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...
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Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today things are going to get a little bit confusing, because we’re going to talk about revolution and independence in Latin America. It’s a bit confusing because: 1. Latin America is big, 2. It’s very diverse, 3. Napoleon makes everything complicated, and 4. As we’ve seen in the past, sometimes revolutions turn out not to be not that revolutionary. Witness, for instance, the New England Revolution, who instead of, like, trying to form new and better governments are always just kicking balls around like all the other soccer teams. [theme music] Right, so before independence, Latin American society was characterized by three institutions that exercised control over the population. The f...
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Hi, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course World History, and today things are going to get a little bit confusing, because we’re going to talk about revolution and independence in Latin America. It’s a bit confusing because: 1. Latin America is big, 2. It’s very diverse, 3. Napoleon makes everything complicated, and 4. As we’ve seen in the past, sometimes revolutions turn out not to be not that revolutionary. Witness, for instance, the New England Revolution, who instead of, like, trying to form new and better governments are always just kicking balls around like all the other soccer teams. [theme music] Right, so before independence, Latin American society was characterized by three institutions that exercised control over the population. The f...
