History Summarized: The Maya, Aztec, and Inca

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FUN FACT - These 3 Empires were taken from the Spanish Empire but they only came back for more.

Native Americans (i.e. North American Indians).

I find it interesting that modern Americans of European descent somehow believe those of native Indian descent have some inherent ancestral right to what we call the northern and southern American continents.

Europeans did not land in the Garden of Eden amid rainbows and butterflies, with the native Indians all dancing among the flowers and singing some prior-day equivalent of Kum ba yah.

Before European colonization, these areas were inhabited by thousands of differing, and extremely savage, warring tribes, with unceasingly fluctuating tribal borders. Many of these tribes pillaged, raped, and conquered each other regularly. Tribal genocide was rampant, and many native groups actively employed cannibalism, torture, and human sacrifice, while further believing these actions to be acceptable practices.

They were also locked into a Stone and Copper Age level of technology, with no written languages, or even a common tongue. From a historical and archeological perspective, they demonstrated no signs of progressing beyond this (in large part due to their constant warfare, and elimination of any males of a conquered tribe).

For the most part, these natives lived in hunter-gatherer societies with a day-to-day subsistence mindset. They held little if any thought to long-term survival and were more than satisfied to abide by what they believed to be the whims of their totems and animal gods. In essence, they were savages existing behind a thin veneer of pseudo-civility. They lived by the code of “strength makes right”, and little more.

Now, with this stated, I would submit to you that Europeans therefore had just as much right to these lands as any other contesting, warlike, or conquering tribe.

The winners indeed write history, however, it is also true that any more advanced culture and technology will always surpass weaker cultures that refuse to adopt and proliferate newer advanced methodologies.

So, no, the Indians as we knew them, had zero inherent or ancestral rights to these lands, and in point of fact, were merely remnants of a plethora of failed cultures, that for whatever reason, refused to adapt, adopt, and progress.

In summary, Europeans did nothing wrong. We deserve to be here. Period.

Darion Corners

My great grandmother just passed away at the age of 93

Her first language was Mayan and she taught my grandmother and her siblings the Language. From Yucatán Mexico

Crazy how he mentioned the invasion of the Spanish and religion as my grandmother is a believer but knows about the Mayan religion & its gods

The Mexicans and the Aztec were the same people. The Mexica was divided from the Aztec. The mexica was the one let the Spanish in the Aztec did not accept the espain they went to war against the Spain

Teotihuacan mostly def. looked influenced by thePhoenicians ... So yes a Trade city for sure

The Mayans did Trade with the Phoenicians around 1100BC -700BC , the Mayan Pyrimids were built around 1000bc the 1st Mayan Major Cities were created around 750BC ( a normal phoenician practice when they reach new land , create an outpost, build a port in favorable already port like area, mostly similar to their own coast, another example you can find in ancient ports in Australia utterly similar to Tyre for example , they then welcome everyone there and since they are mostly or all men they usually intermarriage with local women and their offsprings will rule the new land ,except for very few , the royalty who would only marry phoenician women , who accompany them and rule the outpsot) However for the Mayans , around 700BC they were treated by the arrival of the King of Tyre with his armada , they looked scary however those bearded men were very friendly ! ofcourse they knew some of them from before, heck they are relatives! the King of Tyre escaped the city and didnt get help from anyone in the old world, so he had to go to a far forgotten place and ended up going to the Mayans!
700BC , Mayans started to write! check their alphabat ppl! see the similarities???
The C for example = looks like a mouth and teeth , its Sin in phoenician meaning tooth
THE T = its circle with kinda Cross= in phoenician its circler with a Cross the Tet = T
Their God Changed around that time!!
KNOWLEDGE in astronomy and the calendar ....
Chaahk Mool the red on (Mayan Diety)
Moloch = before used to be named Chack Molock (Phoenician Diety)

Islam: we are a religion of peace
Christianity: yeah right, no. We are the religion of peace
Christianity in the new world:

Del Las Casas was right❤

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"Sacrificed says what?"
``What? Oh—nO WAI-``

Christ is king ✝️☦️

Aztecs took all the light because Mexico is more popular than other countries, and incas are way different.

What’s the debate? The aztecs were sacrificing counquered kingdoms. I think the Spanish were in the right!

The background music is from the game age of mythology .. brings back nostalgia

Being Aztec and Native American this is very informative. I didn't get to learn about my Dad's culture but since I look Azteca it always made me curious to know who my dad was. thank you!

The age of mythology background music takes me way back

But the music is AoM not AoE2..

The three empires have shaped Latin America in some way.

There’s something deeply funny about the Olmecs being called the “first fancy civilization” 😂idk why. They were definitely fancy. It just makes me laugh nonetheless.

Quechua is the second official language of Peru.

Just discovered your channel lol so fucking good! If you had of been a high school teacher the kids would’ve remembered a thing or two about history!

It should be mentioned that it it wasn't just the Spanish, but the indigenous tribes that hated the Aztecs that toppled the empire. Important thing to include

Karma? Thats hardly karma... spanish president wont even apologize to this day

Wasnt de las cas the only one that was trying to be cool to the indigenous with everyone just doing whatever they wanted?

is that age of mythology music??

Incan, Aztec, Mayan.... I AM 😮😅

I wish you went more into the Incan history, there was one Incan runner who learned Spanish and literally sprinted around the empire writing down as many things as he could before the people who knew them died. A ton of what we know about Incan culture and history comes from this person. Imagine just being a guys surviving through a plague with a 40+ percent mortality rate, a genocide, and forced labor jsut to run thousands of thousands of miles and feverishly trying to save your culture. That dedication.

We fw the Olmecs heavy here xir

Why does everybody keep saying Europeans killed off the natives? It was the old world diseases that wiped out 90 percent of the native population. They had no control over that.

Very biased. The Spanish who stopped the Aztec bloodbath forever are presented as evil colonizers and their moral dilemmas about doing so are ridiculed as “that’s a start, right???”

El pueblo real vilipendiado y asesinado por la arrogancia blanca

The Aztecs were only around for 100 years ?? I thought they were around for way longer

Actually if you are looking to take over an alternate culture and entire civilization the idea of removing previous writings and histories can be quite effective. I say this not in defense, but I could never truly stand modern day morals being pressed upon the past. If we are to think of it, who are we right now to be so appreciative of this information that could have been left behind? We treat their civilizations as foreign things to be amazed by, simple Curiosities to insert into our fictions. It is very easy to sit down in a peaceful time in a peaceful place and wonder why things of the past were so brutal. Truthfully speaking, with the Spanish did is what my ancestors in Central America had already done to many others. It is not something that should be solely ascribed to a single group but a common fact of a large tribal expansion. The Aztecs for instance, with their Alliance they managed to take over the Mexican Valley, instead of wiping out the other tribes, they decided to subjugate them instead. Furthermore if we are going to continuously paint the Spanish as this Grand evil from across the seas we must ask the question where did they come from? They came from a land that they spent 700 years reconquering in a religion V religion quest for territorial dominance, and the eradication of their enemy. That is where the Spanish came from, the world in itself is quite brutal. I love this aspect of History because it covers my own personal history but I am so getting tired of modern day inserts and opinions on the brutality of what you used to be the norm.

Aztec ,maya ,inca Right irder Memorised

you should talk to emperor qin,he likes burning infos 😂

In what universe was Spain geopolitically irrelevant a century after the conquest of the Americas?

In the 1700s the entirety of Western Europe was up in arms trying to see who got their ally on the spanish throne during the Spanish Succesion War.

Several countries literally fighting to get the Spanish Crown seems to run completely contrary to the idea of geopolitical irrelevance.

I came here because i don't understand what my lecturer was talking about

Is that the Age of Mythology soundtrack I hear in the background? 🧐

While the loss of knowledge is always a shame, my feelings for the Aztecs is similar to my feelings for the Canaanites; they had it coming. It doesn’t matter how fancy your city is, if you sacrifice thousands of people every year in cruel and sadistic ways then you deserve everything you get. The Conquistadors were bad, the people they conquered were just as bad. There are few good guys history. We naturally feel sorry for underdogs, but that pity dries up when you consider said underdogs flayed young women alive and wore their skins as a coat.

What about the Stinkas?

I watched this in school and the second you cursed my teacher immediately turned it off and the students started clapping😂

Mr bader

It makes me kind of sad that this was just one video. I would have liked at least one video for each civilization

A bit of a viscous end.

Christians.

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