Life Of The Aztecs

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Life Of The Aztecs

• By Ilya and Colton.

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Ilya H. Presentation
The Aztec Life

• Archeologist

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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

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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.

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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.
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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.

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Now Colton B. will present.

• Mathematician

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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.
• Its what data is all about.

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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).

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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).

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Bibliography

• Thayer Watkins. "The history of the Aztecs."
  Economics Department. . San Jose state unevrsity.
  03.31.06 lthttp//www2.s jsu.eud/faculty/watkins/az
  tecs.htmgt.
• Think quest. "The Ancient Aztecs." Team 27981.
  August, 1999. . 03.31.06 lthttp//library.thinkques
  t.org/27981/index.htmlgt.