[pepsi_junkie]

Invoking a curmudgeonly thread police persona: "Didn't you search, I posted this like two minutes before you!"

Seriously though, for centuries people read the accounts of the Spanish priests who accompanied Cortes and discounted it as impossible propaganda. The sheer number and pace of murders described defied all experience. But science has gone on to corroborate pretty much every aspect of those accounts. Imagine being a witness to it, tens of thousands killed in a day by ripping their still-beating hearts out and they cutting their heads off, stripping off the skin and mounting them to a wall with tens of thousands of skulls on it.

It wasn't just gold lust that made them want this empire eradicated.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The depth of the evil would have made compromise easy. There was a reason that in one of the first conquests by the Hebrews they were told to keep none of the gold or spoils.

[BBell]

What amazes me, amongst thousands of things, is the ignominiouses who think that Cortes just waltzed it and took over with a very small number of men. The surrounding folks hated the Aztecs and were more than willing to join an army, created by Cortes, to topple the Aztecs.

These are the same ignorant souls who believe a bunch of white guys just landed in Africa and started kidnapping people to sell into slavery.

BTW, my posts is better. (;>)

[grey_whiskers]

Compare to today's Strong Independent Woman^TM and her multiple abortions.