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3. If people only stole a small amount, they became slaves of the person they stole from. People who started fights paid the other person’s medical bills. In cases like these, the judges tried to make the punishment fit the crime. The Aztecs never gave prison sentences because they had no jails.
4. Children were often threatened with large, pointed maguey thorns for such offenses as laziness, disobedience, negligence, and boastfulness. In the Codex Mendoza, there is a scene of a mother sticking her daughter’s hands with a thorn as punishment.
5. Another scene shows a boy being bound by the hands and feet with thorns stuck into his shoulders, back, and buttocks. Between the ages of ten and fourteen, punishments included having to breathe in chili smoke or being made to sleep on the cold, wet ground while bound.

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1. Lawbreakers might be stoned, strangled, beaten, exiled, publicly humiliated. First-time offenders might have their homes torn down. Drunkards usually had their heads shaved for a first offense, but priests and nobles who were drunk were executed. Most robbers were killed.
2. Until a child was eight, it seems that the preferred disciplinary action was just a verbal scolding.  Aztec children were raised with care by their parents, who made certain that their children knew their responsibilities and had command over the society's needed life skills. Each child was warned against gambling, gossiping, thieving, and drunkenness.

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Stone Calendar

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3.Aztec art was mainly made for their religious reasons, as a way of honoring their gods. The Aztecs decorated the walls of their temples with carvings and created enormous stone sculptures.
4. One of the Aztecs most popular sculptures is the Calendar stone, a disk showing the sun god.
5. They also fashioned much smaller pieces from jade and quartz, and they loved the brightly colored feathers from birds, such as macaws and parrots. Craft workers used these feathers to make headdresses, decorated shields, and pictures.

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1. Aztecs sculptures were decorated in temples and other buildings. The most famous surviving sculpture of the Aztec people today is circular sunstone. Which represents the Aztecs universe, the stone measures about 12 feet, in diameter. In the center of the sculpture is the face of the sun god. Other carvings represent the days of the Aztec month and religious symbols related to the sun god. Many archaeologists believe that Aztec priests placed the hearts of human sacrifices on the stone.
2.The Aztec produced various forms of oral literature, including poetry and traditional accounts of their history. When Spanish priests studied this oral tradition, they were deeply impressed by the elaborate metaphors and prose used by the Aztec speakers.

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5. The Aztecs called themselves the People of the Sun. One of their most important gods was Huitzilopochtli, the sun god. After he was born, he had to fight his brother and sisters, the moon and stars, so he could rise in the sky. Every day he needed to win this same battle. The only thing that gave him strength was blood. So to make the sun come up each day, the Aztecs believed they had to feed Huitzilopochtli. They made sacrifices to feed the god.

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1. Religion was extremely important to the Aztec people. The Aztecs spent much of their time to practice their religion, by praying, singing, dancing, pilgrimages, and offerings. They even waged war largely to obtain prisoners to sacrifice to their gods.
2. The Aztec people worshiped many gods and goddess, each of the god or goddess ruled one or more human activities or aspects of nature.
3. These gods are the gods of farming, Centeol, the corn god; Tlaloc, the rain and fertility god; And Xipe Totec, the god of springtime and regrowth.
4. The sun god was not the only god who had sacrifices. The Aztecs chose certain victims to please their god. The sacrifices might be young men, women, captives, and children.

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The Aztec marketplace

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4.They took much pride in their physical endurance and strength. So the only mode of transportation was to move on foot. Even animals were not used in the transport of people and goods. When the people walked on foot their feet would have to be bare. Sandals were part of their culture, but they were only used in battle and very long distance travel.

5.Aside from crops, the Aztecs market offers various goods and services, including everything you can think of. Raw materials, finished products, jewelry, wood and even medicine could be bought in this one-stop shop and the main gathering ground for the Aztecs. Their method of exchange was through tribute and trade. They bartered using different currencies, but the economy in Aztec life was essentially driven by this marketplace, the heart of the Aztec society.

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1. People of the lowlands traded such products as cacao beans, cotton, jaguar pelts, rubber, and the feathers of tropical birds. In return, they received goods from the highlands. These goods included obsidian—which was used for knives and weapons—and a variety of manufactured products.

2. Dugout canoes were an important means of transportation in the Valley of Mexico, which had many lakes, canals, and other waterways.

3. Throughout the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan were canals that ran through the city. Working as roads for the people. When on the land there were walkways and other such sidewalks, and although the Aztecs did have the wheel, they only used it for their children's toys. They never put the wheel to any sort of practical use because they looked at it as taking the "lazy: or "easy" way.