Maya Warfare and Sacrifice
The Ancients
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Are the Aztecs Killed?
Among the maya, captives were made vassals. It meant that they now may be the head of their community but had to pay some wealth to the person who captured them unless they were killed. Of them were killed, and that's another thing i'm not sure. We don't know why. Later on, it is said that the spaniards said that the aztecs would take out hearts to kill people. The heart figures in my amyth are a kind of symbol. But other than that, for themaya, i don't think we were really sure. Although there are records that people die or are killed. An epigrapher would probably know the
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