Report+from+Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary/Historian

by: Amelia Itteilag

Arts and music

The Aztecs had manytypes of art and artists like stone-workers, who carved statues. stone workers create statues with rock and objects made from green jade, black obsidian, and transparent crystal. To carve they used simple tools made out of wood, rock and bone. Scribes would draw the pictograms that would record events. Music was closely linked to religion. Common instruments the Aztecs used were rattles, whistlers, copper bells and shells. They had big temple drums that could be heard for several kilometers.

Religious rituals and customs

Talocan-Home of the Aztec gods and goddesses.Tezcatlipoca-God of magic,war and death. Huehuetectic-God of fire,shwn as a old man. Cholchiuntlicue-Goddess of lakes and streams. Quetzalcoatl-God of knowledge,creation,piesthood and wind. They loved to give people a sporting chance. Some games where ball games.

History

Around 1300ce, about 200 years after the Maya Indians disappeared, a wandering tribe of Indians wandered into the Vally of Mexica.In 1428, the aztecs formed an alliance, with two other powerful tribes..By the mid-1500's, the Aztecs Empire had collapsed. and the spanish took over. Around 1500 CE spanish soldiers arrived in the valley of Mexico. From 1486 until his death in 1502, Ahuitzotl led Aztec armies in conquest throughout Mexico and central America.

Folktales

the word " coatlicue" is nahuatl for the one with skit of serpents. She is refferred to the variously by the epithets. Tlolac was an important deity in aztecs religion, a god of rain, fertility, and water. Chantico is the goddest of precious things, ther are many Aztecs legends as to what to she does to people and who takes her things.

other notes

Aztecs doctors used many herbal remedies both to cure and prevent illness. The doctors had plenty of bodies to practice on with all the wars and sacrifices. People in the upper class wore clothing decorated with feathers and embroidery to show their status. It was againt the law for commoners to wear feathers.

Mathematician**
 * Diana Molina

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 * __CALENDERS AND DATES__**
 * 2 diffrent calendres
 * others use religion festivals
 * time measuring calender used to fix crops
 * reliogious calender told consult the gods
 * time measuring calender had 360 days divede 18 monthes
 * __MATH AND NUMBERING SYSTEMS__**
 * measure tracts of taxable land
 * Aztecs records the city - state of Tepetlaozto, pair of scientists recanty figured that officials once used to determine the size of land on which tributes were paid.
 * __HIEROGLYPHS__**
 * world hieroglyphs come two Greek words Sared Carving
 * used primarily for religios

Houses
ever citie had a plaza and its laid out into a grid the citie did not have walls they had fortress the out sides were made out of gold amd sliver

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