@He101A early christian religious ideals is what lead to genocide of many eastern tribes, it was religious ideals that lead the mass exterminations to begin with. It wasn't a war ,it was genocide.
The say, "blood soaked culture" based on crusades torture and other things I've already mentioned, what was European culuture, it is not soaked, it is oversaturated.
They should make a video called, Europeans' bloody crusades, The Roman blood colisseum. European inhumne torture methods. and European unspeakeble public executions.
Savage? I guess the Catholic Crusaders killing and EATING people was more acceptable? or hacking thousands of weaponless innocents to death was not savage? Have you actually read what the Catholic priests themselves wrote about the brutality of the conquitadors?
Wait, wait, wait!! Cortés was only able to conquest the Aztecs by making allies with the Tlaxcaltecas and other indian nations who hated the Aztecs! Cortës realized this and without them, the Spaniards themselves wouldn´t have had a chance.
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@Jimlead In fact I lived in the zona rosa, 1 block from the zocalo. And I know more about the mayas and aztecs than you can hope to learn in 1000 lifetimes, so fuck off and die.
@solariis888 zona rosa is for homosexuals pinche puto de mierda obviamente los españoles mataron a mas (indirectamente) en un año que los aztecas con sus sacrificios
The Spaniards were really a brave bunch. Such a small number of Conquistadors, mainly using their swords, not their muskets as many people think ( powder was wet or damp most of the time due to the rainy weather in the Ecuator.) Also the Spaniards were not always supported by Indian allies. Throwing themselves against inmense odds, outnumbered 10 and 20 to 1 , sometimes more....Amazing brave men.
@themailman43 The Conquistadores did enlist a massive native army of warriors from Cholula and Tlaxcala which often is under represented, these forces really won the battle for the Spanish. Just look at La Noche Triste when the Spanish we forced from Tenochtitlan, they didn't have their native allies and alone were no match for the Aztecs.
All of you that actually agree with and excuse the Aztec's sacrifices. How would you like to be one of those Indians being sacrificed and having your heart taken out.?
@themailman43 The thing about that is, in their society they were brought up from birth to accept and actually want to be either killed in battle or sacrificed to the gods as it was their way of getting to heaven to be reincarnated after death. Otherwise life and death as the average native was a meagre existance. This seems strange to us but that was their belief system. Read "The daily life of the Aztecs" by Jaques Soustelle to get a good understanding of the society.
@themailman43 The Aztecs didn't really take out hearts its just a metaphore thats means sacraficing yourself, for love..kinda like how people now days say things like you stole my heart or you wear your heart on your sleeve ect..Aztec mythology is more complicated than you think, The romans told stories about hurcules and his 12 missions but it don't mean it was true its just a metaphor to teach there young about the obsticules of life..
The Aztecs were savage killers, even if they had an advanced civilization, they were constantly at war and harrasing the many other smaller Indian groups in order to capture men, women and children for their sacrifices. The Spaniards eliminated this barbarous rituals, and yes they killed too, but they only killed those that opposed their conquest.
"Why were fewer than a thousand conquistadors able to overpower the vast armies of the aztecs?" LOL, because they were not barbaric child killers that had their cave man sticks and stones.
@conantheking But they wouldn't have been able to defeat the Aztecs without the help of thousands of porters and warriors (armed with stone age weapons) from the Aztecs most bitter enemy, the Tlaxcalans.
@JuliendAnce valid point friend however lets not forget the Aztec story began the same way when they arrived to their new home and this is not the only history of two groups feuding. Not all Tlaxcalans were in agreement to just let the spanish come in and do their thing. not to mention cortez did go along with being Quetzoatl. I doubt the natives realized that their freedom from Aztec rule included conversion and loss of the native tongue. I strongly believe we would have became civilized
@He101A i would not call an invasion and trickery war were there aggressive Natives of the land yes oh wait i mean injuns so digustingly ignorant however there were plenty who where willing to co-exist our lord jesus loved all and its sad that a lot of christian history does not reflect that. you know whats really sad is that this country use to be something example the 1940's american made american bought now its all cheap materials and imperilistic decay
csat you can not compare the holocost to an ancient civilization thats just a broad ass speculation. Hitler was an ass he wasnt even blond and blue eyed himself so he obviously was disturbed. Native people truly believed in their religion and are you crucifying our history because its mexcian or bc you think the same of egyptions and other similar cultures? again Native ppl just went with their gut and the elements hitler was just an asshole
@He101A they sacrificed their own people all the time. have you ever heard of the game called Ullamaliztli? that is merely one example of numerous, which show their own people, who willingly died to provide their Gods with blood
Aztec people were sacrificed on those pyramids. They had numerous festivals that required the person being sacrificed to volunteer. People volunteered for sacrifice (and the glorious afterlife afterward) quite commonly. There were just far more enemy soldiers, so it was a practicality thing.
@TheLastMexicatl i agree with you 100%. I am disgusted when a modern human being attempts to apply their standards (especially when they come from the westernized perspective, as the westerners are surely the most prideful and judgmental) to ancient cultures who were great in their day.
Cortez is such a bastard. No offence , but it seems like it's always the european or "white" empires that's always greedy and likes to colonize people's lands
@He101A In the Spanish Inquisition you say 'some' people were killed? "Some?" Man, you need to stop reading elementary books and go back and read real history. I'm not saying the Aztecs were not blood lusting, and destructive, but you make the Spaniards sound like heroes. If it were so, Mex wouldn't be as shitty. BTW, the 20 thousand killed in a day is an account by the Spanish.
As for us soldiers, check out the youtube vid below -in their own words -Link below.
@CSATexan And once again "the 20 thousand killed in a day is an account by the Spanish" -in other words, a neutral reporter wasn't there to document the actual numbers so the Spanish can say whatever they want. If you believe 20 thousand in a day then your perspective on numbers is extremely distorted. Dude, seriously?
@CSATexan --"the reason Mexico is such a shit hole has little to do with Spain" -well if you have ever read the accounts by Spanish monks (who did write of the Spanish massacres in Mexico), you would have known that poverty didn't exist in the city before the arrival of the Europeans. It was those who committed crimes that were cast out.
BTW, Spanish cruelty in Mexico would not only disturb your soul, it would bring any man to tears by the psychological tortures committed by these "Christians."
I see, so it is the Spanish who have created the corrupt officials in Spain. How does Spain vote them into office every election?????
Oh by the way there has always been poverty in Mexico, at the time of the Spanish conquest they were living in the stone age. With the Aztec Empire sitting in the middle of the thing peeling the skin off their enemies. Of course peeling someone skin isn't cruel at all.
Savage practice? You mean the Spanish Inquisition??? How about modern day sacrifice of our young men who are still too young and naive to decide with mature judgement about going to war! Wake up jackasses! Get a clear view and stop worshiping the white.
If that's not wrong then nothing is. Hitler and child molesters take their "practices" seriously as well. Are you saying that you respect any act so long as it's carried out seriously by someone who claims it's their culture?
If that's not wrong then nothing is. Hitler and child molesters take their "practices" seriously as well. Are you saying that you respect any act so long as it's carried out seriously by someone who claims it's their culture?
The Aztecs didn't do sacrifices, being decedent this is just highly made of bullshit the plumed Serpent wasn't a god but an idea. The snake represented that the snakes body always touched the earth meaning knowledge while the bird side represent beauty for the flamboyant feathers. Beautiful Knowledge which these guys lack. They based things off of ideas and self reflection they never had to do war because they never had a large enemy that caused them to be a hostile civilization until Spain...
The Aztecs didn't do sacrifices, being decedent this is just highly made of bullshit the plumed Serpent wasn't a god but an idea. The snake represented that the snakes body always touched the earth meaning knowledge while the bird side represent beauty for the flamboyant feathers. Beautiful Knowledge which these guys lack. They based things off of ideas and self reflection they never had to do war because they never had a large enemy that caused them to be a hostile civilization.
Human sacrifice was entirely possible, but likely not on the grand scale that some people think. I think every once in a while one or two human sacrifices occurred as an offering to the Aztec gods, probably when they felt that it needed to be done in order to regain favor.
the aztecs(actually called the mexica) didnt sacrifice for religion...if you wanna talk about religious sacrifice then you should see how many people the Christians and catholics have killed
@munjerdo you're thinking of the mayan calnder not the aztec. and there caldners were not more "accurate" than the modern calendar that we use in western society today.
go smoke some more pot and leave the thinking to adults. You just make yourself look foolish.
@munjerdo i am also european and i totally agree with you, as i have the dream of becoming an archeologist. I do not believe that they sacrificed people, becaude they were very wise. Although, in their mythology it says they havve to make a sacrifice every moon so the sun would rise again
aztecs never sacrificed it was an exageration made up by Cortez to get aproval by the crown to conquer the new world and justify the killing of indeginous people just like Bush lied about the WMD to justify the killing of thousands of incocent men and woman you would think if there was such a thing as sacrifices the spaniards would leave them as proof but instead destroyed all the evidence something all criminals tend to do but the idea that there was sacrifices does sell and facinate doesnt it.
@solariis888 Yea how can you word be taken seriously when you don't even have any arguments of your own? i highly dought you even think for yourself your one of those type that just repeat things you hear but don't have the mind set to process and analyis whats true and whats false, you just assume everything your told is reality, your like a sheep easy to manipulate..guess what the incas eat shit and its true cuase i said so ;)
@Cuauhtli47 No i think they would sacrifice, just not to the extent that people make it seem. And they did it because of their beliefs, they didn't do it for fun.
reason y aztecs were defeated, empireor moctezuma believed in the return of quetzacolt and believed cortez was him, made him weak... mexican history major, white people shouldnt even talk about this, u know shit
we need to stop calling ourselfs aztecs,WE ARE NOT, that name was firts used by an european, WE ARE MEXICA ( mehsheekah ) DON'T LET WHITES DEFINE US WHATEVER THEY WANT, STAND UP FOR YOUR REAL HERITAGE, FOR YOUR REAL ORIGEN.
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La forma en que Hernan conquisto a los Aztecas no fue menos barbara que los actos que segu ellos cometian los Aztecas. Muchas de estas barbaries fueron inbentadas para justificar los actos orrendos de los Espanoles contra los Astecas. Que no se agn los inosentes.
Hey lets call them savages and steal thier gold yes that would work! yes we leave our continent and jugde others then steal thier land. so tell me how does that logic works.
Now lets look at this logic, cortez was after thier gold. the Aztecs wont hand it over, now he'll have to take it by force. But needed a reason to attack the aztecs. Hey lets call them hidan savages.. yes!! lets go to another mans continent and jugde them. i swear white people are all thesame, first kill-plunder-rape-enslave-make lies-cover thier tacks. Then you wonder why you people are the most hated race today.
@jessicafischerqueen fuck you peace of trash, you bastards should have stayed in europe, your forefathers are responsible for the mixed races we have today the world should have stayed separated. They Interupted the natural advancement of great civilizations. From Africa to all the way in South America. Then make up lies to cover thier evil deeds of raping, plundering the treasures of others to empower thier kingdoms in europe. Then you dare have the audacity to call this people savages
if possible white folks would claim they arrived in south america before the Aztecs and built the temples as well. Just like they claim that white people built the Pyramids..XD white people you gotta love them they are so good at lying and rewriting history. They always stories to support thier horrible crimes: plunder,steal, and interupt the natural advancement of a civilization.
@jessicafischerqueen fuck you peace of trash, you bastards should have stayed in europe, your forefathers are responsible for the mixed races we have today the world should have stayed separated. They Interupted the natural advancement of great civilizations. From Africa to all the way in South America. Then make up lies to cover thier evil deeds of raping, plundering the treasures of others to empower thier kingdoms in europe. Then you dare have the audacity to call this people savages?
the very truth is: the aztecs were so hated by their neighbours... that there was not such a big deal for Cortez to find allies in his quest to bring them down. it was neither Cortez, nor the spaniards distroying the aztecs... but their own neighbours: tlaxacals, totonacs, zapotecs, etc... the aztecs built a reign of terror and the other native peoples saw in Cortez an opportunity to end it. well, the spaniards proved no better... but, at least, they didn't use to sacrifice people.
Al contrario de lo que todo el mundo piensa,a España no le salio rentable sus colonias,todo el oro que venia de alli,era gastado en continuas guerras,invertimos mas alli de lo que recibimos.
España abrio las puertas del nuevo mundo,America gano mucho mas de lo que perdio,y no se equivoquen,era cuestion de tiempo que los europeos llegaran,España tuvo el honor por ser la primera por ser la primera potencia mundial en aquella epoca.
@Fcofdez18 No estoy de acuerdo contigo, A espana le salio bastante rentable tener colonias, de hecho, Espana estaba muy debil y pobre cuando el viaje de Colon, y las riquezas del nuevo mundo le dieron muchisimo al imperio. Y respecto a que la conquista fue positiva para el nuevo mundo, creo que a largo plazo, fue positiva para Espana como para los Americanos, sin embargo, considerando que a rais de la conquista se dieron 300 anios de esclavitud y abusos, no podemos decir que todo era felicidad.
El mito de la aniquilacion española de todo indigena es totalmente falso.No hay mas que ver que en cualquier pais conquistado por España hay indigenas a expuertas,te los encuentras caminando por la calle,no como en EE.UU donde para verlos tenias que ir a las reservas donde estaban acinados como mulas.Dejen ese mito,España cometio actos reprobables,pero en el computo global la conquista española fue positiva para el nuevo mundo.
Que la civilizacion Azteca fue una gran civilizacion no hay duda,pero eso no la exime de las barbaridades cometidas por ellos.¿No se han parado a pensar como Hernan Cortez conquisto todo un imperio con tan pocos soldados?....Lo hizo gracias a la ayuda de otros nativos masacrados por los Aztecas,ya vamos descubriendo alguna de sus lagunas.
España cometio atrocidades,pero los aztecas tambien,arrancando los corazones de los capturados.
in a warrior society blood is the most precious thing , so the ritual of my ancestors are logical, the catolics believe that they can "eat" the blood and spirit of christ in a piece of bread in the communion, and the muslims just kill a women with stones for being promiscous, so all the religions are pretty fucked and barbaric...
@yonisfarah So it was the will of God to wipe out more than 90% of their population? If you ask me, I think the religion that the Spaniards brought was far more sick and barbaric than what the Aztecs did. Let's not forget that this is the same religion that believed that it was okay to enslave Africans just because they weren't Christians. This was same religion that nearly wiped out our knowledge and understanding of Ancient Egypt.
"Nada" en yugoeslavo es LA ESPERANZA; y es muy triste como los españoles basan su antigenocidio en la America india y dicen: los invasores Aztecas...con una religion obscura basada en sacrificios humanos masivos en las grandes PIRÀMIDES q´servian de altar..se llegaron a sacrificar a "dioses aztecas" hasta 80000 jòvenes de una sola vez....las guerras eran por la necesidad de conseguir nuevas vìctimas; si communtamos a la guerra civil- en España se asesinaron 7000 hispanos en 6 meses.amen
After careful and systematic study of the sources, I find no sign of evidence of institutionalized mass human sacrifice among the Aztecs. The phenomenon to be studied, therefore, may be not these supposed sacrifices but the deeply rooted belief that they occurred.
@ZtecWarrior Not sure where you are getting those numbers. Most scholars put the total population at the time the Europeans arrived in the new world at at 50 to 100 million so it is utterly impossible for your position to be correct from a scholarly standpoint.
For all the Spanish atrocities, you also have to note that by far the biggest killer was old world diseases.
Looking at the world today, many people are more educated, but people are generally as dumb as ever!!
fuckng spanish jack ass ignorants!!you all really think they were savages when they built up those pyramids? that's bull shit that spanish peoples said to have a pretext to invade the azteks and stole the fuckng gold, why they didn't fusing cultures and science and nature conservation? now look at what shit they've converted Mexhico..
fuckng spanish jack ass ignorants!!you all really think they were savages when they built up those pyramids? that's bull shit that spanish peoples said to have a pretext to invade the azteks and stole the fuckng gold, why they didn't fusing cultures and science and nature conservation? now look at what shit they've converted Mexhico..
Christians worship a human sacrifice and think it's great! They eat the body and drink the blood and have argued over centuries whether or not the wine and bread actually turn into body and blood when eaten.
And they don't think this the least bit abnormal or an abomination to god.
So they should love on the Aztecs, who just repeated the process over and over, rather than stopping at one and saying "perfect human sacrifice, thank god we don't have to that anymore."
see the last part of the documentary! what did them in was the fact that they were naive . and not used to the EUROPEN WAY of doing things which was more TRICKY, MANIPULATIVE, HARDBALLING and SLY!
The reason why the aztecs were conquerd by the spanish is because the spanish had help from all the other natives in mexico that didnt like the aztecs since the aztecs used them as sacrifice.
this program is outdated and ethnocentric - the concept of teotl ixiptla is not taken into account...sacrifices were re-enactments of the sacrifice of the gods themselves - which created out world. Some "victims" went along with it willingly, were given wives for a few weeks, etc.
Be aware that blood was smeared on the walls EVERYWHERE in the temples - the stench was nasty.
You should see this with the eyes of a historian and from a distance. You cannot judge to people and events from five centuries ago and from a completely unknown continent and culture through the prism of a 21st century moral codes. Sacrifice for Aztecs was life: they believed that with human sacrifice they will keep Sun shining. It says at the beginning of a documentary.
To @brunehildathequeen : Shut Up! I'm native-american/european-spanish & I consider the aztecs to be absolute savages, as did thier native-american enemies.That's why The Conquistadors were able to Conquer them with the help of native-american aztec enemies.
No es 1411, sino 1487. Lo dicen claramente. El año escrito en la descripción es erroneo.
Además, aqui hablan de 20 000 personas, y hay libros donde se menciona 80 000. Pero, creo que todo eso es una exageración tremenda por parte de los españoles...
This is pop-science. The victims that were discovered were the Spanish who were definitely killed in battle. There were many body brutalized. Guess who committed these atrocities? Yep, the Europeans, as they were performing the same atrocities in parts of Europe, particualry Spain (Inquisition, Expulsion of the Jews). Folks, know what you're watching here, please.
There is no evidence of human sacrifice especially on a grand scale. There are written accounts left by priests and a Spanish soldiers, but these are obviously one-sided in order to convince the crown that these people needed to be converted and dominated. This is a pattern that has been repeated throughout history.
@DrZodas try actually studying their beliefs and religion. It's the bloodiest I know of, and given the populace and constant state of fear under which these people supposedly "flourished", little doubt remains that what you call unsupported numbers were more than plausible.
@DrZodas There are pictures drawn by the aztecs themselves that show them sacrificing people, and their religion basically demands massive bloodshed. I think the numbers are definitely possible, even likely.
@DrZodas actullay they shown sacrifice all thoughout their art work and historical documents, aztecs were known for recording events like human sacrifice
Tell that to the archaeologists who drug human skeletons out of sacred cenotes at Chichen Itza. There is LOTS of evidence of human sacrifice among the Aztec, Maya, and many other Mesoamericans. Human sacrifice wasn't wrong, it was just another practice they took seriously. People need to stop looking at things from a Western/Christian "moral" perspective and see it from the Mesoamerican's point of view.
@TheLastMexicatl i agree the aztecs needed to feed their gods. you cant force someone to believe in something different. i totally see why they did human sacrifices. those darn spanish just destroyed aztecs and there is evidence that they made these human sacrifices
Aztec human sacrifice is wrong according to Christian Western ideas, but not according to Aztec ideas. You can't judge an entirely different culture by the standards of another. Would you call a wolf who kills a deer a murderer? It's the same concept.
I hated Spanish. They cut off slaves' hands and forced them to find gold. They should go back to Europe.
chimak3d 3 weeks ago
"Their Christian sensibilities were offended by the practice of human sacrifice."
Meanwhile they worship a human sacrifice. Go figure!
Sion6 1 month ago 3
Somehow I doubt that number...Seems like an atrocity story made up during wartime.
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Noodles37UK 1 month ago
A lot of people dnt know that the spainards came before that and all got killed by aztecs
aceg713 1 month ago
dam spaniards!!! what the hell i wonder how the 2012 aztecs would ve look like! LOL PEACE!!!
ogkushdaily323 1 month ago
Viva Mexico
ogkushdaily323 2 months ago
@He101A early christian religious ideals is what lead to genocide of many eastern tribes, it was religious ideals that lead the mass exterminations to begin with. It wasn't a war ,it was genocide.
interstellarwonder 2 months ago
The say, "blood soaked culture" based on crusades torture and other things I've already mentioned, what was European culuture, it is not soaked, it is oversaturated.
MrSinaloense23 2 months ago
@MrSinaloense23 lol, i'm sure it was a flood of blood :D
interstellarwonder 2 months ago
They should make a video called, Europeans' bloody crusades, The Roman blood colisseum. European inhumne torture methods. and European unspeakeble public executions.
MrSinaloense23 2 months ago
Savage? I guess the Catholic Crusaders killing and EATING people was more acceptable? or hacking thousands of weaponless innocents to death was not savage? Have you actually read what the Catholic priests themselves wrote about the brutality of the conquitadors?
MegajasmineR 3 months ago in playlist Engineering an empire: set 1
The Aztecs were plauged with small pox that was brought by the dirty Europeans that's what really happened!
ZxMURDER 3 months ago
Wait, wait, wait!! Cortés was only able to conquest the Aztecs by making allies with the Tlaxcaltecas and other indian nations who hated the Aztecs! Cortës realized this and without them, the Spaniards themselves wouldn´t have had a chance.
fmg50 3 months ago
Wait a minute... is that Wheatley narrating this?
posthumanfetus 4 months ago
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Maybe, but it sounds a bit like Neil Morrissey. :)
HengistTheGreat 3 months ago
@HengistTheGreat Not just that, but that guy playing, presumably Cortes, looks like Morrissey haha
Noodles37UK 1 month ago
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Typical me, I started something..
HengistTheGreat 1 month ago
Ah, only on youtube could I watch an educational video for my world civilizations II class and instantly see people calling each other faggots and retards.
posthumanfetus 4 months ago
@posthumanfetus Lol. God I know...
Noodles37UK 1 month ago
Savages.....
aimedbm 5 months ago
@aimedbm Faggot......
arnaldodacomando 4 months ago
@aimedbm are you retarded? lol.......
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MrFlohi 5 months ago in playlist Aztec Temple of Blood
@Jimlead In fact I lived in the zona rosa, 1 block from the zocalo. And I know more about the mayas and aztecs than you can hope to learn in 1000 lifetimes, so fuck off and die.
solariis888 7 months ago
@solariis888 zona rosa is for homosexuals pinche puto de mierda obviamente los españoles mataron a mas (indirectamente) en un año que los aztecas con sus sacrificios
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@Burn121212 zona rosa was in my day, paradise. You are hijo de puta madre y vas al infierno con toda tu familia, como los astecas.
solariis888 6 months ago
@Jimlead I was born in Mexico City ( Tenochochitlan), the aztec capital fool. Your ignorance astounds me.
solariis888 7 months ago
@Jimlead What books are those? The idiot's guide to history... go to hell and take your God damned family with you. Goddamned brittish pig.
solariis888 7 months ago
PBS has degenerated... God damned lies.
solariis888 7 months ago
@Jimlead You are a bigger fuckin idiot for believeing this shit than PBS for spreading these lies.
solariis888 7 months ago
The Spaniards were really a brave bunch. Such a small number of Conquistadors, mainly using their swords, not their muskets as many people think ( powder was wet or damp most of the time due to the rainy weather in the Ecuator.) Also the Spaniards were not always supported by Indian allies. Throwing themselves against inmense odds, outnumbered 10 and 20 to 1 , sometimes more....Amazing brave men.
themailman43 7 months ago
@themailman43 The Conquistadores did enlist a massive native army of warriors from Cholula and Tlaxcala which often is under represented, these forces really won the battle for the Spanish. Just look at La Noche Triste when the Spanish we forced from Tenochtitlan, they didn't have their native allies and alone were no match for the Aztecs.
canigetanoorah 7 months ago
All of you that actually agree with and excuse the Aztec's sacrifices. How would you like to be one of those Indians being sacrificed and having your heart taken out.?
themailman43 7 months ago
@themailman43 The thing about that is, in their society they were brought up from birth to accept and actually want to be either killed in battle or sacrificed to the gods as it was their way of getting to heaven to be reincarnated after death. Otherwise life and death as the average native was a meagre existance. This seems strange to us but that was their belief system. Read "The daily life of the Aztecs" by Jaques Soustelle to get a good understanding of the society.
canigetanoorah 7 months ago
@themailman43 The Aztecs didn't really take out hearts its just a metaphore thats means sacraficing yourself, for love..kinda like how people now days say things like you stole my heart or you wear your heart on your sleeve ect..Aztec mythology is more complicated than you think, The romans told stories about hurcules and his 12 missions but it don't mean it was true its just a metaphor to teach there young about the obsticules of life..
Xoloitzcuintli3 7 months ago
The Aztecs were savage killers, even if they had an advanced civilization, they were constantly at war and harrasing the many other smaller Indian groups in order to capture men, women and children for their sacrifices. The Spaniards eliminated this barbarous rituals, and yes they killed too, but they only killed those that opposed their conquest.
themailman43 7 months ago
@Jimlead The Spaniards never sacrificed a single soul they are a cultured and civilized people that don't engage in primitive rituals such as that
MrAndrzej24 7 months ago
@MrAndrzej24 you're right they did not practice sacrifice, what the spaniards were so great at was murder and genocide.
ninjaisland007 7 months ago
"Why were fewer than a thousand conquistadors able to overpower the vast armies of the aztecs?" LOL, because they were not barbaric child killers that had their cave man sticks and stones.
conantheking 8 months ago
@conantheking But they wouldn't have been able to defeat the Aztecs without the help of thousands of porters and warriors (armed with stone age weapons) from the Aztecs most bitter enemy, the Tlaxcalans.
YaxKukMo1426 7 months ago
This white people think that they understand and know our culture.
zkjoker666 8 months ago
@JuliendAnce valid point friend however lets not forget the Aztec story began the same way when they arrived to their new home and this is not the only history of two groups feuding. Not all Tlaxcalans were in agreement to just let the spanish come in and do their thing. not to mention cortez did go along with being Quetzoatl. I doubt the natives realized that their freedom from Aztec rule included conversion and loss of the native tongue. I strongly believe we would have became civilized
LifeReel 8 months ago
@He101A i would not call an invasion and trickery war were there aggressive Natives of the land yes oh wait i mean injuns so digustingly ignorant however there were plenty who where willing to co-exist our lord jesus loved all and its sad that a lot of christian history does not reflect that. you know whats really sad is that this country use to be something example the 1940's american made american bought now its all cheap materials and imperilistic decay
LifeReel 8 months ago
csat you can not compare the holocost to an ancient civilization thats just a broad ass speculation. Hitler was an ass he wasnt even blond and blue eyed himself so he obviously was disturbed. Native people truly believed in their religion and are you crucifying our history because its mexcian or bc you think the same of egyptions and other similar cultures? again Native ppl just went with their gut and the elements hitler was just an asshole
LifeReel 8 months ago
i think i rather have my heart pulled out then my beliefs taken away from while i'm being raped... sincerely Yacotizin
LifeReel 8 months ago
Damn fucking douchebag european ideals
HungryMumbles 8 months ago
@Jimlead
No they didn't
CSATexan 8 months ago
@Jimlead
Then you should know the Spanish didn't sacrifice more people.
CSATexan 8 months ago
Man. Cutting open some dudes chest, pulling his heart out, and holding up in the air while it was still beating. That's fucking theater.
MrDeth2007 8 months ago
@Jimlead
me thinks you need to look up the definition of sacrifice.
CSATexan 8 months ago
this video is for the creation and continuation of stupidity, and people say stupidity aint a disease, but it sure spreeads like on.
Nahuatlatoa 8 months ago
@He101A they sacrificed their own people all the time. have you ever heard of the game called Ullamaliztli? that is merely one example of numerous, which show their own people, who willingly died to provide their Gods with blood
slovakmath 8 months ago
Aztec people were sacrificed on those pyramids. They had numerous festivals that required the person being sacrificed to volunteer. People volunteered for sacrifice (and the glorious afterlife afterward) quite commonly. There were just far more enemy soldiers, so it was a practicality thing.
TheLastMexicatl 9 months ago
@TheLastMexicatl i agree with you 100%. I am disgusted when a modern human being attempts to apply their standards (especially when they come from the westernized perspective, as the westerners are surely the most prideful and judgmental) to ancient cultures who were great in their day.
slovakmath 8 months ago
Glad to see someone has their head out of their ass.
TheLastMexicatl 8 months ago
Cortez is such a bastard. No offence , but it seems like it's always the european or "white" empires that's always greedy and likes to colonize people's lands
sdurgefafd 9 months ago
@sdurgefafd
You do relize that the Spanish had just fought off the Muslim invaders and that the Aztecs themselves were also invaders
CSATexan 7 months ago
@He101A Youtube Vid: WAKING UP!! SUPPORT OF TAKING AMERICA BACK!!! (StopTheRobbery2)
Please check this out and stop spreading your ignorance.
spinner9582 9 months ago
@He101A In the Spanish Inquisition you say 'some' people were killed? "Some?" Man, you need to stop reading elementary books and go back and read real history. I'm not saying the Aztecs were not blood lusting, and destructive, but you make the Spaniards sound like heroes. If it were so, Mex wouldn't be as shitty. BTW, the 20 thousand killed in a day is an account by the Spanish.
As for us soldiers, check out the youtube vid below -in their own words -Link below.
spinner9582 9 months ago
@spinner9582
Actually during the Inquisition is the number of people executed by the Spanish inquisition was no where near 20,000 more along a few thousand.
And the reason Mexico is such a shit hole has little to do with Spain.
CSATexan 8 months ago
@CSATexan And once again "the 20 thousand killed in a day is an account by the Spanish" -in other words, a neutral reporter wasn't there to document the actual numbers so the Spanish can say whatever they want. If you believe 20 thousand in a day then your perspective on numbers is extremely distorted. Dude, seriously?
spinner9582 8 months ago
@CSATexan --"the reason Mexico is such a shit hole has little to do with Spain" -well if you have ever read the accounts by Spanish monks (who did write of the Spanish massacres in Mexico), you would have known that poverty didn't exist in the city before the arrival of the Europeans. It was those who committed crimes that were cast out.
BTW, Spanish cruelty in Mexico would not only disturb your soul, it would bring any man to tears by the psychological tortures committed by these "Christians."
spinner9582 8 months ago
@spinner9582
I see, so it is the Spanish who have created the corrupt officials in Spain. How does Spain vote them into office every election?????
Oh by the way there has always been poverty in Mexico, at the time of the Spanish conquest they were living in the stone age. With the Aztec Empire sitting in the middle of the thing peeling the skin off their enemies. Of course peeling someone skin isn't cruel at all.
CSATexan 8 months ago
@He101A
Savage practice? You mean the Spanish Inquisition??? How about modern day sacrifice of our young men who are still too young and naive to decide with mature judgement about going to war! Wake up jackasses! Get a clear view and stop worshiping the white.
spinner9582 9 months ago
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music2012 9 months ago
spanish always exagerate....theyre nothing now, just euro rejects
415Underdog 9 months ago
@He101A
and the conquistadors/ european settlers are what?
415Underdog 9 months ago
@415Underdog
sounds something of a fairy tale, just like all the bibles.
the whites= heros
the rest= savages/ enslaved
so why arent there that many natives left?
415Underdog 9 months ago
Toltecatl-Chichimecatl
In memory of Aztlan
YumaTownx3LS 9 months ago
@Jimlead LAWL YOUR RIGHT
marybob321 9 months ago
Unsolved History? More like Made Up History.
avfromc 10 months ago
@TheLastMexicatl You said "Human sacrifice wasn't wrong"
If that's not wrong then nothing is. Hitler and child molesters take their "practices" seriously as well. Are you saying that you respect any act so long as it's carried out seriously by someone who claims it's their culture?
barnseyboy12 11 months ago
@TheLastMexicatl You said "Human sacrifice wasn't wrong"
If that's not wrong then nothing is. Hitler and child molesters take their "practices" seriously as well. Are you saying that you respect any act so long as it's carried out seriously by someone who claims it's their culture?
barnseyboy12 11 months ago
The Aztecs didn't do sacrifices, being decedent this is just highly made of bullshit the plumed Serpent wasn't a god but an idea. The snake represented that the snakes body always touched the earth meaning knowledge while the bird side represent beauty for the flamboyant feathers. Beautiful Knowledge which these guys lack. They based things off of ideas and self reflection they never had to do war because they never had a large enemy that caused them to be a hostile civilization until Spain...
SergStalc 11 months ago
The Aztecs didn't do sacrifices, being decedent this is just highly made of bullshit the plumed Serpent wasn't a god but an idea. The snake represented that the snakes body always touched the earth meaning knowledge while the bird side represent beauty for the flamboyant feathers. Beautiful Knowledge which these guys lack. They based things off of ideas and self reflection they never had to do war because they never had a large enemy that caused them to be a hostile civilization.
SergStalc 11 months ago
the aztecs were wiped out by disease that the spanish brought from europe.
gooberchild35 1 year ago
Human sacrifice was entirely possible, but likely not on the grand scale that some people think. I think every once in a while one or two human sacrifices occurred as an offering to the Aztec gods, probably when they felt that it needed to be done in order to regain favor.
uberathlete 1 year ago
the aztecs(actually called the mexica) didnt sacrifice for religion...if you wanna talk about religious sacrifice then you should see how many people the Christians and catholics have killed
BayAreaBum 1 year ago
Even though they did have sacrifices, it really isn't that bad when you think about it.
Uninformed people forget that they also did NOT kill opponents on the battlefield during war, making the loss of life much less in actuality.
LobsterPotsticker 1 year ago
Real shitheads were spaniards. They concistadors were even worse than nazies!
maoqiao 1 year ago
I dont believe that Aztecs practiced human sacrifices its just a bunch of lies.
Their society was based on human "councisnes" that is why they had more accurate calendar than we have today..
If society is based on human councisnes and awareness that would make them unable to fight or kill people.
Wake up people , you believe lies and PROPGANDA!
Europe needed excuses to conquer new territory!
By the way I am European.
munjerdo 1 year ago 2
@munjerdo you're thinking of the mayan calnder not the aztec. and there caldners were not more "accurate" than the modern calendar that we use in western society today.
go smoke some more pot and leave the thinking to adults. You just make yourself look foolish.
mwells219 1 year ago
@munjerdo i am also european and i totally agree with you, as i have the dream of becoming an archeologist. I do not believe that they sacrificed people, becaude they were very wise. Although, in their mythology it says they havve to make a sacrifice every moon so the sun would rise again
Joaosilva5000 1 year ago
aztecs never sacrificed it was an exageration made up by Cortez to get aproval by the crown to conquer the new world and justify the killing of indeginous people just like Bush lied about the WMD to justify the killing of thousands of incocent men and woman you would think if there was such a thing as sacrifices the spaniards would leave them as proof but instead destroyed all the evidence something all criminals tend to do but the idea that there was sacrifices does sell and facinate doesnt it.
Cuauhtli47 1 year ago 2
@Cuauhtli47 Fuckin bullshit, hijo de mierda.
solariis888 7 months ago
@solariis888 Yea how can you word be taken seriously when you don't even have any arguments of your own? i highly dought you even think for yourself your one of those type that just repeat things you hear but don't have the mind set to process and analyis whats true and whats false, you just assume everything your told is reality, your like a sheep easy to manipulate..guess what the incas eat shit and its true cuase i said so ;)
Xoloitzcuintli3 7 months ago
@Cuauhtli47 No i think they would sacrifice, just not to the extent that people make it seem. And they did it because of their beliefs, they didn't do it for fun.
zw0ecool 7 months ago
european did worst things than human sacrifice....they were terrible.
georgemrr 1 year ago
After 5:06 "Yeah.. 'cause the culture of the Spanish wasn't at all blood-soaked." -_-
DeviousGenius 1 year ago 3
The Aztecs claimed true warriors fight to the death. Aztecs ensure the safe of others fighting till death.
xSeriox4 1 year ago
reason y aztecs were defeated, empireor moctezuma believed in the return of quetzacolt and believed cortez was him, made him weak... mexican history major, white people shouldnt even talk about this, u know shit
xxxEmmureOwnxxx 1 year ago
aztec indians n spanish = mexican=]
xxxEmmureOwnxxx 1 year ago
They make it seem like the aztecs where bad. they just practiced their religion
the spanish were the bad ones here.
raping, killing, robbing, lying, they were the bad ones
aztecsun12 1 year ago
actually in 1 sacrifice it is said 80000 were killed at one time
efun08 1 year ago
you can tell by the title, "Aztecs Temple of Blood", that this is a deep and scholarly investigation mounted on truth and dignity.
lmsypj 1 year ago 2
So sad the Spaniards destroyed so much evidence on how the Aztecs lived such the documents.
JOSUE1987 1 year ago
we need to stop calling ourselfs aztecs,WE ARE NOT, that name was firts used by an european, WE ARE MEXICA ( mehsheekah ) DON'T LET WHITES DEFINE US WHATEVER THEY WANT, STAND UP FOR YOUR REAL HERITAGE, FOR YOUR REAL ORIGEN.
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TheReasonUK 1 year ago
La forma en que Hernan conquisto a los Aztecas no fue menos barbara que los actos que segu ellos cometian los Aztecas. Muchas de estas barbaries fueron inbentadas para justificar los actos orrendos de los Espanoles contra los Astecas. Que no se agn los inosentes.
gerasolorgarcia 1 year ago
Hey lets call them savages and steal thier gold yes that would work!
enow0049 1 year ago
Hey lets call them savages and steal thier gold yes that would work! yes we leave our continent and jugde others then steal thier land.
enow0049 1 year ago
Hey lets call them savages and steal thier gold yes that would work! yes we leave our continent and jugde others then steal thier land. so tell me how does that logic works.
enow0049 1 year ago
Now lets look at this logic, cortez was after thier gold. the Aztecs wont hand it over, now he'll have to take it by force. But needed a reason to attack the aztecs. Hey lets call them hidan savages.. yes!! lets go to another mans continent and jugde them. i swear white people are all thesame, first kill-plunder-rape-enslave-make lies-cover thier tacks. Then you wonder why you people are the most hated race today.
enow0049 1 year ago
@jessicafischerqueen fuck you peace of trash, you bastards should have stayed in europe, your forefathers are responsible for the mixed races we have today the world should have stayed separated. They Interupted the natural advancement of great civilizations. From Africa to all the way in South America. Then make up lies to cover thier evil deeds of raping, plundering the treasures of others to empower thier kingdoms in europe. Then you dare have the audacity to call this people savages
enow0049 1 year ago
if possible white folks would claim they arrived in south america before the Aztecs and built the temples as well. Just like they claim that white people built the Pyramids..XD white people you gotta love them they are so good at lying and rewriting history. They always stories to support thier horrible crimes: plunder,steal, and interupt the natural advancement of a civilization.
enow0049 1 year ago
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Fucking savages- case closed
jessicafischerqueen 1 year ago
@jessicafischerqueen fuck you peace of trash, you bastards should have stayed in europe, your forefathers are responsible for the mixed races we have today the world should have stayed separated. They Interupted the natural advancement of great civilizations. From Africa to all the way in South America. Then make up lies to cover thier evil deeds of raping, plundering the treasures of others to empower thier kingdoms in europe. Then you dare have the audacity to call this people savages?
enow0049 1 year ago
@jessicafischerqueen let me guess... your white?
Xzero696X 1 year ago
@jessicafischerqueen fucking loser ...case closed :)
12OunceProphet 1 year ago
@jessicafischerqueen Yeah its too bad the Aztecs couldnt have killed all those savage spaniards.
kirokyukan 1 year ago 3
the very truth is: the aztecs were so hated by their neighbours... that there was not such a big deal for Cortez to find allies in his quest to bring them down. it was neither Cortez, nor the spaniards distroying the aztecs... but their own neighbours: tlaxacals, totonacs, zapotecs, etc... the aztecs built a reign of terror and the other native peoples saw in Cortez an opportunity to end it. well, the spaniards proved no better... but, at least, they didn't use to sacrifice people.
bogdancomm 1 year ago
PART 3
Al contrario de lo que todo el mundo piensa,a España no le salio rentable sus colonias,todo el oro que venia de alli,era gastado en continuas guerras,invertimos mas alli de lo que recibimos.
España abrio las puertas del nuevo mundo,America gano mucho mas de lo que perdio,y no se equivoquen,era cuestion de tiempo que los europeos llegaran,España tuvo el honor por ser la primera por ser la primera potencia mundial en aquella epoca.
Fcofdez18 1 year ago
@Fcofdez18 No estoy de acuerdo contigo, A espana le salio bastante rentable tener colonias, de hecho, Espana estaba muy debil y pobre cuando el viaje de Colon, y las riquezas del nuevo mundo le dieron muchisimo al imperio. Y respecto a que la conquista fue positiva para el nuevo mundo, creo que a largo plazo, fue positiva para Espana como para los Americanos, sin embargo, considerando que a rais de la conquista se dieron 300 anios de esclavitud y abusos, no podemos decir que todo era felicidad.
afroboy256 1 year ago
PART 2:
El mito de la aniquilacion española de todo indigena es totalmente falso.No hay mas que ver que en cualquier pais conquistado por España hay indigenas a expuertas,te los encuentras caminando por la calle,no como en EE.UU donde para verlos tenias que ir a las reservas donde estaban acinados como mulas.Dejen ese mito,España cometio actos reprobables,pero en el computo global la conquista española fue positiva para el nuevo mundo.
Fcofdez18 1 year ago
PART1
Que la civilizacion Azteca fue una gran civilizacion no hay duda,pero eso no la exime de las barbaridades cometidas por ellos.¿No se han parado a pensar como Hernan Cortez conquisto todo un imperio con tan pocos soldados?....Lo hizo gracias a la ayuda de otros nativos masacrados por los Aztecas,ya vamos descubriendo alguna de sus lagunas.
España cometio atrocidades,pero los aztecas tambien,arrancando los corazones de los capturados.
Fcofdez18 1 year ago
in a warrior society blood is the most precious thing , so the ritual of my ancestors are logical, the catolics believe that they can "eat" the blood and spirit of christ in a piece of bread in the communion, and the muslims just kill a women with stones for being promiscous, so all the religions are pretty fucked and barbaric...
XibalbaKing 1 year ago 4
@XibalbaKing what are you? athiest?
interest2006 1 year ago
@yonisfarah So it was the will of God to wipe out more than 90% of their population? If you ask me, I think the religion that the Spaniards brought was far more sick and barbaric than what the Aztecs did. Let's not forget that this is the same religion that believed that it was okay to enslave Africans just because they weren't Christians. This was same religion that nearly wiped out our knowledge and understanding of Ancient Egypt.
Cable3999 1 year ago 2
I love Aztec architecture.
joel1923 1 year ago
@yonisfarah I recommend you Buddha if you really want peace.
mitchel123456789 1 year ago
@mitchel123456789 LMAO BUDDHA!!!
aztecsun12 1 year ago
@yonisfarah I hope Buddha saves your people from your religion one day so that the whole world may have one less thing to worry about.
mitchel123456789 1 year ago
"Nada" en yugoeslavo es LA ESPERANZA; y es muy triste como los españoles basan su antigenocidio en la America india y dicen: los invasores Aztecas...con una religion obscura basada en sacrificios humanos masivos en las grandes PIRÀMIDES q´servian de altar..se llegaron a sacrificar a "dioses aztecas" hasta 80000 jòvenes de una sola vez....las guerras eran por la necesidad de conseguir nuevas vìctimas; si communtamos a la guerra civil- en España se asesinaron 7000 hispanos en 6 meses.amen
TheMrviru 1 year ago
The narrator keeps saying "Montezuma" the actual name is Moctezuma, I notice many people making the same mistake for decades
suavecitosmith 1 year ago
bullshit! since it's questionable about human sacrifice,why keep telling ppl this is how it was?what bullshit.
interstellarwonder 1 year ago
After careful and systematic study of the sources, I find no sign of evidence of institutionalized mass human sacrifice among the Aztecs. The phenomenon to be studied, therefore, may be not these supposed sacrifices but the deeply rooted belief that they occurred.
exupipus 1 year ago
@ZtecWarrior Not sure where you are getting those numbers. Most scholars put the total population at the time the Europeans arrived in the new world at at 50 to 100 million so it is utterly impossible for your position to be correct from a scholarly standpoint.
For all the Spanish atrocities, you also have to note that by far the biggest killer was old world diseases.
Looking at the world today, many people are more educated, but people are generally as dumb as ever!!
allahBurpsCum 1 year ago 4
stupid barbaric Aztecs that is good the spaniards crushed them
xSouthxKURDISTAN 1 year ago
@xSouthxKURDISTAN Your an idiot, you need to get an education you stupid moron
suavecitosmith 1 year ago
Propaganda at its finest.
SirianKings 1 year ago
fuckng spanish jack ass ignorants!!you all really think they were savages when they built up those pyramids? that's bull shit that spanish peoples said to have a pretext to invade the azteks and stole the fuckng gold, why they didn't fusing cultures and science and nature conservation? now look at what shit they've converted Mexhico..
maxyum82 1 year ago 2
fuckng spanish jack ass ignorants!!you all really think they were savages when they built up those pyramids? that's bull shit that spanish peoples said to have a pretext to invade the azteks and stole the fuckng gold, why they didn't fusing cultures and science and nature conservation? now look at what shit they've converted Mexhico..
maxyum82 1 year ago
google Doe's Account, its mindblowing.
Nevyfling 1 year ago
Is this really Unsolved History of just some English guy doing the voice over? Hate when they do that.
scottieman2 1 year ago
Christians worship a human sacrifice and think it's great! They eat the body and drink the blood and have argued over centuries whether or not the wine and bread actually turn into body and blood when eaten.
And they don't think this the least bit abnormal or an abomination to god.
So they should love on the Aztecs, who just repeated the process over and over, rather than stopping at one and saying "perfect human sacrifice, thank god we don't have to that anymore."
Same idea, just degrees.
kaneweb 2 years ago
can i please upload??
MrMercedesbenzfreak 2 years ago
the disease small pox from uerope was what really did in the aztecs
tinoman2007 2 years ago
@tinoman2007 not it was not!
see the last part of the documentary! what did them in was the fact that they were naive . and not used to the EUROPEN WAY of doing things which was more TRICKY, MANIPULATIVE, HARDBALLING and SLY!
hornybodhisattva 1 year ago
damn Christians
ShadowShogun50 2 years ago
good thing Cortes did this or else we would have been in a world where taking out each others hearts for religion would have been alright.
diehard272727 2 years ago
The reason why the aztecs were conquerd by the spanish is because the spanish had help from all the other natives in mexico that didnt like the aztecs since the aztecs used them as sacrifice.
sickbasterd123 2 years ago 3
Stupid sun worshippers!
soccom8341576 2 years ago
this program is outdated and ethnocentric - the concept of teotl ixiptla is not taken into account...sacrifices were re-enactments of the sacrifice of the gods themselves - which created out world. Some "victims" went along with it willingly, were given wives for a few weeks, etc.
Be aware that blood was smeared on the walls EVERYWHERE in the temples - the stench was nasty.
ajawofcopan 2 years ago
awesome im doing a report about sacrfice, aztec.,mayan,etc.
KianaOffical 2 years ago
@KianaOffical lol same here
ShadowShogun50 2 years ago
CANT STOP WONT STOP THE AZTEC MOVEMENT.. FUCK THE BITCHEz HATING ON MEXICA.. WE HERE 2 STAy.. LIKE IT OR NOT..
FEROCIOUZ 2 years ago
You should see this with the eyes of a historian and from a distance. You cannot judge to people and events from five centuries ago and from a completely unknown continent and culture through the prism of a 21st century moral codes. Sacrifice for Aztecs was life: they believed that with human sacrifice they will keep Sun shining. It says at the beginning of a documentary.
Don't use this for your own personal wars...
brunehildathequeen 2 years ago
To @brunehildathequeen : Shut Up! I'm native-american/european-spanish & I consider the aztecs to be absolute savages, as did thier native-american enemies.That's why The Conquistadors were able to Conquer them with the help of native-american aztec enemies.
GILR8 2 years ago
No es 1411, sino 1487. Lo dicen claramente. El año escrito en la descripción es erroneo.
Además, aqui hablan de 20 000 personas, y hay libros donde se menciona 80 000. Pero, creo que todo eso es una exageración tremenda por parte de los españoles...
brunehildathequeen 2 years ago
20,000 sacrifices in 4 days?
That would mean, 5000 dead a day
There are 24 hours in a day.
Divide 5000 by 24 = 208 roughly
That means the Aztecs would need to kill 208 people EVERY HOUR. That means they wouldn't even get a chance to sleep, eat, drink or piss!
The numbers are clearly exaggerated, basic maths can tells you that!
You don't need an army of experts to figure that out!
jacksonlin84 2 years ago
Lol! These race was defeated ans decimated by a handful of Spaniards in 2 years! What a pussy backward-demonic race.
101ers77 2 years ago
100%
aztec
AZTECANO92 2 years ago
This is pop-science. The victims that were discovered were the Spanish who were definitely killed in battle. There were many body brutalized. Guess who committed these atrocities? Yep, the Europeans, as they were performing the same atrocities in parts of Europe, particualry Spain (Inquisition, Expulsion of the Jews). Folks, know what you're watching here, please.
DrZodas 2 years ago 4
There is no evidence of human sacrifice especially on a grand scale. There are written accounts left by priests and a Spanish soldiers, but these are obviously one-sided in order to convince the crown that these people needed to be converted and dominated. This is a pattern that has been repeated throughout history.
DrZodas 2 years ago 40
@DrZodas Totalmente de acuerdo.
elverdaderosol 1 year ago
@DrZodas try actually studying their beliefs and religion. It's the bloodiest I know of, and given the populace and constant state of fear under which these people supposedly "flourished", little doubt remains that what you call unsupported numbers were more than plausible.
tutrik 1 year ago 2
@DrZodas There are pictures drawn by the aztecs themselves that show them sacrificing people, and their religion basically demands massive bloodshed. I think the numbers are definitely possible, even likely.
veslcare 1 year ago
@DrZodas actullay they shown sacrifice all thoughout their art work and historical documents, aztecs were known for recording events like human sacrifice
smoresrocks678 1 year ago
Tell that to the archaeologists who drug human skeletons out of sacred cenotes at Chichen Itza. There is LOTS of evidence of human sacrifice among the Aztec, Maya, and many other Mesoamericans. Human sacrifice wasn't wrong, it was just another practice they took seriously. People need to stop looking at things from a Western/Christian "moral" perspective and see it from the Mesoamerican's point of view.
TheLastMexicatl 1 year ago 16
@TheLastMexicatl i agree the aztecs needed to feed their gods. you cant force someone to believe in something different. i totally see why they did human sacrifices. those darn spanish just destroyed aztecs and there is evidence that they made these human sacrifices
aztecsun12 1 year ago
@TheLastMexicatl
From that point of view the human rights wouldn't exist
nachopulp 1 year ago
@TheLastMexicatl I agree
aztecsun12 1 year ago
@TheLastMexicatl
I know you want to protect your heritage but, honestly, buddy
PantsInTheFamily 10 months ago
Aztec human sacrifice is wrong according to Christian Western ideas, but not according to Aztec ideas. You can't judge an entirely different culture by the standards of another. Would you call a wolf who kills a deer a murderer? It's the same concept.
TheLastMexicatl 10 months ago
@TheLastMexicatl So they were just killing people for food.I guess that puts a more positive spin on their barbaric culture.
TheUnknownMax 9 months ago