9. The Aztecs - A Clash of Worlds

Die Azteken waren die Nazis Amerikas. Die Azteken waren gnadenlos, grausam und tierisch, jedermann haßte sie. Die Sklaven der Azteken nahmen Rache an den Azteken mit Hilfe der Spanier, welche als Retter kamen.

As a student (ex) of Latin American history all of this was very familiar to me but I have to say never have I heard it retold in such a compelling and erudite way, enhorabuena Paul, great depth and detail and a great story of history brought to life, Hugh Thomas, Miguel Leon Portilla and others would be smiling down on you for such homage to Mexican history.

Why start at the dinosaurs though...?!

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When a historian starts telling me about dinosaurs, I know we're in trouble

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Paul brings a humanity to the carnage that transforms this material

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This was like a perfectly crafted novel or movie all rolled into one. So expertly done.

The Clovis first narratieve has been disproven. The Americas were inhabited by modern humans much earlier than 10.000 BCE. Evidence consists of sites with remains proving human presence up to a least 23.000 years ago, but also intruiging DNA signals in South America, proving an Australasian connection of at least 40.000 years old if I am correct.

I work in mexico city historic center area , and often i think of this episode, sometimes i go to the zocalo and get chills down my spine thunking of what happened

This story is very unsettling.

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Info is out dated on this video

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Love this series but the whole tale of the dinosaurs being wiped out by an asteroid millions of years ago is complete fiction

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Purely awesome work. Hauntingly magnificent. Might I suggest the Indus Valley Civ, or the Olmec if there's enough information?

Beautiful

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Christopher Columbus was NEVER near the Aztecs. He might have gotten to the Maya but not the Aztects or the Incas.

I'm listening for the second time. I love this shi

“Small rat sized mammals from which every person you know today is descended”. Some of them haven’t changed a bit!

Just wonderful and dramaric! Violence and destruction to a tremendous extent.... and still poeticly told.... thanks so much!

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The Aztecs were savage colonizers. The last ones to get to the Valley of Mexico looking for the Promised Land (=Lebensraum=Manifest Destininy), they were hated by all the nations enslaved. Tenochtitlan was built with the blood of the slaves, who were delivered every six months to be killed. The Spanish arrived as liberators to help the oppressed nations shake off the brutal rule of the savage Aztecs.

For me personally it sounds more reasonable that they sacrificed politicians when times were hard instead of sacrifice for the sun😅 but i could be wrong

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Over hunting? Even isolated and Island populations of mammoth went extinct with lions, wolfs and bears constantly stalking various herds in the mainland making them easily scared. It must've been difficult next to impossible to harvest all the meat without being followed or attacked especially by predators or other Mammoths, if similar to their elephant cousins. Various traps, cliff jumps or corrals were later inventions while buffalo still roam the plains. The Mexica had a multipurpose zoo for rituals, food and maybe feathers even venoms with 400 species used for rituals

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