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       Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
       By: guest5 Date: January 28, 2021, 7:47 pm
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       Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
       [quote]In our previous animated historical documentary we have
       covered the Rise of the Aztecs. During the reign of Moctezuma,
       the empire continued its growth, but it was during this period
       the Spaniards of Hernan Cortes landed in the region and the
       fight between the Aztecs and the Conquistadors began.[/quote]
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRAVIndO4Y
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       Re: Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 17, 2021, 12:26 am
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  HTML https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-president-asks-indigenous-forgiveness-over-spanish-conquest-2021-08-13/
       [quote]MEXICO CITY, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Mexico's President Andres
       Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday asked the country's indigenous
       Mexica peoples for forgiveness for the abuses inflicted on them
       during the bloody 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire.
       ...
       Cortes and his allies defeated the Aztec leaders and the Mexica
       people who lived in Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico
       City. They then looted and razed the city, ushering in three
       centuries of Spanish domination.
       "Today we remember the fall of the great Tenochtitlan and we
       apologize to the victims of the catastrophe caused by the
       Spanish military occupation of Mesoamerica and the territory of
       the current Mexican Republic," Lopez Obrador said.
       ...
       As the anniversary approached, Lopez Obrador stepped up
       criticism of Spain and other European countries, including
       Austria, whose former ruling family, the Habsburgs, also sat at
       the head of a French-imposed Mexican Empire in the 1860s.
       [/quote]
       Talk is cheap. Is Obrador willing to militarily invade Spain
       and/or Austria and turn their territories into lebensraum for
       today's refugees? Will he bomb colonial-era architecture in
       these countries?
       [quote]Last year, he pressured a Vienna museum to lend Mexico a
       bejeweled feather headdress, considered one of the most
       important pre-Hispanic artifacts.
       The headdress is said to have been worn by Aztec emperor
       Moctezuma before he was toppled by Cortes.
       Despite a visit by Lopez Obrador's wife Beatriz Gutierrez to the
       Austrian capital, the Mexican request was rebuffed.[/quote]
       So will he now militarily invade Austria to force them to return
       it and everything else in their museums which they stole from
       their victims all over the world during the colonial era?
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       Re: Blood memory
       By: Zea_mays Date: May 30, 2022, 12:14 am
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       [quote]The Genetic Legacy of the Spanish Inquisition
       As Spain simultaneously persecuted its Jews and expanded its
       colonies in the Americas, conversos secretly came over to the
       New World. Their legacy lives on in DNA.
       [...]
       Spain did not allow converts or their recent descendants to go
       to its colonies, so they traveled secretly under falsified
       documents. “For obvious reasons, conversos were not eager to
       identify as conversos,” says David Graizbord, a professor of
       Judaic studies at the University of Arizona. The designation
       applied not just to converts but also to their descendants who
       were always Catholic. It came with more than a whiff of a
       stigma. “It was to say you come from Jews and you may not be a
       genuine Christian,” says Graizbord. Conversos who aspired to
       high offices in the Church or military often tried to fake their
       ancestry.
       The genetic record now suggests that conversos—or people who
       shared ancestry with them—came to the Americas in
       disproportionate numbers. For conversos persecuted at home, the
       fast-growing colonies of the New World may have seemed like an
       opportunity and an escape. But the Spanish Inquisition reached
       into the colonies, too. Those found guilty of observing Jewish
       practices in Mexico, for example, were burned at the stake.
       Chacón-Duque and his colleagues pieced together the
       genetic record by sampling DNA from 6,500 people across Brazil,
       Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, which they compared to that
       of 2,300 people all over the world. Nearly a quarter of the
       Latin Americans shared 5 percent or more of their ancestry with
       people living in North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean,
       including self-identified Sephardic Jews. DNA alone cannot prove
       that conversos were the source of this ancestry, but it fits
       with the historical record.
       [...]
       Geneticists have also noticed rare genetic diseases prevalent in
       Jews popping up in Latin America. “It’s not just one disease.
       It’s like, wow, this isn’t a coincidence,” says Harry Ostrer, a
       geneticist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In 2011,
       Ostrer and his colleagues decided to study two populations—in
       Ecuador and Colorado—with unusually high prevalence of two
       mutations often found in Jews. (One mutation was in the
       breast-cancer gene BRCA1, and the other caused a form of
       dwarfism called Laron syndrome.) And indeed, they found enriched
       Sephardic Jewish ancestry in the 53 people they tested.[/quote]
  HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/dna-reveals-the-hidden-jewish-ancestry-of-latin-americans/578509/
       I think this speaks more for the demographic makeup of who the
       colonists were, rather than the character of Latinos today.
       Especially since:
       [quote]By the 17th century, Graizbord says, most conversos had
       assimilated and lost any connection to Jewish customs.[/quote]
       But, after 300 years, this heritage has nevertheless reasserted
       itself in many...
       [quote]Today, some of their descendants are reclaiming their
       Jewish identity. They can join Jewish genealogy groups. Some
       have even converted to Judaism. DNA tests are fanning interest,
       too. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York politician whose
       family comes from Puerto Rico, [b]recently revealed during a
       Hanukkah event that she has Sephardic Jewish ancestry.[/quote]
       Of course, the non-Jewish colonizers weren't any better:
       [quote]Before Chacón-Duque joined this study as a
       scientist, he had actually submitted his own DNA as a
       participant. He, like the thousands of others who volunteered,
       was curious about his own ancestry. [b]He grew up in northwest
       Colombia, and he had heard the stories. It was a local custom to
       slaughter a pig for festivities, and it was said that you ate
       pork publicly to prove you were not a Jew. From that and other
       tales passed through his family, he had wondered. It turns out
       he has converso ancestry, too.[/quote]
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       Re: Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
       By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 22, 2022, 9:11 pm
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       Present-day conquistadorism:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-captures-angry-mob-booing-204634517.html
       [quote]TikTok captures an angry mob booing a tourist who climbed
       a protected Mayan pyramid in Mexico: 'lock her up'
       ...
       The woman can be seen walking up the pyramid and dancing on the
       steps. She is followed by what appears to be a member of
       security who gestures for her to come down.
       A gathering crowd can be heard shouting at the woman as she
       makes her way down the steps. At the bottom, she's met by a
       throng of people who boo her and throw water in her direction as
       she's escorted away. The chants from the crowd, mostly in
       Spanish, include, "out," "lock her up," and "jail!"
       The caption on the TikTok video reads, "this is so
       disrespectful… don't mess with my Mexican people."
       ...
       A statement provided to Insider by Mexico's National Institute
       of Anthropology and History confirmed the woman, identified as a
       tourist, "breached the ban to access the steps of El Castillo,
       affecting the operation of the site."[/quote]
       "White" colonialists never believed that laws in "non-white"
       countries apply to themselves:
       [quote]Oh, but haven't you heard?  She's special -- the rules
       don't apply to her.[/quote]
       [quote]let me guess..she is an influencer???  Thinks rules does
       not pertain to her??[/quote]
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/when-it-comes-to-palestine-france-can't-shake-off-its-colonial-past/msg16487/#msg16487
       And False Leftist commenters still do not understand Ahimsa:
       [quote]Two wrongs don't make a right. She was wrong in climbing,
       but people are wrong in the violence they showed and even
       assaulted the woman by pulling her hair. Violence never solves
       anything and we live in a world that promotes violence on a
       daily basis.[/quote]
       [quote]She wasn't smart, but there was no need for physical
       confrontations. Very uncalled for - as if that was going to make
       the situation better.[/quote]
       She needs to receive the Otto Warmbier treatment.
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