Aztecs

you just look up the answer and it has to tell you how to read an aztec calendar but i think it is 2 separate calendars one with 360 days and one with 267 i think lol

1 - diseases give to the aztecs

2 - weapons + animals

3 - assistance from other Native American tribes

The Maya lived in Central America and South America

There is a common misconception that Cortes alone annihilated the Aztecs with superior weaponry and a false belief that he was "Quetzalcoatl reincarnated"; the truth is the Aztecs knew he was a man, but he made an alliance with the Tlaxcalan nation, who were bitter enemies of the Aztecs and provided more than 100,000 warriors to help Cortes during his conquest. Also, when contact was made, inadvertently someone from Cortes' crew started an epidemic of smallpox that utterly ravaged the Aztec homeland; it is stated that from a population of 20 million in 1518, after 1521 there were only 2 million people living in Mexico. After such event, the Spanish found relatively easy to mow down the remaining Aztec forces.

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The Aztecs established in the Valley of Mexico, near Lake Texcoco. They built their first temples in Tenochtitlan which was in the middle of lake Texcoco which is now modern day Mexico City. They were a warrior based culture, and continued to conquer and expand. At one point their empire spread throughout most of of Mexico. It is believed that they may have even gone as far north as what is now known as the southwestern United States.

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well the renaissance was point after the middle ages when people started to progress towards higher learning in a sense there were no specific warriors besides the typical 'knight'. Unless you count scholars, artists, inventors, and musicians. Which fought against the ignorance of the previous era and brought about the age of learning. So if you want to get down to it scholars combated against ignorance. Artist and Musicians combated against depravity and confinement. And inventors fought to create easier living conditions.

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complex architectural structures.

Chichen Itza was Mayan.

Approx. 3,000-5,000 BC. until about 1532 when they were conquered by the Spanish under Cortes.

Their capital city, Tenochtitlan, was located on an island in the middle of lake Texcoco, where modern-day Mexico City is. At its height, the Aztec "triple alliance" empire stretched from the Pacific shore to the Gulf coast, as far south as Xoconochco in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico.

The elaborate Aztec headdress was very much an important part of the culture. It was a symbol of the status of the person who was wearing it. The wearing of the head dresses was forbidden for common people and instructions about this were written into their laws and bylaws.

Important to who? The Aztecs probably would have thought your calendar was pretty unimportant. The Aztecs themselves considered their calendar extremely important, because it documented the cycles of the world and the powers of the gods.

Non-Aztecs consider the Aztec calendar important because it was very sophisticated and accurate for a non-modern society. Accurate in the sense that it kept good time, not in the sense that it made accurate "predictions".

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They Maya,Aztec, and Inca civilizations each developed complex architectural structures. Or at least the answer for the CST's

The Aztecs shields were made out of feathers and other fine materials. These shields also included precious metals like gold.

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Ancient Aztec government got its structure from units of society that existed long before the Aztec empire was founded. First, of course, was the family unit, as a basic structure of society. The government was built up from there. Let's take a look at how the government was formed...

The Calpulli

After the family, the basic unit of ancient Aztec government was the calpulli. Families didn't individually own land, the land was owned by a group of families, the calpulli. This structure of local government existed long before the Aztec empire. The leadership in the calpulli would be responsible for the basic needs of the group. They would set up the telpochalli, a school for common citizens (read more about the telpochcalli and other aspects of Aztec culture). They were also responsible to make sure taxes were collected from the group.

In the cities, calpullis became less family-related and more regional. As is the case today, city life brought many different individuals of different race and culture together.

Read more about the structure of the ancient Aztec government in Encarta.

Ancient Aztec government structure

Nobility and Councils

The nobility and priesthood had a lot of power in Aztec society. But although the nobility provided leadership, they weren't automatically put in government positions. In the cities, each calpulli would have a leader, and those leaders would form another council. It was the city councils that held a lot of power in the ancient Aztec government.

By the early-mid 1400s, three powerful city-states had formed the famous Triple Alliance in central Mexico. These cities were Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopan. These cities dominated central Mexico, and it was Tenochtitlán that came to dominate the empire.

Each council would have a kind of "executive council" within it. 4 members would be chosen who would lead, and out of those there would be one tlatcani - the leader of the city. These leaders would not only control the city proper but the surrounding area.

The Huey Tlatcani

In the leading city of Tenochtitlán, the city leaders led the empire. The city council has been compared to the Roman senate. The leader was known as the Huey Tlatcani, or Great Speaker. This was the emperor, who was worshipped as a god. His rule was supported not only by the city council, but also the priests, judges, governors, and a host of other officials. Moctezuma II is the famous Huey Tlatcani who ruled when Hernan Cortes arrived in the New World.

The Huey Tlatcani did have absolute power in a sense. However, he did come to power by a semi-democratic system, and he could be removed from power. How this position was decided upon is not fully understood - it doesn't seem to have been hereditary, but family lines did play some part.

The power of the empire

The ancient Aztec government did not rule an empire in the way we often think of the word. The control didn't stretch into every corner of life - rather, conquered lands were forced to pay tribute, but left a certain amount of freedom. Warriors made small attacks on surrounding peoples and took prisoners which would be sacrificed. Read more about the concept of the Aztec empire here.

Although the expansion of the empire was often good for the conquered people - better trade and infrastructure, for example, the conquered people still obeyed in fear. Their hatred would cause many of them to turn on the empire when the Spanish gave them the chance.

Hernan Cortes' ships originally sailed in February 1519 and captured Cuauhtémoc, the ruler of the Aztec Empire, on August 13, 1521. He then renamed the capital as "Mexico City" and governed until 1524.

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ad. 1466 - June 1520 ; the exact dates are unknown .

there were approximately around 100 steps on the Aztec temples that the human sacrifices were made to climb before they were killed

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.