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Aztecs - Coggle Diagram
Aztecs
Art
Was composed of numerous symbols.
Sculpture was monumental and closely associated with large architectural constructions.
Aztec art was characterized by being violent and mute.
What farmers do
Farmers were very
poor and did not own their own land.
They sometimes kept slaves people who had been captured in battle or who could not pay their debts.
Most of the people who lived in the empire were farmers who grew lots of crops, including maize, beans, peppers, avocados, squash,cocoa, bananas, sweet potatoes, and onions.
Religion
The gods had very complicated names - the greatest numbers of sacrifices were made to the war god Huitzilopochtli and the rain god Tlaloc.
Humans were sacrificed because it was believed that the human hearts and blood would “feed” the gods and keep them strong.
The Aztecs believed that keeping the gods happy meant that
their lives would be blessed.
Social organization
Within the social organization of the Aztecs, the nobles were the most privileged social class.
Their main task was the registration of all the community's lands and the control of the cultivation work.
The social organization of the Aztecs was made up of community groups or calpullis
Inventions
They invented chocolate, by discovering how to
expertly blend cocoa beans!
They also invented many medicines
that people in Central America still use today.
Introduction
The Aztecs lived in Mexico. When they first arrived in Mexico, they were poor, ragged people who survived by eating rats, snakes, and stolen food.
They were hated and rejected by all of the people who lived in the town, as they were scruffy, rude and violent. The Aztecs fought a battle with the people who lived there, and won, and so took the land for themselves.