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This, my lady, ...

This, my lady, ...

This, my lady, ...

This, my lady, ...

What is it for?

This, my lady,

it is the most powerful weapon in the empire that will be forged under his feet.

God bless you, Majesty!

- If it's the queen!

Long live the queen!

My soldiers

My brave soldiers.

Tell me it will not be this the last of our victories.

- It will not be the last, majesty!

"It will not be, Majesty.

-Never!

My brave soldiers.

Clean your wounds.

Tomorrow, before it falls Sun,

We will take Granada.

God save the Queen!

(ALL) Long live!

-Live!

The city of Granada succumbed.

Of course he succumbed.

They succumbed much earlier that the sun would fall.

The last bastion of Islam In the Iberic Peninsule

it had been, in the end, defeated.

800 years lasted that war.

The longest they have left never the children of God.

800 years dedicated our mothers

to raise war dogs.

Breastfeeding with iron and with blood.

Training us with the only idea

that we spit the tooth, let's get up

and let's go back to face

The brand, the span of land how long

kept separate Moors and Christians

He had become in a secarral for orphans.

All we had grown there

We knew how important it was take care of the neighbor's farm,

no matter how Muslim he may be.

You stole the eggs, yes.

But you did not touch your hens,

lest the next day, you did not have to steal.

But in Castile, there were no longer eggs or chickens.

No Moors to fight with.

By not staying, there were no longer

no bones to gnaw for the dogs of war.

It was the eighth month of the year of 1492

of our Lord and maker of all things.

Those caravels were not loaded neither dogs nor horses.

In them, no kings traveled, neither monks nor soldiers.

Those three caravels they were full of miserable people.

La Pinta and La Niña had to the Pinzones as captains.

What great pirates those two.

Ask the Portuguese how they spent them.

At the helm of the Holy Mary, I was Alonso Niño.

The Negro, we called him.

The number of blacks was such slaves he had transported

that had even been soiled the face of the same color.

And next to him, Juan de la Cosa,

the best cartographer that has ever existed.

Andalusians, Basques, Portuguese, Italians

and other people of bad living.

A few slavers, a bunch of pirates

and four sentenced to death.

Total, 70 or 80 unfortunates

to orders of one Christopher Columbus.

And little else I can tell.

Only what I saw.

Here you have them, admiral.

Whitewashed ...

and without lice.

What sin did you commit, son?

I killed the man I should not, my lord.

And I sincerely pray to God that for that he forgives me.

And what sin did he commit that man?

He dishonored the mother of who should not,

who is a widow and with seven children.

Therefore, I pray to God I never forgive him.

And you, what was your sin?

The three assaulted the scaffold

where they had me imprisoned and they tried to give me ransom.

I have told you, that they should not have done it

Do you speak for them, Do not have a language to defend themselves?

No, my lord, they reaped them.

All three?

At three.

Do you know how to sew?

Patching wood, fracture metal?

Cooking, some profession useful for the sea?

Do you know how to swim?

Drop them.

Serve in the Santa Maria the four of them.

You will speak for them.

You will learn the trade from the sea to no sooner.

It will be here where you fulfill your sorrow

Were you given any other option? The sea or the salt mine.

All right.

You will not lack salt in neither.

It would have been better for them in the mines.

Half of those we carry They call themselves sailors and do not know how to swim.

How many leagues for today?

30

Record 20.

I will not miss the truth.

Those two men They knew how to navigate.

With a ruler and a compass, they were able to guess

where the sun would be hidden,

what time would you brush The horizon.

And with additions and subtractions, they knew where the hell we were

and how much we had entered in the sea.

Only one cloud was enough to guide yourself.

With a look at the sky, the winds were blowing.

Always in your favor.

Always to the west.

There was not much else left to trust them.

Total, the rest We did not know how to read.

(VOMITS)

They cheated, of course they did.

What good sailor does not do them?

They knew that we had our bellies full of hunger and fear.

That fear that, irremediably, feel the sailors

to be away from the coast.

The fear of being found in the middle of nowhere,

no provisions to return.

To avoid trouble, riots and discontents,

those two scored less miles of which were traversed daily.

It was the best way to make us believe

that we were not so far from home

For when the news of the great victory of the kings of Spain

in Granada he arrived at the Vatican, It was already too late.

Innocent VIII, his holiness, the Pope of Rome,

already consumed his last forces fighting against the disease.

They say that he was so happy to the knowledge of the defeat of the Moors

that at that moment, full of renewed vigor,

He doubled his ration for dinner.

Months ago that his wise doctors

they made him eat just milk of women.

And poor Innocent

he followed the letter the remedies that they prescribed.

Whatever

just to stay away of the gates of heaven.

It is seen that man I did not see clear

if he would be received with honors

or, directly, They would not let him in.

No matter what dad was.

Poor Innocent.

The father of the town, that's what gossipers called him

for your care, shall we say, paternal

for his numerous children.

Eight of them, recognized.

The other 13, bastards.

A liter of water, a liter of wine

and a liter of vinegar per man and per day.

Not one more nor one less.

And if I catch someone drunk, I make black pudding with their guts

before throwing it overboard.

Bacon, sardines, salting and cod.

Sponge cake, hard as the molars of a bear.

If you really want to swallow it, wet it before in sea water.

100 barrels of water

If someone loosens, you tell the carpenter.

Oh, and most importantly.

Do not bother the goat or the chicken.

One is to give milk and the other, to give eggs.

You have a lot of face of a crook.

- How many days are there here?

-60 days. 30 to go and 30 to go back.

Not one more.

Oil, garlic.

Three are, therefore,

the continents of this earth

that Our Lord gave us to be populated.

Europe, Africa and Asia.

And three were the wise

who left to worship Jesus child.

Three wise men come from three continents.

And the Africas?

What do you know about the west?

The nothing.

Eternal darkness

Before you see the end,

the sea is stirred from within.

From its bowels.

The naos double before waves of more than 50 feet.

Everything is devoured by fish As you have not seen big.

Alive, drowned.

We will all fall into the void.

And we will all fall into the void.

You are all marine.

Men of the sea, it is not true?

And what is first that appears on the horizon

when it approaches a caravel?

What is the first thing you see?

Your candles or your helmet?

Your candles Right, right?

And that happens if the ship comes from the north, from the south, from the west.

That always happens.

It always happens and in all the seas.

Every marine knows of the roundness of the earth.

Every sailor has seen it with your own eyes

So stop making ears to this one-eyed old man.

The eye that conserves has it equal of rotten than the one that is missing.

He has not told you like a fish giant came to swallow it?

The taste of your meat it caused him such repulsion

that the poor fish had to spit this poor one-eyed man

(Laughter)

Blessed be the light and the saint of the cross!

And the lord of truth and the holy trinity!

Blessed be the dawn and the man who sends it to us!

Blessed be the day and the man who sends it to us!

I assure you that Juan de la Cosa It was not just anyone.

Neither compass nor sextant.

The Cantabrian was the best rig navigation of the Santa Maria.

He kept in his head the maps

of all the seas that there was Sailed and there were not few.

I knew the stars at night, the tides,

the birds that came and went.

The second of Columbus, yes.

But the first of any other.

Juan de la Cosa could call, if he wanted,

to each wave by name.

Esteban, where are you from?

From Cordoba.

Durán. -From Huelva.

Rivers.

-De Cádiz.

Cádiz

Peru.

-De Etxebarría, master.

And you, Bernardino,

of Talavera.

And we,

our mercedes, ...

we are here.

The distance from here ...

to China and the Indies ...

It is 7,000 leagues.

This distance is, therefore,

three times greater

to the one calculated by the admiral Christopher Columbus.

-If we accepted, only if we accept

such roundness of the Earth,

Would not they fall? Our boats

inexorably to emptiness

when exceeding the limits of geometry?

-No ship could harbor sufficient provisions

as to endure three months at sea

Columbus will not reach the Indies.

But neither can return to Spain

-It is not possible to reach east sailing to the west.

Except one, I will not say the name,

that was considered to be the best marine That the others,

the rest we had not passed more than 10 days

far from some port.

None of us had left So much of the coast.

Not even, Andrés, from Huelva.

How liar he is.

Many of us stopped working as soon as they released the pigeons.

Pray, even in silence,

it is not something that should be done while one works.

We did all kinds of promises to the Virgin.

Promises that we forgot as soon as We saw the pigeons return.

That meant that, one more day,

they had not sighted land No trees and they had to go back.

From finding another place where to settle, they would not return.

Not even the fucking pigeons would want continue on our boats.

Returns.

I will not miss the truth.

We were afraid.

Look, admiral.

How many have perished like that?

10

Maybe more.

-And this water carries leech.

Put vinegar on it.

One liter per barrel.

And those supply bags, throw them into the sea at night.

Do not see the sailors.

If I hear a single sailor talk about this on deck,

I throw you to the four behind the sacks.

It is clear?

I have understood that you have two children

It is not like this? That's right, highness.

Diego and Hernando.

Your project It has been rejected.

If the wise men of my council they are right,

you, your three caravels and the money of the Court of Castile

They will end up at the bottom of the sea.

I will not be the one to leave orphans Little Diego

and little Hernando.

I'm not that kind of queens.

And there are many orphans that has left this war.

You are not any queen, my lady.

A well-chosen compliment

coming from an expert in kings, like you.

Even the Pope knows your intentions to travel to India.

As far as I know, you have already offered your services

to all courts of Christianity.

And only here I have given with a capable queen.

Capable of what?

To reign

God has seen fit to give me the intelligence to navigate.

Just like you, the one to govern.

And yes, highness, my project He is ambitious.

But not less than yours.

You will not settle with taking Granada.

Everyone knows that the queen from Castilla

dreams of returning Constantinople and Jerusalem to Christianity.

(RÍE)

If everyone already knows my plans,

I'm afraid it will be difficult take them by surprise.

Why you and not another?

I know how to do it.

It did not matter if the pigeons they found land or not.

We had been sailing for 30 days and nobody missed the fact

that from that day,

we had provisions Just to return.

The rumor was running that the admiral

it kept us deceived, that I had fewer knots

of those who really we were sailing

And the rumor became in bad blood

when we learned that the wineries They were filling with worms.

They had not listened for days laughter on deck

and yes, blame.

Man without brain, brainless who does not know where he is going

This is how the seafarers talked behind the admiral's back.

And little was missing for to tell him to his face.

We wanted to turn around and return home.

If a caravel he mutinied,

the three mutinied.

We have not entered 700 leagues in the ocean.

But about 1,000.

I do not have you for bad sailors.

I have you for the worst who have never sailed.

We have 30 days on the high seas, gentlemen.

30 days.

We can not go back

This is not a trip back and forth.

It is a one-way trip.

We can turn around and try to return

to misery from which we all come.

Or we can continue to the west.

And the day we return,

cover the tiles with gold of our houses.

Take out all the rotten supply of the wineries

and throw it into the sea before it spreads.

In three days, we will see land.

To work!

Let's go!

The first day we saw a green junk next to the Nao.

The second, a cane and a stick.

With these signs, we breathe all,

Well, the trees and the plants They do not grow on the high seas.

Sirs.

We have arrived.

27 leagues we went that day.

And because the Pinta was more velera and walked ahead,

He found earth first.

33 days we had sailed.

We did not know of anyone who had spent so much time at sea.

We had all heard the stories that spoke of others,

of those who had tried cross the sea before us.

Sailors, soldiers

and ancient princes to those who devoured the darkness.

Stories of men who arrived and they could not return.

And of men who returned

and they could never tell.

If the seas had opened at our pace,

if we were the only ones to whom God, in his eternal wisdom,

had allowed to disembark on that side of the world,

for the most sacred, I swear we did not care.

We just wanted to arrive.

And if we were the first or the last ones,

He did not care. Maybe not the admiral.

He may have dreamed of returning and scream that it was him and not another

whom God had delivered the keys of those seas.

But we...

We just wanted get off the caravels.

33 days seemed like an eternity.

Everyone will say that, put on the ground,

on October 12 of the year of 1492 of our era

the admiral peaked the real one and two flags

with the signs of their majesties

and took possession of those lands in his name.

But the truth is that none of them had time to remember no king

and we almost forgot the flags.

We kneel the knee on land, yes.

But only to be able to feel the sand of that beach

and remind us that we were still alive.

Do not move.

Languages

Luis de Torres, in front.

(SPEAKS IN ARAB)

Spanish was not the first thing who heard in the new world.

The first one who opened his mouth

to address them was Luis de Torres and he did it in Arabic.

Because we did not know where we were going,

and seeing that all the places away from the hand of the Lord

they always speak the language of Muhammad,

we bravely thought the idea to take us to a converted Moor

for him to do the interpreter.

Lower your weapons

Thank God, we are not going to need them.

But these Indians did not know neither one prophet nor the other.

(SPEAKS IN LANGUAGE AMERINDIA)

Take off the cuirasses.

Eight days before the three caravels of Admiral Columbus

they left Spain, their sanctity Innocent VIII, the Pope,

fell in a deep sleep from which he could no longer wake up.

Eight days before.

It seemed like a joke from the Lord,

that did not allow that his delegate on earth

I could contemplate the discovery of a new world.

The Holy Roman Church did what is done in these cases.

A sangria.

Hired services of a doctor.

A kind of Jewish mystic.

He claimed to be able to heal to the highest pontiff

using a remedy that he called the transfusion of blood.

I just needed its instrumental

Two immaculate kids and not older than the age of 10

and two gold ducats, one for each child.

That things well done they look good

He sajó, extracted from them six liters of blood

and he gave it to drink to the most excellent corpse

of the excellent pontiff.

And so, feeding of the blood of two like,

He consumed his last minutes of life

the same founding father of the holy inquisition.

What irony, right?

Order yours to go out in search of witches to scorch

and you finish your days devouring children of 10 years.

His is the glory of the discovery of the new world.

That's what his sanctity was done sculpt on the tombstone.

Do not ask me why.

But that pope wanted to take with he the glory that corresponded to us.

And do not ask me how he knew about us,

of Columbus and new worlds,

if he was dead eight days before

that we we sailed from Spain.

Gossips they will come to say

that one of his 13 bastard children I was traveling on one of our boats.

But that's how they are Gossips.

They always say what one expects to hear.

I have no idea who it was the father of Columbus.

That will not be me who speaks to you

I do not care if your father It was Genovese, Galician or Catalan.

As if it was the very same Pope of Rome.

Who cares?

(SPEAKS IN LANGUAGE AMERINDIA)

Where, where do they live those Indians?

As they are?

Admiral.

Armed

Apparently, they do know how to fight.

At least, that's what the Indian says.

So, they will be people of reason.

These are cowards and they do not know anything about weapons.

Those cannibals will have captured to more than one of their own

and seeing that they do not return, They say they eat them.

The same will be said of us someday.

Juan.

Good job.

More than 10 islands we toured in that first month.

And no sign of the great Khan.

The great Khan of India It was the one the admiral was looking for.

Alone, Juan de la Cosa, Always Faithful,

I tried to convince him

that It could not be Asia.

Those which we called Indians

little or nothing seemed to men and women

that populate China or India.

That what we had discovered were only islands.

But the admiral He refused to believe it.

We made continuous beaten of recognition.

We were not looking for gold, We were looking for something

I could show that we were in Japan, in China

or in the damn India.

(CANTICLES IN LANGUAGE AMERINDIA)

Chist.

They believe us come from heaven.

These take us for gods.

Admiral.

Sorry to spoil your rest, but I have to inform you.

The Santa Maria, my lord.

It has gone to the bottom tonight.

It sinks.

Oh! Good Morning.

Oh!

I hope the mosquitoes have had better consideration with you

of which they have had with my person

The helmsman left the bar in the hands of a boy.

He must have fallen asleep and been the helmet went against some rocks.

The Santa Maria sinks.

Today is the Lord's day.

We will celebrate this Christmas with joy and with devotion.

Admiral.

The Santa Maria sinks.

At nine years old, I embarked for the first time.

I remember that day as if it had been yesterday.

23 years at sea

and the only memory I have precisely that day.

I was walking on that carrack

trying to dodge each rope, each knot, each end.

I thought that the whole boat it would fall apart

and it would fall apart as soon as put your hand where it should not.

Ah1

I was not afraid of drowning.

It scared me to be the one responsible that all those sailors

end at the bottom of the sea.

You do not enjoy, my father used to say.

And I, there, rigid,

arms attached to the body

and stiff as the big cock.

Unable to see the many signs

that Christ, our Lord, It puts in front of our eyes.

Bad news are those that Our Lord brings us today.

The best, dear friend.

The best that can be given on the day of Christmas.

It's time to return to Spain.

And what about the 39 men of the Santa Maria?

They do not fit all between Pinta and La Niña.

Not all.

On December 25, 1492 the captain ship sank.

Santa Maria.

And where all they saw a fatality,

Admiral Columbus He saw a sign from heaven.

With the remains of the ship, we build a fort.

We call it Nativity.

The frames finished acting as walls

and the canopy, awning under which to take refuge.

There would be 39 men.

All, men of Columbus.

The first settlers of the first of the colonies.

They were given the order to explore that new earth,

to search and pick up the much desired gold that still did not appear.

Nobody put a but, not one single protested.

What better to stay in those Indies

to go back to the bad life that we had left in Spain.

Do not do that.

Where was I, You have not heard the admiral?

-I've heard you. -Leave your things in peace.

-What a fright you've given me, girl!

Eh eh.

Quiet.

Quiet.

Quiet.

Quiet. Look.

Look what I have

Do you like it, huh?

Look.

-Don't leave him where he was.

-Stop touching me already with that face of trocaconventos.

For once in your life, leave me alone.

Look, pretty.

Take it, pretty.

-We are going. Nothing has occurred here.

-Of course nothing happened. Nothing has occurred here.

I have not infringed nor an order from the admiral.

The girl wants to do business and you will wait for you.

Shit!

-Ortubia!

Ortubia!

(SPEAKS IN LANGUAGE AMERINDIA)

Take anchors!

Black.

-10 males, seven females, three children.

Where are they?

In the cellar.

You did not use force, right?

Admiral, are they for you?

They are for your majesty, the Queen.

In agreement.

These men they are not slaves.

They will come to learn our language,

our faith and our customs.

Bon appetit we will take them when we come back here

and we have the best guides and translators that you can have.

And the females?

Men travel calmer when they take women

A thousand apologies, admiral.

It seems...

that I'm not the only one who has gone to the Indians for blacks.

Believe me, it's not something that makes me proud.

Expand the largest and the mizzen!

Black, at the helm.

-Explain the greatest and the mizzen!

On February 22 of the year 1493

the Pinta and the Niña They sailed back to Spain,

leaving behind 39 men in the fort of the Nativity.

We had discovered 20 islands, 15 different ethnic groups

and a world that, without us knowing,

it would soon become in a new continent.

Maybe we were close to complete

one of the discoveries more important

for the humanity, but we did not think about it.

We thought about returning.

On seeing again to our wives and children.

In putting your hand back in the cauldron

in which our mothers they cooked

I swear to you, at least me,

I did not think about anything else.

We return singing, proud of our company

and anxious to tell in our villages

that we had done what Until then, you could not.

But few things happen as we predict.

Admiral Christopher Columbus thought that the sea

he had shown him a new path to get to India

when that ocean, really,

It led to a new continent.

One earth I still did not have a name.

A new world that I was not baptized.

And the Indians ...

The Indians were not even called Well before we get there.

They had their own names.

Precious names that their mothers They had been born at birth.

They took us for gods

and we we take them for slaves.

And the worst was still to arrive.

Soon they will appear more ships on its beaches.

And this time, we will not be four miserable

loaded with trinkets to exchange for gold.

Do not.

This time, we will be Hundreds of unfortunates

and we will go armed up to the teeth.

They will adopt our customs,

starting with stooping the head when they speak to you.

And we will teach them the true faith.

The one that makes bonfires with their gods.

And they will learn our language

so we can understand them when you give us thanks.

You did not find gold

Not that much as we would have liked.

But there is gold.

And a lot.

We face to something unknown.

Tell him that my trust in Admiral Columbus

Is complete.

And that, therefore, do not take away the eyes on top.

They are the meekest and good men there may be.

Why are they locked in, so?

Lower your weapons and do not move.

As you swallow one, I take it out of your guts.

(Shooting)

Not yet.

But I assure you I'm going to send everyone to hell.

Ojeda

Look her in the eyes.

She is good.