How The Knights Hospitaller Built A Slave Empire

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History paints the Knights Hospitaller as heroic warriors, but the archaeology tells a much darker story. In today’s video, Giselle looks at physical evidence revealing how the Order of Saint John ran one of history’s most lucrative human trafficking rings, and how these enslaved people built early modern Malta.

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00:00 Introduction
01:47 The Order of Saint John
03:55 Hospitals and pirate ships
08:58 The galleys
13:32 Building Valletta
15:42 The foreign colonies
18:25 The inquisition and underground tapes
21:48 Burial customs
23:24 The Great Rising of 1749
25:23 The collapse

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