The Aztec lifestyle had changed drastically due to the significant rise in aztec slavery, which affected the social status, and changed their religion for the worse. The Aztec population was a very vast, well educated group of people who weren't custom to change. The large group was always very hostile when it came to battle, and would usually succeed and come out victorious because of the demand for blood shed for their gods. The Aztec people, a proud group, had been unwillingly crushed by the spanish warriors. Loosing their ways of life such as their right to religion, freedom and social status. The battle had left the aztecs feeling lost and abandoned by their gods, even after all the sacrifice they had brought to them. Due to the hostile battle between the spanish soldiers and Aztec warriors, their freedom was quickly being taken away, thus introducing slavery to the aztec people.
Before the conquest the plentiful group was free of the forever sentence of imprisonment by manual labour. The Aztecs, even if put into slavery, had
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Prior to the conquest the Aztecs had a very fair and flexible social class system. The lower classes had the chance to move up in statuses and gain wealth, they still had order in their large city, but their hierarchy gave everyone a chance to raise their ways of life. In most parts of the world at this time the lower classes had little to no rights to protect them, but the Aztecs had laws that would protect everyone involved in the social classes as well as let everyone lead a free lifestyle. Once the Spanish had taken over each person with Aztec heritage was put into the lowest class and made slaves to Spanish superiors. The Spanish stripped them of land, income, and had no chance of gaining freedom or a larger social status. The Aztecs were no longer able to grow because of the Spanish refusing them their own ways of