First 2 episodes!

It's the first release from this new bi-weekly history podcast. I'm certain that Aztec Human Sacrifice and The Belgian Congo are both perfect examples of the type of subjects this podcast seeks to highlight.

Be sure to come back in 2 weeks time when I'll be looking at The Partition of India, a completely crazy descent into violence where all sides come out with tainted reputations.

Like all episodes I'll be attaching some images to this, my main sources and with the warning that i'll unapologetically be opinionated from start to finish!

The Aztecs - RF Townsend

Aztecs - I Clendinnen

The Aztecs of Central America - F Berdan

https://webpages.uidaho.edu/engl257/Ren/aztec_empire_in_1519.htm

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Huitzilopochtli

https://tecpaocelotl.livejournal.com/25254.html

Red Rubber - ED Morel

Five Years With The Congo Cannibals - H Ward

Leopold to lumumba: a history of the belgian congo, 1877-1960 - G Martelli

King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa - A Hochschild

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/belgiums-genocidal-colonial-legacy-haunts-the-country-s-future-a7984191.html

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/649600217/where-human-zoos-once-stood-a-belgian-museum-now-faces-its-colonial-past

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/1458736/Belgian-fury-at-film-on-Leopolds-Congo-terror.html

https://www.britannica.com/place/Congo-Free-State

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/30/congo-belgium-brussels-kinshasa