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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: FierceKitty on 03 March 2019, 07:15:02 AM

Title: Where is Mexico?
Post by: FierceKitty on 03 March 2019, 07:15:02 AM
A Wikipedia entry on the Florentine Codex: "one of the most remarkable accounts of a non-Western culture ever composed."

Call me geographically challenged, but I must say that from the perspective of an Iberian, Mexico must be about as Western as it gets.
Title: Re: Where is Mexico?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 03 March 2019, 08:50:09 AM
I suspect that in this case "western" means European, in the same way  as English means British. 
Title: Re: Where is Mexico?
Post by: FierceKitty on 03 March 2019, 08:52:05 AM
And war is peace, freedom is slavery....
Title: Re: Where is Mexico?
Post by: steve_holmes_11 on 03 March 2019, 10:15:25 AM
Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 March 2019, 07:15:02 AM
A Wikipedia entry on the Florentine Codex: "one of the most remarkable accounts of a non-Western culture ever composed."

Call me geographically challenged, but I must say that from the perspective of an Iberian, Mexico must be about as Western as it gets.

But not if you consider it the Indies. - Pesky spherical geometry!!
Title: Re: Where is Mexico?
Post by: FierceKitty on 03 March 2019, 11:32:35 AM
Whichever way it goes, a few action shots from down Mexico way (or is it up Mexico way now?) today. I was the Aztecs, and Lee commanding the Spaniards, with whom she clobbered me for the third time running. I've created a monster, gentlemen!
Title: Re: Where is Mexico?
Post by: FierceKitty on 03 March 2019, 11:34:23 AM
Almost every melee worked out the same; bong, bong, clunk, as macanas bounced off morions....
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Post by: FierceKitty on 03 March 2019, 11:35:40 AM
Even those matchlocks, taken in flank and facing the Cuachicqueh, lost only one element.
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Post by: FierceKitty on 03 March 2019, 11:36:50 AM
One clear thing; to regain my authority in this household, I'll have to take Poles against Muscovites next time.
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Post by: Leman on 03 March 2019, 02:43:06 PM
South of the border!
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Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 03 March 2019, 05:47:45 PM
Eek
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Post by: Shedman on 03 March 2019, 08:50:25 PM
Where is Mexico?

To quote Porfirio Díaz "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"
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Post by: d_Guy on 03 March 2019, 10:22:21 PM
Go toward the setting sun until people start speaking Spanish, then turn left.
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Post by: Leman on 03 March 2019, 11:05:36 PM
Won't they then be speaking Portuguese?
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Post by: d_Guy on 03 March 2019, 11:08:31 PM
Relative to my location, the center of the universe
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Post by: paulr on 03 March 2019, 11:10:13 PM
Depends where you start ;)

In my case they'll be speaking Australian and then it will get very cold...