flower wars

Examples of flower wars in the following topics:

• Aztec Religion

  • Huitzilopochtli – The “left-handed hummingbird” god was the god of war and the sun and also the founder of Tenochtitlan.
  • Mixcoatl – The “cloud serpent” god that was incorporated into Aztec belief and represented war.
  • Veneration of Huitzilopochtli, the personification of the sun and of war, was central to the religious, social, and political practices of the Mexica people.
  • Many times players of the game were captured during the famous Aztec flower wars with neighboring rivals.
  • This depiction of the war and sun god shows him in all of his warrior and ritual garb.

• The Aztec People

  • One component of this reform was the institution of ritual war (the flower wars) as a way to have trained warriors, and the necessity of constant sacrifices to keep the Sun moving.

• The Pax Romana

  • By binding together these leading magnates into a single title, he eliminated the prospect of civil war.
  • The Pax Romana was not immediate, despite the end of the civil war because fighting continued in Hispania and in the Alps.
  • Despite continuous wars of imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Roman world was largely free from large scale conflict for more than two centuries.
  • The Romans regarded peace not as an absence of war, but the rare situation that existed when all opponents had been beaten down and lost the ability to resist.
  • Beneath the women rests a bull and lamb, both sacrificial animals, and flowering plants fill the empty space.

• The Opium Wars

• Total War

• The Russian Civil War

• The Propaganda War

• The Korean War

• The Bush War

• The Six-Day War