Role Of Peasant Women In Aztec Society
Ileana Valdes AP World History
Homeroom: 210
Spice Chart 11
Social-
Family:
Prominent families in the calpulli where the once that dominated leadership roles and formed a kind of local nobility, eventually they were overshadowed by the military and administrative nobility of the Aztec states
Social Classes:
Dominated by kings
Slaves
Nobles had two storied homes of nobles
New class almost like serfs were created to serve as laborers on these lands
Scribes
Artisans
Healers
Nobles had private estates which where worked by servents or slaves
Special merchants controlled Tlatelolco
Pochteca specialized in long distance trade in luxury items such as plumes of tropical birds and cacao
Inspectors and special judges regulated and controlled …show more content…
Women in the maze based economy spent 6 hours a day grinding corn by metates
Inca women required to weave high quality cloth for the court and for religious purposes
Women spent 30 to 40 hours a week into preparing basic foods
Gender Relations/ Inequalities:
Peasant women helped in fields but their main role was in the home
Women were expected to know how to weave
Training younger girls was the responsibility on the older women
Arranged marriages
Virginity was required for marriage
Polygamy existed among the nobility but peasants where monogamous
Aztec women inherited property and pass it to their heirs
Father was a source of lineage head of the household he rears and he teaches
The bad father is uncompassionate negligent unreliable and a sullen worker
Good Mother: Full of anxiety loving caring attentive she serves other
Bad mothers: Evil dull stupid sleepy lazy a thief and a fraud
Good Ruler: the ruler is a shelter fierce revered famous esteemed well reputed renowned
Bad ruler: A wild beast a demon an ocelot a wolf he makes the world rumble
The Noble: Obedient resembles his parents has a mother and father Bad Noble: Ungrateful and forgetful a debaser
Women were taken to concubines
Women served as slaves
Women worked in …show more content…
Lands conquered peoples often were appropriated, and food sometimes was demanded as tribute.
Nationalism:
Human sacrifice, long a part of Mesoamerican religion, greatly expanded into an enormous cult in which the military class played a central role as suppliers of war captives to be used as sacrificial victims.
Interaction-
Geography:
Lakes contained cities
Rise of lakes made it impossible to continue an irrigated system Disease:
Patterns of Settlement:
Migration:
Migrated to the shores of Lake Texcoco
Chichimec migrants came from the northwest and various groups of sedentary farmers
Aztec domination expanded from the Tarascan frontier about a hundred miles north of present day Mexico city
Technology:
Canoes which allowed transportation
Many bridges at intervals
Wood work
They built artificial floating islands about 17 feet long and 100 to 330 feet wide
Millar- a machine that grinded helped female have more spare time helped trade
Demography:
1.5 million to 25 million people
20 million people excluding the Maya areas
Aztecs were a group of about a 10,000 people
Culture-
Homeroom: 210
Spice Chart 11
Social-
Family:
Prominent families in the calpulli where the once that dominated leadership roles and formed a kind of local nobility, eventually they were overshadowed by the military and administrative nobility of the Aztec states
Social Classes:
Dominated by kings
Slaves
Nobles had two storied homes of nobles
New class almost like serfs were created to serve as laborers on these lands
Scribes
Artisans
Healers
Nobles had private estates which where worked by servents or slaves
Special merchants controlled Tlatelolco
Pochteca specialized in long distance trade in luxury items such as plumes of tropical birds and cacao
Inspectors and special judges regulated and controlled …show more content…
Women in the maze based economy spent 6 hours a day grinding corn by metates
Inca women required to weave high quality cloth for the court and for religious purposes
Women spent 30 to 40 hours a week into preparing basic foods
Gender Relations/ Inequalities:
Peasant women helped in fields but their main role was in the home
Women were expected to know how to weave
Training younger girls was the responsibility on the older women
Arranged marriages
Virginity was required for marriage
Polygamy existed among the nobility but peasants where monogamous
Aztec women inherited property and pass it to their heirs
Father was a source of lineage head of the household he rears and he teaches
The bad father is uncompassionate negligent unreliable and a sullen worker
Good Mother: Full of anxiety loving caring attentive she serves other
Bad mothers: Evil dull stupid sleepy lazy a thief and a fraud
Good Ruler: the ruler is a shelter fierce revered famous esteemed well reputed renowned
Bad ruler: A wild beast a demon an ocelot a wolf he makes the world rumble
The Noble: Obedient resembles his parents has a mother and father Bad Noble: Ungrateful and forgetful a debaser
Women were taken to concubines
Women served as slaves
Women worked in …show more content…
Lands conquered peoples often were appropriated, and food sometimes was demanded as tribute.
Nationalism:
Human sacrifice, long a part of Mesoamerican religion, greatly expanded into an enormous cult in which the military class played a central role as suppliers of war captives to be used as sacrificial victims.
Interaction-
Geography:
Lakes contained cities
Rise of lakes made it impossible to continue an irrigated system Disease:
Patterns of Settlement:
Migration:
Migrated to the shores of Lake Texcoco
Chichimec migrants came from the northwest and various groups of sedentary farmers
Aztec domination expanded from the Tarascan frontier about a hundred miles north of present day Mexico city
Technology:
Canoes which allowed transportation
Many bridges at intervals
Wood work
They built artificial floating islands about 17 feet long and 100 to 330 feet wide
Millar- a machine that grinded helped female have more spare time helped trade
Demography:
1.5 million to 25 million people
20 million people excluding the Maya areas
Aztecs were a group of about a 10,000 people
Culture-