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Formative Research Practice
Who are the Aztecs?
do:
known for: agriculture, land, art, and architecture.
eat different food than other culture
have:
their own culture
what they eat
what they do
think:
The Aztecs were a northern Mexican tribe and ruled a huge empire.
The origin of the Aztec people is uncertain, but elements of their own tradition say that they were a tribe of hunters and gatherers on the northern Mexican plateau before their appearance in Mesoamerica in the 12th century CE.
The legendary original people of the Aztec has been migrating from a homeland called Aztlan
What would they do in this culture?
do:
Most Aztecs ate twice a day, the first after a few hours of morning work, and the second during the hottest hour of the day, at around 3 o’clock
Breakfast would usually be a porridge with chillies or honey, or tortillas, beans and sauce.
In the afternoon, it would be tamales, beans, tortillas, and a casserole of squash and tomatoes
Aztec diet was primarily vegetarian with no grasshoppers, maguey worms, ants and other larvae.
Eating maize, beans, squash, chilies and tomatoes. Meat was eaten sparsely
have:
The Aztecs were really strong in their military power, religion, and tribute system. They developed their own calendar, built large cities, and huge pyramids, and developed a farming system called chinampas， they used the new chinampas system to grow crops on shallow lake beds.
think:
The capital of the Aztec civilization is at Tenochtitlán (Mexico City)