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M3Imagination<p>A good resource for us to know our rights against those that are against us, our skin color, our heritage, our right to our lands. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mexicansarentgoinganywhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mexicansarentgoinganywhere</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chicano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chicano</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FkDonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FkDonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aztecs</span></a></p>
M3Imagination<p>History overlooks the impact of early European and spanish killers &amp; thieves. In many times in the name of the Roman Catholic Church, who brought diseases to a thriving land, and already settled land forever altering its course. Remember the stories of resilience and the lessons from our past. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mexicansarentgoinganywhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mexicansarentgoinganywhere</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndigenousVoices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousVoices</span></a>" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FkDonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FkDonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/latinos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>latinos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aztecs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chicano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chicano</span></a></p>
Resolviendo la incógnita 🌐<p>Dilatador azteca para las orejas fabricado con obsidiana. No solo pudieron trabajarla para hacerla transparente, sino que podían replicar el resultado a la perfección. 📷MET <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mexicas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mexicas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aztecs</span></a></p>
Archaeology News :verified:<p>New study uncovers vast obsidian trade networks of the Aztec Empire</p><p>A recent study by Tulane University and Mexico’s Proyecto Templo Mayor has revealed new information regarding the complex obsidian trade networks of the Mexica, popularly referred to as the Aztecs. By analyzing 788 obsidian artifacts recovered from the Templo Mayor—the main temple of Tenochtitlan...</p><p>More information: <a href="https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/vast-obsidian-trade-networks-of-the-aztec-empire/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archaeologymag.com/2025/05/vas</span><span class="invisible">t-obsidian-trade-networks-of-the-aztec-empire/</span></a></p><p>Follow <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@archaeology" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>archaeology</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archeology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aztecs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/aztecempire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aztecempire</span></a></p>
earthling<p>In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl by Merilee Grindle, 2023</p><p>Zelia Nuttall &amp; the Search for Mexico's Ancient Civilizations</p><p>The gripping story of a pioneering anthropologist whose exploration of Aztec cosmology, rediscovery of ancient texts, and passion for collecting helped shape our understanding of pre-Columbian Mexico. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anthropology</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biography</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aztecs</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BooksThatInfluencedYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BooksThatInfluencedYou</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aztec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aztec</span></a> by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GaryJennings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GaryJennings</span></a></p><p>(3/n)</p><p>Day 16:</p><p>...in 2012 (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AztecRevenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AztecRevenge</span></a>.)</p><p>Now, the first thing to know is that there were no <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aztecs</span></a>. This people who, according to legend, migrated to the swamps what later on became <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tenochtitl%C3%A1n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tenochtitlán</span></a>, nowadays the historic Center of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MexicoCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MexicoCity</span></a>, were called the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mexica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexica</span></a>. Back then, it was an island in...</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mina</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@Neireh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Neireh</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@MaJ1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MaJ1</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mattotcha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mattotcha</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://astrodon.space/author/2ndstar/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>2ndStar</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@energiepirat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>energiepirat</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://swiss.social/@evelynefoerster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>evelynefoerster</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tooting.ch/@SilviaMarton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SilviaMarton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>VeroniqueB99</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@si_irini" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>si_irini</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.net2o.de/@forthy42" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>forthy42</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GreenFire</span></a></span></p>
History Shapes<p>☀️ My Heart Goes Out to the Aztecs ❤️</p><p>NEW COMIC ⬇️<br><a href="https://www.historyshapes.com/my-heart-goes-out-to-the-aztecs/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">historyshapes.com/my-heart-goe</span><span class="invisible">s-out-to-the-aztecs/</span></a></p><p>Sam is a ray of sunshine while he and Mel explore the ancient <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aztec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aztec</span></a> Empire...:heart_fire:</p><p>Boost if you ❤️<br>Favorite if you 😏</p><p>Thank you for reading. - mert.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/comics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>comics</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Comics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cartoons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cartoons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComicStrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComicStrip</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkHumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkHumor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aztecs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AztecEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AztecEmpire</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Funny</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>One of the world’s biggest cities may be just months away from running out of water</p><p>by Laura Paddison, Jack Guy and Fidel Gutiérrez, CNN</p><p>February 25, 2024</p><p>"Alejandro Gomez has been without proper running water for more than three months. Sometimes it comes on for an hour or two, but only a small trickle, barely enough to fill a couple of buckets. Then nothing for many days.</p><p>"Gomez, who lives in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MexicoCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MexicoCity</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tlalpan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tlalpan</span></a> district, doesn’t have a big storage tank so can’t get water truck deliveries — there’s simply nowhere to store it. Instead, he and his family eke out what they can buy and store.</p><p>"When they wash themselves, they capture the runoff to flush the toilet. It’s hard, he told CNN. 'We need water, it’s essential for everything.'</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterShortages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterShortages</span></a> are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. 'Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.'</p><p>"Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterCrisis</span></a> as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>development</span></a> and leaky <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> — are compounded by the impacts of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>.</p><p>"Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures have added stress to a water system already straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped from reservoirs.</p><p>"'Several neighborhoods have suffered from a lack of water for weeks, and there are still four months left for the rains to start,' said Christian Domínguez Sarmiento, an atmospheric scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).</p><p>"Politicians are downplaying any sense of crisis, but some experts say the situation has now reached such critical levels that Mexico City could be barreling towards 'day zero' in a matter of months — where the taps run dry for huge swaths of the city.</p><p>Historic lows</p><p>"Densely populated Mexico City stretches out across a high-altitude lake bed, around 7,300 feet above sea level. It was built on clay-rich soil — into which it is now sinking — and is prone to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/earthquakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earthquakes</span></a> and highly vulnerable to climate change. It’s perhaps one of the last places anyone would choose to build a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/megacity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>megacity</span></a> today.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aztecs</span></a> chose this spot to build their city of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tenochtitlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tenochtitlan</span></a> in 1325, when it was a series of lakes. They built on an island, expanding the city outwards, constructing networks of canals and bridges to work with the water.</p><p>"But when the Spanish arrived in the early 16th century, they tore down much of the city, drained the lakebed, filled in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/canals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canals</span></a> and ripped out <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a>. They saw 'water as an enemy to overcome for the city to thrive,' said Jose Alfredo Ramirez, an architect and co-director of Groundlab, a design and policy research organization."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-world-biggest-cities-may-103023024.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/news/one-world-bigge</span><span class="invisible">st-cities-may-103023024.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Overdevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Overdevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Conquistadors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conquistadors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AncientTechnology</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeHeat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeDrought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeDrought</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a></p>
Art History Animalia<p>For <a href="https://historians.social/tags/WorldSerpentDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldSerpentDay</span></a>: <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Quetzalcoatl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quetzalcoatl</span></a>, the feathered <a href="https://historians.social/tags/serpent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serpent</span></a> deity of the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Aztecs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aztecs</span></a>, shown here in full zoomorphic form snacking on a human in the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Codex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Codex</span></a> Telleriano-Remensis, c. 1563.<br>BnF MS Mexicain 385 f. 18r: <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f61.item.zoom" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1</span><span class="invisible">b8458267s/f61.item.zoom</span></a></p>