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Aztecs

Aztecs . By: Katie Kugel. http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/media/aztec20.jpgHERE. Main Menu. HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY.

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Aztecs

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  1. Aztecs By: Katie Kugel http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/media/aztec20.jpgHERE

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  3. HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY • If you were an Aztec and if you somehow one night ended up being drunk the punishment was that you would be put to death. They would sneak into the room, where you were sleeping and kill you. Also, if you stole, the punishment was also death and they would come into your house in the middle of the night and kill you. The cool thing was that if you confessed a crime, only once, you would not have a PUT URL FOR PICTURE HERE http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/extmedia?id=ar040540&st=aztecs&em=lr003887 MORE History & Geography MAIN MENU

  4. HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY • punishment. But if you were drunk or stole, you would still have a punishment, but not death. If you didn’t confess before someone said something to the court, you would have your punishment, even if you confessed. • The nobles ruled each city-state. • Where the Aztecs lived long ago is now knows as Tenochtitla’n, Mexico. It was built in and around Lake Texcoco. The Aztecs lived in the Northern part of Mexico in between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. MAIN MENU

  5. HOMES In the time when the Aztecs lived, 300,000 people lived in the city, which is now called Tenochtitla’n. Nobles homes were made up of sun-dried brick called adobe. The actual homes were called Pueblos. Pueblos housed many families. Adobe was treasured so much the Emperor’s pyramid was made of adobe. It was treasured because that was the only material they knew how to make homes and buildings out of. Curtains and bells hung in Nobles doorway, but not in working class people’s doorway, working class people weren’t even allowed to have furniture in the room they had to live in. http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/extmedia?id=ar040540&st=aztecs&em=pc324504 PUT URL FOR PICTURE HERE MAIN MENU

  6. DRESS Nobles wore colorful cotton clothes, decorated with feathers and gold. Some of the gold was used as jewelry. Working class men wore loincloths which were long strips of cloth wrapped around the waist, pulled through the legs, and tied in the front. They also wore sleeveless cloaks over their right shoulder. If that cloak went below the Aztec’s, men’s knee, he was put to death. Women wore long skirts and long sleeve blouses. They wore bright colored make-up on their faces which was usually made from squashed berries or bug insides. http://www.pbs.org/kcet/globaltribe/images/mex_aztec_p4.jpg MAIN MENU

  7. FOOD The main food the Aztecs grew were peppers, squash, corn, tomatoes, and beans. The Aztecs grew most of the vegetables on floating gardens. Floating gardens were rafts that they build that float along-side of the riverbed. The Aztecs hunted as well as farmed. Here are the things they hunt, capture, or raise, turkey, dog, lobster, turtle, fish, and crab. They also made tortillas which looked like thin pancakes with little flavor. The everyday drink for the Aztecs was water, but on special occasions they drank something like what today, we call chocolate milk. The ground up coco bean and mixed that with water. http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/images-1/119_00_2.jpg MAIN MENU

  8. CUSTOMS & RELIGION School was very important to the Aztecs. Everyone including slaves had to go to school. There was one school for girls and two schools for boys. In the all girls school they learned how to cook, clean, sew, and care for their children. When wealthy boys went to school they learned about law, writing, medicine, engineering, building and religion. If you were a farmer’s son you were taught to be a warrior or a farmer. In both the boys and girl schools they treasured religion, and everyday they made time for songs and dance of the Aztec culture. You could become a slave by punishment or you could volunteer. You were never born a slave. In the early Aztec times, the people believed in Huitziopochtli. (wetselopoktl’e) He was the god of sun and war. The Aztecs loved war and that’s why they treasured Huitziopochtli. The Aztecs knew it was a good place to settle because they saw an eagle, eating a snake, sitting on the top of a cactus. http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/extmedia?id=ar040540&st=aztecs&em=pc324505 MAIN MENU

  9. INTERESTING FACTS The Aztecs had a game that was kind of the game of basketball. They had huge ball courts. The goal of the game was to hit a hard rubber ball over the middle line into your opponent’s court. You got points for that. But the real goal was to get the ball through one of the two hoops that hung down over center court. The other team of course did whatever they could to stop you. It was hard to get the ball through the hoop. Most hoops were positioned ten feet above the court, and hoops were about a foot wide. But it was possible. It was the Aztec way to live. The people who were “all-stars” of the game were treated like Shaquille O’Neil or Lebron James. http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/ballgame.html MAIN MENU

  10. CREDITS • “The Aztec World.” Worldbook. 2008. www.worldbook.com. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. <http://www.fieldmuseum.org/‌aztecs/>. • Deedrick, Tami. Aztecs. Austin, Texas: Steak-Vaughn Company, 2002. Print. • Donn, Mr. “The Awesome Aztecs.” http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/‌index.html. mrdonn.org, 10 Nov. 2010. Web. 15 Dec. 2010. <http://aztecs.mrdonn.org/‌index.html>. MAIN MENU

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