Why are the Amerindians so prone to cannibalism and human sacrifice?

[Teyrn]

Gentlemen please

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

lol you are absolutely pathetic, read the answers
bad try, monkey.
btw the second link does not work.

Shut your mouth sub human before some country like angola has their way with you, K practice girl?


Spain

[Cristiano viejo]

Shut your mouth sub human

Subhuman? a black calling me subhuman??

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

Subhuman? a black calling me subhuman??

yes subhuman do I need to remind you of your 800 years of being a subhuman sexslave

[Cristiano viejo]

yes subhuman do I need to remind you of your 800 years of being a subhuman sexslave

What you need is take a history book. Better said, many history books. One of them for knowing that my land was never occupied and less 800 years and several books about that of sexslave but of your Caribean ancestor women with the Spanish conquerors hahaha

And now I leave this conversation, you are an inferior being and I dont ike talk with animals.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

What you need is take a history book. Better said, many history books. One of them for knowing that my land was never occupied and less 800 years and several books about that of sexslave but of your Caribean ancestor women with the Spanish conquerors hahaha

And now I leave this conversation, you are an inferior being and I dont ike talk with animals.

http://www.spanish-web.com/history/moors.php

Possibly encouraged to invade Spain in the first place by Hispano-Romans unhappy with the Vigigoths, the Moors came and stayed for around 700 years, leaving a definite imprint on the country, particularly Andalucia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery...avery_in_Spain

During the Al-Andalus period of Spain, in what is also known as Moorish Iberia, there was significant Muslim control over much of the Iberian peninsula or what is now Spain. The Moors (Iberian and North African Muslims) imported white Christian slaves into Muslim Spain in varying degrees from the 8th century until the Reconquista in the late 15th century. The slaves were exported from the Christian section of Spain, as well as Eastern Europe by Jewish slave traders, sparking significant reaction from many in Christian Spain and many Christians still living in Muslim Spain. The Iberian peninsula served as a base for further exports of slaves into other Muslim regions in Northern Africa.[3]

[Cristiano viejo]

Aztec cannibalism

The Mexica of the Aztec period are perhaps the most widely studied of the ancient Mesoamerican peoples. While most pre-Columbian historians believe that ritual cannibalism took place in the context of human sacrifices, they do not support Harris' thesis that human flesh was ever a significant portion of the Aztec diet. Michael D. Coe states that while "it is incontrovertible that some of these victims ended up by being eaten ritually […], the practice was more like a form of communion than a cannibal feast".

Documentation of Aztec cannibalism mainly dates from the period after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519-1521):

Hernán Cortés wrote in one of his letters that his soldiers had captured an indigenous man who had a roasted baby ready for breakfast.

Francisco López de Gómara (c. 1511 - c. 1566) reported that, during the siege of Tenochtitlan, the Spaniards asked the Aztecs to surrender since they had no food. The Aztecs angrily challenged the Spaniards to attack so they could be taken as prisoners, sacrificed and served with "molli" sauce.

The Historia general (compiled 1540-1585) by Bernardino de Sahagún (the first Mesoamerican ethnographer, according to Miguel León-Portilla) contains an illustration of an Aztec being cooked by an unknown tribe. This was reported as one of the dangers that Aztec traders faced.

The late 16th-century Ramírez codex, reflecting the work of an Aztec using the Latin alphabet after the Conquest of Mexico, reports that after the sacrifices the flesh from the hands of the victim were given as a gift to the warrior who made the human capture. According to the codex, this was supposedly eaten, but in fact discarded and replaced with turkey.

In his book Relación (1582), Juan Bautista de Pomar (c. 1535 – 1590) states that after the sacrifice the body of the victim was given to the warrior responsible for the capture. He would boil the body and cut it to pieces to be offered as gifts to important people in exchange for presents and slaves; but it was rarely eaten, since they considered it of no value. However, Bernal Díaz reports that some of these parts of human flesh made their way to the Tlatelolco market near Tenochtitlan.

In 2005 the Mexican INAH reported that some of the bodies found under Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral, i.e. the basement of Aztec temples, showed cut marks indicating the removal of muscles from the bones, though not all the bodies show this treatment.

In August 2006, Reuters reported that an analysis of the skeletons of 550 victims killed after the conquest and found near Calpulalpan, Tlaxcala, indicate that some of the victims were dismembered, and that many bones showed knife-, teeth-marks and evidence of boiling.

However, the cannibalism of the Aztecs, Incas, Tupi, and Iroquois of the Americas operated on a systematic level, incorporating a wide spectrum of attitudes towards worships, gods, death, dead bodies, and fertility.

http://books.google.es/books?id=11yx...0incas&f=false