Some things never change.
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The more I learn about the Aztec the happier I am the Spanish wiped them out.
A hat tip to smallpox - the Aztecs were pure evil. I don’t care if they were great astronomers, either.
Wait?! America was a utopia before white man Arrived! I don’t believe this!!! /s
How many were crystal skulls?
Them Aztecs wuz engaged in skullduggery.
Happy Indigenous Day
I'm so glad to be living in a civilized society!
The link goes to an extended review of the book which I wrote. Here is an excerpt of the review:
The American edition, published in 1956, 468 pages, Translated by A.P. Maudsley
The Diaz account is the best history book that I have read. It has all the advantage of a first person account and reads like a well written adventure novel.
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo is the only extant first person account of the campaign under the command of Hernando Cortez from 1519 to 1520. The campaign resulted in the discovery and conquest of the Aztec civilization in Mexico.
Cortez himself wrote five long letters to Carlos V in Spain. Parts of them are included in this edition to help explain the narrative. But Cortez' letters were essentially reports of a Conquistador commander seeking favor, and explaining his actions, which were mostly extralegal.
The entire Conquest was a massive verification of the adage that “It is easier to obtain forgiveness than permission.”
Bernal Diaz' account is a first person narrative of the entire campaign, with the amazing detail of a foot soldier who is vitally interested in food, women, weapons, and gold. He includes accounts of two separate expeditions before Cortez.
Bernal Diaz made extensive remarks on the use of firearms in his narrative. The initial numbers were tiny, but contributed significantly to the success of the conquest. Of the initial 400 to 500 men under the command of Cortez, there were 16 with horses, 13 with individual guns, four small cannon, “some brass guns” (more cannon), and 32 crossbowmen. The 13 personal guns were almost certainly arquebuses, the first really practical personal gun, with early matchlocks. Diaz mentions “much powder and ball”.
What a pitoresque and quaint civilization when compared to Cortez and his brutes.
Such peacefulness. In tune with Mother Nature. Green, environmentalism of our native Americans The point liberals to the answer - insatiable death of mankind. I expect many small skulls. I. Also expect that they delighted in the death of mother’s with unborn children to satisfy their demonic cult, just like modern liberals.
Smallpox FTW.
The Aztecs were the Cornpops of the 15th Century.
If Only Joe was there with a Chain to stand up to them and save their victims.
Scads and lashings of death, duh. Welcome to the past.
That would make a heckuva privacy wall and an even better border wall.
Prior to the Conquest of 1519-1521.
Cortez was doing God’s work when he destroyed the Aztecs culture.
