[dog breath]

I remember studying the Aztecs in anthropology classes decades ago and there was no doubt expressed about the human sacrifices. There continue to be excavations, like the one mentioned in the article, that confirm both Spanish and their own pictorial accounts. They were very efficient at this and according to there own records could sacrifice about one a minute. Blood was supposed to have sacred power and the sacrifices ensured the continuation of life as they knew it. I have never understood why people have such a sentimental view of Native American cultures. Even away from Meso America they were often brutal to captives, taking sport from torturing them to death. While there is much that is owed to Native Americans, foods, and even ideas that went into the shaping of our republic from the Iroquois, most were not the innocents they are portrayed. These were tough brutal men often engaged in never ending tribal warfare. The Meso Americans had a very advanced civilization but the gruesome reality of what they did is appalling by even Hitler's standards. Of course, in fairness, at the time of contact the Europeans were still killing hundreds of thousands of Europeans in public executions of heretics and witches.

[wagglebee]

I remember studying the Aztecs in anthropology classes decades ago

That was back when America still had Indians and Columbus Day was about discovering America, not "genocide."

[NewRomeTacitus]

Thanks for sharing your learning (post #60). It seems that the more brutal facts about previously-blessed cultures emerge the more desperate those who have a stake in white-washing them become. False-agenda liars need to be outed for the sake of factual history!