Matthew Hocieniec

World History Aztec

Geography

• Where Aztec used to to be is modern day Mexico

• Mountains run along both Mexico’s Western coast and Gulf coast.

• Then the Yucatan Peninsula

Culture

• Everyone helped in the household.• The men went to the farm or some other work• The mother stays at home and tends to the

kids and weaves • They ate corn on the cob and used the kernels

in the soup called Pozole

Leadership

• Montezuma II let Cortez into the city of Tenochtitlan and one year later the city was destroyed by Cortez and the renamed it Mexico City, New Spain

Religion

• It is called Mesoamerican it had elements of the human sacrifice and a large number of festivals.

Military

• Warriors were very high in the caste system along with priest and other highly ranked officials

The end of the Aztecs

• Cortez got let to Tenochtitlan by Montezuma II they captured the new emperor Cuauhtémoc then slowly took the city after they hade it they renamed it Mexico City.

Achievements

• They were one of the first empires that made education mandatory for his citizens . They also invented the chocolate tree and popcorn.