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5. Why did the Aztecs use human sacrifices?

5. Why did the Aztecs use human sacrifices?
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5. Why did the Aztecs use human sacrifices?

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They believed that human sacrifice nourished the gods. Without it, the sun would cease to rise and the world would end. And sacrificial victims earned a special, honored place in the afterlife
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