I was under the impression, having read a good bit about it, that the Mayans used the ‘invade your neighbors and take them as slaves’ method. Except when they were sacrificed...
Perhaps I have become too skeptical, but for this article, which claims that “climate change” did in the Maya civilization, to come out the same time as Copenhagen, well, it stretches credulity a bit.
:’) They had continual wars and shifting alliances. Once in a while, some archrival would gather their forces, march in at night, catch another town by surprise, round up and kill the leadership via ritualistic torture, and leave a record of the slaughter, accounts that are just now being read (contrary to what was peddled in “National Treasure 2” — I’m not sure I’d mentioned today how much that movie sucked — Olmec writing, what there is of it, hasn’t quite been cracked, and it’s in the bag that it was never in use in North America, and wasn’t being read in the 19th century).
Who do you think pulled the plows?
who needs draft animals when you have slaves?