The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards: Crash Course US History #1
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In which John Green kicks off Crash Course US History! Why, you may ask, are we covering US History, and not more World History, or the history of some other country, or the very specific history of your home region? Well, the reasons are many. But, like it or not, the United States has probably meddled in your country to some degree in the last 236 years or so, and that means US History is relevant all over the world. In episode 1, John talks about the Native Americans who lived in what is now the US prior to European contact. This is a history class, not archaeology, so we're mainly going to cover written history. That means we start with the first sustained European settlement in North America, and that means the Spanish. The Spanish have a long history with the natives of the Americas, and not all of it was positive. The Spanish were definitely not peaceful colonizers, but what colonizers are peaceful? Colonization pretty much always results in an antagonistic relationship with the locals. John teaches you about early Spanish explorers, settlements, and what happened when they didn't get along with the indigenous people. The story of their rocky relations has been called the Black Legend. Which is not a positive legend. Turn on the captions. You'll like it! Follow us! @thecrashcourse @realjohngreen @crashcoursestan @raoulmeyer @saysdanica @thoughtbubbler Support CrashCourse on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse
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Spaniards were very cruel Moors
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stop calling native Americans Indians,people in India does not like that.
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yes indeed, ir mean cowhead
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Why did you keep referring to the Native Americans as Indians?
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Very innacurate and patronizing. You've got to read books and scholarly papers if you want to know history, kids. You can't depend on YouTube videos.
For one, native North Americans' working and mining of copper has been going on (I say "has" because there are still "Indian" artisans who make creations out of copper) for as long as it has in the eastern hemisphere,, if not longer. Look up the Great Lakes Copper Culture, please.
Secondly, large-scale societies beginning with the first mound-building on the Ouachita River in what is today known as Louisiana have been around for around 6500 years before the foundation of Jamestown. Please look up the most recent work done on the Archaic period and the thoughts of prominent archaeologists on the Mississippian cultural zone such as Timothy Pauketat. I say "large-scale societies" because Native Americans, or to put it more accurately, probably the ancestors of either the Caddo or Choctaw peoples, first began marshalling labor in the construction of relatively monumental mound-building around 5000 BC, which is, as far as we know, a few millenia before the invention of agriculture in the region. Which challenges the myths and dogmas western anthropology has constructed on the way such societies are supposed to develop. "Watson Brake", for example (who knows what the Choctaws called that place in their language; ask them), was constructed around 3500 BC to keep track of the Solstices. If this site was located in Iraq or Egypt and made out of sun-baked bricks instead of Louisiana Clay and Soil, it would get a heck of a lot more airtime, don't you think?
Thirdly, you gloss completely over the immense and highly advanced Mississippian kingdoms beginning around the year 900 AD. Cahokia in present-day East St. Louis, Illinois was once larger and more populous than London at its height about the year 1100 AD. After the decline of Cahokia, the entire Southeastern U.S. was just littered with what we'd call small principalities and kingdoms carrying on the ancient torch of ceremonial mound-building rulership into the 17th century.
Fourth, your understanding of the Black Legend may have been understated due to the length of this video but there is a whole body of scholarship around the agency of indigenous peoples in the early to late colonial periods in Latin America, from where De Las Casas was writing. Unless you believe 1000 Spaniards could conquer civilizations of 40 million (Mesoamerica) and 15 million (Inka empire) people which could Marshall armies larger than most European cities at the time, the Black Legend remains, largely, a discredited account. Brutality certainly was common between 1492-1821, but much if not most of it was done by native warriors and lords fighting for their own interests from Mexico to Peru.
I could add more but this is just an example of just how dismayed most videos on Native American history make me that I see the need to have to type up a huge rant by YouTube comments standards... Sigh. -
All the gold and minerals gems they stole food and they are do this now in 2016.
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The Spanish people need to pay us and the english, portugees, france.
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The way John says 'Iroquois' lmao.
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PLEASE say Native American.
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THE ENGLISH DEVELOPED THE LAND, SPAIN JUST EXTORTED MONEY FROM THE NATIVE PEOPLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How can you listen to this ? U r not flying at the speed of sound ! WTF ?? - speak like a real guy ! Slight speed up of the speech (by using a software of course) is embarrassing. Yes ! It tells me that you are a man of word, and not the man of meaning. "Man of word" in this situation is used as a person who can just talk words without actually projecting the meaning of what these words carry.
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Christopher Columbus doesn't exist I guess
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According to Merriam-Webster, decimation can be used to mean devastation and destruction. It doesn't have to be beholden to its original Latin meaning. Pedantic people who like to correct other's usage of decimation are boring. Most words we use today we HARDLY use the same way they once were used. We have a lot of Latin-based words that we simply do not use correctly if we look at their etymology and original usage when Latin was still a spoken language.
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Is the Black Legend TheLegend27?
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Jaaaaazzzzzz hands
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How ironic the Spanish were defeated by Pope.
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And much of the Spaniards were eaten by alligators.
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lol did you guys get paid for that Dr Pepper plug? 😸
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crash course yo best man who talks about history and stuff!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!
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I hope this helps me for my APUSH semester final tomorrow
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