The second one: For thousands of years all over the world, people had enslaved other people for variety of reasons.
When you think of the Aztec, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of the Spanish conquistadors or their beautiful capital at Tenochtitlan. What comes to mind for a lot of people is their practice of human sacrifice. In class, we learned a lot about the civilizations of the Maya and the Inca but not much about the Maya. Chapter 13 of the assigned readings talks about the Aztec and how they came to power and their collapse. One paragraph in the chapter, although morbid and disturbing, caught my attention. “The victim was stretched out over the sacrificial stone. In seconds, a priest with an obsidian knife broke open his chest and ripped out his still beating heart, dashing it against the sacrificial stone.” These sentences refer to the ritual of human sacrificed practiced by the Aztec priests
has a system of taxation.
Every nation that is sovereign has a system of taxation, they do differ from one country to another, but is something that is a must so that the country can function properly. The country is not obliged to be part of the United Nations, but is very useful if it is. It also doesn't mean that it has to obey another country, if that was the case, than there's no need or point of being sovereign. Most of the countries have outside influences, mainly from the world superpowers like USA, Russia, China, or regional powerful countries.
