Aztecs

Aztlan is the place of origin of the Aztec peoples. Some call it mythical, but it is not mythical; it is Factual. In their language (Nahuatl), the roots of Aztlan are the two words: aztatl tlan(tli) meaning "heron" and "place of," respectively. 'Tlantli' proper means tooth, and as a characteristic of a good tooth is that it is firmly rooted in place, and does not move, the prefix of this word is commonly used in Nahuatl to denote settlements, or place names, e.g. Mazatlan (place of deer), Papalotlan (place of butterflies) or Tepoztlan (place of metal). The Nahuatl language is often said to include three levels of meaning for its words or expressions: literal, syncretic and connotative. The connotative meaning of Aztlan, due to the plumage of herons, is "Place of Whiteness." The mythical descriptions of Aztlan would have it to be an island.

You would replace -tlan with -tecatl to identify a resident or person from the given place. So, for the examples above, we have that people from Mazatlan would be Mazatecatl, someone from Tepoztlan a Tepoztecatl, and someone from Aztlan an Aztecatl.

In the origin myths of the Aztecs, they emerged originally from the bowels of the earth through seven caves (Chicomostoc) and settled in Aztlan, from which they subsequently undertook a migration southward in search of a sign that would indicate that they should settle once more. This myth roughly coincides with the known history of the Aztecs as a barbarous horde that migrated from present-day northwestern Mexico into the central plateau sometime toward the end of the first millennium AD, when high civilizations of great antiquity were already well established in the region. It is known that the Aztecs had a sector ("barrio") in the Toltec city of Tollan, and the cultural influence of the Toltecs on the rough-edged Aztecs was subsequently to be very marked. On the view of some scholars (e.g., Nigel Davies), all of Aztec cultural development was an effort to recreate the grandeur that they knew at Tollan.

The exact physical location of Aztlan is unknown, other than it must have been located near estuaries or on the coast of northwestern Mexico, though some archaeologists have gone so far as to locate the present town of San Felipe Aztlan, Nayarit, as the exact place.

In Chicano folklore, Aztlan is often appropriated as the name for that portion of Mexico that was stolen by the United States after the Mexican-American War of 1846, on the belief that this greater area represents the point of parting of the Aztec migrations. In broad interpretation, there is some truth to this in the sense that all of the groups that would subsequently become the various Nahuatl-speaking peoples of central Mexico passed through this region in a prehistoric epoch, as attested by the existence of linguistically related groups of people distributed throughout the US Pacific Intermountain region, the US southwest and northern Mexico, known as the Uto-Aztecan-Tanoan group, and including such peoples as the Paiute, Shoshoni, Hopi, Pima, Yaqui, Tepehuan, Rarámuri (Tarahumara), Kiowas and Mayas.

Aztlan; means the place of wings AZ= wings Tlan=place of

Ancient skulls have been found with holes cut in them, showing evidence that the bone re-grew after the cuts had been made. Whether this was actually brain surgery is another matter, but it's clear that that patient lived for years after the procedure. The procedure is called trepanning or trepanation.

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Other than cocoa beans for a drink, the Aztecs have also used cocoa beans as a currency to purchase goods such as a rabbit or an enslaved human.

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Once there was a widow who wished to marry a rich nobleman. However, the nobleman did not want to raise another man's children and he dismissed her. The widow was determined to have the nobleman for her own, so the widow drowned her children to be free of them. When she told the nobleman what she had done, he was horrified and would have nothing more to do with her. As she left him, the widow was overcome by the terrible crime she had committed and went to the river, looking for her children. But they were gone. She drowned herself and her spirit was condemned to wander the waterways, weeping and searching for her children until the end of time.

Some of the most famous Aztec myths and legends include the story of the god Quetzalcoatl, the creation story of the world by the god Ometeotl, the legend of the goddess Coatlicue, and the tale of the heroic twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. These stories are central to Aztec belief systems and cultural identity.

Certainly! Here's an acrostic poem for "Aztecs Cortez":

Awe-inspiring empire of ancient times, Zealous warriors fighting with might, Tenochtitlan, grand city in sight, Enigmatic Cortez brought its decline, Calamity struck, history intertwined.

Some themes in Aztec poetry include nature, love, war, religion, and death. Poems often praised the beauty of the natural world, celebrated love and relationships, honored bravery in battle, reflected on spiritual beliefs, and meditated on mortality and the afterlife.

It is a metaphorical expression that suggests the idea of being constrained or limited in some way, even for someone as powerful or creative as an Aztec poet king. It highlights the concept of inner confinement or restriction rather than physical imprisonment.

You can find a copy of the poem "The Revolt of Chief Tacky" in various poetry collections, online platforms, or at your local library. It was written by Jamaican poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite and is often included in anthologies of Caribbean literature or poetry.

The Aztecs called their books "codices." These were handwritten manuscripts made of bark paper or deerskin, containing information on various subjects such as religion, history, and astronomy. Only a few of these codices have survived to this day.

No, Aztec and Mayan calendars are not the same. They have unique characteristics and differences in terms of structure, symbols, and purposes. Both civilizations developed complex calendar systems, but they were independent of each other.

Aztec vs. Mayan Calendar The two calendars were was basically similar. The ritual day cycle was called Tonalpohualli and was formed, as was the Mayan Tzolkin, by the concurrence of a cycle of numerals 1 through 13 with a cycle of 20 day names, many of them similar to the day names of the Maya. Where the Aztec differed most significantly from the Maya was in their more primitive number system and in their less precise way of recording dates. Normally, they noted only the day on which an event occurred and the name of the current year. This is ambiguous, since the same day, as designated in the way mentioned above, can occur twice in a year. Moreover, years of the same name recur at 52-year intervals, and Spanish colonial annals often disagree as to the length of time between two events. Other discrepancies in the records are only partially explained by the fact that different towns started their year with different months. The most widely accepted correlation of the calendar of Tenochtitlán with the Christian Julian calendar is based on the entrance of Cortés into that city on November 8, 1519, and on the surrender of Cuauhtémoc on August 13, 1521. According to this correlation, the first date was a day 8 Wind, the ninth day of the month Quecholli, in a year 1 Reed, the 13th year of a cycle. The Mexicans, as all other Meso-Americans, believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the world. The "Calendar Stone" in the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology) in Mexico City depicts in its central panel the date 4 Ollin (movement), on which they anticipated that their current world would be destroyed by earthquake, and within it the dates of previous holocausts: 4 Tiger, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, and 4 Water. The Aztec calendar kept two different aspects of time; tonalpohualli and xiuhpohualli. Each of these systems had a different purpose. The tonalpohualliwas the 'counting of days.' It originated by ancient peoples observing that the sun, crossed a certain zenith point near the Mayan city of Copan, every 260 days. So this first system is arranged in a 260-day cycle. These 260 days were then broken up into 20 periods, with each period containing 13 days, called trecenas. Each period was given the name of something that was then shown by a hieroglyphic sign, and each trecena was given a number 1-13. Each trecena is also thought to have a god or deity presiding over each of the trecena. They kept these counts in tonalamatls, screenfold books made from bark paper. The Aztecs used this as a religious calendar. Priests used the calendar to determine luck days for such activities as sowing crops, building houses, and going to war. The xiuhpohualli was the 'counting of the years.' This calendar was kept on a 365-day solar count. This was also the agricultural and ceremonial calendar of the Aztec state. It was divided into 18 periods, with each period containing 20 days, called veintenas. This left five days that were not represented. These were called "nemontemi." These were the five transition days between the old and the new year, and were considered days of nothing. This was a time of festivals. People came to the festivals with their best clothes on, and took part in singing and dancing. This is also when the priest would perform sacrifices, most of these sacrifices were human, but others were preformed on animals and fruit. The solar year was the basis for the civil calendar by which the Mexicas (Aztecs) determined the myriad ceremonies and rituals linked to agricultural cycles. The calendar was made up of 18 months, each lasting 20 days. The months were divided into four five-day weeks. The year was rounded out to 365 days by the addition of the five-day nemontemi (empty days), an ominous period marked by the cessation of normal activities and general abstinence. The correlation of dates in the Gregorian calendar is uncertain, although most authors on the subject affix the beginning of the Aztec year to early February. A variety of sources were consulted in developing the following chart of some of the ritualistic activities associated with each month. Many of the Aztecs' religious ceremonies, including frequent human sacrifices, were performed at the Great Temple, located in the center of their capital city of Tenochtitlan.

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The El Premio Aztlan literary award is a prestigious prize given to writers who have made significant contributions to Chicano literature. It recognizes works that reflect the Chicano experience and culture in the United States.

Aztec education focused on practical skills and cultural knowledge, with noble children attending calmécac for specialized training while commoner children learned vocational skills and basic literacy at telpochcalli, all supplemented by oral traditions and storytelling.

I don't really know maybe try a book!

Or wikipedia.

One advantage of living where the Aztecs lived was the access to natural resources, such as fertile lands for farming and abundant water sources. This allowed the Aztecs to develop a sophisticated agricultural system. However, a disadvantage was the frequent occurrence of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, which posed a constant threat to their civilization. Additionally, living in a densely populated area could have led to issues related to disease transmission and limited living space.

The Aztecs and other similar city states and empires in Mesoamerica used armour made of cotton. Most often this took the form of a thick vest that was soaked in brine and then hung to dry, stiffening the material enough to make it resistant to obsidian blades.

Yes, the Aztecs did perform human sacrifices. It was a central part of their religious beliefs and rituals. Sacrifices were performed to honor their gods and ensure the continuation of the world and the prosperity of their civilization.

Their language provided the name of Mexico AND it's capital city, Mexico City.

They cultivated corn (and agave) LONG before the Europeans discovered them.

They terrraced their hilly country to captitalize on that cultivation.

They built irrigation canals from the rivers.

They domesticated a local species of wild turkey.

They left us with many questions.

The Aztec were constatly fighting most tribes around and forced them into servitude and payment of taxes. Therefore, when the Spaniards came they were seen as an opportunity to get rid of the Aztec which were NOT liked or welcomed.

The Aztec civilization was not discovered by a specific individual. It existed before the arrival of Europeans in the Americas, and its existence was known to other indigenous populations in the region. However, the conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish under Hernán Cortés in the early 16th century brought their civilization to the attention of the wider world.

The Aztec empire was destroyed by a combination of factors. One major factor was the arrival of Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés, who brought advanced weapons and diseases that devastated the Aztec population. Additionally, the Aztecs faced internal rebellions from their subjected allies who allied themselves with the Spanish and further weakened the empire. Ultimately, a combination of military force, disease, and internal unrest led to the downfall of the Aztec empire.