What You Weren't Taught About Colonization
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- Colonization of the New World is one of the most important events in world history. Unfortunately, many people today don't treat these events with the seriousness and deep thought they deserve. Did European colonization have more positives than negatives? I argue so. In this video on Pax Tube, I explain why European Colonization was a historic achievement that brought good things across the globe. At the same time, it also had some dark moments that are worth considering and analyzing. Buckle up for this dive into the events that would change the fate of the world as we know it.
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0:00 Intro
1:59 Origins of Colonization
8:52 How European Colonization Worked
13:12 Colonization Controversies
21:28 Positives of Colonization
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Citations:
The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 by Alfred W. Crosby
Accounting for the Great Divergence: Recent findings from historical national accounting by Professor Stephen Broadberry
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Slavery - Forced Labor, Oppression, Inequality by Encyclopedia Britannica
www.britannica.com/topic/slav...
Hernan Cortes | Expeditions, Biography, & Facts by Encyclopedia Britannica
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We Need More Junipero Serra, Not Less by Christopher Check
www.catholic.com/magazine/onl...
Rebellions in Late Colonial Spanish America: A Comparative Perspective by Anthony McFarlane
Sublimis Deus: On the Enslavement and Evangelization of Indians by Pope Paul III
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As a Nigerian, my opinion on colonialism will be more nuanced than that of most westerners. On one hand, it was brutal in some ways but on the other it did play a huge role in bringing much of Africa into the modern age via introduction of modern tech, medicine, western education, and nation building.
Also, one major good it did was abolish slavery. I cannot be more thankful for the British using their naval power and economic might to suppress the slave trade in Africa. Oh, I know they partook in it for a time, themselves, but it existed here long before whites ever came to Africa. Even my own ancestors of the Edo kingdom were slavers. What makes the British different is that unlike other regional African and Arab powers, they had the cultural & religious framework, wisdom, humanity and courage to actually stop the evil of slavery even at huge cost to their economy. God bless them.
Bruh. That is indeed a much more nuanced opinion than I'm used to reading, even from my more educated friends here in America. I feel like a conversation with you on the topic would be both less heated, and more enjoyable and enlightening than most!
the thing is - Africa, and I mean all of it - not just the humans - would be much better left out of industrialization altogether
@@highlifedoomer left out of modern medicine too? What are you talking about?
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 he's probably referring to something similar to good ole' uncle teds philosophy either that or smth blackpilled considering his username
@@robertortiz-wilson1588 basically, tho increasing life expentancy - it's a good thing in and of itself - but heading up to 10 billion people is absolutely destroying the world and everything in it, and better if civilization never began
The "Spaniards genocided the natives" claim is so absurd that it's funny to think about it, when you read some history about the colonial racial laws and relationship with natives of South America and European Spaniards.
The Tlaxcalan Indians wore conquistador outfits and colonised the Philippines in service of the Spanish crown.
The majority of conquistadors who defeated the Japanese & Muslims in Phillippines were Hispanicized Indians and mestizos from Mexico.
Montezuma never stepped foot in Spain. You're thinking about his descendents. And even then he was imprisoned by the Spaniards as they took his land and people.
Your claim on Montezuma is false; Cortez did him dirty.
@@chico9805 uh no its not false , he was a terrible man who sacrificed the mexicas for his gods , what are you even talking about¿
@@gloriousblobber9647 Just by the fact that their descendents came to spain and became high political figures its incredible by its own , spanish empire may have used the enemy territory but most of the high class aztecs and Incas who lost the war to spain and their indians allies could keep the capacity to became citizens and regain a high status in the spanish empire
@@elpellejr.8239 Yeah… no genocides happened at all. Spain had no fault in all the death that occurred in South America at the time. Surely.
From 1500 to 1650 the native population of the Americas was reduced by about 90%. The vast majority of those who died in that apocalypse died without ever having seen a European colonizer. They died mostly of respiratory illnesses that to Europeans were relatively minor infections, but to the native populations they where 30% to 80% fatal. By the time the pilgrims landed at Plymouth rock in 1620, there was nearly no one left in that area. Then when they made contact with the remnants of the local tribe, they were asked to join in fighting against the neighboring tribes that had been at war with them since time immemorial. That kind of scenario played out over and over again all across the Americas for over 150 years.
Do you believe that semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers are capable of sustaining large populations without any real domesticable animals?
Where were the areas with the largest pre-Columbian populations? Do these areas still have a large amount of native descendance?
How do you think the numbers from your study were acquired? Who paid for it and who conducted it? What were their agendas?
@@RambleOn07 My man the jungle is fucking rich and Much big! endless food, endless medicine, endless drugs... and also a lot people to eat.
Europe population has been devastated many times also but we don’t blame certain groups for the black death or the muslims for their piracy and slavery of Irish.
Once the spell is broken , “poc” will start seeing it as pathetic and highly offensive to keep using their history to paint Europeans as “racist White supremacist” l
@@lucasbastosrodrigues140 yeah it kind of shows why so few people lived there lol
@@RambleOn07 to be fair we have geo detection showing huge cities that were eaten whole in the amazon, disease very much wiped out many Natives but I wouldn't call that a genocide, it was bound to happen eventually.
I’m glad you mentioned St. Junipero Serra, a man who loved the natives unconditionally and walked all the way from California to Mexico City to protest the treatment of the natives by Spanish soldiers.
That is the difference.In the British Empire there was no Junipero Serrá.
@@Guus-qv2ef In the US they would call peace treaties and set a place to meet. Said no weapons for peace talks. Then the Natives would get ambushed by rifllemen and cannons. Women and children to the slaugther. The St Junipero of britain probably died in those peace meetings.
@@Guus-qv2ef Yeah! Those Puritans came along and _forced_ the natives to make them a Thanksgiving dinner. 😅
there was no juniper serra amongst the natives either@@Guus-qv2ef
@@Aidan_Spaldingi mean , after the thanksgiving dinner , they literrally atacked the natives. Now i dont deny the atempts of evangelazing the natives and assimilating them, but theh were mostly failures, and there wasnt much efforts there unlike their spanish counterparts.
As an adult, you begin to understand the greatness of Spanish and Portugese Empires.
@@Pwn3540We could've kept our countries homogenous if our politicians didn't make the most disastrous mistake of the millenium, importing dangerous people as a cheap workforce in the 1950's.
@@olekcholewa8171 colonialism was a precursor to globalism. Supporting colonialism is to support the eventual fusion and mixing of all groups involved
Yes, they took seriously the command to spread the Gospel with their missionaries ....
Only the stealth Luciferian world communism of these end times dislodged that....but evil will not triumph+❤
@@Pwn3540
Not really. Colonialism brought our values to other countries. Globalism is about the erasure of Western Values in order to make way for the degeneracy of the east and south.
@@Pwn3540 Human desire to explore the world is natural and hard to control.
People seem to forget that before colonialism people that lived in America weren’t different. They did horrible things themselves.( oh and they killed their kind with colonizers together for money and land )
NO THEY WERE PEACEFUL WARRIOR POET INVENTORS COMPLETELY IN TUNE WITH NATURE WE COULD LEARN A LOT FROM THESE NOBLE SAVAGES
Yes like peace loving hippies. And they were also vegetarian and matriarch @@pathkeepers
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Europeans were also fighting amongst each other so the muslim Caliphate should've conquered europe, right??
@@pathkeepers
They invented the early wooden rockets bro. They wuz scientists n shiet
There was also the trans Saharan slave trade that the Muslims partook in, which was significantly larger than the Atlantic slave trade, and has existed for well over 1k years and is still to a lesser extent still active and was paused when the Europeans colonized Africa due to rising anti-slavery ideals in Europe. You also had the British West Africa squadron which raided slave ships and shut down the slave trade.
Forgot to mention even in India, when the East India Company ended the practice of Sati in India, where widows were burned alive. The story of its banning is also amazing. The governor general of India arrived and saw a bunch of guys building a pyre, so he asked "why are you building a funeral pyre?" They told him they were going to practice Sati and what it was. The governor said "oh, well if you want to practice your custom of burning widows alive, I will have to practice mine and hang every single one of you for burning a widow alive." He built gallows and subsequently hanged all of them when they brought the widow back to the town to burn her alive. Ever since then, Sati has been banned.
That story is a myth as well as the extent and intent of Sati. Sati was incredibly uncommon and was voluntary self immolation. Much like the Japanese practice of self mummification and the Hindu practice of Samadhi.
Woke garbage
The slayve trade was actually abolished in 1807. The 1833 Slayvery Abolition Act abolished, as the name suggests, slavery itself. A Treasury so loose with its facts might explain something about the state of the British economy. Worse, however, was the claim that British taxpayers helped “buy freedom for slaves”. The government certainly shelled out £20m (about £16bn today) in 1833. Not to free slaves but to line the pockets of 46,000 British slave owners as “recompense” for losing their “property”. Having grown rich on the profits of an obscene trade, slave owners grew richer still from its ending. That, scandalously, was what the taxpayer was paying for until 2015.
@@Ed17908They did spend lots trying to pay Africans to stop selling slaves.
@@MeanBeanComedy “Not to free slaves but to line the pockets of 46,000 British slave owners as recompense for losing their property.”
I am a Spanish Empire history enjoyer. Probably the most demonized out of the modern colonial empires. And it was in the Spanish Empire were the first efforts for human rights & limiting slavery happened on international scale. The life in the Spanish colonies was complex. The peninsular Spaniards were usually the most priviliged but creoles, mestizos & blacks also had rights. Spaniards build cities & started universities in Latin America. I think the Spanish Empire deserves A similar kind of respect as the Roman Empire.
Edit: There was slavery and encomienda system which was quite bad but it was also abolished later. I am not saying Spanish Empire was sunshine and rainbows, I am saying it was not the worst of empires. It was good empire to conquered peoples as far as empires go.
Demonised by the Anglos because on one hand it would make their colonisation look bad (given how many latin-americans are indio and how alive and well indiginous cultures there are compared to what little is left of the First nations) and on the other because most sources are still in Spanish and it's easy to slander someone when your target audience can't fact check you. The French and Spanish were open to both the indiginous peoples as well as the former African slaves after it abolished slavery in 1542 and provided opportunity for them to rise through society.
Here in the Philippines, the native Indios enjoyed more rights than the Chinese migrants that served as the main economic engine of this colony, the Spaniards were afraid of the abilities of the Han Chinese but they couldn't live without them as they provided the Spaniards the creature comforts they demanded that the native Indios were ill equipped to provide, good thing the Chinese empire was mostly inward looking and didn't kick their european butts despite all the atrocities they did to the equally civilized Chinese, in the end most of the Spaniards intermarried with the Chinese and the Chinese also intermarried with the Indios to acquire additional rights, giving birth to the Chinese-European-Indio salad Ilustrado class that led the revolution.
An American travelling to the Philippines in the twilight of the Spanish empire said that the Philippines was a Chinese-British colony with a Spanish flag.
Enomienda system:
@@mnk9073the reason you're speaking English now, you (I assume) consider slavery a moral evil, and (I assume) you believe in the rule of law for all men no matter class, is thanks to the British empire.
What legacy did the Spanish or Portuguese leave?
The 1807 truth will always piss off those who preach the 1619 fabrications.
Technology was part of the reason why the Spanish beat the Aztecs, but it was far from the most important one. 1,000-3,000 muskets and 32 cannons would not have mattered if they were alone, outnumbered roughly a thousand to one. The Native allies were by far the more important part of their victory - and that occurred because the Aztecs were so thoroughly hated by their subjects.
And he literally says that in the video.
The reason the Aztec empire fell was not because of the European battalion or the jealous smaller tribes. They fell because of the small pox.
And even then, horses did more than the guns, especially when you consider the climate they were fighting in as gunpowder at the time had to be kept completely dry. Even a small amount of cavalry is game changing against people who had never seen a horse before.
@@reptowolfe8322 Spanish soldiers used a harquebus, a sort of early musket. The harquebus was undeniably effective against any one opponent, but they are slow to load, heavy, and firing one is a complicated process involving the use of a wick which must be kept lit. See some contemporary native images they draw the conquerors as they saw them at the time of conquering. You’ll notice that guns and cannons are not depicted. They were useless in close encounters. It took too long to recharge them. Spanish soldiers often discarded their own, heavier plate armor, which was uncomfortable in the warmer, moist Mexican climate and prone to rust, in favor of indigenous armor which was lighter and comparatively maintenance-free. Ichcahuipilli were so effective at stopping arrows, darts, and even lead musket shot.
@CantusTropus The “allies” referred to the Spaniards as snakes, such as the Totonac people. At first, the Tlaxcalans fought the conquistadors viciously. Later.... the Tlaxcalans were trying to decide what to do about the Spanish. The Tlaxcalans would supposedly welcome the Spanish but would send their Otomí allies to attack them. Eventually, the Tlaxcalans saw that the Spanish were a greater threat than the Mexica (and had been so all along). Xicotencatl the Younger, who had been leery of the Spanish all along, tried to openly break with them in 1521 and was ordered publicly hanged by Cortes; it was a poor repayment to the young Prince's father, Xicotencatl the Elder, whose support of Cortes had been so crucial. But by the time the Tlaxcalan leadership began to have second thoughts about their alliance, it was too late.
As a person of English and Portuguese descent, I personally love colonizing things, and I suggest everyone try it.
The pakistanis are giving it a good try of colonizing england. Fair play to them.
So. You're saying I can colonize the UK? Cool.
You can try. Just expect resistance.
@@ElectrostatiCrow pakistanis called dibbs on uk. 😂
@@kth6736 🤣
I’m half Greek half Puerto Rican, Greek Orthodox Christian too. I’ve always had a huge respect for my Hispanic Catholic roots. A lot of my ancestors on my Puerto Rican side come directly from Spain and Portugal, I even have a distant aunt that moved to Colorado from Spain in the 1760’s, and died there.
Damn Greek and Puerto Rican? I feel sorry for your neighbors. 😂
Love to the orthodox church
🇬🇷☦️🤝🏻✝️ 🇪🇸
@@floridaman318 a lot of arguing and theatrics bro, it’s insane.
Im half greek half ethiopian. Alexander the Great set up the first greek colonies on the ethiopian red sea coast.........
@@hektorsayenkov based
I'm a native indio. Before I used to despise the Spanish for colonising us but as I have learned about the faith and colonialism, I thank God that it happened for we would have still been in the barbarous ruination that those old empires had established.
Thanks for the great video Pax, God bless!
What tribe?
If I somehow discover the old ancestors who teamed up with the Spanish one day that'd be cool but the Conquistadors hispanized the fuck out of all the subjects except some who were granted more awards.
@@chronicandironic8701only because of the Anglo Protestant masons
@@chronicandironic8701why that’s not very kind
@@alejandroalonso5386 no, spanish systems were literally designed to keep it in a futile caste system. nothing to do with english
@@chronicandironic8701 an imaginary caste system invented by the Protestants for the protestants
As an Irishman I resent Ireland still being a colony now and I want non Irish settler colonists to go home. In fact non European settler colonists can leave Europe and go home.
Oh no... you dont like it when its done to you. 😂😂
meaning?@@kth6736
@@kth6736 Because in no way does it improve the country’s problems dummy
@@kth6736 You say that as if its somehow ironic. The aim is to conquer, not be conquered; but in this case it's even worse. Europe isn't being conquered by superior and competent foes, like the Americas were, Europe is being overrun by rats let in by traitors.
@@kth6736 No, we don’t like our nations being invaded and we will remove the invaders. You are either an unwelcome foreigner or a race traitor.
Latin American here, and I absolutely agree with you. Seeing myself in a country that seeks to erase its own history as if was some kind of monster that's going to get us is sad, seeing how we change our national symbols for random shit noone asked for and that doesn't even represents us, or whatever unimportant thing the gvt gets to do instead of actually do its job. I am no fan of colonialism myself, and I'm glad Simón Bolívar and company fought and managed to create a state for us, and others, but that won't ever make me denounce "Spain", "Catholicism" or even "Colonialism" as a scourge, because they are not. For God's sake, at first our independence movement wasn't even sure if it wanted autonomy or independence
Preguntando por curiosidad, eres Colombiano o Venezolano?
Exactly, independence was IMPOSE on hispanicamerica by privilage criollos who soldout the new countries. Since that moment they've gone basically backwards becoming mid to low tier countries.
¿Fifi hasta el final?
El catolicismo se mezcló en la filosofía neoliberal como herramienta para mantener a la gente miserable bajo el "si no te quiebras la espalda, la oportunidad no es tuya," mientras los cabecillas se enriquecen del diezmo. Eso y la cultura de corrupción en el gobierno es lo que nos trajo España. ¿La arquitectura? Aldausa, o sea Marroquí. ¿La lengua común? Castellana, mutando a sus dialectos locales después. Hicimos lo nuestro.
Si estás contento de que Simón Bolívar se independizase de España, es que no te has enterado de nada.
It’s because they want to wipe away your identity so that their ideology can take over. They are actually being 100% colonialist in nature
When you break down anti colonial claims you get “they shouldn’t have taken the land that didn’t belong to them 😡” as if every country in history has not done that for thousands of years
It's also oddly euro-centric to say that in a backwards kind of way. "Their land" would imply some kind of nation-state or border... A concept plenty of the natives probably didn't have. (Obviously, not all of them. There were plenty of well-established civilizations that probably could've made reasonable territorial claims.)
@@urphakeandgey6308 so true
can’t it still be a bad thing to wipe out or displace other ethnic groups? I might be missing your point but that doesn’t justify it to me, the biggest loss that’s unique to this that I see (as opposed to just mass deaths of random people of different origins) is that you can never get back the things which are lost like languages, literature, other traditions, etc because the conditions that made them are no longer present
@@bober6730 Oh boo hoo, we lost the ancient tradition of cannibalism and religious human sacrifice.
I get what you're saying but old should not be in the way for the better, just out of nostalgia. Quick example, we have en the modernised world lost many ancients practices and techniques and rituals that involve farming and taking care of the land, and replaced them with modern techniques that instead of being backbreaking and barely enough to sustain a small tribe, now can feed nations. Should we starve people and force them back breaking labour just to preserve some idea of old tradition? That further applies to cultural ideas, as everything shapes the human mind, which shapes human living.
@@FishyNiden This wasn’t what I meant to emphasize, I wanted to speak more on things like languages, religious beliefs and practices (with some exceptions), literature, or folklore, so much knowledge was lost that can never be gleamed or the most that’s left is speculation. The people in the Americas had a situation unique to them, as any groups do, but we can’t have as good a grasp on how the people lived or what humans are like within these circumstances as we would have had otherwise. I may be overstating it but it’s something that sticks out to me aside from all the direct human suffering. I do not disagree that it’d hold people back to stick to outdated practices but this wasn’t what I was trying to get at. I don’t think everything should have been preserved but to me there is definitely a loss
God bless the Western World.
Glory to God and the highest! 🙏🏻✝️🇺🇸
The Western World has rejected God and hence is deprived of His blessings.
@@chico9805 We haven’t, let’s be cheerful about that, even for just a moment. 👍🏻
@@Erik_Ochoa013Not really when it was also the West that began the Secular heresy that plagued the modern day. Can't really feel nothing but contempt for it nowadays as its origins of goodwill is disintegrating by each year.
God was brown not white
Many thanks to the Spanish for bringing proper civilization and Catholicism to us
Síndrome de Estocolmo
Aquí había civilizaciones y tú te vas por lo que el primer gringo amante de las lolis te dice
Das vergüenza
@@mellamomati No tienes absolutamente ningún sentido estar loca. ¿Creíste todo lo que enseñan las escuelas públicas sin cuestionarlo y lo llamaste vergonzoso? Como dije, solo estás hablando por ti mismo. Jajajajaja 😂 Di que no viste el video y las pruebas mostradas sin decirlo, por favor.
this had to had been some sort of humiliation ritual
I am from panama we have long spanish colonial history, old cities built by them are still up and used as tourist sites. It is very nice.
@@Erik_Ochoa013 La escuela pública no te enseña eso, la escuela pública depende mucho del país y tiende a ser algo neutra
Y tú tienes cara de whitexican o gringo, posiblemente escribes usando el traductor Google
Slave labor is - ironically - a worse issue today than at any point in history.
History has a fun way of rhyming.
In the middle ages, slavery almost vanished, because it was replaced by serfdom. Serfdom vanished to be replaced by wage slavery. We are still mired deep in that.
@@xhagast "wage slavery"
Is such a nonsense concept. Show me where else in history slaves had anywhere near the rights of modern Americans. Getting paid, having freedom of expression, the freedom to choose what you do for work, the freedom to travel.
You can literally leave the country if you chose to. Point to me where else in history a slave has had any where near the freedom of "wage slaves"
Its just nonsense made up by people who dont want to work. You dont even have to work if you dont want to, plenty of people live alternative lifestyles. We have a robust social security network. Where else in history did slaves have access to welfare?
You are not being FORCED to work. You choose to work because the alternative is not having things. That is not how slavery has ever functioned in the entire history of slavery.
How slavery works is you work and you also still have nothing.
Like point out where in history slaves could vote, run for office or start a business. Its just ridiculous at face value.
Wage slavery is an oxymoron.
@@xhagast and belief in that makes you ignorant. If you’re making a wage from your work, you’re not a slave. You can leave your place of employment at any time.
How dare you break the mold with this video instead of riding the bandwagon
Always a good day when Paxtube uploads
Since Greece "we have" always known the earth is round...
Hey can you talk more about residential schools in Canada? Almost everyone blames the Catholic Church and there's a lot of people hate the Catholic Church here, mostly because it did a "cultural genocide" it would be nice if you cleared up misconceptions about it.
Brian Holdsworth does mostly Catholic apologetics in short form but I remember him doing a video on it. Lifesite News is also Canada based and they've done several videos and articles.
I asked for that a while ago...On his last video, maybe?
He might not do it, as it's a very recent event. He'll probably stick with older, more impactful events in history.
This much is true. More than "evangelization," it was a face-wash of the local gods turning them into the saints indigenous worship today in an ironic turn.
It isn't as if Protestants didn't steal Indian children and lock them up in schools. Catholics at least did not despise them.
Perhaps you should behave like an adult and actually provide some evidence to back up your accusations, since you're the one making them. The onus of proof is on the person who is making the claim. @@spiderham5514
As a young man, I also thought that colonization was an utter disaster. Strangely enough, my country never had any colonies (titular "ownership" of Trinidad-Tobago hardly counts), so my opinion was not based on guilt, but rather on books I read and media I consumed.
Nowadays, in my fifties, I do have quite a different opinion. Smallpox and other diseases, yes, that was a huge problem. It went both ways, the balance depended on the exact region, and it was just about the only obvious and unquestioned negative consequence of colonization, or simply contact.
Everything else seems like either a "hard to tell", or a net benefit.
What’s your country?
@@gch8810 Poland
as someone from trinidad and tobago i can tell you that the small time poland/Courland had us isnt even mentioned during schooling, just an obscure fact for us history guys.
History today is written by the winners, so why is it that everything White civilization has accomplished is pure evil when they took control of the world for over a thousand years? Who is writing the history books then and why is it always the same group?
Were those people better off BEFORE or after colonialism?
We should be thankful for these brave Colonists, they were able to truly transform entire parts of the world for the better
And also to the good folk from syria, afghanistan and libya... who continue their good work by colonizating europe today.
@@kth6736 skill issues
@@kth6736
Syria was one of the first Christian countries.
What is flooding Europe & the USA is Luciferian power of the Rothschilds...who take advantage of the collapse of Christian Europe through the Rothschilds' provoked world wars...and promotion of abortion through their financing of "Planned Parenthood"
@@kth6736
If you're serious, then I have to tell you the incoming European administrations with erase any colonial attempts by these backwards barbarians through deportation laws. So no, the European countries would be among those which resist colonization.
Ah yes the entirety of native north americans have been eradicated from the earth, absolutely incredible :D. Thats not even including what happened in tasmania
One thing I would like to add is that here in brazil during the enslavement of the natives the catholic church (jesuits) actually saved many because if they choose to become christians they couldn`t be enslaved. I don't know if that happened in other countries
It famously happened in Paraguay in very large numbers. The Jesuits also saved many in Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Around 700 thousand natives were converted this way and thus saved from slavery in only around 150 years. Around 150 thousand of them would live in communes built by the Jesuits known as Indian reductions. A very interesting example of "socialist theocracy", as some like to call it.
Yes most of them brave men
That doesn't sound very Christian though?
That sounds more like a consolation prize than a good thing about colonization
@@mellamomati we were still clement for the Aztec
Ironically one of the most brutal colonial empires, the Belgian empire began and ended long after the heights of the spanish and portugese empires (at least when they were proper empires) and existed up until the cold war. This is even more true if you count the japanese as a colonial empire (even though they were more like a general imperialist empire, ironically like historic chinese empires)
The spainish and portugese empires despite their faults kept around the native cultures of latin america better than the north american colonial nations did. You can still admire an historical empire for their accomplishments even if you dont agree with them from a moral prospective. Just like how many people admire the romans or british empires.
Also saying the only europeans in general were responsible for brutality downplays the histories of other civilizations, include native american tribes. And would also imply that the poles or balkaners had a great 19th century, which couldnt be further from the truth
The Americas had some important crops that would be hugely beneficial to the rest of the world including corn/maize, potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, pumpkin, squash, chocolate, and tobacco.
The colonizers brought these crops back to the Old World and helped humanity across the globe stay alive that much easier.
Chili peppers too
What Europeans got from Native Americans: Windtalkers that won the US the world war, Corn, Chile peppers, Bubble gum, Rubber, Chocolate, Vanilla, Beans, Tomato, Potatoes, Avocados, Amaranth, Cranberries, Grapes, cherries, Berries, Blueberries, Black cherries, Bald eagles, Turkeys, snow goggles, Raised bed agriculture, Baby bottles, Suspension bridges, Idk why people hate on Native Americans. They are incredible people and the human sacrifice don't define them just like the olds worlds human sacrifices (in different forms) did not define them.
I was reading a history of knitting around the world and it was really cool to see how Spaniards from different regions taught different knitting techniques to natives in Peru vs Guatemala. E.g., rural Peruvians knit in the round, mostly purling, on five needles, and they employ intarsia for their ear flapped hats, whereas rural Guatemalans mostly knit and use a thicker weight of yarn.
And in the Pacific Northwest the Sisters of St. Ann were one of many missionary groups who set up schools for knitting instruction exclusively for natives. Settlers shared knitting patterns with natives as their neighbors and natives made their own knitting patterns!
I realize this may not sound exciting but it makes me a bit emotional to think of how real relationships between settlers and indigenous are erased by revisionist history.
Cotton nor silk originated in Europe. Cotton and a silk like material been in the Americas.
7:58 totally unrelated but I think being a fan of Age of Empires II (and other RTS games) when I was like 11 or 12 had a significant impact on my religious and political views later in life
I love it when Pax talks about history I always learn something
Im a public school history teacher,
I managed to teach my classes that the conquest of the Aztec empire at least was a good thing. Wish I could do more.
Public school history teacher as well. I teach at the AP level. I'm constantly working to try and find a way to balance out the dominant, liberal-leftist views that are espoused by a good deal of the curriculum with more conservative or libertarian counterpoints, or even just simply finding ways to create an honest examination of multiple points of view politically and philosophically. It is a lot of work, but I'm finding it increasingly worthwhile for both the students and for myself.
I went to school in the weird middle-period where they weren't yet rewriting history for the giggles, but were trying to make certain things seem like grave atrocities instead of glorious triumphs, and let me tell you... the colonial history of Mesoamerica did not make a lot of sense to us as it was taught.
"So these agents of their empire braved horrific dangers and nigh insurmountable odds, toppled violent, cannibalistic theocratic regimes, returned to their homeland with amazing treasures, luxuries and stories of a far-away land, then settled the region... and they were the bad guys? Are... you sure?"
Wow you are a fucking terrible teacher, its widely accepted by historians that Spanish conquest of Mexico caused a massive depopulation of the area, like the Aztec empire was pretty bad to many of its subjects but the Spanish took the fucking cake.
@@Bobo-ox7fjhey look up the historical estimates of the population of Mexico before and after Spanish conquest, truly such good guys. Also you forget the part where they spent the next 300 years implementing forced labour and wiping out native religions and culture.
@@Bobo-ox7fjtbh, i would argue both were bad guys. But spanish were definitely lesser evil here - at least they didnt sacrifice people to gods
As someone from Honduras, I can personally see what people mean with how the Spanish Empire did very bad things to our country and people; but at the same time, I have to be thankful because it brought the Christian worldview to our countries and threw out the pagan traditions the natives used to have
You are thankful for the fact that they brought to you a middle eastern religion that glorified blind faith, humiliation and martyrhood while demonising all heroic values and everything that constituted your civilisation and at the same time persecuted every other faith?? Talk about Stockholme syndrome!!!
@@jimakisspdseethe heretic.
What bad things did they do?
@@whyismyricewet1986 they killed natives, made them into servants for centuries, took our natural resources, etc.
Una pequeña ironía: Más que "cristianizar" la cultura pagana en lo que quedó fue en lavarle la cara a los dioses locales, volviendolos los santos hoy adorados.
Y para añadir insulto, la doctrina Catolica incluso contradice la enseñanza de Cristo "la salvación es solo por a fé," cambiandolo por una doctrina de "si no te rompes la espalda no te lo mereces" por rituales y el catecismo. Mi madre dejo pasar muchas oportunidades por esas enseñanzas; no creer que se las "ganó."
19:00 Okay but didn't Hulagu Khan literally launch disease ridden bodies into towns he was besieging?
Hulagu was not European
@@user-xq6xu3fo8c And?
Unless the bodies were plague victims, that’s highly unlikely to have been intentional (the disease-ridden part). There was no germ theory at the time. The best concept you would have gotten was that dead bodies could make people sick if left unburied.
Yes he did, however the actions of one Asian man should not dictate how we treat all Asians. Just as the actions of one white man shouldn’t effect how people treat whites
@@xxxchild_predatorxxx107 I'm just saying it's not an accurate comparison
Average Colonizing Enjoyer: “Sorry, but the sacrifices must stop.”
At 4:30 your point is ever so strong. It was likely BECAUSE of the fact that European countries were thriving so well that they began to colonize. One of the common threads among colonial societies is that they're thriving and have a colossal (if not then at least relatively larger) economy and/or population that needs to continue growing for it to prosper. In Napoleonic France, both during the revolution and afterwards, France's population grew from 20 million to 30 million despite rampant famine and war. The population of all neighboring countries (England, Spain, Prussia) respectively hadn't even reached 20 million yet. In short, colonial countries just outgrew their home so they sought space to grow their society and preach their customs. After all you can't expand to influence others if you're not first flourishing in your own home.
Really underrated point.
no, actually because of turkish, and their war with muslim, for example netherland was so dependent with the latin and turk they began to have their own rute.
the latin age of discovery was so focused with christianity.
We ready for new Pax Tube video
The problem is that the colonialist policy of the British/Americans is usually extrapolated to any other type of colonization. If you compare British colonization with Spanish colonization you will see that they could not be more different from each other in many aspects.
Its always a great day when Pax Tube uploads. Hes legitimately one of my favorite UA-camrs
Mine too. However, his days are numbered on UA-cam.
@kafon6368 it makes me sad, he's such a nice guy 😢
@THIRDR0ME pretty sure the guys sources in previous videos have been blogs that were used in the manifestos of shooters. He's awful and so is what he preaches.
@@alexh2947 I think we can learn a lot more from each other rather than throwing around baseless accusations, yes?
@@alexh2947he’s just doing what others have been doing: resisting hostile forces attacking him and his people.
It's upsurd that anyone would think europe was less than thriving before colonization, because you need resources to colonize and explore
It was an over-thousand-year-long process to heal from, not the dark ages, but the stagnation or slow demise of the Roman Empire.
@@jacklaurentius6130 the dark ages itself is nonsense Byzantine was the dark ages, clearly very advanced and Arabs got all their knowledge from Byzantine, the idea that Celtics were barbarians is also nonsense, full iron swords by 800 bce, urban areas, writing, coins, trade routes, and steel was made by Celtics at noric and Celtics actually had metal breast plates and helmets, the woke agenda has been going on a lot longer than people realize, Celtics are shown as naked idiots no better off then bantus
Golden Age Middle East took Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance/Scientific Revolution era.
These are all things I was taught in a very liberal part of California. I graduated in 2017. I don't have kids so I can't speak on what's being taught now. But I feel that the big issue is that people are purposefully ignoring and forgetting what they learned in school. Everyone knows that the colonizers were brutal and bad people by modern standards. But liberals don't understand human nature and moral relativity.
As a spaniard i would like to apologize.....
TO ABSOLUTELY NO ONE!!!!
VIVA ESPAÑA🇪🇸⚔️
VIVA CRISTO REY ✝️
Basado 💯 🇪🇸
@@JLxavyo are you christian?
@@CatholicCrusaderofYeshua yess
@@JLxavyo also from spain ?
Yet lost every colony in a single century alongside being a world power, yikes bro.
I am Protestant and I think I'm a part of a minority in my Faith, I think Colonization was a good thing. the mighty past of Catholic European Colonization has done wonders for our modern world, although I do not agree with Catholic doctrine, I do agree with their great mission to spread the Gospel to the new world. and for that, I couldn't be more grateful to the Holy Catholic Church.
Also being European American I'm glad I live in a country that got Colonized! The greatest Country on God's green earth is a result of Colonization.
It's true that the spaniards ended the human sacrifice in the Aztec Empire and 'liberated' the yanaconas (slaves) in the Inca Empire, but there were also some excesses that promote the independence movements, that's why we as latinoamericans and catholics shouldn't hold any grudge against the former Metropoli because we are the result of the best from both worlds🧐
Most of the independence movements had the explicit support of secularists of the enlightenment and foreign powers there was nothing organic about those brother wars
The independence, was between criollos (europeans born there) and the crown, not the aboriginal population. Once they achieved their self governance, natives protection laws were abolished asap, they had their priorities clear. Now those descendents blame Spain for what they got.
a quien vas a engañar carnalin? ;)
@@HistoriaenCeluloide Conoces el dicho popular? Cuando el burro toma la linde, la linde se acaba y el burro sigue.
no@@GXSergio
Hey man, you could make a sort of series where you're an Inquisitor putting all of those terrible Christian characters on trial, starting with the "Christians" of Castlevania.
Netflix's Castlevania is obviously hating on the church and made Dracula some kind of misunderstood villain. Its disgusting
Same. It's genuinely so bad that it pretty much killed any remaining interest I had in the entire series. Need I even mention Castlevania Nocturne because if Roger Ebert was still alive and he suddenly began reviewing shows, let's just say we'd get another North review.
Kind of sad that there aren't many Christian (much less Catholic) characters in anime as the only two that come to my mind are Alexander Anderson from Hellsing and Rosette Christopher from Chrono Crusade.
@@PeruvianPotato true, but there are plenty in other media, like cartoons, and movies.
@@JMObyx Yep but be wary of the depiction of Christianity itself as films such Priest (1994) and Stigmata (1999) are perfect examples of blatant mockery of Catholicism.
“In this house Columbus is a hero end of discussion”
Sopranos!
I donta lika da Colombas. He is froma the Northa!!
Sopranos references are always a win
He was a pedo
I always found it weird and a little bit suspect that when Columbus found it the New World all the Jews and Muslims was expelled from Spain in 1492
Don't forget the GigaBased Polish Colonial Empire im South America, which consisted of a part of the island of Tobago.
Tbf they helped to found Haiti even though Poland didn't exist anymore. Which is why the Polish are the only Whites that are allowed to own property in Haiti.
damn bro didn't knew that, that's quite amazing actually lmao
It's not just Europe. Even China during the Ming era was onto overseas expeditions, for example invading Sri Lanka and installing a king loyal to the Chinese emperor, and this happened under the explorer commander Zheng He's watch.
If Europe won't do it, someone else will.
China did go to africa but was like "theres literally nothing there, lets close all contact outside we have everything lmao". This would be a mistake tho
@@goodstuff6006 and now they’re doing it again, having learned from that mistake.
@@John-fk2ky well, judging by the one road initiative, i think they learned plenty, its just that theyre antagonizing people while at it
@@goodstuff6006 that's what European kingdoms thought of too, even as late as 1700s they have nothing there but coastal outposts as stops for their trading ships. It is only after Livingstone's exploration in the early 1800s that Africa began getting ganged up and gobbled by the European countries on full scale.
Thanks for this channel. It's desperately needed today.
One of the best examples for how much exaggeration there is in the mainstream media on colonization is Brazil. For the first couple hundred years, the most spoken language in the colonies was Tupi, a native language, not Portuguese. The Jesuits learned and teached Tupi to the newcomers. Saint Joseph of Anchieta wrote down the whole grammar of the language and his writings are still the main source when it comes to learning it. The point is, the Portuguese didn't even bother to force their language onto the Natives. And before becoming independant, Brazil, then called Terra de Santa Cruz (Land of the Holy Cross), was the second most important member of the United Kingdom of Portugal ond the Land of the Holy Cross. During the Napoleonic wars, the capital of said Kingdom was in Brazil, since the royal family moved there. The Declaration of Independency was pretty sketchy and had tons of free mason influences, which also managed to ban the country's founders, the Jesuits, from it. The Foundation of the Republic was also not a great day, since it was essentially a big coup d'état by the military moved by the pressure of slave-owning third party elites who couldn't deal with the fact that the Princess at the time, under influence of the Catholic Church, abolished slavery. All of that to say: Brazil was better off with the Portuguese.
Marcelo Andrade disse que o Brasil era chamado na época do império de "Estado do Brasil", eu acho que a Terra de Santa Cruz foi usado até o período da União Ibérica, aí dps virou Estado do Brasil msm.
@@MenezarianDuck O professor Loryel Rocha também, se ainda não assistiu, recomendo assistir ;)
Fundamentally, most premodern people believed in the idea of implicitly in the right of conquest. It is hard for us to understand such a mindset because our dominant values is based on liberalism. Where all humans are born with innate individuals rights, so the right of conquest doesn't fit in. At the end of the world war 2, the UN explicitly banned the right of conquest.
Well in some parts of the world. Let's be honest that we live in a shiny bubble that separates us from that world. The majority of the world doesn't live in that.
Funny considering the China situation.
The Spanish were the ONLY empire that considered what you wonder: Do we have the right to do that? They stopped the conquest for a year and brought together the "wise men" of the time to discuss it. This event is known as "La Junta de Valladolid".
From this came the Indian laws, what we could call the antecedents of human rights. This happend in 1550-1551.
Yeah because people shouldn't have a right to conquest? That's not a normal thing to do and expansion isn't a good thing.
Yh sure they did , europes been legally invaded since after ww2 😂
An excellent resource is the book, "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization" by Dr. Thomas Woods. Great video, but just one correction: St. Junipero Serra was a member of the Franciscans, not the Jesuits.
That that ewish newspaper claims rates were "comparable" makes me wonder what exactly they consider comparable. Is double the rate of non-ews comparable? Triple? Ten times the rate? Maybe it's only one and half times the rate. Are the rates actually comparable, or do they only seem that way because the non-american ews did so at a far higher rate?
10:00 THIS! Now, it's probably easy to imagine places like Nevada being almost completely deserted. However, Kentucky and Pennsylvania were almost completely deserted as well. Kentucky only had some sparse settlements of Mingo and Shawnee along the Ohio River only. Nothing in the interior. Similarly with Pennsylvania, there were only about 4000 Lenape Delaware and such at one spot along the coast. And they willingly moved from the area after selling their interest in that area to William Penn in the Treaty of Shackamaxon (they moved to upper NY state and Canada). I like to joke that most of Pennsylvania remains in it's pristine, original uncolonized state to this day. Drive through it some time and you'll see ;-)
another great video Pax! Thanks for the ammo, and keep em coming!
The oldest and first University in Asia is from the Philippines which is Santo Tomas built in 1611 by the patronage of the Spanish Monarchy, and by the 19th century it become the Highest living standard in Asia . Just saying Spanish treat their colonies better than the rest of other colonial empire, yet they still demonized the Spanish colonialism, Spanish colonialism ain't perfect but it's better than others when it comes to treating the natives
I don’t see colonizers as demons, although they were definitely capable of atrocities that definitely happened. But it’s always important to see the goods and Bads of a certain thing instead of saying it was only bad or only good.
Very well put 👏
SO many people came to this video to hate on it and not learn anything and some of these comments show
The Spanish “colonization” was sort of more like a conquest, when Britain colonized any part of the world, they didn’t make “other britains” but when Spain conquered any part of the world, they made “other spains” in fact, the different viceroyalties and parts of Spain were called “las Españas” or “the spains”
You could pretty much say, Spanish colonization was almost like Roman conquest, but way less brutal on some aspects, Spanish viceroyalties were also integral parts of the crown, just as other viceroyalties of Spain in Europe, like Naples, Valencia or Galicia.
There’s also a book about the way Spain treated slaves, it claims they were treated way more humanely than other empires of the north.
The book’s named: “Slave and citizen: the negro of the Americas”
NO way the colonizers were all 100% evil and any idea that they were different in how they handled it or opportunities in a complex system that would take thousands of pages to actually push is a right wing lie. Or something along those lines.
In fact, the British slaves fled to the Spanish colonies. They founded Fort Moses, the first free black settlement in North America.
Least cucked hispanic
Something you didn't say is that Spanish colonization was totally different from English colonization
although it was especially because they had different contexts since the Spanish🇪🇸 encountered great civilizations such as the Incas, Aztecs, and Mayans. On the other hand, the English🇬🇧 encountered small tribes
Honestly, I wish he put more emphasis on the british
@@Eho-xj4jyWere the Chinese not a great civilisation when the British took Hong Kong?
@@Valencetheshireman927 What I wanted to say with my comment is that British colonization and Spanish colonization were very different since the Spanish mixed with the indigenous people and during the Spanish empire there was racial mixing, which is why today in Latin America there are many mestizos (mixed race).
On the other hand, the English did not mix with the natives, and the reason why the English did not mix is because they found small tribes that they considered uncivilized.
@@mysampson284He is Catholic so he probably emphasizes more on the Catholic type of colonization
Im waiting for Pax to make a video about British Jacobitism because we all know that this is inevitebly coming.
I just found your channel today, binged all your videos and subscribed. Can’t wait for more. Finally someone on this platform unafraid to tell us the truth.
It's nice to see you still post pax
Absolutely *BASED*
Average chad based catholic. I do agree with most of what he said (I’m not a catholic) though I think people have such a negative view on colonialism they forget to see the hard work of those who came before them like we can’t deny slavery and war happened but at the same time you can’t name single society outside of Japan, that has never had slavery and even the Japanese has the “untouchables” the differences is that Roman society made the world a overall better place with industrialism and intellectualism.
Great video! I hope you make more.
great video, thanks for your work!
I was wondering where you’ve been, glad to see you’re well. Your work is always well done and appreciated. I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas. Keep colonizing my friends.
I watched his video on the crusades and ended up buying the book Gods Battalions. It was fascinating.
Can anybody recommend something similar on this topic?
"Blood, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond and "Civilization: The West and the Rest" by Niall Ferguson
@@motionpictures6629 Thanks so much. I'll check them both out!
@@Th3BigBoy Keep in mind that Jared Diamond isn't exactly Euro-friendly.
@@katydidd6321 I see. I guess that's par for the course at this stage, unfortunately.
@@Th3BigBoy it's still a decent read, but personally I find myself referring to books that were written prior to 1940 for the most honest assessments of history.
Brazilian here. I used to resent the Portuguese because they are portrayed in our schools as evil colonizers. My grandmother, who is indian, found out about this and said that if it weren't for the portuguese, her people would still have no written language and would still be sacrificing their babies to gods who look like demons. She felt nothing but gratitude, and i now feel the same way.
I even wish Protugal and Brazil would become one nation again under the rule of the Royal Family. Democracy never worked for us.
Technicaly the deaths due to colinialism outway the deaths due to sacrafice.
@@tinypanda2218 depends on what people you are referring to. Regardless, sacrifice was going on for millenia, it's very unlikely that colonialism caused more deaths.
@@Rivershield Eurpe is not one of the regions where writing developed independently….. Latin Alphabet derived from Egyptian/Phoenician alphabet. Europe don’t even have their own numerals. So it would be the other way around. Meanwhile in the Americas, MesoAmerica is part of the few regions in the world where writing developed independently.
@@Ed17908 The mesoamerican civilizations who had written language all trace it back to a foreigner who brought it to them.
That point is inocuous. All civilizations trace back to one single couple created by God, so everyone developed with some form of external influence or heritage. It doesn't really matter, what matters is how and to what extent one developed.
European civilization clearly developed beyond any other.
You don't really believe central american monkeys turned into humans over time and then developed a civilization, right? That's ridiculous.
Regardless, none of the brazilian tribes were civilized. Europeans brought us civilization.
@@basilmagnanimous7011 Cradles of civilization are in the East. The influence is the other way around from the very start….
Iron working was introduced to Europe in the late 11th century BC, from the Caucasus, and slowly spread northwards and westwards over the succeeding 500 years. Europeans didn’t even invent the wheel. The wheel was invented in the 4th millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia(modern-day Iraq). The oldest evidence of wheels in India, for example, dates from 4,500 years ago. The wheel did not reach Europe until 3,000 years ago. In the Old World, one of the last peoples to adopt the wheel were the Britons just 2,500 years ago. Europeans were hunter gathers until Middle Easterners introduced farming.... Researchers already knew that agriculture in Europe appeared in modern-day Turkey around 8,500 years ago, spreading to France by about 7,800 years ago and then to Britain, Ireland and Northern Europe approximately 6,000 years ago. I could go on and on!
Thank you Pax Tube, with this and the crusades video I can justify what i’ve been feeling about european history as a whole. I now support and subscribe to you. very cool
God bless you Pax, hope you had a Merry Christmas!
small hats envy of christian contributions
Jesus called them out in his letter to the Church of Philadelphia after all. Revelations 3:9
@@Erik_Ochoa013 And we know those are Jesus's words how?
Modern logic:
Colonialization: Bad if we did it hundreds of years ago, good when it happens to us now.
Thankyou for the vids.
Thank you so much for this video! It is so needed to speak out about what really happened in the past, both the good and the bad, so that we can analyze in its fullness. Keep it up Pax!
As a Brazilian, that was the best thing to ever happen here.
Had to rephrase this comment twice so UA-cam stopped deleting it... apparently you can't say C-nization was good for your own country.
I'm glad man's finally getting a sponsorship after making such good videos for so long
Excellent video!❤ Loved every part of it! It’s always fulfilling to see that at least some people are interested in putting subjects like these into perspective! You’ve earned yourself another subscriber!
Every time I watch one of your videos it’s like a breath of fresh air
Pax be spittin facts
This is the first video of yours I've seen, and it's superb. You not only dragged the ridiculous propaganda into the light, but you brought up a lot of excellent points I've never thought about before, like the Mongols bringing the plague to Europe. You got a new sub.
Extremely well researched and done
This has gotta to be the best UA-cam channel; thank you for the effort and may God bless you and your family!
beautifully done as always Pax. upload more. YT needs more people like you. God bless
Proud hispaniard ("latina" for the anglos) our countries now suck because of Divine Punishment. Viva España! Viva Cristo Rey!
I wasn’t taught how epic it was
Dude seeing your post is blessing keep up the awesome videos
Great work pax!
Sorry Aztecs,the human sacrifice will stop now
You act like the old world didn't kill people. Get over yourself. The human sacrifice was wrong, but so was genocide in the name of our lord.
@@Dude_of_the_twel-sevent_order genocide of the natives never happened at the hands of the Spanish. That is historical revisionism.
The Mexica were responsible for the genocide of many tribes,tribes that they built their empire on.
I believe the person who needs to get over themselves is you.
It was water drying up in certain places that caused migration from one place to another. The Mexica history is brutal. They were the last of 12 tribes to move southward into ancient Mexico. They were not allowed to settle in land because other tribes had claim. So they pushed them into wastelands that were filled with venomous snakes. They invented had to invent gardens that floated in lakes. When a civilization becomes successful they expand. All civilizations in the history of earth did this including Europeans. Like all empires before them they conquered and made vassal states. They never genocided other tribes. They had to learn to adapt to a crazy world like all civilizations. The Mexica weren't as bad as my Spanish ancestors painted them up to be. Actually Cortez the conquistador actually wrote a letter saying that Tenochtitlan was actually grander and more beautiful than any city in Europe.
Don't assume the Mexica were terrible, because if we go by your standards, then every single European nations where just as a bad. Maybe you should be the one to take a second glance at what you have heard. Because history is written by the victors. Every European civilization has done some form of historical revisionism.@@AntiquatedApe
@@Dude_of_the_twel-sevent_order The Mexica _were_ terrible. And with the expansion of their empire they stomped many tribes completely out of existence. That is sufficient to call a genocide. A genocide on each tribe that they wiped out. There's a reason other tribes cooperated with the Europeans to destroy Mexica.
I'm aware that everyone was violent. The thing that pisses me off is that only Europeans get shit for it.
@@Dude_of_the_twel-sevent_order the history I've heard is the history that paints the Spanish as villains and the peaceful holy Aztecs were genocided by them. Neither of these things are true,it's not me with the distorted view of history. It's the people who ignore the fact that their ancestors were brutal savages during conquest just like everybody else's.
When I was younger I was taught that the conquistadors were all bad. But now I notice that the old Spanish empire has the greatest number of indigenous Americans and mixed Indigenous Americans. It turns out that when a multitude of infectious diseases are introduced to a new people it can be a real life saver if you have a monastery nearby with people who are already immune and have a long tradition of nursing care even of strangers.
but the disease wouldn't have been there in the first place if the conquistadors hadn't arrived, ofc it's not their fault but they did plenty of other shenanigans that were definitely their fault.
@@rubex229 disease spreading to the natives was an inevitability. Pretending it wasn't is just ridiculous.
@rubex229 and yet it turned out that the Spanish empire had more survivors than the English. The Spanish conquered and reduced the population to serfdom (although they may have been serfs before), but the key was that they were the King's subjects, not outsiders. In the English cultural empire, they were outsiders until the 20th century. Outsiders have fewer legal protections, subjects have some.
The areas that became part of the English cultural empire were settled much later. There is evidence that diseases reached those areas well ahead of Europeans. The first records of the areas large populations were witnessed, but the second much later exploration the populations observed were much less. A key factor in surviving the diseases that we get shots for these days is good nursing care or even any nursing care. Some diseases (like measles) spread so fast that an entire population can catch it at the same time (practically speaking). If everyone is sick, there's no one to nurse anyone.
@@krakenmckraken9128 Yeah I said it wasn't their fault
Wonderful explanation!
Thank you sir. Best video I've seen in a long time.
Right before my lesson in 4th grade Social Studies about the conquistadors, I coincidentally checked out a book from the school library about Aztec human sacrifices. So when we got to the lesson and the textbook painted Hernan Cortes as a genocidal monster for destroying the Aztec empire, my sole thought was "They expect us to _root for_ the mass-murdering demon worshippers?!"
Yep, just like all other civilizations who did the same thing when they conquered land and developed countries.
You sound racist.
Christopher Columbus:
Christopher = Christ bearer
Colombus = Dove
This man was sent by the Holy Ghost in order to bring Christ to a whole new continent and expand His Holy Church to the ends of the world.
In a letter written to Doña Juana de la Torre of the royal court of Queen Isabella, Columbus brags about making money from capturing indigenous girls and selling them as sex slaves. “Those from nine to ten are now in demand,” he wrote.
He was actually recalled to Spain, arrested, and imprisoned for a time when word of his barbaric cruelty reached Isabella’s court, though King Ferdinand later pardoned him and restored his land and titles.
Venezuelan here. Though all the lies my school system had teached me about colonization I'm very proud of my past and everything had to happen for me to be here right now. I hope to know Spain one day
I just learned of this channel from my favorite brother and these videos are a breath of fresh air. Thanks for teaching the truth about history.
my boy getting sponsored lets gooooo
Hot ground to step an opinion on but
I wouldn't say in general "past colonization is a good thing we should focus on the positive things".
The whole story brought so much death, cruelty and pain that shouldn't be overlooked. Its like people saying yeah but there were also good things in the third reich, communism or what ever we should remind on those.
In my opinion we should be aware of the responsibility of our actions. The destruction we can cause and the respect for each other we can give.
Taking advantage of the "poor" or "uncivilized", enslaving, conquering. Whole civilizations died out and the cherry picking europeans need to place their stamp on it I could rage about it for much longer all those things don't get my approval.
Those times were very harsh and I'm very very thankful to live in peace today.
Thanks for all the tributes that mankind had to bring to get us into this position.
We should be aware of them and learn from it.
The age of exploration must have been the most exciting time in history.
Another awesome video, keep up the great work
Pax! I have a question, will you do a response video to Fredda's video "debunking" your video on the crusades.