1. FINAL PROJECT
AZTEC EMPIRE
Team members:
Altamirano Zavaleta Naomi Elizabeth
Pulido Estrada Oliver Samuel
Sanchez Martinez Diego Eduardo
Name of teacher: Martha Edith Padilla
Group: 318 A
2. AZTEC EMPIRE
•It was founded in the fifteenth century in the
late post-classic period of 1430 to 1521
3.
•Mesoamerica was located in the states of
Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo, Mexico, Morelos,
Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas to the border
with Guatemala.
4.
•His writing was consisted of pictograms
pictographic signs representing objects.
5.
•Its main economic activities were diverse as
agriculture which created various methods such
as the chinampas
7.
•Their religion was polytheistic gods taking as
quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, huitzilopochtli and Mixtli
8.
•His craft and sculpture was made of different
materials and had practical and religious uses
9.
•They had many religious rituals as Xipe Totec
or ball game where human sacrifices were made
10. VISIT THE MUSEUM
Obsidian Monkey
14 cm high by 14.9 cm wide with a thickness of 17.3 cm. It is a pot
black, which seems to have been cast as the figure of an ape, is very
well polished, it was made with the use of sand and water, it was
made of obsidian and we chose it because we noticed the mold and
the way in which it was elaborated.
11.
Box of Motecuhzoma II
It is a box made of stone, measuring 24.5 cm high, 24.9 cm wide and
25 cm long, the lower part is orange while the upper is gray and the
inside, outside has two crosses and seems to have recorded an
image of a sacrifice. We chose it because we were interested in what
is mentioned in it he says that it was stored objects used for rituals
as children and ash remains of warriors and rulers.
12.
Brazier dead warrior
It is a molded brazier as the figure of a dead warrior that measures
97.5 cm high, 80 cm wide and has a depth of 62 cm, the colors are
very bright and you can see that the warrior's head is within the peak
a bird, its ears hang two hands and has a shield and arrows in his left
arm, the brazier containing a blue ribbon where you can notice three
hands out of it on both sides. We chose it because we admire to see
the monument, we marveled at her figure and what it represented.
