Queen Nzinga of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms, a scion of the Mbundu people, will spend forty years standing between the Portuguese and their ambitions, using everything at her command -- her cunning, her ruthless intellect, her military acumen, even the bodies of her people -- whatever it takes to succeed. Get behind-the-scenes access to this show at bit.ly/EHPatreon

@Connie_TinuityError

5 жыл бұрын

1st reply

@pepitocuentos5276

5 жыл бұрын

Extra Credits pls do aztecs

@isaackim3312

5 жыл бұрын

Another good video!

@tec-jones5445

5 жыл бұрын

Been waiting for this one! Can't wait for the rest of the series.

@generalhorse493

5 жыл бұрын

Wakanda- uh...I mean, Ndongo foreva!!!

Nzinga: *sits on her servant as a throne* Weird flex but okay

@ewokrothaar8434

5 жыл бұрын

Would you like to elaborate?

@ewokrothaar8434

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry.

@STDRACO777

5 жыл бұрын

servant=slave= whatever I want you to be atm

@np7736

5 жыл бұрын

There was no chair, what else could she sit on? The floor? That would be barbaric.

@STDRACO777

5 жыл бұрын

@@np7736 would not want to be around her when she needed tp

King: "Kill my sister's child, and sterilize her." Advisor: "Ok, but don't you think she will want revenge?" King: "Nah, what reason would she have."

@clayxros576

5 жыл бұрын

Why brutality is never a good idea for long term health

@seanurbik2689

5 жыл бұрын

@@clayxros576 For the point of the joke ladies and gentlemen, look above.

@user-xq5og9lt8p

5 жыл бұрын

@@clayxros576 ahem... Noone can avenge their sons if there is Noone alive to avenge

@natthekiwi7074

5 жыл бұрын

Dead men don’t grudges.

@seanurbik2689

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-xq5og9lt8p He's right,tho, brutality isn't a good idea.

Nzinga : Hey Guys !! i figured it out, i know the weakness of the Europeans Everyone : Really what is it? Nzinga : They really , really hate each other.

@asdfghjk5880

4 жыл бұрын

svon1 lol

@auroramoon_draws16

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah... that’s sounds about right

@Mbnewman087

4 жыл бұрын

Lol true.

@annoyingamerican515

3 жыл бұрын

that's almost every European country in that century

@Aserlotl

2 жыл бұрын

@@annoyingamerican515 still now tho, (to an extent lol)

Portuguese: Exists Dutch: *Im bout to end this mans whole career*

@miguelmontenegro3520

5 жыл бұрын

Dutch: Gets kicked from Brazil by a handful of portuguese some slaves and Indians Portugal: What a noob Brazil in the future: My Childhood was wierd

@ilonasapel3072

5 жыл бұрын

*WILHELMUS VAN NASSOUWE* *BEN IK, VAN DUITSEN BLOED...*

@maarten9272

5 жыл бұрын

@@miguelmontenegro3520 It didn't matter that you eventually kicked us out. By the time you got it back, brazil had already lost it's sugar monopoly.

@realhawaii5o

5 жыл бұрын

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

@abcdef27669

5 жыл бұрын

Brasil: “Hold my coffee... Time to kick some dutch ass!”

"can i have a chair" "i dont know can you" *sits on servant*

@AlmightyLoaf

4 жыл бұрын

"Yes; yes I can."

@dellaboca9737

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

16th century...the year 1626... Somebody made an oopsie!

@reddyforlenny9389

5 жыл бұрын

Remember century names are always one plus than the actual century itself

@bobbylewis2

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah they do that pretty consistently throughout all of their videos. Not sure why.

@realhawaii5o

5 жыл бұрын

@@reddyforlenny9389 2000 was in the 20th century though ;)

@KyleAPemberton

5 жыл бұрын

@@realhawaii5o Not 2001 though.

@atheos5748

5 жыл бұрын

@@bobbylewis2 Probably because the rest of the world doesn't do that.

Queen Nzinga to the Portuguese: *_I am inevitable_*

@marmalademagnus4174

5 жыл бұрын

Hehehe

@AncientAccounts

5 жыл бұрын

Lachelle Lewis hehehe

@hypothanos9965

5 жыл бұрын

Hehe

@taciokikuchi181

5 жыл бұрын

I am the Senate

@ieuanhunt552

5 жыл бұрын

Is that going to be a new meme? I'm all for it.

the enemy of my enemy is still probably my backstabbing enemy. realistic

@StellaEFZ

5 жыл бұрын

If the enemy of my enemy is a Dutch I have two enemies

@unextrano9775

5 жыл бұрын

@Ted Hubert Pagnanawon Crusio wow

@StellaEFZ

5 жыл бұрын

@spider879 Exactly. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy (in this case)

@stevengreen9536

4 жыл бұрын

@Tyler McDaniel In alliances of convience that is usually true.

Nzinga had a great cultural impact on Brazilian slaves, many today don't know, but the word we use "Ginga", is directly related to queen Nzinga. Ginga means something like "finding a way through adversity, no matter how", deeply related to creative means. That word seems to originate based on queen Nzinga's persistence, and creativity towards the challenges of her life.

Queen Nzinga to Portugal: *"YOU CAN'T SEE ME, MY TIME IS NOW!"*

@evelyngravatt3198

5 жыл бұрын

@Holy Sealandic TO THE SKIES!

@fizzylavie17

5 жыл бұрын

@@evelyngravatt3198 SEE CARO-wait is this even allowed here?

@lolnoob5015

4 жыл бұрын

What's EU4

Huh. She seemed way more willing to make deals with the Portuguese than I expected at first. Also,, way to screw a profitable business and diplomatic relationship on the governor's part.

@timothymclean

5 жыл бұрын

The Portuguese looked Africa and saw resources they could forge. Nzinga looked at the Portuguese and saw an anvil she could forge with.

@jacintovski

5 жыл бұрын

@@timothymclean As a Portuguese person myself, you're right.

@bluestormpony

5 жыл бұрын

racism and self obsession is one hell of a drug

@silveryuno

5 жыл бұрын

And that's the "good" governor of Luanda. Just you wait until the next one comes.

@Redbird-dh7mu

5 жыл бұрын

She did not want war, keep in mind that the Portuguese would of completely destroyed her country if they went to war at the time. Her making deals with the Portuguese was not her being open minded, in fact, she hated them, she just did not want them to come in and destroy the country because she was being difficult

Funny thing is, Maria, a woman, would eventually lead Portugal. Also, random, bottom of the stack of papers request, maybe do a Series on Eva Peron.

@alexandrub8786

5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't she crazy? That rather help the portuguese governator.

@averymetaboi5317

5 жыл бұрын

@@alexandrub8786 Well, She went crazy but she wasn't always crazy

@greas1233

5 жыл бұрын

@@alexandrub8786 the first queen gave back political power to the noble families that the previous prime minister had taken in an attempt to end feudalism due to his ideals in the enlightment, allowed the return of the jesuits and later she became insane, the second one on the other hand was the daughter of a traitor so you can see how well we've had with queens

@TheBrickMasterB

5 жыл бұрын

@@averymetaboi5317 Eh, still, the way her reign went sorta lent ammo to the idea that women were incapable of leadership positions, since she spent the last 20 years of her life (approximation here) living in Brazil, in screaming madness

@slice0909

5 жыл бұрын

She was a pretty shitty leader actually

I wish we had KZread videos like this available back in the 90's; when I was a teenager. I think I learned more from this than I did an entire semester in Global History.

@Christopher-qq4dl

9 ай бұрын

❤

Aksumite, Ethiopian, Kemet and kushite empires would be lovely. You guys are great in narrating these over looked gems of history. The history it’s self will reshape the way the world views Africa as well as other continents. None of this is mentioned in westernized curriculum so I use videos like this as well as global encyclopedic entries to teach my children their history. Thank you.

"And stole adolescents to fill their ranks," Some things never change.

@hiimryan2388

3 жыл бұрын

Preston Jones they just want to speed run the kids,

Portuguese: "We want to enslave your people." Queen Nzinga: "Dracarys 🙃"

*Meanwhile in EU4* Byzantine Africa.

@clayxros576

5 жыл бұрын

Kinda surprised an african leader hasn't managed this already. The number of capable administrators out there in comparison to Europe is staggering

@gaiusjuliuscaesar3808

5 жыл бұрын

@@clayxros576 Eh, depends. Europe had many competent administrator's but only few were mentioned due to the way they affected the continent. But Africa on the other hand was usually made up of smaller tribal societies in which making an impact was much easier.

@oscarromarioflorezcamargo6342

5 жыл бұрын

A man of culture as well

@archsteel7

5 жыл бұрын

Byzantine Africa, and Ming California

@gaiusjuliuscaesar3808

5 жыл бұрын

@@archsteel7 That is an awfully common colony for Ming to gain not gonna lie

A trivia. In Angola local language "Quimbundo" there are 4 or 5 categories of names according to certain circumstances of the baby birth. For examples Queen Nzinga as a baby born with the umbilical cord around her neck would traditionally receive the name of "Lubambo". (Oscar Ribas is the most comprehensive author about the subject of myths, language and culture of Angola.)

@Dzinho29

5 жыл бұрын

bro it nice to see a person how haves interest in my home country history but Quimbundo is one of the 16 Local languages of Angola and the most spoken among the people is Portuguese

@gunjfur8633

5 жыл бұрын

Fascinating

@gunjfur8633

5 жыл бұрын

@First Last I have an intrest in Language & culture

@unextrano9775

5 жыл бұрын

@First Last nah its fascinating men

@TheIvoal

5 жыл бұрын

@@Dzinho29 I am from angola too living in luanda now actually and meus pais são do kuanza norte. And the both my parent are from the tribe of mainly quimbundo speakers. And this is why i said "one language of Angola, quimbundo" not "the language of angola". I know the other exists but besides Portuguese being our main language, in the local dialects today you are more likely to find quimbundo speaker's than others. From which province did you came from?

bloody hell I'm in the middle of my EU4 Kongo run (around 1550)

@theliberator5126

5 жыл бұрын

kriegwhatever African Power?

@kriegwhatever

5 жыл бұрын

@@theliberator5126 of course!

@gameboyhotline3712

5 жыл бұрын

Make nzinga proud, to colonise the Portuguese

@kriegwhatever

5 жыл бұрын

now in 1700s pushing through morocco to tangiers. next war I'll grab Lisboa

@marilynpickles5212

5 жыл бұрын

Lol I shall amass troops to aid you Krieg

They should teach about her in school. Absolute badass woman.

@increasepeace4996

2 жыл бұрын

You should research her more thoroughly.

@alpacaofthemountain8760

11 ай бұрын

?

@user-ik6dg9uk3u

8 ай бұрын

Today my teacher made us watch this very video

@Dr.Starbound

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, I really am upset that EH didn't go into this, she was a bigger slaver than Portugal. She wasn't upset at slavery, she was upset she couldn't profit from it. That story at the beginning? That was her slave, and after the conversation she gave the slave to the Portuguese dignitary.

@Doriankinne

6 ай бұрын

@@Dr.Starboundeven if that happened, she’s still way better than most people in history

Portugal: AFRICA IS OURS!!!! Nzinga: GTFO, I won't say it again.

Since they didn't have tubal ligation in 17th-century Africa, I shudder to think of what 'sterilization' method was used on Nzinga and her sister.

@marilynpickles5212

5 жыл бұрын

CUT YOU KNOW WHAT OFF

@NathanTAK

5 жыл бұрын

Marilyn Pickles WE DON’T KNOW WHAT BECAUSE THERE ARE NO REMOVABLE SURFACE FEATURES FOR STERILIZING WOMEN

@Shivom.Parihar

5 жыл бұрын

They would usually stick hooks or other sharp things to rip apart um, you know were...

@nurlindafsihotang49

5 жыл бұрын

Or made them drink poison

@irrelevant_noob

4 жыл бұрын

Nurlinda F Sihotang aren't you forgetting they were supposed to remain alive after the sterilization? -.-

I found out just recently that she is my great+ grandmother. Now I'm trying to learn as much as possible about her. So far, I've found that she was a total badass. More research to come...

@anoon-

2 жыл бұрын

Are you by chance Brazilian?

@afrolofi

Жыл бұрын

Great grandmother?

@idiosyncraticlawyer3400

Жыл бұрын

@@afrolofi The plus

@afrolofi

Жыл бұрын

@@idiosyncraticlawyer3400 appreciate you 🙏

@c3h8propaneldd

Жыл бұрын

@@anoon- gotta be Angolan...

Queen Nzinga: Like Cersei Lannister if she lived up to her own hype.

@mykomatos5445

5 жыл бұрын

Smarter Remember Tywin's words, "You're not as smart as you think you are"

@ginoclaves

5 жыл бұрын

Oof, indeed. Her time ruling, as far as the books are concerned, was a *shipwreck* . Or should I say, - book spoiler alert, ignored by the series - a *"shipsgiving"* to a brand-new pirate crew.

@ShadowWolfRising

5 жыл бұрын

And was actually smart. And Competent.

@JaimeNyx15

5 жыл бұрын

@@mykomatos5445 Yup. Nzinga is way smarter. By "her own hype," I also meant how Cersei thought of her own intelligence.

@mykomatos5445

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't get the turn of words my bad

The fact that here in Portugal, we don't learn anything about her its for me perplexing, I mean, we should know about her as our neighbors in Spain know about Montezuma

@unitedgamers361

5 жыл бұрын

in general we gloss over this time period because it is during the Filipin dynasty. it just resumes itself to "the british, french and dutch are taking our land in South America, Asia and Africa. case in point: the dutch have arrived to help Nzinga.

SHE IS A LEGEND IN OUR COUNTRY.♥️🇦🇴

@spaghettimon3851

2 жыл бұрын

God bless Angola and long live the MPLA! 🇨🇺❤🇦🇴 ☭

@cocopus

9 ай бұрын

You guys must be short on legends if this is the type of person you admire LMAO

I love how you guys always bring us history that we wouldnt learn about in normal schooling. THANK YOU!!! Keep it up you guys I'm always learning something new and its always interesting:)

I really appreciate how you incorporate African history into your series! I feel it's oft overlooked and it's nice to see this channel value it :)

@jackson0335

5 жыл бұрын

Much agreed. Eurocentric channels through me off. Even though of course European history is just as valuable and interesting as African, Asain, and American history it just doesn't sit right. So major props to this channel for inclusion

@jackson0335

5 жыл бұрын

Side note: Extra Credit's series on Shaka is one of their best

@Silverhawk100

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, a great deal of (Sub-Saharan) African history was only recorded orally. And through war and colonization, those stories inevitably would get lost. So we have to rely on foreigners writing down events as they saw it (whether Arab or European).

@florbengorben7651

5 жыл бұрын

@@jackson0335 hell yeah it is. Mansa Musa was really good too.

@jannegrey593

5 жыл бұрын

They do a lot of non-European (ehem) history. And it is great.

Thank you so much for including African history in your work without the bias we encounter so often.

@brbrke3472

3 жыл бұрын

@Fatin Marwat True but European history does the same.

4:04 When you place something on top of a shelf only for it to fall back down and crush your toes.

"How dare you, I won't be degraded like this and sit at your feet. I deserve respect". "You there, servent, get down on all fours so I can use you as a chair. No it's not degrading it's completely different!"

@evrensaygn1017

5 жыл бұрын

Or she just wanted to suffer one servant to secure the dignity of all ngondo.

@BenWGray

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah nothing says dignity more than reducing someone to furniture.@@evrensaygn1017

new world/ africa: *exist* europe: "HIPITY HOPITY, YOUR LAND IS NOW MY PROPERTY"

@math3000

5 жыл бұрын

It's free real estate.

I really appreciate you guys including African history it's extremely refreshing and a great reason why I value you guys above all other channels of History

I love your channel, not only do I learn more than I did at school about the period of history that were taught (Irish potato famine to name just one) but I learn about fascinating periods of history that were ignored completely. I look forward to learning more about this woman.

“Assert dominance by becoming a chair” is not something I had heard of until Nzinga’s servant

I read about this story from that book series where its written like a diary and it goes back in time with history. I absolutely fell in love with this story and it just goes to show how resilient a people can be. I encourage EVERY ONE OF YOU to watch all of these videos because I think you'll love this story as well.

@wajeehahmumin1675

5 жыл бұрын

I remeber reading that! the royal diaries, right?

@thecakemuffincrew9987

5 жыл бұрын

@@wajeehahmumin1675 Yes! Exactly! It was an amazing book.

Portugese King: Doesn't provide a chair, hoping to humiliate Nzinga Nzinga: Uses her servant as a throne What a power move

I really enjoy this. I know very little about African history and, as a Brazilian, looking for other once-Portuguese-colonies seems like a great place to start.

Please do Atilla the hun or something about the Vandals

@Elonyx.studios

5 жыл бұрын

There's already a video series about the founding of the Hun empire

@Prespanda

5 жыл бұрын

@@Elonyx.studios They haven't done a series on the Huns.

@redpilling2399

5 жыл бұрын

@@Elonyx.studios it's the Mongols that they did. Nothing for the huns yet

@sanketsudke2617

5 жыл бұрын

I second that

@ShadowWolfRising

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with the latter.

Very accurate narration. I am from Angola too and I feel really privileged for seeing you guys making a video on one of the most encouraging and iconic shares of our history! Thanks @Extra Credits

I like the funny voices but maybe they should be kept in the mythology series.

@welcome2hellbitches

5 жыл бұрын

I honestly hate them and I feel like it really detracts from the seriousness of the series. It's already a pretty casual retelling of history, which is fine, but dear god man the voices really bother me. I would actually watch their mythology stuff if it wasn't pretty much based around doing the voices

@jarredmace1080

5 жыл бұрын

I'd settle for no funny voices.

@vazak11

5 жыл бұрын

I think it fits very well to represent the individual in question, such ideas and people who hold them are pathetic and should be treated as such, I feel.

@SonicSweden1

5 жыл бұрын

@@vazak11 I understand what you mean, but I personally think that you don't need funny voices to make fun of them.

@oTHARKUNo

5 жыл бұрын

I stopped watching the whole mythology series because of all the over-acting...

I've just showed your channel to my grandmother We where talking about ghanghis khan (for some reason) And I recommended your ghanghis khan series she seems pretty exited to see more stuff from you guys!

@al.c.1525

3 жыл бұрын

hold on they were made a year before this

“A woman can’t be a ruler!” Nzinga: Hold my tribe!

@kwarrior2895

5 жыл бұрын

@@doubled6490 No we did not.

Portuguese colonial empire: **exists** Dutch: *It's Free Real Estate*

@hiimryan2388

3 жыл бұрын

United Kingdom: *DID SOMEONE SAY land?!?!!!!?!!* *G O D S A V E T H E Q U E E N I N T E N S I F I E S* *captain smiling background

That human chair move seems like such a dickish thing to do to your own subjects when you can't be bothered to bow to anyone in the first place.

@hiddenhist

5 жыл бұрын

Foreign politics are a vicious thing. Had she sat on the floor, it would’ve been an admission of weakness.

thank you for having African history into these videos

0:46 The look in Nzingas eye of "Ill flip the Portuguese" is beautiful

As a Portuguese I feel compelled to say that when she stod up she left that sevant girl there, saying "You can keep her. Have more like her."

@werbizzy

Жыл бұрын

?? wdym

Hi i love your videos you should do one on rasputin

@finner_1415

5 жыл бұрын

Ra ra Rasputin lover of the Russian queen..

@cyberavenger8668

5 жыл бұрын

@@finner_1415 love that song.

@user-hn5bi3nw9y

5 жыл бұрын

@@finner_1415 There was a cat that really was gone Ra ra Rasputin

@cluck9692

5 жыл бұрын

RA RA RUSPUTIN RUSSIAS GREATEST LOVE MACHINE

@TowerBooks3192

5 жыл бұрын

Will Rasputin be on Extra History or Extra Myth though? He was a slavic deity after all.

3:15 "window" of opportunity, dang it

That slave seems suspiciously happy to be a chair... Servant I mean...

@vazak11

5 жыл бұрын

She wasn't a slave and she knew she was helping give the middle finger to the colonists.

@theredhunter4997

5 жыл бұрын

@@vazak11 no, she was a slave she probably mostly brought slaves to a meeting, and most 'servants" were salves anyway

@antoniacapellaborges6566

5 жыл бұрын

TheRedHunter how do YOU know?! Were YOU there?! This was her entourage! The servant KNEW what she had to do to avoid humiliation for her princess. Nzinga’s own mother was a slave cretin!

@swahi2702

4 жыл бұрын

@@antoniacapellaborges6566 How do you know how the servant was feeling? Were YOU there??

@sadnessofwildgoats

4 жыл бұрын

@@antoniacapellaborges6566 wErE yOu ThErE?

Uhm thats the 17th century...you said 16th

@MrEmiosk

5 жыл бұрын

16th century, 1600-1700 so is it done in my country. I for example am 25 and two month old, and I do not call myself 26 years old, the same reasoning is used in Sweden when it comes to centuries. when you pass into the 1600 its the 16th century, not the 17th. Same we call its the 20th century right now, and the world wars was in the early 19th century etc. To me its weird to say 17th century and mean the years 1600-1699 instead of 1700-1799.

@hii-people2245

5 жыл бұрын

MrEmiosk it’s the 21st century right now

@sivertflttum8209

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrEmiosk i am sure what you're saying is true but with all due respect ,generally when we talk about centurys we call the 16 hundreds the 17th century. I am sure you dont need an explanation but year 0 to year 100 is the 1st century so the 1600 to 1700 is the 17th century.

listening to history here is a painkiller for me, ends my sarrows for a few mins, i love you extra history

man, this sure smells like a truthful retelling of history with no biases in the manuscript or source material for that matter.

@lyhenglim6969

5 жыл бұрын

Sarcasm orrrrrrr

@thenablade858

6 ай бұрын

We will never whether Nzinga was as brutal as the Portuguese say or genuinely Christian (the Portuguese claimed she converted at the end of her life) we have to remember that, like the Romans with Attila the Hun, most of our knowledge of Nzinga comes from Portugal.

Episode idea: The 80 years war and Dutch Revolt. Very influencial and very complicated. Also not so well known. I think it would make for a great series!

Thank you for treating African history with the same grace as all your wonderfully produced videos 👍

Dutch: If only we had a way to stick it to the Portuguese. Nzinga: Allow me to introduce myself...

Nzinga's brother: I AM KING Nzinga: Sit yourself down, son.

Make a series about the Paraguayan War

@abcdef27669

5 жыл бұрын

Melhor não... Imagina a encrenca... Better not... Just imagine the trouble...

@paulohenriqueferreiradealm1893

5 жыл бұрын

@@abcdef27669 Extra credits is pretty capable. Even thoug the theme is VERY sensible (and not without reasons), I belive they could make a well balenced series of the war as how it was, and not how extremists on both sides want it to be remembered.

@g.c.4824

5 жыл бұрын

Please

@g.c.4824

5 жыл бұрын

The triple aliance war

@miguelmontenegro3520

5 жыл бұрын

Muito bom. Mas os Paraguaios iam dizer que o paraguai era o pais mais forte das galáxias

NEVER HEARD OF ANY OF THIS! Thanks guys, this is why you're my favorite channel. If I had a job, I would totally give you money.

I love these african stories guys/gals! We never learn of these in school. keep it up

Portugese colonial ambitions: *exist* The Dutch: I'm going to have to stop you right there

@facek9276

5 жыл бұрын

Dutch Republic Mapping

@edipires15

5 жыл бұрын

The English: how dare you interfere with my ancient ally?

Portuguese: I fear no man….. but that woman is scary Nzinga: >:3 you know what happens not

7:58 I like the chess metaphor, but that other piece is the Queen, defeating the point of the metaphor

@HenryPlays923

4 ай бұрын

Well a king can capture a queen

5:48 so she killed an innocent soul who had done nothing but being son of some bad guy? What a cruel atrocity.

@HenryPlays923

4 ай бұрын

She got back at him for killing her child

Stoked for #2 of Queen Nzinga ! This is by far one of my favorite YT channels

such diverse elements as "her cunning, her ruthless intellect, her military acumen and" almost fanatical devotion to the pope - no? damnit! (1:12)

Nobody : Nzinga : *the pain of another human is a preferable alternative to sitting on the floor*

@hagamapama

5 жыл бұрын

nzinga: The pain of one human is preferable to the humiliation of all of the Ndongo.

@Geothesponge111

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this is one of those things where short of having a testimonial from the servant herself, you can't really tell how this played out. Based on the brief description, I can imagine "I have to kneel down and be a seat for this woman or else I will be brutally punished" or "Of course I'll suffer this indignity to preserve the dignity of my nation in the face of a slaver" both being potential lines of thought for her in that position.

@dchristensen777

5 жыл бұрын

Her sitting on the floor would hurt many thousands of her people. By doing so she would accept the insult the king gave her and acknowledge that her race is a lower form of life. I applaud her for not accepting this insult.

@jocamar15

5 жыл бұрын

@@Geothesponge111 Yeah, it's kinda hard to get the servant's opinion considering she supposedly slit his throat immediately after using him as a chair.

@Redbird-dh7mu

5 жыл бұрын

She apparently killed the man afterwords, something about not wanting to sit on the same throne twice... pretty hard to see her as a hero here

Thanks for doing a video with a part of Portuguese history... As a Portuguese I am greatfull... As an Fan of History thanks for show me the other side of the Portuguese colonial expantion....

"You might treat your own people with some slight sliver of human rights, but I treat mine as litteral objects !" Weird to spin it as a positive thing.

@thenablade858

6 ай бұрын

I don’t know what you mean here. Both Nzinga’s kingdom and Portugal were slave empires, therefore both treated some of their ‘subjects’ (as slaves technically are ‘subjects’ of the crown or private individuals) as objects.

All salute the servant who accomplished her task as throne of Queen Nzinga

she seems like the definition of the saying "she is beauty, she is grace, she will punch you in the face"

Do Empire of Benin, Haile Selassie, and Yaa Asantewaa next, please

@alexanderkorol677

5 жыл бұрын

@First Last What do you mean "why?"?

@alexanderkorol677

5 жыл бұрын

@spider879 That's what I was asking

1:35 as Noah Sterling once said: "she's pretty much better than you in every way"

I think she'd find a common lenguage with Catherine and Theodora. In fact, I may even write a story about that... **

@ewokrothaar8434

5 жыл бұрын

Would you like to elaborate?

@AbsolXGuardian

5 жыл бұрын

Also Caterina Sforza

@ginoclaves

5 жыл бұрын

Might wanna take a few tips out of Dante's Inferno. Whole thing was pretty much the guy writing the world's first self-immersion fanfic. It's hilarious.

Is it just me or dose Portugal look likes a french fry

@Fishgaio

5 жыл бұрын

We just call it "The Rectangle" (France is the hexagon)

@ginoclaves

5 жыл бұрын

A lil bit, ye

@RafaelMartins-lx5sc

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@RafaelMartins-lx5sc

5 жыл бұрын

And Spain controls Algarve in some scenes for a reason

Sterilize and murder... Surprised when she wants revenge... What?

I love how the servant is just like >:) "My back hurts but not as much as your ego"

Yeeees!! She has been one of my hero’s since a was a small child! Thank you for covering her! ❤️❤️❤️

It’s always nice when you do a series in Africa

@alexandrub8786

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that partvis pretty ignored.

When you are so swag that you sit on your servants as thrones

@joshmorton7283

5 жыл бұрын

Unimornnbr1 yea oppression is dope

@unimornnbr1

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshmorton7283 lol

@14thbattlegroupcommander

5 жыл бұрын

Weird flex but ok

@ginoclaves

5 жыл бұрын

@@joshmorton7283 I mean, in a world of monarchs, I'd rather serve my people's rather than a random one's that comes around to ship people off to slavery in an unknown "new" world.

You should also say that nzingas government had a part in the slave trade and sold their own kind to the european powers

@alexandrub8786

5 жыл бұрын

Aren't they american?

@Vrykion15

5 жыл бұрын

alot of nations in africa and asia did that, it was an easy way to dsipose of enemies.

@alexandrub8786

5 жыл бұрын

@@Iarlen i think only the ones at the sea not in inland. Also not really all of Africa rather the wester and maybe the central (that maded slave trade with the europeans) part the norther was raiding europe fow slaves the east was exporting to arabia and south, who I reqlly don't know.

@sjappiyah4071

3 жыл бұрын

Not “ their own people “ , enemies, and are you forgetting that they were *FORCED* to by the Portuguese?

1:28 I was also born with my umbilical cord around my neck. How come my life isn't unusual?

@azelfdaboi5265

5 жыл бұрын

Oof

FInally, I can learn some African History

@alecity4877

5 жыл бұрын

they have other videos about african history, I highly sugest you to see them, high quality.

@Ethan-mp7wr

5 жыл бұрын

I eat penis because Uh... terribl- uh I mean magnifice-, magnificent name.

@nedimbajgoric2909

5 жыл бұрын

I eat penis because they also made videos about the mali empire and great zimbabwe,the zulu empire

@lilldavid6903

5 жыл бұрын

Did you miss the Mali and zulu episodes?

02:54 I have never seen a depiction of Power as cute as this one

Thanks for this series. Great so far.

MORE REEeeee This series is off to a great start :D

@iPizerr

5 жыл бұрын

buddy says reee in 2019 with a ugandan knuckles profile picture.. no wonder you like this shit video

@mercury3222

5 жыл бұрын

-._-.

“Oh hey step-mom! I’m excited to see you get married! Oh boy, that’s a sharp knife you got there, what are you gonna- *stab* Ow.” *Death*

@edisonlima4647

3 жыл бұрын

Well, aunt, not step-mother.

Why are her people that are killed at a whim and used as furniture not called slaves?

@STDRACO777

5 жыл бұрын

@glfmn I'm not going to spoil anything past this but its already 2. And yes we do know how they treated their slaves and if you think they treated them better than their own family you are mistaken.

@sjappiyah4071

3 жыл бұрын

glfmn exactly!

@MaynardCrow

Жыл бұрын

They were literally slaves. Her tribe enslaved neighboring tribes for their own purposes and also sold many to the European slave traders.

Love how the servant is just as smug about Nzinga sitting on her as Nzinga is.

@hestiathena4917

5 жыл бұрын

I suspect what's going through her mind is, "I elevate my queen, I elevate my people."

@sophiaglass2000

5 жыл бұрын

@@hestiathena4917 That's what I assumed too.

@aleenazahir

4 жыл бұрын

The Portuguese surprised a Queen will not sit down...... is the missed lesson

Thanks for shedding light on this lady!

1:24 same happened to me.........Still waiting for the unusual tho !

the rise of the legend 47 the Nzinga

@czechmeoutbabe1997

5 жыл бұрын

Yo why am I subscribed to you

Something tells me her servant wasn’t so happy to be a chair lol

Thank you so much for telling this story.

Love episodes like this for which I have no prior knowledge. However I do have to say, other than Catherine, all the female lead episodes have been one-offs or two-parters. Aside from Theodora I guess, who shared particularly the second Justinian series with him. I understand that these are patreon votes mostly, and yinz do a great amount of diversity in topics and figures. It just came to my attention and made me even more excited for the Jean of Arc episodes coming up. So I guess both yay, and also: please do more full series on the likes of Queen Victoria, or the history of powered flight which would inherently have a lot of female aviators as the focus, and especially Cleopatra cause she is so much more than just her relationship with Cesar and Antony - and like James talked about with Theodora - gets blames as being some evil seductress who ruined Rome when she was really an amazing brilliant leader. I would suggest more French stories like d'Aubigny, but Jean of Arc coming up means I guess other nations should get some focus there. Though French Revolution pieces would be great

@boygenius538_8

4 жыл бұрын

redleader antilles Well it's called HIStory for a reason, but all jokes aside there were simply more men in power to tell stories of

1:56 *Spain annexes southern Portugal

@josebarbosa5670

5 жыл бұрын

Algarve is gone.

After she started plotting against her brother I spent the rest of the episode imagining she was Danny Targaryon

YES, great choice for a video series, I LOVE IT