Aztecs

The Aztec built their city around 1325 AD

The Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was founded by the Mexica people, who later became known as the Aztecs. According to legend, they established the city in 1325 after seeing an eagle perched on a cactus, eating a snake, which was interpreted as a divine sign. Tenochtitlan was built on an island in Lake Texcoco and grew to become a major cultural and political center in Mesoamerica.

how was the social structure of th aztec empire similar to the social structure of latin america under european colonialism

it was built in the early 1300's about 700 years ago

he destroyed his city and killed moctezuma

Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, featured several temples, with the most prominent being the Templo Mayor. This central temple complex had two main shrines dedicated to the gods Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc. While the exact number of temples in Tenochtitlan can vary based on definitions and archaeological findings, it is estimated that there were numerous smaller temples and shrines throughout the city, alongside the major ones. Overall, Tenochtitlan was a hub of religious activity with a significant number of temples dedicated to various deities.

March 13, 1325.

they bite a snake

Tenochtitlán, in the central valley of Mexico.

Herna'ndo Cort'es was the Spanish conquistador who came to what is now Mexico in 1519. By defeating the Aztec Empire, there was no resistance to Spanish power in that area. He sent whatever gold and other precious minerals back to Spain. He built what is now Mexico City over the ruins of what had been the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan.

the chinapas were built by the edges of a stream or lake. They were useful because they were the main source of crop production. But the also use dother gardens but not usually ... this was therir main garden that the aztec used .... i cant give you an exact answer im just smart. :)

To beat them and exact tribute. They also waged war so that their warriors would not get rusty. You may also hear of prearranged "flowery wars." However, there is a great misconception about what the "flowery wars" really were. The sources only speak of these wars to differentiate them from wars of conquest. Some have said that they were an institution that was set up to obtain sacrificial victims. This claim however is unsubstantiated in the sources at least to the extent to which it has been conceptualized. First of all, the "flowery wars" have been made to sound as if the Mexica and their opponents prearranged the wars. This is not substantiated and it isn't logical that two opposing armies that knew the outcome of such a struggle would participate willingly, and in fact the armies that participated in these wars seldom saw the battles as a game, but rather as a very serious struggle. Also, in the sources, when "flowery war" is described, often prisoners are returned and exchanged and the sacrificees are people other than the warriors. This does not mean that sacrifice was not important and that captives weren't sacrificed after a struggle. However, we must use logic and realize that if all the Mexica warriors were busy trying to capture sacrificial victims, they would have been a considerably ineffective army which they most decidedly were not (except against the Purepecha and the Tlaxcala).

Although the Aztecs had more people, Hernan Cortez had better weapons. Smallpox killed many natives and Cortez used other rival tribes to defeat the Aztecs

they would attack their food crops

It was the Spaniards under Hernando Cortes who conquered the Aztecs. The Aztecs surrendered to the Spanish in 1521. People who survived the invasion either went to slavery or were killed by European diseases like smallpox.

The Aztecs had beliefs but not storytelling.

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It was in central Mexico.

I think the aztec fell sad because they mad them gain land and riches

Aztec mythology frequently features deities who are symbolic representations of one another. When it is suggested that Tezcatlipoca "became" Mixcoatl to invent fire, the real message is that Tezcatlipoca, as one of the most powerful gods in the pantheon, needed to borrow the auspices or powers of a different god in order to do so since fire was outside his normal milieu. It's not that Tezcatlipoca and Mixcoatl are the same person as much as it's that Aztec myths are fluid about allowing the one to stand in for the other as necessary.

And by the same token, Tezcatlipoca being Quetzalcoatl's brother may not be meant to be taken literally, either. The two gods were in many ways polar opposites representing very different concepts and ideas; viewing them as twins might be a result of the fact that the things they represented were sort of twinned, like calling darkness and light or life and death twins.

Keep in mind also that the Aztec empire was by no means operating under a unified religion that was the same in all areas. It was a collection of different city states and ethnic groups united under Mexica rulership, and therefore the myths are different from area to area. Mixcoatl, in particular, went through a lot of different forms and versions as he was originally a major patron god of some of the local ethnic groups that were conquered by the Aztecs and only later became less important.

Basically, Aztec mythology is not simply linear like Greco-Roman or Celtic myth, so what look like contradictions are often just different ways of looking at the same gods and ideas.

In Aztec and Chinese societies, a tribute was required from conquered land to trade with foreign places

Hernan Cortes

La Llorona (The weeping woman) did not die -she lives on in folklore as the ghostly figure of Maria who died trying to rescue her two children from the river she had pushed them into.

he felt good because he had he wanted to grt payback

maximillion i believe