It's quite funny because I'm about to request a video about (Philippine pre-colonial and Philippine colonial history). www.quora.com/Why-is-it-that-every-time-I-heard-Filipino-or-Philippines-there-are-always-negative-thoughts-to-it/answer/Meiji-Capa-1?share=077c64de&srid=aO1z I hope you make it though.
Magnificent work! Your content is really top notch ;) Also, are you going to visit more places in Latin America? Here in Mexico we have lots and LOTS of incredibly unique places and stuff to share, like the Zona del Silencio and the ruins of Cuicuilco :)
The problems of the Inca are not current or still affecting its citizens. Yet people in third world countries by colonialism are still suffering. It is not condemning all white people especially ones who were not alive to do anything bad but it is like saying we should rate what the Roman empire did to the Celtic people to current problems in Africa or Latin America. True people of all races are finding positive solutions to these problems that are mostly solved by Western countries money. Yet you have to remember the problem and accept it to find the solution.
In South Africa we're pulling down statues of Cecil John Rhodes (a ruthless imperialist) and erecting new ones of Shaka Zulu (also a ruthless imperialist).
@@hansvader4864 Yes, that seems to be the thinking of most populists in this country. Then the point is that it's not actually imperialism and murder they have a moral issue with-- it's something else.
God DAMMIT, man! Every. Single. Video. - is such impeccable quality: the elocution, the visuals, the narrative, and the thesis. You do slip in a few logical fallacies here and there, but the overall message is masterfully crafted. If anything, the result is that you elevate what is expected of a modern documentary format.
Somewhat tangentially similar, it's a bad idea to demonize nazis, to treat them like inhuman evil. What those in the nazi party and army did was terrible, yes, but the minute you portray it as some unfathomable evil, rather than the incremental coercion and systemic cultural overtake involving perfectly normal people that it was, you make it easier to happen again.
What I find interesting is that if Nazis had somehow won, maybe future generations would have been celebrating their cause, and it would have been the allies and jews who would have been evil. As said in this video as well that in history, we judge empires by their power and wealth, not by their atrocities and genocides.
I think what he's getting at is exactly that. We need to remember the nazis as fathomably evil, not unfathomably evil. To remember that these were, before becoming genocidal maniacs, normal people. That yes, normal people can do this, and to be constantly on the guard.
Marcus Sun An absolutely excellent point, I think this video does a great job explaining why rationizing nazis as "monsters" is completely counter productive and stops people from realizing that it was their idealogy and beliefs which led them to act the way they did ua-cam.com/video/b8AcmzqFdPM/v-deo.html
A truly incredible video. The question of always thinking about empires in terms of their vastness, power and wealth and not about their brutality is quite interesting. It maybe that it is the empires that write history and not the conquered. Therefore, we see empires from the eyes of empires themselves
As an half incan, whose granny and extended family all spoke quechua and were from south america, the ones that werent asian of them at least, I never knew a lot about my culture, but it was unnerving to hear your opener and not wonder more about it. I grew up ignoring my native half and that family because I consider myself alien to the culture but its weird I only know what Ive been told or read and no oral account.
"half inca" lol. incas are gone, no modern day peruvian calls themselves that. neither did they before 1492, by the way, only the emperor was called "inca"
@@favelado3408 its easier to use the word people know than to say Im Huancavilca, because literally nobody outside South America knows it, my grandmother was Kichwa, and that she was from ecuador, not peru area. Its about others understanding, not flaunting my knowing of words.
@@MrsTheMark i don't see how that'd be flaunting. most south americans like myself haven't heard of these huancavilca guys either, but a quick google search tells me they were actually enemies and later vassals of the bygone incan empire, so why would you want to call yourself an inca anyway? it'd be easier to just say "ecuadorian" or even "andean", tbh.
Fantastically written script. I love how you managed to connect 2 empires - distant in time and place - through a well-crafted narrative. Rarely does a historian manage to immerse me by this amount in the first 10 minutes :).
This channel never fails to remind me of exactly what I want to do for a living; tell amazing stories. Thanks Evan. The work you and Helene do is such an inspiration to me :)
Ironically however its the atrocities that often bring an empire down as the people oppressed by one empire often ally with the next. However I would say there is something very different about European empires, they were not conquered by just another empire they fragmented into more independent states after the pyrrhic victory (from an imperial perspective) of world war II that left the empires bankrupt. Through out most of History most nations in the USAs position would have directly annexed territory and while they interfered and bullied they never formally declared it a conquest nor celebrate it as the European empires would a hundred years before. In fact they tried to deny it or hide it. Even the Soviets and China where far less expansive than they would normally be often preferring puppet states to direct rule. As the USA's power wanes, it will be interesting/terrifying to see if this is really the end of large scale imperialism or of it starts to return in a formal way. Russia and China are already nibbling at their borders.
I've been watching this show since episode one, and I have to say, your ability to smoothly speak, and quickly has gotten really really good. I love this show man, I was sad when you left Japan, but the show is just as good as ever.
@@theoregonguy : Beautiful thought but, the extreme reactionary nature of todays sub-Saharan Africans has being forwarded through the generations, to all corners of the earth, with one noteworthy outcome. Three generation, left to their own decisions, and the "Community" is destroyed through neglect and vandalism....no exception have been seen.
Unfortunately, people on the left and right who are obsessed with identity politics don't care. They both want to paint one side or the other as the villain.
I absolutely love your videos, they are informative, take me to places i may never see, and best of all make me think in a way I wasnt expecting to at the beginning of each video. I like your outlook of the world and the outlook of the people helping you.
Its similar to thinking Egypt was a slave driving kingdom that enslaved whole ethnic groups when actually they just did what every other large nations like Babylon, Canaan and the Aegeans did around them.
A big part of why a lot of historical civilizations (Inca, vikings, mongols) have gotten disproportionately rosey re-evaluations lately is simple backlash. For a long time, these peoples were largely dismissed as backwards savages barely even worthy of the term 'civilization', let alone any recognition for their accomplishments. Attempts to balance the books naturally focus on their positive qualities, sometimes to excess. The same but opposite is true of those more maligned empires like the British and Spanish. Even disregarding their historical recentness (while not forgetting that European imperialism is not just indisputably within living memory, but also very arguably still ongoing), their long history of being romanticized as benevolent, "civilizing" forces made it practically inevitable that the scales would tip the other way, with new appraisals focusing on their brutality and ineptitude.
Note: The original reason that the Catholic Church became so deeply involved in South American societies was to try and prevent the atrocities the Spanish were inflicting on the indigenous peoples. This is not a defense of every Church policy but they did try to mitigate the Spanish treatment of the people.
As awesome as this video is, and how thought-provoking the story is, I know myself well enough to know that the only part of it I _know_ I'll still remember a week from now is that _epic high-five._
My family have had their language and culture destroyed, have had their land stolen from them, have had their very language beaten out of them, and I'm white. My family had never left my country until the 1980's when my father went to find work in the very nation that invaded us. We had lived on this rock in the ocean for a recorded 1000 years, and have lived the last 700 conquered. Nothing makes me sadder than to see people use race or gender to justify their own prejudice. Get on with living your lives.
Actually, people from what is now the island of Great Britain invaded the island of Ireland in the 12th century...technically twice (the first was an ad hoc invasion by people from both France and Great Britain, though obviously, neither was really called that at the time, the second was by King Henry II, which started a nearly unbroken time period of rule by the British over Ireland, which only came to an end in the 20th century). But my bet is that he's talking about Northern Ireland, since the implication is that the land he lives on is still occupied territory. But technically, I don't think that his statement is 100% correct, since I very much doubt that there are many people living now in the nation of Northern Ireland who can both trace their ancestry back to the time before the island of Ireland was invaded by the English, AND who don't count part of their ancestry as from the island of Great Britain. The invaded and invaders interbred, so that the genetic difference TODAY between the population of people of mainly English descent living in England (or Canada, or America or wherever) and the population of people of mainly Irish/Northern Irish descent living wherever is fairly small. So if he's indeed talking about (Northern?) Ireland (and honestly, I've wracked my brain and don't think there's any other likely option, though there are a few unlikely ones, including some Welsh and Scottish isles), he is both invaded and invader, genetically-speaking, regardless of the culture with which he identifies.
...Since when is being white a barrier against prejudice when your people are conquered? Black and white aren't even legitimate races. They're utterly meaningless.
As a Spaniard this is one the first videos I've seen coming from an Anglosaxon that doesn't get on the Black Legend bandwagon.I heartfully congratulate you for that, and for not being one of those Black Legend perpetrators that I feel so passionately against.Thank you, I wish I could speak with you over a few beers and tapas, on the house.
@Mason Freer Tbf I'm English and tend to regard the British Empire as equally as evil to the Spanish empire and more so in some cases (Asia basically). Also Black Legend wasn't specifically aimed at Spain, it was a political tactic to smear the moral image of the enemy to muster support of the public and allies.
Bro, heavy episode, nice stuff my dude. You are making quite the product here, I always enjoy it. Honest, relatively unbiased, and REAL. So it will never be allowed on cable tv. Cheers, keep it up
Excellent video. When you treat Europeans as though they’re more capable of cruelty than other races, you’re reinforcing the same idea that lies at the heart of racism: that the races aren’t equal, that your race determines what you’re capable of, etc. Don’t reinforce that idea. I hope we can live in a world one day where the color of a person’s skin can be seen the same way as the color of their hair, just a superficial difference.
well we still remember columbus as the discoverer of the american continent. We might be told something different after we grow up, but as kids we will still be told that he discovered america, that spain discovered america. This is something new to remember empires as something bad, in the past a conquerer was almost always viewed as someone to admire, just think about agustus, caesar, alexander, napoleon or washington. It is something we should be proud of as humans that we can finally see the cruelty even when we are on the dominant side.
Totally agree. It's nice for them to celebrate the conqueror's history, but what about the history of the conquered? Do they even exist? Glorify the colonialism and avoiding talking about the cruelty behind it is not OK.
knowledge is not 'what to think', but more 'how to think'. And I am passionately watching all your videos, because of the way these event are presented. we're all going to have different opinions, pragmatically, so I believe the best way to interact with anyone is to just try to understand them. If we don't understand, we'll repeat the same errors
As usual there are countless subtleties ( Isn't it always this way with humans? ), but history is most often view through the lenses of the conquerors because there is simply no way to completely remove the POV from the retelling. It takes effort to deliberately understand things outside the easy, black-and-white narratives that are too often used in education. I can only hope that more people stay aware of their own biases, and consider things with nuance. The project has come quite a long way since episode 1, and I thank you for allowing us to be a part of this journey
Damn, dude. You are crankin' out the vids. Typically when YT creators ramp up to this level of output their production quality suffers, especially over time. You, however have managed to find a sweet spot in maintaining your expected level of top quality. Good job.
I do hope you read and pay attention to your comments section. Look how many people you are impressing. If YOUR empire is measured by how you treat your subjects, you are THE benevolent god of youtube.
I found this amazing meaningful channel late. Someone please tell me if they will continue with the series in the future for that they have any other programming that I can see because he is an excellent presenter and everything shared in every episode I've seen has been thoughtful truly rare and important the people of the world know these stories.
A major reason why the Spanish managed to conquer the empires of the Incas and Aztecs with such relative ease was that in the beginning they basically just chopped off the top-most layer of society and left the rest pretty much alone. And because those two empires were such highly organised entities, it worked. The local officials went on collecting taxes and keeping order. Sure, they now had to pay lipservice to a new god, but they had done that before. Only when they felt to be firmly in control, did the Spanish start to really change the system of governance. But by then, the new religion had taken hold and new diseases had destroyed what was left of the old ruling class.
"...strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind-as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea-something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to...."
Great video!, you could also do a video about Mapuche's cultural absortion of spanish customes during the 16th to 18th centuries, including horses, guns and military strategy, and their 200 years war against the spanish conquistadors at the southern temperate jungles of Chile.
"If the world only remembers the past that benefits them the most, there's little cause for the next conquistadors to be any less cruel than those who came before."
So far I have really liked your episodes about Chile. This one offered a more ambiguous approach in my opinion. Is so hard to speak about the old empires of Latin America (Abya Yala), when there is so little info to do accurate historic research and there's also has been a "new version" of the facts installed by centuries of colonization and genocide. The Tawantin Suyu or the Aztec empire are thus romanticized, as we actually don't have an historical memory of them.
I really enjoy your videos , but this time I feel you generalized a lot of traits from the Inca empire and their way of colonize that I find not quite accurate. I suggest to start by reading “ Los comentarios reales de los incas" wrote by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. One BIG difference between them and the European colonizers is that they actually permitted the new colonies to mantain their gods and even their lenguage. They wanted to achieve a polytheist kind of empire with the Inca's language and culture as the “higest“ form of civilization. This meant, of course, that they violently forced the new colonies to accept the Inca's Gods as superiors and to learn Qechua as their official language, but without the ultimate goal of the extermination of any culture that wasn't theirs. It wasn't about erasing other culture's, but to violently influence a new order where Quechua was the language with highest social Status. Then the conquistadores came and imposed an apartheid kind of system where racism, slavery and violent westernization (or cultural genocide of the andean people) were its pillars. One important ideology that was lost with this is the incredible strong spiritual sense of respect to Pachamama (“mother nature“) and it's natural cycles. Armony with nature was the unquestionable rule for the andean cultures, something we REALLY need to recover nowdays... I apologize for my english in advance, it is not my mother tongue
You're so right in saying that the Inca aren't remembered for that. So much so that I expected this video to be about Aztecs at first... You should do some videos on central american civilizations.
I'd say I'm impressed with this video. Especially the subject matter. Yes, the Spanish conquistadors were cruel. And like you said, they were no different than the empire that they (Spanish) conquered.
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It's quite funny because I'm about to request a video about (Philippine pre-colonial and Philippine colonial history).
www.quora.com/Why-is-it-that-every-time-I-heard-Filipino-or-Philippines-there-are-always-negative-thoughts-to-it/answer/Meiji-Capa-1?share=077c64de&srid=aO1z
I hope you make it though.
done ;), please do more mapuche content, that topic it's hot!
Watched ever one of you Videos, and this might just be my favorite.
"Race is not a determinant of action"
Thank You.
Magnificent work! Your content is really top notch ;) Also, are you going to visit more places in Latin America? Here in Mexico we have lots and LOTS of incredibly unique places and stuff to share, like the Zona del Silencio and the ruins of Cuicuilco :)
The problems of the Inca are not current or still affecting its citizens. Yet people in third world countries by colonialism are still suffering. It is not condemning all white people especially ones who were not alive to do anything bad but it is like saying we should rate what the Roman empire did to the Celtic people to current problems in Africa or Latin America. True people of all races are finding positive solutions to these problems that are mostly solved by Western countries money. Yet you have to remember the problem and accept it to find the solution.
This channel is internet gold.
Ricky Brauer one of the coolest channels on youtube
So much so that I can expect to see the Conquistadors coming to claim it for Spain
Yeah thats absolutely right Cosmos. Platinum gold 😜
Evan comes from good stock. What an amazing family!
In South Africa we're pulling down statues of Cecil John Rhodes (a ruthless imperialist) and erecting new ones of Shaka Zulu (also a ruthless imperialist).
Hey, at least its YOUR routhless imperialist
@@hansvader4864 Yes, that seems to be the thinking of most populists in this country. Then the point is that it's not actually imperialism and murder they have a moral issue with-- it's something else.
@@hansvader4864 as if it makes a difference
@@Cm-lp4mu it does to most people. In the US we talk so much shit about other countries imperialist but carry around money with Andrew Jackson on it
Need Kruger statues going up.
This channel deserves a Netflix show. They should compile all the videos into episodes by country.
God DAMMIT, man! Every. Single. Video. - is such impeccable quality: the elocution, the visuals, the narrative, and the thesis. You do slip in a few logical fallacies here and there, but the overall message is masterfully crafted. If anything, the result is that you elevate what is expected of a modern documentary format.
Appreciate ya Artem
They are quite...rare
Im chilean and its awesome You came to this country to see the rare things in this country, try seawell or the abandonde city of las salitreras!
"Race is not a determinant of action"
I need to start using this
Somewhat tangentially similar, it's a bad idea to demonize nazis, to treat them like inhuman evil. What those in the nazi party and army did was terrible, yes, but the minute you portray it as some unfathomable evil, rather than the incremental coercion and systemic cultural overtake involving perfectly normal people that it was, you make it easier to happen again.
I find it is possible to do both.
What I find interesting is that if Nazis had somehow won, maybe future generations would have been celebrating their cause, and it would have been the allies and jews who would have been evil.
As said in this video as well that in history, we judge empires by their power and wealth, not by their atrocities and genocides.
There is certainly a line to cross.
We all believe in a different interpretation of that line though.
I think what he's getting at is exactly that. We need to remember the nazis as fathomably evil, not unfathomably evil. To remember that these were, before becoming genocidal maniacs, normal people. That yes, normal people can do this, and to be constantly on the guard.
Marcus Sun An absolutely excellent point, I think this video does a great job explaining why rationizing nazis as "monsters" is completely counter productive and stops people from realizing that it was their idealogy and beliefs which led them to act the way they did ua-cam.com/video/b8AcmzqFdPM/v-deo.html
A truly incredible video.
The question of always thinking about empires in terms of their vastness, power and wealth and not about their brutality is quite interesting.
It maybe that it is the empires that write history and not the conquered. Therefore, we see empires from the eyes of empires themselves
This is a great point. We remember the Spanish because they're the ones who lived to write history.
This channel is absolute gold with the wisest commentator who is always unbiased and open to explaining history in the way most other people can't.
As an half incan, whose granny and extended family all spoke quechua and were from south america, the ones that werent asian of them at least, I never knew a lot about my culture, but it was unnerving to hear your opener and not wonder more about it. I grew up ignoring my native half and that family because I consider myself alien to the culture but its weird I only know what Ive been told or read and no oral account.
"half inca" lol. incas are gone, no modern day peruvian calls themselves that. neither did they before 1492, by the way, only the emperor was called "inca"
@@favelado3408 its easier to use the word people know than to say Im Huancavilca, because literally nobody outside South America knows it, my grandmother was Kichwa, and that she was from ecuador, not peru area. Its about others understanding, not flaunting my knowing of words.
@@MrsTheMark i don't see how that'd be flaunting. most south americans like myself haven't heard of these huancavilca guys either, but a quick google search tells me they were actually enemies and later vassals of the bygone incan empire, so why would you want to call yourself an inca anyway? it'd be easier to just say "ecuadorian" or even "andean", tbh.
Fantastically written script. I love how you managed to connect 2 empires - distant in time and place - through a well-crafted narrative. Rarely does a historian manage to immerse me by this amount in the first 10 minutes :).
Done with realism and elegance as always. Well done, Rare Earth!
This channel never fails to remind me of exactly what I want to do for a living; tell amazing stories. Thanks Evan. The work you and Helene do is such an inspiration to me :)
Ironically however its the atrocities that often bring an empire down as the people oppressed by one empire often ally with the next. However I would say there is something very different about European empires, they were not conquered by just another empire they fragmented into more independent states after the pyrrhic victory (from an imperial perspective) of world war II that left the empires bankrupt. Through out most of History most nations in the USAs position would have directly annexed territory and while they interfered and bullied they never formally declared it a conquest nor celebrate it as the European empires would a hundred years before. In fact they tried to deny it or hide it. Even the Soviets and China where far less expansive than they would normally be often preferring puppet states to direct rule. As the USA's power wanes, it will be interesting/terrifying to see if this is really the end of large scale imperialism or of it starts to return in a formal way. Russia and China are already nibbling at their borders.
Oh man, that was one of your best! You're such a great inspiration for my channel. Keep it up :)
If you don't know your history then your doomed to repeat it.
even if you know history you will repeat it regardless
कालीतनय バッファロー ᛒᚠᚠᛖᛚ ADZIBALYQSHBVY буффало എരുമ so he who controls the present controls everything?
this quote always reminds me of rage against the machine
Boco Corwin I still don't understand that one.
YOU'RE
I've been watching this show since episode one, and I have to say, your ability to smoothly speak, and quickly has gotten really really good. I love this show man, I was sad when you left Japan, but the show is just as good as ever.
"Race is not a determinant of action" holy shit if the people on both far sides of the political spectrum understood this we could really move forward
Actually you are yourself, such as your genetic qualities, because of the actions of your parents and, by extension, ancestors.
Yep, it's like a lot of people in the middle having been saying for centuries, culture determines behavior much more than race.
This isn’t a centrist statement 🤦🏻♀️
@@theoregonguy : Beautiful thought but, the extreme reactionary nature of todays sub-Saharan Africans has being forwarded through the generations, to all corners of the earth, with one noteworthy outcome. Three generation, left to their own decisions, and the "Community" is destroyed through neglect and vandalism....no exception have been seen.
Unfortunately, people on the left and right who are obsessed with identity politics don't care. They both want to paint one side or the other as the villain.
I absolutely love your videos, they are informative, take me to places i may never see, and best of all make me think in a way I wasnt expecting to at the beginning of each video. I like your outlook of the world and the outlook of the people helping you.
Your videos are truly incredible
Its similar to thinking Egypt was a slave driving kingdom that enslaved whole ethnic groups when actually they just did what every other large nations like Babylon, Canaan and the Aegeans did around them.
A big part of why a lot of historical civilizations (Inca, vikings, mongols) have gotten disproportionately rosey re-evaluations lately is simple backlash. For a long time, these peoples were largely dismissed as backwards savages barely even worthy of the term 'civilization', let alone any recognition for their accomplishments. Attempts to balance the books naturally focus on their positive qualities, sometimes to excess.
The same but opposite is true of those more maligned empires like the British and Spanish. Even disregarding their historical recentness (while not forgetting that European imperialism is not just indisputably within living memory, but also very arguably still ongoing), their long history of being romanticized as benevolent, "civilizing" forces made it practically inevitable that the scales would tip the other way, with new appraisals focusing on their brutality and ineptitude.
Wow, tricky episode to write. You did a fine job making your point as always. In the end, I think it really does come down to pragmatism.
Also NIHILISM!
There's a band call Empire Of The Sun.
Aussie. They make crazy psychedelic electronic music. Good stuff.
Wow. Best Rare Earth I've seen so far. So many essential, obvious truths that are nearly always ignored or denied.
Chilean here, you are making the sort of youtube videos I wish I had made. Keep on the good work. You've gained a subscriber.
Absolutely reasonable commentary. Interesting.
Perfectly balanced and a great story. A rare ability to get both sides spot on. Thank you for a fascinating video.
Note: The original reason that the Catholic Church became so deeply involved in South American societies was to try and prevent the atrocities the Spanish were inflicting on the indigenous peoples. This is not a defense of every Church policy but they did try to mitigate the Spanish treatment of the people.
They told the Spanish soldiers u can be with the Indian women but u gotta marry them aka meztizos today
Based
Amazing as always. Loved the giant high five too xD
At the end of the day. We're all Human. We all have greed, cruelty, kindness and mercy within us.
As awesome as this video is, and how thought-provoking the story is, I know myself well enough to know that the only part of it I _know_ I'll still remember a week from now is that _epic high-five._
It's pronounced En-ko-mien-da, by the way
Appreciated
エンコミエンダ
The most interesting channel in youtube! I feel like I'm the living the story in my mind. Best history channel!
My family have had their language and culture destroyed, have had their land stolen from them, have had their very language beaten out of them, and I'm white. My family had never left my country until the 1980's when my father went to find work in the very nation that invaded us. We had lived on this rock in the ocean for a recorded 1000 years, and have lived the last 700 conquered. Nothing makes me sadder than to see people use race or gender to justify their own prejudice. Get on with living your lives.
Let me guess... are you Irish?
@@quoth_raven Don't think so. If he was Irish the conquered bit would be 500-600 years not 700.
Actually, people from what is now the island of Great Britain invaded the island of Ireland in the 12th century...technically twice (the first was an ad hoc invasion by people from both France and Great Britain, though obviously, neither was really called that at the time, the second was by King Henry II, which started a nearly unbroken time period of rule by the British over Ireland, which only came to an end in the 20th century). But my bet is that he's talking about Northern Ireland, since the implication is that the land he lives on is still occupied territory. But technically, I don't think that his statement is 100% correct, since I very much doubt that there are many people living now in the nation of Northern Ireland who can both trace their ancestry back to the time before the island of Ireland was invaded by the English, AND who don't count part of their ancestry as from the island of Great Britain. The invaded and invaders interbred, so that the genetic difference TODAY between the population of people of mainly English descent living in England (or Canada, or America or wherever) and the population of people of mainly Irish/Northern Irish descent living wherever is fairly small. So if he's indeed talking about (Northern?) Ireland (and honestly, I've wracked my brain and don't think there's any other likely option, though there are a few unlikely ones, including some Welsh and Scottish isles), he is both invaded and invader, genetically-speaking, regardless of the culture with which he identifies.
...Since when is being white a barrier against prejudice when your people are conquered? Black and white aren't even legitimate races. They're utterly meaningless.
Ireland?
Cyprus?
As a Spaniard this is one the first videos I've seen coming from an Anglosaxon that doesn't get on the Black Legend bandwagon.I heartfully congratulate you for that, and for not being one of those Black Legend perpetrators that I feel so passionately against.Thank you, I wish I could speak with you over a few beers and tapas, on the house.
Watch videos like this to make you feel good about yourself?
I'm subscribed to this channel, I think rare Earth is a fantastic series.
Defeshh The Leyendra Negra is why nobody remembers the Incan and Aztec empires
@Mason Freer Tbf I'm English and tend to regard the British Empire as equally as evil to the Spanish empire and more so in some cases (Asia basically). Also Black Legend wasn't specifically aimed at Spain, it was a political tactic to smear the moral image of the enemy to muster support of the public and allies.
Bro, heavy episode, nice stuff my dude. You are making quite the product here, I always enjoy it. Honest, relatively unbiased, and REAL. So it will never be allowed on cable tv. Cheers, keep it up
Easily the most intellectually stimulating and captivating series on UA-cam. Keep up the great work guys!
Excellent video.
When you treat Europeans as though they’re more capable of cruelty than other races, you’re reinforcing the same idea that lies at the heart of racism: that the races aren’t equal, that your race determines what you’re capable of, etc.
Don’t reinforce that idea.
I hope we can live in a world one day where the color of a person’s skin can be seen the same way as the color of their hair, just a superficial difference.
well we still remember columbus as the discoverer of the american continent. We might be told something different after we grow up, but as kids we will still be told that he discovered america, that spain discovered america.
This is something new to remember empires as something bad, in the past a conquerer was almost always viewed as someone to admire, just think about agustus, caesar, alexander, napoleon or washington.
It is something we should be proud of as humans that we can finally see the cruelty even when we are on the dominant side.
Totally agree. It's nice for them to celebrate the conqueror's history, but what about the history of the conquered? Do they even exist? Glorify the colonialism and avoiding talking about the cruelty behind it is not OK.
Man, I love this series, keep it up! I look forward to each new episode. DEFFINATELY 👍👍
Your videos are absolutely amazing
knowledge is not 'what to think', but more 'how to think'.
And I am passionately watching all your videos, because of the way these event are presented. we're all going to have different opinions, pragmatically, so I believe the best way to interact with anyone is to just try to understand them.
If we don't understand, we'll repeat the same errors
every episode is damn good...I have no doubt this channel will get more attention soon
Thank you for your content
Absolutely loved the moral and advice you gave and the historic insights, couldn't agree more!
Excellent video. Never assume evil is beyond you.
As usual there are countless subtleties ( Isn't it always this way with humans? ), but history is most often view through the lenses of the conquerors because there is simply no way to completely remove the POV from the retelling. It takes effort to deliberately understand things outside the easy, black-and-white narratives that are too often used in education. I can only hope that more people stay aware of their own biases, and consider things with nuance.
The project has come quite a long way since episode 1, and I thank you for allowing us to be a part of this journey
Damn, dude. You are crankin' out the vids. Typically when YT creators ramp up to this level of output their production quality suffers, especially over time. You, however have managed to find a sweet spot in maintaining your expected level of top quality. Good job.
Your channel is insanely good
This channel does not get the views it deserves, great video.
I do hope you read and pay attention to your comments section. Look how many people you are impressing.
If YOUR empire is measured by how you treat your subjects, you are THE benevolent god of youtube.
I cry every time. The profoundness man
You seem to be having fun in Chile
This is probably one of your best written monologues yet.
“They also saved our car FROM AN EVIL HILL”
If I were near La Mano del Desierto , I couldn't have resisted ether, Evan
I found this amazing meaningful channel late. Someone please tell me if they will continue with the series in the future for that they have any other programming that I can see because he is an excellent presenter and everything shared in every episode I've seen has been thoughtful truly rare and important the people of the world know these stories.
This is such a cautionary parable for our modern selves, i dread what would happen should to many people reflect on it.
I pick at you sometimes, but I do enjoy your vids. This is one of your best...kudos.
This channel may be the best on youtube
The mural at 8:52, the soldiers represents the conquerors from the 16th century, with fire weapons and grenades?
*Walking on a dream*
Excellent presentation! I would love it if you would cover the story of the Californios.
A major reason why the Spanish managed to conquer the empires of the Incas and Aztecs with such relative ease was that in the beginning they basically just chopped off the top-most layer of society and left the rest pretty much alone.
And because those two empires were such highly organised entities, it worked. The local officials went on collecting taxes and keeping order. Sure, they now had to pay lipservice to a new god, but they had done that before.
Only when they felt to be firmly in control, did the Spanish start to really change the system of governance. But by then, the new religion had taken hold and new diseases had destroyed what was left of the old ruling class.
I love you, guys. I like the accurate choice of wordings...
imo
Good vid as usual.
"Same as it ever was," as David Byrne sang.
imo
Beautiful as always
"...strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. They grabbed what they could get for the sake of what was to be got. It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind-as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea-something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to...."
Great stuff 😎
Great video!, you could also do a video about Mapuche's cultural absortion of spanish customes during the 16th to 18th centuries, including horses, guns and military strategy, and their 200 years war against the spanish conquistadors at the southern temperate jungles of Chile.
"If the world only remembers the past that benefits them the most, there's little cause for the next conquistadors to be any less cruel than those who came before."
Indeed
i admire your work and your words give me to think a lot.
sorry for my bad english
incredible as usual thank you so much
So far I have really liked your episodes about Chile. This one offered a more ambiguous approach in my opinion. Is so hard to speak about the old empires of Latin America (Abya Yala), when there is so little info to do accurate historic research and there's also has been a "new version" of the facts installed by centuries of colonization and genocide. The Tawantin Suyu or the Aztec empire are thus romanticized, as we actually don't have an historical memory of them.
Greatest video. Thank you 😊
Your are awesome at what you do, i really enjoy your content and provocative style.
This is the most amazing video I've seen by you guys 10 out of fucking 10
Friendship island at the south of chile bro! Its such an interesting story... keep up the good job! Cheers from Chile. Im subscribed
''They also saved our car from an evil hill''
What?
Well said, Evan. Human history shouldn't typically be viewed in a vacuum.
i would like to help you add subtitles for your videos about chile! .. and maybe for other videos too. your channel is great !
The Music = Tension = Me likey
I really enjoy your videos , but this time I feel you generalized a lot of traits from the Inca empire and their way of colonize that I find not quite accurate.
I suggest to start by reading “ Los comentarios reales de los incas" wrote by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. One BIG difference between them and the European colonizers is that they actually permitted the new colonies to mantain their gods and even their lenguage. They wanted to achieve a polytheist kind of empire with the Inca's language and culture as the “higest“ form of civilization.
This meant, of course, that they violently forced the new colonies to accept the Inca's Gods as superiors and to learn Qechua as their official language, but without the ultimate goal of the extermination of any culture that wasn't theirs. It wasn't about erasing other culture's, but to violently influence a new order where Quechua was the language with highest social Status.
Then the conquistadores came and imposed an apartheid kind of system where racism, slavery and violent westernization (or cultural genocide of the andean people) were its pillars.
One important ideology that was lost with this is the incredible strong spiritual sense of respect to Pachamama (“mother nature“) and it's natural cycles.
Armony with nature was the unquestionable rule for the andean cultures,
something we REALLY need to recover nowdays...
I apologize for my english in advance, it is not my mother tongue
I am so broke , otherwise i would have donated to your patreon . I love what you do & its priceless .
What’s the mural at 7:10?
You're so right in saying that the Inca aren't remembered for that. So much so that I expected this video to be about Aztecs at first... You should do some videos on central american civilizations.
agreed..love..respect and gratitude for tam rare earth
Thank you for that [high five], Evan.
I was getting ready for a skill share plug at the end
Never kneel to evil. If they attack you, never hesitate to wield fear, horror and brutality to stop them.
I'm starring to like this channel, instead of irrationally hating it.
Flawless presentation.
3:50, "could care less" vs. "couldn't care less"?
I'd say I'm impressed with this video. Especially the subject matter. Yes, the Spanish conquistadors were cruel. And like you said, they were no different than the empire that they (Spanish) conquered.
Brilliant!.... Just Brilliant!
on the road stories here we go!
A very well crafted linguistic game to exonerate modern european empires. I salute you.
Deftly drawn and ever so timely