Forging an Empire - The Portuguese Empire - Part 1 Exploration

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.

From Goa we love Portuguese and Portugal

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

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 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 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 🙌🏻

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 !

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.

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

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