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120. Aztec education
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The Role of Sacrifice in Astek Religious Thought
There was also some other kind of bloodletting apart from fighting apart from the fighting bloodshed there was also personal bloodletting which basically meant everybody in society was expected to bleed themselves as a sort of offering or sacrifice to the gods. The number of human sacrifices they had per year was really a lot i mean we're talking 20 000 human sacrifices per year we're 20 000 human sacrificed now when you think about a year having 365 days but maybe the temples aren't operating on weekends because you know the priest's got to have a break from all of that and so yeah is they were doing a lot of that stuff. religion provided the astek's with a well developed creation mythology a powerful moral
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