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Aztec Brutality

Eddie Julian-Caballero

TOPIC 1

Aztec Rituals

TOPIC 2

* Human Sacrifices were a common thing

  • They were done to celebrate and worship the gods.
  • They believed that if they could please the gods with their sacrifices then they could get rewards such as good weather, or a good harvest
  • Because of this the sacrifices were brutal

Fun fact

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The reason that the Aztecs left their home in Culhuacan and moved to their swampy capital known as Tenochtitlan, is because they killed someone of high power. They were cast out and forced to find a knew home. One of the priests said that their knew home would be known when they saw an eagle eating a snake on a cactus.

PICTURES

PICTURES

Reports and Sightings

TOPIC 3

When the Spanish conquistadors first arrived they reported that they were gruesome.

They saw how they went along with the human sacrifices and how they coldly took the lives of their own people without hesitation.

Rituals

TOPIC 4

When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan they described witnessing a grisly ceremony. Aztec priests, using razor-sharp obsidian blades, sliced open the chests of sacrificial victims and offered their still-beating hearts to the gods. They then tossed the victims’ lifeless bodies down the steps of the towering Temple Mayor.

Spanish conquistadors

A conquistador described two rounded towers flanking the Temple Mayor made entirely of human skulls

Government Punishments

Aztec crime and punishment had to develop along different lines. the death penalty was a common punishment for crime. The criminal could be taken to an alter and put to death, strangled, or even stoned on the spot.

http://www.aztec-history.com/aztec-crime-and-punishment.html

https://www.history.com/news/aztec-human-sacrifice-religion#targetText=Aztec%20priests%2C%20using%20razor%2Dsharp,of%20the%20towering%20Templo%20Mayor.

http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp264-ss13/2013/04/25/aztec-human-sacrifice/

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