[Yardstick]

Good piece. Mel Gibson makes the same point in his excellent film Apocalypto. He slyly marketed it to the media as having an anti-Iraq-war message, but it was really about showing the savagery of the Aztecs. It's a long movie and you don't get any relief until the last scene when you see the Spanish galleons in the harbor with their cross shaped masts.

[ThanhPhero]

It was Mayans in the movie. They indulged in human sacrifice and probably cannibalism also but the Aztecs were at the apex of that system.