Aztecs

They wanted to collect a tribute so that they can get protected

The aztecs honor the gods by sacrificing people. Like killing them just to honor the gods. They honor many different kinds of gods, but each in a different way. Hoped that helped you! Also, if you are wondering about Mayans, then blood are their gift to the gods.

NO! The Aztecs were a sacrificial nation. They'd sacrifice humans (sometimes as a punishment or volunteerment) then get their skulls and decorate their temples to honor the gods with the skulls. They never ate people.

The Aztec were a highly advanced American civilization that existed before the Europeans discovered the Americas. They were adept stargazers and had an organized society with multiple trade-routes and a large economy.

The Aztecs used cocoa beans as their cuurancy because they were very valuable at that time

The Aztec calendar is typical of pre-Columbian, Meso-American societies, containing a solar calendar of 365 days and a ritual calendar of 260 days. These calendars are depicted on an ancient rock glyph called the sun stone. Every 52 solar years, the calendars realign, marking the beginning of a new century.

It is well known that the Aztec people sacrificed human beings at many ceremonies, but that is not all that they did. The Aztecs had two ways that they sacrificed to the gods, in one they would offer the hearts of humans and the blood of animals to the gods, in the other way they would place high amounts of pain upon their bodies which bled for the gods. It makes sense that they could not offer large numbers of humans' everyday for sacrifice, or else they would run out of people too quickly. So instead, the Aztecs would offer some of their blood to the gods without dying themselves.

There were many ways that they offered themselves to the gods. For instance, Penance- letting their own blood, self-mutilation, piercing their own tongues with spiney strings- was another way of gaining favor from the gods (Booth 1966). They thought that the more pain that they went through the more the gods would be pleased with them. This thought was not new to the Mexican basin area. It was in fact a big trend with the people, Auto sacrifice, the extraction of blood from different parts of one's own body (tongue, penis, ears, legs) with various cutting instruments (awls of bone or obsidian, maguey thorns, was wide spread throughout Mesoamerica beginning in Preclassic times (Solis 2004).

It was natural for all people to perform auto sacrifice, but it was not a daily occurrence for most people, all people engaged in autosacrifce at some point in their lives, usually to petition the gods for agricultural or human fertility (Smith 1996). In contrast to the common people though, the most devout practitioners (priests, for the most part) would pierce their flesh and then pull hollow straws or reeds through the hole. Priests engaged in autosacrifice nightly (Smith 1996). The priests were naturally the closest to understanding the desires of the gods and therefore performed these rituals upon themselves daily so that the gods would get the blood they demanded. This ritual was based on their prehistory, The god Quetzalcoatl performed the first act of autosacrifice when he bled himself to give life to the bones of the ancients (Smith 1996). It all goes back to the fact that the Aztec rituals were meant to repeat the past.

It is the same way with the Christian faith and the whole eating the wafer and drinking the wine, plus the praying a penance thing that they do is similar to what the Aztecs strove to do. The way they went about practicing their beliefs is slightly more extreme than some other religions, but has the same principal ideas. The most common act of auto sacrifice was to pierce one's earlobes or upper ear with pointed maguey thorns. Sometimes other parts of the body were pierced, including the tongue, thigh, upper arm, chest, and genitals (Smith 1996). The maguey plant had many uses that the Aztec people took advantage of; some things were more pleasant than others. By piercing their bodies with the spines they could feel connected to the gods without having to stab a knife into their chest. Although some were obviously such devout followers that they would do more than the required auto sacrifice, and end up killing themselves. Furthermore, while auto sacrifice represented a "partial" death, a person could also die symbolically through sacrificing a victim who was believed to be an "image" (ixiptla) both of him-or herself and of a particular god (Solis 2004). In addition, although autosacrifice was an important and prevalent ritual, it was only a substitute for the more powerful human sacrifice (Smith 1996).

As the Aztec ruler Montezuma II insilled resentment into his Aztec people, many Aztecs began to predict terrible things were about to happan. They saw bad omens in many everyday occurances, such as lightning, large clouds, and eclipses. The worst though, was the arrival of the spanish, who fit the image of Quetzalcoatl, a god who promised to return to them. With their fair skn, and white beards, they fit the image of Quetzalcoatl. The spanish, who were treated as gods, ended up enslaving many Aztecs, forcing them to mine for gold, and silver, killing many who resisted, and essentially destroying their culture.

He encouraged the Aztecs to look for their homeland.

no, Tlaloc was the rain god and the gods lived in Tlalocan, where all the drowned shall live.

A.#1. The Aztec people mistook Cotes' arrival as the return of their god Quetzalcoatl, who was said to have left on a raft of woven snakes, who is described to be of fair skin and wore a beard unlike his people. Strangely similar to the Spanish who arrived on a huge "raft" or ship, wore beards,shiny armor, and rode horses. A.#2.After the war the Aztecs had no chance of also surviving biological warfare.The small pox the Spanish left behind finished off 80% of the population during the next ten years.

We can speculate all we want but, in actuality no one really knows where the Aztec people come from. Legend says that they emerged from seven caves,and embarked in their journey to "Aztlan." This mystical voyage to find their sacred land took them nearly two hundred years. They finally settled in the valley of Mexico.

Type your answer here... Poor Aztec families sold their children in order to get some money

Montazuma

So they could take all the wealth from Mexico and bring it back to Spain. A reason the invasion happened was because the Spanish, after getting the Moors out of Iberia, had no where else to send it's elite army and all the other countries would have been hard to conquer.

Culo!

The Aztecs had this belief.

Quetzalcoatl is a GOD, he can change his gender if he feels like. Gods are usually talked about in the masculine since because we do not know their true nature, only the name we give them and what they've done.

They prayed in temples that had alot of stairs.

Not mattering where the land was or who inhabited the land, he along with Spain were after riches specifically gold. Their land was rich in gold and this attracted him to it.

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The Aztec rulers were known as the Mexica

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At first, the Aztecs thought that the Spaniards were gods because of their shiny armors and their weapons. When the Spaniards conquered them and onward, however, they feared them.