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[-] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

not an expert but [citation needed] on the "within-group violence" statement. From what I remember they quite often sacrificed captured slaves from other nations and ethnicities.

[-] nednobbins@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I don't have any numbers on it but it's often both. Sacrifice, as a religious practice, has a lot of variation.

But I'm not aware of any serious claims that ritual sacrifice has anything to do with genocide.

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