Most Brutal Bloodthirsty Gentle People in History
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 7. 01. 2022
- The Aztecs are well-known for their gory sacrificial rituals, but in today's new video you will learn about a different side to the Aztec people that might surprise you!
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Tens of thousands of people in neighboring tribes decided allying with the Spanish against the Aztecs was a better idea than the status quo. That speaks volumes about the nature of the Aztecs.
Exactly! The Fact is, 1,500 Spanish would have never be able to Conquer the Aztec Empire (5-6 Million), unless they had an overwhelming Force of Allies.
The Movie Apocalypto is actually incredibly Accurate.
The Aztec Empire for all purposes, was flat out EVIL.
If only learning history in school was this fun..
My history teacher tried... with a cowboy hat and accent, for a lesson. This is waaaaay better lol
I was one of the few people that history teacher would tell coolest stories like this history was my favorite class
All cultures and civilizations of the world have an interesting dichotomy of brutality and virtue. The Aztecs were one of many.
The Aztec civilization is unique and the most interesting in my opinion.
@@kirtop-archaeology How? It's not unlike many other cultures.
There is nothing new under the sun.
@@dannydanny865 as they say today, are you big mad? Is your culture the more brutal and awful? Is that the race? Or was it those cultures that were not allowed to thrive and cut short, even though they were already cruising the universe without a space ship and establishing such information in stone.
But let me guess, they were savages and foretold onto henry the whatever number.
@@tegofido dude, relax, have a snickers or something.
I agree that context is key in history and people shouldn't necessarily be labeled as "evil" because somethings they did is offensive to modern sensibilities. But it should apply to all peoples and civilizations. Aztec, European, African, Asian and everyone else alike. Which means we have to look at the Spanish, Portuguese, and British Empires in the same way as the Aztec.
UmâŠ.Aztecs sacrificed innocent children? Hello! đđŒ oh wait, they mercy killed them.
Moral relativism is a thing.
@@spiritmatter1553 And children were worked to death, abused and mistreated so terribly in England in Dickens's time that he wrote book after book to try and convince people in his society to maybe not do that. Perhaps the key is to look at all cultures with the same level of nuance, and put their actions within their fully evidenced cultural contexts where possible. We cannot continue this same pattern of condemning one society for something, and just handwaiving the same action as "from a different time" for another society.
If someone traveled back in time to watch us, we would do a lot of things that they find appalling. There will ALWAYS be something offensive in every culture and subculture
What Everyone that calls white ppl colonizers needs to understand
@@spiritmatter1553 and right now we in the modern day are doing the exact same thing but on a significantly larger scale. Got any words about that?
The Aztec is something that genuinely interests me
Yeah, sure, right
Their surrounding neighbors claimed they were incredibly brutal so allied with the Conquistadors to overthrow them.
Well no one is saying they werenât brutal in war
I feel like history teachers just give students a link to an infographic show video and have them answer questions about what was in the video as a part of their lesson plan
I really doubt they did their due diligence with this video.
i got my history teacher to start using Oversimplified videos
Thatâs actually how I found the channel
Kids would literally learn more that way.
They were defeated in one year because the Spanish teamed up with all the neighbours of the Aztecs because they hated them so much because they were being kidnapped and sacrificed
Every woman who died in labour deserves to be seen as a warrior that's cool af mad respect .
Islam say the same thing till today, bro. A woman who dies in labour, dies a martyrâs death.
The Aztec Empire fell because everyone around them hated their guts for their oppression, brutality, and frequent tithes of human sacrifices. Less than a thousand Europeans did *not* conquer 6 million Aztecs, smallpox and a quarter million recruits from the surrounding tribes did, the Spaniards just said 'hey, we _won't_ cut out and eat the hearts of your children' and the other tribes said 'sign me up!'
They were not a 'gentle people' any more than the Spaniards, British, and Japanese were 'gentle people'. They all had their virtues and evils, but mentioning that would be inconvenient, wouldn't it?
Absolutely!
Here's your friendly reminder that one of those Aztec Gods is what Rayquaza from Pokemon is based on.
Do people still play those games ?
@@RandomGuy-jo8ky yes
Brih
@@RandomGuy-jo8ky Logan Paul
I will say this 1,500 men would have an extremely hard time conquering 10 million Aztecs if a lot of those Aztecs didnt want those 1,500 men to win. Makes more sense that a lot of those other tribes helped the Spainards. Knowing you or your family could have their hearts cut out for some god you didnt believe in. Well that is a pretty good motivator, but what truly got them was the same thing that destroyed Rome
It was the diseases. A lot of the diseases brought over from the unhygienic Europeans is what really messed up the Aztecs.
@@cityrat3237 Yes that definitely killed a high percentage of people. By you saying the "unhygienic Spaniards" implies. That the Spanish some how intentionally knew they were bringing these diseases. Which is a 21 century view. The medical knowledge of Europeans at this time for a fever was to bleed a person. No, if the black plague or any number of other large out breaks of plagues hadn't of broken out in Europe perhaps the Roman's would still rule this world. If the Europeans hadn't of introduced horses back into North America. Maybe the Aztecs would have slowly conquered all of North America sacrificing thousands of people on a daily basis. Perhaps not, perhaps people would have been better off with famines, human sacrificing, raids by other tribes. Or maybe people enjoy air conditioning,phones, stores that you can just go and by food.
6:36 Aztec lady: my kid has a toothache and won't stop whining!
Priest: Just step on up to the alter and be cured!
After watching this I'm researching Maya and the Three. Great film that touches on culture and art of Aztecs and more!
"Oh they brutally sacrificed human beings, including children. But y'know... They had feminism though so that makes it innocent and pure đ"
thx for making quality videos almost daily infographics show!!!!!
That is an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
This channel is one reason why I like knowing more about history
It's a shame we don't know more about the Aztec's. I wonder "What if" a lot more evidence of Aztec civilization survived the Spanish conquest. Just image what we would learn from it all. Great video.
Well there would be a crusade that would probably destroy there civilization as being the litteraly embodiment of evil and satanism. they did kinda openly worship demons and sacrifice to them.
Most civilizations have â skeletonsâ in their closets.
and others make closets out of their skeletons...
I see what you did there.
And children in their basements
Yeah, and we condemn them, take the holocaust for example. Now stop trying to make an excuse on this terrible tribe.
Imagine living at the place where you, or your family can randomly being choosen as sacrifice.
People werenât chosen at random. A lot volunteered, weâre prisoners, or deathly ill. Rarely weâre people chosen at random and even then it wasnât just anybody.
Royalty are idealistic what's wanted but don't worry it happens most people don't know much about Aztec Mayan chichemeka Olmec and many others I believe you will learn that's why you're here
@@cityrat3237 so the almost 2 million people were chosen by hand?
This is gonna be a good one, finally caught an episode early.
Nice video canât wait for more
Interesting and love this videos
Loving these content
Nothing about killing your children because they disobey is gentle
There was a reason why the Spanish had such an easy time getting other tribes to join their conquest of the Aztecs.
What was the reason?
@@daniburke9452 The Aztecs were known for being extremely brutal, and subjugated everyone they conquered.
They demanded these other tribes to give tribute, which included people to be sacrificed.
Now letâs talk about the real brutal folks. The ones that had NO respect whatsoever, whoâs culture is built on greed. The Europeans
@@cityrat3237 lol, oh yes. God forbid that the conquering army didn't "respect" the Aztecs overtly brutal and bloodthirsty culture, smh.
@@BasementPepperoni Iâm talking about respect In general. European culture and the conquest of the the ENTIRE world is based on greed đ
I love the way you juggle to make them look like the best civilization in the world
love the videos
Just wanna say thanks for the great pronunciation in this video!
Iâd have a lot of difficulty wrapping my tongue around these words.
bro this dude is movie logic
Iâve been interested in aztec civilization for a while now, and Iâve learned a lot. Yes the Aztecs did some terrible, unforgivable things, but when truly looking into *why* they did it, I came to understand why human sacrifice was such an important part of Aztec culture. The Aztec people were conditioned into believing that the gods required blood, mainly the sun god: Tonatiuh. Tonatiuh was both the sun god and the sun itself, and had to be nourished with human blood in order to move across the sky. The Aztecs truly believed, without a doubt, that without sacrifice the sun would not rise. Their culture revolves around the sun, as it grants life to everything. Without the sun the world would become dark and cold, crops couldnât grow, and the earth would be destroyed by monsters. They didnât practice human sacrifice out of malice or hatred, they literally thought that without it the world would end. While I definitely do not condone human sacrifice, I understand why they did it. How they even came up with these beliefs I donât know, but If I was an Aztec person living in Tenochtitlan, raised to believe such things, I too would believe that human sacrifice was necessary for the worldâs survival.
We may not agree with what they did, but the Aztecs were not evil. Their society was conditioned to believe that blood sacrifice was the only way to prevent the destruction of the world. They otherwise were incredibly advanced, being experts on mathematics and astronomy, believed in universal education for everyone, no matter what gender or class. At the time Tenochtitlan was built upon a lake, it was larger than Rome or any European city at the time and described by Spanish explorers as even more beautiful. Every night parties and reunions were held for citizens to relax and socialize. They kept incredibly clean, bathing twice a day and keeping their city as spotless as possible. They made giant structures like templo mayor, even without beasts of burden to haul materials. These are just a few of their accomplishments. Itâs important to acknowledge the bad, but we shouldnât forget the good parts of their civilization either.
Slaveowners believed slavery was the only way to improve society and life for everyone, including the slaves....
That might have been the case initially, but they then started tithing conquered peoples for blood sacrifices so they wouldn't have to butcher their own people, hence why all the surrounding tribes sided with the Spanish (for better or for worse)
I just keep finding it hilarious that people always forgot to mention that it's virtually impossible for a single expedition of 900 men to wipe an entire empire of millions out. The truth is that, they freaking didn't. Literally everyone hated the Aztecs because of the military oppression, brutal taxes, and sacrifices. The Spaniards were the spark they all needed to come together and take the fight to the Aztecs. Some accounts tell us that there were over 200.000 allied warriors.
Did the Spaniards genocided the Aztecs, then? No, FFS. Everyone who supported the Spaniards got a slice of the cake. That's the reason why Latin America looks nothing like British America. That's why Caucasians and people of European descent are the vast minority in South America. Unlike the British, the Spaniards didn't wipe out the natives, they offered them positions of power.
You can check that the early governors of Mexico all had Aztec names. The Spanish empire operated like the roman empire, by assimilating people.
The aztecs and most other native americans were wiped out by disease brought over from europe. Youre acting like you have soo much knowledge on the topic but you dont even know the basic facts
@@SL1CEND1CEN faxđhe missed out the MAIN reason the aztecas fell
@@SL1CEND1CEN not technically their fault though. Germ theory wasn't even a thing yet. By that logic, should we blame China for so many world diseases, from the bubonic plague, the Spanish flu (besides the US, the strongest theory is that it came from China), and covid? Face it, if it wasn't the Spanish that conquered them it would've been some other world powers. They aren't anymore evil for doing it than anyone else would've done. They could've done a lot worse for the time.
@@SL1CEND1CEN no. disease didnât come into play until later after they were already almost defeated
@@kyleball8396 so the tribes and Spaniards weakened the Aztecs than the disease finished them off?Is that what ur saying?
After a war, the history is told only by the side who won
Nice!
I love your vids
Basically, almost everything was a fight in the Aztec Culture.
I loved this video.
The Aztecs were advanced, but we would consider their practices some of the most demented and terrifying. They were an empire and rightfully feared and hated by their neighbors.
Live the vids
We Serbia still have skull tower called the cell tower, which was built during the 500 years of Turkish rule over the Serbs and was made from the skulls of revolutionaries ("hajduk", use wikipedia and find your way) still stands today but is in poor condition and is located in NiĆĄ and greetings from Serbia
Then why don't you give them a proper burial?
And haiduks were not revolutionaries, but a bandits
Were they so brutal..i mean..still sacrificed
Kinda questioning who wrote this lol
Gotta give Spain a huge thank you
(2:50) *Aztec God:* I need more protein.
*Rumor has it* he fought his way through to have his dose of protein, since Aztec Gods fight a lot.
Yeah. That title... Pretty contradictory. Gentle is ONE THING the Aztecs for sure aren't known for. These guys are discovered... From their own discovered ancient records THEY RECORDED for being pretty brutal even to their own
I mean when they had neighboring city states that would have loved to wipe them out Iâm sure they needed to be brutal
Still nowhere near brutal compared to countless Old World societies.
@@FranciscoPerez-oi3wp also the fact that Human Sacrifice was completely common and accepted in Mesoamerica
I cant watch all of the video but i left a like :D
Can we have a video on battles
Please talk about the situation in Lebanon!!
Whats going on ?
The Aztec rivaled some European civilizations.
So all Aztec men were expected to go to war, but not women. And when women swept the floor, that was held in as much esteem as men risking their lives in battle. I wouldn't call that gender equality.
Giving birth was seen as a battle. Until you give birth go whining about it
If I were a teacher..my daily warm ups would be infographic videos
So weâve stopped feeding the aliens. Wonder how theyâll feel about that?
You should do a video on the American Chestnut tree. It was a huge ecological disaster and now work is being done to restore it.
Ahh, yes; many priesthoods have explained sacrifices as necessary for preserving the cosmos.
"Honoring" the victims, though, has suspiciously similar parallels to the explanations of the Plains Indians that they tortured those they captured in order to give them the chance to win merit by demonstrating their courage.
Woah cool
My ex isn't on this list? She definitely belongs on here.
anything is possible through sincerely held beliefs ;-)
I wonder how people would view the catacombs with no record surrounding them and with the preconception from colonists that didnât like the culture of the people that it had to do with sacrifice? Iâm not saying that sacrifice wasnât a part of their culture or anything, just that it is easy to make their things seem odd while ignoring that there are catacombs lined with skulls under Paris.
When you make a comparison you should know what you are talking about. The catacombs in Paris were built because of the black death, the bubonic plague.
I believe in Sweeping! I practice it daily. There is nothing else that will get the corners and cobwebs! It's also good for your waist.
C'mon bro. I really like watching these videos but this one was a stretch. Next you should do one on how the peace loving mongols were misunderstood, lol
"While most of Europe supported the conquest of the Americas - after all, it's free real estates" đđ
The most brutal gentle person in my life is probably my dad he is nice and then say or do one wrong thing and he explodes
I love it, they had to obey, it was life or death. "You're an only child now" lol
WAKE UP BABE NEW INFROGRAPHICS SHOW JUST DROPPED
I don't buy the idea that it was all cute and playful. No way they were sacrificing their own people (let alone willingly) they most definitely were sacrificing subdued tribes and prisoners of war.
There's a reason all the tribes around them decided to side with the invaders.
When studying an distant and mostly unknown culture, itâs wrong to demonize or glorify their practices. What a group of people does at a particular time of history has a lot to do with their level of ignorance. Modern globalization of knowledge and culture allows us to better understand our state of being and take us closer to objective truths. This allows us to abandon practices caused by ignorance and avoid acting on speculations.
We need to relearn some of these values
History now hates explorers. Itâs amazing People have always conquered or migrated & original habitants lose everything.
Itâs always the nice ones
I am proud to be from this line of people , my maiden name is Angon it took a minute to figure out that this wasnât a ânormal â or
Common Hispanic name and is more so Native American (Aztec) than Spanish ( because I am sure there is a Spanish conquistador or just a Spaniard somewhere in my tree). Anyways, pretty neat to me.
Proud?
Yes proud, why is that a question or even a question, at all? Is it because itâs strange to you as to why Iâd be proud of a peopleâs ( that are my ancestors ),who did great things and some not so great. Just like EVERY kind of people / culture ever to populate this earth. Why ask something so simple unless you are simple?
Itâs understandable. Not everyone views the Aztecs in a positive light. Maybe just preface that your pride comes from certain aspects of Aztec culture, and not all of it.
Would it be right for me to say Iâm proud of all German Culture?
History will always been written by the winners.
Love this page If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
Imagine trying to leave a culture like that.
Skulls for the skull tower!
Nice video and excellent background music đ¶
Make a video on chatrapati shivajiâŁïž
This story just reminded me of APOCALYPTO , the movie produced in 2006. I believe the movie is based on this history. Thanks infographic show for lecturing me this dawn
This sounds very similar to Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. o-o;
I have heard the studios at Nintendo had a very heavy hand in this game too. Like you could say that this game is a Nintendo Game.
I think the papacy deserves this title more.
Idk man... human sacrifice is not poggers, no matter what you wanna say.
What goes on in USA is deplorable from the politics to the race, gang and drug cartels, criminal justice system, police gun battles, colored people poverty, over eating and so on. I think you should make a animation about it !
I agree! Would love him specifically to do this
7:17 Why were Aztec warrior fighting with giant COVID test nasal swabs?
I mean theyâre quite deadly lol
imagine finding a tower of skulls đŹ
The best way to know everything from the Aztec is...
Go live with them.
when the average lifespan is 50 you'll hit quarter life crisis before you hit puberty
Advanced civilization? They were literally using Paleolithic technology millennia after everyone else moved on from it. They didnât even have the wheel ffs. Peaceful harmonious people? They literally raided their own villages to find people to sacrifice to the Gods. They werenât all eager volunteers who saw it is an honor like you tried to claim lol. They were so cruel to the surrounding tribes they conquered and subjugated that when the supposedly cruel Europeans came, those tribes joined forces with them against the Aztecs immediately. âSeveral modern historians believe otherwiseâ? Lol my God. Thatâs just a euphemism for âServal people alive today seek to rewrite history in the pursuit of their utopian visionâ. This video is utterly ridiculous. The wokeness these days is insane. Just insane.
So you know about this using a time machine? Fascinating. đ€
@@santorasampson3430 Not terribly hard to find material to support this angle of argument. While an interesting perspective, the video tends to almost kneejerk towards the 'devil's advocate' argument at the expense of known factors of why they fell in the first place and having other civilizations, including the conquered tribes or rival nations disagreeing with the Aztec way and the Spanish in perspective for what they did and why.
With regards to the OP though, technology advances by need and innovation, and if such doesn't exist to spur wheels when they were innovating in a number of other areas (including public sanitation and as above, taxation), they should not be faulted for not being symmetrical to a completely different society.
@@marley5116 You guys have been drilled too long with the political correctness that we all hear constantly. And itâs making you both try to make the same flawed point. No one expects âisolatedâ civilizations to be totally on par with the rest of the world in every area of technology. But we arenât talking about new cutting edge concepts here. Basic, obvious innovations such as metallurgy and the wheel are pretty reasonable expectations for all large civilizations to have figured out in multiple millennia. Necessary for their existence? No, obviously not. But would they have massively improved their quality of life in a litany of ways had they had them? Obviously, yes.
And I say âisolatedâ because they really werenât. They were only isolated from Asia, Europe, and Africa. But they had access to and contact with a ton of different cultures on two major continents that should have been driving each otherâs technological advancements all the same and they werenât. That is only one of the many reasons that some cultures are, contrary to popular belief, superior to others, not just different. True of races? No, of course not. Of cultures? Absolutely.
@@ShadowOfTheSPQR You as well.
Imagine committing genocide and calling the people you killed evil.
Cuz they were barbaric
I dont know why I feel like if I did things like that I would feel pleasure.
Because its in ur biology. There a reason laws exist
Aztecs were gentle, loving and cultured people and if they committed genocide and enslaved the rest of the tribes was because love for all and good vibes. We should not judge them by modern standards. Spaniards were some brutal bad guys that destroyed this empire of love, while helping tribes of weak warriors to get rid of a slavery system based on freedom. Let's judge them by modern standards.
And by "love" you mean brutal sacrifices that caused immense suffering that many opposing tribes despised them for? Doesn't matter if they "think" they're good. Murderers and terrorists could say that too but we don't support that. Even in that time period the other tribes were against their views, suggesting that even then, they were in the wrong.
@@lordfabulous6198 but we do support that. Like with politics or religions or âitâs for our national safetyâ
Genocide and slavery, for a second there I thought you were talking about freedom fighting USA!
@@lordfabulous6198 I will remind you that the other tribes werenât any better. They all have their brutal secrets.
Non were weak tribes they were great warriors in hand to hand combat why you think Mexico has the greatest fighters to this day Whooping every race in boxing, ufc, kickboxing ect
There is an anime, not for kids mind you, that does have some Aztec roots...Onyx Equinox. Check it out sometime.
One doesnât experience self-transcendence, the illusion of self only dissipates -đ
6:40 mercy killing maybe?
Back then we call them Aztec, now we call them cartell.
Well this is surprizing to me like the time I learned your tongue does not have a sweet, sour, salty and bitter side but multiple taste buds scattered, relearning something that you thought was true will always amaze me.
What fool would believe that about the tongue ? Have you never used your own ?
All cultures are equal in value, sacrificing children is simply an expression of love
Yea?
Weird, thats also what child molesters say.
@@BasementPepperoni How do you know what child molesters say?
@@nihilistlivesmatter Uhh, because they are posted all over Twitter whenever the proposed bill to chemically castrate them comes up.
Nice try though
@@BasementPepperoni Why would you follow chomos on twitter!?
@JL D Donât feed the troll!
He came dancing across the water
If brooming helped the balance of the universe we need to appreciate janitors more
Next you vs ?
Maby it was that thay removed all the insides of the people like an awtopsy or somthing lile that
Seems like I'm not OoF
Why do this give me some viking vibes