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- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+46OK.. so it's Aztecs: 550, Conquistadors: 17,000,000.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45*heard around the campfire 500 years ago*
"Yeah, those Spanish sure conquered.. my hunger!" - SPLASTiK, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46Maybe they thought if they ate them that they'd become Gods :D
I am immortal, I have inside me legs of kings. - goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43"... even though history books say most welcomed the white-skinned horsemen in the belief they were returning Aztec gods."
Gee, I wonder who wrote those history books - the descendants of the Aztecs? Or the descendants of the "white-skinned horsemen"?
Jared Diamond includes an interesting analysis of the Aztec fall in his book "Guns, Germs, and Steel":
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393317552/002-1765072-1612055?v=glance&n=283155 (It's a great book. And no, I don't work for Amazon.) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+45(insert boring, tightass comment here)
- RaistlinMajere, on 10/12/2007, -10/+46(insert lame, unfunny comment here)
- doctorperv, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35(insert another reply here to extend the joke too long and ruin it)
- MacCombe, on 10/12/2007, -12/+41(use this space to bash Bush)
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -10/+39(Insert reply here about how evil Microsoft is and how you should buy a Mac)
- slowlytakngover, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27guess they weren't that hungry....
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -11/+33(Use this space to bash Liberals, then piss and moan about the anti-conservative bias on Digg)
- Cozmcphish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19(insert comment about how this is a duplicate story then belittle the person who posted it)
- Paul, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21@ SPLASTiK
A Highlander / Queen Reference... I stand in awe. - mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15(insert explitive-filled taunt about how no one cares about dupes)
- chancesarent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I remember my history teacher in Jr. High telling me that Montezuma's favorite food was roasted baby limbs. I thought he was just ***** with me. Guess not.
- IrishmanVT, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Not going anywhere for a while? Grab a Spaniard
- slowlytakngover, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Yes brutal, especially when you compare it to the genocidal extermination of an entire population.
- caspy7, on 10/12/2007, -19/+30You know what they say: If you can't beat 'em...eat 'em...
- dcoolidge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I think it's more like pork...
- snurfle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16Did you hear about the Aztec that passed a Spaniard in the jungle?
It's important to note that the majority of the Spaniards were boiled, all except for the Spanish religious followers. They weren't boiled.
They were FRIARS!!!!! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14I heard they tasted like chicken.
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12And now we know what meat the Aztecs used.
:) - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Maybe they thought if they ate them that they'd become Gods :D"
"God eating" does happen, look at the rituals in the Catholic Church (no, this is not a bad joke). - slowlytakngover, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Hence the name 'long pig'.
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8(Insert comment mocking the person who claimed the story was a dupe, and advise others to digg them down for making the claim)
- MichelangeloPM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8(insert comment hoping this comes out for the Wii)
- usp8riot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7(insert comments that there's too many comments here)
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Now read the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_inquisition :-) I wonder if people burned at the stake got some shrooms or a drink before they were burned alive.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+71) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayans - kypen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Am I the only one thinking Pirates of the Caribbean 2?
Oh buggah... - wtfdaemon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14(insert another reply here to extend the joke too long and ruin it)
(I mean, insert exact copy of above reply here) - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Gotta eat something.
- Lumina, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9The Aztec were some pretty cool people with some pretty awesome technology for being a "primitive" culture.
- jmchez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The Aztec's own records tell that around 1486 there was a mass human sacrifice of epic proportions. Some 40,000 (yes, forty thousand) victims were brought to the main temple, had their hearts torn out and their bodies thrown down the steps of the pyramid. It took more than a week of non-stop blood letting to finish this. Remember this was not WWI type mechanized carnage, it was close-up, slow and deliberate.
The Aztecs laso had a protein deficient diet (no cattle) and relied on insects and rodents much of the time (still eaten by some Mexican indians to this day). So turning to cannibalism with a religion that did not impose atboo on it is not surprising.
Ironically, in today's Mexico most people will claim pride in an Aztec heritage while heaping scorn on Cortez and his Indian translator (La Melinche). In Peru, however, the much more devious, brutal and ruthless Pizarro lies in a gilded tomb inside the Main cathedral in Lima. - Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@Gwyddyon - this is digg, you know, the myspace for males that can't get a partner nor have the IQ to comment on Slashdot.
Now digg me down, down :-) - MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -1/+6Factoid:
Using the word factoid is stupid. - grunherz5x5, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6(Insert comment about Hitler and the Nazis!)
Godwin's Law now kills this thread. :) - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10@mamasu4u
Were still around... but now we're just smarter. - PapaBoojum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6(Insert smug comment implying the Aztecs would not have been cannibalistic had they used Ubuntu)
- SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"I don't like these conquistadors."
"Fine, just eat the beans." - sparks2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5to add to goodolharris' post
Another great book about the misconceptions of the spanish conquest is "Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest" by Mathew Restall
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195176111
If you're too lazy to read the book at least read the description amazon has :p - NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Man, and I thought Pontiac was having a rough time selling those things BEFORE this news...
- RMSzero, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Thank Jobs I live in 2006. Holy hell, those Aztecs were intense. I read until I got to the "Teeth Marks" section and quit.
"The prisoners were kept in cages for months while Aztec priests from what is now Mexico City selected a few each day at dawn, held them down on a sacrificial slab, cut out their hearts and offered them up to various Aztec gods.
Some may have been given hallucinogenic mushrooms or pulque -- an alcoholic milky drink made from fermented cactus juice -- to numb them to what was about to happen." - mikemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's not that we're lazy, it's just that we're cheap!
- veledan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"Some may have been given hallucinogenic mushrooms ... to numb them to what was about to happen."
No one with any experience of hallucinogenic mushrooms would ever suggest that they would be a good choice to help you face being cut open and sacrificed - mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Historical fact: Montezuma ate kittens
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Look man, your obsession with "facts" and "accuracy" is putting a serious downer on our jokes about eating conquistadors. Buzzkill.
- MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Well, it´s not like the Spanish didn´t deserve it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5WTF?
- Gwyddyon, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7This is the same sort of bad archaeology that seems to flood the mainstream media these days. It's not science, it's sensationalism. Most of those conclusions have no archaeological basis, but are instead taken straight out of history books, a methodology tossed out by scientific archaeology thirty years ago when Binford began championing processual theory. The "teeth marks" are not specified as being human, and it is not mentioned if they occur simultaneously with cut marks or afterward (in other words, did people do this or was it an animal scavenging the carcasses?). The entire thing is tailored for shock value, not scientitic accuracy, and just continues to give people a very innacurate picture of what archaeologists actually do.
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