Period+2+Aztec

Dwellings
written by Kyle Noel Have you ever been to Mexico? That’s where the Aztecs lived and had their houses. There houses showed the wealth of the family. So the poor lived in one room huts made of sticks and mud with thatched roofs. Some had clay bricks instead of mud and sticks. The middle class or merchants and nobles had one story houses made of logs and plaster flat roofs. They planted gardens on the roofs. The wealthiest nobles had two story palaces made of black volcanic rock called [|obsidian]. They had a room used as a kitchen, fireplace, and [|shrine]. There was also a circular shaped room used for ceremonies. So the[| Aztecs houses] are very interesting.

[[image:http://www.westmifflinmoritz.com/Americas_Folder/Web_Pictures_Americas/Aztec_Bath.jpg]] L **ifestyle**
written by Philip Lifestyle paragraph

The Aztecs had a very interesting lifestyle that involved farming and the creation of precious [|jewelery]. Farming was the basic occupation of the Aztecs. They farmed maize, squashes, chiles, beans and a variety of other vegetables and herbs. In the off-season farmers hunted small game. Plus stone workers, feather workers and metal workers were greatly valued in their society because of the fine objects they could make. These fine objects were traded to ares as far north as the [|Gulf Coast]. Next the market place was probably the buisiest spot in the Aztec empire. In this area people would mingle with each other and enjoy the latest news. These are some of the reasons why the Aztecs had a very interesting lifestyle. ==  == ** **

Religion
==__**AZTEC GODS**__ ==

The Aztecs had many gods and goddesses. Though most of the Aztec gods were only worshiped by Aztecs, there were some that were shared with other Mesomamarica cultures, some of those gods were [|Quetzalcoatl] and [|Xipe Totec]. The Aztecs thought that the gods liked it when the Aztecs sacrificed people. Because fighting was such a big part of life, they usually sacrificed prizners of war, but they sometimes sacrificed people of there village. Huchueteutln was the god of rain. Thlaoc is the creator. The gods were worshped in many ways.

written by Rachel [|aztec gods website] Aztec sacrifices:

The Aztecs sacrifices were a huge part of Aztec life. The Aztecs bielifed that when they sacrificed a human that the god they sacrifice him to would feast on there heat and blood. Sacrifices were so important that they even had a sacrifice knife that they would use only to sacrifice people. The Aztecs normaly sacrifice people who they had taken from a war but somtimes they would even sacrifice there own. There was also one god inparticular who wanted lots of blood and that was the god Huitzilopochtli the god of war. I think that acrifices are really gross because the ways they would sacrifice somone would be very bloody and not in a "nice" way. Im so happy we don't sacrifice people