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I feel that the article is missing something that is very important - the violence of the Spaniards. Did not the Spaniards stamp and erase the culture & religio
by lappet 10y ago
I feel that the article is missing something that is very important - the violence of the Spaniards. Did not the Spaniards stamp and erase the culture & religion of the Mexica? If the Mexica culture had been allowed to exist could we not understand them better? I feel the title is a little clickbaity and would wager most civilizations can barely fathom their own past.
- DanTheManPR 10y agoWesterners can relate to the Spanish conquistadors, because we share the same cultural family tree. Westerners can understand why something like greed could be such a motivator that the Spaniards would cross an entire ocean to pursue violence against a people... because they had land and gold. You can probably find cultures today who would find that concept alien and unknowable. The point is not the violence per-se, but how it's difficult to grok the deeply ingrained motivations of cultures (especially ones that are long-dead).