Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Aztec Empire
- Tributes to
the mexicas
- The Aztec Empire was
located in the middle of
smaller civilizations, since
the Aztec had a lot of
power this civilizations
had to pay the Aztec in
some way. The things they
payed to the Aztec were
food, jewlery and
resources they could use.
- Origins
- The Aztec started they
were originally from
Axtlan a mythical island.
Then after two
centuries of migration
from the North they
arrived at the Valley of
Mexico
- Eagle Cactus
and
Huitzilopochtli
- Huitzilopochtli(the god of
the Aztecs) told them that
they would see a signal that
would be where their
civilization would stablish
this signal would be an
eagle standing on a cacus
eating a snake.. This signal
was an island in the middle
of lake Texcoco, it is now
known as Tenochtitlan.
- Moctezuma II
- Moctezuma II was the ninth
emperor of the Aztecs. In
1517 he got the news that
strangers had arrived. It
wasn`t until 1519 that
Cortez and Moctezuma met.
He was imprisioned by the
Spanish and died in 1920 in
a battle against the Spanish.
- Chapultepec
- Chapultepec is one of
the places where the
Aztec established
before Tenochtitla. The
Aztec fortified the hill
but they were expelled
from the place by
neighbors.
- Tenochtitlan
- Tecochtitlan was the
center of the Aztec
civilization. It is located
in an island near Lake
Texcoco. At the center
of the city there is a
pyramid that is called
Temple Mayor.