An assignment was given to me that had me decide on whether historians should emphasize Sacrifice or Agriculture and I didn’t agree with the fact that I had to choose. Historians shouldn’t have to pick one topic, they should be able to emphasize on both equally, without one or the other the Aztecs wouldn’t be who they were, and we might not have known about them because what they did just wasn’t important enough. The Aztecs were a very large group of people and they needed a place to live, so they continued to conquer people and move onto an island. They conquered many lands by fighting in flower wars, and during these wars they captured their victims for the Sacrifice. The Aztecs were also very skilled in agriculture and had the genius idea
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The aztecs were a large empire because they fought in wars a lot and acquired a lot of land, and not only did they get land, they got sacrifice victims captured from the war. According to Document D by Friar Diego Duran, 1581, priests performed rituals with these 2,300 sacrifice victims by slicing their chests open, ripping out their heart, throwing it into the shrine, and rolling their bodies down the stairs. The Aztecs did a large amount of sacrifice, but their everyday life was agriculture. They would plant, harvest, and turn the crops into food. Everyday people had to make the corn into flour for baking. Not only did they plant crops on land, they found a genius way to do it on an island. They created chinampas which were floating islands made with logs, and trees to keep them anchored to the bottom of the lake. On these chinampas they planted a lot of crops especially corn, which was their main source of food. The aztecs had sacrificed and agriculture, but without both their culture wasn’t the same, they supported each other to keep the other alive. This supports emphasizing both matters because it explains how these topics made the Aztecs what they are. Their culture and religion was incorporated into human sacrifice and agriculture. Agriculture had the corn goddess and the whole ritual was to power the gods, who controlled
The aztecs were a large empire because they fought in wars a lot and acquired a lot of land, and not only did they get land, they got sacrifice victims captured from the war. According to Document D by Friar Diego Duran, 1581, priests performed rituals with these 2,300 sacrifice victims by slicing their chests open, ripping out their heart, throwing it into the shrine, and rolling their bodies down the stairs. The Aztecs did a large amount of sacrifice, but their everyday life was agriculture. They would plant, harvest, and turn the crops into food. Everyday people had to make the corn into flour for baking. Not only did they plant crops on land, they found a genius way to do it on an island. They created chinampas which were floating islands made with logs, and trees to keep them anchored to the bottom of the lake. On these chinampas they planted a lot of crops especially corn, which was their main source of food. The aztecs had sacrificed and agriculture, but without both their culture wasn’t the same, they supported each other to keep the other alive. This supports emphasizing both matters because it explains how these topics made the Aztecs what they are. Their culture and religion was incorporated into human sacrifice and agriculture. Agriculture had the corn goddess and the whole ritual was to power the gods, who controlled