[justshutupandtakeit]

What the professor is saying about their beliefs is nontheless true. That is what they believed. Those chosen to be sacrificed generally believed it to be a high honor as well at least with the Mayas. The Aztecs were much more indiscriminate and brutal.

In fact, another factor in their loss to the Spanish was that their battle tactics stressed capture of the enemy rather than killing them in order that they could be sacrificed. This gave the Spanish an advantage having no inclination to do anything but kill the enemy in battle.

[norton]

" Those chosen to be sacrificed generally believed it to be a high honor as well at least with the Mayas."

I've always wondered just how someone today knows that the victims felt 'honored'.
I've never heard anyone suggest that Christians felt honored when they let the lions loose or that anyone said thanks to the Gestapo.

I'd be willing to go with 'hoplessly aware of what was coming next'. I'd believe generous application of locally grown drugs. I'm not willing to accept feeling honored, certainly not once they saw the knife.

[Antoninus]

In fact, another factor in their loss to the Spanish was that their battle tactics stressed capture of the enemy rather than killing them in order that they could be sacrificed. This gave the Spanish an advantage having no inclination to do anything but kill the enemy in battle.

Uh, you are aware that without the assistance of the Aztecs' enemies from Texcoco and other subject peoples, the Spanish wouldn't have had a prayer, even with their guns, horses, armor, etc. There simply weren't enough of them.

[freedomdefender]

Those chosen to be sacrificed generally believed it to be a high honor as well at least with the Mayas.

Actually, weren't they drugged so they couldn't protest?