![]() ![]() Unfortunate ly, after the Spanish took over, most of the Lake Texcoco drained in the Spanish's efforts to control the flooding of it. The Aztecs used bows and spears to kill fish and frogs, meaning that they were most likely extremely accurate with those weapons, and they used to lake to make canals f or the chinampas. Aztec, self name Culhua-Mexica, Nahuatl-speaking people who in the 15th and early 16th centuries ruled a large empire in what is now central and southern Mexico. The lake, however, gave them more resources. However, the Aztecs would simply rebuild the building over the old core (so many super old Az tec struc tures have many layers of building history to them!). They were a civilization with a rich cultural. Since the major landforms around them were mainly marshes and the lake, it was pretty hard to build everything as the larger ones would always sink a little below surface on the soft ground despite the many precautions they made, like large wooden stakes were planted into the ground for secure foundations and the Aztecs used Tezontli stone to construct the buildings on such unstable ground. The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. They formed a tributary empire expanding its political hegemony far beyond the Valley of Mexico, conquering other city-states throughout Mesoamerica. They were fairly geographically isolated because, after all, they were on an island in the middle of a lake, but their special farming method (called chinampas, meaning "floating gardens") separated them from other civilizations as well. But not only the climate affected them, but the geographical setting too. The climate also affected how successfully they farmed, since they were very agriculturally successful, and it probably gave them more suitable "good days" to do stuff in and get more work done. ![]() ![]() The climate there was mainly mild or temperate, so they mostly made clothes that were the best for warmer days and not as much for freezing climates (as they had a warm longish summer and short, slightly rainy, winters). Tenochtitlan was built on a series of islets there, and the city plan was based on a symmetrical layout that was divided into four city sections which were called campans which were also divided into 20 districts called calpullis, meaning "big house". The Aztec empire is often the first thing people think of when they talk about Mexico. Tenochtitlan was located in an island on Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico (which is part of Mexico City). The Aztec Civilization Read about the Aztecs who in fewer than 110 years became masters of a central Mexican empire that stretched from the Pacific to the. The Aztecs were mainly located (at least in the earlier days when they were building their capital) in Tenochtitlan, their capital. Aztec round danceCourtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago From the northern Mexican plateau the Aztec people migrate southward into Mesoamerica in perhaps the 12th century ce. ![]()
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