Aztec VI │ The Fall Of The Aztec Empire

[@simonmay1671]

We've all had a night where you drunkenly remove your head at a temple... Right?

[@HistoryScope]

This gives a whole new meaning to "giving head" after a night out

[@zaclegoattack]

History Scope - Avery Thing -- HE JUST SAID THAT

[@bendedikte2]

0:30 “The Aztecs had decided to go Dutch a few hundred years early and build a dam” - great reference👍🏻

[@yohaneschristianp]

Should be The Dutch had decided to go Aztec instead 😃

[@real_exodus]

That series was evergreen and ON POINT do one on the Mayans next!

[@elek8460]

‘Neutral’ *sees Swiss flag* seems about right

[@RodolfoGaming]

They do love some popcorn during conflict that's for sure

[@Sasha-gd8xi]

I have been waiting for another upload. This is great.

[@cjkavy2299]

I love this series but also love your variety to cover super wide historical topics. I think it would be great to revisit sometime in the future but not as the immediate next project. Great series!!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

At least you can visit the ruins of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City. The Aztecs are a fascinating part of the history of the Americas

[@rallemeister9043]

Revisited this series, and oh my, what an epic series of Aztec history

[@FrikyD1ngo]

This was by far the best and well informed series on KZbin. I loved your closing statement and whole heatedly agree with the failure of gov’ts not adjusting to the needs of its people. I’d like to throw my vote in for the Tarascan State!

[@CrazyCraftersBDH]

I couldn't wait for you to finish this video! I have been waiting for weeks, seen all your vids and oh boy here we are. Great work,great videos keep it up this way,but much faster! And ofc good luck with surviving! I wish you the best!

[@thruthewormhole]

I really like your adaptation of Churchill's speech for the Aztecs.

[@uvbe]

13:34 Where did you get that picture of me doing a ritual to get more videos?

[@BraulioPallares]

Hey man, this series were just amazing. I learned more in these 6 episodes than what I learned in school... and I'm FROM MEXICO!!!

[@HistoryScope]

The end of this video will probably mean I can never travel to China for publicly criticising their government :D

[@StromcekDavid]

I don't see anything related to China, the worst hell on the planet :D

[@StromcekDavid]

@@HistoryScope WAIT THEY HAVE CONCENTRATION CAMP???? THAT'S LITERALL GERMANY IN WWII!

[@HistoryScope]

It's not an extermination camp, as far as we know. It's just a place where people of a certain religion/ethnicity are put in a camp for undisclosed reasons... I hope it's not ww2 bad :(

[@StromcekDavid]

@@HistoryScope Ah yes... The "Reeducation camps",more like camps for Uyghurs no matter the age or crime....

[@StromcekDavid]

And no I don't mean that the Uyghurs need to be put in those camps, the opposite needs to happen.

[@MDMAx]

I really like your narrative and concise visual accompaniment ;) Whatever topic you'll choose to cover I'll enjoy running my fantasy by it.

[@02logan]

Awesome work!! Thank you for this.. enjoed way more than I thought i would..

[@LukeRF11]

Great series!! Great animation and easy to understand dialogue 👏

[@FactoryAtelier]

your videos are soo good, you deserve so much mure subs. Keep it up man

[@TheNatakira]

Thanks for the content Avery, I like some of the suggested civilisations like the Olmecs or the Inca. I would like to see something on the Muisca people who inspired the legend of El Dorado

[@georgi4991]

Very well made short series!

[@ChampionKong]

Great video series. Learned a lot!

[@victorsandoval4792]

You offer a different perspective towards the end. You make a good point.

[@cliffordjensen8064]

Most of the Spanish fought with metal armor and swords, in close order formations, which the Aztecs had no real answer for. The guns, crossbows, cannons, and horsemen provided a nice addition to this force.

[@meowsa4332]

honestly you could deep dive into whatever subject and i'd be interested. but these topics that are not in traditionally discussed in western-culture are super interesting.

[@marianomarin6324]

I really like your videos I'm glad I subscribe

[@v1ncent111]

9:13 That hurts so much, Great video's tho you deserve way more vieuws!

[@emms88]

I am very grateful for this video, I am Mexican and seriously did not teach me many of the information of this series

[@jackiereed1296]

First btw love your videos

[@johnniecarr-murphy2508]

This is a really good video series.

[@whiteelephant3673]

This is... astounding!.. Great work, now my perception of the Aztecs is a lot bigger)

[@HistoryScope]

Watch History Scope: perception +2

[@omarnoyola497]

*Mexica

[@flynnparrett3023]

@@HistoryScope nice XD

[@flynnparrett3023]

@@HistoryScope that is a pathfinder refrence right?

[@jonathanjack4803]

Amazing video

[@dimitrismitzithras1852]

Keep up the good work!

[@IgorMgtowandVideoGames]

great videos keep up the good work

[@j3ddable]

I see too much excuse for brutal Aztec human sacrifices.

[@jeanc3167]

Great history lesson

[@ilandebuyzer3556]

Great video!

[@HistoryScope]

You haven't even had enough time to watch the video yet! :D

[@ilandebuyzer3556]

History Scope - Avery Thing was about half way through and wanted to share my opinion

[@jamiestrode9276]

Did you know the Aztecs were actually pioneers in heart transplants?... they just hadn’t discovered you had to put the heart back in

[@mhedbary]

Nicely done!

[@ahaadhussein3490]

I hope you make a series about the INCA empire , I’m so curious to know about them :>

[@HistoryScope]

Maybe I will.

[@ahaadhussein3490]

Thank you :>

[@ghostleycaspey]

Kwaliteit videos. Goed bezig!

[@ErichVonCartmann]

I truly enjoyed this entire series. One question though, if the Aztec Libraries were burned down, where did we get historical information for the Aztecs. Also, everything you shared seemed well researched, may I ask for your sources? The version 99% of learned seems very hokey and pure fantasy! I am happy to have Historical KZbinrs like you to straighten all these stories out.

[@jayczech78]

Amaizing series. Mayans next please

[@BewegteBilderrahmen]

Gold standard, chocolate standard, either way works for the Swiss

[@marianafernandez8848]

please do more videos on mesoamerican civilizations :)

[@ozzy0908]

Amazing

[@TheEverything1311]

I Think The Aztec Empire Should Get Bought Back, And Made Exactly The Same, With The Exact Same Laws, Ruling Family, Exact Same Infrastructure, Exact Same Currency, Exact Same Religion, And In The Exact Same Area Of The World With The Exact Same Map.

[@marceleu]

I would love to see some lama mountain action next so if you wouldn’t mind to do a series on that Incan folk that would be great

[@HistoryScope]

Lamas as bea. But Extra Credits already did a series on them which is far better. I changed the script when they uploaded their series on the Incas

[@powerist209]

Any idea of covering the other civilizations of non-Aztec culture? Just that their history in the region tend to make Aztec as "the new powerful guy on the block".

[@skipfilgo2042]

Would love to see a history of the Cliff Dwellers of SW America

[@dimaignatiev6370]

What is so bad about tomatoes?...

[@HistoryScope]

Everything.

[@ryderwilliams6019]

Do more Central America please

[@Espinozaize]

14:08 No tomatoes, no ketchup...I do not trust a man who is against ketchup!

[@HistoryScope]

Ketchup is great. Tomatoes are not.

[@CBZ-vk9bz]

@@HistoryScope - *italian angery noises*

[@gigantorize]

Not for anything but has the narrator ever heard of Cortes' female interpreter who was always by his side named "Malintzin"? She spoke both the Maya and Nahuatl languages, soon to learn Spanish in 3 or 4 months after she met Cortes.

[@mgm3649]

Tehotihuacan would be nice. I've been there and the pyramids are impresive.

[@Savio-Sempra]

Whats wrong with tomatos?

[@goodaimshield1115]

Cortés didn't leave his less reliable men in Tenochtitlan. On the contrary. He left Pedro de Alvarado because, as much as a burt and hot-headed as he was, he was the most loyal to him, so he was sure he wouldn't betry him. The massacre is estimated in around 400 to 500 people in the central square of Templo Mayor, not on the thousands. And it was not a move against the nobility, but against the people in the square, whatever they were. It was hardly a planified attack, it looked more like a hot-headed decision. Which does fit Alvarado's character. He would rush things up messing up again a year later during the siege of Tenochtitlan. Texcoco was an acolhua city, not a mexica (Aztec) one, so most of the knowledge kept there did not belong to the Mexica. Aztec "universal education" was mostly based on teology and moral values and how to live according to theri religion, so the comparison is quite frankly stupid. Spanish inflection was nothing compare to what was going on in the rest of Europe, and the cause of the fall of the Spanish Empire was certainly not the dicovernment of silver. Forced conversion was forbidden. The cultures that disappeared under the Spanish rule would have also disappeared plus their people killed of under Mexica rule. So it is still a win. Good video, but as I said before, very simplistic, and therefore, not 100% reliable in certain conclusions.

[@gigantorize]

Some very good points and I would also add that Pedro de Alvarado who was a 'fight-first ask questions later' kind of Conquistador had witnessed the Mexica ceremony that included numerous human sacrifices. Besides that it was not a one-day 'event' but went on for days. It is little wonder why Alvarado went spastic, IMHO. He thought the Spaniards were next on the Aztec sacrifice hit list.

[@cornellwaters9089]

🚔 Thank You!

[@sokeking3118]

And indus valley series 😍😍

[@spartanRS1]

Make a video about civilization that predates M-I-A.

[@ZX587X]

make a video about how the two koreas can unite

[@GodBless423]

It’s a shame I can only hit the like button once!

[@diegol5472]

Where did you get the descriptions for those three ceremonies for Tlaloc Tlazolteotl and Xiuhtecutli ?? Sounds like Mel Gibson told you those

[@MrRandomSuperhero]

How can you not like tomatoes

[@HistoryScope]

Because they exist.

[@MrRandomSuperhero]

@@HistoryScope You come overhere and say that to my face so I can make you some delishious tomato-based lasagna or perhaps a tomate crevette if I'm feeling really angry.

[@juditkovacse]

I would like another video about other Mesoamerican civilizations. But it does not need to be an entire series. Unless that is also very-very interesting. This was great. Thanks for making these.

[@Nagrandt]

This video is like "Poor Aztecs, they were too evil but Spanish were even mor evil". *rolleyes*

[@HistoryScope]

Then you completely misunderstood the point. This isn't a comparison of who was worse but a factual summation of how people's lives changed for good and bad... If you want to attribute 'good' and 'bad' to it then go ahead... But I haven't done that in this video. People are smart enough to make up their own mind than me telling them what they should think.

[@Felipe_XIV-XVI]

Says someone who seemingly thinks the Spaniards were liberators like in American movies, LOL.

[@sokeking3118]

Pls upload Sumerian series 😊😊

[@rnboe1879]

Good point on how eztec collapsed. 👍🏽👍🏽

[@thomasschulz8477]

Are you Dutch? You're accent kinda sounds like it.

[@karmapolice247]

15:28 If only they had Unity, the Aztecs would've Godot of this Unreal situation. Instead, they killed each other for their Solar 2d god, which was a Construct of their imagination, and the Source of their demise.

[@bethallen406]

more about mesoamerica pls!!!

[@science-in-seconds]

can you do one about the Mayans plese

[@HistoryScope]

Maybe

[@damaskusseraph6046]

Do the Incas next! Or maybe some North American tribes

[@HistoryScope]

I was thinking of doing the inca's, but Extra Credits did a series on them which is better than anything I could make. But another tribe would be interesting, though.

[@damaskusseraph6046]

History Scope - Avery Thing, oh wow you responded! Yeah I guess your right but I feel like you could add more details that they missed. But Also the Native American tribes don’t get as much love as the Aztecs and Incas Abd mayans.

[@christophersica2379]

The aztecs were just not ready for the spanish

[@valexander275]

Maya

[@bewilderedbrit8928]

Great video, just not enough of you saying the word "Huitzilopochtli" for my liking.

[@nbelloam]

Have you done anything about the Incas?

[@JNSP-kk7py]

Hello

[@HistoryScope]

Entaro Adun!

[@manuelcorral6095]

Do more mesoamerica videos pls

[@HistoryScope]

I will.

[@science-in-seconds]

moral :goverment will fall

[@htoodoh5770]

100 000! Jesus Christ.

[@HistoryScope]

No! Huitzilopochtli! :p

[@Todo47]

The Aztec prophecy was right. They didn't offer their gods all of the Spaniards blood, so their world DID end.

[@juditkovacse]

What I learned from this episode is that the only good thing that the Aztec contributed to the world is chocolate.

[@David-i3y1z]

Mayans!!!!!

[@zacpods2600]

dodododoodod

[@ZhangtheGreat]

You DON'T like TOMATOES?!?! DISLIKE DISLIKE DISLIKE!!!!!

[@HistoryScope]

Yes! Dislike the tomatoes!!! Let the hate flow through you!

[@ZhangtheGreat]

@@HistoryScope Hell noes! I'm a tomato lover, bitch, so fight me! 😁

[@HistoryScope]

BRING IT ONNNNN!!!

[@duukm]

This is not really being fair to the Aztecs that it was their fault. it probably was somewhat, but just think about what he said about the Spanish empire where they were raised to believe Christianity was the best but replace Spain with the Aztecs and Christianity with the sungod and violence.

[@HistoryScope]

The Spanish, at most, fielded 1000 soldiers. The main fighting force against them were the 100.000 or so soldiers from the various tributary states. If they had not joined the Spanish cause, Spain wouldn't have won this war. Those tributary States only joined the Spanish because the Aztecs were so brutal.

[@ChiChiLand299]

Well let's look at their religions which one do you find more appealing?

[@hermanessences]

"They believed that if they did not provide enough blood to their gods, the world would come to an end." Just like modern environmentalists, in other words.

[@HistoryScope]

No.