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Aztecs
House styles
The Aztecs rulers house was around 6,000 square meters and consisted of numerous rooms and courtyards whose walls were covered with colorful murals.
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Entertainment/games
The ball game is where players couldn't hold or even touch the ball with their hands only the elbows, knees, hips and head were used. This made for a very fast paced game, and the players had to constantly throw themselves against the surface of the court to keep the ball from landing. The team who lost would
The Aztecs would play board and ball games, they would also dace, tell stories and poems. Music and dance was an important part of the Mesoamrican and South American culture.
The losers were often shown in Maya art, and it is assumed that the losing were sacrificed after losing a rigged ritual ballgame. Rather
Education
Young Aztec children were home schooled. But as teenagers, both girls and boys attended school to learn about philosophy, nature, and music.
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The parents taught their kids skills they needed to make a living, by the age of 7, boys could catch fish in nets and girls could spin cotton into thread.
Religion
The Aztecs believed in about 200 gods, they built temples to worship them. The biggest temple was the Great Temple, this temple stood in the middle of Tenochtitlan.
The Great temple had two parts at the top, one was for Huitzilopochtli, the sun god, and the other side was for Tlaloc, the rain god. This temple was about 200 ft. tall (60 meters).
Food
The Aztecs ate Maize(corn), beans and squash. They also added chilies and tomatoes.They also harvested Acocils from the nearby lake.
The Aztecs ruler ate fruits and vegetables, he also ate dogs, turkey, ducks and honey bees. Frogs, tadpoles, and insetcts were also a valuable food source
Clothes
The Aztecs wore garments such as, draped garment, slip-on garment, open-sewn garment, closed sewn garment, and limb-encasing garments.
The Aztec men wore loincloths and long capes. The women wore long skirts and blouses. Poor people generally wove their own cloth and made their own clothing.
Jobs
The Aztecs would work on the garden, farmers, fishermen, or craftsmen. They would also be teachers or scribes.
All of the Aztec children were home schooled so all of the parents had to be teachers as well as their other job
