Cortez and the Aztecs

by Rod D. Martin
August 13, 2017

While I'm thinking about it, today is the 496th anniversary of Hernan Cortez's liberation of Mexico from the Aztecs.

Yes, I know you're all going to question the term "liberation". But you shouldn't. You've been told that Cortez and his couple hundred European oppressors overwhelmed an ancient and magnificent culture with super-advanced technology, and that this is one of the central crimes of human history.

That's garbage.

In reality, Cortez and his men (with his only-very-slightly advanced technology, certainly not advanced enough to overcome hundreds of thousands of armed opponents) formed the leadership for an uprising of millions -- 200,000 of whom joined Cortez's army -- desperate to throw off the utterly evil Aztecs, who ruled central Mexico for barely more than a century after brutally subjugating everyone else.

Modern "progressives" gloss over the Aztec's Nazi-level evil, and laugh about "minor" sins like their human sacrifice ("ha ha, better not be…