ma Dad‚ Patchow You know the gold and riches that you are bathing in‚ say thanks to my heroic conquer of the Aztecs. This was my hardest and bravest act of all. At first‚ though I came with the wretched Velasquez who wanted to me to farm. Yeah‚ he wanted me to till the land but I said “I came here to gold‚ not till the land like a peasant. So I decided to aim high‚ aim for the Aztecs. IT all started in 1504 where I left for Spain to seek money fame and glory in the new world. U see I came
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be a runner on a 18‚000 mile road? These both could have happened in the ancient Aztec and Inca civilizations.The Aztecs lived from 1427-1514‚ on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco in present day Mexico. Their capital city‚ Tenochtitlan‚ is present day Mexico City. The Incas lived from 1230-1525‚ in the Andes mountains‚ from present day Ecuador to Chile. Their capital city‚ Cuzco‚ is in present day Peru. The Aztec and Inca civilizations were both similar and different in the fields of agriculture
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Student Name: James McGlaze Geographical Setting: What continent? What Landforms? What important Places? The Aztecs were located on Meso-America‚ they came from North America. Mexico City is also built where Tenochtitlan was located. They were surrounded by mountains in the Valley of Mexico.They had unique temples and palaces. The faced other problems such as other tribes living in the area and this made it hard to settle down. The surrounding area was very swampy and had little level land to farm
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Aztec Empire‚ also known as Mexica‚ was formed by certain ethnic groups in Central Mexico‚ especially those who spoke the Nahuatl language and politically and militarily dominated a vast region of Mesoamerica in the XIV‚ XV and XVI. Tenochtitlan in the Valley of Mexico‚ was the capital of the Aztec civilization. In Nahuatl‚ the language of the Mexica‚ Aztecatl means "one who comes from Aztlán". In 1810‚ Alexander von Humbolt coined the term Aztec applicable to all persons associated by commerce‚
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main power is blood from human sacrifices. The Aztecs lived in Mexico in the 1350-1519‚ their land that they owned was 80 miles from north to south and 49 miles from east to west. The Aztecs were creating a remarkable world-class society in the Americas. The Aztecs dominated the region around modern-day Mexico city. At their peak‚ they controlled the lives of some ten to 20 million people. Not always well loved by the other groups in the area‚ the Aztecs created a society that surprised and impressed
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Montezuma II Picture Montezuma was an aztec ruler. He is often referred to Cortez. Montezuma opened the aztec empire to Cortez in open arms. He believed Cortez was basically a god because the aztecs believed a god will come with white skin with new advancements. Montezuma opened the city to Cortez only to be betrayed. Cortez and his men ended up destroying the aztec capitol city of Tenochtitlan and one year later renaming it "Mexico City‚ New Spain." Montezuma was a very harsh ruler‚ and also perceived
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Aztec Farming has become a key part of American society and most definitely was a brilliant idea by the aztec farming community. Certainly there were a number of techniques used in the Aztec empire. And many of these techniques are being used in our modern day culture. After researching on Aztec farming‚ the Aztecs used a method called “chinampas.” Chinampas are 30m by 2.5m and` were staked out on the lake bed. A fence was woven between the stakes‚ and the area would be filled in with mud and vegetation
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The Mayan‚ Aztec‚ and Incan people were very advanced considering they were secluded from the rest of the world. Each civilization had many great achievements. The Mayans built outstanding pyramids that were structurally sound to honor their many gods. About 1300 years later‚ the gap between each stone is so small that a butter knife can not be put in between each stone. The skill needed to work with stones with that much precision back then was amazing. The Mayans developed a calendar
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My people are the aztec. I will be telling you today about how the Aztecs live. They have very weird and disturbing way how to kill people. Twelfth century tribes in present-day Northern Mexico. The Mexica claimed that their homeland was a island called aztlan. Aztlan means the place of the white horn. Teotichlan was home to about 100‚000 people. Teotichlan was important because they believed their was met to make the fifth sun. All mexico rulers came from noble families. Tenochtitlan ruled as
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How did the metaphysical views of the Spanish influence their treatment of the Aztecs? ANS: The metaphysical views of the Spaniards were determined by their Christian beliefs‚ and hence they were at once amazed and repulsed by what they saw: human sacrifices‚ rituals involving bloodletting‚ adoration of pagan gods‚ cannibalism‚ sculptures of what they considered monstrous creatures. They came to believe that Aztec culture as a whole was a manifestation of Satan’s influence. QUES 2: What four
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