>that time spaniards assassinated the leader of one of the greatest cities in history, starved its population to death, razed it until nothing but its foundations was left, drained its sacred waters, and then built a crap european style city on top of it
>>484065
Actually Montezuma was killed by his own people
>>484065
They didn't assassinate Montezuma, he technically became their vassal when they entered Tenochtitlan. He was killed by other Aztecs who rebelled against him and the Spaniards
Shouldn't have resisted the conversion to Christianity.
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>>484078
lol sure thing pal
>>484065
>one of the greatest cities in history
Which got annihilated by a bunch of seasick Spaniards?
>>484065
>mfw I bullied the Aztecs in eu4 to pay back my war denbts and then I annexed them anyway
I can see why it was such tempting bait to the Spaniards now.
>>484092
And an army of angry native
>>484065
Yeah that was fun
>>484095
>protip
Cringed
No one liked the Aztecs.
That said... it really pisses me off that they burned all their historical records and destroyed countless priceless artifacts.
>>484092
by their germs, a bio-weapon so advanced it's every euthanists wet dream
>>485330
and a lot of luck
>>485318
What do you expect of savage, backwards, stupid, anti-intellectual, jealous, lazy, inept, Native Americans?
Aztecs were correct.
>>484065
That isn't the Mayans.
>>485338
And hundreds of thousands other anti-Aztec Native American criminals.
>>484092
It was larger than London at the time, had one of the steadiest food supplies in the world thanks to chinampas, and was free of most deadly diseases until Europeans came.
I don't know if it was the greatest, but it was top tier.
>>485341
Lol. No.
The Spanish actually captured a lot of their stuff intact, but destroyed it all later because they believed it necessary to mass convert the natives. Fucking Jesuits, man.
Incans >Mayans >>>>> Aztecs
>>485376
How so? Tenochtitlan was a bomb ass city.
>>485411
He's talking about Civilization V.
>>485411
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_road_system
Post Chinampas
>>484121
I wish we could have threads of Russian/Cossack exploration of Siberia/Asia/America. It is the most overlooked part of the history of exploration.
>>485411
Inca civilization was beyond weird to the point that it shouldn't have even been functional. They were basically proto Communists without a written language. All of their records were kept with... wait for it... knots. Fucking KNOTS. But they were apparently exceptionally accurate.
>>485436
So? They laid rocks and carved other rocks. And what about the Maya? I'm not seeing a definitive reasoning here.
Just curious.
>>485465
because knots are exceptionally accurate bro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory
>>485465
I don't know how legit the claims that the quippu were a form of "writing" and not just a counting system for trade.
>>485459
>>485470
They laid 20000 miles of straight road with VOLUNTEER labor over some of the most impenetrable territory on earth without beasts of burden or the wheel. That's an engineering miracle.
>>485436
>roads but no wheel
how did they even A to B
>>485493
>wheel
>on the mountains
>>485492
>straight
lol, wut? Why would you go out of your way to use an inconsequential detail that isn't even right?
But yeah, seems like a silly thing to use to hold the Incan empire above all others.
>>485507
By "straight," I mean they go where they're intended. Surveying is an under appreciated discipline.
>>485376
Actually it's
Mayas >>>>>>>>>> Aztecs/Incas
written language pal
>>484065
Aztec civilization had no place in the 16th century though, as advanced as it was on some areas it was pretty backwards in some others.
t. Mexican
you got asscucked and thats its.
you also had a chance to sail to cadiz and try to fuck with us
