Wednesday, August 13, 2008
This Day in the History of Evil Being Destroyed
On this day in 1521, Hernando Cortes captured Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) after a three month siege. He stopped the institutional cannibalism, which many members of his conquistadors had been victims of, and generally was a force for good in the New World, in contradiction to the anti-historical pap being force fed our children these days--that the peaceful, kite flying Indians were raped and murdered by the evil Spaniards. It is still difficult to believe ten dozen Spaniards could bring down an Empire with a million citizens and a dedicated warrior class, but the evil of the Aztecs was a big Karma driver (local native warriors seeking to end Aztec rule may have numbered 150,000) and disease, specifically smallpox, was Cortes' greatest ally.
Labels: Aztec History
Monday, August 13, 2007
This Day in the History of Liberations of the Oppressed
On this day in 1521, Hernando Cortez took the Aztec capitol, Tenochtitlan, after a three month seige and ended what may have been the most evil empire ever to exist--an empire devoted to organized cannibalism. School children have been taught for decades that the Spanish were the bad guys who murdered and then exploited the innocent and peace loving Indians. The truth is nearly exactly opposite that.
Labels: Aztec History
