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Alternatively, it was made by somebody and sold to tourists. If it was actually an artifact, it would be far more likely that it had been traded north into the area centuries ago before white people ever turned up to ruin everything for everyone.
Although to be fair, I'm okay with them taking out the Aztec religions. My biggest problem there is that they forced out human sacrifice for more classical human murder and Catholicism, which is really more of a lateral move.
The thing about Aztecs and human sacrifice is that they did it to peoples that were captured on the battlefield. And the Aztecs went to war intending to capture, not kill most of the time. The killing happened after the battle.
So really, it's not all that different in terms of lives being taken from a standard war. It's just done in a different way.