Aztecs Religion

Other times, warriors and citizens from the Aztec Empire went willingly to get sacrificed, it was seen as a death even honorable than getting killed in war. The Aztecs made many other offerings such as food, rubber, feathers, jewels and animal blood but human blood was the most prized by the gods. At the peak of the Aztec Empire, more than one million people were worshipping Huitzilopochtli as the Mexica required the citizens of defeated city-states to worship their gods. Huitzilopochtli affected the worldview of the Mexica in terms of their knowledge. The ritual of sacrificing people for Huitzilopochtli gave the Aztecs knowledge about the human body and surgical skills.

Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is one of the world's ancient civilization centers that was located in Euphrates valley. In this area initial cities were established gathering the vast number of people under the same or identical ideologies. In this sense, religious beliefs of those people have been one of the deciding factors that mattered to keep them together. Generally speaking religion has always been a component of life and psychology which created a way of living since then. Therefore, analyzing this particular component in very first states of Mesopotamian region is important to study the history and culture of the mankind.

They were loyal to the pharaoh. Inside the Great Pyramid, famous man-made objects have been found from ancient times. Many valuable items were buried with the dead Pharaohs, in the hope that they would take them to the afterlife. Pyramids usually had traps to stop thieves from escaping easily. Tomb thieves were punished by death if they were caught.

Religion can be very powerful and can influence people to behave in certain ways. This is especially true when referring to the Aztecs. They took their religion and culture very seriously which is why is the main reason they were so focused on human sacrifice and bloodletting. It begins with Aztec creation myths as they are the foundation to the Aztecs sacrificing themselves for the gods. “They jumped into the sacrificial fire and became the sun and the moon.” (AD1, p.3) Because the gods like Nanahuatzin and Tecuciztecatl volunteered themselves for the Sun and to keep it alive and healthy, future Aztecs felt obliged to further maintain the Sun through various sacred rituals.

If the warriors did a good job they would be awarded with a helmet shaped like an eagle head. If the warriors did a really good job and captured four people they would get the to wear a jaguar skin. Not only they but they would get special privileges like wearing cotton. The Aztecs worshipped many gods. According to some they worshipped as many as 200.

Although the other societies were successful, they did not fit my liking. The Mayan society was the oldest of the societies and was more ornate. The reason I would not enjoy this is because the Mayans were very ritual. The Aztecs, like the Mayans were very ritual and sacrifice people to their god. Again there is to many rituals for me in the Aztecs beliefs.

The Aztecs also gave sacrifices to their gods. They would sacrifice slaves, captives, women, and children. These sacrifices would please the gods and bring them great wealth. They also used the sacrifices as an excuse to justify their actions of killing other tribe

Their gods were the most important to them. The Aztec and the Incas believed that the Sun God was the most important god. Another thing was that they made scarifies to their gods. Animals and some humans were used as scarifies. But the Aztecs used most of their prisoner as scarifies and some of their people.

All of the societies that built pyramids had some-sort of polytheistic beliefs, where building this structures brought them closer to their god. The influence this had on the world was extraordinary and allowed for a stronger sense of community

The Aztec emperor didn’t rule every city state. Local governments remained but they were required to pay varying amounts to the city of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopa. This empire is called a hegemonic or informal empire (Moreno-Aguilar, 2013). The Aztecs ruled through a local government, this ensured the locals would keep the people happy. This system worked very well for the people, but the empire would eventually be

Previously only landowners were allowed to vote therefore only favoring high-class citizens. The higher class citizens did not like this because it decreased their power to influence the government. Allowing more people to vote was an admirable thing President Andrew Jackson did which is one of the reasons worth remembering him on the twenty dollar bill. Secondly, President Andrew Jackson fought against the Bank of the United States, the Bank of the

Finally, there Huey Tlatcani better known as the Great Speaker. He was the emperor who receives god like worshipped by everyone. The emperor power was great however; he could be remove from power. The Aztec government did not rule with an iron fist, as many would believe. The power of the empire did not reach every stump of the people lives those tribe that were conquer were force to pay tribute yet, they had certain amount of freedom (Placeholder1).