South American Religion
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The people who lived in South America before 1500 were polytheistic - they believed in many different gods. Because they lived pretty near one another, some of their gods were pretty much the same, but other gods were different from culture to culture. All of the Latin American and South American religious traditions involved animal sacrifice, and in some cases also human sacrifice. You can read separately about the Olmec religion, the Maya religion, the Aztec religion, and the Inca religion.
To find out more about South American religion before 1500, check out these books from Amazon.com or from your library:
Ancient Rome (Eyewitness Books), by Simon James (2004). For kids.
Handbook of Mediterranean Roman Pottery, by John W. Hayes (1997). Hayes has been the leading expert on Roman pottery for the last several decades.
Roman Pottery, by Kevin Greene (1992). Greene is another pottery expert, particularly interested in what pottery can tell us about the Roman Economy.
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South America after 1500 AD
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1500 AD
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1500 AD
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