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Life Of The Aztecs

Life Of The Aztecs. By Ilya and Colton. Ilya H. Presentation. The Aztec Life. Archeologist. The Aztec way of farming. Aztec city ruins. The Aztecs farmland called Chinampa The Aztecs planted many different kinds of plants on Chinampa

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Life Of The Aztecs

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  1. Life Of The Aztecs By Ilya and Colton.

  2. Ilya H. Presentation The Aztec Life Archeologist

  3. The Aztec way of farming. Aztec city ruins • The Aztecs farmland called Chinampa • The Aztecs planted many different kinds of plants on Chinampa • The average plants that were planted on Chinampa were corn, tomatoes, potatoes, chili, pepper and squash

  4. Aztec culture and daily life. • The Aztecs are very famous for their sacrifices • Usually a slave was sacrificed • His dead body would be elaborately dressed and would be the center ornament of the banquet • Cannibalism was not a daily occurrence in Aztec life • But cannibalism was common on special religions and occasions • Aztecs had sacrifices to honor their gods • Twenty to fifty thousand people were sacrificed each year.

  5. Aztec religion and gods • The Aztecs were very religious • Aztecs believed that their gods caused the sun to rise, rain to fall, crops to grow and fire to burn • They worship their gods by sacrificing slaves in their gods names Feathered serpent (Quetzalcoatl) This is the wind god and the god for knowledge.

  6. Other Aztec gods • Smoking mirror is Aztec God of of the night sky. We was thought to control their fate. • Tlaloc is Aztec rain god, he also control storms, thunder and lighting.

  7. Now Colton B. will present. Mathematician

  8. The Aztecs Data • The Aztecs data as presented above the show. • The name and number of the year is xiupohuall language. • The name of the 13 day week and the name and number of the day. • There is a Aztec calender that is Spanish. • It’s what data is all about.

  9. Calendar • Year bearer sign Calli • As a year bearer,Calli (house) is the sign of day in the tonalpohualli that gives its name to this xihuitl (year).

  10. Calendar • Year bearer sign tochtli. • As a year bearer,tochtli (rabbit) is the sign of day in the tonalpohualli that gives its name to this xihuit (name).

  11. Bibliography • Thayer Watkins. "The history of the Aztecs." Economics Department. . San Jose state unevrsity. 03.31.06 <http://www2.s jsu.eud/faculty/watkins/aztecs.htm>. • Think quest. "The Ancient Aztecs." Team #27981. August, 1999. . 03.31.06 <http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/index.html>.

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