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The Aztecs (Uncivilized?!)
Don Jacob:
--- Quote from: Doggy aka Pitbull on September 22, 2003, 09:40:35 PM ---to be honest, i didnt learn about the aztecs in school. :-\
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shit i don't know what schools you guys went to but i sure as hell learned about all this in jr. high AND highschool
and the purpose of making that mission noDICKvanDYKE was to have fun with an art project concerning california history....and missions were a VERY huge deal in early cali history , does helen hunt jackson ring a bell? the fact that you can't figure out the whole mission thing retards your agrument
and as someone with aztec blood in them .....and who got school by his grandparents a bajillion times about the hisotry ect. they were very civilized.....but at the same time so were the spanish .....if you look how modern sw society is it's a blend of all the good characteristics of BOTH societies.....which is progression........nothing to be ashamed abou
Doggystylin:
i go to south tahoe high, i had a world history class sophmore year where we learned about mostly europe and asia, and had a small unit on the middle east. JR year, i hada US history class, this year im a senior and i have no history classes so i doubt ill learn about it this year.
PinkTowelGirl:
come to think about it.. i dont recall learning any important historical facts in high school.... everyone was made to look like a hero.... rather then to true facts.... like honest Abe... Who freed the slave to save the union...i didnt know that fact untill after high school... and about the nam war... we were fighting communism.. which is bad... but then you start reading different shit... and it opens your eyes.... master guns told me that we were in vietnam because we wanted the perious mentals... and my dad basically told me the same thing... but fighting communism.. was a good reason to start a war....
i really wouldnt trust high school history... everything is alter to make fools into heros...
M Dogg™:
Mexica (Me-sh-i-ca) history, (or Aztec as they are called by the Spanish) was one of the most civilized cultures in the world. But, the Incas and the Mayans were most so, well in terms of technology. Oh, and I was talking to real Mexicas (or Aztec) who live still in the tradition, and we did belive in one God. Only we believed that he was a shape shifter, and that he came down in different forms. In fact, the day that Cortez came, it was believe that the God would come from the Ocean, on a cloud (the big sails) and we would have hair of fire, (Spanish of course have red hair and beards) and would change the world as the Mexica know is. It was predicted on that day in the calendar, so when Cortez landed, we had gifts ready for him, which is way he saw the Empire as a gold mine. Of course our history isn't all great. We usually conquered other tribes, and enslaved them, like in ancient Middle Eastern times, around the Bible times. We were NOT canibals though, as that was what the Spanish wrote to dehumanize us so that it was just to conquer our Empire. And we thought Cortez was god, especially when everyone started dying of disease, so it was a very short war, in which the Spanish won of course. Also, I heard stories that when the Virgin Mary was seen by Juan Diego, it was at the sight of an old temple, in which a goddess would look down on the Mexica and make sure the crops grew. So when the Virgin Mary was seen, some connect it too Mary always looking out for the Mexica, which is way many Mexicans feel a special connection to the Virgin. Just random Mexica facts. Oh and we did call our selves that, which in Spanish is Mexica (Me-he-k-ah) since sh sound does not exist in Spanish. And since ah sound is female in Spanish, and to be female is weak, they changed it to oh, or Mexico (me-he-co), so the name Mexico comes from Mexica.
Don Jacob:
--- Quote from: lil Bullet AKA Pink on September 24, 2003, 04:02:56 PM ---come to think about it.. i dont recall learning any important historical facts in high school.... everyone was made to look like a hero.... rather then to true facts.... like honest Abe... Who freed the slave to save the union...i didnt know that fact untill after high school... and about the nam war... we were fighting communism.. which is bad... but then you start reading different shit... and it opens your eyes.... master guns told me that we were in vietnam because we wanted the perious mentals... and my dad basically told me the same thing... but fighting communism.. was a good reason to start a war....
i really wouldnt trust high school history... everything is alter to make fools into heros...
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dang either you came from a fucked up school or your dumb as rocks and didn't pay attention
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