Fun facts: Aztecs used to put flower on their noses while being close to Spaniards to not have to smell them.

@Neesi392

2 жыл бұрын

Omg that's funny and sad at the same time lol

@o_o8531

2 жыл бұрын

Dang

@donttouchtherolex7158

2 жыл бұрын

What scent to anticipate from people that sailed on ships for months?Do enlighten me

@Lobo_Loco1

2 жыл бұрын

LMFAO!!!!!!

@Blend-24

2 жыл бұрын

Incredible, also in what is California, USA today, the native Chumash of the missions would make tiny satchels of srap material filled with sage and hold them to their noses so as to not smell the Spanish (Mexican) travelers coming overland from Sonora.

Legend has it that when Hernan Cortes met the aztecs in Tenochitlan, the aztecs covered the Spaniards in rose pedaled chains around their necks. The Spaniards saw themselves in their eyes as gods, while the aztecs were trying to get rid of their odor. History is all about perspective

@chelebelle2223

2 жыл бұрын

😄 tee-hee-hee

@frillylily8005

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@asimpnamednutsack5219

2 жыл бұрын

There’s literally zero historical records of this happening. This is just pasted from a Mexican nationalist website

@rudybrooks3722

2 жыл бұрын

@@asimpnamednutsack5219 You trolling.

@Shyfish_0922

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

When the Aztecs were cleaner than the later French royalty in Versailles.

@roman51220

2 жыл бұрын

@Jose Hernandez but they did know about hygiene from the romans, they chose to be filthy (to this day, from personal experience with them)

@coolwomabat7897

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to say this 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@cynthiatowers1038

2 жыл бұрын

@@roman51220 I agree with you. 😉

@davidjones3165

2 жыл бұрын

They were sacrificing people to make sure the sun rose, so there is that.

@controlman7490

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidjones3165 No different from Europe that brutally tortured people for not being catholic, and besides every civilization has practiced human sacrifice.

Their hygiene was better than than some people that I actually know today.

@thomasag2765

2 жыл бұрын

Right? Shit lol

@stinkanator570

2 жыл бұрын

Sad but true

@graciadanielle1966

2 жыл бұрын

Yourself?

@sethkaicer319

2 жыл бұрын

@@graciadanielle1966 I take a bath once a year what's the problem. LOL!

@sethkaicer319

2 жыл бұрын

@@stinkanator570 where is Hagar the Horrible when you really need him.

After watching hygiene in Versailles this is really mind boggling

@tanie3543

2 жыл бұрын

Wypipo don't clean

@Enlightened0ne

2 жыл бұрын

@@tanie3543 still

@coolwomabat7897

2 жыл бұрын

Yesss 🤮🤮🤮🤮

@bearlythere2388

2 жыл бұрын

Not quite the "Savages" we were made out to be.

@marcussingh3719

2 жыл бұрын

Well said. A marked difference.

Hernan Cortez first meeting the Aztecs Aztecs: YOU GUYS SMELLS LIKE DEATH!

@edwardr5084

2 жыл бұрын

Hernan Cortez: "Jokes on you....we'll take anything we want and will use you".

@jonnyitguy

2 жыл бұрын

They should have headed their noses’ warning.

@melissafreeman7416

2 жыл бұрын

When the pilgrims arrived in what is now the United States, just one year later after Columbus... one of the pilgrims had recorded (which is researchable) his seeing and describing Native American peoples bathing in rivers. Other available information researchable is that Native Americans of the now United States, had also “used brush sticks and chewed herbs” to clean and freshen their breaths with also bathing daily. Unlike the Europeans of that time. Which is why they brought all the diseases they were carriers of here.

@hollowDEBL

2 жыл бұрын

Funny enough, what you just said is historically correct, when they first entered Tenochtitlan, they were received with incense and "Copal" smoke, not because they were perceived as divine beings, but because they smelled like ass.

@melissafreeman7416

2 жыл бұрын

@@hollowDEBL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

I give a lot of grief when these types of docs are inaccurate and so I now have to give praise to the channel for being respectful to the culture and finally using more correct images when depicting things. My hats off to the people at Wierd History

@Chactemal

2 жыл бұрын

It's not accurate at all, one second in he uses a woman in a costume and the temple of kukulkan or "chichen itza" which is maya NOT Mexica.

@Wayne_155

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should just make your own KZread documentaries since you seem to know everything

@Adartse310

2 жыл бұрын

@@Chactemal That's why I said more correct rather than absolutely correct lol

@Adartse310

2 жыл бұрын

@@Wayne_155 Nah, I wouldn't know where to start and I never claimed to know everything

@CuckHunt

Жыл бұрын

They love to spread lies.

As Mexican I feel very happy when you make videos about the prehispanic cultures and you do it well. Nowadays we still have the tradition of bathing daily, and being clean is a very important part of our daily live, when I first knew some countries do not bath daily I was shocked honestly.

@mikatu

2 жыл бұрын

You are wrong. A daily bath is normal everywhere, except when that is not possible for some reason. Of course there are people who don't do that, but people are free to do as they want. If I stay at home I don't need to take a bath every single day, but if I go out and do some physical activity of course I bath, sometimes twice in the same day.

@HeavenlyBrujo

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikatu basically by saying that you don't bath daily you're proving the other guy's point 😂😂😂😂

@xan8185

2 жыл бұрын

In my family, (from PR) we were taught to shower twice a day. Before you leave home or sometime in the AM, and when you get home or before bed. The only ppl shocked we shower 2x a day are white people. I get shocked when the women tell me they don't shower before heading out to work! I'm like wow.

@laurensteenkamp7693

2 жыл бұрын

I think it depends on where in the world you live, as someone who lives in a reasonably cold part of Northern Europe who doesn't do a job that requires manual labour or often do an intense workout when I go to the gym I feel safe in only having one bath/ shower a day

@wellsengrey4768

2 жыл бұрын

North Korean barely bath once a week.

I’m Mexican American. My grandma was super clean she would mop the cement in the backyard. My mom is super clean. My dad is super clean. We might have been broke but we always kept everything really clean. I had to always be well kept, no body odor, no leftover food on my face. Always presentable. It all makes sense now.

@mcmandy086

2 жыл бұрын

What you meant to say was that you are indigenous?

@BlakeGibbons

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcmandy086 I'm indigenous.

@QuIeT_KhA0s

2 жыл бұрын

Cleanliness is next to Godliness. We were raised this way as well.

@sparklejumpropequeen1328

Жыл бұрын

So true everyone who is Mexican is such a clean freak and germaphobe lol

@melsko_9

Жыл бұрын

Leftover food on your face??

And we were consider “Savages?!”, lol! We most definitely smelt better than the British.

@thebosshavoc3530

2 жыл бұрын

But you ate people

@rubendoomzday1789

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebosshavoc3530 so did Europeans. What's your point??

@mkdzzxc

2 жыл бұрын

Fact: I'm Mexican, born in Mexico city, the saying "we're Aztecs" is mostly false, due to lots of facts, for example: the aztecs went almost extinct after the downfall of Tenochtitlan, actually a small percentage of Mexicans come from the Aztecs. Second fact: The "tlaxcaltecas" with other aztec neighbors,were the ones who allowed the downfall happen, if it was the Spaniards alone, they would've propably lost and would've taken more time to conquer the Aztec empire

@ipolar78

2 жыл бұрын

@@mkdzzxc Es lo que Siempre le digo a mi gente but they ain’t ready to talk about that

@melissaharding7754

2 жыл бұрын

Yeaaaah but the British never sacrificed young kids n stuff sooooo yeaaaahhhh

It would have been cool to sit and have food and drink with the Aztecs 👍

@BoredAtWorkVids

2 жыл бұрын

The Olmecs would of been cooler…”Olmecs>Mayans>Aztecs” :)

@leggonarm9835

2 жыл бұрын

Probably would've enslaved you for being a foreigner.

@thebosshavoc3530

2 жыл бұрын

That food could have been human meet

@BoredAtWorkVids

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebosshavoc3530 lol so true

@GodofWarChuka

2 жыл бұрын

@@leggonarm9835 Maybe 🤔 Did the Aztecs like white people? LoL

Some say the Spanish were smelled before they were seen.

@NYTHUG1

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@scusj408

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@BangBang-hk4rg

2 жыл бұрын

Damn! 😂🤣😂

@ozzievalverde8737

2 жыл бұрын

It was said that Aztec noble-women would hold up flowers to their nose whenever they had to interact with the Spanish.

@phfreakitty

2 жыл бұрын

lol!

"I don't study to know more, but to ignore less" - Juana Inés de la Cruz

@misabelrodriguez1163

2 жыл бұрын

She signed her resignation in her own blood, saying "I, the worst of all." Referring that she is the "worst" nun. She was so metal.

@yomommasofatthanoshadtosna3479

2 жыл бұрын

@@misabelrodriguez1163 Badass.

@imahallucination4532

2 жыл бұрын

I admire her strength ❤️

@mauroordorica3641

2 жыл бұрын

Es SOR Juana Inés no Juana

@asprywrites6327

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that.

I'm so impressed by how aztec people prioritize cleanliness.

@arceliagomez9223

2 жыл бұрын

I’m not attempting to shit on you or anything, I realized this growing up but it seems so impressive because we were taught a white washed version of history. They tried to justify the genocide of native people by claiming we were savages and less intelligent people in comparison to white people. It seems impressive because Europeans have convinced us that their customs and history is the standard everyone else was to live up to even if that meant slowing others down until they caught up. When we are shown examples of other cultures thriving in basic ways it’s considered impressive or astonishing because we internalized the stereotypes and misinformation the way Europeans dreamed of.

@bossdog1480

2 жыл бұрын

@@arceliagomez9223 Sad but true...

@edwardr5084

2 жыл бұрын

That...and killing.

@stevenaleshire7941

2 жыл бұрын

@@arceliagomez9223 Well I guess the Museum in Mexico City got it wrong as well. Confirming massive human sacrifice, cannibalism, flaying alive and all those other activities of such an advanced people.

@arceliagomez9223

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenaleshire7941 tell me you’re offended without telling me you’re offended lmao. You are obviously oblivious to the blatant acts of cannibalism from the European side as well. You should research how mummies were considered a delicacy in Europe. Or the witch hunts that ended in both women and children being burned alive, hung, and beheaded. Or we can also mention the pedophilic society the Romans and Greeks maintained and defended wholeheartedly. Not to mention the bounty held by the US on the heads of native Americans which were also often scalped, or the raping, enslavement, and torture of African people I never once mentioned that Aztec people and other Natives people did not perform human sacrifices. My point which you have perfectly embodied with your unnecessary remark shows how you’ve internalized your disgust for Native American people and consider us to be savages when in reality it seems to be the other way around.

Astonishing to think that the Aztecs achieved standards in engineering and hygiene that likely surpassed those of the Romans...and that most Europeans who saw them found them remarkable!

@alexarviso6836

2 жыл бұрын

But somehow we were savages.

@channellegendarium7677

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexarviso6836 Amazing how people can think themselves in such circles, sadly.

@channellegendarium7677

2 жыл бұрын

@2 Nep8id6 The Cloaca Maxima was built not to get rid of sewage, but empty swamps!

@channellegendarium7677

2 жыл бұрын

@2 Nep8id6 Thank you for sharing these Bronze Age wonders with us!

@ArtHistorywithAlder

2 жыл бұрын

Should have learned and applied more aspects form the Aztecs. Unfortunate

Mexico's history is rich in diverse peoples and cultures all coming together and that's spectacular.

@greenapril7923

2 жыл бұрын

True

@MrLoobu

2 жыл бұрын

Its also probably the most consistently violent history of any country, at least since the Spanish started writing it.

@wj3186

2 жыл бұрын

No, not really. You are just being a romantic.

@irighterotica

2 жыл бұрын

It truly is.

@perplexingperceptions8888

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan The USA is buying up all those drugs. You look like a dope fiend yourself.

It’s so amazing how all these cultures had these level of sanitation and hygiene, but were still viewed as savages

@greenapril7923

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm

@kmac10027

2 жыл бұрын

@walker lol why are you putting words in his mouth stating he made a "typo" so you can deflect to some bs point about the OP never being a savage or the subject of human sacrifices. no one sacrificed more than the European colonizers who did it while "discovering new worlds". the genocide they cause in many cultures will never ever be equaled!

@kassyyar97

2 жыл бұрын

@walker Most of the history is written by the spaniards, they murdered hundreds of thousands of indigenous people and destroyed countless temples and communities. They viewed us as savages and sinful and tortured everyone who was unwilling to convert to catholicism. It is obviously different now but the fact that it happened its still there. We are tired of our cultures being viewed as “savages who sacrificed people for the gods”

@perplexingperceptions8888

2 жыл бұрын

@@kassyyar97 It's their way of trying to justify their crimes against humanity.

@kmac10027

2 жыл бұрын

@walker awwww I knew I would hurt your feeble feelings exposing that bs minimizing deflection tactic of yours. lol

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the narrator’s pronunciation of these names…that couldn’t have been easy to learn.

@neutrus

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly most are mispronounced, but the effort is appreciated nonetheless.

@justayoutuber1906

2 жыл бұрын

Who doesn't know Cheek-lay?

@RS-qg7qy

2 жыл бұрын

U single???

@viniciusgonzalezromero8620

2 жыл бұрын

@@RS-qg7qy Smooth like sandpaper.

@619G_

2 жыл бұрын

Yaaas people can’t pronounce my name or my sisters, we have Aztec names

Interesting how religion can somehow affect the hygiene of different civilizations. In Europe the Jews were blamed during the plague while in fact it was their custom of maintaining clean hands that reduced their chances of contracting the disease. Here cleanliness is associated with the deities. So cleanliness is next to godliness? 🤷🏻‍♀️

@theplotarmoredtitan5781

2 жыл бұрын

According to Christian priest, bathing is a sin.

@susier318

2 жыл бұрын

Very true in a way.

@Riley19934

2 жыл бұрын

@@theplotarmoredtitan5781 No it wasn’t. Why are you lying? www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/

@Ashen-One1

2 жыл бұрын

Cleanliness is half the faith is what they say in Islam

@theplotarmoredtitan5781

2 жыл бұрын

@@Riley19934 I did not lie. Its in one of Weird History's episode. You should watch it.

The Aztecs were so into cleanliness that when the conquistadors came to Tenochtitlan, they were surrounded by people that were burning incense. The conquistadors thought that the Aztecs believed that the conquistadors were gods, and that's why they were burning incense. In reality, it was because the conquistadors smelled so bad, the Aztecs would follow them with incense to mask the conquistador's smell.

@maliha3305

2 жыл бұрын

For some reason that was really funny.😂😂😂

@Elitecommando501

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know why i can picture that 😂😂

@kristofantal8801

2 жыл бұрын

Source?

@Shyfish_0922

2 жыл бұрын

That fresh off the sea, Conquistador fragrance.

@CuckHunt

Жыл бұрын

@Jazmine Black Except for the fact every single claim you creatures make are false.

To think that the colonizers considered our folks to be "savages" and "uncivilized." Thank you for presenting a great episode on hygiene by the Aztecs! :)

@silvergust

Жыл бұрын

​@The Richest Man In Babylon what an ignorant thing to say. the person you're replying to is simply thankful on this representation of their cultural history, not an invite for you to reintroduce stereotypes about their ancestors 🤨

@xlReGaRdLeSslx

10 ай бұрын

Human sacrifice, child sacrifice, and in other parts of mesoamerica- cannibalism. It was savage, throwing ash on your armpits to cover BO doesn't change that. This idea your people seem to have that the Spanish and other Europeans didn't know how to bathe is beyond ignorant.

@Teponecc

10 ай бұрын

I don’t think the Spanish considered the Aztecs uncivilized savages. Just “heretics”. The British saw the northern tribes as savages tho

@novelero03

10 ай бұрын

@@Teponecc Mmm, I beg to differ because if you read the letters from Hernán Cortés, you will see that he does.

@xlReGaRdLeSslx

10 ай бұрын

@@Teponecc It's hilarious how many morons defend the Spanish, while clearly knowing nothing of history. The Spanish brutalized and enslaved so many indigenous Americans, it's unfathomable. The British actually tried to stop it, and the pilgrims, for the most part, tried to live at peace with the northern indigenous Americans, until they waged war on the US Army, which was squashed in a little over a year. Meaning they could have did that at any time if they chose to. I personally don't care either way, but this "Spanish good" " British bad" debate won't end well for you.

As a Mexican now I know where I got my germ phobia from lol

@jennifere7413

2 жыл бұрын

Right haha!!

@armandob.5060

2 жыл бұрын

Same.

@hugzpls

2 жыл бұрын

shit, so true on my part toohaha

@ronniecarson8756

Жыл бұрын

I thought modern Mexico is a mixture of Spaniards and indigenous ppls. And Spanish is the language used. The Aztecs and indigenous ppls were killed off by diseases that the Spaniards brought..

All I can say instead of trying to conquer they should have learned a little more from the indigenous people because I don’t see plagues on their history pages

@frenchbreadstupidity7054

2 жыл бұрын

That's mostly due to not living in close quarters with domesticated animals- the source of most plagues. Check out Atlas Pro's video on it.

@quadeevans6484

2 жыл бұрын

@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 even still if they had those domesticated animals. The amount of plauges would still be minimal due to the very extensive cleanliness traditions

@quadeevans6484

2 жыл бұрын

@wassim games the main problems they had to deal with were parasites which is why malaria was such a problem for settlers and not natives

@jennyrose9454

2 жыл бұрын

Didnt one of them have a plague? Mayans or Incas??

@disturbed0insane

2 жыл бұрын

@wassim games what do you mean probably? You have done any research to make that claim?

Considering they drank mostly water and probably ate what we would consider healthy and natural foods, the urine thing is not as disturbing 🧪🌡🤔🧐

@mikatu

2 жыл бұрын

There are no "good urine" and "bad urine"! You can drink any urine, but it is toxic, no matter whatever fairtale you tell yourself to make it sound "cleaner". Anyway, urine was used in Europe for laundry during the middle ages. There is nothing new there.

@alexcontreras6103

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikatu nobody says to drink it tho. It was used for gunpowder, dyes to whiting ones teeth Roman's used urine to clean their teeth also

@meadowsmama9423

2 жыл бұрын

You can actually drink your pee in a survival situation and be fine. The more you know

@claudia9339

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikatu As Josie said, I think it's important to remember that in survival situations it can be drank

@sheesherwhiz3846

2 жыл бұрын

@@claudia9339 but only a certain amount of times until there is almost no water in it and only water that the body cant absorb.

Regarding Hygiene they were centuries ahead of Europe.

@vocesdelrioriourbano7236

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vii905 Ok...fair enough. At least compared to Spain, France and Britain...the great European colonial powers.

@vocesdelrioriourbano7236

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vii905 The Romans made great advances in infrastructure that somehow got lost after the Empire collapsed...in Latin America there are records about the foul odor of the conquerors...most of these men spent months in ships with little to no access to good hygiene and carrying diseases than were even more lethal to the indigenous people than the cannons and gun powder.

@joebrewer4529

2 жыл бұрын

@@vocesdelrioriourbano7236 they were all pretty well advanced you're just confusing population growth and technology. That's like saying those are a hundred years ago wasn't doing a great job at expanding Russia. And then you had these people come in and hijack the country violently. And then you had to Soviet Union that you know didn't work out too well as what was going on before. But only the ignorant went on the history game. It's hard to fight ignorance.

@Riley19934

2 жыл бұрын

People from medieval Europe did in fact bath. www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/

@babyruthless9670

2 жыл бұрын

Lol the europeans hurt in these comments. After watching the Versailles hygiene videos and Victorian era hygiene videos YES 💯 people from what they called América after they "conquered" were much more advanced than europeans in many ways.

This is a breath of fresh air compared to Versailles, not like you could get some at the palace anyway.🤭🧼

@meadowsmama9423

2 жыл бұрын

Lol good one 🤣🤣😁

@andy-kp2jv

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@kiandraberrios

2 жыл бұрын

LMAOO

@MithrilMagic

2 жыл бұрын

My Uncle’s fiancé used to work at Versailles giving tours. She said that the smell must have been absolutely unreal. I can’t even imagine. So gross. 🤢

@D.VA_00

2 жыл бұрын

Just because ppl “ think” France is “fancy” doesn’t mean everything is bojuee France is just too hyped up for what it really is, look elsewhere.

"What surprised you the most about aztec hygiene?" EVERYTHING.

@walterkersting6238

2 жыл бұрын

I guess I’m surprised at how a skull full of mush is so easy to manipulate; would you be so impressed with a documentary on the hygiene of nazis? The technological advancement of the Germans?

@arceliagomez9223

2 жыл бұрын

@@walterkersting6238 I know you did not compare Aztec people to Nazis. The “cleansing” of Jewish people conducted by Nazis more closely resembles the Japanese internment camps the US had in the mid 1900s, or the biological warfare used against Native people once the colonizing Europeans made it to the Americas. Also an honorable mention would be the bounty the US government had in any Native American person’s head until the early 1900s.

@arceliagomez9223

2 жыл бұрын

@@walterkersting6238 omg I almost forgot how the US gave pardons to the German and Japanese scientists who conducted those inhumane experiments so long as they handed over the results of said experiments.

@walterkersting6238

2 жыл бұрын

@@arceliagomez9223 I no, eye feels so guilts about it 2. U c du Gemanz skin du Jews? W8 , ashully day ded skin uh few...

@saith2254

2 жыл бұрын

@@walterkersting6238 the nazis got the gas camera idea of the US tho. They were using those in the border.

My grandfather was born in 1908 in izucar de matamoros Puebla died 2009 was one of the last modern Aztecs im proud of my heritage the stories he used to tell my father were unreal!! Of course the culture was alot different In the early 1900s haha.

@mdc3148

Жыл бұрын

There are plenty of modern Aztecs.

@erguy6072

Жыл бұрын

@@mdc3148 modern as in bloodline yes. But he lived as indigenous up till the 1930s is what I was getting at.

@mdc3148

Жыл бұрын

@@erguy6072 If you go back, would his place of residence be gone? I remember watching a documentary on modern native Aztecs. There must be some remnants left. What did he dress like?

@kocholawis1851

Жыл бұрын

There are 2 million Nahuatl speakers in Mexico, and the Nahuas are the most populous indigenous group in Mexico. but not all Nahuas are "Aztecs" (or rather Mexicas) if your grandfather is from Izucar de Matamoros he probably has a Tlahuica or Cholultan origin, not Mexica

The Aztec people were freaking epic.

@MeganVictoriaKearns

2 жыл бұрын

Until the flint heart-cutter-outter comes out, that is.

@justayoutuber1906

2 жыл бұрын

for only 170 years

@arislopes1924

2 жыл бұрын

@@justayoutuber1906 not rlly remember the aztecas came from other civilizations & all came together & mixed their knowledge while most of Europe got their technology from romans

@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761

2 жыл бұрын

@@MeganVictoriaKearns human sacrifice has already been debunked lmfao.

@trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761

2 жыл бұрын

@Jimmy Le look up the statistics. 83% of the population? Impossible.

These guys knew what was up.

Still no mention on how scandalous was for the Mexica to realize that the Spaniards were used to take a bath once or twice a month, when they used to take 2 or more a day. Emperor Montezuma the second used to take 3 or 4 daily. He even had to force Cortes and his men to take a bath before one of his audiences because the emperor nor the nobles could stand their stench anymore.

Wow i am amazed, they were genius, years before european civilization... they lived clean, in harmony with nature, i cant imagine anything better than that

@meadowsmama9423

2 жыл бұрын

Most all natives, were and then look what happened. I’m just now learning of all my Cherokee heritage and it’s astonishing what we don’t know because they were “savages and dirty people “

@justayoutuber1906

2 жыл бұрын

They were a little warlike too

@nicolasignaciomerinonunez114

2 жыл бұрын

Do you realise that they also had human farms for sacrifices? That's why many native cities enemys of the aztec joined the spaniards to destroy them.

@Elitecommando501

2 жыл бұрын

@@justayoutuber1906 they were very warlike lol. These guys were the Romans of the Meso American world

@ecstasy5022

2 жыл бұрын

ah yes, nothing screams living in harmony with nature more than sacrificing a 2 year old's heart to the sun gods 😂😂😂

Who knew the Olmec & their later peoples, the Aztecs, were some of the most hygienic people on Earth! The modern world owes the human drive for cleanliness & maintenance engineering from the ancestors of Mexico. The more you know!💫

Every time I learn about the Aztecs I'm amazed. Such an advanced civilization!

I am so infuriated knowing how much medical knowledge was lost. Herbal medicine especially. My grandmother knew of her tribal people’s medicine techniques. Unfortunately I was not old enough to learn and none of my aunts and uncles took her knowledge seriously. I wish she was still here so that I would have learned from her. I would have carried her legacy proudly and would have gladly passed it down to my descendants. Too bad she couldn’t read or write so she could have left a book/journal. If she did that would have been amazing. 😪

@user10238

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I they saved them because I am nahual and I want to try these stuff out

@shaktiroseyoga742

Жыл бұрын

And astronomical knowledge

@hectorramos6531

Жыл бұрын

Herbal medicen wen lost bc of a medicine tha is available to all is not profitable. Its a shame

@syletto1812

Жыл бұрын

i feel the same! but it’s up to us to start the book for our generations to come.

every native to be colonized seems to note how stinky the guerros were. can’t possibly be a coincidence at this point. 😬

@frenchbreadstupidity7054

2 жыл бұрын

Well they were soldiers living on boats for months where supplies are limited, water is rationed and you wear metal all the time. We can give them a little forgiveness. Just a little though.

@strwbymlk

2 жыл бұрын

@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 true, true. at the end of the day, we’re all just human. & i’ve always had the luxury of running water, so i shouldn’t dog on their hygiene too hard lol.

@DarkwaveMistress

2 жыл бұрын

Aztecs received the Spanish invaders with incense because of the stench, or so they say

@Autumn.04

2 жыл бұрын

@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 not like they were very clean on land though

@619G_

2 жыл бұрын

@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 Forgiveness? Yet those pieces of shits had no mercy or forgiveness for killing my ancestors

As the legendary Mexican comedian Cantinflas said in a movie of his...”we might be poor, but we’re very clean [ceremonos pobres, pero eso si, muy limpios.]”

I find in history when the European called others savages they were often the savages

@rashaunjones1027

2 жыл бұрын

@Floron ,to a degree you have a point

@rashaunjones1027

2 жыл бұрын

@@bot-xg3ro , a mindset that has cost a many of cultures

@vonbook1973

2 жыл бұрын

Classic projection, not surprising. It's what they do.

@nazzynaz1905

2 жыл бұрын

👍👏👏👏

@jnm2088

2 жыл бұрын

@Floron You mean like how your ancestors stole a bunch of mummies from Egypt and ate them?

Very impressive. Had no idea they were so advanced in so many different areas. I guess they were much more advanced than Europeans in many aspects. Great video.

@shaggieledude5438

2 жыл бұрын

Running water they had a way to send mail from point a and b and list goes on

@user-ru1ki

2 жыл бұрын

@@shaggieledude5438 Wow ! Amazing.

@hugzpls

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not attacking you at all, but the reason why it seems impressive is because we were fed a white washed version of history. Europeans have convinced us that their customs and standard of living is the standard, meanwhile they justified ridiculing native people and killing them/enslaving them by saying we're savages, we are filth, dirty, less intelligent than white people and our customs were sinful and the devils works . When we are shown examples of other cultures thriving in basic ways it's considered impressive because we internalized the sterotypes and misinformation the way Europeans dreamed of. Another user wrote all this (forgot user name), but it's pretty much true.

@bot-xg3ro

2 жыл бұрын

@@hugzpls you are so right I am proud of you for being educated on the truth and spreading it! Over time all this misinformation will reveal its self! keep up the great work !

@alventuradelacruz522

Жыл бұрын

@@hugzpls yes, is the same with us of taino descent in the caribbeam,good thing they are starting to teach more about the taino culture than spaniar in my country

Holy fuck the waterways that double as transport is amazing

And remember kids the Spanish thought our ancestors in Latin America were savages because they dressed with less clothing. But we were cleaner and healthy than they were. Spanish were also just as bad for colonizing and just because we speak Spanish doesn't mean the racism in Spain ever left. They still look at us under their noses and think themselves better.

@theprotegedc15

2 жыл бұрын

Facts I live in Spain I mention Mexican and they quick to say we not like them

@justayoutuber1906

2 жыл бұрын

Look at the skin color or the leaders in Mexico today...they all look white

@itrthho

2 жыл бұрын

Sure the mass human sacrifices wasn’t a factor on savage scale?

@bufordmaddogtannen5164

2 жыл бұрын

People who live two towns away from each other's hate each other's guts all over the world especially in Mexico.. Get tf over it and tell em to fuck off.. They're hatred makes you hate..

@agron2237

2 жыл бұрын

@@theprotegedc15 go back home

In some towns in Mexico, some people still use temazcal for personal hygiene and traditional medicinal purposes. In my experience take a bath in temazcal was purifying and restorative. 😌 If you visit Mexico don't forget to live the experience of taking a bath in temazcal.

What surprised me the most was how little the Europeans learnt about hygiene even after meeting the Aztecs 🤢

@xlReGaRdLeSslx

10 ай бұрын

Europeans bathed routinely, had something like a toothpaste, rubbed their teeth with a cloth, and used scented oils/ perfumes as deodorant. British descendants in America invented the toothbrush, modern toothpaste, modern plumbing, and modern deodorant.

I never knew the Aztecs were so clean and civilized. I really respect them for the time period they were in.

What an honor it is to be a descended from the Aztecs. my ancestors were so suffocated and knowledgeable about their surroundings.

Amazing people. So many ancient civilizations were way ahead of most of Europe.

@xlReGaRdLeSslx

10 ай бұрын

Nothing about the Aztecs were ahead of Europe. The Spanish smelled because they just sailed across the Atlantic. Europeans were plenty hygienic. They had toothpaste, used a cloth to scrub them, bathed routinely, and used scented oils/ perfumes as deodorant.

When your society doesnt peg women’s intelectual contributions as witchcraft:

@firstnamelollol8616

2 жыл бұрын

Frr I also love how our culture doesn’t see taking baths as a sin. I’d love if the Aztec culture continued thriving without the Spanish and other Europeans getting in the way.

@DaCoDgamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@firstnamelollol8616 I was just thinking imagine if it was the Native Americans or literally anyone that wasn’t European or white that explored and conquered the world, the world would be a much better place rn

@darkmistico

2 жыл бұрын

yes but womens were also sacrifices to their deities or gods... im not so much into aztec culture no more but im guessing all were potencial sacrifices ... even children

@ethanvoelker2158

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaCoDgamer huh?

@livingfire1

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaCoDgamer not really there will always be war and slavery. People would always explore and conquer and or enslave no matter the race.

And they called them savages meanwhile in Versailles people were pooping in the corridors. 🤭🤣

@agron2237

2 жыл бұрын

You were saveges

@patataestupida3653

2 жыл бұрын

We were more clean and avanced than Europeans, anyway we killed for sacrifice, but no one can't call savage to a culture for have killed for "magic porpuses", we can forget how manny people died for "holy inquisition".

@Basedapple

Ай бұрын

​@@agron2237go take a shower, I can smell you through my screen.

If I could go back in time, I’d like to go and be around the Aztec people.

@davidgerow

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan Never thought of that. Maybe I’ll change my mind. Lol

@davidjones3165

2 жыл бұрын

You'd probably be sacrificed. but go ahead if you want to.

@controlman7490

2 жыл бұрын

Don't listen to the others, your chances of being sacrificed are actually quite low if you're a native born Aztec. They usually sacrificed people from warring tribes or sacrificed criminals, so as long as you're not any 1 of those 2, you should live a happy life.

@HasufelyArod

2 жыл бұрын

@@controlman7490 it is a possibility, and if you kniw sources, it is a fact, however I still wouldn't want to be around Aztecs

@omegarugal9283

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan sacrificed and eaten as pozole

It’s sad that advanced cultures were often destroyed by less advanced people. (Rome, reduced to rubble by Barbarians.) I was especially impressed with the canals that served as roads for these people.

I'm proud to be Mexican and I'm also very happy to still enjoy the benefits of traditional medicine, remedies, and excellent cuisine of the Aztecs as well as hygiene habits, we have Temazcales in different parts of our country as well as traditional indigenous rituals!!!!

@dogslobbergardens6606

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed. For instance, whether they know it or not, a HUGE portion of the entire world is still enjoying foods from what is now called Central and South America. Those people tended and selectively bred all sorts of truly important crops! It's pretty funny/sad when Italians think they invented tomatoes or the Irish think they developed potatoes...

@clifffff7630

Жыл бұрын

@DogSlobber Gardens do you know if the Aztecs, after "inventing" tomatoes, proceeded to invent metal coat hangers?

The snake venom/ vinegar anesthesia is so fascinating!

Watching this makes me incredibly happy..🥰🥰

Summary: The Aztecs were ahead of their time for cleanliness standards. Also the Aztecs: *U R I N E*

@frenchbreadstupidity7054

2 жыл бұрын

Easiest source of a weak acid.

@totallyfrozen

2 жыл бұрын

Europeans used urine as a teeth whitener.

@miriambucholtz9315

2 жыл бұрын

I've read that urine is actually sterile unless there's an active infection present.

@IRLTheGreatZarquon

2 жыл бұрын

>What surprised you the most about Aztec cleanliness? P E E

@Adrianam1994

2 жыл бұрын

Urine is sterile

Always proud of my ancestors 😌

Thank you so much for doing this video, as an Aztec descent I get really tired of having to explain to white people how advance our society was before they came in contact. But thank you for the time and effort put into all aspects of this video and as always I love the jokes thrown in there and there with all your videos.

@nikolllumaj8784

2 жыл бұрын

Same I always keep talking to white people about how my culture thousands of years ago had better hygiene than them.

@Shyfish_0922

2 жыл бұрын

Thats pretty awesome 👌🏾I feel like those Spaniards were jealous because of how advanced they were

@ash.bl.9289

2 жыл бұрын

and therefore the Spaniards allied themselves with the Totonaks, Tlacopan, Oaxtep and a dozen other indigenous peoples to conquer the Aztecs. 90% of the Conquisadors' army consisted of Indigenous Americans. I'm tired of explaining to people how the Spaniards conquered the Aztecs because they liked to be influenced by the Leyenda negra. Why do you like to separate everything into races?

@cuteycuteylala

Жыл бұрын

I feel you. This is present in all other cultures too - whitewashing has done so much damage to even modern perceptions of other culture's ability to advance and achieve greatness.

@HereIAm247

Жыл бұрын

Just curious. Do you believe that white people today are responsible for the actions of their ancestors? That they had no influence over, and probably wouldn't approve of? Do you believe whites today should be ashamed because of their skin colour? Then what about when Middle Eastern kidnapped and held white people as slaves? (and treated them much worse than that). Should all Middle Eastern people today be held responsible for that? What about the various cultures around the world (African, Chinese, many non European cultures), that still to this day are targeting ethnic minorities, holding them in concentration like camps? I know people love to hate on the whites. But several studies have shown that White cultures are generally the least racist/most tolerant today. Asian cultures were the most racist/least tolerant. So can we stop the cliché of making everything about race? Thanks.

This is definitely the best hygiene quality civilization back in the old days

I can truly appreciate their level of advancement and cleanliness. Wow, even deodorant and dentistry?? Took centuries do the rest of the world to get the memo. Even though some of you may be grossed out at urine, it's perfectly sterile when it first exits the body.

Fascinating to think what would happen if cortes left them alone and to keep thriving.

Thank you for always being respectful when talking about the different cultures of the world. I wish people in the comment section were as respectful as you. Cheers!

Never been so quick! 😭 Love your hygiene series! Keep them coming!

Would you do one on the history of menstrual hygiene please?

@meadowsmama9423

2 жыл бұрын

Or women hygiene over the years.

@c.2538

2 жыл бұрын

I want to see a Mesopotamian tampon.

@deirdremorris9234

2 жыл бұрын

@@c.2538 May have been a sea sponge?

Aztecs had a very advanced culture.

For the time they were living in it's pretty impressive how advanced they were and how it resembles to today.

The Aztec were genius

@greenapril7923

2 жыл бұрын

And hygiene too

@perplexingperceptions8888

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan Still didn't compare to the USA's crimes against humanity in the third world.

@prathameshpatil6888

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan lmao you're everywhere in this comment section, who hurt you?

@JoolianV

2 жыл бұрын

@@prathameshpatil6888 he has shit stains in his underwear, just let him get it off. He needs this

@angeld1103

2 жыл бұрын

@Ryan Dude we get it you have a hard-on for sacrifice.

I'm very keen for more vids about the aztecs, mayans & other indigenous cultures 🙌

I'm impressed at the way Weird History puts together all its videos. Their attention to detail is much appreciated, very informative indeed. Thank you Weird History for imparting such valuable knowledge in all your videos. Happy to subscribe to your channel. I hope you continue your good work. More power to your channel.

Thank you for sharing such wonderful content. Thank you for showing how advanced & intelligent indigenous people were.

Fun fact: the Aztecs had better hygiene than the Europeans, I'm not surprised.

@mdc3148

Жыл бұрын

And yet you and your surnames are very European, as is most of Mexican culture now

@xlReGaRdLeSslx

10 ай бұрын

Not true. Europeans bathed routinely, had toothpaste, used cloths to scrub them, and used scented oils/ perfumes as deodorant.

We thoroughly enjoy your channel and subscribed. So many historical facts that I didn't know about Aztec culture vs what I do know about ancient Greco-Roman culture. I hope the public school system today currently teaches this, as back in the day, my history lessons were U.S./Euro-centric, never really touching on ancient Central American culture. Thanks again for your videos!

I so appreciate the research involved for each episode. Even down to the photos and drawings. Thank you WHC!

@justayoutuber1906

2 жыл бұрын

except for pronunciation

The Aztecs were more advanced in engineering & hygiene. This intimidated the Spanish. So they killed them.

@ash.bl.9289

2 жыл бұрын

With the help of the Totonaks, Tlacopan, Oaxtepec and dozens of other indigenous peoples, the Spaniards killed the Aztecs. 90% of the army of the conquisators consisted of indigenous Americans. The Aztecs shouldn't be romanticized all the time. They also caused a lot of suffering with their wars. The Spaniards were more interested in wealth and only did what the Aztecs did all the time. The majority also died of uncontrollable diseases, for example the Pockel, because there were hardly any useful animals in contrast to Eurasia and their immune system was therefore very weak against European diseases.

@HarpazoReady2022

2 жыл бұрын

@@ash.bl.9289 I’m sorry but your attempt to sugar coat what the Spanish did is futile. It was the *Spanish* that slaughtered them AND the Inca in South America. They were greedy for their gold. They took the gold back to King Charles V and melted it down. They tried that crap again in 1588 when King Phillip II tried to conquer England & dethrone Queen Elizabeth. God sank their ships in the sea. Spain deserved that.

@ash.bl.9289

2 жыл бұрын

@@HarpazoReady2022 I already mentioned who the Spaniards had as allies. 90% of the Conquisadors' army were Indigenous Americans who slaughtered the Aztecs. In contrast to the Incas, the Aztec king was killed by a stone by his own people. (with the Leyenda negra the whole thing was very exaggerated)

@HarpazoReady2022

2 жыл бұрын

@@ash.bl.9289 90% were “Indigenous Americans” 😆😆😆😆 Indigenous Americans in the early 1500s...Who?! You learned that from a public school textbook I can tell🤦🏼‍♀️ Please don’t reply again. I can’t lol

@ash.bl.9289

2 жыл бұрын

@@HarpazoReady2022 okey, somehow you don't understand me or I don't understand you. Will speak one last time about the allies of the Spaniards when they conquered the Aztec Empire. Hérnan Corté's army consisted of about 300 Spaniards and also native Mexican peoples. Here are some peoples who are allies with the Spaniards: Totonacs, Tlaxcalteks, city-states like Chimalhuacán, Oaztepec, Yautepec, Cuernavaca and Tlacopan around Lake Texcoco, Tepeyacac, Cuernavaca and the cities of Huejotzingo, Attlixco, Metztitlán and Chalco. They all fought on the side of the Spaniards against the Aztecs and after the fighting was over, the neighboring indigenous tribes flooded in like a flood to massacre every single living Aztec. It was really more native American than Spaniards who slaughtered the Aztecs.

British: invent clean water in the 1800’s Aztecs: complete access for clean water to all by the 14th century

The water management is amazing!

This was a truly amazing episode!!!! Really enjoy the channels yess!!

Hell, any native of the americas that has ever lived next to a river, has probably practiced frequent sweat lodges and river bathes

@ericsuarez834

2 жыл бұрын

That's the thing, we had plenty of clean rivers, even when I was a child all we drank was spring water

@Julio-it1pl

2 жыл бұрын

I cant go camping with my buddies for more than three days if we dont take a swim in the lake at least once a day and change clothes, its become a requirement lol

Love love your channel

i was surprised by all of it !!!the sofisticated canals, the medicinal knowlege, dentistry, just amazing !

I love your vids. Makes me appreciate what we have in our modern times a little more.

I'm so happy to have some Aztec blood in me, I actually visited some of the Aztec temples at 8 years old, even then when i didn't know much about the Aztecs, It felt so cool being there

This narrator doesn't just give you facts in monotones. He puts character and levity into the video. pleasant to listen to.

Interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

Love this thx for the knowledge

Very interesting! Aztecs had a great repository of knowledge.

Would love to learn more about hygiene practices in the British empire - or the lack thereof! Great video

@xlReGaRdLeSslx

10 ай бұрын

They bathed routinely, had something like a toothpaste, scrubbed their teeth with a cloth, and used scented oils as deodorant. Their descendants in America also invented the toothbrush, modern day toothpaste, modern plumbing, and modern day deodorant. But do go on reading your revisionist history you read on reddit and facebook.

Ah, it's cool to see a culture that give it's citizens basic necessities. Would be a shame if people charged for things like clean water.

Interesting! I did not know about these Aztec traditions. Thank you

When I was growing up in Texas, I was suffering from a severe tooth ache. My Mayan grandma cut out a one square inch piece of bark from a tree that i could easily identify if I were to see the tree again. The tree is gone now. A huge apartment complex was built in the area of jungle. I have not seen any tree that even closely resembles it in appearance. She gave the piece of bark and told me to place it near my infected gum. The bark immediately numbed my whole entire mouth and tasted like chewing gum Dentyne. I could easily have undergone surgery or had a tooth extracted. The numbness was an immediate relief from the pain.. The numbness lasted about 30 to 45 minutes. Also the word chicle is pronounced chi (chi like in the word chicken) and cle , also like in the second syllable of the word chicken but with an l sound inserted between the k and e minus the n sound. This tree was peculiar because it had thorns on the main trunk which would make it impossible to climb. The word chicle is Spanish for the present day word for gum. It is not pronounced like you have pronounced it. Out

@MzC00ki327

Жыл бұрын

I'm wondering if it was the Ceiba tree? 😊

Dude, your pronunciation of Aztec names it's on point

Aztec : *mentioned* Me : *Ayayayayaa*

@colekinyon2267

2 жыл бұрын

Yaaaaay big buff male Aztec strippers

@orkoskang7967

2 жыл бұрын

😨😫🤮🤮😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@fbyi2940

2 жыл бұрын

@@orkoskang7967 yeh your pic is 🤢

I haven’t watched this channel in so long ... and now I’m binge watching all the videos

Danke für das hochladen sehr interessant

The Aztecs did it right. Take notes down Versailles lol 😂

@gisselmares8371

2 жыл бұрын

Too late! 😂

@butterfIyy1

2 жыл бұрын

@@gisselmares8371 🤣

@DevilhunterGaara1

2 жыл бұрын

No different from the Spanish murdering and torturing non Christians for their beliefs darling.

@Laura-Yu

2 жыл бұрын

@Charlotte Every culture has their own fucked up parts

They seem very advanced! I'm so glad you made this! Please cover Hygiene in the Islamic Golden age next!

Another video that answers a question I never ever ever had in my life ever

I loved this! They were so cool and advanced.

Who else is super happy they married an Aztec!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰😘

@ginnungagap365

2 жыл бұрын

Marrying my Wife was the best thing that's ever happened to me. I'm so happy about marrying an Aztec. 😍

@archetypealch3my290

2 жыл бұрын

Pure blooded Aztecs don't exist anymore so unless you traveled back in time you're full of shit

@honeybloomgarden2886

2 жыл бұрын

@@archetypealch3my290 I know just like vikings lol I never said pure blood. Part Aztec, still Aztec 😘

I applaud the fact how advanced the civilization was with hygiene. They even had better hygiene then some people in the Western countries which is sad.

I love your videos so much. Super detailed and presented so well. I love also you included artwork by Mexican American artist 'Mexica Heart.' His socials are in Spanish 'Corazon Mexica,' an incredible artist with many, many great works. In regards to the Florentine Codex, Sahagun did orchestrate the creation of the book but it was many natives who actually wrote its contents, painted its images and translated from Nahuatl (Aztec language) and Latin, which they also learned. The book was so well coordinated by the multiple natives that even the colors used had meaning as well. A few examples; the chapter that describes the arrival of Europeans is when color ceases. As well as different pigments for the color red in the beginning when describing indigenous plants and concepts, at the chapters writing of the time of change, pigment analysis shows completely different ingredients and processes that made up the pigments. Please refer to Diana Magaloni, who has worked with the genuine copy of the book. Her many talks are in Spanish but is definitely worth looking into! Thank you for the great video!

Wow this was Very educational thank you