Why the Aztec Empire Wasn't What You Think 

Hi❤❤❤❤

So sad you don't upload much anymore, used to be my fave

Glad you covered this, but their real name is Mexica ( mechica ) . Aztecs were their ancestors.

Thank you 😊

Thank you for your existence, brother! Your channel makes my life brighter!

Your not the only one

I thought he died.

@@NikolaBulj WHY

One would assume he means because it's been longer than usual since he posted a video​@@dabgod3192

Arran has been quiet lately, but this is a 50 minute video. Hopefully he’s also been writing a sequel to “Stick a Flag In It”😊

No, it just makes him more annoying and stupid.

I don't think he pronounces much wrong apart from the names but yes I do agree 😂

No, it doesn't, I sit there and say all the words after with their correct pronunciation !

It proves his Britishness.

No, it just makes him more annoying and stupid.

Here in the US we never hear much about Africa. There is an opportunity for African bloggers.

@@JohnHoranzy You know, it's pretty funny that you mention this. For work, I needed to quickly learn as much as I could about the city I live in - Johannesburg. Turns out a lot of info is outdated and there's even a shortage of detailed info about the city. I think whatever comprehensive and accurate info might exist, it is likely not digitized and not widely accessible.

I'm also from South Africa and I have to agree. 3 channels that I can't stop watching is Thoughty2, Why Files and infographics chamnel

SA represent

The more we know the more the world grows smaller! 💯good morning from Los Angeles

Damn, that was a good comment.

100% with you, including with the whole 'Leyenda Negra". I am from the Dominican Republic and our indigenous people did not fair any better. But blaming the deaths of the Taino/Arawak 100% on the Spanish is a disservice to their history. I am proud of my Spanish, African and Taino heritage including their history.

I am sad to report that I think I learned more about Mexican history from this comment alone than the entirety of my schooling. Thanks for sharing, and for providing a point of view that many of us aren't exposed to.

So Cortez was truly a god fearing man who always obeyed his superiors??

Agreed 👍

I mean, he WAS just a peasant... ;)

I noticed that as well. I wonder how that Spaniard's life went, despite all the issues there.

Lol

Gonzalo Guerrero. He and the priest had survived a ship wreck but captured by the Mayans as slaves. Eventually grew up in the hearts of the tribe and Gonzalo formed a family. He also had some military skills so the Mayans quickly promoted him to one of his captains, so to speak. When Cortes' men showed up, the priest chose to leave, as he was unhappy, but Gonzalo remained there with his adopted people. Years later, Spanish conquistadors were fighting natives in what is now Honduras, and in surveying the battlefield after the battle, they found a white guy wearing native military clothes and body tattoos. That was Gonzalo. Fascinating, ain't it? The wiki entry on him has more info and sources.

Ha! Sharp mind but ya that's hilarious and true.

Cuauhtémoc was easy though haha

"quit-lah-wuck" - easy. Hard names are ones like Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl.

That one & "Ten-ect-tits-up" are why I had to scramble for my mute button while in the middle of this work meeting.

@@WingedZeroh qwite-lao-ack

This guy's a moron. Mispronouncing famous cities, malapropisms, bad writing.

European diseases probably killed 80 million in North America.

What is the source/chronicle of the strange events such as the temple burning and the woman crying for her children?

Gracias por rellenar detalles tan relevantes como Quetzalcoatal

Also Montezuma was documented in the journals of Cotez as having been fond of eating human babies as a delicacy which he offered to Cotez & his men much to their disgust. And Montezuma's empire practiced human sacrifices to their demonic gods atop of the Azteca temples, the priests carving the human hearts out and later consuming them. Human sacrifice & cannibalizing even babies enraged the Roman Catholic Spanish Soldiers. So they raised an Army of Indigenous men from nations preyed upon by the reprobate Azteca to overthrow their cannibalistic oppressors.

Yeah but that’s cap. Montezuma did not think Cortez was Quetzalcoatl. Maybe some lower class people did, but not the emperor of the Aztecs nor any aristocrats, governors, priests. None of them would see Cortez as a God 😂 Montezuma was the greatest man on a whole hemisphere. He saw Cortez and the Spanish as a fun exotic people. He put them in his palace zoo. He didn’t put Cortez in the temple. He put him next to all the exotic animals he had.

And they traded one murderous people for a worse murderous people with diseases and colonization

And they were rewarded by the Spanish, they were given their own state, tax exemptions among other things

@@AllyRamos22 considered loyal allies of the Spanish crown for the entire 300 years of colonial rule

​@@AllyRamos22they made the right choice.

Part of my family is of Tlaxcalteca descent. My grandmothers family lost their fortune during the Mexican revolution. They were Hacendados that had settled in the state of Morelos Mexico.

It’s BS that’s why Hollywood won’t touch it 😂

It wasn't just 500 though

It wasn't just 300 either. I'd still watch that movie.

well the difference between these 500 and that 300 are the 500 are villain. I am not sure want to watch about "brave colonizer"

Watch Apocalypto

Most mexicans are mixed

Pardon our senile president 😢

Is it not ironic? just like when european descendents in California, Texas, Arizona or New Mexico tell hispanic descendents to "go home"

@@warloshernandezAmericans telling nonAmericans not to invade their country isn’t the same thing at all

@@askmewhosjoe6682 Mexicans were living on those states before "americans" invade them so there was americans invading americans back then since mexicans and all countries down south are americans too.

I would like appologize for all the dumb things that our president have said and done, but I'm affraid I would never finish apologizing

@@RodolfoSauceda-cv4eg You don't have to: I am of the belief that nobody ever has to apologize for things they personally didn't do. Which is why I don't think that modern day people would have to apologize for what other people did 500 years ago just because they look like them and live in the same country...

Pretty sure a whole lot of people claim Native heritage. So that seems like a huge over generalization

He's being sarcastic, AMLO is a very controversial president and has made a lot, and I mean atrocious amounts, of controversies and commentaries that have infuriated many many of us Mexicans ​@@Johnny-Thunder

@@wolfiemuse most of us are bilogicaly from native descendant (from the natives that destroyed the aztecs) and spanish descendant (from the spanish that married into the native nobility). Regarding heritage, that is a cultural factor mexican culture is the mix of the native culture and spanish, but is not posible to separste them, they are a fundamental part of what is mexican culture, b they cannot be separsted. Native heritage alone does not exist in the mexican territory, we are the best and worst of both worlds

Spaniards and Portugese Learned of the new world from Africans

The moors did not use biological warfare in Spain. But there are similarities too. Tariq, the conqurer of Spain was an adventurer similar to Cortez, one who was an outlaw commander, and crossed the Gibralter strait (named after him, Gib-al-Tariq), motivated his men by plunder, bribed opposing Visgoth generals, burned his ships immediately after landing ashore, and in the end, could not govern his new territory as someone else was appointed by the Khalifa.

Since when did Spain ever belong to Spaniards in the first place when people of color use to inhabitant that land? White people lived in Georgia Russia by the Caspien Sea or in a place called Mount Seir (Petra) in Jordan. Likewise to Europe as a whole which is filled with white folks who invaded those lands and stole it from the original brown people. Some went so far as to even steal their culture. You can find letters by high profile people like Benjamin Franklin talking about how Germany had black people living there and in the UK and Ireland.

@@curious_one1156 the small pox blankets and biological warfare are a myth that’s been disproven and dismissed by most historians. It was nothing more than coincidence that unfortunately not being exposed to the disease made it spread like wildfire through the entire population of early settlers of the Americas.

Like England to the vikings, Saxons, Normans and the Romans 😂 pretty much every country has been conquered at some point

One of the first doesn't necessarily mean the first. The first in this case is an undefined number of people, and the statement is not wrong.

@@jtn81xFor real people are being pedantic and it’s because he left out the word documented, as in one of the first documented and known back in Europe whereas most of the shipwrecked sailors people in Europe had no idea about but they absolutely knew about Cortez.

​@jtn81x If one of the first has no ballpark number, then what is the point of saying it? Why not say something like, a part of the earliest generation of mixed individuals? I think that is the more significant point of sharing the fact anyway. But that's just my thoughts on the small detail.

​@@srose1088one of the first is implying just that, ONE of the FIRST. OMG READING COMPREHENSION ppl!!!!

The irony of an ad read that says “working on AI will help your career prospects”. 🤦‍♂️

Forty two*

Amen to that sir.

How about the Chihuahua or Turkeys?

i am sure you are referring to the flower wars.

Hot chili peppers made everything palatable.

@@Cat-ik1wo all jokes aside ritualistic cannibalism was a thing.

Sir i hate to break it to you but you are classic 100% red blooded american if you lived in san diego. If you are mexican, your blood lies in the same bed as the spanish conquistadors. Your bloodline comes from europe just like white Americans ❤️

How do you conclude that by not even looking what the guy looks like or even his name?

​@@mattfrederic2038 san Francisco is a spanish name.

@@jmmh1313 yup. And where is spain located?

@@mattfrederic2038 what does it have to do with the fact that the city was founded by Spanish people and legated to the mexicans until you decided to steal half of their territory?

Literally "Hernán" on Amazon

yeah but politically too complicated, producers prefer an entire fictional story, its much more simple

It would make a great movie to watch , but unfortunately, the politically correct BS of nowadays wouldn't do a good and fair job

I’m surprised Ridley Scott or Mel Gibson didn’t direct their own take on the Conquest of Mexico back in 2019 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Cortez’ arrival. Such a gory and epic chapter in history should have appealed to them.

34:44- I thought it was the sight of blood soaked idols as evidence of human sacrifice in the main temple that triggered the Spaniards massacring the Aztec partygoers.

Also the Spanish ones.

This guy's a moron.

Not sure anyone alive today really knows how the Aztec words are meant to be pronounced. The Spanish is another thing, but does he look Spanish to you? It's not a language course, deal with it.

That lake is between Peru and Bolivia...

Yeah, wrong continent. Funny joke, though...I asked a Bolivian about the name and they tell me that Bolivia got the titi and Peru the caca.

En el lago Titicaca una chola se hizo caca... 🤣🤣 at least that's how it starts in my region.

That story is for a different day

​@@Kaizelot...are you the threatening me?

ew

That can change. take your test in another 5 years, and it's going to say different

@@OrgusDin 2girls 1 cup? White women eating it?

But it wasn’t a few hundred men it was the hundreds of thousands of rival tribes / spread of euro illness

Cortez was a well educated man, at least in regards of strategy, administration and politics. I am pretty sure he was aware of History, too!

I'll tell you what he probably treated them no better or worse than the Aztecs did to there prisoners and all the smaller tribes and people they sacrificed.

Cortez had the Roman Empire as a model for New Spain. He was educated and probably knew about Roman history.

@@nospamwished5947 they also built infrastructure and many roads (not to mention a huge amount of churches) The only thing that they really ruined because they didn’t understand it was the lake system. There is a great documentary about it and I recommend the channel “Mexico Antes de Mexico”

Bernal talks in his account that when alvarado and his captain were arguing about who should claim the merit of capturing Cuauhtémoc, whether if the man who did it or his officer, Cortes gave them a long rant about how this argument had taken place in the past better Gaius Marius and Lucius Sila. So i would bet my bucks that he DID know that and DID imitate that. Unlike most europeans at the time, the spanish had a vast range of knowledge about rome accesible to them since they had the ones of the catholic church plus the ones legates to them by the muslims who ruled the place. Little is talked, also, about to what a degree it had to be Spain the one starting the age of exploration because of the access they had to arab technology.

throwing flowers at feet, where did you get this information?

the aztecs were so "hated", the majority of it's noble class (the people majorly responsible for the sacrifices) and the moctezuma family itself were made spanish nobility

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Moctezuma_de_Tultengo

@@user-bl5dp7xs1t a book on Cortez…the Texcoco in particular but quite a few others hated them. The Aztecs would take and sacrifice massive amounts of the surrounding peoples young men especially. They initially viewed Cortez as a liberator…initially

@@user-bl5dp7xs1t that’s a political move to secure power

You have a very good point. "Half my ancestors conquered and subjugated the other half my ancestors. Therefore, you should apologize to me for something you had nothing to do with!"

Also, there were native American conquistadors. So even with no Spanish blood you could still be the descendant of one.

Spain should apologize when the Aztecs do for all their crimes against smaller tribes and sacrificing people in horrible way . Like they were doing for hundreds of years before Spain showed up. Spain probably doesn't even come close numbers wise and brutality wise to the Aztecs

@@DS.proudkiwi I noticed that the Aztec sacrificing of those peoples they subjugated went unmentioned. It was another reason the Aztecs (Mexicas) were so detested.

@@charlynegezze8536 He ommitted due to... RU-vid censorship yes, records found at least some 30,000 in a discovered site a few years ago. IN 2015 I believe a whole town in Mexico DF of skulls...

its a terrible account

Have you seen DJ peach cobbler's series of videos on the fall of the Aztec? It's Amazing ! He goes into a Lot of detail on ol Bernal.

Some people say he wasn't being truthful

​@@erenjaeger1738 and that's likely to be true. However, he is the only source of the conquest that was actually there to see the events that he describes while the rest talk on hearsay 40 years afterwards, except for Cortés. Who will clearly be even less truthful although i gotta say he writes it beautiful af.

Yeah, conquistador chronicles are full of lies.

In spanish both are together. As i understand it, Mesopotamia is the complete name. Like, there's no Potamia, but Mesoamerica is made up with the prefix + America.

You know, I almost rewound it, because I thought I heard that. Nice to know I’m not crazy

In Meso America meso is an adjective that serves as synonymous of middle in order to add information to the noun America. In Mesopotamia, meso is a prefix that modifies the greek lexeme related to rivers and drinkable watter (that has given other words in romance languages like potable in spanish which means a kind of water that is safe to drink) in order to designate a land between two rivers (Tigris and Euphrates).

@@LuDa-lf1xd thank you

@@jmmh1313 thank you

Yes definelty a tactical genius to think like that while under pressure is mind boggling

Definitely a tactical genius

He was just blessed buy our Almighty God to spread the Gospel.

@@lagarttemido How kind of god to spread his word through disease and destruction. Here I was thinking the almighty could just almight people into knowing his message when he made them.

Yeah, especially the rain god sacrifice in which captive children were sacrificed.

Yes. I read this too. Montezuma specially was fond of children's flesh. Offered it to Cortez men. The Aztecs were cannibals. Also, the taking of the heat in spice, such as chili peppers. A lot of ppl dont know that the Aztecs would season their killed enemies with it after battle, to eat. The warriors believed that they were taking into theirselves the fire spirit of the person killed.

@@Cat-ik1wo I would like to see the pyramids of the Aztecs that the Spanish and their allies burned and destroyed but they were so hated by their enemies that all of them were cool with the destruction of their civilization as barely anything survive. Something similar to that happen in Greece as Alexander asked what to do with Thebes as to what would be their punishment for been on the wrong side of the war with him and all of the Greek allies including Sparta and Athens agreed to burn it to the ground as Thebes was the most powerful and hated Greek state at the time.

@@mattmiraglia3199 thats not true and no evidence of it

@@carlitosway5748 If not true, please share more of the details. I am curious as to your reasoning.

Had this same thought when he said that

Brothers forgot to read "one of"

​@dragon_reborn1123 no, not in this instance. The reason it's brought up is because at the mention of the first kids why no designation? Why does his kid have a secondary title or special mention? It's a filler which in no way can be verified and shouldn't have been included.

What part of "one of the first" is it that you don't understand? One of the first does not mean the first, "the first" here is an undefined numer of people and being one of them makes you one of the first.

She is a member of the cartel.

😂 and I’m sure you believe all the campaign slogans from American presidents like “make America great AGAIN!” 😂😂😂

​@@adrianvalenciavera1211If the Mexican people had guns, they could defend themselves from the cartels who have guns. Not sure why that's a controversial opinion in today's soft, backwards, cowardly world. People like you make it like that btw

@@ifecoAE He is a puppet and protector of the cartels.

Trouble is cartels don’t follow this suggestion, it’s only for the victims, ‘Pueblo bueno y sabio’ ‘the people, good and wise’ who are extortioned, murdered and kidnapped like never before yet voted for this crook

Indeed. Like some people hate the German people for "voting wrong" in 1936.

*I was about to make the same comment and then I saw "I'm not alone."* 12:10 6:42 *But what about this guy? Hmm* 🤔

Mi papa

Why would he apologize, he had nothing to do with it, and to demand apologies whilst being a descendant of Spanish settlers is hypocritical to say the least on the part of Mexico's president. Somehow the Mexicans forgot that they are also overwhelmingly Spanish in ancestry and prefer to pretend they're related to Montezuma lol It's part of some guilt cope mechanism they use to otherize the blame for it and pretend they are not the direct beneficiaries of Cortéz and oppressors of the native americans to this day lol the reason the Native Americans don't have their own countries again isn't because the King of Spain refuses them, it's because the Spaniards in Latin America, descendants of Cortéz, refuse them. And i don't really care if they do, it's their country now as far i'm concerned, but for them to turn around and then pretend it's the King of Spain doing this is astonishing hypocrisy, if you feel bad about it, just get on a boat and return to Spain lol

@@detdeet Lot of Nahuatl people helped the Spanish to rule. Spanish rule was a great thing for the area, as it build a strong civilization, that they all benefit from. The descendants of the Tlaxcala still live among the Mexicans. Good for them, as their ancestors would be proud that together with the Spanish, they created a great country

Bro was barely a captain, did you even watch the video?

What great country? A country filled with poverty, crimes, degenerate values, homosexualty, p0rn addiction, human trafficking, corruption, all brought by the great Spanish civilization. We were better off with Indigenous values.

@@detdeet King of Spain and the Vatican apologized to the small hat people (jws) but they cannot apologize to Indigenous? Why is that according to you if today's king had nothing to do with what happened in that era of dark history of Spain?

the only crazy thing here is your brain

Really? That is kind of pivotal as to why the Spaniards with on 500 dudes won

human sacrifices were practiced by most natives, also it wasnt "endless", there is no proof that they did endless human sacrifices

They did a lot of human sacrifice but it wasn’t endless and the people that were sacrificed it was considered one of the most honorable thing you can do becuase your sacrificing your self to the sun god I believe but thier god and it was similar to the Vikings deing in battle to go to Valhalla and they sacrificed a lot of virgin women not warriors soo they had warriors weather they didn’t agree with the sacrifice I don’t know but I do know it was one of the most honorable things to do

Everyone knows they did human sacrifice, it was bad but they weren’t the only ones and they literally believed their existence depended on it. Just like any region in the world the dominant power if oppressive (however that oppression shows up) will have enemies and those enemies will take any advantage to take them down. However, that is a problem for the locals to resolve not for foreigners to take advantage of for their purposes, being allies of the Spanish cost them their way of life, their culture, and not only theirs but also the other groups around eventually they fell victim to it as well.

That history is changing, little by little people is learning true history even mexicanas who once loved Aztecs are starting to be more in the Spanish side

That guy is nuts.

Read “Conquest of Mexico” by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, he was in Cortez’s inner circle & saw the whole thing first hand. It’s an incredible story.

Cortés was neither. He was just blessed buy our Almighty God to spread the Gospel.

Spaniards were not thought to be Gods, if that was the case they wouldnt have been attacked when Indigenous encountered them for the first time LMAO

​@@carlitosway5748 Lol you don't get how the Aztecs viewed gods. This is also just an indisputable fact. Completely rewriting history by saying that they didn't think this. Go check out, Aztec Perspective on First Contact with Europeans by Voices of the Past. The channel took research from Bernardino de Sahagún and the Nahuatl people from the 16th century and presented the text with voice.

⁠@@darken2417why do you assume the Aztecs didn’t have the intelligence for diplomacy and careful strategy? You understand that these were men with new technology, things they had not yet seen like guns and ships, why would he risk angering what he didn’t know? The whole things is still being debated, what you reference is from early Spanish accounts and I am sorry but I’m taking some of the stuff with a grain of salt. SOME might have thought that initially but they weren’t simple minded people who worshiped corn, they were sophisticated.

@@nathalyacosta8373 Because they literally said this is what they believed. They believed they were literal unironic gods that's why. Modern revisionism just says "We can't trust that because a Spaniard was involved". There is no other evidence to consider all the primary sources we have points to this. And it wasn't just a Spanish account they asked Nahuatl people, Nahautl tribespeople. And by the way much of the Aztec nobility remained in positions of authority throughout the Spanish era. None of them had written something contrary to this narrative even the heirs of Moctezuma didn't have anything to say in contradiction to this (yes they were still nobles and had authority under Spain). Like "Hey you are lying about my ancestor! I'm going to commission a priest to accurately transcribe my family's history." When people say it was just diplomacy they are pulling it out of nowhere with no primary source. They just don't like the truth and assume it must have been something different. Its like when people tried claiming that human sacrifices and mass graves didn't exist that it was a myth. Also complete nonsense. They didn't like the truth so they made up something different. Not to mention that Bernardino de Sahagún is known as the "first anthropologist". His work is the reason we know as much as we do about the Nahuatl people. And by the way they worked closely with him all the way through these works even drawing illustrations in their own native style. His work is classified as World Heritage by UNESCO. Whether you like it or not his work was authentic and as accurate as possible and it all clearly and unquestionably asserts these facts about Moctezuma.

Jesus is a fairytale character that never existed, I wish all you christians would quit pretending he did. Stupidest story ever told, except maybe the ark, that's even more childish. Don't compare figments with actual people and events, just don't...

No one has literally walked on water in the colloquial sense that most people think, ever.

Spaniards lost more men in that battle than Aztecs did, if Spaniards didnt have those allies, they wouldve gotten wiped down, and if you think Aztecs were scared of horses when in their jungles they saw a lot more dangerous animals that they hunted, then you are a complete fool LMAO

@@carlitosway5748 Try standing still when a massive horse is running towards you. It's even worse when you have never seen a horse before. What the Spaniards did in that battle was to head to the enemy leader and killed him.

@@andrews5069 bro, natives had a lot of weapons that would easily slice through a horse's face, i dont think you have even studies their armor unless you think they only had arrows, plus they also carried with them scary whistle sounds that wouldve easily caused a horse or a dog to loose distraction and run the other way

Did you not hear about the Cholula massacre? With things like that and the plagues they brought with them, they decimated the locals

They most definitely decimated them. Not all but that's hardly an excuse

@@GothPaoki there’s over 1 billion central and South Americans today… Mexico City is one of the biggest cities in the world. There are countless Mexicans that can trace their lineage to the Aztecs.

@@Chris-lz6ci Yes those things are terrible. Their culture was destroyed but at least that region was liberated from senseless sacrifices

@@GothPaoki the illnesses decimated the population, not the alliance against the Aztecs. There was never a law to kill natives like in the USA or Australia…

Same with USA and UK

Wtf 😂 We Mexicans descend from those same "colonizers" what a dumb comment

Same With Brazil and Portugual

i mean mexico has a population 3x higher than spains population so that not really something to be glad about thats like saying india has a higher gdp the britain which is true but india has 22x the amount of population britain has and yet they are barely above britain

@@righteousmammon9011 its not the same, most Americans are white Americans, not mestizos or indigenous

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nWF4w2UsEk0.html

Don't ever ever compared a dirty European (reason they killed so many natives) with Alexander the Great, ever.

most of mexico city is a filthy slum. tenochtitlan was never meant to be drained and have a concrete city on top.

probably had godly charisma too

All these words are cromulent

@@Bigvenomsnakeboss indubiously!

no but is what this chapter of history deserves

Iron. They had no iron. They obviously had gold. As well as copper (and I think bronze too).

@@MrAnihillator Yeah your wrong about that, We had way more than iron here. Do you know what it takes to carve Jade & polish it?

You think about him in the shower? 🤔

@@adampaul454 sometimes 😉

​@@adampaul454you don't?

@@TomLatchford-dc2em not since he got rid of the moustache

@@adampaul454 yeah good point you got me there

The de@th of over 200 million of indigenous people? The forced conversation into Catholicism/Christianity by the sword or face de@ath? How they spread the lie that Quetzalcoatl was white when we depicted him as a dark skin brown/black man with white hair who was being speared on the side of his rib? The burning of our codex's that tell our history and many of which were burned to keep who we truly are and hide how and where we came from originally which was from the East from the Atlantic ocean on ships running away from very evil people who put us into slavery and we came here by the guidance of the Great and living God who stilled the waters for us so our journey would be safe and it took us awhile to arrive here on this continent in what is called Florida. The enslavement after being conquered working for free, long hours and millions of us dying from evil systems like the encomienda? The hatred for our beautiful brown complexion under white supremacy and their caste system where in we bleach our skin or marry a white woman so we can live through our child and have a better life instead of severe poverty? The abandonment of our tribe to join the white man's white supremacist society where it ends up we forget what tribe we came from or the language we spoke or the customs we use to practice (many of them were based off the bible in case you did not know but the Spaniards knew but will never tell you that) and you repeat this thru generation after generation up to where the generation says that they never heard of the Aztecs, or the Toltecs and so on? How the Spaniards, Clergy, and Jesuits back then will not openly tell you that they observed every indigenous customs that it matched those of the bible including the practice of circumcision's using the obsidian knife but were being called another name during our holy feast days and ritual practices. How in today's time many of us have to pay rent to live in a apartment or house to foreign invaders (not just whites) to live on my own house on my land? How in today's time, these foreign invaders set up shops where we live in the barrio and make massive profits off us and do nothing to give back to us but puts their own children to schools, getting wealthier off our destruction and the exploitation of us? I can add so much more. This is what you mean that they did a lot for us? Us together with black people are the most poorest people on the Earth. And you think this is a good thing? Do you even know we warned them not to touch us or that when our descendants came to remember who they were great judgement would be coming to them? The end of their rulership especially over us is coming to an end soon.

I've been saying it for years! I love using it 😅

That was the comment i was looking for.

That is true. Bit true to the Spaniards they can't keep the record straight. They also forgot to mention how he growled at the feet of the queen for money.

Thoughty mentioned that in this youtube video, spaniards AND thousands and tens of thousands native tribes.

You obviously didn't watch the video. That is PRECISELY what he explains

Try showing me pictures of Spanish people who even resemble AMLO bro 😂

Rapists are better? Lmaoo

@Gold_Silver. didn't say I liked Latinos, either! 🤣🤣🤣 That's ALL they do! 🤣

@@Gold_Silver. I'm not Latin. I'm Irish... you know? Indentured? And heart ripped out or 'Latin lovers'?? Great question 🤔

I woudn't call spaniards rapist, or at least not more than any other army. What is interesting is that at every place they went they married with the local native nobility (which was the local costume to be allies/family) and they baptized the local native woman and made them christian (which is not the worst thing to do if you are a christian). The video had a small error about the mayan "slaves", theh were no slaves, they were 20 highly educated noble maidens given to marry and forge an aliance.