Anahuatlacanco: The Land Between the Waters, Land of the Nahuatlaca
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Got ya!
But all we need is for thing to go sour just a bit for an autocratic Montezuma, and for Atlixcatzin to develop a tiny, just a tiny bit of ambition, for Cortez to stick his metal wrapped foot in.
Let's all pray that he doesn't. Congrats on the TL again!
Cuāuhtemōc
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He's had shades of this in OTL but it's been eclipsed by him being an incompetent, gullible buffoon in handling the Spaniards. He's nothing like the first Montezuma but I do not intend to make him too foolish looking as the Spanish accounts have treated him. For now, Montezuma will have a slightly better handling of the Spanish with Atlixcatzin acting as the Straight Man and his responsibilities as ruler-to-be grows. And of course there are divisions within the Spanish army themselves that will facilitate this as well.
I'm going to try to get another medium-sized update ready for y'all before I head back to school after this week. I plan it to have some focus on Alvarado, a bit more on the growing conspiracy amongst some of the conquistadors who are growing weary of Mexico, Teuhtlile's second arrival and Cortes' eventual plans for the expedition.
Indeed. We should really try and find some way to force him, this is too good of a TL to let die.Nah Cuauhtemoc needs to update it,
How about we all start spouting misinformation about the Aztecs, forcing him to write an informative update in response?
Kosta
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How about we all start spouting misinformation about the Aztecs, forcing him to write an informative update in response?
I think we can do that.
The Aztecs sacrificed their victims for fun, right, just before they had their fun with them, first, right? I mean, I'm going off what the Spanish liberators said; I mean, those guys seemed to have known their stuff.
Luís, weren't you the one who said that Aztecs found the concept of universal education utterly repulsive, and they never implemented a public school system for everyone ever? I could've sworn that was you.
These Aztecs seemed to have been quite the conservative bunch. I believe that they might have supported Romney in the 2012 Election.
Oh, he gon' be pissed now
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Huehuecoyotl
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I think we can do that.
The Aztecs sacrificed their victims for fun, right, just before they had their fun with them, first, right? I mean, I'm going off what the Spanish liberators said; I mean, those guys seemed to have known their stuff.
Luís, weren't you the one who said that Aztecs found the concept of universal education utterly repulsive, and they never implemented a public school system for everyone ever? I could've sworn that was you.
These Aztecs seemed to have been quite the conservative bunch. I believe that they might have supported Romney in the 2012 Election.
Oh, he gon' be pissed now
Those Aztecs, right? That's what they called themselves?
While I'm trying to clean the foam off my keyboard you folks had best start to consider your actions and the collateral damage they have already caused. Another conniption like that and I'm toast!
I heard the Aztecs didn't even bathe! When the Spanish showed up, the first thing they thought was how badly they smelled!
And then there's this whole chicken-god thing. Something about a pterodactyl, I dunno.
Kosta
Banned
Oh great, my comedic chum brought in the wrong expert-shark. Aw, TEEYEETS!
Lets try this again. Ecuador, isn't that that former Spanish-colony in Subsaharan Africa? Or is it one of the states of Mexico?
But actually, Luís, we miss you and your works
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Huehuecoyotl
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And of course, they only ever went to war to appease said chicken-god with blood. After all, the Aztecs never went to war for economic or political reasons.
By the way, didn't they go to war with the Olmecs?
*watches 9 Fanged's fit from afar*
Technically speaking this bit wouldn't be incorrect, I would be very surprised if the Mexica didn't actually fight the Olmecs. You see, Olmec was originally the Nahua name for a contemporary people who lived on the Gulf Coast, the name meaning "Rubber people" because their land was a rich source of rubber. The term was later used by archaeologists to refer to the early Mesoamerican civilization because at first they believed them to be of the same people because they lived in the same area, though this later was known to be obviously untrue.
Speaking of the Olmecs, they actually didn't do anything. All of those heads and spheres were made by the shipwrecked survivors of Atlantis
Huehuecoyotl
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Or people from Africa...
Ah, I remember reading about this somewhere. I hope historians have bothered to invent a term to distinguish the two in the intervening 500 years?
Not that I'm aware of. Maybe we can get closer to one once we establish what language they spoke but even that is far from certain. Though when I think about it it's surprising they haven't since "Aztec" is more or less an invented term used by historians to distinguish the historical Mexica from the present Mexicans.
Huehuecoyotl
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I guess even a different nonsensical, invented term would do us more good.
I suppose linguists could try and reconstruct the Proto-Mixe-Zoque word for "Rubber People" but I'd be very surprised if the first Mesoamerican civilization called themselves rubber people.I guess even a different nonsensical, invented term would do us more good.