Their "way or life" was African slave trade lmao
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Friendly reminder that the Mayans were so utterly detestable the other Natives begged the Conquistadors to destroy them.
They were so terrible that when they fell, all of the vassalized populations invaded the capital and ate them in revenge.
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The level of barbarian you would have to be to make your enemies patiently wait until they could eat you out of spite is pretty high.
That's actually worse than when Vlad invaded Ottoman territory, and burned all the cities & towns along the way, and impaled hundreds of people in each town, mostly the Ottoman appointed leadership and he got swarms of volunteers.
If Vlad The Impaler sounds like the good guy to people who are watching their neighbors slowly descend spikes impaled through their anus & out their mouth, as they die horribly from exposure among a town of burning rubble, then clearly the Ottomans are pretty shit.
Mayan Empire collapsed waaaay, way before the Spanish arrived in America. You're thinking of the Aztecs who were fighting constant flower wars with their neighbours for slaves, so when the Spanish arrived all the smaller tribes welcomed them with open arms to help fight against their oppressors
Ah, I'm not too knowledgeable about South American history, so I always mix the two up.