The Mexica, or Aztecs, were a Mesoamerican civilization that inhabited the Valley of Mexico from around 1325 to 1521 AD. They spoke Nahuatl and practiced polytheistic religion, sacrificing prisoners of war to appease the gods. The Aztec Empire dominated much of Mesoamerica through warfare and tribute until it was conquered by the Spanish under Hernán Cortés in 1521 with the help of La Malinche, who served as a translator.
The Aztec /ˈæztɛk/[1] people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to 16th centuries. The Nahuatl words aztecatl [as'tekat͡ɬ] (singular)[2] and aztecah [as'tekaʔ] (plural)[2] mean "people from Aztlan",[3] a mythological place for the Nahuatl-speaking culture of the time, and later adopted as the word to define the Mexica people. Often the term "Aztec" refers exclusively to the Mexica people of Tenochtitlan (now the location of Mexico City), situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who referred to themselves as Mexica Tenochca [me'ʃika te'not͡ʃka] or Cōlhuah Mexica [koːlwaʔ me'ʃika].
Sometimes the term also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with the Mexica formed the Aztec Triple Alliance which controlled what is often known as "the Aztec Empire". In other contexts, Aztec may refer to all the various city states and their peoples, who shared large parts of their ethnic history and cultural traits with the Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who often also used the Nahuatl language as a lingua franca. In this meaning it is possible to talk about an Aztec civilization including all the particular cultural patterns common for most of the peoples inhabiting Central Mexico in the late postclassic period.
From the 13th century, the Valley of Mexico was the heart of Aztec civilization: here the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of Tenochtitlan, was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco. The Triple Alliance formed a tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city states throughout Mesoamerica. At its pinnacle, Aztec culture had rich and complex mythological and religious traditions, as well as reaching remarkable architectural and artistic accomplishments. In 1521 Hernán Cortés, along with a large number of Nahuatl speaking indigenous allies, conquered Tenochtitlan and defeated the Aztec Triple Alliance under the leadership of Hueyi Tlatoani Moctezuma II. Subsequently the Spanish founded the new settlement of Mexico City on the site of the ruined Aztec capital, from where they proceeded with the process of colonizing Central America.
Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City; from indigenous bark paper codices; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo; and especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous Florentine Codex compiled by the Franciscan monk Bernardino de Sahagún with the help of indigenous Aztec informants.
The Aztec /ˈæztɛk/[1] people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica from the 14th to 16th centuries. The Nahuatl words aztecatl [as'tekat͡ɬ] (singular)[2] and aztecah [as'tekaʔ] (plural)[2] mean "people from Aztlan",[3] a mythological place for the Nahuatl-speaking culture of the time, and later adopted as the word to define the Mexica people. Often the term "Aztec" refers exclusively to the Mexica people of Tenochtitlan (now the location of Mexico City), situated on an island in Lake Texcoco, who referred to themselves as Mexica Tenochca [me'ʃika te'not͡ʃka] or Cōlhuah Mexica [koːlwaʔ me'ʃika].
Sometimes the term also includes the inhabitants of Tenochtitlan's two principal allied city-states, the Acolhuas of Texcoco and the Tepanecs of Tlacopan, who together with the Mexica formed the Aztec Triple Alliance which controlled what is often known as "the Aztec Empire". In other contexts, Aztec may refer to all the various city states and their peoples, who shared large parts of their ethnic history and cultural traits with the Mexica, Acolhua and Tepanecs, and who often also used the Nahuatl language as a lingua franca. In this meaning it is possible to talk about an Aztec civilization including all the particular cultural patterns common for most of the peoples inhabiting Central Mexico in the late postclassic period.
From the 13th century, the Valley of Mexico was the heart of Aztec civilization: here the capital of the Aztec Triple Alliance, the city of Tenochtitlan, was built upon raised islets in Lake Texcoco. The Triple Alliance formed a tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city states throughout Mesoamerica. At its pinnacle, Aztec culture had rich and complex mythological and religious traditions, as well as reaching remarkable architectural and artistic accomplishments. In 1521 Hernán Cortés, along with a large number of Nahuatl speaking indigenous allies, conquered Tenochtitlan and defeated the Aztec Triple Alliance under the leadership of Hueyi Tlatoani Moctezuma II. Subsequently the Spanish founded the new settlement of Mexico City on the site of the ruined Aztec capital, from where they proceeded with the process of colonizing Central America.
Aztec culture and history is primarily known through archaeological evidence found in excavations such as that of the renowned Templo Mayor in Mexico City; from indigenous bark paper codices; from eyewitness accounts by Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés and Bernal Díaz del Castillo; and especially from 16th and 17th century descriptions of Aztec culture and history written by Spanish clergymen and literate Aztecs in the Spanish or Nahuatl language, such as the famous Florentine Codex compiled by the Franciscan monk Bernardino de Sahagún with the help of indigenous Aztec informants.
erican cultures. Between A.D. 1345 and 1521, the Aztecs forged an empire over much of the central Mexican highlands. ... The Nahuatl speaking peoples began as poor hunter-gatherers in northern Mexico, in a place known to them as Aztlan.
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2. The Mexica:
Basic Concepts
One of the great
Mesoamerican Civilizations.
Inhabited the Valley of Mexico
circa 1325 AD-1521 AD
Polytheistic
3. “Mesoamerica:” what is that?
It is a cultural region in the
Americas where a number
of pre-Columbian societies
flourished before the
Spanish colonization of the
Americas in the 15th and
16th centuries.
5. Valley of Mexico
• Roughly where
Highlands the Federal
District and
plateau in eastern half of
central Mexico the State of
Mexico are
It was a center • Teotihuacan
for several pre- • The Toltec
Columbian • The Aztec
civilizations
8. Terminology Interrelation
Mexica Náhuatl Aztec
• Demonym: • Language: • Origin:
• The • Group of • The
indigenous related Náhuatl
people languages word for
and "people
of the dialects of from
Valley of the Uto- Aztlán,”
Mexico, Aztecan the
who lived language mythical
in Aztlán. family, ancestral
spoken by home of
the the Mexica
Mexicas. people.
9. So, in comparison…
Aztlán/ Mexica/
USA Idahoan
Aztec/ Náhuatl/
American English
11. Mexico, Land of the Mexica!
At first, “Mexico” referred to
the settlements in the valley
which became the site of
what is now Mexico City.
• Hot Summers
• Cool Winters
13. Drinks
Different • maize
alcoholic • honey
beverages were
made from • pineapple
fermented: • cactus fruit
Xocolatl
• Yes,
chocolate!
14. Cannibalism
The Aztecs practiced ritualistic cannibalism.
Victims, usually prisoners of war, were sacrificed
in public on top of temples and pyramids by
cutting out their hearts.
The bodies were then thrown down to the
ground where they were dismembered.
The pieces were then distributed to the
elite, which were mostly warriors and priests.
The meat was consumed in the form of stews
flavored only with salt and eaten with maize
tortillas, but without the otherwise ubiquitous
chili.
15. Chinampas
Often referred to as "floating
gardens"
Created by staking out the shallow
lake bed and then fencing in the
rectangle with wattle.
The fenced-off area was then layered
with mud, lake sediment, and
decaying vegetation, eventually
bringing it above the level of the lake.
16. Chinampas
Often trees were planted at the
corners to secure the chinampa.
Chinampas were separated by
channels wide enough for a canoe to
pass.
These "islands" had very high crop
yields with up to seven crops a year.
18. Aztec Education
Mandatory
universal education
of children until 14
yrs of age.
Parental Involved
obligation, learning the
supervised by huēhuetlàtolli
the which
authorities of embodied the
their calpōlli Aztecs' ideals.
19. Types of School
Calmecac:
Telpochcalli: Advanced Learning
in Writing,
Astronomy,
Practical and Statesmanship,
Military Studies Theology and other
areas.
20. Náhuatl System of Writing
Aztec Years had 260 days. Their weeks
had 20 days, as shown below:
The Náhuatl
System employs
glyphs instead
of letters.
21. Religion
Referred to God as “Teotl.”
Divided the world into upper and nether worlds, each
associated with a specific set of deities and
astronomical objects.
Had a large and ever increasing pantheon.
Had elements of human sacrifice in connection with a
large number of religious festivals which were held
according to patterns of the Aztec calendar.
22. Aztec Calendar Mrs. Padilha by the Aztec Calendar in the National
Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
29. Human Sacrifices
Aztecs practiced human sacrifice on a
large scale
Offering to Huitzilopochtli; to restore
the blood he lost to create the Sun.
To prevent the end of the world that
could happen on each cycle of 52 years.
In the 1487 re-consecration of the Great
Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, some estimate
that 80,400 prisoners were sacrificed.
30. Social Stratitication
National Museum of Anthropology
in Mexico City.
Priest
Nobels
Craftsmen & Merchants
Farmers
Slaves
31. Aztec Architecture: Temples
Scaled Model of the Templo Mayor at the Mr. and Mrs.. Padilha at the entrance of the
Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City. Templo Mayor Museum in Mexico City.
32. Aztec Architecture: Pyramids
Aztec Pyramid in Tlalnepantla Aztec Pyramid in Malinalco,
de Baz, Mexico State. Mexico State.
34. Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
In 1518, Cortéz is put in
command of an expedition to
explore and secure the interior
of Mexico for colonization.
Accompanied by about 11 ships,
500 men, 13 horses and a small
number of cannons, Cortés
landed in the Yucatan
Peninsula in Mayan territory.
35. Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
In March 1519, Cortés formally claimed
the land for the Spanish crown.
Then he proceeded to Tabasco and won
a battle against the natives, who did not
want to welcome the Spaniards, during
which time he received from the
vanquished twenty young indigenous
women and he converted them all.
36. Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
Among these women was La
Malinche, his future mistress
and mother of his child
Martín.
Malinche knew both the
Nahuatl language and Maya,
thus enabling Hernán Cortés
to communicate in both.