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Where did the Sun god (Tonatiuh) tell the Aztec people to settle?
Where they found a lot of water to survive.
Where they found an eagle on a cactus eating a snake.
Where did the Aztecs finally settle?
By Lake Texcoco in Tenochtitlan. Then they called themselves Mexicas.
In Aztlan, which means Aztec.
What is a codex?
An alphabet.
A group of glyphs drew by Aztecs, they show how this civilization was.
Tenochtitlan was bigger, safe and easy to defend because it had:
water on all sides, just 3 connecting cause ways, chinampas, and aqueducts.
big walls around that protected them.
The Great Temple is:
the largest temple where Chac Mool was, it is in the center of Tenochtitlan.
Moctezuma's Palace
The Great temple is dedicated to:
Quetzalcoatl (the Feathered Serpent), god of art, education and farming.
the war god Huitzilopochtli and the rain god Tlaloc.
How many times was the Great Temple rebuilt?
7 because there were 7 rulers.
7 because it was not well built.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
the Feathered Serpent, was the god of the bird Quetzal.
the Feathered Serpent, was the god of music, education, farming, and art. The Aztecs believed that he would someday come back to Earth. His return would mean the end of the Aztec peoples.
How did Aztecs keep their gods satisfied?
By offering human sacrifices so the gods would feed themselves with the victims’ hearts and blood.
By offering them gold, cacao, jewels and arts.
Aztecs had 2 calendars.
The Solar Calendar worked with 2 wheels and had 13 months and 20 days, The Sacred Calendar had 365 days and it was used to figure out when to plant and harvest crops.
The Sacred Calendar worked with 2 wheels and had 13 months and 20 days, The Solar Calendar had 365 days and it was used to figure out when to plant and harvest crops.
Important celebrations for the Aztec were:
the opening of a new temple, welcoming warriors back from a victory, the death of a ruler or the rise of a new one, religious rituals, the birth and naming of a baby, entering and leaving school, marriage, and death.
only for nobles, kings and warriors and they only celebrate when they got a new ruler or when they won a fight.
Games Aztec played were:
ball game called Tlachtli and Patolli a gambling game. Only rich people could gamble.
ball game called Tlachtli and Patolli a gambling game. Everybody could play.
Aztec :
girls married by force at about 12 years old, people put make up, danced, played music instruments and did art crafts.
girls married by force at about 18 years old, girls put make up, danced, boys played music instruments and did art crafts.
Warning symbols that happened and represented danger were:
a comet in the sky, a temple burning, a bird with a mirror.
big houses moving on the water, warriors riding demons.
Spanish explorer and conqueror that landed in Tenochtitlan in 1519, just as the 52-year cycle was ending. He wanted gold for himself and Spain. To earn riches and the support of the King of Spain, he planned to conquer the Aztec empire.
King Charles V
Hernan Cortés
How did the Aztec civilization end?
When Moctezuma died, they didn't have a leader so they went away to other lands.
By the Spanish conquer, so Aztecs starved to death or got sick with European diseases.
Every soldier hoped to enter the special fighting forces known as:
Jaguar or Eagle warriors.
Gold or Cacao warriors.
In the Aztec Civilization you could find:
paper, the after-life, rivers, sarcophaguses and gladiators.
precious feathers, jaguar skins, maize, beans, cacao, gold, turquoise, or jade.
It was built on top of what was once Tenochtitlan.
Mexico City.
Guatemala
The largest collection of Aztec artifacts is in the:
National Museum of Anthropology in Vienna Austria
National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
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