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Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 28, 2021, 7:47 pm
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Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
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> 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.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRAVIndO4Y
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Re: Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
DIR 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/
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> 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.
>
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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?
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> 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.
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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
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: May 30, 2022, 12:14 am
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> 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.
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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:
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> By the 17th century, Graizbord says, most conversos had
assimilated and lost any connection to Jewish customs.
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But, after 300 years, this heritage has nevertheless reasserted
itself in many...
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> 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.
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Of course, the non-Jewish colonizers weren't any better:
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> 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.
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Re: Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
DIR 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
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> 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."
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"White" colonialists never believed that laws in "non-white"
countries apply to themselves:
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> Oh, but haven't you heard? She's special -- the rules don't
apply to her.
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> let me guess..she is an influencer??? Thinks rules does not
pertain to her??
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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:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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She needs to receive the Otto Warmbier treatment.
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