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II. Aztec AD (1.)1168-AD e/Latin_America/Aztec_Maya.html

A. Location: 2. Central Mexico Plateau Teotihuacan

A. Location: 3. Dry-semiarid Teotihuacán 4. Today Mexico

A. Location: 5. City: Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) 04/mexico-city/

B. Government: Centralized gov’t 1. Ruled by an emperor 2. Hierarchy 3.Based on conquest = war 4.Triple Alliance of Three Cities

C. Economy: 1. Agriculture 2. Tribute

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

D. Religion cont. Quetzalcoatl Feathered Serpent peaceful god that would return one day from east

D. Religion: Polytheistic religion 3. Step pyramids m Pyramid of the Sun

E. Achievements: 1. Calendar similar to Maya 2. Medicine – set bones, fill cavities

E. Achievements: 3. Building: pyramids, aqueducts, causeways aphic_Images/02_Indians_North_America/11_The_Aztecs/S tone_Serpent2.jpg /e9cb4/4/7eee/

E. Achievements 4. Pictorial writing system

E. Achievements 5. Chinampas (creating fields in swampy land)

F. Collapse: Spanish arrival AD Rebellion by conquered peoples b/c of increasing demands of a. Tribute b. Sacrificial victims 2. Spanish Arrival AD pic2/ jpg

Teotihucan

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