You climb the steep stairs of the temple. As you look around, you see the blood of your fellow prisoners pooled on the floor. You see the priests. They are caked with the blood of their former victims. You hear the drums start. They will muffle your screams. The time is 1531. The place is the great Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. You are about to have your heart ripped out of your still living body to …showed first 75 words of 2822 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2822 total…of our so-called civilized eyes. "Clearly, it is difficult for us to come to a true understanding of what human sacrifice meant to the Aztecs. The Spaniards, so sincerely moved by the cruelty of the native priests, nevertheless massacred,…and tortured with a clear conscience. We, who shudder at the tale of bloody rites of ancient Mexico, have seen with our own eyes…civilized nations proceed systematically to the extermination of millions of human beings…"