AZTEC

1. The time period of the Aztec civilization started I 1200 and ended around 1521.
2. The Aztecs were settled in Mexico and part of Guatemala. Their capital city was Tenochtitlan, which was in a swampy area in Lake Texcoco, but then turned it into a magnificent city. Tenochtitlan is now Mexico City.
3. 10 Facts :

• Montezuma II's headdress was made from the feathers of over 250 birds.
• The Aztecs bury a dead member of their family inside their house. Strangely enough, they were buried under their own hose. This was a custom that the Aztec adopted from the Maya.
• When the Aztec warriors had run out of food, they ate their dead enemies. Aztec warrios never ate dead comrades, but dead enemies were a different matter, though.
• The punishment for a poor person caught wearing clothes that only the rich were allowed to wear was to have their house demolished.
• Blood was the precious water that the Gods needed to be fed, as a reminder of the sacrifice they made for all of Mankind.
• Poor Aztec families sometimes sold their childern in order to get some money.
• In Aztec society family a husband may have more than one wife.
• It was againt the law to be drunk in public in the Aztec empire unless you were over 70 years old.
• By the early-mid 1400's , three powerful city-states had formed the famous Triple alliance in central Mexico. These cities were Tenochtitlar, Texcoco, and Tiacopan.
• They called them selfs the Mexica.

By Brooke O.

1-14-2010