Maya Warfare and Sacrifice
The Ancients
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What Is the Best Way to Increase Your Taxes?
War, sois an elite concern, and it's among different overarching myer groups. We say tribute, but tribute is really a tax in which the elites receive tribute and the commoners pay tribute. That's a story of life, right even to day, sort of. And so war is about increasing your tribute, or your taxes. And the best way to do that really is to marry. But women, amongst the maya, it wasn't like england,. were women really, i don't think if women married, i think their wealth was transferred to the mail. Not in meso america, women were tribute receivers. There were tax receivers. So conflict was the
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