Imagine seeing the floating city of Tenochtitlan for the first time, when entering the valley of Mexico through mountain and volcano passes.

@fishofgold6553

Жыл бұрын

I've heard that one or more Spaniards later wrote that they had wondered if they were all dreaming when they first saw Tenochtitlan. It was incredibly clean and beautiful and neatly laid out. Also, it must have been such a relief to see it at last because the Spaniards had taken weeks to get there, making them very uncomfortable, dirty and tired. Plus, they expected to find huge amounts of gold there.

@harvardarchaeologydept3799

6 ай бұрын

@@fishofgold6553spaniards were WHITE PEOPLES. Always remember that.

@miguelbravo5816

Ай бұрын

It must’ve been so beautiful‼️‼️

Tenochtitlan is definitely on my time travel bucket list. Imagine being the first Spanish man to see the city. It must’ve been a marvel to behold.

Fun fact. Even though history now knows them as the Aztecs, the people living in Tenochtitlan called themselves the Mexica, which is where the modern day name for Mexico comes from. In fact Aztec legends tells of how their capital of Tenochtitlan was built on the site where a eagle had a snake in its mouth perched on top of a cactus. This image has been engraved onto the flag of Mexico, and the Mexican people still see themselves as the scions of the Aztec's legacy. Quite ironic since the Aztecs were considered the evil overlords of the region who were so brutal and oppressive that both their vassals and enemies joined forces in helping the Spanish in putting an end to their civilization.

@theoutlook55

Жыл бұрын

True

@sisilotau2185

Жыл бұрын

@Josman thank you, I've known the fact that it compromised of 3 different peoples but can never remember the individual names lol

@semdavidanger

Жыл бұрын

Yep,.

@v.Toro.

Жыл бұрын

Well put! It's common knowledge to most Mexican people but likely something not a lot of others might know. It is also known that the Mexica were also once invaders like the Spanish; their origins believed to be from the North, according to Aztec mythology. If I remember correctly, I read once there were also linguistic origin similarities to tribes of southern USA/north Mexico.

@m.c.martin

Жыл бұрын

@@v.Toro. Well, if we go from Aztec Legends, they get their name from Aztalan or Aztlan, essentially their promised land. The land of White Swan is interpreted as a Land of Snow. So judging by name and description of its trees, the Aztecs are from what is now the State of Wisconsin and it’s the only place with “Aztalan National Park” meaning their original homeland is in Wisconsin. They followed the Mississippi and then eventually the Colorado River down to what is now New Mexico, (where they likely had adopted the name Mexica, which I think just meant Nomads but I could be mistaken) before making their way down the mountain range to what is now Mexico City.

I've been really enjoying this newest addition to the Simonverse. Thanks Simon and Co.

@DomoKuchikan

2 жыл бұрын

Proposing an edit - Whistleverse 🤣

@joeyr7294

2 жыл бұрын

@@DomoKuchikan I like it lol

@seanmcmullen4274

2 жыл бұрын

agree. this is quickly becoming my favorite channel in the simonverse. :)

@chaseharrigan2278

7 ай бұрын

The Simonverse will eventually start having plot holes and have major continuity errors

The Spanish had A LOT of help conquering the Aztecs to be fair. Other native tribes allied with them.

@thesurvivor75Ejercito

2 жыл бұрын

Yes , many natives rised against the Aztecs .

@duncancurtis1758

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah fed up with being chopped up on top of temples.

@user-cn3rv2xi9t

2 жыл бұрын

Only reason why they were able conquered them tbh

@pyromania1018

2 жыл бұрын

They traded their old overlords for new ones, though Cortes did try to smooth things over to an extent. He even took a few high-ranking Natives on further expeditions.

@Rudyelf1

2 жыл бұрын

@@pyromania1018 like Philippines, where Tlaxcala warriors fought against Japanese pirates/ronin

Could you do the Munster Rebellion? Its an insane story that hasnt really been talked about. Its like waco if they had taken over a whole city and had an army. Please! It would be so cool.

@DieNextInLINE

2 жыл бұрын

I second this! I'd never heard of this before but after giving the events a skim, I am beyond interested in learning more about it.

@mistacarva

2 жыл бұрын

If you haven’t already, cheating out Dan Carlins Hardcore History episode regarding it. It is called “Prophets of Doom” if I remember correctly and it is as perfect as the rest of the series.

@jessicajujubean5004

2 жыл бұрын

I heard of the Munster rebellion. Herman and Grandpa drank one of Grandpa's crazy potions and took over Mexico before Lily found out and made them come back home to California

@Bufoferrata

Жыл бұрын

@@mistacarva: Read the Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn. It's got a brilliant chapter on the Munster Rebellion. If you can understand German, I recommend the German TV miniseries Der Konig Der Letzten Tage, starring a young Christophe Walz as Jan Van Leyden. Amazing show! Cheers and best wishes!

@trayhughes270

Жыл бұрын

@@mistacarva yes. Best description of that conflict and everything leading up to it. Of course anything Dan Carlin does is great.

Great video man. Channel is off to a solid start.

This has become my favourite of Simon's channels!

Everything you do is pure art, love all your channels, plz keep being awesome...

Simon, great addition to your library of channels and by far i hope to be my favorite. I do have to admit I do scan your library's for videos over 40 min long and gravitate to those.

Great video as always! Great content! Can you do a video on the Spanish Civil War? Cheers,

How has no one made an epic movie about this story!?!

@jeremyd1869

6 ай бұрын

A novel, Captain from Castile, is set in the Cortes conquest. The movie couldn't show the epic scope of the campaign, unfortunately.

@JG-MV

12 күн бұрын

Apocalipto is kinda like that

@Anonymity4LDAF

12 күн бұрын

@@JG-MV it’s pretty awesome…but pure historic fiction. But…yeah…it’s awesome.

YEEESSS!! One of my favorite historical episodes

Mexico City isn't just one of the largest cities in the Western Hemisphere, it's one of the largest in the entire world.

@shanesmith9309

Жыл бұрын

Ok

@marcustulliuscicero.5856

Жыл бұрын

Ok

@SirSnideALot82

Жыл бұрын

Ok

@RallanDOG

Жыл бұрын

Ok

@alejandrovega8370

Жыл бұрын

most populous in north america as well

A very excellent video 📹 Well balanced Watched it twice.

For those of us who go down Wikipedia rabbit holes; you make the best videos

If I could snap my fingers and travel through time and space, the battle for the Aztec capital would definitely make the shirt list.

Man these videos never fail to amaze me and blow my mind 😂 I swear I'm so happy I found Simon's channel because it showed me he had 10 more channels going over everything you can imagine. Round of applause for Simon and his team, I know someone, I think named Will, writes the scripts for these videos so he does all the research and information gathering that's needed in order to do a video like this one... so hats off to the whole team over there at Wargraphics and the other channels 💪💪💯💯

@jbagga3

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I wrote the script for this episode, thanks for the kind words :)

@gely_

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbagga3 how much do you charge to write a script? I’m interested!

thank you for that. a lot of information i took from this video.

Learning this for A Level early history. Thank god this video exists

Have to ask again for a video on the war of Spanish succession or the battle of Blenheim. Would be hella awesome man!

Thank you Simon

I just came back from Mexico City there’s some much history. If you are Mexican or love history this is a place I recommend everyone to go. You won’t be disappointed. The church is still on top of the remains of the Aztec Temple. It’s in front of El Zocalo it’s called Catedral Metropolitana.

@luismanuelpotencianonorato9672

Жыл бұрын

El Palacio presidencial está encima de que fue el palacio de Montezuma.

@Tralala691

5 ай бұрын

It’s a turd of a city. Gross.

Great video. Had no idea it was so complex, or so brutal 😬

@neganrex5693

8 ай бұрын

That's war for you.

My family, on my fathers side, is descended from the remnants of the Aztec peoples, while my mothers side is descended from the Tlaxcala people. Yet I came out 6'2, light skinned and sprinkled with red hair. Genes be crazy.

@rachaelsdaddontdrink

2 жыл бұрын

A couple of conquistadors in the woodpile... The story of Mexico...

@rayray9865

2 жыл бұрын

My father's side of the family are otomi and my mothers spanish.

@celter.45acp98

Жыл бұрын

when I tell people I'm almost full blooded irish w a speck of Norwegian nobody gets that it's from the vikings in the woodpile

@yayogee3133

6 ай бұрын

@@celter.45acp98bro at the end of the day your comparing two groups of white people Mexicans genes are much more diverse

It’s worth noting that Guerrero (considered the father of the Mestizos because his may’ve been the first interracial marriage in the Americas) taught the Mayans things like Phalanxes and they used them against the Spaniards when the latter moved south into Mayan lands. Guerrero even died in battle against the Spanish, leading Mayans.

@andyyang3029

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that's interesting. Such an ancient tactic and still effective enough to be used in the 1500s

@AtaMarKat

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyyang3029 Weapons may change, but people are fairly apprehensive to the prospect of running into a wall of spears.

@williamalfonso1373

Жыл бұрын

@@andyyang3029 The formation was the Pike and Shot (Tercio in spanish). The formation was starting to make a return around that time. From models I have seen its a square of pikes with Crossbow (Later gun power weapons) on its sides. @Atanacio Maria Kateri doubt the light infantry formation would be as effective against armor plated Spaniards.

@andrewmartinez7559

Жыл бұрын

Source?

@blahblah2779

7 ай бұрын

Tell us you don’t know jack about history without telling us…. The FIRST known interracial relationship in the America’s was Cortez and la Malinche. They lived 200 years before Guerrero. All that bs about phalanx is also a made up story.

I didn't realize where all these hot sauce names came from. Thanks for the excellent video.

Great job covering this one Simon! I wonder if you could please cover some WWI battles in the future: The Battle Of Verdun The Battle Of The Somme The Meuse-Argonne Offensive(perhaps a mention of the famous Lost Battalion if you can?) Thanks, and keep up the amazing work!

@thorpeaaron1110

2 жыл бұрын

The Lost Battalion is one of the most intriguing stories of World War I

@thatbrit2005

2 жыл бұрын

Lost battalion would make a great decoding the unknown video

@mitchellneu

2 жыл бұрын

@@thorpeaaron1110 agreed. They and The Harlem Hellfighters need to have their stories told and retold.

@andyyang3029

2 жыл бұрын

I second this

@thorpeaaron1110

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellneu Yeah

1:20 - Chapter 1 - Arrival of cortés tabasco 6:55 - Chapter 2 - No turning back 9:35 - Chapter 3 - The heart of the aztec empire 16:35 - Chapter 4 - The beginning of the end 21:30 - Chapter 5 - The siege of tenochtitlan 25:15 - Chapter 6 - A new era

Honestly, the conquest of the Aztecs is nothing to the conquest of the Incas by Pizzaro, who had far fewer soldiers than Cortez, little to no allies, and facing a foe that was in every way the superior of the Aztecs.

@AtaMarKat

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t call them superior. They were basically proto-Communists.

@azrael7891

2 жыл бұрын

European diseases reached them first. That's why Pizarro won so easily.

@azrael7891

2 жыл бұрын

@@AtaMarKat that's a good thing.

@thebiologist8662

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, there was a massive civil war and both sides annihilated each other while Pizarro just sat and watch while eating popcorn.

@InquisitorXarius

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebiologist8662 The civil war you are talking about ended right before Pizarro arrived. As we know, Pizarro captured the Incan emperor just as the emperor was en route for his return to Cuzco after he defeated his rebellious brother.

Very interesting stuff.

To burn ones ships is usually associated with a Viking funeral but the term to burn your ships actually comes from Cortez’s first action in Mexico. Upon hearing his men say that if they fail they could sail home he threw a massive party and order his men to burn the ships. The idea was that if they want to go home it would be on the Aztec ships, two years later they conquered paradise

@changer_of_ways_suspense_smith

8 ай бұрын

Vikings also didn't burn their ships. They did occasionally bury the ship with the leader, though, which is pretty damn impressive.

@meruendano

6 ай бұрын

Cortés no mandó quemar las naves, mandó "dar las naves al través". Es decir, quitarles los aparejos y los mástiles dejándolas de costado. Es más, con esas naves se consyruyeron algunos de los bergantines que se usaron en la conquista de Tenochtitlan.

Many coincidences you don’t wanna talk about on this channel many similarities physically as well i get it. great video as always

Do a video on the Trail of Tears and the Seminole Wars

Hold on, did you really just leave out that the Aztecs literally used the tribes around them as human farms to sacrifice to their gods?! When the Spanish saw the evil things they practiced that is when they started everything. The reason they succeeded was because those same tribes allied with them.

Warographics Can you do a video on the Battle of the Denmark Strait?

Thanks

You should talk about Julius Caesar conquest in Gaul.

@duncancurtis1758

2 жыл бұрын

Already done, except for one village surrounded by squalid Roman camps.

@pyromania1018

2 жыл бұрын

@@duncancurtis1758 He did a bio of Caesar, but I don't think he did a video on the war.

Around 14:20; Many modern historians doubt everything they have ever been told, because this is how they were told to be: The once popular saying of "Question Everything!" comes to mind. While it is certainly helpful at times, this approach can become much more of a liability than an asset. I'm referring specifically to those who (attempt to) put modern values, their own personal feelings and thoughts, and various contemporary issues and concerns, into historical scenarios, forgetting that, just as they do, these historical people acted based upon their current cultures, beliefs, ideals, etc. This can and does often lead to incorrect, or unlikely, or, at best, improperly motivated actions being given as the currently accepted causes of historical events, when this simply is not the case. The point, shortly put, is that we need to be careful about how and why we rewrite history, and on what bases we do it as well.

@--enyo--

2 жыл бұрын

That cuts both ways, though. I’d say that we put much more emphasis on examining our own biases now, whereas in the past people were much more likely to base things on the values of their own time, which would have been no more applicable to what they were writing (and perhaps even less so) to today.

@rachaelsdaddontdrink

2 жыл бұрын

@Olaka "Guns, Germs and Steel", great book...

@rachaelsdaddontdrink

2 жыл бұрын

@Olaka "Eurosupremepizza"? Ok... What is this b10wurfer you speak of?

I absolutely love this channel! I was wondering if you might, someday, cover the French and Indian War (The Seven Years War, to the rest of the world outside the Colonies)?

@Chris-hx3om

2 жыл бұрын

How about the Seven Days war? Or the Hundred Years war?

@chriskuzianik9507

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chris-hx3om the 100 (116ish, actually) years war would either be the longest video ever or several shorter ones. Not a bad suggestion though.

@Chris-hx3om

2 жыл бұрын

@@chriskuzianik9507 Thanks. I'm fully aware that is wasn't 100 years. ;-)

@chriskuzianik9507

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chris-hx3om wasn't trying to offend or insult. Just being my nerdy self on that, lol.

@Chris-hx3om

2 жыл бұрын

@@chriskuzianik9507 Not offended or insulted. It's all good... Nice to actually see comments from people with actual knowledge...

Fabulous.

I suggest: The battle of the Alamo. The Trojan war. The battle of Camden. The battle of Cowpens. The battle of Gettysburg.

@pyromania1018

2 жыл бұрын

Gettysburg and the Alamo got geographics videos.

Can you do battle of Szigetzvar or Battle of Vukovar, that would be interesting

Please do the battle of Rorke's Drift

@duncancurtis1758

2 жыл бұрын

Bromhead! Sir! I've a job for you.

such an utterly fascinating aspect of history. makes you wonder whats more bizarre, to be invaded by aliens, or to be the alien invader yourself

0:48 "When the Fire Nation attacked" 🔥

This video saved my life

Love the people that act is if the Aztecs were a bunch of hippies living on peace and love and the Spanish were monsters. This was how the world worked back then . Everyone was uncivilized by today's standards but the Aztecs took it to a hole nother level. I wish we would stop romanticizing some of these indigenous people who were in all actually monster's even by the standard of their era

Has anyone looked for cortez's ships I imagine that would be pretty high up on an archeologist list

@thebiologist8662

2 жыл бұрын

Contrary to what Simon said, the ships weren't destroyed. They were dismantled for the raw materials. In the painting he showed, you can even see the rowboats full of planks, ropes, and sails.

@celter.45acp98

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebiologist8662 Well that's kind of disappointing

Do u mind doing the Battle of the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains

Man the Spanish conquests of the new world is really cool tragic but pretty cool the stories told about the expeditions and treasure hunts are pretty cool to read about.

@thorpeaaron1110

2 жыл бұрын

I know right it's one of my favorite historical subjects to study

@benjaminrees6665

2 жыл бұрын

Truly epic tales.

@alegp97

11 ай бұрын

We should see this story as one of the most incredible, of men like us, who were neither saints nor villains, the enterprises of men are not those of the gods, they are full of passions, arts, hatreds, virtues, blood, and sex. Any of us exposed to the most extreme situations would be totally different. I imagine myself with a rifle in some war and depending on the day I would be a hero or a demon! This is the realm of Earth. Here we walk between knowledge and ignorance of good. Whoever is freaked out should fly to the kingdom of Air with the university communists and their fucking mother. Dont talk about "spaniards or mexicas" talk about individuals, protagonists like Marina(la malinche), Cortés and his generals and wives, who make the history of mankind, something impressive, full of threads and turning points. History is never tragic my friend! For the future is uncertain and harbors mysteries of undecipherable luck

@williamalfonso1373

6 ай бұрын

Just shows how advanced technology and the horse made a difference. The battle of Otumba would have been a loss for Cortez if it wasn't for his cavalry that was barely 20 men.

@alfredosenalle9284

6 ай бұрын

@williamalfonso1373 The sword played an enormous part in this battles also

I'm now realizing hot sauces are just named after myan & Aztec cities & kingdoms

@andyyang3029

2 жыл бұрын

Tabasco? 😅 Me too

@celter.45acp98

2 жыл бұрын

@@andyyang3029 and chalulla

It is all very tragic, but in a strange way one must be in awe of the ability of sheer human intelligence and willpower.

Could you do the Campanha da Legalidade?

there is a spanish series "Carlos Rey Emperador", about events happened at those times.

Be cool to do one on the Battle of Little Big Horn and Isandlwana.

I had to stop what i was doing for this

Jesus Simon! Another channel?

25:29 That is some Wylie Coyote stuff right there! (^^)

The Anti-Aztec Allies of the Spaniards were much more important than Spanish Steel or Arab Horses. The Aztec Vampire-Empire won itself enough enemies to insure its end, once Van Helsing showed up.

@slcpunk2740

9 ай бұрын

Not another crossover

@changer_of_ways_suspense_smith

8 ай бұрын

You had me in the first half... then you totally lost me.

@thomasjorge4734

8 ай бұрын

@@changer_of_ways_suspense_smith Van Helsing is the Spanish Conquistadores ln this scenario.

@GD-my5hm

3 ай бұрын

History as old as time. Most great empires have fallen because they had too many enemies

Read Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz he was a soldier in Cortes' expedition.

Half way through and learning about the history of hot sauce names

We need a movie about Cortez trying to escape and the men getting sacrificed!!

I’d like to request a war of the roses series

The Regulator-Moderator War of East Texas would make a good video.

At 40 seconds, what's the story of the little separate chunk that's south of the Yucatan?

This is crazy bro, you couldn’t make up a story like this

This could be another stage for an Assassins Creed game.

Check out The Rest is History’s 8 part series on the Cortes expedition if you are interested in this period of history. It’s very well done and insightful, on the level of a Dan Carlin series.

Someone please give Simon a Spanish and Nahuatl pronunciation guide!

@eversin1283

Жыл бұрын

hey, he tried!!

@sd4mg

Жыл бұрын

He did decent, until he got to Cuauhtémoc, unless he was using some kind of Nahuatl pronunciation I’ve never heard of before.

@therealdavidleong

Жыл бұрын

@@sd4mg 3:03 "Giyero" lol

@therealdavidleong

Жыл бұрын

Also Chinese and French!

Is this a film yet? It feels like it should be a film. Someone call Gibson

Cortes's interpreter was called Marina or Malintzin. Marina is "Malina" and Cortez is the Malinche (owner of Malina) I know every Wikipedia article confuses this term but please look into it. Malinche = Hernan Cortes. Malina = Marina.

I've always been a little skeptical about the exaggerated effects that some historians claim about Spanish smallpox killing many people in Tenochtitlan. How come the Spanish Indian allies the Tlaxcalans didn't suffer with smallpox , even though they were even closer to the Spaniards than the Aztecs were ?

@changer_of_ways_suspense_smith

8 ай бұрын

Close enough to actually inter marrying and having children. The vast majority of Latin Americans are a result of Spanish/Portuguese and Natives living together. I'm sure some of the relationships were... coersed but definitely not the majority. Initial interactions between Natives and Europeans was far more mixed of good and bad but of course humans tend to focus on the bad in general.

@alfredosenalle9284

6 ай бұрын

@tzeentch999 The majority by a very narrow margin. There simply wasn't enough Spanish migration to have intermarriage with every native. There is still a large number of indigenous people in Latin America.

Seven years war please

Damn guy, how many channels do you narrate for?

40,000 sacrifices a year. Let that sink in.

Goat

Can anyone link Mexico books about its history from beginning to the end

Can you guys do the Taiping Rebellion next?

@theawesomeman9821

2 жыл бұрын

I think he covered it on Biographics

@thorpeaaron1110

2 жыл бұрын

@@theawesomeman9821 I know but it would be nice to see in depth coverage

Makes me wonder if these events would’ve played out differently if Luis de Medina had successfully replaced Cortes to lead the expedition. Would the Aztec society have lasted longer? Would there have been a more peaceful coexistence between them and Spain? Maybe not, but I guess we will never know.

Hey, there's my 15th great grandfather. ...I was mid typing when you committed that crime against the Mexica language. Huitzilopochtli: WEE-tsee-lo-POHT-chlee Now, that -tli suffix at the end is actually a lateral lisp between the molars. So the chlee is actually a percussive sound of breath hissing through your teeth... And I haven't even got there yet but I already know what kind of damage you will be doing to my ancestral tongue and I'm ready for it. But I had to say something for old Weetslee... [EDIT 1]: ...sigh... Nahuatl: NAH-wat-tl [EDIT 1]: ...double sigh... Tenochtitlan: ten ohch teet TLAN Queztalcoatl: keh tzal KWAH tl It almost sounds like you're saying "now what" with a breathy tail. By the way, the word you know as "chocolate" is originally spelled "chocolatl" when the Spaniards introduced it to Europe from the new world.

"...which they ate with a sauce of pepper and tomatoes...", and just like that we have a new channel; Kitchengraphics XD

@MrStretchification

2 жыл бұрын

This! Omg that needs to happen. I'm gonna spam all his future videos with this

I'm curious about that sauce of peppers and tomatoes

Hows is this not a movie yet

can you do a video on the British Conquest of South Africa and the invention of the first concentration camps, I think this channel may do that story some justice

@randomlygeneratedname7171

2 жыл бұрын

I think he already did.

@theawesomeman9821

2 жыл бұрын

Islawanda and Rourkes Drift would be great South African Battles to cover

Simon's foreign word pronunciation kills me every time! 3:03 Guerrero does not equal Guillermo lol

It's very interesting that like most other culture, each Aztec city had their own Patreon God. It's one of the many constant in humanity history from the Sumerian to the Greek. I wonder what replace this constant in modern day?

@ashoat2388

2 жыл бұрын

Sports teams.

@carlroy

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashoat2388 Make senses, one team can be adulated as Gods in the arena where I am from.

@hershelfowler6257

6 ай бұрын

Merchants

Aztec war likeness worked to their disadvantage. Although I don’t think they could avoid it. With that religion one cannot avoid making enemies

I wanna watch this movie

Excellent video. Thank you. BTW it’s “oriented “ not “orientated”.

Spanish were heroes they gave us the great country of Mexico It’s great to know that they were aided by a lot of local allies

@biomuseum6645

6 ай бұрын

Failed Narco-state

For a channel called wargraphics there is an alarming lack of maps 😅

I'm trying to think of a battle or war that's more obscure. Hmm, maybe the Football War between El Salvador and Honduras.

The Spanish were no joke between the 1300s till the 1800s. The Aztecs screwed up making enemies of the Tlaxaca for so long.

Story sounds better than Voices of The Past channel. More legitimate than how he told the story. How did Cortez get those ships onto the lakes? I thought he had taken them apart and transferred to the lake by crossing the mountains. A feet that was huge for its time. Not to mention the French sink8ng Cortez's ship (full of gold) heading into Spain.

Good or bad or neither, Cortes had unimaginable courage and determination.

How does one make content as a single person for 50 channels?

Could do some videos about India's history? e.g. Ashoka's wars, Mughal-Maratha wars, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji, partition etc theres so many examples that western channels just don't touch

@sharonb3939

2 жыл бұрын

He did the partition video in his into the shadows channel and did taj mahal one on geographics channel

The Aztec Empire may have been brutal and awful by modern (and contemporary) standards, but I still cannot help but feel sad that everything they ever did has been lost to time. All their treasures, all their arts, all their cities, with very little that has survived for us to remember them.

@michaelmoraga2926

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate your sentiment (so much lost), but many Mexicans would disagree that 'everything they ever did has been lost to time'. Their impact on Mexican identity is evident in the streets of CDMX; still evident in the art and soul of Mexico.

@randomlygeneratedname7171

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmoraga2926 Don’t forget they were such a brutal cruel empire your people sided with the foreigners in the hundreds of thousands.

@michaelmoraga2926

2 жыл бұрын

@@randomlygeneratedname7171 'my people?'... I'm talking about Mexican cultural identity. Sorry, I don't really understand the point you are making.

@randomlygeneratedname7171

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmoraga2926 I thought you’re Mexican. The point I made was the Spanish easily found allies in the new world trying to break the old order.

@jacobhill5826

2 жыл бұрын

Of course other tribes sided with Spain they were Aztec rivals and wanted to be the top dogs from which Cortes promised them and he lied used them

Sounds like these guys where just hunting for hot sauces