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How did the Aztecs sacrifice?

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The Aztecs lay the victim on an altar on top of one of the pyramids, and they would take a special obsidian knife and cut out the human heart. They would then fling the body down the steps of the pyramid.

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How do Aztecs sacrifice?
The Aztecs would first take a knife and open his stomach and rip out the heart and show it to the sun. then the priest would occasionally chop the head off for the god the sun the aztec human...
Who did the Aztecs sacrifice?
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Who did Aztecs sacrifice?
People like children.. But they seceretly ate them
Who did the Aztecs sacrifice to?
The gods.
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To give a gift to the gods and ancestors.