• TachyonTele@piefed.social
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    8 days ago

    Now i realize how ignorant of history i am. Did more peaceful civs have human sacrifice too, or was it a “war tribe” thing?

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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      8 days ago

      I think human sacrifice in general was a common practice of the region (and, honestly, of many regions of the world - even the Romans noted, with distaste, a history of human sacrifice in Italy), but basically no one around them even came close to the scale or regularity of Aztec human sacrifice, which was done to the tune of thousands of victims yearly.