Those two things aren't even close to comparable in scale. The Aztecs were truly horrible in ways not seen in Europe for a very long time. That's why Cortez cou

Those two things aren't even close to comparable in scale. The Aztecs were truly horrible in ways not seen in Europe for a very long time. That's why Cortez could conquer so much territory despite starting out with basically nothing. The locals were desperate to overthrow the Aztecs and teamed up with the Spanish. The sheer scale of the pointless and arbitrary human sacrifice was horrific.