Aztec Triple Alliance

The Aztec Civilization were recognized in the 13th Century from 1300-1521. They originated in countries of Mexico, Tenochca, and Texcoco. Temples were buildings that the Aztec had used for Religious purposes. To construct the temples they had used primitive tools such as stones, chisels, and blades. To form the base of the temple they used colorful and easy to cut volcanic stone called tezontle and they used rubble and limestone. Tenochtitlan was built on the island of Lake Texcoco. The Aztec…

making profits. The 3BLor the 3Ps certainly called as three pillars of a good corporate business. It is a higher version of accounting framework carried by the companies including people, planet and profit in order to maintain sustainable development. Triple Bottom Line approach measures the company’s economic value with a thought process of optimum utilization of all resources to achieve and maintain sustainable growth with no unmet demands and be there enough for next upcoming generations to…

the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. An Aztec sculptor created her out of an igneous rock called basalt. This black or gray colored rock is fine-grained and forms from lava as small amounts shoot out of volanoes and cool quickly. This statue was originally discovered in 1790, but was immediately reburied due to its terrifying nature. http://quatr.us/geology/rocks/igneous/basalt.htm 2. This sculpture is of a single person, the Aztec goddess of earth and fire, Coatlicue. Her story…

nine feet statue made out of stone and finely carved was found but immediately reburied. The statue was so shocking that incited terror and huge admiration to the people that found it. The statue depicts the Aztec goddess Coatlicue which means “snakes-hers-skirt” in the native tongue of the Aztecs, which is the mother of all other gods. The statue vaguely depicts a woman that is leaning forward almost as if it was ready to pounce. The bizarreness starts from the feet of the statue that can…

After looking through the many cultures we learned about the one that stood out to me the most was the Aztec Empire. The Aztec’s society was based on their complex religious beliefs. In those beliefs the Aztec’s believed that the gods had created the era or also known as sun that they lived in. They created this era in a city called Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico. Furthermore in their culture they believed the world would cease to exist if they did not do such rituals as blood-letting…

War: An Archeological Analysis and Interpretations of the Aztec Located in central Mexico, most notably a place called Tenochtitlan located on an island in Lake Texaco, was a civilization known as the Aztecs. The Aztecs were one of the powerful civilizations that dominated what is current Mexico. The Aztec were a people with a rich culture and have that have had a great influence on modern Mexico and even the world. After the end of the Aztec civilization their art, tools, and weapons were…

In 1116, the Aztec Empire began their two hundred year odyssey. Legend says that the Aztecs’ Sun god, Huitzilopochtli, gave them their journey. The Aztec people felt they were chosen to maintain the cosmos. They were chosen to be sure the sun had enough energy to travel across the sky and make certain the earth had enough nutrition to support their crops. They felt the way to do this was through blood offerings. To the Aztecs, the heart was the most valuable thing a mortal could offer the gods.…

“(The Aztecs) considered their capital the ‘queen’ of all settlements, and the Spaniards described it as a place belonging to legend” (Doc A). As the Renaissance was taking place in Europe, the Aztecs were busy creating a remarkable world class society in the Americas. The Aztec Empire took place from 1350 to 1519 in present-day Mexico. The study of the Aztecs usually begins in 1519, the year when Hernan Cortes and the 500 Spanish conquistadors first discovered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan…

#1. The name of the statue is The Coatlicue statue. It is eight feet and nine inches tall. The Coatlicue statue is located in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. It is thought to be created between 1300 and 1500 in Tenochtitlan, Mexico, it was discovered on 13 August 1790, in the front of the main plaza in Mexico City, but was reburied because of its terrifying depictions. It is made out of andesite, a volcanic type of rock from a specific area. #2. At first glance, a serpent…

Huitzilopochtli is the god of sun and warfare and is also one of the principle deities of the Aztec religion. In Aztec mythology, the god is the offspring of the supreme earth goddess known as Coatlίcue (Britannica). The Aztecs believed that Huitzilopochtli needed “daily nourishment” in the form of human sacrifice, as the “people of the sun” were required to provide the god with blood and hearts for strength. The sacrifice was offered to the sun, or the “eagle who rises,” and burned in “the…