Finally, one of the most recognized indigenous Mexican groups is the Aztec, is also the most powerful kingdom of all time in Mesoamerica. This enormous empire reached from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to the present day-day Republic of Guatemala. Fifteen million people lived in thirty-eight provinces and residing in 489 communities paying tribute to the Emperor Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the great Aztec empire. The Aztec spoke a version of the language called Nahuatl which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family of languages of the indigenous or native people form North and South America also known as Amerindian The Aztecs were an assortment of different individual tribes fused together and became
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These glyphs were illustrations of the word they meant to convey. For example, the glyph for was a picture of a war club and shield. In addition, the Aztec had glyphs that represent sounds or syllables that were put together to form the name of the place. Unlike the Maya the writing system never reproduced the full spoken language for the Aztec. Instead, the writing was done in books called codices (plural for codex), were long sheets of paper folded in accordion-like fashion. Writing and pictures covered both sides of each page and read from top to bottom. Reading and writing in Tenochtitlan was not designated for the common people, but for professional scribes who were trained and experienced in interpreting glyphs and drawings. Aztec rules were also taught how to read and write as they depended on this skill to manage their empire, to record numbers, dates, places and names of people. Priest were also among the trained scholars who relied on books in their observations of the stars and calendar system. The telling of history or stories of the empire relied on memory of the person passing on information by spoken word from generation to …show more content…
Pope Francis condemned what he called “the systemic and organized way your people have been misunderstood and excluded from society”. Even though primal behavior occurred between each tribe where the most dominant ones survived in order to control power, it became more significant after the Spanish conquest, where seclusion of mixed ethnic varieties or castas, created from the immersion of African Americas slaves, and Europeans mixing with the indigenous, meant to suppress groups who were not of pure European blood. The result of the combining of indigenous and Hispanic cultures over hundreds of years has resulted in much of the Mexican population being of ‘mestizo’ race, but there are still areas where native have mixed very little with outsiders even today. Indigenous communities suffer by this misunderstanding and exclusion facing high poverty rates, which impacts their overall quality of life and access to basic resources for 12.6 percent of the population. Based on to the United Nations’ 2015 report 80.6 percent of Mexico’s population lives in extreme poverty. As of 2014 In Mexico indigenous communities only 27 percent of children graduated from high school. And as far as health is concerned, indigenous face poorer health indicators compared to
These glyphs were illustrations of the word they meant to convey. For example, the glyph for was a picture of a war club and shield. In addition, the Aztec had glyphs that represent sounds or syllables that were put together to form the name of the place. Unlike the Maya the writing system never reproduced the full spoken language for the Aztec. Instead, the writing was done in books called codices (plural for codex), were long sheets of paper folded in accordion-like fashion. Writing and pictures covered both sides of each page and read from top to bottom. Reading and writing in Tenochtitlan was not designated for the common people, but for professional scribes who were trained and experienced in interpreting glyphs and drawings. Aztec rules were also taught how to read and write as they depended on this skill to manage their empire, to record numbers, dates, places and names of people. Priest were also among the trained scholars who relied on books in their observations of the stars and calendar system. The telling of history or stories of the empire relied on memory of the person passing on information by spoken word from generation to …show more content…
Pope Francis condemned what he called “the systemic and organized way your people have been misunderstood and excluded from society”. Even though primal behavior occurred between each tribe where the most dominant ones survived in order to control power, it became more significant after the Spanish conquest, where seclusion of mixed ethnic varieties or castas, created from the immersion of African Americas slaves, and Europeans mixing with the indigenous, meant to suppress groups who were not of pure European blood. The result of the combining of indigenous and Hispanic cultures over hundreds of years has resulted in much of the Mexican population being of ‘mestizo’ race, but there are still areas where native have mixed very little with outsiders even today. Indigenous communities suffer by this misunderstanding and exclusion facing high poverty rates, which impacts their overall quality of life and access to basic resources for 12.6 percent of the population. Based on to the United Nations’ 2015 report 80.6 percent of Mexico’s population lives in extreme poverty. As of 2014 In Mexico indigenous communities only 27 percent of children graduated from high school. And as far as health is concerned, indigenous face poorer health indicators compared to