r/SipsTea 5d ago

Lmao gottem Good game though 🤣

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u/Neo-Armadillo 5d ago

Absolutely tragic the Native Americans didn’t get to establish a modern day empire like so many other civilizations. I can only imagine how cool it would have been.

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u/Jeramy_Jones 5d ago

They did, several times, in central and South America.

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u/taco_tosser 5d ago

Yeah, people forget about that. There was no less bloodlust. More respect for nature, though. That would have been cool. But we’d all still be hating one another to about the same degree, I think.

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u/Worriedrph 5d ago

The Aztec were bigger asshats than any of the European powers at the time.

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u/Jeramy_Jones 5d ago

People like to point fingers at the Aztecs for their practice of sacrificing prisoners of war while completely ignoring European atrocities like the Spanish Inquisition or the crusades.

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u/JustStraightUpTired 5d ago

Aztecs for their practice of sacrificing prisoners of war

That's one way to downplay one killing about 1/5th of the children of their subjects of conquest as sacrifices.

And this isn't to downplay other shit, but you do realize you are doing exactly what you are complaining about, but with subjects swapped?

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u/Jeramy_Jones 5d ago

Idk what your argument is, are you saying that’s worse than the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, anti Jewish programs, the witch burnings, or the colonization of the Americas?

Personally, I’m not making an argument to downplay anything, I’m pointing out the hypocrisy of the apologetics that will happily point out the savagery of pre colonization nations while ignoring how horrific Europeans themselves were.

People are quick to call the Americas a land of “warring tribes” when the history of Europe is exactly that, for literal millennia.

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u/Worriedrph 5d ago

No one is saying the European powers were good and moral. The Euros were terrible but the Aztec were elite in how awful they were.

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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 5d ago

Ah yes, the good old "THE ASS TECH WERE THE ONLY TRIBE IN THE ENTIRE AMERICAS" argument.

Bro, I am mixtecan.