In the Aztec religions‚ there was a lot of gods and goddesses and they are; Huitzilopochtli‚ Quetzalcoatl‚ Tezcatlipoca‚ Camaxtli‚ Chalchiuhtlicue‚ Tlaloc‚ Xipe Totec‚ Xochiquetzal‚ and lastly Xochipilli. Huitzilopochtli The first god’s name is Huitzilopochtli‚ and he was known for the god that killed his sibling from his mom’s stomach with a knife. Quetzalcoatl The second god’s name is Quetzalcoatl‚ and he was only known for the bearded old man. His name was meant “Feathered Serpent”‚ And he
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The Aztec Empire History The center of the Aztec civilization was the Valley of Mexico‚ a huge‚ oval basin about 7‚500 feet above sea level. The Aztecs were formed after the Toltec civilization occurred when hundreds of civilians came towards Lake Texcoco. In the swamplands there was only one piece of land to farm on and it was totally surrounded by more marshes. The Aztec families somehow converted these disadvantages to a mighty empire known as the Aztec Empire. People say the empire was partially
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ANTH 121 Exam 2 Study Guide Outline‚ Part II Dr. Grofe I. San Bartolo A. Pre-‐Classic Maya city discovered in 2001 – Northeast of Tikal. 1. Bill Saturno‚ working for Corpus Project a. Looking for sites with Maya writing b. Led by former looters to San Bartolo c. Got lost on
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Document Based Questions. Hernan Cortes European History Document Based Question Directions: The following question is based on the accompanying Documents 1-11. The documents have been edited for the purpose of this exercise. This question is designed to test your ability to work with and understand historical documents. Write an essay that: * Provides an appropriate‚ explicitly stated thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question and does not simply restate the question
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Zinn Questions – A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Chapter 1 – Columbus‚ the Indians and Human Purpose 1. According to Zinn‚ what is the main purpose for writing A Peoples History of the United States? * Zinns purpose for writing this book is because he wants to tell the various point of views of the common people. 2. What is Zinns thesis for pages 1-11? * Zinns thesis for the first eleven pages is to tell/ describe events the way they happened. He starts with
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greatly increasing taxation on merchants‚ which caused an uproar with the Aztec people. Then‚ in 1519‚ the Spaniards landed in Mexico in their search of new land. When the conquistadors arrived‚ Montezuma believed that they were emissaries of the god Quetzalcoatl‚ facebwho they believed would return to the Aztecs‚ so Montezuma showered them with gifts.
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Before the conquistadors arrived in the Aztec empire‚ the city Tenochtitlan had some unusual‚ natural disaster in which between the years of 1517 and 1519‚ the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan had an earthquake‚ then Lake Texcoco had flooded the capital city. The Aztecs believed these disasters warned of the fall of their empire and the return of their god. In 1519‚ the Spanish explorer‚ Hernan Cortes arrived on the east coast of Mexico and to make sure his men cooperated with him marching across the jungle
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Aztec: Indians of North America Aztec people had a very rigid and highly well-defined society. The Aztec society was comprised of a system of classes identified as commoners‚ nobility‚ indentured workers and slaves. The indentured workers were landless laborers who did contract work on noble’s estates and the slaves served households of the wealthy. Since slavery was not an inherited status the children of slaves were often considered free citizens. All commoners were classified as large kinship
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Empire believed in a deity known as Quetzalcoatl that had a white complexion and was supposed to return to the land one day. It was the qualities and materials‚ such as horses and cannons‚ of the Spaniards that the Mexicas had never seen that allowed the Mexicas to believe that Cortés was Quetzalcoatl. Once Cortés learned of the beliefs of the Mexicas through an indigenous woman who became his translator‚ he was able to take on the role of pretending to be Quetzalcoatl. This allowed Cortés to capture
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It is located in one of the outer walls of the Auditorium of the Faculty of Sciences at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Jose recreates the serpent Quetzalcoatl as a boat that represents peoples of the oldest civilizations with a flaming background. At the left end of the mural is a pyramid stabbed by a sword and spear‚ this image is meant to remind us of the conquest of America. On the serpent boat‚ from
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