Aztec Triple Alliance

Daily Life of the Aztecs was an incredibly insightful and educational source of information regarding all aspects of Aztec life. One thing I found to be especially intriguing was how many similarities there are between the current day traditions of many different cultures and the traditions the Aztecs used to observe. Understandably, there are some major differences too, but the fact that we can still find ways to relate to people who lived centuries before us is pretty extraordinary. Before…

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. Popo and Isla was a story about a a emperor of Tenochtitlan…

The Aztecs worshipped many gods. The Aztecs gave blood and flesh to the gods and to do that they formed ceremonies. The ceremonies were held at special given temples in Tenochtitlan,Texcoco and Tlacopan. They made many sacrifices but not all were fatal. Most of the time the victim’s heart gets ripped out and then burned. Sometimes even decapitation. There are 2 specific knives for sacrifice obsidian and flint. The sacrifices were stretched over rocks and skinned. They let the ladies skin the…

conquering the a huge group of natives called the Aztecs, or starting a new civilization, that question can only be answered by the great Hernan Cortes. Who is Hernan Cortes? Cortes is a famous spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico. Cortes’ voyage was one of the reasons Mexico has a spanish culture today. Cortes was born to be a conquistador after he dropped out of his school so he could learn how to fight. Hernan Cortes’ exploration led to the fall of the Aztec Empire, the claiming of…

were nice but they weren’t? The Aztec Empire started when a group of people saw an eagle with a snake on its mouth and on a cactus. They were happy and had millions of followers but that all changed when the spanish came to the area. The Aztecs thought they were there gods that came to visit and so they let them in. But they were there to steal the Aztecs gold and make them fall. There was four top reasons why Tenochtitlan was defeated. They are manipulation, alliances, disease, superior…

and powerful Aztec Empire.…

The aztecs had a town that can be found using geography.The aztec home is what now is known as Mexico City. In addition the aztecs used an unusual currency.The aztecs valued cocoa beans because it was currency from aztecs to mayans.For example an egg was three beans,a rabbit was thirty,and cloth was a range of sixtyfive to three-hundred. Now let us talk about an aztecs daily life.Every fifty-two years all aztecs smash their belongings.They traded pottery.By the way aztecs gave tribute for a…

The Aztec Empire existed between 1428 and 1521, and the Spartan Empire existed between 800 BC and 192 BC. The Aztecs lived in central Mexico, and the Spartans lived in an area of the Peloponnese. While the Aztecs and Spartans shared a society that was based around war, there are some differences between them in that aspect, as well as in the governmental and social aspects of the societies. There are some similarities between the Aztecs and Spartans in this area. One way is that war was…

Skull Mask become a part of Day of the dead because during the Aztecs and other Meso-Americans reign they kept skulls as trophies and flaunted them during ceremonies. The skulls then represented death and reincarnation. The reincarnation part of these ceremonies was the most important of the ceremony. Aztecs and other Meso-American cultures believed their beloved relatives came back from the dead during the monthlong ritual. In celebrations today the skull mask are called calacus. This…

to defeat the Aztecs not because of the Spanish's superior technology or the Aztecs' belief that the Spanish were gods, but because of the Aztecs' existing tension with their neighbors due to their imperialism as well as the genocidal actions that the Spanish deployed to control the Aztecs. In the first few sections of the essay, Smith disproved the traditional idea that religion played a big role in the Aztec's conquest. He stated that there were many records of omens that the Aztecs received…