Pre-Columbian America - Summary on a Map 

@Egg T for europeans

I agree

Whst influenced 'civilisation' in meso and south America, but North America remained nomadic?

@@joshuataylor3550 i think it was close to create a civilization, it was like europe not a first center of civilization because of ice age but a member of civilization because of its fertile lands.

@@joshuataylor3550 in the north there were no animals that could be domesticated. Horses, cows, pigs, chicken and sheep came from eurasia after all.

yes but its not on a scale that can leave an archaeological or even genetic footprint. ive also heard that theres evidence of Japanese ships landing on north american east coast although unmanned.

They did. There's also evidence that they briefly settled Antarctica. Those Polynesians were really bold. They conquered the largest ocean on Earth. Also, I'd say most likely many expeditions of Polynesians went missing.

@@Jack209 But I feel sad that they hunted the Moa bird into extinction in New Zealand. The Moa looked as a beautiful creature to me. :(

Yeah thats nice but it was definitely the land bridge

@@tibodeclercq2131 its a shame about north american fauna as well, early humans wiped out many fascinating creatures

This channel gives the same amount of education as school.

Killjoy you mean more

Your so right

same

If our school teachers teach us like this stuff

@@71Derme wow, ty so much. My life is better thx to you

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At least the incans didn’t die due to a El Niño

That was so last year

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Yeah same. I live in Arizona, and there are some huge, ancient pueblo cities that I've visited. The civilizations of the southwest are often overlooked, but they were quite advanced. Also, I wish the toltecs got a mention as well. But they did have to cover thousands of years in one video so i guess it's understandable.

@@tinyelephant1533 yeah same here being from Arizona as well and also being Anasazi or a Pueblo person myself I feel the civilizations of the south west are majorly overlooked

@@rubinortiz2311 Anasazi and Pueblos fascinate me as they were the prior inhabitants pf the area before the Navjos migrated south in the 1400’s. Its only proven with modern genetics but its intriguing since the Anasazi’s also created settlements in the Grand Canyon

@@seamusmaye1333 all of that is true people should remember us for those things not cannibalism in a time of absolute desperation

@@tinyelephant1533 Tula was the toltec most important city so they were mentioned at least indirectly.

There's one America, the continent.

They are not that different either, the Europeans lost most of their history, it is believed that the Indo-Europeans arose in the Asian steppes and expanded from the Caucasus through Europe and the Middle Proof of this are the Indo-European speaking populations in the Middle East and the North. of India, however its history begins with the Greeks

@@love_x_love6619 There is north and south america, Its literally a basic fact from elementary school. America is short for United States of America which is why people who live in the us are called americans and people refer to the country as america

@@dakota6050 No. I'm not sure of how the education in the US goes on that matter, but America is the name for the entire continent, and so it has been since it was named like that in honor of Americo Vespucci, at the start of the XVI Century. 100 years before the English founded their very first colony and 270 years before the USA gained its independence. Dividing it into South America and North America is just for comodity and to facilitate things. So you can divide it into its two continents or just call it America and you'd be correct in both ways. But saying that America is first of all a short for "United States of America" is very insulting for all the other American countries. The fact they already call themselves Americans due to the name of the USA is already prepotent enough. Imagine if when Germany got unified at the end of the XIX, instead of "Deutschland" they decided to call themselves "United States of Europe", address themselves as Europeans and say that Europe is actually a short for their new countey, and that the actual continent is only Eurasia.

@@rotciv1492 How is it “insulting” if Americans are born on the continent of “America” and claim the name “Americans” because there nation is called “The United States of America?” Is it not true that the U.S. isn’t a group of United States on the continent of America? And, if this name is an insult to the rest of the people of America, how shall we remedy that? Change a name that has been applied for more than 240 years to people born in the United States? Change the grammatical situation of multiple languages? And, America was the First Nation to break from colonial chains. Is it not our right to claim the name “Americans” as our identity than anyone else?

Great point!!! A lot of people think the Americans were all just naive lndians but the Americans had actually great civilization that build wonders of the world like Machu picchu and chichen itza

the Mayans existed the Greeks did not.

@@aditironci1944 elaborate?

@@Nikwunu Ah yes, because only Europeans are capable of thinking...

@@ab-fi6ks what are you talking about

it's a good thing he Re-discovered it because potatoes were unknown by the rest of the world at that time, once potatoes were discovered the population in many European places exploded. Not just Spain, also kingdoms and states that never went to the Americas, but the potatoe was shared quickly.

@@nuh-protaliban5739 especially in france as the name stuck as the French fry

@@nuh-protaliban5739 but millions of native Americans would die

@@KenshinAlex7 The French fry really is Belgium not France as France stole the name

@@MrZZ-py4pq doesn’t matter because they still eat it as much as anyone else

Yes

Yeah

Yes people are dumb

Everyone believed it because they also correctly predicted other things that came true

@@tjayenterprises5190 For real? Like what predictions please tell me.

There were very large agricultural populations in central NA. Mound builders etc.

Why would anyone move to a city to be a peon under the boot of some warlord when buffalo in the north were plentiful and all men could live free there and eat like kings?

Some have suggested this is to do with contact with Asian migrants. That the over Ocean currents take Asian ships to this locations.

@@wulf67 well ask this same thing today, we mostly live in dense cities exploited by a few rich men

@@nmarbletoe8210 but not as dense as central mexico or the andes

Stepped pyramids too, peculiarly

It's mostly like Mexico n South America, doing the most

There is a sort of convergence not only in a biological way, but in a technology way as well.

And they had indoor plumbing while the Europeans were still throwing their refuse out their bedroom windows into the street. The Spanish were astound by the technological wonder that was Tenochitlan because there was nothing as advanced in Europe. Quality of weapons with which to wage war are not what make a civilization advanced or not, but it is unfortunately the most common and prevalent measurement used. :/

They developed cocoa, tomato, corn, potato and chilli.... Such a shame they couldn't fight against Europeans, but that is life

¡Hola!, ¿cómo está este continente?... ¿hay oro? hostia, digan adiós.

@Weasel si es lo que se las antiguas civilizaciones hicieron, y se seguirá haciendo.

@Weasel every country in the history did bad and good things, the point is that Spain made its American Territories much better than it was before, Spain did America rich, developed and civilized bringing unity, order, laws, rights and technology

@Weasel boy, your level of ignorance is so big! there is so much you don't know! you have believed so many black legend lies that you have a distorted idea of ​​history, just read some good historical book, read what the great Alexander Von Humboldt (German) wrote after traveling through the Spanish Empire in America between 1799 to 1804, Read how he describes Latin America, read what he says about the wealth and happiness of the people, read how he says that Latin America was richer than Germany, you don't know anything ... Latin America was much richer than the United States, the poverty of Latin America began when the Spanish Empire broke into pieces due civil wars that ended with what today you mistakenly call independence, it was not a war of independence, it was a Latin American war of secession that ended with death, and economic ruin and leaving Latin America broken into weak pieces called repúblicas easy to control by the English-speaking countries, and speaking of the Aztecs, they were tyrants who subdued neighboring tribes, practiced slavery, cannibalism and human sacrifices, it was an "evil culture" and deserved to disappear, by the way, it was not the Spanish who defeated the Aztecs, it was the neighboring tribes led by the Spanish who rose up against the Aztecs to achieve freedom, and about to the natives also I tell you that during the wars of independence, the natives fought in favor of the Spanish empire, it was the descendants of Spaniards with the help of the English who betrayed Spain and then left the Native Americans without rights in the newly born Latin American republics. You don't know anything!

Rimaykullayki, white man

U will be Really SAD

There are still hundred of thousands... :l

Senpai this anime will get sadder and sadder

Indeed.

Mayas were far gone from their peak when the Euros arrived, but alot of Maya culture remains in numerous communities in the mexican peninsula

And also influenced the culture and religion of the region, being the first major nahuatl speakers, and the first militarized empire in Mesoamerica

Nah, he mentioned Tula, the Toltec capital

@@moon-and-star4853 but not its expansion

I think Toltec are a culture, like the mayans. The aztecs and Teotihuacan people were empires.

@@octaviogutierrez9158 No, the toltecs were nahua migrants from the north that settled in the former Teotihuacan's territory and founded the city of Tollán. After that they conquered vast lands of Mexico and formed the Toltec Empire

medieval socialism.

@@tibodeclercq2131 why socialism lol

@@tibodeclercq2131 bro not everything is socialism relax

@@KenshinAlex7 Nowadays people call the very idea of military and roads as socialism

@@felipearenasbarr because the new collective owns it

That whole thing was extra dumb. The Mayan calendar is a circle, like a clock. It has no end. Imagine someone finding a clock and concluding that the world will end at noon because there are no hours left. Same thing.

If you are talking about the sun storm thingy, it actually did happen happen in 2012 but we were lucky

@@Rawhen_Rajew-aka-Rajubhai "Sun storm thingys" happen every year. And we've been hit by ones that were as strong, and worse than 2012s. That one was not traveling in our direction anyway.

we are talking something about created 800 years ago. We don’t know their knowledge.

@@BettercallSaul2005 Yes we do. They wrote it down. We understand their calendar well, and much else about them too.

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@@CarlosMoreno-zj2li r/woooosh

@@numbers4685 he didn't really ruin the joke.

@@gracefulcubix4730 but he didnt get it

@@gracefulcubix4730 so i wooshed him

That's truly amazing. Only one correction though. While Caral pyramids are indeed older than the Egyptian pyramids by a few centuries, the Egyptian civilization is still a bit older than the Caral civilization also by a few centuries.

we can only hope for new information and new and more in depth videos with all the new discoveries being made

Meanwhile Indigenous Australia's aren't exactly progressing along...

Es raro verte y que no sea un video de Mortal Kombat xd

Guess you’re right!

Not a bad try for someone who's not Native American, though. Only we know our history, since everybody else is never taught any of this (for political reasons).

@@landoc05 Lol, no, don't be cocky. We are taught about pre-columbian american history, just not with much details, because it's just not possible to know everything about every culture throughout 10 000 years. You're also not taught about every European dynasty and empire as we are...

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such a shame

I wonder similarly about Arab warriors. They invaded territories from Morocco all the way to india. I also wonder what cultures and value systems would have emerged in all these places had they not been conquered, taken over or converted by them. I'm from UAE.

their conquest wouldn't have been succesful if it was not for the diseases.

@@user-rg2ev9ui6s They most probably would have still been successful. Having horses and guns is a big advantage.

@@peterjones5243 yeah, but they had like three guns and five horses. So no, that wasn’t a great advantage

More like a south American indigenous history video. He knows nothing about the cultures that pervade the united states and Canada except for some architectural features (Mississippi mounds but everyone knows that easily)

@@shiverarts8284 I don't know why you say South American cultures and if the Aztecs, Mayans and others were North American cultures. Besides, I think that those cultures are not mentioned because it was irrelevant because in the end they were all killed by the English.Apart from the fact that the Hispanic-American cultures preserved some of their traditions, by the way, how I use the translator is probably that I am writing some words wrong.

@@shiverarts8284 A and a question, in the schools of the United States (school shootings XD) what thing do they teach about the cultures of the country (if you are from the United States)

@@adrielpro3006 wow I already agree with you, what are you trying to get onto me about? Do you have a problem with me? The way you word things is important, friend.

@@adrielpro3006 they teach very little to nothing, besides most of it is propaganda. I can see how they teach it too. They often pronounce our names wrong and don't know what they're talking about. I've been labeled a Japanese by other students for being DINÉ (Navajo) it still feels like cold war/world war 2 hysteria

The USAers continue to undermine the genocide that they built their country on by not teaching it.

American civil war in like

Facts

@@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999 Its not a genocide when most ppl die due to diseases. A genocide is intentional.

@@Komnenos83 ever heard of manifest destiny? it inspired lebesraum of nazi ideology.

And the civilwar itself was caused by the diseases, that killed the Inca. The Tawantinsuyu would never have fallen into European hands if it had all its military power

@@hueytlahtoani1304 uhh no, the "diseases" were smallpox

Big foreshadowing considering at the time Cuzco has no historical importance lol

@@therockmanxx dafuq?

Kronk reference

Diners high in the Andes, run by cooks with Brooklyn accents.

There's no native people. They all came from somewhere. As said in the beginning of the video.

@@johnnymack8442 Ok

Ok

Skill issue lmao

@@hectorpeze905dying of disease is a skill issue?

You know everything u make your own vedeo

@@rashmihkteacher4986 😂

Forgot the expansion of Tepanec Empire and its impact on Postclassic Mesoamerica, when the Mexica founded Tenochtitlan (and Tlatelolco) as they vassals.

@@javiksi I dont get it.

@@hueytlahtoani1304 Era una broma, but I'm right. People often see toltecs like the fathers of the tribe that founded Tenochtitlan 300 years later. However after the early posclassic period Toltec empire collapses and Tollan become a vassal of the Xaltocan tlatocayotl. Now we are in the late postclassic and the mexica just arrived in Chapultepec. Later they escape to Colhuacan, run away from Colhuacan and found both Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco under the tepanec sphere of influence. After that they participed in the tepanecs conquets of the ruler Tezozómoc and recieve economics benefits and even tributes of many places (Acolhuacan as an example). Thanks to Tezozómoc and during his reign Tenochtitlan growth and Tlatelolco built its great market. I mean, thats because I think Tepanec Empire has more relevance in the posclassic period and the formation of the Excan Tlatoloyan than Tollan.

This threw me off as well. I assume there is another name of which we don't know, but it makes me feel there is so much history on this continent we will never know.

@@sujetogenerico7034 Yea that pre-hispanic geopolitical history of which we'll never know is what really strikes my fancy, so much complexity and tribal activity that is not as easily accessible as other continent's history. I wish I knew MORE!

I think a lot of the Aztec and Maya city names are more or less what t!they were actually called though

Obviously not. But when I see that happening in the video I can only guess that the original name of those sites was lost, so they used the actual name of the place.

Probably same with Monte Alban. As im Romanian, it sounds like 'Munte Alb' which means 'White Mountain'.

Just not as advanced ie ships or gunpowder.

@@willthelucky9582 The smart people out there would tell you that 'advanced' is a relatively abstract concept and there have been several 'advanced' civilisations over the millenia.

@@willthelucky9582 It was the Chinese who invented gunpowder. Had Europe been isolated from Asia, they wouldn't have had weapons to conquer anything.

@@MsMRkv had that been the case, gunpowder wouldn't had developed in the first place to be fair. The technological exchange between Asia and Europe was crucial for both continents

@@MsMRkv alexander the great didnt need gunpowder to conquer Persia and India

It’d take a whole tribe to take down a mammoth with spears I can already picture it

How are Morocco and Belgium related? lol

@@jackapgar5824 1. I am surprised you have knowledge about these flags, you are more clever than the average person. 2. I am a citizen of Belgium who's parents are born in Morocco. 3. My name means Belgian-Moroccan apostate. Which means I am a former believer.

@@user-rg2ev9ui6s former beliver what do you mean by that?

Yo wassup bro, I am Moroccan and Murtad too lol

@@71Derme Yes, but the lake itself was named by the city of Texcoco. It was a member of the Triple Alliance along with Tenochtitlán and Tlacopán, and probably the second most important city of the realm. It have also a great history, dating back to the fall of Toltec Empire.

Smol country

oh yeah

Maybe Cyprus too

Nah, cyprus

Its cyprus

Homo sapien's evolutionary edge against Neanderthals and Homo erectus: a sense that there was no such thing as 'good enough'. Also, a willingness to commit acts of genocide.

Tell that to Australian aborigines

Also some scattered civilizations in the north. The Vikings also had significant influence on the eastern Inuit tribes- if I remember correctly, the Inuit actually didn't reach Greenland until about the same time as the Vikings, and a 3rd group was there first. Also interesting how many waves of settlers came across beringia.

Abnormal*

Dwarka in Gujarat India is another example

That’s not precolumbian though, their first meeting was in 1519

By “next time” you mean 10 episodes later

Both

The story ended well until British an USA fucked everything

Yes

You seem to know a lot about it. Can you recomend me any books about the Muisca?

@@hueytlahtoani1304 All books about muiscas is in spanish. Rare find in english.

@@AnsgarisIoannes No problem, I can read in spanish