Aztec Benefits

When people think of the Aztecs the first thing that comes to mind is human sacrificing, but there is so much more to this whole group of people than the sacrifices that played a minor part in their life style. While it’s always important to learn about every aspect of a whole society, history should highlight the more positive aspects included in the Aztec’s society. These positive aspects should overrule the small blip in their history that is human sacrificing that everyone seems so hung up on. The Aztecs as a people were scientifically and technologically advanced with advances made in record keeping, farming, and time. They had well run market places, beautiful cities, and a flourishing empire that was the second largest empire in the …show more content…
One area this was shown in was their farming techniques. The Aztecs developed a system fir irrigating agriculture called chinampas which were floating islands that rested on reed frames anchored to the bottom of their lakes. With the thousands of acres of these chinampas the Aztecs could produce lots of their main crop, corn. They also created terraces which were steps that descended down a hall to control the flow of water and keep their crops from flooding. These processes proved to be efficient and helped them make an abundance of corn to create tortillas out …show more content…
This clearly states that the Aztecs created a prosperous empire with thriving cities that even the Spanish described as legendary. So even before the Europeans arrived in the Americas there were already active people who were flourishing and doing things like farming, painting, fighting, singing, and so much more. These people were the Aztecs, who have accomplished many things and have also been credited with having thriving, well-functioning cities and markets. In document N, the conquistador who wrote the document spoke of how he had been to many different places and has experienced many different market places, but none of them compared to how great the Aztec marketplace was. Then also in document F, pictures or drawings of the advanced cities of the Aztecs are shown. These photos show how the Aztecs expanded and advanced their cities and at one point their capital had a population of about five times the population of London. All of these sources point to the same conclusion that the Aztecs progressed and advanced as a people greatly as shown in their cities and their