Aztecs

the ancient mayans did not build the pyramids ancient egypt did

There will be nothing Inside an Aztec temple. It will be a vaulted empty chamber made with stone blocks.

Before the spanish came there used to be one or more statues of Gods, HuitziLopochtli (God of War) or Tlaloc(God of Rain),etc.

There might be some blood stain on the wall and floor which you can detect with a camcorder.

Some chamber like the one in Chichen Itza even has a big snake and some human skeletons plus some treasure in it.

I wouldn't call it "trading" when 600 men come into a society and invade it. The Spanish did give the Aztecs old world diseases and took the treasures they could find from them.

Many sources give four empires - Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire, the Russian Empire and the German Empire. This is somewhat misleading as far as the last two are concerned. Germany lost its overseas colonies and its Kaiser, but remained the "Reich" and embarked on a new wave of expansion in the 1930s. Russia lost its Tsar and some territory in the west, but regained much of it in 1945. Its foreign policy of expansion didn't change when it became the Soviet Union. Joncey The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed with the end of World War 1. This Central European empire had existed since the 1400's, if I recall correctly, and spanned from Macedonia to Austria.

His part in history was to conquer the aztecs.Later in his life he given 20 young women.He gave all the women to his warriors but kept one for himself.Her name was La malinche.He baptized her and gave her the name of dona Marinna.

Montezuma read he aztec calendar said that there were going to be a god named It was predicted that the god would have "So they treated Cortes and his people as gods. Later on Cortes was treated as roalty. He was now friends with the king of the aztecs Montezuma. But Cortes held Montezuma captive so the aztecs would give him gold and jewelery. So montezuma went out to the crowd to calm them down but then got hit by a rock and died. So now Cortes was in trouble and had to get out. Only half of his men (including) himself made it out. Later on they went back and took over with more guys, guns, and other weapons. He new if he captured montezuma then he could get what ever he wanted. But his plan back fired. But he went back and conquerd the aztec empire

no one really knows, the answer is still unknown...but some possible reason are famines, natural disasters,ect.

xyco_fryx: Mayan are descendant of an ancient race of probably Lemurians ( as you can our dated history is only five thousand years ago, but others say it pre-dated back 30 thousand years ago). As you can see Lemurian were believe to travel by teleportation a long lost technology using only thr mind or psyche. I you can remember Enoch on the bible (Old Testament that Enoch did not die because he ascended to what you call heaven (other esoteric figure call it another plane of existance)). Mayans are not barbarian as other book says in fact they are more technologically advance than you think same through as the Egyptians. Actually the cold about life is you must ascend first before you die or you will repeat another cycle of life in this earth.

The Mayan civilization for one, has not dissapeared it is still alive and well, the temples were abandoned but the language the culture and the people are still alive and well thank you very mcuh, who knows if the USA can say the same in one hundred years, I doubt it very much

Why was Hernán Cortés interested in Mexico? Because he was interested in gold and silver.

Unfortunately for the Aztecs, they welcomed the Spanish with gifts made from just the precious metal that fired the conquering spirits of Cortés and his men. The gifts of gold motivated them to conquer the city of Tenochtitlan, from where the gold had come. The conquest came with the aid of Native tribes the Aztecs had conquered. The conquistadors melted down countless amazing Aztec cultural items from Montezuma's palace into bars of gold.

A good watch is: Engineering An Empire - The Aztecs (documentary you can find on youtube)

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The Aztecs never fully disappeared though their numbers were significantly decimated. Modern day Mexicans have Aztec blood and there are over a million speakers of Nahuatl, the ancient language of the Aztecs.

The Inca ("Inka") empire at its height controlled a great portion of the western coast of South America. What is today: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
The Inca Indians originated in the country of Peru.

Montezuma or MocTezuma was the 5th Aztec emperor. His father was the 2nd Aztec king. He was born in 1398 and died in 1469.His first name, pronounced [moteːkʷˈsoːma] in Classical Nahuatl, means "he frowns like a lord".

Montezuma was a ruler of the Aztec. The conquistadors Hernando Cortes captured Montezuma for about 2 months. The Aztec people said the Spanish killed them but the Spanish said it was the Aztec people who threw rocks and it hit his head and he died a couple of hours later. No one from this day knows who killed Montezuma. Moctezuma which is the correct name, was the eleventh Huey Tlatoani, he was a military and religious leader of te Mexicans, not aztecs, which is a wrong name, he invited the spanish to his palace, he was taken prisor in his own palace, and later died for unknown reasons.

The main was the sun god - Huitzilopochtli. All the gods were important to the Aztecs but the sun god was the most powerful.

The Spanish enslaved the Indians and threatened them with death if they did not convert to Christianity. The Indians converted for self preservation.

Disastrous- the Aztec and Inca peoples were first colonised by the Spanish, the first expeditionary force being led by conquistadore Herman Cortes. The Aztecs were astonished by the Westerners, their ships and their guns- even by their cavalry, as they themselves never used horses for riding and thought that a horseman was half-man, half beast! The Aztec King Montezuma believed Cortes to be the incarnation of their god Quetzaloatl, whom his astrologers and priests had foretold would arrive from the East, 'dark-skinned and in a strange vehicle'.

Montezuma and the Aztec race thus worshipped the Spaniards as living deities, affording them every hospitality and showering them with rich gifts. Cortes returned to Spain laden with Aztec gold, but once the Spanish Government realised what wealth there was to be had from the Inca lands, they sent large military taskforces to overrun and conquer the people. The poor Aztecs couldn't believe that their former friends and heroes were turning against them- often being too astonished to retaliate, they were slaughtered in their thousands. Others fought back bravely, but their spears and archers were no match for the Spanish cannon and matchlocks, and many Aztec and Inca tribes were all but annihilated (even when using captured Spanish guns). Others fled Northwards to re-settle in Southern Mexico, where for a while they were unmolested, but as the Americas became colonised in the following decades many interbred with South American Spanish, until in the end their gene pool was very diluted and the pure Aztec race was all but gone.

Some Latin American tribes are able to claim more direct descent from the aztecs than other South American peoples, most especially those from the Central nations of Peru and Bolivia.

The Aztec's had two classes: the nobles and the commoners. The highest of the nobles was the emporer, followed by the priest, then the king. The commoner order went like this: merchants, master craftspeople, wariors, farmers, and lastly, slaves.

Tenochtitlan was build most likely built on a lake for protection. Because it had very narrow access bridges, it prevented the city from being attacked in mass because large groups of soldiers could not get in a single time. Not only that, but the mud from the lake bed was used as a fertilizer in their floating gardens, called Chinampas, which meant that the Aztecs could supply their own food even under a time a siege. Because the crops were also located on the water, it made it hard for enemies to damage them.

The Aztecs believed in a polytheistic religion, that is a religion that has many gods. They strongly believed that human or animal sacrifices would keep the gods happy and when they believed the gods were mad at them, could sacrifice up to 10,000 people at a time to keep them happy.

Tenochtitlin is a valley surrounded byb high mountains except on its northern side. The climate is cool, so the Aztecs had only one crop growing season.

196 years =)

The Women were responsibal for keeping the house clean, the men were the workers and the children didnt have a role

Because the Aztecs believed that the gods told them to find an eagle sitting on a cactus, growing off a rock, and eating an insect of some kind. When they found it they started building there.

Aztec Priests wore black-hooded cloaks,black robes and painted their faces and bodies and sacrifice people

Hernan Cortes.