Would you rather be a murderer and bloody killer or a farmer who’s keeping people alive. In the 1400s and early 1500s, the Aztecs dominated the religion around modern day in Mexico city. There was 300 million people that lived there. “The Aztecs lived in a geological basin in central Mexico that is about the size of Rhode island. They were surrounded by high mountain peaks the basin extended 80 miles from north to south and 49 miles from east to west. In Aztec times the basin collected water that formed five interconnected shallow lakes. Which provided splendid irrigation for farming.”I got this from the background essay “ Should Historians emphasize Agriculture or Human Sacrifice.”. …show more content…
“According to Document B Source- Peter N. Stearns, World Civilization: The Global Experience, Addison Wesley, 2001.” All of these was around “Tenochtitlan and the yield from them was highest for corn crops per year were possible.” According to Document B towards the end Source- Peter N. Stearns, World Civilization: The Global Experience, Addison Wesley, 2001. “Approximately twenty thousand acres of chinampas were constructed [around Tenochtitlan] and the yield from them was high:four corn crops per year were possible.”The Aztecs developed an ingenious system for irrigating agricultural called the chinampas that were all there crops would grow there were very nicely organized and people would help with the chinampas. From all of that the men would plant the and harvest it while the women grind and roll it in tortillas. From this there was religion put in there crops because of the corn goddess. That is another reason I picked Aztec agriculture because they put religion in their crops by growing corn. Also crops was an all around year process when the human sacrifice was once a year. That is a major part when the chinampas are very important instead of human …show more content…
We think that historians should focus on agriculture rather than human sacrifice. Historians should focus on the way the Aztecs farmed. We think that agriculture is more important than human sacrifice because if the historians focus on human sacrifice it only shows that the Aztecs slaughtered people to please the gods. But if the historians focus on agriculture you will see the way they lived and the way they farmed together.The Aztecs worked together instead of slaughtering people to death. This is why think that historians should focus on agriculture instead of human