Were the Aztecs rampantly sacrificing humans or was that a lie to justify the conquest of america?

[KingDanz]

Tell me about the Aztecs?

 

[unit321]

Taco Bell cashed in on the Aztec menu. Tacos, burritos, chalupas and cinnamon twists. It's all Aztec.

 

[luvaznpoon]

Whatever savagery the Aztecs may have participated in during their reign didn't come close to the atrocities committed against them by the Spaniards... nor the slaughter Europeans would commit in the following era of imperialism.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

While human sacrifice was practiced throughout Mesoamerica, the Aztecs, if their own accounts are to be believed, brought this practice to an unprecedented level. For example, for the reconsecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs reported that they sacrificed 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days, reportedly by Ahuitzotl, the Great Speaker himself. This number, however, is not universally accepted.


For the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs reported that they sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days, though there were probably far fewer sacrifices. According to Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony.[41] The higher estimate would average 14 sacrifices per minute during the four-day consecration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_...ture#Estimates_of_the_scope_of_the_sacrifices

Basically, they did in fact practice human sacrifice, but the numbers are all over the place. Either way, reading about some of the ways they'd kill people...

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I wonder if the Olmecs did this shyt too.

 

[Blackking]

Either-way, I don't see how that would justify the conquest of Amerika.

 

[Type Username Here]

They weren't called the Aztec for one.

Yea they did and they also wiped out smaller tribes and enslaved and killed the hunter gatherers. The Incas did as well, which is why a lot of the smaller tribes got pushed deep into the Amazon.

But like the poster said above, that in no way justifies what happened to the Americas later. You can maybe argue that the Mexica and Incas deserved it, but not the countless other smaller tribes and groups who got lumped in.

 

[unit321]

I wonder if the Olmecs did this shyt too.

Did they drive low-riders?

 

[88m3]

There's plenty of evidence they sacrificed a lot people


Justifying what the Spanish, Portuguese, and French did is a no though.

 

[Dr. Sebi Jr.]

WHY do you believe the WHITE DEVIL'S obvious LIES? The Aztecs were BLACK and ORIGINAL people such as us NEVER participated in any such DEVILISH activity until Yakub's grafted DEVIL showed us how TO do THAT. Their pyramids were USED to communicate with the MOTHER WHEEL. Any red fluid seen around them was probably oil of some kind, possibly melanated. TeleJEWndo does NOT want YOU to know that El Santo was BLACK. Knowledge is POWER.

 

[blackzeus]

They weren't called the Aztec for one.

Yea they did and they also wiped out smaller tribes and enslaved and killed the hunter gatherers. The Incas did as well, which is why a lot of the smaller tribes got pushed deep into the Amazon.

But like the poster said above, that in no way justifies what happened to the Americas later. You can maybe argue that the Mexica and Incas deserved it, but not the countless other smaller tribes and groups who got lumped in.

Breh, Africans were killin' Africans before the whites got there, same with Latin America, same with Asia, the only difference is to be straight up the white man's germ warfare and mental approach to conquest is unf*ckwitable. Mark Anthony was crucifying nikkaz, Shakazula was impaling them, Attila was murderin' their families, Queztalcoatl or however you spell it was takin' their hearts, literally. They all the same b

 

[Type Username Here]

Breh, Africans were killin' Africans before the whites got there, same with Latin America, same with Asia, the only difference is to be straight up the white man's germ warfare and mental approach to conquest is unf*ckwitable. Mark Anthony was crucifying nikkaz, Shakazula was impaling them, Attila was murderin' their families, Queztalcoatl or however you spell it was takin' their hearts, literally. They all the same b

Yup, Basically what I said on the other thread here:

I agree 100%. Also would like to add superior military tactics. Not to say the Incas and Mexica didn't have any, they were definitely empires who we know now to have enslaved or wiped out smaller tribes and groups of hunter-gatherers, but the Europeans were on some other shyt. The Europeans were invading and enslaving one another for a thousand years prior to ever setting foot in the Americas. From about 500 BCE to 1945 CE, the amount of European vs European warfare is mind boggling. Matter of fact, when the Europeans met an enemy who was equally matched in skill, technology and tactics, they suffered significant losses. The Crusades is a good example of this. Islam was having a technological and scientific Renaissance, the heads just came out of several imperialistic endeavors around the world in spreading the faith, so they were battle tested and militarily organized . They put a whooping on the Europeans and took European land.

"Guns, Germs and Steel" hammers this point home. Must read and watch.

I think Jared Diamond lays out a very convincing case in G,G and S for this.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Yeah they killed a lot of people. Great empires tend to do that. Would love to see tenochtitlin Described as an absolutely beautiful city. When dudes weren't getting cut up of course.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Often times, the people who call another people savage, do so to justify savage behavior towards said group.

Its so demonic, friends.

 

[Slystallion]

i'll say this the spaniards seemed to have made babies with them more in that area than the british did with the north american native americans because a good chunk of central americans still look similar to aztecs while white people in the U.S really didn't have children with the native americans and the ones they had with their black slaves they never treated them like their children or brought them up as part of the family.

i'm sure someone like Gundam who was really into ethnic backgrounds would be able to expound on my non scientific observations