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    Flower Wars

    What Flower Wars means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.

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    Ritual battles fought specifically to take live prisoners for sacrifice to gods like Huitzilopochtli.
    OCR · World Depth Study: Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest, 1519–1535

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