Just type in 'History of ship design' or through the centuries e.g. 11 century ships, 13th century ships etc.
We have Portugese friends and we feel quite irate on their behalf because a depressing number of Americans think Portugal is not a country but part of Spain! As someone who is thinking of moving to Portugal I'm insulted for them.

The photo of the Belém tower might be a bit edited but I can tell you that it's not far off from the reality. 🙂
Btw, that body of water is the Tagus river and the bank in front of the tower is a completely different city, county and district, it has nothing to do with Lisbon.

Just 4 interesting facts about our presence in the world:
1- The british wouldn't have colonised Australia if it wasn't for the map outlining the "island" that the portuguese "drew" more than 100 years before Cook arrived there.
2- You can't imagine the amount of Portuguese-derived words that exist in Indonesian!
3- The portuguese founded the port of Nagasaki.
4- After the very rough crossing of the southern tip of South America, Fernão de Magalhães (Magellan for you English speakers) fleet suddenly found themselves in very calm waters, so he decided to call it "oceano pacífico" (Pacific ocean). "Pacífico" means "peaceful" in Portuguese.

I wonder what being "politically insignificant" has to do with being able to set sail and discover basically the rest of the world…

Furthering you knowledge about portugal you should react next, to top places to visit in Portugal and geography now:portugal. Great reaction and it's so good when a foreigner knows somethings about my country, like how Brazil got independence and Magellan's death

So you like the time when ships were made of wood and the sailors of steel, not the other way around?

30 years war: the battle of Rocroi (after Lützen, where Gustavus Adolphus died). Spain lost to France.

The perfect video for you to check out is the video "Dutch ships of the golden age" where an American historian lays out why the Dutch were so successful due in part to their ships.

Lets be honest its the sails that make the ship intersting. The funny thing is, you could ship things for free if they put the sails back?! and emission free.

I feel like this video started slightly late, considering the Portuguese exploration started as early as the 1300s and this starts in 1490s.

But yeah, the Iberian Union ruined Portugal, Spain wasn't doing a great job at maintaining their Empire and without an heir, Portugal was lead down that route by Spain, though their decline was slower.

For some reason, Spain was always at war with everyone.

You are right about how Brazil obtained independence, curiously Portugal became a nation in the same way, a son revolted against his mother.

The thing people don't like about colonialism isn't the wars. It's the exploitation that happens afterwards.

Portugal was part of Spain, and parts of Germany were part of Spain (see Charles V earlier). Dutch of course can walk on water … because of the wooden shoes … (snare drum). By 1600 the Pope was … meh! By 1750 the Pope had sided with Portuguese Brazil over Spanish Argentina. The indiscriminate deaths in the Lisbon Earthquake, proved to Voltaire that G-d was bunk.

Fairness is motherly, unfairness is fatherly. Not that mothers are bad or anything. Nobody in their right mind fights or trades as equals … and it is better to control the system (the casino) than to play at dice.

You asked why the Romans didn't keep their navy up. After Augustus, they had no worthy enemies. Not even many pirates. In the Republic, originally they had no navy at all, then went to the most powerful navy, destroying the Carthaginians, the Egyptians, the Venetii (in Brittany) and the piratii. By the time the Anglo-Saxons came along, they only had merchantmen. A beautiful story about S American colonies is "The Mission" situated in 1750.

Portugal and Spain 1498 … we got the Pope in our court! Portugal got access to the Indian Ocean and picked up colonies along the way on both sides of the S Atlantic. Columbus … read his log from his first voyage … he was a fantastic brave navigator. Eventually the Dutch stole the Indian Ocean from the Portuguese, while the Ottomans were fighting hard to push both of them out (Ottomans were in Red Sea, Arabian Gulf, Indian Ocean too). "Inside Dutch Ship Batavia 1628" is a great inside view of a reconstructed 17th century ship in full detail. Harald Baldr is my favorite trekker … he is Norwegian … a real Viking! Syphilis didn't come from the New World, Europe already have it.

The book ‘The Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415-1825’ by CR Boxer goes into this subject in rather more detail than this brief video. There are similar books on the Spanish and Dutch empires.

No, the reason why Brasil was allowed to expand was because policy changed when Portugal and Spain had the same king and the Iberian Union was born: there was no more need for the agreement since it was under the same ruler.

With that said, Portugal had to defend Brasil against Dutch and French, in part because of another policy change: from Mare clausum to Mare liberum. Translates to closed sea and open sea.

With that policy change the Dutch, British,etc. had the right to traverse seas and oceans at will (no need to go on privateering/pirate missions anymore, they could sail with their own flag and go full fleet). Which means they could traverse the ocean with full armies.

Useful Charts just uploaded a video about the Portuguese monarchs (a family tree) about an hour ago!

Spain's inability to protect Portuguese interests in the 1602 to 1663 Dutch–Portuguese War was a key factor in the 1640 Portuguese Restoration War . i think he is talking about that

Los norteamericanos dicen o son Indians o son latinos. Jajaja.
Y No son ni indios ni latinos. Jajaja. 😀😂
El Imperio marítimo portugués fue pionero y admirable. Pero era navegación de cabotaje , por la costa , nada que ver con la navegación transoceánica de la navegación española.

Yeah it's still around people still call them Indians it's insane what history does it's like a ribbol affect.

Oh my God. He did not just fucking endorse Colombus. Top three shit takes from you Connor. How can you minimize the genocide he committed in such a horrible way. So disrespectful and arrogant I can't believe it.

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Oh finally some underrated nations, Portugal is basically the Netherlands of southern Europe. Surprisingly strong in large parts of is history compared to the size of the country or strategic location. PS: the Netherlands next? I keep saying this. But I bet you don't even know the dutch republic invaded England (yes with the support of some of the nobility/higher ranked English people though) and installed their monarch on their throne, thus creating quite a strong alliance (and with it changing the course of English history, especially in regards to religion) read up on the Glorious Revolution. One of the worlds best admirals, called Michiel de Ruyter even managed to sail up the Thames river, destroying a defensive barrier on the way, and completely destroying the shipyards, ships in bay, and eventually towing the flagship of the royal navy back to the republic. It's still considered the worst defeat in home waters I think. *note, this event called the "'Raid on the Medway'' was during the second anglo-dutch war. But I'm just providing you with interesting stuff to check out, don't worry about the messed up time line here ;p

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