Tenochtitlan

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 not found who was responsible for the mapping and grid plans to the old city of Tenochtitlan. The great pyramids of Tenochtitlan is now located around thirty…

from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf coast and from central Mexico to the present day-day Republic of Guatemala. Fifteen million people lived in thirty-eight provinces and residing in 489 communities paying tribute to the Emperor Moctezuma II in Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the great Aztec empire. The Aztec spoke a version of the language called Nahuatl which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family of languages of the indigenous or native people form North and South America also known as Amerindian…

Introduction: Aztecs were known for their remarkable success in development of their capital city of Tenochtitlan, which was built on top of another city Teotihuacan. The Aztecs were very advanced for their time, they constructed strong and stable buildings, their architecture was very simple but elegant. This advancement in their architecture allowed for the city of Tenochtitlan to become the most populated city in Mesoamerica. Aztec Background: The Aztecs are a tribe who were believed to…

Spanish expeditions that had been repelled by Indians. He thought that he could accomplish something no one else has before.. In 1519, he arrived on the coast of Mexico with about 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons. He began to trek toward Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. A young woman of indian ethnicity named Malinche served as Cortes's translator and advisor. She told Cortes that the Aztecs had gained power by taking over other groups of people. Many conquered people…

Schwartz examines different cultures and discusses their role in the fall of the dominant Mexica. Furthermore, in Schwartz’s description of Tenochtitlan we see proof of the principles Wolf establishes in Chapter Two. He emphasizes the effects of the environment on the formation of various civilizations and how it can dictate societal interactions. Tenochtitlan was built on water, and the Mexica developed various technological innovations to adapt to this environment. They had aqueducts and…

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…

Throughout his journey through Mexico he discovered a native group who were also against the Aztecs, the Tlaxcalans. The only way he could defeat them was with there help. With both armies united, they went on with their journey to the Aztec Capital, Tenochtitlan, hoping to defeat Montezuma II, ruler of the Aztecs, and his army. Upon arriving, Montezuma II greeted Cortes with great hospitality thinking that he was the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl, whom the Aztecs…

the culture’s religion. Architecture can also define have complex a society was. It can show how different classes of people lived. Aztec major cities were erected on marshy islands. They achieved architectural feats in all areas. Tenochtitlan The city of Tenochtitlan was a modern marvel that surprised the Europeans who eventually came to discover the Aztec Empire during their exploration of the Americas. The city was constructed on what was swampy islands to even build on the land they first…

nomadic people were uncivilized compared to their neighbors, so they were forced to create alliances with stronger city-states. These city-states would later be taken over by the Aztecs forming the Aztec empire. The capital of the Aztec empire was Tenochtitlán located on Lake Texcoco. Starting as a small nomadic group, the Aztecs were able to build the strongest empire in the Americas until the sixteenth century when they were conquered by the Spanish. When the Aztecs…

Hernan Cortes may have originally come to Tenochtitlan to convert the Aztecs to Catholicism but, in the process of doing so, killed many of them and the indigenous with the smallpox disease. A year after Cortes’ arrival into the sophisticated city, an African slave who was infected with the disease arrived to serve in Tenochtitlan. Cortes’ men quickly caught the disease and so did the Aztecs; who were unfamiliar with the disease and had no immunity nor cure and therefore died by the thousands.…