Capítulo 1 - A Cruz e a Espada | Brasil - A Última Cruzada
Resumo
TLDR"Brasil - A Última Cruzada" é unha serie que narra a historia de Brasil a través do sacrificio, virtude e coraxe, abordando temas clave como a identidade nacional e a importancia da memoria histórica. Producida por Brasil Paralelo, a serie é un esforzo por restaurar e promover a cultura brasileira sen apoio público, dependendo da contribución de membros. O primeiro capítulo explora a historia das cruzadas e como estas influíron na formación de Brasil e Portugal, destacando eventos fundamentais na reconquista cristiá e a formación de identidades culturais. A invitación final chama a non esquecer a importancia da historia para guiar o futuro do país.
Conclusões
- 📽️ Esta serie promete ser a máis grande sobre a historia de Brasil.
- 👥 Brasil Paralelo é unha organización privada sen financiamiento público.
- 💡 A historia é fundamental para a identidade nacional.
- 🛡️ As cruzadas tiveron un impacto significativo en Europa e Brasil.
- ⚔️ A narrativa explora a coraxe e o sacrificio de herois históricos.
- 🌍 O primeiro capítulo conecta a historia de Brasil coas súas orixes en Europa.
- ✊ Unha invitación a aprender sobre a historia e a cultura.
- 🏛️ As leccións do pasado son clave para o futuro de Brasil.
- 🌊 A serie desafía a visión contemporánea da historia de Brasil.
- 📚 Os membros terán acceso a contido exclusivo e debates sobre a serie.
Linha do tempo
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A serie "Brasil - A Última Cruzada" comeza a contar unha historia de sacrificio e valor que foi ignorada durante moito tempo. A organización privada Brasil Paralelo reúne expertos para ofrecer unha narrativa profunda sobre a historia do Brasil e empoderar aos seus membros a través do coñecemento cultural e a reflexión sobre a identidade nacional.
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A identidade brasileira está en crise, coas persoas perdendo a conexión co seu pasado e historia. O descoñecemento das súas raíces e logros históricos é considerado un acto cruel, que impide as futuras xeracións de comprender quen son e cal é o seu legado cultural.
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A cultura e a historia son fundamentais para a identidade nacional e a memoria colectiva, permitindo comprender o mundo e a posición propia nela. A transmisión do coñecemento histórico é clave para que as novas xeracións se sintan conectadas á humanidade e á historia en xeral.
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A historia da Península Ibérica remóntase a mil anos, cando as tribos visigodas ocupaban a rexión. A expansión do Islam no século VIII tivo un gran impacto en Europa, levando á creación de diferentes reinos e conflitos que fusionarían culturas e identidades ao longo do tempo.
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A resistencia cristiá contra a ocupación musulmá comeza co Reino de Asturias e culmina na batalla de Covadonga, marcando o inicio da Reconquista. Esta narrativa destaca a importancia das batallas e a figura do líder cristián Dom Pelagio como símbolo de resistencia e unidade contra a invasión.
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O proceso de Reconquista en España foi un longo intento de recuperar os territorios perdidos, culminando na conquista de Granada en 1492. Este evento non só terminou co dominio musulmán, senón que tamén coincidiu co descubrimento de América por Cristóbal Colón, abrindo novas fronteiras para a exploración.
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As cruzadas son presentadas como unha resposta á agresión imperialista musulmá, co obxectivo de restaurar a paz e a ortodoxia cristiá en Europa. Esta etapa histórica destaca a busca de xustiza e a preservación da cultura occidental en tempos de conflitos e desorde.
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A Orde dos Templarios xogou un papel central no apoio á defensa cristiá durante as cruzadas, establecendo un sistema financeiro que influiría no desenvolvemento da banca moderna. O seu legado perviviu na historia de Portugal, onde foi respectada e integrada pola coroa, a diferenza doutras partes de Europa.
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Dom Dinis de Portugal mantivo os Templarios activos no país e creou a Orde de Cristo para continuar a súa misión. Esta decisión fortaleceu a base política e militar de Portugal, contribuíndo ao seu crecemento e influencia no contexto internacional.
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A viaxe de Vasco da Gama a India en 1498 marcó un fito na historia das exploracións marítimas e no ascenso de Portugal como unha potencia naval. O éxito de estas misións exploratorias non só transformou a economía europea, senón que tamén ampliou o horizonte cultural e comercial do mundo.
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Vídeo de perguntas e respostas
Que é "Brasil - A Última Cruzada"?
É unha serie documental que explora a historia de Brasil a partir de sacrificios, virtudes e coraxe.
Quen produce a serie?
A serie é producida por Brasil Paralelo, unha organización 100% privada.
Como podo acceder ao contido exclusivo?
Convirténdose en membro de Brasil Paralelo, terás acceso a máis de 50 clases exclusivas e a unha comunidade para discutir sobre a serie.
Por que é importante a historia para a identidade brasileira?
A historia proporciona un sentido de identidade e conexión cos logros e valores fundamentais da nación.
Cal é o enfoque da serie sobre a historia de Brasil?
A serie aborda a historia desde os seus orixes, a través de eventos importantes como as cruzadas, exploración e conquistas.
Que invitación se fai durante o lanzamento?
Durante o lanzamento, ofréceselles aos espectadores unha oferta promocional para converterse en membros.
Cales son os temas principais tratados no primeiro capítulo?
Os temas inclúen as cruzadas, a reconquista cristá na península ibérica e a fundación de Portugal.
Que papel xogou a historia na formación do Brasil moderno?
A historia axudou a modelar a cultura, valores e identidade do Brasil moderno.
Que significa a cruzada para a historia occidental?
A cruzada foi unha resposta histórica á expansión musulmá e buscaba restaurar o control sobre terras sagradas.
Que legados deixaron as cruzadas en Europa?
As cruzadas marcaron o inicio dunha nova era de exploración e expansión para os países europeos.
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- 00:00:00Hello
- 00:00:01Welcome to the launching of the series: Brazil - The Last Crusade
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- 00:00:10that have been denied us for so long.
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- 00:01:24Now watch the first chapter of the series: Brazil - The Last Crusade
- 00:01:28See you soon
- 00:01:38As well as the biography of a man begins in the history of his ancestors
- 00:01:42our homeland cannot be understood apart from the one who conceived it and managed.
- 00:01:48Our identity will have to be sought and events buried for many years and thousands of miles
- 00:01:55in the Old World and in the depths of the ocean.
- 00:01:59From this dive towards the remote origins
- 00:02:02many of the lines that separate the myths from reality
- 00:02:05is the story of the legends are being blurred by the fog of the centuries
- 00:02:10and the beliefs of the ancients.
- 00:02:12The events that form the course of time leave behind forgotten truths,
- 00:02:19but which can somehow be dated
- 00:02:22for they are marked on the ground, in the writings and memories of men who have lived.
- 00:02:31This, is the story that we are going to tell you
- 00:02:34The story of people who exceeded the limits imposed by the oceans and fought inch by inch
- 00:02:40against the wind
- 00:02:41The course of its own destiny, and that so, made from it the way to a new world
- 00:04:10The Last Crusade
- 00:04:15Suddenly it's like everything is gone and as if we've forgotten that we're Brazilians
- 00:04:23The best solution for Brazil, it's giving a bit of Brazil to the people
- 00:04:28It is common to find in our daily lives people pointing out the natural beauties of Brazil
- 00:04:34In the other hand, there are very few times we find people pointing out the human beauties of Brazil.
- 00:04:40So you can't celebrate the national heroes just because the national heroes
- 00:04:43are part of the dominant ideology
- 00:04:46So you make apology of the territory, of the animals, the indigenous and so on,
- 00:04:50and the heroes disappear.
- 00:04:52The apology of the territory separated from the apology of those who conquer it
- 00:04:57doesn´t make any sense.
- 00:04:59All of them. – all of them!
- 00:05:02They face an identity crisis
- 00:05:06They don't know who they are
- 00:05:10Don't know where they came from
- 00:05:12They don't know their own story
- 00:05:15Withholding this story to the people, withholding this story to a nation is a wicked act
- 00:05:22Well, history is the national identity itself
- 00:05:26And what is this, is the collective memory of great achievements made or accomplished in common
- 00:05:31and they give people a sense of the background of their own lives
- 00:05:36and the origin of their values, feelings and so on
- 00:05:41The human being was not made to be, each one is born, to be a new Adam in the paradise,
- 00:05:47coming from nowhere... ...like creating himself,
- 00:05:51that is absolutely impossible to achieve
- 00:05:54note that in all animal species, the one that depends the most of the previous generation
- 00:06:01is the human being.
- 00:06:02When you broaden the memory by history you feel no longer a being who was born...
- 00:06:08let´s say, a decade, two decades or even three decades ago...
- 00:06:11you feel like a being connected to humanity
- 00:06:14you're a human being and you're part of this whole history
- 00:06:17you're not just part of your story
- 00:06:19All the instruments he will dispose of to fight for his life
- 00:06:23to build up his life
- 00:06:25he receives from something called culture.
- 00:06:27Therefore culture is an intellectual set of accumulated assets.
- 00:06:31If this is not passed on to him he does not know where he is is lost in space and time.
- 00:06:38To the extent that we learn, I mean, learning to participate in the world
- 00:06:42and inheriting these civilizational values, ...and history is among them
- 00:06:47we are increasingly developing our ability to affirm what is unique within us
- 00:06:58Chapter 1 – The Cross and the Sword
- 00:07:04We are so young in the history of mankind
- 00:07:07that sometimes we forget what allowed us to get to this point and live like this.
- 00:07:1330,000 years ago, our ancestors tried to say something when they painted on the rocks
- 00:07:21These are the first messages we have from our ancestors.
- 00:07:25Life was hard, and we struggled just to survive
- 00:07:34The humans did not know where they were
- 00:07:37the unexpected such as wild animals and the cold...
- 00:07:41were part of a misunderstood day-to-day
- 00:07:46The world was an open and unknown place
- 00:07:49where our chance of survival seemed low.
- 00:07:53Some of us did what seemed to be impossible
- 00:07:57learned how to look to the future when they saw the stars.
- 00:08:00Predicting the climate and migration of animals.
- 00:08:05Thanks to this incredible discovery, humanity has had a unique opportunity
- 00:08:10understand the environment around us.
- 00:08:12We started planting, domesticate animals and establish a home
- 00:08:18For the first time in history, humans stopped running and starving
- 00:08:24We had more than we could carry
- 00:08:27Writing was born to change our history
- 00:08:30We decided to record ideas and events
- 00:08:33It was a way of transcending the fear of death.
- 00:08:36Sending our thoughts, our beliefs, and experiences to the future became possible
- 00:08:43That's when we started inheriting the knowledge of humanity
- 00:08:48all of this took us from hunters to philosophers
- 00:08:51from fugitives to architects.
- 00:08:54we created ethics to improve the coexistence.
- 00:08:57The laws and the jury to perfect justice
- 00:09:00and starting a family became part of our tradition of carrying humanity forward.
- 00:09:06When we live our daily lives here in the 21st century we enjoy this legacy
- 00:09:14Greek Philosophy, Roman law, Christian Jewish morals
- 00:09:19and the accumulated experience of our ancestors are part of us.
- 00:09:24This heritage we call Western civilization
- 00:09:29If today the territories are divided into countries with established languages and rules,
- 00:09:35it was not always so.
- 00:09:36This long way, each people set a piece of the road that we have today
- 00:09:43The land that today houses Portugal was considered the end of the world
- 00:09:47The border with an unknown ocean has always been attracted and coveted
- 00:09:53Several people lived there until they saw the rise of the Roman Empire
- 00:09:58and the entry of the Germanic tribes of the Suebi and Visigoths.
- 00:10:03The Visigoths formed cities in Western Europe and for three centuries
- 00:10:09occupied much of the Iberian Peninsula.
- 00:10:12Preserving and absorbing the culture of their ancestors.
- 00:10:18How did this culture end up in Brazil?
- 00:10:23What do wars between different worldviews have to do with our history?
- 00:10:28To get a better view of the present, we need to go back in time a little bit
- 00:10:36The year 700, around 700ad, the Muslim faith emerged
- 00:10:43And it was already expanding throughout the Middle East, north of Africa
- 00:10:49The Muslim faith was born in Mecca, in Saudi Arabia with Muhammad
- 00:10:54The preacher who claimed to have received the revelation of being sent by God
- 00:10:59In this revelation, his mission would be about rescuing teachings
- 00:11:03that were brought by prophets such as Moses, Abraham and Jesus.
- 00:11:08But that over time would have been distorted.
- 00:11:11Then a lot of adherents who after his death compiled his teachings in the Quran
- 00:11:17Book that underpins the Islamic faith and disagrees with Jewish and Catholic beliefs.
- 00:11:22They also created the jihad, the war of keeping Islam full within itself
- 00:11:28and bringing it to as many people as possible.
- 00:11:31In this way they sought to broaden the horizons of Islamic territory
- 00:11:35initially by taking the Middle East and North Africa
- 00:11:39and then enter Western Europe.
- 00:11:42The strategy was long in duration and fast in conquest.
- 00:11:46Muslims took less than a decade to dominate most of European territory
- 00:11:51The invasion began in 711ad and three years later
- 00:11:55they already inhabited most of the Iberian Peninsula.
- 00:11:58The curious thing is that this occupation was encouraged by the same people
- 00:12:03who inhabited the region.
- 00:12:05The Visigoths were involved in internal disputes, and because of this rivalry
- 00:12:10a faction of Visigoths enlisted the help of a Muslim leader from North Africa.
- 00:12:15Who not only answered the request but realized the wealth of the territory
- 00:12:19and took the opportunity to take it for himself.
- 00:12:24They entered very fast
- 00:12:25they entered precisely through Gibraltar and managed to cross beyond Morocco
- 00:12:29and reached the Spain, and gradually they were taking the villages and the cities.
- 00:12:35Gradually the peninsula was being conquered and expanded until Lusitania,
- 00:12:39then expanded to where today is Portugal
- 00:12:44The theories that historians raise as to the ease of the invasion was because in the first place
- 00:12:51the Visigothic Kingdom did not allow populations of Roman origin
- 00:12:56to have access to weapons or the Army.
- 00:12:59So here we can see a disarmament process that even facilitated the fall of their own state.
- 00:13:05The Escaped Christians fled to the top of the great mountains in the north of the Iberian Peninsula
- 00:13:11There they established the so-called Kingdom of Asturias.
- 00:13:14In which acclaimed Dom Pelagio as their new king.
- 00:13:21In these Asturias then became the focus of Christian resistance
- 00:13:25Asturias never succeeded in conquering and from there, Dom Pelagio organized resistance
- 00:13:31to the Muslim invader.
- 00:13:35The Muslims continued the conquest to eastern Europe
- 00:13:39Until they come across a frank kingdom
- 00:13:41A troop of 50 thousand Moorish soldiers crossed the border to attack them
- 00:13:46It was a harbinger of the end of the West
- 00:13:49Carlos Martel, the commander of the Frankish army
- 00:13:53knew how to have in his hands the history of a civilization to defend
- 00:13:57and virtually no soldiers.
- 00:14:00He convinced the Church to finance the training of knights
- 00:14:03studied the formations of the ancient Greeks to resist by discipline
- 00:14:08and acceptance of dying for the cause.
- 00:14:11Spent a whole year training barbarians who had never been soldiers
- 00:14:15to face a larger, and more powerful army
- 00:14:19On October 10, 732ad, thousands of soldiers were on the front line of a holy war
- 00:14:27It was at the battle of Poitiers that Charles Martel reminded the ancient Spartans
- 00:14:32In his endurance and courage.
- 00:14:35Coming out victorious
- 00:14:37For most historians this was the west's last chance for resistance
- 00:14:47“And in the shaken of the battle, the men of the north looked like a sea that could not be moved.
- 00:14:50They remained with determination, one with the other, in a formation that was like an ice castle;
- 00:14:53and with great blows of their swords they brought down the Arabs.” Arabs version of the battle.
- 00:14:55Victory meant a sigh of hope for the enemies of Islam
- 00:15:00Then, Asturias began the process of reconquering Muslim-dominated territory
- 00:15:07But there was a great battle in 722ad, the Battle of Covadonga
- 00:15:12The Battle of Covadonga was considered the beginning of the Christian Reconquest
- 00:15:16because they were no longer defending themselves or making small guerrillas
- 00:15:19but faced the enemy directly in a process of expansion of the kingdom of Asturias.
- 00:15:25The Moors had conquered Spain, and now it was time to reconquering
- 00:15:30It was time to reconquer the lost territory.
- 00:15:33And Covadonga is a very important event for Spanish Catholic culture
- 00:15:38Dom Pelagio is considered a great hero not only because he resisted and organized himself in Asturias
- 00:15:44but because he was a winning hero in Covadonga.
- 00:15:47Several battles, several guerrillas were being fought
- 00:15:51and they were overcome by the Asturians for the morale they gained in the victory at Covadonga.
- 00:15:59When you observe an Islamic society you have everything different
- 00:16:03Everything is different
- 00:16:05All values are different.
- 00:16:07And Portugal went through a time by Islamic rule
- 00:16:12And then you realize that some Islamic values we took not only in the language
- 00:16:17as we also have in the word lettuce, or cotton (al-quṭn)
- 00:16:20words that come from Arabic but we also have some values...
- 00:16:23for example when we have military organization.
- 00:16:26Military organization it was more of a knight wanting to become worthy
- 00:16:33wanting to stand out or sacrifice himself for a greater cause on the battlefield
- 00:16:37While the Islamists had a more collectivist view, more organized
- 00:16:43and then Portugal and Spain learn
- 00:16:47they maintain Christian heroism and learn Islamic techniques
- 00:16:50Because they first suffered...
- 00:16:52Islam, if you look at the map, they take the Iberian Peninsula almost in full
- 00:16:55remains just a small piece of resistance and then they will reconquering
- 00:17:09Four centuries have passed since the Muslims had taken the city of Jerusalem.
- 00:17:14Preventing the Christian pilgrimage from visiting the tomb of Christ.
- 00:17:19Western life at that time seemed defeated and hopeless
- 00:17:24In every turn of the earth, faith ceases to exist
- 00:17:28Fear of the Lord no longer prevails among men
- 00:17:32justice has disappeared from the world and violence has taken over nations.
- 00:17:37The lie, betrayal and perfidy hover over us
- 00:17:42Virtue no longer exists, and today is something worthless
- 00:17:46Evil reigns in its place
- 00:17:49If we went back in time to the 11th century it would be hard to believe our eyes
- 00:17:55Europe looked like a cursed region
- 00:17:57the central governments were not organized, and the monarchies still crawled
- 00:18:02full of great castles that stole and fought among themselves
- 00:18:06a devastated and lawless land
- 00:18:09in an unprecedented decision the Pope promises a place in heaven for the souls
- 00:18:14of those who agree to march to Jerusalem and take the sane earth.
- 00:18:18For the Pope it was the perfect opportunity to unify Western and Eastern Christians
- 00:18:24and put the church back at the center of the world political scene.
- 00:18:28If it was not possible to live in peace in Europe, his people decided to seek a better life...
- 00:18:34...in this world or in the next.
- 00:18:37The Era of the crusades was inaugurated.
- 00:18:40Now thousands of Christians from all over Europe
- 00:18:43were marching to take Jerusalem back from the hands of Muhammad's followers.
- 00:18:52What the Crusades were, was a partial and late response
- 00:18:58to the greatest imperialist aggression Europe had already suffered.
- 00:19:03I believe not even the Romans have wreaked as much devastation as the Muslims did.
- 00:19:10It´s because the Romans, when Rome invaded a place, or a country...
- 00:19:16it immediately turns everyone into a Roman citizen then you had every right.
- 00:19:21Romans easily adapted to local religions
- 00:19:25On the contrary if you had a local religion, a strange deity...
- 00:19:28the Roman would take it and include into the Pantheon in Rome and that’s it
- 00:19:30then they say; "great that’s more of a religion"
- 00:19:33So it was the Romans who invented multiculturalism
- 00:19:37But with the Muslims was the opposite, wherever they invaded you had an option.
- 00:19:41You convert to Islam now or you accept Islamic authority
- 00:19:47or, you have two choices; first you die and the second you become a second-class citizen.
- 00:19:53And you cannot practice your religion in public, you cannot even speak of it.
- 00:19:57You can't exercise this or that, and whatever you get we shall take half from you...
- 00:20:05and so on.
- 00:20:06The Crusades began to rescue the land of Canaan
- 00:20:10because they had become of a hegemonic faith that was in the Islamic question
- 00:20:17The crusades were a great success at first
- 00:20:21they succeeded in expelling the Saracen armies and freeing Israel
- 00:20:26Setting Jerusalem free.
- 00:20:29Along with the reconquered Holy Land emerged masses of pilgrims marching in search of spiritual peace
- 00:20:36but the way to Jerusalem was for a few.
- 00:20:39In addition to frequent assaults there were constant attacks by Muslim armies along the path.
- 00:20:45Every Christian pilgrim who wanted to go to the land of Canaan, in Israel
- 00:20:51had their way prevented.
- 00:20:54It began to be very dangerous that journey, it has always been,
- 00:20:57but became to be more dangerous now because there was an Islamic mission
- 00:21:03which began to prevent the pilgrimage
- 00:21:06so you were in real life-threatening
- 00:21:09In order to protect Christians in this journey, various military orders began to form
- 00:21:14to accompany them on the journey.
- 00:21:17A group of noblemen from France, met and formed an order to protect the pilgrims on their walk
- 00:21:27That was the "Order of the Templars"
- 00:21:31The order would be officially recognized by the papacy
- 00:21:35gaining exemptions and privileges such as the power to communicate directly with the Pope.
- 00:21:41When he was admitted as a knight, they should swear to live in chastity and poverty
- 00:21:46being obedient to the Temple Master
- 00:21:48never retreat on the battlefield.
- 00:21:51It gained great popularity and grew rapidly in both; members and power
- 00:21:57to defend the riches of pilgrims during the Crusades, created a deposit and withdrawal mechanism
- 00:22:04that became the embryo of the banking system.
- 00:22:09They were religious, and had a vow not to retreat on the battle field
- 00:22:16so they were the great fear of the Moors.
- 00:22:21The order could greatly help this new army to form
- 00:22:24they could greatly help in the constitution of Portugal
- 00:22:27The Templars since the beginning of the Templar movement, they helped on two points...
- 00:22:34helping Portugal drive out the Moors and also starting defending the Crusades.
- 00:22:41In one of the raids that Christians made in the lands taken by the Moors
- 00:22:46a small army commanded by Alfonso Henriques was surprised and cornered by the Muslims.
- 00:22:53Conflict was inevitable, and the chance of survival almost non-existent.
- 00:22:58According to historians ten times higher than the Portuguese
- 00:23:04According to documents of the time it was at this time that commander Afonso Henriques
- 00:23:08swears to have had a vision where Christ appears and prophesies his victory
- 00:23:13by delivering the mission of spreading faith throughout the four corners of the world.
- 00:23:17Afonso Henriques won the battle and was acclaimed the first king of Portugal.
- 00:23:23Fact or legend, the Miracle of Ourique marked in such a way the imaginary Portuguese
- 00:23:29that it became present in the flag of Portugal and in the adventurous spirit of the coming centuries.
- 00:23:39Portuguese consider this document to be the birth certificate of Portugal
- 00:23:48There was born Portugal
- 00:23:49They are the oldest borders in Europe today
- 00:24:09A civilization is founded with general guidelines that comes from myth
- 00:24:14Myth is not synonymous with lying
- 00:24:17According to the dictionary you will see that myth has several meanings
- 00:24:19and one of them is so deceiving, illusion and lie.
- 00:24:21But myth in the sense that I use here, is the Greek sense
- 00:24:24and the Greek sense is an explanation
- 00:24:28primordial on the order of the universe and on the human order
- 00:24:32So why is it primordial?
- 00:24:34because its an explanation without time, it is from the past that one doesn't know what it was
- 00:24:38some things have happened and they explain how the universe came about
- 00:24:42and explain how human life was organized and why
- 00:24:45What's the connection between these things
- 00:24:46Without myth has no civilization
- 00:24:49What we had here is the figure of the founding father
- 00:24:55and this characteristic has remained present since the foundation of Portugal
- 00:25:00since Dom Afonso Henriques
- 00:25:02With this he gains more power and gains more autonomy
- 00:25:05and he then continues to form his domains
- 00:25:08preventing the Moors from entering again
- 00:25:11Spain on the contrary, continues to fight against the Moorish element, a Moorish element
- 00:25:20Europe was in constant conflicts between the kingdoms
- 00:25:23Everyone wanted to assert their power and the borders were fragile
- 00:25:28Among them was France, where king Philip IV; "the Fair"
- 00:25:33who wanted to expand his power at any cost to face England
- 00:25:38That's when he had an unprecedented idea
- 00:25:41Collect Church taxes
- 00:25:43The retaliation was swift, and the king was excommunicated by the Pope
- 00:25:47The Pope did not expect that the smear campaign made by Philip the Fair
- 00:25:51could be so strong that he would end up beaten, and killed by the population.
- 00:25:56The new pope who succeeded him also died in less than a year
- 00:26:00in origins still unknown today
- 00:26:03When then took over the French pope Clement who reverts the church's decisions in favour of its king
- 00:26:10In the eagerness for power, Philip the Fair continued appropriating Jews and banks
- 00:26:15generating inflation, promoting defaults and making huge debts.
- 00:26:19The population revolts at the immense crisis and the king uses the Templar Order
- 00:26:24that lent the money to pay its debts.
- 00:26:28The problem is that the loan was improper
- 00:26:31the money was used for the Crusades and when the Grand Master of the Order Jacques DeMolay
- 00:26:35learned of the fact he expelled the treasurer by opening a tug of war with the French king.
- 00:26:42Philip the Fair used the same strategy again
- 00:26:45takes place the defamatory campaign against the Templars and the Pope who is under his rule
- 00:26:50to forbid the order in confiscating his property
- 00:26:53On the evening of Friday, October 13, 1307, hundreds of Knights Templar throughout France
- 00:26:59was captured by the king's soldiers, and according to some historians...
- 00:27:03...subjected to torture to confess their crimes
- 00:27:07to this day we don't have all the conclusions about this story
- 00:27:11but for many, that would be the reason for friday the 13th superstition ...be a dark day.
- 00:27:23Looks like this is very ambiguous issue
- 00:27:26because they invented the bill of exchange
- 00:27:32People deposited money in Europe and then took money once they get to Jerusalem
- 00:27:38But the truth is, they stole a lot of money
- 00:27:41But at the same time there is all of that heroic and mystical legacy of the Templars
- 00:27:48It was a very bloody process
- 00:27:51it was decreed all the Templars as the heretics and there was a great shedding of blood,
- 00:27:56several traps armed against the Templars, and then at last was an order...
- 00:28:02that could have brought great advances to Europe
- 00:28:05but was there being smothered by the greed and tyranny of one of its sovereigns
- 00:28:12who feels threatened.
- 00:28:14After the arrest of the Templars in France, Pope Clement V asked Don Dinis
- 00:28:20to do the same with the Portuguese Templars
- 00:28:22The king did not heed the pope's request.
- 00:28:25The only country did not answer this bull in a blunt manner
- 00:28:31that country was Portugal
- 00:28:33Portugal recognizes the value of the Order, and gives safe conduct and shelter to this Order
- 00:28:40The legacy of Dom Dinis, founder of the University of Coimbra
- 00:28:45perhaps no act was more impactful than the skilful political maneuver that would go down in history.
- 00:28:52When the Order of the Templars was extinguished, a long time ago, unfortunately...
- 00:28:57the king of Portugal requested that the Order continue in Portugal.
- 00:29:02Because the Knights Templar was great defender of the faith, and the Crusades, and the Holy Land and so on.
- 00:29:10The King of Portugal Dom Dinis, he rushes in creating new orders
- 00:29:18and ask the Pope to transfer the goods of the Templars to his government.
- 00:29:25Let´s say, for the government of these Orders.
- 00:29:28And then King Dom Dinis creates the Order of Christ
- 00:29:31And it would remain in Portugal but with the name of Order of Christ
- 00:29:35The firm stance of the King of Portugal, led the pope to include a clause in his bull
- 00:29:40making an exception for Portugal and its allies about the transfer of the goods of the order.
- 00:29:45And then we can explain a lot of things in our history
- 00:29:51How can a so small country, just like Portugal
- 00:29:56How this country suddenly advanced and became a great conqueror of the seas
- 00:30:03How this country suddenly was the top country from which all the greatest navigators
- 00:30:10came out during a long period
- 00:30:13This elite body, solved a vital need for the consolidation and strengthening of the Portuguese state.
- 00:30:20Integrated with the political sphere of the crown, it would broaden the horizons of the kingdom,
- 00:30:25leading to the expansion of Portugal by the seas.
- 00:30:33Political life in Portugal would also not be so quiet
- 00:30:37Afonso Henriques' heirs would not perpetuate a government of the Afonsine dynasty
- 00:30:43Another great war breaks out in Europe between England and France
- 00:30:48Called: "The Hundred Years' War"
- 00:30:50Many kingdoms were divided depending on the side they decided supporting
- 00:30:54In 1383, the last king of the Afonsine dynasty, Dom Fernando I, died without leaving any heirs
- 00:31:02It turns out this king tried to invade the kingdom of Castile three times during the Hundred Years' War
- 00:31:08being defeated in all of them, and at last was obliged to marry the princess of Castile
- 00:31:13in order to establish peace.
- 00:31:16The absence of royal descendants, launched Portugal into a serious monarchical crisis
- 00:31:22A possible union between the kingdoms could be disastrous for the Portuguese economy
- 00:31:27Castile still lived in a feudalist economy, while the Portuguese already presented
- 00:31:33the development of the bourgeoisie that would soon place the nation as the most powerful in the known world.
- 00:31:40The conflict only ended in an armed war when in 1385, John the master of Aviz,
- 00:31:47faced Castilian troops in the battle of Aljubarrota and was proclaimed the new king of Portugal.
- 00:31:56A glorious new stage in the history of Portugal that is the stage of the Dynasty of Aviz
- 00:32:02with John I and his children, the so-called: "illustrious generation"
- 00:32:07and throughout the fifteenth century what we see is the growing splendour of Portugal
- 00:32:15Because from this very illustrious generation was going to be born the great empire of discovery
- 00:32:21We have one of the children of John I, who is Prince Henry, who begins and launches Portugal
- 00:32:30in this great adventure of discovery.
- 00:32:33None of the children of the illustrious generation stands out more than Prince Henry; "the navigator"
- 00:32:39Portugal was and remained the western end of the earth
- 00:32:43The end of the world known to Europeans
- 00:32:46With the strong belief of being impossible to navigate the Atlantic Ocean
- 00:32:51All this used to be attributed to the divine will, it seemed to be wickedness,
- 00:32:56the mere audacity of venturing into those waters.
- 00:33:00One of the most influential of these myths was the story of St. Brendan
- 00:33:04Irish monk who according to a very popular account from the 10th century
- 00:33:09would have sailed the North Atlantic, and discovered several fantastic and paradisiacal lands.
- 00:33:16With Europe immersed in chaos, the idea of having an island at peace beyond the ocean
- 00:33:22brought hope to the peoples who circulated these myths.
- 00:33:26Legendary islands appeared on the maps of the time, such as an island called: "Hy Brazil"
- 00:33:32which meant Promised Land.
- 00:33:35And it may have influenced the name of our country.
- 00:33:38Searching for the island Brazil, purgatory or Atlantis
- 00:33:42was no more fanciful than looking for China, India, Japan or the Americas.
- 00:33:49Gradually, impressive achievements were happening
- 00:33:52First, surpassing places never visited before, and then discovering small islands
- 00:33:58In the year 1485, Prince Henry is appointed: Grand Master of the Order of Christ
- 00:34:05Whose ample resources and immense privileges accumulated would be well used in navigations
- 00:34:12He turned many of his knights into navigators and many of his navigators into knights
- 00:34:20Not everything was quiet in Europe as the navigations progressed
- 00:34:25The centuries-long war for the territory still presented risks and before conquering the seas
- 00:34:30there would be one last challenge in Western Europe
- 00:34:37It has been six centuries since Christians began the process of regaining European territory
- 00:34:43Muslims were retreating until they concentrated in southern Europe in the granada region
- 00:34:50The emirate of granada becomes the last Muslim stronghold in the Iberian peninsula
- 00:34:57and it falls under Isabel of Castile.
- 00:35:00She was a woman of very great intellectual training, and she thinks that her mission
- 00:35:08is reconquering Spain once and for all
- 00:35:12that is, finishing what her ancestors did.
- 00:35:15The Muslims were in Granada, eventually waged war against the Christians
- 00:35:19and had plans to reconquer the entire province
- 00:35:22they were in contact with the Turks and the Moroccans to have a great invasion in Spain
- 00:35:28to resume the conquest.
- 00:35:30Isabel knew the whole history of the reconquest
- 00:35:33she was very cultured, as we talked about before, so she knew this, and she had a notion
- 00:35:38of strategy and she knew that if she didn't take the Emirate of Granada quickly,
- 00:35:42this whole story of over seven hundred years could be put into the bin.
- 00:35:47What Isabel and Fernando understand, we can't attack alone
- 00:35:51And they remember that in the crusades, which ended a short time ago, the pope gave indulgence
- 00:35:57to Christians from other countries who entered the crusades.
- 00:36:01So they got the Pope Innocent VII promulgated a bull calling on all Christians
- 00:36:11from other countries to join in the reconquest and gain indulgences in the same way they got in the crusades.
- 00:36:16with this, we see a buildup of foreign troops arriving in Spain to help Spanish Christians
- 00:36:23English, Irish, French and German join the Castilian army
- 00:36:30More than 50 thousand men from all around joining the Castilian army of Ferdinand and Isabel.
- 00:36:38Isabel is personally present in the military camps and they set out for new conquests
- 00:36:44until they reach the foot of the city of Granada.
- 00:36:49The Christians, in these eight months, did not fade away, they remained convinced
- 00:36:53that sooner or later Granada would fall.
- 00:36:57The Moors also knew it was going to fall
- 00:36:59they kept fighting only for heroism
- 00:37:01They wanted to be faithful to what they believed in.
- 00:37:04But finally Granada surrendered, the Catholic kings, the princes, the nobles, the priests,
- 00:37:08the great Christian captains dress up and position themselves to the gates of the city,
- 00:37:13the drums roar, bombings of honours are made, the cross is raised in the highest tower along
- 00:37:20with the flags of Castile...
- 00:37:21and with that ends the reconquest.
- 00:37:25The Moorish chiefs, they even try to kiss the hand of Fernando and Isabel
- 00:37:31recognizing their sovereignty
- 00:37:33But Fernando won't allow this to happen
- 00:37:36He says: “I'm the king, you're a king too”
- 00:37:39Though an enemy, I don't want your humiliation
- 00:37:42This happened on January 2, 1492 at 3pm
- 00:37:47Since then the bells of the churches of Granada, make three rings exact at 3pm to this day
- 00:37:54in honour of this event.
- 00:37:56See which time the date again; January 2, 1492.
- 00:38:021492 was the year that Christopher Columbus undertakes his navigation for the discovery of America.
- 00:38:11It was precisely in the camp of Santa Fe that Columbus was and saw the fall of Granada,
- 00:38:21Columbus was there, and he tries to convince Isabel to sponsor navigation
- 00:38:32Why influences navigations, what the navigations of Portugal and Spain have to do with the reconquest?
- 00:38:37We have to see that we are talking about a process of more than 700 years of struggle for possession of territary
- 00:38:44From the distant Asturias, Christians grew and were expanding to conquer all their territory
- 00:38:53Then they were formed, generation by generation in the conquest of territory and clearing of territory.
- 00:39:01until you have no more territory to conquer
- 00:39:04All they have left is the sea.
- 00:39:06Christopher Columbus had Isabel and Fernando to finance his expedition
- 00:39:12It was an old goal and had already been denied by other kings
- 00:39:16Even the Portuguese.
- 00:39:18In 1492, Columbus discovered what he called: "the West Indies"
- 00:39:24Those were the islands of Central America
- 00:39:27This discovery made it necessary to divide the zones of influence
- 00:39:31between Spanish and Portuguese in the navigations
- 00:39:35For this, they signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, where outside Europe,
- 00:39:40the Portuguese were left with a territory east of the meridian,
- 00:39:43while the Spanish were left with a territory to the west.
- 00:39:47Until then, only a small part divided by the treaty had been seen by Europeans
- 00:39:54being divided only on paper.
- 00:39:56Immediately after Columbus's first voyage, several explorers sailed in the same direction
- 00:40:06But they were already aware that there was something on the other side of the Atlantic
- 00:40:10to the point that when there were the treaties between Spain and Portugal,
- 00:40:14they insisted that the demarcation line was 70 miles further west, from where the Treaty of Tordesillas came.
- 00:40:25But I do not accept, I do not agree that we despise the immense value that this country has,
- 00:40:34because it was born of the political and technical effort of a people
- 00:40:42of a small territory and that it was the first organized nation in Europe.
- 00:40:48Located in a corner of the Iberian peninsula and that at a certain time of its trajectory
- 00:40:54divided the world into two parts: one part of themselves and the other part was to Spain.
- 00:40:59They had power; they had political clout for it
- 00:41:03and achieved this through the commitment of his people
- 00:41:08People who had never seen each other before were about to meet
- 00:41:13In 1497, Portugal sent Vasco da Gama to find a route to the India
- 00:41:20bypassing Africa for the first time.
- 00:41:22Three months after leaving, the fleet he commanded was already sailing in waters so far unknown to Europeans.
- 00:41:30In Mozambique they had to impersonate Islamists, and almost had their ships stolen until finally,
- 00:41:37ten months later, the fleet reached the Indian destination and established the cable route,
- 00:41:43leaving the way open to India.
- 00:41:45At the time of returning, sailed against the wind and some parts of the journey
- 00:41:50that lasted only 23 days now took 132 days.
- 00:41:55Half the crew perished.
- 00:41:57And as for the ships, and the 148 navigators who were there, only two of them,
- 00:42:03with a total of 55 men returned to Portugal.
- 00:42:07Vasco da Gama arrived one month after his companions
- 00:42:10having to bury his older brother on the way
- 00:42:14On his return, he was rewarded as the man who finalized the plan that took 80 years to accomplish.
- 00:42:21He received the title of major admiral of the seas of India.
- 00:42:24And in 1499, spread the word that the Portuguese had arrived to the true India.
- 00:42:32The journey was the longest undertaken so far
- 00:42:35Greater than a complete round the world by the equator
- 00:42:39And it would be perpetuated in the epic: "Luziadas", written by Luis Vaz de Camões.
- 00:42:46an unbelievable achievement
- 00:42:48That would be overcome as early as the following year.
- 00:42:51The great navigations, I compare, with Nasa, space travel, cape Canaveral,
- 00:43:02and the United States of the twentieth century.
- 00:43:05And I don't know how many there were, but it was the most daring adventures
- 00:43:10if that of navigators, who threw themselves into the open sea in a time of superstitions,
- 00:43:17fears, uncertainties, sailing in waters never sailed before.
- 00:43:24This departure of these men, this maritime expansion, it had a fundamental characteristic
- 00:43:32of heroism.
- 00:43:34Human endeavour
- 00:43:36Men perished on the way
- 00:43:38throughout the entire maritime tradition
- 00:43:40Portugal had the privilege of having its largest cemetery in the seas.
- 00:43:47That's why Fernando Pessoa has some verses in which he says...
- 00:43:52"Hail salty sea, how much of your salt are tears of Portugal".
- 00:43:57And then at the end of this verse he says, "it was worth it, it's all worth it when the soul is not small".
- 00:44:06A second large Portuguese armada was sent to India
- 00:44:09this time with thirteen ships
- 00:44:11about 1500 men and led by Pedro Alvares Cabral
- 00:44:16Cabral was Grand Master of the Order of Christ, and a nobleman of faithful relationship to the crown
- 00:44:21Described as cultured, prudent and tolerant of enemies
- 00:44:26The day before departure, the crew received a public farewell that included a mass
- 00:44:31and celebrations attended by the king, the court and a huge crowd
- 00:44:37His fleet moved far from the African coast until it landed in what they called: "Porto Seguro".
- 00:44:43What he believed to be an island...
- 00:44:45giving the name; Vera Cruz
- 00:44:47Cabral, having realized that the new land was at the east of the Tordesillas line,
- 00:44:51soon sent an emissary to Portugal with the important news
- 00:44:58Some historians argue that the Portuguese already knew of the existence of South America
- 00:45:03Therefore, the deviation of the route of Cabral and the insistence of King John II
- 00:45:08to move to the west the line of Tordesillas
- 00:45:12Others argue that the objective of this venture was to establish commercial relations in India,
- 00:45:17and that the deviation was due to navigation needs
- 00:45:21Making the discovery something accidental
- 00:45:24But in Portuguese logic, and this we will find in the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha,
- 00:45:29there is no chance when you believe in providence
- 00:45:35So this is a minor debate, in the Portuguese sense of their time
- 00:45:39Because a Portuguese faithful to the Catholic tradition, he is not worried
- 00:45:46if he arrived unintentionally or wishing for it
- 00:45:49He believes that he is there for a reason, and that this reason is missionary
- 00:45:53And this, these elements, we have already found on the baptism certificate
- 00:45:59and that is often placed so in the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha.
- 00:46:06How do you think that suddenly a people who in the middle ages fought for 8 centuries
- 00:46:12against the Islamic enemy will, out of nowhere, turn into a merchant?
- 00:46:17saying: "I just want to perform trading"
- 00:46:19That doesn't make any sense.
- 00:46:20This story as it is told, that the Portuguese goes out only to find spices
- 00:46:25and to have better access to trade routes, this is not justified at all,
- 00:46:30this is a complete ignorance of what was Portugal.
- 00:46:33Of what the medieval world was...
- 00:46:35the medieval world is a world of great warriors
- 00:46:37You don't throw yourself into a small boat across an ocean you don't know
- 00:46:43...just to find a red “Pau-Brasa”
- 00:46:46No, it's not that.
- 00:46:48It's to find the Promised Land
- 00:46:51It's to find the blessed land
- 00:46:54This is a motivating factor, from the great discoveries, even today from space
- 00:47:01Oh, I'm going into space to find that on such a moon, or whatever, will have a simple piece of iron.
- 00:47:09You're going to discover life
- 00:47:12life beyond your own life...
- 00:47:14that's what motivates
- 00:47:16It's not the little things
- 00:47:20Understand this, how to put a lot of kids on a boat and throw them, for what?
- 00:47:26“Because I want him to pick up a rock on the other side of the ocean”
- 00:47:29That's it?
- 00:47:31No!
- 00:47:32I want him to find paradise
- 00:47:35that was the motivating factor
- 00:47:37That was the basis of the will, it was the key of the business
- 00:47:43So it wasn't a small thing
- 00:47:45it wasn't a frivolous thing, the way people say it
- 00:47:50it was nothing like that, but of course, it's harder for me to tell this story
- 00:47:55to a very large number of people
- 00:47:57It's much more complicated
- 00:47:58The fact is that on April 22, 1500, the Portuguese crossed the Atlantic Ocean...
- 00:48:06and arrived in Brazil
- 00:48:09It was the culmination of the Portuguese maritime expansion.
- 00:48:13Portugal was no longer the edge of the end of the world
- 00:48:16and the story of the two places would never be the same
- 00:48:25The story deserves to be told
- 00:48:28by luck, by providence, by virtue or by all of them
- 00:48:36We've come this far
- 00:48:39our journey has a name
- 00:48:41and every time we look back, we remember every character who built the stage of our lives
- 00:48:50We have the opportunity to choose our references, learn from our mistakes, and raise our morale
- 00:48:58Somewhere, there will always be the pantheon of those who brought us here
- 00:49:05There are the passions, the merits, the sacrifices, and all the heroism of mankind
- 00:49:16and it wasn't easy
- 00:49:20The preservation of this place is our job
- 00:49:23We can't let them steal all we have built of our civilization
- 00:49:29and whenever we're lost, and not knowing where to go, they'll always be there
- 00:49:37and with open arms to tell us everything they sacrificed in order to take a step beyond what seemed possible
- 00:49:47It's not just about not forgetting where we came from...
- 00:49:51...it's about not forgetting where we're going to.
- 00:50:07In the most difficult moments
- 00:50:11History must be remembered
- 00:50:13To be continued
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