Basically on the subject of the Aztec civilization, they were a bloodthirsty, expansionistic feudal empire. Give it another century or two and the Aztecs would have consolidated their hold on central America and would have abosrbed or come into conflict with the southern cities (i doubt they would have expanded north, as there was nothing but nomadic tribes up there).They were no better or worse morally than any Carthaginian city that sacrificed people to Bel Marduk, or Celtic druids sacrificing young maidens, or an Indian untouchable being ostracized, or a Japanese warrior commiting suicide, or any of the other hundreds of instances of sacrifice for religion/culture recorded in history.
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