Life In The Aztec Empire

The first paragraph will explain daily life of people in the Aztec Empire. http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/dailylife.html Here is the daily life of the Mayan the rich lived in sun dried brick and sometime stone. Also the homes also had white wash to make thwaterm sarpkle in the sun, and the huses had a sepaerate room steam baths.How they made the steam was in the text it says , “ Water was poured over hot stones to generate steam.” Finally the rich wore colorfully embroidered with decorated features. Next the poor were mostly farmers they lived in huts which had thatched roofs. Now they had little to no furniture with baskets they had to make themselves so they could carry there own belongings in the baskets. What the poor did have was pots, with
The kids were taught proper behavior a specialized profession. Also the teachers were highly respected. Most Of the Aztecs ended up being farmers, fisherman, and hunters. But some Aztecs trained for a better job to be like soldiers, doctors,priests, traders, craftsman, ball players, builders, matchmakers. and merchants.Soldiers were highly respected and highly trained. They were fierce fighters. They almost never lost. The Aztecs were nearly always at war.Some soldiers lived long enough to retire. Those who did retired in comfort and wealth.Athletics were highly respected, especially ballplayers. Some athletics were professional athletics. For the very best, this was a specialized profession.Their job was practice shooting a rubber ball through a hoop. 3. The third paragraph will explain what the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan is like. http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/tenochtitlan.html Tenochtitlan was the Aztec's capitol city, In the early 1500s it was home to 300,000. It was a beautiful city, with temples and open plazas with tons of little shops, each specializing in a certain goods.There were restaurants, and places you could grab some finger good and a drink. There was fresh food and meat for sale. Mexico city was built on the ruins of the Aztecs capital city. Mexico city was beautiful just like Aztec capital, Mexico city had rich with history and cultures. 4. The fourth paragraph
Some of the land was not very good for gardening. As the population grew, the Aztecs needed to find a way to grow more food. The floating gardens were actually rafts.They piled vegetation and reeds on top of the raft to help provide good soil and drainage. They hook the garden up to a rope and ether hooked it to the bottom of a like or a tree marsh.The gardens were used to grow chili peppers, corn, tomatoes, beans, and squash.It was somewhat difficult to harvest the food since the gardens were floating in marsh water. To solve this, Aztec engineers built mud and stone walls around each floating garden. The walls acted as walkways between the gardens.The floating gardens solved some of their problem, but as their population grew, they needed more land. Their engineers solved this by designing dikes to hold back water. They filled in the marshlands and swamps just as they had the rafts, the floating