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To: sparklite2

Who knew the Aztecs were peace-loving hippies?!


3 posted on 11/17/2016 11:39:36 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein
Who knew the Aztecs were peace-loving hippies?!

They had a lot of hearts.

6 posted on 11/17/2016 11:41:10 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: miss marmelstein
Who knew the Aztecs were peace-loving hippies?!

Yeah, never mind the human sacrifices and mountains of skulls.

18 posted on 11/17/2016 11:50:42 AM PST by Noumenon (We owe them nothing: not respect, not loyalty, not obedience.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Who knew the Aztecs were peace-loving hippies?!

Peace loving, but prone to mass human sacrifice.

23 posted on 11/17/2016 11:56:12 AM PST by D Rider
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To: miss marmelstein; thorvaldr
The Cholulans were not Aztecs. They were Tolteca-Chichimeca and one of the few nearby groups whom the Aztecs were unable to conquer. The history is a little unclear, but it looks like they had actually wanted to ally with the Spanish to overthrow the Aztecs.

They were certainly not unarmed pacifists.

44 posted on 11/17/2016 12:31:42 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("What people will submit to, is the exact measure of the injustice which will be imposed upon them.")
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To: miss marmelstein

I’ve always had some sympathy for Moctezuma-screwed over by the Spaniards and stoned to death by his own pissed-off subjects-and the last emperor-Cuatemoc-was duped into being taken prisoner and going south with Cortez and ended up being hanged from a Cieba tree by Cortez in a fit of rage-Cortez was not a nice man at all-he gave his Native mistress and-mother of his son-Malinche/Marina to one of his upper-ranking captains as a wife-without asking her-to reward him-...


60 posted on 11/17/2016 1:53:47 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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