You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Is The "Conquista" we Know True?
how do you keep 80,000 prisoners from revolting when they know they are going to a certain death?
Through religious persecution, if you make people believe that they are going to be rewarded in heaven or punished in hell you can make them do anything.
Look at the modern day, Wahabi muslims blowing themselves up in the name of Allah, or radical Christians murdering abortion doctors or persecuting homosexuals because they believe they're doing god's work.
In the days when most people couldn't even read, it would be easy to convince them to sacrifice themselves to appease angry gods.
No, these prisoners were supposed to be followers of other Gods (supposedly the Aztecs played war games with tribes around their area of influence with the sole purpose of getting prisoners for their sacrifices), so I don't think they would have been too keen to be sacrificed to a God that wasn't one of theirs.
Until they were shown how the new God blacked out the sun. I can't remember which one, but one of them used a solar eclipse to fool them into following the new more powerful god.
Cg
I don't really think you would have 80,000 willing prisoners, but even if they did have them, do you think it would have been possible to sacrifice 20,000 people a day? That comes out to 833 people per hour if the priests worked 24/7, and how long does it take to kill a person in a sacrifice? I would think they would have at least some ritual for each kill. Better said I believe this is a lie, just made so Europeans would believe the same lie that has been perpetuated, that they in reality came here to enlighten the natives.