Aztecs

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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.

The conquistador Hernán Cortés (aka Hernando Cortez 1485-1547) conquered the Aztec empire in 1519 (and again in 1521) , and the tribes were subsequently decimated by European diseases such as smallpox.

The Aztec sacrifice for gift to gods. they believed that god destroyed Earth 3 times and if it happened again the gods would destroy earth forever. They also thought that the mayans were big dickheads and were punished for prostitution.

Emperor Montezuma

Immigration, immigration and immigration.

Both the Aztec and the Anasazi peoples anticipated the changing of the seasons by tracking the passage of the planets and the stars. They focused their ceremonies on the broad concepts of harmony and balance in nature, and they believed that their ceremonies, properly done, would be rewarded by rain, abundant harvests, successful hunts and good health. They both held beliefs with common threads about their origins and deities. They used similar cultural icons as ritualistic symbols, which seem to have sprung from common cultural wellheads. For instance, their step-sided rain cloud altars and their ceremonial masks probably had roots in the great civilizations of southern Mexico.

The Aztecs had a huge pantheon, of over 100 deities. Some of the these gods were more powerful and better known than other though, such as Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, Chalchiutlicue, Xipe Totec, Tlaloc, and Tezcatlipoca.

It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church.

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Both religions are based on human blood sacrifice, although in the case of the Catholic religion, those sacrifices were prefigured in animal sacrifice and completed in the self-sacrifice of the God-man, Jesus Christ, on the cross. Every re-presentation of that sacrifice is offered on the altar in an unbloody manner under the forms of bread and wine. The Aztec sacrificed just about anyone, and rivers of blood flowed as they sacrificed their enemies, their children, etc.

Tenochtitlán was built on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco