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Each god in the Aztec pantheon represented and ruled an aspect of the natural world , such as the heavens , farming , rain , fertility , sacrifice , and combat . A ruling class of warrior nobles and priests performed ritual human sacrifice daily to sustain the sun on its long journey across the sky , to appease or feed the gods , and to stimulate agricultural production . The sacrificial ceremony included cutting open the chest of a criminal or captured warrior with an obsidian knife and removing the still-beating heart -LRB- Figure -RRB- . THE INCA In South America , the most highly developed and complex society was that of the Inca , whose name means `` lord '' or `` ruler '' in the Andean language called Quechua .
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