The forgotten Spanish influence on shaping the USA 

I know the first Puerto Rican girl who died in Iraq was Benitez Santiago Vega, we traded missions

Lol part time army still a snub

Yankees think that Spanish came from Europe.🇪🇦

Ahhh I didn’t know this

*Was a world superpower 200+ years ago

That's not the name of the country, in Spanish we make a clear and important distinction in the genitive case, what you just said is: "American United States" And the true form is "Estados Unidos de América" what you call the United States, wasn't even a thing when the Spanish were in what's now US territory. The very name of the United States was taken from the continent of America, named after Américo Vespucio. By the anglos.

There is documentation that Luis De Unzaga gave the name "Estados Unidos Americanos" in a letter to George Washington. I was born in Ohio. My blood is Cuban and Spanish and I still feel the roots and grateful that this history is being taught. If it were not for Spain [as well as France] the English would have defeated the American Revolutionaries

Interesting. United States was the first independent country in the Americas (America as a unified continent), thus the name stuck. "America" is a nickname we all are familiar with, that refers to the USA but is really the name of the whole continent. Just like Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia

Maya's where in Florida 30000 years ago natives America are related to Aztec and mayas😂

They disregard the influence because of racism honestly. Towards the Latin American community.

You are totally right about this!

Also Cuba

plus the large amount of misinformation about spain made in that time to sway the public in the US's way

Cuba was the main reason why that war started. Both from the Maine being blew up in Havana to the fact the Elites in the United States like the Rockefellers & Randolph Hearst wanted Cuba for its Wealth, agriculture & sugar canes. Shadowring (2015) speaks about it

I wouldn’t say England has an anti Spanish bias. I’d say that the Spanish were just kinda harsh colonizers on the Philippines tbh. Anytime there is a harsh colonization there is resentment afterwards

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Well now, they never were enslaved, contrary what the Anglos DID to the Natives traded at Bermuda, Jamaica & Barbados.

I feel like you could’ve also mentioned how most people assume that the French Quarter in New Orleans and all of the oldest French-sounding neighborhoods here in St. Louis were built by SPANISH settlers. The French colonial style was usually more simple 1-story wooden structures with a large front porch. Most of those were torn down and replaced by more ornate Spanish-style masonry buildings by the time of the Louisiana Purchase in both sister cities. :]

​@@StLouis-yu9izYep a lot of people don't know that Memphis, Saint Louis, Jackson, was Spanish Cities & Nashville was a French City. But ironically all in general the best explorers & settlers came from Southern France aka Hispanic part of France Vizcaya, Occitania, Catalonia that's historically by Blood Iberian Hispanic People. So it's a lot of on the French & Spanish sides that played both sides cause they literally can 😂😂😂😂🇪🇸🇫🇷. They did it all over the Caribbean & North America of Latin America & The Middle & The South of British America 🇪🇸💪🏿

During i believe the second and third Columbian expeditions, they sailed along the coast of Florida and the upper Gulf, but without the resources to attempt settlement.

​@@lawtonsfinest8622 vizcayan fishermen were alleged to have sailed around newfoundland in the 1400s, likely leading to french interest in north america.

I'm happy that you included PR in the history of the US. There's much more to say on this: the musical genre of salsa originated in New York (although many Latin American countries claim salsa as their own and use it as a genre of solidarity between latinos). Salsa music is an American genre born from the influence of African American jazz and the Afro Cuban rhythms that became popular during the mambo craze of the fifties, going through stages of boogaloo and Latin jazz. But today most Americans don't associate salsa with American culture. Also, There were migratory movements from the US to Puerto Rico prior to the colonization of the island by the US. Today, some estimate that almost a fifth of Puerto Ricans have French ancestry (and this has influenced PR's pronunciation of the letter R, and even food like baguettes which evolved differently in PR). The reason for this is, in part, the Louisiana purchase (many French people moved out when the US took over Louisiana) and Haiti's independence also led to many French moving into PR because of a Spanish Crown law that gave them land as incentive if they were Catholic (the law was known as Cedula de Gracias). Also, New Mexico was 80 percent Spanish speaking when it became a state, and to this day the state has never acquired an Anglo character in its culture, food or music, even after adopting English language. California, Texas, and Arizona have Anglo sub-cultures within them but NM remained distinct and has a population of Hispanos that have spoken their distinct dialect of Spanish for over 400 years.

The Spanish weren’t there. You’re thinking of Canada!

"Forgotten Hispanic Influence"...? 🤔...My man, IT IS EVERY WHERE!!! La(s) CAROLINA(S)!!! North Carolina and South Carolina are named after Carlos V, I (1st) of Spain...Florida, The Mississippi River, Montana, and all the South West...Las Vegas, Nevada...Pfffft...Bro...The name "America" is the Hispanized version of "Amerigo"...if had been Anglicanized (not religionwise) it would be named Americ...without a vowel (a) at the end of the word...😘🤓

@@oskarvomhimmel6936 There’s no Spanish influence. Nice try Ivan. Go back to Russia.

Uhhh, no north and south carolina was named after king charles 1 of england. Whether or not the name "america" is spanish is debatable, amerigo vespucci's name in spanish is americó vespucio, so feminine version america, but the first use of the name was by a german mapper who used the latinized name of amerigo. So could be latin or spanish. Whilst the spanish kept calling it the indies for centuries, cuz colombus said so. And theres all kinds of crazy theories about the name "america" All the others are spanish tho. Here in california everywhere and everything is spanish name 😅

Also, north/south carolina was first "discovered" by the spanish, but they all got killed and never went back, until the english came 80 years later

Good point

Nope. You’re Canadian. Not American. You’re confused.

Since we have discovered you’re Canadian, edit your comment to say “Canadian” and NOT “American” and edit your comment to say “Canada” and NOT “US”. In order to make it more correct.

I appreciate it! I'll do my best

Nobody gives a shit if you’re Catholic 🤦‍♂️. Catholics haven’t been oppressed in decades (roughly since 1930-1940 onwards). We’ve had multiple Catholic presidents too🙄

Earth is flat

Uhhhh, the people's crusade was indeed mostly about slaughtering minorities

Bravo. I’m interested in this topic. Do you know where I could read more on it? Perhaps a book or something

Do y'all have always had a taste for free-mason, mormons and so alike

Incluyendo Milán.

Milano and Genoa (the latter is the city where Columbus was born) were also under the control of the Spanish Habsburgs. Most people focus on the Spanish settlers in the Americas, but among those "Spaniards" there were many Italians, Portuguese, Basques, Germans and even Jews, Moors, Guanches and Gypsies.

@@TheJosmanto be fair southern Europe is pretty similar genetically. The Greeks, Roman’s and Spanish all kinda just sailed around the Mediterranean and intermixed 🤷‍♂️

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Yeah, sure. But my point is that there were non-Spanish people among the conquistadors and Spanish settlers in the Americas. Italians, and even Dutch and Germans from the Spanish-controlled Netherlands, also sailed to the Americas as conquistadors. There were also Sephardic Jews, Moors and Gypsies that fled to the Americas escaping the Spanish Inquisition in the Iberian Peninsula. And when Spain and Portugal were together during the Iberian Union, many Portuguese settlers went to the Spanish territories in the Americas as well.

​@TheJosman Yes there were men from other nationalities but few the bulk of the Spanish Conquistadors were Spanish, especially from Andalucia. Most of the sailors who crossed the Atlantic with Colombus were Andalusians. And there were no Jewish or Moors allowed to embark to the indies ( The Americas), unless they were Christians, and spoke Spanish. There were men whose ancestors converted from Judaism to Christianity and Muslims who converted to Christianity, then they were allowed embark. Otherwise there would've been colonies created by them but there were none. Only Christians can settle thr new lands, was Spanish law.✝️

Yeah and not just to America but to the whole of the Americas, South Central and North. The only similar native animal was the llama/alpaca.

​@@alfrredd Turkeys are also native to the Americas and they were already domesticated by the time Europeans arrived to the Americas.

@@TheJosman I was talking about transport/milk/leather/fur animals (horses, sheeps,cows, goats) the only similar one was the llama/alpaca. Turkeys were just for eating.

Well, they had turkeys, bisons and llamas/alpacas.

And the first free town on the Americas as a whole was also stablished under the Spanish Empire in modern day Colombia, it's called San Basilio de Palenque.

most people in Latin America have Spanish ancestry, only very rural indigenous communities have pure indigenous ancestry

@shiny_teddiursa ya that's true it's always been a interesting subject to me

You look mestizo.

Proud to be Mestizo.

All of your properties are inside the Spanish Empire

The native's population decline started right after the British settlers killed the tribesmen that taught them how to survive off of the land. And they had the gull, the audacity and the gumption to celebrate "thanksgiving" while gifting smallpox-infested cloths and other goods to the natives. The anglo hypocrisy is appalling yet not surprising.

“We did nothing wrong, it was the other gang of gold and glory thirsty imperialist that did it, not us, we are good boys that all sit in a circle with the natives and talk to them about god!”.

​@@Notimportant253Latin America is a majority mestizo (with the exception of the southern cone, including Paraguay, excluding chile). That alone should pretty much tell u everything. Conquest and colonization are two different things. The spanish were conquerors, while the British (and to an extent the US), were colonizers. It'd be like calling the roman empire, Mongol Empire, or Seljuk empire colonizers for their conquests of europe, Asia, and Africa, where they did the exact same thing (mix with the local people, and convert them to their culture, except the Mongols idk if they tried converting Europeans to their culture tho they did mix)

@@Notimportant253 Boy compared to the Anglos our ancestors were angels from heaven.

Not only that you can see the difference between the demographics of Hispano America with respect to the US, Canada. Just look where the vast majority of mestizo and indigenous people live today.

Good, we love Dixie.

How do you know they were descendants of early Spanish colonists ? Maybe they were grand children of more recent immigrants from the 1890s to 1960s era

I talked to them. small school... Guy from Santa Fe, Girl from New Iberia.@@LucasFernandez-fk8se

If you are Hispanic from New Mexico, chances are very high that you are a descendant of the early Spanish settlers. The majority of Hipanics in New Mexico are descendants of the people that came with Juan de Onate in 1598 and Diego de Vargas in 1692 (after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680). We call ourselves Hispanos.

@@tommyromero3317 Correct. Northern New Mexico has a smattering of names like Archuleta or Miranda, which are of Basque origin. In Southern New Mexico it is more common to come across people who migrated from Mexico in the past 100 years or so.

Yea I remember that episode it was great to watch even before social media there was an anti Columbus sentiment that I didn't know about and its just not Columbus but others like Simon Bolivar like when you read more about what happen during his time I can see why some people would consider him a traitor and a murderer of innocents. It just shows that the history book heroes are villains to others that had been oppressed and forgot about by propaganda.

The Yahis were obliterated to the last man Ishi, not by any Hispanic...

You are confused and do not understand your history

The Spanish were crucial players in the Transatlantic Slave Trade for they controlled most of the Americas before the British could even arrive. They even developed the Asiento System which was established as a result of the Treaty Of Ulrecht in 1731 which followed with the end of the Spanish Succession War. Millions of Africans were sold by Europeans who were granted licenses by Spanish royalty to ship the slaves to Spanish colonies in the Americas. Why do you think there is a large African diaspora in the Caribbean and South America? They didn’t arrive begging for freedom to the natives, who graced them with open arms in a moment of unification lol as so misinformed, pseudo historical and outright racist anti anglo-saxon theories put it. Even the natives of present day Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador & the rest of the Americas were subject to the Spanish encomiendo and repartimiento system (the latter of which attempted to improve working conditions of the native slaves, but lacked in the enforcement with not much difference to their treatment). Before then, the Aztecs employed a tribute / force slavery system upon the surrounding regional states in its domain which would resent the Aztecs, grievances which Hernan Cortez exploited to unite them against the Aztecs. The Aztecs not only sacrificed men women and children indiscriminately but were much more savage in their slavery than the British could ever be. My point is that slavery, as inhumane as it was, has always been a crucial component, a fundamental part of every great nation. These pseudo historical theories that play into cultural identity wars, the proponents of which are mainly african americans, eastern european and asian military information operations do nothing but divide us by playing into a game of us vs them. I don’t suppose you have any hatred for the asians because half their continent was raped by Ghengis Khan and 3% of the world murdered and most are descendants of him?

@@neo2190 Do you mean the Asiento System forced upon the Spaniards by the Slave Traders of London? ⛓️🤦

@@neo2190 Oh Wait! And the Chinese we're responsible for the widespread consumption of Opium...after the British imposed its use in the aftermath of the Opium War. 🤦🤑

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Anglos Germanic culture is the majority of Texas their is Spanish culture their is not Mexican culture other than immigrants

@@S4v3_w3st ??????

No problem! Thank you for watching! I have a couple more in the works.

@@GeographyGeek Excellent!

Gálvez was actually shown in the video when talking about the American Revolution. Cabeza de Vaca was talked about in the California Island video.

@@GeographyGeek ok, then you only need to review ten or twenty more names and facts....

I appreciate it! I try not to be.

All of you people who keep repeating this conveniently never mention that slave labour was still essential in the Spanish colonies and that in order to avoid using natives they used black people. Even if you try to humanize the spanish for not being as bad with the natives they still had millions of slaves in black people.

To be fair, the reason most of that occurred can be traced to the kings stating that royalty is still royalty despite its origins. Thus, if you were not a famous conquistador but rather just another crew member of any ship or expedition, you might as well try to find and have kids with any native 'princess' as to adquire royal status for yourself too

@@ericktellez7632 there were slaves in New Spain, but not as much as in other places. Mainly in the islands (Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc). But the slaves were able to buy they freedom and had rights, too, thanks to the Catholic views of the Crown. In Fort Mose, they were allowed to have their own independent town, in Florida, and were allowed in the military ranks. The first black in a European University was Juan Latino, in the XVI century. It is true that slavery was not abolished until the XIX century, but the views on slaves were not based on a separation of races, and there were a lot of mixed families and mulatos in New Spain.

@@ericktellez7632 The number of enslaved africans brought to the spanish territories on the Americas is a puny amount compared to those of french, british and especially portuguese colonies. During 1739 to 1748 the British fought the Spanish because the latter wouldn't grant the former the necessary comercial rights to traffic enslaved africans to all the Spanish territories on the Americas, which trampled the objectives of the British South sea company, the British ended up losing so miserably George III prohibited everyone from speaking or publishing texts about it, and the reputation of the "great admiral" Vernon was tainted permanently.

​​@@ericktellez7632Just look at the history of Fort Mose and you will have the answer.

What about German influence? Though they never claimed territory to be German, a lot of 'American' traditions are from them, from Christmas Tree to Hamburger! And Italian, Scandinavian, Japanese, and Chinese influence? Or Irish? Most Americans think they all arrived with the Mayflower, a ship that transported refugees, of English origin, from the Netherlands to America, because they hated the female rights, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of science their host provided. Those people would hate today America and rather flee, but where? And you can still see them fighting the freedoms and rights others enjoy.

I’m going to do a video on this at some point. German is the largest ethnic group in the US and again most Americans just asume it’s English.

Most know those names are Spanish but think that’s as far as their influence went. The same can be said about other place names not of English origin. Many don’t know New Orleans was French, with the exception of Louisiana itself.

@@GeographyGeek That’s not entirely correct though. If you go by single countries then yes Germany makes the largest country of origin, language wise that’s not correct. Ireland and England alone result in more than 60 million, while Germans just make a little more than 50 million. Please keep that in mind when making the video, it’s just something people should know. :)

@@klamin_original yeah…I’m not lumping the entire British Isles in together.

Juan Ponce de Leon Christened it with the full name of: La Tierra de la Pascua Florida. You can find it in the first Spanish written records of Florida in the Archives of Spain. What a beautiful name...😍

The Spanish did not do that, the later British colonists did that.

Thank you too!

French is spoken in Canada, so I think that French settled in the more northern regions.

@@hongry-life French-Canadians are Catholic, French-Huguenots are Protestants.

@@user-ci8wx8zw2z Ok, so basically 2 enclaves?

@@hongry-life just immigration from France by Protestants seeking religious freedom. I would like to see a video on this.

Sorry to go there but (whispering) it may be because they're . . . fairer

@@georgep.burdell7237 not really he was pretty light skin to he was from the Monterey area he said it's like how people from the city think they're better than rural areas from the south

@@noelramirez1551 I understand, although I always considered Monterrey northern Mexico as well. I'm Generation X, and my mental map is like Joel Garreau's The Nine Nations of North America, which included a Nation named Meximerica that included Monterrey IIRC. Highly recommended book and still relevant 40 years on.

The whites ones are because they are white and stand out in a sea of different shades of brown. The further south you go the less and less white faces you see.

@@georgep.burdell7237 OMG You anglos see race in everything, northern mexicans have that reputation because they're on average wealthier than people on other regions (minus CDMX), especially compared to the south and southeast of Mexico, nobody gives a rat's ass if they've got less melanine on their skin.

Have a good day man! 12:28am here

@@GeographyGeek put that baby to bed and get some sleep, son... 🫂

@@mikehill3407 I work better at night because the baby is sleeping lol

@@GeographyGeek the baby sleeps at night?! 🤯

@@mikehill3407 well…kind of lol. He wakes up like 6 times but goes right back to sleep.

All Mediterranean peoples are culturally related. The main differences are religious and national.

No, its better to not have any official language and to give retribution to whats left of natives people

​@@ericktellez7632 As giving back Manhattan?

@society463 Hispanic and Latino ancestry 62 millions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans

Americans do not like changes especially foreign ones it’s why it won’t adopt Metric, it changed English to be less British and it has created its own identities for the most part only it enjoys. To try and make the country learn a new language would be seen as an attempt to undermine American culture.

At the end of the 1700s the Bank of England took over the minting.

How? Please explain

@@AmericaUnleashed9327 during the revolutionary war the Spanish owned a lot of land in the south and allied with Americans against the British they would enlist man power form their newrby colonies to aid America Puerto Ricans fought under Bernardo de galves in Baton Rouge, pensacola , st Louis Mobil ext And during the civil war many Puerto Ricans lived in NY and Connecticut long before the big migration alot of them where just listed as Spanish on the census Because Spain still owned pr at the time but if you look at the record and see where they where both it out is say Puerto Rico and they fought for the union

I have one planned.

It was handed off 3 weeks prior. The deal was made sooner.

Thank you - from what I can see, the Spanish treaty with France was in 1800, and France took possession in 1802. France sold it to the US in April 1803. Great fact, but I'm still wondering where you got 3 weeks.

@@rdchinn There are quite a few sources online mentioning it such as this one - heritage.bnf.fr/france-ameriques/en/louisiana-purchase-article. There's a story mentioned in Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose where Upper Louisiana was officially held by France for one night only because the local Frenchman asked if it could be. The next day the papers were signed, their flag taken down, and the US flag raised. I can't remember exactly how I worded in the video and I can't rewatch at the moment but when France sold it hadn't officially been transferred from Spain to France yet. Sold wouldn't have been the correct wording since it had been sold months prior.

I don’t want to use the AI images. The problem is finding images that match what I’m talking about that I can easily find in the public domain. I can’t use most images on the internet otherwise I’m risking a copyright strike.

Nada se construye con la mentira,todo con la verdad.''La verdad os hará libres''

This is a common mistake amongst english-speaking peoples while discussing the Spanish Empire, meanwhile they seldom talk about the British incompetence to end the actual caste system in South Asia while it was the British Raj, the system which still affects the lives of millions of peoples in modern day India and nearby countries. Smh

@@BN.ja05 To be fair, the Indian caste system predates the British, but I think that the British added more salt to the wound.

Strange caste system the Spaniards had that allowed free mixing!

@@joselugo4536 If you say so they will say "b-b-but It was forced mixing"… I wonder why would they adopt spanish surnames if It was "forced mixing"

@@VictorLdVS They just forget one female charasteristic across the ages...hypergamy!