The 1519 Project: How Early Spanish Explorers Took Down A Mass-Murdering Indigenous Cult by Adam Mill

The 1519 Project: How Early Spanish Explorers Took Down A Mass-Murdering Indigenous Cult by Adam Mill

The Aztecs brutal system depended on a steady supply of prisoners of war and human children collected from the empire’s subjects as “taxes.” The scale of the murder one could find in just a single outlying Aztec city was astounding. Abbot relays, “they witnessed the most appalling indications of the horrid atrocities of pagan idolatry. They found, piled in order, as they judged, one hundred thousand skulls of human victims who had been offered in sacrifice to their gods.”

When assigning blame for history's horrors, we would do well to look, sometimes, at who exactly was being tormented.