<p>DO NOT MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE AZTECS PRIMARILY DIED BY EUROPEAN DISEASES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAke some time to read the stats that I have provided</p>
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Religion does not commit tragedies. People do.
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This is the main problem right here. A failure of religion to take theheat for its own misdeeds. IT takes the credit for its benefits, but never its shortcomings.</p>
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They are not one in the same even though most of the Spanish conquistadors were Catholic.
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who thought that they were embarking on a religiious quest.</p>
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In fact, Pope Alexander VI prohibited the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The Spanish general disregarded the papal decree and enslaved the Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas anyways. Queen Isabella of Spain also decreed that the indigenous peoples were not to be enslaved.
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Correction. After these decrees a new system was implemented...one that did not technically hold them as slaves, but as indentured servants. This was a loophole...and the decrees certainly did not improve the lives of the aztecs enslaved by the Christians. Decrees were never ignored...you are flat out wrong...policy was changed in order to maintain enslavement, yet still keep with decree. Spain was probably one of the most religious countries...papal influence was very high. He would not have been flat out ignored.</p>
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Gradually, the conditions of the encomienda system were improved after a new viceroy was appointed for the management of New Spain (Mexico).
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Bull. The aztecs were worked untill they were virtually depleted. After there was a scarcity of labor, Africans were brought in by spainish ships to resume where the fallen aztecs had left off.</p>
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Church vigorously tried to abolish slavery and to protect and aid the IP.
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<p>Factual abstraction.</p>
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I stand by my statement that the Church enlightened the Mayans and Aztecs. The Mayans and Aztecs were indeed blood-thirsty and practiced disgusting rituals that entailed human sacrifices.
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No practice is more disgusting than the Christian imposition of morals and the inculcation of one's culture forcefully. To impose on the sovereignty of an autonomous nation and people is the worst misdeed of all...a crime against the human race.</p>
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I also base many of my beliefs in Christianity based upon logical reasoning and the scientific basis of miracles.
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HAHAHA, what a joke</p>
<p>look at this data...there were hardly any more people to instill morals in
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The Spanish established the encomiendas, where the government granted conquerors the right to employ groups of Indians. The encomiendas, in truth were a form of legalized slavery. Relegated to practical slave labor within sugar cane plantations and mining caves, the native population of Peru declined from 1.3 million in 1570, to 600,000 in 1620. In Meso-America the circumstances were no different. The population of Indians went from 25.3 million in 1519, to a scant 1 million in 1605. Though forced labor played the largest part in the decimation of the Incan and Aztec, disease is by no means minor within this time frame. Widespread epidemics of small pox and other diseases were not uncommon, and claimed the lives of millions. On the psychological front, historians and psychologists have offered another reason for the decimation of the Incan and Aztec populations, namely the Indians had lost the will to survive. With the extreme and quick loss of culture, accompanied by the pressure of Christian missionaries and laws preventing the practice of any form of native religion (if they did there were strong repercussions even death), the Indians were, by all means, slaves to the Spaniard immigrants.
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The keyword here is LEGALIZED SLAVERY. It was justified and allowed by the spainish kings and the papal athority. At that time, the two were closely affiliated.</p>