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Religion and Empire
By:Geoffrey W. Conrad,Arthur A. Demarest
Published on 1984-08-31 by Cambridge University Press

Religion and Empire is an innovative and provocative study of the two largest states of the Precolumbian Americas, the Aztec and Inca Empires. By examining the causes of the formation and expansion of these two empires, the authors identify similar patterns and processes underlying their rise and decline. They demonstrate that in both examples among the critical elements in the transition from marginal people to imperial power to disintegrating society were changes in traditional religion, including the elaboration of Aztec human sacrifice and Inca worship of the corpses of their kings. The authors show that the complex interaction between such ideological shifts and political and economic factors generated the spectacular historical trajectories of these Pre-Colombian empires.

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Book which was published by Cambridge University Press since 1984-08-31 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780521318969 and ISBN 10 Code is 0521318963

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