Inca And Aztec Sacrifice Essay

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Would you ever sacrifice a kid for your religion.I been researching the Inca, Mayan, and Aztec. I have been looking what they did for there religions what trading system,food they ate, government, ranking,gods, and how they treated the people n their civilization. Inca and Maya are same and different by their religion and beliefs,gods,food,and sacrifices. I will write 4 examples how the are the same And 3 examples on how the are different from each other for a essay on how they are alike and different.

How they are alike
Lets first know how the Inca and Maya were Alike.The aztec and maya had many gods they believed.They both believed in a sun god and they both believed in a moon goddess. They believed in many gods that did the same thing just had different names.They sacrificed people for there god for what they provided.They had many gods such as the rain god in. They believed if they sacrificed a person they would get rain on certain days. They also sacrificed kids sometimes to there gods.There social system was also the same.They had noblemen as one of the highest people in their religion. The Commoners were the lowest in there social ranking.There have the same economy as in food.They ate
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They also that there king sapa inca was part god.There technology was different from the maya.They had road runners that delved there mail all over places.The road runners traveled the mail 200 miles a day just to deliver a message. Unlike how we could just text someone threw phones.They had a lost city.The spanish couldn't find the a city so it was the lost city but they found all the maya cities. The spanish never found the city because all the ghost in the air they could not see the lost city.This is how the inca are direct now let's go to the mayan there difference from the

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