Friday, 27 July 2012

Aztec History

By Willis Christopher


The Aztec Men and women

The Aztec Tribe was made up of wandering men and women, as well as several ethnic groups that spoke the Nahuatl Dialect and thrived in the vast lands of Central Mexico around 14th to 16th centuries. People from Aztlan (the Mexicas) journeyed Central Mexico and established alliances together with the true residents of Texcoco and Tlacopan, the two major areas of Tenochtitlan. Tenochtitlan is known nowadays as Mexico City. This triple Coalition eventually grew into a major civilization having a vibrant tradition, sophisticated faith and a vast political dominion throughout the valley of Mexico and several city states of Mesoamerica.

Archaeological facts demonstrated that the Aztec men and women have significantly notable achievements when it comes to architecture and art. Spanish clergymen and educated Aztecs had documented the traditions and history of Aztecs through written records, native bark paper codices were also seen as archaeological proof, in addition to eyewitness testimonies from Spanish conquerors.

The Aztec Culture

The foremost language spoken by Aztec men and women was termed N'ahuatl. The Aztec alphabet system was image writing in which they sketch symbols and images associated with nouns. These were joined together to form sentences, to generate their accounts and keep archives. Aztec image writing was actually difficult to study. The system had been typically performed by priests as well as scribes who were the only ones suitable for recognizing the graphics.

The Aztecs were inclined to poems and they even possessed books often called codices. The aztec books or codices were usually in the shape of long strips of paper that were folded as an accordion, secured by a piece of wood on the two ends. Graphics and signs were drafted within the two sides of the paper and could be read from both top to bottom or left to right.

With regards to Art, Aztecs have been fond of stone carving, painting pictograms, ceramics as well as designing head dresses from feathers. Sculptures were built by stone workers using wood, rock and bones. Pictograms have been sketched by scribes and also priests and they utilized vegetables, insects, shells, minerals and oils to be able to color them. Pots were crafted and then colored by the bare hands of Aztec potters, and headdresses were creatively produced using tropical birds simply by feather workers.




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