Editing Aztec warfare (section)

=== Women's roles ===
Women did not directly participate in on-field warfare. Women in Aztec society were only allowed to interact in rituals before or after warfare, such as human sacrifices and mock battles during festivals.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kellogg |first=Susan |date=1995 |title=The Woman's Room: Some Aspects of Gender Relations in Tenochtitlan in the Late Pre-Hispanic Period |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/483143?seq=1 |journal=Ethnohistory |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=563–576 |doi=10.2307/483143 |issn=0014-1801|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Instead, women's warfare was understood as occurring in childbirth. The mother had to capture the baby, and if successful, she would be praised as if she were a warrior. If the mother died during childbirth, she would go to the warrior's afterlife. Overall, women stayed off the battlefield and held distinct roles within the household.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pennock |first=Caroline Dodds |date=2023-01-01 |title=A warlike culture? Religion and war in the Aztec world |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02757206.2022.2060215?needAccess=true |journal=History and Anthropology |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=99–122 |doi=10.1080/02757206.2022.2060215 |issn=0275-7206}}</ref>