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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone fucked up. I got Klingons.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Mine just said "DIY". I guess this is what I get for being a forever DM.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Getting the Aztecs is pretty good bc then you get to read up on the Tlaxcaltec too! (one of the reasons the Spanish were successful in Mexico was bc the Tlaxcallans decided to use them against their rivals the Aztecs instead of just killing them - they ended up joining the new nobility.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I originally got "Galactic," but then I got a letter a few years ago with "Maya." But like...I think they stack?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I mean, for one thing, the Rebel Base on Yavin 4 was filmed in Tikal, so they're definitely connected.

[–] ininewcrow 16 points 1 month ago

Holy Roman Empire!!!!????

It was neither "holy", nor "Roman" nor an "empire"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i got the american empire from 1910-1975 :/

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Good soundtrack in the late period

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oof, sorry bro. :(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Whelp...The Ottoman Empire

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yo Achaemenids is sick

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I must have been sick that day, I don't have an empire I'm obsessed over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not even 'empire' in the loose sense, like the Athenian Empire? 🥺

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nah not even that, like they're all interesting in their own way tho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ahem, I believe you are referring to the Delian League, the benevolent defensive cooperative centered on mutual aid and generous philanthropy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that there was no Aztec Empire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Waterdoc 4 points 1 month ago

It was the triple alliance, also called the Tenochca Empire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My point isn't that they weren't an empire, it's that they weren't Aztecs. The name Aztecs was given to them due to... drum roll... European Hegemony.