RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Fetus, Satan, Israelites
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Function was to capture people who would be sacrificed honorifically to the gods. It was called flowery because it was a low intensity combat. They head feathers of birds and so on. Largely restricted in the inner circle of the aztec empire. Those nearby communities shared the same view as the. They bought into the idea of flowery war combat. When they would approach neighbouring people during a flowery war, they would do the same thing. You would not want to kill them, but force them to submit. Capture them and bring them back for sacrifices. It was explicitly tied to he need to maintain high levels of human sacrifice. They had also angry war was the type of warfare that brought the aztecs their large empire. But as they grew to be a dominant power in mexico, i was the flowery war that was important.
