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Mesoamerican cultures
Mayas, olmec, mixtec-zapotec, totonaca, nahuatl-tolteca, aztecs, mexica
Mayas
Gods: polytheistic conception of the 🌎
Writing system: codex
Chichen-itzá
Coba
Tulum
365 day calendar
Aztecs
Empire based in tenochtitlan
Expended through mesoamerica
Nahuatl
Moctezuma rules for 17 years
Spanish conquest by hernan cortes
Triple alliance
The mexica who were the dominant society in the post-classical period founded the city of mexico some time later they allied with the lord ships of texcoco and formed the triple alliance to face atzcapotzcalo
Pipiltin
Aztec noble class
Calmecac
School for the nobility and prests children
Tepochcalli
School where kids received religious, military, and cultural education
Calpulli
Aztect group of families that worked comunal landa, and had their own rulinngs. They prepared kids to become worriors
Macehualtin
Were the commoner social class in the aztec empire
Who governed tenochtitlan when the spaniards arrived?
Moctezuma
Why the aztecs accepted cortes?
Because he came on a horse, he was tall and had white skin so they thought he was a god
Malinche
She was the interpreter of cortes who talked nahuatl, maya and spanish and she also was his lover
How did the spaniards killed inderectly a lot of aztecs
Because the brought many infections such as chicke. Pox (varicela)
Evangelization
The main justificartion for the conquest was to evangelize the non-catholic people . The conversarion was succesfully achieved by the evangelists after many years of hard work. As consequence today mexico is a large catholic country
Periods of pre-hispanic history
- pre-classical (2500 B.C-200)
- classical period (200-900)
- post-classical (900-1521)
