>Qhapaq hucha was the Inca practice of human sacrifice, mainly using children. The Incas performed child sacrifices during or after important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca (emperor) or during a famine. Children were selected as sacrificial victims as they were considered to be the purest of beings. These children were also physically perfect and healthy, because they were the best the people could present to their gods. The victims may be as young as 6 and as old as 15.
>Months or even years before the sacrifice pilgrimage, the children were fattened up. Their diets were those of the elite, consisting of maize and animal proteins. They were dressed in fine clothing and jewelry and escorted to Cusco to meet the emperor where a feast was held in their honor. More than 100 precious ornaments were found to be buried with these children in the burial site.
>The Incan high priests took the children to high mountaintops for sacrifice. As the journey was extremely long and arduous, especially so for the younger, coca leaves were fed to them to aid them in their breathing so as to allow them to reach the burial site alive. Upon reaching the burial site, the children were given an intoxicating drink to minimize pain, fear, and resistance. They were then killed either by strangulation, a blow to the head, or by leaving them to lose consciousness in the extreme cold and die of exposure.[13]
>Early colonial Spanish missionaries wrote about this practice but only recently have archaeologists such as Johan Reinhard begun to find the bodies of these victims on Andean mountaintops, naturally mummified due to the freezing temperatures and dry windy mountain air.
>be shitty adult >don't wanna die >make up shit about kids being pure >kill them What a shitty society.
Liam Ward
savages desu
Anthony Collins
Isn't it interesting how every time someone has land or jewels (((Latin))) people want they end up being evil human sacrificiers. Wake up sheep
Robert Powell
post reeks of chicano
Chase Myers
>end human sacrifice as an institution >sex qt brown women based meds
Zachary Jenkins
interesting.... could the spanish have planted the child bodies up on the mountains to justify their colonization?
i never thought of this
Henry Gray
and the bodies, i'm guessing aliens put them on the mountaintop?
Jayden Reyes
>just kill them all because of warfare, slavery and disease
At least the one or two kids died of smallpox instead of this x
Henry Ortiz
>NOOOOO NOT THE HECKING CHILDERINOS
Isaac Cook
They were copying the lies their (((Roman))) ancestors told about the noble Carthaginian pipo
Josiah Richardson
>maybe the spanish werent so bad after all you do realize most natives dominated by the Spanish were NOT either incas or aztecs right? Many of them were even victims of inca and aztec imperialism before the spanish came to exploit them too
The portuguese were even worse from what im reading
>The Bandeirantes, literally "flag-carriers", were slavers, explorers, adventurers, and fortune hunters in early Colonial Brazil. They are largely responsible for Brazil's great expansion westward, far beyond the Tordesillas Line of 1494, by which Pope Alexander VI divided the new continent into a western, Castilian section, and an eastern, Portuguese section
>The main focus of the bandeirantes' missions was to capture and enslave native populations. They carried this out by a number of tactics. The bandeirantes usually relied on surprise attacks, simply raiding villages or collections of natives, killing any who resisted, and kidnapping the survivors. Trickery could also be used; one common tactic was disguising themselves as Jesuits, often singing Mass to lure the natives out of their settlements. At the time, the Jesuits had a deserved reputation as the only colonial force that treated the natives somewhat fairly in the Jesuit reductions of the region. If luring the natives with promises did not work, the bandeirantes would surround the settlements and set them alight, forcing inhabitants out into the open. At a time when imported African slaves were comparatively expensive, the bandeirantes were able to sell large numbers of native slaves at a huge profit due to their relatively inexpensive price.
>be the spanish werent so bad after all >you do realize most natives dominated by the Spanish were NOT either incas or aztecs right? Many of them were even victims of inca and aztec imperialism before the spanish came to exploit th rapebabies
Ayden Taylor
i apologize senor. this is not taught in anglo schools.
Colton Sanchez
The Spanish were hunting witches and making pogroms at the time. The Inca empire was merciful and showed tolerance for other religions.
