Historical Facts (Part II)

1. The Mayans also made sacrifices. The most common involved pulling a still-beating heart out of a victim’s chest.

2. Roman Emperor Gaius made his beloved horse a senator.

3. Ice age Britons used skulls of the dead as cups.

4. After Pope Gregory IX associated cats with devil worship, cats throughout Europe were exterminated in droves.

5. This sudden lack of cats led to the spread of disease because infected rats ran free. The most devastating of these diseases, the Bubonic Plague, killed 100 million people.

6. The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the gods. In 1487, at the dedication of the temple in Tenochtitlan, 20,000 people were put to death.

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