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Originally Posted by Gwaihir
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The aztecs deserved to be exterminated. They literally practiced cannibalism over any tribe they came across.
The Mayans performed live human sacrifice.
They weren't some fucking noble tribe of peace loving people. You're fucking stupid as shit.
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Indeed, the Aztecs' bloodthirsty nature was the very reason why all it took was a couple hundred Spaniards to start their downfall: Everyone else in the region already hated the Aztec's guts and it proved trivial for the Spaniards to enlist hordes of native allies. The Tlaxcalans were particularly effective as allies to the Spanish and were accordingly treated well.
The Mayans had a much older (but no less bloodthirsty) culture that was already fractured and declining by the time the Spanish arrived. They had been in effect reduced to a series of squabbling city-states. In truth they did not fare too badly and there are today still millions of Mayan-descended people living in southern Mexico.
I have to wonder how far the meso-americans might have gone if they had ever found decent deposits of iron or tamed suitable draft animals. They went about as far as stone age technology could go.
Danth
11-26-2020, 02:11 PM
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