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Ritual Sacrifice is an advance in Age of Discovery, a scenario in Civilization III: Conquests.
Civilopedia entry[]
Mesoamerican rulers believed that ritual sacrifice helped them maintain a connection with the spirit world. They often sacrificed human beings to dedicate new temples or to celebrate important events. A typical method of human sacrifice was to lead a captured enemy soldier up the long steps of a temple to the top. The captive would then be laid out on a sacrificial altar. A priest would then thrust a knife into the victim’s chest, then reach in and rip out his heart.