@vintagemapstore Woodland coverage of Germany - Roman era and today. The legions dealt with an entirely different animal.

All roads lead to Rome.

The language groups of Europe. Language dictates the real cultural boundaries.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡- An infographic of the current American military buildup around Iran

America dominates in civilian firearm ownership because Americans never internalized the idea that the state has a monopoly on violence.

It's rare a civilization has been defeated so completely. The people remained and mixed. The Church and the Spanish Crown replaced the demonic theocracy. And a new branch of Western Civilization was born.

When Cortes ended this abomination, he didn't do it alone. He allied with the people who had been preyed upon by the Aztecs for generations for tribute and sacrificial victims.

The empire fought wars, explicitly for the purpose of capturing victims for sacrifice. This wasn’t “war” in the normal sense. Battles were staged, ritualized, and constrained so captives could be taken alive. They were marched back to the capital, paraded, and systematically

Skulls were displayed publicly, hearts were removed ritualistically, victims' flesh was cooked with chilis and feasted upon by the nobility. Methods of killing included cutting out of the heart, flaying, burning alive, drowning, gladiatorial combat, and others.

The sacred precinct at the heart of the city and the empire. Every major structure here was religious and nearly all were tied directly to human sacrifice. The Great Temple hosted mass executions during festivals. Tens of thousands of victims could be killed over a few days,

This is the sacred heart of Tenochtitlan. Not a city center, but a state-run killing ground.

This is civil conflict without open violence. COVID accelerated ideological sorting by geography.

Samuel P. Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations called today’s geopolitical alignments decades ago. The ‘theory’ is aging like prophecy.

Same island. Same climate. One side kept civilization. The other dismantled it. The outcome is visible from space.

Wine isn’t culture-war aesthetics. It’s Roman inheritance. Demography decides who keeps civilization intact.

Land empires can expand fast but they can’t endure. The Mongols proved the limit: distance and logistics always win. Sea power scales. Land power breaks.

Define “Dominance”

This is the geography of abdication. The weakest belief that children are a social duty appears exactly where institutions are oldest and most exhausted. Longevity bred complacency and decline has followed.

The earth is completely enveloped in satellites. Space is the strategic high ground.

India wasn’t colonized by accident. It was the prize. This ancient trade map is the origin story. Britain didn’t conquer India for ideology—it conquered what Europe had chased for 1,500 years.

This map is the future, not an anomaly. Europe and East Asia age out. Africa compounds. Global norms will increasingly orbit African family structures, moral priorities, and social instincts.