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Happy Indigenous People's Day! This video comes slightly belated from the holiday on monday, but with a friday upload schedule what can ya do?

I hope you enjoy this video :)

-Blue

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City Minutes: Indigenous America

As we look at 4 pre-Columbian American cities, I don't know whether to be more impressed with the the architecture or the landscaping. Probably both. More Indigenous Myths & History: The Five Suns (https://youtu.be/dfupAlon_8k) Quetzalcoatl (https://youtu.be/451jzIesWoU) Huitzilopotchli (https://youtu.be/Zj-jDOjBets) El-Dorado (https://youtu.be/UHzkGueRz3g) Pele (https://youtu.be/q1z19p48lZU) Hawaii (https://youtu.be/xYouQESFE2A) Teotihuacan shirt: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/90380949 Timestamps: 0:00 - 1:03 — Teotihuacan 1:03 - 2:04 — Tikal 2:04 - 3:00 — Tenochtitlan 3:00 - 4:08 — Cusco 4:08 - 5:20 — Conclusion SOURCES & Further Reading: "The Great Cities in History" by John Julius Norwich, The Great Courses lectures "The Great City of Teotihuacan" and "Tikal - Aspiring Capital of the Maya World" and "The Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan" from lecture series "Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed" by Edwin Barnhart, and "Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley" and "The Inca - From Raiders to Empire" from lecture series "The Lost Worlds of South America" by Edwin Barnhart. Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH LINKS: http://rdbl.co/osp OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language? Check out our guide to contributing translated captions: https://www.overlysarcasticproductions.com/community-captions

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Magistrissa

On the topic of really cool pre-colonial American architecture, I highly recommend looking into the Mound Builders, the city of Cahokia and the towns of Ancestral Puebloans (sometimes called Anasazi, but that's a name meaning "ancient enemies" and modern Puebloans aren't a fan of that). Many of the peoples further north than the Yucatán didn't end up making permanent structures on the scale of Cahokia since that wasn't always the end goal or the most practical choice for their biome/subsistence model. (Not to downplay the coolness of the many kinds of dwellings-- I have a special admiration for the versatility of the tipi. Sometimes the coolest architecture is what you can disassemble and rebuild in a day) Though we should remember that on the whole a LOT about traditional life and communal identities changed in the years after contact- horses, for example, made for a massive shift in subsistence practices, and westward expansion made old allies enemies and strangers, rivals and cordial neighbors band together and combine identities- the Seminoles are an interesting example of the latter. Pressures from the fur trade was one of the earliest things to really screw with the existing political, trade and alliance systems.)

Victoria grew insolent in her chromatic perversion

Yeah, I noticed that it was mostly coming from central and south America because that's where the big "cities" are, but the History Makers series has proved that you can stretch your definitions a bit if you want to include something, so I think part 2 for north America would be awesome.