Well lovely people - I'm gonna try my best to get Cabral out before I leave for Normandy. I'm about half way done dictating it and will have it out in Audio Podcast form by the end of the week. In the meantime enjoy this compilation!! Viva Portugal !

Funny fact: King John II rejected the Columbus proposal because his carthographes alerted him a gross error in Columbus estimation of the size of the Earth. And they were right. Spain discovered Americas because, different from Portugal, they had no idea what they were doing.

The Portuguese have my greatest respect --they are tough people! Worked with them /lived amongst them --powerful characters !

I was playing Starfield and the robot companion is called Vasco, when i asked him about his name he explained that the name was given to him in memory of Vasco Da Gama, a Portuguese explorer. Now i understand why modern historians compare what the Portuguese did to the space travels we do today. A voyage to the unknown!

I'm Moroccan and I always have immense respect to my Portugaise friends , we had wars in the past and now we are friends , how cool is that !

I am an history investigator from Portugal, in FCSH, Lisbon. I enjoy your videos, you glaze over many details (simply because you don't have access to secure documents in Torre do Tombo and these are not on the internet) so some context gets lost in the details. Even so to be honest is one of the most complete series on youtube in english about the portuguese empire. Keep up the research. Cheers from Portugal

What an amazing history, respect from Croatia 🇵🇹❤️🇭🇷

Portuguese people, be very proud. you had the first global maritime empire the world had ever seen, starting modern day globalization and forever changing the course of human history. incredibly brave men with huge balls , who never stopped pushing forward despite the never ending misery & death on those long expeditions into the unknown. don't listen to that outside noise, the detractors trying to take away or diminish what your people achieved because of jealousy and / or political correctness. there's always 2 versions of history, the winning side & losing side. i think somewhere in middle is the best way to approach it. never be ashamed, Portugal.... amazing culture and history..!!!

Todos os Impérios desmoronam e o nosso não foi excepção mas fomos sublimes sim, tenho muito orgulho de ser Portuguesa e ter nascido neste canto à beira mar, obrigada pelo vídeo, bem haja 🙌🏻

My origin is from India and precisely the location, wherein Vasco landed. I had the opportunity to visit the church wherein he was buried. His final his remains were transferred back to Portugal. Interesting bit of history. I would like to check on the more comprehensive elaboration of history regarding Vasco and his journey. As a passionate student of History, i found this piece of information interesting. Thank you

I have always been fascinated by the Portuguese navigators. They felt to me like madmen, obssessed with adventure, ambitious, fearless.

This video blew my mind at how the Portuguese accomplished what seemed to be the impossible.

You are the first to recognize that the Portuguese king wouldn't pay a king's ransom just to move the line if he didn't possibly know of Brazil. Especially because the ocean currents that we used to go around Africa passed just off the coast of Brazil. Thank you soo much, it's so hard to see Portuguese history withouth omissions

Still have my respect --you paved the way for ancient trading routes --fearless in your ships round Africa In Zambia --long ago --your people were the hardest workers I have ever seen -----I am retired -but never forget the great Portuguese !

Gimme more of those 15th,16th centuries of Portuguese history. Much appreciated.

Portuguese history is underrated here in Brazil. People here tend to overrate Italian immigrants, German immigrants, and others, but these ethnic groups are, in fact, all refugees in a country discovered, conquered, and maintained by musket, spear, and cannon by the Portuguese.

How such a small country became the first global Empire in history its a Feat that changed the world has we know today. Very Brave Man who voluteer to go to the unknow in "ships" that today nobody would even risk to cross a river...but their sheer wiil prevailed and pay big time for them and for Portugal.

I am traveling to Portugal next week as my first time ever in Europe. What a fascinating country!

Much love to the Portuguese from Panjim, Goa ❤

The Portuguese accomplished was mind blowing! They were the first truly global empire!

The Portuguese Age of Discoveries is the most trailblazing and finest example of a multi-year (actually, multi-century) strategic plan, executed to perfection. It should be a case-study in modern business and military schools

Great worriors, amazing people these portuguese. So few and yet so brave and victorious.

Thanks! Justice is beeing made to the Portuguese history! Cheers from Brazil!

Meu nome é Vitor Kennedy e tenho muito orgulho de meus ancestrais. Meus ancestrais são de Braga e construíram uma vida aqui no Brasil. Nossa família prosperou e cresceu e até hoje mantemos nossa herança viva. Portugal mostrou que tamanho não importa.

The age of exploration is absolutely fascinating. Hope you continue spoiling us with great documentaries like this one!

Grandioso povo um dia fomos , pequenos em números gigantes em coragem ⛵

The Portuguese are amazing people. Brave & humble people.

As a Portuguese man, I thank you

Detailed documentaries about Portuguese history are hard to come by; very greatly appreciated!

Portugal rules the waves!

An hour and a half long video about the Portuguese Empire??? Birthday and Christmas came early this year!!!

Amazing content for a country that deserves a lot more recognition as their contribution to Europe and world history was invaluable

An absolute shining gem of quality once again brother an hour no less! Portuguese involvement around the globe was truly impressive & radical for the time period.

The portuguese conquest makes me so proud of my Iberian descent 🫡🇪🇸✝️

É dar uma Comenda a este cavalheiro, tá tudo dito. Mais vídeos, por favor! Viva Portugal!

Interesting and informative. Forgot about Portugal having a navy. A wonderful refresher course to enjoy. Vasco de Gama is in my book as the top 10 captains of all time!!!⚓⚓⛵⛵

I’m now inspired to do a Portugal campaign in EU4.

These videos are getting amazing. I don't know how far this series goes, but I would like to see the battles that the Portuguese will fight in Brazil to expel the French from the coast of Rio de Janeiro and the Dutch and English from the mouth of the Amazon River, practically unknown stories

One of the best history videos I have ever watched - fantastic.

Amazing Portuguese age of discovery is the best series on your channel & YT

Impressive how a small country had an empire that endured for centuries… but no one know about it.

Amazing Video, looking foward to the Cabral episode! :D

God bless Portugal 🇵🇹

What a nice surprise to see a relatively deep dive into the making of the Portuguese Empire in English. As descendant of Afonso de Albuquerque the Portuguese Viceroy who basically really re-enforced and consolidated Portuguese presence in India I am eager to see the next episode!

Gimme more of those 15th,16th centuries of Portuguese history. Much appreciated.. Astounding quality and tremendously entertaining. Thanks so much for this content..

Stirring! Informing! Compelling! INSPIRED! What History *IS* and should always convey: *GLORY* !! *ADVENTURE* !!!

I can only imagine what it must have been like for the Portuguese of that time to stand on a beach or cliff at the most western part of continental Europe. Looking out over the never ending vastness of the Atlantic ocean and wonder ‘ what’s out there’.

when it came to the age of exploration, i remember my high school history teacher started out the class session by saying "yeah, the Portuguese were good sailors" and then preceded to the Santa Maria and Columbus. that was it? the men who spearheaded the age of discovery and innovated almost every major technological advancement in maritime exploration and naval warfare the near 100 years before Columbus got Spain in the game , was reduced to a 6 word sentence. ?

5* excelente i am portuguese and proud of the achivements of portugal, and for that matter europe, true that we were not, saints, but that was the law of the time

I put this video on thinking it would be very boring and help me sleep at 3am. 1 hour later I had to turn it off, way too entertaining. I'm hooked!

I enjoyed the presentation. A pity the video did not elaborate on the crusades of Dom Afonso V during the 1460s & 1470s, the detailed Pastrana Tapestries would've looked beautiful in the video. I'm hoping the next video/s focuses on the battles of Duarte Pacheco Pereira, the ones of Dom Lourenço de Almeida, his father Dom Francisco and, of course, the terrifying Afonso de Albuquerque. Considering you're using a great book reference, of which I was very happy to see quoted so frequently, Roger Crowley's 'Conquerors' (2015), I'm counting on the knightly bits to not be disregarded within the next chapter, when the fun truly begins. I'm also hoping that the gory bits - of which Crowley doesn't shy away from referencing - to be described in the next presentation/s, as well as the awesome full plate armors, the giant swords (montante/s) and the crazy berserk melee fighting style of the Fidalgos.

I'm loving this videos on the exploration, just wanted to share that when the Portuguese explorers were going down the African coast they entered every river they could and sailed until they couldn't physically take the ships any further because they thought that some river could go all the way through africa to the east and in turn India/Prester John. So i think in the 19 century a dutch exploration mission came upon a undiscovered padrão from the 15 century, what a funny thing to happen.

I've recently moved to Portugal, thank you very much for creating this rich documentary, it's a great way to learn the history of this nation.

Thank you so much for this video. I'm very proud of my History, and this video made me even prouder. A lot of people don't know our past, but we used to be the most powerful country in the world and the blood that flowed through the veins of these courageous men still flows through ours! PORTUGAL SEMPRE!

As a Portuguese person I love everything. So much more light was added to what I learned in school. Thank you to the Chanel 😊

It's too bad that there isn't much detailed literature about the journeys of Pero da Covilha. I'm sure his adventures were fascinating.

This was a really good and fun way to depict the portuguese age of discoveries. As someone who used to play Europa Universalis a lot, all editions of the game, the presentation was lots of fun. I often played as my country Portugal in an attempt to also do the discoveries and try to outdo the real history.

Many thanks and gratitude for this history lesson... Greetings from Bucarest ROMANIA 🍀☀️👏😊

From Goa we love Portuguese and Portugal

This channel rocks! Keep up the good work!!!=D Portugal should award you a prize for your work. Thank you so much!

I learned more details about my country’s history in this channel than in any of my years in school.. I see why the teachers don’t give all these details.. some are too much for any children to comprehend and some to heavy.. we were no saints trashing and burning a lot along the way, but still I can’t feel nothing except pride for being a descendent of this mighty and brave small country.. thank you sir for making me feel this again. Much love ❤️

I am a Brazilian of italian heritage but I am proud to have some portuguese inheritage/connection by being brazilian. The age of exploration, discoveries, mapping of the world and culture exchange is too fascinating. Thanks for another awsome episode.

The portuguese discovery-invention of the african route to India, an effort that lasted 1 century is the most admirable feat of the collective human spirit.

Astonishing quality work and detail! As epic if not more, than Hannibal Barca's crossing of the Alps towards Rome, which he also used Iberian mercenaries. Portugal was forgotten by the movies industry, managed by the anglo saxons. At last, the past has brought to life. Much appreciated, good sir, these quality presentations will surely be your favourable winds.

I just wanted to drop a line to thank you for these great series. I am finding the Portuguese Empire videos really informative and entertaining. I binge watched Part 1 and 2 twice. Great work. I also learned quite a bit from the Reconquista long form video. Amazing a trip to Mexico brought all of this out.

In 1956, I was born on the island of Sao Miguel, Azores - grew up hearing lots of Sea faring tales, but watching this excellent presentation filled in a lot of historical gabs for me. In 1960, we migrated to Canada, yrs later I met People from Newfoundland & PEI who spoke a few Portuguese words & cooked similar Fish dishes too. My Dad claims that by Nautical miles, we are closer to Canada's eastern shore than Portugal itself. ~ I'm so eager to watch Part 2 now 😍

Fico muito triste vendo brasileiros e portugueses se enfrentarem com questões idiotas, somos a mesma nação e não adianta dizer que não... Alguns portugueses são racistas, e alguns brasileiros compram ideias inglesas e tentam se afastar do nosso legado... Viva Portugal, viva o Brasil, viva nosso sangue e nossa raça 🇧🇷🇵🇹

I'm not even Portuguese but I'm watching this and I'm almost crying... This is just such a pure greatness... Imagine what these people have felt going into the unknown, while living in the world of such widespread religiosity and superstition! They were literally going into space without even having telescope to look what's in it! Then all the risks getting paid off! They really deserved it... Great people. And this decision of building a school and bringing in the cartographers and navigators, etc before all that... Whoever ideas these were, you cannot overstate how great these people were... These are the people who laid the foundation for a global world that we are living in right now, where you can get anything, let alone some spices, from anywhere in the world. We should all recognize that and put aside all this bullshit presentism, ie stop applying modern standards to something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago. There is no place for presentism when researching history. Times are changing and these people lived in a completely different world in which slavery was still normal in most of the world and in particular North African countries including Morocco were even raiding for slaves. Most slaves the Portuguese bought were sold to them by native African tribal chiefs. So even when applying modern standards, just keep that in mind. It's not much different from you buying resources or cheap products from dictators all over the world, including Russia and China. EU liquid gas imports from Russia have increased by 40% since 2022, but at least the prices aren't that high anymore, right? So, before calling out some historical person from hundreds or thousands of years ago for being evil because they wanted people half a world away to be their slaves instead of their own population you should think about what is going on right now in this world.

Incredible this country! The History is incredible...

The slave trade did not start with Portugal. They might have been the first European power to engage in it since the Christianization of northern Europe (Scandinavian pirates, aka vikings, took many slaves and Irish pagans took a few [including St. Patrick], but for geographic reasons these slaves were pretty much all European, so perhaps the Portugeuse trade did racialize slavery and thus made it more caste-like [harder to buy one's way out, or to escape when an enemy of the slaveholder attacked your master]. The Africans themselves (almost always enemy tribes, collecting a form of "war booty") captured the slaves, then used some of them themselves but sold many to foreign merchants (initially Arabs and tribes they had converted to Islam, but eventually also the Portugeuse and other Europeans who encountered the public slave markets run by Africans). Islam seems to have been the driving force in internationalizing and expanding the slave trade, and even during the worst of the transatlantic trade, the Muslim slave trade was more extensive. Fewer descendents resulted, of course, since the Arabs and most other Muslim powers castrated their male slaves. Please don't perpetuate false history.

Excellent documentary. Congratulations! For a long time i've been looking for quality documentaries about the Portuguese Empire. Just out of curiosity, I find it strange that Hollywood has never produced films about Portugal's importance in Globalisation, specifically through some of its navigators, such as Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias. You should try to speak about the them in Africa. They were the first europeans to arrive in many african countries.

Love compilations! Thanks for this!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

Thank you. Your documentaries are the best.

Thanks. Love, from Portugal

viva portugal 🎉🎉

Bom trabalho sobre os descobrimentos, melhor só estando legendado. Portugal é um exemplo e uma inspiração. Thanks! PT

Brilliant work Amigo... To accomplish what this small Nation did ( 1 million population ) at home & around the world making Portugal the longest lasting ( over 600 years ) & 1st Global Empire & 1st Global Navel Super Power ( 1st to have canons on their ships helped ) , opening sea routes to far away lands in unknown & unchartered waters is nothing less than amazing & remarkable to say the least, Portugal today would be the greatest (in all aspects of the word) country-culture the world had ever seen if not for Portugals small population back then , the Spanish pope during that Atlantic North to South rip off line I like to call it & the Vatican hatred against Portugal for harboring & integrating with the Knights Templars ( eventually named The Order of Christ Templars ) , Portugal being a haven for Jews also dis pleased the Vatican so that didn't help , these reasons alone were enough for the invasion of Portugal by France 3 times & Spain 2 times all partly financed by the Vatican, if not for the Alliance with England ( the longest such alliance in history between 2 Nations till today ) Portugal may have not survived , England also befitted greatly from the Portuguese & Portugal in the form of Knowledge & many material riches , maps to the location of Australia & New Zealand & many other lands & islands ) why else would England make enemies of France & other Nations & the Vatican for aiding Portugal. The most powerful tool is KNOWLEDGE & for a long time the Portuguese along with the Order of Christ Templars had it in spades... but nothing produced by Hollywood why not? , there has been so much of other countries-cultures & mostly exaggerated I might add on the big & small screens> so who controls Hollywood & is responsible for this injustice ? well a certain culture from a certain country with a smaller country in it control mostly 85% of production of all movies, series & T.V. shows, & many T.V. commercials.. its clear who I speak of.,. so Portugal is excluded for reasons stated above , very little you see or hear about Portugal-Portuguese from Hollywood productions , almost nothing & because Hollywood might be the biggest most powerful brain washing institution on the planet that sucks for a certain great country that many other countries-cultures benefited so much from , some of them even becoming Powerful Empires because of it (England early on, America later on to name 2 ) . Portugal has been disrespected on purpose even some of its great explorers-navigators & Portuguese achievements have been stolen by other countries-cultures. Portugal disserves much respect & a big thank you instead, if you ask me... Buddy this upload was a mother load , loved every second, if I ever meet you in person hopefully in Portugal some where, we are going to drink like Kings... hahaha oh yeah :)))).. CHEERS Amigo & Obrigado :)

Wow! Vasco de Gama was kind of a menace!

በጣም አሰገሬሚ ታሪክ ነውና ወደፊት በአማርኛ ቃንቃ አቀርበዋለሁ ። ባርኔጣዬን አነሳለሁ።

There were Christians in the Malabar coast, They were known as Nasrani Christians or Saint Thomas Christians and they had a kingdom named Villarvattom and their power was declined on hearing that Vasco Da Gama and this crew are Christians the Villarvattom sent their sceptor and crown to the Portuguese crew in order to protect them and as a gift to Portugese King they sent a silver cross , This marks the beginning of Roman church in India and convertion of saint thomas Christians to Roman catholic.

Finally a video that covers this in detail. This channel is awesome, cant wait for next video

Very well put together 👍 last I remember studying our modern/pre-modern history was in primary school and besides being a pretty nice re-introduction for me, I was surprised to learn a lot of things I hadn't learned back then. Although I can't blame native english speakers for struggling with portuguese pronunciation, as a foreign language student I still think it's a bit of a shame a bit more effort wasn't put into that aspect of this video though. Also double thumbs up for not shying away from talking about the more negative parts and consequences of our history

A documentary about the founding of the Dutch Empire and what they achieved including a few videos about the Portuguease-Dutch War that lasted 60 years would be an excellent story to tell too because both stories are also overlooked.

fascinating absolutely fascinating

Astounding quality and tremendously entertaining. Thanks so much for this content.

As someone with Portuguese ancestry, this was an absolutely amazing documentary to watch. Keep up the great work

Wonderful video and extremelly well narrated. I am going to wacth the next sequences of these extraordinary descoveries from my glorious ancesters- Thank you so much for this imperdível (never to be lost) video and the ones to come.

The first global empire.

What a wonderful, fascinating, astonishing production you've made! Congratulations, and thank you!

Wooooe amazong!! I wonder why dont they make movies about this, it has so much cultural and etnic divercity, it has drama, action it is amazing

Loved it. Can't wait for more in this series.

Amazing! Looking forward to the next part.

This is the most enjoyable, informative and engaging history channel I've had the please of watching. And addicting. Thank you for sharing!!!!

thank you for this! i highly enjoy this type of content and look to absorb it from every channel i find

As always, it has astonishing content with excellent narration. Your channel is one of my favorites!

Absolutely brilliant

This was fantastic. Thank you again

Thank you for all this work!! It’s amazing 👏👏👏

What a fascinating production - thank you!

Thank you for putting this all together.