Graciela

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Gracielas family

• Can you spot Graciela and Ian?

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The petate

• In the codex picture, a couple are getting
  married on the petate the old folk round about
  them are giving them plenty of advice for the
  future! Petates are still used today in Mexico

More info aztecs.org aztefacts a people's bed
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Tenochtitlan

• A city of up to 250,000 people 5 times the size
  of London in those days!
• Can you see the 3 main causeways linking the city
  to the mainland?
• And the volcanoes of Iztaccíhuatl (left) and
  Popocatépetl (right)?

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The Year One-Flint

• In the codex picture, the Aztecs are leaving
  their mythical homeland of Aztlán can you spot
  the year sign? Their tribal god Huitzilopochtli
  is in the mountain glyph on the right.

More info aztecs.org aztefacts who were the
Mexica?
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Mexico vs UK

• Mexico is 8 times the size of the United Kingdom
  and
• 15 times the size of England on its own

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The Aztecs used all 5 of the basic ways to make
clothes
More info aztecs.org aztec life 'Tiger Top'
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The Quechquémitl
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The National Emblem

• By law it appears on every Mexican coin. Estados
  Unidos Mexicanos means The United States of
  Mexico

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The Aztecs used all 5 of the basic ways to make
clothes
More info aztecs.org aztec life 'Tiger Top'
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Traditional baby-carrying baskets
More info aztecs.org aztec artefacts baby
basket
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Aztec load carriers using the tumpline they
regularly carried over 20 kilos each and
travelled over 20 kilometres to the next post
as part of a relay system
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The traditional corn/maize pancake
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Making chocolate the traditional way the whisk
is called a molinillo in Mexico
More info-aztecs.org aztec life Blood of the
gods
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Freshly made, organic chewing gum the real thing!
More info-aztecs.org aztec artefacts tzictli
Sticky chicle strictly tzictli!
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An Aztec death bundle. This was clearly a rich
person, buried with everything from jewellery to
a jaguar skin
More info-aztecs.org aztec life a bundle of
death
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The Aztecs had two calendars one based on the
sun, for farmers the other, based on the moon,
for priests. The same date in both calendars only
came round once every 52 years a bundle of
years, a bit like our century
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The Aztecs believed in giving before receiving
by offering human flesh to their gods they hoped
to receive food from the earth in return by
offering human blood, they hoped to receive rain
and fresh water to drink by offering human
hearts they hoped to receive heat, light and
energy from the sun, so life would be able to
carry on
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The Aztecs called their poetry flower-songs. The
more beautiful the song or poem, the more
beautiful the flower (above the large speech
scroll)
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We dont know for sure which Aztec god is in the
centre of the Sunstone it could be the sun god
Tonatiuh, or it could be the earth
lord, Tlaltecuhtli
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The glyph for movement at the heart of the
Sunstone