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What Was Aztec Hygiene Like
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2024
- The Aztec, a collective of Mesoamericans who thrived from the 14th to the 16th centuries, were the inheritors of ancient cultural traditions from their Olmec, Mayan, and Toltec predecessors. Aztec hygiene practices reflected earlier practice, continuing a dedication to cleanliness and purity.
When Spanish conquerors first encountered the Aztec peoples during the early 16th century, they were amazed by their techniques for keeping themselves and their surroundings clean. A stark contrast to European practices at the time, the Aztec empire went to great lengths to provide clean water to the masses, rid the air of perceived pollutants, and use natural ingredients to promote health and hygiene.
#Hygiene #Aztecs #WeirdHistory
Legend has it that when Hernan Cortes met the aztecs in Tenochitlan, the aztecs covered the Spaniards in rose pedaled chains around their necks. The Spaniards saw themselves in their eyes as gods, while the aztecs were trying to get rid of their odor.
History is all about perspective
😄 tee-hee-hee
Lol
@Ooki Cooki You trolling.
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@Ooki Cooki
We found the offended Caucasian...
Fun facts: Aztecs used to put flower on their noses while being close to Spaniards to not have to smell them.
Omg that's funny and sad at the same time lol
Dang
What scent to anticipate from people that sailed on ships for months?Do enlighten me
LMFAO!!!!!!
Incredible, also in what is California, USA today, the native Chumash of the missions would make tiny satchels of srap material filled with sage and hold them to their noses so as to not smell the Spanish (Mexican) travelers coming overland from Sonora.
Their hygiene was better than than some people that I actually know today.
Right? Shit lol
Sad but true
Yourself?
@@graciadanielle1966 I take a bath once a year what's the problem. LOL!
@@stinkanator570 where is Hagar the Horrible when you really need him.
When the Aztecs were cleaner than the later French royalty in Versailles.
@Jose Hernandez but they did know about hygiene from the romans, they chose to be filthy (to this day, from personal experience with them)
Came here to say this 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@roman51220 I agree with you. 😉
They were sacrificing people to make sure the sun rose, so there is that.
@@davidjones3165 No different from Europe that brutally tortured people for not being catholic, and besides every civilization has practiced human sacrifice.
After watching hygiene in Versailles this is really mind boggling
Wypipo don't clean
@@tanie3543 still
Yesss 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Not quite the "Savages" we were made out to be.
Well said. A marked difference.
As Mexican I feel very happy when you make videos about the prehispanic cultures and you do it well.
Nowadays we still have the tradition of bathing daily, and being clean is a very important part of our daily live, when I first knew some countries do not bath daily I was shocked honestly.
You are wrong. A daily bath is normal everywhere, except when that is not possible for some reason.
Of course there are people who don't do that, but people are free to do as they want. If I stay at home I don't need to take a bath every single day, but if I go out and do some physical activity of course I bath, sometimes twice in the same day.
@@mikatu basically by saying that you don't bath daily you're proving the other guy's point 😂😂😂😂
In my family, (from PR) we were taught to shower twice a day. Before you leave home or sometime in the AM, and when you get home or before bed. The only ppl shocked we shower 2x a day are white people. I get shocked when the women tell me they don't shower before heading out to work! I'm like wow.
I think it depends on where in the world you live, as someone who lives in a reasonably cold part of Northern Europe who doesn't do a job that requires manual labour or often do an intense workout when I go to the gym I feel safe in only having one bath/ shower a day
North Korean barely bath once a week.
I give a lot of grief when these types of docs are inaccurate and so I now have to give praise to the channel for being respectful to the culture and finally using more correct images when depicting things. My hats off to the people at Wierd History
It's not accurate at all, one second in he uses a woman in a costume and the temple of kukulkan or "chichen itza" which is maya NOT Mexica.
Maybe you should just make your own UA-cam documentaries since you seem to know everything
@@Chactemal That's why I said more correct rather than absolutely correct lol
@@Wayne_155 Nah, I wouldn't know where to start and I never claimed to know everything
They love to spread lies.
Hernan Cortez first meeting the Aztecs
Aztecs: YOU GUYS SMELLS LIKE DEATH!
Hernan Cortez: "Jokes on you....we'll take anything we want and will use you".
They should have headed their noses’ warning.
When the pilgrims arrived in what is now the United States, just one year later after Columbus... one of the pilgrims had recorded (which is researchable) his seeing and describing Native American peoples bathing in rivers. Other available information researchable is that Native Americans of the now United States, had also “used brush sticks and chewed herbs” to clean and freshen their breaths with also bathing daily.
Unlike the Europeans of that time. Which is why they brought all the diseases they were carriers of here.
Funny enough, what you just said is historically correct, when they first entered Tenochtitlan, they were received with incense and "Copal" smoke, not because they were perceived as divine beings, but because they smelled like ass.
@@hollowDEBL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
I’m Mexican American. My grandma was super clean she would mop the cement in the backyard. My mom is super clean. My dad is super clean. We might have been broke but we always kept everything really clean. I had to always be well kept, no body odor, no leftover food on my face. Always presentable. It all makes sense now.
What you meant to say was that you are indigenous?
@@mcmandy086 I'm indigenous.
Cleanliness is next to Godliness. We were raised this way as well.
So true everyone who is Mexican is such a clean freak and germaphobe lol
Leftover food on your face??
I'm so impressed by how aztec people prioritize cleanliness.
I’m not attempting to shit on you or anything, I realized this growing up but it seems so impressive because we were taught a white washed version of history. They tried to justify the genocide of native people by claiming we were savages and less intelligent people in comparison to white people. It seems impressive because Europeans have convinced us that their customs and history is the standard everyone else was to live up to even if that meant slowing others down until they caught up. When we are shown examples of other cultures thriving in basic ways it’s considered impressive or astonishing because we internalized the stereotypes and misinformation the way Europeans dreamed of.
@@arceliagomez9223 Sad but true...
That...and killing.
@@arceliagomez9223 Well I guess the Museum in Mexico City got it wrong as well. Confirming massive human sacrifice, cannibalism, flaying alive and all those other activities of such an advanced people.
@@stevenaleshire7941 tell me you’re offended without telling me you’re offended lmao. You are obviously oblivious to the blatant acts of cannibalism from the European side as well. You should research how mummies were considered a delicacy in Europe. Or the witch hunts that ended in both women and children being burned alive, hung, and beheaded. Or we can also mention the pedophilic society the Romans and Greeks maintained and defended wholeheartedly. Not to mention the bounty held by the US on the heads of native Americans which were also often scalped, or the raping, enslavement, and torture of African people
I never once mentioned that Aztec people and other Natives people did not perform human sacrifices.
My point which you have perfectly embodied with your unnecessary remark shows how you’ve internalized your disgust for Native American people and consider us to be savages when in reality it seems to be the other way around.
Astonishing to think that the Aztecs achieved standards in engineering and hygiene that likely surpassed those of the Romans...and that most Europeans who saw them found them remarkable!
But somehow we were savages.
@@alexarviso6836 Amazing how people can think themselves in such circles, sadly.
@2 Nep8id6 The Cloaca Maxima was built not to get rid of sewage, but empty swamps!
@2 Nep8id6 Thank you for sharing these Bronze Age wonders with us!
Should have learned and applied more aspects form the Aztecs. Unfortunate
Some say the Spanish were smelled before they were seen.
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Damn! 😂🤣😂
It was said that Aztec noble-women would hold up flowers to their nose whenever they had to interact with the Spanish.
lol!
"I don't study to know more, but to ignore less"
- Juana Inés de la Cruz
She signed her resignation in her own blood, saying "I, the worst of all." Referring that she is the "worst" nun.
She was so metal.
@@misabelrodriguez1163 Badass.
I admire her strength ❤️
Es SOR Juana Inés no Juana
Thanks for that.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the narrator’s pronunciation of these names…that couldn’t have been easy to learn.
Sadly most are mispronounced, but the effort is appreciated nonetheless.
Who doesn't know Cheek-lay?
U single???
@@RS-qg7qy Smooth like sandpaper.
Yaaas people can’t pronounce my name or my sisters, we have Aztec names
Regarding Hygiene they were centuries ahead of Europe.
@@Vii905 Ok...fair enough. At least compared to Spain, France and Britain...the great European colonial powers.
@@Vii905 The Romans made great advances in infrastructure that somehow got lost after the Empire collapsed...in Latin America there are records about the foul odor of the conquerors...most of these men spent months in ships with little to no access to good hygiene and carrying diseases than were even more lethal to the indigenous people than the cannons and gun powder.
People from medieval Europe did in fact bath. www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/
Lol the europeans hurt in these comments. After watching the Versailles hygiene videos and Victorian era hygiene videos YES 💯 people from what they called América after they "conquered" were much more advanced than europeans in many ways.
@@joebrewer4529 They did. Europeans were using soap before Roman times.
Mexico's history is rich in diverse peoples and cultures all coming together and that's spectacular.
True
Its also probably the most consistently violent history of any country, at least since the Spanish started writing it.
No, not really. You are just being a romantic.
It truly is.
@Ryan
The USA is buying up all those drugs. You look like a dope fiend yourself.
It would have been cool to sit and have food and drink with the Aztecs 👍
The Olmecs would of been cooler…”Olmecs>Mayans>Aztecs” :)
Probably would've enslaved you for being a foreigner.
That food could have been human meet
@@thebosshavoc3530 lol so true
@@leggonarm9835 Maybe 🤔 Did the Aztecs like white people? LoL
Interesting how religion can somehow affect the hygiene of different civilizations. In Europe the Jews were blamed during the plague while in fact it was their custom of maintaining clean hands that reduced their chances of contracting the disease. Here cleanliness is associated with the deities. So cleanliness is next to godliness? 🤷🏻♀️
According to Christian priest, bathing is a sin.
Very true in a way.
@@theplotarmoredtitan5781 No it wasn’t. Why are you lying? www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/
Cleanliness is half the faith is what they say in Islam
@@Riley19934 I did not lie. Its in one of Weird History's episode. You should watch it.
To think that the colonizers considered our folks to be "savages" and "uncivilized." Thank you for presenting a great episode on hygiene by the Aztecs! :)
@The Richest Man In Babylon what an ignorant thing to say. the person you're replying to is simply thankful on this representation of their cultural history, not an invite for you to reintroduce stereotypes about their ancestors 🤨
Human sacrifice, child sacrifice, and in other parts of mesoamerica- cannibalism. It was savage, throwing ash on your armpits to cover BO doesn't change that. This idea your people seem to have that the Spanish and other Europeans didn't know how to bathe is beyond ignorant.
I don’t think the Spanish considered the Aztecs uncivilized savages. Just “heretics”. The British saw the northern tribes as savages tho
@@Tepaneca Mmm, I beg to differ because if you read the letters from Hernán Cortés, you will see that he does.
@@Tepaneca It's hilarious how many morons defend the Spanish, while clearly knowing nothing of history. The Spanish brutalized and enslaved so many indigenous Americans, it's unfathomable. The British actually tried to stop it, and the pilgrims, for the most part, tried to live at peace with the northern indigenous Americans, until they waged war on the US Army, which was squashed in a little over a year. Meaning they could have did that at any time if they chose to. I personally don't care either way, but this "Spanish good" " British bad" debate won't end well for you.
It’s so amazing how all these cultures had these level of sanitation and hygiene, but were still viewed as savages
Hmmmm
@walker lol why are you putting words in his mouth stating he made a "typo" so you can deflect to some bs point about the OP never being a savage or the subject of human sacrifices. no one sacrificed more than the European colonizers who did it while "discovering new worlds". the genocide they cause in many cultures will never ever be equaled!
@walker Most of the history is written by the spaniards, they murdered hundreds of thousands of indigenous people and destroyed countless temples and communities. They viewed us as savages and sinful and tortured everyone who was unwilling to convert to catholicism. It is obviously different now but the fact that it happened its still there. We are tired of our cultures being viewed as “savages who sacrificed people for the gods”
@@kassyyar97
It's their way of trying to justify their crimes against humanity.
@walker awwww I knew I would hurt your feeble feelings exposing that bs minimizing deflection tactic of yours. lol
The Aztecs were so into cleanliness that when the conquistadors came to Tenochtitlan, they were surrounded by people that were burning incense. The conquistadors thought that the Aztecs believed that the conquistadors were gods, and that's why they were burning incense. In reality, it was because the conquistadors smelled so bad, the Aztecs would follow them with incense to mask the conquistador's smell.
For some reason that was really funny.😂😂😂
I don’t know why i can picture that 😂😂
Source?
That fresh off the sea, Conquistador fragrance.
@Jazmine Black Except for the fact every single claim you creatures make are false.
Considering they drank mostly water and probably ate what we would consider healthy and natural foods, the urine thing is not as disturbing 🧪🌡🤔🧐
There are no "good urine" and "bad urine"! You can drink any urine, but it is toxic, no matter whatever fairtale you tell yourself to make it sound "cleaner".
Anyway, urine was used in Europe for laundry during the middle ages. There is nothing new there.
@@mikatu nobody says to drink it tho. It was used for gunpowder, dyes to whiting ones teeth Roman's used urine to clean their teeth also
You can actually drink your pee in a survival situation and be fine. The more you know
@@mikatu As Josie said, I think it's important to remember that in survival situations it can be drank
@@claudia9339 but only a certain amount of times until there is almost no water in it and only water that the body cant absorb.
My grandfather was born in 1908 in izucar de matamoros Puebla died 2009 was one of the last modern Aztecs im proud of my heritage the stories he used to tell my father were unreal!! Of course the culture was alot different In the early 1900s haha.
There are plenty of modern Aztecs.
@@mdc3148 modern as in bloodline yes. But he lived as indigenous up till the 1930s is what I was getting at.
@@erguy6072 If you go back, would his place of residence be gone? I remember watching a documentary on modern native Aztecs. There must be some remnants left. What did he dress like?
There are 2 million Nahuatl speakers in Mexico, and the Nahuas are the most populous indigenous group in Mexico. but not all Nahuas are "Aztecs" (or rather Mexicas) if your grandfather is from Izucar de Matamoros he probably has a Tlahuica or Cholultan origin, not Mexica
The Aztec people were freaking epic.
Until the flint heart-cutter-outter comes out, that is.
for only 170 years
@@justayoutuber1906 not rlly remember the aztecas came from other civilizations & all came together & mixed their knowledge while most of Europe got their technology from romans
@@MeganVictoriaKearns human sacrifice has already been debunked lmfao.
@Jimmy Le look up the statistics. 83% of the population? Impossible.
And we were consider “Savages?!”, lol! We most definitely smelt better than the British.
But you ate people
@@thebosshavoc3530 so did Europeans. What's your point??
Fact: I'm Mexican, born in Mexico city, the saying "we're Aztecs" is mostly false, due to lots of facts, for example: the aztecs went almost extinct after the downfall of Tenochtitlan, actually a small percentage of Mexicans come from the Aztecs.
Second fact: The "tlaxcaltecas" with other aztec neighbors,were the ones who allowed the downfall happen, if it was the Spaniards alone, they would've propably lost and would've taken more time to conquer the Aztec empire
@@mkdzzxc Es lo que Siempre le digo a mi gente but they ain’t ready to talk about that
Yeaaaah but the British never sacrificed young kids n stuff sooooo yeaaaahhhh
All I can say instead of trying to conquer they should have learned a little more from the indigenous people because I don’t see plagues on their history pages
That's mostly due to not living in close quarters with domesticated animals- the source of most plagues. Check out Atlas Pro's video on it.
@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 even still if they had those domesticated animals. The amount of plauges would still be minimal due to the very extensive cleanliness traditions
@wassim games the main problems they had to deal with were parasites which is why malaria was such a problem for settlers and not natives
Didnt one of them have a plague? Mayans or Incas??
@wassim games what do you mean probably? You have done any research to make that claim?
Still no mention on how scandalous was for the Mexica to realize that the Spaniards were used to take a bath once or twice a month, when they used to take 2 or more a day. Emperor Montezuma the second used to take 3 or 4 daily. He even had to force Cortes and his men to take a bath before one of his audiences because the emperor nor the nobles could stand their stench anymore.
These guys knew what was up.
"What surprised you the most about aztec hygiene?"
EVERYTHING.
I guess I’m surprised at how a skull full of mush is so easy to manipulate; would you be so impressed with a documentary on the hygiene of nazis? The technological advancement of the Germans?
@@walterkersting6238 I know you did not compare Aztec people to Nazis. The “cleansing” of Jewish people conducted by Nazis more closely resembles the Japanese internment camps the US had in the mid 1900s, or the biological warfare used against Native people once the colonizing Europeans made it to the Americas. Also an honorable mention would be the bounty the US government had in any Native American person’s head until the early 1900s.
@@walterkersting6238 omg I almost forgot how the US gave pardons to the German and Japanese scientists who conducted those inhumane experiments so long as they handed over the results of said experiments.
@@arceliagomez9223 I no, eye feels so guilts about it 2. U c du Gemanz skin du Jews? W8 , ashully day ded skin uh few...
@@walterkersting6238 the nazis got the gas camera idea of the US tho. They were using those in the border.
This is a breath of fresh air compared to Versailles, not like you could get some at the palace anyway.🤭🧼
Lol good one 🤣🤣😁
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LMAOO
My Uncle’s fiancé used to work at Versailles giving tours. She said that the smell must have been absolutely unreal. I can’t even imagine. So gross. 🤢
Just because ppl “ think” France is “fancy” doesn’t mean everything is bojuee France is just too hyped up for what it really is, look elsewhere.
I find in history when the European called others savages they were often the savages
@Floron ,to a degree you have a point
@@bot-xg3ro , a mindset that has cost a many of cultures
Classic projection, not surprising. It's what they do.
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@Floron You mean like how your ancestors stole a bunch of mummies from Egypt and ate them?
As a Mexican now I know where I got my germ phobia from lol
Right haha!!
Same.
shit, so true on my part toohaha
I thought modern Mexico is a mixture of Spaniards and indigenous ppls. And Spanish is the language used. The Aztecs and indigenous ppls were killed off by diseases that the Spaniards brought..
Every time I learn about the Aztecs I'm amazed. Such an advanced civilization!
Wow i am amazed, they were genius, years before european civilization... they lived clean, in harmony with nature, i cant imagine anything better than that
Most all natives, were and then look what happened. I’m just now learning of all my Cherokee heritage and it’s astonishing what we don’t know because they were “savages and dirty people “
They were a little warlike too
Do you realise that they also had human farms for sacrifices? That's why many native cities enemys of the aztec joined the spaniards to destroy them.
@@justayoutuber1906 they were very warlike lol. These guys were the Romans of the Meso American world
ah yes, nothing screams living in harmony with nature more than sacrificing a 2 year old's heart to the sun gods 😂😂😂
Very impressive. Had no idea they were so advanced in so many different areas. I guess they were much more advanced than Europeans in many aspects. Great video.
Running water they had a way to send mail from point a and b and list goes on
@@shaggieledude5438 Wow ! Amazing.
I'm not attacking you at all, but the reason why it seems impressive is because we were fed a white washed version of history. Europeans have convinced us that their customs and standard of living is the standard, meanwhile they justified ridiculing native people and killing them/enslaving them by saying we're savages, we are filth, dirty, less intelligent than white people and our customs were sinful and the devils works . When we are shown examples of other cultures thriving in basic ways it's considered impressive because we internalized the sterotypes and misinformation the way Europeans dreamed of. Another user wrote all this (forgot user name), but it's pretty much true.
@@hugzpls you are so right I am proud of you for being educated on the truth and spreading it! Over time all this misinformation will reveal its self! keep up the great work !
@@hugzpls yes, is the same with us of taino descent in the caribbeam,good thing they are starting to teach more about the taino culture than spaniar in my country
In some towns in Mexico, some people still use temazcal for personal hygiene and traditional medicinal purposes. In my experience take a bath in temazcal was purifying and restorative. 😌
If you visit Mexico don't forget to live the experience of taking a bath in temazcal.
I am so infuriated knowing how much medical knowledge was lost. Herbal medicine especially. My grandmother knew of her tribal people’s medicine techniques. Unfortunately I was not old enough to learn and none of my aunts and uncles took her knowledge seriously. I wish she was still here so that I would have learned from her. I would have carried her legacy proudly and would have gladly passed it down to my descendants. Too bad she couldn’t read or write so she could have left a book/journal. If she did that would have been amazing. 😪
I wish I they saved them because I am nahual and I want to try these stuff out
And astronomical knowledge
Herbal medicen wen lost bc of a medicine tha is available to all is not profitable. Its a shame
i feel the same! but it’s up to us to start the book for our generations to come.
When your society doesnt peg women’s intelectual contributions as witchcraft:
Frr I also love how our culture doesn’t see taking baths as a sin. I’d love if the Aztec culture continued thriving without the Spanish and other Europeans getting in the way.
@@firstnamelollol8616 I was just thinking imagine if it was the Native Americans or literally anyone that wasn’t European or white that explored and conquered the world, the world would be a much better place rn
yes but womens were also sacrifices to their deities or gods... im not so much into aztec culture no more but im guessing all were potencial sacrifices ... even children
@@DaCoDgamer huh?
@@DaCoDgamer not really there will always be war and slavery. People would always explore and conquer and or enslave no matter the race.
every native to be colonized seems to note how stinky the guerros were. can’t possibly be a coincidence at this point. 😬
Well they were soldiers living on boats for months where supplies are limited, water is rationed and you wear metal all the time. We can give them a little forgiveness. Just a little though.
@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 true, true. at the end of the day, we’re all just human. & i’ve always had the luxury of running water, so i shouldn’t dog on their hygiene too hard lol.
Aztecs received the Spanish invaders with incense because of the stench, or so they say
@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 not like they were very clean on land though
@@frenchbreadstupidity7054 Forgiveness? Yet those pieces of shits had no mercy or forgiveness for killing my ancestors
Who knew the Olmec & their later peoples, the Aztecs, were some of the most hygienic people on Earth! The modern world owes the human drive for cleanliness & maintenance engineering from the ancestors of Mexico. The more you know!💫
Holy fuck the waterways that double as transport is amazing
What an honor it is to be a descended from the Aztecs. my ancestors were so suffocated and knowledgeable about their surroundings.
I never knew the Aztecs were so clean and civilized. I really respect them for the time period they were in.
What surprised me the most was how little the Europeans learnt about hygiene even after meeting the Aztecs 🤢
Europeans bathed routinely, had something like a toothpaste, rubbed their teeth with a cloth, and used scented oils/ perfumes as deodorant. British descendants in America invented the toothbrush, modern toothpaste, modern plumbing, and modern deodorant.
I'm proud to be Mexican and I'm also very happy to still enjoy the benefits of traditional medicine, remedies, and excellent cuisine of the Aztecs as well as hygiene habits, we have Temazcales in different parts of our country as well as traditional indigenous rituals!!!!
Indeed. For instance, whether they know it or not, a HUGE portion of the entire world is still enjoying foods from what is now called Central and South America. Those people tended and selectively bred all sorts of truly important crops! It's pretty funny/sad when Italians think they invented tomatoes or the Irish think they developed potatoes...
@DogSlobber Gardens do you know if the Aztecs, after "inventing" tomatoes, proceeded to invent metal coat hangers?
As the legendary Mexican comedian Cantinflas said in a movie of his...”we might be poor, but we’re very clean [ceremonos pobres, pero eso si, muy limpios.]”
Thank you for always being respectful when talking about the different cultures of the world. I wish people in the comment section were as respectful as you.
Cheers!
Amazing people. So many ancient civilizations were way ahead of most of Europe.
Nothing about the Aztecs were ahead of Europe. The Spanish smelled because they just sailed across the Atlantic. Europeans were plenty hygienic. They had toothpaste, used a cloth to scrub them, bathed routinely, and used scented oils/ perfumes as deodorant.
Watching this makes me incredibly happy..🥰🥰
Never been so quick! 😭 Love your hygiene series! Keep them coming!
And they called them savages meanwhile in Versailles people were pooping in the corridors. 🤭🤣
You were saveges
We were more clean and avanced than Europeans, anyway we killed for sacrifice, but no one can't call savage to a culture for have killed for "magic porpuses", we can forget how manny people died for "holy inquisition".
@@agron2237go take a shower, I can smell you through my screen.
And remember kids the Spanish thought our ancestors in Latin America were savages because they dressed with less clothing. But we were cleaner and healthy than they were. Spanish were also just as bad for colonizing and just because we speak Spanish doesn't mean the racism in Spain ever left. They still look at us under their noses and think themselves better.
Facts I live in Spain I mention Mexican and they quick to say we not like them
Look at the skin color or the leaders in Mexico today...they all look white
Sure the mass human sacrifices wasn’t a factor on savage scale?
People who live two towns away from each other's hate each other's guts all over the world especially in Mexico.. Get tf over it and tell em to fuck off.. They're hatred makes you hate..
@@theprotegedc15 go back home
The Aztecs were more advanced in engineering & hygiene. This intimidated the Spanish. So they killed them.
@Ash. Bl. I’m sorry but your attempt to sugar coat what the Spanish did is futile. It was the *Spanish* that slaughtered them AND the Inca in South America. They were greedy for their gold. They took the gold back to King Charles V and melted it down.
They tried that crap again in 1588 when King Phillip II tried to conquer England & dethrone Queen Elizabeth. God sank their ships in the sea. Spain deserved that.
@Ash. Bl. 90% were “Indigenous Americans” 😆😆😆😆 Indigenous Americans in the early 1500s...Who?!
You learned that from a public school textbook I can tell🤦🏼♀️
Please don’t reply again. I can’t lol
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It’s sad that advanced cultures were often destroyed by less advanced people. (Rome, reduced to rubble by Barbarians.) I was especially impressed with the canals that served as roads for these people.
Would you do one on the history of menstrual hygiene please?
Or women hygiene over the years.
I want to see a Mesopotamian tampon.
@@c.2538 May have been a sea sponge?
I'm very keen for more vids about the aztecs, mayans & other indigenous cultures 🙌
The audacity that Europeans came and called them savages.
That's cause all of the brutal human sacrifice and whatnot. "Here I'm gonna cut out these 50 childrens hearts so it rains"
@@A_Black_Sheep94 yeah... Cause torturing non catholics was totally fine and civilized right?
@@A_Black_Sheep94 the french were murdering starving peasants for stealing bread, they considered human sacrifice an honor ur just dumb
@@Missmalefique exactly! Also in modern times, they have the guts to call chapulines gross but dont see anything wrong with eating slimy snails jaja
@@Missmalefique no but admittedly you might be a bit freaked out of you come from Europe and see a land of people that have whole pyramids stained red from constant sacrifice, priests that wear the flayed flesh of a princess to honor her, worship a god a flaying, etc.
Thank you so much for doing this video, as an Aztec descent I get really tired of having to explain to white people how advance our society was before they came in contact. But thank you for the time and effort put into all aspects of this video and as always I love the jokes thrown in there and there with all your videos.
Same I always keep talking to white people about how my culture thousands of years ago had better hygiene than them.
Thats pretty awesome 👌🏾I feel like those Spaniards were jealous because of how advanced they were
I feel you. This is present in all other cultures too - whitewashing has done so much damage to even modern perceptions of other culture's ability to advance and achieve greatness.
Just curious. Do you believe that white people today are responsible for the actions of their ancestors? That they had no influence over, and probably wouldn't approve of? Do you believe whites today should be ashamed because of their skin colour?
Then what about when Middle Eastern kidnapped and held white people as slaves? (and treated them much worse than that). Should all Middle Eastern people today be held responsible for that? What about the various cultures around the world (African, Chinese, many non European cultures), that still to this day are targeting ethnic minorities, holding them in concentration like camps?
I know people love to hate on the whites. But several studies have shown that White cultures are generally the least racist/most tolerant today. Asian cultures were the most racist/least tolerant. So can we stop the cliché of making everything about race? Thanks.
Seph, so you have to regularly explain to White people how much more advanced Aztecs were? As if you too were part of that society back then to contribute to and use to do some kind of “na na na na na, ‘we’ were more advanced”?? Thanks for the much needed help and support from the one who speaks for past times 😂😅 People really need to get over themselves with this narcissistic idea that all other than White people are superior because of the actions of people they nor we ever even came into contact with over actions we had absolutely nothing to do with. If any group is to be looked at for these past times atrocities, let’s look at who supplied people and sold them as slaves to “the white man”. Guess who sold people…The Kingdom of Dahomey in Africa who became known to the Europeans as a major supplier of slaves during the Atlantic slave trade. But no body seems to want to discuss that huge detail in history, do they? No, because victim hood is much more profitable and much easier of a mentality to control.
Thank you for sharing such wonderful content. Thank you for showing how advanced & intelligent indigenous people were.
If I could go back in time, I’d like to go and be around the Aztec people.
@Ryan Never thought of that. Maybe I’ll change my mind. Lol
You'd probably be sacrificed. but go ahead if you want to.
Don't listen to the others, your chances of being sacrificed are actually quite low if you're a native born Aztec. They usually sacrificed people from warring tribes or sacrificed criminals, so as long as you're not any 1 of those 2, you should live a happy life.
@@controlman7490 it is a possibility, and if you kniw sources, it is a fact, however I still wouldn't want to be around Aztecs
@Ryan sacrificed and eaten as pozole
The Aztec were genius
And hygiene too
@Ryan
Still didn't compare to the USA's crimes against humanity in the third world.
@Ryan lmao you're everywhere in this comment section, who hurt you?
@@prathameshpatil6888 he has shit stains in his underwear, just let him get it off. He needs this
@Ryan Dude we get it you have a hard-on for sacrifice.
Summary: The Aztecs were ahead of their time for cleanliness standards.
Also the Aztecs: *U R I N E*
Easiest source of a weak acid.
Europeans used urine as a teeth whitener.
I've read that urine is actually sterile unless there's an active infection present.
>What surprised you the most about Aztec cleanliness?
P E E
Urine is sterile
I'm so happy to have some Aztec blood in me, I actually visited some of the Aztec temples at 8 years old, even then when i didn't know much about the Aztecs, It felt so cool being there
I can truly appreciate their level of advancement and cleanliness. Wow, even deodorant and dentistry?? Took centuries do the rest of the world to get the memo. Even though some of you may be grossed out at urine, it's perfectly sterile when it first exits the body.
The snake venom/ vinegar anesthesia is so fascinating!
i was surprised by all of it !!!the sofisticated canals, the medicinal knowlege, dentistry, just amazing !
Fun fact: the Aztecs had better hygiene than the Europeans, I'm not surprised.
And yet you and your surnames are very European, as is most of Mexican culture now
Not true. Europeans bathed routinely, had toothpaste, used cloths to scrub them, and used scented oils/ perfumes as deodorant.
The water management is amazing!
For the time they were living in it's pretty impressive how advanced they were and how it resembles to today.
Would love to learn more about hygiene practices in the British empire - or the lack thereof! Great video
They bathed routinely, had something like a toothpaste, scrubbed their teeth with a cloth, and used scented oils as deodorant. Their descendants in America also invented the toothbrush, modern day toothpaste, modern plumbing, and modern day deodorant. But do go on reading your revisionist history you read on reddit and facebook.
We thoroughly enjoy your channel and subscribed. So many historical facts that I didn't know about Aztec culture vs what I do know about ancient Greco-Roman culture. I hope the public school system today currently teaches this, as back in the day, my history lessons were U.S./Euro-centric, never really touching on ancient Central American culture. Thanks again for your videos!
This is definitely the best hygiene quality civilization back in the old days
Aztecs had a very advanced culture.
Always proud of my ancestors 😌
Fascinating to think what would happen if cortes left them alone and to keep thriving.
I so appreciate the research involved for each episode. Even down to the photos and drawings. Thank you WHC!
except for pronunciation
Hell, any native of the americas that has ever lived next to a river, has probably practiced frequent sweat lodges and river bathes
That's the thing, we had plenty of clean rivers, even when I was a child all we drank was spring water
I cant go camping with my buddies for more than three days if we dont take a swim in the lake at least once a day and change clothes, its become a requirement lol
This narrator doesn't just give you facts in monotones. He puts character and levity into the video. pleasant to listen to.
British: invent clean water in the 1800’s
Aztecs: complete access for clean water to all by the 14th century
They seem very advanced! I'm so glad you made this! Please cover Hygiene in the Islamic Golden age next!
The Aztecs did it right. Take notes down Versailles lol 😂
Too late! 😂
@@gisselmares8371 🤣
No different from the Spanish murdering and torturing non Christians for their beliefs darling.
@Charlotte Every culture has their own fucked up parts
When I was growing up in Texas, I was suffering from a severe tooth ache. My Mayan grandma cut out a one square inch piece of bark from a tree that i could easily identify if I were to see the tree again. The tree is gone now. A huge apartment complex was built in the area of jungle. I have not seen any tree that even closely resembles it in appearance. She gave the piece of bark and told me to place it near my infected gum. The bark immediately numbed my whole entire mouth and tasted like chewing gum Dentyne. I could easily have undergone surgery or had a tooth extracted. The numbness was an immediate relief from the pain.. The numbness lasted about 30 to 45 minutes. Also the word chicle is pronounced chi (chi like in the word chicken) and cle , also like in the second syllable of the word chicken but with an l sound inserted between the k and e minus the n sound. This tree was peculiar because it had thorns on the main trunk which would make it impossible to climb. The word chicle is Spanish for the present day word for gum. It is not pronounced like you have pronounced it. Out
I'm wondering if it was the Ceiba tree? 😊
Imagine what life would've been like if Spaniards didn't colonize Meso-America
And the English not North America
You would be still living in 🛖🛖🛖
@@Vmtdj6848 🛖🛖🛖🛖
@@agron2237 yeah you could say that, but living longer and healthier lives for sure. The cure for diseases would be much more advanced from natural resources, and less problems with pollution, very low rates of cancer, diabetes, cholesterol. I guess you could consider us if no colonization occurred as “poor people” or underdeveloped country or nation, but healthy, clean, and happy for sure.
@@agron2237 Also healthiness, and mortality rate portrays a huge part into categorizing a country or nation as developed or developing. Meso America, if no colonization had occurred would be very advanced, not technologically, but clean water and irrigation systems, healthy people, advanced engineering, more monuments and civilizations compared to ancient Egypt. It would definitely be a mesmerizing, and astonishing land.
Interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
Ah, it's cool to see a culture that give it's citizens basic necessities.
Would be a shame if people charged for things like clean water.
Very interesting! Aztecs had a great repository of knowledge.
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I've long argued the merits & benefits of how much better indigenous people lived. They insured a clean water supply, that's not even consistent in the US nowadays. Great video!
I applaud the fact how advanced the civilization was with hygiene. They even had better hygiene then some people in the Western countries which is sad.
Yet another ancient civilization who has better standards than current population lmao
I love your vids. Makes me appreciate what we have in our modern times a little more.
I'm impressed at the way Weird History puts together all its videos. Their attention to detail is much appreciated, very informative indeed. Thank you Weird History for imparting such valuable knowledge in all your videos. Happy to subscribe to your channel. I hope you continue your good work. More power to your channel.
One thing that you forgot is that when the Mexica (Aztec) emperor Moctezuma and Hernan Cortez meet the Mexica brougth flowers so they wouldn't have to smell the spaniards.
Source?
@@kristofantal8801 read it , it's there on paper Just research it.
Dude, your pronunciation of Aztec names it's on point
Mabie that why my mother has always been so strict about how clean the house had to be ( she’s Mexican btw)
Who else is super happy they married an Aztec!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰😘
Marrying my Wife was the best thing that's ever happened to me. I'm so happy about marrying an Aztec. 😍
Pure blooded Aztecs don't exist anymore so unless you traveled back in time you're full of shit
@@archetypealch3my290 I know just like vikings lol I never said pure blood. Part Aztec, still Aztec 😘
What's most intriguing, is how there were so many Civilizations, that had most Advanced Practices, in certain Aspects, than their European Counterparts.
Aztec : *mentioned*
Me : *Ayayayayaa*
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@@orkoskang7967 yeh your pic is 🤢
This was a truly amazing episode!!!! Really enjoy the channels yess!!
While europians thought water will make you sick and never bathed... and they invaded the world...yikes! Horrible past... true respect for this amazing culture
@Don Corleone europians mean the modern world not the ancient one
Get ur facts straight
@Don Corleone she didn’t state anything that was offensive, it is the truth. And that is not anti white.
@Don Corleone 1- indidnt say europians in general
2- no ur people didnt bath as much, well known history, not shameful just they didnt appreciate water like other civilians, nothing to be ashamed of they all dead and ur people now got more civil
3- us arabs didnt kill and erase populations.. ( andalus- native
) we didnt slaughter
If u look back at the history arabs jews are related to Sam we are cucasions ( whites) , Ham isthe grandfather of ( romans) modern europe
4- u r racist! Get help and acknowledge the past and its mistakes and try to be a better human and dnt generalize my words
Modern europe is not the ancient one...
All respect to every human that respects others
@Don Corleone who said turks are our people! And who said that they didnt do wrong! And no we didnt live in the desert, we lived near to jesus christ( palestine) and people mistake muslims-= arabs... no plz learn more ! Arabs we mainly in the gulf area . Iraq syria jordan lebanon were non arabs but got into islam/ turks are non arabs but got into islam/ iran thr same.. romans and greek had a better hygiene than modern europe.. stop being naive and racist and read history well
@Don Corleone even people in the desert( arabs) washed well, muslims wash 5 times a day ( poo and pee) should be washed with water to be pure and pray. After sexual intercourse, masterbation u have to clean up,any people live in the desert in the middle east , egypt, south africa and still managed to get water.. u think they lived the a man stuck in the desert as presented in movies and die! Common! Huge civilizations managed to survive and key to survive is water