Posted on 10/09/2015 1:45:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In 1520, a Spanish-led supply convoy that may have consisted of as many as 550 people, including Cubans of African and Indian descent, women, and Indian allies of the Spaniards, was captured and taken to a town inhabited by the Aztec-allied Texcocanos, or Acolhuas. The town is now known as Zultepec-Tecoaque, an archaeological site east of Mexico City. Excavations have uncovered carved clay figurines of the invaders that the Texcocanos had symbolically decapitated. Human and animal bones with cut marks have also been found, indicating that the members of the convoy and their horses were actually sacrificed and eaten. The pigs, however, were killed and left whole. The townspeople hid the remains of the convoy in shallow wells and abandoned the town. "They heard that [Cortes] was coming for them, and what they did was hide everything. If they hadn't done that, we wouldn't have found these things," government archaeologist Enrique Martinez told the Associated Press. Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztecs the following year.
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Back at that time, I loved that track. :’) The conquistadors have danced their last fandango.
Gee, I had no idea that PreColumbian America was death-free and religion-free -- must be that's why Ponce de Leon came to look for the Fountain of Youth.
No doubt!
Considering that the in-depth studies of pre-Columbian ruins in the Americas show that cities were abandoned from the gitgo-and many don’t show any signs of being burned and pillaged. There were droughts, floods and other natural disasters then as now-and when too many people were crowded into cities, something like that would certainly have resulted in lack of food, water and sanitation, producing disease, violence and death.
I would imagine the smart people grabbed some of their belongings and decamped with haste at the first sign of diminishing natural resources like food and water, since standing around and howling help me government, help wouldn’t have done any good.
The only reason people can live in anthills and beehives now is because necessities trucked and flown in allow that-but I don’t see it as healthy or really safe-a part of the grid going down in a natural disaster or attack would be a bigger catastrophe today-too many people don’t know how to live outside of the herd.
Considering that the documentary evidence left behind by the literate Mayans shows that they were bloodthirsty killers engaged in internecine wars, and like the Aztecs and at least one group in the Four Corners area practiced cannibalism, and that the tribal tales in North America that have preserved accounts of genocidal and near-genocidal wars, your post is mystifying.
Not really, and I apologize if I offended you-it was not my intention-I greatly enjoy the articles you send. I’m just making an observation based on what I’ve seen in my travels/heard/read over the last 30 years or so.
I didn’t say all of the cities were abandoned without warfare-most of the ones I’ve visited were sacked-at Casas Grandes-pretty close to Texas-there are scorch marks on the walls from a conflagration, and skeletons were found piled in a firepit, like a makeshift mass grave-and the place had been looted according to my cousin’s husband who was in charge of that dig. There are others, but that is the best preserved one I’ve been to.
But there are a few cities that were abandoned with no evidence of a battle-those are the ones that invite speculation-La Quemada is one like that-no evidence of battle, but plenty evidence of the nearby water source going dry in a prolonged drought.
What Bernal Diaz showed was something that went down the memory hole in most of the histories of the new world. That the indian priest classes that Cortez and his men encountered were homosexuals. That disgusting combination of human sacrifice and homosexuality in the priest class shows up too among the caananites—the people against whom the early Israelites fought as chronicled in the old testament.
The reaction of Cortez and his men was much the same as that of Joshua and Moses.
***and many Indian kingdoms existed along its edges and irrigated from it.**
They could not have. The lake was salt water.
My kin homesteaded in Kiowa County Oklahoma back in 1901.
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