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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The gruesome slaughter really began when the Europeans invaded and leaned on literal slaughter (enslaving and chopping off limbs and other body parts leaving them to suffer infection and slow death).

I think the Mayan civilization is more interesting to contemplate because it isn't as explicitly documented down to the smallest detail as the Roman Empire. The Aztecs are interesting too in terms of mythological belief systems.

The Romans (to me) are more exciting for movies, novels and history classes because it's like a well documented soap opera with lots of intrigue, turnover and the architecture and sculpture to back up each rulers' legitimacy and how they align with their predecessors or [/quote]

Nothing the Europeans did compared to the death cult that was the Aztec empire, which, by the way, was one reason why the Aztecs fell so quickly to the Spanish. The scale and level of human sacrifice by the Aztecs was staggering and breathtakingly cruel.

Then I'd probably rank the Mongols at their peak close to the Aztecs for savagery and brutality. Then more recently, although not an empire, would be regimes like Pol Pot and some of the African tyrants. We may even want to contemplate people like Mao and Stalin with their collectivist policies.

As for the Romans, men in the west have been thinking and even obsessed with the Roman empire ever sine the collapse of the empire. The learned men of medieval Europe, who were mostly churchmen but also aristocrats, were very conscious of the lost empire. That pattern continued into the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and to the present. What likely attracts continued interest in the Romans is the juxtaposition of greatness and collapse, as an empire the Romans accomplished a certain level of human genius in society and culture and politics, and yet it still collapsed and retreated into a dark age. It's the realization that a people can accomplish so much on a civilizational level, and still fall back into ignorance. [/quote]

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