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Friday, 20 July 2012

The Long Past of Aztecs

By Willis Christopher


The Aztec People

The Aztec Civilization was comprised of wandering men and women, as well as several ethnic groups which spoke the Nahuatl Dialect and ruled the great portions of Central Mexico during 14th to 16th centuries. Men and women coming from Aztlan (the Mexicas) journeyed Central Mexico and established alliances together with the true locals of Texcoco and Tlacopan, the two principal areas of Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan is regarded presently as Mexico City. This triple Alliance soon became a major empire having a wealthy culture, complicated faith as well as a wide political dominion over the valley of Mexico and several towns of Mesoamerica.

Historical proofs demonstrated that the Aztec men and women got significantly impressive accomplishments regarding architecture as well as art. Spanish clergymen as well as skilled Aztecs had documented the traditions and history of Aztecs by way of written records, ancient bark paper codices were also uncovered as archaeological evidence, and also eyewitness testimonies coming from Spanish conquistadors.

The Aztec Culture

The principal dialect spoken by Aztec men and women was referred to as N'ahuatl. The Aztec alphabet system had been picture crafting where they use symbols and images of nouns. These images were attached together to produce sentences, to generate their experiences and make archives. Aztec picture system had been hard to master. The system was mainly performed by priests as well as scribes who had been the only people able to do reading the particular illustrations.

The Aztec people were interested in composing poems and they even had books called codices. The aztec books or codices tend to be in the shape of lengthy pieces of paper that had been folded up similar to an accordion, covered with a piece of wood at both ends. Images and symbols were drafted on the two sides of the papers and could be read from either top to bottom and left to right.

Concerning Art, Aztecs have been interested in stone carving, painting pictograms, pottery and creating head dresses from feathers. Statues were crafted by stone workers using wood, rock and bones. Images were sketched by scribes and priests and they employed vegetables, insects, shells, minerals as well as oils in order to put color in them. Pots were sculpted and then colored by the bare hands of Aztec potters, and headdresses had been carefully designed out of tropical birds through feather workers.




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