medievalpoc:

valarhalla:

valarhalla:

Fun fact: Tenochtitlan fell in 1521. From 1603 onwards, large numbers of honest-to-god fricking Japanese Samurai came to Mexico from Japan to work as guardsmen and mercenaries. 

Ergo, it would be 100% historically accurate to write a story starring a quartet consisting of the child or grandchild of Aztec Noblemen, an escaped African slave, a Spanish Jew fleeing the Inquisition (which was relaxed in Mexico in 1606, for a time) and a Katana-wielding Samurai in Colonial Mexico.

Also a whole bunch of Chinese Characters BECAUSE MEXICO CITY HAD A CHINATOWN WITHIN TEN YEARS OF THE FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE.

I love how much this shakes up people’s worldviews, and the way it makes you realize how unnaturally we isolate historical events (and peoples).

For people looking to dig into some research:

Charles Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created [Knopf, 2011], page 324:

The Chinese in Mexico, Robert Chao Romero

The Spanish Expulsion (1492); Judaism in Mexico

“Denunciation of Faith and Family: Crypto-Jews
and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico”, Rafaela Acevedo-Field 

**ETA just to make it clear I hate the title of the first book up there ^^ and the overall tone of it-I’m using it to verify information that’s true but the interpretation leaves quite a bit to be desired