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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.
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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
Aztecs By: Josh and Drew
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
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 Aztec The 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.
