Los Aztecas

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Los Aztecas

la economica

state controlled use and and discribution of tributes

payments = food, slaves, and sacraficial victims

local clans apportioned lands

Tlatelolco

barter trade

controlled by the merchant class or pochteca who specialized in long distance trade

luxury ites like birds and cacao

nobles had private estates, which peasants and slaves worked on

traditional forms of agriculture

chinampas (irrigation)

4 corn crops/yr

frames that produced artificial floating islands

la cultura

belived world ended 4 times already and would do so again(calender)

RELIGOUN

art and poetry

human hearts and blood

images of flowers birds and songs

Nezhualcoyotl, king of Texcoco

wondered about afterlife

believed in invisible force that supported all gods

cult of warfare and sacrafices

tribal patron and leader= Huizilopochtli

god of the sun--> his strength was human hearts blood, therefore sacrafices

worshiped gods of nature

creator gods

gods of fertility and agricultural cysle

Tlaloc=god of rain

took toltec language, Nahuatl

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population reached 20 million people

TECHNOLOGY

no wheel or animal power to make work simpler

women grinded corn(maiz) on stone boards called metates

took 6 hours

settlements formed around lakes = population center

group of 10,000 that migrated to shores of Lake Texcoco in central valley of mexico

las politicas

military power = supreme position because of increased conquest

for tributes and sacrafice victims

political domination without direct administrative or territorial control

supreme ruler

governing council, alliance of leaders from city states but in reality all power inhands of aztec ruler

the Great Speaker in Tenochtitlan

emperor with private wealth and public power

elected by royal family

considered a living god

each city state had a leader called a speaker

valley broken up into city states

aztecs took marsh island in center, became city called Tenochtitlan--> led to aztec domination

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ROLE OF WOMEN

inherit land/money and pass on to heirs

nobility women = polygamy

peasant women

weaving skill

domestic duties in household(cooking, cleaning, and kids)

as aztecs gained power, new classes emerged

merchants

served as spies/agents for military

own patron gods, privelages and divisions

scribes, artisans and healers

prominent NOBLE families of calpulli = local leadership

born into nobility(no mobility)

controlled priesthood and military leadership

overshadowed by military and administrative nobility of aztec state

later distinction and broke away from capulli

new class of workers(like serf) worked on their private langs

symbls of rank = clothing and hairstyle

divided into 7 calpulli(clans)

orgainzation including distribution of land, head of households,labor gangs and miltary units, temple, and school

capulli were not equal

governed by heads of families