The Aztecs were a cultural group located in central Mexico. They were clever people and adapted to their surroundings easily. They built canoes to fish and hunt, they filled swampland with reeds and stones and dirt to create more room to farm. After a few years of them being in Mexico they started to conquer other tribes that were around them and soon enough the whole Valley of Mexico were Aztecs. In those years the Aztecs seemed invincible and that no one could stop them. Everyone feared them because of their beliefs in sacrifices. It wasn’t until 1500s, when the Spanish arrived to conquer the Aztecs. The Spanish effected the Aztecs in many ways such as their Religion, health and food. Before the Spanish conquered the Aztecs, the Aztecs had their own religion. They believed in many Gods and that they all had their own jobs. They also believed that all Gods needed rest, just like people and that they all had families. The Aztecs were incredibly scared of their Gods …show more content…
They were a healthy tribe with few diseases passing through it (Spanish conquest, 2014). The Aztecs believed there was three main courses of illness and injury. They were supernatural courses involving the anger of their Gods, magical causes involving curses and sorceress and natural and practical causes. Getting a treatment for any of the diseases depended on the diseases cause (Aztec medicine, 2014). It wasn’t until the Spanish came when diseases really started to impact the Aztecs. The Spanish bought with them into Mexico smallpox, typhus, measles, influenza, cholera, yellow fever and mumps. The Aztecs immune systems had never dealt with diseases as powerful as these and had no cure for them, ending the majority of the Aztecs lives. It wasn’t the battles that killed the Aztecs it was the deadly diseases that were brought in by the Spanish (Spanish conquest,