History of Hong Kong

0:00 I tried to draw the maps in the video to the best of my ability and known borders. I am sorry for any mistakes I could h 1:36 There are some texts about this period describing certain political entities in southern China however they are quite va 2:44 I only specified the political entities that control the region of Hong Kong as oppose to all the dynasties in other par 3:53 These aren't the actual divisions between the control of the families they are there just to represent the idea. 4:46 These pirates didn't have a base in Hong Kong per say but pirates from the pirate federation where known to use the Hong 5:57 The politics and economics of the war where more complicated than that but there was no time to get in to it. 7:42 These where important as they where the only sources of education and health care in early days of Hong Kong. 7:47 It is also argued that this was just an excuse to acquire more land for housing and expansion of the colony. 8:00 Kowloon peninsula wasn't very developed to start with but it was still very important to the colony as it offered much n 8:20 The large amount of Portuguese in Hong Kong compared to other Europeans was due to the decline of business in Macau as H 10:04 At this time Hong Kong was also largely effected by the Great Depression and valuable metal markets declining. This also 10:15 The day difference is due to the time change between Hong Kong and Pearl Harbor. 11:33 The picture is of Today's Hong Kong parliament as beck then it was under British jurisdiction. 12:02 Obviously the ramification of splitting New colonies of Hong Kong and the Island and Kowloon would be much larger then j 12:08 I am sorry for not mentioning or showing Macau at all but this video was focused on Hong Kong. 13:00 The exact origin and or meaning of the name is still debated and there are multiple different ideas as to where the name