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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 was the Aztecs family life like for these people?
their life was that they had to do what they did daily and that the men did the hard work and the ladies just cooked and cleaned and the kids just helped clean.
What did the ancient Aztecs believe happened to them after they died?
there armpit hairs got pulled out and put in there mouths
What did coatlicue do that was important to the Aztec?
- COATLICUE was the goddess of EARTH, LIFE AND DEATH.
- She could control the Earth's ground to be good or bad for farmers.
- She could take in any living thing (such as farmers crops) and put death upon them.
That's why she was so important to Aztec religion.
How do you spell technochitlan?
The capital city of the Aztecs was Tenochtitlan, captured by the Spanish under Cortes.
What factors enabled the spanish to defeat the Aztec?
The Spanish conquistadors formed alliances with enemies of the Aztecs. Also, European diseases such as smallpox severely weakened the Aztecs. Once the Spaniards captured Montezuma, their leader, the Aztec empire soon fell.
Eww gross, no. They only took out the hearts for sacrifices and gave it to the gods.
What was the Aztecs trade network?
they had used things like thier food,other things like the things they had built.
Why did Montezuma believed the Spaniards were Quetzalcoatl on his soldier?
Montezuma thought that Cortes was Quetzalcoatl because Quetzalcoatl was white and so Cortes is white.
What three foods that are part of your daily diet but originally came from the Aztecs?
corn green beans carrots
What two forms of military technology did the Spanish have to help them conquer the Aztec and Incas?
Iron weapons and horses.However most of the conquest was caused inadvertently by diseases the the Spanish brought to the new world with them to which the indigenous people had no natural immunity.
