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For more info on all that, see: pastebin.com/h18M28BR + arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/640670498/#640679139 + desuarchive.org/his/thread/16781148/#16781964 , though I should really do a single big updated dump on this at ome point.

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This is also really silly. The Mexica (and again, other groups) did do sacrifices, ritual cannibalism, and as I mention my prior posts were conquerers (but see also my caveats there re: them ruling in a hands off way), but their society wasn't a nightmare dystopia

Most people went about their day eating meals with family, working in farms or workshops, visiting markets, and playing/betting on games, (see: desuarchive.org/his/thread/7617096/#7619771). You had merchants, artists, diplomats, doctors etc. There was a formal judicial system with courts and judges. There were aqueducts, bathes, and toilets. Nobles valued poetry, public speaking and botanical sciences etc. Sacrifice and cannibalism was one (though an important) part of one aspect of their religion which was also just one aspect of their society. On a day to day basis it was not something most people interacted with or thought about, even for priests it would have largely been a monthly (though they didn't have the same number/length of months as we do) concern more then a daily one

Actual Spanish Conquistadors and Catholic friars themselves understood this and (at least the ones who actually encountered and interacted with Mesoamerican society) praised their cities (see pic), art, architecture, ethics and virtues, systems of law and order, and even made select comparisons between their religion and Christianity, refer to some of the quotes I posted here: >>>/v/716322542 >>>/v/716324741 >>>/v/716325865 >>>/v/716326547 >>>/v/716327371 >>>/v/716328771 >>>/v/716329637 >>>/v/716330829

So, ironically most today have a worse opinion of the Mesoamericans then Cortes did

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