gnu - it was the Aztecs that had a lot of human sacrifices. I don't think the Incas did it much, if at all, but so what if they did? To say a society is superior in one respect, does not mean it is superior in all.

The Spaniards were superior to the Incas in the following areas...weaponry, metallurgy (casting iron), religious fanaticism, human sacrifice (burning people at the stake), seamanship and ship building, horse-back riding, treachery, guile, and resistance to a number of common European diseases.

The Incas were superior in virtually every other way worth mentioning. They had a cleaner, better organized, and far wiser society. They just were not as good at killing people.

- LH