Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led the expedition to the Aztecs. He landed on the coast of Mexico in 1519 with an army of around 600 men‚ 16 horses and a few cannons. Cortes and his men made their way inland to the capital of the Aztecs‚ capturing cities and gaining extra soldiers from the people who were left after his men took over. He spoke to the natives through his translator Malinche‚ a young Indian woman. They made their way to Tenochtitlan‚ where Aztecs were conquering and sacrificing
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Artifacts Used in Aztec Households in Mexican History Kelly Ferguson Anthropology 201 Name: Obsidian Blade Catalog #: 30 / 922 A Museum: American Museum of Natural History During Aztec history‚ obsidian was used in various ways‚ such as cutting cloth‚ hide‚ and wood. The Aztecs also made efficient weapons and cutting tools‚ because obsidian flakes into sharp glassy edges when reworked. When used as knives‚ obsidian was usually embedded in a wood handle to protect the wielder. These
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temperatures there was a one-crop growing season. The rainy season of the Aztecs lasted from May through October. Although rainfall was abundant throughout the valley‚ the rain was often seldom and couldn’t be entrust for the watering of the Aztec ’s crops. This made the worship of Tlaloc[2] the rain god so sacred. Tlaloc was fundamental to the Aztec religion‚ as a god of rain‚ fertility‚ and water which were all necessities for the Aztecs crops and prosperity. To keep this god please Actez did many human
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The first similarity between the Aztec and the Maya was their emphasis on time. We find evidence of the emphasis on time in the origin story of the Aztec and Maya. In the Nahua myth where “age is self-destructing based on a cosmic mathematical plan; the Mexica magicians will return to the place of their origin in Aztlan‚ only to find out about their own future demise” (114‚ Read & Gonzalez). Meanwhile‚ the Popol-Vuh tells the story of Hunahpu Posum and Hanahpu Coyote‚ the Maya twin heroes play the
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most successful were the Incans and the Aztecs. These two cultures arose close together in the same time period and are similar in a few ways like religion and government. But due to where they started‚ other aspects of their civilization‚ like agriculture‚ are different from each other. The Aztecs and Incas were similar even though they were really far apart but also different even though they had so many similarities. The governments of both the Aztecs and the Incas were very much alike in how
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Social Structure of the Aztecs The Aztec empire in Mesoamerica was one of the major civilizations in the western world during the fifteenth century. It had a distinctly stratified social structure. There were two major classes in the Aztec society‚ the nobles and the commoners. Within each were further divided into subsets like the great lords‚ minor lords‚ warriors‚ common soldiers…etc. Each class was entitled to various privileges and responsibilities‚ as governed by law‚ and
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The Rise To Power: The Mongols and The Aztecs The history of these two empires shows how they were able to conquer the different variations of subjects‚ and by this the Mongols had to conquer slightly more technologically advanced populations than the Aztecs had to. Even with being built on different hemispheres and different time periods‚ it is very odd how they compared in becoming popular and prosperous empires‚ until their decline of course. Besides their sad endings‚ their rise‚ as always
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The Aztec and Mayan civilizations were the most important civilizations from the new world. The Europeans were amazed with the Aztec and Mayan cultures‚ their ways of life‚ and their technology. Today we find that the Aztecs and the Mayans were similar in some ways of life like their culture‚ their technology‚ and some religious beliefs; but as we go further into the study of Aztec and Mayan worlds we see that there are many more differences than first accredited. The Aztec civilization dominated
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certainly true for the Aztecs‚ in the years around 1350 to 1519‚ by the time Cortes arrived‚ the Aztecs had an empire that controlled the lives of over 10‚000‚000 people. The Aztecs came to this peak came due to the practice of human sacrifice. Historians should emphasize on Aztec human sacrifice because it provides a wider view of Aztec society and culture than agriculture. Human sacrifice was a major part of Aztec religion; it provided the basis of their religion. The Aztecs were polytheistic and
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Shawn Williamson Mr. Caleb Smith World History 4/25/13 Essay: Aztec and Inca Civilizations: I think the Aztecs were more impressive‚ in one of the captions I read that one of their squares was twice as large as the city of Salamanca surrounded by porticoes daily sixty thousand people are buying and selling all kinds of merchandise that the world has to offer embracing the necessaries things of life. In the same square there are some people who constantly go around watching sells and the measures
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