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Javier:

--- Quote ---Thankfully the Europeans came to this continent and brought civilization and progress.
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By CWalker187


The Spaniards were amazed when they first arribed where the Aztecs had their main city. It was a city build around water. The city was called Tenochtitlan. They had fine libraries and archives where priests and scholars kept records of imporantn historiical, religios and philosophical thought. They had CANALS!!! That connected different cities to transport food and so on. The canals were connected to the soil so they wouldnt need to wait for it to rain so they can grow their corn , etc etc.  There was a complex of over thiry public buildings which included places of the nobles, temples, schools or academies for the sons of the wealthy, and EVEN A ZOO/ and because of its canals the Spaniards described Tenochtitilan "the Venice of the Americas".  and im just touching on the culture....Civilization was already there...but it was mostly arts, agriculture, and philosophy type of things.

UnstoppableForce:
LMAO... CWalker's comment has to be the dumbest made. Civilization to this continent? The Aztecs are up there with the Sumerians and Egyptians when it comes to ancient CIVILIZATIONS. Damn, you're an idiot. Please, if you don't know what you're talking about, don't say anything.

Doggystylin:
Aztecs were very civilized or wait, was it their calander that is on point? cuz if its theirs then they were one of the most fully conscious civilizations on earth.

Javier:
The Aztec calendar is not as accurate as the Mayan Calendar. The mayans have a pyramid that at one point in  few years...the sun hits the pyramid creating a shadow that has a snake moving.

oh yea uncivilized people like the Mayans created the concept of Zero

PinkTowelGirl:
The calendar was actually a history book....

We will never really know the truth behind the Aztecs. See they burned our books, stole our culture, killed our chiefs, slaughtered the women and children ... there was less the 300 hundred left ... when cortez attacked the Aztec in the patio ... the Spanish will tell you that the Aztec were uncivilized ... but the artifacts tell us different ... some say that Aztec believe is deities. Other will tell you they only believed in one God. I heard they were devil worshipers ... then i heard they were not ... it is actually debatable... i took history 100 twice.. with different instructors... i dropped the first time.. because this white bitch told me i was not Indian.. that i was probably a mixed of Spanish and something else ... but she didn't know what she was talking ... she doesn't know my grandfather's stories ... then she told me there was no way.. I could be California Indian ... but she doesn't know my great uncle Paul's strugglers with the Mormons and the Spanish settlers...

Then I have a Real Professor ... who said yes. You are Aztec and you paiute... you know your history from your family that is accurate to documented stories....

So, it is hard to say what is true and untrue ... one group will say that the Aztec were mean and savage.. Then one group will tell you.. they were advanced and civilized....


I think they were civilized ... because that is what my family history tells me ... and that is a reflection of who I am....

In my book the cortez was the savage one.. He wanted to kill the Aztec off that day in the Patio ... the Spanish king didn't want cortez to bother them...because of trade.....

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