Why the Aztec Empire Fell
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- The Aztec Empire. One of the most powerful and feared empires to ever stake its claim on the Americas, it laid claim to much of southern Mexico. Its warriors were infamous. Its architecture was stunning. Its rituals were mysterious and often terrifying. And one day, they were all gone. What led to the end of the Aztec Empire? Check out today's epic new video to find out!
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I wish they made a GoT style TV series showing how the Aztecs lived. Like the book "Aztec" by Garry Jennings.
They would all speak in an english accent on tv
What you mean by Game of thrones style?
In the future, helicarriers will replace aircraft carriers.
This is the development, we are moving towards. It will probably happen!
@@drebodollaz3504 Go read the book and you'll understand. Martin seems to draw from it
@@drebodollaz3504 I think he means game of thrones style
It’s trippy to think that before the Europeans made contact, the western world may as well have been an entirely different planet all together. It is a unique opportunity to see the potentially different ways humanity can develop!
That may not be true. There were pyramids in meso america. Pyramids that originated in Kush modern day Sudan.
The butterfly effect is more interesting than we’ll ever understand.
( *not* ) the movie
Butterfly effect definition:
A property of chaotic systems (such as the atmosphere) by which small changes in initial conditions can lead to large-scale and unpredictable variation in the future state of the system.
Basically 1 small change may have extreme consequences/changes. For example if you went back in time and stepped on a twig you could easily drastically change the future.
@@vladimirmomperousse4340 yeah, there are similarities, that doesn’t change the fact that it was basically different. Both earth and Marx are spherical. They are still different planets.
They weren't gonna change. They have neither the animals nor the political will to advance their country. The same way Africa was mostly still just tribes, the New World as mostly tribes. Inca, Maya, and Aztec were the only real civilizations, and they were practically ancient by the time the Spanish landed. They suffered no plagues or famines yet spent a lot of time fighting and killing each other. Just because a people become isolated doesn't mean they would develop a parallel society and technology. They will regress to the least inconvenient state and stop innovating if they don't have problems. Innovation happens if there is a problem and the inventor know he will benefit directly from the process. Aztecs don't innovate, they plunder.
I'm pretty sure they were already at the absolute peak of their development.
Can you maybe make a video about the allies of Cortez? A fact that many don't know is that Cortez's army was made up of 90% others Native American peoples. Example the Totonacs, Tlacopan, Oaxtepec, Tlaxcaltec, Yautepec, Metztitlán, Chalco, Tepeyacac Cuernavaca, Atlixco and Huejotzingo allied with the Spanish to destroy the Aztecs. Along with modern technology and disease, this is also an important factor in the fall of the Aztecs.
What of it? Pretty well known that he got neighboring tribes as allies and that they weren’t immune to European diseases.
Also, if you just paid attention to this video, those facts were clearly present.
Cortes with s
i forgot how much i learned about this empire in school. this is one of those rare occasions i can watch one of these videos and know exactly what the narrator is talking about because of history classes lol
Then you didn’t spend your school time in Spain..?
no i grew up on the east coast in the US
@@matthewmccoy7437 same here lol
I learned all of this while in second grade in Mexico! Cheers friend!
Hey guys, unfortunately the USA doesn't really teach you too much on all this in Public School System. They re-teach you the American Revolution to WW2. I never heard of the Cold War until I graduated HS.
Aztecs: The rest of the world got nothing on us
Smallpox: *Imma bout to end this whole empire's career*
Mexica*
I have a question. Weren't horses introduced by Europeans because they did not exist in the new world before the 16th century?
yeah
I read they existed at one point but taming animals wasn't a thing for awhile so they were hunted to extinction tens of thousands of years ago. It's one of the reasons natives on horse back in the US is kind of impressive because we didn't have thousands of years to learn and refine those skills. It was mostly just watching and learning.
Not true this has been confirmed to be apart of the propaganda campaigns from the Europeans colonizers to dehumanize and make them seem more savage.
Wondering same thing...
Not 100% sure but it think they existed but the concept of using them as a way to get around wasn’t a thing
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My best friend Alejandro and his dad always told me about Aztec culture because they strongly identified with their Aztec ancestry and one of the coolest things I received from them is the death whistle that they use to scare intruders with.
I love my death whistle. My bosses whom are Chinese, love when I bring mine to work.
@@damexican22 Please keep your ancestors culture and legacy continue through you because I have gained a lot of knowledge and respect from learning. Peace and blessings bro
The Aztec death whistle is awesome. I took it with me to Colombia weeks ago and it saved me from a robbery.
@@mokhan8832 That whistle at least in an unwary person at night can at least paralyze him with fear and at most can cause cardiac arrest.
Wow, that's amazing. Hope you keep your culture and legacy living on 👍🏾
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"Coughs and sneezes spread diseases."🤕🤧 🇪🇸 "Spain's secret weapon against the aztec mayan and inca."
It’s so cool that Cortez took the time to find Roman shields 🛡 for cinematic effect.
Cortez: Spain 🇪🇸 rocks 🪨
Francis drake: hold my beer 🍺
Spain rule the land.
Britannia rules the waves.
This empire was quite impressive considering that they didn't discover iron
Or the wheel and we didn't have large animals to eat on like cow. Much less milk and eggs to eat in-between.
@@M7S4I5L8V2A Aztecs did have the wheel, but there were no horses or oxen around to pull carts so at best wheels were used in childrens toys.
@@oofmcoofy6769 Having the wheel and using it are 2 completely different things. They did not make use of the wheel in any meaningful function.
@@jameson3500because the terrain wasn’t made for a large scale wheel. And there weren’t domesticated animals, like a horse, to pull them. So it was pretty much a waste of time to build a large scale wheel!
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According to a documentary, the answer is guns, germs, and steel.
As someone who's read into mexican history before, it was also the fact that the Aztecs had many enemies, to which the Spaniards were easily able to convince in joining forces against them. Similar to what happened to the Indians under British occupation.
I feel like this is a “Classic Infographics” that has been stored in the hard drive for the last 3 years and is just getting released now. The animation is like their old school vids
Great informative video as always
I'm glad u made this video about my people
14:00 Cortes being so effective the Romans came back to life
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Hi, thanks for the video, just one small correction, there were no horses in America until the europeans brought them, after the conquest. I love your videos, keep up the great work.
First of all there were definitely wild horses in North America, which have been for thousands of years. You're thinking about domesticated horses
I think you confused the domesticated horses with the wild ones. The horses here in North America looked a lot different but they were still horses
Castles Still in Epic shape My man
Do the Mayans next
Dang my school should have shown videos like this when we were learning about these subjects. Also very interesting that the main contributor to the downfall was just a disease.
Well when you introduce a diesease to a population that's probably never had to deal with a such a deadly virus/bacterial, the infection usually kills out the population before immunity could develop, and that can take generations sometimes
More like Cortez who helped bring the disease.
I do, kids still don't pay attention....smh
@@senorstout7210 r i p i would pay attention if my teacher showed these videoes
We do
Hi! Mexican here, it's pronounced Me-shica when we are talking about the civilization. C: great video as always
Edit: Also the Aztecs was the name they had before emigrating from north to south. When they arrive at what's is today Mexico City they are just called mexicas, not azteca
Don’t talk about pronunciation and then come in here writing gibberish.
@@matthewwalter67 how uncultured of you guy. This person is right. The Pronunciations in this video are way off.
Let me correct you on that what you stated firstly it's pronounced meh-she-ka. 2. They where always mexica the word aztec was the name of the Empire that the mexica where apart of Along side texcoco and tlacopan peoples.
Hola paisana
@@mexispartano8381 and what people are not all going to have great pronunciation it’s so petty to call people out on
Guns, Germs and Steel are why it fell.
great vid
Great video
Usually I can handle small errors in your videos, but you show alot of Aztecs on horseback, and the horse didn't come to America until Europeans brought them. There's a few other things that I learned different in school, but my history teacher was wrong about alot of things. But they definitely didn't have horses.
Horses arrived in Mexico in 1519
Not true this has been confirmed to be apart of the propaganda campaigns from the Europeans colonizers to dehumanize and make them seem more savage.
@@biohazard9347 yeah, when Cortez and the conquistadors brought them. A few of the Aztecs may have used the horse for the last 6 months or so of the empire, but they wouldn't have been broadly used.
@@shokew2241 that is quite possibly the stupidest conspiracy theory I've ever heard. They couldn't have riden horses before the Spanish got here, because the Spanish are the ones who brought horses to south America. There were no horses here to ride before that.
@@camelholocaust5149 -mexico Is not in south América
- there's Horses in the americas but not in central México (where aztecs lived)
So Cortez deserves more credit for destroying the Aztec. Though disease is the number 1 victor.
Cortez was a militar genius.
Credit… what a word choice.
He gets credit for not taking showers. Nothing else
He already has that credit
this man has been restlessly narrating this channels videos since the Aztec’s colonial reign
Y'all are making this too complicated: 1) Whites had superior technology. 2) White had superior diplomatic skills 3) Whites had superior combat strategies battle tested over the years against other superpowers 4) White brought disease the weakened the native empire.
Also speaking of technology they left out a huge factor, it wasn't the native ships that were important, it was the fact that they built huge European style ships. The native canoes attacked them, but they were so gigantic by comparison and tall that they couldn't board them and the Spanish from their ships just shot at them like fish in a barrel. Canoe vs 3 masted huge Spanish Barque with canons and arquebus = battleship!
History is so interesting and amazing especially the Aztecs.
I have 15% Aztec
Indeed! Sad that many people in modern México have been european washed and don’t continue the tradition!
Preparing to see how Namor will be the representative of the long lost Mayan civilization. Will be interesting to see that!
The character is Maya. Not Aztec. Same people, different civilizations.
@@YellowCapeInvincible My bad. Thanks for correcting!
Nice video
Isn’t it crazy to think about no matter what point In history there was always humans who cause death and despair
Vitures and Vines makes mankind. It makes life more or less balanced
nezahualcoyotl was the true emperor who instituted reforms that helped the empire. Montezuma the first was the one who undid all the progress nezahualcoyotl started.
Thank y’all for helping me sleep
Little known fact: Cortez was able to recruit a Roman Legionary brigade before setting sail from Veracruz.
Or maybe that was in a Civ 6 game, IDK.
what was the city found in the Amazon that was barely dug up I saw it on he expedition unknown only caught like 30 min of it but they were living there for 25+ years excavating finding roads that were paved everything
huge respect from the cameraman going to the 13th century just to film this video
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I think it would be really beneficial for the infographic show to do some Western African empires
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I find this video interesting :)
What happened to the Aztecs, Mayans etc? Short answer: Conquistadors
And there plagues..
And Common Cold ...
The Mayan empire collapsed 600 years before the arrival of the conquistadors.
@@torre6842 I understand; but alas I was making a joke for purposes of comedy
@@torre6842 Maya Still Existed in northern Yucatan and EVEN Prospered ( ALTHOUGH They Never AGAIN Reached Height of Their Previous Power), Untill Arrival of Spanish Conquistadors
I'm pretty early here, i'll be here for the books
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just always makes me wonder if the Aztecs were never wiped out, imagine how Mexico would’ve looked like today, though I doubt it since when you go and sacrifice people everyday then there’s bound to be revolutions
Considering everyone around them hated them and Cortez got the surrounding tribes to join him and attack the Axtecs. I'm pretty shure the tribes would have gotten so sick of the Axtecs that they would have eventually united and taken down the Axtecs whether Cortez showed up or not. Every empire falls.
Great video, with a few understandable flaws (Aztec warriors riding horses?). Would be nice to find content on any of the other, non-nahua/mayan, numerous civilizations that lived (and still exist) in Mexico, for a change...
Facts my family origins stem to the tepehuanes who lived in what’s now the state of Durango my birthplace but can’t find much about them
Make a video of who has better warriors Aztec vs Spartans hehe please
I would love to see you guys do a video on shaka Zulu
Early and beiitful
Can you do a video on the purapecha??
Pls make a video on the mauryan empire or the ottoman empire
Make a video about the chichimeca wars. Maybe you can find more research tools than I did😊
I didn´t know that Cortez pulled a full on Arthas or vice versa :D
They actually wouldn't have been riding horses at any point prior to European contact. All species of horse in the Americas had been driven to extinction long before.
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It is annoying reading online how people say that 300 spaniards defeated an enormous army, so this video was cool. Of couse one spaniard soldier was like 10 aztec warriors but they numbers were so small to conquer an empire. This video was nice.
The spanish fleets of king juan carlos of spain where sent to support cortez after the first fleet agreed to instead of arresting cortez they would join him to attack tenochtitlan agian the first spainsh fleet expedtion was of 2,000 spanish soliders and the natives that where on hernan cortez side more than half million ...but the aztecs still way more that is why almost every story agrees that the war took long and months beacuse it was a many battles of masses which is what the google and famous misinformed storys fail to say !!!! the ac
One European rifle was worth 3 or 4 Aztecs. One unarmed Aztec warrior was worth 3 or 4 unarmed Spanish soldiers.
@@irvinperez795 I don't know, European weapons and armour were far better for hand to hand combat
The Aztecs did not have horse drawn carts. They did not have horse cavalry!
Not true this has been confirmed to be apart of the propaganda campaigns from the Europeans colonizers to dehumanize and make them seem more savage.
I love how this depiction seems to indicate that the indigenous seemed to have horses already - they did not 😂
Very nice... but what is that thumbnail??
It's pronounced "Me-shee-kah".
Not "Mex-ika".
Thanks for the correction 👍
I'm glad I found this I was about to make a long comment about it. Hearing mexica kinda stung my ears 😅
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Love these vids. Keep up the good work.
Love the video but why do the graphics show horses? There was no horses in the aztec empire until the Europeans brought them over
Europeans...like the Spanish. Where do you think they came from???
@@DDlambchop43 yeah dude, obviously I'm referring to the Spanish in this case (nice job sherlock). But the graphics show horses before the arrival of the spaniards,, which is impossible
Did the Mexica have horses? The graphic kept showing them but I thought that horses had died out long before.
Cortes is a national hero in Spain and was on the 1000 Peseta banknote just before Spain adopted the Euro.
the mexica aztecs did not have beasts of burden AKA no horses, oxen, or donkeys.
If I am not mistaken the horses in north America are not a thing yet at this time.
I thought there were horses not the horses that we think of now but ones that were native there but were hunted to extinction but I could be 100% wrong I remember hearing that somewhere though
Hey can u do how the mughal empire ended
I nod to you, Aztecs; one empire to another…
Good question.
I just a rant the other day about Tenochtitlan
The you’re the Euros just got one by England and I’m from that place
When neolithic civilizations comes across an advanced civilization with boom sticks. The advanced culture with all the boom sticks usually win.
Did you pay attention? It was disease that destroyed their empire
@@jr3753 please tell me more about the understanding of germ theory in the 1500s
@@e1ochai to think that “boom stick” caused the fall of a “Neolithic civilization” is false. You are giving way too much credit to the Europeans when in reality disease pretty much was the main cause of death in the Americas. Germ theory? It doesn’t matter if they understood what germ theory was at the time.What matters that it spread and caused the death of millions not boom sticks
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It's pronounced "meshika" Mexica.
What’s with the horses?
good ole betrayal it never fails....except when it does fail....it fails very badly
Mexica is pronounced May-Shee-Ka. And the video shows them migrating with horses. They had no horses before the Spaniards came.
Meh not may
The Spanish leader Courtex was a real CHAD
Cortes
He was lucky that was all
@@brandonvargas6729 bro you have to admit that he was very smart
What's up with all the horses in the first minute?
"Game Over for the Aztecs, Smallpox Spain's 🇪🇸 secret weapon turns the tide allowing Spain 🇪🇸 to conquer Mexico." 🇲🇽
This is totally different from what I learned in school, and how the story was told in,"educational", programs. I was going to school in the 70'S and 80's. We were taught so much that wasn't true.
I learned most of this in the 90's. It was standard for our entire school system.
Lot of issues with the animations, specifically the horses. Horses weren't on the continent until the arrival of the Spanish.
This is giving me civ 5 vibes
2:06 Horses???
2:42 and 5:49 Binoculars???
14:02 Ancient Roman soldiers and Coliseum???
Aztecs didn't have that.
Still can’t believe some people don’t know horses werent extinct in america
19:15 SMALL POX ? Maybe it was the... MONKEY POX !!
Infographic show: Shows Smallpox virus
Also infographic show: *Plays Avengers theme song in the background*
dem legs. that aztec is fineee
2:42 did the Aztecs have binoculars?
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Kind of ironic how both the horse and camel evolved in North America
Wowoowow
What’s with the horses? Lol
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