The Mayan also attacked killing and injuring some Aztec. Huts were burned with families still in them. The Mayans stood strong to protect their village, but the large group of Aztecs conquered the village and took them as slaves. The Aztecs always wanted to appease the gods through sacrificing humans. They believed extracting the hearts and chopping the victims head would renew the world.
Japanese soldiers would force one group of Chinese captives to dig a grave, a second group to bury the first, and then a third group to bury the second and so on. Some victims were partially buried to their chests or necks so that so that they would endure further agony, such as being hacked to pieces by swords or run over by horses and tanks. Mass incineration was a favorite kind of torture for Japanese soldiers. A Japanese soldier would bind Chinese captives together and pushed them into a pit where they were soaked with gasoline and burnt alive. An American woman, Minnie Vautrin, who kept a diary which has been likened to that of Anne Frank wrote: "How many thousands were mowed down by guns or bayoneted we shall probably never know.
They sought the regard of their gods by offering up human sacrifices. The chosen sacrifices, often captives conquered in battle, would have their hearts cut out of their chests while they were still alive. Records show that over 5,000 people were ritually killed to celebrate the crowning of one certain Aztec chieftain. Hernan Cortes heard of unrest within the Aztec empire among the peoples who were demanded as tribute, and also heard of tales of wealth and gold within the empire, and proceeded to approach the Aztecs. Cortes was at first approached by ambassadors from the Aztec chieftain Moctezuma, yet Cortes still proceeded with a hunger for wealth and power.
Europeans believed that Native Americans worship the devil because of the sacrifices and the great amount of skulls found in spiritual places. Which made Europeans thought that the Native American were soulless animals( Juan Gines De Sepulveda) but for others like Bartolome saw them as humans. They way Europeans and Native Americans settle matters were also a difference. While Europeans settle matters in the battle field by killing enemies. Natives would captured their enemy to either crucify or adopt them.
Mayan Gods were thought to give to the people and take away from people. They felt heaven was reserved for those who had been hanged, sacrificed for the Gods or died at childbirth. Everyone else went to xibal, which was ruled over by the Lords of Death. RESOURCES OF LAND – The Mayans were for the most part farmers. They grew maize, beans, squash, and sweet potatoes.
How it affected their people and some of the surrounding people and justification by the Spanish for war against the Aztecs. Secondly, what the Aztecs believed to be the return of the god Quetzalcoatl, the Spanish conquistador, Cortes and his Spanish army. Disease played a huge part in the fall. Small pox brought upon the Spanish spread quickly to the people and no cure for the disease was known therefore leading to many deaths. Lastly, the skillful tactics used by Hernan Cortes that leads to the surrender of the last Aztec emperor.
The bodies of deceased relatives were consumed out of extreme respect for their ancestors or for the soul to be reborn in the consumer (or endocannibalism) in some of these rituals. After battle, some tribes would consume the dead of their vanquished enemy. Headhunters wished to gain power by eating body parts of the person with the aforementioned power. As for civilized people, cannibalism became a last desperate effort for survival in certain dire situations. One of the more tragic stories of this was the Donner party.
Amphitheaters, from which these games took place, were designed and built to seat tens of thousands of blood thirsty spectators. Not only was the Amphitheaters used as a place for entertainment of such brutal games, it was also a place of social standing, politics, public punishment, martyrdom, and other recreational carnage activities. As for the gladiators themselves, an aura of religious sacrifice continued to hang about their combats. During these games countless men, animals, and even women, were slaughtered for mere entertainment. People cheered at the sight of limbs being torn by ravenous lions, the burning of a Christian at the stake, the slicing of another Gladiators throat, or whatever blood that was spilt in the Arena.
Although there seemed like no way out of death camps, a few rebellions took place in some famous death camps. The method of killing the prisoners in death camps was typically poison gas. (Wikipedia, 2008) Germans use the poison gas from a chemical company called BASF. The people who were too weak to work were sent to the gas chambers to be killed. (Judaism, 2008) The gas chambers had small windows for Nazis to watch the prisoners die.
It displays people being tortured for their sins that were displayed in the second panel. The bird like creature eating sinners and then disposing of them down a hole can be seen as a symbol as the loss of life. Around the hole in which the bird is disposing of the sinners is a man being force to puke up his food, a symbol for man taking advantage of the precious food god has provided them. There is also another body across from him defecating coins, a symbol of greed. In short this panel is full of people being punished for their earthly sins.