Something Was Very Wrong With the Aztecs

The show is on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 In 1519, the Aztec Empire was enormous, wealthy and still expanding. Yet just two years later, its capital lay in ruins. But the Spanish did not conquer it alone. The army that destroyed Tenochtitlan was overwhelmingly Indigenous, led by an enemy the Aztecs had spent generations fighting but never defeated. This is the story of the terrible mistake that helped bring down one of history’s most powerful empires... Join my Substack, where the ideas go further than YouTube lets me take them: https://michaelbutton.substack.com/ Follow the show on Spotify! 👉 https://open.spotify.com/show/7GlXSYMoOpcw41YGRCpjJB?si=cc2e479ee34d4167 Let me know what you think in the comments, and thank you for watching!! Follow me on X: https://x.com/MichaelButtonX Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbuttonx/ Sources: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/2151/lake-texcoco/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/cortes-tenochtitlan https://www.infobae.com/en/2022/03/16/tenochtitlan-how-much-was-the-population-in-the-mexican-capital-when-hernan-cortes-arrived/ https://worldhistorycommons.org/hernan-cortes-second-letter-emperor-charles-v-1520 https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/golden-kingdoms-ancient-tributes https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Tenochtitlan https://www.historyextra.com/period/tudor/did-aztec-civilisation-really-collapse-spanish-conquest/ https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/61800/chapter/546402588#546402588 https://www.worldhistory.org/Aztec_Sacrifice/ https://pocketmags.com/us/all-about-history-magazine/issue-164/articles/aztec-sacrifice?srsltid=AfmBOopNBCyvBkkZ8gWVXpIPPsOi6WktvhBhRtL85FxTWi6TnkQaAHSg#exitplusarticle https://historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/edicion-impresa/articulos/como-aztecas-se-aduenaron-mexico_16552 https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/itzcoatl https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe025 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/fiscal-regimes-and-the-political-economy-of-premodern-states/aztec-empire/679E012E20A091113A235307615AFE37 https://www.manuvo.com//work/codex-mendoza https://dokumen.pub/conquistadors-and-aztecs-a-history-of-the-fall-of-tenochtitlan-0197552463-9780197552469.html https://www.worldhistory.org/Tarascan_Civilization/ https://www.thoughtco.com/aztec-creation-myth-169337 https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl https://www.worldhistory.org/Aztec_Warfare/ https://www.historyonthenet.com/aztec-warriors-fighting-for-conquest-and-captives https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/the-aztec-flower-wars/146236 https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-828912 https://books.google.fr/books?id=wk-kOMKnKKEC&hl=en-GB&redir_esc=y https://www.jstor.org/stable/3629865 https://www.thoughtco.com/tlaxcallan-mesoamerican-stronghold-against-aztecs-4010600 https://archive.org/details/tlaxcalainsixtee0000gibs/page/n11/mode/1up https://global.oup.com/academic/product/collision-of-worlds-9780190864354?cc=fr&lang=en& https://www.thoughtco.com/massacre-at-the-festival-of-toxcatl-2136526 https://enl.wired-humanities.org/fcbk12ch01 https://learninglink.oup.com/access/content/history-in-practice-western-civ/backman3e-student-resources-volume-1-chapter-14-section-3-primary-sources-2 https://historycrunch.com/flower-wars-in-the-aztec-empire/ https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2028/the-fall-of-tenochtitlan/