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@rickyspanish5316

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe you guys should cover some of the beat writers like william s. Burroughs

@aldoushuxley5953

4 жыл бұрын

can you do a video on either Aldous Huxley or Allen Watts? I think both would make for very interesting videos :)

@Nuevomexicano

4 жыл бұрын

Simon please do some conquistadors or ibn battuta

@vhffvjmjvddf3050

4 жыл бұрын

10:10 So basically ancient organ harvesting like what the CCP does these days.

@williamhardway6436

4 жыл бұрын

Simon that was too cool man. Piano looks like fun

A ruler who really stole people's hearts.

@alexv3357

4 жыл бұрын

You could say he was quite sanguine about them

@rosarioakino1516

4 жыл бұрын

bakc in time....the history always was spread by the winners

@dwarfbunni

3 жыл бұрын

Punny

@hiddenwoodsben

3 жыл бұрын

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

@pandaotu

3 жыл бұрын

Montezuma the phantom thief

You forgot to mention what happened to his descendants. They went on to be made part of the Spanish nobility. The family still resides in Spain with the head of the family holding the title of Duque de Moctezuma de Tultengo

@pscwplb

4 жыл бұрын

I learned more reading this one post than I did in the previous 30 minutes. That's not meant to be a knock on the video, just that I basically knew all the stuff it talked about. I legitimately didn't know about that Spanish noble house.

@hadtrio6629

4 жыл бұрын

I heared that his wife was raped by pedro and he did nothing

@jamesmurphy3810

4 жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree. This is news indeed. None of this has been taught in history class, and it should be.

@jamesmurphy3810

4 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting thought. I've often wondered the same thing. I have also wondered about the many codicies (Aztec books) there were destroyed what they contained and what kind of insight we could have gained by reading them.

@pyromania1018

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. I didn't know that. You learn something new every day.

While I enjoyed Apocolypto about the Maya, I’m amazed there hasn’t been a big budget blockbuster about the Aztecs and the Spanish invasion , it would be incredible with a decent script. I’d also love an Assassins Creed game set during this time......come on Hollywood less of the stupid super hero films and more about the rich history of mankind!

@aldoushuxley5953

4 жыл бұрын

La Malinche would make for a great protagonist for such a story.

@Gpierre86

4 жыл бұрын

The storyline in apocalypso is not accurate

@daxsh4621

4 жыл бұрын

Try series called Heran. You can find it on KZread

@annescholey6546

4 жыл бұрын

There are 60s comics of Montezuma befriending European explorers at the time of the Conquistadors.

@Mansini77

4 жыл бұрын

Any film made in a foreign language won’t be a blockbuster, at least in the US because many casual moviegoers don’t care for subtitles. Apocalypto is a great movie, though many critics point the historical inaccuracies. I can’t remember a prologue of the film stating Apocalypto was “based on true events”. It’s purely a fictional piece set in an unspecified time in the Yucatán.

After watching this, I think it's fitting to do a video on Gonzalo Guerrero, the Spanish sailor who was captured by the Mayans in the Yucatan and refused to go back home. He became a military leader of the Maya and led them in battles against the Spanish.

@kingofgotham417

2 жыл бұрын

About a sellout that killed his own people? Yeah sadly people love that

@joshtowns5630

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingofgotham417 it's a matter of perspective. I'm sure the Maya thought he was a top bloke. Like a conscientious objector but with more action and less hand wringing...

@timothyflores7895

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingofgotham417 Why are you saying that as if the spanish had the high ground anyways?

@your-username-here2308

2 жыл бұрын

​@@kingofgotham417 for me he was the only good guy. Spai. just came and killed in the name of god.

@Calmacalma11

Жыл бұрын

@@kingofgotham417 no not really, he was a man who could see what his people were doing was wrong, so he fought them.

He's like that substitute teacher that makes a boring topic enjoyable

@JamesThomas-pj2lx

4 жыл бұрын

Boring? IMO this is one of history's best tales.

@sorcierenoire8651

4 жыл бұрын

Finally, to be given the chance to comment early on this Legend's comment i shall take.

@budstoney3589

4 жыл бұрын

Dude I had teachers giving me food so I enjoyed learning a lot 😁🤘🏼

@MakaveliRaider

4 жыл бұрын

This ain't boring.

@charleserickson3499

4 жыл бұрын

I'm thoroughly surprised to see you here

This is my favorite KZread channel. It's basically what the History Channel was supposed to be before it became the pile of hot garbage it is today.

@KabbalahSherry

3 жыл бұрын

Facts 😅💯

@joshke_335

3 жыл бұрын

The aztec empire, rises from an alliance, the alliance of 3... wait... 3!!!!! ?

Can you do one on Atahualpa the last Inca emperor

@jbcheema9883

4 жыл бұрын

The end of Inca empire is nostalgia. A pain from the past...

@julieortega4461

4 жыл бұрын

That's a great suggestion!!

@braxtonfriday8713

4 жыл бұрын

Atahualpa is lowkey such a badass. Dude stared down a charging horse and didn't even flinch. Like, he'd never seen a horse before, a spanish rider made a show of charging at him, and Atahualpa didn't move a muscle. That and having won a brutal civil war cement that image of Atahualpa "balls of steel" in my head.

@thorpeaaron1110

4 жыл бұрын

@@braxtonfriday8713 I know right

@thorpeaaron1110

4 жыл бұрын

@@julieortega4461 Thanks

This channel has quickly became my favorite KZread channel. As a history lover, I love the broad spectrum of biographies. Keep to the good work Simon.

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Childhood lost 4:40 - Chapter 2 - In the dark forest 8:05 - Chapter 3 - A family business 10:55 - Mid roll ads 13:25 - Chapter 4 - Death of glory 16:25 - Chapter 5 - King of the world 19:45 - Chapter 6 - The invasion 23:20 - Chapter 7 - The end of days

Can’t get enough of Aztec history! Cheers 👍

I had no idea they ever let Simon leave the studio. I thought he lived there.

Oh damn, I love it so much that you guys have covered multiple people from Mexico's history ! It's a part of the world that gets more often than not overlooked on english speaking history channels, but not here, here we get a little bit of everywhere, I feel like this channel is one of the most unbiased ones, I love it!

Thank you for yet another amazing video! I was a history major in college, but some things happened and I just kinda stopped trying to learn more. Your videos have reminded me what it feels like to be excited about learning again, and I can never thank you enough for that.

Theres a KZread channel called Voices of the Past where some stuff that moctezuma said were written down. Also fun fact the moctezuma blood line continued because Aztec nobility intermarried with the Spanish. So for example there was a Spanish conquistador in the early 1600s named Juan de Oñate who had Moctezuma's blood through the maternal line

@keineahnung6124

4 жыл бұрын

I recently watched a video ( in Spanish) about the descendants of Moctezuma,living in Spain as part of the Spanish nobility.

@JosePineda-cy6om

4 жыл бұрын

There are actually 2 lines of currente descendants from the Aztec last emperor: the Moctezuma family in Mexico (yeah, that's their actual surname - they're thousands of individuals by now) and the counts of Miravalle in Spain (technically also in the thousands, but the actual title is only inherited by one guy in each generation, using agnatic primogeniture). The reason is that after the conquest, the Spanish recognized local nobility titles and absorbed local elites into their own nobility system. At some point in colonial times the family split in 2 - and for some reason ***both*** branches got recognized by first the Spanish authorities and, latter, the 1st Mexican Empire government, as legitimate descendants of Moctezuma and thus entitled to receive an annual stipend just from carrying that blood. After Mexico became a republic, that 300+ years old practice stopped, and the Mexican branch lost their nobility title whereas the Spanish one still has recognition from the Spanish government.

@Spongebrain97

4 жыл бұрын

@@JosePineda-cy6om yeah like right now in spain there is a house of moctezuma

@nikburton9264

4 жыл бұрын

The counts of Miravalle are dukes now. They're a bunch of rich mofos.

@_Abjuranax_

4 жыл бұрын

Captain Carl Cortez was my CO in Germany.

I love these videos , it's very interesting to hear something about the aztecs . Could you make some videos about the Incas? And maybe their last ruler?. Cause pre-Columbian America is actually very interesting

@bossbeartherock6034

4 жыл бұрын

Or even the mojav tribes , makes me wish for a nuclear winter

@jamesclendon4811

4 жыл бұрын

@Stellvia Hoenheim Is that why you're so lonely and bitter?

@GillRant

2 жыл бұрын

Watch The fall of civilizations on KZread on the incas the aztecs and the maya, absolutely among the best videos on KZread.

I really wonder how big your team is Simon, because your output frequency of in depth content, is beyond godlike! How is that possible? :o

@wearingpants7

4 жыл бұрын

From what he says he does a lot of prerecording for the channels

@mogheen

3 жыл бұрын

So true I hope he gets rewarded for it

TIL he is called Montezuma in English, never hears that before. In Spanish we say Moctezuma

@grillodofus

4 жыл бұрын

Los españoles le decian Montesuma por que no podian pronunciar su nombre, nosotros le llamamos Moctezuma pero como señala el video lo correcto es Motecuhzoma pronunciado similar a "Motekzuoma".

Ever have a case of Montazuma’s Revenge? Brutal stuff.

@stella-vu8vh

4 жыл бұрын

the shits?

@towermoss

4 жыл бұрын

It's a good game for its day...

@Ruby321123

4 жыл бұрын

I am literally reading this from my toilet.

@archstanton6102

4 жыл бұрын

Has something similar in Mozambique. Lost a lot a weight

@parfner666

4 жыл бұрын

Don't drink the water !

We love you Simon!!❤️❤️❤️

I've been binging these vids and I saw he just uploaded one. Thanks Biographics!!!!

I’m glad you refer to them as “Aliens”.

@rockstar450

3 жыл бұрын

bee azz it’s nothing the Europeans weren’t doing to each other...

@armandoguerra7658

3 жыл бұрын

Oh, the irony

@cell4224

3 жыл бұрын

Considering how cruel and oppressive the Aztecs were, their downfall was nothing short of karma. What they did to their fellow natives makes the old pagan traditions seem like childs play.

@JoseJimenez-hw4rl

3 жыл бұрын

Cell , yes sacrifice and murder part of their customs and religious believes in our perspective is evil and “pagan”, but their style of living never included mass genocide of another culture and implementing their believes onto another by calling it “Gods divine will”.

@lilachie

3 жыл бұрын

@@cell4224 💯

Thank god for these videos it helps our sanity especially during times like these

Certainly one of the most fascinating Biographics on record! Mr. Whistler learned his piano lesson well!

literally cant wait till you make a video in the far future about what is happening now 2020 and how things literally got worse by the months im ready to see what else 2020 has and if it is worth being on this channel. see you soon, mate.

This is without a doubt my favorite channel! It always manages to entertain me. Thank you guys!! (Also, could you do a video about the other greatest "liberador" of South America, San Martín? I would love to hear what you say about his story and for you to know him cause it's very cool).

I'd love to see you do a biographic on the Marquis de Sade!

@pyromania1018

4 жыл бұрын

Yuck.

@sebaseba6710

4 жыл бұрын

It would definitely be interesting lol

@MK-hh1vo

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps.more fun than Caligula!

@kendram.6973

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully with an ample trigger warning

Thank you for what you do in this, and all your other channels.

Finally. I've been waiting for this one.

Loved the video, I hope you do one of La Malinche.

@aldoushuxley5953

4 жыл бұрын

yeah, me too

18:44 I love that you tell the other side of the story. Even though the Aztec Empire grew as a Mesoamerican powerhouse, it was doomed to fail. Even without the Spanish conquest, it’s model of continuous expansion was not sustainable and its vassals started to rebel.

@malvinderajit1213

Жыл бұрын

Sounds similar to what will or can happen to America

These videos are really great. Thanks bro.

Thanks for this video. I was waiting for u to do this one.

This was a great 27 minute summary on a very difficult subject. Looking forward to the next one. What about Simon Wiesenthal?

You should do a video on the Dalai Lama! I honestly have no idea who he is besides a very important person in Buddhism.

@stella-vu8vh

4 жыл бұрын

Why don't you do some independent research? Wikipedia isn't exactly a good source but it'll give you the gist.

@_Abjuranax_

4 жыл бұрын

7 Years in Tibet with Brad Pitt is good movie to watch about him.

@michaeltobias3110

4 жыл бұрын

That would be an awesome video 👍👍

@LuckyDT

4 жыл бұрын

Dog in Donut He’s a good guy, we shoot hoops together sometimes. Underrated baller.

@MK-hh1vo

4 жыл бұрын

The current one or all who've held that title?

I thank you for all the videos you do. I have learned so much.

Bravo, Simon, masterfully played! :)

Great episodes, please consider an episode on Jim Bridger. He was a legendary mountain man, fur trapper back in the days of the westward expansion. I think he would make a great episode.

Dammit simon.... You finally give my people an episode and you had to add a "to be continued" . i was upset for a second but youll do tlatoani cuauhtemoc next

I'm so proud of your piano playing!

Love that this does not repeat popular misconceptions of the conquest ❤️

Let's take a moment to acknowledge Simon in a turtleneck

@craigcpowell

4 жыл бұрын

I don't want to because it makes me feel inferior as a man.

1: Try saying " Ten oak teet lonn" , repeat, you can do it! Come on...Ten oak teet lonn...., just like that! We'll make a Nahuatl speaker out of you yet! Now, 2: Not even ONE mention of Quetzalcoatl!....and 3: Cortez made a great deal of money ( well , some money anyway ) importing Guinea pigs into Europe. The best part was he had many more when he got to Spain than he had when he left Mexico. GREAT VIDEO by the way! Many thanks!

@Bell_Matt

3 жыл бұрын

Who cares

@xxxkueckxxx

3 ай бұрын

@@Bell_Mattlol annoyed by facts?

Awesome video and good content 👌. You did great on the piano

Great video, would love to see some Roman Emperor videos or a video on the Praetorian guard. Keep up the great work mate.

Would love to see an episode on Thomas Cochrane, The Seawolf.

Regarding the sponsor.... I spent four years learning classical piano, and at one point I could play the entire first movement of "Moonlight Sonata" from memory. I can still remember bits of it, despite not having a piano at my disposal.

How scary and sad that a people's history was abruptly ended by unbeatable enemies

This page is dope as hell Love This Channel!!!

Both Aldous Huxley and Allen Watts would make for very interesting episodes. I would love to see a video on one of them :)

@WildStar2002

4 жыл бұрын

Oooh, yes! Let's hear about Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" before the 'New Normal' has completed it's course and such things are banned.

"-went the way of the dodo." I just lost it at that point XD

Great job Simon!!!

Flowkey ad was interesting! As was the whole piece. Thanks!

This was good. You confirmed some things I knew, and told me way more than I knew from the start. Also you showed that some of the things taught in school was just plain false. And your intro is exactly how I describe the conquistador arrival. Ever think about doing a video about J Bruce Ismay?

When will we see "Simon Whistler- the dawn of the Internet Empire'?

Brilliant... Thank you.

Simon...this was one of your best Biographic presentations ❤

@Retro77691

4 ай бұрын

Montezuma Was Syrian 🇸🇾

Could you do Tupac Amaru II? I think he deserves a bit more attention than he gets :)

One of the best books I ever read is the Conquest of New Spain by Bernard Diaz a soldier of Cortez. Read it your welcome.

Good work

Simon killin it on the ivories!

I'd like to suggest videos on the musicians J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, The Schumanns and Brahms, Chopin (who would pair well with a video on George Sand), Arthur Rubinstein, and Leonard Bernstein.

@rodespierre

Жыл бұрын

F them blood thirsty monster's, who were easily conquered by a few people and alot of folks who took advantage of the situation

-Before Cortez:I’m the Ramesses of America -After Cortez:I’m the Cleopatra of America

Taking a shot everytime Simon says "Empaaarh" makes one hell of a game watching these videos~

Simon I was very impressed with your piano playing.

@russhall1414

4 жыл бұрын

Gr5 piano playing😲

Biographics: Aztecs didn't sacrifice a human every day. Also Aztecs sacrificed thousands once a month (30 days).

@clementl.9566

4 жыл бұрын

It's even worse than that when you know that a month in the Aztec calendar is actually composed of 20 days.

@gostavoadolfos2023

4 жыл бұрын

@@clementl.9566 WTF! Oh mi Dio 😱😱

@grillodofus

4 жыл бұрын

They killed a lot sure, not thousands a month but a year yes, plenty. Some years there where more sacrifices if there where campaigns or a crowning, most years there was around 2500 deaths, some of the more important were actually voluntary sacrifices of priests or young men (just one for event tough) and the common people also sacrified personally on their own by doing ritual self-torture and meditation. Not all rituals where all alike, Quetzalcoatl the god of wisdom and wind for example rejected blood sacrifices altoghether, instead flowers, feathers and butterfly wings where sacrified to him.

@jasonbrynn5633

4 жыл бұрын

Population control

@potita24

3 жыл бұрын

How many did europeans tortured to death during the same times?

For a well researched fictional story on the Aztecs, I highly recommend the book AZTEC by Gary Jennings. That is, if you can find it. It was published in the early Eighties so there's a good chance its out of print. Look for it at a decent used bookstore, or on eBay, is my advice. Caution: the paperback is almost five hundred pages long.

@jamesclendon4811

4 жыл бұрын

Spooky! Just yesterday I finished rereading his book "Spangle," (first time in 25 or 30 years), and thought , "Maybe I'll reread "Aztec" next." Happily, I don't have to look any further than my bookcase. Great book, but, yes, very long. Sadly, the sequel, "Aztec Autumn," or something like that, is very disappointing.

@thecook8964

9 ай бұрын

Thrift books

Alrighty, this may be the greatest in video advertisement you've ever done Simon. Signed up!

Love the new lighting. Great colors. Very moody.

Please do albert camus the french existentialist philosopher...from his participation in the french underground resistance during ww2 to his prolific literary career he's one of the most interesting people of the 20th century

I miss those old times when you leaped out of the womb fully armed

Great choice of song to learn to play.

ole Simon tickling the ivories.

Your story disputes all the "facts" that I knew and yet helps me better understand the feelings the Mexican people have for Hernan Cortez. For the vast majority of Mexico, he would have been a godsend. I enjoyed seeing Hernan's castle and villa which are still standing after 400 years in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

I recently discovered your channel, and I love it! I've always been enthralled with history

@user-mv6yv9ec1b

4 жыл бұрын

This guy makes a lot of mistakes and inaccuracies in his historical videos as well as telling blatant lies in videos on his other 6 trillion channels, you should take everything he says with a grain of salt

@aldoushuxley5953

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-mv6yv9ec1b do you have any examples/proof for that?

So cool!! I love this one can u imagine a video game on the Montezuma 2

Simon your a legend and my favourite teacher in the universe

Simon: I haven't played Piano in years and I was never very good Also Simon: I have a piano in my house 😂

Saying the Aztecs would conquer people and force there God on them sounds a little to familiar to me,lol

@Hromovlad1

4 жыл бұрын

That's the history of most religions.

@Ryan-wu1oi

4 жыл бұрын

Yes , so when the Spanish did it to them it was deserved And now Spain is a poor worthless nation like most of South America ie.Karma Mongolia is a sh*thole country

Sadly, of the hundreds watched, this is the first video, on any of your channels, that I didn't 10sec skip through the sponsorship segment. Actually an interesting app.

@permanentvisitor2460

3 жыл бұрын

Am fully ashamed.

Everybody needs to see Paul Cooper's Fall of Civilizations episode on the Aztecs, amazing video, fascinating and heartbreaking in equal measure.

But it’s Moctezuma ...

One thing that always confused me is, why is it horrible that Spanish christians conquered land but when it comes to the Mongols or the Mayans or the Muslims, their conquests are spoken about like it was ok?

@yaqbulyakkerbat4190

4 жыл бұрын

Because they're white

@Stroggoii

4 жыл бұрын

Whom among those four groups exiled the jews from their land?

A bio on Cortez would be fantastic as I have little knowledge of him

Your the best speaker regarding history

PLEEEEEASE do one on all around badass John Paul Jones

@haroldjackson5392

4 жыл бұрын

@How To Work all the more reason he needs a video.

"that's a great story, someone ought to do a video game about it" -age of empires: "am I a joke to you?"

love you simon

I can listen to this guy talk bout paint drying or grass growin,really gd as wht he does,keep up the gd work....

Let’s not feel too sorry for the Aztec Empire’s fate they did pull each other’s hearts out for their religion after all

@ShadowDragonGT

4 жыл бұрын

Like the Europeans didn’t do worse to their own people and the natives

@nobblkpraetorian5623

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShadowDragonGT For the Europeans, it was convert or die. It's evil, but at least you have a choice.

@ShadowDragonGT

4 жыл бұрын

Nobblk Praetorian it wasn’t a choice

Aztec human sacrifice-TRY FLOWKEY TODAY!-Aztec warfare and conquest!

Hell yeah!!! 💪🏻✊🏻👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻

Thank you

Might as well do a vid on La Malinche, as she played a big part in all this. It's also a good cautionary tale. Don't piss off a woman.

It’s MOCTEZUMA... Mock-Teh-Zuh-Ma

I'd would love to see an episode on the Donner Party!

Nezahualcoyotl in the future maybe??

Fatal irony: in the Spanish of the day, Cortes meant "courteous."

@BeatrizSantiagoRomero

3 жыл бұрын

It still mean courteous

Very interesting video ! Great work Simon you did your best to tell the other side of the story of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec but from the view of the Aztecs who I can imagine must been terrified to see Spanish who understandingly were "Aliens" in their point of view who looked so different from them that they doubt They could believed the Spanish were human like them

I LOVE watching your segments. Very well produced. Just a comment on this one tho. His name was “Moctezuma”.