The earthquake that changed history - BBC REEL 

Congratulations and felicitations on your school project and punctuation.

I'm doing a presentation on it, it is referred to in Revelation 18!

Seismic victory!

Obscure for other countries, lol. Everyone knows it here.

epic!

Love Assassin's Creed

To steal a relic from the Church*

So it was the assassin Shay Patrick Cormac who was responsible for the Lisbon Earthquake, which then turned into a templar ; )

That’s what just brought me here 🥳

Indeed it did…

Yes indeed

Yo lol

Turned him into the Templar he is… was back then.

@@Turnip397Is…is this a Diablo reference?!? /edit nm, googled Shay Cormac.

surely as everything it have had their sweet and sour... brazil has been also the birthplace of beatifull new kind of music and rythms, many of them mixes of local, european, and african slaves roots you cannot find anywere else... I am thinking in bossa nova, batucadas, the music from capoeira... probably are much more recent, but surely they would have been take longer to rise if they were doing at the beginning the same as everyone else.

Ohh thats interesting. Nostalgia Induced regress is responsible for many social problems in India , never thought it would affect the arts too.

Well, that's good for old fashioned religious choir music, unless we are supposed to believe that something should go extinct merely because it's "old fashioned."

Portugal is remembered in Goa and Ceylon for introducing ' Baila' music. This is a mixture of Creole and African music with Portuguese overtones. It is a popular type of music that drives people to dance.

Bullshit.

Glad i’m not the only one hahahaha

Me too

Quite unfortunate. Portuguese is such an ugly sounding language.

@@JCO2002 like your name

I am Brazilian and i never heard about this story or language you are talking about. Only the jesuit missionaries would speak indigenous languages, not the average populace. If you were right, we would have studied such literary records at school and we didnt

@@cz2301 You should study more. Nowadays knowledge is so accessible with a Web search engine such as Google! To know pieces of evidence for this conclusion by historians and to understand the Portuguese crown's rationale at that time, take a look at the four first texts that appear when you look up Nheengatu Pombal

@@cz2301 unfortunately schools have their syllabus highly edited to fit some historical points of view: as example think of the south american countries independence rush, were all comes together as a movement... schools will surely focus in how this astonishing mens fight to free their nations from the european control, but they never told you the other side, that they almost always rich families descendent loyal of the traditional monarquies fighting for keep america out of the hands of Napoleón which was conquering Europe at the same time. Both sides are true by the way, but commonly they only teach what better suit your nation identity. With this, is always good to seek for new sources when new information is shown to validate is veracity, just because your previous sources don't teach that doesn't inmediately make them false... specially is it from school, just think of how much importance have money in our lifes and current capitalist world, and think How much about money did you learn in school? Did they teach you how to negotiate a loan? How compound interest work? Which provitions you have monthly pay if you become an entrepreneur? How you pay taxes?... I can continue for an hour.

I'm doing a presentation on it, it is referred to in Revelation 18!

I saw videos of those earthquakes. Terrifying.

@@grioulaloula8594 ngl i still have nightmares. I was also present for the terror attacks too, not good stuff.

Loma Prieta 1989, yeah…I was 5 miles crows flight from that earthquake. I earned my badge.

​@@sophronielforgot that even happened, used to have aftershocks for years after

And the white volcano like Tonga one

Really? That's because you didn't study your lesson well.

You learn that in History and Science's class

@@nacht98 its not actually about studying your lesson well , yall seem Portuguese , u for real remember every little detail u learned in Portugal History? ofc u dont , its so extensive that probably only the middle east and one or two European country's have a bigger history then Portugal, they do teach the basic concept of the inovations that Pombal made , but the details like inquires for sure slip thru my mind with time even if they were taught in school

In Portugal they only talk about the Lisbon Earthquake. But they never teach how big the earthquake was. It was one of the biggest ever, probably the biggest ever. One of the things that lead us to assume it was just a simple earthquack, is the name. Lisbon Earthquack. We assume it was only in Lisbon. No. It was a massive earthquack felt in Europe, Africa, Asia and even America. The tsunami and the quack killed and destroid so many towns all over the place. It's called Lisbon just because it destroyed to the ground almost all Lisbon, and at the time Lisbon was one of the biggest cities in the world and probably the richest city in the world. It stand out. But the havoc was almost global. And the aftermath changed everything

@@almahperditae they don't? Really? Big news to me!

BongBong will protect the Filipino people.🙄

I heard of that, I hope you are ok. Nothing scarier than running to the hills in the middle of the night (from my own experience)

🙏🙏🏼

yea

It was far too inland

Wish i had such power

One person who acknowledges God. One. At least this lifted my grieving soul. To hear that people "woke up" by starting the modern age and the road to enlightenment just kicked me in the gut.

Atheism in Europe. Not every part of the world experience this and even if they experience this, the difference of experience and culture will bring different result. Modern atheism itself born after kratos kill zeus

Maybe in Portugal, and surely it just contributed. The philosophy of Baruch Spinoza could also be mentioned and most important the synthesis of ureum by Friedrich Wöhler. But one can think of dozens of other factors. Why would this earthquake be important if you lived far away in a protestant country?

Maybe they could/should have learned from the Siloam tower incident, since it seems to have brought up similar ideas. Though this may have been ignored on account of other things on people's minds, a lower literacy rate, or a lack of interest. Speculation about causes for disasters was not part of any sort of doctrine in the first place, but only simplistic thinking.

The credit for founding Atheism must go to the Buddha. When everyone else in the world both in the East and the West was leaning on a supramundane power ( there are thousands of Gods and belief systems) the Buddha taught boldly and daringly to rely on yourself and not on an external saviour to escape from suffering. This is the major challenge to everyone in this world. Both Monotheism (Christianity, Islam, Judaism rely on the same God and say prayers seeking help) and Polytheism ( e.g. Hinduism, a Polytheistic belief systems with thousands of Gods) are God fearing systems. Buddhism stands alone in this respect, advocating self- reliance and right action for your liberation from the coils of suffering. The Buddha did not wait for Natural Disasters like the Great Fire of Lisbon (1755) to proclaim that there was no loving God but from his own penetrating insights he discovered the uncompromising reality. Atheism originated from the wisdom of the Buddha. He was the first Sage in the world to declare that there was no external saviour and one must rely on one's own efforts for one's salvation.

The Buddha discovered the reality of a Godless world ( now known as Atheism and subscribed to by the vast majority of people in Christian Heritage countries in Europe) 2, 600 years ago. The most profound words ever in world history were proclaimed by the Buddha when he unhesitatingly declared that ' There is no God'. Today as Europe marches into perhaps the darkest and coldest Winter since the end of WW2, not much options are left for the residents of the European continent. Pray or accept the reality of Karma in action which rest of the world has lived with in stoic silence since recorded time began.

Well, its not an earthquake, only a simulation. Maybe they should call such a simulation as earthquack 🤔

@@joeharry32817 Yes, I should have said that but I felt it was certainly implied.

I experienced the 7.8-magnitude 1906 San Francisco earthquake in a museum there, they has a "shaker table" platform that held about eight people standing up. You climbed up onto it and they "replayed" the earthquake, the actual length and magnitude of shaking of that infamous deadly quake. They had constructed a surround that covered three sides with photographs that showed what the city looked like back then, to make it feel even more realistic. I was born and raised in the Southern California suburbs and have vivid memories of the Sylmar earthquake, a 6.6-magnitude event in 1971 that caused tremendous damage and loss of life. This was the quake that began the era of retrofitting buildings and anchoring heavy and high furniture to walls to save lives. I was 8 years old, eating breakfast with my mom and brother in the kitchen when the quake began. My mother insisted standing in a doorway was the safest place, so the three of us held onto the door jams of our kitchen back door and marveled at the giant waves the earthquake created in our backyard in-ground swimming pool. The quake only lasted about 60 seconds, but when it stopped, more than half the water in the pool - something like 10,000 gallons - was just GONE, all sloshed out into the neighbors' yards. We lived about 45 miles southeast of the epicenter and were lucky our home was not damaged. Some of the concrete sidewalks around the pool had small cracks, but surprisingly, the pool had no damage at all; no cracks in the gunite or even the surface plaster. I recall it took about 24 hours for two or three garden hoses running full force to refill the pool. The neighbors were very irate that the chlorinated water killed their fancy-schmancy dichondra lawn...as if we did it on purpose :-) Oh, SoCal in the 70s, what a great time to live there! I escaped the smog, traffic and high cost of living in 1983, moving to the Colorado River where Arizona, Nevada and California meet. I have never regretted leaving, mostly because it's only a 4-hour drive to experience the ocean, museums, and cultural opportunities there. I live a block from the beautiful River in an affordable community where most peoples' "daily commute" takes 15 minutes max. And we don't have earthquakes here (so far).

The video does state that the earthquake occurred on All Saints' day, 1755.

Lisbon was the financial hub of the slave trade. It was prosperous chiefly because of the dealing in slaves. This was a judgment from the Most High God but it affected a great part of the world as well. God never destroys the righteous with the wicked.

Because earth is a school. You agreed to experience the things you experience good and bad before birth. You also chose your family, and they chose you. Part of a cycle of reincarnation. So just as you experience the good, unfortunately the opposite as well. God is omniscient, omnipotent. He's in you and everything and human being--why quantum entanglement works. Much like the Trinity states--we are all a part of God, just different aspects. Like your hand is part of the same body as is your leg. Evil is a concept created by humans. In reality evil is part of the concept of the Law of polarity--to understand good, you have to understand evil. These are lessons learned by our spirit in our human versions in this Simulation. And you chose to learn these lessons before birth.

Why do you say that? Cities are much more safer today and houses... Well, they are like night and day difference with much more robust building and we have upped our game a lot in terms of emergency rescue, relief and all the support needed after a crisis situation like this. And the alert systems.... Well, those didn't even existed back then so I would say we learned a lot!

@@TheAllMightyGodofCod In the US, looking at how so many people responded to the Covid pandemic....rejecting science, attacking scientists, taking horse de-worming meds, and then dying, but not before making sure that lots of other people died as well....it did feel like a combination of the worst of religious nonsense with the worst of peasant stupidity.

Supossedly. There are many factors that influence this. Just claiming that the truth is that it started with, whatever such and such claims it to be, is wildly inaccurate. No matter how credible the book any claimed starting point is arbitrarily chosen.

If I may ask, whom do you think is more responsible for falling back into an authoritarian world? Would you say it's more conservative thoughts or the progressive thoughts that are sending us that way? As I understand, conservatives want smaller government and more freedom....but what is wild is when you look at most leftist who claim to want freedom as well, well they clearly vote for bigger government and control...under the viel of socialism/ communism.

@@chancefluke7833 what really is wild is that the right wants less regulation. But supports authocrism. Something which will result in a complete pack of freedom.

@@chancefluke7833 OK, Smaller Govts means LESS for the Community. It allows for Big Corporations to rule. Less taxes that the Conservatives want to pay means less services for YOU. Why do Conservatives hate Healthcare for all? Why do they Hate Free Education for all? Why do they want a Govt that is only chosen by them? Plus

@@chancefluke7833 I wouldn't describe "leftist" thought in those terms. Progressivism seeks to use government for the good of all people and their economy-based systems. Government is a great invention ... a social contract ... that can advance societies to more and more freedoms and enlightenment when formed for the common good, not just the powerful. Bigger government needs to mean better government. I don't think anyone wants to be "controlled" by government. Finally, social programs in a democracy are not equivalent to communism ... and pure communism is not equivalent to dictatorships, which are the most extreme example of big "government".

​@@DavidSilva0803 where next

Thanks appreciate it

Those churches and cathedrals are huge and tall. I actually don't think the simulation in the video does them justice. The day it happened churches were supposedly filled for mass. One can just imagine those tall stone ceilings and chandeliers coming down, and perhaps walls or columns.

It depends if you want to tell some of the backstory of seismology or how liberal ideology (with its science, democracy, and egalitarian ideals) took shape. If the latter, then it cut way too much out. This was but one domino to fall in a series that started with debates about "freedom" with the indigenous people of the Americas. I strongly suggest reading "The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow to put this video into context.

When you see it’s a 7 minute video, but have no common sense

no, our empire lasted till 90s when we gave Macau back to China

How & where do people get these ideas from? Not even Wikipedia manages to be that inaccurate.

​@@SylvaHodracyrda ppl will be ppl

Ele também proibiu línguas indígenas de serem faladas pq elas eram usadas como língua franca, se não fosse por isso talvez o tupi seria comum até hoje

comparado com as taxas espanholas que eram de 40% ou mais kkkk ou as britanicas nao eram nada de mais

Except that the "Brazilians" were Portuguese...the definitive reason to Brazilian independence was what happened during and right after the Napoleonic Wars, with the flight of the Royal family to Brazil, the rise, and later loss of statue of the region, which not surprisingly lead to a desire of authonomy and separation by the elites in Brazil.

Exactly

Thanks to literally just means because of, it doesn't have to mean she's thankfully for it at all? Thanks to the earthquake, much of the city was destroyed is wildly different than saying I'm thankful the earthquake destroyed the city lol

Nope, the internet was invented by ... Al Gore!

How the hell on earth would a earthquake result in the invention of internet you dumbass.

Portuguese Inquisition and Crimes in Asia are well known. The Portuguese destroyed all the Buddhist Temples in Portuguese occupied Ceylon and threw Buddhist monks into Rivers to feed the croquediles.This is given in the History Books written by Portuguese Historians.

Sempre aldrabão.

Edison, you mention "the complaints the Brazilians still hold against Portugal". What is that about? Modern Portugal is completely different from the absolutist and backward-minded monarchy that existed almost 3 centuries ago. Why the grudge against a modern country and a people that was also affected by stupid policies of the time. You have had 200 years of independence and it seems your country is still full of "daddy" issues. FYI, I love Brazil.

@@LynxLuso I agree. Our nation is still hated by most Brazilians to this day, they are probably the country that hates us the most. On the bright side we are European and loved here, so in my personal opinion, who gives a damn about what Americans think.

Hm... I thought the complaints were mostly about that fabled gold from Brazil (which doesn't amount to much by today's standards)... Most of the impairments on Brazil's development you've mentioned would later be reverted when the Portuguese Crown moved its HQ to Rio de Janeiro. Of course, that didn't repair the regrettable loss of much of the pre-Columbian culture, but it can be argued the same 'royals' were pivotal in raising Brazil to a modern, sovereign nation.

​@MythTruster what i stated wasn't an elevation to "god" in any sort. what do you mean by better jobs and life standards? i don't know a single scientist that fits in that description, in fact, their condition is as poor and precarious as more common jobs. they don't feel their worker is recognised at all. The same happens with farmers, who are too a fundamental building block of society. What's on the table is that science achievements have, without doubt, built society as we know it today. just imagine a life without electricity, systems of refrigeration, planes or cars, forget supermarkets as you know them as you would have access only to local food, cell phones, the internet, health care, etc. So yeah, when you ask me "Why do you ppl who study science are better in any way?" I would say that science fruits, technology, is what make us different than more "primitive" civilisations. And to reach a point that a civilisation arises, technology (therefore science of some level) must have been reached. I was just stating that I believe that we should evolve further, further towards a more sustainable future, working with nature instead of against it (search for ernst gotsch's syntropic agriculture) and to achieve that we really need science to be allowed to speak without constraints (and we don't have much time left), we as humanity have been put chains by politics. Science could have taken us a lot further and to a better world if politics weren't holding hands with economists as we know them today. What you've described as science faults were in fact consequences fed by the economical system that we live in, an economical system that deviates technology to explore profit. that has its consequences, consequences such as: you being a product to social media, chemist developing the products that they are PAID to develop even tho they end up being harmful in the long run, etc. They have jobs that grant them survival, they are as chained as any other worker. They are often not free to choose what they want to make investigation about. Scientists are dependent on funds that often are paid by companies who have interests in developing a certain product, and these companies, having an economical model of reality don't care if their product will harm nature at all. I was stating that politics should be trusting scientists instead as science would shape the world in the opposite direction of exploitation. that's our world, a world where economists are in power.

​ @MythTruster from my experience and with all respect, religion is psychological violence/castration. I've been educated by jeovah witnesses and i remember believing what you say that you now believe. I thought they were the purest of the humans. Studying, simply by studying science it became obvious to me that it's just a scam. They don't ask for people's money directly, but at their "church" there is obviously a box over there for people to leave their money their freely. The superiors say that by leaving their money there they would be allowed to print more bibles, more magazines and rent auditoriums or even NATIONAL STADIUMS for their religious big events. People that work for the management of the events, the writing and drawings of the maganizes, the development of their animated videos or management of their website aren't paid for doing it, they are doing it freely because they are doing it for "god". So where do you think that all the money given by the believers goes? Only a small percentage is invested in the rents and the printings. Its brainwash, manipulation for profit, its capitalism, the current economical model. And unfortunately the believers, blind, are not incentivated to become educated (as it would be a threat to the church’s power), they are only incentivated to dedicate themselves to god. I’ve been there. It was a dark cave. Later I came the conclusion that this is how religion in general works, and in the opposite extreme is scientific freedom, where god creation is really revealed. Also, everything religious people say that a scientist says about nature is heavily distorted towards their own interests: to justify god and therefore to silence their threats. You cannot understand a scientist argument without mathematics. All their arguments have a mathematical origin. Everytime you see a scientific explanation or defense (as I am defending), its origin is mathematical. What happens is that one need to convert the mathematics into words to people that don't know the mathematics. The only way to a real understanding of the explanations is to see the mathematics by yourself because any attempt to translate the mathematics into words will distort the information because words are ambiguous. Unfortunately when religious people say that science offends "god" they loose completely the point. The absence of god in all scientific explanations doesn't mean that scientists aren't open for the idea of a god. You have scientists that believe in god and scientists that don't. And that belief is independent of their work, maybe /probably influenced by their understanding of nature but not a single one of them as proven the existence of god mathematically. It just means that, until now, all the things they have figured out about reality, such as the movement of astronomical objects, evolution etc. they have found precise explanations that don't need god at all. God simply hasn't appeared in science, it isn't needed to explain the rainbow, comets or any other phenomena that religion came in the past and upon a glance just said "oh its god". No, science dwelves in the phenomena, it investigates it deeply with no fear or restraints in questioning reality and it uses the only tool we have capable og dissecating its secrets, mathematics. From all the knowledge that scientists have gathered, Einstein influenced by the philosopher Spinoza and earlier others like Giordano Bruno or Galileo, understood that if god exists it is much much bigger than what religion makes of it. Einstein's god is nature itself, "he" reveals himself through mathematical laws, not through the bible. Mathematical truth unlike any other "truth" is unquestionable. The bible, on the other hand, is cleary questionable by its nature (buit/written with words which are by their own nature subject of different intrepretations), that’s why there are several religions based on the bible or other book, because every single one has its interpretation. On the other hand, science not being built by words but by numbers and logical reasoning (which also has its laws alike mathematical laws) is why you don’t why you don’t get 2 or more sciences out there in the world. Studying logic would early allow you to reach that conclusion. Religion doesn't dwelve in nature, it doesn't care about mathematical beauty, and mathematics is the language of the universe. Its because of having mathematics as a tool and not the bible that scientists managed to understand the world so well that they released the knowledge for mechanical, electrical and other engineers to use their findings to build societies infrastructures. If religion really understood nature it would find itself being able to manipulate it at the atomic scale. Scientists know reality so clearly that they see through the invisible, you can suspect that they are into something. Reality gives you two options, either to study science which is interested in reality in its cruest form independently on one's beliefs and be guided by mathematical rigour, or to be lost in a word of words to understand the world. And words are ambiguous so that won't work. In fact it will create wars. That is also why religions clash among each other too.

@MythTruster hi i haven't deleted the comment, its still here...

@MythTruster what? really?? does that happen? which guys? where are you from?

@MythTruster @MythTruster from my experience and with all respect, religion is psychological violence/castration. I've been educated by jeovah witnesses and i remember believing what you say that you now believe. I thought they were the purest of the humans. Studying, simply by studying science it became obvious to me that it's just a scam. They don't ask for people's money directly, but at their "church" there is obviously a box over there for people to leave their money their freely. The superiors say that by leaving their money there they would be allowed to print more bibles, more magazines and rent auditoriums or even NATIONAL STADIUMS for their religious big events. People that work for the management of the events, the writing and drawings of the maganizes, the development of their animated videos or management of their website aren't paid for doing it, they are doing it freely because they are doing it for "god". So where do you think that all the money given by the believers goes? Only a small percentage is invested in the rents and the printings. Its brainwash, manipulation for profit, its capitalism, the current economical model. And unfortunately the believers, blind, are not incentivated to become educated (as it would be a threat to the church’s power), they are only incentivated to dedicate themselves to god. I’ve been there. It was a dark cave. Later I came the conclusion that this is how religion in general works, and in the opposite extreme is scientific freedom, where god creation is really revealed. Also, everything religious people say that a scientist says about nature is heavily distorted towards their own interests: to justify god and therefore to silence their threats. You cannot understand a scientist argument without mathematics. All their arguments have a mathematical origin. Everytime you see a scientific explanation or defense (as I am defending), its origin is mathematical. What happens is that one need to convert the mathematics into words to people that don't know the mathematics. The only way to a real understanding of the explanations is to see the mathematics by yourself because any attempt to translate the mathematics into words will distort the information because words are ambiguous. Unfortunately when religious people say that science offends "god" they loose completely the point. The absence of god in all scientific explanations doesn't mean that scientists aren't open for the idea of a god. You have scientists that believe in god and scientists that don't. And that belief is independent of their work, maybe /probably influenced by their understanding of nature but not a single one of them as proven the existence of god mathematically. It just means that, until now, all the things they have figured out about reality, such as the movement of astronomical objects, evolution etc. they have found precise explanations that don't need god at all. God simply hasn't appeared in science, it isn't needed to explain the rainbow, comets or any other phenomena that religion came in the past and upon a glance just said "oh its god". No, science dwelves in the phenomena, it investigates it deeply with no fear or restraints in questioning reality and it uses the only tool we have capable og dissecating its secrets, mathematics. From all the knowledge that scientists have gathered, Einstein influenced by the philosopher Spinoza and earlier others like Giordano Bruno or Galileo, understood that if god exists it is much much bigger than what religion makes of it. Einstein's god is nature itself, "he" reveals himself through mathematical laws, not through the bible. Mathematical truth unlike any other "truth" is unquestionable. The bible, on the other hand, is cleary questionable by its nature (buit/written with words which are by their own nature subject of different intrepretations), that’s why there are several religions based on the bible or other book, because every single one has its interpretation. On the other hand, science not being built by words but by numbers and logical reasoning (which also has its laws alike mathematical laws) is why you don’t why you don’t get 2 or more sciences out there in the world. Studying logic would early allow you to reach that conclusion. Religion doesn't dwelve in nature, it doesn't care about mathematical beauty, and mathematics is the language of the universe. Its because of having mathematics as a tool and not the bible that scientists managed to understand the world so well that they released the knowledge for mechanical, electrical and other engineers to use their findings to build societies infrastructures. If religion really understood nature it would find itself being able to manipulate it at the atomic scale. Scientists know reality so clearly that they see through the invisible, you can suspect that they are into something. Reality gives you two options, either to study science which is interested in reality in its cruest form independently on one's beliefs and be guided by mathematical rigour, or to be lost in a word of words to understand the world. And words are ambiguous so that won't work. In fact it will create wars. That is also why religions clash among each other too.

For the gringoes: this is basically one of the many "portuguese people are dumb" jokes that we do in Brazil translation: The United States, with all its technology, sent a telegram to Portugal: "We have detected seismological movement with its epicenter in Lisbon. We suggest that you take action." A few days passed and no response from Portugal. The Americans were very worried and sent another telegram: "We detected seismological movement with its epicenter in Lisbon. We suggest taking action." Nothing, Portugal did not respond. The Americans insisted and sent yet another one, until finally the Portuguese replied: "We have detected the leader of the Seismological Movement and arrested him in Lisbon. After much torture he confessed that he was the Epicenter. We just didn't proceed with the investigations because we were hit by a f*cking earthquake!"

Well I guess if my country was what Brazil is now, I too would find it necessary to mock someone else. Specially since "zoeira" is part of who I am.

@dubsar * Deve ser tão antiga como a Santa da Senhora que te Pariu. Vá brincar com o Carxalhx

@@joaosaraiva9425 Sim. É do tempo de Salazar.

She wasn't entirely wrong. Most of Europe was still absolute monarchies. England and the Dutch republic were the exception not the rule. And England's monarchy too was still heavy handed from time to time--see Henry VIII, Queen Mary, etc. even after the Magna Carta. The Dutch really won their independence.

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Would you say that God has punished all the African kingdoms that hunted down, captured and sold enslaved Africans to the Portuguese?

Again...and Again and Again...

Wow you're so woke! You certainly know that at that time every single nation had slaves? So it was a good thing for you that innocent people died in such catastrophe? You're an idiot, and you're worse than a slaver. Also, learn some more about history, it's full of war, conquest, slavery, misery. Name one kingdom, empire or whatever that didn't practice slavery until modern times. Pro-tip, you can't.

Is that why Africa never progressed? Because it has slavery long before Europeans arrived , enslaving their own people and other African tribes even after European slavery ended ? How about Arabic and Islamic slavery of Africans ?

man, you make dumb people feel like Einstein!

Earthquakes already happened before there were humans roaming around. It's a feature of the dynamic geology of plate tectonics, which shapes the surface of the Earth. Don't say silly things.

why?

Haha I know, it’s more Lisbon Portuguese, it is rough sounding if one thinks about it. It’s softer where I am from, only a 30 mn drive away.