The Aztecs: Part 2 The Spanish Arrive

Dr. Roy Casagranda wraps up his two-part series on the Aztecs. In this he talk he discusses the conquest of the Mexica (aka the Aztecs) by Hernan Cortez (Spain). This talk is dedicated to Dr. Ken Brown and Dr. Quetzil Castaneda.

[@Ibrahim-qd5ck]

This channel is such a gem 💎

[@emadel-mubasher2044]

Agreed!

[@absar4578]

Obviously Mashallah

[@eliah_B]

So it is...

[@user-em6zy6nr8u]

Yeah but fuck man dr roy needs to upload more

[@v1nc3nt_bl4ck4]

Thank god, thought I was going to have to wait a year to hear part 2. If only all lecturers and teachers were like this - people would actually enjoy education and learn something. Thanks, great lecture as always!

[@MrSerpia]

hi Austin school, are there any books that you would recommend reading that actually tell you the history in truth regarding aztecs and not the hollywood version. and plz keep the videos coming, very informative and eye opening not the usual mumbo jumbo, thanks

[@properburger7378]

A book Thats rather interesting and pertinente is Aztec by Gary Jennings... First look for reviews in YT about it, I think you'll love it. I as a Mexican happily living in CDMX can't recommend it Enough. Great lectures by this great professor; I've never thouth about the period way before the Mexica Build up my City (tenochtitlan, now CDMX), always interesting to hear a differenta and a rather constructive perspective.

[@maisonstevens]

This guy deserves more airtime and credit a brilliant historian

[@ingssem]

Dr. Casagranda I'm in love with your lectures. My brain is cooked bc I don't have an attention span anymore and I usually can't even watch a 10 minute video without getting bored but I can watch 4 straight hours of your lectures. Incredibly interesting and entertaining even though you barely use any images. I have learned so much about the world. My favorite thing is that you give so much context before starting every lecture, which is incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge for free ❤

[@sardarny]

I accidentally come across Professor Roy lectures and now my whole family is addicted. we listen him regularly on weekends, incredible knowledge and honesty with the facts

[@olalekanadigun8759]

This Prof is an embodiment of knowledge. His "keep it simple" style of presentation would have made the study of politics and history worth the while if many of us had him as a teacher during our undergraduate days

[@crispy0104]

A lot of things of what he says aré incorrect

[@SilverSea27]

@@crispy0104 Yeah he's just making shit up. I can see it because i know aztecs a bit but i'm not familiar with the other topics he talks about like the crusades or islam, now I'll have to assume he's just making shit up in those talks too. Better to stick to guys who actually cite their sources.

[@sarahgold3363]

Wow! Your lectures are brilliant! Your delivery makes me feel like you genuinely want me to be able to connect the dots between the past and the present. They are packed with the most detailed; most extraordinary facts. Thank you for educating me, my family and my friends.

[@ShaneMcBryde]

I love Roy. I been listening to this man's lectures since I first found them on KZbin. He's an absolute rockstar for history nerds like me😊

[@Mr1123581325]

The Prof is amazing. So eloquent. And his memory…. He can talk for hours without missing a beat.

[@21972012145525]

GIVE THIS MAN A RAISE! And tenure, if he so desires.

[@Rocco-fp5id]

He is one of the best teacher in the world , period !!! 🙏🙏 Wow 🤟 What a wonderful way to teach 🙏

[@crispy0104]

His story is full of holes

[@maamounelsharkawy3924]

There are not enough videos in this channel! I can't get enough of Roy! Thank you for making these fine lectures to educate us. At the end of this lecture, I was glad I wasn't white, European, or Christian.. And listening to many of your other lectures, I am proud to be Egyptian, Arab, and Muslim. So I hope I am an acestor of Khalid Ibn Al Walid, Al Faraby, Mohamed Al Fatih, and all the fine ancient Egyptians Oh and I am ordering your book very soon 🙏 ( The Blood Throne of Caria)

[@mstzn1]

It seems you have not learned anything from Roy's lessons. You can easily find some terrible things that Egyptian, Arabs and Muslims did in the past (even nowadays). I don't understand why people are being proud of things that they did not choose like ethnicity etc. It is just pure tribal instinct.

[@maamounelsharkawy3924]

@@mstzn1 you are right. I didn't mean to come off as tribal. I understand what you are saying. White europeans always try to portray us as barbaric and backwards, when the facts that Roy teaches us tell us that we were always much more civilized. We are not perfect either but in comparison, we as a people are relatively civil. Your ancestors are the ottoman empire, which had some bad times, but across most of the time it existed, it was a place of tolerance and civility.

[@breezeanonymous6034]

@@maamounelsharkawy3924 When Egyptians say that they are Arabs, Muslims or speak Arabic and are 'proud' of that, that is so contradictory, farsical and funny because they take the 'Arab' identity who colonized them. Speak native Egyptian language, wear native Egyptian clothing, practice native Egyptian religion etc, only then you can say you are proud 'Egyptian'. What a joke!

[@maisonstevens]

I agree I keep rewatching the same stuff

[@AV57]

What a weird comment.

[@WasifHasanBaig]

These talks are so interesting. Please keep them going. Thanks to the Professor and to all those behind the scenes who make this happen.

[@GhassanB]

I genuinely started crying when the lecture ended with de las casas and African slavery... Prof is such a good storyteller he got me genuinely invested in the man's humanity and then broke my heart with his reveal at the end of the trial 😂

[@ashren5879]

I mean he essentially suggested what he believed to be the most humane solution possible.

[@annakat3754]

African slavery was not the only slavery in history. Stop it. Its a tired argument.

[@GhassanB]

@@annakat3754 nothing else in history ever compared to the Atlantic slave trade, leave your white apologist logic off my comment :)

[@ckannan90]

⁠@@annakat3754what are you even replying to? The video is literally about another type of slavery, so pretty sure everyone in the comments knows African slavery was not the only slavery.

[@WhiteTrashTrailer]

​@@annakat3754Try listening to the lecture before advancing your white racist argument.

[@RealUvane]

Heavy. Thanks for two amazing lectures!

[@Incandescence555]

Oh sooo much love you for Professor! You've helped me through Ramadan listening to your lectures. You're so funny, and witty - and your anti-Orientalist flavour to your analysis is refreshing and vital. Thank you and God bless you

[@josegarretonerfrdhxk]

I encountered Dr. Casagrande's lectures and was profoundly impressed by their depth and insight. His expertise and nuanced analysis represent an exceptional standard within unbiased academic discourse. Drawing from my studies in history, particularly concerning figures such as Columbus and Cortez, I benefited significantly from the perspectives imparted by Dr. Casagrande's lectures. My maternal lineage, intertwined with native heritage, further enriched my understanding of the complex legacies of colonization. The devastating impact wrought by conquistadors like Cortez, Pizarro, de Almagro, and Valdivia upon the indigenous populations and cultures of the Americas remains a topic of incomprehensible magnitude. It behooves us, therefore, to confront and comprehend these historical realities with courage and humility, recognizing their implications for our collective past and the imperative of responsible stewardship for the benefit of future generations.

[@laststorm7726]

great talk, loved that ending. the course of history changed by one man.

[@Fotosynthesis858]

I loved it when Guerro says, “I WAS Guerro…” she seemed like a badass. I wish I knew more about him

[@lA-tv1qt]

36:54 This is why people from all across the world love Prof Roy so much. He bathes his mind with local names, cultures and traditions and wholeheartedly promotes them. He constantly appreciates and compliments the local societies and thing very foreign to many other White people. This man is built by pure love for different societies and doesn't condescend on any of them.

[@afbf6522]

i just don't understand how the Aztecs were such badasses dominating their neighbors when they didn't fight with weapons and their neighbors did...

[@kurtaikido2889]

Dr. Roy is the best! It’s kind of like having the dude from Big Lebowski explain things to you in terms even stoners can understand!

[@snf321gotti6]

It's better than watching a movie ,

[@TheSasha0789]

To be fair, this is a lot of Black Legend, and I say this as a Mexican born in Veracruz.

[@mikelkarlossanzsenosiain1986]

Un poco la verdad, saludos de España.

[@argelioolivares631]

He is a little embellish on the numbers and stories, and he tries to punch up a lot, but hey, a little fiction makes the story interesting

[@jaredyetter4784]

What part of this lecture is incorrect?

[@ernesto906]

​@@jaredyetter4784 you didnt asked me but, but a few secs before here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6PEdYiMeLemhMU, he says that when Colón returned and debrief Queen Isabel "La Católica" and said that with a couple of men you can make slaves of the natives, and Isabel said "AMAZING", that's a lie, I mean the same Isabel that threw Colón in jail for being a slaver, mistreatment of the natives, and an overall brutal governor? The same Isabel that in her testament she said that there should be a priority to integrating with the natives, and promoted marriages between Spaniards and natives, would that Isabel say "AMAZING" when queried about the possibility of enslavement of the natives? Also, in the previous video the stated that in the Americas there were around 150 million people, one century after there were only 15 millions, the failed to mention that 99% of those deaths were because of the diseases and not because the Spaniard were in a campaign of extermination. In fact, in the conquest of the Aztecs, the Spaniard were a minority they managed to ally themselves with the Aztec's enemies, the conquest of the Aztecs is more a story about the liberation of the Tlaxcaltecas and other tribes with the help of the Spaniards.

[@CajemeReef]

Just more anglo propaganda against Spain, nothing new.

[@khalednazzal7442]

I can't wait for part 3, you are absolutely amazing

[@kevinkestler4375]

Dr. Casagranda weaves a narrative in Part l and Part ll that is fascinating. The linkages of his history is full of incredible detail and amazing coincidences that would make an epic fictional worthy of Honer, yet it is the reality of The Conquest. I don't know how he amassed all of this data and detail, but it is a riveting story. Thank you for pulling all this historical and disparate information together into an excellent, if not terrifying and tragic, tale of madness and then twisted logic. Incredibly wild and fantastic, scholarly and compelling work.

[@trevinmartin6149]

Such a wonderful character. So much knowledge. I find myself listening to him every night and morning

[@nabz188]

Roy is a living legend ❤ he should upload more 😊

[@angelicamendoza9910]

The ending of your lecture made me cry 😢 That decision saved us but at the expense of so many others.

[@flowtribe]

These lectures are so incredibly informative and heartbreaking. Would love to take one of your courses. Thanks Dr. Roy for these enlightening and horrifying lectures on humanity’s inhumanity

[@fareshonn500]

Watching you makes me want to go back to school prof! Keep it up

[@mikestorck]

This is amazing, Dr. Roy is now my favorite

[@romanhama5377]

The depth of knowledge this man possesses in history is truly unique. Truly grateful for the enlightenment he has brought us. I'm excitedly looking forward to "Crusade Part 3" and the portrayal of Saladin's character. It will be fascinating to see how his story unfolds in this installment.

[@mollybros]

My favorite talk so far. Bravo! Thank you!!!

[@gaz5360]

If I ever come to Austin I will make sure to attend one of your lectures, you are simply amazing at delivery, your style keep me engaged, thanks for your effort!

[@mikeomo-bare3161]

You gave us Part 2 so quickly! Thanks professor. You knocked it out of the park yet again!

[@rodzitazainal19]

One of the best lecture ever. Always enjoyed listening and learning at the same time😊

[@jamesdelcol3701]

Good lecture. I really enjoy listening to a lecture as an informed scholar. This professor is brushing me up nicely.

[@GhostCuete369]

Thank you for uploading. Amazingly presented.

[@ZAS-im7tj]

I lament not paying more attention as a young man to history. Something clicked at age 30 and I consumed history ever since. 3 decades or books and lectures and Dr Casagranda is categorically above all

[@sktchbk]

Thank you SO much! Dr. Casagranda is an inspiration. He’s so well researched and never just gives the party line….

[@crispy0104]

No he is not. A lot of what he says is incorrect

[@ashrakhanom3625]

More of Roy please. Amazing insight. Wish him a long life so he can give us an impartial history of the world as far as is possible. Loved the Middle Eastern history, the European history, history of the America's. I would love some light to be shed on the Eastern histories e.g. India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Native Australians, and of course China. That side of the world is still an enigma to me.

[@SuhailAnwarSurgeon]

Amazing man Roy - a wealth of knowledge

[@AyoubusMagnus]

I was waiting for this thank you doctor Casagranda

[@SiriusSam]

Such great lectures, thanks for this

[@samirak323]

This guy is un incredible lecturer! Story teller !! Thank you thank you for speaking the truth !!!

[@danielrock35]

Superb lecture such an honest and well explored history lesson. Thank you!

[@iTsMiSsToYou5000]

Thank you for the brief description of the two-part series on the Aztecs. We would like to see a part three to this series where he mentioned the spanish dominican monk Bartolome de las Casas in which he ended the lecture at the year 1550. Thanks.

[@MuhannadDarwish]

It should be a holiday every time dr. Casagrande drops a video

[@policious]

Love these videos man!

[@daaniyalmasum6842]

Fantastic lecture. Brilliant instructor.

[@RakibHasan-cl9os]

I'm so grateful that this is free!!!

[@khalidjian6979]

Thanks prof.Casagranda,l have been following your work and learning a great deal as an Arab origin guy enjoy every bit of your classes though I studied most in schools but that’s 50Y ago

[@fahimrezwankhair7344]

It's equally mesmerizing and moving. Wish I could be a student of him or listen to him more.

[@rackedbound1648]

Great lecture. I enjoyed it and remain 100% guilt free 😊

[@MrGreatGeorge]

Great material!

[@mooronice]

Wow! ❤ Excellent work!

[@kam70111]

Beautiful. Roy, keep at it.

[@jefferyansani1923]

I love Dr. Casagranda's lectures but I've been a casual student of history for 50 years now and I know how this turns out. When I read the title, "The Spanish Arrive", I knew I couldn't watch this video. I'm sure you will be accurate and brutally honest which is much appreciated. Thank you for educating those who might not know. I will go watch Part I before the Spanish got there. I'm interested to see what he thinks about Montezuma.

[@purveyorofproof]

This professor is a living legend

[@benlawless9539]

I wanna go back to school simply because of Roy, this dude kicks ass

[@saharkhanjadoon5938]

Thank God! This was amazing!

[@leylahjohnston]

I love his ancient history ♥️ lectures

[@mrboss8322]

this is awesome thank you soo much🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@MadMaxNado]

Not the Chanel is a gem bro but the Man casagranda

[@DavidHernandez-hy6tv]

When you realize this man is a professor of political science, the ending of this lecture makes complete sense. Great story teller though even if heavily biased

[@annakat3754]

I could listen to him forever

[@Xaries82]

Interesting. Love to see more..

[@joanhuffman2166]

The peoples of Mexico City had domesticated turkeys and ate a variety of insects for animal protein.

[@kamalmuheisen1787]

Great content as always

[@mizanahmed4167]

Amazing lecture

[@DaggerSecurity]

Its a crime that no movie has been made about these events

[@rafaelbogdan9307]

So he did that guilt bit at the end but didn't explain it, and if I ever had an explanation for it from elsewhere, I'm drawing a blank. Anyone know why I should feel the slightest bit guilty for genocides and slavery I never took a hand in?

[@mamaz8530]

❤❤ love this

[@p93982]

History is written by the victors that’s why most of can’t believe what were hearing but thanks to people like him for spreading the truth from an unbiased way.

[@hansv.d.p.8679]

Mr Roy, thanks , greetings from the Netherlands, Rotterdam

[@robertblochthesommelier1066]

Great lecture

[@mollybros]

I am from the Dominican Republic and when hearing about Columbus finding gold on his first expedition, it makes sense that that part of the island has a city called Puerto Plata. They have romanticized the story by saying the name comes from the silvers cloud around its mountain. I think it is because of the bloody silver.

[@montsebros]

I mean, they found silver.

[@DrFroyd123]

I love this guy

[@josephodoherty286]

Dr Roy, .........is a genius ........ He's Brilliant

[@ParfentevIgor]

This dude is just awesome

[@Pegasus_boy]

Speechless.

[@JN003]

...lost for words really, its all unbelievable, unthinkable and still hasn't changed.

[@nozrep]

hasn’t changed? can you show me a modern day army of 500 men that has recently conquered a country with 35 million people as Cortez did to the Aztecs? I do not believe that you can show me that. Therefore in fact, some things have changed. Nevertheless, it is also true that human violence against one another has always remained the same in way, shape, or form. So maybe you meant something less literal when you typed that things have not changed.

[@mazdakbamdadan9733]

Man u r amazing👏 👏 👏

[@snf321gotti6]

Wow wow wow. I was about to start liking this de las casas monk dude and then it was like ,,,,oh man. Just amazing . No word of a lie I actually enjoy your lectures more than watching movies . One of the best story tellers the world has ever seen. Thanks Roy . Ps will be picking up a copy of your novel as mentioned in the crusades lecture 1. Will there be a part 3 to this you say ?

[@kayemmee]

The ending. All struggles are connected. Freedom for all or freedom for none.

[@khalidmoghul7321]

Amazing

[@esote3]

Wonderful presentation thank you very much. I would like to add that the Spanish had dogs as tools of war trained and clad in armor.

[@madisondrum8705]

this is required listening

[@GoredGored]

Heart wrenching to hear that Columbus came back to slaughter and enslave the people who saved him and was kind to him.

[@inconvenient-truth99]

Roy is the best ACC teacher!

[@nozrep]

wait. what? he’s only at ACC? a friggin community college? that’s hilarious. Dude’s way too good a presenter to only teach at a community college?!?! btw, ain’t knockin community. Got my associates. Then got a bachelor degree. But community college stereotypes are definitely stereotypes that exist for real reasons. And I am a living example!😂

[@maynarddelrosario2205]

Beautiful ending.

[@daymaro3220]

That was phenomenal wow and really eye opening, always thought that very little was know about natives but apparently I was very wrong

[@TheGREGO08]

Dr. Casagranda you are mistaken! The island was named Quisqueya by the Taino Arawak Indians. Columbus named it Hispanyola upon arrival. The island then became Haiti after the war for independence against France. The island is now home to two distinct nation states by the names of Haiti and Dominican Republic whose capital happens to be Santo Domingo. I hope I explained everything thoroughly and without condescension in my tone. I greatly appreciate your lectures, constantly learning something new about history from you. Keep up the good work. I look forward to seeing a lecture live someday. Best wishes

[@montsebros]

Before Columbus arrived, the Taino people inhabited the island. They called it Ayiti, which means high ground or mountainous land, or Quisqueya, meaning mother of the Earth. The Spanish called it Santo Domingo, as did the French (Ste. Domingue) when they colonized the part of the island known today as Haiti.

[@Winterfellen]

The statement that the Aztecs did not use weapons and only wrestled before Cortez is absolutely hilarious. This lecture had various completely incorrect statements about the Aztec and Mayans.

[@nakedsnake6076]

was browsing your site and saw that you lived in Algeria as an Algerian I feel like I have missed out on not meeting you here,if you ever visit I would love to have you for dinner doctor!

[@KhashayarBazyar]

thanks to any alkharazmi (algorithm) that suggested this amassing Dr. Roy Casagranda's lecture to me! If i didn't know him i would have died as a dumb person!

[@mrfarax4944]

Omg this is wild guerrero is soo gangsta

[@MrSilverad0]

Well, I guess I'll be a future cockroach, but if Aztecs loved others so much, then why even after seeing who Cortez was (such a bad man), other Indian tribes still helped him? And if there was even only 1 million Aztecs, and they ate 1 pound of human flesh a year (his words), that means they would have to eat 1 million pounds of human flesh and a very conservative approximation is about 10k people eaten a year. Very "others loving" Aztec family. And it's such a huge underestimation. And Aztecs fighting without weapons? Like man, are you sure what you are saying? I guess there were only few "knights wannabe" who fought this way, but no way it was majority.

[@ehukai2003]

10k people eaten every year for 90 years is 900k for sustaining life and the sun because human lives are sacred, as they believed. Their geographically tiny empire had 35 million people, 8 million alone in and around the lake. Cortez was responsible for millions upon millions of deaths over a tiny fraction of that time for profit, and even more in his wake. There’s no denying the Mexicas’ practice of human sacrifice and cannibalism is evil by today’s standards, but let’s not act like that’s a good reason to do what Cortez did and not hold them accountable. Cortez was straight up evil, and so was the Spanish empire. For the record, I have Spanish, Portuguese, and Puerto Rican ancestry. Judging by his last name, I’m guessing Dr. Roy CASAGRANDA probably has Spanish ancestors, too. It’s not like this came from natives bashing Spanish people. This was introspective. That’s what every human should be doing.

[@AbdulSattar-mp9de]

Waiting for the part three

[@21972012145525]

I’m guessing these lectures are extra credit type open to the public and not part of the actual curriculum? Imagine how good his actual class must be if the extra lectures are this entertaining. It would be a great class to audit (I’m against homework) if an employer would pay for it lol.

[@powerkeno8947]

Brutal.