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The Spanish Inquisition was executing people up until 1826. The last 2itch was executed in England in 1716. Both hundreds of years after the fall of the Aztec E

The Spanish Inquisition was executing people up until 1826. The last 2itch was executed in England in 1716. Both hundreds of years after the fall of the Aztec Empire. Oxford is a strange callout. It was founded in 1096. About 700 years before the enlightenment. I doubt they were teaching heliocentrism and the scientific method.

pezezin 6y ago
According to official records, the Spanish Inquisition tried 150 000 people, and only 2% resulted in death sentences, so that's 3 000 executions over 350 years of history. According to Aztec records, for the consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, 84 000 people were sacrificed IN FOUR DAYS. You can't even begin to compare the numbers. Many historians agree that the reason a small number of Spanish soldiers could conquer the big Aztec empire is because they could forge alliances with the neighbouring tribes that were completely fed up with them. The Aztec were the Nazis of their time.
- devb 6y ago
  Those are not accurate numbers. Where did you find them?
  - pezezin 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_tolls_and_sentenced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_toll... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture#Scope_of_human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_cultu... You can find plenty of sources there.
- myownpetard 6y ago
  My point wasn't to compare specific atrocities. You can find plenty of high death count (thousands, tens of thousands) religious massacres in Europe during this period. My point was to show that the claim, "they had a civilization but they were way behind those both of europe and asia", because "europeans were teaching and learning in Oxford and Cambridge." is a nonsense argument. With regard to belief in mysticism and exercising religious violence they don't seem dissimilar. Maybe they seem more different because sacrificing 84k people at a pyramid is less familiar to us than Catholics and Protestants butchering each other in the streets and defenestrating each other.

pezezin 6y ago

According to official records, the Spanish Inquisition tried 150 000 people, and only 2% resulted in death sentences, so that's 3 000 executions over 350 years of history. According to Aztec records, for the consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, 84 000 people were sacrificed IN FOUR DAYS. You can't even begin to compare the numbers. Many historians agree that the reason a small number of Spanish soldiers could conquer the big Aztec empire is because they could forge alliances with the neighbouring tribes that were completely fed up with them. The Aztec were the Nazis of their time.

devb 6y ago
Those are not accurate numbers. Where did you find them?
- pezezin 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_tolls_and_sentenced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Death_toll... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture#Scope_of_human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_cultu... You can find plenty of sources there.
myownpetard 6y ago
My point wasn't to compare specific atrocities. You can find plenty of high death count (thousands, tens of thousands) religious massacres in Europe during this period. My point was to show that the claim, "they had a civilization but they were way behind those both of europe and asia", because "europeans were teaching and learning in Oxford and Cambridge." is a nonsense argument. With regard to belief in mysticism and exercising religious violence they don't seem dissimilar. Maybe they seem more different because sacrificing 84k people at a pyramid is less familiar to us than Catholics and Protestants butchering each other in the streets and defenestrating each other.