the aztecs

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the ancient Aztecs

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History project, primary student

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  • 1. O Aztec trade was mainly based on barter. It is very possible that in the Aztec Empire had also been in trade shows like the Inca empire. Normally Mexican merchants traded products Tenochtitlan Area for luxury goods of the other cities and nations. O It has come to believe information Tenochtitlan, in its time of splendor, was the world's largest market, and it stood in the central square of Tlatelolco where they traded in slaves, prisoners of war, cocoa, exotic fruits, etc

2. industries O MINING: obsidian (volcanic rock crystal) was obtained from the Southern Sierra Madre Occidental, and it was used to develop weapons and everyday objects, as knives, plates and necklaces. O TEXTILE: the textile industry was of great importance for the inhabitants of the Aztec Empire, its main products of manufacturing were cotton and maguey fiber. 3. Social organization O NOBLES : They paid taxes and had their own lands where the servants and slaves have to work. 4. O THE PEOPLE: This group of ordinary people was composed by artisans, merchants, and peasants. 5. SLAVES O Slaves were prisoners of war, people who had committed a crime or people with large debts which they were unable to pay off short-term and were offered as servants of those who owed him. 6. religion O Outside the popular religion, full of gods with complicated histories and relationships, product of syncretism of Nahua civilizations and Toltec heritage, priests and tlamatinime (sages) developed a deep monistic view 7. O Huitzilopochtli was the chief deity of the Aztecs O Tezcatlipoca was the Lord of heaven and earth, the source of life, guardianship and protection of man, origin of power and happiness, business battles, pervasive, strong and invisible. Cihuatecayotl: was the god of the west wind. Chicomecatl: was the Mexica goddess of subsistence, especially corn, principal patron of vegetation and, by extension, goddess of fertility. GODS 8. O Xochiqutzal: the Mexica mythology was the goddess of beauty, flowers, love, loving pleasure, and the arts. O Coatlicue: in Mexican mythology was the goddess of fertility, patroness of life and death O Coyolxauhqui: Mexica was a lunar goddess. 9. THE END WORK DONE BY: 6C PEDRO TORS IZQUIERDO 9/3/14