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Were the Aztecs savages?

Were the Aztecs savages?

The Aztecs we refer to today arrived in the Americas between 25000 and 35000 years ago after crossing the Bering Strait (northerly tip of Alaska) from Asia during an ice age. Historians nowadays believe they made their way South and started to develop a cultural identity for example they had there own customs and dress as well as laws etc.
By the 12th century this was A.D the Aztecs were happily settled in Mexico but legends tell us that the reason the Aztecs decided to go and try to conquer Mexico was because of a magical image of the war god Huitzilopochtli told them they should set out on a pilgrimage to find there true home.
150 years later Aztecs myths tell us that arriving at the Northerly tip of Lake Texcoco the Aztecs received a promised sign- on an island in the centre of the lake an eagle was spotted perched on a cactus eating a serpent. They founded a village on this spot, which they named Tenochtitlan (place of the cactus) and the pilgrimage ...

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