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My paternal grandmother was from Zacatecas she had an indigenous last name, I’m not sure if she was of chichimeca origin.

The mutual love and respect between you and Ancient Americas is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen in a long time ❤

Saludos y muchas gracias por el video. Crecí con el conocimiento de mis antepasados Mayas; me dio mucho gusto aprender acerca de mi cultura 😍

This series is powerful. US schools erased the rest of the Americas, mentioned smallpox once or twice, apparently malaria made it harder for our military to crush resistance. 😢(Dengue carrying mosquitos have reached California now)

Going to school in Los Angeles in the 60s, the missions were celebrated and the extinction of Chumash languages and culture was hidden. I only learned about California's 1850s legalization of murder of indigenous people this year

So basically Toltec meant urban dwellers, more sophisticated, city people while Chichimeca was slang for redneck country folk.

Indians - Ancient Indian history is not given enough attention. Native Americans - Hold my Pulque.

Between Ancient Americas video and this one, what I've gathered is that MesoAmerican civilization was as convoluted and confusing as European and like European, involved everyone claiming to be the rightful heirs of some past group.

9:20 La razón de cuando los independentistas logran esos grandes avances cuando hace tan solo un año atrás estaban al borde del colapsó, es simple, es porque justo en ese lapso de tiempo, sucedieron 3 eventos en la península: 1: Golpe de Estado por parte de los Liberales 2: Agustín de Iturbide, siendo de ideología conservadora, rechazo el nuevo gobierno Liberal y se cambia de bando. 3: El Nuevo Gobierno Liberal en la península cancela el envío de refuerzos masivos de la Gran Flota Naval hacia América y optando mas por el diálogo. Esos 3 factores, fueron los que justo les dio el respiro y el tiempo necesario para que los independentistas pudieran retomar fuerzas para tomar rápidamente los territorios centrales y vecer a las guarniciones españolas restantes que ya no recibian apoyo de la Península rápidamente en un solo año. Porque si, ese Golpe de Estado por parte de los Liberales en la Península fue la gota que derramo el vaso para que todo el Imperio Español en América se fuese a piqué.

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Do we have confirmation that tin-bronzes were used in the pre-Columbian Americas? I've read that Arsenic Bronzes were used and have heard rumors about Tin Bronzes, but have never seen any chemical test confirmation of that. Thanks.

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Just discovered your videos via your maps on deviant art, I absolutely love your maps they are an incredible visalisation of the history I’ve become so in love with recently !!!

I'm not sure if you'll see this but I was wondering if this bastardization of the term chichimeca was at one point applied to the wixaritari, who lived (and in many cases still do) in remote areas within the sierra of durango, nayarit, jalisco, and zacatecas. They largely opposed spanish missionaries with the only community where it was kinda tolerated being tatei kie (san andres cohamiata), that combined with their relative isolation has resulted in their culture and beliefs being preserved largely unchanged, to a degree that they can in a way be considered a true remnant of prehispanic times.

Hay comunidades indígenas que en los años noventas primero vieron miles de soldados antes que un centro de salud, gran vídeo de real a real

Very under appreciated channel. Great explanation of a complex issue.

I still find it incredible that we have managed to eradicate smallpox across the whole world! It really shows how we can work together to get things done. As for the history, as usual you did an excellent job, keep it up!

This has been a great series, thank you!

Hey episode 3 despite having higher number body count was way less of a bummer. Wasn't expecting this series to cap to the modern day, I appreciate your thoroughness when explaining a subject. Now for your obligatory audio report from me, I desperately need someone to sample you announcing disease names then putting them in front of big nasty guitar riffs. When you said "Cholera" I thought a black metal song was about to follow.

Enlightening and endarkening! This was an excellent series. I definitely have a better understanding of the impact of epidemics/pandemics on the history of the Americas.

Thanks again Aztlan! I really appreciate how you tied things up at the end, how we can work together to stop disease in the New and Old Worlds.

Really enjoying this series!! I'm looking forward to your future videos ^_^

Excellent conclusion! This was a fantastic series!

Fascinating once again, I didn't know any of that.

Here we are. We are finally done with this special trilogy. I have to thank all of you for supporting my channel, and don't worry: I'm not done yet! So please help me to keep spreading knowledge about the history of the Americas, and subscribe to the channel. We are almost at 10,000 subs! Thank you! ¡Muchas gracias a todos! Muito obrigado!

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Really good video. To add onto the things you said about Europeans and disease transference to native Americans I’ve been reading a lot of québécois and northeaster native history lately and think I may add some things. In terms of the British using smallpox as a weapon of war the Ottawa historian Andrew blackbird on page 4 of his “history of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan” book talks about the British using tins containing smallpox to intentionally make native Allie’s of the French sick during the 7 years war, which predates the smallpox blankets used by the British to put down Pontiac’s rebellion. Also while the French defiantly had their brutalities towards natives (I’m French Canadian so maybe I’m unintentionally being biased) they were usually more trade based and consequently native nations around them often had lower disease rates than native neighbors of other European powers. I can remember the specific book I read that in, so you may discard it if you want, but if true it seems to agree with your idea that social factors played a huge role in how much disease spread. I’m also currently reading “canadas forgotten slaves” which is a book specializing in québécois slavery. Of the 4125 slaves whose origin we know 2683 were native and 1443 were African. (Pg 77) These slaves had very high mortality rates in spite of doing mostly household labor and it’s likely disease helps explain why. Great video

The amount of fascination I have with the concept of multiple points of system collapse compounding to cause perpetual health crisises is only matched by my heartbreak learning about the peoples who had to endure it.

You didn't have to put in a wailing electric guitar rift in the background, but ya did. This is why you're top quality.

Btw you are depicted as Monument 19, from La Venta :D

Do you know what the giant serpent artefact at 3:50 is called? I know the rest but I have to admit, I never saw this serpent before. It reminds me more of Father Set from Conan than any religious artefact that I have associated with the Mesoamerican religions. I am almost certain this was a very early draft of what we refer to now as Quetzalcoatl but I have to defer to the expert :D

The Mixteca are my favourite culture but I love the whole Mesoamerica

Fantastic channel

I'm going through "Tending the Wild", and I was struck first with the near perfect human life the native inhabitants of California has made through their land use habits and generations-long vision of environmental interaction. The shift in land use by the colonizers was so stark and brutal it would make me shake with rage reading it. Of course people would be malnourished if you cut down the pinenut groves for firewood , cleared the oaks pasture, and let cattle herds loose in the fields that grew medicine. On the whole, when the actions of the colonizers that affected baseline health of communities are considered, they are just as morally guilty of the deaths from disease as they are from outright murders.

Thank you for making captivating videos! Hoping that historians like yourself will help grow interest in the history of the Americas! It’s criminally undervalued while being some of the most interesting stories in human history !

This is great! I have never been able to find anything as rich and cohesive as this video on the subject matter

Can anybody clarify the following for me. I was under the belief that Europeans who were susceptible to a particular disease were over many generations, killed off (by the disease) thus removing them from the gene pool. So, that the population as a whole was less susceptible to the harmful effects of that disease. From what I understand from this video, my belief is incorrect? The correct version based on science is: Europeans were less susceptible because the had recent contact with the disease giving them temporary protection. Is that right?

Its a pity that there are no subtitles. That makes it hard to understand for non-native English speakers.

Wow and what do you know there's a video on this channel about my favorite Mesoamerican group lol. The mice that dragged a lion behind an alley and kicked it until it cried uncle.

Here by Malcom's recommendation! I'm really looking forward to it and your future material!

Thank you for your research and video production Aztlan! I'm sure Part 3 will be just as good as the first 2

Thanks for bringing this to attention. I had always pretty much just accepted the virgin soil hypothesis. I'd always just assumed that diseases from Europe were worse because of the poor city management, hygiene and livestock. I'd never even thought about why populations didn't quickly build immunity, and I am glad you brought attention to the topic. Cheers.

Recommend by Malcom P.L. - subscribed!

Hey, great video. I was sent over to your channel by Malcolm's recommendation. About to watch part 2!