How Did Ancient Farmers Start a Superpower?
This full-length history documentary in 4K covers the entire history of Mexico from the first peoples and the domestication of maize to the rise of the Olmec civilization, Teotihuacan, the Maya, the Aztec Empire, the Spanish conquest, colonial New Spain, independence, revolution, and the birth of the modern Mexican state 🇲🇽.
📖 Explore 13,000 years of history in a calm, immersive format perfect for history lovers, students, and anyone who enjoys history for sleep 😴.
Learn how ancient farmers created the foundation for one of the world’s great civilizations, how cities like Tenochtitlan became centers of power, and how centuries of empires, conquest, religion, and resistance shaped a nation’s identity.
✨ This is the story of Mexico told from the very beginning, with detailed narration, rich historical context, and beautiful visuals, making it ideal for relaxing, studying, or falling asleep to history.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:28 The First Peoples of Mexico
05:07 The Olmec Civilization
11:09 Teotihuacan and the Zapotecs
17:21 The Maya Civilization
23:19 The Toltecs and the Rise of the Aztecs
28:08 Mesoamerican Religion and Worldview
33:54 Hernán Cortés and the Fall of Tenochtitlan
39:34 The Birth of New Spain
45:23 Evangelization and the Catholic Church
50:55 Colonial Society and the Castas System
56:44 Indigenous Resistance and Cultural Survival
01:01:44 The Bourbon Reforms and Growing Unrest
01:08:04 The Grito de Dolores and Uprising
01:13:33 The War of Independence
01:19:09 The First Mexican Empire
01:25:02 The Early Republic and Federalism vs. Centralism
01:31:04 The Texas Rebellion and the Mexican-American War
01:36:23 The Reform Era and La Reforma
01:41:49 The French Intervention and Emperor Maximilian
01:46:31 Benito Juárez and the Liberal Republic
01:51:50 The Porfiriato: Order and Progress
01:57:02 The Mexican Revolution Begins
02:03:38 Revolutionary Leaders: Zapata, Villa, Carranza
02:09:14 The Constitution of 1917 and Post-Revolution Reform
02:15:40 The Rise of the PRI and State Control
02:20:41 1968 and the Student Movement
02:25:41 Neoliberalism, NAFTA, and Economic Shifts
02:31:15 The Drug War, Democracy, and 21st Century Challenges
02:37:21 Outro
I wish you didn’t use fake pictures to exaggerate the size of the heads the Olmecs made. It makes you seem less credible. It’s so hard to find authentic videos on history nowadays
It's missing the history of the impact made by natives/Mexican in Utah Moab and salt lake
Science Would say dinosaurs but liars would make up a excuse of why the cia teachings aren't evil but everything Before them is just Saying ❤BRICS+CELAC+🕋🌍🌌🦾😇
Those stone serpent heads on the sides of pyramid's at Xochicolco had a sodium stones for eyes that would light up in the sun making it alive. They were stolen.
I’m enjoying this program. I’m sorry that I don’t have an unrelated anecdotal story that no one cares to hear about to share.
The Olmecs were not an empire, much less the mother culture. The Olmec thing is rather recent and it has an agenda of appropriation of our history and culture. The Toltecs, Inca, Maya and Aztecs were real empires. No one knows who really built those heads. If I had to guess it was the Toltecs who were known for building huge statues. The word Olmec means rubber ppl and it’s a name given to a tribe by a European archeologist. This would have been better if they didn’t jump on the Olmec bandwagon.
This is as usual, "HALF" truth…. Has anyone noticed that the narrator mentioned the millions of Indigenous that died from European diseases within the first year of spanish arrival ??? Millions of Natives died but the narrator NEVER mentioned how the Native slave population was replaced with African slaves.. Instead, the narrator said the spanish went on to build Mexico city lol… The spanish NEVER built anything in Mexico… When the Natives were no longer able to serve as "Slaves" the spanish begzn importation of African slaves which the narrator NEVER mentioned. The narrator later in the "story" spoke of the casta system created by the white colonists aka Spaniards. He spoke of the "peninsualres" who were at the top of the casta system followed by the "criollos" aka Mexican born Spaniards, next the mestizo or mixed Indigenous/spaniard blood followed by the "mulato" who were mixed African/spaniard blood ( now how the hell did that happen when the narrator clearly stated at the beginning of his "Story" that Mexico or New Spain consisted of just two cultures/ bloods which he said was the Indigenous, and the spaniards… Below the "Mulato" was the pure blood Indigenous, and below that at the very bottom was the pure blooded African slave…. Again, how did that happen when the narrator NEVER mentioned the white colonists importation of African slaves??? Later the narrator spoke of Jose Morelos, and claimed Morelos was a Mestizo but the truth of the matter is that Jose Morelos was a "Mulato" in all paintings of Morelos he is seen wearing a bandana covering his hair, and it is believed he wore that bandana to hide his kinky hair… I don't know if the narrator ever went on to mention Vicente Guerrero but if he did I'm almost positive he listed Vicente as either Mestizo or criollo but the truth of the matter is that Vicente Guerrero was Mexico's first black president president… The spanish have white washed Guerrero because it pains them so badly that a black guy ran them ( the spaniards) out of Mexico… Technically Vicente Guerrero would've been listed as a "Zambo" or "Lobo" or even a "Mulato" .. Under the casta system a person of mixed Indigenous/African blood was labeled "Zambo" or "Lobo".. It has been said that Guerrero was of all 3 bloods… Anyway I cannot listen anymore to this clown who narrates "The entire Mexican history " made up of half truths lol….
Well I can see my original comment was not fully posted. The half truth is after the Natives died off from spanish diseases, the white colonists aka Spaniards imported African slaves to replace the dying Native slave population.. The narrator left that part out, and wanted everyone to believe that after the Indigenous slave population began dying off, they, the spaniards built Mexico city with their own hands lol. The truth is the spaniards NEVER built anything in the new world. They first had Indigenous slaves performing slave labor, and when that didn't work out they brought African slaves to replace the Natives…
The correct title of this video should be " The Entire bullshit history of Mexican empire as told by the colonizers"