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2017-03-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Archaeologists find evidence of ancient democratic senates in Mexico (and the brutal two-year 'hazing' it took to join them)

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2017-03-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 If anciant Mexicans had Democrats then it is no wonder that five hundred Spaniards managed to conquer all of Mexico.

Posted by JFM 2017-03-17 12:09|| 2017-03-17 12:09|| Front Page Top

#2 My vote for snark of the day.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-17 12:16|| 2017-03-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#3 It would of been much bigger news if they found evidence of democracy in California.

Posted by Airandee 2017-03-17 13:40|| 2017-03-17 13:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Those "five hundred Spaniards" somehow managed to recruit a native army of ca. 100,000 other-than-Aztec men, who may well have objected to their politically assigned future as the main course on Aztec dinner tables. Funny how that worked out.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-03-17 16:00|| 2017-03-17 16:00|| Front Page Top

#5 This "brutal, two-year 'hazing'" was NOTHING compared to what the Spartiate elite had to endure to become -- the 'elite' of Sparta'. It just took one major military loss that the 'elite' could not recover from, and that was the end of Sparta, for all intents and purposes.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-03-17 17:11|| 2017-03-17 17:11|| Front Page Top

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