Francisco de Almeida - Part 1 - Age of Discovery

At last 🎉🎉🎉

The Mamluks don't know what they are about to unleash...

My first school at my hometown is named after him. My favorite part about the story of Francisco de Almeida, comes next... xD

Great video, Flash Point History, good job!

awesome video as always!

Great stuff, thanks!

Great tale and production ! So much untapped potential for video games and movies

They could do a netflix series on portuguese history, it is so crazy that people would think that was fiction...

WHERE IS PART 2????

Portuguese.......the mongols of the seas

Wow, I know the "main" story about the Almeidas but I had no ideia about the step up that led to it
Really incredible the knowledge you put on these videos, it goes well beyond anything on yt
Im very impressed by this one, congratulations
Can't wait for the second part

Age of murder, rape and plunder. It never goes out of style.

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage work about a glory page of the Portuguese empire during the early years of the 16th century... When Portuguese Armada established cost colonials on the eastern side of the African( Sauhelly region) ,besides the western cost of Indian peninsulas by forging an extortionate policy..on local Sultans and native peoples...thank you 🙏( flash point history) channel for sharing.

I know all what happen, and spartans will looks like kids in comparision what Francisco de Almeida did. spoilers

The genocidal violence and outrage of the last 500 years is being romanticized here - courtesy of the so-called 'western civiliation'. The veil is coming off and unraveling - the peoples of the world now know better.

Another great one, thanks for sharing.

Excellent history-telling: dramatic yet factual. Thanks for posting.

Lets gooo

Honestly even though the Spanish, French and British colonial empires were all larger and more impactful, there is something incredibly impressive about the relatively tiny nations of Portugal and later the Netherlands achieving such an astounding dominance over sooooo much of the global trade networks literally oceans away from their home shores while still in the pre-industrial age. And since the Portugese were the first real trailblazers who (somehow, against all odds) made it work and ´conquered´ the indian ocean, they might just be the most impressive of them all, hard as that is for me as someone from Holland to swallow.

(then again, they had only one european neighbour and were far away from the other powers and were friendly with perfidious Albion, so I guess it somewhat balances out, at least that´s what I´m going to tell myself)

Siiii

Great story

Yes

Yes, more!

Yes, the Rahdonites were who enslaved Europeans. Today exist many hundreds of documents about the medieval slavery, however the Europeans were the slaves, especially in Central Europe, we have the records of Arab Jewish traders- Between 825 - 828: King Louis I the Pious granted several Jews the right to import and sell foreign slaves.
- Archbishop Agobard of Lyon condemned the royal officials who agreed with the Jewish merchants that:
Gentile slaves want to be baptized just to gain freedom, therefore
they were only to be baptized if the owner received the price demanded for them.
- Agobard also accused the Jews of selling into slavery even those born Christians.
- In the customs books of the city of Raffelstetten on the Danube, which was an important commercial center in the early Middle Ages, the names of Jewish slave traders appear in the records as early as 906.
- At the end of the 9th century: the Arab geographer Ibn Khordadbeh mentions eunuch slaves among other goods that were traded by Jewish merchants on the sea routes and in caravans from Franconia to China.
- In 970 Jewish traveler Ibrahim Ibn Yaakub reports that slave traders were mostly Jews (along with Muslims and Turks) in Prague.
- In 988, Bishop Adalbert of Prague resigned after failing to rescue a group of Christian slaves purchased by a Jewish slave trader.
- in 1004, Jewish slave traders are mentioned in the Koblenz customs books.
- in 1009 they appear in connection with the accusation of the Margrave of Meissen in the sale of slaves to Jews.
- In 1085, in Silesia, a princess bought Christian slaves from the Jews to free them.
Carolingian emperors:
- 9th century: received funds for their harsh policy from Rahdonite Jews who bought patronage from them
- 828 d.: Louis the Pious gave Jewish merchants a safe conduct that protected their ships from their own officers, these ships transported Slavic slaves, often Christians.
- In vain Agobard, bishop of Lyon, complained to the king that the Jewish traders were selling Christian slaves to the Mediterranean Arabs though Al Andalus.
Local authorities do not obstruct them.
- The law prohibited the baptism of slaves who were with the Jews, in order to prevent their release with the help of influential clerics, as the Jews paid 10% of the profits to the emperor.
In the Frankish empire, with the victory of Christianity, slavery for Christians was formally abolished by law.
- The word "servus" came to mean not a slave, but a "servant", who could only be sold with his plot of land.
- Therefore, in the 9th-10th centuries, the Slavic lands, from central and eastern Europe, from Poland to Russia, including regions in Eastern Germany and Austria, to Czechoslovakia, to the Asian borders, became an important source of slaves for Jews, as well as later 15th- to 19th-century Africa.
- The Carolingian government, as the weakened forces in the struggle against the feudal lords, expanded the rights of the Jews.
- In Bavarian-Slavic customs in Passau in 906, Jewish slave traders were equal in rights to Christian merchants.
- Slavic young men and girls pass from here through Verdun, Lyon and Narbonne to the Mediterranean for the Arabs to replenish their harems and servants.
- Many of these unfortunate people have already been baptized, but the bishops could only rescue them if they bought them, for example, in one of the existing registers,
-the bishop of St. Adalberto complained that he did not have the money to buy Christian slaves from a Jewish merchant.
In the 10th century, the people of Kiev, who had time to understand what was happening, categorically refused to repeat the Khazar experiment with Judaism.
Therefore, the attention of the people of Kiev turned to Constantinople.
- The Greeks did not know how to negotiate worse than the Jews, but they negotiated differently
- They needed young Slavs not as slaves, but as warriors, which was more convenient to hire than to buy.
- And the mediation of Jewish merchants in the 10th century. they did not need it, because
Byzantium bordered directly to the east
On the Western Outskirts of Byzantium in the 10th century. there was Venice
- in 992, under pressure from Constantinople, Venetian merchants, who had a number of commercial privileges, were prohibited not only from taking Jews on their ships, but
also to import Jewish goods and declare them as their own.
That's why Jewish merchants change their name and identity. They began to publicly identify themselves as Venetians and adopted an Italian name.
But money, business, capital, trafficking, slaves and the most profitable merchandise continued and will continue to belong to the same Jewish merchants.
However, changing names and even nationalities will be a practice that Jewish merchants will adopt for many centuries and in several countries and continents. From Italy, Germany, Holland, France,
Portugal, Spain, England, even Brazil and the United States.
- This was the end of the centuries-old struggle of the Greeks with the Jews for economic predominance in the Mediterranean Sea, only Western Europe and Fatimid Egypt remained for the Jews.
- The triumph of the Berbers and Tuaregs in Africa and Spain and the Seljuk Turks in Asia Minor had a negative effect on European trade.
- The inhabitants of the steppes, warriors who did not need luxury and did not respect financial transactions that they simply did not understand
- The Eastern Slavs behaved in the same way, knowing that the political tentacles of Byzantium would not reach them.
In this background, thanks to the "power of things", the leaders of the Muslim sectaries, the Fatimids, were reborn as ordinary sultans of a common state who loved to live happily at the expense of the treasury. They sincerely believed that slaves and intermediary merchants would provide security and comfort. At that time some Christian sovereigns were willing to sell even their Christian subjects for a good profit. They were traded by Jewish slave traders, who moved freely around the Mediterranean without participating in these wars.
Quite the contrary, wars were the biggest source of slaves. In addition, they weakened sovereigns and impoverished the population, which allowed them to take ownership of the best businesses and obtain the most profitable opportunities.
- Of course, they profited from the return of the "golden age" of the slave trade, that is, to the IX - X centuries.
- Those who were sure that they would not be sold into slavery were the inhabitants of fortified trading cities.
In the 11th century there were only 2 such cities in Eastern Europe: Kiev and Chersonesos (Korsun). Other cities could be taken at this time, but these 2 were practically invincible.
Therefore, it was there that more traders appeared, especially colonies of Jewish slave traders.

Actually, Portugal wasn't at all "determined" to "establish an empire"! Portugal was determined to have access to the eastern spices and other commodities directly, contorning the Arab trade routes, that made those products extremely expensive. In the end it became inevitable to found outpost overseas, and so "the empire" gradually emerged! And don't come with that slavery argument: the slaves were sold by the Africans to the Portuguese! No doubt, that slavery was - and is - abhorrent, nevertheless it was a common reality all over the world, also in Africa! Yet, the Europeans, being Christians, had a problem: Christianity condemns any kind of oppression, let alone slavery! But the Europeans ignored their own Faith, and acted just like (some) pagans and (all) the muslims

Awesome video

Uau, great cliffhanger! Thanks and thanks again!

Thumbs up if you played the Age of Empires 2 campaign of Francisco de Almeida and you are here to learn more about that🤩

Awesome narration and video, expertly done!

Wow I didn't know my name runs this deep

@diogobarata6346 and  @josesilva4171;   First, it's the Arab Empire(s) -  no need to propagate the western propagandistic trope or denying the Arabic impact (After all you wouldn't term Britain's or France's conquests as the "Christian Empires", would you?! ).


Second, I asserted earlier (the channel owner can explain why my post was deleted) that to achieve prosperity, western Europeans needn't have dehumanized, plundered, enslaved, raped or stolen from others. China is currently demonstrating to the rest of us how possible it is to achieve economic empowerment and advance ones society without wholesale violence, colonial thuggery, changing the goalposts or stealing from others - and they are certainly not naive or deluded to claim they have supremacy over the other races. Note: the African kingdom of Kemet (Egypt) had gloriously demonstrated the same in an earlier epoch. 


Moreover there is a common denominator for all these empires you mentioned; they have become extinct - obliterated, exterminated, which goes some way to prove my point. You and I are living through the beginning of the end of European dominance.

SO Jews can blame Portuguese for slavery but if one prove with documents that jews controled slavery, it is forbiden? That is to destroy true history and those who ignore history will repeat the same mistakes again and again!

Did Lorenco de Almeida really look like Dave Mustaine?

Yessss, another part!

Amazing! Can't wait for part 2.

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You didn't even have a torch for your burial, son! Here I light a city for you.” Dom Francisco de Almeida.
From the wreckage of the battle of Diu came three royal flags of the Mamluk Sultan of Cairo, which were transferred to the Convent of Christ in Tomar, Portugal, the spiritual headquarters of the Knights Templar, where they still exist today.
From a strategic point of view, the battle of Diu 1509 was no less important than any of the greatest battles in the world, on the contrary, because: it assured the Portuguese, for almost a century, absolute dominance of the Indian Ocean; considerably reduced the power and prestige of the Turks, who were then the terror of Europe, when they were already at the doors of Viena and entering in Hungary; It marks the beginning of a long period of European domination of Asia, which only ended with Japan's entry into the Second World War.

@josesilva4171 - Yes, the ubiquitous Portuguese - they got everywhere - reeking havoc and atrocities in their wake. The French, British, Dutch etc took the dehumanization, thuggery and stealing to new dizzying heights. In fact Portugal started the whole thing.
Haiti only recently finished paying off France to compensate former 'plantation owners' who had lost their property and slaves. It cost Haiti about $21 Billion. I also wish to invite you to research a British Act of Parliament titled 'Slave Compensation Act 1837'. The last compensation payment was made only a few years ago.
So you see, what is past is NOT past. This is what I mean about changing the goalposts - the double-standard and hypocrisy very clear for all to see. There is so much for Europeans (or European governments) to answer for. Civilized at home, savage and barbaric abroad.

"If God speaks Portuguese I don't know, but those canons do" D.Francisco de Almeida

Thanks!

People drop some Shekels, it's all about gold if you haven't figured it out yet. Good quality deserves appreciation! $$$

Perfect video! Excited for the next one

Two errors in the first ten minutes my high school teachers would have slammed you for. The second, you say things went all downhill for the Sultan of Mombasa, that is a childish mistake, they went uphill. Downhill means easier did you not know that? Prior to that you make an awkward and confusing redundancy when you refer to a "flag" and a nation being separate entities when both meant Spain. You should have someone with a degree review your text before putting your foot in your mouth like this, and I am less than ten minutes into it yet. Very amateurish, yet you hope to be paid. Clean up your act first.

Where is episode TWO???!!! 😊

What an incredible journey this series has been so far! There's something about seeing the little icons sailing around the map together with the narration that really sparks the imagination and desire to know more about all these events, and the illustrations really help putting faces to all the names and characters. Will definitely have to check out Crowley's book too. Love from Portugal ❤‍🔥

Badasses!

Acehnese–Portuguese conflicts
(I would love to see a summary episode on your channel)

Alright folks - we start the next chapter in the history of the Portuguese Empire! Its all about conquest now! Please don't forget to leave a comment, give the video a like, and share on social media!!