The Aztec's Daily Life

To start off, I will be talking about the Aztec’s daily life. The animals the Aztecs hunted were turkeys, dogs, ducks, deer, rabbits, iguana, fish, shrimp, grasshoppers, and worms. The Aztec children played with marbles, stones, and the bow and arrow. A husband could have more than one wife. A steam bath was in every Aztec house. The houses were adobe and made out of mud bricks. The Aztecs spoke the language of Nahuatl. The two main classes were the nobles and the common people. The Aztecs buried or cremated those who died. The slaves were treated well. Maize is another word for corn. Their writing system is different from ours today because they used symbols instead of letters. Common people wore loincloths and tilma, the women would wear skirts and sleeve-less blouse or
Aztecs would craft jewelry into the shapes of birds, reptiles, and bells. One kind of jewelry the Aztecs made were earplugs/earspools. There were two Montezumas. Ancient Aztec artifacts included: fired-clay Mictanecuhtl statue, Aztec calendar stone, the Florentine Codex, Aztec feather shield, and Montezuma’s throne. There were both men and women in battle. Three major cities were Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan. Themes in Aztec art were insects, birds, fish, animals, jaguars, ducks, monkeys, snakes, deer, and dogs. Ruins of temples can be found today. Tenochtitlan was built on the water. Buildings you would find in the cities would be the Templo Mayor, the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon, Great Pyramid of Cholula, and the Great Pyramid of Teopazolo. Huitzilopochtli, Cuauhtemos, Popocateptl, Illhuicanina, and Xocoyotzin were famous Aztec warriors. Hernan Cortes was the explorer who had contact with the Aztecs. The Aztecs had eleven kings, including the two Montezumas. Three important historical events were the founding of Tenochtitlan (1325), severe floods (1510), and a comet appears (1517). The Aztec’s original name was