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Some of the Aztecs burned pre-existing codices too.



Always one of you that has to pop up


Care to elaborate on your comment to those who are not in the know? Did the Aztecs not burn scripture? I don’t know much about Mayan and Aztec history and culture, but I visited Yucatán recently and it sounded from guides like there was a lot of original Mayan culture lost in the mixing of the two. I was also told, but don’t know if it’s true, that the human sacrificing was actually an Aztec practice that got introduced in the mixing and not an original Mayan practice.


They are attempting to imply I am trying to whitewash the Spaniards. I am not, I am pointing out Aztecs erased history to create their own imperial narrative too although not on scale of Spaniards to Maya




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