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In exact amount and kind as specified by the aztecs, or risks horrible consequences. In the forests and jungles of other realms, maya kings rule great cities with the force of their own personalities. They build temples and huge stone billboards to prop up royal dynasties that have little actual power. They perform gruesome rituals that require the skins of other people. They go to war and capture players for their ball games games where the losers never play again. Today, inside ancient pyramid...

From there and given to the captor. So the captive, in a way, was the product of the person who successfully had captured him in the battlefield. It wasnt just adults or prisoners of war that were sacrificed. Children were also groomed as offerings to the gods. The child was placed here. He would have cried, and in turn, those tears were good omens of rain. Really . The more the child cried, the better. When the spanish priests saw these sacrifices, they thought that the aztecs were barbarians a...

The land of conquistadors, aztecs, and incas. Human sacrifice, religion, greed, war, and torture have all played their part in the building and crushing of magnificent empires. Bandits a continent that is now a living, breathing mix of cultures thousands of years old. [crash] our journey through latin america will take us to prehispanic civilizations all but destroyed by conquistadors, to sites which witnessed the violent struggles for independence from spain and then revolution and bloody civil...

With the force of their own personalities. They build temples and huge stone billboards to prop up royal dynasties that have little actual power. They perform gruesome rituals that require the skins of other people. They go to war and capture players for their ball games games where the losers never play again. Today, inside ancient pyramids, archaeologists face real danger to bring the story of these kings and their politics out of the past. Before the arrival of europeans, two extraordinary ci...

At palenque, tonina, bonampak and other cities, dynastic kings ruled absolutely, controlling trade and tribute. They presided over intricate hierarchies of nobles and officials at courts resplendent with works of art. Maya culture, shrouded in a mystery as dense as the forests in which it took root, revealed itself fitfully over three centuries. When the ruins in the jungle were first discovered, there was no way of understanding how the civilization was organized. So its really through the insc...

With the benefit of hindsight, the obscenity and irrationality of the European lust for gold is all too stark. Despite gold's lack of utility throughout centuries, that lust continues to this day.

After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sentence communique: "There can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be fought."

After a recent summit between new partners China and Russia, General Secretary Xi Jinping and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin issued an odd one-sent

We think of many historic rulers as autocrats, with rule based on heredity and the sword. Before the Age of Enlightenment, the main exceptions were the

Montezuma's Curse (Season 1 Episode 1): A hunt for the treasures of the Aztec Empire. Lost Gold of the Aztecs airs on Sky History at 3:00 PM, Monday 29 April. A hunt for the treasures of the Aztec Empire