JOURNEY TO THE NEW LAND

By: Jonathan Howard & Jose’ Ortiz

Where did the Aztecs originally live?What prompted them to relocate?

The Aztecs peoples for some reason or other left their homes in Azlan an they where located somewhere in North West Mexico. They moved to moved to Anahuac. They were wild and nasty . So they were driven from one place to another which is also called a nomad.

Where did they end up and why? Chose an artifact, which best represents this event?

Tenochtitlan and the artifact is a pottery ladies

The name of a god that was involved in the Aztecs relocation? A sign or a symbol?

Huitzilopoehtli A eagle on a catis

Where did the Aztecs originally live? What prompted them to relocate?

The Aztecs peoples for some reason or other left their homes in Atzla… somewhere in North West Mexico. They moved to Anahuac. They were to wild and nasty. So they were driven from one place to another also called a nomad.

Where did they end up and why? Chose an artifact, witch you feel best, represents

They ended up in Chinampas. They made it by making islands. They made them by pilling up mud from the bottom of the lake. Their was over 60,000 in the city every day. It became an empire.

This is a shovel that they used.

What was the gods name that told them to move from one place to another?

The gods name was Huitzilopochtli. He told them by an eagle perched on a cactus, growing from a rock or cave surrounded by water.

History About Aztec The term, Aztec, is a startlingly imprecise term to describe the

culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Properly speaking, all the Nahua-speaking peoples in the Valley of Mexico were Aztecs, while the culture that dominated the area was a tribe of the Mexica (pronounced "me-shee-ka") called the Tenochca ("te-noch-ka").

At the time of the European conquest, they called themselves either "Tenochca" or "Toltec," which was the name assumed by the bearers of the Classic Mesoamerican culture. The earliest we know about the Mexica is that they migrated from the north into the Valley of Mexico as early as the twelfth century AD, well after the close of the Classic Period in Mesoamerica.

They were a subject and abject people, forced to live on the worst lands in the valley. They adopted the cultural patterns (called Mixteca-Pueblo) that originated in the culture of Teotihuacán, so the urban culture they built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is essentially a continuation of Teotihuacán culture.

JOURNEY TO THE NEW LAND

By: Jose’ Ortiz & Jonathan Howard

TENOCHITILANBy Irenee Nkera and Mario

Washington

What was the lay of the land?

The lay of the land in Tenochtitlan was occupied by other adjacent islands. Which were dominated by other Aztecs. The main streets were wide as two Calvary lances. Some of the streets had openings so that the water can travel from one canal to another.

Aztec Temples

The temples were called teocalli- god houses. The priests of the Aztec religion went to these temples to worship and pray, and make offerings to there gods to make them strong and in balance.

Artifacts

Most of the artifacts were made out of wood. The artifact were found by archeologists.

What were the Pros and Cons of settling in the middle of the lake?

The Aztecs used irragtion to grow crops throughout the year and made floating gardens by filling shallow areas of the soil the soil trees . They built exravagant palaces and a structures city with canals forming parts.

TENOCHITILANBy Mario Washington and Irenee

Nkera

POLYTHEISMKaylee,Rebecca

polytheism

Believe in many gods

Quetzalcoat

Precious feather

Chalchiuhtlicue

Fourth sun and the water goddess

Tezcatlipoco

Is the god of the great bear, of the night sky

Tlaloc

Is the eighth ruler of the days, and is the water goddess

Temple

A place for worship and sacrifice and perhaps something linked to extraterres trails.

POLYTHEISM Rebecca, Kaylee

SOCIAL ORDER OF THE AZTECS By Christina Peacock

AndJoanna Hayden

Who are the different members of Aztec society?

1. Upper Class Nobles

2. Farmers/Merchants

(Craftsman)3. Serfs/Slaves

Description of Roles Aztec society was divided into classes. At the very top was

the emperor. Below him were the nobles and priests. Below them were merchants, craftsmen, peasants and then slaves.

Merchants formed a class of their own. They lived in their own areas of cities and their children usually married the children of other merchants. Merchants who carried out long distance trade.

There were also many craftsmen in Aztec society. Although the Aztecs did not use iron and bronze some craftsmen made jewelry from gold, silver and copper. Other craftsmen made objects of obsidian, jade and semi-precious stones. There were also feather workers who made things like headdresses from feathers.

Most of the slaves were people who had committed a crime and been sentenced to slavery or very poor people who sold themselves into slavery. However Aztec slaves did have some rights. 

SOCIAL ORDER OF THE AZTECS

By : Joanna HaydenAnd

Christina Peacock

COMMUNICATION

By: Mary FishAnd

Sara Butt

Did the Aztecs use any other forms of communication?

Aztecs used writing systems that can be classified into several types including: pictographic, ideographic, logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic.

Pictographic

Pictographic: writing system that is designed to “represent words, ideas, or groups of words, ideas, or groups of words or ideas.”

Ideographic

Ideographic: writing systems represent words, ideas or groups of same.

Syllabic

Syllabic: writing represents syllables with signs.

Alphabetic

Alphabetic: writing systems “ represent the individual distinctive sounds of language.

Aztec’s Writing

Hieroglyphics They did not write letters. They used glyphs.

COMMUNICATIONBy: Sara Butt

And Mary Fish

What language did the Aztecs speak?

The language that the Aztecs spoke was called

Nahuan.

AZTEC ECONOMYBY

SAM,SEAN AND NOEJustin

HOW DID AZTEC’S GROW FOOD AND WHAT WAS THEIR MAIN CROP ?DID THEYTRADE AND

WITH WHOM? Yes they grew corn ,chilli ,peppers,

squash, tomatoes, beans, and other kinds of food.

Yes they traded with sierra de la naraja or hildago.

DID THEY HAVE A CURRENCY (MONEY)?

YES THEY Used cacao beans.

How did Aztec’s grow food and what was their main crop? Did they trade

and with whom?Yes, they grew corn, chili peppers, squash,

tomatoes, beans, and other kinds of food.

Yes , they traded with Sierra de las Narajas or present day Hidalgo.

Did they have a currency (money)?

Yes , they used cacao beans.

AZTEC ECONOMYBy

Sean, Sam, Noe Reh, Justin