How Female Conquistadors Conquered Americas - Age of Colonization

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Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the early modern history and the history of age of colonization continues with a video on the female conquistadors who served the Spanish empire and were instrumental in the conquest of Americas.
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[@KingsandGenerals]

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[@golkgermany6552]

What about genocide in America?

[@febrian0079]

Please continue the series on crime syndicates "History of the Russian Mafia"

[@alexoolau]

Please do one with following. Ching Shih Zheng Yi Sao (born Shi Yang, a.k.a. Shi Xianggu), also known as Ching Shih, was a Chinese pirate leader who was active in the South China Sea from 1801 to 1810.

[@richardides2035]

I do not like the woke way it was made especially at the end...

[@MrFlatage]

@@golkgermany6552 That is just fake news. No proof or evidence to be found anywhere.

[@flyingsquirrel1135]

All the other characters: Successful female Conquistatoraes, who formed businesses, led armies, and organized governments Catalina: Warcrimes

[@adrianwolf90]

Yeah Catalina was such a vicious person lol

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Catalina based.

[@isratjahan-lj2zg]

7000 FEMALE NATIVE AMERICANS FIGHT WITH COLONIZERS

[@carlosreid51]

These women kick ass and I did not know that women was a key factor in victory

[@flyingsquirrel1135]

@@BOZ_11 the video disproved you man.

[@countdarkmire1759]

All I can think about is that Eric Andre skit: "Do you think Margret Thatcher had girl power?" "Yes, of course." "Do you think she effectively used girl power by funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Ireland?"

[@RafaelSantos-pi8py]

16:50 we need to be careful about applying modern labels to historical events. A crossdressing lesbian is not the same as a trans man. There were many women who wore men's clothes because it allowed them a man's freedom to act. That doesn't mean they wanted to be men.

[@iamover9000yearsold]

Luckily they used words like 'probably' because we can't go back in time and read their mind. Regardless, there weren't many avenues for LGBT people to take at the time. Most would have hidden their status from the world. Combined with the stigma and limited records of the time leave us with little to go on.

[@Fordo007]

I’d agree, I feel we don’t have evidence of how she saw herself… but the fact other people in her time labeled her a man… technically makes her one even if she didn’t believe she was one. That being said it is still quite a stretch. Do we have context to know if the people declaring her a man did so believing she was really a man despite her biology? Or was she culturally a man to them thus making her a ‘honorary’ man to them? Or was it just a ‘joke’ type thing in the same vein?

[@krankarvolund7771]

Well, she kept a male name, even though whe was in Spain as a celerated heroin ^^' If she was just crossdressing in the New World when she needd to be a man, I could see your point, but here she seemed to like being a man even though she didn't need it anymore ^^

[@iamover9000yearsold]

@@homelessjesse9453 I fail to see how that's relevant. 20 years ago no one knew what a meme was, but that doesn't mean they didn't exist.

[@DIANAROSS4EVER]

@@homelessjesse9453 Even a hundred years ago, nobody knew what heterosexuality even meant.

[@Mania497]

It's a dang shame you didn't have room to put up Catalina's favorite act: Commit a crime, then run into the nearest church and declare sanctuary, holding up in there until nightfall (or for weeks!) before trying to stalk away into the night. And then repeat this act, again and again. Steal, murder or cheat during gambling, then run into a church and demand sanctuary.

[@ecurewitz]

I read a book about her long ago. Damn, that is one hardcore person

[@rosiehawtrey]

She'd have made a perfect clergyman then.. Barring the obvious

[@am.i.cognizant9981]

Yeah or the time she was in a street fight and when she was losing, she shouted in Basque for help and then a group of Basque came to help, not even know who she was 😂

[@0ld_Scratch]

Don't hate the Player, hate the Game!

[@justapilgrim4050]

Ey, everybody has their hobby.

[@Guillermo90r]

I feel “Conquistador” is a very ample definition. For what I understand, its pretty much anyone who conquered land for the Spanish/ Portuguese in the Americas. So pretty much any person who landed in the Americas and helped conquer and settle it, would be one. So it would make sense that there would be female conquistadors.

[@npc1199]

Females will always be females kek

[@rowdymays9078]

I think what made one a conquistador specifically is they were there in behalf of the “crown” or royal families

[@ovrair6340]

yh, but then spanish is a gendered language, unlike English

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

Well, no. There's a giant difference between conquistador and settler. It's literally two completely different sets of tasks. It's like saying that journalist and cameraman are the same job. They aren't, even if they might cooperate and even occasionally overlap.

[@CloroxBleachCompany]

@@anasevi9456 You sound like someone who gets their history from Joe Rogan. Stop romanticizing the conquistadors legacy. The reality is that these are men who went rogue and against the Crown they served after they got a taste of treasure. Spain was horrified that Cortez and his people assassinated a monarch without consulting them. The rogue clergy were no different when they performed unsanctioned inquisitions. The relationship between conquistadors and the people who paid them was not as harmonious as you’d like to believe.

[@tiberiuscodius5828]

Dora, Dora, Dora the Conquistadora

[@martinbeckdorf4565]

Ah! Inés de Suárez. Casually reviving the head-hurling strategy. One thing I would like to note, nuance of course, is that the natives that followed Michimalonco in the attack on Santiago were not mapuche. They belonged to the same cultural complex, but were called Promaucae by the Inca and Picunche by the southern Mapuche, and were the natives that had lived under Inca rule for some decades. Michimalonco himself was appointed governor of the Mapocho valley by the Inca, and while his loyalty is questionable, he might have argued to defend Inca rule against the invaders. Later on he would return to Chile and make peace with Valdivia, and as far as I recall he was give some position in charge of the natives living in the mountains near Santiago who would then end up in the encomienda given to Suarez and her husband.

[@martinbeckdorf4565]

​@limon ysal Wow! Lot's to unpack here. OK. So first, the term mapuche is not Anglo-made, for sure. It was first noted in the 18th century, replacing the word "reche". It seems evident that the invasion by Spain created this need for a unified identity after the Mapuche were driven to their corelands between the Itata and Toltén rivers. It doesn't mean "peoples of the south", the closest denomination on that sense would be "Huilliche", which is a way to designate the members of the mapuche cultural complex that live near and on the Island of Chiloé. Second, it's a massive stretch to say the natives had a good status under the Colony. As I said in the OP, Michimalonko became some sort of representative of the mountain natives near Santiago. Specifically, he was in charge of the Huaicoche who used to live in what today constitutes La Dehesa (Lo Barnechea). they were moved to the (euphemism for reservation) in Apoquindo and made part of the Encomienda that passed in time to belong to Catalina de los Rios y Lisperguer. Under the Encomienda, as I suspect you know, natives were expected to work for their Spanish protectors, and it can very easily be placed as a step between feudal serfdom and slavery. Encomienda was under no means percieved as fair or benign by the natives, and proof of that are the many rebellions that took place, perhaps the most relevant to Encomienda being the Huilliche rebellion of 1707, if my memory doesn't fail. The Encomienda, in a global timeline evolution, provided slave labor after the Queen and King of Spain forbid slave trade in the Antillas, and would in time phase out of favor within the colonial society by the decades nearing the Wars of Independence. Third, the radicalization of the Mapuche people didn't really become a thing until the mid 1800, decades after the independance, and never nearing the scale we see today. It is fair to note Antione de Ourelly's attempt to become the King of Arauco and Patagonia (which encompassed non-mapuche territories of Argentina and Chile), but this was closer to a silly experiment with some local leaders' backing that ended getting him locked up as a madman. In the years leading to the independence the relationship between colonists and Mapuche people had somewhat normalized, and it wouldn't be upset until the Chilean occupation of Arauco in 1866, leading to a movement towards Tehuelche lands in Argentina and the Conquest of the Desert by Roca. And even right after that, there wouldn't be a "Mapuche movement" like we see today. It is also true that in the case of Chile, the Mapuche people, for various reasons, have been somewhat better integrated since the colony, with mestizo offspring serving as a bridge between both cultures that is quintesential to chilean identity. A part of this might be explained in the relative lack of women in the colony at the start -despite their role, as K&G's video illustrates- with a threatened demographic that the Conquistadores felt needed to be "saved", and you can guess what that meant for Spanyard-Native relationships. This does not mean their chiefs had a "good status" that was sustained over time. They had some presence for the time it suited the new rulers. Back to the naming convension of these people, the Spanyards used the term "Araucano", which was never favoured by the natives. While I have used the term "Mapuche complex cultures" this is to describe a rather unequal relationship between cultures in constant exchange. The natives of central and south-central Chile inherited their cultures from the Bato and Lloleo cultures in the local early neolithic. It's very likely that their language, lifestyle and perhaps even religion derives from these two groups. The Mapuche themselves, the group that united under Lautaro to fight Valdivia and would be a thorn on the Capitanía's side for the centuries to come, are actually arrivals from Argentina who made a wedge in southern Chile and then adopted these cultural traits. Being a much more warring people they became a somewhat POV group in the years to come, being able to organize a defense against the Inca before doing the same with the COnquistadores. Thus, their self-denomination, "people of the land", is clearly marked as a center, surrounded by the Picunche in the north, and Huilliche to the south, with denomination of the Puelche (people of the east) for the Gennakenk people and the Mapuche-related people that had remained there, and the already-mentioned Tehuelche, -propper name Aonikenk. It is true that the Mapuche are a conquering force rather than a peaceful defending population, but don't be dragged by that notion too far. They reached a place, displaced the people and then adopted their culture, in time becoming indistinguishable to outsiders like the Inca and the Spanyards. As for Patagonia. We have the mad frenchman to thank for that, in part, but also the Chilean 1866 occupation and the subsequent Conquest of the desert. Many Mapuche formed robbing bands that did carry out Malones (raids that had been previously made during the Arauco War), taking cattle, weapons, supplies and captives as slaves. This doesn't help their historical image, for sure, and these attacks were also sadly aimed at natives as well who had nothing to do. But it would be foolish to give that claim over Patagonia (and also Argentine territory) any credibility. I don't think the Mapuche should consider themselves entitled to that massive claim reaching to Buenos Aires, as their cultural presence in recent times is tenuous at best, and they cut off their original roots east of the Andes long before the Inca arrived. Their only connection to explain their presence in current Patagonia is simply that they were pushed by the Chileans and then Roca into the areas of Neuquén and Río Negro before falling under Argentine rule. Other groups resided in Patagonia at the time, and if anything that land should be attributed to them. This is the so-called "Tehuelche COmplex", which I find frustratingly misundeerstood and overlooked. It includes the Aonikenk, the Selknam and Haush, and might include the Querandí and the already mentioned Gennakenk. To the Chilean side other groups were influenced by the Huilliche, influenced by and influencers of the Mapuche, but retained distinct language, religion and societal organization arround nomadic seafaring lifestyle, these incluse the extinct/vanished Chono, the Kawéshkar, the Yámana. The latter also influenced the Haush, so these could be considered a Tehuelche-Insular bridge in tierra del Fuego. Which I find pretty cool. OK, so to close this massive thing which I no longer think is to the popint, what limon is saying has to be set in a current political context: The Chilean Constitution is currently being revised, and the push to make this country a plurinational state, a-la-Bolivia, is very strong. The new Government, much frendlier to the Convention that is driving this process, is much more friendly to the Mapuche and has used the term "Wallmapu" at least once. This term is generally taken to mean the Mapuche territorial claim to create an autonomous territorial division or a fully independant state, that would, under that extended understanding, include vast Argentine territories. One member of Argentine Congress pushed in reaction through Twitter, driving attention towards mapuche cattle thieves and malón slave-takers, not a great thing for bilateral relations, if you ask me, but I see the fear this might cause. I do not support it, by any chance, and I don't think a lot of Mapuche in Chile do either. I don't think it is fair to take an educational video and discussion about native-conquistador early contacts and drive it to a political discourse of today. Less do I believe it is to assume these movements are only possible if the British are involved (there has been some involvement in the form of London-based NGOs, but there is no link to the British Government), and frankly, I fear it is a feeling driven by Anti-British post-1982 sentiment than anything else, which is sad. I do believe the diversity and commonalities between natives in the southern cone is both a source of wonder and learning and of better cooperation between the various countries in the area, and to see it missused to react to some political commentary on twitter to revive decades-old sentiments that have absolutely nothing to do with the natives is frankly disheartening.

[@catsberry4858]

Inés is my Spanish name :D

[@Diego-fx3ud]

@@martinbeckdorf4565 i loved what you wrote, it seems you have a very profound understanding about the subject. I believe that it could be a good thing to give the mapuche people more autonomy in order to solve the violence in the area, but from your last paragraph you would be opposed to it (as it seems), would you consider to elaborate on that matter?

[@toivolaoalo9671]

@@alfieingrouille1528 the term “mapuche" was invented in the later XIX century. Spanish used “araucano" and only for the tribes that lived in Araucania

[@Fernando-yl9xr]

@limon ysal I’m sorry if you get offended for correcting you, but Mapuche ain’t not a kind of foreign term, under no circumstance, they call themselves, mapu (land) - che (people) in their languaje, they are “the people of the land”. Trust me... im a Chilean 💪👍

[@JoshTalks11]

This is why I love kings and generals it brings all of these obscure and unique parts of history on full display and equal to all the ‘normal’ stuff we hear about like the crusades, Rome, and so on. My wish is for the channel to talk more about African and history since it’s the the least talked about area and yet it has a lot of rich history. Cheers!

[@Native_Creation]

They could do a video on the African Conquistadors, eg; Juan Garrido

[@kooperativekrohn819]

Ahhh yes ! I agree i would quite like to know the history behind modern day occupied RHODESIA … the pagens amd heathens call it ‘Zimbabwe’

[@JC-mn2ll]

Do one on the history of Liberia! It’s probably the most interesting of the whole continent😂

[@WR288]

Video on the rise of the Spanish Empire please. Amazing how they were able to explore the world while simultaneously fighting multiple wars against powerful enemies on different continents.

[@Omerath9]

That was more Portugal than Spain to be honest. At the time, the Spanish were only really exploring America and the Pacific, whilst the Portuguese were exploring Brazil, sub-saharan Africa and Asia, the only country engaged in the explorations of 3 continents, also, outside of Europe, Portugal fought against a much wider range of enemies; native tribes in Brazil, Africa, the Persians, Ottomans, Mamluks and countless others in the Indian Ocean.

[@WR288]

@@Omerath9 Spain circumnavigated the globe, fought wars in Europe, the Mediterranean and the Americas against a who’s who of the era including but not limited to Native Americans, French, Dutch, English and Ottomans. Not to mention they essentially confederated Portugal for several decades.

[@Omerath9]

@@WR288 Spain "circumnavigated" the world (which wasn't Spain but Magellan), AFTER Portugal had already reached everywhere bar the Pacific. That's why they needed a Portuguese navigator. Get your timeline right. Portugal undertook naval explorations in far more areas of the world, and earlier, than Spain did. Also, Spain was not involved in so many theaters of war as Portugal was, especially in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Now, they may have fought multiple powerful opponents, true, but nowhere near on the same global scale as Portugal. Finally, regarding the Iberian Union (a typical anachronism since you are jumping 100 years ahead) they didn't "confederate" Portugal, Portugal always controlled its colonies, and so long the Spanish respected that, the nobles were ok with having a descendant of King Manuel I ruling them after King Sebastian's death. When King Philip IV wanted to effectively annex Portugal a few decades later, a war broke out which Portugal won and Spain lost. Spain never had the TRUE power to fully absorb Portugal, and the evidence is better perceived in South America, where Spain was powerless to prevent Portugal expanding the largest colony there; Brazil, which became richer than any colony the Spanish had in the Americas. When you consider Portugal had 1/5 the size of Spain, with 7 times less people, to have been able to build the largest and richest colony in South America, after having found the sea route between Europe, Africa and Asia, and after having defeated the Ottomans on their own in the Indian Ocean, is something noteworthy to say the least, and surely not less impressive than what the Spanish accomplished.

[@uzbek9989]

So killing poor native is not something to be proud......

[@leonzoful]

@@Omerath9 during the exploration and conquest of America and the Philippines Spain was fighting in the Italian Wars, the Reformation Wars, and the Ottoman Wars. Meanwhile, the Portuguese were indeed fighting aot of battles in some regions of Africa, but mainly in the Indian ocean, India, and the East Indies. However, the battles te Portuguese had against the natives were skirmishes and only the battles against the Ottomas could be considered a war. In contrast, Spain was waging large military campaigns in all of Europe, sometimes, multiples campaigns at the same time.

[@kingoliever1]

Great to see women also had a chance to plunder and subject the savages.

[@razorbird789]

And no doubt raped and scalped by the savages also. 👍🏻

[@hishamtarsoo5233]

Gender equality

[@p0st-nutclarity]

“It’s okay when we do it.”

[@oddballsok]

I am glad there are spanish women that traded black slaves to the new world...then there is no shame.

[@whyismyricewet1986]

Based females

[@casio6651]

👏more👏woman👏colonisers👏

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Yaas queen slaayy💅💅 Wait no don't genocide them, I was being figurati--

[@solinvictus7582]

@@miguelpadeiro762 Beat me to it lmao

[@joellaz9836]

@@miguelpadeiro762 “First female dictator hailed as a step forward for women…”

[@duck1ente]

They hate it when a girlconquistador is winning -Actually the pope and king let her change gender, becoming the first transgender sanctioned by the church a patriarchal hierarchy of power-

[@nothisispatrick4644]

“First Female lead Genocide hailed as great milestone achievement by Women’s rights movement”

[@krankarvolund7771]

The tale of Catalina, which had passed 20 yeas as a man, makes me wonder how many women disguised as men and were never found in history. I mean, if Catalina had never commited crimes, she would not have been discovered ever XD Those kinds of situations always reminds me of the Monstrous Regiment from Terry Pratchett XD

[@iamover9000yearsold]

It's such a shame that discussing sexuality * has been taboo for so long. There's so many stories that now are lost to time. Edit: *and gender

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@iamover9000yearsold It's not about sexuality but gender ^^

[@iamover9000yearsold]

@@krankarvolund7771 Hah you got me there

[@danielbradley5255]

Still somewhat curious as to how she managed to disappear and never once been noticed to be standing while peeing

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@danielbradley5255 Just said she wanted privacy for that, I guess XD

[@EmisoraRadioPatio]

As the son of a Spanish mother, I can say Spanish women are brava.

[@XxLIVRAxX]

Great subject! Would love to see a video on the conquistadors native allies, captains and leaders

[@Native_Creation]

Tlaxcalans were the primary ones, they would assist in conquering other parts of Mexico, mixing with local tribes.

[@benbehzadpour1177]

Turns out the Conquistadoras were just as brutal, ruthless and bloodthirsty as the Conquistadors...

[@hostiliscivitas]

Dora the Conquistadoras

[@mathiaszx1001]

A similar case to the one of Catalina occurred during the chaco war between Paraguay and Bolivia (1932-1935) when Manuela Villalba a paraguayan young woman from tavapy refused to let her brother go to war alone so she wore male clothes, cuted her hair and change her name to Manuel and went to the war with her brother. They both fought in the war until they recieved news about her mother who was very sick and would probably die so the two planned to scape from the front line but were catched while doing so and penalty for desertion was execution. Just before she was executed her brother told the officers and soldiers to not do it and revealed that Manuel was actually a woman. A nurse made her and inspection and was confirmed. they then told their story to the high officers and then they allowed them to go visit their mother for a month but the brother of manuela had to return after that to fight. So thats another story of how a woman "changed" her sex for going to war and had her life saved from execution by revealing her sex Here there is a more complete version of the story Her name was Manuela Villalba. She was a young woman born in Tavapy, current San Roque González de Santa Cruz. She dearly loved her brother, named Juan Villalba, who was called up in 1932 against Bolivia. Juan was 18 years old and had to go to the front to defend the threatened homeland. Manuela, fearful of seeing her brother leave in front of her and of losing him riddled with enemy shrapnel, did not hesitate to leave for Chaco with her. She decided to show herself as a soldier, despite the protests of her brother and the tearful claims of her mother. Many of her, including her neighbors, tried to dissuade her. There was no case. Manuela cut her hair and got a soldier's uniform and marched with her brother to Asunción, presenting herself in Sajonia neighbouhood where the recruitment office was . Enlisted in the Infantery Regiment 2 Ytororó, on August 17, 1932 they embarked on the gunboat Paraguay and marched to the front, fighting in the battle of Boquerón. This battle was followed by others to Gondra. In the middle of 1933, she Manuela received a letter in which she was told that her mother was very ill, for which she was forced to desert her to attend her. Her brother could not leave her alone, so he accompanied her without her absence being noticed. They tried to reach Pilcomayo river, but they got lost and were discovered by a Paraguayan patrol, who took them prisoners to the Nanawa fort, where Colonel Luis Irrazábal rigorously complied with the laws of war, ordered a court-martial and sentenced them to be shot for desertion. Even so, Juan dared to save her sister, so he confessed the situation and asked for mercy for her. Faced with such a situation, Irrazábal surely asked Dr. Silvio Lofruscio, a doctor from the V Division, to examine the alleged female soldier and, indeed, such a thing was discovered. The command, after a brief analysis of the issue, probably suspended the execution and promoted those involved to the next higher rank; they were granted permission to visit the sick mother, with the obligation to rejoin again when the term of the permit expires. When they talk to me about gender equality and functions in Paraguay, I always remember this story.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Sounds like double standards.

[@mathiaszx1001]

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 what do you mean?

[@captainkielbasa5471]

When people think women werent as equally responsible for so called "crimes against humanity" throughout history.

[@rosiehawtrey]

@@LuisAldamiz dihydrotestosterone is what matters. Women naturally have testosterone. Give a cis woman or girl a dose of DHT and you'll want to be in a different county. It's why women can get violent when they have undiagnosed endocrine cancers or with some Intersex conditions - funny thing is the police can get that information on you.. And by law can withhold it, from you and your defense in legal situations.. Thus invalidating a medical defence. I love the reichspiglets.

[@meownover1973]

If they had the opportunity, they would be just as ruthless as men. It seems infatilizing to think women aren't capable of great harm.

[@joshuaforbus5853]

Awesome.....I feel very stupid for not assuming such things. I'm a father of three with two daughters. Such history inspires my soul for them. Thank's

[@enixbluerain7213]

Woke Feminist SJWs about Conquistadors: "SPANISH MAN BAD!" Woke Feminist SJWs about Conquistadoras: **programming error**

[@SirWeirdGuy]

Did you time travel from 2016

[@enixbluerain7213]

@@SirWeirdGuy I don't get your joke. Woke Feminist SJWs still exist in 2022.

[@iamover9000yearsold]

I checked if Enix wasn't just some troll. First thing I find is a subscription to RT, the Russian propaganda news group. Edit: Now I got curious. He's also subbed to PragerU, Fox News, Steven Crowder, Donald Trump, Turning Point USA and Paul Joseph Watson of Info Wars fame. It's all the alt-right greatest hits. No wonder he's all up on the anti-SJW hatetrain.

[@mappingshaman5280]

I dont think ive ever heard an SJW complain about conqusitadors. To them its all the big meanie english and americans.

[@enixbluerain7213]

@@iamover9000yearsold what's your point if I did? Is doxxing and ad hominems your only resort?

[@ReydelCiguay]

K&G please do a video on the colonization of the Caribbean. It was both the staging ground for the vast conquest of the Americas as well as Spains crash course into native relations. Would also be interesting to hear you talk about the Tainos. It’s often overlooked when compared to the major conquest but there is a lot of interesting detail during third period

[@Native_Creation]

and on that note, how they were colonizing Southeast and Eastern U.S. before the British, for instance, including Mission Ajaca in Chesapeake Bay 30 something years before Jamestown.

[@JC-mn2ll]

I’ll do a quick summary: a couple hundred Spanish land, massacre and enslave the population. The native population become extinct so they have to import slaves from Africa and the conquered peoples of the mainland.

[@JC-mn2ll]

@@Native_Creation the colonies in the southeast did not last long. The natives didn’t have gold.

[@0ld_Scratch]

Please more about the Spanish Empire, Conquistadores and Exploration!

[@kaloarepo288]

Might go back to the time when Spain was ruled by the Visigoths -Visigothic women were very free and they were even given inheritance rights under Visigothic law.Christian Spain in the middle ages even had an empress regnant in the person of Urraca and also look how dynamic a woman Isabella was -can't remember whether she was from Castile or Aragon but she was a very forceful woman!

[@meropemerope6096]

You have videos about it?

[@kaloarepo288]

@@meropemerope6096 No but I read about it somewhere .

[@abcdef27669]

Mapuches, after knowing Inez Suarez died: "Thank the Gods! that damned woman is dead!" Catalina de Erauso: "Hello there, boys!"

[@KilapnF]

That is why in those years they kidnapped more than 500 Spanish women.

[@KilapnF]

Although later a Spanish woman appeared who was more cruel: Catalina de Los Ríos y Lisperguer

[@arethas1387]

very stunning and brave! Women are so underrepresented when talking about genocides and colonization glad we are finally changing that, more power to them ♀️✊

[@robertbreedlovecraft]

Girlboss colonialism

[@rosiehawtrey]

The sarcasm is strong in this one

[@highadmiraljt5853]

Is this an effective use of girlpower?

[@Jon-jd2vc]

WE👏NEED👏MORE👏FEMALE👏WARCRIMINALS👏

[@dominicguye8058]

This thread is hilarious 😂

[@redouanekoceilaighouba8451]

Thank you for this amazing video. A video about cortes would be sooo amazing there are not much videos about him on youtube

[@Kannot2023]

King and generals: conquistadores were more than plunderers, proceeds to show massacres and fight done by women conquistadores

[@YourLocalMairaaboo]

They were more than plunderers, but it does not mean plunderers was not one of the things they were.

[@mysteriousdude280]

So Escobars from the beginning of modern America have been very enterprising with controlling the production sources of things that produce refined white floor

[@mappingshaman5280]

Not everyone with the name escobar is related to pablo.

[@julianescobar2395]

Yes sir. We also succeeded in ventures like car manufacturing, flower export, etc. Wonder if your family has done anything significant in life

[@ignaciocristobal4639]

lol i thought the same haha

[@mysteriousdude280]

@@mappingshaman5280 I know mate

[@mysteriousdude280]

@@julianescobar2395 many, mate

[@alexsmith2910]

Thank you for this video! K & G!

[@khandov2278]

So that's where Dora the Conquistadora comes from

[@genghiskhan5701]

Feminists: Women can do anything a man can do Women:

[@YourLocalMairaaboo]

Yeah, worth remembering that when people say "anything", that includes the evil things.

[@egeerdem8272]

eh, we did it better

[@dialatedmcd]

Why did females do this!? Why did you guys conquer!? You colonists. Explain yourselves! (ONLY JOSHING! IT WASN'T YOU! Sharing a gender doesn't earn you any blame or credit lmao)

[@TheBayzent]

Feminists: If womem ruled the world there would be no wars Women:

[@meownover1973]

Dude shut up

[@Anonymous-qw]

I don't remember the actual figures, but if there were only 5,000 women and 1,800 were already married. There must have been much, much more male conquistadors; so did most find native women to marry?

[@krankarvolund7771]

Probably, that's what most settlers did ^^ Except english, I think, most of them were married, or married white women deported to America.

[@juann1400]

The spanish crown favored the union betwen spanish men and Indian women so yeah, most of conquistadors mixed with the natives. Thats why nowadays most of the population un spanish coloniced countries are mestizos

[@SrAlmeidaMedina]

They baptised the locals and considered their equals. No need to send more settlers than actual people lived in the desert Iberian peninsula.

[@Anonymous-qw]

@@juann1400 A bit off topic. But was the Spanish crown also against using slaves. I have noted in the Spanish colonised Americas (Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Peru practically none) there are a lot less black people than Portuguese colonised Brazil or indeed the US deep south and Carribbean.

[@TheBayzent]

Also the fact that some would end up marrying natives too. Knowing Spanish women all my life, I can safely say that making native men marry them was by far the worst attrocity we comitted towards native populations.

[@adamjones6187]

There is a Madonna statue brought to Santa Fe New Mexico in 1626. She was placed and currently resides at the altar in the Saint Francis de Assisi Basilica. She is named La Conquistadora.

[@Isaac-cm8zl]

Gonna go tear the shit down

[@hussainashraf5179]

it was spainish muslims who discovered americas

[@josecarlosdominguez7279]

Hi, great video! But do not always trust Wikipedia for the pronunciation of the places. Although Toledo's Spanish pronunciation is indicated as [toˈleðo] there, it is actually a much softer [ð] than the English 'th' in 'then' ([ð̞] in fact). Same with [β] and [ɣ]. In fact, I'd argue that, to a Spanish speaker, it would sound more familiar (although still a bit strange) rendering them as the English [d], [b] and [g] and calling it a day.

[@nillokasim]

This channel is great but their narrator butchers the pronounciation of everything not English.

[@thetinderboxofaheart]

Thanks for this amazing video!

[@S4ngheli05]

I am always happy when you upload a video, though I must say my heart craves the next first crusade episode.

[@helloworld0609]

I bet K&G would do an episold on female slave owners next.

[@JC-mn2ll]

Yea all I got from this video was that women were murdering colonizers just like men! There was even a black woman murdering criminal!

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

Yeah he should do a documentary on the female biracial French/Black slave owners and slave drivers in the French Senegalese colonies of Saint Louis and Dakar

[@KomradeCPU]

imagine this channel doing one on bantu genocide, or connivance of african tribes with slave trade, which precedes the age of exploration by centuries; of wait, goes against the narrative

[@pattonramming1988]

Will you make more videos on this topic? I would be interested in videos covering the individual lives of some of these women

[@RedStar439]

Equal opportunity Imperialism for the win, I guess? Thank you for the cool and good content, K&G!

[@emperoremyhriv4968]

Based .

[@RedStar439]

@@emperoremyhriv4968 Well, you *would* say that, wouldn't you emyhr? lol

[@emperoremyhriv4968]

@@RedStar439 " I am in the empire business "

[@XxLIVRAxX]

Women of the independence wars in both Hispanoamerica and Spain proper would also be a great subject for a video

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

Hey kings and general any plan on continuing the mughal-rajput series (your battle of Haldighati video) or continuing the Maratha Empire series or any plan on a mini series on Nadar Shah afshar?

[@skewed9942]

They said they weren't going to continue the Indian Subcontinent series

[@anirudh177]

@@skewed9942 That's sad

[@HimanshuKumar-tw4fl]

@@skewed9942 Did they give any reason?

[@skewed9942]

@@HimanshuKumar-tw4fl Yes they said they would continue only if all Indian houses built toilets in them

[@nazmulalam2822]

It would be really great if they make series 'bout whole Mughal era. There is no video about mughal wars in utube.

[@ImperatorHispania]

It is impressive how on this same channel when the conquests of other countries are told, people comment with words of admiration and respect for the soldiers who led that conquest, on the other hand, when it comes to conquests made by Spain, a special hypocrisy arises and everyone vehemently condemns the conquest regardless of the fact that the Spanish armies were in their total majority made up of natives.

[@commissarkordoshky219]

I honestly have not paid any attention to this. Though I feel compelled to comment so I must feel attacked in some way. I have no idea what to say other then 'what monarchs of their time accomplish with the tools at their dispossal is nothing soft of impressive and to a height I will never accomplish myself'.

[@Nick-rk2tp]

I suppose it has something to do with the negative view of Spain in the eyes of the Anglosphere world. Not surprised considering the British and Americans taught their views widely. For example, my country used to be a Spanish colony for 300 years then became an American colony for 4 decades, where they vilified the Spanish in our curriculum, downplay Spanish contribution to the people and accentuate their atrocities. Though in recent years, it seems like more attention is brought upon the wrongdoings of Americans with hit films released that are based on my country's war against American colonization. When the Americans freed us from Japanese occupation in WW2 (they were the worst occupiers, fair enough), they were praised and thanked for. Yet when the Spaniards for centuries protected us from Moors, Chinese pirates, the Dutch, the British, nobody bothered to thank them. Personally I don't think either should be praised, as both were acting out of self-interest in maintaining presence in the Pacific.

[@ignaciocristobal4639]

So true. Roman conquest, alexander, mongol, crusaders all great. Crazy Spanish coming out of the middle ages as well: oh so bad, no woke enough (when it's actually the opposite)

[@ab9840]

The Philippines is lucky. At least the US decided after 40 years what to do with them. Its been 123 years and the US still has not decided what to do with the US territory of Puerto Rico. Before the US, PR. was controlled by Spain for 405 years. Actually, PR. in parts of the 19 century and especially just before the Spanish - American war had various representatives who had a voice and could vote in both branches of the Spanish legislature. It fact, PR. was an overseas province of Spain. US in the 1950's finally allowed PR. to send one person to one branch of the legislature, the house of rep. They have voice but no vote except in committee.

[@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl]

@@Nick-rk2tp the so called Moors were natives

[@ilyac3185]

Love the added dimensions here. Thank you!

[@kylestephens4133]

Lots of later literary fiction presented as fact in this one. Maria de Estrada, for instance, was present in 1520 according to contemporary sources, but her alleged military prowess was produced later in the century. It was pretty common for conquerors to extol the 'valor' of their women (the Muslims have many fables regarding women slaughtering entire units of Byzantines singlehandedly); as if to say, "Look! Even our ladies could whip 'em!". Much of the info concerning these 'conquistadores' is suspect to say the least.

[@supermaster2012]

Ok gringo

[@kylestephens4133]

@@supermaster2012 you're welcome

[@MrFlatage]

@@kylestephens4133 These lies are always made and backed up by loser edit trollers. You are the suspect. Meanwhile every child in 1st grade who can end sentences? Would wipe the floor with you, lmao!

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Thank you for alerting me to possible trickery!

[@acliptika]

@Kyle Sephens tell me you're a misoginistic prick without telling me...

[@FelipeGarcia-ch3iw]

A big thanks for the video and a small suggestion that is you should had included Malinche (Hernán Cortez Mistress) technically speaking she wasn’t a conquistadora alone but in a way thanks to her job Cortez was able to top the Aztec empire

[@Native_Creation]

There could probably be a whole video dedicated to her

[@MrPh30]

Or a series of the videos about her.

[@petergregson5318]

She was the first female admiral in European history , and she would admirably behave as one. Very nice line 10/10

[@timnorton1611]

this was very informative thank you very much!

[@mickcox8603]

Women in the Mexican revolution please

[@KingImi]

I highly second this LAS ADELITAS!!!!

[@razanlthr9093]

Slay these weird looking ppl for ✨equality ✨ 👩🏿‍🦲🪓👸🏻💅🏻💔

[@SirWeirdGuy]

@@teutoncross3817 u okay?

[@emperoremyhriv4968]

What ?

[@mathiaszx1001]

I love this video so much. Greetings from Asunción, Paraguay the mother of cities. I would love to see more videos about colonial latin america since this historic period is barely studied in schools here and people almost never talk about it

[@arkaitzetxeandia7542]

They should teach it in their schools just as they study the history of the colony in the United States. It is something deliberate of their governments to hide their Spanish past.

[@-RONNIE]

Another good video thanks

[@elforeigner3260]

Pedro de Valdivia and Inez de Suarez are for Chile what Hernan Cortez and Malintzin are for Mexico One correction: Santiago wasn’t attacked by Mapuches (living in the far South of Chile) but Promaucaes or Picunches, led by Michimalonco, probably a Mitimae (Inca settler)

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , K&G . 🐺

[@oddaido]

I love that Invicta is doing Age of Colonization videos now, too! Oh wait a second...

[@azz518]

Amazing episode team. Gj

[@catsberry4858]

Looking fwd to this one! Dankë

[@tankopearl]

Another great video K&G! Speaking of female conquerors, can you please create a video about the Nubian Queen Amanirenas. She fought and conquered the Romans in a surprise attack in Egypt, with around 30,000 men. If it wasn't for her, the Roman Empire would have reached East Africa.

[@tankopearl]

@@herbthompson8937 She liberated Egypt from the Romans. Btw, Nubians were known for archery. A good match for English longbows.

[@tankopearl]

@@KingDanny9 You are right. But if it wasn't for her, the Romans would have soundly defeated Nubia and probably Ethiopia. Nothing could stop them from going further South. Only distance and other logistical issues would hamper their hold on their new possible lands.

[@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl]

@@tankopearl she didn't liberate Egypt. Egypt reminded under Roman control until the Muslim conquest

[@tankopearl]

@@kimmogensen4888 Thanks. I'll check it out.

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job

[@EagleLeader1]

Thanks, this was amazing! Always love learning history I had never heard of.

[@b.johnathanwarriorinagarde7980]

That first woman needs a movie about her!

[@JustArtsCreations]

Damned this was a great video

[@Ebony_Darkness]

why do you never cite sources?

[@christopherhanton6611]

wow neat video NEVER KNEW THIS

[@whitewave16]

This is my favorite episode! Thank you for featuring the women conquistadores!

[@mammajamma4397]

This was excellent

[@Marshaluranus]

i agree its the womans fault

[@anitapollard1627]

Very cool 😎 i learned something new!!

[@hhnn33xo]

Great video

[@antonynoria7360]

Hopefully the channels goes deeper into this side of history, the "Conquest" is not as simple as most people make it out to be.

[@caniconcananas7687]

Please, @Kings... It is Hernán Cortés. With an 's' at the end. Cortez is a different surname. The strange thing is that you have said the surname in the right way, with the final 's', not as the 'th' sound of Suárez. Another (lesser but confusing) thing to learn of the Spanish language: The 'u' in Guevara has no sound. It's written just by ortographic convention. Because the 'g' in "ge" doesn't sound the same way that in "gue". Guevara's 'g' is like in "gato" (cat), while the "ge" sounds like the "je" in Spanish. For example, "Jerez" or "general" sounds in the same way. It's the very same sound of the 'J' in Alejandro, that poor Lady Gaga says right not everytime in her song.

[@SurplusMarket]

I've noticed this channel mispronounces Spanish words a lot.

[@caniconcananas7687]

@@SurplusMarket Yes, but the real problem in this video is the mistake in the name. Because Hernán Cortés is a very well known person in History. All those women are, like most of men, anonymous people in History. Arauso is mostly known for being the inspiration for a theater play. But Cortés is a name so famous that the mistake is horrible.

[@theromanorder]

Can you please do a video on the new Zealand land wars or the Australian frontier wars

[@De_Kevin]

Who can inform me of the bgm of the video？ I have heard it for many times, but I can’t find it anywhere,merci beaucoup！

[@intboom]

I love how diverse colonialism was! Better times, eh?

[@emperoremyhriv4968]

It's just a piece of history and he narrates it. What's up with those SJWs in the comments? Gotta suck to view history like that...

[@emperoremyhriv4968]

@Garrus Vakarian Alright, this was months ago .stop replying to my comment .

[@emperoremyhriv4968]

@Garrus Vakarian Sure .

[@danielbradley5255]

How annoying it must've been trying to single out a specific Beatrice or Isabel when out of every group of ten women you'd have the majority of them answering you when calling that name lol

[@danielbradley5255]

@WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE 12 to 15 at the most? Why couldn't they have used regular nouns for specific types of flowers that were obviously around?

[@juanmoreno267]

@@danielbradley5255 obvously they had a lot of similar names but that diesnt matter what matters is that they were the first women to actually accomplish something meaningfull and historical

[@calvins4940]

Well done!

[@RickyMagnus87]

Great job on pronunciation!

[@ModernCrusader9]

Very interesting. Love these videos about central and south america😎

[@milutinhajin8487]

The history of women in the realm of men, the eyes start to water and the yawns being to attack.

[@franbalcal]

Loved the video! i was just left curious, what was Santiago capital of in the 1500s? i thought back then the only capitals were Mexico City and Lima.

[@ab9840]

I do know that Santiago became capital of the Royal Audiencia of Chile in 1609. Prior to Santiago, the city of Concepcion which was further South had been where the seat of the Royal Audiencia (1565 to 1575) had been located. Royal Audiencia equals Royal Justice Court. Do a search for map of Audiencia of Chile.

[@franbalcal]

@@ab9840 Interesting, though I'd be curious if that's what this video meant by "capital". Or if they meant the future capital of what would become the nation of Chile.

[@hmon07]

I'm from Puebla de los Ángeles! This is awsome to see

[@Baryrex29]

In history classes, I had only heard Male Conquistadors, but I had never expected about Female conquistadors. I can’t wait to learn more about them.

[@scarletweb2106]

Actually I have history class

[@gradipadia9800]

K&G could you one day do a video about the first female admiral of the world Laksamana Keumalahayati of the Sultanate of Aceh? She fought againsts the Dutch and Portugese, well respected by her peers, and gained respect from England.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Wish I had learned this during Women's History Month in school.

[@scarletweb2106]

Yeah me too

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

Can you do 3 videos on these 3 women Pirates and their names are Grace O’Malley aka The Sea Queen of Connaught, Sayyida Al hura and lady Mary killgrew and these women Pirates lived before Pirates like Anne Bonny but these Pirates didn’t hunt in the Caribbean sea but instead they hunted the oceans off the western coast of Ireland, the river Fall and the western Mediterranean and like Sayyida might interest a lot of people and she even interests me because she was allied with Oruc Reis and he is a very famous and important person and for those of you who are wondering why Oruc Reis is famous and important look no further than his younger brother who was the famous ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

@@LuisAldamiz wow I never knew that she was one of the first Barbary Pirates

[@iainmc9859]

Her name was Grainne U'Malley; and not a pirate, she just took a toll from any ship passing through her clan waters.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

@@iainmc9859 oh okay because I heard that she was a pirate

[@iainmc9859]

@@chasechristophermurraydola9314 English Elizabethan propaganda. She played the political game as well, supposedly even travelling to London to meet Elizabeth 1. There's quite a few novels about her, the best of which is probably 'Grania, (pronounced Grunya) She-King of the Irish Seas' by Morgan Llywelyn.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

@@iainmc9859 okay if she wasn’t a pirate then why is she called the sea queen of Connaught

[@_Nomadstoner_103]

More of this time period please!!

[@rollinsbenson9988]

Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss

[@bigsarge2085]

Awesome!

[@MrPh30]

As in Norse households when the men went off to the sea for fishing or war the girls followed to share the burde, and the others continued the daily managment of the estates and farms.

[@Mr808pocho]

Always avoided this topic because I found it unappealing, but this video was awesome! Thank you for opening my mind.

[@mateuszslawinski1990]

Dziękujemy.

[@JBaseball777]

This is bad ass, I had no idea about any of this

[@Grimtheorist]

Tbh, a lot of this sounds like lore, myth, and exaggerations, especially that last one about Catalina.

[@DutchSkeptic]

Kings and Generals made an admirable effort to highlight an obscure part of women's history, but focussed too much on how this arguably made them 'equally' brave/strong/skilled to the male Conquistadors (calling them "illustrious female figures"), and too little on how they were culpable in the atrocities (massacres, execution of POWs, etc.) against the native Americans. This is one of the ironies of military history: the emancipation of one group often leads to the marginalisation of another. One's extraordinary gender-roles-defying acts should not be an excuse to annul one's crimes.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

"ShUt Up! GiRl PoWeR wOoO!"

[@hebl47]

I see that many of them were equal to their male counterparts in cruelty. On a side note: I really like the sound of "conquistadora".

[@powresitta]

just amazing

[@Praisestoallah7]

You should do one on African conquistadors

[@Toumahitoedits]

The Spanish Inquisition: Wait that’s ILLEGAL- Queen Isabella I de Trastamatra: Are saying…THAT I, A WOMAN…IS ILLEGAL OF FIGHTING FOR THE SPANISH CROWN?! Spanish Inquisition: (…we’re screwed)

[@juann1400]

Trastámara*

[@ignaciocristobal4639]

lol why would the inquisition say that's illegal hahaha. Isabella, what an icon.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

The Spanish Inquisition wouldn't say that you dope.

[@Dotmw]

Gaslight, Girlboss, Genocide 💅☕💋

[@ImperatorHispania]

Can you tell me how a few hundred Spaniards were able to commit genocide on a continent inhabited by millions of people?

[@frenchmontana4348]

@@ImperatorHispania diseases

[@alvaro6587]

I mean most of the troops in the spanish expeditions were natives

[@falkyrie5228]

@@frenchmontana4348 If they died from disease, can it be considered genocide? Honest question. I don't have a strong opinion about it either way.

[@thecreepnextdoor7560]

@@ImperatorHispania I would consider enslavement in brutal conditions as well as massacring any tribe that resisted is a form of genocide

[@Prometosermejor]

I can´t belive you didn´t include Malinche...

[@SrAlmeidaMedina]

No la consideran española, pq la cultura anglosajona se basa en conceptos de raza o genética para determinar la percepción de nacionalidad de una persona de esa época, mientras que la cultura latina usaba el idioma o religión a modo de pasaporte.

[@toivolaoalo9671]

@@SrAlmeidaMedina no tiene nada que ver el video se trata de mujeres españolas peninsulares que viajaron a América porque es un concepto curioso y para que sepas en la monarquía hispánica si se diferenciaba entre españoles e indios lo que no quita que tuvieran derechos

[@toivolaoalo9671]

@@SrAlmeidaMedina había clara diferencia jurídica entre un indio conquistado y alguien venido de la península puesto que el indio estaba siendo civilizado todavía y no se le podía juzgar de igual manera

[@toivolaoalo9671]

@@SrAlmeidaMedina también siempre se veía la posibilidad de que el mestizo fuera más propenso a rebelarse al sentirse parte de los “conquistados" no porque los españoles fueran malos (no lo eran) sino poruqe los criollos temían que podían sentirse como el medio camino de los CO quistadores y los conquistados deñsues podemos ver que los líderes de las secesiones americanas se aprovecharon de esto y les funcionó bien