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illustratus · 12 days

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The March to Tenochtitlan by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau

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ancientorigins · 18 days

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Were the Aztecs really wiped out by a European disease like smallpox? New genetic evidence suggests it may have been a different disease entirely…

#Aztecs #Conquistadors #Colonialism #Disease #Mexico

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castilestateofmind · 9 days

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"Pizarro started from nothing, rising to a life of conquest and glory. He toppled the Inca with an act of Odyssean cunning. After years of war, he went out in a blaze of glory, fighting off assassins even in his old age… is this not Bronze Age Mindset?

Is this not greatness?".

-Alaric the Barbarian.

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victusinveritas · 8 months

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Earliest European depiction of the city of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, 1524 (3 years after it was destroyed by Cortés). Note the Habsburg flag indicating the city as a domain of Charles V. Even so, it is believed to be generally accurate in proportion and overall features of the city pre-Conquest.

#mexico #tenochtitlan #aztec #new spain #conquistadors #1500s #fuck hernan cortes

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lifewithaview · 25 days

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The X Files (1993) Detour

S5E4

While driving through northern Florida with two other FBI agents en route to a team-building seminar, Scully and Mulder are drawn into the disappearance of several men in a wooded area. Rumors are soon circulating in the nearby town that there are monsters in the woods. Mulder soon believes there is definitely something in the woods causing these deaths and nature itself may be seeking revenge in the form of invisible creatures. He and Scully go off into the woods and encounter the creatures firsthand...forest monster, or perhaps ancient spirits...

*Gillian Anderson deliberately sang "Joy to the World" slightly out of key, in keeping with her character who "can't carry a tune." She says she can sing it a lot better in real life.

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clove-pinks · 1 year

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#IMPORTANT POLL #i have some theories about this and fear the average tumblrista is too young #it might not be an international thing either #conquistadors #ghost conquistadors #also my apologies to any portugese ghost conquistadors reading this #but it was always spanish conquistadors in my childhood media

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helmort · 2 months

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⭐ (FRIDAY TALE) 𝑨 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍

Guillermo Zavala was a genuinely curious man, Mexican, and inquisitive since childhood. As a child, he became known among friends for often getting into trouble by poking his finger where he shouldn't. Now, at 26, he was a recently graduated medical professional from a college in Mexico City, and his curiosities had evolved into something more "scientific."

He couldn't exactly pinpoint when the idea to determine if the devil was real took root in his mind. Perhaps it began when he was a child, and the priest spoke to him and other kids during catechism about evil and Satan. Maybe it was during his teenage years when he witnessed a shooting, and the mother of the deceased cried out, "The devil killed my son!" Nevertheless, Guillermo harbored this incredible obsession for so long that one day, he decided to embark on a quest to find the devil. He delved into books, consulted priests, local witches, shamans, and even individuals in asylums across Mexico. However, despite his efforts, he never discovered how to locate the devil. One day, while searching for new books on the topic, he stumbled upon an old one written by Padre Alonso de Salazar, a priest who accompanied the conquistadors in Mexico. The priest described an ancient place, a peculiar well that natives used to communicate with the "other side," a place he believed connected with the devil. According to the book, the well was sealed with stones. Using old maps, Guillermo located the place in the north area of the city, reopened it, and found only a black vertical tunnel seemingly without end.

Perhaps out of a sense of adventure or his usual curiosity, Guillermo yelled into the well, "Hey Satan, are you here?" In that moment, a growl echoed from the hole, and a voice responded, "I'm." Guillermo's face turned pale as he asked, "Satan, give me proof that you exist!" The voice simply replied, "No." Guillermo pressed further, "Why, Satan?" The voice explained, "Because I don't exist anymore." When Guillermo asked for clarification, the voice responded, "I went away a long time ago, giving my place to all of you. Why bother when you are better than me at doing my job? You're my favorite show on my TV," followed by a laugh. In that moment, the well slid down, closing the hole forever.

On his way home, Guillermo bought a newspaper, and as he read the headlines, he pondered that the devil was right; humans had surpassed him a long time ago.

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sheltiechicago · 1 year

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Leah Gordon’s Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Carnival in Haiti

For centuries, the Taino-Arawakan people and the Carib Indians lived on the island of Ayiti (“land of high mountains”) in the tranquil blue waters of the Caribbean. All of that changed when Christopher Columbus arrived on 4 December 1492, charging in alongside the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Conquistadors brought colonisation, slavery, and disease to the once idyllic land, wiping out the indigenous communities and repopulating the island with people stolen from Africa.

#leah gordon #photographer #kaleidoscopic portrait of carnival #haiti #taino-arawakan people #carib indians #ayiti #land of high mountains #caribbean #spain #conquistadors #slavery #colonization #disease #genocide

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pedroam-bang · 10 months

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Love, Death & Robots: Jibaro (2022)

#2022 #film #series #TV show #television #science fiction #animation #Love Death & Robots #Jibaro #Tim Miller #Alberto Mielgo #Girvan Bramble #Swirv #Golden Woman #conquistadors

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starryknight-dragonarts · 11 months

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This was my first D&D character who I played very briefly before the campaign was discontinued so I have been hanging on to this character since them with the intention to eventually use him again. Tlalocoatl, or Tlalo is a Silver Dragonborn/Blue Half Dragon Paladin/Draconic Sorcerer. He was raised by a Holy Order of Crusader Knights whose stated goal is to rid the world of all Monsters and being a Monstrous race himself they were not fond of Tlalo being among their ranks but Tlalo still believed that they were overall good people with a good goal and wanted to rise among the ranks as one of them. Nearing the day he was meant to be officially knighted he discovered his parental guardian and mentor knight murdered and he was accused of the crime. Running from his former allies he seeks to uncover the truth and clear his name but he is not going to like what he finds... Long story short the Knights are not the heroes he thought they were and killed his mentor in order to blame Tlalo, meanwhile he is starting to show powers and features from his Blue Dragon Father and is scared that he will become a monster. My plan is that he needs to learn that he doesn’t have to be just like the knights he was raised by and he doesn’t need to be just like his dragon father, he has the ability to be his own kind of Knight and Dragon accepting both but doing it his own way.

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whencyclopedia · 2 years

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The Gold of the Conquistadors

The staggering quantity of gold the conquistadors extracted from the Americas allowed Spain to become the richest country in the world. The thirst for gold to pay for armies and gain personal enrichment resulted in waves of expeditions of discovery and conquest from 1492 onwards. In only the first half-century or so of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, over 100 tons of gold were extracted from the continent.

#Gold #Conquistadors #SpanishEmpire

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illustratus · 20 days

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ancientorigins · 3 months

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In 1520, Spanish conquistadors lost 8 tons of gold as they fled the Aztec capital. Known as Montezuma’s Treasure, fortune hunters have been looking for it ever since.

#Montezuma #Aztec #Treasure #Conquistadors #Hernan Cortes

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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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dontdenymeshakespeare · 2 years

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The Last Days of the Incas

I’ve always liked reading about the history of other countries and other cultures. The Last Days of the Incas falls into this vein perfectly. I originally got my copy for a research paper in secondary school and even though I was enjoying it, I only got about halfway through it. Despite going back to it multiple times, I’d never gotten much further. That is until I started rewriting an old play…

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rabidhiss · 2 years

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Love how this game looks.

#greedfall #spiders #rpg #conquistadors #virtual photography #virtual sunsets #lighthouse #virtual trees

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