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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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What resources did hernan Cortes find?

He took an astrolabe,food,fresh water,map,and navigating tools. :)

How did the Mayas Aztecs fit that definition of civilization?

The Aztecs we a people which would be called a civilization or a society of which people were learning in advance pace or just learning and building thing such as technology!

What is the Clatsop Indians religion?

The Clatsop, or Chinook, Indians were and are a group of Chinooken peoples living on the South side of the Columbia River.

Traditional religion is complicated to explain as nothing was really "worshiped". Instead there were many customs to follow and taboos to avoid.

What was area in the Americas where the Mayan and Aztec civilizations were located?

The Olmec were a Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.

The Maya were a Mesoamerican civilization extended throughout the present-day southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, and the Yucatán Peninsula states of Quintana Roo, Campeche and Yucatán.

ref's...

Coe, Michael D.; with Rex Koontz (2002). Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs (5th edition, revised and enlarged ed.). London and New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-28346-X. OCLC 50131575

Sharer, Robert J.; Loa P. Traxler (2006). The Ancient Maya (6th, fully revised ed.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4817-9. OCLC 57577446

What did the Incas specialize in?

The Incas were great builders. They made aquaducts, which helped to irrigate the crops they grew. They made many buildings, which helped the Incas throughout their daily lives. The Incas also had such things as realy runners, that helped deliver messages from one place of the Incan empire to another. They had no such written language, but used quipus that were a series of different colored strings with various knots of different spaces and sizes. Something else the Incas achieved was that they built over 14, 000 miles of roads which obviously helped them get from one place to another.

Predict what might have happened if Montezuma defeated Cortes?

Paradoxically, it would be much less developed than it is today, with an income comparable to that of Guatemala or Belize (US$5800-8700) instead of its current income per capita of US$15,400.

There is a common misconception that Cortes alone annihilated the Aztecs with superior weaponry and a false belief that he was mistaken for the god Quetzalcoatl; 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.

Even if the Aztecs would have defeated the Spanish and their Tlaxcalan allies, they would have been eventually destroyed by another conquistador, or another European power, taking much longer to develop into a modern country with infrastructure including schools, roads, mines and plantations. The best example are the Mayans who continued their existence in the Yucatan peninsula, Guatemala and El Peten and weren't subdued until 1697. The direct result of such delay to become "westernized" is the persistent economic backwardness of the region.

How did the early Aztecs construct their capital city of Tenochtitlan?

well they would build their civilization where they saw an eagle on a cactus with a snake in its mouth. 2 priest saw the eagle and they built their civilization and they called it Tenochtitlan, which is now Mexico city.

Did Hernan Cortes defeat the Inca empire or Aztec?

The Spanish Captain Hernan Cortes arrived in 1519, and invaded the Aztec people indigenous to Mexico, which then was called Aztlan or Tenochtitlan. Within the next ten years about eighty percent of the Aztec people died from war but, mostly from small pox left by the Spanish.

How was the New World affected by Cortes defeating the Aztecs?

When Hernando Cortes' defeated the Aztec empire in what is now Mexico, it made a significant change in Spanish explorations and their activities in Mexico. Cortes' was able to take gold, silver, and precious gems and send back to Spain. Spain established a major settlement in Mexico.

Where were the Incas Aztecs and Mayans?

The Aztec were located in the Yucatan rain forest which is present day Guatemala. The Mayas's were located in southern Mexico and northern Central America.

What is the difference between the Aztecs and Incas?

Aztecs lived in central Mexico in a different time period than the Inca's. the Incas lived in the Andes mountains of south America

The Aztec city of Tenochitlan is now know as what?

The Aztec , man-made island, capital city, previously located at the center of the lake of Texcoco.

It does no longer exist as it was destroyed when the spanish came, by the Aboriginal allies of the spanish (with a tiny contribution of the spanish themselves) and in its location now lays Mexico city.
It was the Aztec's capital city

How did the Aztecs thank their god for finding them a place to settle?

The Aztecs thanked their gods by sacrificing humans. They did this by ripping out the heart while the human was alive. The Aztecs were very blood thirsty people who were always willing to give their gods what they wanted.

Which Native Americans speak Nahuatl?

Only those who are found in central Mexico. They belong to an ethnicity known as Nahuatl, and they amount for some 2.45 million people. Other ethnicities within Mexico include Zapotec, Mayan, Mixtec or Otomi; all of them represent roughly 30% of the Mexican population, accounting for approximately 40 million (2013).

Other peoples known as Native Americans NOT within Mexico include Apache, Cherokee, Chipewa or Navajo.

Why did the Aztecs not oppose the European conquerors?

When the Mexico (Aztecs) first encountered Cortes, they thought him to be from one of their prophecies. Giving the Spaniards permission to walk as they pleased through the whole empire.

Although they soon realized that they weren't really from the prophecy, they still didn't fight them until Cortes and his men started killing them. Mainly the Spanish were weak; if it weren't for the Tlaxcalan and many other native tribes the Spanish wouldn't have done well from the beginning.

How did the Aztecs feel when Hernan Cortes arrived?

Well when hernan first entered the city Mocteczuma thought hernan was a god (Quetzal Quotal.) so he treated him like a guest meaning hernan didn't go through any trouble until he told Mocteczuma what he realy came for- the 3 G's Gold, God, and Glory.

How did the Inca empire come to an end?

it came to an end at about 1532 because the Spanish conquistadors under Francisco Pizarro invaded the Inca empire and killed the Inca ruler Atahualpa. The Spanish also brought diseases, causing the Inca civilization to decline and eventually be absorbed into Spanish culture. Spain gained riches from the Inca gold and silver.

Religious practice of nonviolence?

Wonderful topic, but that isn't a question. What are you asking about nonviolence?

Where in mexico were the incas located?

Inca Empire was the largest pre- Columbian empire and was located in Western and Northwestern South America. The empire consisted of areas of modern day Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia and Bolivia.