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asterion-out-of-the-maze · 2 years

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Had this angsty picture of Nezahualcoyotl watching his city burn in my head for a while now

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arthurdrakoni · 9 months

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Flag of the Aztec Empire

This is the flag of the Aztec Empire. It comes from a world where the Aztecs defeated Cortez and his troops. Smallpox still ravaged the Aztecs, but due to the more limited exposed they were able to recover by the time the Spanish sent additional expeditions. It soon become obvious that the empire would need to reform itself if it was going to survive the European colonization of the Americas. The debate around these reforms leads to social upheavals and rebellions. The empire ultimately survived, but with a Tlaxcalan ruling dynasty. The Tlaxcalans, always one of the more reform minded peoples of the empire, set about instituting serious reforms. The first reform was the structure of the empire. The provinces became much more centralized in their organization. The emperor still ruled over all, but each province sent a group of delegates to represent the needs of the province in a special council in Tenochtitlan. The priests and priestesses also began to slowly phase-out human sacrifice from the traditional religion of the Aztecs. Trade relations were established with multiple European nations both to gain access to European technology and to play the various powers off of each other. For the next few centuries the Aztecs would be prosperous and would have good relations with their neighbors. They provided troops to the Federated Provinces of Cabotia during their rebellion against the British Empire. To this day the two nations remain close allies to this day. The Aztecs also maintained good relations with the Incan Empire, which also managed to avoid European conquest. The Aztecs went on to expand their territory to stretch from the American Southwest to the tip of Panama, and even managed to nab a few islands of the Caribbean. The next major wave of reforms occurred during the 19h century. The Aztecs, much like Japan during the Meiji Restoration, underwent a Westernization process. Though from the Aztecs points of view the term would more accurately be Easternization. Industrialization began to take off, and Western clothing and customs were slowly introduced to improve relations with the great powers of Europe. However, the Aztecs did not completely turn their backs on their traditional culture. Aztec clothing still remains very colorful and incorporates many traditional designs, and nose rings are still somewhat popular for men and women. More traditional clothing is usually reserved for special ceremonies and occasions, such as religious festivals and the emperor's birthday. The Aztecs also still worship their old gods, and many temples and shrines can be found throughout the empire. On the other hand, secularism is on the rise, and many people only perform the old rituals out of habit and tradition. What was once an empire imfamous for its bloodlust is today known as a thriving center of technology and innovation. The flag features the colors red and green, which are traditional Aztec colors. The maze pattern is a common feature in Aztec artwork. The red snake is the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl, god of the winds and one of the most important gods in the Aztec pantheon.

Link to the original flag on my blog: https://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2016/11/flag-of-aztec-empire.html?m=0

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pushing500 · 8 months

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Took them long enough!!!! I'm telling you, these two have been flirting and rejecting each other nonstop since they joined the colony. I don't think there has been a single moment where at least one of them didn't have a mood penalty for "Fafo/Kaz rebuffed me". It was excruciating to watch, I'm glad they've sorted themselves out.

Also, immediately after the notification for the New Lovers, I got a notification that Fafo was inspired by creativity. It seems romance is giving her a boost, which I thought was pretty sweet. <3

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reactionimagesdaily · 1 year

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#Paraguay during the War of the Triple Alliance be like #reaction image #reaction meme #daily reaction images #image mood: fear

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dolline · 6 months

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I have just found out that Wilfred Owen was killed 1 week before ww1 ended and I will not recover

#ww1 #wwi #world war one #the first world war #triple entente #triple alliance #austria hungary #franz ferdinand #1914 #1918 #history #central powers #europe #dulce et decorum est #wilfred owen

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kuramirocket · 2 years

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#🇲🇽#mexico #indigenous #native #aztec #mexica #europe #spain #conolonization #aztlan #triple alliance #mexican #nahua

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musicktoplayinthedark · 7 months

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La Grande Triple Alliance Internationale de l'Est

#la grande triple alliance internationale de l'est

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franeridan · 7 months

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luffy with a reindeer, a cyborg and a skeleton in his crew seeing bepo for the first time and going "why is there a bear here" and "is the bear a pirate too?" is still extremely iconic btw

#great power move of him to think of everything he does as normal and deem everything everyone else does as weird #case in point looking and law and kidd fighting for the first time and going 'your powers are weird'#I'm sure you're right rubber man #on an unrelated note i reached law and luffy interacting for the first time and i cried true story #they're so !!!!!!!!!!!!#i read it and then went back and reread it #By The Way #the marines get there convinced luffy law and kidd were allied #then later on in marineford (the next time the marines see luffy) law shows up to save him #then then two years pass and the next news the marines have of luffy are that he took down punk hazard With Law #and then they're together in dressrosa and then in wano #do you think the marines just think luffy and law have been working together since sabaody #did they make law triple swear he had nothing to do with luffy when they appointed him as a shichibukai #are they now convinced he lied to them about not being luffy's ally #how do the marines even see luffy and law's alliance i wonder they're always in each other's pockets

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whatudottu · 1 year

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Okay, conspiracy theory time: if Blitzwing being an Autobot experiment was indeed the original backstory planned for him, it ended up being revised into Malware’s backstory

I mean, a specimen with unique abilities amongst their species associated with machinery created by supposed good guy scientist(s) who “came out wrong” in a sense and was driven mad by the mental strain of it, turned rogue as a result of being mistreated by their creators, became a homicidal maniac hellbent on revenge, AND the same guy worked as a character designer on their respective shows? It just makes too much sense.

I mean with how much canon that Derrick J. Wyatt had creative input on, it would certainly not be too farfetched for some older unexplored ideas to be actually put into practice haha. I do love me some morally grey (and like, genuinely grey regardless of how bright or dark the shade) allies and protagonists, even if it has to come at the cost of the mental and physical health of certain antagonists /hj-

Blitzwing may not have had that much focus as a 'character plagued by the narrative' to have explored the implied trauma beyond him serving as one of the main villains with a unique triple changer feature, Malware being rather explicitly that 'someone you should care about' mixed in with the whole 'irredeemable asshole' schtick was very much a little dicey yeet- he deserved a redemption arc if he was to be written as much of a victim of circumstance and ensuing abandonment as he was 😔

#ask #anonymous #blitzwing #tfa blitzwing #malware #malware ben 10 #transformers #tfa #BETCs #bot experiment triple changers #maccadam #ben 10 #i know in the most recent season 4 uh information that by technicality blitzwing gets perhaps a redemption arc #but i suppose it was less a redemption and more a 'fuck megatron for throwing us into a furnace/engine' whatever it was #more like an alliance against a shared enemy plus the other 'cons including the new predacons #...if i'm remembering right #for all the shit that blitzwing goes through- malware gets that shit canonically in the show #and he gets just a little bit of 'fate worse than death' if malgax is anything to go by woop...#sorry i just have a more silent watchful appreciation and sympathy for malware but that appreciation is getting a little louder

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essence-of-armbarring · 6 months

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doing orbonne for the fending top really isn't doing any favors for how I feel about the 6.0 24 mans oouughh

#literally hasn't been a 24-man fight in two expansions that actually has mechanics that take advantage of.. it being an alliance raid?#aside from like. triple tankbusters #and the one fight in euphrosyne where there's technically an alliance split but the dps check is so lenient it barely matters

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thatscarletflycatcher · 11 months

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Paraguay and Rutherford B. Hayes

Because @fictionadventurer requested it, so I'll try my best, although I'm no historian and not a Paraguayan, so if there is some inaccuracy it is completely unintentional and I'll gladly welcome corrections!

South America, 1864. Blancos and colorados* in Uruguay are once again at war. The Colorados, diplomatically supported by the Empire of Brazil, had raised against the Blanco government, and had advanced north and put siege to the city of Paysandú. Paraguay, an ally to the Blancos, declared that any Brazilian or Argentinian invasion of Uruguay in support of the Colorados would be seen as an attack on the stability of the region. Brazil ignored this warning, and it intervened, causing the fall of Paysandú and defeat of the Blanco side. Brazil had a particularly vested interest as a Blanco government in Uruguay would have provided an opening to the sea for Paraguayan products (which was also against the interests of the British Crown, as Paraguay was rapidly gearing towards industrialization. This has been more or less accepted in recent decades as one of the underhanded causes of the war).

Paraguay invaded both Brazil and Argentina in an attempt to A) force Brazil to retreat from Uruguay B) Cross Argentina (neutral until that point) with troops to reinforce the Blanco defense, as permission was denied to them by the Argentinian government. This prompted an alliance between Argentina, Uruguay (now in Colorado hands), and Brazil against Paraguay. The war lasted till 1870, half a million people died -making it the bloodiest war in the History of South America-, counting between 50% and 85% of the Paraguayan population -specially the overwhelming majority of it's male population of reproductive age- and it is because of that considered nowadays a war of extermination, a genocide.**

At the end of the war, Brazil and Argentina appropriated chunks of the Paraguayan territory; on the Argentinian side, it was basically the totality of the Paraguayan Chaco. Negotiations between the two countries went back and forth for years, until in 1976 they agreed to appeal to the president of the US (at the time, Rutherford B. Hayes) to arbiter between the two (as there were no international courts they could go to). Hayes accepted, received the claims from the two countries, and failed in favor of Paraguay by the end of 1878.

Because of this, Hayes is remembered fondly in Paraguay, and a whole departamento (one of the 17 administrative regions of Paraguay) is named Presidente Hayes after him, and so is its capital city, Villa Hayes. There's also a soccer club named after him.

*The National or "Blanco" party and the Colorado party are the traditional founding parties of Uruguay. They are very difficult to align in terms of the political compass as usually understood in the Anglosphere, as they have/had a wide range of political orientations within them (for example, the Colorado party had a Catholic wing and an extremely anti-clerical wing, the Blanco party had a large landowner side and a side that pushed for redistribution of land, etc, etc). In a very gross simplification, the Colorado Party was the "civilization" party, urban, europeizing, economically conservative and socially liberal, whereas the Blanco Party was a rural party, economically liberal and socially conservative. The Blancos had a habit of getting up in arms every few years, as they found their political rights being ignored or curtailed by the ruling Colorados. To mention the main ones, The Great War (1839-1850), Revolution of the Spears (1970-1872), the Revolution of 1897, and The Revolution of 1904.

** as a side "fun" note, Uruguay returned war trophies to Paraguay in 1885, and forgave it the money sanctions against it. It took Argentina till 1954 to return their war trophies, and Brazil has yet to return anything.

#Paraguay #War of the Triple Alliance #Rutherford B. Hayes #The Paraguayans are very very courageous folk as a nation #nowadays they are pretty much the only South American ally of Taiwan #which takes some guts you know

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huayno · 2 years

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not to be an asshole nitpicker but referring to the "aztec" and "inca" empires without interrogating those terms really undercuts the point about correcting people's misperceptions

#triple alliance and tahuantinsuyo come on

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widows-alliance-but-everywhere · 2 months

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#martyn pov #maybe…#triple g alliance #ll #scott and cleo #day 65 #ft pearl

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tomorrowusa · 1 year

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Having almost all of the Russian Army in Ukraine is barely enough to keep the invaders from losing ground there.

Ben Wallace told the BBC on Wednesday that Russia had not been able to amass a single force to "punch through" Ukrainian defenses.

"That has come at a huge cost to the Russian army. We now estimate 97% of the Russian army, the whole Russian army, is in Ukraine."

He also reiterated the 97% number as he defended the UK's military support for Ukraine, saying that "helping Ukraine defeat Russia in Ukraine actually adds to our own security at home."

Putin has killed more Russians than Ukrainians and he just doesn’t care how many more he has to sacrifice for his warped goal of restoring the empire of the USSR.

Russian defectors and Western intelligence have repeatedly highlighted that many Russian troops received almost no training before being sent to Ukraine.

Some Russians called up in the September mobilization recieved so little training that some were sent home in body bags within just one month of being called up to fight in Ukraine.

But experts also caution that a high troop death rate does not appear to bother Russia's leaders, and indeed fits into its strategy when fighting Ukraine, a country that has Western help with troop training.

And Russia isn’t doing well when it comes to heavy military equipment either.

Russian army has lost up to half of key battle tanks, analysts estimate

Russia’s army is estimated to have lost nearly 40% of its prewar fleet of tanks after nine months of fighting in Ukraine, according to a count by the specialist thinktank the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS).

That rises to as much as 50% for some of the key tanks used in combat, forcing Russia to reach into its still sizeable cold war-era stocks. Ukraine’s tank numbers are estimated to have increased because of the number it has captured and supplies of Soviet-era tanks from its western allies.

John Chipman, the thinktank’s chair, said the war had been “a political and military failure for Russia” highlighting shortcomings in leadership and deficiencies in its munitions, despite Kremlin modernisation efforts.

And it’s not as if Russia has been keeping most of its best tanks in reserve. While there may be a small number of experimental models, the bulk in reserve are probably as bad as the jack-in-the-box types with the pop-off turrets.

On the other hand, Leopard 2 tanks are coming to Ukraine. Ukrainian crews for Leopards and other advanced NATO tanks are currently being trained in Poland, the UK, and other countries.

People often compare Putin to Hitler. But a better fit may be Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López (1826-1870) who was responsible for the second-bloodiest war in Western Hemisphere history. Solano López became increasingly irrational and proclaimed himself “El Supremo” and depleted his country as he fought the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. SPOILER: It didn’t go well for him.

Here’s a short summary of Solano López’s War of the Triple Alliance.

Russia, if you don’t want to be driven into the ground by Putin’s craziness, you need to remove him ASAP.

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viajeroseneltiempo · 1 year

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A fact from history.

The deadliest war in the history of South America was the War of the Triple Alliance, a conflict that was fought between 1864 and 1870 between Paraguay and a coalition of countries that included Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. The war that took place mainly due to territorial disputes, ended in the extermination of more than 50% of the population of Paraguay, and more than 90% of its male population.

Dato histórico curioso

La guerra más letal de la historia de Suramérica fue la Guerra de la Triple Alianza, un conflicto que se libró entre 1864 y 1870 entre Paraguay y una coalición de países que integraban a Brasil, Argentina y Uruguay. La guerra que se dio sobre todo por disputas territoriales, termino en el exterminio de más del 50% de la población de Paraguay, y más del 90 % de su población masculina.

#history #paraguay #war of the triple alliance #paraguay war #historia #guerra de la triple alianza

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lightdancer1 · 2 months

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Wrapping up today with a more detailed look at the impact of the Paraguayan War on slavery:

As this article indicates the Paraguayan War was an expensive victory for the Brazilian government, while witnessing the most suicidal folly imaginable for that of Francisco Solano Lopez. The price of victory and the rise of large numbers of Black veterans who'd fought one of the largest and bloodiest wars in history and expected something to show for it were the kiss of death for slavery in Brazil, and ultimately for Dom Pedro II. As with the War of the Rebellion in the US victory in a war creates new problems while not necessarily resolving those that led to the war in the first place.

#lightdancer comments on history #black history month #military history #american history #brazilian history #war of the triple alliance

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