"Spaniards Killed Women, Kids Over Slaying of Conquistadores" Topic

"NEW research suggests Spanish conquistadores butchered at least a dozen women and their children in an Aztec-allied town where the inhabitants sacrificed and ate a detachment of Spaniards they had captured months earlier.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History published findings Monday from years of excavation work at the town of Tecoaque, which means "the place where they ate them" in the Nahuatl language of the Aztecs…"
From here
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Amicalement
Armand

So, in case the 'dominant' Spaniards had eaten the 'disadvanted minority of the Aztecs' in retaliation would that have been a problematic case of 'cultural appropiation' and the other way round not?

Cultural Appropiation on Wikipedia

Just asking.

I just found this on the Medieval Discussion message board.

Shouldn't this be on the Renaissance Discussion message board?

Barry

You're right with the Medieval Discussion board, but depending on one's perspective one could argue, the Aztecs and their allies were somewhere between prehistorics and ancients and so it should be posted there…
The eaten Spaniards would probably agree since being eaten is barbaric indeed.
The slain women and children on the other hand wouldn't care to much since thats the way it always was and the Spaniards weren't no exception.
Their method was probably even faster, since there was no ceremonial brimborium involved when they were sacrificed.

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I never asked them, but I think it's okay to link them here, since that website was probably made with educational ressources paid by German tax payers like me:

Funny Aztec sacrifial knifes from here
Look like childrens toys, don't they?

"an Aztec-allied town where the inhabitants sacrificed and ate a detachment of Spaniards they had captured months earlier"

Tactless, really.

Does this mean we should boycott the Spanish?

HIstory shows that there was (and is) plenty of "savagery" to go around. Human nature has a great capacity for good and evil. It always has had it; always will. Some of us rise above the occasion, others sink to the lowest levels.

As the "Spanish" captured and eaten included some 50 Spanish women and 10 children I am not surprised that the Spaniards went kind of genocidal. Conquistadores were not inclined to peaceful solution of conflicts at the best of times.

Unsurprisingly some of the Aztecs managed to run, though not their women and children. Probably (cynical me) those who were most responsible for the actual killings ran fastest.

Apparently, Montezuma's descendants did better than these people. His descendants are today members of the Spanish high nobility. link

It's a sad day when cannibalism as a function of diplomacy is frowned upon.

+1 dbf1676
That is so cool and civilized.

@dbf1676

Hopefully they know how to behave at the dinner table when there is some familiy meeting with their cousins from Spain to talk about the future of the colonies.

Is there a difference in the food sequence of the spanish nobility cuisine and that of their former Aztec cousins?
Or do both 'Ladies first'?

It is quite embarassing that one cannot find more about the really tasty stuff of nobility online, sigh.
Spanish Cuisine Meal routines on Wikipedia
Cannibalism in pre Columbian America on Wikipedia

And beside, why do media outlets all over the world do ruminate year old news now that one could already have engulfed about five or six years ago?
The origianl news of 2015. Randomly extracted from theguardian.com

I have a heart for cannibals, they provide great creepy story food.
Anybody watched Cannibal Holocaust or Cloud Atlas?