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originally posted by: rickymouse
Woman and children skulls in there too. Maybe it is not a warrior display, maybe these are the skulls of the residents of the city. Maybe they developed a tradition of having your skull put into cement after you died in that tomb.
I do not believe the old Spanish, they wanted to make the people in Spain believe they were killing bad people over here, they used anything they could to justify their killing of people to steal what they owned. Unless I see evidence to definitely prove the Spanish's claim about this, which is pretty impossible since they destroyed everything after looting it, I will not believe the Spanish writings about any of the Indians here in America.
These Spanish needed to justify killing to the Church. They could fabricate evidence, they made everyone believe that nobody could trust these people if they said anything. The Spanish were not the only ones that did this, many powerful nations did the same thing all over the world, looting what was valuable and destroying evidence, then reconditioning the woman and children to believe what they say is real. This is not a church thing, this is a common human tactic of the past. We call it propaganda today, we still do this kind of stuff today.
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
Woman and children skulls in there too. Maybe it is not a warrior display, maybe these are the skulls of the residents of the city. Maybe they developed a tradition of having your skull put into cement after you died in that tomb.
I do not believe the old Spanish, they wanted to make the people in Spain believe they were killing bad people over here, they used anything they could to justify their killing of people to steal what they owned. Unless I see evidence to definitely prove the Spanish's claim about this, which is pretty impossible since they destroyed everything after looting it, I will not believe the Spanish writings about any of the Indians here in America.
These Spanish needed to justify killing to the Church. They could fabricate evidence, they made everyone believe that nobody could trust these people if they said anything. The Spanish were not the only ones that did this, many powerful nations did the same thing all over the world, looting what was valuable and destroying evidence, then reconditioning the woman and children to believe what they say is real. This is not a church thing, this is a common human tactic of the past. We call it propaganda today, we still do this kind of stuff today.
It would appear that there are the most uncomprehensible efforts to whitewash the Aztecs, even if mass graves and discovering of corpses with forensic evidence of heart-ripping amongst other things was not proof enough that these people were just plain evil.
It is also conveniently forgotten that:
1- Most of the Indians allied with Cortés because they were beyond fed up of Aztec (in fact, Mexica"n") abuse
2- There was no need to justify anything, you just went and take the land. Nobody cared about war crimes and propaganda was definitely not a thing when the only ones propaganda could be directed at were the ones in need of directing propaganda efforts.
3- The idea that our people staged such a thing to the point of piling up skeletons and skulls so, if they were to ever be found, could eventually prove they were right all along is preposterous
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
Woman and children skulls in there too. Maybe it is not a warrior display, maybe these are the skulls of the residents of the city. Maybe they developed a tradition of having your skull put into cement after you died in that tomb.
I do not believe the old Spanish, they wanted to make the people in Spain believe they were killing bad people over here, they used anything they could to justify their killing of people to steal what they owned. Unless I see evidence to definitely prove the Spanish's claim about this, which is pretty impossible since they destroyed everything after looting it, I will not believe the Spanish writings about any of the Indians here in America.
These Spanish needed to justify killing to the Church. They could fabricate evidence, they made everyone believe that nobody could trust these people if they said anything. The Spanish were not the only ones that did this, many powerful nations did the same thing all over the world, looting what was valuable and destroying evidence, then reconditioning the woman and children to believe what they say is real. This is not a church thing, this is a common human tactic of the past. We call it propaganda today, we still do this kind of stuff today.
It would appear that there are the most uncomprehensible efforts to whitewash the Aztecs, even if mass graves and discovering of corpses with forensic evidence of heart-ripping amongst other things was not proof enough that these people were just plain evil.
It is also conveniently forgotten that:
1- Most of the Indians allied with Cortés because they were beyond fed up of Aztec (in fact, Mexica"n") abuse
2- There was no need to justify anything, you just went and take the land. Nobody cared about war crimes and propaganda was definitely not a thing when the only ones propaganda could be directed at were the ones in need of directing propaganda efforts.
3- The idea that our people staged such a thing to the point of piling up skeletons and skulls so, if they were to ever be found, could eventually prove they were right all along is preposterous
Remember, the Spanish were treated as friends when they first came. Then they brought back the corn to their country and many people wound up with Palagra from not eating the companion hot niacin chemistry. Then since the Explorers forgot to tell their people that they needed to eat the hot peppers, they covered up their mistake by going back and killing all of the people that gave them the corn with the blessing of the church.
History is way different than it is in the US history textbooks, and also columbus did not discover America.
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
Woman and children skulls in there too. Maybe it is not a warrior display, maybe these are the skulls of the residents of the city. Maybe they developed a tradition of having your skull put into cement after you died in that tomb.
I do not believe the old Spanish, they wanted to make the people in Spain believe they were killing bad people over here, they used anything they could to justify their killing of people to steal what they owned. Unless I see evidence to definitely prove the Spanish's claim about this, which is pretty impossible since they destroyed everything after looting it, I will not believe the Spanish writings about any of the Indians here in America.
These Spanish needed to justify killing to the Church. They could fabricate evidence, they made everyone believe that nobody could trust these people if they said anything. The Spanish were not the only ones that did this, many powerful nations did the same thing all over the world, looting what was valuable and destroying evidence, then reconditioning the woman and children to believe what they say is real. This is not a church thing, this is a common human tactic of the past. We call it propaganda today, we still do this kind of stuff today.
It would appear that there are the most uncomprehensible efforts to whitewash the Aztecs, even if mass graves and discovering of corpses with forensic evidence of heart-ripping amongst other things was not proof enough that these people were just plain evil.
It is also conveniently forgotten that:
1- Most of the Indians allied with Cortés because they were beyond fed up of Aztec (in fact, Mexica"n") abuse
2- There was no need to justify anything, you just went and take the land. Nobody cared about war crimes and propaganda was definitely not a thing when the only ones propaganda could be directed at were the ones in need of directing propaganda efforts.
3- The idea that our people staged such a thing to the point of piling up skeletons and skulls so, if they were to ever be found, could eventually prove they were right all along is preposterous
Remember, the Spanish were treated as friends when they first came. Then they brought back the corn to their country and many people wound up with Palagra from not eating the companion hot niacin chemistry. Then since the Explorers forgot to tell their people that they needed to eat the hot peppers, they covered up their mistake by going back and killing all of the people that gave them the corn with the blessing of the church.
History is way different than it is in the US history textbooks, and also columbus did not discover America.
1- I'm not american
2- Columbus did discover America, even if he wasn't the first to arrive there which is obvious he wasn't.
3- Cortés and his men did not came back to Spain until after the conquest, and did so because he didn't wanted to accept Moctezuma as a rightful vassal due to the gruesome pagan customs of the mexicas. The king would be perfectly fine with them just as vassals, unbeknownst to him how much of monsters they were, but Cortés knew better and almost commited treason by ignoring self-declared oath of submission to Charles V by Moctezuma and waging war against them. He knew they were just buying time, and he (Cortés) had the high ground with Mayans and Toltecs to actually pacify the land instead of admit an spurious alliance with the mexicas, whom they knew by all accounts of both Mayans and Toltecs, were a bunch of treasonous pricks.
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
Woman and children skulls in there too. Maybe it is not a warrior display, maybe these are the skulls of the residents of the city. Maybe they developed a tradition of having your skull put into cement after you died in that tomb.
I do not believe the old Spanish, they wanted to make the people in Spain believe they were killing bad people over here, they used anything they could to justify their killing of people to steal what they owned. Unless I see evidence to definitely prove the Spanish's claim about this, which is pretty impossible since they destroyed everything after looting it, I will not believe the Spanish writings about any of the Indians here in America.
These Spanish needed to justify killing to the Church. They could fabricate evidence, they made everyone believe that nobody could trust these people if they said anything. The Spanish were not the only ones that did this, many powerful nations did the same thing all over the world, looting what was valuable and destroying evidence, then reconditioning the woman and children to believe what they say is real. This is not a church thing, this is a common human tactic of the past. We call it propaganda today, we still do this kind of stuff today.
It would appear that there are the most uncomprehensible efforts to whitewash the Aztecs, even if mass graves and discovering of corpses with forensic evidence of heart-ripping amongst other things was not proof enough that these people were just plain evil.
It is also conveniently forgotten that:
1- Most of the Indians allied with Cortés because they were beyond fed up of Aztec (in fact, Mexica"n") abuse
2- There was no need to justify anything, you just went and take the land. Nobody cared about war crimes and propaganda was definitely not a thing when the only ones propaganda could be directed at were the ones in need of directing propaganda efforts.
3- The idea that our people staged such a thing to the point of piling up skeletons and skulls so, if they were to ever be found, could eventually prove they were right all along is preposterous
Remember, the Spanish were treated as friends when they first came. Then they brought back the corn to their country and many people wound up with Palagra from not eating the companion hot niacin chemistry. Then since the Explorers forgot to tell their people that they needed to eat the hot peppers, they covered up their mistake by going back and killing all of the people that gave them the corn with the blessing of the church.
History is way different than it is in the US history textbooks, and also columbus did not discover America.
1- I'm not american
2- Columbus did discover America, even if he wasn't the first to arrive there which is obvious he wasn't.
3- Cortés and his men did not came back to Spain until after the conquest, and did so because he didn't wanted to accept Moctezuma as a rightful vassal due to the gruesome pagan customs of the mexicas. The king would be perfectly fine with them just as vassals, unbeknownst to him how much of monsters they were, but Cortés knew better and almost commited treason by ignoring self-declared oath of submission to Charles V by Moctezuma and waging war against them. He knew they were just buying time, and he (Cortés) had the high ground with Mayans and Toltecs to actually pacify the land instead of admit an spurious alliance with the mexicas, whom they knew by all accounts of both Mayans and Toltecs, were a bunch of treasonous pricks.
It is nice to know that the US does not have the only History books that are full of BS, Do some research, if you really get into it you can find actual history documents that describe what was happening. I kind of went overboard one week and viewed some real history writings. A general understanding of the Churches of the time is necessary to figure out what was going on. Thank god that the Catholic Church is not like that anymore.
And, Columbus did not discover America, it was mapped out well by the Norwegians who came here frequently and even the British were settled here long before Columbus. That is right in some of the British history.
According to wikipedia they sacrificed humans to repay their debts to 'the gods'
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
originally posted by: ElZorro
originally posted by: rickymouse
Woman and children skulls in there too. Maybe it is not a warrior display, maybe these are the skulls of the residents of the city. Maybe they developed a tradition of having your skull put into cement after you died in that tomb.
I do not believe the old Spanish, they wanted to make the people in Spain believe they were killing bad people over here, they used anything they could to justify their killing of people to steal what they owned. Unless I see evidence to definitely prove the Spanish's claim about this, which is pretty impossible since they destroyed everything after looting it, I will not believe the Spanish writings about any of the Indians here in America.
These Spanish needed to justify killing to the Church. They could fabricate evidence, they made everyone believe that nobody could trust these people if they said anything. The Spanish were not the only ones that did this, many powerful nations did the same thing all over the world, looting what was valuable and destroying evidence, then reconditioning the woman and children to believe what they say is real. This is not a church thing, this is a common human tactic of the past. We call it propaganda today, we still do this kind of stuff today.
It would appear that there are the most uncomprehensible efforts to whitewash the Aztecs, even if mass graves and discovering of corpses with forensic evidence of heart-ripping amongst other things was not proof enough that these people were just plain evil.
It is also conveniently forgotten that:
1- Most of the Indians allied with Cortés because they were beyond fed up of Aztec (in fact, Mexica"n") abuse
2- There was no need to justify anything, you just went and take the land. Nobody cared about war crimes and propaganda was definitely not a thing when the only ones propaganda could be directed at were the ones in need of directing propaganda efforts.
3- The idea that our people staged such a thing to the point of piling up skeletons and skulls so, if they were to ever be found, could eventually prove they were right all along is preposterous
Remember, the Spanish were treated as friends when they first came. Then they brought back the corn to their country and many people wound up with Palagra from not eating the companion hot niacin chemistry. Then since the Explorers forgot to tell their people that they needed to eat the hot peppers, they covered up their mistake by going back and killing all of the people that gave them the corn with the blessing of the church.
History is way different than it is in the US history textbooks, and also columbus did not discover America.
1- I'm not american
2- Columbus did discover America, even if he wasn't the first to arrive there which is obvious he wasn't.
3- Cortés and his men did not came back to Spain until after the conquest, and did so because he didn't wanted to accept Moctezuma as a rightful vassal due to the gruesome pagan customs of the mexicas. The king would be perfectly fine with them just as vassals, unbeknownst to him how much of monsters they were, but Cortés knew better and almost commited treason by ignoring self-declared oath of submission to Charles V by Moctezuma and waging war against them. He knew they were just buying time, and he (Cortés) had the high ground with Mayans and Toltecs to actually pacify the land instead of admit an spurious alliance with the mexicas, whom they knew by all accounts of both Mayans and Toltecs, were a bunch of treasonous pricks.
It is nice to know that the US does not have the only History books that are full of BS, Do some research, if you really get into it you can find actual history documents that describe what was happening. I kind of went overboard one week and viewed some real history writings. A general understanding of the Churches of the time is necessary to figure out what was going on. Thank god that the Catholic Church is not like that anymore.
And, Columbus did not discover America, it was mapped out well by the Norwegians who came here frequently and even the British were settled here long before Columbus. That is right in some of the British history.
If you refer to the vikings as "norwegians" only God knows to whom may you be referring to as "the british", with in sum underlines your whole knoledge about history, which is questionable at best. You didn't even bothered to discuss my points, at that.
And, if the Vikings, and, more implausibly, the Saxons or the Irish or whoever called the British Islands home at the time did arrive there, and even map it, but have had not any impact at all in America nor Europe, they may very well not arrived.
But I will concede you something: Colón, or Columbus, was very well aware of those lands by different accounts, and figured it out that it shall be a whole new continent, but sold the idea of an alternative route to Asia through a severe misestimation of the earth size (which was well known at the time, as it was its sphericity) so he could profit of it. He was a clever man.