Oh, I don’t know. People like to think of northern Europe as being civilized but 2,000 ago they did occasional human sacrifices. And the most permanent structures they were able to cobble together were an occasional henge.
Two thousand years ago was 17 AD. By that time the Roman Empire controlled all of present day France, Belgium, and parts of today’s Germany and England. There were more than primitive stone structures and stone age mud huts by then.
Your article is about 1000 years ago not 2000 and nor am I aware of human sacrifice if Gaul on the level of the Mayans or Aztecs
Western civilization is not just Northern Europe
They were the laggards as you already know
The Med fostered civilization thousands of years prior to this so called civilization in Guatemala etc
I’ve been to Tikal
It ain’t Rome or Athens
The Maya were engaged in mass murder on a Nazi like scale when the Spanish arrived. The conquistadors were absolute heroes.
Northern Europe never approached Mayan levels of pagan barbarity. That’s a specious comparison.
Agree. What’s the difference between watching wild animals tear humans apart for entertainment in the Coliseum or a ritual sacrifice?