Característica de la cultura azteca

INTRODUCTION.

Legend has it that the Aztecs began the journey from Aztlán (in Nahuatl "Place of Herons"). This place is supposed to currently Mexcaltitlán, Nayarit.

After a long journey the Aztecs arrived in the Valley of Mexico and attempted a first establishment in Chapultepec, neighbors decided to expel them from the place, (1299 or 1319).

But others continued migration, which ends in 1325 to reach the island where the symbols identify the promised land would found a great civilization in a marshy area in which they saw a nopal (cactus) on a rock, and upon her a eagle devouring a snake.

It has been argued that the Aztecs chose deliberately place the advantages offered, due to its strategic location and its potential for Exploitation Lake. The place was named Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital located on an island in the swampy Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico.

The Aztecs have a rich and complex religious tradition, political, cosmological, astronomical, philosophical and artistic learned and developed by the peoples of Mesoamerica over many centuries.

DEVELOPMENT.

CHINAMPA.

• It is brown.

• It is has a rectangular shape.

• It is big sized.

• It is made of wood, mud and branches.

• Was used for agriculture.

• Was used to grow flowers and vegetables.

• Their main crop was corn.

TEPONAZTLI.

• It is brown.

• It is has a cylindrical shape.

• It is medium sized.

• It is made of wood.

• Is a musical instrument.

• Was used to accompany the dancers in the Aztec dance.

• Was used to create religious songs.

MACUAHUITL.

• It is brown.

• It is has a rectangular shape.

• It is medium sized.

• It is made of wood.

• Was used as the main weapon of the Aztecs.

• Was used for rituals.

• The use that was given to macuahuitl in flowery wars was, initially, to eliminate one or two enemies, depending on how effective the blows

METLATL.

• It is gray.

• It is has a cylindrical shape.

• It is medium sized.

• It is made of stone.

• Was used as a basic tool of the kitchen.

• Cylindrical stone used to grind the corn on the

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