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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1. I just found out that he wrote The Fault in Our Stars!!🙌🏼
2. Anyone here for APUSH?
3. At least the Spanish didn't exterminate the Indigenous, the English wiped them out.
4. I have a practice apush exam tomorrow so I'm gonna binge all these videos
5. Im pretty young and watchig this
6. Shoutout to 2017 APUSH people who are watching this
7. Thank you so much for this. The textbooks fail us so bad. The kids will love this.
8. awesome made!
9. Who's here kicking off APUSH studying???
10. Love this content.... However do you have a middle school version with maybe less nudity?
11. "Tippecanoe and Freedom Fries Too" DEAD
12. i know you are all here to study for APUSH! We can do it!
13. The Black Legend was english propaganda against Spain from the Elizabeth era, helped by a traitor, Antonio Perez, secretary of Phillip II.
    It is incredible that you are blaming us for the genocide of north american indigenas, when it was mainly done by anglosaxons (both english and americans). FACTS mate: Compare the current percentage of south american indigenas with north american. Ups... we werent that bad... Dont you thinks so?? How many north american indígenas are rigth now in important government positions? They are in getos. We had Bartolomé de las Casas in the early XVI century. The english did not care about slavery and the indigenas and black people shouls until Elizabeth II in the fuking XIX century.
    Allways anglosaxon propaganda... Inform yourself before blaming others of what you did in your own country. We created lots of universities in our indies provinces (not colonies, they were considered as part of Spain and their people Spanish citizens), what about north América universities? There were allowed indígenas?
14. "no domesticated animals"?
    
    Do dogs count as domesticated? Because I'm pretty sure first peoples had dogs.
15. S/O to everyone here trying to study for the apush exam 2017
16. so wrong
17. It's been 4 years since this video came out, but question for anyone who knows: John Green mentions the English justifying their colonization as needing to protect the Natives from the Spanish (laughable really, as history shows) but is there any specific author/document that says this? This would possibly be a useful synthesis point.
18. APUSH is easy nerds
19. exuse mah? Alaska is awsome
20. I thought saying Indian was offensive. You are supposed to say Native Americans