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Every city or town that refused surrender and resisted the Mongols was subject to destruction.

In Termez, on the Oxus: " all the people, both men and women, were driven out onto the plain, and divided in accordance with their usual custom, then they were all slain ".

The Aztecs were constantly at war with neighbouring tribes and groups.

The goal of this constant warfare was to collect live prisoners for sacrifice.