• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzOP
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    Context: The legendary founding of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City), originally built literally on a lake. The story goes that the spot for the city was shown to a wandering tribe of Mexica by gods - an eagle with a snake in its beak perched on a cactus.

    Btw, not my meme it’s been around for years in original mexican

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      1 month ago

      Thanks for sharing this nice peek into Mexican history. It led me to Aztec priests, their razor-sharp obsidian blades and the impressions of Spanish conquistadores, detailing the things they saw, before they started doing what conquistadores do…

      • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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        It maddens me to no end that the Aztecs had a fairly robust writing and number system with an extensive written history that was almost entirely burned and destroyed by the Spanish.

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    What more could you want? The whole thing to be full of salt?

    What could possibly be better? The fucking west coast or some shit?