Monctezuma was born in 1466 and died on June 29th 1520. Monectzuma was the leader of the Aztec Empire from 1502 – 1520. The Spaniard murdered Montezuma in cold blood in order to complete their conquest of his empire. The Spanish relationship with Monctezuma was very manipulative and deceiving. From the beginning Cortes made moves to openly try to undermined Monctezuma. Cortes made early alliances with the know enemies of Monctezuma and the Aztecs. This is not the actions of a good and trust worthy friend. Someone who is trying to become friends with a person they don’t know well doesn’t make friends with their enemies.…
The Aztecs practiced what we now called democracy. The Aztecs had a supreme speaker (not an emperor) and divided their land into corporate clans, where each clan elected their administration officers and speakers. They also had a gran administration that elected the supreme speaker. Down in the south the Incas had what seems today a state of the art agricultural system. They had fertilizers and developed a different type of plant for the different type of soil. They had a massive diversity within potatoes reaching up to three thousands five hundred types of potatoes. They had different types of plants for the different types of systems. Throughout the whole Americas the indigenous people had an understanding in medicine. The Aztec had a sophisticated medical system ranging from surgeons to healers. The people from the Andes even preform brain surgery. If paying attention to their society they all focus to main things, their religion (for many if not all relate to nature) and the well-being of their own people. For the most part the sun was the key of their religion or their god .They specifically value nature for everything that was giving to them. They used gold and other metals to decorate and didn’t worship or gave it much focus. Due to their focus on nature and not greed they were able to invent and discover the many benefits that our…
Isolation, limited technology, disease, beliefs/religion, and allies were all contributing factors which led to Aztec destruction.…
The Aztec Civilization was very intricate and advanced. Their economy was made up of trading various items such as tools, pottery, baskets, cloth, jewelry, and figurines. They made these and traded them in the lowlands by the Gulf Coast. In return for their items they would receive valued items like jaguar skins, tropical-bird feathers, rubber, cotton, chocolate and cacao beans. Since the Aztecs did not have animals or wheeled vehicles, they transported good using canoes. However, if they needed to go through a dangerous terrain, goods would be carried on the backs of porters in long caravans.…
Can you imagine 2,300 people killed in one day every year? Or can you imagine spending the whole day farming. The Aztecs empire flourished from 1350-1519 in Central Mexico. The Aztecs lifestyle revolves around agriculture as for human sacrifices only happened once a year. HIstorians should mainly emphasize agriculture because of huge scales, everyday life, and because of clever construction.…
The Olmec civilization, which flourished in eastern Mexico from about 1300 to 400 B.C., was probably the forerunner of several other Central American civilizations, Such as, the Toltec, Aztec, and Maya. The Olmec practiced advanced agricultural methods, but they were also accomplished engineers. For example one of their gifts to posterity is a group of sculpted stone heads, each weighing more than 20 tons. Although the purpose of these monuments is not fully understood they attest to the artistic and technical skills of a people living in the Americas some 2,500 years before Columbus. Even more interesting is the fact that like the ancient Egyptians the Olmec developed a sophisticated method of writing based on their own hieroglyphics. Strangely…
The Aztec geography was very different than other cultures. The Aztecs settled in a central Mexican valley, almost everything that they did was related to their environment. Before the Aztecs settled on the Mexican valley, they were nomads. They traveled from place to place never settling until they found their capital, Tenochtitlan, which is now modern day Mexico city.…
The sun and the moon form part of our universe, where they both hold their own power and value. The sun is in the center of the solar system with nine planets moving around it. The light given from the sun helps us experience the day and the night. After the sun, the moon is the the brightest object in the sky. Though the light that shines at night does not originate from the moon, it is reflected by sunlight. Their differences from each other are responsible for the life that we live in this Earth. Knowing about the sun and moon we can relate their relationship to the Spanish and the Aztec. The Aztec hold the position of the sun. When they first settled on the swampy island called Tenochtitlan, it became…
Religion can be described as a shared set of fundamental beliefs and practices. “The Aztec religion was a complex set of beliefs, rituals and gods that helped the Aztec/Mexica to make sense of their world, reality and death (Maestri Nicolette, 2013)”. Today, we will explore the famous Aztec world of gods, sacrifice, and magic in an attempt to better understand their culture and worldview.…
The kids were taught proper behavior a specialized profession. Also the teachers were highly respected. Most Of the Aztecs ended up being farmers, fisherman, and hunters. But some Aztecs trained for a better job to be like soldiers, doctors,priests, traders, craftsman, ball players, builders, matchmakers. and merchants.Soldiers were highly respected and highly trained. They were fierce fighters. They almost never lost. The Aztecs were nearly always at war.Some soldiers lived long enough to retire. Those who did retired in comfort and wealth.Athletics were highly respected, especially ballplayers. Some athletics were professional athletics. For the very best, this was a specialized profession.Their job was practice shooting a rubber ball through a hoop.…
The situation of women in the pre-Columbian era was like any other culture because power had man. The woman lacked rights, was sometimes treated as an object. For example, in one of the most developed pre-Columbian civilizations, the Aztecs, a situation occurred with the rights of women with the Malinche. She was a girl of the Aztec culture, who after a clash between tribes was ceded as a slave, because that was the tradition of those times. Later, Malinche was again ceded as a slave, but this time to Hernan Cortes by the cacique of Tabasco, along with 19 other women, some pieces of another and a set of blankets. Afterwards, Hernan Cortes learned that Malinche spoke several languages and did not hesitate to use it as an interpreter in order…
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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…
Ever think that tearing someone apart could have created our earth? Well, the “Aztec Creation Story” describes how our planet Earth was “supposedly” created: two Aztec gods (Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl) transformed into serpents and attacked the hideous Earth Goddess, ripping her in two. The upper half of her body became the ground and the lower half became the heavens. There were two other very significant Aztec “gods” in the story that deeply affected the outcome of planet Earth: Tecuciztecatl and Nanahuatzin. After the two Aztec gods, Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl, created the Earth, the planet was dark and was in great need of a light source. After consulting on who would “…accept the burden of lighting the world,” (10) two gods stepped…