Reading about the Aztecs and the Spaniards, I noticed a lot of similarities with the way they organize their politics and their religion. I looked closely into each section and analyzed it. I would first like to start to talk about, how the Aztecs religion came into their political philosophy. Starting off with the Aztecs, they had their hierarchy based on dynasty so who was next in line with the family would come into power. They would have city-states that would/could turn into empires. While all of this would happen they would focus on their religion, and have the gods pick what they should do. Each empire had a ruler and would elect its own leader. What I found interesting about the aztecs was that they were really advanced in technology.
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They created their own hydraulic system of dikes, causeways, canals, and aqueducts, and an extensive system of irrigation channels. The Aztecs were very educated people and knew how to take care of each other. The Aztecs were also mostly vegetarian, because they had such great soil they could plant almost anything. Aztecs had many different classes and one of the important ones was the ruling class. The ruling class controlled most of the goods that were sent to different locations. The Aztecs used the tributary system, with the commercial markets and it dominated their economy. The farmers would bring the essential goods to the central markets, merchants exchanged a variety of good including: rights to lands, slaves, carriers, and luxury items. Like most governments the Aztec had policies they had to follow. The political unit they followed was the city state; to them called altepetl. There were at least fifty city states in the central basin of mexico and four hundred and fifty outside the basin. There was a judicial hierarchy that consisted of 12 judges who functioned in a six state-level districts. Each judge was specialists in the laws and were economically supported but watched …show more content…
They became very harsh was when ferdinand was the King of Spain. Ferdinand and his wife Isabella, their goal was to make Spain all Christian. This devastated their economy because the Jews and Moors held up the middle class. When Columbus came to them and told them about this expedition they had, it made them think about how it could help save their economy. They had other ideas to about converting all the people in America to Catholicism.
The spanish had the same hierarchy like the Aztecs had. Since the Spanish was very intolerant to people who weren't catholics they created the doctrine of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood). If you could not prove you were born from catholicism, you were ranked lower and couldn't do the same thing other people could do. The spaniards had a big deal in trying to figure out if the indians were people or slaves. It all depends on where you were, in some places there was things that were worse than being slaves, such as when you worked to death in the mines, but black slaves were more treated worse than the
They created their own hydraulic system of dikes, causeways, canals, and aqueducts, and an extensive system of irrigation channels. The Aztecs were very educated people and knew how to take care of each other. The Aztecs were also mostly vegetarian, because they had such great soil they could plant almost anything. Aztecs had many different classes and one of the important ones was the ruling class. The ruling class controlled most of the goods that were sent to different locations. The Aztecs used the tributary system, with the commercial markets and it dominated their economy. The farmers would bring the essential goods to the central markets, merchants exchanged a variety of good including: rights to lands, slaves, carriers, and luxury items. Like most governments the Aztec had policies they had to follow. The political unit they followed was the city state; to them called altepetl. There were at least fifty city states in the central basin of mexico and four hundred and fifty outside the basin. There was a judicial hierarchy that consisted of 12 judges who functioned in a six state-level districts. Each judge was specialists in the laws and were economically supported but watched …show more content…
They became very harsh was when ferdinand was the King of Spain. Ferdinand and his wife Isabella, their goal was to make Spain all Christian. This devastated their economy because the Jews and Moors held up the middle class. When Columbus came to them and told them about this expedition they had, it made them think about how it could help save their economy. They had other ideas to about converting all the people in America to Catholicism.
The spanish had the same hierarchy like the Aztecs had. Since the Spanish was very intolerant to people who weren't catholics they created the doctrine of limpieza de sangre (purity of blood). If you could not prove you were born from catholicism, you were ranked lower and couldn't do the same thing other people could do. The spaniards had a big deal in trying to figure out if the indians were people or slaves. It all depends on where you were, in some places there was things that were worse than being slaves, such as when you worked to death in the mines, but black slaves were more treated worse than the