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My Pet Orangutan

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4. A 'great civilization' that and practiced and venerated 'human sacrifice like no other

Reply to tiredtoo (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 29, 2021, 10:51 PM

Jan 2021

In four days, the Aztecs murdered ('scarified') 80K at Tenochtitlan -butchered 20K people a day - over four days 1487.

That 'civilization' deserved to decimated, re-decimated, and, cremated.

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