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  • @extrahistory
    @extrahistory  Month ago +37

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  • @kingace6186
    @kingace6186 29 days ago +93

    Still having social obligations after death is every introvert's terror

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang92 Month ago +83

    The Inca empire is one of the most fascinating civilizations in the Americas!

  • @robbemortier1000
    @robbemortier1000 Month ago +220

    Last time I was this early , the inca empire still existed

  • @danielcastrodelamata8873

    Peruvian here, so hyped for this

    • @howardrourke5659
      @howardrourke5659 Month ago +1

      As a Peruvian, don't you find the misinformation insulting? As a history professor, I do.

    • @Giovany-bk9mt
      @Giovany-bk9mt Month ago +4

      How so? Not really as informed about it and Extra credits tend to be pretty accurate with their videos

    • @howardrourke5659
      @howardrourke5659 Month ago

      How would you know? Perhaps it's best to stay out of it.

    • @noahkyte2198
      @noahkyte2198 Month ago +14

      @Giovany-bk9mt its probly ragebait ngl something about the way he said it

    • @miguelalcides6475
      @miguelalcides6475 Month ago +6

      As a Bolivian I am hyped up too.

  • @thedeceiver-g3r
    @thedeceiver-g3r Month ago +49

    This part of history always infatuated me, the inca kept popping up when I was learning history, eventually I just got sucked down a rabbit hole, love this thanks.

  • @lennoxtvthingy7408
    @lennoxtvthingy7408 Month ago +29

    The andes were so steep and so diverse, and yet the Ince managed all.

  • @Stussmeister
    @Stussmeister Month ago +166

    If there's one thing that history has taught us time and again, it's that one group of people attempting to forcibly impose their religion, culture, and customs upon another...never really works out well for either group.

    • @owenheckmann6962
      @owenheckmann6962 Month ago +1

      It is simply a function of how the successes are not really recorded in history.

    • @Stussmeister
      @Stussmeister Month ago +2

      @owenheckmann6962 Good point, as every historical event has multiple perspectives, some of which may (intentionally) be moved to the wayside or obscured.

    • @tonypringles2285
      @tonypringles2285 Month ago +7

      sadly every nation to ever exist has done that in some fashion

    • @Stussmeister
      @Stussmeister Month ago +6

      @tonypringles2285 A valid point. Many civilizations and countries have grown and expanded to the point where they believe their way of life is a model for all others to follow, and those who do not are regarded with suspicion or contempt as people to be subjugated or swept away.

    • @ramenbomberdeluxe4958
      @ramenbomberdeluxe4958 Month ago +1

      @m@misterwheatley1386pe, not at all. Forcing your religion and wiping out cultures out of a delusional sense of superiority is what actually made the world objectively worse in every turn. Colonialism is bad, it’s time to accept that.

  • @davea6314
    @davea6314 Month ago +413

    It's an INCAnvenience to run out of ink while mapping the Incan empire. 😜

  • @Irisarc1
    @Irisarc1 Month ago +82

    One of my most favorite Horrible Histories' songs is the one about Pachicuti. "...drink from their skulls, pull out their teeth whole, make their teeth into charms, make flutes from their arms..." All sung to a 1960s beach party style tune. 😂

    • @laurens.8475
      @laurens.8475 Month ago +1

      I freaking LOVE that song! XD

    • @Irisarc1
      @Irisarc1 Month ago +3

      ​@laurens.8475As as I heard "Pachacuti", I had go listen to it again. The songs from that show were better than they had a right to be. I know every time I hear Charles II of England mentioned, I say, at least to myself, "he's the king of bling who brought back the English monarchy.!"
      There are so many things I learned about European history from that show. We don't study it in school here in the US, so it was pretty new to me, even as an adult. Now, I understand so much more of what they are talking about in documentaries and such when they mention history from that part of the world.

    • @prairiepennyproductions
      @prairiepennyproductions Month ago +1

      I hear the name and this song immediately comes to mind, hehe.

    • @Irisarc1
      @Irisarc1 Month ago

      ​@prairiepennyproductionsMe, as well.

    • @lorierush6561
      @lorierush6561 14 days ago

      😮. Lol 😂😆😅

  • @jorgerodriguez7803
    @jorgerodriguez7803 Month ago +102

    Latin America gets horribly unmentioned in history, I hope you guys could do a video about the various wars in the 50s-80s such as in Nicaragua, Cuba, South America and even the falklands!

    • @Scot-p1v
      @Scot-p1v Month ago +7

      An (or, realistically, more like several) episode of United Fruit in South America would be a Good Thing. I feel far too few Americans know that history-and the part that played in setting up much of the unrest resulting in crises after crises at our southern border

    • @AlechiaTheWitch
      @AlechiaTheWitch Month ago +1

      They rarely push past the 70s as far as history only rarely but i think some of tge early 20th century in the latin americas could be cool

  • @Laucron
    @Laucron Month ago +27

    10:26 it is noteworthy to mention that in Andean cosmology inanimate objects tend to possess personhood and agency. This applies both to manmade structures as well as geologic formations such as rocks, mountains or rivers.

  • @The_Heavy_Metallic_Girl

    40:53 holy aura

  • @Machines.In.Action
    @Machines.In.Action Month ago +172

    Hard to believe an empire of millions could be brought down by disease and a civil war before the Spanish even arrived

    • @yucol5661
      @yucol5661 Month ago +34

      I think even a planet wide empire could be brought down if most people die of plagues

    • @HelenMcCallister
      @HelenMcCallister Month ago +9

      People are disturbingly efficient at that kind of thing sometimes unfortunately.

    • @sproull123
      @sproull123 Month ago +2

      and that the Spanish only had 600 men

    • @alexb.8455
      @alexb.8455 Month ago +2

      ​@sproull123even less, they were 168 men

    • @sproull123
      @sproull123 Month ago +1

      @alexb.8455 wow 168 men destroyed a empire of millions

  • @thrandompug2254
    @thrandompug2254 Month ago +10

    You guys should do this with the Aztecs next!

  • @Valir-W3s
    @Valir-W3s 29 days ago +7

    Before the Incas there was the Wari empire whose capital was in Ayacucho, Peru.

  • @rodricool314
    @rodricool314 Month ago +10

    15:34 I love this visual puns 😂

  • @MysteryMaster3
    @MysteryMaster3 Month ago +9

    With it looking like a financial collapse might be coming soon, I'd love to see an Extra History Complete of your History of Paper Money series.

  • @chrispap1303
    @chrispap1303 Month ago +8

    It would be great to have a series about the Aztec empire as well. Also I would like to see the byzantines again after so many years

  • @spencerz4503
    @spencerz4503 Month ago +5

    How’d you know? I was literally watching this series the other day.

  • @matheusclementek
    @matheusclementek Month ago +9

    It's truly an incredible achievement for the Incas to be noticed by ExtraHistory! Very proud of them

  • @mera6555
    @mera6555 23 days ago +12

    0:10 Whoever made this introduction is mixing people up and made a huge mistake here. Felipe Guaman Poma wasn’t a mestizo, much less the son of a translator, whether native or Spanish. He did work as one and as an illustrator, however.

  • @justinblachek6603
    @justinblachek6603 Month ago +4

    If you want to deal with altitude sickness, some of the best ways I've heard to deal with it is by singing while you step

  • @Maru_im
    @Maru_im Month ago +21

    As someone who’s Peruvian. I really love learning more about my culture and my ancestors! Really cool video. I was also wondering if there could be a video where you just talk about Inca gods? Just a suggestion but thank you.

    • @Tyr_The_Tiny
      @Tyr_The_Tiny 29 days ago

      abandon jesus, go back to the sun and moon

    • @bvillafuerte179
      @bvillafuerte179 25 days ago +1

      @Tyr_The_Tiny The Christian Incas wouldn't agree.

    • @Tyr_The_Tiny
      @Tyr_The_Tiny 25 days ago

      @bvillafuerte179 they mixed?

    • @bvillafuerte179
      @bvillafuerte179 25 days ago

      @Tyr_The_Tiny Of course.

    • @Tyr_The_Tiny
      @Tyr_The_Tiny 25 days ago

      @bvillafuerte179 so what now? do they believe jesus is the sun? do they still do rituals but they pray to the christian god?

  • @hakeemshakur2194
    @hakeemshakur2194 Month ago +13

    Babe wake up new extra history vid just dropped

  • @tortillachip8029
    @tortillachip8029 Month ago +10

    so so many history channels (largely including this one) completely skip or barely mentions latin america as if our history doesn't matter. World history never includes us. I'm glad you remade and expanded this video, but it is still not enough. There's so much big history to cover, but meanwhile you guys are happy to cover niche chapters of european and now more recently asian history.

    • @extrahistory
      @extrahistory  Month ago +5

      I think a lot of that is because our head writer Rob specializes in history in certain parts of the world. However we also did a series on the History of Brazil here: ruclips.net/p/PLhyKYa0YJ_5AmeQN4O0L3kSijLdBmw64c and we love to revisit the topic in the future!

    • @Lain_boi_360
      @Lain_boi_360 29 days ago

      YESS. Its like were the backdrop on the stage of world history

    • @Brett-uq4tz
      @Brett-uq4tz 19 days ago

      ​@extrahistory would you consider doing a video about the pig war?

    • @Ahtoq
      @Ahtoq 18 days ago

      There is nothing Latin about the Incas

  • @qatadahassan806
    @qatadahassan806 Month ago +7

    I finished reading 'collisions at cajamarca' and opened RUclips, was surprised to see this video 😅

  • @dabaroonitooni
    @dabaroonitooni Month ago +2

    19:33 unintentional magic eye

  • @musiclover01ization
    @musiclover01ization Month ago +5

    This was a good video. I really liked learning about the Inca empire.

  • @omartyusew
    @omartyusew Month ago +2

    As a peruvian It's nice a new recopilation of own prehispanic history.
    These videos are the first that I watched from you channel.

  • @VanicBlackrose
    @VanicBlackrose Month ago +5

    You folks should do the English Civil War, featuring Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I Stuart.

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430

    These compilations are always appreciated 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @sproull123
    @sproull123 Month ago +3

    you guys should make a video about the aztec empire or maybe earlier empires such as the wari or the olmec

  • @Mr.Ant.Tenna.TVtime
    @Mr.Ant.Tenna.TVtime Month ago +2

    The Splendid accountant sound like a generated name for a unblocked games site

  • @leocormier8829
    @leocormier8829 Month ago +2

    Lovely intro tune. Really sets the tone emedietly!

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430

    LET'S GO! EH ALWAYS MAKES THESE AMAZING

  • @dmon007
    @dmon007 Month ago +5

    There isn't enough Inca-focused fiction. Alt-history? Barely there. Video games? Nope. It's a true shame.

  • @Scotttjt
    @Scotttjt Month ago +3

    Great video. Would love series dedicated to the other mesoamerican cultures. Olmec, Maya, Aztec, among others.

  • @Myerkoless-n8h
    @Myerkoless-n8h Month ago +1

    Lets go extra history complete of the incas!

  • @kennethadler7380
    @kennethadler7380 Month ago +1

    Nice to have does complete episodes

  • @postapocalypticnewsradio

    PANR has tuned in.

  • @Alexcursus
    @Alexcursus 10 days ago

    The "Extra" notes are nice

  • @abrakadabra6364
    @abrakadabra6364 Month ago +1

    Finally. Thank you 👍

  • @cavc94
    @cavc94 Month ago +3

    A little offtopic but reading "South American History" on the title I couldn't help but noticing that Extra History only has three series about South America. Well, three and a half if we consider the couple of episodes of Garibaldi's involvement in south american wars.

  • @AbhyudayaSinh
    @AbhyudayaSinh 29 days ago

    Very informative and detailed ❤

  • @alond34567
    @alond34567 Month ago +1

    Please leave the extra context on the screen longer. I cant pause it quick enough

  • @drew1784
    @drew1784 Month ago

    Rest is history do a great series on this

  • @ibDirtyGlasses
    @ibDirtyGlasses Month ago +1

    Wooo new complete history!

  • @MAS-l1m
    @MAS-l1m Month ago +2

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • @MAXNELSONLOPEZ
    @MAXNELSONLOPEZ Month ago

    So cool!

  • @Tkdmasterjb
    @Tkdmasterjb 24 days ago +1

    In ecuador, to this day, Atahualpa is still immortalized in many aspects. From names of cities and stadiums to statues and monuments.

  • @jayrenmatias4601
    @jayrenmatias4601 Month ago +3

    Woke up to this playing after i passed out from a drinking sesh. A welcome surprise

  • @Ajolote_comunista
    @Ajolote_comunista Month ago +3

    34:43 This is a very common error, the 90% of natives who died was because of the plague. Not the 90% of natives died because of the plague.

  • @KafelnayaPlitka-k3b

    Yipee a new video

  • @Texas_BOS
    @Texas_BOS 23 days ago +2

    INCA COLA is a imported soda produced in Peru that is quite tasty, if you guys want to try it it's usually found in Fiesta grocery stores or at Peruvian restaurants, try the food as well it's delicious.

  • @Mr.RusticusMarius
    @Mr.RusticusMarius 5 days ago

    47:12 Pinocchio reference??

  • @4lejo.M3ndez
    @4lejo.M3ndez Month ago

    HELLL YEAHHHHHH

  • @louthegiantcookie
    @louthegiantcookie Month ago +10

    Looking forward to watching this! I find the civilizations of the Inca, Maya and Aztec truly fascinating and beautiful, and it's really nice to learn more about them!

    • @Shinzon23
      @Shinzon23 Month ago

      Well, aside from the rampant human sacrifice of a few of them

    • @louthegiantcookie
      @louthegiantcookie Month ago

      @Shinzon23 Hey, pobody's nerfect!

    • @baller0724
      @baller0724 Month ago

      ​@Shinzon23we are not talking about Anglo-Saxons here nor the Norseman or ANY of the Germanic tribes

  • @SaidkayraÖzer
    @SaidkayraÖzer Month ago

    Battle of Manzikert pls!!!

  • @brandonselby9738
    @brandonselby9738 17 days ago +2

    9:15 You're telling me that even indigenous people were colonizers and appropriated other cultures? *Astronaut holding a gun* "Always have"

  • @sillytrooper
    @sillytrooper 25 days ago

    little bit more time for the corrections!

  • @dunnoreally1060
    @dunnoreally1060 Month ago +1

    I shouldn't be here this early

  • @TheDillinger187
    @TheDillinger187 Month ago

    A Spaniard has two kids with Incan, each parent raises a kid and teaches them there language but let the keeps spend the weekends together at each parents house every other weekend. Eventually the two kids will 100% understand both languages enough to fully translate. Somebody must have thought of that when the first realized they could not understand each other

  • @austinhill3931
    @austinhill3931 Month ago

    Imagine the most remarkable thing of your rule, being the fact that you we're left hand dominant😂😂

  • @jamespryor4959
    @jamespryor4959 14 days ago

    17:05, nice reference😂
    Hail Mary!!🤣

  • @averyhostiletrout9077

    FINALLY MORE NEW WORLD CONTENT YAYY

  • @aaronatherton7431
    @aaronatherton7431 Month ago +3

    Like Egypt? 12:11

    • @POLAR_SPIRIT47
      @POLAR_SPIRIT47 Month ago +2

      Noo I think the Egyptian took takes in currency and I suppose your referring to building of piramids of Giza it was either some paid labour and some slave labor

  • @Fabio-Jose-DragonKing

    Love these complete history! Thanks For this Guys ❤❤❤❤

  • @ruudhowen
    @ruudhowen Month ago

    Is this a Caves of Qud reference?

  • @adewalemandeylah4974
    @adewalemandeylah4974 Month ago +1

    Day 5 of about pre colonial Yoruba history

  • @davidR5319
    @davidR5319 Month ago

    Oh man I caught this early

  • @elixa_torres68
    @elixa_torres68 Month ago

    Never realized how the Inca empire was kinda like game of thrones 😂

  • @avesvani
    @avesvani Month ago

    and i just got an apple pocket i know whay im gonna watch..

  • @KafelnayaPlitka-k3b

    34:58 When the game promises "Equal matchmaking"

  • @Napoleonic_Editzzz
    @Napoleonic_Editzzz Month ago +2

    Finally in full🤩🔥

  • @pattygapate
    @pattygapate Month ago

    I loved the Tupac pun! 😂

  • @Stoneeeeemo
    @Stoneeeeemo 12 hours ago

    9:45 got jumpscared here im playing civ vi and currently am mayan and at war with pachacuti lool

  • @foxcell
    @foxcell 23 days ago

    blood and gold 😢 very good to see this fully complete ace work Lol cyst history 👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Nitin-vq4yr
    @Nitin-vq4yr Month ago

    Excel makes empires

  • @ELORIENTAL-I8W
    @ELORIENTAL-I8W Month ago

    It was actually more of a viceroyalty than a colony, but other than that the video was very good.

  • @DoubleKay31
    @DoubleKay31 Month ago

    Please let the next history complete either be Eleanor of Aquitaine or maybe the Brazilian Empire.

  • @Y4KU_420
    @Y4KU_420 17 days ago

    heck yeah that's my country

  • @IreneAchernar
    @IreneAchernar Month ago +7

    The description of the Inca labor system just sounds like an exoticized portrayal of a fairly normal feudal corvée, while the description of their reckoning of history sounds like a fairly normal way that noble houses reckon history all over the world with a mind to legitimize their claims.

    • @setcheck67
      @setcheck67 Month ago

      While similar it had some odd differences, for example serfs were primarily just farmers or levies. Additionally being a good serf didn't actually come with more benefits, it just meant your continued livelihood on your rented land from the lord could continue. In the Incan system being really good at something meant you were part of some caste of doing the thing, IE weaver or goldworker. Being great at it came with rewards. On the flip side, people who weren't serfs in the feudal system were better off, because they actually had pretty good lives like blacksmiths and bakers who weren't tied to land and forced to blacksmith/bake for free. One is some kind of almost ant level hive mind collectivist system, which has some merits and the other is land slavery but everyone else has better options.

    • @IreneAchernar
      @IreneAchernar Month ago

      ​@setcheck67 interesting

  • @crustbucket9443
    @crustbucket9443 Month ago

    You need to do Nestle please you need to do Nestle you need to animate a story about Nestle please your need to write about Nestle

  • @WalterMartins-m2h
    @WalterMartins-m2h Month ago +4

    The fact that the inca empire is so split on how the story atually went feels strange for some reason

    • @jonathanparks207
      @jonathanparks207 Month ago

      It is not that strange. They were in civil war between Quito and Cusco when the Spanish first appeared. Conflicting stories were bound to happen.

    • @DannySpee
      @DannySpee Month ago +2

      The people of the Andes don't know the concept of chronology (yes that's weird, but for them the present and the past are the same and form the 'known world'. The future is the 'unknown world'). They tell about things that happened in the past only to explain the present situation. If something isn't relevant anymore, it is forgotten. But it depends on your personal interests what is relevant.

  • @AlbertNewYork
    @AlbertNewYork Month ago

    less than an hour ago

  • @Glitchlinks
    @Glitchlinks Month ago

    Can you guys make a video on the Aro confederacy (you would need extensive research on the topic though, try ozi ikoro for starters )

  • @lordrobin3011
    @lordrobin3011 Month ago +1

    Finally a compiled series for the Inca !

  • @lucienarcos-palma3834

    straight into the history playlist

  • @JohnathanBeier
    @JohnathanBeier 22 days ago

    I am sweaty like in the desert.

  • @smolder8713
    @smolder8713 Month ago

    @Extrahistory I love this episode. However, I feel like you could have focused more on Incan history before the Spanish arrived.

  • @katetoolate234
    @katetoolate234 24 days ago

    Man.. sometimes I wish I could visit a parallel universe where most of the native population of the Americans hadn't been horribly wiped out by foreign disease. It just feels like there are so many "stories" that got cut off by European imperialism.

  • @LoremIpsum905
    @LoremIpsum905 Month ago +1

    Thank you for this gift on this beautiful day

  • @SRMC23
    @SRMC23 Month ago

    "Tahuantinsuyo es Clave" COECPECHL

  • @johgu92
    @johgu92 Month ago

    The Incan empire is probably the most interesting of the high cultures of the Americas and the one I know the least about. Very interesting. 😊

  • @oopsy444
    @oopsy444 Month ago +1

    For the lies episode to be released on April first. Did Pachacuti useless Legos to design his new capital?
    Yes he did and someone learned of this then pretended it never happened by destroying the twisted rope he found after he deciphered it. That person was the former archeologist turned inventor Ole Kirk Christiansen who we credit for inventing the Lego. Who happened to also be roommates with a long lost relative of walpole. The more you know xp

  • @franciscocastro2074

    THE GOAT POSTED

  • @aaronatherton7431
    @aaronatherton7431 Month ago +1

    Amazon.....from that lost city under the jungle, Gangs of the Amazon... 12:48
    I'll stop now.

  • @Pro_Gambler2011
    @Pro_Gambler2011 Month ago +2

    Very interesting