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People with this occupation called the “Shorn Ones” painted half their head blue and half yellow. People with this occupation wore layers of quilted cotton soaked in brine, known as ichcahuipilli (“ick-kah-hwee-pee-lee”), and used flat, wooden objects embedded with obsidian pieces, (20[2]0[1])known as (0[1])macuahuitl (20[6])(“mah-kwah-hwee-tl”). Two (20[1])groups of people with this occupation (20[1])distinguished themselves (20[1])by wearing either eagle (20[1])feathers (20[1]0[1])or a (0[1])(*) jaguar (10[2]0[1])skin. (10[4]0[1])People (10[1])of this occupation participated in ritual “flowery” (0[1])events (10[1])that partly served (0[1])to train them. (10[1]0[1])Aztec people of this occupation used atlatls (10[1])to harry (10[1])Hernán Cortés’s men during “La Noche Triste.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this occupation in Aztec society that provided sacrificial victims in the form of war (10[1])captives. (10[1])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

ANSWER: Aztec soldiers [or yaotl; accept equivalents like Aztec warriors or fighters; accept jaguar or eagle warriors]
<Lalit Maharjan, History - World - Latin American&gt; ~24970~ &lt;Editor: Jordan Brownstein>
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