>>109786345enslaving
The Aztec empire left it's conquered cities to self rule independently, and left them to continue their religious, cultural, and adminstrative norms as long as they provided annual tribute. Enslavement of war captives was a thing was was citizens of cities who refused payment, but by european or asian standards the Aztec, like most Mesoamerican empires, was very hands off
>Teach them to readMesoamerica is literally one of the world's 3 independent origin points of writing alongside Mesopotamia and China. Writing and books was already a thing there. The earliest Mesoamerican scripts goes back to 900 BC, or almost 2000 years before the Spanish showed up
>sanitationThe Aztec literally had the most foward thinking and advanced sanitation practices of any culture in history till that point, and weren't surpassed till germ theory. Mesoamericans in general tended to have high hygine standards with sewage systems being not uncommon and cities and streets being kept clean; but the Aztec captial litterally had it's streets and buildings wased daily; citizens bathing multiple times a week, aquaducts designed with two pipes so one could always be cleaned as the other ran; you were expected to wash your hands, face, and teeth before and after meals etc
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805201/details all this as well as their medical practices and botanical science, which were also the best in the world at the time
>SacrificesEurasia had constant religious was; which were ultimately juist religious killings for the victim worshiping the wrong god, rather then mesoamerican sacrifices (where most victims were enemy soldiers) being religious killings to your god. In terms of scale, mesoamerican sacrifices were also likely far lesser, even using high end inflated estimates the entire aztec empire across it's entire history probably sacrificed less people then the Albigensian Crusade
