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Aztecs
The Aztecs were active in Mexico from the 14th through 16th centuries. They are most famous for their practice of human sacrifice.
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How did the Aztecs get the gold?
There are theories that state the Aztecs lived in areas where quality gold was found. It is believed they accumulated gold from the mineral deposits.
An explorer who fought and subdued the Aztecs?
In 1521, Hernando Cortez fought and subdued the Aztecs.
What did the Aztec poor people wear?
Poor Aztecs wore old fibre clothing. As the could noot afford to buy clean and proper fibre clothings
He was the Aztec god of rain/hail and lightning. His name meant "He who makes things sprout". He was a malicious god. He isn't really real!!!!!!!!!!
What are some facts about the aztecs?
Here are some facts about the Aztecs:
- Aztecs believed that blood was a special god water! Blood was the 'precious water' that the Gods needed to be fed, as a reminder of the sacrifice they made for all of Mankind.
- Women were only allowed to be priests if they didn't get married.
- Each Aztec home had a steam bath.
- Montezuma II's headdress was made from the feathers of over 250 birds.
- When the Aztec warriors had run out of food, they ate their dead enemies. Aztec warriors never ate dead comrades, but dead enemies were a different matter, though.
- The Aztecs buried a dead family member inside their house. Strangely enough, they were buried under their own house! This was a custom that the Aztec adopted from the Maya.
- The punishment for a poor person caught wearing clothes that only the rich were allowed to wear was to have their house demolished.
- Poor Aztec families sometimes sold their children in order to get some money. The children had to be fit and healthy to be sold though since they were expected do to a lot of hard work!
- It was against the law to be drunk in public unless you were over 70.
- It is said that the major Aztec weapon could chop off the head of a horse with one blow!
- During the symbolic sacrificing of a young child (by means of drowning), if the child cried, Aztecs believed the land would have rain.
- They made calendars and a counting system.
- They used lots of different weapons, such as the war club.
- The Aztecs were a fierce warrior nation, but they had a special love for flowers and feathers.
- At the height of its power, the Aztec Empire was organized and strong, but ruled with fear.
Aztecs were believed to be of about 5'8" on average and where taller than most native american peoples and spanish as well
How many days are in an Aztec week?
The Aztec have 13 days in their week, just like the Maya. They are numbers from 1 thru 13. The Spanish called it a Trecena (means 13). It is not called a week because a week means 7, just like 10 days is a decade. The Aztecs also have 20 day names which always match a cycle in the 360-day Mayan Long Count, like 18 months that each contain 20 days and so are always the same day names (because the 5 days are not added to make 365 days). The 18 cycles of these 20 day names will always fall on the same month and day in this 360-day cycle.
the Aztec calendar can be found anywhere, but it originated in Central Mexico where the Aztecs settled.
How did clothing reflect a person's social class in the Aztec empire?
It showed how high class they were
What was the Aztec way of life?
We know something about how Aztecs lived from ruins of buildings, and remains of pottery, jewelery, and other artifacts which have been found. Archaeologists are people who piece together history from this sort of evidence. Often evidence is buried deep under the ground.
Most Aztecs were farmers. They lived in mud-brick houses near the Chinampas- strips of land they had reclaimed from the swamps. This was done by building up layers of mud and water plants, to keep out the water. They also hunted and fished for food.
They wove rafts out of branches, piled reeds on top of these and covered them with mud from the bottom of the lake. This made up their farm land.Aztec farmers grew all sorts of vegetables and fruit on their swampy land. They also hunted waterfowl and fished.
Ordinary people had very little. Farmers used wooden sticks for gardening and knives for hunting and harvesting. People made their own clothes. They dyed cloth to make the clothes, or sell at the local market. they slept on rush mats and cooked on a clay disc on three stones over a fire and stored food in clay pots.
Who would win the war between Mayans Incas and Aztecs?
The Aztecs would win because they were more militaristic.
The Aztec people/tribe were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in Mesoamerican chronolgy. They travelled all over before they saw the symbol of an egale perched on a nobel cactus holding a rattle snake which they thought was a sign from there god which meant to stay. This place that the stayed in is now known as Mexico city.
What led most directly to the fall of the Aztec empire?
The arrival of Cortés
The death of Moctezuma II <-----(apex)
What led to the downfall of both the Inca empire and the Aztec empire?
Well for both, technological inferiority and smallpox (more on the smallpox part). And also for the Aztecs, the participation of thousands of people whom they oppressed on the spanish side of the siege of tenochtitlan. For the Incas, the striking similarity of Pizarro looking like Quetzcoatl, thus explaining an initial hesitancy to fight, allowing the Spanish a surprise attack that captured their King.
