Dbq Essay On Aztec Civilization

The Aztec city was one of the biggest most advanced cities in the world. Every part of the

Aztec?s lifestyle was more advanced than any other civilizations that lived around there time.

The Aztecs had a strange but impressive way of life and how they managed to become what

they became only history history knows. The Aztec were so technologically advanced they

started school in their civilization that teached astronomy and philosophy way before the

Americans did. Also in document two it has a picture that shows that they had a calendar at the

time.

The Aztecs civilization has a population of around three hundred thousand people in the main

city that was Tenochtitlan , this was 5 times the size of London during 1519. The Aztecs

civilization was spreadsheet in many towns 6 towns to be exact there names were Itzcoatl,

motecuhzoma,ilhuicamina, Axay?catl , Tizoc , Ahuizotl and Motecuhzoma xocoyotzin.

The

earliest civilization of the Aztecs was Itzcoatl from 1427 to 1440 & the latest being

motecuhzoma xocoyotzin from 1502 to 1520 . The civilization known today as mexico city is

built on top of the ruens of Tenochtitlan which was the main city of the Aztecs. Tenochititlan was

also home of the Sun's god temple the most important god in the Aztecs religion. The Aztecs

civilization was so advanced that they had a very sophisticated way of growing their crops and

especially the way they irrigated their plants. They had canals as it shows in document eight

they had rows of crops and at the end they had trees to anchor the soil. They would make rafts

so that they could put their plants in the water and never have to water them the plants would

drink water when they want to.

A very important custom for the Aztecs was religion. The Aztecs religion is very hard

to
understand especially because of some practices that take place in the religion.The Aztecs
religion involved blood sacrifices especially human blood that was offered to the god as a
offering in order to ensure a good harvest. In document seven it says that ?scholars believe that
humans must sacrifice that what is precious to them life in order to revive the blessing of having
the sun,rain,other blessings that we have life being one itself. The people that are sacrificed
during the ceremonies are captured from rival tribes. Over twenty thousand people die in one
Aztec ceremony.

Life for the ideal Aztec was not very hard or different from our lives today in a way. They
themselves had to go to school and they also had chores like many of us do today at home. In
document 12 it says that ?parents were quite close to their children and that their children were
well disciplined? even more disciplined that the children that live today. At the age of six children
took on domestic responsibilities like feeding the cattle that they domesticated to eat. In
document twelve it says that children started to go to school when they turned fifteen . in
document 12 it says that men would get married at the age of twenty and women at the age of
sixteen. Document twelve says that the aztec code was still present for those who got married. If
the code was broken there parents can punish them by cutting their flesh and letting them sleep
outside in the mud. Some consequences were so severe that both father and mother were killed
if they broke the Aztec code.

The Aztec city as one of the biggest most advanced cities in the world during their time.The
Aztec civilization was so advanced that they were able to make there own calendar and also
start school way before the Americans did in which they taught philosophy and astronomy. The
Aztec religion is one very hard concept to understand especially because of the human
sacrifices that they did to honor their god. The Aztec life was one of those lives that had many
mysterious but history captured the mysterious history was able to answer many question that
we have about them.This is what I say should be said about the Aztecs.