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In the years after Columbus's first voyage, Spanish adventurers known as conquistadores began to colonize the surrounding areas of the Caribbean and the Americas. In this video, Kim Kutz Elliott explores the social changes that Spanish colonization created in the New World.
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Its 4am, im high and learning about the three g's of colonization
lol
same tbh
I'm high too
yall are that worried about so yall shouldn't be up @ 4 am anyways
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Bruh I’m out here watching this for school
same here
Same
Yeah no durr, or else you'd be f*cking nerd.
Same doe
Diego now Mexicans want to be white
Sal’s voice sure changed
Bo Ying Chen - haha you're funny.
Lol
@@dh4444 Soviet Union?
As a latino I want to say, thank you Spain!
So great that these videos are being upload during my history class!
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Rhonda woods hot black girl
what
Don’t torture your stoodents
This racism was all by design the Vatican was in charge of wealth gold , diamonds lands a little religion to control.the natives they brought Africans to America's as slaves
The Portuguese had a brutal record in the Americas as a colonial power. The most horrendous abuses occurred in the colony of Brazil: natives were enslaved, murdered, tortured and raped in the conquest and early part of the colonial period and later they were disenfranchised and excluded from power. Individual acts of cruelty are too numerous and dreadful to list here. Portuguese Conquistadors in Brazil reached levels of cruelty that are nearly inconceivable to modern sentiments.
Today, Portugal is the Biggest Racist country that i have ever lived in. I feared for my life there and i consider myself lucky that my family got out alive! I have never lived in such poverty (Sopas dos Pobres everyday) 40% unemployment rate and 60% of the population earn less than $932 USD per month, and that’s considered Middle Class here! Within the European Union it is the worst of the worst place to live in.
The bottom line is the bulk of the People in the poor country of Portugal exist in a brainless comma that is fed by Ignorance, anti-Spanish hate, and severe Racism of pretty much everybody that isn’t Portuguese! And, Portugal started the Global Slave Trade in 1441 so it is definitely NOT a safe place for Blacks!!
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As a Brazilian, Portugal did not start slavery, and also the world runs on money. They traded for slaves and African kingdoms kidnapped blacks. See Portugal got slaves due to Spain, England, france,dutch because they were gaining a lot of land and a lot, I mean a lot of portguesse settlers died in Brazil so they got slaves to make money, and be a powerful nation to not be messed up. Moral of the story,
The world runs on money
@@baltasarmelchor935 siuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Don't forget the thriving Arabic-muslim slave trade that existed centuries before that!! And the spanish had just finished the reconquista at the time they started colonizing the americas seeking for ways to expand their position against european threats. Europe was in a power struggle that fueled colonialist attitudes and sadly racism. But Looks like racism is not exclusive to Europeans nor cruelty and oppression... That's the less told side of history though.
Lol you think they were running in Africa capturing slaves???
Why talk about the Encomienda but completely leave out the "Leyes Nuevas" from 1542?
Because it is hispanofobic as many educational resources in the USA...
these really help for my homework for history
This was so usefull for my Spanish history work, thanks :)
It really is not. It's biased, and doesn't really understand the reasons being Spanish expansionism.
I have to watch this for school. Whyyyyy
i feel ya
I also feel so sad at my school
I have tiny homework on the weekend.
These help me do my work!!!
oh same
I love your voice, very calming.
simp
The Spanish And Portuguese were more willing to mix then the French, British, Dutch, German, And Danish
The population was sparse in North America compared to other regions where it was heavily populated. There was no alternative but to make indigenous allies to topple the Aztecs. It was done out of necessity not benevolence. That’s the reason there are many people with indigenous ancestry in Latin America today.
Ok buddy
@@spiritedaway4283 I can smell what you're saying bud , maybe educate yourself to the fact that spanish and portugese people are.......... caucasian! You wanna know about colonization? It's a story based in religion not the races. But I bet you knew that , you're so smart..........
In addition to having miscegenation with the population, laws were passed to protect the indigenous people, and all viceroyalties were considered to have the same importance as peninsular Spain itself.
Actually many French colonists in North America did mingle with the Native populations
Thank you for posting this video
Watching this for AP world
we all here for school right?
i am
✨✨That technology came from the Black and Arab Moors that ruled Spain from 711 to 1492. You left that part out
I got assigned this for class-
There are claims in this video that don't add up, perhaps the most outstanding is the one talking about a 20 million population depleted down to 200 thousand due to the 'brutality of the Spanish Conquistadors''.
I believe the sources used are more based on the old propaganda from the British Empire of the XVIII century than from current historians.
I strongly suggest the audience to research further on this topic.
Most of them actually died from diseases.
@@LVO0708 Mad worse by invaders
Actually, @sinvila1 it is you who have sipped from the cup of propaganda. While it is true that a Black Legend was developed as propaganda, the Spaniards who were in charge in this early period were cruel and violent and many did sadistic things. Read the original accounts and you will see. American colonists were just as bad, later in time, but in some cases, in slightly different ways.
UGH school is so boring and im waching this for it : (
The catholic church prohibited slaving native americans in the University of Salamanca since 1542. The spanish married and intermixed with native people. Most of the time they were oppressed workers but not slaves.
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@@jorgerivera4980 are you Christian
@@joyk979 sometimes
¡Que Viva Hispañidad! Saludos desde Nueva México ⚔️🇺🇲🇪🇸🇲🇽⚔️
Watching This for school xD
Now I know what'll happen if we find intelligent life on another planet, provided they can't fight back.
Thank you for your time and efforts for sharing the knowledge with the world.
WARNING!!!!
BLACK LEGEND
this is to educational
Too*
It's amazing that the intelligence required to understand this level of history exists and is necessary at all, but all so unnecessary of a history regardless of our intelligence. Imagine if our level of intelligence was available the whole time, and it's sad, but imagine now what our intelligence could do free of this history, with perspective and respect to what is? Impermanence is in physics, so perhaps we can step past the barrier if we can all see it?
This is such smart presentation of the history, thank you!
God, Glory, Gold....
Gonzalo Bernal racism and colorism
The British treated natives bad too. Would you tell us about how the British treated natives in America.
The Encomenda system was nothing at all even remotely new to the locals in Mexico at that time: the Amerindians practiced slavery quite happily, and the Aztecs certainly had a feudal system at that. They saw nothing at all even remotely new or unusual about that mix or those traits in society; the tongue was strange to them, but the social structure was nothing all that unusual to them.
aw yes you are the mouthpiece of indigenous people of every era i see
@@topshotta9497 Well, the Church certainly *defended* the indigenous peoples; not persecuted them.
@@topshotta9497 He is right. Natives were savages too. Not angels, as lied to me by the dam Liberal idiots in USA..
@@chissstardestroyer They defended the *converted* native people, because they now considered them to be Christian.
@@orphansparrow2 Not only "converted" Amerindians, but all of them.
I descended from Cortés and Alvarado, among other European conquistadores.
Why do I have to watch this for school
They discovered a continent bro
@@yetga5776 not that big of deal. there was enough before hand
comparison.naples largest european city then , 150,000
I have my doubts about the Spaniards being much crueler than the Aztecs had been; they did not practice a culture of human sacrifice at all.
Agree, there are statements in this video that don't add up.
Other cultures practiced human sacrifice also
@@apollothagermanpitty9347 Yes, sadly, but at the time of the Crusades and afterwards, the Spaniards never practiced human sacrifice. However, the Amerindians sure did engage in all sorts of acting up, including slavery and human sacrifice and cannibalism.
@@chissstardestroyer Don't forget the part where they worshipped the devil.
@@elinikolai7493 Who? The Spaniards or the Aztecs? Which faction are you referring to?
Granted, if it was the Aztecs, I seriously doubt it was knowingly; dictators, like the Devil itself, hardly ever tell you the full truth until you're completely under their thumb; and that particular seraphim gone bad never ever does so: its attitude is something like "the power of the truth is for me, not thee.", so it is a liar and a murderer.
Jamestown already had Spanish footprints!
how is demanding child sacrifices to your Aztec overlords so they torture them to gain their tears for rituals to evil gods is somehow not as bad as being forced into a cult that does not require sacrifices of human heart and children
Not all indigenous populations practiced blood rituals but never-the-less they were still tortured and worked to death by Europeans regardless. Tarring all native Americans with the same brush is like blaming the French, Spanish, Swedes etc for gassing Jews in WWII. By the same token not every indigenous population practiced blood rituals and much of the so-called evidence used to make these claims is circumstantial and open to conjecture that relies heavily on interpretation of artefacts and archaeological findings. The frequency and number of people killed that is also often ridiculously purported are simply not realistic either. It would difficult to carry out using today's technology much less 500 years ago.
When you think you know who the devil is, you will notice he ain’t no man with red skin or horns. He is the white European Man with white skin…
The way you’re treated and your life experience assigned to you by an accident of birth. Just how did values evolve into that at the time??
who is talking here??? I needed the author to be able to cite this stuff lol
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2:00 you forgot discovery of new land, especially for Columbus.
i think it was more of a checklist for what they wanted, the discovery is part and parcel. columbus never discovered the americas, either, the vikings did that long before
@@lukeyyyyyy no evidence of that...
And so it is I who collects the missing data of 1600 to 1700 in BC Canada and the trail comes here.
Most if not Every human civilization conquered and enslaved others. It’s how it worked.
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The general conduct of the English and Spanish respectively may well have been shaped by their theologies; the English for the bulk of that time were a really rather violent brand of protestant; and this is reflected in US history: for when the settlement of the West was happening- drastic differences in treatment of the Amerindians happened depending on the majority views of the group in question. Protestants tended to try to exterminate the Amerindians whereas Catholics would resort to trade and attempts to convert, or leaving them to their own devices if at all possible.
They were all bad. Religion is a WMD.
@@dconfused9919 And atheism is far worse; whereas the faith the Spaniards professed actually stayed their hands in the acting up that they'd have done.
Spanish Colonization,.what would thier think? American Indians and Spanish almost have the same colour skin, and without doing any research I believe Spanish were closer to the same tone 500 years ago. image being a not clothes wearing ingenious person in Australia when the first fleet arrived.
ALiens with advanced technology? Read Matthew Restall's "Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest," many aspects of which would contradict this interpretation....
Can anyone answer this question? "What motivated Portuguese and Spanish expansion into the Atlantic, and what were its unintended consequences?"
Gold. They didn’t know there were people there ready to rebel them. (Me personally I would’ve expected to see people there and I would’ve backed off.
Money basically and to be powerful.
@@Xenlacasa45 You are an intelligent man! They didnt know the people over there were cosmic induced with energies not of the main lands!
Woods
how did they get a translator ?
im asking the same question
What is a Conquistador:
What is the New World:
What is the Old World:
Please help me these are test answers i have to answer
new world is america
old world is everywhere else
There was another thing at work in Cortez's campaign of liberation of Mexico from the Aztecs that led to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, for in addition to the culture of death that the Aztecs practiced... a downright almost truly satanic one at that; the Spaniards' arrival was in a period of the Aztec calendar that prohibited the Aztec government from doing anything even remotely involved in war. It was seen as a treaty with the deities they had, and Montezuma II had been a high priest in the Aztec religion prior to his ascension to the throne, so he would've known this. Not only that, but Cortez was mistaken for an Aztec deity; which was another accidental stroke of luck for Hernan Cortez.
Im from Salt, Spain !!!
Lets go Spain!!
i'm from sugar.. nevermind i'm not making that joke
Hol up
What happened to the guy
You mean Sal? He doesn't do all the videos, just most of them
exactly
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Who here for school
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I'm from Ophir (Philippines)
Sal?
Trust me, Ma'am; any population drop of about 90% absolutely *kills* the economy; the Spaniards did *NOT* want that to happen; as there goes their workforce!
Lol must have been hard work
@@jamesmccloud7535 Well, that's how the claim of genocide against the Spanish falls completely apart and is worthless.
Tens of thousands of indigenous people were worked to death and Iberians openly boasted about torturing indigenous prisoners. If they didn't want that to happen then they didn't ahve to enslave them. Clearly them dying was not a major concern was it?
@@mitchduncan4842 Prove your idiotic claim, as you've already proven yourself to be completely delusional in your other blatantly false claims.
Nice of the Spanish to split it with the Portuguese instead of claiming it all
None of that would have mattered if it wasn't for diseases wiping out large portion of the native population anyway, that was really the deciding factor. Getting in each other's way would only have helped the indigenous populations to repel them, it was really out of necessity and common sense to make that sort of agreement.
Is this the globalization of spanish era?
@malyn mendez @malynmendez
I have a project on this
Interesting to compare the Spanish and British Empires, no? Here in Quebec, the French colonizers had a similar, more humane (i.e. 'racial' mixing and intermarrying with the Indigenous peoples) imperialism than the British. However, if the Spanish had ultimately defeated the British, and a 'catholic' hemispheric empire consolidated, would there have been an American Revolution? If Washington had been Catholic, would he have dared the Delaware Crossing on Christmas Eve?
I'm curious about French colonization. They're never talked about & they have so many colonies scattered all over the place
@@yetga5776 start with Haiti I got a movie for you if your interested
@@Xenlacasa45 well, Haiti isn't a good example since they were literally a slave colony
@@Xenlacasa45 What movie is that? I'm very interested.
Very very good video. Should be required in history class. A few observations.
1) the Spanish did not treat their native allies worst than the Aztecs. The Spanish married their aristocracy and created mestizo majority we find ruling in current day Mexico.
2) the native population was devastated by European diseases but there is no evidence that anywhere near 90% of the total native population died. 25% is more reasonable. There is an enormous Native American population and mestizo population extending from Mexico via Central America down the Andes from Colombia down to Bolivia and Peru. They are the majority of the population by far.
3) 20,000,000 is the estimated population of the native people from Argentina to Alaska not just Mexico in 1519.
Future video should stress the multicultural nature of the Empire from the get go.
The Conquest was a nightmare for the Natives but an economic blessing to the Spanish, Portuguese and English. When reflecting on this period of conquest I reflect on the multiple conquest Iberia and Britain endured in their history. Both were conquered by the Romans and later the Germanic Tribes. That was followed by Viking conquering the Brits and Moors conquering on the Iberians.
At the of the day the Conquered People of Iberia and Britain conquered the world.
I think the 90% numbers come from many sources that claim that between 90 and 95% of natives died of diseases, what people are constantly missing is that those numbers are taken out of the totality of deceased. This is, 90-95% of the people who died during the conquest of America died of disease.
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Now you will be conquered second time.
This time by non-europeans!😊😊😊
@@adityanawani8134 Hows that coming along apostate?
@@yetga5776
Good enough.
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Thanks for putting things into context
You're glossing over just how bad the aztecs were. Wholesale human sacrifice,
tens of thousands at a time. Cannibalism, a priest cast of pederasts and many
other things. That's why most of the aztec's neighbors allied with the Spanish.
For most native central Americans the aztec's rule made the Spanish look.
Well said...
That's like blaming the French, Spanish, Swedes etc for gassing Jews in WWII. By the same token not every indigenous population practiced blood rituals and much of the so-called evidence used to make these claims is circumstantial and open to conjecture that relies heavily on interpretation of artefacts and archaeological findings. The frequency and number of people killed that is also often ridiculously purported are simply not realistic either. It would difficult to carry out using today's technology much less 500 years ago.
Oh my God. They did it to the German people with the whole Hitler charade.
It's not PC to mention it but the Aztecs were cannibals, making a tasty BBQ of the unfortunates sacrificed to their gods. Read Bernal Diaz' first hand account.
NO, NO AND NO. Imperial Spain's history is equal to the history of the Catholic Church. Having said that, history on the Spanish empire told by English sources is 99% of the times just a one big distortion of events due to evident reasons such as to the fact that England renounced Catholicism to convert to anglicanism, thus it constantly needed to provide herself a justification for breaking apart from the Church (and still needs), as well as England was for centuries an economic rival of Spain.
I could go clarifying point by point, however I'm just going to straighten out one point:
2:05 You really believe Spanish kingdoms in America were founded based on Gold, Glory and a little bit of God???
Whoever person with a slight common sense that has actually been to places founded by the Spaniards in American continent will see that universities, hospitals, aqueducts, bridges, roads, forts and castles were built for ALL the inhabitants. COMPARE that built infrastructure to what the ENGLISH, DUTCH, BELGIAN, FRENCH, etc. did in their colonies, and then you will see the HUGE difference between one and another.
And by the way, The Catholic Monarch - Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand sent Christopher Columbus across the "Sea Ocean", (Today known as the Atlantic Ocean), because they were seeking to attack the infidel Ottomans from the rearguard, that's from Cipango (Today Japan).
I didn't see the whole thing but this is definitely the last time in my life to ever see a video about Imperial Spain's history told by foreigners - English, French, Dutch, German, etc., ugh!
👏👏 totally agree, but those people are anglocentric, they will keep with "his" narrative...
@@a.m7736 Totally agree, if the anglocentric world need that sort of self assurance... but we all know that's nothing but sheer national cheap propaganda.
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This one Philippines, nevermind
5:20 did the Spanish bring the small box intentionally? Like a bio weapon?
i doubt tho, they probably had it in their bodies but wasn't affected by them thanks to the immunity of the europeans
no. if u get a cold and spread it to your family is it on purpose?
You referred the indigenious people of America as Native Americans. The Native American arrived to America in the 1800s. They are not the American Indian. The American Indians were described as copper colored. Slavery in the United States was domestic. In 1660 Virginia past a law that started Domestic Slavery. It states that if an Indian kills a settler then the whole village most pay. The payment was that your land will be given to the settlers, the woman and children were taken as servants. The men were shipped to the carribean, killed or sold as Slaves. It is documented that 300,000 Africans arrived in America from the late 1600s to the early 1800s. The American Indian were used as the bottom of this caste system. In the 1700s Race as a system was created. During this time the Indian was reclassified as Colored. The propaganda of the Indian died from diseases was pushed. Blacks in America was referred to as Negroes because Spain colonized first. The American Indians did not live in teepee. They had established towns and villages before the settlers arrived to steal from them. Native Americans lived in teepee. They set up their makeshift homes eager to squat. They learned Indian culture and sign a treaty to pretend to be the Indian. Now they have a movement to change the mascots to reflect themselves. Native Americans are not the American Indian.
Not sure that's true that indigenous people were at the bottom of the caste system. Everywhere you go across the Americas, blacks replaced native Americans as slaves from the Caribbean to Brazil. Iberian priests even stated that it was better that Africans were used as slaves than native Americans, because blacks were thought of as subhuman and more suitable for that task. Furthermore it's no uncommon for people with obvious African ancestry to pretend their 'Indian' in Latin America as they prefer to perceived as indigenous than be considered to be black.
@@mitchduncan4842 Well Mitch, I'm basing my statement on true history and not the social programming that they have pushed to get the original people's in the US off the land. We were the original land owners in the US. Here the N word was used as a derogatory term for the American Indian. The N word actually meant stingy. They called the Indians stingy because they didn't want to share the land with the settlers. The full name of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 is the American Indian Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1968. All the massacres that have taken place to the American Indians is to run them of the land. Tulsa was one of many.
African Americans ain't African. We are not the same people. Our problems all stem from us being declassified and renamed so many times. Think about how many millions of acres of land the American Negro has lost since the end of the Civil War. Now compare it to what Native Americans lost. They didn't lose any. In fact they gain reservations. The first reservation is thr Gingaskin Reservation in Virginia. Gingaskin was not the tribe name but the settlers renamed it. The word Gingaskin is an hologram. They rename the first reservation as N word skin. The term Redskin does not apply to Native Americans because Red originally was brown.
I could go on forever. But it's time you do some research.
Spain was awesome.
Now they are in hell with their made up jesus
@@htatesil4192 Iam in Spain lovely country great health care nice food nice weather and also a lot of traditional festivals this is why they have long Life.
“Colonisation “ is an English word that depicts what England did to his colonies and by extension, English extrapolated to other powers like Spain, assuming they did the same. That’s a mistake.
Spanish Empire did NOT have colonies.
Mexico was not a colony. It was Spain (with the same rights)
Argentina was not a colony. It was Spain
Colombia was not a colony. It was Spain
Venezuela was not a colony. It was Spain
Guatemala was not a colony. It was Spain
Etc…
The imperial model was completely different between England and Spain
Huh? you know not what you are saying. It was New Spain and was the earlier Spanish equivalent of the British colonies later in time. The king oversaw each.
@@manso998 You are quite wrong. The English enslave and took colonies (Colony: where there is a metropoli, with all rights and perks, controlling everything in their own benefit, while the colonies has less rights and abused systematically to maintain the metropoli) . This model was later extended retroactively in the interpretation of previous powers. Spain was the first global empire. They made 37 Universities in America , thousand of cities, hospitals and cathedrals for indigenous people. The rights were equal for European Spain than American Spain. There was not a Metropoli (not Madrid). The most powerful city of the Empire was Mexico DF, in New Spain (today Mexico). This is because for catholics everyone are equal. Natives and not natives. For the British, only white Anglo-Saxon are “the chosen ones” because this is how Protestantism works. Dividing the society in groups (that’s why racism exist mainly in Protestant based cultures, like Germany or USA).
So no, Spanish Empire was NOT the equivalent of the British Empire later.
@@Nonius9 look up your history, let's take Cortes. He established a villa, which is a town site. Coronado established a settlement a villa/townsite, a colony.
Rights were not equal for the natives, regardless of whether they converted or not. Those Spaniards born in New Spain were also considered lesser than those born in Spain. Those who intermarried and had offspring, those offspring were considered lesser. There were castas.
Dig a bit deeper and you will learn this.
The Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português) was the first global empire in modern times. Spain rose after that.
@@manso998 What I wrote is not an opinion. You can find in academic books. And no, that’s not the definition of colony. No, Portugal was not the first global empire, it was Spain because the first global shipping line, first global coin, first global market, first circumnavigation of the planet was done by Spain. Is not an opinion.
@@Nonius9 Hahaha. You can read my academic works as well, peer-reviewed books and articles. You are so presenting alternative history, or splitting hairs and considering truly global later in time. And, no, I can't read your books because you are hiding behind a screen name.
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Wait is hernan cortes a explorer or conqorer
They enslaved my people
KING MAYA BZE Your Spanish blood inslaved them? Work on breaking the chains put on your mind by Leftists desiring Hispanic and black waterboys to further their divisionist ideology. I respect my ancestors. Peace.
Aztecs didnt build that city
you need to relearn how ancient feudal systems work I am not saying that they were perfect this wildly biased and clearly set give a bad image of Europeans
I, for one, really do doubt the false claims of forced conversions of Amerindians by the Spaniards; Charles Hapsburg V (the fifth) of Spain was Cortez's boss in terms of management; and at the same time as that, he was dealing with the Lutheran revolts; why be civil towards one and not the other? I think, therefore, that it really was a case of too much to manage from Madrid as far as logistics goes; but Cortez was just about his most moral of all of his soldiers... and he has a good reputation in the Mexican chronicles at that for being merciful and just to the Aztecs.
That may have been influenced by his predessor's conduct, however, Montezuma II was known to be killing people left, right, and center in his fake religious "celebrations"; as well as the reality is that he buried his own sister alive as a human sacrifice- good golly, man- that's wrong to do!
Tere were probably forced convertions at the begining though. i really, trully think, the Spanish Empire is unique in the sense that no other empire no world power had ever edicted so many laws of protection against the people it had conquered, no other empire had considered those he had conquered as subjects of the crown, with the same juridical status than its people, Spaniards. No other Empire had ever trully worry and try to integrate the conquered population so quickly as equals. We know of course in the practice it was way more complex, but the number of laws, and the intention of the monarquy of equal and fair treatment is there, and it's like nothing ever made before. So I would say the Spanish empire does certainly stands out, and not for the wrong reasons. However, it is obvious that the first years, and even decades, were a complete mess. It's only antural, it took at least 2 moths to sail from Spain to Cuba, then to Mexico. I'm pretty sure there were quite a lot of forced, or at least semi-forced convertions at the begining. Sure, most priest won¡t engage in that, since they knew that force convertion was not a honest convertion at all (they knew from the Jews in Spain), but I'm also sure that many did try to impose their believes. Technically, forced convertions were forbidden, but realitically speaking, for sure some did happen at the very begining. I mean, it's only natural that the "conquerors" imposed their believes upon the "conquered" people. Sad, but that's how it's always been, and it was no different in America, except that the law was exceptionally good, but at the very begining, law enforcement was almost nowhere to be found.
@@goodaimshield1115 Yes, the Spanish empire was a truly Christian state; the "black legend" was simply protestant mythology, and must be completely disregarded, as well as any claims of forcible conversions, at all, any. In fact, that kind of "missionary" activity is expressly forbidden, and always was prohibited, as any conversions like that are automatically invalid, and rightly expel anyone who engages in them or tolerates them from the Church, effective immediately upon being agreed to attempt, and pretty much forever.
As for the Jews in Spain, and Jews anywhere who convert, and intellectual conversion is always the first step; it is never a repudiation of their Jewish faith, it really is a more complete following of the Law of their faith- remember the Founder of Christianity was and is Himself a Jew; so antisemitism on the part of Christians is nonsense.
*Most* often when you initially subjugate any area law is something that comes later on in administration; but for a record of an ethnic Aztec in those days, I recommend the story of Juan Diego- he was one, and he, if he could, here and now, explain that the faith he converted to is a far better deal than what he had! And that does *not* touch at all on the idea of political power or acceptance.
To the average Mesoamerican subject of the Spanish Empire, conquest was simply a shift of where the taxes go; beyond that, not much overall... it was merely a change in the center of government, in Juan's case, it meant he was then subject to the regulations of Charles V, not Montezuma II, who himself was frankly a tyrannical butcher at best.
Mexican history does tell of Cortez as the most merciful governor they had, and that says a lot in and of itself; records to look up would be the court cases, say about tax regulations and late taxes due to harvest problems and the like, as well as the responses of the defendants.
Let us not forget that people accused of crimes against the state regularly tried to get their cases transferred to the Inquisition as far as a far better deal to begin with; the Inquisition never killed anyone, nor tortured anyone, they were expressly prohibited from that kind of action, what it was was an attempt to liberate those who were accused of engaging in the devil's gang, via the occult, by talking sense to them. It was a rescue operation, nothing but.
@@goodaimshield1115 These so-called laws were easily ignored anyway, they made little difference to people living thousands of miles away. It wasn't a conventional 'conquest', it's a misnomer to call it that. In the early stages it was mainly native allies who did most of the 'conquering'. not Europeans. Due to introduced diseases mestizos (mixed background) faired better and thrived at the expense of those of pure indigenous ancestry. Over the subsequent decades and centuries it was Westernized mestizos (who comprised the majority, not Europeans, of the population in the colonies) who assimilated the remaining native populations spread across Latin America, a process that took centuries. So calling it a conquest is really not an accurate depiction of what took place in Latin America in this period.
@@mitchduncan4842 Oh, they made *all* of the difference; and the whole idea of forced conversions is a blatant falsehood to begin with.
Yes, it was mostly Amerindians fighting other Amerindians, not so much the Europeans who did the fighting.
Like who are you talking to a 10 year old?
nonsense 😂 video reported
This voice of girl is wrong about one noun aliens are creatures form other planets not earthlings did she just suggested that spanish are out of their mind?
La mujer que grabó este video esta totalmente influenciada por la leyenda negra. Que manera tan fea de contar la historia, no ha comentado ni una verdad a medias ...
Constant anti-European bias.
Narrator is horrible
nothing like reading comments on a school video lmao
False, shamelessly false. There were no cast system in New Spain.
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