The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation: Crash Course World History #25

In which John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two biggest pre-Columbian civilizations, mine a mountain made of silver, mishandle their economy, and lose it all by the mid-1700s. Come along for the roller coaster ride with Charles I (he was also Charles V), Philip II, Atahualpa, Moctezuma, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro as Spain rises and falls, and takes two empires and China down with them.
Chapters:
Introduction 00:00
The Aztec Civilization 0:45
An Open Letter to Human Sacrifice 2:00
The Inca Civilizaiton 2:52
Spanish Conquistadors in South America 3:44
Spanish Silver Mines in the Americas 5:21
Charles V and Sons 6:09
Silver in China 7:43
Credits 10:03
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[@MustafaKulle]

I miss crash course world history. I've learned so much from them. Season 3 please.

[@spacewardsebas]

+TheGamingLegends Thats incorrect... As long as the quote "Curiosity is the essence of human existence" is still accurate, all the branches of knowledge will prevail.

[@kkostasanagno2243]

+TheGamingLegends that's ridiculous

[@Freak_Gamer]

+Kkostas Anagno no

[@SparkyonPC]

+TheGamingLegends We create history everyday, wtf you talking about mate?

[@SparkyonPC]

***** Peaceful history everyday XD.

[@craigharkins4669]

There is only two things certain in life. Death and taxes.

[@michaouwens3574]

Taxes are not certain. Not every person has to pay taxes!

[@uuuuuuuuuuuuuuaaaaa9]

Death is not certain. Not every person has to die!

[@michaouwens3574]

Gustavo Birolini, declare your statement? I think that taxes really aren't certain, because of the fact that some people don't work and that some people evade taxes :)

[@blownspeakersss]

You would still pay taxes every time you purchase something (sales tax)

[@michaouwens3574]

blownspeakersss, that depends... Ever heard of black markets?

[@davidmb1595]

This video is full of economy, which I don't understand at all. Now i am going to Economic's Crash Course. Well played at keeping me watching your videos.

[@hoseadavit3422]

To put it simply the discovery of large quantity of silver in the America caused price in all goods including foods, houses, and etc increase because silver value is decrease by an unbalance supply and demand which in this case supply is too high. The more supply you have the cheaper the goods while the more demand for it the more higher the price is.

[@joshuapeterson9691]

1000 coins in population. 1 coin buys a car. The government receives 20 coins a year (they could buy 20 cars!). Influx of currency (more coins) from the silver mines. 5000 coins in population, 5 coins buy a car. The government should increase taxes to receive 100 coins a year. If not, they are stuck with 20 coins and the ability to pay for only 4 cars.

[@elijahpolintan8596]

Economy means I'm rich ur stupid get rich

[@daleludtke7803]

The terrifying example of people creating wealth without actually creating products for that wealth. Wealth consolidation within a few small population, with no way to spend it. Causing detablization of governments (yet officials probabyl were made pretty wealthy by those supporting them). Sounds eerily famliar.

[@stupidtreehugger]

And then, China, India and especially Sub-Saharan Africa bred until the planet was ruined. Amen

[@zold5]

It's interesting how your tone changes when talking about human sacrifice vs slavery.

[@stupidtreehugger]

Yes, he skirts taboos pretty well. Did you know he wears no knickers?

[@vianzlonomav6908]

John Green endorses human sacrifice.

[@shdeyerle]

An utterly baffling take by Green

[@stupidtreehugger]

What a fool, everybody knows the Incas only cut out as many virgins' hearts as it took to produce rain

[@tiarezavaleta8850]

In México we would have human sacrifices instead of masses on weekends. What a shame.

[@Immaculate416]

Please do another episode related to the Spanish Empire. I feel that this era is probably one of the most over looked in the study of history. This is ironic because its also one of the most fascinating.

[@scottferguson48]

Love to Spain. Your old friend Scotland

[@Rodrigusificacionn]

Your sentence has touched my heart. We have to do something with the english.

[@scottferguson48]

@@Rodrigusificacionn thank you for your kindness .we all love you Spain. Remember on us your old friend Scotland. And Scotland did not vote for brexit. We hope to be back with you one day when Scotland one day gets its freedom and back to the EU. Take care our love Scotland

[@Rodrigusificacionn]

@@scottferguson48 I know. The english just told to the scottish people that if they voted for separating from the UK Scotland would be out of the European Union and right after they voted for Brexit and that is not fair. I don't mean anything about the European Union wich has things I like and things I don't. I mean the situation inside the UK. And I know Scotland is country. The english and some other countries and peoples has also today and historically tried to create trouble to Spain and anyone.

[@scottferguson48]

@@Rodrigusificacionn this will never go away I don't know when but Scotland will get its independence one day it will. Scotland has its own laws and it has a Scottish parliament. It was a Scottish king which ruled over Scotland + England it was his idea to come up with the union jack flag. King James of Scotland in 1567 then came the king of Scotland + England in 1603

[@scottferguson48]

@@Rodrigusificacionn Scotland love Spain and we are old friend s . Love you Spain. From Scotland

[@sandradevries3907]

6:49 'You guys know nothing about economics!' This is absolutely true, my dad (who is Dutch) said that to my aunt (who is from Spain) today.

[@steve-ks9df]

Thats interesting- why?

[@sorsocksfake]

Probably because the Dutch care about economics and have zero respect for any authority that might tell them about it ;). Which somehow seems to work pretty well. The Spanish seem to have a rather different mentality.

[@PanzerIVAE]

Also another fun fact on the Philippines thing The reason why people in the Philippines are called "Filipinos" despite that it should obviously be "Philippinos" or something is because of the US. The name given by the Spanish was Las Islas Filipinas (Since for the Spanish it was FELIPE not Phillip) or something of the sort and when the US "freed" us from Spanish Imperialism *Cough* Usurped *Cough* USA changed the name to a more English term or something of the sort and boom, You have a country called the Philippines while the people are called Filipinos which is hilarious

[@kdm6213]

Well not that hilarious... but whatever tickles your pickle I guess.

[@earl3952]

yeah it should have been Pilipinos..

[@javigd96]

And here in Spain yeah, we run out of colonies, but we still got a rounded chocolate biscuit called "Filipinos".

[@PanzerIVAE]

Javier Gonzalez Damas Oh that is pretty cool I guess

[@MsHShuaib]

How about changing the name to something that reflects pre-colonial times instead? :/

[@keineAhnungSi]

Just a correction, Fernando was the youngest Emperor brother, not his son. Felipe II (or Philip, werever you prefer) was his son.

[@LuisGarcia-er4gm]

Soy latinoamericano, y como la mayoría de nosotros, no tengo muy claro mi proceder étnico y genealógico hasta esos siglos. Pero me siento de alguna forma orgulloso con los logros de las civilizaciones prehispánicas. Creo también que la historia y nosotros mismo nos debemos algo de este lado del continente. También soy Venezolano, y estoy deprimido por nuestra situación actual y sólo me queda ver videos de historia para tener esperanza de que en otras épocas estuvimos peor.

[@briancastillo9642]

Crash course makes history so simple and amazingly easy to understand, It's awesome!

[@MrKmas508]

I didn't realise how sensitive spaniards were about their Empire. I'm British and I don't really mind it when people criticise the British Empire because everyone one of us today reaps the rewards meaning that we all (because the Brits that did it are dead) share a fair bit of the blame. I honestly hate it when people like to blindly refute anything which is said against their country purely out of national pride.

[@OverSizedMidgetES]

national pride is a good thing other wise people get soft

[@jasminpuente6103]

OverSizedMidget But too much is a problem. You have to learn to look at your country from a critical standpoint. You can't just support everything it does blindly. Nationalism was part of the causes of WWI and WWII.

[@crimson1453]

Yeah but this video is just clearly biased and even wrong,

[@dennis771]

CrimsonEclipse so your mind the spanish did nothing wrong...they were 100% right. Everyone accept criticism but I have never seen a Spaniard accept a criticism they are always right

[@vinzlinardobnimaga7204]

Seems like the Philippines is always invisble when it comes to history... 🙃

[@gandalfthegrey2592]

Ferdinand I wasn't Charles V's son, he was his younger brother.

[@BrianMontesQ]

I wish more people looked at history objectively. Looking at the comments, I see people making good points but theres too much pride. Don't get feelings hurt and judge history accordingly.

[@sorsocksfake]

Pride and hatred both. I would say the West is not different to any other nation in history... same atrocities, just on a vastly larger scale as Europe was the first to have that kinda power. The main difference is that under Western leadership, those evils were finally abolished one by one. We finally learned we're not so different, to respect other peoples, to see barbarians might be a threat, but share the same humanity and deserve a hand instead of a fist. We stopped the eternal cycle of hate. Some of those commenting seem really intent on restarting that cycle.

[@shaquebrazil7503]

Agreed. I often see a lot of hate around the British Empire making false facts. All empires in human history did good or bad it's important we see the positives AND negatives.

[@archangellagi5768]

@@shaquebrazil7503 People believe with their prejudice. So you can say anything but that won’t change their beliefs

[@goodaimshield1115]

Well, the video starts making an stupid, and not objective, point of Spain leaving a "generally negative" impact. I would like to know how they arrived to that conclusion. More so when the actual precedent of human rights come from Spain. There is not pride, there is tiredness of Anglosaxon anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda that has been going around for 400 years, which has actually left a very negative impact on the life of millions of hispanic people and still does today. This video does not look at history objectively, but push fowards a very old hate narrative based on hate discourse and propaganda against Spain. You can't expect people on internet to "judge history accordingly" when the video does exactly the very opposite. Yet, people in the comment section does a much better job than the supposed "historian" in the video.

[@jmadmaxx7295]

goodaim shield except for the fact everything he said about Spanish colonization was true, especially how they ruined their economy, had inbred rulers, and were incredibly violent and backwards. It’s not propaganda, it’s the truth. That does not mean Spanish people should be discirmated against today, it just means they should admit to their crimes.

[@elisefinlinson4392]

Dude I'm just trying to study for my AP exam tomorrow. Please stop making me question my whole human existence.

[@OfficialBabygirlEnterprises]

Omg same

[@larisabadawi9820]

how'd it go

[@petertkasner7062]

The most Great Empire!

[@Pacha351]

Agree!

[@victoralcantar960]

I think you mean "The Greatest Empire"!

[@Pacha351]

***** Lol! Swedish Empire maybe :DDDDDD

[@Pacha351]

Víctor Alcántar You´re right :)

[@WildBillCox13]

One of my favorite relaxations is binge-watching Crash Course. Thanks, team!

[@codyhannigan6322]

I know that there is a million things that you guys could focus on in world history and 10 minutes is such a small amount of time, but the race between Portuguese and Spanish to South America/India would be a great latter addition. Or even making a 30 min episode that can be purchased by teachers to show that goes in greater detail on the era discussed. Luv you guys and everything that you guys do. keep up the good work!

[@brolin96]

At leats, you Mr. Green, know that "America" is the name of our continent, not just your country. I'm going to read TFIOS now.

[@MagalhaesDLua]

Thank you

[@Ara-gp4yj]

No North and South America is the NAME of the continent. America without the cardinal directions just refers to the United States OF America. Just a shortened version.

[@brolin96]

Travenzen America was the name of the whole new world, not just USA. Whatever, if North and South AMERICA are two different continents, what about Central AMERICA? North, Central and South are subcontinents of the whole American continent.

[@EnrikeMM]

no u wanna say the holy yankee empire or yankeeland america is all the continent

[@Ara-gp4yj]

In Spanish. América refers to to North and South America in English. However America in English means the United States of America. In Spanish América means North and South America and In English it means the country/ This is fact that you can't deny

[@EvoPulpPatriot]

This episode touches what I always thought about. How resources from the new world changed the entire world. Especially reminding us how much treasure the Armada cost and how the future narrative changed that day.

[@paununs8719]

I have to say, I've never seen so many spaniards writing in english, some of them beautifully. This was almost unthinkable 15 years ago. Fuck yeah!

[@jonathanallison785]

Im one of those viewers with a test tomorrow

[@bjordgargast4637]

whats important is the way you make history interesting.

[@FelipeGonzalez-yl9op]

There were not two viceroyalities, they were four: New Spain, New Granada, Peru and Rio de la Plata (river of silver)

[@freddyromariovasquezcairo2250]

eso fue después, al principio solo fueron 2.

[@robertojaimegepilano5966]

Correct me if I am wrong but I think the two viceroyalties he was talking about which were New Spain and Peru were the ones established in the 16th century. New Granada and Rio de la Plata were established in the 18th century.

[@Gregory_McIntosh]

@@robertojaimegepilano5966 Yes, and those two Vice-Royalties REPLACED existent empires. That was kinda one of the point Mr. Green was making.

[@stupidtreehugger]

Other than the Vikings, the Arabs, the Africans themselves, and Victor Chaves's horribly dangling balls, the Spanish were the most oppressive slavers

[@ghostreconphils]

The Spaniards were no saints.But compare former spanish colonies to former English colonies. In most of Latin America except for maybe Argentina,Uruguay and Chile, Native Americans are a large chunk of the population and they are very integrated.Their presence is certainly felt. In Nicaragua for example ethnic spaniards are rarely seen and almost completely Native. The monarchs of spain encouraged integration and mixing with natives to integrate them as subjects of Castile. Compare that to Australia,Canada and USA. What remained of the natives who were mostly killed off were isolated from society and put into "reserves" without say in their own land. Not to mention the white only policy of immigration to Australia and Canada in the early 50's.

[@ghostreconphils]

I am talking about Nicaragua and Peru lots of unmixed Natives. Still how many "mestizo" English - Natives are there in America or Canada as a percent of the population?

[@Tylericous]

The Spanish were just as bad as the English. You can't really defend either of them, maybe besides the fact that England brought some infrastructure changes to some areas a bit more then the Spanish. The French were honestly better then both

[@alicecroquette9876]

+The One well this show is about spanish... talk about it later...

[@adamfrisk956]

Russians were even better than French.

[@adamfrisk956]

But the best of all were Germans. They never got up and decided to murder and enslave large numbers of peo... ooooooooooohhhhhh.

[@BBBuilds12]

I love rewatching episodes and seeing what things that I didn't pickup before and how my perception has changed.

[@theb4dcomputer299]

"What am I, your grandpa? Let's get festive! Woooo."

[@Ghazzawi9]

It's great having a piece of information given to you in such a creative way. Thank you guys for filling up my gaps in knowledge. Great job!

[@j.frankglinkowski5676]

Hey John, I love your mini lectures on world history. I am making notes on a lot of your videos, which is quite good for memory consolidation but it's quite time consuming. Is there anywhere a transcript available to download or would you be able to send me some of them? I am particularly interested in the Spanish Empire, Mexican history and the Quintana Roo area of Mexico. If you have any tips on books or resources otherwise I would love to hear them. Keep up the good work. I'll be sure to check out more lectures. Cheers, Frank :)

[@JLPicard1648]

Britain is Japan: •Small, island nation •Undeveloped for most of history but now very economically powerful •Saved from devastating invasion by a storm credited to divine intervention

[@johnvonshepard9373]

+Ben Hamilton To shay to shay

[@hokumdog]

"Undeveloped for most of history but now very economically powerful" WRONG

[@JLPicard1648]

Linyboo Granted, that could apply to all nations, but Britain didn't become a major superpower until the Franco-Prussian war and Japan wasn't a world power until just before the First Sino-Japanese War. Additionally, both are huge players in global economics.

[@hokumdog]

Ben Hamilton Britain was a great power since before the Napoleonic wars, and if you count England they were a great power since the medieval times

[@hokumdog]

***** Local power? They became the suzerain of Scotland, the kings of wales, conquered most of Ireland, and ruled more than half of France. They also had a family member as the holy roman emperor at one point

[@KeepCalmwithBooksandCoffee]

I'm a college history major. I know a lot of this, but I love it anyway and this is great to study. Thanks John!

[@eppinghovener]

Its interresting to see that China was a really important part of the world (or at least known-world) economics throughout thousands of years. I always saw them as an uprising kind of third world nation, without that much influence in the history (thought they kind of locket themselves up to europe) ... that kind of changes a big part of how i see the world. Thanks John (and your team) !

[@shushuarabi]

Anyone else study these videos? Play, pause, jot down notes, rewind, notes, play, pause, notes. THANK YOU CRASH COURSE YOU MAKE HISTORY ENJOYABLE AND EASIER TO UNDERSTAND.

[@KarenMaaseide]

I love this series. So close to my exam now, and I am just sick of reading day in and day out. This is a nice change, and I learn a lot more from watching this than just reading! :D I wish I had discovered it earlier

[@BadIdeaBearCub]

The Aztecs, the Mayans, the Olmecs, the Toltecs, the Teotihuacans, the Zapotecs were all great civilizations, Even the smaller indigenous cultures like the Tarahumaras or the Yaquis all have great spirituality and philosophies of life. It should be an honor to inherit from any of these great cultures.

[@Thurgor_Supreme]

Cool fact about the Incan Empire. The native people (Uros) that lived in what is now Peru/Bolivia built a series of artificial islands out of reeds and sailed out to the middle of Lake Titicaca to evade the Incan Empire as they took over their lands. They live primarily off of fish and constantly restructure their islands/boats by discarding old dead reeds and fixing them up with new fresh reeds. They live on these reed-islands to this day and you can visit them in person and buy their tourist stuff.

[@NCXitlali]

I really wish you could do a crash course about the Olmec.

[@ArchieThomas3seesea]

+NeCacaluXuxultic Were he Olmacs blk?

[@NCXitlali]

***** nope

[@cameronnedland410]

+Archie Thomas No, Native American (or in this case, Native Mexican).

[@agentcobalt8602]

+Cameron Nedland No, Native American (America is the whole continent! That's why they call it Latin America).

[@123meguy]

This has to be my fifth time re-watching all of crash course history and I still laugh at all the stan jokes

[@empathematics8928]

“Philipp-notacoincidence-ines” 😂

[@adalbertocarmona6056]

I like how he doesnt even show in the map many other parts of the spanish empire like Cuba.

[@ItoeKobayashi]

OMG XD That intro joke was the most sarcastically festive thing I've ever seen and I LOVE it!

[@Daigotsumax]

I think a lot of comments miss on the fact crash course history video always focus on a single topic, from a particular angle. This about the Spanish colonial Empire, and in particular its economics. So of course elements are going to get glossed over - it's only in ten minutes after all! If you watch more videos (including the whole series on the US) you'll see plenty of negative portrayals of the English, and he even discusses the 'black legend'. Nobody comes out unscathed from history, particularly large Empires.

[@goodaimshield1115]

"Generally negative". Yah, that's super objective. Just more anti-Spanish protestant propaganda. Plus, Spain was not a "colonial Empire". We know anglosaxon historiography likes to call it that way, but it was not. Misusing terminology just manipulates history, and that's what this video is doing.

[@MrLinguist88]

It is interesting to see, how with every episode the moral questions become more and more important, considering human history!

[@karimgeorges281]

Guys you are just awesome this my third day and i watched over than 25 of your videos

[@junipertrees6119]

Yay! Thanks Crash Course guys! This was good and helped me study.

[@maia9985]

This teaches me more knowledge than my social studies teacher ever could. Thankfully, he realized this and now we basically spend class time taking notes on Crash Course History. Best class ever. 😂

[@gunterke]

Ferdinand wasn't Charles the Vth's son, he was his brother. But Phillip II was his son (and the whole troubles with the Dutch revolt and the Spanish Armada took place during his reign). I don't understand why in the description is mentioned that Spain loses "it all" by the mid 1700's. Their economy never was very strong as explained in the video, but their American colonies didn't became independant until the early 1800s.So what did they lose by the mid 1700's???

[@castronator29]

This video is fucked up in many ways... And I use to like CrashCourse...

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

Hmm. Enlightening. Both the video and the comments. But on the comments; I completely agree that being demonized for something that happened that you yourself had no involvement in is wrong. While a nation that makes an effort to make amends for its past is laudable, a nation's people should not be punished for the actions of their ancestors. To negate this lingering and unjust stigma for which the modern Spaniard had nothing to do, a reasonable voices must be presented in situations such as here. Reasonable voices that offer a fuller story unbiased as much as possible by either foreign stigma or national zeal, that shows the true character of the modern Spaniard. To dismiss a historical video about your country's past, especially one that others might consider more or less unbiased, as being "merely propaganda" and making ones main argument that "well other empires were just as bad/worse" lends to the image of a culture in denial. The Spanish Empire is a part of Spanish history, and actions of the Spanish Empire had ramifications that DID affect the rest of the world to the modern day. But the history of the empire needs to be explored in depth and not dismissed, either as "good" or "bad." And as Spaniards are the ones with the greatest familiarity of their own country, would not Spaniards be the ones best suited to dismantle the Black Legend armed with the voice of reason? If a person tries to dismiss your history, enlighten them, and try not to scorn them for their ignorance for many simply just do not know.

[@AbdulMuidBattle]

If not applicable then give back all and stop continued benefits.

[@goodaimshield1115]

The problem here is that the Black legend has been dismantled thousands of times. But here's the thing, only Historians well versed in Spanish History know about it. Why? Because books in which suddenly Spain is not the bloody empire everyone thinks it was do not sell well. Spanish History and Black Legend are well known in academy, but outside the higher spheres of historiography, the popular belief is that of the Black Legend. Also, mind that many European historians from many countries are not interested in debunking the Black Legend because of simple nationalistic feelings. This omission or demonization of Spanish history among historians themselves started in the 18th century, and it still occurs much more often than you can imagine. I know the comment was more than a year old, but I wanted to answer it. Sorry if it bothered you.

[@shaquebrazil7503]

Sorry but Spanish History is just the Spanish Empire. But I agree with you.

[@arunkhanna2496]

Thank you for this! So illuminating.

[@chancem4291]

Thank you for helping me cram for the AP world Exam John! You the real MVP

[@levi12howell]

The question you posed at the end is a fascinating one ; in general I agree with sacrificing a few for the lives of many but it's hard to accept it as a valid excuse here. On one hand you're right, that path lead us here, but on the other hand we can't say that we couldn't have arrived at this place had we not forced their labor and destroyed their civilizations. Peaceful exchange of goods and ideas could have brought us here as well; we would've simply taken a different path to the same solution

[@UmairKhan-ry8jg]

Fiscal policy exists: Spanish: *HMMM*

[@takod323]

lol

[@bharathharikumar9124]

When you are doing crash course world history and economics together 😁

[@alexg3348]

Genius! Well done. Keep it up!

[@darkmatter9487]

Mr.Benner best teacher ever

[@generationnext8851]

Why am I watching this at 4 am while smoking a blunt...

[@sergioalonso3796]

We also had territories in Asia(Philippines) and Africa(Ecuatorial Guinea and Western Sáhara).And when Felipe II conquer Portugal,we had Brasil,mozambique and other parts of Asia for almost 60 years.PD:And we also had the south of Italy for almost 250 years and the centre of Europe(some part of belgium and Germany)for over 100 years

[@richardhe5973]

This was very educational thx for doing it

[@Hailey-qu6ei]

" Guh! History, always disappointing me." - John Green. I will always remember that quote

[@marielediehl4246]

To all the Spanish people here freaking out: It’s very good to see ones countries past in a critical way. I am German and I profited a lot from our culture of remembering and criticising the German history. You learn not to define yourself with the past of your country and not to get all your pride from being German, but from being you and from what your country is doing today and that it has learned of your mistakes. In my opinion a lot more countries should make critical history lessons. We are all capable of doing terrible things like the Holocaust. But we can prevent those things from happening by knowing what we are capable of, understanding the psychological mechanisms behind them and fighting against them.

[@El-Silver]

Bless you

[@El-Silver]

Also you sing like an angel

[@marielediehl4246]

Golden Silver 81 thanks a lot☺️

[@elsantrey5078]

Yup I know that part of my History But I'm still proud to be Native/Spanish and part of New Spain I mean Mexico🇲🇽

[@RomanOf-lo7zn]

Love from España!

[@sleepyinsomniac-u-]

Meztizo pride? 🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@BicornioSPA]

Por su puesto, eres hispano, este vídeo es pura propaganda, los anglofonos y anglófilos inventando su historia para esconder sus crímenes.

[@pablogargallo645]

Esa parte de la historia está mal contada y muy tergiversada, México como Nueva España y la España Europea deben estar unidos pues es la mejor forma de hacer frente a un imperio del capital y sin valores

[@Nerdspheric]

Stefan Dubois I’m mexican too, and i know my history. Bartolomé de las Casas denounced to the Spanish king Carlos I the abuses committed by some conquerors in the americas, but he exaggerated for the spanish crown to listen, and the spanish crown did listened!, the most powerful emperor and king of those times, concerned for the breaking of the laws of indias, stopped the conquest for 6 years, 6 long years in which it was punishable with dead to advance 1 meter into unknown territory. During that time, there was a debate, known as Junta de Valladolid, in which it was discussed the morality of the conquest of the new world. The hispanic crown was the ONLY GOVERNMENT in history to adress moral issues before their own interests, King Carlos himself said that the debate gave as a result the immorality of the conquest he would withdraw his troops and renounce those territories, now i’m going to ask you, who judged them? NO ONE, there was no human rights commission back then, no one stopped them to do what the english DID, exterminate the natives and replace them with castilians. None of you anglos have the right to judge the Spains, we, the people of hispanic america are the living testimony of that, we are the encounter and mixing of 2 worlds. After that debate of 6 years, it was decided that Spain had the right to advance over those territories by Roman right and for evangelical duty, the Spaniards as true Catholics, considered the indigenous people as humans who needed to hear the word of god, unilke you anglos who considered the natives as subhumans, how dare you? But Carlos didn’t stay without doing anything, he reinforced the laws of indies and founded entire tribunals in the viceroyalties, here in Mexico, it was the Royal Audience of the Kingdom of Mexico, tribunals where indians and frays could denounce abuses committed by the conquerors. Many conquerors such as Nuño de Guzman and López de Cardenas, returned to the peninsula chained for life because of their abuses, but you don’t talk about that, right? Then why did you anglos just know about the initial denounce made by Bartolomé de las Casas and not it’s outcome? Well, because the book fell in hands of Spain’s greatest enemy of that time, Willem van Orange, the rebel leader of the spanish netherlands, he order to translate (and very badly and maliciously) the book to Dutch and english, he added things that Bartolomé never wrote and even illustrated the book with horrible images that didn’t described what the book originally said, the illustrator was Theodor of Bry, a man that never stood foot in America. So that’s how the Netherlands and England made their propaganda campaign against the Spains, while they committed worst crimes in their entire history.

[@fatimavillaltaceli8116]

This channel is worth a Peru.

[@justthefamily71]

Your channel is Awesome!!!

[@pepitoperez1511]

And when a video about Golden Age, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Velázquez and El Greco on the work and cultural patron of Philip II ?

[@juanpablomina1346]

I think there's an important difference between human sacrifice by the Aztecs and by Bruce Willis in Armageddon. One of them is voluntary, the other one isn't. That's why Bruce Willis' sacrifice is somewhat celebrated.

[@Conquistador505]

+Juan Pablo Mina Good point. Bruce Willis sacrificed himself willingly. The Aztecs hunted, forced, or kidnapped other tribes to sacrifice for their own survival. And the Incas had a long history of forced work systems...but the Spanish were the bad guys. BLACK LEGEND B.S!

[@887363]

the videos in the series have shown me the most interesting and multilingual comment sections I have seen on youtube (no he visto mucho)

[@skyemyers9125]

I miss crash course world history, I've learned so much from it. Can he make more please?

[@yakovperelman4665]

Ferdinand was Charles' brother, not son

[@yakovperelman4665]

And it was not Ferdinand the Catholic. That one was his grandparent, come'n...

[@Nonius9]

he use to make a lot of mistakes. Is more focused into make a funny video

[@yakovperelman4665]

Well, they are funny, I must admit that :)

[@sebradfield]

A very different one. This was four hundred years earlier.

[@Scottysaweet]

JUST SO YOU KNOW I WATCH ALL THE COMMERCIALS FOR THIS CHANNEL

[@sergiomartinez5169]

+Gaming with Adam lol..!

[@sergiomartinez5169]

+Scott Merryman ...Ja..ja..ja!

[@samwoletz]

+Gaming with Adam He means he watches the commercials before the crash courses so that the channel is monetarily supported.

[@Scottysaweet]

+Sam Woletz im so happy I didnt have to explain

[@shamanshahid9091]

I like learning about history.. And this video and your other videos did help with learning something about but here's the the things i was only able to understand 70% of the stuff you'v said and the other was not very understandable as my English is fine but not very fluent... No complains but wish i could understand it completely and every word you shared. Great work! Keep going..

[@treblegames84]

this is amazing

[@frankcastle10]

How envious we are, and some still have us. VIVA LA HISPANIDAD! Esta unión tan fuerte no la tuvisteis ni la tendra nadie nunca, una rica cultura fusionada junto a un gran idioma, lo demás es história. El día que la hispanidad se una mas fuerte que nunca seremos la mayor potencia, podamos o no, siempre orgullosos. 🇪🇦🇦🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇨🇺🇩🇴🇪🇨🇬🇹🇭🇳🇲🇽🇳🇮🇵🇦🇵🇪🇵🇷🇵🇾🇸🇻🇺🇾🇻🇪

[@corafoxy3920]

To John Green: I find very hilarious every time I watch your videos. And I love the teachings you give us. I'm still in High School and I think I got my parents intrested in watching Crash Course.

[@garthenar]

Now I'm buying the books you've been quoting from and reading them. If I ever teach a college history class I'm making assigning these videos at the beginning just so I know the whole class is up to speed.

[@markelldevine6540]

very enlightening.

[@rodrigovelasquez49]

The good empire. Very of its subjects still having a good feeling about that time. Something English can't never say

[@akbzas]

"The careful distortion of the history of a nation, perpetrated by its enemies, in order to better fight it. And a distortion as monstrous as possible, with the goal of achieving a specific aim: the moral disqualification of the nation, whose supremacy must be fought in every way possible." Alfredo Alvar, 1997.

[@andremolinari2750]

I loved the sticker on your computer!

[@aryahharrison4535]

So smart and charming it doesn't even feel like I'm "learning" but i am!

[@sandradevries3907]

In which John explains basically half of all history education that is given in the Netherlands in 16 seconds. Literally, I've had that in 5th grade and then 8th grade my teacher was like 'this book only has one chapter about the 80-year-war, that's not enough, let's spent half a year on it and do 4 tests about it'. It possibly hasto do with the fact that it was like the only time that Holland actually won a war. Also, the concept of Holland started then, same as modern day freedom of religion.

[@MarvinLapsus]

While in Spain, teachers use to tiptoe around everything after Columbus and before the French Revolution, which means basically ignoring the pros and cons of the time Spain was conceived as a nation and exerted global power... Then, it's not strange that my dear fellow countrymen get all upset when Imperial matters are discussed. Sigh... education is needed.

[@Catholic-Redpilled-Spaniard]

+Elsterfeder so true

[@goodaimshield1115]

The thing is that "Holland" didn't won that war. First, because "Holland" did not exist, adn second, because it was a civil war. There were most Dutch in the army loyal to the Spanish king than in Orange's army. It was all orchestrated by the high class people of Flandes who were quite poorer than the southern european nobility and were mostly in banckrupt because they tried to immitate the Spanisha and Italian way of live, fogetting they couldn't afford such a life style. They went bankrupt, among those was Orange's family. Flandes was also getting all the richess produced in Spain, the higests places in politics were given to Dutch, they paid less taxes, adn meanwhile people from Castile where bleeding out paying high taxes which benefits they wouldn't see. That's when peasants from the kindom of Castile revolted against the king, because it was a completely dreadfull and unfair situation. SO the king decided that Flandes had had enough of its many privilages. But oh boy, the resented Dutch nobility saw the opportunity to use german princes, who ahd converted to protestantism, to start a revolt against the Spanish king. Once gone the king, they would held the power to do as they pleased. Basically, they were alright being Spanish as far as it was Castilians who paid for everything, but once they were asked to contribute, even if just a bit, to their own richness, everything went downhill. There's a reason most Dutch were actually on the Spanish king's side. The war of the 80 years war was a terrible civil war that condemned the native catholic population, once the most numerous one but that had been gradually converting to protestantism in fear of the terrible and atrocious massacres of the oh-holy-protestants, to apartheid till just a few decades ago, something Dutch are well-known to be good at.

[@CUPCAKEMONSTER99]

Ferdinand was his brother not his son, but Philip was his son.

[@6U4RD1AN]

He is a wacky historian, don't really bother...

[@VonBlade]

All hail the weather for defeating the Armada, and requiring none of those unnecessary Royal Navy ships and cannons or anything. Excellent.

[@connorking8503]

Good hunting, Mr. Greene.

[@wilson2914]

"An open letter to human sacrifice" -John Green

[@dantesdiscoinfernolol]

China: [Tries to get rich] Spain: [Tries to get rich] Silver: "IT'S NO USE! TAAAKE THIS!!!"

[@mishussy]

I swear silver the hedgehog is all I thought about

[@christinastickley8525]

i have been using this for my ap world exam and THANK U YOU HAVE CLEARED UP SO MANY THINGS THAT I DIDNT UNDERSTAND I WATCHED THIS FOR 4 HOURS AND THIS IS SO HELPFUL!!!!

[@starlight5973]

SAAAAAME Wanna slowly die together?

[@sassqueenakaelsagirl8404]

Wow, THIS WAS Amazing i love THE INCA

[@_Norb]

meh aztech da best

[@axlvelazquez7876]

PLUS ULTRA

[@ElGranTercioman]

ARRIBA LA HISPANIDAD!

[@adminsaurio_2758]

@@ElGranTercioman grande tercioman

[@ElGranTercioman]

@Wakawayashi jaja pues si supieras que tengo una videorespuesta a este vídeo en mi canal flipas

[@abcbyuman]

I love how he makes his girlfriend pop up on all the words like "crazy" "used" etc XD the best

[@jasminepegues5327]

I came here from Khan Academy, and I love this channel!

[@lafregaste]

Somehow I would have loved to have you as my teacher back when I was at school

[@montano59ify]

¡VIVA EL IMPERIO MÁS IMPORTANTE DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS!,¡VIVA HISPANOAMÉRICA!,¡VIVA ESPAÑA!, ¡MEJOR UNIDOS!.

[@2x2leax]

El más importante fue el romano, no digas estupideses.

[@El-Silver]

El imperio romano , mongol , inglés , francés y otros dirían lo contrario

[@kindathereithink7742]

If you can, please do a video on the Mapuches and the Spanish in Chile!

[@diakrishnan6395]

thanks for my thesis statment John Green

[@corwingentry1382]

John Green Yer awesome Hands down Yer apart of my everyday

[@danielbaldruk1716]

n 1600 Spain had built more universities in America than England in Europe. Well In 1600 England don’t even know America exists.

[@jmadmaxx7295]

Daniel Baldruk England very well knew in 1600 the new world existed. Also, those universities must have clearly helped considering most British colonies, Australia, Canada, and the US for example, are far better off then soanish colonies, like Latin America.

[@danielbaldruk1716]

@@jmadmaxx7295 no, england had no maps. England in 1600 cant travell to America. If they could, why they didnt do it?

[@selaud3229]

@@danielbaldruk1716 bc spain claimed the lands. England didnt settle in the americas until spain gave them permission to do so

[@alex-gg9qn]

6:31 Ferdinand was Charles V brother, and Philip II was the son of Charles

[@spanxbambii1348]

I can't believe that I get to watch Crash Course as an assignment for my college Western Civ. class. This is so much better than writing reports XD