[yankeedame]

"They used to kill 80,000 virgins a year," Horowitz said."

Prove it. Sources and or links please.
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I don't down about Horowitz but I can give you a couple of very good sources: Prescot's "The Conquest of Peru" and "The Conquest of Mexico". Neither book is a quick read, both books have lots of fine print, and lots and lots of pages, and next to zero illustrations. (And yes, I have read them both.)

And, remember, just because something is bad doesn't mean it's wrong.

[Verginius Rufus]

Bernal Diaz's eyewitness account, The Conquest of New Spain, is available in English as a Penguin paperback and is a great read. The Aztecs were a small minority hated by most of the people they ruled over...some of whom were reluctant to side with Cortez until they thought the Spanish had a chance to win, but it was Mexican Indians who did most of the fighting and dying in the final capture of Tenochtitlan.

Some obvious parallels to the American invasion of Iraq (except that the Americans and British troops did most of the heavy lifting in 2003). The Aztecs were every bit as nasty to their subjects as the Baathists were to theirs.