Misunderstood Moments in History - Rise of the Aztec Empire 

fantastic job, oakley! I've spent a lot of time in mexico and i love mexico city and it's people. i couldn't be more happy you took this project on! check out the novel series by gary jennings. the 1st book is called aztec and deals with the time period of the 2nd half of ur video. it's really good. one really interesting character of this time is nezahualcoyotl. he was tlatoani of texcoco and was a famous poet and philosepher. he is often called the marcus aurelius of mezoamerica!

There is some fantastic work in art and research done here, kudos to you🙌. You should do a video on Incas (Tahuantinsuyo) rise to power too

necesito mass, I need more this was a great an awesome video

CHI-CO-MOZTOC, still did better than the UK videos.

Seriously the artwork is amazing. It's like depictions of ancient people that you would see in encyclopedias but it's more comtemporary. This Robbie guy is talented.

That's hardcore af

always read the fine print

@@derekscanlan4641 No, you misunderstood, the eagle is above, not below the rabbit, on line 34 we will 'skin' your daughter, not 'elevate' her.

@@qus.9617 where did you see this (eagle above rabbit)

@@thethirdjegs i think hes referencing the aztec writings. they used icons such as eagles etc and faces mainly if im not mistaken, rather than an alphabet, like hieroglyphs

@@muhammadsyed4394 _Robbie McSweeney_

Muhammad Syed you didn’t do anything

@@phillylove7290 What? Are you blind? Much of the artwork in his educational videos is original commissioned art. The ones that are all in the same style.

Yours is pretty lifelike as well. Subbed.

some are murals from Diego Rivera, for instance @ 21:47

We still eat snakes in some places... they're good :)

Aló I’m extremely intrigued

@@jahleelbingham9971 they are meh, you can have them like in a kind barbecue or in soup. In other parts you can also eat iguana with snake or rat with snake.

Im a decendant of the mexica people from the great city of tenochtitlan.

@@stevegarcia3811 change your gringo name to moctezuma or cuauhtemoc and i would believed you

It was part of there religion

Just like you people leave out the masses of genocide you committed. What are you getting at, colonizer?

@@KDH-br6hy This religion deserved to be extinguished from the earth.

@@KDH-br6hy I mean yeah it was, and hanging innocent people is part of the Klu Klux Kl@n religion, still doesn't make it right

​@@KDH-br6hy and?

Cortez managed to destroy an empire with a mere 200 soldiers, yet all they talk about is how he was a cruel tyrant. History is truly unfair.

@@SNIperofDARKness02 You do know that Cortez convinced the neighboring tribes to band together and attack the Aztecs right? he and his 200 men didn't do it alone.

Cortez didnt defeat them alone. Another native cultures joined them, not to mention that pox actually killed 90% of the population. not even war.

They didn't come close to building the largest city on the world. Maybe in that area but as current history stands, not even close to the largest.

They weren't neighboring tribes either, they were strong kingdoms, the Purepecha empire rival in size and greateness with the Aztec empire for example

For the fast delivery of messanges and small packages for the Huey Tlatoani and the nobles they were a system of runners.

Their logistics were similar to other civs(they had waypoints and supply routes), they were just limited by the fact that their beasts of burden were men haha.

They had tons of slaves, I'm not sure what you're talking about

The lake was the key to all of that.

'beasts of burden' don't exist naturally anywhere, they have to be bred and trained.

Omg that is so amazing!!!

That’s so cool. My family is from Puebla but nobody in my family (at least these past 6 generations) knows how to speak Nahuatl.

Felicidades que tu madre abla ese idioma ami me gustaria aver nacido en esas raises soy mextizo solo español se🥺

There are still millions of Nahuatl speakers, I’m going to learn it one day

Wow

I'm mexican and this has a lot of missunderstandings.. check out inah ;)

@@MrGUESS79 Got you, dude)

same amazing content :), take a shot of vodka for me brother.

@@mnstark3342 noway, I'm muslim.

@@user-cx3lf3co6s just don't tell anyone

truly it would be

Spaniard friars wrote how in awe they were coming by boat to see the (teocalli) sacred houses or pyramid temples towering above the lake and tenochtitlan.. kualli yohualli

But you should be vary careful to save your ass, I mean heart.

Not only the Aztecs. The Mayans and Incas meet the evil European on the shores.

steve rangon Stuff like that happened all over the world shut up.

*Looks down at himself* *Laughter sound effect* "My god, I am." "We're so the bad guys aren't we." *Wacky sitcom outro*

“Don’t worry! It was for a good cause! I mean, the gods wanted me to do that! What do you expect me to do about it?!”

You are right!..they all try to demonize the Aztec culture but dont see their society so advanced as to have a form of government ,schools and institutions to make a society work.

Rei gee this is the best comment on this video

And how killing and flaying the daughter of your benefactor and ally fits in not demonizing those huge bastards? They were fine, yet they decided to go to war. Pfft, please...

@@Abelius Read the fine print

@@Abelius werent the Roman's nailing people to sticks and feeding people to lions.

MAISA MENDEZ that’s so damn cool my grandpa from my dads side speaks Nahuatl but sadly we don’t have much contact one day I’d love to learn from him 😭

@MAISA MENDEZ Is the narrator's pronunciation accurate?

@@kmccart2 besides the accent, its close.

Except the Catholics burned everything

James Woodard you can believe whatever religion you want. Just cuz someone wore a cross doesn’t mean you are responsible for their actions.

She was hot, we were cold

Yeah the Aztecs were a bunch of assholes I'm glad they got their asses kicked.

@@sonoftheking7776 The Tlaxcala fell similarly, up to the present day.

It makes you wonder if the astecs were really the good guys in this story

@@VitorEmanuelOliver No it doesn't.

I've been learning alot as well. This is such an interesting topic.

@@InvictaHistory That's the thing, this was real hard work, harder than with your Rome videos (also hard work) but I think you enjoyed putting this video together.

Daniel de Bílek actually there is a lot of misinformation in this video.

Please check this out you will definitely learn. aztekayolokalli.com

Take it from someone who had actually lived in Mexico, the Aztecs did sacrifice the wife but it was by removing her heart, which was the greatest honor, cause she was sacrificed to their gods, but the flaying thing is all lies, flaying was not part of Aztec rituals. Remember that what we know about Aztecs comes from Spaniard scribes, in the early 1500's there were rumors about the Aztecs summoning demons, having copulation with animals and engaging in cannibalism all lies that the Spaniards invented.

Markoi Green Damn why are you so pissed?

@@dankmemes8304, it's the internet. Everyone is or wants to be pissed at something. Lol

Will be sick especially with a jaguar outfit

there were aztec/mayan buildings in ac black flag remember

That doesn't necessarily make it an Aztec game..

It’s a really weird system, historians typically just skip what would have been the 13th century. But that is still a very long time to rule!

The resources I checked give his birth year as 1380, and his reign as 1428-1440

@@annoyed707 So Invicta probably just flipped the 2 and the 4.

Lol very true..

It was God given mother nature food and active life style

Many neolithic societies practiced ritual warfare.

Hi, would you recommend any documentaries on Latin ancestry here on RU-vid ? Would be much appropriated

Sounds horrible and depressing

@@soleilbleau7065 Latin as in the Spanish/South American Latinos or Roman Latins?

Josh Bascii how they wanted it

They would have came sooner or later, they or some others: englishmen, dutch, etc and still had 10,000 years of technological advantage and none the more mercy. Still we all wonder.

Doubt it, they didn't have gunpowder so the British would have had them sooner or later

@@BallsTheDog gun powder was invented by the Chinese. The Aztecs were doomed the conquistadores had there rival enemies turn on them. Then the Spanish conquered the Traiter Tribes who helped over throw the Aztec Empire. The Aztecs were some of the world's first Civilizations to make man made islands.

@@BallsTheDog Gunpowderwas of little effect, if technology was to blame steel and ships were much more important than powder, yet the conquest of Mexico was a war fought with bio-warfare and politics, not as much with swords and pistols.

I think that without the europeans showing up, the Incas would have slowly conquered much of south and central america. Their stoneworking and architecture was even more advanced than the Aztec one, and they even used bronze axes, halberd, breastplats. So technologically they were an age ahead of the Aztecs. But most importantly, the Incas used cultural assimilation insead of pure brutality to rule over conquered cities and tribes, so it's safe to assume that they could have easily forged similar alliances with the Aztec's rivals, just as the spaniards did. It's truly tragic that a civil war between the two sons of the king and the pox from the north severly weakened this great civilisation, just before the spaniards arrived. Otherwise this american civilisation had the best chance, with metal weapons, mountain forts, and highly organised military, to actually beat back the europeans.

ijw z Uderrated comment! 😂🤣

lol

😂😂😂😂

Lmao

I thought Indian hindu and Sri Lankan names were hard..

That’s cool. My favorite color is blue and my favorite bird is a hummingbird.

Yes, sir. El Colibrí Zurdo he was called. She of the Serpent Skirt, as Coatlicue was known.

@brmbly she wasn't murder since she is the earth

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Thanks for noticing. Admittedly I got a lot of help from our researcher with these.

"leave the caves to explore the world" didn't make it all that far lads.

@@InvictaHistory No, thank you for the effort. The quality of these videos is second to none, the effort really shows

Agreed! I was positively impressed by the pronunciation. Great job

@@InvictaHistory Hi Oakley I am a fan from Mexico and I really appreciate you making videos over this topic. However if you want to improve your pronunciation I recommend you getting someone that speaks Spanish to read them to you. The words are written so that when you read them in Spanish you pronounce them correctly. Or you could search for a video of Super Holly on the topic. Her father is a náhuatl expert.

The aztecs were normal, most of the things that history shows is a lie, the history of Mexico is beautiful, and the history of aztecs was distorted by the spanish crown, because it is not convenient for them that the world see them as a civilization that killed without reason, for imposing the catholic religion they destroyed the temples of the aztecs including the great temple of tenochtitlan. The aztecs were much better equipped with wapons equipment than the spanish conquerors themselves, a very curious fact is that spain did not conquer Mexico but France did it, since spain as such, at that time was a French province, when the Spaniards arrived in Tenochtitlan-Now Mexico city, they were perplexed by the wonderful architectural works of the ancient Aztec civilization, at night the pyramids of the aztecs seemed to have been built of silver, and the Spaniards could not believe so much beauty, they related in one of their epistles that the great tenochtitlan was a city of dreams. Textual words of the conqueror cortes.

@@Manuel-ny2nl indigenist?

@@Manuel-ny2nl romanticizing a brutal empire? Killing and sacrificing on a massive scale

@@rckflmg94 Yes, yes i am ✋🏽⚡️

I'm fucking done. 🤣🤣 I think cheetah dude is fighting a lizard cactus.

reop reop Most of the time it work.

I still don't even get the point of the action either. Why announce a war like that. Do a surprise attack on their city or something reasonable.

Yeah just cross Monty's border and capture a worker.

Maybe they have misinterpret their God's message.

!!Fuck you!!

lil Zuma

Japan will be next.. or well should. They released a trailer where they revealed an egyptian eye, the geek omega sign and torii gates as symbols... in that order and two games with matching civs was released...

Vikings is the next one for the PS5 & new Xbox console

I'd love to be able to play the new AC games, but the monetization system they use is a complete turn-off for me. The leveling system is absolutely broken due to it.

Right now is the Viking era

@@salted6422 Although I completely agree that the monetization system in AC is a disgrace and shouldn't exist, I never found the leveling system completely broken. It is obviously more grindy to make those boosts more attractive, but I was never in a situation where I was underleveled or weak for the main progression. I do a lot of side quests but usually skip the boring mmo ones and my level is often a couple of numbers above the requirement.

look, if you don't the sun won't rise tomorrow. we can't have that, can we?

Blood for the feathered serpent god! Hearts for the sun!

I am méxicano I have all these stories in my culture

@Your Typical Pinoy No One Expects the Spanish Conquistadors!

sees a solar eclipse: *sacrificing and astronomy intensifies*

🇲🇽✊

I noticed he could never say "Tlaxcala"

@wowalinbie girl I was taught the opposite 😂😂😂 the Aztecs were savages and ruthless killers that were defeated by the European saviors

@wowalinbie They were probably both. Like all civilizations, they had their good (astronomy, engineering, and economic prosperity) and their bad (human sacrifice, almost endless warfare, and subjugation of other nation-states)

@wowalinbie sheesh what school you go to they always demonized them where I’m from 💀

@@hueyitlahtoani9242 the aztecs were nothing short of amazing, dont get me wrong their human sacrifices were a bit to much but nearly every civilization during a time period like their pulled the same thing off, you have to remember the majoroty of their history is written down by the spaniards who already thought they were devils, they were sophisticated while london had a population if 800'000 the capitols area had 2 million with aqueducts from nearby spring, they had clean sewers, they even had a palace that has a zoo of 300 exotic animals which dwarfed modern day palaces, to top it off they did all of this with NO HELP, NO ANIMALS, and multiple enemy city states, while the europeans were still living in their own shit the aztecs praticed good hygiene , its said in a spanish chronicle that their teeth were so white sonce they brushed it with a corn powder I could rambble on in on on how cool they were but regarding them as a violent society is like saying european history is trash and dumb, which is false.

@@canofsouls282 yes I agree with you, sorry if my comment came off as hating the Aztecs 😭😂 I was replying with sarcasm to the comment where they said that they were taught that all native Americans were peaceful and stuff while I was taught the opposite

And I thought my mom was scary. No wonder Huitzilopochtli was such a unsettling dude. Imagine missionaries trying to put a veil over Coatlicue and saying "See, she is actually the virgin marry. She looks just like her. Kinda..."

@@Alkis05 lol yes they made her into lady Guadalupe

Talk about being under someone's skin

@Dark Days Yeah I'm team #cortezdidnothingwrong

@Dark Days I'm mostly just saying that for the meme factor. But from what it sounds like, cortez's cruelty was rather pale in comparison with the Aztec nobility. Not saying that makes it OK, just saying I know who I'd prefer as my overlord. Also I don't think I would group cortez in with those other names you mentioned.

Brolo Jay "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again"

@Dark Days Given what kind of people Aztecs were...who cares?

From what I've heard, alot of the cult of Khaine and it's practices were based off of Aztec rituals.

*BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!*

Moses and his god of war and famine - lots of similarities.

OAXACA STANDS THE CITY BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID

Ancient German/Scandinavians were similar.

Hands down made my day to read this comment 😂

@@Talosbug my job here is done

Huh, coincidentally a parallel with the God of the Old Testament commanding the Hebrews to invade the Levant.

Shut the fuck up these are my people and there beliefs

Chris Gonzalez their* lol

That's one of the points I make at the end of the video. That when the Spanish arrived, it had only been about 2 centuries since the Mexica themselves had been the new kids on the block.

Not ancient but prehistoric

They were like the United States, they were not that old but very powerful

yeah, i think it's cus their tech level is kinda like the classical era in europe

​@@derekscanlan4641 Yes and since there was no usefull animals like horses, its very probable no american civilization could have been able to develop much more. They had wheels, but they didnt had any use for it.

popocatepetl - say it quick

Popocatepelt is easy viva Mexico

The stressed word is in the first E... Popocatépetl "smoking mountain"

@@dermannemaunz It must be high...

I think his prononcuation is quite bad...

It all finally makes sense. Huitzilopochtli was a Pillar Man who was hungry, hence all the blood sacrifices.

@nhà độc tài Yang Wen Li Very sorry, I was cringey but Aztecs were cool

@nhà độc tài Yang Wen Li dude, calm down, it was a joke.

@@Hobo_Knight I swear to goodness this guy is either a blatant troll, or a standard issue stereotypical racist white christian male who believes in white male christian superiority. Typical, but again, I feel like the spelling implies its a troll, or English isnt their first language.

@nhà độc tài Yang Wen Li cant tell if trolling or mentally deficient.

Ruben Reis Did you not hear... god of war?

Kaneki Is Dead Goku Im Ban Just about every civilization throughout history who has had a chance to do horrible things to others has, regardless of race. The only truly good societies throughout history have been isolated and not in a position to subjugate others (Tainos/Arowaks, India Valley Civilization,etc.) and those never really tend to last.

Kaneki Is Dead Goku Im Ban Indus Valley*

So we're many Ancient Pagan Civiliizations through out Europe ECT. Ancient Rome Gladiator games throwing early Christians , Slaves , Prisioners only to be devoured by Wild Beasts.

Well sometimes you just want a new coat

The Humboldt data is wrong. The name "Azteca" or "Aztlaneca" was used by Hernando de Alvarado Tezozómoc in his chronicle since late XVIth Century. He was in fact the grandson of Motecuhzoma II; so the term was known by the mexica.

Mexica means the Navel of the moon .. Meshecaa...Mexico

What?

crunch9876 The Mexican flag I guess.

Dank Memes oh... yeah they said that in the video lol

@@crunch9876 Our national symbol, it's in our flag.

After the spanish came, the meaning changed for a while. The spaniards used it to represent God eating the devil after turning into a snake that made Eve ate the fruit. After independence the meaning was changed back to the funding of tenochtitlan

Markus W They have a crazy God of war.

@@htoodoh5770 Mars demanded virgins, when the Romans were losing the second Punic war they had to sacrifice them as well

sony pls make a god of war game about this

You know. As one does.

@@alejandroescrivaperales6379 I know right i mean they can come up with entire 3 part game that would be as epic as the god of war series

That would realy depends on: If you are a Mestizo, and you're ancestors that you know of are from in, or around, the states close to Mexico City

Chop Chips the darker the Mexican the deeper the roots

Bryce Anhk Definitely my friend, I’m mixed with Spanish, Jewish, and Irish So my Mexican roots are not pure but I do have pride in the little I do have! But hey Brown Pride ✊🏼Por Sempre!

Most Mexicans are not really pure blood aztecs. Their other ancestors came from spain. My ancestors from my mothers side came from northern spain and settled in zacatecas one of the oldest and first states established by the viceroyalty of New Spain (before it was Mexico)

What about all the murder?

It was a different Era but it happens all the time in our so-called modern culture so what’s your point every culture has its dark side?

@@voltanzapata8024 Yes, but some cultures have dark sides that are much, much darker than others. And others actually have bright sides that far outweigh their dark sides and are responsible for most of what is good in this world.

Meh, nothing but pagan crap, it was all over the old world too, pyramids for satan and his fallen angel pagan gods.

The Spanish conquistadors wrote that when they first laid eyes on it Cortez and his men were bewildered and asked if they were dreaming . These men had been around the known world chosen by Cortez himself. What could they have seen ? And why were they instructed to not only destroy it but cover it up SMH they covered something we can't begin to imagine what it was like

It's pretty mediocre but leagues ahead contemporary attempts. He doesn't do the tl right and emphasizes or de-emphasizes some parts of words and names

I'll probably do an episode on the logistics of the Aztec army and this will be an important point to make

...and because of this the wheel was used mostly just for childrens' toys, apparently! i must admit i've always found this 'fact' a little hard to take seriously. i can think of so many uses for the wheel that don't involve beasts of burden

@@derekscanlan4641 not only was the wheel not made a weapon of war but neither was metallurgy. All weapons of war used by those of the Mesoamerica were crafted of stone, wood, or animal bone

@@rejvaik00 Inca spears, arrows, axes or maces were either made out of copper or stone. There is even a rare example of a copper mace axe. Edit: I should correct myself that Inca is not considered part of Mesoamerica. Well you learn something new everyday. Edit: Quauholōlli was a mace used by the Aztecs that ended in a hardball, made out of either copper or stone. They also used either stone or copper axe tlaximaltepoztli for timber chopping or military use or for tribute. The tlaximaltepoztli was also used by some kingdoms in Mesoamerica as a weapon.

@@qus.9617 you have knowledge of metals good but you should know that copper is a very malleable material, it does not require intense forging or any metal shaping, only when copper is combined with tin to produce bronze can you say a civilization gained knowledge of metallurgy, and none of the civilizations in all of the Americas ever reached a point to begin using any materials made from bronze

Don't be too hard on your brethren, it is this way in most of the western hemisphere. I live in Missouri and almost everyone can tell you at least American history if not English, French and German as well with a spot of Roman but you'd be lucky to find one or two that even knows Missouri was a tribe.

Nah the Roman's only skinned people alive, fed them to lions, hung them upside down on crosses, burned people, put their heads on poles every 10 feet for thousands of miles. Not much different

@@juanaraiza6632 All in good culture, right? lol

Rape of the Sabines.

Conquest! Imagine this scenario, if Native American people cross the Atlantic ocean, invade and Colonize Europe, and slaughter most Europeans, and put the remaining populations in tiny reservations, for 500 long years. How would Europeans feel about it? All they need is their beloved motherlands back, the lands that their ancestors forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for generations. Continent of America is not a new world; blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=820652

@@unclechinsyou8555 Slavery, Colonialism and Colonization are evil things done, and benefited by evildoers. - Civil War finished up centuries long notorious Anglo Western Slavery worldwide. - WW II finished up centuries-long notorious Anglo Western Colonialism worldwide. - Likewise, WW III finishes up centuries-long notorious Anglo Western Colonization worldwide. Thanks for, blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=820652

Shoot I swapped the numbers. Should be 1427.

@@InvictaHistory (1347-1427)* Unless he was 180 lol

I call witchcraft (according to legend)

Lol, I was scratching my head on that one, too, thanks for answering, I always think I've missed something when stuff like that happens, assuming the error is mine, cuz it so often is. 😁

@@Sirvalian I'm just guessing lol. 80 sounds more likely if we are talking his age but I wasn't sure what times we were talking about. On second glance he is talking about the 14 year reign, my bad mate.

Your absolutely right there are the only indigenous civilization to ever reach a million inhabitants in a city

one of the texcocan tlatoani, nezahualcoyotl, is often referred to as the marcus aurelius of mesoamerica

We shouldn't Forget mayans and incas, one of both Had a greater territory than the Roman empire. Beside that, yeah the azetc were amazing

@@anblueboot5364 nope sorry, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires they are way down towards the bottom of the list

@@anblueboot5364 the Mayans where more like the Greeks, they where not one single culture but a set of free city states with their own rulers and were only unified by their languages and origins.

Because it not white stuff

@@kadaltokek3953 Because he is from the US, “Marriott” all of this stuff IS taught in Mexico, not in the US though

It was taught in my school if you took Spanish 3

Only hillbilly jones history is allowed in school duh

Royce Rome it’s something most folks don’t realize haha Everybody who exists today conquered someone else. And true conquest is killing and enslaving large parts of a populous. Times were tough back then haha

Alexander Strickland what about the Ainu?

So many peoples can say this

Htoo Doh the Ainu weren’t entirely conquered, just mostly. They mostly assimilated. But they were nasty enough to hold the Japanese off so that should tell you something there.

The aztects were particullary brutal warriors, but other "mexican" tribes were considered more honorable and civilized by modern day standars, so much so that they did not enjoy to the least bit later aztec domination. When the Spanish came, they allied pretty strongly with them

esteban medina nobody cares.

@esteban medina wow neat!

@@Bell_Matt poor freak .Go to watch your cartoons and allow the adults talk

@@Bell_Matt Care enough to comment. Idiot.

a heart no idiot

It wasn’t an eagle eating a snake?

Actually vipers, snakes and serpents are all diferent animals members of the squamata order>ophidia clade. The codex actualy said that it was a barren and rocky badland filled with poisonous vermins like scorpions and centipedes all of wich the mexica promptly learned to consume.

@@grillodofus well yes they are different animals but saying vipers AND snakes is redundant because they are all snakes, it's like it was "beetles and insects"

@@biologicallyyaseen Oki

@@grillodofus Lmao that's pretty wild. I could never imagine eating a centipede. Those dues were hardcore

When I think Aztec the first thing that comes to mind is Harmony xD

yeah right....

They asked for thier lords daughter to become thier queen, then thier head priest greeted him wearing her flayed skin. They also founded thier great temple by butchering 80k people. H A R M O N Y

That is so wrong...

@@Dogedoge337 Actually, the Spaniards had such an easy time conquering the Aztec Empire, because all the tribes the Aztecs had pissed off were more than eager to join the Spanish. And THEN a small pox outbreak ravaged the continent.

Why always mentioning London, while the rise of this city is relatively recent (late 16th/17th century), there is nothing to compare. Paris and Naples (and Constantinople) were the largest in Europe. All were recovering from the Black Death (and invasion for Constantinople), especially Paris which exceeded 300k one century before. In 1500, Paris is estimated at + 200k, most estimates say Tenochtitlan was the same. Objectively, the scale was probably similar, and far from cities like Beijing (700k). Though I admit, the real amazing thing was the fact that it was on a lake. Conquistadors accounts are regarded as worthless though.

yet they destroyed it and didn't give a fuck and now we can't see its beauty.

I would suspect it's similar to early Roman, Greek... maybe Egypt? A lot of it is probably exaggeration but I suspect having lower population counts helps things a bit. Can't help but wonder how many times society has risen and fallen, seeing how similar a story it is across the world, even 2000 years apart.

bro, they were about 3000 years behind asiatic and fertile crescent civilizations. Not to mention they were still sacrificing humans en masse when europe, the middle east, the subcontinent, and the orient were all in the midst of philosophical and scientific revolutions. Advanced? Hardly. More like bloodthirsty savages that were too retarded to get their act together Edit: for perspective, Oxford and Cambridge were both founded 300 years before the Aztecs laid a single brick, the Cathedral of Notre Dame was also already standing

I have seen an exhibition about Middle-American medieval culture a couple of years ago. I was amaized: money was invented paralelly in many places. In Asia Minor / Europe this happened (with minted coins) back to 600 BC or earlier. The Song Dinasty in China used paper money in the earlier middle ages. The Middle American natives however begun to use coins just in the 11th or 12th century. With military technology there was no gunpowder, significant armor, or cavalary. If I remember correctly they have not even invented the wheelbarrow. Cultural development in Europe or the Far-East (Science, Arts etc.) was far further. However irrigation may be a good point because Tenochticlan was built on a lake and the Aztec empire had many lakes and water. So there was need for fresh water, sewers and irrigation and they developed these features. Both in other fields they were inferior to the European and Asian powers.

Hey, you could make an organized religion out of this. But Yahweh prohibited human sacrifices though.

No he consumed baby foreskins instead

​@mendaix He didn't allow rape, he allowed making captured daughters, of those men they killed, servants or slaves. Also, it was allowed to marry the slave. (likely forceful - 1000BC) Wikipedia: The code also instructs that the woman was to be allowed to be redeemed if the man broke his betrothal to her. If a female slave was betrothed to the master's son, then she had to be treated as a normal daughter. If he took another wife, then he was required to continue supplying the same amounts of food, clothing, and conjugal rights to her. The code states that failure to comply with these regulations would automatically grant free manumission to the enslaved woman [...] Women captured by Israelite armies could be adopted as wives, but first they had to have their heads shaved and undergo a period of mourning. (Deuteronomy 21:10-14) However, "If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery

@@emis5478 Foreskins were not offered as a sacrifice for Yahweh. They were an indicator of jewish community, and now an indicator of some christian communities and the muslims.

The 12 tribes of Israel Gods chosen people

Abheer Mehrotra which one

Thomas Truong the final part

More like people should have built a wall around the mexica lol

and have the mexica pay for it?

Well thye did. It was broken by cannonfire

they* fucking hell i know history but not English

Fuck the walls.

Chops Aguilar she is the Mother Goddess, she was nurturing as she was cruel

That alone makes you think how credible his sources are. What we know about the native cultures on this continent is very scarce due to the destruction and rewritten history by the invader. To this day we have nahuatl speakers which do not recall half of these stories.

Woah haha thanks!!!

no problem, I've been watching for a while! Love this series of yours!

No , you weren't

@ So he gained 370k subs in the time between then and now?

@@sjakierulez please, don't reproduce

The Aztecs were falling apart, they were overextended and everyone hated them. Unless they found a way to massively reform their inefficient system of government, they were going to collapse sooner or later, just like all previous Mesoamerican empires, and for that matter, like the Roman Empire.

The Conquistadores who came to the new world never misunderstood the Aztecs. Actually they were in awe with the advancements, the grandeur and the riches of the empire, to the point they did confess in the writings a praise that the new world was, in many parts even more advanced than Europe back then. Their goal was however, to elaborate a moral mean to conquer the land and exploit those riches. In the end, they were conquerors, not tourists.

Whether impressive or modest, the dead bodies is really the takeaway message.

American is a continent 🤡🤡🤡

PopeDope69420 Britain france spain and the germans were all way worst in terms of wars back in the day

@@Eri503 the aztecs were beasts, and no, ''but this guy right here is worse'' is no excuse for their atrocities.

Diego Gonzalez no offense bro but work on you’re english, no idea what you said and the mayans ? This video about aztecs dude..

@@Eri503 woops my bad

Starting with Montezuma as your neighbor was always the worst. This us why Ghandi wiped out his empire with Giant Death Robots