Klein Venedig: The German Colonization of the Americas

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Perhaps one of the least well known European ventures in the Americas was the German Colonization of the New World and the Colony of Klein Venedig. Though the country of Germany didn’t exist until 1870, Germans from the many principalities of the Holy Roman Empire were just as interested as anyone in striking it rich by conquering a wealthy new world empire like the Aztec or Inca. Some were even driven by the desire to find that mythical city of gold, El Dorado.
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@javierarreaza5601 Год назад

As a citizen of Venezuela, I would like to thank you for this interesting piece on a little known period of our history. We learn about the Welsers when we study early colonial history, but never in much detail. Your account of events is fascinating. Saludos.

@marvwatkins7029 Год назад

Best emigrate for a while.

@lowellmccormick6991 Год назад

John Law's Company of the Indies settled Germans along a bayou south of New Orleans in 1719 or so. The area is known locally as the German Coast. The bayou is Bayou Des Allemands and the community of about 2,000 is Des Allemands, which translates to "of Germans".

@Andrewm714 Год назад

I've been there - only place in all of Louisiana where I could find decent sauerkraut. Which was served with not kielbasa but alligator sausage.

@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music Год назад

How much German culture is still there?

@lynnfisher3037 Год назад

Don't know but if you're looking for descendents of the Nazis you will apparently find thousands in Argentina

@alex.m901 Год назад

@The History Guy: Thanks for another fascinating snippet of history. As an American who lived in Germany for 35 years, I noticed that you omitted the second "e" in "Venedig", pronouncing it "Vendig." In German, there are practically no silent letters. The correct pronunciation would be "VeNAYdig" with an emphasis on the second "e".

@germansnowman Год назад

Came here to write the same, thanks!

@ande100 Год назад

Ditto

@jeplica7011 Год назад

No diggity, no doubt 🎉

@rogerhorky7258 11 месяцев назад

Listen to/watch his other videos. You will discover that The History Guy has no idea to pronounce place names and personal names from non-English languages. If only there were a book or a website to which he could refer....

@robertoazuaje9279 Год назад

Venezuelan here, thanks for featuring this story here. I study History at university and had to read Federmann's book about his expedition for a course on Venezuelan Historiography a few years back

@LightLivingEst80 Год назад

Which university and do they push antiwhiteism on students?

@JohnWilmerding Год назад

Among European-descended people in the United States, more trace their ancestry to Germans than to any other nationality. Having fought two huge wars against Germans, though, it became quite unfashionable to admit one's German ancestry. My own family name and my ancestors were prominent in the Saxon city of Braunschweig, for example, yet my parents and grandparents tried to coax me away from knowing my ancestry, so they told me we were Dutch or emphasized other ancestors such as English, etc.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

I am in no way embarrassed of my German heritage. My Grandfather was a good man who worked hard and never meant anyone any harm. Our family back in Bavaria were farmers and shop keepers.

@7thstspeakez280 Год назад

Dutch= Deuscth/German.

@RondelayAOK Год назад

My grandparents' family had an anti-German racist incident against them during WW2.

@martinbeckmann9376 Год назад

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel so why did the word ‘embarrass’ even come to mind? Who instilled doubt about Germanic ethnicity and honour? And for what purposes? Has it got anything to do with Rome’s controller’s frustration of Germanic resistance to their plans? Arminius, Luther, 1066, Bismarck, stab in the back and it’s resultant reaction?………….

@davidpowell3347 Год назад

I understand that before WW I the flow of information from Europe to USA was largely controlled by Britain (they controlled the Trans Atlantic communication cables) and had designs against Germany well before the World War began -- also was the sinking of the Lusitania sort of set up? we are taught in our history lessons about the wicked blockade of Britain by Germany but didn't Britain blockade Germany first? Including stopping the arrival of foodstuffs? @@martinbeckmann9376

@skyserf Год назад

I often worry about German sausages. Basically I fear the wurst.

@petebach7221 Год назад

Boooooo

@luciennerizk4549 Год назад

narf

@tygrkhat4087 Год назад

Ironically, the best German sausages are the wurst.

@goodun2974 Год назад

In that case, you probably wouldn't like the German TV show that ran on PBS, "The Master Butcher", about German immigrants to the American West. 😉 (my wife and I thought it was excellent).

@maryrichardson6029 Год назад

We are Germans from Russia. Thé old ones came with Catheine

@apexron8430 Год назад

The surname mention many times is Welser. The correct English pronunciation is wel-ser while the correct pronunciation is vel-ser

@thedoofguy5707 Год назад

Great video as always, entertaining, interesting, and educational. Thank you! However, as native German speaker, I wanted to point out that Venedig is pronounced similar to Venezuela, with "zuela" replaced by "dig", and with emphasis on the second syllabe. Ve-NE-dig. As a general rule, there are no silent vowels in German. I think there's the rare exception or three, but I can't think of one off the top of my head.

@willryan8694 Год назад

I'm not German but live in Germany and his pronunciation of venedig really jarred my ears

@paulslaughter2366 Год назад

Also important to note that Venedig is German for Venice.

@Elora445 Год назад

@@paulslaughter2366 It is? Guess that's where our word for it came from, then (Swedes also call Venice Venedig).

@juancarlostelleztellez5731 Год назад

Venezuela, new Venice, name applied by Spanish and German explorers, conquerors and settlers of that part of the Spanish and Habsburg catholic universal empire that at that times controlled many areas of Europe, Asia , Pacific Ocean and America and Caribbean Sea, because the natives Americans tribes and indigenous communities of Venezuela coastal, rivers, lakes areas lived in "palafitos" or houses built over water spaces, they were communities of indigenous fishermen and hunters gatherers and agricultural, small farmers but principally fishermen on sea and rivers, the Spaniards used like the German those indigenous in extensively mineral activities and in the economy of pearls, they exhausted and destroyed those Arawaks and Caribbean indigenous cultures, Venezuela is a rich, very rich mineral country, with big presence of gold, diamonds and silver, and it was very important to economy of Spanish empire by its cattle, cacao, sugar cane, rice and coffee and other big agricultural production in 16, 17, 18 centuries...

@Traderjoe Год назад

This type of conquest occurred all over Europe too, as the Roman’s seized areas. Countless people and cultures were destroyed. But like everything, you can’t change yesterday. Just learn lessons and move on.

@palehorseman8386 Год назад

There's never a shortage of bad people doing bad things

@koryhawkins1499 Год назад

Do people actually learn lessons? Do governing bodies learn lessons? "

@palehorseman8386 Год назад

@koryhawkins1499 Sure they do. That's why they're going to use the internet to help push their authoritarian agendas this time around. Last time they only had radio

@davidlogansr8007 Год назад

I don’t think I had ever heard of the Germanic connection to exploration of South America! It’s an absolute wonder that the various people you told of, even survived the sea voyage! Great story but I didn’t catch mention of any pirates, though the risk was there on the perilous sea voyage!

@terracottaneemtree6697 Год назад

I agree, yet consider what master engineers the Germans are. Their boats must have been exceptionally strong.

@robertneal4244 Год назад

I find it interesting that the New World was mostly explored and colonized before Africa was. The European powers knew about Africa long before and established many small outposts on the coasts for trading purposes, but getting to the interior took much longer.

@chadparsons50 Год назад

Thomas Sowell has some great insight as to why this was the case. His written books, but there are RU-vid channels showing his arguments.

@codysaquariums6580 Год назад

Diseases are a big reason Africa was ignored for awhile when America was discovered. Go to Africa and die of west Nile or go to America where the Indians were dying of disease that the Europeans brought

@stacymcmahon453 Год назад

The short explanation is that Africa was in contact with the rest of Eurasia since before recorded history, and its people therefore had about the same resistance to the diseases the colonizers brought with them. They may have been fighting with spears against guns, but they were there to do the fighting. Not so the peoples of the Americas, who experienced near-extinction from European illnesses, with the shell-shocked survivors being mostly taken into slavery or escaping to the deep interior where the environment was as hostile to them as to any European explorer.

@liamevans7661 Год назад

@@stacymcmahon453Yeah 95% of the entire population died from disease alone. 😢

@salernolake Год назад

The barriers to European settlement were two-fold: the Sahara Desert, and the Trade Winds. The Sahara is an obvious barrier. The Trade Winds blew from the southeast and blocked ships from progressing past Senegal, where the coast swung from southwest to southeast. The sail technology prior to the 1400s did not permit ships to tack against an adverse wind. The 1400's saw the introduction of three-masted ships, propelled by square and lateen rigging, with steering by pintle-and-gudgeon rudders. The Portuguese took advantage of this to explore down the coast of Africa to the Cape, and to reach India by 1498.

@scotttyson607 Год назад

Could you do a video on the Swiss colonization of eastern North Carolina and the founding of New Bern?

@LMHPhilly Год назад

Germantown (Pennsylvania) is an area in Upper Northwest, Philadelphia, United States. Founded by Palatine, Quaker, and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed into Philadelphia in 1854. From Wikipedia.

@Blaqjaqshellaq Год назад

A lot of Germans came to colonial Pennsylvania and formed the Pennsylvania Dutch community ("Dutch" being a corruption of Deutsch here). And during the Revolutionary War some Hessians deserted and settled.

@LightLivingEst80 Год назад

Wikipedia is not a good source absolutely anyone can write what they want and edit Wikipedia

@eatiegourmet1015 10 месяцев назад

@@Blaqjaqshellaq The "Pennsylvania Dutch" -- you're correct about the Deutsch connotation -- are mainly a religious order, the Amish, which originated in the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland.

@cynthiabeckenbaugh5189 4 месяца назад

Some of my ancestors , lived in German Town.

@shantanusapru Год назад

Very interesting! Certainly history that deserves to be remembered!

@jessicamoores6138 Год назад

Enlightening as Always. Thank You💕

@WoogietheWoogie Год назад

A very INTERESTING video. You only hear about the English, French, Spanish & Portuguese Colonization. I never knew about German involvement. Five Stars!!!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@DRFelGood Год назад

Fascinating nugget of history! Thank you THG !

@sw8741 Год назад

It fascinates me that Spain started taking wealth from the New World so quickly. The New World discovered in 1492 but by the 1520's they were taking everything. 25 years or so.

@lynnfisher3037 Год назад

And you're surprized by human greed?

@sw8741 Год назад

@@lynnfisher3037 No not really. No difference what Spain did than say Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Romans, Chinese, Hindu in the ancient world. It was always the way to gain wealth for a Nation State, conquer your enemies, take their wealth, people as slaves and ensure those left pay tribute.

@DannySwanson-z7h Год назад

Incredible research! Thank you so much for this. Interesting. My wife’s German ancestors settled in South Carolina in the 1700’s..

@dugroz Год назад

My German ancestors came to America and settled in Iowa in the 1850's or 60's. 🙂

@Sam-mu5xh Год назад

Some of mine as well. Hence mustard based bbq...🙂

@senorbe Год назад

Well this certainly seems like an inspiration for Aguirre: Wrath of God, an excellent German movie

@Davigaming049 Год назад

An interesting reminder that the Habsburg family ruled both Germans and Spaniards.

@7thstspeakez280 Год назад

Do tell. That was the glue that binded them.

@dennisud Год назад

I had NO IDEA The Germans were in South America. But now I do and I'm sending this to my fellow History educators!

@davidsquall351 Год назад

Mexican music is basically German polka

@derbywinner6316 Год назад

In Brazil is a city call Nuovo Hambugo,

@eatiegourmet1015 10 месяцев назад

How long have you been teaching?

@gabrielriera9369 5 месяцев назад

@@derbywinner6316 Basically the whole south of Brazil is mostly German. I'm a Venezuelan, from one of the cities that would have been part of Klein-Venedig if it still existed, living in southern Brazil in a mostly Polish/Ukranian/German city.

@gypsyoutlaw2954 Год назад

Always thankful for your work! We spoke once, I posted a short about it! Thank you again 😊

@pitsnipe5559 Год назад

Interesting. My wife’s German ancestors settled in South Carolina in the 1700’s.

@tgmccoy1556 Год назад

So did my wife's.

@pitsnipe5559 Год назад

@@tgmccoy1556 UhOh! 😵‍💫 😊

@tgmccoy1556 Год назад

@@pitsnipe5559 the family was Brandenburg , and Linder.

@frankgulla2335 11 месяцев назад

Dear THG, you do find the most interesting and unreported pieces of history. Thank you, THG, and please keep up the great work.

@mkultrad4207 Год назад

Incredible research! Thank you so much for this

@SenorTucano Год назад

I have just visited the German colonies of Oxapampa and Pozuzu in the Peruvian Andes. Very surprised to find German colonies there!

@juancarlostelleztellez5731 Год назад

Millions of German migrated to America or the Americas in 19 and 20 centuries and even before that, hundreds, thousands of German cultural and ancestry people migrated to the Spanish and Portuguese empires in 16, 17, 18 centuries, thousands and thousands of them migrated to the British, Dutch, French colonies in the Americas and Caribbean Sea in those centuries before the industrial era ...

@tadroid3858 Год назад

One more chapter of a very complex history of which I had no clue. Thanks!!

@harrypeacefulwarrior Год назад

Thank you for another masterful presentation, bravo! I'm the old "Cananadian" who commented a number of years ago. I'd join Patreon were I financially more secure. I rejoice in your successes, sir! The cruelty you yet again describe, the depths of greed, violence, rape and destruction, despite my age, (71 Winters), and life long obsession with history, leaves me dumb, again. I am so biased against the "Conquistador/Inquisition" culture, that the reenactors you briefly included of those vicious butchers makes me wonder whether there are also guys who re-enact nazi death camp guards, their "Spiritual Einsatzgruppen Brotherhood". I guess the main point of this comment may be that History Enlightens, while the Past sucked- we being fortunate enough to be born, in N America in the 2nd half of the 20th century, and have had it better than everybody who came before us. A bunch had fun. A few were amazing! for 85% of us here on Earth today- it's pretty grim. i'm lucky. I dream of a World where everybody's lucky. i wish you and yours luck, and continued triumphs. Thanks again. PS What dark, comedic ideas bubble away considering the vast untapped well of maniacs', war criminals', mass murderers' reenactors gone wrong...

@mfhberg Год назад

Thank you, I didn't learn anything of South American history except Incas and also Simon Bolivar.

@BasicDrumming Год назад

I appreciate you and thank you for making content.

@gracemember101 Год назад

The Bible says "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil." This is another example.

@JeremiahsFiles Год назад

My dad’s great grandfather was born in Dortmund, in the German state of Hesse. When he came to the US from Hesse, the German states weren’t united yet.

@dorisw5558 Год назад

Dortmund is in Westfalia, not Hesse. It also never was in Hesse. Maybe you mean Darmstadt.

@leoscheibelhut940 Год назад

How is this NOT a movie?

@davidgibson5756 Год назад

Werner Hertzog’s Aguirre, wrath of god is an amazing movie.

@JTA1961 Год назад

Cuz Disney already has rights to mickey mouse operations...

@russwoodward8251 Год назад

Thanks.

@capnstewy55 Год назад

When the conquistadors say you're brutal you know you went a little too far.

@kkupsky6321 Год назад

Don’t forget New Sweden. I’m surrounded by towns they named… Deutsch right next door

@Koorbllaf Год назад

You could do a follow-up piece about the German "colonies" in southern Brazil during the 1800s.

@prettypic444 6 месяцев назад

God, there's just something about the image of a group of enslaved people roped together by the neck with empty loops where people were murdered. It's literally one of the most repulsive things I can think of.

@janhammer4852 Год назад

Thanks!

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

Thank you!

@ronriesinger7755 Год назад

German conquest of North America was more successful and more passive; farmers, bakers, etc.

@mikem3695 Год назад

Not to mention brewers.

@goodun2974 Год назад

PBS ran just one season of a really good German show called "The Master Butcher", about German immigrants to the western US in the 1800's. Trigger warning: pigs were indeed harmed in the course of the show!

@waterenglish9501 Год назад

Can you do a history report on confederate that fled to brazil after the south lost?

@DeconvertedMan Год назад

CITY OF GOLD!!!

@LEEEEMO 11 месяцев назад

Honestly, the mass German migration into the US cities between 1840 and 1925 represents a colonization effort. They didn't call certain cities in the US (e.g., St Louis) part of the Deutschtum for nothing.

@toddpearson2823 Год назад

Excellent!

@7thstspeakez280 Год назад

Fun fact: Dominican merengue music includes the accordion 🪗 instrument because of the German influence from influx of "Alemanians".

@michaelschulsinger529 Год назад

I've never heard anything about this, and I lived in Augsburg for two years!

@SiebenbuergerSxn 7 месяцев назад

An interesting second chapter of the German attempt at colonization of the new world is the story of German settlements in Texas in the 19th Century.

@dannystaton5386 Год назад

Greetings from South Carolina 🎉

@paulslaughter2366 Год назад

Klein Venedig, translated into English, means "Little Venice."

@gabrielriera9369 5 месяцев назад

Yes, that's exactly what Venezuela means. "Little Venice".

@yoinkhaha Год назад

Awesome episode

@kkupsky6321 Год назад

That’s sad. Couldn’t get thru one episode about Germans with out mentioning pencil mustache. 🤦‍♀️ the failed Austrian artist corporal

@franksmedley7372 Год назад

Hello History Guy. I note that you totally 'missed out' on the quiet colonization of the United States. Both pre and post Civil War, Germans were expanding and settling all across the west into newly opened lands, and even into lands where only Indian tribes held sway. It is often forgotten that many, many of the towns and cities of the 'American West' were founded, or mostly populated, by German Immigrants. Many of the larger cities in America had areas known as 'little German town', or 'The German quarter'. Some even have them to this very day, like Chicago's German Town area... which is now just a small part of the greater City of Chicago and its suburbs, and with few of citizens of Chicago, really knowing where the boundaries of German town are.

@debbybridge7064 4 месяца назад

I knew nothing of this part of Venezuela history. Very interesting. They had a more successful time in setting up German settlements in Texas in the 1800's.

@Angry_Dinosaur Год назад

What is the history of gold? It seems to be a common theme amongst all cultures that used metal.

@jeffbangkok Год назад

Traveling back to the mango farm I missed this one at posting. Like the pizza we brought it was just as good the next day. Good night

@charlesrabideau3474 Год назад

Sehr gut

@karenblohm3279 11 месяцев назад

It never occurred to me that Germany was much bigger than what we see today. Learning about the Germanic language influence made me curious.

@ourv9603 Год назад

Yes. First they colonized Milwaukee. Then Detroit. !

@paramounttechnicalconsulti5219 Год назад

Also, Chuckie got out of his debt!

@MightyMezzo Год назад

Jeepers. I watched this expecting the story of John Pastorius leading his followers to what is now the Germantown section of Philadelphia. And yes, the Third Reich sprang to mind when I heard of the brutal treatment meted out to the indigenous peoples of the area. Not a pretty story, but it needs to be remembered.

@kennethgarland4712 Год назад

It's curious, when I think about it, that throughout recorded history the seems to have been an obsession with gold and, to a lesser extent, silver, two minerals that until modern times had nearly no practical value whatsoever, except decorative. So Europeans became obsessed with the legend of Eldorado. Of course, this turned out to just that - a legend. Yet from the 19th century onwards, as the Industrial Revolution took hold, there was true wealth (in European terms) in South America. Think of the rubber barons of Brazil, or the guano nitrates (and later copper) of the Atacama desert, even the rich pastures of Argentina - wealth from findings of practical use in Europe that even sparked s Latin American naval race.

@adizmal Год назад

"Practical" value isn't really the point. Gold doesn't decay, doesn't corrode, doesn't erode... cannot be created out of other natural commodities, is inherently rare, and is difficult to acquire. Therefore it is a logical placeholder for "value" in a universal context.

@debbralehrman5957 Год назад

Don't they use it in Semiconductors?

@francislarv3012 Год назад

Once a Hun always a Hun. Such needless, wanton slaughter and destruction 😢

@rabbi120348 Год назад

Zuckerberg apparently heard rumors of Meta as well. Thought he'd find a lot of gold.

@LMHPhilly Год назад

Ha!

@paulcunningham2859 Год назад

Nice

@DouglasJenkins Год назад

In Pittsburgh, they still call a rubber band a gumband, directly from the German Gummiband. Of course, the 40's slang word for detective, gumshoe, for their penchant to wear rubber shoe covers, comes from Gummischuh.

@ronfroehlich4697 Год назад

That's awesome. I live in the north side of Pittsburgh, about two miles from where my German ancestors settled when they got to America. People definitely say "gumband" instead of rubber band, here.

@slowpokerodriguez3993 Год назад

Note to self: Avoid expeditions led by a guy named "Fetterman"...

@russell2910 11 месяцев назад

Gay named fetterman. Loll😅. He probably had a head transplant to prepare for his adventure.

@marvwatkins7029 Год назад

Who knew? THC that's who!

@theREALdingusMD Год назад

Love your insight! Thank you.

@HM_9244 4 дня назад

Tome pires once said “Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice.” English texts from the 16th century In my opinion Venice is klein venedig a.k.a little Venice

@alexiaicenhower8314 Год назад

Oh, Project paperclip?!

@jameswoodbury2806 Год назад

Thank you again for this excellent and informative video. I was unfamiliar with this period of history. Z

@jameswoodbury2806 Год назад

That the expeditions suffered 50% to 100% casualties speaks to the effect of greed on the men.

@jackmason5278 Год назад

Kinda curious. I always thought that "casualties" included dead AND INJURED. Am I wrong, or did your writer screw-up? There was a battle in which the Europeans suffered "no casualties, but several serious injuries".

@joshgeiger9090 Год назад

That was how it was directly written I. The source, although in general you are correct. I think m it might have referred to the man still being able to fight though injured.

@carywest9256 Год назад

I had always read and heard that Squareheads didn't believe in slavery.

@davidsquall351 Год назад

what is a squarehead?

@morongosteve Год назад

salute

@Syl-Vee Год назад

I believe it is pronounced "Klein Ven-nay-dig". Thanks for this informative video.

@cristianromero1047 4 месяца назад

Germans was living in Venezuela and Colombia looking for "Dorado"

@dorisw5558 Год назад

Ve-ne-dig, three syllables. No silent letters in German.

@miketackabery7521 Год назад

OMG this is hilarious. Fiction could never be so outlandish.

@robertnagel337 Год назад

I think it is better pronounced “Klein Ve-ne-dig” three sylabbles.

@mjungowski Год назад

I realize that it’s too late now but your pronunciation of Klein-Venedig is off, unfortunately. It’s pronounced like you would Venezuela but with -dig instead on -zuela and emphasis on the second syllable (-ne). To this day, Venedig is the German name for the Italian city of Venezia, better known as Venice in English.

@toldyouso5588 9 месяцев назад

They did colonize Antartica, the 3td Riech colony of Neuswabenland, that too deserves to be history.

@denysejohnson3352 3 месяца назад

Now I understand better why many of the "rat line" went to South America

@hannesssss Год назад

its klein VE-NE-DIG not VEN-DIG

@stacymcmahon453 Год назад

Which means "Little Venice" in German. Too lazy to find it on a map to confirm, but I bet that sheds some light on the mosquito problems there. What about a place would cause you to name it after a city where the streets are water?

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

@@stacymcmahon453 the name predates the Germans- Venezuela means “Little Venice.” Although the name might have derived from an indigenous peoples name, the most common explanation is that the houses built on stilts on lake Maracaibo reminded Italian explorers of Venice.

@kindnessmatters5215 Год назад

Thank you. As a fellow German speaker, that drove me nuts.

@hannesssss Год назад

@@kindnessmatters5215 me too. in my opinion, better speak the names in your mothertongue, than in a language you do not speak fluently

@herrunsinn774 Год назад

15:55 Does anyone know the name of the cool "theme music" that Mr. Geiger often plays at the end of (many of) his videos? Who actually plays this nice guitar piece?

@wilfredvanvalkenburgh2874 Год назад

Highway Wildflowers by Bird Creek

@fatboyrowing Год назад

Feeding the algorithm…

@steveshoemaker6347 Год назад

🇺🇸....Thank THG🎀 👍

@Carnosaurrr Год назад

7:49 his methods had become... unsound.

@johnpritchard5410 Год назад

Germans haven't changed....

@who034 Год назад

Amazing. How brutal. I always wonder about why such brutality. Is that a psychological tool?

@ashergoney Год назад

Ship Wasn't At Stage 1 Still Power The Rocket Engines To .. Mountain Goats Pastures Ships Roll, That's Tea or Rice and So Tobacco. However Being Stuck In The Dark Ages Is The Past Times So Far.. Then Suddenly Spanish Revolution Washed Up Ashore Dec 20 2012.. ,, at 40plus Son Of Service from Bookships..

@georgej.dorner3262 Год назад

Descendant of Belisarius? Wasn't he a eunuch?

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

Narsus was famously a eunuch, but Belisarius was married to Antonina.

@guidor.4161 Год назад

Most interesting. BTW it's pronounced Ve-ne-dig not ven-dig

@bigsarge2085 Год назад

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@davidarneson7100 Год назад

Sounds like Senator Fetterman has some apologies to make

@JeffreyGlover65 Год назад

Senator Slingblade?😎

@palehorseman8386 Год назад

They wouldn't be coherent apologies

@goodun2974 Год назад

@@palehorseman8386, you guys have Senators Frozen Meat Popsicle and the Forest Lawn Cryptkeeper on your team.....🤔😉😁

@palehorseman8386 Год назад

@goodun2974 Um... what? Your descriptions are far too esoteric. You need to dial it back a little bit so the rest of us can get your meaning. Example, Mitch McConnell looks like a turtle and keeps glitching. So maybe Glitching Mitch the Turtle Man.

@rlicon1970 Год назад

That dude is half brain dead. Poor dude. Only his irrational side is left. 😮

@MarshOakDojoTimPruitt Год назад

thanks

@laganjaesbuena 11 месяцев назад

Hmmm possibly where my last name (Velzares) comes from

@stanash479 Год назад

Another Ripping Yarn from THG. It is interesting to note that the Prussians operated colonies in Africa going back to 1682.

@righteousviking 11 месяцев назад

"The Germans simply weren't able to run a colony. They ran off looking for gold!" Are you sure they werent Spanish? Hahaha

@ArachneAnathema Год назад

They found rich cultures and amazing wonders of Nature and destroyed it all in their lust for gold. If the meek inherit the Earth, may the original peoples of the Americas get their own back.

@TheHistoryGuyChannel Год назад

I am not sure I would call the original peoples of North America "meek."

@pookie4660 Год назад

Conquered by more advanced cultures.

@seatedliberty Год назад

@@pookie4660 No, just more heavily armed and brutal ones.

@WinterInTheForest Год назад

@@seatedliberty They were still living in the stone age lol

@mightisright Год назад

The colonizers and colonized are all dead. The current "original peoples" are the descendants of both plus other foreigners. There's no one to "give" anything back to. You're living a myth.