Andrew Schulz

Throughout all of that, as scary as that sounds, when the Spaniards arrived and...

they would go into the marketplaces of Tenochtitlan.

And, you know, the Spaniards are pulling out their steel swords and just slicing people up.

I mean, you know, you can, with those blades, I mean, you can cut somebody in half.

You can cut their head off.

You can cut their arm off so easily.

And it was the brutality of how swiftly and mercilessly and without a thought...

the Spaniards would slaughter people and then just leave their bodies to rot in the streets.

That actually horrified the Aztecs because the Aztecs at least saw the value in your soul.

They actually really saw the value in your soul.

So the Spaniards would just slice this person's head off, slice this guy's arm and leg off, just leaving people rolling around in pain on the sides of the streets.

You'd be like, you just robbed me for no reason.

Well, you know, that's really an astute observation.

There was not currency in...

Any of the Americas, it was, you know, they had different things that they valued.

Whereas in the old world, we have all kinds of different forms of currency.

But in the Americas, it was really about trade or what you could offer or like the esoteric value, the spiritual significance of things.

And so they really saw value in people's souls.

Like that wasn't something to just be thrown away.

Even if it was your enemy, you needed to sacrifice him to your God so that in return, the God would bless you.