Comments by "Bev Bevan" (@bevbevan6189) on "What if Latin America was Rich?" video.

  1. Yeah, the title should have been "What If The Spanish Weren't Such An Incompetent Empire"
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  2. gurgelurk Excellent insights.
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  3. Yes, it was an inaccurate title that should have been "What if the Spanish Hadn't Run Such A Crappy Empire", but he was pretty clear that he left out Brazil because he didn't know enough about the Portuguese empire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFx4m1dbJO4
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  4. He's featured Brazil in many of his videos, usually expressing despair over its failure to improve. Here he more or less says that he doesn't know enough about Portuguese colonial practices to comment on Brazil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAP47ERQsFQ&t=338s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFx4m1dbJO4
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  5. Yup. Scary, isn't it?
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  6. Shouldn't you be off supervising the search for the One Ring or something?
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  7.  @condedooku9750  Pretty much. Obviously good enough to get really big, but not enough to make the empire prosper.
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