Content Booklet Origins of the Universe Origins of the Universe The Aztecs believed that it took the Gods five tries to create the world as it is today. Each of these worlds coincided with a sun and a sun God. It took this many attempts as the Gods always ended up fighting. This is how each world is destroyed and then born again. The fifth sun and its world is the one we live in and with today. This First Sun creation was the Jaguar Sun Ocelotl. Its world was ruled by Tezcatlipoca (Smoking
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The Downfall of the Moors and the Aztecs In what are commonly regarded as two of the greatest conquests in early history‚ the Moors of Spain and the Aztec Empire were both dethroned by invading empires. The Moors by the White armies of the Goths and later the Spanish looking for revenge‚ and the Aztecs by the Spanish themselves‚ in search of riches in the new world. What began in 711 A.D. and lasted for over seven centuries can be described as the largest race war in history. The Moors had overrun
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Aztec‚Inca‚Mayan Were all very similar in belief‚architecture‚ and culture but with each one having key differences. They shared common interests in farming and architecture along with calendars and math all using a tax system based on the social pyramid. The Aztecs The Aztecs settles in the mexican valley in 1248 and made great cities out of stone and temples‚shrines and pyramids to practice human sacrifice to satisfy their gods. They were early explorers of math and timekeeping and most importantly
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The plight of Manila Zoo’s elephant‚ Mali Mali‚ the 38-year-old female elephant‚ has been living in an enclosure in a small enclosure of Manila Zoo for thirty-four years. In 1979 Mali was given by the government of Sri Lanka to the Republic of the Philippines as a form of a gift between two nations. After three decades of captivity in a concrete enclosure‚ a new opportunity has opened for the lonely elephant to spend her remaining days in the wild. PETA Asia‚ along with other animal activists
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humans‚ while they were still conscious. But the Aztec people only believed in human sacrifice because they‚ as a people‚ believed that the highest possible honor was to be given to the gods‚ and this honor was human sacrifice. The Aztecs performed these rituals atop of pyramids‚ and it is thought that hundreds of people were sacrificed each year. The Aztecs were seeking to “feed and nourish” the gods with blood and flesh. A well-known myth told by Aztecs is the creation story. In this story‚ the “mother
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arrival of European Colonists Mesoamerica consisted of many different types of cultures‚ one of which were the Aztec. This culture is interesting and important to look at specifically because of their hierarchal government and society. Social stratification is developing during this time period and through archaeology‚ we can see the progression and evidence of this development. The Aztecs had a distinct social structure that consisted of nobles‚ commoners‚ and slaves. Nobles were priests‚ lords
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The Aztecs went to war to achieve territory‚ resources‚ quash rebellions‚ and to capture their enemies and sacrifice them to honour their gods. The Aztecs were very accomplished in battle‚they forged a very powerful empire and at its highest they extracted tribute from 371 cities across 38 provinces. The Aztecs Believed that the god Huitzilopochtli (god of sun and war) had been ready for war from the moment of birth. They believed his first act of war was to kill without mercy his 400 siblings
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The Aztecs and their relationship with Cortes The relationship between Cortes and the Aztecs was fake. The Aztecs thought Cortes was a god who came to fulfill a promise. Tenochtitlan (the Ancient capital city of the Aztec empire) was a very wealthy city. They had tons of gold and silver. Cortes and his soldiers wanted to have all the gold. The interaction between them When Cortes showed up‚ the Aztecs welcomed him with open arms. They treated him very kindly. However
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Thousands of years ago‚ three great civilizations lived in what we now call South America. These three civilizations were the Mayans‚ Aztecs‚ and Incas and they settled in South America and Mesoamerica (a term used to describe the Americas before the arrival of the Spanish) where they lived for thousands of years until the Spanish arrived. One of the oldest civilizations of Mesoamerica‚ the Mayan civilization‚ which is located in modern-day Guatemala‚ lasted for approximately 3000 years‚ spanning
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Obtaining the knowledge that was passed down to them from earlier Mesoamerican cultures‚ the Aztecs carved the calendar stone in 1479 (Smith 253). At the time‚ the Aztecs lived in a very civilized world filled with amazing architecture‚ an impressively complex government system‚ and they also employed intricate systems of writing and calendric systems (Taube 7). The Calendar Stone was made by basalt stone. For the Aztecs‚ everything was pictorial in nature around this era. The calendar stone depicted different
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