Compare And Contrast Empires And Aztecs

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more powerful city-states • Distrusted & disliked but valued for military skills  work as mercenaries/ allies  prosperity • Could settle @ shores of lake till kicked out by powerful neighbors • Stop wandering if see eagle on cactus w/ serpent @ beak; seen on island @ Lake Texcoco  make Tenochtitlan c. 1325; Tlateloco later made • Conquered towns  tributes; wider powers for supreme leader • 1428: Aztecs = independent; 1434: Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, & Tlacopan  alliance that dominated most of central plateau but Aztecs @ Tenochtitlan had more control, esp. of maj share • Tarascan frontier to Maya areas • People forced to get tribute, give up land, and possible military service •  prime minister/advisor to 3 rulers from 1427 – c. 1480 (death); histories rewritten so Aztecs were people chosen to serve the gods; enlarged human sacrifice that led to political terror; some areas unconquered so “flower wars” would be made – both sides get captives for sacrifice • …show more content…

cycle (like Tlaloc of rain), water, maize, fertility; 2nd gods: creator  import to cosmography; Tonatiuh of sun; Tezcatlipoca of night; 3rd gods: warrior & sacrifice o Annual festivals for gods: feast, dance, penance,

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