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Who made the Aztec pyramids?
The Aztec pyramids were built by the Aztecs, a Mesoamerican civilization that existed in present-day Mexico. They were constructed using manual labor and were used for religious and ceremonial purposes. The most famous Aztec pyramid is the Templo Mayor in the capital city of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City).
Who ruled Mexico in 1150?
By 1150 AD Mexico had several Mesoamerican civilizations ruled by different kings. Some examples of these societies include the Mayans, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Toltecs, Huastecs, Totonacs, and Chichimecs.
Who were ancient Mexican peoples?
Aztec and Maya were the most important civilizations found in Mexico. There were, however, many smaller civilizations and tribes: Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Otomies and Totonacs, to name a few (up to 65 different ethnic groups and tribes).
Which native American civilizations helped conquer the Aztecs?
The Aztec Empire had made many enemies among the neighbouring tribes, some of whom had been subjugated by them but still bore resentment towards the Aztecs. The Spaniards were very quick to ally themselves to these enemies of the Aztecs, since the one thing they lacked was numbers. The main tribes who sided with the Spanish were the Totonacs (theoretically conquered by the Aztecs) and Tlaxcallans, against whom the Aztecs had long been waging a war of annihilation. Other warriors came from Cholula and Huextzingo.
Who was the king of the Aztecs when the pyramid of the sun and the moon was built?
Historians calculate that the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan was begun around 100 AD and completed around 200 AD, with the Pyramid of the Moon being completed around 50 years later. The Aztecs did not emerge as a major tribe in the area until 1325 AD so they had no connection with the building of either pyramid, although it was Aztec merchants and travellers who saw the pyramids and gave them the names we know today - we do not know the original names. The people responsible for the construction are usually referred to as Teotihuacanos (people of Teotihuacan); the later Toltecs claimed to be their descendants but such a relationship is unclear. It is not even known whether the Teotihuacanos were ethnic Nahuas, Totonacs, Otomi or a mixture of these. There are many unanswered questions about this mysterious group, whose widespread civilization and influence had disappeared by the 8th century, long before the time of the Aztecs.
What is Hernan Cortes's controbution?
Contribution? The Man Was a Thief and he played the native Americans against each other with false promises, his men raped the women, brought disease, devastated their crops and demoralized Mexican-Indians, he, arrived on the east coast of Mexico near the present day site of Veracruz. As his small force made its way westward from the Gulf coast, Cortés started meeting with the leaders of the various Indian tribes they found along the way. Soon he would begin to understand the complex relationship between the Aztec masters and their subject tribes. Human sacrifice played an integral role in the culture of the Aztecs. However, the Aztecs rarely sacrificed their own. In their search for sacrificial victims to pacify their gods, the Aztecs extracted men and women from their subject tribes as tribute. Cortés, understanding the fear and hatred that many of the Indian tribes held for their Aztec rulers, started to build alliances with some of the tribes. Eventually, he would align himself with the Totonacs, the Tlaxcalans, the Otomí, and Cholulans. Finally, on November 8, 1519, when Cortés arrived in Tenochtitlán (the Aztec capital), he was accompanied by an army of at least 6,000. He was after Michaocan to conquer the Perhepecha Indians- who were more feared than the aztects and always won in there battles. The Perhhepecha Indians were very prosperous and had much gold and silver.
Did the Aztecs raise their own crops?
Pre-Columbian Aztec society was a highly complex and stratified society that developed among the Aztecs of central Mexico in the centuries prior to the Spanish conquest of Mexico, and which was built on the cultural foundations of the larger region of Mesoamerica. Politically , the society was based around the independent city-state, called an altepeti, composed of smaller divisions (calpulli), which were again usually composed of one or more extended kinship groups. Socially , the society depended on a rather strict division between nobles and free commoners, both of which were themselves divided into elaborate hierarchies of social status, responsibilities, and power. Economically the society was dependent on agriculture, and also to a large extent on warfare. Other economically important factors were commerce, long distance and local, and high degree of trade specialisation. if you dont know about mesoamerica i am about to tell you people what it is or what it means. Mesoamerica. in the middle of the first millennium CE, the first waves of tribes speaking the forefather language of the Nahuan languages migrated south into Mesoamerica. they were nomadic hunter-gatherers and arrived in a region that was already populated by complex societies at a highly advanced technological level.Under the influence of classic Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Teotihuacanos, the Maya, the Totonacs and the Huastecs the proto-Aztecs became sedentary agriculturalists and achieved the same levels of technology as their neighbouring peoples.They held on to thier langage, many of thier religous systems, and probably aspects of thier previous social customs.Resultingly the foundations of "Aztec society" were developed as a synthesis between Mesoamerican societies and Aztec traditions, although today it cannot easily be discerned which parts come from where.Aztec society was not isolated from the larger Mesoamerican context, and in fact, most aspects of it were similar in structure to what existed in the surrounding societies.
How did the spanish conquest start?
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was one of the most significant events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The campaign began in February 1519, and was declared victorious on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Moctezuma was convinced that Cortés was a god, as the Spanish brought horses and guns, which the Aztecs had never seen before. During the campaign, Cortés was offered support from a number of tributaries and rivals of the Aztecs, including the Totonacs, and the Tlaxcaltecas. In their advance, the allies were tricked and ambushed several times by the peoples they encountered. After eight months of battles and negotiations, which overcame the diplomatic resistance of the Aztec Emperor.On 8 November 1519 after the fall of Cholula, Cortés and his forces arrived at the outskirts of Tenochtitlan, the island capital of the Mexica-Aztecs. It is believed that the city was one of the largest in the world at that time Of all the cities in Europe, only Constantinople was larger than Tenochtitlan. The most common estimates put the population at around 60,000 to over 300,000 people. The largest city in Spain, for example was Seville, which had a population of only 30,000.When Cortés returned to Tenochtitlan in late May, he found that Alvarado and his men had attacked and killed many of the Aztec nobility (see The Massacre in the Main Temple) during a religious festival. Alvarado's explanation to Cortés was that the Spaniards had learned that the Aztecs planned to attack the Spanish garrison in the city once the festival was complete, so he had launched a preemptive attack. Considerable doubt has been cast by different commentators on this explanation, which may have been self-serving rationalization on the part of Alvarado, who may have attacked out of fear (or greed) where no immediate threat existed. In any event, the population of the city rose en masse after the Spanish attack. Fierce fighting ensued, and the Aztec troops besieged the palace housing the Spaniards and Moctezuma. At one point, Moctezuma was able to arrange something of a truce, but sporatic fighting was continuing when Cortés and his new army returned from the coast.While the Flower Wars had started as a mutual agreement, the Tlaxcala and the Aztecs had now become entangled in a true war, a battle to the end. The Aztecs had conquered almost all the territories around Tlaxcala, closing off all commerce with them. The Tlaxcalteca knew that the Aztecs would try to conquer Tlaxcala itself. Therefore, most of the Tlaxcalan leaders were receptive when Cortés, once his men had the chance to recuperate, proposed an joint campaign to conquer Tenochtitlan. Xicotencatl the Younger, however, opposed the idea, and instead connived with the Aztec ambassadors in an attempt to form a new alliance with the Mexicas, since the Tlaxcalans and the Aztecs shared the same language and religion.
