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illustratus · 1 month

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The First Voyage, Christopher Columbus bidding farewell to Queen Isabella I on his departure for the New World, 3 August, 1492.

by Victor A. Searles

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dondalsy · 7 months

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i just made this and it already looks fried

#age of exploration #polar expedition #polar explorers #polar exploration #fridtjof nansen #nansen #roald amundsen #amundsen #robert falcon scott #robert f scott #ernest shackleton #john franklin #my posts

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babeluda · 23 hours

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Hey Terror girlies, look what I found!

This 1943 book by captain — pardon me, commander — De Gerlache recounts his and his crew's voyage and wintering in Antarctica aboard the ship Belgica (1897), which became icebound during an exploration expedition.

This whole escapade is the reason why Belgium gets to have a South Pole research station, by the by.

Anyway no one got eaten, but they did have to manually break a canal in the ice to get free.

#the terror #antarctica #age of exploration #old books

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castilestateofmind · 8 months

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"The conquistadors are too “pagan” for the Church and most Christians to accept — they wanted glory, power, wealth, dominion over space. At the same time, they were too deeply Catholic to be picked up by neopagans, and too White for progressives. They exist in a strange limbo".

- Alaric the Barbarian, The Dissident Review.

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apenitentialprayer · 5 months

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By the seventeenth century this symbolic world had been rendered almost completely unintelligible. There were a number of reasons for this. One important factor was the Protestant reformation: the reformers' attacks on allegorical readings of scripture; the Protestant principle of sola scriptura which denied the possibility of theological truths being represented in nature; an iconoclasm which privileged word over image. Other factors also played a role, including the vast additions to catalogs of creatures that resulted from the discovery of the New World. For these new creatures there were no traditional symbolic associations. Another relevant consideration was the advent of printing, and the growth in literacy which accompanied it. These developments promoted the elevation of written word over visual symbol.

- Peter Harrison ("Linnaeus as the Second Adam? Taxonomy and the Religious Vocation")

#Protestant Reformation #printing press #Age of Exploration #symbolism #iconoclasm #Christianity #history #bestiary

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ltwilliammowett · 1 year

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The first door is here, have fun "opening" and reading:

The Christmas Box

During the Age of Exploration ( mid-15th to the mid-16th century), A Christmas Box was used as a good luck device. It was a small container placed on each english ship while it was still in port. It was put there by a priest, and those crewmen who wanted to ensure a safe return would drop money into the box. It was then sealed up and kept on board for the entire voyage.

If the ship came home safely, the box was handed over to the priest in the exchange for the saying of a Mass of thanks for the success of the voyage. The Priest would keep the box sealed until Christmas when he would open it to share the contents with the poor.

#naval history #advent calendar #first door #christmas box #age of exploration

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thegatheredwheat · 2 months

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It was the Lord who put it into my mind, (I could feel His hand upon me), the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Ghost, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures…

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvelous Presence.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of what Isaias had prophesied. (Isaias 40:22)

Diary of Christopher Columbus

#traditionalism #words #europa #western civilization #age of exploration

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queers4years · 25 days

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Indigenous Hawaiians really had a good system going: wake up reaaally early and do most of the days work while it's cool and by the time the sun was up and it got hot the work was done and you're free to surf and socialize. I wish the white people realized they themselves could work smarter and not harder and get time to relax. Instead of calling Hawaiians lazy (and being genocidal about it)

#Ik this happened in most if not all tropical regions that got colonized #they were so pissed that these 'lazy' people got all sorts of fruit and natural bounty 'handed to them'#when those indigenous people were just working before the colonizers woke up and felt no need to kill themselves in midday heat #Which is what's natural for an apex predator: lazing around #Like u see lions in big cuddle puddles during the hottest part of the day. And they have the privilege of laziness by being the top predato #Idk if lions have a specific time they hunt but ik they will hunt at night when people can't observe them #Also Europeans failed to recognize indigenous agriculture and the /purposeful / cultivation of helpful plants (done w/out clearing the land #And even if they were only foraging. Like. If you love the earth and care for it (and not clear it) the earth will love you back idk #Gah! It's just like we coulda eradicated capitalism in its cradle if Euroamericans werent so arrogant and sure their way of life was correc #Like what if they were explorers and not conquistadors and colonizers. And there was a true cultural exchange #Would it have been better if the Europeans never crossed the ocean (even if they weren't there to colonize)? yeah probably #Like while the disease thing wasn't on purpose (initially) Europeans did inadvertently kill a lot of people bc they had no immunity #But I also acknowledge the human desire to explore and see what's out there #But I wish it was like #Europeans: here's some horses and metal tools #Indigenous people: thanks. Here's a way of life more in harmony with nature and an understanding that we're part of the ecosystem #Europeans: oh cool let me bring these ideas back to Europe. Maybe we won't deforest all of England #(I say Europeans but eventually when Canada and America became independent entities they also were responsible for these things)#Capitalism #capitalism is hell #anti capitalism #Colonization #colonialism #colonial violence #Imperialism #conquistador #age of exploration

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little-desi-historian · 2 months

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Artifacts of the Spanish in the Dominican Republic (16th century through 18th century). 🇩🇴

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nickysfacts · 1 year

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To bad Jhon Blanke spent all his time tooting his own horn instead of tooting his own horn, or else we might have known more about him!

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momoiti · 1 year

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I'm working on a historical creation of European missionaries in Japan's Warring States Period and the Warring States Period！

#歴史創作 #age of exploration

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illustratus · 13 days

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The March to Tenochtitlan by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

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dondalsy · 9 months

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#roald amundsen #robert f scott #race to the south pole #age of exploration #antarctic exploration #puppet history #watcher #my posts

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badragonplays · 11 months

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TSR DND Gazetteer is a publication that explores a different crystal sphere concepts bundled in the Known World. Today's entry is The Minrothad Guilds breaks with D&D tradition and explores the Age of Exploration & Pirates

#Gazetteer #tsr #dnd #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #rpg #coverart #dnd5e #dndart #known world #forgotten realms #hollow world #pirates #age of exploration

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castilestateofmind · 3 months

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"The armor, the pikes, the Toledo steel blades, the discipline and know-how from decades of fighting the Moor [...]. And above all, bravery and daring [...]. Once conquests were made, he never stopped".

-BAP on Pedro de Alvarado.

#Pedro de Alvarado #Alvarado #hernan cortes #pizarro #age of exploration #conquistadors #Spaniards #frontier #wild west #conquest #Europeans #Europe #moors #mayans #aztecs #toledo steel #castile #castilians

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katarvitz · 1 year

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So this might require a bit of explaining.

A few months back, I ended up helping someone create details surrounding a setting they were building, one based on Pokemon. Not a franchise I'm familiar with, but I wanted a change of pace from the grim and the dark of most of those I'm usually involved in. We created a few ideas, and I ended up quite liking the results enough to want to re-use them for my own stuff.

At the same time, someone challenged me to try and make an unconventional take on a very well established franchise - in their own words "find something and then Jules Verne the hell out of it without going boiler-crazy steampunk" - and, well, the rough idea I hammered out from these two being stuck in my head was one I'm repeatedly coming back to, enough to get two commissions based on it recently. The first of these was created by Vesocile and please check out their gallery for it and a lot of other great things (really, I cannot recommend them highly enough) and it led to me thinking of a few scenes I wanted to write, so I commissioned TheArashi (now on here as thearashinguyen) for a scene piece here (who also hit it out of the park with his work). Seriously, please check out them both.

I even wrote a short piece about this after a while but, with Tumblr's character limits, it would probably be at least three posts long.

#pokemon #pokemon fanart #lanturn #underwater #diving #diving suit #sea #ruins #beautiful ruins #age of exploration #archeology #thearashi #fanart #underwater ruins #steampunk

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