Aztecs
By: Alarika Voora
Basic Information
Location-Wasn't then but is now Mexico City
Time Period-1400 to the early 1500.
The Aztecs were very specialized and intricate.A variety of good were produced within the Aztec empire,including tools, pottery.
The Tenochtitlan was an island city in the middle of the Aztec empire. At one time the city had a population of about 200,000 people.
Culture & Customs
The Aztec culture is very complex and interesting. In this culture art played an important role. Many examples of this aspect of Aztec culture can be found in the form of painting on the wall of temples and those created on special paper made of bark. Aztecs also made lots of pottery. All the pottery made was with lots and lots of geometric shapes and were red, black, and white. The Aztecs believed that music and dance pleased their gods. The priest would take apointed stone to draw symbols on the stomach, chest, and wrist of children. This was to show the children devotion for god.
Daily Life Information
Like any other family the Aztec family was one family like a mordern family now days. The dad goes to job out of the house usually it is farming or being a warrior. The mom and the daughter stay home and cook and clean. The boy goes to school and they learn all the good stuff.
Interesting facts
The Aztecs lived a life that most of us don't know about.Here are a couple of facts you probably didn't know about the agriculture of the Aztecs:
- Girls learnt crafting skills from their mother.
- The weather wasn't often too hot or too cold.
- Aztec farming methods were a whole lot more harder to understand than the methods the Spaniards used.
- Grinding chillies in a bowl made a fine paste.
- An Aztec's home could also be a workplace for the person.Farmers who knew how to craft things like pottery could make goods for their own use or to sell in the enormous city markets.
- Aztecs oftenly drank water but on special occasions,beer made from the sap of cactuses might be served.
- Aztec farming families lived in communities of 10-20 households.Each family own land where they could grow their own food or grow food for the tribute.When Aztec farming parents passed away,the land that the parents used to own gets passed down to their children.
- Farmers not only grew crops but also grew flowers on their chinampas.These flowers were used in Aztec festivals throughout the year.
Aztec religion practice
The Aztecs beloved in more than 1,000 gods.They thought that the universe was three parts and that was the heavens, the land we stay on and the underworld. They also thought god would be found everywhere in nature.
Downfall info
The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in 1521, led by Hernando Cortes, was a landmark victory for the European settlers. Following the Spanish arrival in Mexico, a huge battle erupted between the army of Cortes and the Aztec people under the rule of Montezuma. The events that occurred were crucial to the development of the American lands and have been the subject of much historical debate in present years.