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“We fought for centuries to wrest our land from Moors, only to free ourselves by turning into the slaves of war. Deprived by victory of combat, we sailed far horizons in search of carnage and found the Indies. Now we must save them from our past.”

Chile Conquistadors 16th Century Arauco

Book:Arauco

Source: Arauco

“16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.”

Source: Become a Better You

“Dirty water will quench fire -”

Quotes About Life Lust Quotes Lust And Greed 16th Century Lust And Love

Author:Isaac Jeffries

“[Don Carlos] will always remain open-ended, asking to be fleshed out by the imagination of others, silently demanding a finale of his authors, no matter how fantastical.”

Historical Fiction Verdi 16th Century Schiller Spanish History

Book:The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions

Source: The Don Carlos Enigma: Variations Of Historical Fictions

“Do we prejudice our discussion and privilege traditional answers by styling the invaders as "explorers", th einvaded as "Indians", and their war as "the Conquest of Mexico" ?”

Mexico Conquista Conquistadors 16th Century Cortés Montezuma

Book:When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

Source: When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

“It is about something much larger -the pernicious prevalence and insidious ubiquity of traditional narratives that justify invasion, conquest and inequality.”

Mexico Conquista 16th Century Cortés Montezuma

Book:When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

Source: When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

“Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.”

Speech English Spelling 16th Century

Book:The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

Source: The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention

“No matter who you were in sixteenth-century Europe, you could be sure of two things: you would be lucky to reach fifty years of age, and you could expect a life of discomfort and pain. Old age tires the body by thirty-five, Erasmus lamented, but half the population did not live beyond the age of twenty. There were doctors and there was medicine, but there does not seem to have been a great deal of healing. Anyone who could afford to seek a doctor's aid did so eagerly, but the doctor was as likely to maim or kill as to cure. His potions were usually noxious and sometimes fatal—but they could not have been as terrible and traumatic as the contemporary surgical methods. The surgeon and the Inquisitor differed only in their motivation: otherwise, their batteries of knives, saws, and tongs for slicing, piercing, burning, and amputating were barely distinguishable. Without any anesthetic other than strong liquor, an operation was as bad as the torments of hell.”

Doctors Medicine Old Age Surgery Renaissance Inquisition 2006 16th Century

Book:The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

Source: The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

“TAMBURLAINE. [to BAJAZETH] Soft sir, you must be dieted, too much eating will make you surfeit. THERIDAMAS. So it would my lord, specially having so smal a walke, and so litle exercise.”

Exercise Diet 16th Century

Book:Tamburlaine

Source: Tamburlaine

“They would be shocked if they could see the other women in London: automechanics with grease in their hair, fisherwomen in from te coast with tatooed arms.”

Feminism 16th Century

Book:Timekeeper

Source: Timekeeper

“Once when I asked a chieftain in a certain province if he was a Christian, he said "I am not yet quite one, but I am making a beginning." I asked him what he knew of being Christian, and he said: "I know how to swear to God, and play cards a bit, and I am beginning to steal.”

Peru 16th Century

Author:Fray Domingo de Santo Tomas

“Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later.”

America Genocide Colonialism 17th Century 16th Century

Book:Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Source: Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues