#Mexican Empire

[dreamconsumer]

Miniature Portait of Charlotte by Guglielmo Faija, 1857. Based on an original by Sir William Ross. The Royal Portrait Collection, London.

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[roehenstart]

Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802���1878). By Leopold Kupelwieser.

He was the father of two emperors: Franz Joseph I of Austria and Maximilian I of Mexico. Through his third son Karl Ludwig, he was the grandfather of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (whose assassination sparked the hostilities that led to the outbreak of World War I) and the great-grandfather of the last Habsburg emperor Karl I.

[barbucomedie]

Obsidian Mace from Mexico City, Mexico dated between 1325 - 1521 on display at the Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City, Mexico

In the Aztec's view of the world, obsidian was considered a cold and nocturnal material. The deposit sites controlled by the Aztecs were found in the Basin of Mexico, whereby the product arrived at Tenochtitlan through trade as well as through the payment of tribute.

Most pieces found at the Templo Mayor were manufactured with green obsidian from the Sierra de las Navajas, a mountainous fromation located in the current state of Hidalgo; gray obsidian stones from deposit sites located in the current states of Mexico and Pueblo, ar found in lesser proportion as well as the "Meca" obsidian with red streaks, coming from various sources.

Photographs taken by myself 2024

[red-prince]

ah yes, the famous trio, Charles Leclerc, Taylor Swift & Max Verstappen

[historynerdj2]

History memes #49

So, fun fact, most of the army that conquered the Aztecs were actually made up of other peoples in Mexico who decided they hated the Aztecs more than the newly arrived Spanish

[rice-ballin]

mexico a france behind YOU 💜

[thecryptidart1st]

A lot happened to me this weekend

….but is it a concern that Scott Cawthon dresses exactly how I picture Henry to dress

or is it more concerning that I want to dress exactly how Scott Cawthon dresses??!?

[fatehbaz]

The “goal of civilization” should be to get these delicious tropical pineapples shipped up to kitchen tables in St. Petersburg.

Much to consider here.

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Anton Chekhov, it appears, was not the first Russian literary luminary to visit Hong Kong. Chekhov had stopped off in October 1890 and wrote about its “wonderful bay”. [...] But Chekhov was beaten to the punch by Ivan Goncharov who stopped by in 1853. Goncharov is now best now known for his novel Oblamov, but his bestseller at the time was a 700-page tome of travel-writing called The Frigate Pallada. Goncharov had been taken, as a sort of official scribe, on the Russian naval expedition sent to “open Japan”. If that sounds like American Commodore Matthew Perry’s expedition, it very much was: the Pallada arrived in Japan several weeks after Perry. The Pallada [...] went [...] via the Cape of Good Hope, Java, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai, with side-trips to Manila, Korea and the Ryukyus. [...] Edyta M Bojanowska relates all this, and much more [in her book] [...]. Bojanowska uses Goncharov’s travelogue as a window on Russia, a window through which to view the European, and particularly British, imperial project [...].

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Russia’s Pacific history is little known, perhaps even in Russia. [...]

In the library [...], I once came across a book entitled La Frontera ruso-mexicana: “The Russian-Mexican Border”. There actually was one in what is now California in the first part of the 1800s. Nikolai Rezanov had tried to open Japan in 1804; he got nowhere. (He did however continue on to North America and all the way down to San Francisco where he got engaged to Conchita, the [...] daughter of the Spanish governor, a story which became a late Soviet-era rock opera.)

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Alaska ended up being sold to the United States a decade or so after Goncharov’s voyage. [...] Goncharov’s [book] [...] “strains to project an image of Russia as a confident and competent peer of European colonial empires.” [...] Goncharov was a product of his age. He was furthermore an anglophile and thought that the British had on the whole the right ideas about empire. (He did however find their ubiquity annoying: his idyll on Madeira is ruined by seeing so many of them. “They’re here too?” he wrote.) He would occasionally take the imperialists to task for some particularly egregious injustice, but he never questioned the enterprise. He just thought Russia should have a piece of the action.

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Goncharov settled on Korea as a good potential target for Russia (“Goncharov Island” is now known as Mayang-do Island, the site of a North Korean missile base) [...]. The book hit the ground running, went through ten editions by the end of  the century, and seems never really to have been out of print [...]. Singapore gets a slightly fuller treatment. Goncharov marvels at the pineapples piled up “like turnips”. “The goal of civilization,” Bojanowska quotes him, is to get these pineapples up to St Petersburg where they were currently unheard of luxury items. (Goncharov’s equating of capitalism with tropical fruit is reminiscent of the [...] [twentieth-century] fascination with bananas.)

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Text by: Peter Gordon. A book review published under the title '“A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate Pallada” by Edyta M Bojanowska'. Published online in the Essays, Non-Fiction, and Reviews sections of Asian Review of Books. 10 July 2018. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Italicized first lines in this post added by me.]

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Funny how pretendian chicanos can't even contribute to getting their people up let alone construct the "state of aztlan" and yet they get twice as mad as the average israeli when I make that comparison I have people calling me racial slurs all over the place

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her flesh was like the deep Antillean sea: it touched all worlds.

Álvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires

[dartxo]

"Gus"

2023

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

Some months ago whilst convalescing from a pretty nasty case of food poisoning I watched Chimp Empire on Netflix, and I thought it was amazing. Chimp society sometimes appears very unnecessarily violent and cruel (not unlike ours), yet there were moments in the series where I was deeply moved with how closely knit and empathetic those chimp families could be towards each other. Again, not unlike us. 

Naturally, I grew very fond of Gus, the socially awkward chimp, so I had to draw him. 

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Tlacochcalcatl

The tlacochcalcatl, meaning “Master of The House of Darts” was the highest ranking title of the Mexica military, the equivalent of a general or commander in modern terminology. He was responsible for all military decisions and planning, and lead the Mexica troops into battle.

The Tlacochcalcatl wore cotton armor for protection and mobility. His helmet resembled a human skull, adorned with hawk and quetzal feathers. In one hand he would wield a lance (tepoztopilli) tipped with sharp obsidian blades, his other brandishing a feathered shield (chimalli). On his back he wore three banners, topped with elaborate feathered decorations.

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The "Tula Breastplate" from Tula, Mexico dated between 900 - 1250 on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Mexico

The "Tula Breastplate" was excavated from the Palacio Quemado in Tula. Made from multiple rectangular plates in the lamellar style and shells, this breastplate was deposited inside a box. The armour was most likely ceremonial and worn by hight ranking members of the Toltec Empire or priests during religious ceremonies.

Photographs taken by myself 2023

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Juan Garrido is of note as being one of the survivors of Hernan Cortez's Conquest of Mexico:

Juan Garrido is one of the very literal cases of 'history was never as white as it's portrayed in European sources.' He was part of the Spanish conquest of Cuba and Puerto Rico. He was also one of those who was a part of the Hernan Cortez expedition from the newly established city of Vera Cruz marching to the Halls of Montezuma, who survived La Noche Triste, and was one of the victors in the Siege of Tenochtitlan.

Equally of note given the nature of everything that led to Las Casas' role in the establishment of the slave trade, like the other conquerors of Tenochtitlan he set up an Encomienda, and has the record of being the first farmer in mainland North America to grow wheat. By all accounts Garrido was one of the more successful Conquistadors, moreso than either Cortez himself or Pizarro would prove to be.

One must also note that in the context of the 1500s neither Juan Garrido nor Hernan Cortez themselves could have expected that the march on the Aztec capital would provide the basis for as much as it did, while both viewed the horrors of the conquest as deserving a reward while being no more sympathetic than any other conquerors to the conquered.