I enjoyed the video a lot. Perspectives you dont hear often about the native American cultures on these continents. How awesome would it have been to walk this city in its prime?
@@robertocastelan8683 Mexicas eran cuando llegan al Lago de Texcoco, una vez que se mezclan con el resto de los grupos étnicos que también vinieron de Aztlán se hicieron llamar Aztecas.
@Prince Henry The navigator what the fuck, New York has homelessness and it's still pretty, so does Paris, so does Los Angeles, so does London and so on. Sooo, what the fuck does one thing has to do with the other? (I forgot to mention the criminality in all those places, drugs, guns, gangs you name it, like Guatemala or any Latin American country, so does France, U.s., U.k., Germany have drugs, gangs and all that, the difference is how hard you need to search for it)
Milo Satori nailed it man- our war on drugs (a moronic institution of modern prohibition- history shows how that turned out), and our appetite for said drugs, has been the single largest fundraiser for cartels.. we’ve destroyed much of Mexico and central America and then whine when those people flee the hell we helped create.. its fucking embarrassing.
"Tenochtitlán, a city that comes out from a dream which is bigger than Constantinople and prettier than Venice" -Bernal Díaz Del Castillo, conqueror and explorer.
@@intiorozco5063 nah, it was not their purpose to destroy it due to the admiration they had for it. It was the massive immigration from Spain during the New Spain era that destroyed it
@@intiorozco5063 they destroyed everything that was against their religion. They tried so hard to keep Tenochtitlan alive but as I said, massive immigration destroyed it and dried the lake. In LatinAmerica was very different from AngloAmerica, spaniards always wanted to mix ethnically and culturally unlike the british and other europeans arriving to the rest of North America who wanted to set their "culture" above everything that was already existing.
Had Tenochtitlan been allowed to exist, it would've been one of the ancient wonders of the ancient world. I would've loved to seen the city intact. If I had a time machine.
You would have been sacrificed, your heart ripped from your chest still beating, and offered as a sacrifice to their heathen gods. Your legs, arms and hands would be eaten, as these heathens were cannibals.. Still wish to time travel there?
@@davidturner6280 That's true. All human civilizations originated with violence and blood. And the fact is that even the romans (the basic step of the western civilization) actually enjoyed the pain of slaves, blood and the violence like watch a tv sport in places like the colosseum in all the provinces of the empire. In medieval europe, even with the chrystianity and all the messages of peace and the concept of good things, people killed in brutally and bloody ways "criminals" with reasons like political opinions or simply questions who weren't accurate to the religion and the monarchy. Medieval and Modern people enjoyed executions more than the justice. History wasn't exactly a pink-colored way.
As a kid learning history, my imagination was completely captured by the Aztecs/Mexica. One of the things I fantasized about most was being able to see Tenochtilan at its zenith. You did a nice job of showing what it must have been like. Keep up the good work!
Such a shame these beautiful places were destroyed. Edit: I'm not sure what triggered all the replies underneath my comment. I was simply remarking that tenochtitlan was a great city and it's sad it's no longer there. Do I know that the aztecs sacrificed people yes of course was that wrong yes. But I was talking about the city. Its architecture and such.
999Claymore I'm just pointing out how wrong the stereotype about Europeans being superior to native Americans is. They had the same kind of Innovation in their society if not better than anywhere else in the world other than the byzantines who modeled our current structure today. And had a major impact if not the most influence on our structure aside from Roman military tactics which is really all we use from their society. The Aztecs had wide influence and a lot of culture despite having slaves. And the tribes they did enslave were a bunch of violent people anyway. I mean if you have the chance to bring society and order to the world so you can have buildings for people to live in and some tribe wants to live in huts. And they're violent towards your idea of progression you don't just let them be violent. You've gotta do something. So it's either force them or talk to them.
999Claymore well in an effort to build the empire back to its former glory they attacked but they claimed it was for the church and to cleanse the land of their heathen ways. The conquest of south America was a complete accident. The astute leadership of Cortez I believe had the advantage of STDs and bacteria against a people smart enough to not fuck sheep. So I don't think it was very justified at all since their civilization was a little more civilized then Europe. The difference between why Aztecs rooks slaves and why the conquistadors took the aztecs as slaves is the Aztecs were building a civilized society and the conquistadors were working for the church who's main objective is to make people mindless unexpecting people who they control whenever lying stealing and killing whoever didn't agree with the way the church wanted to do things.
Please keep going on this tract - there are a great many jewels of cities that are passed over for the usual stuff we get in Europe or China or India - please, keep going with this, it's awesome!
Teotihuacan, Machu Pichu, Monte Alban, Cuzco, Tzintzuntzan... yeah prehispanic people weren't just a bunch of jungle people. Thanks for showing interest in the prehispanic civilizations.
@@cv4809 it's a reference to the end of the video. Many people around the world think of prehispanic cultures just as a "barbaric" unorganized bunch of people. And that kind of disinformation is to be expected, not all people would be teached about these civilizations. Just as people from the latinoamerican countries may think about mongols, nubians or north american cultures as "barbaric".
As a Mexican passionate about the History of Mexico City (formerly Tenochtitlan) this is the most accurate video I have ever seen. The drawings and 3D schemes are as perfect as they can be. Fantastic job !!!!!!!!!!!
@@eetuthereindeer6671 As a Mexican I can say that the worst destruction to Mexico City and Mexico as a whole, was made, as still is made by Mexicans. We do not need help from Spanish to destroy Mexico. It is a shame, sad but it is true. Best regards!
@Solunaren Some people in the exterior are lazy when it comes to pronunciation they would be calling it “Ten”. They have been pronouncing “Los Angeles” all wrong since they took the land from Mexico. Los Ángeles is two words in Spanish there’s no reason to be pronouncing it “Laws Anjewless”
You're telling me that two islands a few hundred metres apart had their own rulers with their own separate lineages, and separate cultural identities...? Woah, history is cool sometimes.
Is true because when they arrived to the lake they decide to split because they had some differences and did it in good terms in a way that the citizens of both cities recognized as brothers until the end when they fought and side by side agains the spaniards.
Your videos should be played in schools. It can really help students realize the impressiveness of global history. This 8 min video contains more detailed and engaging info than 200 pages of a textbook. You make the civilizations seem real and relatable, making us think and better immerse ourselves into these cultures. Thannnnkk you
Ditch the history books! They're not written to educate anymore. If they were, they would try and inspire your curiosity and spark your interest rather than simply list facts and create a brief impression that's often quite misleading. The beauty of the internet is that you can find many primary sources all on your own, so you can see and think for yourself and make up your own mind.
Schools only want to push one form of thinking. In this country USA especially school system is very broken. Most important subjects should be World History (that tells the actual truth) and ancient history. They do not want you to know things, that will make you question being a wage slave for the rest of your days. Do no consent
@@andresgcoderoilpaz2806 Aztec here, all the north tribes of the continent are our brothers, we Natives share the same blood from north to south, Tenochtitlan is also part of your inheritance my brothers ❤️🌵
Thank you for making this video. It annoys me how this is not talked about in schools, then people grow up and think that Native Americans had no accomplishments.
Three Rabbit they do it everywhere wherever they had colonies. They tried their best to do it in India. But they could never fully succeed. That's why the thousands of years of our cultural influences are still there among our people. They don't glorify your native past because the whole idea of modern European civilization based on liberal consumerist capitalism will get threatened by that. They talk about sustainable development at the UN. The truth is most of the ancient civilizations were eco-friendly and sustainable development based. Europe developed rapidly because it only cared about superficial growth by exploiting the resources. So even though apparently the modern civilization has developed rapidly yet it is nowhere sustainable. And that's why only a small percentage of people are enjoying the benefits.
Mesoamerica is so amazing. Learning about the aquariums and farms and engineering in Tenochtitlan is so satisfying. Keep talking about Mesoamerica, it's not covered enough. Heck, I would not mind if you kept talking about specifically Tenochtitlan. There is so much more than this video.
Calabi-Yau Manifold hey man no need to be mean ya it sucks what happened happened but Mexican culture is beautiful as well and so is their Mythology and religion and food so I mean they took some pieces of Aztec culture and weaved it into their own so it’s not completely dead and it’s ok the Mexico became what it did
The Aztecs were such an amazing culture. Where as Europe, the middle east and Asia had the benefit of trading and interacting with one another to share their science and philosophy to advance pretty quickly in relation to the rest of the world, the Aztecs-Mayans did it more or less by themselves. there weren't other cultures helping them. They came up with all their advancements all alone in isolation.
now that I think about it the mayans become even more awesome (and aztecs) its like rebuilding humanity from scratch, all of central american and parts of mexico are like a experiment of human will.
So true. The other day I got sucked a hole to find out why the Spaniards dominated exploring in the America's and essentially because of a boat invented by the Portuguese. Pretty crazy.
@@AAron-gr3jk the only tech they had to cross a ocean was none, all they knew was a lake they could cross with a conoe how the hell do you thinkt hey will go to sea with that.
I was born in Mexico City and I lived in Tlatelolco several years, when I open the curtains in my room window i watched the tlatelolcan ruins, the church and plaza 3 cultures, it's very weird to stay close to those stones, you can still feel the energy from our ancestors and the blood that was spilled on them, i definitely love Aztecs, they are in my heart
In the context, some spanish guys was abusive. However, many more must be elucidated. The war was made by spaniards with the voluntary help of Tlaxcaltec people and many others that served as slaves to aztecs, tired of the local tyranny (forget the Rousseaunian myth of "good savage"). These tribes was obligated to send young men, women, and children to the massive and horrible human sacrifices. In the aztec empire, along a single year, 19 great seasons of human sacrificial rituals take place. In the ascension of an aztec emperor, years before the spaniards presence in the region, more than 40,000 individuals was sacrificed by aztecs. So, the "Leyenda Negra", created by anglophone historiography, needs to stop.
I would love to see the game series of Assassin's Creed set in this time period, especially the interesting history of the Aztec and the beauty of the city of Tenochtitlan and other surrounding places.
There is game being developed currently which has for name "Mictlán". It is suposed to be set on the conquest period and also it is meant to be an open world where we will be able to explore Mexico.
@@rejvaik00 thank you, I'm loving these Aztec videos he's been doing! I hope he does North American civs like Cahokia(Mississippians) and Etzanoa once he's done with Mesoamerica.
swest JayPfo There’s a great book written by Gary Jennings (an anthropologist) the book AZTEC... a GREAT read! I wish someone would make a full production movie based on the book
Hilarious to think that youtubers provide more accurate documentaries than entire broadcasting networks now. What a time to be alive. I recommend "lost civilisations" channel, their documentary on the Aztecs was amazing. 5 hours long too.
Ńøt Ïdk I’m not sure which variant is it, but for sure it sounds like when I visits my relatives in Mexico City how the pronounce those places. Word that I more definitely struggle with.
The destruction of Tenochtitlan was against Cortes's wishes. Cortes believed that the design of the city would prove profitable if he could capture it without destroying it. Sadly, the ruler after Montezuma II wouldn't surrender until the entire city was destroyed.
@@TheVinicius200 There's a bunch of great cities I would love to see in their prime. Babylon, Rome, Carthage and Nineveh are the few major ancient cities I can think of from the top of my head. I have a good interpretation of what Rome would look like, since it's comparatively recent, but the other three I have only a small idea what they would look like.
Because before people focused on making things beautiful without minding the money, and now people use cheap designs to spend the less money they possibly can _and_ they never do the repairs the buildings need so everything always looks like shit.
Because you're looking at idealized paintings. No sewer systems, no electricity, no plumbing. All the shit was dumped into the same lake they drank from
Having the canals, aqueducts, a zoo and an aviary, Tenochtitlan must have looked futuristic to the Spaniards. There were cities in Europe and around the Mediterranean that had some of those things, but not all still operational at the same time. Speaking of, what exactly happened to the canals and Lake Texcoco since 1521?
Well, after the destruction of the aztecs and most of the mesoamericans, the new Mexico City started to grow and was requiring more and more space, and because of that they started to drain the lake. Nowadays, the lake Texcoco didnt exist anymore, and the canals probably were destroyed
@@hueytlahtoani1304 ah that explains it. If the lake was drained, the canals would just dry up. Such a waste to dismantle what would have been the most amazing urban engineering, though.
@@75aces97 Indeed, the aqueducts were rebuilt in the early colonial times in the European style following the trace and keeping the names of the original ones, and some fountains and small parts of the aqueducts still remain in Mexico City, but they are really abandoned and damaged. Also all the four big boulevards that connected the center of Tenochtitlán with the mainland still existing with the same name and trace, they connect the Historic Center of Mexico City with some neighborhoods around. As a fun fact, there are a lot of neighborhoods and districts in Mexico City that still having the names they use to have in the times of Tenochtitlán (Such as Coyoacán, Tepito, Iztapalapa, Azcapotzalco, Tlatelolco, Xochimilco, Chapultepec...) and even their government still using their names in Aztec writing as their logo or icon for the local government. So it's like the spirit of that ancient city stills somehow remaining there.
Love how accurate this was . I’m Mexican trying to relearn my indigenous roots and your pronunciation is on point . I was surprised when I heard you say Mexica the correct way as mesh-shee-ka. Good work!
Torin Jones I have viewed firsthand enrolled tribal members in the US and Canada (Potawatomi and Métis especially) with members with no native features , blond hair and blue eyes . If they can consider themselves native then brown mexicans with mostly native features , and who can “pass off” as Native American easily can identify as Native .
@@torinjones3221 not necessarily, just scan Ancestry or any other DNA testing results on UA-cam or Insta and you'll see most are an amalgamation of ethnicities.
@@edgarallenhoe4656 But a lot of indigenous peoples in Anglo-America have fragmented traditions and were often heavily Christianized and sent to schools where they were inculcated with Western ways of thinking. The fact that there are so few pure-blooded natives left is a reminder of the dilution of the unique worldview that was once held by their ancestors. Now they have more in common with people from across the ocean genetically and mentally, than they do with their great grandparents and they interpret their own customs thru those adulterated perceptions.
I think it'd be cool to talk more about other Mesoamerican tribes, specially those who were not Mexicas, like the Tlaxcalans. Honestly, the Spanish "conquest" should be understood more as a "Spanish led rebellion", but both Mexican and Spanish historiography have traditionally interpreted under a nationalistic bias as a war between nations. The non-mexica peoples, who raised up against the Aztecs, took the bulk of the fighting and ultimately won deserve some more recognition.
The Tlaxcalans were actually recognised and rewarded by King Charles V for their invaluable assistance. It was after Cortez died but his remaining soldiers testified on the Tlaxcalans behalf and as a result they were exempted from various taxes and laws
While I agree with the spirit of your comment, "tribes" really isn't appropriate here, as the video itself illustrates: These were people living in urban cities with complex administrative governments, fighting in formal, organized armies, etc. Invicta does call tthe Mexica a tribe at the start of the video, but that's because at the time of the cities formation the Mexica were still a nomadic people and were first settling down, as had been the case for other Nahua groups around the valley of mexico for the past few decades (though, note that the region itself had other established urban cities and political states for thousands of years already, the Nahuas were just newcomers from up in northern mexico, where urban states were less common) I'm also not sure "rebellion" is accurate: Tlaxcala hadn't been conquered yet, for example, and even for the cities that were under aztec dominion that participated, it's not as if they were directly controlled or administered by either Tenochtitlan or the triple alliance: with few exceptions, subordinate citis were just expected to pay tribute, offer military aid, etc, but were otherwise left to their own devices, so it almost doesn't make sense to not view them still as distinct city-states. It's also worth noting here that while Tlaxcala did have greivences as a result of the constant invasions and blockades it faced, for tthe most part the particpants in thee siege of Tenochtitlan were doing so out of geopolitical opportunism, not out of wanting to rise out of Aztec oppression (as mentioned, Aztec cities were pretty much given complete administrative, political, and cultural freedom, after all), with most only joining the Spanish and Tlaxcala aftter Montezuma II's death and the smallpox outbreak, by which point Tenochtitlan's stability and ability to project military force was in dispute and in such situations in Mesoamerican history tributary prroivences often "rebelled": Aztec emperors needing to re-conquer border provinces on their coronations was basically a tradition from them wanting to test the new emperor after the death of a prior one. Finally, the Fall of Tenochtitlan did not mark the end of the Conquest, it was rather the beginning: Not all Aztec cities ceded to Spanish authority (though most did, siince from their perspective it was basically no change, just changing who got their tribute), and there was still the Purepecha empire and various city-states to the west, the various Maya states to the east, and various city-states and kingdoms/empires in central mexico that the Aztec had yet to conquer, such as the remnants of the Mixtec empire that the warlord 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw had founded. it would take decades of hard fighting (still mostly done by native armies, mind you, with only a minority of the troops being conquistadors) for most of these to be conquered, and in many places they were never truly conquered.
J. C. The Spaniard never conquer the Maya’s I had been in in Guatemala, Sunday’s is the market day. You can go to the Catholic Church at midday and the Chamanes have a place in the altar with the priest., in the middle on the church the Maya’s pay tributes to the 🌽,etc. .before start the religious service
@J. C. yes they were apart of new Spain but they were also allowed to continue their traditions, own land, and not pay certain taxes. It took some time, about 60 years after the conquest but they did get an Audience with King Charles V directly and their status was recognised. This also happened with the Otomi a tribe that had been in the valley since 1000ad 200 years before the Mexica. The Otomi were also given similar privileges and many became well known mercenaries
Damned diseases. I wish the culture of the Mexica survived more, the colours and designs are so vivid. I wish I could visit a modernised Mexica empire instead of some country that mostly resembles Spain in its architecture etc.
The Aztec Emprie was weak and relied on constant infighting to survive. Chances are if it hadn't collapsed then today murders and executions would be common... oh wait I guess Mexico is still just a much a hell hole now as it was 500 years ago.
@@cbrtdgh4210 Mexico is suffering a huge increase of violence since 2006. Is so hard to build a life always worried about kidnapping, murder, robbery, fraudulent governance, etc. (I lived in Mexico for 33 years.)
@@xperiaspectre3531 Sorry to hear that. Is that since Calderon's war on drugs? On platforms like Quora, all you'll read is how dangerous the US is while Mexico is defined by misconceptions.
@@cbrtdgh4210 He isn't wrong, you clearly live among the Europeans you hate, probably America. 70 million of you chose not to live in the corrupt shithole you come from for a reason. Also a correction, a middle eastern religion called >Christianity They did the same to Europe and then re-write history.
So much we don't understand, but at least are opening our eyes to how incredible pre-contact cultures were in the Americas and how much respect needs to be extended to those that remain. I love the use of architectural renderings of the city, giving a sense of depth to the complexity and grandness employed in the engineering. This video was prescient in how the greatest of cultures can be brought low by unmanaged disease.
Damn imagine stepping out of ur house to the freshest fish,water, and fruit. Plus to see boats everywhere and then leave ur little island on ur own boat must've been a paradise.
trueman mann why do you people have to always bring up your religion and say “oh they must be descendants of Biblical Jews.” It’s annoying, false, and quite rude
@@residente44 Why do people like you make ignorant comments like this? He was never praising what the Aztecs did. A lot of ancient civilizations are incomparable to modern times because of the morals, standards, and general beliefs of the populations. Just because he praises the architecture and geography of the city, does not mean he is endorsing what the people did.
Hoàng Nguyên Mexico City is the same city as tenochtitlan (p.s. full name: Mexico-Tenochtitlan) that’s like saying we should tear down Rome to restore Rome. . .by revealing all of the ruins it is built on.
Mexico City is a overpopulated mess, but it's still very beautiful. The colonial baroque and 19th century parisian stile buildings are very beautiful, too. And sometimes they coexist with Tenochtitlan ruins in a surrealistic way. There are also modern buildings that are eye catching. You can't judge the city if you've haver never visited it. One needs to be a local to really know the ugly, dangerous sides of the city.
I'd definitely pay for a Assassin's Creed game about the Aztecs where you're an assassin protecting Moctezuma and you must fight against the Spaniards and enemy tribes
They say they had the fastest postal system too, consisting of a system of runners in relay. Like a message would get too you quicker than the postal system of today or something, LOL. And this includes getting snow from some snowy mountain top in huge bulks wrapped in leaves or hay or something during the night and by dawn, it would be in the markets before it melted thanks to the runners, where they would sell the ice with syrups (extremely costly thing to buy), but just think about it. How crazy is that? Can't even remember where I read about it though🤔 If time machines existed, I always say one of the places I'g go would be to have a sweet snow cone in Tenochtitlan hehehe ''It was reported that by using a relay system the messengers could cover 200 to 350 miles a day.'' (faster than Amazon!)😂
@@SagradaMascarita there is also the fact that so much less was written down (at least that has survived), making it mostly impossible to know what was going on with those cultures
I have been studying everything I can get my hands on. The culture we have today has been copied/stolen. They keep portraying blacks as "uncivilized" but in the same breath you say they built America. Now which one is the truth? They had to have some expert skills and knowledge to build those beautiful buildings, courthouse and other buildings. We are not thinking deeply enough. Who were the translators? The Native were definitely bi-lingual but what about the Colonist? There is not much in our history to tell us how "they" communicated with the Native People in their tongue. It is a proven fact that Africa has more languages spoken in their country than any other culture in the world. Thousand of languages are spoken there. So we know too they are bi-lingual and more lingual than most countries. Americans expect foreigners to speak English but very few native English speaking Americans speak other languages.
the cultures in present day united states left little to no structures compared to other ancient civilizations. Like what in the world were they doing...
@@antoinettewatson1632 The fact that you called Africa a country instead of a continent was more than enough to invalidate this incoherent rambling mess you call a comment.
They didn't need them, they had boats and canals, it was faster. Yes there were wheels. If you go to the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico there are toys with wheels ☺️
They have wheels but no horses in Mexico at that time ... when the aztecs saw the Spanish horses they were scare because they didn't know what the heck was that
i love history and i thought i knew a lot but ironically ignored almost everything about my own culture. you sr have teached me more about it than the teachers i had in school here in Mexico. thank you very much.
An awesome fictional, yet informative, account is the book AZTEC by Gary Jennings. That book puts the reader into the middle of the late AZTEC world and you don't feel like a foreigner. Great book. I'm a history professor and I've read over thousand books and Aztec is in the top 100. Well worth the read. Dang, now I want to read it again after 20 yrs. A great book. Really. I know a good book. I've never been wrong. Ask anyone that knows me. Well, you can't do that but I know things. Word gets around.
Actualmente el lago de Texcoco (dónde iba a estar el aeropuerto corrupto de Peña) mide tres veces la bahía de Acapulco. Imagina lo enorme que era cuando cubría toda la ciudad 😱
I appreciate your care in good pronunciation of the nahuatl names. Except for Nezahualcoyotl, the rest of the names were pretty spot on! You should talk some day about the city of Teotihuacan (The city of te Gods), the mistery of that city is huge as it came to be more than a thousand years prior to Tenochtitlan.
It's kinda hard not to be eurocentic when Europe has been right in the center for a long time, including when this "lesser" civilization was annexed. The Inca did American Rome, not the Aztec.
Excellent narration and beautiful use of artist impressions, maps and images to show the wonder of Tenochtitlan. A very useful resource to show a high school class. Thank you.
It would be awesome if you made a video on the other indigenous groups in Mesoamerica, maybe a focus on the Tlaxcala Confederation or the Tarascan Empire, both hated the Aztecs and had their own impressive cities and culture. The Tarascans are very interesting in my opinion since they had the second largest empire after the Triple Alliance, and fell a few years after the fall of Tenochtitlan. The Tarascans were said to have fought the Aztecs on several occasions, with the Aztecs at many moments trying to expand westward only to be repelled by their other expanding neighbor. The story of the Tlaxcalas would also be interesting since they were the key to Spain's further conquests.
Indeed, the Tarascans often get sidelined in favour of Tlaxcalla as the Aztecs' greatest enemy. Reasonable of course, since it was with Tlaxcalla's help that Cortes managed to win against the Aztecs. But it should really be noted that everytime the the Triple Alliance tried to expand to the west, they were always halted by the Tarascans. The Tarascans are also unique in Mesoamerica, they were probably the closest thing to a "nation-state" in pre-Columbian America that you could get. Their nation was a unitary kingdom, meaning all aspects of government, both from the national and local, were managed by the king in the capital and his representatives. Not really remarkable within the context of Eurasian history, but every other city-state in Mesoamerica, including the Aztecs, functioned with the tributary system. This means that once you defeated a city-state, you left the former government intact, along with its cultures and traditions and instead only ask tributes in the form of goods or money(or the closest things Mesoamericans had for money). Not the Tarascans though. They would instead appoint official governors sanctioned by the King to administer the newly conquered region. They would also try to assimilate the defeated people into the Tarascan culture, thus creating a sort of proto-national identity of being a Tarascan.
Thank you for a really informative video on Tenochtitlan. As once a student in the NYC education system, History was always Euro-centric. The more we learn of Meso-American cultures through archeology and scientific research, the more we understand their sophisticated technology and political structure. When I think of aqueducts and drainage systems I immediately think of ancient Roman technology. This alone was an eye opener. Again thanks.
Maximus Media just because you can build cool looking building, have art, culture and have a class system doesn’t make you civilized, Rome had all of these things and their society definitely wasn’t civilized either
There is no point in conflating Mesoamerica with North America, in any case even if the term "uncivilized" carries useless and inaccurate cultural baggage you can't say that it's a completely unusuable terms for places like Iron Age North and Eastern Europe or North America.
@@thatwasclose1381 you know roman rights?(Idk how you say in english ) Rome was eben a republic at a time, you know when the Roman Empire existed? They were hugely more civilized thennothers in their time expect China mb.
I once flew out of Mexico City from Benito Juarez Int Airport and it's such an amazing view to see the entire city from above, endless and vast. You can actually still see some remnants of Lake Texcoco when you fly out from the east.
I'm really proud of be mexican, you can't imagine the culture that we have here. This is just one of a lot of civilizations that ocupate this beautiful country. All that you can find here is just here.
It’s amazing to think of what MesoAmerica would’ve been if not for devastation brought by diseases, that brought civil wars. Imagine if the two continents never met! Great video!
Meh, the Americas would still likely be centuries behind the rest of the world if they never met. One has to remember how many advances, like firearms, were gained from interactions between the peoples of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
@John Newman Japan, while isolated in comparison to many others, was never in the same position as the early American states/groups. That being said, there is the small potential that an early American state, if given enough time and the right conditions, could somewhat 'catch up' within a century, instead of centuries. Of course, even when considering the rest of the world at the time, the Europeans were overtly more advanced than most others, so isolation is obviously not the only factor to consider.
@@glenncordova4027 europeans did the same thing regardless, romans, even the han, musims, every group commited genocide, stop actimg like your ancestors were some innocent little people who wouldent harm a ant.
This is an impressive effort. I’ve seen a lot of UA-cam vids on pre-Columbian civ over the last many years; yours captures a verisimilitude of life in ancient Tenochtitlán with its graphics and well researched documentary commentary. Thank you for bringing this city of my youth to life again with a tasteful experience of its antiquity. I often meditate on the dreamlike experience encountered by Cortez, Diaz, and their comrades, and their incomprehensible conflict and conquest; your work makes that very imaginable. Thank you.
I think he should do a video just on the natives of Colombia like the Muisca. In Bogota the capital city of Colombia they have the worlds largest gold museum. Its full of native gold artifacts and other things. Read this - nasvete.com/colombia-gold-museum/
This was just awesome. I'm quite intrigued by the Aztecs due to the way they've influenced a certain kind of fantasy that was a large part of my childhood. This however really triggered something that just made me wonder what it must've been like for the Spanish to arrive there, and what it would've been like if they hadn't been ruined by the Spanish invaders. Truly awesome
Thanks Invicta. As usual, you brought the past to life. Please continue uploading videos on Meso and South America. At some point it would be great if you uploaded some videos on the African ancient civilizations such as Kush, Ethiopia, Timbuktu, etc.
Excellent introduction. The level of detail wasn’t even close to the Chicano Studies classes I took. Its amazing to see my people’s history showcased like this - something the Spanish had systematically erased. It would be great to see more detail and perhaps a reconstructed City using the most detailed accounts available. Thank you for doing this.
That was incredible! I love history and read a lot, and I can't believe I've never heard of this; what an amazing sight this must have been! Great video, I am now a new subscriber and looking forward to learning more!
On November 8, 1519, 500 years ago today, Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomed him with a great celebration. The Spanish must have been in complete awe of this beautiful city...thank you for sharing what it must have looked like on this momentous occasion.
I love archeology and don't think of nationality when looking megaliths and structures thousands of years old. It's world history and we all are just humans who have luck to live here.
If you ever visit Mexico City, take a tour to "el Zócalo". Hidden underneath the main plaza, "Plaza de la Consitución", you can still see part of the base from "Templo Mayor".
Excellent summary and commentary, it's really under-appreciated how magnificent the Aztec has a native American society is. Looking forward to your covering more under-rated civs.
Thankyou for your analysis of Tenochtitlan. I've read many books about the Aztecs. As an urban designer particularly interested in the layout of the city, but haven't seen such a compact and decent investigation.
If you the information is available, I’d really like to see a video on mesoamerican trade between city-states or on the construction of their aqueduct systems. Keep up the amazing work!
Never had much interest in the Aztecs and never heard of Tenochtitlan until I saw this video two years ago. I always find myself coming back to learn more about the Aztecs and Tenochtitlan.
This was amazing, felt like stepping out of a time machine!, would love it if you made more videos about other great Mesoamerican cities, like those built by the Maya, still great job!!!!
Thanks! A friend who spent a long time many years ago in Mexico City told me many Nahua people gave up the opportunity to make a living elsewhere and stayed near where the ruins of the Templo Mayor were, often sleeping outdoors with even a serape to cover them, so as to be near their sacred home. I find this incredibly moving: it reminds me of my own tribe's dedication to Jerusalem. You've made a great video, and your pronunciation of Nahuatl is excellent! Thanks again.
Yo to tescozinco hill and see the extension of the empire is in ruins now but is really something to behold, IDK maybe is just me but being there inside Montezuma's tub is really something😊👍
@@danstrayer111 as the Romans, Greeks, Mongols, Asirians, Brittish, and USA did. All empires do similar things. Mexico culture was not destroyed but mixed with the SPanish one for hundred of years. From time to time is good to read
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Invicta ..Mexicas..not "Aztecs"...
I enjoyed the video a lot. Perspectives you dont hear often about the native American cultures on these continents. How awesome would it have been to walk this city in its prime?
I'm in love with the coco! Baking soda! I got Baking soda!😏
@@robertocastelan8683 Mexicas eran cuando llegan al Lago de Texcoco, una vez que se mezclan con el resto de los grupos étnicos que también vinieron de Aztlán se hicieron llamar Aztecas.
😍❤😍❤😍
I am so sad that this lake city marvel couldn’t be witnessed in person. Ugh the architectural beauty alone really makes me drool...
you cannot imagine how... ordinary... it looks like nowadays 😢
@@LennarthAnaya you mean modern
@@jayarthur1164 When modern has too many copies it becomes ordinary
@Prince Henry The navigator what the fuck, New York has homelessness and it's still pretty, so does Paris, so does Los Angeles, so does London and so on. Sooo, what the fuck does one thing has to do with the other?
(I forgot to mention the criminality in all those places, drugs, guns, gangs you name it, like Guatemala or any Latin American country, so does France, U.s., U.k., Germany have drugs, gangs and all that, the difference is how hard you need to search for it)
Milo Satori nailed it man- our war on drugs (a moronic institution of modern prohibition- history shows how that turned out), and our appetite for said drugs, has been the single largest fundraiser for cartels.. we’ve destroyed much of Mexico and central America and then whine when those people flee the hell we helped create.. its fucking embarrassing.
"Tenochtitlán, a city that comes out from a dream which is bigger than Constantinople and prettier than Venice"
-Bernal Díaz Del Castillo, conqueror and explorer.
And then they destroyed it.
@@intiorozco5063 nah, it was not their purpose to destroy it due to the admiration they had for it.
It was the massive immigration from Spain during the New Spain era that destroyed it
@@erenjager9943 You mean colonization. The Spaniards conquered the New World peoples, razed their temples and built their own stuff.
@@intiorozco5063 they destroyed everything that was against their religion. They tried so hard to keep Tenochtitlan alive but as I said, massive immigration destroyed it and dried the lake.
In LatinAmerica was very different from AngloAmerica, spaniards always wanted to mix ethnically and culturally unlike the british and other europeans arriving to the rest of North America who wanted to set their "culture" above everything that was already existing.
I assume burying it and building a Spanish church RIGHT on top of it was unintentional also
Had Tenochtitlan been allowed to exist, it would've been one of the ancient wonders of the ancient world. I would've loved to seen the city intact. If I had a time machine.
You mean, one of the modern world.
You would have been sacrificed, your heart ripped from your chest still beating, and offered as a sacrifice to their heathen gods. Your legs, arms and hands would be eaten, as these heathens were cannibals.. Still wish to time travel there?
@@dukeman7595 and in Rome you would have been sacrificed to the roman circus, in Egypt as a slave. We still want to visit those cultures man.
@@davidturner6280 No, my ancestors were Roman citizens so, where's that leave you?
@@davidturner6280 That's true. All human civilizations originated with violence and blood. And the fact is that even the romans (the basic step of the western civilization) actually enjoyed the pain of slaves, blood and the violence like watch a tv sport in places like the colosseum in all the provinces of the empire. In medieval europe, even with the chrystianity and all the messages of peace and the concept of good things, people killed in brutally and bloody ways "criminals" with reasons like political opinions or simply questions who weren't accurate to the religion and the monarchy. Medieval and Modern people enjoyed executions more than the justice. History wasn't exactly a pink-colored way.
As a kid learning history, my imagination was completely captured by the Aztecs/Mexica. One of the things I fantasized about most was being able to see Tenochtilan at its zenith. You did a nice job of showing what it must have been like. Keep up the good work!
Absolutely, the conquerors described that the first time they saw Tenochtitlan from the top of a mountain, they coudn't belive their eyes.
It is at it's zênite right now
Mexicas , NO Aztecas.
I used to play Sid Meier's Colonization quite a lot 😅
Such a shame these beautiful places were destroyed.
Edit: I'm not sure what triggered all the replies underneath my comment. I was simply remarking that tenochtitlan was a great city and it's sad it's no longer there. Do I know that the aztecs sacrificed people yes of course was that wrong yes. But I was talking about the city. Its architecture and such.
@@АЛЕКСАНДРФИЛИПС-м6р Dude the Aztecs weren't any better. They slaughtered and enslaved the tribes around them.
999Claymore I'm just pointing out how wrong the stereotype about Europeans being superior to native Americans is. They had the same kind of Innovation in their society if not better than anywhere else in the world other than the byzantines who modeled our current structure today. And had a major impact if not the most influence on our structure aside from Roman military tactics which is really all we use from their society. The Aztecs had wide influence and a lot of culture despite having slaves. And the tribes they did enslave were a bunch of violent people anyway. I mean if you have the chance to bring society and order to the world so you can have buildings for people to live in and some tribe wants to live in huts. And they're violent towards your idea of progression you don't just let them be violent. You've gotta do something. So it's either force them or talk to them.
@@АЛЕКСАНДРФИЛИПС-м6р The Spanish used that same logic. "They're just violent people anyways." So I guess what the Spanish did was justified.
@@АЛЕКСАНДРФИЛИПС-м6р oh I know
999Claymore well in an effort to build the empire back to its former glory they attacked but they claimed it was for the church and to cleanse the land of their heathen ways. The conquest of south America was a complete accident. The astute leadership of Cortez I believe had the advantage of STDs and bacteria against a people smart enough to not fuck sheep. So I don't think it was very justified at all since their civilization was a little more civilized then Europe. The difference between why Aztecs rooks slaves and why the conquistadors took the aztecs as slaves is the Aztecs were building a civilized society and the conquistadors were working for the church who's main objective is to make people mindless unexpecting people who they control whenever lying stealing and killing whoever didn't agree with the way the church wanted to do things.
Please keep going on this tract - there are a great many jewels of cities that are passed over for the usual stuff we get in Europe or China or India - please, keep going with this, it's awesome!
@Joe Blow It isn't about superiority or declaring a winner, it's about wanting to learn about lesser known cultures and their accomplishments.
The fact that they built all this without wheels or horses
@Joe Blow Sounds like you don't appreciate your own culture enough to be curious about others.
@Joe Blow Absolutely nothing, everything they built in the 14th century Rome, Greece and China had a millennium earlier.
Pfffffff, As if folks covers China as much as Rome, Knights and Samurai, aka the same hugbox everywhere.
Teotihuacan, Machu Pichu, Monte Alban, Cuzco, Tzintzuntzan... yeah prehispanic people weren't just a bunch of jungle people. Thanks for showing interest in the prehispanic civilizations.
I suggested he covered it
Nobody claimed they were
Constantine V Yeah, I don't think anyone say that. But have you watch Apocalypto?
@@cv4809 it's a reference to the end of the video. Many people around the world think of prehispanic cultures just as a "barbaric" unorganized bunch of people. And that kind of disinformation is to be expected, not all people would be teached about these civilizations. Just as people from the latinoamerican countries may think about mongols, nubians or north american cultures as "barbaric".
@@cv4809 A LOT of people have claimed that and still do.
As a Mexican passionate about the History of Mexico City (formerly Tenochtitlan) this is the most accurate video I have ever seen. The drawings and 3D schemes are as perfect as they can be. Fantastic job !!!!!!!!!!!
Must be a shame seeing the great past. Before the damn spaniards razed it and looking at the air polluted city today
@@eetuthereindeer6671 As a Mexican I can say that the worst destruction to Mexico City and Mexico as a whole, was made, as still is made by Mexicans. We do not need help from Spanish to destroy Mexico. It is a shame, sad but it is true. Best regards!
They should rename Mexico City back to Tenochtitlan. The name Mexico City is just so boring.
@Solunaren
Some people in the exterior are lazy when it comes to pronunciation they would be calling it “Ten”.
They have been pronouncing “Los Angeles” all wrong since they took the land from Mexico.
Los Ángeles is two words in Spanish there’s no reason to be pronouncing it “Laws Anjewless”
@@horaciocapanelli-soto4710English and Spanish have different pronunciations. neither is more correct than the other
You're telling me that two islands a few hundred metres apart had their own rulers with their own separate lineages, and separate cultural identities...? Woah, history is cool sometimes.
Is true because when they arrived to the lake they decide to split because they had some differences and did it in good terms in a way that the citizens of both cities recognized as brothers until the end when they fought and side by side agains the spaniards.
Bluebee Majarimenna I mean the same could be said about Italian cities....
City-states like the greeks
That's what it's like in most of the world. Colonial-based countries such as the ones in the Americas today are the exception.
I live in Tlatelolco and the zocalo of Mexico City is five metro stations away, quite close
Your videos should be played in schools. It can really help students realize the impressiveness of global history. This 8 min video contains more detailed and engaging info than 200 pages of a textbook. You make the civilizations seem real and relatable, making us think and better immerse ourselves into these cultures. Thannnnkk you
Nico Perez lol no all we need is ‘Murcia!
School history is just propaganda. This video is fine where it is. On the web where people who are actually interested can find it for themselves.
Ditch the history books! They're not written to educate anymore. If they were, they would try and inspire your curiosity and spark your interest rather than simply list facts and create a brief impression that's often quite misleading. The beauty of the internet is that you can find many primary sources all on your own, so you can see and think for yourself and make up your own mind.
Since when is this a topic taught in school? How does this help become a slave? It doesnt. Therefore not taught
Schools only want to push one form of thinking. In this country USA especially school system is very broken. Most important subjects should be World History (that tells the actual truth) and ancient history. They do not want you to know things, that will make you question being a wage slave for the rest of your days. Do no consent
To put things in perspective, that entire lake is now completely drained and replaced by a city.
deez noots a sinking overpopulated city mind you
@@Marshal_Rock very true
deez noots What the name of the city?
@@htoodoh5770 Mexico city, if I'm not mistaken
And the city is sinking every year.
Iam Pueblo native american from Laguna New Mexico.
I found this very interesting.
Thank you.
Are you related to the keres pubelo my ancestors came from Tiwa and keres puelo. Some died in the pueblo revolt.
@@andresgcoderoilpaz2806 Aztec here, all the north tribes of the continent are our brothers, we Natives share the same blood from north to south, Tenochtitlan is also part of your inheritance my brothers ❤️🌵
@@andresgcoderoilpaz2806I’m southern Tiwa (from Texas). Primos.
Thank you for making this video. It annoys me how this is not talked about in schools, then people grow up and think that Native Americans had no accomplishments.
Mleew cause they lost
Three Rabbit they do it everywhere wherever they had colonies. They tried their best to do it in India. But they could never fully succeed. That's why the thousands of years of our cultural influences are still there among our people. They don't glorify your native past because the whole idea of modern European civilization based on liberal consumerist capitalism will get threatened by that. They talk about sustainable development at the UN. The truth is most of the ancient civilizations were eco-friendly and sustainable development based. Europe developed rapidly because it only cared about superficial growth by exploiting the resources. So even though apparently the modern civilization has developed rapidly yet it is nowhere sustainable. And that's why only a small percentage of people are enjoying the benefits.
Well we don't call 'em native americans here, we call them prehispanics or indigenous people.
Mleew Northern Native Americans don’t have any
my 7th grade geography class actually learned about Mesopotamia and the aztecs, incas, and mayans
I like how their buildings and architecture matched their fashion in design and colors. So pretty
It's a fucking drawing.
@Don’t educate me I know more than you yeah?
@Don’t educate me I know more than you and...?
Color is something they used. FYI pendjo
@@PatTheRiot go look at native women and what they wear shit head.
Mesoamerica is so amazing. Learning about the aquariums and farms and engineering in Tenochtitlan is so satisfying. Keep talking about Mesoamerica, it's not covered enough. Heck, I would not mind if you kept talking about specifically Tenochtitlan. There is so much more than this video.
I had NO idea they geoengineered like this!! This is amazing!! Thank you for posting this vid.
The Spanish conquistadors described it as something out of a dream too bad they destroyed it 🙁
Crltnyc 85 But..without spanish..Mexico will not be...and me..
@@robertocastelan8683 It doesn't matter, culture and history was destroyed and replaced. You like having this one instead?
@@0LMG gracias por el comentario, de verdad demuestra tu nivel intelectual
Calabi-Yau Manifold hey man no need to be mean ya it sucks what happened happened but Mexican culture is beautiful as well and so is their Mythology and religion and food so I mean they took some pieces of Aztec culture and weaved it into their own so it’s not completely dead and it’s ok the Mexico became what it did
Maybe their description may help found something similar somewhere in Mexico . Mexico still has unbuilt areas .
If it survive till today.It's one of the most beautiful city in the world.
It is Mexico City, and it’s one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
R B J LOL, don’t bring your believes into it. Ignorant and superstitious.
@R B J so everything is doomed but christian cities? Very intelligent
90 % population was death by diasease and plagues camed from europe dont blame a genocide for the dissapear of this wonderfull culture.
@trueman mann have you even visited Mexico City? Or are you talking out of your ass due to racist stereotypes?
The Aztecs were such an amazing culture. Where as Europe, the middle east and Asia had the benefit of trading and interacting with one another to share their science and philosophy to advance pretty quickly in relation to the rest of the world, the Aztecs-Mayans did it more or less by themselves. there weren't other cultures helping them. They came up with all their advancements all alone in isolation.
@Don’t educate me I know more than you They're amazing. You're Neolithic.
now that I think about it the mayans become even more awesome (and aztecs) its like rebuilding humanity from scratch, all of central american and parts of mexico are like a experiment of human will.
So true. The other day I got sucked a hole to find out why the Spaniards dominated exploring in the America's and essentially because of a boat invented by the Portuguese. Pretty crazy.
Meanwhile they found South American cocoa beans in ancient Egyptian vases. That plant can only come from South America. .. where they really isolated?
@@AAron-gr3jk the only tech they had to cross a ocean was none, all they knew was a lake they could cross with a conoe how the hell do you thinkt hey will go to sea with that.
I was born in Mexico City and I lived in Tlatelolco several years, when I open the curtains in my room window i watched the tlatelolcan ruins, the church and plaza 3 cultures, it's very weird to stay close to those stones, you can still feel the energy from our ancestors and the blood that was spilled on them, i definitely love Aztecs, they are in my heart
Can you speak your Nahuatl language?
Mexicas is the correct term.
Aztecs is a word the Spanish made up because they heard they came from Aztlan.
Most of ur ancestor are spanish
Your heart would make an excellent offering for their bloodthirsty diety
In the context, some spanish guys was abusive. However, many more must be elucidated. The war was made by spaniards with the voluntary help of Tlaxcaltec people and many others that served as slaves to aztecs, tired of the local tyranny (forget the Rousseaunian myth of "good savage"). These tribes was obligated to send young men, women, and children to the massive and horrible human sacrifices. In the aztec empire, along a single year, 19 great seasons of human sacrificial rituals take place. In the ascension of an aztec emperor, years before the spaniards presence in the region, more than 40,000 individuals was sacrificed by aztecs. So, the "Leyenda Negra", created by anglophone historiography, needs to stop.
I would love to see the game series of Assassin's Creed set in this time period, especially the interesting history of the Aztec and the beauty of the city of Tenochtitlan and other surrounding places.
They kinda did something similar in AC4 with the mayan assasins and such
Bro fr they need to do that
There is game being developed currently which has for name "Mictlán". It is suposed to be set on the conquest period and also it is meant to be an open world where we will be able to explore Mexico.
You'd have to play as the Spanish. They did the only winning.
Where do I preorder
I wish we could time travel and see these places.
and be killed
Astral project
Just make sure you get your smallpox vaccine and carry a macuahuitl or fire arms
@iCaliver Same it would be one of the first places I'd visit
Patrick brooooo i clicked on this to say that too!
Venice: The Tenochtitlan of Europe.
Yes indeed, except Venice is affected by tidal flooding.Poor urban planning that's never been corrected.
Why would you call Venice the Thenochtitlan of Europe when it was much older city than Thenochtitlan?
+Valo Obviously you lack imagination and are too eurocentric.
+Valo It has nothing to do with antiquity.
Serguéi Benitóvich Venice is older
The Aztec capital was certainly most impressive back in the day. A shame we don't know more about this incredible city.
Loving the attention you're giving Mesoamerica. Definitely an underrated area of history, looking forward to more.
Thanks I suggested to him that he cover this
@@rejvaik00 thank you, I'm loving these Aztec videos he's been doing!
I hope he does North American civs like Cahokia(Mississippians) and Etzanoa once he's done with Mesoamerica.
swest JayPfo There’s a great book written by Gary Jennings (an anthropologist) the book AZTEC... a GREAT read!
I wish someone would make a full production movie based on the book
Imagine, when VR gets good enough, we might be able to revisit cities of the past, such as these...
Now there's an idea
That's like school in the book Ready Player One
Man I've had that exact same thought hah
More like rebuild them even greater.
Sommenofatobox I would genuinely be so happy
This channel is a legend.
Seb E I like your picture 😂
The History Channel would say it was built by aliens.
Lol
Hilarious to think that youtubers provide more accurate documentaries than entire broadcasting networks now. What a time to be alive. I recommend "lost civilisations" channel, their documentary on the Aztecs was amazing. 5 hours long too.
On Oak Island.....
@Carl Le Pauvre Common knowledge....
@@paulies5407 THANK YOU!!!!
I love how you got most of your Nahuatl pronunciations on point as a native Mexican would pronounce them. Way better than mine.
Ńøt Ïdk I’m not sure which variant is it, but for sure it sounds like when I visits my relatives in Mexico City how the pronounce those places. Word that I more definitely struggle with.
Landed on his face with Nezahualcoyotl though...
Spanish: "Ain't That Pretty.."
*destroys one of history's most beautiful cities*
The destruction of Tenochtitlan was against Cortes's wishes. Cortes believed that the design of the city would prove profitable if he could capture it without destroying it. Sadly, the ruler after Montezuma II wouldn't surrender until the entire city was destroyed.
@The Chromosome Kid You right. Yo @ShizukaShizuka! you're a WEEB!
@@boolosboi7503 Even though I am ethnically Japanese? You should google the definition of words before throwing them around like an asshole
@The Chromosome Kid I am not a "Bro". What about me is weeb like? My name? Tell your mother to drink less next time she gives birth
What's up with the replies???
What a beauty it would've been to see this marvel at it's prime, god how I wish I a had a time machine
As much as I would love to do that . The Aztecs will probably kill strangers :(
@@jeffreysamson5938 lol true, but just to observe the city in it's prime would be awesome
and you'd probably kill all of them
@@TheVinicius200 There's a bunch of great cities I would love to see in their prime. Babylon, Rome, Carthage and Nineveh are the few major ancient cities I can think of from the top of my head. I have a good interpretation of what Rome would look like, since it's comparatively recent, but the other three I have only a small idea what they would look like.
It'd be much better to have a time TV or something... I'd love to see these things, but probably a bad idea to get physically involved in other times.
This was fascinating! I’m imagining the zoo and aquariums! What a spectacle this must have been for travelers
Mexican here, love your videos and this mini series on the Aztecs is fantastic. Keep it up!!
i commend your pronunciation sir !
Saludos Diego 👋🏻
Hola
Saludos desde la CDMX hermano 👋
Ah prro aca andas. Saludos
YA QUE SABES INGLES Y ESPAÑOL DEBERIA AYUDARLE A TRADUCIR ESTE VIDEO PORQUE LA TRADUCCIONES AUTOMATICAS DE UA-cam AL ESPAÑOL SON MUY MALAS
How is it possible that this city looks better than most MODERN cities ?????
I'm sure the look of the city is romanticised quite a bit in the artistic renditions.
But it is amazing nonetheless.
Because before people focused on making things beautiful without minding the money, and now people use cheap designs to spend the less money they possibly can _and_ they never do the repairs the buildings need so everything always looks like shit.
Because it's drawn. Doy!
Its the way we want to make things again.
Because you're looking at idealized paintings. No sewer systems, no electricity, no plumbing. All the shit was dumped into the same lake they drank from
dude this is insane. didn't understand how advanced and impressive some of the construction and architecture was
Having the canals, aqueducts, a zoo and an aviary, Tenochtitlan must have looked futuristic to the Spaniards. There were cities in Europe and around the Mediterranean that had some of those things, but not all still operational at the same time.
Speaking of, what exactly happened to the canals and Lake Texcoco since 1521?
Well, after the destruction of the aztecs and most of the mesoamericans, the new Mexico City started to grow and was requiring more and more space, and because of that they started to drain the lake. Nowadays, the lake Texcoco didnt exist anymore, and the canals probably were destroyed
@@hueytlahtoani1304 ah that explains it.
If the lake was drained, the canals would just dry up. Such a waste to dismantle what would have been the most amazing urban engineering, though.
@@75aces97 well it was razed
@@75aces97
Indeed, the aqueducts were rebuilt in the early colonial times in the European style following the trace and keeping the names of the original ones, and some fountains and small parts of the aqueducts still remain in Mexico City, but they are really abandoned and damaged. Also all the four big boulevards that connected the center of Tenochtitlán with the mainland still existing with the same name and trace, they connect the Historic Center of Mexico City with some neighborhoods around. As a fun fact, there are a lot of neighborhoods and districts in Mexico City that still having the names they use to have in the times of Tenochtitlán (Such as Coyoacán, Tepito, Iztapalapa, Azcapotzalco, Tlatelolco, Xochimilco, Chapultepec...) and even their government still using their names in Aztec writing as their logo or icon for the local government. So it's like the spirit of that ancient city stills somehow remaining there.
Mexico city is built on lake Texcoco Which was drained by canals but it's also why Mexico city floods all the time.
please more mesoamerican or more latin american content its so hard to find anything like this anywhere else
Inca perhaps?
Kings and Generals has a mesoamerican playlist
@@bobskywalker2707 ive seen that its great thanks for the recommendation though
That's Native american tribal nations .
@@sergioislas323 im sorry what do you mean by that?
Love how accurate this was . I’m Mexican trying to relearn my indigenous roots and your pronunciation is on point . I was surprised when I heard you say Mexica the correct way as mesh-shee-ka. Good work!
If your Mexican then you mostly Spanish
Torin Jones I have viewed firsthand enrolled tribal members in the US and Canada (Potawatomi and Métis especially) with members with no native features , blond hair and blue eyes . If they can consider themselves native then brown mexicans with mostly native features , and who can “pass off” as Native American easily can identify as Native .
@@torinjones3221 not necessarily, just scan Ancestry or any other DNA testing results on UA-cam or Insta and you'll see most are an amalgamation of ethnicities.
His pronunciation wasn't good but he tried more than most people would.
@@edgarallenhoe4656 But a lot of indigenous peoples in Anglo-America have fragmented traditions and were often heavily Christianized and sent to schools where they were inculcated with Western ways of thinking. The fact that there are so few pure-blooded natives left is a reminder of the dilution of the unique worldview that was once held by their ancestors. Now they have more in common with people from across the ocean genetically and mentally, than they do with their great grandparents and they interpret their own customs thru those adulterated perceptions.
"And while the world exists, Fame and Glory of Mexico Tenochtitlan will never end"
I’ve always heard this quote, where is it from?
@@Gekumatz It's poetry
I think it'd be cool to talk more about other Mesoamerican tribes, specially those who were not Mexicas, like the Tlaxcalans. Honestly, the Spanish "conquest" should be understood more as a "Spanish led rebellion", but both Mexican and Spanish historiography have traditionally interpreted under a nationalistic bias as a war between nations. The non-mexica peoples, who raised up against the Aztecs, took the bulk of the fighting and ultimately won deserve some more recognition.
The Tlaxcalans were actually recognised and rewarded by King Charles V for their invaluable assistance. It was after Cortez died but his remaining soldiers testified on the Tlaxcalans behalf and as a result they were exempted from various taxes and laws
While I agree with the spirit of your comment, "tribes" really isn't appropriate here, as the video itself illustrates: These were people living in urban cities with complex administrative governments, fighting in formal, organized armies, etc. Invicta does call tthe Mexica a tribe at the start of the video, but that's because at the time of the cities formation the Mexica were still a nomadic people and were first settling down, as had been the case for other Nahua groups around the valley of mexico for the past few decades (though, note that the region itself had other established urban cities and political states for thousands of years already, the Nahuas were just newcomers from up in northern mexico, where urban states were less common)
I'm also not sure "rebellion" is accurate: Tlaxcala hadn't been conquered yet, for example, and even for the cities that were under aztec dominion that participated, it's not as if they were directly controlled or administered by either Tenochtitlan or the triple alliance: with few exceptions, subordinate citis were just expected to pay tribute, offer military aid, etc, but were otherwise left to their own devices, so it almost doesn't make sense to not view them still as distinct city-states. It's also worth noting here that while Tlaxcala did have greivences as a result of the constant invasions and blockades it faced, for tthe most part the particpants in thee siege of Tenochtitlan were doing so out of geopolitical opportunism, not out of wanting to rise out of Aztec oppression (as mentioned, Aztec cities were pretty much given complete administrative, political, and cultural freedom, after all), with most only joining the Spanish and Tlaxcala aftter Montezuma II's death and the smallpox outbreak, by which point Tenochtitlan's stability and ability to project military force was in dispute and in such situations in Mesoamerican history tributary prroivences often "rebelled": Aztec emperors needing to re-conquer border provinces on their coronations was basically a tradition from them wanting to test the new emperor after the death of a prior one.
Finally, the Fall of Tenochtitlan did not mark the end of the Conquest, it was rather the beginning: Not all Aztec cities ceded to Spanish authority (though most did, siince from their perspective it was basically no change, just changing who got their tribute), and there was still the Purepecha empire and various city-states to the west, the various Maya states to the east, and various city-states and kingdoms/empires in central mexico that the Aztec had yet to conquer, such as the remnants of the Mixtec empire that the warlord 8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw had founded. it would take decades of hard fighting (still mostly done by native armies, mind you, with only a minority of the troops being conquistadors) for most of these to be conquered, and in many places they were never truly conquered.
These are all very interesting perspectives, this is why I fucking love this channel
J. C. The Spaniard never conquer the Maya’s I had been in in Guatemala, Sunday’s is the market day. You can go to the Catholic Church at midday and the Chamanes have a place in the altar with the priest., in the middle on the church the Maya’s pay tributes to the 🌽,etc. .before start the religious service
@J. C. yes they were apart of new Spain but they were also allowed to continue their traditions, own land, and not pay certain taxes. It took some time, about 60 years after the conquest but they did get an Audience with King Charles V directly and their status was recognised.
This also happened with the Otomi a tribe that had been in the valley since 1000ad 200 years before the Mexica. The Otomi were also given similar privileges and many became well known mercenaries
me watching them Aztecs build grand ancient cities on UA-cam at 2am
4 a.m.
12:01 and I ain't even doing drugs. Time for a midnight snack.
2:30
1:49
Saturday evening at 11:38 pm while having a beer. Why not?
Damned diseases. I wish the culture of the Mexica survived more, the colours and designs are so vivid. I wish I could visit a modernised Mexica empire instead of some country that mostly resembles Spain in its architecture etc.
The Aztec Emprie was weak and relied on constant infighting to survive. Chances are if it hadn't collapsed then today murders and executions would be common... oh wait I guess Mexico is still just a much a hell hole now as it was 500 years ago.
@@torinjones3221 Sounds like your whole view is based off of Narcos and Apocalypto.
@@cbrtdgh4210 Mexico is suffering a huge increase of violence since 2006. Is so hard to build a life always worried about kidnapping, murder, robbery, fraudulent governance, etc. (I lived in Mexico for 33 years.)
@@xperiaspectre3531 Sorry to hear that. Is that since Calderon's war on drugs? On platforms like Quora, all you'll read is how dangerous the US is while Mexico is defined by misconceptions.
@@cbrtdgh4210 He isn't wrong, you clearly live among the Europeans you hate, probably America. 70 million of you chose not to live in the corrupt shithole you come from for a reason.
Also a correction, a middle eastern religion called
>Christianity
They did the same to Europe and then re-write history.
So much we don't understand, but at least are opening our eyes to how incredible pre-contact cultures were in the Americas and how much respect needs to be extended to those that remain. I love the use of architectural renderings of the city, giving a sense of depth to the complexity and grandness employed in the engineering. This video was prescient in how the greatest of cultures can be brought low by unmanaged disease.
Damn imagine stepping out of ur house to the freshest fish,water, and fruit. Plus to see boats everywhere and then leave ur little island on ur own boat must've been a paradise.
@trueman mann You people are a cancer to society.
trueman mann why do you people have to always bring up your religion and say “oh they must be descendants of Biblical Jews.” It’s annoying, false, and quite rude
trueman mann Jews and Indigenous Mexicans have nothing to do with each other’s history or religion hell they don’t even know that they existed
And then the tribelords take your two daughters for sacrifice because it hasn't rained in a week. What a paradise.
@@residente44 Why do people like you make ignorant comments like this? He was never praising what the Aztecs did. A lot of ancient civilizations are incomparable to modern times because of the morals, standards, and general beliefs of the populations. Just because he praises the architecture and geography of the city, does not mean he is endorsing what the people did.
I live south of the ruins of that once glorious city, and it’s a shame to see that nothing but some stones of the main temple remain.
@Hoàng Nguyên what are you talking about? What's this WE business are you part of some committee that decides who they should destroy next?
@Johan Jacobs an opinion sure, but stating "we" whoever that is ,should raze the current city ,no I don't think they have a right to that at all.
Hoàng Nguyên Mexico City is the same city as tenochtitlan (p.s. full name: Mexico-Tenochtitlan) that’s like saying we should tear down Rome to restore Rome. . .by revealing all of the ruins it is built on.
Hoàng Nguyên More boring? no. . .More filthy? Barely. . .Uglier? In most parts, sure.
Mexico City is a overpopulated mess, but it's still very beautiful. The colonial baroque and 19th century parisian stile buildings are very beautiful, too. And sometimes they coexist with Tenochtitlan ruins in a surrealistic way. There are also modern buildings that are eye catching. You can't judge the city if you've haver never visited it. One needs to be a local to really know the ugly, dangerous sides of the city.
Thank you for the great History lesson. You did a Great job!
this is a perfect setting for an assassin's creed game! I need to go there NOW
The only ac games we need are Aztec empire and feudal Japan
Visiting here should be on everyone's bucket list
I'd definitely pay for a Assassin's Creed game about the Aztecs where you're an assassin protecting Moctezuma and you must fight against the Spaniards and enemy tribes
Must have been a very impressive and interesting city to walk around in during it's height of the Aztec empire.
Wait a second- a zoo? And botanical garden, aviary and aquarium!? Wow I never knew the Aztec were so advanced and capable to such amazing things!🙊
A couple of notes: The zoo was only for the Aztec king (Huey Tlatoani) and he kept midgets as zoo creatures.
@@CMaldonado1690 sounds fair
They were also capable of mass human sacrifice ripping people hearts out and eating them and wearing flayed skin.
@@NapoleonBonaparde is that what historians say in the US? Lol ok buddy.
They say they had the fastest postal system too, consisting of a system of runners in relay. Like a message would get too you quicker than the postal system of today or something, LOL. And this includes getting snow from some snowy mountain top in huge bulks wrapped in leaves or hay or something during the night and by dawn, it would be in the markets before it melted thanks to the runners, where they would sell the ice with syrups (extremely costly thing to buy), but just think about it. How crazy is that? Can't even remember where I read about it though🤔 If time machines existed, I always say one of the places I'g go would be to have a sweet snow cone in Tenochtitlan hehehe
''It was reported that by using a relay system the messengers could cover 200 to 350 miles a day.'' (faster than Amazon!)😂
Something I'm sad about is how most of us (including myself) know so little about the various American cultures
My guess is centuries is white washing buried whatever genuine history there is left of the native civilizations.
@@SagradaMascarita there is also the fact that so much less was written down (at least that has survived), making it mostly impossible to know what was going on with those cultures
I have been studying everything I can get my hands on. The culture we have today has been copied/stolen. They keep portraying blacks as "uncivilized" but in the same breath you say they built America. Now which one is the truth? They had to have some expert skills and knowledge to build those beautiful buildings, courthouse and other buildings. We are not thinking deeply enough. Who were the translators? The Native were definitely bi-lingual but what about the Colonist? There is not much in our history to tell us how "they" communicated with the Native People in their tongue. It is a proven fact that Africa has more languages spoken in their country than any other culture in the world. Thousand of languages are spoken there. So we know too they are bi-lingual and more lingual than most countries. Americans expect foreigners to speak English but very few native English speaking Americans speak other languages.
the cultures in present day united states left little to no structures compared to other ancient civilizations. Like what in the world were they doing...
@@antoinettewatson1632 The fact that you called Africa a country instead of a continent was more than enough to invalidate this incoherent rambling mess you call a comment.
The Aztec/Mexicas never used horses or the wheel. It’s amazing.
They didn't need them, they had boats and canals, it was faster. Yes there were wheels. If you go to the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico there are toys with wheels ☺️
@@HerrClementzin probably not from the aztec empire time, more like modern tribes toys
@@dubstrap6095 tribes toys? There were civilizations. We have evidenced of the wheel since centuries 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
@@dubstrap6095 no… man, they knew the wheel, they just didn’t have horses to pull carts, making it useless. Use your brain.
They have wheels but no horses in Mexico at that time ... when the aztecs saw the Spanish horses they were scare because they didn't know what the heck was that
i love history and i thought i knew a lot but ironically ignored almost everything about my own culture. you sr have teached me more about it than the teachers i had in school here in Mexico. thank you very much.
An awesome fictional, yet informative, account is the book AZTEC by Gary Jennings. That book puts the reader into the middle of the late AZTEC world and you don't feel like a foreigner. Great book. I'm a history professor and I've read over thousand books and Aztec is in the top 100. Well worth the read. Dang, now I want to read it again after 20 yrs. A great book. Really. I know a good book. I've never been wrong. Ask anyone that knows me. Well, you can't do that but I know things. Word gets around.
thanks for the open recommendation, I will look for it, any other you would like to recommend?
Brian Geeslin 'Aztec' is one of the best books I've read. I still have the copy I read from back in the day.
Thanks for that!
Damn fine book
Brian Geeslin .."Aztecs" is Not : is "Mexicas"..
I would have loved to see this city. Sounds very impressive. Plus their methods of transporting water made it even more so.
Qué pena que secaron el lago Texcoco y enterraron la ciudad, no puedo ni llegar a imaginar lo impresionante que debió de haber sido verla en persona 😢
Actualmente el lago de Texcoco (dónde iba a estar el aeropuerto corrupto de Peña) mide tres veces la bahía de Acapulco. Imagina lo enorme que era cuando cubría toda la ciudad 😱
@@brocklod3673 ya no hay nada en tenochtitlan ?
I appreciate your care in good pronunciation of the nahuatl names. Except for Nezahualcoyotl, the rest of the names were pretty spot on!
You should talk some day about the city of Teotihuacan (The city of te Gods), the mistery of that city is huge as it came to be more than a thousand years prior to Tenochtitlan.
What a marvel must have been to walk the streets of this amazing city. Pity it vanished. A real loss to the world.
@@Gevixel shh carefull dude you'll piss of the softies that have no culture...
@@Gevixel keep crying
Rome of the Americas
But better
Jonjo Senna Simply Tenochtitlán. No eurocentric junk needed.
It's kinda hard not to be eurocentic when Europe has been right in the center for a long time, including when this "lesser" civilization was annexed.
The Inca did American Rome, not the Aztec.
@@AlanDeAnda1 What are you a mesoamerican nationalist lmao?
That would be Cusco, not Tenochtitlán.
Excellent narration and beautiful use of artist impressions, maps and images to show the wonder of Tenochtitlan. A very useful resource to show a high school class. Thank you.
It would be awesome if you made a video on the other indigenous groups in Mesoamerica, maybe a focus on the Tlaxcala Confederation or the Tarascan Empire, both hated the Aztecs and had their own impressive cities and culture. The Tarascans are very interesting in my opinion since they had the second largest empire after the Triple Alliance, and fell a few years after the fall of Tenochtitlan. The Tarascans were said to have fought the Aztecs on several occasions, with the Aztecs at many moments trying to expand westward only to be repelled by their other expanding neighbor. The story of the Tlaxcalas would also be interesting since they were the key to Spain's further conquests.
Indeed, the Tarascans often get sidelined in favour of Tlaxcalla as the Aztecs' greatest enemy. Reasonable of course, since it was with Tlaxcalla's help that Cortes managed to win against the Aztecs. But it should really be noted that everytime the the Triple Alliance tried to expand to the west, they were always halted by the Tarascans. The Tarascans are also unique in Mesoamerica, they were probably the closest thing to a "nation-state" in pre-Columbian America that you could get. Their nation was a unitary kingdom, meaning all aspects of government, both from the national and local, were managed by the king in the capital and his representatives. Not really remarkable within the context of Eurasian history, but every other city-state in Mesoamerica, including the Aztecs, functioned with the tributary system. This means that once you defeated a city-state, you left the former government intact, along with its cultures and traditions and instead only ask tributes in the form of goods or money(or the closest things Mesoamericans had for money). Not the Tarascans though. They would instead appoint official governors sanctioned by the King to administer the newly conquered region. They would also try to assimilate the defeated people into the Tarascan culture, thus creating a sort of proto-national identity of being a Tarascan.
I'm amused by how accurate was Age of Empires. I knew all of this by doing the Aztec campaign.
And the back end of Medieval Total War 2!
Wow. Playing video games really isn't a waste of time after all. You're a winner!
@@derekmyers3258 Playing games was never a waste of time. In fact, many people get hooked into learning because of gaming, specially history.
@@KlaussMarcellusDepends on the game. The genre of educational and historical gaming should be more encouraged among children in my opinion.
You're research on Mesoamerica is why I subscribed . Thank you and as many others have stated please continue with this topic.
It really is amazing how a civilasation can thrive on its own must have been unbelieveable to the spanish eyes when they first set site.
actualy they killed everyone before they could see the city lol.
@@Gekumatz sad BUT true
Wish i could be a time traveler to see this :(
You'd kill 90% of the population just from all the diseases we carry
@@Garahan exactly, you couldnt interact with them
@@canarioobediente92 just wear a mask…duh 🤣
Thank you for a really informative video on Tenochtitlan. As once a student in the NYC education system, History was always Euro-centric. The more we learn of Meso-American cultures through archeology and scientific research, the more we understand their sophisticated technology and political structure. When I think of aqueducts and drainage systems I immediately think of ancient Roman technology. This alone was an eye opener. Again thanks.
Truly eye opening, I had no idea the Aztecs were this advanced. Great quality video as per usual Invicta!
HERMOSA NUESTRA GRAN HISTORIA... ORGULLOSO DE SER MEXICANO.
You’re Spanish
@@skyguyxninja5650 I Am Mexican... Men
And people still say Native American civilizations are “uncivilized”
Maximus Media just because you can build cool looking building, have art, culture and have a class system doesn’t make you civilized, Rome had all of these things and their society definitely wasn’t civilized either
There is no point in conflating Mesoamerica with North America, in any case even if the term "uncivilized" carries useless and inaccurate cultural baggage you can't say that it's a completely unusuable terms for places like Iron Age North and Eastern Europe or North America.
@@thatwasclose1381 you know roman rights?(Idk how you say in english ) Rome was eben a republic at a time, you know when the Roman Empire existed? They were hugely more civilized thennothers in their time expect China mb.
Maximus Media don’t be so narrow minded
@@thatwasclose1381 having a ruthless army makes you uncivilized?
I once flew out of Mexico City from Benito Juarez Int Airport and it's such an amazing view to see the entire city from above, endless and vast. You can actually still see some remnants of Lake Texcoco when you fly out from the east.
Am loving these mesoamerican videos! Though honestly I basically love every video you put out. Keep up the good work!
Thanks I suggested to him through Patreon that he cover the history of Mesoamerica
Yay! So excited everyone is enjoying this detour out of more mainstream European history
I'm really proud of be mexican, you can't imagine the culture that we have here. This is just one of a lot of civilizations that ocupate this beautiful country. All that you can find here is just here.
@Thorn in the side because like every country we have problems.
Great explanation! I’m from Mexico City, and the history of this place still surprises me...!
Woefully unappreciated is a true understatement.
It’s amazing to think of what MesoAmerica would’ve been if not for devastation brought by diseases, that brought civil wars.
Imagine if the two continents never met!
Great video!
That is a fun alternate future exercise
We would still have the genocidal Aztecs.
Meh, the Americas would still likely be centuries behind the rest of the world if they never met. One has to remember how many advances, like firearms, were gained from interactions between the peoples of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
@John Newman Japan, while isolated in comparison to many others, was never in the same position as the early American states/groups. That being said, there is the small potential that an early American state, if given enough time and the right conditions, could somewhat 'catch up' within a century, instead of centuries. Of course, even when considering the rest of the world at the time, the Europeans were overtly more advanced than most others, so isolation is obviously not the only factor to consider.
@@glenncordova4027 europeans did the same thing regardless, romans, even the han, musims, every group commited genocide, stop actimg like your ancestors were some innocent little people who wouldent harm a ant.
This is an impressive effort. I’ve seen a lot of UA-cam vids on pre-Columbian civ over the last many years; yours captures a verisimilitude of life in ancient Tenochtitlán with its graphics and well researched documentary commentary. Thank you for bringing this city of my youth to life again with a tasteful experience of its antiquity. I often meditate on the dreamlike experience encountered by Cortez, Diaz, and their comrades, and their incomprehensible conflict and conquest; your work makes that very imaginable. Thank you.
Next you should take a crack at the Inca. A very under rated and under appreciated empire.
Didn't he already?
I'd love a series on the Mississippians.
I think he should do a video just on the natives of Colombia like the Muisca. In Bogota the capital city of Colombia they have the worlds largest gold museum. Its full of native gold artifacts and other things. Read this - nasvete.com/colombia-gold-museum/
TBH I thought you would suggest the empire of propane and propane accessories.
We could've taken crack FROM the Incas, if they'd known how to use baking soda and choreboy.
Say hi to Pegg for us, Hank.
This was just awesome. I'm quite intrigued by the Aztecs due to the way they've influenced a certain kind of fantasy that was a large part of my childhood. This however really triggered something that just made me wonder what it must've been like for the Spanish to arrive there, and what it would've been like if they hadn't been ruined by the Spanish invaders. Truly awesome
Thanks Invicta. As usual, you brought the past to life. Please continue uploading videos on Meso and South America. At some point it would be great if you uploaded some videos on the African ancient civilizations such as Kush, Ethiopia, Timbuktu, etc.
I'm from mexico city and it means a lot that you really put some effort in pronouncing the nahuatl words correctly. Thank you.
Excellent introduction. The level of detail wasn’t even close to the Chicano Studies classes I took. Its amazing to see my people’s history showcased like this - something the Spanish had systematically erased. It would be great to see more detail and perhaps a reconstructed City using the most detailed accounts available. Thank you for doing this.
That was incredible! I love history and read a lot, and I can't believe I've never heard of this; what an amazing sight this must have been! Great video, I am now a new subscriber and looking forward to learning more!
On November 8, 1519, 500 years ago today, Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomed him with a great celebration.
The Spanish must have been in complete awe of this beautiful city...thank you for sharing what it must have looked like on this momentous occasion.
Its amazing that other
nationalities are interested in Mexico's history! I admire that good job keep up the good work!!!
I have loved mexican history and culture since i was a child. My dream is to visit some day
I love archeology and don't think of nationality when looking megaliths and structures thousands of years old. It's world history and we all are just humans who have luck to live here.
amazing to think that this once existed, must’ve been beautiful in its prime.
Thank you for this great overview. I just visited Mexico City and could feel the history but it is mostly not visible.
I would be interested in Aztec architecture!
If you ever visit Mexico City, take a tour to "el Zócalo". Hidden underneath the main plaza, "Plaza de la Consitución", you can still see part of the base from "Templo Mayor".
Excellent summary and commentary, it's really under-appreciated how magnificent the Aztec has a native American society is. Looking forward to your covering more under-rated civs.
Thankyou for your analysis of Tenochtitlan. I've read many books about the Aztecs. As an urban designer particularly interested in the layout of the city, but haven't seen such a compact and decent investigation.
If you the information is available, I’d really like to see a video on mesoamerican trade between city-states or on the construction of their aqueduct systems. Keep up the amazing work!
Never had much interest in the Aztecs and never heard of Tenochtitlan until I saw this video two years ago. I always find myself coming back to learn more about the Aztecs and Tenochtitlan.
AWESOME! If I could back in time to anywhere and at any place I would chose Tenchtitlan in its golden age, hands down
This is awesome, I love this direction. Have you considered the Inca? Theirs was another incredible civilization.
Such underrated civ, indeed
This information is gold! Thanks for your appreciation for our culture
This was amazing, felt like stepping out of a time machine!, would love it if you made more videos about other great Mesoamerican cities, like those built by the Maya, still great job!!!!
Thanks! A friend who spent a long time many years ago in Mexico City told me many Nahua people gave up the opportunity to make a living elsewhere and stayed near where the ruins of the Templo Mayor were, often sleeping outdoors with even a serape to cover them, so as to be near their sacred home. I find this incredibly moving: it reminds me of my own tribe's dedication to Jerusalem. You've made a great video, and your pronunciation of Nahuatl is excellent! Thanks again.
It saddens me that we will never get to see these amazing cities in all of their glory because the Spanish destroyed them
Everything the spanish touched was raped, stolen, burned or destroyed
Yo to tescozinco hill and see the extension of the empire is in ruins now but is really something to behold, IDK maybe is just me but being there inside Montezuma's tub is really something😊👍
@@danstrayer111 as the Romans, Greeks, Mongols, Asirians, Brittish, and USA did. All empires do similar things. Mexico culture was not destroyed but mixed with the SPanish one for hundred of years. From time to time is good to read
@@danstrayer111 keep crying, bitchass
@@danstrayer111 We got invaded a lot of times before. We just teached the world not to mess with us.
INCREDIBLE JOB! Love these aztec videos