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Human sacrifice was practiced by the Aztecs too of course (don't know about the Incas, but it was clearly an accepted and unremarkable part of life for a large
by tragomaskhalos 8y ago
Human sacrifice was practiced by the Aztecs too of course (don't know about the Incas, but it was clearly an accepted and unremarkable part of life for a large region of the new world); the revulsion that it provoked in the Conquistadors was surely a significant factor in enabling them to convince themselves that destroying these cultures was justified. But I suspect that the conquest would have played out very similarly even if the Europeans hadn't been confronted with pyramids caked in human blood.
- empath75 8y agoWell just look at the Inca. They didn’t do human sacrifice.
- Mediterraneo10 8y agoThe Inca did indeed practice human sacrifice.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_Juanita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_Juanita
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoTrue, but the scale on which the Inca practiced sacrifice is not exactly comparable to the Aztecs, e.g [1]. 1: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-skull-tower-rack-evidence-aztec.html https://phys.org/news/2018-06-skull-tower-rack-evidence-azte...