I’m damn near 40, can I please talk to you about the Aztec Empire for an hour and a half?
The way that Mesoamerica built their civilization in isolation from the old world is intensely fascinating (example: making farm land in the middle of lakes). The uniqueness in the way they extracted resources to what was considered valuable gives insight into the way humanity develops. The Mexica Empire/Valley of Mexico Triple Alliance/The Tenochca Empire/Aztec Empire is particularly interesting due it’s success being derived from an abundance of practices already in place rather than innovation (they revved up everything to an 11). Their approach to warfare emphasizing one on one combat was dramatic. Finally their methods of human sacrifice are some of the most metal things I’ve ever heard to the point where I find violence in fiction to be banal by comparison.
Would you like to expand on resource extraction? This is of particular interest to me.
There is some good long form documentaries on YouTube about this topic and a lot of the old History Channel content out there before it went to hell in a hand basket
That’s the oldest-looking 33 year old…
Yeah, whoever made this was probably 20 and thinks that’s what a 33-year-old looks like.
Not having good sunblock back then made people look a lot older than they were.
Don’t knock a deep dive into the Battle of Midway until you’ve tried it.
But make it the Montemayor one, Part 1 being from the Japanese perspective, taking us along for a wild ride inside the fog of war.
The level of quality narrative is nothing short of outstanding.
That one is amazing! The operations room also has a good overview, though it’s not nearly as in depth.
“It’s ya boi gobbledeznutz here’s my 17 hour video essay on the first diesel battle ship and how it lead to beanie babies.” Presented in PowerPoint maybe with a bit of total war if your lucky And you watch the whole thing
Yes, except all the information you seek is inside the great Wikipedia.
Depends on the subject matter. The less popular subject matters still should be read in books.
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Depends on how “popular” of a subject it is. There are plenty of subjects on Wikipedia that are not popular enough to have ever been published about in print.
I guess that’s the other side of the coin. I’m a Mesoamerican history nerd and a lot of the articles on Wiki are sparse at best on the subject or outright misinformation (repeated misinformation I see almost verbatim copied and pasted). I see your point though, without an easy way of archiving information a lot of subjects would and have fallen through the cracks in humanity’s notice.