JohnRawls wrote:I mean, Aztecs were extremely savage to their subjects requesting large amount of population for their sacrifices every period of time/Yearly i Guess. Also they waged wars just purely to capture prisoners and to sacrifice them. By modern estimates, they yearly sacrificed somewhere between 20k-250k people depending on the year and what was going on. So uhhh, no wonder so many joined Cortez to fight back against the Azteks.
Well, the Roman Empire crucified and tortured over its Empire a lot of people. Does that make that society the most savage the world has ever known? When it brought a lot of other advancements to the world.
If you study torture and human sacrifice around the world John? It happened in a lot of societies.
I think you want to think that humans as a whole are or can be categorized as these guys are civilized, these guys are savage and primitive, these guys did this or that.
In reality it is much more complex John.
And trying to think that human behavior is about you being encased in your own culture and thinking that the cultures you do not know at all somehow can be placed in the civilized and good, and savage and bad...is for nonthinkers and always will be John.
The Aztecs, were from Atzlan. A fictional place in the Northern part of Mexico and the American Southwest. They were newcomers to the Valley of Mexico. The Mayans were there before the Aztecs. The Aztecs spoke a specific language called Nahuatl. They still speak it in the Valley of Mexico to this very day.
They took over between :
The Aztec Empire was a confederation of three city-states established in 1427: Tenochtitlan, city-state of the Mexica or Tenochca, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, previously part of the Tepanec empire, whose dominant power was Azcapotzalco.
When did the Aztecs establish an empire?
Establishment of the Aztec empire. Under the ruler Itzcóatl (1428–40), Tenochtitlán formed alliances with the neighbouring states of Texcoco and Tlacopan and became the dominant power in central Mexico.
If the Spanish arrived in 1521, which they did. That means the Aztecs had been in power for a relatively short amount of time.
How did the Aztecs become an empire?
The Aztecs expanded their empire through military conquest and sustained it through tributes imposed on the conquered regions. Every 80 days, the new subjects of the Aztecs had to pay tributes to Tenochtitlan. As for the Aztec society, it was very complex. It was socially divided between the nobility and the populace.Apr 9, 2018
So making their neighbors pay high taxes and taking a lot of their people to rip their hearts out and sacrifice them to the gods of the Aztec culture like Quetzalcoatl, was part of the reason they were hated deeply.
Going in to communities and nations and taking their hard earned wealth, killing their most productive members and bleeding them dry in military campaigns does not friends make John.
Now, the modern American Empire does invade, set up terms that favor the wealthy only, and force everyone to pay high taxes, and then incessant wars in order to keep their dominance going is a modern version of it. The good part is that the religion changed. One from blood sacrifice to Christianity. The Romans were into torturing and killing people and using terror to keep control of the rebellious groups they wanted to control.
That is not very different eh?
What is interesting is that you tend to not see the same behavior in a group that has been deemed human. You see savagery in the ones whom the ones controlling the narrative say are outside of normal human behavior. But if you study human history deeply? Blood sacrifice and sacrificing human beings and torturing them even in a display of gory power....has happened a lot in human history. Genghis Khan, and the Crusades, and so many others.
Why can't you see the parallels John? Maybe because it is all very simplistic for you.
It never is that simple.