Xochiquetzal By: Torey Goodin International Studies MW 1-2:15 The Aztec Goddess of flowers‚ dancing‚ games‚ fertility pregnant women‚ beauty‚ love‚ pleasure‚ earth‚ music‚ agriculture‚ flowers‚ marriage‚ women‚ weaving‚ changes‚ saints of artists and craftsmen‚ and prostitutes. An odd combination of things‚ to say the least‚ but when you look at things in that order it would seem she was the Goddess of love... and she was (GodsLaidBare
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Unit 4/Week 1 Title: Lost Temple of the Aztecs1 Suggested Time: 5 days (45 minutes a day) Common Core ELA Standards: RL.6.1‚ RL.6.2‚ RL.6.4; W.6.1‚ W.6.4‚ W.6.9; SL.6.1; L.6.1‚ L.6.2‚ L.6.5 Teacher Instructions Refer to the Introduction for further details. Before Teaching 1. Read the Big Ideas and Key Understandings and the Synopsis. Please do not read this to the students. This is a description for teachers‚ about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after
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go to Ethiopia to find Prestor John. They run across Muslim merchants that tell them they can get around Africa‚ and send message to Henry. 2. Montezuma was the king of the Aztec empire. He saw Cortez’ arrival‚ and mistakes him as myth God Quetzalcoatl. This God was banished centuries before and assured he would reappear the year that Cortez did. They meet him‚ and spoil him. He is even told he needs gold‚ so he can “eat” it. Cortez uses this to his advantage and claims all Spanish people are
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283 The Fate of Montezuma’s Faith It’s almost comical how the factors of fortune would so boldly control the life of Montezuma Xocoyotzin. It would begin with his birth in the year 1467‚ which also coincided with the Aztec year ce acatl‚ or Quetzalcoatl‚ the Morning Star.1 The priests claimed on the day of his birth that he would be a future ruler and a high priest of infinite wisdom. 2 By 1502‚ Montezuma had fulfilled this prophecy as the leader of the Aztec empire‚ reclaiming the wealth and
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If the Aztecs attacked first‚ some of Cortez army would of died and they would had only couple hundred of people left. The last factor for conquering the Aztecs was the belief that Cortez was a god. Cortez was aided by an Aztec legend named Quetzalcoatl. He instructed Indians in agriculture‚ metallurgy‚ and government. To the Aztec leader‚ Montezuma‚ Cortez could be the god because
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Introduction When you think of the Aztec‚ what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of the Spanish conquistadors or their beautiful capital at Tenochtitlan. What comes to mind for a lot of people is their practice of human sacrifice. In class‚ we learned a lot about the civilizations of the Maya and the Inca but not much about the Maya. Chapter 13 of the assigned readings talks about the Aztec and how they came to power and their collapse. One paragraph in the chapter‚ although morbid and disturbing
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Humans estimated that the world came to existence at least 6 billion years ago. As the ‘natural’ mutations created living beings to make use of the earth’s natural resources. Within that category of living beings‚ all humans that live within their suitable environments. Humans are known to be nomadic or wanderers‚ that results in the creation of societies of people. Some of these people who are indigenous originate in and possess characteristics of a particular region or country. In 1498‚ Christopher
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in whose name they were destined to conquer all rival nations. Huitzilopochtli shared the main temple at Tenochtitlan with Tlaloc‚ the rain god‚ important to the farmers in a land where drought was a constant threat. Another important god was QUETZALCOATL‚ the feathered serpent‚ patron of arts and crafts and the god of self- sacrifice. Religion was ever present. Each place and each trade had its patron deity: each day‚ and each division of the day‚ was watched over by its own god. Priests were expected
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GOVERNMENT Difference: Incans had a totalitarian complex government whether as Aztecs had a decentralized government that focused on expansion.  Significance: Since Aztecs never really had a lot of control over the conquered people‚ many of them were eager to fight for Cortez against the Aztecs which helped lead to their decline. Incas on the other hand had a very complex empire with a lot of control over their people. So‚ since they had such an established rule‚ it made it MUCH harder and
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Hernán Cortés was born in Medellin‚ Extremadura‚ Spain in the year 1485. Cortés was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who defeated the Aztec empire and claimed Mexico for Spain. Cortes was born in a wealthy family before his conquest of Mexico Cortes wanted to become a lawyer but failed to do so. Cortes was inspired of the stories he heard about the new world but what motivated him even more was the wealth the new world could bring him. In the year of 1502 at the age of 19 years old Cortés joined
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