Who were the Aztecs?

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1. Guest9685
   

   The Aztecs are the group of people that lived in Mexico before the European Expeditioners came. They were known to be very smart and very religous, they lived in a an above water city called technochiucan (might've spelt it wrong). They built lots of pyramids like the Egyptians except that their pyramids were made of steps instead of A slope. They were famous for their brutal worship to their gods, where they take people ( slaves mostly) to their Pyramids and cut their heart open and offer it to the gods. They were also known to eat people too. They were wiped out when the expeditioner Cook along with the spanish army came and wiped them out successfully pilfering all their riches and gold and desecrating their temples, their excuses was that the religion of the Aztecs were satanic and should be wiped out.
   
   Nowadays if you go to Mexico you can still see some of their famous step pyramids still standing and are tourist hot spots.

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2. Guest5047
   

   The Aztecs/Mexicas were the native American people who dominated northern México at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan CORTES in the early 16th century. According to their own legends, they originated from a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs (who referred to themselves as the Mexica or Tenochca) were a small, nomadic, Nahuatl-speaking aggregation of tribal peoples living on the margins of civilized Mesoamerica. Sometime in the 12th century they embarked on a period of wandering and in the 13th century settled in the central basin of México. Continually dislodged by the small city-states that fought one another in shifting alliances, the Aztecs finally found refuge on small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of TENOCHTITLAN (modern-day Mexico City). The term Aztec, originally associated with the migrant Mexica, is today a collective term, applied to all the peoples linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to these founders.
   
   Fearless warriors and pragmatic builders, the Aztecs created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Incas in Peru. As early texts and modern archaeology continue to reveal, beyond their conquests and many of their religious practices, there were many positive achievements:
   
   the formation of a highly specialized and stratified society and an imperial administration
   
   the expansion of a trading network as well as a tribute system
   
   the development and maintenance of a sophisticated agricultural ec
   
   The Aztecs/Mexicas were the native American people who dominated northern México at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan CORTES in the early 16th century. According to their own legends, they originated from a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs (who referred to themselves as the Mexica or Tenochca) were a small, nomadic, Nahuatl-speaking aggregation of tribal peoples living on the margins of civilized Mesoamerica. Sometime in the 12th century they embarked on a period of wandering and in the 13th century settled in the central basin of México. Continually dislodged by the small city-states that fought one another in shifting alliances, the Aztecs finally found refuge on small islands in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of TENOCHTITLAN (modern-day Mexico City). The term Aztec, originally associated with the migrant Mexica, is today a collective term, applied to all the peoples linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to these founders.
   
   Fearless warriors and pragmatic builders, the Aztecs created an empire during the 15th century that was surpassed in size in the Americas only by that of the Incas in Peru. As early texts and modern archaeology continue to reveal, beyond their conquests and many of their religious practices, there were many positive achievements:
   
   the formation of a highly specialized and stratified society and an imperial administration
   
   the expansion of a trading network as well as a tribute system
   
   the development and maintenance of a sophisticated agricultural economy, carefully adjusted to the land
   
   and
   
   the cultivation of an intellectual and religious outlook that held society to be an integral part of the cosmos.
   
   The yearly round of rites and ceremonies in the cities of Tenochtitlan and neighboring Tetzcoco, and their symbolic art and architecture, gave expression to an ancient awareness of the interdependence of nature and humanity.
   
   The Aztecs remain the most extensively documented of all Amerindian civilizations at the time of European contact in the 16th century. Spanish friars, soldiers, and historians and scholars of Indian or mixed descent left invaluable records of all aspects of life. These ethnohistoric sources, linked to modern archaeological inquiries and studies of ethnologists, linguists, historians, and art historians, portray the formation and flourishing of a complex imperial state.
   
   onomy, carefully adjusted to the land
   
   aztec poem;
   
   The earth shakes: the Mexica [Aztec] begins his song:
   
   He makes the Eagles and Ocelots dance with him!
   
   Come to see the Huexotzinca:
   
   On the dais of the Eagle he shouts out,
   
   Loudly cries the Mexica.
   
   The battlefield is the place: where one toasts the divine liquor in war,
   
   where are stained red the divine eagles,
   
   where the tigers howl,
   
   where all kinds of precious stones rain from ornaments,
   
   where wave headdresses rich with fine plumes,
   
   where princes are smashed to bits.
   
   There is nothing like death in war,
   
   nothing like the flowery death
   
   so precious to Him who gives life:
   
   far off I see it: my heart yearns for it!
   
   And they called it Teotihulcan
   
   because it was the place
   
   where the lords were buried.
   
   Thus they said:
   
   'When we die,
   
   truly we die not,
   
   because we will live, we will rise,
   
   we will continue living, we will awaken
   
   This will make us happy.'
   
   Thus the dead one was directed,
   
   when he died:
   
   'Awaken, already the sky is rosy,
   
   already dawn has come,
   
   already sing the flame-coloured guans,
   
   the fire-coloured swallows,
   
   already the butterflies fly.'
   
   Thus the old ones said
   
   that who has died has become a god,
   
   they said: 'He has been made a god there,
   
   meaning 'He has died.'
   
   Even jade is shattered,
   
   Even gold is crushed,
   
   Even quetzal plume are torn . . .
   
   One does not live forever on this earth:
   
   We endure only for an instant!
   
   Will flowers be carried to the Kingdom of Death:
   
   Is it true that we are going, we are going?
   
   Where are we going, ay, where are we going?
   
   Will we be dead there or will we live yet?
   
   Does one exist again?
   
   Perhaps we will live a second time?
   
   Thy heart knows:
   
   Just once do we live!.
   
   Like a quetzal plume, a fragrant flower,
   
   friendship sparkles:
   
   like heron plumes, it weaves itself into finery.
   
   Our song is a bird calling out like a jingle:
   
   how beautiful you make it sound!
   
   Here, among flowers that enclose us,
   
   among flowery boughs you are singing.
   
   and
   
   the cultivation of an intellectual and religious outlook that held society to be an integral part of the cosmos.
   
   The yearly round of rites and ceremonies in the cities of Tenochtitlan and neighboring Tetzcoco, and their symbolic art and architecture, gave expression to an ancient awareness of the interdependence of nature and humanity.
   
   The Aztecs remain the most extensively documented of all Amerindian civilizations at the time of European contact in the 16th century. Spanish friars, soldiers, and historians and scholars of Indian or mixed descent left invaluable records of all aspects of life. These ethnohistoric sources, linked to modern archaeological inquiries and studies of ethnologists, linguists, historians, and art historians, portray the formation and flourishing of a complex imperial state.
   
   www.library.thinkquest.org/27981

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3. Guest2150
   

   The Aztecs/Mexicas were the native American people who dominated northern México at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan Cortes in the early 16th century.
   
   According to their own legends, they originated from a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs (who referred to themselves as the Mexica or Tenochca) were a small, nomadic, Nahuatl-speaking aggregation of tribal peoples living on the margins of civilized Mesoamerica. Sometime in the 12th century they embarked on a period of wandering and in the 13th century settled in the central basin of México.
   
   Continually dislodged, Aztecs finally found shelter in Lake Texcoco where, in 1325, they founded the town of TENOCHTITLAN (modern-day Mexico City).
   
   The term Aztec, originally associated with the migrant Mexica, is today a collective term, applied to all the peoples linked by trade, custom, religion, and language to these founders.
   
   You can find more info about them by referring to this link:
   
   http://www.indians.org/welker/aztec.htm
   
   Hope this helps !

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4. Guest1316
   

   Enemies of the Incas.

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5. Saba
   

   During the twelfth or thirteenth centuries the third had greatest of the Mexican civilizations arose - the Aztecs. They were a warlike race which gradually grew in power, becoming the strongest nation in Mexico. Their capital, Tenochtitlan, was built on islands in a marshy area where Mexico City stands today. They worshiped a blood-thirsty pantheon of gods, led by Huitzilopochtli, the sun god. These gods had to be pacified by the sacrifices of hearts torn from the living bodies of human victims. The Aztecs had reached the height of their power when, in 1519, they were invaded by a Spanish army of five hundred men led by an adventurer, Hernan Cortez. Although the Aztec king, Montezuma, could call upon an army of thousands of warriors, he was convinced that Cortez was a god called Quetzalcoatl returning in human form to avenge himself, and so he did virtually nothing to save his people. The Spaniards easily conquered the Aztecs and within a few years the Aztec civilization had been completely destroyed

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