Aztec society, even with its horrific human sacrifices, was at the time of the Spanish conquest more egalitarian than Mexico 200 years later.
The article
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-archaeology-of-inequality/

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Aztec society, even with its horrific human sacrifices, was at the time of the Spanish conquest more egalitarian than Mexico 200 years later.
The article
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-archaeology-of-inequality/