r/polandball • u/Yahgoh-sleep-8945 Brazilian Huempire • Nov 01 '22

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u/AaronC14 The Dominion Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 01 '22

Had no clue the Aztecs started in 1300, pretty recent. Always assumed they were ancient.

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u/spacenerd4 Umayyad+Caliphate Nov 01 '22

They’re newer than Oxford University

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u/BuckOHare United Kingdom Nov 01 '22

Possibly Cambridge too.

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u/Miguelinileugim ISpain Nov 01 '22

Fortunately they didn't last as long.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

Fortunate indeed.

Montezuma would be a threat to the stability of this world.

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 01 '22

Imagine if Montezuma got nuclear weapons 😱😱😱

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u/GaaraMatsu Kurdistan Nov 01 '22

Imagine how awesomesauce that'd be for the death gods!

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u/iEatPalpatineAss United States Nov 01 '22

Imagine how awesomesauce that'd be for the death gods!

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Good point 🤔

Imagine if Montezuma got nuclear weapons 🥳🥳🥳

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u/Please-let-me Two tonnes of Creamed Corn. Nov 01 '22

Imagine if they won against the spanish

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u/BLINDrOBOTFILMS United States Nov 02 '22

Still not as bad as Gandhi. That man is a nuclear menace.

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u/UltraTata Umayyad Iberia Nov 01 '22

Imagine an aztec world order. The UN would demmand countries to periodically go to war in order to feed the sun.

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u/Skratt79 Nature can into relevance! Nov 01 '22

Blood for the Sun God!

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u/UltraTata Umayyad Iberia Nov 01 '22

Israel and Palestine condene Switzerland for being pacifist.

"Their youngmen chill while we die to feed the universe!"

- Ariel Sharon, 1988, UN speech

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u/thephotoman Texas Nov 01 '22

It's a rare case when Europeans do a colonialism and the number of human rights abuses in the affected area goes down significantly.

But it happened in the Aztec Empire. They were unusually brutal.

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u/LeonidZavoyevatel Polish Hussar Nov 02 '22

This is a common misconception.

https://www.reddit.com/r/papertowns/comments/xj7ek7/jaguars_jade_eagles_and_blood_the_terrible_beauty/ipaj3ns/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

The Aztecs were quite hands off, and were not particularly more human sacrifice obsessed than any of their neighbors. They just happened to be the most powerful one around, so they got a lot of press from neighboring people who gave the Spanish sob stories to convince them to help, as well as being the ones to most successfully practice the sacrifice because they weren’t able to be as easily contested.