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  1. Canals built by the Aztec Empire, in use after Spanish colonization

  2. Canals built by the Aztec Empire, in use after Spanish colonization

  3. Canals built by the Aztec Empire, in use after Spanish colonization

  4. Model of the main temples of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan

  5. Model of the main temples of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan

  6. An imagining of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (Yashaswi Karthik)

  7. An imagining of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (Yashaswi Karthik)

  8. An imagining of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (Yashaswi Karthik)

  9. Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire (now part of Mexico), map printed in Germany, 1524 AD

  10. Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire (now part of Mexico), map printed in Germany, 1524 AD

  11. Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire (now part of Mexico), map printed in Germany, 1524 AD

  12. Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire (now part of Mexico), map printed in Germany, 1524 AD

  13. New study uncovers vast obsidian trade networks of the Aztec Empire

    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...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/vas

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    #archaeology #archeology #obsidian #aztecs #aztecempire

  14. New study uncovers vast obsidian trade networks of the Aztec Empire

    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...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/05/vas

    Follow @archaeology

    #archaeology #archeology #obsidian #aztecs #aztecempire

  15. @mina

    #AztecEmpire

    (1/2)

    Ah, finally we've found something we disagree on. 😉

    For starters, depending on cultural and commercial exchanges of people's, epidemics seem to have taken weeks or months to spread during the first wave.

    In fact, the #TheGreatDying did start in the period you mentioned, 1520. The disease that ended the empire of the #Mexicas was...

    @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  16. @mina

    #AztecEmpire

    (1/2)

    Ah, finally we've found something we disagree on. 😉

    For starters, depending on cultural and commercial exchanges of people's, epidemics seem to have taken weeks or months to spread during the first wave.

    In fact, the #TheGreatDying did start in the period you mentioned, 1520. The disease that ended the empire of the #Mexicas was...

    @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  17. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #History
    #LatinAmerica
    #LittleIceAge
    #ClimateChange

    (19/19)

    ...the 16th century.

    How can this still/ever be resolved?

    //

    PS
    I'm sorry for the tedious page break, forced upon me by the Mastodon limit of 500k and the issue of counting handles, hyperlinks, as well as hashtags, too. 👎👎👎

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  18. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #History
    #LatinAmerica
    #LittleIceAge
    #ClimateChange

    (19/19)

    ...the 16th century.

    How can this still/ever be resolved?

    //

    PS
    I'm sorry for the tedious page break, forced upon me by the Mastodon limit of 500k and the issue of counting handles, hyperlinks, as well as hashtags, too. 👎👎👎

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  19. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (18/n)

    ...in particular in the present-day "developed" world.

    And yet another thought:

    Neither the biggest death bubble (WWII) im human history, nor any of the pandemics of the 20th and 21st century seems to have been able to cause a similar small "Ice Age" as did #TheGreatDying in...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  20. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (18/n)

    ...in particular in the present-day "developed" world.

    And yet another thought:

    Neither the biggest death bubble (WWII) im human history, nor any of the pandemics of the 20th and 21st century seems to have been able to cause a similar small "Ice Age" as did #TheGreatDying in...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  21. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (17/n)

    ...America was 10 percent of the world’s population before #Columbus. If that were true today, 👉there would be 700 million in the Indigenous world.👈" Imagine that.

    Besides, carbon use per person has increased dramatically, ...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  22. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (17/n)

    ...America was 10 percent of the world’s population before #Columbus. If that were true today, 👉there would be 700 million in the Indigenous world.👈" Imagine that.

    Besides, carbon use per person has increased dramatically, ...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  23. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (16/n)

    ...we see from this study is 👉the scale of what’s required [to battle anthropogenic #ClimateChange], because #theGreatDying resulted in an area the size of France being reforested👈 and that gave us only a few parts per million."

    Picture this:

    "Indigenous...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  24. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (16/n)

    ...we see from this study is 👉the scale of what’s required [to battle anthropogenic #ClimateChange], because #theGreatDying resulted in an area the size of France being reforested👈 and that gave us only a few parts per million."

    Picture this:

    "Indigenous...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  25. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (15/n)

    ...the 1500s cannot be balanced until large-scale vegetation regeneration in the Americas is included. 👉#TheGreatDying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas resulted in a human-driven global impact on the Earth system👈 in the two centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution.”

    And what...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  26. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (15/n)

    ...the 1500s cannot be balanced until large-scale vegetation regeneration in the Americas is included. 👉#TheGreatDying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas resulted in a human-driven global impact on the Earth system👈 in the two centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution.”

    And what...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  27. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (14/n)

    ...the #LittleIceAge?👈
    And was that a result of “natural forces” or because of the “large-scale #depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession...”?!?

    The authors say their study shows that the “global carbon budget of...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb

  28. #MexicanHistory
    #SpanishConquest of the #AztecEmpire
    #ClimateChange

    (14/n)

    ...the #LittleIceAge?👈
    And was that a result of “natural forces” or because of the “large-scale #depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession...”?!?

    The authors say their study shows that the “global carbon budget of...

    @mina @mattotcha @energiepirat @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @GreenFire @evelynefoerster @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @2ndStar @MAJ1 @scb