Fill in the Blanks SACRIFICE WAR AND POLITICSOnline version COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING TEXT by Carla Uribe 1 sacrifice thousands war religion defeated destroyed sacrifice hearts pay Mexicas members debt duty warriors gods death prevent prisoners Spanish The human to feed the gods was linked to , since the main victims were the enemies , in the battles the of the rival towns were taken and then as captives to the capital so that there were prepared for . For a season they lived in the home of the warriors who had them , where they were treated as if they were of their families , later on feast days they were taken to the temple where the priests opened their chests to extract their and blood and with them feed the . Some of the stories written by the Spanish after the conquest spoke of more than ten of victims of these bloody rituals , but in reality it was in their authors' interest to exaggerate the matter to justify their conquest , it is very likely that the numbers were less Today the practice of human may seem terrible and cruel to us , however , it should not be forgotten that for the and the other peoples of Toltec tradition it was a religious , they had to the they had with their gods and feed them from this way to the world from being . In any case , as we will see in the next election , the also believed that it was justified to kill other humans in the name of their .
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