Monday, September 28, 2009

Aztec

The Aztec Empire started off with the Mexico people who slowly emerged into an unstable empire of five to six million people. The empire was known for their various goods such as, impressive textiles, clothing, military supplies,  jewelry and other goods. The Aztec location was quite unique because they had multiple bridges, canals, causeways, beautiful garden around. Their trading industry strengthened the domains of the Aztec and created large markets of quantitative goods. Since this was their major accomplishment, the merchants were ranked very high in the society as well as their wealth. 
During the fifteenth century, the Aztec regularly performed human sacrifices as an important aspect of their religious lifestyle. They believed that the center of the world, the sun, and the god Huitzilopochtli would be hovered with darkness every now and then, and the only way to renew it was by using human blood. It was a form of return to the gods because they had shed their own blood in creating human kind in the beginning of the world. The best ways to supply this blood was human sacrifices, wars of expansion, and the prisoners of wars. This religious aspect spread into the political aspect because the emperors of other empires were impressed and also scared of this deadly style the Aztecs had. 

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