Hail, my knights! Thiago here, welcome to Impérios AD. “The Discovery of America and the passage to the East Indies, are the two biggest events that there is news in the history of mankind.
Words of the father of the modern economy, the British Adam Smith. Nowadays, any honest person and understand the least of what it meant the Grand Navigations, will agree with that. The world was isolated and divided, knowledge, information, scientific and cultural progress, was all closed by physical and mental barriers of the planet and man.
Europe, Asia, Africa and America: continents of the same planet, but they belonged to different worlds. Calm that this will make a lot of sense, stay with me! But the problem is that since childhood, people learn that the Navigations were just a joke: Portuguese enter a small boat, Portuguese arrive in Brazil, Portuguese they kill little Indians, Portuguese steal the gold.
But we don’t learn to put our foot in a Caravel, the guy had to be very macho. Courageous and determined men left their families to meet the unknown, and most of them never came back. But through his effort, stubbornness and sacrifice, the the world met, the world became one.
So knights, this is the Great Age of Discoveries! Ahhhh, 21st century, the information age, the 5G internet, the Play Station 5, from the Hadron Collider . .
. But there are still people insisting that “Discovery” is only the first to arrive: Discover science, adapt the instruments, find out when and where the winds blow, discover the relationship between the moon and the tides, create ships capable to navigate the ocean, discover the path, discover on your own that a place exists, unknown to most of the world: None of this is Discovery if you don't get there first! But fear not, the Social Justice Warriors invented a innovative term to solve this dilemma: But the Great Age of Discoveries began here, Portugal, after they attacked here, Ceuta, in 1415.
There, the Portuguese discovered the Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde, Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, the Byzantine Empire fell, the Ottoman Empire broke, Spain discovered America . . .
All of this you already know and have seen here, and you can see it again if you want to. What you haven't seen is how Portuguese and Spaniards built the Era from the Discoveries, from Earth to the Sea, and this is what you will discover now . .
. or you will "find" now . .
. This is a typical Portuguese fisherman: thick-skinned, male, radical; and if we exist today, thank to him, not to him, but to his ancestors. Because you know what a fisherman sails, and before the Discoveries begin, who sailed the Atlantic were fishermen.
And for the guys there were no frills: dark sea, flat land, giant monsters: their home was the sea. They discovered Canada, Newfoundland. No English, that's right, the Portuguese discovered Canada, because Canada had cod, and where there is cod there is Portuguese.
Thanks to these fishermen the knowledge Atlantic began to grow, but only turned SCIENTIFIC with him, the father of Navigation, Infante Dom Henrique. He creates a Navigation School in Sagres, in the south of Portugal. But some beings say this school is a lie and that never existed, but fortunately this channel is not theirs and as I really like this School, here it is.
The best navigators and world scientists, study here. With the leadership of Dom Henrique, they develop your skills for decades, and among these students were they: Gil Eanes, Bartolomeu Dias, Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Ferdinand Magellan, the best navigators in the world . .
. "Toc Toc" "Who is it? " The Masters of the Seas!
They: Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus! Although Columbus had a small deviation from direction, he was a great navigator, stubborn and obstinate, and deeeep down, he believed he could arrive in the West Indies, and Spain believed in him In the end you know he did not arrive in India . .
. arrived in a new continent, in a gold mine: America. 6 years later Vasco da Gama finally found his way to the Indies.
The world couldn't believe what you heard! But unbelievable same is what happened inside these ships: remember I said the guys had to be so macho to put their feet on caravel? Now you will understand why: First, let's understand the distances, they are important: the full crossing of Columbus to the Bahamas lasted 37 days more than 6 thousand km.
Vasco da Gama's Journey it took 107 days to the Cape of Good Hope, covering more than 12 thousand km Vasco's fleet stayed 93 days on the high seas, with no land sign: almost 3x more than Columbus. And this comparison is important, because it is here that the business gets ugly: Food: during the trip they ate biscuits, meat, beans, oil and vinegar. Not bad right?
But in a few days of travel the food was all bogged down: worms, swamps and rats everywhere. But worst of all was water: to save water they had to mix it with vinegar; but leaving of the thirtieth day at sea, you know how much could each sailor drink? That's right: a 250 ml glass a day, nothing more.
And to make matters worse, they cooked the fish with sea water, and then you imagine the thirst the guys were after. And now comes another important part: sleep they slept on straw mattresses, or oiled full of salt that didn't dry in a humid climate They defecated and urinated in buckets or directly into the sea, and then you ask me, "Thiago, what about the bath? " "Then I ask you: "What bath?
" Diseases started to appear: dysentery, fever and the executioner of the navigators: The Scurvy! Without vitamin C, entire crews died after 80 days of sailing. There were 38 thousand km in all: of the 170 men who left from Lisbon 113 died: 2/3 of the crew sacrificed himself in favor of a dream, a epic adventure.
No wonder, many historians compare the Grand Navigations to space travel That was the Great Age of Discoveries, and without these quotes from the politically correct that in the 21st century insists on the trifle of “who came first”; Portuguese and Spaniards never hid that there were inhabitants in the Americas, Pero Vaz de Caminha wrote a beautiful letter telling this meeting between the two peoples. For both people that it was a Discovery in its purest form. And who today, 500 years later, can have the audacity to question that?
Yes, a lot was discovered: Columbus discovered the way to the Americas, Vasco discovered the road to the Indies, Cabral and Pinzón discovered the way to Brazil, Duarte Pacheco discovered the relationship between the phases of the moon and the tides, Magellan found that the whole world could be navigated and led the first global navigation. They discovered marine science and technology, they discovered where the winds blew and when they blew. They were the pioneers of globalization!
This was the Great Age of Discoveries that revolutionized the world. Today the Age of Discovery is under attack, and not by history, but by ideologies who insist on entering a kingdom that has no right: the Kingdom of History! In Portugal, the birthplace of the Great Navigations, the great Museum of the Discoveries is in the middle of a political war, just because of the name.
For the politically correct, it doesn't matter if the name has centuries of use; if that name brings a whole historical identity for a people; It doesn't matter if those done changed the world! None of that matters! And so its story no longer belongs to you, the story of the Portuguese and their millions of descendants it doesn't belong to them anymore!
But don't fear, maybe the museum that will tell the history of the Great Navigations has a historically incorrect name, but so cute and fluffy it will even look novel name: The Journey! Protect your story! And here we close my knights, and I would like to thank you so much for watching and mainly to my supportive knights who always finance and invest in my work so that I can produce this content that you like and especially with the highest quality possible.
So again, thank you very much for everything, a big hug, take care and goodbye!
