In 1519 Spanish explorer and Conquistador Hernan Cortez landed on the shore of eastern Mexico with 11 ships and over 500 soldiers. When they arrived at the temple at Tenochtitlán, they witnessed a priest rip out a living man’s heart, raise it in the air, and toss his corpse down the temple stairs. This one event set in motion a series of cascading events that would forever alter the course of world history, and create controversies for Cortez, Spain and the Catholic Church ever since. Hosted by Colin D. Heaton. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production.
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they were disgusted by what they saw and felt a righteous duty to extinguish it. ive also heard accounts that they stopped a sacrifice of a particular boy and the people were all pissed off and that's what caused the fight in the city. also the blood soaked room, Montazuma was like "dang if i knew you wouldn't like it, i wouldn't have brought you here" Cortez "i wish you wouldn't have brought me here" I will also say that I personally don't think the Spanish made it up, they at the same time praised the architecture and designs of the cities in a sense of wonder and astonishment, they must have also witnessed some grotesque astonishments too.
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what a disgrace for a culture to have ignorant people telling its history!
the day people stop being informed for youtube(monetizing)sources and focus on the real sources of information regarding the great Náhuatl culture, they will realize the real dimension of the attempting to destroy a great civilization. what this man here is saying is no more than pure and absolute B LSHIT!.
The invaders were the ones that brought a pagan religion to the new world, where there was no religion but spirituality and a real connection to the universe. Sacrifice was practiced in certain levels but not in a daily basis and for absurd reasons as for asking for rain or for honor their deities.
in Náhuatl cultures there's no hell, no heaven and no demons. their gods are metaphorical philosophical figures, their knowledge was based on deep concepts involving the sacred geometry and numerology and their cosmology was much better understood and precise than any other around the world.
The Toltecas, not a peoples but the men and women of the school of anahuáca thought. the disciples of Quetzalcóatl, the ascended and christic master that came to the Cem-Anáhuac with a message of love and with a warning; the prime creator never asks for sacrifices of any kind, any self proclaimed god is a false god.
The simple attempt to depict a great society, one that has reached such level of organization and such knowledge of the cosmology, science and arts, as one that is founded on a steadily compulsive Sacrifice basis, tells us that the ones who are telling the history are not worthy to be heard.
Aztec=w
Egyptian=o
Based based fucking based
cortez died from raping mayans and catching a std… fuck cortez and all his kin
Thank you so much for this video
If you really think they really believed Blood is what kept the sun and moon cycles going is just nuts to me. That doest explain killing 80,000 people in 4 days for a celebration. They did it as a giable excuse to have the right to kill their enemy. Its not killing its sacrificing, therefore doing no evil bc im serving the Gods. See how loose that is. They knew what they were doing back then and why. I never paint a pretty picture to history because it was always soaked in human greed and death.
I love my four Fathers Viva Cortez… I love my Mother's as well indigenous 😅 Spaniards didn't bring women 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤😊
I just found his crypt in a small church in Mexico City. No fanfare at all for him at all.
One ''myth'' that is still holding on to our imagination is the appearance of the Spaniards, their clothing and armour.
The image we all have of the Conquistadores is skewed. Much because of pop culture, artwork and movies.
The Spaniards are always depicted with the classic Morion helmets and equipment that in reality belong to the later half of the 1500's and early 1600's.
If you want a good depiction of what the Conquistadores actually looked like, you should search for the fantastic artwork by the modern battle-painter Augusto Ferrer Dalmau.
The era of all the famous Conquistadores and explorers, such as Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Magellan, de Soto, Coronado and Narvaez, all belong to a few decades in the late 1400's to the early 1500's. Approximately 50 years, more or less.
Therefore the Morion helmet of the late 1500's is an inaccuracy and a misconception, mainly because of paintings from later periods.
What the real Conquistadores used was different variations of sallets, proto-burgonets, skullcaps, kettle helmets and the cabasset helmet, (which would later evolve into the Morion helmet of the 1550's and onwards). These were often attached with a bevor for protection against missiles to the face and neck. Chainmail was prevalent and the use of native quilted cotton armour was very high. The Spaniards would therefore have had a more "medieval look", which would be appropriate for the time period in question.
Imagine a ragtag group of mostly young men, in late medieval clothing (livery coats, doublets, hose, jackets), with lots of different colours and patterns in red, yellow, green, beige, black, grey, white and blue. Mostly equipped with swords and round shields, perhaps simple skullcaps, kettle helmets or whatever they could afford.
I would also like to point out that these small groups of fortune seekers and adventurers consisted of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters and farmers. Young men just like you, that had hopes and dreams, families and friends they laughed with. They searched for a better life in the New World, away from poverty in Europe. Some of the individuals who participated in the conquest of Central and South America were veterans of the Italian Wars (1494-1559). But most were of low-nobility or ordinary workers, seeking to find success, honor and wealth. Another fact that is not often mentioned in my opinion, is that alot of Africans were a part of the expeditions, either as slaves or free men. Some even joined as soldiers.
History is never black or white, rather different shades of grey (no pun intended).
All kingdoms, nations and cultures across the world has committed horrendous acts of war throughout history. We will never really know what happened in Mexico in 1519, because we were never there ourselves. Why Cortés or Moctezuma acted as they did and how or why certain events unfolded. What we can agree upon is that both sides had a tremendous amount of courage.
Here is a link to my blog, if you want to see my 28mm dioramas. Scenes depicting Magellan's last stand or Hernán Cortés expedition for example.
https://gripen-swe.blogspot.com
I have created these during the last couple of years. My goal is always to be as historically accurate as possible.
I'm very fascinated by this time period and have read many books about this topic.
Take care!
I'm thirty seconds in, and I'm guessing the audio and the visuals were not the same production.
It looks high budget but sounds like a southern dude dubbing the narration at home.
Consider this….whether it is called human sacrifice or all out war, it still violates the number 1 rule = thou shall not kill.
That’s the thing that blows my mind.
It’s funny how humans, all humans, can create a justification that makes it ok for “me” but not ok for the “other”
That’s crap no matter how you look at it.
Where's the blood stains on the steps of the pyramids?
If they performed human sacrifice on a daily basis wheres the blood
Hey Yall What Program is This Being Used Its Nice????????
Many small inaccuracies. Such as Moctezuma ''welcoming'' the Spaniards. He did his best to keep them away, but failed. Also Tlaxcala was not subjugated by the Aztecs, they were enemies because they successfully resisted subjugation. And the smallpox came from an African in the Narvaez expedition, not the Spaniards. The remaining Aztecs and ''royal family'' did not ''finally accept defeat'' due to starvation and mounting bodies. The king was captured and forced to capitulate. Finally that last part about the debate over Spanish cruelty serving conquest or to stop pagan rituals was just strange. The only ones justifying land theft/torture/murder under the guise of stopping human sacrifice all died 500 years ago. Other than that, I enjoyed the graphics you put up and commend you for mentioning that one side of the history holds that Moctezuma was murdered by the Spaniards. There is in fact a minor reference of this act by a Spanish source as well. He was stabbed 5 times while chained in a room with the other chieftains, who were also murdered.
While it may be true that the Aztecs were performing human sacrifices (presumably on their enemies) to their gods. It is documented truth that the Spaniards are guilty of that very same behavior.
Let's not forget the "Reconquista" and the subsequent Inquisition, where those deemed to be enemies were tortured and killed in gruesome ways for religious reasons.
So the aztecs made sacrifice to please the sun god?
How is this forgotten history? More like the Eurocentric narrative that was taught in schools like 20 years ago. Please pick up a more up to date textbook.
Europeans were great men back then. The English, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, etc. exploring and conquering the whole world with a fraction of the men is incredible
It's good they stopped sacrifice and brought God but they killed a lot of Indigenous tribes that didn't do sacrifices and raped and killed innocent Indigenous women and children white people don't want talk about the bad side of it and want talk about it in a white supremacist way but nowadays the mixed latinos from all those tribes that are half Indigenous took back the land from those colonizers and even in the USA since more US born Latinos and Immigrant Latinos coming more and being born in the southwest states and a rising population in the north west states and even the Indigenous population in America is growing even though half of them are mixed with white but they are kicking the whites out and the white population is decreasing which is true since most of them are old which means that there most likely gonna be a minority in the future in the Americas and even most Latino countries have a higher Mestizo (Half White Half Indigenous) and Indigenous tribes populations from those Latino countries are growing a lot, Countries like Argentina and Uruguay Have a more Italian and Spaniard ancestry so they will probably remain like that for a while while their indigenous population grows slowly but most of the latino countries Mestizo, African, and Indigenous populations will keep growing while the White population is decreasing slowly.
Apparently I'm a descendant from a Mayan Princess married to a Spanish Conquistador. Im trying to find more info on this but ive not had a response from the person who told me on my mothers side.
Good vídeo.
If it was not for "smallpox" it would of been no…..TAKEOVER LOL 🎯💸🔥💯🤣
I love your channel you make the history so easy to understand and follow, your very talented & thank you for your service 😊
They were not pegans. They maintained what they new from the ATLANTIS civilization which they came from. Which explains why they had more GOLD than anyone on earth.
So the Aztecs killed 80k people for the inauguration ceremony? The 100k natives killed by spaniards probably pales in comparison to the human sacrifices made in the Aztec empire over 10 years. The other tribes population combined probably vastly outnumbered the Aztecs but bc they were a bunch of little tribes they couldn't have hoped to defeat them. They needed a miracle and what are the odds the Spanish show up the very year that the "gods" return to liberate the vast majority of natives at the expense of the evil aztec empire.
CONQUISTADORES = ORPHANS, WITH CHIPS ON THEIR SHOULDERS. .. I would like to refer everyone to major historians on the Spanish Empire – particularly, those like English Historian, Hugh Thomas (who was Knighted by both Queen Elizabeth and King Juan Carlos). … In particular, I refer to a section in his massive and wildly heralded history of the conquest of Mexico, 'CONQUEST', regarding the overall profile of who these Conquistadores were. … He notably points out that for the most part, they came from minor nobility families who 'economically orphaned' them for being the latter in line for inheritances doled out to firstborns – and, many of them even products of extra-marital affairs. .. (So, Orphans and Bastards.) .. Essentially, they were cast off on their own, but with a burning yearning to restore their dignity by seeking wealth (gold, silver, etc.) in unknown worlds . .. Yet, at the same time being spiritually driven, and even focused, on serving God with the conversion (salvation) of natives in these worlds. … Thomas points out how remarkably focused they were in pursuing these goals – even in times of total personal solace and isolation. … Their CREED was such that it inspired Miguel de Cervantes to write his World Masterwork, 'Don Quixote de la Mancha'. .. Essentially, they existed only in some long lost, unrecognizable alien planet – and, in alien times. … (I really don't mean to be flippant here, but they would be PERFECT for exploring, even on their own, the Stars – that is, if we were to finally discover interstellar warp drive!)
Nez Perce
Az technician.. i believe your full of something called sitting bullshit.
The reality was prob they all died from disease
12 minutes of slander
✝️🇪🇦 unos grandes
U ppl always bringing up human sacrifice as if it mattered morally to conquering army’s . This Hispanics were not humanitarian liberators for Christ
I love my Spanish ancestors 🇪🇦💪🏾
Awesome documentary – 35,000 people sacrificed yearly small wonder the natives joined the Spaniards
Why didnt conquistadors tried to reconquer constantinople than attacking mexico,lols. They were cowards in actual
The Catholic Spaniards deplored the Pagan and Violent Practices of the indigenous peoples of The Americas so much that they adopted and brought such brutalism home to use during the Protestant Reformation against conscientious objectors to the Roman Catholic Shit Show…..gotta love those Holier Than Thou Spaniards! Now they just butcher dissenting bulls…….