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The speaker says the Inca did not have an ingrained culture of mass human sacrifice.

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“The Inca would very occasionally take a virgin sacrifice into the high mountains where she'd be drugged and you can still find the mummified corpses of these girls but that was very rare and very specific. There was no ingrained culture of mass human sacrifice at all.”
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