aztec project

Long Migration 

Human Scarifie

Chinampas

Vally of mexico

Teotihuacan

Olmec

the long migration is when the Aztecswent searching for there new home has their god gave them a sign to cut down a tree that sign told them they had to find a new home, after a long migration they saw a eagleon top of a cactusand the eagle holding a snake this was a sign form there god Huitzilopotchlithe god who lead them to the land of their destiny. 

Human scarifiesis when the Aztecsbring there enemies they faught up on top of an altar. They part icedhuman sacrificehas they believed the world was createdthrough human sacrifice. And they believedif they never did human scar fiethen the earth would dry up and the sun and moon and plants and stars would not be able to travel across the sky.

Chinampasare pieces of land that helped grow food such as corn wheat fruits etc these land helped there life easy and farming easy . they got watered by the causeways so when water came to the people it would also water the crops.

the valleyof mexico is surroundedby mountainsand land those mountainswere consideredto bring themcloser to there gods and give them a sense of security. the valleyof mexico is also surrounded by lake Texacoand many swampylakes.

Teotihuacan is an advanced city that has town squares , streets , canals for drainage. the Teotihuacan people copied some aspects of there religion form the Aztec people and they copied there layout of there city.

The Olmecpeople are the original meso american society and considered the mother culturethe Olmecwhere known for there big huge stone sculpturesthat were the shape of heads. these sculptureshad big lips ,baby faces , and pear shaped heads often these sculptures weighted 30 tons. they lived in an area called Olmecit was an area that was parallel to the gulf of mexico and now its called Veracruz.