Spanish Colonization of the Americas (New Spain / APUSH Period 1 / Colonial America)

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  • Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
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    In the first part of my lecture series on European colonization of the Americas, I take a look at the Spanish colonists, their goals, and their relationship with the Indians that they encountered. The Spanish were motivated by God, Glory, and Gold, seeking to create an empire in the Americas and to evangelize the Native American population. While many Spanish colonists looked at the Indians as sources of cheap labor to exploit through the encomienda, Bartolomé de las Casas led a movement to abolish this system of labor, wanting to create a climate more friendly to the Catholic Church's efforts to evangelize them. Priests set up missions throughout New Spain in order to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
    The content of this lecture spans the end of APUSH Period 1. In most APUSH textbooks, this content will be found in Chapter 1 of most textbooks.
    For more APUSH Colonial America lectures, check out my Colonial America Playlist: • Colonial America (APUS...
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  • @VictoriaMEaly
    @VictoriaMEaly 7 лет назад +77

    I am a first year US History teacher and this was an awesome confirmation to the text that I've studied for this week's lesson. I will watch it at least 3 times! :-)

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  7 лет назад +12

      +Author V Marie Glad to help a first year US History teacher! ☕️😃🇺🇸

    • @rewko2661
      @rewko2661 7 лет назад +1

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    • @lenaray8638
      @lenaray8638 4 года назад

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      @dogontren279 4 года назад

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      @laskarsangkuriang5129 3 года назад

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  • @robertrowland1061
    @robertrowland1061 9 лет назад +9

    You sir are a GOOD communicator. I truly appreciate your efforts. Please keep 'em comin'.

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  9 лет назад +1

      Robert Rowland Thank you, sir! I filmed segments on New France and New Netherland in the same sitting that I'll be releasing later this week after I edit them.

    • @robertrowland1061
      @robertrowland1061 9 лет назад +1

      Tom Richey I'm looking forward to them!

  • @jasminesoza3437
    @jasminesoza3437 7 лет назад +2

    Thank you so much ! I'm a transfer student from Arizona going to a school in New York , I had a AP summer project I was working on about how the colonist treated the natives. This really helped , you teach very well!

  • @sand-gl7qo
    @sand-gl7qo 7 лет назад +8

    I'm a H.S. Junior taking U.S. History at a community college. This video is very helpful and informative since my professor goes off on a tangent during most lecture, so we don't learn much. I will definitely be recommending your channel to my classmates. Thank you :)

  • @jayschaffer7520
    @jayschaffer7520 8 лет назад +5

    I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for making these videos they are extremely helpful and educational.

  • @JayElDiplee
    @JayElDiplee 6 лет назад +1

    I know I am late to the game as far as your channel is concerned but I have got to say I love your demeanor and teaching style. I love history and because of that I am always listening to/ watching history videos on YT and because of that I am surprised that I never came across your channel. You gained a subscriber and probably a lot of views from me. Thanks for your content.

  • @AndreiMurgescu
    @AndreiMurgescu 4 года назад +1

    Hey Tom, lovely stuff here, really appreciate your efforts!

  • @julioemanuellohaiza1236
    @julioemanuellohaiza1236 8 лет назад +52

    Thanks for the video Tom. Yes most people in Latin America are Mestizos. A mixture of Spanish and Indian. Although the term "Mestizo" isn't used anymore, most people in Latin America are aware of our European and Native American heritage. In Mexico we take pride in being half European and Half Indian. Our culture is European and Indian combined. Although some people do dislike Spain.

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  8 лет назад +3

      +Pianissimo 123 Glad to see this video is useful in Latin America!

    • @ASTFRER36
      @ASTFRER36 7 лет назад +18

      Spanish Black Legend a false Story created by Enemies of Catholic Spain basically Dutch and English wich are protrestans. For example more people were executed in England or English Colonies by Church than in Spain.

    • @ASTFRER36
      @ASTFRER36 7 лет назад +5

      I suggested Tom to investigate about Spanish Black Legend...

    • @jesseyancey7159
      @jesseyancey7159 7 лет назад +1

      Julio Emanuel Lohaiza 123 I certainly do!

    • @ikercastillo644
      @ikercastillo644 7 лет назад +6

      its a myth. It was created due to self hate from Spanish critics way back in the days. Then the British and Dutch began to spread it because they wanted to spread bad rap about the Spanish because the Brits and Dutch wanted to still conquer.

  • @derekwoodschannel589
    @derekwoodschannel589 7 лет назад +1

    Always very professional, I will be using this for Early Modern Period for my WHAP class. Thank you!

  • @charlielliott4340
    @charlielliott4340 Год назад

    THANK YOUUU SM FOR THIS. I have kinda been struggling in Apush but your videos have been helping me sm❤️

  • @my2cents49
    @my2cents49 3 года назад

    Thanks for this. You just made teaching history SO much easier for our family!

  • @jmundi2002
    @jmundi2002 5 лет назад +9

    Im from Salt, Spain!!

  • @louie115
    @louie115 7 лет назад +3

    Great stuff. Loved the video. You did a fantastic job! I am both French and Spanish with...I believe...Comanche. So I really enjoy to learn more about my history as an American but also as a descendant of Europeans.

  • @heatherhfields
    @heatherhfields 7 лет назад +3

    I have a daughter who is studying the Spanish borderlands and this video really help her :]

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  7 лет назад

      +Heather Fields Glad to hear it! :D

  • @slushiecanfight
    @slushiecanfight 3 года назад

    Dude, you just saved my grade in APUSH😭😭😭 thank you so much!!!!!!

  • @Drew-lf4mv
    @Drew-lf4mv 3 года назад +1

    I wish these were more in-depth It would be nice to have a second channel with more in-depth videos or links to more in-depth videos on the individual topics covered.

  • @Odin31b
    @Odin31b 7 лет назад +2

    Thanks for your post..

  • @gustavo_colombini
    @gustavo_colombini 7 лет назад

    Great explanation!

  • @engrwaqarasmat789
    @engrwaqarasmat789 6 лет назад +2

    Is there all Lectures in Power Point orr pdf . So I can download .very helpful material

  • @erinkrauss852
    @erinkrauss852 4 года назад

    Thank you so much!!! This video is so helpful for my project about the background of the modern Mexican state.

  • @uglycheyenne1207
    @uglycheyenne1207 5 лет назад

    thank you for your service

  • @polynesianbloodline
    @polynesianbloodline 2 года назад

    So glad I found your videos! Are you still uploading?

  • @anibaljesusdelgadillo2091
    @anibaljesusdelgadillo2091 7 лет назад +2

    Fascinating.

  • @gamblerduckling
    @gamblerduckling 3 года назад +1

    Great video, really helped out.

  • @jasperacnl420
    @jasperacnl420 7 лет назад

    Thanks for the vid! I got it for my teacher for ss (social studies) aka history!

  • @world_mem7567
    @world_mem7567 4 года назад +2

    Great video!
    As you well-said some pre-columbian and highly advanced civilizations existed for centuries in rich and very prosperous regions of the Americas, particularly in Mexico and Peru. It would be interesting some research and a video on the development and economies of the Spanish and Portugueses Viceroyalties established since the XVI century, the development of their capitals and large cities and interestingly their relationship with the British colonies in the East coast of what is now US.
    Cheers!!

  • @machopolitan1
    @machopolitan1 3 года назад

    Hi Tom, I just bought and downloaded the APUSH slides bundle 1 but I found that the slides you sell in the bundle don't cover the whole 9 periods as required by CB, may I know where can I get the rest?

  • @HuntingTheEnd
    @HuntingTheEnd 8 лет назад +4

    I'm a freshman in highschool and I love these videos. I'm not even taking the classes for half these things but im watching for sole entertainment

  • @SicknastyFPS
    @SicknastyFPS 3 года назад +1

    If you guys are doing a worksheet you can find most of the information at 7:34

  • @carlosi7026
    @carlosi7026 8 лет назад +26

    Great but there is a HUGE mistake in 7:18 the spaniards founded big setlementes like Guanajuato, Mérida, Monterrey, Querétaro, Valladolid, Guadalajara, Veracruz etc.. basically ALL of the current Mexican cities, at the North where there were small populations and there were no major cities ,those were the ones that were only Missions. - That´s why later the Americans could easily grab that territory, cause there was not enough hispanic population to form cities and well defended garrisons.

    • @jerres9585
      @jerres9585 7 лет назад +4

      He's focusing on the US of A here

  • @kentuckyhelicycle2614
    @kentuckyhelicycle2614 6 лет назад

    Hey Tom! Have you been to Chaco Canyon? The Pueblo Benito is a sight to see among the many other ruins there. I am a fellow history teacher as well and I enjoy your videos. Good work.

  • @demiansolis
    @demiansolis 9 лет назад +17

    Hi Tom. I enjoyed watching your video. I applaud your efforts to explain to a primarily Anglo American audience such a complex process as the conquer and colonization of the Americas by the Spaniards. In general, the information is fine; however, I like to clarify one point. During the early years of the XVI century Spain exercised a tight control over who was allowed to enter its new colonies, so very few Europeans were able to emigrate to New Spain. However, things changes during the government of the Emperor Charles I of Spain when he allows all the citizens within his empire (Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, etc) to emigrate to the New World as colonizers. He realizes that much of his newly acquired territories are uninhabited, so he encourages the colonization of New Spain by commoners, not just by conquistadors. However, the entrance to New Spain to Jews and Muslims remains forbidden.

    • @demiansolis
      @demiansolis 9 лет назад +3

      Daniel72 Uhm, as far as I know modern Spaniards are a mix of different cultures and races. Yes, there are the original inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula, the Iber and the Celtics, however you also have Greek, Roman, Visigoth (German tribe), Jewish and Muslim blood running through your veins. Well, the Basque people are a separate case.

  • @viktor_vaughn
    @viktor_vaughn 7 лет назад +3

    Encomienda comes from the Spanish word Encomendar, which roughly translate to Assign

  • @coreyhaddixguitar9326
    @coreyhaddixguitar9326 8 лет назад +4

    These videos are so helpful for my freshmen apush summer homework thank you sooooo much!!

  • @josegonzalez6231
    @josegonzalez6231 7 лет назад +1

    I love your video ,keep it up

  • @hishamalmunayes8189
    @hishamalmunayes8189 7 лет назад

    Amazing job

  • @amberross4187
    @amberross4187 4 года назад +2

    "Dance like a penguin!" -Background Diego Poster. Also great video! :) Easy to understand, and RIP to anyone who was supposed to also watch Guns, Germs, and Steel but the video was dead.

  • @rmhutchins7
    @rmhutchins7 9 лет назад +8

    I came across your RUclips videos. I enjoy history, and I enjoy your videos.

    • @Jocelynskeels
      @Jocelynskeels 4 года назад

      bruh my science teacher is making us watch this i came to the comments to find the 3 vocab words

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      @mishmashmedley 3 года назад

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    • @mishmashmedley
      @mishmashmedley 3 года назад

      ​@@Jocelynskeels well, there's no statute of limitations on your ignorance, _bruh_

    • @Jocelynskeels
      @Jocelynskeels 3 года назад

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  • @erendemir9553
    @erendemir9553 6 лет назад

    thank you for teaching

  • @Nudillox
    @Nudillox 9 лет назад +30

    I like your videos dude! Good job!
    Only wants say the environment created by the fantastic stories about my homeland ( Spain ) that have seen the light of publicity in all countries, the grotesque descriptions that have always been made of the character of Spaniards as individuals and collectively, the denial or at least the systematic ignorance of all that is favorable and beautiful in the various manifestations of culture and art, the accusations that in every era have been flung against Spain.
    It's important say that the "Black legend" was English/Dutch PROPAGANDA that demonizes the Spanish Empire, its people and its culture.
    Spain is Don Quixote, always engrossed in defending impossible ideas, in fighting against all, through endless seas, conquer vast lands. Spain always fought against all mills, lonely, miserable, quixotic. And in the end Spain lost.

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  9 лет назад +2

      Nudillox That is a very sad story... I'm hopeful that I was able to portray the Spanish in at least a slightly more accurate light than the English and the Dutch did.

    • @MORITURISABIO
      @MORITURISABIO 8 лет назад

      may I say sir, I recently discovered your channel and enjoy your videos. I understnad you can't cover all details in these. I'm learning a ton with you. Many thanks!

    • @lucasv.7658
      @lucasv.7658 6 лет назад +1

      Nudillox actually I always thought that, Cervantes captured the spirit of Spain perfectly, trying to fight for ideals at the cost of effectiveness or ultimately at the cost of reality itself. Making Spain big, defend Roman/Latin-Catholic culture and spread it across the world, be elegant and “fair” (according to the morals of the time) even if that implies losing or sacrificing effectiveness... for example, Christianism considered lending money with interests a crime, a dirty job, and Spaniards always preferred working the soil to engaging in such impure deceiving business, meanwhile other countries encouraged lending despite it being considered bad by their morals, Spain always put idealism on top of pragmatic solutions. Working the fields, going to church and giving away money, being artistic and enlarging the motherland, that’s what people considered a good Spaniard. Like Cervantes himself, a soldier, a Catholic and an artist.
      Just as king Phillip II said “I’d rather be a Spanish peasant than the king of a heretic dishonest people”.

    • @Conquistador505
      @Conquistador505 5 лет назад

      Very true. Cervantes by his own experiences, and played thru Quixote, captured the idealistic sense of honor, self-sacrifice, and unfathomable determination of the Iberian people. Loyal to a fault, but once dishonored, they will rage like a lion. They do not bend to any challenger and accept all circumstances. A hatred for the ingenuous and banality with an inherent fortitude for the proper. Though instinctively modest, their own sense of worth and dignity often bubble over to what other too easily consider haughtiness or arrogance. A devout people with a burning heart of faith and penchant for duty. All the while, their own critical, self examining nature and pursuit of independence has caused them to fight each with the same fervor as they would any foreign enemy. #SpaniardsAreASpecialBreed #VivaLosEspanoles

  • @cholos17
    @cholos17 6 лет назад +4

    Great video however I do wish you have talked about the Spanish explorations in North America, St. Augustine, Juna Ponce De Leon landing in Florida in 1513, how they got all the North Amer. Natives sick and how they reached the Chesapeake Bay in 1525. Too many people here don't know that Jamestown already had Spanish foot prints. Overall still liked the video. Gracias.

  • @Operador2281
    @Operador2281 4 года назад +1

    This is a great video, but i have a question, is the spanish viceroyalty different to a brithis colony?

    • @enderlinde3152
      @enderlinde3152 2 года назад

      Yes, the Spanish colonies were counter as official parts of the kingdom. they had the same laws, currency and many other things. Imagine all the Spanish colonies as part of mainland Spain

  • @jodoncaribbeancostarica
    @jodoncaribbeancostarica 3 года назад

    Love your accent. Thanks for the lesson.

  • @lucam8a
    @lucam8a 4 года назад

    thanks tom

  • @spanisharmada6460
    @spanisharmada6460 8 лет назад +26

    A very simplistic lecture! although most college level history classes are very simplistic as well, they are mostly vocabulary! ...Encomienda a conjugation of encomendar, can be translated as to "ENTRUST."...Alabama was Spanish...so was Spanish Missouri....West Florida was a Spanish colony, now called Alabama and Mississippi. The Spanish had failed colonies in Virginia before Roanoke and Jamestown. Anglo Protestants and Latin Catholics....do not like each other hence the black legend...

  • @lizandrasoave1289
    @lizandrasoave1289 9 лет назад

    Very well explained! The book "Why Nations Fail", from Daron Acemoglu (teacher in MIT) and James Robinson (teacher in Harvard), shows, in the very beggining, both Spanish and English colonization to ilustrate the cultural diferences between Latin America and North America. The authors mention the Hernán Cortéz institutions in Mexico, like "encomiendas" and others, and his relation with Montezuma. They talk also about Pizarro, that repeats the same model with Atahualpa, in Peru, and finally John Smith, that face challenges completly differents in Jamestown, Virginia. This book was recommended by The Economist magazine!

    • @mattbarrett3618
      @mattbarrett3618 8 лет назад +1

      I hate the economist. It's run by sour leftist commies

    • @Gloriaimperial1
      @Gloriaimperial1 Год назад

      Mexico had more than 10 million indigenous people when the Spanish arrived. There were another 30-50 million in Central and South America, according to various estimates. North America (United States and Canada) had less than 2-3 million indigenous people, on basically flat and fertile lands. The population of North America was basically European, already Christianized. The Spaniards found themselves with the problem of integrating all that indigenous population, in a land with 6000-meter mountain ranges, impenetrable jungles, tropical diseases, hurricanes, volcanoes, deserts. It is a process very similar to the Romanization in Hispania, Britain or Gaul, which lasted several centuries. The queen of Spain, Isabel, said in the year 1500: "I want the Spanish, men and women, to marry and form families with the indigenous people of those lands." That is something revolutionary in the world. In the 19th century, many British and French supported social Darwinism: "The brown people or of other races are stupid, as it shows that they are poor." Or Nazism (Germany). There was still racial segregation in Alabama in 1960, and apartheid in South Africa in 1990. Native Americans have casinos to survive. In Spanish America they are presidents of their nations, many times. Harward had a white-only university in 1630. The first university in India (a trading company) is from 1857 (250 years after arriving there). The Netherlands only made one university in its empire: Indonesia 1946, two years before independence. Spain made 40 universities in the world: 28 in America, 3 in the Philippines, 9 in Italy and 1 in France, for all races, the first in America (1538, 1551), the first in Asia (1611), the first of Africa (1704).
      Spanish reinvestment in people of all races in America was 70% of wealth (80% in the 18th century). The Spanish empire in Europe was rich: already civilized Christians, who already knew the techniques, without jungles or tropical diseases, and without indigenous people to integrate. Countries like Australia and Canada have 3 and 4 inhabitants per km2, and enormous natural resources for few people. If Australia had the population density of Mexico (65 inhabitants per km2) it would go from 28 million inhabitants, the majority living on the smooth southeastern coast, to 600 million people, living in deserts, jungles... Australia would be directly poor: India and Pakistan, or Belize, Surinam, Jamaica, Botswana, Sudafrica... I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of the Anglo-Saxons and the Dutch (although they did not invest much in other races from where they got their wealth, while Spain built 2,300 stone cities, 40 universities, 900 hospitals, 400 catedrales, 300 fortresses, and thousands of nursery schools). But things are not so simple. It seems that being selfish makes people very rich. Adam Smith is a great economist, he himself has already warned of certain abuses. In the English industrial revolution, there were children between the ages of 5-12 working in coal mines, endless days, sometimes for a plate of food until 1850. Indigenous children and women or of any race could not work in the mines of the Spanish empire since the 16th century.
      Spain made the first international human rights (Laws of Burgos 1512 and New Laws 1542) that eliminated the encomienda, a source of abuse. The first viceroy of Peru was assassinated by the sons of Pizarro, for applying those laws. The second viceroy of Peru, and all the others, applied the laws against indigenous slavery. There are two systems, the Anglo-Saxon, where money is the most important thing in the world. And the Spanish system, more similar to Roman integration in the same culture, more supportive, like the European Union.

  • @carolineandrade2665
    @carolineandrade2665 7 лет назад

    Would this video be considered as the growth of the Spanish colonies?

  • @marktwain368
    @marktwain368 5 лет назад +2

    The map showing Spanish America shows Canada incorrectly: Upper Canada was strictly around Lake Ontario and Erie; the eastern part was Quebec (Lower Canada). I'm a History teacher and darn it! You have to make it right!

  • @vmutuma
    @vmutuma 3 года назад +3

    New 🇪🇸

  • @cintyamolina4621
    @cintyamolina4621 2 года назад +1

    The word "encomienda" is the noun for "encomendar" or "to entrust [something to someone."] The crown would quite literally "entrust" [from the colonizers' perspective] a territory and everyone/everything in it to someone. The root of the term "encomienda" is pretty straightforward. Thanks for your useful and succinct video. Perhaps you can add this correction to it.

  • @masn9997
    @masn9997 6 лет назад +12

    I find it amazing the fact that you mention Bartolomé. Do you know Bartolomé's book is absolutely refuted by any impartial historian? In fact, Bartolomé's book was modified by the Dutch in order to legitimate its independence from Spain (with Theodor de Bry's help as well).
    Protestantism = brought the biggest genocides in History (almost everyone is white in US and Australia because they wiped out the Indigenous people from those lands to repoblate them with white people; the rise of Nazi Germany, another Protestant nation).
    Catholicism: the biggest Mestizo society exists where Spain ruled because there wasn't racism unlike Protestant societies.

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  6 лет назад +3

      +214 1341 I believe I made note of the pitfalls of that source, but it still remains a part of the conversation even if it should be taken with a grain of salt.

    • @scotta6823
      @scotta6823 6 лет назад +3

      214 1341 awful lot of revisionist liberal history there pal

  • @brookecredendino1553
    @brookecredendino1553 2 года назад

    Why can I not do open transcript on this vide?

  • @Tomcabator
    @Tomcabator 9 лет назад +3

    Excellent video very complete the only thing thaht i found out a bit off was that spanish colonist founded lots of cities, I'm from Mexico and most of our cities and rural towns have colonial origins.
    But still very cool video, hoping to see more of these

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  9 лет назад +1

      Tomás Caballero I think it's more in comparison with the English, but you're right - often, comparisons can lead to oversimplifications. I'll definitely make more videos, and I must say that I think it is AWESOME that your last name is "Gentleman."

    • @higochumbo8932
      @higochumbo8932 9 лет назад

      Tom Richey Could also be "Knight". We use the same word for both terms. Caballero literally means "the one who rides a horse" (caballo). The meaning as "gentleman" probably comes from that, knights are meant' to be high class, aren't they?
      About oversimplifications, I'd understand them (given we are talking of 10 minutes history videos) if every anglosaxon information I've seen on the topic didn't just focus on the negative aspects, often force-feeding the image of the spaniards as gold-digging religioius fanatics. You watch National Geographic and they tell you how awesome and advanced the Egyptians or the Romans (or the British) were yet everything about the spanish is about bloody conquest, class systems, religion and gold-lust... painting them as if they were the only ones concerned about that stuff in the late middle ages...
      And about the comparison with the English, you can't really compare the spanish colonialism of the early 16th. century with the english, if you compare them with the brit colonial domains of the 18th century because it's just unfair, and you just can't compare them with contemporary english american colonies... because there were none. The funny part about all this is that the spaniards seem to have been a lot "nicer" to natives (to the point being granted the same rights as any other spanish subject by queen Isabella) than the other major colonial powers yet the image the media gives is exactly the opposite.

    • @sugarpop7377
      @sugarpop7377 8 лет назад +3

      +· HigoChumbo · because the agenda is divide the old Spanish world more and more . Who do you think is giving the money to fuel the indigenist propaganda? Here in UK , from Bristol there is an association run with entirely with English staff and only a person with Mapuche name . Who is paying for all this ? They want now to split the Patagonia from Argentina and chile under the excuse of giving back the land to the Indian people . England has always played the same card of divide and conquer and it really annoys me they are using the mapuches now who are stupid enough to fall for it .

  • @LoserBroProductions
    @LoserBroProductions 6 лет назад

    I wish I had watched this before I did my Apush summer homework :c

  • @zamirroa
    @zamirroa 2 года назад +2

    It would be a good time to update some stuff like the caste system theory, due to recent archeologist discoveries and documents of viceroyalties that shows people from this castes having rights that they should not have. It seems that caste system is a misunderstanding of terms used in society of that period.
    Natives could go to school, could go to universities, there were noble natives, also natives that formed part of of knights orders. There were free slaves with properties and noble titles. In spain there was the figure of Juan latino, he even being s slave when he was a child, he could go to school and after.some time and was a professor in the university of Granada.
    There is much history out there that changes a lot the image of Spanish empire, is not about defending but teaching history. Spanish empire won't come back neither will undermine the sovereign of any country in the Americas.

  • @rubengarza4444
    @rubengarza4444 8 лет назад +11

    I'm native American half Spaniard I live in south texas and my family come from north Mexico so that makes me mestizo?

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  8 лет назад +11

      If people used that term today, then it sounds like it... I'd doubt there are many people in North America today of 100% Spanish ancestry unless they've recently immigrated here.

    • @rubengarza4444
      @rubengarza4444 8 лет назад +2

      My great grandpa was the most recent one who came here from Spain

    • @aaronxalapa
      @aaronxalapa 8 лет назад +3

      +Tom Richey In Mexico yes they are... the elites didnt intermarried to avoid losing privileges around one million europeans settled in new spain

    • @julioemanuellohaiza1236
      @julioemanuellohaiza1236 8 лет назад

      I think you are mostly Native. You probably had 1 or Spaniards in your family which is why your a little light.

    • @carlosi7026
      @carlosi7026 8 лет назад +3

      Nope. you are not a mestizo, because the distinction of castes was abolished in Mexico since 1813 by José María Morelos, INCLUDING THE TERRITORY OF TEXAS. today you are an AMERICAN CITIZEN with no distinction of caste.

  • @syedamir2503
    @syedamir2503 7 лет назад

    thanKYOU

  • @globalcombattv
    @globalcombattv 7 лет назад +3

    You are an Alexander The Great fan. Nice bruh.

  • @janicescott38
    @janicescott38 7 лет назад

    Seems I can't hear the lecture - I hear the intro

  • @decimal2201
    @decimal2201 3 года назад

    San Diego was San Miguel 1542?

  • @LuisGarcia-mw7el
    @LuisGarcia-mw7el 8 лет назад +5

    "Encomienda" is a still used word at least in Latin America and basically it means "favor" ;) btw... Do a Latin America lecture! Differences and similitudes between Latin America, history etcetera.

  • @sophiborovik6563
    @sophiborovik6563 5 лет назад +2

    Actually Cortes did not defeat Montezuma in battle. Instead, Montezuma invited Cortes and his me into Tenochtitlan, but Cortes took him hostage and later murdered him like most of the city.

    • @davidmartinez7732
      @davidmartinez7732 5 лет назад +2

      Cortez did not murder the rest of Tenochtitlan the majority died of smallpox brought in from a second expedition sent from Velazquez to capture Cortez and bring him back to Spain. The second expedition was led by Narvaez but he was defeated in Veracruz by Cortez so the rest of the expedition joined up with Cortez first to defeat the Tlaxcalans then defeat the Aztecs.

  • @ANGLRMZ
    @ANGLRMZ 5 лет назад

    i know i'm a little bit late to the partyy, but i just anted to mention that "Conquistadors" is not how you spell it in spanish, it is Spelled Conquistadores in plural an Conquistador in singular.

  • @Ghostt972
    @Ghostt972 8 месяцев назад

    Just on time

  • @daykendraspencer5208
    @daykendraspencer5208 5 лет назад +1

    I like the clear presentation but I disagree with the term reconquest because it implies that Spain belonged to the Spanish before the Moors. The Moors occupied (now) Spain for 800 years which is longer than the Spanish have until today.

  • @catstermarioholoic4092
    @catstermarioholoic4092 6 лет назад +3

    Where the Spanish ever in Ohio? There are some Spanish named towns there like Toledo, and Seville.

    • @zamirroa
      @zamirroa 2 года назад +1

      They evens had towns in Alaska, infact there is one still there and is called Cordova

  • @khongorkhon
    @khongorkhon 4 года назад

    Could someone tell me what is the reason of the Spain colonization in native america?

    • @luisg5203
      @luisg5203 4 года назад +2

      mainly to civilize peoples that decapitate
      and take out the hearts of hundreds of children daily from neighboring tribes, also spread of catholicism and the proud of spain

    • @luisg5203
      @luisg5203 4 года назад +2

      Spain wasn't a colonizator country. The colonization concept is more modern, from XIX century. The fact is that huge ammount of mestizos, because all of the european spanish, american spanish, asian spanish or african spanish, were spanish, citizens from the same country, with the same laws and rights. That's why in all the countries that were part of the spanish empire, there are millions of natives and mestizos. That's why in Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Nicaragua.... most of population is native and mestizo.

  • @dgbastoss1
    @dgbastoss1 7 лет назад +2

    encomenda means "order", like "order some pizza"

  • @calebanderson9064
    @calebanderson9064 5 лет назад

    sick intro!

  • @moiusa
    @moiusa 9 лет назад

    Encomienda is a system of labor true.. but the word does translate into English.
    Spanish Example: Les "encomindo" que porfavor me cuiden todo mi oro, mientras estoy en España.
    English Translation: I ask of all of you to "look after/guard/watch over" all of my gold, wile I'm in Spain.

  • @wibli
    @wibli 3 года назад

    Hi. Is Conquistadores not Conquistadors and is Moctezuma not Montezuma.

  • @srajit6814
    @srajit6814 3 года назад

    Did amazon forest is a part of Spanish empire.

  • @robertjeffreyjr.209
    @robertjeffreyjr.209 9 месяцев назад

    One correction: The Inca were the largest empire conquered by the Spanish, not the Aztec.

  • @putbye1
    @putbye1 6 лет назад +1

    nice intro

  • @G_VORTEX_G
    @G_VORTEX_G 3 года назад

    What is that picture in the back round
    Lol

  • @TheLesliericheytoo
    @TheLesliericheytoo 7 лет назад

    Sent kids home for their first Short Answer exam. Sending them links hoping it will help. :) We share our name. I'm having a hard time convincing them we're not related.

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  7 лет назад

      +Leslie Richey Thanks a bunch for recommending my stuff! And yeah, I rarely find a Richey that I'm actually related to. lol

  • @janicescott38
    @janicescott38 7 лет назад

    Never mind - the sound is ok now

  • @moiusa
    @moiusa 8 лет назад +2

    Encomienda = watch over or have control off.

  • @pingukutepro
    @pingukutepro 5 лет назад

    So the dislike come from people who think Tom Richey should have critize the Spanish more. Why being so sensitive?

  • @toddraymond1045
    @toddraymond1045 8 лет назад

    I appreciate your videos and I think that there are too many idiots who don't appreciate your knowledge. Thank you.

    • @tomrichey
      @tomrichey  8 лет назад

      +Todd Raymond Thank you, sir!

  • @pyramideye3225
    @pyramideye3225 2 года назад

    Watching this because my ancestors colonized the Mexico now in the 1500s from Spain.

  • @J.fromMI1277
    @J.fromMI1277 11 месяцев назад

    I love History. I know history has always been written and changed by the winners and the powers that be, so it is subjective. History is called history because of the Greek named Historius. He put a lot of the Greek Mythology into a book. I have the modern one. Your channel is very interesting. Can you do more on the roots and first centuries of the Catholic Church. I think the Roman Senate and rich are the ones to start this because they lost power over the remainder of eastern Rome to the Pretorian Guard. They faded into the shadows. They had been killing Christians for centuries. If you can't beat them, join them, and control them. What do you think of this?

  • @globalcombattv
    @globalcombattv 7 лет назад +17

    Dude, Tenochtitlan looked very good for a tribe city lol.

    • @roninjolin7687
      @roninjolin7687 2 года назад +2

      a lot of "what if" scenarios. But a lot of ppl in the history community say that Aztecs oppressed the surrounding Amerindians and that's why some of them allied with the Spanish against them.

  • @IblewuponyourfaceIII
    @IblewuponyourfaceIII 2 года назад

    West Canada was also under Spain

  • @ahoraya1047
    @ahoraya1047 4 года назад +1

    The Viceroyalty of New Spain included the Philippines. Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Guam... so after Independence Mexico became poorer because it lost the trade connection with China (Manila) and the strategical protection from foreign invasion in the Caribbean Sea (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico). The Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Guam were loyal to Spain in 1823. Besides, Spain ceded its rights to Oregon to the US...Before Independence, Americans used to emigrate to the Viceroyalty of New Spain by the thousands (legal and ilegal immigration. Houston and Austin received a visa from the Kingdom of Spain), but after Independence it was the opposite.

    • @spudmcdougal369
      @spudmcdougal369 2 года назад

      Why didn’t new Spain include western South America? Why weren’t Mexico and the territories in s America ruled together? Later Mexico and then s America gain independence but not at the same time.

    • @ahoraya1047
      @ahoraya1047 2 года назад

      @@spudmcdougal369 because the Inca Empire was a different administrative unit than the Aztec Empire, and the King of Spain became the Inca after Conquest, so for the Natives of Peru he was sacred. In fact, the Independence of the Viceroyalty of Peru at the beginning of the XIX Century was led by whites (criollos) descendants of Spanish conquistadors, not by the Natives, who were loyal to the Crown, to the Inca. On the other side, descendants of the Aztec aristocracy became part of the Spanish nobility. For example. descendants of Moctezuma became (until today) Counts, and then Dukes.

    • @spudmcdougal369
      @spudmcdougal369 2 года назад

      @@ahoraya1047 Thank you.So, the Spanish divided their territories into several viceroyalties based on the indigenous population and then there were really 3 major revolutions in central & western South America: Mexico, north western s America, and south western South America? Did Simon Bolivar rule all of western s America afterwards? Did he govern the territory that is now Chile and Argentina before they broke away into separate countries?

    • @ahoraya1047
      @ahoraya1047 2 года назад +2

      @@spudmcdougal369 later, other Viceroyalties were created for better management. like the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata (Argentina, Uruguay etc) and the Viceroyalty of New Granada (Colombia, Venezuela etc) The administrative division inside each Viceroyalty were the Capitanías. Many Capitanías became independent nations Yeats after Independence. Foreign powers like the UK supported some independentist movements so the new, countries could open their markets to British exports

    • @spudmcdougal369
      @spudmcdougal369 2 года назад

      @@ahoraya1047 Thanks for your help. I’ve been trying to unravel this. I never realized how complicated it all was.
      Why were criollos treated as second to peninsulares? They were still 100% Spanish. Weren’t they just the progeny of Spanish land owners in the territories?

  • @rogercarles1700
    @rogercarles1700 4 года назад +1

    Spanish conservatives are always weary of Americans trying to push forward how bad was the "Black legend". Conservatives claim that, as early as 1512, fair treatment and non-slavery was already issued by the catholic kings and thus the idea of exploitation and slavery, particularly if compared to american, shall be considered differently. Same with the spanish-american war of 1898, which started with a massive propaganda campaign in America, something at which americans truly excel today, rethorical use of language.
    I'd like to see if some historian has made a religious historical case for how protestantism (which often tended to rely upon clavinist predestination principles) and catholicism influenced colonial laws and actions.

  • @maursi7275
    @maursi7275 2 года назад

    Yall pls i was lookig at this for history class and Xiao from genshin Impact came on and i was like PLS

  • @duiliodelimaalmeida9374
    @duiliodelimaalmeida9374 3 года назад

    Unfortunately Tom is very imprecise and many times wrong. First thing Cortez (in Mexico) and Pizarro (in Peru) did was to found cities. The Jesuits compiled grammars and dictionaries of the local languages and they used them until the late 18th century, until it was forbidden by the Spanish crown. Nahuatl (in Mexico) entered its "classical" period after the Jesuits adapted the Latin alphabet to it and spread the language by writing many different works in this language. The same can be said by the Jesuits in Peru, using and spreading Quechua until 1780.
    The relationship of the kings of Spain with the Conquistadores was really difficult. Conquistadores very often acted in total disregard to direct orders given by the kings... Of course they profitted from the sacks and they accepted the "fait accompli" but they didn´t plan the conquerings like one is led to think as one reads the Anglo-Saxon historians...

  • @monicap7941
    @monicap7941 9 месяцев назад

    The main motivation was survival. The existential Islamic threat was very real. This time coming from the Turks in the east, who btw had blocked trade routes with Asia. Portugal had created a trade route around Africa. Spain wanted in on the lucrative trade in spices, and they didn't give up until they had one. (They eventually completed the Silk Road by creating a trading base with China in Manila.) But if Spain hadn't discovered America, they would have probably reached Jerusalem. Castile more than anything wanted to created Christian kingdoms, to avoid being encircled by Islam.

  • @josuesilva4765
    @josuesilva4765 2 месяца назад

    All good except the part where you say that the Spanish empire didn’t create big cities, they did, which at the end of the 18th century were more advance and populated in comparison to the British colonies.

  • @chickytendys4464
    @chickytendys4464 3 года назад +1

    i like ur accent

  • @enriquepascual8767
    @enriquepascual8767 3 года назад +2

    Well, in fact 3/4 of USA were spanish, only the 13 colonies were english.

    • @olyvoyl9382
      @olyvoyl9382 3 года назад +1

      The Spanish claimed control over large areas but did not colonize it effectively. They settled sporadically and sparsely
      .

  • @arenasnefi
    @arenasnefi 6 лет назад +3

    Nice video, but I disagree in a few things.
    I'm a genealogists who lives in Mexico City. I have lots of conquistadores in my family tree. Many of them brought their wives with them and settled here. Others married and/or had children with indigenous women. A few of them were Sephardic Jews fleeing the inquisition in the 1500s, others were Inquisition informants and enforcers. Some were the classic conquistadors coming with Cortés to conquer new lands, others were young man fleeing poverty from Spain in the 1600s. It was a very big, complex, and developed society.
    They founded lots of big cities, from Mexico City to Guanajuato, Puebla, Guadalajara, etc.
    Many of my ancestors lived in the town of Huichapan, in the modern state of Hidalgo, which served as a base of operations for the conquest of the Sierra Gorda. The people of Huichapan fought the local chichimeca Indians, mined the nearby mountains and settled lots of towns around the area. Many of them even participated in the colonization of the New Kingdom of Leon.

  • @jerz20126
    @jerz20126 4 года назад +1

    This interesting in latin america spaniards mix like crazy with the natives it wasnt a bad thing as catholics, but in the protestant religion wich were english and mainly UK ancestry were not mixing like the spaniards, thats why there is more racism in United States than in Latin America, because it was a culture influenced by English protestant and their followers, even after the revolution war that made the U.S a little mean racist country with power is ok just a observant in history wich im already active in, but knowledge is power whether is from the adversarial or supportive side 😉

  • @leafm1181
    @leafm1181 5 лет назад

    wow what a glaze over, that's the thing about history lessons it kind of depends on your bias to fill in the question marks

  • @nasalimbu3078
    @nasalimbu3078 3 года назад

    Intro song
    England Tactical 2 (medival)
    New world new Spain because maxico nation present (bristish) fighter eara

  • @mrmangoi1204
    @mrmangoi1204 10 месяцев назад

    why does he sound like theo von

  • @GreedyGniuz
    @GreedyGniuz 7 месяцев назад

    De las casas never exaggerated any claim . He did worst things himself. Travel a bit . Somethings were written then later burned. Just like Bart d’ House burned most of the Maya culture and knowledge during his stay in Yucatán and now day Quintana Roo .