Salvation
Honor
They could die with the assurance that their soul would go to heaven because they had fought for God and their religion.
Warriors could enrich themselves by stealing and plundering their enemies.
Huitzilopochtli, father of the great Tenochtitlan.
Spain warrior of the Holy War
Warriors could be rewarded for their exploits with titles of nobility as well as land on which peasants lived whom they made to work.