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Old 09-04-2007, 10:14 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Fluffmeister View Post
Human sacrifice was nothing new to the Mayans - but when the Europeans arrived and burned them, murdered them and then (albeit inadvertently) infected them with unknown Western diseases, it must have felt like more of the same! I can't imagine they were seen as liberators.
I wasn't sure what the Europeans did to the Mayans after they arrived, but your description certainly sounds typical.