History of the Inca Empire DOCUMENTARY
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- In this animated historical documentary, we will talk abut the origins of the Inca, the rise of their empire, its peak, arrival of the Spanish conquistadors of Francisco Pizarro and the war between them and the Inca people.
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do more of the likes of this videos to many other unknown or unclear civilizatios or empire
Why the re-upload though? Love the video but I am pretty sure I have already seen this.
Have y'all even gone a Entire day watching Doki Doki mods
IDK if it's just me, but about 1/6th of the way into the video, the Audio goes quiet. It doesn't really affect quality, but I just thought you should know
It’s so weird that my ancestors destroyed my other ancestors.
extremely common story strangely.
Very common if you are from latin america lol
Its not weird
We are all children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in it's turn betrays an ancestor- Ralph Waldo Emmerson.
wouldn't be your actual ancestors, otherwise you wouldn't be here. It wouldve been other members of your ancestors respective tribes
Makes you wonder where the Inca would have ended up if left alone
i would have been like Korea or japan.
That is a question cosidered in Tad Williams Otherland series. Quite an interesting subject tbh.
they would have fallen into civil war and/or had a serious societal shift. The dead emperors holding onto all that land would have been unsustainable.
Probably the same things that happened to the prior civilizations. If they had discovered the wheel and steel maybe they could have had a bigger chance of surviving tho.
M B they knew about the wheel, they had it on toys
The Inca Empire was to South America as the Roman Empire was to the Mediterranean. Incredibly impressive.
Spanish too.
@@las_espannas no, the Spanish didn't give the locals the option to join them, just subjugated them, killed them or sold them as slaves....
@@samsmith2635 fake news.
Stop black Legend against Spain.
@@samsmith2635Yes they give that option xd
@@samsmith2635"join them" means subyugate.
Or did you dont hear the part were incans crushed the ppl who refuse to join?
This is the best documentary on the incas EVER. This is so perfectly, thoroughly done
@@ailiz7 Can you give some examples?
@@ailiz7 Okay Karen.
@@ailiz7 Doesn't every History Channel does that? Look at most History channels.
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@@davbro001 are you okay?
In my university class my prof said they did actually have the wheel on toys for kids. They just never adapted it due too the terrain plausibly
Chasqui > the wheel. That was what my mind thought lol
This comment should be upp!
that was actually the Maya, not the Inca
This may seem self explanatory just make wheels for cars.
Incas: what is a car.
@@Joleyn-Joy A 2 handed sword can way as little as 6 or 7 kilo, no weight was probably not the issue, also find it hard to believe Peru has 0 use for wheels guys.
I love the idea of a community working together to provide and help each other survive. It’s interesting to hear of a civilization that didn’t rely on money.
That was the minka..
Yeah well... sadly there was a big downside to this system too
You can also do that in a civilization that relies on money.
👏👏
Centrally planned, resource, and intra-corporate economies are quite common and all fall under this vein of theory. It's theoretically the most efficient way possible to organize an economy, given sufficient information to act on. That's why mathematics and fast communication/transport was so important to the Inca.
Well, I'm peruvian and yeah I've always been into historic stuff. I must say this video was really well done. The truth is many people in my own country don't know much about history. For me it's pretty cool seeing videos like this because someone pretty far away will watch it and thus history won't be lost. The same thing could be said about me learning history of other places that well I'm pretty sure will never visit lol
Unfortunately most people from every country know very little about their own history.
Same here from Chile, maybe its time to put aside our petty squables ignited by foreing demons...
awesome, i thought i was the only peruvian seeing this, thank you
@@tham4378 Care to explain?
@@lordbstarkhell5471 take a care look.
Damn that was even more depressing than anticipated
I thought it was amazing to watch, how you chose to "feel" about is your choice (like picking a flavour of icecream)
@@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge nice bro
@liam Anderson Great morals
@liam Anderson
I would’ve been there with you brother.
Santiago!
What did you just say?
10:26 - From this point on, audio gets very feeble.
Yeah, I thought my speakers were losing power.
And it booms back up around 20:00 or 21:00
Audio turns to shit at 34:00 as well ... Not sure why people are so atrocious at editing sound. It's the most important thing about these uploads.
It's just the volume, could've been worse
just turn up the volume, no biggie
I had no idea the Inca was utilizing the Federation's no-money economy 700 years before the United Federation of Planets was even formed.
Nothing is new under the sun. Everything has a basis somewhere.
@@EmptyMan000 What's the basis for the Star Trek Replicator?
Eh, to much like the mark of the beast.
@@Edax_Royeaux Perhaps Jesus and his replicating fish and bread trick or perhaps stories of changelings making copies of objects. Who knows? It's not always exact, but there's always some historical form somewhere with the same motive in mind.
Sir, Knight The Devout. Lmfao
Maya: we built of limestone
Aztecs: we built on the water
Inca: we built on fucking mountains!
Does show just how much of underdogs aztecs and Incas were, they basicallly got leftover land lol
Why are u trying to make that sound impressive?
@Jose Moreno It's easier than you'd think. While the way Incans built on Mountains was literally leveling or building up on the mountains.
@@ricardocr35 Because it is
Dont forget about the Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, Purepecha, Chichimeca, Tainos, Muisca etc. There are hundreds of Mesoamerican Civilizations and tribes.
Of all the countries I’ve been to, Peru was by far the most beautiful. Amazing mountain lines and beautiful valleys. Machu Pichu is just surreal. So much love and spirit there. Our guide was so humble and open about his place and people. Would 10/10 recommend over anywhere in the world! And I’ve been around a bit ;)
Muchas gracias amigo, ojalá puedas volver ♥️🇵🇪
Very nice, almost nobody covers american civilizations in their videos, but it is always awesome to learn how complex and unique they were, makes me want to learn quechua.
Thanks, this inspired me to try to learn it as best I can.
American and in what continent is Peru? Maybe in another could u explain me actually we look very similar to Dakota
@@esmeraldagonzales2490 Peru is in South America, or some consider it linked to North America. In that case, it would be part of the continent "America". It depends on where you live, and what system of education is taught in that area.
@@philipsullivan4885 what? the american continent is one thing.
of course, it is kinda split in 2 for north and south, but its still just one continent.
serious question, do people learn this differently? obviously i only know my view of things here.
@@udozocklein6023 I’ve been taught in the US that South and North America are different continents. The connection around the Panama Canal is a bit spotty, and they are different tectonic plates. So scientifically different continents could be justifiable.
It’s still could be one continent but it’s semantics in my opinion. You could just call the whole earth Pangea lol. What country are you from by the way?
The presentation turned this video into one of those stories of which you know that they end badly but hope until the end that they won't. Great work.
lol yeah, I was rooting for the Incas even though I knew better.
“And I must insist IT WILL ALL BE YOUR FAULT”
lol, WTF
Religion in a nutshell
You make me beat you!
At the start of the video I was excited to learn more about the Incan history and culture, but damn, I didn't expect to become depressed. A wonderfully precious documentary with beautiful visuals, and great narration that painted a vivid picture (admittedly, made me emotional multiple times).
Shame all those Incan artifacts got destroyed :(
kxr can’t change history
@kxr
Christianity (and other abrahamic religions for that matter) is cancer to this world.
@@Varskar careful kid, that edginess will cut you! 😂
kxr
Dude, it’s not like the Incas didn’t steal from other people too.
@@equalmeasurements923 feeling good bro?
I mean it's not like he's wrong or anything y'know... nobody shit talks mongolians for erasing half of persia
This is so good, a movie should be made.
One like the movie Zulu?
It definitely should. Though it would be incredibly tragic and painful. Still, the story deserves to be told in an accurate and appropriately grand way.
They probably make the Incas white like they do the Egyptians Hollywood is rubbish
@@dreamer2260 it could be a two part biopic
Could you please do videos on pre Inca/pre maya civilisations like Chimu, Chachapoya, Wari, Norte Chico, Nazca, Zapotec, Olmec, or possibly even the Guarani ?
imagine a video featuring both tiwanaku and wari empires
the problem is, sources are very limited, we do not know how quipu worked, and andean culture and history were passed down oraly, about meso-america, the maya had a very extensive and sophisticated literature and historical records, but the spanish burned all the aztec and mayan books, and killed all of the scribes, so what remained mostly on stone inscriptions is undeciphered, the maya had a very similar writing culture to the egyptian one, they both used a ideographic/gliphic system and wrote carving on stone or writing on amatl instead of papyrus, but what remains are shadows
that’s a wee bit too esoteric brah
@@fmtoussant that's why it's Awsome
So proud to be Peruvian and to love my culture.
what does this mean? u proud of the Pizarros or the Incans?
@liam Anderson so? They had a empire on a mountain no other civilization could accomplish such a feat, so please s t f u
@liam Anderson As commented before, there was no use for the wheel in a terrain like the Andes, the inca didn't had a written language but had a very complex system of knots, so they communicate. Because of the Spanish it's not very known and indecipherable until now because they coudn't transmite the knowledge to the new generations. The Inca made an empire without contacting other societies and had a balanced society without needing money. That they were defeat in battle doesn't meant they weren't great.
@liam Anderson you are ridiculous. You cannot use an eurocentric label on the Incan Empire system of governance. If it was communist, as you say, then the people would be poor, without food, and without culture. In other words: Mao's China, Lenin's Russia, Castro's Cuba. So, take your Eurocentric comments into European history videos.
@liam Anderson The Incas had the wheel but it was pointless for them to develop it further in a terrain and geography like that. The wheel would have made their lives harder instead of easier. Everything was created and adapted for high altitude and mostly steep terrain. Of course you wouldn't know that, since you probably never have lived there.
Well I guess I'm going to spend my Sunday morning rewatching Cogito's awesome Inca series! More than happy too. I became fascinated with the Incas since my stay in Chile; it was truly an incredible civilization.
Thank you for the great videos guys!
...but in Chile we dont have so much Inca ruins.... in fact, we have some Pucará and relatively irrelevant Inca stuff over here :(
I think you missed a lot about the Incas taking into account that they developed mostly in Peru.
@@luxvult5202 Yes, sorry I should have mentioned that I visited around Chile (went to Peru a lot) while I was there. Also, Santiago has a lot of historical museums and artifacts, and a very interesting Mapuche history (which both the Spaniards and Incas were unable to conquer really).
@@ciegoavil You are right. Should have mentioned that I went to Peru a lot (while studying in Chile) but also that Santiago has quite a few museums/artifacts.
I've been to some of those museums, they have pretty cool artifacts, but you should know (if you haven't noticed) that there are some artifacts on display that aren't really from Chile (since, among other factors, there wasn't much population there during the pre-Columbian era), some museums even have plenty of Mesoamerican stuff, the same thing happens in Argentina, like in the Salta museum for example, where they proudly exhibit Moche artifacts (an Andean culture that NEVER developed in Argentina or anywhere near it), obviously there's nothing wrong with exhibiting cultural goods from a foreign country, as long as said goods have been correctly transferred with all permits, however this is very rare in South American museums, most foreign artifacts of pre-Columbian origin ultimately come from grave robbers (usually from countries rich in such vestiges like Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia), these grave robbers smuggle cultural goods across various entities and collectors at an international level, completely concealing their illicit origin.
Such a sad ending to the incan empire 😢
No entendí pero bueno
@@germanyballwork5301 Ya lo sé porque soy peruano
@@germanyballwork5301 el ingles no lo entiendo
@@germanyballwork5301 De que pais eres ?
I want an assassin creeds set during the incans
8:50 weapons armor
11:00 climate
11:37 farming + elevation
16:50 terraces
God, that audio returning at 21:30 gave me a small heart attack.
Pretty sure everyone was rooting for the Inca.
@@connortraynor2408 They are just some radical terrorist from unknown world. Terrorizing people in the name of god, hmmm..... sounds weirdly familiar.....
@@connortraynor2408 I'm saying that they are just rogue bandits went wild using the name of god idiot
@@connortraynor2408 I know right ?
People keep on seeing the natives as the underdog because they got defeated and the Spanish got better technology whilst in fact, the Spanish were. Even with smallpox ravaging the empires they conquered, they still were a handful of men and managed to conquer incredible swaths of land by playing diplomacy and warfare to the perfection. Pizarro and Cortes were incredible generals seeing what they did and shouldn't be overlooked, they have their place amongst the greatest in history no doubt about it
Uhh... Most of the subservient tribes weren't, that's why they joined the Spaniards. Even today their descendants fiercely refer to themselves as Chancas, Huancas, or Chachapoyas, anything but Inca XD
@@connortraynor2408 How fucking dumb can you be? The Incans met them with nonviolence. How did you manage to revisionist history this fact despite this video LITERALLY proving the Spanish were the aggressors?
Very well document! Usually, documentaries about Incas stop with Atahualpa, and almost nothing is said about the “Incas from Vilcabamba” (also known as “The Last Incas”). Saludos desde Perú.
Mapuche tribe defeat inca on the south
@@protocetus499 No, the Inca lost interest in Araucania because there were only savages with no civilization. It was not worth the effort for Inca manpower to suffer losses for a meaningless conquest.
@@renzoalarconperez9590 yeah lost interest because they keep getting ambushed.
@@protocetus499 Yes that is true.
Thank you for helping South Americans understand our history. I hope you continue to create new videos that cover our past.
That's the plan! thanks a lot!
This gives me so much pride for my culture. I just had a moment where I wanted to be more informed because I have no education of Peruvian culture. ESP growing up in the US.
You are proud that your ancestors destroyed an entire civilization?
@@cloudelou Don't start...
@@cloudelou anyways , ARRIBA PERU 🇵🇪
Maybe you are the descendant of the conquistador, not the Incas.
Puedes comenzar leyendo información en español, desde fuentes de habla inglesa no vas a obtener información rigurosa
Quite the irony, "In the name of God..." then followed by later "we shall do all the evil...", the Conquistadors were just plain greedy.
29:34 To call what the Emperor did as blasphemy, is simply the "pot calling the kettle black", the audacity. 🤣
@@TheDalitis8 kek
The Conquistadors were legendary heroes like Alexander the Great and Caesar, Cortés was a pure genius, conquered a powerful empire of degenerated and analphabet cannibals living in the Stone age with 120/200 glorious guys, after having survived the fucking Atlantic in a wood ship (not with an airplane), confronting themselves with a savage and unknown land made of forests and mountains and unimaginable ferocious animals.
Today so-called 'élite troops' fall in depression if doesn't have chewing gums. A very different type of men.
'God' in no society means the 'hippy irenistic morality' that rainbow postmodern ideologies want to impose to Westerners (not to Chinese, Subsaharans, Arabs or Turks): any empire in history conquered with weapons (Precolumbian cannibals, Mongols, Chinese, Turks, Tibetans, Zulu etc.), the difference is that Empires like the Spanish and the Roman civilized also the conquered.
The Spanish Empire founded 25 universities from the XVI to the XIX century, hospitals, cities, monasteries, alphabetized the Ston age Indios, gived to them a superior Culture etc. Also the Romans and the Greeks destroied gloriously other armies but civilized also the people conquered.
@@user-fb7fh1yc1s i don't know how you can watch this channel and still have such a ridiculous view
@@user-fb7fh1yc1s nice troll
I've never seen a history channel / programme on TV or TH-cam as good as Kings and Generals. An incredible amount of effort goes into these TV worthy programme. I love watching them with my younger brothers. I'm studying history in uni and they get curious about what I study so I put your videos on for them. Entertainment for all ages and academic levels
Thanks so much for the interest and effort you put into this! This video was incredibly informative. I love ancient cultures, but didn't know much about the Inca until watching your video! It's fascinating how much their empire managed to accomplish in such a short span of time, and their centralized system of control for goods and labor and how it ultimately helped them as well as how property of the dead rulers were managed by panacas rather than inherited was very interesting to learn about!
I find it interesting that people from other countries are interested in learning about our history
@@incachannel To say that the Inca Empire is both unusual and fascinating is an understatement. Hopefully someone will figure out how to read the surviving quipu soon so that we can learn more about them.
I listened to this while playing AoE3. Now i know why inca warriors with bolas have an attack bonus vs cavalry.
The rapper 2pac was named after the last Incan Emperor?!?
Yeah, he actually was
Not after the actual Tupac Amaru, but he was named after Tupac Amaru *II* , whose given name was José Gabriel Condorcanqui, Condorcanqui was responsible for the largest uprising ever seen in the Spanish Colonial Americas and adopted the name Tupac Amaru after the last Inca emperor, from whom he claimed to descend.
Not quite. I believe he is named after Tupac Amaru II, Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui, a mestizo who revolted against the Spanish 200 years later. 2pac's mother changed his name to Tupac Amaru because she wanted him to be named after a revolutionary, and one who was also not white.
So remember, "revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy"
That and learning history.
*Tupac
Honestly, how has no one made a movie of this? If this was fiction it would be too incredible, not to mention tragic.
really hoping we get a movie soon 🤞
The emperors new Groove?
I want to thank the amazing staff of Kings and Generals for this very well explained and easy to understand and enjoyable video about the Inca.
Eagerly waiting for video on Assyrian empire
Tiglathpileser III.
Ashurbanipal king of kings.
Lalrem Sanga
Mizo?😄😄😄
And i wish to see medea empire empire documentary in here how we defeat most brutal semitic empire ones for all
If it does come out, it's gonna be bloody.
Me: "Sees 47 minutes long video."
"Grabs popcorn".
"Oh, this will be good."
@EmperorJuliusCaesar what do you mean?
The Incans invented popcorn
@@malster1239 They mean their country doesn't have the food product that pops in the microwave out of corn kernels the world calls "popcorn"
Later: *cries into the popcorn*
This is a just a magnificent synopsis, with just enough depth in 47 minutes! I thank you greatly.
Incas bring back great memories . They did amazing thing. I really wish they stilled existed. VIVA PERU
In some weird way they do. If you are Peruvian a part of you could be inca. I know I am. My family is from Cusco but migrated to Lima later.
Yeah. Thank you 2. Their should be a movie about the Incan empire
@@oblivioncondor7368 My dad used to say that. I would def be interested in seeing that myself.
@FEARandLOATHINGgirl me or OP?
if they were still alive you and your family and nation might have been tributary to them, enslaved and destroyed...be careful what you wish. You never know everything always looks nice from afar.
21:31 Headphone warning.
Very informative. Sound glitches don't affect the quality of the scipt, research.
Thank you for blessing us with a 40+ min documentary, your videos are making me love history even more :D
Having been to Cusco, I can just begin to imagine how tiring it must be fighting up there at that altitude.
My family are descendants of Incans and our bodies are accustomed to the altitude we don’t feel the effects as foreigners would.
Man it's like watching the movie Titanic, you don't want it to sink but you already know the ending.
Thanks a lot! It's a good job and the facts are according to most historical facts.
Greetings from Peru.
Eulalia I bet you have big ears like your heritage 😂😂😂😂
I never missed an upload from you guys, keep up the good work!!
Jeez I feel like the Incas were the first to adapt a Socialist system; everything was distributed to those in need, and workforce was also assigned by the central government, which allowed them to complete massive projects. In addition, they were also the first to develop a social welfare system.13:00
This is the worst comment I've seen in a year.
@@mayakhan4540 why?
@@mayakhan4540 ?
The Incas are masters of Tetris before Tetris was invented
This was friggin great. It's good to see a vid about one of the lesser romanticized empires in history. Again I thought the music was fantastic, the authentic music used to suit the different factions and the tracks to support battle, victory and loss were all well placed and well done.
When watching your videos, it feels like i went back to the past that was in thousand years back. It's so incredible to think in that way. love you guys from Bangladesh. Please keep this work. We learned so much historical war and dynasty that may have never known without you.
Huge respect to Incas...
fun (or not) fact: the best excuse that Pizarro had to capture Atahualpa was a bible, like someone from the spanish group handed a bible to Atahulpa, but obviously he didn´t knew what it was, so he threw it to the floor, and that was the perfect opportunity for the spanish conquistors to attack and capture atahualpa, what a sad ending :(
La causa formal de la muerte de atahualpa fue cometer fratricidio hacia su hermano huracán y conspirar contra el estado incaico, aún así los españoles no hubieran capturado a atahualpa, muchos de los grupos oprimidos por los incas se aliaron con los españoles, es imposible que 165 personas hagan caer a un imperio de millones, es lógico que tuvieron ayuda. Que atahualpa fuera juzgado a criterio de España no es ni mucho menos incorrecto, entendiendo que el sentido de moralidad incaico no era definido bajo la dignidad sino bajo el valor.
Great video,as always. I always can’t wait for new kings and generals video
Woah, going full scale is awesome! I’ll watch it this evening, when I have more time. Can’t wait. Keep it up! I’d watch also if you do one of the Romans and Mongolia and Chinese and which ever else in this format. Can’t wait! You promised a longer one and you delivered!!!! Thanks and enjoy the rest of the Sunday!!!
If I ever own my own movie studio this is definitely going to be the basis for a movie
In my opinion that documentary is one of your best works ever. Thank you
Absolutely fantastic. I love your work and really admire all the effort you put into these videos.
I always look forward to your educative videos. I'm always getting more knowledge about the rich past every time I watch your videos.Please also cover Ethiopia's Battle of Adowa, Pharaoh Tutmosis III, Narmer (Egypt's first Pharaoh), and Shaka Zulu.
Well put together and researched video. I learned more about the Incan empire and peoples in this video than I have in the rest of my life lol. The middle part having a lower audio volume was a bit annoying but it was probably just some weird mixing issue putting together the three parts.
"Pirates from a far away land", ahhh, Atahualpa. If only, at least you can reason with pirates.
Yeah
Thank you so much... It's too hard to find videos about the history of Latin America, even in Spanish (since we are too busy killing each other to care about our own history).
I had never thought about that, but... Why do empires tend to expand horizontally rather than vertically?
Heh, the geography and latitude of the world with a written story... :)
We think that the Empires tend to form horizontally due to the geography of Eurasia. If you look at the mountains, most Euroasian chains are horizontal, while the ones in the Americas are vertical.
@@KingsandGenerals :D I was expecting the answer of anyone else... Thank you so much for caring about and reading the people that follows you. You have made a great chanel and your content is great every time... My best wishes for your prosperous future teaching us about our amazing, midnblowing and bloody past.
climate most likely
Very nice video, nice to see some South American history on TH-cam. There is a lot of great Pre-Incan history in the Andean region you might consider doing at some point.
I also wanted to add that besides the llama, alpaca and the like, the Incas and pre-Incas domesticated the Peruvian hairless dog.
My family is from Peru I want to thank you guys for your telling of the Inca with their rise and fall Just a great job
This is one of the best made documentaries about Native people ever made. Every student in America should see this. A hundred blessings unto you.
2:39 - Potatoes Picture, LoL ! :D
Who is that American politician and why? (I'm foreign)
@@ctrlaltdelete200390 Yeah me too, I don't understand.
dan quayle
He corrected a student by saying potato was spelled potatoe
Audio issue at 10:24 mark.
And it returns to the previous volume at 21:30
Hey dol! Merry dol! Ring a dong dillo!
Very well done your documentary, I learned some interesting facts and techniques used by the Incas such as the warehouse tecniques and irrigation techniques they used back then which are inexpensive and interesting to apply in today's world. Thank you!
Dude this was awesome. I know the 6th grade history textbook version of the Incan empires fall, but this fleshes out the story so much more. Thanks!
There are very detailed information left by the invaders in letters and chronicles. But not everything is true. It would be necessary to listen to the version of the natives. Greetings from Lima.
Love your videos, you have great graphics and analytical capabilities. Just a suggestion for a future video, why not do one about the Guanches of the Canary Islands and the eventual Castilian/Spanish's conquest of the Islands.
"land of the four quarters"? man, these guys were poor. They only had one dollar all together.
Underrated comment
😂😂
@Drukstylz poor if monetary currency is all you know as assets
@Drukstylz no matter how big they or anyone else is, we can only see as much of them as it can fit in our minds.
The inca army structure reminds me of roman legions
I felt happy because I learned about the Incas today, yet felt sad after the video because of these greedy foreigners who destroyed their culture in the name of their so called "God". Thank you for providing us the best documentaries online K&G!
Yeah. But tl be fair the Inca wheren't exactly better morally
@@tomassmith1519 Explain
@@renzoalarconperez9590 they also invaded, destroyed, conquerd, killed and tortured like any other Empire
@@tomassmith1519 Invaded and conquered of course, they were extremely aggressive expansionists but they were completely different to iberians.
First off, the Inca military code of honor was impeccable, they were known to be extremely brutal to opposing militaries but they have never been regarded as liars, nor looters, nor murderers nor rapists unlike say the reputations of the soviet and spanish armies. So I'm wondering where you get the "tortured" part.
Furthermore, they treated defeated and even more so capitulated nations relatively well, the Lords and the nobility of the Chimu and Aymara Kingdoms kept their positions of power, now only answering to Cusco, for their surrenders. As was custom in Andean societies, to secure a peace, the conquered and Inca nobilities would intermarry.
Any destroyed infrastructure was repaired and inclusively improved, the Inca upgraded and founded many Andean cities in the Quito area to Cusco-tier quality. The Inca would send teachers, mathematicians, and engineers to conquered primitive nations to educate and refine the populace.
The majority of Inca pantheism for instance is not originally Quechuan, a prime example is the Ichma who were allowed to keep their religion and whose priests functioned independently which resulted in the Pachamac religion to be incorporated in the Tahuantinsuyu.
@@renzoalarconperez9590 The Quechuas were just as conquerors as any other civilization.
I remember learning about the Incas and Mayans in 6th grade. I was always fascinated in there culture and military tactics. Thanks Kings 👍
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This was super fascinating! Thank you!
I love Incan civilization. I could have used reforme but it was unique. My favorite pre-colombian civ.
its so good 👌
47 minutes of greatness!
I was not ready for that volume drop
Epic documentary! Thank you for this
Nice work.
Sound levels end up changing about 10min or so, with the new chapter, though.
A video editors nemesis, I know!
I just finished re-watching whole series today. Inca is one of best civilisations ever
Yes they are the best fuck America and Russia who went to space some savages with bows and arrows were better...
@@abcdc197 Went to space... and whatever became of that? Technological marvels are nowise to be equated one with the other..
@@abcdc197 Really dude? Calling them savages? You obviously didn't watch the video at all. The Romans or the Prussians never went to space either, do you think they were also savages?
@@abcdc197 The United States and Russia belong to the Western Civilization, and one of the reasons of its success is actually the enormous amounts of gold extracted from Peru and Mesoamerica. If it weren't from the fall of the empire you see in this video, not only you wouldn't have gone to the moon, but you probably would be worshiping allah and speaking Turkish now. The Ottomans and the Qing would have taken the place of USA and Russia.
@@bryangamarra3208 By that logic rich Arab oil countries should be leading in science but instead they can't produce anything themselves and need to bring engineers from all over the world from Nigeria to Pakistan because they lack skilled people. Qing maybe i mean China landed on moon not so long ago. Ottomans couldn't even produce cannons they had to buy them from Venetians. While Japan country with 0 natural resources is one of the richest and most advanced countries in the world. Still i don't see what's your point all i did was point out nonsense that is "Inqas were the best civilization" Like we now are the best there ever was!
I have to congratulate you; I've always watched your videos for fun, and now I'm watching your video because my it's part of my required studying for a college level history class. Great work.
That is awesome!
So sad, what a great people, at least they took many of the conquistadors with them. Thank you for a great video
What an excellent morning treat!
Great coverage, as expected. I hope you won't mind my putting in my haypenny on topic. It concerns me that the narratives never make mention of exactly what kind of armoring scheme we're talking about here. This presents us with a completely erroneous concept: that Spaniards were somehow invulnerable to Inca weapons, and that Inca armors were "mere cotton". And has anyone claimed that horses acclimate to high altitude quicker or better than men? Cause they don't. A horse imported to 6000-12,000 feet altitude requires as much or more conditioning time than a man.
A Conquistador was a mercenary, more often than not a third or fourth son, or a hanger-on of the lower nobility. He was not rich enough to buy full Maximilian plate. Nor would he be able to wear anything comprehensive in a land where walking uphill is de riguer. The best armor available to these adventurers would have been a pike front cuirass, a bascinet, and, perhaps, a shield. Add long leather horseman gloves and boots and that's the lot. Any arrow, sling shot, or javelin attacking a man like this is about 15% likely to hit an unarmored spot. That's not invulnerable, not by a long shot. Also, his arquebus wasn't a world-beating weapon yet, especially in the rain. His pike and the basic pike formation were probably his chief "advantages". Native fear of his dogs and horses also added to the unhappy mystique. But a people who knew of jaguars could not have been too afraid of dogs--even wolfhounds. Arrows are great levelers against large-ish animals.
Now for the Inca. An Incan Empire warrior was either a conscript or a noble. Nobles got one kind of equipment, while the conscripts got another. The armor they wore is misrepresented in current lore. It was quilted cotton (very heavy cotton of several layers, btw) in which the quilt pockets were filled with ROCK SALT. This is very good against the first strike from almost anything except chemistry. Their weapons were serviceable. Not the best, of course, compared to the invaders, but those invaders weren't exactly Tony Stark for equipment, either.
As for the results . . . it seems that the American Civilizations were in upheaval at this time. Dynasties had either just risen, or were falling. Perhaps the Spaniards merely "Kicked in the front door and the whole rotten apparatus collapsed", so to speak. Moreover, the American disease barrier had been crossed by some of the most pernicious pests in history. Combine that calamity with a strong religious presence, one that equates plague with heavenly displeasure, and you get a Rasputin scenario where pseudo-saints, or even the the priesthood, is instrumental in the destruction of a people. The supposed holy purity of the Ganges comes to mind. Certainly, the culture that replaced the Inca hierarchy was no better in terms of human rights or any mandate of the gods.
To add to this comment, the book 1491 does a pretty good job of collecting information on the Incan civilization. The author talks about how Incan slings may have been able to kill a horse, and they developed a fiery bullet that could be flung from slings. Their armor was superior to the conquistadors, who quickly dropped their heavy armor and adopted all the Incan textile armor that they could find. The Incan defeat happened due to the smallpox plagues that kept sweeping through their populations while they enacted a violent civil war and fought the conquistadors.
@@rachelwebber3605 Great addition to the already comprehensive OP. Btw, a similar scenario unfolded against the Aztecs and other Mesoamerican tribes. The native quilted armor was superior to the heavy Spanish armor. The natives quickly learned that steel armor *dents* inward so they stopped using obsidian-tipped swords and used heavy wood clubs instead (a powerful blow to a steel helmet could easily kill the wearer by denting it inward, likewise with a blow to the chest). In the end, it was the smallpox that caused their collapse as well.
Long Live Inca sons of Sun!!from Greece!
How do you trace them to greece
@@antoniogracia8789 By APOLLO who is the SUN
I dont think so. That sounds like pagan.
@@galilea8382 you are very 🌞 mate got it of course is. Pagan so wats wrong?
ευχαριστώ αδερφέ ο θεός να σε έχει καλά. Greece was the High Culture of Europe just as the Inca was to the Americas.
This channel seems very well put together, I will probably spend many hours here during my nightshifts and get smart! But a well put together channel should have well put together audio aswell. The lower volume of the second part going into the high volume of the third woke everyone around me thats supposed to sleep, and I was wearing headphones :')
Notable points of comparison between the Romans and the Inca:
Road builders, and otherwise skilled in construction
Invented little that was new, but ably adopted and built upon the achievements of those that came before them
Semi-mythical early kings that explain later facts about their society
Origin as a city-state that expands rapidly after weathering a crisis. (Pachacuti's victory and the 387 BC sack of Rome)
Active policy of integration of its numerous conquered peoples
Large and highly organized infantry armies
Economy and political system that depended on military expansion
Large landowners monopolizing the main sources of wealth as a major driver of territorial expansion.
Autocratic Rulers whose primary source of legitimacy was military success
I agree that it's ultimately pretty arbitrary, and there's likely many nuances that distinguish even these apparently striking parallels. Still, it's interesting to think about.
I've got the very same vibe too. The Incas sure sounded like the Romans of the native tribes(?).
Ole Fredrik Skjegstad
Quiet.
They could hardly have had large non-infantry armies, could they? But otherwise the comparisons are interesting. It's almost like the achievements we think of as innately "Roman" were in fact just a prerequisite to any large empire.
Not quite a comparison. Lack of horses, iron, steel, wheel, and other technologies made the Incas a joke compare to the Romans, This is just a few mention and many more disadvantages.
@@supremekhmer6596 it's not about "who would win in a fight", like they're action figures. Cut that shit out.
Peruvian Lad here. Happy with how accurate this is
Yes, you are.
Great content... Great voice over... Captivating and stuff I never learned in school
This is such an amazing video!
*"Chaos will be our Ladder"*
-Francisco Pizarro
100% indigenous blood born in the Andes🇪🇨 thank you so much. Feels like most people forget about South American history although most of it was erased
@EmperorJuliusCaesar Say what?
de nada
It was never written down until they were conquered.
Ecuador :)
Brilliant episode ❤️
"However as the Spanish established control over the Inca the ability to read Quippu faded away and the records are now indecipherable to us". Thanks a lot Spanish
@@adrianseguras.9659 Yes typical idiot comment on youtube is your's, justifying the atrocities of western colonization by stating how "superior" they were. For all the "western standards" of the Spanish, the Inca cities were so advanced that the Spanish thought they'd walked into a dream. The Spanish responded by breaking the trust, capturing the leader and razing the city to the ground. Feel better now? Also why couldn't the Spanish keep their western standards, in, you know, the "west" instead of shoving it down everybody's throats wherever they went? If others are interested they'd come ask
@@krishln7830 lol so advance? Get that knowledge out of your ass kid! 😂
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What bothers me about this topic is people demonizing the west when the Incas weren’t saints at all. They literally got their wealth by conquering others just like the Spaniards. It’s even stated in this video
@@jamesmanuel8517 The west got it's knowledge from other civilizations like India, Egypt and China. Also these places till the advent of colonization led the world in economy. As did the Incas. So, yes. "So advance"
@@LuisBrito-ly1ko Well see, the Incas expanded their empire sure but the subjugated people, for the most part:
1. Got to retain their ways of living, little changed except for their political borders.
2. Their economies continued
3. Were not relegated to a system where they would be discriminated against 500 years later
Incidentally this was also the case with many other "non-western" empires
Besides, if brutality did occur, I'm sure the victims felt the same kind of emotions as do people nowadays towards the western colonization.
One wrong does not excuse another
Disney is like the Inca empire because they don't care about Mythos canon continuity.
haha so true. Or most empires for that matter.
@@barbarianjk2355 what?
Lūfierum as in, every empire has always rewritten history, portraying themselves as way better than the barbaric surrounding nations, proclaiming that previous inventions were actually developed thanks to them, making people forget that those things already existed, e tc.
@@barbarianjk2355 it one of civilisations guilty pleasures
Thanks for the great video. Pretty accurate although recent battlefield archeology seems to lead to the conclusion that the Spanish cavalry charge didn’t seem to happen and that Native warriors from the north came in and resumed the Spanish from Quiso. Very few injuries they found on the remains were from Spanish weapons.
This is quite possibly the best documentary I've ever seen.
Please fix the audio which is dumbed for 1/3rd of the video.
such an interesting story, thank you for telling it so clearly
2:40 incas dometicated ceviche?! WTF!