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The Aztecs were a very civilized people for their time. In their culture they had roughly 15 million people in 500 towns with a capitol city, Tenochtitlan. 300,000 people lived in the capital city of Tenochtitlan. These numbers show the vastness of their people. In whatever the Aztecs did, whether it was building, conquering, or worshiping they did it to the fullest of their potential. The Aztecs had writings, records, taxes, maps and legal processes, which are extremely advanced processes for their time. They also were a very religious people, and their most known religious ceremony was that of human sacrifice to appease the gods.
One of the maps that have been obtained from an Aztec archive shows all of the rivers within a 400 mile radius of Tenochtitlan. Think about how much work that individual project would have taken. It would require a great amount of time, effort, and labor just on that particular map. Among other records found, in each temple made by the Aztecs, a......

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