The Samurai vs. Conquistador Battles 

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Were do you get the music for this and many other of your episodes love it .

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Ah yes *HISTORY INTESIFIES*

Wich it would mean that Portugal caused the nuclear bomb attack in Hiroshima and nagashaki

@@Literallyryangosling777 Portugal at it again

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@@yodojo3493 I barely have enough money to support myself.

Along with epic history tv for sure

agreed

Agreed ❤

Definitely

Absolutely

hit or miss of late, but mostly gold tbf.

@@Optable I'm inclined to believe not, as Jose has been painting and posting in this style since at least 2020

I also inputted those exact words and it did not produce a picture that looked like it belonged to a History Dose video. I will admit there was only one iteration.

@@Optable That'd be quite disappointing if that were true.

@@Optable do you know this for a fact, or is this and assumption you are saying is true?

@@misterliligant5772 Not disappointing! hes using his resources and producing great results.

you don't need to point out any evidence since he's already a known fact. 99.9% of the troops that fought the aztec were other native americans who alligned themselves with the spanish because they were sick of being taxed and sacrificed by them.

@@ryennfilms6429 Nah, that's actually a misconception, the real reason Cortes (made alliances with so many local states in Mesoamerica is actually because the Aztec (and other kingdoms, empires) were HANDS OFF, not because they were oppressive: Due to the rough geography and a lack of draft animals, large states in Mesoamerica were fairly hands off, without the direct management and administration of subjects, founding of colonies, and instituting of a unified national/cultural identity: Political power was cemented more through fragile tax/tributary and vassal relationships, flaunting your military might, economic success, and ties to other legendary civilizations and kings to get states to align with you and suck up with political marriages, etc. Obviously, Eurasian polities did these too, and there still WAS some examples of more hands on imperialism in Mesoamerica. But hands off and indirect imperialism and methods of establishing political power which much more the norm and were more fundamental in statecraft in the latter then the former. The Aztec Empire was no exception here, and it's primary goal in expansionism was to gain resource rich states as tax-subjects to extract goods and luxuries without expending direct effort, with those states keeping their rulers, laws, and customs and mostly being left alone, as long as they did pay those economic goods as taxes, didn't block roads, provided military aid on request, and other basic obligations.,etc. The Aztec were not coming in and raiding existing subjects (unless they incited others to stop paying taxes), nor were slaves or sacrifices a common tax/tribute demand: Sacrifices were generally from enemy soldiers captured during wars, and sacrifice itself was also a pan-mesoamerican practice every civilization in the region did, not just the Aztec. Accordingly, what was really going on, as much or more then Cortes manipulating local states, was local kings and officials manipulating Cortes to benefit their own political ambitions: In a political system where subjects mostly stayed independent, they had the motivations and the capacity to secede, backstab, and preform coups opportunistically to sway or cause the house of cards they held up that their capitals rested on to collapse, so they could advance politically. Especially by allying or pledging themselves to another group (since again, as a subject they had little to lose) to then work together to take out existing political rivals or capitals, to then be in a position of higher standing in the aftermath. (The Aztec Empire itself was founded this way in the late 1420s) . For example, the city of Cempoala (and it's king Xicomecoatl), the capital of one of 3 major kingdoms of the Totonac civilization, and a recent conquered subject of the Aztec, lied to Cortes about there being an Aztec fort oppressing them at Tzinpantzinco, which was really a rival Totonaca capital city. They then led the Conquistadors into the territory of Tlaxcala, one of the states in Central Mexico the Aztec hadn't manage to conquer yet, and which the Totonacs were hostile with. When the Tlaxcaltecas and the Conquistadors fought to a standstill and allied with one another (with different Tlaxcalteca officials like Xicotencatl I, Xicotencatl II, disagreeing on what to do, later on Xicotencatl II would end up being executed when a rival Tlaxcalteca politician got Cortes to execute him) en route to Tenochtitlan (as Tlaxcala was an active target of Aztec invasions and DID have resentment towards the Aztec), they stopped in Cholula, where the Tlaxcaltecas fed Cortes rumors of them planning to assassinate the visitors, and it just so happens that the Tlaxcaltecas end up propping up a pro-Tlaxcalteca political faction after they and the Conquistadors sack the city, after Cholula had recently switched from being aligned with Tlaxcala to the Aztec. Finally arriving at Tenochtitlan, Moctezuma II allows them into the city: Flaunting the grandeur of your city and it's opulence was a common method of courting a foreign state into becoming a vassal or an ally (to say nothing of the princesses they gave to high ranking conquistadors, an attempt at political marriages the Conquistadors mistook as offerings of concubines). When Pánfilo de Narváez arrived, who actually was sent by the governor of Cuba to arrest Cortes as he had been out on his expedition illegally, Narvaez actually worked with Aztec officials to get capture Cortes, since by this point they realized Cortes wasn't a licensed diplomat representing a foreign king. It is only after 1. Cortes panics, Moctezuma II and other Aztec rulers and officials get captured, locked up (Cortes of course claims this happened earlier and he was always in control) and then are killed; 2. the Aztec nobles and elite warriors are killed while unarmed during a religious festival; 3. smallpox broke out, and 4. the Conquistadors and Tlaxcalteca flee back to safety; that then other core-Aztec states inside the valley like Texcoco (the second most powerful Aztec city), Chalco, Xochimilco, Itzpalapan, etc ally with Cortes. Because by then, Tenochtitlan was weak, vulnerable due to it losing it's elite soldiers, its king (always a period in Mesoamerican history where subjects would stop paying taxes and see what they could get away with untill the new ruler re-asserted their military power), and struck by plague. Furthermore, these also made Tenochtitlan unable to project it's power and wield its political authority; and by extension, said core subject states inside the valley didn't benefit as much from the tax influx into the area (which was secured by the threat of retaliation if taxes weren't paid, something currently jeopardized) or their political marriages with Tenochtitlan at the moment, de-valuing their close relationship with it. (Ixtlilxochitl II of Texcoco also had a grudge against the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, as in a recent war of succession after the prior Texcoca king died, the Mexica favored a competing heir as the claimant to the throne, so when the Conquistadors and Tlaxcalteca returned to the valley to siege Tenochtitlan, Ixtlilxochitl II, who had split power with other heirs, sided with Cortes wheras other Texcoca royals sided with Tenochtitlan)

@@ryennfilms6429 I honestly would have allied with the Spaniards to defeat the Aztecs if I had been alive back then I also really like the hispanic construction of viceroyalties Actually as a Mexican I'm pro Spanish empire

Thank you so much for sharing this interesting insight! Greetings from México!

a lot of Mexicans and Latin Americans moved to the Philippines via the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade particularly on major port cities in Batangas and Pampamga. There's a town called Mexico (Masicu) in Pampamga, formerly Nuevo Mexico. The Pinar del Rio province in Cuba was previously known as Nueva Filipinas. There's a significant Filipino genepool of inhabitants of Mexico's Guerrero province.

their way of telling history is kind of biased lol

I think this is controvers the Metatron have made a Video abou the same topic !

@@legate-lanius wdym?

@@legate-lanius No such thing as a person without bias.

@@killerkraut9179 Megawrong is a fraud and a jerk. I did a video humiliating him. "A conquistador refutes the 'Metatron''s video on Samurais VS Spaniards" See also "A Spanish conquistador puts accusers of genocide in their place (con subtítulos)."

it is in our history it's just you don't know anything

@@rampage4695 can you show me that book then?

@@rampage4695 stop the cap

@Bryan Villafuerte Thank you!

For real history, and not mainstream superficial Disney versions of reality, see my series "Islam was invented by Jews" and "The British Empire Was NOT The Biggest." Idiots count deserts but say oceans dont' count, which is hypocrisy and stupidity.

I do speak Spanish, so I hope they sound OK!

Ancient Aliens. The answer is always ancient aliens.

*spanish

@@ranbojd1070 Spain dont have Legendary Battles like us 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Last place of the templars ⚔️🇵🇹✝️💪🏻

@@luisduarte7917 oh But we do in fact we have a lot more than you since we were in more wars also you are just our backyard there is literally nothing to see in Portugal that you cant see in Spain we literally have the same architectury and we also share the same origins in history

@@ranbojd1070 backyard?cunt you are the garden of the portuguese mansion wich os always viver then the house itself 🤣🤣🤣🤣first Portugal was born then you follow like copycats🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 We made 3x most discouvery! P.S Aljubarrota Will always be your shame ⚔️🇵🇹💪🏻 6500 vs 35000 🤣

@@ranbojd1070 that’s an interesting perspective. *portuguese. Always someone like yourself with poor response and class.

That’s awesome

Well ofc they called themselves adventurers and explorers, but were in fact thieves & conquerors. :D

@@SilverforceX Thieves as in trading precious resources that the natives had little to no use of in exchange for materials and tools that were, to us, cheap and disposable but to them were vital for grazing and working the land, most of the slaves that were acquired came from native warlords who sold them to portuguese traders (we were just taking advantage of an institution that was present and had already existed for hundreds of years since antiquity). As for conquerors, excluding the Feitoria system, mostly towards Africa and Brazil, albeit Brazil was in a later stage, it was a military scale operation, yes we were conquerors much like how any other european kingdom would've delighted themselves in taking that land for themselves.

@@SilverforceX And the pirates called themselves the liberators of your purses!

I got videos on how overrated Portugal is.

@@scintillam_dei Overrated? I thought it was the other way around most of the time.

this is comment feels like a dude saying "I'm not good at the piano" and then proceeding to make a piece so good it made Beethoven shed a tear

I wouldn't exactly call conquistador cool*, because the way they dress is focused on functionality. But they're powerful force in their own right, like janissaries & minutemen or french legion.

@@shycracker being functional doesn’t make you “uncool”

​@@shycracker the twisted logic you have is very interesting.......

@@shycracker Armor's always bases on functionality. Both would be cool, man.

@@shycracker nah, they're cool, I love their helmets

Kickass book. If you like Shogun check out Clavell's other books. Gai-jin is also very good. And if you want another massive book set in Japan, check out Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. Amazing novel!

Indeed

Filipinos are not racially ambiguous. Most of them are pure 100% Southeast Asians. Only a very small minority of Philipinos are descendents of Spanish noblemen that settled in the island (Mestizos)

Thats a minor incident in history. Nothing worth making a video for

Thats not true

The people who appear in this battle are not samurai. They are mercenaries called foot soldiers. They are usually farmers. Not a regular army, but pirates like the Vikings.

@Sanary Seggnate Infamous? Stop believing the damn black legend. Anywhere they went, Spain let natives join them and gave them properties. You don't use logic, right?

​@@javiersamuel8172 that doesn't make them any Less infamous. Hundreds of years later and people still know and talk about them,that Definitely means they're infamous. As for their efficiency, even after Joining forces with local populations (which only means they were more intelligent and effective) they were almost always outnumbered and still almost always succeeded.

Although i wouldn't underestimate the Samurai as much. After all they had been fighting and successfully defeated the Mongols multiple times. Another of the most infamous invading forces of all time

"I watched tom cruise's last samurai hence i know everything about japanese samurai". - Sanary Seggnete

With the Toledo steel of Spain

It's an interesting factor of history. People's often assume that the meso americans who allied with spaniards to defeat the large civilizations (notably the Tlaxcalan against the Aztecs) were then betrayed by the spaniards, but it wasn't true. In fact they became the powerbase of spanish power for decades, because they were reliable allies and willing subjects to the Spanish crown. One could call them collaborators but that would imply that the Tlaxcalan had any relations to the Aztecs other than hatred for what horrors Tenochtitlan did to them for years. The spaniards treated their enemies like trash, but they did reward those who sided with them during the conquests of south america, at least for a time.

@Bryan Villafuerte incredible history central and South America has, I spent a lot of my youth studying history especially the 1500s

A great meal

Also many Dutch setters came and lived in central Japan. It's not well know but descendants of them have quite large population.

Portugal have OSaka and Nagasaki for centuries, that cities was founded by portuguese. Today many portuguese words ini dicionary japanase, food, and others things. Portugal also was important in civil war japanase to unification of japan

@OLD WINE until they got yeeted. Portugal even send a ship to demand explanation but all crew members were beheaded. That's was the end.

@@drpepper3838 스페인 국왕이 도쿠가와 막부에 사신을 보냈지만 전원 처형 스페인 국왕은 유럽과 남미 동남아 에서는 자기 맘대로 했지만 동북아시아 에서는 그렇게 할만한 능력이 안되었지 당시 일본이 유럽에 있었다면 유럽은 일본의 식민지 였을거임

Now you know 🎉

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YES

It is very unlikely that he will, as the history and recognition of Portugal's importance both militarily and politically is not often known to Americans (apart from Brazilians). They tend to look more at the history of Spain because of the link it has with their history. Even knowing that portugal was as important or even more important for the european domain of the world, with the development of cartography, nautical instruments, the caravel, the nau, the galleon, the positioning of cannons on the sides of ships etc.

@@JXJX-gg6qk yes but these are history nerds, they should know what's up

​@@JXJX-gg6qk No, most of those means you said were Spanish

@@javiersamuel8172 what?

Dont you mean tlaxcaltecas?

​@@tomassmith1519 Both, and ever some other groups

🤫 shhh…that’s next!

@@HistoryDose Great to hear man looking forward to it

Nativos o no eran soldados españoles entrenados a la española, no iban en taparrabos, iban como soldados de la corona

It’s a lot of propaganda against us