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MGD109 t1_iuk3j2k wrote

Reply to comment by EmbarrassedHelp in Human burial grounds and bullets from Spanish guns uncovered at site of last Mayan stronghold in Guatemala by getBusyChild

Yeah the Mayan's could be utterly brutal. But they also had a wealthy culture that made many strides in their own right.

Really their aren't many civilisations that weren't cruel in someway at this point in history. The one's that weren't, generally get crushed and conquered by the one's that are.

At the very least the Mayan's were utterly loveable compared to what their neighbours the Aztec's got up on that front.

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Salty_Drummer2687 t1_iuk97zr wrote

I think skinning children alive automatically disqualifies them from being utterly lovable. I can't think of many worse ways to die than being skinned alive.

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MGD109 t1_iukc19e wrote

The Aztec's once sacrificed over 80,000 people in the span of four days, to consecrate their pyramid.

They're methods of doing so ranged from ripping people's hearts out, to impaling them with arrows like a human pincushion deliberately non fatally so they would bleed out, to repeatedly dragging and throwing them onto a pyre.

Yeah they were worse than the Mayan's on that front.

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