The first account is by Sahagun's informants, stating that the strangers conquered the Otomies, fired canons at them, attacked them with their swords and shot them with their crossbows (Broken Spears; Leon-Portilla, 38). Leaving not a single person alive. The other version of the story could have been invented by the Tlaxcaltecas to excuse their part in the massacre. This story does not include a massacre but a friendly encounter, where the strangers were invited to enter, were paid with great honors and joined with them as allies. The Spaniards second massacre was at Cholula in the courtyard of the god.
Since the sun is so powerful, they had to do a sacrifice of a God, Tezcatlipoca. It became only half a sun and this first creation was incomplete. A fight began with Quetzalcoatl and the sun was knocked from the sky, in anger Tezcatlipoca sent jaguars to destroy the giants. This God was assigned to the Earth. The second sun the Wind Sun took over his brother as the sun.
Cody Ostlund SPA 101 Sec 1 4-17-11 Aztec Society The Aztecs were a very organized and religious society. The worshipped many deities, and performed sacrificial rituals to please their deities. Historians claim that the Aztecs first settled on an island called Aztlan, but moved south in the early 1100’s. They settled in neighboring cities, but their hosts found their violent behavior rude, so they were ran out of many cities. During their travels, the Aztecs came across lake Texcoco, where they saw an eagle perched on a cactus.
The Aztecs worshiped hundreds of gods and goddesses; each represented a different aspect of life. The Rain god, Sun god, vegetation god and fertility god. The Tezcatlipoca, the warrior god of the north and the god of sin and misery. The Huitzilopochtli was the Aztec god o the obsidian knife who sprang forth from his mother’s belly to kill his siblings. The Quetzalcoati was the Aztec god of the wind.
Often the reason for a human sacrifice was food shortage, drought, disease, and war to honor and please the gods. Apocalypto shows prisoners being pinned down on an altar and cut from stomach to diaphragm, similar to animal sacrifice, and having their hearts torn out and shown to the crowd. However, the film goes further by depicting decapitation and the tossing of bodies down the temple steps. This part of the ritual was more Aztec inspired then Mayan. Mayans did shoot
Aztecs fought in wars to capture men to sacrifice. On a ceremony, they usually killed their slaves for the gods. Human
In the film the Aztecs attacked the Mayan village seeking slaves to help build up their empire. They had a very stealth like approach when attacking the Mayans, they moved quickly and quietly. The Aztecs ambushed the homes of the Mayans with torches. The torches were used to scare the Mayans out of their homes; this made it easier for the Aztecs to capture men and women for slavery. The Aztec people showed no mercy when conquering other natives.
The Tepehuán (Tepehuanes or Tepehuanos) are an indigenous ethnic group in northwest Mexico, whose villages at the time of Spanish conquest spanned a large territory along the Sierra Madre Occidental from Chihuahua and Durango in the north to Jalisco in the south. The southern Tepehuán community included an isolated settlement (Azqueltán) in the middle of Huichol territory in the Bolaños River canyon. The southern Tepehuán were historically referred to as Tepecanos. hisotry The Wixárika arrived to the Bolaños Canyon region after the arrival of the Tepecanos, who until recently inhabited the same region. There are numerous theories among anthropologists and historians about the timing of the arrival of this ethnic group to the region, but according
When they received the gold, they quickly prepared an expedition to the wealthy kingdom, city in Mexico. New Spain was a viceroyalty, an administrative unit of the Spanish colonial empire. New Spain colonized all over the world. They governed Spanish conquests in North and Central America, the Caribbean, South America’s west side, and a few territories in the Asia-Pacific region. They conquered so much land, that they were one of the largest empires in the world.
Emperors were usually chosen from among the brothers or sons of the deceased ruler. They were required to be nobles, to be over the age of 30, to have been educated at one of the elite calmecac schools, to be experienced warriors and military leaders, and to be just. Although the emperor had absolute power and was believed to be a representative of the gods, he governed with the assistance of four advisors and one senior advisor who were elected by the nobility. Economic Structure * Aztec farmers were great at what they did and agriculture was the foundation to the Aztec Economy. The Aztec’s used the Chinampa way of farming which made them have highly productive gardens that not only let them farm the land but let them get the water that they used to grow the crop back.