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>>2559509It was bigger than all of them tho. London, Paris, Berlin, the only one that gets close is Istanbul.
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>bigger city must mean better city
Broootal.
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>>2559504 (OP)Where is that located
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>>2559553Wrong natives bro
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>>2559560Modern day Mexico City.
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Nophono cares about this
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>>2559563Tbh the aztecs were descended from native americans
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>>2559563I mean shieeet they still did the same stuff they even sacrified niggas
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>>2559589>Falling after losing half of your population to a foreign plague and being ganged up on by the entirety of your neighbors is le pathetic>>2559594tsmt hispanicucks lost
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>>2559594what ai is this?
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>>2559589The europoors spread their plagues that killed like 90% of the population. They still would've won anyway if not for the region uniting against them and the trickery the Spanish employed.
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Human sacrifice was a central and ritualized practice in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, deeply embedded in their religious beliefs and cosmology. The Aztecs believed that human sacrifice was essential to sustain the universe and nourish the gods, particularly the war god Huitzilopochtli and the rain god Tlaloc, whose favor was thought to ensure the continuation of life and the world itself.
The Templo Mayor, the main religious structure in Tenochtitlan, served as the epicenter of these rituals, with sacrifices performed on its twin shrines.
One of the most significant sacrificial events occurred during the re-consecration of the sixth phase of the Templo Mayor on December 19, 1487, under Emperor Ahuitzotl. Historical accounts, including those from Spanish conquistadors and post-conquest sources, describe a four-day ceremony during which thousands of prisoners of war were sacrificed.
While estimates vary widely-ranging from 4,000 to as high as 84,000 victims-archaeological evidence supports the occurrence of large-scale sacrifice, though the exact number remains debated.
The victims' hearts were removed while still beating and offered to the gods, and their bodies were then thrown down the temple steps.
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>>2559635Btw there's no anthropological evidence for those massive numbers of human sacrifice. They obviously did sacrifice many people(their neighbors didn't turn on them for no reason) but "thousands of people being sacrificed in a few days" is definitely an exaggeration.
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>>2559504 (OP)Bigger doesn't automatically mean "civilized".
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>>2559652Every race on earth has their own holobolo story it seems
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>>2559652Yeah, I agree, its ridiculous that the nazis killed 6 millions jews, thats a insane exaggeration.
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Even doe Constantinople was two times bigger than tenochtitlan at it's peak
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>>2559657I like it moreso because it's an impressive feat for the people and the location. Keep in mind the only animals they had access too were dogs and they barely had metalworking mostly using tools made from obsidian and wood.
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>>2559667Do you want a medal?
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>>2559662The coliseum was common ground for pow/slave sacrifices all the time aldoe I don't think they specifically targeted kids for any of these.
>>2559671>>2559674Am I not allowed to like things?
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>>2559680To be perfectly fair I do recall child remains being recovered from the temples in archeological surveys. The aztecs were and impressive civilization but they definitely weren't paragons of virtue
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>>2559695Of course not I just see the sacrifice part getting a lot of flak for some reason like every civilization didn't do it.
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>>2559680> pow/slave sacrificesromans considered any kind of human sacrifice as barbaric
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>>2559708The thing is that iirc the native americans were especially prone to it. People would probably take you more seriously if you acknowledge their flaws first and then appreciate all the good things
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>>2559680Of course. You can be impressed I suppose, but if you're doing it out of attempted conflict and comparing the thing that is supposedly "impressive" to cities that had an actual long term world impact on culture. Then how impressive is it actually? Also, you claimed that Tenochtitlan was "bigger" than every European City and that's completely false. Rome was still bigger. Also, ancient cities and cultures like Egypt, Persia, and Sumeria had already been doing this shit your overpraising thousands of years before the Aztecs and much better too.
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>>2559725But le good when you dump them in an arena with no weapon against an armored gladiator.
>>2559736That's how /pol/ works if I just said I liked them I'd get like 4 reppies. It's technically true during 1500 even if those cities had bigger populations in the past.
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>>2559774next youll compare the witch burnings or the deaths sentance to a human sacrifice
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>>2559736The aztecs were actually a relatively new empire in america and were already on their way out.
There were other even more ancient civilizations that came before them who (supposedly) built even more impressive architecture. The Olmecs were some of the first major civilizations.
The Toltecs built Teotihuacan which the aztecs considered even more impressive than Tenochtitlan(iirc).
Pyramids which rivaled(and maybe even ocasionally surpassed) the ones in Egypt have been built and are still being rediscovered all over america, like the Great Pyramid of Cholula.
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>>2559504 (OP)It was a White city at that time tho