Aztec Agriculture Or Human Sacrifice Essay

Have you ever heard about the Aztec Agriculture or Human Sacrifice? Well if you just heard those two subjects which one would you think is better to a Aztec Society. If you have heard about the aztecs you might know they are known for Human Sacrifice, but without agriculture how are they gonna be able to do Human Sacrifice. So i think that Aztec Agriculture gets greater emphasis than Human Sacrifice. In the 1400s and early 1500s, the aztecs dominated the religion around modern-day Mexico city. At their peak they were in control of about 20 million people. The aztecs created a society that was great and showed that the aztecs took good care and impressed the spanish conquistador who arrived in 1519. Which should you emphasize aztec agriculture or human sacrifice that are both very important. We should emphasize Aztec Agriculture for three reasons large scales,
According to Diego Rivera maize was very important. In the mural it shows the men planting the corn and harvesting the maize, while the women are grinding and rolling into tortillas doing this for the corn goddess. As you can see this maize (corn) is part of their everyday life because they would have to make tortillas for everyone in the aztec society. This evidence supports emphasizing Aztec agriculture because they would make tortillas and corn so that they could feed millions of people. Most people work for agriculture because they had 20 million people to feed everyday so they were hard working people to make sure people dont starve in the aztec society. In document c mexican artist diego rivera made a mural in 1929, all about the maize and the mural is a picture of men and women making tortillas. Just like human sacrifice the people who worked for agriculture would have to obey the corn