They were actually even more advanced than I used to think. Minus the human sacrifice subhamnry, they were pretty cool. They had complex metallurgy, agriculture that fed millions, trade networks spanning thousands of miles that utilized seafaring sail ships, written languages, etc etc.>but muh wheelThey had the concept of the wheel. They just lacked the pack animals to make the use of them (llamas are shit tier for this). They didn't need it for wheelbarrows since they lived in mountainous regions where head-strap with baskets are more effective for carrying heavy loads, same thing that sherpas in the himalayas use.
>>18482062>Minus the human sacrifice subhamnrWho gives a shit? Only racists give a shit about this unironically since they immediately defend it when someone brings up their own ancestors doing it as well.
Me? I STARTED being racist after reading about them.Holy fucking shit the Aztecs were the literal definition of superstitious barbarians. I bet when the Spanish landed they thought they'd entered hell itself.
>>18482062Racism is about looks not technology. Who cares if they had the wheel or not
>end result: mediocre brown reggaeton slumdogs favelaposting about how the freemasons took their abuela's tacoseh, not much lost in the long run 2bh
>>18482064Find me a single Christian nationalist who defends human sacrifice.
>>18482087Christianity itself is centered around a human sacrifice. What a retard.
>>18482070Reminder that there's no actual evidence of mass human sacrifice other than Spanish accounts (to justify conquest). Prisoners of war were occasionally sacrificed but who fucking cares? The standard treatment of ancient prisoners of war was torture & death everywhere in the world.>muh tzompantlisSkulls of prisoners of war collected over multiple years. Wh*Tes would impale people and decorate the countryside with their corpses.
>>18482098>The standard treatment of ancient prisoners of war was torture & death everywhere in the world.No, it was slavery retard
>>18482098>it didn't happen but if it did everyone else was worse o algocope more mesoanon
>>18482100It was both, and depended on how hard your people resisted a conquest. Slavery meant death most of the time anyway.
>>18482070>Mesoanon>noooo its not like that ok?>spanish exaggerated ok
>>18482062>I stopped being racist after reading about these guysyou stopped being racist when you learned that 200 Europeans destroyed empires of millions ? imagine 200 africans going to rome and conquering it alone i mean you can't even imagine it as a joke
>>18482098>Reminder that there's no actual evidence of mass human sacrifice other than Spanish accounts (to justify conquest).Justify to who, the UN?...
>>18482695The catholic church.They thought that whole "continent wide enslavement" thing was no bueno.
As someone with both Iberian and Otami heritage I'm proud to say Fuck the Aztecs and we for sure raped them together like bros.
>I stopped being racist after reading about these guys >racism le badLol. Btw, Incas and Aztecs didn't know about each other. Their lack of knowledge about the world outside their empires was one the main reason for their downfall.
>>18482062>>18482070>>18482377human sacrifices are fucking badass and you know it. Aztec style human sacrifices are so kino it hurts. Why are eurotards such pearl-clutching sissies? I genuinely think destroying all the mesoamerican art was a "we hate them 'cause we ain't them" kinda thing. You'd have to be soulless to burn this stuff.
>>18483690>aztec human sacrificethey cut out your heart, blood pressure drops fast and you black out>christian human sacrificethey slowly burn you to death and youll be in agonizing pain while the fire slowly rises and start to burn you feet first. you're lucky if the smoke takes you out before the fire does
>>18482064It is literally reason God sent Spain to wipe them out. Had they been rigtheous people they would still exist to this day.
>>18483801>blood pressure drops fast and you black outWhat about the whole "slicing into your chest and ripping your heart out" bit? They weren't using scalpels and anesthetic, anon.
>>18483806I guess that the christian communities that were wiped out by the muslims weren't righteous either.
>>18483847well yeah, you need to open the ribcage first, but it'd be over fast if the priest was well practiced and obsidian is plenty sharp. the shock will probably block out most of the pain anyways.would definitely pick that over getting slow roasted
>>18482062>subhamnrywat
>>18483806Yeah because the good guys always win in history right?
>>18482070I've heard the argument that they had to do it because they didn't have access to enough protein, meat or otherwise but that's retarded because these niggas had zoos.
>>18484009>no protein makes you go batshit insanethe fuckwhich struggling ranch funded the extremely scientific survey that found that
>>184826773000 Spaniards participated in the conquest of the Aztec Empire tho, about half of whom died violentlyAnd of course they were aided by tens of thousands of local allies
>>18484009That theory came from one of *those* kinds of academics, the kind who loves explaining away complex cultural practices that we civilized western men think are unfathomably superstitious and self-destructive with just one particular environmental factor. His flaw, as is usual for his kind, was the fact he didn't actually bother researching how Aztec society worked and how the practice of human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism worked within it, all he knew was "they killed tons of people for some reason and ate them sometimes" and then made a hypothesis around it.In reality, ritual cannibalism was far from being enough of a routine practice to have any influence on one's nutrition, it wasn't even an universal element of the many different rituals that involved human sacrifice, and as you pointed out, they actually did have decent access to animal protein. Some people defend the theory with the even stupider argument that sure, the common people might have not had human meat as a staple food, but the noble warriors must have because they needed to fight. The problem with that argument being the fact that obviously the nobility were precisely the sector of society that could already obtain animal meat whenever they wanted, like everywhere else on earth, they were the last ones in desperate need of protein.Human sacrifice in Mesoamerica is so ancient and universal you can't really assign one singular root to it. As for the Aztecs' brand of mass sacrifice, I'd say it was political more than anything: The State Cult of Huitzilopochtli made it so capturing battle captives to be sacrificed became a particularly prestigious thing for warriors to do and so there were more captives, which contributed to the Cult's geopolitical role of motivating and justifying expansionism and ensuring Mexica political and cultural dominance. And as for cannibalism, i reckon it was, quite simply, purely symbolic and religious in nature.
>>18483806How is Cortez burning people alive for not converting (and then killing them anyways) not human sacrifice too? It's done in the name of God, is it not?
>>18482062Just passing through to say that’s not an Inca vase, but a Moche one, an ancient unrelated culture from the coast.
>>18482074kek
>>18482062The Incas also had a more advanced road system than anything in Europe at that time. The roman roads were long gone by then.
>>18482070burning someone on a stake is pretty far up in the barbarism league
>>18482677Hannibal almost did it in a similar way except he didn't have the technological advantage/smallpox bioweapon the spanish had
