The Aztecs: A Powerful, Strong, Intelligent Civilization

The Aztecs were a powerful, strong, intelligent civilization. Who reigned most of Central America and what is now Mexico. Then all of a sudden the civilization fell. Do we know why? The Aztecs had a very good life since they had many crops to be able to survive. They also had animals to hunt and eat. Aztec crops included maize (corn), beans, tomatoes, potatoes, and avocados. Animals they hunted are: turkey, snakes, rabbits, deer, and coyotes. Dogs and turkeys were mostly domesticated. Aztecs mostly based their culture on their art.

Aztecs built their civilization around art and religion so their clothing was very artistic along with their architecture. The Aztec culture was very religious they believed that they had to make sacrifices. They had believed in many gods therefore they spent a chunk of time worshipping and offering things to their gods. While the Aztecs had pretty much the same beliefs as other civilizations at the time they worshipped in their own different ways.
Aztecs had many conflicts with the other empires even with the Spanish! They used brute force to battle with the other civilizations which meant that created enemies which was not a good thing. Soon after that the spanish came over and decided to attack the empire, but not killing them off. Spanish ships came and brought the smallpox disease which slowly killed the new leader of the aztecs. Then the spanish came back to fight a second time, but with a different attack strategy, they decided to cut off the food and water supply to the aztecs capital city, Tenochtitlan. After the spanish were done with Tenochtitlan the rest of the empire started to fall slowly leaving it in ruins