aztecs

...n gods who control the earth so anything that happened to them like a Hurricane or Earthquake was goods gift to them. “The Aztecs remain the most extensively documented of all Amerindian civilizations at the time of European contact in the 16th century” (Johnson 3). The Aztecs believed god controlled the earth more then other tribes because of there abundance of farming and how it controlled there lives. The Aztec Indians are known for there for their phenomenal archaeological skills and there waterway study witch gave there tribe running clean water. The term, Aztec, is a startlingly imprecise term to describe the culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Properly speaking, all the Nahua-speaking peoples in the Valley of Mexico were Aztecs, while the culture that dominated the area was a tribe of the Mexica (pronounced "me-shee-ka") called the Tenochca ("te-noch-ka"). At the time of the European conquest, they called themselves either "Tenochca" or "Toltec," which was the name assumed by the bearers of the Classic Me...

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