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1. Aztec Empire

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   Aztec religion was highly complex, centered on the maintenance of cosmic order through ritual appeasement of the deities, most prominently Huitzilopochtli (Sun and War)/) and Tlaloc (Rain and Fertility)/). The cosmological view held that the current era, the Fifth Sun (Nahui Ollin)/), was inherently unstable and dependent upon constant infusions of sacred energy.
   Human sacrifice played a critical …