High. You could compare it to ancient Egypt and Mestompia. In some ways it even exceeded Europe. But it was barbaric. A culture based on war, conquest, and cruelty. Hundreds of captives were regularly sacrificed alive. It was the cruelty toward conquered people that helped Cortes in his conquest. It is a myth that a few hundred Spanish conquered the Aztecs. They had the aid of thousands of Amerindian allies who revolted against the Aztecs and an even more terrible ally. Small pox. In the final conquest they marched into Tencholithian over the bodies of thousands of victims of disease and starvation.
