II. Aztec AD (1.)1168-AD 1524

http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Social_Science/Latin_America/Aztec_Maya.html

A. Location: 2. Central Mexico Plateau

Teotihuacan http://www.virtualtourist.com/vt/e9cb4/4/7eee/

A. Location:

3. Dry-semiarid

http://www.virtualtourist.com/vt/e9cb4/4/7eee/

Teotihuacánhttp://www.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/51cbd/

4. Today Mexico

A. Location:

5. City: Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City)

http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/mexico-city/

B. Government: Centralized gov’t1. Ruled by an emperor

2. Hierarchy

3.Based on conquest = war

4.Triple Alliance of Three Cities

http://www.shawnk.com/mexico/templo.htm

C. Economy:

1. Agriculture

2. Tribute

http://www.albany.edu/~mesmith/mestaz1.html

D. Religion: Polytheistic religion

1. Sun god (Huitzilopochtli) – demanded blood

2. Human sacrifice (Male POW’s sacrificed) = conquest wars

-84,000 in four days

Huitzilopochtli http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/history/html/conquista/aztecas.html

D. Religion cont.•Quetzalcoatl

•Feathered Serpent

•peaceful god that would return one day from east

D. Religion: Polytheistic religion

3. Step pyramids

http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/tm/pages2/mtm10.htm

Pyramid of the Sun

http://www.jqjacobs.net/mesoamerica/images/piramsol.jpg

E. Achievements:1. Calendar similar to Maya2. Medicine – set bones, fill cavities

http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth3618/video/Ancient_Aztecs.html

http://www.tenochtitlan.com/

E. Achievements:3. Building: pyramids, aqueducts, causeways

http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/americanhistorycentral/Graphic_Images/02_Indians_North_America/11_The_Aztecs/Stone_Serpent2.jpg

http://www.virtualtourist.com/vt/e9cb4/4/7eee/

E. Achievements4. Pictorial writing system

E. Achievements5. Chinampas (creating fields in swampy land)

F. Collapse: Spanish arrival AD 1521

1. Rebellion by conquered peoples b/c of increasing demands of

a. Tribute

b. Sacrificial victims

2. Spanish Arrival AD 1521

http://www.seapyramid.net/pictures/images-pic2/33300020.jpg

Teotihucanhttp://www.virtualtourist.com/vt/e9cb4/4/7eee/