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Re:What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy ... by jcranmer on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:25PM (#25009888)
Honestly, if you gave me a choice between living in the Aztec Empire or in Spain in 1500, I would pick the Aztecs. Probably even knowing what was going to happen in 20 years and knowing that I would be alive for it.
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Re:What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy ... by pavlov on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:49PM (#25010077)
One would probably have better odds of living for 20 years in the Aztec empire (assuming you were a member of the ruling ethnicity).

Tenochtitlán is said to have been a beautiful city of floating gardens. In Madrid, shit flowed in open sewers on sidewalks.

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