In 1520, Spanish control of Tenochtitlan collapsed in a dramatic uprising.
Aztec forces under Cuitláhuac attacked the retreating conquistadors as they fled across the causeways of the island capital during the catastrophe known as La Noche Triste.
Many Spanish soldiers drowned beneath the weight of armor and plunder as the occupation unraveled. ⚔️📜
#History #AztecEmpire #SpanishConquest #Mesoamerica #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/la-noche-triste-aztec-empire-spanish-conquest/
#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes #GregGrandin for Part 1 of an interview about his recent book, #AmericaAmérica: A New History of the New World. Discussion includes the #SpanishConquest, aspects of English and Spanish #settlerColonialism, as well as the evolution of US-Latin American relations
#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #bookstodon #books @bookstodon
🩸 “Accept Our King and God – or Else.”
Spain used the Requerimiento to legally justify the conquest of Indigenous people.
It was read in Spanish. They didn’t understand it.
What followed was war, forced conversion, and genocide.
👉 https://brewminate.com/accept-our-king-and-god-or-else-spanish-colonial-bloodshed-in-the-americas
#HistoryUnfiltered #SpanishConquest #Colonialism #IndigenousRights #Requerimiento
After witnessing Cuba's ailing economy in a recent visit, Asoka Bandarage looks beyond BRICS for an alternative to both authoritarian socialism and neoliberal capitalism. By Asoka Bandarage I returned to the U.S. from Cuba just a few hours before President Donald Trump signed a memorandum
#OnThisDay in 1547, a witch named Yamque was burnt to death in #Lima, #Peru.
She had dealings with a prominent #Inca princess who wanted to kill her conquistador husband...
More info: https://books2read.com/idie
#SouthAmerica #intrepiddudettes #inca #February #26February #historian #herstorian #witch #historyofwitches #witches #witchcraft #fire #princess #conquistador #SpanishConquest
#MexicanHistory
#SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
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#LatinAmerica
#LittleIceAge
#ClimateChange
(19/19)
...the 16th century.
How can this still/ever be resolved?
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PS
I'm sorry for the tedious page break, forced upon me by the Mastodon limit of 500k and the issue of counting handles, hyperlinks, as well as hashtags, too. 👎👎👎
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#MexicanHistory
#SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
#ClimateChange
(18/n)
...in particular in the present-day "developed" world.
And yet another thought:
Neither the biggest death bubble (WWII) im human history, nor any of the pandemics of the 20th and 21st century seems to have been able to cause a similar small "Ice Age" as did #TheGreatDying in...
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#MexicanHistory
#SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
#ClimateChange
(17/n)
...America was 10 percent of the world’s population before #Columbus. If that were true today, 👉there would be 700 million in the Indigenous world.👈" Imagine that.
Besides, carbon use per person has increased dramatically, ...
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#MexicanHistory
#SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
#ClimateChange
(16/n)
...we see from this study is 👉the scale of what’s required [to battle anthropogenic #ClimateChange], because #theGreatDying resulted in an area the size of France being reforested👈 and that gave us only a few parts per million."
Picture this:
"Indigenous...
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#MexicanHistory
#SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
#ClimateChange
(15/n)
...the 1500s cannot be balanced until large-scale vegetation regeneration in the Americas is included. 👉#TheGreatDying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas resulted in a human-driven global impact on the Earth system👈 in the two centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution.”
And what...
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Brewminate
Paria sans portefeuille
kriykat
Helen Pugh
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴