Prints on Aztec Religion by Bernard Picart 1673-1733 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. (The book "Ceremonies et coutumes kerkuses de tous les peuples du monde" 1721-1722 - for which Picart made the illustrations - also had a subversive intention, ) The prints are based on Spanish colonial descriptions in which Aztecs were often presented as bloodthirsty barbarians, Propaganda to justify colonization. Aztec ( The Aztecs, Mesoamerican culture, Central Mexico 1300 to 1521 (14th-16th Century), Aztec Empire, Tenochtitlan, city-state of the Mexica , Tenochca, Texcoco, Tlacopan, )

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Human sacrifice played a central role in the ideology of the Aztec Empire.

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