MoundLore
@MoundLore
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Uncovering America’s forgotten past. Fact-driven. Lore-obsessed. Mounds, myths, maps and the stories beneath our feet.
Joined November 2024
From Farm Boy to World’s Navigator. James Cook wasn’t born into empire. He was born into mud. By the time he died, three continents bore his name on their maps. A 🧵series
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RT @MoundLore: James Cook didn’t die at sea. He died on a Hawaiian beach in 1779 caught between reverence and rage, between empire and a p….
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In the 1950s, U.S. kids were taught to survive a nuclear blast by hiding under their desks. Bright cartoon pamphlets. Singing turtles. ‘Duck and cover!’. We laugh at it now.but it’s proof that sometimes denial is policy. Would you trust your government in a moment like that?.
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RT @MoundLore: By the early 1500s, reports of brutality reached the Spanish court. Petitions charged Columbus with tyranny and misrule. E….
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Sometimes it feels like we’re talking to shadows. Millions of posts, likes, and replies but how many are even real?.The Dead Internet theory claims most of what we see online is bots. If the web is already half-fake, what does that make the world built on it?.
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By the early 1500s, reports of brutality reached the Spanish court. Petitions charged Columbus with tyranny and misrule. Even the Crown debated his fate. Which of these titles endure longer….Explorer, Admiral, or Tyrant?. Next we’ll be looking at how he was judged in his own
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The genocide of the Caribbean was not hidden. It was documented. Debated. And even as the empire grew, doubts about Columbus himself grew with it.
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Bartolomé de las Casas, who saw it firsthand, wrote:. “[They] made war upon the inhabitants like wolves upon sheep.”. His words carried across Europe, a warning Spain could not ignore.
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Governor Nicolás de Ovando of Hispaniola became infamous for cruelty. His name spread in letters across Europe. Even fellow Spaniards compared his policies to butchery.
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By 1514, reports reached Spain of islands once thriving now “desolate.”. In Jamaica, chroniclers recorded a 90% population collapse in one generation. The empire gained wealth…but ruled over silence. What kind of empire thrives only when its subjects are gone?
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Communities dissolved into mines, fields, or famine. Those who escaped into forests and mountains were tracked, cornered, and torn down like prey.
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Chronicler Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo described how Spaniards trained dogs to rip men apart. “as if they were hogs.”. This wasn’t war. It was slaughter.
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The encomienda expanded.A system dressed as “protection” and “Christianization.”.In truth—slavery. What kind of faith needs chains and dogs to spread?
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Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico. Each new island saw the same script:. Tribute demanded. Resistance crushed. Infants dashed against rocks, mothers cut down defending them.
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Columbus didn’t just “discover.”. He exported a system of quotas, mutilation, and terror….a blueprint that shattered the Caribbean. Almost no one is taught this. Gold, Greed, and Genocide. Follow along for more of the Columbus 🧵series
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RT @MoundLore: North America once had cities of pyramids, plazas, and observatories. We plowed them under for farmland, paved them for high….
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RT @MoundLore: By 1177 BC, nearly every great empire of the Bronze Age collapsed. Cities burned, trade routes broke, writing systems vanish….
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RT @MoundLore: That’s a common mix-up. Cook never actually “gifted pigs” to the Tasmanians themselves….what he did was release livestock (g….
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