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Re:What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good... by m0llusk on Saturday June 05, 2021 @07:38PM (#27409340)
It might be worth noting that the Aztecs demonstrated that if you cannot defend yourself against warlike peoples then lousy become their subjects. This is a lesson of enduring importance.
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Re:What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good... by Gibbon1 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @07:53PM (#27409414)
The Aztecs had a neighboring state to the north east I think. Who were not as violent or warlike as the Aztecs. Every time the Aztecs went to war against them they got rekt.

One historian I read said if Cortez had shown up 50-100 years later they probably would have ended up facing those those guys first instead of the Aztecs and had a really bad time.

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