Mesoamerica

Mexica which is where the name Mexico comes from . Westerners that visited the lands called them Aztec due to the original place named Aztlan that they had visited many centuries ago.The Aztec empire was one of the most powerful civilizations in Mesoamerica at the time. The pyramid of Tenochtitlan means “the city of where the gods were created” .The city was constructed on top of a lake which it no longer exist due to the drainage that was done to create Mexico City.Till this day studies have…

Populated with millions of people from hundreds of different ethnic groups, Mesoamerica was a very diverse area during its time. Daily Life of the Aztecs describes the inhabitants as being shorter and stockier in build, the men rarely growing taller than 5’7” and women usually shorter than 4’10”. A hooked nose sat upon their prominent…

The practice of human sacrifice was a very prevalent in the ancient cultures of the Mesoamerican region. While practiced by smaller civilizations, the Aztec empire’s aggressive use of sacrifice was romanticized in movies, books, and other mediums. Before the Aztec empire’s height in 1427, historians speculate that the natives practiced sacrifice only in small quantities. The Aztecs dominated the Mexican region in culture for the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. After the arrival of the Spanish…

The Empire The Aztecs weren't one group but instead they were the Xochimilca, Chalca, Tepaneca, Colhua, Tlahuica, Tlaxcalteca, and Mexica tribes. They are considered one indian group because they all came from the same place (they called it Aztlan) and all spoke Nahuatl. The last of the tribes to arrive was the Mexica. They arrived in about 1250 and found an island with an eagle eating a snake on top of a cactus, just like their priests prophesied. That island become Tenochtitlan, which grew to…

Astrology of the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas Pheena Berwick 3/23/16 Mayans, who were an ancient civilization that originated in the South American area, did not commit human sacrifices without a reason; often it had to do with astrology. Astrology has affected more than just the Incas however, even if it was not always to the extent of human sacrifice. Astrology has also affected the Mayans, and Aztecs. Astrology has lead to the creation of many interesting mythological stories,…

The Aztec Empire was once a powerful force in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica that fell from power during the early 16th century when the Spanish arrived and began conquering the so called New world. This conquest was hastened by their advanced technology and by the introduction of foreign disease’s that the Natives did not have resistance too. What many people don’t consider though is the possibility that the Aztec’s themselves also contributed to their downfall with their own beliefs regarding human…

Art, Ceremony, and 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,…

the level of complexity of Mesoamerican civilizations, but particularly by their penchant for human sacrifice. While human sacrifice is well documented among the Aztec of Central Mexico it is not as well documented among the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. There is debate among archaeologists as to whether many of the burials claimed to be evidence of human sacrifice among the Maya should be reinterpreted as funerary, citing lack of evidence of violent forms of death (Weiss-Krejci, 2003).…

Neo-Confucianism dominated China in the Song dynasty when Aztec believed polytheism. Because of this religious difference, Mesoamerica and China had distinctive social aspects, such as gender equality and the status of merchants. However, there is a similar political phenomenon in political features such as a decline of military skills for religious beliefs. Both Mesoamerica and China became a patriarchal society as time past, but Aztec stated more equal right to women because its religion…

Mexican Mosaic tells the history of Mexico from the Spanish conquest in 1519 to the mid-2000s. The Author, Dr. Jürgen Buchenau, demonstrates Mexico’s position in the global community, the negotiations of power that happened within Mexico, and the social environment in Mexico. Mexican Mosaic is like many other history books in that it presents many. Buchenau differentiates himself from others by his analysis of events in Mexican history that are unclear and events in the modern political sphere…