Been curious about this since I found out about it. How could a people make these toys and put that much thought into them and never use it on a larger scale? It seems unlikely they wouldn't have figured out it works well for many things.
Hey Reddit! We’re beyond excited to finally share that Aztecs: The Last Sun has left Early Access! 🚀
This full release brings everything we’ve learned from the community into a complete, polished experience:
Here’s what’s new and what you can experience:
• Level 4 buildings and an Enlightenment perk in the tech tree - deeper city progression and more strategic options.
• God Offerings - special decisions that affect divine favor and city resilience.
• The Sun Pillar system - building all four modules weakens the Moon Goddess’s influence and changes night survival.
• Expanded story content - 2–3 hours of new quests, extra lore, and a new area in the Valley of Mexico.
• New game modes - offering different playstyles and strategic approaches.
• New difficulty levels - letting both newcomers and veterans adjust the challenge to their liking.
So what Aztecs: The Last Sun is about?
• City building with survival strategy - manage resources, build canals, and reclaim land on challenging terrain.
• Balance divine favor with economy - perform rituals or make tough choices that shape your people’s fate.
• Survival meets simulation - night attacks and the Moon Goddess keep every choice tense and meaningful.
We can’t wait for both Early Access veterans and new players to explore Tenochtitlán, experiment with strategies, and experience the full story for the first time. Thanks to everyone who joined us on this journey - your feedback helped make this moment possible!
Painted a 54mm metal figure of Hernán Cortés during the campaign in Mexico.
I tried to keep the colors and equipment grounded in the early 16th century Spanish conquest period rather than going for a fantasy look.
The sword was replaced with a hand-cut steel blade made from medical stainless steel instead of the original cast metal part.
Fully hand painted.
It feels like the window of time where this myth could make sense is pretty narrow. It's hard to imagine this story having much appeal before or during, say, the Trail of Tears. Maybe I'm mistaken but it feels like policy in this time must have relied on racism and dehumanization of Native Americans being widespread. But waiting a generation past the Trail of Tears (so the myth imagines a princess in an then-intact-now-vanished society, rather than positioning grandma as a victim of forced displacement whose family is currently struggling in an unfamiliar reservation) basically puts you in the 20th century. Anecdotally, I encountered this myth more than once in the 1990s. So that leaves only a handful of decades, and fairly recent ones, for the idea to become appealing, take the specific form of a Cherokee princess, and become widespread in white families. How much do we know about how this idea crystallized and propagated?
Of course i am talking about the polity before the Spanish conquest. Modern Tlaxcala without any doubt is a city.
But when reading what was before, I'd found a conflicting information. Sometimes in sources it is mentioned as contigous altepetl (jut like Texcoco, Tenochtitlan etc.) while in others it is called a confederacy of four separate towns, while "Tlaxcala" was a name common for a country. My suspision tho, given the distance from Ocotelolco to Tizatlan was less than 3 km, they functioned as a single settlement, situation a bit resembling ancient Sparta.
I'd be very glad if someone can enlighten me on this matter.
There are so many objects found in Chaco Canyon and affiliated sites like Salmon and Aztec Ruins. What clothing and clothing-related items have been found? And do we know exactly what was worn by these people?
Traditionally, they were made of animal or sometimes human skin and bones, but the surviving ones we have today were made of materials like wood and ivory in the late 1800s to be preserved.
Pemmican is dried meat pounded into powder, combined with rendered fat in equal proportions by weight, and pressed into bars with dried berries. That is the entire recipe. Three ingredients. No refrigeration. No cooking required to eat it. A shelf life measured in months to years under the right conditions. One pound of pemmican delivers approximately 3,000 to 3,500 calories, a full day of sustenance for an active adult, in a package you can carry in your coat pocket.
The Cree, Lakota, Blackfeet and dozens of other Plains nations had been making it for generations before the fur trade era, and when European explorers and traders encountered it they immediately understood what they were looking at. The Hudson's Bay Company built an entire industrial supply chain around it. Robert Falcon Scott took it to Antarctica. Ernest Shackleton's men ate it on the ice after the Endurance was crushed.
William Clark wrote in his journal near what is now Great Falls Montana in 1805: the Hunters killed 3 buffaloe, the most of all the meat I had dried for to make Pemitigon. The spelling is characteristically Clark, creative and phonetic, but the reference is unambiguous. The Corps of Discovery made pemmican from bison on the trail and first encountered it as a prepared food at the formal feast hosted by the Lakota Sioux early in the journey.
The journals of Lewis and Clark, edited by Gary Moulton and published by the University of Nebraska Press, are the most thoroughly documented food record in American exploration history and pemmican appears in them as a staple of survival rather than a curiosity. These men were eating nine pounds of fresh meat per man per day on good days and boiling candles to eat on bad ones. When they made pemmican they were thinking about the bad days.
Along the coast of Peru sits a giant mound. But what is hiding under all that dirt? Learn more today about the site of Huaca Prieta.
Need assistance finding primary source on the legend for a paper. Most papers I find only cite other papers or do their own field work. Thanks!
forgive me for the paywall.