Posted on 06/27/2018 10:32:59 PM PDT by ransomnote
Seems plausible that MS13 and the cartels are direct descendants of the Aztecs.
Cortez had only a few guns and soldiers. But he served as the core for the revolt of all the natives oppressed by their rulers.
Aztecs taking jobs US citizens won't do.
Next thing you know, the revisionists will be telling us that American Indians learned scalping from the settlers.
...oh, wait; they’ve been telling us that for 40 years.
That's the point I like to make to our young, rising generation of indoctrinated twits. The Spanish Conquest was a liberation for the Indians and, even though they ended up switching masters, an enormous net gain. The catastrophe for the Indians was the disease wave, which killed 90 percent of them. The anti-historical radicals conflate the two.
No. The viciousness and scale of Aztec human sacrifices were reported by the conquistadors and have been acknowledged by serious historians. Then the radical, anti-western fabricators set out to rewrite the record. That false narrative is now being torpedoed by archeological evidence.
I wouldn't go that far. By some estimates as much as 80% of the population died of disease.
I would rather die of smallpox than as an extra in a full-scale human sacrfice operation.
Yes, we can link the disease wave to the appearance of the Europeans, but it was a consequence of discovery, not of the conquest per se.
Human sacrifice was a sensible idea at the time. It’s just that their “science” was wrong.
The Inca’s performed human sacrifice too, usually on child victims.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sacrifice_in_pre-Columbian_cultures
This is why they use the term “Hispanic”. Obscures the Amer-Indian roots.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins.
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
I once said some cultures deserve to be destroyed, and was roundly criticized for it.
This isn’t a surprise to anyone who’s read The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz, one of the original conquistador with Cortez. He describes encountering a platform made of layer after layer of human skulls — 100,000 by his estimation — a number which he mentioned twice for emphasis.
Leftist revisionists want us all to believe that the “New World” was full of peaceful, tranquil Indians living in harmony with nature.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
European Christian Colonists brought Civilization to the New World and tamed it.
That the leftists want Christianity destroyed speaks volumes about them and their evil desires.
All cultures are equal, and all must be respected. /s
Kinda like liberals devotion to the god of abortion.
“I once said some cultures deserve to be destroyed, and was roundly criticized for it.”
Not by me. Anyone who has seriously studied the history of the New World knows that the vast majority of the tribes here were in a state of nearly constant warfare with one another. The fact that they were practicing violence on a scale that shocked the Europeans is telling.
At that time punishments were savage by our standards. Drawing and quartering, keelhauling, etc were fairly common. But what the North and South American tribes were doing was even worse.
Mel Gibson’s movie Apocolypto was pretty darned accurate. To horrify 16th century Spanish things had to have been pretty damned bad.
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