During the rule over the Aztecs their rule expanded across the continent. During this expansion they also began building over the Aztec empire creating the brand new city Mexico City by building directly over the ruins of the Aztecs old empire. Even during the expansion of new spain their production was slowed by resistance from the indigenous people and resistance from the land. But even with these obstacles the spaniards “New Spain” was still the richest and most popular of all the spanish colonies. Spaniards began flooding into Mexico because of the stories of gold riches and lands but as more spaniards came the more people began to start families with the indigenous peoples ending up creating a new culture, with new music,dances, food,…
Tenochtitlan began on an island in Mexico. They grew a lot of food for the families. Mainly slaves grew all the food and built temples. Poor families had small homes. Rich families had big homes.…
The aztecs were a large empire because they fought in wars a lot and acquired a lot of land, and not only did they get land, they got sacrifice victims captured from the war. According to Document D by Friar Diego Duran, 1581, priests performed rituals with these 2,300 sacrifice victims by slicing their chests open, ripping out their heart, throwing it into the shrine, and rolling their bodies down the stairs. The Aztecs did a large amount of sacrifice, but their everyday life was agriculture. They would plant, harvest, and turn the crops into food. Everyday people had to make the corn into flour for baking.…
During its height in 1519, the Aztec Empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to present-day Guatemala. The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan became a mighty metropolis with its advanced technological innovations. New technologies such as Chinampas or “floating gardens” for growing crops, aqueducts carrying fresh water, transportation canal systems, great causeways, large temples and buildings, and a coordinated administration allowed Tenochtitlan to flourish and rival European cities of the time. Aztec society was defined by social stratification which placed a king or high priest above society. Following the upper class, councils, nobles/warriors, merchants and artisans, and commoners (farmers and slaves) formed the Aztec civilization.…
enochtitlan was built in an island on a swampy lake today known as Mexico, it was a floating city that had canal and an irrigation system. The city was just huts at first and keep on getting larger and expanding into a large city. There were a bout 200,000 people living there. There traveled in canoes to get place to place through the canal. The way of life was an nice city until the Spanish came over and took over the land.…
The Aztecs were a nomadic civilization, however for a few hundred years, they considered the land of Tenochtitián their home. Tenochtitián would later be renamed Mexico City by Hernando Cortés. There were three main regions of ancient Mexico: Tenochtitián, Texcoco, and Tlacopan. Interestingly enough, the area of Tenochtitián has always been the center of every civilization who has inhabited the land.…
The Mayan created one of the most advanced civilizations with man power. They got man power by conquering other mayan cities. They fought for sacrifices and slaves, as well as men who would help build. The “wars” were not about the most death on one side it was about captor.…
The Taino people lived more as Native Americans with tent or teepee like homes that can easily be moved. The Aztecs had build something more concrete and much more similar to the Spaniards with temples, villages, cities, and a palace. The Aztecs had many sophisticated architectural structures which is why Cortes found it such a struggle to describe it to do it justly. “This noble city contains many fine and magnificent houses; there are numerous wealthy citizens who also possess fine houses” (Cortes, Second Letter, par 14). The Taino people did not seem technologically advanced which is why Columbus saw them as a poor people and why they were so enthralled to barter with anything they had to have something from these new explorers (Columbus, Journal).…
If left up to the text of the 16th century the fall of the Aztec Empire would be accredited only to Cortes, but as Kevin O. Collins stressed in The Fatal Flaws of the Aztec Empire we see that we must look past the conquest and look more to the political, and religious view of the Aztec. Writers, such as William Prescott saw the flaws in the manuscripts written by those under Cortes and stressed that it was the mismanagement of Tenochtitlan that caused its fall. Unfortunately for this paper I will not be focusing on the fall of the Aztec Empire, but I will be focusing on what made the empire great; its symbolism, myths, temples, and if only for a little its ruler Motecuhzoma the second. Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the Aztec Empire was in what is now present day Mexico City. Tenochtitlan was immense in size housing over 200,000 inhabitants at its high; the city was constructed on an island.…
A dry area that could be used for farmland if irrigated. Inca living here caught seafood from the ocean and traded it for food from with people who lived inland. A high altitude plain where INcan familiar might have settled where where they grew quinoa, potatoes, and grain and raised alpaca and llamas. Warm, humid area where Incas grew maize, coca, fruit, and pepper, and raised alpaca and llamas.…
There were many indigenous groups living in mexico including Yucatec, Zapotec, Totonac, and many more. These groups would build huge temples for their reason of worship or safety. They would have perfect structures to stay up for hundreds to thousands of years. There's still history that has stayed in the culture including their dances. They would have these dances that they would make up to tell their stories.…
The Aztecs were one of the greatest Mesoamerican civilizations ever. Their capital, Tenochtitlan, is located in modern day Mexico City. They lead nearly ten million people. They were known for many outstanding breakthroughs, including agriculture and human sacrifice. However, historians should emphasize Aztec agriculture.…
Summary In Miguel Leon-Portilla’s The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, the author shares the Aztec account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1519. Throughout the book, Portilla discusses the significant events that occurred in the Aztec society. The indigenous groups in Mexico such as the Mexica (Aztec) had a thriving culture and advanced society in ancient Mesoamerica. The people of the Aztec society were educated, studied many subjects of interest such as astrology, and built great architectural pyramids that were breathtaking and beautiful.…
The Aztecs, as they are known, were a group of people who originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico. Although the origins of the Aztecs are uncertain, they "are believed to begun as a northern tribe of hunter-gatherers whose name came from that of their homeland, Aztlan (“White Land”). " The Aztecs were also known as the Tenochca derived from their capital city, Tenochtitlan, and the Mexica. The Aztec empire was built in 1428 under leader Itzcoatl, forming a three-way alliance with the Acolhua people of Texcoco, and the Mexica in Tenochtitlan, and the Tepaneca people of Tlacopan. These three groups were responsible for the defeat and domination of a big part of Mexico.…
Most of their land had coastal areas or easy access to water through rivers or lakes which made it possible for the Aztecs to build gardens called “Chinampas”. Basically chinampas are a small or semi large gardens placed in shallow lake waters that had sediment, mud and decaying matter to grow plants on and was often surrounded by trees or walls to protect vegetation. To prevent depletion of the nutrients, farmers often used rotations among areas of farming and Chinampas…