Re: challenge: try to describe a society more evil...
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The Aztecs were originally a nomadic group involved in a process of invasion, conquest and assimilation. During the course of this tough process--they were one of many wandering, hungry hunter tribes, and, in the beginning, they were more persecuted than persecuting, probably driven away from one city-state after another--they went through the transformation from the worship of feminine deities to the worship of aggresive masculine ones. It was under the aegis of the newly-supreme war god, Huitzilopochtli, that the Aztecs made their way into the valley and the shores of Lake Texcoco. But they had already been hardened by that process of invasion, conquest and assimilation before they made their way to that environment. And that environment probably wasn't all that benificent: in 1325 when they settled, it was a swampy bit of land in the lake that the neighboring tribes had considerd unfit for settlement.
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Andy,
how in the hell do you know so much stuff?
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