Aztecs

Chocolate Drink

Before maize could be processed into nutritionally sound foods, the kernels needed to be shorn from the cob and soaked in an alkaline solution of water, limestone, and a source of calcium hydrochloride called nixtamal. To make tortillas, Aztec women ground the kernels into a flour on a metlatl, or metate (grinding stone), and shaped the dough into flat, thin circular pieces of bread. These tortillas were then cooked on a comalli, or comal (clay griddle) and served fresh or stored for later meals. The presence of the tortilla in several rituals testifies to its significance within Aztec culture. Durán recounts that unmarried girls dedicated to the temple carried offerings of tortillas in ceremonial bowls to the temple at dawn. He also describes a custom during the feast of Tlacaxipehualiztli consisting of people wearing twisted honey tortillas and dancing all day. Sahagún recounts that a tortilla replaced the sacrificial blade in simulation sacrifices. He also witnessed dancing priests wearing S-shaped tortillas. Even in superstition, the tortilla played a role; if a woman's tortilla folded on itself on the comalli, she would say that a visitor coming to see her had kicked it over to signal her arrival. The tortilla provided more than just physical sustenance. A more ancient maize-based creation was the tamalli. A grainy dough, shaped into balls, formed the body of the tamale, which could also be formed into pointed, rolled, and adobe shapes. Stuffed with beans-second only to maize in the Aztec diet and served at every meal-or chilies, the dough was then wrapped in maize leaves and steamed in a large clay pot. Variations of the tamale included fillings of amaranth seeds, maize flowers, honey, beeswax, turkey eggs, and cherries. Both the tortilla and the tamale, in different variations, are still eaten today. Like the tortilla, the tamale also played a significant cultural role in Aztec communities, and Aztec residents acknowledged its importance in the feast of Atamalcualiztli (Eating of Water Tamales). Every eight years, in this seven-day observance, Aztecs ate plain tamales steamed in water; lime, ash, flavoring, chilies, and peppers were not included in the recipe. This pure method of cooking the tamales ritually allowed the maize a moment of freedom from the tortures of being worked and seasoned. Women also ground maize kernels to make pinole, or gruel, in a variety of recipes-gruel with honey, with honey and chilies, and with honey, fish, and amaranth seeds.

Aztecs didn't have any animals from the big five or six (cow-donkey-horse-sheep-pig-camel) and they worked on man power and they only had one animal but it was useless in everything only that it's a food source which is the turkey

The Incas had the llamas but it was used to carry stuff and food source also fur source but wasn't a good transportation animal or war animal

the Aztecs used to eat cocoa beans before war to gain strength. they also used it instead of money.

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The Aztecs did make tamales

In those times chocolate was a very big thing. It was worth a lot. So this is the reason the Aztecs used chocolate as money. :)

the Aztecs eat food like duck,dogs,cats and fish. they sometimes, if they had no other food available, ate other Aztecs so they were half amphibians .

-I assume you mean cannibals because amphibians are a cold-blooded vertebrate of the animal class of Amphibia

because the aztecs used chocolate as currency

about 23 people, what are you stupid you have had to know that, if you didn't your a dummy

the took stuff and put other stuff into in and yay they had chocolate and then they ate it and then they were amazingly fat on chocolate but i don't know if they smoked it but I think they might of

the french who were unhappy with Aztec rule gave the spanish food and support against the Aztecs true or false?

The Aztec diet consisted primarily of corn as a staple; combined with a variety of meats and peppers for spice. The Aztecs are also known to have participated in ritualistic cannibalism. Victims were sacrificed at temples by removal of the heart. The bodies were then dismembered and consumed by the social elite. This definitely could have contributed to the negative view of barbarism assumed by Spanish explorers.

Farmers used sticks to dig holes into soft in order to plant seeds.

They wore imported cotton or a fiber made from the century plant and the women would weave it into clothing. They had a vast trading territory so they also had dyes to color their clothing. Slaves wore loincloth, women wore skirts and a sleeveless blouse or shirt.

The Aztecs sacrificed other human beings hearts, as an offering to the gods for giving the Aztecs the sun. The Aztecs believed that the sun was created by the gods sacrificing themselves to make the sun. So, the Aztecs believe that they have to repay the god with human hearts, or blood.

when you go in the lab, go to the 1st one on the right there will be a guard talk to him he will give you one.

they played hit ball and ate there favourite food cocao beans

The Aztecs had numerous crafts at which they excelled. Their expertise sometimes dazzled the Spanish. Their crafts included papermaking (not just for books but for festive banners and ornaments), book illustration which they called "the black and the red" (colorfully illuminating their codexes); feather work (used in headresses, ornaments and trimmings on cloth and shields), plant fibre (e.g. maguey sandles and ropes), wooden sculpture, mural painting, flower weaving (creating foilage ornaments including entire carpets of flowers - still practiced in Mayan areas), basketry/ wickerwork, pottery, metallurgy (gold, silver, copper, bronze), stone including precious stones such as jade and crystal. They also fashioned brightly coloured cloth, and items from rubber and other resins.

chains and whips and pink fluffy handcuffs

The more humble homes were made of adobe, generally they were made of limestone though.

The Aztecs and the eastern most part of Mexico appears when the highest possible port upgrade is made and one of your ships sail into the blackness to the far West. Eventually, you will find land over multiple turns. The Aztecs themselves control two extremely well-fortified cities, and there are a few Rebel cities which are good places to port and prepare to deal with the Aztec threat.

Sometimes masks were covered in mosaics made of various materials. The mask itself could be made of green or black stone, wood, obsidian (a hard dark volcanic glass/stone), or even placed on a real human skull. Common mosaic materials were turquoise, obsidian, gold pyrite, coral, and shell. Sometimes the mask would simply have inlaid teeth and eyes. Ceramic masks were more rare, but they were made.

The aztec built bridges and causways to get to certain areas without getting wet. Also the had built them to keep invaders away from the city Tenochtitlan. Lastly, they built it to get to the mainland. Not useful... b.tch cun.

they thought that the Spanish were half deer and half human because of the helmets and they way the horses moved