Tenochtitlan

civilizations of South America. The largest Native American community North America was the city of Cahokia, which reached between 10,000 and 30,000 inhabitants around the year 1200 (Foner, 6). In contrast, the Aztec capital in modern-day Mexico, Tenochtitlán, reached around 250,000 citizens (Foner, 4). While natives in the South were building complex government systems, sophisticated road systems,…

The Devastating Impact of the Columbian Exchange on the Indigenous People of America The Columbian Exchange, spanning from around 1500 to 1750 CE, stands as a pivotal time in world history, fundamentally altering the trajectory of human civilization. Yet, during the exchange of goods, ideas, and peoples between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, lay a dark and harrowing reality for the indigenous societies of the Americas. This period, characterized by the collision of worlds, unleashed a…

Throughout this article, Nicholas, Elson, and many more contributors looked closely upon Aztec ceramic pottery during the Post-Classic Period, which thus put in perspective the trade patterns and economic state of the empire. It analyzes Chiconautla, Mexico, the capital of small Post-Classic city-state on the southern edge of the Teotihuacan Valley, and it’s specific relation to the development and growth of markets for trade (Nicolas et al 2009:443). This growth in ceramic trade is shown to…

ANTH 235 Fall 2016 Final Exam essays The natural environment has been used to help explain the rise and fall of archaeological cultures across the world. Evaluate the relative importance of environment with specific examples from Mesoamerica and the Andes. The environment has always been a key factor of the success or implosion for civilizations all around the globe. Mesoamerica and the Andes, both hold a handful of societies that were created, expanded, and even destroyed by the natural…

The three societies the Maya, Aztec, and Inca went through rough times in their lives, such as sacrificing; they also had achievements from their creations. Sacrificing was a big thing in all of these societies, they would cut out a victim's heart and present it to their living god or ruler. They all had at least one thing in common. They all had economy, government, religion, and technology. But they all had their differences in their lives. The Mayan had a government, economy, religion,…

Huitzilin lived in tenochtitlan from 1345 to 1365 he is a aztec he lived with is mom and dad. Then the strangers came they showed up on the hill near the city. The strangers came down the hill on big brown creature that were 4 times faster than the fastest runner the had shiny clothes covering their entire body are weapons couldn’t hurt them it didn’t even look like they had any effect on them. The arrows just hit and shattered as they pelted the strangers they had shiney hard fabric covering…

The Aztec and Inca empires grew rapidly during the fifteenth century and were far superior than the other Indigenous groups in their land. While these two empires expanded differently they both prove to be the most power empires to have existed in Mesoamerica. The Mexica, who were the Aztecs, and Incas became powerful through their military successes, and reformed religious ideologies. While both of these empires proved to be successful in growing their empires where they both experienced power…

As a result of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World in 1492, Spanish men endured months of difficult voyages in search of three things in the Americas- gold, glory, and God. In addition, having had arrived with the drive to conquer, they were soon enough met with mighty and diverse civilizations that made up Mesoamerica-- proving itself to be the perfect opportunity to take the wealth of these peoples, obtain territory, and maybe convert a few souls to Catholicism. However, these…

AZTECS FINALLY FALL The person we chose for our biography profile is Hernán Cortés. We studied this person in American History and he interested us a lot so I talked to my partner and he said he liked him too. In the fall of 1518 he was to command his own trip to Mexico, but his boss canceled it. Despite his boss’s orders he went anyway. He left with more than 500 men and 11 ships. So all in all Hernán Cortés is an all around interesting person. Hernán had a winning record.…

political grasp on most of the region. The Aztecs did not enforce absolute rule over their territories, nor were all the territories linked by common borders, the Aztecs simply expected the territories to pay tributes to the principal city state of Tenochtitlan. There was a relatively complex…