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I learned a lot reading and doing these chapters. I have learned that the Aztecs did human sacrifice to the sun god. I also learned that they did recreation and cared for their families they even got married. The Aztecs also had markets and food. They also did class structure which was very intresting.

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Religion played a large role in the daily life of the Aztec people. The Aztec religion was a combination of many beliefs and practices. It drew from other Mesoamerican cultures. Mesoamerica refers to Mexico and Central America before 1492. The Aztec believed that the current world was one in a series of four worlds. These worlds were called suns. The Aztec believed that each of the first three worlds had been completely destroyed before the new world began.

Aztec religion was polytheistic. This means that the Aztec believed in many gods. One of the most important was Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war. Other main gods were Quetzalcóatl, the feathered serpent, and Tonatiuh, the sun god. The Aztec spent a lot of time and resources in worshipping these gods. Their religious customs were guided by the Aztec calendar. This calendar was the one used in much of Mesoamerica. It actually consisted of two separate calendars. One divided the year into 365 days, and the other divided the year into 260 days

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This chapter will talk about how the Aztecs needed gods to survive.It will also tell about how they sacrificed to the sun god. The Aztecs saw the sun as an warrior that fought off the forces of darkness. They also thought that the way to keep it's power was blood nourishment.So ever morning Aztec priest sacrificed hundreds of birds and the priest also pierced their skin with cactus spikes to offer their own blood.

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This chapter tells you about what kind of foods they bought from a market, it tells you where it is also located. Many individuals brought their own wares into the markets. Some of the large towns held markets every day and the small villages held them every 5 days. Markets were important to the Aztec economy. Each empire had it's own market and they were also located in the square in front of the towns temple.

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This chapter will tell you about the Family Life in the Aztecs. The Aztecs men and women were both necessary to care for the house hold. The men built houses and worked on farms they also worked at a craft sometimes. The Aztec women wove clothes of beautiful patterns. One job that was very important to the women of the house hold was to care and bear for her children.

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This chapter will teach you about marriage,what they did in their marriage and how they lived,it also tells you about how important their family was to them. The marriages were arranged by the families of the bride and the groom. When the young man wanted to get married the  man's family chose the bride. The Aztecs also permitted the men to practice polygamy which was when the men could marry more than one wife. Even among the commoners the Aztec wedding was as elaborate as the families could afford. On the fifth day the couple emerged and attended another grand banquet then they would settle down on a piece of land in the groom's calpulli. Except if the marriage was unhappy either the spouse could ask for a divorce.

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Maize was STAPLE FOOD NO. 1. It was eaten in lots of ways, the most common being the good old - ideally fresh and warm off the clay griddle, but if not, stored and eaten later (useful for farmers, merchants, soldiers, travellers...)

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in this chapter it talks about recreation of the aztec people also the aztecs thoght ther was 260 days in a year also all social classes played tlichtli and if you drop the ball you will die

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Features the Aztecs, who invaded Toltec civilizations. The Aztecs are known for their cities Teotihuacan, a religious and commercial center, and Tenochtitlan, an impressive engineering and architectural feat. The Aztecs were religious, and had pyramids and temples for sacrifices.

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in this chapter it talks what people of the aztec  civilizations ate they ate many different type of foods such as boiled beans , tamales, tortillas, cakes and pepper or tomato sauces maize was a very common food for the aztecs to eat they would also get imported  or home grown food to eat at breakfast, lunch, dinner

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- [Lecturer] We've already talked about the Aztec civilization in several videos, but what we're going to focus on in this video is the Aztec empire which shouldn't be confused with the Aztec civilization. The civilization is referring to the broader groups of people over hundreds of years, but the Aztec empire is a very specific entity that formed in the 100 years before Spanish colonization. What you see here is a zoomed in version of what today would be southern Mexico and right over here on the globe and you can see many city-states formed here. A city-state is a city that is also considers itself a state that has its own political organization, its own way of functioning. It's not dependent on any other government forms, and it's analogous to what we see in classical Greece where we have the city-states of Athens and Sparta. Now what's particularly interesting is what's going on around Lake Texcoco in the 14th Century. In 1325 you have the city of Tenochtitlan form on this island in Lake Texcoco and initially Tenochtitlan is one of the weaker city-states around Lake Texcoco. You see many of these city-states, some of the stronger ones you have Texcoco right here, and in particular you have Azcapotzalco, but as we fast forward roughly 100 years, you get to a situation where Azcapotzalco falls into a civil war. Their ruler dies and there's a succession battle and the various city-states around Lake Texcoco take sides. What eventually happens is Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan form what is known as a triple alliance or the triple alliance and are able to conquer the Azcapotzalco. And so in conquering the Azcapotzalco, what you have forming is known as the Aztec empire. Now it starts as an alliance between these three city-states and other city-states in the area, but over time Tenochtitlan which is sometimes referred to as Mexico Tenochtitlan because it is a city-state of the Mexico people and this is where the name Mexico or Mexico actually comes from. Now even though it's an alliance, over time, Tenochtitlan essentially becomes the capital of this alliance, or the capital of this Aztec empire which continues on for roughly 100 years until 1521 when it is defeated by Hernando Cortes. Now the story of how Hernando Cortes is able to conquer this empire is fascinating and I'm not going to be able to go into all of the details in this video, but needless to say he's able to convince several hundred conquistadors to come and try to conquer the empire and he's able to do so by recruiting tens of thousands, some estimates I've seen are 100,000 soldiers from neighboring city-states who had issues with the Mexico or with the Aztec empire and so he's eventually able to take over the famed city of Tenochtitlan. It's really important to recognize how advanced they were at the time. You see these causeways, these bridges leading into the island. They had a fairly advanced dam system to collect freshwater from the rain while also to control flooding. In fact a lot of that was destroyed when the conquistadors came and Mexico City which eventually gets founded over this lake is going to have issues with flooding for some time in the future. In fact the Spanish, in order to control the flooding, end up draining this lake and it's where Mexico City forms. But the big takeaway here is near the end of the Aztec civilization, as we get to the 100 years before the conquistadors arrive, you have this empire form. This empire which starts as an alliance of city-states but eventually becomes a tributary empire. Unlike the neighboring Mayans, which were on the Yucatan peninsula. On this map they would be in this region right over here, the neighboring Mayans were autonomous city-states. Some might have had more power, more influence at different times, but the Aztec tributary state means the other city-states are paying tribute to Tenochtitlan. They are paying revenue, they are paying service to what essentially is the capital or the seat of that empire until it is conquered by the Spanish with, and remember, the Spanish are able to do this with several hundred conquistadors with the help of neighboring city-states and a smallpox epidemic which kills 50% of the population of the region.

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Lecturer] We've already talked about the Aztec civilization in several videos, but what we're going to focus on in this video is the Aztec empire which shouldn't be confused with the Aztec civilization. The civilization is referring to the broader groups of people over hundreds of years, but the Aztec empire is a very specific entity that formed in the 100 years before Spanish colonization.

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The aztec social class really mattered. Children went to different schools in different cities because of their social classes. Men had a lot more power than a female. The aztecs believed everybody...

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in this chapter it will talk about the class structure of the aztec  empire  the lowest in the class structure  were the slaves they did not have rights worked hard labor and got little to eat the next social class was the peasant  about 30% of the aztec people were  peasants and but unlike slaves they  were free the next class is the commoners the commeners were regular people with jobs the highest in the commeners were the professinal traders called pochteca the next class was the goverment officials priests and military leaders they were nobles and were very inportant the highest class was the king he ruled every one on the land

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in this chapter it talks about the daily life in the capitol city of  the aztecs tenochtitlan it first starts you waking up and seeing your father getting food from the farm and then he takes you to on of the biggest  market places in the americas and you and your father will sell food to nobles and after all the food is sold you and your father will take you through the city and you will see pyramids  that priest will do sacraifice on people and will do a ball court once you get home you will eat maize and then go to sleep