征服者埃尔南-科尔德斯和西班牙在合理化他们对拉丁美洲的种族灭绝式殖民统治。没有哪个民族是那么残暴的。

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在世界各国中，哪些国家的历史最令人不安？

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很少有人相信它。撇开谣言不谈，大多数学者认为这是征服者埃尔南-科尔德斯和西班牙在合理化他们对拉丁美洲的种族灭绝式殖民统治。没有哪个民族是那么残暴的。

但在2015年和2018年，考古学家在Templo Mayor发现了越来越多的证据，证实了西班牙的旧报告。这是真的。控制着后来成为墨西哥的大部分地区的阿兹特克人，每年都要摘除大约1万名活体受害者的跳动的心脏，并吃掉他们的尸体，以安抚他们非常苛刻的太阳神。

找到这么多尸体并不容易，所以必须经常打仗。有时每天都有。阿兹特克人对他们选择的对象非常有选择性。主要目标是身体有吸引力、强壮和勇敢的人。众神要求这样做。无论牺牲的是男人、女人还是孩子，都无关紧要；太阳神都想要他们。

公共集会将被举行。受害者会被按住，而祭司会拿起一块锋利的石头，切开胸口，掏出跳动的心脏。然后，头部会被切下来。

心脏。大脑。眼睛。任何看起来特别美味的东西都会被牧师吃掉。然后，对阿兹特克人社区贡献最大的一个人将得到其余的身体部分，与他的朋友和家人分享，或者如果愿意的话，自己吃。能得到一具无头、无心的尸体是相当大的荣誉。

情况变得更糟。太阳神不想要小孩子--但雨神想要。特别是，他想要他们的眼泪。大量的眼泪将得到回报，为庄稼带来大量的雨水。大多数受害者是男性，大约六岁。与其详细描述对无辜儿童的残害，不如说他们被迫哭上几个小时。想象一下最坏的情况，你就会走上正确的道路。

尽管这些做法很残忍，但所有的受害者都被授予了天堂的荣誉。只有三种形式的死亡能保证进入极乐世界--战争、分娩和向神灵献祭。该地区的大多数其他部落也相信这一点。在阿兹特克人南部占主导地位的土著人是玛雅人。他们举行体育比赛，比赛结束后，获胜者（不是打字错误）会被杀死。虽然看起来很奇怪，但大多数参赛者都是玛雅人，他们希望获得荣誉和被自己的家人吃掉的机会。

当西班牙人于1519年到达时，阿兹特克人成为受害者。天主教被强加在他们身上。大多数人被迫沦为奴隶。西班牙海军围攻并通过切断食物供应使当地人挨饿。到1605年，在引进欧洲疾病和大规模屠杀之间，估计新西班牙（目前的墨西哥）有2400万土著人被杀害。

2019年3月，墨西哥总统致函西班牙国王和教皇，要求他们道歉。他还没有收到任何答复。

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贝纳尔-迪亚斯-德尔-卡斯蒂略（Bernal Diaz del Castillo）对 "悲伤之夜"（La Noche Triste）的描述是军事史上对战斗撤退的最令人不安的主要描述之一。

征服者在阿兹特克士兵的猛烈攻击下，不得不使用便携式桥梁穿越运河，其描述令人心痛。这些人在面对如此众多的士兵时如此艰难地战斗，而他们每个人身上携带的黄金比他们一生中见过的都多。他描述了这些人在被捆绑和拖走之前被打倒和殴打的情况。他描述了他的战友们像疯子一样战斗，但却滑倒在运河里，被他们携带的所有战利品拖累而沉没。他描述了由于敌人的数量太多，导致军阵崩溃，变成了真正的人人自危的逃亡。他描述了他们终于到达一个安全的有利位置，终于可以重整旗鼓，恢复元气时的欣慰，然后他描述了他们在远处看到被俘的战友从大金字塔顶上被挖出心脏，让那里的每个士兵都在思考自己的命运时的惊恐。

这是一个相当史诗般的冒险故事.....

如果他们不对自己的人民如此残暴，就不会有超过3万名土著人加入科尔特斯，推翻阿兹特克人的统治。而且，阿兹特克人并没有把科特兹视为神，而是把他视为暴政的解放者，只是遗憾的是，西班牙人对他们声称要帮助的人并不友善。

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Among the countries of the world, which of them have the most disturbing histories?

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Few believed it. Rumors aside, most scholars assumed it was the conqueror Hernan Cordez and Spain rationalizing their genocidal colonization of Latin America. No peoples are that brutal.

But in 2015 and again in 2018, archeologists in Templo Mayor discovered more and more evidence to substantiate the old Spanish reports. It was true. The Aztecs, who controlled most of what would become Mexico, had been removing the beating hearts of perhaps 10,000 live victims every year and eating their bodies to appease their very demanding sun god.

It's not easy finding that many bodies, so wars had to be fought often. Sometimes daily. The Aztecs were very selective about whom they chose. Prime targets were physically attractive, strong and courageous. The gods demanded it. And it did not matter whether the sacrifice was a man, a woman or even a child; the sun god wanted them all.

Public gatherings would be held. Victims would be held down while the priest would take a sharp stone, slice open the chest and pull out the beating heart. Then the head would be sliced off.

The heart. The brain. The eye. Whatever looked particularly tasty would be eaten by the priest. Then, one of the individuals who contributed the most to the Aztec community would be given the rest of the body parts to share with his friends and family, or to just eat it himself if so inclined. To be given a headless, heartless corpse was quite the honor.

It gets worse. The sun god didn't want little children - but the rain god did. In particular, he wanted their tears. Lots of tears would be reciprocated with lots of rain for the crops. Most victims were males, around the age of six. Rather than go into detail describing mutilation of innocent children, let's just say that they were forced to cry for several hours. Imagine the worst and you will be on the right track.

Despite the brutality of these practices, all victims were honored with Paradise. Only three forms of death guaranteed entry to Bliss - war, childbirth and sacrifice to the gods. Most other tribes in the region believed the same. The dominant natives to the south of the Aztecs were the Mayans. They held athletic competitions in which the winners (not a typo) would be killed after the game was finished. Odd as it may seem, most contestants were Mayans who wanted the glory and the opportunity to get eaten by their own families.

When the Spanish arrived in 1519, Aztecs became the victims. Catholicism was imposed upon them. Most were forced into slavery. The Spanish navy lay siege and starved the natives by cutting off their food supply. By 1605, between the introduction of European diseases and mass slaughter, an estimated 24 million natives in New Spain (currently Mexico) would be killed.

In March of 2019, the president of Mexico sent letters to both the king of Spain and the pope, requesting an apology. He has yet to receive any reply.

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Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s account of the

 “La Noche Triste”

 (The Night of Sorrows)

 is one of military histories most haunting primary accounts of a fighting retreat.

The descriptions of the Conquistadors having to fight their way out using a portable bridge to cross the Canals all whilst under heavy attack by Aztec soldiers is harrowing. The guys fighting so hard against such numbers whilst all off them were each carrying more gold than they had ever seen in their life. He describes guys being beaten down and pummelled before being tied up and dragged away screaming. He describes his fellow soldiers fighting like maniacs only to slip and fall into canals and sink weighed down by all the loot they were carrying. He describes how the sheer numbers of enemies caused the military formation broke down and it becoming a literal every man for himself escape. He describes the relief as they finally reached a safe vantage point where they could finally regroup and recover and then he describes the horror as they saw off in the distance their captured comrades having their hearts cut from their bodies from atop the great pyramid and leaving every soldier there to ponder their fates - Cortez allegedly broke down in tears.

It’s a pretty epic adventure story…..

If they weren't so brutal towards there own people than over 30 thousand natives would not have joined Cortez in overthrowing Aztec rule. And no the Aztecs did not view Cortez as a God but as a liberater of tyrannical rule its just a shame the Spanish weren't much kinder to the people they claimed they were helping.