Women In The Aztec Era

The situation of women in the pre-Columbian era was like any other culture because power had man. The woman lacked rights, was sometimes treated as an object. For example, in one of the most developed pre-Columbian civilizations, the Aztecs, a situation occurred with the rights of women with the Malinche. She was a girl of the Aztec culture, who after a clash between tribes was ceded as a slave, because that was the tradition of those times. Later, Malinche was again ceded as a slave, but this time to Hernan Cortes by the cacique of Tabasco, along with 19 other women, some pieces of another and a set of blankets. Afterwards, Hernan Cortes learned that Malinche spoke several languages and did not hesitate to use it as an interpreter in order
The functions of women at that time were to raise children, domestic affairs, and to ensure the fulfillment and teaching of moral values to their offspring. The woman was responsible for maintaining the honor of her family. The women were subject to respect to their husband, and for that the education of the girls was entrusted to nuns so that she was submissive before what it demanded its
Marriage alliances were in response to family strategies that reinforced the family's power ties. Through marriage, other people and their relatives were assimilated and wealth was strengthened, because the woman contributed a new family. Many Spaniards were accommodated arranging a good marriage to increase their patrimony. The wife allowed her family to assimilate the husband that is how women play an important role in the formation of society. On the other hand, the woman had to accompany the husband to charitable activities or go to mass. If the woman was widowed, she had to manage the goods and if business progressed, she would enter the male world.
Talking about different cultures, mestizo women played an important role in women's performance. The mestizo women were not respected, and they had to dedicate themselves to domestic and productive work. Marriage was an ideal in their lives, because the mestizo woman should not worry so much about maintaining her honor because they did not have a lineage to care for. At first, the mestizo in general, and therefore the woman, was frowned upon by the Creoles and the Indians. Then the whole society merged into mixed blood, and society became more complex about