Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31

In which John Green talks about the many revolutions of Latin America in the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1800s, Latin America was firmly under the control of Spain and Portugal. The revolutionary zeal that had recently created the United States and had taken off Louis XVI's head in France arrived in South America, and a racially diverse group of people who felt more South American than European took over. John covers the soft revolution of Brazil, in which Prince Pedro boldly seized power from his father, but promised to give it back if King João ever returned to Brazil. He also covers the decidedly more violent revolutions in Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina. Watch the video to see Simón Bolívar's dream of a United South America crushed, even as he manages to liberate a bunch of countries and get two currencies and about a thousand schools and parks named after him. Crash Course World History is now available on DVD! http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-world-history-the-complete-series-dvd-set Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @raoulmeyer @crashcoursestan @saysdanica @thoughtbubbler Like us! ‪http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcourse Follow us again! ‪http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse

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1. B
2. shut up john canadians do notice and at least our country isn't full of obesity
3. This is a question for your people. Did the Dawes Act in America benefit the native Americans at all, or was it more of just a cover up for the governments greed?
4. when was the first pesant uprise?
5. Bolivar and San Martin were traitors to their contry and their king, paid by the English. Creoles just wanted to trade freely with England to earn more money, but they hadn't any national or patriotic feeling. They invented the new countries like playing a game, just to hide their selfishness and grees behind nationalistic an revolutionnary language.
6. Technically, The May Revolution was before the mexican one (1810) which gave independance in 1816 to the provincias unidas del Río de la Plata (Argentina)
7. Y donde esta Colombia?
8. 7:57
9. #ILOVECANADA
10. napoleon never took over portugal, they tried 3 times but thy never actually made it. The royal family only went to brazil to prevent future disasters but could have remained in lisbon because the french never passed the "Linha de Torres"
11. Llanero
12. context is everything
13. We need Spanish closed captioning for this video (or dubbed version even better!) great video
14. So much butthurt
15. My social studies teacher said that "We call them Indians Native Americans because of political correctness and it's offensive to call them Indian."
    
    I slammed my head into my desk when I said "They're called Native Americans because they are Native Americans."
16. I'm here just to ship countries from LatinHetalia tbh.
17. funny
18. its [retty good
19. Iturbide was an Emperor, not a King. Also, so was Pedro I of Brazil.
20. John Green strikes once again with a hilarious, and very informative video. Good job! Love these videos!