Aztec Empire I │The Origin Of The Aztec
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- The Aztec lived without plague, without lack of food, and without equals... and yet they waged constant War, practised cannibalism, and sacrificed thousands of people alive every year.
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How many flags did you spot in this video?
A recurring animation throughout my videos (recently) are the 3 rectangles appearing one by one. The colours of these rectangles are determined by the topic (colours of the Dutch Republic's flag for the Tulip Mania videos, colours of Germany's WW2 flag for the Nuremberg video, etc.). The Aztec, however, used a great many colours, meaning the 3 rectangles have a wide array of colours this time. This had the unexpected side effect that I accidentally created a lot of different flags. I, myself, was only able to spot 3 different flags but a friend of mine was able to spot 4. So how many can you find?
Aztecs were my ancestors. I can understand why they worshipped the Sun God. I love the sun and all that it gives us. Although I do not treat the sun like the Aztecs do in order for a better life. Especially by sacrificing people. I love the sun and
all that it gives us. I believe that that
sun was put there by not a God, but
the God. Good and interesting video.
@@dazzawesome
Yeah, that perfectly answers the question...
Super late reply: I only saw the Mexican flag at the end. I did notice the Dutch flag in the tulipmania videos (both the national flag and the Prince flag) but didn't notice any on the Nuremberg ones. Makes sense: I'm only recognising flags that do exist and missing made up loves like the Aztec or Nazi tricolours.
As a mexican i'm happy to see the history of the country told by people of other parts of the world. Very nice Huitzilopochtli pronunciation, thanks for the flag nod. Great channel, keep it up! Viva México.
It's not the history of Mexico though
Im Lord Guille
Why is that?
@@danielalvarez-galan3702 Because it's the history of the Aztec empire...
Im Lord Guille
The Mexican people are descendants of the Aztec Empire, and that of the other 200+ Amerindian tribes. The History of Meso-America is aligned with its respective countries. (I.e. those who live in Guatemala, Yucatán, Belize are the descendants of the Maya )
@@danielalvarez-galan3702 That is correct. But Mexico is not the same country as the Aztec empire. The history of the country of Mexico wouldn't start until the end of the second part of this 2 part video
Good thing that we have you to make these animated videos, because Disney isn't going to make one about THAT princess anytime soon.
This still cracks me up even after 7 months :D
Héj egy magyar.
I hope they don’t. Mexicans need to make it
That wedding might be the craziest thing I’ve ever heard of, what did they expect to happen?
The part that still evades me is why someone thought that dancing in the skin of the princess was a better idea than to simply attack while the enemy were distracted by the wedding celebrations.
Avery Thing if someone pitched that for game of thrones they’d say it was too ridiculous
That king gave them land and betrothed his daughter to their god, and what do those motherfuckers do? They tear out her heart and skin her. Wtf? Dick move, Aztec!
Ancient legends say that that way the first George RR Martin story.
The Red Wedding was inspired by the Black Dinner... George RR Martin's work would be seen as rather mundane to a people who held literal human blood sacrifices on a regular basis.
As my friend put it "At 9am I go to the market, come home and help work on the farm, and at 12am I take the children to watch people's hearts ripped out while we try to collect some of the blood running down the pyramid, and then it's time for lunch"
Historically accurate. As a mexican im happy you got the facts right. Sadly most of the people seem to have forgotten about our origin.
Most Mexicans aren't descended from Aztecs though. Collectively, the other native ancestries vastly outnumber Aztec ancestry.
@Chrissie Aztecs along with the other native Americans/Mexicans were the precursors to modern day Mexicans. You are correct that Mexicans did come from other tribes but you are also incorrect in stating that Mexicans did not decend from Aztecs.
our origin¿¿ there are 67 native tribes in mexico.. aztecs where only part of one.. most aztecs died in Tenochtitlan battle and their killers were mainly tlaxcaltecas, ther enemies.
Aztecs had many towns under their control and forced them to pay tribute. It is 99% certain that you descend from one of those peoples subjugated by the Aztecs.
He is right.. most aztecs were killed in tenochtitlan battle by tlaxcaltecas. Also tehre are 67 other native tribes in emxico .. there is almost 0 chance someone saying his ancesters weres aztec is right. Aztecs had many towns under their control and forced them to pay tribute. It is 99% certain that most of us are from anyother subyugated tribe. in my case are "yopes" who were also enemies of the aztecs@@FTBASTAR
"Failed the test of time"
Your Sid Meier's Civ V is showing 😏
I checked Steam and I have over 1400 hours in that game by now... I didn't consciously use it as a Civ V reference but in hindsight it's obvious that I got that phrase from the game. :D
@@HistoryScope Nice dude. I've only got about 500 hours so I'm a noob in comparison.
However I've got about 700 hours split across CKII and EUIV so that makes up for it.
What do you think about Civ VI? Personally I really like that they added a religious victory, the district system and the reworked military units.
I also got a huge Civ vibe from the map shown at 1:40
History Scope - Avery Thing I was going to say 1400 hours is a lot and then I saw I have about 1200. The “one more turn syndrome” is incredibly powerful. It’s heartbreaking that civ 6 was shitty, in my opinion at least. Civ 5 is the pinnacle until civ 7 comes out
The part with the eagle holding a snake in its beak wasn't in the original recounts of the story. It only mentioned an eagle standing on a rock and, after the conquest, artisans started selling statues of the cactus and eagle holding a ribbon in its beak. Some people, including Spanish conquistadores, assumed it was supposed to be a snake that the eagle had hunted and the effigy stuck.
Willy Milano wow! Never knew that before. I swear in my school textbook it said the eagle has a snake in its mouth. Guess the effigy is so prominent now its made its way into being accepted as what actually happened as opposed to a story that evolved
The Mexica were stuck on bad snake ridden land during part of their history. They made it work and that definitely is part of the legend from the beginning.
@@wulf1827 If you look at 2 codex, the eagle has a small bird in its mouth or nothing, a Spanish invention...
You know I stumbled upon your channel by chance, a random recommendation. It astonishes me how UA-cam’s algorithm can recommend something so accurately to my liking. Your videos are superb, as a historian myself I find history fascinating but you make your videos in a way that is entertaining and informative at the same time. Thank you for all your hard work my dude, you’ve earned a new subscriber.
Damn. I'm mexican and this topic is so complicated that every teacher teaches it very differently. Great video!
And a proud one who does not even capitalize Mexican... Que Lastima
I didn’t know I wanted to learn about this, but this was really interesting and informative. Keep it up!
Your pronunciation of Huitzilopochtli Is almost perfect (I don't speak nahuatl but I speak Spanish)
I am very glad to hear that. It took me lots and lots and lots of takes to get it right. :)
Mexico has a lot of history, The Great Tenochtitlan (city on a lake) was the most important city in America, my ancestors were invaded for Spain and later for USA. I'm so proud to be descendant from Moctezuma. We used to be the land of the gods but Spain destroyed a culture and turned Mexico into a Catholic, in god we trust, but we respect our gods.
I thought the Mexica had no gods, god is a catholic invention...
@@rickecheverria8052 Yes the Mexicas used to have different gods, one of them was Huitzilopochtli, once this god appeared to the Mexica Tenoch, then Huitzilopochtli told to Tenoch take your people and walk down the south, so when you find an eagle on a cactus eating a snake you have to build your city, then Tenoch finally found that eagle in Texcoco lake and Tenochtitlán city was founded, now Tenochtitlán is Mexico City, that’s why my flag has an eagle eating a snake. So in 1521 people from Spain killed at least 80% of my ancestors, Spanish people brought sickness, the worst church, and the Spanish language.
Awesome video man you have some really great content keep up the fantastic work brah!!
Keep this up mate its only a matter of time before you become a massive channel!
Yes, a cartoon channel...
Dude your videos are really good. Keep it up and you'll be huge on YT
Great video! I'll be waiting for the next part.
Love your videos man keep it up
Awesome content! Looking forward for the new episodes
Notifications squad
Great video you cover alot
My first 'notification squad' comment!
9:19 If you ignore the right and left pictures it's the Mexican flag
its because the actual symbol of the mexican flag is an eagle over a cactus devouring a serpent
That was on purpose :)
Damn ! Another AWESOME video!
Great video series!
THE AZTEC EMPIRE
In the first decades of the fourteenth century of our era, a people of nomadic hunters who came from the North settled on two islands in the middle of Lake Texcoco. There they founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, which would be the capital of the Aztec Empire and is today Mexico City.
They built a city on a lake, an impressive feat of engineering.
What was your society like?
It was based on clans of families with a common ancestor, called calpullis. Aztec society was divided into several classes: at the top was the emperor, then priests, warriors, and nobles; below the artisans and merchants and finally the workers. Outside the social scale were the slaves, who were mostly prisoners of war.
And the economy?
The basis of the economy was agriculture. They grew corn, pumpkins, cotton and cocoa, with which they made the delicious chocolatl (chocolate). For living in the middle of a lake, the conditions of agriculture were very special. But the Aztecs were not intimidated, they invented the chinampas, a species of floating rafts armed with intertwined reeds covered with soil on which they cultivated. They were great merchants and had great fairs and markets.
Good and evil
The Aztecs thought that the world had existed not once but several times in a row. Altogether there had already existed four suns and four lands prior to the present time. The four primordial forces: water, earth, fire and wind, had presided over those epochs or suns until reaching the fifth epoch which was that of the sun in motion.
The Aztec religion was a permanent struggle between good and evil, represented by Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, respectively (much similarity between ying-yang).
The first received flowers and offerings and the second human sacrifices.
What was the largest city in the world in the 16th century?
Tenochtitlan had more than 100,000 inhabitants. The Spanish were very astonished by the Tlatelolco market. This is how Bernal Díaz del Castillo, one of Hernán Cortés' men, tells it: »We were amazed by the multitude of people and merchandise that were in the great square and the great concert that they had in everything: gold, silver, rich stones, feathers, male and female slaves, cheap and fine clothing, brass and copper axes ... ».
What was your art like?
They were excellent masters of stone carving and notable architects. The wonderful pyramids of the Sun and the Moon of Teotihuacán can still be admired today on the outskirts of Mexico City. In the very center of the Capital, the ruins of the major temples of Tenochtitlán have been discovered about 20 years ago. They were extraordinary goldsmiths and - despite the fact that very few gold and silver objects could be saved from the greed of the conquerors who transformed them into ingots - they produced true works of art in jade, gold and feathers.
How was your end?
The Aztec Empire succumbed to the invasion of the Spanish carried out by Hernán Cortés in 1521. The surprise factor, internal rivalries, the alliance of enemy peoples of the Aztecs with the invaders, deception, the use of horses, unknown pests and the superiority of weapons made possible the defeat of the mighty Empire, but not before putting up a tough resistance as befitting a people of warriors.
Greetings from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
And yet the Mexcia Empire lasted only 93 years...
Nice vid!
hyped for part 2
I'm surprised that this video has dislikes, this is how I know I can trust it, and thank you for the information.
The aztecs *WILL, BE, UNITED*
You're going to be very happy by the end of the video ;)
Germany WILL BE AVENGED !
They are
I hope not!!!
Marco Iglesias sheesh you should say that
So basically the Aztecs were inspired by their god to wonder around for many generations, in search of the promised land. That is somehow a very familiar story.
Are we sure that this isn't something that came from the Christian missionaries that came along with the Spanish? Or is this something that everyone did? Like the flood stories, that all peoples have.
Yes we are sure, it's on the ancient Codex Mendoza and other sources. Some stories repeat in different cultures because there are universal archetypes.
@gcjerryusc The Aztecs wondered for centuries
We are the isralities
@@cavakun All pre conquest codex were burned, most codex we have were written 50 years after the conquest...
I’m Turk who is foreign language student. I have run into reading passages about Aztec civilization and I have been curious about it. I watched that video. Thx a lot. I have information about them any more.
Good stuff!
Poor princess got married & had her heart literally ripped out of her chest 💔🥴
I love your videos
Just found your channel, great content so far, keep it up! Where’s your accent from?
That is the gnarliest origin story of all time!- just another glaring example of how fact is more brutal than fiction.
Before they were called the Aztecs, they were known as the mexica
I would appreciate reliable sources to where you got this information from. I take ethnic studies courses and History classes and the narrative in college is much different than here too. Funny how it makes a difference.
Oh, yikes! These Aztecs are bloodthirsty and violent. I feel bad for the peoples living around them.
They haven't even gotten started yet
you will suffer more =)
helped me so much im going to ace my test
Amazing video! I don't know why I want so bad the second part if i already know how it ends
It's a shame your previous video has over a million views but this has 14k. Totally sucks man you deserve more attention
Well, I'm going to assume it has a lot to do with the 'part 1' and the great thumbnail the Nuremberg video has (my gf came up with that one). So I am using the series to perform 2 tests:
1. Once it's finished I will put all the episodes together and upload it as 1 long video.
2. In a few weeks UA-cam will bring out a live click through rate for videos. Then I will make several thumbnails and see which work best.
I'm hoping this will lead to quite some views as there isn't a good video out there explaining the whole Aztec history in this detail, except for generic documentaries.
@@HistoryScope well good luck with that man hopefully it works, are you planning on expanding on the Aztek videos as well or have you moved on?
@@Rossstewart88 I am going to put everything together this week. Hopefully upload it next week.
@@HistoryScope looks like the long one got the most attention
Just a head's up, they're not actually called Aztecs. Aztec wasn't even a term until the 19th Century. The so called "Aztecs" were actually a subgroup of a broader language family of Nahuatl speakers, of which there were 7 known major groups. Think of the Proto-Indo Europeans of Europe. Gradually, these groups spread out to different areas and divided themselves into city states similar to that of ancient Greece. This particular history that you're discussing is that of the Tenochca (inhabitants of Tenochtitlan), but there dozens of Nahua kingdoms in Central Mexico, each with its documented histories, pantheon, etc.
Hence why I talk so often about their political structure :)
Ya the Aztecs called themselves Mexica(Mesheeka). Where the nation Mexico gets its name.
Wow they really have a soft spot for hearts, dont they
I can't stop listening to this guy say Huitzilopochtli.
Ambush: You may have outsmarted me but I outsmarted your outsmarting
Isn’t this more like Mythology Scope than History Scope?
I invite you all to question time as a straight line when they had a circular calendar ;)
what game is the animations drawn from?
how did they get the message that the god wanted them to do those things?
AZTEC EMPIRE 🗿🇲🇽🌵
Also called, in minority, Triple Alliance or Mexican Empire.
LOCATION
It was an entity of territorial, political and economic control that existed in the central zone of Mesoamerica, in the valley of Mexico, during the late postclassic,
integrated by the domains of the Triple Alliance, formed by Texcoco, Tlacopan and México-Tenochtitlan, current Mexico City and capital of the empire, the Aztecs established their dominion over numerous cities, especially in central Mexico, the Guerrero region and the Gulf coast Mexico, as well as some areas of Oaxaca. They also had enclaves in various strategic positions in the Tabasco region, the rich Xoconochco region located in the south of the current Mexican state of Chiapas, in Guatemala, and also dominated a part of El Salvador.
GOVERNMENT
It was a hereditary monarchy, the head of state was the emperor called with the Náhuatl title of Tlatoani, the first emperor was Acamapichtli, and the last was Cuahtemoc.
When the Tlatoani had to make fundamental decisions, for example, the declaration of war, he deliberated with some advisers. The most important was Cihuacoatl, who collaborated with him in the government and replaced him in case of absence. At the lowest levels there were many employees; among them, the judges charged with overseeing compliance with the rules.
TENOCHTITLAN
Tenochtitlán (Current Mexico City)
was a city founded by the Aztecs on a small islet on Lake Texcoco in 1325. Tenochtitlán has become one of the wonders of the "New World". It is estimated that it reached between 170 thousand and 250 thousand inhabitants, being at this moment, one of the most populous metropolises in the world. The city was built at the base of the islet, but that was insufficient for the population growth that they had and especially to be the capital of a great empire, which spread over many regions of Mesoamerica, they gained land for the lake.
The city had as many streets built to circulate as canals for the canoes: the streets crossed transversely from the center, which was the Ceremonial Center, they had these dirt roads and these water roads. And the city was then entered as an islet to the continent by four major highways: one went north was the Calzada de Tepeyac; one that went west which was Calzada de Tacuba; another was Calzada del Sur, which went south and forked in two and reached Churubusco, on the one hand, and Coyoacan, and on the other side, which is Culbuacan. And then, a great Calzada Dique, which is a work of Aztec engineering, at the time of the splendor of its culture, served to close the access to the salt water of Lake Xochimilco. The Spaniards baptized it as the Venice of the new continent.
Greetings, from Veracruz, Mexico.
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Lekker man
Wait wait wait, you did a play on mexican flag!? Damn, you are smooth lol
8:00 not saying that thats not the story but there are multiple stories to this myth. but the big deatal is all stories agree that killing the princess triggerd the finding of the promise land
Do we know of spots they stopped by before settling on the final choice?
All myth or legend... No Past
Aztecs had many towns under their control and forced them to pay tribute. It is 99% certain that we mexicans descend from one of those peoples subjugated by the Aztecs cause not only aztecs were a tiny minory but also most of them died in Tenochtitlan battle.
7:20 - 8:06 This sounds like something from Game of Thrones
XD
I'm sorry but when u said Ambushed their ambushers I laughed so hard lol xd
Seem like great people and a great religion. My temple always gets more and more crowded. If we implement a few of these practices, more people can get seats!
Is not a paradise without sacrifices.... literally =)
And yet the double standard is that you can’t judge the spanish for what they did, because they weren’t aware of how their beliefs worked, but also don’t forget that the Spanish brutalized all natives they could, in part because they assumed the aztecs weren’t unique in their “savagery,” which is ironic given that they also valued live capture over death in war, and regularly bathed and took care of crops, using techniques and technologies that even today, we are still debating how they created and developed them.
Pre-Colombian history is fascinating!
Mainly in 🇲🇽Mexico and 🇵🇪Peru. Lots of other american nations have great history too though like Bolivia.
Super random, but does anyone know what accent it is that he has? It’s so pleasing to listen to 🤭
Dutch
8:00 Holy crap! My God such brutality.!!
Imagine if you were her father!😆😭😭😭
I spot at least 4 flags: Italy, Mexico, Romania/Chad (they are indiscernible)
Is the daughter part true? I can't believe it oh my god that's so brutal
Yes. Completely true. And the worst part is that this isn't the worst type of human sacrifice.
Imo the worst one is for their god of agriculture. They would take a child and beat them in front of their friends and family. They would stop beating the children when they and their loved ones would have cried enough. The tears falling to the ground would symbolise rain falling. Afterwards they would kill the child.
@@HistoryScope I'm glad they're gone
Probably Spanish propaganda, they claim the Aztecs sacrificed 70,000 is a couple of days yet no physical evidence of such a sacrifice exists. So far the number of sacrificial victims are in the hundreds not thousands.
kapsi You could say the same about the Spanish Empire, which like Imperial Japan, didn’t stop at soldiers when it came to brutalizing the “enemy.” Ethnic Cleansing, Mass slaughter, Forced labor, mass enslavement, mass rape, neglecting “conquered” peoples and allowing them to die of starvation, disease, and other horrible conditions they lived through. They outlawed and severely punished the practice of native customs and languages, burning books they deemed heresy or “Anti-Christian,” and they weren’t even the only ones who did it, either.
@@kapsi the bloodline is still here tho (;
Its funny how some parts are more emphasized than others. Remember that these codex have key codes to decipher the messages written on it and what we today read as "official" translation is just as deceiving as most of the books European anthropologists and archaeologist have published about ancient none white cultures. There are unwillingness to show how advanced none-european culture were. Thanks.
Originally they came from Atlantis 11 thousand years ago
You know your fact’s 👍
I won't deny aztecs were pretty brutal
0:57
And their short lived empire lasted only 93 years...
Hm… I wondered why it was burned twice.
It's a good video but there are a lot of details that aren't correct. Here are a few:
- The aztecs didn't call themselves aztecs. This word didn't appeared until XVIII century and was coined by Alexander von Humboldt. Before founding Tenochtitlan they call themselves mexitin.
- The serpent didn't appeared on the original legend but on the spanish sources. Also the eagle was standing over a rock.
- The original name of the city was Mexico-Cuauhmixtitlan and was founded by the chief Tenoch. His sucessor change the name of the city to Mexico-Tenochtitlan to honor its founder. When the name of the city changed also changed the glyph which represents it so that's how the cactus was added below the eagle.
I thought they called themselves the Mexica?
@@rickecheverria8052 Yeah. After they founded Tenochtitlan they call themselves that way.
The Mexica came from Arizona southern Utah .... they have a lot of evidence of these people ...
How can you have evidence of a tribe of 100s (at most) who lived a migratory life over 700 years ago in an area with a great number of tribes?
How would you know that any discovery would be Aztec instead of another culture?
Come on, any "tribe" that crossed the Bering Land Bridge 12,000 years ago had to pass through what is now Canada, California, Arizona or Utah to end up in Mexico... Plus they were the Jonny come latelys of MesoAmerica... 93 year empire, LOL
So, a mesoamerican version of jews with a touch of human sacrifice
"a touch" :D
I’m going to make a UA-cam channel I’m will try to make content like your but it different you should add more joke and stuff to your content to make it better than other peoples
Lmao you know you're the smart one in the argument when the other person who is saying that aztecs origanted from central america and then moved to mexico🤣🤣
So they had enormous cities, complex economic systems and cultural and ceremonial institutions.... but you still have to call them a ‘tribe’? Haha why not nation? City-state?
They found ways to skeem and take our riches they did us dirty, but god is on our side. Viva Mexico and who ever inheret the blood.
Because they were not a city-state, they were a short lived Empire...
What nationality are you, mate?
Theres an accent but i have no clue what it is
I want to know too! I am hearing the slightest bit of a dutch accent? I am confused too
Good... Good... Let the confusion flow through you!
✨ God is the only God I need :)
What's your god's name?
Graham Hancock?
What's the definition of being civilised?I'm not sure ripping people's hearts out is a marker no matter other aspects.
"sacrificed thousands of people alive"?
"This would set a major president"...
Really?
Not thousand, but 600 a year... also it’s Mexica (Me-chika), not Aztec.
There was not a snake in the eagles mouth.
cool story bro. them north americans and taking other lands.
I like the mexican flag at the end
This is false they came from Utah then went south
EU4 squad
There’s not a lot on the Aztecs history tbh
Germany WILL BE AVENGED !
I’m sorry? You wanna cause harm to Germany? What for? What have we done?
@@freckleheckler6311 do you understand english ? or sarcasm ?
Ibnziyad Tariq no I was honest. Sorry I misunderstood your comment. What avenging are you referring to?
@@freckleheckler6311 if I remember correctly it's just a reference from another video of this youtuber
Tzilacatzin spirit lives on as long as Mechica blood still runs through my veins.
Mexico Aztec
Cohluacan is modern day Culiacan that's where I come from but my grandma is taraumaran. Is really all the same where all mixed in now. That's our race Native Mechicas were not Hispanic or none of that bs that is sprinkled on us barely.
I dont think the Aztecs were cannibals.
Warriors would sometimes eat their captive after their hearts were ripped out
Puttingu incheck There’s a difference. The Aztecs sacrificed people because they believed that it was the only way to keep the world turning. For them, they had to take life to give life to their communities, or suffer horribly should they not. They truly believed that the world could end if blood was not spilt, so can you blame them? I don’t approve of it, but I can understand it.
8:16 Germany will be united
Why is Mexico so poor? Video please!!! I need to see my country being rightfully roasted.
He je you still defending de conquistadors eh I think the sacrifice was a made up history to justify the lure ja jaaa
eh.. Given how the spanish attempted to canonize the existence of the Aztec, Their origin story seems a bit false. Sounds too much like the exodus of Egypt/The Diaspora. Overly Sarcastic Productions, while focusing more on their mythos, gives it a more accurate read of their lore.
Yeah. It would have been nice if it were mentioned that Aztec is just the name they were assigned, but they actually called themselves the Mexica.
@@meme-je6zr The aztecs didnt like the name of "azteca" because it resembles them as salvages and primitive peeoplee from north, the called themselves mexicas because of a priest who was called "Mextli"
Man, h*ck the notification squad - where are my gay and suicidally depressed squad at?
Sorry but the fact you consider mexico part less than north American estates make you lose
At which point in the video did I say that?
@@HistoryScope At 4:30 you state the Mexica ( aztecs ) were in Central America, they are not, Mexico is in North America...
Your borders @4:05 are wrong. Include the Belizean border. Gets your stats right
I copied Google Maps's borders :o
Belize was Maya territory,
@@davidlaw2161 I'm having a hard time deciphering what you mean, maybe some punctuation would help...
Think about it David, the Maya have been in their territory since 1800 BC to the present, that is 3822 years...
The Aztec Empire was formed in 1428 AD and was conquered in 1521, a measly 93 year existence... There is over 10 million Maya living today, how many Aztecs do you thing are around today after the Spaniards murdered at least 200,000 and let many more die of smallpox. The reason a few Spaniards could conquer so many Aztecs is because all the other tribes that lived under Empire control and hated the Aztec Empire...One more thing, The Maya were fighting against the Spaniards from 1500 AD until 1800 AD...
@@davidlaw2161 Not quite sure what that sentence means but look at it this way,
The Maya Civilization started around 1800 BC and about 10 million are living today that is 3822 years.
The Aztec Empire was formed in 1428 AD and was conquered in 1521 AD, a measly 93 years. Most all the natives sided with Cortez because they hated the Aztecs. Most were killed by the Spaniards or died of smallpox...
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