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

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.