Essentially, a friend of mine knows I like mesoamerican culture and history as a light hobby, and wanted visual references for a variety of mesoamerican cultures in terms of their art (including both literal artwork, pottery, cloth, etc) and architectural motifs, so he could compare them and decide what influences to use in a personal project of his.

I'd also love to have this as well, personally. I know just from internet browsing over the years what a lot of maya (and I realize "maya" covers a huuuge range of different styles and peoples over a large breadth of time, especially since they are still around today, but i'm generalizing a bit here) art and architecture looks like vs, say, Nahua, particular Tenochtitlan, but I know next to nothing about west mexican cultures or how a lot of pre-aztec (toltec, teotuhucan, etc), or even just contemporary, but non tenochca cultures/sites (The Tontacs, Tlaxcala, etc) still in central or Oaxacan mexico differed from the Mexica.

I don't need, like, a super detailed breakdown of different art and architectural influences for every non-maya mesoamerican and aridoamerican (though that would be awesome!), just links to galleries of art/pottery orarchitectural examples of artistic reconstructions of settlements/cities would be nice, I guess i'm just basically asking for direction to resources that I wouldn't be able to easily find via searching for "[site/culture name] art and architecture" on google.

I would also take/love to look at any resources for andean cultures as well, but that's obviously out of the purview of the subreddit.

EDIT: I should also note that i'm not saying I don't want/need resources for Mexica art motifs and info on the differences between it and other mesoamerican cultures, merely that that's what I already have the most info for so it's not as much a priory.

Take the Olmec, Aztec and Maya civilisations and compare their architectural styles and you'll quickly realise that despite existing during different eras in history, each culture built very similar things to each other in a very similar fashion. For example, they all built stepped pyramids around large flat plazas, often with a single main pyramid. They all built ball courts and palaces in a similar way too. Was there a reason for this?

I had always been taught in school that no civilization in the Americas had reached a bronze age or discovered metal tools at all before the arrival of Europeans. Which was supposedly one of the excuses given for Europeans to consider the natives "inferior". But is this common belief even true? If so, how did the great Civilizations such as the Aztec, Maya, and Inca develop such sophisticated architecture and gold smithing/jewellery work with only stone tools?

More specifically how did these groups refer to their own architecture in their native languages? Are there any primary sources suspect, as many new world documents can be, or not that reference how these or later groups referred to their architecture?

I have a hard time picturing what Mesoamerican cities looked like outside of their monumental architecture. I know there were a lot of urban centers with large populations, but it seems like reconstructions of the cities always focus on their temples and pyramids -- not the places average residents would spend most of their lives. What would a rich person's house in Teotihuacan look like? Would it have a second floor or basement? Some kind of front door? A thatched roof? Was there a neighborhood pulque bar down the street?

First post here, hope it's ok.

While I love AoE2, there are a few historical-based changes here and there I would make to give some of the civs a bit more life and accuracy. Now, most of these are smaller-scale and don't involve things that have never happened (like changing civ names) as things like that open a can of worms. So this is just adding units, or changing architecture. Anyway, this is mostly for fun, and me getting some brainstorming onto paper.

Indians - Give access to Battle Elephants
India is well known for its elephants, and it seems odd that this civ only uses them as chonky cavalry archers.

Mongols & Huns - Create new architecture set based on the yurt design
The Hun architecture makes very little sense, and the Mongol one only works in the context of the Yuan Dynasty.

Vikings - Create new architecture set for them based on their Wonder design
The Central-European set only sorta works during the Feudal age, then it looks very out of place. It's even more egregious when they build their Wonder.

Sicilians - Give access to the camel-line
A big deal was made over them being a cultural mix, yet that wasn't very evident in their tech tree. Also Sicilians used to raise horses with camels to get them used to the smell, so they clearly had access to them.

Turks - Give access to the Steppe Lancer
Seems odd that a (even partially) steppe nomad civ does not have access to this unit.

Huns - Give access to the Steppe Lancer
Similar reason to the previous point. Probably a horrific idea balance-wise haha.

Huns - Remove Atheism tech and replace with...anything else
The Huns were not an atheist people. Plus the tech is really weird.

Saracens - Change the Mameluke to a horse-type cavalry unit
It's not even the right kind of camel. Seriously, this thing is just bizarre.

Persians - Change to Central-Asian architecture
Been covered multiple times as to why.

Persians - Add a unique further stage for the Cavalry Archer line with more defense
Parthians and Persians were well-known for cavalry archers, but isn't reflected in-game with any bonuses or even fully-upgraded Cavalry Archers. An upgrade with a lot of armour would reflect their cavalry archers better.

Lastly; Turks, Malians, Persians, Saracens, Berbers, Indians, Tatars all use the Imam skin for their monks. And Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Mongols, Vietnamese, Malay, Khmer, Burmese use the East-Asian Monk skin.
Different skins for Monks are possib

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The Maya civilization inhabited much of Central America that is now Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and within the five southern states of Mexico: Campeche, Chiapas, Quintanaro, Tabasco, and Bucatan. The Mayan civilization is historically divided into three phases: pre-classic, classical and post-classical, and these phases preceded by the beginning of human gatherings in an era that began in 8000 BC and was known as the beginning of development in the field of agriculture. About 2000 BC to 250 BC), according to the Mesoamerican chronology, many Mayan cities reached their highest level of development during the Classic period (roughly 250 AD until 900 AD), and continued through the Postclassic until the arrival of the Spaniards. Their civilization was estimated to date about 3000 years, during that long time they spoke many languages ​​and dialects from which today about 44 different Mayan languages ​​are born, and it was known as the only civilization in the development of the written language in the Americas before Columbus, as well as art, architecture and mathematics and astronomy systems, and they were the first to know the use of rubber and the first to turn cocoa beans into chocolate.

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The Maya people did not disappear completely, neither at the time of the decline of the classical period nor with the arrival of the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas, where the Mayan people at the present time constitute the majority of the population of all Mayan regions.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Hi guys and girls! This is going to be a long, long post, and its my first one here, so sorry about that in advance. If you find it thought provoking or in any way helpful, I'd love to hear your opinion. Hope you enjoy it! :)

GENERAL CHANGES

>ARCHITECTURE

• Persians: change their architecture set from Middle Eastern ▶ Central Asian*.
• Introduce a new Eurasian steppe architecture, based on the nomadic or semi nomadic origin of the Cumans, Huns and Mongols** (Yurts are already in the game and look great, the rest of the set could be inspired by their style, making cities look more like temporary encampments, especially for the Huns).

^(* Is it just me, or the Central Asian architecture set) ^(IS) ^(inspired by persian buildings? Well, make it coherent then. Just my opinion :) (also, cuman and tatar architecture, everytime I play them, give me a AoE 1 vive, feels like the old persian architecture.)

^(** Maybe Magyars could get this set until they research Apostolic Kingdom, adding even more flavor to the civ (see below).)

>UNITS

Knight line: include reskins for non european knights, but without much effort... they are already in the game!:

African civs: Sundjata hero unit.

>^(Ethiopians)

Eastern asian civs: Le Lai hero unit.

>^(Chinese ● Koreans ● Japanese ● Vietnamese)

Southern asian civs: Envoy hero unit.

>^(Burmese ● Khmer ● Rajputs ()^(current Indians)^() ● Tamils)

Also, Cavaliers and Paladins shouldn't be a generic unit, capable of being available to any civ, but rather a regional unit for the christian nations of Europe and Western Asia. Still, Knights are too much of an iconic unit for our game and our meta, so I thought we should only remove them from those civs which gain a new unit, not necessarily replacing it, but more like "compensating" such civs for the loss of knights. This change would look like this:

Knight civs

>^(Burmese ● Chinese ● Ethiopians ● Khmer ● Koreans ● Japanese ● Malay ● Rajputs ()^(current Indians)^() ● Vietnamese)

Cavalier civs

>^(Bohemians ● Britons ● Bulgarians ● Celts ● Goths ● Italians ● Poles ● Portuguese ● Sicilians ● Slavs ● Vikings*)

*^(* I know, Vikings were not christians, at least not in their famous pillaging and raiding days. I chose to leave it as is because, despite having the Jarl model in the scenario editor, the vikings already get 2 unique units, and renaming knights to Jarls would technical

I made a thread some time ago about how Americans complain too much about Japanese drawing Black people in stereotypical ways (wide noses, big lips, curly hair, thug attitude etc.) and, while I agree with this, I feel people should care more about the representation their own country brings to the rest of the world.

Let's be honest, the US is the biggest cultural exporter in the world, and the things they do in Hollywood end up being believed as a truth by lots of people who don't have direct contact with distant cultures. Someone from Poland or Indonesia who watches an American movie where Mexico is a huge sepia desert full of lazy brown people wearing ponchos and 'sombreros' (it's actually called a charro hat, calling it sombrero is stupid because that word is just the generic word for any full grip hat, so an English top hat is also a sombrero) will believe that's what Mexico actually looks like as there aren't lots of sources available for their language to know what life in Mexico looks like.

So... as part of my critic to American media, I'll show you some of the several times American media has been shown to have no idea what Latin America looks like:

Mexico: the land of charro hats or 'sombruerous' like Americans pronounce it, ponchos, spicy food, Día de Muertos, La Llorona (remember the double l is pronounced more like a 'j'). Probably the most affected by American misinformation and, due to American ignorance, these tropes get spread to the rest of the region as well.

• The sepia filter. The prime example of this is Breaking Bad, where the air suddenly changes its physical properties once it crosses the border. My headcannon is that Americans use that filter to show how advanced they are compared to those dirt-ass Mexicans who probably wallow on the sand like pigs. After all they sleep under cacti wearing sombreros, right?
• In The Simpsons, Tijuana is a colonial era town in the desert, when it's nothing like that of course. The scene doesn't seem to be satirical compared to the Brazil episode, so it'd be weird to say 'well, it's The Simpsons, they did it on purpose'.
• This one can be shared with Peru as it was involved. In Call of Duty: Warzone they have this weapon weapon pack called Aztlán, which is the name of the legendary city from where Aztecs come from. It'

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Sometimes, I will listen to an audiobook, absolutely love it, and I will know it is a book I have to review. That way, I can share it with other people. Of course, sometimes life gets in the way, or I have to put it off for other reasons. But, sooner or later, I usually get around to it. That brings us to the book we'll be reviewing today. We're taking a look at Island in the Sea of Time by SM Stirling.

Island in the Sea of Time begins on 1998 AD on the island of Nantucket. It's a sleepy little island off the coast of Massachusetts, but also a popular tourist destination. Everyone is looking forward to what the new year will bring. Then, without warning, the sky is completely filled with a strange red light. The people of Nantucket notice some strange things once the sky returns to normal. The cities on the mainland have been replaced by unbroken forest, there are no radio signals, and the stars in the are totally different. Before long everyone reaches a startling conclusion: they've been sent back in time to the Bronze Age. Specifically, they're now in the year 1250 BC.

Like it or not, the people of Nantucket are going to change the past no matter what they do. Will they choose to create a better world; one free from the mistakes of the old? Or will a hostile flag of conquest fly across the Bronze Age world?

I'd known about this book for a while. It's kind of hard not to if you're into alternate history. The online alternate history has its own slang and acronyms for various tropes. One of these is named ISOT, which, of course, is short for Island in the Sea of Time. It refers to any land or individuals, from as small as a single person to as large as a whole country, getting transported to a different time, usually somewhere in the past. You then try to imagine what happens from there, much as this book series does.

I'm glad I finally got around to checking this series out. It was as excellent as I thought it would be, and it quite well researched as well. Obviously, with all the competing theorizes about life in the Bronze Age, there's no way that Stirling could possibly be faithful to them all. That having been said, the ones that he does decide to go with are extremely well researched. Moreover, Stirling had to, in essence, create many of the cultures feature in this series completely out of whole cloth. This is by necessity due to lack of surviving written records. For exampl

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Something I just realised when looking at the new Guardian-type thing in the BOTW 2 teaser is that it reminds me a lot of ancient Mesoamerican jade mosaic masks, especially in the symmetry and earring-like design. These were a few that came up when I did a quick search: here, here, and the pendant at the top of this essay here.

From this, I really believe that the Guardian-like, ancient robot will be related to the Zonai, as I feel like there are a lot of overlaps between ancient Mesoamerican cultures and the way the Zonai have been portrayed in BOTW:

• The Palmorae Ruins monument is reminiscent of an Aztec calendar stone
• The classic "Zonai swirl" and design of the ancient ruins is similar to ancient Mesoamerican architecture
• Stone sculptures of Quetzalcoatl look very similar to the Zonai dragon heads in Faron
• The Barbarian armour headpiece resembles ancient Aztec armour which often had feather headdresses
• Though it's not confirmed to be related to the Zonai, the hand holding Ganondorf that then grabs Link is wearing jewellery with a similar pattern to the Xicalcoliuhqui motif, a known motif in Mesoamerican cultures. The wiki entry describing the meaning is interesting thinking about the Zonai's worship of Farosh: "the motif is associated with many ideas, and is variously thought to depict water, waves, clouds, lightning, a serpent or serpent-deity like the mythological fire or feathered serpents"
• Zonai ruins being found primarily in tropical regions
• A sud

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "