Who Built the Panama Canal? 

There’s so much more to this story that had to be left out… The US threw their weight behind the discovery that mosquitoes transmitted malaria and yellow fever. They removed stagnant water, rotting food, and bodies from the region, in what was then the largest sanitation project ever seen. It was a giant experiment who’s success proved to the world how deadly mosquitoes had been. After the French left Panama, evidence of misappropriation of funds was found. De Lesseps had also been bribing the French press to encourage share sales. Eventually de Lesseps and Eiffel were prosecuted in “The Panama Affair” that rocked France. He never served prison time however, due to ill health. The Panama-US treaty of 1903 was negotiated by the Panamanian representative Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla, a French engineer. Panama initially rejected the treaty, but reneged when the US threatened to withdraw their navy. This would have left Panama to continue revolt on their own. The separation of Panama from Colombia is a weighty topic that I did not do justice to in this video, there's some much better videos/articles out there if you want the bigger picture. The cost for a ship to pass through the canal is determined by weight. The Norwegian Pearl paid $375,600 in 2010 - this is still cheaper than sailing around Cape Horn. In 1928 Richard Halliburton swam the canal for 36 cents. If you want to read more about the history of the canal, I highly recommend David McCullough’s book “The Path Between the Seas”. (Although the audiobook is badly narrated so read it instead.) To give you an idea of how big the expansion project was, checkout this time-lapse ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mXS3BVQTgEU.html

*To show you the power of flex tape, I sawed this continent in half*

The French started but couldn’t complete it. The U.S. constructed it. Panama upgraded it.

A video about esperanto (language), then two videos about color blindness (science) and now a video about history/georgraphy ?! This channel is perfect ! Continue like this please, it's so interesting !

The final pitch/request for pateron support on this video was the first time i've actually experienced a honest, down to the point and an understanding on people that are in a position to afford helping out (older successful adults for the most part), even in little bits and the people who can't (mostly students). I admire the people who support informative videos so all of us can benifit and hopefully when us students gain our degrees and start making significant income from professional/skillful jobs, we too can contribute more to the YT content providers/suppliers that help us gain an advantage for free at the time where the two are very important

*And Made Africa An Island*

I love the accuracy on this video Greetings from Panamá 🇵🇦

I ❤️ Panama 🇵🇦 from Philippines 🇵🇭

As a Barbadian, I sincerely appreciate the fairness and attention to detail with which you have investigated and presented this information. Those men who left and went to Panama are referred to as the 'silver men' because by their sacrifice many families in Barbados and other British West Indian colonies at that time, were able to become economically independent and upwardly mobile. Malaria, yellowfever and other illnesses took a hard toll and there were vast differences in pay and living conditions due only to the nonsense of race. Perhaps one day everyone can delete this insipid concept and get back to simply looking upon each other as fellow human beings. Will definitely check any other of your posts! Have a great day!

This video is really accurate, greetings from panama.

...the narrator's voice, the story, the word plays, and the animations..100%...I love it..

Also, many Chinese helped built the Canal and many Chinese stayed to establish communities in Panama and became Panamanian

The Navy Ship my grandad served on during WW2 passed through this canal in 1943. Thank you so much for sharing this video, the history behind this is fascinating . 🇱🇷🇬🇧

Seriously great stuff dude!

“23,000 people died” *Optimistic ukulele music intensifies*

This is, in a nutshell, the best explanation available on the subject. Good work and greetings from Panama!

You clearly put a lot of work and time in your videos. I really enjoyed it :)

In a nutshell: Panama was invented to build a canal.

You sound so professional as if you have been doing this for a while so i was very surprised to find out that that is not the case. Great work and i really hope you get big enough to do this full time. Ill certainly be here when you do :)

Extremely informative video.Thanks Human Interests for taking the pains to build a superb one and helping me gain huge insights into a topic I had very less knowledge about.Please keep enlightening.

Forgot I had subscribed here. Excellent video! Hope to see more in the future!

Truly a heck of an informative video! Keep it up man, your efforts will be rewarded!

Your video has been shared on the Dutch website dumpert.nl and has been watched 13.000 times in the last 40 minutes. Thought you should know.

You do great Videos and I am happy that there are channels like yours. Keep up your good work.

Panama be like "Yeah, sure." LMFAO

had to watch this for school work

So they kicked Panama out of Panama and made a canal Connecting the two oceans

I cross over the canal every day and admire it, but its history is even better. Really accurate and informative, though the invasion was a pretty big deal. greetings from Panama.

"can we have it back please ?" "NOPE " 😂😂

Fantastic video, loved it. Can’t wait to see more interesting content!

Originally the USA tried to build a canal across the Tehuantepec isthmus in Mexico, in order to do that they tried to use the same trick they used to steal Texas: they sent American settlers to establish in those lands and eventually the zone would declare their independence from Mexico, just as they did it with Texas. The Mexican government learned their lesson and when they noticed it they changed the Constitution forbidding foreigners to own lands at the beaches and expelled some American settlers. United States tried to invade Mexico once again, but Mexico built a huge cannon in Veracruz that was fired once, hitting an American destroyer in the Gulf of Mexico. The United States then desisted with the idea of taking that land to build a canal and instead they decided to implement that plan in another country: Colombia. They did exactly that, they sent settlers in Northern Colombia, then they declared the independence of that land and created a new country: Panama. The USA wasn't interested in another colony, so they left the country independent, but in "return for their favor" they took possession on they land they used to build the canal.

Finally a channel worth subscribing. Great stuff!!

My favorite palindrome: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

Fantastic video explaining the history behind all of this. I love the unbiased approach. Thank you!

Good video! Greetings from Panamá!

Concise and accurate distillation of the Canal's history. Well done! For readers interested in more detail, I strongly recommend David McCullough's "The Path Between The Seas".

I just discovered your channel through the color blind videos. You have some amazing content! On to Esperanto!

Wow, what a video! Never knew about the great ordeal people went through to build this great Canal. Thank you for sharing and please keep up the good work :)

I like how you just brushed the Invasion of Panama off to the side... 7:10 also known as Operation: Just Cause in the early 90s. But anyways Víva Panamá 🇵🇦

VERY WELL DONE! THANKS!

Now I'm proud of our Canal I'm Panamanian :P

More informative than 45 minutes television documentary, awesome work.

Love this channel I hope it gets big, your videos are edited amazingly, and make your words even easier to understand.

We learned this in apush but we didnt go as in depth as the video. Its great you did. Thank you

6:07 wtf dude ! Germany didn't declared war on France ! Its France and russia that declared war after germany entered the war with serbia which was declared n'y austria-hungary

2:24 i like this part of the calm music

So typical, the French give up and the Americans end up flooding half the country.

Your gonna go big on youtube with content like this

such a good video my friend. Congratulations. To make some constructive criticism: you could work on the clarity of the audio. i think your voice and intonation is good, but it'd be great if you could, e.g., pass it through a multiband compressor, to increase the higher frequencies' volume. thanks for putting out the videos. greatly appreciated.

Great video! Will be looking into your future vids!

America:*helps Panama get independent for canal* Panama:cAn yOU dOnT?

At first, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans were separated, but in 1914, this all changed. An idea brought in America which would make travel easier, faster, and cheaper. It would be a canal across Panama or Nicaragua. This idea became a reality, due to the efforts of Theodore Roosevelt striving for a greater America. The 1904-1914 American contribution of the Panama Canal played a big part in how life is today, especially for the U.S.A. This contribution of the Panama Canal broke world barriers in disease control and travel. Through extreme tragedies, including yellow fever and malaria, these workers prevailed and completed the feat of the largest man-made canal. The long-lasting and the short term impact of the canal affected the whole world, proving its significance in American history. Now it is labeled as one of the Seven Wonders of the World and one of the most strategic canals in history. Proving its mark on the history of the globe.

This channel's going to blow up

just binged watched all your videos. good stuff!

Great video, but I wouldn't call the bloodiest civil war in the history of Colombia just "political unrest".

A class content. I can definitely see you having a 1 million subscribers in less than 2 years for sure

Outside of the atrocities you have to be impressed with the results of human ingenuity.

Growing up in Panama I remember riding my bike with my friends up to Gatun Locks and watching the huge freight ships go thru the locks.

Nice video!! Cheers from Panama!!

You make good videos! I was surprised you were only at 16k! Good luck in the future!

Nokia: Connecting peoples! Panama Canal: Connecting for sake of world!

One of the greatest construction in human history

Still think it's so bizarre that the Panama Canal has the Atlantic Ocean on the WEST side and the Pacific Ocean to the EAST.

Great video! Thanks for posting!

6.08 Germany Declared war on France LOL NOPE

Your a good man with excelente subjects and information. Thank you

Básicamente Estados Unidos dijo a Colombia "plata o plomo"... Como siempre

That first person camera view thru the canal at the end was really cool. Gonna try to find the whole thing

As a Colombian, we deeply hate Teddy Roosevelt for taking Panama away from us. At least we eventually got money AND eternal free passage in the canal.

Great video thanks for putting this out here.

The americans worked smarter, not harder

Not sure why I haven't seen your vids in my suggested list before as I always watch stuff like this. Great work, keep it coming! Only thing I would suggest in my opinion is to slow it down a very small amount as it would make it a bit more relaxing to follow and still get the message across :)

I lived in Panama for eight years and my wife is Panamanian...she would tell you that the Americans (yes with help of people of other nations...not governments of those nations) built the canal... we financed it, built it. and ran it... Until Torrijos got and wanted it for himself,,, then Noriega had Torrijos killed and wanted it...I was there during the "White Crusade" (based on the white clothes the protesters wore) that eventually got rid of Noriega from Panama... They all recognized the true builders of the canal, and we respectfully followed president carter's decision to give the canal to Panama...which they have now given the partial control to China,,, Get your facts straight...I know...I was there...

Great video, hope to see more soon

Good old Teddy

well I truly like the way you research on before making your RU-vid videos. You are inspiration for me. I follow you.

Por que se refieren como “America” a Estados Unidos?, una cosa es el país (Estados Unidos) y otra cosa es el continente (América).

Wow! Im so glad i found your channel. Great stuff! Please keep up the good work. Thank you.

I hope you get to 50,000 subs!

excellent job dude ! Keep up the good work

I was about to follow... but he said Columbia... is COLOMBIA!

Hi from Panama spot on facts

The way you said Nicaragua. It's "nick-ah-raw-gwah"

Thank you so much. This has been a question on my mind for so long.

“The panama wail woad was a majow awtewy fow amewicans wooking fow gold”

Thank you for this amazing video, keep up the good work!

The canal was built by The French, The US, Latin americans ( Especialy Panamanians), African Americans, Caribbieans, Irish, Chinese and Indians. In other words the world helped build it not solely the Americans. If the americans were the only creators of the canal then it may be justified that the US should have it. But that is not the case and as so many countries helped make it i feel like admistration should fall on the default owner of the land-Panama. PS. Don't get rilled up.

I just found the channel and i am HOOKED! So cool and wellmade videos. They are laidback and not pumped fill with facts like many other channels do. Great work, Love to se more!

Remember that time when Chile almost beat the ass of USA when they wanted to annex panama, weird times. That gave Chile some years of comercial powers in Magallanes

Really great video. Informative. thanks (from Bangladesh)

France and United State of America build Panama Canal.

I'm from Panamá, thank you for this video it is very accurate

In the thumbnail i thought they where shouting "Reset Password"

5:48 After the completion of the Panama Canal some of the steam shovels went to Deer Lake, Newfoundland, Canada - to dig a nine mile long canal. The Humber Canal is used to divert water to a hydroelectric power house. The electricity is for a paper mill 32 miles away.

7:36 Communism wasn't even invented, it was the Qing dynasty Whole Ireland was part of the UK India was still known as the British India with its own flag and... i like the video btw

I really enjoyed this video. I knew of the Panama canal but not much of it's history. Thanks for making this video.

They wouldnt be able to build without the us involvement?

Loving this one thanks for sharing very important information giving thanks blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work please don't forget about the people from Jamaica and other countries that help build the canal giving thanks 🙏🙏🙏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲💪💪💪

America did it.

My tío used to work en el Canal. He often tell us stories about how the spirits of the workers that helped to built el Canal are around there. He once told me about how he could heard someone asking for help and to "open the gate" but he couldn't and didn't see anyone, it was just his team and him. Also one time, he told me, it was raining a lot, and there was a lot of mist, his team and him were pulling like a thick rope, and in a bad movement the rope got out of their hands, and hit one of his teammates so hard in the head that he lost one eye.