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120. Aztec education

Education Bookcast

CHAPTER

The History of the Aztecs

The Aztecs were self-consciously outsiders in their region and they came to politically and militarily dominate it and become a kind of empire. They made a reputation for themselves partly with their war god Witzilopodchli who was the one who desired blood as all the gods did. Their war god was very bloodthirsty and needed human blood to survive and it was actually part of the philosophy that the universe will crumble unless we have human sacrifice but there's going to be more detail about that stuff over here when I talk about this.

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