I Am Going to Say Something Controversial
Archaeologists have found a tower of human skulls belonging to people sacrified by the Aztecs, including children
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40473547
How could such a small army like Cortes' conquer a huge empire. Because they were helped by other local peoples in the area who were oppressed by the Aztecs.
Violence, cruelty, slavery, are not a monopoly of white and western people. People of all races and from different places have looted and slaughtered in history. What is peculiar from westerners (not all of them, thankfully) is their self-hate and self-inflicted feeling of guilt for all the evil of the world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-40473547
How could such a small army like Cortes' conquer a huge empire. Because they were helped by other local peoples in the area who were oppressed by the Aztecs.
Violence, cruelty, slavery, are not a monopoly of white and western people. People of all races and from different places have looted and slaughtered in history. What is peculiar from westerners (not all of them, thankfully) is their self-hate and self-inflicted feeling of guilt for all the evil of the world.
