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@DeusVult990 @___TheGOOdWitch Forced Conversion happened

@___TheGOOdWitch False, the spaniards conquered the americas with the help of native americans, in fact they were the vast majority of them who were sick of the aztecs and the incas. Christianity also spread to africa way before the europeans ever contacted them

@dividendgrowth1 @AncientHistorry This never Happened

@AncientHistorry Aztecs put up a much better fight than Incas Pizarro's decapitation strike at Cajamarca was indeed accomplished by guns, horses, and Steel:

Everyone thinks 500 Spaniards conquered the Aztec Empire in 1521 AD. They didn't. In 1519 AD, Tenochtitlan was bigger than Paris, Rome, and London. 200,000 people on a man-made island in the middle of a lake, fed by floating gardens and twin aqueducts of fresh mountain water. Cleaner streets than anywhere in Europe. Two years later it was ash. Here's what actually killed it. The Aztecs ruled by tribute and terror. Subject peoples had to send food, gold, and bodies. Living bodies. For sacrifice. The Tlaxcalans, surrounded by Aztec territory, had been hunted for captives for a century in ritualized "flower wars." They didn't see Cortés as an invader. They saw a weapon. After Cortés landed at Veracruz, scuttled his own ships so his men couldn't retreat, and fought the Tlaxcalans to a standstill, they flipped sides. By the final siege, the "Spanish" army was overwhelmingly indigenous. Over 100,000 native warriors. Cortés was the foreign mercenary in someone else's war. His secret weapon wasn't gunpowder. It was a teenage girl. Malintzin, enslaved Nahua noblewoman, spoke Nahuatl and Maya. She translated, negotiated, exposed an ambush at Cholula, and reshaped every conversation Cortés ever had. Without her, no alliances, no intelligence, no conquest. She is the most consequential interpreter in human history. Then came the virus. April 1520 AD: one infected man stepped off a Spanish ship at Veracruz. Smallpox. The Americas had zero immunity. It moved inland faster than any army. By autumn it reached Tenochtitlan. 40% of the city dead in one outbreak. The new emperor lasted 80 days before it killed him too. The Spanish were already dead men once. On June 30, 1520 AD, the Aztecs nearly wiped them out fleeing the city at night. La Noche Triste. 600 Spaniards and 4,000 allies killed on the causeways. The empire thought it had won. It hadn't. Cortés regrouped in Tlaxcala, built 13 warships in pieces, hauled them over the mountains, and launched a navy on a lake 7,000 feet above sea level. Cut the aqueduct. Starved the city. 93 days of block by block demolition while smallpox burned through the survivors inside. On August 13, 1521 AD, Cuauhtémoc, the last tlatoani, was captured trying to flee by canoe. Mexico City was built directly on top of the rubble. The cathedral sits on stones quarried from the Aztec Great Temple. You can walk to its ruins in five minutes. So what really killed the largest empire in the Americas? Not Spanish steel. Steel plus smallpox plus a translator plus 100,000 furious neighbors plus an emperor who hesitated plus ships portaged over mountains. Remove any one of those and you're reading this in Nahuatl.

@LevantJoseph @just_urania @C_Westling @Tom_Rowsell @camliekr They didnt do mass slavery and were hegemonic tributes were source of income forAztecs Spanish tributes were exorbitant and applied to entire continent not localized like Aztecs entire regions were sent to die in mines if a quota was not met This isnt a less violent civilization

@just_urania @C_Westling @Tom_Rowsell @camliekr The Mexica were a hierarchy that used slavery and mass state violence to acquire resources surpluses, gradually expanding through successive migratory exploration while maintaining the *links* between migrants across generations through the hierarchy........that's an empire

“would you consider a white person chinese if they were born and raised in china” literally yes. what is this argument

@ynohecomido @trillwatterson @bo_austin_ Wrong, the caste system existed in reality which is why lower castas were treated like garbage, lower position=lower worth Good thing we kicked u guys back to Europe

@trillwatterson @bo_austin_ El imperio español permitía y alentaba el matrimonio con los nativos desde 1516. El sistema de castas era más sobre el papel que en la práctica, porque ningún español hubiera tenido hijos con una nativa si eso realmente le supusiera bajar en el sistema de castas.

@d_cparg @fsc0620 @dmoonglampers_ @nothingdiddle @bo_austin_ No they didn’t

@kool79165 @fsc0620 @dmoonglampers_ @nothingdiddle @bo_austin_ Pues no they Did genocide the natives

@fsc0620 @dmoonglampers_ @nothingdiddle @bo_austin_ “Ok they didn’t genocide the natives but they would have if they could”

@ThatRegularTet @ordheist

@ordheist All of it will be conquered and governed by the Spanish Empire

claim your land and explain why. might use this for something

@CashJay1010 @NafjanBoy @Roblox_RTC Whyr they banning them

@NafjanBoy @Roblox_RTC i give about out 30 minutes and he will be gone

Roblox has just reached the 11th Billion User ID.

@Iremcito @bluecornheart @chilaquilesgir1 No, Mexico is included

@bluecornheart @chilaquilesgir1 You mean the europeans and then newly-stablished US right?

@Gdyu136374 @bluecornheart @chilaquilesgir1 Correct. Mexico did many genocides. For example the Yaqui people had to seek refuge in America bc of Mexican genocides

@bluecornheart @chilaquilesgir1 “And mexico” lmao stfu😂

@costaeste3 @GestasdeEspaNa Por que Mataindios no los salvo d ser derrotados por los mapuches??

@GestasdeEspaNa También se apareció en Cuzco estando los españoles sitiados por las tropas de Manco Inca, inferiores en número, bajó del cielo con su espada, en un caballo blanco cambiando el curso de la batalla. Desde entonces Santiago "mataindios"

"¿De qué color es el caballo blanco de Santiago?" Esta famosa adivinanza con respuesta implícita recuerda, sin embargo, un hecho legendario: la batalla de Clavijo en el 844, donde Santiago el Mayor se habría aparecido montado en un caballo blanco para ayudar a los cristianos.

Reflections on technological asymmetry, greed, & the conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish, from Cosmos by Carl Sagan: “Hernán Cortés described their capital Tenochtitlán as "one of the most beautiful cities in the world"…two years later, Cortes utterly destroyed Tenochtitlán"

@AnonSyri @2000ruhuyolunda @AngloVarangian “The Spanish didn’t commit genocide against them” Spain commited numerous Genocides actually

@2000ruhuyolunda @AngloVarangian Native Americans were ‘wiped out’ by disease, not by Europeans. The Spanish didn’t commit genocide against them, they conquered them and took over the institutions of the Aztec and Incan empires. Christians didn’t kill the Jews either (but Muslims sure want to).

The change did not happen peacefully

@SunlessSolaire @Babygravy9 you’re probably some dysgenic latinx

@Babygravy9 Andinian is the worst generic group on earth

Imagine landing on the American mainland in 1519, burning all your ships and then realising this is what the local women look like.

@Sabbathdefiler @Babygravy9 Or maybe it’s a Bad Diet caused by lifestyle change & everything being refined/processed 🤔

@Babygravy9 Hundreds of years of human sacrifice resulted in a righteous curse of your race’s physiognomy looking like Oompa Loompas in a chocolate factory

@ChayanneMaxxer definitely not. Nobody wants Drugs to be hidden in Churches

The whole church should be Mexican lowkey

@umritzer1 @MrGreen7282869 @TheShoshon There is Nothing impressive about Killing Civilians, 9/11 would be an Impressive Battle if that was the case

@MrGreen7282869 @TheShoshon Battle of Cajamarca is more impressive, against Inca albeit

@TheShoshon @MrGreen7282869 Losing 1500 men to Stone Age tribes is the most embarrassing defeat in history, Roarkes drifted is a expected outcome

@7LegionsComics @PunishedNadja Whereas Spaniards mass-raped 8 year old Indigenous Children The difference is that institutional sacrifice isn’t Mass murder

@PunishedNadja Yet if I were to say the same thing about the conquistadors and the Aztecs, you'll go apoplectic. Difference is, the Aztecs actually were mass-murderers who performed large scale human sacrifices.

Polish fascists are mad because the USSR stopped them from being a corrupt despotic shithole :/

@TheNewHollander @dlhtks2 They Did

@silgikore @dlhtks2 They didn't go there to fight Portugal 💀

the scary threat of cuban imperialism. oh no!

@Banner1107 @vvvvvictoria_ @Imma_GENE_Us I imagine that not every reporter is part of a hivemind

@vvvvvictoria_ @Imma_GENE_Us There is video of another reporter who heard the shots, asked "what is that?", then tried to get a closer look. They didn't even consider it might be gunfire.

You see how she noticed and immediately dropped to the floor?