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To: CorporateStepsister

Cool. Too bad the Spaniards burned the rest.


3 posted on 09/13/2016 9:57:26 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

Or not, the crazy left would certainly try to emulate some of the Mayan rituals.


4 posted on 09/13/2016 10:00:48 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: VanShuyten

You have to understand. The Spanish were sickened by what they found. The Spanish arriving in their cities was roughly equivalent of the Allied armies liberating the Nazi death camps.

They only saw it needed to be eradicated. And they were correct.


5 posted on 09/13/2016 10:03:48 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: VanShuyten

As the other freeper pointed out these are two different groups of people.

The Mayan civilization of city states was about 800 years ago and died out a couple hundred years before the Aztecs moved into central Mexico. Mayans had human sacrifice but nobody did it to the scale of the Aztecs.

What actual Aztec codecs still survive are mostly about accounting. Conquered people had to pay tribute to the empire and the Aztecs kept meticulous records of it.

BTW the movie Apocalypto (brilliant though bloody) is not a documentary. It blends the Aztecs and Mayans together for dramatic effect. I thought that movie was about Christianity anyway but that’s a different story.


12 posted on 09/14/2016 6:01:18 AM PDT by Varda
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