AZTEC

By: Rachel Byl #3

Josie Meier #19

Crops

• Maize, beans, squash, and tomatoes are some crops they grow.

• The ground has rich soil.

• There are canals between each row which allow irrigation.

• They grow cotton plants to make clothes.

Hunting

• The largest animal they hunt is the White Tailed Deer

• Rabbits, hares, and coyotes were caught by net.

• Fish were speared by trident.

• Water birds were caught in the river.

• Wealthier people hunted quails and pigeons using blowpipes.

How Families Lived

• Rural families lived in groups.

• Wooden chests and baskets were used for storage.

• Wealthy people lived in multi-roomed houses with one or two stories.

Food

• Turkey, pheasant, duck, deer, wild pig, and rabbit they ate regularly.

• Vegetables that they ate were beans, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes.

• The foods they grilled over the fire were tortillas and corn pancakes.

• Wealthier families ate pineapple, oysters, and crabs.

• Common families made food from maize.

Medicine

• Medicine was a part of the religion.

• Aztecs gave the name tititl to a healer.

• The medicine was made from herbs and plants.

• Dressings were applied to wounds.

Work Cited

• Mayas ◊ Aztecs ◊ Incas By: Wendy Conklin

• Aztec Times By: Marion Wood

• The Aztecs By: Pamela Odijk

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By: Josh and

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Clothing

• The clothes they wore for hunting were a camouflage of skins and branches.

• There regular clothes were a breechcloth called a maxtlatl is what the men wore and a blouse and a skirt is what the women wore.

Religion and Rituals

• There religion was Mesoamerican the religion is human sacrifice and religious festivals.

• The sacrifice is when they cut open the persons chest and tear out the heart and put it in a bowl for the Aztec gods.

Legends

• There are many legends about the underworld and the earth there are other legends about how the earth was created.

Work Cited

• Google

• Wikipedia

• Mayas ◊ Aztecs ◊ Incas By: Mary Strohl

• Aztec Inca and Maya By: Elizabeth Baquedano

• The Aztecs By: Tim Wood

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AZTEC ART

• Aztec art is often traded.

• The people of the empire had an appreciation for a wide variety of insects, birds, fish and animals. (A lot of there art reacted this.)

• Art is often made of sand and skulls.

Transportation

• The transportation for the Aztec is mostley by foot.• They made roads from place to place. But were

sometimes to skinny for animals.• In the capital city has canals instead of roads.

Aztec agricultural

• Religion plays a very important part in the Aztec's agricultural, sacrifices were made to gods to promise good crop seasons.

• The Aztec's created chinampas .Which are little islands for growing food.

Communication, language

• The Aztec spook Nahuatl. • The Aztec language has been around Mexico for 1400 years.

• There are still many forms of Nahuatl spoken today

Obeying the laws

• Most punishments were death.

• Murder- death

• Theft- death

• Drunkness- death under 70

• Late debts- death

• sex- hung upside down untill dead

Recording events

• The aztecs used calenders

• They had 11 days in a week

The AztecThe Aztec’s way of Life

Music/Instruments

• Flutes

• Trumpets/horns

* snail horn

* wood flask horn

• drums

Specialties

• Aztecs have different calendars than us (shown below)

• Some Aztecs can control their breathing. Scientists have had some hold their breath and the lowest pulse rate was 2 beats a minute!!!

Inventions

• Popcorn

• Chocolate

• The Calendar– The Aqueducts

• Education

• Medication

How They Declined

• Spanish solders lead by Cortez

• Spanish take over Aztec capital

• August 15, 1521, was the day that he took over the Aztec empire.