Who was more brutal, the Aztecs or the Assyrians?
>>17432115Europeans and their sons
Speaking of assyriology, what is a good english translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh? Preferably with the new tablet V fragments included.
The Aztec i think. Assyrians feels like a king just making an example of a city and shocking the world
>>17433427Gerald J. Davis. Tablet V is the one where they fight Humbaba and Enkidu was a pussy about it.
The Assyrians. The Aztecs had a grizzly practice of human sacrifice but the Assyrians didn't need a religious reason to brutally dismember their enemies, they did it for fun.
Germans, Aztecs, Assyrians, Mongols, Turks are the top 5 evil nations of history
Assyrianshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoGwjF54R14
>>17432115>>17433440>>17433538The aztecs weren't that bad. They killed prisoners of war, big deal. Remember when Sulla killed 6000 prisoners right outside the Senate to intimidate them?
>>17432115Objectively the Assyrians and it's not up to debate at all.The brutal aztec human sacrifice rituals everybody memes about were only done to enemy warriors and slaves, who were negligible in number compared to the wider population, and the practice itself was normal in the context of Mesoamerican civilizations, they were just playing by the rules that had existed in their region for the past 2000 years.The Assyrians on the other hand destroyed entire cities and brutally massacred their people just as a fear tactic, something that the Aztecs rarely ever did since the way their "Empire" (more of a loose hegemony) worked relied on leaving the cities they conquered more or less intact.
