“they were greeted by a peaceful people prone to building pyramids instead of stockpiles of weapons.”
The culture the Spaniards found in Mexico makes the NAZIs look human. The NAZIs did not eat their enemies.
The NAZIs did not force their enemies to watch their children being sacrificed to evil gods, as their beating hearts were ripped from their body, and then be forced to eat some of their children’s flesh.
The Conquest of Mexico, by Bernal Diaz, is a first hand account of one of Cortez’ foot soldiers.
It should be required reading in every high school.
It is an easy read. Perhaps the best history book I have ever read.
https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Conquest-Mexico-Bernal-Castillo/dp/0306806975
I read that book years ago-there are other good ones that tell about what was going down on both sides of that ocean at the time-life in that part of Europe was not happy or safe for most-the Spaniards were not nice or all that civilized in their behavior-they were just into rather imaginative methods of torture, not human sacrifice.
The Spanish king and nobles had a particular dislike for some people at that time-Basques from the Pyrenees was one-so being Basque, my ancestors got on a ship and came over here and took their chances-risky, but better than torture and hanging in Spain...
That’s a great book. I do have some sympathy for Montezuma who is portrayed sympathetically as I remember. Now that you mention it, I’m going to reorder it on Amazon.
thanks. will read. I love contemporary historical accounts. pretty much no bs.