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Mexicas. There was no Aztec Empire.
Plebs are obsessed with empires.
Level up and start being interested in ideologies, mythologies, languages and in larger terms, cultures.
I agree… I’m obsessed with certain native tribes cultures. It’s probably because our culture sucks and we are unconsciously searching for a better way
I wouldn’t say I agree 100% with McKenna, but he was a genius.
Terence McKenna Explains his Most Fundamental Concept “The Archaic Revival”
I won’t start writing my own version, I’d end up hitting the char limit. But I used to enjoy listening to him a lot. Still do sometimes.
Edit listening to this clip note that this is like a taped speech from the 90’s and McKenna is literally discussing memes. Back then it was just the scientific concept, not the cultural thing internet knows it as. But still. It’s around 10min
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(Source, btw.)
Unfortunately, quite a few guys end up obsessed with that one.
Does it even count as an empire? He had what, 5-6 years occupying parts of Europe?
I would say yes, just a very short-lived one. I’d struggle to come up with a definition of an empire that excluded Nazi Germany short of just arbitrarily imposing a minimum required lifespan. It was definitely a large, powerful, expansionist state that conquered other areas in order to subjugate them for the benefit of a metropole. The Reichskommisariats were basically intended as colonial administrations, not to mention client states like Slovakia
parts of Europe
Quite big parts
What’s the significance of the numbers?
What numbers, all I see is the years
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Does Napoleon and his realm count as empire for you? Or Alexander the Great?
Do science fiction empires count? Because I got imperium of man
Yes, but unfortunately the credits won’t transfer out.
Sweet. Terran Empire it is. Everyone gets a goatee! I’m not a guy though so it may not count :(
Goatee and/ or Shiny clothes
All enjoyers of history are welcome at the Department 🙏
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Unofficial ruling:
Yes, they count.
if so, and we also include mangas, I am a one piece historian (and also a member of library of ohara)
(i accidentally wrote magas instead of mangas, but i am still leaving it here in brackets, because someone actually made a joke of it which gave me a slight chuckle, so do not want to ruin that)
also include magas
History is today!
sorry it was meant to be mangas
I’m glad I got included as the orange speech bubble.
Today is Chicome Coatl (7 Snake) in the Tonalpohualli. Party on nerds.
Wait… You’re only supposed to get one? Do I return the others somehow? Is there any support email or phone I can contact?
Ah. The Persian empire then.
Well, one of several
The most amazing empire.
Well, that one or the Inca empire.
The Nobunaga and Tokugawa Shogunates.
And I’m not even a weeb. I only like, like, 6 animes. 😌
Is one of them Intrigue in the Bakumatsu?
Did you count pokemon?
Is one of them Boku no Pico? 😉
now great, what will google think of me 🙄
That’s how it starts
That wow looks like it’s coming out of that butt
I got the Grateful Dead as a freshman in uni and have stuck with that.
I think they’re just supposed to be interests, not religions.
Caliphates still count.
I was assigned The Scythians late in life
Thank goodness I’m too old to give a incan shit about this.
i was assigned Ancient Egypt pretty early on, i made my mum read to me things like the process of mummification for bedtime stories
Same here. By around 3rd grade I had taught myself how to phonetically read/write hieroglyphs. So I would write all sorts of English stuff in hieroglyphs, but I still couldn’t actually understand ancient Egyptian.
somehow my brain did a flip and i did the same but with nordic runes (elder futhark to be exact). now i’m catching up and trying to learn some ancient egyptian in my free time
Mughals are pretty cool, Mongol guy is right
Genghis Kahn did nothing wrong, he did it all for Börte.
one could make an argument that mughal empire is mongol empire, in the same sense that byzantine is roman (but not really)
babar, first (almost undisputed) ruler of mughal empire was descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan.
Unfortunately, I’m not indian enough to feel the same connection to the mughals as I do the mongols.
understandable.
I do not feel that connected to any empire, but if you talk in today terms, what is india, was not really a 1 big soverign entity. It was much like todays europe - tonnes of states. One could argue mughals were the most recent empire under which a very large part of current India was under (almost entirety of north and west and central). they had a larger cultural impact. Our current most spoken language (hindi) did not exist, lets just say, 200 years ago. there were tonnes of derivaties from older sanskrit and dravidian roots (european equivalent would be romanic and germanic roots). what mughals brought (not them, it existed before as brought by trade and previous empire (tipu sultante, which is very small, but still some what important)) were the languages usually used in islamic world - arabic and persian (farsi as we call it). from these older languages and their amalgamations we got “hindustani” . Consider it parent of hindi and urdu (most spoken languages in northern india, and pakistan). these 2 languages are in some sense same - 2 speakers can communicate orally, but not in writing, because urdu reatined the arabic script, and hindi retained the devanagri script (sanskrit). Mughals had a large enough impact on india, something our current administration really tries to downplay, and paint in very bad light. Yes, they were not the ideal, utopic, do-no-evil kingdom. But no empire has been that, ever. they were very comparable in terms of other empires in terms of social standards.
They gave us Biryani!
Mongol guy’s font change has been living in my head all afternoon. Why is it only him? Why does getting the Mongol empire make him start speaking in a Charles-Rennie-Mackintosh-looking font? Like, the artist obviously likes to play it loose with typefaces in the rest of the comic too, but this one guy seems like the centre of the typographical attention and I do not understand the choices made
He was so excited about his pick that he BECAME part of the Department
