Social Classes
This social class lived in thatched huts with very little furniture.
What is commoners?
The sole purpose of this war was to capture people for sacrifice.
What is the flower war?
This is a school for nobles where they are taught reading, writing, and codices.
What is a calmecac?
In Aztec society, there were none of these so punishments did not include being incarcerated.
What is prison?
The Aztecs this bodily fluid to the gods because they believed it nourished them.
What is human blood?
This social class consisted of artisans, priests, and warriors who ran the government.
What is nobility?
This was a type of payment that was collected during wars that were made by the state or ruler.
What are tributes?
In Aztec schools for nobles, students learned this system of writing that involves using pictures as words.
What is glyphs?
For severe crimes like being drunk or stealing crops, people were sacrificed at this place.
What is the alter?
The Aztecs believed this would happen if they didn't feed the gods.
What is the end of the world?
To escape this social class, you could either purchase freedom or flee from the marketplace and to the emperor's house.
What is slaves?
The club, called the macuahuitl, was a weapon edged with this stone.
What is obsidian?
In this school, all commoners were taught verbally because they weren't allowed to read or write.
What is a telpochcalli?
One punishment for Aztec children that were legally allowed to be punished is being poked with this sharp object.
What is a spine?
This sacrificial event took place every 52 years.
What is New Fire?
Only nobles could wear these accessories and if caught wearing them, commoners and slaves would be killed.
What is feathers and embroidery?
Enemies were captured in war instead of killed on the battlefield for this reason.
What is human sacrifice?
This was a skill in school only taught to boys which involved teaching them to use weapons and preparing them for warfare.
What is fighting?
These people were captured during wars and were subjected to sacrifice, being slowly cooked over a fire, or their still beating heart being ripped out.
What are prisoners of war?
This was the most common method of sacrifice where the person being sacrificed has their beating heart cut out.
What is heart extraction?
Remembered as the man who led the Aztecs to becoming the most powerful society in the Valley of Mexico, this emperor was born from a slave and rose to power.
Who was Itzcoatl?
The two reasons for war were religion and ___.
What is politics?
This method of learning was important to Aztec education and involved learning to play flute and drums.
What is music?
This punishment for children under the age of ten included being held over a fire filled with these hot fruits and inhaling the spicy smoke.
What are chili peppers?
The Aztecs did this thing that entailed eating human meat as a part of their sacrificial rituals.
What is cannibalism?