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Dwellings
written by Samantha __**Aztec Dwellings**__

The Aztec people had many of different types of houses. It all depended on if they were wealthy or poor. If an Aztec were poor, they lived in a small, one room house. The house was made of branches held with mud and had a [|thatched] roofs. A wealthy Aztec lived in a bigger townhouse built on a raised platform and volcanic stone which was carved and shaped. Even though poor and rich Aztecs had different houses, the main room in all houses had a fireplace for cooking and a shrine to gods. Most Aztecs lived in simple houses made with adobe and topped with thatched roofs. Nobles had two story houses located in a central courtyard. That’s all about Aztec houses.

Lifestyle
written by IAN ** Ian R. Aztec Hospitals The Aztec hospitals were amazing for their time. For instance, they were centralized facility’s, and performed many successful surgery’s. Some of these surgery’s consisted of amputations, brain surgery, and plastic surgery. The medical system was comprehensive and advanced beyond the medical system of Europe at that time. The Aztec hospital staff consisted of midwives who helped give birth. They also had a remarkably organized ambulance system. The blood in Aztec hospitals was often mistaken for a sacrifice. Ololiuqui was a narcotic used by the Aztecs. The system, overall you see was quite complex. ** ==

Religion
written by Katie __Aztec Religion__

The [|Aztecs] had a interesting way of viewing the world. The Aztec people were [|polytheistic], the believed that there was more than one god. There was hundreds and hundreds of these gods a lot of them were based on every day things that happened in nature, such as sun, there was a sun god and probably a moon god. To please these gods the Aztecs preformed human sacrifices. Most of the people they sacrificed were enemies they had captured at war, but sometimes they sacrificed there own including women and children. They called ages suns and each of the suns were destroyed by natural disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, ect.) The last age was ruled by the sun god,[| Tonatiuh]. The only way to keep the fifth and final sun from exploding they had to do a special fire ritual. It must have worked because there it one sun in the sky. Even though the Aztec people may have had an unusual way of seeing how the earth was made they were very interesting people, they sacrificed there life's for something that they believed in and trusted and I respect that. ====