The Incans did very little human sacrifice and in the places where sacrifice was more common, like the aztec empire, it was mostly prisoners of war. Essentially they just moved the deaths of war from the battlefield to the city, they weren’t any more violent than the people of the old world. Even still we probably overestimate the scale of human sacrifice because so many of our records come from the spanish who aren’t exactly a trustworthy source on the matter.
Personally I consider modern places like the US to be significantly more violent than any of the indegenous cultures of the Americas. We just don’t see it like they did.
Except for the human sacrifice
The Incans did very little human sacrifice and in the places where sacrifice was more common, like the aztec empire, it was mostly prisoners of war. Essentially they just moved the deaths of war from the battlefield to the city, they weren’t any more violent than the people of the old world. Even still we probably overestimate the scale of human sacrifice because so many of our records come from the spanish who aren’t exactly a trustworthy source on the matter.
Personally I consider modern places like the US to be significantly more violent than any of the indegenous cultures of the Americas. We just don’t see it like they did.