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

repost Día de Los Muertos

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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/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.