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Rise And Fall Of The Aztec Empire

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In my Pre-Columbian Civilization Research, I will be discussing the Aztec Empire from 1300-1521.
As indicated on the map, they were located in the Southern part of Mexico. The state capital was Tenochtitlan, and there were two other large cities: Texcoco and Tlacopan. The Aztec were known for their agriculture, military, commercial markets, religion, and the fall of the Aztec Civilization.

The buildings the Aztec built were the temples, pyramids, palaces, and cathedrals. Some of the most famous buildings they built was the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan, the Temple Mayor, The Metropolitan cathedral, and the Palace of Eagle Warriors. In the Aztec religion, they did human sacrifices, which were links to the calendar. They also acknowledged their gods and goddesses whom which they prayed to. The most significant gods and goddesses the Aztec prayed to were the gods of the rain, wind, sun, and astrology. The god of intelligence and creation, and the goddess of the lakes and streams. …show more content…

Then in the early 1400s the government changed to where the three dominant cities had councilmen that ruled their city and the land around the city. The cities were all able to share with one another but they had suffered economically because of the money that they had to give up to the leaders of the Aztec. They called the leaders the “tlatcani.” There were eleven different leaders over a period of 145 years here are three of the eleven leaders: Acamapichtli 1376-1395, Montezuma I 1440-1469, Moctezuma II 1502-1520. The Aztec government was known to make human sacrifices with their

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