Olmec review maya MAYANS review Mesoamerica before Exploration

Olmec review

maya MAYANS review

Mesoamerica before Exploration

Aztecs ¬FALL ¬RISE ¬Spanish ¬Warlike culture, allowed Conquistadors them to subjugate ¬ To subjugate is to repress someone, or to make them subservient to you.

LOCATION: MEXICO CITY CENTRAL MEXICO

Lands of the Aztecs

FYI legend says they were told to find a city where an eagle perched on a cactus holding a snake in its mouth

According to Legend: The place where the eagle screams, Where he spreads his wings; The place where he feeds, Where the fish jump, Where the serpents coil up and hiss! This shall be Mexico Tenochtitlan and many things shall happen!

Aztec View of Tenochtitlan

Economy: Chinampa or Floating Garden: 15 ft. to 30 ft. wide Corn Squash Beans

Economy: Large Population, busy markets Tenochtitlan: (modern Mexico City) The “Venice” of the Americas

Religion human sacrifice… food for gods… keeps sun in orbit Victims = POWs NOT an honor- 20, 000 per year how = rip heart out of chest and throw body off pyramid! cook and eat remains = delicacy