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<blockquote data-quote="MoonSong" data-source="post: 7739274" data-attributes="member: 6689464"><p>I know you want to be tongue in cheek, but I still feel like you aren't really caring about the finer points. For starters, yes Aztecs performed ritual sacrifice, but no, it wasn't a massive thing. Procuring victims for ritual sacrifice was a ritual on itself, there is no way any empire back then could have procured enough people to sacrifice them on an industrial scale. There's been a lot of exageration about the number and frequency of human sacrifice. Besides almost every tribe back then performed it on some degree, there were even pseudo-wars fought with the express purpose of procuring possible sacrifices for both sides of the encounter. Even if it was only something done by the "oppresors" the Aztecs weren't the sole rulers of the empire, it was an empire ruled by an alliance of three city-states, only one of which was Aztec, the other two were the Alcohuas and the Tecpanecs both of which performed human sacrifice. And again most tribes back then engaged in human sacrifice to some degree so it wasn't seen as barbaric. Heck we are talking about a civilization that considered capturing enemies alive as the mark of a good warrior, and instead someone who killed enemies right and left was seen as a savage and unskilled. Their legal system was quite developped and rivaled modern courts. They had universal education for all children. They put a lot of emphasis on honor and the rules of war. </p><p></p><p>Like I said on Journey to Mesoamerica, society back then was extremely orderly, with most people never leaving the lands of their clan in their life. That society wouldn't see what we know as adventurers as something good, not even something normal. In fact they would be most likely seen as the bad guys, deliberately disturbing the harmony and balance of the world. </p><p></p><p>Yes, other peoples saw the Triple Alliance as oppressors for the onerous tributes they forced them to pay and for taking away their independence -yes they conquered, but didn't take the whole population as slaves-, but they weren't the bad guys more than the Romans would have been, and wouldn't have been seen as bloodthirsty barbarians -except at the very begining when they were still fresh from their nomadic roots as they were the last of the nahuatlaca tribes to arrive to the Central Basin-.</p><p></p><p>Oh and an important source of the exaggeration about human sacrifice? Turns out gullible tourists are more generous with tips the higher ther death toll. Tourist guides just tell them what they want to hear in order to earn better tips.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoonSong, post: 7739274, member: 6689464"] I know you want to be tongue in cheek, but I still feel like you aren't really caring about the finer points. For starters, yes Aztecs performed ritual sacrifice, but no, it wasn't a massive thing. Procuring victims for ritual sacrifice was a ritual on itself, there is no way any empire back then could have procured enough people to sacrifice them on an industrial scale. There's been a lot of exageration about the number and frequency of human sacrifice. Besides almost every tribe back then performed it on some degree, there were even pseudo-wars fought with the express purpose of procuring possible sacrifices for both sides of the encounter. Even if it was only something done by the "oppresors" the Aztecs weren't the sole rulers of the empire, it was an empire ruled by an alliance of three city-states, only one of which was Aztec, the other two were the Alcohuas and the Tecpanecs both of which performed human sacrifice. And again most tribes back then engaged in human sacrifice to some degree so it wasn't seen as barbaric. Heck we are talking about a civilization that considered capturing enemies alive as the mark of a good warrior, and instead someone who killed enemies right and left was seen as a savage and unskilled. Their legal system was quite developped and rivaled modern courts. They had universal education for all children. They put a lot of emphasis on honor and the rules of war. Like I said on Journey to Mesoamerica, society back then was extremely orderly, with most people never leaving the lands of their clan in their life. That society wouldn't see what we know as adventurers as something good, not even something normal. In fact they would be most likely seen as the bad guys, deliberately disturbing the harmony and balance of the world. Yes, other peoples saw the Triple Alliance as oppressors for the onerous tributes they forced them to pay and for taking away their independence -yes they conquered, but didn't take the whole population as slaves-, but they weren't the bad guys more than the Romans would have been, and wouldn't have been seen as bloodthirsty barbarians -except at the very begining when they were still fresh from their nomadic roots as they were the last of the nahuatlaca tribes to arrive to the Central Basin-. Oh and an important source of the exaggeration about human sacrifice? Turns out gullible tourists are more generous with tips the higher ther death toll. Tourist guides just tell them what they want to hear in order to earn better tips. [/QUOTE]
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