Can't recommend Brilliant enough. If you are trying to improve your problem-solving skills, Brilliant is your best option.

@la187357

5 жыл бұрын

Mexica is pronounced like "Meshica" Hardly anyone says the name right in these videos about this topic from other channels.

@haugs1718

5 жыл бұрын

Love the Age of Empires II sound when the little inhabitant figures spawn at the bottom of the sceen^^ Only kids from the 90's will remember.

@oddish2253

5 жыл бұрын

Why is the draw bridge 6:49 retracting towards the mainland?

@federicodeltosto824

5 жыл бұрын

Kings and Generals can you make videos about the Punic Wars?

@federicodeltosto4945

5 жыл бұрын

Can you make videos about the Punic Wars?

Tenochtitlan is the one historical city that has been destroyed that i would like to have seen with my own eyes the most...

@nm9864

4 жыл бұрын

Believe me- you don't want to be in there! They practiced ritual cannibalism, human sacrifice, wore human skin- they were disgusting. And if you went there and were captured- you'd be sacrificed in a brutal way and some monster Aztec priest would wear your skin. It is an interesting place to read about, not to visit.

@MrNombik

4 жыл бұрын

@@nm9864 the ritual cannibalism was practiced on warriors captured in battle tho, sure there where other gods to sacrifice to, but as long as your paid tribute and kept your head down you were good, most of the sacrifices came from war or criminals with the exception of the occasional child... yikes.

@magicalgaminguniverse5305

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrNombik you're right Aztecs didn't sacrifice anyone without any reason.

@magicalgaminguniverse5305

4 жыл бұрын

@@nm9864 Aztecs chose people who evaded to pay taxes and mostly war criminals for sacrifice

@MrNombik

4 жыл бұрын

@@magicalgaminguniverse5305 I wouldnt call war criminals, chances are the aztecs didnt know of the concept, on the battlefield Aztecs were more focused on capturing warriors for sacrifice rather than killing

Their methods of agriculture are fascinating. "Chinampas" were artificial islands created on top of the lake. They were long and narrow, and anchored to the lake floor by willow trees to prevent erosion of the raised soil. The most clever element of them was that you could tend and harvest directly from your canoe. They were agricultural experts par excellence.

@brucewayne-ej3cx

7 ай бұрын

Indeed. Organic flood table hydroponics 😮

Aztec homes had flushing toilets, the streets and pyramid plazas were spotless, people were clean and educated. There were courts of law, libraries, pharmacies, ball courts, schools, public saunas and the huge markets were stocked with a great variety of items.

@rubencuadros7174

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@rubencuadros7174

5 жыл бұрын

Otro con sindrome de estocolmo 😂😂😂😂. NO SOIS AZTECAS, seguramente desciendes de los nativos que lucharon contra los propios aztecas. Seguro que los llamas traidores o alguna chorrada similar.

@rubencuadros7174

5 жыл бұрын

@@RogueReplicant 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 me llamas analfabestia??😂😂😂😂😂

@alexg4711

4 жыл бұрын

still extremly backwards war conduct. human sacrafice is pretty backwards in any chase but litteraly wageing war on that premissis is just stupid

@joebroart

4 жыл бұрын

Did they have wifi?

All empires start in an impressive way and die in a humiliating way

@iraqimapper8625

5 жыл бұрын

@ماجد الغزواني Turkish fighters in the war of Anatolia weren't ottomans

@Chaika1974

5 жыл бұрын

@@iraqimapper8625 your comments are dumb

@MrCordycep

5 жыл бұрын

I guess the HRE and the British Empire kind of just gradually deflated rather than humiliated.

@iraqimapper8625

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrCordycep one was dismantled by France and the other was forced to free it colonies by USA and USSR

@sjgjfhs

5 жыл бұрын

The Byzantine empire went in a badass way, they never found Constantine XI body

1:13, incredible reference! I haven't heard that sound in years.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

I used to have that shh sound as phone message sound for ages :D

@MrCordycep

5 жыл бұрын

And 12:07 😀 "oooo-ah!"

@Nikkimond

5 жыл бұрын

saratov99 It's Age of Empires.

@noahkidd3359

5 жыл бұрын

saratov99 I think it's Civ 5, not Age of Empires... not sure!

@exxxxoskeleton

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nikkimond u had to tell em

My ancestors were from Texcoco. Great to see a video about the Valley. You should have included the shorn ones. They were considered the fiercest and most elite warriors of the Aztec Empire

@manueljuarez5874

5 жыл бұрын

None on chichemicas

@manueljuarez5874

5 жыл бұрын

Y'all hired us because y'all were scared of us

@manueljuarez5874

5 жыл бұрын

But much love bro la raza

@manueljuarez5874

5 жыл бұрын

Us used us because we were nuhales

@oskarblonde1

2 жыл бұрын

A diferencia de lo que la gente cree los mexica seguian viviendo en sus barrios en la epoca colonial. Habia nobles indigenas y mantenian su cultura y su lengua hasta la llegada de los borbones que centralizo el virreinato.

If someone could start a company that seels Aztec Jaguar Warrior onesies/overalls I swear I will buy the first 100 of them. I need this in my life.

@HannibalsHorse

5 жыл бұрын

- Cogito - can’t say I disagree! I would love a jaguar warrior onsie

@ThisisBarris

5 жыл бұрын

I think we might help each other out here. Cogito making Aztec videos while wearing a Aztec Jaguar Warrior onesies haha

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

That's the dream :)

@HannibalsHorse

5 жыл бұрын

I need this... if anyone finds one online, please let us know! :)

@Nokard

5 жыл бұрын

Haha! that's not a bad idea, problem is I don't know where you can find one, I live in Mexico and I have never seen something like that.

finally you cover the rise of Aztecs Empire I always admire the way they build Tenochtitlán. A city that built on a marsh Island in the middle of lake

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Tenochtitlan was a marvel by any standard. I can't imagine the kind of mega-city it would have become had it survived. Mexico city which is built on it's ruins is already a metropolis in it's own right.

@wildannugrahanurdinsyah2797

5 жыл бұрын

- Cogito - If Tenochtitlán was survived and not destroyed, it should be an " original old town" area with ancient building surrounded by skyscrapers

@cometmoon4485

5 жыл бұрын

@@wildannugrahanurdinsyah2797 Some kind of "old city" like that would be amazing to see today.

@davidrosner6267

5 жыл бұрын

Tenochtitlan is certainly one of the great cities of the Middle Ages. A surviving old Tenochtitlan consisting of ancient temples surrounded by modern skyscrapers would be a sight to behold! Still, geography put a cap on Tenochtitlan's expansion. The city depended on Lake Texcoco which would need to be filled in order for the city to acquire enough land to exceed a certain size. Tenochtitlan could not have maintained its ancient character without preserving the lake.

@pottertheavenger1363

5 жыл бұрын

The city would have eventually expanded beyond the lake into the mainland.

Also, an in depth video of Tenochtitlan would be awesome. People don't realize how advanced and incredible it was - the irrigation system, the sanitation, the agricultural systems, etc. It was truly incredible. It would also be interesting to discuss the environmental harms of Spaniards, who destroyed these advanced irrigation system to install inadequate plantation systems. This lead to severe soil depletion and erotion that created famine in just a few years and hinders Mexico City even today! In fact, they were some projects that wanted to bring back Mexico City back to pre-Spain designs to improve its soil quality. However, I don't think it went anywhere. It's really interesting, at least, for someone who studied Geography like me.

@ThisisBarris

5 жыл бұрын

CK Lim I know that Cortes was significantly helped by the Aztec's many enemies. I was discussing the poor soil use following the fall of Tenochtitlan. Soil quality is beneficial even if you don't need to farm. It avoids soil erosion or landslides and improves water retention. It can also promote plant/trees growth in a town plagued by air pollution.

@davidgonzalez-herrera2980

5 жыл бұрын

Rubén Vivo No he's right. The Spanish used a biological weapon without realizing it. Plague

@davidgonzalez-herrera2980

5 жыл бұрын

Rubén Vivo No he's right. The Spanish used a biological weapon without realizing it. Plague

@Astraben

5 жыл бұрын

David Gonzalez-Herrera Smallpox. Do you realize how fucking stupid saying "they used a weapon without realizing it" or "to exterminate them" is?

@ThisisBarris

5 жыл бұрын

Rubén Vivo They didn't even know what germs were back then, thinking disease came from "bad air", so how do you expect them to knowingly use smallpox as a weapon? I'm not denying that they took the opportunity to easily take over the decimated populations, but it was more opportunistic than knowingly.

Aztecs are very interesting. They've always fascinated me.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Hopefully you'll really enjoy this series then :D

@mcwhittman

5 жыл бұрын

You should read Aztec by Gary Jennings a great story

@ghostbetweenpeopleandmysel5138

4 жыл бұрын

@@mcwhittman great book from gary Jennings, also read Aztec fall ( I think it's written like that) and Aztec blood . 🤘🇲🇽🇺🇸

Good job on highlighting some of the better sides of the Aztecs. They had a solid food system that insured no one went hungry, compulsory education for almost everyone, rather lax restrictions on slaves, the best engineering skills in the American continent, sophisticated trade and commerce, and a strong sense of moral decency such as laws against public drunkenness and encouraging families to care for their sick and elderly. People just stop at the human sacrificing and warmongering, and even then that wasn't so strange to Meso-American civilizations, even though the Aztecs cranked it up to eleven for their own ends.

@andrewmieirs2322

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the Aztecs were in a very complex situation. They had to keep paying the sun by cutting people's hearts out or the world was going to end! What else could they do? That's what ignorant people nowadays don't understand lol. Honestly, I wish people could be as forgiving and open-minded towards our own good but imperfect society as they are towards societies that lost the clash of civilizations.

@publiushoratiusclocles7952

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Hanson Yeah or when people demonize the Aztecs as warmongers. Yet European history is full of warmongering. I mean they (Europeans) initiated Ww1 and Ww2.

@arktzen

5 жыл бұрын

@@publiushoratiusclocles7952you don't even have to mention the two world wars, the fact that the spanish wiped them out completely is evidence enough ☠️

@BR0984

5 жыл бұрын

Publius Horatius Clocles every civilization's history is filled with war! Europe is not an exception.

@nathanielclaw2841

5 жыл бұрын

Can you guys imagine if some really smart aztec started being like: 'yo, the sun isnt going to end if we stop the human sacrifices, trust me on this one' And the next day a solar eclipse happened? That would suck

Thanks for covering this, I especially love the art and detailed city layouts, really helps me picture it!

Was really hoping you were gonna mention the Cuachicqueh or (Shorn Ones) as they were the most elite of all the warrior classes in the Aztec Empire, even more elite than the Eagle and Jaguar warriors.

@Mikearoniandcheese

5 жыл бұрын

basically the Seal Team 6 of there time.

@traeucity6087

Жыл бұрын

And the Otomies.

Anyone else recognize the AoE II villager and troop recruitment sounds

@michaelpothoven1041

5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@shangtsung1362

3 жыл бұрын

Rogan?

I am from Mexico, and while visiting Venice, I was filled with sorrow because I couldn't help but think of what would have been of my country If Tenochtitlan was preserved

@Pepperpotk

3 жыл бұрын

@Yanger Aier what's a lie?

@Pepperpotk

3 жыл бұрын

@Yanger Aier what's a lie?

@joezhou5426

10 ай бұрын

I feel you

@smokeymcpot69

7 ай бұрын

It wasn't your country though. It was in the same geographical location but not your country...

@fij715

6 ай бұрын

I don’t think Venice murdered 20 thousand innocent people per year for their bloodthirsty gods.

11:52, Total War Medieval Kingdoms soundtrack :D

@gyanchor2495

5 жыл бұрын

And one little touch of the Age of Empires unit production. I couldn't forget that tune! Well done!

@theartofwar551

5 жыл бұрын

Kings and Generals has excellent taste.

@gianlucaborg195

5 жыл бұрын

Easter Eggs for us!

@AngelCanseco1

5 жыл бұрын

@@gyanchor2495 1:05

@MilanPavlovic540

5 жыл бұрын

*EjAAAjAAAAJAAAJAAAAA, OUaJJAAAjaaaAAAA* Yep, nice lyrics.

A lot better than I initially thought, learnt A lot and really enjoyed it, thank you

Tenochtitlan undoubtly appeared epic but I wonder if the amount of moscitos there was bearable considering it is built on a lake in a warm climate 😅

Excellent video! Great visuals, and very informative. I'm glad you guys revisited the Aztecs.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :D

best history explainer, you are explaining everything wonderfully, the Mayas, Incas, Alexander army, king Ashoka and now the Aztecs. I'm your great fan and I will keep watching your all videos.

I think that you deserve more views. Your videos are a historical and artistic masterpiece!

@KingsandGenerals

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you :-)

Who would win? One of the most brutal, sophisticated, and badass empires of all time Or A sneeze

@erictko85

4 жыл бұрын

Coronavirus has entered the chat

I love it how you use age of empires sounds to implement in your videos. Haven't heard these sounds in ages!

This is a great video man! I hope you can cover the military of the Tlaxalan and Aztec people soon! It would be interesting to see what people think of the Swan, Jaguar and Eagle uniform, as well as the fearsome Death whistle! Either way, i know i'm late to the party but still just as great!

Congratulations on the video! What surprised me the most was that you had the pronunciation of most of the nahuatl words correct (this is difficult even for Mexicans). As a piece of advice, the word Mexica, should be pronounced as meh-shih-cah. Thanks a lot for this great work.

@nathanpiazza9644

5 жыл бұрын

Please name which pronunciations were correct. I didn't hear a single one.

@jcsalazar5224

5 жыл бұрын

I classified the words according to the quality of pronunciation. I hope I didn't miss any: Good Pronunciation - Tenochtitlan - Teotihuacano - Toltec - Azcapotzalco - Tepochcalli (or Telpuchcalli as it is spelled in the video) - Tula - Huitzilopochtli (though he mispronounces at 8:34) - Acamapichtli - Aztek - Culhuacan So so Pronunciation - Texcoco (letter x is pronounced as in current word Mexico) - Tlacopan (stresses the wrong vowel) - Calmecac (stresses the wrong vowel) - Tlaxcala (letter x is pronounced as in current word Mexico; by the way, he refers to these people, the main foes of the Mexica, using this term, when he should be using Texcalteca) - Mexica (stresses the wrong vowel and letter x is pronounced as in current word Mexico) Bad Pronunciation - Nahualt - Tlacaelel - Macuahuitl - Atlatl Perhaps it's not most of the words if you don't consider the ones with a so so pronunciation, but anyways, they are many. What I really wanted to highlight with my previous comment was that the guys making the video really tried to pronounce correctly, but I understand that's no easy task, especially for native english speaking people, that's why I really appreciate the effort.

@enoughwiththelies1339

5 жыл бұрын

@İnsan dude, your fucking dumb. Go play in traffic with your hating ass!

@Nubias

4 жыл бұрын

He did a terrible job of pronunciation,he even mangled the Euro words. That is his normal thing though. Tells great tales,and messes up the pronunciations,I would give him a pass if he didn't do it so often.

@walnutking92

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nubias Alright Nubias, go ahead and make your own history channel and @me when you reach the same level of consistency and quality.

I haven't seen the video yet and i will finish it later. But as a Latin American all i can say it's thanks you for making native American/latin American history more visible. And recommend you to make a video about Mapuches, those were the native Americans who were never conquered by the Spaniards.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

This is a really nice comment, thank you for watching and I'm happy you enjoyed the video. The Mapuche are definitely on our list.

@jabohonu

5 жыл бұрын

@@CogitoEdu thanks and its an honour to be replied by you !! And if you can, you should read something about Galvarino or Lautaro.

@Old_Guard2

5 жыл бұрын

Jabo javier so how come the Mapuches we were never conquered? Were they outside of the reach of the Spaniards, or are they in some inaccessible region, or dare I say successfully resisted military influence?

@Levitiy

5 жыл бұрын

"Never conquered by the Spaniards." I'm sorry, what language does Chile speak? And why is it the wealthiest Latin American country if not by following European ideas of merit, law, and rights?

@maldonadoaxel5

5 жыл бұрын

@@Levitiy It's wealthy because of copper and they do a lot of their trade with the U.S.

I loved the Age of Empires spawning sound in the video!! Brought back great memories!

Overlooked region. Thanks for making a video about it!

Nice little Age of Empires reference when mentioning the eagle warriors.

Can't wait for the next episode! One of my Spanish ancestors was a black smith for Cortes, and if his account is to be believed, was present at the Aztec conquest... that's such a cool thought to me.

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

Stephen Richards you have Conquistador blood running through your veins

@robertleon4323

5 жыл бұрын

I do have conqueror's blood

@arenasnefi

5 жыл бұрын

Same here! A couple of my ancestors were with Cortes in the conquest of Tenochtitlán. We still live in Mexico City 500 years after that

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

Nefi Arenas Salazar are you pure Spanish? Or mixed of Spanish and locals

@tlaloc27

5 жыл бұрын

So your ancestors invaded my ancestors

Great video fellas but never got the notification. Good thing I just new to tune in... Thx!

Incredible that there was no widespread metallurgy yet at that point. Fascinating thanks for posting I want to learn more about these cultures.

You forgot to quote: "Va a quedar mamalón", said by the dude who found the prophesized eagle eating a snake, after being (reasonably) questioned by his entourage, in virtue of the place being a little dank island

YES! I LOVE THE MESOAMERICANS SERIES!!!

I came here because of curiosity, stayed and watched a couple of videos because the content and the presentation are flawless, but I subbed for more Age of Empires sounds in videos I can learn something from.

1:14 and suddenly Age of Empires memories from childhood re-emerge. Thank you Kangz! :)

beautiful civilization greetings from Saudi Arabia

Kings and Generals: From Cleopatra's Video to the best history channel of youtube

@gianlucaborg195

5 жыл бұрын

WRONG. It is not the best history channel of youtube. It is THE BEST history channel.

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

Gianluca Borg wrong. It is the best channel lol

@gianlucaborg195

5 жыл бұрын

Umar Ansari Worng..... it is SIMPLY THE BEST !!!! Better than all the rest!!!!!

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

Gianluca Borg yeah bro you are right

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

Gianluca Borg well your spellings is worng

Amazing as always! You should do a series on he Borgia or other famous family from renaissance

Very interesting! Your work is valuable.

Im interested in the Aztecs because they're my ancestors from my mother's side of the family on the Mexican side. I discovered that Im descended from the Apache Tribe which, in turn, has been linked back to the Aztecs. Little do alot of people realize that the Apache lands in the Southwest USA is the ancient lands of the Aztec and Mayans (mostly Aztec) that they fled from due to a cataclysmic event in their history long before the Aztec and Mayan Empires rosed in modern day Mexico and Central America.

Great video. Look forward to more. Cheers!

You never fail to impress us , Thank you very much for your videos and i wish you reach 1million subscribers soon

I am Mexican, and your videos are an incredible source of information, not only mentioning sources but also using excellent visual support. This type of information does not exist in Spanish, but I am glad that someone like you spreads it in this great way, without stereotypes or mistakes.

@SerafinMx

Жыл бұрын

Yes! This channel should definitely try to translate some of these videos. I could even offer help if needed.

12:07 Age of Empires sound ?

@nickdafreak9141

5 жыл бұрын

Damn yeah!

@KatariaGujjar

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao. Is that the sound of a castle unit being created?

@erichunsaker4969

5 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! :D

@abderrezakghozlane4427

5 жыл бұрын

KatariaGujjar yep

@frenett1

5 жыл бұрын

Abderrezak Ghozlane no, just any military unit :)

Excellent video, looking forward to your video on the Siege of Tenochtitlan.

@KingsandGenerals

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, it is coming!

Finaly, I could not wait for this.

I’m Mexican and I like world history and your video it’s so good there’s no much web material for Aztec and Mayan culture so it’s quite good you researched the subject

@bulisen12

5 жыл бұрын

There are Kevin, but you should stay away from biased british propaganda like this channel, their lies are always trying to discredit Hispanic countries.

@kevz6313

5 жыл бұрын

bulisen12 Why do you say so?

@EstebanMenchacaGamboa

4 жыл бұрын

@@kevz6313 Black Legend...

@nutyyyy

3 жыл бұрын

@@bulisen12 Pretty sure the narrator isn't British...

So Aztec war was just a shounen battle manga?

@jerdasaurusrex557

5 жыл бұрын

AYAYAYA

Love that he used Medieval II: Kingdoms soundtrack and also Age of Empires II unit recruitment sound.

I love this channel. Amazing video

Make videos on tarascan and chichimecas please! Interesting neighbors we have

That thumbnail makes me want to drink Arizona Iced Tea

@KingsandGenerals

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, kinda reminds of the bottle :-)

Fascinating! *Love* this channel. 🤓

@KingsandGenerals

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks :-)

VERY nice, man, hopefully we'll one day see one about the Azcapotzalco war.

There were some macuahuitl the Spanish recounted were as long as a man. The Spanish also said the obsidian was crafted so precisely into the wood that they had not idea how they were capable of doing this. Some macuahuitl had the obsidian spread out, others had the obsidian so close that you couldn't fit anything in between. There is only one artist rendition of an authentic one before it was lost in a fire. You should look it up, its the closest thing we have to how it actually looked. Looks pretty cool. The Spanish also claimed A macuahuitl could slice a horses head clean with one strike. The spears they had also had the power to penetrate even the most advance armor the Spanish had. Obsidian being one of the most sharpest substances in the world, where at a cellular level instead of tearing a cell it slices it clean in two. The Spanish called my ancestors homeland the Venice of the new world. My people were clean, they already had a janitor system. Nothing was wasted. If you had to poop, the bathrooms were the chinampas and your poop became fertilizer for the crops. The Aztec's were master recyclers. Upon seeing the city, the Spanish saw a gleaming white city of what appeared to look like marble in the middle of a lake. Sounds like atlantis kind've. Many of Cortez's men he claimed had toured all over Europe and seen all the great cities claiming none compared to the size and architecture of this illustrious metropolis. It said Cortez even cried when the grand city fell. It so happen to fall on my birthday. Why did the Spanish do it,? Where they jealous that apparently a heathen people had a cleaner more grand city of masonry and pyramids that rivaled the old world? The new world never used the wheel. Yet the Aztec's engineered an artificial island by grabbing reeds and mud and tying them and letting them sun bake to create land. Soon they built the Roman equivalent of imperial dominance in the new world until the Spanish ruined everything. The Spanish claimed they came to make the people more civilized. To an extant yes. Yet these people knew things the Spanish didn't. There astronomical calculations being very meticulous. The Maya being the most revered for this that historians say the greeks compared to the Maya were lazy. The Maya were extremely meticulous on there astronomical calculations. Maybe it was because they believed the world would fall apart from the gods if they didn't do so. The Maya also ha the concept of zero. Only two other civilizations had that concept. The Maya loved mathematics.

@xenotypos

5 жыл бұрын

By the time of the Spanish invasion, the entire old world (Eurasia) had the concept of zero, and it was the modern zero which is different from the zero Mayas created. You're confusing inventing something and having it, India's zero spreaded fast so even those that didn't invent it had knowledge about it. As for armors, it was the main technological advantage of the Spanish (gunpowder wasn't that effective, but metal working was) so I highly doubt the claim about obsidian is true, since it was never verified and since it highly unprobable, the Spanish probably wanted to glorify their conquest. Also, comparing the Greeks' achivement to the Maya's makes no sense since their golden age was almost a millenia apart, not the same period. It was just different, both great considering the context but different.

@JarthenGreenmeadow

5 жыл бұрын

I wouldnt doubt one of those paddle swords would slice through some armor. They seem heavy and the obsidian is beyond razor sharp. Even unworked obsidian can be sharp af. Also the Spanish conquered them because they wanted the land and knew they would resist. It was a war of aggression pure and simple.

i heard aoe noises i was pleased

@fishofgold6553

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too in the beginning (the villager spawn sound effect at 1:15 or so). I was hoping someone else had noticed. XD

12:07 i love the Age of Empire unit spawn sound effect!!

fascinating, thank you!

Actually the Mexicah called their leader "Great Speaker" (Hueyi Tlatoani), not Emperor.

@serenemountain6769

4 жыл бұрын

just like the Mouth of Sauron!

This is a really great overview of the Aztecs! You don't mention the cannibalism, but otherwise probably the best I've seen on KZread.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :D Somethings had to be cut just for time so things that weren't central to Aztec history or daily life were left out.

@owlman_

5 жыл бұрын

Cannibalism wasn't common in the Aztec Empire. It was reduced to only a few priests and nobles on important dates. The Spanish saw this and greatly exaggerated in their accounts.

@Levitiy

5 жыл бұрын

For some reason I feel like I want to go with the Spaniard's account. [Western chauvinism intensifies]

@pakalchan1762

5 жыл бұрын

Cannibalism was such a minor thing in their civilization reserved for specific people at specific times it is hardly worth mentioning in a 15 min video.

Thanks for this video, the Aztecs were an incredibly intriguing civilization.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video :D

Great video!

Tenochtitlan sounds amazingly modern.

@Levitiy

5 жыл бұрын

To someone who doesn't know anything about architecture or infrastructure. They still used aqueducts, a permanent Roman fixture by 0AD. In the 1500s there was already tubing and limited mechanical pumping.

@hiddenafitlhile8909

2 жыл бұрын

@@Levitiy Yeah without horse or trade with the local powers of the time, like china, India and others as well.

@cardigansarecool

2 жыл бұрын

@@Levitiymaybe that has something to do with their geography and what was possible/necessary within that? It was said over and over again that their wet marshland area was not the most ideal for constructing a city

Will there be a documentary on Tarascan Empire and Chichimecs?

@krspaceT1

4 жыл бұрын

Probably would see the more famous NA tribes first

@ancienthistory6513

2 жыл бұрын

I hope so! Their are barley any…

I cannot express how much I love these videos

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

That makes me really happy to hear. Thanks for watching :D

Impressive to go from the ones getting knocked about to the ones knocking others about.

It is very nice to see the Mexica referred to by their autonym rather than 'Aztec'. The 'X' in Mesoamerican languages (when Latinised) is spoken as a 'sh' sound, as the Spanish were familiar with the Portuguese method of using 'X' for 'sh' and used it for convenience.

@josemachina3996

5 жыл бұрын

K Barkla the spanish picked up the x from the Aztecs none of the spanish and Portuguese cities and names use an x to represent a certain sound

@mercianthane2503

10 ай бұрын

​@@josemachina3996 The X was already as "sh" in Old Castillian. Literally any word in spanish that has a J, either was X (sh).

I remember asking you for South American battles about a year ago. Thanks 😆! Very interesting learnt alot.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for watching. We have a series on the Inca which is set in South America :D

@ThisisBarris

5 жыл бұрын

- Cogito - YES! Loved that series - super interesting. I'm currently in Santiago, Chile, and went to Santa Lucia. There, there was a monument dedicated to the 150 conquistadors that founded the city and I couldn't stop thinking about your videos man!

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

That's awesome to hear. I love Santiago. I spent a few weeks there and never got over the view of the mountains surrounding the city. It's a spectacular spot and filled with interesting history and musuems.

@ThisisBarris

5 жыл бұрын

- Cogito - Absolutely. I find it incredible that you can see snowy mountains from anywhere around town and since I'm a hiker, I'm having a blast. Glad you enjoyed the city man.

@joseantoniofuentes7101

5 жыл бұрын

Mexico is not South America. We are in North America😎. Inca is the best example of South America empire.

This is a very informative I find Aztec culture and history very interesting

the subtle AoE sounds throughout were highly appreciated ;)

After a long time gonna see Kings and Generals video with 0 tension Exam has just finished and there holidays for 5 days I am on top of the world lol

@ThePrinceofParthia

5 жыл бұрын

Hope you aced it!

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThePrinceofParthia thanks bro

@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler

5 жыл бұрын

I envy you. I don't even have an off-day this week. :(

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

Vosloff feel sorry for you :(

8:54 it's all good dude, i'm okay being sacrificed *thumbs up*

@tezcatlipocaone8796

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

I have an 8 paged essay on the aztecs so this really helped me, thank u so much!!!!!!

@KingsandGenerals

5 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that!

What an amazing time period man so much too learn

There are so many words that are mispronounced. Not sure where to start.

“ The Aztecs had the strongest will and the greatest might amongst all of central America and they grew to be one of if not the most powerful empire in the Americas. >enter the Spanish Spain: hello there, you and I are going to be close friends

12:08. I liked that they played an Age of Empires sound there.

@KingsandGenerals

5 жыл бұрын

:-)

It’s gonna be a good day when kings and generals uploads

Then, Quetzalcoatl came. A very good in depth view of the Aztecs! Good job. This enlightened me about the issue where a certain European told of an eclipse to scare natives!

@pizzapicante27

5 жыл бұрын

The idea that the Aztecs saw the Spanish as gods is thouroughly discredited at this point, none of the accounts of the time give any indication that Moctezuma II or anyone for that matter thought that.

@gianlucaborg195

5 жыл бұрын

pizzapicante27 I know that it is 99.99% not true, yet it is till a fun joke. Keep in mind that Quetzalcoatl was basically a Serpent Monster that kills, it is funny to imagine the Aztecs seeing the Spanish as demons coming to destroy them unless appeased! And it is mostly know of as being true unfortunately, but might as well turn it into a small joke for those of us like you and I who know, right?

@pizzapicante27

5 жыл бұрын

Gianluca Borg Sorry, you honestly never know in the internet.

@gianlucaborg195

5 жыл бұрын

pizzapicante27 No need to apologise mate, If all the people like us are gathered into one place, we might at best fill a medium sized warehouse, so, well meeting one more always makes me happy! Cheers man!

@davidgonzalez-herrera2980

5 жыл бұрын

pizzapicante27 THANK YOU. I was just about to go off. Many english documentaries love to claim this false knowledge. Whilst if you listen to a aztec documentary in Spanish, it's a completely different story.

Anyone else hoping for a video on the Tarascans?

Love these videos

Love the aoe 2 spawn sound for eagle warriors 12:07

Hehe, the age of empires two villager creation noise on population count and unit training noise on jaguar warriors

The American Netherlands.

@superstructure23

5 жыл бұрын

Elaborate?

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

They were masters of building cities around water is what he was getting at :D

@CalinNeamtiu

5 жыл бұрын

I thought of Venice..

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

The conquistadors actually compared it to Venice quite a lot. It was like a massive version of Venice :D

@TheIronMax

5 жыл бұрын

Can you at least try to troll better? This is just sad

Everyone ought to read Gary Jennings' Aztec. It is a masterpiece.

1:13 ... age of empires villager spawn audio.. I fricken love it.

The gift of life comes with the curse of death.🤔

There is always limited information about Medieval History of South America. Thanks for work! It's very interesting. How would they have lived today if european civilisation never interfered in their life?

@sectorgovernor

5 жыл бұрын

It's really interesting question.

@badlaamaurukehu

5 жыл бұрын

Smallpox would have eventually found another vector anyway. Chinese, Japanese, maybe even those sweetheart slavers known as "The Barbary" would have come over, delivered the plague, and then culturally enrich the New World themselves... Who knows?

@ayambeamonte4384

5 жыл бұрын

Mexico is technically North America, but I get your point. I wish there was more information about all those peoples too. The Inca empire has always intrigued me.

@badlaamaurukehu

5 жыл бұрын

Another good question would be: "What would have happened if the peoples of the new world had domesticated their native horses instead of having eaten them all." Dogs too! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog) Burned alive. Chihuahua on a stick!?

@dilospino

4 жыл бұрын

@@badlaamaurukehu I'm pretty sure there were no horses in the Americas before the arrival of the europeans, at least not in mesoamerica. And the Chihuahua weren't eaten, it was the Chihuahua's ancestor, the Techichi, the one that was on the plate sometimes.

I really wish you guys can go back to the thumbnail with the film roll edges, it really helps the video from standing out in the sub box. I completely missed this video while browsing my sub page yesterday, only to see it in my suggested videos almost a day after the upload.

My grandma is of Olmec Region Heritage. She spoke Popoluca Oluteca, or La Lengua Mixe-Zoque.

Aztecs are Bad asses.

@wildannugrahanurdinsyah2797

5 жыл бұрын

von Vypierdalen the primitive that can bulid a mega city on the marsh islands in the middle of lake

@jordiejonny

5 жыл бұрын

If aztecs are badass what does that make the Spanish?

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Savage definitely. Primitive not so much, because culture and morality don't really evolve linearly. In the 20th century, we were still doing things just as violently as the Aztecs were. The colonists in the New World didn't usher in a new era of peace when they arrived. Things stayed just as or even more violent for centuries. Aztec sacrifice was horrific, so was the burning of heretics in Europe or the pulling apart by horses in Asia. But all of these things were usually limited to the nobility, military, and religious authorities. Your average Aztec or Spaniard would not have been more violent than each other.

@jordiejonny

5 жыл бұрын

@@Johnny3Batony the spianiards guns fired 2 shots a minute in the hands of a pro and they were out numbered 10, 000/ 1. The aztecs got embarrassed badly

@jordiejonny

5 жыл бұрын

@Harry Paul the aztecs were morally superior to literally no one ever in the entirety of human history

The armed conquest is always the same. The Spaniards did the same as the Aztecs. They conquered a foreign country and an alien civilization. The only difference is that the Aztecs had the same skin color and came by land - on foot, and the Spaniards were white and arrived by the ocean on ships.

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

Mjak 1309 and Spaniards nearly wiped them out completely while Aztecs just conquered didn't killed many

@Mjak-yd3og

5 жыл бұрын

Umar Ansari The Spaniards were cruel, but they did not kill many Aztecs. The Aztecs and many other Indians (Native Americans) were killed by illnesses brought by Europeans, and for which they were not immune

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

Mjak 1309 yeah around 90% of those deaths were caused by diseases especially small pox But when you study about those Conquistadors, you will see how far they went just to get golds

@umaransari9765

5 жыл бұрын

@@v4enthusiast541 because the Spaniards didn't showed how cruel they were to them

@v4enthusiast541

5 жыл бұрын

Umar Ansari The Spaniards were a lesser evil, and on many occasions their Tlaxcalan allies would be far more cruel to the Aztecs than the Spanish.

Still haven't seen the video, but as usual I have to leave a like first.

Kings and Generals please make a video about the Battle of Carchemish between two ancient civilizations Egypt and Babylon , this battle made Egypt a secondary power , it was also the last action of the Assyrian Army in history it would be a great video .

10:40 Literally just Civilization 5, when you encircle a barbarian camp to farm xp...

Waiting for a Video on Cholas!!! Go Indian ;)

@avinashmishra1404

5 жыл бұрын

Indian History is useless You would never get it forget that

@ukesh243

5 жыл бұрын

@@avinashmishra1404 Have seen many such vids but these guys make anything special

@ukesh243

5 жыл бұрын

Also recruiting an indian guy would help

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

They are on the list :D

@ukesh243

5 жыл бұрын

@@CogitoEdu Excellent

Can you please make a video about the battle of Sagrajas, very interesting and important battle from the time of Andalusia featuring some interesting figures and storyline. Would be much appreciated.

Btw that thumbnail is amazing never saw thumbnail like that on your videos

@crusadermx7787

5 жыл бұрын

IKR so colorful and beautiful...