Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica
"Well the film pretty much depicts them as blood thirsty savages (the invaders) that part you must agree? "
Their gods were bloodthirsty, but that does not make the people savages. A Christian perspective: the main symbol is God/Man crucified; in many churches you see not an abstracted form of this, but detailed realism: carved wounds in His flesh, blood painted running down His skin. It is gruesome. This blood sacrifice is repeated every week today: when Christians take communion they reenact the human sacrifice and symbolically consume the flesh of Christ, participating in an act of ritual cannibalism.
"It also depicts a characteristic where these 'architects' & 'astronomers' you speak of made up a minuscule percentage of an otherwise completely uneducated majority!"
It was not such a small minority; just as today any of the skilled construction workers on a job site are not completely uneducated, the men building the cities and temples then could not have been completely uneducated.
"You have obviously done alot of research as you're part of the Aztec mod team. Can you recommend me any good books on the continent before or after the Spanish arrived? This film has really sparked my curiosity to learn more about the period!
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A good one to start with is widely available at libraries and on Amazon etc:
The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo.
"Btw is this an ingame shot?
http://moddb.com/images/cache/mods/9...ater_62097.jpg"
That is rendered in Terragen2. I will post some in-game screenshots. Up to this point the Aztec Empire Mod for RO is a solo effort on my part and I am ready to build a team to complete it. If you (and anyone else familiar with RO) would like to help, even in a limited way, I will appreciate it.