What made the Aztecs so amazing

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What made the Aztecs so amazing?

• By Charlie Morgan

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Who were the Aztecs

• The Aztecs were around in 1500.
• The Aztecs lived in Mexico.
• They had loads of gods.
• We are going to find out about them.
• They had a fight with the Spanish.

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Who were the important people in Aztec times?

• The most important Aztec king was Montezuma II
  
• Hernando king of the Spanish captured Montezuma
  II
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Aztec God

• We went on a website and cut this picture. then
  we pasted it on this slide! His name is
  Huitzilopochtli and he is the Aztec god of war
  and sun.

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Aztec gods II

• Ehecatl was the god of wind we got him from the
  website www.crystalinks.com/aztecgods.html

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Facts About Tenochtitlan

• It was a large place.
• They go around on the lake in conoes.
• Tenochtitlan was built on a lake.
• The spanish and the aztecs had a war and the
  Spanish destroyed it.

Tenochtitlin
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What did they believe in?

• They believed in more than 1000 gods and
  Godesses.
• They believed in the priests never washed them
  selve.
• They believed in human scarifices getting there
  heart out of the body and rolling the blood on
  the temple steps.

A diagram of a heart