Aztec Empire V │The Spanish Aztec War
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- Spain had finally arrived at the Aztec Empire! The end is near!
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Can you do a video or 2 on the Purepecha?
I've been thinking about your comment for a while (which is why I hearted your other comment).
This is what I'm going to do: all the 6 episodes are going to be put into 1 long video. I think that will reach more people than 6 separate episodes. If they get a lot of views (100k+) I'd LOVE to do a compendium video about the Perpecha.
The Aztecs, Mayans, and Inca are WAY over represented in history books. That is not to say they don't deserve a lot of attention, but it's also important to realise there were a lot of other countries and civilizations in these regions in those times. I think I did cover that quite a bit here, especially in the first 3 episodes where I talk a lot about the Aztecs's interactions with other countries. But I'd LOVE to do a while video on it. But only if it seems people are interested in it... I might ask people in a poll or at the end of the video if they'd like to see such a video.
History Scope - Avery Thing
That would be awesome! I would hope to see the interest of others be as high about the Purepecha as me.
I don’t know too much about them, and I found your videos on the Aztecs valuable! Which is why I subbed to being with.
Keep up the good work and I hope to see more great content!
Aztec: Mr. Cortez I don't feel so good
Cortez's Wife: Probably one of the several plagues we just brought
*Aztecs turn to dust*
Mrs. Cortes stayed back in Cuba.
Malinche wasn't his legal wife...
Maliche wasn't spanish. Or at least not more spanish than the rest of the Mexicans after the conquest.
the Spanish invasion is like that one guy who uses dlc weapons in battle against new players
Diseases wiped out more of the native population than warfare and therefore weapons. In fact many of these weapons were still pretty primitive and not that useful in humid climates like heavy armour and guns that were slow to fire and not overly accurate.
Or using New Game Plus lol
Nobody expects the Spanish Invasion
Well said, mr Avery... Nice name btw
What a show
Everyone gangsta till the Spaniards with the glock come out.
Rubéola
Imagine if the Aztecs were to be in Spain, by that I mean neighboring to Spain. Good luck with the second coming of Goth 🤣
Diseases wiped out more of the native population than warfare and therefore weapons. In fact many of these weapons were still pretty primitive and not that useful in humid climates like heavy armour and guns that were slow to fire and not overly accurate.
I didn't expected this video
I’m so thankful that you finished this series before I decided to write a research paper on this topic. Thank you so much!
0:38 "The Spanish were not defeated with superior weapons" Oeps.
Gonna fix it!
Thanks for the effort you put in!
Excelent video like always! Keep up the good work man
Great Video History scope Keep up the good work
Nice video! Keep going man
Love this channel and love the animation, hope you will do a series on ww1 or 2008 financial crisis and global recession
You do such a good job on this series! Keep up the good work, I’m excited for the next one! This is the history of my people
Another great video. But as always some nitpicking.
Only two spanish castaways survived: Gonzalo Guerrero who became maya and Jerónimo de Aguilar who joined Cortés. In your video it's understood that were more than only a couple.
I really like this series, sadly there is one thing it's bothering me at the point its an annoyance... the names, I get pronunciation is an issue but there are some words you can't change, for example, Tlaxcaltecas =/= Tlaxcala, one is the civilization and the other is the actual state in current México named after them.
Who cares? There dead already
@@velucadhirim6725 eh? do you realize there is a country right now that came to be after the spanish unified all those tribes under they rule? and that Cholula and other places mentioned in the video have been populated for well over 500 years?
@@ffffff52 Who cares?
@@velucadhirim6725 We care because they were very important for the creation of the Mexican state.
wait... they weren't called that? ALL the sources I found on them called them Tlaxcala. Do you have a source for their name?
I won't be able to pronounce it properly because I don't speak Nahuatl, but i'd at least try.
A DS9 reference in a history video? You win sir.
I'm planning on adding some more of those in my videos. I really like the Rules of Acquisition and they are very quotable. So expect more of them!
8:15 What does that woman at the bottom right represent? Because it looks like a vampire. Did he have to deal with vampires?
That's the joke, yes.
The next episode will finish off the series... I have a feeling that Moctezuma will also be finished off in that episode.
The Tlaxcala were actually called Tlaxcaletcas, and the people from Culhuacan were the Acolhua.
A funny (maybe not so much) note: Up to today, using official historical accounts, the Tlaxcalteca are branded as traitors. I even remember being explicitly taught in elementary school about the "Treasonous Tlaxcaltecas" There's even a reddit meme regarding the whole state of Taxcala as non-existent fantasy in punishment for their supposed "treason" of the Aztec Empire to the Spanish. Truth is, as mentioned in the video, the choice was not difficult to make. The Aztecs waged so called "Guerras Floridas (Flowery wars)" whose only purpose was capturing enemies in battle for the purpose of human sacrifice. Even if there was no real fight or the enemy surrendered, the Aztecs would force a battle enactment to capture such prisoners, because a warrior prisoner captured in battle -they believed- was more desirable as offering to the gods as a measely commoner that surrendered without a fight. It is believed the Tlaxcaltecas were purposely "harvested" this way for years to appease Huitzilopoxtli's (the sun god) thirst for blood.
You can't commit treason if you were never on their side... It's an odd thing to learn in his classes as they weren't the aggressors... Even the most lazy examination of the Aztecs should reveal that the Aztecs were almost always the aggressors
Acolhuas were from Acolhuacan not from Culhuacan. Acolhuacan was a region on the east of Lake Texcoco. Colhuacan was a city-state on the shore of the lake which eventually was conquered by the acolhuas.
nice video
Nice video man. keep going!
History and a star trek reference. Perfection!!
Viewers who comment and have a data profile picture. Perfection!!
You missed Isla de Juventud on your map of Cuba love from South Africa
So many people ignore the Indian allies of Cortez. It's very shameful.
Wish you included the drama where Cortez basically disobeyed the orders of the governor.
I didn't include it because this is about the Aztecs, not the Spanish
GLORY TO SPAIN
The good old times of conquista.
Also, you portray the vassals of the Aztecs as passive actors, as if they were all encouraged by the castillians to revolt. This was not the case. It was the other way around, everyone was so fed up with the Mexican regime that they encouraged Cortez to battle the mexica.
I encourage you to further read books in spanish so that you don’t misrepresent actual history
The Spanish wouldnt be seen as Gods until Season1 of Fawlty Towers.
All praise our godly overlord Manuel!
@@HistoryScope Thankfuly SOMEONE got the reference ))
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You mention canons, crossbows etc. but you do not mention plate armour/helmets and swords. Why is that?
very hot, the war protections that were used in Europe. They were very heavy and hot for America, the Spanish began to use the protections that the Indians used, which were less heavy and not so hot, those people went through the jungle, with that type of plate it was crazy
Number one: the propaganda you mention did not come from Spain but from its enemies. It’s pure black legend
YAY!!! Go Spaniards! Even though you colonized my country all those years ago including all the revolutions we did for independence! But WHO CARES?! GO SPANIARDS! :D
No, we're supposed to be the bad guys here dude. Don't applaud cruelty and imperialism.
@@uvbe Hahaha, good joke 😂
Spanish be like: "We attacked and killed your oppressors so we could oppress you AND your oppressors!"
The Star Trek reference
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The Aztecs are the seven tribes that emigrated from Aztlán, temporarily taking refuge in Chicomóztoc and later continuing to migrate south: Mexicas, Tlaxcaltecas, Tepanecas, Xochimilcas, Chalcas, Acolhuas and Tlahuicas.
Politics takes a whole new meaning.
this is the saddest part
... Wait until you see the next video... I'll get into the different types of human sacrifices a bit more
The Mexicas (Aztecs) did see the Spanish as gods at first. In the Mexica legend, it was believed that gods were going to descend from the heaven.
That myth was likely written by a Spanish clergyman who wasn't particularly unbiased. The only sources for that event are Spanish sources.
@@HistoryScope Mexican here, there were 10 omens in the city before the spaniards arrived, in Spanish is "10 presagios funestos", comets, aliens, spaceships (It looks that way for what they describe really 😅) and even the llorona myth starts there, thats what they took Cortez as a a God or envoy of them, plusna Quetzalcóatl legend saying he will return the same year Cortez arrived (Its as Jesus came back with aliens as the bible says, it's the perfect analogy)
Hernan Cortez was the ultimate bad ass! He looks to his 200 greedy bad asses and says, " You see that city of 250,000 barbaric human sacrificing cannibalistic Fucking savages! Let's take it!" That's the shit legends are made from!
No. That's the shit mass murderers are made of.
@@HistoryScope No, that´s the shit history is made of. And if you judge the events and people of the past with a modern perspective, then you are not only NOT an historian, but only a buffoon. And your video shows exactly the buffoon you are.
DO MORE DO MORE DO MORE ,what about the ottomans?
*¡Viva España! Alzad los brazos, hijos del pueblo español, que vuelve a resurgir*
Those few Aztecs that escaped de invasion where are they now?? Do they live on the mountains today! I mean the descendants of the warriors?
the mexica (aztec) was an empire composed of tribes. those tribes are still here. however spain created a caste system to "encourage" assimilation, and later the terms changed to latino/hispanic as a way to group all people from latin america/spanish speaking countries together, and erase indigenous identities. many latinx people have native ancestry, but because of the way spain committed genocide, they don't know about it.
At 6:35 you mispoke and said aztecs instead of spanish
Correct! I will fix when I put all 6 videos together into 1 big video.
Here's the Spanish
And the Aztecs got defeated not because of the advance weapons,! It was because of betrayal! They were to many with the alliance of traitors! Against one city!
Traitors? elaborate, traitors to who? To the ones subjugating them in the first place? Or maybe you think mesoamerica was a unity in the pre-hispanic era? I remind you that Mexico did not exist before the Castillians arrived. Mexico was only possible with the conquest and with it formig part of Spain (it was never a colony).
Honestly what makes this war even sadder is that the spanish didnt even send a proper army to take over the aztecs, it was just one rouge dude with a few hundred soldiers under him.
Dear, you are suffering right now, from the confusion that anyone who tries to think about the spanish "conquista" as a real conquista, would suffer. You simply look at the history, try to think about it in imperialistic terms, and it just doesn't fit any narrative that you know.
I'll lay my case in quick sharp sentences and controversial facts. The mexicans conquered themselves. Anyone would rather a foreign authoritarian than a bunch of genocidal maniacs as governors, even if they are from your own country. And 100% of the antimperialist narrative about spanish cruelty, was actually made up, by spanish people. The ones who made the conquest, those who got quickly upset for not being rewarded for their crimes (you can look up the letter of Lope de Aguirre to the king of Spain), those, who literally fought for the independence of those same countries afterwards, and yes, Bolivar, San Martín, Miranda, all the bunch... They were spanish. I don't give a fuck about what some deluded propagandist would tell you. Bolivar married in Madrid, the capital of his country, with a spanish lady. Miranda fought in Spain under a spanish banner when he literally had no obligation whatsoever to do so. And Bolivar openly talked more than once, about how he was fighting for Latin America. Not Venezuela, not Colombia, not any made up country that has less differences with his neighbor than the ones that Chicago and New Jersey have. It was very clear from the start, that he wanted to fight the tyranny of that SON OF A BITCH that Ferdinand the VII was, but he didn't even think for the split of a second into fracturing the Hispanic world. That was a consequence of the revolutionaries founding their struggle in allies like USA and The British, but they never wanted that. And hell, even the very own athemn of Chile gives you a hint that the problem had always been the king of Spain, not Spain.
To finish, i will say that your main problem, is that you are thinking about this as "how did the spanish colonized México" but that's a stupid thought. That never happened. The real question is how did the spanish build a latin american state with the king of Spain as its monarch. Because no, latin america wasn't a colony, Spain had no colonies in this period, that would be as stupid as to think that Spain colonized Portugal during the Iberian Union, and that therefore, brazil was the colony of our colony, that's how stupid things can get when you misunderstand history. Also Spain was not even a country in that period, it didn't even have the name. Elizabeth the catholic never accepted to be called queen of Spain. It was simply a set of kingdoms with a common monarch at the top.
He mixed up Spanish and Aztec like 5 times
00:38: The *Spanish* were not defeated by superior weapons? No shit... (little mistake you made reading the script ;) )
Most of the conquest armies were allied indigenous and when they discovered the Incas and saw that they were in a civil war they chose a side and won...Second, talking about colonies is incorrect in the case of Spain and I will always be happy to discuss why in good manners.
The Spanish were persistent, greedy, needy, determined, dedicated, disciplined, ambitious, visioned, or and wanty
Human.
Why are you saying mayans, the Mayan civilization were dead for hundreds of years at that point
Because they weren't dead for hundreds of years.
History Scope - Avery Thing yes they were the empire fell in 900 ce
@@jacksondavis7602 The last Mayan city state, Nojpetén, was conquered in 1697.
also: the Mayans were never a single empire. They are a people.
Spanish greed
Muskets are definitely not good weapons when you are that outnumbered. They literally could have overrun them with ease. Cannons are basically useless at close ranges. How they didn’t just storm the Spanish using 10s of thousands of warriors coming from all directions at night, simply cannot be understood.
Cortés fled Cuba, he was not "yet" assigned to the expedition. He rushed it. And there were not some Spaniards in "mayan territory". There were only two. One stayed with his family, the other one went to Cortés. There are more little mistakes, but I get they were made due to simplification. Thw one I mentioned, though, was unnecesary.
Ridiculous hstry