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Fill them with cement.
Lmfao
I remember the great chief of the Aztec Indians giving the Spanish all the gold they wanted---they just made them drink it in the molten form! Kek
You're confusing them with Crassus or Valerian. Mesoamerican Baby killers got shafted by the Christian Spanish. Got what they deserved.
Don't recall that. I know that many Spaniards drowned with the weight of the gold when they tried to run with it and the bridges were cut, causing them to sink.
Azteca did deploy some brutal tactics, but the Spaniards wrecked them under the command of a 19 yeard old Hernan Cortez.
Here it is I knew I read it somewhere. Something like that impresses your brain! Kek
Imagine being tightly bound and surrounded by an angry group of people in 16th-century Ecuador. The crowd parts as a man walks toward you with a crucible of molten gold. He forces your mouth open as you struggle as hard as you can, but to no avail. Boiling, bubbling, glowing molten gold is poured into your open mouth, killing you within seconds. Terrifying, right? That's is exactly what happened to a Spanish governor in the colonial settlement of Logroño in 1599.
It turns out that the governor of the Amazonian town had been cheating the indigenous Jivaro tribe (also known as Shuar) in their gold trade, which resulted in a violent revolt. The Jivaro attacked the Logroño settlement, and during the ensuing massacre of up to 25,000 Spaniards, executed the governor by pouring the object of his greed down his throat. The Jivaro then burned the remaining settlement to the ground.
Ouch!
You remember wrong. Suggest you read the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz.
Which one was it. May have been Inca. Been about 60 years ago.