Posted on 06/27/2018 7:53:35 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
Aztec human sacrifices were far more widespread and grisly that previously thought, archaeologists have revealed.
In 2015 archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) found a gruesome 'trophy rack' near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City.
Now, they say the find was just the tip of the iceberg, and that the 'skull tower' was just a small part of a massive display of skulls known as Huey Tzompantli that was the size of a basketball court.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The Conquistadors rolling in there was a rough equivalent to the allied armies rolling into the nazi death camps.
I’m no Catholic apologist, but they ended a horrific bloody society.
But all cultures are equal...
Mexicans will be proud of this latest revelation. Meanwhile, Christians need to continue to be ashamed of past excesses.
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Spanish Conquistadors sharpened their swords in Spain on the moors for 700 years before they set foot in the Americas. There were more crusaders to the middle east from Spain than any other country. Forced conversions and elimination of heretics was the Conquistador stock in trade.
True ... but unfortunately, the European diseases they unwittingly brought with them killed millions ... so probably it would have in fact been better for the Indians had the Aztecs stayed in power from that standpoint ... in North America alone, it is estimated that 9/10ths of the native population was wiped out by diseases (mainly Small Pox) brought by the Europeans ...
... but in any event, that was just happenstance ... whenever two civilizations first meet, the more virile, superior one, will dominate the other ... that’s the way of the world ... ironically, it is only the wealthiest, decaying civilizations that historically seem to lose their instinct for self-preservation .. kind of like Western Europe today ...
The Conquistadors were heroes.
But parents weren’t separated from their children, were they?
“so probably it would have in fact been better for the Indians had the Aztecs stayed in power from that standpoint”
Bullcrap. Pure revisionist bullcrap. Europeans had diseases that indians had never been exposed to. So whenever the contact was made, the diseases were going to follow.
“...ironically, it is only the wealthiest, decaying civilizations that historically seem to lose their instinct for self-preservation .. kind of like Western Europe today …”
Now our poorest are actually the most likely to be obese. Something that has never happened before, at least as far as what has been recorded or extrapolated from evidence.
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Actually, the lies they teach about the conquistadors isn’t even that the Aztecs weren’t that bad; it’s that the conquistadors destroyed the Aztecs at all. According to the “black legend,” Cortez killed thousands upon thousands of Aztecs. But he didn’t have nearly enough men to do the killings attributed to him; the Aztec empire wasn’t killed by Cortez, but rather it commited suicide as he arrived.
The Nazis had nothing on the Aztecs.
Sounds like just another workday at Planned Butcherhood...before lunch.
No, of course not. They weren't animals! Families were kept together on the wall of skulls.
You misunderstand me.
My comment was not about the savage, bloodthirsty culture of the Aztecs ... it was meant from purely a numerical standpoint. The European diseases brought about a “New World” equivalent of the “Black Death” epidemic of Mideaval Europe ... magnified severalfold and compressed in time ... that is the real tragedy of the conquest of the Americas ... not the replacement of local culture by European ...
... that was just the natural order of things in human history. I was commenting on the terrible human cost the European diseases caused ..
BTW, Cortez would NOT have been able to conquer the Aztecs given his small numbers, but for the fact that at the critical moment during the conquest a Small Pox epidemic broke out in Tenochtitlan, wiping out thousands in the Aztec capital city, and in doing so shaking the faith of the survivors in Aztec culture, making Cortez’ final push a success ...
... Cortez was also aided (in fact, 90% of his Army was manned by) by thousands of Indian allies from cities that the Aztecs had ruled and terrorized ... sadly, being allies of the Spanish did nothing to protect those people from the same diseases ...
The self-loathing white liberals would have you believe that all of the Native Americans were peaceful hunter-gatherers who never bothered anyone.
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