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I would like to add a note on Teotihuacan. The Aztecs encountered Teotihuacan when they immigrated to the central Mexican valley from the north (possibly American Southwest). By then the city had been abandoned for at least 700 years. This is to say that Teotihuacan WAS NOT Aztec. They were a distinct group indigenous to the central valley. The Aztecs named the abandoned city Teotihuacan which was their term for "the place of gods."
Ancient, almost unknown cities have an air of mystery about them that really draws you in. Listening to the contents of these videos makes me more than glad that history was one of my favorite subjects at school, and makes the respect that I've had for these civilizations grow even more.
There Ms Patrick. Simon says Jaguar. I say Jaguar. That's how we say it. That's one in the eye for my American born English teacher. (She gave me a detention because I wouldn't say jaaagwaar) Vindicated at last. Great vid Simon
I don't see what the big deal is. It's one thing to be helpful or correct something that's universal, but there are always variations between countries.
I loved the part at 17.29 when Simon says about human sacrifice, 'tear their heads out', instead of 'tear their hearts out'. It is one of those classic psychological events where we ignore what was said because we know what was meant to be said.
While El Mirador is a large pyramid, it is smaller than Cholula (which is not only the largest pyramid, but also the largest single monument built by humans).
@@marcusmanchester7095 The reason why archaelogists don't usually name the Cholula pyramid as the biggest pyramid is because it was constructed by three different times and civilizations of people... Olmecs or Teotihuacán Zapotec and Toltecs. Yes, the Cholula pyramid is the biggest pyramid by volume, but archaelogist by the reason I gave above do not name it very often, because whereas the pyramid's of El Mirador, Teotihuacán, and Kheops pyramid were constructed by just one civilization.
@@marcusmanchester7095 at the moment you're partly correct, but some archaelogists agree and don't agree with the platform on which La Danta pyramid sits on in El Mirador. The platform which is manmade has not been added to the total amount of La Danta pyramid. The platform is 9 meters tall, but the length and width I don't have numbers for, but I feel if it's manmade, it should be included in the total tally.
Teotihuacán was not Aztec at all. The Aztecs would not appear until much much later. It is believed it was the toltecs or maybe even Mayan ancestors were the original founders of Teotihuacán
Thanks Simon and Team Top Tenz. Fascinating! Small point: Cenotes are sinkholes. And those being sacrificed had their hearts were torn out, not their heads.
Since you are doing a video on Tikal, can you please do a video on Jacobo Arbenz one of the best, but forgotten Guatemalan presidents. Who tried to follow FDR's new deal example to lift Guatemalas working class, but was ousted in a military coup. Which was the trigger to Guatemalas civil war.
1. What countries of today did the Maya occupy? 2. In what century did Tikal become a super power? 3. When did Tikal begin to decline? 4. In What century where Temple 1 and 2 constructed? 5. How did the Mayans view cholate? 6. What is the name of the sport that the Mayans played? 7. What is one of the few remaining books of the Mayans? 8. How did the Maya view time and constructed their calendar? 9. Who were the ones that conquered and destroyed the Mayans? 10. What is your favorite Mayan fact? Can you guys answer these questions for me please
"Oh ..so sorry I failed to make that impossible hip shot through the hoop 20 ft. in the air guys... Guess we will have to be disemboweled on the top of the pyramid next week!"
I love the trigger warnings on here. They just lean into it, like "I don't speak the language, but here's my best, educated guess. If you want to have a go at me, whatever."
I have stood on the steps of some of these places. a friend gave me artifacts allegedly dug up with modern building projects, or is just it tourist junk? But these items came as gifts as I was Very Interested and knew of local history. This friend removed the items from his personal local collection and handed the items to me with his own hand, right from his home's display. I like to think I am Honored to have "real" artifacts from the Americas, but who knows? In honor of my wife and her Central American descendants, I will tell this story to my grand children as these items are handed down.
Aztecs did not have any effect on Tikal. Central Mesoamerican center of Teotihuacan had, and it almost certainly conquered Tikal and installed a new dynasty in 378 CE, but the Aztecs came into the Mesoamerican stage only in 1325 CE - far after Teotihuacan had been abandoned between 550-650 CE. The identity of Teotihuacan's rulers is debated but they probably belonged to one of the still extant peoples living in the area.
@@hanzykrupps6383 Mexica, yes - but the video calls them Aztecs and makes them interact with early-Classic Maya in Tikal. This is nine centuries before the Aztecs / Mexica arrive in the scene of Mesoamerican history.
Thank you for this video, we can get past the mispronunciation LOL - as a Guatemalan native, with K'iche blood in me, I take this video as a compliment. It's crazy how far the blood of the Maya has come, from being born in Guatemala, moving to the United states- living border to Canada and marrying a white woman 😅
Perhaps the Maya city get abandoned by their people for some serious reasons, just like here in Indonesia the Hindu and Budha were once a major religion but the temples or even sacred places related to both religion were abandoned, the reasons could be similiar or very contrast in my opinion 🤔
One of the saddest things about history is when u come across cultures that were effectively destroyed leaving only traces along with second hand accounts
There are first hand accounts in surviving Mayan texts, from inscriptions carved in stone and texts written on clay artifacts to texts written after the Spanish conquests by Mayans. They are surviving, small fragments of a once vast written corpus, but they do exist.
Considering that's happened to literally every culture throught history it seems pretty typical to me. Nothing lasts forever, despite what people want to believe.
It's like how the Basque dialect was suppressed by Franco. It's basically unlike any other language on the continent there and dude just tries to scrub it from society. It's like on the same level as destroying a pyramid.
@@geographicstravel I would like Simon to read this sentence aloud: *The cemetary was designed with symmetry in mind.* Or get a Geordie to say: *Burglar alarm* Do you know what I'm on about Simon? LOL
@@Shift8YawnsShift8 It's odd because at the beginning of the video he says it correctly. Halfway through when he begins to talk about sports things go awry.
When talking about Tikal it’s worth mentioning the nearby city of Noh Petén, the capital of the Itza Maya, that was the last Native American Kingdom to fall to the Spanish. A small island city crammed with tens of thousands of people (inflated by massive Maya refugee influx), they managed to hold the Spanish at bay of for over 150 years. The Spaniards destroyed everything and built the city of Flores on top of it. They tore down the temples and burnt all the books - today the itza number a few hundred and the language is close to extinction.
As many other dudes said before, Teotihuacán wasn't Aztec, it was it's own civilization, the "teotihuacanos" that preceded Aztecs by at least 500 years. When Aztecs arrived to valley of Mexico aprox by the XII century they found Teotihuacán as magnificent ruins covered in mistery
I always thought "The Road to El Dorado" was interesting, because El Dorado was supposed to be located within the Incan Empire. That's what Pizarro was looking for when he screwed the Incas. Yet, the movie (as you pointed out) had Mayan aesthetics.
Teotihuacan wasn't Aztec. The Aztecs didn't migrate to meso-america until around 1300. Though the people who built Teotihuacan were predecessors to the city-states in the region settled by the Aztecs and they influenced them and likely had a similarly sized empire or sphere of influence at least at their heyday around 200 AD.
I was going to say, he better mention the star wars movie being filmed there. Anyway, regardless of that, it's just a freaking amazing place to visit. My parents were there in the 70s and then they took me and my sister and niece in 1996. I wonder how much more has been uncovered out of the jungle since then...
I have been to Tikal and it’s an amazing place! If you ever visit pay for one of the guides at the entrance, they were brilliant able to tell you all about the history and nature in the area! Will 100% be back
Just a quick correction, the Teotihuacans were not Aztecs, the Aztecs migrated to that region centuries after the collapse of Teotihuacan, they found the ruins of Teotihuacan and adopted much of the architectural and artistic style.
@@hanzykrupps6383 That is also true, the Aztecs claimed a common ancestry with the Teotihuacans and the Toltecs. Some of the things we know from the Toltecs come from Aztec oral and pictographic tradition but there is a debate on how accurate and unbiased are these Aztec narratives, but yeah the Aztec ended up adopting a lot from the Teotihuacans and Toltecs.
Question, how where you able to go there? Did you have to sign up for tourist pass of some sort? I ask because I want to visit and I have family that live in Guatemala City, clearly far away from Tikal. Thanks :)
Simon, I absolutely adore your spin on history. You make complex subjects fun and easy to understand. Thank you to you and your team for delivering such great work!
1:10 - Chapter 1 - History of tikal 4:15 - Chapter 2 - A lost world 8:50 - Chapter 3 - The jaguar god of xilbalba 10:35 - Chapter 4 - Poc a toc 13:05 - Chapter 5 - The popol vuh 14:50 - Chapter 6 - A spiritual world, a cyclical time 18:40 - Chapter 7 - Decline of the mayas 21:10 - Chapter 8 - Going to tikal
Mayan 1: “dude we have like 2000 years worth of calendar here we’re probably good for now” Mayan 2: “alright let’s at least finish this year we only got a few days left” Mayan 1: “no just leave it I want to see the sacrifices for today” White moms 2,000 years later: **sobbing as the world should end according to news**
I actually bring up JAGYOUARES in everday conservation ( which is not easy) just so I can say JAGYOUARE! because it erks people and its awesome and youre awesome and this channel is the best! keep up the great work! JAGYOUARE!!
Of all of Simon's channels, I think that Geographics is becoming my favorite. It's good to see that at least some of the thoughts and dreams of the Mayans were preserved and thank you for telling us about them. So much was lost when Europeans invaded the Americas. As to pronouncing Jaguar, I'm from the USA and I listen to a radio station that includes adverts for a Jaguar dealership narrated by a guy speaking pure BBC. That dealership sells cars with a 3 syllable name. You say Granada, I say Granada. So what? We understand one another.
09:05 This underworld journey is remarkably similar to what little I know of what ancient Egyptians tell of what happens after death, where the soul travels thru a perilous land of the dark between sunset & sunrise, ultimately if successful joining with the gods and sharing their immortality.
Good Guy Simon: Naturally speaks "Proper English" considered for decades to be the zenith of all English dialects/accents. Starts his videos by apologizing for mispronouncing any foreign words.
Simon! Thank you so much for NOT apologizing for your prononciation! I am SOOOOOO tired of the prononciation nazi's! Just get over it we all speak differently and that is beautiful! Love your accent!
Ancient Maya and Aztec history is so mysterious. I’ve been to Mexico twice and taken tours of historical sites, museums, been to xcaret and there are some historical details that change depending on who you are on a tour with. It’s so amazing to see all the ruins and incredible art that is left behind from so long ago.
That's all tourist trap stuff, especially Xcaret. The Yucatan is basically the 51st state, so you're fine w/o a tour. Leaving the beach is the best plan of action. Palenque, where Tikal is, is 9 hours inland, in the middle of a mountainous jungle, where you can stay in bungalows dancing the night away to the howls of monkeys & traditional & electronic music. It's not a tourist trap like Tulum has become, & you go on your own. That way you actually meet the local people, & truly learn something. You can go via Mexico's amazing bus service on your own, even if you only speak English. I've been to 24 of Mexico's 31 states. I think it's far safer than the US, & I'm a 40 yr old American. Women should still probably travel in pairs, if they've never gone off into the wilderness of Mexico before.
@@JeighNeither Super Wrong!, Yucatán is ONE state, where Uxmal and Chichen Itza are located, Tulum and Cancún are in the state of Quintana Roo both in México, The Yucatán Peninsula it's made of 3 states, the two I mentioned before and the state of Campeche. Palenque is in the State of Chiapas outside the Yucatan Peninsula also in México. Tikal is in Guatemala.
You think they are mysterious. What about the Mesoamerican civilizations before the Maya. In particular the Olmec and the Zapotec. There is one site that I can't quite remember the name of, that I did a project on for my archaeology class. The project was regarding UNESCO sites. Pretty sure it was in El Salvador or maybe Guatemala.
Thanks for the video-- bloody brilliant! And if you can go see the Maya ruins, any of them, go in the above-the-equator winter to avoid jungle insects. It's just fine, temperature-wise you are so far south. Also, see the ruins as soon as they open to the public, before the enormous and many jam-packed tourist busses show up, about 10:30 or so.
Yes his face pushes out a lot of content but, it's his hidden collaborators that really deserve the pat on the back for writing and researching all theses topics for Simon to present. Most especially Devan.
Hey man great video I've been watching biographics for bout s year. Year n a half now n it's mostly dope like this keep it up! I'd love to see some stuff on people or places significant to Ukraine or Iceland though cause that's where my families came from and a big portion still live in Iceland to this day. My grandfather and great-grandfather were both prime ministers, their names are Steingrimur Hermannsson and Herman Jonasson respectively. Afi was PM during cold war and another time and Langafi was PM during WWII and had correspondence with both Hitler who sent him gift after gift that were all returned to sender because he wanted to install missle and military bases on Iceland and also had correspondence with Churchill to get rid of the Nazi bastards that were in Iceland at the time to try and woo him since they considered Icelanders part of the master race bullshit he was preaching! Check it out man they'd make for some dope videos and if i share to my family both from and who's still over there you might get damm near the whole country to watch the videos about Afi and Langafi lol 💯💯💯
Or maybe even better: don't add something that sounds like paper rustling and people falling over in the studio when there's talking. Super distracting and annoying.
anyone who might want to watch apocalypto after seeing this should watch history buffs video on it first. the movie is possibly one of the most inaccurate movies ever made. history buffs tears mel gibson a new one
@@EzioHanitore well same can be said for almost anything but a shit movie is a shit movie bud. why waste your time watching a shitty movie when the history buffs review of it has more entertainment value.
@@Rizzle37 a movie doesnt have to be historically accurate to be enjoyable. Braveheart is incredibly enjoyable and a great movie but its notoriously inaccurate as fuck. Who cares
2012 was a huge disappointment, as much a Y2K in 1999, and when Apophis misses in 2036 (even though that would just most likely hit the ocean anyway and cause a tsunami no where near as big as the one in 2004 or remove a city off the map at best).
Good video, as usual. May I request a topic for a new video: I would like to know how Cambodia has recovered after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Thanks!
I’ve actually been here before and people still conduct rituals and ceremonies even now also it’s a very beautiful location and I worth a visit if you can go
Okay... I'll admit it: I'm here because of "Sonic Adventure". Interesting that there was actually a city named Tikal, though after "Pachacamac" I shouldn't be surprised they reused the name of a place! Greetings from Perú!
The Spanish destruction of Mayan Texts wasn't "careless." The destruction was commited with a serious amount of malice and forethought, careless is like when you spit gum off of a balcony and it lands in someone's hair, not when you systematically destroy every artifact you possibly can from a culture that offends your Religion.
Lascaux caves would make a good episode. You know, that famous one in France with the 17,000 year old paintings. Which, incidentally predate the Great Lakes and was so long ago that the Sahara was Lush, Green and wet.
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Trigger warnings are 4 T00|$
Reinforcing the mispronunciation of yagiwar is unpossibly English
Simon:there's some Spanish words in here guys...
Proceeds to say mostly Maya words...
I would like to add a note on Teotihuacan. The Aztecs encountered Teotihuacan when they immigrated to the central Mexican valley from the north (possibly American Southwest). By then the city had been abandoned for at least 700 years. This is to say that Teotihuacan WAS NOT Aztec. They were a distinct group indigenous to the central valley. The Aztecs named the abandoned city Teotihuacan which was their term for "the place of gods."
There is strong archeological evidence that many ethnic groups from all over Mesoamerica resided in Teotihuacan, Maya among them.
How about a geographics on the library of Alexandria?
Would be useful to dispel many misunderstandings about it.
They've done at least one video on the library. And it's fairly recent. Browse through the channels and it's there.
That sounds interesting, and worth watching.
A video about the city as a whole would be better
@@rurushu8094 Good idea
"Smashing, Baby! The Shagguar!"-Austin Powers, The Spy who Shagged Me(1999)
Noice.
Ancient, almost unknown cities have an air of mystery about them that really draws you in. Listening to the contents of these videos makes me more than glad that history was one of my favorite subjects at school, and makes the respect that I've had for these civilizations grow even more.
school teaches false history
@@maki3904 You must really consider yourself an expert.
There Ms Patrick. Simon says Jaguar. I say Jaguar. That's how we say it. That's one in the eye for my American born English teacher. (She gave me a detention because I wouldn't say jaaagwaar) Vindicated at last. Great vid Simon
Show her this!
Language is an ineffective means of communication, so long as people get the point I'd say it's close enough for what we workin with
I don't see what the big deal is. It's one thing to be helpful or correct something that's universal, but there are always variations between countries.
You're welcome.
This was forty long and bitter years. I feel the weight lifted.
I loved the part at 17.29 when Simon says about human sacrifice, 'tear their heads out', instead of 'tear their hearts out'. It is one of those classic psychological events where we ignore what was said because we know what was meant to be said.
Please do one on the
"Worlds largest pyramid. El Mirador"
While El Mirador is a large pyramid, it is smaller than Cholula (which is not only the largest pyramid, but also the largest single monument built by humans).
@@marcusmanchester7095
The height of El Mirador,
As for Cholula. Im aware of is size comparison. I will be on site studying it next month.
@@Mychannel81736 in that case, the Khufu's pyramid is twice as tall.
@@marcusmanchester7095 The reason why archaelogists don't usually name the Cholula pyramid as the biggest pyramid is because it was constructed by three different times and civilizations of people... Olmecs or Teotihuacán Zapotec and Toltecs. Yes, the Cholula pyramid is the biggest pyramid by volume, but archaelogist by the reason I gave above do not name it very often, because whereas the pyramid's of El Mirador, Teotihuacán, and Kheops pyramid were constructed by just one civilization.
@@marcusmanchester7095 at the moment you're partly correct, but some archaelogists agree and don't agree with the platform on which La Danta pyramid sits on in El Mirador. The platform which is manmade has not been added to the total amount of La Danta pyramid. The platform is 9 meters tall, but the length and width I don't have numbers for, but I feel if it's manmade, it should be included in the total tally.
Teotihuacán was not Aztec at all. The Aztecs would not appear until much much later. It is believed it was the toltecs or maybe even Mayan ancestors were the original founders of Teotihuacán
Thanks Simon and Team Top Tenz. Fascinating! Small point: Cenotes are sinkholes. And those being sacrificed had their hearts were torn out, not their heads.
18:53 absolutely love the transition sound effect.
You should do a Biographics show on Pacal and a Geographics show on Palenque.
Beautiful. The pictures have made their way into Assassin's Creed, some of my favourite bits of the game
Maps geography needs maps, thank you for all the content! Seriously grateful!
In America, in the years 2005-2021 PTGE (post-Top Gear Era) the animal is still a "jag-war", but the automobiles have been renamed "jag-you-war."
Come on Simon I thought this was a biography of the Sonic the Hedgehog character! 🤣
Love your videos! I always am excited when a new video comes up. Have you thought about doing a video on the old state prison in Jefferson City, Mo.?
dude than you for that star wars fun fact. Thats awesome
History Buffs did a review of the historical accuracy of Apocalypto and tore it shreds. 😊
Nick (the History Buffs host) looked like he reached the highest rage quit level ever in that level.
For future reference, the people are not the Mayas or the Mayans, they are the Maya. The language is Mayan.
Since you are doing a video on Tikal, can you please do a video on Jacobo Arbenz one of the best, but forgotten Guatemalan presidents. Who tried to follow FDR's new deal example to lift Guatemalas working class, but was ousted in a military coup. Which was the trigger to Guatemalas civil war.
1. What countries of today did the Maya occupy?
2. In what century did Tikal become a super power?
3. When did Tikal begin to decline?
4. In What century where Temple 1 and 2 constructed?
5. How did the Mayans view cholate?
6. What is the name of the sport that the Mayans played?
7. What is one of the few remaining books of the Mayans?
8. How did the Maya view time and constructed their calendar?
9. Who were the ones that conquered and destroyed the Mayans?
10. What is your favorite Mayan fact?
Can you guys answer these questions for me please
Yes I can
"Oh ..so sorry I failed to make that impossible hip shot through the hoop 20 ft. in the air guys...
Guess we will have to be disemboweled on the top of the pyramid next week!"
So fascinating, they are absolutely relevant now, can feel them Rising again in Spirit.
I'm really late but I never expected my ancestors to be featured in a Simon video lol
Please try covering Takshila and Nalanda.. Love your vids♥
I love the trigger warnings on here. They just lean into it, like "I don't speak the language, but here's my best, educated guess. If you want to have a go at me, whatever."
I may heretofore say jag you are instead of jag whar , I like how it sounds
They aren't pyramids, they're temples. Pyramids have pointed tops, like those of Egypt. These are teocallis, or temples.
I have stood on the steps of some of these places. a friend gave me artifacts allegedly dug up with modern building projects, or is just it tourist junk? But these items came as gifts as I was Very Interested and knew of local history. This friend removed the items from his personal local collection and handed the items to me with his own hand, right from his home's display. I like to think I am Honored to have "real" artifacts from the Americas, but who knows? In honor of my wife and her Central American descendants, I will tell this story to my grand children as these items are handed down.
As soon I got the notification I am on it
More of these please.
Who here wants to form two teams and play pokotok? 10:43 - 12:03, without the death at the end
i had to watch apocalypto in 6th grade for our ancient history unit and it was HORRIFYING
Have you read/listened to Will Durant's Story of Civilization. I think it is proper your cup of tea.
Aztecs did not have any effect on Tikal. Central Mesoamerican center of Teotihuacan had, and it almost certainly conquered Tikal and installed a new dynasty in 378 CE, but the Aztecs came into the Mesoamerican stage only in 1325 CE - far after Teotihuacan had been abandoned between 550-650 CE. The identity of Teotihuacan's rulers is debated but they probably belonged to one of the still extant peoples living in the area.
They were called mesheeka (MeXicA,) not aztec. That is a europeans name for them.
@@hanzykrupps6383 Mexica, yes - but the video calls them Aztecs and makes them interact with early-Classic Maya in Tikal. This is nine centuries before the Aztecs / Mexica arrive in the scene of Mesoamerican history.
@@RaimoKangasniemi I fully agree and know this. 👍
Thank you for this video, we can get past the mispronunciation LOL - as a Guatemalan native, with K'iche blood in me, I take this video as a compliment. It's crazy how far the blood of the Maya has come, from being born in Guatemala, moving to the United states- living border to Canada and marrying a white woman 😅
Can you do killing fields?
Dude that story of the twins sounds like some good Ayahuasca!
The Maya were not a unified "nation" , but functioned like the Greek City states from what I've read.
What is the measure of the base of the pyramid?
very well done.
Ball sport also exist in Han Dynasty China.
Probably older than the Central American ball game.
Nobody:
British people: jagg-you-wear🥴
And we only just missed knowing them in person (archaeologically speaking) :(
Curl nose probably died hitting that mayan pack
Perhaps the Maya city get abandoned by their people for some serious reasons, just like here in Indonesia the Hindu and Budha were once a major religion but the temples or even sacred places related to both religion were abandoned, the reasons could be similiar or very contrast in my opinion 🤔
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I love this channel.
One of the saddest things about history is when u come across cultures that were effectively destroyed leaving only traces along with second hand accounts
There are first hand accounts in surviving Mayan texts, from inscriptions carved in stone and texts written on clay artifacts to texts written after the Spanish conquests by Mayans. They are surviving, small fragments of a once vast written corpus, but they do exist.
Considering that's happened to literally every culture throught history it seems pretty typical to me. Nothing lasts forever, despite what people want to believe.
It's like how the Basque dialect was suppressed by Franco. It's basically unlike any other language on the continent there and dude just tries to scrub it from society. It's like on the same level as destroying a pyramid.
@@VoidHalo But we have the internet which will probably last for a seemingly infinitely long time and not just that we have the Golden Record.
Mayas are still kicking arround, they wear traditional dresses and speak their language. Conflict in Honduras has to the death of many of them.
I love the fact that Simon has resorted to giving trigger warnings because people don't understand what an accent is. 😂
It's so true.
@@geographicstravel it's "Maya", never "Mayas"
There's a difference between accent and mispronunciation.
@@geographicstravel I would like Simon to read this sentence aloud: *The cemetary was designed with symmetry in mind.* Or get a Geordie to say: *Burglar alarm* Do you know what I'm on about Simon? LOL
@@Shift8YawnsShift8 It's odd because at the beginning of the video he says it correctly. Halfway through when he begins to talk about sports things go awry.
Thank you for this, as a native Guatemalan I love how you did this .
I have always enjoyed your videos but definitely love this one .
Thank you sir
Him calling us native mexicans made me laugh bc that's just false
When talking about Tikal it’s worth mentioning the nearby city of Noh Petén, the capital of the Itza Maya, that was the last Native American Kingdom to fall to the Spanish. A small island city crammed with tens of thousands of people (inflated by massive Maya refugee influx), they managed to hold the Spanish at bay of for over 150 years.
The Spaniards destroyed everything and built the city of Flores on top of it. They tore down the temples and burnt all the books - today the itza number a few hundred and the language is close to extinction.
As many other dudes said before, Teotihuacán wasn't Aztec, it was it's own civilization, the "teotihuacanos" that preceded Aztecs by at least 500 years. When Aztecs arrived to valley of Mexico aprox by the XII century they found Teotihuacán as magnificent ruins covered in mistery
More like 800 years.
I like how it went from "have a go at me" to "polite piss off"
Hahaha. Lets just leave it there and get on with it. Simon Whistler the first man on youtube to figure out how to completely disarm the critics.
Simon won RUclips
Makes me think of ‘The Road to Eldorado’.
That’s bc it influenced by Mayan culture and the conquer of the Spanish being greedy and looking for our gold 😂
Capsized “ To Xibalba? To Xibalba!”
"He gave me loaded dice!"
@@mliterature “He gave you loaded dice!”
I always thought "The Road to El Dorado" was interesting, because El Dorado was supposed to be located within the Incan Empire. That's what Pizarro was looking for when he screwed the Incas. Yet, the movie (as you pointed out) had Mayan aesthetics.
Teotihuacan wasn't Aztec. The Aztecs didn't migrate to meso-america until around 1300. Though the people who built Teotihuacan were predecessors to the city-states in the region settled by the Aztecs and they influenced them and likely had a similarly sized empire or sphere of influence at least at their heyday around 200 AD.
Today I learned...
They were Toltecs.
I was gonna say "wait for the Aztecs weren't a thing yet in the first millennium CE."
@@hanzykrupps6383 Maybe, but that's also up for debate. It's actually not known who founded Teotihuacan.
@@unknownPLfan indeed, but "I can't fight this feeling anymore!" 🤣
I had to restart the video because I spent the first 5 minutes saying Jaguar like a British chap and didn't hear anything Simon was saying lol
I was going to say, he better mention the star wars movie being filmed there.
Anyway, regardless of that, it's just a freaking amazing place to visit. My parents were there in the 70s and then they took me and my sister and niece in 1996. I wonder how much more has been uncovered out of the jungle since then...
I have been to Tikal and it’s an amazing place! If you ever visit pay for one of the guides at the entrance, they were brilliant able to tell you all about the history and nature in the area! Will 100% be back
Let’s not talk about Apocalypto. The movie doesn’t know if it’s Mayan or Aztec😂😂
Isn’t the main character Mayan? But got captured by the Aztecs
Chitchen Itza is a Toltec-Mayan city.
The toltec were rather similar to the Aztecs in their practices.
Its a time travel movie, the main character runs back and forth hundreds of years in the movie, isn't it obvious?
Let's not talk about its director, either. He might have served his time on the shit list, but that doesn't mean he's stopped being a shit.
I love that movie!
Just a quick correction, the Teotihuacans were not Aztecs, the Aztecs migrated to that region centuries after the collapse of Teotihuacan, they found the ruins of Teotihuacan and adopted much of the architectural and artistic style.
They were Toltecs.
@@hanzykrupps6383 That is also true, the Aztecs claimed a common ancestry with the Teotihuacans and the Toltecs. Some of the things we know from the Toltecs come from Aztec oral and pictographic tradition but there is a debate on how accurate and unbiased are these Aztec narratives, but yeah the Aztec ended up adopting a lot from the Teotihuacans and Toltecs.
@@TheUsuallySilentOne also, "aztec," is a european name for them. Their true name is the mesheeka, or MeXicA... Hence, MeXicO.
Great video!! I’d love to see more Maya / Aztec / Inca topics covered!
I was there a month ago and I’m so excited to see you cover it! It is a truly fascinating place 🤩 keep on the wonderful work!
Question, how where you able to go there? Did you have to sign up for tourist pass of some sort? I ask because I want to visit and I have family that live in Guatemala City, clearly far away from Tikal. Thanks :)
Simon, I absolutely adore your spin on history. You make complex subjects fun and easy to understand. Thank you to you and your team for delivering such great work!
1:10 - Chapter 1 - History of tikal
4:15 - Chapter 2 - A lost world
8:50 - Chapter 3 - The jaguar god of xilbalba
10:35 - Chapter 4 - Poc a toc
13:05 - Chapter 5 - The popol vuh
14:50 - Chapter 6 - A spiritual world, a cyclical time
18:40 - Chapter 7 - Decline of the mayas
21:10 - Chapter 8 - Going to tikal
Mayan 1: “dude we have like 2000 years worth of calendar here we’re probably good for now”
Mayan 2: “alright let’s at least finish this year we only got a few days left”
Mayan 1: “no just leave it I want to see the sacrifices for today”
White moms 2,000 years later: **sobbing as the world should end according to news**
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@@maki3904 I'm scratching my head in confusion too.
@@fvckwhatyouthink2907 it's a reference to the popular myth that the world would end in december of 2012 because the mayan calendar supposedly ended
This is fantastic
Well, of course we didn't all die in 2012. The Doctor saved us.
He always does!
Doctor who?
Who? 😉
Did someone say DOKKKK-tor??? Exterminate!!! Exterminate!!!! Btw Talia, darling, I love your Rinoa profile.
nor 2020! nor 1999! or 1984? We are born to DIE! Do Not Live in FEAR!
I actually bring up JAGYOUARES in everday conservation ( which is not easy) just so I can say JAGYOUARE! because it erks people and its awesome and youre
awesome and this channel is the best! keep up the great work!
JAGYOUARE!!
“Just go back to Pepa Pig,” says Simon, as it plays in the background here for my daughter. I do everything I can to *not* pay attention to Pepa Pig!😂
Haha finally got a Simon video at no views!
I need a life...
Haha you are the chosen 1 😎
Of all of Simon's channels, I think that Geographics is becoming my favorite.
It's good to see that at least some of the thoughts and dreams of the Mayans were preserved and thank you for telling us about them. So much was lost when Europeans invaded the Americas.
As to pronouncing Jaguar, I'm from the USA and I listen to a radio station that includes adverts for a Jaguar dealership narrated by a guy speaking pure BBC. That dealership sells cars with a 3 syllable name. You say Granada, I say Granada. So what? We understand one another.
I visited Tikal in 2016, what an amazing place ! Great video, Simon :)
History and culture are cool, but you know what makes a city even cooler?
*Being the base the Death Star attack was launched from*
09:05 This underworld journey is remarkably similar to what little I know of what ancient Egyptians tell of what happens after death, where the soul travels thru a perilous land of the dark between sunset & sunrise, ultimately if successful joining with the gods and sharing their immortality.
Good Guy Simon: Naturally speaks "Proper English" considered for decades to be the zenith of all English dialects/accents.
Starts his videos by apologizing for mispronouncing any foreign words.
Simon, Teotihuacans and Aztecs/Mexicas are not the same thing... not at all... not by a long shot 😑... please fact check that.
Simon is fantastic here. Love the Monty Python reference.... "No ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition". Lol...
It's Always a good day when you discover another channel hosted by Simon
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Welcome :)
Simon! Thank you so much for NOT apologizing for your prononciation! I am SOOOOOO tired of the prononciation nazi's! Just get over it we all speak differently and that is beautiful! Love your accent!
Teotihuacan was not an Aztec city. It was built millennia before the arrival of the Aztec in central Mexico.
Ancient Maya and Aztec history is so mysterious. I’ve been to Mexico twice and taken tours of historical sites, museums, been to xcaret and there are some historical details that change depending on who you are on a tour with. It’s so amazing to see all the ruins and incredible art that is left behind from so long ago.
That's all tourist trap stuff, especially Xcaret. The Yucatan is basically the 51st state, so you're fine w/o a tour. Leaving the beach is the best plan of action. Palenque, where Tikal is, is 9 hours inland, in the middle of a mountainous jungle, where you can stay in bungalows dancing the night away to the howls of monkeys & traditional & electronic music. It's not a tourist trap like Tulum has become, & you go on your own. That way you actually meet the local people, & truly learn something. You can go via Mexico's amazing bus service on your own, even if you only speak English. I've been to 24 of Mexico's 31 states. I think it's far safer than the US, & I'm a 40 yr old American. Women should still probably travel in pairs, if they've never gone off into the wilderness of Mexico before.
@@JeighNeither Wrong. Tikal is located in Peten, Guatemala. Not Palenque, Mexico.
@@JeighNeither Super Wrong!, Yucatán is ONE state, where Uxmal and Chichen Itza are located, Tulum and Cancún are in the state of Quintana Roo both in México, The Yucatán Peninsula it's made of 3 states, the two I mentioned before and the state of Campeche. Palenque is in the State of Chiapas outside the Yucatan Peninsula also in México. Tikal is in Guatemala.
You think they are mysterious. What about the Mesoamerican civilizations before the Maya. In particular the Olmec and the Zapotec. There is one site that I can't quite remember the name of, that I did a project on for my archaeology class. The project was regarding UNESCO sites. Pretty sure it was in El Salvador or maybe Guatemala.
@@garymaidman625 oh absolutely! (Those are arguably more mysterious) I went to a lot of tourist spots in Mexico for sure
*giggles* "Many silly people."
😂
Thanks for the video-- bloody brilliant!
And if you can go see the Maya ruins, any of them, go in the above-the-equator winter to avoid jungle insects. It's just fine, temperature-wise you are so far south.
Also, see the ruins as soon as they open to the public, before the enormous and many jam-packed tourist busses show up, about 10:30 or so.
Between this channel and TIFO, your shear quantity of content released each week is extraordinary. Well done guys!
great shout pal Tifo and this are ace.
And TOP TENZ, and Biographics, and Highlight History.
@@stevenutter3614 you're dam right
@@stevenutter3614 ya beat me to it
Yes his face pushes out a lot of content but, it's his hidden collaborators that really deserve the pat on the back for writing and researching all theses topics for Simon to present. Most especially Devan.
Hey man great video I've been watching biographics for bout s year. Year n a half now n it's mostly dope like this keep it up! I'd love to see some stuff on people or places significant to Ukraine or Iceland though cause that's where my families came from and a big portion still live in Iceland to this day. My grandfather and great-grandfather were both prime ministers, their names are Steingrimur Hermannsson and Herman Jonasson respectively. Afi was PM during cold war and another time and Langafi was PM during WWII and had correspondence with both Hitler who sent him gift after gift that were all returned to sender because he wanted to install missle and military bases on Iceland and also had correspondence with Churchill to get rid of the Nazi bastards that were in Iceland at the time to try and woo him since they considered Icelanders part of the master race bullshit he was preaching! Check it out man they'd make for some dope videos and if i share to my family both from and who's still over there you might get damm near the whole country to watch the videos about Afi and Langafi lol 💯💯💯
I hate being “that guy” I do. But, Tehitihuacan was not Aztec 😬. That city was abandoned by several centuries before the Aztecs arrived.
Hi everyone at geographics. Any chance you could do a vid in Doggerland. Love all your channels thanks for all the hard work xx 😊
Could you ask whoever is in charge of the sound to LOWER THE DAMN VOLUME OF THE MUSIC so it's proportional to the rest of the video? Thanks.
Or maybe even better: don't add something that sounds like paper rustling and people falling over in the studio when there's talking. Super distracting and annoying.
anyone who might want to watch apocalypto after seeing this should watch history buffs video on it first. the movie is possibly one of the most inaccurate movies ever made. history buffs tears mel gibson a new one
Or.. people could just watch the movie... and enjoy iy if they like it... because it's a movie.
@@EzioHanitore well same can be said for almost anything but a shit movie is a shit movie bud. why waste your time watching a shitty movie when the history buffs review of it has more entertainment value.
I throught it was a Ace movie tbh
@@a.ftp4207 check history buffs review on it and i bet you'll change your mind lol
@@Rizzle37 a movie doesnt have to be historically accurate to be enjoyable. Braveheart is incredibly enjoyable and a great movie but its notoriously inaccurate as fuck. Who cares
Apocalyptio was a butchery mishmash of Mayan and Aztec cultures. Its ridiculous
Ha (laugh) goo (slime) ar (the letter)...
2012 was a huge disappointment, as much a Y2K in 1999, and when Apophis misses in 2036 (even though that would just most likely hit the ocean anyway and cause a tsunami no where near as big as the one in 2004 or remove a city off the map at best).
Regarding "Jaguar", don't apologise for pronouncing something correctly.
Good video, as usual. May I request a topic for a new video: I would like to know how Cambodia has recovered after Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Thanks!
The aztecs did not build Teotihuacan.
I’ve actually been here before and people still conduct rituals and ceremonies even now also it’s a very beautiful location and I worth a visit if you can go
I live here
Thanks for the trigger warning. I have a terminal fear of Spain.
Okay... I'll admit it: I'm here because of "Sonic Adventure". Interesting that there was actually a city named Tikal, though after "Pachacamac" I shouldn't be surprised they reused the name of a place! Greetings from Perú!
The Spanish destruction of Mayan Texts wasn't "careless." The destruction was commited with a serious amount of malice and forethought, careless is like when you spit gum off of a balcony and it lands in someone's hair, not when you systematically destroy every artifact you possibly can from a culture that offends your Religion.
Lascaux caves would make a good episode. You know, that famous one in France with the 17,000 year old paintings. Which, incidentally predate the Great Lakes and was so long ago that the Sahara was Lush, Green and wet.