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Just like all of the books we have read so far the book main focus is “primarily on the first generation or two of pos-conquest history, we have not analyzed the additional impact of Africans and Mestizos”(xliii). I like that it explains what its main focus is. Although, I would love to read a book that explains the lives of Africans and Mestizos after the conquest. It would be pretty interesting to read a book about them. I think Stern does a good job introducing the book and show how he will be attacking each topic. I think where he explains the part about the Mayans and the priest it was similar to the book we just finished, although to stern he believes that the rituals, human sacrifice did happen. It made me think of the assignment we have to do in class and how Mayans probably did commit human sacrifice. Some disagree or say it was not sacrifice, but they kept doing rituals. Also, just like the Aztecs or the Mayans the Andeans had relationships with their Gods. The difference is the role the priest played because they “offered and controlled essential management serviced needed by households or ayllus”(17).