You forgot to mention what happened to his descendants. They went on to be made part of the Spanish nobility. The family still resides in Spain with the head of the family holding the title of Duque de Moctezuma de Tultengo
I learned more reading this one post than I did in the previous 30 minutes. That's not meant to be a knock on the video, just that I basically knew all the stuff it talked about. I legitimately didn't know about that Spanish noble house.
That's an interesting thought. I've often wondered the same thing. I have also wondered about the many codicies (Aztec books) there were destroyed what they contained and what kind of insight we could have gained by reading them.
While I enjoyed Apocolypto about the Maya, I’m amazed there hasn’t been a big budget blockbuster about the Aztecs and the Spanish invasion , it would be incredible with a decent script. I’d also love an Assassins Creed game set during this time......come on Hollywood less of the stupid super hero films and more about the rich history of mankind!
Any film made in a foreign language won’t be a blockbuster, at least in the US because many casual moviegoers don’t care for subtitles. Apocalypto is a great movie, though many critics point the historical inaccuracies. I can’t remember a prologue of the film stating Apocalypto was “based on true events”. It’s purely a fictional piece set in an unspecified time in the Yucatán.
This channel has quickly became my favorite RUclips channel. As a history lover, I love the broad spectrum of biographies. Keep to the good work Simon.
After watching this, I think it's fitting to do a video on Gonzalo Guerrero, the Spanish sailor who was captured by the Mayans in the Yucatan and refused to go back home. He became a military leader of the Maya and led them in battles against the Spanish.
@@kingofgotham417 it's a matter of perspective. I'm sure the Maya thought he was a top bloke. Like a conscientious objector but with more action and less hand wringing...
Atahualpa is lowkey such a badass. Dude stared down a charging horse and didn't even flinch. Like, he'd never seen a horse before, a spanish rider made a show of charging at him, and Atahualpa didn't move a muscle. That and having won a brutal civil war cement that image of Atahualpa "balls of steel" in my head.
1:40 - Chapter 1 - Childhood lost 4:40 - Chapter 2 - In the dark forest 8:05 - Chapter 3 - A family business 10:55 - Mid roll ads 13:25 - Chapter 4 - Death of glory 16:25 - Chapter 5 - King of the world 19:45 - Chapter 6 - The invasion 23:20 - Chapter 7 - The end of days
Thank you for yet another amazing video! I was a history major in college, but some things happened and I just kinda stopped trying to learn more. Your videos have reminded me what it feels like to be excited about learning again, and I can never thank you enough for that.
Oh damn, I love it so much that you guys have covered multiple people from Mexico's history ! It's a part of the world that gets more often than not overlooked on english speaking history channels, but not here, here we get a little bit of everywhere, I feel like this channel is one of the most unbiased ones, I love it!
I love these videos , it's very interesting to hear something about the aztecs . Could you make some videos about the Incas? And maybe their last ruler?. Cause pre-Columbian America is actually very interesting
There's nothing that makes us immune to an apocalypse of our own. It's happened so many times in the past. It's going on right now all over the world. Let's just pray we don't ever have to live through what Montezuma had to live through.
Theres a RUclips channel called Voices of the Past where some stuff that moctezuma said were written down. Also fun fact the moctezuma blood line continued because Aztec nobility intermarried with the Spanish. So for example there was a Spanish conquistador in the early 1600s named Juan de Oñate who had Moctezuma's blood through the maternal line
There are actually 2 lines of currente descendants from the Aztec last emperor: the Moctezuma family in Mexico (yeah, that's their actual surname - they're thousands of individuals by now) and the counts of Miravalle in Spain (technically also in the thousands, but the actual title is only inherited by one guy in each generation, using agnatic primogeniture). The reason is that after the conquest, the Spanish recognized local nobility titles and absorbed local elites into their own nobility system. At some point in colonial times the family split in 2 - and for some reason ***both*** branches got recognized by first the Spanish authorities and, latter, the 1st Mexican Empire government, as legitimate descendants of Moctezuma and thus entitled to receive an annual stipend just from carrying that blood. After Mexico became a republic, that 300+ years old practice stopped, and the Mexican branch lost their nobility title whereas the Spanish one still has recognition from the Spanish government.
Los españoles le decian Montesuma por que no podian pronunciar su nombre, nosotros le llamamos Moctezuma pero como señala el video lo correcto es Motecuhzoma pronunciado similar a "Motekzuoma".
This is without a doubt my favorite channel! It always manages to entertain me. Thank you guys!! (Also, could you do a video about the other greatest "liberador" of South America, San Martín? I would love to hear what you say about his story and for you to know him cause it's very cool).
literally cant wait till you make a video in the far future about what is happening now 2020 and how things literally got worse by the months im ready to see what else 2020 has and if it is worth being on this channel. see you soon, mate.
18:44 I love that you tell the other side of the story. Even though the Aztec Empire grew as a Mesoamerican powerhouse, it was doomed to fail. Even without the Spanish conquest, it’s model of continuous expansion was not sustainable and its vassals started to rebel.
Dear Simon, here are some video topics I'd like to hear your voice talk about. - 9/11/2001 -9/11/2012 -2011 Ohio Animal Incident - Tyke the Elephant 🐘 -The shooting of Trayvon Martin - 2020 Kenosha violence - Ten worst US Allies
Please do albert camus the french existentialist philosopher...from his participation in the french underground resistance during ww2 to his prolific literary career he's one of the most interesting people of the 20th century
Dammit simon.... You finally give my people an episode and you had to add a "to be continued" . i was upset for a second but youll do tlatoani cuauhtemoc next
When was it disproven that Moctezuma believed Cortes was a god? I read that he consulted with the other priests when he saw the Spaniards as he thought Cortes was the god, Quetzalcoatl.
I'd like to suggest videos on the musicians J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, The Schumanns and Brahms, Chopin (who would pair well with a video on George Sand), Arthur Rubinstein, and Leonard Bernstein.
Regarding the sponsor.... I spent four years learning classical piano, and at one point I could play the entire first movement of "Moonlight Sonata" from memory. I can still remember bits of it, despite not having a piano at my disposal.
This guy makes a lot of mistakes and inaccuracies in his historical videos as well as telling blatant lies in videos on his other 6 trillion channels, you should take everything he says with a grain of salt
Your story disputes all the "facts" that I knew and yet helps me better understand the feelings the Mexican people have for Hernan Cortez. For the vast majority of Mexico, he would have been a godsend. I enjoyed seeing Hernan's castle and villa which are still standing after 400 years in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Considering how cruel and oppressive the Aztecs were, their downfall was nothing short of karma. What they did to their fellow natives makes the old pagan traditions seem like childs play.
Cell , yes sacrifice and murder part of their customs and religious believes in our perspective is evil and “pagan”, but their style of living never included mass genocide of another culture and implementing their believes onto another by calling it “Gods divine will”.
For a well researched fictional story on the Aztecs, I highly recommend the book AZTEC by Gary Jennings. That is, if you can find it. It was published in the early Eighties so there's a good chance its out of print. Look for it at a decent used bookstore, or on eBay, is my advice. Caution: the paperback is almost five hundred pages long.
Spooky! Just yesterday I finished rereading his book "Spangle," (first time in 25 or 30 years), and thought , "Maybe I'll reread "Aztec" next." Happily, I don't have to look any further than my bookcase. Great book, but, yes, very long. Sadly, the sequel, "Aztec Autumn," or something like that, is very disappointing.
1: Try saying " Ten oak teet lonn" , repeat, you can do it! Come on...Ten oak teet lonn...., just like that! We'll make a Nahuatl speaker out of you yet! Now, 2: Not even ONE mention of Quetzalcoatl!....and 3: Cortez made a great deal of money ( well , some money anyway ) importing Guinea pigs into Europe. The best part was he had many more when he got to Spain than he had when he left Mexico. GREAT VIDEO by the way! Many thanks!
They killed a lot sure, not thousands a month but a year yes, plenty. Some years there where more sacrifices if there where campaigns or a crowning, most years there was around 2500 deaths, some of the more important were actually voluntary sacrifices of priests or young men (just one for event tough) and the common people also sacrified personally on their own by doing ritual self-torture and meditation. Not all rituals where all alike, Quetzalcoatl the god of wisdom and wind for example rejected blood sacrifices altoghether, instead flowers, feathers and butterfly wings where sacrified to him.
Very interesting video ! Great work Simon you did your best to tell the other side of the story of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec but from the view of the Aztecs who I can imagine must been terrified to see Spanish who understandingly were "Aliens" in their point of view who looked so different from them that they doubt They could believed the Spanish were human like them
Aztec human sacrifice was like any human sacrifice on the continent. They revered the sacrificial victim and believed they played an important role in paying down the blood debt from creation. One man was documented as weeping over his sacrificed slave, whom he hated to part with. Mothers would weep, but they definitely knew their kids had to be sacrificed. Human sacrifice is plainly evil, but the dead were valued against the collective blood debt. This is the same concept of the heifer sacrifice in Torah whenever a dead body is found and there's no suspect or witness, and the heifer pays the blood debt for the town elders. Even though the Hebrews knew human sacrifice was evil, everyone understood blood debt back then. But not today. Instead, the narrative is, "Colonialism is bad, therefore there was no Aztec human sacrifice." Our expert historians are shockingly dumb.
One thing that always confused me is, why is it horrible that Spanish christians conquered land but when it comes to the Mongols or the Mayans or the Muslims, their conquests are spoken about like it was ok?
Could you do a biographic on JD Ross please? He was a bit of a mad man but he was the original executive of Seattle City light. I know it sounds boring but bare with me. He is know for such things as using the hydro project power to heat ground in the North Cascades to start an open air tropical gardens, brought monkeys in to an island in a reservoir for tourism. All this happened in the 20’s and 30’s.
This was good. You confirmed some things I knew, and told me way more than I knew from the start. Also you showed that some of the things taught in school was just plain false. And your intro is exactly how I describe the conquistador arrival. Ever think about doing a video about J Bruce Ismay?
My first introduction to montezuma was when my dad came back from Mexico and told me he got “Montezumas revenge” a common phrase that means getting explosive shits from drinking Mexican water..wasn’t enough for us to destroy his empire…we had to associate him with explosive diarrhea too lol
Aaaand, this is why we need strong borders and a powerful military. Humans haven't changed. This is just a microcosm of a thousand stories in a thousand places. If you can't defend your stuff, someone bigger, stronger and more advanced WILL take it.
Great episodes, please consider an episode on Jim Bridger. He was a legendary mountain man, fur trapper back in the days of the westward expansion. I think he would make a great episode.
Sadly, of the hundreds watched, this is the first video, on any of your channels, that I didn't 10sec skip through the sponsorship segment. Actually an interesting app.
Yes , so when the Spanish did it to them it was deserved And now Spain is a poor worthless nation like most of South America ie.Karma Mongolia is a sh*thole country
A quote from my history teacher: "Every year they teach you it like this: Those poor old Aztecs and those mean old Spaniards. Well, the Aztecs could sacrifice thousands of people on a good weekend so they had it coming to them."
While it's true that the Aztecs were cruel overlords, the Spanish werent much better. Instead of sacrificing people at altars, the spanish enslaved many natives and worked them to death in the gold and silver mines under horrific conditions. And on top of that, the conquistadors were exceptionally cruel in their conquests, even by the standards of the time.
Finicalake2 entertainment If one horrible regime overthrows another horrible regime, you cant criticize only one because it implicitly endorses the other. Also, saying that they "had it coming" makes it sound like there were no innocent Aztecs that suffered under Spanish rule.
Two things about the Flowkey ad.. No 3 things: 1) Great job choosing to learn the piano! It’s a very rewarding skill to have and develop. 2) Dang man that piano needs a tuning and 3) You gotta learn to work the pedal - I wonder if Flowkey ignores that or if it gets more advanced as you learn…
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Maybe you guys should cover some of the beat writers like william s. Burroughs
can you do a video on either Aldous Huxley or Allen Watts?
I think both would make for very interesting videos :)
Simon please do some conquistadors or ibn battuta
10:10 So basically ancient organ harvesting like what the CCP does these days.
Simon that was too cool man. Piano looks like fun
A ruler who really stole people's hearts.
You could say he was quite sanguine about them
bakc in time....the history always was spread by the winners
Punny
LOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Montezuma the phantom thief
You forgot to mention what happened to his descendants. They went on to be made part of the Spanish nobility. The family still resides in Spain with the head of the family holding the title of Duque de Moctezuma de Tultengo
I learned more reading this one post than I did in the previous 30 minutes. That's not meant to be a knock on the video, just that I basically knew all the stuff it talked about. I legitimately didn't know about that Spanish noble house.
I heared that his wife was raped by pedro and he did nothing
I absolutely agree. This is news indeed. None of this has been taught in history class, and it should be.
That's an interesting thought. I've often wondered the same thing. I have also wondered about the many codicies (Aztec books) there were destroyed what they contained and what kind of insight we could have gained by reading them.
Wow. I didn't know that. You learn something new every day.
While I enjoyed Apocolypto about the Maya, I’m amazed there hasn’t been a big budget blockbuster about the Aztecs and the Spanish invasion , it would be incredible with a decent script. I’d also love an Assassins Creed game set during this time......come on Hollywood less of the stupid super hero films and more about the rich history of mankind!
La Malinche would make for a great protagonist for such a story.
The storyline in apocalypso is not accurate
Try series called Heran. You can find it on RUclips
There are 60s comics of Montezuma befriending European explorers at the time of the Conquistadors.
Any film made in a foreign language won’t be a blockbuster, at least in the US because many casual moviegoers don’t care for subtitles. Apocalypto is a great movie, though many critics point the historical inaccuracies. I can’t remember a prologue of the film stating Apocalypto was “based on true events”. It’s purely a fictional piece set in an unspecified time in the Yucatán.
This channel has quickly became my favorite RUclips channel.
As a history lover, I love the broad spectrum of biographies.
Keep to the good work Simon.
After watching this, I think it's fitting to do a video on Gonzalo Guerrero, the Spanish sailor who was captured by the Mayans in the Yucatan and refused to go back home. He became a military leader of the Maya and led them in battles against the Spanish.
About a sellout that killed his own people? Yeah sadly people love that
@@kingofgotham417 it's a matter of perspective. I'm sure the Maya thought he was a top bloke. Like a conscientious objector but with more action and less hand wringing...
@@kingofgotham417 Why are you saying that as if the spanish had the high ground anyways?
@@kingofgotham417 for me he was the only good guy. Spai. just came and killed in the name of god.
@@kingofgotham417 no not really, he was a man who could see what his people were doing was wrong, so he fought them.
Can you do one on Atahualpa the last Inca emperor
The end of Inca empire is nostalgia. A pain from the past...
That's a great suggestion!!
Atahualpa is lowkey such a badass. Dude stared down a charging horse and didn't even flinch. Like, he'd never seen a horse before, a spanish rider made a show of charging at him, and Atahualpa didn't move a muscle. That and having won a brutal civil war cement that image of Atahualpa "balls of steel" in my head.
@@braxtonfriday8713 I know right
@@julieortega4461 Thanks
This is my favorite RUclips channel. It's basically what the History Channel was supposed to be before it became the pile of hot garbage it is today.
Facts 😅💯
The aztec empire, rises from an alliance, the alliance of 3... wait... 3!!!!! ?
Can’t get enough of Aztec history! Cheers 👍
1:40 - Chapter 1 - Childhood lost
4:40 - Chapter 2 - In the dark forest
8:05 - Chapter 3 - A family business
10:55 - Mid roll ads
13:25 - Chapter 4 - Death of glory
16:25 - Chapter 5 - King of the world
19:45 - Chapter 6 - The invasion
23:20 - Chapter 7 - The end of days
Thank you for yet another amazing video! I was a history major in college, but some things happened and I just kinda stopped trying to learn more. Your videos have reminded me what it feels like to be excited about learning again, and I can never thank you enough for that.
He's like that substitute teacher that makes a boring topic enjoyable
Boring? IMO this is one of history's best tales.
Finally, to be given the chance to comment early on this Legend's comment i shall take.
Dude I had teachers giving me food so I enjoyed learning a lot 😁🤘🏼
This ain't boring.
I'm thoroughly surprised to see you here
Oh damn, I love it so much that you guys have covered multiple people from Mexico's history ! It's a part of the world that gets more often than not overlooked on english speaking history channels, but not here, here we get a little bit of everywhere, I feel like this channel is one of the most unbiased ones, I love it!
I love these videos , it's very interesting to hear something about the aztecs . Could you make some videos about the Incas? And maybe their last ruler?. Cause pre-Columbian America is actually very interesting
Or even the mojav tribes , makes me wish for a nuclear winter
@Stellvia Hoenheim Is that why you're so lonely and bitter?
Watch The fall of civilizations on RUclips on the incas the aztecs and the maya, absolutely among the best videos on RUclips.
I've been binging these vids and I saw he just uploaded one. Thanks Biographics!!!!
I really wonder how big your team is Simon, because your output frequency of in depth content, is beyond godlike! How is that possible? :o
From what he says he does a lot of prerecording for the channels
So true
I hope he gets rewarded for it
Certainly one of the most fascinating Biographics on record! Mr. Whistler learned his piano lesson well!
We love you Simon!!❤️❤️❤️
Ever have a case of Montazuma’s Revenge? Brutal stuff.
the shits?
It's a good game for its day...
I am literally reading this from my toilet.
Has something similar in Mozambique. Lost a lot a weight
Don't drink the water !
I had no idea they ever let Simon leave the studio. I thought he lived there.
There's nothing that makes us immune to an apocalypse of our own. It's happened so many times in the past. It's going on right now all over the world. Let's just pray we don't ever have to live through what Montezuma had to live through.
Thank god for these videos it helps our sanity especially during times like these
Theres a RUclips channel called Voices of the Past where some stuff that moctezuma said were written down. Also fun fact the moctezuma blood line continued because Aztec nobility intermarried with the Spanish. So for example there was a Spanish conquistador in the early 1600s named Juan de Oñate who had Moctezuma's blood through the maternal line
I recently watched a video ( in Spanish) about the descendants of Moctezuma,living in Spain as part of the Spanish nobility.
There are actually 2 lines of currente descendants from the Aztec last emperor: the Moctezuma family in Mexico (yeah, that's their actual surname - they're thousands of individuals by now) and the counts of Miravalle in Spain (technically also in the thousands, but the actual title is only inherited by one guy in each generation, using agnatic primogeniture). The reason is that after the conquest, the Spanish recognized local nobility titles and absorbed local elites into their own nobility system. At some point in colonial times the family split in 2 - and for some reason ***both*** branches got recognized by first the Spanish authorities and, latter, the 1st Mexican Empire government, as legitimate descendants of Moctezuma and thus entitled to receive an annual stipend just from carrying that blood. After Mexico became a republic, that 300+ years old practice stopped, and the Mexican branch lost their nobility title whereas the Spanish one still has recognition from the Spanish government.
@@JosePineda-cy6om yeah like right now in spain there is a house of moctezuma
The counts of Miravalle are dukes now. They're a bunch of rich mofos.
Captain Carl Cortez was my CO in Germany.
I'd love to see you do a biographic on the Marquis de Sade!
Yuck.
It would definitely be interesting lol
Perhaps.more fun than Caligula!
Hopefully with an ample trigger warning
Loved the video, I hope you do one of La Malinche.
yeah, me too
TIL he is called Montezuma in English, never hears that before. In Spanish we say Moctezuma
Los españoles le decian Montesuma por que no podian pronunciar su nombre, nosotros le llamamos Moctezuma pero como señala el video lo correcto es Motecuhzoma pronunciado similar a "Motekzuoma".
Hey, Whistler ol' boy, you should do one on La Malinche, Hernan Cortez's terp/squeeze.
This is without a doubt my favorite channel! It always manages to entertain me. Thank you guys!!
(Also, could you do a video about the other greatest "liberador" of South America, San Martín? I would love to hear what you say about his story and for you to know him cause it's very cool).
literally cant wait till you make a video in the far future about what is happening now 2020 and how things literally got worse by the months im ready to see what else 2020 has and if it is worth being on this channel. see you soon, mate.
18:44 I love that you tell the other side of the story. Even though the Aztec Empire grew as a Mesoamerican powerhouse, it was doomed to fail. Even without the Spanish conquest, it’s model of continuous expansion was not sustainable and its vassals started to rebel.
Sounds similar to what will or can happen to America
Dear Simon, here are some video topics I'd like to hear your voice talk about.
- 9/11/2001
-9/11/2012
-2011 Ohio Animal Incident
- Tyke the Elephant 🐘
-The shooting of Trayvon Martin
- 2020 Kenosha violence
- Ten worst US Allies
Those are all way too recent. People pretty much know about this stuff already.
You should do a video on the Dalai Lama! I honestly have no idea who he is besides a very important person in Buddhism.
Why don't you do some independent research? Wikipedia isn't exactly a good source but it'll give you the gist.
7 Years in Tibet with Brad Pitt is good movie to watch about him.
That would be an awesome video 👍👍
Dog in Donut He’s a good guy, we shoot hoops together sometimes. Underrated baller.
The current one or all who've held that title?
Please do albert camus the french existentialist philosopher...from his participation in the french underground resistance during ww2 to his prolific literary career he's one of the most interesting people of the 20th century
One of the best books I ever read is the Conquest of New Spain by Bernard Diaz a soldier of Cortez. Read it your welcome.
Love that this does not repeat popular misconceptions of the conquest ❤️
Would love to see an episode on Thomas Cochrane, The Seawolf.
Dammit simon.... You finally give my people an episode and you had to add a "to be continued" . i was upset for a second but youll do tlatoani cuauhtemoc next
Both Aldous Huxley and Allen Watts would make for very interesting episodes.
I would love to see a video on one of them :)
Oooh, yes! Let's hear about Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" before the 'New Normal' has completed it's course and such things are banned.
When was it disproven that Moctezuma believed Cortes was a god? I read that he consulted with the other priests when he saw the Spaniards as he thought Cortes was the god, Quetzalcoatl.
This is what the Spanish said its a myth
When will we see "Simon Whistler- the dawn of the Internet Empire'?
Great video, would love to see some Roman Emperor videos or a video on the Praetorian guard. Keep up the great work mate.
I'd like to suggest videos on the musicians J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, The Schumanns and Brahms, Chopin (who would pair well with a video on George Sand), Arthur Rubinstein, and Leonard Bernstein.
F them blood thirsty monster's, who were easily conquered by a few people and alot of folks who took advantage of the situation
Regarding the sponsor.... I spent four years learning classical piano, and at one point I could play the entire first movement of "Moonlight Sonata" from memory. I can still remember bits of it, despite not having a piano at my disposal.
This was a great 27 minute summary on a very difficult subject. Looking forward to the next one. What about Simon Wiesenthal?
Apparently I’m related to this guy nice to come and learn something new
Montezuma Was An iraqi 🇮🇶
I recently discovered your channel, and I love it! I've always been enthralled with history
This guy makes a lot of mistakes and inaccuracies in his historical videos as well as telling blatant lies in videos on his other 6 trillion channels, you should take everything he says with a grain of salt
@@user-mv6yv9ec1b do you have any examples/proof for that?
These videos are really great. Thanks bro.
Could you do Tupac Amaru II? I think he deserves a bit more attention than he gets :)
Interesting that a culture so build upon warfare and fighting will perish without a fight. Shows how complex truth really is.
Your story disputes all the "facts" that I knew and yet helps me better understand the feelings the Mexican people have for Hernan Cortez. For the vast majority of Mexico, he would have been a godsend. I enjoyed seeing Hernan's castle and villa which are still standing after 400 years in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
How scary and sad that a people's history was abruptly ended by unbeatable enemies
I’m glad you refer to them as “Aliens”.
bee azz it’s nothing the Europeans weren’t doing to each other...
Oh, the irony
Considering how cruel and oppressive the Aztecs were, their downfall was nothing short of karma. What they did to their fellow natives makes the old pagan traditions seem like childs play.
Cell , yes sacrifice and murder part of their customs and religious believes in our perspective is evil and “pagan”, but their style of living never included mass genocide of another culture and implementing their believes onto another by calling it “Gods divine will”.
@@cell4224 💯
Montezuma is my 14th great grandfather from his daughter Mariana Leonor.
For a well researched fictional story on the Aztecs, I highly recommend the book AZTEC by Gary Jennings. That is, if you can find it. It was published in the early Eighties so there's a good chance its out of print. Look for it at a decent used bookstore, or on eBay, is my advice.
Caution: the paperback is almost five hundred pages long.
Spooky! Just yesterday I finished rereading his book "Spangle," (first time in 25 or 30 years), and thought , "Maybe I'll reread "Aztec" next." Happily, I don't have to look any further than my bookcase. Great book, but, yes, very long. Sadly, the sequel, "Aztec Autumn," or something like that, is very disappointing.
Thrift books
Bravo, Simon, masterfully played! :)
1: Try saying " Ten oak teet lonn" , repeat, you can do it! Come on...Ten oak teet lonn...., just like that! We'll make a Nahuatl speaker out of you yet! Now, 2: Not even ONE mention of Quetzalcoatl!....and 3: Cortez made a great deal of money ( well , some money anyway ) importing Guinea pigs into Europe. The best part was he had many more when he got to Spain than he had when he left Mexico. GREAT VIDEO by the way! Many thanks!
Who cares
@@Bell_Mattlol annoyed by facts?
Please do a video on Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, president of Haiti.
"-went the way of the dodo." I just lost it at that point XD
Simon...this was one of your best Biographic presentations ❤
Montezuma Was Syrian 🇸🇾
Biographics: Aztecs didn't sacrifice a human every day.
Also Aztecs sacrificed thousands once a month (30 days).
It's even worse than that when you know that a month in the Aztec calendar is actually composed of 20 days.
@@clementl.9566 WTF! Oh mi Dio 😱😱
They killed a lot sure, not thousands a month but a year yes, plenty. Some years there where more sacrifices if there where campaigns or a crowning, most years there was around 2500 deaths, some of the more important were actually voluntary sacrifices of priests or young men (just one for event tough) and the common people also sacrified personally on their own by doing ritual self-torture and meditation. Not all rituals where all alike, Quetzalcoatl the god of wisdom and wind for example rejected blood sacrifices altoghether, instead flowers, feathers and butterfly wings where sacrified to him.
Population control
How many did europeans tortured to death during the same times?
Very interesting video ! Great work Simon you did your best to tell the other side of the story of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec but from the view of the Aztecs who I can imagine must been terrified to see Spanish who understandingly were "Aliens" in their point of view who looked so different from them that they doubt They could believed the Spanish were human like them
Aztec human sacrifice was like any human sacrifice on the continent. They revered the sacrificial victim and believed they played an important role in paying down the blood debt from creation. One man was documented as weeping over his sacrificed slave, whom he hated to part with. Mothers would weep, but they definitely knew their kids had to be sacrificed. Human sacrifice is plainly evil, but the dead were valued against the collective blood debt. This is the same concept of the heifer sacrifice in Torah whenever a dead body is found and there's no suspect or witness, and the heifer pays the blood debt for the town elders. Even though the Hebrews knew human sacrifice was evil, everyone understood blood debt back then.
But not today. Instead, the narrative is, "Colonialism is bad, therefore there was no Aztec human sacrifice." Our expert historians are shockingly dumb.
Cannibalism has it's good points too. And infanticide. Alas, we're all so narrow-minded today.
Awesome video and good content 👌. You did great on the piano
One thing that always confused me is, why is it horrible that Spanish christians conquered land but when it comes to the Mongols or the Mayans or the Muslims, their conquests are spoken about like it was ok?
Because they're white
Whom among those four groups exiled the jews from their land?
Taking a shot everytime Simon says "Empaaarh" makes one hell of a game watching these videos~
-Before Cortez:I’m the Ramesses of America
-After Cortez:I’m the Cleopatra of America
Thank you for what you do in this, and all your other channels.
Let's take a moment to acknowledge Simon in a turtleneck
I don't want to because it makes me feel inferior as a man.
Could you do a biographic on JD Ross please? He was a bit of a mad man but he was the original executive of Seattle City light. I know it sounds boring but bare with me. He is know for such things as using the hydro project power to heat ground in the North Cascades to start an open air tropical gardens, brought monkeys in to an island in a reservoir for tourism. All this happened in the 20’s and 30’s.
This was good. You confirmed some things I knew, and told me way more than I knew from the start. Also you showed that some of the things taught in school was just plain false. And your intro is exactly how I describe the conquistador arrival. Ever think about doing a video about J Bruce Ismay?
Everybody needs to see Paul Cooper's Fall of Civilizations episode on the Aztecs, amazing video, fascinating and heartbreaking in equal measure.
Might as well do a vid on La Malinche, as she played a big part in all this.
It's also a good cautionary tale. Don't piss off a woman.
I can listen to this guy talk bout paint drying or grass growin,really gd as wht he does,keep up the gd work....
Aztec human sacrifice-TRY FLOWKEY TODAY!-Aztec warfare and conquest!
Simon your a legend and my favourite teacher in the universe
I miss those old times when you leaped out of the womb fully armed
My first introduction to montezuma was when my dad came back from Mexico and told me he got “Montezumas revenge” a common phrase that means getting explosive shits from drinking Mexican water..wasn’t enough for us to destroy his empire…we had to associate him with explosive diarrhea too lol
Simon: I haven't played Piano in years and I was never very good
Also Simon: I have a piano in my house
😂
Aaaand, this is why we need strong borders and a powerful military. Humans haven't changed. This is just a microcosm of a thousand stories in a thousand places. If you can't defend your stuff, someone bigger, stronger and more advanced WILL take it.
PLEEEEEASE do one on all around badass John Paul Jones
@How To Work all the more reason he needs a video.
A bio on Cortez would be fantastic as I have little knowledge of him
Your the best speaker regarding history
"that's a great story, someone ought to do a video game about it"
-age of empires: "am I a joke to you?"
Simon I was very impressed with your piano playing.
Gr5 piano playing😲
Great episodes, please consider an episode on Jim Bridger. He was a legendary mountain man, fur trapper back in the days of the westward expansion. I think he would make a great episode.
Sadly, of the hundreds watched, this is the first video, on any of your channels, that I didn't 10sec skip through the sponsorship segment. Actually an interesting app.
Am fully ashamed.
But it’s Moctezuma ...
This page is dope as hell Love This Channel!!!
It’s MOCTEZUMA... Mock-Teh-Zuh-Ma
Alrighty, this may be the greatest in video advertisement you've ever done Simon. Signed up!
Saying the Aztecs would conquer people and force there God on them sounds a little to familiar to me,lol
That's the history of most religions.
Yes , so when the Spanish did it to them it was deserved
And now Spain is a poor worthless nation like most of South America ie.Karma
Mongolia is a sh*thole country
I'm so proud of your piano playing!
Nezahualcoyotl in the future maybe??
Finally. I've been waiting for this one.
A quote from my history teacher:
"Every year they teach you it like this: Those poor old Aztecs and those mean old Spaniards. Well, the Aztecs could sacrifice thousands of people on a good weekend so they had it coming to them."
While it's true that the Aztecs were cruel overlords, the Spanish werent much better. Instead of sacrificing people at altars, the spanish enslaved many natives and worked them to death in the gold and silver mines under horrific conditions. And on top of that, the conquistadors were exceptionally cruel in their conquests, even by the standards of the time.
@@pgtv14 dude, I'm well aware of that, I'm simply stating that the Aztecs weren't all that pleasant either.
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If one horrible regime overthrows another horrible regime, you cant criticize only one because it implicitly endorses the other. Also, saying that they "had it coming" makes it sound like there were no innocent Aztecs that suffered under Spanish rule.
ole Simon tickling the ivories.
Speak of the devil, I was just looking for a mezoamerican biographic from you. Love the channel, keep them coming!
Two things about the Flowkey ad.. No 3 things: 1) Great job choosing to learn the piano! It’s a very rewarding skill to have and develop. 2) Dang man that piano needs a tuning and 3) You gotta learn to work the pedal - I wonder if Flowkey ignores that or if it gets more advanced as you learn…
Fatal irony: in the Spanish of the day, Cortes meant "courteous."
It still mean courteous
Great job Simon!!!