AztecsBy Eamon Mott

Aztec location

Lived in modern day Mexico and Central America. (Green is Aztecs)

Aztec Agriculture

They used Chinapas to farm in rectangular areas on lake beds in the Mexican valley

Aztec Housing

The more important people had bigger houses. But a common roof in an Aztec house would be a peaked straw roof with a layout of 15 to 25 square meters made commonly out of stone and adobe.

Aztec Arts

It was very common for emperors, for example, to wear necklaces and earrings.

Aztec Trade Networks

They had no metal but cocoa beans that were used to make chocolate Were very valuable to them. It was even there currency. Also Traded jewelry, cotton, rubber.

Merchants traveled south to trade many things like the ones above and things like tools and animal skins

Aztec Environment

They lived in modern day Mexico and It was hot so they did lot’s of farming. They adapted by creating irrigation systems to control the water supply, as well as hunt for fish in the large bodies of water surrounding them.

Aztec Government

They had an emperor who ruled . There was an emperor for every few city states the city states themselves we somewhat independent. All the emperors asked is that a tribute, like something very valuable. as long as the tribe was paid the emperor would leave the city states alone.

Aztec culture

According to the Aztec religion it took 5 great major gods to create the world.

Aztec Food

beans, squashes, potatoes, tomatoes and avocadoes and meat such as rabbits, armadillos, snakes, coyotes and wild turkey were hunter gatherers.

Aztec Religion

They believed that gods created the world and created large nice temples for them and gave them gifts.

Technologies Used

Aztecs did great things like math, Calendar, canoe and medicine.

The Aztecs had no iron or bronze with which to make their tools and weapons but instead the used Chert and Sidian.

What happened to the Aztecs

The Aztec empire fell for many reasons, for one they made sacrifices to the gods the worshiped all the time, killing thousands of people. Another thing that led to the fall of the Aztec empire was the disease. After Cortes came, he declared war. He and his men and slaves teamed up with soldiers from Cuba. But the Aztec army overwhelmed the Spanish but Cortes’s men would carry a disease called smallpox. It was contagious and after the Spanish retreated and the dead bodies were “looted” by the Aztecs. The disease would spread, no one had a cure for it so it just kept killing the entire population, smallpox even killed the leader of the Aztec army, Cuitláhuac.

Compare

All the tribes had one big thing in common, they all planted corn and farmed as much as the could. Not as much as hunting though. The Mississippian hunted the most. There housing was similar too, they all had houses and none of them built teepees because they didn’t travel as much ,meaning they weren’t hunter gatherers. The Aztec and Maya had the same type of currency, they used cocoa beans.

Contrast

They were different as well they all had a different sort of leader and there art was very different. The Mississippian usually made pots and pottery, the Maya didn’t do as much pottery they did more drawings like ones on there cave walls. The Aztecs had there emperors, who would wear necklaces and jewelry. They also had a different form of sacrifice, the Maya and Aztec, would sacrifice people. And the Mississippian would sacrifice items they cherished very much.

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