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I can't even begin to tell the inaccuracies this video tells, it is so wrong, Moctezuma never tought Cortez was a God, in fact he told them to leave but Cortez pushed forward, Mexico was never colonized, it was in fact part of the Spanish empire, it wasn't a colony, the war for independance was in fact a war against the french imposed ruler and it was a war supporting the restoration of the original spanish monarchy, in the end the much weakened spanish spanish empire had so little power over new spain that it ended up becoming independent thanks to people that saw the opportunity to create a new mexican epire, wich ended up in the country of Mexico.

The Aztecs didn't call themselves Aztecs. They called themselves 'the machika'. That is why it is called 'Mexico' today (a latinization of 'Machika').

3:37 fun fact, in Mexico City, the tree where Hernan Cortez cried under is still there, the event is also referred to “La Noche Victoriosa” “The Victorious Night”

A statement made is wrong: Cortes never conquered Mexico since Mexico did not exist at that time, just the Aztec empire which had been occupying the central valley for hardly 200 years while severely oppressing all the tribes they could. We could say Mexico was born with its independence.

Completely forgets the thousands of native alias who actually took down the Mexicas (not Aztecs)

I'm sorry. I've been a fan of your channel for a while, but this video was just poorly made. A lot of important stuff was just not talked about. I understand it's difficult to make a short video talking about the entire history of a country. Maybe you should make videos on smaller topics of the history of Mexico to make it justice.

4:30 correction: the battle of otumba was before the retreat to tlaxcala, not afterwards.

Some things are subjectively vague and misleading here. But I guess it's fine as an introduction for Americans. However a fundamental difference between the English and the Spanish In Terms of colonization that everyone should know: is that originally the Spanish Queen Isabella the Catholic ordered from start to Columbus that any native found in the new territory was to be treated as a subject of the crown and not a slave, thus the heavy Jesuit work with the natives, this had a long lasting effect, because the focus at the beginning was of integration. Not of extermination. This is why the largest part of the current Mexican population in Mexico is still brown. We were considered from the beginning, the Jesuit and other Catholic orders went in fact to such lengths and endeavours to learn and preserve the history and language of the Mesoamerican people, founding the very first University in the entire American continent that had in its first subjects the study of native languages. In contrast to the English and then American politics with the natives, mostly of extermination and then as tools in war.

They forgot to mentioned Pancho Villa and Zapata.

You spent nearly the whole video talking about Mexico's history before independence. That's like making a "summary of World War Two" video but talking entirely about WW1 and the interwar years

This is an extremely so fascinating history of Mexico which is one of my favourite nations ever even though,they lost the territories of Texas and California to United States,good friends!!!LONG LIVE MEXICO!!! 🇲🇽

Great video but as a Mexican I noticed mistakes: 1.-Juan o donuju signed the treaty of independence in September 27th 2.- Texas was nota country since you need a recognition but imdefacto terms it was

Thank you for the art work

Totally skipped over the Cinco de Mayo part and Benito Juarez

Epic and can you do history of Jamaica please

In the first map you show you seem to be designating as New Spain the viceroyalties of New Spain, New Granada and Peru.

Always love history especially when the new world was being explored

Wait, Cortés didn't arrive in Tabasco, he landed and founded the city of Veracruz, the oldest continental city built by Europeans.

5:15 Salamanca family bloodline 500 years ago and eventually leading up to the Salamanca family in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul.

The Mexican Empire should have never fallen.

One Aztec described the Spanish "They are not male nor female but something in between."

Morelos died before Guerrero and Iturbide compromised for independence though, that's not really made clear here. Also wish there had been more recently history. The 20th century Mexican history is probably their most interesting period. Otherwise, not a bad vid at all :)

Man just glossed over the cristero war

My grandpa came to the US from Mexico my last name is Aleman Spanish for German.

14:59 you forgot to include the Gadsden Purchase of 1853.

I think brazil or argentina could be a cool subject

Napoleon Bonaparte helped USA, and Mexico in their Wars for Independence by opening front's on their occupiers home turfs. Interesting

Well Done

Thank you from México. ❤

This such a disappointing video from a Chanel that usually makes so good content. Very poorly summary of 500 years. And it’s was so posed to be about Mexico, yet most of actually Mexican (that is independent Mexico) conflicts and wars were not even mentioned. What a shame

They did not think Spaniard was a god, just not true.

I quite like this channel, but in this case I see a few historical mistakes: New Spain Viceroyalty did not reach down to Perú (Come on!). Many of today's Central American countries were counquered even decades after, e.g. Costa Rica was finally conquered in the 1560's. At least, I do really appreciate this video does not leverage on the worng historical interpreation that all Central American joined the "´puppet" 1st mexican "empire".

good job

I love how you spent more time talking about the Conquista and Napoleon in Spain than independent Mexico, completely glossing over key parts of Mexican history such as the Reform War and the PRI; as well as barely mentioning others like the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. I'm sorry, but this isn't a good video on Mexican history at all, it's barely serviceable as an introduction.

Do Australia next

Wow this video ignores a lot of history. One of the big ones in recent Mexico history is the cartels and how they affected criminal justice, culture, music, journalism, world relations, and economics in Mexico. Not even mentioning that is wrong. What about Pancho Villa? The dude regime changed the government. Giving a brief mention is crazy given how much history that changed forever. The Mexican American War? America gets to Mexico City, but let's not show that at all. Geez ... I guess as a history teacher I expect too much.

California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico’s Mami’s history

Our history as a nation/civilization is nothing like that of our northern neighbor. No serious historian would ever claim that.

Its way too short

Who's watching this in 2024? Raise your hand 🙋

Do Central America History!!!!

Today Mexican Fighters in Combat Sports are among the most respected in the World. Modern Warrior Culture.

Poor Mexico feels bad 😢

Correction, in the Hispanoamerican countries that revolted were lead by a small creole elite who wanted to use the opportunity to gain more power, in fact the most loyalists were the native americans and mestizo populations

Can you do Canada next?

The Mexica never beloved Cortez was a god 🤦🏽‍♂️ that’s been disproven a long time ago.

I AM SO EARLY!

0:28 most of those who fought against the Spanish were descendents of the colonizers themselves so not even half a minute and there is a mistake

The Reason why France invaded Mexico was because Russia sent their Navy to San Francisco and New York when England and France were just about to enter the war on the side of the Confederates since London created the Confederates. France was already in Mexico making a spear head movement to resupply the Confederates and to open up a Pacific Theatre and to create a port in California. England already amassed 11,000 troops and growing stationed at their Northern Confederacies border now called Canada ready to open a Northern Theatre to divert Union troops away from their Southern Confederacy then to attack The Unions naval blockade. The Union would have been completely destroyed and annexed by those two great powers leaving the Confederates to exist as either a puppet state of London or to be fully brought back into the fold of the British Empire. London was already courting (threatening/bribing) other countries to get involved like Spain while Russia was in talks with Prussia to ally with incase London was to intervene. Seeing all of this Tsar Alexander II wrote a letter to Queen Victoria saying “If you enter in this war it will be a casus belli for all out war with the Russian Empire”. The stage was set for the 1st World War and Russia stopped it. There is also a memorial in San Francisco for the hundreds of Russian sailors who came off their Asiatic fleet ships that died while helping the city put out a fire that threatened to lay waste to it during the War.

Viva la revolucion!!!

That was Gonzalo de Sandoval not Pablo.

Napoleon´s France was catholic as was Spain.

Based

Did this guy just say 250 Spaniards took over the entire Aztec empire? Find it hard to believe

This is a bit inaccurate but overall it’s a good summary. There are some important events that were skipped over and a bit of the details were inaccurate. Also , the Aztecs did not believe Hernan was a god..lol

Wonder what woulda happened if everyone left everyone alone. We either would all been mixed or all become the true forms of our race😭😭

The Spanish didn’t have colonies, they had viceroyalties and kingdoms. The English had colonies

You did Gran Colombia before Can you do the rest of Latino America? Especially Brazil as the French and Dutch tried to take it over.

I would not add anything before conquest to the history of Mexico. That was not Mexico. Even the times in which the land was under Spanish rule, it was not Mexico. Mexico exists since it became a nation.

Porfirio Diaz won the war against the French because the Americans send an army to Mexico and defeated together.

Surprised you never mentioned Maximillian I and the Second Mexican Empire. Even today he is still celebrated in Mexico.

Everyone should thank the texans for the West. The worst decision by Mexico was renting out that land, but it was perfect timing for the united States as mexico was going through transitions of power.

They just skipped over Benito Juerez like he never existed😂

Mexico had a big debt with Spain France and England when Benito Juarez became president settled the debt but France wanted to dominate Mexico and it didn't invaded once but twice due to that exhausting war between France and Spain US found an opportunity to provoked under James Polk another war which caused Mexico to loose their terretories from California all the way through Wyoming but of course most of the history books won't mention that since it's an embarrassment to the US

I'm a big fan of history videos, and this one was definitely one of the best I've seen. The narration was clear and engaging, and the visuals were stunning. I highly recommend this video to anyone interested in learning more about Mexican history.

I always wonderd if these men ever felt bad doing shit.

15:49 / 15:57

Not at all surprising that The History of Mexico includes Napoleon.

Some bits were biased and much was omitted even for a video of this lenght, 8/10 summary not crappy not good either

I love this channel but this is such Anglo/ protestant way of telling Mexico's history! Clearly leaning into the Black legend!! Leaving a lot out to Demonize the Spanish..

Ah yes. Americans condemn chinas annexation of tibet. But annexed new mexico,, texas and california good shit.

oh you made several mistakes minutes away from your video, I have to sleep but I will com back to edit this comment, new spain was never a colony, it was a viceroyalry, far different from a mere colony.

It’s was 200 years later n the ppl still didn’t have a grasp of Mexico yet lol

Not hating, but in the last minute or so, the border of America and Mexico is incorrect. Love you videos ❤

Este video tiene demasiados errores... Uno de ellos recae en el Cura Morelos, pues este jamas se "alio" con el en ese entonces Comandante Realista Agustin de Iturbide. De hecho, creo que nunca interactuaron de frente, mas haya de las veces que lucharon entre si. (Una de ellas desenboco en que Iturbide hiciera que el ejercito de Morelos se disparada entre si, cuando Morelos intento tomar Valladolid, el cual se transformo en lo que ahora se conoce como Morelia, y que Morelos como Itrubide nacieron ahi) Iturbide de unio a la causa independentista hasta ya su finalizacion (Pues fue este quien hizo que el recien Virrey firamda los tratados de Cordoba) El plan de iguala en el video se dice que fue planeado por Vicente y Agustin, cuando esto es erroneo. Agustin ya tenia el "plan de iguala" cuando decidio unirse a Vicente, pues este estaba siendo escrito cuando la "Guera" Rodrigues tento a Iturbide a formar a formar una nueva nacion, asi que la participación de Vicente en el plan fue solo en la practica. Tambien se pasan detalles del territorio del "primer" imperio, pues falta la zona que compone actualmente los paises de Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua y Puerto Rico. El como realmente fue que Agustin deserto la corona de Mexico tras verse obligado a tomarla, pues el congreso constituynte del momento conspiraba contra el y la influencia de extranjeros como lo es Robert Poinsett y la masoneria hicieron que personas como el mencionado Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna se "revelaran" Aunque con Santa Anna tambien fue en parte del labado de cabeza que le dieron los masones, tambien se puede intuir que fue una desicion personal por rencor, pues Agustin ya como emperador si mal no recuerdo, nego que el General Santa Anna se involucrada con su Hermana Mayor. No se sabe muy bien el por que el interes repentino de Santa Anna por la "Princesa de iturbide", pero se piensa que fue para obtener un estatus de nobleza y asi obtener cierto poder e influencia politica. Tambien en el video erra en lo de la igualdad de poblacion en el imperio, pues este en el plan de iguala y lo que se podria considerar la primera constitucion de Mexico, en uno de sus apartados dice "Establecer la union de todas las clases sociales", donde se imponia la igualdad social sin importar su origen etnico, seas español, seas americano, seas africano y asi. Mismo por el cual Vicente Guerrero decidio unirse a Itrubide, pues se buscaba la igualdad en la poblacion, y asi formaron el ejercito trigarante.

Um they were not Spanish Colonies. They were viewed as Spanish vireinatos. Very different.

Yo I’m Mexican American ty

Big Trinidad 🇹🇹

Can you make a second channel dedicated to alternate history and/or fantasy series

As a native Mexican and anthropologist (who specializes in Mesoamerica)…this video is physically painful to watch. If I had 2 hours to spare, I’d sit here and itemize every single inaccurate bit of information. Suffice to say- if you watch this video, please view it as strictly “entertainment” and not as “historically accurate”. ❤😂

“Enslaved the native people” is not even close to accurate wth? This is why these videos should be made by Hispanics

6:45 This video is so inaccurate. You forgot to mention the African slaves the Spanish brought from Africa to Mexico. 5000 African slaves came to Mexico and you forgot to mention Mexico’s black president Vicente Guerrero.

Well, taking historical accuracy lessons from a Smithsonian point of view, in order to deter , a Thing call “ manifestation of destiny” is another coin, but one thing I can say, Spanish were like todays modern day Mexicans in most ways, really not too different in caliber, Spanish and Spanish/white Mexicans are just distant relatives from the history of Cortes V Montezuma; conquest, but there are the 1% ERS in Spain who claims 100% Spanish bloodline vice versa with Mexicas/Nautl in Mexico . Thus leaving mestizos in the middle of zealous bigotry .

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Cortes never conquered México, This territory was a vice kingdom, not a colony.

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That’s crazier than americas story😂 Americans had to deal w them cannons n shit tho n the way they fought was so bad😂everyone in front just died

I can't belive that such imperys like Astecs and Inka were so stupid!!!

Man comemos muchos tacos

You really present a biased view of history. The Spanish were not "colonizers." That term is offensive and pejorative for white people from Hispanic America, from whom almost all of Mexico are descended. And Mexico was not a colony; 80% of the resources stayed in Mexico to create universities, cities, cathedrals, hospitals (all accessible to Spaniards and Indians). 12:20 You mistakenly mention that the most conservative sector revolted and with it Iturbide, who opposed equal rights, which is false and in Spain there was never a precise inequality. Since the Laws of Burgos, the Indians were recognized as Free Vassals of the Spanish Crown. These errors do not surprise me coming from an Anglo-Saxon, who spread the Black Legend of Spain.

No, no, no, Hidalgo didn't attempt to flee into the "United States," he retreated north towards New Spain's sparsely populated northern territories which still hadn't been invaded and stolen by the United States. Don't whitewash your country's imperialism gringo! LOL

i wonder if the ereegion would be better or worse if the British made it their first and met the aztecs etc over the spanish

the fact that it's called "the night of sorrows" it's ridiculous.

A lot here is wrong or omitted

Mutt country Mutt War

did Mexico have history before Europeans?

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Mexico didnt exist during meso america nor during new spain and kingdom of Guatemala. Even after independence from spain, Yucatan was still a non mexican province until after the war of castes and Tabasco, Chiapas and Soconusco still belonged to today Guatemala, less than 200 years ago. What we now know as "México" was not an organized country until much more later than your history bit narrative. There was Olmecas, Zoques, Nahuatls and Mayans all over from Huastec Mayan Tamaulipas and Texas to Nahuatls and Maya in Nicarahuatl (today Nicaragua) and everywhere between, thousands of years before the Mexica even entered Teotihuacan and even founded Tenochtitlan , and even much longer than the entities the spanish left organized into what we now call Mexico. Most of mesoamerica (the largest cities and most powerful kingdoms) were actually were we now call central america (meso means center or middle) but México City had the military and public relations and propaganda to consolidate the different civilizations. AI and new research will prove Mayans and Teotihuacan and Olmecs were actually Central Americans, not Mexicans. See #ProtoMayan language forensic linguistics, DNA sequencing and Archeology (El Mirador, Takalik Abaj, Tikal-Teotihuacan alliances and trade etc etc etc. We only know about 5 percent about Central America (Meso America) it was still simply TOO COLD and tundra harsh in central mexico to build large crops and civilizations until much later after the last ice age. Thus the nomadic and small pueblo towns in mexico and north america compared to the massive cibilizations in central america which were also post glaciars (cuchumatan guatemala) ice still melting down (see mammoths and other game plus clovis like points in Guatemala and Chiapas) so the mexica came very much later from Idaho and Utah (Piute Uto Aztecans) so Spain had a harder time conquering central america (it took 100 more years after the fall of Tenochitlan for spaniards to take Tayasal in Peten Guatemala and some areas of Huehuetenango WERE NEVER CONQUERED because of the massive organization of these tribes who invented corn, chocolate, concept of 0, rubber game ball, saqbe freeways etc. Again, mexico was still frozen while Cuchumatan was melting and therefore the Mexica couldn't start up any civilization till much later. Meso Americans WERE CENTRAL AMERICANS, not what in the last few centuries we call Mexicans. One more time, Mexico . only has existed for less than 200 years (Without the Yucatan and Chiapas and Central America which the Plan De Iguala doesn't even mention, it wasnt mexico until much later.

España llevo Universidades, hospitales, religión. Cosa que no hicieron el resto de los imperios como el inglés, que donde iban....arrasaban