HIS 1123 Lecture 15: Chapter 15 - Rise of Empires of the Americas
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The military was a higher class than the middle class people - expansionism. The violence in their culture shows that in their religion they get into human sacri ce to appease god. The idea that the spanish aren"t civilized it persuaded for other people to come in and take over. The problem is there is no documentation, so anyone that wrote the piece or read the hieroglyphics on human sacri ce were biased. Took the war like state and then created another civilization out of it {aztecs} like. Rome and greece - all the mesoamerica civilizations are built onto of each other. Aztecs believed that an eagle and serpent are their two main gods and shows why it is on the mexican flag - religious reasoning. Military school: started training at age 15 not a full soldier until after school {sparta} Built on an island for agriculture and military reasons.
