Aztec codices

The Aztecs made great advances in many areas. One of their accomplishments was herbal medicine. Aztec medicine was based on two areas which are spiritual healing and herbal healing. Many of the illnesses that affected the Aztecs were caused to religious reasons: an angry god, bad birth signs, or something to that effect. The first step of treating an illness was a prayer and/or sometimes animal sacrifices. After that, herbal medicine would be used. Today, many herbal medicines can be found in Central

is being told, one may assume that is has importance to the people of that culture. This is significant because the stories are being told from the perspective of the indigenous people. What was included in the pages of codices must have been held close to the people. Also, codices and pictorial images were not being mass produced like today. These images were being hand made. This highlights that if something was important to their culture, they would take the time to depict it. If it was not important

Chloe Salone Ancient Aztec Medicinal Practices SPN201-Fall 12/23/2016 In America if someone is sick or not feeling well, they simply go to the doctors and have a prescription sent to their local pharmacy. However, in ancient Mexico when someone became ill, the Aztecs resulted to collecting natural resources and creating their own medicine to cure each other. Mexico has a rich tradition of herbal use going back many centuries (“Aztec Medicine”). Aztecs result to the use of nature

ago, the Valley of Mexico was the site of Teotihuacan, where the traveling Aztecs decided to settle down. The Aztecs chose this spot because of a sign, a bird on a cactus holding a serpent in its mouth. Aztecs were forced to build their city on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. They were protected by water and boats brought goods from the shore. They also use causeways, roads built over water, to transport goods. Aztecs used the cacao seed for currency because they were so valuable to their people

The Aztecs encountered the conquistadors, the leader of the group was a Spanish named Hernan Cortés. In 1521, the Aztecs caused their enemies to suffer major losses. Though the Aztecs didn’t all die to the war, the Aztecs mostly died out due to the diseases that the Spaniards brought over. The Aztecs had pyramids comparable to the Egyptians, but on top of these pyramids the Aztecs built temples. These temples on the pyramids were used to worship the Aztecs’ three more important gods, Huitzilopochtli

The ancient Aztecs lived thousands of years ago in what is now known today as Mexico, before their collapse. In 1519, Hernan Cortes arrived with a fleet of ships after rumour had spread of a city containing great wealth. It was believed that Cortes’ arrival coincided with an ancient Aztec prophecy about a pale skinned and bearded god arriving from the east. Cortes was welcomed by the king of Tenochtitlan, Montezuma. He gave Cortes many gifts, such as precious stones, gold and chocolate. Cortes was

The Xocoatl Codices were the Aztecian way of documenting their way of life. In the pages of these historical books, you will notice they didn't write with letters but pictures (called glyphs) to explain and document information. Codice pages were usually made with cactus fibre or deerskin, this one represented here is the latter. The codices dealt with divination, ceremonies, the ritual calendar, and speculations about the gods and the universe. After the europeans made their “visit” many featured

The “Aztecs” serial of Doctor Who, while seemingly taking great lengths to present the Aztecs outside of the label of barbaric practitioners of human sacrifice which they are usually ascribed, still offers a limited modern European view of the Aztec society. As such, the entire culture is presented as paradoxical — a culture capable of “greatness” as well as “evil,” torn between civilization and barbarianism. Doctor Who is a British science-fiction program centered around the travels of The Doctor

The Aztecs lived on North America in Mexico. They lived on islands and their capital was called Techoctilian which meant “Place of the Prickly Pear”. Their capital stood where Mexico City currently is. Their empire stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and from modern day Guatemala to the Basin. As of today the spot where they built their capital is no longer an island. The land was very swampy so it was bad for farming and it wasn’t fertile. It was also surrounded by mountains and

visual evidence with a written record, whether it be another culture’s record or a written record that isn’t inherently “written”. And when it comes to examining the visual culture of Post-Classic Mexico, both of these are the case. With Mixtec and Aztec codices made entirely of pictographs and glyphs, we are forced to consider colonial hybrid documents in addition to these glyphs