[alexander_busek]

Like other royal estates, Machu Picchu was home not only to royalty and other elite members of Inca society, but also to attendants and workers hostages and bondsmen, many of whom lived in the estate year-round. [...] researchers have been able to confirm, with DNA evidence, the diversity of their backgrounds...

The results of the DNA analysis showed that the individuals captured women had come from throughout the Inca Empire, some as far away as Amazonia, most likely in chains.

In the case of the Aztecs, substitute "ritual sacrificial victims."

Regards,

[babble-on]

Rousseau’s Noble Savages were no more noble than the rest of us savages.