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The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards: Crash Course US History #1

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!
Date: 2022-04-04

Comments and reviews: 8


Hey John - I wanted to ask if you could clarify your point about human life not being linear. I get that evolution and the biology of humans have, for more or less, stayed the same since the native americans until now but doesn't the progression of more complex technology and social structure show that we have been progressing linearly and are at the peak of human kind? I mean, at the time of the Native Americans, didn't they also think that they were the living during the time of peak human capabilities?
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I like this guy's video series and all, but having an Imac with -This machine kills fasicist- written on it reflects the plague of our time: wealthy people who think they're always right and call people that don't think like them fascists. But again, cool videos. Just a tiny bit too woke for me.
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Would you ever hear about atrocities committed by people who couldn't write?
Weaker peoples don't commit atrocities because they are good or because they are weak?
Is something an atrocity for its actions or for its consequences?
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The problem is that students for religious reasons will drop out of believing that things happened in the past and are no longer observable. That bothers me, and I blurted out an answer out of a half hour of a student dithering about it.
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Forgot how preachy this guy is. Not even 2 minutes in and he is belittling his viewers for holding an opinion different to his and explaining how much better his world view is.
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I just get enrolled in History of US Politics, for this summer 2020. So I decided to start looking at these chain of videos to have an idea of what this is all about. ;-)
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There are many bias comments and lies here, most of them easy to demonstrate. In 7: 20. come on, Inquisition were not allow to punish any natives. By law!
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I-m just here because someone called me uneducated and it made me realize just how shitty my past history teachers have been -
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