This channel is such a gem 💎

Thank god, thought I was going to have to wait a year to hear part 2. If only all lecturers and teachers were like this - people would actually enjoy education and learn something. Thanks, great lecture as always!

Dr. Casagranda I'm in love with your lectures. My brain is cooked bc I don't have an attention span anymore and I usually can't even watch a 10 minute video without getting bored but I can watch 4 straight hours of your lectures. Incredibly interesting and entertaining even though you barely use any images. I have learned so much about the world. My favorite thing is that you give so much context before starting every lecture, which is incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge for free ❤

I accidentally come across Professor Roy lectures and now my whole family is addicted. we listen him regularly on weekends, incredible knowledge and honesty with the facts

This guy deserves more airtime and credit a brilliant historian

This Prof is an embodiment of knowledge. His "keep it simple" style of presentation would have made the study of politics and history worth the while if many of us had him as a teacher during our undergraduate days

The Prof is amazing. So eloquent. And his memory…. He can talk for hours without missing a beat.

Moral of the Story : Do not make your neighbourghs hate you and do not assume that you know other people's culture...Fantastic lecture, even though I question some of the population numbers.

He is one of the best teacher in the world , period !!! 🙏🙏 Wow 🤟 What a wonderful way to teach 🙏

These talks are so interesting. Please keep them going. Thanks to the Professor and to all those behind the scenes who make this happen.

GIVE THIS MAN A RAISE! And tenure, if he so desires.

i just don't understand how the Aztecs were such badasses dominating their neighbors when they didn't fight with weapons and their neighbors did...

The ending of your lecture made me cry 😢 That decision saved us but at the expense of so many others.

Oh sooo much love you for Professor! You've helped me through Ramadan listening to your lectures. You're so funny, and witty - and your anti-Orientalist flavour to your analysis is refreshing and vital. Thank you and God bless you

I genuinely started crying when the lecture ended with de las casas and African slavery... Prof is such a good storyteller he got me genuinely invested in the man's humanity and then broke my heart with his reveal at the end of the trial 😂

great talk, loved that ending. the course of history changed by one man.

Dr. Roy is the best! It’s kind of like having the dude from Big Lebowski explain things to you in terms even stoners can understand!

Ten years of waiting for the Winds of Winter, I've been reading the Last Kingdom and the Accursed Kings series. Little that I know I've found another flavor of Ice and Fire in Professor Casagranda's lectures. These are amazing stuff.

I encountered Dr. Casagrande's lectures and was profoundly impressed by their depth and insight. His expertise and nuanced analysis represent an exceptional standard within unbiased academic discourse. Drawing from my studies in history, particularly concerning figures such as Columbus and Cortez, I benefited significantly from the perspectives imparted by Dr. Casagrande's lectures. My maternal lineage, intertwined with native heritage, further enriched my understanding of the complex legacies of colonization. The devastating impact wrought by conquistadors like Cortez, Pizarro, de Almagro, and Valdivia upon the indigenous populations and cultures of the Americas remains a topic of incomprehensible magnitude. It behooves us, therefore, to confront and comprehend these historical realities with courage and humility, recognizing their implications for our collective past and the imperative of responsible stewardship for the benefit of future generations.

36:54 This is why people from all across the world love Prof Roy so much. He bathes his mind with local names, cultures and traditions and wholeheartedly promotes them. He constantly appreciates and compliments the local societies and thing very foreign to many other White people. This man is built by pure love for different societies and doesn't condescend on any of them.

Such a wonderful character. So much knowledge. I find myself listening to him every night and morning

Man I'm so glad I found this channel. Roy really makes history a proper compelling story. This story was done just as well as the crusades one. I can't wait for another subject.

There are not enough videos in this channel! I can't get enough of Roy! Thank you for making these fine lectures to educate us. At the end of this lecture, I was glad I wasn't white, European, or Christian.. And listening to many of your other lectures, I am proud to be Egyptian, Arab, and Muslim. So I hope I am an acestor of Khalid Ibn Al Walid, Al Faraby, Mohamed Al Fatih, and all the fine ancient Egyptians Oh and I am ordering your book very soon 🙏 ( The Blood Throne of Caria)

Well, I guess I'll be a future cockroach, but if Aztecs loved others so much, then why even after seeing who Cortez was (such a bad man), other Indian tribes still helped him? And if there was even only 1 million Aztecs, and they ate 1 pound of human flesh a year (his words), that means they would have to eat 1 million pounds of human flesh and a very conservative approximation is about 10k people eaten a year. Very "others loving" Aztec family. And it's such a huge underestimation. And Aztecs fighting without weapons? Like man, are you sure what you are saying? I guess there were only few "knights wannabe" who fought this way, but no way it was majority.

Good lecture. I really enjoy listening to a lecture as an informed scholar. This professor is brushing me up nicely.

I love Roy. I been listening to this man's lectures since I first found them on KZfaq. He's an absolute rockstar for history nerds like me😊

Roy is a living legend ❤ he should upload more 😊

Watching you makes me want to go back to school prof! Keep it up

This is amazing, Dr. Roy is now my favorite

My favorite talk so far. Bravo! Thank you!!!

Amazing man Roy - a wealth of knowledge

One of the best lecture ever. Always enjoyed listening and learning at the same time😊

Thank you SO much! Dr. Casagranda is an inspiration. He’s so well researched and never just gives the party line….

You gave us Part 2 so quickly! Thanks professor. You knocked it out of the park yet again!

This guy is un incredible lecturer! Story teller !! Thank you thank you for speaking the truth !!!

I can't wait for part 3, you are absolutely amazing

I could listen to him forever

I was waiting for this thank you doctor Casagranda

More of Roy please. Amazing insight. Wish him a long life so he can give us an impartial history of the world as far as is possible. Loved the Middle Eastern history, the European history, history of the America's. I would love some light to be shed on the Eastern histories e.g. India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Native Australians, and of course China. That side of the world is still an enigma to me.

It's equally mesmerizing and moving. Wish I could be a student of him or listen to him more.

I'm so grateful that this is free!!!

Thank you for uploading. Amazingly presented.

Fantastic lecture. Brilliant instructor.

Its a crime that no movie has been made about these events

Beautiful. Roy, keep at it.

These lectures are so incredibly informative and heartbreaking. Would love to take one of your courses. Thanks Dr. Roy for these enlightening and horrifying lectures on humanity’s inhumanity

I lament not paying more attention as a young man to history. Something clicked at age 30 and I consumed history ever since. 3 decades or books and lectures and Dr Casagranda is categorically above all

I love his ancient history ♥️ lectures

Thanks prof.Casagranda,l have been following your work and learning a great deal as an Arab origin guy enjoy every bit of your classes though I studied most in schools but that’s 50Y ago

I wanna go back to school simply because of Roy, this dude kicks ass

Thank God! This was amazing!

If I ever come to Austin I will make sure to attend one of your lectures, you are simply amazing at delivery, your style keep me engaged, thanks for your effort!

Such great lectures, thanks for this

Wow! ❤ Excellent work!

The depth of knowledge this man possesses in history is truly unique. Truly grateful for the enlightenment he has brought us. I'm excitedly looking forward to "Crusade Part 3" and the portrayal of Saladin's character. It will be fascinating to see how his story unfolds in this installment.

It should be a holiday every time dr. Casagrande drops a video

Heavy. Thanks for two amazing lectures!

Dr. Casagranda weaves a narrative in Part l and Part ll that is fascinating. The linkages of his history is full of incredible detail and amazing coincidences that would make an epic fictional worthy of Honer, yet it is the reality of The Conquest. I don't know how he amassed all of this data and detail, but it is a riveting story. Thank you for pulling all this historical and disparate information together into an excellent, if not terrifying and tragic, tale of madness and then twisted logic. Incredibly wild and fantastic, scholarly and compelling work.

This dude is just awesome

❤❤ love this

Interesting. Love to see more..

Thank you for the brief description of the two-part series on the Aztecs. We would like to see a part three to this series where he mentioned the spanish dominican monk Bartolome de las Casas in which he ended the lecture at the year 1550. Thanks.

this is awesome thank you soo much🥰🥰🥰🥰

Superb lecture such an honest and well explored history lesson. Thank you!

Dr Roy, .........is a genius ........ He's Brilliant

Great lecture. I enjoyed it and remain 100% guilt free 😊

...lost for words really, its all unbelievable, unthinkable and still hasn't changed.

Speechless.

Love these videos man!

I love this guy

Ypu are an amazingly intriguing story teller with a grain of Louis ck humor. Im sad about what im gonna do when I listen to all your lectures😢

I love it when he says “isn’t that cool!” Because it actually is cool!😅

I love Dr. Casagranda's lectures but I've been a casual student of history for 50 years now and I know how this turns out. When I read the title, "The Spanish Arrive", I knew I couldn't watch this video. I'm sure you will be accurate and brutally honest which is much appreciated. Thank you for educating those who might not know. I will go watch Part I before the Spanish got there. I'm interested to see what he thinks about Montezuma.

Mr Roy, thanks , greetings from the Netherlands, Rotterdam

Not the Chanel is a gem bro but the Man casagranda

This professor is a living legend

Amazing lecture

Great material!

I loved it when Guerro says, “I WAS Guerro…” she seemed like a badass. I wish I knew more about him

Great content as always

Loved the lecture. Lots of great information. If you’re feeling particularly guilty though Dr. Casagranda maybe it would help you to let some of these decedents of native Americans have your expensive house. Then they could go to the nicer public schools that are in your neighborhood! And you wouldn’t have to worry about that pesky land tax. Can’t wait for that video to come out!

Beautiful ending.

Great lecture

So he did that guilt bit at the end but didn't explain it, and if I ever had an explanation for it from elsewhere, I'm drawing a blank. Anyone know why I should feel the slightest bit guilty for genocides and slavery I never took a hand in?

The peoples of Mexico City had domesticated turkeys and ate a variety of insects for animal protein.

Great lecture but I wholly disagree with his closing remarks. No one alive today is guilty for what people did hundreds of years ago. To try to put guilt on us for “benefiting” from it unjustly ignores the ways we’ve been hurt by it too. If you’re reading this, I beg you to drop this belief. End the cycle of collective guilt, grief, and recrimination!

Amazing

When you realize this man is a professor of political science, the ending of this lecture makes complete sense. Great story teller though even if heavily biased

Roy is the best ACC teacher!

1) The Aztecs definitely used weapons - they didn’t go into battle unarmed. Ridiculous. 2) the X was pronounced like the “sh” sound not the silly gutteral sound he makes 3) Cortes was back in the city and led the escape from tenochtitlan, not arriving to see his compatriots fleeing already during La Noche Triste 4) There were not 200,000 Mexica soldiers. That was the population of their entire city state and that included women, children and elderly. Many more errors in his presentation

History is written by the victors that’s why most of can’t believe what were hearing but thanks to people like him for spreading the truth from an unbiased way.

I am from the Dominican Republic and when hearing about Columbus finding gold on his first expedition, it makes sense that that part of the island has a city called Puerto Plata. They have romanticized the story by saying the name comes from the silvers cloud around its mountain. I think it is because of the bloody silver.

Wonderful presentation thank you very much. I would like to add that the Spanish had dogs as tools of war trained and clad in armor.

Man u r amazing👏 👏 👏

That was phenomenal wow and really eye opening, always thought that very little was know about natives but apparently I was very wrong

Brutal.

Yey!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg this is wild guerrero is soo gangsta

was browsing your site and saw that you lived in Algeria as an Algerian I feel like I have missed out on not meeting you here,if you ever visit I would love to have you for dinner doctor!

Wow wow wow. I was about to start liking this de las casas monk dude and then it was like ,,,,oh man. Just amazing . No word of a lie I actually enjoy your lectures more than watching movies . One of the best story tellers the world has ever seen. Thanks Roy . Ps will be picking up a copy of your novel as mentioned in the crusades lecture 1. Will there be a part 3 to this you say ?