Aztecs didn't need to eat people to survive. The idea was popularized by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M

Aztecs didn't need to eat people to survive. The idea was popularized by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harner In this paper: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/ae.1977.4.1.02a00070 https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525... It was immediately rebutted a year later: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5901/8ba520161d2cb4ff55dd919e79003e28dd69.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5901/8ba520161d2cb4ff55dd91... And more recently in 2005: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mdia;c=mdia;c=mdiaarchive;idno=0522508.0015.104;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mdiag https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mdia;c=mdi... Skim the 2005 paper if you're interested in a TL;DR P.S. The capital of the Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, is underneath what is now Mexico City (not South America).