Conquistador documentary by Kings and Generals

[Huitzilopochtli]

Here is the start of a few short but super interesting documentaries about Hernan Cortez's war against the Aztecs in amazing detail. It ends with the huge battle of Tenochtitlan and includes a lot of details about battle tactics and the back & forth fighting. You can see the odds the Spanish and native allies were up against and almost seems impossible to win against that powerful Tenochtitlan city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRAVIndO4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=391JhiSsByI

This is another video about the Aztecs which is beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyaz6Qm0RHA

And Tenochtitlan city

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHVqb6t__8

[ぐー]

I prefer the one from the channel "Fall of Civilization"

Good story telling

[Mensajero]

Kings and Generals tells a story, I fear, incomplete. The conquest of Hernan Cortes is more complex.
If you are looking for deeper and fairer information you should read Hugh Thomas's book "The Spanish Empire".
I'm tired of half stories being told where we Spaniards are the worst and the other countries were great.
The American Indians were subjects of the king just like the Spaniards and were subject to the same laws as the Spaniards.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnwsaPsGgetck4zbMO1PsVA

[Huitzilopochtli]

sorry for suggesting bad videos

[Cuendillar]

Originally posted by BeanCurd:

sorry for suggesting bad videos

You didn't. The person above you posted a entirely Spanish centric view of events and is pitching it as deeper and fairer.
Seriously don't recommend that channel they linked to either. Not that it takes more than a glance to see why...

[Mensajero]

I'm not saying it's a bad channel, I'm just saying that all the analysis of the Spanish conquests are more complex than what it exposes.
Hugh Thomas is English as well as a historian, I don't think his vision is biased.
In any case, my apologies if I have offended or disturbed you.

[SPRÆY]

Thanks for suggesting vids, learned this at school but is nice to remember and learn more

[Huitzilopochtli]

have fun watching, SPRAY

[electrodarkness]

Originally posted by Mensajero:

Kings and Generals tells a story, I fear, incomplete. The conquest of Hernan Cortes is more complex.
If you are looking for deeper and fairer information you should read Hugh Thomas's book "The Spanish Empire".
I'm tired of half stories being told where we Spaniards are the worst and the other countries were great.
The American Indians were subjects of the king just like the Spaniards and were subject to the same laws as the Spaniards.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnwsaPsGgetck4zbMO1PsVA

The Black Legend, you know... but it's curious how, if evil Spaniards killed almost every indian in Central & South America as some actually claim, 3/4 parts of their population are mestizos in most of their countries today. By contrast, the few remaining indians in NA are in reservations... But yes, all the evil deeds of the American conquest were carried out by the Spanish Empire, sure. If Hollywood and most Anglo-Saxon "historians" say so, it must be true...

[Dron]

Originally posted by Goopasloppababookaba:

Cuendillar, most probably those who say Kings & Generals is a bad channel have never watched it cause K&G are completely unbiased and just giving the facts in their excellent documentaries. I like how their videos are always very concise, interesting and easy to understand.

They have shown bias more than once actually. Its entertaining to watch their videos, but not as a serious historical channel.

[Paulo Ramos]

Originally posted by Nukoolamukmuk:

Cuendillar, most probably those who say Kings & Generals is a bad channel have never watched it cause K&G are completely unbiased and just giving the facts in their excellent documentaries. I like how their videos are always very concise, interesting and easy to understand.

Kings & Generals is not a unbiased channel but fun to watch. I prefer voices of the past because the channel gives links to stuidies and the sources.

[Dashurohem]

I stopped trusting that channel when I watched their videos about the Inca civilization and they made no mention at all of human sacrifice.

As for conquistadores, I’ve recently become interested in them after having read Bernal Diaz’ account of the conquest of New Spain.
Being that he is a primary source I find him more believable than other authors who have to take snippets from his story or Cortes’ letters to make a story of their own about the conquest.

Having recently read the 4 voyages of Columbus, Chronicle of the Narvaez expedition and Bernal Diaz’ conquest of New Spain, I decided to buy this game.

I tried reading Las Casas’ destruction of the Indes, but it’s so ridiculous that it’s hard for me to finish, especially when he lies about what happened at Cholula where he wasn’t even a witness.

[Menkerot]

K&G was fun until they turned into a propagandist channel. These old videos are from good old times though.