The Spanish Empire - History Documentary 

Note - Spanish is spoken as a *native language* by more people than English. English is more common when those who know it as a second language are included. Source: www.ethnologue.com/guides/most-spoken-languages

Who is here just for fun ? Not because you got an essay or test coming up, but because you just love learning history?

Not only do you not learn about Spanish history in U.S. schools . But you never hear how Spain (Along with France) played a major part in the American revolution ? In fact you never hear about George Washington Spanish friend Juan De Miralles who was sent from Spanish King Carlos III to Washington to help in the American revolution ! Another tid bit the $ sign originally with two lines. Comes from the Spanish abbreviation for peso and the pillars of Hercules that you see on the Spanish flag. And Spanish currency was also legal U.S currency until 1857

Finally, the most underrated (and first) truly global superpower; presented beautifully.

As a Spaniard im really happy you took the time to made this, also as a history enthusiast and video producer !!! THANK YOU !!!

Cool video. I've always wondered how Spain became what it once was and how that grew to becoming a big language dominance around the globe. Greetings from USA 🇺🇲🤝🇪🇸

A mention of Blas de Leso in the jenkin's ear war would have been great. The British were humiliated ion Cartagena de Indias

Having grown up mostly in various colonial outposts of the decaying British Empire, I'm surprisingly ill-educated on matters of Spanish history. As I often joke, "History is written by the British", and so we're not taught much in school about the huge world dominating empire that came before their particular world dominating empire, and good books on it are harder to find than I imagine they are in he USA any other country that Spain had more presence in historically. So I'm eternally grateful for your videos on Spain - now back to the video, Plus Ultra and all that.

i am from the philippines a former spanish colony, thank you for enlightening us about the spanish empire

I'm Dominican and in the D.R. they have the oldest Hospital and College from the spanish on the western hemisphere from 1497

The Spanish Empire which the first true 'Empire in which the sun never set'.

I love learning about the Spanish empire. But it’s hard to find videos the are intriguing and interesting to me. But your content is really good!

Força Espanha saudações de Portugal ❤🇪🇸 Spain was, is and will always be the Best European Country!! Cheers from Portugal🇵🇹

Roses are red, violets are blue, I dropped everything, for Spain part two.

Thank you for your videos. I'm a Brit living in Spain for nearly 10 years now with shamefully little knowledge of the history of my daughter's country... but you are now helping me fix that. Your videos are an enjoyable way to learn some history so I now also want to keep watching more and exploring your channel beyond the Iberian peninsula.

VIVA ESPAÑA 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 proud to have Italian Spaniard French Guaraní 🇮🇹🇪🇸🇫🇷🇦🇷Blood

👍🤴🦁🏰🤺🏇⚔🛡🏹✝⛪ As a Roman Catholic and great fan of the great European History and incredible achievements, i love Spain and its Great history. The Reconquista really fascinates me, the discovery and incredible conquests of the New World. And Especially during the Great Siege of Malta 1565 apart from the few volunteers and mercenaries, no country gave us help, Only the Spanish Empire sent much needed reinforcements and supplies, and helped us win the siege. Long Live SPain

long live Spain greetings from the Philippines and we’re catholic brothers! 🇪🇸🇵🇭

The American historian John Elliot, in his work "Empires of the Atlantic" claims that when the British started building their own colonial empire in the 17th century, they looked at Spain for ideas and methods to run a global transatlantic empire. During the reign of Philip II, Spain was able to build a complex administrative machinery that allowed it to govern its huge empire in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. It is false that the Spanish empire was ill administered, as some Anglo-Saxon RU-vidrs and bloggers claim. For 4 centuries Spain was able to keep together much of its empire, in a time where communications across the Atlantic and the Pacific could take several months. The Spanish Crown created an effective system to prevent, detect, investigate and punish abuses of power on the American native populations at the hands of the viceroys, governors and Spanish settlers. The native Indians were more protected under Spanish rule than under local independent governments. As all human constructions, the Spanish empire had its lights and its shadows, no different than other empires throughout human history. Anglo-Saxon historians interested in the history of the Spanish empire need to approach it objectively without prejudices inherited from the Black Legend. I think this series of videos on the Spanish empire are a good attempt to summarize and explain more than 500 years of history.

The only thing I absolutely HATE about your videos is that I seem to find them really late at night, but since they are SOOOO good, I have to finish them, leaving me to stay awake way too late.

¡FINALMENTE!

Thank you for the information about my family. My family first built a home and settled in Colorado in 1598. We are the settlers of the Sangre De Christo Mountians. My grandfather was born in the town of San Luis Colorado, the oldest town in Colorado.

the conquest of america by men like Cortez or Pizarro is stunning ! small handful of conquistadors managing to conquest an entire empire! some arguing they have fire gun or horses come on! it was not machine gun !or big cavalry units ! as french i always find amazing this epic ! sometimes i like teasing some spaniards on the italians wars vids but i have a great admiration about conquistadors and tercios !

Long awaited, thanks a lot Mr Justin

"Es hora de rezar!" *Gains 5 prestige*

Spain got put so on, so fast that they thought they could tank all of Europe by themselves. They were wrong obviously. 🇪🇸 PLVS VLTRA 🇪🇸

No mention of the disaster that was the English Armada

It astounds me how someone can get their head around all these details. And then present them so clearly.

Very good video. By the way, "Plus Ultra" is not correcty translated in the video: at the beganing it was "Non Plus Ultra" (on the Hercules columns of Gibraltar strait), meaning that that is the end of the known world and "nothing else exist beyond this point". After discovering the new world in 1492, it was changed by "Plus Ultra", meaning that "a beyond exist".

For a video called "the Spanish Empire" it sure barely mentioned the empire (outside of Europe). I guess this makes sense in the context of a series on the history of Spain but would have been cool to actually add how the Empire worked, the trans pacific trade, how the Empire was administered, etc. since technically these was place WERE Spain at one point.

I can't believe that "Plus ultra" came from Spain. I can never look at My Hero Academia the same again.

The [almighty] Spanish Empire which the first true 'Empire in which the sun never set'. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Rigorous and accurate. Huge documentary, I’ve enjoyed it so much ! Congrats from a Spanish viewer.

Such an underrated empire even though it was the closest thing to the Roman Empire apart from Napoleonic France.

as a spanish country of honduras it is very important to learn about tHE SPANISH EMPIRE THIS IS HOW WE AND OTHER SPANISH/LATIN NATION WERE CONQUERE WE ONLY LEARN SOME PARTS IN SCHOOL

Gratias Tibiago Iustinian. Also, would you mind doing a documentary on the history of Korea as well as it's split, I'd like to watch it for research purposes, but you just do it so well.

Great video. I'm looking forward to the next one. I never understood the complexity behind Spain's rise and fall and you reveal much.

Great stuff, FoL. Love all your vids. Some docs focusing on famous conflicts would be rad 👍🏻

Fire of Learning: You're a really good historian. I'm going to hire you in my court in France. :-)

Man your videos brought me so much joy last year through a long winter. Thank you!

Neat. Thank you for blessing us with this Mr Fire of Learning Justin.

I can’t wait for part 3! Keep up the amazing work

Though remembered for his physical features and impotency, Charles II’s reign acted as a precedent to the reforms of Charles III. For more than a century and a half, inflation and debt had increased and population declined. He inherited the throne in a difficult time but by the 1680s, monetary reforms ended the instability and population began a slow recovery.

OMG, I've been waiting so long for this moment! Amazing work!!

Aye! I’ve been waiting on this one for awhile. Great work as always🙌👏

Wonderful documentary sir! Great quality and details on one of my favorite nation in Europe. Can you make a video about history of China in the future? It’s long and may need 2-3 part or any dynasty you like. It might be boring because there’s lots of infighting but it’s also the craziest place to live at the time.

Great job Justin. What a gem of a video

Sería interesante también si hicieras uno sobre la Inquisición en España, víctima de la propaganda. Protestante anti-catolica. Especialmente sobre la figura del inquisidor Alonso de Salazar y Frías, que puso fin a dicha caza en España, mientras que en el resto de Europa continuó durante casi un siglo más. Saludos y buen video!!

Great work! Both part 1 and 2 of the spanish documentary were great! Now we want to see the documentary about Portugal!

An absolute great synopsis of how Spain became but, slowly lost its super power status throughout Europe and the Americas. I was unaware of how Spain participated and or, encouraged United States independence from Great Britain (England).

Well done for this, hope your doing well Justin keep putting out the quality content.

YES! I Have been waiting for this for months, this is amazing!

Gracias hermano. Been waiting for this!

*The Founding of The Kingdom of Spain* 0:12 Spain. The Reconquista. The Age of Exploration. The 1st European Global Empire. 1:54 Welcome to the Documentary 2:10 Thank you to the Patreon Patrons. 2:45 1406 - John II, King of Castile 3:50 1454 - Henry IV 4:34 1464 to 1468 - Henry IV staving off Rebel Castilian Nobles. 4:47 1468 - Isabella will be heir of Henry IV. 5:10 War of Castilian Succession. 1476 Battle of Toro. 6:27 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas Toledo recognized Isabella as Queen of Castile. 6:56 Ferdinand II, King of Aragon. 7:15 The Union of The Crowns of Castile and Aragon cement the union of the 2 into The New Kingdom of Spain. 7:42 1482 to 1492 Reconquista Battle to expel Muslims from Grenada. 8:43 Isabella and Ferdinand fortify the united Castile-Aragon lands. _The Habsburgs and The Spanish Empire_ 9:13 Constantinople 1453 --> Ottomans capture and rename Constantinople into Istanbul. 10:18 1492 - Columbus and his crew head to the Indies. 11:30 Spanish Expansion for God, Gold, and Glory. 13:03 Treaty of Tordesillas. 13:47 Santo-Domingo, Hispaniola. 14:23 1478 - 1834 The Spanish Inquisition. 14:47 March 31st, 1492 - Alhambra Decree 16:21 Isabella died in 1504. *Around 1516, Castile y Aragon become referred to as Spain* 17:33 17:55 Charles I/Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. 20:40 Charles V fought War with The Turks. 21:21 Spanish Empire. 21:53 Profit-Seeking Conquistadores, Hernan Cortez, conquers Tenochtitlan and The Aztec Empire is killed/a large percentage of the Aztecs die to disease. 22:58 1532 - Fransisco Pizarro conquers The Inca Empire. 24:42 Mixed-Race Marriage. 27:08 1566 - Protestantism in The Netherlands. Repress The Protestants. 28:40 1571 - Battle of Lepanto, Spain + Italy vs Ottoman Empire. 29:59 1585 - Spain vs England. Spanish Armada defeated. 31:51 1618 - Thirty Years War Begins. Internal Conflict in The Holy Roman Empire. *Spanish Empire Decline* 33:22 1638 - Spanish Military Supremacy is weakening. 34:08 Catalonian Reaper's War 34:43 The Battle of Racqua signifies the decline of Spain's Power, and the rise of the rest of Europe. 36:08 1658 Anglo-French Victory/Defeat and Decline of Spain. 37:28 1667-1668 The War of Devolution. 37:42 1672-1678 The Franco-Dutch War. 38:02 1688-1697 The War of The Grand Alliance against Louis XIV's France. 39:00 The War of Spanish Succession. 39:55 1704 - British Capture of Gibraltar. 41:11 Prevention of 1 State becoming too powerful. 42:01 1716 - Legal Centralization of Spain. *Bourbon Spain* 42:39 42:52 Invasion of Sardinia 1717 sparks The War of Quadruple Alliance. 43:37 1727-1729 Spanish failed attempt to recapture Gibraltar from England. 43:40 1733-1735 War of Polish Succession. 43:53 1739 - The War of Jenkins Ear. 44:20 The War of Austrian Succession. 45:35 The Seven Years War 1762-1763 Spanish involvement in the War. 46:53 Carlos III, Enlightened Despot. - Education - National Bank - National Anthem 47:30 Equitorial Guinea. 48:10 Supporting American Independence. _Next Video: Spain, Fall of An Empire_ 49:55

The wait is finally over..... it’s here 👍👌🤘 You do a great job Mr Justin 😎

I've been waiting so long for the next video, thank you

You mention and explain many nuances that are too often omitted by English histories of the Spanish Empire, well done. It's just a pity that the maps you chose to illustrate the video contain many errors or inaccuracies.

Finally a video from the best history channel. Awesome❤️

Interesting history, thanks for video! Greeting to Spain from Ukraine!

Thank you so much for this! We’ve waited so long and it’s so worth it!!!!!

Please advice when the 3rd part of Spanish History. Looking forward to understand Philippine history as well. Thank you for very detailed n educational !

I have been waiting for months, finally, my spanish heritage and ancestry thanks you.

Thank you for the enlightenment! I always enjoy you're videos as they provide me with more trivial knowledge to tell others! pS I like the humor you bring in!

F.O.L you came through! I've been waiting for this follow-up.

Hey man thanks for the upload. Most importantly- I hope that you're in a better place now. Wish you the best

👏🏼 proud to be mestizó Spanish and indigenous

Another Fire of Learning Documentary, at last. Thank God, and Thank You

It always amazes me how these historians get their hands on these artwork pieces and paintings. Really cool!

Your History of Nations and Peoples videos are my favourite! Another great video, keep up the great work

Love your videos. Hope you consider doing a separate Sicily video when you get to Italy.

I love these videos you make dude. Weird suggestion but have you ever considered doing a video on the history of currency?

Epic bro! Love your videos!!

Yooo there'll be a part 3, nice man.

¡Viva España!

The longer videos are great, thanks :)

you are better than any history teacher i've had, Grácias! :D

Great video and please consider making a video on the Portuguese Empire.

I just watched the Spain history video yesterday without even knowing about this one. What a coincidence. A welcome one : )

Yay it’s finally here, thank you for the video!

Long awaited. Ine of 2 patrons I sub too. Love your work Justin.

Thanks to the spanish empire there are 400 millions of spanish speaking individuals which are a great advantage

Could be argued that the wealth acquired through the Spanish Conquistadors saved Europe from the fate Constantinople suffered. Nobody talks about the context in which Spain did what they did. They were literally conquered for hundreds of years. But, Christopher Columbus is the controversial one, not the Islamic conquests that could have swallowed Europe.

Hi Justin it is great to have you back

I am very excited to sit down and watch this!

Beautiful history of beautiful Spain!

Worth the wait! Taking your time with videos is important- we get better quality, and, hopefully, you have a better work-life balance!

Thank you very much. I really enjoy all of your historical session s

thanks for another great upload justin!

The Spanish Empire is so underrated

The Spanish empire was the most powerfull rich biger in the History of the World for 300 years

Gracias! Ive been waiting for this! Please keep it up! Especially with anything on Hispanic History.

My man uploaded again. Arrrriiiiiiiiba!

So flexible, versatile, consistent, and longevity

it's all fun and games until someone expects the inquisition /s Great vid, looking forward to part 3 :)

Great video! can't wait to actually watch it

Always a joy to watch!

Please also focus on the events in the Philippines. Great video!

Spain: 300 years of peace in Latin America. America was well known for their roads. There were no thieves or mercenaries lurking for assault people during Spanish Viceroy period.

wonderful as always thank you

can’t wait for the next video! 🔥