Tenochtitlan -The Venice of Mesoamerica (Aztec History) 

Invicta ..Mexicas..not "Aztecs"...

I enjoyed the video a lot. Perspectives you dont hear often about the native American cultures on these continents. How awesome would it have been to walk this city in its prime?

I'm in love with the coco! Baking soda! I got Baking soda!😏

@@robertocastelan8683 Mexicas eran cuando llegan al Lago de Texcoco, una vez que se mezclan con el resto de los grupos étnicos que también vinieron de Aztlán se hicieron llamar Aztecas.

😍❤😍❤😍

Yes indeed, except Venice is affected by tidal flooding.Poor urban planning that's never been corrected.

Why would you call Venice the Thenochtitlan of Europe when it was much older city than Thenochtitlan?

+Valo Obviously you lack imagination and are too eurocentric.

+Valo It has nothing to do with antiquity.

Serguéi Benitóvich Venice is older

you cannot imagine how... ordinary... it looks like nowadays 😢

@@LennarthAnaya you mean modern

@@jayarthur1164 When modern has too many copies it becomes ordinary

@Prince Henry The navigator what the fuck, New York has homelessness and it's still pretty, so does Paris, so does Los Angeles, so does London and so on. Sooo, what the fuck does one thing has to do with the other? (I forgot to mention the criminality in all those places, drugs, guns, gangs you name it, like Guatemala or any Latin American country, so does France, U.s., U.k., Germany have drugs, gangs and all that, the difference is how hard you need to search for it)

Milo Satori nailed it man- our war on drugs (a moronic institution of modern prohibition- history shows how that turned out), and our appetite for said drugs, has been the single largest fundraiser for cartels.. we’ve destroyed much of Mexico and central America and then whine when those people flee the hell we helped create.. its fucking embarrassing.

And then they destroyed it.

@@intiorozco5063 nah, it was not their purpose to destroy it due to the admiration they had for it. It was the massive immigration from Spain during the New Spain era that destroyed it

@@erenjager9943 You mean colonization. The Spaniards conquered the New World peoples, razed their temples and built their own stuff.

@@intiorozco5063 they destroyed everything that was against their religion. They tried so hard to keep Tenochtitlan alive but as I said, massive immigration destroyed it and dried the lake. In LatinAmerica was very different from AngloAmerica, spaniards always wanted to mix ethnically and culturally unlike the british and other europeans arriving to the rest of North America who wanted to set their "culture" above everything that was already existing.

I assume burying it and building a Spanish church RIGHT on top of it was unintentional also

You mean, one of the modern world.

You would have been sacrificed, your heart ripped from your chest still beating, and offered as a sacrifice to their heathen gods. Your legs, arms and hands would be eaten, as these heathens were cannibals.. Still wish to time travel there?

@@dukeman7595 and in Rome you would have been sacrificed to the roman circus, in Egypt as a slave. We still want to visit those cultures man.

@@davidturner6280 No, my ancestors were Roman citizens so, where's that leave you?

@@davidturner6280 That's true. All human civilizations originated with violence and blood. And the fact is that even the romans (the basic step of the western civilization) actually enjoyed the pain of slaves, blood and the violence like watch a tv sport in places like the colosseum in all the provinces of the empire. In medieval europe, even with the chrystianity and all the messages of peace and the concept of good things, people killed in brutally and bloody ways "criminals" with reasons like political opinions or simply questions who weren't accurate to the religion and the monarchy. Medieval and Modern people enjoyed executions more than the justice. History wasn't exactly a pink-colored way.

deez noots a sinking overpopulated city mind you

@@Marshal_Rock very true

deez noots What the name of the city?

@@htoodoh5770 Mexico city, if I'm not mistaken

And the city is sinking every year.

Crltnyc 85 But..without spanish..Mexico will not be...and me..

@@robertocastelan8683 It doesn't matter, culture and history was destroyed and replaced. You like having this one instead?

@@0LMG gracias por el comentario, de verdad demuestra tu nivel intelectual

Calabi-Yau Manifold hey man no need to be mean ya it sucks what happened happened but Mexican culture is beautiful as well and so is their Mythology and religion and food so I mean they took some pieces of Aztec culture and weaved it into their own so it’s not completely dead and it’s ok the Mexico became what it did

Maybe their description may help found something similar somewhere in Mexico . Mexico still has unbuilt areas .

Absolutely, the conquerors described that the first time they saw Tenochtitlan from the top of a mountain, they coudn't belive their eyes.

It is at it's zênite right now

The Aztecs are the seven tribes that emigrated from Aztlán, temporarily taking refuge in Chicomóztoc and later continuing to migrate south: Mexicas, Tlaxcaltecas, Tepanecas, Xochimilcas, Chalcas, Acolhuas and Tlahuicas.

Mexicas , NO Aztecas.

I used to play Sid Meier's Colonization quite a lot 😅

Must be a shame seeing the great past. Before the damn spaniards razed it and looking at the air polluted city today

@@eetuthereindeer6671 As a Mexican I can say that the worst destruction to Mexico City and Mexico as a whole, was made, as still is made by Mexicans. We do not need help from Spanish to destroy Mexico. It is a shame, sad but it is true. Best regards!

They should rename Mexico City back to Tenochtitlan. The name Mexico City is just so boring.

@Solunaren Some people in the exterior are lazy when it comes to pronunciation they would be calling it “Ten”. They have been pronouncing “Los Angeles” all wrong since they took the land from Mexico. Los Ángeles is two words in Spanish there’s no reason to be pronouncing it “Laws Anjewless”

​@@horaciocapanelli-soto4710English and Spanish have different pronunciations. neither is more correct than the other

The destruction of Tenochtitlan was against Cortes's wishes. Cortes believed that the design of the city would prove profitable if he could capture it without destroying it. Sadly, the ruler after Montezuma II wouldn't surrender until the entire city was destroyed.

@The Chromosome Kid You right. Yo @ShizukaShizuka! you're a WEEB!

@@boolosboi7503 Even though I am ethnically Japanese? You should google the definition of words before throwing them around like an asshole

@The Chromosome Kid I am not a "Bro". What about me is weeb like? My name? Tell your mother to drink less next time she gives birth

What's up with the replies???

Is true because when they arrived to the lake they decide to split because they had some differences and did it in good terms in a way that the citizens of both cities recognized as brothers until the end when they fought and side by side agains the spaniards.

Bluebee Majarimenna I mean the same could be said about Italian cities....

City-states like the greeks

That's what it's like in most of the world. Colonial-based countries such as the ones in the Americas today are the exception.

I live in Tlatelolco and the zocalo of Mexico City is five metro stations away, quite close

Lol

Hilarious to think that youtubers provide more accurate documentaries than entire broadcasting networks now. What a time to be alive. I recommend "lost civilisations" channel, their documentary on the Aztecs was amazing. 5 hours long too.

On Oak Island.....

@Carl Le Pauvre Common knowledge....

@@paulies5407 THANK YOU!!!!

They kinda did something similar in AC4 with the mayan assasins and such

Bro fr they need to do that

There is game being developed currently which has for name "Mictlán". It is suposed to be set on the conquest period and also it is meant to be an open world where we will be able to explore Mexico.

You'd have to play as the Spanish. They did the only winning.

Where do I preorder

@Joe Blow It isn't about superiority or declaring a winner, it's about wanting to learn about lesser known cultures and their accomplishments.

The fact that they built all this without wheels or horses

@Joe Blow Sounds like you don't appreciate your own culture enough to be curious about others.

@Joe Blow Absolutely nothing, everything they built in the 14th century Rome, Greece and China had a millennium earlier.

Pfffffff, As if folks covers China as much as Rome, Knights and Samurai, aka the same hugbox everywhere.

Now there's an idea

That's like school in the book Ready Player One

Man I've had that exact same thought hah

More like rebuild them even greater.

Sommenofatobox I would genuinely be so happy

Are you related to the keres pubelo my ancestors came from Tiwa and keres puelo. Some died in the pueblo revolt.

@@andresgcoderoilpaz2806 Aztec here, all the north tribes of the continent are our brothers, we Natives share the same blood from north to south, Tenochtitlan is also part of your inheritance my brothers ❤️🌵

@@andresgcoderoilpaz2806I’m southern Tiwa (from Texas). Primos.

Can you speak your Nahuatl language?

Mexicas is the correct term. Aztecs is a word the Spanish made up because they heard they came from Aztlan.

Most of ur ancestor are spanish

Your heart would make an excellent offering for their bloodthirsty diety

In the context, some spanish guys was abusive. However, many more must be elucidated. The war was made by spaniards with the voluntary help of Tlaxcaltec people and many others that served as slaves to aztecs, tired of the local tyranny (forget the Rousseaunian myth of "good savage"). These tribes was obligated to send young men, women, and children to the massive and horrible human sacrifices. In the aztec empire, along a single year, 19 great seasons of human sacrificial rituals take place. In the ascension of an aztec emperor, years before the spaniards presence in the region, more than 40,000 individuals was sacrificed by aztecs. So, the "Leyenda Negra", created by anglophone historiography, needs to stop.

It's a fucking drawing.

@Don’t educate me I know more than you yeah?

@Don’t educate me I know more than you and...?

Color is something they used. FYI pendjo

@@PatTheRiot go look at native women and what they wear shit head.

@@user-kj5qy8ip5v Dude the Aztecs weren't any better. They slaughtered and enslaved the tribes around them.

999Claymore I'm just pointing out how wrong the stereotype about Europeans being superior to native Americans is. They had the same kind of Innovation in their society if not better than anywhere else in the world other than the byzantines who modeled our current structure today. And had a major impact if not the most influence on our structure aside from Roman military tactics which is really all we use from their society. The Aztecs had wide influence and a lot of culture despite having slaves. And the tribes they did enslave were a bunch of violent people anyway. I mean if you have the chance to bring society and order to the world so you can have buildings for people to live in and some tribe wants to live in huts. And they're violent towards your idea of progression you don't just let them be violent. You've gotta do something. So it's either force them or talk to them.

@@user-kj5qy8ip5v The Spanish used that same logic. "They're just violent people anyways." So I guess what the Spanish did was justified.

@@user-kj5qy8ip5v oh I know

999Claymore well in an effort to build the empire back to its former glory they attacked but they claimed it was for the church and to cleanse the land of their heathen ways. The conquest of south America was a complete accident. The astute leadership of Cortez I believe had the advantage of STDs and bacteria against a people smart enough to not fuck sheep. So I don't think it was very justified at all since their civilization was a little more civilized then Europe. The difference between why Aztecs rooks slaves and why the conquistadors took the aztecs as slaves is the Aztecs were building a civilized society and the conquistadors were working for the church who's main objective is to make people mindless unexpecting people who they control whenever lying stealing and killing whoever didn't agree with the way the church wanted to do things.

Well, after the destruction of the aztecs and most of the mesoamericans, the new Mexico City started to grow and was requiring more and more space, and because of that they started to drain the lake. Nowadays, the lake Texcoco didnt exist anymore, and the canals probably were destroyed

@@hueytlahtoani1304 ah that explains it. If the lake was drained, the canals would just dry up. Such a waste to dismantle what would have been the most amazing urban engineering, though.

@@75aces97 well it was razed

@@75aces97 Indeed, the aqueducts were rebuilt in the early colonial times in the European style following the trace and keeping the names of the original ones, and some fountains and small parts of the aqueducts still remain in Mexico City, but they are really abandoned and damaged. Also all the four big boulevards that connected the center of Tenochtitlán with the mainland still existing with the same name and trace, they connect the Historic Center of Mexico City with some neighborhoods around. As a fun fact, there are a lot of neighborhoods and districts in Mexico City that still having the names they use to have in the times of Tenochtitlán (Such as Coyoacán, Tepito, Iztapalapa, Azcapotzalco, Tlatelolco, Xochimilco, Chapultepec...) and even their government still using their names in Aztec writing as their logo or icon for the local government. So it's like the spirit of that ancient city stills somehow remaining there.

Mexico city is built on lake Texcoco Which was drained by canals but it's also why Mexico city floods all the time.

and be killed

Astral project

Just make sure you get your smallpox vaccine and carry a macuahuitl or fire arms

@iCaliver Same it would be one of the first places I'd visit

Patrick brooooo i clicked on this to say that too!

I’ve always heard this quote, where is it from?

@@canofsouls282 It's poetry

Nico Perez lol no all we need is ‘Murcia!

School history is just propaganda. This video is fine where it is. On the web where people who are actually interested can find it for themselves.

Ditch the history books! They're not written to educate anymore. If they were, they would try and inspire your curiosity and spark your interest rather than simply list facts and create a brief impression that's often quite misleading. The beauty of the internet is that you can find many primary sources all on your own, so you can see and think for yourself and make up your own mind.

Since when is this a topic taught in school? How does this help become a slave? It doesnt. Therefore not taught

Schools only want to push one form of thinking. In this country USA especially school system is very broken. Most important subjects should be World History (that tells the actual truth) and ancient history. They do not want you to know things, that will make you question being a wage slave for the rest of your days. Do no consent

It is Mexico City, and it’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

R B J LOL, don’t bring your believes into it. Ignorant and superstitious.

@R B J so everything is doomed but christian cities? Very intelligent

90 % population was death by diasease and plagues camed from europe dont blame a genocide for the dissapear of this wonderfull culture.

@trueman mann have you even visited Mexico City? Or are you talking out of your ass due to racist stereotypes?

They didn't need them, they had boats and canals, it was faster. Yes there were wheels. If you go to the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico there are toys with wheels ☺️

@@HerrClementzin probably not from the aztec empire time, more like modern tribes toys

@@dubstrap6095 tribes toys? There were civilizations. We have evidenced of the wheel since centuries 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

@@dubstrap6095 no… man, they knew the wheel, they just didn’t have horses to pull carts, making it useless. Use your brain.

They have wheels but no horses in Mexico at that time ... when the aztecs saw the Spanish horses they were scare because they didn't know what the heck was that

The only ac games we need are Aztec empire and feudal Japan

Visiting here should be on everyone's bucket list

I'd definitely pay for a Assassin's Creed game about the Aztecs where you're an assassin protecting Moctezuma and you must fight against the Spaniards and enemy tribes

4 a.m.

12:01 and I ain't even doing drugs. Time for a midnight snack.

2:30

1:49

Saturday evening at 11:38 pm while having a beer. Why not?

I suggested he covered it

Nobody claimed they were

Constantine V Yeah, I don't think anyone say that. But have you watch Apocalypto?

@@cv4809 it's a reference to the end of the video. Many people around the world think of prehispanic cultures just as a "barbaric" unorganized bunch of people. And that kind of disinformation is to be expected, not all people would be teached about these civilizations. Just as people from the latinoamerican countries may think about mongols, nubians or north american cultures as "barbaric".

@@cv4809 A LOT of people have claimed that and still do.

spainish colonised america with help of moors in spain

Graham hancock is a buffoon when it comes to the ancient native american cultures, I don't trust his opinion one bit on this subject.

Mleew cause they lost

Three Rabbit they do it everywhere wherever they had colonies. They tried their best to do it in India. But they could never fully succeed. That's why the thousands of years of our cultural influences are still there among our people. They don't glorify your native past because the whole idea of modern European civilization based on liberal consumerist capitalism will get threatened by that. They talk about sustainable development at the UN. The truth is most of the ancient civilizations were eco-friendly and sustainable development based. Europe developed rapidly because it only cared about superficial growth by exploiting the resources. So even though apparently the modern civilization has developed rapidly yet it is nowhere sustainable. And that's why only a small percentage of people are enjoying the benefits.

Well we don't call 'em native americans here, we call them prehispanics or indigenous people.

Mleew Northern Native Americans don’t have any

my 7th grade geography class actually learned about Mesopotamia and the aztecs, incas, and mayans

As much as I would love to do that . The Aztecs will probably kill strangers :(

@@jeffreysamson5938 lol true, but just to observe the city in it's prime would be awesome

and you'd probably kill all of them

@@TheVinicius200 There's a bunch of great cities I would love to see in their prime. Babylon, Rome, Carthage and Nineveh are the few major ancient cities I can think of from the top of my head. I have a good interpretation of what Rome would look like, since it's comparatively recent, but the other three I have only a small idea what they would look like.

It'd be much better to have a time TV or something... I'd love to see these things, but probably a bad idea to get physically involved in other times.

actualy they killed everyone before they could see the city lol.

@@canofsouls282 sad BUT true

Ńøt Ïdk I’m not sure which variant is it, but for sure it sounds like when I visits my relatives in Mexico City how the pronounce those places. Word that I more definitely struggle with.

Landed on his face with Nezahualcoyotl though...

@Don’t educate me I know more than you They're amazing. You're Neolithic.

now that I think about it the mayans become even more awesome (and aztecs) its like rebuilding humanity from scratch, all of central american and parts of mexico are like a experiment of human will.

So true. The other day I got sucked a hole to find out why the Spaniards dominated exploring in the America's and essentially because of a boat invented by the Portuguese. Pretty crazy.

Meanwhile they found South American cocoa beans in ancient Egyptian vases. That plant can only come from South America. .. where they really isolated?

@@AAron-gr3jk the only tech they had to cross a ocean was none, all they knew was a lake they could cross with a conoe how the hell do you thinkt hey will go to sea with that.

Thanks I suggested to him that he cover this

@@rejvaik00 thank you, I'm loving these Aztec videos he's been doing! I hope he does North American civs like Cahokia(Mississippians) and Etzanoa once he's done with Mesoamerica.

swest JayPfo There’s a great book written by Gary Jennings (an anthropologist) the book AZTEC... a GREAT read! I wish someone would make a full production movie based on the book

Saludos Diego 👋🏻

Hola

Saludos desde la CDMX hermano 👋

Ah prro aca andas. Saludos

YA QUE SABES INGLES Y ESPAÑOL DEBERIA AYUDARLE A TRADUCIR ESTE VIDEO PORQUE LA TRADUCCIONES AUTOMATICAS DE RU-vid AL ESPAÑOL SON MUY MALAS

Actualmente el lago de Texcoco (dónde iba a estar el aeropuerto corrupto de Peña) mide tres veces la bahía de Acapulco. Imagina lo enorme que era cuando cubría toda la ciudad 😱

@Thorn in the side because like every country we have problems.

@trueman mann You people are a cancer to society.

trueman mann why do you people have to always bring up your religion and say “oh they must be descendants of Biblical Jews.” It’s annoying, false, and quite rude

trueman mann Jews and Indigenous Mexicans have nothing to do with each other’s history or religion hell they don’t even know that they existed

And then the tribelords take your two daughters for sacrifice because it hasn't rained in a week. What a paradise.

@@residente44 Why do people like you make ignorant comments like this? He was never praising what the Aztecs did. A lot of ancient civilizations are incomparable to modern times because of the morals, standards, and general beliefs of the populations. Just because he praises the architecture and geography of the city, does not mean he is endorsing what the people did.

Seb E I like your picture 😂

You’re Spanish

@@skyguyxninja5650 I Am Mexican... Men

If your Mexican then you mostly Spanish

Torin Jones I have viewed firsthand enrolled tribal members in the US and Canada (Potawatomi and Métis especially) with members with no native features , blond hair and blue eyes . If they can consider themselves native then brown mexicans with mostly native features , and who can “pass off” as Native American easily can identify as Native .

@@torinjones3221 not necessarily, just scan Ancestry or any other DNA testing results on RU-vid or Insta and you'll see most are an amalgamation of ethnicities.

His pronunciation wasn't good but he tried more than most people would.

@@edgarallenhoe4656 But a lot of indigenous peoples in Anglo-America have fragmented traditions and were often heavily Christianized and sent to schools where they were inculcated with Western ways of thinking. The fact that there are so few pure-blooded natives left is a reminder of the dilution of the unique worldview that was once held by their ancestors. Now they have more in common with people from across the ocean genetically and mentally, than they do with their great grandparents and they interpret their own customs thru those adulterated perceptions.

I'm sure the look of the city is romanticised quite a bit in the artistic renditions. But it is amazing nonetheless.

Because before people focused on making things beautiful without minding the money, and now people use cheap designs to spend the less money they possibly can _and_ they never do the repairs the buildings need so everything always looks like shit.

Because it's drawn. Doy!

Its the way we want to make things again.

Because you're looking at idealized paintings. No sewer systems, no electricity, no plumbing. All the shit was dumped into the same lake they drank from

@Hoàng Nguyên what are you talking about? What's this WE business are you part of some committee that decides who they should destroy next?

@Johan Jacobs an opinion sure, but stating "we" whoever that is ,should raze the current city ,no I don't think they have a right to that at all.

Hoàng Nguyên Mexico City is the same city as tenochtitlan (p.s. full name: Mexico-Tenochtitlan) that’s like saying we should tear down Rome to restore Rome. . .by revealing all of the ruins it is built on.

Hoàng Nguyên More boring? no. . .More filthy? Barely. . .Uglier? In most parts, sure.

Mexico City is a overpopulated mess, but it's still very beautiful. The colonial baroque and 19th century parisian stile buildings are very beautiful, too. And sometimes they coexist with Tenochtitlan ruins in a surrealistic way. There are also modern buildings that are eye catching. You can't judge the city if you've haver never visited it. One needs to be a local to really know the ugly, dangerous sides of the city.

A couple of notes: The zoo was only for the Aztec king (Huey Tlatoani) and he kept midgets as zoo creatures.

@@CMaldonado1690 sounds fair

They were also capable of mass human sacrifice ripping people hearts out and eating them and wearing flayed skin.

@@NapoleonBonaparde is that what historians say in the US? Lol ok buddy.

They say they had the fastest postal system too, consisting of a system of runners in relay. Like a message would get too you quicker than the postal system of today or something, LOL. And this includes getting snow from some snowy mountain top in huge bulks wrapped in leaves or hay or something during the night and by dawn, it would be in the markets before it melted thanks to the runners, where they would sell the ice with syrups (extremely costly thing to buy), but just think about it. How crazy is that? Can't even remember where I read about it though🤔 If time machines existed, I always say one of the places I'g go would be to have a sweet snow cone in Tenochtitlan hehehe ''It was reported that by using a relay system the messengers could cover 200 to 350 miles a day.'' (faster than Amazon!)😂

I have loved mexican history and culture since i was a child. My dream is to visit some day

I love archeology and don't think of nationality when looking megaliths and structures thousands of years old. It's world history and we all are just humans who have luck to live here.

You'd kill 90% of the population just from all the diseases we carry

@@Garahan exactly, you couldnt interact with them

@@canarioobediente92 just wear a mask…duh 🤣

Inca perhaps?

Kings and Generals has a mesoamerican playlist

@@bobskywalker2707 ive seen that its great thanks for the recommendation though

That's Native american tribal nations .

@@sergioislas323 im sorry what do you mean by that?

The Aztec Emprie was weak and relied on constant infighting to survive. Chances are if it hadn't collapsed then today murders and executions would be common... oh wait I guess Mexico is still just a much a hell hole now as it was 500 years ago.

@@torinjones3221 Sounds like your whole view is based off of Narcos and Apocalypto.

@@cbrtdgh4210 Mexico is suffering a huge increase of violence since 2006. Is so hard to build a life always worried about kidnapping, murder, robbery, fraudulent governance, etc. (I lived in Mexico for 33 years.)

@@xperiaspectre3531 Sorry to hear that. Is that since Calderon's war on drugs? On platforms like Quora, all you'll read is how dangerous the US is while Mexico is defined by misconceptions.

@@cbrtdgh4210 He isn't wrong, you clearly live among the Europeans you hate, probably America. 70 million of you chose not to live in the corrupt shithole you come from for a reason. Also a correction, a middle eastern religion called >Christianity They did the same to Europe and then re-write history.

But better

Jonjo Senna Simply Tenochtitlán. No eurocentric junk needed.

It's kinda hard not to be eurocentic when Europe has been right in the center for a long time, including when this "lesser" civilization was annexed. The Inca did American Rome, not the Aztec.

@@AlanDeAnda1 What are you a mesoamerican nationalist lmao?

That would be Cusco, not Tenochtitlán.

The Aztecs are the seven tribes that emigrated from Aztlán, temporarily taking refuge in Chicomóztoc and later continuing to migrate south: Mexicas, Tlaxcaltecas, Tepanecas, Xochimilcas, Chalcas, Acolhuas and Tlahuicas.

Covid is a psyop

thanks for the open recommendation, I will look for it, any other you would like to recommend?

Brian Geeslin 'Aztec' is one of the best books I've read. I still have the copy I read from back in the day.

Thanks for that!

Damn fine book

Brian Geeslin .."Aztecs" is Not : is "Mexicas"..

And the back end of Medieval Total War 2!

Wow. Playing video games really isn't a waste of time after all. You're a winner!

@@derekmyers3258 Playing games was never a waste of time. In fact, many people get hooked into learning because of gaming, specially history.

@@KlaussMarcellusDepends on the game. The genre of educational and historical gaming should be more encouraged among children in my opinion.

So true, the Spanish didn't expect to have 3 huge and decisive advantages: 1. The Mexicah (the aztecs) already had too many enemies in Cemanahuac (Mesoamerica) when the Spanish set a foot in what is now Mexico, especially a rebel nation called Tlaxcala who were the only ones who weren't under the Mexicah rule but under constant siege and economic blockade. 2. The Spanish brought with them and unaware of, a quiet but powerful biological weapon which would be so decisive against the Mexicah who weren't immune: VIRUSES. 3. The prophecy of white bearded men coming from the east to claim their reign, this helped a lot at the beginning.

So I feel like your saying that makes what the Spanish did was alright

@ tony barlow It’s history, tony. doesn’t matter what you or i or anyone feels; things happen for reasons, over and over again.

@@Chanticlair47 there is a theory that says that mayans traded with chinese and japanese sailors, quite unlikely but apparently some words in maya are identical to their japanese equivalents.

Smallpox introduced by the Spaniards devastated the Aztec civilization. More than made up for any lack of numbers against the vibrant metropolitan core.

The Tlaxcalans were actually recognised and rewarded by King Charles V for their invaluable assistance. It was after Cortez died but his remaining soldiers testified on the Tlaxcalans behalf and as a result they were exempted from various taxes and laws

While I agree with the spirit of your comment, "tribes" really isn't appropriate here, as the video itself illustrates: These were people living in urban cities with complex administrative governments, fighting in formal, organized armies, etc. Invicta does call tthe Mexica a tribe at the start of the video, but that's because at the time of the cities formation the Mexica were still a nomadic people and were first settling down, as had been the case for other Nahua groups around the valley of mexico for the past few decades (though, note that the region itself had other established urban cities and political states for thousands of years already, the Nahuas were just newcomers from up in northern mexico, where urban states were less common) I'm also not sure "rebellion" is accurate: Tlaxcala hadn't been conquered yet, for example, and even for the cities that were under aztec dominion that participated, it's not as if they were directly controlled or administered by either Tenochtitlan or the triple alliance: with few exceptions, subordinate citis were just expected to pay tribute, offer military aid, etc, but were otherwise left to their own devices, so it almost doesn't make sense to not view them still as distinct city-states. It's also worth noting here that while Tlaxcala did have greivences as a result of the constant invasions and blockades it faced, for tthe most part the particpants in thee siege of Tenochtitlan were doing so out of geopolitical opportunism, not out of wanting to rise out of Aztec oppression (as mentioned, Aztec cities were pretty much given complete administrative, political, and cultural freedom, after all), with most only joining the Spanish and Tlaxcala aftter Montezuma II's death and the smallpox outbreak, by which point Tenochtitlan's stability and ability to project military force was in dispute and in such situations in Mesoamerican history tributary prroivences often "rebelled": Aztec emperors needing to re-conquer border provinces on their coronations was basically a tradition from them wanting to test the new emperor after the death of a prior one. Finally, the Fall of Tenochtitlan did not mark the end of the Conquest, it was rather the beginning: Not all Aztec cities ceded to Spanish authority (though most did, siince from their perspective it was basically no change, just changing who got their tribute), and there was still the Purepecha empire and various city-states to the west, the various Maya states to the east, and various city-states and kingdoms/empires in central mexico that the Aztec had yet to conquer, such as the remnants of the Mixtec empire that the warlord 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw had founded. it would take decades of hard fighting (still mostly done by native armies, mind you, with only a minority of the troops being conquistadors) for most of these to be conquered, and in many places they were never truly conquered.

These are all very interesting perspectives, this is why I fucking love this channel

J. C. The Spaniard never conquer the Maya’s I had been in in Guatemala, Sunday’s is the market day. You can go to the Catholic Church at midday and the Chamanes have a place in the altar with the priest., in the middle on the church the Maya’s pay tributes to the 🌽,etc. .before start the religious service

@J. C. yes they were apart of new Spain but they were also allowed to continue their traditions, own land, and not pay certain taxes. It took some time, about 60 years after the conquest but they did get an Audience with King Charles V directly and their status was recognised. This also happened with the Otomi a tribe that had been in the valley since 1000ad 200 years before the Mexica. The Otomi were also given similar privileges and many became well known mercenaries

Indeed, the Tarascans often get sidelined in favour of Tlaxcalla as the Aztecs' greatest enemy. Reasonable of course, since it was with Tlaxcalla's help that Cortes managed to win against the Aztecs. But it should really be noted that everytime the the Triple Alliance tried to expand to the west, they were always halted by the Tarascans. The Tarascans are also unique in Mesoamerica, they were probably the closest thing to a "nation-state" in pre-Columbian America that you could get. Their nation was a unitary kingdom, meaning all aspects of government, both from the national and local, were managed by the king in the capital and his representatives. Not really remarkable within the context of Eurasian history, but every other city-state in Mesoamerica, including the Aztecs, functioned with the tributary system. This means that once you defeated a city-state, you left the former government intact, along with its cultures and traditions and instead only ask tributes in the form of goods or money(or the closest things Mesoamericans had for money). Not the Tarascans though. They would instead appoint official governors sanctioned by the King to administer the newly conquered region. They would also try to assimilate the defeated people into the Tarascan culture, thus creating a sort of proto-national identity of being a Tarascan.

My guess is centuries is white washing buried whatever genuine history there is left of the native civilizations.

@@SagradaMascarita there is also the fact that so much less was written down (at least that has survived), making it mostly impossible to know what was going on with those cultures

I have been studying everything I can get my hands on. The culture we have today has been copied/stolen. They keep portraying blacks as "uncivilized" but in the same breath you say they built America. Now which one is the truth? They had to have some expert skills and knowledge to build those beautiful buildings, courthouse and other buildings. We are not thinking deeply enough. Who were the translators? The Native were definitely bi-lingual but what about the Colonist? There is not much in our history to tell us how "they" communicated with the Native People in their tongue. It is a proven fact that Africa has more languages spoken in their country than any other culture in the world. Thousand of languages are spoken there. So we know too they are bi-lingual and more lingual than most countries. Americans expect foreigners to speak English but very few native English speaking Americans speak other languages.

the cultures in present day united states left little to no structures compared to other ancient civilizations. Like what in the world were they doing...

@@antoinettewatson1632 The fact that you called Africa a country instead of a continent was more than enough to invalidate this incoherent rambling mess you call a comment.

Best fan fiction was revelations. Can't believe it was added to the canon though

Lol be careful you might get sold to Disney and be de canoned

Joseph was a liar..

Please don't make fun of people`s beliefs.

Seriously? This is the second video where I found you, Jesus...! First one was that from the no shadows in Australia

@@Gevixel shh carefull dude you'll piss of the softies that have no culture...

@@Gevixel keep crying

So am I. About a month ago I started reading and watching about aztec/Mayan civilizations and it has fascinated me how advances they were.