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Conquistadors
This documentary on the Conquistadors reveals the story of the Spanish excursions that subjugation of the Americas. In this 4-part series Michael Wood (historian) journeys in the footpaths of the Spanish voyages, from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the desserts of North Mexico to the elevations of Macchu Picchu.
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The Spanish invasion of the Americas in the sixteenth century was one of the most catastrophic incidents in antiquity. Spanish excursions had to experience the most astonishing adversities to unlock the domains of the New World. Only some stories, if any, in times past equals these for pure drama, tenacity and expanse traveled.
The Spanish had made numerous journeys to the nearby Yucatan in 1517 and had returned with phenomenal accounts of a high-cultured Mayan society and golden treasures.
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No, some did, but not all.
Right. 90% of those who died in the Valley of Mexico in the century after the fall of the Aztec Empire died of introduced diseases.
Thery may have been bore but the Mexica were so despised by by the Totanacs and the Tlaxcalans that they were willing to go over to Cortez to throw off the Aztec yoke.
aztecs died because of small pox right?
conquistadors were greedy and corrupt.
History is written by the victors. Always. Imagine Hitler had won world war 2, he wouldn’t have included the holocaust in the history books.
True. It will all be known soon.
True, however. The imprint Aztecs left will forever remain, while yet after 500 years later Spain has yet to find an identity. Hernan was welcomed with opened arms Was banked by Europe, gave all of edge technology to down the Aztecs and YET HE STABBED Aztecs IN THE BACK. I DON’T BELIEVE ANYTHING Spaniards wrote.
one thing you have to agree on……….they won……………he who wins makes the rules……dont matter if there right or wrong……its been that way forev er………..sad to say
the history of the world over the last 500 years…the white devil, out of greed and lust, slaughters the natives of foreign lands, steals their material wealth and land, and rapes the women and/or makes slaves out of men, women & childrenahh, what civilized people the europeans are!
i would be honored to volunteer to my ritual. Ometotl supported me with my life as a precious jewel. i will give him mine equally honoring eachother. you have to understand our theology for all of our cultures on this continent, we Indigenous people to CemAnahuac or “America” have origins That date back past Egyptian pyramids times. Caral Pyramids are in Peru. proving Peru is the birth place of our 1st origins.
Cortez could have not won without his Native allies. Aztecs were ruthless and that was the reason why so many other native people joined Cortez. Aztecs had lots of beautiful in their culture, but they were not saints. We should also understand that Spaniards were poor men who could not even read. Spanish people had been fighting bloody wars against muslims for ages. It had impact in their culture. They became savage – war does that to people and culture.
@Re5Publica your argument is that if the spanish had not arrived that persons would be in a cage about to be sacrificed, but the fact is millions died due to the diseases brought by the spaniards, on top of that the spaniards used many more to build entire cities through slavery
@Re5Publica what ever you think you believe is no you,you do what they tell you,if this was the 1800 you be hanging blacks and be ok with it,because that is what they did back in the day,you would own a slave
@cahaps “The sun god needs sacrifice”, ok, bud…. what can I reply to that kind of nonsense? Rage Against The Machine fans…. supposedly against social inequality, but defend human sacrifice to stone idols, and totalitarian thuggery…
@Re5Publica aztec empire was in middle of cival war that is why they sided with cortez,the sun god needs sacrifice,my history comes from generetion after generetion of family members and not europian books twisted by lies
@cahaps Compared to whom? Montezuma? Why were natives so willing to side with Cortes against him? It was because Cortes offered them protection from his tyranny. Montezuma used to regularly send out raiding parties to collect people as taxes to be used as human sacrifices. The spanish weren’t angels, but you’d probably be in a cage waiting to be sacrificed rather than posting on youtube, if europeans had never arrived in Mexico. Greedy or not. Nevermind ur veins, what’s in your head?
No, her name was not Malinche it was Dona Marina. A name she took when she became a Christian. It was the Tlascalans who gave the name Malinche to Cortes which meant ‘Marina’s Captain’. So it was the Indians who spoke the Mexican language (not Spanish at that time) who referred to Cortes as Malinche.
@azerigid: Go back to school moron. Or the jungle, wherever you may like.
@azerigid you have to understand, todays standards do not apply to those of cortez’s time. todays morality wasn’t present in cortez’s time. the aztecs were also ferocious, it just so happened that they dint have the technology to defeat the conquerers.
the sun is not set,cortez was piece of garbage but i know my history mayan blood still flows inside me and like zack de la rocha says it will come around again
man, i’m just trying to write a novel, on this issue, the conquest, god, and the leftovers where I live now, the third world. Thank you very much for the upload, loas of useful informattion.