Posted on 05/18/2019 4:19:44 AM PDT by vannrox
My lordy!
That’s why the European powers often subjugated other people, to get them to stop doing evil.
The British stopped immolation over in India and minimized hardcore tribalism in Africa.
Unfortunately, greed got in the way much of the time as well, like what that Belgium king did. He killed upwards of ten million africans to control the mines.
Remember, all cultures are equal, none are inherently better than others.
I’m beginning to think that in their own way, the Majority of civilizations have been brutal in their own way.
OF COURSE some were worse than others.
But the Spanish were up there with the best of them at that time :)
Do I give a #### what they did when they came to the Americas? No.
But they were brutal.
As for the Aztecs, they slaughtered their own people in TREMENDOUS numbers. And other people.
Not a good way to support population growth :)
Taste like chicken.
‘Once they had captured the people in 1520, the Acolhuas people sacrificed the invaders and ate them, along with the animals, with the exception of the pigs – they were apparently viewed as unsavory and were killed and thrown into a well.”
They threw out the best meat - idiots.
N, more like beef fajitas.
These are some of the natives that academia and leftists say would have better been left alone rather than bringing a civilized influence to this hemisphere? Along with the other human sacrifice tribes of central and south america? Idiots again.
Early Muslims?
Gotta keep it kosher .....LOL!!
I would love to visit that site...s long as I wasn’t on the menu.
Bloody Belgian bastards! I’m on daily calls with them working to keep our company compliant with global privacy rules dictated by, you guessed it, Belgium. Seriously, who put these pompous f*ckers in Antwerp in charge and why do the rest of us just play along like it is ok?
Apparently they preferred the “long pig”— which they somehow did not equate to their own selves, as humans, and especially any darker color skinned individuals (like.. Spaniards, Africans and other tribes). A term from the old S. Pacific islands.
Derived from ‘puaa oa’, a phrase originating in the Marquesan language to euphemistically refer to cannibalism.
The phrase first appeared in Fredrick O’Brien’s 1919 travelogue of French Polynesia, “White Shadows in the South Seas”.
“Upon it once stood the temple and about it were enacted the rites of mystery, when the priests and elders fed on the ‘long pig that speaks,’ when the drums beat till dawn and wild dances maddened the blood.”
Natives
But the indigenous people were peaceful, and loved mother Earth.
I bet cannibalism was rampant in the pre-colonial Americas. A veritable Green Inferno. Shudder, that was a nasty snuff flick that I quickly turned off.
That was PART of it, maybe not a major part of it.
The Aztecs practiced a ruthless system of slave-centric imperialism over all neighboring --the Spanish who happened upon the scene encountered an endless stream of embittered volunteers hoping to overthrow their age-old enemies.
The Aztecs were squashed because THEY WEREN'T NICE.
Those "former glory" posters you see featuring a strapping warrior atop a pyriamid with a fetching, half-naked girl:
HE IS ABOUT TO **STAB** HER.
Hernán Cortés , the Spanish usurper of Mexico at the time
The Spanish brought cows and pigs with them to provide red meat for them.
Before the Spanish came, the Aztecs (and others) got their red meat by eating the bodies of the human victims that they “sacrificed”.
So, when the Spanish defeated the Aztecs, they saved the lives of countless future human victims. Or should I say, “entrees”...
The body armor made Spaniard on the Half Shell a local fave.
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