Mexica

Mexico started to migrate south. One of these tribes was the Mexica. Leading the Mexica was Chief Huitzilopochtli. When He died they believed he became a god. He communicated with the priest. They told the people that Chief Huitzilopochtli was leading them to a place where they would build the seat of their empire. They settled in the Valley of Mexico in around 1250-1300 ce. The Aztecs fought battles for land and lost. Some of the Mexica leaders begged the rulers of Culhuacan to have pity on

one day that civilization no longer exists because another culture decided to conquer them. These people are known to modern society as the Aztecs. In Graciela Limon's novel, Song of the Hummingbird, she illustrated how a culture like the Aztecs or Mexica, can quickly diminish when there are people such as the Spanish that have very limited understanding about certain subjects. Some people may say that the Aztecs were slaughtered because the Darwinian principle of natural selection even applies to

Song of The Hummingbird The book setting takes place in Mexico City in 1583 at a convent. Father Benito Lara was a Franciscan monk around 27 years old with a medium build, lean, clear tone, chestnut color hair thin to baldness identifying himself as the new confessor at the convent. The father was approached a private corner where an older woman Huitzitzilin 82 years old also known as Hummingbird frail with yellowish tone skin, small face, skeletal, dark marks, stringy white hair waiting to stated

public baths and lavatories for the citizens. Tenochtitlan was built on a lake island called Aztlan and over the lake, the Aztecs built fertile, floating farms called “Chinampas”.The people who inhabited the Aztlan Island were originally called the Mexica people. The name Aztec is derived from the name of the Island. However primitive this empire may seem, the Emperors were quite affluent. They had lavish possessions

Because the Mexica military was very strongly organized and therefore defeated many armies, the warriors became a part of the upper social class. The military forces were mainly made up of male aristocrats who were trained in military from a young age. Therefore, as members of the higher social class, they received respect from the Mexica society as well as huge stretches of land, luxurious food, and fancy clothes, which enhanced their status and power even further. The lack of a government in the

Similar to how in the modern world how two cultures can differ greatly, India versus Canada for example, the ancient societies of the Mexica and the Inca were very different. Such dissimilarities are partially due to lack of communication, a problem originating in the time period in which they thrived, being the twelfth to sixteenth centuries when they had no other means of communication besides by foot. Despite their differences, the two peoples had many parallels regarding social norms and hierarchies

cultures. The Mexica-Aztec of Central Mexico and the Inka of the Andean Region developed widely different political systems for governing other indigenous people that they have conquered. The Mexica-Aztec were direct descendent of the Toltecs of Mesoamerica therefore the Aztecs appropriated much of Toltec culture most importantly the belief in the god Quetzalcoatl. Also, the Mexica-Aztec and the Inka had very similar economies based on agriculture and trade. Political systems of the Mexica-Aztec and

Clendinnen writes about principles and meanings of Mexica art, some of them include: The experienced world is a representation composed out of representations Men are like everything else, they are figments The world is constantly made and remade by the divine artificer The human artist mimics the divine activity Art among humans is a collective quest for the really real Artists had knowledge equal to the gods, but the gods dimmed their eyes so they could only see the obvious Art became worship

My classroom lesson plan will focus on the Aztec/Mexica history of Mesoamerica. The lesson plan would conform to Grade 7 Standards (not Grade 10). Under section 7.7, students will compare and contrast the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Meso-American and Andean civilizations. From this standard, I plan to utilize three sub-sections. In particular, 7.7.1: “Study the locations, landforms, and climates of Mexico, Central America, and South America and their effects

in a hunt for gold and other riches. The Mexica claimed that their homeland was a island in a lake called Aztland, meaning “the place of the white heron.” The Toltecs had been the last of the powerful Mesoamericans before rise of the Aztecs. Then, the battles began and while on the battlefield, the Aztecs first made sure they kept control over the cities that the Tepanecs ruled. The Aztec forces conquered lands to the east, all the way to the Gulf