Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Script + Citations: docs.google.com/document/d/19xp9L-7im5n_8sQo0CvwQ_mSeV2ZtB8nRad6x6Rl7vU/edit?usp=sharing
NOTE: some of the citations are lazily formatted (page 176, Bernal Diaz) so yknow
Thanks to @MajoraZ on twitter, MajoraZ on Discord, etc for helping with these videos, without him none of this would have been possible. Check out the comment section for his extra clarifications and corrections, as well as the ones he did in past videos:
Past MajoraZ comments in this series:
youtube.com/watch?v=aEiLuy1B6UA&lc=UgxmwwNDiAx_og9ttHZ4AaABAg
youtube.com/watch?v=mTcZSDgs7_A&lc=Ugw3108-5JkMG84LJBJ4AaABAg
youtube.com/watch?v=2R4U3fy5QQM&lc=UgxHQvVBoV_gz6rZSLV4AaABAg
SPECIAL THANKS to Daniel Parada whose Aztec clothing studies formed the foundation of my mesoamerican cobbler characters! Check out his artstation here: daniel-parada.artstation.com/projects/e0L3Bb
Image Credits:
Scott and Stuart Gentling/The Amon Carter Museum (images taken from Carter online collection, One Reed Year Buddy Holly booklet, Photos taken at Imagined Realism exhibit, etc)
Daniel Parada/Zotzcomic/Kamazotz
TlatoaniCraft/TlatoaniMC
Angus Mcbride/Osprey Publishing
Jean Torton - Voyages D'Alix
Sopa de Sobre "El Itinerario de Hernán Cortés" animation
H.M. Herget
Jose Ignacio Redondo
Pierre Joubert
Adam Hook/Osprey Publishing
Luis Covarrubias
Ignacio Marquina
See Inside: An Aztec Town/Warwick publishing (exact artist unknown)
Mary Evans Picture Library/Edwin Mullan Collection
Getty images
Severino Baraldi
Charles Ricketts
Esad Ribic
Jesus Helguera
Various Public Domain sources
Canon in D Major by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Gymnopedie No 1 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Today, DJ Peach Cobbler concludes his series on the Fall of the Aztec Empire. The conventional narrative paints Cortes as Caesar and Montezuma as Bibillus, and this shall not stand. DJ Peach Cobbler with the invaluable assistance of modern academics (and MajoraZ) presents a revised and measured retelling of the story that used to go, "Guns, Germs, Steel".
Script + Citations: docs.google.com/document/d/19xp9L-7im5n_8sQo0CvwQ_mSeV2ZtB8nRad6x6Rl7vU/edit?usp=sharing
NOTE: some of the citations are lazily formatted (page 176, Bernal Diaz) so yknow
Thanks to @MajoraZ on twitter, MajoraZ on Discord, etc for helping with these videos, without him none of this would have been possible. Check out the comment section for his extra clarifications and corrections, as well as the ones he did in past videos:
Past MajoraZ comments in this series:
youtube.com/watch?v=aEiLuy1B6UA&lc=UgxmwwNDiAx_og9ttHZ4AaABAg
youtube.com/watch?v=mTcZSDgs7_A&lc=Ugw3108-5JkMG84LJBJ4AaABAg
youtube.com/watch?v=2R4U3fy5QQM&lc=UgxHQvVBoV_gz6rZSLV4AaABAg
SPECIAL THANKS to Daniel Parada whose Aztec clothing studies formed the foundation of my mesoamerican cobbler characters! Check out his artstation here: daniel-parada.artstation.com/projects/e0L3Bb
Image Credits:
Scott and Stuart Gentling/The Amon Carter Museum (images taken from Carter online collection, One Reed Year Buddy Holly booklet, Photos taken at Imagined Realism exhibit, etc)
Daniel Parada/Zotzcomic/Kamazotz
TlatoaniCraft/TlatoaniMC
Angus Mcbride/Osprey Publishing
Jean Torton - Voyages D'Alix
Sopa de Sobre "El Itinerario de Hernán Cortés" animation
H.M. Herget
Jose Ignacio Redondo
Pierre Joubert
Adam Hook/Osprey Publishing
Luis Covarrubias
Ignacio Marquina
See Inside: An Aztec Town/Warwick publishing (exact artist unknown)
Mary Evans Picture Library/Edwin Mullan Collection
Getty images
Severino Baraldi
Charles Ricketts
Esad Ribic
Jesus Helguera
Various Public Domain sources
Canon in D Major by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Gymnopedie No 1 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Five Armies by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Today, DJ Peach Cobbler concludes his series on the Fall of the Aztec Empire. The conventional narrative paints Cortes as Caesar and Montezuma as Bibillus, and this shall not stand. DJ Peach Cobbler with the invaluable assistance of modern academics (and MajoraZ) presents a revised and measured retelling of the story that used to go, "Guns, Germs, Steel".
