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"guess what happened when the Spanish invaded the Americas?" They put a stop to the practice of human sacrifice, which was rampant throughout the Aztec Empire?
by origin_path 4y ago
"guess what happened when the Spanish invaded the Americas?"
They put a stop to the practice of human sacrifice, which was rampant throughout the Aztec Empire?
- zach_garwood 4y agoSo was it in the Spanish empire. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
- origin_path 4y agoThose two things aren't even close to comparable in scale. The Aztecs were truly horrible in ways not seen in Europe for a very long time. That's why Cortez could conquer so much territory despite starting out with basically nothing. The locals were desperate to overthrow the Aztecs and teamed up with the Spanish. The sheer scale of the pointless and arbitrary human sacrifice was horrific.