Also they were a bunch of fragmented and isolated city states instead of one massive kingdom surrounded by smaller kingdoms who hated their guts and were just looking for an excuse to knock them down a peg, like the Aztecs.
The Aztecs were so universally despised that even fringe tribes in bumfrick Central America had heard of them, and knew enough to hate them. The Aztecs really were as comically and laughably evil as the Spanish portrayed them.
My favorite story is how the Purepecha empire on their border had so forcibly isolated themselves from the Aztecs that when two Aztec diplomats came to one of the Purepecha border forts to tell their king about the Spanish and how they needed to settle their differences and come help them that they had so little knowledge of them anymore that they asked to see a king that had been dead for 20 years.
The boarder guards were like >are you REALLY sure you want to talk to the king?
And when they said yes they were really sure the Purepecha border guards killed them right there so they could go to the afterlife and have an audience with the old king.
>And when they said yes they were really sure the Purepecha border guards killed them right there so they could go to the afterlife and have an audience with the old king.
That's way easier than just telling them he's dead
That's not what the film was saying. Mel Gibson is based and understands that society fell apart completely when the Spanish arrived and pitted the natives against each other. The point is that a society that is based upon fiendish exploitation will eventually be destroyed from without.
What? The Spaniards civilized these savages. We watched an entire movie of them being disgusting subhumans and finally we get a ray of hope as the Spaniards bring civilization to them.
>civilized
they were early Copper Age tier, you can see the same shit in Mesopotamia 4-5K years ago, Europe had >3000 years of technological advancement compared to America.
Isn't there plenty of evidence that shows natives actually had better teeth than modern people? Why did he insist on giving everyone rotting disgusting fake teeth?
The primarily maize diet of the Mesoamerican peasants actually did give them severely fricked up teeth, there have been skeletons found that show copious evidence of tooth decay. Also at the time of the Spanish invasion the Aztecs were already suffering from an outbreak of a disease that affected their gums
>Isn't there plenty of evidence that shows natives actually had better teeth than modern people?
It depends. They generally didn't have a lot of cavities because they didn't eat processed sugars. However a lot of native people use their teeth as tools for various tasks like making cordage out of vines which wears them down rapidly. Alternatively some natives are exposed to things in their diet like beetlenut which also decays their teeth.
Mayans were already extinct when the spanish arrived
Gibson is a hack
Those are vikings though.
Mayans are literally still alive today in some countries like guatemala.
Classic mayan civilization occurred 500 years before the Spanish arrived, and they lived in the ruins of it, that's what you meant I hope..
You're doing God's work
Except that even with the collapse of 90% of their civilization, some city-states even continued functioning as city-states.
Oh look another lefty moron with Mel Derangment Syndrome
>Mayans were already extinct when the spanish arrived
then who did they rape to make mexicans?
>rape
Stop believing what the coomer memes say
Were these supposed to be Mayans? Where does it say that?
The language they speak the entire movie
I watched the dub
It literally took the Spanish like 100 years to finally conquer the Maya for good
Probably cause they live in a jungle and actually put up a fight.
Also they were a bunch of fragmented and isolated city states instead of one massive kingdom surrounded by smaller kingdoms who hated their guts and were just looking for an excuse to knock them down a peg, like the Aztecs.
The Aztecs were so universally despised that even fringe tribes in bumfrick Central America had heard of them, and knew enough to hate them. The Aztecs really were as comically and laughably evil as the Spanish portrayed them.
My favorite story is how the Purepecha empire on their border had so forcibly isolated themselves from the Aztecs that when two Aztec diplomats came to one of the Purepecha border forts to tell their king about the Spanish and how they needed to settle their differences and come help them that they had so little knowledge of them anymore that they asked to see a king that had been dead for 20 years.
The boarder guards were like
>are you REALLY sure you want to talk to the king?
And when they said yes they were really sure the Purepecha border guards killed them right there so they could go to the afterlife and have an audience with the old king.
>And when they said yes they were really sure the Purepecha border guards killed them right there so they could go to the afterlife and have an audience with the old king.
That's way easier than just telling them he's dead
Aztecs were the Black folk of prehispanic times, just look how the Federal district is, basically detroit on steroids.
American education everyone.
Haven't you heard? Movies aren't real life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinto_Canek
That's not what the film was saying. Mel Gibson is based and understands that society fell apart completely when the Spanish arrived and pitted the natives against each other. The point is that a society that is based upon fiendish exploitation will eventually be destroyed from without.
What? The Spaniards civilized these savages. We watched an entire movie of them being disgusting subhumans and finally we get a ray of hope as the Spaniards bring civilization to them.
Movie shows a completely inaccurate mix of mayan and aztecs.
And both were civilizations in their own right, one in decline, other very evil, but civilized they were.
>civilized
they were early Copper Age tier, you can see the same shit in Mesopotamia 4-5K years ago, Europe had >3000 years of technological advancement compared to America.
spoilers, dude
>spoilers, dude
Me too, anon. Me too.
Isn't there plenty of evidence that shows natives actually had better teeth than modern people? Why did he insist on giving everyone rotting disgusting fake teeth?
The primarily maize diet of the Mesoamerican peasants actually did give them severely fricked up teeth, there have been skeletons found that show copious evidence of tooth decay. Also at the time of the Spanish invasion the Aztecs were already suffering from an outbreak of a disease that affected their gums
>Isn't there plenty of evidence that shows natives actually had better teeth than modern people?
It depends. They generally didn't have a lot of cavities because they didn't eat processed sugars. However a lot of native people use their teeth as tools for various tasks like making cordage out of vines which wears them down rapidly. Alternatively some natives are exposed to things in their diet like beetlenut which also decays their teeth.
only if you cherrypick inuits and such
nice one OP
you made me chuckle
Frick that racist ass movie
does this movie explain why modern mexicans are violent savages?
oh no they won't be able to live in the stone age anymore
Any other movies that just shows people behaving like animals like this movie did?