty Před 2 lety +41

      Tutorial level one:Wales: How to invade weaker rivals
      Tutorial level two:Ireland: How to use a navy to land people
      Tutorial level three:Scotland: How to unite crowns to claim land

    • @aniketprasad3128
      @aniketprasad3128 Před 2 lety +26

      @@BritishEmpireForHisMajesty Congratulations you have unlocked open seas

    • @TheDickPuller
      @TheDickPuller Před 2 lety +12

      Rubbish, all of our United Kingdom & the people of England, Ireland, Wales & Scotland played a very big part in the size, wealth & influence of our British Empire. For example; if you read ‘How Scots Invented the Modern World’ it explains how our education system here in Scotland in the 17th, 17th & 19th century produced some of the ever human minds the ever known. Scots we’re British Governors in the biggest, wealthiest colonies of the Empire. The same can be said of all of my fellow Brits, we had huge advantages. That’s why we still have the biggest Empire in the World.

    • @Adlais279
      @Adlais279 Před 2 lety +2

      @@TheDickPuller well we don't have the empire, only the record

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito Před 2 lety +2

      England had tea drinkers and they had alcoholics. So if you want to be in charge be sober. Scotch is even named after Scotland.

  • @urano69
    @urano69 Před rokem +20

    “The empire on which the sun never set “ wasn’t said for the British Empire . This words come out from the of Only Roman Emperor Charles V when he was elect Emperor 1519 ( In meinem Reich geht die Sonne niemals unter). In his blood were 4 European Dynasty which bring to him many colonies in north /south America .

    • @Philcoxon
      @Philcoxon Před rokem +2

      What?

    • @sailor67duilio27
      @sailor67duilio27 Před rokem +1

      Have you ever heard of Louis XIV? Le roi soleil? I suggest you check.

    • @symzie
      @symzie Před rokem +1

      Yes it was. And many other empires too.

    • @RoyalRegimentofScotland
      @RoyalRegimentofScotland Před 2 měsíci

      That term is literally millenia old it's been used for several different empires

  • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014

    The phrase: « The empire on which the sun never sets » was a Spanish phrase in early 16th by Carlos V

    • @xxMary89xx
      @xxMary89xx Před 3 lety +218

      True, the British Empire may be bigger than the Spanish, but the phrase is about the Spanish one, not the British.

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 Před 3 lety +116

      @@xxMary89xx even the greatest empire had to copy a great empire s'quotes... de nada!

    • @macacalex1425
      @macacalex1425 Před 3 lety +45

      @@xxMary89xx Te digo q el mayor imperio es el español eston won los ingleses q amañan esto porque aquel unico imperio donde nunca se pondre el sol tenia el territorio cosa que Inglqterra porque ellos tenian vasallos

    • @Gloriaimperial1
      @Gloriaimperial1 Před 3 lety +140

      @@xxMary89xx Before the British made their first wooden city in America, in 1610, Spain had built 700 stone cities in America, 15 universities (1 in the Philippines).
      Why is the Prado Museum the best painting museum in the world? Because Spain spent 200 years in the Netherlands and 455 years in Italy, and the British spent 150 years in Africa and the frozen islands of Canada.

    • @angloirishcad
      @angloirishcad Před 3 lety +18

      @@Gloriaimperial1 It was good when we came to Spain to drive your French conquerors and masters out though wasn't it?
      Goya would have been burned...and the Prado wouldn't exist due to French looting.

  • @pauldirac808
    @pauldirac808 Před 3 lety +191

    Just a bunch of Brits on a world pub crawl and a good punch up at the end of the evening.

    • @gazdenny6594
      @gazdenny6594 Před 3 lety +12

      Hurrah!

    • @paulwild3676
      @paulwild3676 Před 3 lety +17

      Britain got all the best bits lol.

    • @tommurphy4094
      @tommurphy4094 Před 3 lety +10

      @@paulwild3676 Then lost/gave them up/exchanged for money and ships to fight WW2

    • @TheWarriorArts
      @TheWarriorArts Před 3 lety +32

      @@tommurphy4094 Gave them up to save the world!.

    • @tommurphy4094
      @tommurphy4094 Před 3 lety +5

      @@TheWarriorArts 😄😄 That's a very generous interpretation 😉👍

  • @nakkusu1508
    @nakkusu1508 Před rokem +28

    The fact that Spanish Empire section is the most viewed part of the video puts a smile on my face

    • @JoseManuel-iv8qo
      @JoseManuel-iv8qo Před rokem +2

      faltó cuando portugal i Brasil se unieron a la corona española....fue la union, Iberica, pero los ingleses no lo van a qerer mostrar🥶

  • @JavierFlores-tt7tp
    @JavierFlores-tt7tp Před 11 měsíci +51

    The phrase "The empire where the sun never sets" was coined by Carlos (Charles V), an Spanish emperor of Austrian origin who was in continuous quarrel with Henry VIII due to his abuse of Catherine of Aragon, by that time England was... ...only England

    • @davidlauder-qi5zv
      @davidlauder-qi5zv Před 11 měsíci +3

      Wrong. It described the British Empire which spanned the globe and therefore the sun always shone on a part of the British Empire.

    • @JavierFlores-tt7tp
      @JavierFlores-tt7tp Před 11 měsíci +23

      Precisely, at the time Charles V was emperor, the Spanish kingdom comprehended territories in Europe, the Americas and the Philippines, the sun never set in his kingdom. If a British monarch later used this phrase, such a person was simply using Charles the V saying. So in fact it is not me who is wrong.

    • @Gloriaimperial1
      @Gloriaimperial1 Před 8 měsíci +12

      @@davidlauder-qi5zv Sun: Between 1580-1640, the Spanish kings had domains (partly or totally) in more than 90 current countries. The 35 countries of America (Mexico, Peru, Canada, United States, Brazil...). 20 African countries (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Kenya, Guinea...) 18 Asian countries (India, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Philippines...) 10 Oceanian countries: (Tahiti, Kiribati, Fiji, Solomon ...) 10 European countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France...) It is the first time that an empire has land on all continents and seas on earth. Even Spanish explorers reached Hawaii (16th century Spanish map), New Zealand (16th century Spanish helmet) or Antarctica. Philip II was even King of England and Ireland, when he ruled many of those countries.

    • @lobaco
      @lobaco Před 7 měsíci +8

      It seems fitting for a country of pirates and thieves to steal the phrase, though.

    • @MSA
      @MSA Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@lobacohahaha good one

  • @mariosschaf1189
    @mariosschaf1189 Před 3 lety +224

    HE ADVERTISED THE SERVER FINALLY

  • @angelmatesmolan
    @angelmatesmolan Před 3 lety +704

    To all people who are gonna argue in comments: Big=/=good in any sense

    • @officialzji1828
      @officialzji1828 Před 3 lety +10

      Good

    • @Catani99
      @Catani99 Před 3 lety +41

      Good as in good at dominating the world or good as in righteous?

    • @angelmatesmolan
      @angelmatesmolan Před 3 lety +55

      @@Catani99 I don't know what you mean but I just say that no matter how big or small was an empire because it doesn't mean it was better or worse than any other. Comparing empires is just stupid, all of them had different social, political and economical structures as well as existed in different periods of time and they were "created" under different contexts

    • @michaelkazmierczak2973
      @michaelkazmierczak2973 Před 3 lety +8

      @@Catani99 def good at that first bit lmao

    • @owenchaves1046
      @owenchaves1046 Před 3 lety +7

      Big ≠ Good

  • @geographyinaction7814
    @geographyinaction7814 Před rokem +8

    Something to remember, is that private enterprise made the East India Company, Hudson Bay Company, and privateer fleets amongst others. While the Royal Navy was the military arm, many fleets sailed under the flags of their company's different flags in addition to the British flag. Better paid, fed, treated, and given stake, many of these fleets would grow to outnumber the Royal Navy and were the major shipping forces for the Empire.
    The Royal Navy was always there to throw her weight around, but the private merchant fleets are what built the Empire, while the Navy defended it.

    • @EternalPerpetualAllies
      @EternalPerpetualAllies Před 7 měsíci +2

      Absolutely correct and strongly agree. In fact, the Crown relied upon private enterprise to not only start the outposts and defend them, but to build the whole financial part of the empire. In facrt, the British East India Company *ran* (administered, fed, defended, taxed -- everything a government does) India for several decades. I can not remember the name of the massacre that lead to public outcry at home in Britain. Only then did the British government step in a formally set up an crown imperial administration.
      !

  • @stephenbaker7079
    @stephenbaker7079 Před 2 lety +21

    Well done for your compact, interesting and (I trust) an accurate account of the world's empires. What has struck me, is that when home rule was given to many countries in Africa, they reverted to dictatorships and consequently denying the populace of their freedom.

    • @Number9s
      @Number9s Před rokem +3

      "reverted to dictatorships and consequently denying the populace of their freedom" - what do you think the British were doing to them? Being jolly nice?

    • @gardevoid8412
      @gardevoid8412 Před rokem

      @@Number9s I think he says this as a democratic figure was elected in many places when they were given their lands back, and many have become dictatorships since.

    • @Number9s
      @Number9s Před rokem +1

      @@gardevoid8412 Thank you for that thought. I interpreted it as "they were better off under the British/Belgians/French/Italian/Boers/Portuguese" which, given the current climate of jingoism in England, may have prejudiced my interpretation for instance, ‘the problem is not that we were once in charge, but that we are not in charge any more’.

    • @MercurialRed9
      @MercurialRed9 Před rokem +1

      Very simplistic and trope laden opinion. There’s a book called “African Perspectives on European Colonialism” by A. Adu Boahen, which gives you a different perspective. Most people only ever read books or do research from a European or Western perspective.

  • @sheepladybaa
    @sheepladybaa Před 3 lety +123

    fun fact: there are a few small islands off the east coast of Canada that still to this day belong to France. It's called St Pierre and Miquelon

    • @dangerdoge4113
      @dangerdoge4113 Před 3 lety +4

      mate that's common knowledge if you're from anywhere in north america

    • @Trantor
      @Trantor Před 3 lety +52

      @@dangerdoge4113 Most Americans don't know what's outside their county

    • @sexygeek8996
      @sexygeek8996 Před 3 lety +7

      Many Canadians consider Quebec to be part of France also.

    • @ilopez9003
      @ilopez9003 Před 3 lety +2

      @@dangerdoge4113 I don't expect Americans to acknowledge it

    • @Morghul
      @Morghul Před 3 lety +9

      In the UK we view Canada as the slightly French nice version of America

  • @dimitristsigaras9239
    @dimitristsigaras9239 Před 3 lety +230

    7:40 the right guy looks like a Villager from Minecraft 🤣

  • @janach1305
    @janach1305 Před rokem +2

    Thank you for remembering Tibet. It is always omitted from these map/flag/geography memes.

  • @ConanCnutKicker
    @ConanCnutKicker Před 2 lety +42

    Another reason why the British Empire was able to hold onto its colonies because it paid native soldiers well and treated them better than British soldiers (no flogging for example). Plus it was all about trade which enriched native magnates. Although there was obviously animosity from some of the colonised people, there were enough of them on the payroll to keep things ticking along.

    • @glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049
      @glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049 Před rokem +3

      But there was a lot of genocide and crimes against humanity as well, in addition to inventing the commercial/ industrial slave trade from Africa.

    • @ConanCnutKicker
      @ConanCnutKicker Před rokem +20

      @@glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049 Good point, there was a lot of genocide and crimes against humanity in those countries before they were welcomed into the Empire (Example: The mass slaughter of the 'bushman' in South Africa and the practice of suttee in India). And as you say, the commercial slave trade, which started centuries before western nations ever even thought about Africa (thank goodness the British Empire put so much effort in eradicating it, mush to the chagrin of African rulers).

    • @glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049
      @glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049 Před rokem +5

      @@ConanCnutKicker You may or may not be British - I am British, and I abhor the practice of praising Britain for abolishing slavery or pretending it was a benevolent progressive force when it wasn’t. Just because other empires were worse or more violent and repressive, like Belgium or Japan, isn’t relevant to me at all. It’s like if I go and repeatedly punch someone in the face for 100-200 years and then say "You know what, I’m enlightened I’m going to stop punching you in the face". The person still got punched in the face.
      I’m going to guess you probably aren’t British (maybe some sort of loyalist from out side England?) with all the gushing over the Empire and how it was amazing and good actually and everyone rushed up to join it eagerly (I’m changing my mind actually I think you might be a Scots Unionist, English people aren’t that passionate about empire).

    • @ConanCnutKicker
      @ConanCnutKicker Před rokem +15

      @@glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049 You seem angry. The fact that you didn't address the points that I made, and that you even went as far to say you " abhor the practice of praising Britain for abolishing slavery" (do you approve of slavery then?), leads me to conclusion that you have an irrational hatred/fear of the British Empire, British Empirephobia. I hope you educate yourself and get treatment. God bless.

    • @glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049
      @glasgowmcglasgowfacevotegr7049 Před rokem

      @@ConanCnutKicker yeah yeah yeah whatever

  • @tugadmundo
    @tugadmundo Před 3 lety +246

    I would like to see a map with all of the fortifications ever built by the Portuguese,thruout the world be it of those made of stone ,wood or simply earth works.

    • @Yanzdorloph
      @Yanzdorloph Před 3 lety +4

      Most of the Moroccan coastal cities have such fortifications, after the fall of the Saadi's who caused the end of Portugal (for a certain time ) Morocco entered in ultra decline mode, like a free fall in all aspect, economically, politically, militarily, culturally..etc and when Portugal became a country again, they invaded most of the coasts and built their fortifications (in some cities they stayed for like 150 years ) until the Alaouit came, and started wining wars and sieges against them until chasing them back, I visited some of them, pretty cool,they used some for movies and series (like game of thrones )

    • @jlouis4407
      @jlouis4407 Před 3 lety

      czcams.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/video.html

    • @assistemptyltd3001
      @assistemptyltd3001 Před 3 lety +5

      And the universities and hospitals built by the Spaniards too!

    • @jacktripper6024
      @jacktripper6024 Před 3 lety +1

      Stone check malacca ceuta azores Madeira canary guinea Angola Mozambique Cameroon South Africa portguese India ormuz muscat mombassa Bermuda sao tome principe cape verde congo madascar Seychelles Ethiopia macau nagaski Timor those are the top of my head

    • @tugadmundo
      @tugadmundo Před 3 lety +1

      @@jacktripper6024 Quenya , Indonesia Brazil,etc That does not say anything to me.What I asked is for locations along the coast and for what kind of building was then used.

  • @rogeriomonteiro760
    @rogeriomonteiro760 Před 3 lety +26

    We can not forget that from 1581 to 1641 the portuguese and the spanish empires are united, ruled by the same kings ( the Philips) creating the first worldwide empire. So the phrase "The empire on which the sun never sets" applies in facto at the first time to this one. By the way, Philip the second of Spain was from 1556 to 1558 King consort of England.

    • @luismarques9280
      @luismarques9280 Před 3 lety +4

      The 1st worlwide Empire was created by the Portuguese, not by the Iberion union....

    • @rogeriomonteiro760
      @rogeriomonteiro760 Před 3 lety +5

      @@luismarques9280 No, because the east side of the Pacific was not colonized by the portuguese, rather by the spanish, thanks to the treaty of Tordesilhas.

    • @luismarques9280
      @luismarques9280 Před 3 lety +2

      @@rogeriomonteiro760 Really? Portugal had colonies in China, Japan, Indonésia, India and East Timor, besides Brazil and Africa. When the idiot of Colombus was trying to reach Índia going to the wrong side the Portuguese already had found the route to the Indian Ocean. .

    • @rogeriomonteiro760
      @rogeriomonteiro760 Před 3 lety +5

      @@luismarques9280 Yes, you are quite right, I even agree whit the silly figure made by Christopher Columbus. At that time (1492) it was already proved that the Earth was round, just the real longitud of the Earth was still unknown. But remenber, the Pacific is huge, about 80 degrees of longitude in the equator (that means about 9000 km , and with exception of the west part of Brasil the portuguese respected the treaty. So it misses the spanish part to be a world wide empire and match the 360 degrees of logitude of the whole world. Even the portuguese empire is taught at the scool as being big but not worldwide.

    • @luismarques9280
      @luismarques9280 Před 3 lety

      @@rogeriomonteiro760 C'mon man, how can you say that? Obviosuly, The Portuguese Empire was the 1st global empire, for being global you didn't have to have colonies in every continent! As i told you Portuguese had colonies pretty much anywhere in the Indian Ocean including East Timor which has the same longitude of the Philipines. Besides Philipines Spanish Empire didnt colonized nothing more in the Pacífic...How come a Empire with colonies from Africa, América, Índia, Indonésia, Sri Lanka, Malásia, China and Japan is not global?
      Besides that Spanish had a Empire by luck, contrary to the Portuguese that sistematic mapped and gathered information to reach the goal, the Spice route..
      Also some of the greatest sea voyages made by the Spanish were commanded by Portuguese, including the idiot Colombus... ;)

  • @Gloriaimperial1
    @Gloriaimperial1 Před 2 lety +2

    Some of the current 90 countries that were simultaneously in the empire of Felipe II of Spain in the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, Felipe III (partially or totally): Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Portugal, Luxembourg, Monaco , Mexico, United States (Florida, California, Great Plains, Grand Canyon of the Colorado), Canada (Vancouver, San Miguel Island 1592), Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Chile, Jamaica, India, China , Japan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Philippines, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Morocco, Algeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, New Zealand (16th century Spanish helmet), Hawaii ( Spanish map of the 16th century), and sighting of Antarctica (1603). In addition, Felipe II was king of England and Ireland.

  • @JuanLopez-jm6po
    @JuanLopez-jm6po Před 2 lety +64

    Actually the phrase "the empire were the sun never sets" was used for the Spanish empire and when inheriting the Portuguese's territories, they had way more than what was down there. The portuguese were massive, they were in arabia, iran, everywhere

    • @NJ-eo2oc
      @NJ-eo2oc Před 2 lety +3

      They weren't in Iran lol. in fact they got their asses kicked by the Safavid empire of persia

    • @brentw0681
      @brentw0681 Před 2 lety +4

      Used for Britain as well. Spaniards started it

    • @mrcool2107
      @mrcool2107 Před 2 lety +6

      So what . British proved to be larger and greater empire than Spanish. So that's how the phrase changed to British

    • @salazarway
      @salazarway Před 2 lety +4

      @@NJ-eo2oc Tis, in Iran, was Portuguese territory for 230 years.

    • @salazarway
      @salazarway Před 2 lety +4

      @@NJ-eo2oc And Fort of Ormuz aswell. (I'm not sure if the name is still the same today, but was Ormuz by the time)

  • @lewisner
    @lewisner Před 3 lety +312

    The European Union Empire got a little smaller yesterday.

    • @em3876
      @em3876 Před 3 lety +64

      And alot less rich

    • @lewisner
      @lewisner Před 3 lety +23

      @@em3876 They supposedly have a deal with China. What could possibly go wrong ?

    • @em3876
      @em3876 Před 3 lety +5

      @@lewisner wait really?

    • @alexdesousa7966
      @alexdesousa7966 Před 3 lety +3

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @TheAndorianWarrior
      @TheAndorianWarrior Před 3 lety +34

      Praise god it gets smaller and smaller.

  • @HistoricalPlacesNearMe
    @HistoricalPlacesNearMe Před 3 lety +44

    I giggled when Count Dooku appeared during the intro.

  • @psyclonetheseahawk9261
    @psyclonetheseahawk9261 Před 2 lety +71

    If we're counting the Queen as head os state, then the British Empire still technically exists.

    • @amparoalvarez9001
      @amparoalvarez9001 Před 2 lety

      No, the British Empire is not such...Most of their possessions were taken by force...So in other words, people need to learn the truth about England...They kept stealing and killing everywhere they went, even as recent as last century.They were the worst pirates and looters...History needs to be re-written....The truth is being hidden to protect England...But you can read the truth in a very important document "The Declaration of Independence from their people when they escaped to America to be free from them...

    • @psyclonetheseahawk9261
      @psyclonetheseahawk9261 Před 2 lety +4

      @@amparoalvarez9001 Well that was... Something. But I wouldn't site the US as a glistening example of freedom and liberty.

    • @amparoalvarez9001
      @amparoalvarez9001 Před 2 lety +5

      @@psyclonetheseahawk9261 You are right...The stronger the nations the less honest...and the more forceful with other nations to obtained what they actually have...

    • @davidholmes2283
      @davidholmes2283 Před 2 lety +2

      But they have the option to become a republic if they so wish.

    • @stgeorge28
      @stgeorge28 Před 2 lety

      At least the UK have a five party system, in case one party goes bat$hit crazy. The two party system in the U.S is being corroded by Trumpism in the Republican party😉🍻
      Might be time to rip the Reps from the Trumps, just like the Progressives from the Dems, add the Libertarians and the Green Party...we have more voices and ideas in the country. Unfortunatly the Trumpists noncore beliefs will be there, thankfully the majority will just ignore their conspiracies by a majority.

  • @sharonwheat3659
    @sharonwheat3659 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I appreciate your work and would love to see videos on the smaller empires. A detailed telling of Russian Alaska would be great. Thanks.

  • @MonsieurDean
    @MonsieurDean Před 3 lety +246

    This makes me wonder why I haven't covered the Alternate History of Portugal more often. I'll have to touch on it some time in the future!

    • @stellarktg5149
      @stellarktg5149 Před 3 lety +18

      Oh hello Monseiur Z! Whish you to get 100k subs this month!) About Portugal, you can make a video about the "pink map" - what if Portugal made an agreement with British to get their claimed lands in Africa and what colonies and countries could appear after that.

    • @moonshinei
      @moonshinei Před 3 lety +5

      Please do

    • @ohioanempire
      @ohioanempire Před 3 lety +3

      Hi bro

    • @nicoislazy
      @nicoislazy Před 3 lety +3

      yessir

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean Před 3 lety +9

      @@stellarktg5149 Funny you should mention, I was just researching the Pink Map sometime ago, and was considering incorporating a reference to it in the Civil War video. I certainly be considering it.

  • @oakleywade1056
    @oakleywade1056 Před 3 lety +63

    I’d really love an in depth video of the Spanish Empire!! My family came from Spain and settled in the Nuevo Mexico colony before the Mexican-American War. Huge fan of your channel!

    • @javiermotis3859
      @javiermotis3859 Před 3 lety +5

      Efectivamente: prácticamente la mitad de los Estados Unidos pertenecieron una vez a España ( y tras su independencia de España, el actual Sur de los Estados Unidos pasó a formar parte de México, hasta la guerra de 1848 que tú mencionas), que además llegó 50 años antes que los ingleses.

    • @assistemptyltd3001
      @assistemptyltd3001 Před 3 lety +21

      The Spanish empire in America wasn’t a colonial empire. Americans were Spanish citizens the same as Iberian based Spaniards. America were provinces, not colonies. The driving idea behind the Spanish idea was Catholicism, I.e. we’re all sons of God. Thus no racism was present and you can see that easily (plenty of Indians in Spanish America, not that many north). If you read “Imperiofobia y Leyenda Negra” you’ll see things very differently. And you’ll be happy with it!

    • @javiermotis3859
      @javiermotis3859 Před 3 lety +8

      @@assistemptyltd3001 Mi más cordial enhorabuena por un enfoque tan sensato y riguroso. ¡Lástima que muchos españoles se sigan creyendo las mentiras que se vierten interesadamente sobre el período más glorioso (con todas sus luces y sus sombras, por supuesto) de nuestra Historia. Un saludo.

    • @assistemptyltd3001
      @assistemptyltd3001 Před 2 lety +6

      @Mar How do you explain, for example, that Hispanic America is full of centruries old architecture (cathedrals, hospitals, universities etc.) and the rest isn't? Not Brasil, not USA, not Canada.
      How do you explain the racial make up of Hispanic American countries? How do you explain the preservation of native languages in Hispanic America? I guess you don't.0

    • @assistemptyltd3001
      @assistemptyltd3001 Před 2 lety +4

      @Mar Perdona pero en España no se enseña eso (desgraciadamente los primeros en creernos la leyenda negra somos los españoles). Si te interesa la verdad debes estar dispuesto a cambiar de opinión. Piensa por tu cuenta y mira a ver a qué conclusiones llegas. Si no puedes explicar la realidad con lo que te han contado, igual es que no es verdad. Sin acritud.

  • @EternalPerpetualAllies
    @EternalPerpetualAllies Před 7 měsíci +1

    Simply outstanding! I am going to share with all the people I know! Informative and very entertaining! If you are a history buff, this will add 20 minutes of joy to your life!

  • @HaramXL
    @HaramXL Před 2 lety

    Love your videos. Thanks for making these.

  • @topside3935
    @topside3935 Před 3 lety +421

    The Spanish empire almost conquer the whole american continent from Canada to Argentina.

    • @ulisesfuentes3897
      @ulisesfuentes3897 Před 3 lety +82

      Spanish empire always won to British lol

    • @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014
      @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 Před 3 lety +9

      No it wasn’t a sick man of Europe. They just had lot of Revolts which was very hard to deal with it

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 3 lety +70

      ​@@philyt6187 No, he did not always lose, there are many examples of Spanish victories, such as the War of Jenkins' Ear or the American War of Independence.
      And Canada (Nootka territory) was not lost in a war, but because Spain ended up abandoning its claims.
      If the Spanish Empire had always lost, half of The Americas would be English / British.
      In reality, the greatest territorial losses in Spanish America occurred after the Spanish colonies became independent, especially by the United States and Brazil.

    • @alexh2947
      @alexh2947 Před 3 lety +15

      @@theangel3232 well you lost the Spanish armada

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 3 lety +71

      @@alexh2947 Yes, and the English failed in their attempt to invade Spain only a year later in the so-called "English Armada" or "Counter Armada". In fact, the Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) ended in "status quo ante bellum".
      Another thing is that the event of the "Spanish Armada" has been used for centuries as propaganda by the English with excellent results, from what is seen.
      But actually the event did not mean anything, Spain remained the 1st power in Europe until 1659.

  • @casemirobrandao8803
    @casemirobrandao8803 Před 3 lety +40

    Very Good Video Congratulations and Very Good Explanation!
    I think the Portuguese Empire is one of the most fascinating, it has so many secrets, myths and achievements that go beyond what we know.
    The old world maps are also a great fascination, some that the Portuguese made are well preserved, people says they were made with goatskin.

    • @cardenuovo
      @cardenuovo Před 2 lety +3

      Agreed, they had excellent navigators. 🇺🇸🇵🇹

    • @amparoalvarez9001
      @amparoalvarez9001 Před 2 lety

      Like the stealing of the majority of Brazil from Spain? Portugal broke the treaty the signed with Spain...Learn the truth....That is what is really important...not what anyone have done but how they have done it...

    • @mmartijn78
      @mmartijn78 Před 2 lety

      Dutch empire. Took everything from the Portuguese lol they destroyed Portugal. Dutch started the new world. US, Australia, New Zealand.

  • @donblas
    @donblas Před rokem +9

    ¡Viva la Hispanidad! Saludos desde Filipinas.

    • @Gloriaimperial1
      @Gloriaimperial1 Před 8 měsíci +2

      ¡Gracias, amigo, un saludo desde España a Filipinas, de un español con muchos orígenes latinoamericanos! 🙂👍

    • @d.dean42973
      @d.dean42973 Před 4 měsíci

      The Philippines haven't been Spanish since 1898, they've been American since then

    • @donblas
      @donblas Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@d.dean42973 Los filipinos somos hispanos. Los americanos mataron 3 millones de conpatriotas, lo siento, aquí no hablamos el ingles, aprende español si quieres hablar

  • @tomasvrabec1845
    @tomasvrabec1845 Před 2 lety +9

    Imagine alternative history where Russian Empire would be very inspired by American Setteler expansion West (manifest destiny) and thus, the Russian Empire, would begin a massive Setteler efforts into their Eastern Territories.
    This would make East, and the whole of Asian, Russia lot more populated as today it is primarily the European Part only.
    If done early enough, perhaps they would have larger settlements on their East side and thus maybe keep Alaska and successfully incorporate it.

    • @robotube7361
      @robotube7361 Před rokem +1

      The problem is the lands of Russia were frozen tundras which not very hospitable for settlement. Also Russians living in the West didnt lack territory and didnt suffer from owercrowding like the cities US had at the East shores.
      US was just better prosepect for settlers. Not to mention all the myths, the Gold Rush and the West coast.

    • @TheTeodorsoldierabvb
      @TheTeodorsoldierabvb Před rokem +1

      The Russian Empire did settle the East in a similar way as the americans did the west, only about 200 years prior, when the first Cossack regiments began pushing past the Ural mountains. How do you think the whole Asian part of Russia was explored and colonized? By the time the americans got their independence, Russia had all of its Imperial territories save for Central Asia and (I might be mistaken) Alaska.
      The reason why its not more populated is strictly a matter of climate and terrain. It's simply not suitable.

  • @giancarloshein5152
    @giancarloshein5152 Před 3 lety +61

    17:21 Actually this phrase was used to describe the Spanish Empire, not the British one

    • @dehydration7759
      @dehydration7759 Před 3 lety +19

      It was used on the British empire more once it became the biggest ever to exist

    • @giancarloshein5152
      @giancarloshein5152 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ilikegarlicbread4657 tanks, sometimes the autocorrect doesn't goes very good.

    • @giancarloshein5152
      @giancarloshein5152 Před 3 lety +20

      @@dehydration7759 Yeah, but isn't cool that you steal the nicknames of other empires.

    • @giancarloshein5152
      @giancarloshein5152 Před 3 lety +10

      @Gerrard Gerrard That the Spanish empire lasted five minutes? With what you just said I can have an idea of what an ignorant are you in history. To begin with, although the Spanish, French and British empires began around the same time more or less, the real difference is that the Spanish empire was the hegemonic empire for 200 years if not 300 years. And although the British empire was the most extensive territorially, its hegemony it barely lasted 100 years.

    • @colacao6065
      @colacao6065 Před 3 lety +9

      @Gerrard Gerrard In addition to being a clown, you prove to have no fucking idea, typical of Anglo-Saxons.
      The Spanish empire lasted as hegemonic power 150 years, and as the largest empire 3 centuries, from 1521 to 1821. The same cannot be said of your beloved Britain, that its hegemony lasted a century, from the fall of Napoleon to WW1, and as the largest empire from 1824 to 1847 (123 years). Let's see if you learn that although your country has been a recent power, it doesn't mean that Spain didn't last long, but that the Spanish empire was prior to the British one, when your shitty island emerged as a superpower, Spain was no longer anything, but the 3 centuries before it had been the power that dominated the world, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries. But it's normal that your country doesn't teach you that before you there have been other superpowers throughout history, it would mean charging your supremacist ego.
      In summary, the Spanish used the phrase "the empire where the sun never set " for 4 centuries (until 1898) and you, the british were the ones who used that phrase for 5 minutes ;)

  • @Rich5131
    @Rich5131 Před 3 lety +56

    It was the Spanish empire to which it was first said, that the Sun never sets

    • @brianmarson3427
      @brianmarson3427 Před 3 lety +11

      Yes but it did set cos it was dark at some point. But cos of the size of the British empire it was always daytime somewhere. The Spanish MIGHT have said it first but they were talking utter bollocks 😁

    • @SR-jr5nh
      @SR-jr5nh Před 2 lety +7

      @@brianmarson3427 The spanish empire lasted longer than the british one, so... shut up and behave

    • @trollinape2697
      @trollinape2697 Před 2 lety

      @@SR-jr5nh and?

    • @Charlie-xz8dg
      @Charlie-xz8dg Před 2 lety

      @@SR-jr5nh and? which empire had more impact?
      Impact>>>longevity

    • @huskyfaninmass1042
      @huskyfaninmass1042 Před 2 lety

      Who said that?

  • @ig8821
    @ig8821 Před 2 lety +5

    Great video. "The empire which the sun never sets up" was said for Carlos V in Spanish empire.

    • @ein_blinde_Nashorn
      @ein_blinde_Nashorn Před rokem +1

      The British had 35,500,000 kilometers of land. Spain did not.

    • @alcapone4635
      @alcapone4635 Před rokem +2

      @@ein_blinde_Nashorn cope, it was said first by Spain.

    • @alcapone4635
      @alcapone4635 Před rokem +1

      @@charliebryant1216 calling the spanish empire "irrelevant" is just another way of british coping. They discovered the americas, built missions, converted natives to catholicism, taught them how to speak spanish, the pacific ocean was called the "spanish lake." and are kings of exploration. The british empire all had land that was discovered by the spanish empire 100 years before. There isn't a single place on earth that doesn't have a spanish grave. And before you say, "but aren't you speaking english?" that is due to american influence. Cope extra hard.

    • @alcapone4635
      @alcapone4635 Před rokem

      @@charliebryant1216 they also influenced the americas more than the british did. Tea and crumpets won't get you anywhere.

    • @alcapone4635
      @alcapone4635 Před rokem

      @@charliebryant1216 lmao the jet engine was not a british only invention, neither was splitting the atom. If you are talking about the spanish being carried by italians, then the british were carried by the germans. Who invented America? what kind of dumb question is that? Christopher Colombus came here on a spanish voyage.. Unless you area talking about the United States of America, then the british didn't invent that. The 13 colonies wanted to be independent and when they got their independence, they decided to merge to become the United States. Plus why are you bringing up scientific discoveries, we are talking about the empires. Moving the goalposts lmao. Cope extra hard brit-boy.

  • @eyaamri5566
    @eyaamri5566 Před rokem +13

    First of all thank you for the video, very helpful. Just one note, I kept wondering when the Ottoman empire is gonna show up, I believe it was bigger and more powerful then most of the empires on the list from expanding their territory to Asia, North Africa then south Europe and almost taking half of Europe for themselves to their cultural growth...
    Also, it's nice that someone pointed out the "Colonization" part of some of these empires.

  • @Gamepro2112
    @Gamepro2112 Před 3 lety +201

    I’d like to see you go into a deep dive of the Chinese dynasties. I think that’s be an interesting topic

    • @XD-ix2cz
      @XD-ix2cz Před 3 lety +1

      Ancient china was like glass

    • @icrushchildrensdreams4556
      @icrushchildrensdreams4556 Před 3 lety +29

      Tang Dynasty is a candidate for one of the worlds largest empire because at their height they owned China Afghanistan Tajikistan Uzbekistan mongolia Korea northern Vietnam and possible Tibet and Manchuria

    • @Channel-kc7rz
      @Channel-kc7rz Před 3 lety +11

      @@XD-ix2cz nobody :
      absolutely no one :
      not a single person in the entire world :
      china : DECLARES WAR ON ITSELF

    • @stratant.8722
      @stratant.8722 Před 3 lety +4

      @@icrushchildrensdreams4556 Tang dynasty was a little bigger then the Han dynasty but there were bigger Chinese dynasties like Qing and Yuan.

    • @karitete52
      @karitete52 Před 3 lety

      @@icrushchildrensdreams4556 maybe? 1000 years ago, land you controlled is just 20-30% of the area you see on the map. Hans still claim what Mongols and Manchurian had :))

  • @theangel3232
    @theangel3232 Před 3 lety +101

    Spainish Empire is 4th, not 5th...
    If you are based on English wikipedia, the data is wrong. It marks only 13.7 millions km2, when it should mark more than 20 millions km2. This error comes in part because it includes the extension of the empire in 1810 for some reason, when it no longer had the territory of Louisiana, which is more than 2 millions km2, It does not include territory that currently belongs to Brazil but that in 1790 belonged to the Spanish Empire (such as Acre, among others), the Oregon territory or the Nootka territory, nor does it recognize Patagonia, despite that the Spanish Empire claimed the territory and nobody disputed it (then Argentina and Chile disputed it), knowing that it is mostly a desert.
    Regards.

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 3 lety +10

      In blue, Spanish Empire at its peak, in 1790: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Imperios_Espa%C3%B1ol_y_Portugu%C3%A9s_1790.svg

    • @pedroroque829
      @pedroroque829 Před 3 lety +17

      English Wikipedia is so wrong. T says Portugal had only half of Brazil hahah

    • @rhonameyers-pardo5567
      @rhonameyers-pardo5567 Před 3 lety +2

      Appreciate non English correcting english-speakers mistakes humility must go two ways when it shows

    • @toymationstudios8613
      @toymationstudios8613 Před 3 lety

      OMFG dude chill

    • @zebposada
      @zebposada Před 3 lety +11

      Spanish Empire is 1st actually.

  • @Ugly_German_Truths
    @Ugly_German_Truths Před 2 lety +3

    As Empire means just a ruler having many kingdoms under his command, there is really no size requirement.
    Trebizond was to boot an exile empire after Constantinople and thus the official eastern roman empire fell to the "Latin Kingdoms" of the Crusaders, waiting to restore the unified Rome.I would not say that is a bad reason to call it Empire too, even though it was ruled by "lesser aristocrats" and not the deposed and displaced imperial family...

  • @tposingjesus5491
    @tposingjesus5491 Před rokem +10

    I’m British but I’d like to note that the Empire shown on the map doesn’t quite represent that if the empire at its actual height - it areas such as the thirteen colonies, who declared their independence on July fourth 1776 and the German African colonies which joined after the First World War (1919, long after British America had left.

  • @enderdrow8844
    @enderdrow8844 Před 3 lety +70

    Are you Portuguese? You had a really good accent when you said “ feitorias”

  • @neonyzr
    @neonyzr Před 3 lety +8

    Congrats on 300K!

  • @RobinHillyard
    @RobinHillyard Před 2 lety

    What’s the music at about 11 minutes? It’s very familiar but I’m having a hard time placing it.

  • @menaseven9093
    @menaseven9093 Před 2 lety +6

    Awesome video about the biggest empire in world history. The British Empire still exist today because the Queen of England is the queen of Canada, Australia and New Zealand and British bankers controlled the Federal Reserve Bank of the USA.

  • @astro5327
    @astro5327 Před 3 lety +140

    Brittain ruled over all this.
    Part of west germany:am I a joke to you?

    • @fwebber13
      @fwebber13 Před 3 lety +13

      Yes, yes it was. We just let the USA take care of it
      We had taken care of enough countries so we just retired and gave it to America

    • @sqoli5161
      @sqoli5161 Před 3 lety +6

      The Nova renaissance and in history the king of England had been the king of Hannover as well

    • @hiddentreasure2161
      @hiddentreasure2161 Před 3 lety +11

      We didn't own that at the peak of our empire, decolonisation had already started by 1945

    • @g.f.w.6402
      @g.f.w.6402 Před 3 lety +4

      @The Nova renaissance This is about colonies and not about occupations after wars. Such occupations have occurred frequently in European history. Or do you seriously want to claim that France was a German colony from 1940 to 1945?

    • @g.f.w.6402
      @g.f.w.6402 Před 3 lety +3

      @@hiddentreasure2161 Correctly recognized. Decolonization was a direct consequence of the two world wars, especially the Second World War, at the end of which Britain was de facto bankrupt.

  • @Jaunt3
    @Jaunt3 Před 3 lety +66

    The Spanish East Indies finally gets mentioned in a video

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 3 lety +5

      The British gave back Manila and Havana because the Spanish gave them Florida, that's all.
      Then in the American War of Independence they recovered Florida and Menorca from the British.

    • @joseluisfernandez6592
      @joseluisfernandez6592 Před 3 lety +7

      @@theangel3232 So what? Spain at that time was in decline, but before...

    • @bolandbert
      @bolandbert Před 3 lety

      You mean the Dutch East Indies🇳🇱

    • @javiermotis3859
      @javiermotis3859 Před 3 lety +8

      @@joseluisfernandez6592 Perdona, pero en el siglo XVIII España todavía era una gran potencia; no la primera, desde luego, pero una potencia al fin y al cabo. El declive empezó a partir del siglo XIX., especialmente tras la guerra de la Independencia.

    • @amparoalvarez9001
      @amparoalvarez9001 Před 2 lety

      @@theangel3232 Well England has to return a lot of land they stole...They were the most tyrant of all even when they tried so hard to hide this fact it is still well known...

  • @Stevew918
    @Stevew918 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Learning a lot from you, thanks😊

  • @chazk7530
    @chazk7530 Před 2 lety +3

    I'd love to see a video focusing on ancient empires

  • @vintemm3745
    @vintemm3745 Před 3 lety +28

    This guy sure likes Portugal
    The reason: PORTUGAL CARALHO!

  • @deborahdaniel9791
    @deborahdaniel9791 Před rokem

    what is this speaking technique- which allows you to employ these particular intonations?

  • @michaelsinclair8018
    @michaelsinclair8018 Před 2 lety +1

    Your English is excellent yet a little thing I'd like to point out: the past tense of the verb, "to seek" is "sought" not "seeked" at 0:50. I've heard you make this error a few times.
    Love your videos.

  • @nicchauvin1096
    @nicchauvin1096 Před 3 lety +84

    The Spanish rule in Louisiana had nothing to do with Napoleon. It was family business of the Bourbons. Also, they controlled the territory for nearly half a century and grew it into a very prosperous and profitable colony, comparatively speaking. Also, Louisiana and New Spain both reached into Canada, not just the U.S.

    • @nou2923
      @nou2923 Před 3 lety +4

      False, Spain’s didn’t own any territories in Canada. They did in America however.

    • @leandromonteiro9403
      @leandromonteiro9403 Před 3 lety +17

      @@nou2923 US, you mean.

    • @amparoalvarez9001
      @amparoalvarez9001 Před 2 lety +9

      @@nou2923 Yes they did and the name are still there...Do your research...Many were immediately changed to English ones...The British and French were very good at making everything Spanish disappear...They still do it today...Like using the term Latin America....instead of Hispanic America or Iberoamerican...It was a French invention...Nothing to do with the descendent of the Spaniards...

    • @brunosanz7477
      @brunosanz7477 Před rokem +6

      @@nou2923 Yes they did. Actually the top is wrong, because they even reached to Alaska in the year 1740, but because there wasn’t any benefits of a cold land at all they abandoned them, and they also conquered the Antarctic Peninsule in the year 1521, and that isn’t shown in the map as well. The Spanish Empire reached an extension of 20.4 million square kilometers in that year, while the Quing Dynasty barely reaches 14 million. There is not only evidence by Spanish studies, but also form German, French and American studies that say the same. But as always you English only tell what you want, for example you don’t tell how Spain had to face 4 Empires at the same time while the Netherlands were fighting for independence, or how the Spanish Empire won most of the battles against the English, and French Empire.

    • @Gloriaimperial1
      @Gloriaimperial1 Před 10 měsíci +5

      @@nou2923 Spain discovered Vancouver Island, (San Miguel), in the 16th century, and that zone. Spanish Louisiana has territories that enter Canada. In addition, between 1785 and 1795, Spain had the entire coast of Canada (Nootka territory), and there we founded the cities of Cordova and Valdés, which are in Alaska.

  • @ryantutty9487
    @ryantutty9487 Před 3 lety +22

    Great vid. Be really interesting to do more on British empire 👍

    • @MP-um3kq
      @MP-um3kq Před 3 lety +11

      The history of the empire isn't delivered unless it's distorted for the purpose of demoralising Brits or white people.

    • @ushiki2212
      @ushiki2212 Před 3 lety

      @@MP-um3kq christ that was just stupid.

    • @ushiki2212
      @ushiki2212 Před 3 lety

      @@MP-um3kq my soul almost left my body reading that comment, the only thing enforcing it was my will to let you know.

    • @MP-um3kq
      @MP-um3kq Před 3 lety +5

      @@ushiki2212 Yet you're unable to explain why or prove otherwise, now that's stupid. You see the problem you've got is that the majority of people in the western world agrees with me, every day you will move a step closer to realising, the backlash has begun.

  • @garrysminecraftyoutubechannel

    discord link is not working

  • @charlescassis
    @charlescassis Před 2 lety +6

    I feel like the Roman/byzantine empire was heavily undervalued in this video. That empire went on for over thousands of years. It was there in bce and until 1500s ce. The longest reigning force that conquered Europe and Middle East. Had the highest literacy rate of any empire of that time and before. Biggest reason Christianity is as big as it is today is due to the roman and byzantine empire. Easily number 1

    • @LordOfLight
      @LordOfLight Před rokem

      If we take the beginning of the Roman Empire as around 200 bce - which I think is quite generous - and the end as 1453 when the Turks took Constantinople, which was by this time more or less a city state, then this would be 1,653 years. Hardly "thousands".

    • @LeverhoodTruth
      @LeverhoodTruth Před rokem

      This video is about empire size. The British empire was almost 6 times as large as the romans

  • @somedude866
    @somedude866 Před 3 lety +26

    You should do a video on the British Informal Empire which included places like China and Argentina that weren’t formally ruled, but over which the British had great influence.

    • @oliverleonard7730
      @oliverleonard7730 Před 3 lety

      And Japan

    • @FOLIPE
      @FOLIPE Před 3 lety +8

      Well, if we are doing great that the US would probably be the biggest empire in the world.

    • @HUMBLE0BSERVER
      @HUMBLE0BSERVER Před 3 lety +1

      @@FOLIPE True, the US informal Empire is bigger than any old empire!

    • @HUMBLE0BSERVER
      @HUMBLE0BSERVER Před 3 lety

      @@juancamiloospinacorrea9438 I said INFORMAL Empire, learn to read bruh!

    • @romer1816
      @romer1816 Před 3 lety

      Indeed, there is a plaque in the central railway station in Buenos Aires which commemorates the construction of the station in England and its shipping to Argentina and assembly in Buenos Aires in the nineteenth century...unbelievable...considering the tools available at that time.

  • @carlosbaltes9291
    @carlosbaltes9291 Před 3 lety +87

    La visión del Imperio Español está recortada y es mucho mas extensa que lo que se señala en el video porque no incluye: 1. Las posesiones germánicas (Alemania), 2. el Milanesado(gran parte del norte de Italia), el centro y sur de Italia 3. Diversas plazas de norte de África 4. Múltiples islas del Océano Pacífico. 5. Desde 1580 hasta 1660 el imperio portugués queda incorporado al Imperio Español, que es el protector de todas la colonias portuguesas y permitió que el Brasil se extendiera generosamente a costa de zonas de los virreinatos españoles. Así que la extensión del Imperio Español es muy superior a lo que se señala en este video.
    Saludos cordiales.

    • @igoriane93
      @igoriane93 Před 2 lety +3

      It is funny how he offended your nationalist ego.

    • @carlosbaltes9291
      @carlosbaltes9291 Před 2 lety +22

      @@igoriane93 No el ego nacionalista. Solo la precisión.

    • @joseantoniocastro1486
      @joseantoniocastro1486 Před 2 lety +22

      Y el mapa del imperio británico es falso, ya que la India nunca fue totalmente incorporada y la mayor parte del Canadá nunca fue pisado por inglés alguno, y lo mismo se puede decir de Australia. No digamos los territorios africanos o del próximo oriente. El imperio británico fue más una hegemonía económica sobre los territorios que poco tiene que ver con un imperio convencional con ocupación efectiva y estructural como el español.

    • @carlosbaltes9291
      @carlosbaltes9291 Před 2 lety +12

      @@KrlKngMrtssn Lo que usted señala es verdad. Pero es lo mismo que ocurría con el español en el siglo XVI y parte del XVII. Todo el mundo lo hablaba, era la lengua de la política internacional, todo el mundo seguía la moda española, Dios, al decir de los competidores de España, parecía ser "español"...
      Pero todo eso pasó, como pasará también con el idioma inglés... No le quepa la menor duda.

    • @carlosbaltes9291
      @carlosbaltes9291 Před 2 lety +9

      @@KrlKngMrtssn El idioma español fue lengua hipercentral en los siglos XVI y XVII.
      En el Imperio español, que tuvo una duración de más de 300 años, nunca hubo colonias, sino sólo Virreinatos y provincias que se extendieron por Europa, América del Norte, América del Sur y América Central -por cierto que todas ellas estaban unidas por la famosa vía: "Camino de Tierra Adentro", que unía la Patagonia al sur con Texas y California al norte-, Asia y África.
      Asimismo, la renta media en el Imperio era muy superior en esos siglos a la media de Europa. Y en la propia España,no hay nada más que visitarla, para admirar que su Patrimonio Histórico-Artistico supone el 30% del Patrimonio Mundial actual. Solo Italia la supera con un 40%; el 30% restante se reparte entre los demás países de la Tierra.
      Bien, antes de opinar es preciso conocer y comprender.
      Saludos.

  • @ivanovichdelfin8797
    @ivanovichdelfin8797 Před rokem +5

    En realidad, la parte oeste de Brasil correspondía al imperio español, no al portugués. Así fue la repartición tras el tratado de Tordesillas. Y Portugal dominaba Papúa Nueva Guinea.
    Actually, the Western part of Brazil corresponded to the Spanish Empire, not to portuguese. That was the distribution after the Treaty of Tordesillas. And Portugal dominated Papua New Guinea.

  • @edyanglj
    @edyanglj Před 2 lety +1

    "continental expansion was never an option, because water"
    The British Navy: You looking down on us, chap?

    • @Thingadong
      @Thingadong Před 2 lety

      Dutch Navy: That's a nice flagship you got there!

    • @hugh.g.rection5906
      @hugh.g.rection5906 Před 8 měsíci

      @@Thingadong British Navy: aaaw look how tiny it is. adorable and squishy

  • @Bozcard
    @Bozcard Před 3 lety +6

    A video on the Roman Empire and other big empires would be interesting.

  • @DominikPlaylists
    @DominikPlaylists Před 3 lety +25

    Tsardom means empire. Tsar means emperor in Russian, the name derives from Caesar.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 Před 3 lety +5

      Caesar- Czar/ Tsar and Kaiser!

    • @englishpassport6590
      @englishpassport6590 Před 3 lety

      So Russia is Roman ....@@brittakriep2938

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 Před 3 lety +4

      @@englishpassport6590 : From the russian Großfürsten/ great princes, one great prince, the one of Moscow ,collected russian earth/ ground', he married the great niece of last byzantine emperor Konstantin ( have forgotten the number) , he saw himself as ,tzar/ czar' and Moskow as the ,Third Rome' after Rome and Konstantinopel/ Byzanz and used, like HRE emperor the double headed ,Emperors Eagle'. The standart of german president is the same as HRE emperor, but with a single head eagle.

    • @TheTeodorsoldierabvb
      @TheTeodorsoldierabvb Před rokem

      @@brittakriep2938 It's Tsar, not Czar, I have no diea where westerners go that Czar idea. Sure, it smore similar to the spelling of Caesar, but we don't pronounce it that way at all.

    • @brittakriep2938
      @brittakriep2938 Před rokem

      @@TheTeodorsoldierabvb : In german, i am german, it is written and spoken Zar, but i don t know, if in english Tzar or Czar is correct.

  • @matthewskillo5320
    @matthewskillo5320 Před 2 lety +2

    What about the "New Galactic Empire" ? You know the Empire that formed out of the fall of the Old Republic, orchestrated by Palpatine and his execution of "Order 66" during the Clone Wars. lol

  • @Piru2000
    @Piru2000 Před rokem +2

    very intersting, thank you, you did miss however a few spanish colonies in Africa, Like some parts of Morocco and Equatorial Guinea

  • @lipsarath8728
    @lipsarath8728 Před 3 lety +7

    How about a video on THE MONGOL EMPIRE?? BTW love your videos.

  • @KEVMAN7987
    @KEVMAN7987 Před 3 lety +6

    Your empire is so huge, when it sits around the globe, it sits *around* the globe.

  • @ARIYA2150
    @ARIYA2150 Před 2 lety +2

    Let's not forget the Persian empire in the honorable mention, perhaps the oldest of them all.

  • @josecousillas7641
    @josecousillas7641 Před 2 lety +5

    Putting all territories at the same time in a map is misleading to account for how big an empire was. It takes time to expand. For instance, the 13 colonies were lost before Australia or New Zealand had a British effectively on their lands. British rule over India is the same. The parameter, for me, that would really imply how big an empire was is not a question of size or land possessed, but the amount of population ruled and for how long. Rusian empire was quite empty in Siberia, or Portuguese in the equatorial forests. Mongol rule did not last long in the majority of the territories conquered. I would bet then, that the biggest empire would be the Chinese Qing

  • @MisterNameGame
    @MisterNameGame Před 3 lety +30

    IDEA: Most Important Empires in World History

    • @CountScarlioni
      @CountScarlioni Před 3 lety +9

      LOL That'll be a video with a guaranteed epic comment war!

    • @KraNisOG
      @KraNisOG Před 3 lety +2

      Rome and the Akkadian Empire are easily in the top 5.

    • @nicholaslindsey7087
      @nicholaslindsey7087 Před 3 lety +2

      KraNis the Akkadian empire needs to be talked about more! As well as the Hittite Empire.

    • @KraNisOG
      @KraNisOG Před 3 lety

      @@nicholaslindsey7087 The Akkadians were literally the first empire in history, and essentially changed the way civilizations think. They're one or mt favorites

    • @UnderTakerSN1
      @UnderTakerSN1 Před 3 lety +1

      That would be British since your comment is English

  • @minisaiju7699
    @minisaiju7699 Před 3 lety +6

    @General Knowledge .Oh we cannot forget about the 'American Empire'

  • @maxwellsmt
    @maxwellsmt Před rokem +18

    There is an error. From 1580 to 1640 the Iberian Union (Spain and Portugal) was governed under the same King (Felipe II, Felipe III and Felipe IV, successively). Therefore, the territorial extension of both united kingdoms came to make Felipe II -and later his successors- the ruler of the largest Empire in history, since he reigned over an extensive area of ​​the world that included from the Indies of America to the extreme east of Asia, by adding under the same crown the Spanish Empire and the Portuguese Empire.

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 Před 5 měsíci

      Even under the Iberian Union, I think that Spain and Portugal were still two separate countries ruled by one king. To my understanding, they didn't combine the same way England and Scotland eventually did into Great Britain.

  • @cardenuovo
    @cardenuovo Před 2 lety +4

    Ah, forgetting the Achaemenid Empire as an honorable mention at the end was a mistake 😂 They were the OG. 🇺🇸🇮🇷

  • @timmo491
    @timmo491 Před 3 lety +9

    Thanks. Interesting stuff. Of course the power of the Royal Navy and the British Empire was pivotal when Britain abolished slavery and was able to enforce and police the abolition around the globe ensurin that every other country followed suit.

    • @paulwild3676
      @paulwild3676 Před 3 lety +3

      It meant Britain then controlled the newly liberated states you mean.Very clever. The British are utterly ruthless but they do it with a smiling face and a shake of your hand. The dismantling of the British empire was a stroke of genius. They replaced it with a Commonwealth of which the Queen is still the head of. Where they differed from the French was that they encouraged those within these countries to see the colonisation as an opportunity and not oppression. Their genius of government, their application of the rule of law, not banning local customs, which the French did, created to the outside world a veneer of civilisation which did not exist but appeared romantic. The British were better at empires than anyone because they knew when it was time to call it a day.

    • @timmo491
      @timmo491 Před 3 lety +2

      @@paulwild3676 very insightful. I would only add that there is a lot of alturism to what the British achieved contrary to what the 'losing' global players would have you believe. There was no gain in Magna Carta which established the rights of free men and limited the power of governments and kings , there was no gain (in fact great cost) to the abolition of slavery, there was no gain in setting up the freed slave colonies in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, there was no financial gain in fighting the Nazis where the British fought entirely alone for the first two years having entered the war on the invasion of Poland, there was no financial gain from WW1 having entered the war on the German entry into Belgium which led to the break up of Empire, there was no gain in establishing parliamentary democracy, or being the nation which established sport at the critical heart of school education. These are only a very few examples.

  • @perrydowd9285
    @perrydowd9285 Před 3 lety +13

    The Commonwealth of Nations had actually gained two new members in the last decade. Rwanda and Madagascar.
    From memory Burma was the only country to leave, but I could be wrong.

    • @jimbomcgee6344
      @jimbomcgee6344 Před 3 lety +2

      Pakistan left for like 20 years cuz of india stuff

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 Před 3 lety

      @@jimbomcgee6344 Thanks Jimbo, I'll remember that. 👍

    • @pedanticradiator1491
      @pedanticradiator1491 Před 3 lety +6

      I think you mean Mozambique not Madagascar

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 Před 3 lety +2

      @The Nova renaissance Yes, I remember that now. Southern Rhodesia may have spent time on the naughty step too.

    • @perrydowd9285
      @perrydowd9285 Před 3 lety +1

      @The Nova renaissance Oh Shit. I meant Mozambique. Sorry.🤫

  • @kedi948
    @kedi948 Před rokem +1

    British empire 1 second after seeing a random lil island in sea: Hippity hoppity your land is now my territory

    • @hamzabinyasseen9607
      @hamzabinyasseen9607 Před rokem

      Yeah u right, they were invading some weak lands, and islands where people were still using arrows and spears while the British were using canons ! .. in front of an equal ennemy like Germany, they run crying to USA and Soviets to save their ssz !
      In the other hands some bedouins from the Arabian desert defeated two of the biggest empire that ever existed even beeing outumbered 5,6 to 1 and less equiped ..
      That is how you count Empires !

    • @hamzabinyasseen9607
      @hamzabinyasseen9607 Před rokem

      @@d.dean42973 they were still weak countries in that period, we know how stronger are some people by winning againts a most powerful ennemy, or an equal at least, not a weak one .. against Germans you couldn't do nothing and without USA, and Soviets they would have invaded you in a matter of a month.
      You talk about the ME, at that period The Middle East was weak and divided, at his peak our Islamic ancestor warriors played soccer with your heads and dis,membered you people alive .. and you couldn't even opened your mouth 500 years ago in the Ottoman empire perid !!! so again there is nothing amazing in winning against a weak and divided ennemy ..
      I always find it your analyse funny, proof that you understand nothing in war .. face to face we c u t our ennmies alive, and we did it to yo,ur people in Iraq and Afghanistan, they just don't tell you that in the news.
      Plus there is nothing brave in bombing people while you hide in an apachi or a ship ! Face to face t is another story and inside yourselves you know that 😏

  • @M25warrior
    @M25warrior Před 2 lety

    A fascinating summary. Thanks

  • @ultrassjmappers5724
    @ultrassjmappers5724 Před 3 lety +7

    General knowledge thanks for letting me know the empires

  • @TrueBlueKangaroo
    @TrueBlueKangaroo Před 3 lety +23

    You should make a new video going deeper into the republic of artsakh with the current conflict going on.

    • @coquimapping8680
      @coquimapping8680 Před 3 lety +4

      I think Azerbaijan is going down if it goes to full blown war

    • @TrueBlueKangaroo
      @TrueBlueKangaroo Před 3 lety +1

      @@coquimapping8680 assuming it stays between the two, I agree. However Turkey is getting more and more involved due to its treaty with Azerbaijan, and the problem with that is Armenia has a pact with Russia. If it continues conflict will break out between Turkey and Russia, which could lead to a global war as turkey is in Nato. I don't like turkey in this scenario, and I think they should be dropped from NATO.

    • @coquimapping8680
      @coquimapping8680 Před 3 lety +1

      @@TrueBlueKangaroo Turkey shouldn’t be in NATO

  • @eleazarchalasani3834
    @eleazarchalasani3834 Před rokem

    Very informative, thank you.

  • @juandamyles9797
    @juandamyles9797 Před 2 lety +1

    I think you should do a report on the other empires because they were stepping stones for other empires especially Rome which opened up Africa and the Ottoman.

    • @nosottidylan0814
      @nosottidylan0814 Před rokem

      the roman opened it up for them all the spanish the french the portuguese all of them

  • @confirousjagua9527
    @confirousjagua9527 Před 3 lety +32

    Tenho orgulho do meu país e da sua estória e vida
    Portugal

    • @thelawisthelaw2399
      @thelawisthelaw2399 Před 3 lety +10

      História*

    • @agente_5114
      @agente_5114 Před 2 lety +1

      @@thelawisthelaw2399 Também existe "estória", mas é usada para histórias fictícias se eu não me engano, tipo contos

    • @thelawisthelaw2399
      @thelawisthelaw2399 Před 2 lety +2

      @@agente_5114 Disso eu sei, mas de acordo ao contexto que se fala, o termo certo seria "história"

    • @kohaku2306
      @kohaku2306 Před 2 lety

      @@agente_5114 nao, isso e no ingles que existe history e story, em portugal nao existe

    • @agente_5114
      @agente_5114 Před 2 lety

      @@kohaku2306 existe sim, aprende-se na escola

  • @PatriotMapper
    @PatriotMapper Před 3 lety +9

    “Counts”
    *Shows Count Dooku*

  • @1naSTW
    @1naSTW Před rokem

    do it in a timeline. this is brilliant

  • @darthwiizius
    @darthwiizius Před 2 lety

    All the Emperors in World history turn up, the Queen turns up and says "Oh quaint".

  • @chad9015
    @chad9015 Před 3 lety +40

    Well the Yuan were technically part of the Mongol Empire

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 3 lety +5

      Yes, and it doesn't make sense either to count the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasty as different. Both are the Arab Empire.

    • @theangel3232
      @theangel3232 Před 3 lety +1

      @holy chris Dude, I already know that the Umayyads and the Abbasids are not the same, what I am saying is that they are both "Arab Empire", it makes no sense to count them twice because they are still the same Empire even if they change dynasty. If we did the same with other Empires we would have multiple Portuguese, Spanish, French or British Empires, because they have changed dynasty many times.

    • @droiddrei
      @droiddrei Před 3 lety

      True. Technically correct, the best kind of correct

    • @achikahmedamine7101
      @achikahmedamine7101 Před 3 lety

      @adam all abbasid are pure arab not mix

    • @sip6963
      @sip6963 Před 2 lety

      Yeah, those stats are made up. And talking about Brithish Empire, they also count the water extension around it. A thing that other empires do not do.

  • @advvaibhavtripathi2424
    @advvaibhavtripathi2424 Před 3 lety +6

    The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power based in Magadha and founded by Chandragupta Maurya, which dominated the Indian subcontinent between 322 and 185 BCE

  • @jm-7953
    @jm-7953 Před 4 měsíci

    It would be enteresting considering not only maximal extension but combining time and extension.

  • @__alves_
    @__alves_ Před rokem

    Grande vídeo General Knowledge 🇵🇹👌🏼

  • @jacksonmiller8174
    @jacksonmiller8174 Před 3 lety +4

    I would love to see an in depth video on the British empire like 30 minutes long

    • @robbothegreat1368
      @robbothegreat1368 Před 3 lety +1

      Theres tons out there mate, just type British Empire Documentary in CZcams and take your pick

    • @mrcool2107
      @mrcool2107 Před 2 lety +1

      @@robbothegreat1368 but when I see I see a propaganda channel where I can see chinese woman saying stupid things like they looted 550 trillion and murdered 1B people

    • @amparoalvarez9001
      @amparoalvarez9001 Před 2 lety

      I would like to see the truth about what they did to get those lands...It is not important how much they got, but it is important what they did to get it...

    • @mrfreeman2911
      @mrfreeman2911 Před 2 lety

      @@amparoalvarez9001 Many things.
      The British were, compared to the other empires, much nicer.
      But expansion and conquest most often came with the sword/gun. The Romans, the Persians, the Greeks, the Ottomans etc, all came with much more blood.
      The British funnily enough got a lot of land through diplomacy and trade. Some Brits were so gifted at it and they even invited the 3 greatest Native Indian leaders to London to meet the (queen I think). That is how you diplomacy.
      South Africa was more bloody and that was against white people ;) ie the Dutch Boors.

    • @amparoalvarez9001
      @amparoalvarez9001 Před 2 lety

      @@mrfreeman2911 I can tell you do not know the truth...I have researched about Britain and they have massacres in New Zeland, Australia, S. Africa, India, North America and on and on....Read the true history...

  • @biopapapa
    @biopapapa Před 3 lety +9

    You should do something about germany/German empire or prussia

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  Před 3 lety +1

      I'm literally obsessed with Prussian history, it's really interesting. I bought a very large book summarizing all of its history, I want to try and do some type of summarized video using it, but it'll take a while to do right

  • @lejamesbron5880
    @lejamesbron5880 Před rokem +1

    Why are the Moors not mentioned?

  • @douglasortiz571
    @douglasortiz571 Před rokem +3

    The Spanish empire included for 50 years all the Portuguese positions as well

    • @carlosfrescata1758
      @carlosfrescata1758 Před rokem

      60

    • @greywolf7577
      @greywolf7577 Před 5 měsíci

      I think that Portugal and Spain were still two separate countries at that time, even though they were ruled by the same king.

  • @ultrassjmappers5724
    @ultrassjmappers5724 Před 3 lety +3

    And thanks for showing me the USA flags it was for a project in school

  • @AlphaBlox
    @AlphaBlox Před 3 lety +4

    Do the top 10 smallest next.

  • @Isaaac165
    @Isaaac165 Před 2 lety

    This has nothing to do w/the video but I was about to comment on the ad before this video LOL.

  • @hydrospace1
    @hydrospace1 Před 2 lety

    When you said “counts” and showed count dooku o immediately liked and subed