Did the Aztecs live like you do today? Did they sit down for dinner as a family? Did they go out on weekends to have fun? How did mommies and daddies bond with their kids? If you want to know the answers to these, then you better start reading this history book for kids. Grab a copy today!
Did the Aztecs live like you do today? Did they sit down for dinner as a family? Did they go out on weekends to have fun? How did mommies and daddies bond with their kids? If you want to know the answers to these, then you better start reading this history book for kids. Grab a copy today!
Have you ever paused to wonder what life was like in the ancient times? This book will give you the opportunity to study the Daily Life of a Mayan Family. By looking back to what transpired in the past and how lives were lived the, you can have a better appreciation of the present. You might even learn to thank the people who made living much more comfortable.
The Aztecs founded a great empire in Mesoamerica. They ruled much of modern-day Mexico. The people of this civilization were extremely sophisticated and left a lasting influence on the world. Even today, the people of this country are credited for being the first to develop chocolate and other sweet treats. Learn more about the history of the Aztecs by educating your child. In fact, you can even use the facts about the ancient people to start a conversation about their influence on the world.The Aztecs were a very tough people. Their daily lives were difficult and their gods were not happy. The people of this civilization sacrificed their children for their own good. At the dedication of their great pyramid temple at Tenochtitlan, 20,000 prisoners were sacrificed. To maintain their gods' satisfaction, they used human sacrifices to make offerings to their gods. Most males were trained to be warriors, and the best ones were decorated with animal skins, feathers, and headdresses. While the poor and middle classes lived lavishly, the common Aztecs had to work very hard to survive.The Aztecs were a very practical people. Their daily routine included housework and farming. Only the wealthy had the money to spend on lavish living, and the rest were forced to work hard to survive. The average person was forced to work hard for a living, and they did not have a lot of money. They lived very simple lives. And they did not have much food to waste. The only way they could survive was by making sacrifices for religious rituals.
An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume. Focusing on San Francisco Tecospa—a village of some eight hundred Indians who still spoke Nahuatl, whose lives were dominated by supernaturalism, and who observed with only slight modification much of their Aztec heritage—this story bears out the anthropological principle that innovations are most likely to be accepted when they are useful, communicable, and compatible with established tradition. Nowhere is the Indian genius for combining the old and the new better exemplified than in the story of how the Virgin of Guadalupe came to fulfill the role formerly played by the pagan goddess Tonantzin and of how Christian saints replaced the Aztec gods. At the time of this study, the Tecospans still called the Catholic Virgin Tonantzin, but their concept of the mother goddess had changed profoundly since Aztec times. Tonantzin the Pagan, a hideous goddess with claws on her hands and feet and with snakes entwining her face, wore a necklace of hearts, hands, and skulls to represent her insatiable appetite for corpses. Tonantzin the Catholic—also called Guadalupe—is a beautiful and benevolent mother deity who repeatedly stays God’s anger against her Mexican children and answers the prayers of the poorest Indian, with no thought of return. In Tecospa the road to social recognition lay in the performance of religious works, and the neglect of ritual obligation subjected both the individual and the community to the anger of supernaturals who punished with illness or other misfortune. Religion was inextricably a part of every phase of life, and it is the whole life of the Aztecan that is recorded here: fiesta, clothing, food, agricultural practices, courtship, marriage, pregnancy and childbirth, death, witchcraft and its cures, medical practices and attitudes, houses and home life, ethics, and the hot-cold complex that classifies everything in the Tecospan universe from God to Bromo-Seltzer. With a marked simplicity of style and language William Madsen has produced a profoundly significant anthropological study that is delightful reading from the first sentence to the last. The drawings, the work of a ten-year-old Tecospan lad, are remarkable for their penetrating insight into the culture.
A study of the Mexicans at the beginning of the sixteenth century, focusing on the daily activities of the city-dwellers of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, and discussing society, religion, domestic habits, marriage and family, war, the arts, and other aspects of daily life.
Aztec Civilization is an old civilization that we still are uncovering today. They are responsible for many aspects of American history, and in this, your child can learn some of the cool facets and different impacts that this group of people had on society. Pick up a copy for your child today!
It’s interesting to know that despite the absence of great technological feats and volumes of information, the Aztecs were able to create a highly progressive government and society. How did they do it? Let’s take a peek at history and find out. History will tell you a lot about the evolution of thoughts and ideas. Grab a copy today!
