What was the role of human sacrifice in the Aztec culture?

What will be an ideal response?


Describe the many ways in which human sacrifice was used by the Aztecs. What purposes did it serve? To what extent can the sacrifices be seen as an aspect of empire-building and preservation? How did the scale of sacrifices performed by the Aztecs help them to create their empire but also lead to their eventual collapse?

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a. New Jersey b. Delaware c. Pennsylvania d. Carolina

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In the American slave family,

A. premarital cohabitation was frowned upon. B. most couples did not formally marry. C. extended kinship networks were strong and important. D. premarital pregnancy was uncommon. E. black women typically began bearing children later than white women.

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The first atomic bomb used in war was dropped on

A) Iwo Jima. B) Hiroshima. C) Tokyo. D) Leyte Gulf. E) Okinawa.

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The Reconquista in Spain was completed with the capture of which city?

a. Toledo b. Aragon c. Granada d. Seville e. Barcelona

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