Aztec Monumental Architecture
Aztec pyramid
Since one of the Aztecs advanced technologies was stone carving, they could build beautiful pyramids. Aztec pyramids were step pyramids with temples at the top. These temples were used to worship the Aztec gods. Usually, the Aztecs more important gods got their own temple where as the less important gods shared a temple. One way the Aztec would worship their gods is that they would cut out a prisoners heart and then throw their body from the pyramid. When the Spanish first saw Tenochtitlan (the Aztecs main city), they noticed how clean it was. The only thing that stood out to them was the blood streaked pyramids. In the Spaniards eyes, they were stopping a great evil when they conquered the Aztec and made it so there would be no more human sacrifice. Who knows, maybe if the Aztec had cleaned their pyramids, the Spanish wouldn't have seen them as such a brutally violent civilization which would have caused the Spanish not have felt the need to conquer the Aztec to stop them from these unrighteous sacrifices.